actually, if youre willing to travel to Tennessee the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a nice summer internship program for nuclear engineers and other scientists. The web site is at www.orau.gov/orise/educ.htm.
I think that you need to be a US citizen to get it though, but if you're not and still studying Nuclear Engineering, you must be a terrorist.
You can be a team player. Sure its not so much as developing software, but using already integrated e-commerce software products (knowing which button is used to super-size a meal for instance). Corporate employers always look to see technical ability, ability to follow instructions, as well as being part of a successful team environment.
In other words, C.S. students are a dime a dozen, just like mcdonald's employees. What makes you stand out?
You know some math above first year calculus? You know some science above first year biology? Do you know anything besides programming? If you don't, then don't expect to get a job that any other second year CS student can get. Cause you won't get it unless you know someone (which is still the best bet for finding internships).
Actually, they specifically target the slashdot crowd so that they require registration to view the story from the link that the editors provide.
Its not that people hate registering, its because they don't have to. Its that the editors here at/. have to be somehow compensated by NYT because they could just use the google link or any other link that doens't require user registration but instead use thier own provided by NYT to increase thier user-base (and email addresses to spam).
you can also press Alt-LeftArrow to go back and Alt-RightArrow to go forward... but they are talking pure mouse clicks to surf around.
Like the user said above, for the mozilla upgrade you hold the left click button then right click to go forward and vice versa to go back. So you can websurf without ever touching the keyboard.
As for myself, I just want upgraded TAB functionality so I can tab through page objects easier. A way of switching/tabbing between frames, and of tabbing down whole CSS sections or something. Something like that might already exist, but I don't know about that.
you're right in a sense... the players expect too much to have control over the situation. They want to know the landscape and what happens in it. Also they want to plan thier play time. They want to fight when they want to fight, they want to chat when they want to chat, and they want to sort through loot when they want to sort.
The problem with dynamic content isn't that the players want to be the 'hero' of the content (if the whole world was dynamic, everyone would be doing something dynamic and fun and interwoven) but the fact that players want to control thier play time. If they want to set up a guild function, but instead one of thier leaders is killed over and over at his binding place by a force of orcs and can't make it to the function, he will get mad and stop playing. You can get 'griefed' becuase you aren't allowed to control your own playtime and items.
I can think of a game where there is a zone where there are random path walking hard monsters. Noone goes to that zone to camp because they might get killed by a random event and monster that seeks them out, rather than them only wanting to seek monsters out when they are ready (and not afk!). The zone is empty and unused. But that gets into another topic, risk versus reward...
If xbox's start to get implemented in 'Arcades' with multiplayer game titles where the whole arcade is playing against one another, I don't see how that is any different than the cybercafe's where people are playing FPS and ORPGs at now.
Except of course, the lattes. Well, and the cybercafes have PCs optimized for games instead of consoles.
If MS/Sony/whoever can get business to start charging $$/hour to play thier consoles, then more shops or arcades or whatever you want to call them will start poping up as teenage gamer havens. I'm skeptical though, no reason to leave the house if the arcade doesn't have something that you don't at home.
It seems to me that Anonymous cowards post the most profound ideas to be found here. IM(not so)HO, if you aren't reading/. at 0+ then you aren't reading/.!:)
This practice is nothing different than razor and razor blades. If you get a free/real cheap item (printer or razor) that comes with a limited supply of a neccesary component that wears out (ink or razor blades), the company will give the item away and charge high prices for the components.
This is no different that Gillete or Mach from patenting thier razor products, because they don't want 3rd party vendors selling thier razors at half thier price.
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It has been a recurring theme that the "science fiction" genre has always been about speculating future technology and then writing about its plausible effects on mankind (and the lead character).
My question is this: Now that the scientific society today has pretty much figured that the majority of scientific problems have been solved (its only working out the details), how is the science fiction genre going to change? I mean, are all the topics/plotlines already written about and will all the new works just be re-hashes of older ideas?
In the years that I was working as a researcher at a company doing primarily mathematical based physical systems modelling, we used two languages:
1. IDL from Research Systems, Inc.
2. Fortran
IDL is alot like Matlab in that it is a scripting language with a vast library of common mathematical functions.
Fortran is fortran. There are *alot* of legacy sytems that depend on libraries written in fortran, and oftentimes most research development would rather call these libraries directly from fortran and not have to worry about the extendability of the code, thus they keep developing in Fortran. [Well, and its 'faster'.]
But I digress, the only mathematical code "librarys" that I used were from Numerical Recipes. Which is common practice among scientists that want a black-box type library for C and Fortran applications.
Its not that people haven't been trying to emulate the behavior of insect swarms such as ants, beetles or bees for thousands of years its just that, like most current problems in science, the technology is just now matching up to the complexity of the problem.
The mathematical techniques are just being formed to handle these types of problems, based mainly on the numerical research that has been done in recent years.
So, I would say its more interesting that modern science is now capable to actually be wise from considering the ants ways, rather than someone conjecturing about being wise by thinking about the ants ways.
P.S. Proverbs havent been around for 'thousands of years', more like 16 to 17 hundred.
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actually, if youre willing to travel to Tennessee the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a nice summer internship program for nuclear engineers and other scientists. The web site is at www.orau.gov/orise/educ.htm.
I think that you need to be a US citizen to get it though, but if you're not and still studying Nuclear Engineering, you must be a terrorist.
You can be a team player. Sure its not so much as developing software, but using already integrated e-commerce software products (knowing which button is used to super-size a meal for instance). Corporate employers always look to see technical ability, ability to follow instructions, as well as being part of a successful team environment.
In other words, C.S. students are a dime a dozen, just like mcdonald's employees. What makes you stand out?
You know some math above first year calculus? You know some science above first year biology? Do you know anything besides programming? If you don't, then don't expect to get a job that any other second year CS student can get. Cause you won't get it unless you know someone (which is still the best bet for finding internships).
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=php+FUNC&btnG=Google+Search
Wouldn't they just call themselves 'IX'? :D
Actually, they specifically target the slashdot crowd so that they require registration to view the story from the link that the editors provide.
/. have to be somehow compensated by NYT because they could just use the google link or any other link that doens't require user registration but instead use thier own provided by NYT to increase thier user-base (and email addresses to spam).
Its not that people hate registering, its because they don't have to. Its that the editors here at
you can also press Alt-LeftArrow to go back and Alt-RightArrow to go forward... but they are talking pure mouse clicks to surf around.
Like the user said above, for the mozilla upgrade you hold the left click button then right click to go forward and vice versa to go back. So you can websurf without ever touching the keyboard.
As for myself, I just want upgraded TAB functionality so I can tab through page objects easier. A way of switching/tabbing between frames, and of tabbing down whole CSS sections or something. Something like that might already exist, but I don't know about that.
Instead of Mouse only, I want keyboard only!!
you're right in a sense... the players expect too much to have control over the situation. They want to know the landscape and what happens in it. Also they want to plan thier play time. They want to fight when they want to fight, they want to chat when they want to chat, and they want to sort through loot when they want to sort. The problem with dynamic content isn't that the players want to be the 'hero' of the content (if the whole world was dynamic, everyone would be doing something dynamic and fun and interwoven) but the fact that players want to control thier play time. If they want to set up a guild function, but instead one of thier leaders is killed over and over at his binding place by a force of orcs and can't make it to the function, he will get mad and stop playing. You can get 'griefed' becuase you aren't allowed to control your own playtime and items. I can think of a game where there is a zone where there are random path walking hard monsters. Noone goes to that zone to camp because they might get killed by a random event and monster that seeks them out, rather than them only wanting to seek monsters out when they are ready (and not afk!). The zone is empty and unused. But that gets into another topic, risk versus reward...
"We know your develoers and they are not competant enough to do that. So obviously you ripped it off of us."
gaming = entertainment.
science = advance the human race.
What else in life is there? All business revolves around science or entertainment.
they sure as hell "run experiments" every day-all day. All the file processing is done offline, i.e. separate from the data collection machines.
Yeah, come to think if they were paying upwards of $40/month in stead of $20/month maybe the schools could have hired some decent network admins.
Now all thier social security numbers are in the
wrong hands.
If xbox's start to get implemented in 'Arcades' with multiplayer game titles where the whole arcade is playing against one another, I don't see how that is any different than the cybercafe's where people are playing FPS and ORPGs at now.
Except of course, the lattes. Well, and the cybercafes have PCs optimized for games instead of consoles.
If MS/Sony/whoever can get business to start charging $$/hour to play thier consoles, then more shops or arcades or whatever you want to call them will start poping up as teenage gamer havens. I'm skeptical though, no reason to leave the house if the arcade doesn't have something that you don't at home.
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Some would say that going to porn sites is a form of exercise.
i think he wanted you to look it up.
It seems to me that Anonymous cowards post the most profound ideas to be found here. IM(not so)HO, if you aren't reading /. at 0+ then you aren't reading /.! :)
The comments that the poster is talking about can be found here.
Oscar Wilde once wrote to a friend, "I am sorry to write you such a long letter. I don't have time to write a short one."
This practice is nothing different than razor and razor blades. If you get a free/real cheap item (printer or razor) that comes with a limited supply of a neccesary component that wears out (ink or razor blades), the company will give the item away and charge high prices for the components.
This is no different that Gillete or Mach from patenting thier razor products, because they don't want 3rd party vendors selling thier razors at half thier price.
It doesn't turn out good for the consumer.
neither does "fc lastone thisone" :-)
It has been a recurring theme that the "science fiction" genre has always been about speculating future technology and then writing about its plausible effects on mankind (and the lead character).
My question is this: Now that the scientific society today has pretty much figured that the majority of scientific problems have been solved (its only working out the details), how is the science fiction genre going to change? I mean, are all the topics/plotlines already written about and will all the new works just be re-hashes of older ideas?
L7
In the years that I was working as a researcher at a company doing primarily mathematical based physical systems modelling, we used two languages:
1. IDL from Research Systems, Inc.
2. Fortran
IDL is alot like Matlab in that it is a scripting language with a vast library of common mathematical functions.
Fortran is fortran. There are *alot* of legacy sytems that depend on libraries written in fortran, and oftentimes most research development would rather call these libraries directly from fortran and not have to worry about the extendability of the code, thus they keep developing in Fortran. [Well, and its 'faster'.]
But I digress, the only mathematical code "librarys" that I used were from Numerical Recipes. Which is common practice among scientists that want a black-box type library for C and Fortran applications.
Its not that people haven't been trying to emulate the behavior of insect swarms such as ants, beetles or bees for thousands of years its just that, like most current problems in science, the technology is just now matching up to the complexity of the problem.
The mathematical techniques are just being formed to handle these types of problems, based mainly on the numerical research that has been done in recent years.
So, I would say its more interesting that modern science is now capable to actually be wise from considering the ants ways, rather than someone conjecturing about being wise by thinking about the ants ways.
P.S. Proverbs havent been around for 'thousands of years', more like 16 to 17 hundred.
Actually, if you read the article, the lab is operated by the University of California, which isn't really "the gov'ment".
Sneaking onto the grounds on LANL is like saying its a feat to sneak across the US-Mexico border.