Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used - for example, on a palmtop computer; on a wearable computer;
it would be cool to see what would be written out during a rush hour scrum on the train if you're wearing the comp. i sense a whole new genre of literature...
When my last contract ended, in November last year, I had the choice of going back to my previous company - to a guaranteed job, my former boss's job at that, with a slight pay hike - or staying in this company, with them offering to match the increase. They didn't. They also said I would get a similar or better experience blah-blah-blah as the other job but whaddya know... nope. It was all talk to make me stay because everyone else with any degree of competency was already jumping ship.
Now I'm not just looking to move companies but to have a complete career change because I've become that disillusioned with my field.
If you've already thought enough about leaving the company to apply for something else, be interviewed and get it, then I doubt it is just the extra money that will make you stay -- if it is, why not ask your current company for even more? If you do leave, they might have to pay your replacement as much anyway AND pay for all the costs of finding & training that replacement so if they're really interested in keeping you, they might be willing to go even higher.
a viable scale should put Science fFirst, fFiction second. just as the genre name implies.
exactly. some of these seem more like SOCIAL rather than SCIENCE fiction. admittedly there is often a big overlap but i'd still want more science/technology stuff in a top 20 of sci fi films.
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First Bert, then that lovely bunch of mormons with the big cheesy smiles....
In 1968, Marshall McLuhan said that "every new technology necessitates a new war" -- the Gulf War was a prime example of this with Bush Snr wanting some excuse to justify billions of dollars worth of spending : the inefficiency of spending all that cash is more important to them than 'enemy' human life. Parallel to now?
The Gulf War - 10 years ago - was the last time that the US really got to go to town on a war so they've got a huge stockpile of new stuff to try out and Dubya wants to be able to justify the son of Star Wars thing. They're not going to get Bin Laden with bombers/missiles but they want to show them off/use them up in the meantime.
Bin Laden and the Taliban don't seem to put much value on human life so they won't really care, except for propaganda 'look at all the civilians you killed' reporting, how many people get killed in the bombing.
(More on Bin Laden and US weaponary humour at http://www.geek-ware.co.uk)
Except with the "magnificient" Curriculum 2000 scheme you can't specialise at 16 anymore.
After doing between 8-11 subjects at 16, the standard pre-2000 was 3 A levels possibly with a further A Level in General Studies (which really did include a bit of everything but isn't regarded very highly by anyone or most universities.
Now kids have to study (usually) five subjects in the first year of their A Levels ("AS") and then upgrade (usually) three of those to full A Levels the next year.
The broadening of the course in the first year is supposed to bring the UK into line with European qualifications but in reality it has been a bit of a farce this year, and just meant more work for all involved and more qualification-bearing exams for the kids. It is still not going to widen the curriculum much: arts kids will go for more arts subjects, science kids will do more science.
Plus, it's all gendered anyway. I went to one of the top ten state 6th form colleges and I asked to rethink my subject choice because it was too narrow (arts subjects - which are seen as girl-dominated) while a male friend of mine was not discouraged from doing the same subjects. [I stuck to my guns incidentally and am doing alright on my 'narrow' selection]
Leeds Uni too - I walked into a computer lab yesterday and all I could see were rows and rows of adverts for Virgin.
It didn't affect me though - I am just sitting here as normal, drinking my Virgin Cola, listening to Virgin radio, contemplating going to the Virgin megastore on my way home while booking a flight on Virgin Atlantic. Oh, and growing a Richard Branson beard.
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on a palmtop computer;
on a wearable computer;
it would be cool to see what would be written out during a rush hour scrum on the train if you're wearing the comp. i sense a whole new genre of literature...
in light of this, someone's gonna have to write some family tree software for lindows that lets your mother and sister to be one and the same...
So they're EBoned then?
Now I'm not just looking to move companies but to have a complete career change because I've become that disillusioned with my field.
If you've already thought enough about leaving the company to apply for something else, be interviewed and get it, then I doubt it is just the extra money that will make you stay -- if it is, why not ask your current company for even more? If you do leave, they might have to pay your replacement as much anyway AND pay for all the costs of finding & training that replacement so if they're really interested in keeping you, they might be willing to go even higher.
exactly. some of these seem more like SOCIAL rather than SCIENCE fiction. admittedly there is often a big overlap but i'd still want more science/technology stuff in a top 20 of sci fi films.
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Bin Laden's secret past
The Gulf War - 10 years ago - was the last time that the US really got to go to town on a war so they've got a huge stockpile of new stuff to try out and Dubya wants to be able to justify the son of Star Wars thing. They're not going to get Bin Laden with bombers/missiles but they want to show them off/use them up in the meantime.
Bin Laden and the Taliban don't seem to put much value on human life so they won't really care, except for propaganda 'look at all the civilians you killed' reporting, how many people get killed in the bombing.
(More on Bin Laden and US weaponary humour at http://www.geek-ware.co.uk)
After doing between 8-11 subjects at 16, the standard pre-2000 was 3 A levels possibly with a further A Level in General Studies (which really did include a bit of everything but isn't regarded very highly by anyone or most universities.
Now kids have to study (usually) five subjects in the first year of their A Levels ("AS") and then upgrade (usually) three of those to full A Levels the next year.
The broadening of the course in the first year is supposed to bring the UK into line with European qualifications but in reality it has been a bit of a farce this year, and just meant more work for all involved and more qualification-bearing exams for the kids. It is still not going to widen the curriculum much: arts kids will go for more arts subjects, science kids will do more science.
Plus, it's all gendered anyway. I went to one of the top ten state 6th form colleges and I asked to rethink my subject choice because it was too narrow (arts subjects - which are seen as girl-dominated) while a male friend of mine was not discouraged from doing the same subjects. [I stuck to my guns incidentally and am doing alright on my 'narrow' selection]
It didn't affect me though - I am just sitting here as normal, drinking my Virgin Cola, listening to Virgin radio, contemplating going to the Virgin megastore on my way home while booking a flight on Virgin Atlantic. Oh, and growing a Richard Branson beard.