I bought a $350 laptop (Dell B150) almost three years ago.
Cheap laptops are nothing new, and anyone who bought an eeePC because it was cheap and not because it was small was probably unhappy with it, because even years ago you could get a full-size laptop for that price.
One doesn't tend to land DoD contacts if ones devices implement the three laws. Its sort of robotic evolution -- if you have three laws, you definitely won't be having any reproducing going on.
I've used it in a brightly lit room and had no problem with it. It might not work outside but it works just fine at any sort of normal light level inside a building.
Slashdot is a bit of a weird place, in that I can just imagine the majority of the answers are going to talk about things like Google Summer of Code, or working on an open source project, building your own software, etc...
I'll tell you, those things may help you learn your language or platform better but it will not help you be a better engineer. Unfortunately only time in the trenches does that. Being a good engineer fit for a job at a software company, you need to know how to work on a team, set and meet deadlines, write documentation, etc... all the stuff that you don't tend to get doing the informal stuff that everyone is likely to be talking about here.
An internship or entry level position doing continuation engineering or a junior/associate engineer is going to get you more useful experience than all that other stuff, assuming you actually do know how to write software.
Um, thats illegal in the US, too, and its enforced here.
Play a radio in the office? Illegal. Wire it over your hold music? Illegal. Sit out front of your house playing a radio where others can hear? Illegal. Drive down the street with the music blasting out of your car? Illegal in a bunch of ways.
For what its worth, Atlanta did the same thing in 1996. The whole Olympic Centennial Park area, all the new stadiums, etc were all built in former slums occupied by people who were strangely no longer in Atlanta after.
Well, I'm no biologist but right off the cuff I think there are some problems with this "theory"... it makes an assumption that in an environment without fixed nitrogen that complex life would not have evolved to either not need it or to do it itself. It also assumes that the availability of molybdenum is required to fix nitrogen.
The fact that eukareotes did not evolve it doesn't mean they couldn't have -- it just means that their environment they evolved in didn't need that ability, likely because prokaryotes evolved it already. (Or they didn't actually originally need it -- which may make more sense because if one assumes that that evolution was necessary for eukaryotes, and they evolved from prokaryotes, then how did they *lose* that ability?)
Again, not a biologist but the critical reader in me gets a "I have a hammer, so everything is a nail" vibe from this theory.
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I bought a $350 laptop (Dell B150) almost three years ago.
Cheap laptops are nothing new, and anyone who bought an eeePC because it was cheap and not because it was small was probably unhappy with it, because even years ago you could get a full-size laptop for that price.
One doesn't tend to land DoD contacts if ones devices implement the three laws. Its sort of robotic evolution -- if you have three laws, you definitely won't be having any reproducing going on.
Thats 246 billion square feet.
Thats somewhere between the size of New Jersey and New Hampshire.
Talk about pie in the sky... its more realistic to be talking about microwave power stations in orbit!
I'm not sure I believe this story...
I was about to mod this funny, but suddenly I got this feeling that maybe you were serious.
I have no response to that other than, um, sometimes its best to not post your thoughts in public where others can see...
I've used it in a brightly lit room and had no problem with it. It might not work outside but it works just fine at any sort of normal light level inside a building.
ADC and DAC is not the same thing.
The original post was talking about playback. Saying the card only has a 12-bit ADC is totally unrelated.
Slashdot is a bit of a weird place, in that I can just imagine the majority of the answers are going to talk about things like Google Summer of Code, or working on an open source project, building your own software, etc...
I'll tell you, those things may help you learn your language or platform better but it will not help you be a better engineer. Unfortunately only time in the trenches does that. Being a good engineer fit for a job at a software company, you need to know how to work on a team, set and meet deadlines, write documentation, etc... all the stuff that you don't tend to get doing the informal stuff that everyone is likely to be talking about here.
An internship or entry level position doing continuation engineering or a junior/associate engineer is going to get you more useful experience than all that other stuff, assuming you actually do know how to write software.
Doesn't work on Mac FireFox for me, or Safari.
Um, thats illegal in the US, too, and its enforced here.
Play a radio in the office? Illegal. Wire it over your hold music? Illegal. Sit out front of your house playing a radio where others can hear? Illegal. Drive down the street with the music blasting out of your car? Illegal in a bunch of ways.
For what its worth, Atlanta did the same thing in 1996. The whole Olympic Centennial Park area, all the new stadiums, etc were all built in former slums occupied by people who were strangely no longer in Atlanta after.
Well, I'm no biologist but right off the cuff I think there are some problems with this "theory"... it makes an assumption that in an environment without fixed nitrogen that complex life would not have evolved to either not need it or to do it itself. It also assumes that the availability of molybdenum is required to fix nitrogen.
The fact that eukareotes did not evolve it doesn't mean they couldn't have -- it just means that their environment they evolved in didn't need that ability, likely because prokaryotes evolved it already. (Or they didn't actually originally need it -- which may make more sense because if one assumes that that evolution was necessary for eukaryotes, and they evolved from prokaryotes, then how did they *lose* that ability?)
Again, not a biologist but the critical reader in me gets a "I have a hammer, so everything is a nail" vibe from this theory.
For what its worth, I don't think there's often that idea among plant biologists.
Its the only way to be sure.
Funny? I think you hit the nail right on the head. Should've been modded insightful.
Want to really freak people out? Get a Geiger counter and show them how the cinder blocks in their basement are radioactive.
Its okay, just wipe up with your cable bill. Its sort of win-win.
Thats the bomb!
The moral of the story is, make sure your iPhone is turned off while you're stealing cars... otherwise you might end up doing some real hard time.
Actually, no, I was thinking "slow-mo shot of Meadow, and a bullet to the head".
Your version was not nearly as nice sounding.
Can we at least hope the RIAA and MPAA will end the same way?
Go check out the Listening Post, also at the Science Museum. Sit through its whole cycle (~30 minutes)
Hands down the coolest, most impactful, art installation I've ever seen.
(And yes, this is sort of on topic because it has to do with the Science Museum)
Not much chance they'll find anything to extract from a brain there...
Its still more than you get on the Discovery Channel anymore...
Crap "secret about your fingerprint".
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