I have had zero respect for the Tonys since they rightfully gave "Into the Woods" awards for best music and best book, then did a 180 and awarded "Phantom of the Opera" best musical. If special effects outweigh music and story in these people's eyes, I cannot possibly trust their judgement.
For another example, just last year they awarded best musical to "Avenue Q" over "Wicked". Now the difference is not nearly as dramatic as my first example, but the score to Wicked is just so much stronger, and the lyrics more complex than those of the musical to which it lost. The only thing I can think of would be that "Avenue Q" is creative and novel, whereas "Wicked" is based on -- well, a novel. And as a story it pales in comparison, losing much of the character development and allegory (I know, ask Tolkien what he thinks of allegory). But if you have never read the book, there should be no question that "Wicked" is a superior musical to "Avenue Q".
Just today at lunch I was saying "Wouldn't it be cool to craft a femtosecond pulse consisting of 1.5 cycles, say 2 maxima and 1 minima, passed through argon gas?"
No, you have it wrong. See, It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix! Yes, it's an excimer, frozen in its excited state...As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state.
Now granted, I'm not 'up' on XP, I'm only commenting on my experience with orgs that claimed to be implementing it -- perhaps their way of doing XP was flawed.
It always is. If you're using XP and it doesn't work out, it's because you did it wrong. Just ask any XP zeal^H^H^H^Henthusiast.
You can have my Craftsman tools when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands! Except for the toolbox itself. That's, uncharacteristically, a piece of crap.
...is a device that can allow me to listen to a Lakers game broadcast some 2-3 seconds late. I very much prefer the radio announcers to the TV people, even when the game is on local TV (and don't get me started when it's on ESPN or TNT). Problem is the TV broadcast is delayed a couple seconds, plus about 1 more if I'm running it through my Replay. I can hear the announcers telling me the shot is good before it has left the shooter's hands.
Does anyone know of a device that can allow me to tune signal delay time to that level of precision? Even something as simple as a guitar pedal or effects processor?
My daughter (age 6) had what I call a "Disney princess image" issue. Thanks to the Disney cartoons, she let me know one day that "Princesses don't fight - they just wait for the prince to rescue them".
I didn't like that idea.
So I found other things for her to watch, like "Magic Knight Rayearth" (cute little girls fight with swords against monsters), "Kiki's Delivery Service"...
...so now she says "Witches don't fight -- they just deliver baked goods to unappreciative little brats."
I hope in their focus on the technical aspects of this project, the engineers aren't losing sight of a marketing point that could kill the whole thing for consumers:
The bonding process that holds together the 4 parts of the wheel assembly must be easily performed by any old mechanic who has equipment no more expensive than that currently used to mount tires on wheels.
Consumers want custom wheels for appearance. They want custom treads for varying levels of stickiness, control, and weather conditions. They will want custom properties on the spokes to control lateral and vertical stiffness. And they won't want to have to special order a whole new set just to change one of these factors.
At the very least, customers should have to go no farther than the nearest Michelin store, but it will sell much better if the corner gas station's shop has the necessary equipment.
Yes, like other posters I do not believe my career is in jeopardy, having long since moved past programming into software engineering. Still, I've recently found myself drawn to hobbies that when I look at them could potentially replace SE as a profession should I ever choose to do so. Feel free to add to this list with replies:
Automotive mechanics Carpentry (soon to branch out and study architecture and general contracting) Farming/survival/self-sufficiency E lectronics (ok, this isn't too far from software, and about the same endangered status).
Anyone have others? What hobbies to computer professionals enjoy that might branch out into alternate careers? I discarded Lego building immediately:-)
Will we have to use use "roads" in the air, or can we go as the crow flies? (going around military installations and so forth.) Do crows actually do that? I always figured they got some kind of "ignorance of the law" pass or something.
It's a neat idea, but you can not extract information from nothing. and at that low of a resolution that most all video equipment is at they will extract nothing from the blurry-blob that is the reflection in their suspect's eyes.
I take it you've never seen Enemy of the State, have you?
On the glide back to the landing strip, some loud pops were heard coming from the back of the rocket. Chaser planes inspected, and reported everything looked ok.
Think about that. Keeping a mid-size server farm up and running smoothly (all the while undergoing constant upgrades, new feature additions, etc.) is more difficult than designing and launching a satellite. Straight from the horse's mouth.
You don't suppose maybe that actually means running a mid-size server farm today is more difficult than designing and launching a satellite was 30 years ago?
I've not been a fan of how much or even how we've been spending to fight terror (see http://www.costofwar.com for what else we could have bought), but I would consider with what information and resources American enemies have that I'm not opposed to spending my tax dollars on such a program.
I've seen that site, and I -- like you -- am concerned about the sheer amount of taxpayer dollars we're spending to counter a threat of questionable immediacy. But it sickens me how the amount spent, which is at least ostensibly being used on national defense (a legitimate function of government), is compared to all kinds of "alternate" uses for which the federal government has no authority under the Constitution. Hey, here's an idea: instead of spending the cash on prosecuting this war -- or for that matter education, health care, welfare, etc -- give it back to those from whom it was forcibly taken. You know, the people who earned it, and deserve the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
Think about it, how many times are you going to encode a movie? How many times are you going to watch it? Typically, you are going to encode once and probably watch it multiple times.
I think that goes: encode once, upload to your favorite P2P network, where millions of "friends" view it multiple times.
I do this every tax season before sending in my return. No, they don't send it to you, but you can go in person to any IRS location and ask for a printed dump of all forms filed on your activities for the year in question. No guesswork involved.
You seem to account your cash flow accurately, but those are not all expenses. For example:
rent/mortgage, utilities, taxes, maintenance, etc. car payment, gas, insurance, parking, maintenance debt (credit cards, student loans, etc.) food, clothes, fun money, living savings & retirement etc.
Out of those, mortgage principal, house maintenance that can be considered a capital improvement, car/CC/student loan principal, and savings/retirement all contribute to your net worth. If you have left over revenue after meeting your variable expenses such as loan interest, food, clothes, depreciation, etc, those net worth items are paid out of profit.
I too have roughly $4000/mo coming in at the moment, all of which is accounted for. However, about $2100 of that goes directly to a very aggressive loan payoff schedule. Once the loan is paid off however, the amount I take in that exceeds my lifestyle will immediately become strikingly apparent, and I can redirect profits to 401k, IRA, and other goodies such as vacation funds, or Legos.
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I have had zero respect for the Tonys since they rightfully gave "Into the Woods" awards for best music and best book, then did a 180 and awarded "Phantom of the Opera" best musical. If special effects outweigh music and story in these people's eyes, I cannot possibly trust their judgement.
For another example, just last year they awarded best musical to "Avenue Q" over "Wicked". Now the difference is not nearly as dramatic as my first example, but the score to Wicked is just so much stronger, and the lyrics more complex than those of the musical to which it lost. The only thing I can think of would be that "Avenue Q" is creative and novel, whereas "Wicked" is based on -- well, a novel. And as a story it pales in comparison, losing much of the character development and allegory (I know, ask Tolkien what he thinks of allegory). But if you have never read the book, there should be no question that "Wicked" is a superior musical to "Avenue Q".
Dude, that's THIRTY TO FIFTY MILLION BYTES!!! And I also do not know how big the Library of Congress is!
Unless that ISP is named "Congress" or someone to whom Congress has delegated a monopoly position, I don't see the connection to Free Speech.
No, you have it wrong. See, It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix! Yes, it's an excimer, frozen in its excited state...As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state.
It always is. If you're using XP and it doesn't work out, it's because you did it wrong. Just ask any XP zeal^H^H^H^Henthusiast.
You can have my Craftsman tools when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands! Except for the toolbox itself. That's, uncharacteristically, a piece of crap.
It's spelled "homeschooling".
...is a device that can allow me to listen to a Lakers game broadcast some 2-3 seconds late. I very much prefer the radio announcers to the TV people, even when the game is on local TV (and don't get me started when it's on ESPN or TNT). Problem is the TV broadcast is delayed a couple seconds, plus about 1 more if I'm running it through my Replay. I can hear the announcers telling me the shot is good before it has left the shooter's hands.
Does anyone know of a device that can allow me to tune signal delay time to that level of precision? Even something as simple as a guitar pedal or effects processor?
I hope in their focus on the technical aspects of this project, the engineers aren't losing sight of a marketing point that could kill the whole thing for consumers:
The bonding process that holds together the 4 parts of the wheel assembly must be easily performed by any old mechanic who has equipment no more expensive than that currently used to mount tires on wheels.
Consumers want custom wheels for appearance. They want custom treads for varying levels of stickiness, control, and weather conditions. They will want custom properties on the spokes to control lateral and vertical stiffness. And they won't want to have to special order a whole new set just to change one of these factors.
At the very least, customers should have to go no farther than the nearest Michelin store, but it will sell much better if the corner gas station's shop has the necessary equipment.
Alcohol. Drugs. Abortion. Prostitution. It's been a problem for a wee bit more than a decade.
So now a "wall of bricks" is one-dimensional? As opposed to a zero-dimensional line I suppose.
My daughter is home-schooled. When the time comes, all of your children will be appropriately conditioned to submit to her every whim.
Yes, like other posters I do not believe my career is in jeopardy, having long since moved past programming into software engineering. Still, I've recently found myself drawn to hobbies that when I look at them could potentially replace SE as a profession should I ever choose to do so. Feel free to add to this list with replies:
E lectronics (ok, this isn't too far from software, and about the same endangered status).
:-)
Automotive mechanics
Carpentry (soon to branch out and study architecture and general contracting)
Farming/survival/self-sufficiency
Anyone have others? What hobbies to computer professionals enjoy that might branch out into alternate careers? I discarded Lego building immediately
Will we have to use use "roads" in the air, or can we go as the crow flies? (going around military installations and so forth.)
Do crows actually do that? I always figured they got some kind of "ignorance of the law" pass or something.
He's married.
Linux est supérior de Windows, n'est pas?
It's a neat idea, but you can not extract information from nothing. and at that low of a resolution that most all video equipment is at they will extract nothing from the blurry-blob that is the reflection in their suspect's eyes.
I take it you've never seen Enemy of the State, have you?
The free computers aren't the ones you want? Such a shame you're prevented from choosing a different college to attend.
On the glide back to the landing strip, some loud pops were heard coming from the back of the rocket. Chaser planes inspected, and reported everything looked ok.
It was just backfiring. Happens all the time.
You don't suppose maybe that actually means running a mid-size server farm today is more difficult than designing and launching a satellite was 30 years ago?
I've seen that site, and I -- like you -- am concerned about the sheer amount of taxpayer dollars we're spending to counter a threat of questionable immediacy. But it sickens me how the amount spent, which is at least ostensibly being used on national defense (a legitimate function of government), is compared to all kinds of "alternate" uses for which the federal government has no authority under the Constitution. Hey, here's an idea: instead of spending the cash on prosecuting this war -- or for that matter education, health care, welfare, etc -- give it back to those from whom it was forcibly taken. You know, the people who earned it, and deserve the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
I think that goes: encode once, upload to your favorite P2P network, where millions of "friends" view it multiple times.
I do this every tax season before sending in my return. No, they don't send it to you, but you can go in person to any IRS location and ask for a printed dump of all forms filed on your activities for the year in question. No guesswork involved.
Out of those, mortgage principal, house maintenance that can be considered a capital improvement, car/CC/student loan principal, and savings/retirement all contribute to your net worth. If you have left over revenue after meeting your variable expenses such as loan interest, food, clothes, depreciation, etc, those net worth items are paid out of profit.
I too have roughly $4000/mo coming in at the moment, all of which is accounted for. However, about $2100 of that goes directly to a very aggressive loan payoff schedule. Once the loan is paid off however, the amount I take in that exceeds my lifestyle will immediately become strikingly apparent, and I can redirect profits to 401k, IRA, and other goodies such as vacation funds, or Legos.