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My daughter can attest to that. She has a doctorate in astronomy. Her thesis involved writing software for adaptive optics.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Given the crap that is sometimes posted in the newsletter, I'm glad of something a little more interesting. Perhaps if you'd care to go and find some IT related news, you could add it to the forum.
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Gosh, Pete, that seems a bit harsh; I think Kent and Sean (and, now, Kevin) do an exceptional job of web-crawling and distilling the tasty/juicy from the hype and dregs.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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But they aren't the only ones who post in there are they? Also, Kent has sometimes let his standards slip - on slow news days.
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Wow, that was uncalled for. Of course personal taste, but I find the newsletter quite OK, especially when compared to other "IT" newsletters.
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And which bit, exactly, was uncalled for? The fact that I called some of the content that has been posted crap? Do you honestly believe that all of the content that has ever been in there is of the highest quality?
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This is an overly sensitive crowd these days, here at CP. Has been for a while, IMHO. You have to think about everyone's feelings before posting your opinion.
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I find this offensive!
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Slacker007 wrote: This is an overly sensitive crowd these days, Isn't it just.
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IMHO, the Insider News is the real Technology Insider - the one-stop-shop for the state-of-the-art. The one site to visit every single day.
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You know this really sounds like "I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite shop on the Citadel"?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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I'm Coder Shepard and this is my favorite site on the internet.
Imagine being greeted by that in the original voice every time you enter this place.
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Eugh In Mass Effect I did it for the money!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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That just sounds dirty to me
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Wow, I wouldn't go so far as to call it crap... Lots of good stuff in there.
Not saying the Astronomy isn't interesting, but I don't think it belongs in an IT newsletter.
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You may note that I said some of it is crap. People do seem to be getting their knickers in a twist that I don't find it all to be a diamond of the highest order.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I don't find it all to be a diamond of the highest order Well, that is knicker-twistable indeed!
I agree though, the astronomy posts are crap
Not that the Insider peeps should listen to that, you can't please everyone and overall I'm pretty pleased
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Some days there are just not enough IT news worth publishing - and one "language popuarity" news per day is still too much IMHO. I believe it is way better to have a slighlty broader focus, after all Astronomy today has more IT tahn most of the research experiments, barring particle accelerators and possibly a few others.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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den2k88 wrote: Astronomy today has more IT tahn most of the research experiments Except most of those articles aren't about the technology behind the research
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Yes I understand that, but each achievement obtained in that fields is at least partly due to the technology, so it makes sense - much more sense than the thousands of articles summarizable in "<person with big ego> states <technology> is <dead | the future | wrong | misunderstood by everyone besides me>".
Of course this is my personal view
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
modified 15-Oct-15 4:34am.
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"Java is dead"
"Java is the new language of the Web"
In the same newsletter, or maybe a day in between
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I guess because IT people are more interested in it than other crowds?
Apart from Asterologist crowds, of course
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Astrology has no use for astronomy. It uses star 'maps' which are thousands of years out of date. Last thing astrologists need is observations messing up their arguments!
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