And what if that fly starts killing off other native species important to the ecosystem? Import more species!
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I dunno why she swallowed that fly, Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. But I dunno why she swallowed that fly - Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird; How absurd, to swallow a bird! She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. But I dunno why she swallowed that fly - Perhaps she'll die
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat. Imagine that, she swallowed a cat. She swallowed the cat to catch the bird... She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. But I dunno why she swallowed that fly Perhaps she'll die
I occasionally hire people too, and care less about degrees. I want the guy that can do the job.
However I often hire for the US gov't, and they have set pay scales that explicitly say: higher degrees = more money
I once wanted to hire a high school student to do a job most college graduates couldn't do. My employers said no because his pay scale was too low, and the contracting company couldn't get much out of his salary (they take a % cut).
Anyway, I haven't done a masters yet . . . after four years of work I'm still debating if its worth going back for a masters or not.
I was also in the very same situation. A medium sized company offered to buy me out and hire me full time.
They wanted my intellectual property and brand name, too, which is why in the end I turned them down.
Good thing I did. Within a year I came out with a new product, and they became a major customer of mine. Dealing with them has always been unpleasant, as I give them a good price and they still hard bargain for even lower. Their secretary often has a serious attitude with me and other companies they deal with (I spoke with others). I would definitely have not been a good fit in that culture, and would have probably lost more than gained.
I like Chrome as it's the fastest browser I've ever used. It's probably the safest, too. But the bookmarks aren't friendly, and it doesn't have crash protection like Firefox.
Yeap, Chrome crashed on me within a day . . . Firefox crashes too, but at least it reloads the windows when you restart it!
Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox, but only like 50mb or so.
"Williams gave the example of one piracy exploit that caused more than a million reported system crashes on machines running non-genuine Windows Vista before Microsoft was able to resolve it."
I can't seem to figure out how to remove it. I tried the Google Updater Service via Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services\local method and it says disabled . . . I removed it from the list of startup programs in my registry. I'm not running any Google software. But restarting my PC it somehow reloads itself and finds its way into my running programs. Simply using task manager to kill it doesn't even work.
The only solution I can find is tell my firewall to permanently ban it from using my internet connection.
Microsoft and Yahoo have been copying Google for the last 9 years, and yet their copies are still really poor and second rate.
I use Google services, and will continue to use Google services, until Yahoo and Microsoft decides that maybe they need to improve quality and service to get customers.
I use Adsense, Adwords, Maps, Gmail, Checkout, Froogle, Scholar, and others - and I spend a lot of money with them too. Compare these to the second rate copies, and Google is way better.
Actually, the quality of Google services are steadily dropping. For example Checkout keeps increasing fees, and Adsense keeps reducing payouts by 50% a year for the last 4 years.
I would happily swap over to Yahoo or Microsoft if they actually offered something better.
Great, its defined by the 'transactions'. So what is a transaction? The intellectual value gained from reading a website? Credit card values charged? Advertisement revenues? Bandwidth use?
"Because the [700 MHz] spectrum is in a lower frequency, it can transmit signals over longer distances and penetrate through obstacles, and because the signals travel longer distances"
Boston has been an intellectual power house for hundreds of years. Pittsburgh? 30 or so . . .
Personally I think winters in Pittsburgh suck, and the city lacks fun things to do . . . And people go where the jobs are. But its improved quite a lot in the last 10 years . . .
"Japan leads the world in robotics" Hardly true. They lead the world in bipedal robots, but that's it!
I would actually argue that Pittsburgh leads the world in robotics. Which brings to mind, considering the huge influence that Pittsburgh has on IT, why isn't it listed?
The writer confuses 'stronger' with 'higher strength to weight ratio'. Steel is still stronger. And since this is an artificial muscle, 'tensile strength' as a material property has nothing to do with muscle force.
Carbon nanotubes are only strong with tensile forces. Compression and lateral forces causes them to quickly buckle and bend.
That being said, 2x extension change is pretty impressive!
"At over 100,000ft the balloon lost its inflation and the equipment was returned to the earth . . . We travelled 10km to find the sensors and photographic card, which was still emitting its signal, even though it had been exposed to the most extreme conditions."
I'm guessing it crashed back to earth without a parachute, and the memory cards weren't damaged . . . If it had a parachute, it would drift way more than 10km! I'd really like to see more info on the hardware . . . looks like it was mostly luck that it worked . . .
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And what if that fly starts killing off other native species important to the ecosystem? Import more species!
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat. ...
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die
and you know that goes . . .
I got an R&D job without an advanced degree. I am surrounded by post-docs. I get paid more than about a third of them, too.
The reason? None of them can do what I do, most of which I learned on my own. And I was lucky to have a boss who didn't care so much about degrees.
But I've never seen an R&D job posting that didn't say 'PhD/masters required'.
I occasionally hire people too, and care less about degrees. I want the guy that can do the job.
However I often hire for the US gov't, and they have set pay scales that explicitly say:
higher degrees = more money
I once wanted to hire a high school student to do a job most college graduates couldn't do. My employers said no because his pay scale was too low, and the contracting company couldn't get much out of his salary (they take a % cut).
Anyway, I haven't done a masters yet . . . after four years of work I'm still debating if its worth going back for a masters or not.
I was also in the very same situation. A medium sized company offered to buy me out and hire me full time.
They wanted my intellectual property and brand name, too, which is why in the end I turned them down.
Good thing I did. Within a year I came out with a new product, and they became a major customer of mine. Dealing with them has always been unpleasant, as I give them a good price and they still hard bargain for even lower. Their secretary often has a serious attitude with me and other companies they deal with (I spoke with others). I would definitely have not been a good fit in that culture, and would have probably lost more than gained.
I like Chrome as it's the fastest browser I've ever used. It's probably the safest, too. But the bookmarks aren't friendly, and it doesn't have crash protection like Firefox.
Yeap, Chrome crashed on me within a day . . . Firefox crashes too, but at least it reloads the windows when you restart it!
Chrome uses more RAM than Firefox, but only like 50mb or so.
"Williams gave the example of one piracy exploit that caused more than a million reported system crashes on machines running non-genuine Windows Vista before Microsoft was able to resolve it."
Before exploits, Windows never crashed.
The DoD does not sell harddrives on EBay, however gov't contractors that steal harddrives do (fact).
What I've been told is that all old harddrives are sent to specialists who wipe all data, then incinerate the drive.
I occasionally work for the Navy as a contractor.
SP3 breaks some of my software that uses USB, it slows XP down a bit, and offers zero benefits to the user.
I'd rather never upgrade firefox again!
I can't seem to figure out how to remove it. I tried the Google Updater Service via Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services\local method and it says disabled . . . I removed it from the list of startup programs in my registry. I'm not running any Google software. But restarting my PC it somehow reloads itself and finds its way into my running programs. Simply using task manager to kill it doesn't even work.
The only solution I can find is tell my firewall to permanently ban it from using my internet connection.
Microsoft and Yahoo have been copying Google for the last 9 years, and yet their copies are still really poor and second rate.
I use Google services, and will continue to use Google services, until Yahoo and Microsoft decides that maybe they need to improve quality and service to get customers.
I use Adsense, Adwords, Maps, Gmail, Checkout, Froogle, Scholar, and others - and I spend a lot of money with them too. Compare these to the second rate copies, and Google is way better.
Actually, the quality of Google services are steadily dropping. For example Checkout keeps increasing fees, and Adsense keeps reducing payouts by 50% a year for the last 4 years.
I would happily swap over to Yahoo or Microsoft if they actually offered something better.
Merger != Quality
I want my change!
You know, back in the Reagen era, this would have been grounds for impeachment . . .
Great, its defined by the 'transactions'. So what is a transaction? The intellectual value gained from reading a website? Credit card values charged? Advertisement revenues? Bandwidth use?
Its working now.
"Because the [700 MHz] spectrum is in a lower frequency, it can transmit signals over longer distances and penetrate through obstacles, and because the signals travel longer distances"
It also results in a lower bandwidth.
I noticed that the dates on many webpages are entirely incorrect. For example, it says my webpage existed in 2001, when I started it in 2005 . . .
Before video games were invented, Germans didn't murder people.
(j/k)
Boston has been an intellectual power house for hundreds of years. Pittsburgh? 30 or so . . .
Personally I think winters in Pittsburgh suck, and the city lacks fun things to do . . . And people go where the jobs are. But its improved quite a lot in the last 10 years . . .
Yea you're probably right.
Pittsburgh is relatively new as an IT hub, perhaps this 'problem' is only temporary . . .
"Japan leads the world in robotics"
Hardly true. They lead the world in bipedal robots, but that's it!
I would actually argue that Pittsburgh leads the world in robotics. Which brings to mind, considering the huge influence that Pittsburgh has on IT, why isn't it listed?
Depends on *what* you want to program.
I do embedded electronics, and C is by far *the* need to master language.
The writer confuses 'stronger' with 'higher strength to weight ratio'. Steel is still stronger. And since this is an artificial muscle, 'tensile strength' as a material property has nothing to do with muscle force.
Carbon nanotubes are only strong with tensile forces. Compression and lateral forces causes them to quickly buckle and bend.
That being said, 2x extension change is pretty impressive!
Exactly, he forgot to include labor costs. Saying free labor is cheaper than hiring labor to assemble the solar cells isn't fair!
"At over 100,000ft the balloon lost its inflation and the equipment was returned to the earth . . . We travelled 10km to find the sensors and photographic card, which was still emitting its signal, even though it had been exposed to the most extreme conditions."
I'm guessing it crashed back to earth without a parachute, and the memory cards weren't damaged . . . If it had a parachute, it would drift way more than 10km! I'd really like to see more info on the hardware . . . looks like it was mostly luck that it worked . . .
> It is not my fault that the content creators have
> chosen a business model that makes the false
> assumption that I am willing to view advertising.
I agree with you, but can't see how some websites could exist otherwise . . . for example, slashdot, or many news websites . . .
I prefer to support the websites that bring me great content =)
And Google often shows ads of stuff I'm interested in, anyway.