Just to stay slightly on-topic, my wife purchased a Wii for me while I was gone on travel. It's the first system that's appealed to both her as a non-gamer and myself as hard core gamer, when time permits.
It has for quite a while been pretty well known that focusing your eyes on one particular area at the same distance tends (rule of thumb - not law) to diminish a person's visual capability. It is the same way with many people who read books constantly. Genetics play the largest role, especially with glaucoma, but other external factors play a role on eye pressure such as eye fatique/lack of sleep, amount of caffiene/nicotine, medicines...
By chance, I found out from my eye Dr when I was 24, that I'm very likely to get glaucoma because while on Prednizone (anti-flamitory steroid) for a short while, my eye pressure increased to almost glaucoma levels. Not sure if this was caused by sitting in front of a computer for 6+ hours a day, but I do have family history of the illness. I guess time will tell...
Doesn't matter if it is native according to Merriam-Webster:
1 a (1) : a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth; especially : one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants
So, will this compete with the Nobel Prize? Personally, I'm glad that there are visionaries that want to see the advancement of science and engineering and are willing to add monetary incentives to this goal.
Electrical engineering is not over by any means. Traditional circuit design may be somewhat of a limited field, but there are many EE jobs out there. If your vision of EE is just circuit design, maybe you need to think about a major change (by your lack of vision assuming you are a student), or start reading IEEE's Spectrum magazine to see what other fields are hot. Last I heard, controls and automation, communications, and signal processing are still solid right now. Just like radio engineers of the past, there are areas of EE that do die off, but the need for EE's will exist for a very long time - even with outsourcing.
When people who were coaxed into a major that they didnt really want to be in, I think they tend to shine less when they enter the work force.
I second that thought. My fiance was "encouraged" to be a mechanical engineer by her parents who own a machine shop. Needless to say, after being rather sucessful in her undergraduate work and working a year as an ME (and hating almost every minute of it), she is now going back to school to do the thing that she loves the most - teaching little kids. BTW the ironic part of the whole situation is that since she's a female, she can waltz into most places and get a job due to affirmative action, while I struggle to get interviews.
While you do have many good valid points, the insurance companies spend a lot of money on statistical data to back up many of their claims. There are reasons that young males are targeted for higher insurance premiums - they have more high dollar accidents statistically. Females, by sheer number do have a higher number of accidents, but they don't cost the insurance companies as much. This correlates to speeding - those who speed excessively have the most costly accidents. Like it or not, that's how the statistics stack up.
Yea, I'm sure the $9.4 billion dollar gaming industry (IDSA's 2002 figure) was all computer games. Beside nobody I know owns an XBox, PSII or Gamecube. Seems like everyone's running out and buying a new pc for the latest and greatest games, oh wait...
There are positions
open at the USPTO. I hear daily about how many/.'s don't have jobs. Well here you go, so you can make a difference. The only way to change the system is do something...
I agree with you 100%. You own the content and as long as you follow the copyright rules, (ie don't distribute, sell, etc) there should be no problem with it. This isn't software, where you just have a license...
Give the power to the people to let them make their own decisions as to what's right and wrong.
Here's the Thesis of the paper...
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Major Thesis: Information technology, driven by the software sector, is a proven engine for economic growth and prosperity. Reducing the rate of software piracy can help jumpstart the world's stagnant and struggling economies by creating new jobs and business opportunities that generate spending and new tax revenues.
Hmmmmm... Does anyone else wonder who the target audience of this could be? (Notice the keywords: economies, jobs, business opportunities, spending and taxes.)
It's called journalistic integrity. There is no difference between making something less real and pulling something out of your butt. More importantly, how would you like it if someone won a Pulitzer prize for a photograph that was slightly doctored because their Photoshop skills were superior? (Or worse, you got beat to someone who altered their photo?)
Just wondering how NY City will actually react to a movie of this nature? In light of the terrorist attacks and the removal of the Twin Towers from Spiderman, amongst every other Hollywood *sensitivity reaction,* how do you think people will react? (Yes, I do know that it is a movie and not real, but I'm just one in the masses.)
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Hey, leave me out of this....
Just to stay slightly on-topic, my wife purchased a Wii for me while I was gone on travel. It's the first system that's appealed to both her as a non-gamer and myself as hard core gamer, when time permits.
It has for quite a while been pretty well known that focusing your eyes on one particular area at the same distance tends (rule of thumb - not law) to diminish a person's visual capability. It is the same way with many people who read books constantly. Genetics play the largest role, especially with glaucoma, but other external factors play a role on eye pressure such as eye fatique/lack of sleep, amount of caffiene/nicotine, medicines...
By chance, I found out from my eye Dr when I was 24, that I'm very likely to get glaucoma because while on Prednizone (anti-flamitory steroid) for a short while, my eye pressure increased to almost glaucoma levels. Not sure if this was caused by sitting in front of a computer for 6+ hours a day, but I do have family history of the illness. I guess time will tell...
Doesn't matter if it is native according to Merriam-Webster:
1 a (1) : a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth; especially : one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants
So, will this compete with the Nobel Prize? Personally, I'm glad that there are visionaries that want to see the advancement of science and engineering and are willing to add monetary incentives to this goal.
Electrical engineering is not over by any means. Traditional circuit design may be somewhat of a limited field, but there are many EE jobs out there. If your vision of EE is just circuit design, maybe you need to think about a major change (by your lack of vision assuming you are a student), or start reading IEEE's Spectrum magazine to see what other fields are hot. Last I heard, controls and automation, communications, and signal processing are still solid right now. Just like radio engineers of the past, there are areas of EE that do die off, but the need for EE's will exist for a very long time - even with outsourcing.
I second that thought. My fiance was "encouraged" to be a mechanical engineer by her parents who own a machine shop. Needless to say, after being rather sucessful in her undergraduate work and working a year as an ME (and hating almost every minute of it), she is now going back to school to do the thing that she loves the most - teaching little kids. BTW the ironic part of the whole situation is that since she's a female, she can waltz into most places and get a job due to affirmative action, while I struggle to get interviews.
While you do have many good valid points, the insurance companies spend a lot of money on statistical data to back up many of their claims. There are reasons that young males are targeted for higher insurance premiums - they have more high dollar accidents statistically. Females, by sheer number do have a higher number of accidents, but they don't cost the insurance companies as much. This correlates to speeding - those who speed excessively have the most costly accidents. Like it or not, that's how the statistics stack up.
Because we all know that gansta rapper songs about cop killing and drugs are wholesome familiy entertainment...
It's because we no longer have to walk 3 miles to school uphill both ways anymore.
Yea, I'm sure the $9.4 billion dollar gaming industry (IDSA's 2002 figure) was all computer games. Beside nobody I know owns an XBox, PSII or Gamecube. Seems like everyone's running out and buying a new pc for the latest and greatest games, oh wait...
There are positions open at the USPTO. I hear daily about how many /.'s don't have jobs. Well here you go, so you can make a difference. The only way to change the system is do something...
I agree with you 100%. You own the content and as long as you follow the copyright rules, (ie don't distribute, sell, etc) there should be no problem with it. This isn't software, where you just have a license...
Give the power to the people to let them make their own decisions as to what's right and wrong.
Major Thesis: Information technology, driven by the software sector, is a proven engine for
economic growth and prosperity. Reducing the rate of software piracy can help jumpstart the
world's stagnant and struggling economies by creating new jobs and business opportunities
that generate spending and new tax revenues.
Hmmmmm... Does anyone else wonder who the target audience of this could be? (Notice the keywords: economies, jobs, business opportunities, spending and taxes.)
It's called journalistic integrity. There is no difference between making something less real and pulling something out of your butt. More importantly, how would you like it if someone won a Pulitzer prize for a photograph that was slightly doctored because their Photoshop skills were superior? (Or worse, you got beat to someone who altered their photo?)
Just wondering how NY City will actually react to a movie of this nature? In light of the terrorist attacks and the removal of the Twin Towers from Spiderman, amongst every other Hollywood *sensitivity reaction,* how do you think people will react?
(Yes, I do know that it is a movie and not real, but I'm just one in the masses.)