You've jested about this in the past, but do you have any thoughts on running for a political seat in the Canadian government? We'd love to have you (but hey, anyone can do better than the current guy in the top seat).
My organization (which publishes OSS) is doing the same thing, and is using a law student to help coalesce the group into a formal entity (of which there are many types each with their own pros and cons). I'm sure there are many organizations in the same condition, and having someone do the (arduous) research to formalize the entity will help in procuring grants and other sources of funding that aren't available to informal entities.
This sounds like BS, but college is about "critical thinking", not learning skills. Even in CS, which is somewhat an applied degree (rather than say philosophy, which I also recommend for anyone no matter what career path you take), what you learn isn't going to apply directly to your career -- but its going to make you better at picking up skills, knowing when to use them, and to allow you to adeptly communicate your intentions. Its been a few years since college, and while I pretty much thought it was useless while I was there, I think I'm a smarter, more well-rounded person because of it (plus, I made all my connections while in school, which resulted in the beginning of my career).
The improvement we need in this area (are you listening Firefox people) is a way to group tabs the way I can group layers in Photoshop so that I can deal with the whole group (collapse, expand, move) together.
There's been plugins like this forever, e.g. 'Tree Style Tab'. I can't use a browser without it, though a lot can be done to make this plugin and its cousins better.
I'm not sure about the laws in the states (I'm pretty sure that you're statement is correct), but up here in good ol' communist Canada, you can do whatever the hell you want to do to hardware you purchase as long as its not used to hurt people or melt the igloos we all live in.
I paid for that service. I also paid a lot of money for content from that service (game addons, movies, etc). In fact, MS probably makes a lot more money from me from online content than whatever they would get if I spent $60 for each game. I got banned literally 2 weeks after my year-long xbox live account was renewed.
Furthermore, and this is no excuse, I had no idea I could get banned with a modded xbox. I suppose this taught me a lesson (well, not really because I'm moving on to a PS3 now), but to me its a crappy way to treat 1 million *paying* customers.
I was included in this recent ban wave, and though I knew what I was doing was wrong, its not necessarily illegal (at least here in Canada), and I never thought I would get banned off of XBox Live--If I did, I wouldn't have done it. So in a sense, this has taught me a lesson, but not in Microsoft's favor--I'm going to get a PS3 instead of a new XBox, and I think a lot of other people are too.
Similarly, all of my machines (or drives) are named after great thinkers.. Plato, Nietzsche, DaVinci, etc. It helps to remind me that there is a world of thought outside of computers.
I disagree.. free will can only exist *because* of god. Without god, then we are a naturalistic process just, as you say, along for the ride, and self-reflexively experiencing our consciousness as exhibiting free will. Only through a god can free will be 'given' to us. And this is what most atheists don't see-- Free will is really a supernatural ability, or at least it really doesn't fit in to the natural order of the universe. If determinism works for every other object in the universe (save, perhaps, quantum trickery) then it should certainly apply to our brain states.
Mark the parent post as an example of good UI design. Concepts are separate with enough space between them not to confuse the eyes. Capital letters are not used so as to not confuse the reader. A general, downward flowing degree of importance is employed. A+.
Customs isn't mainly for crime, its for economics. At least at the canadian border, i see people held back all the time because they brought too many goods over and the receiving side wants to tax their stuff. The next thing they're worrying about is foreign food that could introduce diseases.
You're right that this is useless tech however. It takes about 4 seconds for a border officer to process your passport. The reason there are bottlenecks at ports of entry is because there tends to be a maximum of two border agents for every 50 people trying to cross.
Then why bother printing at all? All of the professors and students I work with rely almost entirely on digital copies of papers.. If there is a necessary source only in a print journal, one may track it down, but otherwise we'd rather go the easy way and download. Doing research is not just running experiments, its finding other relevant literature that applies to your work, and I sure as hell don't want to look through decades of journal articles and conference proceedings. Hell, I don't even want to have to sign on to different article databases, one for the fact that the paper I want could be on any one of many web sites, and also for the fact that each site doesn't necessarily have the most advanced search features. Open up all the article databases, and maybe we can develop more advanced interfaces to help researchers do their job.
Nope. Seagate momentus 5400.2 80GB. Although you're right, if you look at the very long discussion thread I posted a link to, that some of the busted hard drives are fujitsus, or other models of seagate HDs. So, it seems that it is more a problem of the macbooks frying the hard drives than the hard drives going on their own.
God, there are so many stories about this kind of tech. But you know, its not a very useful interface unless it has the right software to communicate with it--Like intelligent agents that show their own emotion, interacting with yours. I mean, does reading my physiology and figuring out that i'm stressed going to make the web page load faster?
No, seriously. You're talking about his idea of the homonculus, the little man that sits in the pineal gland that connects the two ontological states of mind and matter. Not a very popular piece of theory these days, but hey, the guy was smart enough for us to let this go.
Or, just get a marriage of convenience (or love, if that's your bag). In fact, being that gay marriage is legal in Canada, if you can prove you've been living with anyone for about a year, you can apply for common law status (just be prepared for interviews that demonstrate your relationship with said man or woman).
Also, having worked in Canada on a work permit or study permit (which, as of a year ago allows you to work off campus part time during the school year and full time in the summer) gives you plenty extra points to get over that 67. Just be prepared: Immigrating is a very expensive and long process.
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You've jested about this in the past, but do you have any thoughts on running for a political seat in the Canadian government? We'd love to have you (but hey, anyone can do better than the current guy in the top seat).
My organization (which publishes OSS) is doing the same thing, and is using a law student to help coalesce the group into a formal entity (of which there are many types each with their own pros and cons). I'm sure there are many organizations in the same condition, and having someone do the (arduous) research to formalize the entity will help in procuring grants and other sources of funding that aren't available to informal entities.
This sounds like BS, but college is about "critical thinking", not learning skills. Even in CS, which is somewhat an applied degree (rather than say philosophy, which I also recommend for anyone no matter what career path you take), what you learn isn't going to apply directly to your career -- but its going to make you better at picking up skills, knowing when to use them, and to allow you to adeptly communicate your intentions. Its been a few years since college, and while I pretty much thought it was useless while I was there, I think I'm a smarter, more well-rounded person because of it (plus, I made all my connections while in school, which resulted in the beginning of my career).
The improvement we need in this area (are you listening Firefox people) is a way to group tabs the way I can group layers in Photoshop so that I can deal with the whole group (collapse, expand, move) together.
There's been plugins like this forever, e.g. 'Tree Style Tab'. I can't use a browser without it, though a lot can be done to make this plugin and its cousins better.
I'm not sure about the laws in the states (I'm pretty sure that you're statement is correct), but up here in good ol' communist Canada, you can do whatever the hell you want to do to hardware you purchase as long as its not used to hurt people or melt the igloos we all live in.
I paid for that service. I also paid a lot of money for content from that service (game addons, movies, etc). In fact, MS probably makes a lot more money from me from online content than whatever they would get if I spent $60 for each game. I got banned literally 2 weeks after my year-long xbox live account was renewed.
Furthermore, and this is no excuse, I had no idea I could get banned with a modded xbox. I suppose this taught me a lesson (well, not really because I'm moving on to a PS3 now), but to me its a crappy way to treat 1 million *paying* customers.
I was included in this recent ban wave, and though I knew what I was doing was wrong, its not necessarily illegal (at least here in Canada), and I never thought I would get banned off of XBox Live--If I did, I wouldn't have done it. So in a sense, this has taught me a lesson, but not in Microsoft's favor--I'm going to get a PS3 instead of a new XBox, and I think a lot of other people are too.
'It Came From the Desert' and 'The Beast' need to come back. Amiga games were epic.
Am I the only one that thought about baseball as soon as they read this? I don't think I should be allowed on this web site anymore.
**$tarDu$t* also recommends David Bowie's Station to Station for a complete botnet soundtrack.
Ensure your users pick good passwords, by preventing them from entering passwords described here (e.g. their firstname, "password", "qwerty", etc).
Similarly, all of my machines (or drives) are named after great thinkers.. Plato, Nietzsche, DaVinci, etc. It helps to remind me that there is a world of thought outside of computers.
Beat you all. And I'm 23!
100 hours of work to help my community, and they pay my tuition? NO PROBLEM.
"And what if one or more of the actors gets sick?"
There's a niche for anything when it comes to porn.
I disagree.. free will can only exist *because* of god. Without god, then we are a naturalistic process just, as you say, along for the ride, and self-reflexively experiencing our consciousness as exhibiting free will. Only through a god can free will be 'given' to us. And this is what most atheists don't see-- Free will is really a supernatural ability, or at least it really doesn't fit in to the natural order of the universe. If determinism works for every other object in the universe (save, perhaps, quantum trickery) then it should certainly apply to our brain states.
Mark the parent post as an example of good UI design. Concepts are separate with enough space between them not to confuse the eyes. Capital letters are not used so as to not confuse the reader. A general, downward flowing degree of importance is employed. A+.
Customs isn't mainly for crime, its for economics. At least at the canadian border, i see people held back all the time because they brought too many goods over and the receiving side wants to tax their stuff. The next thing they're worrying about is foreign food that could introduce diseases.
You're right that this is useless tech however. It takes about 4 seconds for a border officer to process your passport. The reason there are bottlenecks at ports of entry is because there tends to be a maximum of two border agents for every 50 people trying to cross.
December 22, 2012.
Then why bother printing at all? All of the professors and students I work with rely almost entirely on digital copies of papers.. If there is a necessary source only in a print journal, one may track it down, but otherwise we'd rather go the easy way and download. Doing research is not just running experiments, its finding other relevant literature that applies to your work, and I sure as hell don't want to look through decades of journal articles and conference proceedings. Hell, I don't even want to have to sign on to different article databases, one for the fact that the paper I want could be on any one of many web sites, and also for the fact that each site doesn't necessarily have the most advanced search features. Open up all the article databases, and maybe we can develop more advanced interfaces to help researchers do their job.
Nope. Seagate momentus 5400.2 80GB. Although you're right, if you look at the very long discussion thread I posted a link to, that some of the busted hard drives are fujitsus, or other models of seagate HDs. So, it seems that it is more a problem of the macbooks frying the hard drives than the hard drives going on their own.
How about seagate gives me a refund for me and the many other people whose hard drive has crashed as a result of crappy hardware?
God, there are so many stories about this kind of tech. But you know, its not a very useful interface unless it has the right software to communicate with it--Like intelligent agents that show their own emotion, interacting with yours. I mean, does reading my physiology and figuring out that i'm stressed going to make the web page load faster?
Descartes did it!
No, seriously. You're talking about his idea of the homonculus, the little man that sits in the pineal gland that connects the two ontological states of mind and matter. Not a very popular piece of theory these days, but hey, the guy was smart enough for us to let this go.
Or, just get a marriage of convenience (or love, if that's your bag). In fact, being that gay marriage is legal in Canada, if you can prove you've been living with anyone for about a year, you can apply for common law status (just be prepared for interviews that demonstrate your relationship with said man or woman).
Also, having worked in Canada on a work permit or study permit (which, as of a year ago allows you to work off campus part time during the school year and full time in the summer) gives you plenty extra points to get over that 67. Just be prepared: Immigrating is a very expensive and long process.