Funny how that works, isn't it? I occasionally hear people quoting Corinthians 13:11 when they deal with people they think need to "grow up" (it's one of the hazards of living in the bible belt)
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
I always want to add something to the end - "When I became wise, I leanred the value of childish things and turned to them once more"
College has been about both since around the time it started. There are old letters from European university students writing home to ask their parents for further funds. I read quite a few examples of such texts in medieval history classes that I took while at college.
One of them stuck in my mind because of a quote contained in it that basically said without Bacchus, Apollo grows cold.
Whether you like it or not, one of the really important parts of college are the experiences and bonding.
College is also about social interaction and trying new things.
Don't get me wrong - classes are important, but making new connections and the experiences you have are as important or, in some cases, even more so. A life where you do nothing but work is no life.
Some people use older hardware because they don't really have much choice. I hate to break it to you, but not everyone can afford the luxury of a new computer and some others can't justify the expense (and for some people a few hundred dollars is a large expense) to replace something that still works for them.
Let's face it, apart from playing games, most people use computers at home for looking at things online, writing email, and maybe doing some basic word processing or other similar things.
Most of the people who browse slashdot are pretty well off in the scheme of things. Appreciate that, because not everyone is so lucky.
No, I mean have a soda. Soda is the more common term in that area (though the word pop is sometimes heard), and if there's any doubt in your mind as to whether or not I am off my rocker, the site for Fitz's Root Beer even has a link to "buy our sodas"
It's here in Ohio as well. As far as I can tell, Time Warner is running it everywhere in the US that they supply service. Other providers are probably doing so as well.
St Louis huh? It's been a while since I was there. Have a soda at Fitz's for me =]
Windows no longer comes with a copy of basic and hasn't for a while.
However, it appears that you can simply copy QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC.HLP to your system and run them like you used to be able to in older windows versions.
To be honest, I have no idea. I used it for a few minutes at a time during the course of the five day power outage just so I could check my mail and make sure that I wasn't missing any important messages. (basically just long enough to get a connection and download my mail)
I seriously doubt that the modem can draw much power so I'd say you'd probably get 20-30 minutes out of it if that's all you have on a small ups.
Not a problem. I actually enjoyed those classes. The material was interesting and by no means easy (my prof didn't tend to pull punches).
As far as applied things at college went those two classes were in the four toughest. The other two were probably Programming Languages (done in Scheme) and the class I had in Assembly.
The ones I never want to think about again, though are Algorithms, Stats and Probability for EE (Baysean distributions at 8am is just wrong), and Discrete Math (as taught by an anal retentive professor who gave no partial credit at all. one small mistake and the whole problem was wrong. over half the class failed).
My assumption was that "the cloud" was sort of in reference to the diagrams in Comer's book on TCP/IP. The sections of the internet (and of networks in general) that weren't really of interest for the sake of the discussion at hand were often represented with clouds which the lines went into and came out of.
For example, discussing how something got from a desktop to a computer (at a really really high level) might be depicted as:
Desktop -> Cloud (labeled as "internet") -> Server
Given that the professor I had for internetworking and operating systems was a student of Comer's, I got to know the material and conventions used in the book pretty well.
The day will come when outages of big commercial services on the cloud are as unusual as outages in the phone system or the electricity supply system.
Net services are more stable than electricity where I am at the moment. Storms have a habit of knocking out the power for short periods of time - generally 2-20 minutes. (not counting the 5 days that the power was out after an ice storm a couple of years ago).
The power supply when I was living in town was so much more reliable.
Agreed. I had enough of 70-80 hour weeks when I was an undergrad (I worked my way through college as an admin/network analyst so my schedule was horrid and nasty).
It looks like the main difference between what you had and what I had was that you were getting emails from Modis about positions at google, and I was dealing with the google people themselves (largely, I think, because of the work I did with the magazine). It was flattering, but no thank you.
job == good; job that allows for no free time == not good;
I know that here (Ohio), they're always looking for people with insane amounts of experience (all "required" mind you) for something they bill as an "entry level" position.
It makes me want to beat people sensless. Unfortunately, for some of the people that are making the ads, that wouldn't require much.
Personally speaking, I'm still looking (though things are looking a little better as I have had a couple of interviews in the last two weeks).
The first time, I said I was interested and it ended up not going anywhere (though, amusingly, I did get mentioned on hiremegoogle). The second time was after I had heard more about the work environment, so I told them I wasn't really that interested (plus the fact that California doesn't really appeal to me.).
They were actually quite nice about the whole thing, so I later talked to a friend of mine who was interested in working for them (and who I thought would have been a really good match), and forwarded the recruiter's contact details to him.
Actually, I told them I wasn't interested. I don't want to live in Cal and I don't really care for the working practices that I've heard there having talked to people.
I've done the startup thing before. Insane hours are not my thing. Crunch time happens, but every day should not be a crunch. Life is for living. Even though you should enjoy your work, there are more important things than being at your desk for excessive periods of time.
I fail to see why everyone takes pot shots at the origional Dune movie. Personally speaking, I think they did one hell of a job for the technology that they had back then.
Yes, I've read Dune (and enjoyed it a great deal). I also own the mini series (which was fantastic) as well as Children of Dune (which was also good).
However, saying that Lynch ruined Dune because they did a great job with what they had at the time is silly. CGI was not always as advanced or cheap as it is now. Complaining about Dune is like complaining about Star Wars being primitive.
I remember watching both (Dune and Star Wars) when I was a kid and I really liked both. I still like them. Yes, they look less flashy now compared to what comes out year after year, but they were quite good pieces of work for their time and that still shows.
Enjoy the story for the sake of the story. Don't go complaining that they "killed" the book every time they make a movie from one. Most movies, when compared to the book, come away lacking. They aren't going to be a direct translation from page to screen. No performance is, really (movie, play, etc). Deal with it and learn to enjoy the story on its own merits and not compare it to the parent work at every turn.
At least I wasn't the only person who thought of Whistler from Sneakers when I saw the words 'Braile monitor'
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There are other reasons that profit margins may increase besides reduction of incompetence or slash and burn tactics (though those two things most certainly do happen). Among the other reasons are the following:
New products New markets Reduced costs due to things such as the streamlining of processes by which the product is made
One of those three things may cost jobs (#3 due to things like automation). However, the first two, if done properly, can be performed in a socially responsible way and actually lead to more jobs.
It's just sad that most companies opt to make more profit via the reasons you stated and not the more positive ones.
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Funny how that works, isn't it? I occasionally hear people quoting Corinthians 13:11 when they deal with people they think need to "grow up" (it's one of the hazards of living in the bible belt)
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
I always want to add something to the end - "When I became wise, I leanred the value of childish things and turned to them once more"
College has been about both since around the time it started. There are old letters from European university students writing home to ask their parents for further funds. I read quite a few examples of such texts in medieval history classes that I took while at college.
One of them stuck in my mind because of a quote contained in it that basically said without Bacchus, Apollo grows cold.
Whether you like it or not, one of the really important parts of college are the experiences and bonding.
College is also about social interaction and trying new things.
Don't get me wrong - classes are important, but making new connections and the experiences you have are as important or, in some cases, even more so. A life where you do nothing but work is no life.
Some people use older hardware because they don't really have much choice. I hate to break it to you, but not everyone can afford the luxury of a new computer and some others can't justify the expense (and for some people a few hundred dollars is a large expense) to replace something that still works for them.
Let's face it, apart from playing games, most people use computers at home for looking at things online, writing email, and maybe doing some basic word processing or other similar things.
Most of the people who browse slashdot are pretty well off in the scheme of things. Appreciate that, because not everyone is so lucky.
Don't you mean have a "pop"?
No, I mean have a soda. Soda is the more common term in that area (though the word pop is sometimes heard), and if there's any doubt in your mind as to whether or not I am off my rocker, the site for Fitz's Root Beer even has a link to "buy our sodas"
It's here in Ohio as well. As far as I can tell, Time Warner is running it everywhere in the US that they supply service. Other providers are probably doing so as well.
St Louis huh? It's been a while since I was there. Have a soda at Fitz's for me =]
Windows no longer comes with a copy of basic and hasn't for a while.
However, it appears that you can simply copy QBASIC.EXE and QBASIC.HLP to your system and run them like you used to be able to in older windows versions.
I found the info here.
I started out programing in BASIC on my CoCo when I was a kid and I had no problem switching to C++ later.
Maybe I'm just weird, but the point is that using BASIC as a kid doesn't necessarily destroy your brain.
To be honest, I have no idea. I used it for a few minutes at a time during the course of the five day power outage just so I could check my mail and make sure that I wasn't missing any important messages. (basically just long enough to get a connection and download my mail)
I seriously doubt that the modem can draw much power so I'd say you'd probably get 20-30 minutes out of it if that's all you have on a small ups.
Not a problem. I actually enjoyed those classes. The material was interesting and by no means easy (my prof didn't tend to pull punches).
As far as applied things at college went those two classes were in the four toughest. The other two were probably Programming Languages (done in Scheme) and the class I had in Assembly.
The ones I never want to think about again, though are Algorithms, Stats and Probability for EE (Baysean distributions at 8am is just wrong), and Discrete Math (as taught by an anal retentive professor who gave no partial credit at all. one small mistake and the whole problem was wrong. over half the class failed).
My assumption was that "the cloud" was sort of in reference to the diagrams in Comer's book on TCP/IP. The sections of the internet (and of networks in general) that weren't really of interest for the sake of the discussion at hand were often represented with clouds which the lines went into and came out of.
For example, discussing how something got from a desktop to a computer (at a really really high level) might be depicted as:
Desktop -> Cloud (labeled as "internet") -> Server
Given that the professor I had for internetworking and operating systems was a student of Comer's, I got to know the material and conventions used in the book pretty well.
how do you know you have net access when you dont have power?
I have a laptop and the modem is on a battery backup.
The day will come when outages of big commercial services on the cloud are as unusual as outages in the phone system or the electricity supply system.
Net services are more stable than electricity where I am at the moment. Storms have a habit of knocking out the power for short periods of time - generally 2-20 minutes. (not counting the 5 days that the power was out after an ice storm a couple of years ago).
The power supply when I was living in town was so much more reliable.
Agreed. I had enough of 70-80 hour weeks when I was an undergrad (I worked my way through college as an admin/network analyst so my schedule was horrid and nasty).
It looks like the main difference between what you had and what I had was that you were getting emails from Modis about positions at google, and I was dealing with the google people themselves (largely, I think, because of the work I did with the magazine). It was flattering, but no thank you.
job == good;
job that allows for no free time == not good;
I know that here (Ohio), they're always looking for people with insane amounts of experience (all "required" mind you) for something they bill as an "entry level" position.
It makes me want to beat people sensless. Unfortunately, for some of the people that are making the ads, that wouldn't require much.
Personally speaking, I'm still looking (though things are looking a little better as I have had a couple of interviews in the last two weeks).
That was indeed my point.
The first time, I said I was interested and it ended up not going anywhere (though, amusingly, I did get mentioned on hiremegoogle). The second time was after I had heard more about the work environment, so I told them I wasn't really that interested (plus the fact that California doesn't really appeal to me.).
They were actually quite nice about the whole thing, so I later talked to a friend of mine who was interested in working for them (and who I thought would have been a really good match), and forwarded the recruiter's contact details to him.
Actually, I told them I wasn't interested. I don't want to live in Cal and I don't really care for the working practices that I've heard there having talked to people.
I've done the startup thing before. Insane hours are not my thing. Crunch time happens, but every day should not be a crunch. Life is for living. Even though you should enjoy your work, there are more important things than being at your desk for excessive periods of time.
I don't know. I don't have a master's and I've been contacted by two Google recruiters that were interested in me...
I fail to see why everyone takes pot shots at the origional Dune movie. Personally speaking, I think they did one hell of a job for the technology that they had back then.
Yes, I've read Dune (and enjoyed it a great deal). I also own the mini series (which was fantastic) as well as Children of Dune (which was also good).
However, saying that Lynch ruined Dune because they did a great job with what they had at the time is silly. CGI was not always as advanced or cheap as it is now. Complaining about Dune is like complaining about Star Wars being primitive.
I remember watching both (Dune and Star Wars) when I was a kid and I really liked both. I still like them. Yes, they look less flashy now compared to what comes out year after year, but they were quite good pieces of work for their time and that still shows.
Enjoy the story for the sake of the story. Don't go complaining that they "killed" the book every time they make a movie from one. Most movies, when compared to the book, come away lacking. They aren't going to be a direct translation from page to screen. No performance is, really (movie, play, etc). Deal with it and learn to enjoy the story on its own merits and not compare it to the parent work at every turn.
Am I the only person who half expected Elrond to say "Missster Unnnderhilll" in the Agent Smith voice the first time he came on screen? =]
I didn't mind this one. It was nice to see something come out of my alma mater other than the recent security problems.
At least I wasn't the only person who thought of Whistler from Sneakers when I saw the words 'Braile monitor'
There are other reasons that profit margins may increase besides reduction of incompetence or slash and burn tactics (though those two things most certainly do happen). Among the other reasons are the following:
New products
New markets
Reduced costs due to things such as the streamlining of processes by which the product is made
One of those three things may cost jobs (#3 due to things like automation). However, the first two, if done properly, can be performed in a socially responsible way and actually lead to more jobs.
It's just sad that most companies opt to make more profit via the reasons you stated and not the more positive ones.
I think you missed the part where I said "playing segway polo as they roll into battle" =]
As I get the mental image of a bunch of guys wearing desert camo, heavily armed, and playing segway polo as they roll into battle...