Just wanted to point out, he mentions that the Dell windows licenses are non-transferable. Presumably he's planning to buy retail licenses for his first generation of home-built, and those retail licenses will be transferable to the second generation.
An annual review, besides being a great opportunity to get a raise or some additional PTO, is when you should be discussing your plans and goals with your manager. Get this straight, you are not being "forced" to move into management. You can always leave. Your manager values your contribution, and possibly they are in a bind for some management help. If that's the case, offer to take on some management tasks while they interview for a new supervisor. Particularly if this is your first five years of employment, there's nothing wrong with wanting to stay technical, and they should be open to that.
My garmin has traffic and weather built in. The number of people interested in paying a monthly fee for a dataplan is very, very small even if it doesnt seem that way on slashdot.
A new NASA rocket engine, designed partly in Canada, raises the revolutionary possibility that a manned trip to Mars could take less than three months instead of two years.
[...]
It would take about 39 days to reach Mars, compared to six months by conventional rocket power.
In three paragraphs we go from 89 days to 39 days. So which is it? With that kind of difference, I'm not quite sure it would be any faster than conventional rockets.
Round trip. Less than three months round trip, 39 days each way.
Or at a minimum, test any new setting on a dosimeter to verify the exposure level. I mean that is just idiotic that they would program in a new dosage setting and not have "verify dosage with dosimeter" on the checklist.
"Most of the debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the water surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite images.[5] "
Saying "it died because it had a stupid name" is obviously overstatement, possibly nothing could have gotten it past the marketshare and mindshare that mp3 already had.
But it was and is an awful name. Something random like "7z" would have been at least neutral, as opposed to "ogg", which is viscerally a little repulsive.
It would be nice if the stores and manufacturers had to hand back their ill gotten payments. Talk about generating ill will towards Intel, make HP hand the government every penny of the bribe money.
You definitely want to start the "years of experience" clock ticking as soon as possible. Think about getting a position somewhere and doing night classes to get your masters. Take classes that you're interested in, and take data mining or data warehouse classes even if you're not interested in them. Aside from what you learn in school, a masters degree will get your resume on the top of the stack. And those 10 times you switch jobs over your career make it worthwhile.
Don't dismiss his criticism of analogy. There is a valuable truth to learn here, that saying a thing is "like" another thing can make us blind to the differences. We are so adept at learning by association and extension that we can blind ourselves to the fact that nothing is truly like any other thing.
I remember in school learning that an electron is a wave, and also a particle. It drove me crazy to think that it could be like two things that are so different. It took me years to realize - an electron is like an electron, and as much as you can learn by saying it's like a particle, you obscure the fact that it has no direct analogy, so stop trying to squeeze it into something you're more comfortable with and start learning about it directly.
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Just wanted to point out, he mentions that the Dell windows licenses are non-transferable. Presumably he's planning to buy retail licenses for his first generation of home-built, and those retail licenses will be transferable to the second generation.
Came here to say this. Dual screens, one rotated 90 degrees. Works great.
An annual review, besides being a great opportunity to get a raise or some additional PTO, is when you should be discussing your plans and goals with your manager. Get this straight, you are not being "forced" to move into management. You can always leave. Your manager values your contribution, and possibly they are in a bind for some management help. If that's the case, offer to take on some management tasks while they interview for a new supervisor. Particularly if this is your first five years of employment, there's nothing wrong with wanting to stay technical, and they should be open to that.
You know, this whole thing smells a little too much like "The Sting" to me. Anyone else read David Maurer's "The Big Con"?
My garmin has traffic and weather built in. The number of people interested in paying a monthly fee for a dataplan is very, very small even if it doesnt seem that way on slashdot.
Remember when they added DVD drives to computers, and everyone stopped buying DVD players? Good times.
I mean, why would anyone need both?
From the article:
A new NASA rocket engine, designed partly in Canada, raises the revolutionary possibility that a manned trip to Mars could take less than three months instead of two years.
[...]
It would take about 39 days to reach Mars, compared to six months by conventional rocket power.
In three paragraphs we go from 89 days to 39 days. So which is it? With that kind of difference, I'm not quite sure it would be any faster than conventional rockets.
Round trip. Less than three months round trip, 39 days each way.
Or at a minimum, test any new setting on a dosimeter to verify the exposure level. I mean that is just idiotic that they would program in a new dosage setting and not have "verify dosage with dosimeter" on the checklist.
So if you're a hacker who relies on PayPal, the not-so-subtle message is to make sure your projects steer clear of your online payment processor.
We call this the "don't sh*t where you eat" principal.
Troll much?
"Most of the debris consists of small plastic particles suspended at or just below the water surface, making it impossible to detect by aircraft or satellite images.[5] "
Holes are always found - no method is 100% foolproof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Saying "it died because it had a stupid name" is obviously overstatement, possibly nothing could have gotten it past the marketshare and mindshare that mp3 already had.
But it was and is an awful name. Something random like "7z" would have been at least neutral, as opposed to "ogg", which is viscerally a little repulsive.
Ogg Vorbis died because it had a stupid name. Really, Ogg Vorbis? Or just "ogg" for short. You might as well have named it "Ugg". Or "blech".
Next time try something that doesn't sound like retching. Never underestimate the power of a really terrible name to kill a product.
I can imagine a dish or plate on top of your dresser where you can throw your ipod, phone etc at night and it charges without having to plug it in.
Looks like wowway is hijacking www.google.com, capturing the search and then doing a 302 to the actual search page (?)
http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=4b65aebb-24385-1985f52c-c397-4cc4-b780
Without knowing for sure, I would guess the motors are 100kw rated by the manufacturer, and they're over-volting them by 30-40%.
It would be nice if the stores and manufacturers had to hand back their ill gotten payments. Talk about generating ill will towards Intel, make HP hand the government every penny of the bribe money.
Spoken like the guy who didn't get his masters.
You definitely want to start the "years of experience" clock ticking as soon as possible. Think about getting a position somewhere and doing night classes to get your masters. Take classes that you're interested in, and take data mining or data warehouse classes even if you're not interested in them. Aside from what you learn in school, a masters degree will get your resume on the top of the stack. And those 10 times you switch jobs over your career make it worthwhile.
Real men of genius indeed. You will be missed.
Nuff said.
Great defense.
"In fairness, a lot of those were zeros already."
No such thing as bad publicity. Or, almost no such thing.
Don't dismiss his criticism of analogy. There is a valuable truth to learn here, that saying a thing is "like" another thing can make us blind to the differences. We are so adept at learning by association and extension that we can blind ourselves to the fact that nothing is truly like any other thing.
I remember in school learning that an electron is a wave, and also a particle. It drove me crazy to think that it could be like two things that are so different. It took me years to realize - an electron is like an electron, and as much as you can learn by saying it's like a particle, you obscure the fact that it has no direct analogy, so stop trying to squeeze it into something you're more comfortable with and start learning about it directly.
We had them ankle deep in our yard, our squirrels are fat lazy and happy.