Well, presumably you'd need some kind of substrate to grow the meat on, so why not simply have the fat/connective tissues grown as well and bonded to the substrate. Solves two problems, how to attach the meat to the substrate, and lack of connective tissues effecting flavor.
I'll mention that the Excel team at Microsoft used to have the motto "Find external dependencies and eliminate them", and did this down to the point of actually maintaining their own C compiler. I understand them, though I think that might be overkill.
Pfh! Real Men do it in assembly (and Masochistic Real Men do it in machine code).
real_men.com (no line breaks)
X5=!P%=AP[$\PZX5F(P^)7CC)7}!Real men do it in machine code! $H+H*
Now that Hibernate and EJB3.0 have effectively merged, you might as well learn Hibernate because one way or another you're going to be using the same basic system no matter what you choose (raw JDBC possibly excepted, but in that case you're responsible to maintaining all the JDBC calls and making sure they keep pace with your SQL updates). Hibernate really is incredibly flexible, and I find it hard to believe you could possibly have anything you need to do that can be done in JDBC but not Hibernate (in particular since you can use JDBC inside of Hibernate, although it does remove a lot of the nicer things Hibernate does).
As for Spring, you might be right in that there are some frameworks that a more true to AOP, and that if you're not careful Spring can bite you, but the basic premise of Spring is definitely a good one. In particular, learning and using the annotation based configuration options of both Spring and Hibernate will go a long way towards improving the usability of both frameworks. Coming from a project in which we ripped out a lot of really nasty singleton code (and byzantine object relationships and factory methods necessary to make it work) and replaced it with a very simple dependency injected model built on top of Spring, it really is a nice framework that can lead to some very clean code. The real beauty of Spring though isn't just the dependency injection (which is nice), but in the very clean straightforward components it ships with (like Spring MVC web framework which is one of the better ones I've seen). In addition, managing transactions through Spring can greatly simplify your project, but you've got to design your persistence layer with clear entry and exit points for each transaction to allow them to be annotated with the start and commit transactions, otherwise you're going to struggle with managing the transactions.
Likewise Kyle, which although often male, is occasionally used as a female name. Then there are those that come up with entirely new names, or that use nicknames, or handles to contend with. Yeah, sorry, this sounds like it's utterly useless, you've taken what once was a simple question of "Are you male or female?", and turned it into "Based on your name our software thinks you're X, is this correct?". All they've done is taken a simple question and reworked it so that it makes a potentially embarrassing/insulting/annoying assumption about a person, which then needs to have steps put in place to insure that it's made the correct assumption, all for the sake of avoiding a simple binary question.
I'd bet they make extensive use of micro-controllers and custom firmware, not exactly applicable to this situation. There's plenty of options given control of the hardware that hooks up to the sat-phone, and the software installed there in, but significantly less when you're on a tight budget, lacking in the programming talent needed to write customized micro-controller code, and forced to support specific vendor supplied applications that only run under a particular version of Windows. What he's really looking for is an "off the shelf" solution, so anything requiring customized software or hardware is pretty much right out.
Not hardly. As an aside, the stasis field is technically a separate product from the GP hull, hence even with the GP hull you'd either need a further stasis field, or a field like the magnetic one mentioned in TFA.
Watch out for anti-matter though, or you'll be in for a rude surprise. Also you'd probably need one of these magnetic bubbles as well, lest you cook the passengers.
My favorite part of the article:
"There're a lot of things to work out, like control, reliability, weight to launch, and so on," said Dr Bamford.
"I don't think it'll come down to as little as sticking fridge magnets on the outside of the spacecraft."
Wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if it did in fact come down to just that. If you densely packed the exterior of the hull with rare earth magnets it might just provide sufficient shielding. Of course you'd need to be careful about temperature fluctuations in the magnets, particularly during takeoff and re-entry, as heat has a tendency to de-magnetize fixed magnets.
I didn't even bother with the video feed for a number of reasons, although probably the most relevant is I'm transferring a large file over an already slow VPN link as is.
Watching the image feed, I can't help but think to myself "Feed me Seymour!".
Slang, colloquialisms, vernacular, and jargon are all still valid parts of a language, just those that are the most motile, and least consistent (particularly over a large geographic area). Over time any and all of the above may evolve to the point of integration with the core language, and in fact google is swiftly approaching that stage.
Also, your point is poorly phrased as someone already pointed out. The implication in your sentence is that the majority of the world (per capita) speaks English which is demonstrably false, as opposed to the point you were attempting to make, that the verb "google" is not part of the English language.
Microsoft has never "gotten" anything decentralized, what with them being the most centralized organization known to man. If it's not owned and distributed by MS, then they either want to buy it, destroy it, or maybe both. The internet is practically the anti-thesis to the entire Microsoft world outlook. Is it any surprise they've struggled to make headway?
This is also incidentally why they don't get open source. OSS is the decentralized software model to Microsofts centralized model.
Who the hell uses Twitter? You web programming monkeys are soon to be out of jobs.
Much as I (mostly) agree with the first statement, I can't understand where the second one is coming from. Just because someone posts a story about people name-squatting on twitter, how does that have anything to do with web programming, and employment aspects there of?
Sorry for the late reply. Both of them actually. A ferrite bead isn't going to cause problems in most cases, so you can always "play it safe" and just chuck a couple on every cable you have. The only cable I can think of that it might have a negative effect on is possibly the AC cable coming from the wall, but even then I'm not sure. I'm not an EE, I'm just familiar with using the things on my various electronics (I've dabbled in electronics, so I can build a basic circuit, I'm just not professionally trained). There is a bit of math concerning the size and shape of the bead that determines exactly what signals it filters, and all the ones I've seen for power cables have been giant ones, but then again that could also be a function of the thickness of the cable it's wrapped around. Really I'd say just grab a few of the small-medium sized ones and snap them on and see if that helps, they should be really cheap (like maybe 10-25 cents a piece) so no real reason not to try it.
there's not much you can do other than putting a Faraday cage around the speaker,
...how about putting a Faraday cage around the phone instead?
That would work of course, but really defeats the purpose of having the phone in the first place. I suspect this was intended as flamebait so I'm not going to respond to any further posts along this vein.
As the AC pointed out it's not a magnet, it's a ferrite bead. This is a very common thing, and many cables come with one installed already. Just looking at the monitor sitting on my desk I can see a pair of beads on it's VGA cable (one at each end), and they're very common in most high end speaker systems. For cables that don't have them you can pick them up from various places in the form of snap-on cylinders which can either be directly clamped onto the cable, or alternatively you can wrap the cord around the bead once or twice before clamping it, which will hold it in place on the cable and also serves to improve the filtering slightly.
They're a very simple passive device that works by disrupting high frequency RF passing through the cord. Since any large (long) conductor can function as an antenna, most cables are really just giant antenna, so adding a ferrite bead is a really cheap and simple way to counteract this. As for interference within a speaker itself (that is, not arriving by way of the speakerwire used to hook it up) there's not much you can do other than putting a Faraday cage around the speaker, or just moving the source of noise farther away from the speaker.
Believe me, there are *many* people around who think it is just the height of comedy to fuck with people who are basically stealing their stuff anyway.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Now where did I put my cattlepro... I mean cable tester.
Scraping data is a last resort, not the first thing you try. Forget the ethics - the fact he's working for a company willing to be that insanely cheap and stupid in the first place should be a signal to run far, far away in itself.
Seconded. I used to think my managers were daft, then I started reading thedailywtf.com and I gained a much greater appreciation of exactly how bad things can actually be. From the description this guy gives, he's definitely dealing with someone well on his way to ending up on that site.
Depends a lot on how they're doing the scraping. It's not terribly hard to write a scrapper that fairly realistically duplicates human behavior, although as you pointed out if they're using it to feed their own processes it does put some demands on how often etc. it's forced to run which could make it stand out from normal activity. Of course, given 20 or so of these bots all scraping from different IPs, so long as you balanced their duty cycles so they were all offset from each other you could have scraping going on for 24 hours without ever deviating from normal browsing patterns. The downside to something like that though is that it requires a certain amount of insight into the layout of the site, you can't just randomly follow every link on a page as that's waaaay too obvious, so if the site layout changes it can break your scrapper(s) until a dev can sit down and update them.
In other words, it's totally doable, and even in a "undetectable" way, but it's fragile, a total pain in the butt, and overall just not worth the headache. Just pay the damn company for proper access to the data and be done with it, it'll be a whole hell of a lot simpler. If your boss doesn't understand that then he's a moron, get out now before you have to do something that will end up on thedailywtf.com, much to your eternal shame I'm sure. Better yet, get out now, and then submit the details of the project you were asked to make to thedailywtf.com, I'd love to read exactly what "genius" ideas this guy has come up with to save a bit of money in one area by paying a bunch of money in another.
A global recession is a normal thing, not something anyone should even be worrying about. It's the standard issue pendulum swing you see in just about any variable system. For reference the following was taken from the wikipedia page on recession:
Global recessions
There is no commonly accepted definition of a global recession.[33] The IMF estimates that global recessions seem to occur over a cycle lasting between 8 and 10 years. During what the IMF terms the past three global recessions of the last three decades, global per capita output growth was zero or negative.[34]
Economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) state that a global recession would take a slowdown in global growth to three percent or less. By this measure, three periods since 1985 qualify: 1990-1993, 1998 and 2001-2002.
Now, if you want to talk about a depression that's where people start to worry. The US is headed for a depression if things don't turn around real fast, and it will probably drag some of the closer countries down with it, but most of the world won't be effected too much. Sure their economies will slump a bit, but not enough to really jeopardize the livelihood of most of their citizens. The US might be in for a rough ride, but just about all of the rest of the world will experience minor inconvenience if that.
There are those who have evolved and can see how not everything may be done for money, how doing something the best you can and ensuring that noone else has to do it again (at least for a while) and waste their energies on it, (and hence preserve world energy in general) moves some people in an amazing way.
Hmm... interesting concept... Open Source, saving the world from entropy!
He's made the mistake of projecting his own motivations and beliefs onto others and then extrapolating from that. If he was the one running all the open source projects single handedly and no one was around to pick them up, then this economic downturn would spell the end of them as clearly he isn't motivated enough by non-economic factors to contribute to the projects. Fortunately there are a great many people who are motivated by non-economic factors who will continue to work on these great projects, even after an economic slump. There's also non-US contributers to factor in, just because the US economy is sliding into the crapper doesn't mean the rest of the world is following suite.
Right, because everything you see in video is totally trustworthy and accurate, just like all that Chinese fireworks footage from the Olympics. We've just about reached the point where technology has rendered video feeds counterfeit-able, even nominally realtime ones. Unless you're standing there in person, or have someone you trust standing there to verify what you saw, there's no way to say for sure that what you've seen is actually what happened.
I initially read "Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy" as "Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says its caused". I think my first reading was the more accurate one.
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rm -rf /
wtf??? (do not try this at home)
Really? What does it do? Think I'll try it and s
CARRIER LOST
Well, presumably you'd need some kind of substrate to grow the meat on, so why not simply have the fat/connective tissues grown as well and bonded to the substrate. Solves two problems, how to attach the meat to the substrate, and lack of connective tissues effecting flavor.
A large contributor to flavor in beef (and I suspect many other meats) is the presence of the bone when it's cooked. Just ask your butcher.
Ok, add a second bone cloning vat next to the meat cloning vat and package them together. Problem solved.
I've long said that better programmers write simpler code. Poor programmers write complex code.
Better programmers write Elegant code, which is just as complex as it needs to be to get the job done, and no more.
I'll mention that the Excel team at Microsoft used to have the motto "Find external dependencies and eliminate them", and did this down to the point of actually maintaining their own C compiler. I understand them, though I think that might be overkill.
Pfh! Real Men do it in assembly (and Masochistic Real Men do it in machine code).
real_men.com (no line breaks)
X5=!P%=AP[$\PZX5F(P^)7CC)7}!Real men do it in machine code! $H+H*
Now that Hibernate and EJB3.0 have effectively merged, you might as well learn Hibernate because one way or another you're going to be using the same basic system no matter what you choose (raw JDBC possibly excepted, but in that case you're responsible to maintaining all the JDBC calls and making sure they keep pace with your SQL updates). Hibernate really is incredibly flexible, and I find it hard to believe you could possibly have anything you need to do that can be done in JDBC but not Hibernate (in particular since you can use JDBC inside of Hibernate, although it does remove a lot of the nicer things Hibernate does).
As for Spring, you might be right in that there are some frameworks that a more true to AOP, and that if you're not careful Spring can bite you, but the basic premise of Spring is definitely a good one. In particular, learning and using the annotation based configuration options of both Spring and Hibernate will go a long way towards improving the usability of both frameworks. Coming from a project in which we ripped out a lot of really nasty singleton code (and byzantine object relationships and factory methods necessary to make it work) and replaced it with a very simple dependency injected model built on top of Spring, it really is a nice framework that can lead to some very clean code. The real beauty of Spring though isn't just the dependency injection (which is nice), but in the very clean straightforward components it ships with (like Spring MVC web framework which is one of the better ones I've seen). In addition, managing transactions through Spring can greatly simplify your project, but you've got to design your persistence layer with clear entry and exit points for each transaction to allow them to be annotated with the start and commit transactions, otherwise you're going to struggle with managing the transactions.
Likewise Kyle, which although often male, is occasionally used as a female name. Then there are those that come up with entirely new names, or that use nicknames, or handles to contend with. Yeah, sorry, this sounds like it's utterly useless, you've taken what once was a simple question of "Are you male or female?", and turned it into "Based on your name our software thinks you're X, is this correct?". All they've done is taken a simple question and reworked it so that it makes a potentially embarrassing/insulting/annoying assumption about a person, which then needs to have steps put in place to insure that it's made the correct assumption, all for the sake of avoiding a simple binary question.
I'd bet they make extensive use of micro-controllers and custom firmware, not exactly applicable to this situation. There's plenty of options given control of the hardware that hooks up to the sat-phone, and the software installed there in, but significantly less when you're on a tight budget, lacking in the programming talent needed to write customized micro-controller code, and forced to support specific vendor supplied applications that only run under a particular version of Windows. What he's really looking for is an "off the shelf" solution, so anything requiring customized software or hardware is pretty much right out.
Not hardly. As an aside, the stasis field is technically a separate product from the GP hull, hence even with the GP hull you'd either need a further stasis field, or a field like the magnetic one mentioned in TFA.
I recommend getting a General Products #2 hull.
Watch out for anti-matter though, or you'll be in for a rude surprise. Also you'd probably need one of these magnetic bubbles as well, lest you cook the passengers.
My favorite part of the article:
"There're a lot of things to work out, like control, reliability, weight to launch, and so on," said Dr Bamford. "I don't think it'll come down to as little as sticking fridge magnets on the outside of the spacecraft."
Wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if it did in fact come down to just that. If you densely packed the exterior of the hull with rare earth magnets it might just provide sufficient shielding. Of course you'd need to be careful about temperature fluctuations in the magnets, particularly during takeoff and re-entry, as heat has a tendency to de-magnetize fixed magnets.
I didn't even bother with the video feed for a number of reasons, although probably the most relevant is I'm transferring a large file over an already slow VPN link as is.
Watching the image feed, I can't help but think to myself "Feed me Seymour!".
Slang, colloquialisms, vernacular, and jargon are all still valid parts of a language, just those that are the most motile, and least consistent (particularly over a large geographic area). Over time any and all of the above may evolve to the point of integration with the core language, and in fact google is swiftly approaching that stage.
Also, your point is poorly phrased as someone already pointed out. The implication in your sentence is that the majority of the world (per capita) speaks English which is demonstrably false, as opposed to the point you were attempting to make, that the verb "google" is not part of the English language.
Microsoft has never "gotten" anything decentralized, what with them being the most centralized organization known to man. If it's not owned and distributed by MS, then they either want to buy it, destroy it, or maybe both. The internet is practically the anti-thesis to the entire Microsoft world outlook. Is it any surprise they've struggled to make headway?
This is also incidentally why they don't get open source. OSS is the decentralized software model to Microsofts centralized model.
Who the hell uses Twitter? You web programming monkeys are soon to be out of jobs.
Much as I (mostly) agree with the first statement, I can't understand where the second one is coming from. Just because someone posts a story about people name-squatting on twitter, how does that have anything to do with web programming, and employment aspects there of?
Sorry for the late reply. Both of them actually. A ferrite bead isn't going to cause problems in most cases, so you can always "play it safe" and just chuck a couple on every cable you have. The only cable I can think of that it might have a negative effect on is possibly the AC cable coming from the wall, but even then I'm not sure. I'm not an EE, I'm just familiar with using the things on my various electronics (I've dabbled in electronics, so I can build a basic circuit, I'm just not professionally trained). There is a bit of math concerning the size and shape of the bead that determines exactly what signals it filters, and all the ones I've seen for power cables have been giant ones, but then again that could also be a function of the thickness of the cable it's wrapped around. Really I'd say just grab a few of the small-medium sized ones and snap them on and see if that helps, they should be really cheap (like maybe 10-25 cents a piece) so no real reason not to try it.
there's not much you can do other than putting a Faraday cage around the speaker,
...how about putting a Faraday cage around the phone instead?
That would work of course, but really defeats the purpose of having the phone in the first place. I suspect this was intended as flamebait so I'm not going to respond to any further posts along this vein.
As the AC pointed out it's not a magnet, it's a ferrite bead. This is a very common thing, and many cables come with one installed already. Just looking at the monitor sitting on my desk I can see a pair of beads on it's VGA cable (one at each end), and they're very common in most high end speaker systems. For cables that don't have them you can pick them up from various places in the form of snap-on cylinders which can either be directly clamped onto the cable, or alternatively you can wrap the cord around the bead once or twice before clamping it, which will hold it in place on the cable and also serves to improve the filtering slightly.
They're a very simple passive device that works by disrupting high frequency RF passing through the cord. Since any large (long) conductor can function as an antenna, most cables are really just giant antenna, so adding a ferrite bead is a really cheap and simple way to counteract this. As for interference within a speaker itself (that is, not arriving by way of the speakerwire used to hook it up) there's not much you can do other than putting a Faraday cage around the speaker, or just moving the source of noise farther away from the speaker.
Believe me, there are *many* people around who think it is just the height of comedy to fuck with people who are basically stealing their stuff anyway.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Now where did I put my cattlepro... I mean cable tester.
Scraping data is a last resort, not the first thing you try. Forget the ethics - the fact he's working for a company willing to be that insanely cheap and stupid in the first place should be a signal to run far, far away in itself.
Seconded. I used to think my managers were daft, then I started reading thedailywtf.com and I gained a much greater appreciation of exactly how bad things can actually be. From the description this guy gives, he's definitely dealing with someone well on his way to ending up on that site.
Depends a lot on how they're doing the scraping. It's not terribly hard to write a scrapper that fairly realistically duplicates human behavior, although as you pointed out if they're using it to feed their own processes it does put some demands on how often etc. it's forced to run which could make it stand out from normal activity. Of course, given 20 or so of these bots all scraping from different IPs, so long as you balanced their duty cycles so they were all offset from each other you could have scraping going on for 24 hours without ever deviating from normal browsing patterns. The downside to something like that though is that it requires a certain amount of insight into the layout of the site, you can't just randomly follow every link on a page as that's waaaay too obvious, so if the site layout changes it can break your scrapper(s) until a dev can sit down and update them.
In other words, it's totally doable, and even in a "undetectable" way, but it's fragile, a total pain in the butt, and overall just not worth the headache. Just pay the damn company for proper access to the data and be done with it, it'll be a whole hell of a lot simpler. If your boss doesn't understand that then he's a moron, get out now before you have to do something that will end up on thedailywtf.com, much to your eternal shame I'm sure. Better yet, get out now, and then submit the details of the project you were asked to make to thedailywtf.com, I'd love to read exactly what "genius" ideas this guy has come up with to save a bit of money in one area by paying a bunch of money in another.
Global recessions
There is no commonly accepted definition of a global recession.[33] The IMF estimates that global recessions seem to occur over a cycle lasting between 8 and 10 years. During what the IMF terms the past three global recessions of the last three decades, global per capita output growth was zero or negative.[34]
Economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) state that a global recession would take a slowdown in global growth to three percent or less. By this measure, three periods since 1985 qualify: 1990-1993, 1998 and 2001-2002.
Now, if you want to talk about a depression that's where people start to worry. The US is headed for a depression if things don't turn around real fast, and it will probably drag some of the closer countries down with it, but most of the world won't be effected too much. Sure their economies will slump a bit, but not enough to really jeopardize the livelihood of most of their citizens. The US might be in for a rough ride, but just about all of the rest of the world will experience minor inconvenience if that.
There are those who have evolved and can see how not everything may be done for money, how doing something the best you can and ensuring that noone else has to do it again (at least for a while) and waste their energies on it, (and hence preserve world energy in general) moves some people in an amazing way.
Hmm... interesting concept... Open Source, saving the world from entropy!
He's made the mistake of projecting his own motivations and beliefs onto others and then extrapolating from that. If he was the one running all the open source projects single handedly and no one was around to pick them up, then this economic downturn would spell the end of them as clearly he isn't motivated enough by non-economic factors to contribute to the projects. Fortunately there are a great many people who are motivated by non-economic factors who will continue to work on these great projects, even after an economic slump. There's also non-US contributers to factor in, just because the US economy is sliding into the crapper doesn't mean the rest of the world is following suite.
Segmentation Fault (Core Dumped)
[ Google Ads: Great deals on Microsoft Debugger! ]
-bash-3.00$ _
Right, because everything you see in video is totally trustworthy and accurate, just like all that Chinese fireworks footage from the Olympics. We've just about reached the point where technology has rendered video feeds counterfeit-able, even nominally realtime ones. Unless you're standing there in person, or have someone you trust standing there to verify what you saw, there's no way to say for sure that what you've seen is actually what happened.
I initially read "Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says is caused by piracy" as "Launching several global initiatives, the aim is to raise awareness of the damage to software innovation that Microsoft says its caused". I think my first reading was the more accurate one.