About the time I was nine or ten my parents gave up on giving me dolls and started getting me the stuff I really wanted, including a nice model of the space shuttle and a word processing machine. Some little girls are girly-girls and love their dolls and pink ponies and teddy bears. Some are total geeks and would much rather play with an exploding rocket. Kids should be encouraged to pursue what interests them, not what their gender stereotype dictates they should like.
Just remembered an interesting observation about laptops in use in the "real world" versus the media. In movies, they tend to use Apple products. However, when the now infamous "war room" photo of Obama, the generals, and the cabinet circulated at the time of Osama Bin Laden's capture, every laptop in the room was a ruggedized, locked down, extra-secure business HP system.
As for the Dells in Big Bang Theory, that really reeks of false geekery to me. Real geeks will either be using Macbook Pros, or some really souped up Windows or Linux system from anyone but Dell.
Usually webcomic artists, who come right out and state that their ad revenue is their primary source of income generation. I'll even click through ads on those web sites. But in exchange, I expect those webmasters to patrol their own ads, and if anything is offensive or obnoxious, have it removed at the source. Web ads, even automated ones, should not be a totally passive thing on the part of the webmasters. If they're asking people to click their ads, then they need to make some effort to supervise the ad process.
The business school I am attending, in a direct attempt to address the issue caused by MBAs running IT departments, created a hybrid business and CS degree to give us the perspective of both worlds. Most of us are already working in IT in some fashion or another, at various levels, so we've got the real world experience already. I suspect more business schools will start looking at this sort of degree - why have a business major running an IT department, when you can have someone who can have an actual "IT" major instead?
It took me a little getting used to, at first, but now I believe that Wordl 2010 is the best Word processing document Microsoft has made yet. I easily created a 150+ page document with a live index and live sub-tables-of-contents for each section, and once the initial setup was done, it now takes me about a minute flat to update the pagination and indices and such. I can't remember it ever being that easy in 2007 or 2003.
Nope, didn't ruin my day at all. I've been writing stuff on the Internet since Usenet days, so I'm fairly fire hardened by now. I was only trying to share an anecdote, however, not write a persuasive essay.
Not an unjustice at all - 10% reading it means I caught the attention of those people, which is more than many authors ever will see. I stopped querying because I started graduate school, and I took their suggestions and comments and decided to set the manuscript aside for a while until I could look at it with the critical eye that it really needs. I firmly believe that once it's cleaned up a bit more, there will be a market for it, even with its weirdness. In the meantime, there are other stories, and like a good artist, a writer only gets better by writing more.
I'll come clean and admit it: I wrote a novel, and it was soundly rejected by over a hundred agents, 90 of whom didn't even look at it (this is very common.) A dozen requested either partials or even the full manuscript, but the final verdict was that although the store was good and entertaining, it was too strange. Traditional publishers are risk averse these days and anyone who wants to do something out of the mainstream is best off looking at non-tradional publishing. Amazon could be come the niche marketplace for people who like weird or controversial subjects that don't really have a mainstream market out there.
One of the commenters in the article pointed out that if it was "really about the clothes" then they'd not have any faces on the models. They'd look like mannequins.
I knew it would involve UGA somehow. My anatomy teacher in high school worked on Drosophila there and had some of the funniest stories about her times in the lab.
I have a tendency to destroy cheaper keyboards in about a year's time (I am a heavy typer...) Unless they make the darn thing sturdy enough to survive constant use for the course of a decade, it doesn't matter how long you have the battery last.
Final Fantasy games have this covered with white mages. They wear Red Cross colors (the distinctive white robes with red triangles are in use through most of the games), they are forbidden from wielding bladed weapons (their primary weapon is the club), and their major function in the games is as a medic and defensive specialist. Most other games also have some form of medic as well, but few people enjoy playing the medical team and it tends to be the "short straw" role that not everyone enjoys.
I switched from a $15/month host to a $3/month host (Maiahost.) The previous host was unreliable, had frequent downtime, and was running on some fairly archaic web technology. (At one point, they lost ALL my data with no local backups. That was the last straw; I ran my own backups once a week but that was still a few days of SQL data totally gone.) When I switched, I've had access to instant tech support, 0 unplanned downtime so far, and a library of amazing CMS systems that they're happy to help me implement at no additional cost. Love them to bits. The marketplace for hosting is very competative now, and the overpriced unreliable ones are going to fail eventually.
Yeah I've run into that issue - I need to test backups every few weeks, but I don't want to open any actual real files with personal info in them. So I created a text file called "backup text" and saved it on every hard drive and RAID we back up. Open the file and it's just Lorum Ipsum with "This is only a test" repeated a few times around it. This gives me a safe file to test on every backup I take now. As for restoring a backed up file, didn't you have a record of the requested file from the user? We document ANY time a user asks us to find or fix a specific file to cover our butts.
One time I was working on someone's PC at a country club and there was a paper list tacked onto the wall next to the desk of all the deadbeats who still owed back money and wouldn't be allowed to attend any events or go golfing until they paid up. Printed on paper, plain as day. I didn't mean to look at it, but the computer was rebooting after a software upgrade and when a PC is merely rebooting my instinct is to glance at the BIOS and then let Windows do its thing. My eyes wandered and just happened to look at the list.
I've been watching them since they first started working on the car. I cheered them on at the EV races two years ago. The Aptera was a great concept car that showed energy efficiency could look really cool in a way that no other EV has quite achieved yet. Even if it had a plain old boring conventional motor, the aerodynamic shape would have given it a good boost in gas mileage, and it just looked stylish. It really is a pity.
Got the app for my Samsung phone to talk to my Samsung Smart TV. It was a fun novelty, but after a while I put it back down and went to the PS3.
I think consoles will still be around, but the need for content distributed only on game disk will end. It's already ending with all the downloadable goodies on the Playstation store - including a ton of great older games I thought I'd never get to play again because their platforms (SNES...) are long since dead. I could never purchase another physical game in my life and be content with what I can get off PSN. The wise console makers will continue this course of converged services, providing a vast library of games in a platform specific store as well as the hardware necessary to drive them.
I'm happy with my free podcasts. Over a gigabyte of fresh, free music weekly, and the artists putting out the podcasts/radio shows encourageyou to download them. ("Put it in your playlist and listen to it nonstop for the rest of the week" Above& Beyond chimed in a few weeks ago during "Trance Around the World.")
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Shoot first, ask questions never, over things that are arguably as Fair Use as it gets. It will only get worse from here.
Oh, wait.
At least three days is a lot faster than eighty days.
NPR's April Fool's joke last year was exactly that - hipsters turning to dial-up modem cafes because they wanted the Internet to be slow again.
I actually make sure to linger a bit on the websites and click additional links if it's interesting.
About the time I was nine or ten my parents gave up on giving me dolls and started getting me the stuff I really wanted, including a nice model of the space shuttle and a word processing machine. Some little girls are girly-girls and love their dolls and pink ponies and teddy bears. Some are total geeks and would much rather play with an exploding rocket. Kids should be encouraged to pursue what interests them, not what their gender stereotype dictates they should like.
Just remembered an interesting observation about laptops in use in the "real world" versus the media. In movies, they tend to use Apple products. However, when the now infamous "war room" photo of Obama, the generals, and the cabinet circulated at the time of Osama Bin Laden's capture, every laptop in the room was a ruggedized, locked down, extra-secure business HP system.
As for the Dells in Big Bang Theory, that really reeks of false geekery to me. Real geeks will either be using Macbook Pros, or some really souped up Windows or Linux system from anyone but Dell.
Usually webcomic artists, who come right out and state that their ad revenue is their primary source of income generation. I'll even click through ads on those web sites. But in exchange, I expect those webmasters to patrol their own ads, and if anything is offensive or obnoxious, have it removed at the source. Web ads, even automated ones, should not be a totally passive thing on the part of the webmasters. If they're asking people to click their ads, then they need to make some effort to supervise the ad process.
The business school I am attending, in a direct attempt to address the issue caused by MBAs running IT departments, created a hybrid business and CS degree to give us the perspective of both worlds. Most of us are already working in IT in some fashion or another, at various levels, so we've got the real world experience already. I suspect more business schools will start looking at this sort of degree - why have a business major running an IT department, when you can have someone who can have an actual "IT" major instead?
It took me a little getting used to, at first, but now I believe that Wordl 2010 is the best Word processing document Microsoft has made yet. I easily created a 150+ page document with a live index and live sub-tables-of-contents for each section, and once the initial setup was done, it now takes me about a minute flat to update the pagination and indices and such. I can't remember it ever being that easy in 2007 or 2003.
Nope, didn't ruin my day at all. I've been writing stuff on the Internet since Usenet days, so I'm fairly fire hardened by now. I was only trying to share an anecdote, however, not write a persuasive essay.
Not an unjustice at all - 10% reading it means I caught the attention of those people, which is more than many authors ever will see. I stopped querying because I started graduate school, and I took their suggestions and comments and decided to set the manuscript aside for a while until I could look at it with the critical eye that it really needs. I firmly believe that once it's cleaned up a bit more, there will be a market for it, even with its weirdness. In the meantime, there are other stories, and like a good artist, a writer only gets better by writing more.
We had a server down alert in the middle of writing that post. You'd probably have a few errors in that case as well.
*Story - and there's an example of why even a good writer needs a better editor to watch their back!
I'll come clean and admit it: I wrote a novel, and it was soundly rejected by over a hundred agents, 90 of whom didn't even look at it (this is very common.) A dozen requested either partials or even the full manuscript, but the final verdict was that although the store was good and entertaining, it was too strange. Traditional publishers are risk averse these days and anyone who wants to do something out of the mainstream is best off looking at non-tradional publishing. Amazon could be come the niche marketplace for people who like weird or controversial subjects that don't really have a mainstream market out there.
One of the commenters in the article pointed out that if it was "really about the clothes" then they'd not have any faces on the models. They'd look like mannequins.
I knew it would involve UGA somehow. My anatomy teacher in high school worked on Drosophila there and had some of the funniest stories about her times in the lab.
I have a tendency to destroy cheaper keyboards in about a year's time (I am a heavy typer...) Unless they make the darn thing sturdy enough to survive constant use for the course of a decade, it doesn't matter how long you have the battery last.
Final Fantasy games have this covered with white mages. They wear Red Cross colors (the distinctive white robes with red triangles are in use through most of the games), they are forbidden from wielding bladed weapons (their primary weapon is the club), and their major function in the games is as a medic and defensive specialist. Most other games also have some form of medic as well, but few people enjoy playing the medical team and it tends to be the "short straw" role that not everyone enjoys.
I switched from a $15/month host to a $3/month host (Maiahost.) The previous host was unreliable, had frequent downtime, and was running on some fairly archaic web technology. (At one point, they lost ALL my data with no local backups. That was the last straw; I ran my own backups once a week but that was still a few days of SQL data totally gone.) When I switched, I've had access to instant tech support, 0 unplanned downtime so far, and a library of amazing CMS systems that they're happy to help me implement at no additional cost. Love them to bits. The marketplace for hosting is very competative now, and the overpriced unreliable ones are going to fail eventually.
Yeah I've run into that issue - I need to test backups every few weeks, but I don't want to open any actual real files with personal info in them. So I created a text file called "backup text" and saved it on every hard drive and RAID we back up. Open the file and it's just Lorum Ipsum with "This is only a test" repeated a few times around it. This gives me a safe file to test on every backup I take now. As for restoring a backed up file, didn't you have a record of the requested file from the user? We document ANY time a user asks us to find or fix a specific file to cover our butts.
One time I was working on someone's PC at a country club and there was a paper list tacked onto the wall next to the desk of all the deadbeats who still owed back money and wouldn't be allowed to attend any events or go golfing until they paid up. Printed on paper, plain as day. I didn't mean to look at it, but the computer was rebooting after a software upgrade and when a PC is merely rebooting my instinct is to glance at the BIOS and then let Windows do its thing. My eyes wandered and just happened to look at the list.
The thing is, I liked the design the way it was. It was cute. It was the Jetson's car without the flying.
I've been watching them since they first started working on the car. I cheered them on at the EV races two years ago. The Aptera was a great concept car that showed energy efficiency could look really cool in a way that no other EV has quite achieved yet. Even if it had a plain old boring conventional motor, the aerodynamic shape would have given it a good boost in gas mileage, and it just looked stylish. It really is a pity.
Got the app for my Samsung phone to talk to my Samsung Smart TV. It was a fun novelty, but after a while I put it back down and went to the PS3.
I think consoles will still be around, but the need for content distributed only on game disk will end. It's already ending with all the downloadable goodies on the Playstation store - including a ton of great older games I thought I'd never get to play again because their platforms (SNES...) are long since dead. I could never purchase another physical game in my life and be content with what I can get off PSN. The wise console makers will continue this course of converged services, providing a vast library of games in a platform specific store as well as the hardware necessary to drive them.
I'm happy with my free podcasts. Over a gigabyte of fresh, free music weekly, and the artists putting out the podcasts/radio shows encourageyou to download them. ("Put it in your playlist and listen to it nonstop for the rest of the week" Above& Beyond chimed in a few weeks ago during "Trance Around the World.")