Take a look at this article for way too much information about orbital solar power.
Basically microwaves can be transmitted through the atmosphere without too much trouble, while building stuff in orbit is incredibly expensive. It might be possible to create an orbital relay station to deal with issues like focus, assuming that's a problem.
I wouldn't say it's pure FUD. The "small subset" of experiments you're referring to are the ones relating to human trials. So yes, you could do experiments to look into cell development and such, but the FDA wouldn't approve any procedure that used these cell lines.
I used to be a science teacher long ago, so let's see if I can grab some statistics for you.
As I recall, girls perform about the same as boys through adolescence, though their percepetion is that they don't do as well. In later years, the girls who think of math as "a boy thing" tend to do even more poorly.
Still, remember that these differences are small and are much smaller than other differences (by race, private/public school, geography). If there are biology based differences between the genders, they're likely to be small and a poor predictor of how any particular woman will do in math or science.
There's a fairly statistic-free article here (pdf) you can look at.
Maybe it was all those Barbies claiming that math is hard.
Pop-ups are quickly fading, replaced by ads that try to catch our attention. As I type this, I see strange happy faces and rays eminating from a person on the phone at the top of Slashdot.
Soon you'll see product placement in the articles themselves. I saw I, Robot over the weekend and was disgusted by the blatant product placement and direct references by the actors.
Pretty soon Slashdot might start talking about Linux in their news items or something.
It takes a huge amount of energy to get stuff up into space. Why waste it by putting it back on the ground when all that mass makes excellent construction material.
The scary part is that it would double as a "clean" weapon of mass destruction. Just drop it on an annoying enemy and make a big crater.
Doing your own case mods is something that requires time, patience, and some money, but there's nothing that you buy that compares the final product.
My favorite is my Fossil computer, which is a Victorian beauty of brass and wood. I've also done the "all black" computer before black became the new beige. I also dallied with a Lego computer, though the innards finally died.
Civilization is notoriously fragile in some respects, though incredibly tough in others. Any event that kills of 75% of people would likely destroy our advanced civilization, but it would probably come back in a few generations. Science in particular would have endless documentation scattered about the world. Heck, just read Mote in God's Eye for a description of cyclical civilizations.
The other thing to consider is that the Earth would have to be made completely uninhabitable to make other locations in the solar system look good. Even Antartica is preferable to the moon or Mars.
I spent many hours writing programs to demonstrate aspects of science. In particular, the students loved a dog breeding program which demonstrated Mendelian genetics. Of course, I quickly realized that I preferred programming to teaching teenagers, so here I am.
Even if you're not a developer, there's tons of free educational content out there. Gathering the good stuff together and showing teachers how to integrate it with their coursework is a noble goal.
Getting the teachers involved and enthused about it is key.
I work for a mission-based healthcare organization, so perhaps I'm not as cynical as some. The folks in HR in my organization work on things like getting employee benefits (we have some great ones), employee discounts at local businesses, and advocating for employees when they have complaints against their manager.
I built a job application for our Intranet and one of the things people quickly noticed was a difference between how much people were paid in one region compared to another. Some folks in management got pretty excited when the issue was raised, but I think that employees and HR worked things out to equalize salaries for similar positions. It's nice to be able to point to that "mission thing" as opposed to always focusing on the bottom line.
I work for a fairly large organization of 10,000+ people. I think the assumption at this point is that any internal e-mail by upper management will make its way to the local paper if the topic is interesting enough. So I wouldn't consider it a leak.
Also keep in mind that the goals of the HR department and other management may be different. Often HR is looking out for employes, while other management may have other goals.
I have virtually no formal CS training, other than a fortran class in college. I'm pretty much self-taught, working with computers since I was 8 in some capacity or another. My formal background is in Biology Education, though I quickly discovered that teaching high school biology wasn't for me.
What led me to my current position was a lot of persistance and being able to demonstrate that I was a smart, capable person. I started as an entry level programmer (mostly hired to teach the occasional Access class), caught the whole "web application" wave, and ended up in a well-paying position some eight years later.
The trick in many cases is just getting in the door. For that, being able to say you're certified with a particular skill or have a degree is good enough. Once you're hired, the key is to show that you really know your stuff and can make your customers happy.
I played for 15 minutes this morning and found it to be okay. I managed to get a game without too much lag, though admittedly few people were playing with the gravity gun. Virtually everyone was simply running around with SMGs and the constant rat-tat-tat was everywhere.
I miss the limpet mines from HL1. There was something magical about planting them in out of the way places, waiting for that special little boom.
As sebastard on Evil Avatar pointed out, cybercafes are a multi-billion dollar business overseas. Vivendi took a different approach to selling things like Counterstrike to these cybercafe owners (Valve uses Steam and a play-for-play approach).
I suspect that Vivendi will be paying Valve a fair bit of money in the near future.
The real benefit, from my perspective is that it's a low-cost way to upgrade your video card in between new computers. I bought my first Voodoo 2 for $300. My second cost $30.
Sigh. Firefly was a great series, though it took awhile to grow on people. I've been making my coworkers watch the series on DVD. After watching the first one their response is "So it's like a western in space?" A week later they hand back the DVDs with a glum face, asking "Why did they cancel it? That was a great show."
I've worked for a healthcare organization for the last eight years and salaries and hiring do seem to be going up. There's a huge demand for electronic systems in healthcare, so that's at least one IT market that's doing well.
The tricky part is hiring well qualified individuals, which seem harder to pick up these days. I'd recommend the field for anyone looking for a job. Healthcare organizations are pretty stable during economic downturns (people still get sick) and you get to feel like you're making a real difference in people's lives.
Lately I've been hearing that the plan was never to stand and fight against the U.S., but rather switch to a guerilla war from the beginning. The U.S. is extremely capable of winning any stand-up fight but urban warfare against an indigent population is extremely grueling.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps we could work on the centralization of articles on Slashdot as well.
Take a look at this article for way too much information about orbital solar power.
Basically microwaves can be transmitted through the atmosphere without too much trouble, while building stuff in orbit is incredibly expensive. It might be possible to create an orbital relay station to deal with issues like focus, assuming that's a problem.
I wouldn't say it's pure FUD. The "small subset" of experiments you're referring to are the ones relating to human trials. So yes, you could do experiments to look into cell development and such, but the FDA wouldn't approve any procedure that used these cell lines.
I used to be a science teacher long ago, so let's see if I can grab some statistics for you.
As I recall, girls perform about the same as boys through adolescence, though their percepetion is that they don't do as well. In later years, the girls who think of math as "a boy thing" tend to do even more poorly.
Still, remember that these differences are small and are much smaller than other differences (by race, private/public school, geography). If there are biology based differences between the genders, they're likely to be small and a poor predictor of how any particular woman will do in math or science.
There's a fairly statistic-free article here (pdf) you can look at.
Maybe it was all those Barbies claiming that math is hard.
I too fear that we'll have to rely more and more on the final piece of blocking software - the one between our ears.
Pop-ups are quickly fading, replaced by ads that try to catch our attention. As I type this, I see strange happy faces and rays eminating from a person on the phone at the top of Slashdot.
Soon you'll see product placement in the articles themselves. I saw I, Robot over the weekend and was disgusted by the blatant product placement and direct references by the actors.
Pretty soon Slashdot might start talking about Linux in their news items or something.
Why hack through the ice each morning? Just invite the bikini-clad models into your house.
It takes a huge amount of energy to get stuff up into space. Why waste it by putting it back on the ground when all that mass makes excellent construction material.
The scary part is that it would double as a "clean" weapon of mass destruction. Just drop it on an annoying enemy and make a big crater.
Some place I can play my air guitar without feeling silly.
Doing your own case mods is something that requires time, patience, and some money, but there's nothing that you buy that compares the final product.
My favorite is my Fossil computer, which is a Victorian beauty of brass and wood. I've also done the "all black" computer before black became the new beige. I also dallied with a Lego computer, though the innards finally died.
Civilization is notoriously fragile in some respects, though incredibly tough in others. Any event that kills of 75% of people would likely destroy our advanced civilization, but it would probably come back in a few generations. Science in particular would have endless documentation scattered about the world. Heck, just read Mote in God's Eye for a description of cyclical civilizations.
The other thing to consider is that the Earth would have to be made completely uninhabitable to make other locations in the solar system look good. Even Antartica is preferable to the moon or Mars.
I spent many hours writing programs to demonstrate aspects of science. In particular, the students loved a dog breeding program which demonstrated Mendelian genetics. Of course, I quickly realized that I preferred programming to teaching teenagers, so here I am.
Even if you're not a developer, there's tons of free educational content out there. Gathering the good stuff together and showing teachers how to integrate it with their coursework is a noble goal.
Getting the teachers involved and enthused about it is key.
The one thing I'd like to see is a spelchkr and grammer checkar build right into the browser.
Wooden that be kool?
Remember that it's not you that gets hired, but your good looks and fancy clothes. Sadly you may have to join the military.
I work for a mission-based healthcare organization, so perhaps I'm not as cynical as some. The folks in HR in my organization work on things like getting employee benefits (we have some great ones), employee discounts at local businesses, and advocating for employees when they have complaints against their manager.
I built a job application for our Intranet and one of the things people quickly noticed was a difference between how much people were paid in one region compared to another. Some folks in management got pretty excited when the issue was raised, but I think that employees and HR worked things out to equalize salaries for similar positions. It's nice to be able to point to that "mission thing" as opposed to always focusing on the bottom line.
I work for a fairly large organization of 10,000+ people. I think the assumption at this point is that any internal e-mail by upper management will make its way to the local paper if the topic is interesting enough. So I wouldn't consider it a leak.
Also keep in mind that the goals of the HR department and other management may be different. Often HR is looking out for employes, while other management may have other goals.
I have virtually no formal CS training, other than a fortran class in college. I'm pretty much self-taught, working with computers since I was 8 in some capacity or another. My formal background is in Biology Education, though I quickly discovered that teaching high school biology wasn't for me.
What led me to my current position was a lot of persistance and being able to demonstrate that I was a smart, capable person. I started as an entry level programmer (mostly hired to teach the occasional Access class), caught the whole "web application" wave, and ended up in a well-paying position some eight years later.
The trick in many cases is just getting in the door. For that, being able to say you're certified with a particular skill or have a degree is good enough. Once you're hired, the key is to show that you really know your stuff and can make your customers happy.
I played for 15 minutes this morning and found it to be okay. I managed to get a game without too much lag, though admittedly few people were playing with the gravity gun. Virtually everyone was simply running around with SMGs and the constant rat-tat-tat was everywhere.
I miss the limpet mines from HL1. There was something magical about planting them in out of the way places, waiting for that special little boom.
As sebastard on Evil Avatar pointed out, cybercafes are a multi-billion dollar business overseas. Vivendi took a different approach to selling things like Counterstrike to these cybercafe owners (Valve uses Steam and a play-for-play approach).
I suspect that Vivendi will be paying Valve a fair bit of money in the near future.
The real benefit, from my perspective is that it's a low-cost way to upgrade your video card in between new computers. I bought my first Voodoo 2 for $300. My second cost $30.
Take my release date too.
Sigh. Firefly was a great series, though it took awhile to grow on people. I've been making my coworkers watch the series on DVD. After watching the first one their response is "So it's like a western in space?" A week later they hand back the DVDs with a glum face, asking "Why did they cancel it? That was a great show."
For the probable sticky seats that will occur.
Perhaps a self-cleaning cycle after every use?
I can already see teenagers "renting" a pod, covering the windows and circling the city over and over and over . . .
I've worked for a healthcare organization for the last eight years and salaries and hiring do seem to be going up. There's a huge demand for electronic systems in healthcare, so that's at least one IT market that's doing well.
The tricky part is hiring well qualified individuals, which seem harder to pick up these days. I'd recommend the field for anyone looking for a job. Healthcare organizations are pretty stable during economic downturns (people still get sick) and you get to feel like you're making a real difference in people's lives.
Lately I've been hearing that the plan was never to stand and fight against the U.S., but rather switch to a guerilla war from the beginning. The U.S. is extremely capable of winning any stand-up fight but urban warfare against an indigent population is extremely grueling.