Why would they bother with a warrant if they think you're a terrorist? If the Gov't will hold you without charge and incommunicado they probably won't bother with a warrant. For some reason none of the prisoners at Guantanamo could be reached for comment on if they were legally arrested.
Speaking of nerdy; the proportion of "nerds" to "normal people" is amazing. There's nerds of physics, technology, psychology, linguistics, etc... I'm surrounded by intelligent and thinking people; the "normals" are truly an exception.
Indeed, I couldn't have put it better myself.
Why so Anonymous? I'd like to add you to my friends list.
Aside from work and the occaisonal visit to a friend's house, my social life consisted of nothing but my computers, yardwork, and talking to my neighbors. That is until I discovered dancing! I'm an argentine tango fanatic, and am getting to be pretty damn good now too. People in these circles largely accept others based for their efforts, skills, and general attitude. Body style, social skils, and general looks are largely ignored.
It was terrifying to start, but now it's a regular social outing for me. The best part; I've met someone very special!
See, I knew it wasn't just me. I'd say there was a pretty large percentage of geeks in the classes I took. And there were always a few women who signed up for the class without partners who were very happy to have someone to dance with:) Oh and one more thing, if you become a good dancer you'll find yourself being asked to dance by women who would normally have nothing to do with some chubby nerdy looking guy (like me!).
I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.
Seriously? I just don't understand this. Maybe it was the way I was raised but I often hug my friends male and female. I can't imagine not being able to touch other people. Although I'm not surprised at the E3 guys being a little nervous when they pose with the booth babes the line about having never touched a woman really surprises me. Maybe they just mean "I've never touched a hottie before".
The question is, what does one do about it? Take a ballroom, swing, or salsa dancing class. Don't worry if you can't dance, that's why you take the class. As I said I've never been squeamish about touching other people, but I definately felt more comfortable with it after I took a couple dance classes in college. I also took a relaxation class where we gave eachother massages which was pretty good. and I got P.E. credits for all of them.
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Why not sue pen and paper manufacturers too? They provide a product that allows people to illigally copy copywritten material. Just copywrite something you've written, get a friend to copy it onto paper and then sue bic for inducement.
Well, I agree that this is probably not going to work. But seriously, who's going to enfore anti-spamming laws, the WTO? Look at it this way, what if Australia suddenly passed a law that said I couldn't send any email to the country because they'd decided I was a spammer (I'm not a spammer, BTW, before I get stupid flames about this. And yes from the USA). And then my brother goes to Australia and reads a email that I sent before he left. Then what happens, I've broken the law in another country through no fault of my own, but they have no jurisdiction. Do they arrest me? Send me an angry letter?
I don't think there is any way to stop SPAM, we should just give up and come up with a replacement to email, one where you can actually figure out who exactly sent the message.
1. Speak for yourself. I almost exclusively use CLI for file management the only time I don't is if I'm doing something like sorting several files into subfolders. The reason I like it better is that I don't have to take my hands off of the keyboard. I think a lot of the touch typists would agree that it really slows you down to have to take your hands away and look away from the screen to grab a mouse. So maybe I'm the "hardly anyone" about whom you were talking, but I think there is a pretty major subset of Linux users who don't bother with graphical file management. The other irritating thing is that it takes so long to load Nautilus (at least on my 50cc processor).
2. Whoop whoop, tab completion in the house. You can also do some pretty cool vi like things with bash that make interacting with the command line much faster.
I've tried Red Carpet and APT-RPM. They work really well. But, there just as out of date as the rest of Redhat and when you try to install the new packages from source it either is invisible to the package manager or it conflicts.
Good luck compiling your system everytime you want to install something
Have you actually used gentoo? You don't have to compile your system everytime you install something just the new package. Oh and it automatically gets all of the dependencies.
The thing that I really like about it over RedHat is that it "just works". You don't have a mess with all of the BS that redhat puts you through. You get a system that is running the latest builds of everything, custom compiled to run on your hardware, and installing new software can be done with one command. Oh yeah, Gentoo sucks alright.
Well, you walk out your front door, cross the street and you're at work. That's part of the point, you don't have to commute because you live in the same place you work. At very least you'll have to take some public transportation, but that should be part of the system as well.
I've definately seen the benefits of this in Seattle. Unfortunately I picked my neighborhood before I'd gotten a job so it's a long walk. If I decided to move closer to work, I could probably find an apartment that costs the same in that neighboorhood. Before I got this job I actually had an interview with a company who's offices were literally across the street from my apartment. And yes I do work with computers, it's not like you can only work at a neighboorhood drugstore or bakery. Businesses like neighboorhoods as much as people do.
Ok, I know that this is a joke but I would seriously recommend Gentoo to anyone who has the patience to install it. Better yet, if a noob can get an expert to either show them how to do it or do it for them, Gentoo is much easier to use in the long run. If people would just take the time to follow the step by step instructions for installing Gentoo, they would realize that it isn't daunting, just a little tedious.
When I switched to Gentoo from Redhat I wasn't expecting it to really be functional. I just wanted to give it a try and then reformat. What I found was a package management system that actually worked. With RedHat, I was horribly frustrated every time I tried to install something, and if I wanted it to actually work I'd have to use some outdated RPM.
Screw that, Gentoo makes getting new software so easy that it's worth all the effort you have to put in to install the OS.
Hmmm... extra scoop of asshole flakes this morning?
Seriously, give the guy a break. I thought what he said made perfect sense.
Your 'pretended speed' is the GHz number versus actual system performance. Ever install Win95 on a system designed to run 98? It's really fast, despite the fact that the same system would crawl running XP.
The point is that this chip might be able to mop the floor with the chips out now even if they're running at a much higher clock speed.
Although I think this would be terrible for the dolphin, because it would render it deaf and blind (sonar), I imagine it could probably speak with a normal human voice. Dolphins are incredibly adept at making sounds, I imagine they could learn to mimic humans in the same way that parrots do.
Uh dude, apes have opposable thumbs, four of them (hands & feet). I'm pretty sure that is one of the things that distinguishes apes from monkeys.
I'm curious what would happend to an ape if we altered those two bases to match our genes (no I don't mean slice human and ape genes). It seems like everyone here is operating on the assumption that it took several generations for our ancestors to mutate larger brains. Maybe if you raise an ape with a weak jaw he'll develop a larger brain without further mutation.
This reminds me of something I saw on the discovery channel about dogs. The scientists couldn't figure out why dogs have so many traits that seperate them from wolves (e.g. mottled fur, droopy ears). By breeding wild foxes based solely on their tameness they found multiple dog traits appeared in a single generation. It turns out that the traits were related to adrenaline production not unique genetic markers.
With that in mind imagine the mutant ape with a small jaw, suddenly the physical barrier that stops normal ape brain growth is removed and the brain keeps growing all in a single generation. I'm sure we had more brain evolution to do, but it seems possible that there could be enough of an advantage to offset the weaker jaw.
I think the disagreement that people are having comes from the claim that producing ethanol is not energy efficient. The point isn't that you need to use fossil fuel to run a tractor, etc. The point is that you'd use more fuel than you produce.
I find that idea somewhat ludicrous, but I'm not a right wing consipracy theorist. Even if it is true, I think people are working under the faulty assumption that the system cannot be energy efficient.
You are absolutely right that the system can be made to funtion entirely without fossil fuels. I'd add that in terms of environmental impact, it doesn't matter how much fuel is used in production as long as the amount of fuel produced is greater. Burning ethanol and thereby releasing CO2 doesn't add any new CO2 into the atmosphere because the corn removed it from the atmosphere in the first place.
I have a tablet PC, so I feel like I should know the answer to this. The problem is I live in Seattle, so I don't acutally know what direct sunlight is.
I have a motion computing M1200, and it is passable in bright overcast skies. I'm curious of whether it would actually perform better in direct light compared to the diffuse depressing grey that is standard here.
If I ever see the elusive daystar, I'll bring my computer outside and give it a try.
This didn't make sense to me at first, but I think I've figured it out.
Basically they still own the rights to when IBM rewrites SCO code. That way IBM can't just get the code from SCO, change some variable names, and open source it.
I think IBM ought to just give SCO their own code back without the parts that IBM has made. I mean they've got IP to protect too.
If you still aren't working, chances are you should have never been in the field in the first place.
Great advice, dick! Maybe you should consider the fact that some of the most talented people in the industry are wholly untalented at looking for work. I learned this at my current position, there are very people who've been there for years without much of a raise, but they just aren't good at looking for something better.
I think I'm slightly above average for the industry in my looking for work skills, and in my experience far better at the interpersonal skills that HR people respond well to. I do not think that those skills should really make much difference for jobs like software engineering, especially when programmers can work independantly.
I think you take your own privilege too much for granted. There a tons of recent graduates who can't find any job at all in the industry, at which point it's not really about being too proud to take a pay cut. Other than paying the rent, there is little point in taking a job a pizza hut if you want to work in IT. Few companies will even consider resumes, without previous experience in the industry. I'm glad it only took me a month and a half after graduation to find work, but I've had friends who looked for far longer.
My advice to those who've just been laid off or have just graduated, bust your ass looking and don't give up, you'll find something eventually. It's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Hmm... I know you're kidding but it's an interesting thought. As far as we can observe (because we can only observe a certain distance out, etc.) the universe it perfectly spherical around us right? So why not have the earth as the center of the universe. Maybe they were wrong about the solar system, but I don't think it can be proven that the earth isn't the center of everything.
Although, you could get technical and say that in order to have a center something must have a shape and that in order to have a shape the universe couldn't be infinite, which is of course impossible.
Anyway, if bandwidth isn't the limiting factor, you can choose signal strength or whatever. I assume the regulations regarding interference between space probes are somewhat more relaxed than FCC regulations.
What I mean is they can pick whatever part of the radio spectrum best fits their atmospheric needs and just use that, although that is just conjecture.
Also I was under the impression that they were relaying the signal from the rover through a satellite in orbit.
I'm not a radio expert so I don't really know what design they use, but you need to take into account two major points.
1. The rover is operating outside of FCC restrictions. So it can use as much bandwidth as it wants. Also, because there are few other sources of radio signals on mars there is likely no trouble with interference.
2. Because mars has a drastically different atmosphere than earth, the way the signals travel, etc will be different. From what I understand, much of earth based radio communication relies on bouncing signals off of the upper atmosphere and other "tricks". And of course if the atmosphere is thinner it will offer less resistance to the signal.
I think the other benefit of the sloops are that they can turn much more quickly. I don't know how realistic the ship combat in Pirates! was because I'd usually just try to get behind the galleons and tack back and forth while firing. I imagine some captain would figure out how to mount cannon on the stern of the ship to stop that strategy.
I think I learned more about how colonial history formed then about anything else. After conquering a few towns for whatever country I was representing it made a lot more sense that places like Haiti and the Dominican republic existed.
Ok, so you graduated over 20 years ago. How many big computer science programs were there back then? I know there were some, but not like now. So a physics degree was probably "close enough" that you could get tech jobs. Ok, I don't have a computer science degree and I work with computers, but I'm not a good example.
When I look at some of my co-workers who went to the same school I did but got comp sci degrees instead, I see the value of that degree. I'm sure that some of them make more than twice what I make and the only difference between their resumes and mine is that they have CS degrees. Granted, once you have some experience under you belt it doesn't matter too much what your degree is in, but I definately think your first job out of school is the hardest to get and that's when you need the degree.
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Why would they bother with a warrant if they think you're a terrorist? If the Gov't will hold you without charge and incommunicado they probably won't bother with a warrant. For some reason none of the prisoners at Guantanamo could be reached for comment on if they were legally arrested.
Speaking of nerdy; the proportion of "nerds" to "normal people" is amazing. There's nerds of physics, technology, psychology, linguistics, etc... I'm surrounded by intelligent and thinking people; the "normals" are truly an exception.
Indeed, I couldn't have put it better myself.
Why so Anonymous? I'd like to add you to my friends list.
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Aside from work and the occaisonal visit to a friend's house, my social life consisted of nothing but my computers, yardwork, and talking to my neighbors. That is until I discovered dancing! I'm an argentine tango fanatic, and am getting to be pretty damn good now too. People in these circles largely accept others based for their efforts, skills, and general attitude. Body style, social skils, and general looks are largely ignored.
:) Oh and one more thing, if you become a good dancer you'll find yourself being asked to dance by women who would normally have nothing to do with some chubby nerdy looking guy (like me!).
It was terrifying to start, but now it's a regular social outing for me. The best part; I've met someone very special!
See, I knew it wasn't just me. I'd say there was a pretty large percentage of geeks in the classes I took. And there were always a few women who signed up for the class without partners who were very happy to have someone to dance with
I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.
Seriously? I just don't understand this. Maybe it was the way I was raised but I often hug my friends male and female. I can't imagine not being able to touch other people. Although I'm not surprised at the E3 guys being a little nervous when they pose with the booth babes the line about having never touched a woman really surprises me. Maybe they just mean "I've never touched a hottie before".
The question is, what does one do about it?
Take a ballroom, swing, or salsa dancing class. Don't worry if you can't dance, that's why you take the class. As I said I've never been squeamish about touching other people, but I definately felt more comfortable with it after I took a couple dance classes in college. I also took a relaxation class where we gave eachother massages which was pretty good. and I got P.E. credits for all of them.
Why not sue pen and paper manufacturers too? They provide a product that allows people to illigally copy copywritten material. Just copywrite something you've written, get a friend to copy it onto paper and then sue bic for inducement.
Well, I agree that this is probably not going to work. But seriously, who's going to enfore anti-spamming laws, the WTO? Look at it this way, what if Australia suddenly passed a law that said I couldn't send any email to the country because they'd decided I was a spammer (I'm not a spammer, BTW, before I get stupid flames about this. And yes from the USA). And then my brother goes to Australia and reads a email that I sent before he left. Then what happens, I've broken the law in another country through no fault of my own, but they have no jurisdiction. Do they arrest me? Send me an angry letter?
I don't think there is any way to stop SPAM, we should just give up and come up with a replacement to email, one where you can actually figure out who exactly sent the message.
1. Speak for yourself. I almost exclusively use CLI for file management the only time I don't is if I'm doing something like sorting several files into subfolders. The reason I like it better is that I don't have to take my hands off of the keyboard. I think a lot of the touch typists would agree that it really slows you down to have to take your hands away and look away from the screen to grab a mouse. So maybe I'm the "hardly anyone" about whom you were talking, but I think there is a pretty major subset of Linux users who don't bother with graphical file management. The other irritating thing is that it takes so long to load Nautilus (at least on my 50cc processor).
2. Whoop whoop, tab completion in the house. You can also do some pretty cool vi like things with bash that make interacting with the command line much faster.
Yeah... you're wrong.
I've tried Red Carpet and APT-RPM. They work really well. But, there just as out of date as the rest of Redhat and when you try to install the new packages from source it either is invisible to the package manager or it conflicts.
Good luck compiling your system everytime you want to install something
Have you actually used gentoo? You don't have to compile your system everytime you install something just the new package. Oh and it automatically gets all of the dependencies.
The thing that I really like about it over RedHat is that it "just works". You don't have a mess with all of the BS that redhat puts you through. You get a system that is running the latest builds of everything, custom compiled to run on your hardware, and installing new software can be done with one command. Oh yeah, Gentoo sucks alright.
Well, you walk out your front door, cross the street and you're at work. That's part of the point, you don't have to commute because you live in the same place you work. At very least you'll have to take some public transportation, but that should be part of the system as well.
I've definately seen the benefits of this in Seattle. Unfortunately I picked my neighborhood before I'd gotten a job so it's a long walk. If I decided to move closer to work, I could probably find an apartment that costs the same in that neighboorhood. Before I got this job I actually had an interview with a company who's offices were literally across the street from my apartment. And yes I do work with computers, it's not like you can only work at a neighboorhood drugstore or bakery. Businesses like neighboorhoods as much as people do.
Ok, I know that this is a joke but I would seriously recommend Gentoo to anyone who has the patience to install it.
Better yet, if a noob can get an expert to either show them how to do it or do it for them, Gentoo is much easier to use in the long run.
If people would just take the time to follow the step by step instructions for installing Gentoo, they would realize that it isn't daunting, just a little tedious.
When I switched to Gentoo from Redhat I wasn't expecting it to really be functional. I just wanted to give it a try and then reformat. What I found was a package management system that actually worked. With RedHat, I was horribly frustrated every time I tried to install something, and if I wanted it to actually work I'd have to use some outdated RPM.
Screw that, Gentoo makes getting new software so easy that it's worth all the effort you have to put in to install the OS.
Hmmm... extra scoop of asshole flakes this morning?
Seriously, give the guy a break. I thought what he said made perfect sense.
Your 'pretended speed' is the GHz number versus actual system performance. Ever install Win95 on a system designed to run 98? It's really fast, despite the fact that the same system would crawl running XP.
The point is that this chip might be able to mop the floor with the chips out now even if they're running at a much higher clock speed.
Why are you assuming this is a joke? I mean, it's not like a fake story. Someone is asking slashdot about something related to the internet.
I wouldn't mind finding some free goodies online, and I definately could've used some free food last year when I was in college.
Although I think this would be terrible for the dolphin, because it would render it deaf and blind (sonar), I imagine it could probably speak with a normal human voice. Dolphins are incredibly adept at making sounds, I imagine they could learn to mimic humans in the same way that parrots do.
Uh dude, apes have opposable thumbs, four of them (hands & feet). I'm pretty sure that is one of the things that distinguishes apes from monkeys.
I'm curious what would happend to an ape if we altered those two bases to match our genes (no I don't mean slice human and ape genes). It seems like everyone here is operating on the assumption that it took several generations for our ancestors to mutate larger brains. Maybe if you raise an ape with a weak jaw he'll develop a larger brain without further mutation.
This reminds me of something I saw on the discovery channel about dogs. The scientists couldn't figure out why dogs have so many traits that seperate them from wolves (e.g. mottled fur, droopy ears). By breeding wild foxes based solely on their tameness they found multiple dog traits appeared in a single generation. It turns out that the traits were related to adrenaline production not unique genetic markers.
With that in mind imagine the mutant ape with a small jaw, suddenly the physical barrier that stops normal ape brain growth is removed and the brain keeps growing all in a single generation. I'm sure we had more brain evolution to do, but it seems possible that there could be enough of an advantage to offset the weaker jaw.
I think the disagreement that people are having comes from the claim that producing ethanol is not energy efficient. The point isn't that you need to use fossil fuel to run a tractor, etc. The point is that you'd use more fuel than you produce.
I find that idea somewhat ludicrous, but I'm not a right wing consipracy theorist. Even if it is true, I think people are working under the faulty assumption that the system cannot be energy efficient.
You are absolutely right that the system can be made to funtion entirely without fossil fuels. I'd add that in terms of environmental impact, it doesn't matter how much fuel is used in production as long as the amount of fuel produced is greater. Burning ethanol and thereby releasing CO2 doesn't add any new CO2 into the atmosphere because the corn removed it from the atmosphere in the first place.
I have a tablet PC, so I feel like I should know the answer to this. The problem is I live in Seattle, so I don't acutally know what direct sunlight is.
I have a motion computing M1200, and it is passable in bright overcast skies. I'm curious of whether it would actually perform better in direct light compared to the diffuse depressing grey that is standard here.
If I ever see the elusive daystar, I'll bring my computer outside and give it a try.
This didn't make sense to me at first, but I think I've figured it out.
Basically they still own the rights to when IBM rewrites SCO code. That way IBM can't just get the code from SCO, change some variable names, and open source it.
I think IBM ought to just give SCO their own code back without the parts that IBM has made. I mean they've got IP to protect too.
We should just ship all the greenhouse gasses on Venus to Mars. There you go, two birds with one stone.
How do we collect the gasses? That's easy, magic.
If you still aren't working, chances are you should have never been in the field in the first place.
Great advice, dick! Maybe you should consider the fact that some of the most talented people in the industry are wholly untalented at looking for work. I learned this at my current position, there are very people who've been there for years without much of a raise, but they just aren't good at looking for something better.
I think I'm slightly above average for the industry in my looking for work skills, and in my experience far better at the interpersonal skills that HR people respond well to. I do not think that those skills should really make much difference for jobs like software engineering, especially when programmers can work independantly.
I think you take your own privilege too much for granted. There a tons of recent graduates who can't find any job at all in the industry, at which point it's not really about being too proud to take a pay cut. Other than paying the rent, there is little point in taking a job a pizza hut if you want to work in IT. Few companies will even consider resumes, without previous experience in the industry. I'm glad it only took me a month and a half after graduation to find work, but I've had friends who looked for far longer.
My advice to those who've just been laid off or have just graduated, bust your ass looking and don't give up, you'll find something eventually. It's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Hmm... I know you're kidding but it's an interesting thought. As far as we can observe (because we can only observe a certain distance out, etc.) the universe it perfectly spherical around us right? So why not have the earth as the center of the universe. Maybe they were wrong about the solar system, but I don't think it can be proven that the earth isn't the center of everything.
Although, you could get technical and say that in order to have a center something must have a shape and that in order to have a shape the universe couldn't be infinite, which is of course impossible.
Sorry, as I said I'm not a radio expert.
Anyway, if bandwidth isn't the limiting factor, you can choose signal strength or whatever. I assume the regulations regarding interference between space probes are somewhat more relaxed than FCC regulations.
What I mean is they can pick whatever part of the radio spectrum best fits their atmospheric needs and just use that, although that is just conjecture.
Also I was under the impression that they were relaying the signal from the rover through a satellite in orbit.
I'm not a radio expert so I don't really know what design they use, but you need to take into account two major points.
1. The rover is operating outside of FCC restrictions. So it can use as much bandwidth as it wants. Also, because there are few other sources of radio signals on mars there is likely no trouble with interference.
2. Because mars has a drastically different atmosphere than earth, the way the signals travel, etc will be different. From what I understand, much of earth based radio communication relies on bouncing signals off of the upper atmosphere and other "tricks". And of course if the atmosphere is thinner it will offer less resistance to the signal.
I think the other benefit of the sloops are that they can turn much more quickly. I don't know how realistic the ship combat in Pirates! was because I'd usually just try to get behind the galleons and tack back and forth while firing. I imagine some captain would figure out how to mount cannon on the stern of the ship to stop that strategy.
I think I learned more about how colonial history formed then about anything else. After conquering a few towns for whatever country I was representing it made a lot more sense that places like Haiti and the Dominican republic existed.
Ok, so you graduated over 20 years ago. How many big computer science programs were there back then? I know there were some, but not like now. So a physics degree was probably "close enough" that you could get tech jobs. Ok, I don't have a computer science degree and I work with computers, but I'm not a good example.
When I look at some of my co-workers who went to the same school I did but got comp sci degrees instead, I see the value of that degree. I'm sure that some of them make more than twice what I make and the only difference between their resumes and mine is that they have CS degrees. Granted, once you have some experience under you belt it doesn't matter too much what your degree is in, but I definately think your first job out of school is the hardest to get and that's when you need the degree.