Most schools will let you test out of courses - you just take a test at the beginning of the semester to demonstrate that you already know what they were planning on teaching you, and they give you the credit. Saves a lot of time. The second time I went to college, I tested out of basically everything but "computer lab," did all my lab work for the trimester the first week (I had been working as a programmer for 2 years and could type 90wpm), and then spent the next few months hanging out in third-year networking classes learning about SNA and the OSI model and all that.
Of course, I could argue that SNA and the OSI model turned out to be a bigger waste of my time than Gen-Ed classes ever could...;)
After downloading all my content from FB (and another blog site, and a personal page at the university where I used to work, and personal pages where I now work), I uploaded a bunch to a blog, gave my friends the URL to it, deleted my account (which had a persistent error anyway), then set up a new account with tight security and far fewer friends (mainly family) where I just post links to interesting things on my blog, and a public page where I post a subset of those links.
Why? Well, people are gonna see ads wherever they see my content, but on the blog, they see fewer ads and any ad revenue goes to me, not FB.
I'll happily use FB or any other social networking site to send traffic to my own site.
Well, pretty much any night of the year, professional astronomers are observing this kind of supernova, so that part is not (to those of us in the field) particularly newsworthy.;)
Early data on stuff from Keck, Gemini or Subaru is rare, yeah, unless you have a bunch of Target-of-Opportunity time or can persuade people to take a few shots for you during their programs. But even on Mauna Kea, there are lesser (but still "huge" to most people) scopes where time's easier to get, so when your survey pipeline (from KAIT or PTF or QUEST or whatever you want) throws you a new target, you don't have to wait more than a couple nights before going after it.
We have somewhere around 40% of the time on the 2.2-meter on Mauna Kea, which is our usual tool for going after SNe, although of course some of the bigger names in the collaboration (Perlmutter, Aldering) get time on Keck as well.
If there hadn't been a lightning strike at the 2.2-m during last weekend's snow-and-lightning storm, I would be observing the M51 supernova this evening (and not for the first time). Pesky lightning!:(
Nice sky there! I've been aware of Hanle/Mt. Saraswati for a while, because it's one of the three observatory sites in the world (the 5000m part of the Atacama Desert in Chile and ~4300m Mt. Evans outside Denver are the other two) that are higher than Mauna Kea (where I work and sometimes take pretty pictures), but this is the first picture I've seen of the night sky there. If I ever get back to India, I want to go there, instead of hanging out in Delhi again.:)
Seriously though, why didnt they do this when VZW started doing it, instead of spending so much on advertising about how awesome their network was (when it wasnt).
Eh, AT&T's LTE roadmap (rollout starts in 2011, but most of it happens in 2012) is super-hyper-extra-old news, it's been set for years. As for why they didn't try to compete more with Verizon... I figure they plan to have an LTE network ready about the same time there's an LTE iPhone to use it. And as someone who grew up with Hell Atlantic, I can attest that there are plenty of people out there whose loathing for AT&T is matched, if not exceeded, by their loathing for Verizon.
The flip side of the question is why Verizon jumped on LTE so early that there weren't even handsets available. Trying to get away from the dead-end of CDMA?:)
Yes, the Shuttle is being retired. But Virgin Galactic is hiring pilots for SpaceShipTwo, which should hit mach 3 during ascent.
So... we've progressed from a very small number of people getting to go mach 3 in the SR-71, and another very small number getting to go even faster as astronauts, to commercial - albeit very expensive - availability of mach 3 joyrides in the next few years. And plenty of other companies are wanting to compete with Virgin, and there's talk of orbital tourism in the not-too-distant future.
All we're really seeing is the government taking a little step back and telling the private sector, "okay, we've been sending a few dozen people a year into space for long enough, let's see you guys really ramp this up."
If space tourism gets to the point in the next ten or twenty years where, say, a few hundred people a year orbit the earth, that'll be a huge increase in speed.
Not to be obtuse, but where exactly is WP7 "well-regarded" beyond, say, WP7 commercials? I read a lot of reviews when it came out, and the most favorable ones seemed to view it as a passable mobile OS but short of features it'd need to really compete with the others. Saying "meh" or calling something mediocre doesn't strike me as regarding it well.
As an American citizen who's used SWIFT transfers, I'm curious whether I have the right to know if American (or any other) authorities have retrieved their banking information. Is that something that could be gotten through a Freedom of Information Act request?
you were able to understand that quote? you must be a professional translator in addition to your other job.
This. Young Miss Woloshyn needs to decide whether to express her opinion in two sentences or three, rather than cramming them all into a single run-on abomination against structure.
For the sake of summary, I suggest she consider a more concise "Waah." It more than adequately conveys what she's trying to pass off as thoughts.
This, a thousand times this. I did programming. I did sysadmin. I did webmaster. I did web dev. I did sysadmin again. I did consulting. Then I got into jobs where I don't even come home from work for a week or two at a time, and clock 12-16 hours a day doing shifts like 5pm-7am or 9am-11pm - even the rare 24 hours straight.
The flip side is that when I do come home, I'm off for at least as many nights as I was away from home, and often more.
It's not for everyone, and it's the kind of thing you really have to explain up front in a relationship, sure, but if you can handle the intensity for short periods of time, the down time in between is pretty sweet.
I don't know if it was legal obligations or what, but Apple being kept off the largest carrier has hurt them a lot
Not legal obligations, but contractual, yeah.
And even though AT&T keeps sending me ads to "add a line" to my plan, suggesting all kinds of phones that aren't iPhones, everyone pretty much knows that if you're going to be on AT&T, an iPhone is the phone to have.
If Verizon gets the iPhone, I expect a lot of users will see it the same way over there.
My late uncle had a Chevette, under the hood of which he mounted an air horn from a Mack Truck. Just in case anyone was in his way and "couldn't hear him."
A red GMC grille badge somehow found its way onto the 'vette, too.
Yeah, this. The government DID get machine translation first - they just didn't tell us all that they had it.:)...of course, since they were running it either on custom milspec kit or earlier-generation iPods/iPhones, they probably didn't get the nifty augmented reality overlay feature.
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Clearly some sort of Eastern/Byzantine Orthodox Pastafarian. Probably celebrates all the key holy days a week off, too.
Interesting... though not as cool as what he did before. :)
Most schools will let you test out of courses - you just take a test at the beginning of the semester to demonstrate that you already know what they were planning on teaching you, and they give you the credit. Saves a lot of time. The second time I went to college, I tested out of basically everything but "computer lab," did all my lab work for the trimester the first week (I had been working as a programmer for 2 years and could type 90wpm), and then spent the next few months hanging out in third-year networking classes learning about SNA and the OSI model and all that.
Of course, I could argue that SNA and the OSI model turned out to be a bigger waste of my time than Gen-Ed classes ever could... ;)
After downloading all my content from FB (and another blog site, and a personal page at the university where I used to work, and personal pages where I now work), I uploaded a bunch to a blog, gave my friends the URL to it, deleted my account (which had a persistent error anyway), then set up a new account with tight security and far fewer friends (mainly family) where I just post links to interesting things on my blog, and a public page where I post a subset of those links.
Why? Well, people are gonna see ads wherever they see my content, but on the blog, they see fewer ads and any ad revenue goes to me, not FB.
I'll happily use FB or any other social networking site to send traffic to my own site.
Well, pretty much any night of the year, professional astronomers are observing this kind of supernova, so that part is not (to those of us in the field) particularly newsworthy. ;)
(The one up on the hill.)
Early data on stuff from Keck, Gemini or Subaru is rare, yeah, unless you have a bunch of Target-of-Opportunity time or can persuade people to take a few shots for you during their programs. But even on Mauna Kea, there are lesser (but still "huge" to most people) scopes where time's easier to get, so when your survey pipeline (from KAIT or PTF or QUEST or whatever you want) throws you a new target, you don't have to wait more than a couple nights before going after it.
We have somewhere around 40% of the time on the 2.2-meter on Mauna Kea, which is our usual tool for going after SNe, although of course some of the bigger names in the collaboration (Perlmutter, Aldering) get time on Keck as well.
If there hadn't been a lightning strike at the 2.2-m during last weekend's snow-and-lightning storm, I would be observing the M51 supernova this evening (and not for the first time). Pesky lightning! :(
...aren't at liberty to say which agencies of which governments we're working for.
Nice sky there! I've been aware of Hanle/Mt. Saraswati for a while, because it's one of the three observatory sites in the world (the 5000m part of the Atacama Desert in Chile and ~4300m Mt. Evans outside Denver are the other two) that are higher than Mauna Kea (where I work and sometimes take pretty pictures), but this is the first picture I've seen of the night sky there. If I ever get back to India, I want to go there, instead of hanging out in Delhi again. :)
As in, big shiny toys.
Of course, you'd have to get yourself to Hawaii...
Seriously though, why didnt they do this when VZW started doing it, instead of spending so much on advertising about how awesome their network was (when it wasnt).
Eh, AT&T's LTE roadmap (rollout starts in 2011, but most of it happens in 2012) is super-hyper-extra-old news, it's been set for years. As for why they didn't try to compete more with Verizon... I figure they plan to have an LTE network ready about the same time there's an LTE iPhone to use it. And as someone who grew up with Hell Atlantic, I can attest that there are plenty of people out there whose loathing for AT&T is matched, if not exceeded, by their loathing for Verizon.
The flip side of the question is why Verizon jumped on LTE so early that there weren't even handsets available. Trying to get away from the dead-end of CDMA? :)
Apparently it helped to, ya know, look in the correct country and all that. ;)
Yes, the Shuttle is being retired. But Virgin Galactic is hiring pilots for SpaceShipTwo, which should hit mach 3 during ascent.
So... we've progressed from a very small number of people getting to go mach 3 in the SR-71, and another very small number getting to go even faster as astronauts, to commercial - albeit very expensive - availability of mach 3 joyrides in the next few years. And plenty of other companies are wanting to compete with Virgin, and there's talk of orbital tourism in the not-too-distant future.
All we're really seeing is the government taking a little step back and telling the private sector, "okay, we've been sending a few dozen people a year into space for long enough, let's see you guys really ramp this up."
If space tourism gets to the point in the next ten or twenty years where, say, a few hundred people a year orbit the earth, that'll be a huge increase in speed.
Where before, virtual worlds were the realm of paid-for subscription-based gaming services like World of Warcraft...
...except that before that, virtual worlds were mostly MUDs, MUSHes, MUCKs, MOOs and such, which were almost all free.
But I guess that history is too ancient for these "Analysts" to be aware of.
Am I the only one that will really miss Symbian?
If the year is 2006 or before, probably not.
If it is 2007 or after, yeah.
It stands to reason that it should be well-regarded by the people who liked what they saw enough to buy one and become users.
If those users are, though, a tiny sliver of the market as a whole, it's hard to call it well-regarded in the broader sense.
Not to be obtuse, but where exactly is WP7 "well-regarded" beyond, say, WP7 commercials? I read a lot of reviews when it came out, and the most favorable ones seemed to view it as a passable mobile OS but short of features it'd need to really compete with the others. Saying "meh" or calling something mediocre doesn't strike me as regarding it well.
As an American citizen who's used SWIFT transfers, I'm curious whether I have the right to know if American (or any other) authorities have retrieved their banking information. Is that something that could be gotten through a Freedom of Information Act request?
you were able to understand that quote? you must be a professional translator in addition to your other job.
This. Young Miss Woloshyn needs to decide whether to express her opinion in two sentences or three, rather than cramming them all into a single run-on abomination against structure.
For the sake of summary, I suggest she consider a more concise "Waah." It more than adequately conveys what she's trying to pass off as thoughts.
You can do long hours for a short period
This, a thousand times this. I did programming. I did sysadmin. I did webmaster. I did web dev. I did sysadmin again. I did consulting. Then I got into jobs where I don't even come home from work for a week or two at a time, and clock 12-16 hours a day doing shifts like 5pm-7am or 9am-11pm - even the rare 24 hours straight.
The flip side is that when I do come home, I'm off for at least as many nights as I was away from home, and often more.
It's not for everyone, and it's the kind of thing you really have to explain up front in a relationship, sure, but if you can handle the intensity for short periods of time, the down time in between is pretty sweet.
See, you only need to change one letter on the Chick-fil-A cows' signs.
That was easy.
I don't know if it was legal obligations or what, but Apple being kept off the largest carrier has hurt them a lot
Not legal obligations, but contractual, yeah.
And even though AT&T keeps sending me ads to "add a line" to my plan, suggesting all kinds of phones that aren't iPhones, everyone pretty much knows that if you're going to be on AT&T, an iPhone is the phone to have.
If Verizon gets the iPhone, I expect a lot of users will see it the same way over there.
My late uncle had a Chevette, under the hood of which he mounted an air horn from a Mack Truck. Just in case anyone was in his way and "couldn't hear him."
A red GMC grille badge somehow found its way onto the 'vette, too.
Yeah, this. The government DID get machine translation first - they just didn't tell us all that they had it. :) ...of course, since they were running it either on custom milspec kit or earlier-generation iPods/iPhones, they probably didn't get the nifty augmented reality overlay feature.
It works just fine, as long as everyone views the same web page at the same time.
Those things are optional, as long as you're serious. And organized.