The most important aspects as far as I, a manager of a small programming staff, am concerned is attitude, willingness to learn, and problem solving skills. None of my programmers have a CS degree and all are very successful programmers. One got a business degree, another was a professional musician for 20 years. Another was a psych major. Doesn't matter - learning programming isn't that hard for a person who is so inclined. Finding a person who can has the right balance of independent thinking, communication skills, problem solving ability, and good attitude is worth investing training time and money in.
I think you forgot about the recent manned mission sent by China...
Also, if the rest of the world is 50 years behind us, then I guess we should start seeing the rest of the world getting ready for their own moon missions in a few years.
I don't think it was a good ruling at all - what if there was a person named "Fallwell" who wanted to put up his own website, www.fallwell.com? Maybe it would have nothing to say or do with Jerry Falwell (tm) - but this case says that "www.fallwell.com" is nearly identical with Jerry Falwell (tm), regardless of the content. What about www.fallwel.com? What about www.phalwell.com? Where does it end?
Thank you - finally a positive comment!! Why all the kirk/shatner bashing?
Would there be ANY trek now if it were not for Shatner? Captain Kirk is one of the most memorable characters around - not because of the writing, not because of the special effects, not because of anything but what Shatner brought to the character. (And I give credit to the rest of the cast as well - without the equally credible characters of Spock, Bone, Scotty, and the rest we'd have no trek now either.)
Captain Kirk is my hero, Picard will always be a wanna be...
If I could mod articles, I'd mod that one down. It seems like it was written a couple years ago. I started reading ebooks on my Palm III, now I've got a Samsung i700 and it's fantastic. I get my ebooks from www.fictionwise.com. They offer a huge selection and all that they can they have in multiple non-DRM formats. (So when I moved from Palm devices to PocketPC I just re-downloaded my library to.lit files - took 5 minutes.)
What is holding the eBooks back is that a new novel will generally have DRM and cost just as much as a hardback. So I get less versatility but have to pay more? So I don't buy the eBook, and I also don't buy the dead tree - there is more than I could ever read already in open formats.
If, like me, you read mostly sci-fi and classics (i.e. Project Gutenburg) then it's a great time for eBooks.
Yes, you can currently find someone willing to report the other side of the story on the Internet. However, Ted's point is that currently finding the "other side of the story" in radio or tv is nearly impossible due to the consolidation of big media.
It wasn't always that way - why should we assume that just because it happened with radio and tv that it won't happen on the Internet (even though there is evidence of it already)?
RTFA - one of Turner's points is that the independence of the Internet is illusionary - the large media companies own plenty of Internet news sources as well.
From TFA: the "diversity-enhancing value of the Internet." The FCC is confusing diversity with variety. The top 20 Internet news sites are owned by the same media conglomerates that control the broadcast and cable networks. Sure, a hundred-person choir gives you a choice of voices, but they're all singing the same song.
But on the flipside of your flipside - not all of the money goes to line the pockets of corrupt CEOs; the company needs R&D money to pay the geeks who make technological progress... It's the companies that only exist to rake in the dough on other people's work that are the problem.
Speaking of SCO, I haven't heard about them in a while - are they gone yet?
Next month the $1000 chip will be the $500 chip - there isn't a quality = quantity of $ relationship for the top speed chips. You to pay extra to have the fastest.
I said "applied blindly". Do you think any data is more secure if a company banned iPods? An iPod could allow somebody to transport data more easily than without, but it does nothing to secure the data itself.
Oh, and FYI, not all companies ban listening to personal music for all job types. Having happy employees can often lead to enhanced productivity. Not treating employees like potential criminals would be a good place to start in my book.
As an earlier poster said, there are jobs/situations that require high degress of security - that do have secure networks and do want to make wholesale copying of data less convenient. For those situations, and people working in them, a ban on mass USB/Firewire devices is probably already in place.
Not everybody is a criminal or has criminal intentions. If you don't trust an employee with an iPod, please explain why you would trust them to have access to the data in order to do their job?
A policy against iPods and other USB or other portable devices applied blindly is illusionary security at best. There are countless ways for a dishonest employee to steal data - the only mitigating factor is going to be how secure the network is - that should be the primary focus of any system administrator.
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I believe it's Centauri, but regardless - do yourself a favor and give it another try. It is story-telling at it's best!
Oh, and there is a little inside joke about the Centauri hair - Peter Jurasik (the guy who played Londo Molari) decided to play a joke on JMS. Came out of the dressing room with the wig but before it was trimmed down and dressed properly and said he loved it. It was the frightful mess of the series pilot. JMS, not wanting to upset the actor, went along and said he loved it too. Then they spent the next 4 or 5 seasons gradually getting the Centarui hair back under control.
In the article it mentions that they are researching if consumers will pay for replacement fuel cartridges. Later on we find out that one of the companies involved is Gillette - figure they will give the batteries away and stick it to us for the fuel packs...
If they are not as easy to recharge/refuel as current batteries, what, indeed, is the fucking point?
The first thing I thought of when I read the article was the 2nd amendment. This new bill is about copyright law, but suppose that other laws like this come about; where "whoever intentionally induces any violation" are held accountable - i.e. gun manufacturers for crimes committed with a gun?
I'll never vote for a republican but I believe the 2nd amendment is important as well. Like fair use and assumption of innocence. All of which seem to be bought and sold commodities these days.
Part of the articles intent was to make a distinction between the "quality" of pixels - 8 megapixels on a small sensor (top-end "prosumer") will likely have more noise than 6 megapixels on a larger sensor (digital SLR) so that when you are viewing the images 1-1 the details can still be better with a lower pixel count.
There is also the matter of the Foveon "X3" chip - it's got only about 3.5 megapixels but each pixel records the red, green, and blue coming to it rather than the traditional sensors that will only record one of the colors (the final image is then an interpolation). The manufacturers say this is equivalent to 11 megapixels, but I don't think it's quite that good - certainly comparable to 6 to 8 however.
and it's great! I use it to post my meeting schedule, if I'm in or out, and any messages I feel would enlighten the coworkers. Getting it hooked up to the internet so I could update it from home made me the King of the Gadgets at work. It's also great to put a personalized "welcome" message to clients when they stop by the office. People are suckers to see their name in lights! (And I include myself - that is, after all, why I bought the thing...)
Another way to be more efficient is to cut down on those darn margins. When my dad was in the Navy they did just that - everything was typed on 8 x 10 1/2 inch paper. Of course the special sized paper was more expensive but I've never heard of the government letting that get in the way of efficiency!
If it works like unclaimed pensions, the state to which one eschetes the money has to do where the business is located/headquartered, not where the person owed lives.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I can't help myself...
So what if some of the founding fathers were slaver holders? How does that invalidate the elegant summary and enumeration of the rights and values and principles that is the US Constitution? The self-evident truth, all men are created equal, is the basis for all the civil rights and liberties that have been fought for and won over the years. Everybody is a hypocrit at some point - but those guys laid it out right. They set a high bar for the future generations to strive to achieve, even if they couldn't do it themselves.
There are a number of Asimov stories dealing with such things - the basic thing is that a robot will deal with it according to the sophistication of it's programming. Most would probably switch the car and just kill one. Those would most likely have their positronic brains fry on them for having taken an action that killed a human. Only a very few would be able to cope - R. Daneel for one. Giskard essentially made that same choice by saving humanity by killing humans (Robots of Dawn?). He invented the zeroth law of robotics, A robot may not through aciton or inaction allow harm to come to humanity, and then amended the first law with an exception for the zeroth. He didn't survive the process himself.
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The most important aspects as far as I, a manager of a small programming staff, am concerned is attitude, willingness to learn, and problem solving skills. None of my programmers have a CS degree and all are very successful programmers. One got a business degree, another was a professional musician for 20 years. Another was a psych major. Doesn't matter - learning programming isn't that hard for a person who is so inclined. Finding a person who can has the right balance of independent thinking, communication skills, problem solving ability, and good attitude is worth investing training time and money in.
Good old K-Man! A fellow programmer once said to me, "K-Man is like a retarded daughter - she can't do much, but you love her anyway."
I think you forgot about the recent manned mission sent by China...
Also, if the rest of the world is 50 years behind us, then I guess we should start seeing the rest of the world getting ready for their own moon missions in a few years.
um, hello - I think you are forgetting about a little something called THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY!
I don't think it was a good ruling at all - what if there was a person named "Fallwell" who wanted to put up his own website, www.fallwell.com? Maybe it would have nothing to say or do with Jerry Falwell (tm) - but this case says that "www.fallwell.com" is nearly identical with Jerry Falwell (tm), regardless of the content. What about www.fallwel.com? What about www.phalwell.com? Where does it end?
Thank you - finally a positive comment!! Why all the kirk/shatner bashing?
Would there be ANY trek now if it were not for Shatner? Captain Kirk is one of the most memorable characters around - not because of the writing, not because of the special effects, not because of anything but what Shatner brought to the character. (And I give credit to the rest of the cast as well - without the equally credible characters of Spock, Bone, Scotty, and the rest we'd have no trek now either.)
Captain Kirk is my hero, Picard will always be a wanna be...
If I could mod articles, I'd mod that one down. It seems like it was written a couple years ago. I started reading ebooks on my Palm III, now I've got a Samsung i700 and it's fantastic. I get my ebooks from www.fictionwise.com. They offer a huge selection and all that they can they have in multiple non-DRM formats. (So when I moved from Palm devices to PocketPC I just re-downloaded my library to .lit files - took 5 minutes.)
What is holding the eBooks back is that a new novel will generally have DRM and cost just as much as a hardback. So I get less versatility but have to pay more? So I don't buy the eBook, and I also don't buy the dead tree - there is more than I could ever read already in open formats.
If, like me, you read mostly sci-fi and classics (i.e. Project Gutenburg) then it's a great time for eBooks.
Flourscent lights also have a "weird" color temperature - but improvements have been made and we got used to them.
Yes, you can currently find someone willing to report the other side of the story on the Internet. However, Ted's point is that currently finding the "other side of the story" in radio or tv is nearly impossible due to the consolidation of big media.
It wasn't always that way - why should we assume that just because it happened with radio and tv that it won't happen on the Internet (even though there is evidence of it already)?
RTFA - one of Turner's points is that the independence of the Internet is illusionary - the large media companies own plenty of Internet news sources as well.
From TFA: the "diversity-enhancing value of the Internet." The FCC is confusing diversity with variety. The top 20 Internet news sites are owned by the same media conglomerates that control the broadcast and cable networks. Sure, a hundred-person choir gives you a choice of voices, but they're all singing the same song.
But on the flipside of your flipside - not all of the money goes to line the pockets of corrupt CEOs; the company needs R&D money to pay the geeks who make technological progress... It's the companies that only exist to rake in the dough on other people's work that are the problem.
Speaking of SCO, I haven't heard about them in a while - are they gone yet?
Next month the $1000 chip will be the $500 chip - there isn't a quality = quantity of $ relationship for the top speed chips. You to pay extra to have the fastest.
I said "applied blindly". Do you think any data is more secure if a company banned iPods? An iPod could allow somebody to transport data more easily than without, but it does nothing to secure the data itself.
Oh, and FYI, not all companies ban listening to personal music for all job types. Having happy employees can often lead to enhanced productivity. Not treating employees like potential criminals would be a good place to start in my book.
As an earlier poster said, there are jobs/situations that require high degress of security - that do have secure networks and do want to make wholesale copying of data less convenient. For those situations, and people working in them, a ban on mass USB/Firewire devices is probably already in place.
Not everybody is a criminal or has criminal intentions. If you don't trust an employee with an iPod, please explain why you would trust them to have access to the data in order to do their job?
A policy against iPods and other USB or other portable devices applied blindly is illusionary security at best. There are countless ways for a dishonest employee to steal data - the only mitigating factor is going to be how secure the network is - that should be the primary focus of any system administrator.
Is it wheat, or would it be Quadro-triticale?
I believe it's Centauri, but regardless - do yourself a favor and give it another try. It is story-telling at it's best!
Oh, and there is a little inside joke about the Centauri hair - Peter Jurasik (the guy who played Londo Molari) decided to play a joke on JMS. Came out of the dressing room with the wig but before it was trimmed down and dressed properly and said he loved it. It was the frightful mess of the series pilot. JMS, not wanting to upset the actor, went along and said he loved it too. Then they spent the next 4 or 5 seasons gradually getting the Centarui hair back under control.
In the article it mentions that they are researching if consumers will pay for replacement fuel cartridges. Later on we find out that one of the companies involved is Gillette - figure they will give the batteries away and stick it to us for the fuel packs...
If they are not as easy to recharge/refuel as current batteries, what, indeed, is the fucking point?
The first thing I thought of when I read the article was the 2nd amendment. This new bill is about copyright law, but suppose that other laws like this come about; where "whoever intentionally induces any violation" are held accountable - i.e. gun manufacturers for crimes committed with a gun?
I'll never vote for a republican but I believe the 2nd amendment is important as well. Like fair use and assumption of innocence. All of which seem to be bought and sold commodities these days.
Part of the articles intent was to make a distinction between the "quality" of pixels - 8 megapixels on a small sensor (top-end "prosumer") will likely have more noise than 6 megapixels on a larger sensor (digital SLR) so that when you are viewing the images 1-1 the details can still be better with a lower pixel count.
There is also the matter of the Foveon "X3" chip - it's got only about 3.5 megapixels but each pixel records the red, green, and blue coming to it rather than the traditional sensors that will only record one of the colors (the final image is then an interpolation). The manufacturers say this is equivalent to 11 megapixels, but I don't think it's quite that good - certainly comparable to 6 to 8 however.
and it's great! I use it to post my meeting schedule, if I'm in or out, and any messages I feel would enlighten the coworkers. Getting it hooked up to the internet so I could update it from home made me the King of the Gadgets at work. It's also great to put a personalized "welcome" message to clients when they stop by the office. People are suckers to see their name in lights! (And I include myself - that is, after all, why I bought the thing...)
Another way to be more efficient is to cut down on those darn margins. When my dad was in the Navy they did just that - everything was typed on 8 x 10 1/2 inch paper. Of course the special sized paper was more expensive but I've never heard of the government letting that get in the way of efficiency!
If it works like unclaimed pensions, the state to which one eschetes the money has to do where the business is located/headquartered, not where the person owed lives.
I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I can't help myself...
So what if some of the founding fathers were slaver holders? How does that invalidate the elegant summary and enumeration of the rights and values and principles that is the US Constitution? The self-evident truth, all men are created equal, is the basis for all the civil rights and liberties that have been fought for and won over the years. Everybody is a hypocrit at some point - but those guys laid it out right. They set a high bar for the future generations to strive to achieve, even if they couldn't do it themselves.
It isn't? Feldercarb!!
There are a number of Asimov stories dealing with such things - the basic thing is that a robot will deal with it according to the sophistication of it's programming. Most would probably switch the car and just kill one. Those would most likely have their positronic brains fry on them for having taken an action that killed a human. Only a very few would be able to cope - R. Daneel for one. Giskard essentially made that same choice by saving humanity by killing humans (Robots of Dawn?). He invented the zeroth law of robotics, A robot may not through aciton or inaction allow harm to come to humanity, and then amended the first law with an exception for the zeroth. He didn't survive the process himself.