It always bugs me how the military treats the 'senior military officials' better than the soldiers even though the soldiers are the ones putting their lives on the line.
I suspect that, somewhere out there, there's a quote by one of the guys that helped write the U.S. Constitution warning that this sort of thing is one of the dangers of having a standing military in peacetime.
What makes it worse is all these 'support our troops' and 'spend money on the military' types don't even realize that the troops are getting shit on.
Hell, I was there and saw that stuff in person, and I still forget to add a prohibition against it when I espouse the opinion that the military should have the resources it needs to do its job.
When I took an introductory QM class for my physics minor, we used this book. I thought it was pretty well written and it seemed to have a decent selection of good examples.
I've already done my share of "code samples," thx
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Oh yes, let me rush to burn up 4-8 hours of my time doing some contrived, over-specified programming exercise for each job application. I have a medium-sized stack of bug fixes and improvements to open-source projects I can point to, but that's not good enough for some companies: I have to do their extra-special lame example program, because I might not be uber enough to work at their uber-elite programming company.
Once upon a time I thought code samples might be a good idea, but now I'm starting to think that it makes a good lameness filter for my next job search. IMHO they just use up everybody's time for very little benefit; you'd almost be better off just hiring them at a low probationary pay rate and see how they actually perform in your work environment.
If an employer is using it in that fashion, then I'd view a Blackberry as a tool to transfer funds into my pocket in chunks of 15 minutes x $SALARY at a time.
Made me get up from the dinner table and spend 30 seconds sending a 20-word explanation on how to find that file for your presentation? Thanks for the 15 minutes worth of extra pay.
On many sites, you aren't allowed to block those ads. They don't check up on you whether or not you are watching those ads, but at some point, they will.
That's fine, let them. If I have to watch their annoying ads before I am allowed to determine the value of their site, then they can do without my future traffic and business. Conversely, when I find a site useful, I'll whitelist it and let them display ads and Flash.
So far shunning annoying sites hasn't caused me any serious loss, because if they don't know how not to be annoying, they probably don't have any useful information or products either. By the time a majority of sites get around to blocking people who block ads, and I can't browse teh interwebz anymore, I'll be old enough to sit on my front porch and yell at kids in my yard anyway, so at least I'll have something to do.
The more mainstream the web becomes, the more bullshit we have to sort through... the more useless it becomes. There used to be a banner ad. Now there's a banner, links on the left, links on the right, popups, flash over the actual text, sound, video, and 10x as many pages all with the same shit to click through just to get the same content.
Actually, I think my experience now is better than it was in the 90's. I no longer experience ads that shout or play loud music at me, I don't have flyover adds blocking my content, I don't have have to ignore the flashing monkey I'm supposed to click on, etc.
Of course, I had to go through the minimal effort of choosing a browser and plugins that let me discard all the crap I don't want to see, but I think that's something that anybody could do with a short list of instructions nowadays.
Ahh, but, if you take two seperate masses in a vacuum, and cause one to vibrate, then the other will also, because the gravitational interaction between the two will couple the vibration from one to the other.
Damn straight--all you need is a neutron star and something to shake it back and forth a few meters a couple thousand times per second, and you've got yourself something that might be as effective at transmitting signals as a 1 watt radio transmitter is with EM.;)
Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s.
somebody learned something new about the radiation produced by charged particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field,
But new data from the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a group of four high-flying satellites, reveals the bursts of radio waves head off to the cosmos in beam-like fashion, instead.
which seems fairly interesting. I wonder if anybody's got a model worked out yet to explain how a narrow planar beam gets generated.
Just so he (or she) doesn't display the, "I have a CS degree so I know how to do your job as well as or better than you do" attitude. The world doesn't need another "can't code my way out of a wet paper bag" manager that wants to micromanage a bunch of programmers.
However, if he is actually good at management (delegating, giving appropriate weight to the advice of others in matters he doesn't completely understand, etc.), then he could create the kind of work environment that many of us would love to have on our job.
They generally seem tonot like it. But ten to one if someone consistently delivered this kind of retribution against privacy-violating politicians, they'd find themselves in jail, because that's one of those things they'll make sure is written into the law: they can do it, but you can't. Since we're all "working together to end terrorism" now, anybody actively opposing such good-willed spying will be classified as a terrorist and silenced in one way or another.
Well, I really just wanted to make fun of/. summaries that cast this guy as "somebody worth listening to" in two fields of knowledge in the same week, but yeah, I'll try not to hold his support against the idea.
I'll probably still hold the Harvard researchers' criticisms against the idea, though.;)
Long Tail advocate Chris Anderson defends his theory...
You mean, this Chris Anderson? The "science is now useless because we have teh cloudz" guy? Yeah, after that gem of scientific insight, lemme rush right over and see what he's prattling on about in the world of finance...
... part of the North Carolina curriculum from the NC Dept of Public Instruction is to teach emoticons and abreviations in computer class. Wow, is that what a technology teacher does? I'm working too hard...I should quit all this math/computer science book larnin' and go be a technology teacher back home in NC...
Although I agree that if we determine there is NO life on mars, I say our next probe is sent with a well-planned variety of "colonizer" lifeforms to begin teraforming of the planet so it's at least borderline useful by the time we can send people out there. Wow, I hope we send people there much sooner than that. I seem to recall that it would take many, many centuries to make Mars borderline useful.
That is, unless somebody's done us the favor of leaving a giant insta-terraforming machine lying around there, in which case we just need to send Ahhnold to staht de reactor.
It sounds just like one of those email chain letters that the Ph.D's at my mom's job are always sending her. Oh come on: don't make a statement like that and just leave us hanging...make with the telling of the dumb PhD stories, please!
Pfft, please. Amazon's algorithms are so advanced they can determine if you're a pregnant gay man, so you must really want those items, even if you don't think so.
I seem to recall from one of his biographies that , even in the best times of his life when he wasn't short on money, he had compulsions, such as having to calculate the volume of his food before he ate it, and phobias, such as not being able to touch other people's hair (except perhaps under duress "at gunpoint").
I'm sure that once he wasn't coming up with novel, and, more importantly, immediately profitable, ideas at a rapid rate, those quirks didn't help him much. I can believe that his mental issues might also have gotten worse once nobody was paying him much mind any more (the transition from scientific/engineering celebrity to obscurity would be hard to deal with I expect), but everything I've ever heard about him indicates he was a weird chap all his life by anybody's measure.
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Funny note, [Donald Rumsfeld] takes his pants off while he's in there during flight. We, the flight crew, didn't get anything like that.
Yeah, we didn't get 70-year old male strippers in the Navy, either.
More Screen = More Data Displayed = More better work.
Yes, because I'm sure that it's mostly used to display data, and not the latest blockbuster movie or porn. ;)
It always bugs me how the military treats the 'senior military officials' better than the soldiers even though the soldiers are the ones putting their lives on the line.
I suspect that, somewhere out there, there's a quote by one of the guys that helped write the U.S. Constitution warning that this sort of thing is one of the dangers of having a standing military in peacetime.
What makes it worse is all these 'support our troops' and 'spend money on the military' types don't even realize that the troops are getting shit on.
Hell, I was there and saw that stuff in person, and I still forget to add a prohibition against it when I espouse the opinion that the military should have the resources it needs to do its job.
When I took an introductory QM class for my physics minor, we used this book. I thought it was pretty well written and it seemed to have a decent selection of good examples.
Oh yes, let me rush to burn up 4-8 hours of my time doing some contrived, over-specified programming exercise for each job application. I have a medium-sized stack of bug fixes and improvements to open-source projects I can point to, but that's not good enough for some companies: I have to do their extra-special lame example program, because I might not be uber enough to work at their uber-elite programming company.
Once upon a time I thought code samples might be a good idea, but now I'm starting to think that it makes a good lameness filter for my next job search. IMHO they just use up everybody's time for very little benefit; you'd almost be better off just hiring them at a low probationary pay rate and see how they actually perform in your work environment.
If an employer is using it in that fashion, then I'd view a Blackberry as a tool to transfer funds into my pocket in chunks of 15 minutes x $SALARY at a time.
Made me get up from the dinner table and spend 30 seconds sending a 20-word explanation on how to find that file for your presentation? Thanks for the 15 minutes worth of extra pay.
On many sites, you aren't allowed to block those ads. They don't check up on you whether or not you are watching those ads, but at some point, they will.
That's fine, let them. If I have to watch their annoying ads before I am allowed to determine the value of their site, then they can do without my future traffic and business. Conversely, when I find a site useful, I'll whitelist it and let them display ads and Flash.
So far shunning annoying sites hasn't caused me any serious loss, because if they don't know how not to be annoying, they probably don't have any useful information or products either. By the time a majority of sites get around to blocking people who block ads, and I can't browse teh interwebz anymore, I'll be old enough to sit on my front porch and yell at kids in my yard anyway, so at least I'll have something to do.
The more mainstream the web becomes, the more bullshit we have to sort through... the more useless it becomes. There used to be a banner ad. Now there's a banner, links on the left, links on the right, popups, flash over the actual text, sound, video, and 10x as many pages all with the same shit to click through just to get the same content.
Actually, I think my experience now is better than it was in the 90's. I no longer experience ads that shout or play loud music at me, I don't have flyover adds blocking my content, I don't have have to ignore the flashing monkey I'm supposed to click on, etc.
Of course, I had to go through the minimal effort of choosing a browser and plugins that let me discard all the crap I don't want to see, but I think that's something that anybody could do with a short list of instructions nowadays.
Ahh, but, if you take two seperate masses in a vacuum, and cause one to vibrate, then the other will also, because the gravitational interaction between the two will couple the vibration from one to the other.
Damn straight--all you need is a neutron star and something to shake it back and forth a few meters a couple thousand times per second, and you've got yourself something that might be as effective at transmitting signals as a 1 watt radio transmitter is with EM. ;)
The summary could have mentioned that although
somebody learned something new about the radiation produced by charged particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field,
which seems fairly interesting. I wonder if anybody's got a model worked out yet to explain how a narrow planar beam gets generated.
Just so he (or she) doesn't display the, "I have a CS degree so I know how to do your job as well as or better than you do" attitude. The world doesn't need another "can't code my way out of a wet paper bag" manager that wants to micromanage a bunch of programmers.
However, if he is actually good at management (delegating, giving appropriate weight to the advice of others in matters he doesn't completely understand, etc.), then he could create the kind of work environment that many of us would love to have on our job.
They generally seem to not like it. But ten to one if someone consistently delivered this kind of retribution against privacy-violating politicians, they'd find themselves in jail, because that's one of those things they'll make sure is written into the law: they can do it, but you can't. Since we're all "working together to end terrorism" now, anybody actively opposing such good-willed spying will be classified as a terrorist and silenced in one way or another.
By Odin's beard, I sure am cynical today.
Oh, smashing, groovy, yay democracy!
Well, I really just wanted to make fun of /. summaries that cast this guy as "somebody worth listening to" in two fields of knowledge in the same week, but yeah, I'll try not to hold his support against the idea.
I'll probably still hold the Harvard researchers' criticisms against the idea, though. ;)
Long Tail advocate Chris Anderson defends his theory...
You mean, this Chris Anderson? The "science is now useless because we have teh cloudz" guy? Yeah, after that gem of scientific insight, lemme rush right over and see what he's prattling on about in the world of finance...
Well, yeah, of course they could. I was just commenting on the (probably incorrect) idea that we could terraform Mars in the next few decades.
That is, unless somebody's done us the favor of leaving a giant insta-terraforming machine lying around there, in which case we just need to send Ahhnold to staht de reactor.
Hey, don't try to pin all that stuff on mathematicians: the original cloud-gushing author, Chris Anderson, says, "background is in science, starting with studying physics and doing research at Los Alamos."
"4th Amendment:..."
Only applies once you are outside the jurisdiction of Customs and Immigration. ...
On this, I certainly hope that I am wrong
Don't worry, they're working diligently to make sure all those pesky amendments don't apply anywhere.I didn't say it was debilitating, just weird.
Pfft, please. Amazon's algorithms are so advanced they can determine if you're a pregnant gay man, so you must really want those items, even if you don't think so.
"Safe" doesn't sell National Geographic...
True...bare aboriginal bewbies sell National Geographic!I seem to recall from one of his biographies that , even in the best times of his life when he wasn't short on money, he had compulsions, such as having to calculate the volume of his food before he ate it, and phobias, such as not being able to touch other people's hair (except perhaps under duress "at gunpoint").
I'm sure that once he wasn't coming up with novel, and, more importantly, immediately profitable, ideas at a rapid rate, those quirks didn't help him much. I can believe that his mental issues might also have gotten worse once nobody was paying him much mind any more (the transition from scientific/engineering celebrity to obscurity would be hard to deal with I expect), but everything I've ever heard about him indicates he was a weird chap all his life by anybody's measure.