I had the exact same experience. Had a liberal arts degree--and took notebooks full of notes to get it. Became a CS major and barely took any notes at all. Slides were all available online, and the concepts were way more important than the data in CS.
And, considering the bleak future of the shuttle program, the ISS, and manned spaceflight in general, wouldn't a more appropriate headline be "NASA puts another $700 million on the national credit card for our grandkids to pay off"?
the US needs 500 to 1,000 more 'cyber warriors' every year in order to keep up with potential enemies
I'm ready to serve my country. But if you want me on the team I'll need Top Secret clearance, one of those cool James Bond gun pens, a military uniform so I can get laid in bars, and a lifetime supply of Diet Mountain Dew Code Red and Doritos.
Hey, be glad they at least take faxes now. Until last year, they still required patent applicants to use either a "Western Union Telegram" or a "Courier boy, properly dressed in gentlemanly attire."
The thing that worries me about Steam and many of these other schemes is what I prefer to call the "Circuit City factor." That is to say, I am very reluctant to purchase a game that will disappear from my library the second the publisher either goes out of business or shuts down their servers. That's why I've gotten more into console games in recent years. At least most of those are still "Pop in and play," whereas it seems more and more PC games have moved to the "Verify that it's okay with some distant server, THEN you can play" model. I want a library that I actually own, not one that I'm just renting until the company decides it doesn't feel like running their authentication server anymore.
And BTW, my Circuit City analogy actually predates them going out of business as a company. It goes back to their ill-fated (thank god) Divx scheme. All these people bought those Divx discs thinking they would be able to watch them anytime (some even made their discs "silver," so they "owned" them)--only to find out later than Circuit City had shut the service down and turned every single Divx disc into a coaster.
One of the few early Apple people that came off as an actual talented engineer, not just some arrogant hippie wanting to make an assload of money. He's still about the only Machead that doesn't make me want to puke.
I find it very hard to believe that a 25-year-old degraded video shot from 70 miles away on a consumer Betamax camcorder would be of any use to NASA in their actual analysis of the accident. There were probably a lot of people taping it or taking pictures that never bothered to turn them over to NASA, just because it never occurred to them that their crappy video would be of any real help in understanding what happened.
Even the strongest grassroots organization in history (something like the AARP) can't begin to compete with corporations capable of dropping millions of $ on a single ad campaign--much less conglomerations of corporations capable of dropping hundreds of millions of $ to elect their candidate.
If it were one line, yes I would think he was joking too. But when he interrupts the writer to go off for several minutes about the animation in an episode for about the 3rd time, it's clear that's he's not joking. The man really has no appreciation of what made the Simpsons so revolutionary. You've got a group of people watching some of the greatest episodes of all time and all Groening is doing is complaining about Homer's hair or how the Koreans screwed some storyboard up. I swear you can even sense the others' embarrassment when he talks.
In that case, free speech can never exist. If you must expose yourself to certain retaliation to exercise it, then it's effectively meaningless. It's like black voting rights used to be here in Alabama: "Sure boy, you can vote--as long as you don't mind losing your job and having your house burned down tonight."
Yeah, but an oil company exec is smart enough and rich enough to conceal his identity. You're never going to see a political ad that says "Brought to you by the Exxon Corporation." Instead it will say "Brought to you by Concerned Citizens for a Reasonable Environmental Policy" (or something similar). Then, only if you dig into it, will you find out that the latter "citizens' organization" is funded by a bunch of oil companies. It's much more difficult for an individual with no resources to form a front organization.
Laws like this one and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision may well deprive the individual citizen of what little voice they already have in politics.
That government has been on quite the moral tear lately--banning videogames, arresting people for looking at naked Simpsons characters, etc. I always thought the U.S. was supposed to be the puritanical country in the English-speaking world, but lately it seems like the Australia and the UK are making America look open-minded and progressive by comparison.
I'll tell you what I once told my son: "My love is limited, there is only so much I can share and I don't see why I should give you any when your sister is clearly the better child."
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I had the exact same experience. Had a liberal arts degree--and took notebooks full of notes to get it. Became a CS major and barely took any notes at all. Slides were all available online, and the concepts were way more important than the data in CS.
And, considering the bleak future of the shuttle program, the ISS, and manned spaceflight in general, wouldn't a more appropriate headline be "NASA puts another $700 million on the national credit card for our grandkids to pay off"?
As long as the guy with the files is using Internet Explorer, they can have all the access they want.
I'm ready to serve my country. But if you want me on the team I'll need Top Secret clearance, one of those cool James Bond gun pens, a military uniform so I can get laid in bars, and a lifetime supply of Diet Mountain Dew Code Red and Doritos.
I hear that in Haiti, people are fighting now over a single frame. Just sad.
Are those the same sources that used to say the NSA doesn't tap domestic phone calls--before a whistleblower outed them for doing exactly that?
No, it means that instead of having a 0% chance of discovering the Higgs Boson, they now have half that chance.
My grandpa had to get through the war on 5fps, you spoiled whippersnapper!
Hey, be glad they at least take faxes now. Until last year, they still required patent applicants to use either a "Western Union Telegram" or a "Courier boy, properly dressed in gentlemanly attire."
NSA: We need complete access to your gmail system.
Google: Alright! This is to help us with the recent China break-in, right?
NSA: Um, sure...
The thing that worries me about Steam and many of these other schemes is what I prefer to call the "Circuit City factor." That is to say, I am very reluctant to purchase a game that will disappear from my library the second the publisher either goes out of business or shuts down their servers. That's why I've gotten more into console games in recent years. At least most of those are still "Pop in and play," whereas it seems more and more PC games have moved to the "Verify that it's okay with some distant server, THEN you can play" model. I want a library that I actually own, not one that I'm just renting until the company decides it doesn't feel like running their authentication server anymore.
And BTW, my Circuit City analogy actually predates them going out of business as a company. It goes back to their ill-fated (thank god) Divx scheme. All these people bought those Divx discs thinking they would be able to watch them anytime (some even made their discs "silver," so they "owned" them)--only to find out later than Circuit City had shut the service down and turned every single Divx disc into a coaster.
Hush! Do you want the aliens to know we're defenseless?
You're right, but I'm sensing a contradiction in the article:
So what, an automated ISS?
Are you kidding? Most reporters can barely spell their own names.
If it's any consolation, the guy in the Hummer may be alive--but he still has a tiny dick.
One of the few early Apple people that came off as an actual talented engineer, not just some arrogant hippie wanting to make an assload of money. He's still about the only Machead that doesn't make me want to puke.
I find it very hard to believe that a 25-year-old degraded video shot from 70 miles away on a consumer Betamax camcorder would be of any use to NASA in their actual analysis of the accident. There were probably a lot of people taping it or taking pictures that never bothered to turn them over to NASA, just because it never occurred to them that their crappy video would be of any real help in understanding what happened.
Of course it's news. Who would have ever thought that MS would sink to CHARGING for their software?!?!
Even the strongest grassroots organization in history (something like the AARP) can't begin to compete with corporations capable of dropping millions of $ on a single ad campaign--much less conglomerations of corporations capable of dropping hundreds of millions of $ to elect their candidate.
If it were one line, yes I would think he was joking too. But when he interrupts the writer to go off for several minutes about the animation in an episode for about the 3rd time, it's clear that's he's not joking. The man really has no appreciation of what made the Simpsons so revolutionary. You've got a group of people watching some of the greatest episodes of all time and all Groening is doing is complaining about Homer's hair or how the Koreans screwed some storyboard up. I swear you can even sense the others' embarrassment when he talks.
The Babysitter Bandit episode in the first season (co-written with Sam Simon).
In that case, free speech can never exist. If you must expose yourself to certain retaliation to exercise it, then it's effectively meaningless. It's like black voting rights used to be here in Alabama: "Sure boy, you can vote--as long as you don't mind losing your job and having your house burned down tonight."
Yeah, but an oil company exec is smart enough and rich enough to conceal his identity. You're never going to see a political ad that says "Brought to you by the Exxon Corporation." Instead it will say "Brought to you by Concerned Citizens for a Reasonable Environmental Policy" (or something similar). Then, only if you dig into it, will you find out that the latter "citizens' organization" is funded by a bunch of oil companies. It's much more difficult for an individual with no resources to form a front organization.
Laws like this one and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision may well deprive the individual citizen of what little voice they already have in politics.
That government has been on quite the moral tear lately--banning videogames, arresting people for looking at naked Simpsons characters, etc. I always thought the U.S. was supposed to be the puritanical country in the English-speaking world, but lately it seems like the Australia and the UK are making America look open-minded and progressive by comparison.
I'll tell you what I once told my son: "My love is limited, there is only so much I can share and I don't see why I should give you any when your sister is clearly the better child."