This is the first part of a trilogy, actually. Chris Tolkien is co-writing them with Kevin J. Anderson, who is widely regarded as the finest science fiction and fantasy author in the history of either genre.
...Just as long as it does't affect my raid schedule. I need that DKP, you know. And if Elementium Reinforced Bulwark drops while I'm not there, I'll be upset.
"Mark Twitchell isn't a typical Star Wars fan. Rather than collect countless plastic toys or blog online with closet sci-fi nerds, he indulges his hobby in its "purest" form: film."
uh huh. Are we ignoring the past twenty years of film school students, the vast majority of whom all envision themselves as the next george lucas and at some point in high school or college made a film that references/parodies/extends star wars in some way? Gimme a break, there's nothing special about this dork... if anything he's jumping on a trend after it's already been destroyed by the new trilogy. Great news team, Edmonton Sun.
"The idea behind the program, Blank said, is to make computer science more hands-on and practical, rather than simply about debugging programs."
If his classes and the department curriculum is "simply about debugging programs", I never want to hire (or work with) a Bryn Mawr graduate. If his statement is not accurate, then he's maligning the school and the department (and, to a great extent, the entire field).
Although, when I read TFA, I notice there aren't quotation marks around the words attributed to Blank, so it could be that the reporter just wasn't listening when doing the interview.
I suspect the person in charge of this project needs a pair of eyes printed on his reminder to fill out all the paperwork to get research with human subjects approved.
By (repeatedly) suppressing humans' ability to travel in space for the past ~20 years, this has promoted a deep desire to disperse into the cosmos, thus guaranteeing the survival of the race. It was all part of the Golden Path, and now we will enter the Scattering.
Before everyone goes and gets FIOS for their broadband fixation, beware that in the vast majority of markets, Verizon *CUTS THE COPPER TO YOUR HOUSE* when they run the fiber for FIOS. They pull it out of the ground. You are off the grid. You are no longer subject to all the wonderful federal and state utilities requirements placed on telephone companies for purposes of "protecting" residential telephone customers. Your FIOS line isn't even really considered a telephone line in most states.
That means all that recent hubub about "competitive access" and "CLECs" and all that other theoretically Good (albeit practically Frustrating) stuff that opens up the telephone system no longer applies to you.
Yeah, I know we all hate the phone company, and everyone screams "well it's not like we were getting the service we paid for in the first place", but try writing a nastygram to your public utilities commissioner regarding faulty (or bad) service on your fiber, and there's a lot less they can do than if you're sitting on the "real" PSTN.
If you (or a future resident) ever wants to get the copper back, it could potentially be an administrative, technical, financial, bureaucratic, and/or logitistical nightmare.
Caveat emptor... although I sure wish it were available here.
In God Emperor of Dune, Leto indicates in his inner thoughts that the difficulty with advanced thinking machines wasn't any threat made by them -- but the changes made in humans because of technology (based loosely on concepts from Heidegger). The more people came to rely on technology, the more they conditioned themselves to interact in the same way, both when interacting with computers and when interacting with other people.
I'd say this EXPO concept isn't far from that nadir. Here we have specialized, educated, theoretically intelligent people who are re-establishing a way to communicate specifically so that computers will understand them.
This is amazing, and cool... but it might not be a Good Thing.
The more (lazy) reporters come up with FUD articles about Linux, the longer my job will be justified. The more "linux is hard" articles that come out, the lower the chance of my job being shipped to India. Every time I see one of these on Slashdot, I'm excited because my PHB might see it, too, and remember how hard computers are next time I come up for a performance review.
Leela: I didn't want to leave them either Fry but what are we supposed to do? Fry: Well, usually on the show someone would come up with a complicated plan then explain it with a simple analogy. Leela: Hmm. If we can reroute engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency that should overload his electro-quantum structure. Bender: Like putting too much air in a ballon!
In summary, quite a good machine -- and a decent price. I'm looking at adding another one for my gaming rig in the basement at home. The portability factor of being able to move it to LAN events or raiding MC with my guildies makes another Hornet Pro absolutely worth buying.
Great, that's half the problems solved. Now we need to work on your shoddy Internet connection so you don't go linkdead every time Magmadar enrages.:)
Bah, it has to do with people realizing it's stupid to pay $15 for a "strategy guide" when:
1. You can get all the same content for free on the internet and gain the ability to do full-text-search on it (gamefaqs.com, among others)
2. The content of the game is updated by bugfixes and patches
3. The strategy guides contain twelve pages of ads for other strategy guides from the same publisher
4. The strategy guide authors put key game info in the back of the book in a sealed section to prevent "spoilers" -- why else would you buy the guide? (This was the case for a pokemon guide a year or three ago)
Seriously, the last "strategy guide" I bought hardcopy was for 8-bit NES. Then I realized that all the maps, cheat codes, and level guides were available on BBSes and later the Internet... and generally in better quality than the circular advertising from Prima or the "strategy" propaganda published by Nintendo itself.
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This is the first part of a trilogy, actually. Chris Tolkien is co-writing them with Kevin J. Anderson, who is widely regarded as the finest science fiction and fantasy author in the history of either genre.
"DHS Publishes Report on Operation Cybertron"
The terrorists are after our energon cubes.
Now let's blow this thing and go home. And watch *any* other DVD we can find.
Install Decursive, nub.
...Just as long as it does't affect my raid schedule. I need that DKP, you know. And if Elementium Reinforced Bulwark drops while I'm not there, I'll be upset.
"Mark Twitchell isn't a typical Star Wars fan. Rather than collect countless plastic toys or blog online with closet sci-fi nerds, he indulges his hobby in its "purest" form: film."
uh huh. Are we ignoring the past twenty years of film school students, the vast majority of whom all envision themselves as the next george lucas and at some point in high school or college made a film that references/parodies/extends star wars in some way? Gimme a break, there's nothing special about this dork... if anything he's jumping on a trend after it's already been destroyed by the new trilogy. Great news team, Edmonton Sun.
The boxing photos at the top of each section sorta scared me. Did anyone else get the feeling the two dudes were gonna start making out?
That should be "one fewer thing to worry about", unless "things" have ceased being discrete overnight.
"The idea behind the program, Blank said, is to make computer science more hands-on and practical, rather than simply about debugging programs."
If his classes and the department curriculum is "simply about debugging programs", I never want to hire (or work with) a Bryn Mawr graduate. If his statement is not accurate, then he's maligning the school and the department (and, to a great extent, the entire field).
Although, when I read TFA, I notice there aren't quotation marks around the words attributed to Blank, so it could be that the reporter just wasn't listening when doing the interview.
I suspect the person in charge of this project needs a pair of eyes printed on his reminder to fill out all the paperwork to get research with human subjects approved.
By (repeatedly) suppressing humans' ability to travel in space for the past ~20 years, this has promoted a deep desire to disperse into the cosmos, thus guaranteeing the survival of the race. It was all part of the Golden Path, and now we will enter the Scattering.
Before everyone goes and gets FIOS for their broadband fixation, beware that in the vast majority of markets, Verizon *CUTS THE COPPER TO YOUR HOUSE* when they run the fiber for FIOS. They pull it out of the ground. You are off the grid. You are no longer subject to all the wonderful federal and state utilities requirements placed on telephone companies for purposes of "protecting" residential telephone customers. Your FIOS line isn't even really considered a telephone line in most states.
That means all that recent hubub about "competitive access" and "CLECs" and all that other theoretically Good (albeit practically Frustrating) stuff that opens up the telephone system no longer applies to you.
Yeah, I know we all hate the phone company, and everyone screams "well it's not like we were getting the service we paid for in the first place", but try writing a nastygram to your public utilities commissioner regarding faulty (or bad) service on your fiber, and there's a lot less they can do than if you're sitting on the "real" PSTN.
If you (or a future resident) ever wants to get the copper back, it could potentially be an administrative, technical, financial, bureaucratic, and/or logitistical nightmare.
Caveat emptor... although I sure wish it were available here.
In God Emperor of Dune, Leto indicates in his inner thoughts that the difficulty with advanced thinking machines wasn't any threat made by them -- but the changes made in humans because of technology (based loosely on concepts from Heidegger). The more people came to rely on technology, the more they conditioned themselves to interact in the same way, both when interacting with computers and when interacting with other people.
I'd say this EXPO concept isn't far from that nadir. Here we have specialized, educated, theoretically intelligent people who are re-establishing a way to communicate specifically so that computers will understand them.
This is amazing, and cool... but it might not be a Good Thing.
When I saw the picture, I thought that as well... but I figured most of the /. readers would be too young to get it.
Um, no. I just don't want "linux is easy" being the mantra of the WSJ and USA Today is all I was saying.
Sorry to push your buttons.
The more (lazy) reporters come up with FUD articles about Linux, the longer my job will be justified. The more "linux is hard" articles that come out, the lower the chance of my job being shipped to India. Every time I see one of these on Slashdot, I'm excited because my PHB might see it, too, and remember how hard computers are next time I come up for a performance review.
...and how much are consumers losing in ticket sales to shitty movies that don't live up to their advertising?
Leela: I didn't want to leave them either Fry but what are we supposed to do?
Fry: Well, usually on the show someone would come up with a complicated plan then explain it with a simple analogy.
Leela: Hmm. If we can reroute engine power through the primary weapons and reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency that should overload his electro-quantum structure.
Bender: Like putting too much air in a ballon!
I mean, it's *just* music. Why have we, as consumers, allowed ourselves to take it so seriously that it's turned into such a huge industry?
Sigh.
Great, that's half the problems solved. Now we need to work on your shoddy Internet connection so you don't go linkdead every time Magmadar enrages. :)
Bah, it has to do with people realizing it's stupid to pay $15 for a "strategy guide" when:
1. You can get all the same content for free on the internet and gain the ability to do full-text-search on it (gamefaqs.com, among others)
2. The content of the game is updated by bugfixes and patches
3. The strategy guides contain twelve pages of ads for other strategy guides from the same publisher
4. The strategy guide authors put key game info in the back of the book in a sealed section to prevent "spoilers" -- why else would you buy the guide? (This was the case for a pokemon guide a year or three ago)
Seriously, the last "strategy guide" I bought hardcopy was for 8-bit NES. Then I realized that all the maps, cheat codes, and level guides were available on BBSes and later the Internet... and generally in better quality than the circular advertising from Prima or the "strategy" propaganda published by Nintendo itself.
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger... MAC HACK! MAC HACK!
...or just* design all vehicles so we sit with our backs in the direction of travel and see forward with a video screen.
(* Yes, I hate "just do X..." too.)
The only way someone can beat you is by cheating, right?
...If you don't open the box and look inside? I mean, without peeking and knowing for sure, it's in an indeterminate state.