Once three years ago, I was at (my girlfriend at the time)'s place until around 2:00 AM. She lived in the busiest street in the city, if you take my meaning. I pulled out of the apartment complex just before turning on my headlights, and was pulled over within half a block, badgered time and again for over a half hour about why I was there and how much I paid for coke and pussy.
"I was at my girlfriend's," I said.
"How long have you been known her? Did you meet her tonight?" This shit went on and on, until they relented when I offered to escort them up to her damned apartment door.
They searched my car and found --shockingly, of course-- jack shit. I've never touched an illegal substance (aside from underage drinking) in my life. The last thing I would have wanted was to be investigated by the FBI for driving to my girlfriend's, which was within a block of a highly suspected coke house (repeatedly busted, of course). She was a devout Christian and a med student, either oblivious the the area or felt protected. Either way, she lived where she lived, you know? There wasn't much I could do about where my girlfriend lived.
This reminds me of a report we had to do in sixth grade. Everyone was talking about Mars and I was one of maybe two that thought that Venus, with its C02 atmosphere and near-Earth size made it more desirable to terraform. Of course, my solution to send a (bio)dome with an ass load of A/C units filled with plant life probably wouldn't quite solve the problem.
Oh, dear Lord, I cannot express just how much this *is* the case. Here are some excerpts from our office.
"Been researching industry and what they claim as best practices. This one we need to follow."
"interesting... they are asking for this at the customer level or just promotion?"
"Had a brainstorm on this. Will call in a few. Also no reason we are not sending out shopping cart abandoners(?)."
"Can you add in any 3 images and make something similar work below so I can see how you did it. This is their VB code (???) and I have no idea how to truly read of if this is the best format for multiple images driven off of multiple variables."
I was in a course with a similar requirement. While it was free of "cuz," "iz," and other texting abbreviation practices, it was *full* of chat room or forum commonalities, such as "lol" and emoticons.
This was master's level work, and it horrified me.
On a tangent thought, how about the cryptography skills of these kids? Encoding and decoding messages is part of their everyday skill set.
... who thinks that this would be a great way to induce creative thinking in kids? They could discover how to MacGyver the thing into letting them go, short circuit the timer, break the chain, etc. Also, it would be useful as a weapon; help the neighborhood bully with his homework and leave him in the basement, starving. Or, you could work extra chain links to make it longer, and make it useful for sneaking out at night!
I was too lazy to go and find something that supported the claim, so I suggested it as theoretical rather than fact. Meetings are meetings, however, and only useful for surfing the web;)
The magnetic surface of each platter is divided into small sub-micrometer-sized magnetic regions, each of which is used to represent a single binary unit of information. A typical magnetic region on a hard disk platter (in 2006) is about 200-250 nanometers wide (in the radial direction of the platter) and extends about 25-30 nanometers in the down-track direction (the circumferential direction on the platter), corresponding to about 100 billion bits (100 gigabits) per square inch of disk area. The material of the main magnetic medium layer is usually a cobalt-based alloy. In today's hard drives each of these magnetic regions is composed of a few hundred magnetic grains, which are the base material that gets magnetized. However, future hard drives may use different systems to create the magnetic regions. As a whole, each magnetic region will have a magnetization.
If each bit is stored with multiple pins and the majority of the collection are in the 1 position but a few of them are in the 0, you would just take the dominant state.
That is assuming that the dominant majority should be correct. Perhaps the average of the bits should be used? This example is hardly fair and all... damned computer science is pushing it's winner-takes-all political views into my hardware!
As someone who was heavily involved in all aspects of the modding community five years ago, and a CS guy myself, I find the following to be a gem:
I remember writing a scripting language in three days, including a decompiler. Then again, BGScript is a crime against nature.
-Mark Darrah
The crime against nature bit could not be more true. Now, five years later, I know who I have to stab.
Seriously, introducing myself to modding that game, learning to script in that crap before hitting college... *gripe* *gripe* *bitch* *moan*... Writing God-awful Visual Basic code to edit binary files before I knew what I was doing, having weighted "IF" conditions in BGScript that had weird fucking results if the weights didn't total 100%... Oh, hell, I love all things BG!
Germany had massive debts that lead to insane levels of inflation that made their currency worthless while they paid back huge national war asshole taxes to the allies of WWI. German was the rapee of the end of WWI and they weren't even responsible for it starting. That's the general gist of what my high school history class threw at us.
I got a decent job and a house and I'm 2 years out of college...
My route: run around in circles in central Illinois and stumble onto a "small" start-up doing "e-mail marketing" and very quickly climbed up into development.
Every time I log in to any online payable account, they neg me to set up automatic bill payments. But personally, it's worth the half-hour to an hour of my time -once a month- to fill out an online form. Why would I give anyone unfettered access to my money? What if I have some sort of emergency crop up?
I have heard numerous times from co-workers how the automatic deduction will roll out way too early (three weeks ahead of schedule at one point), causing overdraft fees that are entirely the deductor's fault.
If they fuck up, the corporate machine would take months if not years to settle any kind of litigation in the event that their customer service department does not agree with my claims.
I'll do the one-time payments, thanks. I figure it's worth the hour to control when and where I disperse my money.
I want so badly to point out that this being for Linux makes it no more or less acceptable to have so many damned steps, but alas, I love the idea of Free Software too much to point this out...
Hate to be the guy that argues without proof, but I swear I've read studies where attraction and beauty is defined by cleanness (i.e.: the NEED for makeup = bad) and symmetry of the face... I think it was symmetrical amongst peers or something like that, if they look like a lot of other people, as well as "mirror image" symmetry of the face itself.
Slashdot Mirror
The game Passage is art in the form of a game if ever I've seen it. The whole damned thing is one five minute metaphor on life.
How is that not art?
At 25, I would like to be considered for this "young blood" recruiting. Please to be contacting me for experience in the dot nets.
Once three years ago, I was at (my girlfriend at the time)'s place until around 2:00 AM. She lived in the busiest street in the city, if you take my meaning. I pulled out of the apartment complex just before turning on my headlights, and was pulled over within half a block, badgered time and again for over a half hour about why I was there and how much I paid for coke and pussy.
"I was at my girlfriend's," I said.
"How long have you been known her? Did you meet her tonight?" This shit went on and on, until they relented when I offered to escort them up to her damned apartment door.
They searched my car and found --shockingly, of course-- jack shit. I've never touched an illegal substance (aside from underage drinking) in my life. The last thing I would have wanted was to be investigated by the FBI for driving to my girlfriend's, which was within a block of a highly suspected coke house (repeatedly busted, of course). She was a devout Christian and a med student, either oblivious the the area or felt protected. Either way, she lived where she lived, you know? There wasn't much I could do about where my girlfriend lived.
This reminds me of a report we had to do in sixth grade. Everyone was talking about Mars and I was one of maybe two that thought that Venus, with its C02 atmosphere and near-Earth size made it more desirable to terraform. Of course, my solution to send a (bio)dome with an ass load of A/C units filled with plant life probably wouldn't quite solve the problem.
"Been researching industry and what they claim as best practices. This one we need to follow."
"interesting... they are asking for this at the customer level or just promotion?"
"Had a brainstorm on this. Will call in a few. Also no reason we are not sending out shopping cart abandoners(?)."
"Can you add in any 3 images and make something similar work below so I can see how you did it. This is their VB code (???) and I have no idea how to truly read of if this is the best format for multiple images driven off of multiple variables."
I was in a course with a similar requirement. While it was free of "cuz," "iz," and other texting abbreviation practices, it was *full* of chat room or forum commonalities, such as "lol" and emoticons. This was master's level work, and it horrified me. On a tangent thought, how about the cryptography skills of these kids? Encoding and decoding messages is part of their everyday skill set.
That joke is Ancient.
"There is nothing to fear, but fear itself."
No, officer, it couldn't have been me; there's not a violent bone in my body (paraphrased).
Yes. The Star Trek: Armada games were pretty damn fun, too.
... who thinks that this would be a great way to induce creative thinking in kids? They could discover how to MacGyver the thing into letting them go, short circuit the timer, break the chain, etc. Also, it would be useful as a weapon; help the neighborhood bully with his homework and leave him in the basement, starving. Or, you could work extra chain links to make it longer, and make it useful for sneaking out at night!
Ok, enough kidding. This thing is ridiculous.
No. I f'in' loved VIII. The game up until the Garden battle was awesome, though I have to admit that afterward the game's plot slowly became pants.
The real link to the video is in the firehose related article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_platters (as of January 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM): (emphasis mine)
Actually you can...
If each bit is stored with multiple pins and the majority of the collection are in the 1 position but a few of them are in the 0, you would just take the dominant state.
That is assuming that the dominant majority should be correct. Perhaps the average of the bits should be used? This example is hardly fair and all... damned computer science is pushing it's winner-takes-all political views into my hardware!
As someone who was heavily involved in all aspects of the modding community five years ago, and a CS guy myself, I find the following to be a gem:
The crime against nature bit could not be more true. Now, five years later, I know who I have to stab.
Seriously, introducing myself to modding that game, learning to script in that crap before hitting college... *gripe* *gripe* *bitch* *moan* ... Writing God-awful Visual Basic code to edit binary files before I knew what I was doing, having weighted "IF" conditions in BGScript that had weird fucking results if the weights didn't total 100%... Oh, hell, I love all things BG!
Germany had massive debts that lead to insane levels of inflation that made their currency worthless while they paid back huge national war asshole taxes to the allies of WWI. German was the rapee of the end of WWI and they weren't even responsible for it starting. That's the general gist of what my high school history class threw at us.
Oddly, the study results were skewed in Texas, where one in every four were not complete retards.
Dear Sir,
You have my thanks. Know that you have brightened my day.
It ain't *quite* evil, as it is all opt-in stuff, but, yeah, it is essentially spam.
The worst part is how checking a box by default is considered opt-in.
I got a decent job and a house and I'm 2 years out of college...
My route: run around in circles in central Illinois and stumble onto a "small" start-up doing "e-mail marketing" and very quickly climbed up into development.
You mean Mountain Dew?
(Sorry, people give me shit for drinking it all the time...)
Every time I log in to any online payable account, they neg me to set up automatic bill payments. But personally, it's worth the half-hour to an hour of my time -once a month- to fill out an online form. Why would I give anyone unfettered access to my money? What if I have some sort of emergency crop up? I have heard numerous times from co-workers how the automatic deduction will roll out way too early (three weeks ahead of schedule at one point), causing overdraft fees that are entirely the deductor's fault. If they fuck up, the corporate machine would take months if not years to settle any kind of litigation in the event that their customer service department does not agree with my claims. I'll do the one-time payments, thanks. I figure it's worth the hour to control when and where I disperse my money.
I want so badly to point out that this being for Linux makes it no more or less acceptable to have so many damned steps, but alas, I love the idea of Free Software too much to point this out...
Hate to be the guy that argues without proof, but I swear I've read studies where attraction and beauty is defined by cleanness (i.e.: the NEED for makeup = bad) and symmetry of the face... I think it was symmetrical amongst peers or something like that, if they look like a lot of other people, as well as "mirror image" symmetry of the face itself.