I could do pretty much the same thing with a PC, a broadband connection, some 50 amp P&B solid-states and a pair of thermocouples. Matter of fact, if any of you would be willing to fork over eight grand I'd be happy to get right to work on it. For an extra grand, I'll throw in a CCD imager so you can watch your pot roast burn up, I mean, cook thoroughly, while you're on the way home from work.
And no, I didn't read the article but it just sounds kinda silly.
Bill Gates defended Microsoft's poor track record with regards to security and operating system stability, stating that "We felt it was better to get our OS to market and give people something to work with, rather than wait around for Apple to get off its ass and become part of the Wintel team."
Yeah... I used one for my current job. That was seven years ago, and in addition to my own hunting I suffered through a series of useless headhunters. One of them quit her position and (quite unethically) took her contact list with her. When I finally called to find out what was going on the office manager apologized and told me he was sorry but they didn't even have my phone number anymore! However, I finally got a fellow that listened to what I was capable of / interested in, and spent about three hours with me going over my background in detail. Then the next day he called and said he had a possibility... I went in for an interview and was hired a couple of days later. I'm still there, so I guess he earned his commission. So yes, a good recruiter can be a tremendous asset, but my experience is that good ones are hard to find. Most of them kept offering me positions that had little to do with what I do, other than that they were software/programming jobs. I got very used to hearing, "But, you could do that, couldn't you?" Sure, I probably could... but it's not what I told you.
Here's another one for you. One of the reasons for fair use is making backup copies of purchased works. If the originals of such works are stolen from the owner, did the backup copies just become illegal? Can I back up my backups in order to maintain the same level of loss protection? Can any lawyers answer that one? Capt. Kangarooski... you out there?
Most of the media attention to possible life is basically silly, and based on little more than speculation. If you want to be entertained by speculation without evidence, you're better off reading science fiction.
You mean, "... you're better off reading fantasy." What puts the sci in sci-fi in that it is rooted in science... what we actually know, and what we can reasonably project based upon our current understanding. If you simply want to make stuff up for its entertainment value, fantasy is your ticket.
I put the word "inappropriate" in the same class as "indecent". It's uselessly nonspecific, doesn't actually mean anything in this context, and gives lawmakers plenty of leeway to decide what is or is not "inappropriate" as they see fit. And, of course, that results of that determination can vary depending upon the barometric pressure, phase of the Moon, and the current political wind.
I wish those people would find something more productive to do.
Yes, considering that it is, by definition, a matter of public record. Diebold simply needs to be barred from that marketplace, period. Let them stick to building all the ATMs that I avoid.
More like "if they spent 1/10 as much time looking for real jobs as as they do writing up press releases, maybe something might have been done." These are just another group of sociopaths out to profit off the Internet by any means possible. Not much you can do about people that don't even accept that they're doing anything wrong.
That's not exactly fair... there are many types of cancer that are routinely cured (cancer is not, after, a single disease) and there have been plenty of fusion reactors built... they just don't actually generate usable power yet.
Since no-one involved in the field of fusion research has managed to achieve a net production of usable energy, what is it that the Chinese know about this that everyone else involved in the field of fusion research doesn't? Or could this be (*gasp!*) propaganda?! I'll wait until the thing starts generating a few thousand megawatts before I get excited about it.
The Chinese "we have big big potential market, make you lots big bucks" line has been suckering American business in for some time now. It's only a big market if they'll let you into it, and even if you do manage to successfully "partner" with a Chinese firm, odds are that it will end up not being your business anymore. Japan has been remarkably successful at keeping foreign corporations out of their markets, and China is doing much the same thing (although in a different way.) Until U.S. corporations wake up and realize that China simply does not do business the same way we do they'll keep getting their fingers burnt. I'm not saying that we can't do business with China, but it had better be with a fuller understanding of their culture, motivations and ethics.
So now they are trying to jump at all markets at the same time and just wait for something that will work.
Which is nothing more than what Microsoft has been trying to do for a long time. Logical, in a way, when you have insane amounts of money to invest in such things. The difference is that Google generally succeeds with these out-of-band endeavors (at least, they manage to drive up ad revenue, which is the only real metric by which Google can be judged at the moment) whereas Microsoft usually flops, to varying degrees.
True... but taxes can be a form of oppression (probably the most common) with religious tyranny next on the list. Frequently both are simultaneously applied to a given population. Any way you look at it, one hell of a lot of people came to the New World to get away from what they considered "oppression" by their former government. Many took insane risks to do so: insane by our standards perhaps, but that's only because we take for granted that for which they were willing to risk everything.
But that's what frontiers have often been all about: society's disaffected seeing both opportunity, and the possibility of escape from tyranny and persecution. What concerns me is that when America, indeed Western civilization itself, reaches the point that many of us will want to go somewhere else is that, well... there isn't anywhere else. No new frontiers, no place to hide, no place to go for the chance of a better life. Unless we achieve some technological breakthroughs that open up space or the oceans for colonization on a massive scale there will continue to be no place to go.
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guess this means Best Buy doesn't hate their customers after all.
Sure they do.
I could do pretty much the same thing with a PC, a broadband connection, some 50 amp P&B solid-states and a pair of thermocouples. Matter of fact, if any of you would be willing to fork over eight grand I'd be happy to get right to work on it. For an extra grand, I'll throw in a CCD imager so you can watch your pot roast burn up, I mean, cook thoroughly, while you're on the way home from work.
And no, I didn't read the article but it just sounds kinda silly.
Bill Gates defended Microsoft's poor track record with regards to security and operating system stability, stating that "We felt it was better to get our OS to market and give people something to work with, rather than wait around for Apple to get off its ass and become part of the Wintel team."
do they have a recovery plan for this disaster?
Yeah ... I used one for my current job. That was seven years ago, and in addition to my own hunting I suffered through a series of useless headhunters. One of them quit her position and (quite unethically) took her contact list with her. When I finally called to find out what was going on the office manager apologized and told me he was sorry but they didn't even have my phone number anymore! However, I finally got a fellow that listened to what I was capable of / interested in, and spent about three hours with me going over my background in detail. Then the next day he called and said he had a possibility ... I went in for an interview and was hired a couple of days later. I'm still there, so I guess he earned his commission. So yes, a good recruiter can be a tremendous asset, but my experience is that good ones are hard to find. Most of them kept offering me positions that had little to do with what I do, other than that they were software/programming jobs. I got very used to hearing, "But, you could do that, couldn't you?" Sure, I probably could ... but it's not what I told you.
Usually, the crank is very noticeable and located between the steering wheel and the driver's seat.
Imploding, actually ... that whooshing noise was ambient air filling up the internal vacuum.
Here's another one for you. One of the reasons for fair use is making backup copies of purchased works. If the originals of such works are stolen from the owner, did the backup copies just become illegal? Can I back up my backups in order to maintain the same level of loss protection? Can any lawyers answer that one? Capt. Kangarooski ... you out there?
It's even more difficult for me ... I received my programming back in the 1960's.
Most of the media attention to possible life is basically silly, and based on little more than speculation. If you want to be entertained by speculation without evidence, you're better off reading science fiction.
... what we actually know, and what we can reasonably project based upon our current understanding. If you simply want to make stuff up for its entertainment value, fantasy is your ticket.
You mean, "... you're better off reading fantasy." What puts the sci in sci-fi in that it is rooted in science
I put the word "inappropriate" in the same class as "indecent". It's uselessly nonspecific, doesn't actually mean anything in this context, and gives lawmakers plenty of leeway to decide what is or is not "inappropriate" as they see fit. And, of course, that results of that determination can vary depending upon the barometric pressure, phase of the Moon, and the current political wind.
I wish those people would find something more productive to do.
Sounds like we have the beginning of a theoretical underpinning for the Zero Point Module.
The real question is why a nearly dead CMOS battery would have affected your BIOS chip in the first place.
The GVU (The German analog to the MPAA)
I guess maybe the analog hole needs plugging after all.
Yes, considering that it is, by definition, a matter of public record. Diebold simply needs to be barred from that marketplace, period. Let them stick to building all the ATMs that I avoid.
Good idea ... but posting about your offenses on a popular site like Slashdot probably isn't the best way to maintain your anonymity.
More like "if they spent 1/10 as much time looking for real jobs as as they do writing up press releases, maybe something might have been done." These are just another group of sociopaths out to profit off the Internet by any means possible. Not much you can do about people that don't even accept that they're doing anything wrong.
That's not exactly fair ... there are many types of cancer that are routinely cured (cancer is not, after, a single disease) and there have been plenty of fusion reactors built ... they just don't actually generate usable power yet.
Since no-one involved in the field of fusion research has managed to achieve a net production of usable energy, what is it that the Chinese know about this that everyone else involved in the field of fusion research doesn't? Or could this be (*gasp!*) propaganda?! I'll wait until the thing starts generating a few thousand megawatts before I get excited about it.
starring Jack Lemmon and Jane Fonda about a malfunctioning "artificial sun" and I further predict that it will be called "The China Syndrome".
... that title seems oddly familiar somehow.
Huh
The Chinese "we have big big potential market, make you lots big bucks" line has been suckering American business in for some time now. It's only a big market if they'll let you into it, and even if you do manage to successfully "partner" with a Chinese firm, odds are that it will end up not being your business anymore. Japan has been remarkably successful at keeping foreign corporations out of their markets, and China is doing much the same thing (although in a different way.) Until U.S. corporations wake up and realize that China simply does not do business the same way we do they'll keep getting their fingers burnt. I'm not saying that we can't do business with China, but it had better be with a fuller understanding of their culture, motivations and ethics.
Actually, so far as Microsoft's implementation is concerned I believe it's called "Shrug and Pray".
So now they are trying to jump at all markets at the same time and just wait for something that will work.
Which is nothing more than what Microsoft has been trying to do for a long time. Logical, in a way, when you have insane amounts of money to invest in such things. The difference is that Google generally succeeds with these out-of-band endeavors (at least, they manage to drive up ad revenue, which is the only real metric by which Google can be judged at the moment) whereas Microsoft usually flops, to varying degrees.
Amazoogle, of course. Or Googlazon ... but that sounds like the name of a monster from a Japanese B grade.
True ... but taxes can be a form of oppression (probably the most common) with religious tyranny next on the list. Frequently both are simultaneously applied to a given population. Any way you look at it, one hell of a lot of people came to the New World to get away from what they considered "oppression" by their former government. Many took insane risks to do so: insane by our standards perhaps, but that's only because we take for granted that for which they were willing to risk everything.
... there isn't anywhere else. No new frontiers, no place to hide, no place to go for the chance of a better life. Unless we achieve some technological breakthroughs that open up space or the oceans for colonization on a massive scale there will continue to be no place to go.
But that's what frontiers have often been all about: society's disaffected seeing both opportunity, and the possibility of escape from tyranny and persecution. What concerns me is that when America, indeed Western civilization itself, reaches the point that many of us will want to go somewhere else is that, well