Flagstaff, AZ, baby. Ski in the morning, hike in the afternoon. "Civilization" is just a couple hours down the Interstate (though there's plenty here). Within the radius of a six-hour drive, you can find the Grand Canyon, the Rockies, salt water scuba diving, and some of The Best Hikes the U.S. has to offer (I think the phrase "Southern Utah" sums it up). Finding good IT and CS folks here is a bitch. The students all want to move off to the Big City for the Big Bucks. Cost of living isn't so hot, but it beats Silicon Valley. You won't find the Intels and Motorolas here... Keep an eye out for the federal jobs: NPS, FS, USGS, NOAA (i.e., the fun agencies for geeky science nerds)... there's also university, medical, bio, astronomy, etc. as well as plain ol' vanilla local government jobs to be found. Generally, the workplaces and teams are small, but frankly, that's a plus.
Gossipy, nosy, lecturing family members... I don't even want them knowing my latest blood pressure reading. All I need is my mother saying "Should you be putting butter on your potato? Your cholesterol levels are a bit high." And. Yeah. I don't want her to know about the damned gerbil.
Please stop trying to be Digg/Reddit. It's really quite embarrassing. You post these stories way past their expiration date and provide no meaningful content to contribute enlightenment or lolz. We've already seen the story. We've already read the comments. Don't fall into the trap of pandering mainstream drivel to drive traffic. If my grandma knows about it, it doesn't belong on/. Even in "Idle" your readers expect more.
Airports are private facilities? No. The airlines are choosing to enforce business policies they've written? No. The government is conducting an unreasonable search in a public place on public property while I, a private citizen, am conducting private business with a private company. Me wanting to fly from point A to point B is not reasonable suspicion. My car. My home. My pockets. My labia. I choose for whom and under what conditions I disrobe or reveal my tits, ass, ankles, nose, or any other part of my body I choose to cover.
Since using aerial photography to spot permit violations (construction w/o a permit) is an common activity that's been going on for a very long time, municipalities are actually saving money by using freely available data instead of buying it, paying for overflights, paying for image processing and mosaicking, paying for software that can do all this, etc. Since Google provides data collected from previous years, folks doing the work can easily do a temporal change comparison to spot new construction. Brilliant way to work on a shoestring budget... of course, I don't have an illegal pool.
Exactly. When I saw these photos a few days ago, I immediately recognized the lack of technical skill... however, I was still moved to tears (yeah, I'm a girl, get over it) and several other emotions. These images are simple yet powerfully evocative and completely fantastic as is. The sense of seeing ghosts, or better yet, viewing a memory through someone else's senses is amazing.
Despite the lack of technical skill, the artist achieved the goal of having me feel that I was standing in another's shoes. And the fact is, he got better at it with practice. With some work (and a good drawing tablet), he could easily learn to rework these photos to eliminate the technical rawness that distracts the eye and impedes the viewer's immersion in the work and its meaning. I won't hold my breath - I'm more than satisfied with what he has chosen to share with us.
Sheesh people! Who the hell left the front door unlocked? Next thing you know we'll have Twilight fans wandering in here.
Perhaps it's time to add a "Poser" moderation category.
At one time, about five minutes ago, I would have agreed wholeheartedly. But now that I've seen grim humorless clueless trolling dicks in action, I'll take the lame geek humor. That's what comment moderation is all about.
(2) So the government should employ every single person required to do any high security level work it requires? That's practical and completely feasible.
(3) As AC notes, this is a standard term used to discuss people suspected or charged with a crime. To state a person is guilty before the result of a trial proves that guilt leaves the author open to a defamation suit, particularly if the person is found innocent.
(4) Yeah. People are that fucking stupid. And not high school drop-outs either... Ph.D.'s are really that stupid. It boggles the mind.
...then you only pay for the one you like - but keep everyone elses servers as well.
No, the buyer ONLY has rights to the "winning" design he paid for if he pays for it, and only the rights stipulated in the proposal. Losing designers keep complete ownership over their work.
If the design isn't picked, the designer still owns all rights to it and can submit it again. It's also part of his or her portfolio. "Real" designers work the same way, often developing several candidates for consideration or being pitted against other designers.
The title of this article is an absolute embarrassment. This is beyond inaccurate, it's inflammatory. Photography is not banned. A reasonable safety margin has been set around the response equipment and boats - and it's about fucking time. Scuba divers and other special activities are routinely given a 75 foot (more or less) safety margin, and it seems absolutely reasonable to make everyone stay clear while these people are trying to work. Frankly, 300 feet would have been completely reasonable. It's bad enough this "news" is already ancient (par for the course on/. lately), but now we have to deal with mind-boggling bias... is this/. or Greenpeace?
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Even the word loan is in both the title and in the URL.
In the second article, not the/. title or text, which says something quite different. Yes, we should all rtfa, but perhaps the/. posting should be a bit more accurate and a bit less biased and misleading. Frankly, now that I think about it, the entire submission is way too political for/. Why aren't we focusing on the technology here?
Agreed - I'd be far more upset if this deal were with China instead of Spain (after all, I'm willing to buy a European sports car, so why not European solar power?). Right now, any money leaving the country is a bad thing in my opinion (ianae). Keeping the profits here (i.e. with domestic companies) is likely to have the greatest positive economic impact for the U.S. From what I can tell from glancing at their website, they'll build and operate the plant and sell the power to the local power company. The long term profits from power sales bothers me even more than the short term profit from building the plant. Actually, I'm probably bothered the most by the embarrassment of having to depend on another country to build the technology for us, like we're a bunch of third-worlders who need to be taught how to use a plow.
If I understand how this works (this is similar to federally backed student loans and small business loans I'm assuming), I'm okay with offering a company loan backing (though I'm not okay with the misleading title). But, aren't there U.S. companies that can do this kind of work? Using Abengoa as a consultant would be fine--you know, teach a man to fish and all that--but to build the plants? Are they required to use Abound as the panel provider? And when the plants are built, who owns and runs those plants? 85 new jobs are nice... but more importantly, where do the profits go?
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Flagstaff, AZ, baby. Ski in the morning, hike in the afternoon. "Civilization" is just a couple hours down the Interstate (though there's plenty here). Within the radius of a six-hour drive, you can find the Grand Canyon, the Rockies, salt water scuba diving, and some of The Best Hikes the U.S. has to offer (I think the phrase "Southern Utah" sums it up). Finding good IT and CS folks here is a bitch. The students all want to move off to the Big City for the Big Bucks. Cost of living isn't so hot, but it beats Silicon Valley. You won't find the Intels and Motorolas here... Keep an eye out for the federal jobs: NPS, FS, USGS, NOAA (i.e., the fun agencies for geeky science nerds)... there's also university, medical, bio, astronomy, etc. as well as plain ol' vanilla local government jobs to be found. Generally, the workplaces and teams are small, but frankly, that's a plus.
Gossipy, nosy, lecturing family members... I don't even want them knowing my latest blood pressure reading. All I need is my mother saying "Should you be putting butter on your potato? Your cholesterol levels are a bit high." And. Yeah. I don't want her to know about the damned gerbil.
Welcome to Eternal September.
It spent 12 years looking legit. I will not be fooled again. I've had enough heartbreak.
Thank you... you've single-handedly made spending my time on recycled, old digg news completely and totally worth it.
*yawn* That's because it was on digg, posted in a nearly identical fashion, two days ago. Agreed. Bad article is bad. And now it's old.
Dear /.,
Please stop trying to be Digg/Reddit. It's really quite embarrassing. You post these stories way past their expiration date and provide no meaningful content to contribute enlightenment or lolz. We've already seen the story. We've already read the comments. Don't fall into the trap of pandering mainstream drivel to drive traffic. If my grandma knows about it, it doesn't belong on /. Even in "Idle" your readers expect more.
Lovingly yours,
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Airports are private facilities? No. The airlines are choosing to enforce business policies they've written? No. The government is conducting an unreasonable search in a public place on public property while I, a private citizen, am conducting private business with a private company. Me wanting to fly from point A to point B is not reasonable suspicion. My car. My home. My pockets. My labia. I choose for whom and under what conditions I disrobe or reveal my tits, ass, ankles, nose, or any other part of my body I choose to cover.
Since using aerial photography to spot permit violations (construction w/o a permit) is an common activity that's been going on for a very long time, municipalities are actually saving money by using freely available data instead of buying it, paying for overflights, paying for image processing and mosaicking, paying for software that can do all this, etc. Since Google provides data collected from previous years, folks doing the work can easily do a temporal change comparison to spot new construction. Brilliant way to work on a shoestring budget... of course, I don't have an illegal pool.
Exactly. When I saw these photos a few days ago, I immediately recognized the lack of technical skill... however, I was still moved to tears (yeah, I'm a girl, get over it) and several other emotions. These images are simple yet powerfully evocative and completely fantastic as is. The sense of seeing ghosts, or better yet, viewing a memory through someone else's senses is amazing.
Despite the lack of technical skill, the artist achieved the goal of having me feel that I was standing in another's shoes. And the fact is, he got better at it with practice. With some work (and a good drawing tablet), he could easily learn to rework these photos to eliminate the technical rawness that distracts the eye and impedes the viewer's immersion in the work and its meaning. I won't hold my breath - I'm more than satisfied with what he has chosen to share with us.
I think we can all "relate" to war and the death and destruction it entails.
Sheesh people! Who the hell left the front door unlocked? Next thing you know we'll have Twilight fans wandering in here. Perhaps it's time to add a "Poser" moderation category.
At one time, about five minutes ago, I would have agreed wholeheartedly. But now that I've seen grim humorless clueless trolling dicks in action, I'll take the lame geek humor. That's what comment moderation is all about.
(2) So the government should employ every single person required to do any high security level work it requires? That's practical and completely feasible.
(3) As AC notes, this is a standard term used to discuss people suspected or charged with a crime. To state a person is guilty before the result of a trial proves that guilt leaves the author open to a defamation suit, particularly if the person is found innocent.
(4) Yeah. People are that fucking stupid. And not high school drop-outs either... Ph.D.'s are really that stupid. It boggles the mind.
...then you only pay for the one you like - but keep everyone elses servers as well.
No, the buyer ONLY has rights to the "winning" design he paid for if he pays for it, and only the rights stipulated in the proposal. Losing designers keep complete ownership over their work.
Web design? Nerd stuff. Icon design? Nerd stuff. Computer art, graphics, illustration? Nerd stuff. If it weren't SIGGRAPH would be a LOT more boring.
If the design isn't picked, the designer still owns all rights to it and can submit it again. It's also part of his or her portfolio. "Real" designers work the same way, often developing several candidates for consideration or being pitted against other designers.
So, do you believe Apple will create/buy a new ad delivery platform to deliver "Advertisement in Operating System" instead of using iAds?
I third it. Excellent book for getting started, and interesting to read.
The title of this article is an absolute embarrassment. This is beyond inaccurate, it's inflammatory. Photography is not banned. A reasonable safety margin has been set around the response equipment and boats - and it's about fucking time. Scuba divers and other special activities are routinely given a 75 foot (more or less) safety margin, and it seems absolutely reasonable to make everyone stay clear while these people are trying to work. Frankly, 300 feet would have been completely reasonable. It's bad enough this "news" is already ancient (par for the course on /. lately), but now we have to deal with mind-boggling bias... is this /. or Greenpeace?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Then try Hillbilly Greeking:
Also available: Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German for your Greeking pleasure.
In the second article, not the /. title or text, which says something quite different. Yes, we should all rtfa, but perhaps the /. posting should be a bit more accurate and a bit less biased and misleading. Frankly, now that I think about it, the entire submission is way too political for /. Why aren't we focusing on the technology here?
Agreed - I'd be far more upset if this deal were with China instead of Spain (after all, I'm willing to buy a European sports car, so why not European solar power?). Right now, any money leaving the country is a bad thing in my opinion (ianae). Keeping the profits here (i.e. with domestic companies) is likely to have the greatest positive economic impact for the U.S. From what I can tell from glancing at their website, they'll build and operate the plant and sell the power to the local power company. The long term profits from power sales bothers me even more than the short term profit from building the plant. Actually, I'm probably bothered the most by the embarrassment of having to depend on another country to build the technology for us, like we're a bunch of third-worlders who need to be taught how to use a plow.
If I understand how this works (this is similar to federally backed student loans and small business loans I'm assuming), I'm okay with offering a company loan backing (though I'm not okay with the misleading title). But, aren't there U.S. companies that can do this kind of work? Using Abengoa as a consultant would be fine--you know, teach a man to fish and all that--but to build the plants? Are they required to use Abound as the panel provider? And when the plants are built, who owns and runs those plants? 85 new jobs are nice... but more importantly, where do the profits go?
But think of the jobs we've created in Spain!!!