A remake of "Mother, Speed and Jugs" would have been much more well received. (First person to respond w/ actual knowledge of that movie wins a free lunch. Seriously.)
You know, the weird thing is I actually *work* for Chris Berg and I can tell you he is the most accurate feminist writer I've ever met...and, yes, I've got the sources to prove it! Yay!
Agreed. Too many college-age people are *still* attracted to CS as a major simply b/c they are under the old 90s mentality of "if I love the Internet and I can debug Javascript I can work in IT for 50K!"
Wrong. IT is a *very* powerful field and requires significant talent...similar to that of a physician. (A lot of kids wind up getting married and never working in the field or wind up as entry-level car salsemen. I've seen both scenarios and I'm sure you have, as well.)
The problem is universities *love* to graduate people: too dumb for a traditional CS degree? That's OK, we've got "applied" CS to get you in for four years. No calc or Fortran for you! Thousands of people are in that boat. The ability to get a watered-down degree DOES NOT translate to a full-time career as a programmer. It simply means you can get through "student level" programs and does not mean you have true apptitude for enterprise grade programming.
So - as you wrote - pick something you truly have a passion for...even if that's working on cars, at least you'll be happy.
Agreed. And as a voting member of species homo sapiens, I will say that we *did* - after all - get the Fleshlight into mass production. Proud owner of two inserts, BTW.;-)
First - the knock sequence changes with every knock-in. Secondly, it seems that the technology does not differ much from what is used in many modern cars, information baerer omitted, of course. Knocks instead of radio. There is increased security in fact, as a PIN is used to activate the device.
This said the device itself looks pretty bulky and you would not want to walk around with it. Why the hell not use a transmitter instead of having to have a small battering ram in your pants pocket. I dont know about you, but that position has already been taken in my pants.
*SIGH* People REALLY need to read the fuckin' articles before replying to them:
Even more importantly, if an unauthorized person tries to record the knocking sequence and play it back in order to open the door, the lock will not open since the knocking sequence changes every time.
There. Nice and simple, heh? NEXT TIME PLEASE DO YOUR OWN FUCKING RESEARCH. Thanks, and God bless!
Depends where you work and what your company is doing. Are you working for Oracle or IBM or any huge mega-IT company? Then, of course, the Powers That Be need significant background work before something seemingly as mundane as adding memory to a machine can be green-lit. Do you work for a hospital's IT department? Or a finanacial institution? Then certainly significant safe-guards need to be in place before changes are made.
But if you're working for a relatively small, non-IT company and you have to jump through rings of fire for changes to non-prod system I'd have to wonder what in the world is going on.
Sorry to carp, but it's stuff like this, especially in 'science' articles, that drives me to distraction.
From TFA (boldface mine):
Predicted surface temperatures are minus 220 degrees Celcius (-364F), meaning that its surface is likely to be layer of frozen liquid.
Umm...wouldn't that be the textbook definition of solid? In the absence of any information as to the composition of the 'frozen liquid', the term 'frozen liquid' could apply equally well to any terrestrial planet.
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But...but...they're using S3 video cards. Can you give a body a break? Please?
A remake of "Mother, Speed and Jugs" would have been much more well received. (First person to respond w/ actual knowledge of that movie wins a free lunch. Seriously.)
It says: "Drink Your Ovaltine"
I wanna test-drive being a spam-bot!
Uh...did *you* not RTFA? He clearly says "public use." Geez!
You know, the weird thing is I actually *work* for Chris Berg and I can tell you he is the most accurate feminist writer I've ever met...and, yes, I've got the sources to prove it! Yay!
And motherf*ckers lost their minds.
Agreed. Too many college-age people are *still* attracted to CS as a major simply b/c they are under the old 90s mentality of "if I love the Internet and I can debug Javascript I can work in IT for 50K!" Wrong. IT is a *very* powerful field and requires significant talent...similar to that of a physician. (A lot of kids wind up getting married and never working in the field or wind up as entry-level car salsemen. I've seen both scenarios and I'm sure you have, as well.) The problem is universities *love* to graduate people: too dumb for a traditional CS degree? That's OK, we've got "applied" CS to get you in for four years. No calc or Fortran for you! Thousands of people are in that boat. The ability to get a watered-down degree DOES NOT translate to a full-time career as a programmer. It simply means you can get through "student level" programs and does not mean you have true apptitude for enterprise grade programming. So - as you wrote - pick something you truly have a passion for...even if that's working on cars, at least you'll be happy.
Agreed. And as a voting member of species homo sapiens, I will say that we *did* - after all - get the Fleshlight into mass production. Proud owner of two inserts, BTW. ;-)
Did you mean: cellist?
Are you shocked by buttsecks, as well?
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Let's just reverse the letters: from now on it is called Sunaru! All hail planet Sunaru!
Ponies. That's what I look for. Just....more ponies.
...London is now officially "Airstrip One."
Outlook not so good.
Your sig: "This is my digital signature. 10011011001" equates to 666 in decimal. Goes to show whose side you're on.
"Tonight at 10: cloudmaster speeds on a deserted road and gets pulled over."
Yeah...that's the guy!
First - the knock sequence changes with every knock-in. Secondly, it seems that the technology does not differ much from what is used in many modern cars, information baerer omitted, of course. Knocks instead of radio. There is increased security in fact, as a PIN is used to activate the device.
This said the device itself looks pretty bulky and you would not want to walk around with it. Why the hell not use a transmitter instead of having to have a small battering ram in your pants pocket. I dont know about you, but that position has already been taken in my pants.
Look at me, I'm a jerk-ass! I'll just put a microphone next to the door and wait for the owner to arrive! AND I'LL OWN HIS SHIAT!!! HAHA!
Even more importantly, if an unauthorized person tries to record the knocking sequence and play it back in order to open the door, the lock will not open since the knocking sequence changes every time.
There. Nice and simple, heh? NEXT TIME PLEASE DO YOUR OWN FUCKING RESEARCH. Thanks, and God bless!
Hey, grub, I find you to be a cunt....a cunt....a continous source of inspiration to us all.
Dude. Just lick it. Lick it good.
Depends where you work and what your company is doing. Are you working for Oracle or IBM or any huge mega-IT company? Then, of course, the Powers That Be need significant background work before something seemingly as mundane as adding memory to a machine can be green-lit. Do you work for a hospital's IT department? Or a finanacial institution? Then certainly significant safe-guards need to be in place before changes are made. But if you're working for a relatively small, non-IT company and you have to jump through rings of fire for changes to non-prod system I'd have to wonder what in the world is going on.
From TFA (boldface mine):
Predicted surface temperatures are minus 220 degrees Celcius (-364F), meaning that its surface is likely to be layer of frozen liquid.
Umm...wouldn't that be the textbook definition of solid? In the absence of any information as to the composition of the 'frozen liquid', the term 'frozen liquid' could apply equally well to any terrestrial planet.