If you go through Speakeasy, they set it up so that the people you sell it to are their customers, and not yours. The deal is that the more you sell, the less you pay. It's a good deal.
Hey, check out these pics. The nice thing is that they labeled them with what the colors actually mean (instead of having people think that interstellar gas is normally green and purple, like in star trek).
Try contacting your local schools and ask them what they're looking for.
Definitely. I had a computer-tech teacher in highschool who had many contacts in the local industry (Seattle). When he saw that I was interested in websites and programming, he set me up with an internship with a local dot-com. This internship turned into a full-time job during summers, and I made great friends in the industry, so I could always get a job when I was back from college. I stopped working in the IT field to focus on physics, but the internship at a young age was great because it taught me how to work hard in a mature environment and showed me what life would be like in the IT sector.
Science fairs are cool, but I think more companies should look to hire joungsters as part-time interns. It was a great experience for me, and I knew many other kids who it would have worked for too.
Research is driven by money just as much as industry. If you're not producing good results, you won't get funding.
Yeah, but in this case, good results means a well-done, duplicable measurement. Nobody is going to try to sell the mass of the neutrino, but we look for it anyways.
The University of Washington's Society of Physics Students has one in stock. Feel free to drop by the lounge (b52?) if you feel like you need a game. Mad props to Ed for tracking it down. (I've since graduated, but as of August, it was chillin' there, waiting for gamers.)
Word. I've always used "love" to do my mate-finding, but I'm just starting to realize that it's gonna bite me in the ass. I'm studying for a phd in physics, and while that can land me a decent job, it's still only a decent job. The "love" instinct just introduced me to a really nice girl... who wants to have five kids. My reaction was "damn, she's nice, but with the salary I get, there's no way I can afford her", so even if we were in love (we're not), our relationship would never work. The whole idea of love is fun, but it's only in our heads from watching too many damn romantic comedies.
err... Sorry, I think I misstated that. I meant 'ohm' like 'ahm', not like Ohm (the unit). I think that with the 'u', english speakers can get closer to the spanish version than with the 'o' (regardless of whether it is spelled correctly with an o or a u; I have no idea:).
So please leave Colombia alone. You can't even spell the country name.
I agree with your comments about the drug war, but I just have to comment on the spelling issue as this is the second time I've seen it. If you start learning a lot of languages, you'll see that most countries have slightly different variations in spelling in different languages. In Europe the names are mostly historical (ask a Finn what other countries' names in Europe are), but the names that are similar have slight variations due to the pronounciation differences. The reason that Colombia is Columbia in English is so that people will say the name correctly. If we spelled it Colombia then people would pronounce it Co-lohm-bia, which would sound terrible.
If you take it that slashdot is a place that performs editorial checks on submissions then yes, but I don't think it's designed to be that. It's a link dump with a place for us to comment.
But you could also argue that since slashdot has become such a major player in internet news, that it should think about playing to higher journalistic standards. Kind of like how the news media is pressing Jon Stewart to ask more "hard-hitting" questions in his interviews after his cnn/crossfire comments.
If there's anything that's going to kill the iPod it'll be its lack of Ogg Vorbis support...
Exactly. As an owner of an iPod, I find this extremely annoying. I have a powerbook to match my at-home linux box and the most annoying thing is having to re-rip my sizable cd collection into mp3 just so I can play it on my iPod.
Maybe somebody can help answer a question here: It would be very easy (my assumption) to add ogg support to iTunes and the iPod. Why exactly hasn't apple done this? Is it because they want to get people behind their weird compression format, or is it some kind of licensing issue? Something else I haven't thought of?
Word. Pop is a terrible thing. I quit drinking it because of all the high-fructose crap and all the weird chemicals years ago. Now if I drink it I became dizzy and confused and I can't focus on anything. If I haven't slept that much I'll have a panic attack. Then about half an hour later I'll have the sugar crash and feel extremely tired. It's weird stuff. I'm living in Germany now and they just use plain sugar in their pop. It actually has much less of an effect on me that the American stuff, but I still do have troubles focussing.
I won't be the first (or last) to say it, but iPods are nice. Big hard drives on a small piece of equipment, and you get to listen to music as well. (Although they still don't support ogg.)
Why? Well, quite simply, using biodiesel not only are you saving money and the environment, but you boost the economy via the agriculture industry!
You got it right that biodiesel is great, but the problem is that we cannot produce enough to run the entire automobile fleet. So while it is good on a local level, it is not the answer to our national problem of fueling cars. Right now, the best options seem to be supporting hybrids because they are just darn efficient! The fact is that our society will probably never be able to stop burning fossil fuels. Rather than focussing on eliminating them entirely, we should be working using them more efficiently and cleanly for when we have no other choice but to use them.
This sounds to me like a stalling tactic, not like NASA is actually going to fix the Hubble. Think about it:
They have 9-12 months to design a robotic space mission. Then how many years will it take to build it and implement it? By the time this "mission" is underway, Hubble will have been floating dead in space for years and will probably have tons of other problems that will make this mission obselete.
This sounds more like a way to funnel money to people studying robotics than a way to save the Hubble. An interesting thing to do would be to see which companies are supposed to develop these robotics and what connections they have to the administration.
You are right. That is interesting. I apologize; I didn't even notice that it was a link. I just figured that this was another "ooh, free energy!" argument.
There's all kinds of stupid shit happening like that these days. My buddy met a guy from a large firm who was designing a parking garage that would generate electricity from the movement of cars. He was bragging that it would produce enough energy that it would be self-sufficient and have enough "leftover" energy to power nearby buildings.
When my friend told him that he was basically converting gasoline to electricity, but with 2 or three crappy mechanical systems in the way, the guy just got this stupid look on his face and left the bar. The sad thing is that this guy is probably still working on this project and some company will probably implement it.
Note that if your car generates electricity, you could conceivably make a few bucks selling juice to the grid at peak hours.
This is a terrible idea. Just think about where your energy is coming from and how much you are losing by converting it to electricity. This second law stuff leads to pollution and a waste of energy (unless you have some rare source of energy which doesn't pollute, like the sun).
This is sounds clean and groovy, but just like hydrogen-powered cars, is dirty and wasteful.
Giving it away free also simplifies administration, and can be seen as an easy and cheap promotion to attract customers.
Word. Here in Seattle there is no way that anyone would pay to use wireless at a cafe. Wireless cafes are on the rise and nobody is charging. They run an open wireless network and assume the cost as a business expense. This works well because many people here use cafes as work or study environments, so if you have wireless then you are more attractive to this community.
In the case of a small town, I'm not sure that there is enough competition to write this off as a business expense, but I would shy away from the tip jar idea. Tip jars like this take away from the employees' tips, which are a major source of their income.
For OS X, I spent an age trying to get various codecs working in Quicktime
Word. Not being able to watch three-quarters of my movies has been a definite annoyance for me since I got a powerbook. The lack of a truly good media player for os x has been the major setback for me and has had me debating whether to wipe x and go back to linux. Now that mplayer is out for osx I think I'm set. Now if only I could get snd to run on osx....
Try using Mplayer from just the command line. It's a lot simpler that way and you never have to mess with the mouse. It sounds annoying, but it's actually much better than the traditional menu/button setup. Having switched from linux to macos x (sweet, sweet powerbooks), not being able to run movies off the command-line (and not being able to watch half my movies) has been one of my big complaints.
Yep. Just the other day I watched a sysadmin talk down a user who was freaking out over his computer not being safe for the internet. It was quite sad.
The most important thing in Science Fiction is to never ever, under any circumstances make up any science. All the really good series have fantastic machines, faster than light travel and all kinds of silly impossibilities, but they never try to explain how they work. Fiction stories exist in a realm that we choose to believe for the time being. This suspension of disbelief (as the lingo goes) lasts only as long as the reader can imagine such a world.
Take, for example, the world created by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game. The world is great and totally believable. The greatness even lasts into a sequel. In the third book (the name escapes me) Card starts to explain the physics of his world and the storyline breaks down. It is no longer believable. Go ahead and flip back through the series. The instant that he starts to mention this new, crazy physics of his is the instant the story falls apart into completely unbelievable crap. You just can't make up physics. Stretch it, bend it, but never try to tell the reader how it happens. That's the trick to good science fiction.
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If you go through Speakeasy, they set it up so that the people you sell it to are their customers, and not yours. The deal is that the more you sell, the less you pay. It's a good deal.
Hey, check out these pics. The nice thing is that they labeled them with what the colors actually mean (instead of having people think that interstellar gas is normally green and purple, like in star trek).
I figured it was a slap at Microsoft. "Merry Christmas, and Happy New Years Developers!"
Now that's not really in the Christmas Spirit! Even if it is Microsoft, that's really mean.
Try contacting your local schools and ask them what they're looking for.
Definitely. I had a computer-tech teacher in highschool who had many contacts in the local industry (Seattle). When he saw that I was interested in websites and programming, he set me up with an internship with a local dot-com. This internship turned into a full-time job during summers, and I made great friends in the industry, so I could always get a job when I was back from college. I stopped working in the IT field to focus on physics, but the internship at a young age was great because it taught me how to work hard in a mature environment and showed me what life would be like in the IT sector.
Science fairs are cool, but I think more companies should look to hire joungsters as part-time interns. It was a great experience for me, and I knew many other kids who it would have worked for too.
Research is driven by money just as much as industry. If you're not producing good results, you won't get funding.
Yeah, but in this case, good results means a well-done, duplicable measurement. Nobody is going to try to sell the mass of the neutrino, but we look for it anyways.
The University of Washington's Society of Physics Students has one in stock. Feel free to drop by the lounge (b52?) if you feel like you need a game. Mad props to Ed for tracking it down. (I've since graduated, but as of August, it was chillin' there, waiting for gamers.)
Word. I've always used "love" to do my mate-finding, but I'm just starting to realize that it's gonna bite me in the ass. I'm studying for a phd in physics, and while that can land me a decent job, it's still only a decent job. The "love" instinct just introduced me to a really nice girl... who wants to have five kids. My reaction was "damn, she's nice, but with the salary I get, there's no way I can afford her", so even if we were in love (we're not), our relationship would never work. The whole idea of love is fun, but it's only in our heads from watching too many damn romantic comedies.
err... Sorry, I think I misstated that. I meant 'ohm' like 'ahm', not like Ohm (the unit). I think that with the 'u', english speakers can get closer to the spanish version than with the 'o' (regardless of whether it is spelled correctly with an o or a u; I have no idea :).
Okay, that's enough 's and )s for one day.
So please leave Colombia alone. You can't even spell the country name.
I agree with your comments about the drug war, but I just have to comment on the spelling issue as this is the second time I've seen it. If you start learning a lot of languages, you'll see that most countries have slightly different variations in spelling in different languages. In Europe the names are mostly historical (ask a Finn what other countries' names in Europe are), but the names that are similar have slight variations due to the pronounciation differences. The reason that Colombia is Columbia in English is so that people will say the name correctly. If we spelled it Colombia then people would pronounce it Co-lohm-bia, which would sound terrible.
If you take it that slashdot is a place that performs editorial checks on submissions then yes, but I don't think it's designed to be that. It's a link dump with a place for us to comment.
But you could also argue that since slashdot has become such a major player in internet news, that it should think about playing to higher journalistic standards. Kind of like how the news media is pressing Jon Stewart to ask more "hard-hitting" questions in his interviews after his cnn/crossfire comments.
If there's anything that's going to kill the iPod it'll be its lack of Ogg Vorbis support...
Exactly. As an owner of an iPod, I find this extremely annoying. I have a powerbook to match my at-home linux box and the most annoying thing is having to re-rip my sizable cd collection into mp3 just so I can play it on my iPod.
Maybe somebody can help answer a question here: It would be very easy (my assumption) to add ogg support to iTunes and the iPod. Why exactly hasn't apple done this? Is it because they want to get people behind their weird compression format, or is it some kind of licensing issue? Something else I haven't thought of?
Word. Pop is a terrible thing. I quit drinking it because of all the high-fructose crap and all the weird chemicals years ago. Now if I drink it I became dizzy and confused and I can't focus on anything. If I haven't slept that much I'll have a panic attack. Then about half an hour later I'll have the sugar crash and feel extremely tired. It's weird stuff. I'm living in Germany now and they just use plain sugar in their pop. It actually has much less of an effect on me that the American stuff, but I still do have troubles focussing.
I won't be the first (or last) to say it, but iPods are nice. Big hard drives on a small piece of equipment, and you get to listen to music as well. (Although they still don't support ogg.)
Why? Well, quite simply, using biodiesel not only are you saving money and the environment, but you boost the economy via the agriculture industry!
You got it right that biodiesel is great, but the problem is that we cannot produce enough to run the entire automobile fleet. So while it is good on a local level, it is not the answer to our national problem of fueling cars. Right now, the best options seem to be supporting hybrids because they are just darn efficient! The fact is that our society will probably never be able to stop burning fossil fuels. Rather than focussing on eliminating them entirely, we should be working using them more efficiently and cleanly for when we have no other choice but to use them.
This sounds to me like a stalling tactic, not like NASA is actually going to fix the Hubble. Think about it:
They have 9-12 months to design a robotic space mission. Then how many years will it take to build it and implement it? By the time this "mission" is underway, Hubble will have been floating dead in space for years and will probably have tons of other problems that will make this mission obselete.
This sounds more like a way to funnel money to people studying robotics than a way to save the Hubble. An interesting thing to do would be to see which companies are supposed to develop these robotics and what connections they have to the administration.
And if you actually believe that Farenheit 9/11 was in anyway truthful, or based on any facts at all...
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Well, you don't have to agree with Moore's conclusions, but you can't accuse him of not basing them on facts. That's just silly.
You are right. That is interesting. I apologize; I didn't even notice that it was a link. I just figured that this was another "ooh, free energy!" argument.
There's all kinds of stupid shit happening like that these days. My buddy met a guy from a large firm who was designing a parking garage that would generate electricity from the movement of cars. He was bragging that it would produce enough energy that it would be self-sufficient and have enough "leftover" energy to power nearby buildings.
When my friend told him that he was basically converting gasoline to electricity, but with 2 or three crappy mechanical systems in the way, the guy just got this stupid look on his face and left the bar. The sad thing is that this guy is probably still working on this project and some company will probably implement it.
John Kerry is hoping it'll be January, 2005...
So do the rest of us, silly.
Note that if your car generates electricity, you could conceivably make a few bucks selling juice to the grid at peak hours.
This is a terrible idea. Just think about where your energy is coming from and how much you are losing by converting it to electricity. This second law stuff leads to pollution and a waste of energy (unless you have some rare source of energy which doesn't pollute, like the sun).
This is sounds clean and groovy, but just like hydrogen-powered cars, is dirty and wasteful.
Giving it away free also simplifies administration, and can be seen as an easy and cheap promotion to attract customers.
Word. Here in Seattle there is no way that anyone would pay to use wireless at a cafe. Wireless cafes are on the rise and nobody is charging. They run an open wireless network and assume the cost as a business expense. This works well because many people here use cafes as work or study environments, so if you have wireless then you are more attractive to this community.
In the case of a small town, I'm not sure that there is enough competition to write this off as a business expense, but I would shy away from the tip jar idea. Tip jars like this take away from the employees' tips, which are a major source of their income.
For OS X, I spent an age trying to get various codecs working in Quicktime
Word. Not being able to watch three-quarters of my movies has been a definite annoyance for me since I got a powerbook. The lack of a truly good media player for os x has been the major setback for me and has had me debating whether to wipe x and go back to linux. Now that mplayer is out for osx I think I'm set. Now if only I could get snd to run on osx....
Try using Mplayer from just the command line. It's a lot simpler that way and you never have to mess with the mouse. It sounds annoying, but it's actually much better than the traditional menu/button setup. Having switched from linux to macos x (sweet, sweet powerbooks), not being able to run movies off the command-line (and not being able to watch half my movies) has been one of my big complaints.
I was lucky enough to have access to a 533 MHz Alpha
That's funny. I'm still using two of those (dual procs) to run calculations. They really do rock.
Yep. Just the other day I watched a sysadmin talk down a user who was freaking out over his computer not being safe for the internet. It was quite sad.
The most important thing in Science Fiction is to never ever, under any circumstances make up any science. All the really good series have fantastic machines, faster than light travel and all kinds of silly impossibilities, but they never try to explain how they work. Fiction stories exist in a realm that we choose to believe for the time being. This suspension of disbelief (as the lingo goes) lasts only as long as the reader can imagine such a world.
Take, for example, the world created by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game. The world is great and totally believable. The greatness even lasts into a sequel. In the third book (the name escapes me) Card starts to explain the physics of his world and the storyline breaks down. It is no longer believable. Go ahead and flip back through the series. The instant that he starts to mention this new, crazy physics of his is the instant the story falls apart into completely unbelievable crap. You just can't make up physics. Stretch it, bend it, but never try to tell the reader how it happens. That's the trick to good science fiction.