You may also need someone with professional management skills. Not just a software team management style, but someone with a degree in Business Management.
yeah, because we all know that managers with business management degrees know what they're doing.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami. Maybe I'm crazy, but this is one of the most simultaneously beautiful and depressing works of fiction I've read, probably ever. Very stream of consciousness.
Metaplanetary, Tony Daniel. I would consider this very original hard scifi- takes place around 1k years from now, humanity heavily integrated with nanotech. Some awesome imagery and really cool representations of what we could become (especially the cloud ships).
Mcteague, Frank Norris. Takes place in turn of the century (the last one) San Francisco - an 'American tragedy', it explores materialism in a very effective and upsetting way.
Game Theory and the Law, Douglas Baird et al. A weird fusion of two very different areas, which attempts to apply game theoretic concepts to the formulation of laws. Got a bit tiring at the end, but interesting nonetheless.
I'll throw in some miscellaneous at the end - Towing Jehovah, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Denial of Death, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision. Enjoy!
i was thinking the same thing, but i suppose that some users will see value in the unlimited listening (if i'm in fact reading this right and 10 bucks buys you 'listen-only' access to 300k tracks)
While that's definitely poignant (not to mention funny), this is really indicative of how the German culture wishes to be perceived right now, and what they do to shape their society - they are so ashamed of WWII (rightfully so) that they have gone to the opposite extreme at the level of collective unconscious.
as would i. i had a bf41 (or whatever) in which a capacitor exploded. thinking i'm cool for some reason, i attempted to fix myself, but to no avail. i bought another one,which seems to make the same noise. i'm waiting for it to blow up and set my house on fire. god bless poor construction, and god bless american tort law.
I was implying no such thing. I merely meant that the cosine of X can mean Y if and only if Spiro Agnew and Adlai Stephenson buy a 1938 Ford from that guy whose father is chased by flying elves (but not the guy in Fear and Loathing). Oh, and square the sum of X Y Z if above conditions are met. If it's a Fibonacci number, god is dead and the cheese reigns supreme.
Even improving Doom's 3d is old news, as is making Doom playable on a terminal, or turning it into a white power supremacy war simulation.
I think that you and I attach different meanings to the word 'improving' - not the first verb I would use to proceed 'turning it into a white power supremancy war simulation'.
the difference for most of us though is price flexibility. For example: I went to Amazon to order a toy for my friend's daughter's birthday, where I expected to pay no shipping and no tax. Shipping being another issue (I thought I qualified for super saver, but because it was a partner it wasn't free anymore), I was hit with taxes to. So suddenly I owe fifteen dollars extra. Guess who's getting a check and a recommendation of where not to shop?
my point is, the attractiveness of Amazon et al. is the substantial price savings, even with shipping costs added in (or in the case above, the ability to send something with what I expected to be minimal additional cost). If I'm no longer 'breaking even' on a purchase or saving money (even better), I see no reason to shop online anymore, especially since I'd be paying around the same price (taxes being neglible in most cases for a straight retail purchase) but not see the product for days/weeks.
it was designed as a fuck you, at least on one level. and a well-deserved one in certain respects. the message was - if you don't like it, stop watching. ratings will go down, less ad slots will be bought, show gets cancelled. basic economics.
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You may also need someone with professional management skills. Not just a software team management style, but someone with a degree in Business Management.
yeah, because we all know that managers with business management degrees know what they're doing.
clean, safe streets and a decent society
yeah, except for those wars they throw every fifty years or so which destroy those streets.
ah, so nasa does have measurement conversion pages. so why aren't nasa engineers using them?
Shut up. Stop editorializing. Do what you're good at, whatever that might be.
why does his DJ description read like marketing-speak?
;)
San's years of DJing experience playing parties and clubs from California to Canada have put him close in touch with the dancefloor and its needs.
consider this list slightly eclectic...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami. Maybe I'm crazy, but this is one of the most simultaneously beautiful and depressing works of fiction I've read, probably ever. Very stream of consciousness.
Metaplanetary, Tony Daniel. I would consider this very original hard scifi- takes place around 1k years from now, humanity heavily integrated with nanotech. Some awesome imagery and really cool representations of what we could become (especially the cloud ships).
Mcteague, Frank Norris. Takes place in turn of the century (the last one) San Francisco - an 'American tragedy', it explores materialism in a very effective and upsetting way.
Game Theory and the Law, Douglas Baird et al. A weird fusion of two very different areas, which attempts to apply game theoretic concepts to the formulation of laws. Got a bit tiring at the end, but interesting nonetheless.
I'll throw in some miscellaneous at the end - Towing Jehovah, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Denial of Death, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision. Enjoy!
wait, i thought cell phones blew up gas stations... :)
i was thinking the same thing, but i suppose that some users will see value in the unlimited listening (if i'm in fact reading this right and 10 bucks buys you 'listen-only' access to 300k tracks)
I'd envision the 'super friends' from the simpsons coming on the stand. especially the fat kid with the big glasses and curly hair.
haven't these people seen pi?
it's spelled 'bulbs'. jesus, aren't you from holland or something?
:)
so i guess we should expect dean stockwell to show up, huh?
I dunno...hardware gets faster, bus gets faster. Tide goes in, tide goes out.
ah slashdot, let ye profundity run far and wide.
While that's definitely poignant (not to mention funny), this is really indicative of how the German culture wishes to be perceived right now, and what they do to shape their society - they are so ashamed of WWII (rightfully so) that they have gone to the opposite extreme at the level of collective unconscious.
as would i. i had a bf41 (or whatever) in which a capacitor exploded. thinking i'm cool for some reason, i attempted to fix myself, but to no avail. i bought another one,which seems to make the same noise. i'm waiting for it to blow up and set my house on fire. god bless poor construction, and god bless american tort law.
i see my linksys router spontaneously breaking post-acquisition and being replaced with cisco hardware...
Scientists have been unable to found any traces of intelligent life anywhere on that side of the planet.
Apparently they have been unable to find any intelligent life on your side of the planet too.
or at the very least paint a picture of cobra commander's head with a giant 'laser'.
dude, that's so 1983. I think you mean:
COBRALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!
I was implying no such thing. I merely meant that the cosine of X can mean Y if and only if Spiro Agnew and Adlai Stephenson buy a 1938 Ford from that guy whose father is chased by flying elves (but not the guy in Fear and Loathing). Oh, and square the sum of X Y Z if above conditions are met. If it's a Fibonacci number, god is dead and the cheese reigns supreme.
Even improving Doom's 3d is old news, as is making Doom playable on a terminal, or turning it into a white power supremacy war simulation.
I think that you and I attach different meanings to the word 'improving' - not the first verb I would use to proceed 'turning it into a white power supremancy war simulation'.
...you silly english
' Now if only certain other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here."
dude, you forgot to put slashdot's affiliate ID in the BN link.
the difference for most of us though is price flexibility. For example: I went to Amazon to order a toy for my friend's daughter's birthday, where I expected to pay no shipping and no tax. Shipping being another issue (I thought I qualified for super saver, but because it was a partner it wasn't free anymore), I was hit with taxes to. So suddenly I owe fifteen dollars extra. Guess who's getting a check and a recommendation of where not to shop?
my point is, the attractiveness of Amazon et al. is the substantial price savings, even with shipping costs added in (or in the case above, the ability to send something with what I expected to be minimal additional cost). If I'm no longer 'breaking even' on a purchase or saving money (even better), I see no reason to shop online anymore, especially since I'd be paying around the same price (taxes being neglible in most cases for a straight retail purchase) but not see the product for days/weeks.
it was designed as a fuck you, at least on one level. and a well-deserved one in certain respects. the message was - if you don't like it, stop watching. ratings will go down, less ad slots will be bought, show gets cancelled. basic economics.