Contractors are in a unique position to ignore office politics. The guy who wrote it is respected? Who cares? He and his buddies don't determine your future within the company because you don't have one as a contractor. Assuming you want to retain the contract, explain the situation politely, and maybe privately. Worst case scenario, you work with the guy to fix things. Best case scenario, you start over from scratch and earn extra contracting dough (hopefully you're billing by the hour).
"Hey Boss, some guy off the street just paid two hundred million Austrian Marks cash for the all the VW vans in the back lot. Says it was his first car long ago. We're set for life!"
"You checked with him to see how many times the bills were used, right?"
"No, why?"
"If they were used three times before, we're ruined! They only last up to four times!"
That's what they said ten years ago about today. It's nowhere near that point. Even with AI on par with a human brain, it won't reach that point. You want to know why? Because people state requirements incorrectly. A great programmer or project manager learns to annoy the client with seemingly repetitious questions trying to understand exactly what the requester means by "I want the program to file my tax return". I hope we never get to the point where the computer gets to decide what the computer gets to decide, because that way lies the madness of a holographic Dr. Moriarty capable of defeating Lt. Commander Data.
Coding professionally requires insight, talent and dedication. Learning to code doesn't. All learning to code requires is the instruction of a new way of thinking that a vast majority people currently alive in the computer age haven't touched. I'll never be a professional musician, despite my having been a marching band captain in high school. I had the talent and insight, but not the dedication. Friends of mine went on to have careers in music (either teaching or playing professionally), but that wasn't for me. However, I am better for having learned it.
Similarly with programming, I coasted through CS. Talent and insight galore. But I only wanted to code what *I* wanted to code, so I used my CS degree in something less programming-related (but I do have to fix scientists' code on occasion). Beyond scripting and fixing others' code, learning to code in procedural, logical, and functional languages helps me in work related tasks and every-day living. When computers become even more integrated into everything, it will be useful for the bulk of society to be aware of the limitations of computers instead of thinking of them as magical black boxes.
I wish I had the details to do the math on this. What is the cost of 500 snowplows that just need to be warehoused for 999 days then rolled out once every three years? What is the cost in salt, labor, maintenance? Now compare that to the cost of hundreds of thousands of people stuck in gridlock for up to 18 hours?
You should compare apples to apples: cost (in tax dollars) of maintaining and using the fleet versus loss of tax revenues due to reduced private sector productivity. That's what drives public policy. It's why residential streets are never plowed except by private contract.
It was really 2-3 inches of snow, slush, and re-freeze. Snow is easy to drive in. Slush and ice make travel difficult. Even people up north forget how to accelerate in the snow every year; imagine an entire city of snow newbies and all the truckers who might remain exclusive to southern states.
I do that with salted hashes when I can. But, I had to use one once, and I said to the guy on the other end: "Now bear with me, because I encrypted the answer, so it looks like a long mess of numbers and letters and I'll need to tell you them a character at a time." His immediate response: "Yeah, that's it! I've reset your passphrase to #####" Me: "...."
So that's all it takes if you know someone doesn't use traditional words in the security questions.
Oh yes the dreaded Power point presentations. They look more like something you would use in a presentation to justify budget increases.
Perhaps, but the budget request presentations where I work don't look like how-tos for fourth amendment violations. I don't want a government agency to make arguments like that for money whether or not they plan on actual implementation.
I know a few people who would do this just because they are too stupid to see the problem with what they are doing, that is why the are likely to spend their entire working lives on IT support desks without ever moving upward.
If they can't see why this is a problem (beyond maybe the first slip-up and a severe reprimand), then they need to not work any longer in an IT support-desk role, and instead be shifted into the restaurant business.
It's funny because you point out that 2D printers are dying, which I notice too. Long ago: "Print Shop" was the killer app for a PC. Everyone wanted a computer + a dot matrix printer so they could maker banners and signs. I don't see people doing that today. Or maybe that still exists in the elementary school - middle school market that I don't see as much any more?
I think that the reason you don't see it happening today is because the most prominent printing standard today, inket, tends to use very expensive consumables, and a price-conscious consumer is not likely to want to waste a lot of money printing frivolous things. Printing on a dot matrix printer was cheap in comparison... probably more than an order of magnitude cheaper, even in today's dollars.
I'd say the big reason is because dot-matrix print paper easily lent itself to large banners and signs whereas today's printers (where the paper is all unattached to the other sheets) need a lot of tape and extra work to make banners.
Or... use different wavelengths of light for different depths, and have the nanoparticles arranged in concentric rings per "slice", so you'd end up with 3D voxel objects, but they'd be psychedelic tie-dye rainbow colored.
Unfortunately this is just a projection screen that happens to only reflect the color blue, so only the outer layers would have an image projected on them. Your best bet for voxels would be sandwiched monochrome LCD.
Slashdot Mirror
Contractors are in a unique position to ignore office politics. The guy who wrote it is respected? Who cares? He and his buddies don't determine your future within the company because you don't have one as a contractor. Assuming you want to retain the contract, explain the situation politely, and maybe privately. Worst case scenario, you work with the guy to fix things. Best case scenario, you start over from scratch and earn extra contracting dough (hopefully you're billing by the hour).
Polymer banknotes last up to 4 times
"Hey Boss, some guy off the street just paid two hundred million Austrian Marks cash for the all the VW vans in the back lot. Says it was his first car long ago. We're set for life!"
"You checked with him to see how many times the bills were used, right?"
"No, why?"
"If they were used three times before, we're ruined! They only last up to four times!"
That's what they said ten years ago about today. It's nowhere near that point. Even with AI on par with a human brain, it won't reach that point. You want to know why? Because people state requirements incorrectly. A great programmer or project manager learns to annoy the client with seemingly repetitious questions trying to understand exactly what the requester means by "I want the program to file my tax return". I hope we never get to the point where the computer gets to decide what the computer gets to decide, because that way lies the madness of a holographic Dr. Moriarty capable of defeating Lt. Commander Data.
It is just like requiring everybody to play a musical instrument.
Yep. http://www.news-medical.net/ne...
Coding needs insight, talent and dedication.
Coding professionally requires insight, talent and dedication. Learning to code doesn't. All learning to code requires is the instruction of a new way of thinking that a vast majority people currently alive in the computer age haven't touched. I'll never be a professional musician, despite my having been a marching band captain in high school. I had the talent and insight, but not the dedication. Friends of mine went on to have careers in music (either teaching or playing professionally), but that wasn't for me. However, I am better for having learned it.
Similarly with programming, I coasted through CS. Talent and insight galore. But I only wanted to code what *I* wanted to code, so I used my CS degree in something less programming-related (but I do have to fix scientists' code on occasion). Beyond scripting and fixing others' code, learning to code in procedural, logical, and functional languages helps me in work related tasks and every-day living. When computers become even more integrated into everything, it will be useful for the bulk of society to be aware of the limitations of computers instead of thinking of them as magical black boxes.
The balls and sticks of sportsing are unused for me and grammar irrelevant. Don't start me with quadrivium although liking music.
I was happy to switch to xfce, even though I'd never used it before. I'll use any good UI, but I won't tolerate a bad one for long.
I wish I had the details to do the math on this. What is the cost of 500 snowplows that just need to be warehoused for 999 days then rolled out once every three years? What is the cost in salt, labor, maintenance? Now compare that to the cost of hundreds of thousands of people stuck in gridlock for up to 18 hours?
You should compare apples to apples: cost (in tax dollars) of maintaining and using the fleet versus loss of tax revenues due to reduced private sector productivity. That's what drives public policy. It's why residential streets are never plowed except by private contract.
It was really 2-3 inches of snow, slush, and re-freeze. Snow is easy to drive in. Slush and ice make travel difficult. Even people up north forget how to accelerate in the snow every year; imagine an entire city of snow newbies and all the truckers who might remain exclusive to southern states.
Magnetic monopoles, how do they work? My guess is the other pole is directed through higher spacial dimensions.
I do that with salted hashes when I can. But, I had to use one once, and I said to the guy on the other end: "Now bear with me, because I encrypted the answer, so it looks like a long mess of numbers and letters and I'll need to tell you them a character at a time." His immediate response: "Yeah, that's it! I've reset your passphrase to #####" Me: "...."
So that's all it takes if you know someone doesn't use traditional words in the security questions.
Oh yes the dreaded Power point presentations. They look more like something you would use in a presentation to justify budget increases.
Perhaps, but the budget request presentations where I work don't look like how-tos for fourth amendment violations. I don't want a government agency to make arguments like that for money whether or not they plan on actual implementation.
I'd just ask them to read the card instead. For the paranoid, cover all but the last four digits when showing it to the cashier.
I know a few people who would do this just because they are too stupid to see the problem with what they are doing, that is why the are likely to spend their entire working lives on IT support desks without ever moving upward.
If they can't see why this is a problem (beyond maybe the first slip-up and a severe reprimand), then they need to not work any longer in an IT support-desk role, and instead be shifted into the restaurant business.
"We did, we did."
It's funny because you point out that 2D printers are dying, which I notice too. Long ago: "Print Shop" was the killer app for a PC. Everyone wanted a computer + a dot matrix printer so they could maker banners and signs. I don't see people doing that today. Or maybe that still exists in the elementary school - middle school market that I don't see as much any more?
I think that the reason you don't see it happening today is because the most prominent printing standard today, inket, tends to use very expensive consumables, and a price-conscious consumer is not likely to want to waste a lot of money printing frivolous things. Printing on a dot matrix printer was cheap in comparison... probably more than an order of magnitude cheaper, even in today's dollars.
I'd say the big reason is because dot-matrix print paper easily lent itself to large banners and signs whereas today's printers (where the paper is all unattached to the other sheets) need a lot of tape and extra work to make banners.
That is pure nonsense. There is no such thing as a typing horse. He must be dictating.
Huh Slashdot was better back then? Really? Colour me pink!
Some say it was better when it waspink. With ponies.
Colloquial plural possessive. Rephrased as "it is the fault of all y'all", but less funny since it seems less like I'm discussing a geological fault.
It's all y'all's fault.
But people seek out Facebook like they sought chickenpox back before there was a vaccine. As a result, chickenpox did very well for itself.
Heat tape. Heck, the panels can probably generate heat themselves if need be.
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False -smart people don't believe all smart people do the same thing.
Then obviously, some smart people might believe that.
Or... use different wavelengths of light for different depths, and have the nanoparticles arranged in concentric rings per "slice", so you'd end up with 3D voxel objects, but they'd be psychedelic tie-dye rainbow colored.
Unfortunately this is just a projection screen that happens to only reflect the color blue, so only the outer layers would have an image projected on them. Your best bet for voxels would be sandwiched monochrome LCD.