Pick some university department that you think aligns with your interests. Get a job as a Research Assistant or Associate. Take as many courses you want in whatever you want, without regard for whether they make a degree, while you're supporting and being part of a strong research program. If your selected courses look like some existing degree, go talk with the department head to negotiate what would be needed to convert your work into a degree. If not, negotiate an "interdisciplinary" degree with the dean's office or just live comfortably with the course credits but no degree.
You'll make less money than in industry, but that'll be offset to some extent by free tuition. Meanwhile, you'll have unlimited opportunity to explore while you "work in a team in support of Ph.D.s" and have plenty of opportunity to play "an active part in the research end of things as well as the tool-making end."
By the same token we don't know what fraction of the paying customers wouldn't have touched it if they were unable to verify it didn't suck without making a large up-front investment. Maybe 5%, maybe 75%. It's quite possible that with DRM they would have had far fewer sales than they did.
Looks like a list of people who didn't actually get executed.
Yes, and the reason is that evidence came in later which overturned the jury's verdict. Kind of makes me wonder how many thousands of others there have been who never got a chance at a retrial before they were executed, or who lived and died in a time before DNA evidence could show that the circumstantial evidence against them was wrong.
We have laws that specify tolerance levels, sample occasionally, and slap them silly if they get caught - hopefully hard enough that the overwhelming majority will feel it's not worth the risk.
If the 'F' word is banned in your school and the kids all of a sudden decide to say the word 'Squash' in lieu of the naughty word, eventually they become synonymous. Saying "Squash you, Mr. Teacher" is still potentially going to get you in trouble if the teacher knows what "Squash" means in that context.
Funny you should mention it. I had a coworker with a kid in elementary school. One of the other school kids heard part of an argument between two adults on the way to school, but couldn't make out the words. That didn't stop him, on the playground he got angry at another kid and called him a "suckapucka". It spread like wildfire. Next thing you knew, saying "suckapucka" was a detention offense at that school.
I actually disagree with the quote. My observation is that patriotism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. Just look at how many current politicians try to wrap themselves in the flag. When people are attacking their opponents for not wearing a flag lapel pin, I take it as a direct admission that the attacker doesn't actually have anything of substance to contribute.
Yes, I got sloppy and didn't explicitly say patents. However, copyrights are not limited to 10 years in the US, and in their current form are nearly as corrosive as patents.
It's copyright law that makes the GPL enforceable. Without it, there would be a lot less source code around, things would become public domain once the source code was released. Companies would have to guard their source code much more closely.
Without copyright law the GPL would be unnecessary. Even if companies guarded their source code, there would be no downside to reverse engineering. That would give consumers more choice and lower prices.
The original intent of copyright and patent law was to give creators incentive to create by giving them a temporary monopoly. All of the copyright extension laws have turned that into a de facto permanent monopoly. Just look at how much the field has changed in the last 27 years, the original duration for copyrights -- there is no indication that software needs such incentives, and lots of indications that without the artificial barrier the field would be moving even faster than it already does.
I agree with your main point, but can't agree that executing the head of food safety will have no impact. I expect the replacement to be more than a little gun shy (given their preferred method of execution).
This is nothing short of an attempt to implement thought control in the US by selective control of information to brainwash the next generation. These are the very people who worship McCarthy and vilify "godless communism", and they're engaging in the very same practices they condemn. Their hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.
In Japan, school children learn about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but aren't told about the Nanking Massacre, Pearl Harbor, or the Bataan death march. As a result, when they talk to outsiders about WWII they have a very warped view of what happened and why it happened that way. We all need to know as much of the truth about history as is possible, whether we like it or not, or we're going to tackle the future from a very warped and distorted viewpoint. Good decision making is based on knowing the facts, including the context, not on wishful thinking about the way the world ought to be.
However with nuclear proliferation and 'rogue states' like North Korea and Iran, not tp mention the possibilty of terrorsts getting hold of nukes, deterence isnt going to work so well.
An antimissile defense system won't work against them either. Terrorists won't have ICBMs, their most likely delivery mechanism will be by boat to some harbor city.
Antimissile defense systems are an expensive approach that don't actually solve a real-world problem.
I seem to recall that turbines are incredibly efficient when operating at the optimal spin, but have a very narrow range. Sounds like this new gearing would be great for turbines.
I was trying to make a funny, a play on the mathematical term "singular". Instead, I got modded insightful and started a flamewar. Ain't Slashdot wonderful?
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Pick some university department that you think aligns with your interests. Get a job as a Research Assistant or Associate. Take as many courses you want in whatever you want, without regard for whether they make a degree, while you're supporting and being part of a strong research program. If your selected courses look like some existing degree, go talk with the department head to negotiate what would be needed to convert your work into a degree. If not, negotiate an "interdisciplinary" degree with the dean's office or just live comfortably with the course credits but no degree.
You'll make less money than in industry, but that'll be offset to some extent by free tuition. Meanwhile, you'll have unlimited opportunity to explore while you "work in a team in support of Ph.D.s" and have plenty of opportunity to play "an active part in the research end of things as well as the tool-making end."
By the same token we don't know what fraction of the paying customers wouldn't have touched it if they were unable to verify it didn't suck without making a large up-front investment. Maybe 5%, maybe 75%. It's quite possible that with DRM they would have had far fewer sales than they did.
Dolphins?
humans.
Looks like a list of people who didn't actually get executed.
Yes, and the reason is that evidence came in later which overturned the jury's verdict. Kind of makes me wonder how many thousands of others there have been who never got a chance at a retrial before they were executed, or who lived and died in a time before DNA evidence could show that the circumstantial evidence against them was wrong.
And what happens if someone is executed the day after the trial and exonerating evidence is found 10 years later?
Do you know of a case where this has happened?
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-and-death-penalty
Not all sides have equal validity. "Fairness" to alternate viewpoints doesn't mean having such an open mind that your brains fall out.
"I'm not dead yet!"
So what do we do instead?
We have laws that specify tolerance levels, sample occasionally, and slap them silly if they get caught - hopefully hard enough that the overwhelming majority will feel it's not worth the risk.
but it won't take long for prospective employers to discover that it has utility only if it is perforated and comes on a roll.
You should be more than a bit nervous if you live anywhere near St Louis.
If the 'F' word is banned in your school and the kids all of a sudden decide to say the word 'Squash' in lieu of the naughty word, eventually they become synonymous. Saying "Squash you, Mr. Teacher" is still potentially going to get you in trouble if the teacher knows what "Squash" means in that context.
Funny you should mention it. I had a coworker with a kid in elementary school. One of the other school kids heard part of an argument between two adults on the way to school, but couldn't make out the words. That didn't stop him, on the playground he got angry at another kid and called him a "suckapucka". It spread like wildfire. Next thing you knew, saying "suckapucka" was a detention offense at that school.
Trying to infer that the lack of a pin equates to a lack of patriotism is precisely what I was talking about.
I actually disagree with the quote. My observation is that patriotism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. Just look at how many current politicians try to wrap themselves in the flag. When people are attacking their opponents for not wearing a flag lapel pin, I take it as a direct admission that the attacker doesn't actually have anything of substance to contribute.
Yes, I got sloppy and didn't explicitly say patents. However, copyrights are not limited to 10 years in the US, and in their current form are nearly as corrosive as patents.
It's copyright law that makes the GPL enforceable. Without it, there would be a lot less source code around, things would become public domain once the source code was released. Companies would have to guard their source code much more closely.
Without copyright law the GPL would be unnecessary. Even if companies guarded their source code, there would be no downside to reverse engineering. That would give consumers more choice and lower prices.
The original intent of copyright and patent law was to give creators incentive to create by giving them a temporary monopoly. All of the copyright extension laws have turned that into a de facto permanent monopoly. Just look at how much the field has changed in the last 27 years, the original duration for copyrights -- there is no indication that software needs such incentives, and lots of indications that without the artificial barrier the field would be moving even faster than it already does.
I agree with your main point, but can't agree that executing the head of food safety will have no impact. I expect the replacement to be more than a little gun shy (given their preferred method of execution).
Not just a Christian Socialist, but a Baptist minister.
This is nothing short of an attempt to implement thought control in the US by selective control of information to brainwash the next generation. These are the very people who worship McCarthy and vilify "godless communism", and they're engaging in the very same practices they condemn. Their hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.
In Japan, school children learn about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but aren't told about the Nanking Massacre, Pearl Harbor, or the Bataan death march. As a result, when they talk to outsiders about WWII they have a very warped view of what happened and why it happened that way. We all need to know as much of the truth about history as is possible, whether we like it or not, or we're going to tackle the future from a very warped and distorted viewpoint. Good decision making is based on knowing the facts, including the context, not on wishful thinking about the way the world ought to be.
However with nuclear proliferation and 'rogue states' like North Korea and Iran, not tp mention the possibilty of terrorsts getting hold of nukes, deterence isnt going to work so well.
An antimissile defense system won't work against them either. Terrorists won't have ICBMs, their most likely delivery mechanism will be by boat to some harbor city.
Antimissile defense systems are an expensive approach that don't actually solve a real-world problem.
if it was as such, galaxy wouldnt grow in size.
Yes it would, unless the consumption was 100%. And regardless, the galaxy would grow in mass. The article said this was the most massive galaxy.
This happened, like what, a billion and a half years ago?
you actually mean 'merging' with them. galaxies do not consume stellar material to burn. stellar material just merges.
...Unless the core black hole starts sucking down the new mass from the merger. Then it sounds like eating to me.
I seem to recall that turbines are incredibly efficient when operating at the optimal spin, but have a very narrow range. Sounds like this new gearing would be great for turbines.
I was trying to make a funny, a play on the mathematical term "singular". Instead, I got modded insightful and started a flamewar. Ain't Slashdot wonderful?
That's all you need to know about maths.
You must be from the US.
USians wouldn't say "maths". Our knowledge of math is singular.