"Your honor, DHS cannot return the equipment at this time as we have not yet found any evidence linking the plaintiff to any crime. In fact, we suspect that the plaintiff in this case may be an innocent, law abiding citizen.
Obviously, we cannot complete an investigation when we don't yet have anything to investigate.
We request that the court dismiss the plaintiff's suit and order the plaintiff to immediately conspire to commit acts of terrorism against the United States."
Unlike downloading copyright protected songs, theft and fraud are assaults on human dignity. When your job requires you to devalue other human beings, it's not much of a stretch to move on to murder.
Though I'm sure this was a "crime of passion" and he was likely not in a reasonable state of mind at the time.
(though, you know that upper level marketing has this info, probably in near real-time.)
I work in a marketing agency. I deal with the marketing departments of large corporations almost every day and I can assure that you greatly overestimate their capabilities.
I think I'm going with Ruby on Rails, but I have no idea if this is the best choice.
Perhaps you should try some tutorials or examples from some different frameworks before you settle on one.
PHP and python have extensive libraries and some great frameworks (if you into that sort of thing), with great documentation available free online. You can get started right now for free on whatever platform you happen to run. Test some projects locally, see how easy it is set up a simple site in different platforms.
If you like Rails then by all means use it, but don't pick it up without even trying anything else simply because it's the buzzword of the day.
The weird thing is that you got a phone call from them. Why would they not just send you a generic rejection letter, but actually make the effort to pick up the phone and take the time to call you personally? Something seems fishy -- like it was posted to satisfy some requirement but could get them in trouble if someone actually found out that it was fake and that they had no intention of filling the position -- if it existed in the first place.
If his story sounds fishy to you, a simpler explanation would be that his story was inaccurate. Don't forget occam's razor.
I can't even imagine how to learn (to the level required of a professional developer) any large subset of, for example, the java, python, C++ standard libraries in less than a month, and I'm already at least passingly familiar with all of them. I will stick with my gardening for a career path, I guess. While I have no doubt any high-schooler could learn the basic language syntax of the above examples in less than a day, the libraries are typically the real value in any application development language.
A good reference manual or online documentation should help with that.
I hope I'm not the only guy who doesn't remember every function in every language he works with.
But Activision isn't what makes id's games not good, it's the fact that they're glorified tech demos. They're still done on id's timetable and they're released when id is ready to release them.
In 5-8 year BLizzard will lose there rep of releasing fnished high quality games. You'll see.
Wtf are you talking about? Activision has been publishing id's games for YEARS and they're still released "when they're done". (I know they aren't "GOOD", but that's not he point).
Activision didn't buy the golden goose so they have it for dinner.
Intel's laptop chips aren't bad unless you only like the newest games. I've managed to get a surprising (to me) variety of games to run on my 915-powered laptop. I certainly wouldn't suggest it as a primary gaming machine, but it makes an excellent portable mame/nes/snes emulator and it runs most of the best RPGs of all time. I even got through Far Cry on it, though it was looking pretty 1997 by the time the frame rate was playable.
I thought that was really funny until I got the sneaking suspicion that you might have meant that. Now I have to laugh awkwardly, not enough to offend you if you were serious, but enough to let you know I got the joke if you weren't.
It will always be economically feasible to provide lousy service. Prices can always be raised if reducing the quality of service becomes more expensive.
Except that typing all that will take WAY more time and effort than just calling them and taking the ~20 seconds it would take to have that conversation vocally.
My personal philosophy is that if your message needs a reply more than one word, you'd better not send me a text message. I have way better things to do with my time than talk with my thumbs.
The only way to get her to actually change her behaviour (and that's a big maybe) is to have some sort of "punishment" go along with the action.
I don't know, potentially crashing into cars, people, objets, etc., being responsible for thousands of dollars in damage and causing themselves or others to be seriously injured or killed, being fined, losing their driver's license and being sent to jail seem like pretty serious consequences to me.
Somehow I doubt handing out tickets will curb the behavior.
So wait... 120MB is considered a reasonable amount of memory for Firefox to take up, an improvement even? Do any other "commonly used" programs soak up that much... because going by what I'm running, that is way out ahead of the field.
On Slashdot, I'd imagine a wide array of "commonly used" programs regularly use that much memory or more.
On my system I've usually got at least 3-5 programs using 100+ MB of memory running pretty much all day.
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"Your honor, DHS cannot return the equipment at this time as we have not yet found any evidence linking the plaintiff to any crime. In fact, we suspect that the plaintiff in this case may be an innocent, law abiding citizen.
Obviously, we cannot complete an investigation when we don't yet have anything to investigate.
We request that the court dismiss the plaintiff's suit and order the plaintiff to immediately conspire to commit acts of terrorism against the United States."
But we'll be older then too, so they'll be right in line with our positions.
Now get off my lawn!
Turning these people into missiles with jetpacks is a great argument for prioritizing personal force field research.
You need a reason to prioritize personal force field research other than personal force fields?!
I'd feel sufficiently menaced by villains flying in on those things as to call them "practical" in the super-villainy market.
Of course they'd have to come in black... and a laser beam would be a nice option.
But you're playing right into the hands of big hay!
Unlike downloading copyright protected songs, theft and fraud are assaults on human dignity. When your job requires you to devalue other human beings, it's not much of a stretch to move on to murder.
Though I'm sure this was a "crime of passion" and he was likely not in a reasonable state of mind at the time.
(though, you know that upper level marketing has this info, probably in near real-time.)
I work in a marketing agency. I deal with the marketing departments of large corporations almost every day and I can assure that you greatly overestimate their capabilities.
I've never understood why Americans are so opposed to the idea of knowing how much they are going to pay before they buy something.
We're not. We're just used to the way we do it now.
I think I'm going with Ruby on Rails, but I have no idea if this is the best choice.
Perhaps you should try some tutorials or examples from some different frameworks before you settle on one.
PHP and python have extensive libraries and some great frameworks (if you into that sort of thing), with great documentation available free online. You can get started right now for free on whatever platform you happen to run. Test some projects locally, see how easy it is set up a simple site in different platforms.
If you like Rails then by all means use it, but don't pick it up without even trying anything else simply because it's the buzzword of the day.
The weird thing is that you got a phone call from them. Why would they not just send you a generic rejection letter, but actually make the effort to pick up the phone and take the time to call you personally? Something seems fishy -- like it was posted to satisfy some requirement but could get them in trouble if someone actually found out that it was fake and that they had no intention of filling the position -- if it existed in the first place.
If his story sounds fishy to you, a simpler explanation would be that his story was inaccurate. Don't forget occam's razor.
I can't even imagine how to learn (to the level required of a professional developer) any large subset of, for example, the java, python, C++ standard libraries in less than a month, and I'm already at least passingly familiar with all of them. I will stick with my gardening for a career path, I guess. While I have no doubt any high-schooler could learn the basic language syntax of the above examples in less than a day, the libraries are typically the real value in any application development language.
A good reference manual or online documentation should help with that.
I hope I'm not the only guy who doesn't remember every function in every language he works with.
Yes, but they don't own id.
And "Good" IS the point.
But Activision isn't what makes id's games not good, it's the fact that they're glorified tech demos. They're still done on id's timetable and they're released when id is ready to release them.
In 5-8 year BLizzard will lose there rep of releasing fnished high quality games. You'll see.
Wtf are you talking about? Activision has been publishing id's games for YEARS and they're still released "when they're done". (I know they aren't "GOOD", but that's not he point).
Activision didn't buy the golden goose so they have it for dinner.
Intel's laptop chips aren't bad unless you only like the newest games. I've managed to get a surprising (to me) variety of games to run on my 915-powered laptop. I certainly wouldn't suggest it as a primary gaming machine, but it makes an excellent portable mame/nes/snes emulator and it runs most of the best RPGs of all time. I even got through Far Cry on it, though it was looking pretty 1997 by the time the frame rate was playable.
Now I can store pirated music in my DNA!
I don't know if I'd like that. You start surfing some porn sites and the RIAA slaps you with intent to distribute.
I thought that was really funny until I got the sneaking suspicion that you might have meant that. Now I have to laugh awkwardly, not enough to offend you if you were serious, but enough to let you know I got the joke if you weren't.
This party sucks, I'm going home.
...it is, indeed, ABSOLUTELY FREE in the most common sense of the word.
The terrorists hate us for our gratis.
Or you could just stick with AVG and disable the browser plugin.
It will always be economically feasible to provide lousy service. Prices can always be raised if reducing the quality of service becomes more expensive.
I do suck at texting (because I find it loathsome and inefficient), but you might have missed this part of my post:
My personal philosophy is that if your message needs a reply more than one word, you'd better not send me a text message.
Which, I hope, implies that a message that does not need a reply is a good candidate for texting.
If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will shoot those fuckers who text while driving.
It's generally considered socially unacceptable for dudes to clock girls, but I suppose in this case we can make an exception.
Except that typing all that will take WAY more time and effort than just calling them and taking the ~20 seconds it would take to have that conversation vocally.
My personal philosophy is that if your message needs a reply more than one word, you'd better not send me a text message. I have way better things to do with my time than talk with my thumbs.
The only way to get her to actually change her behaviour (and that's a big maybe) is to have some sort of "punishment" go along with the action.
I don't know, potentially crashing into cars, people, objets, etc., being responsible for thousands of dollars in damage and causing themselves or others to be seriously injured or killed, being fined, losing their driver's license and being sent to jail seem like pretty serious consequences to me.
Somehow I doubt handing out tickets will curb the behavior.
On Slashdot, I'd imagine a wide array of "commonly used" programs regularly use that much memory or more.
On my system I've usually got at least 3-5 programs using 100+ MB of memory running pretty much all day.