Ya the Discovery Channel has kinda tanked the alst few years.... However, I never get tired of Junkyard Wars and Myth Busters.
Have you seen their recent documentary:
Black Sky: The Race for Space? It's about Burt Rutan's quest to be the first private team into space. I think it's the best documentary on an engineering project I've ever seen.
100%? Never. But computer animation has already replaced traditional animation in 95% of animated films has it not? And I can't say I found the characters of "Finding Nemo" or "Monsters Inc" to be very rigid.
Or instead of availability, they could even compete on.... price! This would take the cable tv companies completely by surprise as they've never quite grasped the concept.
You can't be a "programmer" and also be "self-employed"?
You can be self-employed and write code, but to be self-employed you need many other skills too. There's not a lot of specialization and departmentalization in a one-man comany:)
I assume you're not talking about VOIP on the public Internet then. The Internet's inherent jitter makes hard vs soft realtime processing at the endpoints practically irrevant.
Please, please, there must be a sane way to query data from a highly normalized database.
Prolog! Logic languages are well suited to relational data, where a table maps to a predicate. The logic programming community spent a couple decades trying to convert everybody from SQL and nobody listened.
I was about to say SQL is like COBOL, but SQL seems to be even more persistent so perhaps it's not as flawed.
Does anybody actually touch garbage or garbage cans anymore? Mostly they pull up to the standardized trash bin and pull the lever so the truck can hoist it up.
Still I'm not going to say it's an OK job, because I've never done it, and in the past I've found you never know what you'll really hate about a job until you actually try it.
Here's a much shorter way to rephrase the slashdot stance:
Laws, policies, etc. that promote and protect the free exchange of information are okay.
Laws and policies that prevent the free exchange of information are not okay.
Simple huh?
You accept intellectual property as a founding principle, and then show how illogical people's opinions are on that basis. Obviously people who view things in terms of free speech will come to different conclusions.
Web searches are useful because you can instantly download any hits returned by the search.
print.google.com sounds more like... geez, what did they call those microfiche that indexed the content of magazines and journals? I can't even remember. Anyway, 80% of the time they were more frustrating that useful because the library didn't carry the journal in question.
I mean, really, what are you supposed to do with these search results? Buy every book that looks promising and wait a couple weeks until they show up?
You know, replying to your own thread as AC isn't very clever. It's obvious who you are, a moderator could always go back and mod down one of your previous messages.
The tubes were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, explained on CNN on Sept. 8, 2002.
Doesn't leave much wiggle room for "could."
And when the plan entails thousands of US casualties, and tens of thousands of Iraqi casualties, do you call that "caution?"
"Look over there!" Seriously, changing the subject is an effective defense for any accusation, if you just want to hang on to your following.
Watch how quickly these charges are met with irrelevant counter-charges about Al Gore inventing the Internet or Kerry and his 4th purple heart.
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Wait a sec... aren't those all pranks I could play on myself? There's got to be a better way to keep things interesting and funny than to make a complete ass of yourself.
Although I fear that as much as the next guy, actually I trust that having a windows-only boot loader would be such a clear sign of monopolistic behaviour that even Microsoft wouldn't get away with it in court.
They've already done it. What is the X-Box, if not a PC locked down to MS-approved software? All they don't do is call it what it is.
IANA satellite engineer, but apart from any encryption, would there be anything stopping someone with a reciever and the right gear grabbing, ripping and sharing this?
What? Millions of credit card transactions are carried out safely and securely on the Internet every day! Encryption is the easy solution to this problem. They've probably already sent out the keys by registered mail (guessing).
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When the government operates in secrecy, it's not "We the People" anymore, pure and simple.
Or instead of availability, they could even compete on.... price! This would take the cable tv companies completely by surprise as they've never quite grasped the concept.
Any $400 PC today is faster and more reliable than a Cray from 20 years ago.
No, if it were Bill Gates there would be no headline because nobody outside of Microsoft would ever know.
"Embedded" is not synonymous with "hard realtime."
I assume you're not talking about VOIP on the public Internet then. The Internet's inherent jitter makes hard vs soft realtime processing at the endpoints practically irrevant.
I was about to say SQL is like COBOL, but SQL seems to be even more persistent so perhaps it's not as flawed.
Still I'm not going to say it's an OK job, because I've never done it, and in the past I've found you never know what you'll really hate about a job until you actually try it.
Bat Belt, my friend, Bat belt.
Does sucking somebody's brains out with a vacuum and then crushing their skull count as a violent act?
Laws, policies, etc. that promote and protect the free exchange of information are okay.
Laws and policies that prevent the free exchange of information are not okay.
Simple huh?
You accept intellectual property as a founding principle, and then show how illogical people's opinions are on that basis. Obviously people who view things in terms of free speech will come to different conclusions.
I'm not sure why you think racial variation would be limited to "appearance" genes, or even how evolution would accomplish such a thing.
print.google.com sounds more like... geez, what did they call those microfiche that indexed the content of magazines and journals? I can't even remember. Anyway, 80% of the time they were more frustrating that useful because the library didn't carry the journal in question.
I mean, really, what are you supposed to do with these search results? Buy every book that looks promising and wait a couple weeks until they show up?
Some people will fall for any argument if you couch it as an issue of property rights.
Like when political protest was supressed this summer in the name of protecting grass.
You know, replying to your own thread as AC isn't very clever. It's obvious who you are, a moderator could always go back and mod down one of your previous messages.
Since fuel must normally be expended to re-boost the space station, you're just pointing out an added benefit of shooting the garbage back at earth.
Even if that gives us the right to invade Iraq, the question is, was it in our best interest?
And when the plan entails thousands of US casualties, and tens of thousands of Iraqi casualties, do you call that "caution?"
Watch how quickly these charges are met with irrelevant counter-charges about Al Gore inventing the Internet or Kerry and his 4th purple heart.
Wait a sec... aren't those all pranks I could play on myself? There's got to be a better way to keep things interesting and funny than to make a complete ass of yourself.