The Hugo voted by the fans, who are the ones paying money to buy the books is obviously the "biggest prize" More money means you can afford to write more of the stories "you" want to write.
An author might appreciate the Nebulas because it is a vote from his peers but that doesn't pay the bills.
The Oscars are everybit a popularity contest as the Hugos
I just finished this book and loved it. It is a book about a high school team and the FIRST robotics competition.
Easy, fun read and loads of science+general teanage kids stuff.
By Neil Bascomb.
The New Cool
Take the offer, but then offer to your (now) former employee that you can help/consult/be available in the evenings or weekends for particularly difficult problems. Offer to do it for free and if they do value you, they might be willing to pay you for it. Your junior developers will be grateful but not as grateful as the owners.
This has worked for me twice in the past. You don't burn bridges, and in fact strengthen relationships. You will probably find, as I did, that your period of working two jobs will last less than a month.
How exactly are you supposed to know what *He* wants to do unless you have him try it out? Most kids are pretty open to all things interesting and fun. If you can make coding interesting and fun...there you go. If he doesn't like it after your best shot, after getting the best advice you can, then go try something else. While there is not much connection between playing games and coding, at least there is *A* connection. Better that than "Ooooh my kid likes WOW maybe he will end up being a Blacksmith"
The above link doesn't reflect my next unsubstatiated statement but Larry Elison has historically done very poorly at giving significant percentages of his income.
Or we could put solar panels on roofs and convert the sunlight, that would ordinarily be converted to heat, into electricity which I am sure we could find a use for.
Similar to the comment above me.... I live in Colorado, what do all you people in Vegas think you are drinking? Or for the other side of the continental divide, Denver's filtered wastwater heads downstream to eventually end up in Kansas City. New Orleans appears to be the endpoint, glancing at a map, which could explain why alcohol consumption is large there.
Well with a standard 3:2 format the dimensions would roughly be 18360x12240 which at 300 dpi printing (somewhat standard high quality printing) would equal ~ 60x40 right out of the camera.
No, the whole country is not going through it. My job is relatively secure and I am not panicked about fincances (yet) however, buying a new phone just doesn't seem like a very wise use of money right now. I am sure the state of the economy factors into many people's purchasing decisions even if they aren't actually losing their homes.
Ummm wrong. It is illegal to tape a phone conversation where BOTH parties are unaware.
Federal law allows recording of phone calls and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. A majority of the states and territories have adopted wiretapping statutes based on the federal law, although most also have extended the law to cover in-person conversations. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia permit individuals to record conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so. These laws are referred to as "one-party consent" statutes, and as long as you are a party to the conversation, it is legal for you to record it. (Nevada also has a one-party consent statute, but the state Supreme Court has interpreted it as an all-party rule.)
I completely agree, I think a prescription for this should be included for the father and possibly for the mom if not breastfeeding. I tried unsuccessfully (and halfheartedly) to get some Modafinil or Provigil during the first 6 months of my second son. I think I would have enjoyed that period much more if I wasn't so cranky.
Yes, it is a stretch, however, anybody else see any similarities between the U.S. forbidding offshore gambling and China forbidding everything *we* think is good?
I guess sometimes reading the article before posting is a good idea.
FTA --- Unlike the dead zone that sets up each year in the Gulf of Mexico, Oregon's version can't be traced to the effects of nutrient-laden river run-off. Here, as in a handful of other coastal regions worldwide, the culprit may be global warming.
This particular thread has gotten totally and completely off topic but, welcome to slashdot
Why doesn't the population criticize [worse] corporations? Public relations companies are masters when it comes to building an image. When I was admining the website of a major national campaign concerning GE foods, we were visited by the likes of Reuters and Monsanto. But what struck me was the sheer number of unique public relations companies hits we were receiving. They outnumbered the corporate site hits by quite a factor. One would have imagined that some scientists at Monsanto were jumping to correct any perceived inaccuries in our fact sheets. But instead, they sent in the public relations companies.
You are right I have never heard any criticism of any large U.S. corporations. Not Enron, Microsoft, Halliburton, Exxon, or even Monsanto. PETA really is getting picked on.
Just to add to the personal stories of non-randomness. I had a 1 way ticket to the U.A.E. purchased by the Emirates government, when I got there they would buy me a round trip ticket originating in Abu Dhabi which, for them, was much cheaper than a round trip originating in the U.S.
Single male, traveling on a 1 way ticket, to a middle eastern country, purchased buy a foreign government. Perhaps I justified a profiled search but if it quacks like a duck, lets call it a duck.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you pay for your email? Gmail seems headed towards the same situation. Yahoo and hotmail already serve up unwanted ads to their free email service.
This is NOT easy, I just spend 20 minutes trying to uninstall it from my non-rooted samsung. No luck. I can't even force stop it.
The Hugo voted by the fans, who are the ones paying money to buy the books is obviously the "biggest prize" More money means you can afford to write more of the stories "you" want to write.
An author might appreciate the Nebulas because it is a vote from his peers but that doesn't pay the bills.
The Oscars are everybit a popularity contest as the Hugos
Read the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks It is a true story about the same thing.
I would pay more for a computer/phone/etc guaranteed not to have pre-installed stuff on it that I don't want. Not a lot more but....more
I just finished this book and loved it. It is a book about a high school team and the FIRST robotics competition.
Easy, fun read and loads of science+general teanage kids stuff.
By Neil Bascomb. The New Cool
Take the offer, but then offer to your (now) former employee that you can help/consult/be available in the evenings or weekends for particularly difficult problems. Offer to do it for free and if they do value you, they might be willing to pay you for it. Your junior developers will be grateful but not as grateful as the owners.
This has worked for me twice in the past. You don't burn bridges, and in fact strengthen relationships. You will probably find, as I did, that your period of working two jobs will last less than a month.
Can't we just outsource it? All our other intelligence is outsourced.
How exactly are you supposed to know what *He* wants to do unless you have him try it out? Most kids are pretty open to all things interesting and fun. If you can make coding interesting and fun...there you go. If he doesn't like it after your best shot, after getting the best advice you can, then go try something else. While there is not much connection between playing games and coding, at least there is *A* connection. Better that than "Ooooh my kid likes WOW maybe he will end up being a Blacksmith"
Posting this as anonymous coward adds weight to which side of the argument?
Totally off the real topic but Bill Gates actually rates well in the percentage of net
worth donated. http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2004/0448_philan.pdf
The above link doesn't reflect my next unsubstatiated statement but Larry Elison has
historically done very poorly at giving significant percentages of his income.
Or we could put solar panels on roofs and convert the sunlight, that would ordinarily be
converted to heat, into electricity which I am sure we could find a use for.
Similar to the comment above me.... I live in Colorado, what do all you people in Vegas think
you are drinking? Or for the other side of the continental divide, Denver's filtered wastwater
heads downstream to eventually end up in Kansas City. New Orleans appears to be the endpoint,
glancing at a map, which could explain why alcohol consumption is large there.
I live in Colorado, what the hell do you think everybody in Phoenix is drinking except my (hopefully well)filtered
excrement?
Well with a standard 3:2 format the dimensions would roughly be 18360x12240 which at 300 dpi printing (somewhat standard high quality printing) would equal ~ 60x40 right out of the camera.
Mind boggling indeed.
No, the whole country is not going through it. My job is relatively secure and I am not panicked about
fincances (yet) however, buying a new phone just doesn't seem like a very wise use of money right now.
I am sure the state of the economy factors into many people's purchasing decisions even if they aren't
actually losing their homes.
Spinal Tap
Ummm wrong. It is illegal to tape a phone conversation where BOTH parties are unaware.
Federal law allows recording of phone calls and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. A majority of the states and territories have adopted wiretapping statutes based on the federal law, although most also have extended the law to cover in-person conversations. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia permit individuals to record conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so. These laws are referred to as "one-party consent" statutes, and as long as you are a party to the conversation, it is legal for you to record it. (Nevada also has a one-party consent statute, but the state Supreme Court has interpreted it as an all-party rule.)
Who can even make heads or tails of all this global warming stuff?
Ummmm, scientists? Just because what you want to believe doesn't fit with the
consensus, doesn't mean it is confusing to the rest of us.
I completely agree, I think a prescription for this should be included for the father and possibly for the mom if not breastfeeding. I tried unsuccessfully (and halfheartedly) to get some Modafinil or Provigil during the first 6 months of my second son. I think I would have enjoyed that period much more if I wasn't so cranky.
Yes, it is a stretch, however, anybody else see any similarities between the U.S. forbidding offshore gambling and China forbidding everything *we* think is good?
I guess sometimes reading the article before posting is a good idea.
FTA ---
Unlike the dead zone that sets up each year in the Gulf of Mexico, Oregon's version can't be traced to the effects of nutrient-laden river run-off. Here, as in a handful of other coastal regions worldwide, the culprit may be global warming.
This particular thread has gotten totally and completely off topic but, welcome to slashdot
Why doesn't the population criticize [worse] corporations? Public relations companies are masters when it comes to building an image. When I was admining the website of a major national campaign concerning GE foods, we were visited by the likes of Reuters and Monsanto. But what struck me was the sheer number of unique public relations companies hits we were receiving. They outnumbered the corporate site hits by quite a factor. One would have imagined that some scientists at Monsanto were jumping to correct any perceived inaccuries in our fact sheets. But instead, they sent in the public relations companies.
You are right I have never heard any criticism of any large U.S. corporations. Not Enron, Microsoft, Halliburton, Exxon, or even Monsanto. PETA really is getting picked on.
Just to add to the personal stories of non-randomness. I had a 1 way ticket to the U.A.E. purchased by the Emirates government, when I got there they would buy me a round trip ticket originating in Abu Dhabi which, for them, was much cheaper than a round trip originating in the U.S.
Single male, traveling on a 1 way ticket, to a middle eastern country, purchased buy a foreign government. Perhaps I justified a profiled search but if it quacks like a duck, lets call it a duck.
Why not just use the scientists that are also good writers that we already know about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brin