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I drive by the office buildings on San Tomas expressway on way home from visiting my brother. No matter what time I drive by (11:00 PM on a Sunday, 1:00 AM on a Saturday), the parking lot has lots of cars and people seem to be hard at work (not just security guards).
It's a very interesting notion. One thing I have noticed is that most non-Americans look solely at the bad parts of our society (corporate greed, questionable foreign policy) while we Americans tend to look at our good points. I guess that is normal and to be expected. Every country has its problems and ours are blasted on the world stage for all to see because of our status in the world.
I'm not sure how you define colonialism, but a classic definition does not seem to fit what the US does (as a nation-state, not global corporations that may have originated here). I guess you see the permeation of global capitalist practices as being a form of state-sponsored colonialism?
Cool! A music teacher. Plenty portable job I would guess (unlike software when you are tied to corporate locations).
Do you get to set you own hours and stuff? When I took lessons I always had to go at night and it seemed my instructor was bound up between 5-9 teaching.
If only I was a better musician, that might be an option. Maybe I can continue programming for a few years and then bail...
Here is my problem with the point of the editor. If Java dies, who loses? Certainly not people like you and me who have programmed in it for a number of years. C# is a relatively easy pick-up for Java programmers (at least at this stage). The big App Server guys like Bea lose. And if C# actually can run on other platforms with the Mono work, then all the better.
I'm not going to worry about it to be honest. I made the transition from C++ to Java with little work. I think the transition to C# will be about as difficult.
Yeah but unlike COBOL, C# is pretty close to Java, so it would not be hard to go from one to the other, even after a number of years and MS 'innovations'.
The tricky thing with archaeology is you have to actually have evidence of such things as dates.
That always buggers up the hypothesis that human cities have been around for a long time. Since C14 dating needs organic material and other dating methods are less accurate (other than tree-ring dating), you need to have organic material preserved. This means a specific chemical/depositional environment (anerobic is great--like the Black Sea).
Underwater arch has the BEST potential for making stunning discoveries that re-write the history books because of the preservation potential of many of these areas (and the lack of later humans trampling all over the earlier strata).
The only thing left to ponder is HOW this city got there. That will take some talented surficial geologists (not the oil finding structural kind our Uni't tend to produce) and a bit of luck. Looking forward to hearing more about this and the site off Cuba.
There are tons of other stores you could check out other than Fry's. There are Best Buys, CompUSA, and numerous other big computer stores around that fit the bill. I kinda like MicroCenter over in AMD Mercado (Santa Clara) though I don't know if they have Mandrake (Suse and Red Hat).
Sounds like that project in Smoke, where the guy took a picture every morning at the same time from the same corner in Brooklyn.
Sounds like a cool project--at least I'd be interested in the SEEING the results (not sure I would want to go through the tedium of TAKING those all those pictures).
>>Habitable plants are thus incredibly, incredibly small compared to their suns or compared to gas giants.
Inherent in his (and your) position is that gas giants are incapable of supporting life. We have a sample of 1 in a population of an almost infinite number of stars. How arrogant to believe that life MUST take on the form we are familiar with, based on such a limited sample.
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I drive by the office buildings on San Tomas expressway on way home from visiting my brother. No matter what time I drive by (11:00 PM on a Sunday, 1:00 AM on a Saturday), the parking lot has lots of cars and people seem to be hard at work (not just security guards).
And those buildings are hella cool.
Probably speaking from experience rather than thinking he is god.
FWIW:
I look back on my teenage years when I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to do, but now that I am older my plans have changed.
Getting a degree has helped me make a career change because I learned how to learn. If my present career craps out, I know I can make another change.
Wow, a CEO who cares about his employees and his company and not just the lining of his pockets. I think you must be a rare bird indeed.
It's a very interesting notion. One thing I have noticed is that most non-Americans look solely at the bad parts of our society (corporate greed, questionable foreign policy) while we Americans tend to look at our good points. I guess that is normal and to be expected. Every country has its problems and ours are blasted on the world stage for all to see because of our status in the world.
I'm not sure how you define colonialism, but a classic definition does not seem to fit what the US does (as a nation-state, not global corporations that may have originated here). I guess you see the permeation of global capitalist practices as being a form of state-sponsored colonialism?
Cool! A music teacher. Plenty portable job I would guess (unlike software when you are tied to corporate locations).
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Do you get to set you own hours and stuff? When I took lessons I always had to go at night and it seemed my instructor was bound up between 5-9 teaching.
If only I was a better musician, that might be an option. Maybe I can continue programming for a few years and then bail
Who says you have to live in San Jose? Move.
Or better yet, get another career. This one seems to give you gas.
>>Do you really have any concept of reality motherfucker or do I have to beat it into your head for you?
Ahhh, the impotent internet threat. A sure sign the poster is a mature, intelligent member of society. No wonder you lost your job.
You need to move to marketing. They like to have meetings and talk about problems for hours.
What if it has a different hard drive? And the original hard drive is sitting in a corner collecting MicroDust?
Here is my problem with the point of the editor. If Java dies, who loses? Certainly not people like you and me who have programmed in it for a number of years. C# is a relatively easy pick-up for Java programmers (at least at this stage). The big App Server guys like Bea lose. And if C# actually can run on other platforms with the Mono work, then all the better.
I'm not going to worry about it to be honest. I made the transition from C++ to Java with little work. I think the transition to C# will be about as difficult.
Yeah but unlike COBOL, C# is pretty close to Java, so it would not be hard to go from one to the other, even after a number of years and MS 'innovations'.
Hmm very interesting. Learn something new everyday.
Prior to that it was just a land-grubbing, republican nation-state.
Or perhaps a common need for the elite to control the masses?
Kinda like a certain unnamed corporation.
;-)
The tricky thing with archaeology is you have to actually have evidence of such things as dates.
That always buggers up the hypothesis that human cities have been around for a long time. Since C14 dating needs organic material and other dating methods are less accurate (other than tree-ring dating), you need to have organic material preserved. This means a specific chemical/depositional environment (anerobic is great--like the Black Sea).
Underwater arch has the BEST potential for making stunning discoveries that re-write the history books because of the preservation potential of many of these areas (and the lack of later humans trampling all over the earlier strata).
The only thing left to ponder is HOW this city got there. That will take some talented surficial geologists (not the oil finding structural kind our Uni't tend to produce) and a bit of luck. Looking forward to hearing more about this and the site off Cuba.
>>Actually, this city has sunk because the sea levels have risen since the last ice age.
Um, the glaciers receded by about 10,000 BC, give or take 2,000 years.
This city supposedly dates maybe around 5,000 years ago (~3,000 BC).
Are you trying to say that it took 7,000 years for the water to reach this city?
Yeah but my question is, what happens to the new grandiose Sun HQ on Montague in Santa Clara?
And can we hack little pieces of the San Antonio HQ in Palo Alto like they did with the Berlin Wall?
There are tons of other stores you could check out other than Fry's. There are Best Buys, CompUSA, and numerous other big computer stores around that fit the bill. I kinda like MicroCenter over in AMD Mercado (Santa Clara) though I don't know if they have Mandrake (Suse and Red Hat).
And it has kick-ass Mexican food which makes all the crap here in the Bay Area taste like cow patties in comparison.
"Fresh Mex" should be renamed "Fresh Retch".
Sounds like that project in Smoke, where the guy took a picture every morning at the same time from the same corner in Brooklyn.
Sounds like a cool project--at least I'd be interested in the SEEING the results (not sure I would want to go through the tedium of TAKING those all those pictures).
Uh, you think the Golden State Warriors rank as a REAL basketball team?
>>Habitable plants are thus incredibly, incredibly small compared to their suns or compared to gas giants.
Inherent in his (and your) position is that gas giants are incapable of supporting life. We have a sample of 1 in a population of an almost infinite number of stars. How arrogant to believe that life MUST take on the form we are familiar with, based on such a limited sample.
When did science become so myopic?
Your mom is a geek.
:)
That is pretty cool.
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Yeah it just kinda came to me one day while I did a routine thing at an appointed time.
Thankfully not all days are like that.
Is your broker Merrill Lynch perhaps?