Bad time slot, bad advertising and bad beginning. If they had fired the writers after the first five episodes, maybe they would not have to fire everyone now. I am not a regular viewer and cannot speak on their latest material because I never went back to watch after the first few episodes. Considering Enterprise and the new Battlestar Gallactica, I am even more dissapointed in Enterprise. Gallactica is what Enterprise should have been: gritty, dirty and frantic. The acting is way better than I could have hoped and the writing is innovative. Save your Enterprise hour and spend it on Gallactica.
Besides, who's to say that her partner won't stay home and raise the kids?
First, you are assuming she has a partner at all. Single parents are more and more prominent in U.S. society. Of course, I am assuming she is from the U.S. Seconds, in the U.S., it does not make economic sense for her partner to stay home, since he (assuming her partner is a he) will most probably be making more money. It is not sexist, it is the truth of the present day working world. Babies are expensive. Money is a huge driving factor.
And now CBS is paying the price for admitting that they made a mistake.
I know its is semantics, but they are paying the price for making a mistake, not admitting to a mistake. One of the reasons it seemed so egregious was their initial refusal to admit the mistake. They were eventually forced to admit the mistake by the facts of the situation.
1. First off, this isn't a knighthood but no matter, all awards of this manner are worthless.
2.You get a little badge that says you don't have to pay taxes.
You set off my bad logic detector. One deffinately conflicts with two in my view of the world. Do the badges just say you do not have to pay taxes, or do they really mean this? That is a bit more than worthless in my book. Now castigate me for biting at the troll...
Why is the much respected tech writer leaving what he described as 'greatest gig in the world' for the perilous journey of developing an entrepreneurial idea in citizen-journalism?
I have a different answer for everyone to chew on. Mr. Gilmor is great at what he does, as evidenced by his cherry position, his reputation and most importantly his work. Great people get bored. He has risen to what he sees as the pinnacle of his field and he is not satisfied. He wants more. He is willing to try something radically different for the challenge and the experience and the opportunity to perhaps revolutionize the field. He wants excitement.
Besides, if the idea does not work, do you really think he will not be able to get another job as a tech writer somewhere else? Sure, this venture might fail and he may have to go back to a similar job that pays less, but it is the risk that makes it interesting. He is living life, trying new things, actively seeking out innovation and not letting it come to him.
Here is the the ratio of smart students (naturally smart, not grade grubbers, there is a difference) to stupid ones:
1:15
If you only new how good a ratio that was. Considering smart and stupid are not digital states, but actually points in a continuum, depending upon the shape of said continuum, 1:15 is rather good. You are saying 7% of the people in your school are "smart." They do not automatically drop to a box of hammers, either.
The lucky thing these days in high school for the geek (I hate nerd) is video games have brought computers to the forefront. Coding is cool if its going to create something like Madden (for the jocks in your school) or Black & White (for anyone with taste in games.) Tech is shibby. If you are really lucky, they may stop calling you nerd and start calling you tech-head.
Ofcourse, so installing a free operating system, say Linux, on a micro-budget PC was automatically discounted as "unreasonable" during their "carefully considered" design phase. What happens if/when there are 10 millions of these in some rural part of India and/or China, all susceptible to the same Zhombie Boxen WinCE virus and Beowulf Spam Cluster. I will tell you what. Everybody wonders why they get more spam now than ever. //RANT
Only movie play back puts the PSP at an advantage over the DS in my mind, although the GBA movie player will work on the DS. Considering I alread have portable DVD player, I have no disire to buy all my movies again in a different format (Blu-Ray) and we all read the article (ha-ha) about every movie studio besides Sony pictures signing up for HD-DVD, I have no use for a PSP. Spinning optical media in a portable format has not reached a level of maturity high enough for me yet. I will pass.
I think deffinately calculus. In fact, if there is an Applied Mathematics departement at said school, picking up a dual is gravy. A third of the algorithms I deal with are descretized forms of differential equations. About a third are based on the solution of linear systems, often systems of linear Differential Equations. The remaining are based on derived statistical distributions. Respectively, Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra and Mathematical Statistics, are represented. Just knowing how to expand a function into a series can help when optimizing code at the nitty gritty level.
Again, this will only help, not hurt, you if you are looking into computing in the engineering field. You may not engage it right away, but that knowledge will get you out of the code monkey stage and into developing algorithms, if that is what you so desire. It all depends on whether you want to write code for a living or solve problems using software you have written for a living.
No matter what university you graduate from, a dual degree will have interviewers exclaiming, "Check out the big brain on syynnapse!" That being said, I must concur with what I have read before, there is no susbstitute for real world experience. An internship or a side job or work with a professor looks great on the resume. Even latching on to an open source project will reveal real world coding skills and a measure of self motivation and discipline. No one is breathing down your neck to submit that patch. You did it because you motivated yourself.
Huge me too on this. I would like to get some feel for the game. The character creation engines is puportedly the best standalone component of the game. Allowing people to freely create a character would be pure marketting genius.
It was nice that a patch was released before the exploit was widely known, but this is the first I have heard of the exploit. From TFA, the exploit was patched last month by Sun, but now we hear details. Now is when I first found out about this.
I am sure this would have clouded over the launch of Solaris 10, but I would have appreciated knowing about this last month when the exploit was patched.
If the waster is radioactive, it is inherently releasing energy. I have never understood why no one has tried to take advantage of this with some kind of "dirty" reactor. Alteast, I have never heard of this. It would obviously not be as efficient as the fision process, but there must be some way to capture that energy and redirect it somehow. Even if you put it in a big bunker and have a thermocouple set up, atleast that is something. Beats tossing it into space.
What's interesting is why/how did a law firm get this patent? Did it 'invent' 3D on monitor, or did it purchased the patent from a third party?
Just what we need, lawyers with a hobby. I am picturing Matlock in the back room bent over a C64 and a cup of coffee tweaking code at 2:00 AM after studying a stack of leagal briefs.
I am surprised it has taken so long for a law firm to get into this business. Lawyers have a parasitic relationship with society. Symbiotic relationships do not feel like someone is ripping the host's small intestines out their ear.
Thirteen hurricanes by the first week of October, and a very active Typhoon season in the Pacific.
Mt. St. Helens rumbling.
Earthquakes in California.
And now, a build up of CO2 in the atmosphere!
So when are the Tsunamis and land slides do? When will the Mississippi start to flood? The Yellowstone caldera even reaching its theoretical 640 thousand (million ?) year cycling point! Game over, man! GAME OVER!
What is your opinion of Ralf Nader's actions after not gaining the Green Party Nomination for president? Do you think the Reform Party and the Green Party share any ideological common ground? If the first major Reform Party candidate, Ross Perot, is at all representative of the Reform Party platform, I would think there would be a clash of believes between the two parties. Is Nader selling out for another bid at the presidency?
Yeah, the war on two fronts had nothing to do with Germany running out of resources. The USSR was beaten, but not for the Russian winter. If Germany had not had to devote so many resources to the western front, the Nazis would have taken the USSR before the winter hit. The United States is the only reason there was a Western front.
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Bad time slot, bad advertising and bad beginning. If they had fired the writers after the first five episodes, maybe they would not have to fire everyone now. I am not a regular viewer and cannot speak on their latest material because I never went back to watch after the first few episodes. Considering Enterprise and the new Battlestar Gallactica, I am even more dissapointed in Enterprise. Gallactica is what Enterprise should have been: gritty, dirty and frantic. The acting is way better than I could have hoped and the writing is innovative. Save your Enterprise hour and spend it on Gallactica.
I always thought wardriving was lame. Suddenly, not so much...
Besides, who's to say that her partner won't stay home and raise the kids?
First, you are assuming she has a partner at all. Single parents are more and more prominent in U.S. society. Of course, I am assuming she is from the U.S. Seconds, in the U.S., it does not make economic sense for her partner to stay home, since he (assuming her partner is a he) will most probably be making more money. It is not sexist, it is the truth of the present day working world. Babies are expensive. Money is a huge driving factor.
And now CBS is paying the price for admitting that they made a mistake.
I know its is semantics, but they are paying the price for making a mistake, not admitting to a mistake. One of the reasons it seemed so egregious was their initial refusal to admit the mistake. They were eventually forced to admit the mistake by the facts of the situation.
1. First off, this isn't a knighthood but no matter, all awards of this manner are worthless.
2.You get a little badge that says you don't have to pay taxes.
You set off my bad logic detector. One deffinately conflicts with two in my view of the world. Do the badges just say you do not have to pay taxes, or do they really mean this? That is a bit more than worthless in my book. Now castigate me for biting at the troll...
Will they completely failed the American people...
You mean similarly to how your grammar teacher failed you?
Why is the much respected tech writer leaving what he described as 'greatest gig in the world' for the perilous journey of developing an entrepreneurial idea in citizen-journalism?
I have a different answer for everyone to chew on. Mr. Gilmor is great at what he does, as evidenced by his cherry position, his reputation and most importantly his work. Great people get bored. He has risen to what he sees as the pinnacle of his field and he is not satisfied. He wants more. He is willing to try something radically different for the challenge and the experience and the opportunity to perhaps revolutionize the field. He wants excitement.
Besides, if the idea does not work, do you really think he will not be able to get another job as a tech writer somewhere else? Sure, this venture might fail and he may have to go back to a similar job that pays less, but it is the risk that makes it interesting. He is living life, trying new things, actively seeking out innovation and not letting it come to him.
I applaud him for it.
Le Guin is the author of the books.
And she is pissed!
Here is the the ratio of smart students (naturally smart, not grade grubbers, there is a difference) to stupid ones: 1:15
If you only new how good a ratio that was. Considering smart and stupid are not digital states, but actually points in a continuum, depending upon the shape of said continuum, 1:15 is rather good. You are saying 7% of the people in your school are "smart." They do not automatically drop to a box of hammers, either.
The lucky thing these days in high school for the geek (I hate nerd) is video games have brought computers to the forefront. Coding is cool if its going to create something like Madden (for the jocks in your school) or Black & White (for anyone with taste in games.) Tech is shibby. If you are really lucky, they may stop calling you nerd and start calling you tech-head.
Numerical analysis knows no language bounds. Of course, this only helps if you are a mathematical physics coder.
Algorithms know no language bounds. There, that works.
Ofcourse, so installing a free operating system, say Linux, on a micro-budget PC was automatically discounted as "unreasonable" during their "carefully considered" design phase. What happens if/when there are 10 millions of these in some rural part of India and/or China, all susceptible to the same Zhombie Boxen WinCE virus and Beowulf Spam Cluster. I will tell you what. Everybody wonders why they get more spam now than ever.
//RANT
The problem being nothing else I have uses memory stick. I use USB and SD formats. Why? Cheaper...
Only movie play back puts the PSP at an advantage over the DS in my mind, although the GBA movie player will work on the DS. Considering I alread have portable DVD player, I have no disire to buy all my movies again in a different format (Blu-Ray) and we all read the article (ha-ha) about every movie studio besides Sony pictures signing up for HD-DVD, I have no use for a PSP. Spinning optical media in a portable format has not reached a level of maturity high enough for me yet. I will pass.
You must be new here...
Three words:
slashdot load test
Maybe Calculus
I think deffinately calculus. In fact, if there is an Applied Mathematics departement at said school, picking up a dual is gravy. A third of the algorithms I deal with are descretized forms of differential equations. About a third are based on the solution of linear systems, often systems of linear Differential Equations. The remaining are based on derived statistical distributions. Respectively, Differential Equations/Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra and Mathematical Statistics, are represented. Just knowing how to expand a function into a series can help when optimizing code at the nitty gritty level.
Again, this will only help, not hurt, you if you are looking into computing in the engineering field. You may not engage it right away, but that knowledge will get you out of the code monkey stage and into developing algorithms, if that is what you so desire. It all depends on whether you want to write code for a living or solve problems using software you have written for a living.
No matter what university you graduate from, a dual degree will have interviewers exclaiming, "Check out the big brain on syynnapse!" That being said, I must concur with what I have read before, there is no susbstitute for real world experience. An internship or a side job or work with a professor looks great on the resume. Even latching on to an open source project will reveal real world coding skills and a measure of self motivation and discipline. No one is breathing down your neck to submit that patch. You did it because you motivated yourself.
Good luck!
Huge me too on this. I would like to get some feel for the game. The character creation engines is puportedly the best standalone component of the game. Allowing people to freely create a character would be pure marketting genius.
You are aware entering the mile high club involves two people, correct? I mean, you are posting to slashdot, afterall...
It was nice that a patch was released before the exploit was widely known, but this is the first I have heard of the exploit. From TFA, the exploit was patched last month by Sun, but now we hear details. Now is when I first found out about this.
I am sure this would have clouded over the launch of Solaris 10, but I would have appreciated knowing about this last month when the exploit was patched.
If the waster is radioactive, it is inherently releasing energy. I have never understood why no one has tried to take advantage of this with some kind of "dirty" reactor. Alteast, I have never heard of this. It would obviously not be as efficient as the fision process, but there must be some way to capture that energy and redirect it somehow. Even if you put it in a big bunker and have a thermocouple set up, atleast that is something. Beats tossing it into space.
What's interesting is why/how did a law firm get this patent? Did it 'invent' 3D on monitor, or did it purchased the patent from a third party?
Just what we need, lawyers with a hobby. I am picturing Matlock in the back room bent over a C64 and a cup of coffee tweaking code at 2:00 AM after studying a stack of leagal briefs.
I am surprised it has taken so long for a law firm to get into this business. Lawyers have a parasitic relationship with society. Symbiotic relationships do not feel like someone is ripping the host's small intestines out their ear.
Just what we need, another double A organization.
RIAA
MPAA
ITAA (It's new!!! : ^D)
I suggest we all comence drinking heavily and then meet up at AA.
Thirteen hurricanes by the first week of October, and a very active Typhoon season in the Pacific.
Mt. St. Helens rumbling.
Earthquakes in California.
And now, a build up of CO2 in the atmosphere!
So when are the Tsunamis and land slides do? When will the Mississippi start to flood? The Yellowstone caldera even reaching its theoretical 640 thousand (million ?) year cycling point! Game over, man! GAME OVER!
What is your opinion of Ralf Nader's actions after not gaining the Green Party Nomination for president? Do you think the Reform Party and the Green Party share any ideological common ground? If the first major Reform Party candidate, Ross Perot, is at all representative of the Reform Party platform, I would think there would be a clash of believes between the two parties. Is Nader selling out for another bid at the presidency?
Yeah, the war on two fronts had nothing to do with Germany running out of resources. The USSR was beaten, but not for the Russian winter. If Germany had not had to devote so many resources to the western front, the Nazis would have taken the USSR before the winter hit. The United States is the only reason there was a Western front.