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So why is it taking them so long to determine if the sticky ground is briny? The same goes for those strange round pebbles that they found. Have they even begun to drill/scoop samples for testing? What's with the delay?
Now this game was a blast from the past. I remember spending a ton of hours with friends playing Paranoia and Junta. Do you think they'll add/. as a secret society within the Paranoia Universe?
I guess the/. universe is a strange and whacky place. I thought at worst readers would just ignore my personal views and opinions of the President's Science Advisor. I'm guessing that critcs just didn't read the article. I could have gone into a little more detail about Dr. Marburger. I actually sat with him at two University luncheons and we got to shoot the breeze a bit.
Well nice guy aside, you two are probably correct. I guess once you move away from being a pure scientist, you begin to become more of a political animal. It's a shame.
I'm amazed in seeing how far John Marburger has gone. I first knew him when he was the president of SUNY at Stony Brook when I was a student. He then went to Brookhaven National Labs and now he's the President's Science Advisor. I'll be real interested in how this whole event carries out. Personally I found Marburger to be a really upfront and a likeable person. I hope these high level politcs hasn't changed him.
After being in the workforce for almost 10 years, I found a lot of position with wrong job requirements. One job that I actually applied for stated flat out that you need to be a certified Novel engineer. I was pretty surprised that I got a call back since I had zero experience with Novel. I was even more surprised that I was hired for the position and that the company didn't even have a single Novel box in the building. It turns out that some clueless HR Drone padded up the wanted add with industry buzzwords. So don't be afraid to apply for a position even if you don't qualify for every listed req.
I had a weird experience with a first and only headhunter that I ever used. I did get the job but I think my so called trusty headhunter might have lied to get me into the position. I originally gave him my one page resume but during my second interview with the company, I noticed that one page has magically transformed into a seven page resume. Needless to say I did get an offer and I accepted it. As soon as I shook hands with the CFO who handed me the offer, he went into a 5 minute speech saying that I should have submitted a one page resume instead of a seven page resume. I was pretty shocked and scared during this second interview not knowing what this clown headhunter did to my resume. As a endnote, I did stay with the company for two years. The management was terrible but overall it was a good experience.
The only terrible thing the company did to me was reneged on their promise in paying for my IT Training and education. The CFO has final say in all these types of spendings so he went back on his word and HR wouldn't do anything about it. Some of the other management lifers who have been in the company 25+ years so what was happening to me and strongly suggested that I hire an attorney to deal with this joker. I was into the lawsuit trend so I went off and did the training on my own. I even went as far as going for my silly MS certs. I was accused of studying on the job which kinda was the last straw for me. Once I got all my idiotic certs, I decided to start looking for another job. Fast forward three years. The company was bought out by another huge company and at the end the company was shutdown for not making enough money. I was glad to get out of there when I had the chance.
So far I like their file recovery software. I've seen it recover entire contents of floppy discs where as Norton and similar products wouldn't even detect a floppy in the drive. It's well worth the cost of buying Ontrack if you come across tons of problematic media.
So what about testing of the Com, Parallel, USB, Firewire, PS/2 and network ports? Is there some package out there where you can attach a loopback device to each port to test them? It's disgusting seeing so much snakeoil being sold today.
* Computers are evil. * LAN/WAN are evil. * Implants are evil. * Espionage is evil. * Hacking is evil. * Androids infilitrators & saboteurs are evil. * Sneak attacks are evil. * Missiles & beam weapons are evil. * Nukes are evil. * A Cyclon Raider being able to polish off an entire squad of colonial vipers, droping a nuke on a city or nuking a Battlestar......PRICELESS.
Now I'm totally confused. When you mentioned Windows, I thought you meant
* An interval of time during which an activity can or must take place: a brief window of opportunity for a space mission; a window of vulnerability during which the air force was subject to attack. * The Foil Strips dropped by aircraft to confuse radar. * A Means of Access. * A range of electromagnetic frequencies that pass unobstructed through a planetary atmosphere. * The area or space immediately behind a window, especially at the front of a shop. * A launch window. * An area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass in order to return safely.
We'll keep bashing MS as long as they use strong arm tactics. I have fond memories of those idiot house lawyers that MS keeps on their payroll. One day one eager-beaver decided to go after Nortel for using www.nt.com. My memory is failing me on this part but didn't Nortel 'allow' MS to use NT? I think the case was thrown out.
...but which MCSE will they credit him for? For all we know, they sly devils could have given him free exams for the MCSE for NT! It would serve him right.
Sorry to everyone experiencing problems with the site at the moment, it appears the entire internet is trying to read Nick's rant at the moment (well, the readership of/. at least).
I think the title should be changed to "The End of the Easy Oil Age." As the title suggests, once the oil wells start to dry out, we'll turn to alternate ways to extract oil from the ground. It turns out North America might have a promising source of oil if they lower the cost of squeezing oil from the source rock.
Two thirds of the world's oil shale reserves are located in the United States. The largest known reserves of hydrocarbons of any kind are the Green River shale deposits in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. These reserves are estimated to be 270 billion tons. At 20 gallons per ton of shale, this translates into 130 billion barrles of oil. This is five times as much as the proven reserves of petroleum in the U.S.. However, no commercial production of fuels from oil shale esists today, so there economic recoverability is not well known. It is probably safe to say, however, that oil from shale is not economically competitive with petroleum at current petroleum prices.
Well that cheap ass company got exactly what they deserve. When will companies learn that pretty much anything goes once you leave the aegis of American Law system? Sure you'll save a few bucks but how can you trust private data with a company in the third world?
Here is an article on Wired which panders the need for 3rd world workers.
And how hard is it to pull up an article when their website gets/.ed? I'm not expecting the NYT to crumble under the traffice, but there are plenty of other sites crushed by the/. crowd in the past. Cut the poster some slack.
Uggggghh! I dislike both sides of the lawsuit. It's always bad when a company adopts an idea and refuses to pay a royalty. But I really hate the fact that those kids received an award for that lame idea.
It's simply amazing seeing these useless articles being written up for flawed comparisons. This reminds me of the idiotic comparison that Tomshardware did on the new AMD 64 bit CPU. At the end of the article, he declared a 32 bit Intel CPU as the winner of a 64 Bit CPU comparison. Is this guy a nut or is he well paid by Intel?
I wonder one day if places like the Museum of TV & Radio in New York City would ever put their entire archives onto the Internet in a similar format like iTunes?
I guess you're right. I thought it was too good to be true when I read the iTunes blurb. It looks like the Audible deal looks a lot better. Are you subscribing to that service? I saw that deal where if you buy a years subscription, you get $50 off of any of the iPods. Even with the discount, those incredible iPods are out of my price range for just to be used for audiobooks. Thanks for the tip.
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So why is it taking them so long to determine if the sticky ground is briny? The same goes for those strange round pebbles that they found. Have they even begun to drill/scoop samples for testing? What's with the delay?
Now this game was a blast from the past. I remember spending a ton of hours with friends playing Paranoia and Junta. Do you think they'll add /. as a secret society within the Paranoia Universe?
I guess the /. universe is a strange and whacky place. I thought at worst readers would just ignore my personal views and opinions of the President's Science Advisor. I'm guessing that critcs just didn't read the article. I could have gone into a little more detail about Dr. Marburger. I actually sat with him at two University luncheons and we got to shoot the breeze a bit.
Well nice guy aside, you two are probably correct. I guess once you move away from being a pure scientist, you begin to become more of a political animal. It's a shame.
I'm amazed in seeing how far John Marburger has gone. I first knew him when he was the president of SUNY at Stony Brook when I was a student. He then went to Brookhaven National Labs and now he's the President's Science Advisor. I'll be real interested in how this whole event carries out. Personally I found Marburger to be a really upfront and a likeable person. I hope these high level politcs hasn't changed him.
After being in the workforce for almost 10 years, I found a lot of position with wrong job requirements. One job that I actually applied for stated flat out that you need to be a certified Novel engineer. I was pretty surprised that I got a call back since I had zero experience with Novel. I was even more surprised that I was hired for the position and that the company didn't even have a single Novel box in the building. It turns out that some clueless HR Drone padded up the wanted add with industry buzzwords. So don't be afraid to apply for a position even if you don't qualify for every listed req.
I had a weird experience with a first and only headhunter that I ever used. I did get the job but I think my so called trusty headhunter might have lied to get me into the position. I originally gave him my one page resume but during my second interview with the company, I noticed that one page has magically transformed into a seven page resume. Needless to say I did get an offer and I accepted it. As soon as I shook hands with the CFO who handed me the offer, he went into a 5 minute speech saying that I should have submitted a one page resume instead of a seven page resume. I was pretty shocked and scared during this second interview not knowing what this clown headhunter did to my resume. As a endnote, I did stay with the company for two years. The management was terrible but overall it was a good experience.
The only terrible thing the company did to me was reneged on their promise in paying for my IT Training and education. The CFO has final say in all these types of spendings so he went back on his word and HR wouldn't do anything about it. Some of the other management lifers who have been in the company 25+ years so what was happening to me and strongly suggested that I hire an attorney to deal with this joker. I was into the lawsuit trend so I went off and did the training on my own. I even went as far as going for my silly MS certs. I was accused of studying on the job which kinda was the last straw for me. Once I got all my idiotic certs, I decided to start looking for another job. Fast forward three years. The company was bought out by another huge company and at the end the company was shutdown for not making enough money. I was glad to get out of there when I had the chance.
>> Ontrack
So far I like their file recovery software. I've seen it recover entire contents of floppy discs where as Norton and similar products wouldn't even detect a floppy in the drive. It's well worth the cost of buying Ontrack if you come across tons of problematic media.
So what about testing of the Com, Parallel, USB, Firewire, PS/2 and network ports? Is there some package out there where you can attach a loopback device to each port to test them? It's disgusting seeing so much snakeoil being sold today.
You have to love a story where the brass get to space their own ship's DC squads.
* Computers are evil.
* LAN/WAN are evil.
* Implants are evil.
* Espionage is evil.
* Hacking is evil.
* Androids infilitrators & saboteurs are evil.
* Sneak attacks are evil.
* Missiles & beam weapons are evil.
* Nukes are evil.
* A Cyclon Raider being able to polish off an entire squad of colonial vipers, droping a nuke on a city or nuking a Battlestar......PRICELESS.
Which distro of linux are they using?
Now I'm totally confused. When you mentioned Windows, I thought you meant
* An interval of time during which an activity can or must take place: a brief window of opportunity for a space mission; a window of vulnerability during which the air force was subject to attack.
* The Foil Strips dropped by aircraft to confuse radar.
* A Means of Access.
* A range of electromagnetic frequencies that pass unobstructed through a planetary atmosphere.
* The area or space immediately behind a window, especially at the front of a shop.
* A launch window.
* An area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must pass in order to return safely.
We'll keep bashing MS as long as they use strong arm tactics. I have fond memories of those idiot house lawyers that MS keeps on their payroll. One day one eager-beaver decided to go after Nortel for using www.nt.com. My memory is failing me on this part but didn't Nortel 'allow' MS to use NT? I think the case was thrown out.
Do we change the outcome by reading this and giving it a +5 Insightful mod?
...but which MCSE will they credit him for? For all we know, they sly devils could have given him free exams for the MCSE for NT! It would serve him right.
Sorry to everyone experiencing problems with the site at the moment, it appears the entire internet is trying to read Nick's rant at the moment (well, the readership of /. at least).
I think the title should be changed to "The End of the Easy Oil Age." As the title suggests, once the oil wells start to dry out, we'll turn to alternate ways to extract oil from the ground. It turns out North America might have a promising source of oil if they lower the cost of squeezing oil from the source rock.
Two thirds of the world's oil shale reserves are located in the United States. The largest known
reserves of hydrocarbons of any kind are the Green River shale deposits in Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah. These reserves are estimated to be 270 billion tons. At 20 gallons per ton
of shale, this translates into 130 billion barrles of oil. This is five times as much as the proven
reserves of petroleum in the U.S.. However, no commercial production of fuels from oil shale
esists today, so there economic recoverability is not well known. It is probably safe to say,
however, that oil from shale is not economically competitive with petroleum at current
petroleum prices.
'Synthetic' Fuels, Oils Shale And Tar Sands
Last month I saw a girl in college trying to sell her $80 graphing calculator for $5. She was broke and wanted to some money for lunch. Sheesh.
Well that cheap ass company got exactly what they deserve. When will companies learn that pretty much anything goes once you leave the aegis of American Law system? Sure you'll save a few bucks but how can you trust private data with a company in the third world?
Here is an article on Wired which panders the need for 3rd world workers.
A Case for Coolie Labor
And how hard is it to pull up an article when their website gets /.ed? I'm not expecting the NYT to crumble under the traffice, but there are plenty of other sites crushed by the /. crowd in the past. Cut the poster some slack.
Uggggghh! I dislike both sides of the lawsuit. It's always bad when a company adopts an idea and refuses to pay a royalty. But I really hate the fact that those kids received an award for that lame idea.
It's simply amazing seeing these useless articles being written up for flawed comparisons. This reminds me of the idiotic comparison that Tomshardware did on the new AMD 64 bit CPU. At the end of the article, he declared a 32 bit Intel CPU as the winner of a 64 Bit CPU comparison. Is this guy a nut or is he well paid by Intel?
I wonder one day if places like the Museum of TV & Radio in New York City would ever put their entire archives onto the Internet in a similar format like iTunes?
I guess you're right. I thought it was too good to be true when I read the iTunes blurb. It looks like the Audible deal looks a lot better. Are you subscribing to that service? I saw that deal where if you buy a years subscription, you get $50 off of any of the iPods. Even with the discount, those incredible iPods are out of my price range for just to be used for audiobooks. Thanks for the tip.