I scored a totally unused IBM clicky keyboard on our last office move. Because moving is expensive, the high-ups decided to do away with old hardware and anything that wasn't really worth the move. Among these things were many unused peripherals that belonged to the headless servers and never got used. I even got to unwrap the thing out of its plastic bag and all.
It makes beautiful clickety click noises when I type, the feedback is fantastic, and I'm pretty sure it's close to indestructible. It's bigger than my freaking laptop! (When closed). And they wanted to throw it away, the nerve of it all...
What does that mean? The real worry is not the lack of IT professionals, but rather the lack of keen, young, fresh and still clueless recently graduated computer science graduates to hire for peanuts and milk for all they're worth.
Nobody wants someone with 10 years of experience and a family to support, those people expect benefits and regular working hours! The nerve!
But that goes back to what I said about moving from "reputable journals" to "reputable researchers". Peer review works both ways, and I expect the experiments that confirm/deny a previous one to be peer reviewed as well. You may argue that we have already established reputable sources in our current system with science journals and, thus, don't need to re-start the whole thing again, but in the end there's little difference between the two once you have already established "reputable" sources from the peer review point of view. The second is more open to anyone, but people still won't listen much to crackpot heads.
Posting from 1.0.4 right now. Funny thing, after I upgraded and restarted the browser, I still had the "updates available" little red arrow on the top right corner of the browser. After checking for upgrades (and finding none), it's disappeared. Bug? Leftover registry entry or config file from 1.0.3?
Are you stupid or just really bad at reading, Mr. AC?
Let's see what I wrote: "they publish some research about certain subject you're interested in, and you have the knowledge to make other related experiments that will confirm their findings.". That doesn't sound like an "opinated internet user", does it?
Anyone has access to it. Say, for example, that they publish some research about certain subject you're interested in, and you have the knowledge to make other related experiments that will confirm their findings. You, too, can also publish it this way, and more importantly the original publication can be easily updated to link to peer reviews. Search engines will be aware of the link. Other people will also be able to review your review.
If anything, what will change is that instead of "reputable journals" we'll have "reputable researchers". Not necessarily a bad thing.
Actually that may be a good idea, I'm pretty sure the algorithms would be easier (if you see a teammate, toss), since all the plays are already pre-programmed and the "real" players don't actually have to do that much thinking anyway (which is probably a good thing for them). Moreover, they only have to actually move about 10 seconds every 5 minutes or so.
IPs connected to MAC addresses, connected to the names of the users.
Next time there's a network flood, put a sign with the name of the computer owner on the notice board, with a note saying that's who the students have to thank for the current outrage.
It's a very healthy mix between Warcraft and Baldur's Gate. You have a main character (your avatar) who works as in a RPG game (choose professions, equipment, improve your skills as you level up and so on), then you have heroes that come as "pre-defined" characters and use equipment just as you do, and finally you have 6 races with the usual resources, tech trees and variety of units (each race has its own "Titan", which works as an elite unit with no equipment). The progress design is such that in different maps you will be using your avatar, your avatar+heroes, or just play in a RTS way (and makes it possible to face a map in several different ways). Interesting storyline, and I friggin' loved the ending. Finally the world is persistant, so you'll be revisiting already completed maps to buy equipment/runes, plans for your RTS part and to do sidequests if you so wish.
Din't you read this?: with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland.
He's an Icelander. He's one of the guys who grew up reading things like Njal's Saga, playing with his friends at being Gunnar or Kári and beting each other with wooden swords, playing with snow outside at some -10C and under blizzards and getting his head messed up with the perma-summer-light/almost no light seasonal cycle.
If one of these guys says he's swimming accross the Atlantic, I'd advise to my good american friends to lock themselves in their houses and get ready for a raid.
I lived 2 years in Iceland; let me tell you, it was fun there:D
> Seriously, explain what link there is between software patents and outsourcing?
When you can run whatever software you want to run because a patent says (IBM|Microsoft|Sun|Your Cat|SCO) own Foo in it, or you can't even write it for the very same reason, you will seek solutions to run or write that software elsewhere.
Sad isn't it? I got in when they first offered the "grab a free year of playing" thing, and played, dunno, 2 hours total. It's the most boring, trite, laggy crapfest I've seen in a long time. They gave me a free year and I quit after 2 hours. How bloody sad is that?
That's nothing, I just meta-moderated a couple of comments on a "what's next for apple?" story. For a second here I though slashdot had had broken the time barrier and allowed me to meta-moderate comments that had not been made yet!
Not sure if the "First Post!" guys would appretiate it though...
Is how crappy colour reproduction is in TFTs these days. Most of those have a blue tint nowhere near the actual background; although some were obviously made that way on purpose, most are just the chopped/lined up shot. I wish that weren't the case (I use TFTs myself), but sadly it is.
I seem to recall that Chirac was on very friendly terms with Saddam Hussein, so having "views in common" with Billy seems like par for the course to me.
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I scored a totally unused IBM clicky keyboard on our last office move. Because moving is expensive, the high-ups decided to do away with old hardware and anything that wasn't really worth the move. Among these things were many unused peripherals that belonged to the headless servers and never got used. I even got to unwrap the thing out of its plastic bag and all.
It makes beautiful clickety click noises when I type, the feedback is fantastic, and I'm pretty sure it's close to indestructible. It's bigger than my freaking laptop! (When closed). And they wanted to throw it away, the nerve of it all...
And no windows key. Can't say I miss it ^_^
>decreasing supply of computer science students
What does that mean? The real worry is not the lack of IT professionals, but rather the lack of keen, young, fresh and still clueless recently graduated computer science graduates to hire for peanuts and milk for all they're worth.
Nobody wants someone with 10 years of experience and a family to support, those people expect benefits and regular working hours! The nerve!
>The iPod, in its current state, is kinda boring.
You need to buy better music...
But that goes back to what I said about moving from "reputable journals" to "reputable researchers". Peer review works both ways, and I expect the experiments that confirm/deny a previous one to be peer reviewed as well. You may argue that we have already established reputable sources in our current system with science journals and, thus, don't need to re-start the whole thing again, but in the end there's little difference between the two once you have already established "reputable" sources from the peer review point of view. The second is more open to anyone, but people still won't listen much to crackpot heads.
Posting from 1.0.4 right now. Funny thing, after I upgraded and restarted the browser, I still had the "updates available" little red arrow on the top right corner of the browser. After checking for upgrades (and finding none), it's disappeared. Bug? Leftover registry entry or config file from 1.0.3?
Are you stupid or just really bad at reading, Mr. AC?
Let's see what I wrote: "they publish some research about certain subject you're interested in, and you have the knowledge to make other related experiments that will confirm their findings.". That doesn't sound like an "opinated internet user", does it?
If anything, this will make peer review easier.
Anyone has access to it. Say, for example, that they publish some research about certain subject you're interested in, and you have the knowledge to make other related experiments that will confirm their findings. You, too, can also publish it this way, and more importantly the original publication can be easily updated to link to peer reviews. Search engines will be aware of the link. Other people will also be able to review your review.
If anything, what will change is that instead of "reputable journals" we'll have "reputable researchers". Not necessarily a bad thing.
Like what, American Football? Get real :P
Actually that may be a good idea, I'm pretty sure the algorithms would be easier (if you see a teammate, toss), since all the plays are already pre-programmed and the "real" players don't actually have to do that much thinking anyway (which is probably a good thing for them). Moreover, they only have to actually move about 10 seconds every 5 minutes or so.
IPs connected to MAC addresses, connected to the names of the users.
Next time there's a network flood, put a sign with the name of the computer owner on the notice board, with a note saying that's who the students have to thank for the current outrage.
Let the problem fix itself.
>Next thing you know there'll be a WiFi robot that takes dumps for you.
No no, there'll be a WiFi robot that takes dumps from you...
> Mod me down, but I don't really approve mechanized perfection.
> Somehow making juice with exact proportions everytime frightens me..
foreach my $ingredient (@ingredients) {
$ingredient *= ((rand(10) + 95)/100);
&add($ingredient);
}
There ya go, slashdot to the rescue!
It's a very healthy mix between Warcraft and Baldur's Gate. You have a main character (your avatar) who works as in a RPG game (choose professions, equipment, improve your skills as you level up and so on), then you have heroes that come as "pre-defined" characters and use equipment just as you do, and finally you have 6 races with the usual resources, tech trees and variety of units (each race has its own "Titan", which works as an elite unit with no equipment). The progress design is such that in different maps you will be using your avatar, your avatar+heroes, or just play in a RTS way (and makes it possible to face a map in several different ways). Interesting storyline, and I friggin' loved the ending. Finally the world is persistant, so you'll be revisiting already completed maps to buy equipment/runes, plans for your RTS part and to do sidequests if you so wish.
>I haven't seen anything interesting and new in the RTS scene since Homeworld.
I suggest you pick up Spellforce and give it a try.
Din't you read this?: with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland.
:D
He's an Icelander. He's one of the guys who grew up reading things like Njal's Saga, playing with his friends at being Gunnar or Kári and beting each other with wooden swords, playing with snow outside at some -10C and under blizzards and getting his head messed up with the perma-summer-light/almost no light seasonal cycle.
If one of these guys says he's swimming accross the Atlantic, I'd advise to my good american friends to lock themselves in their houses and get ready for a raid.
I lived 2 years in Iceland; let me tell you, it was fun there
> Seriously, explain what link there is between software patents and outsourcing?
When you can run whatever software you want to run because a patent says (IBM|Microsoft|Sun|Your Cat|SCO) own Foo in it, or you can't even write it for the very same reason, you will seek solutions to run or write that software elsewhere.
>How would 'movie' files be translated to paper?
;-)
I take you haven't seen Minority Report yet?
That we can ignore them both with a single block when they merge? :)
>Juan Sixpack
:-)
Joao Sixpack, actually
Sad isn't it? I got in when they first offered the "grab a free year of playing" thing, and played, dunno, 2 hours total. It's the most boring, trite, laggy crapfest I've seen in a long time. They gave me a free year and I quit after 2 hours. How bloody sad is that?
> doesnt seem all that useful to me.
Two words: Biological Macromolecules.
>He had them, but they got burned up by the sun.
I though they melted and fell into the sea?
That's nothing, I just meta-moderated a couple of comments on a "what's next for apple?" story. For a second here I though slashdot had had broken the time barrier and allowed me to meta-moderate comments that had not been made yet!
Not sure if the "First Post!" guys would appretiate it though...
High Linux userbase in South Korea woud mean more games ported to Linux. It's the only thing that keeps windows in my machine.
I want to be freeee!
Is how crappy colour reproduction is in TFTs these days. Most of those have a blue tint nowhere near the actual background; although some were obviously made that way on purpose, most are just the chopped/lined up shot. I wish that weren't the case (I use TFTs myself), but sadly it is.
I seem to recall that Chirac was on very friendly terms with Saddam Hussein, so having "views in common" with Billy seems like par for the course to me.