With constant inflation, I'm pretty sure at some point the $5, $10, $20, etc bills will also stop making economic sense, which is kinda ridiculous. Maybe this is a transitional thing on the way to digital currency? Or people are thinking that with the population starting to level off that constant inflation will be less important?
Native Texan, here. I don't support Secession by any means, but at least read the petition before you label us all as racists.
The summary doesn't make any mention of Obama or Race, and is instead about things like the NDAA, the TSA, the Patriot Act, etc. While I doubt it would have appeared (and gotten nearly so many votes) had Romney won the election, I think the vast majority of Slashdotters would actually agree with most of the listed grievances (whether or not one thinks the stated motivations are the only ones).
I had to wait in line for a good 45 minutes, and voted without issue. We used electronic machines, but the input was buttons and a click wheel rather than touch.
One guy ran into trouble, since he had just moved to a different county and wasn't in their system. He still had a lease on an apartment, so he was planning on trying to edge his way into a booth by responding to "Have you moved recently" with "I have an apartment across the street".
I've considered getting a tablet in the past, but found it hard to justify having in addition to my gaming/dev desktop, my laptop, and my phone. The laptop is getting long in the tooth, but I'm not really sure that an iPad or Android Tablet can fully replace it for things like work and traditional games (aka stuff from Good Old Games) while I'm traveling.
The Surface seems like it might actually be a good replacement for my laptop, while scratching my tablet itch. Plus, I'm kinda excited by the idea that I could write personal-use Tablet Apps on a Tablet:P
Of course, this is all contingent on good reviews, and maybe a decent alternative to the flimsy keyboard/cover.
Full Disclosure: My employer is owned by Microsoft.
I partly meant that, but I was also talking about the quality of the students. It's easier to get a degree in something than it is to be passionate enough about it to develop the skills on your own time. If someone is self taught, it's almost guaranteed that they'll have that passion.
However, a good CS degree will do three things: produce somewhat competent programmers where otherwise there would be none (after all, the world needs ditch-diggers), attract people with latent talent and potential passion who for whatever reason never got hooked into programming (basically creating new skilled programmers), and take people who are self-taught and cover up any gaps or bad habits they may have developed during their own studies (making an already good programmer much better).
I wouldn't be surprised if your run-of-the-mill CS graduate wasn't as skilled as your average self-taught software engineer. The existence of a degree will mean that more people that aren't as deeply into it will enter the workforce, so yeah, there'll be a certain amount of watering down. But universities also do put out some skilled programmers, and so as the overall number of programmers becomes much higher, so does the overall number of skilled programmers.
In other words, there aren't enough self-taught programmers out there to fill every job, so limiting yourself to them only harms your chances of finding the right fit.
Mod parent up. I'm a programmer in the games industry, and have in fact worked on DLC. We even had Day 1 DLC, but it was free!
DLC is frequently (though I'm sure not always) additional content made between the game's hopefully-gold release candidate being sent out for certification/distribution, and the actual release.
If you know that you're going to have a couple months of downtime, then you might even spend one or two days adding in NPCs as hooks for the DLC that you plan to make during that time (like what BioWare did with Dragon Age).
12 cases of ingestion over a period of roughly 8 months... and only "most" of them required surgery, so maybe something like 8 surgeries. I'm curious how much blocking this will cost the economy for each case of surgery that is prevented (assuming those same kids won't get themselves into the ER with something equally small and tasty), and whether or not more lives could be saved by merely having the company donate some portion of their Buckyball profits to a children's hospital.
Signing on another adult's behalf (ie contracts) or restricting access to their property (ie grounding) is also illegal. But that doesn't apply to kids.
Not saying I approve of beating kids, just that that's the wrong approach for explaining why.
I don't know if they have an equivalent option wherever you live, but in Austin (and a couple other areas in Texas), the Alamo Drafthouse is actually pretty awesome (http://drafthouse.com/).
It's basically a bar merged with a theatre, so instead of 15 bucks for a tub of popcorn and a large coke, you can pay 15 bucks for a pizza and beer. They also have lots of good context-appropriate pre-show material, e.g. while waiting for Thor to start they had clips from old Thor cartoons and movies and some 80's-riffic Thor commercials.
All that, plus a general ban on kids and a policy of removing people who are talking loudly or using their phones during the movie.
I recently had to go to a regular theatre to catch a movie at a very particular time, and it was a depressing step backwards from what I'm now used to.
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With constant inflation, I'm pretty sure at some point the $5, $10, $20, etc bills will also stop making economic sense, which is kinda ridiculous. Maybe this is a transitional thing on the way to digital currency? Or people are thinking that with the population starting to level off that constant inflation will be less important?
Native Texan, here. I don't support Secession by any means, but at least read the petition before you label us all as racists.
The summary doesn't make any mention of Obama or Race, and is instead about things like the NDAA, the TSA, the Patriot Act, etc. While I doubt it would have appeared (and gotten nearly so many votes) had Romney won the election, I think the vast majority of Slashdotters would actually agree with most of the listed grievances (whether or not one thinks the stated motivations are the only ones).
Don't worry, I got this.
I should have been clearer. I meant that I was agreeing with you, and the "Awkward" thing was supposed to be ironic.
I voted Third Party so I don't really care too much either way on these results, hence was the smiley face.
Yeah, I just did :P
Awkward...
Romney would have won if we didn't have the electoral college (according to the popular vote), sooo...
I had to wait in line for a good 45 minutes, and voted without issue. We used electronic machines, but the input was buttons and a click wheel rather than touch.
One guy ran into trouble, since he had just moved to a different county and wasn't in their system. He still had a lease on an apartment, so he was planning on trying to edge his way into a booth by responding to "Have you moved recently" with "I have an apartment across the street".
Erp, let me clarify that I'm considering getting the Surface Pro. No backwards compatibility basically kills the ARM for me.
I've considered getting a tablet in the past, but found it hard to justify having in addition to my gaming/dev desktop, my laptop, and my phone. The laptop is getting long in the tooth, but I'm not really sure that an iPad or Android Tablet can fully replace it for things like work and traditional games (aka stuff from Good Old Games) while I'm traveling.
The Surface seems like it might actually be a good replacement for my laptop, while scratching my tablet itch. Plus, I'm kinda excited by the idea that I could write personal-use Tablet Apps on a Tablet :P
Of course, this is all contingent on good reviews, and maybe a decent alternative to the flimsy keyboard/cover.
Full Disclosure: My employer is owned by Microsoft.
You forgot FileNotFound!
I partly meant that, but I was also talking about the quality of the students. It's easier to get a degree in something than it is to be passionate enough about it to develop the skills on your own time. If someone is self taught, it's almost guaranteed that they'll have that passion.
However, a good CS degree will do three things: produce somewhat competent programmers where otherwise there would be none (after all, the world needs ditch-diggers), attract people with latent talent and potential passion who for whatever reason never got hooked into programming (basically creating new skilled programmers), and take people who are self-taught and cover up any gaps or bad habits they may have developed during their own studies (making an already good programmer much better).
I wouldn't be surprised if your run-of-the-mill CS graduate wasn't as skilled as your average self-taught software engineer. The existence of a degree will mean that more people that aren't as deeply into it will enter the workforce, so yeah, there'll be a certain amount of watering down. But universities also do put out some skilled programmers, and so as the overall number of programmers becomes much higher, so does the overall number of skilled programmers.
In other words, there aren't enough self-taught programmers out there to fill every job, so limiting yourself to them only harms your chances of finding the right fit.
Mod parent up. I'm a programmer in the games industry, and have in fact worked on DLC. We even had Day 1 DLC, but it was free!
DLC is frequently (though I'm sure not always) additional content made between the game's hopefully-gold release candidate being sent out for certification/distribution, and the actual release.
If you know that you're going to have a couple months of downtime, then you might even spend one or two days adding in NPCs as hooks for the DLC that you plan to make during that time (like what BioWare did with Dragon Age).
12 cases of ingestion over a period of roughly 8 months... and only "most" of them required surgery, so maybe something like 8 surgeries. I'm curious how much blocking this will cost the economy for each case of surgery that is prevented (assuming those same kids won't get themselves into the ER with something equally small and tasty), and whether or not more lives could be saved by merely having the company donate some portion of their Buckyball profits to a children's hospital.
Signing on another adult's behalf (ie contracts) or restricting access to their property (ie grounding) is also illegal. But that doesn't apply to kids.
Not saying I approve of beating kids, just that that's the wrong approach for explaining why.
Unless they report 310 million, in which case I know you were investigated, and you know I was investigated :-D
I don't know if they have an equivalent option wherever you live, but in Austin (and a couple other areas in Texas), the Alamo Drafthouse is actually pretty awesome (http://drafthouse.com/).
It's basically a bar merged with a theatre, so instead of 15 bucks for a tub of popcorn and a large coke, you can pay 15 bucks for a pizza and beer. They also have lots of good context-appropriate pre-show material, e.g. while waiting for Thor to start they had clips from old Thor cartoons and movies and some 80's-riffic Thor commercials.
All that, plus a general ban on kids and a policy of removing people who are talking loudly or using their phones during the movie.
I recently had to go to a regular theatre to catch a movie at a very particular time, and it was a depressing step backwards from what I'm now used to.
He's just focusing on the state conventions instead of the popular votes, which is a completely healthy and viable strategy.
For instance, he lost the Nevada Primary: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/04/nevada-caucus-results-2012_n_1254069.html
Only to win almost all the actual delegates later on: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/ron-paul-wins-majority-of-nevada-delegates/2012/05/06/gIQA1An15T_blog.html
This is not a campaign in decline, just one that's only spending money where it counts, instead of wasting it on beauty contests.