Did Pero get none due to the winner of the state taking all of that state's EVs or did he not carry a single precinct? Think the "winner takes the state's EVs" rule kinda disenfranchises a lot of folks, esp in states like New York where the red rural areas *always* loose out to the Big D Big Apple.
Who cares. I found my Loki Publishing copy of Descent3d a few weeks ago, and I have access to a planetarium dome projector that runs at 1600x1600:)....
Gonna see if I can get it running on a current kernel w/ a relatively current (ie, only 6 year old) nVidia card, then see about at least recording and then projecting on teh screen if thats what it takes...
In the same boat, at least on a presidential level. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get any better on a national level, and we'll always have to choose between Kang and Kodos. Maybe in 2016 I'll vote Kang instead.
Indeed, if it comes down to having to pick the OS based on what software package(s) you need/want or might need/want in the future because of what a coworker/costudent did/does/wants to do, then I'd start with a Mac laptop. You can virtualize a machine (or three) if you need Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever other environment available, but AFAIK for non-Mac hardware there is no (legal) way to run OS X. Load it up with RAM, make sure you have several large external drives for backing up stuff, and off you go. If you knew you would absolutely never need OS X based software then get PC based and shop based on percieved hardware quality and warranty.
As to her study abroad stuff, may want to make sure whatever she ends up with the warranty can be used wherever is she is going to physically end up wtih the device. Would suck to be working in Europe but need to get a service call from the US, or having to ship back and forth for repair...
Heck the govn't has its own TLD and doesn't even use it for all of their hostnames...
Quick - where is the "official" place to get your free annual credit report? Is it freeannualreport.com or freeannualcreditreport.com or what? Wouldn't it be nice if it were creditreport.ftc.gov ? I (and most other slashdot users who get a little paranoid about this type of thing) simply go to the FTC site and follow the link from there, but having it on a.gov domain would let me know for sure some squatter didn't get ahold of it...
Finding the new bombs, etc. is well and good - and needed! But, there are still LOTS of issues with old mine fields still...
Might it be better to work on some (slightly) ground penetrating radar of some sort that can search for impact craters as well as large hunks of metal a few inches under ground? Solve a few issues at once that way....
If New York, and New York City, would allow individuals to take personal responsibility for their well being and carry a gun, I'm pretty sure that either the crime rate would drop, or there would be more than a few dead gang members who tried to attack random people....
If you are gonna extrapolate from one of the 10 commandments, perhaps you should just read it in the original Hebrew.
IIRC (and its been 30 years since I've read it and I know longer remember any of my Hebrew) the exact translation is more along the lines of "thall shal not murder". Killin' is ok when someone *needs* killin' but no outright murder
Education. Assuming you have a 4 year degree plus a few classes post grad, or a masters, or PhD, you can get a good job teaching at a community college or similar. Great hours, decent pay, decent benefits, and you can pass on your years of industry experience to the new blood.
On the flip side, near instant gratification of "getting it to work" is good for education - keeps students interested and involved if they have quick successs.
Of course, once it is "just working" *then* you can start getting your students to think about edge cases, logical errrors, validating user input, etc.
No angst here about it - I make beer money every so often just by backing up a users actual data files they care about, browser profiles, mail client storage, wipe windows and reinstall, all updates, etc. and then put their data back. If you wanted to dedicate yourself to running a business with yourself and maybe a couple of part time PFY employees, you could make a very good living fixing these issues that are the result of what you consider poor design, and the stupid decisions users have made.
Similar is Big Blue Button (a google summer of code project) - whiteboard functionality, upload files and do the "john madden football commentator thing" to them, voice and cam sharing, ability to mute, etc. And can be set up to record meetings/conferences/etc. Tested it a while back stand-along on a linode that would be $10/mo now (it was a $20/mo plan then), and it was enough to support 15 users at once as long as they all weren't connected via the same wireless link to the LAN to get out to the World
"Here's 1.2 mil. We want you to tell us that it is possible that global warming is being caused by the sun"
A few months of well funded but blindly done research - ie, you know the answer to the question, what can we do to prove it? - and wallah! A paper. That is then submitted to a supposedly peer-reviewed journal, where of course no such review takes place (there have been several stories about that on/.).
So... are we shocked that the NRG Industry went shopping for the answer they wanted to hear? Are we shocked that a person who either needs to be top in their field or at least bringing in grants accepted a grant to do research? Are we shocked that a peer-reviewed journal is in fact not very often reviewd by the peers?
Some of the games for the Odyssey2 console -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey%C2%B2 - had some (extremely) limited programmability to them. I remember making my own maps on the pac man clone, and programming in their flavor of basic which was different from the basic I knew from the TRS-80 series and hand no real way to save your programs
I've never had an issue with a laptop that I've selected running Linux sine the later 2.2 kernels.
Either when buying new for work I've just bought the Dell business line and made sure the wireless was supported (just pick the Intel offering) and no issues.
For personal use I've either been given stuff - again, Dells for the most part - or bought cheap at a pawn shop. Before taking or buying, I just boot with a LiveCD and make sure it all works. Knoppix became available when? Do you remember the NT Hardware Compatability List? And how you could use the NT 4.0 CD to make 2 disks that would interrogate the hardware and tell you what was supported and what wasn't? I've seen poorly maintained lists of various hardware support, but they were never really useful for me. The LiveCD trick though *anyone* can do, and I'd recommend doing as a hardware function test on a used machine even if you are planning to run Windows on it.
But there are things that need to be communicated between separate entities, and while it may not be War Games incarnate, I can see how malicious disruption of some things like scheduled bank transfers, etc. could cause some panic and mayhem. Think of it as the newest layer of SIGINT
When I wrote the above, with tongue firmly in cheek, I was thinking more along the lines of the libc5 vs glibc issues we had 15 years ago, or dependencies on other old libraries
"Nope, sorry, we needed the disk space and bandwidth for $other_thing, it was deleted over a year ago. Developer machines and such were all replaced twice since the last checkout/build and we're not even sure we can get it to compile for $os anymore due to outdated libs and such.
Here's a coupon good for free shipping for any downloadable content for $suckiest_game_ever that you purchase in the next 42 minutes. Now go away."
My 2 years of High School Latin ("At one time the land of Gaul was divided into 3 parts...") helped me with a medical terminology course simply because I was used to using non-english word roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
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Did Pero get none due to the winner of the state taking all of that state's EVs or did he not carry a single precinct? Think the "winner takes the state's EVs" rule kinda disenfranchises a lot of folks, esp in states like New York where the red rural areas *always* loose out to the Big D Big Apple.
Who cares. I found my Loki Publishing copy of Descent3d a few weeks ago, and I have access to a planetarium dome projector that runs at 1600x1600 :) ....
Gonna see if I can get it running on a current kernel w/ a relatively current (ie, only 6 year old) nVidia card, then see about at least recording and then projecting on teh screen if thats what it takes...
In the same boat, at least on a presidential level. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get any better on a national level, and we'll always have to choose between Kang and Kodos. Maybe in 2016 I'll vote Kang instead.
Indeed, if it comes down to having to pick the OS based on what software package(s) you need/want or might need/want in the future because of what a coworker/costudent did/does/wants to do, then I'd start with a Mac laptop. You can virtualize a machine (or three) if you need Windows, Linux, BSD, whatever other environment available, but AFAIK for non-Mac hardware there is no (legal) way to run OS X. Load it up with RAM, make sure you have several large external drives for backing up stuff, and off you go. If you knew you would absolutely never need OS X based software then get PC based and shop based on percieved hardware quality and warranty.
As to her study abroad stuff, may want to make sure whatever she ends up with the warranty can be used wherever is she is going to physically end up wtih the device. Would suck to be working in Europe but need to get a service call from the US, or having to ship back and forth for repair...
Heck the govn't has its own TLD and doesn't even use it for all of their hostnames...
Quick - where is the "official" place to get your free annual credit report? Is it freeannualreport.com or freeannualcreditreport.com or what? Wouldn't it be nice if it were creditreport.ftc.gov ? I (and most other slashdot users who get a little paranoid about this type of thing) simply go to the FTC site and follow the link from there, but having it on a .gov domain would let me know for sure some squatter didn't get ahold of it...
Finding the new bombs, etc. is well and good - and needed! But, there are still LOTS of issues with old mine fields still...
Might it be better to work on some (slightly) ground penetrating radar of some sort that can search for impact craters as well as large hunks of metal a few inches under ground? Solve a few issues at once that way....
they need to test the purity for trial
No they don't. Container weight, transport medium weight, etc. all get counted in as teh weight of the drug.
Think 20 micrograms of LSD, mixed into a half gram or so of water... on a 1 gram sugar cube. There you have someone who had 1.5+ grams of LSD...
Oh, lets stir the pot a little more...
If New York, and New York City, would allow individuals to take personal responsibility for their well being and carry a gun, I'm pretty sure that either the crime rate would drop, or there would be more than a few dead gang members who tried to attack random people....
Think you could just turn down the sensitivity of the mouse to test things....
If you are gonna extrapolate from one of the 10 commandments, perhaps you should just read it in the original Hebrew.
IIRC (and its been 30 years since I've read it and I know longer remember any of my Hebrew) the exact translation is more along the lines of "thall shal not murder". Killin' is ok when someone *needs* killin' but no outright murder
You left out
Education. Assuming you have a 4 year degree plus a few classes post grad, or a masters, or PhD, you can get a good job teaching at a community college or similar. Great hours, decent pay, decent benefits, and you can pass on your years of industry experience to the new blood.
On the flip side, near instant gratification of "getting it to work" is good for education - keeps students interested and involved if they have quick successs.
Of course, once it is "just working" *then* you can start getting your students to think about edge cases, logical errrors, validating user input, etc.
No angst here about it - I make beer money every so often just by backing up a users actual data files they care about, browser profiles, mail client storage, wipe windows and reinstall, all updates, etc. and then put their data back. If you wanted to dedicate yourself to running a business with yourself and maybe a couple of part time PFY employees, you could make a very good living fixing these issues that are the result of what you consider poor design, and the stupid decisions users have made.
Similar is Big Blue Button (a google summer of code project) - whiteboard functionality, upload files and do the "john madden football commentator thing" to them, voice and cam sharing, ability to mute, etc. And can be set up to record meetings/conferences/etc. Tested it a while back stand-along on a linode that would be $10/mo now (it was a $20/mo plan then), and it was enough to support 15 users at once as long as they all weren't connected via the same wireless link to the LAN to get out to the World
"Here's 1.2 mil. We want you to tell us that it is possible that global warming is being caused by the sun"
A few months of well funded but blindly done research - ie, you know the answer to the question, what can we do to prove it? - and wallah! A paper. That is then submitted to a supposedly peer-reviewed journal, where of course no such review takes place (there have been several stories about that on /.).
So... are we shocked that the NRG Industry went shopping for the answer they wanted to hear? Are we shocked that a person who either needs to be top in their field or at least bringing in grants accepted a grant to do research? Are we shocked that a peer-reviewed journal is in fact not very often reviewd by the peers?
There needs to be a copyleft licence that restricts distribution on the same medium as non-free software, without it we will lose the IoT as well.
That point is addressed in the Free Software Definition and any license containing said clause would not be considered Free.
Some of the games for the Odyssey2 console -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey%C2%B2 - had some (extremely) limited programmability to them. I remember making my own maps on the pac man clone, and programming in their flavor of basic which was different from the basic I knew from the TRS-80 series and hand no real way to save your programs
I've never had an issue with a laptop that I've selected running Linux sine the later 2.2 kernels.
Either when buying new for work I've just bought the Dell business line and made sure the wireless was supported (just pick the Intel offering) and no issues.
For personal use I've either been given stuff - again, Dells for the most part - or bought cheap at a pawn shop. Before taking or buying, I just boot with a LiveCD and make sure it all works. Knoppix became available when? Do you remember the NT Hardware Compatability List? And how you could use the NT 4.0 CD to make 2 disks that would interrogate the hardware and tell you what was supported and what wasn't? I've seen poorly maintained lists of various hardware support, but they were never really useful for me. The LiveCD trick though *anyone* can do, and I'd recommend doing as a hardware function test on a used machine even if you are planning to run Windows on it.
But there are things that need to be communicated between separate entities, and while it may not be War Games incarnate, I can see how malicious disruption of some things like scheduled bank transfers, etc. could cause some panic and mayhem. Think of it as the newest layer of SIGINT
When I wrote the above, with tongue firmly in cheek, I was thinking more along the lines of the libc5 vs glibc issues we had 15 years ago, or dependencies on other old libraries
Or a *real* 3rd party choice... or pigs fly, pretty sure I know which of the two I'm more likely to see in my lifetime.
"Nope, sorry, we needed the disk space and bandwidth for $other_thing, it was deleted over a year ago. Developer machines and such were all replaced twice since the last checkout/build and we're not even sure we can get it to compile for $os anymore due to outdated libs and such.
Here's a coupon good for free shipping for any downloadable content for $suckiest_game_ever that you purchase in the next 42 minutes. Now go away."
And then the employee usually has to pay *more* direct from his/her check, both taxes and things like insurance
My 2 years of High School Latin ("At one time the land of Gaul was divided into 3 parts...") helped me with a medical terminology course simply because I was used to using non-english word roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Not sure on the music, but IIRC about 25 years ago math majors at the University of Florida were exempt from the then-new language requirements.