Buttercup: We'll never succeed. We may as well die here.
Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the General Cube Solution? One, the pieces coming off - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the stickers peeling off, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too.
Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Rubik's Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
-- Immediately, Westley is attacked by a 4x4x4 cube --
Hopefully this balances out all the environmental stuff. The question then is do we call it Global Luke-Warming, or Anthropoheliogenic Climate Constancy?
True, but porn loses some of its appeal without the taboo, so I say kudos to the anti-porn crowd, and thanks for making my solo sexy-times that much more exciting.
We have a very diverse group here at work. Probably about a dozen different nationalities, but the cultural divide is pretty much split along two axes: Ominvore/Vegetarian Drinkers/Non-Drinkers
If you make a 2x2 grid and populate it with people based on their eating and drinking habits, you'd find that members of each group don't interact much with those outside their group. And if they do, it's much more likely to be from a neighboring cell on the grid than from opposite corner
My backstory is almost identical to yours. Got my Masters in Physics in 2004, and was also unsure about completing a PhD. I was able to find work in electrical engineering, but I credit my luck to getting an engineering internship during my undergrad, since this was the company that hired me full time afterward. My company and likely many others would see "physics degree, no experience" and pass as you experienced. But because I had had the internship, they knew me well and knew my abilities, so the exact credentials were less important. There was another physicist in our group who has since retired, but my boss has made the comment many times that after working with both of us, he's likely to prefer going after a physics grad if a resume comes his way. In fact, we did recently hire an engineer whose undergrad was physics (masters in EE though).
We tend to approach problems differently than those with a traditional engineering backgrounds, and have a few other skills in our toolset that aren't a big part of the standard engineering curriculum but fairly common in physics. Particularly in numerical and statistical analysis.
I use Apple TV for newer content and PS3/TiVo for Netflix. I'll also use an antenna for OTA HD viewing. Assuming you get reception, the OTA picture is my higher quality than my cable connection ever was. Live sporting events are crystal clear.
Got rid of cable about 2 years ago. Haven't missed it once.
Is it a reflection of the generally crappy editing in Slashdot headlines or my excessive gullibility that my heart skipped a beat in excitement as I read "Hugs Boson"?
I'm hoping it's the former, because I could really use a Hugs Boson today...
I wrote a single letter cypher when I was about 12 that instead of using a fixed letter swap (like a->x or s->[3,f,o] in your case) it would use a pseudo-random number generator sequence and shift each letter by the next number in the sequence. The decryption key was the seed value to the PRNG. Since it was just a numerical shift, it worked on binary data as well as ascii. It would just shift each 8 bit chunk by the value in the generator. The PRNG I used was a pretty crappy one, but I was pretty pleased with the concept at the time. Still has the major weakness like you mentioned where access to the code or compiled program would pretty much give away the whole thing.
Agreed. The recent seasons have modern writing, effects, and production values, so nothing to distract a new viewer in that sense. And if your wife enjoyed Torchwood, she's quite likely to enjoy these. My wife likes it and she's not a science fiction fan, generally speaking. After getting through the current stuff, she may be hooked enough to overlook the aesthetic distractions of the older shows and enjoy those too.
Or you could just watch those on your own late at night. You'll get to watch some awesome sci-fi, and she won't harass you about it because she'll think you're looking at porn.
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Gatorade. Was it in you?
-After the researchers solve the 3x3x3-
Buttercup: We'll never succeed. We may as well die here.
Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the General Cube Solution? One, the pieces coming off - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the stickers peeling off, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too.
Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?
Westley: Rubik's Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
-- Immediately, Westley is attacked by a 4x4x4 cube --
Hopefully this balances out all the environmental stuff. The question then is do we call it Global Luke-Warming, or Anthropoheliogenic Climate Constancy?
That's why it's the only place I'm willing to store my gold.
True, but porn loses some of its appeal without the taboo, so I say kudos to the anti-porn crowd, and thanks for making my solo sexy-times that much more exciting.
Maybe it stands for Applecation Store.
If that is a listed skill on their resume, I WILL ask them to demonstrate during the interview.
They're too late. I'm pretty sure I saw a couple Mormons on bicycles pedaling towards Gliese 581d in a some of the satellite images.
A more practical solution for existing fixtures would be an attachment that screws into the socket, and then the bulb screws into that.
Of course it doesn't negate the general silliness of the entire thing, but it is a little bit more sane.
We have a very diverse group here at work. Probably about a dozen different nationalities, but the cultural divide is pretty much split along two axes:
Ominvore/Vegetarian
Drinkers/Non-Drinkers
If you make a 2x2 grid and populate it with people based on their eating and drinking habits, you'd find that members of each group don't interact much with those outside their group. And if they do, it's much more likely to be from a neighboring cell on the grid than from opposite corner
Maybe I'm missing something but this looks like a dup in less than 24 hours. That's impressive, even by slashdot standards...
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0041250/Android-Honeycomb-Will-Not-Be-Open-Sourced
Imagine Natalie Portman, as if she were immersed in hot grits...
My backstory is almost identical to yours. Got my Masters in Physics in 2004, and was also unsure about completing a PhD. I was able to find work in electrical engineering, but I credit my luck to getting an engineering internship during my undergrad, since this was the company that hired me full time afterward. My company and likely many others would see "physics degree, no experience" and pass as you experienced. But because I had had the internship, they knew me well and knew my abilities, so the exact credentials were less important. There was another physicist in our group who has since retired, but my boss has made the comment many times that after working with both of us, he's likely to prefer going after a physics grad if a resume comes his way. In fact, we did recently hire an engineer whose undergrad was physics (masters in EE though).
We tend to approach problems differently than those with a traditional engineering backgrounds, and have a few other skills in our toolset that aren't a big part of the standard engineering curriculum but fairly common in physics. Particularly in numerical and statistical analysis.
I use Apple TV for newer content and PS3/TiVo for Netflix. I'll also use an antenna for OTA HD viewing. Assuming you get reception, the OTA picture is my higher quality than my cable connection ever was. Live sporting events are crystal clear.
Got rid of cable about 2 years ago. Haven't missed it once.
Yes. It's called the Munroe Doctrine.
Much like his earlier creation, I have to assume the answer somehow involved large quantities of free porn...
I smell a director's cut. With 50% unseen footage!
Is it a reflection of the generally crappy editing in Slashdot headlines or my excessive gullibility that my heart skipped a beat in excitement as I read "Hugs Boson"?
I'm hoping it's the former, because I could really use a Hugs Boson today...
I wrote a single letter cypher when I was about 12 that instead of using a fixed letter swap (like a->x or s->[3,f,o] in your case) it would use a pseudo-random number generator sequence and shift each letter by the next number in the sequence. The decryption key was the seed value to the PRNG. Since it was just a numerical shift, it worked on binary data as well as ascii. It would just shift each 8 bit chunk by the value in the generator. The PRNG I used was a pretty crappy one, but I was pretty pleased with the concept at the time. Still has the major weakness like you mentioned where access to the code or compiled program would pretty much give away the whole thing.
There are a lot of nested parens in those notes. It's clearly Lisp code. They should bring Alan Turing in for questioning.
Agreed. The recent seasons have modern writing, effects, and production values, so nothing to distract a new viewer in that sense. And if your wife enjoyed Torchwood, she's quite likely to enjoy these. My wife likes it and she's not a science fiction fan, generally speaking. After getting through the current stuff, she may be hooked enough to overlook the aesthetic distractions of the older shows and enjoy those too.
Or you could just watch those on your own late at night. You'll get to watch some awesome sci-fi, and she won't harass you about it because she'll think you're looking at porn.
*gasp* That means we would be at 100 Trillion if it wasn't for those freeloading music pirates!
Corn syrup on the inside, corn husks on the outside.
Might as well skip the middle man and just go pick some corn at the nearest farm.
The Wii has a similar system for their online content. You buy credits with real money, then you use those credits to buy games and extra content.
Opera only for 17+? Great, now that it's taboo a bunch of kids are going to get a fetish for fat ladies singing.