Want? YES. I don't need my smartphone, I don't do much actual work from it, but I enjoy having it alot, it's just a toy but who doesn't like toys. It's worth the cost to me for that reason alone.
What you're looking for is a portfolio. They're common in any artistic arena such as photography, web design, hair styling and fashion.
This. A good way to work on a relevant portfolio is to head over to sourceforge and do some open source work, then your name gets attached to referable material and you can also do a bit of networking there too. No better way of getting a job than proving yourself to someone and having them recommend you.
This is what happens when you spend 100k on a good college getting an english/art/history/worthless degree. You leave school with almost no useable skills in a very competitive job market and end up working at damn near minimum wage for 5 years just making yourself marketable in some field, during which time you're probably not paying anything on those loans. I think a good first step would be to require registration of your major when you apply for loans and then to be a little more selective on those degrees that wont really contribute to society as a hole. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not advocating the broad dismissal of loans for these majors, just grant alot less of them making them alot more useful in their given roles.
Who knows, this could also have the beneficial effect of driving more people into engineering and practical science, things the US has been losing ground in recently.
I think all this arguing over cost helps to illustrate my frustrations with the manned space programs thus far. While I support manned exploration if for only that fact that it is hugely inspiring to a people (and don't discount the intangible effects of morale) their prohibitive cost and single mindedness of national pride keeps us from being able to successfully pursue it. All of the detractors in here keep going on and on about how expensive it is to send people into space and all of the supporters keep going on and on about how it's worth it and we'll never go if we don't just suck it up and spend Portugal's GDP on getting there already and to both of you groups I say GROW THE FUCK UP, COMPROMISE, AND FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT WORK FOR BOTH OF YOU!
The main reason WHY its so damned expensive to send men into space and to other places in the solar system is because its stupidly expensive to get things into LEO, all this talk about escaping earth's gravity well is expensive is bullshit, once you're up there, you can choose just about any means of propulsion you want and it will move you out of orbit, just a question of what speed you want to do so at. If you want to get a permanent manned presence in space what you need to do is lower the cost of getting into orbit, plain and simple. I bet if we could lower the cost of getting into orbit by 50% or so (not inconceivable in our lifetimes) we can seriously start to build up an infrastructure from which we can make a business case for exploiting resources in other locations in our solar system.
If we're going to have a manned future in space, and I think we all realize that we need to in the long run, we need to focus on building up our ability to get there cheaply, and this just hasn't been a priority for any government agency since spaceflight's inception. I know that there are many corporations out there right now, SpaceX specifically, that are focused on doing just that but they're still using the same technologies which are more or less proven to not be mass producible in any way to provide us with truly inexpensive access to space and I dont think that they will ever be successful in getting us a useful foothold in LEO for us to expand off of. For us to be really able to expand out of LEO, we need to shift our focus away from the romantic missions to moon/mars/asteroid for a while and start focusing on developing new technologies and methods for getting into ORBIT cheaply, from there we can start to look at going other places and reaping the wealth that is present in so many ways in our own system and beyond.
Try looking places like military deployment. I'm not saying our soldiers don't need air conditioning in the desert, but I am saying that the fuel to run the air conditioners is costing more than NASA's entire budget... maybe if we had fewer soldiers deployed in the desert?
Hes planning on doing exactly that, the majority of his $1 trillion in cuts is in him ending the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
It should be noting that Ron Paul is planning on cutting off spending on Iraq/Afghanistan wars and that is where the vast majority of his 1 Trillion in spending cuts would be coming from. Having said that he also plans on lowering corporate taxes to ~15% and extending (again) the bush tax cuts, not doing either of which would probably get us another trillion. I think alot of his ideas are good ones but he's got WAAAAAAAAAY to much kneejerk reaction in his planning for me to ever take it seriously, for fucks sake part of his agenda is to basically abolish financial oversight (his plan includes repealing SOX) and that just wont fly without some more SERIOUS thought about what we can/cant do without.
Not having heard/. in 2001 yet, I didnt see any of these then, but i went back and read the comments on the first post made by cmdtaco about the attacks and alot of them are FIRST POST!!! or racist.
House Republicans have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Attorney General Eric Holder asking for an explanation of 'what went into the decision to challenge the merger and whether the agencies considered the impact on jobs and economic growth.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it AT&T's MO to merge then pretty much nuke the other company and fold it into their own? Wouldn't this eliminate tens of thousands of jobs?
Did anyone notice how many lines pass through Guam? There are more there than there are on Hawaii... I'm guessing thats where the secret government program to control the internet is based.
also, whats with that lone line running to that island north of Norway?
Over 10 years that really isn't a whole lot, especially when you're talking about the government. I think many corporations end up spending more on the BB phones/plans ALONE than the gov spent on all of that, and considering that many of those PS3s/xboxes/zunes/iOS devices probably went to the military to entertain deployed troops (or in iOS case, to be used functionally in the field) I don't really consider those bad investments.
Just because you leave it open doesn't mean that you can't reserve a specific amount of bandwidth for your own mac addresses, and limit the bandwidth on the open part.
The vast majority of consumer routers out there are incapable of doing this with their stock firmware, never mind the technical abilities of their users and trying to guide someone through setting up MAC specific throttling or keeping up with adding new MACs into the list. This is one of the main reasons why MAC filtering is somewhat unpopular right now.
This app offers no real service other than to point out other things for you to feel guilty about, and you have to pay them for this? And how is the Roman Catholic Church not evil?
The NK Army never lost a war, just battles. Don't forget that bit either.
I seem to recall their record not having any wins either, they have only been in one war and it was a draw. I also would like to point out that they were getting their asses kicked once we got involved until the Chinese showed up (we had pushed pretty much right to the NK/China border) so alot of that last statement is invalid.
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Want? YES. I don't need my smartphone, I don't do much actual work from it, but I enjoy having it alot, it's just a toy but who doesn't like toys. It's worth the cost to me for that reason alone.
Please remember that them tubes are serviced by IT professionals and if you fuck with their money you may not receive any more internets.
Sincerely,
The angry mob of nerds outside your windows.
See it.
What you're looking for is a portfolio. They're common in any artistic arena such as photography, web design, hair styling and fashion.
This. A good way to work on a relevant portfolio is to head over to sourceforge and do some open source work, then your name gets attached to referable material and you can also do a bit of networking there too. No better way of getting a job than proving yourself to someone and having them recommend you.
This is what happens when you spend 100k on a good college getting an english/art/history/worthless degree. You leave school with almost no useable skills in a very competitive job market and end up working at damn near minimum wage for 5 years just making yourself marketable in some field, during which time you're probably not paying anything on those loans. I think a good first step would be to require registration of your major when you apply for loans and then to be a little more selective on those degrees that wont really contribute to society as a hole. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not advocating the broad dismissal of loans for these majors, just grant alot less of them making them alot more useful in their given roles.
Who knows, this could also have the beneficial effect of driving more people into engineering and practical science, things the US has been losing ground in recently.
because 1GB RAM is so useful on a 700MHz CPU...
I think all this arguing over cost helps to illustrate my frustrations with the manned space programs thus far. While I support manned exploration if for only that fact that it is hugely inspiring to a people (and don't discount the intangible effects of morale) their prohibitive cost and single mindedness of national pride keeps us from being able to successfully pursue it. All of the detractors in here keep going on and on about how expensive it is to send people into space and all of the supporters keep going on and on about how it's worth it and we'll never go if we don't just suck it up and spend Portugal's GDP on getting there already and to both of you groups I say GROW THE FUCK UP, COMPROMISE, AND FIND A WAY TO MAKE IT WORK FOR BOTH OF YOU!
The main reason WHY its so damned expensive to send men into space and to other places in the solar system is because its stupidly expensive to get things into LEO, all this talk about escaping earth's gravity well is expensive is bullshit, once you're up there, you can choose just about any means of propulsion you want and it will move you out of orbit, just a question of what speed you want to do so at. If you want to get a permanent manned presence in space what you need to do is lower the cost of getting into orbit, plain and simple. I bet if we could lower the cost of getting into orbit by 50% or so (not inconceivable in our lifetimes) we can seriously start to build up an infrastructure from which we can make a business case for exploiting resources in other locations in our solar system.
If we're going to have a manned future in space, and I think we all realize that we need to in the long run, we need to focus on building up our ability to get there cheaply, and this just hasn't been a priority for any government agency since spaceflight's inception. I know that there are many corporations out there right now, SpaceX specifically, that are focused on doing just that but they're still using the same technologies which are more or less proven to not be mass producible in any way to provide us with truly inexpensive access to space and I dont think that they will ever be successful in getting us a useful foothold in LEO for us to expand off of. For us to be really able to expand out of LEO, we need to shift our focus away from the romantic missions to moon/mars/asteroid for a while and start focusing on developing new technologies and methods for getting into ORBIT cheaply, from there we can start to look at going other places and reaping the wealth that is present in so many ways in our own system and beyond.
Try looking places like military deployment. I'm not saying our soldiers don't need air conditioning in the desert, but I am saying that the fuel to run the air conditioners is costing more than NASA's entire budget... maybe if we had fewer soldiers deployed in the desert?
Hes planning on doing exactly that, the majority of his $1 trillion in cuts is in him ending the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
It should be noting that Ron Paul is planning on cutting off spending on Iraq/Afghanistan wars and that is where the vast majority of his 1 Trillion in spending cuts would be coming from. Having said that he also plans on lowering corporate taxes to ~15% and extending (again) the bush tax cuts, not doing either of which would probably get us another trillion. I think alot of his ideas are good ones but he's got WAAAAAAAAAY to much kneejerk reaction in his planning for me to ever take it seriously, for fucks sake part of his agenda is to basically abolish financial oversight (his plan includes repealing SOX) and that just wont fly without some more SERIOUS thought about what we can/cant do without.
This is Verizon basically saying "We want to be able to "merge" with Sprint in a few years so if we fight them on this they're gonna fight us on that"
Exactly. Assume the 250MB cap. At the 24Mbps quoted in TFS, that's 1 hour 23 minutes minutes.
FTFY, speeds are measured in Megabits, cap in Megabytes, 1 Megabyte = 8 Megabits.
Not having heard /. in 2001 yet, I didnt see any of these then, but i went back and read the comments on the first post made by cmdtaco about the attacks and alot of them are FIRST POST!!! or racist.
House Republicans have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Attorney General Eric Holder asking for an explanation of 'what went into the decision to challenge the merger and whether the agencies considered the impact on jobs and economic growth.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it AT&T's MO to merge then pretty much nuke the other company and fold it into their own? Wouldn't this eliminate tens of thousands of jobs?
really are that stupid since the very next day some idiot was trying to bring homemade fireworks onto the plane.
Falling from a great height can hurt, you can't fly by simply flapping your arms, and farmville still sucks.
Damnit wrong post...
Did anyone notice how many lines pass through Guam? There are more there than there are on Hawaii... I'm guessing thats where the secret government program to control the internet is based.
also, whats with that lone line running to that island north of Norway?
Way to be up-to-date TFA...
Over 10 years that really isn't a whole lot, especially when you're talking about the government. I think many corporations end up spending more on the BB phones/plans ALONE than the gov spent on all of that, and considering that many of those PS3s/xboxes/zunes/iOS devices probably went to the military to entertain deployed troops (or in iOS case, to be used functionally in the field) I don't really consider those bad investments.
Because most likely AMD had a stockpile of R770 chips laying around and nintendo scooped them up at a significant discount.
Just because you leave it open doesn't mean that you can't reserve a specific amount of bandwidth for your own mac addresses, and limit the bandwidth on the open part.
The vast majority of consumer routers out there are incapable of doing this with their stock firmware, never mind the technical abilities of their users and trying to guide someone through setting up MAC specific throttling or keeping up with adding new MACs into the list. This is one of the main reasons why MAC filtering is somewhat unpopular right now.
This app offers no real service other than to point out other things for you to feel guilty about, and you have to pay them for this? And how is the Roman Catholic Church not evil?
Substitute interns for "volunteers" or "forum mods" and you can get the same effect.
This is what they're for, let them lose their minds and come to you with a list of plausible ideas gleaned from the muck.
The NK Army never lost a war, just battles. Don't forget that bit either.
I seem to recall their record not having any wins either, they have only been in one war and it was a draw. I also would like to point out that they were getting their asses kicked once we got involved until the Chinese showed up (we had pushed pretty much right to the NK/China border) so alot of that last statement is invalid.