I started college as a journalism major. In my second quarter, we were each assigned a classmate to interview. Mine was a girl who had entered college as a CS major (a path which I would tread backwards on less than two years later).
Her reason for switching: "I didn't realize it was just programming all day".
I don't remember whether I asked her what she expected or what she said. I suppose that has something to do with why I didn't stay in J-school.
So is this yet another case of someone selling "unlimited highspeed internet" and then being upset when the customer wants to fully utilize it?
Nope, not at all.
Initially the TMO hotspots were symbiotic. Everyone that wanted to use SBUX hotspots paid TMO, not SBUX. SBUX got the benefit of offering WiFi without having to actually pay for the work to do it. TMO got the benefit of well-traveled operating locations.
Then, SBUX drove ten miles across Lake Washington to TMO and said "It's not you, its' us. We want to start siting other people." (I guess they then went five miles up the 405 and had a quickie.)
As part of the breakup, TMO said, okay, we'll let your new lover visit our house, if he pays rent, but you can't have anyone else over.
And SBUX broke that last bit of the deal, letting a bunch of their freeloading squatter friends to crash on the couch whenever they want, without checking with TMO first or giving TMO anything in return.
they put in a wi-fi access point that relayed the data over a cellular network
If that were true, then the wifi at SBUX would have been astonishingly slow, considering that TMO doesn't have anything better than EDGE in most of its markets.
Oh, and not to mention that TMO doesn't even have towers in some states and rural areas but relies on GSM roaming agreements, some of which on small carriers that don't have HDR capability at all, never mind included in the agreement.
Granted, they are not technically TMO's lines, as TMO is not in the wireline business --- but TMO is responsible for and paying for them. If SBUX/ATT are giving away unaccounted, unmetered access over TMO's leased lines, without paying them for the added usage, that's quite a bitch-slap. That's like you self-inviting your entire neighborhood to my birthday party.
Why don't you say that to... well, every native peoples who have ever met the egotistically technological westerner.
Yeah sure, maybe they could use your malaria pills, but they could probably live without your AIDS, MRSA, H5N1. They could probably live without your poison-spewing gasoline engines, your brain-toasting electricity, your cancer-causing RF, and -- more to the relevant point -- your forest-leveling logging industry.
These tribes make a point to say "no" to the industrialized world and turn inwards in order to stay away from it. They specifically want to live in their traditional way. That is why they don't make an effort to make contact with the outsiders. They (vainly) hope that if they keep to themselves, the industrialists will too. (Which happens... not so much.)
You should RTFA:...[U]ncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru. Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.
'What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world,' said Meirelles.
The (insert name of non-renewable resource here) companies are not going to offer uncontacted tribes' (such as these) members paying jobs in the (name of processed product)-making industry or give them access to cars and doctors and science books. They are going to cut down the forests they depend on to live, and raze their savage primitive huts.
Frankly, just releasing material IN A NEUTRAL FORMAT and delivery channel would be more than sufficient. In other words -- no ITunes lock-in. It doesn't even have to be free as in beer. IFO would pay a modest, reasonable charge for each episode of Daily Show, as long as I could get it in a neutral format (video podcast, say).
Duh, they *have* to keep the CDRs for numerous reasons, not the least of which is billing.
And they also review CDRs to identify network problems. I've personally worked on data mining software that used CDRs to identify device problems, and other esoterics.
People will complain "oh, they're keeping records of my calls." Then they will complain "how do they not know their towers are faulty, can't the tell by the records of people's calls?"
...about expansion packs. Of which to date there has been only one.
Nerfing the base level game will make the harder gamers (the ones looking for new challenges) more interested in future expansions. Casual players (like me) won't care about the expansion packs as much (whee, a blue-colored race, and 10 extra levels that I'll never reach!), but the gamers looking for more will be even more interested in them.
Otherwise, a few $20 expansions later, the hard gamers will start to get burned out on buying expansions. But now they will want the expansions to retain challenging gameplay.
This story illustrates why QA exists, and why it should be taken seriously. And why QA should take itself seriously, and understand that quality includes both enforcing the spec as well as finding deficiencies in the spec. As time goes on, development's perspective of the software diverges increasingly from the end-user's perspective of the software. It's QA's job to avoid letting that trend negatively affect the final product.
Omnivore doesn't mean we *have* to eat both plants and animals, but that we *can*. This gave our species an advantage in that we could survive in high-animal, low-plant situations as well as low-animal, high-plant situations, or a combination of the two.
Yeah, there's certain vitamins etc. that are hard to get (cannot confirm your tyrosine theory) on a *vegan* diet, but there is still that middle ground between an no-animal-product diet (i.e. vegan) and a no-meat diet (i.e. vegetarian). Vitamins D & B12 and calcium can be found in dairy products (you can also get vitamin D just by getting a little sunshine), and iodine can be found in iodized salt and seaweed products.
...[I]f they can take one sample from one animal and clone it in a vat and feed this world, will the vegans be ok with that?
Maybe, maybe not, but... why? Why go through all that unnecessary trouble just to create meat when there are plenty of easier, non-meat ways (killed or otherwise) to feed the world? Meat is a wasteful food source either way. The same resources needed to raise meat can make five times as many plant-based food sources. I've no idea what resources are needed to grow meat cells in a lab, but I'm guessing it's even worse than traditional meat-raising.
Just get over meat already. Humans maybe needed meat during the early period before we learned to farm, or when we first settle into new parts of the earth, or had crops wiped out due to weather or disaster. We're way beyond that now. The meat industry doesn't exist today because it provides some crucial nutrient, it exists because people are obsessed with consuming its products.
1. Where you want to work. If you want to work in Boston, for example, a New England college will make sense, because the employers will be most familiar with the college and the people it puts out -- not to mention already staffed by fellow alumni.
2. Beyond that, unless it says MIT or Caltech, it probably doesn't matter all that much, as long as it's an accredited 4-year college. In or near a major city or established college town (e.g. Amherst, Eugene, New Haven) is probably better than in a small town.
IM and Web 2.0 doesn't suit the introvert well, because the introvert does not have preexisting scads of friends to use it with. Me, I've got an account on all IM networks, Twitter, MySpace, Livejournal, a blog, etc., but I hardly use any of these. Why? Because no one reads them or participates in them. Because I'm an introvert, and don't have a lot of friends.
Extrovert geeks have always pissed me off. They get to play the geek card, but they get to do it with gobs of other geeks (and non-geeks). To me, that's a whole different geek experience. Nerds and geeks don't have gobs of friends, they have some acquaintances, and if they find someone they reliably click with, maybe a small set of people they consider friends.
Yeah yeah, butthurt, etc. Whatever, it is how it is.
That doesn't mean we should dismantle every last piece of old technology just because it's lost its original usefulness. Having history present, available for us to see, imagine, learn from, is where innovation and progress comes from.
They shouldn't dismantle it. They should build a Museum of Nuclear Physics around it and sell tours to high school field trips.
But I'm sure there's a perfectly wonderful Allen Institute for Public Policy or something slated for the site.
You forget that in the free market the customer is at the mercy of the company. The company can do whatever it wants in order to save money; the customer is the enemy and must be prevented from doing the same, lest it lead to the company losing money.
So you waited forever to find the perfect candidate who fit into the exact same combination of language and paradigm experience to match your previous employee. Why, because you're too damn cheap to hire someone who could learn it all on the job in less time than it took for you to find the absolute perfect replacement?
Your problem isn't that your platform is outdated or difficult. Your problem is that you want everything wrapped up with a bow for you.
I don't understand the cold calls I get from recruiters/HRs wanting me to code for a platform I haven't used in eight years, because they HAVE to have someone who's done it before despite how few people actually have the experience. Well, I got that experience by learning it on the job. So can someone else. Don't be dumb, Sparky.
Dying in a FPS, particularly one like COD or Ghost Recon or Halo, when dying means you have to go back about 20-30 minutes and do it ALL OVER AGAIN, is insanely maddening.
The thing is, in an online multiplay, when you die, you wait a couple seconds, then come right back to the same action. You don't have to do anything over again. It gives you a chance to rest, refocus, and jump back in fresh.
But in a solo play, it's the worst thing ever. Worse than losing your electricity, frankly.
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I started college as a journalism major. In my second quarter, we were each assigned a classmate to interview. Mine was a girl who had entered college as a CS major (a path which I would tread backwards on less than two years later).
Her reason for switching: "I didn't realize it was just programming all day".
I don't remember whether I asked her what she expected or what she said. I suppose that has something to do with why I didn't stay in J-school.
Mp3s or it didn't happen.
that's not Washington, that's Eastern Washington.
So is this yet another case of someone selling "unlimited highspeed internet" and then being upset when the customer wants to fully utilize it?
Nope, not at all.
Initially the TMO hotspots were symbiotic. Everyone that wanted to use SBUX hotspots paid TMO, not SBUX. SBUX got the benefit of offering WiFi without having to actually pay for the work to do it. TMO got the benefit of well-traveled operating locations.
Then, SBUX drove ten miles across Lake Washington to TMO and said "It's not you, its' us. We want to start siting other people." (I guess they then went five miles up the 405 and had a quickie.)
As part of the breakup, TMO said, okay, we'll let your new lover visit our house, if he pays rent, but you can't have anyone else over.
And SBUX broke that last bit of the deal, letting a bunch of their freeloading squatter friends to crash on the couch whenever they want, without checking with TMO first or giving TMO anything in return.
they put in a wi-fi access point that relayed the data over a cellular network
If that were true, then the wifi at SBUX would have been astonishingly slow, considering that TMO doesn't have anything better than EDGE in most of its markets.
Oh, and not to mention that TMO doesn't even have towers in some states and rural areas but relies on GSM roaming agreements, some of which on small carriers that don't have HDR capability at all, never mind included in the agreement.
Granted, they are not technically TMO's lines, as TMO is not in the wireline business --- but TMO is responsible for and paying for them. If SBUX/ATT are giving away unaccounted, unmetered access over TMO's leased lines, without paying them for the added usage, that's quite a bitch-slap. That's like you self-inviting your entire neighborhood to my birthday party.
Ice age you say? Thank God we have cheap heating fuel.
Professor Cooperman will be avenged.
Why don't you say that to... well, every native peoples who have ever met the egotistically technological westerner.
...[U]ncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru. Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.
Yeah sure, maybe they could use your malaria pills, but they could probably live without your AIDS, MRSA, H5N1. They could probably live without your poison-spewing gasoline engines, your brain-toasting electricity, your cancer-causing RF, and -- more to the relevant point -- your forest-leveling logging industry.
These tribes make a point to say "no" to the industrialized world and turn inwards in order to stay away from it. They specifically want to live in their traditional way. That is why they don't make an effort to make contact with the outsiders. They (vainly) hope that if they keep to themselves, the industrialists will too. (Which happens... not so much.)
You should RTFA:
'What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world,' said Meirelles.
The (insert name of non-renewable resource here) companies are not going to offer uncontacted tribes' (such as these) members paying jobs in the (name of processed product)-making industry or give them access to cars and doctors and science books. They are going to cut down the forests they depend on to live, and raze their savage primitive huts.
(I proudly give to SI.)
Frankly, just releasing material IN A NEUTRAL FORMAT and delivery channel would be more than sufficient. In other words -- no ITunes lock-in. It doesn't even have to be free as in beer. IFO would pay a modest, reasonable charge for each episode of Daily Show, as long as I could get it in a neutral format (video podcast, say).
Duh, they *have* to keep the CDRs for numerous reasons, not the least of which is billing.
And they also review CDRs to identify network problems. I've personally worked on data mining software that used CDRs to identify device problems, and other esoterics.
People will complain "oh, they're keeping records of my calls." Then they will complain "how do they not know their towers are faulty, can't the tell by the records of people's calls?"
...about expansion packs. Of which to date there has been only one.
Nerfing the base level game will make the harder gamers (the ones looking for new challenges) more interested in future expansions. Casual players (like me) won't care about the expansion packs as much (whee, a blue-colored race, and 10 extra levels that I'll never reach!), but the gamers looking for more will be even more interested in them.
Otherwise, a few $20 expansions later, the hard gamers will start to get burned out on buying expansions. But now they will want the expansions to retain challenging gameplay.
This story illustrates why QA exists, and why it should be taken seriously. And why QA should take itself seriously, and understand that quality includes both enforcing the spec as well as finding deficiencies in the spec. As time goes on, development's perspective of the software diverges increasingly from the end-user's perspective of the software. It's QA's job to avoid letting that trend negatively affect the final product.
Omnivore doesn't mean we *have* to eat both plants and animals, but that we *can*. This gave our species an advantage in that we could survive in high-animal, low-plant situations as well as low-animal, high-plant situations, or a combination of the two.
Yeah, there's certain vitamins etc. that are hard to get (cannot confirm your tyrosine theory) on a *vegan* diet, but there is still that middle ground between an no-animal-product diet (i.e. vegan) and a no-meat diet (i.e. vegetarian). Vitamins D & B12 and calcium can be found in dairy products (you can also get vitamin D just by getting a little sunshine), and iodine can be found in iodized salt and seaweed products.
...[I]f they can take one sample from one animal and clone it in a vat and feed this world, will the vegans be ok with that?
Maybe, maybe not, but... why? Why go through all that unnecessary trouble just to create meat when there are plenty of easier, non-meat ways (killed or otherwise) to feed the world? Meat is a wasteful food source either way. The same resources needed to raise meat can make five times as many plant-based food sources. I've no idea what resources are needed to grow meat cells in a lab, but I'm guessing it's even worse than traditional meat-raising.
Just get over meat already. Humans maybe needed meat during the early period before we learned to farm, or when we first settle into new parts of the earth, or had crops wiped out due to weather or disaster. We're way beyond that now. The meat industry doesn't exist today because it provides some crucial nutrient, it exists because people are obsessed with consuming its products.
1. Where you want to work. If you want to work in Boston, for example, a New England college will make sense, because the employers will be most familiar with the college and the people it puts out -- not to mention already staffed by fellow alumni.
2. Beyond that, unless it says MIT or Caltech, it probably doesn't matter all that much, as long as it's an accredited 4-year college. In or near a major city or established college town (e.g. Amherst, Eugene, New Haven) is probably better than in a small town.
IM and Web 2.0 doesn't suit the introvert well, because the introvert does not have preexisting scads of friends to use it with. Me, I've got an account on all IM networks, Twitter, MySpace, Livejournal, a blog, etc., but I hardly use any of these. Why? Because no one reads them or participates in them. Because I'm an introvert, and don't have a lot of friends.
Extrovert geeks have always pissed me off. They get to play the geek card, but they get to do it with gobs of other geeks (and non-geeks). To me, that's a whole different geek experience. Nerds and geeks don't have gobs of friends, they have some acquaintances, and if they find someone they reliably click with, maybe a small set of people they consider friends.
Yeah yeah, butthurt, etc. Whatever, it is how it is.
with a tunneled forwarded port or X session.
That doesn't mean we should dismantle every last piece of old technology just because it's lost its original usefulness. Having history present, available for us to see, imagine, learn from, is where innovation and progress comes from.
They shouldn't dismantle it. They should build a Museum of Nuclear Physics around it and sell tours to high school field trips.
But I'm sure there's a perfectly wonderful Allen Institute for Public Policy or something slated for the site.
You forget that in the free market the customer is at the mercy of the company. The company can do whatever it wants in order to save money; the customer is the enemy and must be prevented from doing the same, lest it lead to the company losing money.
Users want choices. So haters (here: lock-in-loving corporate fascists) can go fuck themselves.
The "problem" as stated is that when I search for option A I will also be presented with options B and C instead of being contained within option A.
There are countries for the latter sort of scenario. Most of us luckily do not live in one, and most that do would happily not.
In other news, a website named Slashdot has technology news stories.
Women are inundated with astrological nonsense from fashion magazines, so it is normative for them to believe it
Uh... that's kinda sexist.
So you waited forever to find the perfect candidate who fit into the exact same combination of language and paradigm experience to match your previous employee. Why, because you're too damn cheap to hire someone who could learn it all on the job in less time than it took for you to find the absolute perfect replacement?
Your problem isn't that your platform is outdated or difficult. Your problem is that you want everything wrapped up with a bow for you.
I don't understand the cold calls I get from recruiters/HRs wanting me to code for a platform I haven't used in eight years, because they HAVE to have someone who's done it before despite how few people actually have the experience. Well, I got that experience by learning it on the job. So can someone else. Don't be dumb, Sparky.
Dying in a FPS, particularly one like COD or Ghost Recon or Halo, when dying means you have to go back about 20-30 minutes and do it ALL OVER AGAIN, is insanely maddening.
The thing is, in an online multiplay, when you die, you wait a couple seconds, then come right back to the same action. You don't have to do anything over again. It gives you a chance to rest, refocus, and jump back in fresh.
But in a solo play, it's the worst thing ever. Worse than losing your electricity, frankly.
...is actually not doing well and is rumored to be shopping for a buyer.
It's probably not due to WiFi, in all fairness, but to say they're not hurting isn't true either.