Actually you can take that view if you accept Jack Reeve's view that the source code is the detailed design and the "lesser-skiller laborer" is the compiler.
For job in digital preservation:
"How would you preserve a WordPerfect document so
that it would still be accessible to researchers in
100 years"
Me: "Acid-free paper".
Funnily enough, I got the job.
That said, I have made a solemn promise, which I intend to uphold, that the first time I ever meet anyone who admits to my face that he is a spammer, works for spammers, or hires spammers, I will ask him to step outside and give him the thrashing of his life.
Ok, but what about people who encourage spammers by buying from them? I assume they get at least
a bit of a slap.
I don't know the answer to that question, but I once got involved in a spat in the letters' page of The Guardian over whether Einstein was _dyslexic_ (something for which there is no evidence whatsoever). I guess that finding dead celebrities with "your" syndrome is a form of self-validation, and I hereby claim that Michelangelo, Darwin, and
Martin Luther King all suffered from hayfever.
I have a background in mathematical physics, including some post-graduate courses in differentiable manifolds and General Relativity from
the institute where Stephen Hawking works. That helped me through about the first half of The Road
To Reality. This is a brilliant book, but very tough going. To get the most of out of it, you really need to make a _commitment_. Sit down with a pencil and paper, read it slowly, do the exercises. Not everyone has the time, and unfortunately I ended up skimming much of it, leaving me with an impression of brilliant semi-explored vistas.
Some things do remain. I may never be able to look up at a clear dark sky again without thinking "Ah, look, the Riemann Sphere", for one.
Incidentally, anyone with 45 minutes of spare time and a something capable of playing Real-media files can hear Penrose's own views on some fundamental cosmological questions on
the BBC
or more specifically
here . Martin Rees and Carolin Crawford (a
Cambridge-contemporary of mine) are also participants.
That's good advice, but it would be more helpful if
one could actually find two people on the planet with the same interpretation of "Learn about Software Engineering". From where I sit, one
critical element of Software Engineering is hardware-requirements analysis, but maybe I only think that because I learned flap-all about it in my "software engineering" master's degree.
This isn't going to change soon, so I guess what I'm saying is: if you're going to get 25 free songs, don't waste them on cookie-cutter stuff, get some Mahler or Shostakovich, music that takes 45 minutes to take you on an epic journey. Just like sex, no music should last less than half an hour.
The quick nooner also has its charms.
I must admit that I thought an encryption standard
based on the Cascading Style Sheet specs was a clever idea. Should be almost impossible to decipher.
What employees need to do is follow the very simple instructions they're given. Change your password regularly. Don't make it obvious.
... don't use dictionary words. Include upper and
lower case. Include non alphanumeric characters. Change it so often you can't remember it and have to write it on a Post-it and stick it to your monitor.
Yes, I found an app to do just that on the web. Unfortunately its EULA required my soul in exchange for the right to install the app, and as I had already sold it to Bill Gates in exchange for SP2 it was no-go.
Same route I took. Shitcanned the Lexmark for a
bottom-of-the-range Brother laser printer and
never looked back. Printing is so cheap now I
can't even be bothered to work out my cost-per-page.
What I don't get (and don't need) is colour.
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Actually you can take that view if you accept Jack Reeve's view that the source code is the detailed design and the "lesser-skiller laborer" is the compiler.
You might be thinking about the Cambridge Two.
For job in digital preservation:
"How would you preserve a WordPerfect document so that it would still be accessible to researchers in 100 years"
Me: "Acid-free paper".
Funnily enough, I got the job.
Well, if we're having a straw poll, my vote goes to the high tech sci-fi wonder.
blessed with a million or so intelligent, civilized, and organized people
That's pretty insulting to the other 75% of the population!
Is there an inverse Godwin's Law? "Any discussion of the Nazis will inexorably tend towards a discussion of Godwin's Law"
That said, I have made a solemn promise, which I intend to uphold, that the first time I ever meet anyone who admits to my face that he is a spammer, works for spammers, or hires spammers, I will ask him to step outside and give him the thrashing of his life.
Ok, but what about people who encourage spammers by buying from them? I assume they get at least a bit of a slap.
I don't know the answer to that question, but I once got involved in a spat in the letters' page of The Guardian over whether Einstein was _dyslexic_ (something for which there is no evidence whatsoever). I guess that finding dead celebrities with "your" syndrome is a form of self-validation, and I hereby claim that Michelangelo, Darwin, and Martin Luther King all suffered from hayfever.
None of this solves the basic problem that "Palm Pilot" sounds like a slang term for a serial masturbator.
Some things do remain. I may never be able to look up at a clear dark sky again without thinking "Ah, look, the Riemann Sphere", for one.
Incidentally, anyone with 45 minutes of spare time and a something capable of playing Real-media files can hear Penrose's own views on some fundamental cosmological questions on the BBC or more specifically here . Martin Rees and Carolin Crawford (a Cambridge-contemporary of mine) are also participants.
That's good advice, but it would be more helpful if one could actually find two people on the planet with the same interpretation of "Learn about Software Engineering". From where I sit, one critical element of Software Engineering is hardware-requirements analysis, but maybe I only think that because I learned flap-all about it in my "software engineering" master's degree.
This isn't going to change soon, so I guess what I'm saying is: if you're going to get 25 free songs, don't waste them on cookie-cutter stuff, get some Mahler or Shostakovich, music that takes 45 minutes to take you on an epic journey. Just like sex, no music should last less than half an hour.
The quick nooner also has its charms.
I must admit that I thought an encryption standard based on the Cascading Style Sheet specs was a clever idea. Should be almost impossible to decipher.
To be strictly pedantic, Tolkien wasn't born Catholic. However his mother did convert to Roman Catholicism when JRRT was very young.
A theorem may be beautiful even if the proof is logical porridge. The Four Colour Theorem is surely a case in point.
What employees need to do is follow the very simple instructions they're given. Change your password regularly. Don't make it obvious.
I don't want penis enlargment material, because frankly I only have two normal sized hands.
Gotta thank you for cheering up my morning with that one. If I thought I could get away with it I'd steal it for a sig.
and if you can't think of a good ITsafe word, just use your administrator password or PIN number
Yes, I found an app to do just that on the web. Unfortunately its EULA required my soul in exchange for the right to install the app, and as I had already sold it to Bill Gates in exchange for SP2 it was no-go.
Same route I took. Shitcanned the Lexmark for a bottom-of-the-range Brother laser printer and never looked back. Printing is so cheap now I can't even be bothered to work out my cost-per-page. What I don't get (and don't need) is colour.