One day, Ken complained to his friend, 'My elbow really hurts. I guess I should see a Doctor.'
His friend offered, 'Don't do that! There's a computer at the chemists that can diagnose anything, quicker than a doctor. Simply put in a sample of your urine and the computer will diagnose your problem and tell what you can do about it. It only costs £10.00.'
Ken figured he had nothing to lose, so he filled a jar with a urine sample and went to the chemists. Finding the computer, he poured in the sample and deposited the £10.00. The computer started making some noises and the various lights started flashing. After a brief pause out popped a small slip of paper on which was printed:
You have tennis elbow.
Soak your arm in warm water.
Avoid heavy labour.
It will be better in two weeks.
Later that evening while thinking how amazing this new technology was and how it would change medical science forever, he began to wonder if this machine could be fooled. He decided to give it a try. He mixed together some tap water, a stool sample from his dog and urine samples from his wife and daughter. To top it off, he masturbated into the concoction. He went back to the chemists, located the machine, poured in the sample and deposited the £10.00. The machine again made the usual noise and printed out the following analysis:
Your tap water is too hard
Get a water softener
Your dog has worms
Give him vitamins
Your daughter's using cocaine
Put her in a rehabilitation clinic
Your wife's pregnant - twin girls
They aren't yours
Get a lawyer
And if you don't stop jerking off, your tennis elbow will never get better.
While your comment is funny, it really makes sense to cover other products from an MS perspective. Even the AC has a point about a "consistent user experience." Everybody on/. knows better, but the majority of non-technical people will feel that the registration will be "natural" over time.
How hard would it be to construct an essay to create a high number of false positives? I had in mind something like Cantor's diagonalization method, take and alter the first sentence from one essay, take and alter the second sentence from another essay... and cobble it all together to form a new essay.
What if people were to generate and submit many such papers to increase the rate of false positives?
I'm sure someone has thought of better ideas than mine.
I wondered what it would be like to be an immortal (like from Highlander). Watching history unfold. All that.
Then I thought about how far removed I would be from what I knew. It would be like a culture shock. Like a caveman's understanding of modern New York.
The graphic Transmetropolitan contains bizarre and vivid imagery. When I read it last week I felt much like one of the characters who was revived from cryo. To the character everything was so completely foreign, disgusting, and frightening.
Though I think it would be interesting to "study the future" say in like a book or some sort of familiar media if one could do that as easily as study the past.
This article is just a very vigorous proof that you're an idiot if you spend any time at all searching for the cheapest gas
I drive between Columbus and Cleveland Ohio and I visit columbusgasprices.com and clevelandgasprices.com to see what are some of the nearer and cheaper gas stations near me to fill up.
I presume that there are other websites out there that follow the format of CITY(or STATE)gasprices.com format.
I remember reading an anecdote about how ice cream was left in the communal fridge and that someone would always eat it. The solution was to wrap the ice cream container in a plain brown paper bag and label it "TOFU" and stick it in the back of the fridge. Nobody touched it.
Truecrypt provides on the fly encryption and plausible deniability (also open source, and can run under windows and linux). And plus I think it would be good to secure data when the device holding that data can be easily lost/stolen.
Oh, that's because those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it and those who are knowledgeable of history are doomed... to watch others repeat it.
You are not the only one who thinks that lots of people are leaving.
"Do you expect people to work forever?"
I did not make any expectations on how long people should work. I felt that Cringely wrote about similar things and I quoted him.
If wikipedia is correct "Melinda has given birth to three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002)."
You are not the only one who thinks that lots of people are leaving.
"...look for several dozen of his closest and oldest associates to leave the company in the next four to six weeks, and look for Steve Ballmer to leave, too, within a year."
Andrew Moyhing successfully challenged a policy that only male trainees must be chaperoned when intimate procedures are carried out on female patients.
I think it would be interesting to know of the specific reasons of why the men felt uncomfortable. Maybe because they couldn't relate to their female co-workers in the same way the relate to other males (who's dick is bigger).
"Roses are red, violets are pretty somethings going down in this fair city Cryptanalysts in love? how cute. Im intrigued by this shortwave numbers station though, very cool."
Do you want hastily written software or do you want software that works?
People both want code that works and they want it delivered quickly.
Any non-trivial software complication is extremely complex. Fixing bugs can create new bugs. Fixing those bugs can introduce even newer bugs, ad infinitum.
...
Want bugs fixed faster? Quit bitching and start testing.
I believe that Test Driven Development (red, green, refactor) is an excellent approach to develop software. By incrementally writing tests one builds a confidence level of the project. If you want to change or fix something, do so, then run the automated tests. Anything that was broken is immediately reflected in the tests.
And the mantra of TDD is truly "start by writing tests": write the test first, then the code that fulfils the test. By writing the test first you have written a measurable metric by which to gauge the code.
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Wow. That sounds like a challenge. Seems like somebody ignored the saying "It's hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
Good! Then maybe companies will start using non-corn sugars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_s
I found a copy of it off jokefile.
This is nice piece of writing. Do you have more stories of yours on a website somewhere? I'd like to read them if you've got them.
Actually... isn't Folding@home going to be on it?
Of course not. Because ideas are bulletproof.
While your comment is funny, it really makes sense to cover other products from an MS perspective. Even the AC has a point about a "consistent user experience." Everybody on /. knows better, but the majority of non-technical people will feel that the registration will be "natural" over time.
... to defeat this system
How hard would it be to construct an essay to create a high number of false positives? I had in mind something like Cantor's diagonalization method, take and alter the first sentence from one essay, take and alter the second sentence from another essay... and cobble it all together to form a new essay.
What if people were to generate and submit many such papers to increase the rate of false positives?
I'm sure someone has thought of better ideas than mine.
THAT would be great.
I used to think so too.
I wondered what it would be like to be an immortal (like from Highlander). Watching history unfold. All that.
Then I thought about how far removed I would be from what I knew. It would be like a culture shock. Like a caveman's understanding of modern New York.
The graphic Transmetropolitan contains bizarre and vivid imagery. When I read it last week I felt much like one of the characters who was revived from cryo. To the character everything was so completely foreign, disgusting, and frightening.
Though I think it would be interesting to "study the future" say in like a book or some sort of familiar media if one could do that as easily as study the past.
6. Program an application using an XOR-linked-list.
I drive between Columbus and Cleveland Ohio and I visit columbusgasprices.com and clevelandgasprices.com to see what are some of the nearer and cheaper gas stations near me to fill up.
I presume that there are other websites out there that follow the format of CITY(or STATE)gasprices.com format.
The firing of employees by email is just another way to automate away just another management function.
nothing like the good old
"Go away before I replace you with a very small shell script."
I remember reading an anecdote about how ice cream was left in the communal fridge and that someone would always eat it. The solution was to wrap the ice cream container in a plain brown paper bag and label it "TOFU" and stick it in the back of the fridge. Nobody touched it.
Truecrypt provides on the fly encryption and plausible deniability (also open source, and can run under windows and linux). And plus I think it would be good to secure data when the device holding that data can be easily lost/stolen.
Remindes me of this man's quest to "Nullify the vegetarian moral crusade."
Oh, that's because those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it and those who are knowledgeable of history are doomed... to watch others repeat it.
I did not make any expectations on how long people should work. I felt that Cringely wrote about similar things and I quoted him.
If wikipedia is correct "Melinda has given birth to three children, Jennifer Katharine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002)."
You are not the only one who thinks that lots of people are leaving.
"...look for several dozen of his closest and oldest associates to leave the company in the next four to six weeks, and look for Steve Ballmer to leave, too, within a year."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060615
A related article from the BBC
Andrew Moyhing successfully challenged a policy that only male trainees must be chaperoned when intimate procedures are carried out on female patients.
I think it would be interesting to know of the specific reasons of why the men felt uncomfortable. Maybe because they couldn't relate to their female co-workers in the same way the relate to other males (who's dick is bigger).
"Roses are red, violets are pretty somethings going down in this fair city Cryptanalysts in love? how cute. Im intrigued by this shortwave numbers station though, very cool."
Or use a firefox extention Leet Key 1.3.1
Oversimplifying everything always sucks.
Yeah, simplifying things suck.
Yeah, it was fixed in cvs!
People both want code that works and they want it delivered quickly.
I believe that Test Driven Development (red, green, refactor) is an excellent approach to develop software. By incrementally writing tests one builds a confidence level of the project. If you want to change or fix something, do so, then run the automated tests. Anything that was broken is immediately reflected in the tests.
And the mantra of TDD is truly "start by writing tests": write the test first, then the code that fulfils the test. By writing the test first you have written a measurable metric by which to gauge the code.
As long as you don't mind being packed in with your neighbors like sardines.
A little "thought experiment"... take 6.5 billion people and put them in Texas: how much room will each person have?
268 820 mi^2 * (5280^2 ft^2 / mi^2) / 6 500 000 000 = 1152 ft^2 / person
(in metric 107 m^2 per person)
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