$2.5 Million over 14 years amounts to about $178k/year (not including interest earned if he had it invested somewhere). A great "up yours" to his gold digger ex-wife.
By the time I was done with my GE classes and starting my engineering classes, I learned that I could skip most lectures and do self-study. I would pick up the syllabus on the first day to get the semester schedule. Then I would simply show up for quizzes, exams and the occasional lecture. The only classes I attended regularly were the labs--much more interesting. I didn't get perfect grades, but I didn't fail either. It took a little bit more discipline to self-study, but the benefits are enormous especially when struggling with a particularly difficult subject and you finally get it. You don't get that in most "spoon feeding" lectures.
Or...you are the co-worker of that good office worker who spends all week surfing the web and at the end of the week you hand off to your boss a 100-page document full of gibberish you typed up just so you can go home and wait for a check. You've done this numerous times so you don't really care about the quality of your work so long as you get that check.
What you've done is worthless.
What you've done is taken money for worthless labor on your part.
Like what the RIAA is doing to consumers.
Bottom Line: Until consumers are allowed to choose the value of the media being produced, worthless crap and great works will share the same value to them--either worth paying for or not at all.
What you've done is
I've been a member of a Linux User's Group here in SoCal since 2001 but I've never attended a meeting. From the LUG's emails, the meetings sounded interesting at first: "Install Debian on a Sony Laptop" and the like, but never enough for me to give up one Saturday morning a month to attend. I'm still subscribed but the traffic now is mostly posts for upcoming meetings. I find the web as a much more apropo place for "Linux Users".
We use Lotus Notes at work, and from my experience it's not exactly a well-designed software. For example: A user's password expires every 30 days. To change my password I have to log in (so I type in my password) and then you have to access my user id (type in password again) and then click on change password (where I have to type in my password once again) and only then can I actually type in a new password. And then it has this web-browser interface that never works right in Firefox or Opera so I had to use Wine to run it on Linux.
It doesn't bode well for Microsoft to have this guy as their main "architect" if his Lotus Notes is any indication of his design prowess.
1) Bypass Congress/FISA and allow NSA eavesdrop on "terrorists"
2) Leak eavesdropping program to press
3) Hold hearings and find a scapegoat (Alberto Gonzales?)
4) Conclude that FISA and the Patriot Act ain't so bad after all (when compared to illegal wiretapping).
Face it, under this administration we are all sheep.
I think it's correct to call both ID and evolution as "theories". The difference is in how these two ideas use abstractions to support their view of reality. One says an intelligent being must have designed life, while the other says life evolved due to pressures of environment.
One requires a belief based on faith, the other a belief based on observation and reasoning. Which one is a better representation of reality?
I was in the same situation when I had my first son. When he was about 14 months old and was starting to explore as humans tend to do at that age. I decided that the best way for him to not mess up the computer was to show him how to use it correctly instead. It was the software, Jumpstart Toddler that actually began my son's introduction to using the computer. To avoid messing up my settings, I created a separate acount for him. I then taught him that it was ok to play with the computer only when Daddy or Mommy was around. He quickly learned to use the mouse and keyboard by playing around with it.
Forward 6 years later, and he now helps his 2nd grade teacher teach the other kids during his computer class (although he tells me that they use Mac's).
I think having a "yes" environment, instead of a "no" environment fosters discovery and learning. (Just my 2 cents.)
I live about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles where I work. I take the train to-and-from work and this gives me a chance to catch up on my reading.
I also get the IEEE Spectrum, which I scan for stuff that interests me, but I've stopped subscribing to specialized technical journals (like Communications or DSP) since they are often targeted towards the academia crowd anyway, and I have no time try and understand the latest proofs and treatises.
Google is replacing the encyclopedia for information lookup. People rarely go to any of the "encyclopedia sites" since the first few results of google are usually right on.
Google -- the information black hole (where information is sucked in but can be sucked out again)
First paragraph from babelfish.altavista.com:
Hitachi, Ltd. (President execution part: Manor mountain Etuhiko, below: Hitachi), this each time, turning from with 360 degree anywhere, it developed the new model stereoscopic vision display technology which can look at image. With this technology, as for the viewer like wearing and hologram image of the special glasses, it is possible to enjoy the kind of stereoscopic vision which just floats in the sky without processing specially. In addition, jointly using the private photographing system, stereoscopic vision of photograph taken on the spot discrimination/reference also it is possible in real time to praise. Through network, if photograph taken on the spot image is sent, the presentation of the completely new shape that is actualized stereoscopic vision is appreciated simultaneously at the place where it is far. Application in wide field is expected as the new information offer system where this technology used image.
I still have a K6-2 450 MHz which I bought in 1999 for my main home computer. I use it as a file server and I agree that it's very stable. I leave it on all the time and it never ever needs rebooting --except of course after I've installed the latest Windows updates...
Actually, security from man-in-the-middle attacks is what cryptography is normally concerned with. Real security is achieved when transmitted information is still "unknowable" despite knowledge about the process of transmission.
That's the whole point of public and private keys. Statistical impossibility of dechiphering the private key--not obscurity--is its goal.
"For the first time, the Mars Rovers vehicle is using OSS and it is reported to be functioning well."
I thought the Mars Rovers were using software from Wind River? Is their code using GPL then?
Slashdot Mirror
"As it swings toward the shiny object, the Mars Hand Lens Imager camera abruptly falls of its hinges..."
interwebs is plural, duh.
Interwebs ARE plural, duh.
that...or maybe they just found a more accurate value for c.
$2.5 Million over 14 years amounts to about $178k/year (not including interest earned if he had it invested somewhere). A great "up yours" to his gold digger ex-wife.
By the time I was done with my GE classes and starting my engineering classes, I learned that I could skip most lectures and do self-study. I would pick up the syllabus on the first day to get the semester schedule. Then I would simply show up for quizzes, exams and the occasional lecture. The only classes I attended regularly were the labs--much more interesting. I didn't get perfect grades, but I didn't fail either. It took a little bit more discipline to self-study, but the benefits are enormous especially when struggling with a particularly difficult subject and you finally get it. You don't get that in most "spoon feeding" lectures.
Yeah, but can it pop a house full of popcorn?
I thought according to quantum mechanics the position (and hence the number) of atoms can't be determined due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Or...you are the co-worker of that good office worker who spends all week surfing the web and at the end of the week you hand off to your boss a 100-page document full of gibberish you typed up just so you can go home and wait for a check. You've done this numerous times so you don't really care about the quality of your work so long as you get that check. What you've done is worthless. What you've done is taken money for worthless labor on your part. Like what the RIAA is doing to consumers. Bottom Line: Until consumers are allowed to choose the value of the media being produced, worthless crap and great works will share the same value to them--either worth paying for or not at all. What you've done is
I've been a member of a Linux User's Group here in SoCal since 2001 but I've never attended a meeting. From the LUG's emails, the meetings sounded interesting at first: "Install Debian on a Sony Laptop" and the like, but never enough for me to give up one Saturday morning a month to attend. I'm still subscribed but the traffic now is mostly posts for upcoming meetings. I find the web as a much more apropo place for "Linux Users".
On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Check your facts!
We use Lotus Notes at work, and from my experience it's not exactly a well-designed software. For example: A user's password expires every 30 days. To change my password I have to log in (so I type in my password) and then you have to access my user id (type in password again) and then click on change password (where I have to type in my password once again) and only then can I actually type in a new password. And then it has this web-browser interface that never works right in Firefox or Opera so I had to use Wine to run it on Linux.
It doesn't bode well for Microsoft to have this guy as their main "architect" if his Lotus Notes is any indication of his design prowess.
1) Bypass Congress/FISA and allow NSA eavesdrop on "terrorists"
2) Leak eavesdropping program to press
3) Hold hearings and find a scapegoat (Alberto Gonzales?)
4) Conclude that FISA and the Patriot Act ain't so bad after all (when compared to illegal wiretapping).
Face it, under this administration we are all sheep.
XENIX!
I think it's correct to call both ID and evolution as "theories". The difference is in how these two ideas use abstractions to support their view of reality. One says an intelligent being must have designed life, while the other says life evolved due to pressures of environment.
One requires a belief based on faith, the other a belief based on observation and reasoning. Which one is a better representation of reality?
opening a browser and typing http://localhost:631 to configure your CUPS printer?
I was in the same situation when I had my first son. When he was about 14 months old and was starting to explore as humans tend to do at that age. I decided that the best way for him to not mess up the computer was to show him how to use it correctly instead. It was the software, Jumpstart Toddler that actually began my son's introduction to using the computer. To avoid messing up my settings, I created a separate acount for him. I then taught him that it was ok to play with the computer only when Daddy or Mommy was around. He quickly learned to use the mouse and keyboard by playing around with it.
Forward 6 years later, and he now helps his 2nd grade teacher teach the other kids during his computer class (although he tells me that they use Mac's).
I think having a "yes" environment, instead of a "no" environment fosters discovery and learning. (Just my 2 cents.)
I live about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles where I work. I take the train to-and-from work and this gives me a chance to catch up on my reading.
/. for that...
I also get the IEEE Spectrum, which I scan for stuff that interests me, but I've stopped subscribing to specialized technical journals (like Communications or DSP) since they are often targeted towards the academia crowd anyway, and I have no time try and understand the latest proofs and treatises.
I read
Electrical Engineering is to an electrician as Computer Science is to
A) parking attendant
B) IT professional
C) hamburger flipper
D) disk jockey
Google is replacing the encyclopedia for information lookup. People rarely go to any of the "encyclopedia sites" since the first few results of google are usually right on. Google -- the information black hole (where information is sucked in but can be sucked out again)
At times like these--OpenSSH and GPG.
First paragraph from babelfish.altavista.com:
Hitachi, Ltd. (President execution part: Manor mountain Etuhiko, below: Hitachi), this each time, turning from with 360 degree anywhere, it developed the new model stereoscopic vision display technology which can look at image. With this technology, as for the viewer like wearing and hologram image of the special glasses, it is possible to enjoy the kind of stereoscopic vision which just floats in the sky without processing specially. In addition, jointly using the private photographing system, stereoscopic vision of photograph taken on the spot discrimination/reference also it is possible in real time to praise. Through network, if photograph taken on the spot image is sent, the presentation of the completely new shape that is actualized stereoscopic vision is appreciated simultaneously at the place where it is far. Application in wide field is expected as the new information offer system where this technology used image.
I still have a K6-2 450 MHz which I bought in 1999 for my main home computer. I use it as a file server and I agree that it's very stable. I leave it on all the time and it never ever needs rebooting --except of course after I've installed the latest Windows updates...
Actually, security from man-in-the-middle attacks is what cryptography is normally concerned with. Real security is achieved when transmitted information is still "unknowable" despite knowledge about the process of transmission.
That's the whole point of public and private keys. Statistical impossibility of dechiphering the private key--not obscurity--is its goal.
"For the first time, the Mars Rovers vehicle is using OSS and it is reported to be functioning well."
I thought the Mars Rovers were using software from Wind River? Is their code using GPL then?