Has anyone ever asked the guy what he wants? Does he want a lot of money? Does he want fame? He's already got notoriety. Accolades? The guy has to want something.
Google appears to be jumping on the rental business model. If you have to store stuff in the cloud, chances are you'll have to store stuff in their cloud (hey hey you you get off of my cloud). Eventually, you won't be able to move your data off of their cloud and once they get a captive audience, they'll start charging for it somehow. Some might say that Google has now become "The Man" so stick it to The Man and buy a real computer.
As an employer, I would care far less about how people do on a test then I do about actual projects they've worked on or finished programs they can demonstrate. IMHO, STEM jobs are far less about theory and more about practical applications.
I call B.S. on playing the sexism card. Trolls are trolls regardless of who the target is. This particular troll is particularly obnoxious. Had Ms. Sierra used a gender-neutral nom de guerre, I dare say that the results would have been similar with the exception of the SSN aspects.
This is what happens when uneducated, uninformed Peter-Principle bureaucrats dictate fuel efficiency standards without checking with real engineers to find out if it's even possible.
I believe that 30 year figure can be significantly shortened if our level of motivation is high enough. Take, for example, the Hoover Dam. It was built in 5 years. Or the first Transcontinental Railroad which was built in 6 years. If these projects were undertaken today, they'd probably take several times longer or quite possibly they'd never get built at all because of the quagmire of bureaucracy. Look at Boston's Big Dig which took 15 years to complete.
The war on terror or southern border control or even California's high-speed rail project could be completed very quickly but people would have to be willing to cut through the bullsh*t to get them done.
Didn't Clarke write in Fountains of Paradise that the sudden appearance of an alien probe ship would basically invalidate most religions on the grounds that they're all Earth-centric?
Hee hee. That reminds me of the urban legend from way back in MIT's history. The city of Cambridge decided to install parking meters. Some students didn't like that so they went out an bought a parking meter at a junkyard and made sure that they got a detailed receipt for it. Then they stated going around campus hacksawing off parking meters. Whenever a cop saw them walking around with a meter and stopped them, they'd just show the receipt for the junkyard one. Pretty soon, there were no more meters around campus.
Yep. Our Sheriff's Office Forest Patrol (who legally outranks the Forest Service BTW) refers to the Forest Service as the boulder fairies because they boulders appear during the night. Oh, and there are gates that are supposed to be 50-inches wide to restrict jeeps and large side-by-side ATVs from going through. That would be fine if they didn't mount the hinges on the inside of that 50 inches so you can't get a full 50 when you open the gate.
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Exactly. Screw that noise. The TV broadcasters need to give up their white space.
The goal is obstacle penetration.
I don't use this service. If they can kill off the spammy phishing e-mails along with the bogus post office and FedEx ones, I'll be happier.
Give me a wifi router that whose signal can penetrate the walls and floors of your average 10-story building.
I'd say the best book has to be the collection of his papers taken by government agents from room #3327 on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker.
Has anyone ever asked the guy what he wants? Does he want a lot of money? Does he want fame? He's already got notoriety. Accolades? The guy has to want something.
Google appears to be jumping on the rental business model. If you have to store stuff in the cloud, chances are you'll have to store stuff in their cloud (hey hey you you get off of my cloud). Eventually, you won't be able to move your data off of their cloud and once they get a captive audience, they'll start charging for it somehow.
Some might say that Google has now become "The Man" so stick it to The Man and buy a real computer.
As an employer, I would care far less about how people do on a test then I do about actual projects they've worked on or finished programs they can demonstrate. IMHO, STEM jobs are far less about theory and more about practical applications.
Wouldn't it suck (literally and figuratively) if we discovered that the waste product of a fusion reaction are gravitons?
I'm forced to wonder if "environmental scientist" is now a euphemism for "60s flower child."
I hope somebody involved with the project has enough brains to make the code power efficient.
I call B.S. on playing the sexism card. Trolls are trolls regardless of who the target is. This particular troll is particularly obnoxious. Had Ms. Sierra used a gender-neutral nom de guerre, I dare say that the results would have been similar with the exception of the SSN aspects.
This is what happens when uneducated, uninformed Peter-Principle bureaucrats dictate fuel efficiency standards without checking with real engineers to find out if it's even possible.
I believe that 30 year figure can be significantly shortened if our level of motivation is high enough. Take, for example, the Hoover Dam. It was built in 5 years. Or the first Transcontinental Railroad which was built in 6 years. If these projects were undertaken today, they'd probably take several times longer or quite possibly they'd never get built at all because of the quagmire of bureaucracy. Look at Boston's Big Dig which took 15 years to complete.
The war on terror or southern border control or even California's high-speed rail project could be completed very quickly but people would have to be willing to cut through the bullsh*t to get them done.
Want smart kids? Marry the geeks and the nerds.
while (1) {
prediction = PredictWeather();
if (prediction == true) {
AskForMoreGrantFunding();
BlaimGlobalWarming();
} else {
BlaimGlobalWarming();
AskForMoreGrantFunding();
}
}
Didn't Clarke write in Fountains of Paradise that the sudden appearance of an alien probe ship would basically invalidate most religions on the grounds that they're all Earth-centric?
True. And downloading viruses and running botnets.
Facebook, Solitaire, Candy Crush, Angry Birds, not Internet Explorer, cracked copies of Office.
Format the drive and reinstall all your software. Probably takes the same amount of time, too.
So when will I get my sunlight-visible iPad and Macbook Pro (17-inch, please)?
Simple fix: add a pot to the dropping resistor part of the circuit.
Hee hee. That reminds me of the urban legend from way back in MIT's history. The city of Cambridge decided to install parking meters. Some students didn't like that so they went out an bought a parking meter at a junkyard and made sure that they got a detailed receipt for it. Then they stated going around campus hacksawing off parking meters. Whenever a cop saw them walking around with a meter and stopped them, they'd just show the receipt for the junkyard one. Pretty soon, there were no more meters around campus.
Yep. Our Sheriff's Office Forest Patrol (who legally outranks the Forest Service BTW) refers to the Forest Service as the boulder fairies because they boulders appear during the night. Oh, and there are gates that are supposed to be 50-inches wide to restrict jeeps and large side-by-side ATVs from going through. That would be fine if they didn't mount the hinges on the inside of that 50 inches so you can't get a full 50 when you open the gate.
But then the Forest Service morons are also phony...I mean artificial...and hence their opinions are suspect.