As a professor, I doubt you'll regret going the liberal arts route. For one thing, the probability that you will change your major is about 60-70%. A liberal arts education not only exposes you to many different interests and opportunities, but it gives you skills that even many good research universities fail to impart: strong writing, strong argumentation and speaking, strong critical thinking skills. The ability to approach a problem from many different perspectives is handy. You'll need job experience to make the big bucks anyway, so you might as well maximize the value of your education while getting your degree.
I see that a discussion about this Slashdot story was greenlit on FARK, although it hasn't hit the main page yet. Here's the (snarky as usual) headline:
Slashdotters wonder if they should date women who believe in Astrology. Because if there's one thing Slashdotters need, it's a way to winnow down the vast number of women asking them for dates
I sense an Internet frat boy vs. Internet geek showdown looming...
Aw, someone stole the Shareaza name and used it for their own proprietary crap. I seem to remember something like this from a few years back, except the term is question was Gnutella and an incompatible protocol stealing its name and calling itself "Gnutella 2." Karma can be a bitch sometimes.
"paypal under ebay is not stupid as the old paypal to not understand the importance of this, and not defend the enemy of its enemy."
I seriously have no idea what this means. Try dropping out a few "nots" and rephrase. Is the new or old paypal more stupid? They both seem idiotic to me.
Do we know this? I'm no astronomer, so I don't. Just how much can an orbit be altered by a collision? (Or at least, one that doesn't pulverize both objects).
I wonder if this means that our current strategy of tracking asteroids to see if they will impact Earth is the wrong one. Perhaps no asteroids "naturally" hit Earth on their present trajectories. If it takes a collision within the asteroid belt to throw out material that impacts Earth, maybe we should be trying to track the movements of large asteroids to see if they will intersect EACH OTHER rather than Earth.
I may be misunderstanding the data, and I would never change policy based on a single study, but this suggests that a more sophisticated approach is needed to detect potential impactors.
Actually, the trade-off between single and album sales goes back decades. I have a few books on ABBA (as my nick implies, I'm a fan -- and a mouse). In these books, their manager (Stig) mentions that he tried to avoid releasing too many singles from his other acts because even though they were popular, people would routinely buy the one or two good songs on an album, cutting into more profitable LP sales. Of course, he found that ABBA was popular enough to sustain both, but record producers and labels have long been suspicious of single sales, which bring publicity but also cannibalize album sales. The only reason to mention iTunes is that it has made "single" the default format for most songs, before a marketing decision has been made about whther that maximizes record company profits.
Dear Lord I hate the RIAA. Even their ordinary business models are scammy, and have been since their member companies were formed.
About the rarity of magic items. This MUST have been a DM choice, because if you actually USED the treasure types in the MM and the tables in the DMG the results were incredibly Monty Haul-ish. (I made this mistake as a beginning DM in the mid-80s). And when it comes to DM choice, ANY edition can be magic-poor.
One problem is that interest groups seek to manipulate the presentation of data (or suppress it entirely). For example, a Gracenote rep was allowed to essentially end the edit war on the company's entry by removing everything even vaguely negative about the company. He even objected to anyone pointing out that users of CDDB had donated the data without compensation. In the end, it was his edits that stuck and a person who looked up Gracenote to see what all the controversy had been about will see nothing of use on the Wikipedia entry.
You're right about the artillery shells BUT we had not found them at the time the survey was taken (less than a year after the war began). So the survey is valid, subsequent events notwithstanding. When the question was asked, we had found NO WMD in Iraq, not even the rusty mustard gas shells we later stumbled across. But because FOX had reported every false lead as OMFG WMD FOUND!!! viewers came to believe it was true, even though there was always a muted acknowledgement later on that it was a false finding.
You're right BUT we had not found them at the time the survey was taken (less than a year after the war began). So the survey is valid, subsequent events notwithstanding.
You mean like etailers, ecommerce sites and b2b providers? Come on now, the corporate world is infamous for self-aggrandizing rhetoric. Consultants live for this stuff.
And yes, many bloggers are way too puffed up for their own good.
Interesting -- I assumed he had perhaps 5000 miscellaneous MP3s and everything else would be FLAC or some other lossless format. This would be around 25,000 lossless tracks plus 5000 MP3s = a library of about 30,000 tracks. Of course, we're both just guessing but I know if I had 750 GB for music, I wouldn't be encoding anything in a lossy format.
One of the most powerful levers of economic control that governments have is the power to manipulate exchange rates. While some countries have moved to a free floating rate for their currencies, others still try to mandate exchange rates and enforce these rates by prohibiting the cross-national transport of large sums of currency. This alternative currency (and others like it) could really upset China's plans to manipulate the value of the Yuan (particularly keeping it artificially low) because if e-currencies like thjis become cross-national, then one could simply convert (under-valued) yuan into e-currency, convert e-currency into dollars or Euros, and then convert the hard currency back into Yuan for a tidy profit.
Now this obviously relies on certain things lining up correctly, but it is more difficult to stop than cross-border currency transfers. The key to undermining government control over exchange reates is having an e-currency that people all over the industrialized world value. We aren't there yet, but we might get somehting like it within a few years. That will certainly alter US-China relations, since one of our major gripes is the artificially low value of the Yuan.
Ugh. I remember how the Gold Box sequels -- Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, etc. -- used to do this to the player at the begiining of the game, so you wouldn't get any of the cool items they'd handed out like candy in the previous installment. It got old really quick. I'm trying to recall whether BG2 pulled this same stunt with imported BG characters. Does anyone remember this?
On the other hand, I rather liked Quake 4's use of the dramatic reversal.
You mean a risk-neutral consumer. A rational risk-acceptant consumer would be willing to pay more than 10 cents, while a risk-averse one would pay less. People can like or dislike risk and still be rational.
I thought neutron stars were composed of neutrons because gravity forced energy from protons, transforming them into neutrons. Am I wrong about this? No matter how many neutrons you have, you need protons to make a nucleus.
This was my first thought. Then I checked out the Wayback Machine's links to the site. The "this is sold as a backup only" bit is nowhere to be found on the main page of the site -- it only pops up as section 9 of the lengthy terms and conditions page. He was quite clearly defrauding the customers. Note also that a quick Google search showed plenty of complaints from people who received software but no serial number (since it was theoretically just a backup -- but they didn't know this!)
In other words, this guy was as sleazy as a used-car salesman who sells stolen cars.
I've used AntiVir since the late 1990s or thereabouts. The most recent version has taken to spamming me with an ad for the pay version every time it updates (once a day). The ad pops up and interrupts whatever I'm doing. It doesn't go away until you click it. So this nice freeware seems to have become nagware. I'll be reading others' responses to find out what I should be running instead of AntiVir.
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Hmmmm.... I learned some of those lessons from Little Computer People on my Commodore 64. If you don't feed the LCP he gets sad and turns green. If you leave the machine on overnight to watch him starve, your mother will decide that you probably shouldn't have a pet just yet, even though it turns out that you can't kill an LCP. Seriously, my mother was so moved by the suffering of my LCP that she made me give him food and water while she watched:)
They're getting better. Daggerfall was essentially unplayable when it shipped. Morrowind was at least playable. Having said that, I loved Daggerfall but just couldn't get into Morrowind.
After a few years of TurboTax, I went with the cheaper TaxCut this year, paying for both Federal and State programs. The Federal is OK if a bit sparse with explanations. The State is just awful, even by the low standards of state income tax software.
When I told it I was a part-year resident (awfully common for young people who move a lot) it simply told me to hunt down (on my own) and fill out a series of Ohio tax forms and then feed it the results after I'd done practically all of the work manually! The State program turned out to be little more than a glorified word processor this year.
So...who wants to bet that H&R Block wouldn't use its own software to calculate 2+2, much less state taxes?
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At least THAT product was delivered.
As a professor, I doubt you'll regret going the liberal arts route. For one thing, the probability that you will change your major is about 60-70%. A liberal arts education not only exposes you to many different interests and opportunities, but it gives you skills that even many good research universities fail to impart: strong writing, strong argumentation and speaking, strong critical thinking skills. The ability to approach a problem from many different perspectives is handy. You'll need job experience to make the big bucks anyway, so you might as well maximize the value of your education while getting your degree.
Aw, someone stole the Shareaza name and used it for their own proprietary crap. I seem to remember something like this from a few years back, except the term is question was Gnutella and an incompatible protocol stealing its name and calling itself "Gnutella 2." Karma can be a bitch sometimes.
"paypal under ebay is not stupid as the old paypal to not understand the importance of this, and not defend the enemy of its enemy."
I seriously have no idea what this means. Try dropping out a few "nots" and rephrase. Is the new or old paypal more stupid? They both seem idiotic to me.
Do we know this? I'm no astronomer, so I don't. Just how much can an orbit be altered by a collision? (Or at least, one that doesn't pulverize both objects).
I wonder if this means that our current strategy of tracking asteroids to see if they will impact Earth is the wrong one. Perhaps no asteroids "naturally" hit Earth on their present trajectories. If it takes a collision within the asteroid belt to throw out material that impacts Earth, maybe we should be trying to track the movements of large asteroids to see if they will intersect EACH OTHER rather than Earth.
I may be misunderstanding the data, and I would never change policy based on a single study, but this suggests that a more sophisticated approach is needed to detect potential impactors.
Actually, the trade-off between single and album sales goes back decades. I have a few books on ABBA (as my nick implies, I'm a fan -- and a mouse). In these books, their manager (Stig) mentions that he tried to avoid releasing too many singles from his other acts because even though they were popular, people would routinely buy the one or two good songs on an album, cutting into more profitable LP sales. Of course, he found that ABBA was popular enough to sustain both, but record producers and labels have long been suspicious of single sales, which bring publicity but also cannibalize album sales. The only reason to mention iTunes is that it has made "single" the default format for most songs, before a marketing decision has been made about whther that maximizes record company profits.
Dear Lord I hate the RIAA. Even their ordinary business models are scammy, and have been since their member companies were formed.
About the rarity of magic items. This MUST have been a DM choice, because if you actually USED the treasure types in the MM and the tables in the DMG the results were incredibly Monty Haul-ish. (I made this mistake as a beginning DM in the mid-80s). And when it comes to DM choice, ANY edition can be magic-poor.
You go to hell! You go to hell and die! How dare thee besmirch the names of Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid!
So sayeth the ABBA mouse. So shall it be done.
One problem is that interest groups seek to manipulate the presentation of data (or suppress it entirely). For example, a Gracenote rep was allowed to essentially end the edit war on the company's entry by removing everything even vaguely negative about the company. He even objected to anyone pointing out that users of CDDB had donated the data without compensation. In the end, it was his edits that stuck and a person who looked up Gracenote to see what all the controversy had been about will see nothing of use on the Wikipedia entry.
You're right about the artillery shells BUT we had not found them at the time the survey was taken (less than a year after the war began). So the survey is valid, subsequent events notwithstanding. When the question was asked, we had found NO WMD in Iraq, not even the rusty mustard gas shells we later stumbled across. But because FOX had reported every false lead as OMFG WMD FOUND!!! viewers came to believe it was true, even though there was always a muted acknowledgement later on that it was a false finding.
You're right BUT we had not found them at the time the survey was taken (less than a year after the war began). So the survey is valid, subsequent events notwithstanding.
What a very odd sig to go with that post...
In any case, I tag photos with first names only, precisely to avoid any invasion of my friends' privacy.
You mean like etailers, ecommerce sites and b2b providers? Come on now, the corporate world is infamous for self-aggrandizing rhetoric. Consultants live for this stuff.
And yes, many bloggers are way too puffed up for their own good.
Interesting -- I assumed he had perhaps 5000 miscellaneous MP3s and everything else would be FLAC or some other lossless format. This would be around 25,000 lossless tracks plus 5000 MP3s = a library of about 30,000 tracks. Of course, we're both just guessing but I know if I had 750 GB for music, I wouldn't be encoding anything in a lossy format.
One of the most powerful levers of economic control that governments have is the power to manipulate exchange rates. While some countries have moved to a free floating rate for their currencies, others still try to mandate exchange rates and enforce these rates by prohibiting the cross-national transport of large sums of currency. This alternative currency (and others like it) could really upset China's plans to manipulate the value of the Yuan (particularly keeping it artificially low) because if e-currencies like thjis become cross-national, then one could simply convert (under-valued) yuan into e-currency, convert e-currency into dollars or Euros, and then convert the hard currency back into Yuan for a tidy profit.
Now this obviously relies on certain things lining up correctly, but it is more difficult to stop than cross-border currency transfers. The key to undermining government control over exchange reates is having an e-currency that people all over the industrialized world value. We aren't there yet, but we might get somehting like it within a few years. That will certainly alter US-China relations, since one of our major gripes is the artificially low value of the Yuan.
Ugh. I remember how the Gold Box sequels -- Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, etc. -- used to do this to the player at the begiining of the game, so you wouldn't get any of the cool items they'd handed out like candy in the previous installment. It got old really quick. I'm trying to recall whether BG2 pulled this same stunt with imported BG characters. Does anyone remember this?
On the other hand, I rather liked Quake 4's use of the dramatic reversal.
You mean a risk-neutral consumer. A rational risk-acceptant consumer would be willing to pay more than 10 cents, while a risk-averse one would pay less. People can like or dislike risk and still be rational.
I thought neutron stars were composed of neutrons because gravity forced energy from protons, transforming them into neutrons. Am I wrong about this? No matter how many neutrons you have, you need protons to make a nucleus.
This was my first thought. Then I checked out the Wayback Machine's links to the site. The "this is sold as a backup only" bit is nowhere to be found on the main page of the site -- it only pops up as section 9 of the lengthy terms and conditions page. He was quite clearly defrauding the customers. Note also that a quick Google search showed plenty of complaints from people who received software but no serial number (since it was theoretically just a backup -- but they didn't know this!)
In other words, this guy was as sleazy as a used-car salesman who sells stolen cars.
I've used AntiVir since the late 1990s or thereabouts. The most recent version has taken to spamming me with an ad for the pay version every time it updates (once a day). The ad pops up and interrupts whatever I'm doing. It doesn't go away until you click it. So this nice freeware seems to have become nagware. I'll be reading others' responses to find out what I should be running instead of AntiVir.
Hmmmm.... I learned some of those lessons from Little Computer People on my Commodore 64. If you don't feed the LCP he gets sad and turns green. If you leave the machine on overnight to watch him starve, your mother will decide that you probably shouldn't have a pet just yet, even though it turns out that you can't kill an LCP. Seriously, my mother was so moved by the suffering of my LCP that she made me give him food and water while she watched :)
They're getting better. Daggerfall was essentially unplayable when it shipped. Morrowind was at least playable. Having said that, I loved Daggerfall but just couldn't get into Morrowind.
After a few years of TurboTax, I went with the cheaper TaxCut this year, paying for both Federal and State programs. The Federal is OK if a bit sparse with explanations. The State is just awful, even by the low standards of state income tax software.
When I told it I was a part-year resident (awfully common for young people who move a lot) it simply told me to hunt down (on my own) and fill out a series of Ohio tax forms and then feed it the results after I'd done practically all of the work manually! The State program turned out to be little more than a glorified word processor this year.
So...who wants to bet that H&R Block wouldn't use its own software to calculate 2+2, much less state taxes?