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you'll forgive me for pointing out the obvious here, but it's congress and the president who control the deficit, not the immigrants. if you look at the actions of the bush presidency you'll find a much more direct explanation of the ballooning deficit than you will in immigrant workers not spending enough.
approval voting makes more sense when you've got a bunch of people running for several of the "same" position (e.g. states choosing seats in congress) but when there's only one seat to be filled, i prefer instant runoff voting.
maybe what we need are better parties to choose from instead... legislating campaign finance reform is political suicide; however, if america were to move from a two party system to a multitude of parties (one for each substantial issue, for example) which are forced to cooperate because every party is forced to accomplish its goals through coalition building... (i'm sure you can see where i'm going with this)
i think you should be thanking the homosexuals and all the other people who pay property taxes but never have children to receive the benefits of the education systems that those taxes go to pay for. ditto the fornicators --- the porno business is *HUGE* and gets taxed mercilessly. if anything, i think you'd want to encourage more of these groups;-)
well... right now i have two monitors, one of which is wired directly into my main box and the other of which is shared via the kvm (main box is a dual head rig). so yes, i don't share both monitors at the same time (but then i typically have one thing on my main box that i want to be able to see while i'm working with the other box).
not so sure how easy these things would be to recycle or where the cost/benefit curve in terms of "it costs me x in polution, electricity, repairs, etc. to buy and keep a can cold in the fridge versus the y it costs me to buy and store a self cooling can".
also, i'm having a flashback from calculus back in the day --- isn't the rate of temperature change proportional to the difference in temperatures between an object and it's surroundings? makes me curious as to under what sort of conditions these guys base their claims on... i suspect that it's three minutes at room temperature, but there are really four sets of heat transfers going on here: external world to the can, can to the external world, can to soda, soda to can. so modelling this turns into a scary system of differential equations.. aaaaaagh! (and they wonder why i'm a computer scientist and not an e.e.)
not to be a stickler, but data isn't singular --- it's the plural of datum. of course, this is probably what you were pointing out in the first place...
... and generally cause a lot of people who do image processing a hell of a lot of heartburn. most popular formats simply don't understand more than three spectra. new formats are talking about *five* spectra. that's a 66.667% increase in raw data to process. not so bad you say... until you realize that color information is hugely redundant. then there's the more sticky issue of how do we use our algorithms on this data, because they are often not colorspace neutral. what happens if i need algorithm x which works really well in, for example, HSV, but crappily in this new color space?
i was going to suggest something along these lines. if you're serious about it, you may want to check out xforms especially if you're doing any major processing of those forms once all is said and done.
i refer you to oxford's statutes and regulations on discipline (conveniently linked here, for your clicking pleasure). yes, the admins seem to have been caught with their pants down (to put it mildly), but i think you could make a strong case that they've violated XI.2.1.(a, d, e) and XI.2.1.2. you can't blame bad administrators for the behaviours of bad users.
yes, there are most likely sloppy admins / clueless it people / etc. involved and they deserve the spanking that comes their way. that, however, doesn't excuse these men. they are (like myself) young and lacking in experience (read: stupid). but it doesn't take more than a second's worth of thought to realize that what they did was an act of monumental idiocy and recklessness. did they attempt to contact oxford's i.t.? articles seem to imply no. did they attempt to go to whatever oxford's equivalent of a dean is? again, the articles imply no. instead they exposed oxford's network to even more danger by announcing the flaws before their i.t. people had a chance to fix things. this isn't at all like a parent seeing an unlocked medicine cabinet in a daycare facility and then trying to tell the relevant people about it; this is more like a parent noticing an unlocked cabinet in a daycare facility and then announcing to all the kids how to get into it.
there are quite a few i can think of. many are indy flicks
angels in america. in particular, the plots following roy cohn (total bastard, both in the play and in real life) and joe pitt.
lilies. brilliant (in my not so humble opinion). the action centers on a group of prisoners performing a play describing the events in a small french canadian town in 1912. as the story unfolds, we see a tale of jealousy, revenge, confession, and ultimately the righting of an injustice. (yes, deliberately ambiguous so as to avoid spoilers)
i use the word queer to collectively refer to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans{gendered|sexual}, intersex, questioning, genderqueer, etc. quite an umbrella term it is;-)
you're right, the word queer has had a history of being rather loaded, but that's changing. within the community, it's accepted as being much more inclusive than, for example, gay. it's also a lot easier to pronounce than lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) or even lgbttqqi (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transdendered, questioning, queer, intersex). in general, i don't think anyone will be offended if its clear no offense is intended (e.g. there shouldn't be any problems with you saying something like "queer folk" but "dirty queer" is likely to rankle people;-))
there are a lot of queer folk (lesbian, gay, bisesual, transexual/transgendered, intersex, questioning, and the rest of the alphabet soup), myself included, who are sick to death of the monoculture that's built up. there seems to be this impression that once you identify yourself as belonging to a group that identity supercedes any you may have had before. it makes dating a rather unpleasant experience: my choices are guys my age who haven't gotten over the fact that they like cock or guys about 10 years older than i, about a quarter of whom have realized that there's more to life than rainbow flags, circuit parties, and the gap's latest fall clothing lines (gee, i'm not bitter...).
the more i think about it, the more a lot of the media attention on homoexuals has strong parallels to the blacksploitation films of the early '70s. the thematic elements are different, but the market forces are the same: how to best capitalize on the present frenzy of attention being paid to the issue. personally, i'm really looking forward to the day when nobody gives a fuck about this and we can all move on with our lives.
i had to read siddhartha my senior year for english and i didn't like it nearly as much as hesse's other books. i particularly liked demian, which we had read just before siddhartha, and beneath the wheel. i never managed to get more than half way through magister ludi --- it's not exactly a light read, and it's been several years since i've picked up narciss und goldmund (never read steppenwolf), so my recollection is hazy at best.
have one (or two) systems running a fairly substantial, dynamic website with substantial data munging going on (e.g.: an e-commerce app) and simulate a couple (hundred) thousand customers hitting it. you can get some really neat real-time stats displays going updating in real time (e.g. n-thousand transactions in the past second, n-thousand dollars in transactions over the last set of time frames, etc.)
other, very sexy demos include: real-time anything, but particularly real-time multi-media. eyecandy is always a good thing. for example, real time recording, transforming, encoding, and writing of video (plus sound) data at high res and framerates, etc.
just my 0.02 euro (which right now is worth more than your $0.02;-))
and this is the danger of multi-tasking (also, not previewing) --- the real link is here. the lesson, dear kiddies: never discuss cooking shrimp with people who don't know what old bay seasoning is while writing posts for/.
i have a hard time expressing just how profound an effect doug coupland's work has had on me microserfs was the book that cemented my decision to major in c.s. for the first time in my life there was a book with characters who i could actually relate to. looking back now, a lot of the technological details seem a bit quaint, but it is still a really excellent read.
i'm just finishing up my m.s. c.s.. along the way, i spent two years working part time with a software engineering firm and eighteen months or so as a research assistant. i've been looking at jobs out silicon valley way since november-ish and so far i've been lucky to get so much as a reply email. the few prospects that looked semi-promising were all either filled from the inside or deferred indefinitely (just a/tad/ disheartening), so i can feel your pain. so far, i've been whoring my resume out to my friends who have jobs and scanning job sites every week or so.
personally, there are a couple things that i've been doing (doesn't seem to have helped much, but it's better than nothing 'cos at least i have something to do). if you're still in touch with your profs and on good terms with them, it's worth asking them if there's some research stuff that they're working on that you may be able to help with. you may well not get paid (and if you aren't still in your college town it's probably infeasible), but it's a great way to be able to put stuff on a resume.
volunteer work is also a possibility. as is temp work. not the most fulfilling, but it's at least something.
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you'll forgive me for pointing out the obvious here, but it's congress and the president who control the deficit, not the immigrants. if you look at the actions of the bush presidency you'll find a much more direct explanation of the ballooning deficit than you will in immigrant workers not spending enough.
approval voting makes more sense when you've got a bunch of people running for several of the "same" position (e.g. states choosing seats in congress) but when there's only one seat to be filled, i prefer instant runoff voting.
maybe what we need are better parties to choose from instead... legislating campaign finance reform is political suicide; however, if america were to move from a two party system to a multitude of parties (one for each substantial issue, for example) which are forced to cooperate because every party is forced to accomplish its goals through coalition building... (i'm sure you can see where i'm going with this)
i think you should be thanking the homosexuals and all the other people who pay property taxes but never have children to receive the benefits of the education systems that those taxes go to pay for. ditto the fornicators --- the porno business is *HUGE* and gets taxed mercilessly. if anything, i think you'd want to encourage more of these groups ;-)
well... right now i have two monitors, one of which is wired directly into my main box and the other of which is shared via the kvm (main box is a dual head rig). so yes, i don't share both monitors at the same time (but then i typically have one thing on my main box that i want to be able to see while i'm working with the other box).
fair enough. instead i hit ctrl twice and boom i'm there. to each their own i guess.
urm... why not a hardware kvm? the two ports are in the sub $50 range last i checked...
not so sure how easy these things would be to recycle or where the cost/benefit curve in terms of "it costs me x in polution, electricity, repairs, etc. to buy and keep a can cold in the fridge versus the y it costs me to buy and store a self cooling can".
also, i'm having a flashback from calculus back in the day --- isn't the rate of temperature change proportional to the difference in temperatures between an object and it's surroundings? makes me curious as to under what sort of conditions these guys base their claims on... i suspect that it's three minutes at room temperature, but there are really four sets of heat transfers going on here: external world to the can, can to the external world, can to soda, soda to can. so modelling this turns into a scary system of differential equations.. aaaaaagh! (and they wonder why i'm a computer scientist and not an e.e.)
not to be a stickler, but data isn't singular --- it's the plural of datum. of course, this is probably what you were pointing out in the first place...
... and generally cause a lot of people who do image processing a hell of a lot of heartburn. most popular formats simply don't understand more than three spectra. new formats are talking about *five* spectra. that's a 66.667% increase in raw data to process. not so bad you say... until you realize that color information is hugely redundant. then there's the more sticky issue of how do we use our algorithms on this data, because they are often not colorspace neutral. what happens if i need algorithm x which works really well in, for example, HSV, but crappily in this new color space?
i was going to suggest something along these lines. if you're serious about it, you may want to check out xforms especially if you're doing any major processing of those forms once all is said and done.
i refer you to oxford's statutes and regulations on discipline (conveniently linked here, for your clicking pleasure). yes, the admins seem to have been caught with their pants down (to put it mildly), but i think you could make a strong case that they've violated XI.2.1.(a, d, e) and XI.2.1.2. you can't blame bad administrators for the behaviours of bad users.
yes, there are most likely sloppy admins / clueless it people / etc. involved and they deserve the spanking that comes their way. that, however, doesn't excuse these men. they are (like myself) young and lacking in experience (read: stupid). but it doesn't take more than a second's worth of thought to realize that what they did was an act of monumental idiocy and recklessness. did they attempt to contact oxford's i.t.? articles seem to imply no. did they attempt to go to whatever oxford's equivalent of a dean is? again, the articles imply no. instead they exposed oxford's network to even more danger by announcing the flaws before their i.t. people had a chance to fix things. this isn't at all like a parent seeing an unlocked medicine cabinet in a daycare facility and then trying to tell the relevant people about it; this is more like a parent noticing an unlocked cabinet in a daycare facility and then announcing to all the kids how to get into it.
there are quite a few i can think of. many are indy flicks
also, check out eddie izzard genius british comedian.
i use the word queer to collectively refer to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans{gendered|sexual}, intersex, questioning, genderqueer, etc. quite an umbrella term it is ;-)
;-))
you're right, the word queer has had a history of being rather loaded, but that's changing. within the community, it's accepted as being much more inclusive than, for example, gay. it's also a lot easier to pronounce than lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) or even lgbttqqi (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transdendered, questioning, queer, intersex). in general, i don't think anyone will be offended if its clear no offense is intended (e.g. there shouldn't be any problems with you saying something like "queer folk" but "dirty queer" is likely to rankle people
there are a lot of queer folk (lesbian, gay, bisesual, transexual/transgendered, intersex, questioning, and the rest of the alphabet soup), myself included, who are sick to death of the monoculture that's built up. there seems to be this impression that once you identify yourself as belonging to a group that identity supercedes any you may have had before. it makes dating a rather unpleasant experience: my choices are guys my age who haven't gotten over the fact that they like cock or guys about 10 years older than i, about a quarter of whom have realized that there's more to life than rainbow flags, circuit parties, and the gap's latest fall clothing lines (gee, i'm not bitter...).
the more i think about it, the more a lot of the media attention on homoexuals has strong parallels to the blacksploitation films of the early '70s. the thematic elements are different, but the market forces are the same: how to best capitalize on the present frenzy of attention being paid to the issue. personally, i'm really looking forward to the day when nobody gives a fuck about this and we can all move on with our lives.
i had to read siddhartha my senior year for english and i didn't like it nearly as much as hesse's other books. i particularly liked demian, which we had read just before siddhartha, and beneath the wheel. i never managed to get more than half way through magister ludi --- it's not exactly a light read, and it's been several years since i've picked up narciss und goldmund (never read steppenwolf), so my recollection is hazy at best.
that would work great /if/ the weren't any people there who hold the radical belief that women deserve to be treated like (*gasp*) actual human beings.
have one (or two) systems running a fairly substantial, dynamic website with substantial data munging going on (e.g.: an e-commerce app) and simulate a couple (hundred) thousand customers hitting it. you can get some really neat real-time stats displays going updating in real time (e.g. n-thousand transactions in the past second, n-thousand dollars in transactions over the last set of time frames, etc.)
;-))
other, very sexy demos include: real-time anything, but particularly real-time multi-media. eyecandy is always a good thing. for example, real time recording, transforming, encoding, and writing of video (plus sound) data at high res and framerates, etc.
just my 0.02 euro (which right now is worth more than your $0.02
and this is the danger of multi-tasking (also, not previewing) --- the real link is here. the lesson, dear kiddies: never discuss cooking shrimp with people who don't know what old bay seasoning is while writing posts for /.
microserfs by doug coupland is by far one of my favorite books of all time. i read it my sophomore year of high school and even now it still resonates strongly with me. actually, i really like almost all his books (particularly all families are psychotic, hey nostradamus!, and generation x).
i have a hard time expressing just how profound an effect doug coupland's work has had on me microserfs was the book that cemented my decision to major in c.s. for the first time in my life there was a book with characters who i could actually relate to. looking back now, a lot of the technological details seem a bit quaint, but it is still a really excellent read.
i'm just finishing up my m.s. c.s.. along the way, i spent two years working part time with a software engineering firm and eighteen months or so as a research assistant. i've been looking at jobs out silicon valley way since november-ish and so far i've been lucky to get so much as a reply email. the few prospects that looked semi-promising were all either filled from the inside or deferred indefinitely (just a /tad/ disheartening), so i can feel your pain. so far, i've been whoring my resume out to my friends who have jobs and scanning job sites every week or so.
personally, there are a couple things that i've been doing (doesn't seem to have helped much, but it's better than nothing 'cos at least i have something to do). if you're still in touch with your profs and on good terms with them, it's worth asking them if there's some research stuff that they're working on that you may be able to help with. you may well not get paid (and if you aren't still in your college town it's probably infeasible), but it's a great way to be able to put stuff on a resume.
volunteer work is also a possibility. as is temp work. not the most fulfilling, but it's at least something.
the boyfriend doesn't seem to mind at all ;)
we are not all one with the typo detection ;-)
i usually use condoms when i want to kock safely ;-P