I second that. Funding is not a concern at all since the grad schools pay YOU. Most average stipends are always high enough for food, rent, and some entertainment. And there are always ways to get more money (up to 80k a year extra) if you are very good and can apply for outside fellowships (though afterwards you are usually obligated to spend several years working for the Govt after graduation; citizenship required in all cases).
It's a false dichotomy: I could be good at both (or neither).
Not sure I can or want to convince you, but hacking up some hardware and code to do the job is not hard at all. Working device could be had within weeks if not days.
Yes, even I could probably deliver a working prototype if I had access to even one-millionth of what they already spent on it: 2 billion dollars so far!
I do blame them for wasting my (and your) money, but I do understand why they are so inefficient: it's near impossible to find smart people with security clearances...
Do you really think that interfacing three devices takes a lot of work?
Oh, and I am so sorry I don't have this particular design ready... I will get working on it right away in the hopes of impressing you with it the next time the topic comes up!
Why do you assume that this 550 Watt power supply is constantly drawing 100% power? Usually your computer will use a small fraction of the maximum power it is rated at when your CPU, disks, and video cards are idle (which is pretty much any time you are not playing an FPS or editting a video).
Also consider that today's power supplies are often >80% efficient, which is probably doubled in the last five years. In addition, Windows now implements CPU Idle functionality which it did not do in Win 98 IIRC, resulting in a constant 100% CPU power draw.
You know, privately I have always wondered if Bush mixed up Iraq and Iran, and the rest of the administration just went with it to preserve some dignity.
I never said targeting Muslims is racist: Islam is a religion, not a genetic trait. You religion is a choice, your race is not.
I am saying that we should not rest on our laurels but continue to be ever vigilant against Islamic Extremists (currently the most serious threat to American interests here and abroad).
Just because the Islamists have not attacked us here recently does not mean they aren't trying.
Lots of ways an innocent person can find it. For example, such apartment could be seen by a UPS delivery guy, a firemarshal, a plumber/landlord dealing with a clogged drain, cable guy setting up the internet connection, a callgirl in for a visit... You get the picture.
We are fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here. --George W. Bush
Your data for continental US just proves that the W strategy works! If you look at the Muslim attacks worldwide, you will find shitloads in Israel, Iraq, Chechnya, Lebanon, etc. And I mean daily suicide bombings, kidnappings, and beheadings.
Of course, all of the larger high-profile attacks are done by the Muslims as well: 9/11, Madrid bombing, Britain 7/7 and others, "black widows" in Russia, etc.
Face it, most Muslims are not terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims.
I'll all rust in a couple of decades. Even in your example, the cavemen would need to find some wires and a lightbulb, plus know how to hook all that up and rotate the alternator at the same time. Plus, they would need to have a use for it (check out a story about the steam turbine remaining just a toy to the people that lived 2000 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile ) And so your alternator will remain a neat toy until the lightbulb burns out.
For any artifact to generate progress, the people that find it would need the tools to take that thing apart, understand it, and replicate it. Can you, right now, go out there, make your own shopping list, and make an alternator? In theory you could, but in reality you probably can't. I am not even going to ask you to go out there and make your own 8088 chip or even a damn transistor for that matter!
Egg hatcher at a farm is not the problem. But if someone finds an urban apartment stuffed with egg hatchers, Petri dishes, vacuum pumps, and high-speed milling equipment along with some photocopied manuals in Arabic, I would have that observer drop a dime on you as fast as it falls...
And so was this arts professor SOL: Imagine YOU were the (non-specialist) rescuer that saw a woman go down and die in a house full of makeshift but specialized microbiological equipment whose owner is jittery to the max, and claims to be an artist, and cannot describe the equipment's purpose?
Same for the idiot girl wearing the LEDs: handling the bricks of modelling clay out at an airport is not what a blinkenlights dork normally does. Not after the two planes blew up because of women carrying "modelling clay" a few years ago.
Yeah, but perhaps if it weighs as much as a Palm T5, you might consider handing out three of those to each grunt (in case any two of them fail at the same time), and still have a smaller package than a 15-pound pack they have to lug around? And probably a far better reliability and cost-effectiveness to boot.
But then again, I am just a naive taxpayer that hates seeing Uncle Sam pissing away my money.
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Moderators? Why, they are the product of the American k-12 system.
I second that. Funding is not a concern at all since the grad schools pay YOU. Most average stipends are always high enough for food, rent, and some entertainment. And there are always ways to get more money (up to 80k a year extra) if you are very good and can apply for outside fellowships (though afterwards you are usually obligated to spend several years working for the Govt after graduation; citizenship required in all cases).
No shit, Sherlock. The whole point of running a company is to make money, not lose it.
What I would like to know is why the fresh-out-of-college graduates demand a starting salary of over $100,000/year...
Yes, I am talking about the people applying for a programmer position whose "Hello World" app in a language of their choice would not compile
That's just a theory.
All cars are evil. KITT itself was not evil, but its windshield wipers were.
All empires fall. So let Darwin take the wheel, sit back, and enjoy the ride (or start digging a fallout shelter like me).
Privacy Group Gives Google Lowest Possible Grade
Go with Microsoft. They actually have a privacy policy.
No, not all. The larger ones did, the smaller ones told the Feds to bugger off.
If I am in a rush, I would much rather have the "Engrish" translation than a bunch of Chapanese hyroglighic gobbledeegook.
It's a false dichotomy: I could be good at both (or neither).
Not sure I can or want to convince you, but hacking up some hardware and code to do the job is not hard at all. Working device could be had within weeks if not days.
Yes, even I could probably deliver a working prototype if I had access to even one-millionth of what they already spent on it: 2 billion dollars so far!
I do blame them for wasting my (and your) money, but I do understand why they are so inefficient: it's near impossible to find smart people with security clearances...
Do you realise that unlike most of slashdotters, your boss expects you to alt-tab out of excel and into a pornsite when s/he is around?
Do you really think that interfacing three devices takes a lot of work?
Oh, and I am so sorry I don't have this particular design ready... I will get working on it right away in the hopes of impressing you with it the next time the topic comes up!
Why do you assume that this 550 Watt power supply is constantly drawing 100% power? Usually your computer will use a small fraction of the maximum power it is rated at when your CPU, disks, and video cards are idle (which is pretty much any time you are not playing an FPS or editting a video).
Also consider that today's power supplies are often >80% efficient, which is probably doubled in the last five years. In addition, Windows now implements CPU Idle functionality which it did not do in Win 98 IIRC, resulting in a constant 100% CPU power draw.
You know, privately I have always wondered if Bush mixed up Iraq and Iran, and the rest of the administration just went with it to preserve some dignity.
I never said targeting Muslims is racist: Islam is a religion, not a genetic trait. You religion is a choice, your race is not.
I am saying that we should not rest on our laurels but continue to be ever vigilant against Islamic Extremists (currently the most serious threat to American interests here and abroad).
Just because the Islamists have not attacked us here recently does not mean they aren't trying.
Lots of ways an innocent person can find it. For example, such apartment could be seen by a UPS delivery guy, a firemarshal, a plumber/landlord dealing with a clogged drain, cable guy setting up the internet connection, a callgirl in for a visit... You get the picture.
We are fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here.
--George W. Bush
Your data for continental US just proves that the W strategy works! If you look at the Muslim attacks worldwide, you will find shitloads in Israel, Iraq, Chechnya, Lebanon, etc. And I mean daily suicide bombings, kidnappings, and beheadings.
Of course, all of the larger high-profile attacks are done by the Muslims as well: 9/11, Madrid bombing, Britain 7/7 and others, "black widows" in Russia, etc.
Face it, most Muslims are not terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims.
I'll all rust in a couple of decades. Even in your example, the cavemen would need to find some wires and a lightbulb, plus know how to hook all that up and rotate the alternator at the same time. Plus, they would need to have a use for it (check out a story about the steam turbine remaining just a toy to the people that lived 2000 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile ) And so your alternator will remain a neat toy until the lightbulb burns out.
For any artifact to generate progress, the people that find it would need the tools to take that thing apart, understand it, and replicate it. Can you, right now, go out there, make your own shopping list, and make an alternator? In theory you could, but in reality you probably can't. I am not even going to ask you to go out there and make your own 8088 chip or even a damn transistor for that matter!
Hmm, the smartest thing a Chinese soldier would do is surrender! I'd like to see the Americans trying to feed and guard 1 billion POWs.
Egg hatcher at a farm is not the problem. But if someone finds an urban apartment stuffed with egg hatchers, Petri dishes, vacuum pumps, and high-speed milling equipment along with some photocopied manuals in Arabic, I would have that observer drop a dime on you as fast as it falls...
And so was this arts professor SOL: Imagine YOU were the (non-specialist) rescuer that saw a woman go down and die in a house full of makeshift but specialized microbiological equipment whose owner is jittery to the max, and claims to be an artist, and cannot describe the equipment's purpose?
Same for the idiot girl wearing the LEDs: handling the bricks of modelling clay out at an airport is not what a blinkenlights dork normally does. Not after the two planes blew up because of women carrying "modelling clay" a few years ago.
Yeah, but perhaps if it weighs as much as a Palm T5, you might consider handing out three of those to each grunt (in case any two of them fail at the same time), and still have a smaller package than a 15-pound pack they have to lug around? And probably a far better reliability and cost-effectiveness to boot.
But then again, I am just a naive taxpayer that hates seeing Uncle Sam pissing away my money.
So, how much does a unit with a GPS, a 700 MHz transceiver, and a PDA weigh, anyways?
I rather suspect most of the 15 pounds is probably batteries, given the requirement for 72 hours of uptime or whatever the current one is.
You know, I just looked it up, and it appears that this guy weighs in 300 pounds. Is it any wonder that the nerds identify with the character?
What if you end up on that train too?