I'm just seconding the recommendation for http://www.megabitz.net/
I'm primarily a non-binary user, and I've found them to have great retention, the servers are fast, and the price is right. I buy blocks of bandwidth at a time instead of subscribing, and it doesn't get any cheaper unless you go "free".
I've been a happy customer now for over a year.
I hire entry-level programmers. For what it's worth, the last couple I've hired have been from India.
I look for a couple of things when I'm hiring entry-level. The first is experience. I'm not talking about professional experience, you won't have any of that yet. But what have you done? Have you done an internship? What have you done in your spare time? What have you done on your own? Can you demonstrate useful skills? Can you debug a program?
The first thing I'm going to throw you into if I do hire you is maintenance. Find a bug, fix a bug.
It's about attitude. Technical competency will be low at your level... but do you know how to find out what you don't know? Do you know how to research a problem? Do you know how to find an answer off the internet? Do you know how long to work on a problem on your own, and when to ask for help? When I show you how a certain thing is done, can you watch me once, and then pick it up?
Most programmers are bad at interviews. Most stink at writing resumes. So it's mostly going to be about other things. If you can make friends in the right circles. If you can get a recommendation from someone I've heard of. If you can show me that you have hunger and drive to get ahead... then I'll hire you in a heartbeat.
I'll keep you on if you don't mess around, but dig deep into the problems you're given. I'll be delighted if you bug me for answers when you need them. I will gladly explain concepts if you'll gladly listen and run with what you've been taught.
I only get so many openings per year. I've turned down folks for the wrong attitude most of all. I've turned down folks with professional experience if they kept a narrow focus and never ventured out of their comfort zones. I've passed on people who believe that programming is something like FrontPage, and that they shouldn't have to work hard, or understand much, to make a cool application.
I guess, mostly, I look for people who would be programming something even if they weren't getting paid.
Doesn't that mean they can't download anything from online newspapers? Or anything written at all that hasn't been released into public domain?
Sounds sorta broad.
You're probably trolling, since this question has come up and been answered over and over and over again. So, I'll spare you the full explanation as it can be found in full elsewhere.
If the given reasons don't seem adequate to you, just accept that you're part of that (significant) fraction of the population that lacks the foresight and imagination to understand why we need to explore space, and every other frontier that is left to us. No amount of my explaining this to you is likely to make a difference.
There were folks who were sure that Columbus was insane for making his journey, and Columbus's journey resulted in a hugely important and un-anticipated discovery as well as enormous benefit. Do you think his exploration was worthless? Would you have thought so before his journey?
I guess this is a fairly common story. We had high-speed line-printers at my college as well. Great fun was had when we wrote a program to send page feeds to the printer in an infinite loop. The paper actually arced through the air. The lab assistants were less than amused.
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Using a combination of Fire[bird|fox]/Mozilla and proxomitron, I haven't seen a pop-up in ages.
But I agree with the rest of your statement. The other three items on your list are likely to outlive me!
It looks like this sort of technology is actually targeted at just the "smaller" buildings, like houses.
It would seem that this is because it is essentially a "print-a-house" device, which will be limited by the size of the "printer" as well as the type of materials that can be used for "ink." No steel buildings here, only ceramics, some plastics, or adobe-type products.
One thing that struck me funny is that they cited "construction of structures on Moon and Mars" as a possible application, but I simply can't see how it'd be a better option than, say, inflatables.
I was in in Pittsburgh one year when the KKK was given the right to march and hold a rally espousing their racist views. Is this what Freedom of Speech was meant for?
Just wanted to answer this from a US/Libertarianish point of view.
Freedom of Expression/Speech only works if people can really say what they want to say. We do have some practical limits on speech, primarily of the sort that says "Say what you want to say, but don't actually harm anyone by saying it." Common examples of what's not ok include yelling "Fire!" in a movie house (people get hurt), libel/slander (actually damage someone with a lie), and physical threats. Some would argue that even those things shouldn't be illegal, but I think the line is drawn at a pretty appropriate place.
With those limits defined, if we start allowing any censorship based on a political/religious/philosophical/scientific basis, then no speech is truly protected. We start down a slippery slope where someone can ban or suppress speech because it doesn't agree with whatever the current political/religious climate is. Pretty soon, you're not allowed to publish an article criticizing the government because it's tantamount to terrorism! You're not allowed to criticize the clergy because you're trying to corrupt morals! You're not allowed to criticize the police because you're inciting a riot!
So, to preserve the freedom of speech, we have to preserve the freedom of all speech. Even speech which we find personally distasteful, immoral, or downright putrid. My personal opinion is that what the KKK has to say indicates that the whole lot of 'em are prime candidates for natural selection. And yet, to misquote Voltaire, I would fight to the death to defend their right to say it. Because in so doing, I defend my own right to say what I wish.
And if you think that you really have free speach in the US try having a discussion on paedophilia and see how far you get. Not that I advocate it, but the subject is so highly charged that you risk being pilloried just for mentioning it.
People have done so, and probably will again. They're likely to run up against some sort of local "obscenity" law, but if they fight it they will win. Larry Flynt was the perfect example of this when he fought to be allowed to publish his Hustler magazine. The Supreme Court came out with a ruling that even though the speech may be obscene by community standards, it is still protected speech.
Try to publish kiddie porn, though, and they'll haul you away. Because kiddie porn is causing harm to someone. The kids! (See paragraph about practical limits above.)
Well, it's not a closed system. As you pointed out there is energy production that doesn't come straight from ethanol, which is really just a storage mechanism (as is hydrogen).
It takes all sorts of energy for the corn to grow in the first place, which is generously provided by mother nature, irrigation, and fertilizer. Then we experience an energy loss in harvesting the grain, and transporting it. Then we get an energy gain (in the form of heat) from our little friend the yeast cell, as it eats all that sugar (which stored the energy from mother nature) and spits out alcohol. This is not terribly efficient, but that's an awful lot of grain, and more where that came from. Another round of energy loss from heating the resulting alcoholic mess enough to evaporate the alcohol and refine it, if necessary.
At this point, we can transport the product using that alcohol as fuel, or we can extract the hydrogen from it.
Others have posted replies to the effect that we're still going to be using fossil fuels in this process, but I don't see where, if we're working on the assumption that energy in the form of electricity is supplied by nuclear power plants or through fuel cells. And you've raised the question on whether we can break even on the process or not. I really don't see why not, we can grow an awful lot of corn, and the harvesting thereof doesn't seem to be that great of an obstacle (but what do I know?).
The studies I've seen cited so far are still assuming that all machinery and other electricity is coming from fossil fuel plants, or running on fossil fuels directly. I've not seen one assuming a fossil-fuel-free circumstance all around.
I keep seeing comments talking about how much fossil fuel it takes to grow the corn.
Y'all just aren't looking far enough down the road. When hydrogen power is cheap and available, all of the places that we currently use fossil fuels to produce the corn can change to hydrogen power as well. If this is pooh-poohed now, we'll never get to the point where we can make the transition.
I look forward to the day when the harvesters, trucks used to transport the grain, air conditioners cooling the fermentors, and heaters powering the industrial stills are all powered by nuclear and/or hydrogen power right along with my SUV.;)
The only real problem is one of authentication -- since you're downloading content from a publicly accessible source one would have to come up with some clever way of making sure you're grabbing content from the author you choose.
Sounds like a perfect application for PGP/GPG. It'll guarantee that the person you think wrote it did, or not, and whether that content has been modified at all.
Hangovers are caused by your body being dehydrated. To fix the worst of the effect, drink lots of water (preferably the night before) or, if you happen to be an EMT, stick some saline solution right into your blood.
Not quite.
Hangovers are caused by your body producing acetaldehyde as it metabolizes alcohol. Dehydration does play a role, but it is a supporting role.
A good description of what happens, and good advice on what to do about it can be found here.
Alternatively, you can pick up the RU-21 pill designed by the KGB to keep their agents from getting hangovers.
I'm guessing this is a Macromedia killer the way Windows Media player/formats/streaming were a Realplayer killer.
In other words, too little too late to dominate the genre. Flash/Shockwave is pretty entrenched, and I don't think this will be enough to topple them for a long time to come.
I once heard a story once that is probably false (you never know), but contains an interesting idea on how to end spam.
It says that Mississippi tried to outlaw "flag burning", and the law was struck down as unconstitutional. So the Mississippi legislature responded by limiting the maximum penalty for assaulting a person who is engaged in flag burning to a $25 fine.
This sounds like a fine idea on how to handle the spam problem.
Create a law that states that the maximum penalty for physically assaulting a spammer is a $100 fine. I know more than a few people who'd be willing to pony up and take a whack at them.
Though this law would probably be far more satisfying than sensible.
If Dell sent you, gratis, their high-end gaming machine for you to review and post about on your blog (assuming you have one), would you not mention the fact more than a couple of times in thanks for the free machine?
Sure it's advertising for whomever the vendor was, but its also a sponsorship of something that the author might have had to pay for himself. Or might have had to do without.
"The new particle called the Ds (2317), which combines a charm quark with another heavy quark - an anti strange, has unexpected properties that will provide insight into the force that binds the quarks together. This force, unlike most others in nature, becomes stronger as the distance between the two quarks increases."
So, if I read this right, as long as you have enough of these particles, or none of them, you're fine.
But what happens if you've only got one of them here, and the nearest other one is in a neighboring galaxy? Massive destruction? Infinite attraction? Or just enough attraction to get a geek a date?
Yes, it is. You can find more information here.
Besides the tan and increased libido, other terrible side effects include clearing up acne, and suppressed appetite.
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I'm just seconding the recommendation for http://www.megabitz.net/ I'm primarily a non-binary user, and I've found them to have great retention, the servers are fast, and the price is right. I buy blocks of bandwidth at a time instead of subscribing, and it doesn't get any cheaper unless you go "free". I've been a happy customer now for over a year.
I hire programmers.
I hire entry-level programmers. For what it's worth, the last couple I've hired have been from India.
I look for a couple of things when I'm hiring entry-level. The first is experience. I'm not talking about professional experience, you won't have any of that yet. But what have you done? Have you done an internship? What have you done in your spare time? What have you done on your own? Can you demonstrate useful skills? Can you debug a program?
The first thing I'm going to throw you into if I do hire you is maintenance. Find a bug, fix a bug.
It's about attitude. Technical competency will be low at your level... but do you know how to find out what you don't know? Do you know how to research a problem? Do you know how to find an answer off the internet? Do you know how long to work on a problem on your own, and when to ask for help? When I show you how a certain thing is done, can you watch me once, and then pick it up?
Most programmers are bad at interviews. Most stink at writing resumes. So it's mostly going to be about other things. If you can make friends in the right circles. If you can get a recommendation from someone I've heard of. If you can show me that you have hunger and drive to get ahead... then I'll hire you in a heartbeat.
I'll keep you on if you don't mess around, but dig deep into the problems you're given. I'll be delighted if you bug me for answers when you need them. I will gladly explain concepts if you'll gladly listen and run with what you've been taught.
I only get so many openings per year. I've turned down folks for the wrong attitude most of all. I've turned down folks with professional experience if they kept a narrow focus and never ventured out of their comfort zones. I've passed on people who believe that programming is something like FrontPage, and that they shouldn't have to work hard, or understand much, to make a cool application.
I guess, mostly, I look for people who would be programming something even if they weren't getting paid.
Is that you?
Doesn't that mean they can't download anything from online newspapers? Or anything written at all that hasn't been released into public domain? Sounds sorta broad.
Either that, or they're smart (and paid way too much money).
You're probably trolling, since this question has come up and been answered over and over and over again. So, I'll spare you the full explanation as it can be found in full elsewhere.
If the given reasons don't seem adequate to you, just accept that you're part of that (significant) fraction of the population that lacks the foresight and imagination to understand why we need to explore space, and every other frontier that is left to us. No amount of my explaining this to you is likely to make a difference.
There were folks who were sure that Columbus was insane for making his journey, and Columbus's journey resulted in a hugely important and un-anticipated discovery as well as enormous benefit. Do you think his exploration was worthless? Would you have thought so before his journey?
Bah.
I guess this is a fairly common story. We had high-speed line-printers at my college as well. Great fun was had when we wrote a program to send page feeds to the printer in an infinite loop. The paper actually arced through the air. The lab assistants were less than amused.
3.) Pop ups
Using a combination of Fire[bird|fox]/Mozilla and proxomitron, I haven't seen a pop-up in ages.
But I agree with the rest of your statement. The other three items on your list are likely to outlive me!
It looks like this sort of technology is actually targeted at just the "smaller" buildings, like houses.
It would seem that this is because it is essentially a "print-a-house" device, which will be limited by the size of the "printer" as well as the type of materials that can be used for "ink." No steel buildings here, only ceramics, some plastics, or adobe-type products.
One thing that struck me funny is that they cited "construction of structures on Moon and Mars" as a possible application, but I simply can't see how it'd be a better option than, say, inflatables.
If the site is hijacking advertising revenue, won't slashdotting them simply increase that revenue?
Just a thought.
I was in in Pittsburgh one year when the KKK was given the right to march and hold a rally espousing their racist views. Is this what Freedom of Speech was meant for?
Just wanted to answer this from a US/Libertarianish point of view.
Freedom of Expression/Speech only works if people can really say what they want to say. We do have some practical limits on speech, primarily of the sort that says "Say what you want to say, but don't actually harm anyone by saying it." Common examples of what's not ok include yelling "Fire!" in a movie house (people get hurt), libel/slander (actually damage someone with a lie), and physical threats. Some would argue that even those things shouldn't be illegal, but I think the line is drawn at a pretty appropriate place.
With those limits defined, if we start allowing any censorship based on a political/religious/philosophical/scientific basis, then no speech is truly protected. We start down a slippery slope where someone can ban or suppress speech because it doesn't agree with whatever the current political/religious climate is. Pretty soon, you're not allowed to publish an article criticizing the government because it's tantamount to terrorism! You're not allowed to criticize the clergy because you're trying to corrupt morals! You're not allowed to criticize the police because you're inciting a riot!
So, to preserve the freedom of speech, we have to preserve the freedom of all speech. Even speech which we find personally distasteful, immoral, or downright putrid. My personal opinion is that what the KKK has to say indicates that the whole lot of 'em are prime candidates for natural selection. And yet, to misquote Voltaire, I would fight to the death to defend their right to say it. Because in so doing, I defend my own right to say what I wish.
And if you think that you really have free speach in the US try having a discussion on paedophilia and see how far you get. Not that I advocate it, but the subject is so highly charged that you risk being pilloried just for mentioning it.
People have done so, and probably will again. They're likely to run up against some sort of local "obscenity" law, but if they fight it they will win. Larry Flynt was the perfect example of this when he fought to be allowed to publish his Hustler magazine. The Supreme Court came out with a ruling that even though the speech may be obscene by community standards, it is still protected speech.
Try to publish kiddie porn, though, and they'll haul you away. Because kiddie porn is causing harm to someone. The kids! (See paragraph about practical limits above.)
Well, it's not a closed system. As you pointed out there is energy production that doesn't come straight from ethanol, which is really just a storage mechanism (as is hydrogen).
It takes all sorts of energy for the corn to grow in the first place, which is generously provided by mother nature, irrigation, and fertilizer. Then we experience an energy loss in harvesting the grain, and transporting it. Then we get an energy gain (in the form of heat) from our little friend the yeast cell, as it eats all that sugar (which stored the energy from mother nature) and spits out alcohol. This is not terribly efficient, but that's an awful lot of grain, and more where that came from. Another round of energy loss from heating the resulting alcoholic mess enough to evaporate the alcohol and refine it, if necessary.
At this point, we can transport the product using that alcohol as fuel, or we can extract the hydrogen from it.
Others have posted replies to the effect that we're still going to be using fossil fuels in this process, but I don't see where, if we're working on the assumption that energy in the form of electricity is supplied by nuclear power plants or through fuel cells. And you've raised the question on whether we can break even on the process or not. I really don't see why not, we can grow an awful lot of corn, and the harvesting thereof doesn't seem to be that great of an obstacle (but what do I know?).
The studies I've seen cited so far are still assuming that all machinery and other electricity is coming from fossil fuel plants, or running on fossil fuels directly. I've not seen one assuming a fossil-fuel-free circumstance all around.
I keep seeing comments talking about how much fossil fuel it takes to grow the corn.
;)
Y'all just aren't looking far enough down the road. When hydrogen power is cheap and available, all of the places that we currently use fossil fuels to produce the corn can change to hydrogen power as well. If this is pooh-poohed now, we'll never get to the point where we can make the transition.
I look forward to the day when the harvesters, trucks used to transport the grain, air conditioners cooling the fermentors, and heaters powering the industrial stills are all powered by nuclear and/or hydrogen power right along with my SUV.
Yep. A $100 bill. My boss gives 'em out every year in lieu of bonuses. Better than a poke in the eye with a stick, I suppose.
Can anyone tell me what a "science image" is supposed to be?
;)
I'm betting what they mean by "science image" is an image on/from which scientific investigation can be done.
Nahh, that's too easy!
The only real problem is one of authentication -- since you're downloading content from a publicly accessible source one would have to come up with some clever way of making sure you're grabbing content from the author you choose.
Sounds like a perfect application for PGP/GPG. It'll guarantee that the person you think wrote it did, or not, and whether that content has been modified at all.
Hangovers are caused by your body being dehydrated. To fix the worst of the effect, drink lots of water (preferably the night before) or, if you happen to be an EMT, stick some saline solution right into your blood.
Not quite.
Hangovers are caused by your body producing acetaldehyde as it metabolizes alcohol. Dehydration does play a role, but it is a supporting role.
A good description of what happens, and good advice on what to do about it can be found here.
Alternatively, you can pick up the RU-21 pill designed by the KGB to keep their agents from getting hangovers.
I'm guessing this is a Macromedia killer the way Windows Media player/formats/streaming were a Realplayer killer.
In other words, too little too late to dominate the genre. Flash/Shockwave is pretty entrenched, and I don't think this will be enough to topple them for a long time to come.
Just my opinion.
"Researchers say the small-headed critter belongs to a new family of frogs thought to have disappeared millions of years ago."
That sentence cracks me up. It's so new it disappeared millions of years ago! I know what they meant, but still...
Successful life tends to leave behind rather noticable evidence, evidence that we would probably have detected by now.
What, a giant face isn't enough evidence for you?!
I once heard a story once that is probably false (you never know), but contains an interesting idea on how to end spam.
It says that Mississippi tried to outlaw "flag burning", and the law was struck down as unconstitutional. So the Mississippi legislature responded by limiting the maximum penalty for assaulting a person who is engaged in flag burning to a $25 fine.
This sounds like a fine idea on how to handle the spam problem.
Create a law that states that the maximum penalty for physically assaulting a spammer is a $100 fine. I know more than a few people who'd be willing to pony up and take a whack at them.
Though this law would probably be far more satisfying than sensible.
If Dell sent you, gratis, their high-end gaming machine for you to review and post about on your blog (assuming you have one), would you not mention the fact more than a couple of times in thanks for the free machine?
Sure it's advertising for whomever the vendor was, but its also a sponsorship of something that the author might have had to pay for himself. Or might have had to do without.
But what happens if you've only got one of them here, and the nearest other one is in a neighboring galaxy? Massive destruction? Infinite attraction? Or just enough attraction to get a geek a date?
Hmm, has anyone ever done a correlation on known electronic disturbances in the "bermuda triangle" and space launches?
Yes, it is. You can find more information here. Besides the tan and increased libido, other terrible side effects include clearing up acne, and suppressed appetite.
I recommend SquirrelMail. I use it myself, and am quite happy with it.