Comment Round PI off to 3.00 for convenience (Score 3, Funny) 208
We need simple easy to remember mathmatical and physical constants. Alabama failed to pass this modification to the universe. Washington could do much better.
Comment Pay me in cash (Score 1) 103
Let me fondle my pay in cash each morning and pay me daily. I can sprinkle (lightly) the cash on my bed and sleep naked for maximum effect.
Would the shredded money from from the federal reserve have the same effect?
Comment Do it like the coke dealers in the movies. (Score 1) 730
Have beautiful young women administer on-site naked so you know they aren't stealing anything.
Comment Who stole the rovers? (Score 1) 197
Leave a vehicle unattended anywhere in the solar system and it is stolen. We should be able to see the rovers if we can see the footprints.
Comment It's what you know and can do. (Score 2, Insightful) 918
I am in my 50s and am making twice the average salary in my discipline as a DBA. My goal this year is to move to triple.
Going to school will give you a piece of paper. So will getting a certification. No big deal. Rote memorization of the answers without comprhension of why the answers are correct will get you a piece of paper.
You need to ask yourself two questions:
- What do I want to be?
- What did I do today to be what I want?
If you are not working on improving your skills, knowledge, expanding your experience every day; then you will be a low end guy no matter what paper you have. The paper may be a key to enter a new career, but what you can do when you enter the door sets your salary.
Education is a life long process, not milestone.
If you are in your thirties and have not discovered how to teach yourself anything you need to learn, then all the schooling you have taken to date is a waste of your time, as well as any future schooling. You will always be surrounded by people making more than you doing the interesting work.
Comment PCs, TVs, dvd players, blu-ray players. (Score 1) 399
The real problem is mechanical components and violatile ram. In the days of magnetic core a computer could recover from power failure and resume running in few seconds. Disks did take a will to spin up.
24 Hours With LittleBigPlanet 30
We recently mentioned an event at the Parsons New School for Design and Technology in which students were divided into teams, given copies of LittleBigPlanet, and had 24 hours to develop levels for the game. GameSetWatch has the story of how the design contest went, what the winners and other notable finishers designed, and how the judges were surprised that "what they played could be completed in 24 hours." Further coverage is available at GameSpot, including a videos of several different levels. "Team Good Sportsmanship's level consisted of a single massive moving monster. SackBoy had to find his way up the monster, go through its digestive track while dodging stomach acid and eventually get on top of its head. The level featured an anatomical tour of the beast, complete with rib cage, beating heart even a dangling uvula. Once the player made it up to the brain, there was a hand-drawn animation of what the beast was thinking: eating SackBoy. Once the player got past the teeth and used the tongue to lob themselves on top of the monster's snout, the level was over."
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