I think community and trade colleges are great. It's ridiculous that everyone is expected to have a "traditional" degree. They're sometimes fun and interesting to obtain, but they don't have much to do with the real world. I certainly know a few people with degrees in practical things like medical technician from "no name" schools who make quite a bit more than a few other people I know with degrees in things like Philosophy from very very big name schools.
That said, you might want to hold off on getting defensive before insults have even been posted... looks a little insecure, ya know?
"Although, interesting enough, if Darwinism really works, Windows users may ultimately adapt to having to always struggle to keep their boxes secure, and perhaps even end up being better than most Unix gurus at home computer security. Time will tell."
Sigh... because I feel like being an asshole today:
Unless you're thinking about a future in which Windows users have a greater chance of surviving and producing offspring, and the genes for being a security-minded windows user are passed off to the next generation, you aren't talking about Darwinism at all. What you're talking about is the school of hard knocks.
And because I *really* feel like being an asshole:
I'm not a rich person, and I don't really plan on ever being one, but for a chance for a multi-day trip into space, I'd cough up thousands. For a trip to the moon, tens of thousands. This is even if there's a 5% chance of catastrophic failure. Who cares if my retirement evaporates? I'd die a happier man.
Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always some global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to detect patterns in their raw data?
The team behind the project insist not. They claim that by using rigorous scientific techniques and powerful mathematics it is possible to exclude any such random connections.
Rigorous scientific and powerful math eh? Well you didn't have me until I was womped by the power of your math, but now I'm on board.
I'd like to see a timeline of every spike and every event that it supposedly predicts. How many major events (I can think of a lot that weren't mentioned in this piece) were missed?
Let's suppose I'm near broke, have little in the way of morals, and my laptop falls down a flight of stairs, how would I go about locating a five-finger discount retailer?
I've asked a few vendors in recreational pharmaceuticals, but they don't know.
I'm not going to do this of course, I've got a decent job and a computer that is working fine, but I wonder about all those laptops that vanish from school libraries. Do they go straight to ebay and pawn shops, or is there a way of locating small-scale college town black markets that I don't know about?
Have you *seen* a Mac Mini? The thing is small. Sit it on the palm of your hand, you'll have trouble believing it. You really need to be in Sony Picturebook territory to compare.
A google linux distro might be good as far as getting a bigger install base for linux, but I don't really see how it would be in Google's best interest overall.
Even with the star power of their name, they'd get only a very small percentage of Windows users to remove windows or repartition their hard drives.
If google are going to make an OS it would be some sort of Litestep style explorer.exe / filemanager replacement for windows. Something that could be easily installed (and removed or turned off) over windows that would provide google functionality and branding, as well as advertising.
Remember, first things first, Google is an advertising company, just like the major broadcast networks. Since they value their future and reputation, they are a pretty benevolent advertising company, but an advertising company nonetheless. A google browser makes a lot of sense in that context. A google linux doesn't.
the main technology developed by the lunar race was ICBMs. the space race was a proxy for scaring each other by flying missiles over each others airspaces.
i've never liked the "think of all the tech developed" arguments for justifying the space race. so should we have more massive government programs to do research for private companies?
it's certainly one of the coolest things the human race has ever done. but let's not kid ourselves. we don't like it because it made a better sneaker or for any other economic reason. we like it because it's cool. it's startrek in real life.
a bachelors degree proves that you can sit in one place for four years, take directions, and get something accomplished while dealing with a whole lot of freedom.
no matter how rigorous an interview process is, you're still an unknown quantity to them, and they're going to make some statistically based decisions. this is why anti-discrimination and affirmitive action laws exist. if they were allowed to do so, tech companies would only hire asians and indians, because statistically it makes sense, but that would be grossly unfair to workers since race, gender, and things of that nature cannot be changed. college on the other hand, you can do something about. in general, people with college educations are better hires. also current students don't typically stay at a single job for very long. if they invest training in their new employees, they want to see more return on that investment than just a summer and then maybe some part time.
and sure it sucks. i'm between schools right now, and i had all but finished my major before leaving the first one, but my employment options are in the service and construction industries. however, i can't say i don't understand why.
if you really want to show the world you can do better than people with meaningless pieces of paper, you're going to have to start your own business. good luck if you try. you wouldn't be the first millionaire college dropout in the technology industry.
It seems like the likelihood of finding an alien EM radiation broadcast is Chance that they're close enough * chance that they're using that technology * chance that we're capable of identifying the signal as such
with laser light there's the added wrinkle that there could be a signal origin close enough to us, but it could simply be aimed in the wrong direction. the chances of a laser originating from a point any significant distance away from the solar system coming in our general direction is microscopically low, so it seems like we're banking on them knowingly signalling earth.
so we're banking now on aliens knowing we're here and actively trying to get in touch with us. my guess is that if they're advanced enough to do interstellar travel, and they felt like talking, they would come up with a method that's a little harder to miss.
of course i suppose they might have just done a survey of solar systems, worked out which ones are potentially habitable and left lasers counting off prime numbers pointed at each of them.
It's been a while since E&M and I never really used it for anything but if I remember correctly, taking usable energy from the field around a powerline will reduce the energy of the line. For a small robot it wouldn't be much, but if there were millions of the things...
This is an interesting legal/constitutional situation.
On the one hand, it's disturbing to see the Feds going after crimes that should be handled as civil suits. But on the other hand, private companies have no way of catching the big pirates (who are generally smart about covering their tracks) without access to the kind of surveilance I don't want private companies to have.
If this gets contested and goes to the Supreme Court, expect to see wrongful distribution of copyrighted material that exceeds some dollar amount become a federal crime.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry to badger, some of us are just partial to old Chuck D.
I think community and trade colleges are great. It's ridiculous that everyone is expected to have a "traditional" degree. They're sometimes fun and interesting to obtain, but they don't have much to do with the real world. I certainly know a few people with degrees in practical things like medical technician from "no name" schools who make quite a bit more than a few other people I know with degrees in things like Philosophy from very very big name schools.
That said, you might want to hold off on getting defensive before insults have even been posted... looks a little insecure, ya know?
"Although, interesting enough, if Darwinism really works, Windows users may ultimately adapt to having to always struggle to keep their boxes secure, and perhaps even end up being better than most Unix gurus at home computer security. Time will tell."
Sigh... because I feel like being an asshole today:
Unless you're thinking about a future in which Windows users have a greater chance of surviving and producing offspring, and the genes for being a security-minded windows user are passed off to the next generation, you aren't talking about Darwinism at all. What you're talking about is the school of hard knocks.
And because I *really* feel like being an asshole:
Interesting should have been an adverb.
When these fall in price enough, and when there's a board out in Micro-ITX spec for them...
helloooooo dashboard computer
I'm not a rich person, and I don't really plan on ever being one, but for a chance for a multi-day trip into space, I'd cough up thousands. For a trip to the moon, tens of thousands. This is even if there's a 5% chance of catastrophic failure. Who cares if my retirement evaporates? I'd die a happier man.
So... eh... what's up, doc?
In Korea only old people use black spherical robotic security guards...
My favorite part of the article:
Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always some global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to detect patterns in their raw data?
The team behind the project insist not. They claim that by using rigorous scientific techniques and powerful mathematics it is possible to exclude any such random connections.
Rigorous scientific and powerful math eh? Well you didn't have me until I was womped by the power of your math, but now I'm on board.
I'd like to see a timeline of every spike and every event that it supposedly predicts. How many major events (I can think of a lot that weren't mentioned in this piece) were missed?
http://lsashdot.org/
However, at $100, these are a good deal cheaper than a modern physics textbook...
Ok, I've never understood this exactly.
Let's suppose I'm near broke, have little in the way of morals, and my laptop falls down a flight of stairs, how would I go about locating a five-finger discount retailer?
I've asked a few vendors in recreational pharmaceuticals, but they don't know.
I'm not going to do this of course, I've got a decent job and a computer that is working fine, but I wonder about all those laptops that vanish from school libraries. Do they go straight to ebay and pawn shops, or is there a way of locating small-scale college town black markets that I don't know about?
I suggest you get a little cozier with your browser configuration options...
Have you *seen* a Mac Mini? The thing is small. Sit it on the palm of your hand, you'll have trouble believing it. You really need to be in Sony Picturebook territory to compare.
A google linux distro might be good as far as getting a bigger install base for linux, but I don't really see how it would be in Google's best interest overall.
Even with the star power of their name, they'd get only a very small percentage of Windows users to remove windows or repartition their hard drives.
If google are going to make an OS it would be some sort of Litestep style explorer.exe / filemanager replacement for windows. Something that could be easily installed (and removed or turned off) over windows that would provide google functionality and branding, as well as advertising.
Remember, first things first, Google is an advertising company, just like the major broadcast networks. Since they value their future and reputation, they are a pretty benevolent advertising company, but an advertising company nonetheless. A google browser makes a lot of sense in that context. A google linux doesn't.
anyway, my 2 cents
Although to be fair, that statement has been *right* a whole lot as well.
I remember a local automotive supply that had this on their billboard for a while:
"All our tires are Y2K compliant
Except for the cheap ones."
the main technology developed by the lunar race was ICBMs. the space race was a proxy for scaring each other by flying missiles over each others airspaces.
i've never liked the "think of all the tech developed" arguments for justifying the space race. so should we have more massive government programs to do research for private companies?
it's certainly one of the coolest things the human race has ever done. but let's not kid ourselves. we don't like it because it made a better sneaker or for any other economic reason. we like it because it's cool. it's startrek in real life.
a bachelors degree proves that you can sit in one place for four years, take directions, and get something accomplished while dealing with a whole lot of freedom.
no matter how rigorous an interview process is, you're still an unknown quantity to them, and they're going to make some statistically based decisions. this is why anti-discrimination and affirmitive action laws exist. if they were allowed to do so, tech companies would only hire asians and indians, because statistically it makes sense, but that would be grossly unfair to workers since race, gender, and things of that nature cannot be changed. college on the other hand, you can do something about. in general, people with college educations are better hires. also current students don't typically stay at a single job for very long. if they invest training in their new employees, they want to see more return on that investment than just a summer and then maybe some part time.
and sure it sucks. i'm between schools right now, and i had all but finished my major before leaving the first one, but my employment options are in the service and construction industries. however, i can't say i don't understand why.
if you really want to show the world you can do better than people with meaningless pieces of paper, you're going to have to start your own business. good luck if you try. you wouldn't be the first millionaire college dropout in the technology industry.
Doom 3? Boring?
Let me guess... he was playtesting.
It seems like the likelihood of finding an alien EM radiation broadcast is
Chance that they're close enough * chance that they're using that technology * chance that we're capable of identifying the signal as such
with laser light there's the added wrinkle that there could be a signal origin close enough to us, but it could simply be aimed in the wrong direction. the chances of a laser originating from a point any significant distance away from the solar system coming in our general direction is microscopically low, so it seems like we're banking on them knowingly signalling earth.
so we're banking now on aliens knowing we're here and actively trying to get in touch with us. my guess is that if they're advanced enough to do interstellar travel, and they felt like talking, they would come up with a method that's a little harder to miss.
of course i suppose they might have just done a survey of solar systems, worked out which ones are potentially habitable and left lasers counting off prime numbers pointed at each of them.
Someone has to say it...
In Korea, only old people get dead pixels.
Well, if they made TVs that lasted 20 years, you wouldn't buy another TV for 20 years. What kind of business plan is that?
It's been a while since E&M and I never really used it for anything but if I remember correctly, taking usable energy from the field around a powerline will reduce the energy of the line. For a small robot it wouldn't be much, but if there were millions of the things...
Well, I'm sold.
This is an interesting legal/constitutional situation.
On the one hand, it's disturbing to see the Feds going after crimes that should be handled as civil suits. But on the other hand, private companies have no way of catching the big pirates (who are generally smart about covering their tracks) without access to the kind of surveilance I don't want private companies to have.
If this gets contested and goes to the Supreme Court, expect to see wrongful distribution of copyrighted material that exceeds some dollar amount become a federal crime.