> With the other, I'm being offered a chance to get into management, something I also > enjoy doing and am seriously considering for the rest of my working life.
And besides, you will never have to think or learn again (after you learn to play golf, of course).
> The issue here is the age of my grey matter. Will I still be employable in tech at this > age and beyond? Or should I relinquish the struggle to keep up with progress and take > the comfy 'old man' management route so that I can stay employable even in my twilight > years?
Give it up. Your're already an old man. Your grey matter is totally ossified. Have you ever heard of anyone over 39 accomplishing anything?
The fact that you even ask this question tells us the answer. You clearly see learning as a chore, and probably always have. Go into management. You are CEO material.
I know people for whom it would be serious issue if they were literate enough to read anything more complex than a stop sign. Some of them are managers.
"The magnetic field lines are clearly visible. "
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Very strange, as magnetic field lines are entirely imaginary.
> Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban writes that the problem with companies who have built > their business around free is that the more success you have in delivering free, the > more expensive it is to stay at the top.
One of my complaints about Postini (and whatever it is that CenturyTel uses) was that the "virus" filters cannot be turned off. I have no Microsoft or Apple software.
> Who uses their ISP's email/webspace anymore anyway?
Not me any more, and that was one of the reasons. I pay Newsguy for Usenet and email service and also have another address provided by friends. All I want CenturyTel to do is handle packets.
My previous ISP switched me over to Postini with no advance notice (we got a cheery note from marketing after the deed was done). Blocked half the spam and half the ham. They told us how to disable the filtering "features" but it turned out that all the filtering could not be turned off.
> Instead of wasting energy making it accelerate unnecessarily quickly, how about giving > it a usefully long range?
This is electric, not gas. That isn't a tradeoff. Any electric motor capable of acceptable performance at highway speeds will accelerate very well: it's the way electric motors are. If you put in a feeble motor barely able to go 65mph on the level you would only gain a little range, and nobody would buy it. And it could still lay rubber.
> Finally, and I think most importantly, think about the fact-checking this provides for > Wikipedia. If the opposing attorney knows that information is coming from Wikipedia, he > or she is going to target that info and try to break it.
She is going to tell the judge the information came from an encyclopedia and the judge is going to disallow it, in the USA.
Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is not a primary source. It's excellent for background and self-education but for any serious purpose such as preparing expert testimony you must follow the links to the primary sources (and get those links from two or more secondary sources). This applies to textbooks and handbooks as well.
It's just like most everything else people put up on the Web. They're just saying you can download a copy and look at it but you can't distribute any copies or create any derivatives. I suppose some people might find it mildly amusing. Nothing to do with Open Source, at any rate.
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> Some colleges have mandatory retirement at 67.
Except for a few narrow exceptions mandatory retirement is illegal in the USA.
> With the other, I'm being offered a chance to get into management, something I also
> enjoy doing and am seriously considering for the rest of my working life.
And besides, you will never have to think or learn again (after you learn to play golf, of course).
> The issue here is the age of my grey matter. Will I still be employable in tech at this
> age and beyond? Or should I relinquish the struggle to keep up with progress and take
> the comfy 'old man' management route so that I can stay employable even in my twilight
> years?
Give it up. Your're already an old man. Your grey matter is totally ossified. Have you ever heard of anyone over 39 accomplishing anything?
The fact that you even ask this question tells us the answer. You clearly see learning as a chore, and probably always have. Go into management. You are CEO material.
Maybe they did do it to LA. And nobody noticed.
Governatorese.
> This is a non-issue.
I know people for whom it would be serious issue if they were literate enough to read anything more complex than a stop sign. Some of them are managers.
Very strange, as magnetic field lines are entirely imaginary.
> Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban writes that the problem with companies who have built
> their business around free is that the more success you have in delivering free, the
> more expensive it is to stay at the top.
It is best that no one stay on top.
One of my complaints about Postini (and whatever it is that CenturyTel uses) was that the "virus" filters cannot be turned off. I have no Microsoft or Apple software.
> Who uses their ISP's email/webspace anymore anyway?
Not me any more, and that was one of the reasons. I pay Newsguy for Usenet and email service and also have another address provided by friends. All I want CenturyTel to do is handle packets.
My previous ISP switched me over to Postini with no advance notice (we got a cheery note from marketing after the deed was done). Blocked half the spam and half the ham. They told us how to disable the filtering "features" but it turned out that all the filtering could not be turned off.
I'm not with that ISP any more.
Not as long as you scrape all the dog hair off first.
> Perhaps it's 45 minutes for a full charge?
That's 45 minutes when plugged into an "ordinary" 480V outlet. For the ten minute charge you'll need 480V 3 phase (at least).
That's cool, but film of his broadcast power transmitter in action would be just a bit more exciting (just before it crashed the power plant).
> Instead of wasting energy making it accelerate unnecessarily quickly, how about giving
> it a usefully long range?
This is electric, not gas. That isn't a tradeoff. Any electric motor capable of acceptable performance at highway speeds will accelerate very well: it's the way electric motors are. If you put in a feeble motor barely able to go 65mph on the level you would only gain a little range, and nobody would buy it. And it could still lay rubber.
And here I was expecting video of something of Tesla's. Now that would be cool. Instead it's just some electric car.
> ...like when you refer to the American Base at Okinawa...
Yes. "From a European Space Agency spaceport in South America" would have been ok.
European Union != Europe.
No. From a South American spaceport. As far as I know there are no spaceports in Europe. Though you *could* call it a French spaceport...
ROFL.
> Finally, and I think most importantly, think about the fact-checking this provides for
> Wikipedia. If the opposing attorney knows that information is coming from Wikipedia, he
> or she is going to target that info and try to break it.
She is going to tell the judge the information came from an encyclopedia and the judge is going to disallow it, in the USA.
The big deal is that Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia (or handbook or textbook), is not a primary source.
Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is not a primary source. It's excellent for background and self-education but for any serious purpose such as preparing expert testimony you must follow the links to the primary sources (and get those links from two or more secondary sources). This applies to textbooks and handbooks as well.
> ...could these projects build off the code and use it to design their own games?
Not legally.
It's just like most everything else people put up on the Web. They're just saying you can download a copy and look at it but you can't distribute any copies or create any derivatives. I suppose some people might find it mildly amusing. Nothing to do with Open Source, at any rate.
Best or worst?
Thanks. That is very, very different from what the summary says.