That can't be applied everywhere. Availability of land and transportation are major factors. Where can you build in San Francisco, Boston, or New York City that hasn't been already built up to the hilt? Work in the city and want to live there? I hope you are either rich, like lots of roomates, don't mind scary neighborhoods, or like living in a matchbox. Go ahead and live 30 miles outside of town but good luck trying to get to work in under two hours unless they had the good sense to build a commuter rail system (plus parking!) too. Even areas that are considered the suburbs around Boston (like rt 495) are quickly turning into the same over built, expensive, traffic choked messes those business and residents were supposedly escaping.
By the way, don't be so quick to pull out the "blame the gub-ment" cliche. Around Boston those zoning rules are created by the people in those towns who go to the town meetings, planning boards, etc. If folks don't like them they have to get motivated and attend some of the votes and meetings themselves. If a representative or town committee member only hears from one side of the story they will assume that is the general consensus.
"What's in my pocket?" That is about as fair as your question. How many people have the fields that come up for commands for every argument combo memorized? That is why we have reference manuals and man pages.
Unfortunatly if that guy tried offering wages like that around cities like Boston you'd be spending most of your income on housing. You'd always be one paycheck away from being homeless. As long as companies gravitate to expensive areas like the northeast they have to pay a reasonable salary.
I heartily agree. My favorite saying has become "A crisis on your part is not necessarily a crisis on my part". I think that the easier it is to access someone there are people who will immediately contact them for an answer instead of taking a few minutes to figure it out themselves. Usually they have figured it out by the time you reply. Wait a bit before sending out an email/page/etc, this is an especially good idea if you are upset.;)
This is not to say it is ok to ignore one's email. A check once or twice a day, at least, is expected and if you can't work on it soon a quick reply saying so is courteous.
If you are the paranoid type and your group uses Outlook (not sure if all email systems support this) turn on receipts so you know they read it.
I'm not surprised by it closing, I'm more surprised that it was still going! Sort of like a sci-fi movie where they find dinosaurs still living in some remote jungle valley.
Schools teach ideas, when they teach manual skills they become vocational schools. I didn't need a particle accelerator in the classroom to become a physicist. At the grade school level you are learning general ideas, once I got to college the details got presented to me and then seeing an honest to god particle accelerator came in handy.
The goes for schools teaching basic whatever. Even the basics of comp programming don't require a computer when you are working in pseudocode. Computers aren't going to help anyone learn a foreign language, English, geography, biology, etc any better than a book. There is ONE place where they can help, but even then a decent graphing calculator can do it, and that is visualizing the behavior of functions in math and physics. Even then a pencil and paper might force you to understand it better.
I think a lot of slashdotters had computers at home as kids and tinkered with them there. Obviously having a real computer to work on is necessary to making working programs but I think it is safe to say only a small minority of students have that real need just as only a few students need the football field.
Don't forget that WWI was the "War to End All Wars" and the nuclear bomb was going to make war so terrible that it would dissapear. Didn't exactly work out. I think it is safe to say the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terrorism" will follow the same path.
I'll say this though: 8-tracks, betamax and vinyl records appear to be quite dead (said in my best Munchkin voice).
Seems sort of ironic that they would have a website online for a book about computer and internet basics. It should have a message like those bumper stickers, "If you can read this you don't need this book".
So, want to make bets on how long it will be before blowfish are fished for drug manufacturers to the brink of extinction?
A similar problem occurred when yew tree bark was found to contain a useful breast cancer drug. Taking the bark usually killed the trees and they aren't prolific in the first place; fine if you got it before the trees were wiped out. Fortunately someone figured out how to process a version of the drug that was in the needles.
I hope they can make an artificial version of the blowfish drug.
Slashdot Mirror
"Who the fuck is so idiotically geeky as to try to use a PC as a PC when it is set up as part of his home theater setup?"
Come on, this is Slashdot!
The whole point of it though is that now he has a Tivo that doubles as a PC; or is it a PC that doubles as a Tivo?
The thing that gets me is that I INVENTED C and C++ and these thieves keep using my trademarks without permission.
I also invented the internet during a late work night with Al Gore.
This is all on my resume of course.
That can't be applied everywhere. Availability of land and transportation are major factors. Where can you build in San Francisco, Boston, or New York City that hasn't been already built up to the hilt? Work in the city and want to live there? I hope you are either rich, like lots of roomates, don't mind scary neighborhoods, or like living in a matchbox. Go ahead and live 30 miles outside of town but good luck trying to get to work in under two hours unless they had the good sense to build a commuter rail system (plus parking!) too. Even areas that are considered the suburbs around Boston (like rt 495) are quickly turning into the same over built, expensive, traffic choked messes those business and residents were supposedly escaping.
By the way, don't be so quick to pull out the "blame the gub-ment" cliche. Around Boston those zoning rules are created by the people in those towns who go to the town meetings, planning boards, etc. If folks don't like them they have to get motivated and attend some of the votes and meetings themselves. If a representative or town committee member only hears from one side of the story they will assume that is the general consensus.
"What's in my pocket?" That is about as fair as your question. How many people have the fields that come up for commands for every argument combo memorized? That is why we have reference manuals and man pages.
"'Excellent debugging / problem solving / communications skills': in your humble opinion?"
Resume advisors and books always encourage people to puff-up their resume with fluff like this. I think it is pretty much expected nowadays.
Obviously the applicant is Catholic and dedicates herself to serving Christ on weekends, you insensitive clod.
Unfortunatly if that guy tried offering wages like that around cities like Boston you'd be spending most of your income on housing. You'd always be one paycheck away from being homeless. As long as companies gravitate to expensive areas like the northeast they have to pay a reasonable salary.
I heartily agree. My favorite saying has become "A crisis on your part is not necessarily a crisis on my part". I think that the easier it is to access someone there are people who will immediately contact them for an answer instead of taking a few minutes to figure it out themselves. Usually they have figured it out by the time you reply. Wait a bit before sending out an email/page/etc, this is an especially good idea if you are upset. ;)
This is not to say it is ok to ignore one's email. A check once or twice a day, at least, is expected and if you can't work on it soon a quick reply saying so is courteous.
If you are the paranoid type and your group uses Outlook (not sure if all email systems support this) turn on receipts so you know they read it.
"Hi, Argonne National Lab Gift Store? Do you have bioactive nanoparticles keyed to latch onto THC? I have a drug test coming up tomorrow."
Wow, that gives me flashbacks!
That coffee must be finally ready by now
I'm not surprised by it closing, I'm more surprised that it was still going! Sort of like a sci-fi movie where they find dinosaurs still living in some remote jungle valley.
Schools teach ideas, when they teach manual skills they become vocational schools. I didn't need a particle accelerator in the classroom to become a physicist. At the grade school level you are learning general ideas, once I got to college the details got presented to me and then seeing an honest to god particle accelerator came in handy.
The goes for schools teaching basic whatever. Even the basics of comp programming don't require a computer when you are working in pseudocode. Computers aren't going to help anyone learn a foreign language, English, geography, biology, etc any better than a book. There is ONE place where they can help, but even then a decent graphing calculator can do it, and that is visualizing the behavior of functions in math and physics. Even then a pencil and paper might force you to understand it better.
I think a lot of slashdotters had computers at home as kids and tinkered with them there. Obviously having a real computer to work on is necessary to making working programs but I think it is safe to say only a small minority of students have that real need just as only a few students need the football field.
Don't forget that WWI was the "War to End All Wars" and the nuclear bomb was going to make war so terrible that it would dissapear. Didn't exactly work out. I think it is safe to say the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terrorism" will follow the same path.
I'll say this though: 8-tracks, betamax and vinyl records appear to be quite dead (said in my best Munchkin voice).
Just think of the ramifications this will have for Zork. Now I'll be able to say "Will you just open the damn egg?"
Seems sort of ironic that they would have a website online for a book about computer and internet basics. It should have a message like those bumper stickers, "If you can read this you don't need this book".
"Hmm... sounds exactly like being online."
To sound exactly like being online it would have to include hardcore photos of the authors and ads for penis enlargement.
They left out blinking text and scrolling banners.
/. abuse.
BTW, the "Early Comments" section is just BEGGING for
Dooood, I'm smoking a serious leech right now! Far out!
So, want to make bets on how long it will be before blowfish are fished for drug manufacturers to the brink of extinction?
A similar problem occurred when yew tree bark was found to contain a useful breast cancer drug. Taking the bark usually killed the trees and they aren't prolific in the first place; fine if you got it before the trees were wiped out. Fortunately someone figured out how to process a version of the drug that was in the needles.
I hope they can make an artificial version of the blowfish drug.
Ooops, you're right. It was the website URL that threw me. Eh, geographically close enough.
They've got cute mathematicians, terrorist beavers, psychopathic elves and I've got friends over there. That's it, I'm moving to Norway.
Yah, I was late for a lot of my classes
To hell with advanced mathematics, THIS is news!
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