A great science fiction series about humanity sending out and later retrieving a stash of unpatented genetic material from an alien planet is Wess'har Wars by Karen Travis.
If whole neighborhoods switch over to wireless light displays for the holiday season, I'm sure hackers will have fun war driving by with their laptops.
I had an original IBM AT keyboard in the late 1990's. My college roommate worked at a surplus computer store and gave me an old IBM AT computer to stay off his shiny 386 computer that could play Doom. The 286 was a big downgrade from the 386, but a big upgrade from the Commodore 64 that I used for ten years. Loved the keyboard during my BBS days. Alas, I gave it up when I discovered the Microsoft ergonomic split keyboard. Since then I went through several generations of Microsoft keyboards ($40) for my primary computer, and use Logitech keyboards ($20) for secondary computers.
I have also switched to MAC and not having cords (Bluetooth) is so nice.
Ran into a guy at Google who had a Apple Desktop Bus keyboard connected via a ADB-to-USB adapter to a fully decked out Mac Pro (~$40K in 2008). Bleeding edge technology with an ancient keyboard made for interesting conversations.
All that great work usually comes with a bad attitude, lack of documentation, and a me vs the world mentality.
Typically these are people who been with the company the longest (i.e., 5+ years). Bad attitude comes from taking the same crap day in and day out. Lack of documentation is the only form of job security that they have from getting randomly laid off. Me vs. the world mentality comes from knowing that their value in the labor market is significantly less than a contractor who makes more money from working at different companies on shorter assignments.
I must be getting old. I did this in college 20+ years ago in my process automation course.
When I was in grade school 30+ years ago, we sorted coins with toilet paper tubes and white glue. No fancy electronics was needed. As for sorting M&M's by color, I only need my index finger for that.
I can't tell you how many times as a help desk technician I've told "superior computer scientist" fresh out of college to press the power button to turn on the PC. Theoretical knowledge doesn't help if you don't know how a PC works.
I have a two-year A.S. degree in computer programming, which required one web "development" course in HTML. Since this was an online course with no hard deadlines, I waited until the very last day to complete all the assignments in six hours before taking the final exam. Having taught myself HTML with a text editor, it was a breeze to ace the exam. My only complaint was that all classes were taught in Java since the school couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio. The Linux instructor added some C/C++ programming to the side. The assembly language class got cancelled for not having enough students.
Oh, well. I can't complain too much. Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 tax credit that paid for my second associate degree.
we've raised at least two generations of self obsessed, no attention-span kids who want instant gratification.
As a Gen X'er, I blame the Baby Boom generation for today's mess. It'll get worst as this sorry lot retires and discovers that life doesn't owe them squat.
Remember that 9/11 was about 20 terrorists (the 20th terrorist couldn't get into the country) hijacking four planes to crash into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and White House. North Korea may have a million-man army, but they don't have 400,000 agents world-wide to strike out at movie theaters.
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That's what you get for sleeping next to a bear.
A great science fiction series about humanity sending out and later retrieving a stash of unpatented genetic material from an alien planet is Wess'har Wars by Karen Travis.
If whole neighborhoods switch over to wireless light displays for the holiday season, I'm sure hackers will have fun war driving by with their laptops.
I guess you missed the neutrinos from Supernova 1987a.
I had an original IBM AT keyboard in the late 1990's. My college roommate worked at a surplus computer store and gave me an old IBM AT computer to stay off his shiny 386 computer that could play Doom. The 286 was a big downgrade from the 386, but a big upgrade from the Commodore 64 that I used for ten years. Loved the keyboard during my BBS days. Alas, I gave it up when I discovered the Microsoft ergonomic split keyboard. Since then I went through several generations of Microsoft keyboards ($40) for my primary computer, and use Logitech keyboards ($20) for secondary computers.
I have also switched to MAC and not having cords (Bluetooth) is so nice.
Ran into a guy at Google who had a Apple Desktop Bus keyboard connected via a ADB-to-USB adapter to a fully decked out Mac Pro (~$40K in 2008). Bleeding edge technology with an ancient keyboard made for interesting conversations.
Does Anyone Want Any Toast? - Red Dwarf - BBC
All that great work usually comes with a bad attitude, lack of documentation, and a me vs the world mentality.
Typically these are people who been with the company the longest (i.e., 5+ years). Bad attitude comes from taking the same crap day in and day out. Lack of documentation is the only form of job security that they have from getting randomly laid off. Me vs. the world mentality comes from knowing that their value in the labor market is significantly less than a contractor who makes more money from working at different companies on shorter assignments.
1. Place M&M's on flat surface.
2. Use index finger to sort M&M's by color (including brown ones).
3. ???
4. Profit!
I must be getting old. I did this in college 20+ years ago in my process automation course.
When I was in grade school 30+ years ago, we sorted coins with toilet paper tubes and white glue. No fancy electronics was needed. As for sorting M&M's by color, I only need my index finger for that.
Or you could build your own AGM.
I can't tell you how many times as a help desk technician I've told "superior computer scientist" fresh out of college to press the power button to turn on the PC. Theoretical knowledge doesn't help if you don't know how a PC works.
I have a two-year A.S. degree in computer programming, which required one web "development" course in HTML. Since this was an online course with no hard deadlines, I waited until the very last day to complete all the assignments in six hours before taking the final exam. Having taught myself HTML with a text editor, it was a breeze to ace the exam. My only complaint was that all classes were taught in Java since the school couldn't afford to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio. The Linux instructor added some C/C++ programming to the side. The assembly language class got cancelled for not having enough students.
Oh, well. I can't complain too much. Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 tax credit that paid for my second associate degree.
we've raised at least two generations of self obsessed, no attention-span kids who want instant gratification.
As a Gen X'er, I blame the Baby Boom generation for today's mess. It'll get worst as this sorry lot retires and discovers that life doesn't owe them squat.
Never mind that the computer that landed man on the moon was no smarter than a modern toaster.
And always twerking, twerking, twerking towards freedom!
FTFY
All the games, actually.
I'm looking forward to printing all the fantasy chess pieces I couldn't afford in the game shop when I was lee lad.
ls -al /dev/
AND I AM NOT SORRY!
The Lance Armstrong Defense.
The last thing we need is the IOC banning caffeine as a performance enhancement drug.
Remember that 9/11 was about 20 terrorists (the 20th terrorist couldn't get into the country) hijacking four planes to crash into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and White House. North Korea may have a million-man army, but they don't have 400,000 agents world-wide to strike out at movie theaters.
A "bad actor" would have an agent.
North Korea can't launch 20,000 9/11-style attacks if the movie gets released world-wide. Pulling the movie in the first place was plain stupid.
saving for retirement = wandering in the desert
FTFY
An office tower would have been a better investment. Hire a company to manage the property, fix the toilets and collect the rents.