I'd still recommend a degree. But only because it makes some of the future steps easier.
Well... College can also offer learning and experience opportunities that may be difficult to come by on your own or at your job. One of the reasons my first employer gave for hiring me was my unusual college work.
For example, for my last two years of undergrad '85-87, I was a - paid - research assistant doing work on automated programming techniques in LISP on a $40k Xerox Dandelion workstation. I also did work on decision algorithms in PROLOG. Both projects were funded by NASA. They actually wanted a grad student, but I was one of the few they could find at my school with sufficient LISP and PROLOG skills. I was also a grader for undergrad classes in Pascal and under/graduate classes in AI / LISP and worked in the CS office helping format/proof research proposals and papers.
I'm still annoyed that "Defying gravity" was canceled.
Shhh... You'll arouse those who were enraged by the show's use of FTL communications.:-)
I too really enjoyed the show and bought the DVD set to watch the last 5 episodes. Besides, Laura Harris (Zoe) is pretty cute and, though she was dressed way down on the show, an image search for Florentine Lahme (Nadia) shows that she's very easy on the eyes...
The show was a success in every sense of the word EXCEPT where profit was concerned. The production costs were so expensive that the ad revenue couldn't sustain it.
Although... a less short-sighted company/network might have continued the show to pull viewers to the network -- like a loss leader -- for at least the fifth season (which, technically, Sci-Fi had already agreed to run).
Additionally, some shows don't get traction until later - like Star Trek. As for Farscape, I came to the show late, which is difficult for a show as serialized as Farscape. I had seen part of a few episodes during it's initial run, but switched away because I didn't "get it". One evening I came across an re-airing of episode 1, "Premiere" as Sci-Fi was starting to re-run the entire series every night, end-to-end, and was hooked - with a big crush on Claudia Black I might add...:-) Sigh.
So... It would be unlawful for a foreign citizen, to publish information in a foreign country, using foreign resources. Basically a US crime, but not committed on US territory. Good luck with that.
Reasonable fear: Fox News has a political agenda, and is willing to do what it takes to further that political agenda, including lying on the air and promoting astroturf campaigns.
Unreasonable fear: Fox News is controlled by a secret fascist cabal involving the Koch brothers, the Carlyle Group, the Bush family, Saudi princes, and the bin Laden family.
Actually, both of those are probably true - research who owns News Corp. The first item is a result of the second...
Nobody who has ever run systems in a serious environment mucks around as root as an alternative to something like sudo.
Except, of course, in the time before sudo - you're probably too young to remember.:-)
Seriously. I was an admin on many production systems (including Cray) w/o sudo. Now, I use both "sudo" and "sudo -i" depending on the task. Oddly, we're actually not allowed to use sudo on some of the government systems I currently help admin - go figure.
The requirement actually comes from a popular URL shortening service...
Which, of course, makes the service incorrect as RFC 2396 says [/?] are valid authority delimiters and just makes it their "requirement"... Just sayin'. From the RFC:
The authority component is preceded by a double slash "//" and is terminated by the next slash "/", question-mark "?", or by the end of the URI.
Real SysAdmins boot Emacs and run the OS in a buffer. [Vi is for pussies.]:-)
Seriously. Vi for quick and dirty. Emacs for longer and complex. Ksh/Perl for automated and repeatable...or if I have to do something more than, say, say five times... You get the picture. We keep many tools handy and polished. Each has a purpose. Other than that, the list is pretty accurate - speaking with 25+ years experience *as* one of those admins, as well as system/application programmer.:-)
However, at its heart, this is simply an exercise in in data storage, lookup, and statistical probabilities in determining a likely answer.
However, Jeopardy answers can be tricky for a machine to decipher, as understanding what exactly is being sought can be difficult linguistically. Often the clues have puns, word-play and other things we humans get easily... NOVA had a really good show about this BTW.
Applying the Infinite Monkey Theorem I put everything into one folder, assigning each file a pseudo-random name. Although there's only one of me, in time, I'm confident that a pattern will emerge...
rather than attempt to convince the people on a technology forum that the ability to wirelessly communicate outside of your home is for fancypants techno-fiends intent on throwing their money away to "the man."
Or people who have no real pressing need for a cell phone or to use it all the time. I own a Qualcomm QCP-1900 from 1988 that I only use for emergencies. My provider doesn't support SMS on it. The plan is dirt cheap, but can't remember the last time I used the phone.
Earth's gravitational field and atmosphere is also not uniform, so there are places (or altitudes) you can bring the same object to, and it will be lighter or heavier, with its amount of mass being the same.
Possibly, but generally "you can't argue with stupid". All one can really hope for is that this student ends up in a research field where he discovers that evolution really does happen as predicted and he's forced to come to terms with his personal (and probably religious) denials.
I keep hearing that they [ebooks vs. books] are the same price at retail for the consumer because the money saved by distributing over the internet is small.
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Well... College can also offer learning and experience opportunities that may be difficult to come by on your own or at your job. One of the reasons my first employer gave for hiring me was my unusual college work.
For example, for my last two years of undergrad '85-87, I was a - paid - research assistant doing work on automated programming techniques in LISP on a $40k Xerox Dandelion workstation. I also did work on decision algorithms in PROLOG. Both projects were funded by NASA. They actually wanted a grad student, but I was one of the few they could find at my school with sufficient LISP and PROLOG skills. I was also a grader for undergrad classes in Pascal and under/graduate classes in AI / LISP and worked in the CS office helping format/proof research proposals and papers.
Shhh... You'll arouse those who were enraged by the show's use of FTL communications. :-)
I too really enjoyed the show and bought the DVD set to watch the last 5 episodes. Besides, Laura Harris (Zoe) is pretty cute and, though she was dressed way down on the show, an image search for Florentine Lahme (Nadia) shows that she's very easy on the eyes...
Although... a less short-sighted company/network might have continued the show to pull viewers to the network -- like a loss leader -- for at least the fifth season (which, technically, Sci-Fi had already agreed to run).
Additionally, some shows don't get traction until later - like Star Trek. As for Farscape, I came to the show late, which is difficult for a show as serialized as Farscape. I had seen part of a few episodes during it's initial run, but switched away because I didn't "get it". One evening I came across an re-airing of episode 1, "Premiere" as Sci-Fi was starting to re-run the entire series every night, end-to-end, and was hooked - with a big crush on Claudia Black I might add... :-) Sigh.
We can't count on actual medical personnel to be trained properly with regard to x-ray exposure levels...
As Technology Surges, Radiation Safeguards Lag
After Stroke Scans, Patients Face Serious Health Risks
A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing
Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm
Like they claimed launching four missiles in this faked photo back in 2008?
I have a PC running Windows; cursing is unavoidable.
[I spend the rest of my time talking with my stuffed animals.]
Would a Mini-Watson be small and wear a monocle?
It can also be programmed to simply lock the session.
Alternatively: (I've actually seen these):
So... It would be unlawful for a foreign citizen, to publish information in a foreign country, using foreign resources. Basically a US crime, but not committed on US territory. Good luck with that.
And... You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...
Actually, both of those are probably true - research who owns News Corp.
The first item is a result of the second...
Except, of course, in the time before sudo - you're probably too young to remember. :-)
Seriously. I was an admin on many production systems (including Cray) w/o sudo. Now, I use both "sudo" and "sudo -i" depending on the task. Oddly, we're actually not allowed to use sudo on some of the government systems I currently help admin - go figure.
Which, of course, makes the service incorrect as RFC 2396 says [/?] are valid authority delimiters and just makes it their "requirement" ... Just sayin'. From the RFC:
Seriously. Vi for quick and dirty. Emacs for longer and complex. Ksh/Perl for automated and repeatable...or if I have to do something more than, say, say five times... You get the picture. We keep many tools handy and polished. Each has a purpose. Other than that, the list is pretty accurate - speaking with 25+ years experience *as* one of those admins, as well as system/application programmer. :-)
However, Jeopardy answers can be tricky for a machine to decipher, as understanding what exactly is being sought can be difficult linguistically. Often the clues have puns, word-play and other things we humans get easily... NOVA had a really good show about this BTW.
Applying the Infinite Monkey Theorem I put everything into one folder, assigning each file a pseudo-random name. Although there's only one of me, in time, I'm confident that a pattern will emerge...
Or people who have no real pressing need for a cell phone or to use it all the time. I own a Qualcomm QCP-1900 from 1988 that I only use for emergencies. My provider doesn't support SMS on it. The plan is dirt cheap, but can't remember the last time I used the phone.
Or the unrelated, My Virtual Pap Test app - sigh.
Apparently you haven't been keeping up with recent events concerning Wall Street brokers and bankers...
A Local G effect. Pole vaulters be aware.
Possibly, but generally "you can't argue with stupid". All one can really hope for is that this student ends up in a research field where he discovers that evolution really does happen as predicted and he's forced to come to terms with his personal (and probably religious) denials.
No. They've probably though of another way to track our usage and the cookies don't matter anymore.
...they sign up for the unlimited roaming, text, data and minutes plan.
Ya, as I said, "I think it has to do with the Earth rotating and stuff..." :-)
Ya. I think that's called a "lie". :-)