Here's an ask/. question that doesn't suck!
I can tell you the NOT answer: Netflix or Hulu on PS3.
PS3 might be OK for games.
But Netflix sucks on PS3, and the PlayStation Network requires signing in to use it, which means you have to get the MANDATORY PS3 updates when Sony decides to release a few minor features, which nobody really wants (move multiple data files at a time? did I need to do that?).
Then you're stuck waiting for Sony to give you the entire OS, re-install, reboot, sign in again, etc. By this time your date is bored, dissatisfied, and not interested in making out, because you've chosen the wrong system for watching movies or doing anything but gaming. Unless she's into gaming, in which case you've got a winner.
I'd like to try a Roku BTW. Or just an HTPC with dual boot and some good graphics hardware.
Hot wet islands full of hookers might be an interesting place to have an office, but manufacturing sensitive hard drives seems like it would want an arid climate. Why are there so many HD makers in Thailand then? Besides the obvious.
I think of the things you mention, film effects will probably be the most competitive, but also the most rewarding. I've also worked a bit on CUDA and nvidia specific stuff, which is fun, but I can't find a way to apply it where I collect a paycheck. There is HPC and data intensive work here, but it's mostly Java/Hadoop and R, nothing extremely high performance.
I've never tried applying to JPL/NASA, so I can't speak to that. I'm sure a competent, professional and experienced engineer can find a place there and get paid decently.
The work done around high energy particle physics and cosmology seems to be mostly done by PhDs and reams upon reams of grad students working their way up in the world of academics. But there are/must be engineers there too. Scientists can't be bothered to do ALL the programming, so often the details need to be handled by engineers. But physics is under the realm of the DOE in the US. So eventually in many interesting fields you find yourself working basically under grants from the DOE or DARPA. Nothing wrong with that from my perspective.
I live in Chicago, and I've told the recruiters "No web or financial stuff", because I'm bored to the point of distraction by web/finance. There's basically nothing else here unless I go to the DOE at Argonne, if I'm qualified.
I'd look into film effects, physical/environmental modeling, alternative energy, private space/aero companies, CAD software development. Especially if you want to do more with CUDA.
A couple of interesting interactive demos using Processing or CUDA would get the film people interested.
KDE is retarded. kmplayer, kwallet, Konsole, Kmail, Kontact.. it just gets annoying.
Gnome is also retarded. You'd think by now that User Experience would be down to a science.
Maybe they're just doing the science wrong. No reason to upgrade to Gnome3 yet.
I can understand the 'no cold calls' policy, taking it literally to mean "Don't have recruiters cold call our engineers and offer them more money".
I disconnected my office phone a few years ago, and have kept it that way. Two or three calls a day from headhunters is a huge distraction, especially if they're pushy and indiscreet. Co-workers have adopted the same strategy, so we effectively have no phones here.
So I'm all for a literal no cold-call policy. They're a waste of worker's time.
I have the special purpose-built JVM on a chip that was given out at some Java conference a few years ago. I imagine it was just a gimmick, but I've always wanted to see if it works. No idea what its supposed to do, as it has no IO except the conductivity of the ring itself. I think it may just be an empty magic ring.
Your about to look at boobies. Are you sure you want to see boobies?
y/N: y
Are you really sure?
y/N: Y
Absolutely, positively sure?
y/N: YES GIVE ME TEH BOOBS ALREADY
Please answer Yes or No.
y/N: DIE IN A FIRE COCK
Agreed. A startup team or individual has no assets, no 'good will' value and no product yet, so putting the capital in escrow and borrowing on it is the best way to protect the investors. There will be interest of course, because the bank... But at least the funding from Kickstarter will allow a company with no assets to borrow capital. As an investor, you still stand the chance of losing it, but the bank will pursue the now criminals for skipping out on the loan.
Well, the marketing and product people are either way behind the engineering dept, out for drinks, incompetent, or completely out of ideas. It's likely that all 4 are in effect, possibly more.
Most advances in technology now are weakly pushed by either an advertising or social media based application.
You have to sell software to commercial customers. In order to do that it has to be competitive with comparable offerings, but be better overall. It also needs a large user base, so that it becomes an industry standard piece of equipment.
Music, design and video editing folks at the low end of the industry are notorious for pirating software. But who cares? It's not like they can afford it in the first place. They're not making any money. They're not customers, but potentially later on their ability to work fluently with the software might help them get a job with one of your commercial customers.
$10k software doesn't just sell itself. You need a sales and marketing staff to get the commercial interest. the pirating part is just free crack for potential users.
Was the app developed in the Republic of China? Reject.
That solves most of the problem.
I have my own filter for apps, one that is based on cultural bias and animosity towards Chinese software mills:
If the description is written by an idiot, or the obvious result of machine translation: reject
If the 'reviews' are spam or are the typical 'ITS SO ADDICTING!': reject
If the list is the last reference to those objects, yes, for the most part.
Once an object is de-scoped or de-referenced, it becomes a candidate for GC. If the GC gets around to it, the memory allocated to the de-referenced objects will be freed.
I can't see much detail in that poor photograph. Need more images of this river of blood. There should be a large drain which spews shit and bones into a pink mire from which ghastly fumes and vapors emanate. Mordor looks like a nice vacation spot compared to a pig farm.
Meteorites are usually 10-20 percent very high purity nickel, a few points of other alloying metals, the rest very high purity iron. Nickel is not likely to impart any flavor, as it resists corrosion by acids. The iron will likely be passivated on its surface or etch a little due to the lactic acid, which will release iron oxides into the wine. I'd say the metallic taste of Fe3 would be kinda nasty.
I worked on one project that was exactly 7 years ahead of its time. Management laid us all off and said "this will be cool in 7 years, but right now its not feasible". Sure enough, exactly 7 years later I was playing HALO head to head with people across the country in real time on a broadband connection to my house. Some of our team got picked up by Microsoft to work on XBox Live fortunately.
Xerox CAN make PARC profitable, but they actually have to make products out of research. Xerox is looking for more basic patents, like xerography. Basic patents are more and more difficult to come by. Perhaps the 'age of enlightenment' is over. Maybe bookface and smart phones are the best we can come up with.
The only thing that could possibly improve the NFL is the introduction of edged weapons.
Football, basketball, baseball are all sports that require one ball.
Auto racing however, requires...
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Agreed. I get bored unless I'm the one lighting them. Even then I'd rather see them go off all at one time in one big massive fireball.
Here's an ask /. question that doesn't suck!
I can tell you the NOT answer: Netflix or Hulu on PS3.
PS3 might be OK for games.
But Netflix sucks on PS3, and the PlayStation Network requires signing in to use it, which means you have to get the MANDATORY PS3 updates when Sony decides to release a few minor features, which nobody really wants (move multiple data files at a time? did I need to do that?).
Then you're stuck waiting for Sony to give you the entire OS, re-install, reboot, sign in again, etc. By this time your date is bored, dissatisfied, and not interested in making out, because you've chosen the wrong system for watching movies or doing anything but gaming. Unless she's into gaming, in which case you've got a winner.
I'd like to try a Roku BTW. Or just an HTPC with dual boot and some good graphics hardware.
Hot wet islands full of hookers might be an interesting place to have an office, but manufacturing sensitive hard drives seems like it would want an arid climate. Why are there so many HD makers in Thailand then? Besides the obvious.
I think of the things you mention, film effects will probably be the most competitive, but also the most rewarding. I've also worked a bit on CUDA and nvidia specific stuff, which is fun, but I can't find a way to apply it where I collect a paycheck. There is HPC and data intensive work here, but it's mostly Java/Hadoop and R, nothing extremely high performance. I've never tried applying to JPL/NASA, so I can't speak to that. I'm sure a competent, professional and experienced engineer can find a place there and get paid decently. The work done around high energy particle physics and cosmology seems to be mostly done by PhDs and reams upon reams of grad students working their way up in the world of academics. But there are/must be engineers there too. Scientists can't be bothered to do ALL the programming, so often the details need to be handled by engineers. But physics is under the realm of the DOE in the US. So eventually in many interesting fields you find yourself working basically under grants from the DOE or DARPA. Nothing wrong with that from my perspective. I live in Chicago, and I've told the recruiters "No web or financial stuff", because I'm bored to the point of distraction by web/finance. There's basically nothing else here unless I go to the DOE at Argonne, if I'm qualified. I'd look into film effects, physical/environmental modeling, alternative energy, private space/aero companies, CAD software development. Especially if you want to do more with CUDA. A couple of interesting interactive demos using Processing or CUDA would get the film people interested.
KDE is retarded. kmplayer, kwallet, Konsole, Kmail, Kontact.. it just gets annoying. Gnome is also retarded. You'd think by now that User Experience would be down to a science. Maybe they're just doing the science wrong. No reason to upgrade to Gnome3 yet.
FTFA: "The use of the word “unit” is particularly interesting — it suggests that the NUC might be stackable, in much the same way as my imaginary.."
The fan location suggests otherwise. Stack them and they will be drawing heat from their brethren.
I can understand the 'no cold calls' policy, taking it literally to mean "Don't have recruiters cold call our engineers and offer them more money". I disconnected my office phone a few years ago, and have kept it that way. Two or three calls a day from headhunters is a huge distraction, especially if they're pushy and indiscreet. Co-workers have adopted the same strategy, so we effectively have no phones here. So I'm all for a literal no cold-call policy. They're a waste of worker's time.
I have the special purpose-built JVM on a chip that was given out at some Java conference a few years ago. I imagine it was just a gimmick, but I've always wanted to see if it works. No idea what its supposed to do, as it has no IO except the conductivity of the ring itself. I think it may just be an empty magic ring.
Your about to look at boobies. Are you sure you want to see boobies? y/N: y Are you really sure? y/N: Y Absolutely, positively sure? y/N: YES GIVE ME TEH BOOBS ALREADY Please answer Yes or No. y/N: DIE IN A FIRE COCK
Speed cameras! Wait till you get thousands of those on all your motorways.
Agreed. A startup team or individual has no assets, no 'good will' value and no product yet, so putting the capital in escrow and borrowing on it is the best way to protect the investors. There will be interest of course, because the bank... But at least the funding from Kickstarter will allow a company with no assets to borrow capital. As an investor, you still stand the chance of losing it, but the bank will pursue the now criminals for skipping out on the loan.
Well, the marketing and product people are either way behind the engineering dept, out for drinks, incompetent, or completely out of ideas. It's likely that all 4 are in effect, possibly more. Most advances in technology now are weakly pushed by either an advertising or social media based application.
Stand the shit back I think you've got something there. A META-Marketplace! I'm filing a paaaatent as I type this
Actually I don't think it was Flash that was shitty. It was the way in which Mozilla failed to detect that it was installed that annoyed me.
You have to sell software to commercial customers. In order to do that it has to be competitive with comparable offerings, but be better overall. It also needs a large user base, so that it becomes an industry standard piece of equipment. Music, design and video editing folks at the low end of the industry are notorious for pirating software. But who cares? It's not like they can afford it in the first place. They're not making any money. They're not customers, but potentially later on their ability to work fluently with the software might help them get a job with one of your commercial customers. $10k software doesn't just sell itself. You need a sales and marketing staff to get the commercial interest. the pirating part is just free crack for potential users.
Scientifically not likely. A working tapetum lucidum doesn't just appear in a mutation. I think those are contacts anyhow.
Was the app developed in the Republic of China? Reject. That solves most of the problem. I have my own filter for apps, one that is based on cultural bias and animosity towards Chinese software mills: If the description is written by an idiot, or the obvious result of machine translation: reject If the 'reviews' are spam or are the typical 'ITS SO ADDICTING!': reject
If the list is the last reference to those objects, yes, for the most part. Once an object is de-scoped or de-referenced, it becomes a candidate for GC. If the GC gets around to it, the memory allocated to the de-referenced objects will be freed.
I can't see much detail in that poor photograph. Need more images of this river of blood. There should be a large drain which spews shit and bones into a pink mire from which ghastly fumes and vapors emanate. Mordor looks like a nice vacation spot compared to a pig farm.
Ahm, why would you watch a movie on your phone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 Problem solved. Genius
Meteorites are usually 10-20 percent very high purity nickel, a few points of other alloying metals, the rest very high purity iron. Nickel is not likely to impart any flavor, as it resists corrosion by acids. The iron will likely be passivated on its surface or etch a little due to the lactic acid, which will release iron oxides into the wine. I'd say the metallic taste of Fe3 would be kinda nasty.
This is the old hardware solution to a software problem. These are the "Architectural Astronauts" at their best.
I don't understand how the toothbrush mustache was ever a popular look. Maybe it's just my post-Reich bias.
I worked on one project that was exactly 7 years ahead of its time. Management laid us all off and said "this will be cool in 7 years, but right now its not feasible". Sure enough, exactly 7 years later I was playing HALO head to head with people across the country in real time on a broadband connection to my house. Some of our team got picked up by Microsoft to work on XBox Live fortunately. Xerox CAN make PARC profitable, but they actually have to make products out of research. Xerox is looking for more basic patents, like xerography. Basic patents are more and more difficult to come by. Perhaps the 'age of enlightenment' is over. Maybe bookface and smart phones are the best we can come up with.
The only thing that could possibly improve the NFL is the introduction of edged weapons. Football, basketball, baseball are all sports that require one ball. Auto racing however, requires...