The company should reimburse you or buy them for you. Heck, even my "small company" did that. Of course, if you leave, the book stays at the company...
In a big company, the company will train you on their time and their dime. In a small company, they may not train you, but they should allow you the time to train yourself and/or learn by doing. Do NOT front any money for technical training like this. Maybe for a Masters degree, but not for some Microsoft certificate.
You have to choose what kind of company to work for, essentially.
Having done both, I liked the small company when I was young and had no kids, and now I like the big company.
It is only true that an AACS delay affects them both if they are both ready to go to market today and they have to wait.
If one of them (Blu-Ray) is still not ready for market anyway, then the delay to HD-DVD caused by AACS is in fact playing to Blu-Ray's advantage. Where HD-DVD was thought to have the first-to-market advantage, it's now scrod.
All DVRs should have the following features: - Skip N minutes forward/backward, for example "3-skip" jumps 3 minutes forward, "3-replay" jumps 3 minutes back. - Jump to minute N of the program: "2-3-jump" takes you to minute 23, "1-1-5" takes you to 1:15 - Transfer shows over the network to a PC, preferably without DRM, for burning/conversion to iPod/whatever. - Bonus: Detect commercial breaks and allow jumping to the next commercial break start/end point. - Double bonus: Skip the commercials automatically.
What the hell is with people forcing videotape like behavior on a fully random access medium like a hard disk?
Oh, and all those features? Available today in a DVR near you that is not TiVo.
My original submission had that link. On the other hand, the edited version of the story does go into greater depth.
One thing I'd like to point out about the "size of the classified ads market" is that so far placing these ads is free. To compete with craigslist I think the size of this market is zero dollars.
Now, placing paid ads alongside the free ads? That's a market.
Because it's an awful big universe to look through, especially when ID proponents can just say "But the Designer lives outside our universe!"
And who defines ID? Is it just something we can't yet explain?
So, if you are being serious, please describe the test that could be made to show that there is no intelligent designer in the universe, or even in some portion of the universe.
I do have a degree in physics, but I've forgotten so much it doesn't do me much good.
I do remember the Casimir Effect, however. This is a measurable phenomenon which is believed to be caused by vacuum fluctuations, the same mechanism responsible for Hawking Radiation.
I am waiting for the day where someone invents a computer that doesn't need to be cooled or generate excess heat.
Think about the lightbulb....A standard 60-watt incadescent bulb generate lots of heat. A better design is something like the LED bulbs that generate the same amount of lumens, with much less power, and more importantly little to no heat.
I'm waiting for that day too! That way maybe the patent office will finally approve my perpetual motion machine.
It is not possible to build a computer that puts out zero waste heat. It is also not possible to build an LED light that puts out zero waste heat.
One further gotcha, the light that the LED emits (or the motion of the air that a fan is blowing) will be converted to heat if kept in a closed room. You can't win. Every watt you are burning in your datacenter will eventually require 1 watt of heat to be flowing out of your datacenter.
The next time you want to race your Dad with his daytimer, put your PDA thingie next to his daytimer, and before you decide what date to look up, whip out a flamethrower and destroy them both. Then open a brand new boxed PDA thingie, connect to the WiFi of your neighbor, download your backup database from the net, and proceed to look up your schedule.
How long do you think it would take for your car to be stolen if you left it parked in the worst area of Tijuana with the windows down and the engine running?
The ABE (http://www.abebooks.com/) is a searchable inventory of a gazillion independent bookstores world wide.
If Google Print tells you the book exists, you can go to ABE and find it in some bookshop in New Zealand, and order it with your credit card. I've used ABE to buy books that are out of print on several occasions.
Now, if Google integrated their Print search with ABE, then the "buy it now" could be buying it from that rare bookseller in the middle of nowhere.
Between that and Google Calculator, you can figure out how big a mirror you need to be able to see a 1 meter wide object on the moon. The moon is 250,000 miles away, so the angle subtended by such an object is
a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=arcsin% 281+m+%2F+250000+miles%29+in+radians&btnG=Google+S earch">2.5 x 10^-9 radians.
Plugging that in for the desired angle in the Rayleigh Criterion equation, you can see that you need a mirror of almost 300 meters in diameter to resolve this image. That's 1000 feet. The Hubble has a mirror that is about 8 feet wide.
Slashdot Mirror
I think he means iPod Zepto.
Do you think that if you lived in India that Vishnu might have chosen you?
The company should reimburse you or buy them for you. Heck, even my "small company" did that. Of course, if you leave, the book stays at the company...
In a big company, the company will train you on their time and their dime. In a small company, they may not train you, but they should allow you the time to train yourself and/or learn by doing. Do NOT front any money for technical training like this. Maybe for a Masters degree, but not for some Microsoft certificate.
You have to choose what kind of company to work for, essentially.
Having done both, I liked the small company when I was young and had no kids, and now I like the big company.
Can somebody please tell me if this Core Duo chip is 64 bits? I can't find that one bit of information anywhere. Perhaps my google mojo is dead...
Oh, and if you have an answer, feel free to flame me too.
http://www.hfml.ru.nl/levitation-movies.html
I'm surprised you don't have to pay a radio license.
TV Licensing in the UK
Wow. Pass the hookah, moderator dude.
I've located a Hubble image of the impact damage. Pretty impressive!
It is only true that an AACS delay affects them both if they are both ready to go to market today and they have to wait.
If one of them (Blu-Ray) is still not ready for market anyway, then the delay to HD-DVD caused by AACS is in fact playing to Blu-Ray's advantage. Where HD-DVD was thought to have the first-to-market advantage, it's now scrod.
40 year old programmers are recycled into yummy treats called "cheetos" and fed to proto-programmers. It's the circle of life.
All DVRs should have the following features:
- Skip N minutes forward/backward, for example "3-skip" jumps 3 minutes forward, "3-replay" jumps 3 minutes back.
- Jump to minute N of the program: "2-3-jump" takes you to minute 23, "1-1-5" takes you to 1:15
- Transfer shows over the network to a PC, preferably without DRM, for burning/conversion to iPod/whatever.
- Bonus: Detect commercial breaks and allow jumping to the next commercial break start/end point.
- Double bonus: Skip the commercials automatically.
What the hell is with people forcing videotape like behavior on a fully random access medium like a hard disk?
Oh, and all those features? Available today in a DVR near you that is not TiVo.
My original submission had that link. On the other hand, the edited version of the story does go into greater depth.
One thing I'd like to point out about the "size of the classified ads market" is that so far placing these ads is free. To compete with craigslist I think the size of this market is zero dollars.
Now, placing paid ads alongside the free ads? That's a market.
Right?
Because it's an awful big universe to look through, especially when ID proponents can just say "But the Designer lives outside our universe!"
And who defines ID? Is it just something we can't yet explain?
So, if you are being serious, please describe the test that could be made to show that there is no intelligent designer in the universe, or even in some portion of the universe.
I do have a degree in physics, but I've forgotten so much it doesn't do me much good.
I do remember the Casimir Effect, however. This is a measurable phenomenon which is believed to be caused by vacuum fluctuations, the same mechanism responsible for Hawking Radiation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
No scientific theory is provable. The only way to test a theory is to try to disprove it. If you fail, the theory is stronger.
ID is not a scientific theory because it is not disprovable. I suspect this is why they had to change the definition of "science".
I'm waiting for that day too! That way maybe the patent office will finally approve my perpetual motion machine.
It is not possible to build a computer that puts out zero waste heat. It is also not possible to build an LED light that puts out zero waste heat.
One further gotcha, the light that the LED emits (or the motion of the air that a fan is blowing) will be converted to heat if kept in a closed room. You can't win. Every watt you are burning in your datacenter will eventually require 1 watt of heat to be flowing out of your datacenter.
The next time you want to race your Dad with his daytimer, put your PDA thingie next to his daytimer, and before you decide what date to look up, whip out a flamethrower and destroy them both. Then open a brand new boxed PDA thingie, connect to the WiFi of your neighbor, download your backup database from the net, and proceed to look up your schedule.
That'll show the old bastard.
How long do you think it would take for your car to be stolen if you left it parked in the worst area of Tijuana with the windows down and the engine running?
Sure, I screwed up a URL, but I did real freaking math and got labelled a troll? Screw you, modhole.
Slashdot has started automatically parsing URLs! Time for me to advance my calendar to 1999.
Simple solution, encode all your information as google searches, liken d+seven+years+agob rought+forth+on+this+continent
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=four+score+a
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=our+fathers+
The ABE (http://www.abebooks.com/) is a searchable inventory of a gazillion independent bookstores world wide.
If Google Print tells you the book exists, you can go to ABE and find it in some bookshop in New Zealand, and order it with your credit card. I've used ABE to buy books that are out of print on several occasions.
Now, if Google integrated their Print search with ABE, then the "buy it now" could be buying it from that rare bookseller in the middle of nowhere.
This kicks all kinds of ass.
There are well known principles of physics that prevent the Hubble from seeing anything clearly. You just have to do the math:
% 281+m+%2F+250000+miles%29+in+radians&btnG=Google+S earch">2.5 x 10^-9 radians.
Rayleigh Criterion
Between that and Google Calculator, you can figure out how big a mirror you need to be able to see a 1 meter wide object on the moon. The moon is 250,000 miles away, so the angle subtended by such an object is
a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=arcsin
Plugging that in for the desired angle in the Rayleigh Criterion equation, you can see that you need a mirror of almost 300 meters in diameter to resolve this image. That's 1000 feet. The Hubble has a mirror that is about 8 feet wide.
It doesn't say it MUST be parachuted.