Australia Cuts 110 Astrophysics/Astronomy Scientist Jobs
Because the science is settled there is no need for more basic research, the government says.
Marshall wrote in the memo that gravity waves, and therefore, astronomy, is now settled science, and basic research is no longer needed.
“The question has been answered, and the new question is what do we do about it, and how can we find solutions for gravity waves we will be living with,” he wrote.
For some reason, the Netflix program requires that the user be signed in to PSN so while it's down, no streaming movies. I can't imagine a technical reason for this requirement - Netflix streaming works over the internet, so why require the PSN sign-in?
It reminds me of the Amazon Appstore being required (installed and running) to run any apps downloaded with it.
These are mostly fantasy, but uniformly excellent:
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (especially the book "The Dark is Rising") - forget about the abysmal movie they recently made and that the author hated.
The Earthsea books by Ursula K Leguin (starting with "A Wizard of Earthsea" and which she just keeps on adding to, getting better and better as you grow older with them.)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (forget about the whole "Ooh, but it's Christian!" - when you're a kid reading them, that doesn't come across and they're great reading.) Read them in publication order starting with "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (not the newfangled and completely WRONG order.)
"Charmed Life" by Diana Wynne Jones (very fun and you can see where Rowling stole many ideas - really, many of the books I'm listing were sources for her.)
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
"The Riddle-Master of Hed" (and 2 sequels) by Patricia A. McKillip
Possibly "Master of the Five Magics" by Lyndon Hardy (I really liked it, the sequels aren't quite as good.)
Of course, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein
And I imagine some people will recommend the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman, starting with "The Golden Compass". The first book is OK, but I feel they go downhill until they're just anti-Christian rants.
Then, as your kids age, if they're liking the fantasy, I'd say the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books by Fritz Leiber, starting with "Swords and Deviltry" would be good. But I'm thinking they're a bit too old for pre-teens.
I've loved most of these books for years and re-read them periodically. I hope your kids like them, too!
In reaction to the Wikipedia page pointing out EB's errors, Conservapedia has put up a link in their "Breaking News" section to their page listing examples of Wikipedia's strongly liberal bias (you did know that, didn't you? Wikipedia is SIX TIMES MORE LIBERAL THAN AMERICA! (as reported by Wikipedia on their page about Conservapedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia )).
As of 11PM PST, July 23rd, Conservapedia has a link to the bias page at the top of their "Breaking News" section on their home page. But here's the direct link: http://www.conservapedia.com/Bias_in_Wikipedia
A few choice examples: A devastating critique of Wikipedia by Fox News describes the impact of Wikipedia smears on popular golfer Fuzzy Zoeller. Wikipedia is sympathetic to Fidel Castro in its entry about Cuba. Wikipedia's entry for the Renaissance denies any credit to Christianity, its primary inspiration. Plus 63 more! Enjoy.
Bruce Sanders teaches a course at CU called "Software Engineering Project 1" (and "2") in which students form teams that pick a project to work on over one year from gathering needs and determining specs to coding, demoing and coding more.
The projects are submitted to Bruce from local businesses and represent a good selection of things that companies actually *need* (although not very high priority.)
Bruce acts as the project manager and makes sure everything gets done, and done "right".
I took it in 1989/1990 and it was by far the best CS course I ever had. My team worked on a tool to help deal with satellite image processing, although we made it more widely functional than that because Bruce believes that limiting oneself or one's project unnecessarily is not a good thing.
It was "real world" experience within the context of a senior level course. Extremely valuable. His model is excellent - I'd recommend checking out the course at http://www.cs.colorado.edu/ugrad/seniorproject/
Multisync is a syncing package under very active development at Sourceforge. From their homepage:
Currently MultiSync has plugins for
Ximian Evolution synchronization, supporting calendar, ToDos and contacts.
IrMC Mobile Client synchronization (supported by e.g. SonyEricsson T39/T68i, Siemens S45i/S55 phones etc.) via Bluetooth or IR on Linux, or cable connection.
Windows CE / Pocket PC synchronization. This plugin is part of the SynCE project, and can be downloaded there.
When building a site for Lucent in '97 or so, we had to publish documents that included rather detailed images with small text. On many printers around the world, they would not print legibly, and often they were illegible on the screen as well. It took a lot of futzing to get versions that were more broadly printable and we never reallly figured out the problem.
Then I didn't generate any pdf's until about a month ago when, surprise, the same thing happened! This time in relatively simple forms. The client couldn't print nice copies, so we told her to try a different (newer) printer and of course, that fixed the problem.
Am I the only one who's seen this? Or is it just an acceptable issue for most people?
I think a bad aspect of this is that it allows viewers to muck with the director's vision at will. (And yes, the MPAA does it all the time.)
Movies are made from a script with certain events and dialogue, and the director has the unifying vision that drives how it's all shot and put together. When the viewer can select what is in the movie and what is cut, it's no longer the movie the director made, unless the movie was made with this in mind.
Just like viewing a pan-and-scanned movie (you don't see the movie that was shot), this changes the movie you watch. Should we extend this technology so in an art museum we can wear special glasses that allow us to put clothes on the nudes?
(I recently saw an exhibit that happened to feature some nude paintings and there was a big warning out front - "Might be offensive!")
OK, here's a very debatable point: movies are art. Not necessarily good art, but art nonetheless. Even if you don't agree, they are very complex creations requiring the effort of many people over long periods - surely so much effort is worth something.
I don't know -- certainly people have the right to choose not to see/watch things that offend them, but do they have the right to change works of art? To screw with the artist's vision? Even to change very complex creations that may not be "art" but took a helluva lot of effort...?
"Attack of the Clones" is probably meant to mislead merchandise counterfeiters, as "Revenge of the Jedi" (remember that one?) was before they changed it at the last minute to "Return of the Jedi". This way, all the fake merchandise will be easily recognizable because it'll have the wrong name.
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Australia Cuts 110 Astrophysics/Astronomy Scientist Jobs
Because the science is settled there is no need for more basic research, the government says.
Marshall wrote in the memo that gravity waves, and therefore, astronomy, is now settled science, and basic research is no longer needed.
“The question has been answered, and the new question is what do we do about it, and how can we find solutions for gravity waves we will be living with,” he wrote.
For some reason, the Netflix program requires that the user be signed in to PSN so while it's down, no streaming movies.
I can't imagine a technical reason for this requirement - Netflix streaming works over the internet, so why require the PSN
sign-in?
It reminds me of the Amazon Appstore being required (installed and running) to run any apps downloaded with it.
Stop hitting yourself! Why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!
(For The Simpson's impaired, Nelson is a bully, prone to making people hit themselves.)
These are mostly fantasy, but uniformly excellent:
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (especially the book "The Dark is Rising") - forget about the abysmal movie they recently made and that the author hated.
The Earthsea books by Ursula K Leguin (starting with "A Wizard of Earthsea" and which she just keeps on adding to, getting better and better as you grow older with them.)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (forget about the whole "Ooh, but it's Christian!" - when you're a kid reading them, that doesn't come across and they're great reading.) Read them in publication order starting with "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (not the newfangled and completely WRONG order.)
"Charmed Life" by Diana Wynne Jones (very fun and you can see where Rowling stole many ideas - really, many of the books I'm listing were sources for her.)
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
"The Riddle-Master of Hed" (and 2 sequels) by Patricia A. McKillip
Possibly "Master of the Five Magics" by Lyndon Hardy (I really liked it, the sequels aren't quite as good.)
Of course, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein
And I imagine some people will recommend the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman, starting with "The Golden Compass". The first book is OK, but I feel they go downhill until they're just anti-Christian rants.
Then, as your kids age, if they're liking the fantasy, I'd say the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books by Fritz Leiber, starting with "Swords and Deviltry" would be good. But I'm thinking they're a bit too old for pre-teens.
I've loved most of these books for years and re-read them periodically. I hope your kids like them, too!
In reaction to the Wikipedia page pointing out EB's errors, Conservapedia has
put up a link in their "Breaking News" section to their page listing examples
of Wikipedia's strongly liberal bias (you did know that, didn't you? Wikipedia
is SIX TIMES MORE LIBERAL THAN AMERICA! (as reported by Wikipedia on their
page about Conservapedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia )).
As of 11PM PST, July 23rd, Conservapedia has a link to the bias page at the top of
their "Breaking News" section on their home page. But here's the direct link:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Bias_in_Wikipedia
A few choice examples:
A devastating critique of Wikipedia by Fox News describes the impact of Wikipedia smears on popular golfer Fuzzy Zoeller.
Wikipedia is sympathetic to Fidel Castro in its entry about Cuba.
Wikipedia's entry for the Renaissance denies any credit to Christianity, its primary inspiration.
Plus 63 more! Enjoy.
Bruce Sanders teaches a course at CU called "Software Engineering Project 1" (and "2") in which
students form teams that pick a project to work on over one year from gathering needs and
determining specs to coding, demoing and coding more.
The projects are submitted to Bruce from local businesses and represent a good selection
of things that companies actually *need* (although not very high priority.)
Bruce acts as the project manager and makes sure everything gets done, and done "right".
I took it in 1989/1990 and it was by far the best CS course I ever had. My team worked
on a tool to help deal with satellite image processing, although we made it more widely
functional than that because Bruce believes that limiting oneself or one's project
unnecessarily is not a good thing.
It was "real world" experience within the context of a senior level course. Extremely
valuable. His model is excellent - I'd recommend checking out the course at
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/ugrad/seniorproject/
Currently MultiSync has plugins for
And more. It's a great sync engine.
Who's had problems with pdf files?
When building a site for Lucent in '97 or so, we had to publish documents that included rather detailed images with small text. On many printers around the world, they would not print legibly, and often they were illegible on the screen as well. It took a lot of futzing to get versions that were more broadly printable and we never reallly figured out the problem.
Then I didn't generate any pdf's until about a month ago when, surprise, the same thing happened! This time in relatively simple forms. The client couldn't print nice copies, so we told her to try a different (newer) printer and of course, that fixed the problem.
Am I the only one who's seen this? Or is it just an acceptable issue for most people?
I think a bad aspect of this is that it allows viewers to muck with the director's vision at will. (And yes, the MPAA does it all the time.)
Movies are made from a script with certain events and dialogue, and the director has the unifying vision that drives how it's all shot and put together. When the viewer can select what is in the movie and what is cut, it's no longer the movie the director made, unless the movie was made with this in mind.
Just like viewing a pan-and-scanned movie (you don't see the movie that was shot), this changes the movie you watch. Should we extend this technology so in an art museum we can wear special glasses that allow us to put clothes on the nudes?
(I recently saw an exhibit that happened to feature some nude paintings and there was a big warning out front - "Might be offensive!")
OK, here's a very debatable point: movies are art. Not necessarily good art, but art nonetheless. Even if you don't agree, they are very complex creations requiring the effort of many people over long periods - surely so much effort is worth something.
I don't know -- certainly people have the right to choose not to see/watch things that offend them, but do they have the right to change works of art? To screw with the artist's vision? Even to change very complex creations that may not be "art" but took a helluva lot of effort...?
Hmmm.
"Attack of the Clones" is probably meant to mislead merchandise counterfeiters, as "Revenge of the Jedi" (remember that one?) was before they changed it at the last minute to "Return of the Jedi". This way, all the fake merchandise will be easily recognizable because it'll have the wrong name.
My $.02.