The first update that Firefox tried to download and install failed. But it then tried again with a full download, which worked. What was a little strange is that Firefox opened a browser window after the failed install; but that makes sense considering that I didn’t have to try again with the full version, and…Continue Reading…
The only time I have seen US CS majors gain immediate value is when they go abroad. There are plenty of companies in China, India, HK, Canada, Australia that would love to get their hands on top CS majors from the US. (slashdot comment)
That was fun. For our last physics lab, we played with liquid nitrogen to predict what the absolute zero of temperature is. I think we got -275 degreees Celsius. That’s less than 2 degrees off from the real value, I think. Since we were playing with liquid nitrogen, students were throwing all kinds of things…Continue Reading…
… at Google or Yahoo. But who doesn’t? Hopefully they consider this idea: The other important thing to consider is that most IT folk do their best work young and fresh out of college. They’re not “old hands”, they’re “young minds”. The real innovators are almost invariably people who haven’t learned yet that what they’re…Continue Reading…
In Physics today, Bickers lectured on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. He ended class with this thought. Suppose you wanted to visit the Andromeda galaxy, and let’s say it’s 20 million light years away. You would say, no way, it’s impossible. Anything that has mass must always move at a speed less than that of the…Continue Reading…
I forget where I read this, but I’ve been wanting to blog about it since last Thursday, when I first started researching about Ruby on Rails. It’s an awesome language, though I haven’t had a chance to code in it yet. It’s fairly new, and version 1.1 was only recently released. I emailed my computer…Continue Reading…