As Hagbard Celine was wont to say, "if you whistle while you're pissing, you have two minds where one is quite sufficient. If you have two minds, you are at war with yourself. If you are at war with yourself, it is easy for an external force to defeat you. This is why Mong-Tse wrote, 'A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him.'"
We really just don't need that much plastic crap. I mean sure, you could print a replacement thirty-cent plastic O-Ring for your vacuum cleaner or something, but really you could have just driven to the hardware store and got one of those. I have seen some fairly nifty artistic uses for them, but it's just not something the average Joe needs to be able to do right now. Maybe when we get to the point where we can print organs with them and I can print a new liver every week, it might be a different story (And a body-zipper for easy organ access! Yeah!)
A new pilot will spend the entire first half of the movie downloading skills into his brain, then will spend the rest of the movie mining an asteroid, only to have his can stolen by some guy in a destroyer.
Yeah, because all those guys are doing a great job.
My actually-decent high school in Delmar, New York, had a fantasy/sci-fi elective course when I went through it back in the '90's. We got exposed to stuff like The Little Prince, Archy and Methithibel and a bunch of other stuff I'd have otherwise missed out on. Then Dad got transferred to Alabama for my senior year. Glad it wasn't sooner, so I only felt like I had one year of wasted time in a useless fucking educational system. Those jackasses didn't know what to make of that elective on my transcript. If it doesn't involve spelling tests, the educational system in the south can't comprehend how it's "English." Kind of like how if it doesn't involve the civil war, they don't quite figure out how it's "history." But I digress...
So yeah, it's not a bad idea. It's probably not a great one either, but having the option was nice. And on the bright side, maybe I'll get Alzheimer's disease in a few years and have that last year of high school blotted out from my memory. That'd be nice. It's a good reason to look forward to getting older. Yeah...
They're really good at not getting things done. I wouldn't attribute them not getting something you didn't like done to any particular competence. It's really just their way of letting the people who really want the bill to pass that they haven't received enough money yet. Once the likes of the RIAA offers up a few more teats for congressmen to attach to, I'm sure it'll be back.
Yah, I predict they'll extend the copyright period again, institute jail time for file sharing and authorize the use of drone strikes on overseas file sharers.
On any project I've spent more than a year on, I get pretty good at estimating times. On one I worked on from 2000 to 2005, I could not only provide accurate estimates for myself, but as well for other team members working on code I was familiar with. Experience is the key here. I've found that after about 6 months with a code base, I'm pretty comfortable with its quirks and my estimates start to get accurate. After a couple years, I'm very familiar with the code, can estimate reasonably well for team members and can frequently tell you which file (And sometimes which function) in the code is causing a reported problem.
Freshly graduated programmers seem to have a problem with this, I think mostly because they've never worked on a really large project before. I think a lot of them procrastinate on assignments, too. At least if what I saw in college was any indication. If a programmer hasn't worked with a single project for more than six months, they may not have noticed this effect either. If you've been playing contractor musical-chairs, it's easy enough to be in a situation where you haven't.
Employers really should set out to retain engineers for at least several years. You see huge productivity gains as you become familiar with the business and the code base. Burning through people seems to be a good way to stay in a perpetual no-release cycle. Which I suppose some managers might view as beneficial...
I submit for your consideration that over the same amount of time in Boston on an average day, more than that many people would have died to gun violence. If you think about it, by causing the lockdown, those two terrorists probably saved more lives than they took!
Of course! Androids hate that shit. Man, this one time I was talking to a T1000 and told it the absolute best way to kill Sarah Conner was to make it look like an autoerotic asphyxiation accident. Oh it got ALL pissed off! It was like "Nuh uh! Here! Watch this!"...
It seems like becoming a USPA member has got someone sending Parachutist magazine to me. It looks like a largely ad-supported magazine but some of the articles have been interesting. I'll keep reading it as long as they keep sending it to me heh heh heh.
This follows on my "best method to get tech support from a computer person." You don't ask "How do you...?" You assert, loudly, within hearing range of the computer person "This is the absolute beset way to do it!" and provide a woefully incorrect method of getting to the result you're trying to achieve. One of these methods will have the computer person falling over himself to help you. Guess which one. Have I mentioned that I'm Evil lately?
Anyway, they're pulling the same thing here. They want someone to gather up their data and present it in a nice package for free. The best way to do that is to drop an ineptly-presented steaming pile of crap on the internets. There'll probably be 15 open source projects to slice and dice it on github by the weekend, and it didn't cost the Australian government a dime! It's brilliant!
Yup, I'd lay a lot of the blame for unemployed developers and companies that can't find people on the desks of HR departments around the country. They're very good at finding people who are good at gaming their system by loading their resumes up with buzz words. When you go to interview those candidates, they can never answer even the most basic questions about anything they put on their resume. Meanwhile, people whose resumes you hand to HR yourself tell you they never heard from your company. If you want to solve your problem finding talented developers, fire your HR department.
If they don't measure your pupils in the dark as part of the evaluation process, you run the risk of your night vision going to shit if your pupils get big enough to go outside the adjusted area. I believe this also causes the halo issue you mention. My guys measured my pupils in the dark and a bunch of other stuff to make sure my operation would go well, so I was pretty confident going into it. I did have a haze for a couple months and halos for about 6, which they told me was due to the tissues recovering from the operation. The halos didn't interfere with my night vision for those 6 months and everything was back to normal after that.
I ran into a player in a casino who'd had the operation at someplace that didn't check his pupils, and even in the moderately-well lit casino setting he was having trouble reading his cards. Seems like whoever did his well and truly fucked up his vision. I did a lot of research going into it and was quite comfortable with the guys I'd selected.
If it were actually an overlay and not just a tiny little screen you have to divert your attention away from shit to use. I could have got a tiny little wearable screen back in the '90's. Two decades of technological progress and their kit is barely more advanced than some a grad student threw together in the pre-windows era! Until Google's doing TerminatorVision(tm), I'm not interested!
Getting lasik back in '04 was the best 4 grand I ever spent. I could have spent less on it, but my eyesight isn't something I'm particularly keen on farming out to the lowest bidder. Not like "Bob's Discount Lasix, buy one eye get one free!"
If the cost is a concern you could always go for Lasik@Home. They come highly recommended! Just don't blink!
Thinking about the software the company I work for relies on, a lot of the applications are now web-based and will work equally well on any browser on any operating system. Despite management's fondness for excel spreadsheets, those can just as easily be authored with Open Office. We have an in-house IT operation that provides desktop support. I can't think of anything that would keep us tied to Windows if we wanted to jettison it.
They could switch to OSX but I don't think the company would be interested in the hardware premium or replacing all the PCs. Something like Ubuntu with something other than unity set as the default desktop environment would work fine for most of the users.
The looked at the Internet and thought, "Huh. That's a stupid idea." They looked at mobile phones and thought, "Huh. That's a stupid idea." Now they're looking at watches and think they're a good idea. That's more than enough reason for me to steer clear of watches.
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And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green? Everyone now!
Did I get enough sarcasm in there? I'm oozing it as hard as I can!
As Hagbard Celine was wont to say, "if you whistle while you're pissing, you have two minds where one is quite sufficient. If you have two minds, you are at war with yourself. If you are at war with yourself, it is easy for an external force to defeat you. This is why Mong-Tse wrote, 'A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him.'"
It wouldn't have been a problem if they'd just designed the magnets to be fired out of a gun.
You can run a kickstarter for genetic engineering now? Well why the HELL don't we have anime cat girls yet, then?
We really just don't need that much plastic crap. I mean sure, you could print a replacement thirty-cent plastic O-Ring for your vacuum cleaner or something, but really you could have just driven to the hardware store and got one of those. I have seen some fairly nifty artistic uses for them, but it's just not something the average Joe needs to be able to do right now. Maybe when we get to the point where we can print organs with them and I can print a new liver every week, it might be a different story (And a body-zipper for easy organ access! Yeah!)
A new pilot will spend the entire first half of the movie downloading skills into his brain, then will spend the rest of the movie mining an asteroid, only to have his can stolen by some guy in a destroyer.
My actually-decent high school in Delmar, New York, had a fantasy/sci-fi elective course when I went through it back in the '90's. We got exposed to stuff like The Little Prince, Archy and Methithibel and a bunch of other stuff I'd have otherwise missed out on. Then Dad got transferred to Alabama for my senior year. Glad it wasn't sooner, so I only felt like I had one year of wasted time in a useless fucking educational system. Those jackasses didn't know what to make of that elective on my transcript. If it doesn't involve spelling tests, the educational system in the south can't comprehend how it's "English." Kind of like how if it doesn't involve the civil war, they don't quite figure out how it's "history." But I digress...
So yeah, it's not a bad idea. It's probably not a great one either, but having the option was nice. And on the bright side, maybe I'll get Alzheimer's disease in a few years and have that last year of high school blotted out from my memory. That'd be nice. It's a good reason to look forward to getting older. Yeah...
They're really good at not getting things done. I wouldn't attribute them not getting something you didn't like done to any particular competence. It's really just their way of letting the people who really want the bill to pass that they haven't received enough money yet. Once the likes of the RIAA offers up a few more teats for congressmen to attach to, I'm sure it'll be back.
Yah, I predict they'll extend the copyright period again, institute jail time for file sharing and authorize the use of drone strikes on overseas file sharers.
Freshly graduated programmers seem to have a problem with this, I think mostly because they've never worked on a really large project before. I think a lot of them procrastinate on assignments, too. At least if what I saw in college was any indication. If a programmer hasn't worked with a single project for more than six months, they may not have noticed this effect either. If you've been playing contractor musical-chairs, it's easy enough to be in a situation where you haven't.
Employers really should set out to retain engineers for at least several years. You see huge productivity gains as you become familiar with the business and the code base. Burning through people seems to be a good way to stay in a perpetual no-release cycle. Which I suppose some managers might view as beneficial...
Step 2: Fly it into a buliding
They'll NEVER see it coming! (Except I guess Canada did)
I submit for your consideration that over the same amount of time in Boston on an average day, more than that many people would have died to gun violence. If you think about it, by causing the lockdown, those two terrorists probably saved more lives than they took!
And Gold. Fox news was the agent of a massive pump-up in the price of gold over the last couple years, looks like that bubble is now bursting too.
Of course! Androids hate that shit. Man, this one time I was talking to a T1000 and told it the absolute best way to kill Sarah Conner was to make it look like an autoerotic asphyxiation accident. Oh it got ALL pissed off! It was like "Nuh uh! Here! Watch this!"...
It'd suck having to put up with trash talk from Stephen Hawking after he won a bet with you.
... Why reproduce sexually when you just grow? ...
Spoken like a true Slashdotter!
It seems like becoming a USPA member has got someone sending Parachutist magazine to me. It looks like a largely ad-supported magazine but some of the articles have been interesting. I'll keep reading it as long as they keep sending it to me heh heh heh.
Anyway, they're pulling the same thing here. They want someone to gather up their data and present it in a nice package for free. The best way to do that is to drop an ineptly-presented steaming pile of crap on the internets. There'll probably be 15 open source projects to slice and dice it on github by the weekend, and it didn't cost the Australian government a dime! It's brilliant!
Yup, I'd lay a lot of the blame for unemployed developers and companies that can't find people on the desks of HR departments around the country. They're very good at finding people who are good at gaming their system by loading their resumes up with buzz words. When you go to interview those candidates, they can never answer even the most basic questions about anything they put on their resume. Meanwhile, people whose resumes you hand to HR yourself tell you they never heard from your company. If you want to solve your problem finding talented developers, fire your HR department.
If they don't measure your pupils in the dark as part of the evaluation process, you run the risk of your night vision going to shit if your pupils get big enough to go outside the adjusted area. I believe this also causes the halo issue you mention. My guys measured my pupils in the dark and a bunch of other stuff to make sure my operation would go well, so I was pretty confident going into it. I did have a haze for a couple months and halos for about 6, which they told me was due to the tissues recovering from the operation. The halos didn't interfere with my night vision for those 6 months and everything was back to normal after that. I ran into a player in a casino who'd had the operation at someplace that didn't check his pupils, and even in the moderately-well lit casino setting he was having trouble reading his cards. Seems like whoever did his well and truly fucked up his vision. I did a lot of research going into it and was quite comfortable with the guys I'd selected.
If it were actually an overlay and not just a tiny little screen you have to divert your attention away from shit to use. I could have got a tiny little wearable screen back in the '90's. Two decades of technological progress and their kit is barely more advanced than some a grad student threw together in the pre-windows era! Until Google's doing TerminatorVision(tm), I'm not interested!
If the cost is a concern you could always go for Lasik@Home. They come highly recommended! Just don't blink!
They could switch to OSX but I don't think the company would be interested in the hardware premium or replacing all the PCs. Something like Ubuntu with something other than unity set as the default desktop environment would work fine for most of the users.
The looked at the Internet and thought, "Huh. That's a stupid idea." They looked at mobile phones and thought, "Huh. That's a stupid idea." Now they're looking at watches and think they're a good idea. That's more than enough reason for me to steer clear of watches.