... then I would value a degree of the same name obtained online as about a 2, partially because of introp's observation that the quality is all over the place and is an unknown; and partially, I admit, due to personal unfamiliarity.
Also I think it's worth mentioning that "online" is a tainted word when it comes to schooling. (Much like it is with prescriptions.) A more mainstream term known to most generations is "by correspondence". Most universities use "distance education" and offer various combinations of accessibility for students. It's not dumbed down material, and it certainly doesn't cost less. It's specialised for a non-lecture, non-classroom format.
If you say "I got my degree online", you're asking for trouble. Say, "I got my degree from accredited college X, through their exceptional distance education curriculum."
Assuming your potential employer doesn't cringe at the name of "University of Phoenix", you should be fine with distance education from any brick & mortar institution... http://www.phoenix.edu/colleges_divisions/global.html If they're an ivy-league snob who cares more about what fraternity you were in, than the work you can do, it might not be a good fit.
If the library had a little adult section where people could go borrow their first amendment supported material, fine.
As a kid growing up before the Web, nothing would have delighted me more than swingin' saloon doors at the back of my local library. Got kicked out of magazine stores more than once, but librarians wouldn't do that.
The staff should have been checking the boxes upon return, to make sure that everything was OK. Add to that, they should have definitely been checked before outting them back on the shelves for other poeple to buy! It's either useless staff or really sloppy company policy.
Reminds me of the time I bought an electric shaver at London Drugs a couple years ago. Got it home, turned it on, then found out it was used. Well used. It was a return. People are fuckers. There's no single person to blame anymore.
The college has a CS department providing courses for "seasoned IT professionals" (as per ccsf.edu) and nobody notices viruses on their flash drives (etc) over the past 10 years? Unlikely.
I don't think we're talking about the era of Stoned on a boot sector anymore. If this is a decade of organised crime, it's going to be a bit more sophisticated.
You might want to check out Stuxnet before you presume any amount of caution or aptitude can so easily subvert a sufficiently developed worm. Whatever someone might think about how people "over there" do things, I feel it's a safe assumption that the professionals working at a middle-east nuclear plant would also be qualified to work at a San Francisco college.
I will bet you money that politicians said those exact words when they were drafting the bill. There is nothing more ignorant than imagining you (or others) know everything.
There are a lot of companies that jumped late to the game and still did some hit, like Apple with MP3s or phones and even Google itself with search. The trick is doing it well.
So you're saying MC Hammer has a shot? They're in Pre-beta, which is way more exclusive and awesome than regular ol' beta.
As long as Clippy isn't their prophet we are safe.
"It looks like you're starting a religion. Would you like help?" (_) Add animated clipart [burningbush.gif] (_) Create a bulleted list of [5] [7] [10] [12] Commandments - [_] Autofill? (_) Increase top margin for nails - [_] Add guide marks? [_] Don't show me this heresy again.
No, you can't. If you take a public domain work and change it only a little bit, you've created a derivative work of the public domain work, and the expired copyright that once applied to the public domain work now applies to your new derivative work.
Black Pete of the W. Disney Corporation will drop by in the morning for a "review" of their "catalogue". You should skip breakfast.
It's really not news to anyone who uses Google products. It's their Google+ menu now on the search page. In general they are whitespacing and boxpadding things up, but this new menu is basically my current iGoogle pulldown menu with icons.
But seriously I have never returned a drive for warranty as once it fails securely erasing the data can be an issue if ti doesn't spin up, now that prices have jumped I might consider it but previously drives were so cheap why bother.
Depends. I got into a vicious cycle with Maxtor, they'd replace a drive under warranty, then THAT drive would fail within warranty, and eventually I had to stop the madness. For a Lacie external drive, I sent it in to replace the controller card, came back with all data intact. That was a $400 unit so "so cheap" is relative.
Simple fact is, these are supposed to be professionals, and I'm sure they see data much more valuable than mine. But yes I also mark which drives I should destroy myself.
Oh god... fuck Maxtor. But yes, when our local utilities raise rates, it's to be more "competitive" and "in line" with other regions. So instead of keeping the best warranty in the industry, Seagate is content to fall in line. Whatever, I don't truck with them anymore.
The nightmarish working conditions at EA are legendary. Those "jokes" you've heard? Probably real-life anecdotes.
I find http://trenchescomic.com/ to be one of the best reads out there now. Not for the comics but for the anonymous stories. Sure there's the potential people will start to exaggerate to make the story more interesting (who doesn't?) but I've heard enough anecdotally from the industry that truth is always stranger than fiction. And the earliest stories collected before the site was launched are nuts too. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. If it was honey and roses there wouldn't even be a debate.
If I do pursue the vidja games industry, it will definitely be from the commerce side. They'll call me the suit-with-a-heart-of-gold right up until John Riccitiello crushes my resolve. Then you soda-swilling fuckers are all fired after we ship.;P
Indeed. As an experienced shooter I've recently made the decision to get rid of my 12MP Pentax point and shoot -- a camera I carry with me often but rarely use -- and "upgrade" my iPod Touch to 4th gen with a camera. Quality debates aside, they tend to be rather good with video, and there are umpteen apps to creatively "buff" the look of still images. Besides, I normally shoot DSLR, and up to medium and large format film when the motivation calls for it. Arguing over a few noisy megapixels is utterly pointless when faced with not getting the shot at all.
No, the advantage is simply that I will very often have the iPod in my hands, and that people in general are now quite comfortable with having a mobile device held up to them for candids and snapshots. P&S aren't known for being responsive, aren't equipped with aesthetically pleasing flashes, and compared to an iPhone *all* of them are bulky and obvious, even the Optios and Elphs. Plus I get to bypass the "download" step and tweak images immediately before sharing them. I'm looking forward to how it changes my photographic habits and eye.
If I ever buy another P&S for myself it will likely be a waterproof Pentax for actual underwater photography. Watertight casings for SLRs are madly expensive.
Maybe the French industry is different, I don't know.
The French nuclear industry is 90% owned by the government. AREVA encompasses the entire power chain, and being an energy company which realises uranium is a finite resource (which could be due to the fact they don't own majority stakes in any of the world's largest known deposits), has a fairly proactive alternative and renewable division. They're also working on a fusion plant (a tokamak). The press releases say they could switch it on in 2020, but I'm betting 2030 before any real power is generated. (I can't even imagine what a fusion accident will look like, but it's really the only direction we can go.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva http://www-ferp.ucsd.edu/FPA/fpn11-58.shtml
I'm not against the concept of nuclear power per se, but eveything I've read about the industry and its practices makes me think they're rather untrustworthy and greedy.
As another comment says, that's the energy industry in general. Siemens, a German company, received the largest fine among a electricity price fixing cartel.
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We have tons of waste from the traditional uranium plants to use up, might as well start building some reactors that produce almost no leftovers.
Waste? Leftovers?
Sounds like what you're really asking for is Mr. Fusion.
Indeed. While they have improved the camera, the IR seem about the same.
http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/kinect/setup-and-playspace/lighting
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-bets-big-on-kinect-for-windows-but-splits-its-community.ars
Soviet Russia called, Gorbachev wants his joke back.
... then I would value a degree of the same name obtained online as about a 2, partially because of introp's observation that the quality is all over the place and is an unknown; and partially, I admit, due to personal unfamiliarity.
Also I think it's worth mentioning that "online" is a tainted word when it comes to schooling. (Much like it is with prescriptions.) A more mainstream term known to most generations is "by correspondence". Most universities use "distance education" and offer various combinations of accessibility for students. It's not dumbed down material, and it certainly doesn't cost less. It's specialised for a non-lecture, non-classroom format.
If you say "I got my degree online", you're asking for trouble. Say, "I got my degree from accredited college X, through their exceptional distance education curriculum."
Assuming your potential employer doesn't cringe at the name of "University of Phoenix", you should be fine with distance education from any brick & mortar institution... http://www.phoenix.edu/colleges_divisions/global.html
If they're an ivy-league snob who cares more about what fraternity you were in, than the work you can do, it might not be a good fit.
If the library had a little adult section where people could go borrow their first amendment supported material, fine.
As a kid growing up before the Web, nothing would have delighted me more than swingin' saloon doors at the back of my local library.
Got kicked out of magazine stores more than once, but librarians wouldn't do that.
It's a lot easier to choose to ignore someone sitting next to you watching porn, than to choose to ignore someone who's screaming, though.
One often leads to the other.
Your needs will be taken care of by the emerging SEA industry.
Search Engine Appeasement.
*crosses arms*
The staff should have been checking the boxes upon return, to make sure that everything was OK. Add to that, they should have definitely been checked before outting them back on the shelves for other poeple to buy! It's either useless staff or really sloppy company policy.
Reminds me of the time I bought an electric shaver at London Drugs a couple years ago. Got it home, turned it on, then found out it was used. Well used. It was a return.
People are fuckers. There's no single person to blame anymore.
The college has a CS department providing courses for "seasoned IT professionals" (as per ccsf.edu) and nobody notices viruses on their flash drives (etc) over the past 10 years? Unlikely.
I don't think we're talking about the era of Stoned on a boot sector anymore. If this is a decade of organised crime, it's going to be a bit more sophisticated.
You might want to check out Stuxnet before you presume any amount of caution or aptitude can so easily subvert a sufficiently developed worm. Whatever someone might think about how people "over there" do things, I feel it's a safe assumption that the professionals working at a middle-east nuclear plant would also be qualified to work at a San Francisco college.
there's no need to educate the readers here.
I will bet you money that politicians said those exact words when they were drafting the bill.
There is nothing more ignorant than imagining you (or others) know everything.
There are a lot of companies that jumped late to the game and still did some hit, like Apple with MP3s or phones and even Google itself with search. The trick is doing it well.
So you're saying MC Hammer has a shot? They're in Pre-beta, which is way more exclusive and awesome than regular ol' beta.
As long as Clippy isn't their prophet we are safe.
"It looks like you're starting a religion. Would you like help?"
(_) Add animated clipart [burningbush.gif]
(_) Create a bulleted list of [5] [7] [10] [12] Commandments - [_] Autofill?
(_) Increase top margin for nails - [_] Add guide marks?
[_] Don't show me this heresy again.
No, you can't. If you take a public domain work and change it only a little bit, you've created a derivative work of the public domain work, and the expired copyright that once applied to the public domain work now applies to your new derivative work.
Black Pete of the W. Disney Corporation will drop by in the morning for a "review" of their "catalogue". You should skip breakfast.
It's really not news to anyone who uses Google products. It's their Google+ menu now on the search page.
In general they are whitespacing and boxpadding things up, but this new menu is basically my current iGoogle pulldown menu with icons.
But seriously I have never returned a drive for warranty as once it fails securely erasing the data can be an issue if ti doesn't spin up, now that prices have jumped I might consider it but previously drives were so cheap why bother.
Depends. I got into a vicious cycle with Maxtor, they'd replace a drive under warranty, then THAT drive would fail within warranty, and eventually I had to stop the madness.
For a Lacie external drive, I sent it in to replace the controller card, came back with all data intact. That was a $400 unit so "so cheap" is relative.
Simple fact is, these are supposed to be professionals, and I'm sure they see data much more valuable than mine. But yes I also mark which drives I should destroy myself.
Oh god... fuck Maxtor.
But yes, when our local utilities raise rates, it's to be more "competitive" and "in line" with other regions.
So instead of keeping the best warranty in the industry, Seagate is content to fall in line. Whatever, I don't truck with them anymore.
nearly 500 megs from 2010.
OP did not specify how much space is being used total, but everyone is taking the 500MB as the main sticking point. *facepalm*
The point being it will get larger in the future, even if OP never runs the risk of exceeding Gmail's quota.
Far as I can tell this is a TMI question about fetchmail and attachments. Wish I could help.
The nightmarish working conditions at EA are legendary. Those "jokes" you've heard? Probably real-life anecdotes.
I find http://trenchescomic.com/ to be one of the best reads out there now. Not for the comics but for the anonymous stories.
Sure there's the potential people will start to exaggerate to make the story more interesting (who doesn't?) but I've heard enough anecdotally from the industry that truth is always stranger than fiction. And the earliest stories collected before the site was launched are nuts too. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. If it was honey and roses there wouldn't even be a debate.
If I do pursue the vidja games industry, it will definitely be from the commerce side. They'll call me the suit-with-a-heart-of-gold right up until John Riccitiello crushes my resolve. Then you soda-swilling fuckers are all fired after we ship. ;P
Indeed. As an experienced shooter I've recently made the decision to get rid of my 12MP Pentax point and shoot -- a camera I carry with me often but rarely use -- and "upgrade" my iPod Touch to 4th gen with a camera. Quality debates aside, they tend to be rather good with video, and there are umpteen apps to creatively "buff" the look of still images. Besides, I normally shoot DSLR, and up to medium and large format film when the motivation calls for it. Arguing over a few noisy megapixels is utterly pointless when faced with not getting the shot at all.
No, the advantage is simply that I will very often have the iPod in my hands, and that people in general are now quite comfortable with having a mobile device held up to them for candids and snapshots. P&S aren't known for being responsive, aren't equipped with aesthetically pleasing flashes, and compared to an iPhone *all* of them are bulky and obvious, even the Optios and Elphs. Plus I get to bypass the "download" step and tweak images immediately before sharing them. I'm looking forward to how it changes my photographic habits and eye.
If I ever buy another P&S for myself it will likely be a waterproof Pentax for actual underwater photography. Watertight casings for SLRs are madly expensive.
+1 if you'd rather they called it the LAVOS. ;)
Maybe the French industry is different, I don't know.
The French nuclear industry is 90% owned by the government. AREVA encompasses the entire power chain, and being an energy company which realises uranium is a finite resource (which could be due to the fact they don't own majority stakes in any of the world's largest known deposits), has a fairly proactive alternative and renewable division. They're also working on a fusion plant (a tokamak). The press releases say they could switch it on in 2020, but I'm betting 2030 before any real power is generated. (I can't even imagine what a fusion accident will look like, but it's really the only direction we can go.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva
http://www-ferp.ucsd.edu/FPA/fpn11-58.shtml
I'm not against the concept of nuclear power per se, but eveything I've read about the industry and its practices makes me think they're rather untrustworthy and greedy.
As another comment says, that's the energy industry in general. Siemens, a German company, received the largest fine among a electricity price fixing cartel.
This can easily be mitigated by adding new labor laws that prevent meteorites from ever going on strike.
It's France, that'll never happen.
SACRE KABLEUEY!
That's unfortunate - France's nuclear power plants were a key part of Germany's decision to go non-nuclear but still buy tons of nuclear-based power from France.
Maybe the EU can step in to bail th.... oh wait.
Or at least don't answer them three sentences later.
It's been a while since you wrote a college paper, huh?