Because people are going about it the wrong way. You don't have some bit of matter that collides into anti-matter, and anihilate each other. Don't you think its strange they have some properties that are the exact opposite, but others are the same ?
What happens is a bit matter travels along, then explodes in a cloud of energy, throwing the matter backwards in time (and appearing to us to be anti-matter). It would, to us, appear to have opposite attributes since it is actually going backwards in time.
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In my english class the teacher once picked on a girl and asked her to give her opinion on one of the characters of a book (atticus iirc from to kill a mockingbird) and she answered that her mum had taught her never to judge ppl - and refused to make any 'judgement' about any of the characters.
Actually, at the point in which you typed that, I cannot observe you. So therefore at that point in time, you existed with a probability of having a burrito. It is only by telling me on/. that you don't have a burrito right now that our universes met, and made that true in my universe as well...
I've done it lots of times to replace the fuse when I blow up the motherboard. Its some wierd, tiny fuse, so I just replace it with fuse wire. I've done it 3 times so far. These days I'm more careful when I build my computers..:)
Oh I agree totally. I was just saying that you shouldn't not go to VC's because of pride or anything. I've known too many good ppl get burnt because of a failed non-limited company (or even limited ones )
Say out of J2EE and NET that one is 50% faster than the other (extreme case) and that it would cost you an extra 10 servers. This is pocket change compared to the cost for your team of experts to develop on it, maintain it, and so on. Trying to make the decision on what to chose based on whether you can save money on 10 servers is like worrying about the cost of your wallpaper when you buy a house:)
Borrowed money from friends and family? Thats not such a good example for "self respect".
Where am I, as a poor student, going to find even £10,000 to start up? And what if it fails? I was quoted a figure of around 1 in 10 businesses fail - and you want my friends and family to bear that?
Projects take money and have risk. Why should I risk my own money for an idea with say an 80% chance of working? Not counting the lost time etc.
My university at least has a 'university venture' or whatever they call it. They boast an 80% success rate, and were willing to take on one of my ideas. They offered to put down £40,000 to get it working - at no risk to me. If I had tried to pay for that myself, and lost, well..
Why are there so much anti-university posts on slashdot? In our database course we were taught very clearly why and why not to normalise, and how much.
Are US universities really so bad as most/.'ers make out? Move to england if so:)
I think the reason is that you have
a) The person who is good at computers, so skips uni and goes to work
b) The person who isn't that good, goes to uni then goes to work
c) The person who is good at computers, goes to uni, and then goes to work.
It seems ppl in group A keep meeting ppl in group B. Perhaps this might be because ppl in group C work in jobs that ppl in group A don't, so they never meet.
ytalk totally rocks. I've got it setup so that any of my friends just type "ytalk friend_name" and on the other persons computer it pops up, in kde, a message asking whether to accept - if so up pops a ytalk box. If the other person ignores the message box, the initial person gets a ytalk session saying "This is the answering machine - please leave your message", which will then send an email with the typed in message.
I find this _far_ more powerful than icq, since ytalk does things being able to see each others bash-prompts and ppl typing in real time. Plus I can check my mail anywhere, but checking icq anywhere is a pita.
"Students know all about relational databases, theoretically speaking, but never knew the practical differences between PostGRE or MySQL or why Oracle is so expensive."
In our university we have two modules on databases - where we cover acid etc, and why its good/bad. If you give me the specs of mysql and postgre I'll tell you which one to use when and where.
Oh boy, for someone who's never been to uni, you sure do hate it.;)
I love university - especially from the third year and up. I also find it obvious those who have been and those who haven't (or been but didn't learn anything). For example everytime someone says "I hate xml because its too verbose"
Uni covers a lot of things you just wouldn't do in most jobs. Plus not all of us want to be stuck doing sysadmin work - some of us, surprise surprise, would like to do research.
Agreed - probably like most teens I went down the script-kiddie route (and ended up doing security consultancy heh - pays very well).
The script-kiddie groups I would hang around with would have very strict rules about the damage you could do. There was one guy who couldn't wipe the logs and panicked and wiped the entire server - he was banned from the group.
Actually a lot of the time we would use the servers for downloading things etc, and so it was in our interest to keep the servers running as best we could. We used to maintain quite a number of servers, and to a standard way above what the sysadmins did (we didn't want anyone hacking our/their servers.)
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"organism reproducing"
I knew it! I kept telling my gf they were better by the beach.. oh uh wait
Yes. However given that most of your destinations are probably suns or black holes, you could just aero-brake on them.
Because people are going about it the wrong way. You don't have some bit of matter that collides into anti-matter, and anihilate each other. Don't you think its strange they have some properties that are the exact opposite, but others are the same ?
What happens is a bit matter travels along, then explodes in a cloud of energy, throwing the matter backwards in time (and appearing to us to be anti-matter). It would, to us, appear to have opposite attributes since it is actually going backwards in time.
In my english class the teacher once picked on a girl and asked her to give her opinion on one of the characters of a book (atticus iirc from to kill a mockingbird) and she answered that her mum had taught her never to judge ppl - and refused to make any 'judgement' about any of the characters.
:)
It was kinda cute
Actually, at the point in which you typed that, I cannot observe you. So therefore at that point in time, you existed with a probability of having a burrito. /. that you don't have a burrito right now that our universes met, and made that true in my universe as well...
It is only by telling me on
Ah I love quantum physics
"No! Don't bang on that magne..." BOOOOOOMMM
I've done it lots of times to replace the fuse when I blow up the motherboard. Its some wierd, tiny fuse, so I just replace it with fuse wire. I've done it 3 times so far. These days I'm more careful when I build my computers.. :)
Oh I agree totally. I was just saying that you shouldn't not go to VC's because of pride or anything.
I've known too many good ppl get burnt because of a failed non-limited company (or even limited ones )
Say out of J2EE and NET that one is 50% faster than the other (extreme case) and that it would cost you an extra 10 servers. This is pocket change compared to the cost for your team of experts to develop on it, maintain it, and so on. :)
Trying to make the decision on what to chose based on whether you can save money on 10 servers is like worrying about the cost of your wallpaper when you buy a house
Hardware costs are often the least of your worries.
I'm sure I remember in a previous story about ppl spending £10k per machine for licenses alone for MSQL (just for an example).
It would be cheaper in that case to just buy 100 servers (maybe - supporting costs etc.. )
Just for fun - do you remember that guy who made it possible to write kernel drivers in python?
I forget how - something crazy i expect.
Within acceptable levels - which is why we have venture capitilists, limited companys, and so on.
Borrowed money from friends and family? Thats not such a good example for "self respect".
Where am I, as a poor student, going to find even £10,000 to start up? And what if it fails?
I was quoted a figure of around 1 in 10 businesses fail - and you want my friends and family to bear that?
Projects take money and have risk.
Why should I risk my own money for an idea with say an 80% chance of working? Not counting the lost time etc.
My university at least has a 'university venture' or whatever they call it. They boast an 80% success rate, and were willing to take on one of my ideas. They offered to put down £40,000 to get it working - at no risk to me.
If I had tried to pay for that myself, and lost, well..
If you abolish copyright law, then the GPL wouldn't be needed.
Whats Aggressive mode please?
Why was I moderated down on this post?
He said he was paid to do some research, picked a protocol which has obvious flaws in it, then tells those who question the decision to "grow up".
Seems like a great consultant to me.
Why are there so much anti-university posts on slashdot?
/.'ers make out? Move to england if so :)
In our database course we were taught very clearly why and why not to normalise, and how much.
Are US universities really so bad as most
I think the reason is that you have
a) The person who is good at computers, so skips uni and goes to work
b) The person who isn't that good, goes to uni then goes to work
c) The person who is good at computers, goes to uni, and then goes to work.
It seems ppl in group A keep meeting ppl in group B. Perhaps this might be because ppl in group C work in jobs that ppl in group A don't, so they never meet.
Thoughts?
"I was granted several thousand dollars to do some fairly simple research for AOL.
Some people here appear *angry* that we didn't choose [their favorite instant messaging protocol] and all I can say to you people is "grow up." "
You sound like many a consultant I've met...
ytalk totally rocks. I've got it setup so that any of my friends just type "ytalk friend_name" and on the other persons computer it pops up, in kde, a message asking whether to accept - if so up pops a ytalk box. If the other person ignores the message box, the initial person gets a ytalk session saying "This is the answering machine - please leave your message", which will then send an email with the typed in message.
I find this _far_ more powerful than icq, since ytalk does things being able to see each others bash-prompts and ppl typing in real time. Plus I can check my mail anywhere, but checking icq anywhere is a pita.
I agree - I should have expanded on the example.
:)
I can't be bothered to at the mo tho
"Students know all about relational databases, theoretically speaking, but never knew the practical differences between PostGRE or MySQL or why Oracle is so expensive."
In our university we have two modules on databases - where we cover acid etc, and why its good/bad. If you give me the specs of mysql and postgre I'll tell you which one to use when and where.
Oh boy, for someone who's never been to uni, you sure do hate it. ;)
I love university - especially from the third year and up. I also find it obvious those who have been and those who haven't (or been but didn't learn anything). For example everytime someone says "I hate xml because its too verbose"
Uni covers a lot of things you just wouldn't do in most jobs. Plus not all of us want to be stuck doing sysadmin work - some of us, surprise surprise, would like to do research.
Agreed - probably like most teens I went down the script-kiddie route (and ended up doing security consultancy heh - pays very well).
The script-kiddie groups I would hang around with would have very strict rules about the damage you could do. There was one guy who couldn't wipe the logs and panicked and wiped the entire server - he was banned from the group.
Actually a lot of the time we would use the servers for downloading things etc, and so it was in our interest to keep the servers running as best we could. We used to maintain quite a number of servers, and to a standard way above what the sysadmins did (we didn't want anyone hacking our/their servers.)
Have you tried the dual optical mice? MS does them, dunno about others.