I think it is. I have been there twice, once as a elementary school student and then as a graduate student at Cornell. It never ceases to fascinate me visiting the radio observatory.
At that time they were re-vamping most of the equipment, moving it to sun hardware and getting rid of the harrises that used to run it and making a nice museum.
Personally, I think that the decision comes from the fact that Arecibo is not longer a small town on the north-central part of Puerto Rico but the whole area has been affected by the amount of sprawl from people looking to get out of San Juan in search of quieter life. The crew in Arecibo was growing concerned about the amount of people now living near the Radio Observatory.
There has been a lot of talk in the island's newspaper about the economic impact of the closing of the Radio Observatory. But on the other hand, it is time to the islanders to start to broaden the horizons and try to come up with better alternatives for the economic growth, tall order being that at this time the island is facing one of the worst economic slowdowns in recent decades.
It was fun, Arecibo, but it's time to move forward.
I was believed that "your vote is not for sale". in relation of people giving poor people money in Puerto Rico to skew the elections back in the 40's. I have always believed that.
Although I agree that voter dissatisfaction is a problem, I'll presume that not ending up with student loans is a bigger motivator.
They have the time, they're wealthier than previous generations and more aware of technology.
My aunt has a Facebook page that she keep tabs of my cousin, her grandsons and granddaughters, grandnieces, grandnephews and of course nephews and nieces (my sister and I). Being that we're all geographically disperse (Puerto Rico, New Jersey, Germany), it makes it convenient for her to have a centralized location for her to be aware on what's going on with her family. I've been very surprised that many of the people I'm getting connected in facebook have been old acquaintances from grammar and high school. I would not be surprised if the same motivates older generations to use social networking sites.
My 2 cents.
My company has been in this year for over 10 years now. My company built a product that allows telephone companies to design their networks using geospatial technology and to interface these with their premises inventory system.
Although I concur that it is an exciting system, it has been 'round for a while.
I know, I'm a believer... I'm not a fan of all things Microsoft, but the WM5.0 is a well designed product. While all my peers were DOA with the RIMM snafu, I was syncronizing my Cingular (HTC) 2125 to my corporate network via OWA. Voice command is also handy, specially when you're on the road or when you rather talk through your blue tooth device than punching numbers.
The interface on the iPhone is sleek, but the real question is: Is it functional in real life?
I use fasterfox on my 300 Mhz PC, otherwise, my computer is the one that gets hammered so I can squeeze a bit more from those cycles. Anyway, the people who put commercial webservers have more money than I do anyway...
Perhaps the only gadget I take traveling nowadays is a GSM/GPRS Smartphone. It plays MP3, some of them have a 1/2 decent camera and you can IM and send email to you hearts content. When I went to St. Thomas I send pictures of beautiful beaches to my buddies up north that were freezing their souls. Perhaps the only thing I need is one of those bluetooth/ir keyboards, but I seldom have the need to write documents while traveling.
Anyway, there are always low tech options.
Computer? Use a stationery, pen, post office. When I moved to NJ I wrote back home until I got enough money to afford a telephone (and this was 1990). If you are writing to a blog, get a paper diary.
PDA? Get an old fashioned paper calendar and a small notepad. They go cheap at Staples, unless you want a fancy day-timer one.
Digital Camera? Film is still around, it'll be around for a while. Scanning from film gives you a higher resolution anyway. Better yet, get some black and white film and learn how to develop yourself. If you are not a pro, you might be able to get a cheap/good film pocket camera. If you still want to use digital, you might be better off with a point and shoot than a SLR, IMHO. YMMV.
Ipod? Learn to play the harmonica. Believe me you, it is a great pick up line. (ok, you'll scare them off, but you'll have fun anyway). I sometimes travel with an soprano ukulele, it fits undneath the front seat, but that's just me. If I want to listen music, go to a reputable local club. In many places in the world there are free concerts in parks and malls, just check the listings in local papers, ask around college campuses, they'll know where to go. (if you're an old fart like me, ask the concierge).
Do not forget to buy and use a money belt. I do not leave home without it.
Graphical options and hardware diagnostic. Most of the time this is done in "special drive partitions". It allows the display of items over time if needed.
Holy crap, this so called website does look like somebody from law school put it together as part of some bizarro school project. They should hire Slashdot to create a better one with more options for stalking other lawyers.
I do not think that's the case. I think that Linux will be offered to corporate users while home users will only be offered Windows with AOL/Compuserve/Norton Icons on it. Corporate desktops are usually sold at a larger margin, even if you include "economies of scale" to keep the computers price competitive.
Will see. I'll believe in this change when I see the choice between Linux and Windows being offered at work.
Korea? I though that was over in '54... (Dad served) 'nam finished in 72... although you're right, we may get drafted again, well, I'm old to worry about that. BBS's, C'mon, BBS's were popular in the 80's, in the 70's people were still shoveling cards into a reader to hack some JCL, COBOL or FORTRAN.:D.
I do not use Xserve's but I can't comment on those. We use HP's and Sun's in our shop and I can certainly agree with your comment. However, NeXT was a different issue IMHO. The first Cubes were slower to Sun and HP stations because of the use of their flopticals. Gosh even Mac II's felt spiffier than a Cube on the same processor. Eventually they moved into the NeXTstations and performance improved by moving the swap into real disk, but the damage was done. We had some folks at work who tried the NeXT and the bottom line was that for 15 grands, you were not getting anything better than a Sun IPC, hence the decision for all of use to have Sun workstations.
It is good to know that NeXT's reincarnated into the MacOX. That should give Steve J some vindication to its vision.
Let's see... who in their right mind would go for a career that:
The amount of money you get does not equal the amount of time spent unlike other careers
You age sooner than a super model, you're considered "over the hill" after the age of 40 if you're still doing technical work.
You seldom get paid to keep yourself current, some companies do, others do not. Most of the time, you are stuck with a technology segment while the world around you changes every 5 years. It was a hard time for me to move from Mainframe programming to UNIX/C, and it is going to be another hard time for me if I ever decide to move to Web/AJAX/Java development.
Your job is in jeopardy to be outsourced or being forced adjusted for cheaper labor.
... and you can't take overtime because you're considered "a manager".
Really, who wants to deal with this crap? I'm sorry, but until conditions do not improve, it's going to be a tough sale to college students to go for CS's. People asks me about it and this is what I say: It is lot's of fun if you like it but at the end, you're better of going to business, med or become a lawyer if you want to get the moolah".
Personally, I moved from software development to technical pre-sales and I could not be happier. I sometimes wondered if I should've gone for an MBA rather than my MS in CS.
Oh well..
Yeap, I do not know, I was taking English classes from Kinder through College in Puerto Rico. I knew enough English to ask for an orange juice when I went to Disney World. I was seven years old, and in '74, whites were the majority in Florida.
Today hispanics consits of 20% of the US population. Whites are still complaining about people speaking spanish on the streets.
Get the hint... carry a spanish phrasebook, y evite la senilidad.
Yeap, after growing up in Puerto Rico, New York is a stroll in the park. Today, it was reported 41 murders in the first 12 days of the year. Average is about 1,000 for 4 million people.
Speaking of gap, the gap in the island it is also widening. About 1/2 of the population are the have's, and the other half the have not's.
Yes, I believe it. According to their future estimates per growth and multiple, it should be trading about $700 by the end of 2007, with a low estimate of $600. It might not happen by 2007, but if it continues to grow at the same rate for 2008, I would believe seeing up to 1,000 if it does not split somewhere in '07.
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At that time they were re-vamping most of the equipment, moving it to sun hardware and getting rid of the harrises that used to run it and making a nice museum.
Personally, I think that the decision comes from the fact that Arecibo is not longer a small town on the north-central part of Puerto Rico but the whole area has been affected by the amount of sprawl from people looking to get out of San Juan in search of quieter life. The crew in Arecibo was growing concerned about the amount of people now living near the Radio Observatory.
There has been a lot of talk in the island's newspaper about the economic impact of the closing of the Radio Observatory. But on the other hand, it is time to the islanders to start to broaden the horizons and try to come up with better alternatives for the economic growth, tall order being that at this time the island is facing one of the worst economic slowdowns in recent decades.
It was fun, Arecibo, but it's time to move forward.
My 2 perras prietas.
I was believed that "your vote is not for sale". in relation of people giving poor people money in Puerto Rico to skew the elections back in the 40's. I have always believed that. Although I agree that voter dissatisfaction is a problem, I'll presume that not ending up with student loans is a bigger motivator.
They have the time, they're wealthier than previous generations and more aware of technology. My aunt has a Facebook page that she keep tabs of my cousin, her grandsons and granddaughters, grandnieces, grandnephews and of course nephews and nieces (my sister and I). Being that we're all geographically disperse (Puerto Rico, New Jersey, Germany), it makes it convenient for her to have a centralized location for her to be aware on what's going on with her family. I've been very surprised that many of the people I'm getting connected in facebook have been old acquaintances from grammar and high school. I would not be surprised if the same motivates older generations to use social networking sites. My 2 cents.
- download classical guitar scores written by other guitarrist.
- receive news from the NJ classical guitar society via email. In this way I know when they meet every month for jamming sessions.
- listen recording from other ukulele players and give constructive criticism for their work.
- attend an intimate concert with an independent artist.
yeah, destruction allright...Actually, we've been doing quite well, thanks for asking. Cheers.
My company has been in this year for over 10 years now. My company built a product that allows telephone companies to design their networks using geospatial technology and to interface these with their premises inventory system.
Although I concur that it is an exciting system, it has been 'round for a while.
(Nevertheless, good luck to you all!)
... the Jornada 820 because...?? http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum /personalsystems/0038/index.html
Well, there was always the Tandy M100 http://www.club100.org/ .
I know, I'm a believer... I'm not a fan of all things Microsoft, but the WM5.0 is a well designed product. While all my peers were DOA with the RIMM snafu, I was syncronizing my Cingular (HTC) 2125 to my corporate network via OWA. Voice command is also handy, specially when you're on the road or when you rather talk through your blue tooth device than punching numbers. The interface on the iPhone is sleek, but the real question is: Is it functional in real life?
I use fasterfox on my 300 Mhz PC, otherwise, my computer is the one that gets hammered so I can squeeze a bit more from those cycles. Anyway, the people who put commercial webservers have more money than I do anyway...
... I thought that they already had one in Roswell.
Well, please reconcile the statement "simple java script" and long list of javascript code that you posted? That was a heck of a punch line :).
I guess it is time to start playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Driver/
Anyway, there are always low tech options.
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Computer? Use a stationery, pen, post office. When I moved to NJ I wrote back home until I got enough money to afford a telephone (and this was 1990). If you are writing to a blog, get a paper diary.
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PDA? Get an old fashioned paper calendar and a small notepad. They go cheap at Staples, unless you want a fancy day-timer one.
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Digital Camera? Film is still around, it'll be around for a while. Scanning from film gives you a higher resolution anyway. Better yet, get some black and white film and learn how to develop yourself. If you are not a pro, you might be able to get a cheap/good film pocket camera. If you still want to use digital, you might be better off with a point and shoot than a SLR, IMHO. YMMV.
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Ipod? Learn to play the harmonica. Believe me you, it is a great pick up line. (ok, you'll scare them off, but you'll have fun anyway). I sometimes travel with an soprano ukulele, it fits undneath the front seat, but that's just me. If I want to listen music, go to a reputable local club. In many places in the world there are free concerts in parks and malls, just check the listings in local papers, ask around college campuses, they'll know where to go. (if you're an old fart like me, ask the concierge).
Do not forget to buy and use a money belt. I do not leave home without it.-
Graphical options and hardware diagnostic. Most of the time this is done in "special drive partitions". It allows the display of items over time if needed.
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Thin clients, Smaller/Cheaper X-terminals, 3270 Terminal Replacements.
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Self contained front end consoles for industrial use (less moving parts means less things to go wrong).
It is true that you can do all that using a USB drive, but I would not dismiss this off hand. My 2 cents.mobile.maxim.com... 'nuff said :)
Holy crap, this so called website does look like somebody from law school put it together as part of some bizarro school project. They should hire Slashdot to create a better one with more options for stalking other lawyers.
I do not think that's the case. I think that Linux will be offered to corporate users while home users will only be offered Windows with AOL/Compuserve/Norton Icons on it. Corporate desktops are usually sold at a larger margin, even if you include "economies of scale" to keep the computers price competitive. Will see. I'll believe in this change when I see the choice between Linux and Windows being offered at work.
Korea? I though that was over in '54... (Dad served) 'nam finished in 72... although you're right, we may get drafted again, well, I'm old to worry about that. BBS's, C'mon, BBS's were popular in the 80's, in the 70's people were still shoveling cards into a reader to hack some JCL, COBOL or FORTRAN. :D.
It is good to know that NeXT's reincarnated into the MacOX. That should give Steve J some vindication to its vision.
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The amount of money you get does not equal the amount of time spent unlike other careers
-
You age sooner than a super model, you're considered "over the hill" after the age of 40 if you're still doing technical work.
-
You seldom get paid to keep yourself current, some companies do, others do not. Most of the time, you are stuck with a technology segment while the world around you changes every 5 years. It was a hard time for me to move from Mainframe programming to UNIX/C, and it is going to be another hard time for me if I ever decide to move to Web/AJAX/Java development.
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Your job is in jeopardy to be outsourced or being forced adjusted for cheaper labor.
... and you can't take overtime because you're considered "a manager".
Really, who wants to deal with this crap? I'm sorry, but until conditions do not improve, it's going to be a tough sale to college students to go for CS's. People asks me about it and this is what I say: It is lot's of fun if you like it but at the end, you're better of going to business, med or become a lawyer if you want to get the moolah". Personally, I moved from software development to technical pre-sales and I could not be happier. I sometimes wondered if I should've gone for an MBA rather than my MS in CS. Oh well..Yeap, I do not know, I was taking English classes from Kinder through College in Puerto Rico. I knew enough English to ask for an orange juice when I went to Disney World. I was seven years old, and in '74, whites were the majority in Florida.
Today hispanics consits of 20% of the US population. Whites are still complaining about people speaking spanish on the streets.
Get the hint... carry a spanish phrasebook, y evite la senilidad.
Yeap, after growing up in Puerto Rico, New York is a stroll in the park. Today, it was reported 41 murders in the first 12 days of the year. Average is about 1,000 for 4 million people.
Speaking of gap, the gap in the island it is also widening. About 1/2 of the population are the have's, and the other half the have not's.
Well, it is a US territory, what do you expect.
Yes, I believe it. According to their future estimates per growth and multiple, it should be trading about $700 by the end of 2007, with a low estimate of $600. It might not happen by 2007, but if it continues to grow at the same rate for 2008, I would believe seeing up to 1,000 if it does not split somewhere in '07.
I thought that I was going to see blood from the spectators after a crash. :) (then the ambulance siren... the medivac... :) ).