That would be an odd result from working in gambling. I had to go through the most strenuous security clearance process in my life (bank records for the past 12 months; tax records for the past 5 years; fingerprinting; an interview) to *get* a job in the gambling industry. Admittedly, it's government-run up here in Canadia (also known as the 51st-60th states), but still.
You're both right. Don't talk about yourself too much, develop your personal style, etc. Very good points.
But as someone who just bought an Aprilia Shiver 750, I can tell you that an Italian motorcycle will do wonders for your confidence and sex appeal. If only I'd known this 15 years ago...
The answer to "why does a Japanese automaker decide to skip Michigan" is, more or less, this: unemployment is a lot higher in the south, and wages and benefits are lower (meaning the jobs that do exist aren't as good). Why is unemployment higher in these Republican-blessed states? Answer *that* and you've taken your first step toward enlightenment.
(Note 1: My reference is http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/gapmap/ )
(Note 2: I say all of this from Socialist Ontario, where we've produced more jobs than Michigan since 2004. From wikipedia, "Ontario surpassed Michigan in car production, assembling 2.696 million vehicles in 2004.")
You know, not all 17- and 18-year-old kids "have a real plan." And oddly enough, I don't think we should expect them to.
Here's a personal counterpoint: I went to a good CS school to get a degree so I could write computer games (the plan!). I enrolled in the the co-op education program (so I could get those paid internships!). And after a couple of internships, I learned that writing computer games actually kind of sucks.
So I went to grad school to get a PhD, so I could become a professor. Not to avoid the real world, but because I really liked being a TA: running lab sessions for 20-40 students (and giving the occasional lecture). I was good at it, students liked me, etc.
I got a PhD. But you know what? About a year before I finished, I realized that I didn't really like research. So I went looking for a job. Ended up as a "management consultant" with a starting salary in the low six figures, and ramping up from there. So much for minimum wage. And my company hires plenty of smart BA and BSc students (in the high 5-figures) every year. (Then, if you're good, we pay for business school - if you want to go.)
But you know what? Now I'm not sure I want to be a consultant anymore. It's funny how big plans don't always take you where you expect. There might be a lesson in there.
My biggest regrets? That I didn't spend a year on exchange to Denmark (where I am rightnow) or Spain (where I've visited) so I could expand my horizons. As long as you're making enough for food, shelter, and some left over, money really doesn't buy happiness. College isn't just about classes: it's about the dorms, the parties, the professors, the trips abroad during summer, the exchange programs, etc.
So follow the parent's advice (despite my story, I agree: it's the right advice for some people). Or stop looking at life as a linear-optimization problem, go to college, get "educated", and become "well-rounded". Live the life you want to lead.
And if it matters that much to you, run the damn VM to get around the stupid IT policy.:-)
Damn. I was hoping you wouldn't notice - I have a set of tires I would be willing to part with for only, say, $20,000.
Also, tire costs depend very much on the diameter and width of the wheel. Drive an econo-box with small wheels (14" or so) and it's possible you can re-tire your car for less than $200. But 17" or 18" rims can cost you close to $200 a tire - even if you're not buying Pirelli P-zeroes. My 5-year-old Mazda's tires cost rather more than I expected, since it has 16-inch wheels.
OTOH, corporate-santioned illegal action on a massive scale (like, for instance, sabotaging 100 cars across the country) has a tendency to create even *more* negative publicity.:-)
By the way, what were you thinking of? Severing brake lines? Loosening the lug nuts on the wheels? 'Cause slashed tires and potatoes in tailpipes wouldn't really work all that well to sway opinions. Of the cars, at least.
I see your point, but I think I agree with Hognoxious. Why mention Lamarck at all?
I thought the invocation of the L-word was related to the weird question about whether the term 'evolution' was being used in the right way. Which dozens of posters above me have answered already, so I defer to them.
What does Lamarck have to do with it? These fish haven't been passing down traits they've developed during their lifetimes - we've been killing all the big fish, so smaller fish are selectively left to breed. That's Darwinian evolution.
In normal situations, I'd imagine that bigger fish tend to reproduce more often. But when some external force (e.g., thousands of fishers in boats with GPS and big nets) changes things, you get a different outcome.
If we preferred to eat fish that were darker in colour, they'd be getting lighter instead.
Either TaeKwonDood misunderstands evolution, or rushed to post his article a little too quickly...
Agreed. Either it needs BPL or it needs Wi-Fi. Most people don't put an ethernet jack wherever they have a power connection, making this somewhat less than ideal for home automation purposes.
If you don't have an ethernet jack where you have power, then how on earth are you powering your wireless hub?
I wholeheartedly agree - anything to make the U.S. even *more* like China is fine by me!
Let's see - the government already has the right to hold you indefinitely without charging you if they think you're a terrorist; listen to any phone call you make, anywhere, whenever, with the help of the phone companies; and executes more people than any other country on earth - except China.
Hey - why not install a firewall that prevents access to 'illegal content', like Australia is trying? As long as you're taking away freedoms, why stop with just prisoners?
MMOGs don't interest me -- the graphics pretty much ruin in. I've thought about getting together with some other "over the hill" D&D geeks on occasion to try table top gaming again, but there isn't enough time for most people to make it a regular scheduled item.
So, writing as an "over the hill geek" - my first roleplaying experience was in late 1983, I have a suggestion: put in the effort to find people who want to play!
I started playing D&D 3rd edition again a few years ago with a few friends. At that point, we were all in grad school. Now, I'm a consultant, and most of the rest are lawyers. The game improves as you age. We haven't been in a dungeon in a year, but we've had fantastic debates over deposing the current ruler of an autocratic city-state ("Who will rule when we leave?" "Do we really have the right?"), the morality of killing the few to save the many (or killing the many to save the even more), and the banter between characters and between characters and NPCs is better than that in most fantasy novels. ('Cause, you know, we're older and more mature than we were when we were in high school.)
So: go check out your local gaming store. Or the local grad school. Or ask around among friends and say you're running a D&D game. Get people to come for just one day of gaming. Some of them will turn out to be hardcore and play every week. Our current group of 4-6 people meets every Sunday for about 5 hours. (I haven't missed a week since January, in spite of working 60+ hour weeks).
Some people will drop out, other will try to join, but it's worth the effort to making it work.
Disclaimer: Children will probably kill the whole thing. But until then... swords high!
2 Chronicles, 4:2, in the Torah, says: Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
I'd quote the Hebrew here, but I can't be sure I'm copying the right verse out of Divrei Yamim B (Chronicles 2), since I don't read Hebrew.
Plus, I think the original comment was meant tongue-in-cheek.
First: You're kind of screwed. I have the exact same printer, and it just doesn't work in Windows 2000. Unless there are two models of this floating around, it's a dumb printer: no on-board processor, and the only RAM is a buffer to print the next bit of the page. The 'Windows Driver' is actually the entire print engine, which tells the printer exactly what to print where. Your computer does all the rendering. (The advantage to this was that, when I upgraded from a 486 to a P133, my printer got faster...:-)
In order to use it with Win2K (and Linux), I bought a $50 P133, installed Win95, and set that machine up as a Print Server. The SuperScript drivers allow you to print PostScript, but I just sent PCL5 at the box, and it worked well. It was fun using a Win95 machine as a front-end to my printer so I could print from Linux. That's about your only bet at this point.
Second: These questions really don't belong on Slashdot. Please quit posting them.
You must understand this about Velikovski's theory. He did not posit that the celestial events occured, and then looked
for confirmation, but rather, from the study of ancient legends, using his skill as a psychocharist, suggested that the
described events happened, and were suppressed (as victims of trauma usually do). That is, Velikovski's wandering
planets are an explination, not a cause. Your "Sun Standing Still" is described as a tippletoe movement of the earth.
This doesn't make any sense: no matter how much of an "expert" I am at something, it doesn't give me the ability to make predictions about other things that I know nothing about... this is called "false authority syndrome," whereby people leverage their knowledge in one particular area (ancient writings) to appear to know something about a totally unrelated area (astronomy).
For instance, I know a great deal about advertisements for Canadian chocolate bars. And I have a list of rocket launches by NASA. I come up with a theory relating the two (whenever a new chocolate bar containing peanuts and marshmallows is introduced, the space shuttle will explode). Wow! Perfect link. I could come up with more 'theories' which make no predictions about future events, and merely relate past events. Theories like that are easy. What Velikovski (or I) needed to do was make predictions for the future.
Also, Velikovski DID submit his books to peer review. But there was an organised campaign by some scientists to
prevent the publication of his book by his first publisher, MacMillan.
And I can submit my chocolate-bar/space-shuttle theory for review, too, and it will vanish without a trace. The point of peer review is that other smart people have to agree with you. It prevents crackpots from getting published in journals.
Lastly, where is this organised campaign? Sounds like another paranoid conspiracy theory to me...
You obviously don't use a lot of sites that requre logins. For instance, I was mystified why I couldn't log into my online broker or either of my bank accounts using mozilla until I remembered that I'd disabled JavaScript, which disabled the pop-up window that allowed me to type in my password. So as long as we're all just using the web to browse slashdot, your solution is great.
Speaking as someone who has TA'd at Brown and at other schools, I have to say that the calibre of undergrads at Brown is exceptional: most of the reason for this is that they seem to honor the non-collaboration policy (which is only applied to some assignments; different courses/assignments can have different policies).
And the non-collaboration policy forces you to learn such advanced things as, say, memory allocation and pointers. As a senior, I worked with a group of other students; at least one had no idea what a pointer was, or how to use it. When faced with a segfault due to dereferencing a null pointer, he repeatedly solved the problem by not dereferencing the pointer, and just changing its value.
After you've learned the basics, collaboration might make more sense as a policy. But you need to have students figure out the basics before they start "studying" other people's code.
One last note: studying others' code isn't necessarily a violation of a non-collaborate policy. But it might be. Use your common sense.
Where are you when people call D&D evil? Where is your tolerance and love when people denounce D&D as demonic and foul and anything else they can come up with? You only speak when the gays/D&D players/others who are attacked in the name of christianity speak up to defend themselves.
The day I see the defenders of christianity loudly denounce, in forums such as these, the people who use the name of Christ as a tool of hate and intolerance is the day I regain respect for christians in general. But as long as the radical anti-gay, anti-D&D, anti-other-religian christians are allowed to use the name of Christ to support their views, without a voice of dissent from the rest of the flock, I have to assume that the radicals speak for the rest of you, as well.
I'm sure running the latest 3D games would reveal a significant fps difference, but since I don't, that doesn't matter.
So do you often read reviews of 3D accelerators to help you decide whether IE5 runs fast enough on your system? Sure, the post was poorly-worded, but you at least knew that it was a story comparing 3D accelerators, not overall system performance.
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I thought "by Anonymous Coward" was the middle line.
Best part about this comment:
Justin Bieber is Canadian.
Shakira is Columbian.
Go Go Gadget U.S. lawmakers!
I seriously wouldn't worry about security issues.
I thought freaking the mundanes was the general goal?
You're both right. Don't talk about yourself too much, develop your personal style, etc. Very good points.
But as someone who just bought an Aprilia Shiver 750, I can tell you that an Italian motorcycle will do wonders for your confidence and sex appeal. If only I'd known this 15 years ago...
The answer to "why does a Japanese automaker decide to skip Michigan" is, more or less, this: unemployment is a lot higher in the south, and wages and benefits are lower (meaning the jobs that do exist aren't as good). Why is unemployment higher in these Republican-blessed states? Answer *that* and you've taken your first step toward enlightenment.
(Note 1: My reference is http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/gapmap/ )
(Note 2: I say all of this from Socialist Ontario, where we've produced more jobs than Michigan since 2004. From wikipedia, "Ontario surpassed Michigan in car production, assembling 2.696 million vehicles in 2004.")
You know, not all 17- and 18-year-old kids "have a real plan." And oddly enough, I don't think we should expect them to.
Here's a personal counterpoint: I went to a good CS school to get a degree so I could write computer games (the plan!). I enrolled in the the co-op education program (so I could get those paid internships!). And after a couple of internships, I learned that writing computer games actually kind of sucks.
So I went to grad school to get a PhD, so I could become a professor. Not to avoid the real world, but because I really liked being a TA: running lab sessions for 20-40 students (and giving the occasional lecture). I was good at it, students liked me, etc.
I got a PhD. But you know what? About a year before I finished, I realized that I didn't really like research. So I went looking for a job. Ended up as a "management consultant" with a starting salary in the low six figures, and ramping up from there. So much for minimum wage. And my company hires plenty of smart BA and BSc students (in the high 5-figures) every year. (Then, if you're good, we pay for business school - if you want to go.)
But you know what? Now I'm not sure I want to be a consultant anymore. It's funny how big plans don't always take you where you expect. There might be a lesson in there.
My biggest regrets? That I didn't spend a year on exchange to Denmark (where I am rightnow) or Spain (where I've visited) so I could expand my horizons. As long as you're making enough for food, shelter, and some left over, money really doesn't buy happiness. College isn't just about classes: it's about the dorms, the parties, the professors, the trips abroad during summer, the exchange programs, etc.
So follow the parent's advice (despite my story, I agree: it's the right advice for some people). Or stop looking at life as a linear-optimization problem, go to college, get "educated", and become "well-rounded". Live the life you want to lead.
And if it matters that much to you, run the damn VM to get around the stupid IT policy. :-)
How about we start shooting people who can't recognize jokes. Sheesh.
Then who would mod for slashdot?
The same people who are shooting everyone. In fact, we could replace the mod system with remote-control rifles.
You don't know the mad poet of Sanaa, author of al-Azif? Read up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred
Quick summary for the lazy: al-Azif later became known as the Necronomicon.
ia! ia! cthulhu ftagn!
Damn. I was hoping you wouldn't notice - I have a set of tires I would be willing to part with for only, say, $20,000.
Also, tire costs depend very much on the diameter and width of the wheel. Drive an econo-box with small wheels (14" or so) and it's possible you can re-tire your car for less than $200. But 17" or 18" rims can cost you close to $200 a tire - even if you're not buying Pirelli P-zeroes. My 5-year-old Mazda's tires cost rather more than I expected, since it has 16-inch wheels.
OTOH, corporate-santioned illegal action on a massive scale (like, for instance, sabotaging 100 cars across the country) has a tendency to create even *more* negative publicity. :-)
By the way, what were you thinking of? Severing brake lines? Loosening the lug nuts on the wheels? 'Cause slashed tires and potatoes in tailpipes wouldn't really work all that well to sway opinions. Of the cars, at least.
I see your point, but I think I agree with Hognoxious. Why mention Lamarck at all?
I thought the invocation of the L-word was related to the weird question about whether the term 'evolution' was being used in the right way. Which dozens of posters above me have answered already, so I defer to them.
I like this idea! What traits do 'no fish' have? Are they made of antimatter? Could we use them as weapons?
The possibilities abound.
What does Lamarck have to do with it? These fish haven't been passing down traits they've developed during their lifetimes - we've been killing all the big fish, so smaller fish are selectively left to breed. That's Darwinian evolution.
In normal situations, I'd imagine that bigger fish tend to reproduce more often. But when some external force (e.g., thousands of fishers in boats with GPS and big nets) changes things, you get a different outcome.
If we preferred to eat fish that were darker in colour, they'd be getting lighter instead.
Either TaeKwonDood misunderstands evolution, or rushed to post his article a little too quickly...
Agreed. Either it needs BPL or it needs Wi-Fi. Most people don't put an ethernet jack wherever they have a power connection, making this somewhat less than ideal for home automation purposes.
If you don't have an ethernet jack where you have power, then how on earth are you powering your wireless hub?
I wholeheartedly agree - anything to make the U.S. even *more* like China is fine by me!
Let's see - the government already has the right to hold you indefinitely without charging you if they think you're a terrorist; listen to any phone call you make, anywhere, whenever, with the help of the phone companies; and executes more people than any other country on earth - except China.
Hey - why not install a firewall that prevents access to 'illegal content', like Australia is trying? As long as you're taking away freedoms, why stop with just prisoners?
Not sure what part of Canada you live in, but where I am, $6 US is about $7.65 Canadian. (With the dollar at 78.5 cents today...)
If an extra $1.65 is a big problem, you might want to save your money for more Kraft Dinner...
So, writing as an "over the hill geek" - my first roleplaying experience was in late 1983, I have a suggestion: put in the effort to find people who want to play!
I started playing D&D 3rd edition again a few years ago with a few friends. At that point, we were all in grad school. Now, I'm a consultant, and most of the rest are lawyers. The game improves as you age. We haven't been in a dungeon in a year, but we've had fantastic debates over deposing the current ruler of an autocratic city-state ("Who will rule when we leave?" "Do we really have the right?"), the morality of killing the few to save the many (or killing the many to save the even more), and the banter between characters and between characters and NPCs is better than that in most fantasy novels. ('Cause, you know, we're older and more mature than we were when we were in high school.)
So: go check out your local gaming store. Or the local grad school. Or ask around among friends and say you're running a D&D game. Get people to come for just one day of gaming. Some of them will turn out to be hardcore and play every week. Our current group of 4-6 people meets every Sunday for about 5 hours. (I haven't missed a week since January, in spite of working 60+ hour weeks).
Some people will drop out, other will try to join, but it's worth the effort to making it work.
Disclaimer: Children will probably kill the whole thing. But until then... swords high!
2 Chronicles, 4:2, in the Torah, says: Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
I'd quote the Hebrew here, but I can't be sure I'm copying the right verse out of Divrei Yamim B (Chronicles 2), since I don't read Hebrew.
Plus, I think the original comment was meant tongue-in-cheek.
First: You're kind of screwed. I have the exact same printer, and it just doesn't work in Windows 2000. Unless there are two models of this floating around, it's a dumb printer: no on-board processor, and the only RAM is a buffer to print the next bit of the page. The 'Windows Driver' is actually the entire print engine, which tells the printer exactly what to print where. Your computer does all the rendering. (The advantage to this was that, when I upgraded from a 486 to a P133, my printer got faster... :-)
In order to use it with Win2K (and Linux), I bought a $50 P133, installed Win95, and set that machine up as a Print Server. The SuperScript drivers allow you to print PostScript, but I just sent PCL5 at the box, and it worked well. It was fun using a Win95 machine as a front-end to my printer so I could print from Linux. That's about your only bet at this point.
Second: These questions really don't belong on Slashdot. Please quit posting them.
For instance, I know a great deal about advertisements for Canadian chocolate bars. And I have a list of rocket launches by NASA. I come up with a theory relating the two (whenever a new chocolate bar containing peanuts and marshmallows is introduced, the space shuttle will explode). Wow! Perfect link. I could come up with more 'theories' which make no predictions about future events, and merely relate past events. Theories like that are easy. What Velikovski (or I) needed to do was make predictions for the future.
And I can submit my chocolate-bar/space-shuttle theory for review, too, and it will vanish without a trace. The point of peer review is that other smart people have to agree with you. It prevents crackpots from getting published in journals.Lastly, where is this organised campaign? Sounds like another paranoid conspiracy theory to me...
You obviously don't use a lot of sites that requre logins. For instance, I was mystified why I couldn't log into my online broker or either of my bank accounts using mozilla until I remembered that I'd disabled JavaScript, which disabled the pop-up window that allowed me to type in my password. So as long as we're all just using the web to browse slashdot, your solution is great.
Thanks for playing.
And the non-collaboration policy forces you to learn such advanced things as, say, memory allocation and pointers. As a senior, I worked with a group of other students; at least one had no idea what a pointer was, or how to use it. When faced with a segfault due to dereferencing a null pointer, he repeatedly solved the problem by not dereferencing the pointer, and just changing its value.
After you've learned the basics, collaboration might make more sense as a policy. But you need to have students figure out the basics before they start "studying" other people's code.
One last note: studying others' code isn't necessarily a violation of a non-collaborate policy. But it might be. Use your common sense.
Where are you when people call D&D evil? Where is your tolerance and love when people denounce D&D as demonic and foul and anything else they can come up with? You only speak when the gays/D&D players/others who are attacked in the name of christianity speak up to defend themselves.
The day I see the defenders of christianity loudly denounce, in forums such as these, the people who use the name of Christ as a tool of hate and intolerance is the day I regain respect for christians in general. But as long as the radical anti-gay, anti-D&D, anti-other-religian christians are allowed to use the name of Christ to support their views, without a voice of dissent from the rest of the flock, I have to assume that the radicals speak for the rest of you, as well.
I'm sure running the latest 3D games would reveal a significant fps difference, but since I don't, that doesn't matter.
So do you often read reviews of 3D accelerators to help you decide whether IE5 runs fast enough on your system? Sure, the post was poorly-worded, but you at least knew that it was a story comparing 3D accelerators, not overall system performance.