Now, reaching my 30's, I am kicking myself in the rear working towards obtaining a college degree to build upon and further my career goals.
I, too, am kicking myself in the rear for obtaining an 'easy' degree (Geography) after high school and now I am paying for it.. I'm 32 and its back to school next year.
Do you think the Jury system is outdated enough already? Please tell me how 12 or so people picked off the street (figuratively) can honestly make the correct decision about a technical subject this prickly.
I have been a programmer for the last 7 years and I am changing careers - so far law or business looks like the best option. If I were you, I would work my frickin tail off to boost up that GPA - there are many post-graduate degree options that only require a bachelor of any type as long as you have a high enough GPA. Many also only look at your last 2 years, or your last 10 full courses.
Sounds like a book I read.
Although it was mentioned earlier in this thread, you really should read the Eudamonic Pie. Its about a bunch of techies (can't remember their exact specialties, although one was into Chaos theory) built a computer-in-a-shoe that they operated with their toes. They would click when you described and then a braille-like display embedded in the sole would tell them the number. I believe they eventually lost their nerve after a few tries and gave it up - although the casino couldn't detect the device, they could tell *something* was up just by their body language, excessive sweating, etc.
If I were casinos, I would just prohibit betting after the wheel starts spinning.
I think the gov't needs to have these types of programs periodically to keep all the crackpots out there focused on something... instead of becoming a danger to the rest of society. I would rather have some psychopath sitting in the middle of his living room practicing psychic teleportation than practicing shooting out of the trunk of a car.
Has anybody ever listend to Art Bell? There are some SERIOUSLY delusional people out there.
I watched Episode V/DVD, and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. The ham handed CGI changes in IV and VI now make the overall quality of V stand out in sharp relief. The movie flows.
In the two biggest examples of multiple releases so far, LOTR and Star Wars, they have been worth my money. LOTR added enough extra footage to make it a different movie, and the excellent restoration job on Star Wars makes makes it a new experience. These are not merely 'extras' tacked on a second disc, they are woven into the fabric of the movie. Some movies I can tolerate multiple viewings so of course I am willing to pay for any improvement. This can be done humorously as well.. for instance check out the ultimate edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail - comes with a full 7 seconds of extra footage!!!
Sometimes those comic book writers showed an uncanny ability to imagine what the future might be like..
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In the end, they're all the same on the inside
Not totally the same.. install the latest kernel src rpm (not the same as the kernel-source rpm) for Fedora and you will see Redhat applies a bunch of their own patches to the stock kernel.
Did you ever think that a substantial portion of your country is just like him (Bush)? Maybe they really wanted to get rid of Saddam, remain the number one military power on the planet, continue to exploit other nations to maintain their level of consumerism, and they actually don't care about the details.
But do not think writing a web site in CSS will solve all your browser compatibility problems
And the worst part is, even IF a certain broken browser gets fixed in its next incarnation, the old versions are going to be in the majority for YEARS to come.
Obviously, we need to get it back and get rid of it. If an arab group or someone else with a chip on their shoulder got their filthy hands on it, there's no telling what could happen.
Ummm, the mosque in my community is an arab group.
Let's keep the racial bigotry, subconcious or not, to a minimum.
Republican Translation:
Clearly, there are a number of active terrorist groups operating in the world today comprised primarily, and in most cases entirely, of people of Arabic descent. We should be taking any means necessary to deny these groups access to nuclear devices.
I have 1GB of physical memory on my W2K box.. and there is always lots of free memory when this happens. It seems the rate at which Firefox reclaims memory is artificially low.
Having said that the overall memory use is quite good - certainly less than the same number of IE windows open.
They fix the memory usage problem in Windows. You know, when Firefox hasn't been in focus for a while, its virtual memory is really large compared to the mem usage (in Taskbar) and when you switch to it it sits there for a few dozen seconds slooooowly increasing its mem usage. I KNOW Windows is capable of allocating a GB of memory in a few seconds, so what the heck is the problem?
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"All that Canadian money looks phony to me!"
Ya but it will still buy you all the booze, drugs and hookers you need
Probably at the heart of all this is the question "what's the Olympics about, exactly?"
Doing as well as you can? Testing the limits of human endurance? Then allow modifications
Perhaps we can view the Olympics as the biological equivalent of the Space Race - that new technologies beneficial to humans will emerge as a side-effect.
Don't be so quick to deny what I'm saying. There actually is value in making something easy to set up and get running
There is more than a grain of truth in that statement, my friend. I would go so far as to say there is value in merely having the appearance of being easy to set up and get running. Why would you be motivated to hire a Linux professional when you've got your wife's sisters fiance who claims he can setup Exchange 'no problem'? Fact is, there are a lot more people out there who can setup Microsoft software precisely because it appears easier and less painful (particularily at first). As for you CLI commandos out there: get off your high horse!
and we understand that upper class tax cuts may provide a temporary "high" but will only lead to misery later on.
Document this, and I *might* believe it.
I think the point is that unless you have a progressive tax system, the rich simply get richer and the poor get poorer. The US does not have a sufficiently aggressive scale to stop the widening of the gap.
Here is a fact to chew on: Canada's top 25% earners are approximately 25% worse off than their US counterparts, while our bottom 25% are 25% better off. Taken from 'Fire and Ice' by Michael Adams of Environics. That is the kind of society I prefer to live in even if it means we have less millionaires. And yes, Canadians consciously vote for governments that preserve this system.
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If PgSQL is light years ahead, what's pushing them?
Oracle?
Now, reaching my 30's, I am kicking myself in the rear working towards obtaining a college degree to build upon and further my career goals.
I, too, am kicking myself in the rear for obtaining an 'easy' degree (Geography) after high school and now I am paying for it.. I'm 32 and its back to school next year.
Ahmed, this is Mohammed. I will meet you at 1002 West 53rd street at 4:00 pm. Please bring the plans for the dirty bomb. Allahu Akbar! Bush is Satan!
They will go the way of compuserve
Do you think the Jury system is outdated enough already? Please tell me how 12 or so people picked off the street (figuratively) can honestly make the correct decision about a technical subject this prickly.
I have been a programmer for the last 7 years and I am changing careers - so far law or business looks like the best option. If I were you, I would work my frickin tail off to boost up that GPA - there are many post-graduate degree options that only require a bachelor of any type as long as you have a high enough GPA. Many also only look at your last 2 years, or your last 10 full courses.
Sounds like a book I read. Although it was mentioned earlier in this thread, you really should read the Eudamonic Pie. Its about a bunch of techies (can't remember their exact specialties, although one was into Chaos theory) built a computer-in-a-shoe that they operated with their toes. They would click when you described and then a braille-like display embedded in the sole would tell them the number. I believe they eventually lost their nerve after a few tries and gave it up - although the casino couldn't detect the device, they could tell *something* was up just by their body language, excessive sweating, etc. If I were casinos, I would just prohibit betting after the wheel starts spinning.
I think it's to encourage browser companies to use Google as the default startup page.
I think the gov't needs to have these types of programs periodically to keep all the crackpots out there focused on something... instead of becoming a danger to the rest of society. I would rather have some psychopath sitting in the middle of his living room practicing psychic teleportation than practicing shooting out of the trunk of a car.
Has anybody ever listend to Art Bell? There are some SERIOUSLY delusional people out there.
I watched Episode V/DVD, and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. The ham handed CGI changes in IV and VI now make the overall quality of V stand out in sharp relief. The movie flows.
In the two biggest examples of multiple releases so far, LOTR and Star Wars, they have been worth my money. LOTR added enough extra footage to make it a different movie, and the excellent restoration job on Star Wars makes makes it a new experience. These are not merely 'extras' tacked on a second disc, they are woven into the fabric of the movie. Some movies I can tolerate multiple viewings so of course I am willing to pay for any improvement. This can be done humorously as well.. for instance check out the ultimate edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail - comes with a full 7 seconds of extra footage!!!
Sometimes those comic book writers showed an uncanny ability to imagine what the future might be like..
In the end, they're all the same on the inside
Not totally the same.. install the latest kernel src rpm (not the same as the kernel-source rpm) for Fedora and you will see Redhat applies a bunch of their own patches to the stock kernel.
Did you ever think that a substantial portion of your country is just like him (Bush)? Maybe they really wanted to get rid of Saddam, remain the number one military power on the planet, continue to exploit other nations to maintain their level of consumerism, and they actually don't care about the details.
But do not think writing a web site in CSS will solve all your browser compatibility problems
And the worst part is, even IF a certain broken browser gets fixed in its next incarnation, the old versions are going to be in the majority for YEARS to come.
That's the funniest thing I've heard all week!
From article:
"Google's strategy is to throw a handful of seeds and to see what grows," he said.
Or you could also say Google's strategy is to throw handfuls of shit and see what sticks
Obviously, we need to get it back and get rid of it. If an arab group or someone else with a chip on their shoulder got their filthy hands on it, there's no telling what could happen.
Ummm, the mosque in my community is an arab group.
Let's keep the racial bigotry, subconcious or not, to a minimum.
Republican Translation:
Clearly, there are a number of active terrorist groups operating in the world today comprised primarily, and in most cases entirely, of people of Arabic descent. We should be taking any means necessary to deny these groups access to nuclear devices.
I have 1GB of physical memory on my W2K box.. and there is always lots of free memory when this happens. It seems the rate at which Firefox reclaims memory is artificially low.
Having said that the overall memory use is quite good - certainly less than the same number of IE windows open.
They fix the memory usage problem in Windows. You know, when Firefox hasn't been in focus for a while, its virtual memory is really large compared to the mem usage (in Taskbar) and when you switch to it it sits there for a few dozen seconds slooooowly increasing its mem usage. I KNOW Windows is capable of allocating a GB of memory in a few seconds, so what the heck is the problem?
"All that Canadian money looks phony to me!"
Ya but it will still buy you all the booze, drugs and hookers you need
Probably at the heart of all this is the question "what's the Olympics about, exactly?" Doing as well as you can? Testing the limits of human endurance? Then allow modifications
Perhaps we can view the Olympics as the biological equivalent of the Space Race - that new technologies beneficial to humans will emerge as a side-effect.
Don't be so quick to deny what I'm saying. There actually is value in making something easy to set up and get running
There is more than a grain of truth in that statement, my friend. I would go so far as to say there is value in merely having the appearance of being easy to set up and get running. Why would you be motivated to hire a Linux professional when you've got your wife's sisters fiance who claims he can setup Exchange 'no problem'? Fact is, there are a lot more people out there who can setup Microsoft software precisely because it appears easier and less painful (particularily at first). As for you CLI commandos out there: get off your high horse!
and we understand that upper class tax cuts may provide a temporary "high" but will only lead to misery later on.
Document this, and I *might* believe it.
I think the point is that unless you have a progressive tax system, the rich simply get richer and the poor get poorer. The US does not have a sufficiently aggressive scale to stop the widening of the gap.
Here is a fact to chew on: Canada's top 25% earners are approximately 25% worse off than their US counterparts, while our bottom 25% are 25% better off. Taken from 'Fire and Ice' by Michael Adams of Environics. That is the kind of society I prefer to live in even if it means we have less millionaires. And yes, Canadians consciously vote for governments that preserve this system.
Can you get a production quality release for AMD64 if you need gobs of RAM?
According to RedHat, their advanced server will only support 16GB of RAM/4 CPUs on AMD64 while x86 supports 64GB of RAM/16 CPUs.
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/configuration/