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Well, it may come as a surprise to some of you, but it is possible to be a nerd and like football, and as such, for some nerds, the Super Bowl is news. Hence, it's news for nerds.
My parents have been indoctrinating me in to Buccaneer fandom since birth (was probably one of the few little girls who were dressed in Buccaneer orange as a baby), so I just have to say that I'm completely thrilled.
I keep getting phony invoices like that from the newspaper in the town where I go to college. They are even worse than the NetSol invoice you mentioned because there isn't even a disclaimer anywhere saying that it's a solicitation. The invoice is the exact same invoice that they would send if you actually do subscribe, and it says that I owe a bunch of money for a newspaper that I don't want, and would never subscribe to. I think that it even says that the money for my subscription is overdue or something like that.
it takes many highly literate propeler heads to support Linux while it only takes a handful of newbies to run and maintain a Windows based setup.
No duh. While I'm here in college working myself to death learning programming and operating systems and all that good stuff, some 14 year old kid who I used to babysit up until I left for college has his Microsoft Certification. This kid was no nerd--when I would babysit him, he spent his time doing aggressive skating and other extreme sports stuff--the only thing I ever saw him do on a computer was play Sim City. Certainly makes me wonder how much you actually have to be able to do to become an MCSE.
Coming from the first generation on either side of my family to grow up in a middle class family with white collar parents, I would definitely have to agree that being a geek in a cubicle is definitely an improvement on being a factory worker.
My dad's father was orphaned back in the 1920s and was raised by his older sister. The reason? Because his father (my great grandfather), was killed in a factory accident--he was crushed to death when large heavy sacks fell over on top of him (my great grandmother who was already sickly died a few years later). My great aunt (my grandfather's older sister), spent her entire career working in the laundry at the Hershey Chocolate Factory (one of the better factories to work at). Both of my mom's parents not only ran a dairy farm, but also worked in various factories in order to support their family. My grandfather died of emphysema, partly from smoking, but also because of the factory work he did. My dad worked in a pretzel factory to support his way through college, and thanks to his pretzel factory work, he has had back trouble ever since.
I look at what my grandparents and great grandparents had to go through working in a factory just to survive and support their families, and what my dad had to go through working in a factory to make it through college, and then I look at the career that I am in college studying for, and lets just say, I would much rather be working in a cube farm staring at a computer screen than working in a factory. Anyone who thinks that a career in IT is as bad as factory work needs a reality check.
Even though it is partly an urban legend, there is still a valuable lesson to be learned from the part that is true. Namely, when you are using inheritance, make sure that the object that you are inheriting from really does what you want.
The flag was not waving. It is common knowledge that, since there is no wind on the moon and the flag would just hang limply, they wired the flag so it would stand out and look like it was waving.
I'm a college senior, and own the Palm m125. I used to use a paper planner, or maybe I should say that I carried a paper planner around in my backpack and never looked at it. My Palm, on the other hand, gets carried around with me wherever I go--in my backpack, purse, etc, and it actually gets used all the time. I find that it is much more convienient to keep track of my schedule on my Palm than on a paper planner, it's easier to carry around than my paper planner, and it had more useful functions than my paper planner did. Plus, I just installed EasyCalc, an open source graphing calculator application, which means that I don't have to carry around my big graphing calculator except for tests.
I do admit, there is a bit of the status symbol element involved--all the other computer science majors have PDAs, I don't want to be the only one without a PDA. However, the usefulness factor far outweighs the status symbol factor.
What is really bad is when you are one of two female computer science majors, and the only female computer science major to live on campus, when on campus is non-coed dorms. Then, you get all the girls on your hall (and friends of the girls on your hall, and girls on your sister's hall, and their friends...) coming to you whenever Windows crashes, wanting to know why their computer got the blue screen of death, and wanting you to fix it so that it won't happen again. As if it is even possible to stop anything by microsoft from crashing.
At least you guys can meet girls when they come and ask you for help, but no guy is going to come up to me for help with their computers.
Oh well, the big upside of not being a history major any more is that when I graduate, I won't be asking people "do you want fries with that?"
The college I attend doesn't even have internet access except in the labs. They are finally putting in a wireless network, but it won't be until next year--after I will have graduated.
...that they can use piracy to their advantage? In the weeks before Eminem's latest album The Eminem Show was released, people got a hold of bootleg copies of the album, and it became fashionable to be seen driving around with The Eminem Show blaring from your car radio. The presence of pirated cds didn't hurt the sales once the album was released, instead, it just increased interest in the album, and it would be interesting to see how many people went out and bought that album in the first week just because of the publicity from the pirated copies that were floating around.
The RIAA needs to figure out that they can capitalize on the piracy, because whether pirating music is ethical or not, it's going to happen. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the pre-release bootleg copies of The Eminem Show were really part of a stealth marketing campaign or something.
>How about being able to enter data (yes, using the insurance apps) at any time that's convenient...walking about surveying damage, or whatnot.
The way he goes about handling a claim, there wouldn't be any added convenience--you aren't going to want to take any kind of computer with you when you climb up on a roof to examine the damage, and you aren't going to want to take a computer with you when you are crawling under sinks and the like. The portability is not going to give any additional benefits, because the situations where portability might be nice, are the same situations where you aren't going to be wanting to take a computer because of other factors. Plus, the pain of entering data with a pen would far outweigh any benefits the portability would give.
My dad is an insurance field adjuster--he handles homeowners water damage claims. Ostensibly, he's the market that the tablet pc is trying to reach, because much of his work is done on the road at people's houses. However, I cannot see any additional benefits that he would get over his laptop. He wouldn't use the handwriting recognition because he doesn't write anything by hand as it is. His laptop does everything he needs, and with the insurance apps he uses, it's not going to be any easier entering the data with a pen than with a keyboard (especially since he almost never writes anything by hand).
The reason that racecar wheels have more friction than steel wheels has nothing to do with the contact area. Steel has a lower coefficient of friction than does rubber, and to compare steel wheels to rubber wheels is like comparing apples to oranges. A better comparision would be between wide steel wheels and narrow steel wheels, or wide rubber wheels and narrow rubber wheels. When you compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, you will find that the coefficient of friction is not dependent on surface area.
So, why do race cars use wide wheels instead of narrow wheels with the same coefficent of friction? Because the wide wheels offer greater stability, and because the wider the wheel, the longer it takes to wear out--you can go farther on each tire change.
They say that the pods (or whatever you call them), will run on thin steel wheels, I suppose because they think that the thinner the wheels, the less friction or something, which shows that they obviously never took general college physics, because if they did, they would know that friction is not dependent on how big the contact area is.
I'm from Florida, where it's already been proven we can't run elections. So, what do the geniuses do? They go to touchscreen voting machines with closed source software--now, we can have rigged elections, and no way to check up on it because of copyright laws. ooh great, I'm proud to be a Floridian.
I have a friend who graduated last year and then went to China to teach English. Then, a couple of months ago, when the people at the school where she's teaching found out she has her degree in economics, they got her to start teaching economics. That's pretty cool, to be teaching free market economics in communist China.
Who knows, maybe if you go teach English somewhere, they will find out you are a geek and have you teach people computer science.
The organization my friend is with is English Language Institute China http://www.elic.org AND, you have the option of getting a master's degree for free!
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Well, it may come as a surprise to some of you, but it is possible to be a nerd and like football, and as such, for some nerds, the Super Bowl is news. Hence, it's news for nerds.
My parents have been indoctrinating me in to Buccaneer fandom since birth (was probably one of the few little girls who were dressed in Buccaneer orange as a baby), so I just have to say that I'm completely thrilled.
Go Bucs!
...and make it so you can't access your computer unless you have 666 on your forehead or hand?
I keep getting phony invoices like that from the newspaper in the town where I go to college. They are even worse than the NetSol invoice you mentioned because there isn't even a disclaimer anywhere saying that it's a solicitation. The invoice is the exact same invoice that they would send if you actually do subscribe, and it says that I owe a bunch of money for a newspaper that I don't want, and would never subscribe to. I think that it even says that the money for my subscription is overdue or something like that.
Hmm, maybe I could sue for deceptive advertising.
it takes many highly literate propeler heads to support Linux while it only takes a handful of newbies to run and maintain a Windows based setup.
No duh. While I'm here in college working myself to death learning programming and operating systems and all that good stuff, some 14 year old kid who I used to babysit up until I left for college has his Microsoft Certification. This kid was no nerd--when I would babysit him, he spent his time doing aggressive skating and other extreme sports stuff--the only thing I ever saw him do on a computer was play Sim City. Certainly makes me wonder how much you actually have to be able to do to become an MCSE.
Coming from the first generation on either side of my family to grow up in a middle class family with white collar parents, I would definitely have to agree that being a geek in a cubicle is definitely an improvement on being a factory worker.
My dad's father was orphaned back in the 1920s and was raised by his older sister. The reason? Because his father (my great grandfather), was killed in a factory accident--he was crushed to death when large heavy sacks fell over on top of him (my great grandmother who was already sickly died a few years later). My great aunt (my grandfather's older sister), spent her entire career working in the laundry at the Hershey Chocolate Factory (one of the better factories to work at). Both of my mom's parents not only ran a dairy farm, but also worked in various factories in order to support their family. My grandfather died of emphysema, partly from smoking, but also because of the factory work he did. My dad worked in a pretzel factory to support his way through college, and thanks to his pretzel factory work, he has had back trouble ever since.
I look at what my grandparents and great grandparents had to go through working in a factory just to survive and support their families, and what my dad had to go through working in a factory to make it through college, and then I look at the career that I am in college studying for, and lets just say, I would much rather be working in a cube farm staring at a computer screen than working in a factory. Anyone who thinks that a career in IT is as bad as factory work needs a reality check.
Even though it is partly an urban legend, there is still a valuable lesson to be learned from the part that is true. Namely, when you are using inheritance, make sure that the object that you are inheriting from really does what you want.
The flag was not waving. It is common knowledge that, since there is no wind on the moon and the flag would just hang limply, they wired the flag so it would stand out and look like it was waving.
I do admit, there is a bit of the status symbol element involved--all the other computer science majors have PDAs, I don't want to be the only one without a PDA. However, the usefulness factor far outweighs the status symbol factor.
What is really bad is when you are one of two female computer science majors, and the only female computer science major to live on campus, when on campus is non-coed dorms. Then, you get all the girls on your hall (and friends of the girls on your hall, and girls on your sister's hall, and their friends...) coming to you whenever Windows crashes, wanting to know why their computer got the blue screen of death, and wanting you to fix it so that it won't happen again. As if it is even possible to stop anything by microsoft from crashing.
At least you guys can meet girls when they come and ask you for help, but no guy is going to come up to me for help with their computers.
Oh well, the big upside of not being a history major any more is that when I graduate, I won't be asking people "do you want fries with that?"
The college I attend doesn't even have internet access except in the labs. They are finally putting in a wireless network, but it won't be until next year--after I will have graduated.
The RIAA needs to figure out that they can capitalize on the piracy, because whether pirating music is ethical or not, it's going to happen. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the pre-release bootleg copies of The Eminem Show were really part of a stealth marketing campaign or something.
>How about being able to enter data (yes, using the insurance apps) at any time that's convenient...walking about surveying damage, or whatnot.
The way he goes about handling a claim, there wouldn't be any added convenience--you aren't going to want to take any kind of computer with you when you climb up on a roof to examine the damage, and you aren't going to want to take a computer with you when you are crawling under sinks and the like. The portability is not going to give any additional benefits, because the situations where portability might be nice, are the same situations where you aren't going to be wanting to take a computer because of other factors. Plus, the pain of entering data with a pen would far outweigh any benefits the portability would give.
My dad is an insurance field adjuster--he handles homeowners water damage claims. Ostensibly, he's the market that the tablet pc is trying to reach, because much of his work is done on the road at people's houses. However, I cannot see any additional benefits that he would get over his laptop. He wouldn't use the handwriting recognition because he doesn't write anything by hand as it is. His laptop does everything he needs, and with the insurance apps he uses, it's not going to be any easier entering the data with a pen than with a keyboard (especially since he almost never writes anything by hand).
So, why do race cars use wide wheels instead of narrow wheels with the same coefficent of friction? Because the wide wheels offer greater stability, and because the wider the wheel, the longer it takes to wear out--you can go farther on each tire change.
They say that the pods (or whatever you call them), will run on thin steel wheels, I suppose because they think that the thinner the wheels, the less friction or something, which shows that they obviously never took general college physics, because if they did, they would know that friction is not dependent on how big the contact area is.
I'm from Florida, where it's already been proven we can't run elections. So, what do the geniuses do? They go to touchscreen voting machines with closed source software--now, we can have rigged elections, and no way to check up on it because of copyright laws. ooh great, I'm proud to be a Floridian.
I have a friend who graduated last year and then went to China to teach English. Then, a couple of months ago, when the people at the school where she's teaching found out she has her degree in economics, they got her to start teaching economics. That's pretty cool, to be teaching free market economics in communist China. Who knows, maybe if you go teach English somewhere, they will find out you are a geek and have you teach people computer science. The organization my friend is with is English Language Institute China http://www.elic.org AND, you have the option of getting a master's degree for free!