Emacs can do *anything* if you give it the right command. If you know the right 7-finger keyboard commands it can track tasks even without the org-mode package.
Advanced emacs users are, of course, aware of certain 12-finger keyboard commands that are so powerful that emacs will do the tasks for you, then check them off as completed.
If you don't have 12 fingers, don't fret - emacs has some very convenient 6-finger commands that will make you grow additional fingers.
The Vatican is currently deciding whether it wants to be the organization that dooms the entire human race to be wiped out by annoyed extraterrestrials who already have their own religion(s).
How did it come to this? Free markets. If you're willing to take crap, it's only a matter of time until someone makes you take crap.
I got into computers in 1993, back when it was the wild west. Then PHBs, lawyers and politicians started stepping in it, and a plague of cubicles swept the landscape. If you don't like the new rules, bail out.
The vast majority of programmers *never* get to the level where they can write an OS kernel or a multithreaded banking app. You're much more likely to be maintaining code that puts up a user interface and connects to a commercial database.
I was a programmer, now I'm a law student. From what I've seen so far of the personalities in law, my guess is that the generation who was running the legal community felt comfortable with faxes because they *seemed* simple, while email clearly had more mysterious techo-magic involved.
You don't *need* low temperatures to form a BEC. Low temperatures attack the velocity side of position/velocity uncertainty. High density could attack the position side.
My first *two* college roommates flunked out after getting addicted to text-based chat havens, which are kinda like MUDs except without plots or goals. This was in '94, when few people had even heard of the internet.
At Arizona State University, CE is a superset of CS. I took all of the normal CS classes, a bunch of higher-level CS classes, several introductory and intermediate EE classes, and of course the engineering core classes.
CS teaches you how to get a program done. ASU's CE teaches you the why, the history, alternative designs and how they failed, hardware, software, everything.
For most programming jobs CS is fine. For device drivers and custom hardware (common in embedded systems), you want to know more or you might be in over your head. For cutting-edge R&D you NEED the deeper understanding.
My little brother came to live with me recently, and I signed up for a second line with no long distance at all. The first bill had two $5 charges to "change" long distance to "none".
I called them on it and a nice girl told me "it's required by some law, it's wierd, i dunno". Having previous dealings with the phone company and its screwy regulations, I actually believed it. I asked for the federal regulation number of that law and was fully intending to harass some politicians about it.
After 15 minutes of holding, she came back and said the charges would be waived. Yay!
You'd expect the Phoenicians most likely to demand fast wires to be near Arizona State U... I'm in an apartment just a few miles away, and a Cox cablemodems should have been in my room by now. My friend has a house across the street and is getting the runaround over Quest DSL. Good luck.
Being a *gasp* user of windows myself, I would be totally screwed if I couldn't format-reinstall every now & then to clear out all the crap & garbage that windows puts on my hard disk.
Now, of course, M$ doesn't allow new systems to ship with a real install CD...
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Emacs can do *anything* if you give it the right command. If you know the right 7-finger keyboard commands it can track tasks even without the org-mode package.
Advanced emacs users are, of course, aware of certain 12-finger keyboard commands that are so powerful that emacs will do the tasks for you, then check them off as completed.
If you don't have 12 fingers, don't fret - emacs has some very convenient 6-finger commands that will make you grow additional fingers.
The Vatican is currently deciding whether it wants to be the organization that dooms the entire human race to be wiped out by annoyed extraterrestrials who already have their own religion(s).
"Meld them together," like we always do? Doesn't that usually involve one side enslaving or exterminating the other side? :)
How did it come to this? Free markets. If you're willing to take crap, it's only a matter of time until someone makes you take crap.
I got into computers in 1993, back when it was the wild west. Then PHBs, lawyers and politicians started stepping in it, and a plague of cubicles swept the landscape. If you don't like the new rules, bail out.
I'm in law school now :)
The vast majority of programmers *never* get to the level where they can write an OS kernel or a multithreaded banking app. You're much more likely to be maintaining code that puts up a user interface and connects to a commercial database.
Depending on which school you got the CS BS from, you may qualify to become a patent agent. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USPTO
Faxes are legally binding, emails are not (yet).
I was a programmer, now I'm a law student. From what I've seen so far of the personalities in law, my guess is that the generation who was running the legal community felt comfortable with faxes because they *seemed* simple, while email clearly had more mysterious techo-magic involved.
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You don't *need* low temperatures to form a BEC. Low temperatures attack the velocity side of position/velocity uncertainty. High density could attack the position side.
Quote from the article: "The human eye, however, perceives blue at a much lower resolution than red and green."
They're saying blue is the *worst*. Also, I think sensitvity is different than resolution.
My first *two* college roommates flunked out after getting addicted to text-based chat havens, which are kinda like MUDs except without plots or goals. This was in '94, when few people had even heard of the internet.
CS teaches you how to get a program done. ASU's CE teaches you the why, the history, alternative designs and how they failed, hardware, software, everything.
For most programming jobs CS is fine. For device drivers and custom hardware (common in embedded systems), you want to know more or you might be in over your head. For cutting-edge R&D you NEED the deeper understanding.
Well, they weren't really calling me personally, intentionally. They were calling the emergency phone mounted in an elevator. In a college dorm.
"Why certainly, I'd like to switch. And I'd like to place a call to Siberia too, right now."
I called them on it and a nice girl told me "it's required by some law, it's wierd, i dunno". Having previous dealings with the phone company and its screwy regulations, I actually believed it. I asked for the federal regulation number of that law and was fully intending to harass some politicians about it.
After 15 minutes of holding, she came back and said the charges would be waived. Yay!
You'd expect the Phoenicians most likely to demand fast wires to be near Arizona State U... I'm in an apartment just a few miles away, and a Cox cablemodems should have been in my room by now. My friend has a house across the street and is getting the runaround over Quest DSL. Good luck.
Being a *gasp* user of windows myself, I would be totally screwed if I couldn't format-reinstall every now & then to clear out all the crap & garbage that windows puts on my hard disk. Now, of course, M$ doesn't allow new systems to ship with a real install CD...