I can't help being reminded of the scene in Wall-E which scrolls past the portraits of the ship's Captains. Their signatures becoming more and more illegible as the machine takes control.
Our family preserves letters, notes, cards and such that document over two hundred years of family history, They remain readable and expressive, exposing age and emotion in ways that print cannot --- in many ways tmore intimately than any photograph.
This Thanksgiving what I saw as a quest at a family dinner was a near total self-absorption in the gadget. The smartphone. the tablet, The need to text as over-powering as the need to drink, no matter how inappropriate the setting or that there was nothing left to say.
a lot of game logic these days is specified via visual programming languages... The engine itself and the graphics/rendering parts, along with some computationally sensitive AI bits, will be written in C++, but a lot of the actual gameplay-relevant logic and events are scripted.... Partly this is because in big companies, game logic has moved more and more towards becoming the responsibility of the level and character designers.
From what I hear, we weren't quite as lucky with horse-drawn carriages being obsoleted by autos --- but sanity prevailed.
pretty much the only self-propelled vehicles on the roads between 1860 and 1890 were steam powered agricultural tractors and traction engines, heavy haulers, sometimes known as road locomotives.
massive, powerful machines, but vey slow and difficult to maneuver.
the requirement for a flag man and other restrictions were not half so ridiculous as the geek makes them sound.
And why eggs? TheyÃ(TM)re not very sustainable IÃ(TM)m sorry, what are the nutritional benefits of mayonnaises made with eggs?
One of the most tedious things about posting to Slashdot is that cut and paste does not work. You can waste far to much time editing even the most trivial of quotations to make sure that they are readable. A little extra help with English grammar and spelling wouldn't hurt.
6. Anyone with responsibility for the safety, maintenance and/or operating budgets of a nuclear plant must reside, with their spouse and dependants, on or near the grounds of said nuclear plant
All your eggs in one basket, eh?
You don't want 2/3 of the people who have the best understanding of the facility to be taken out in the first few minutes of an accident. You don't want first responders burdened with the problem of evacuating dependents.
like the article says, they would get rushed to the hospital and just received these exact same stabilizing treatments there instead of in the field 10 minutes prior.
Ten minutes?
Theoretically possible here at the terminus of a river and lakeshore parkway with no commercial traffic and a driver taking to the road like a bat out of hell. But looking at the outer ring of suburbs and rural areas more honestly, 30-45 minutes by chopper would be closer to the truth, weather permitting.
Disney sues people for putting a picture of Mickey Mouse on the wall of a day care.
The day care centers you mention (about a 3 hr. drive from Disney World) were being run for-profit.
The Disney characters were used for image-building and not just for decoration.
That is why Universal Studios bull-dozed its way into the story. The risk of course is that despite its gifts of toys, posters, and such, Universal had no real control over how well these day care centers were bring run.
It's the kind of PR stunt that sucks big-time when anything goes wrong, if for example, one of the day care centers you endorsed is raided in a subsequent sex abuse scandal or three toddlers die in a fire --- and the cameras focus on the singed remains of Yogi Bear. Daycare Center Murals
Do not buy anything these companies offer. No cable, no movies, no music. Nothing.
Do not feed their useless parisitism on our culture and public domain.
If you must be entertained, find alternative sources, from indie stuff all the way to pirating.
Disney has been taking significant risks with films with serious geek cred --- Wreak-It Ralph. Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero Six --- and has been handsomely rewarded in return.
The geek is defined by pop culture and his talk of boycott is hot air. ThinkGeek
The paying customer gets programming like Sherlock and The Game of Thrones and a voice in future productions. The pirate gets whatever crumbs he can sweep off the floor.
Once again, the industry giants managed to thwart innovation to maintain the status quo.
The only innovation here was a bit of high tech stage magic used to disguise the fact they were functioning as a community antenna --- CATV --- service.
Representatives in the House are elected every two years, and their districts are small enough that the number of politically active people is limited, especially in midterms. By politically active I mean people who directly affect the local. vote, not those of us who only post on Slashdot. So the House is completely doable. It just requires a few people _in_each_district_ who care enough to study and understand beyond the headlines, then put in a few hours of time.
Political effectiveness demands a serious investment in time, money and manpower.
It can't be done on the cheap.
There are 435 congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives, with each one representing approximately 700,000 people. These are not small numbers. Congressional district
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society.
How perfectly appropriate that these choice lines should be posted by to Slashdot by an Anonymous Coward.
The timing couldn't be bettered as well.
We should certainly laud Mattel for deciding that 2014 is the year Barbie strikes out on her own as a career woman after 55 years and 150-plus jobs (including hating math and babysitting, with a welcome stint as a computer engineer in 2010).
But Entrepreneur Barbie reminds us that --- like every other ostensibly inspiring incarnation of the doll --- her main role is to look pretty and wear lots of pink.
In the end, both [Supermodel Barbie and Entrepreneur Barbie] are part of the same old problem. As 16-year-old feminist and former TED speaker Adora Svitak told Forbes' Denise Restauri this week:
''She encourages an unrealistic expectation of beauty grounded in narrow ideals --- whiteness, thinness, a lack of hair and an abundance of breast tissue --- instead of kindness, smarts, self-confidence, or athleticism.''
I have nothing against padded bras in general. But my immediate thought in the store was, Why the hell does a teenage girl need one?
The issue of the over-sexualizing of girls from an early age has come to the forefront with a recent news story about model Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau posing suggestively for the cover of Vogue magazine. Over a series of photos, the ten-year-old is shown sprawled on leopard-print cushions, wearing a skimpy gold dress, stiletto heels, and posing heavily made-up, with rouge and lipstick. She's ten years old, yet she looks scarily adult in the photos.
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls. The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
And if that comet then hit earth, do you know what a huge catastrophe that would have caused? Then we would be saying 'ah but couldn't they just use solar power?'
The mass of the Churyumov---Gerasimenko comet is roughly 1 x 10^13kg. Should it ever fall to earth, I wouldn't expect the dispersal of U-238 from an aging Rosetta-class probe to be my biggest concern.
Once upon a time, when we talked about things like "Web Portals," and people knew who Jerry Yang was, Yahoo! was cool.
The walled gardens of the app world have taken much of the steam out of the browser wars --- and threaten to make the browser itself irrelevant.
Searching Google for "live jazz on the net" will return 40 million hits, "live jazz streams," 9 million hits, "live piano jazz streams", 840,000 hits, which is no more useful. The point being that the open web the geek so admires has become unmanageable.
I don't want to wrestle with a search engine, I simply want to listen to the music.
So, a small wind turbine (or taking turns on a bike), and any hot humid area where clean drinking water can be scarce is a good fit for this.
A few years back, a long and brutal heat wave driving both temperature and humidity close to the century mark lead to the closing of our local recreational and commuter bike paths after the collapse of cyclists who would have been considered young, fit, and adequately prepared.
I think you're equating capitalism with avarice. It is possible to run a business while maintaining a sense of morality.
When you are playing fast and loose with your customers, your suppliers, your employees, your financial backers, the press, the government --- what do you think is happening inside your start-up? Most likely, the rot is spreading everywhere.
this reminds me of the states that are passing taxes on electric vehicles because they don't pay gas tax.
But they are using the roads, bridges, and other services the gas tax helps pay for.
Several counties in upstate New York are currently experiencing blizzard conditions, with deep cold, strong winds and up to five feet of snow. The worst possible environment for an electric car.
You know they're desperate when the only argument against new technologies they can come up with is that they're ugly.
A lot of money is being spent here to reclaim waterfront property for green space, nature reserves, parks and recreation. Ugly comes at a price that not everyone is willing to pay anymore, and the geek needs to see that clearly.
It isn't always clear at a distance where a state court stands in the larger scheme of things and how much weight should be given its decisions.
In California, a Superior Court is simply one of 58 consolidated county and municipal trial courts.
Before June 1998, California's trial courts consisted of superior and municipal courts, each with its own jurisdiction and number of judges fixed by the Legislature. In June 1998, California voters approved Proposition 220, a constitutional amendment that permitted the judges in each county to merge their superior and municipal courts into a ''unified,'' or single, superior court. As of February 2001, all of California's 58 counties have voted to unify their trial courts.
The next year, the farmer's yield was only 35 bushels per acre better than his neighbors. Every year it decreased, until his yield per acre was back at the original amount.
I'm not surprised.
Corn demands fertile soil, consistent moisture and warm weather.
Corn is a heavy feeder - particularly of nitrogen - and may require several sidedressings of fertilizer for best yields. Look for signs of nutrient deficiency. Purple-tinged leaves are a sign of phosphorus deficiency. Pale green leaves are a sign of nitrogen deficiency.
or more likely to the nearest agricultural supply house or freight depot, where American farmers have been taking delivery of seed from commercial growers since before the Civil War.
Ferry-Morse can be traced back to 1856, Burpee to 1876.
Yes, this is technician level. Doesn't claim to be anything else.
But IF the range and depth of the exam is equivalent to the MS Course of the same name, it is far from the trivial achievement that the geek with five to ten years of practical experience likes to pretend. Course 20688D: Supporting Windows 8.1
which still implies an understanding of concepts and methods that will be quite alien to most five year olds, and every now and again trips up an adult who should know better,
Slashdot Mirror
I can't help being reminded of the scene in Wall-E which scrolls past the portraits of the ship's Captains. Their signatures becoming more and more illegible as the machine takes control.
Our family preserves letters, notes, cards and such that document over two hundred years of family history, They remain readable and expressive, exposing age and emotion in ways that print cannot --- in many ways tmore intimately than any photograph.
This Thanksgiving what I saw as a quest at a family dinner was a near total self-absorption in the gadget. The smartphone. the tablet, The need to text as over-powering as the need to drink, no matter how inappropriate the setting or that there was nothing left to say.
a lot of game logic these days is specified via visual programming languages... The engine itself and the graphics/rendering parts, along with some computationally sensitive AI bits, will be written in C++, but a lot of the actual gameplay-relevant logic and events are scripted.... Partly this is because in big companies, game logic has moved more and more towards becoming the responsibility of the level and character designers.
To me, this approach looks a lot like Microsoft's Project Spark. Project Spark tutorials
From what I hear, we weren't quite as lucky with horse-drawn carriages being obsoleted by autos --- but sanity prevailed.
pretty much the only self-propelled vehicles on the roads between 1860 and 1890 were steam powered agricultural tractors and traction engines, heavy haulers, sometimes known as road locomotives.
massive, powerful machines, but vey slow and difficult to maneuver.
the requirement for a flag man and other restrictions were not half so ridiculous as the geek makes them sound.
And why eggs? TheyÃ(TM)re not very sustainable
IÃ(TM)m sorry, what are the nutritional benefits of mayonnaises made with eggs?
One of the most tedious things about posting to Slashdot is that cut and paste does not work. You can waste far to much time editing even the most trivial of quotations to make sure that they are readable. A little extra help with English grammar and spelling wouldn't hurt.
The consequences which follow from a $10,000 fine and a guilty plea to a federal misdemeanor hacking charge are not trivial.
His usefulness to Anonymous is at an end --- the collective will be wondering about how much he had to offer in exchange for a plea bargain.
Pleading down to a misdemeanor is common enough for a first offender. But that is a card you can play only once.
6. Anyone with responsibility for the safety, maintenance and/or operating budgets of a nuclear plant must reside, with their spouse and dependants, on or near the grounds of said nuclear plant
All your eggs in one basket, eh?
You don't want 2/3 of the people who have the best understanding of the facility to be taken out in the first few minutes of an accident. You don't want first responders burdened with the problem of evacuating dependents.
like the article says, they would get rushed to the hospital and just received these exact same stabilizing treatments there instead of in the field 10 minutes prior.
Ten minutes?
Theoretically possible here at the terminus of a river and lakeshore parkway with no commercial traffic and a driver taking to the road like a bat out of hell. But looking at the outer ring of suburbs and rural areas more honestly, 30-45 minutes by chopper would be closer to the truth, weather permitting.
Disney sues people for putting a picture of Mickey Mouse on the wall of a day care.
The day care centers you mention (about a 3 hr. drive from Disney World) were being run for-profit.
The Disney characters were used for image-building and not just for decoration.
That is why Universal Studios bull-dozed its way into the story. The risk of course is that despite its gifts of toys, posters, and such, Universal had no real control over how well these day care centers were bring run.
It's the kind of PR stunt that sucks big-time when anything goes wrong, if for example, one of the day care centers you endorsed is raided in a subsequent sex abuse scandal or three toddlers die in a fire --- and the cameras focus on the singed remains of Yogi Bear. Daycare Center Murals
Do not buy anything these companies offer. No cable, no movies, no music. Nothing. Do not feed their useless parisitism on our culture and public domain.
If you must be entertained, find alternative sources, from indie stuff all the way to pirating.
Disney has been taking significant risks with films with serious geek cred --- Wreak-It Ralph. Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero Six --- and has been handsomely rewarded in return.
The geek is defined by pop culture and his talk of boycott is hot air. ThinkGeek
The paying customer gets programming like Sherlock and The Game of Thrones and a voice in future productions.
The pirate gets whatever crumbs he can sweep off the floor.
Once again, the industry giants managed to thwart innovation to maintain the status quo.
The only innovation here was a bit of high tech stage magic used to disguise the fact they were functioning as a community antenna --- CATV --- service.
Representatives in the House are elected every two years, and their districts are small enough that the number of politically active people is limited, especially in midterms. By politically active I mean people who directly affect the local. vote, not those of us who only post on Slashdot.
So the House is completely doable. It just requires a few people _in_each_district_ who care enough to study and understand beyond the headlines, then put in a few hours of time.
Political effectiveness demands a serious investment in time, money and manpower.
It can't be done on the cheap.
There are 435 congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives, with each one representing approximately 700,000 people. These are not small numbers. Congressional district
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society.
How perfectly appropriate that these choice lines should be posted by to Slashdot by an Anonymous Coward.
The timing couldn't be bettered as well.
We should certainly laud Mattel for deciding that 2014 is the year Barbie strikes out on her own as a career woman after 55 years and 150-plus jobs (including hating math and babysitting, with a welcome stint as a computer engineer in 2010).
But Entrepreneur Barbie reminds us that --- like every other ostensibly inspiring incarnation of the doll --- her main role is to look pretty and wear lots of pink.
In the end, both [Supermodel Barbie and Entrepreneur Barbie] are part of the same old problem. As 16-year-old feminist and former TED speaker Adora Svitak told Forbes' Denise Restauri this week:
''She encourages an unrealistic expectation of beauty grounded in narrow ideals --- whiteness, thinness, a lack of hair and an abundance of breast tissue --- instead of kindness, smarts, self-confidence, or athleticism.''
Mattel's Latest Affront To Little Girls: Entrepreneur Barbie [Feb 2014]
I have nothing against padded bras in general. But my immediate thought in the store was, Why the hell does a teenage girl need one?
The issue of the over-sexualizing of girls from an early age has come to the forefront with a recent news story about model Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau posing suggestively for the cover of Vogue magazine. Over a series of photos, the ten-year-old is shown sprawled on leopard-print cushions, wearing a skimpy gold dress, stiletto heels, and posing heavily made-up, with rouge and lipstick. She's ten years old, yet she looks scarily adult in the photos.
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls. The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
Would You Buy This for Your Daughter? [Aug 2011]
And if that comet then hit earth, do you know what a huge catastrophe that would have caused?
Then we would be saying 'ah but couldn't they just use solar power?'
The mass of the Churyumov---Gerasimenko comet is roughly 1 x 10^13kg. Should it ever fall to earth, I wouldn't expect the dispersal of U-238 from an aging Rosetta-class probe to be my biggest concern.
Once upon a time, when we talked about things like "Web Portals," and people knew who Jerry Yang was, Yahoo! was cool.
The walled gardens of the app world have taken much of the steam out of the browser wars --- and threaten to make the browser itself irrelevant.
Searching Google for "live jazz on the net" will return 40 million hits, "live jazz streams," 9 million hits, "live piano jazz streams", 840,000 hits, which is no more useful. The point being that the open web the geek so admires has become unmanageable.
I don't want to wrestle with a search engine, I simply want to listen to the music.
So, a small wind turbine (or taking turns on a bike), and any hot humid area where clean drinking water can be scarce is a good fit for this.
A few years back, a long and brutal heat wave driving both temperature and humidity close to the century mark lead to the closing of our local recreational and commuter bike paths after the collapse of cyclists who would have been considered young, fit, and adequately prepared.
I think you're equating capitalism with avarice. It is possible to run a business while maintaining a sense of morality.
When you are playing fast and loose with your customers, your suppliers, your employees, your financial backers, the press, the government --- what do you think is happening inside your start-up? Most likely, the rot is spreading everywhere.
Morality is for the working class. If you want to succeed in a capitalist economy, it's better to be amoral.
I'm tempted to take this as an admission that the geek doesn't see himself as part of the working class. It would explain a lot.
Nope. That was just the pretext for the power-grab.
Grow up.
There is a long, sordid, history of abuses associated with taxi and limousine services, tour buses and so on.
John Tory (the next mayor of Toronto) has made statements actually supporting Uber.
But Toronto doesn't have a "strong mayor" like many American cities. What it has is a city manager and a council can go its own way if it chooses.
this reminds me of the states that are passing taxes on electric vehicles because they don't pay gas tax.
But they are using the roads, bridges, and other services the gas tax helps pay for.
Several counties in upstate New York are currently experiencing blizzard conditions, with deep cold, strong winds and up to five feet of snow. The worst possible environment for an electric car.
You know they're desperate when the only argument against new technologies they can come up with is that they're ugly.
A lot of money is being spent here to reclaim waterfront property for green space, nature reserves, parks and recreation. Ugly comes at a price that not everyone is willing to pay anymore, and the geek needs to see that clearly.
It isn't always clear at a distance where a state court stands in the larger scheme of things and how much weight should be given its decisions.
In California, a Superior Court is simply one of 58 consolidated county and municipal trial courts.
Before June 1998, California's trial courts consisted of superior and municipal courts, each with its own jurisdiction and number of judges fixed by the Legislature. In June 1998, California voters approved Proposition 220, a constitutional amendment that permitted the judges in each county to merge their superior and municipal courts into a ''unified,'' or single, superior court. As of February 2001, all of California's 58 counties have voted to unify their trial courts.
Superior Courts
In the Dutch system you also do not have CEOs of medical companies having to pay for trophy mistresses, reducing costs even further.
the trouble with geek humor is that you are never quite sure when he is playing it straight or telling a joke.
The next year, the farmer's yield was only 35 bushels per acre better than his neighbors. Every year it decreased, until his yield per acre was back at the original amount.
I'm not surprised.
Corn demands fertile soil, consistent moisture and warm weather.
Corn is a heavy feeder - particularly of nitrogen - and may require several sidedressings of fertilizer for best yields. Look for signs of nutrient deficiency. Purple-tinged leaves are a sign of phosphorus deficiency. Pale green leaves are a sign of nitrogen deficiency.
Sweet corn
A farmer went on a long journey.
or more likely to the nearest agricultural supply house or freight depot, where American farmers have been taking delivery of seed from commercial growers since before the Civil War.
Ferry-Morse can be traced back to 1856, Burpee to 1876.
The MailOnlne described the test as "Supporting Windows 8.1." Schoolboy becomes world's youngest qualified computer specialist after passing Microsoft Windows exam aged just FIVE
Yes, this is technician level. Doesn't claim to be anything else.
But IF the range and depth of the exam is equivalent to the MS Course of the same name, it is far from the trivial achievement that the geek with five to ten years of practical experience likes to pretend. Course 20688D: Supporting Windows 8.1
There is an entry-level technician grade exam Configuring Windows 8.1
which still implies an understanding of concepts and methods that will be quite alien to most five year olds, and every now and again trips up an adult who should know better,