If you're having trouble now, just wait until you are 25. The girls suddenly find the Travoltas with their go-nowhere jobs much less appealing than the poindexters with promising careers.
Just make sure you don't create a lifestyle or homestead so alien to women that even when they are 25, they won't be interested (hint: keep the action figures at work, and keep your bathroom spotless).
Thanks for your opinion on Halo. Forgive me if I disagree!
Microsoft says that it, at least, will be creating software and supporting Xbox at least through 2007, and its likely other companies will as well. Anyway, if the company was just looking for short term cash it wouldn't introduce a new system -- on which it will no doubt take a per-unit loss. It's part of a slightly longer term strategy to beat PS3 out of the gate. Who knows if it will work. Typically the first out can win, but it didn't work for Sega with Dreamcast, or (long term) Genesis either.
Even if all you did was buy an Xbox with Halo or Halo2, put in the disc, and then superglued the drive shut, the Xbox be worth having. I don't care who's name is on the box, if the games are good -- and Halo is the real deal for console FPSes -- the system is ok.
Anyway, game consoles are cheap enough that no one out of college has any excuse for not having all of them, and savvy college students can make roommate decisions that enable them to have access to all the systems.
I actually got XM more for the non-music programming, figuring that anything I wanted to listen to I already had, but I have been surprised at a) how nice their mixes are, and b) how much good new stuff I have been turned on to by XM. Fungus53 and Fred44 are far superior to my local alternastation, for instance.
Of course, I'll probably be switching to Sirius in 2007, when NASCAR moves, unless XM adds ChampCar and ALMS coverage to its new IRL offerings and somehow keeps its current motorsports commentators, so I'm personally hoping for a merger, or at the very least, a dual XM/Sirius receiver. A dual receiver -- or at least the potential of a dual receiver -- was written in to their FCC licensing agreements, so it could happen, although to date no one has announced one.
From a significant distance -- a couple hundred feet -- boogie boarders in northern CA who wear wetsuits, look like seals from *shore.* You gotta forgive the sharks a few exploratory nibbles.
Anyone who calls the left-wing fascists who run San Francisco "liberal" has a screw loose. They typically espouse left and far-left-wing views, as well as adhering religiously to popularly left-wing political values (pro-abortion, anti-religion, etc.), but in practice they are some of the most narrow-minded and conservative (in the sense that they're resistant to change and not afraid to use jack-boot tactics to repress it) politicians in the country.
Living here in the Bay Area is basically like living in some Bizaro version of a small town in the South -- any deviation from the rigidly defined social conventions ("white man always bad -- anti-government cause always good," etc.) is viewed as anti-social behavior of the most deviant order.
To call any of them "liberal," in the sense of being open to change, new ideas, etc. is just plain wrong. Their de jour classification may be liberal, but their de facto behavior is about as limited and rigid as the town elders in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery .
Question: if you're not worried about someone in your organization getting access to your computer, why not write down a random password? It's unlikely a hacker is going to physically wander into your office.
I'm sure I heard a professor talk about him in Calculus, and then I read about him in several popular math books, like either Ivar Peterson's Mathematical Tourist or one of the popular books on the solving of Fermet's last theorum.
My old company had this awesome deal... Although it was California and "at will employment" (meaning either party could terminate the work agreement at any time, for any reason, with no notice required), they had a policy of two-weeks per year notice. If you'd been there three years, they'd expect six-weeks notice, and if they canned you or laid you off, policy was to pay you six-weeks severence.
They lived up to their end, even during rough times, so most employees lived up to theirs, even though none of it was enforceable.
Ultimately, a lot of it depends on what the new place wants. If they want you in four weeks, that's where your loyalty lies now, not to your old boss.
I never even passed Calculus -- shit, I'm not even sure I spelled Calculus right -- and I knew exactly who Ramanujan is (and I also knew exactly what the poster was talking about when he said "Indian math guy". You have to live under a goddamn rock never to have heard of him, if you're any kind of geek or nerd.
That said, my guess is that the poster had copied the URL of the story and couldn't remember how to spell Ramanujan, and just used some shorthand which came off as a slight where one wasn't intended. The myriad of inevitable offshoring jokes are much more offensive than the (correct if somewhat lame) description of Ramanujan as an "Indian math guy."
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On the not new front, these work really well. And I'm fairly sure you can pick them up (simple ones anyway) at Lowes.
You're kidding, right? I mean, the US should never have recovered from 9/11 -- massive destruction in the heart of our main financial district. I think we could survive the loss of the Indian tech centers.
Ok, so what *would* have happened? The GS was cool, but never felt entirely ready for prime time (I didn't have one though, so I may incorrect. I guess GS OS was based on the nice Apple/// Simple OS). The Apple II was huge though, but without the Mac, I have to say I see Apple having gone the way of Commodore or Atari eventually. I love my Apple II -- in fact I'm looking at a working, plugged in//c as I type this -- but by the late 1980s or early 1990s, it was pretty long in the tooth compared to a 286.
Jef had a good idea, and he was a nice guy. Definitely although the Mac is remembered now more for its revolutionary UI, Jef had the "computer for the rest of us, PC as appliance" idea, which Jobs morphed quite a bit both before and after seeing what Xerox was up to -- Jef actually wanted Macintosh to use a tape drive, IIRC, to keep costs down.
It's not taking anything away from Jef to set the record straight about who did what, he was a pioneer and we'll definitely miss him. I hope the humane interface project can survive without him.
It doesn't play a song twice in a "shuffle," but people who turn their units on and off keep reshuffling, and randomly (and coincidentally) getting some songs apparently more frequently.
I've always thought the iTunes random player was not very random, but that's mainly because I have hella songs and never listen long enough to really tell (it would take several days).
Also, I keep getting impatient for it to randomly get to a song I want to listen to, and then just selecting that song.
It would be rad if one of them was just devoted to the Space Program and like, aviation. They could sell "astronaut ice cream" in the gift shop. I would totally go to such a museum if it existed. They could get a U2 in there... a Harrier... Maybe like an Apollo capsule...
When you do a pass-phrase, each of the 10 "digits" you remember are words. Assuming you don't have dyslexia or other language-center-damaging brain issues, you don't have to remember the correct position of every letter of each word as though it was some random digit, because your brain encodes "Now is the time for all good men to come to their country's aid" much differently than "suh ob wjf nait fdn ap; qomf..." -- you get the picture.
It's a lot easier to remember a series of words than a series of digits that have no obvious relationship to each other.
Why don't you go straight to H&R Block? Unless your taxes are very, very, simple, even Block -- to say nothing of an independent tax perparer -- will probably do a much better job, and for less than the cost of TaxCut Pro and Windows. You did *buy* Windows, didn't you?
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If you're having trouble now, just wait until you are 25. The girls suddenly find the Travoltas with their go-nowhere jobs much less appealing than the poindexters with promising careers.
Just make sure you don't create a lifestyle or homestead so alien to women that even when they are 25, they won't be interested (hint: keep the action figures at work, and keep your bathroom spotless).
Microsoft says that it, at least, will be creating software and supporting Xbox at least through 2007, and its likely other companies will as well. Anyway, if the company was just looking for short term cash it wouldn't introduce a new system -- on which it will no doubt take a per-unit loss. It's part of a slightly longer term strategy to beat PS3 out of the gate. Who knows if it will work. Typically the first out can win, but it didn't work for Sega with Dreamcast, or (long term) Genesis either.
Anyway, game consoles are cheap enough that no one out of college has any excuse for not having all of them, and savvy college students can make roommate decisions that enable them to have access to all the systems.
Giving students in California tests about geography might hurt their self-esteem. So Lake California it is.
Of course, I'll probably be switching to Sirius in 2007, when NASCAR moves, unless XM adds ChampCar and ALMS coverage to its new IRL offerings and somehow keeps its current motorsports commentators, so I'm personally hoping for a merger, or at the very least, a dual XM/Sirius receiver. A dual receiver -- or at least the potential of a dual receiver -- was written in to their FCC licensing agreements, so it could happen, although to date no one has announced one.
...and presumably, they're as sexually active as *male* MMORPG players.
From a significant distance -- a couple hundred feet -- boogie boarders in northern CA who wear wetsuits, look like seals from *shore.* You gotta forgive the sharks a few exploratory nibbles.
I for one welcome our new genuinely-funny-posting-overlords.
Living here in the Bay Area is basically like living in some Bizaro version of a small town in the South -- any deviation from the rigidly defined social conventions ("white man always bad -- anti-government cause always good," etc.) is viewed as anti-social behavior of the most deviant order.
To call any of them "liberal," in the sense of being open to change, new ideas, etc. is just plain wrong. Their de jour classification may be liberal, but their de facto behavior is about as limited and rigid as the town elders in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery .
Question: if you're not worried about someone in your organization getting access to your computer, why not write down a random password? It's unlikely a hacker is going to physically wander into your office.
Awesome analysis. Wish I had mod points.
I'm sure I heard a professor talk about him in Calculus, and then I read about him in several popular math books, like either Ivar Peterson's Mathematical Tourist or one of the popular books on the solving of Fermet's last theorum.
They lived up to their end, even during rough times, so most employees lived up to theirs, even though none of it was enforceable.
Ultimately, a lot of it depends on what the new place wants. If they want you in four weeks, that's where your loyalty lies now, not to your old boss.
That said, my guess is that the poster had copied the URL of the story and couldn't remember how to spell Ramanujan, and just used some shorthand which came off as a slight where one wasn't intended. The myriad of inevitable offshoring jokes are much more offensive than the (correct if somewhat lame) description of Ramanujan as an "Indian math guy."
On the not new front, these work really well. And I'm fairly sure you can pick them up (simple ones anyway) at Lowes.
I just changed the oil in my pontiac... I guess that would enable me to call myself an engineer in Canada.
You're kidding, right? I mean, the US should never have recovered from 9/11 -- massive destruction in the heart of our main financial district. I think we could survive the loss of the Indian tech centers.
Ok, so what *would* have happened? The GS was cool, but never felt entirely ready for prime time (I didn't have one though, so I may incorrect. I guess GS OS was based on the nice Apple /// Simple OS). The Apple II was huge though, but without the Mac, I have to say I see Apple having gone the way of Commodore or Atari eventually. I love my Apple II -- in fact I'm looking at a working, plugged in //c as I type this -- but by the late 1980s or early 1990s, it was pretty long in the tooth compared to a 286.
It's not taking anything away from Jef to set the record straight about who did what, he was a pioneer and we'll definitely miss him. I hope the humane interface project can survive without him.
I've always thought the iTunes random player was not very random, but that's mainly because I have hella songs and never listen long enough to really tell (it would take several days).
Also, I keep getting impatient for it to randomly get to a song I want to listen to, and then just selecting that song.
I beat Halo 2 ages ago and it was still interesting to read.
Anyone else get their's yet? I subscribed but haven't received an issue yet -- thought I did get an email subscriber survey.
It would be rad if one of them was just devoted to the Space Program and like, aviation. They could sell "astronaut ice cream" in the gift shop. I would totally go to such a museum if it existed. They could get a U2 in there... a Harrier... Maybe like an Apollo capsule...
It's a lot easier to remember a series of words than a series of digits that have no obvious relationship to each other.
Why don't you go straight to H&R Block? Unless your taxes are very, very, simple, even Block -- to say nothing of an independent tax perparer -- will probably do a much better job, and for less than the cost of TaxCut Pro and Windows. You did *buy* Windows, didn't you?