No kidding about Fry's service. I was looking for a couple of three-phase 20-amp plugs for a server, they didn't even know what I was talking about. I think I lost them when I mentioned "server", never mind the big plugs. As I was walking back to my car muttering, it occurred to me I'd find such things at Home Depot.
It's just Natural Selection in Action. The ones that mutate favorably to work in the new environment will survive, new and improved! Sit back and enjoy the show.
This all goes to show how US science is basically government-funded, and when you take money from the State, you must be its servant. He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
Way back when I was just starting on UNIX I did that. Sorry. All alone in the lab late at night, no internet yet, I couldn't remember how to kill the program...Ctl-Z seemed to work... Next day I tried to login and I couldn't, because I'd used up my resource allocation with my backgrounded infinite loop.
Exactly. This is an interesting thread, with good advice, because I don't recall having anything in writing about relocation in my offer, but it would have been good to have been on the ball about it. That was over 10 years ago, I really can't remember _anything_ about my offer. However, the company took care of it all (even added cash up front. Not an advance, just extra cash to get me through the transition, it was a pleasant surprise) AND it was a great place to work.
Why is it that everything good and full of art, thought and wit must make way for what is base and stupid and vulgar?
It's the result of a bureaucraized world, mass democratic man, and the free market. The bad drives out the good. It's a world where Boston Sh***y Hall happens.
Technopoly. Neil Postman had it pegged. We live in a Regime of Experts, and we are slaves of The Latest Study. Is anyone surprised then that celebrities--or anyone--fake expertise?
Since the CAD market is _not_ anywhere near being monopolised, it can't be a monopoly move. It's a lock-in move, to try to make it harder to switch. It's like you own a Ford, and GM, uh, never mind, let's not go down that road.
It's very difficult to make good public policy without good science
It's very much possible, and used to be the norm. You don't need a recent scientific study from a top-tier university for knowing a _lot_ of things. Some things you just know; some things your parents taught you; and some things humans have learned over centuries. It's called "received wisdom."
I guess I just wish that more people would question these things and take a stand against them, because that is the only way they'll go away. But most people just don't seem to care.
Most people's innards aren't being eaten out by caring themselves to death about minor things. Most people can not care about these things one whit, and their lives aren't ruined.
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No kidding about Fry's service. I was looking for a couple of three-phase 20-amp plugs for a server, they didn't even know what I was talking about. I think I lost them when I mentioned "server", never mind the big plugs. As I was walking back to my car muttering, it occurred to me I'd find such things at Home Depot.
One in the Seattle area (Renton, on old Boeing property). I drive right past it every day. That is not a good thing.
It's just Natural Selection in Action. The ones that mutate favorably to work in the new environment will survive, new and improved! Sit back and enjoy the show.
For $4 I can't afford _not_ to buy it!
It's not a science. Science may use it heavily, but it's really Logic.
This all goes to show how US science is basically government-funded, and when you take money from the State, you must be its servant. He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
Way back when I was just starting on UNIX I did that. Sorry. All alone in the lab late at night, no internet yet, I couldn't remember how to kill the program...Ctl-Z seemed to work... Next day I tried to login and I couldn't, because I'd used up my resource allocation with my backgrounded infinite loop.
It's described here.
All that was missing was a lawyerly tip and an authoritative anecdote. Then his post would have been complete.
Exactly. This is an interesting thread, with good advice, because I don't recall having anything in writing about relocation in my offer, but it would have been good to have been on the ball about it. That was over 10 years ago, I really can't remember _anything_ about my offer. However, the company took care of it all (even added cash up front. Not an advance, just extra cash to get me through the transition, it was a pleasant surprise) AND it was a great place to work.
It's the result of a bureaucraized world, mass democratic man, and the free market. The bad drives out the good. It's a world where Boston Sh***y Hall happens.
How could this have been modded insightful, when everyone knows that you turn it back at 2AM?
Technopoly. Neil Postman had it pegged. We live in a Regime of Experts, and we are slaves of The Latest Study. Is anyone surprised then that celebrities--or anyone--fake expertise?
Just another form of Calvinism, as philosopher David Stove has noted. Blame the demons, or your genes.
There are no age restrictions at home.
Since the CAD market is _not_ anywhere near being monopolised, it can't be a monopoly move. It's a lock-in move, to try to make it harder to switch. It's like you own a Ford, and GM, uh, never mind, let's not go down that road.
I spent my time playing wargames. The kind from Avalon Hill, SPI, etc.
Don't forget that artificial plot device, the struggle between good and evil.
I'd crawl over broken glass to get to chocolate.
It's very much possible, and used to be the norm. You don't need a recent scientific study from a top-tier university for knowing a _lot_ of things. Some things you just know; some things your parents taught you; and some things humans have learned over centuries. It's called "received wisdom."
Absolutely correct, because it's always all about you.
Sorry folks, Stalag 17 is a terrorist movie, because it shows you how to make a time bomb. Still works, too.
I love the scene in Stalag 17 where Sefton lights a match on Hoffy's stubbled face.
Most people's innards aren't being eaten out by caring themselves to death about minor things. Most people can not care about these things one whit, and their lives aren't ruined.
And there is an infinite supply of this ice, yes?