"Carpentry" in the U.S. has become the art of running slices of milled grade-A lumber through machines. Not a hand-finished edge on anything. The greater your skill level, the fewer machines you need to run the lumber through, the fewer tool changes you need to make, the less material you waste and the better you can hide your rough cuts.
You can almost see the prices go up with each tool change.
"Obviously you don't really want people graduating who can't (and don't) follow relatively simple rules, but at the same time, asking people to regurgitate 100 pages of material they just pulled out of a book isn't working to well, especially as grad students are relatively poorer, and don't really want to be wasting type typing something that isn't their own work anyway."
This is all undergrad stuff. If you can't do this easily as a grad student, then... you probably shouldn't have a bachelor's degree, much less be considered for a masters or doctorate.
Strangely, I agree with the guy. Although I'd like to add:
ST:TMP -> probably good if you didn't see 2001. It was released over 10 years after 2001 when Star Wars was everywhere and people weren't expecting to see things like 2001.
ST:IV was... corny nostalgia, but I can't argue. It was a very successful film.
ST:Nemesis was an okay remake of ST:The Wrath of Khan, but there are a lot of fans who never got into TOS, so it's forgivable.
ST:TOS has a lot of post-WW2 influence. Particularly in sub warfare. It's strongest in TOS (see Balance of Terror... big racial issues there too), but weakens after TNG, which seems to be mostly influenced by the boring era of cold wars, superpowers, stable politics and diplomacy.
Turn down your confirmation bias. There are lots of comments on those links which predicted things accurately too.
My stance at the time was strongly to avoid investing in RIM because it was a continuous mystery as to how a company so lacking in innovation hasn't been dethroned. Any day Motorola, Nokia or the other players of the time could have manufactured a Blackberry killer... but nobody did. They made gadgets with keyboards, but ignored corporate email, the BES model and device security. Only recent versions of IOS support reasonable security features like encryption, lockout and wipe, and corporate policies.
Apple made a consumer phone so popular that even without directly competitive features, it dug so hard into RIM's business that it became a business phone. *That* I certainly didn't see coming.
If somebody told me that was going to happen in 2007, I would have called them crazy. "RIM's stupid, but they're not bloody stark-raving incompetent morons...." And I would have been wrong.
Bad analogy when engineering is a highly competitive field. People work hard and *want* to become engineers and those who apply and don't get in, or drop out before they finish will probably still be building and tinkering with stuff their whole lives.
I have no clue why there's a split on gender lines, but it seems really unfair to discriminate against the people who do apply because their gender is overrepresented.
That's the strategy in the Ballmer era. He's an idiot.
Apple almost died in the Gates era. Either Gates jumped ship just as Jobs and Google was taking the market, or Gates' Embrace-extend-extinguish or "cut off their air supply" strategies were so effective at stifling innovation, that things didn't take off until he took a back seat to focus on his philanthropy.
Jobs' innovation in iTunes was not the iPod BTW. Apple was a over-priced, featureless also-ran. 5GB HDD, Firewire interface and 10h battery life. It couldn't record, it wasn't solid state, it had no external media and no removable battery. There was a lot of competition from Rio, Sandisk, Sony, etc.
Jobs' innovation was the iTunes market, and realizing that you could double the price of a product by streamlining the design, managing the user's experience and minimizing features.
"1) Julian Assange has not been charged with any offense.
2) Sweden has a bilateral agreement with the United States which would allow it to surrender Julian Assange without going through the traditional tests and standards of regular, lengthy ’extradition’ procedures."
Microsoft *does* have controls. They support your point though. Microsoft designed the controls to prevent wholesale counterfeiting, not private piracy.
This is not a problem which can be solved with a shopping trip.
Bicycle mirrors either get damaged in bicycle racks or stolen. Mirrors that are compact and durable are too small to be seen while riding on bumpy under-maintained city streets. Helmet mirrors are great for long trips, but too fragile for daily commuting.
As a cyclist, I've grown used to not trusting my ears. Silent cars were the first problem, but now e-bikes are very common, often overtake within inches and don't ring their bells. I look more carefully now. Just because I don't hear a vehicle doesn't mean that somebody isn't inches from me.
Free for 30 minutes, pay for more access. Pay for file access and doors.
Telephone lines weren't free, and multitasking hardware was expensive too. There were lots which had access to echomail and basic doors access for free.
When you didn't have money, the trick was to have a giant list of telephone numbers on the wall so that you could program them all in your autodialer, then go read a book or something until one of the lines rang through to a modem. Then you could spend a night on a half dozen different boards.
If I were an oppressive government, I'd use the additional information about the person posting the questions to bias the discussion. e.g., their age and gender, where they're from, where they grew up, who their friends are, whether or not they're politically active and their political bent. I'd also discard questions from people without a reasonable circle of friends (they're probably fake).
If I were the TSA and had random far-reaching powers, I might start using Facebook to find out who my enemies are, who's speaking out against me and where that social meme originated. It's a handy database.
This is a dangerous precedent for so many reasons.
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Facebook didn't *need* investors.
This would be as stupid as a Starbucks IPO.
I had the same problem recently. I spoke with my manager and I personally wiped my machine.
No problems. Everything important was already handed off.
"Carpentry" in the U.S. has become the art of running slices of milled grade-A lumber through machines. Not a hand-finished edge on anything. The greater your skill level, the fewer machines you need to run the lumber through, the fewer tool changes you need to make, the less material you waste and the better you can hide your rough cuts.
You can almost see the prices go up with each tool change.
"Obviously you don't really want people graduating who can't (and don't) follow relatively simple rules, but at the same time, asking people to regurgitate 100 pages of material they just pulled out of a book isn't working to well, especially as grad students are relatively poorer, and don't really want to be wasting type typing something that isn't their own work anyway."
This is all undergrad stuff. If you can't do this easily as a grad student, then... you probably shouldn't have a bachelor's degree, much less be considered for a masters or doctorate.
You're suggesting to protect against SQL injection by passing unsanitized user input as parameters?
Strangely, I agree with the guy. Although I'd like to add:
ST:TMP -> probably good if you didn't see 2001. It was released over 10 years after 2001 when Star Wars was everywhere and people weren't expecting to see things like 2001.
ST:IV was... corny nostalgia, but I can't argue. It was a very successful film.
ST:Nemesis was an okay remake of ST:The Wrath of Khan, but there are a lot of fans who never got into TOS, so it's forgivable.
ST:TOS has a lot of post-WW2 influence. Particularly in sub warfare. It's strongest in TOS (see Balance of Terror... big racial issues there too), but weakens after TNG, which seems to be mostly influenced by the boring era of cold wars, superpowers, stable politics and diplomacy.
Don't forget the feature where you're exporting your data to another country.
Turn down your confirmation bias. There are lots of comments on those links which predicted things accurately too.
My stance at the time was strongly to avoid investing in RIM because it was a continuous mystery as to how a company so lacking in innovation hasn't been dethroned. Any day Motorola, Nokia or the other players of the time could have manufactured a Blackberry killer... but nobody did. They made gadgets with keyboards, but ignored corporate email, the BES model and device security. Only recent versions of IOS support reasonable security features like encryption, lockout and wipe, and corporate policies.
Apple made a consumer phone so popular that even without directly competitive features, it dug so hard into RIM's business that it became a business phone. *That* I certainly didn't see coming.
If somebody told me that was going to happen in 2007, I would have called them crazy. "RIM's stupid, but they're not bloody stark-raving incompetent morons...." And I would have been wrong.
I just started using an old mac. My first exposure.
I was surprised that my mouse has not 1 button... but three, and a 2-axis scroll wheel. http://www.agavegroup.com/?p=33
It only *looks* like it has one button. Horrible design.
And as others have mentioned, the single menu-bar is terrible on multiple displays.
You're not allowed to use Home and Student for part of your job.
Office Home and Business is $249 per machine.
Bad analogy when engineering is a highly competitive field. People work hard and *want* to become engineers and those who apply and don't get in, or drop out before they finish will probably still be building and tinkering with stuff their whole lives.
I have no clue why there's a split on gender lines, but it seems really unfair to discriminate against the people who do apply because their gender is overrepresented.
That's the strategy in the Ballmer era. He's an idiot.
Apple almost died in the Gates era. Either Gates jumped ship just as Jobs and Google was taking the market, or Gates' Embrace-extend-extinguish or "cut off their air supply" strategies were so effective at stifling innovation, that things didn't take off until he took a back seat to focus on his philanthropy.
Jobs' innovation in iTunes was not the iPod BTW. Apple was a over-priced, featureless also-ran. 5GB HDD, Firewire interface and 10h battery life. It couldn't record, it wasn't solid state, it had no external media and no removable battery. There was a lot of competition from Rio, Sandisk, Sony, etc.
Jobs' innovation was the iTunes market, and realizing that you could double the price of a product by streamlining the design, managing the user's experience and minimizing features.
So glad to see that crappy artificial glare effect gone. No more registry hacks or falling back to the Classic UI to turn it off.
It's naive to think that this has anything to do with a debate over a condom between two consenting adults in Sweden.
We'll see what happens.
It's on the Internet:
"1) Julian Assange has not been charged with any offense. 2) Sweden has a bilateral agreement with the United States which would allow it to surrender Julian Assange without going through the traditional tests and standards of regular, lengthy ’extradition’ procedures."
http://justice4assange.com/US-Extradition.html
If you're not in the U.S., putting your data under U.S. jurisdiction *can* be an unacceptable risk.
Protections for non-citizens, non-residents are pretty slim.
Microsoft *does* have controls. They support your point though. Microsoft designed the controls to prevent wholesale counterfeiting, not private piracy.
I thought that too.. in 1995.
Overt use of power is less frightening than unchecked covert abuse of surveillance equipment.
source?
This is not a problem which can be solved with a shopping trip.
Bicycle mirrors either get damaged in bicycle racks or stolen. Mirrors that are compact and durable are too small to be seen while riding on bumpy under-maintained city streets. Helmet mirrors are great for long trips, but too fragile for daily commuting.
As a cyclist, I've grown used to not trusting my ears. Silent cars were the first problem, but now e-bikes are very common, often overtake within inches and don't ring their bells. I look more carefully now. Just because I don't hear a vehicle doesn't mean that somebody isn't inches from me.
You just haven't experienced it yet. Hybrids also have more efficient and quieter tires.
It's bad on a bicycle at speed too. You shoulder check and *woah*, there's a car two meters from your back wheel.
Once the car is going past 50kph, I don't see any point in these sounds, but maybe there's a reason I haven't thought of.
Most people on BBSes were in the local calling range. Most people on Slashdot, I'll never meet. Ever.
I miss BBSes too.
There were plenty of paid ones.
Free for 30 minutes, pay for more access. Pay for file access and doors.
Telephone lines weren't free, and multitasking hardware was expensive too. There were lots which had access to echomail and basic doors access for free.
When you didn't have money, the trick was to have a giant list of telephone numbers on the wall so that you could program them all in your autodialer, then go read a book or something until one of the lines rang through to a modem. Then you could spend a night on a half dozen different boards.
If I were an oppressive government, I'd use the additional information about the person posting the questions to bias the discussion. e.g., their age and gender, where they're from, where they grew up, who their friends are, whether or not they're politically active and their political bent. I'd also discard questions from people without a reasonable circle of friends (they're probably fake).
If I were the TSA and had random far-reaching powers, I might start using Facebook to find out who my enemies are, who's speaking out against me and where that social meme originated. It's a handy database.
This is a dangerous precedent for so many reasons.