Virtually all fields have a lot of introductory (and advanced) information online for free from various sources, from guitar instruction, to particle physics, to electrical engineering. If you're interested in self-learning, there isn't any need to buy anything (besides an internet connection).
I have wonderful memories from high school of playing Shadow of the Beast for hours while listening to the Pet Shop Boys on autoreverse.... does that date me much?
It was amazing that such a frustrating game could hold my attention for so long, but it did. I highly recommend trying it out in an emulator if you have a chance. It was so, so far ahead of its time.
Wow I played those games so much on my Amiga.... except for Awesome, since it was not compatible with the 512kB memory upgrade for the A500. Grrr! I played Awesome at Winners Circle Systems in Berkeley, CA and bought it, but had to return it when it didn't work at home. This is the kind of thing that very much upsets a 15 year old boy haha.
But, I probably spent more time playing the Killing Game Show than I want to admit.
Remember how hard those games were? It really took commitment to make it far (especially in Shadow of the Beast). Seemed later NES and Playstation games were much easier for the most part (in my opinion).
The graphics and sound of Shadow of the Beast were so amazingly ahead of its time. They used to have the intro movie on repeat at Whole Earth Access in Berkeley to attract potential buyers to their Amigas.
Lastly, remember the awesome package art on those games? They used the same artist who did those iconic album covers for Yes.
The headline is ridiculous. Perhaps a majority of Californians want this. We will find that out in November (at least we will find out if a majority of the Californians who bother to vote want it).
However, the initiative process means anyone who gets enough signatures can get an initiative on the ballot. Anyone. That's why saying "California wants... " is ludicrous. Both right-leaning and left-leaning initiatives, some loony and some thoughtful get on the ballot in California. Getting on the ballot in California means nothing. The proof is in the voting.
Sometimes there are diametrically opposed initiatives (e.g. a few years ago one would deregulate somewhat the power company, and another would increase it's level of regulation!). Does that mean California is cognitively dissonant? Perhaps, but not because of whatever initiatives are proposed, since they are proposed by different people.
Just by looking at the initiatives proposed in the last few years (e.g. some anti-immigrant, some pro-pot) you would think that all different kinds of people with all different kinds of ideas live here. Imagine that.
No he may not be getting any money directly, but he's getting attention, which is worth its weight in gold (and page views). He's on the front page of Slashdot AGAIN, as well as Forbes, etc. Maybe he is on a "real mission", but if so, why would he say "Goddamned Museum"? That sounds like his shtick.
Langushing? Come on. He was played by David Bowie in a movie, and the coolest car company around is named Telsa.
Tesla has a lot more name recognition in the general public (and certainly among technical people) than scientists such as Shannon, Nyquist, and von Neumann who arguably did at least as much to usher in the modern world than Tesla.
"Also they are attempting to introduce a more "small start-up culture" to Motorola"
Every failing company makes this claim. I have yet to see a single successful example.
Except for Apple itself, right? Bring Steve Jobs back, reducing the number of products offered, and introducing the iMac certainly seems like introducing a "small start-up culture" to me.
Seems like the group dynamic was working fine....and now, with one new member, you have to basically destroy the group dynamic, because a woman might not be able to take a joke or ribbing...that EVERYONE else has apparently been working with just fine, and made for what sounds like a fun and productive work environment prior to this one new external factor coming in yet?
Not talking about the legal aspects, that has made this whole situation totally out of hand.....but just really, why can't woman work in a group wher guys can be guys and joke around. What these guys were doing likely isn't harassment....just joking around, but sadly....any woman walking into that group can likely immediately have $$ signs in her eyes, regardless if the atmosphere is truly hostile...
The situation is just too hard these days. Hell, no wonder many IT groups won't hire women in JUST for this reason. Definitely hard to prove...but likely justified by many in their hiring decisions....
This whole "guys will be guys" thing is the problem. You think it's OK, but this kind of attitude is why we have bullies that terrorize other children (boys will be boys, after all).
I used to work with a mostly all-male crew in a pizzeria and I was disgusted by the deep misogyny and homophobia and lack of respect these guys had for women, people of other races, and in the end, themselves. Even though we didn't have any black people on the team I was offended by the way people horsed and joked around.
I think it is quite possible that the group dynamic is NOT working fine as it is. You're making a pretty big assumption. These guys appear really unprofessional, and it is unlikely (though possible of course) that their lack of professionalism shows up in the quality of their work, as well.
Really, how do you have any way of knowing if it is currently a fun and productive environment? Based on my own experience, I'm sure you would fine bullying, resentment, and a lot of missed opportunities in the group if you looked below the surface.
It is my understanding (and I'm no physicists so take what i say with a pinch of salt) that it's the decay of the Higgs boson what gives mass to other particles.
It isn't the decay of the Higgs boson that gives mass to other particles, it is rather the interaction of these particles with the Higgs field that gives them mass. A boson is a particle that conveys a force, its decay is not the means of conveyance.
Vacuum hasn't been "empty" for almost 60 years. John Wheeler coined the term quantum foam in the 50s to describe the fact that even vacuum must essentially be boiling in a sea of virtual particles to satisfy Heisenberg.
Could it be that a "particle" is where two waveforms intersect?>
unlikely. What you are describing is constructive and destructive interference. That has been observed for particles (the famous double-slit experiment). We can have a particle with "one" waveform, so there is nothing to intersect.
I hope you don't start up a company, since you've just called most of your potential employers and customers "Fucked Up and Crazy People".
I'm not hip (I'm reading Slashdot, duh) and I love living in San Francisco. It's a one-of-a-kind place that really nourishes you. It has its problems, but life is more exciting here than it was when I lived in the suburbs.
That's one way to look at living in San Francisco, and it sounds to me you would be much better off living in the suburbs.
There are so many positives living in San Francisco. Walking from my apartment to grocery shop or go to the hardware store. Tons of amazing restaurants around the corner. A gorgeous view (that changes all the time with the weather) from every hilltop. A glorious urban park with great museums and places to jog. Getting together with friends on the spur of the moment, without all of them driving from various suburbs. Some cool festival or other going on almost every weekend. Each neighborhood having a completely different vibe, and all with something fun or interesting to offer.
Sure, it has its problems, but it has its charms, as well. Try not to see only one side of the story.
Obama's plan, BTW, is a good one. The U.S. has a serious shortage of engineers* partially because people who want to be K-12 teachers (that is, people satisfied with living their lives as underpaid workhorses) generally have no scientific background at all.
If the US has a serious shortage of engineers why aren't salaries going up? They are only going up for very, very small niches.
The reality is you can't find decent engineers at the wages you are willing to pay.
Funny that, you didn't highlight the most relevant part:
Knowledge-Based Education : We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
Expenses besides rent really aren't all that much different in the various parts of the country. I moved to San Francisco from North Carolina and my rent shot up to the moon, that's for sure (from $800 to over $2000).
However, food is a bit cheaper, gas is a bit more expense, my electric bill is a bit less, my internet is cheaper, taxes are a bit more (not THAT much more)...
Bottom line is, besides rent, my expenses are within about 10% of what they were in North Carolina.
So, I agree the person who moved to Idaho would have been better off financially in SF.
I thought about doing that, but then I realized I'm cutting-out all the important people who ALSO helped make the music: The audio engineer, the extra instrument players, and additional backing vocals. The only way those people get paid is to buy the CD or MP3
Those people are work-for-hire 99.9% of the time. They get a fee for their day's work and that's it. They don't get an additional royalties for sales. Once in a blue moon an engineer can get points on a release (i.e. royalties) but only if it is a rain-maker like Flood or something, and guys like that aren't hurting for your change.
I appreciate the sentiment, I really do, but I agree that it is better to buy from the bands directly.
you buy back shares when they are CHEAP so you can re-issue shares when the stock price is higher later on
Yes, pretty obviously someone (or quite a few people) know a lot more about Apple's current share price being cheap or expensive. Since the only one in a real position to know is buying back shares, you end up looking rather foolish...
Financial history is FULL of cases where companies lost money through buybacks over time. Like corporate mergers, then end up losers more often than not.
So what does raising the sentence help if they weren't caught or charged in the first place because the police looked the other way?
It isn't about raising the sentence. It is about making a new law under which the crime can be prosecuted. If the police in Mississippi can look the other way to the KKK terrorizing the black population, then the FBI can come in and start making arrests under hate crime statutes. They were brought in to make racial intimidation a federal offense.
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True, but if you read the article you'd see that the Autonomy writedown is only a portion of the loss.
Virtually all fields have a lot of introductory (and advanced) information online for free from various sources, from guitar instruction, to particle physics, to electrical engineering. If you're interested in self-learning, there isn't any need to buy anything (besides an internet connection).
Then don't pay £30. Get it from a library. That's why they're there.
I have wonderful memories from high school of playing Shadow of the Beast for hours while listening to the Pet Shop Boys on autoreverse.... does that date me much?
It was amazing that such a frustrating game could hold my attention for so long, but it did. I highly recommend trying it out in an emulator if you have a chance. It was so, so far ahead of its time.
Wow I played those games so much on my Amiga.... except for Awesome, since it was not compatible with the 512kB memory upgrade for the A500. Grrr! I played Awesome at Winners Circle Systems in Berkeley, CA and bought it, but had to return it when it didn't work at home. This is the kind of thing that very much upsets a 15 year old boy haha.
But, I probably spent more time playing the Killing Game Show than I want to admit.
Remember how hard those games were? It really took commitment to make it far (especially in Shadow of the Beast). Seemed later NES and Playstation games were much easier for the most part (in my opinion).
The graphics and sound of Shadow of the Beast were so amazingly ahead of its time. They used to have the intro movie on repeat at Whole Earth Access in Berkeley to attract potential buyers to their Amigas.
Lastly, remember the awesome package art on those games? They used the same artist who did those iconic album covers for Yes.
The headline is ridiculous. Perhaps a majority of Californians want this. We will find that out in November (at least we will find out if a majority of the Californians who bother to vote want it).
However, the initiative process means anyone who gets enough signatures can get an initiative on the ballot. Anyone. That's why saying "California wants ... " is ludicrous. Both right-leaning and left-leaning initiatives, some loony and some thoughtful get on the ballot in California. Getting on the ballot in California means nothing. The proof is in the voting.
Sometimes there are diametrically opposed initiatives (e.g. a few years ago one would deregulate somewhat the power company, and another would increase it's level of regulation!). Does that mean California is cognitively dissonant? Perhaps, but not because of whatever initiatives are proposed, since they are proposed by different people.
Just by looking at the initiatives proposed in the last few years (e.g. some anti-immigrant, some pro-pot) you would think that all different kinds of people with all different kinds of ideas live here. Imagine that.
Your response is a bit rude. I think it is a good idea to use concepts and phrases correctly, when possible.
The other reply wasn't that clear, in my view, so I'll give my own.
To "beg the question" is to presuppose the conclusion. It is a kind of circular reasoning.
An example: "Smoking pot is illegal because it is against the law".
No he may not be getting any money directly, but he's getting attention, which is worth its weight in gold (and page views). He's on the front page of Slashdot AGAIN, as well as Forbes, etc. Maybe he is on a "real mission", but if so, why would he say "Goddamned Museum"? That sounds like his shtick.
Langushing? Come on. He was played by David Bowie in a movie, and the coolest car company around is named Telsa.
Tesla has a lot more name recognition in the general public (and certainly among technical people) than scientists such as Shannon, Nyquist, and von Neumann who arguably did at least as much to usher in the modern world than Tesla.
This Oatmeal guy sure is milking his Tesla fetish and the Forbes "controversy" for all it's worth. Good for him.
"Also they are attempting to introduce a more "small start-up culture" to Motorola"
Every failing company makes this claim. I have yet to see a single successful example.
Except for Apple itself, right? Bring Steve Jobs back, reducing the number of products offered, and introducing the iMac certainly seems like introducing a "small start-up culture" to me.
But...why should you have to leave it out?
Seems like the group dynamic was working fine....and now, with one new member, you have to basically destroy the group dynamic, because a woman might not be able to take a joke or ribbing...that EVERYONE else has apparently been working with just fine, and made for what sounds like a fun and productive work environment prior to this one new external factor coming in yet?
Not talking about the legal aspects, that has made this whole situation totally out of hand.....but just really, why can't woman work in a group wher guys can be guys and joke around. What these guys were doing likely isn't harassment....just joking around, but sadly....any woman walking into that group can likely immediately have $$ signs in her eyes, regardless if the atmosphere is truly hostile...
The situation is just too hard these days. Hell, no wonder many IT groups won't hire women in JUST for this reason. Definitely hard to prove...but likely justified by many in their hiring decisions....
This whole "guys will be guys" thing is the problem. You think it's OK, but this kind of attitude is why we have bullies that terrorize other children (boys will be boys, after all).
I used to work with a mostly all-male crew in a pizzeria and I was disgusted by the deep misogyny and homophobia and lack of respect these guys had for women, people of other races, and in the end, themselves. Even though we didn't have any black people on the team I was offended by the way people horsed and joked around.
I think it is quite possible that the group dynamic is NOT working fine as it is. You're making a pretty big assumption. These guys appear really unprofessional, and it is unlikely (though possible of course) that their lack of professionalism shows up in the quality of their work, as well.
Really, how do you have any way of knowing if it is currently a fun and productive environment? Based on my own experience, I'm sure you would fine bullying, resentment, and a lot of missed opportunities in the group if you looked below the surface.
It is my understanding (and I'm no physicists so take what i say with a pinch of salt) that it's the decay of the Higgs boson what gives mass to other particles.
It isn't the decay of the Higgs boson that gives mass to other particles, it is rather the interaction of these particles with the Higgs field that gives them mass. A boson is a particle that conveys a force, its decay is not the means of conveyance.
Vacuum hasn't been "empty" for almost 60 years. John Wheeler coined the term quantum foam in the 50s to describe the fact that even vacuum must essentially be boiling in a sea of virtual particles to satisfy Heisenberg.
Could it be that a "particle" is where two waveforms intersect?>
unlikely. What you are describing is constructive and destructive interference. That has been observed for particles (the famous double-slit experiment). We can have a particle with "one" waveform, so there is nothing to intersect.
I hope you don't start up a company, since you've just called most of your potential employers and customers "Fucked Up and Crazy People".
I'm not hip (I'm reading Slashdot, duh) and I love living in San Francisco. It's a one-of-a-kind place that really nourishes you. It has its problems, but life is more exciting here than it was when I lived in the suburbs.
That's one way to look at living in San Francisco, and it sounds to me you would be much better off living in the suburbs.
There are so many positives living in San Francisco. Walking from my apartment to grocery shop or go to the hardware store. Tons of amazing restaurants around the corner. A gorgeous view (that changes all the time with the weather) from every hilltop. A glorious urban park with great museums and places to jog. Getting together with friends on the spur of the moment, without all of them driving from various suburbs. Some cool festival or other going on almost every weekend. Each neighborhood having a completely different vibe, and all with something fun or interesting to offer.
Sure, it has its problems, but it has its charms, as well. Try not to see only one side of the story.
Obama's plan, BTW, is a good one. The U.S. has a serious shortage of engineers* partially because people who want to be K-12 teachers (that is, people satisfied with living their lives as underpaid workhorses) generally have no scientific background at all.
If the US has a serious shortage of engineers why aren't salaries going up? They are only going up for very, very small niches.
The reality is you can't find decent engineers at the wages you are willing to pay.
Funny that, you didn't highlight the most relevant part:
Knowledge-Based Education : We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
This is fun.
Expenses besides rent really aren't all that much different in the various parts of the country. I moved to San Francisco from North Carolina and my rent shot up to the moon, that's for sure (from $800 to over $2000).
However, food is a bit cheaper, gas is a bit more expense, my electric bill is a bit less, my internet is cheaper, taxes are a bit more (not THAT much more)...
Bottom line is, besides rent, my expenses are within about 10% of what they were in North Carolina.
So, I agree the person who moved to Idaho would have been better off financially in SF.
I thought about doing that, but then I realized I'm cutting-out all the important people who ALSO helped make the music: The audio engineer, the extra instrument players, and additional backing vocals. The only way those people get paid is to buy the CD or MP3
Those people are work-for-hire 99.9% of the time. They get a fee for their day's work and that's it. They don't get an additional royalties for sales. Once in a blue moon an engineer can get points on a release (i.e. royalties) but only if it is a rain-maker like Flood or something, and guys like that aren't hurting for your change.
I appreciate the sentiment, I really do, but I agree that it is better to buy from the bands directly.
I think his reference to flooz is a pretty damned good indication he was making a joke.
you buy back shares when they are CHEAP so you can re-issue shares when the stock price is higher later on
Yes, pretty obviously someone (or quite a few people) know a lot more about Apple's current share price being cheap or expensive. Since the only one in a real position to know is buying back shares, you end up looking rather foolish...
Financial history is FULL of cases where companies lost money through buybacks over time. Like corporate mergers, then end up losers more often than not.
I can think of *so* many ways to leverage this kind of thinking:
i) shoes that detect when they're being put on, automatically debiting your chequing acct. for each use, and for each step taken in them.
ii) Shirts that detect when they're being buttoned up. Ditto for zippers. Add modifiers for when used long sleeved, or rolled up.
iii) sunglasses that charge per solar day.
iv) clothing that detects seasons and charges by the year.
v) & etc.
Better get to work... you've got a lot of patent applications to write up!
So what does raising the sentence help if they weren't caught or charged in the first place because the police looked the other way?
It isn't about raising the sentence. It is about making a new law under which the crime can be prosecuted. If the police in Mississippi can look the other way to the KKK terrorizing the black population, then the FBI can come in and start making arrests under hate crime statutes. They were brought in to make racial intimidation a federal offense.