In 2007 Governor Martin O'Malley made Maryland the first state to adopt this legislation. You can see where legislation on this topic is stuck in your home state in this wikipedia entry.
Contrary to the unusually sensational headline posted here that makes it sound as though Iowan's don't care about the constitution, I see this as a great progressive step towards avoiding any future national elections determined by "the 9".
I participated in EFF's advocacy, calling and/or emailing 3 of the senators that voted for this bill, and several that voted against it. Obama at least voted for the amendments that would have dealt with telco immunity, which is more than I can say for Mikulski and Carper. The fact that so many Senators voted for the bill itself and it's escalation of spying powers saddens me greatly.
I suddenly find myself without a candidate that I can fully support as a result of this Obama's Iraq capitulations on troop withdrawal.
For a moment I actually thought Obama was going to be a progressive leader.
Maybe Nader and Barr are right, and the real problem is that 2-party politics is systemically faulted.
The last time I tried to setup something similar, I came to a dead end, find several sources via Google that indicated that the compression used by fax machines was incompatible with the compression used by VOIP.
Has the stat of the improved, or is Bob on a goose chase here?
While we're still small ( launched in October ), if you're in downtown Baltimore or Fell's Point, check out https://www.fetchfood.com/. I am a co-founder and the CTO; we're abut to release a catering service and a major update to the site using pure XHTML to better about platform independence. Currently accepting PayPal, we also can work with purchase orders, and will be launching our own merchant account this month for direct credit card payments.
I am a MBNA LinuxFund Cardholder. In exchange for signing up for it during the Usenix Annual Technical conference in Boston in June of 2001, I received a plush Penguin. Ever since, I have made a point of using this MasterCard in place of my Discover Card to make large purchases from time to time so that I felt like I was doing my part to contribute to a cause I believe in. It's so enraging to learn that the opportunity has been so mismanaged. If I had used my Discover Card for those very same purchases, I would have cash in my hand now to show for it.
I can't really find the right words to express how mad I am that the philanthropy I thought I was helping to endow has been so poorly administered. While I believe that the EFF and the FSF have the means to manage this program as well as the intention to spend the money on projects that are of the right spirit, I feel these groups already have a marketing machine that generates appropriate levels of donation.
I'd really like to see this get back on it's feet, because I really liked the idea of there being an organization where one could apply to get a small grant to work on F/OSS. What chance that other likeminded cardholders are interested in getting their hands dirty and taking this over? Where can I find more information about applying for the job? I'm not a financial services guru by any means, but I lead a small non-profit group in college, I help run a small technology business in Baltimore that I co-found, and I'm excellent at logistics. $28K seems like a lot of lost opportunity given the state that this has reached; I think I could do better - where should I send my resume?
I love this game. I can beat it cold in under fifteen minutes, but that never stops me from dumping another $5 into it every time I go to Dave and Busters.
There is a beautiful port of Emacs to Carbon with a Aqua interface. Emacs of course has modes to handle so many programming language dialects that it makes a great tool for developing on OS X. There have been changes made to the main trunk of the Emacs project so that you can compile your own after checking out the official cvs repository, or you can google yourself up a binary.
I wonder if this new SD card will work in the Treo 600. It runs Palm 5 and has an SDIO slot; sure would be sweet to have a Palm/WiFi/Bluetooth/CDMA phone.
What makes you think you are not going to become a software professional who:
Never gets an "exceeds expectations" review
Finishes projects late
Is a manager's bane - talented but unreliable
In general, performance expectations on the job are a lot different than grading methods in the classroom. My disinterest in regurgitating enough reference material to ace an exam has never impaired my ability to grasp the material I need to do my job or to absorb new ideas. Specifically, I have only my personal history of exceeding my employers' expectations to affirm my attitude.
Real world rule of thumb: On time, on budget, and on target: pick 2. My personal philosophy is that the last 2 are more important than the first. Your mileage may vary, depending on what kind of job you have. It's always nice to have all three, but that's rarely an option. But ask yourself if you're happier when a app you rely on comes out when the marketing folks announced it would, or when it comes out when it's been properly implemented and tested.
Being unreliable is definitely not an option when you're trying to stand out from the crowd, especially in system administration. Personally, I have to be accountable to a development team of a half dozen, customers, and board members. When you're the person with root, you have to be cautious and you have to be available outside of office hours.
In my experience, bright scholastic underachievers often turn out to be dreamers/dabblers who always want to be working on the "next coolest thing" but can't be bothered to focus on the task at hand. Be careful you're not fooling yourself.
In my opinion, you're half right. I am definitely a dreamer/dabbler, and I will always want to be work on the next coolest thing. So far as focusing on the task at hand, I stand by the priorities I have in my life - school is important, but grades aren't all the value of school. Work is important, but not more so than the life goals that it is designed to enable. Working throughout my higher education, I focused on the tasks, be they academic, business, or personal, that maximized the likelyhood of my achieving my long term goals.
From what I know of resumes, 1 page is all the real estate that you can expect to get read by most recruiters. I don't believe that I include anything on my resume that is older than 5 years. If you're interested in my complete work history, feel free to contact me and let me know what position you're looking to fill.
If you can differentiate yourself from the other kids in your class, you can get the internship that you want. I'm about to finish as a C.S. major from UMD (Go Terps!) and I have a terrible GPA (which is specificaly absent from my resume. I have never gotten an 'A' in a class for my major. I turn in projects late. As a student, I am a teacher's bane - talented but distracted. What am I so busy doing? Getting a head start on the industry that I want to work in. You can do this any number of ways:
Joining your local student ACM chapter. Better yet, run for office - I know they need the person power. If it doesn't exist, charter it!
Want to attend a technical conference? Both USENIX and the IETF have programs designed to get students involved by providing stipends. Often, these programs are applied to by few students.
If you prefer getting involved with a.com than a.org, consider that Apple gives away about 300 scholarships to their annual develpers conference in San Jose, WWDC.
If you are an uber programmer, perhaps you should try registering as a student or evan as a competitor or presenter at MacHack.
The Government is always hiring, and don't let anyone tell you that you have to get a security clearance to work on something cool.
An earlier posted mentioned that the University IT department is a good place to work, and for the most part I agree - there are few other places with the budget and deployed network size of Univsersities that will teach you as you go.
Further proof that we need an editor modding facility in SlashCode. Has anyone been collecting stats on who posts the most dupe stories? I'd love to see the statistics.
Re:Troll or no? Re:Reasearch quality in Crichton..
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It is not meant as a troll. Don't get me wrong, I like Gibson. But he tends to do a lot of hand waving - explaining how AI, surgical and cybernetic augmentation, private space stations and VR so immersive that it can kill you came to be common place are glossed over. It is left as an excerise for the reader's imagination how all this came to be. Crichton on the other hand ties all of his science fiction to science fact; insects in amber to DNA to supercomputing gene sequencers to overambitious developers and their patented living creations.
I don't fault Gibson at all, because the world he created was so far removed from the one that he actually lived in, but for me the suspension of disbelief is much more easily conjured when I start in the concrete and fact-based and am lead to the what-if through the narrative. Gibson had no choice but to start with the what-if, and for that reason I could never feel as immersed in his world as I can in Crichton's. At the same time, Gibson scores more points than Crichton for his prophetic prediction of the 'Net, and as of yet no T-Rex's or Compy's have shown up on the mainland;)
As much catching up as reality has done since Neuromancer and its sequels were conceived, the reader has to invent for himselfs the paths that lead from the world as we know it to the world in which Gibson's characters operate. Crichton draws that path much more clearly, and for that reason I find it much plausible. I will be the first to admit that plausible doesn't directly equate to enjoyable, as I enjoy George Lucas' to no end, but in my mind.
Star Wars and Neuromancer are in my opinion great works of technologically themed fantasy, whereas I think of Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain as great science fiction. The distinction between science fiction and fantasy have been as hotly debated on/. before. I don't consider myself on expert on either, but perhaps this better states my opinion on the matter.
One reason might be that Patrick Stewart has been a litle busy, what with Prince of Egypt, X-Men 1 & 2, Jimmy Neutron, and a bunch of TV and video game appearances, not to mention stage performances on and off of broadway.
Stewart, unlike Shatner, can deliver real dramatic performances, and is not type cast to even a fraction of the degree that any of the original crew was. It is not surprising that he has had other gigs, nor that he may not want to do so many Star Trek films when he doesn't need to.
Reasearch quality in Crichton books always high
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· Score: 2, Informative
I have not yet read Electronic Life, but I have always been impressed with the level of research Crichton's narratives display, and while this was one of his earlier works, I wouldn't be suprised if he decided not to include all the material his research revealed for the sake of readability.
Jurassic Park stands out in my mind as the most well researched work of Crichton's, so much so that most people I know who didn't enjoy reading it say it was because he dwelled on the science in favor of the narrative too often. I like Crichton's approach personally, because for me it grounds the story better in the science of today, and shows the reader how his world developed out of our own without fantastic leaps of science. Authors like Gibson, who write great narrative and have turned out to be prescient about technology but never dwelled on how their world came to be out of the one we live in, have always felt more like fantasy than science fiction to me. This is because I don't feel as connected to their world without them illustrating a plausible course of events that could lead society from where it is down a path to the world that they envision.
In any case, I was already planning to purchase Crichton's newest work, Prey, but now I 'll have to go grab this one as well.
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Galaxy Quest obviously satired not only the characters of Star Trek as they behaved on camera, but also the characters of the on actors that portayed them. Did you like the movie? Do you think the weaknesses of the Star Trek franchise that the film hyperboles are fair? Did friction between you and your co-stars on the convention circuit ever approach the levels suggested in film?
This could easily oust the tattoo as the ultimate way to piss off your parents, should they be so unfortunate as to survive you.
But imagine how much esteem could be garnered from your surviving geek friends and family if you were to declare in your last will and testament that you wanted to bear a Lara Croft, Max Payne, or Blizzard billboard on your tombstone.
You could even go Times Square style, and have the billboard itself be a LCD that promotes the latest death-centric title from your favorite software production house, changing with the market. If your friends are like mine, they might even give a truely emotional send off by hacking the display, just because they care:)
In any case, it will certainly make graveyards an even more attractive target for late night trespassers.
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In 2007 Governor Martin O'Malley made Maryland the first state to adopt this legislation. You can see where legislation on this topic is stuck in your home state in this wikipedia entry. Contrary to the unusually sensational headline posted here that makes it sound as though Iowan's don't care about the constitution, I see this as a great progressive step towards avoiding any future national elections determined by "the 9".
I participated in EFF's advocacy, calling and /or emailing 3 of the senators that voted for this bill, and several that voted against it. Obama at least voted for the amendments that would have dealt with telco immunity, which is more than I can say for Mikulski and Carper. The fact that so many Senators voted for the bill itself and it's escalation of spying powers saddens me greatly.
I suddenly find myself without a candidate that I can fully support as a result of this Obama's Iraq capitulations on troop withdrawal.
For a moment I actually thought Obama was going to be a progressive leader.
Maybe Nader and Barr are right, and the real problem is that 2-party politics is systemically faulted.
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712) What did I do to magically protect my machine?
The last time I tried to setup something similar, I came to a dead end, find several sources via Google that indicated that the compression used by fax machines was incompatible with the compression used by VOIP. Has the stat of the improved, or is Bob on a goose chase here?
While we're still small ( launched in October ), if you're in downtown Baltimore or Fell's Point, check out https://www.fetchfood.com/. I am a co-founder and the CTO; we're abut to release a catering service and a major update to the site using pure XHTML to better about platform independence. Currently accepting PayPal, we also can work with purchase orders, and will be launching our own merchant account this month for direct credit card payments.
I am a MBNA LinuxFund Cardholder. In exchange for signing up for it during the Usenix Annual Technical conference in Boston in June of 2001, I received a plush Penguin. Ever since, I have made a point of using this MasterCard in place of my Discover Card to make large purchases from time to time so that I felt like I was doing my part to contribute to a cause I believe in. It's so enraging to learn that the opportunity has been so mismanaged. If I had used my Discover Card for those very same purchases, I would have cash in my hand now to show for it.
I can't really find the right words to express how mad I am that the philanthropy I thought I was helping to endow has been so poorly administered. While I believe that the EFF and the FSF have the means to manage this program as well as the intention to spend the money on projects that are of the right spirit, I feel these groups already have a marketing machine that generates appropriate levels of donation.
I'd really like to see this get back on it's feet, because I really liked the idea of there being an organization where one could apply to get a small grant to work on F/OSS. What chance that other likeminded cardholders are interested in getting their hands dirty and taking this over? Where can I find more information about applying for the job? I'm not a financial services guru by any means, but I lead a small non-profit group in college, I help run a small technology business in Baltimore that I co-found, and I'm excellent at logistics. $28K seems like a lot of lost opportunity given the state that this has reached; I think I could do better - where should I send my resume?
I love this game. I can beat it cold in under fifteen minutes, but that never stops me from dumping another $5 into it every time I go to Dave and Busters.
There is a beautiful port of Emacs to Carbon with a Aqua interface. Emacs of course has modes to handle so many programming language dialects that it makes a great tool for developing on OS X. There have been changes made to the main trunk of the Emacs project so that you can compile your own after checking out the official cvs repository, or you can google yourself up a binary.
I wonder if this new SD card will work in the Treo 600. It runs Palm 5 and has an SDIO slot; sure would be sweet to have a Palm/WiFi/Bluetooth/CDMA phone.
- In general, performance expectations on the job are a lot different than grading methods in the classroom. My disinterest in regurgitating enough reference material to ace an exam has never impaired my ability to grasp the material I need to do my job or to absorb new ideas. Specifically, I have only my personal history of exceeding my employers' expectations to affirm my attitude.
- Real world rule of thumb: On time, on budget, and on target: pick 2. My personal philosophy is that the last 2 are more important than the first. Your mileage may vary, depending on what kind of job you have. It's always nice to have all three, but that's rarely an option. But ask yourself if you're happier when a app you rely on comes out when the marketing folks announced it would, or when it comes out when it's been properly implemented and tested.
- Being unreliable is definitely not an option when you're trying to stand out from the crowd, especially in system administration. Personally, I have to be accountable to a development team of a half dozen, customers, and board members. When you're the person with root, you have to be cautious and you have to be available outside of office hours.
In my experience, bright scholastic underachievers often turn out to be dreamers/dabblers who always want to be working on the "next coolest thing" but can't be bothered to focus on the task at hand. Be careful you're not fooling yourself.In my opinion, you're half right. I am definitely a dreamer/dabbler, and I will always want to be work on the next coolest thing. So far as focusing on the task at hand, I stand by the priorities I have in my life - school is important, but grades aren't all the value of school. Work is important, but not more so than the life goals that it is designed to enable. Working throughout my higher education, I focused on the tasks, be they academic, business, or personal, that maximized the likelyhood of my achieving my long term goals.
From what I know of resumes, 1 page is all the real estate that you can expect to get read by most recruiters. I don't believe that I include anything on my resume that is older than 5 years. If you're interested in my complete work history, feel free to contact me and let me know what position you're looking to fill.
Further proof that we need an editor modding facility in SlashCode. Has anyone been collecting stats on who posts the most dupe stories? I'd love to see the statistics.
It is not meant as a troll. Don't get me wrong, I like Gibson. But he tends to do a lot of hand waving - explaining how AI, surgical and cybernetic augmentation, private space stations and VR so immersive that it can kill you came to be common place are glossed over. It is left as an excerise for the reader's imagination how all this came to be. Crichton on the other hand ties all of his science fiction to science fact; insects in amber to DNA to supercomputing gene sequencers to overambitious developers and their patented living creations.
I don't fault Gibson at all, because the world he created was so far removed from the one that he actually lived in, but for me the suspension of disbelief is much more easily conjured when I start in the concrete and fact-based and am lead to the what-if through the narrative. Gibson had no choice but to start with the what-if, and for that reason I could never feel as immersed in his world as I can in Crichton's. At the same time, Gibson scores more points than Crichton for his prophetic prediction of the 'Net, and as of yet no T-Rex's or Compy's have shown up on the mainland ;)
As much catching up as reality has done since Neuromancer and its sequels were conceived, the reader has to invent for himselfs the paths that lead from the world as we know it to the world in which Gibson's characters operate. Crichton draws that path much more clearly, and for that reason I find it much plausible. I will be the first to admit that plausible doesn't directly equate to enjoyable, as I enjoy George Lucas' to no end, but in my mind.
Star Wars and Neuromancer are in my opinion great works of technologically themed fantasy, whereas I think of Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain as great science fiction. The distinction between science fiction and fantasy have been as hotly debated on /. before. I don't consider myself on expert on either, but perhaps this better states my opinion on the matter.
One reason might be that Patrick Stewart has been a litle busy, what with Prince of Egypt, X-Men 1 & 2, Jimmy Neutron, and a bunch of TV and video game appearances, not to mention stage performances on and off of broadway.
Stewart, unlike Shatner, can deliver real dramatic performances, and is not type cast to even a fraction of the degree that any of the original crew was. It is not surprising that he has had other gigs, nor that he may not want to do so many Star Trek films when he doesn't need to.
I have not yet read Electronic Life, but I have always been impressed with the level of research Crichton's narratives display, and while this was one of his earlier works, I wouldn't be suprised if he decided not to include all the material his research revealed for the sake of readability.
Jurassic Park stands out in my mind as the most well researched work of Crichton's, so much so that most people I know who didn't enjoy reading it say it was because he dwelled on the science in favor of the narrative too often. I like Crichton's approach personally, because for me it grounds the story better in the science of today, and shows the reader how his world developed out of our own without fantastic leaps of science. Authors like Gibson, who write great narrative and have turned out to be prescient about technology but never dwelled on how their world came to be out of the one we live in, have always felt more like fantasy than science fiction to me. This is because I don't feel as connected to their world without them illustrating a plausible course of events that could lead society from where it is down a path to the world that they envision.In any case, I was already planning to purchase Crichton's newest work, Prey, but now I 'll have to go grab this one as well.
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Galaxy Quest obviously satired not only the characters of Star Trek as they behaved on camera, but also the characters of the on actors that portayed them. Did you like the movie? Do you think the weaknesses of the Star Trek franchise that the film hyperboles are fair? Did friction between you and your co-stars on the convention circuit ever approach the levels suggested in film?
But imagine how much esteem could be garnered from your surviving geek friends and family if you were to declare in your last will and testament that you wanted to bear a Lara Croft, Max Payne, or Blizzard billboard on your tombstone.
You could even go Times Square style, and have the billboard itself be a LCD that promotes the latest death-centric title from your favorite software production house, changing with the market. If your friends are like mine, they might even give a truely emotional send off by hacking the display, just because they care :)
In any case, it will certainly make graveyards an even more attractive target for late night trespassers.