After reading some of the other posts, I just I should add that I was very successful in sports (not football.... wasn't interested in going to college with blowout knees). Had a chance to walk on to our college track team (a very good one) but declined because it would have used up too much of my time.
All of the other people talking crap about this idea really don't know what they're talking about. Ignorance is bliss I guess...
Did pretty well in undergrad and picked up a Computer Engineering degree.
Most of my classmates went on to work for the DoD. I took the Kurt Vonnegut approach and said, 'no thanks'. I was also pushed away from being a nerd because of the people.... yeah, I've got my good friends but mostly everyone I graduated with were, well, kinda sad. So many of them focused on siloing their skill set that they didn't bother peaking their heads out of the basement computer lab to get out a live a WELL-ROUNDED life.
Applied for an MFA program that specialized in 3D (Maya specifically)... did allright, had one heck of a time learning how to paint but was fortunate to have had a lot of this kind of education when I was young (teenager) and not really all the way into computers.
Now, I boot up WoW every 6 months to look at the new artwork and scene design (then turn it off so I can go out and meet hot girls). I bought BioShock for my Mac (finally!) and played it for a while but seem to have simply lost the taste for gaming. I know I know... but man, I do SO MUCH ELSE.
Now, I work as a systems architect full-time and teach drawing and 3D animation 2 nights a week. I make presentations that communicate so much and do so in a very captivating way.... not to mention, I'm in with both the NERD scene and the ART scene. Anyone want to guess which is more fun?
I heard it explained in such a way once that practical degrees (engineering, architecture, comp sci, medicine, etc) are a great core skill-set to have but by branching out and getting something less practical, it expands your mind to the nth degree and makes those core skill-sets that much more effective.
This is by far the best decision I have made in my life.
We here in South Carolina applaud your rhetoric but thanks to that Yankee jackass Lee, your assertion that we are state citizens first and US citizens second has been proven false.
For all the crap people give the south, I'm glad y'all are realizin' what the whole "state rights" thing was about. I always read with interest the rants most recently from Cali and Texas governments about their relationship with the Fed.
. . . either you don't have any imagination or you simply don't get it.
This tool is going to be pretty awesome and I for one look forward to using it. If this app works out, I think it is going to be one of the first true Web 3.0 (yes, I hate the term too) services. Add a little personal automation (script your own) and we've all of the sudden have a little AI dumb terminal in our back pockets we can tap for info. I am looking forward to it and as I suspect it will be a free service, I'm not going to look that particular gift horse in the mouth.
Well, we're very happy for you and your vernacular.
I used to think the same thing but have done a 180 in the past few months. Please let me elaborate:
For one thing, Twitter has given the Internet as an entity its own voice. Think about the information people are able to provide as real-time sensors.
Twitter is an incredibly simple 1 to N communication medium. You post to 1 location, the message is delivered to N followers.
Some people might be using it to blog about breakfast (I follow a few) but for myself I use it as a way to setup really awesome interlinked tools. With oAuth now officially supported, this real time neural linkage of threaded/cronned progs is going to get loop!
But no, you just keep sitting over there in the corner sulking. Twitter as a business may be silly (God love em) but how else could you bring an idea like this to market?
I honestly think it's started changing some markets. There is a specialty beer store here that posts it's current daily list online. Nightclubs and their acts. Need to know the weather? A scrabble word?
Give it a try at least. Email me and I'd be more than happy to point out some more stuff.
. . . when working on a project for my University. We were pretty far out in boonies working at a clinic and I was curious about the cell towers as they were surrounded by barbwire and really looked like fortresses.
Come to find out, they'd tried to put up electrical and phone lines but as the posts were going up, they were cut down, the coating burnt and the scrap copper was sold. Odd, how a few thieves can affect a countries infrastructure so drastically.
i'd put a girl right on the Raid-5 and let those 15,000 RPM drives go to town.
Then, I'd make her sit on a cluster and do REALLY weird stuff to her.
Or, just imagine it.
Slashdot Mirror
makes my brain want to liquefy and seep out my ears.
After reading some of the other posts, I just I should add that I was very successful in sports (not football.... wasn't interested in going to college with blowout knees). Had a chance to walk on to our college track team (a very good one) but declined because it would have used up too much of my time.
All of the other people talking crap about this idea really don't know what they're talking about. Ignorance is bliss I guess...
Did pretty well in undergrad and picked up a Computer Engineering degree.
Most of my classmates went on to work for the DoD. I took the Kurt Vonnegut approach and said, 'no thanks'. I was also pushed away from being a nerd because of the people.... yeah, I've got my good friends but mostly everyone I graduated with were, well, kinda sad. So many of them focused on siloing their skill set that they didn't bother peaking their heads out of the basement computer lab to get out a live a WELL-ROUNDED life.
Applied for an MFA program that specialized in 3D (Maya specifically)... did allright, had one heck of a time learning how to paint but was fortunate to have had a lot of this kind of education when I was young (teenager) and not really all the way into computers.
Now, I boot up WoW every 6 months to look at the new artwork and scene design (then turn it off so I can go out and meet hot girls). I bought BioShock for my Mac (finally!) and played it for a while but seem to have simply lost the taste for gaming. I know I know... but man, I do SO MUCH ELSE.
Now, I work as a systems architect full-time and teach drawing and 3D animation 2 nights a week. I make presentations that communicate so much and do so in a very captivating way.... not to mention, I'm in with both the NERD scene and the ART scene. Anyone want to guess which is more fun?
I heard it explained in such a way once that practical degrees (engineering, architecture, comp sci, medicine, etc) are a great core skill-set to have but by branching out and getting something less practical, it expands your mind to the nth degree and makes those core skill-sets that much more effective.
This is by far the best decision I have made in my life.
<quote>are you a lisp programmer?</quote>
i'm laughing now, but i'll probably have nightmares tonight.
We here in South Carolina applaud your rhetoric but thanks to that Yankee jackass Lee, your assertion that we are state citizens first and US citizens second has been proven false.
For all the crap people give the south, I'm glad y'all are realizin' what the whole "state rights" thing was about. I always read with interest the rants most recently from Cali and Texas governments about their relationship with the Fed.
. . . either you don't have any imagination or you simply don't get it.
This tool is going to be pretty awesome and I for one look forward to using it. If this app works out, I think it is going to be one of the first true Web 3.0 (yes, I hate the term too) services. Add a little personal automation (script your own) and we've all of the sudden have a little AI dumb terminal in our back pockets we can tap for info. I am looking forward to it and as I suspect it will be a free service, I'm not going to look that particular gift horse in the mouth.
Cheers,
Veni
not gonna happen. change your business model yo.
I used to think the same thing but have done a 180 in the past few months. Please let me elaborate:
But no, you just keep sitting over there in the corner sulking. Twitter as a business may be silly (God love em) but how else could you bring an idea like this to market?
I honestly think it's started changing some markets. There is a specialty beer store here that posts it's current daily list online. Nightclubs and their acts. Need to know the weather? A scrabble word?
Give it a try at least. Email me and I'd be more than happy to point out some more stuff.
Cheers! Veni
This company has a Beta API to do just that I think.
I know of some people that are using it for searching across anonymized medical data.
BeliefNetworks Web Services API
http://beliefnetworks.net/bnws/
They have code samples too and a downloadable Java Library.
http://beliefnetworks.net/bnws/examples.html
http://beliefnetworks.net/bnws/security.html
. . . at the End of this Rainbow's?
Hollah @ Vernor Vinge!
don't worry . . .they're buying fake Apple products.
Everyone Chinese wins!
What's a tortoise?
MFA to learn.
damn tabs. i posted to the wrong article entirely.
. . . when working on a project for my University. We were pretty far out in boonies working at a clinic and I was curious about the cell towers as they were surrounded by barbwire and really looked like fortresses.
Come to find out, they'd tried to put up electrical and phone lines but as the posts were going up, they were cut down, the coating burnt and the scrap copper was sold. Odd, how a few thieves can affect a countries infrastructure so drastically.
maybe this has something to do with all of the bee's disappearing? http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/26/business/bees.php
http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=unresolved+dell+support+problems
works for bash 3.2
for the chickens:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && echo "hit" || echo "miss"
I think you're just making up shit. IMHUO
er, BRAZILLLL!!!!
. . . . is what will kill America.
"In real jail, your inbox is crammed with unsolicited male".
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=50057&messageID=938515&start=0
I came.
I saw.
I slept.
i'd put a girl right on the Raid-5 and let those 15,000 RPM drives go to town. Then, I'd make her sit on a cluster and do REALLY weird stuff to her. Or, just imagine it.
1000x in a decade or 2^10. Moore's what?