Anyone should watch something free on the Internet that they could've already watched for free over the airwaves or on the basic cable they are almost assuredly already paying for. Oh wait, but then they don't get to see the ads that they'd skip over anyway by changing channels or fast forwarding past on their DVRs.
As others have mentioned, you should choose what you like doing. Also personally I would stay away from "hot jobs" because you know what? Those are exactly the jobs all the other cattle will flock too because they are "hot", and you'll wind up with a 100 people applying for the same job. With a little luck you could try seeking out some little niche area where for whatever reason (most people don't know about it, it's not "sexy", whatever) the demand is always high even if the number of jobs in the area is limited.
Just my two cents from personal experience. I'm a mac programmer (and even a *mac* game programmer at present if you can believe it!) and have been one since the beginning of my career. I've never had to develop on a windoze machine, and I've never had a problem finding a job and never had much competition when applying for those jobs.
Blizzard is the only major game company I know of that supports both Mac and PC in-house.
Aspyr uses their own in-house implementation of the Windows API on OS X to port 3rd party games.
I love them almost as much as dupes.:) Material Tougher Than Diamond Developed...(in some tests), like say: "The tests were carried out at a variety of temperatures. Between 58C and 59C the samples became stiffer than diamond."
Not to knock the experiment though, it seems interesting, and I'm sure there are all sorts of new exotic materials on the horizon.
I predict the Bush administration is going to get behind this big time since the events of 1-31-07. It has become obvious in our post 1-31 world that the war on terror must be extended into space to the Moon.
I stopped reading after "Anthropomorphic" so I missed that little gem. Oh well any theoretical physicist worth his salt sets c (and every other dimensional fundamental constant) to 1 anyway.:)
Really? I didn't realize giving human characteristics to subatomic particles was a part of any current mainstream physics theory.:)
I'm assume you mean the *anthropic* principle.
Oh wait, I forget this is the Internet and no one can recognize a joke post without it being explictly pointed out to them (and even then). I'm pretty sure he misspells his words because he's a barely literate raving lunatic.;)
"Google controls 50% of the world's searches. This famous website is so controversial that it has been banned by the most popular search engine in the world 'Google'. That's right. You cannot find alexchiu.com in Google system. Some very important people don't want you to know about Alex Chiu. Alex Chiu is on more than 30 TV interviews, 250 radio interviews, and in business ever since 1996. Yet AlexChiu.com cannot show up on Google?"
Here is a really good example where the observers don't even need to be going very fast at all, as the great distances involved make the lines of simultaneity vastly different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk-Putnam_Argum ent. In the Rucker book I mention below there's a thought experiment similiar to this one about a trial to determine if a ship's captain turned on his engines before or after an attack occurred.
Yeah they are extrapolating that the shock wave collapsed the pillars. Note the fact it takes the light a finite amount of time to reach us doesn't actually enter into it. We know how far away the nebula is, so once the light reaches us we know when the event "really" occurred. However, here's where it gets fun, to an observer moving at a good portion of that speed of light relative to us, the time and the distance he measures to the Eagle Nebula is *completely different*, but thanks to the magic of Relativity the speed of light is the same for everybody, so he calculates that a different amount of time it took the light to reach him and thus occurred a different point in time. His result is just as valid as ours.
I'd suggest the excellent "Geometry, Relativity, and the 4th Dimension" by Rudy Rucker. I read it as a kid, and it got me hooked on Relativity. He makes it really easy to visual all this stuff by drawing simple space-time diagrams. Also my old Physics professor, William G Harter, has a really good Relativity visualization program called RelativIt.
The above poster is correct, in physics parlance, observers will not agree on the temporal ordering of events separated by a space-like interval (outside the light cone, i.e. the two events can't affect each other because you'd have to travel faster than light to connect them), conversely, they will always agree on the temporal ordering ordering of events separated by a time-like interval (inside the light cone, slower than light). This why the concept of information being transmitted faster than light automatically introduces causality issues, because different observers will disagree of what caused what.
So someone zipping by the Earth at a good percentage of the speed of light away from the Eagle Nebula will say that the collapse hasn't happened yet, although presumably if we were both good scientists, we'd agree that the event exists in the space-time continuum and understand why we disagree.:) This is the key to resolution of the so-called "Twin Paradox" as well. As soon as one of the twins turns around his line of simultaneity changes, and what his idea of "right now" changes. The key is that there's never really any "paradox", observers will always agree once they go to "meet each other" at the same point in the same reference frame. The universe doesn't always play by our common sense notions, some concepts like what "right now" means for widely separated events, for instance, may not be meaningful or need to be reinterpreted.
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Uhh this isn't FTL, the information is sent through advanced waves at exactly the speed of light.
Actually I found this more interesting: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?st ory=14285
Geez 80 comments and no one's made this joke yet? Oh well, I guess I'll have to be the one:
"I, for one, welcome our urban dwelling overlords."
The catch is that you have to figure out something to do with it once you get it. :)
Won't bring back your goddamn honey!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
Ahhh! No not the bees! Not the bees! Ahhhhh!!!! Oh no my eyes! My eyes!!! Ahhhh!!!!
Anyone should watch something free on the Internet that they could've already watched for free over the airwaves or on the basic cable they are almost assuredly already paying for. Oh wait, but then they don't get to see the ads that they'd skip over anyway by changing channels or fast forwarding past on their DVRs.
Uhh how about the thank-god-i-don't-f**king-live-in-china-for-any-re ason dept?
As others have mentioned, you should choose what you like doing. Also personally I would stay away from "hot jobs" because you know what? Those are exactly the jobs all the other cattle will flock too because they are "hot", and you'll wind up with a 100 people applying for the same job. With a little luck you could try seeking out some little niche area where for whatever reason (most people don't know about it, it's not "sexy", whatever) the demand is always high even if the number of jobs in the area is limited.
Just my two cents from personal experience. I'm a mac programmer (and even a *mac* game programmer at present if you can believe it!) and have been one since the beginning of my career. I've never had to develop on a windoze machine, and I've never had a problem finding a job and never had much competition when applying for those jobs.
Blizzard is the only major game company I know of that supports both Mac and PC in-house. Aspyr uses their own in-house implementation of the Windows API on OS X to port 3rd party games.
Developers! Developers! Developers!
"it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs."
Wow dude, great way to make your case there. I mean who doesn't totally sympathize with people that get arrested while hanging out with drug dealers?
I love them almost as much as dupes. :) Material Tougher Than Diamond Developed...(in some tests), like say: "The tests were carried out at a variety of temperatures. Between 58C and 59C the samples became stiffer than diamond."
Not to knock the experiment though, it seems interesting, and I'm sure there are all sorts of new exotic materials on the horizon.
1-31-07 never forget!
Isn't that an oxymoron?
I stopped reading after "Anthropomorphic" so I missed that little gem. Oh well any theoretical physicist worth his salt sets c (and every other dimensional fundamental constant) to 1 anyway. :)
Really? I didn't realize giving human characteristics to subatomic particles was a part of any current mainstream physics theory. :)
I'm assume you mean the *anthropic* principle.
And let's not forget the infamous interview :) http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/0 6/07/1421238
Oh wait, I forget this is the Internet and no one can recognize a joke post without it being explictly pointed out to them (and even then). I'm pretty sure he misspells his words because he's a barely literate raving lunatic. ;)
Join the club, Alex Chiu has been blacklisted by Google for years.
http://www.alexchiu.com/spread.htm
A choice quote:
"Google controls 50% of the world's searches. This famous website is so controversial that it has been banned by the most popular search engine in the world 'Google'. That's right. You cannot find alexchiu.com in Google system. Some very important people don't want you to know about Alex Chiu. Alex Chiu is on more than 30 TV interviews, 250 radio interviews, and in business ever since 1996. Yet AlexChiu.com cannot show up on Google?"
Here is a really good example where the observers don't even need to be going very fast at all, as the great distances involved make the lines of simultaneity vastly different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk-Putnam_Argum ent. In the Rucker book I mention below there's a thought experiment similiar to this one about a trial to determine if a ship's captain turned on his engines before or after an attack occurred.
Yeah they are extrapolating that the shock wave collapsed the pillars. Note the fact it takes the light a finite amount of time to reach us doesn't actually enter into it. We know how far away the nebula is, so once the light reaches us we know when the event "really" occurred. However, here's where it gets fun, to an observer moving at a good portion of that speed of light relative to us, the time and the distance he measures to the Eagle Nebula is *completely different*, but thanks to the magic of Relativity the speed of light is the same for everybody, so he calculates that a different amount of time it took the light to reach him and thus occurred a different point in time. His result is just as valid as ours.
I'd suggest the excellent "Geometry, Relativity, and the 4th Dimension" by Rudy Rucker. I read it as a kid, and it got me hooked on Relativity. He makes it really easy to visual all this stuff by drawing simple space-time diagrams. Also my old Physics professor, William G Harter, has a really good Relativity visualization program called RelativIt.
The above poster is correct, in physics parlance, observers will not agree on the temporal ordering of events separated by a space-like interval (outside the light cone, i.e. the two events can't affect each other because you'd have to travel faster than light to connect them), conversely, they will always agree on the temporal ordering ordering of events separated by a time-like interval (inside the light cone, slower than light). This why the concept of information being transmitted faster than light automatically introduces causality issues, because different observers will disagree of what caused what.
:) This is the key to resolution of the so-called "Twin Paradox" as well. As soon as one of the twins turns around his line of simultaneity changes, and what his idea of "right now" changes. The key is that there's never really any "paradox", observers will always agree once they go to "meet each other" at the same point in the same reference frame. The universe doesn't always play by our common sense notions, some concepts like what "right now" means for widely separated events, for instance, may not be meaningful or need to be reinterpreted.
So someone zipping by the Earth at a good percentage of the speed of light away from the Eagle Nebula will say that the collapse hasn't happened yet, although presumably if we were both good scientists, we'd agree that the event exists in the space-time continuum and understand why we disagree.
Here is best explanation of what exactly Web 2.0 is that I've seen :) http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4366
Now they just need to combine it with this: http://p2pnet.net/story/4447
Ha! Apparently the Lloyd Braun on Seinfeld was named for this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Braun_(Seinfeld )