The GNUStep guys could certainly use backing ala the Mono project...
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Just as an aside, don't be too quick to dismiss the slackers... There's a lot of those guys that would absolutely surprise you with how hard they work doing the things they do that you might not understand. Since I straddle both the "art" and "technical" worlds, I see there's actually quite a few similarities. In fact, my punk rock best friend basically summed it up as "we're all just a bunch of nerds. You work all night fucking around on the computer, I work all night fucking around on my guitar". And the same thing goes for artists, filmmakers, etc. Yes, there's a bunch of slack asses who never do anything, but that's true everywhere. But think about a guy like Kevin Smith. He was a video store clerk, but he spent all of his time watching and discussing movies, and finally decided to make a film, where he then spent all that time distilling what he learned from watching and discussing movies into making movies (and like real life, it takes experience DOING something to learn what things actually mean and how to solve problems). I've had a ton of programmer friends think that being a musician or an artist or a writer is 'work for idiots", but the amount of actual problem solving is quite impressive. From the actual song composition, to things like editing and organizing, to just getting the "sound" or the "aesthetic" you want; these are no trivial problems (otherwise everyone could do it, every song would be a "hit" song, every film would gross 10 billion dollars, etc). And just like coding, while you might see a bunch of musicians slacking around, how much of the day do you spend coding and not sitting there thinking about a problem? Same thing. A lot of my time in either world is spent lost in my head, thinking about a problem at hand, whether it's trying to get the perfect words, or the chord progression, or thinking about the mood I want to portray, just like in my professional life where I sometimes get stuck on something and just think about how I'm going to attack the problem, what's wrong with this or that approach. And sometimes, it looks like I'm goofing off (like, by posting on slashdot), but that problem is still stewing away in the back of my head. How many times have you talked to someone, even about disparate subjects, and had a solution to something pop up in your head suddenly?
PS, I was the guy that loved the humanities coursework, but didn't like the pay so I went the other route. It's hard being a straddler at times. That choice is difficult.
How would your kid pay $15k/year? And how would he pay rent and eat? Transportation? Clothing? I mean, it's fine when mom and dad are there to pitch in, but there are many folks out there who don't have mom and dad to fall back on.
But the other point is well taken, State Schools are much more affordable and can provide the same quality of education, if it's the education that's important. I'm a firm believer in Community College->Four Year route for savings (the last degree is the only one that matters), but I will also tell folks that if they can help it, stop working full-time jobs to go to school. If you can survive on beans and rice (and Milwaukee's Best) for a couple years, I would absolutely recommend that and deal with a little more debt than missing out on what helps even more than the degree: the network you build. I know a bunch of guys who are still in regular contact with many of their friends from college, in various industries. that social net will prove to be invaluable, especially if you work hard to get it. And I'm not talking about the drinking buddies, they help, too, but I mean more like folks you hatch schemes with. Wanna shoot films? Work on other people's films, be reliable and dependable and study your craft and they'll help you on yours. Wanna write games? Be reliable and dependable and study your craft and help others and they'll help you. Wanna start a business? rinse, repeat. And through those ventures, coupled with the education, will carry you much further than just slogging through classes, barely retaining anything because you work 2 jobs trying to stay out of debt, etc. Been there, done it, don't have the net I should have had when I graduated making my post-college life much much harder than it should've been. When they hire a bunch of college grads and say "who do you know that you might could bring in..." and your name's not on that list because you never bothered to talk to those guys.. well.. Consider that.
I'd like to see both GJ and Jill Stein get > 5%. I see a lot of support for Gary (and I like Gary), but it'd be great to have a real "progressive" influencing the debate, as well.
From what I can gather, here in LA, the fare reader just stores the information (the tap scans) and either at the end of the day, or end of the week, these logs are transferred and credited against the accounts that scanned through. I know when I put $20 on my card, it can be a week or more before I see the "balance" change even though I use it near daily. It seems fair enough for me and if someone scans through a low/zero fare card, sure, they might "get away with it" for a few rides, but they'll eventually have to pay up or try sneaking on via the back door like the other freeloaders.
Nature has seen fit to riddle me with the 'beetus, so I can counteract the awful effects of backlit displays with a delicious sugary beverage, like Mountain Dew, and be out within an hour.
Good question. Why is it illegal for the police to use IR to view through the walls of a private residence without a warrant? You can't see those, either, but obviously the law does make it an issue...
Yeah, I frequently read through amazon's ad mail and I like how they put what you "liked" in the subject so I have an idea of what it is. The "you looked at these shoes or this guitar" and now puts those shoes and guitar on rotating ads are spooky...
You know.. I'm going to put Win8 on my aging Fujitsu Lifebook P1620 since I primarily want to use it in "tablet" mode. It looks pretty much perfect, and the metro version of OneNote is supposedly pretty amazing.
But, Win7 will be the OS of choice on my actual desktops.
Weird. Out here in SoCal, I was bluntly told by a recruiter that they look strictly at "title" and "pay history" to make those sorts of decisions, but only if you get through the skills filter first. "Yeah, so what you spent the last 5 years writing perl, python, and java applications, your job title doesn't reflect that and neither does your salary. So, we're going to offer you a jr. programming position at bottom market rates because that's a raise from your current salary, and you're going to like it, despite 8 years of solid programming experience." For those of you telling people to just take a job, I just took a job and it came back to bite me in the ass when it came time to find another job.
Doesn't matter to the Austrians. In fact, I'm frequently surprised when I hear people who demand empirical proof for everything else in the world (science, climate change, evolution, where my fucking car keys are) will throw it all out because some Austrian dude said that empirical proof means nothing for his particular pet subject, so let's stop trying. So, in short, your "disastrous proof" means nothing, but god help you if you have evidence to the contrary because they'll foist it all over youtube and write a dozen books on it.
Yeah, moving to the west coast is certainly an eye opener in this regard. My last apartment in the South was $525/month for 1200 square feet, a garden plot/yard, and a parking spot. I get a 350 square foot shit hole on the edge of Koreatown for about $800/month here in los angeles, and rent in SFO scares the hell out of me...
I pin my "important" apps to the bar, sure. But I've got hundreds of little apps that I may or may not use with regularity, other than regularly using at least one of them which I can't predict depending on my daily "tasks".
a/s/l? I'm sorry I don't really understand your question. how big is ur cock? Incredibly gigantic! Bigger than you could ever imagine! But could you tell me more about your work? do u stick ur gigantic black cock in ur own anus? Yeah, I am surely own anus - I have to agree with your wise opinion. Some another topic? sometimes I liek to stroke my cock when I talk with bots. Bots are cool. I mean - they operate at room temperature... are ur tits nice? No, I am not are tits pleasant! What a weird thing you ask! Holly cow, this Loebner Prize is such a weird place! But I like it! Would you let loebner play with ur tits while i play with ur pussy? Watch your mouth! where do you want me to put my mouth? You forgot to press the "Execute" button, so I won't do anything for you! Blink-blink! Maybe, let's talk about something else? What would you like to discuss?
Honestly, tablets will be ready when I can do with a tablet what I do with a standard spiral bound notebook. I want to be able to open it, start writing, naturally, with my stylus. Don't try to OCR it (or if you do, do it in the background and make it seamless to the user), don't do anything. Just make it a virtual piece of paper with enough resolution so it *looks* like pencil/pen, like how eink looks like typeface/paper. I don't want to think I'm USING a tablet, but an "infinite" notebook that I can, later, flip through, page through, doodle on, write margin notes on ebooks, etc. But this should be a seamless experience, not a computing chore. Until then, its just an expensive gadget that I have no use for.
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The GNUStep guys could certainly use backing ala the Mono project...
Just as an aside, don't be too quick to dismiss the slackers... There's a lot of those guys that would absolutely surprise you with how hard they work doing the things they do that you might not understand. Since I straddle both the "art" and "technical" worlds, I see there's actually quite a few similarities. In fact, my punk rock best friend basically summed it up as "we're all just a bunch of nerds. You work all night fucking around on the computer, I work all night fucking around on my guitar". And the same thing goes for artists, filmmakers, etc. Yes, there's a bunch of slack asses who never do anything, but that's true everywhere. But think about a guy like Kevin Smith. He was a video store clerk, but he spent all of his time watching and discussing movies, and finally decided to make a film, where he then spent all that time distilling what he learned from watching and discussing movies into making movies (and like real life, it takes experience DOING something to learn what things actually mean and how to solve problems). I've had a ton of programmer friends think that being a musician or an artist or a writer is 'work for idiots", but the amount of actual problem solving is quite impressive. From the actual song composition, to things like editing and organizing, to just getting the "sound" or the "aesthetic" you want; these are no trivial problems (otherwise everyone could do it, every song would be a "hit" song, every film would gross 10 billion dollars, etc). And just like coding, while you might see a bunch of musicians slacking around, how much of the day do you spend coding and not sitting there thinking about a problem? Same thing. A lot of my time in either world is spent lost in my head, thinking about a problem at hand, whether it's trying to get the perfect words, or the chord progression, or thinking about the mood I want to portray, just like in my professional life where I sometimes get stuck on something and just think about how I'm going to attack the problem, what's wrong with this or that approach. And sometimes, it looks like I'm goofing off (like, by posting on slashdot), but that problem is still stewing away in the back of my head. How many times have you talked to someone, even about disparate subjects, and had a solution to something pop up in your head suddenly?
PS, I was the guy that loved the humanities coursework, but didn't like the pay so I went the other route. It's hard being a straddler at times. That choice is difficult.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/admissions/financial_aid/tuition/
How would your kid pay $15k/year? And how would he pay rent and eat? Transportation? Clothing? I mean, it's fine when mom and dad are there to pitch in, but there are many folks out there who don't have mom and dad to fall back on.
But the other point is well taken, State Schools are much more affordable and can provide the same quality of education, if it's the education that's important. I'm a firm believer in Community College->Four Year route for savings (the last degree is the only one that matters), but I will also tell folks that if they can help it, stop working full-time jobs to go to school. If you can survive on beans and rice (and Milwaukee's Best) for a couple years, I would absolutely recommend that and deal with a little more debt than missing out on what helps even more than the degree: the network you build. I know a bunch of guys who are still in regular contact with many of their friends from college, in various industries. that social net will prove to be invaluable, especially if you work hard to get it. And I'm not talking about the drinking buddies, they help, too, but I mean more like folks you hatch schemes with. Wanna shoot films? Work on other people's films, be reliable and dependable and study your craft and they'll help you on yours. Wanna write games? Be reliable and dependable and study your craft and help others and they'll help you. Wanna start a business? rinse, repeat. And through those ventures, coupled with the education, will carry you much further than just slogging through classes, barely retaining anything because you work 2 jobs trying to stay out of debt, etc. Been there, done it, don't have the net I should have had when I graduated making my post-college life much much harder than it should've been. When they hire a bunch of college grads and say "who do you know that you might could bring in..." and your name's not on that list because you never bothered to talk to those guys.. well.. Consider that.
I'd like to see both GJ and Jill Stein get > 5%. I see a lot of support for Gary (and I like Gary), but it'd be great to have a real "progressive" influencing the debate, as well.
While it may be "insulting", it's also accurate.
Unfortunately for me, I have. They're like little covens of Austrian Anarcho-Capitalism and when you find one, you find a dozen.
The crooks will be getting their just desserts..
From what I can gather, here in LA, the fare reader just stores the information (the tap scans) and either at the end of the day, or end of the week, these logs are transferred and credited against the accounts that scanned through. I know when I put $20 on my card, it can be a week or more before I see the "balance" change even though I use it near daily. It seems fair enough for me and if someone scans through a low/zero fare card, sure, they might "get away with it" for a few rides, but they'll eventually have to pay up or try sneaking on via the back door like the other freeloaders.
Nature has seen fit to riddle me with the 'beetus, so I can counteract the awful effects of backlit displays with a delicious sugary beverage, like Mountain Dew, and be out within an hour.
Good question. Why is it illegal for the police to use IR to view through the walls of a private residence without a warrant? You can't see those, either, but obviously the law does make it an issue...
Everyone on slashdot is about to become a UI expert.
I'd support the campaign of Inanimate Carbon Rod if it were to run...
My fatass almost got excited for a second.. a supercomputer fueled by BBQ... :(
Yeah, I frequently read through amazon's ad mail and I like how they put what you "liked" in the subject so I have an idea of what it is.
The "you looked at these shoes or this guitar" and now puts those shoes and guitar on rotating ads are spooky...
/* The biggest proponents were actually the private rail companies, who wanted a clean exit strategy (aka dump the mess on the government). */
Sounds like "privatize the profits, socialize the losses".
You know.. I'm going to put Win8 on my aging Fujitsu Lifebook P1620 since I primarily want to use it in "tablet" mode. It looks pretty much perfect, and the metro version of OneNote is supposedly pretty amazing.
But, Win7 will be the OS of choice on my actual desktops.
So, maybe I'll be the only guy that likes it... :)
Weird. Out here in SoCal, I was bluntly told by a recruiter that they look strictly at "title" and "pay history" to make those sorts of decisions, but only if you get through the skills filter first. "Yeah, so what you spent the last 5 years writing perl, python, and java applications, your job title doesn't reflect that and neither does your salary. So, we're going to offer you a jr. programming position at bottom market rates because that's a raise from your current salary, and you're going to like it, despite 8 years of solid programming experience." For those of you telling people to just take a job, I just took a job and it came back to bite me in the ass when it came time to find another job.
Doesn't matter to the Austrians. In fact, I'm frequently surprised when I hear people who demand empirical proof for everything else in the world (science, climate change, evolution, where my fucking car keys are) will throw it all out because some Austrian dude said that empirical proof means nothing for his particular pet subject, so let's stop trying. So, in short, your "disastrous proof" means nothing, but god help you if you have evidence to the contrary because they'll foist it all over youtube and write a dozen books on it.
Yeah, moving to the west coast is certainly an eye opener in this regard. My last apartment in the South was $525/month for 1200 square feet, a garden plot/yard, and a parking spot. I get a 350 square foot shit hole on the edge of Koreatown for about $800/month here in los angeles, and rent in SFO scares the hell out of me...
As a South Korean American, I can assure you xenophobia/racism is alive and well in Korea.
...Sounds like Austrian Economics, oddly enough.
"...is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. "
-Indiana Jones, "The Last Crusade"
I pin my "important" apps to the bar, sure. But I've got hundreds of little apps that I may or may not use with regularity, other than regularly using at least one of them which I can't predict depending on my daily "tasks".
a/s/l?
I'm sorry I don't really understand your question.
how big is ur cock?
Incredibly gigantic! Bigger than you could ever imagine! But could you tell me more about your work?
do u stick ur gigantic black cock in ur own anus?
Yeah, I am surely own anus - I have to agree with your wise opinion. Some another topic?
sometimes I liek to stroke my cock when I talk with bots.
Bots are cool. I mean - they operate at room temperature...
are ur tits nice?
No, I am not are tits pleasant! What a weird thing you ask! Holly cow, this Loebner Prize is such a weird place! But I like it!
Would you let loebner play with ur tits while i play with ur pussy?
Watch your mouth!
where do you want me to put my mouth?
You forgot to press the "Execute" button, so I won't do anything for you! Blink-blink! Maybe, let's talk about something else? What would you like to discuss?
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CONCLUSION:
Absolutely worthless for cyber, for any gender.
Honestly, tablets will be ready when I can do with a tablet what I do with a standard spiral bound notebook. I want to be able to open it, start writing, naturally, with my stylus. Don't try to OCR it (or if you do, do it in the background and make it seamless to the user), don't do anything. Just make it a virtual piece of paper with enough resolution so it *looks* like pencil/pen, like how eink looks like typeface/paper. I don't want to think I'm USING a tablet, but an "infinite" notebook that I can, later, flip through, page through, doodle on, write margin notes on ebooks, etc. But this should be a seamless experience, not a computing chore. Until then, its just an expensive gadget that I have no use for.