Old Man Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Re: The cranky thread People still buy CDs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Re: The cranky thread People still buy CDs? yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Re: The cranky thread I've hit 40 and feel like a complete failure. Then there is the project we are working on where the goalposts keep moving. And is it really too much trouble that if I have an interest in something or someone that the website does not suddenly go out of commission ? Sheesh ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Re: The cranky thread That's difficult. Don't know what to say but hope things look up. I guess too often our projections and expectations aren't realistic, but that doesn't take not achieving them any better. Dr. Anomaly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 22, 2005 Report Share Posted November 22, 2005 Re: The cranky thread I've hit 40 and feel like a complete failure. Then there is the project we are working on where the goalposts keep moving. And is it really too much trouble that if I have an interest in something or someone that the website does not suddenly go out of commission ? Sheesh ! Hey at least you hit 40 before the whole failure thing! Keep at it my fiery eyed friend! This website isn't going anywhere! (is it? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread This website isn't going anywhere! (is it? ) Well if it does we'll always have NGD.com or Paris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread I don't want Paris. Paris is a skank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Who doesn't shave her legs or armpits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread My unique talent seems to be not needing a ladder. Actually, looks like I'll be doing something interesting next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Is there a computer language anywhere that, out of the box, allows easy reading of string representations of dates and times? And also arithmetic operations involving those correctly? Grr. I'm tired of reinventing this wheel every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread PHP and MySQL are reasonably good at handling dates and times, but each in their own way--there's some friction when using both, as the default formats are different for each. Doesn't help you much, I know. I vaguely remember Fortran as handling dates relatively well, but I'm old and have memory corruption. I'd recommend scouring the web for library or cookbook date/time functions that you can drop in. You're not the only one who keeps rewriting that wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread I vaguely remember Fortran as handling dates relatively well' date=' but I'm old and have memory corruption. I'd recommend scouring the web for library or cookbook date/time functions that you can drop in. You're not the only one who keeps rewriting that wheel.[/quote'] I did it in C++ once (and fought a massive battle against the MFC CTime class doing it ... man, what garbage), and I'm just about finished with it in Python. Yeesh. You'd think no one had ever had to read a text date/time string from two different places, and compute a time interval between those in a coherent way. Happily, I am already conversant with the relevant definitions and conventions so I know what I'm doing, which is more than half the battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Is there a computer language anywhere that, out of the box, allows easy reading of string representations of dates and times? And also arithmetic operations involving those correctly? Grr. I'm tired of reinventing this wheel every time. Java SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); Date d1 = formatter.parse("12/01/2001"); Date d2 = formatter.parse("12/25/2005"); . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Does it parse times and differences as well? E.g., d2 = "11/20/2005 13:34", d1 = "11/15/2005 09:24", d2 - d1 = 5.17361 (or a tuple that is the equivalent of 5 days 4 hours 10 minutes)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Staggering. When I first learned Java, while it was bleeding edge, it was all the language could do to open a window and draw a button that did something. I guess the libraries have gotten more comprehensive in the last... decade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Just so folks know, I'm leaning on this for source code & algorithm to bust things to Julian Day Number for the absolute time differences. The page owner is an old instructor of mine and I trust him to get this sort of stuff right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Does it parse times and differences as well? E.g., d2 = "11/20/2005 13:34", d1 = "11/15/2005 09:24", d2 - d1 = 5.17361 (or a tuple that is the equivalent of 5 days 4 hours 10 minutes)? Sure... long milliseconds = d2.getTime() - d1.getTime(); double seconds = milliseconds/1000d; double minutes = seconds/60d; double hours = minutes/60d; double days = hours/24d; double weeks = days/7d; ...and so on... Whatever units you need... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread double weeks = days/7d; Also known as a fortnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but I really need to blow off some steam. On Saturday, Nov. 19, I tested for 2nd Dan. My classmates and I busted our asses from 11 am to 5 pm, often doing things twice because we were joined by other schools and instructors in the afternoon session. My instructor says we all did a great job, and we all passed. The other instructors congratulated us on a job well done. Sounds great, except... The Grand Master of our school had forgotten about the test and didn't show up. He's very apologetic about the whole thing. But he won't refund our money and wants us to go through it all over again under his supervision. And he'd have the final say on whether or not we pass. Edit: I really shouldn't have said all this, but I am physically and mentally tired, and quite frustrated to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Damn, that sucks, sorry. And by way of the thread topic, I miss the catsuit thread a lot more than I thought I would. (This is not a criticism of the policy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but I really need to blow off some steam. On Saturday, Nov. 19, I tested for 2nd Dan. My classmates and I busted our asses from 11 am to 5 pm, often doing things twice because we were joined by other schools and instructors in the afternoon session. My instructor says we all did a great job, and we all passed. The other instructors congratulated us on a job well done. Sounds great, except... The Grand Master of our school had forgotten about the test and didn't show up. He's very apologetic about the whole thing. But he won't refund our money and wants us to go through it all over again under his supervision. And he'd have the final say on whether or not we pass. Edit: I really shouldn't have said all this, but I am physically and mentally tired, and quite frustrated to boot. Consider it practice or a test run., a chance to finally hone your skills for the big day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread Okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but I really need to blow off some steam. On Saturday, Nov. 19, I tested for 2nd Dan. My classmates and I busted our asses from 11 am to 5 pm, often doing things twice because we were joined by other schools and instructors in the afternoon session. My instructor says we all did a great job, and we all passed. The other instructors congratulated us on a job well done. Sounds great, except... The Grand Master of our school had forgotten about the test and didn't show up. He's very apologetic about the whole thing. But he won't refund our money and wants us to go through it all over again under his supervision. And he'd have the final say on whether or not we pass. Edit: I really shouldn't have said all this, but I am physically and mentally tired, and quite frustrated to boot. Is he going to charge you again? If not, that still really sucks. It would've been nice if he had made it clear that no one could pass unless he had supervised the test ahead of time. If he is planning on charging you to re-do a test that was invalid because he didn't show up, I would personally seriously consider moving to another dojo if there is one that you would trust around. Anyway, just my knee-jerk reaction to a situation that I obviously don't know all the details of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread No, he won't charge us again. But considering he was supposed to be there and wasn't, it would have been nice to pass us anyway, meeting up with us just to correct and clean up our technique. Now we have to do this all over again, except for the fitness test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted November 24, 2005 Report Share Posted November 24, 2005 Re: The cranky thread No' date=' he won't charge us again. But considering he was supposed to be there and wasn't, it would have been nice to pass us anyway, meeting up with us just to correct and clean up our technique. Now we have to do this all over again, except for the fitness test.[/quote'] Agreed. Much bummerness... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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