Ok, so that was corny. But if anyone puts a golden arches that we can see from earth, I'll be among the first taking pot shots at it with a borred rifle.
Were the caps necessary? Or is this an intelligently written article used to disguise an encrypted message: Ability anyone fatter pipes distributing minutes impact same. Meet me at the coral tonight to swap MP3s.
You have a good point, though I thought this would amount to more than 'Iridium Flares', which, several people have been nice enough to inform me, will not. I could see how random sparks of light could annoy an Astronomer, I was hoping for something a bit more constant and recognizable. It won't stop me from pulling out my telescope and trying to find it though.
Technology has made life easier, I think most people would agree. People choose to work longer, put in more hours, interrupt their vacations with conference calls. Why? Some call it furthering their career or use a number of other terms, but the real reason is money. The problem (if you want to call it a problem) is that most of the time it's not desperately needed money. Instead of making only 70K a year, you'll make 90K if you shave off just a bit more of your free time.
Sure, some of you out there (and I'm critisizing myself when I say this) work extra hours for free. You keep yourself connected on vacation when you may not have factored this into your asking salary when accepting a job offer. You're giving 'one for the team' and all the crap, but who's going to remember you when the venture capital runs out? Oh you're one of those few with a working product? Reading the company pamplets to encourage yourself lately?
Whether these are worthy goals is another story, but these are the real reasons you have less time, so it's stupid to bitch about it. It's funny when you ask some people how their week was invariably you get things, 'oh man, worked 80 hours this week, been really busy, but we're going to get this McDonanld Food Data Queue finished early' that few of these people say 'but boy am I going to make a heap of cash'.
I think even fewer are the people who really care about what they are doing. They want to see something they build be the best it can be for reasons other than money. It's hard to find a job like this. My job is sometimes like this, but sometimes I am working on things where I want to do a good job only because the result reflects on me, not because I like the product or think it's great for mankind. If I was writing the complex programs that queue up orders at McDonalds, I really wouldn't give a damn about it as long as it get the job done (which may include adding functionality beyond explicitly stated or even paid for project parameters), and the client likes it. I'm not going to think about how great it is because it helps some fatass wolf down a burger that much faster. I might think it's cool how my code is running on thousands of fast food joints around the world, but it's not exactly going to further science or end world peace.. or even hunger.
That sucks. Maybe we can convert a dieing hubble telescope into a magnifing glass and place it just below the space station? Seriously though, I'm looking forward to being able to pick it out in the night sky.
He said he tried to make it sound uninteresting, but it wasn't like he was mispronouncing words and working in Homer Simpson quotes (yes I know he wasn't around yet). Death to Nomadic.
I've heard that the ISS will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. This may sound like a silly idea, but I think this feature may be one of the most valuable aspects of the project. The ISS will serve as a very real reminder to current and future generations of what is possible, more than any multi-million dollar sci-fi film or live feed of a Martian landing. Though it may take time, this could help generate more support for space programs. It may seem superficial, but the addition of a new landmark in the sky will make many people dream of what can be.
I remember the subjects were '1st?' and '2nd?', probably the same person, yep A C, but not as offensive like usual. I think they just said 'Hmm' or something, no ascii graphics of beer mugs. I suppose part of the reason I did post was, I wanted to see a relavent post up there. I read the article and didn't have a whole lot important to say. My posts are never anything amazing, but they're usually not this inane. Better to say nothing than to sound like an idiot.
I wonder if this will cause premiums to go up when cars finally get IP addresses. Why should I pay more because my fellow motorists don't have the latest Firewall installed in their onboard computer?
I honestly was not aiming for the first post, I read the article and I saw those other 2 before. Slashdot is pretty slow on sunday. I don't think any of my other posts are anywhere near 1st or trying to get there. I'll admit the post was pretty stupid and I should learn to think more before I post. I have no idea why anyone found it insightful. It was modded up once, insightful, down, offtopic, and then up insightful.
We'll see what it has done to our economy... a lot of this money was generated by hype, and that hype is dieing down. A lot of that hype was from the hope of America's numerous consumers starting to use the internet to buy - to buy mostly uncessary things, like TVs, Dreamcasts, the latest CD, Harry Potter novels, ginseng extract and specialty moisturizers. How many Latin Americans do we expect to buy this crap? Or do we expect them to buy groceries online? Is Priceline.com going to start making deals for that with the local vegetable shack?
With some programming, you can automate ecoding everything they play into an MP3. It would be nice if they had a station that never repeats a song within a month, $9.95 for 14400 MP3s! (3 minutes per song * 30 days) I wonder if they have commercials.
That's gotta be the silliest work around ever. Because it's tedious to shut off your ringer, some company is making a system where new phones that support it that detect a signal to know when to shut off. If they're going to make new phones, why not just make them easy to shut off. Or is it easier to install transmitters all over the place that will work with some phones?
Good point. I don't feel like I got 4 years of knowledge from the comp sci program I was in. I probably could have saved time buying $500 of books and a computer and fooling around with that for a year. Part of it is that schools don't quickly integrate technology as fast as we would like. Another part is it's hard to find a teacher who keeps up to date or has an incentive too. Luckily, I had a friend who was repeating college to learn CS, and he suggested I read Byte magazines, and see what the buzzwords are. Even though a lot of it is hyped up stuff, it was stuff I'd never hear about in my Pascal class.
Eventually I started working on a lot of things on my own, because I liked computers, whereas a lot of my classmates were in the CS program because they heard 'computers is the future'. I even got the CS department to let me design my own independent study classes. At least they were open to letting me to this contrasted with how unwilling they were to integrate new stuff into their curriculum. I didn't go to the best comp sci school, and from what I gather it sounds like there are some kick ass programs out there.
The point is to do well in comp sci (and probably any other field) you shouldn't just rely on the college to expose you to everything in that field, even if you're paying 25K a year for it. A lot of those disinterested classmates ended up spending a year working at a low end computer related job while spending bucks on some Oracle or NT certification so they could have some real world knowledge. Many of them even had better grades then me. While I was goofing off trying to build a half working text web server, they were working hard doing exactly what the teacher instructed. But they still came to me and others like me for help with homework like clockwork. As we drew closer to senior year and graduating, I tried to suggest these folks do what my friend originally suggested to me, keep up to date with technology.
I like this idea. I agree with some of the other posts up there that the net/web isn't in top form yet, and it may never be. But we don't keep historical records of only civilized times. True, this shouldn't be labed as an archive of mankind when a select few have the means to take part in it. A future generation may learn from what the imperfect net was like way back when. Ok, nothing that has been said before, what I'm interested in is, does anyone know if there copies of yahoo's index page during it's first year? Maybe other popular pages? Just for nostalgia purposes, some of these sites are the ones I first started using regularly after my lynx usage died down.
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I for one am thankful for that a particular porn sites, whose name I won't mention, locked me at their site, and inundate me with popup windows. At first, I was reluctant, "I'm looking for a crack for Grandma's Recipe Tracker V" But after a series of 12 popup windows and irreversable navigations away from warez, I realized porn is what's missing from my life. They finally convinced me, and I'm glad they did -months later, here I am, forking over my hard earned cash for sweet porn, and happier for it.
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Ok, so that was corny. But if anyone puts a golden arches that we can see from earth, I'll be among the first taking pot shots at it with a borred rifle.
Were the caps necessary? Or is this an intelligently written article used to disguise an encrypted message: Ability anyone fatter pipes distributing minutes impact same. Meet me at the coral tonight to swap MP3s.
You have a good point, though I thought this would amount to more than 'Iridium Flares', which, several people have been nice enough to inform me, will not. I could see how random sparks of light could annoy an Astronomer, I was hoping for something a bit more constant and recognizable. It won't stop me from pulling out my telescope and trying to find it though.
Technology has made life easier, I think most people would agree. People choose to work longer, put in more hours, interrupt their vacations with conference calls. Why? Some call it furthering their career or use a number of other terms, but the real reason is money. The problem (if you want to call it a problem) is that most of the time it's not desperately needed money. Instead of making only 70K a year, you'll make 90K if you shave off just a bit more of your free time.
Sure, some of you out there (and I'm critisizing myself when I say this) work extra hours for free. You keep yourself connected on vacation when you may not have factored this into your asking salary when accepting a job offer. You're giving 'one for the team' and all the crap, but who's going to remember you when the venture capital runs out? Oh you're one of those few with a working product? Reading the company pamplets to encourage yourself lately?
Whether these are worthy goals is another story, but these are the real reasons you have less time, so it's stupid to bitch about it. It's funny when you ask some people how their week was invariably you get things, 'oh man, worked 80 hours this week, been really busy, but we're going to get this McDonanld Food Data Queue finished early' that few of these people say 'but boy am I going to make a heap of cash'.
I think even fewer are the people who really care about what they are doing. They want to see something they build be the best it can be for reasons other than money. It's hard to find a job like this. My job is sometimes like this, but sometimes I am working on things where I want to do a good job only because the result reflects on me, not because I like the product or think it's great for mankind. If I was writing the complex programs that queue up orders at McDonalds, I really wouldn't give a damn about it as long as it get the job done (which may include adding functionality beyond explicitly stated or even paid for project parameters), and the client likes it. I'm not going to think about how great it is because it helps some fatass wolf down a burger that much faster. I might think it's cool how my code is running on thousands of fast food joints around the world, but it's not exactly going to further science or end world peace.. or even hunger.
That sucks. Maybe we can convert a dieing hubble telescope into a magnifing glass and place it just below the space station? Seriously though, I'm looking forward to being able to pick it out in the night sky.
He said he tried to make it sound uninteresting, but it wasn't like he was mispronouncing words and working in Homer Simpson quotes (yes I know he wasn't around yet). Death to Nomadic.
Good point. I'm hoping the naked eye visibility of the ISS from earth will help change this.
I've heard that the ISS will be visible from Earth with the naked eye. This may sound like a silly idea, but I think this feature may be one of the most valuable aspects of the project. The ISS will serve as a very real reminder to current and future generations of what is possible, more than any multi-million dollar sci-fi film or live feed of a Martian landing. Though it may take time, this could help generate more support for space programs. It may seem superficial, but the addition of a new landmark in the sky will make many people dream of what can be.
I remember the subjects were '1st?' and '2nd?', probably the same person, yep A C, but not as offensive like usual. I think they just said 'Hmm' or something, no ascii graphics of beer mugs. I suppose part of the reason I did post was, I wanted to see a relavent post up there. I read the article and didn't have a whole lot important to say. My posts are never anything amazing, but they're usually not this inane. Better to say nothing than to sound like an idiot.
I wonder if this will cause premiums to go up when cars finally get IP addresses. Why should I pay more because my fellow motorists don't have the latest Firewall installed in their onboard computer?
I honestly was not aiming for the first post, I read the article and I saw those other 2 before. Slashdot is pretty slow on sunday. I don't think any of my other posts are anywhere near 1st or trying to get there. I'll admit the post was pretty stupid and I should learn to think more before I post. I have no idea why anyone found it insightful. It was modded up once, insightful, down, offtopic, and then up insightful.
I will, Thank you.
I gave this group some money once in exchange for some nice mailing labels. I was skeptical though, I didn't know the ratio was that good.
I was going more for humor, I was just as surprised that it was moderated as insightful as well.
We'll see what it has done to our economy... a lot of this money was generated by hype, and that hype is dieing down. A lot of that hype was from the hope of America's numerous consumers starting to use the internet to buy - to buy mostly uncessary things, like TVs, Dreamcasts, the latest CD, Harry Potter novels, ginseng extract and specialty moisturizers. How many Latin Americans do we expect to buy this crap? Or do we expect them to buy groceries online? Is Priceline.com going to start making deals for that with the local vegetable shack?
With some programming, you can automate ecoding everything they play into an MP3. It would be nice if they had a station that never repeats a song within a month, $9.95 for 14400 MP3s! (3 minutes per song * 30 days) I wonder if they have commercials.
People still need food over internet access. Unless they're hoping to order some free food with venture capital powered net coupons and discounts.
It wasn't moderated to 2, he's go so much karma, it starts like that.
That's gotta be the silliest work around ever. Because it's tedious to shut off your ringer, some company is making a system where new phones that support it that detect a signal to know when to shut off. If they're going to make new phones, why not just make them easy to shut off. Or is it easier to install transmitters all over the place that will work with some phones?
Good point. I don't feel like I got 4 years of knowledge from the comp sci program I was in. I probably could have saved time buying $500 of books and a computer and fooling around with that for a year. Part of it is that schools don't quickly integrate technology as fast as we would like. Another part is it's hard to find a teacher who keeps up to date or has an incentive too. Luckily, I had a friend who was repeating college to learn CS, and he suggested I read Byte magazines, and see what the buzzwords are. Even though a lot of it is hyped up stuff, it was stuff I'd never hear about in my Pascal class.
Eventually I started working on a lot of things on my own, because I liked computers, whereas a lot of my classmates were in the CS program because they heard 'computers is the future'. I even got the CS department to let me design my own independent study classes. At least they were open to letting me to this contrasted with how unwilling they were to integrate new stuff into their curriculum. I didn't go to the best comp sci school, and from what I gather it sounds like there are some kick ass programs out there.
The point is to do well in comp sci (and probably any other field) you shouldn't just rely on the college to expose you to everything in that field, even if you're paying 25K a year for it. A lot of those disinterested classmates ended up spending a year working at a low end computer related job while spending bucks on some Oracle or NT certification so they could have some real world knowledge. Many of them even had better grades then me. While I was goofing off trying to build a half working text web server, they were working hard doing exactly what the teacher instructed. But they still came to me and others like me for help with homework like clockwork. As we drew closer to senior year and graduating, I tried to suggest these folks do what my friend originally suggested to me, keep up to date with technology.
I say we burn down their corporate HQ. They can't make money using real intellect or good services. They're the pimps of the internet.
sorry about the bold.
I like this idea. I agree with some of the other posts up there that the net/web isn't in top form yet, and it may never be. But we don't keep historical records of only civilized times. True, this shouldn't be labed as an archive of mankind when a select few have the means to take part in it. A future generation may learn from what the imperfect net was like way back when. Ok, nothing that has been said before, what I'm interested in is, does anyone know if there copies of yahoo's index page during it's first year? Maybe other popular pages? Just for nostalgia purposes, some of these sites are the ones I first started using regularly after my lynx usage died down.
from a book called Learning Perl.
I for one am thankful for that a particular porn sites, whose name I won't mention, locked me at their site, and inundate me with popup windows. At first, I was reluctant, "I'm looking for a crack for Grandma's Recipe Tracker V" But after a series of 12 popup windows and irreversable navigations away from warez, I realized porn is what's missing from my life. They finally convinced me, and I'm glad they did -months later, here I am, forking over my hard earned cash for sweet porn, and happier for it.