Sure: a netbook you can comfortably use while laying on the couch.
Really. The clamshell design of a laptop or netbook, fine for a desk, makes it difficult to use when laying on a couch, and nearly impossible in bed. Or maybe I'm just getting so old, that my body can't contort to the require viewing and keyboard angle necessary to use the damn thing. I'd almost rather use my phone, despite the tiny keyboard and difficult multitasking.
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I was bored a few years ago, and transcribed the tune out. I did very little else to it other than picks some sounds that they might have used in the first place. So, it's only a four-voice tune, representative of the hardware of the time. It would be easy to fill out and make it thicker, but part of the charm of the tune that it sounds good, with such a limited sound technology. Enjoy.
You mean the toolkit that requires a goofy cfront-style precompiler and comes with their own string class? Sure, it uses templates, but it's hardly a shining star of modern C++.
I have been thinking about this lately, since I know a bunch of parents who have teenagers...
The solution is not to suspend people's licenses, but to suspend their mobile phone line. If you take away the license, they can get a ride or drive illegally and not get caught. Take away their phone line, you kill their social life, and it's easier to enforce since it can be done centrally. Sure, the person could go get a new pay-as-you-go phone... but with their account suspended, they will have a different number, and be still be cut off from all the people and services who have their old number.
Without a doubt, yes. Start listening to conservative opinion, on the radio, websites, etc. You will find two factions. One who literally do believe that is a plot: these are the people who listen to and believe Rush, Hannity, Coulter, etc., let's call them "pop conservatives" but they are mostly just paranoid culture warriors. Then, there are the smart conservatives who oppose the taxes and regulations on intellectually defensible reasons of economics and liberty, but usually don't ascribe it to the notion that Obama wants simply to destroy capitalism and kill old people.
Being politically naive, I had NO idea the second faction existed until I started digging for it. This is because the first faction is the current face of the GOP, and gets all the press.
On the flip side, there are equally nutty folks who think Bush started falsified wars to enrich himself and his friends. It may have been a side-effect, but I have no doubt that he *thought* it was the best way to improve our lives.
Pound for pound, conservatives have a lot more batshit-insane people than the liberals do. There's a few liberal kooks on various blogs here and there, but conservative kooks are *everywhere*, 24 hours a day on talk radio. Tune in for 8 hours straight of bashing not just liberals, but anyone who doesn't have the most hard-right stance on ANYTHING! Laura, Rush, then Howie Carr! The conservatives are eating their own babies now.
I told my wife years ago that I wanted to cancel extended-basic cable ("EB") but she balked at missing Stargate. So, the deal was, I'd get her any Stargate series on DVD rather than pay $60 a month for digital cable.
It turns out it was never necessary since I get EB over QAM with my analog basic cable. I'm sure they want to kill people like me off. But if it comes to pass, I simply will let it slide and buy the shows on DVD. I hate to be one of those "I don't have a TV" snobs, but I don't want to pay $60 per month, which goes up $10 every few years. And I most certainly do not want to rent any equipment.
This strikes as me as bricklayer who looks at the rock stars getting laid any saying "Hey! Bricklaying is an art too! Why don't I get the girls? Why don't people love what I do? I just want to be loved! IS THAT SO RAWWWNG?"
I read the entire paper, and I agree with most of the statements. However the central thesis -- people don't like pure math because it's not taught properly in school -- is a load of bull.
Given no prompting at all, people will draw pictures. It's fun. They will sing and create music. It's fun. A three year will do it, and good luck stopping them, as it seems to be built-in to humans.
They won't look at a box and wonder whether a triangle takes up half the area and then carefully ruminate upon the chain of pure deductive reasoning towards the clever orgasmic bliss of enlightenment. Otherwise, people would spontaneously get together and have math parties where they talk about hypercubes and whatever stuff mathematicians talk about. No, instead they get together, have a couple of drinks and listen to music.
I love pure math, despite being terrible at it. It's obviously a great thing, but not everyone's built that way. The kind of thinking that he likes is just not as common as he would like it to be.
Sounds rural to me. Maybe rural suburban enclaves in the middle of nowhere, but still rural. Where I grew up, the towns were close enough together, I could bike to all my friends' houses. Everyone I went to school with was within easy biking distance, the schools itself, parks, stores. Plenty to do. Even the rural towns here (central MA) are so close denser ones, that you can just bike there.
Reverse engineering is perfectly legal for interoperability, if you don't copy the implementation code. My friend's company legally clean-room reverse engineered all of CIFS, so their proprietary boxes can act as a stand-in for Windows.
I would prefer an auxiliary tuba player (tubaist? tubist?) performing the "fail" motif from The Price Is Right: "boom boom ba-doom". Followed thereafter by the trombone cluster: "bowwwwwwww...."
Actually, it's the reverse. My parents don't use tabs at all, just a single browser window. I'm a "power user" and use tabs like list I'm doing right now: loading pages in the background, close when done, because I can't stand when the computer gets loaded down trying to do too much.
My sister, not a power-user, uses tabs like bookmarks. She keeps every single website she visits regularly in one of about 47 tabs. (And she wonders why she gets bad battery life.)
If your income is so high that you have really have an effective federal tax rate of 23%, then wouldn't you be well over the FICA limit and then not sending in 15.3% anymore?
Either way, it looks like 49.3% and the "one dollar for each dollar" quip is not quite accurate. Marginal rates alone, that doesn't address deductions, exemptions, tax credits which reduce the burden further. I would say take your total income tax bill and divide that into your total income. Anything else is a numbers game, conscious or not, to fool the unwary.
You have a good point. I have to be honest, I've never looked at the implementation myself to know for sure, and only have passing familiarly with the STL stuff.
The point of my interview question, however, was not a trivia test, but to generate some discussion on a certain topic. She brought up this container, and I like to make sure people have passing familiarity with data structures and Big O notation. Rather than ask a point-blank question, I wait for an "in" and then ask them a question to get me to that topic, while they are still are talking about their chosen topic. It's an old technique I've used for years.
What I wanted a discussion of how such a container "might be" built under the hood - not specific info on how that particular one was. They could even say "well, it might be a linked list, but I suspect that would be slow this case...". Even if it was totally wrong and it was implemented differently, it's not the point of the question, and would way be better than the "duh, it's a black box" answer.
You know, I've interviewed people who were very high-level programmers and ran into this. Someone would say "oh, we used std::map to implement this", and I'd ask "so how do you think that's implemented?" looking for a two-word answer, you know, like "hash table".
Blank stares. "It's, uh, like an SQL database, you say the key and get-um the value back"...
Right.
You are too kind when you say "guessing it would still be useful". Those people are fucking idiots and should not be programming when they obviously have no clue about the basics of a freaking 201-level college CS course.
I'm going to remember your anecdote next time I need to justify why people need to actually know how computers work instead of being API gluebots.
I was thinking the same thing, having built my own 386SX and 486 in college for a lot money. Those machines (over $2000) could barely display VGA pictures, and had hard drives with just a few megs in it. Music and video was out of the question. Compare to my $320 G1 can play movies and access 16G of solid state storage. It's freaking amazing, isn't it?
In my experience, the more biased a person is, the more likely they are to cry "BIAS!" loud, often, and repeatedly when faced with anything that's not biased their way.
The more biased you are, the more impervious you are to unbiased information, critical presentation of both sides of the issue, or anything remotely approaching it. The more biased you are, the more you see it in others, even where it doesn't exist. It's like some sort of guilt complex -- I stole a candy bar and now I think everyone else in the store must be stealing candy bars!
This is what I take Colbert to mean, when he says "reality has a liberal bias".
Do it, man. I grew up the same way, exact same hardware. I went to college for music though, I finished that degree and then took up CS as a minor -- too easy, and then eventually a major -- too easy, and then eventually a separate Bachelor's and MS. That self-motivated training when you were a kid is everything. All the really excellent programmers that I know and around my age, taught themselves and then refined that knowledge with a degree. That's not to say folks older than me can't be great, far from it. They just didn't have their own computers as kids, so they started out in EE or ME or physics or math, but still had that drive to learn it.
Ideas cannot and never should be equal to private property, as almost every idea is a refinement of some other idea that came previously... a "derivate work" if you say.
I'm a musician, if I write a new tune, it's only because of a thousand cultural influences that I owe my ideas to. So, here a tune I wrote. It's "mine", copyright me. But it's in the Basie style, should I pay him? Wait, Sammy Nestico arranged a lot of tunes for Basie and defined a lot of his style, should I pay him? I love Marshall Royal's alto playing, do I pay him? It's a 32-bit bar form AABA, who invented that? It's in F major, who owns that? I liked the form of Tom Kubis' "When You're Smiling" so I used the dramatic shape of that. Should I pay him? Shall I pay them each 1/1000th of licening fee to create it?
I could not have created it if it weren't for all of those people. So yes, I *do* have a responsibility to contribute that back to the world. Maybe I do own it for the next 16, 40, 70 years but not forever. But if I hoard it forever, and everyone else does, it would mean the extinction of the music I love so much.
You wanna do that?
As an author, you base your work on the context and culture you live in. If you never release your work to the public domain at some point in the future, you are denying future authors what enabled you to create in the first place. If we lock everything up in a permission-based culture, eventually, nobody will be able to create anything at all -- it will would be prohibitive to obtain a license for every single image, sound, phrase, idea, or thought that's expressed in the work. It's sad that you don't realize that the act of creating takes a tiny but from many sources, where do think that stuff came from?
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Sure: a netbook you can comfortably use while laying on the couch.
Really. The clamshell design of a laptop or netbook, fine for a desk, makes it difficult to use when laying on a couch, and nearly impossible in bed. Or maybe I'm just getting so old, that my body can't contort to the require viewing and keyboard angle necessary to use the damn thing. I'd almost rather use my phone, despite the tiny keyboard and difficult multitasking.
I was bored a few years ago, and transcribed the tune out. I did very little else to it other than picks some sounds that they might have used in the first place. So, it's only a four-voice tune, representative of the hardware of the time. It would be easy to fill out and make it thicker, but part of the charm of the tune that it sounds good, with such a limited sound technology. Enjoy.
Wha? Qt??!
You mean the toolkit that requires a goofy cfront-style precompiler and comes with their own string class? Sure, it uses templates, but it's hardly a shining star of modern C++.
I have been thinking about this lately, since I know a bunch of parents who have teenagers... The solution is not to suspend people's licenses, but to suspend their mobile phone line. If you take away the license, they can get a ride or drive illegally and not get caught. Take away their phone line, you kill their social life, and it's easier to enforce since it can be done centrally. Sure, the person could go get a new pay-as-you-go phone... but with their account suspended, they will have a different number, and be still be cut off from all the people and services who have their old number.
Without a doubt, yes. Start listening to conservative opinion, on the radio, websites, etc. You will find two factions. One who literally do believe that is a plot: these are the people who listen to and believe Rush, Hannity, Coulter, etc., let's call them "pop conservatives" but they are mostly just paranoid culture warriors. Then, there are the smart conservatives who oppose the taxes and regulations on intellectually defensible reasons of economics and liberty, but usually don't ascribe it to the notion that Obama wants simply to destroy capitalism and kill old people.
Being politically naive, I had NO idea the second faction existed until I started digging for it. This is because the first faction is the current face of the GOP, and gets all the press.
On the flip side, there are equally nutty folks who think Bush started falsified wars to enrich himself and his friends. It may have been a side-effect, but I have no doubt that he *thought* it was the best way to improve our lives.
Pound for pound, conservatives have a lot more batshit-insane people than the liberals do. There's a few liberal kooks on various blogs here and there, but conservative kooks are *everywhere*, 24 hours a day on talk radio. Tune in for 8 hours straight of bashing not just liberals, but anyone who doesn't have the most hard-right stance on ANYTHING! Laura, Rush, then Howie Carr! The conservatives are eating their own babies now.
Wow, you should consider writing some Winnie The Pooh books. You've got the A. A. Milne British run-on sentence down to a science!
Nicely put. I could not have said this any better with twice the amount of words!
I told my wife years ago that I wanted to cancel extended-basic cable ("EB") but she balked at missing Stargate. So, the deal was, I'd get her any Stargate series on DVD rather than pay $60 a month for digital cable.
It turns out it was never necessary since I get EB over QAM with my analog basic cable. I'm sure they want to kill people like me off. But if it comes to pass, I simply will let it slide and buy the shows on DVD. I hate to be one of those "I don't have a TV" snobs, but I don't want to pay $60 per month, which goes up $10 every few years. And I most certainly do not want to rent any equipment.
It's okay, you can just say money around here, you know!
This strikes as me as bricklayer who looks at the rock stars getting laid any saying "Hey! Bricklaying is an art too! Why don't I get the girls? Why don't people love what I do? I just want to be loved! IS THAT SO RAWWWNG?"
I read the entire paper, and I agree with most of the statements. However the central thesis -- people don't like pure math because it's not taught properly in school -- is a load of bull.
Given no prompting at all, people will draw pictures. It's fun. They will sing and create music. It's fun. A three year will do it, and good luck stopping them, as it seems to be built-in to humans.
They won't look at a box and wonder whether a triangle takes up half the area and then carefully ruminate upon the chain of pure deductive reasoning towards the clever orgasmic bliss of enlightenment. Otherwise, people would spontaneously get together and have math parties where they talk about hypercubes and whatever stuff mathematicians talk about. No, instead they get together, have a couple of drinks and listen to music.
I love pure math, despite being terrible at it. It's obviously a great thing, but not everyone's built that way. The kind of thinking that he likes is just not as common as he would like it to be.
Sounds rural to me. Maybe rural suburban enclaves in the middle of nowhere, but still rural. Where I grew up, the towns were close enough together, I could bike to all my friends' houses. Everyone I went to school with was within easy biking distance, the schools itself, parks, stores. Plenty to do. Even the rural towns here (central MA) are so close denser ones, that you can just bike there.
Reverse engineering is perfectly legal for interoperability, if you don't copy the implementation code. My friend's company legally clean-room reverse engineered all of CIFS, so their proprietary boxes can act as a stand-in for Windows.
I would prefer an auxiliary tuba player (tubaist? tubist?) performing the "fail" motif from The Price Is Right: "boom boom ba-doom". Followed thereafter by the trombone cluster: "bowwwwwwww...."
iPhony, pure genius. Best new word of the year. Multi-context.
Actually, it's the reverse. My parents don't use tabs at all, just a single browser window. I'm a "power user" and use tabs like list I'm doing right now: loading pages in the background, close when done, because I can't stand when the computer gets loaded down trying to do too much.
My sister, not a power-user, uses tabs like bookmarks. She keeps every single website she visits regularly in one of about 47 tabs. (And she wonders why she gets bad battery life.)
If your income is so high that you have really have an effective federal tax rate of 23%, then wouldn't you be well over the FICA limit and then not sending in 15.3% anymore?
Either way, it looks like 49.3% and the "one dollar for each dollar" quip is not quite accurate. Marginal rates alone, that doesn't address deductions, exemptions, tax credits which reduce the burden further. I would say take your total income tax bill and divide that into your total income. Anything else is a numbers game, conscious or not, to fool the unwary.
You have a good point. I have to be honest, I've never looked at the implementation myself to know for sure, and only have passing familiarly with the STL stuff.
The point of my interview question, however, was not a trivia test, but to generate some discussion on a certain topic. She brought up this container, and I like to make sure people have passing familiarity with data structures and Big O notation. Rather than ask a point-blank question, I wait for an "in" and then ask them a question to get me to that topic, while they are still are talking about their chosen topic. It's an old technique I've used for years.
What I wanted a discussion of how such a container "might be" built under the hood - not specific info on how that particular one was. They could even say "well, it might be a linked list, but I suspect that would be slow this case...". Even if it was totally wrong and it was implemented differently, it's not the point of the question, and would way be better than the "duh, it's a black box" answer.
Oh. My. God.
You know, I've interviewed people who were very high-level programmers and ran into this. Someone would say "oh, we used std::map to implement this", and I'd ask "so how do you think that's implemented?" looking for a two-word answer, you know, like "hash table".
Blank stares. "It's, uh, like an SQL database, you say the key and get-um the value back"...
Right.
You are too kind when you say "guessing it would still be useful". Those people are fucking idiots and should not be programming when they obviously have no clue about the basics of a freaking 201-level college CS course.
I'm going to remember your anecdote next time I need to justify why people need to actually know how computers work instead of being API gluebots.
Win2k was certified secure as long as it wasn't networked.
What? That's sort of like saying your car is secure... so long as it's not outside.
I was thinking the same thing, having built my own 386SX and 486 in college for a lot money. Those machines (over $2000) could barely display VGA pictures, and had hard drives with just a few megs in it. Music and video was out of the question. Compare to my $320 G1 can play movies and access 16G of solid state storage. It's freaking amazing, isn't it?
In my experience, the more biased a person is, the more likely they are to cry "BIAS!" loud, often, and repeatedly when faced with anything that's not biased their way.
The more biased you are, the more impervious you are to unbiased information, critical presentation of both sides of the issue, or anything remotely approaching it. The more biased you are, the more you see it in others, even where it doesn't exist. It's like some sort of guilt complex -- I stole a candy bar and now I think everyone else in the store must be stealing candy bars!
This is what I take Colbert to mean, when he says "reality has a liberal bias".
Do it, man. I grew up the same way, exact same hardware. I went to college for music though, I finished that degree and then took up CS as a minor -- too easy, and then eventually a major -- too easy, and then eventually a separate Bachelor's and MS. That self-motivated training when you were a kid is everything. All the really excellent programmers that I know and around my age, taught themselves and then refined that knowledge with a degree. That's not to say folks older than me can't be great, far from it. They just didn't have their own computers as kids, so they started out in EE or ME or physics or math, but still had that drive to learn it.
Gershwin's heirs laugh all the way to the bank.
You don't pay for sex, you hire her to have sex on video for some reality porn. Then it's legal, and a tax deduction to boot! Everybody wins.
Ideas cannot and never should be equal to private property, as almost every idea is a refinement of some other idea that came previously... a "derivate work" if you say.
I'm a musician, if I write a new tune, it's only because of a thousand cultural influences that I owe my ideas to. So, here a tune I wrote. It's "mine", copyright me. But it's in the Basie style, should I pay him? Wait, Sammy Nestico arranged a lot of tunes for Basie and defined a lot of his style, should I pay him? I love Marshall Royal's alto playing, do I pay him? It's a 32-bit bar form AABA, who invented that? It's in F major, who owns that? I liked the form of Tom Kubis' "When You're Smiling" so I used the dramatic shape of that. Should I pay him? Shall I pay them each 1/1000th of licening fee to create it?
I could not have created it if it weren't for all of those people. So yes, I *do* have a responsibility to contribute that back to the world. Maybe I do own it for the next 16, 40, 70 years but not forever. But if I hoard it forever, and everyone else does, it would mean the extinction of the music I love so much.
You wanna do that?
As an author, you base your work on the context and culture you live in. If you never release your work to the public domain at some point in the future, you are denying future authors what enabled you to create in the first place. If we lock everything up in a permission-based culture, eventually, nobody will be able to create anything at all -- it will would be prohibitive to obtain a license for every single image, sound, phrase, idea, or thought that's expressed in the work. It's sad that you don't realize that the act of creating takes a tiny but from many sources, where do think that stuff came from?