Comment: A repeat... (Score 1) 150
...of what destroyed Martian Civilization in 10,500 BC...
Comment: Re:Just what the world needs (Score 1) 319
If Aurora exists, how come we can't make the X-51 work?
Oh wait... I know! It's a shell game, to throw everyone OFF the scent, to make them think we don't know what we're doing while we built something more spectacular than Aurora!
Now I got it!
Comment: We shall SPY them on the Beaches (Score 1) 149
"We shall SPY on to the end, we shall SPY in France,
we shall SPY on the seas and oceans,
we shall SPY with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall SPY our whatever the cost may be,
we shall SPY the beaches,
we shall SPY on the landing grounds,
we shall SPY in the fields and in the streets,
we shall SPY in the hills;"
-- paraphrasing, the GREAT Winston Churchill
+ - Apple Drops Claim that Macs Don't Get "PC Viruses"->
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CR0WTR0B0T writes "Apple finally dropped the phrase "It Doesn't Get PC Viruses" from the Why You'll Love a Mac website. Now they say "It's built to be safe." No comment from Apple on why the change was made."
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+ - Immigrants Are Crucial to Innovation, Study Says->
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gollum123 writes "Arguing against immigration policies that force foreign-born innovators to leave the United States, a new study to be released on Tuesday shows that immigrants played a role in more than three out of four patents at the nation’s top research universities. Conducted by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a nonprofit group co-founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, the study notes that nearly all the patents were in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM fields that are a crucial driver of job growth. The Partnership for a New American Economy released a paper in May saying that other nations were aggressively courting highly skilled citizens who had settled in the United States, urging them to return to their home countries. The partnership supports legislation that would make it easier for foreign-born STEM graduates and entrepreneurs to stay in the United States. the study notes that nine out of 10 patents at the University of Illinois system in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor. Of those, 64 percent had a foreign inventor who was not yet a professor but rather a student, researcher or postdoctoral fellow, a group more likely to face immigration problems."
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Comment: Re:Lie on your resume (Score 1) 1201
My employer uses a computer to screen all incoming resumes. Unless your resume hits every single keyword in the job description, you're kicked out and never get seen by a human being.
And the company as a whole wonders why it's so hard to fill most positions...
And you hit the NAIL on the head as to why I have not gotten a job in 2 years. No matter how many times I've changed my "keywords". It IS the "employers" fault, and I am convinced of that.
Comment: Not only does it sound decent... (Score 1) 7
But the price sounds like it will be competitive with the iPad, unless, Apple decides to discount their tablet before the FALL when this thing comes out. However, there is still one hole in the overall package here.... the OS.
Comment: Re:Awesome (Score 1) 710
You can see non gimicky 3D right now: Prometheus. Say what you will about the film, the 3D is not a gimmick, and greatly enhances the experience. I felt like I was looking at real person when Charlie was looking in the mirror and saw the thing in his eye. Creepy as fuck. The cesarian was also creepy as fuck in 3D as well, not because of in your face effects, but because you really felt as if you were right there looking at real people. That's the future of 3D: subtle enhancement.
Subtle Enhancement?
The only movie that was WORTH seeing in 3D in the last few years was AVATAR.
I saw Prometheus in 3D and saw no "subtle enhancement". The 3D visuals, did nothing for me. They did not detract from the movie, but neither did they justify the increased cost of the ticket. I felt like I was duped by a film-maker who said that he shot in 3D to make the film better.
As you can obviously surmise from my comments, I never go to 3D movies that have been up-converted, no matter what ridiculous budget the studio has spent on it. As the saying goes: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame...."
+ - Jack Daniel's original whiskey recipe discovered->
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MPAndonee writes "Mark Evans, a Welsh businessman, was doing some family research when he came upon the "Family Bible" at a bottom of a dusty bookcase. In it, were a number of herbal remedies, other recipes, and supposedly Jack Daniel's famous Whiskey recipe. There are two things at question here:
(1) Was Jack Daniel an ancestor of Mark Evans?
(2) A lot of people say, what makes the world's best selling Whiskey unique is the Spring Water that comes from Lynchburg, TN. So, whatever the original recipe might have been, without the water, you have nothing."
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(1) Was Jack Daniel an ancestor of Mark Evans?
(2) A lot of people say, what makes the world's best selling Whiskey unique is the Spring Water that comes from Lynchburg, TN. So, whatever the original recipe might have been, without the water, you have nothing."
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Comment: This I don't believe... (Score 1) 886
Because how come I can't find a job then?
Comment: Re:Irony alert! (Score 1) 264
Not so sure you appreciate the strength of DirectTV's box. I don't believe anyone here actually appreciates that BOX.
BECAUSE of it's architecture, there are available "hacks" and other programs that allow you to far surpass anything that's on the market, and make it the central entertainment hub for the whole family. For those of us in the know, TiVo boxes and DirectTV boxes have been the gateways to entertainment freedom, almost completely freeing us from media that is not digital.
Now, if someone could just "port" iTunes to it, I'd be set (I can already stream my songs/movie/TV show purchases to it).
Comment: Re:That Moment (Score 1) 414
We all had that moment in school when a teacher would pose an "impossible" problem, thought to ourselves "Well, they've never faced ME before!", spent a few minutes toying with it and finally giving up.
Not necessarily true.
I remember sitting in class, in High School, maybe Junior High, and asked such a problem, and being the only one in a class of 45+ able to solve it,
BTW, my solution was unique, as in, the teacher had never seen it before. So, yeah, what Shouryya Ray did was VERY IMPRESSIVE, but, solving problems at 16? My mind was very agile back then. I've lost a lot since then.
Comment: There is only one answer to this: (Score 1) 409
GO TO HELL... Elizabeth.....
When was the last time I read something from you?
+ - Youtube Music->
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monicaburooj writes "As T6's second introductory project, this new project aims to set a new precedent for T6. She is constantly evolving as an artist."
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+ - Ask Slashdot: Learning to program after 40
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An anonymous reader writes "Dear Slashdot,
I've enjoyed this community off and on since the late 1990s, yet I'm submitting as AC because I'm embarrassed of my situation. When I was 11, I scraped up enough money to buy a used Commodore 16 for the sole purpose of learning to program BASIC. Some years later (mid 1990s), I got into Linux, and dabbled a little bit in C, Perl and even some basic shell scripting. I didn't get too far into it before my working life (and believe it or not, women) ate up all my time. Programming is one of those things that I'm always interested in, but never had the time for. In a few years, I will finish my degree and start a new career (going into Medicine, not IT). I've decided that once I'm done with school, I will *make* the time to finally get into programming. Problem is, I'll be a few years past my 40th birthday at that point. I'm not interested in programming for career purposes (personal entertainment, mainly- just want to model some of this microbiology, physiology, molecular physics and such, as well as write some simple games and program some microcontrollers) yet I am afraid that since I'm getting into this late (the stuff as a pre-teen is so long ago it doesn't count anymore) that I'll never be effective at it. I know the brain changes as you get older, but has anyone else ever started programming at such a late stage in life? Can you still be effective and decent at it, or am I going to be staring at my vi session like my grandfather used to stare at his TV remote in total bewilderment? Is there any hope for non-geeks like myself that want to play in your world? Thanks and bacon planks."
I've enjoyed this community off and on since the late 1990s, yet I'm submitting as AC because I'm embarrassed of my situation. When I was 11, I scraped up enough money to buy a used Commodore 16 for the sole purpose of learning to program BASIC. Some years later (mid 1990s), I got into Linux, and dabbled a little bit in C, Perl and even some basic shell scripting. I didn't get too far into it before my working life (and believe it or not, women) ate up all my time. Programming is one of those things that I'm always interested in, but never had the time for. In a few years, I will finish my degree and start a new career (going into Medicine, not IT). I've decided that once I'm done with school, I will *make* the time to finally get into programming. Problem is, I'll be a few years past my 40th birthday at that point. I'm not interested in programming for career purposes (personal entertainment, mainly- just want to model some of this microbiology, physiology, molecular physics and such, as well as write some simple games and program some microcontrollers) yet I am afraid that since I'm getting into this late (the stuff as a pre-teen is so long ago it doesn't count anymore) that I'll never be effective at it. I know the brain changes as you get older, but has anyone else ever started programming at such a late stage in life? Can you still be effective and decent at it, or am I going to be staring at my vi session like my grandfather used to stare at his TV remote in total bewilderment? Is there any hope for non-geeks like myself that want to play in your world? Thanks and bacon planks."