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Tuition & Fees
- Tuition
- Fees and Refunds
- General Lab and Studio Materials Fee
- Student Residence Fees
- Refund Policy for Student Residence
- Health Service and Insurance Fee
- International Student Fee
- Graduation Fee
- Special Fees
- Graduate Student Fee
- Books, Materials and School Supplies
Undergraduate Tuition
Starting in the Fall of 2014, all students enrolling for the first time at Cooper Union receive a half-tuition scholarship currently worth $20,400 per year ($10,200 per semester). Additional financial aid is provided to the least fortunate students to help cover tuition, housing, food, books, supplies etc. The amount of additional aid is based upon a student's demonstrated financial need. Students must file a FAFSA to be considered for additional financial aid. Please note that Cooper Union offers merit scholarships to exceptional students. Also, Cooper Union uses a need-blind admissions process meaning that a student's ability to pay does not impact the admissions decisions.
Undergraduate students first enrolling at Cooper Union prior to the Fall of 2014, receive a full tuition scholarship valued at $40,800 ($20,400 per semester) for the 2015-2016 school year.
Graduate Tuition
School of Architecture 2015-2016: The Master of Architecture II program is a three-semester program. All admitted students will be assessed tuition at the rate of $20,400 per semester. Graduate fellowships are available for admitted students of exceptional merit and/or need.
School of Engineering 2015-2016: Students in the Master of Engineering program are charged $1,200 per credit; 30 credits total. Any admitted Cooper Union alumnus entering the graduate program in Fall 2015 is eligible for a half-tuition scholarship for two years of study. Merit-based scholarships and research assistantships will be available to a select group of exceptional applicants in every degree-granting department. The deadline to apply for Fall 2015 full time graduate study is April 1, 2015.
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Fees and Refunds
A nonrefundable application fee of $75 is paid by all candidates for admission. Each student enrolled in a degree program pays a student fee of $800 per semester. For new students, this fee is payable on acceptance of admission and is not refundable.
For continuing students, the $800 fee per semester is payable prior to the first day class; it is 100 percent refundable up to the 14th day of class, 50 percent refundable up to the 21st day of class and 30 percent refundable up to the 28th day of class. Thereafter, it is not refundable.
Continuing students must pay each semester's student fee in accordance with the bill's "due date."
All fees are subject to annual revision. Students who do not pay the required fee will have their registration cancelled.
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General Lab and Studio Materials Fee
A general lab and studio materials fee of $125 per semester will be charged to each student's account. As the title suggests, this fee covers normal usage, "wear and tear," and basic supplies for laboratory and studio projects. For new students, this fee is payable on acceptance of admission and is non-refundable.
Student Residence Fees
Students electing to live in Student Residence will be responsible for paying the regular housing fees. The fees for the 2015-2016 academic year are $11,560 for a double (two students per bedroom) and $12,600 for a single (one student per bedroom). The fees cover residence for the fall and spring semesters and may be paid in two parts.
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Refund Policy for Student Residence
A refund of housing charges resulting from an approved request to cancel the housing agreement will be made in accordance with the following schedule: 100 percent of the total housing charges for the semester if the cancellation request is made prior to August 1 for the subsequent fall semester and December 1 for the subsequent spring semester; 65 percent if made by September 30 for the fall semester and January 31 for the spring; and 35 percent if made by October 31 for the fall and February 29 for the spring. No refunds will be made after these dates.
Students who are evicted from the Student Residence or whose Housing Agreements are terminated for violations of the terms of the Housing Agreement are not eligible for refunds.
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Health Service and Insurance Fee
Cooper Union requires all students to submit proof, prior to registration, that they have health insurance. Students who fail to supply the information requested on the Student Accident and Sickness/Enrollment Waiver form by July 15 will be billed $1,200 for the Health Service and Insurance Fee for that academic year.
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International Student Fee
Students on visas (those who are non-citizens or who are not permanent residents) are responsible for an additional fee of $2,010 per year payable by August 15.
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Graduation Fee
A graduation fee of $250 is required of all students entering their last year at The Cooper Union. This fee is payable upon registration for the senior year and is refundable if a student fails to meet graduation requirements that year.
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Special Fees
A charge of $100 will be made for late payment of the student fee. A charge of $25 will be made per occasion involving change of section or registration program.
The Cooper Union reserves the right to change its fees at any time.
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Graduate Student Maintenance of Matriculation Fee
The requirements for the Master of Engineering program must be completed within two years of admission to graduate status, except with the expressed consent of the Dean of Engineering. Requests for extension must be presented in writing to the Dean in the final semester of the second year. Thesis adviser approval is also required. Master's students who receive approval to extend their studies beyond two years will be assessed a maintenance of matriculation fee of $3,000 per semester.
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Books, Materials and School Supplies
Each student must supply, at his or her own expense, textbooks, drawing materials, hand tools and other necessary items.
If laboratory apparatus, machinery or studio equipment is damaged by careless handling, the student will be charged for repair or replacement. All students enrolled in School of Art courses should be prepared to pay for consumable materials supplied by the School for student use. Click here for a detailed breakdown of estimated costs.
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text: Snake oil Internet Al Gore has done quite well for himself since he left government service in 2001. Among his many ventures has been Current TV, an unwatchable satellite channel that airs some of the far left's most extreme views. Now Mr. Gore and his partners are selling the network to Al-Jazeera, the "news organization" owned by the government of Qatar, for $500 million. Mr. Gore is expected to make off with a cool $100 million, thereby pushing his estimated net worth ever closer to $1 billion. Whether the sale will give Islamic extremists a soap box in America remains to be seen, but how hypocritical is it that Mr. Gore, a fervent believer in anti-Industrial Revolution environmentalism, would sell his network to a regime that got ridiculously wealthy exporting fossil fuels?

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There's a rather humorous insurance commercial where a man is trying to explain to his female friend about how not everything on the Internet is true.
She heard this particular insurance agency doesn't offer an app. She heard everything you find on the Internet is, in fact, true. Then, enter her "French model" date. She met him on the Internet.
It's an issue we all have to keep in mind these days as we have come to rely so much on that information superhighway. While the Internet can provide us with a great deal of material, unfortunately, pretty much anyone can put anything they want out there and most people will never know any different.
The last several days, we've heard the story of Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o who, supposedly, found out the girlfriend he thought had died from cancer was still alive.
Then, it appeared as if they had never actually met and the entire relationship had been online.
Then, there was a girl who found out her picture had been used by some guy who had orchestrated the whole thing and Te'o "embellished" some aspects of the "relationship" when talking about it with family and friends.
We may never know, without a doubt, all the details.
It doesn't really take much these days to create a new identity online.
With social networking, on most occasions anyway, all you really need is a functioning email address. It can be from any source, whether it's a paid cable account or a freebie network.
There's nothing requiring you to post pictures of yourself, or any pictures at all for that matter.
Then, you start connecting with people and you can pretty much say and act any way you wish.
I've heard of people who have set up two Faceboook accounts with completely different information about themselves.
There has even been a documentary and now a television show discussing this whole thing which they call "catfishing."
Yes, you know it's bad when someone comes up with a term to describe the action.
The people behind the show include a man who says he was a victim of such a scam. He wanted to shine a light on the trend while also helping those who also might be victims.
With today's technology I doubt it would really take all that much effort.
Wikipedia, for example, has found itself having to rework some of its operations because it was too easy for people to edit articles with inaccurate, or even completely false, information.
It's gone so much farther than the celebrity death rumors of years past, although those still happen from time to time.
By the way, I've heard Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney are both still alive, as is Justin Bieber.
One of the more heartbreaking and unbelievable story from recent weeks was a video which began circulating around the net claiming the Sandy Hook shootings had been a hoax.
The claims centered around video supposedly showing people of Newtown, Conn. not grieving, and what they claimed also showed some of the people who died still alive.
The people behind this "proof" said it showed the shooting had all been part of a conspiracy by the Obama administration to force action on creating new gun control regulations.
It astounds me someone would take a tragedy and try to spin it for political reasons, but there it was.
I even saw some people I know start to believe it as fact. There were posts on Facebook and Twitter helping to spread the "proof" and further the "conspiracy."
With the right computer software, anyone can edit photographs and video to make it look like something it isn't. Most of us wouldn't even know the difference.
Anyone can post things online and tell us it's something different. You convince a couple of people, then they convince a couple of people and it begins to spread.
Before you know it, there is a large group of people who believe it is fact.
We have to watch what we put up on the Internet. It's not always as safe as we would hope, no matter what Mark Zuckerberg likes to tell everyone.
More importantly, we always need to be careful when using the Internet for research or to connect with someone, especially when it is someone we don't know.
Always double-check your information. Be careful of what you put out there. Be careful when you communicate with someone, as you never know how it can all be used.
It's better to be safe than sorry as they say.
(Howell, a resident of Colliers, is managing editor of The Weirton Daily Times, and can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or followed on Twitter @CHowellWDT)


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My Goal: Let nscd maintain a fairly large DNS cache in excess memory since I have it available.
I have a webserver that has a broadly dispersed but high-repeat user base. It has plenty of memory so I thought I'd improve response time by caching lookups but according to
nscd -g I'm only at a 6% cache hit rate (meaning
nscd is most likely introducing more latency saving to the cache or looking through the cache for an entry it will never find, than it's preventing by going out to the network):
hosts cache:
yes cache is enabled
yes cache is persistent
yes cache is shared
211 suggested size
216064 total data pool size
2328 used data pool size
36000 seconds time to live for positive entries
20 seconds time to live for negative entries
4455 cache hits on positive entries
0 cache hits on negative entries
17357 cache misses on positive entries
42348 cache misses on negative entries
6% cache hit rate
17 current number of cached values
40 maximum number of cached values
3 maximum chain length searched
0 number of delays on rdlock
0 number of delays on wrlock
0 memory allocations failed
yes check /etc/hosts for changes
Probably a large contributor to the 6% hit rate is the fact that apparently it's only cached 17 entries. Doing a
strings /var/db/nscd/hosts shows that the host cache entries it has created are mostly for machines on our internal network. It's good to have these cached since the daily re-publish of the website is likely sped up but my goal is to speed up end user experience without making any real configuration changes.
This is the relevant segment of
threads 10
server-user nscd
debug-level 0
paranoia no
enable-cache hosts yes
positive-time-to-live hosts 36000
negative-time-to-live hosts 20
suggested-size hosts 10657
check-files hosts yes
persistent hosts yes
shared hosts yes
max-db-size hosts 33554432
Basically, I need help understanding how my host cache can be so small even though I've set the positive TTL's on the host cache to be incredibly high. I'm sure it's the small number of actual cached entries that is causing the hit rate to be so low.
I'm assuming since the hit rate is 6% but my positive TTL is fairly large, that means my current workload is performing DNS host lookups, but they're just not being save. I have no idea why these aren't being saved nor what to check next. What I had expected would be a fairly large DNS cache now.
Even if the hit rate stayed small (i.e: clients weren't repeating as often as I thought) I'd still expect those DNS lookups to be cached but looking at the "current number of cached values" that doesn't appear to be happening either.


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News Archive
Gala: Mixed Media on Pavement
The 2011 gala that benefits PNCA and Museum of Contemporary Craft is June 4, featuring a unique format and a special After Party with dancing and special guests until midnight. Learn more about the event and order your tickets now.
June First Thursday
Visit PNCA, MoCC, the Goldsmith Blocks and the Galleria this Thursday and see the Thesis Exhibitions, Learn to Read Art, Laurie Herrick and much more.
2011 Commencement Award Winners
MFA in Visual Studies
Departmental Award: Tyler Stuart
Thesis Exhibition Award: Daniel Glendening
Graduate Speaker: Elizabeth Malaska
Faculty Award: Elizabeth Malaska
Chair's Award: Michael Welsh
MFA in Applied Craft and Design
Applied Craft and Design Program Award: Jason Lee Starin
Practicum Award: Julie Pointer
Graduation Speaker: Julie Pointer
Applied Craft and Design Post-graduate Fellowship: Matthew Williams
BFA Departmental Awards
The Ed and Sandy Martin Merit Sculpture Award in Honor of Manuel Izquierdo
Jax Gise
The Lloyd Reynolds Award for Illustration
Dominic De Venuta
The David J. Thompson Memorial Scholarship Award for Communication Design
Mel Larsen
The CS Price Award for Painting
Will Schneider-White
The Intermedia Departmental Award
Morgan Ritter
The Photography Departmental Award
Finn Paul
Printmaking Departmental Award
Antonia Pinter
The GFA Departmental Award
Robin Milliken
The Liberal Arts Departmental Award
Dominic De Venuta
BFA Thesis Exhibition Awards
The William Givler Fine Arts Thesis Award
Brian Colombo
The William Givler Design Arts Thesis Award
Christopher Bodven
The Abraham and Anna C. Helman Thesis Award for best of show
Morgan Ritter
The 2011 Liberal Arts Thesis Writing Award
Casey Browne
Honorary Degrees Awarded at 2011 Commencement
PNCA awarded Doctor of Art Honoris Causa degrees to three long-time friends of the College at this year's commencement ceremony: Al Solheim, the late Harold Schnitzer and his wife, Arlene Schnitzer. Read more in President Tom Manley's remarks.
2011 Thesis Exhibitions
PNCA proudly presents the thesis work of the Class of 2011, representing the culmination of their education at the College. Over 100 students graduate this year with BFA and MFA degrees. Each exhibition will host a First Thursday reception on June 2, 6–9 pm. See below for detailed dates, times and locations.
MFA in Visual Studies Thesis Exhibition
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Practicum Exhibition
Summer Hours
New summer hours are now in effect. The College will be open late for the graduation and Thesis opening on Sunday, May 22.
Monday-Friday | 8am-10pm
Saturday | 9am-6pm
Sunday | 1pm-6pm
The College will be closed on Memorial Day, May 30.
Commencement Address by Julia Fish '76
The 2011 Commencement Address will be delivered by alumna Julia Fish '76 whose Threshold paintings were featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Julia Fish is a 1976 graduate of Pacific Northwest College of Art, then known as the Museum School, and a former founding member of the longtime Portland artist cooperative Blackfish Gallery. She currently resides in Chicago, where she is Professor of Studio Arts in the School of Art and Design, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Open Engagement
The Open Engagement conference, May 13–15, is an initiative of Portland State University's Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. With renowned visiting artists and three days of intense programming, this year's conference reaches throughout the Portland arts community.
In the Thick of It: Stephen Slappe
Art writer Lisa Radon recently reviewed the work of PNCA Faculty member and video artist Stephen Slappe for the Oregon Arts Commission. "Slappe puts you right in the middle of it," she writes. Slappe is an assistant professor in Intermedia at PNCA.
Honors for MFA Candidate Samantha Wall
Samantha Wall '11 (MFA Visual Studies) was recently awarded an MFA grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation , an honor that is annually granted to only 15 students nationwide and includes a $15,000 cash prize. Created to further the careers of MFA students, painters and sculptors, the award is meant to aid in the transition from academic to professional studio work upon graduation.
It is a honor for PNCA to be among the schools invited to nominate students for the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant as the foundation limits the number of schools that can nominate students. This is the second year that PNCA has nominated MFA students for the prize.
Samantha Wall was also chosen as one of twelve outstanding MFA students from across the United States to participate in First Look III exhibition at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY. In organizing the exhibition, the HVCCA arranged a curatorial team, which visited over 30 universities and close to 2000 studios. Over 90 artists were nominated for the exhibition and 12 were selected.
The Review Committee included skilled gallerists, artists, curators and collectors. HVCCA's First Look has proven to be a must-see for collectors, galleries and international museums interested in seeing new talent, and are highly regarded among MFA students. It is distinguished by the fact that all artwork included resulted from personal studio visits and nominations.
New Graphic Novel Book Award
PNCA and Literary Arts have announced a partnership on a Graphic Novel award to be presented at next year's Oregon Book Awards. The new award comes during a week that included the Oregon Book Awards ceremony and a PNCA and Literary Arts co-sponsored Portland visit by Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman.
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MFA Student Laura Allcorn's International Debut
MFA in Applied Craft and Design student Laura Allcorn recently participated in the "HUMAN+ exhibition":http://www.sciencegallery.com/humanplus/human-pollination-project at Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin. Allcorn's Human Pollination Project brings attention to the human reliance on the pollination services provided by honeybees.
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Grandmother likes Little Bear's picture so much she sends him a thank you kiss. "Will you take it to him, Hen?" she says. Hen passes the kiss to Frog who passes it to Cat who passes it to Little Skunk until Hen decides there is too much kissing -- and finally gives the kiss to the Little Bear.
Else Holmelund Minarik first introduced readers to her timeless character in the classic Little Bear. Publication of this book, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, launched the I Can Read series. This much-loved author continues to write stories for children at her home in North Carolina.


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This should be a very easy question. If you look at the bottom of "Identical Particles" in Wikipedia, you see Table 1, which gives you the two particle statistics for bosons, fermions and distinguishable particles. The problem is to extend this table for three, four and five particles, or give an equivalent formula. I think I know what the answer is for fermions and distinguishable particles, but what about bosons?
My first guess is it would always be evenly distributed, but the many body limit does not equal the classical result, so that can't be right. Or can it?
What is the formula, and the first few rows of the "Pascals triangle for bosons"?


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When I edit photographs in Photoshop, I have noticed that the final file sizes average between 300mb and 700mb. I try to use smart objects whenever possible, and my files tend to have quite a few layers. I am a bit confused as to why my original 5mb .NEF raw images grow to several hundred megs as I edit them. Is this normal for .psd/.tiff files after edits have been made?
This is how big my .psd files are:
I have a lot in the 300-700MB range (mostly around 300MB). Some of these would be larger (probably a couple of gigabytes) but I flatten the layers occasionally to stop the files getting too large.
Is it excessive? I don't think so, if you have plenty of layers. Quite a few of my bigger files are panoramas. One thing I have noticed it that if you turn off "compatibility mode" when saving the files can be quite a bit smaller.
I tend to do my edits and then flatten my file, keeping the edited file in TIFF/whatnot (and the raw, of course) in it's ready state. There is no point in wasting space just to keep the layer mask that you might reuse some day. If I want to redo my editing I tend to redo the whole thing anyways.
Keep in mind PSD files are considered "source files", so they're going to be huge however you look at it. Photoshop isn't concerned in the least bit about file size, so it will create 300MB+ files without so much as a warning prompt.
I would argue that if hard drive space is becoming an issue (and hard drive space is cheap these days) your best bet is to have an extra internal drive or external USB drive, or at least a separate partition on your drive for working on PSD files. This way you're not taxing your system disk as heavily, which will extend the life and integrity of your drive.
In my opinion quality is easily ten or twenty times more valuable than disk space if you have it, so I'm willing to let the space be eaten up.
If you want to get fancy, you could use a solid state drive for your system (which would include photoshop's swap space) and a typical hard drive for your storage; resulting in faster editing and plenty of room!
That all said, you always have the option to save to another un-layered format (TIFF/jpg at 100% for example, heck even PDF has a handy lossless ZIP compression option) if you don't need the layers handy. If you keep your original NEF, you can usually recreate whatever changes you need to.


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Why would there be any pressure if everyone knows what they are doing and the projects are accurately estimated? If there's pressure, or even high pressure, then it implies what they are currently doing is not working, why would any good programmer want to join a team like that? Are these kind of job posting failed at trying to show off or are they really just being honest? Or is there really some good reasons for having pressure?
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Example high pressure job: High frequency algorithmic trading. A software engineer friend of mine is working for a trading shop. Huge stress, huge pressure. All deadlines are "right now". Everything is shipped to production on the day it's written. Even a few minute delay could cost the company millions. Not many people can handle an environment like this. If you can do it, expect a 50-100% higher salary than industry standard at your level + end-of-year bonus based on % of your algos' profits. It's super high-risk, high-pressure, high reward. It has nothing to do with unrealistic deadlines or lacking management, and everything to do with your ability to handle the pressure. (And traders swearing at your face as their P&L goes down the crapper that day.)
Other examples:
Alternatively, it's not necessarily just code for "we're under-resourced and have unrealistically aggressive deadlines", but also possibly code for "your responsibility makes you an expendable liability if anything goes awry".
I've always considered this code for "we're under-resourced and have unrealistically aggressive deadlines."
Maybe the recruiters assume that someone who can stand, or even enjoy, a "high-pressure environment", would be more productive in that particular company.
It can actually be a correct assumption: an inferior developer, who's willing to take the pressure for the sake of keeping his job, may be marginally productive, while a good developer, who can afford to choose and thus, should he end up in such a joke company, would leave in no time and wouldn't be at all productive.
It's a code phrase for "We want young unmarried programmers who are willing to work completely unreasonable hours at the expense of having any personal life."
They can't say that explicitly in part because it is illegal to discriminate based on age and marital status.
A startup that rushes to the market must struggle to be faster than the competition. For such a company, it makes sense to create a high pressure work environment, since being there two months before others working on the same problem might make the difference between being the next facebook and being, well, a too-little-too-late service nobody remembers. Working in such a company might make you rich quickly, through stock options.
For a well established software company, constantly high pressure is a sign of bad management and/or greedy owners and therefore a red flag.
Man, there's a LOAD of venting in this thread :P
"everyone knows what they are doing and the projects are accurately estimated" is what everyone wants but you shouldn't forget that those teams weren't always like that. Every team starts off bad before it eventually gets better, so until it gets to this utopian state, pressure is normal. If it weren't then management would probably be guilty of asking too little.
I like the "high pressure" statement on the rare occasions when I see it because those are the teams that have seen the symptoms, even though they may not have all the answers. That is better than most of the other ads that have no clue at all.
So unless the competition is some great software house that I know of, odds are I would find this "high pressure" one interesting at the very least. There are less good teams in the market than good programmers and frankly, holding out for the best (assuming they want you as well) is pretty much a waste of time unless you don't have mouths to feed.
So in that sense, the phrase "high pressure" doesn't really deter me at all.
One of two reasons:
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I think you get the point.
Good programmer don't work in theses companies, then company get less thing done (different studies show a difference of TCO going from 10 to 26 between devs, which is huge) and increase pressure, which lead to more good devs leaving.
Such a company will often cut on testing, QA or refactoring to reach unrealistic deadlines. Which lead to harder to meet deadline for the next release. This is a self maintaining process, and as long as the upper management doesn't want to break this trend, this is a recipe for disaster.
Note that 60% to 80% of IT project are considered as failure (see chaos report for precise numbers). And this has a lot to do with the behavior shown in the job posts you read.
This is often referenced as dead sea effect, and is a very real phenomena in the IT industry.
Because they ARE high pressure.
Because, in IT terms, they do not know what they are doing, or more precisely, they do not follow good development practices, because someone outside of IT is in charge.
One of the problems we software developers have is that software is not a tangible, physical object. To non-IT people it is this wooly, obscure thing that just exists inside their computer.
But because they cannot touch it, they do not appreciate the intricacies that go into building good software.
So when you get these types of people "driving the bus", you soon get comments like:
They don't get it.
I rarely see it worded like this, but then such statements are buzzwords at best, and baseless drivel at worst.
I have seen jobs that were described as "fast paced" being some of the slowest, most uninspiring, brain decaying and insidiously boring jobs that could possibly be concieved for a human being. I have also put LOTS of time and was significantly challenged at jobs where by the description in no way gave credit to the actual needs of the job.
You would make a mistake to put too much thought into wording like this. You learn far more about a work environment and the responsibilities of a potential job by interviewing and in turn asking the interviewer important questions that help unveil the hidden mysteries and dysfunctions that they don't tell you about.
It doesn't mean that much in most cases. After all, would a company really say that they have a work environment where their philosophy is "Mañana". It's one of those standard clichés that get throw into job listings by HR people, just like saying they want "highly motivated people" and that they offer "a competitive salary with a complete benefit package".
You'll need to find out from your interview exactly what kind of pressure a job is likely to have, if it's just HR-speak or if they really have time critical work that has to be done. For example, you may find out that they do a lot of client driven or time critical projects that need to be done very quickly, such as advertising campaigns or event planning. Or, you may find that the organization is populated with bullies and jerks who create ugly pressure. Or, it may be just HR-BS and the environment is a pretty typical development shop.
I ignore those kinds of jobs postings now. What they mean is we want a slave who will work 80 hours a week and not get paid squat. It is a sign that management is not bidding projects correctly or not managing projects correctly.
Well run teams run on time and without extra stresses, like managers that take on 100 new requirements and try to keep the date. I haven't had a death march in years. The closest thing was when I came back to a failing project as a consultant making exorbitant hourly rates and worked a long holiday weekend to bail out some major fail.
well the fact is most of the times projects are never accurately estimated!
which will create high pressure !
also most of these companies have week teams which will create system failures that will need you to work at midnight on short notice under pressure :)
"if everyone knows what they are doing and the projects are accurately estimated?" is a really big assumption. Usually that assumption is false if the company says it is a "high pressure environment".
And, yes, there are a lot of companies that fail to plan and have under-achieving employees. There are plenty of companies that don't fit that mold, you just have to maintain your own standards and refuse to work in these high pressure jobs.
The one place where it's okay for this to pop up is if you'll have a job where lives are on the line.
For example, if you're the sys admin for services that must be up in order to keep airplanes in the sky, you should expect it to be high pressure. Or, if you work on software that will be deployed for soldiers in a warzone, you can expect pressure.
If you see this, ask the interviewer if lives are on the line if you miss a deadline or alarm. If not, they're being dramatic.
It means they never heard of Agile or Scrum or Kanban, and they don't care about burning out their developers.


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Where does the expression far out come from?
As in:
I had to phone someone so I picked on you /
Hey, that's far out so you heard him too! /
Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two
(This is a lyric from "Starman" by David Bowie)
The Oxford English Dictionary defines far out as:
Their first quotation is an 8th November 1954 Time Magazine article entitled "Far-Out Words for Cats":
We can see this term beginning to emerge in Simon Michael Bessie's 1938 book Jazz Journalism: The Story of the Tabloid Newspapers:
Whilst the book is about tabloid papers and not jazz, it shows "far out" being applied to something novel and possibly avant-garde.
Here's Esquire's 1946 Jazz Book applying it to jazz of the most progressive kind:
Here's another snippet, from a 1947 The Jazz Record:
And from the next page:
These may not be the exact use of the phrase, but give an indication of how it came around.
It appears to have used as a set term in a publication of the South Dakota State University sometime in 1954:
Billboard of 24 April 1954 reviews Les Elgart Orchestra's song "East is East":
Billboard of 26 June 1954 reviews Serena Shaw's "St. Louis Blues":
The same November 8, 1954 Time Magazine cited by the OED had another article that used:
as in Beyond Great :)
Robert Frost and Aldous Huxley wrote "Neither Far Out or In Deep" in 1939. I think that might be a better starting place
The words far and out have been around forever but John Denver made the phrase "far out" popular.
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Krispy Kreme Buy 1 Dozen, Get 1 Dozen FREE on 12/12/12
Just print above photo (clicking "I want one!" puts up the larger scaled picture) at participating U.S. Krispy Kreme locations. Not valid in Connecticut (I found that hilarious) and Puerto Rico stores. Not redeemable in grocery/convenience stores. One coupon per customer per visit.
Valid on 12-12-12 only!
I'm hoping there isn't a line tomorrow!
PS: I know it's a facebook link.. but no account is required when you hit the "I want one!" button. Does that still count?
Heres a tinypic link that I've uploaded if you're completely anti-facebook-related: http://tinypic.com/r/8zf9j6/6
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As Homer would say:
"Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?"
They always have the 2 for 1, no coupon needed.....
Here's a link to the actual coupon: http://krispykreme.fbmta.com/members/ViewMailing.aspx?MailingID=2147514852&storecode=101&_X=YzQIxLc-AFoZ0
But it doesn't print when you click on the Print button so here's a better link:
@matinaf: I have never seen them do the 2 for 1 at my location without coupon...
really? Oh.....our Seattle store have had a sign out front with this deal for at least the last 3 years!! having 5 kids, I get this for every birthday party, parent meeting erc! Sorry :)
Eat that Connecticut! Serves you right for being Connecticuticans! We in the rest of the country will eat doughnuts- get heart disease and die young...
Wait?!?!?! NO!!!!!!
/ moving to Connecticut.
This is a great deal, as Krispy Kreme donuts are actually the only leavened donut that I like ( I prefer cake donuts ). Unfortunately, the only Krispy Kreme we had here was built while they were fudging their books & it closed shortly after opening.
Too bad most of the Krispy Kreme stores closed where I am (Chicago area).
I could eat glazed Krispy Kremes until I gag, but the closest store is just over 100 miles away.
Dunkin Donuts master race reporting in
Connecticut's renagade affair with Dunkin Donuts was bound to catch up with them someday. CURSES !
After the epic rise - and epic collapse - of the krispy kreme expansion some time ago I thought the whole chain went under. They tried to take over the world, a bit too quickly.
I thought Krispy Kreme went out of business. All the stores in my area closed.
@donslin: Same here. Let's see, 100 miles x2 / 25 mpg = 8 gallons x $3.xx gal = ...wait, one coupon per person? I need to find more people, it's time to car-pool!
Thanks for listing this coupon, just got my fix. Microwave for 8 seconds brings them back to life even 2 days later.
im sad that this deal is over in 1 hour PST...
hopefully there'll be another coupon for tomorrow... "bakers dozen day" :D
This might sound weird, but I have heard you can freeze donuts and then microwave them for 10 seconds, good as new. I put half of mine in the freezer so we'll see! Just a tip for those who didn't want to eat them all last night :-)
@matinaf: Lucky! I noticed a sign at ours in Orlando for buy one dozen, get $1 off the second. Not a very good deal :-/


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Why do people suggest boiling rice before lowering the heat to low, when making steamed long grain rice? What happens if you don't wait for it to boil and go straight to simmer phase?
In cooking rice or many other grains (and even some grain based products such as pasta), two things actually happen:
The boiling phase does both at the same time, very efficiently, but sufficient hydration happens before the rice is fully cooked through. So steaming to finish allows the rice to be fully cooked.
If you just simmer, things would simply take longer. The reason to turn the heat down is to not burn the rice at the bottom during the steaming phase.
You need to bring it to a boil first, to get it up to cooking temperature. If you start off with your hob on low (suitable for simmering), you'll waste a lot of time as it heats up.
Mirroring the other answers, what you're doing by bringing it to a boil under high heat is quickly beginning the cooking process. You need boiling water to cook, and that's all there is to it, so the faster you get the water there, the sooner you eat.
However, continuing to run your rice at a high rolling boil wastes water; too much of it escapes as steam, so the rice can't absorb it and break down the starches into a nice sticky layer for your stir-fry. So, you turn it down to a simmer (and cover it, which gives the steam a chance to re-condense on the lid). This is in contrast to pastas or vegetables, where the water's just a nice hot bath and there's no expectation of the food ever absorbing all the water it's cooking in.
If you remember your grade school chemistry, you'll remember that a state change (solid to liquid, liquid to gas) requires more energy than simply varying the temperature of a substance in the same state; it's why ice doesn't immediately completely melt in your drink, and it's why water doesn't immediately flash to steam when it hits boiling. The water's still at 211* and some of it is boiling (as evidenced by the bubbles), but less of it is getting enough energy from the heat to turn to steam, so more of it sticks around to absorb into the rice, gelatinizing the starches to soften it all the way through.


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AT&T has turned on its 4G LTE network in Bowling Green, bringing its customers the latest generation of wireless network technology.
The cellular company says LTE technology is capable of delivering speeds faster than many other mobile Internet technologies.
Customers must have a LTE-compatible device for the service.
"We continue to see demand for mobile Internet skyrocket, and our 4G LTE network in Bowling Green responds to what customers want from their mobile experience - more, faster, on the best devices," said Mary Pat Regan, president, AT&T Kentucky.
Bowling Green joins Louisville and Lexington as the only cities in Kentucky to offer 4G LTE by AT&T.


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There are many different kind of options that you can do in order to start using LaTeX on Ubuntu. I would prefer doing that through Eclipse, but if there is a better way of doing it, feel free to write your opinion on why using this instead of something else.
Eclipse strikes me as an odd choice of an IDE to use for LaTeX, but I guess it should work, since the steps in producing a LaTeX-generated document are quite similar to those involved in producing a computer program.
The first step is obviously to make sure you have Eclipse and LaTeX themselves installed. Then, if you haven't already done so, you should definitely install the TeXlipse plugin or some equivalent, which provides syntax highlighting and autocompletion, among other things. (Without it, Eclipse would be nothing more than a glorified text editor and in that case you'd be better off just using a plain text editor.) The TeXlipse user manual provides a good description, including screenshots, which I would recommend you follow to the letter, as all the enabled features will most likely be useful to you. Once you've got the plugin installed and configured, just open a project and try compiling it to make sure it works and to get a sense of how the process works.
Eclipse is, of course, not the only IDE you can use for LaTeX; there are specialized LaTeX editors available. My favorite happens to be Kile, which also provides syntax highlighting and autocompletion, as well as a LaTeX symbol list and graphical build commands that are designed specifically for the LaTeX toolchain. It is based on KDE, so if you are using the default graphical environment for Ubuntu (Gnome) you may have to install some - okay, a lot of - extra packages to use Kile, and it's your choice whether that's worth it or not.
Take the editor you are familiar with. Most of the editors have builtin LaTeX support and install the TeX-Packages you need.
If you want to have them all, do a
But please be aware that this downloads about 600 MB of software, which expands to about 1.x GB.
I am using Eclipse with Texlipse. Some of my colleagues are using Geany. Other taking LxX.
The messages is, take the editor you like most.
The package you want to install the
ought to get you a pretty good starting point.
As for editors, even the basic pre-installed gedit ("Text Editor") should at least offer syntax highlighting.
I don't run Ubuntu but perhaps these links will help:
If you're on ubuntu, then nothing like using XEmacs. Combined with the AUCTeX package, and reftex for handling citations. it's a dream to use, and is really the best IDE available. What it lacks is the nice latex support that Kile has, so I wouldn't recommend it if you're also trying to learn latex.
I would advise NOT using gedit. It has two problems.
I have found the Ubuntu packages to be out of date, making it difficult acquire various latex libraries. I would suggest: http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html
Texmaker is a nice GUI that is native to the Gnome desktop for Ubuntu.
I just use
Recently though I've switched to
My favorite IDE is texmaker. I used Kile in the past, the KDE Latex Editor, another nice one. You can install it with
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - In the wake of a change of 911 administration, former director Robyn Marshall is claiming wrongful termination and taking legal action. Marshall was terminated Jan. 11, 2013, after a prolonged meeting.
According to a release from Christina L. Corl, attorney with the firm of Crabbe, Brown & James, which Marshall has retained, there has been significant misinformation regarding her client's termination.
On Nov. 18, 2012, an injured child was brought to the site of the dispatch center. Two dispatchers rendered assistance to the child while an ambulance was en route. Once the ambulance, along with six paramedics, arrived at the site, one of the dispatchers returned to her post, as was appropriate, in case other members of the community had emergencies to report.
The second dispatcher, without authorization and against policy, left her post and rode to the hospital in the ambulance, and failed to tell anyone at the center she was leaving her post during her shift, according to the attorney.
"My client, as 911 director, is in charge of supervising all 911 employees, including dispatchers," Corl stated. "My client had a conversation with an attorney for Belmont County, who told her to issue the AWOL dispatcher a verbal warning. After she administered the verbal reprimand to the dispatcher who left her post in the middle of her shift without telling anyone, my client received an e-mail from the director of human resources for the county directing her not to issue the verbal reprimand. My client informed the director of human resources that the reprimand had already been issued and, thereafter, my client was terminated, without any explanation whatsoever."
Corl added that they have been informed that the six paramedics who allowed the dispatcher to ride in the ambulance to the hospital have been disciplined by the fire chief for allowing an unauthorized person to ride in the ambulance.
"No action has been taken against the fire chief for issuing the discipline," Corl stated.
"There is simply no valid explanation for the termination of my client, especially since she was directed by an attorney for the county to issue the verbal reprimand," she went on. "The only explanation is that there is an ulterior motive for her termination."
She speculates that Marshall's status of the only female department head may have played a part in the decision. In addition, she noted several prior complaints to human resources regarding a hostile work environment and discrimination.
"We believe her termination is actually in retaliation for her prior complaints and because of her gender," Corl added that legal action was being brought against the county. "My client was faithfully doing her job to protect the citizens of Belmont County and to ensure that the 911 center was properly staffed to handle emergencies.
"It is a shame that significant county resources will be expended to defend this illegal action by the commissioners."
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It is portrayed, in the movie, how that protagonist jew is sent to extermination camp in Italy.
I thought jews in Italy are not usually sent to concentration camps. Those who are usually survive. I thought Italians are not as anti semitic as hitler (something I do not know).
So I wonder if the story is historically accurate or how accurate its.


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I have 100 team sites in SharePoint 2010. At the last minute, I have been asked to hide a tab on each of these sites. Through the GUI, I could do this by using the Navigation option under Site Settings, but I would have to do it for all 100 sites. Is there a way to do this programmatically? Or globally through the GUI (I doubt this is an option)? I have tried using JQuery, but due to the lag, it is not a viable option. I figured there may also be the possibility to write a powershell script to do this - I am just still new to powershell.
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I wonder how much one of these are gonna cost when the hit the market, $5,000?
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I wonder how much one of these are gonna cost when the hit the market, $5,000?
Is the hardware platform supporting any other means of control buttons than what we see in this video? I am thinking about something like the iPod Click Wheel or so to speed up navigation and in UX.
Could anyone please give a little detail on what's possible there?
alvifarooq wrote:i can bet you a hundred bucks that Apple will support this with their Leopard OS and tout it as an innovation...and they'll get away with it cause they'll have the ipod click wheel and the interface on the top...with support for Dashboard widgets...maybe MS shouldn't be this forthcoming with their developments!
kuaidang wrote:Better yet, a bluetooth iPod wouldn't even need to be docked inside the computer at all.
In the talk at PDC we had talked about the fact that there are native C++ / COM APIs integrated into Vista. I had also shown a quick interop sample.
We understand that there is a large managed code audience who would like to use this platform. COM APIs can be accessed through managed code with a little interop shim. We will try to share sample code that makes this easier and look a managed code API in the future. Thanks for the feedback.
realitymeister wrote:A few points: 1. Waking up a laptop should not take anything more than 6-9 seconds tops. This is means fully able to interact with an open application or access a website via an 801.11 network connection. Which I do on my laptop. 2. Who uses a laptop to listen to music?? Isn't that what mp3 players are all about? Laptops are either being used to work on email or work on some type of document that falls within the Office document realm (spreadsheet, word processing, preso) And then of course there are those who use the laptop to watch a DVD movie, but even that use is diminishing with portable like the iPod that can play video. Scobelizer, you need to get a portable mp3 device if you are listening to podcasts on your laptop! So I'm not convinced that this auxillary display has been justified. I think someone in the display manufacturing business is looking at pushing more 3 inch displays. Bottomline it sounds like Microsoft is looking at creating a new platform and convincing folks that they really want to access their laptop via a 3 inch window. Hmmmm..I'm not convinced....
Hey, just wondering... is the aux displays stuff still happening?
Will I see laptops with aux displays next year?
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As Pentaho continues to rapidly grow it is important for us to add advisors who can offer guidance in core areas importance. To that note, I am excited to announce that Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, worldwide engineering, Red Hat, Inc. has joined the Pentaho Board of Directors.
Brian brings tremendous experience in cloud computing and software innovation to Pentaho at a time when the business analytics market is being transformed by a deluge of large and diverse data volumes, the mainstream adoption of cloud solutions, and need for interactive analysis.
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i have an ubuntu network machine which has release of 10.04.1 LTS Lucid. on this system i have apache, postgresql and django. for some app. development i have to install php and php-curl... due to being on network, i have exported wmvare machine to internet and firstly i have upgraded system and then install php5 packages on it.
After all replacing it with its old place, i have considered that the new system query is some slow according to another.
Old system query time :
140 ms
New system query time :
9.11 s
i have checked
/etc/network interface and it seems there is no problem.
i have checked
/etc/resolv.conf and it seems ok
i have checked
/etc/nsswitch.conf and only host section is different from old one which old system has
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
and then i have checked
time host -t A services.myapp.com and i got
real 0m0.355s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.020s
and i have checked apache2 HostnameLookups :
find /etc/apache2/ -type f | xargs grep -i HostnameLookups
it returned :
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:# HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:HostnameLookups Off
and now what can i have to check for boosting my system as before?


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Women who lived in Native American tribes on the Great Plains were responsible for performing domestic tasks, such as growing and preparing food, maintaining the home, and looking after children. Family earth lodges and teepees were usually owned by women of the tribe or a woman's family. Upon marriage, men moved in with the woman's family. In addition, all game hunted and killed by men became the property of women.
Fun Fact: Young girls often played house with miniature teepees that they made of decorated hide given to them as presents.
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What's the safest way to construct minecart tracks so that they can be used during night-time without mobs ever getting on the tracks and stopping you?
On my server, we always built either a subway or a monorail.
EDIT: Of course, as many pointed out in the comment, all of these solutions need to be well lit, following robust lighting rules, in order to be safe from monster spawning.
Subways are the safest and get you lots of resources. You could build it well under level 20 so you could have a chance at diamonds on the way. It can also give you access to cave systems, abandoned mining shafts and even strongholds. However, it requires to have a good amount of stairways and you could encounter lava lake. But since it's one block at a time, it's easy to get around and patch up a safe zone.
Monorail on the other hand, gets you a nice view over your towns and landscape. A problem would be that you have to build a lot of station upward so you can get off safely without jumping down. It will be impossible for a mob to get up there if your stations are well defended.
Note on normal railways. They are hard to defend. Putting fence around it may prevent certain mob to get to the rail itself, but skeletons and spider can have an easier time to get a shot at you. Completely surrounding it with walls may get you the same result at a subway in the end. Something to consider.
Make sure the tracks are well lit so that mobs won't spawn on them, and put fences or other barriers either side to prevent mobs from walking onto the tracks.
You may consider completely encasing the tracks if you wish to prevent skeleton arrows and spiders.
My previous strategy I'll call 'sunken monorail' and I post here just for completeness in the methods listed as answers.
I placed a railway on the ground (or, my second attempt, I dug a dead flat line through hills or built up as required). Then I dug out 2-deep channels on either side to prevent anything jumping up to the tracks.
These were powered tracks so I had redstone torches fairly regularly just over the powered track segments, and put normal torches on the redstone torch blocks to prevent mobs spawning on them. I don't think my light coverage was quite good enough over the whole track length but had few issues with mobs spawning on the tracks.
Worked fairly well; entry and exit points at ground level, reasonably safe. Issues though were occasional spawned mobs on the tracks, skeleton arrows would get you sometimes, and it was pretty ugly in a way as you really disfigured the landscape. Kind of impressive in a major engineering project way with the huge trenches, but also pretty scarring for the views.


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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Al Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today. At the outset, the King briefed the Cabinet on his most recent contacts with foreign officials, including phone conversations with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and Afghan President Hamid Karzai and meetings with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Belgian Crown Prince Phillipe, and Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon.
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Happy 30th birthday Commodore 64!
you were my first computer and you served me oh so well. i remember when i wrote my first program in BASIC. it was the infamous 10 print "You are stupid", 20 GOTO 10. i'd go to the store and run it on all the computers they had. and then i'd sit there and cackle with glee as i watched the employees sit there and try to figure out how to stop it.
did any of you ever use the Commodore 64?
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Yep, first computer experience. Ahh, old tech.
Loved my C64. :) The games! The ways people would abuse the SID chip into masterful music!
Ah, memories.
I will not admit to being that old.
Yes, I remember the C64 and then my Amiga fondly. They are both long gone .... except ... now you can get a modern PC in C64 case at: http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx And it also runs C64 software!
(happy birthday C64!)
@barnabee: You know you want to share in the love.
What, no love for its ancestor, the Vic-20?
Actually, I went the Atari 800 route and never felt bad about it. It was less expensive than the Apple II at the time and had a bigger user base than the C-64. But simply having a computer back then, any computer, coupled with the ability to do things like send text files so my friends and I could copy homework amongst ourselves, made all the difference.
I still love the thought of logging on a BBS with my 300 bps modem w/ no speaker - just a blinking red light.
ATDT###-#### and my fav "+++"
I owned a C64 from 1987 to 1990 when I upgraded to an Amiga 500 which I kept until 1994 when I went to the Widnows 3.1 darkside.
It was my first computer too. I saved my money so long to buy it that when I finally brought it home I had notebooks filled with BASIC programs I couldn't wait to try out.
I suddenly feel like downloading an emulator and playing Raid on Bungeling Bay again.
"did any of you ever use the Commodore 64?"
I still have mine. It's sitting in the orig box, next to me in my cube.
And yes, it still works.
atari 800 and 800xl and 1200xl user here.
10 print hello!
20 print .......hello!
30 print ..............hello!
40 print .......hello!
50 goto 10
I remember the dinosaur days of illegal filesharing. Copying cassettes and mailing them to each other around the world to share games.
My Dad sent the Commodore 64 off to college with me, along with a daisy wheel printer. My mother sent me off with a can opener, a screwdriver, and a hammer. Which parent's contributions brought the greatest number of people to my dorm room door is still up for grabs some 20 years later.
I am not sure what is older TRS 80 or commodore 64.
I had the Vic 20 :)
@driley1974: The TRS-80 easily came first. I'd say by about four years actually.
Never used a Commodore 64....my first love was a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack.
@driley1974: TRS-80 is older by a few years. Back in its day (without the verbal input of techies who knew better about the Xerox project) it was the first. It was without doubt the first retail sold computer, sold exclusively at Tandy which was Radio Shack. It was their computer. The Commodore 64 is closer in time I believe, to the Apple II.
..take out the tape and rewind all the magnetic ribbon back onto the spools...
Darn this stupid tape, I'm just going to go play Pools of Radiance and Champions of Krynn.
I learned how to type on a C64. Also learned at the same time that I could go back to the prompt from the typing program and write BASIC programs there, and still get back to my typing afterwards.
My typing instructor, however, didn't know the latter part of the second. He would find my silly BASIC programs running and reboot the C64 while I was at lunch. Oh well, that gave me something to do when I got back.
I loved my C64! When I was in college my whole quad came to use that computer to type their papers, but you couldn't turn it off without possibly losing all your hard work. So we left it on ALWAYS! My friends would type all night on my desk that was under my bed, and I would print their stuff in the morning. Ah, the good ol' days! Thanks for the memories !
Ah, Commodore 64! I had both that and the Vic20. Memories. Wait....something tells me they are still lurking around the house somewhere. Wonder if they still work? And, if I can find them?
My dad remembers having one with the 1541 disk drive, i bought a C64 off Ebay with the drive to remember him if he passes on


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All of us, maybe in our first incursions on pure mathematics or going further in logic or set theory, need to face the rare and "pretty easy" to understand Russell paradox, but maybe the further implication of this encounter is that there is not a set such that contains the sets that do not be log to it selves . But for it importance i have thought that this paradox should imply further meditations. I mean i am not going seriously in logic yet, but i need to know why this paradox is so important for mathematicians, or may be if it is an actually easy to understand first encourage with math or set theory.
When i first read the paradox and the proof i understand it as a demonstration of impossibility of the existence of a biggest class or the biggest set, besides the normal implication that all of us know, so i don´t understand it as well as i should understand it, and now i don't know if out of logic, basic analysis and basic topology the Russell paradox is that important, are there any interpretations in real life, applied math, physics of RP.


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I use the following loop to do .flac --> .mp3 transcoding:
for file in *.flac; do $(flac -cd "$file" | lame --preset fast extreme - "${file%.flac}.mp3"); done
The directory, of course, must contain .flac files for this to work. What I'd like to be taught is the syntax in order to make this command work recursively. The aim is to cd to the directory containing all the subdirectories of .flac files and have the command loop through them all.
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Project Description: The student will participate in basic insect curation and identification and work on ant samples in the DNA Discovery Center at the Field Museum. This job consists of sorting ants from bulk/mixed jars of invertebrates collected from around the world. In addition, the student will participate in DNA based research on ants. The student will learn basic insect classification and identification and DNA based molecular laboratory skills.
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I've been searching and have not been able to find a formula for calculating the impedance of differential lines on inner layers where the dielectric above and below it is not symmetrical. I've seen plenty of examples of symmetrical stackups, but that would not help in my case. Does anyone know what the formula would be for this? Thanks!
Edited for more information: For those that don't know, a stackup consists of all the different layers of a PCB (Printed Circuit BOard). You can have, for example, a 4 layber PCB which has individual copper material & glass epoxy stacked on top of each other. This allows the board to have more layers for routing the nets of the circuits.


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Presumptuous or Optimistic Parenting - David covers an important topic here: the difference between presumptuous and optimistic parenting. He looks at the high cost of presumptuous parenting and offers something far better.
Your Stories Killed My Soul - This is an interesting article from the Plugged In blog. They look at an actor whose work on a violent television show was destructive to his soul. Watching the show can't be much more edifying than working on it!
Bearing One Another's Burdens - Paul Tautges looks at the biblical command to "bear one another's burdens," showing that this doesn't quite mean what many people take it to mean. "As believers committed to each other's spiritual well-being, we must recognize that we are not the only ones fighting the daily battle against sin, but our brothers and sisters are too, though some of them may be losing the war and need extra help in gaining the victory."
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Animal rights activists wanted the bill to convict an abuser on the first offense. Currently a first offense is only a misdemeanor. The bill passed 32-0 with little discussion and now heads to the house.
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Sometimes things don't end up exactly as we've planned. It's true for all of us in our everyday lives and true for designing hand knit sweaters.
Margery whipped up these sketch while we were designing the Spring '08 season. We planned sweaters in pairs, each a variation on each other. Lalo was a tailored stockinette stitch pullover with an interesting split neckline, while Latifa was going to maintain the neckline details and have severel godet inserts giving it a flared swing shape. I designed a fairly elaborate ribbed insert, then Brenda (our tech editor) wrote up the pattern and sent it off to be knit. Now, I do wish I had a photo of the ribbed insert or of the sweater as it was when it came back it came back from the knitter, but I wasn't thinking "blog" back then. I promise to try to be better in the future :)
So, there is nothing wrong with Margery's sketch of Latifa and nothing wrong with Brenda's original instruction for Latifa, yet Latifa just wasn't working. The godets were too heavy and saggy and complicated. Margery and I took one look at each other and saw the same expression of dismay on each other's faces. We SO wanted it to work and it SO didn't. Then the awful feeling of "I should've known" came over me. Maybe we had both known on some level, but instincts don't always win out. Anyway, after taking a few minutes to get over the frustration and a few more to think about it, One of us suggested that Latifa would look pretty darn cute if we cut off all of the flared bits, and kept it plain and tailored like Lalo. We both broke out into big grins and practically jumped up and down. YES!
I love this little sweater so much the way it is now it's hard to remember that it started out as something different. I need one in dark brown, of course, to layer over my black batiste peasant blouse.
kathy freeland #
is that not the way life goes, 'keeping it simple' often proves to be the correct way after all.
thanks for weekly news bits
kathyFebruary 22, 2008
Phyllis Teiko #
I adore the finished products!!!! Just what I want and need in several colors. Where/when can I get the patterns???
PS: SMALL godets don't usually work for me either, generally dragging a garment down even in light weight yarns.February 22, 2008
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I'm enjoying seeing some of the design process. My girls were amazed by the "cables" on the Duomo! I just was enjoying the audio slideshow of the new Bonsai booklet and thought immediately upon seeing the strappy tank shaped by decreases with the leaf/diamonds up the middle that it would do very well turned upside down with the upward point in the center front and two straps (that would not fall off the shoulder! coming off of that. Is that possible? (or, more importantly, is it a Very Bad Idea given the yarn, structure of the fabric, drape, etc., etc.?)February 22, 2008
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This is off topic but I just wanted to say how much of HUGE fan I am of your work! Your patterns seem to have this great organic/ cosmic feel, as if they were truly spawned from nature. Sorry to gush, but I feel that an artist must be always be honored for their work. Kudos! Thanks for being a knitting designer in my time.
Sorry about being off topic-I just found the blog.February 26, 2008
Love the insight into the design process, and the reading about the dialog you have go through to get to the final and finished design.February 26, 2008
Hi Norah! I was a guest host on the Stash and Burn podcast this week and shared a little design backstory that Andra shared with me…hoped that was okay, it was so interesting!! It was about the Tilted>Lotus>Currer family. While I want to knit all, ALL of your patterns I probably have the closest "knit-lationship" with those, having knit the Duster, modeled Lotus and tried on Currer at Stitches on million times.
We love backstory!February 27, 2008
This is exactly why I cant display my beautiful yarn in a basket. Its been hijacked several times and 'spun' by my cats! On a more serious note, I LOVE your designs and absolutely have to make Latifa since its for the boobalicious. How about the hipalicious and buttalicious too? LOL.March 1, 2008


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In this video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook explains how to repair a leaky sprinkler system.
1 Shut off the water to the sprinkler system.
2 Remove lid from valve box and clean out mud from inside of box with hand trowel.
3 Pack valve box with dry rags to absorb water.
4 Twist out the low-voltage solenoid valve, then wait for excess water to drain out.
5 Unscrew the bonnet from the top of the valve using a Phillips screwdriver.
6 Remove the spring and diaphragm gasket from under the bonnet.
7 Install a new valve diaphragm onto the valve.
8 Set spring on diaphragm, place bonnet on top.
9 Put steel ring on top of bonnet, then screw down the bonnet, alternately tightening the screws.
10 Replace the solenoid, and make the wire connections with waterproof wire connectors.
11 Pull rags from valve box and fill box with clean stone.
12 Turn on the water to the sprinkler system and check for leaks.
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