I tried G+ when it first came out. No one I know activley uses it, but everyone has *tried* it. I still get notifications and spam from it from Gmail, etc.
I don't know if they'd consider me an "active user" or not.
Unless there is some other parallel universe out there where everyone uses G+ instead of Facebook - I don't trust the numbers. *EVERYONE* I know uses Facebook, and *NO ONE* uses G+. I might be off by a *few* people in this statement - but it's not *much* of an overstatement.
Coulton's if version is a joke - but is Glee's? If Coulton did it as a joke - and Glee didn't realize it was a joke and said "oh, that's SO COOL - let's do that"! What does that mean?
I think it probably just means that Glee sucks - which we already knew.
P.S. I don't know what this topic has gotten so much press - I really think both versions totally suck.
I first learned back in the BASIC days - things were simple and straightforward back then.
I've always wondered how I'd have to do it today. Something like HTML? PHP? Java? Something like Alice or NTX? I've also wondered how I'd best go about it with my own kids.
This article and organization seems to take on the challenge of teaching "7 years olds". The web site even has links on "opening your own dojo", and makes references to different skill levels and languages.
It didn't say anything about curriculum though. It's a great idea - and I'd like to do it, but how? Does it really define that? It's a great idea to teach kinder-gardeners calculus, but you'd have to provide some more specifics on how you intend on doing this for it to make sense to me...
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Limited? I do have to get along with, work with, and manage people - no limitation in that. As for "doing shit I don't want to do" - no - don't really have to. If I did - I'd find another career.;-)
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I hear you - 100% - and don't disagree.
The difference between Kevin Smith (as you pointed out) and 99% of the people - is that he not only studied the stuff really hard - but he actually got off his ass and tried actually making a film. As for most people, I wouldn't necessarily expect the first one to amount to anything - but after the fifth - the tenth - the hundredth - at least now have some real experience. It doesn't mean you'll become the next Kevin Smith (a-la the arguments about comparing engineers to Gates or Zuckerburg) - but it probably *does* mean you have a sufficient enough "resume" to at least get work in the industry - more sufficient than someone just out of "art school".
I'm not saying that arts/humanities are "slackers" - I'm saying that anyone uses this whole argument as an excuse to drop out of college and do nothing - be them an artist or engineer - is a slacker.
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I dropped out of college (electrical engineering) after a year and a half and have had a very successful career in the twenty years since, both in my own companies, and working at others.
That doesn't mean this is the path for everyone. This is not an invitation to every slacker on the face of the planet to drop out of school and keep smoking weed because "the man's" diploma isn't worth anything. I worked very long and hard before, during and after college, perusing engineering and computer science interests.
In the end - College didn't fit my learning style: Hands on, highly practical, very project-oriented. Combining my need for that with my ADD, meant I learn much better staying up all night tinkering in a lab working on my own projects, than sitting in some lecture hall for a mandatory "humanities" course on "Modern European History". I still read books at home at night on DSP and Theoretical Physics.
I also think the analogy to people like Gates or Zuckerburg is stupid. There is a one in a billion chance of doing something like that - but when correctly executed for the correct individual, a VERY good chance that they would have a very good career, rivaling those of a [typical/average] college grade.
I've been hearing heated debate about this for years. One government office saying it's going to cost a fortune - another government office saying it will cost a fortune.
Unfortunately, we already tried doing this - but the ingenious government concluded 3 1/2 days after the release of the Sacajawea dollar coin that people "Just saw them as a rarity, and were squirilling them away (rather than recirculating them)" - so what did they do? Stopped producing them, as *that* would solve this issue!
This of course, was after a lot of people spent a lot of their money retrofitting vending machines to use the new currency.
So - no - now the Government (assuming they can figure out if it's going to *cost* or *save* money) - is going to do it again? And want's people to retrofit their machines over to the *new* system???
The artifacts that you speak of already exist. It is called the "Planck Length".
It sort of states that "space is not infinitely divisible" - and this is a similar corrolary by which "time is not infinitley divisible". Thus, there is a finite limit to how small a unit of "space" and a unit of "time" is. This is not some bizarre theory, but a pretty mainstream, widley known and accepted principal.
So there you have it - space is made of pixels on a grid - and time comes from the ticks of a clock??
My car, and my wife's car - home (one downstairs for use when the battery is low, and one by the nightstand upstairs). I always keep one in my laptop bag, and one in each of my offices (two offices). I keep a couple on my boat (short cable for the helm to use as GPS, and a longer cable in the cabin to charge and watch movies). I also keep one in my travel bag - so when I'm on the road, I don't have to worry about forgetting to pack a charger cable.
My wife and I both have iPhones - so almost multiply these by two for that - and I have an iPad too (I don't have an iPad cable in all these places, but my downstairs charger and my boat I do, for example).
So yes, that's a lot of cables. But for $0.99 a piece - I don't care. When you talk about apple wanting $20 for a freaking USB/Charger cable - that's quite a reason NOT to go with the new phone.
The new iPhone doesn't give me anything to love - yet gives me one thing to hate: the new connector.
I'm not so much concerened about all the "accessories" I have (I don't really have too many) as I am the DOZEN charger cables I have all over the place. Home - Office - car - Wife's car - boat, etc. When I can buy these cables for $0.99 a piece on eBay, it makes it easy. How easy is this going to be with the new cable? I am sure Apple's "all digital" design will lock-out unauthorized third parties who don't pay licensing fees - so - goodbye cheap eBay cables! As for their adapter - another thing to forget - lose - another thing to buy, (an undoubtedly from Apple at that).
My 3GS has grown sluggish over the years. No doubt I'll be replacing it - but probably with a cheaper (or used) 4S instead.
Yes - I don't think this was a "revolutionalty" idea. If they (pretty much) just left the craft as-is, it would do this. In fact, to NOT do this would be difficult. It would require a huge amount of fuel (possibly more than they had) to make such a drastic change in their trajectory which would allow for an immeidate return. I don't think that would have been even possible.
Password policies seem to make the whole point shared in the OP about defaulting to the "Forgot Password" button.
Many people have very secure passwords, and good schemes to secure them, generate unique ones for each site, etc. So if my password for a site is "Lkjsdf834kklLKjlkj90uKLjh89yhLK98" - that could be very secure. But if some arbetrary site as a rule that states "Your password must have a least one punctuation character in it" - it rejects my password. Now, the system I have in place to generate unique, memorable, hard-to-crack passwords can't be used with this site.
Now, I need to generate and remember something special for this site, many of which are silly sites that I don't care about which make me login/register, to which I would never even care if my password was revealed. (Like someone would be able to post a comment on news article under a username that vaugly mimics my real name, etc).
Question about one specific aspect:
He refered to signals as being "highly regulated" as "constant power levels". I believe this is untrue, specifically as it relates to many mobile phone technologies, which are capable of varying their power levels, as needed.
>> Are you going to import mail order brides from China or something? Half the hackers in the world are already in China!
Yes - and with population control in China - there is a HUGE problem in the male/female ration. (More men to women). Maybe you''ve inadvertinally hit the nail on the head!;-)
I was going to say the same. So I was pretty surprised. From what I am reading, it is more of a "front-end" system for web servers, that does things like caching and load-balancing. So I guess it sort of depends on ones definition of "web server".
I was also going to speculate/wonder if it was one of those "rigged" deals, like a few years back when IIS was declared as "overtaking firefox" and becoming #1 because "most web sites on the web used it". The actual reason was that GoDaddy (which hosts a vast majority of "parked" domains) was paid-off (or "otherwise incented" by Microsoft to switch to IIS. So when you considered a "www." to be a "unique site", and 99% of "unique sites" to be garbage parked-domains, IIS was not the leader.
So, I wonder if some other bizarre statistical work is at-play. For example, does someone like Akamai, who hosts a lot of other people's sites, use Nginx to skew these numbers??
If you interpret the OP with some fuzziness - you can read between-the-lines and summarize it as:
"We're trying to hire lots of [free] interns - but are unable to retain them [once they're worth something]."
First off, that's kind-of like me trying to hire a lot of domestic/janitorial interns to work at my house, and I'm surprised at no one is jumping at this "learning opportunity".
Yea - our company had the same problem with are Philippine division. We'd hire young people at $10k/yr, and couldn't figure out why they'd all leave after a year. (Answer: Any other company on the street would pay them $20k/yr).
P.S. Janitorial and domestic internships are still available at my house! I will reward you all with plenty of life-experience!! Any takers???
People come to Silicon Valley for an opportunity. They know if they educate themselves, have some ambition and work hard, they can do very well.
Immigrants from other company often come here with the same attitude.
This is why you see neither at an "Occupy" rally. Actually, though I live 30 minutes from Boston, and just got layed-off, I have not attended any rallies, and instead, put my time and efforts into finding a new job. And guess what - my efforts have paid-off and been rewarded - well. (And yes, I work in high-tech).
So I believe my sentiment is similar to those in Silicon Valley. Sure, Washington is broken, and sure, Wall St. is broken. But people at these rallies are really giving off the affect of just looking for a hand-out. If the actual reality or "demands" are any different - they've completely failed to make this clear - even to me - who listens to the most liberal of the liberal media.
On the (somewhat infrequent) times I used voice - I still do need it. I also can't get SMS, email or Web - away from a WiFi access point - with an iPod.
I did a major project like this at my house a few years back. Did a whole xmas light display with Linux, PIC, ethernet, etc. Still have it running [seasonally] to this day!!
Please feel free to check it out (along with design notes, videos, schematics, code, etc, at)
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I tried G+ when it first came out. No one I know activley uses it, but everyone has *tried* it. I still get notifications and spam from it from Gmail, etc.
I don't know if they'd consider me an "active user" or not.
Unless there is some other parallel universe out there where everyone uses G+ instead of Facebook - I don't trust the numbers. *EVERYONE* I know uses Facebook, and *NO ONE* uses G+. I might be off by a *few* people in this statement - but it's not *much* of an overstatement.
Coulton's if version is a joke - but is Glee's? If Coulton did it as a joke - and Glee didn't realize it was a joke and said "oh, that's SO COOL - let's do that"! What does that mean?
I think it probably just means that Glee sucks - which we already knew.
P.S. I don't know what this topic has gotten so much press - I really think both versions totally suck.
http://www.scilab.org/
I use it a lot. It may be a little more than you need - almost more like an open-source "Matlab" but it is very good, and free.
Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe it's their inherent behavioral traits which cause them to hatch first/last.
I've always wondered how I'd have to do it today. Something like HTML? PHP? Java? Something like Alice or NTX? I've also wondered how I'd best go about it with my own kids.
This article and organization seems to take on the challenge of teaching "7 years olds". The web site even has links on "opening your own dojo", and makes references to different skill levels and languages.
It didn't say anything about curriculum though. It's a great idea - and I'd like to do it, but how? Does it really define that? It's a great idea to teach kinder-gardeners calculus, but you'd have to provide some more specifics on how you intend on doing this for it to make sense to me...
Limited? I do have to get along with, work with, and manage people - no limitation in that. As for "doing shit I don't want to do" - no - don't really have to. If I did - I'd find another career. ;-)
The difference between Kevin Smith (as you pointed out) and 99% of the people - is that he not only studied the stuff really hard - but he actually got off his ass and tried actually making a film. As for most people, I wouldn't necessarily expect the first one to amount to anything - but after the fifth - the tenth - the hundredth - at least now have some real experience. It doesn't mean you'll become the next Kevin Smith (a-la the arguments about comparing engineers to Gates or Zuckerburg) - but it probably *does* mean you have a sufficient enough "resume" to at least get work in the industry - more sufficient than someone just out of "art school".
I'm not saying that arts/humanities are "slackers" - I'm saying that anyone uses this whole argument as an excuse to drop out of college and do nothing - be them an artist or engineer - is a slacker.
That doesn't mean this is the path for everyone. This is not an invitation to every slacker on the face of the planet to drop out of school and keep smoking weed because "the man's" diploma isn't worth anything. I worked very long and hard before, during and after college, perusing engineering and computer science interests.
In the end - College didn't fit my learning style: Hands on, highly practical, very project-oriented. Combining my need for that with my ADD, meant I learn much better staying up all night tinkering in a lab working on my own projects, than sitting in some lecture hall for a mandatory "humanities" course on "Modern European History". I still read books at home at night on DSP and Theoretical Physics.
I also think the analogy to people like Gates or Zuckerburg is stupid. There is a one in a billion chance of doing something like that - but when correctly executed for the correct individual, a VERY good chance that they would have a very good career, rivaling those of a [typical/average] college grade.
It's totally dependent on the person.
Unfortunately, we already tried doing this - but the ingenious government concluded 3 1/2 days after the release of the Sacajawea dollar coin that people "Just saw them as a rarity, and were squirilling them away (rather than recirculating them)" - so what did they do? Stopped producing them, as *that* would solve this issue!
This of course, was after a lot of people spent a lot of their money retrofitting vending machines to use the new currency.
So - no - now the Government (assuming they can figure out if it's going to *cost* or *save* money) - is going to do it again? And want's people to retrofit their machines over to the *new* system???
Sure...they'll go for that...
(Quite comical!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRLRjKCGHek
The artifacts that you speak of already exist. It is called the "Planck Length". It sort of states that "space is not infinitely divisible" - and this is a similar corrolary by which "time is not infinitley divisible". Thus, there is a finite limit to how small a unit of "space" and a unit of "time" is. This is not some bizarre theory, but a pretty mainstream, widley known and accepted principal. So there you have it - space is made of pixels on a grid - and time comes from the ticks of a clock??
My car, and my wife's car - home (one downstairs for use when the battery is low, and one by the nightstand upstairs). I always keep one in my laptop bag, and one in each of my offices (two offices). I keep a couple on my boat (short cable for the helm to use as GPS, and a longer cable in the cabin to charge and watch movies). I also keep one in my travel bag - so when I'm on the road, I don't have to worry about forgetting to pack a charger cable.
My wife and I both have iPhones - so almost multiply these by two for that - and I have an iPad too (I don't have an iPad cable in all these places, but my downstairs charger and my boat I do, for example).
So yes, that's a lot of cables. But for $0.99 a piece - I don't care. When you talk about apple wanting $20 for a freaking USB/Charger cable - that's quite a reason NOT to go with the new phone.
Agreed. I am too worried about the lack of Google integration - particularly with YouTube.
I'm not so much concerened about all the "accessories" I have (I don't really have too many) as I am the DOZEN charger cables I have all over the place. Home - Office - car - Wife's car - boat, etc. When I can buy these cables for $0.99 a piece on eBay, it makes it easy. How easy is this going to be with the new cable? I am sure Apple's "all digital" design will lock-out unauthorized third parties who don't pay licensing fees - so - goodbye cheap eBay cables! As for their adapter - another thing to forget - lose - another thing to buy, (an undoubtedly from Apple at that). My 3GS has grown sluggish over the years. No doubt I'll be replacing it - but probably with a cheaper (or used) 4S instead.
Yes - I don't think this was a "revolutionalty" idea. If they (pretty much) just left the craft as-is, it would do this. In fact, to NOT do this would be difficult. It would require a huge amount of fuel (possibly more than they had) to make such a drastic change in their trajectory which would allow for an immeidate return. I don't think that would have been even possible.
Many people have very secure passwords, and good schemes to secure them, generate unique ones for each site, etc. So if my password for a site is "Lkjsdf834kklLKjlkj90uKLjh89yhLK98" - that could be very secure. But if some arbetrary site as a rule that states "Your password must have a least one punctuation character in it" - it rejects my password. Now, the system I have in place to generate unique, memorable, hard-to-crack passwords can't be used with this site.
Now, I need to generate and remember something special for this site, many of which are silly sites that I don't care about which make me login/register, to which I would never even care if my password was revealed. (Like someone would be able to post a comment on news article under a username that vaugly mimics my real name, etc).
So my point was....(I forgot what it was....)
Question about one specific aspect: He refered to signals as being "highly regulated" as "constant power levels". I believe this is untrue, specifically as it relates to many mobile phone technologies, which are capable of varying their power levels, as needed.
This will be the greatest melding of core-comptencies since Microsoft and NBC...
>> Are you going to import mail order brides from China or something? Half the hackers in the world are already in China! Yes - and with population control in China - there is a HUGE problem in the male/female ration. (More men to women). Maybe you''ve inadvertinally hit the nail on the head! ;-)
Woo hoo! I can't wait to pick the thing up on eBay after the Somali pirates get a hold of it! ;-)
I was also going to speculate/wonder if it was one of those "rigged" deals, like a few years back when IIS was declared as "overtaking firefox" and becoming #1 because "most web sites on the web used it". The actual reason was that GoDaddy (which hosts a vast majority of "parked" domains) was paid-off (or "otherwise incented" by Microsoft to switch to IIS. So when you considered a "www." to be a "unique site", and 99% of "unique sites" to be garbage parked-domains, IIS was not the leader.
So, I wonder if some other bizarre statistical work is at-play. For example, does someone like Akamai, who hosts a lot of other people's sites, use Nginx to skew these numbers??
"We're trying to hire lots of [free] interns - but are unable to retain them [once they're worth something]."
First off, that's kind-of like me trying to hire a lot of domestic/janitorial interns to work at my house, and I'm surprised at no one is jumping at this "learning opportunity".
Yea - our company had the same problem with are Philippine division. We'd hire young people at $10k/yr, and couldn't figure out why they'd all leave after a year. (Answer: Any other company on the street would pay them $20k/yr).
P.S. Janitorial and domestic internships are still available at my house! I will reward you all with plenty of life-experience!! Any takers???
Immigrants from other company often come here with the same attitude.
This is why you see neither at an "Occupy" rally. Actually, though I live 30 minutes from Boston, and just got layed-off, I have not attended any rallies, and instead, put my time and efforts into finding a new job. And guess what - my efforts have paid-off and been rewarded - well. (And yes, I work in high-tech).
So I believe my sentiment is similar to those in Silicon Valley. Sure, Washington is broken, and sure, Wall St. is broken. But people at these rallies are really giving off the affect of just looking for a hand-out. If the actual reality or "demands" are any different - they've completely failed to make this clear - even to me - who listens to the most liberal of the liberal media.
On the (somewhat infrequent) times I used voice - I still do need it. I also can't get SMS, email or Web - away from a WiFi access point - with an iPod.
Please feel free to check it out (along with design notes, videos, schematics, code, etc, at)
http://www.bradgoodman.com/dimwatt