For 3 feet I recommend the white "kitchen" bags. For teenagers you may need to upgrade to the black ones. I've got a terrible two year old, I'm sizing him for a large Target shopping bag.
If you're willing to risk a lawsuit, you'd probably win, at least if all you were doing was decrypting something you owned "on the fly" (i.e. not saving).
Depends. I believe people have been arrested for being drunk in a parked car on private property.
True fact. When it happened to me it was on my ex-girlfriend's private property, in her father's car. Also I was naked and singing "my heart will go on".
Yahoo Question: If I have a crumpled up piece of paper in one hand, and a baseball in another, both hands are 1m from the ground and I release both objects at the same time, which one hits the ground first?
Best Yahoo Answer: Can't answer this question without knowing if there is writing on the paper.
Answer: If the crumbled up paper is in the left hand, it hits first.
Yet, combating students cheating only increases their motivation to actually study and learn the material and become leaders of their sleeper cell, if anything this enables terrorism.
Wow, I always knew there was something wrong about college professors.
So how many grad schools are there in Silly Valley? I mean you're really limited a) by the number of universities offering graduate tech degrees, and b) by the number of candidates who elected to pursue GRADUATE work in the first place. That's a very narrow niche, I think perhaps two people in my class pursued advanced degrees other than myself, and that was back before 2001 when you could recoup the investment required to get the advanced degree in a year.
I think it's understood in the US that unless you want in to academia, it doesn't pay to get advanced degrees. The number of openings you aren't overqualified for are smaller, and the rate of technological change obsoletes your specialty fairly quickly. If you got a PhD I'm sure you're smart enough to adapt and evolve your expertise, but you could say the same for someone with a BS as well who is going to do the same thing.
Most of us won't go into apps engineering unless we're laid off and desperate, though we may be looking for other jobs. Apps engineers get sent all over the world and have to deal with customers, and in many (particularly larger corporations) report into the marketing framework of the company or sales framework of the company. This means a high chance of boss-> employee conflict, and quite often it means the apps engineer is rated yearly based on sales, shifting their focus out of engineering and into schmoozing. Worse still, AEs (particularly in large corps) are treated as second class citizens, with a big wall erected around the design team who largely treats them as suited clowns.
That said, I find it hard to believe you didn't get any serious applicants, I'm not sure where in the country but where I'm at it seems like there are a ton of people. Keep in mind if you add words like "digital VR control" or "RF engineering", this will drive away a lot of people because they do not consider themselves expert enough in this niche (although maybe they are plenty knowledgable enough). We're all used to interviewing with large or elite corporations where when you say you are an expert in "FPGAs", they are going to grill you on everything from their internal construction, to any of a whole range of tools, to some specific facet of a very expensive niche platform. Maybe you just needed a guy who could write an adaptor for your chip to a customer chip...and now your entire applicant base feels disqualified (wrongly).
From where I am sitting (with a job, but looking) I think there are a lot more candidates out there than there are jobs. I hear about this shortage of people, but I'm not seeing it. Last big company job fair I went to was more like a job circus. There were so many people in there I was worried they'd start kicking people out to keep under maximum occupancy.
I think it's just an admission by governments that speed limits aren't actually there for safety so much as to raise funds. If the road is safe enough to drive on at 90mph for $25, it's safe enough to drive on at 90mph for free. The government isn't AT&T, it doesn't get to impose bullshit laws unless the public good outweighs individual liberty.
What are you basing this on? Let's say you want to be a mechanical engineer. Let's say I design a part for a satellite that's being launched next year. How do you determine whether or not a design I give you will withstand the forces of a launch? What do I use to damp the high frequency vibrations that the optics package won't tolerate during launch?
I think you missed the point. All those things may be critical in your line of work, and maybe you went to school and your school had a high level of integrity, gave you hard but relevant exams and graded you based on your performance.
Maybe Joe slob went to another school which had a low level of integrity, let students slide through exams and gave them high grades for shitty work.
You and Joe send your resumes to NASA. They see you have a BSME with a 2.5 GPA, and Joe has a BSME with a 3.8GPA. Who do they call to interview? Multiply that by thousands, and they may never even want to LOOK at you.
You may be immensely more qualified, and actually know your shit, but because college degrees and testing aren't apples-to-apples comparisons, your school's integrity makes you look like a failure. And the kicker is the guys they hire probably CAN'T do as well as you could.
If a school, has a hard time getting students into the workforce after they graduate, it creates a problem for them. Their answer will always be to modify the quantifiable metrics they control to assist students in job placement. Ultimately even Harvard will feel those effects.
You NEED to get educated, whether you do it yourself or you attend a university. Whatever works for you, and whatever you can afford. I'm not seriously arguing that you can be ignorant and become a doctor. But the piece of paper that says you actually ARE QUALIFIED is the board certification for your state. There's no reason that shouldn't be true in other professions as well. Universities thus return to what they are exist for: giving students access to information, and they can also modify their curriculum to be more suitable for what students really pay money for.
I've never met anyone who thought a college degree was qualification to do anything. My MS EE represented that I spent a lot of time studying electrical engineering, but I sure as hell wasn't qualified to design or manufacture chips or circuit boards.
The degree isn't worthless, I learned a lot of things that help me pick up real qualifications, and new technologies that help me stay relevant in the changing world...but it didn't qualify me for anything.
And that's really the point, I paid attention, I've used the learning I picked up to my advantage. I don't need a final exam/project/pat on the head to prove that to myself. It has always been to my advantage to learn as much as I can while I can.
The question of setting up a way to measure my fitness to a particular function is one that colleges are admitting they really have no inkling on. If you go to med school or you go to law school, you are taught by practicing professionals in your area of expertise, how to do your job (and in med school you have residency, the ultimate on the job training). They're preparing you to do a real job. Not so much for most other careers, degree and a GPA is it, and what those degrees and GPAs mean has been increasingly arbitrary for quite a while.
The entire point of board certification, bar exams, etc. are to demonstrate that you are qualified to practice a certain profession. Those that have published scores have built in extra credit!
Anything in universities is really inconsistent anyway, so the hell with it. If you want to fuck off for 4+ years, go nuts, good luck on your certifications.
i mean if you can trust the professor without testing the student, why not trust the student directly? why make the student get out of their car?
Given that most students only show up to school to get a degree to fill a job requirement line item, and will neither use the knowledge they allegedly collected nor attempt to apply it, what's wrong with drive through degrees?
Most jobs out there really need vocational training, but in the US that's tantamount to telling your child to go be a ditch digger (even if Med school and Law school are really just post-graduate vocational training). Instead we send them to Universities and tell our friends which University our child attends, where they drink, fuck and dig themselves in to debt for 3-4 years. Then, with their BA or BS, they march forth into the working world, expecting to learn everything important on the job. Why not just simplify this into a "here is your degree, now don't stick gum under the desk" approach. To a large extent corporations not only are OK with this, but encourage more of it with ever increasing degree requirements!
It's true that GPA is often requested by employers, but students have demonstrated a willingness to lie, cheat and steal (for decades) to get the GPA they need, so really this final exam thing is a formality anyway. The professors are there to research, why waste more time on a broken process that accomplishes nothing?
Not really, i use my smart phone when i'm out running errands. I hate going to websites and being blocked with "requires flash" just because they chose to implement their site with crappy flash animation. I think it was well publicized that flash video was going to blow when it came to android, and I guess we're not disappointed. But it may let me order food ahead of time for pickup, check inventory & prices at store X etc. which is most of what I need.
Video is going to be nice, but it's not something I plan on using except when I'm really, really bored. For now I have book readers.
smart enough to use technology, not mature enough to realize that teachers have lives outside of school and probably don't spend time hanging around talking about how to torture students with exams.
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IPv6 is Microsoft's latest internet operating system, which isn't selling well because Google doesn't like it.
Obama is the infamous terrorist hiding in Afghanistan, who may or may not have been born in America, but is our President, unless you're a republican.
In other news, the sun will soon explode. Obama's technical team is doing nothing about this either.
For 3 feet I recommend the white "kitchen" bags. For teenagers you may need to upgrade to the black ones. I've got a terrible two year old, I'm sizing him for a large Target shopping bag.
Horns or GTFO?
According to my mom from the south, yes, Damn is a swear word. According to anyone I grew up with in new york city 30 years ago, no.
According to my mom crap, "that sucks", "That blows" are all swear words too.
Jeez if it consumes more resources than Civ IV I won't play it, and I have a pretty good setup. That was a bear.
If you're willing to risk a lawsuit, you'd probably win, at least if all you were doing was decrypting something you owned "on the fly" (i.e. not saving).
Already done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Story
Achmed can be reached for comment, as it turns out.
Most of us are broke or nearly broke most of our lives and we do not choose to shoot ourselves. Madoff is a crook, but he didn't kill this man.
Depends. I believe people have been arrested for being drunk in a parked car on private property.
True fact. When it happened to me it was on my ex-girlfriend's private property, in her father's car. Also I was naked and singing "my heart will go on".
Yahoo Question: If I have a crumpled up piece of paper in one hand, and a baseball in another, both hands are 1m from the ground and I release both objects at the same time, which one hits the ground first?
Best Yahoo Answer: Can't answer this question without knowing if there is writing on the paper.
Answer: If the crumbled up paper is in the left hand, it hits first.
Answer: The ball, it's heavier, duh.
Answer: Fucking nerd.
Answer: Nerd's don't fuck, idiot.
Answer: Oh yeah? I'm pregnant.
Yet, combating students cheating only increases their motivation to actually study and learn the material and become leaders of their sleeper cell, if anything this enables terrorism.
Wow, I always knew there was something wrong about college professors.
Pretty cool, so to bypass the constitution the government just needs to outsource!
That explains, so much.
So how many grad schools are there in Silly Valley? I mean you're really limited a) by the number of universities offering graduate tech degrees, and b) by the number of candidates who elected to pursue GRADUATE work in the first place. That's a very narrow niche, I think perhaps two people in my class pursued advanced degrees other than myself, and that was back before 2001 when you could recoup the investment required to get the advanced degree in a year.
I think it's understood in the US that unless you want in to academia, it doesn't pay to get advanced degrees. The number of openings you aren't overqualified for are smaller, and the rate of technological change obsoletes your specialty fairly quickly. If you got a PhD I'm sure you're smart enough to adapt and evolve your expertise, but you could say the same for someone with a BS as well who is going to do the same thing.
Most of us won't go into apps engineering unless we're laid off and desperate, though we may be looking for other jobs. Apps engineers get sent all over the world and have to deal with customers, and in many (particularly larger corporations) report into the marketing framework of the company or sales framework of the company. This means a high chance of boss-> employee conflict, and quite often it means the apps engineer is rated yearly based on sales, shifting their focus out of engineering and into schmoozing. Worse still, AEs (particularly in large corps) are treated as second class citizens, with a big wall erected around the design team who largely treats them as suited clowns.
That said, I find it hard to believe you didn't get any serious applicants, I'm not sure where in the country but where I'm at it seems like there are a ton of people. Keep in mind if you add words like "digital VR control" or "RF engineering", this will drive away a lot of people because they do not consider themselves expert enough in this niche (although maybe they are plenty knowledgable enough). We're all used to interviewing with large or elite corporations where when you say you are an expert in "FPGAs", they are going to grill you on everything from their internal construction, to any of a whole range of tools, to some specific facet of a very expensive niche platform. Maybe you just needed a guy who could write an adaptor for your chip to a customer chip...and now your entire applicant base feels disqualified (wrongly).
From where I am sitting (with a job, but looking) I think there are a lot more candidates out there than there are jobs. I hear about this shortage of people, but I'm not seeing it. Last big company job fair I went to was more like a job circus. There were so many people in there I was worried they'd start kicking people out to keep under maximum occupancy.
I think it's just an admission by governments that speed limits aren't actually there for safety so much as to raise funds. If the road is safe enough to drive on at 90mph for $25, it's safe enough to drive on at 90mph for free. The government isn't AT&T, it doesn't get to impose bullshit laws unless the public good outweighs individual liberty.
What are you basing this on? Let's say you want to be a mechanical engineer. Let's say I design a part for a satellite that's being launched next year. How do you determine whether or not a design I give you will withstand the forces of a launch? What do I use to damp the high frequency vibrations that the optics package won't tolerate during launch?
I think you missed the point. All those things may be critical in your line of work, and maybe you went to school and your school had a high level of integrity, gave you hard but relevant exams and graded you based on your performance.
Maybe Joe slob went to another school which had a low level of integrity, let students slide through exams and gave them high grades for shitty work.
You and Joe send your resumes to NASA. They see you have a BSME with a 2.5 GPA, and Joe has a BSME with a 3.8GPA. Who do they call to interview? Multiply that by thousands, and they may never even want to LOOK at you.
You may be immensely more qualified, and actually know your shit, but because college degrees and testing aren't apples-to-apples comparisons, your school's integrity makes you look like a failure. And the kicker is the guys they hire probably CAN'T do as well as you could.
If a school, has a hard time getting students into the workforce after they graduate, it creates a problem for them. Their answer will always be to modify the quantifiable metrics they control to assist students in job placement. Ultimately even Harvard will feel those effects.
You NEED to get educated, whether you do it yourself or you attend a university. Whatever works for you, and whatever you can afford. I'm not seriously arguing that you can be ignorant and become a doctor. But the piece of paper that says you actually ARE QUALIFIED is the board certification for your state. There's no reason that shouldn't be true in other professions as well. Universities thus return to what they are exist for: giving students access to information, and they can also modify their curriculum to be more suitable for what students really pay money for.
I've never met anyone who thought a college degree was qualification to do anything. My MS EE represented that I spent a lot of time studying electrical engineering, but I sure as hell wasn't qualified to design or manufacture chips or circuit boards.
The degree isn't worthless, I learned a lot of things that help me pick up real qualifications, and new technologies that help me stay relevant in the changing world...but it didn't qualify me for anything.
And that's really the point, I paid attention, I've used the learning I picked up to my advantage. I don't need a final exam/project/pat on the head to prove that to myself. It has always been to my advantage to learn as much as I can while I can.
The question of setting up a way to measure my fitness to a particular function is one that colleges are admitting they really have no inkling on. If you go to med school or you go to law school, you are taught by practicing professionals in your area of expertise, how to do your job (and in med school you have residency, the ultimate on the job training). They're preparing you to do a real job. Not so much for most other careers, degree and a GPA is it, and what those degrees and GPAs mean has been increasingly arbitrary for quite a while.
The entire point of board certification, bar exams, etc. are to demonstrate that you are qualified to practice a certain profession. Those that have published scores have built in extra credit!
Anything in universities is really inconsistent anyway, so the hell with it. If you want to fuck off for 4+ years, go nuts, good luck on your certifications.
i mean if you can trust the professor without testing the student, why not trust the student directly? why make the student get out of their car?
Given that most students only show up to school to get a degree to fill a job requirement line item, and will neither use the knowledge they allegedly collected nor attempt to apply it, what's wrong with drive through degrees?
Most jobs out there really need vocational training, but in the US that's tantamount to telling your child to go be a ditch digger (even if Med school and Law school are really just post-graduate vocational training). Instead we send them to Universities and tell our friends which University our child attends, where they drink, fuck and dig themselves in to debt for 3-4 years. Then, with their BA or BS, they march forth into the working world, expecting to learn everything important on the job. Why not just simplify this into a "here is your degree, now don't stick gum under the desk" approach. To a large extent corporations not only are OK with this, but encourage more of it with ever increasing degree requirements!
It's true that GPA is often requested by employers, but students have demonstrated a willingness to lie, cheat and steal (for decades) to get the GPA they need, so really this final exam thing is a formality anyway. The professors are there to research, why waste more time on a broken process that accomplishes nothing?
Not really, i use my smart phone when i'm out running errands. I hate going to websites and being blocked with "requires flash" just because they chose to implement their site with crappy flash animation. I think it was well publicized that flash video was going to blow when it came to android, and I guess we're not disappointed. But it may let me order food ahead of time for pickup, check inventory & prices at store X etc. which is most of what I need.
Video is going to be nice, but it's not something I plan on using except when I'm really, really bored. For now I have book readers.
smart enough to use technology, not mature enough to realize that teachers have lives outside of school and probably don't spend time hanging around talking about how to torture students with exams.
He wouldn't eat the linoleum. Can't say as I blame him on that.
I'm still shocked to learn that the FCC still doesn't classify broadband internet as a telecommunications service. What else could it be?
Adult entertainment.