And once again, the collective/. intelligence drops a little.
"What should I do the summer before I start my PhD program, party or work?"
Jebus, dude, it's simple. Here ya go (budget 6 weeks for this):
1. Buy/rent skis and a good road bike.
2. Obtain plane/train/bus tickets to Zermatt in early June.
3. Ski the glacier for a week.
4. Ship the skis home (you don't want to haul them around for the next month)
5. Bike down the Alps to the coast, meeting the water at or around Nice
6. Continue your bike trip from Nice, down the coast, until you hit Barcelona
7. Turn inland, through Zaragoza, Guadalajara, until you get to Madrid
8. In Madrid, find a little bar. It's kinda near the Plaza del Sol. Tell Nico that Pete (the weird American that used to go out with Asphen) sent you. He'll hook you up.
9. Party a couple more days.
10. Sell the bike and fly home
11. Continue with the rest of your life.
12. Profit!
Oh...you don't like doing that? Well then...find something else. (but don't blame me when you have a crappier time)
I am interested in your life plan and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
AKA Good tech writers are undervalued at almost all companies...
Damn right. My wife is a tech writer, and finishes in her current position in about two weeks. Most of her exits (this one included) have come about because the employing company thinks, "hey, that looks easy - anyone can do that".
On my side of the fence (tech) I usually meet the "Documentation - we'll get to that after release" or "Documentation - we don't need it, the system is so simple" mindsets....
I'm so glad my Permanent Record, a bundle of IBM cards and a rotting rubber-band, is packed away in a box somewhere, gathering dust. These kids nowadays, they'll never escape theirs.
Got your record here now... we still have a hollerith reader sir. Oh..... my.... goodness.... Why yes, you wouldn't want THAT widely known now, would you?
So much for the Rule Of Law. The rule is now that the deepest pockets always win.
Saw a cartoon once where the Judge looks down from the well-dressed criminal in the dock, and asks the clerk of the court; "Fetch me the law for the rich, would you?"
Ask the voters. I remember a few years back the Swiss had a referendum on whether the petrol price should go up, based on... this, this and this. Referendum took place - answer was 'yes'.
Treat people like grown-ups and that's how they'll respond.
Here in NZ we had a private referendum to get the government to repeal a law. Vote was yes. Government ignored it, and the law is still in place. Any flights from Auckland to Zurich?
"I live in Japan and sometimes have to use Japanese Word 2007. On Word 97/2000/XP, for example, I wouldn't have the faintest clue how to change the page margins, add a table, etc etc etc. My Japanese doesn't extend that far."
So you live and work in another country and haven't bothered to learn the language well enough to use a computer there?
Epic fail on your part...
Cut the guy some slack. I lived in Rome for two years, barely got to a conversational level in Italian. Japanese is considerably harder (I know, I did some). Learning languages is hard.
TFA was saying that with the demise of the Shuttle, only Dragon now has the reusability aspect. Anyone know if Orbital Sciences' freighter is reusable, or a throwaway?
Consider the cost to make latest popular CD recording (insert name of band and CD here: for my example, I'll use 'The Flaming Groovies' and "Hey Sexy Mama"). No disrespect to the Groovies but it's not that much - their fees, a studio, some backing musicians and then production costs.
Now the same record company (or whatever they're called now) want to put out Haydn's 98th symphony; best orchestra they can find, best choir, best conductor and the best studio. That's going to cost substantially more than the Groovies owing to the number and (no disrespect to the Groovies) quality and experience of the participants. And worse than that - the record company appreciates that there's just no way that the 98th symphony will recoup it's costs of production.
So - options
1) Use money from the Flaming Groovies latest to subsidize the recording of the 98th
2) Don't record the 98th
3) Do a recording of the 98th that will actually make a profit
I wonder who owns the major classical music recording companies? DG, HMV, etc...
When I bought my first LP in 1976, the music at the top of the charts was "Disco Duck". People tend the remember the best music from each era in hindsight, forget about all the terrible stuff that's always been popular.
Dammit, now I have 'Disco Duck' stuck in my head. Thanks a lot...
I can imagine a handsome young man who marries a beautiful girl. He is captivated by her and they take many pictures together. But as he gets older, their youthful beauty fades. The man looks continually at the pictures with a sense of loss, not having learned to love what he has in the moment he's in. The girl he married is in those pictures and has passed away long before either of them die.
I was a handsome young man who married a beautiful girl twenty years ago, you insensitive clod!
Maybe not. I've been watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and one of the episodes (Harmony of the Worlds) covers a cometary hit on the moon in the 12th century, seen by a bunch of English monks in Canterbury.
Must be out there somewhere and here you go... from Wikipedia...
[snip]
Five monks from Canterbury reported to the abbey's chronicler, Gervase, that shortly after sunset on June 18, 1178, (25 June on the proleptic Gregorian calendar) they saw "the upper horn [of the moon] split in two." Furthermore, Gervase writes, "From the midpoint of the division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks. Meanwhile the body of the Moon which was below writhed, as it were in anxiety, and to put it in the words of those who reported it to me and saw it with their own eyes, the Moon throbbed like a wounded snake. Afterwards it resumed its proper state. This phenomenon was repeated a dozen times or more, the flame assuming various twisting shapes at random and then returning to normal. Then, after these transformations, the Moon from horn to horn, that is along its whole length, took on a blackish appearance"
[/snip]
There comes a time when we don't heed a certain call
When the world mustn't come together as one
There aren't people dying
And it isn't time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We can go on pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We all aren't a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know,
Love isn't all we need
What on earth... "No, I won't take $100 an hour. I insist on $20, if not less".
And the article itself is a transcript... An unnamed woman is documented as asking if the listeners would like a cup of coffee. Maybe the editor of the transcript could have dropped that comment out.
BTW, yes please, maybe with a croissant or danish...
Slashdot Mirror
... ever discover fire, we're all doomed.
Oh, wait...
Why follow when you can lead? Fork Linux (yet again) and create the Holy distro. Though I'm sure that will fork just as often as the church.
If you're going to throw gasoline on the fire, do it right.
Holy Distro, Batman!
So after all that money spent on rovers, scientists still can't tell us something we don't already know?
Maybe scientists should have spent all the money on fake boobs?
I can speculate just as well as the next slashdotter. Mars could have done all sorts of things.
And once again, the collective /. intelligence drops a little.
"What should I do the summer before I start my PhD program, party or work?"
Jebus, dude, it's simple. Here ya go (budget 6 weeks for this):
1. Buy/rent skis and a good road bike.
2. Obtain plane/train/bus tickets to Zermatt in early June.
3. Ski the glacier for a week.
4. Ship the skis home (you don't want to haul them around for the next month)
5. Bike down the Alps to the coast, meeting the water at or around Nice
6. Continue your bike trip from Nice, down the coast, until you hit Barcelona
7. Turn inland, through Zaragoza, Guadalajara, until you get to Madrid
8. In Madrid, find a little bar. It's kinda near the Plaza del Sol. Tell Nico that Pete (the weird American that used to go out with Asphen) sent you. He'll hook you up.
9. Party a couple more days.
10. Sell the bike and fly home
11. Continue with the rest of your life.
12. Profit!
Oh...you don't like doing that? Well then...find something else. (but don't blame me when you have a crappier time)
I am interested in your life plan and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
And you're right, that's the way to do it.
I'm here for you, General Jack D. Ripper....
AKA Good tech writers are undervalued at almost all companies...
Damn right. My wife is a tech writer, and finishes in her current position in about two weeks. Most of her exits (this one included) have come about because the employing company thinks, "hey, that looks easy - anyone can do that".
On my side of the fence (tech) I usually meet the "Documentation - we'll get to that after release" or "Documentation - we don't need it, the system is so simple" mindsets....
I'm so glad my Permanent Record, a bundle of IBM cards and a rotting rubber-band, is packed away in a box somewhere, gathering dust. These kids nowadays, they'll never escape theirs.
Got your record here now ... we still have a hollerith reader sir. Oh..... my.... goodness.... Why yes, you wouldn't want THAT widely known now, would you?
So much for the Rule Of Law. The rule is now that the deepest pockets always win.
Saw a cartoon once where the Judge looks down from the well-dressed criminal in the dock, and asks the clerk of the court; "Fetch me the law for the rich, would you?"
"could earn the company $6 billion a year"...
Other possible "could"s in an infinite Universe...
"could tank big-time"
"could be operated by monkeys"
"could be operated by dolphins (as it's waterproof)"
etc etc... speculation is always fun. http://xkcd.com/1158/
Ask the voters. I remember a few years back the Swiss had a referendum on whether the petrol price should go up, based on ... this, this and this. Referendum took place - answer was 'yes'.
Treat people like grown-ups and that's how they'll respond.
Here in NZ we had a private referendum to get the government to repeal a law. Vote was yes. Government ignored it, and the law is still in place. Any flights from Auckland to Zurich?
"I live in Japan and sometimes have to use Japanese Word 2007. On Word 97/2000/XP, for example, I wouldn't have the faintest clue how to change the page margins, add a table, etc etc etc. My Japanese doesn't extend that far."
So you live and work in another country and haven't bothered to learn the language well enough to use a computer there?
Epic fail on your part...
Cut the guy some slack. I lived in Rome for two years, barely got to a conversational level in Italian. Japanese is considerably harder (I know, I did some). Learning languages is hard.
Oh sorry, off topic....
Squeeze the magic hen for the last few golden eggs.
Thought it was a goose that laid the eggs? Sorry, I'm a stickler for detail....
TFA was saying that with the demise of the Shuttle, only Dragon now has the reusability aspect. Anyone know if Orbital Sciences' freighter is reusable, or a throwaway?
Romantism.
Shouldn't that be Romanticism? Or is it really the Romans who have this fascination?
(Ok, I'm a pedant. Sue me).
Consider the cost to make latest popular CD recording (insert name of band and CD here: for my example, I'll use 'The Flaming Groovies' and "Hey Sexy Mama"). No disrespect to the Groovies but it's not that much - their fees, a studio, some backing musicians and then production costs.
Now the same record company (or whatever they're called now) want to put out Haydn's 98th symphony; best orchestra they can find, best choir, best conductor and the best studio. That's going to cost substantially more than the Groovies owing to the number and (no disrespect to the Groovies) quality and experience of the participants. And worse than that - the record company appreciates that there's just no way that the 98th symphony will recoup it's costs of production.
So - options
1) Use money from the Flaming Groovies latest to subsidize the recording of the 98th
2) Don't record the 98th
3) Do a recording of the 98th that will actually make a profit
I wonder who owns the major classical music recording companies? DG, HMV, etc...
When I bought my first LP in 1976, the music at the top of the charts was "Disco Duck". People tend the remember the best music from each era in hindsight, forget about all the terrible stuff that's always been popular.
Dammit, now I have 'Disco Duck' stuck in my head. Thanks a lot ...
Industry leaders want plentiful and cheap labour available in their industry sector. More at 11.
I can imagine a handsome young man who marries a beautiful girl. He is captivated by her and they take many pictures together. But as he gets older, their youthful beauty fades. The man looks continually at the pictures with a sense of loss, not having learned to love what he has in the moment he's in. The girl he married is in those pictures and has passed away long before either of them die.
I was a handsome young man who married a beautiful girl twenty years ago, you insensitive clod!
Maybe not. I've been watching Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and one of the episodes (Harmony of the Worlds) covers a cometary hit on the moon in the 12th century, seen by a bunch of English monks in Canterbury.
Must be out there somewhere and here you go... from Wikipedia...
[snip]
Five monks from Canterbury reported to the abbey's chronicler, Gervase, that shortly after sunset on June 18, 1178, (25 June on the proleptic Gregorian calendar) they saw "the upper horn [of the moon] split in two." Furthermore, Gervase writes, "From the midpoint of the division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks. Meanwhile the body of the Moon which was below writhed, as it were in anxiety, and to put it in the words of those who reported it to me and saw it with their own eyes, the Moon throbbed like a wounded snake. Afterwards it resumed its proper state. This phenomenon was repeated a dozen times or more, the flame assuming various twisting shapes at random and then returning to normal. Then, after these transformations, the Moon from horn to horn, that is along its whole length, took on a blackish appearance"
[/snip]
Beat me to it.
There comes a time when we don't heed a certain call When the world mustn't come together as one There aren't people dying And it isn't time to lend a hand to life The greatest gift of all
We can go on pretending day by day That someone, somewhere will soon make a change We all aren't a part of God's great big family And the truth, you know, Love isn't all we need
Feel inside... and stuff like that.
here
Congratulations.
And want to buy this bridge I have?
What on earth... "No, I won't take $100 an hour. I insist on $20, if not less".
.. An unnamed woman is documented as asking if the listeners would like a cup of coffee. Maybe the editor of the transcript could have dropped that comment out.
...
And the article itself is a transcript.
BTW, yes please, maybe with a croissant or danish
What the ... ??? "No, I won't take $100 an hour. I insist of $20 at the most".