If they broke rules/regs then they get what they deserve.
from the article I saw earlier this morning, they're getting written reprimands and half their pay docked for two months. Not too harsh for what they did, their careers should be ok.
Don't one-time-pasword exists just in case you loose your card???
I assume by "loose" you mean "set your card free," as in giving it to your girlfriend. Seems a one time password would work if you only wanted to let her use it once. Nice idea, I like it!
I'm not particularly convinced that drugs will generally actually improve performance
It depends on the programmer and the drug. Cocaine certainly won't make you a better programmer, although it will make you think it did. Coke makes you stupid while making you think you're smarter than without it. Alcohol certainly won't make you a better programmer. But Adderal could possibly help some programmers, and caffeine certainly helps me.
But it works exactly like an abacus, except instead of beads' positions denoting decimal numbers, a computer has on/off switches designating binary numbers. And of course a computer is less simple, since it has an ALU and other operations that would have to be done manually on an abacus. But they're basically the same; find a copy of the old TTL Cookbook (or any of a number of equally good books, I read hundreds of them) which shows you the circuits' schematic diagrams.
But you are correct, my brain isn't anywhere near "normal". Not many people read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica when they're 12, nor do they build electric slide rules at that age. Damn, I can't believe that was almost 50 years ago...
But they do have a monopoly on the desktop. Unless you buy an Apple, you can't buy a desktop computer with any other OS. MS has about 90% share of desktop OSes -- you don't need 100% to be a monopoly.
And they didn't get there by making a superior product, they got there because IBM had a superior product; the mantra was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". By the time Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS, Windows had the desktop OS market sewn up. And they used dirty tricks to stay there, rather than building a better product or having effective marketing.
One easy thing to look at is how many of them were heavy drug users *before* achieving fame and success. Get back to me if you find a single one.
I'll give you several: The Beatles were on amphetamines most of the time long before they ever made an album, as well as pot. Jimi Hendrix likewise.
However, it doesn't mean that the drugs caused their creativity. The correlation comes from the fact that creative people's brains aren't normal to begin with.
Diesel electric locomotives have existed and worked excellently for decades.
Trains are hybrid for a completely different reason than cars are. It takes far more torque to get a train moving than a diesel engine can generate, and imagine the size of the clutch it would need? Electric, otoh, has its maximum torque at its minimum speed. So they generate electricity with a diesel generator to feed that big electric motor.
Cars are only hybrid because the batteries don't last long enough to go very far.
Maglev is much talked about
Do you have any idea how much electricity would be required for that? Hint: WAY too much. It's simply not energy efficient.
In this case, probably non-conventional logic; computers don't operate the way human brains do, it takes a twisted head to program well. Especially if you're attempting to optimize a system using low level programming languages.
Only if you think computers think and don't understand how they work. Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic are no different than decimal in the way they work, only where the carry is. Knowing how an ALU works, how an and gate or a nor gate works, etc, and the machine is simple to understand. It's just an electric abacus and almost as simple, it just has billions of beads and wires.
You no more need a twisted brain to program a computer than you do to design an automobile.
Protip (which you should already know, as your UID isn't that high)-- use the < and > instead of [ and ]. As in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc">cum hoc ergo propter hoc</a>. It comes out as cum hoc ergo propter hoc
I hadn't heard this, and it doesn't make sense. The greeter's real job is to stop people going out when the shoplifting tag sounds an alarm. I'm sure they saveWalMart far more than WalMart pays them.
People see a huge healthcare bill and assume that the healthcare industry is just rolling in cash, but it's not true.
The biggest costs in health care is insurance. As long as there is health insurance and malpractice insurance, your costs will be sky high. You're not just paying the doctor, nurse, landowner, and janitor, you're paying the insurance companies' billionaire chief officers and boards of directors insanely high salaries.
Why is a health insurance CEO's pay higher than a doctor's? Why is health care treated as a business? IMO it's batshit insane.
Nowadays a lot of people are classified as sex offenders that shouldn't be
Yes, ALL OF THEM.
So you don't consider someone who forceably rapes a small child a sex offender? Christ, what idiot modded you insightful? Are the two of you in the same class... HS freshman?
Write something clever while doped. Read that when sobered up.
Actually, I've done that -- and what came out was garbage, but garbage that retained the muse that caused it to be written in the first place. You simply rewrite the whole damned thing sober.
Pot does indeed aid in creativity, but not in the mechanical parts of creating.
They will in electric cars. Friction brakes are wasteful. If each wheel has its own motor/generator you have regenerative braking, where the kinetic force of the car is transformed into electricty and fed back to the battery, rather than being transformed to heat which is wasted.
In a few hours on Nov. 4, 1952, Univac altered politics, changed the world's perception of computers and upended the tech industry's status quo. Along the way, it embarrassed CBS long before Dan Rather could do that all by himself.
Computers were the stuff of science fiction and wide-eyed articles about "electric brains." Few people had actually seen one. Only a handful had been built, among them the first computer, ENIAC, created by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s.
In summer 1952, a Remington Rand executive approached CBS News chief Sig Mickelson and said the Univac might be able to plot early election-night returns against past voting patterns and spit out a predicted winner. Mickelson and anchor Walter Cronkite thought the claim was a load of baloney but figured it would at least be entertaining to try it on the air.
On election night, the 16,000-pound Univac remained at its home in Philadelphia. In the TV studio, CBS set up a fake computer -- a panel embedded with blinking Christmas lights and a teletype machine. Cronkite sat next to it. Correspondent Charles Collingwood and a camera crew set up in front of the real Univac.
By 8:30 p.m. ET -- long before news organizations of the era knew national election outcomes -- Univac spit out a startling prediction. It said Eisenhower would get 438 electoral votes to Stevenson's 93 -- a landslide victory. Because every poll had said the race would be tight, CBS didn't believe the computer and refused to air the prediction.
Under pressure, Woodbury rejigged the algorithms. Univac then gave Eisenhower 8-to-7 odds over Stevenson. At 9:15 p.m., Cronkite reported that on the air. But Woodbury kept working and found he'd made a mistake. He ran the numbers again and got the original results -- an Eisenhower landslide.
Late that night, as actual results came in, CBS realized Univac had been right. Embarrassed, Collingwood came back on the air and confessed to millions of viewers that Univac had predicted the results hours earlier.
In fact, the official count ended up being 442 electoral votes for Eisenhower and 89 for Stevenson. Univac had been off by less than 1%. It had missed the popular vote results by only 3%. Considering that the Univac had 5,000 vacuum tubes that did 1,000 calculations per second, that's pretty impressive. A musical Hallmark card has more computing power.
That doesn't take away from Silver's math, though, considering that the polls all had Obama and Romney neck and neck and Obama won by a huge margin. It seems Woodbury did a far better job with an incredibly primitive computer than the modern polsters' statisticians did with today's high tech machines.
It depends on the drug and the person. E.g., Adderol is supposed to help one concentrate, I can see how that would be an incredible benefit to many people.
There's some evidence that humans shouldn't use marijuana if they are young and their brains are still developing:
I would be very surprised if there wasn't evidence, since it seems self-evident that any psychoactive drug is going to affect a developing brain in some way or another. Which is one of many reasons drug laws are stupid: It's easier for a kid to buy pot than for an adult. This is ass-backwards.
Indeed: I'm his age and retire in a year and a half. But if I'd been job hopping for the last 40 years and not built up a pension, I'd be looking to go into business myself, because most employers simply won't hire geezers.
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If they broke rules/regs then they get what they deserve.
from the article I saw earlier this morning, they're getting written reprimands and half their pay docked for two months. Not too harsh for what they did, their careers should be ok.
Don't one-time-pasword exists just in case you loose your card???
I assume by "loose" you mean "set your card free," as in giving it to your girlfriend. Seems a one time password would work if you only wanted to let her use it once. Nice idea, I like it!
Propaganda isn't information.
I'm not particularly convinced that drugs will generally actually improve performance
It depends on the programmer and the drug. Cocaine certainly won't make you a better programmer, although it will make you think it did. Coke makes you stupid while making you think you're smarter than without it. Alcohol certainly won't make you a better programmer. But Adderal could possibly help some programmers, and caffeine certainly helps me.
But it works exactly like an abacus, except instead of beads' positions denoting decimal numbers, a computer has on/off switches designating binary numbers. And of course a computer is less simple, since it has an ALU and other operations that would have to be done manually on an abacus. But they're basically the same; find a copy of the old TTL Cookbook (or any of a number of equally good books, I read hundreds of them) which shows you the circuits' schematic diagrams.
But you are correct, my brain isn't anywhere near "normal". Not many people read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica when they're 12, nor do they build electric slide rules at that age. Damn, I can't believe that was almost 50 years ago...
But they do have a monopoly on the desktop. Unless you buy an Apple, you can't buy a desktop computer with any other OS. MS has about 90% share of desktop OSes -- you don't need 100% to be a monopoly.
And they didn't get there by making a superior product, they got there because IBM had a superior product; the mantra was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". By the time Compaq cloned the IBM BIOS, Windows had the desktop OS market sewn up. And they used dirty tricks to stay there, rather than building a better product or having effective marketing.
Well, Slartibartfast told me they stopped making stars because planets were so much more lucrative, even if they are a tad harder to construct.
One easy thing to look at is how many of them were heavy drug users *before* achieving fame and success. Get back to me if you find a single one.
I'll give you several: The Beatles were on amphetamines most of the time long before they ever made an album, as well as pot. Jimi Hendrix likewise.
However, it doesn't mean that the drugs caused their creativity. The correlation comes from the fact that creative people's brains aren't normal to begin with.
Diesel electric locomotives have existed and worked excellently for decades.
Trains are hybrid for a completely different reason than cars are. It takes far more torque to get a train moving than a diesel engine can generate, and imagine the size of the clutch it would need? Electric, otoh, has its maximum torque at its minimum speed. So they generate electricity with a diesel generator to feed that big electric motor.
Cars are only hybrid because the batteries don't last long enough to go very far.
Maglev is much talked about
Do you have any idea how much electricity would be required for that? Hint: WAY too much. It's simply not energy efficient.
I thought it was God(TM) who put them there to test our faith.
No, he made birds out of them.
Or is that just one of Satan's lies?
Yes. And the antitheists here eat it up.
Does that mean the christians who claim this are actually heretics?
No, it means they're ignorant, and listen to preachers when they should be reading their own bibles.
In this case, probably non-conventional logic; computers don't operate the way human brains do, it takes a twisted head to program well. Especially if you're attempting to optimize a system using low level programming languages.
Only if you think computers think and don't understand how they work. Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic are no different than decimal in the way they work, only where the carry is. Knowing how an ALU works, how an and gate or a nor gate works, etc, and the machine is simple to understand. It's just an electric abacus and almost as simple, it just has billions of beads and wires.
You no more need a twisted brain to program a computer than you do to design an automobile.
Why truncate when you can downmod?
Protip (which you should already know, as your UID isn't that high)-- use the < and > instead of [ and ]. As in
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cum_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc">cum hoc ergo propter hoc</a>. It comes out as cum hoc ergo propter hoc
Walmart is phasing out their greeter position.
I hadn't heard this, and it doesn't make sense. The greeter's real job is to stop people going out when the shoplifting tag sounds an alarm. I'm sure they saveWalMart far more than WalMart pays them.
People see a huge healthcare bill and assume that the healthcare industry is just rolling in cash, but it's not true.
The biggest costs in health care is insurance. As long as there is health insurance and malpractice insurance, your costs will be sky high. You're not just paying the doctor, nurse, landowner, and janitor, you're paying the insurance companies' billionaire chief officers and boards of directors insanely high salaries.
Why is a health insurance CEO's pay higher than a doctor's? Why is health care treated as a business? IMO it's batshit insane.
So you don't consider someone who forceably rapes a small child a sex offender? Christ, what idiot modded you insightful? Are the two of you in the same class... HS freshman?
Write something clever while doped. Read that when sobered up.
Actually, I've done that -- and what came out was garbage, but garbage that retained the muse that caused it to be written in the first place. You simply rewrite the whole damned thing sober.
Pot does indeed aid in creativity, but not in the mechanical parts of creating.
Hydraulic brakes likely won't go away soon
They will in electric cars. Friction brakes are wasteful. If each wheel has its own motor/generator you have regenerative braking, where the kinetic force of the car is transformed into electricty and fed back to the battery, rather than being transformed to heat which is wasted.
This topic isn't nearly as wild as the election the year I was born. From USA Today's In '52, huge computer called Univac changed election night:
That doesn't take away from Silver's math, though, considering that the polls all had Obama and Romney neck and neck and Obama won by a huge margin. It seems Woodbury did a far better job with an incredibly primitive computer than the modern polsters' statisticians did with today's high tech machines.
It depends on the drug and the person. E.g., Adderol is supposed to help one concentrate, I can see how that would be an incredible benefit to many people.
So what is so special about this?
Advancement. Smaller, sharper, straighter, far less crude.
There's some evidence that humans shouldn't use marijuana if they are young and their brains are still developing:
I would be very surprised if there wasn't evidence, since it seems self-evident that any psychoactive drug is going to affect a developing brain in some way or another. Which is one of many reasons drug laws are stupid: It's easier for a kid to buy pot than for an adult. This is ass-backwards.
a little over $800. This confuses me when you say things like "...it's not really that expensive."
Er, I think the GP is Mitt Romney or Bill Gates. Hell, for some of those folks, $800 is lunch money.
Indeed: I'm his age and retire in a year and a half. But if I'd been job hopping for the last 40 years and not built up a pension, I'd be looking to go into business myself, because most employers simply won't hire geezers.
It depends on the drug and on the programmer.