At Monash University in Australia, the Bachelor of Software Engineering has at least a couple of separate group projects that go through parts of the SDLC other than just the development phase, with the final year having a full project for a real client that lasts the entire university year.
You don't get to just fluff out some documentation with no consequences when you have to produce a product for someone who can get you failed if it turns out to be crap.
That's one of the reasons why it was the first software engineering course in Australia to be accredited by IEAust (like the IEEE).
Why on earth would they spend money on gettting(sic) voters to the polls if the numbers would just cancel each other out?
Because if they don't, then they can't cancel out the opposition.
It is something both sides have to do to cancel each other out, because if only one side does it, then that side wins.
In 2008, all sides will be "getting out the vote," but the side who wins will be the one who also comes up with another strategy, which will be emulated the election after that.
It is the same cat and mouse game as in any other field, whether hacker vs. security consultant or cop vs. robber.
What about Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception and Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge? Then there was the first MechWarrior game. Three games in a series that were all completely different and all had fantastic story lines. I know that even for Slashdoot, I am setting myself up for being called a nerd, but I used to spend hours just reading the manuals for those games, trying to decide which Mechs were better for the current situation and memorising the starmaps and history...
I was thinking StarCon2 as well. Also, there might not be characters as such, but the story of empires rising and falling throughout the Civ series should have gotten a mention. Who here hasn't had to warm their hands over a toaster at 4am because they want to see their city with just another wonder in it?
They'll be blasting people with the stuff on entry to their stores.
I wonder if it also stops people paying attention as much so they don't notice the blatant mistakes all over their dockets.
Your implication is that the stone age ended because we found something better than stones to switch to. Perhaps so, but it raises the question, what is there that is 'better than oil' (read: cheaper, more convenient, less polluting) that we will switch to this time?
I doubt that it would have been cheaper or more convenient to manufacture an axe from bronze than stone towards the end of the stone age. It seems that your definition of 'better' is lacking. I agree that "cheaper, more convenient, less polluting" are things to look at, but there are surely other ways to measure better, such as non-dependance on a source or portability and safety of a design. It's just that most people are cheap enough to wait for other people to buy into the expensive technologies, such as HO Fuel Cells so that the price will drop. When the stone age was ending, it probably took hundreds of years for bronze to be adopted properly, due to the new infrastructure required to dig it up and work with it. Since the creation of 'Alternative Energy' technologies, the adoption has probably been at a rate that would outpace the adoption of bronze. In 50 years time, fossil-sourced oil will pretty much be a thing of the past and from far in the future, the change to alternative energies will seem to have happened rapidly
OK, then search for Yosemite National park. It's not going to help much unless the latitude/longitude and direction can be converted into "Yosemite National Park"
Although, maybe they do implement that functionality with a call to IsYosemite(). I'm not too hopeful.
My point is that while raw geographical data is nice, it doesn't provide any meaning about where you are in a context. Even if it knew that you were in Yosemite National Park, would it know that you were actually taking a picture of two ants fighting over a bread crumb a few metres over from your picnic rug where you just finished doing your wife? No. It knows nothing. So back to my original point of the data being useless without some kind of categorisation and moderation system. What would be practical and useful is to have a device, whether an addon or the actual camera that records an audio tag and optionally converts it into text. Then, as you take a photo, you can give it a semantic context.
What I would like to know is how the masses of content that will inevitably be shared will be managed? If there is no kind of moderation or categorisation system, then popular/populated places will be flooded with millions of boring, uninsightful images. This is assuming that geotagging is used for more than just organising one's happy snaps.
You can make money investing in metal explorers in South-East Asia.
If a low-mid cap. resource explorer/producer isn't growing by at LEAST 20% per year, then keep looking for one that is.
South-East Asia is an untapped resource. Companies are just now going in and making ridiculous amounts. Look at Australian companies such as Oxiana (OXR) and Pan (PNA), who are making heaps from mining for gold and copper in Laos. Oxiana has increased from around AUD10c to about AUD$3.00 over the last 5-6 years.
These are the kind of returns you should be looking for if you want to really put your money to work; not just have it not decrease in value.
The patent I was referring to is
5158081
and I also found
5549640, which might be relevant.
There seem to be a quite a few related patents, so I really doubt that any treatment based on this new discovery will be patentable.
The genes may have been identified, but there are patents out on the pulsing of DC across wounds by placing electrodes both laterally and diametrically on opposite side of the wounds and by holding one electrode steady while moving the other around.
I analysed a patent recently that dealt with this as part of a question in a preliminary round of interviews.
I can't remember the patent number, but basically, if they try to patent the actual therapy, they are going to have problems because the patent I am describing is something like 15 years old already.
You misunderstand what the double slit experiment involves. In the double slit experiment, the light or particle source that is used is turned down so low that at any given time, there is no more than 1 particle going through the barrier. This cannot be replicated in a ripple tank. A ripple tank, or any kind of macro scale wave inherently cannot produce the same result as the double slit experiment because it can not be proven that any individual particle is the wave is interfering with itself.
A neutral point of view, relative to a society*, could be said to be an aggregate of all expressed points of view within that society**. The organic growth of a wiki would, ideally, allow the aggregate view to come forth. The society that a wiki is open to on en.wikipedia.org is any english speaker or person willing to take the time to translate the page into their own language, which is a pretty hefty pool. It is only when the organic growth of a wiki is interrupted by a group of users stating the same points over and over repeatedly that the content of the wiki stops growing.
* Because you have to have a frame of reference or there won't be a tree to fall in the god-damned forest. ** That's why any individual or group of like-minded individuals always seem to think that their opinion and only their opinion is the correct one.
Slashdot Mirror
There should definitely be such a course.
At Monash University in Australia, the Bachelor of Software Engineering has at least a couple of separate group projects that go through parts of the SDLC other than just the development phase, with the final year having a full project for a real client that lasts the entire university year.
You don't get to just fluff out some documentation with no consequences when you have to produce a product for someone who can get you failed if it turns out to be crap.
That's one of the reasons why it was the first software engineering course in Australia to be accredited by IEAust (like the IEEE).
It is something both sides have to do to cancel each other out, because if only one side does it, then that side wins.
In 2008, all sides will be "getting out the vote," but the side who wins will be the one who also comes up with another strategy, which will be emulated the election after that.
It is the same cat and mouse game as in any other field, whether hacker vs. security consultant or cop vs. robber.
Up to 8 people crammed into that tiny level.
1 health booster
1 rocket laucher
1 quad damage.
Perfection
What about Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception and Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge? Then there was the first MechWarrior game. Three games in a series that were all completely different and all had fantastic story lines. I know that even for Slashdoot, I am setting myself up for being called a nerd, but I used to spend hours just reading the manuals for those games, trying to decide which Mechs were better for the current situation and memorising the starmaps and history...
I was thinking StarCon2 as well.
Also, there might not be characters as such, but the story of empires rising and falling throughout the Civ series should have gotten a mention. Who here hasn't had to warm their hands over a toaster at 4am because they want to see their city with just another wonder in it?
They'll be blasting people with the stuff on entry to their stores.
I wonder if it also stops people paying attention as much so they don't notice the blatant mistakes all over their dockets.
How could all those internet users knock the main company offline who was responsible for construction of the Internet?
I doubt that it would have been cheaper or more convenient to manufacture an axe from bronze than stone towards the end of the stone age. It seems that your definition of 'better' is lacking. I agree that "cheaper, more convenient, less polluting" are things to look at, but there are surely other ways to measure better, such as non-dependance on a source or portability and safety of a design.
It's just that most people are cheap enough to wait for other people to buy into the expensive technologies, such as HO Fuel Cells so that the price will drop.
When the stone age was ending, it probably took hundreds of years for bronze to be adopted properly, due to the new infrastructure required to dig it up and work with it. Since the creation of 'Alternative Energy' technologies, the adoption has probably been at a rate that would outpace the adoption of bronze. In 50 years time, fossil-sourced oil will pretty much be a thing of the past and from far in the future, the change to alternative energies will seem to have happened rapidly
A mathematical proof demonstrating that stuff can be reduced to an onion-peeling analogy would be quite a breakthrough.
Well, what would happen if you sat on the boundary between left and middle or middle and right?
Wouldn't you see different images in each eye? That would allow a stereoscopic effect, so long as you don't move.
OK, then search for Yosemite National park.
It's not going to help much unless the latitude/longitude and direction can be converted into "Yosemite National Park"
Although, maybe they do implement that functionality with a call to IsYosemite(). I'm not too hopeful.
My point is that while raw geographical data is nice, it doesn't provide any meaning about where you are in a context. Even if it knew that you were in Yosemite National Park, would it know that you were actually taking a picture of two ants fighting over a bread crumb a few metres over from your picnic rug where you just finished doing your wife?
No.
It knows nothing.
So back to my original point of the data being useless without some kind of categorisation and moderation system.
What would be practical and useful is to have a device, whether an addon or the actual camera that records an audio tag and optionally converts it into text. Then, as you take a photo, you can give it a semantic context.
What I would like to know is how the masses of content that will inevitably be shared will be managed? If there is no kind of moderation or categorisation system, then popular/populated places will be flooded with millions of boring, uninsightful images.
This is assuming that geotagging is used for more than just organising one's happy snaps.
What's wrong with Hebrew?
Perhaps you weren't quick enough or as good a writer as the successful submitter.
Either way, what do I care? It still got posted.
Please go and read the first few posts that refer to the snapping with the teeth at some kind of chrome-alloy waste disposal insulator thing.
None of this explains how to make things appear to be two hobos fighting over a wheel of cheese.
This is all crap!
You can make money investing in metal explorers in South-East Asia.
If a low-mid cap. resource explorer/producer isn't growing by at LEAST 20% per year, then keep looking for one that is.
South-East Asia is an untapped resource. Companies are just now going in and making ridiculous amounts.
Look at Australian companies such as Oxiana (OXR) and Pan (PNA), who are making heaps from mining for gold and copper in Laos. Oxiana has increased from around AUD10c to about AUD$3.00 over the last 5-6 years.
These are the kind of returns you should be looking for if you want to really put your money to work; not just have it not decrease in value.
The patent I was referring to is 5158081 and I also found 5549640, which might be relevant.
There seem to be a quite a few related patents, so I really doubt that any treatment based on this new discovery will be patentable.
The genes may have been identified, but there are patents out on the pulsing of DC across wounds by placing electrodes both laterally and diametrically on opposite side of the wounds and by holding one electrode steady while moving the other around.
I analysed a patent recently that dealt with this as part of a question in a preliminary round of interviews.
I can't remember the patent number, but basically, if they try to patent the actual therapy, they are going to have problems because the patent I am describing is something like 15 years old already.
It was a spin-off of some part of the army that was there to make stuff to entertain the troops.
In Australia, they charge you for typing a PIN incorrectly.
They had to dig deep for this charge as they have already been charging for everything else for years.
You misunderstand what the double slit experiment involves.
In the double slit experiment, the light or particle source that is used is turned down so low that at any given time, there is no more than 1 particle going through the barrier.
This cannot be replicated in a ripple tank. A ripple tank, or any kind of macro scale wave inherently cannot produce the same result as the double slit experiment because it can not be proven that any individual particle is the wave is interfering with itself.
Try Eviivo Front Desk.
A neutral point of view, relative to a society*, could be said to be an aggregate of all expressed points of view within that society**.
The organic growth of a wiki would, ideally, allow the aggregate view to come forth.
The society that a wiki is open to on en.wikipedia.org is any english speaker or person willing to take the time to translate the page into their own language, which is a pretty hefty pool.
It is only when the organic growth of a wiki is interrupted by a group of users stating the same points over and over repeatedly that the content of the wiki stops growing.
* Because you have to have a frame of reference or there won't be a tree to fall in the god-damned forest.
** That's why any individual or group of like-minded individuals always seem to think that their opinion and only their opinion is the correct one.
The flag of Libya
It is not a first post until someone reads it as a first post