The World of Science Fiction, by (science fiction author) Lester Del Rey. It gets a little dry in places, but does a good job in defining and detailing the early years of science fiction. Rey divides the subject into 5 eras spanning from 1926 to the mid-seventies. I read this book years and years ago, but if I recall correctly there are countless examples of the subject at hand.
medioctaty on the web. Imagine being teased with the promise of some information you want, and then being led through 9 other pages of useless crap to get to it. The website makes $0.10 instead of $0.01, and wastes another five minutes of your time to make it. It's already tough to avoid retardo X-10 popups and other current time wasters, we don't need more of this crap.
What amazes me is just how inconsistent the *media * is. I've been listening to the radio and reading the wire for only an hour now and they keep changing the plane type, its destination, its takeoff/landing status, etc.. If the media can't even be consistent, what can we expect on/.?
I'm serious. Sarcastic, but serious. If you sell for a tax loss, you recoup half your paper losses in tax deductions. Plus, if you have the certificate (mistake) staring at you every day, you'll never buy a company without looking at valuation again. The people who paid $50 a share for this POS on the first day of trading, effectively valued it at $6.5 billion dollars. $6.5 billion for a company with no revenues, no profits, only marginally interesting technology, and a competitor with one of the greatest and most dominant franchises in tech industry history. Brilliant.
Sell today.
Book a tax loss.
Wait 30 days to avoid the wash-sale rule.
More tax loss sellers hit the market.
Buy your shares back lower.
Company goes bankrupt.
Have the worthless certificate issued.
Frame it.
Hang it over your desk.
Don't make the same mistake again.
because printing on demand and vast data storage capabilities will change the economics of the publishing industry. Those that are represented by the best marketing teams will be read the most. [sigh]
This is why. It sounds as though he's joking and laughing at himself because he's insecure, like all the guys in high-school who were fun to hang out with, but who didn't grow out of that particular defense mechanism very quickly.
Maybe I'm wrong, and he's just a fun guy, but it doesn't smell that way to me.
That's kind of like saying "Clippy" makes Word a better program. Sure, it's exciting to have a talking paperclip on your desktop, but try to do anything productive that way.
>> But we always have a hard time recruiting good programmers, engineers, etc. because the pay is generally less these days.
I agree wholeheartedly about pay not being the most important part of a job. I also traded salary for an increase in job satisfaction and a lifestyle upgrade.
That being said, pay counts *a lot* for many people. The easiest way to fix America's broken educational system would be to double teacher pay. The same strategy would undoubtedly rejuvinate the workforce at NASA.
>> What does XP offer me over and above my current win2k?
It offers you the *privilege* of getting a new machine. I have not had to bootleg software yet, but if I'm to avoid the privacy implications of XP, I may just have to resort to it next time I order a machine.
Start bringing office supplies *into* work, and leaving them there. In order to make this obvious to the screeners, use a container separate from your briefcase. After about a week of showing up with random office supplies in a PBS tote every day, and leaving with it empty, you should attract some attention. When questioned, use the Ronald Reagan defense ("I have no recollection of that"). Then move on to the weird stuff like dead fish and filled diapers.
Type in soundbites (thanks to email)
Write like small children (thanks to Palm, emoticons)
Speak like cavemen (thanks to voice recognition)
Observe like small, hyper monkeys (thanks to television)
...and eventually regress to thinking like Neanderthals
Slashdot Mirror
>> Play for more then 30 minutes, and you go blind.
Yeah, that's what my Mom told me, but it hasn't happened yet. And the claim about the hairy palms is a myth too.
even if he wrote romance novels I'd read them!!!
please.
The World of Science Fiction, by (science fiction author) Lester Del Rey. It gets a little dry in places, but does a good job in defining and detailing the early years of science fiction. Rey divides the subject into 5 eras spanning from 1926 to the mid-seventies. I read this book years and years ago, but if I recall correctly there are countless examples of the subject at hand.
Predict != Influence
...and original poster gets a dork+1 bonus for the violin as instrument of choice. I oughta know...
Funny sig!
medioctaty on the web. Imagine being teased with the promise of some information you want, and then being led through 9 other pages of useless crap to get to it. The website makes $0.10 instead of $0.01, and wastes another five minutes of your time to make it. It's already tough to avoid retardo X-10 popups and other current time wasters, we don't need more of this crap.
What amazes me is just how inconsistent the *media * is. I've been listening to the radio and reading the wire for only an hour now and they keep changing the plane type, its destination, its takeoff/landing status, etc.. If the media can't even be consistent, what can we expect on /.?
Who are your artistic heros/influences?
I'm serious. Sarcastic, but serious. If you sell for a tax loss, you recoup half your paper losses in tax deductions. Plus, if you have the certificate (mistake) staring at you every day, you'll never buy a company without looking at valuation again. The people who paid $50 a share for this POS on the first day of trading, effectively valued it at $6.5 billion dollars. $6.5 billion for a company with no revenues, no profits, only marginally interesting technology, and a competitor with one of the greatest and most dominant franchises in tech industry history. Brilliant.
Sell today.
Book a tax loss.
Wait 30 days to avoid the wash-sale rule.
More tax loss sellers hit the market.
Buy your shares back lower.
Company goes bankrupt.
Have the worthless certificate issued.
Frame it.
Hang it over your desk.
Don't make the same mistake again.
because printing on demand and vast data storage capabilities will change the economics of the publishing industry. Those that are represented by the best marketing teams will be read the most. [sigh]
>> He can laugh at himself
This is why. It sounds as though he's joking and laughing at himself because he's insecure, like all the guys in high-school who were fun to hang out with, but who didn't grow out of that particular defense mechanism very quickly.
Maybe I'm wrong, and he's just a fun guy, but it doesn't smell that way to me.
...or does this guy seem a little immature for a 29 year-old?
>> resulting in a very boring web
That's kind of like saying "Clippy" makes Word a better program. Sure, it's exciting to have a talking paperclip on your desktop, but try to do anything productive that way.
>> But we always have a hard time recruiting good programmers, engineers, etc. because the pay is generally less these days.
I agree wholeheartedly about pay not being the most important part of a job. I also traded salary for an increase in job satisfaction and a lifestyle upgrade.
That being said, pay counts *a lot* for many people. The easiest way to fix America's broken educational system would be to double teacher pay. The same strategy would undoubtedly rejuvinate the workforce at NASA.
>> What does XP offer me over and above my current win2k?
It offers you the *privilege* of getting a new machine. I have not had to bootleg software yet, but if I'm to avoid the privacy implications of XP, I may just have to resort to it next time I order a machine.
>> The short answer is that NASA happens to be demonstrating that it's rather incompetant.
Does anyone know how NASA salaries compare to those for similar jobs in private industry?
Start bringing office supplies *into* work, and leaving them there. In order to make this obvious to the screeners, use a container separate from your briefcase. After about a week of showing up with random office supplies in a PBS tote every day, and leaving with it empty, you should attract some attention. When questioned, use the Ronald Reagan defense ("I have no recollection of that"). Then move on to the weird stuff like dead fish and filled diapers.
Perhaps in the future we'll all:
Type in soundbites (thanks to email)
Write like small children (thanks to Palm, emoticons)
Speak like cavemen (thanks to voice recognition)
Observe like small, hyper monkeys (thanks to television)
...and eventually regress to thinking like Neanderthals
A better solution: ban boxcutters!!!
Better yet... get a bicycle.
URL, geography, & commentary:
1. Sorry, just because its "voluntary" and donated by Oracle, doesn't mean it ain't fascist.
2.I'm pretty sure they can do a better job screening people at points of entry without a national ID.
3. Larry Ellison can suck my big fat Libertarian d!ck.