I would say that in order to play Car Wars you need some higher level math skills:) And that's just to figure out how much Coke and popcorn to get so that it will last you until 6 AM (not to mention calculating your to-hit roll for targeting a tire while doing a bootlegger reverse while the other guy is doing his maneuvering:))
Damn, it's been a long time since I thought of that game!
Crafstman is awesome and their return/replacement policy is great. During my undergrad years (those halcyion days of my youth...) I was helping to assemble a small (4MeV) particle accelerator (a High Voltage Corporation FN model, IIRC). We had secured the front of the accelerator to the cement base and were trying to level it, but just couldn't get the damn thing level -- every adjustment we would make to try to correct the leveling would throw things way out of whack. So eventually we threw up our hands, undid the screws, and lifted the accelerator of the base (with the help of an overhanging winch and (non-massless) pulley, of course).
Lo and behold, when we lifted the accelerator, we found a craftsmen screwdriver had fallen into the small cavity where the accelerator stands went, and that was what was screwing up the leveling.
Now even after having a particle accelerator on it, the only problem with the screwdrivers was that its handle was squished. It was still usable, but we still took it back and got a new one, no questions asked. Although I think that is probably one of the more unusual methods of tool destruction that I have heard of. I would imagine that not too many tools get munged from setting a particle accelerator on it...
I think that if this place can be stimulated then it can grow just as it has been shown that the brain can grow neurons.
The information that I have seen about this discuss neurological stem cells in the hippocampus (the memory assimilation portion of the brain, I think?) The study involved keeping mice physically and mentally active and I believe that under these conditions, the mice grew new neurons in this portion of the brain.
"It is minimal maintenance, really, because the customers have limited time and they don't want a car that gives them a lot of hassle," said Ms Christiansen.
Wow -- I never realized that being able to open your hood was the primary cause of car problems. Thank (#include DIETY) that they thought to remove this huge problem with existing automotive design.
This works pretty well -- except for when it is actually true.
For example, my phone sometimes does not ring when somebody calls me (not sure why, but probably related to my carrier (hint: rhymes with Shint). It works great for an excuse. However it backfires when we have to do a deployment at 2:00 AM and people might need to be in touch with me. In that case I have to be up and on the conference call (or check in every so often) to make sure that they *really* don't need me.
Umm...your skin is one of the first lines of defense against infection. I would say that is outside your body...(not to mention that the outer layers are dead cells)
We need to remove this dangerous physics information from places kids and robbers can get it!
<sarcasm>
Absolutely! And those cesspools of scum and villainy where they are stored -- libraries! Not only are they breeding grounds for people to meet and discuss terrorist related activites (like how they feel about current politics!) but people can read books there free of charge. This is in clear violation of the copyright holder's rights!
Physics has destroyed more people's lives than we can count (ever heard of a place called Nagasaki?). We should outlaw all knowledge of it and persecute those who study this forbidden lore. Clearly this type of activity does not make people happy. Have you ever seen a physics graduate student? Probably not, b/c they never see the light of day. Ever.
People should just be good consumers and buy whatever they are told to buy.
Won't someone please think of the children!!!!
</sarcasm>
And yes, I know the parent was being sarcastic too.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *PINs are dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *PIN community when recently IDC confirmed that *PIN accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ATM transactions. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that PINS have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *PINs are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last Numerical Banking poll.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *PIN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *PINs face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *PINs because *PINs are dying. Things are looking very bad for *PINs. As many of us are already aware, *PINs continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. ATM PINs are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time *PIN developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: *PINs are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Banking leader Theo states that there are 70,000,000 users of Credit Card PINs. How many users of ATM PINS are there? Let's see. The number of Credit Card PINS versus ATM PINs posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 70,000,000/5 = 14,000,000 ATM users. Phone Card PIN posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of ATM PIN posts. Therefore there are about 7,000,000 users of Phone Card PINs. A recent article put Class Registration PINs at about 80 percent of the *PIN market. Therefore there are (70,000,000+14,000,000+7,000,000)*4 = 364,000,000 Class Registration PIN users. This is consistent with the number of Class Registration PIN posts.
Due to the troubles of the savings and loan scandals of the 1980's and post-9/11 America, abysmal sales and so on, PINs-of-America, Inc. went out of business and was taken over by PIN'O'Matic who sell another troubled PIN generator. Now Enron is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *PINs have steadily declined in market share. *PINs are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *PINs are to survive at all it will be among magnetic stripe hobbyist dabblers. *PINs continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *PINs are dead.
But Mr Banks said Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Chris Smith had considered the issue and had decided to broaden the scope of the 1937 Act to enable chess and mind games to be funded by the Sports Council.
I guess if someone throws the rook at you in a fit of chess-inspired roid rage, you could be injured...;)
So maybe now its ok for chess nerds to date cheerleaders. Cool!
If you still have some money, think about pursuing a professional degree (JD, MBA, etc.).
Not so sure about that. I can see things like radiology, where the images may be transmitted digitally, could be outsourced and eventually offshored (NAFTA I believe provides some sort of license transparency, and even if it doesn't, you could possible form a company where the dr.s get licensed in US but operate out of another country)
Even within the US though, companies are probably trying to replace higher cost dr.s with lower cost nurses (or other staff). For example replacing anasthesiologists dr.s with nurse anasthetists.
Lawyers of course probably have job security. I mean, when you make the laws, then just make replacing you illegal or sue them for taking your job:)
Of course this is all speculation. This wouldn't be slashdot if I could actually back any of this up.
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Does anyone worry about getting certified anymore?
As I think most people would agree, the certs themselves don't actually measure how good you are. It just says you could pass a test. But it is part of the Hiring Game(TM).
A bigger question I think is how far on the certification trail do you go? For example, having been certified as a java programmer, do you do you keep getting higher level certs (developer, web component, architect, etc...) or not?
I think that the answer to this depends to a large degree on the job market you are targeting. For example, in my local (soon-to-be-Java-glutted-due-to-offshoring) market, eschewing increased specialization (with more in depth certs) in favor of diversification (learning new languages/basic certs) is the strategy that I am taking. I'm curious what other people think though.
Sacrementa, California (AP) -- In a surprising move, the state legislature of California recently passed legislation to outlaw members of the opposite sex in the front seat of vehicles.
Legislature members point to recent studies that cite that cars driven by heterosexuals are 13.232 percent more likely to be involved in accidents when a member of the opposite sex is in the passenger seat. These numbers rise to a shocking 35.243% when that member is a significant other and to an unseemly 75% rate when the passenger is naked and has fake breasts. When the driver and passenger are married, the researchers found that the accident rate hovered around 50.324%, a phenomona known as the "nag factor".
"The numbers don't lie. Having the opposite sex as a passenger in the car is a definite distraction to the driver" said Dr. Frank O. Overman, a head researcher in the project. "Won't somebody please please PLEASE think of the safety of the children!" he continued.
Dr. Overman had no comments on the studies in Massuchusets involving homosexual drivers and same sex passengers.
Hate to burst your bubble, but your units are way off -- hours*days/week*years?. I think that you mean 24x7x52. Let me spell that out for you, since you are obviously in management:
You can write code but not figure that out? Blows my mind!
You were corrected once and still came back with the wrong answer (and a personally jibe to boot)? Not only are you in management, but you are on the fast track to upper management.
Instead, Denmark will become a place for project managers, systemarchitects, consultants and other people, who focus on the business and the client itself, not on the actual production.
If all the programming jobs are not in Denmark, then where will the Danish project managers, system architects, etc... get their experience?
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I would say that in order to play Car Wars you need some higher level math skills :) And that's just to figure out how much Coke and popcorn to get so that it will last you until 6 AM (not to mention calculating your to-hit roll for targeting a tire while doing a bootlegger reverse while the other guy is doing his maneuvering :))
Damn, it's been a long time since I thought of that game!
Or frugality (as the Frugal Chef says) is using the most out of what you already have.
Crafstman is awesome and their return/replacement policy is great. During my undergrad years (those halcyion days of my youth...) I was helping to assemble a small (4MeV) particle accelerator (a High Voltage Corporation FN model, IIRC). We had secured the front of the accelerator to the cement base and were trying to level it, but just couldn't get the damn thing level -- every adjustment we would make to try to correct the leveling would throw things way out of whack. So eventually we threw up our hands, undid the screws, and lifted the accelerator of the base (with the help of an overhanging winch and (non-massless) pulley, of course).
Lo and behold, when we lifted the accelerator, we found a craftsmen screwdriver had fallen into the small cavity where the accelerator stands went, and that was what was screwing up the leveling.
Now even after having a particle accelerator on it, the only problem with the screwdrivers was that its handle was squished. It was still usable, but we still took it back and got a new one, no questions asked. Although I think that is probably one of the more unusual methods of tool destruction that I have heard of. I would imagine that not too many tools get munged from setting a particle accelerator on it...
"make others accept me, or you will die."
make: *** No rule to make target 'others'. Stop
Why yes, as a matter of fact I am a nerd...
I think that if this place can be stimulated then it can grow just as it has been shown that the brain can grow neurons.
The information that I have seen about this discuss neurological stem cells in the hippocampus (the memory assimilation portion of the brain, I think?) The study involved keeping mice physically and mentally active and I believe that under these conditions, the mice grew new neurons in this portion of the brain.
Haven't you heard? *BSD is dying
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"knurd", the opposite of drunk
And here I was, thinking knurd was something new in KDE 3.2 (*sigh*)
Forget this inner sphere stuff. Wait for the Clan version -- it will weigh less and hold more.
From the article:
"It is minimal maintenance, really, because the customers have limited time and they don't want a car that gives them a lot of hassle," said Ms Christiansen.
Wow -- I never realized that being able to open your hood was the primary cause of car problems. Thank (#include DIETY) that they thought to remove this huge problem with existing automotive design.
I would have to disagree with this. Contact with other living things can be the stress inducer in the first place.
Case in point: SO says anyone of the following:
This works pretty well -- except for when it is actually true.
For example, my phone sometimes does not ring when somebody calls me (not sure why, but probably related to my carrier (hint: rhymes with Shint). It works great for an excuse. However it backfires when we have to do a deployment at 2:00 AM and people might need to be in touch with me. In that case I have to be up and on the conference call (or check in every so often) to make sure that they *really* don't need me.
Oh well.
you forgot "violates the Constitution"
Umm...your skin is one of the first lines of defense against infection. I would say that is outside your body...(not to mention that the outer layers are dead cells)
We need to remove this dangerous physics information from places kids and robbers can get it!
<sarcasm>
Absolutely! And those cesspools of scum and villainy where they are stored -- libraries! Not only are they breeding grounds for people to meet and discuss terrorist related activites (like how they feel about current politics!) but people can read books there free of charge. This is in clear violation of the copyright holder's rights!
Physics has destroyed more people's lives than we can count (ever heard of a place called Nagasaki?). We should outlaw all knowledge of it and persecute those who study this forbidden lore. Clearly this type of activity does not make people happy. Have you ever seen a physics graduate student? Probably not, b/c they never see the light of day. Ever.
People should just be good consumers and buy whatever they are told to buy.
Won't someone please think of the children!!!!
</sarcasm>
And yes, I know the parent was being sarcastic too.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *PINs are dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *PIN community when recently IDC confirmed that *PIN accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ATM transactions. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that PINS have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *PINs are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last Numerical Banking poll.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *PIN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *PINs face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *PINs because *PINs are dying. Things are looking very bad for *PINs. As many of us are already aware, *PINs continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. ATM PINs are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time *PIN developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: *PINs are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Banking leader Theo states that there are 70,000,000 users of Credit Card PINs. How many users of ATM PINS are there? Let's see. The number of Credit Card PINS versus ATM PINs posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 70,000,000/5 = 14,000,000 ATM users. Phone Card PIN posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of ATM PIN posts. Therefore there are about 7,000,000 users of Phone Card PINs. A recent article put Class Registration PINs at about 80 percent of the *PIN market. Therefore there are (70,000,000+14,000,000+7,000,000)*4 = 364,000,000 Class Registration PIN users. This is consistent with the number of Class Registration PIN posts.
Due to the troubles of the savings and loan scandals of the 1980's and post-9/11 America, abysmal sales and so on, PINs-of-America, Inc. went out of business and was taken over by PIN'O'Matic who sell another troubled PIN generator. Now Enron is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *PINs have steadily declined in market share. *PINs are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *PINs are to survive at all it will be among magnetic stripe hobbyist dabblers. *PINs continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *PINs are dead.
Fact: PINs are dead.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/297529.stm
I guess if someone throws the rook at you in a fit of chess-inspired roid rage, you could be injured...;)
So maybe now its ok for chess nerds to date cheerleaders. Cool!
Press any key to reboot...
Crap! I'm still looking for that damn 'any' key.
Now if only I can get someone to fix the cupholder on my computer...
What are the safety and health issues involved in using this in 'practical applications'
Frostbite from when they cool you down to almost absolute zero.
I've got a bad feeling about this...
For a preview, try one of the sample SUPERSTITIAL ads, available from the firm marketing them
If you click on the US link under the Certified Sites in the left nav, you can get a handy list of websites to avoid/boycott/slashdot/etc...
Here is an excerpt from the Directories category:
1. Dictionary.com (Tribal Fusion)
2. FreshAddress.com (BURST! Media)
3. Lycos Classified (Lycos Network)
4. MapQuest (Winstar)
5. Nickjr.com
6. TVGuide Online
7. WhoWhere (Lycos Network)
8. Zagat.com (Winstar Interactive)
If you still have some money, think about pursuing a professional degree (JD, MBA, etc.).
:)
Not so sure about that. I can see things like radiology, where the images may be transmitted digitally, could be outsourced and eventually offshored (NAFTA I believe provides some sort of license transparency, and even if it doesn't, you could possible form a company where the dr.s get licensed in US but operate out of another country)
Even within the US though, companies are probably trying to replace higher cost dr.s with lower cost nurses (or other staff). For example replacing anasthesiologists dr.s with nurse anasthetists.
Lawyers of course probably have job security. I mean, when you make the laws, then just make replacing you illegal or sue them for taking your job
Of course this is all speculation. This wouldn't be slashdot if I could actually back any of this up.
Does anyone worry about getting certified anymore?
As I think most people would agree, the certs themselves don't actually measure how good you are. It just says you could pass a test. But it is part of the Hiring Game(TM).
A bigger question I think is how far on the certification trail do you go? For example, having been certified as a java programmer, do you do you keep getting higher level certs (developer, web component, architect, etc...) or not?
I think that the answer to this depends to a large degree on the job market you are targeting. For example, in my local (soon-to-be-Java-glutted-due-to-offshoring) market, eschewing increased specialization (with more in depth certs) in favor of diversification (learning new languages/basic certs) is the strategy that I am taking. I'm curious what other people think though.
Sacrementa, California (AP) -- In a surprising move, the state legislature of California recently passed legislation to outlaw members of the opposite sex in the front seat of vehicles.
Legislature members point to recent studies that cite that cars driven by heterosexuals are 13.232 percent more likely to be involved in accidents when a member of the opposite sex is in the passenger seat. These numbers rise to a shocking 35.243% when that member is a significant other and to an unseemly 75% rate when the passenger is naked and has fake breasts. When the driver and passenger are married, the researchers found that the accident rate hovered around 50.324%, a phenomona known as the "nag factor".
"The numbers don't lie. Having the opposite sex as a passenger in the car is a definite distraction to the driver" said Dr. Frank O. Overman, a head researcher in the project. "Won't somebody please please PLEASE think of the safety of the children!" he continued.
Dr. Overman had no comments on the studies in Massuchusets involving homosexual drivers and same sex passengers.
24x7x365 = 24 hours/day - 7 days/week - 365 days/year.
Hate to burst your bubble, but your units are way off -- hours*days/week*years?. I think that you mean 24x7x52. Let me spell that out for you, since you are obviously in management:
24 hours/day * 7 days/week * 52 weeks/year = Total hours/year.
You can write code but not figure that out? Blows my mind!
You were corrected once and still came back with the wrong answer (and a personally jibe to boot)? Not only are you in management, but you are on the fast track to upper management.
Instead, Denmark will become a place for project managers, systemarchitects, consultants and other people, who focus on the business and the client itself, not on the actual production.
If all the programming jobs are not in Denmark, then where will the Danish project managers, system architects, etc... get their experience?
It's a slippery slope. That's all I'm saying.