I would be very interested in applying for something as cool as working for Space-X. I have experience in aerospace, software development, aerodynamics, cryogenics, embedded hardware development, and non-IP embedded network engineering.
I would be. But.. Mcgregor, Texas? And are these jobs even real, or are they just ones that exist in the mind of PR-wonk? I'd have to relocate, learn a new language or two. I do not speak Texan, which might be a bit of a deal breaker. Would the benefits out weigh the costs?
If you can get enough 'normal' people to live in a smallish area, you can carve out a small niche of humanity from the giant wasteland of Texas. It works for Austin, Richardson (near Dallas) and, to a lesser extent, the region near the Johnson Manned Space Flight Center south of Houston.
Besides, Texas has some real advantages. Guns, Country Music, err, and a couple more, just drawing a blank at the moment.
What's really interesting about this tale is that is was designed for Steve Fossett, a friend of Branson's for a single dive into the Marianas trench. It was bought off of his estate (along with a catamaran mother craft) for a measly one million dollars. At that price, one of the oceanographic institutions should have picked it up as it would be pretty useful for shallower dives - lots of interesting places in the ocean not quite as deep.
But Branson, the PR hack that he is, wanted to take it down repeatedly to abyssal trench depth, something the designers had hissy fits about. Seems silly. Not much to see at the very deeps. Much more fun at a couple of hundred feet. If you want to scare yourself, you can just book passage on a Nigerian ferry or similar foolish stunt.
Are you willing to stand up against Dr Amanda on pro-GW site and explain to her that she is jumping at sensational conclusions and that few random heat waves are in no way indication of bad effects of global warming? Risk getting called denialist just because of pointing it out.
Yes. This is exactly what we should be doing. The National Wildlife Federation is not a credible institution as far as climate change is concerned. They are a very pro statist organization with more emotion than science. They're pissed that humans are over running parts of the planet and any bit of information that supports the 'bad human' posture is good news to them.
A significant problem is that this is complex issue with many unknowns. You can't feed that sort of thing to the media providers and consumers. It's just too hard. So it has to be broken down into something very, very simple.
Your view of the American system is hopelessly naive. It is already a complicated mix of public / private - so complex that there are literally tens of thousands of people involved in figuring out the minute details of how to actually deliver care. CMMS (Centers for Medicare / Medicaid Security) is a government entity that both pays money - directly to providers and to other companies and, simultaneously, regulates payments AND sets standards for 'private' companies to pay.
Medicaid (a government entity paid for by both states and the Federal government) IS the 'insurer of last resort' for complex, very ill patients.
There is nothing 'either / or' about this system. In fact, one of the biggest complaints about the system is in fact, that it is so "OR" - so friggin complex that nobody can figure it out. This leads to administrative waste, poor care and job security for those tens of thousands of people. Just about the worst system you could have come up with.
Yes, and Star Trek had FTL transportation, transporters, a post scarcity economy and uniformly attractive women.
It's all very nice for an hour or so a week, but most of us have to deal with this annoying concept of reality. Hell, I'd settle for just one of those.
You are 'innocent until proven guilty' only when you are arrested for a criminal act by a governmental entity. In the court of public opinion, you're toast.
Well perhaps. We used Werner Von Braun's research after all. But the Nazi medical 'research' was uniformly terrible science. It was just plain old sadism.
And, I have found that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others, but the outcome is generally the same for authors who copy extensively: Their papers don't get cited much.
Oh calm down. You can always buy a two year old Mac Book Pro for a pretty reasonable price and run the entire Creative Suite on it no problemo. Yes, it's a bit bloated** (and what isn't) but disk space isn't exactly expensive these days. CS, at least on OS X, has been very stable of late. Hardly perfect, but nothing much is these days.
I doubt Adobe will ever move over to Linux, just because it is too small a market and too fragmented. If they do, they are liable to price it up to big iron levels as many of the ** really big ** CG / graphic arts companies are running some very high end software on Linux. Don't expect Photoshop for Ubuntu to ever come along....
(**Just did a quick check - on a Mac Pro, running ALL my applications including the full Creative Suite with several levels of programs (ie, Photoshop CS6, Photoshop CS and Photoshop CC 2014), Modo, Maya and bog knows what all, I'm using 65 GB of space. A drop in the proverbial bucket - I could put it all on an SD card should I desire.)
If there is a market for in perpetuity licenses that is not supported by the big guys, then the new little guys will work out of their local coffee shop (garages having long been turned into apartments for additional rent money) and create what needs to be created.
Much of the subscription model depends on the details. Adobe got hammered because, originally, they put Photoshop in with everything else. A bit later, they realized there was a significant user base that wasn't interested in video or graphic arts and they created a Photoshop / Lightroom bundle for a pretty reasonable price. Of course, Adobe had always done that with the various disk collections so it was puzzling that they didn't start out very nuanced in the subscription world.
Windows for $10 / year / computer for home use probably would be popular if it 1) had some obvious value added features (antivirus, clip art, drive space) and would not totally dissolve if you didn't pay the price. Perhaps you would have performance limits or some other bit of persuasion.
And, of course, most of us would prefer if Microsoft (and Adobe for that matter) would sell you in perpetuity licenses for those few people that plan on taking their laptops to Central Nowhereastan for the next ten years, cut off from the rest of the world. Or just never left their basement.
Sounds like... Technet. They essentially had this. Maybe the price points were wrong for them, or they didn't like some of the details, but they effectively had a subscription service. They shut it down. I loved it when it was available - $250 a year for essentially 3-5 licenses of every OS version, plus tools, plus applications, plus 1-3 server licenses of each version of the server. Heck, at $350 a year I wouldn't have even blinked. But for some reason they couldn't just shut up and take my money.
This. And I'm not even a MS guy primarily. Especially for a small business / small developer, the price was chump change and the benefits enormous - to both the end user and MS. It's a bit like the recent Adobe subscription model - at a certain level, basically even low level professional, it's a great deal. For an individual / hobbyist, not so much. Hell, MS could have made several tiers in the system (again, much like Adobe is doing now) to keep different groups of people on board.
Perhaps some MBA will think of this and, once again, history will repeat itself.
Slashdot Mirror
Go ask them.
You might want to wait until after Christmas, they're a bit busy now.
If you're THAT much of a coward, they win.
Grow some balls.
I would be very interested in applying for something as cool as working for Space-X. I have experience in aerospace, software development, aerodynamics, cryogenics, embedded hardware development, and non-IP embedded network engineering.
I would be. But.. Mcgregor, Texas? And are these jobs even real, or are they just ones that exist in the mind of PR-wonk? I'd have to relocate, learn a new language or two. I do not speak Texan, which might be a bit of a deal breaker. Would the benefits out weigh the costs?
If you can get enough 'normal' people to live in a smallish area, you can carve out a small niche of humanity from the giant wasteland of Texas. It works for Austin, Richardson (near Dallas) and, to a lesser extent, the region near the Johnson Manned Space Flight Center south of Houston.
Besides, Texas has some real advantages. Guns, Country Music, err, and a couple more, just drawing a blank at the moment.
What's really interesting about this tale is that is was designed for Steve Fossett, a friend of Branson's for a single dive into the Marianas trench. It was bought off of his estate (along with a catamaran mother craft) for a measly one million dollars. At that price, one of the oceanographic institutions should have picked it up as it would be pretty useful for shallower dives - lots of interesting places in the ocean not quite as deep.
But Branson, the PR hack that he is, wanted to take it down repeatedly to abyssal trench depth, something the designers had hissy fits about. Seems silly. Not much to see at the very deeps. Much more fun at a couple of hundred feet. If you want to scare yourself, you can just book passage on a Nigerian ferry or similar foolish stunt.
Wind Turbines have been popping up in large quantities all over the country. I'm betting that has altered the wind patterns.
Republicans have been popping up in large quantities all over the country. I'm betting that has altered the wind patterns.
It's Bush's fault!
That's really pushing the definition of 'art'.
Are you willing to stand up against Dr Amanda on pro-GW site and explain to her that she is jumping at sensational conclusions and that few random heat waves are in no way indication of bad effects of global warming? Risk getting called denialist just because of pointing it out.
Yes. This is exactly what we should be doing. The National Wildlife Federation is not a credible institution as far as climate change is concerned. They are a very pro statist organization with more emotion than science. They're pissed that humans are over running parts of the planet and any bit of information that supports the 'bad human' posture is good news to them.
A significant problem is that this is complex issue with many unknowns. You can't feed that sort of thing to the media providers and consumers. It's just too hard. So it has to be broken down into something very, very simple.
"Four legs good, two legs bad."
Your view of the American system is hopelessly naive. It is already a complicated mix of public / private - so complex that there are literally tens of thousands of people involved in figuring out the minute details of how to actually deliver care. CMMS (Centers for Medicare / Medicaid Security) is a government entity that both pays money - directly to providers and to other companies and, simultaneously, regulates payments AND sets standards for 'private' companies to pay.
Medicaid (a government entity paid for by both states and the Federal government) IS the 'insurer of last resort' for complex, very ill patients.
There is nothing 'either / or' about this system. In fact, one of the biggest complaints about the system is in fact, that it is so "OR" - so friggin complex that nobody can figure it out. This leads to administrative waste, poor care and job security for those tens of thousands of people. Just about the worst system you could have come up with.
Seeds?
You're doing it wrong.
Yes, and Star Trek had FTL transportation, transporters, a post scarcity economy and uniformly attractive women.
It's all very nice for an hour or so a week, but most of us have to deal with this annoying concept of reality. Hell, I'd settle for just one of those.
... Grabbing at my balls and pushing me into a microwave oven isn't really what I call laying out the welcome mat. But hey, it's your country.
A turkey posting on Slashdot? Maybe you should just visit with vegetarians.
You are 'innocent until proven guilty' only when you are arrested for a criminal act by a governmental entity. In the court of public opinion, you're toast.
That just amped me right up.
Well perhaps. We used Werner Von Braun's research after all. But the Nazi medical 'research' was uniformly terrible science. It was just plain old sadism.
No, all they have to do is turn it up to '11'.
And, I have found that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others, but the outcome is generally the same for authors who copy extensively: Their papers don't get cited much.
Funny. That's exactly what TFA said.
It's almost as if you plagiarized it.
Remember that in many emerging markets, Blackberry is the way most of the population access the web.
Cool. A time traveler. What year are you from?
I'm pretty sure that my programs are out to get me.
Sounds like grad school to me.
You are so not invited to my party.
Oh calm down. You can always buy a two year old Mac Book Pro for a pretty reasonable price and run the entire Creative Suite on it no problemo. Yes, it's a bit bloated** (and what isn't) but disk space isn't exactly expensive these days. CS, at least on OS X, has been very stable of late. Hardly perfect, but nothing much is these days.
I doubt Adobe will ever move over to Linux, just because it is too small a market and too fragmented. If they do, they are liable to price it up to big iron levels as many of the ** really big ** CG / graphic arts companies are running some very high end software on Linux. Don't expect Photoshop for Ubuntu to ever come along....
(**Just did a quick check - on a Mac Pro, running ALL my applications including the full Creative Suite with several levels of programs (ie, Photoshop CS6, Photoshop CS and Photoshop CC 2014), Modo, Maya and bog knows what all, I'm using 65 GB of space. A drop in the proverbial bucket - I could put it all on an SD card should I desire.)
And so it will be again.
If there is a market for in perpetuity licenses that is not supported by the big guys, then the new little guys will work out of their local coffee shop (garages having long been turned into apartments for additional rent money) and create what needs to be created.
The cycle of life will continue.
Much of the subscription model depends on the details. Adobe got hammered because, originally, they put Photoshop in with everything else. A bit later, they realized there was a significant user base that wasn't interested in video or graphic arts and they created a Photoshop / Lightroom bundle for a pretty reasonable price. Of course, Adobe had always done that with the various disk collections so it was puzzling that they didn't start out very nuanced in the subscription world.
Windows for $10 / year / computer for home use probably would be popular if it 1) had some obvious value added features (antivirus, clip art, drive space) and would not totally dissolve if you didn't pay the price. Perhaps you would have performance limits or some other bit of persuasion.
And, of course, most of us would prefer if Microsoft (and Adobe for that matter) would sell you in perpetuity licenses for those few people that plan on taking their laptops to Central Nowhereastan for the next ten years, cut off from the rest of the world. Or just never left their basement.
Sounds like... Technet. They essentially had this. Maybe the price points were wrong for them, or they didn't like some of the details, but they effectively had a subscription service. They shut it down. I loved it when it was available - $250 a year for essentially 3-5 licenses of every OS version, plus tools, plus applications, plus 1-3 server licenses of each version of the server. Heck, at $350 a year I wouldn't have even blinked. But for some reason they couldn't just shut up and take my money.
This. And I'm not even a MS guy primarily. Especially for a small business / small developer, the price was chump change and the benefits enormous - to both the end user and MS. It's a bit like the recent Adobe subscription model - at a certain level, basically even low level professional, it's a great deal. For an individual / hobbyist, not so much. Hell, MS could have made several tiers in the system (again, much like Adobe is doing now) to keep different groups of people on board.
Perhaps some MBA will think of this and, once again, history will repeat itself.
Sounds similar to PETA enthusiasts. You sure you didn't copy somebody's bio?