Well, to be fair, the PPC architecture does have some advantages (though one could argue on about how significant they are). The trouble came when Intel chips kept getting faster, but Motorola couldn't (and IBM wouldn't) provide Apple with PPC chips that met the competitive speed increases predicted by Moore's "law". Steve was forced to reneg on a promise and something had to give.
When I went to my 20-year high school reunion, my wife and I left our 9.5 year old son with my parents for the evening. At the reunion, they had the usual "awards" for the person/couple who had traveled the farthest to attend and other such trivia. The usual stuff, but . . .
They had an "award" for the person with the most grandchildren. *shudder*
It is not amazing to me that someone had already had grandchildren, it is that there were so many that they measured who had the most.
The terminology below is in the context of the breeding (mostly heterosexual) population. The Lemmas may be true under other conditions (given appropriate alpha-conversion), but that is outside the scope of this item.
Lemma 1:
Female wetware identifies "desirable mate" by whether he is "attached" to another female. Acceptability is derived by induction from observing that he has been accepted.
Lemma 2:
Male wetware tends to turn horniness into desperation which produces "bastage" (a.k.a. "barsted") behaviours. Once a female has accepted him, that chain of events tends to subside, unless it has become habituated. The regular pattern of coupling and resulting alleviaton of stress tends to produce (justified) self-confidence inside the male wetware, which female wetware finds attractive.
I agree with all your points but one detail. The best thing in career planning is to be nimble and able to deal with the new technologies that come along.
My disagreement is only about finding VMS jobs. I have done a lot of programming on VMS, so that is one of my keywords for any exploratory job search. The results typically include several sysadmin jobs and a couple in system design. For someone like myself who is more interested in programming (on any platform) and who does not want to move to the NYC area (where half of these jobs are) that's not a match. So if you already have VMS sysadmin skills and can find a nice place near The City, you can almost name your price, but it is not a career path to try to create anymore.
Mumbledy years ago when I was taking out student loans, they wouldn't give me as much in the fourth year, because I had some left from the year before. If the rules have changed, more power to you. It's only cheating the system if you hide your investment from the loan grantor.
As for "taking money that other students might need", if they really need it, then they are going to float higher on the list of the needy and get their share before you do. Besides, we're not talking grants or scholarships here, this is a loan. The bank does want to lend you the money, after all, because they will earn interest on it while you struggle with your career and pay it off slowly.
Sorry about that formatting error, I don't know where that space came from. http://homepage.mac.com/puder/.Movies/Batman_Net.m ov It adds the space to this post as well, but this time I remembered to use the URL tag, so you can use the link.
I would prefer to use the torrent, myself, but for the duration of the slashdot effect, try this mirror. http://homepage.mac.com/puder/.Movies/Bat man_Net.m ov Enjoy!
Back in college, i did a class project on my HP41C: implemented a LISP interpreter on it, including a garbage collector. I used to sit in other lectures and debug it during the boring parts. Once it worked, the program left enough data storage cells to define the list reverse function and run it on a three element list.
Am I the only one who is confused by the Klingon makeup (silicone prostheses)? Why do these pre-TOS klingons not look like the TOS Klingons?
When I was watching, I dismissed it as "They've decided to treat the TOS Klingons' difference as a weakness in the make-up technology, and we'll ignore it for the storyline". But later, I remembered that in the DS9 time-travel episode which revisited "the Trouble with Tribbles" episode, there are actual lines in the script where the humans (Bashir and I think O'Brien) question Worf on this difference. He refuses to explain, saying that it is something that they do not discuss.
Therefore, the storyline admits to a (genetic?) change in Klingon appearance between TOS and TNG. I have a few theories of how this could make sense, but every one has a hole in it. Anyone care to explain it to me? It's pretty sorry to see such a logic hole right off in episode 101, scene 1.
The interesting thing about most of this article is that despite that many of the ideas are not "p.c.", there is a current series of psych-bio shows on TLC that demonstrates or explains most of these same points. What clicked for me is that I user to know ESR back when he couldn't tell a macro from a fexpr, but he already (at least instinctively) knew this stuff, and used it effectively.
(Now, can he figure out who I am based on the above without looking up my user info?:)
Actually, you are precisely correct. The waves or tides would pull "exactly" the same energy from the moon as they do now, we'd just be redirecting it into our power grid. The problem would be finding coastal areas where there are just rocks and no rare species of life that would be displaced from their ecological niches.
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Well, to be fair, the PPC architecture does have some advantages (though one could argue on about how significant they are). The trouble came when Intel chips kept getting faster, but Motorola couldn't (and IBM wouldn't) provide Apple with PPC chips that met the competitive speed increases predicted by Moore's "law". Steve was forced to reneg on a promise and something had to give.
When I went to my 20-year high school reunion, my wife and I left our 9.5 year old son with my parents for the evening. At the reunion, they had the usual "awards" for the person/couple who had traveled the farthest to attend and other such trivia. The usual stuff, but . . .
They had an "award" for the person with the most grandchildren.
*shudder*
It is not amazing to me that someone had already had grandchildren, it is that there were so many that they measured who had the most.
The terminology below is in the context of the breeding (mostly heterosexual) population. The Lemmas may be true under other conditions (given appropriate alpha-conversion), but that is outside the scope of this item.
Lemma 1:
Female wetware identifies "desirable mate" by whether he is "attached" to another female. Acceptability is derived by induction from observing that he has been accepted.
Lemma 2:
Male wetware tends to turn horniness into desperation which produces "bastage" (a.k.a. "barsted") behaviours. Once a female has accepted him, that chain of events tends to subside, unless it has become habituated. The regular pattern of coupling and resulting alleviaton of stress tends to produce (justified) self-confidence inside the male wetware, which female wetware finds attractive.
I agree with all your points but one detail. The best thing in career planning is to be nimble and able to deal with the new technologies that come along.
My disagreement is only about finding VMS jobs. I have done a lot of programming on VMS, so that is one of my keywords for any exploratory job search. The results typically include several sysadmin jobs and a couple in system design. For someone like myself who is more interested in programming (on any platform) and who does not want to move to the NYC area (where half of these jobs are) that's not a match. So if you already have VMS sysadmin skills and can find a nice place near The City, you can almost name your price, but it is not a career path to try to create anymore.
Mumbledy years ago when I was taking out student loans, they wouldn't give me as much in the fourth year, because I had some left from the year before. If the rules have changed, more power to you. It's only cheating the system if you hide your investment from the loan grantor.
As for "taking money that other students might need", if they really need it, then they are going to float higher on the list of the needy and get their share before you do. Besides, we're not talking grants or scholarships here, this is a loan. The bank does want to lend you the money, after all, because they will earn interest on it while you struggle with your career and pay it off slowly.
Sorry about that formatting error, I don't know where that space came from.m ov
http://homepage.mac.com/puder/.Movies/Batman_Net.
It adds the space to this post as well, but this time I remembered to use the URL tag, so you can use the link.
I would prefer to use the torrent, myself, but for the duration of the slashdot effect, try this mirror.t man_Net.m ov
http://homepage.mac.com/puder/.Movies/Ba
Enjoy!
Back in college, i did a class project on my HP41C: implemented a LISP interpreter on it, including a garbage collector. I used to sit in other lectures and debug it during the boring parts. Once it worked, the program left enough data storage cells to define the list reverse function and run it on a three element list.
My HP41C had X__ for any register, including X, Y, Z, T, L. Did they omit that for the later 40 series?
Really. I mean if 20 years go by and you haven't written another book or another dozen songs, it's time to think about changing your career.
Am I the only one who is confused by the Klingon makeup (silicone prostheses)? Why do these pre-TOS klingons not look like the TOS Klingons?
When I was watching, I dismissed it as "They've decided to treat the TOS Klingons' difference as a weakness in the make-up technology, and we'll ignore it for the storyline". But later, I remembered that in the DS9 time-travel episode which revisited "the Trouble with Tribbles" episode, there are actual lines in the script where the humans (Bashir and I think O'Brien) question Worf on this difference. He refuses to explain, saying that it is something that they do not discuss.
Therefore, the storyline admits to a (genetic?) change in Klingon appearance between TOS and TNG. I have a few theories of how this could make sense, but every one has a hole in it. Anyone care to explain it to me? It's pretty sorry to see such a logic hole right off in episode 101, scene 1.
(Now, can he figure out who I am based on the above without looking up my user info? :)
Actually, you are precisely correct. The waves or tides would pull "exactly" the same energy from the moon as they do now, we'd just be redirecting it into our power grid. The problem would be finding coastal areas where there are just rocks and no rare species of life that would be displaced from their ecological niches.