Take your Pixel-Bead figures and set them up in animatronic dioramas recreating the video-game in REAL LIFE! Mechanical gears and poll-arms making Metroid and Mario characters dance and fight controlled by mechanical levers all powered by steam engine or wind-up motor! Oh the anachronistic joy!
How do they know to recount? When do they recount? Perhaps the software tells them something that they feel means they should recount? Perhaps they recount every election?
I think Open Source is important... and that the source is a matter of public record... along with the procedures used to determine when the paper ballot trail needs to be used. It is incomplete to say that just a paper trail is enough. Paper trails can be tampered with too.
That was supposed to be a joke... sorry I didn't end it with a ":)" or something.
I made a comment myself that said essentially that the systems which run democracy must be reviewable by the electorate... essentially I feel all voting systems should be Open Source. I'll be sending a nice letter on the machinizations of democracy being openly reviewable and a matter of public record to the ACM Policy office in DC:
ACM Public Policy Office
1100 17th Street, NW
Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036-4632
Tel: (202) 659-9711
Fax: (202) 667-1066
usacm_dc at acm.org
When I voted just now, they showed the current results -- nearly 85% of voters strongly agreed with the ACM's proposed position that there should be a paper trail. Wow.
As a card-carrying member of the ACM I have to wonder if there is a paper trail for that vote you just cast... or are we being hypocrites?
Be bright, be humble, be active. Do something. Make something happen. Focus, dicipline yourself, you must focus and sacrifice your self before the alter of one single goal... only then will you turn bright, clever, and gifted into something they write stories about in history books.
Or, you could just goof off. What's on TV tonight?
Yet another OpenGL binding
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If you want to make a name for yourself... pick a language without an OpenGL binding and write one for it. PHP seems particularily odd tho'... Ruby gots OpenGL now... so how 'bout OpenGL for the BrainF*ck programming language? How 'bout OpenGL for bash?
http://www.wirespring.com/
(Linux Kiosks). These guys should really clean up. Well, I expect they will... I've had a eye-out for news on them since last year.
As an entry level CS person many companies will offer you higher salaries for certain jobs because they are "grunt work" jobs that will not involve new technologies. These are jobs you should avoid at such a tender stage in your career. You should be looking at the technologies you will get exposed to and what you can do with those in the future. It is easy to fall for the higher salary and end up working a job with force your career into a niche you'll never get out of... particularily in this economy.
That said, you should also look at the prospective companies and their history. If one company has been bought and sold several times... has had an IPO then been delisted and then sold as a private holding... ect. then you might want to consider that.
I personally had the choice of two new offers recently and I made my determination based on corporate history and location. I'm grateful to have a choice at all right now and I know that there are a great many people who don't get to pick. I personally made a choice for less money this time... and hopefully a more stable company.
Only you know your full situation, but salary shouldn't be a deciding factor just yet. Consider: Technology, Team Work, Mentors, History and Future of the Company, what kinds of products do they make? (will you feel good about having devoted five years of your life to helping to make widgets? what about helping create a new medicine?)
Can you say both jobs offer equal stability and opprotunity for future growth? Can you say that both work environments are the same? Is the salary difference enough to take the risk for?
BTW: Consider cost of living too while you're at it.
Really now, aren't you happy with what you have already? The world doesn't need more video games, movies, or books. Please spend your time and money on something else... something like the environment, homelessness, or education. yeesh
Re:Just plausible enough, even if it's parody.
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So pretty much the only thing we beat the Russians to was the Moon right?
He would be Jello. A boneless human wonder. On the plus side he could start a career in the US as an entertainer where it doesn't matter if you can sing or not you can still have a singing career if you're strange enough... *cough* American Idol wash-outs *cough*
I envision a singer by the handle: Jello Ball, he sings/raps from his Craft-Matic adjustable bed and gets worn as a cape by some athletic looking dancer.
Re:Just plausible enough, even if it's parody.
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No,I think I'll just post something banal on slashdot instead. I figured if I posted "almost a year" someone would come along and correct me. Much more entertaining that way.
Well, the fact that it isn't at all plausible just makes it more strange that anyone would fall for the scam. It's odd that the 419 poster would think anyone was gullible enough to fall for such a scam. It's sad that there are people that will fall for even this scam.
Re:Just plausible enough, even if it's parody.
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Okay, you're just plain wrong for that. The guy is supposed to have been in space for fourteen (14) years. The record isn't even a whole year yet and the poor russian fella couldn't walk. If this guy had been up that long he would be Jello. Coming home would kill him... he would have to stay in orbit.
Even the most causal observer of the news should at least know that.
I don't think this is anywhere near plausible. Plausible and this don't live on the same planet. Plausible waved from it's Jumbo Jet window as it passed this e-mail which was sitting stranded on a Desert Island.
Funny? Yes. Weird? Yes. Satirical? Yes. Is it Parody? Sure. Plausible? I knew plausible... plausible was a friend of mine... and this... sir... is no plausible.
as opposed to $54 a month for 185 channels... provided they were the 12 premium channels I wanted AND I could change my channel subscription on a monthly basis.
I would only watch five or six hours of TV a week anyway. I currently don't have TV anymore, I have internet and PS2. $54 a month buys one PS2 game a month and I don't have any commercials!
Caption from Graphic:The wires can stretch to over half their original length.
Elsewhere, cars were noticed to speed up to over half their original speed! Proof readers were able to increase their accuracy to over half their original accuracy! I increased my IQ to over half it's original size!
I don't doubt you have to do what you have to do to survive, but just because it would be a dream come true if you could get rich from your good ideas, doesn't mean that if you don't get rich from them, they aren't worth pursuing, refining, and sharing.
No, you are being naive. Trying to stay generic: Any great work requires effort, effort costs money, people need money. People can't refine and create as many "great works" if they can't pay for them.
Given the opportunity many people would become couch potatoes. Very few pursue "great work" and fewer still pursue it for altruistic purposes. If more people did pursue "great work" without monetary incentive then Mother Theresa wouldn't be all that remarkable.
You are being naive. Hobbes said that Philosophy was born of leisure and I think most of the "great work" type things which you would identify as a "great work" would be borne of the same ilk. I am making the assumption that you are referring to: novels, poems, source code, paintings, philosophy, music, charity, and other "great works" of western society.
Who creates these works? Who buys them? How are they financed both now and in history? They are borne of the leisure of the rich. Pop culture, Bach, Da Vinci, are all products of the excess of culture and of economies that can support them.
Just as I stood on millions of other shoulders to come up with this hypothetical idea to begin with. "No man is an island, entire to itself." (And, quoting John Donne -- why did he write Meditation XVII? Certainly not for massive financial reward in the 16th century.)
Just as Microsoft stood on the shoulders of Visicalc to create Excel. They stood on the shoulders of Netscape to create Internet Explorer. They stood on the shoulders of Xerox and Macintosh to create Windows. They stood on the shoulders of all the other ideas out there in the cyber world to create the best OS on the planet.
Is that the point you're trying to make?
It's not so much the reward as the credit... not so much the credit as OTHER PEOPLE taking the credit or reaping the reward.
Just incase we're still talking about software, ideas, and the internet... here's a link:
http://www.bricklin.com/default.htm
It's a sad trend that in today's society, more people don't take pride in their work, and work toward good ideas for reasons other than self-advancement. Good ideas are worth cultivating simply because they are good ideas.
It's also very very sad that you can't simply get money for creating good ideas. I would love to keep creating good ideas for the good of humanity... but my job at the Grocery store and my second job as a security guard require so much of my time that I forget most of my good ideas. I'm so tired at night I just can't keep coding...
In other words, with out any sarcasm... you are a naive person to believe that "good ideas" are somehow just borne into the world without effort. Those efforts require resources. Those resources cost money. The person who births the idea deserves some kind of compensation for their effort.
If that's not the case... stop buying JK Rowling books and just photo copy them at the local library.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, well... when else was I going to use that joke?
as if thousands of web-browsers cried out and slashdotted a server.
No, really. Might as well learn the hard way. Then you'll be a hard-core linux user.
Take your Pixel-Bead figures and set them up in animatronic dioramas recreating the video-game in REAL LIFE! Mechanical gears and poll-arms making Metroid and Mario characters dance and fight controlled by mechanical levers all powered by steam engine or wind-up motor! Oh the anachronistic joy!
How do they know to recount? When do they recount? Perhaps the software tells them something that they feel means they should recount? Perhaps they recount every election?
... and that the source is a matter of public record ... along with the procedures used to determine when the paper ballot trail needs to be used. It is incomplete to say that just a paper trail is enough. Paper trails can be tampered with too.
I think Open Source is important
That was supposed to be a joke... sorry I didn't end it with a ":)" or something.
... essentially I feel all voting systems should be Open Source. I'll be sending a nice letter on the machinizations of democracy being openly reviewable and a matter of public record to the ACM Policy office in DC:
I made a comment myself that said essentially that the systems which run democracy must be reviewable by the electorate
ACM Public Policy Office
1100 17th Street, NW
Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036-4632
Tel: (202) 659-9711
Fax: (202) 667-1066
usacm_dc at acm.org
When I voted just now, they showed the current results -- nearly 85% of voters strongly agreed with the ACM's proposed position that there should be a paper trail. Wow.
... or are we being hypocrites?
As a card-carrying member of the ACM I have to wonder if there is a paper trail for that vote you just cast
Be bright, be humble, be active. Do something. Make something happen. Focus, dicipline yourself, you must focus and sacrifice your self before the alter of one single goal... only then will you turn bright, clever, and gifted into something they write stories about in history books.
Or, you could just goof off. What's on TV tonight?
If you want to make a name for yourself... pick a language without an OpenGL binding and write one for it. PHP seems particularily odd tho' ... Ruby gots OpenGL now... so how 'bout OpenGL for the BrainF*ck programming language? How 'bout OpenGL for bash?
http://www.wirespring.com/ (Linux Kiosks). These guys should really clean up. Well, I expect they will... I've had a eye-out for news on them since last year.
As an entry level CS person many companies will offer you higher salaries for certain jobs because they are "grunt work" jobs that will not involve new technologies. These are jobs you should avoid at such a tender stage in your career. You should be looking at the technologies you will get exposed to and what you can do with those in the future. It is easy to fall for the higher salary and end up working a job with force your career into a niche you'll never get out of ... particularily in this economy.
... ect. then you might want to consider that.
... and hopefully a more stable company.
That said, you should also look at the prospective companies and their history. If one company has been bought and sold several times... has had an IPO then been delisted and then sold as a private holding
I personally had the choice of two new offers recently and I made my determination based on corporate history and location. I'm grateful to have a choice at all right now and I know that there are a great many people who don't get to pick. I personally made a choice for less money this time
Only you know your full situation, but salary shouldn't be a deciding factor just yet. Consider: Technology, Team Work, Mentors, History and Future of the Company, what kinds of products do they make? (will you feel good about having devoted five years of your life to helping to make widgets? what about helping create a new medicine?)
Can you say both jobs offer equal stability and opprotunity for future growth? Can you say that both work environments are the same? Is the salary difference enough to take the risk for?
BTW: Consider cost of living too while you're at it.
Really now, aren't you happy with what you have already? The world doesn't need more video games, movies, or books. Please spend your time and money on something else... something like the environment, homelessness, or education. yeesh
So pretty much the only thing we beat the Russians to was the Moon right?
He would be Jello. A boneless human wonder. On the plus side he could start a career in the US as an entertainer where it doesn't matter if you can sing or not you can still have a singing career if you're strange enough... *cough* American Idol wash-outs *cough*
I envision a singer by the handle: Jello Ball, he sings/raps from his Craft-Matic adjustable bed and gets worn as a cape by some athletic looking dancer.
No,I think I'll just post something banal on slashdot instead. I figured if I posted "almost a year" someone would come along and correct me. Much more entertaining that way.
Are you sure it's not "A fool's Monkeys are soon partied?"
Actually they got it backwards in the e-mail. He needs to stay in orbit or he'll die. He has no bones left after 14 years in Zero-G. Poor schmuk.
Well, the fact that it isn't at all plausible just makes it more strange that anyone would fall for the scam. It's odd that the 419 poster would think anyone was gullible enough to fall for such a scam. It's sad that there are people that will fall for even this scam.
Okay, you're just plain wrong for that. The guy is supposed to have been in space for fourteen (14) years. The record isn't even a whole year yet and the poor russian fella couldn't walk. If this guy had been up that long he would be Jello. Coming home would kill him... he would have to stay in orbit.
Even the most causal observer of the news should at least know that.
I don't think this is anywhere near plausible. Plausible and this don't live on the same planet. Plausible waved from it's Jumbo Jet window as it passed this e-mail which was sitting stranded on a Desert Island.
Funny? Yes. Weird? Yes. Satirical? Yes. Is it Parody? Sure. Plausible? I knew plausible... plausible was a friend of mine... and this... sir... is no plausible.
as opposed to $54 a month for 185 channels... provided they were the 12 premium channels I wanted AND I could change my channel subscription on a monthly basis.
I would only watch five or six hours of TV a week anyway. I currently don't have TV anymore, I have internet and PS2. $54 a month buys one PS2 game a month and I don't have any commercials!
Caption from Graphic:The wires can stretch to over half their original length.
Elsewhere, cars were noticed to speed up to over half their original speed! Proof readers were able to increase their accuracy to over half their original accuracy! I increased my IQ to over half it's original size!
Meta-Black-mail. Or Meta-mail.
Meta data terrorism: Meta-Terrorism. Or Metorism.
Gotta go Meta.
I don't doubt you have to do what you have to do to survive, but just because it would be a dream come true if you could get rich from your good ideas, doesn't mean that if you don't get rich from them, they aren't worth pursuing, refining, and sharing.
No, you are being naive. Trying to stay generic: Any great work requires effort, effort costs money, people need money. People can't refine and create as many "great works" if they can't pay for them.
Given the opportunity many people would become couch potatoes. Very few pursue "great work" and fewer still pursue it for altruistic purposes. If more people did pursue "great work" without monetary incentive then Mother Theresa wouldn't be all that remarkable.
You are being naive. Hobbes said that Philosophy was born of leisure and I think most of the "great work" type things which you would identify as a "great work" would be borne of the same ilk. I am making the assumption that you are referring to: novels, poems, source code, paintings, philosophy, music, charity, and other "great works" of western society.
Who creates these works? Who buys them? How are they financed both now and in history? They are borne of the leisure of the rich. Pop culture, Bach, Da Vinci, are all products of the excess of culture and of economies that can support them.
Just as I stood on millions of other shoulders to come up with this hypothetical idea to begin with. "No man is an island, entire to itself." (And, quoting John Donne -- why did he write Meditation XVII? Certainly not for massive financial reward in the 16th century.)
Just as Microsoft stood on the shoulders of Visicalc to create Excel. They stood on the shoulders of Netscape to create Internet Explorer. They stood on the shoulders of Xerox and Macintosh to create Windows. They stood on the shoulders of all the other ideas out there in the cyber world to create the best OS on the planet.
Is that the point you're trying to make?
It's not so much the reward as the credit... not so much the credit as OTHER PEOPLE taking the credit or reaping the reward.
Just incase we're still talking about software, ideas, and the internet... here's a link: http://www.bricklin.com/default.htm
It's a sad trend that in today's society, more people don't take pride in their work, and work toward good ideas for reasons other than self-advancement. Good ideas are worth cultivating simply because they are good ideas.
It's also very very sad that you can't simply get money for creating good ideas. I would love to keep creating good ideas for the good of humanity... but my job at the Grocery store and my second job as a security guard require so much of my time that I forget most of my good ideas. I'm so tired at night I just can't keep coding...
In other words, with out any sarcasm... you are a naive person to believe that "good ideas" are somehow just borne into the world without effort. Those efforts require resources. Those resources cost money. The person who births the idea deserves some kind of compensation for their effort.
If that's not the case... stop buying JK Rowling books and just photo copy them at the local library.