I really dig Asimov, not a big fan of Clark. But as far as what you expect from sci-fi what about someone like Stanislaw Lem? I read a lot but I'm not super hip to the strict genre definitions and crap like that but it seems like there's a strong surrealist element in sci-fi that I personally dig.
Everything else being... And what are you 13? In my lifetime I've seen once incompetent Republican administration after another screw up the country. Then a Democrat has to fix it. Of course, 1970-1980 are like a black hole in my mind from which no memories escape.
Where do the statues come in to this? hmmm Grits....
Re:It's rocket science not computer science.
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Do you write an entire program before compiling it and testing it? Of course not, no one does. That's what J.C. is suggesting, that incremental development can be done in Aerospace.
Except when a singer is playing with a guitar or keyboard instrument that requires them to be in tune. I play the bass and it always takes a bit to shift from playing solo or with a classical or jazz ensemble to playing with a guitar or piano. I mean, I like Harry Partch as much as the next man or woman but you got to be in tune (and in time). Plus it's a joke. What's the definition of a minor second?
Two violists playing in unison
What's the difference between a washing machine and a violist? Vibrato.
Frank Black and the Catholics record all albums (so far) live to 2 track. The first 2 albums (Dog in the Sand, Pistolero) are excellent. It was a big thing a little while ago to record live albums.
Frequently it seems folks who have perfect pitch have crap relative pitch. I've heard people say it's because perfect pitch makes you lazy or something, I don't know. But I've heard that frequently.
The craft of singing is, like 60%, the mastery of making pitch and rhythm to nigh-superhuman levels of precision
Ummm, singers, like viola players, are notorius for a) shitty timing and b) a remarkable inability to hit an equally tempered note accurately. Haven't you ever heard the joke: Q. How can you tell when a singer is at you door?
A. He can't find the key, and doesn't know when to come in.
It doesn't necessarily make them less of an artist. But if that's all they do it makes them more like a technician. If an individual spends all their time going to museums and producing good or even great copies of other peoples paintings but never produces anything of their own I'm not sure that they're an artist. I'm not convinced that they're not either but it seems a little fishy.
On a guitar or piano intonation is great and helpful but doesn't change the fact that when the instrument goes out of tune, you're screwed. You could theoretically bend every single not in to tune on a guitar but that wouldn't work in all situations and for a difficult piece wouldn't really make sense. On a bass, violin, cello, viola, or whatever it's an entirely different story.
Unless you have a guitar built by a master who is no longer living. An Amati or Stradivarius may not stay in tune well. IANAL (luthier) but it seems like altering an instrument build in 1611 wouldn't be that great of an idea. Although now that I think of it, the 1611 Amati bass must have been a 3 string originally so some alterations must have gone on. Well, the point is that it might not always be feasible to alter a particularly rare and wonderful instrument.
But for most general roles, I found that the benefit is not worth the potential trouble, so most Ph.D.'s never made it to an interview with me.
...but I've always wished I had finished my Ph.D. - go figure
I'm figuring that what we have is a case of penis envy, small man syndrome. This often seems to be the case with PhDs. It's like the strong man, every one wants to take a shot and when they discover that being able to kick ass isn't the same as having big muscles, they're disappointed. That being said don't go changing. People chuck out resumes for all sorts of random, biased reasons, hell I do it to folks who don't have degrees. Most of the non-degree having folks I've worked with have had huge egos, big chips on their little shoulders about folks with degrees, and didn't understand that their was a significant amount of shit they didn't know. This is a gross generalization and I'm sure there are a lot of great folks without degrees, but I haven't worked with them.
I have a B.S. and I wouldn't work for 18 bucks an hour. Shit, 8 years worth of experience better get me more than 18 measly bucks an hour. That would less than 1/2 of what I make currently (not a lot less). The BMW isn't going to pay for itself!:)
I've worked with more than a few PhDs and they were all excellent. One of the guys was right out of school and it took him a month or so to get the idea but that's the same with the kids with a B.S. They show up, haven't had to right code that actually runs and do a bunch of stupid shit (don't check return values, assume certain cases "will never occur", crap like that). Most of the times the PhDs really helped out. Having someone who actually knows something rather than a bunch of hacks who produce stuff that just works (I'm talking about the old, hack it up until it works, not sure why it works now but it works) can be a good thing.
We had two PhD's apply for a job in the last year. One said "Oncall is unacceptable and should not be expected of your top employee.", so he was right out. The other told us we were doing everything wrong, we should be using IPv6, NUMA machines, latest TLA, blah, blah, blah. He too, was slotted in the round file.
I don't think the problem was the PhD, these guys sound like a couple of tools.
It seems sad that someone would spend at least 5 years getting a PhD and then apply for a job where they get to research the intricate details of IOS and change peoples passwords. But maybe it's just me.
I'm going to get a PhD next fall. But man, the money is going to be hard to give up. I make more than 85K/yr and I graduated with a BA the same year you got your PhD.
How the hell are you associating donations under $1000 with lower income bracket donations? What a load. The Repubs are great at mobilizing the base. Everyone knows that. It's common knowledge. That doesn't mean that those folks are lower income.
Listen man, you're living in the past. This isn't the 70's. Fiscal conservatism is no longer the hallmark of a republican administration. The Bush administration has increased government spending more than any administration in the last 20 years. And that's the CATO Institute. A hotbed of liberalism I know. As far as Condie becoming vice prez, it's a miracle she isn't "spending more time with her family." She put the president in a very difficult position. In a country where the media wasn't so "liberal" her repeated lying would have actually been an issue. Here's a Washington Post article asking some interesting questions. As far as being black and a woman. Leave it to a republican to accuse the left being racist and misogynist. And democrats are inherently anti-papist. RNC talking points are great and it's good to see you got the memo but that dog won't hunt.
The question all of us have to ask ourselves is: do we want jobs and more money, a balanced budget, a smaller deficit, our soldiers not getting pay cuts while in a war zone? Vote for the Democratic party. You want 4 more years of lying? Vote for a Repub or a Green.
Re:Gore in fact said he invented it
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Can we please see the quote? Oh yeah, you don't have it. But I do!
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. - Al Gore
While Al's claims show that he doesn't really understand the roots of the internet, they aren't inaccurate, just political grand standing. Branding Al as a liar was a smart political move by Karl Rove and the SCLM but it wasn't accurate. Even Vint Cerf (who did create the Internet) doesn't think Al was lying.
As Senator, VP Gore was highly supportive of the research community's efforts to explore new networking capabilities and to extend access to supercomputers by way of NSFNET and its successors, the High Performance Computing and Communication program (which included the National Research and Education Network initiative), and as Vice President, he has been very responsive to recommendations made, for example, by the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee that endorsed additional research funding for next generation fundamental research in software and related topics. If you look at the last 30-35 years of network development, you'll find many people who have made major contributions without which the Internet would not be the vibrant, growing and exciting thing it is today. - Vint Cerf
Smaller companies have a different variety of politics. In a large company if everyone hates the manager and thinks the director is a complete dipshit, through skilful political maneuvering they can be dealt with. In a small company you are screwed (it depends on what your definition of small is as well, I'm talking 25 or so). I currently work in a small game studio where the management has their collective heads firmly stuffed in their asses. It's not going to get any better unless we become a bigger studio and the peter principle takes affect (they all go from group leads to directors).
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I call bullshit on this whole thing. Let's see some proof outside of a RNC press release.
I really dig Asimov, not a big fan of Clark. But as far as what you expect from sci-fi what about someone like Stanislaw Lem? I read a lot but I'm not super hip to the strict genre definitions and crap like that but it seems like there's a strong surrealist element in sci-fi that I personally dig.
Everything else being... And what are you 13? In my lifetime I've seen once incompetent Republican administration after another screw up the country. Then a Democrat has to fix it. Of course, 1970-1980 are like a black hole in my mind from which no memories escape.
Where do the statues come in to this? hmmm Grits....
Do you write an entire program before compiling it and testing it? Of course not, no one does. That's what J.C. is suggesting, that incremental development can be done in Aerospace.
Except when a singer is playing with a guitar or keyboard instrument that requires them to be in tune. I play the bass and it always takes a bit to shift from playing solo or with a classical or jazz ensemble to playing with a guitar or piano. I mean, I like Harry Partch as much as the next man or woman but you got to be in tune (and in time). Plus it's a joke.
What's the definition of a minor second?
Two violists playing in unison
What's the difference between a washing machine and a violist?
Vibrato.
Frank Black and the Catholics record all albums (so far) live to 2 track. The first 2 albums (Dog in the Sand, Pistolero) are excellent. It was a big thing a little while ago to record live albums.
Frequently it seems folks who have perfect pitch have crap relative pitch. I've heard people say it's because perfect pitch makes you lazy or something, I don't know. But I've heard that frequently.
Q. How can you tell when a singer is at you door?
A. He can't find the key, and doesn't know when to come in.
It doesn't necessarily make them less of an artist. But if that's all they do it makes them more like a technician. If an individual spends all their time going to museums and producing good or even great copies of other peoples paintings but never produces anything of their own I'm not sure that they're an artist. I'm not convinced that they're not either but it seems a little fishy.
On a guitar or piano intonation is great and helpful but doesn't change the fact that when the instrument goes out of tune, you're screwed. You could theoretically bend every single not in to tune on a guitar but that wouldn't work in all situations and for a difficult piece wouldn't really make sense. On a bass, violin, cello, viola, or whatever it's an entirely different story.
Unless you have a guitar built by a master who is no longer living. An Amati or Stradivarius may not stay in tune well. IANAL (luthier) but it seems like altering an instrument build in 1611 wouldn't be that great of an idea. Although now that I think of it, the 1611 Amati bass must have been a 3 string originally so some alterations must have gone on. Well, the point is that it might not always be feasible to alter a particularly rare and wonderful instrument.
Depends what you mean by mainstream but a number of car commercials used Aphex Twin stuff. I consider that pretty mainstream.
Or least sitting around bullshitting about stuff that will never be implemented.
That being said don't go changing. People chuck out resumes for all sorts of random, biased reasons, hell I do it to folks who don't have degrees. Most of the non-degree having folks I've worked with have had huge egos, big chips on their little shoulders about folks with degrees, and didn't understand that their was a significant amount of shit they didn't know. This is a gross generalization and I'm sure there are a lot of great folks without degrees, but I haven't worked with them.
I have a B.S. and I wouldn't work for 18 bucks an hour. Shit, 8 years worth of experience better get me more than 18 measly bucks an hour. That would less than 1/2 of what I make currently (not a lot less). The BMW isn't going to pay for itself! :)
I've worked with more than a few PhDs and they were all excellent. One of the guys was right out of school and it took him a month or so to get the idea but that's the same with the kids with a B.S. They show up, haven't had to right code that actually runs and do a bunch of stupid shit (don't check return values, assume certain cases "will never occur", crap like that). Most of the times the PhDs really helped out. Having someone who actually knows something rather than a bunch of hacks who produce stuff that just works (I'm talking about the old, hack it up until it works, not sure why it works now but it works) can be a good thing.
It seems sad that someone would spend at least 5 years getting a PhD and then apply for a job where they get to research the intricate details of IOS and change peoples passwords. But maybe it's just me.
I'm going to get a PhD next fall. But man, the money is going to be hard to give up. I make more than 85K/yr and I graduated with a BA the same year you got your PhD.
How the hell are you associating donations under $1000 with lower income bracket donations? What a load. The Repubs are great at mobilizing the base. Everyone knows that. It's common knowledge. That doesn't mean that those folks are lower income.
Listen man, you're living in the past. This isn't the 70's. Fiscal conservatism is no longer the hallmark of a republican administration. The Bush administration has increased government spending more than any administration in the last 20 years. And that's the CATO Institute. A hotbed of liberalism I know.
As far as Condie becoming vice prez, it's a miracle she isn't "spending more time with her family." She put the president in a very difficult position. In a country where the media wasn't so "liberal" her repeated lying would have actually been an issue. Here's a Washington Post article asking some interesting questions. As far as being black and a woman. Leave it to a republican to accuse the left being racist and misogynist. And democrats are inherently anti-papist. RNC talking points are great and it's good to see you got the memo but that dog won't hunt.
The question all of us have to ask ourselves is: do we want jobs and more money, a balanced budget, a smaller deficit, our soldiers not getting pay cuts while in a war zone? Vote for the Democratic party. You want 4 more years of lying? Vote for a Repub or a Green.
What the hell is a "spaze."
Smaller companies have a different variety of politics. In a large company if everyone hates the manager and thinks the director is a complete dipshit, through skilful political maneuvering they can be dealt with. In a small company you are screwed (it depends on what your definition of small is as well, I'm talking 25 or so). I currently work in a small game studio where the management has their collective heads firmly stuffed in their asses. It's not going to get any better unless we become a bigger studio and the peter principle takes affect (they all go from group leads to directors).