How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
WTF is wrong with you people?!
You are supposedly the most powerful nation on earth, the wealthiest, the nation that is spoken to exude opportunity and success from every pore.
And you have whole families, school children, living in homeless shelters.
I don't care how they came to be in the situation, it doesn't matter how that happened, what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.
For every one remarkable individual like this who manages to overcome the adversity, I hate to think how many are dragged down by the circumstance.
I was asked to evaluate a website (for a large and well known company) only 3 days ago with a view to "taking it over".
Let's say my review was less than favourable when I found that if you didn't have silverlight you were not able to use the site, the home page simply told you that without silverlight you could not continue to use the normal site and pushed you to a crappy antiquated mobile phone design of the site as an alternative.
And the reason they had silverlight as a requirement? As best I could tell it was because they had bad low resolution videos in the background of some pages.
Even with silverlight enabled, the site was disastrously slow, not to mention unnavigable by search engines (not even real URLs for products etc).
Like I told them, who ever had the good idea to make that site, should never be allowed to have any more good ideas.
miss the target, punch through a cinder block wall, THEN skip off the hill, fly 1/3rd of a mile, through a door, skip UP the stairs, through an adobe and plaster wall, hit the neighbor's roof, before rolling off the roof onto a minivan windshield, bounced of the dashboard into the back seats floorboards.
I have a Logitech MK320. It makes the cut fine for me as a programmer. Cheap too.
I went wireless because I was forever snagging cables on something, like my foot, and sending things flying onto the floor. Also easy to move the keyboard out of the way to prevent stray cats from typing on it in my absence.
I work almost entirely in email. I hate talking on phones. I hate ringing people. I hate being called.
The phone is so intrusive, it's like the person doing the calling has no care about what the person being called is doing, they think they are the most important thing ever and you should be sitting there just waiting for their call. Telephoning somebody, to me, is like walking up and interrupting the other party when they are in a conversation with somebody else.
Email by contrast is fundamentally polite and efficient, you send the message and when it is convenient for the other end, they reply.
The same problems that phones have also apply to other forms of "instant" messaging.
Most people have no trouble working over email, the few who do I generally find either have some disability (dyslexia), or are just plain demanding and really do believe that they are the most important person and can't understand why you won't spend hour upon hour on the phone listening to their inane drivel (and woe betide you should bill them for it).
Sometimes people realise the ideas they have are wrong and they change them, beating children is one of those things that much of the world has decided was wrong.
> saying that some creator set the constants to those values and lit the blue touch paper is as good a > hypothesis as any.
No, no it's really not, not in any way as good as any. That "hypothesis" can neither be proved nor disproved, at least by the definition of the christian-like gods who do not reveal themselves for that would remove the necessity for belief (and supplant it with knowledge).
A hypothesis that has even the mere possibility of provability or disprovability is an inordinately a better hypothesis than one which has neither possibility at all.
You don't get to say "well, nobody has come up with an idea yet, so I'll just pull some random unprovable half baked thought out of my ass, that will be as good as any".
ME: what is the weather like in Christchurch tomorrow It Recognised: what is the weather like in costume tomorrow It Replied: There is no weather
Tried again... ME: what is the weather like in Christchurch tomorrow It Recognised: what is the weather like in christ church tomorrow It Replied: I don't know I don't live there.
ME: where is the nearest bank of new zealand It replied: Hell if I know.
ME: where am I It replied: Where Am I? is the abumn by Mike Johnson published November 7th 1994
Me: what is my current location It: You have no brother.
Me: what time is it It: (gives correct time, but in UTC, not local)
Me: how long is it until 4pm It Recognised: how long is it from 214 It Replied: How long is a day?
Me (replying to question): Yes It Recognised: kids It Replied: Kids is the school and non-business organization, in Northside Independant School District
Me: Remind me at 9pm to go and buy milk It Recognised: remindme at 9 pm to go in hawaii It Replied: I have two pets.
Me: What time is it in Tunguska Recognised: what time is it in english Replied: it is 4:40 in England
Me: Where is siberia Replied: Wherever you make it I guess
Me: How do I get to blenheim road Recognised: how do I get to clean a micro Replied: By plane.
Me: Give me directions to jelly place Recognised: give me directions to chelsea place Replied: it's a garage
Soooooo... yeah, the developers of this seem to have done little more than wrap around google voice search to provide rather abstract one liner spoken responses. An amusement. Nothing more.
Nah, he's just storing multiple backups of FRIENDS, everybody knows you only need FRIENDS and just go back to the start when you run off the end, it's the mobius strip of Television.
I think for me, it has to be the Commodore 64 Users Manual. Why? Because that's what taught me BASIC, and the phrase in that manual, something like "don't worry, you can't break the computer, unless you're an elephant".
Runner up in close second, a series of kids "detective" adventure type books in which they used little BASIC programs to help them solve the "crime". That taught me to think of the computer as a tool that could help me solve problems, if I just gave it the right instructions.
In an ideal world, you don't HAVE to tell the wealthy guy to pay $140, he does it without asking, because he recognises that the work of the decidedly non-wealthy people under him is what has permitted him to become wealthy.
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America (I'm addressing you as a whole).
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
WTF is wrong with you people?!
You are supposedly the most powerful nation on earth, the wealthiest, the nation that is spoken to exude opportunity and success from every pore.
And you have whole families, school children, living in homeless shelters.
I don't care how they came to be in the situation, it doesn't matter how that happened, what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.
For every one remarkable individual like this who manages to overcome the adversity, I hate to think how many are dragged down by the circumstance.
Most DSE stores do still carry a few components, including resistors. It's just that you have to look quite hard.
Down the back.
In the dark corner.
Behind the door on the right.
Marked beware of the leopard.
Just keep looking, they are there somewhere.
Jaycar seems to be doing quite well here in Christchurch, they just moved into a much larger store, same stuff, just more of it.
On Gnu/Linux systems (etc), it's generally up to the package manager of course.
Windows systems don't have that luxury so they have to D.I.Y.
You are thinking of 2001. Parent is talking (correctly given context!) about 2010.
2010 was not trippy, like the latter half of 2001; 2010 was quite straight forward really.
It's a bit dated now with the whole cold war sub plot, but otherwise a pretty good movie.
I was asked to evaluate a website (for a large and well known company) only 3 days ago with a view to "taking it over".
Let's say my review was less than favourable when I found that if you didn't have silverlight you were not able to use the site, the home page simply told you that without silverlight you could not continue to use the normal site and pushed you to a crappy antiquated mobile phone design of the site as an alternative.
And the reason they had silverlight as a requirement? As best I could tell it was because they had bad low resolution videos in the background of some pages.
Even with silverlight enabled, the site was disastrously slow, not to mention unnavigable by search engines (not even real URLs for products etc).
Like I told them, who ever had the good idea to make that site, should never be allowed to have any more good ideas.
miss the target, punch through a cinder block wall, THEN skip off the hill, fly 1/3rd of a mile, through a door, skip UP the stairs, through an adobe and plaster wall, hit the neighbor's roof, before rolling off the roof onto a minivan windshield, bounced of the dashboard into the back seats floorboards.
... nothing but net.
I have a Logitech MK320. It makes the cut fine for me as a programmer. Cheap too.
I went wireless because I was forever snagging cables on something, like my foot, and sending things flying onto the floor. Also easy to move the keyboard out of the way to prevent stray cats from typing on it in my absence.
Couldn't it simply be, that netbooks already do the job people want them to do, so the don't need to change?
What would you change about your netbook exactly, and why?
I think that's what the GP meant, IT people are like plumbers and electricians, except that plumbers and electricians are paid better.
I work almost entirely in email. I hate talking on phones. I hate ringing people. I hate being called.
The phone is so intrusive, it's like the person doing the calling has no care about what the person being called is doing, they think they are the most important thing ever and you should be sitting there just waiting for their call. Telephoning somebody, to me, is like walking up and interrupting the other party when they are in a conversation with somebody else.
Email by contrast is fundamentally polite and efficient, you send the message and when it is convenient for the other end, they reply.
The same problems that phones have also apply to other forms of "instant" messaging.
Most people have no trouble working over email, the few who do I generally find either have some disability (dyslexia), or are just plain demanding and really do believe that they are the most important person and can't understand why you won't spend hour upon hour on the phone listening to their inane drivel (and woe betide you should bill them for it).
Or any committee, for anything, anywhere, ever.
You iron your underwear?
Ministry of Information, Deputy Minister, Eugene Helman
We thought the world was flat once.
Sometimes people realise the ideas they have are wrong and they change them, beating children is one of those things that much of the world has decided was wrong.
> saying that some creator set the constants to those values and lit the blue touch paper is as good a
> hypothesis as any.
No, no it's really not, not in any way as good as any. That "hypothesis" can neither be proved nor disproved, at least by the definition of the christian-like gods who do not reveal themselves for that would remove the necessity for belief (and supplant it with knowledge).
A hypothesis that has even the mere possibility of provability or disprovability is an inordinately a better hypothesis than one which has neither possibility at all.
You don't get to say "well, nobody has come up with an idea yet, so I'll just pull some random unprovable half baked thought out of my ass, that will be as good as any".
Lazy bastard.
huh?
I assure you all of what I wrote above is a precise transcription.
I just installed it...
ME: what is the weather like in Christchurch tomorrow
It Recognised: what is the weather like in costume tomorrow
It Replied: There is no weather
Tried again...
ME: what is the weather like in Christchurch tomorrow
It Recognised: what is the weather like in christ church tomorrow
It Replied: I don't know I don't live there.
ME: where is the nearest bank of new zealand
It replied: Hell if I know.
ME: where am I
It replied: Where Am I? is the abumn by Mike Johnson published November 7th 1994
Me: what is my current location
It: You have no brother.
Me: what time is it
It: (gives correct time, but in UTC, not local)
Me: how long is it until 4pm
It Recognised: how long is it from 214
It Replied: How long is a day?
Me (replying to question): Yes
It Recognised: kids
It Replied: Kids is the school and non-business organization, in Northside Independant School District
Me: Remind me at 9pm to go and buy milk
It Recognised: remindme at 9 pm to go in hawaii
It Replied: I have two pets.
Me: What time is it in Tunguska
Recognised: what time is it in english
Replied: it is 4:40 in England
Me: Where is siberia
Replied: Wherever you make it I guess
Me: How do I get to blenheim road
Recognised: how do I get to clean a micro
Replied: By plane.
Me: Give me directions to jelly place
Recognised: give me directions to chelsea place
Replied: it's a garage
Soooooo... yeah, the developers of this seem to have done little more than wrap around google voice search to provide rather abstract one liner spoken responses. An amusement. Nothing more.
Now if only they'd offer Darcs hosting...
Nah, he's just storing multiple backups of FRIENDS, everybody knows you only need FRIENDS and just go back to the start when you run off the end, it's the mobius strip of Television.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKHYkHS8zw
And here they are, "The Bytes Brothers"
http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series_images.php?id=1171
I think for me, it has to be the Commodore 64 Users Manual. Why? Because that's what taught me BASIC, and the phrase in that manual, something like "don't worry, you can't break the computer, unless you're an elephant".
Runner up in close second, a series of kids "detective" adventure type books in which they used little BASIC programs to help them solve the "crime". That taught me to think of the computer as a tool that could help me solve problems, if I just gave it the right instructions.
> some people i haven't seen for years
In which case, these people are NOT your friends. At best, they are acquaintances but frankly it's a stretch to even call them that.
In an ideal world, you don't HAVE to tell the wealthy guy to pay $140, he does it without asking, because he recognises that the work of the decidedly non-wealthy people under him is what has permitted him to become wealthy.