I'd love to be able to - when my grandchildren stay the night - to be able to say to little Chloe "How would you like a pink horse" "Yes Poppy Yes!" "Well lets snuggle down for this story about horses and on this new machine Poppy will make a pink horse for when you wake up".
When this is possible - yes I have a grand-daughter Chloe - then 3D printers will be mainstream. Until then they are for tinkerers.
Unfortunately by that time the machine will tell you that Apple has a patent on "producing toy animals of colours attractive to children" and ask if you want to pay the $5 fee by paypal. It will probably still be cheaper to get something off the shelf at walmart because of their bulk licensing.
The revelation here is that THINK they are doing something new. They're not.
Ah but the grey-haired executives in financial institutions, local government departments, and manufacturing companies will think its something new too
What I always do is to ask for feedback after they decided not to hire me, or if I don't hear from them within a week.
What was it that decided against me, what could I have done differently.
Ask kindly and explain to them you want this information so that you can improve your own interview process. This worked very well for me, especially when it wasn't obvious why I didn't get the job.
This is great advice. I know someone who did this and was told (quite reasonably) that they hadn't done anything wrong it was just that they had someone who fitted the profile slightly better. They then asked if he'd like to be put on a list of people to be contacted should any other offers arrive (something that was never mentioned before). Three months later he was told that the same position was vacant again, interviewed, and given the job.
However, once you are in your 50s, you should not be doing coding anymore, you should be applying for management positions and then grey matter actually helps.
We have a couple of great programmers in their 50s, one of whom is soon to reach his 60th. Not everyone wants to become a manager - and not every programmer will make a good manager.
Iain M Banks takes this to the extreme in Surface Detail. You could have indefinite suffering for almost eternity - as long as your civilisation works on accelerated time.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she'd rather see companies pay more in taxes and fund schools that way, rather than relying on their charity or free software."
She is making a dangerous assumption that if tax revenues increased the extra would be spent on schools
Both my private and work machines both have MSOffice on them and I still use Google Docs for the bulk of my writing. It is light weight, easy to use, accessible from anywhere, and easy to share with collaborators. Office 365 is a bit better in some of those regards, but still makes collaborating with external entities more difficult.
I would to too, but my work blocks access to Google docs (and Office 365) as an "information leakage risk"
Too late, UK or The Queen have no moral rights to use Turing's name!
It would have been better if it had been an institute to research cures for gayness, which Turing would have dearly loved to have
This comment makes me feel very sad because he would have loved to be able to stop being gay. Societies judgments on him let to the self-loathing that eventually led to his suicide. What he needed (but probably didn't even consider possible) was a society that did not stigmatise or judge him.
t we know that firmware attackers, in the form of the NSA, definitely exist, there is still a wide gap between the attackers' ability to infect firmware, and the industry's ability to detect their presence.
I bet the NSA can give a lot of incentives to companies not to look for or remove firmware back-doors - or even to introduce them. This could be carrots (lucrative contracts or info on what overseas competition is doing) or sticks (not getting the government contract or the CIO's wife finding out what he said in those phone-calls to his secretary).
I think by now everyone knows Java was responsible for the vast majority of drive by infections on the web. Lately they've made Adobe look secure by comparison. By adding development features instead of fixing their security of even just their stupid updated that stalls out permanently all the time, they've shot themselves in the foot. Half my customers at my computer repair shop absolutely refuse to use or install java under any circumstances. Lots of companies are banning all java-based software for security reasons. My former employed switched their multi-million dollar bank account to another bank to avoid the original bank's java web plugin-based internet banking. Java is dying. Who cares if 8 is coming out?
That's why the dropping of Jigsaw was a shame. If implemented properly it would have given modules with a defined interface but no ability to access, substitute or alter the classes underneath by other means.
Slashdot Mirror
or is the OP requesting us to hunt down a piece of code that fulfills his project specs (and does it elegantly, gosh darnit!)?
Is the OP's real name Tom Sawyer?
Do we have to pay to join in?
At this rate Google will be the new Apple. Overpriced designer products that rely on being the "in thing" anyone?
I'd love to be able to - when my grandchildren stay the night - to be able to say to little Chloe "How would you like a pink horse" "Yes Poppy Yes!" "Well lets snuggle down for this story about horses and on this new machine Poppy will make a pink horse for when you wake up". When this is possible - yes I have a grand-daughter Chloe - then 3D printers will be mainstream. Until then they are for tinkerers.
Unfortunately by that time the machine will tell you that Apple has a patent on "producing toy animals of colours attractive to children" and ask if you want to pay the $5 fee by paypal. It will probably still be cheaper to get something off the shelf at walmart because of their bulk licensing.
The revelation here is that THINK they are doing something new. They're not.
Ah but the grey-haired executives in financial institutions, local government departments, and manufacturing companies will think its something new too
A whole network of clouds... are they proposing some form of hierarchy or do they just mean "a big cloud"?
AWS Urges Devs To Scrub Secret Keys From GitHub
I urge them to scrub my bollocks with a stiff brush
The original post was a euphemism; they want the same thing.
Twitter is social media for retards......
yes its lucky that slashdot is retard free .......
I hope it doesn't end up like the stupid Facebook autocomplete, where typing "the danger of misleading completions" has you undoing:
The Daniel Waternam
The danger of Missie Marks
The the danger of misleading Commie Pinko
What I always do is to ask for feedback after they decided not to hire me, or if I don't hear from them within a week.
What was it that decided against me, what could I have done differently.
Ask kindly and explain to them you want this information so that you can improve your own interview process. This worked very well for me, especially when it wasn't obvious why I didn't get the job.
This is great advice. I know someone who did this and was told (quite reasonably) that they hadn't done anything wrong it was just that they had someone who fitted the profile slightly better. They then asked if he'd like to be put on a list of people to be contacted should any other offers arrive (something that was never mentioned before). Three months later he was told that the same position was vacant again, interviewed, and given the job.
However, once you are in your 50s, you should not be doing coding anymore, you should be applying for management positions and then grey matter actually helps.
We have a couple of great programmers in their 50s, one of whom is soon to reach his 60th. Not everyone wants to become a manager - and not every programmer will make a good manager.
no more than a football player does calculus when changing course to intercept the ball.
Are you fucking kidding me? Bug fixes for a currency?
Not unprecedented in the real world: New pound coin designed to combat counterfeiting
latest version automatically supplies a refund address
so much for untracability
whoops - 8th !
IS she looking to abolish the 18th amendment and the universal declaration of human rights
The Bill of Rights does not apply here - she's from the United Kingdom.
its probably covered by article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Iain M Banks takes this to the extreme in Surface Detail. You could have indefinite suffering for almost eternity - as long as your civilisation works on accelerated time.
IS she looking to abolish the 18th amendment and the universal declaration of human rights
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she'd rather see companies pay more in taxes and fund schools that way, rather than relying on their charity or free software."
She is making a dangerous assumption that if tax revenues increased the extra would be spent on schools
Both my private and work machines both have MSOffice on them and I still use Google Docs for the bulk of my writing. It is light weight, easy to use, accessible from anywhere, and easy to share with collaborators. Office 365 is a bit better in some of those regards, but still makes collaborating with external entities more difficult.
I would to too, but my work blocks access to Google docs (and Office 365) as an "information leakage risk"
Too late, UK or The Queen have no moral rights to use Turing's name!
It would have been better if it had been an institute to research cures for gayness, which Turing would have dearly loved to have
This comment makes me feel very sad because he would have loved to be able to stop being gay. Societies judgments on him let to the self-loathing that eventually led to his suicide. What he needed (but probably didn't even consider possible) was a society that did not stigmatise or judge him.
You know what probably REALLY gives you brain damage? Superstition.
Fortunately a lucky rabbit's foot gives 100% protection against this effect.
Scientists Publish Letter Saying, "We Need More Scientific Mavericks"
I hope that one lone scientist publishes a response saying "we don't".....
t we know that firmware attackers, in the form of the NSA, definitely exist, there is still a wide gap between the attackers' ability to infect firmware, and the industry's ability to detect their presence.
I bet the NSA can give a lot of incentives to companies not to look for or remove firmware back-doors - or even to introduce them. This could be carrots (lucrative contracts or info on what overseas competition is doing) or sticks (not getting the government contract or the CIO's wife finding out what he said in those phone-calls to his secretary).
I think by now everyone knows Java was responsible for the vast majority of drive by infections on the web. Lately they've made Adobe look secure by comparison. By adding development features instead of fixing their security of even just their stupid updated that stalls out permanently all the time, they've shot themselves in the foot. Half my customers at my computer repair shop absolutely refuse to use or install java under any circumstances. Lots of companies are banning all java-based software for security reasons. My former employed switched their multi-million dollar bank account to another bank to avoid the original bank's java web plugin-based internet banking. Java is dying. Who cares if 8 is coming out?
That's why the dropping of Jigsaw was a shame. If implemented properly it would have given modules with a defined interface but no ability to access, substitute or alter the classes underneath by other means.
Java and "Mocha Java" are both coffees, and both use beans from the island of Java, but are very different drinks.
Oh shit that's why I have being having problems installing Java into my PC.