And the same applies to Native Americans and many others in the US. Soon the Bhutanese will decide what is worth preserving and they will hold on to it despite having ready access to things like WWF.
APart from the health issues of marketing caffeinated sugar water, there's the Coke company's responsibility for the decline of Indonesia's tea-related traditions, for example.
MITSFS has a very limited amount of space. If you want their collection to grow, so would they. Enough students asking and they might get better office space.
The sleazy panic-mongers of Symantec have just
scored a major victory. Without Security Focus,
FUD-fighters will have that much harder a time
advocating sane policies. Oy.
But it runs Windows, and is constantly BSODing my headset, so my game really hasn't improved much. Really. You can play against me if you want, but I won't be much of a challenge.
There's lots of speculation of how studios are longing for high quality CG in order to have a better bargaining position with actors, but child actors who don't prance like prima donnas are still a major headache. They have growth spurts in the middle of a shooting period, or break their voices, et cetera. The first massive use of CG actors IMO is likely to be done for child characters.
I have to agree, somewhat. My last SA gig was satisfying because it was an a medical research lab, and every emergency was important in the grand scheme of things, not because of the plight of the pornless. But there was a pay hit I had to accept as the price of avoiding normal SA frustrations, and without college I would never have landed that gig.
I'm one of Uncle Sam's dev monkeys nowadays, and SAing for him can be fun. "Good work, if you can find it." An 18 year old out of high school, likely can't.
You think you want to be a sysadmin.
That's because you're young and stupid.
(Sorry, dude, but every high school senior
is young and stupid.) You don't yet know
how demoralizing it is to work as a sysadmin.
The pay gets a lot less attractive as soon
as you have a family. You get very little
respect, very little appreciation, in order
to do a good job as a sysadmin you have to
give solemn orders to people above you in
the org chart of your work place, which
makes you a prime target at every round
of layoffs. The hardware and software both such
and drive you to exasperation.
The hours suck rocks through a garden hose.
Trust me on this, there is nothing more
demoralizing than rushing to work
to fix an outage at 3 AM because your ISPs
clients are getting mad at having to
wait for their pron. The hours suck more
when you're on call and you realize your
wife is better looking and your kids
far cuter than any of your cow orkers
or clients, and that your wage rate
cannot justify a single additional hour
away from them.
So, forget about sysadminning, at least
for now. Go to college. Shop around for
areas of inquiry that might interest you,
or might not interest you yet.
Join the army. I'm not kidding. The army
beats sysadminning hands down. Or try
jobs that involve your hands or the open air.
But for mercy's sake, don't sysadmin just yet.
Actually, no. The first "disrespecting" was done by the Palestinians, who in the 1870's through 1920's had a habit of going to the Al Aqsa mosque yard, looking at the Jews who were down below at the Western Wall, and pelting them with garbage. However, that is largely irrelevant. The Mideast mess wasn't caused by "disrespect." It was caused by the massacres incited by Haj Amin Al Husseini in 1929.
Not necessarily good. Take a stroll through a New England cemetary some time. The Pilgrims marked their gravestones with an image of a skull with wings. The Pilgrims were a bunch of wierdoes, and evidently that may be why they did not find this symbol frightening, but who knows what 10,000 years from now people will think?
is that when he swings, the web he hangs by is so long that the pendulum frequency is ludicrously low. That is why the old live action Spider Man show only rarely showed him trying to propell himself that way: it was slower than molasses in January.
While sci-fi novels regularly sell in large numbers, they sell to a voracious subculture (of which I am indeed a member) whose tastes and preferences to not reflect those of the world at large.
Hate to break it to you, but judge's orders are things with which you must comply not just to the letter, but to the spirit. Otherwise, it would indeed be beautiful to do that.
The press is largely to blame for the
misunderstanding most people have about the
scientific method and how scientific institutions work, which this white paper confirms yet again. Science's daily routine is something like
this: dog bites man, dog bites man,
dog bites man hard, dog bites man in painful place, dog growls while biting man, dog bites man
over disputed frisbee, man bites dog, dog bites
man's shoes, dog bites woman.. The press homes
in on man bites dog because that's how the
press works, because men biting dogs can solve
our energy woes, cure cancer, and reverse aging,
and because the man who bit the dog is
photogenic.
A week later, science finds out
that man doesn't really bite dog,
and the press reports on that dutifully,
giving the public a distorted impression of science. And that's a major reason for the other
findings, like people's belief in astrology
(Pons & Fleischmann, Virgo bites dog,
1995).
And cut off as many cable signals as you can. With the sci-fi channel and its charlattan John Edward, and with TLC&Discovery doing their share reporting credulously on fringe science, cable is a part of the problem. (Talk show hosts and their habit of coddling "psychics" don't exactly help either, but if you're going to jam TV radio signals, you'll have a hard time looking sweet and innocent with the FCC.)
Religion cannot be tested by science. After that
little dustup with Copernicus, most religions are
carefully designed to be untestable. ESP, psychic
powers, and the such (i.e. superstition),
CAN be tested by science,
and routinely are tested and disproven by scienc.
That people believe in them is a matter of
grave concern.
Slashdot Mirror
And the same applies to Native Americans
and many others in the US. Soon the Bhutanese
will decide what is worth preserving and
they will hold on to it despite having
ready access to things like WWF.
APart from the health issues of marketing
caffeinated sugar water, there's the Coke
company's responsibility for the decline of
Indonesia's tea-related traditions, for example.
MITSFS has a very limited amount of space.
If you want their collection to grow, so
would they. Enough students asking and they
might get better office space.
The sleazy panic-mongers of Symantec have just scored a major victory. Without Security Focus, FUD-fighters will have that much harder a time advocating sane policies. Oy.
The point is that they *won't* cross that line.
"Well, lad, I don't know where you've been,
but the aliens gave you first prize."
It gives Clooney another chance to belt out A Man of Constant Sorrow.
It's clear this generation has not
heard of the joys of billiards hustling.
*sigh*
But it runs Windows, and is constantly
BSODing my headset, so my game really
hasn't improved much. Really. You can
play against me if you want, but I won't
be much of a challenge.
Can be found here. The Rabbi also calls it a no-no, but isn't threatening anyone with hellfire.
There's lots of speculation of how studios are
longing for high quality CG in order to have
a better bargaining position with actors,
but child actors who don't prance like prima
donnas are still a major headache. They have
growth spurts in the middle of a shooting period,
or break their voices, et cetera. The first
massive use of CG actors IMO is likely to
be done for child characters.
I have to agree, somewhat. My last SA gig was
satisfying because it was an a medical research
lab, and every emergency was important in the
grand scheme of things, not because of the plight
of the pornless. But there was a pay hit I had
to accept as the price of avoiding normal SA
frustrations, and without college I would never
have landed that gig.
I'm one of Uncle Sam's dev monkeys nowadays,
and SAing for him can be fun. "Good
work, if you can find it." An 18 year old
out of high school, likely can't.
You think you want to be a sysadmin. That's because you're young and stupid. (Sorry, dude, but every high school senior is young and stupid.) You don't yet know how demoralizing it is to work as a sysadmin. The pay gets a lot less attractive as soon as you have a family. You get very little respect, very little appreciation, in order to do a good job as a sysadmin you have to give solemn orders to people above you in the org chart of your work place, which makes you a prime target at every round of layoffs. The hardware and software both such and drive you to exasperation.
The hours suck rocks through a garden hose. Trust me on this, there is nothing more demoralizing than rushing to work to fix an outage at 3 AM because your ISPs clients are getting mad at having to wait for their pron. The hours suck more when you're on call and you realize your wife is better looking and your kids far cuter than any of your cow orkers or clients, and that your wage rate cannot justify a single additional hour away from them.
So, forget about sysadminning, at least for now. Go to college. Shop around for areas of inquiry that might interest you, or might not interest you yet. Join the army. I'm not kidding. The army beats sysadminning hands down. Or try jobs that involve your hands or the open air. But for mercy's sake, don't sysadmin just yet.
Actually, no. The first "disrespecting"
was done by the Palestinians, who in the
1870's through 1920's had a habit of going
to the Al Aqsa mosque yard, looking at
the Jews who were down below at the Western
Wall, and pelting them with garbage. However,
that is largely irrelevant. The Mideast mess
wasn't caused by "disrespect." It was caused
by the massacres incited by Haj Amin Al Husseini
in 1929.
Not necessarily good. Take a stroll
through a New England cemetary some time.
The Pilgrims marked their gravestones
with an image of a skull with wings.
The Pilgrims were a bunch of wierdoes,
and evidently that may be why they did
not find this symbol frightening, but
who knows what 10,000 years from now people
will think?
is that when he swings, the web he hangs
by is so long that the pendulum frequency
is ludicrously low. That is why the old
live action Spider Man show only rarely
showed him trying to propell himself that
way: it was slower than molasses in January.
While sci-fi novels regularly sell in large
numbers, they sell to a voracious subculture
(of which I am indeed a member) whose tastes
and preferences to not reflect those of the
world at large.
Hate to break it to you, but judge's orders
are things with which you must comply
not just to the letter, but to the spirit.
Otherwise, it would indeed be beautiful to do
that.
See here.
The press is largely to blame for the misunderstanding most people have about the scientific method and how scientific institutions work, which this white paper confirms yet again. Science's daily routine is something like this: dog bites man, dog bites man, dog bites man hard, dog bites man in painful place, dog growls while biting man, dog bites man over disputed frisbee, man bites dog, dog bites man's shoes, dog bites woman.. The press homes in on man bites dog because that's how the press works, because men biting dogs can solve our energy woes, cure cancer, and reverse aging, and because the man who bit the dog is photogenic.
A week later, science finds out that man doesn't really bite dog, and the press reports on that dutifully, giving the public a distorted impression of science. And that's a major reason for the other findings, like people's belief in astrology (Pons & Fleischmann, Virgo bites dog, 1995).
And cut off as many cable signals as you can.
With the sci-fi channel and its charlattan
John Edward, and with TLC&Discovery doing
their share reporting credulously on
fringe science, cable is a part of the problem.
(Talk show hosts and their habit of coddling
"psychics" don't exactly help either, but if
you're going to jam TV radio signals, you'll
have a hard time looking sweet and innocent
with the FCC.)
Religion cannot be tested by science. After that little dustup with Copernicus, most religions are carefully designed to be untestable. ESP, psychic powers, and the such (i.e. superstition), CAN be tested by science, and routinely are tested and disproven by scienc. That people believe in them is a matter of grave concern.
And here is why.
ANd that's just one example.
I indeed meant once in orbit.