I don't disagree that for many traditional lectures in a school are not good teaching tools. I suggest the real world is more difficult than you would like it to be, here here is a counter anecdote for you:
I know a "Child A". His attends an "open" school where rather than lectures and lessons the students are given the freedom to (as you put it) "be inquisitive about everything around him" They have all the opportunities they want to figure out how the things they encounter in their daily life work.
In this particular case the parent of "Child A" has a low grade personality disorder, which this "Child A" seems to share. Rather than taking apart the "black boxes" of life he spends his time downloading porn from the internet and playing video games. He has good verbal skills but writes like someone half his age. This "Child A" gets no guidance or direction from his open school. He gets none at home because his parent has their own problems.
So is "Child A" going to be an engineer? Maybe not.
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Wireless sharing for the Zune is not about sharing songs with a girl in a bar. It is entirely about giving Starbucks a means for sending you commercials disguised as "zune-casts" when you walk into their shop.
This was my first 'pc' as well. I had a lot of fun with it. Maybe it's shiny metal box is responsible for my affinity for aluminum skinned Apples. Even though they have whizzier and bangier features (like the ability to drive a color screen!) every computer I've had since has seemed somehow to be so big and unwieldy in comparison. I do miss that friendly amber command line.
I even talked the shop that sold it to me into hiring me as their tech. So it led to my first job as well.
What I want to know is, how do you computer and IT professionals out there put in your notice of resignation... and not get immediately shutdown, and shunned away from the computers?
I think you got off easy, you get a 2 week paid vacation before you start your new job. (you do have the new job already, right?)
I am the only person I saw at most of the places I have worked who stayed for those last 2 weeks. I think I did that by having a personal relationship with my manager and the owners of the company or at least my manager's boss (if he had one that wasn't the owner). I don't mean playing golf on Wednesday mornings, I mean just being civil and not afraid of talking about work or what ever.
Most places I have worked, when IT staff put in their 2 weeks notice (the tradition used to be your notice matched your pay period, I assume it is the same today) most of the time they were nearly immediately escorted to the door. Usually they were smart enough to have collected their personal belongings the night before.
Actually an interesting side effect of the development of rifled artillery in the 19th century is that stone walls became obsolete, but earth ramparts and mud brick wals worked pretty well. So in some respects we went back to earth ramparts and brick forts like those used in the various bronze ages around the world.
The blinking light on the Opticom system isn't very obvious during the day, so it isn't much of help. If you can't see the big red (or what ever) fire truck you aren't going to notice the small blinking light on top.
BTW I seem to recall a city in Texas or Oklahoma that had an IR based Opticom-like system. Apparently people discovered their programmable TV remotes could 'learn' the activation signal and provide a sort of remote control for traffic lights.
As much as sitting at lights on empty roads irritates me, I prefer traffic lights to round abouts like they have in the UK. They really things down because you pretty much always have to stop at the circles. At least with lights you have a chance of getting the green, and many jurisdictions tune their lights so if you are doing the speed limit (ahem) you tend to get all greens.
People like you scare me. Just because you don't see anyone coming doesn't mean no one is there.
What about the motorcyclist or bicyclist you don't see?
I bet if you ignored a red light and proceeded into the intersection only to be t-boned by a fire truck you would blame the driver of the fire truck wouldn't you?
Except this doesn't seem to be about sprawl, apparently the property in question is 'river front property'. Nobody is reducing sprawl, they are just taking homes away from allegedly poor people and giving it to big business.
Did the three letters "AMD" never enter your head?
That is the kind of poorly informed thing that I usually say. By all accounts the Apple deal is with Intel, to use Intel chips. It seems to be likely that OSX will only run on Apple hardware which will have Intel chips not AMD. It is unlikely that OSX will be available for 'beige box' x86 PCs, so no AMD joy for you are me.
By the way, I hope you don't use any Flash memory. Intel.
When I can avoid a vendor I don't like I do. What about you?
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I went with Apples because I find Intel's management practices to be objectionable. I just don't think I can buy a computer with an intel chip in it. I really don't think it is going to happen.
If I'm going to accept an Intel product I may as well run MS Windows too.
Actually, if you have a dupe ssn, you are likely going to also have a dupe name and possibly dupe birth place. That is becuase your name and birth place seem to factor in the algorithm that produces the number.
A few years back there were two girls who were found to have the same SSN. Both had the same birth date, same name, and their fathers also had the same name. I can't remember if they were born in the same place or not.
In any event, the duplication went undetected until they each applied to the same university.
Thanks to HP for helping me make my decision on my next printer purchase. I guess it's down to Epson or Canon.
Their decision has indeed saved me money, in the sense that they have reduced the time it will take me to compare printers by 1/3.
No, it was cancelled because Fox doesn't want another 800 pound gorrilla like the X-Files and the Simpsons. They want to keep a steady churn of new shows that will capture interest for a season or two. Then, before they become too entrenched with popularity and the actors/producers start looking for more money they can dump the show and put the next-new-thing on in it's place.
They know people will complain about the show being cancelled, but that they will also tune in to the new show just as eagerly as the old one.
They can't dump the Simpsons because that is the cornerstone of their image, but they would dump it in a heartbeat if they could.
Actually we only have 3 Apples at work. We haven't had any problems at all with them.
I was just reflecting on the world at large, that people see problems with more generic (commodity) laptops as the cost of doing business, while a problem with an Apple laptop is newsworthy.
I think if it is important to you as a developer to retain copyright, you should work that into the contract. If it isn't then perhaps you can soak the customer for more money.
I was just observing on the way I see things happen.
I am not happy that when I do "work for hire" it is difficult for me to retain copyright. However, when it is code that I want to reuse for other purposes, I do establish that from the outset. As long as the customer knows up front that I retain copyright, and it is written into our agreement then there's no problem.
While reading the parent and your reply I reflected that we have had similar sorts of problems with 100 or so Dell and Gateway laptops that we have at work over the past 2 years.
Then it occurred to me that the Dells and Gateways are so anonymous and forgetable that people really don't seem to remember the problems.
The Apple laptops tend to be memorable and more interesting. So I wonder if it is jut that people remember their problems more readily than they do when they have similar sorts of problems with more generic computers?
I just saw his re-re-release of THX 1138. I liked it a lot. I don't remember his re-release well enough to have an opinion on whether I liked it more or less.
I think it was his best movie. Too bad it was also his first.
I did notice some echos of his Star Wars universe in it, and it sort of makes me wonder if the world we see in THX 1138 is the 'dirty little secret' of the Star Wars world. It adds an new dimension to consider maybe that world is what is under the cloud city.
I think it depends on the contract. Photographers (and other artists from my experience) are accustomed to retaining copyright, and have the appropriate language written into their contracts.
In Software development and often tech. writing, etc, the contracts state that the people paying the bills get the copyright. It just (from my experience) is just a different way of doing business.
I would like to see some pictures of the rocket that the Da Vinci Project actually expects to launch in less than a month.
The pictures I see on their site just seem to be a fibreglass and plywood mockup from last year. At least I hope it's a mockup.
Maybe fibreglass is tougher stuff than I think it is, and maybe it will behave better than I think will under accelleration at low atmospheric pressures.
But then I'm am not a rocket scientist, but I do play doctor when given the opportunity.
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I don't disagree that for many traditional lectures in a school are not good teaching tools. I suggest the real world is more difficult than you would like it to be, here here is a counter anecdote for you:
I know a "Child A". His attends an "open" school where rather than lectures and lessons the students are given the freedom to (as you put it) "be inquisitive about everything around him" They have all the opportunities they want to figure out how the things they encounter in their daily life work.
In this particular case the parent of "Child A" has a low grade personality disorder, which this "Child A" seems to share. Rather than taking apart the "black boxes" of life he spends his time downloading porn from the internet and playing video games. He has good verbal skills but writes like someone half his age. This "Child A" gets no guidance or direction from his open school. He gets none at home because his parent has their own problems.
So is "Child A" going to be an engineer? Maybe not.
Wireless sharing for the Zune is not about sharing songs with a girl in a bar. It is entirely about giving Starbucks a means for sending you commercials disguised as "zune-casts" when you walk into their shop.
I lost interest in going to the cinema when they started showing advertisements instead of movie trailers.
I wonder if the people who run cinemas will ever figure out that people can stay home and watch TV if they want to see commercials before their movie.
This was my first 'pc' as well. I had a lot of fun with it. Maybe it's shiny metal box is responsible for my affinity for aluminum skinned Apples. Even though they have whizzier and bangier features (like the ability to drive a color screen!) every computer I've had since has seemed somehow to be so big and unwieldy in comparison. I do miss that friendly amber command line.
I even talked the shop that sold it to me into hiring me as their tech. So it led to my first job as well.
What I want to know is, how do you computer and IT professionals out there put in your notice of resignation ... and not get immediately shutdown, and shunned away from the computers?
I think you got off easy, you get a 2 week paid vacation before you start your new job. (you do have the new job already, right?)
I am the only person I saw at most of the places I have worked who stayed for those last 2 weeks. I think I did that by having a personal relationship with my manager and the owners of the company or at least my manager's boss (if he had one that wasn't the owner). I don't mean playing golf on Wednesday mornings, I mean just being civil and not afraid of talking about work or what ever.
Most places I have worked, when IT staff put in their 2 weeks notice (the tradition used to be your notice matched your pay period, I assume it is the same today) most of the time they were nearly immediately escorted to the door. Usually they were smart enough to have collected their personal belongings the night before.
afaik, gunpowder makes city walls obselete.
Actually an interesting side effect of the development of rifled artillery in the 19th century is that stone walls became obsolete, but earth ramparts and mud brick wals worked pretty well. So in some respects we went back to earth ramparts and brick forts like those used in the various bronze ages around the world.
"Microsoft Vista for Costco Customers: the Cheaper Edition."
Sure it's cheap but you can only buy it as a beowulf cluster.
The blinking light on the Opticom system isn't very obvious during the day, so it isn't much of help. If you can't see the big red (or what ever) fire truck you aren't going to notice the small blinking light on top.
BTW I seem to recall a city in Texas or Oklahoma that had an IR based Opticom-like system. Apparently people discovered their programmable TV remotes could 'learn' the activation signal and provide a sort of remote control for traffic lights.
As much as sitting at lights on empty roads irritates me, I prefer traffic lights to round abouts like they have in the UK. They really things down because you pretty much always have to stop at the circles. At least with lights you have a chance of getting the green, and many jurisdictions tune their lights so if you are doing the speed limit (ahem) you tend to get all greens.
People like you scare me. Just because you don't see anyone coming doesn't mean no one is there.
What about the motorcyclist or bicyclist you don't see?
I bet if you ignored a red light and proceeded into the intersection only to be t-boned by a fire truck you would blame the driver of the fire truck wouldn't you?
Except this doesn't seem to be about sprawl, apparently the property in question is 'river front property'. Nobody is reducing sprawl, they are just taking homes away from allegedly poor people and giving it to big business.
Did the three letters "AMD" never enter your head?
That is the kind of poorly informed thing that I usually say. By all accounts the Apple deal is with Intel, to use Intel chips. It seems to be likely that OSX will only run on Apple hardware which will have Intel chips not AMD. It is unlikely that OSX will be available for 'beige box' x86 PCs, so no AMD joy for you are me.
By the way, I hope you don't use any Flash memory. Intel.
When I can avoid a vendor I don't like I do. What about you? Thanks
I went with Apples because I find Intel's management practices to be objectionable. I just don't think I can buy a computer with an intel chip in it. I really don't think it is going to happen.
If I'm going to accept an Intel product I may as well run MS Windows too.
Actually, if you have a dupe ssn, you are likely going to also have a dupe name and possibly dupe birth place. That is becuase your name and birth place seem to factor in the algorithm that produces the number.
A few years back there were two girls who were found to have the same SSN. Both had the same birth date, same name, and their fathers also had the same name. I can't remember if they were born in the same place or not.
In any event, the duplication went undetected until they each applied to the same university.
Dorvak States: There was removal of the offending article with apologies all around.
I don't remember reading any apologies from the author or the publisher. Can anyone point me to them.
If your new company is based on an internet product, shouldn't it be called "teh"?
Does the first guy to the pub shout 'First Pint' when he gets there?
Thanks to HP for helping me make my decision on my next printer purchase. I guess it's down to Epson or Canon. Their decision has indeed saved me money, in the sense that they have reduced the time it will take me to compare printers by 1/3.
If was superb it would not have been cancelled
No, it was cancelled because Fox doesn't want another 800 pound gorrilla like the X-Files and the Simpsons. They want to keep a steady churn of new shows that will capture interest for a season or two. Then, before they become too entrenched with popularity and the actors/producers start looking for more money they can dump the show and put the next-new-thing on in it's place.
They know people will complain about the show being cancelled, but that they will also tune in to the new show just as eagerly as the old one.
They can't dump the Simpsons because that is the cornerstone of their image, but they would dump it in a heartbeat if they could.
Actually we only have 3 Apples at work. We haven't had any problems at all with them.
I was just reflecting on the world at large, that people see problems with more generic (commodity) laptops as the cost of doing business, while a problem with an Apple laptop is newsworthy.
I think if it is important to you as a developer to retain copyright, you should work that into the contract. If it isn't then perhaps you can soak the customer for more money.
I was just observing on the way I see things happen.
I am not happy that when I do "work for hire" it is difficult for me to retain copyright. However, when it is code that I want to reuse for other purposes, I do establish that from the outset. As long as the customer knows up front that I retain copyright, and it is written into our agreement then there's no problem.
While reading the parent and your reply I reflected that we have had similar sorts of problems with 100 or so Dell and Gateway laptops that we have at work over the past 2 years.
Then it occurred to me that the Dells and Gateways are so anonymous and forgetable that people really don't seem to remember the problems.
The Apple laptops tend to be memorable and more interesting. So I wonder if it is jut that people remember their problems more readily than they do when they have similar sorts of problems with more generic computers?
I just saw his re-re-release of THX 1138. I liked it a lot. I don't remember his re-release well enough to have an opinion on whether I liked it more or less.
I think it was his best movie. Too bad it was also his first.
I did notice some echos of his Star Wars universe in it, and it sort of makes me wonder if the world we see in THX 1138 is the 'dirty little secret' of the Star Wars world. It adds an new dimension to consider maybe that world is what is under the cloud city.
I think it depends on the contract. Photographers (and other artists from my experience) are accustomed to retaining copyright, and have the appropriate language written into their contracts.
In Software development and often tech. writing, etc, the contracts state that the people paying the bills get the copyright. It just (from my experience) is just a different way of doing business.
I thought I read early on that SpaceShip One has a aluminum "pressure vessel" inside the fibreglass shell.
Naturally I can't find a reference now.
I would like to see some pictures of the rocket that the Da Vinci Project actually expects to launch in less than a month.
The pictures I see on their site just seem to be a fibreglass and plywood mockup from last year. At least I hope it's a mockup.
Maybe fibreglass is tougher stuff than I think it is, and maybe it will behave better than I think will under accelleration at low atmospheric pressures.
But then I'm am not a rocket scientist, but I do play doctor when given the opportunity.