You sound like you are going beyond what you are being taught which is a great approach.
Given that you are in third year, instead of just picking up extra skills randomly, why not scour the companies and find out where you want to work, who you want to work for and what you want to do.
Once you find a few viable companies and positions, see what skills their job postiongs are asking for, or contact their HR deparments directly to get the information. Once you find what they are looking for, make sure you have those skills, then figure out the best way to demonstrate you really have those skills to an interviewer.
You are probably going for interviews in less than a year. This gives you about the right amount of time to target the job you really want as opposed to just applying around and taking the best of whats offered.
We could spend the $350 million paying for open source software to be developed. That would pay for, conservatively, hundreds of projects, or a few flagships with the impact of Apache or Firefox.
Now THAT is a colossal waste of money. Why would anyone give money to a bunch of teenagers when they are stupid enough to develop and release software for free? Besides. who gets to decide what is useful to develop and what isn't? What's useful for one may be a complete waste of time to someone else.
Software development shouldn't be a government welfare project - it has to be driven commercially.
When the new director took over one of his first acts was to reinstate the Hubble upgrade.
Actually no. The first thing he did was to cancel the planned unmanned robotic upgrade that was approved by the previous director. That system was almost completed. If that was allowed to go ahead the Hubble would have been repaired by now.
Griffin only reinstated the shuttle rescue plan after a lot of opposition from the scientific community.
IMHO, the format war is far from over, anyhow. HD DVD players are half the price of the Bluray players, and that means a -lot-, especially while the market is just forming. There are -very- few people buying their second high def player. Almost every player sold is to a new household.
Forget second HD player. I and everyone I know are just waiting for the format war to be over before jumping to hi-def at all. I'm hoping Paramount does jump because one format will be chosen once and for all (for the next few years anyway) and I can finally go out an purchase a player..
We're a heck of a lot closer with this than without it. This is a huge step in that direction.
Actually our company has had technology more advanced than that described in the article for years. With ours you simply pan the camera around and the model creation is fully automatic - there is no need to trace the image at all.
To be fair now, that's like being upset that someone who says they can't afford to buy you car goes and buys someone else a pair of slippers. $40 doesn't pay for a lot of health care.
Not by itself, but combine this with the removal of a large number of other wasteful programs as well as the trillions on a fake war, and you've more than covered the costs of a universal health care program.
Of course now that Bush has created the biggest debt of any country in all of history, any progressive programs are near impossible.
Eventually the digital signal will be sent into my analog TV via the tuner-box that the government is giving me a $40 coupon for.
So the government can't afford universal health care but apparently they can afford to subsidize the purchase of new TV equipment? Geez..
Republicans call their states 'red' and now they are providing social subsidies for TVs. Guess they really are a bunch of communists. 2008 election - thank God it's not Bush.
According to Wikipedia, the last glacial period ended 12,000 years ago.
That's just according to convention. They define the end of a glacial period to the point where the glaciers no longer cover the seas. That doesn't mean the glaciers halt receeding.
The glaciers and polar caps we have are the remnents of the last glacial period, so I'd say it is essentially correct to say we are at the end of the last ice age.
Depends on your definition of fossil. While these remains have not been chemically replaced, they are certainly evidence of past life.
To be a fossil, the object must display a chemical change from its original form. Simple evidence of past life is not enough to call it a fossil, otherwise every one who dies is instantly a fossil. It must undergo the process of fossilization.
1) Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms....
A remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust.
the remains of an animal or plant preserved in a rock
the preserved remains of living things
Naturally preserved remains or evidence of past life, such as bones, shells, casts, impressions, and trails.
The remains, trace, or imprint of a life form that has been preserved in an EarthMaterial, and that demonstrates evidence of having been changed from its original biogenic form....
How does this contradict what I said? Simply evidence of past life is not enough, otherwise anything older than about 50 years would be a fossil.
They are still considered "fossils" by most definitions. A fossil can be either the remains, a cast of the remains, a mold of the remains, or just an impression (like a footprint, or tooth mark). Technically, a fossil is usually considered "any evidence of past life", so even finding an old bowl or club would count.
No, to be considered a 'fossil', it would have to be 'fossilized'. Doesn't have to be rock, but preserved in some manner. A simple footprint or club is NOT a fossil, but a simple artifact. An old bone is not a fossil by any real scientific definition.
In fact that reactor couldn't have melted down if the operators didn't disable all of the safety systems to perform a safety test. Nucular power is safe - it's the idiots running the reactors that you have to worry about.
Also, fossilized remains probably wouldn't have the maleability of bone to give you impact shockwaves without causing either shattering or other obvious signs of the impact occuring after fossilization.
They're only 35000 years old - they are not fossils! They are simply old remains and are still bones, not rock.
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then surely the global climate would have been similar to todays and the polar bits (that have moved out of the way now) would have been frozen, as they are today.
Actually no. The only reason we have ice at the poles is because we are coming out of an ice age. There have only been four known ice ages in the planets history and outside of these (which is the vast majority of the time) the planet, even at the poles and highest latitudes has been ice free.
The planet has ben changing from completely ice covered to completely ice free long before people ever showed up.
I think his point is that as a Jew, implying that Jesus' miracles were "mind-tricks" at best and total BS at worst beats the alternative that they actually killed the Messiah.
Sorry for the totally off topic post but that kinda drives me crazy when Christians blame the Jews for killing Jesus. Of course they killed him because they were ALL Jewish - including Jesus. The Jewish leaders had him killed for sacrelige, very much like the Christian leaders in the dark ages had fellow Christians killed for similar reasons.
Not saying you are saying this but when Christians blame the Jews for killing Christ as some sort of conspiracy against the Christians, they are completely forgetting that the religion known as Christianity did not come until long after Jesus was dead. In his time and shortly after, it was simply a sect variation of Judaism.
Should they be as secure as banks and guarantee the safety of money and property that characters in the world possess?
*Guarantee*? No of course not - no one can guarantee nothing will ever happen. But expect reasonable care as any legitimate business should? Sure, why not?
The operators of SecondLife can no more guarantee that you will not get robbed in the game than the polititians and police can guarantee that I wont get robbed walking down the street.
Also, and stop me if I'm wrong, but if the probe is going outwards and the boundary isn't perpetually expanding it can't really cross the boundary twice, can it? It has to be once or thrice.
Actually no. The spacecraft would have crossed the boundary twice and the boundary would have overtaken the spacecraft once.
You can say you crossed the threshold of a door by walking through it. But if you stand still and the door suddenly flies past you, I don't think you can claim that you crossed the threshold.
I haven't yet decided which format I'm going to choose for my upcoming home theater purchase, but reading reviews it is certainly evident that writers insert their own bias when reporting on the format war. This submitter is no exception.
For example the submitter writes: "K-mart has decided to stop selling Blu-Ray players in their stores... They will continue to sell the PS3 for the time being". The last sentence implies that they may at any time stop selling the PS3 as well. The original article however states "Of course, Kmart will continue to sell the Playstation 3, which includes a Blu-ray player", with the 'of course' implying that it's obvious that dropping the PS3 would not even be a consideration. The difference in perspective is obvious.
Now lets say the the submitter was an actual journalist in a mainstream publication. You could then easily imagine other people picking up on that inference and stating 'K-Mart drops Blu-Ray - considers dropping PS3 as well" or something along those lines.
For all submitters, if you are going to post something, keep your own agenda out of it.
I actually think software patents are a good thing if used properly (what we see here is misuse). Lets say I come up with a great idea. Under disclosure tell my friends, some potential customers, and get some short term investment money.
But why bother with a patent? If it's a GUI idea, then you can get a design patent. If it's an algorithm, well you cannot patent math. If it's a better way of writing something, then the patent is unenforceable since you can always get the same output by writing it another way. Software patents are useless. Just market the idea as you propose and copyright your software. Companies will generally buy a great idea (or hire you) than try and spend time redoing it themselves. If it truly easy for any other software person to dupicate what you did, then it doesn't pass the criteria for non-obviosuness.
And yet the funny thing is that if a little guy like me creates a patent and ATT or Vonage implement it without my blessing I'm shit out of luck because I'm too small to fight them.
Not quite. They would sue you out of existance for violating their patents - even if you didn't infringe. They simply tie you up in courts until you are broke or cut a deal with them.
I agree with getting rid of patents, and your idea of government assistance already exists (at least it does here in Canada). If you have a good idea, you apply to the governemnt under one of the technology and innovation programs. If your idea passes a review panel, made up of people in the industry, you get a grant to develop the product. It helps small companies that are too small to afford full development programs by themselves.
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You sound like you are going beyond what you are being taught which is a great approach.
Given that you are in third year, instead of just picking up extra skills randomly, why not scour the companies and find out where you want to work, who you want to work for and what you want to do.
Once you find a few viable companies and positions, see what skills their job postiongs are asking for, or contact their HR deparments directly to get the information. Once you find what they are looking for, make sure you have those skills, then figure out the best way to demonstrate you really have those skills to an interviewer.
You are probably going for interviews in less than a year. This gives you about the right amount of time to target the job you really want as opposed to just applying around and taking the best of whats offered.
Both completely true and verifiable. Why do you say they are not?
Now THAT is a colossal waste of money. Why would anyone give money to a bunch of teenagers when they are stupid enough to develop and release software for free? Besides. who gets to decide what is useful to develop and what isn't? What's useful for one may be a complete waste of time to someone else.
Software development shouldn't be a government welfare project - it has to be driven commercially.
Actually no. The first thing he did was to cancel the planned unmanned robotic upgrade that was approved by the previous director. That system was almost completed. If that was allowed to go ahead the Hubble would have been repaired by now.
Griffin only reinstated the shuttle rescue plan after a lot of opposition from the scientific community.
Forget second HD player. I and everyone I know are just waiting for the format war to be over before jumping to hi-def at all. I'm hoping Paramount does jump because one format will be chosen once and for all (for the next few years anyway) and I can finally go out an purchase a player..
Actually our company has had technology more advanced than that described in the article for years. With ours you simply pan the camera around and the model creation is fully automatic - there is no need to trace the image at all.
It's called Instant Scene Modeller and heres a link to a demo of the technology for anyone that's interested: http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2005/54188.php
Not by itself, but combine this with the removal of a large number of other wasteful programs as well as the trillions on a fake war, and you've more than covered the costs of a universal health care program.
Of course now that Bush has created the biggest debt of any country in all of history, any progressive programs are near impossible.
So the government can't afford universal health care but apparently they can afford to subsidize the purchase of new TV equipment? Geez..
Republicans call their states 'red' and now they are providing social subsidies for TVs. Guess they really are a bunch of communists. 2008 election - thank God it's not Bush.
That's just according to convention. They define the end of a glacial period to the point where the glaciers no longer cover the seas. That doesn't mean the glaciers halt receeding.
The glaciers and polar caps we have are the remnents of the last glacial period, so I'd say it is essentially correct to say we are at the end of the last ice age.
That's Smarties - and you eat the red ones last.
To be a fossil, the object must display a chemical change from its original form. Simple evidence of past life is not enough to call it a fossil, otherwise every one who dies is instantly a fossil. It must undergo the process of fossilization.
How?
1) Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having been dug up") are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms. ...
A remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust.
the remains of an animal or plant preserved in a rock
the preserved remains of living things
Naturally preserved remains or evidence of past life, such as bones, shells, casts, impressions, and trails.
The remains, trace, or imprint of a life form that has been preserved in an EarthMaterial, and that demonstrates evidence of having been changed from its original biogenic form. ...
How does this contradict what I said? Simply evidence of past life is not enough, otherwise anything older than about 50 years would be a fossil.
No, to be considered a 'fossil', it would have to be 'fossilized'. Doesn't have to be rock, but preserved in some manner. A simple footprint or club is NOT a fossil, but a simple artifact. An old bone is not a fossil by any real scientific definition.
In fact that reactor couldn't have melted down if the operators didn't disable all of the safety systems to perform a safety test. Nucular power is safe - it's the idiots running the reactors that you have to worry about.
That's right. And God planted dead mamoths in the arctic with buckshot in their skulls just to fuck with us.
They're only 35000 years old - they are not fossils! They are simply old remains and are still bones, not rock.
Actually no. The only reason we have ice at the poles is because we are coming out of an ice age. There have only been four known ice ages in the planets history and outside of these (which is the vast majority of the time) the planet, even at the poles and highest latitudes has been ice free.
The planet has ben changing from completely ice covered to completely ice free long before people ever showed up.
Well that's why they found dinosaur *bones* and not living dinosaurs!
Duh...
Sorry for the totally off topic post but that kinda drives me crazy when Christians blame the Jews for killing Jesus. Of course they killed him because they were ALL Jewish - including Jesus. The Jewish leaders had him killed for sacrelige, very much like the Christian leaders in the dark ages had fellow Christians killed for similar reasons.
Not saying you are saying this but when Christians blame the Jews for killing Christ as some sort of conspiracy against the Christians, they are completely forgetting that the religion known as Christianity did not come until long after Jesus was dead. In his time and shortly after, it was simply a sect variation of Judaism.
Naw - my time machine is out for repair. I just read the bible instead.
Last I checked, Jesus was Jewish...
*Guarantee*? No of course not - no one can guarantee nothing will ever happen. But expect reasonable care as any legitimate business should? Sure, why not?
The operators of SecondLife can no more guarantee that you will not get robbed in the game than the polititians and police can guarantee that I wont get robbed walking down the street.
Actually no. The spacecraft would have crossed the boundary twice and the boundary would have overtaken the spacecraft once.
You can say you crossed the threshold of a door by walking through it. But if you stand still and the door suddenly flies past you, I don't think you can claim that you crossed the threshold.
I haven't yet decided which format I'm going to choose for my upcoming home theater purchase, but reading reviews it is certainly evident that writers insert their own bias when reporting on the format war. This submitter is no exception.
For example the submitter writes: "K-mart has decided to stop selling Blu-Ray players in their stores ... They will continue to sell the PS3 for the time being". The last sentence implies that they may at any time stop selling the PS3 as well. The original article however states "Of course, Kmart will continue to sell the Playstation 3, which includes a Blu-ray player", with the 'of course' implying that it's obvious that dropping the PS3 would not even be a consideration. The difference in perspective is obvious.
Now lets say the the submitter was an actual journalist in a mainstream publication. You could then easily imagine other people picking up on that inference and stating 'K-Mart drops Blu-Ray - considers dropping PS3 as well" or something along those lines.
For all submitters, if you are going to post something, keep your own agenda out of it.
But why bother with a patent? If it's a GUI idea, then you can get a design patent. If it's an algorithm, well you cannot patent math. If it's a better way of writing something, then the patent is unenforceable since you can always get the same output by writing it another way. Software patents are useless. Just market the idea as you propose and copyright your software. Companies will generally buy a great idea (or hire you) than try and spend time redoing it themselves. If it truly easy for any other software person to dupicate what you did, then it doesn't pass the criteria for non-obviosuness.
Not quite. They would sue you out of existance for violating their patents - even if you didn't infringe. They simply tie you up in courts until you are broke or cut a deal with them.
I agree with getting rid of patents, and your idea of government assistance already exists (at least it does here in Canada). If you have a good idea, you apply to the governemnt under one of the technology and innovation programs. If your idea passes a review panel, made up of people in the industry, you get a grant to develop the product. It helps small companies that are too small to afford full development programs by themselves.