I just completed my MS in Software Engineering this June. I got a BS in Computer Science in 2000 and in 2006 decided to go back to school to get my MS for several reasons. At the time I felt my job was getting to be brain-dead grunt work and I wanted to prove to myself that I could still handle the complicated stuff. So I went back part time - it was a 45 credit program and took about 9 a year (3 courses). My employer reimbursed about half of it so I considered it to be a pay raise.:) It took me 6 years, but now have the confidence that I can still do the complex stuff and learned some great things. I'm required to stay at my employer for a period of time since they reimbursed me, so I don't know yet how much having the degree will help in the job field, but to me it was worth it.
It was a lot of work and I often grew fed up with it, but pulled through and am finally done. As for a PHD, I'm not considering one yet. Maybe in another 6 years...:)
I always have 2 cups of coffee before I'm out the door.
In winter I have a bowl of instant oatmeal. In summer usually a cold cereal of some type, or a banana.
If I'm running late I still have the coffee, but then just get a ham-egg-cheese on wheat toast from one of the many food carts I pass in the city. Ummm. So greasy. It's usually my once-a-week breakfast treat to myself.:)
I wonder if this will be a good replacement for my aging Rio Carbon. I love my Carbon - works perfectly w/ Linux. Just plug it in and it is seen as a removable HD and you just copy mp3s to it. Hell, you can use it to store other files as well - it doesn't care. But the battery is wearing down. Only like 10 hours per charge (Used to get 18...). Not bad for something almost 2 years old.
I could care less about video, fm, blah. I just want a good 5+ gig player w/ loooooong battery life (at least 15 hours thanks) that will just act like a removable HD when I plug it into my Linux box/iBook. Keep it simple.
If not this, anyone know of other MP3 players like this? (oh, and ones that Best Buy sells, because I'm planning on using my 'warranty' on my Carbon for the new one).
I don't think that you need a 'Fairly Fast Machine' to run it. I'm running my SlimServer on an AMD K6-2 350 w/ 256 ram (running linux). The machine is also my webserver, ftp server, email server, NFS server, blah blah blah - my 'everything' server box. Granted scanning 80gigs of MP3's takes a bit, but I just have the software setup to do the rescans at 3:30 in the morning. So other than when the rescanning is occuring, it runs very smoothly with plenty of resourses left on the server box to do whatever else.
I've had a SqueezeBox v1 for several years and I love it as well. I was originally interested in it because of the server software - that it was Open Source and written in PERL. Plus they encourage hacking of the hardware and of the software. Any company with those morals gets my support.
When I first got my SqueezeBox in the mail it would not play correctly - the sound was all distorted. I sent them an email and they told me to just open it up and see if anything was loose or broken from shipping. I asked "Won't that void my warranty?" and they just said no, don't worry about it. So I popped it open and found that there was a broken piece floating around in it. They just told me to send it back and they replaced it very quickly and covered all shipping charges.
Sure, you can run to your local electronics store and get a wireless MP3 player for less than the Squeezebox, but does it run on Linux, is the software Open Source, is the company 'Not Evil'?
If only more companies were like Slim Devices we would have some really cool things going on.
Hmm. Wouldn't ROTT (Rise of the Triad) be prior art (circa 1997-1998 maybe?). I remember it having a 'shroomin' mode - where if you ate some mushrooms, it got all trippy for a minute or two...
But I guess that taking drugs is not covered by this patent:
character's sanity level that is affected by occurrences in the game such as encountering a game creature or gruesome situation
Due to the amazing properties of nostalgia you just happen to forget all the crappy old games which were no fun, had bad controls, and were frustrating to play.
So now that it's said and done, what are we to do? It looks like the majority of people here are anti-Bush and were hoping for a Kerry win. That even applies (possibly even more so) to those not living within the US.
So what should/could we do? Sure, fleeing to Canada is an option, but after reading some comments that is a selfish move - and something which is not helping the rest of the planet from W's path of destruction.
Hm, that's probably more accurate. I was going to say the rest of the world hates us, but I recently read something about most people in other countries only feel that way about Bush, not about Americans in general.
So maybe saying 'The world fears us' is incorrect - is 'The world despises us' better?:)
Well, we all know that didn't work out well for Clinton - when he left office we had the largest surplus and the most jobs. And the world liked us.
Now Bush has been doing his own thing without listening to the people, There are less jobs now then when he entered office (first pres to do this in 74 years) and we have a record deficit. The world pretty much fears us.
It is not a double standard to protect the innocent, and punish the guilty.
Didn't you agree in the parent that there are innocents on death row that may get the chair - but 'Oh Well'? Life is life and should be valued as so. So if it is not right to kill one, it is not right to kill any. I don't have any opinion on abortion at all - I will never have one and will never cause a child to be brought into this world. So abortion should be figured out by those who have or plan to have children.
Sodom and Gomorrah was hardly innocent. If you're truly interested in that Bible passage, you should probably read it.
I was simply providing it as an example of how many times people say "See, the bible says it is bad - so it is." But there are lots of things in the bible that are no longer relevalant - unless you consider your wife to be your property and you only have sex to have kids, etc...
However, I don't feel it selfish that I don't want my child to be required to learn that it is OK to have two daddies or two mommies in his grade school though. Or worse yet, that its genetic. That's just plain foolish.
First - Why isn't it OK to have two mommies or two daddies? I agree it would be tough as hell on the kid because many other children are taught their parent's hate. Any child of a gay or lesbian couple would surely be bombarded with grief from fellow classmates.
But I would argue that those couples have a much better chance of remaining a family unit. 2/3rds of all marriages end in divorce. I would say that gay couples have gone though a lot to be together in a committed relationship and to have a child - thus creating a stronger bond. Sure, it may not last, but percentage wise I feel that those end in divorce less often. And is having two mommies or two daddies worse that having only one parent, or two that don't care about the kid because they have 5 others also?
And as for the genetics thing - I don't know if it is genetics or not, but people should have free will. Not free will to go and hurt others and violate their basic human rights, but if two people choose to be together they are not hurting anyone else. And children should be taught to be who they want to be - not who they should or should not (again keeping to the respecting human rights aspect).
"congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Keep your government out of my God
Exactly. So any law based on religion should be out - as long as people respect human rights and are 'good' to eachother - let them be.
If you live in the US (which I am assuming) then it is OUR government. And your (just to you or a group) god is just that - yours and not mine.
2. I support the death penalty. I realize innocent men have been sentenced to death. There is no perfect world. Should we just let everyone go if we make mistakes occasionally?
Killing un-born babies is bad - Double standard. Aren't you supposed to 'Turn the Other Cheek'. Or that's just outdated right, just like the 'Sodom and omorrah' story - oh no, another double standard.
4. I agree that "what someone else does in their own bedroom is a matter of the government." I don't want to support them with my social security payments, or require my kids to hear that its acceptable behavior for them in school.
I don't want to support breeders and their damn kids in schools, but I have to. So unless I get to opt out, you bitches gotta give your share also.
Don't want to share? That's greed - a deadly sin.
I love how, being a former Catholic, I know more about the religion than they do.
Sigh. Seperation of church and state people. Keep YOUR god out of OUR government. Thanks.;)
So you're telling me if Kerry had been in power, over 1000 American troops would still be alive, over 15000 iraqa would still be alive, the US government would have $140B lower deficit this year, and Saddam (lame duck dictator) would still be struggling with UN sanctions. I wonder if he'd be building WMD's? After all, his program was dismantled in 1991. From 1991 to 2003, he made no measurable headway on it. But I'm sure at any minute, he was going to become Nuclear capable. Like Iran or North Korea. I'm sure your crystal ball can tell us what was going to happen.
Well, I feel to contribute my extreme leftist views. Had Gore been in office, I don't think Sept 11th would have happend, and then there would have been no pretense to go on a 'War of Terror' (oh, that should be 'on' terror, right.) to get the guy that gone done and tried to kill my daddy!
I couldn't agree with you more. Being a citizen of the US - this whole election is very, very depressing. I am extremely anti-Bush. I will be voting for Kerry only because I don't want four more years of Bush. I would really prefer Nader, but I live in a swing state and I don't want to 'waste my vote'.
Quite Honestly, I wish Howard Dean made it this far instead of Kerry. But apparently he showed too much enthusiasm and concern - he wasn't dull enough to make it.
Something has to be done. My partner and I are honestly thinking about moving to another country if Bush wins again.
In the words of KMFDM: 'We need a revolution to rip the system'. In these times, I could not agree more.
We have a multiparty system, but the other parties just have not attracked the interest of the American people.
The media only pays attention to the two major parties - thus why people ususally are bound to one or the other. When ALL parties get EQUAL representation in ALL instances, then America will no longer be a two party system.
But here in the states the concept of 'All' and 'Equal' are rarely seen together...
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I just completed my MS in Software Engineering this June. I got a BS in Computer Science in 2000 and in 2006 decided to go back to school to get my MS for several reasons. At the time I felt my job was getting to be brain-dead grunt work and I wanted to prove to myself that I could still handle the complicated stuff. So I went back part time - it was a 45 credit program and took about 9 a year (3 courses). My employer reimbursed about half of it so I considered it to be a pay raise. :) It took me 6 years, but now have the confidence that I can still do the complex stuff and learned some great things. I'm required to stay at my employer for a period of time since they reimbursed me, so I don't know yet how much having the degree will help in the job field, but to me it was worth it.
It was a lot of work and I often grew fed up with it, but pulled through and am finally done. As for a PHD, I'm not considering one yet. Maybe in another 6 years... :)
Bee's do see, recognize, and remember colors. They could've used a citation though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communication#Color_Learning_in_Honeybees
I always have 2 cups of coffee before I'm out the door.
:)
In winter I have a bowl of instant oatmeal. In summer usually a cold cereal of some type, or a banana.
If I'm running late I still have the coffee, but then just get a ham-egg-cheese on wheat toast from one of the many food carts I pass in the city. Ummm. So greasy. It's usually my once-a-week breakfast treat to myself.
I wonder if this will be a good replacement for my aging Rio Carbon. I love my Carbon - works perfectly w/ Linux. Just plug it in and it is seen as a removable HD and you just copy mp3s to it. Hell, you can use it to store other files as well - it doesn't care. But the battery is wearing down. Only like 10 hours per charge (Used to get 18...). Not bad for something almost 2 years old.
I could care less about video, fm, blah. I just want a good 5+ gig player w/ loooooong battery life (at least 15 hours thanks) that will just act like a removable HD when I plug it into my Linux box/iBook. Keep it simple.
If not this, anyone know of other MP3 players like this? (oh, and ones that Best Buy sells, because I'm planning on using my 'warranty' on my Carbon for the new one).
Sean - will the Squeezebox ever support Video? Now *That* would be sweet.
I don't think that you need a 'Fairly Fast Machine' to run it. I'm running my SlimServer on an AMD K6-2 350 w/ 256 ram (running linux). The machine is also my webserver, ftp server, email server, NFS server, blah blah blah - my 'everything' server box. Granted scanning 80gigs of MP3's takes a bit, but I just have the software setup to do the rescans at 3:30 in the morning. So other than when the rescanning is occuring, it runs very smoothly with plenty of resourses left on the server box to do whatever else.
I've had a SqueezeBox v1 for several years and I love it as well. I was originally interested in it because of the server software - that it was Open Source and written in PERL. Plus they encourage hacking of the hardware and of the software. Any company with those morals gets my support.
When I first got my SqueezeBox in the mail it would not play correctly - the sound was all distorted. I sent them an email and they told me to just open it up and see if anything was loose or broken from shipping. I asked "Won't that void my warranty?" and they just said no, don't worry about it. So I popped it open and found that there was a broken piece floating around in it. They just told me to send it back and they replaced it very quickly and covered all shipping charges.
Sure, you can run to your local electronics store and get a wireless MP3 player for less than the Squeezebox, but does it run on Linux, is the software Open Source, is the company 'Not Evil'?
If only more companies were like Slim Devices we would have some really cool things going on.
Hmm. Wouldn't ROTT (Rise of the Triad) be prior art (circa 1997-1998 maybe?). I remember it having a 'shroomin' mode - where if you ate some mushrooms, it got all trippy for a minute or two...
But I guess that taking drugs is not covered by this patent:
character's sanity level that is affected by occurrences in the game such as encountering a game creature or gruesome situation
Let the pill popping games begin!
Due to the amazing properties of nostalgia you just happen to forget all the crappy old games which were no fun, had bad controls, and were frustrating to play.
Journey Escape anyone?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
So now that it's said and done, what are we to do? It looks like the majority of people here are anti-Bush and were hoping for a Kerry win. That even applies (possibly even more so) to those not living within the US.
;o)
So what should/could we do? Sure, fleeing to Canada is an option, but after reading some comments that is a selfish move - and something which is not helping the rest of the planet from W's path of destruction.
Any ideas?
No thanks. Even though I'm a liberal I could still afford my own plane ticket - but I would drive anyway. I even have a willing sponsor. :oP
And you make it sound like 1) that I was joking and 2) that it's a radical idea.
They have more freedom than we do at this point. And after 4 more years of Bush who knows how bad the United Police States of America will be.
If you are not afraid you are not paying attention.
You are the ones who seem to fear the world
:)
Hm, that's probably more accurate. I was going to say the rest of the world hates us, but I recently read something about most people in other countries only feel that way about Bush, not about Americans in general.
So maybe saying 'The world fears us' is incorrect - is 'The world despises us' better?
Troll? Ok - I guess others can quote bumper stickers without any issues.
But I go ahead and quote my open source stickers and get flagged as a troll.
Sigh.
Well, we all know that didn't work out well for Clinton - when he left office we had the largest surplus and the most jobs. And the world liked us.
Now Bush has been doing his own thing without listening to the people, There are less jobs now then when he entered office (first pres to do this in 74 years) and we have a record deficit. The world pretty much fears us.
Hmmm, I wonder which is better.
I would be better off - I hope someone would 'liberate' us.
If Bush "wins" again, I'm moving to Canada.
What is this, the bumper sticker quoting spot?
Oh well, shameless plug then:
Hate Freedom? Vote Bush!
Fight Terrorism - Oust Bush!
It is not a double standard to protect the innocent, and punish the guilty.
Didn't you agree in the parent that there are innocents on death row that may get the chair - but 'Oh Well'? Life is life and should be valued as so. So if it is not right to kill one, it is not right to kill any. I don't have any opinion on abortion at all - I will never have one and will never cause a child to be brought into this world. So abortion should be figured out by those who have or plan to have children.
Sodom and Gomorrah was hardly innocent. If you're truly interested in that Bible passage, you should probably read it.
I was simply providing it as an example of how many times people say "See, the bible says it is bad - so it is." But there are lots of things in the bible that are no longer relevalant - unless you consider your wife to be your property and you only have sex to have kids, etc...
However, I don't feel it selfish that I don't want my child to be required to learn that it is OK to have two daddies or two mommies in his grade school though. Or worse yet, that its genetic. That's just plain foolish.
First - Why isn't it OK to have two mommies or two daddies? I agree it would be tough as hell on the kid because many other children are taught their parent's hate. Any child of a gay or lesbian couple would surely be bombarded with grief from fellow classmates.
But I would argue that those couples have a much better chance of remaining a family unit. 2/3rds of all marriages end in divorce. I would say that gay couples have gone though a lot to be together in a committed relationship and to have a child - thus creating a stronger bond. Sure, it may not last, but percentage wise I feel that those end in divorce less often. And is having two mommies or two daddies worse that having only one parent, or two that don't care about the kid because they have 5 others also?
And as for the genetics thing - I don't know if it is genetics or not, but people should have free will. Not free will to go and hurt others and violate their basic human rights, but if two people choose to be together they are not hurting anyone else. And children should be taught to be who they want to be - not who they should or should not (again keeping to the respecting human rights aspect).
"congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". Keep your government out of my God
Exactly. So any law based on religion should be out - as long as people respect human rights and are 'good' to eachother - let them be.
If you live in the US (which I am assuming) then it is OUR government. And your (just to you or a group) god is just that - yours and not mine.
Ohh, this will be fun!
;)
2. I support the death penalty. I realize innocent men have been sentenced to death. There is no perfect world. Should we just let everyone go if we make mistakes occasionally?
Killing un-born babies is bad - Double standard. Aren't you supposed to 'Turn the Other Cheek'. Or that's just outdated right, just like the 'Sodom and omorrah' story - oh no, another double standard.
4. I agree that "what someone else does in their own bedroom is a matter of the government." I don't want to support them with my social security payments, or require my kids to hear that its acceptable behavior for them in school.
I don't want to support breeders and their damn kids in schools, but I have to. So unless I get to opt out, you bitches gotta give your share also.
Don't want to share? That's greed - a deadly sin.
I love how, being a former Catholic, I know more about the religion than they do.
Sigh. Seperation of church and state people. Keep YOUR god out of OUR government. Thanks.
It's so obviously just sharing power between two evil parties. Not a Democracy. Lets invade and restore Democracy there!! Attack!!
Oh, Pretty Please? I honestly keep wondering when the US will get it's liberation. Sure, Iraq gets freedom, too bad we don't.
I'd welcome "Operation US Freedom" anytime...
The whole 'I'm catholic so I vote for Bush' thing entertains me:
1) Killing unborn babies not OK.
But,
2) Killing Iraqis is OK.
Gotta love double standards.
So you're telling me if Kerry had been in power, over 1000 American troops would still be alive, over 15000 iraqa would still be alive, the US government would have $140B lower deficit this year, and Saddam (lame duck dictator) would still be struggling with UN sanctions. I wonder if he'd be building WMD's? After all, his program was dismantled in 1991. From 1991 to 2003, he made no measurable headway on it. But I'm sure at any minute, he was going to become Nuclear capable. Like Iran or North Korea. I'm sure your crystal ball can tell us what was going to happen.
Well, I feel to contribute my extreme leftist views. Had Gore been in office, I don't think Sept 11th would have happend, and then there would have been no pretense to go on a 'War of Terror' (oh, that should be 'on' terror, right.) to get the guy that gone done and tried to kill my daddy!
Conspiracies are Fun!
Do you really ware to hear from the Nazi and COmmunist Parties though?
Personally, no. But there is that whole 'Freedom of Speech' thing that I remeber hearing about once.
You may not want to hear it, but they have a right to be heard. I don't want to hear either Bush or Kerry.
Nader get's a good amount of time? I must have missed the fact that he is on tonight's debate with the other Presidential candidates...
I couldn't agree with you more. Being a citizen of the US - this whole election is very, very depressing. I am extremely anti-Bush. I will be voting for Kerry only because I don't want four more years of Bush. I would really prefer Nader, but I live in a swing state and I don't want to 'waste my vote'.
Quite Honestly, I wish Howard Dean made it this far instead of Kerry. But apparently he showed too much enthusiasm and concern - he wasn't dull enough to make it.
Something has to be done. My partner and I are honestly thinking about moving to another country if Bush wins again.
In the words of KMFDM: 'We need a revolution to rip the system'. In these times, I could not agree more.
We have a multiparty system, but the other parties just have not attracked the interest of the American people.
The media only pays attention to the two major parties - thus why people ususally are bound to one or the other. When ALL parties get EQUAL representation in ALL instances, then America will no longer be a two party system.
But here in the states the concept of 'All' and 'Equal' are rarely seen together...