Check it out, those photos on the first page of the link are notthumbnails! Yes folks, they are the full 330K jpegs, merely resized to the thumbnail size. Don't you hate that? I thought that habit died in 1999.
I'm in no better of a situation, with my all-powerful BSEE degree. But I am fully confident that no matter where you go, the best opportunities will always be in the U.S. Why else do you think everyone tries to come here to work?
We have an abundance of industries, no bloody civil wars at the moment, a great environment of free speech, and an astronomical average standard of living. Even if you don't get a programming job right now, you'll still be better off than most of the rest of the world. Assuming you could even manage to arrange it, consider the conditions you would have to accept. Work 14 hour days in cramped conditions with 100 people speaking a different language, make perhaps 10% of what you would make in the US, live in a tiny apartment in foreign city, and face termination at any moment because there are 100 more people waiting outside every day to take your place. Yeah, people might joke that it's already this way in the U.S., but that's just not the case. Even if you sell auto parts, or pour concrete, you're still better off.
The economy IS turning around. I'm optimistic even though I was laid off right before Thanksgiving. At this point, 1.5 years of mechanical engineering experience isn't really helping me get an electrical engineering position, but I am confident that I will find something. If you leave now, you might miss out on our next boom. And this one might be real growth, not a bubble of hopes and gambles by investors.
Maybe our garden-variety programming jobs are all moving overseas. OK...maybe this is just a natural progression? We used to make shoes and T-shirts here, right? And then the other developing countries said "Hey, we can do that!" and we moved on to more complex and technological things. Now the other countries have had a chance to pick up some engineering textbooks and say "Hey, we can do that too!" So now it's time to find something even more specialized and technologically advanced. I think that the future of engineering in the U.S. is the consulting specialist. Boilerplate work is already being taken over by other developing countries; here we have to target the jobs that are one-of-a-kind, bordering on actual research instead of just application. I may be wrong, but that's one possibility.
Anyway, get some job, or get some more school. All of this engineering talent floating around in the U.S. is a huge untapped resource, and I happen to know that the U.S. doesn't let untapped resources just sit there forever.
I like that idea, but I don't think it's the case. For those who don't know what the parent poster means, you can cut a hologram up and each piece will have the complete image. We do know that the brain's functions *are* physically separated, though it can be "reprogammed" in a sense, where one portion of the brain can learn to take over for a portion that has been damaged. I agree that the memories won't be grouped in a single place corresponding to the specific memory, but based on branching paths through many neurons scattered through the brain. If a part of the brain is damaged, some of the memory can be lost. However it might not be the whole memory, and perhaps the brain can do a form of error correction and recover some parts of a memory.
So while I agree that there is no specific place for a memory, I don't believe that you could remove a significant chunk of memory-containing brain and still have all memories intact.
That will also prevent the battery from dying an early death, and force him to buy a $250 new battery.
You really need to keep a laptop battery topped off as much as possible, and run from wall current unless you really need to use the laptop battery. Deep cycle discharges are the fastest way to wear out your laptop's battery.
I recommend a black suit, dark sunglasses, three-day stubble, and suspicious leer to help complete the image. If you've got a scar on your face, flaunt it.
For extra-good messing-with-security fun, have a friend dressed similarly and with an identical case stand near you and set his case down near yours. When he leaves, he takes your case and you take his. Then get into a shiny black limo.
It's not OSDN Personals, it's Match.com contracted out to OSDN, just like millions of other sites out there. It's all the same huge pool of people, most of whom know nothing about Slashdot, and carries all the same exorbitant fees and such that I'm sure OSDN gets a cut of.
Whatever, dude. I just figured the typical Apple product user is like the typical cell phone user; they'll go to the dealer and buy a new battery. Of course I am perfectly aware of sources to get things cheaply, and have the tools and experience to replace an iPod battery should I need to. And I thought my post was pretty clear about lithium-ion batteries not having a memory effect like ni-cads, and mentioned the number of full and partial charge cycles. I'm suggesting that the iPod's battery is specified within the technological capabilities of today's battery science, and that if users insist on using the iPod in the way that is most efficient at using up full-discharge cycles, then they should expect the battery to wear out. In a continual full-discharge/full-recharge usage pattern, they will get about 4000 hours of listening time on that battery. A $99 replacement fee works out to less than 2.5 cents per hour for not having to tether the iPod to an external power source. A company's sole purpose is to make a profit, anyway...Apple's mission is not to cover the world in fruit-named colors and cheese graters, it's to make money hand over fist. If people are aware that continual use of an iPod will kill the battery in 18 months, and there is a $99 replacement fee unless you buy the extended warranty, then it is up to them to purchase from Apple or not. I happen to know that a lithium-ion battery will not last forever, and others should do their research before buying a $400 toy. Again, Apple's reason for existing is to make money, and if people still buy their products, they have no reason to change the way they do things.
It is sold as a device that can store and play back music, which happens to have a battery inside should you want to use it away from another source of power. If you use your iPod's battery almost continously, it will wear out. It happens to work quite well as a portable device, and since it would take about 500 recharges to kill an iPod battery, that's about 4000 hours of completely wire-free music you just experienced. Replacing the battery at $99, that's a 2.5 cent hourly charge for refusing to plug your iPod into the wall until the battery is completely run dry.
First, lithium-ion batteries are not as simple as other rechargeable batteries. If the battery and control circuitry aren't set up right, the battery will explode or catch fire.
Second, whose cell phone batteries are only $10? A new lithium-ion battery for my phone costs about $50, and that's just something you can snap on and off yourself. To have someone open up your iPod and replace the battery, then mail it back...doesn't sound that unreasonable.
It's just what you get for buying a device that doesn't have an easily replaceable battery.
That said, there are ways to increase the lifetime of a lithium-ion battery. Back when I started college, we were all required to buy laptops. I was one of the few who actually read the manual, and it said the battery was good for a couple hundred full recharges, and about 800 partial recharges. Some people don't understand that lithium-ion batteries don't have the same memory effect that nickel-cadmium ones do. So for the duration of college, I kept the laptop plugged in whenever possible, and only ran the battery all the way down when I needed to use it for that long. Other people had to buy new $250 batteries, but my old laptop still gets about 2 hours life out of its five-year-old battery. I do the same for my cell phone; keep it on a charger whenever possible, and it still had good battery life when I need it.
If you use your iPod away from any source of recharging power so much, then I guess you just have to live with it. It's a fact of lithium-ion batteries, Apple's doing the best with what technology is available. And $99 isn't too expensive a replacement cost, if you had 18 months of wireless music. If you're willing to plug in whenever you sit down near a wall outlet, and don't wait until the battery is dead before recharging it, then your iPod will last much longer.
GNU/Linux does not exist. Either you're using the term Linux to specify the kernel, linux as a generic term for any distribution which has the Linux kernel at it's core, or you should specify that you are refering to X Linux. Stallman is free to call his linux distribution GNU/Linux, if he prefers.
Well, I'm not really impressed with it. I mean, don't actual race car drivers and archeologists have to deal with real life anyway?
I think they could make a much more interesting show by portraying a gamer dealing with life and raising kids. Understandably, this would be a fantasy show.
When industry gets on the ball and starts developing space programs, we'll start seeing some real progress. Of course NASA's work is extremely valuable, but we need commercial support to really get things done. Satellites have been a huge success; now all we need is a very attractive financial reason to develop space commerce.
It might start off slow, though; in the end it will probably require starting an entirely new economic sector. Why do we need to mine asteroids and build huge solar collectors? To supply energy and materials for other space structures, of course. A self-perpetuating system like that is going to take time to build up. Satellites plug in very well to Earth's existing economy, but where does manned space exploration fit in....
First ever faster-than-light Slashdotting, apparently. I wonder if anyone in Berlin suffered from a flicker-induced seizure before the house went completely dark.
See, I live in Wisconsin. And it's starting to get kind of cold. We'll let you run an air duct from here to Australia and take our cold air, if you put in another air duct blowing some of your warm air back here. Give us a call and we'll talk it over.
I think you should find out if these students are more likely to use MS Access in an office setting, or developing SQL database applications in some programming language. Once you discover what the students will be using their database skills for, the answer will become obvious.
carve a potato into the shape of a gun and apply black shoe polish
MMMmmmm...where do I find a potato that big? If someone spammed me offering a potato of that size, I would buy it. Giant potato...one stick of butter...one tub of sour cream...oh the joy.
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Check it out, those photos on the first page of the link are notthumbnails! Yes folks, they are the full 330K jpegs, merely resized to the thumbnail size. Don't you hate that? I thought that habit died in 1999.
I'm in no better of a situation, with my all-powerful BSEE degree. But I am fully confident that no matter where you go, the best opportunities will always be in the U.S. Why else do you think everyone tries to come here to work?
We have an abundance of industries, no bloody civil wars at the moment, a great environment of free speech, and an astronomical average standard of living. Even if you don't get a programming job right now, you'll still be better off than most of the rest of the world. Assuming you could even manage to arrange it, consider the conditions you would have to accept. Work 14 hour days in cramped conditions with 100 people speaking a different language, make perhaps 10% of what you would make in the US, live in a tiny apartment in foreign city, and face termination at any moment because there are 100 more people waiting outside every day to take your place. Yeah, people might joke that it's already this way in the U.S., but that's just not the case. Even if you sell auto parts, or pour concrete, you're still better off.
The economy IS turning around. I'm optimistic even though I was laid off right before Thanksgiving. At this point, 1.5 years of mechanical engineering experience isn't really helping me get an electrical engineering position, but I am confident that I will find something. If you leave now, you might miss out on our next boom. And this one might be real growth, not a bubble of hopes and gambles by investors.
Maybe our garden-variety programming jobs are all moving overseas. OK...maybe this is just a natural progression? We used to make shoes and T-shirts here, right? And then the other developing countries said "Hey, we can do that!" and we moved on to more complex and technological things. Now the other countries have had a chance to pick up some engineering textbooks and say "Hey, we can do that too!" So now it's time to find something even more specialized and technologically advanced. I think that the future of engineering in the U.S. is the consulting specialist. Boilerplate work is already being taken over by other developing countries; here we have to target the jobs that are one-of-a-kind, bordering on actual research instead of just application. I may be wrong, but that's one possibility.
Anyway, get some job, or get some more school. All of this engineering talent floating around in the U.S. is a huge untapped resource, and I happen to know that the U.S. doesn't let untapped resources just sit there forever.
I followed the link, but I came away with more questions than answers, unfortunately.
I like that idea, but I don't think it's the case. For those who don't know what the parent poster means, you can cut a hologram up and each piece will have the complete image. We do know that the brain's functions *are* physically separated, though it can be "reprogammed" in a sense, where one portion of the brain can learn to take over for a portion that has been damaged. I agree that the memories won't be grouped in a single place corresponding to the specific memory, but based on branching paths through many neurons scattered through the brain. If a part of the brain is damaged, some of the memory can be lost. However it might not be the whole memory, and perhaps the brain can do a form of error correction and recover some parts of a memory.
So while I agree that there is no specific place for a memory, I don't believe that you could remove a significant chunk of memory-containing brain and still have all memories intact.
You're supposed to follow the link, to get to the funny.
Seems like the Beagle team should have coughed up the cash for a Monster Cable surge protector.
That will also prevent the battery from dying an early death, and force him to buy a $250 new battery.
You really need to keep a laptop battery topped off as much as possible, and run from wall current unless you really need to use the laptop battery. Deep cycle discharges are the fastest way to wear out your laptop's battery.
Nahhh I just see match.com's stuff on sites all over the web. They and one other personals company basically run the whole market.
I recommend a black suit, dark sunglasses, three-day stubble, and suspicious leer to help complete the image. If you've got a scar on your face, flaunt it.
For extra-good messing-with-security fun, have a friend dressed similarly and with an identical case stand near you and set his case down near yours. When he leaves, he takes your case and you take his. Then get into a shiny black limo.
It's not OSDN Personals, it's Match.com contracted out to OSDN, just like millions of other sites out there. It's all the same huge pool of people, most of whom know nothing about Slashdot, and carries all the same exorbitant fees and such that I'm sure OSDN gets a cut of.
Whatever, dude. I just figured the typical Apple product user is like the typical cell phone user; they'll go to the dealer and buy a new battery. Of course I am perfectly aware of sources to get things cheaply, and have the tools and experience to replace an iPod battery should I need to. And I thought my post was pretty clear about lithium-ion batteries not having a memory effect like ni-cads, and mentioned the number of full and partial charge cycles. I'm suggesting that the iPod's battery is specified within the technological capabilities of today's battery science, and that if users insist on using the iPod in the way that is most efficient at using up full-discharge cycles, then they should expect the battery to wear out. In a continual full-discharge/full-recharge usage pattern, they will get about 4000 hours of listening time on that battery. A $99 replacement fee works out to less than 2.5 cents per hour for not having to tether the iPod to an external power source. A company's sole purpose is to make a profit, anyway...Apple's mission is not to cover the world in fruit-named colors and cheese graters, it's to make money hand over fist. If people are aware that continual use of an iPod will kill the battery in 18 months, and there is a $99 replacement fee unless you buy the extended warranty, then it is up to them to purchase from Apple or not. I happen to know that a lithium-ion battery will not last forever, and others should do their research before buying a $400 toy. Again, Apple's reason for existing is to make money, and if people still buy their products, they have no reason to change the way they do things.
It is sold as a device that can store and play back music, which happens to have a battery inside should you want to use it away from another source of power. If you use your iPod's battery almost continously, it will wear out. It happens to work quite well as a portable device, and since it would take about 500 recharges to kill an iPod battery, that's about 4000 hours of completely wire-free music you just experienced. Replacing the battery at $99, that's a 2.5 cent hourly charge for refusing to plug your iPod into the wall until the battery is completely run dry.
First, lithium-ion batteries are not as simple as other rechargeable batteries. If the battery and control circuitry aren't set up right, the battery will explode or catch fire.
Second, whose cell phone batteries are only $10? A new lithium-ion battery for my phone costs about $50, and that's just something you can snap on and off yourself. To have someone open up your iPod and replace the battery, then mail it back...doesn't sound that unreasonable.
It's just what you get for buying a device that doesn't have an easily replaceable battery.
That said, there are ways to increase the lifetime of a lithium-ion battery. Back when I started college, we were all required to buy laptops. I was one of the few who actually read the manual, and it said the battery was good for a couple hundred full recharges, and about 800 partial recharges. Some people don't understand that lithium-ion batteries don't have the same memory effect that nickel-cadmium ones do. So for the duration of college, I kept the laptop plugged in whenever possible, and only ran the battery all the way down when I needed to use it for that long. Other people had to buy new $250 batteries, but my old laptop still gets about 2 hours life out of its five-year-old battery. I do the same for my cell phone; keep it on a charger whenever possible, and it still had good battery life when I need it.
If you use your iPod away from any source of recharging power so much, then I guess you just have to live with it. It's a fact of lithium-ion batteries, Apple's doing the best with what technology is available. And $99 isn't too expensive a replacement cost, if you had 18 months of wireless music. If you're willing to plug in whenever you sit down near a wall outlet, and don't wait until the battery is dead before recharging it, then your iPod will last much longer.
I corrected your comment:
GNU/Linux does not exist. Either you're using the term Linux to specify the kernel, linux as a generic term for any distribution which has the Linux kernel at it's core, or you should specify that you are refering to X Linux. Stallman is free to call his linux distribution GNU/Linux, if he prefers.
I'm sorry, I should have said GNU/Linux.
Oh, painful as a hornet's sting is the knowing smirk of a nerd!
Linux has a stable kernel, that counts for something right?
Well, I'm not really impressed with it. I mean, don't actual race car drivers and archeologists have to deal with real life anyway?
I think they could make a much more interesting show by portraying a gamer dealing with life and raising kids. Understandably, this would be a fantasy show.
When industry gets on the ball and starts developing space programs, we'll start seeing some real progress. Of course NASA's work is extremely valuable, but we need commercial support to really get things done. Satellites have been a huge success; now all we need is a very attractive financial reason to develop space commerce.
It might start off slow, though; in the end it will probably require starting an entirely new economic sector. Why do we need to mine asteroids and build huge solar collectors? To supply energy and materials for other space structures, of course. A self-perpetuating system like that is going to take time to build up. Satellites plug in very well to Earth's existing economy, but where does manned space exploration fit in....
First ever faster-than-light Slashdotting, apparently. I wonder if anyone in Berlin suffered from a flicker-induced seizure before the house went completely dark.
It was a 48 megabyte AVI file! Nobody got a chance to see it.
A large number of games use cel shading these days. It's the current fad, didn't you know?
I think the newest Zelda game has it.
No, I got as far as "Holy Mice" and decided it had gone too far.
See, I live in Wisconsin. And it's starting to get kind of cold. We'll let you run an air duct from here to Australia and take our cold air, if you put in another air duct blowing some of your warm air back here. Give us a call and we'll talk it over.
I think you should find out if these students are more likely to use MS Access in an office setting, or developing SQL database applications in some programming language. Once you discover what the students will be using their database skills for, the answer will become obvious.
carve a potato into the shape of a gun and apply black shoe polish
MMMmmmm...where do I find a potato that big? If someone spammed me offering a potato of that size, I would buy it. Giant potato...one stick of butter...one tub of sour cream...oh the joy.