In over 25 years as a bilingual engineer, the fact that I speak a second language (French, well, lived there) has been nothing more than a curiosity from a work/employment standpoint. And I've had dozens of clients, from Fortune 100 to 1 man shops, so I'm going to call that basically universal.
Sad but true, being bilingual is exactly the kind of 'life skill' that people believe in in their college years that, in practice, unless you have to know language X at exactly the right time that someone needs X, is otherwise useless.
That said, I think all Americans should be bilingual, just for completely different reasons. Learning a second language opens your mind, and makes it possible to understand ideas that cannot be expressed in English. (Which is saying something; English is terribly expressive.) So I am absolutely suggesting that you DO learn a second language, because there are massive benefits from it.
But if it's all about cash, then don't waste your time. Burn your neurons learning the trendy fad of the year like Ruby or Drupal, something that will show up on Dice for a while and get you in the door. It won't give you any actual talent, but will at least get you hired.
Vinyl has a warmer, more nuanced sound than CDs or MP3s
Yeah, as long as you're calling reproduction error "warmer" and noise and other junk not in the recording "nuances."
MP3 is a lossy format so between those two, who knows, but the 'audiophiles' that claim vinyl is superior make me wretch. And yes, I still have plenty of vinyl because there was a time that was all we had.
Holy crap, did anyone look at the list of unsharable file types?
AAC Advanced Audio Coding AIF Audio Interchange File AIFC Audio Interchange File AIFF Audio Interchange File Format AMF DSMIA/Asylum Module File ASF Advanced Streaming Format ASX Advanced Stream Redirector AVI Audio Video Interleave CDA CD Audio DVI DivX AVI DVIX DivX AVI FAR Farandoyle Tracker Music Module IT Impulse Tracker ITZ Impulse Tracker KAR Karaoke MIDI MDZ Cubic Player/Cross-View Music Module Description MOV QuickTime Video MP1 MPEG Layer 1 (Audio) MP2 MPEG Layer 2 (Audio) MP3 MPEG Layer 3 (Audio) MP4 MPEG Layer 4 (Video) MPA MPEG Audio Stream, Layer I, II or III MPE MPEG Video MPEG MPEG Video MPG MPEG Video MPGA MPEG Layer 3 (Audio Stream) MPV2 MPEG Audio Stream, Layer II OOG OOG Bitstream OKT Oktalyzer Tracker Module PTM PTM - Poly Tracker Module (Audio) QT QuickTime Video QT1 QuickTime Video VOB Video Object (DVD Video) VOC Creative Labs Sound WM Windows Media Audio or Video WMA Windows Media Audio WMV Windows Media Video
You've gotta be f*&^ing kidding me. I have _dozens_ of Western D drives around here, none of which have failed in almost 20 years. But their reputation just went straight to the gutter.
No matter how many perceived 'near misses' there are, a near miss is still a miss. That is, a non-accident. The statistics for air safety haven't changed at all, and they have been fully disclosed and discussed ad nauseum.
Reporting a near miss does not increase the odds that you will be in an accident. What NASA is doing is expanding the research to include non-accident items. The only problem here is the media re-interpreting the data for their own sensationalist benefit.
Before what you had was a small, unrepresentative committee with the power to create 'standards' as defined by a minority. Before, a small subset of potentially affected parties could basically ramrod whatever agenda they wanted through and call it a consensus. A standard by fiat.
Now that commercial and other interests are involved, surprise surprise, not everyone is in a rush to rubber stamp the docket. Good! Instead of having some token committee that's a puppet of the free software agenda, maybe now standards will return to being something the entire community has a voice in.
"That government is best which governs least."
-Thomas Paine
Great plan, but defining 'healthy' isn't that simple. The BMI is a good case in point. Very healthy/athletic body types can be surprisingly heavy because muscle weighs more than fat. With serious weightlifting, people's weight goes up even as their pants size drops. With serious exercise, one can easily get their weight into the BMI's "unhealthy zone" while they are simultaneously in the best shape of their lives.
In years past I had talks with Ford to develop a new operating system for all Ford vehicles, but it didn't work out. At the same time, Ford had their own project exploring a vehicle based on interchangeable components, which is just as stillborn.
The sad truth of the matter is major players have no interest in competition-enabling standards. In fact it's a little surprising that Japan is considering it, considering the massive vested interests of their own. Dynamic change like this is going to be driven by the Yugos and Hyundai's of the world, if nothing but for the simple fact that they have the least to lose.
Contracts are as variable as human beings and as random as a floating point value. Every term means something, and has some price. You will never know the specifics until they are finally laid out in front of you, cast in eternal, damming words and signed by both parties.
You can't know the bounds on an N-dimensional equation in advance. You can work out where you stand, but that doesn't eliminate variables. The only way to decide in 3 seconds is to ignore aspects of the proposition laid before you. Either you understand the folly of skipping the fine print, or you will.
"When Graham calls the winners, the founders have only five minutes to accept. "If people turn us down," he says, "as far as we're concerned they've failed an IQ test."
If you accept in 5 minutes, you've failed an IQ test. These people are not that important, regardless of what they tell you, and neither is the amount of money they have on the table. This is an attempt at simple manipulation on the part of older investors looking for wage slaves that will ask how high when told to jump. Unfortunately, if you're a 20-something, they're targeting you.
Understand the strength of your signature and the committment it represents. Never, EVER, be afraid to walk away from a deal. It's a big planet and there are plenty of legitimate people to do business with.
Numbers like this a bogus, both assuming that a university is the only place to learn computer science, and that the only source of computer programmers are people with computer science degrees. People come to computer science with a variety of degrees under the belt, elec. eng and mathematics being very common, but forensics and even a dietician I know went on to be good developers.
Foruntately, artists are too busy creating art to consider either the user interface or usability. In fact, head to the nearest art show and it's practically the opposite. I think most art majors think the plan is to make the whackiest thing you can and then laugh at the viewers who don't get it...
27KB? Holy crap, what a pig! Considering a lot of the systems then maxed at 48K, that would be the equivlaent of an app using 562 MB on a 1 Gig system today.
The original post is an Apple troll. The standard microcomputer for business from that time was the TRS-80, which was far more successful for business applications (and had a much bigger business application catalog accordingly.) Visicalc was released for both.
"repetitive but spontaneous release of dopamine and endorphine... These games are designed to create that kind of response"
Right, though I'm surprised civilians know about our plans. You'll find the extended discussion of the << dopamine and << endorphine operators in the ARM. And we use languages like Smalltalk for a reason, to get your guard down so we can invade your mind with recursion, and make a friend of your member.
Don't feel bad. If you have a PHP skillset, it's has no cash value. PHP is free, so everyone who has a PHP project figures they shouldn't have to pay you either. No joke, 99% of the contract work available is minimum wage or less.
As least with Java and.NET your skills have a commercial value.
I like PHP, I use it for everything I do, but from a career standpoint, it's about as useful as getting tanked at the company party and puking on the CEO.
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In over 25 years as a bilingual engineer, the fact that I speak a second language (French, well, lived there) has been nothing more than a curiosity from a work/employment standpoint. And I've had dozens of clients, from Fortune 100 to 1 man shops, so I'm going to call that basically universal.
Sad but true, being bilingual is exactly the kind of 'life skill' that people believe in in their college years that, in practice, unless you have to know language X at exactly the right time that someone needs X, is otherwise useless.
That said, I think all Americans should be bilingual, just for completely different reasons. Learning a second language opens your mind, and makes it possible to understand ideas that cannot be expressed in English. (Which is saying something; English is terribly expressive.) So I am absolutely suggesting that you DO learn a second language, because there are massive benefits from it.
But if it's all about cash, then don't waste your time. Burn your neurons learning the trendy fad of the year like Ruby or Drupal, something that will show up on Dice for a while and get you in the door. It won't give you any actual talent, but will at least get you hired.
MP3 is a lossy format so between those two, who knows, but the 'audiophiles' that claim vinyl is superior make me wretch. And yes, I still have plenty of vinyl because there was a time that was all we had.
Holy crap, did anyone look at the list of unsharable file types?
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AIF Audio Interchange File
AIFC Audio Interchange File
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AMF DSMIA/Asylum Module File
ASF Advanced Streaming Format
ASX Advanced Stream Redirector
AVI Audio Video Interleave
CDA CD Audio
DVI DivX AVI
DVIX DivX AVI
FAR Farandoyle Tracker Music Module
IT Impulse Tracker
ITZ Impulse Tracker
KAR Karaoke MIDI
MDZ Cubic Player/Cross-View Music Module Description
MOV QuickTime Video
MP1 MPEG Layer 1 (Audio)
MP2 MPEG Layer 2 (Audio)
MP3 MPEG Layer 3 (Audio)
MP4 MPEG Layer 4 (Video)
MPA MPEG Audio Stream, Layer I, II or III
MPE MPEG Video
MPEG MPEG Video
MPG MPEG Video
MPGA MPEG Layer 3 (Audio Stream)
MPV2 MPEG Audio Stream, Layer II
OOG OOG Bitstream
OKT Oktalyzer Tracker Module
PTM PTM - Poly Tracker Module (Audio)
QT QuickTime Video
QT1 QuickTime Video
VOB Video Object (DVD Video)
VOC Creative Labs Sound
WM Windows Media Audio or Video
WMA Windows Media Audio
WMV Windows Media Video
You've gotta be f*&^ing kidding me. I have _dozens_ of Western D drives around here, none of which have failed in almost 20 years. But their reputation just went straight to the gutter.
No matter how many perceived 'near misses' there are, a near miss is still a miss. That is, a non-accident. The statistics for air safety haven't changed at all, and they have been fully disclosed and discussed ad nauseum.
Reporting a near miss does not increase the odds that you will be in an accident. What NASA is doing is expanding the research to include non-accident items. The only problem here is the media re-interpreting the data for their own sensationalist benefit.
I had the game downloaded, but did an instant uninstall on the first ad.
That's just a datapoint for anyone else who thinks this is acceptable in either a demo or a paid-for game.
Actually, the situation is pretty much ideal.
Before what you had was a small, unrepresentative committee with the power to create 'standards' as defined by a minority. Before, a small subset of potentially affected parties could basically ramrod whatever agenda they wanted through and call it a consensus. A standard by fiat.
Now that commercial and other interests are involved, surprise surprise, not everyone is in a rush to rubber stamp the docket. Good! Instead of having some token committee that's a puppet of the free software agenda, maybe now standards will return to being something the entire community has a voice in.
"That government is best which governs least."
-Thomas Paine
Great plan, but defining 'healthy' isn't that simple. The BMI is a good case in point. Very healthy/athletic body types can be surprisingly heavy because muscle weighs more than fat. With serious weightlifting, people's weight goes up even as their pants size drops. With serious exercise, one can easily get their weight into the BMI's "unhealthy zone" while they are simultaneously in the best shape of their lives.
In years past I had talks with Ford to develop a new operating system for all Ford vehicles, but it didn't work out. At the same time, Ford had their own project exploring a vehicle based on interchangeable components, which is just as stillborn.
The sad truth of the matter is major players have no interest in competition-enabling standards. In fact it's a little surprising that Japan is considering it, considering the massive vested interests of their own. Dynamic change like this is going to be driven by the Yugos and Hyundai's of the world, if nothing but for the simple fact that they have the least to lose.
PalmOS is just changing the kernel. It's anything but dead.
Contracts are as variable as human beings and as random as a floating point value. Every term means something, and has some price. You will never know the specifics until they are finally laid out in front of you, cast in eternal, damming words and signed by both parties. You can't know the bounds on an N-dimensional equation in advance. You can work out where you stand, but that doesn't eliminate variables. The only way to decide in 3 seconds is to ignore aspects of the proposition laid before you. Either you understand the folly of skipping the fine print, or you will.
If you accept in 5 minutes, you've failed an IQ test. These people are not that important, regardless of what they tell you, and neither is the amount of money they have on the table. This is an attempt at simple manipulation on the part of older investors looking for wage slaves that will ask how high when told to jump. Unfortunately, if you're a 20-something, they're targeting you.
Understand the strength of your signature and the committment it represents. Never, EVER, be afraid to walk away from a deal. It's a big planet and there are plenty of legitimate people to do business with.
Numbers like this a bogus, both assuming that a university is the only place to learn computer science, and that the only source of computer programmers are people with computer science degrees. People come to computer science with a variety of degrees under the belt, elec. eng and mathematics being very common, but forensics and even a dietician I know went on to be good developers.
Foruntately, artists are too busy creating art to consider either the user interface or usability. In fact, head to the nearest art show and it's practically the opposite. I think most art majors think the plan is to make the whackiest thing you can and then laugh at the viewers who don't get it...
is the lack of any qualified candidates for Under Secretary positions
27KB? Holy crap, what a pig! Considering a lot of the systems then maxed at 48K, that would be the equivlaent of an app using 562 MB on a 1 Gig system today.
The original post is an Apple troll. The standard microcomputer for business from that time was the TRS-80, which was far more successful for business applications (and had a much bigger business application catalog accordingly.) Visicalc was released for both.
Is it just me, or does someone else think they can go straight to Hell?
Right, though I'm surprised civilians know about our plans. You'll find the extended discussion of the << dopamine and << endorphine operators in the ARM. And we use languages like Smalltalk for a reason, to get your guard down so we can invade your mind with recursion, and make a friend of your member.
No, that would be the Treo. And we stopped waiting a while ago.
Audio CDs will still have a place for all of us that despise the mud you get from compressed audio.
That was easy. Not interested...
Telnet over that Treo 650:
http://www.conklinsystems.com/palm/online.php
Don't feel bad. If you have a PHP skillset, it's has no cash value. PHP is free, so everyone who has a PHP project figures they shouldn't have to pay you either. No joke, 99% of the contract work available is minimum wage or less.
.NET your skills have a commercial value.
As least with Java and
I like PHP, I use it for everything I do, but from a career standpoint, it's about as useful as getting tanked at the company party and puking on the CEO.
Visicalc had nothing to do with the Apple II. It was available for the TRS-80 as well, a far more capable business machine.