Why do you care? Don't go to those sites. It's simple. Do you sit and watch some stupid Sitcom on TV, even though you decided it sucked after 2 episodes, and whinge about it?
The cars are about 6 to 7 inches long, and about 2 inches wide. The wheels are plastic, and about an inch in diameter, held on to the car with nails. No steering is required, as the track has a raised strip down the middle of each lane, that just fits between the wheels. The starting line of the track is a certain height above the floor, and the track runs 3 lanes wide, curves down towards the floor, with a long run-out to the finish line. Most tracks have at least a switched set of lights to indicate finish order, although many have PC based timing setups now.
The rules are quite strict about size and wieght. The wheels cannot be modified from the state they come in the kit. You can lube the axles, which are also supplied in the box.
I took metal shop in HS. I got bored with machine-tool and lathe stuff. Tedious setups on an old Bridgeport, and constant checks with a Mic.
Welding was much more fun. Immediate feedback if a weld was good, or not, and while you had to measure and mark accurately, and clamp things properly, you could at least use a tpae measure, instead of a micrometer. I hated those things.
I am going to be taking some courses in welding from the local Junior College. At least until UE runs out.
They want techies fresh out of college, willing to go anywhere, work for any wage, any hours, with the sparkle still in their eyes.
They don't want 15+ years experience in 5 different platforms, 8 languages, database design, applications, systems analysis, or training and documentation backgrounds.
They aren't looking for programmers who understand business requirements, or who have full life-cycle experience with real-world applications.
They want youth, to be ground-up and spit out in 10 years.
Yes, I am bitter. I am a damn good programmer. But I'm 37, with no degree, and a mortgage and family to look out for.
Even short-term contracts are impossible to find these days.
I am starting to take some vo-tech courses. I'm thinking welding might be a good career move. Programming and UNIX administration is a field for the young.
Yes, I am in the US, and you are correct, interstate train travel is quaint, used by families who wish to do something different on holiday. The only really efficient trains run from Boston and New York to Washington DC. (I haven't first-hand experience, but have heard this is true)
I agree that for Europe, trains are much to be preferred for many commuters, and some holiday travel. You have the advantage of many centers of population, relatively close together. This is not true for the US, Canada, and many other places with vast distances to be crossed.
Yes, trains are quite effective in getting from Chicago to London, or Paris, or Tokyo, or Sydney.
Even within a continent, time is money, and taking a 2 hour plane flight beats a 7 hour train, if you can even get a train that goes where you need to go, when you need to go.
Your ISP is not your software vendor. Use none of their proprietary tools, and never auto-update.
MSN, like AOL, is not just an ISP. They are a content provider, and have many features which go beyond simply establishing a TCP/IP connection to the Internet. While many/.'ers find that amusing, or absurd, the fact is, most ordinary people actually like those additional features. The new MSN's child-safe stuff shows real promise, and the ability to share a browser session with someone else is downright cool.
I wouldn't want all that stuff, but I've got friends and relatives who do, and none of them are lame-brained idiots.
This is NOT some Starwars Fan Weblog we're talking about here. This is the Big Time. This is where the the Grownups play. Mysql or postgress haven't got the balls to handle the kinds of data sets and transaction times this kind of application requires. You need Big Iron, and Big Commercial Databases.
It sucks, but that really is the only way to handdle more than a handful of desktops. The best situation had different rules for the data center staff. IT handled everything for both the ordinary users, and the developers. Those of us that built and maintained the data center were allowed more lattitude in what we could use, in exchange for never bothering the MCSE's. That was a sacrifice I could live with.
As someone who has various eye problems in his family, I must disagree. Seeing an eye doctor on a regular basis can save your eyesight. Often, diseases of the eye, if caught soon enough can be cured. If left until symptoms become obvious, it's often too late to restore, or even save vision. This is probably even more of a problem in the third wolrd, where access to the latest hi-tech surgery techniques may be lacking.
I really like the idea of these glasses, though. I see them as a force-multiplier. A single optometrist could examine and correct a whole villiage in a few days, without having to wait for prescriptions to be filled in some optical lab somewhere. The benefits to the population would be immediately felt, and those who need additional care could be helped in the time that is saved from all the rest.
My wife works in Medical Records. The 'Powers that Be' chose to _upgrade_ their record locator system from a DOS, Dbase application to a Foxpro, WinNT application.
Productivity went right in the toilet. The users, some of whom had only been in the department, and others who had been there from years could not use the new GUI with any degree of efficiency. Long-time coders and CLI users know how important it is to keep the hands on the keyboard. Data Entry people, and others have the same requirements.
Several versions of the new software have gone by, and the GUI has been modified over and over, each time becoming more keyboard friendly. But in the meantime, the department has wasted many dollars in training, re-training, development, and paying overtime on the weekends to catch up on the data entry tasks.
A good terminal application, with well-designed screens and a key-oriented approach was thrown out for the latest, lickable interface. Just because it's old, or ugly, or doesn't drag-n-drop, doesn't make it obsolete.
I support the death penalty for murder, etc. because the person who committs murder has sacrificed his right to life through his actions. Th unborn child has done nothing except inconvenience his mother, in the vast majority of cases.
I am pro-life in the case of the unborn children primarily because it is impossible to determine when human life begins, scientifically. The only reasonable boundaries are conception, and birth. Given that the conditions for sustainable life keep getting pushed further and further back in the gestational life of the fetus, birth is an obsolete boundary for determining human life. Therefore, conception is the benchmark I find the most reasonable, given that human life is sacred. The fact that many concieved embryos never implant, or spontaneously abort without the mother ever knowing about it is outside the ability of anyone to regulate. I am prolife in regards to assisted suicide and euthanasia for many reasons, not the least of which is self-preservation. By legislating ways in which the medical profession can legally kill a patient who has become 'burdensome', we open the door to a world where the state may decide who is burdensome, and may make euthanasia mandatory, for the elderly, the infirm, the retarded, the undesirable. The other problem I have, especially with assisted suicide, is the root cause. Most people promoting assisted suicide talk about the suffering of the terminally ill. There are a number of problems with this, but the primary one is that the problem is the pain and difficulty with a terminal illness. There are humane, caring ways of dealing with this, in a way which maintains the dignity of the dying.
THis is precisely why Amnesty International, and the UN in general are completely irrelevant. The individual states in the US which have the death penalty also have cumbersome rules which limit the application of the death penalty, and the US Constitution provides for appeals which largely prevent the execution of innocent persons. The fact that Illinois, where I live has placed a moratorium on executions, until reviews can be made regarding process speaks to the ultimate justice of the US system.
Capital punishment is reserved for those who's crimes offend the human rights of the innocent, or of the security of society at large. The ultimate human right is life, and those who would shed human blood on purpose, or as the result of committing some other crime must be dealt with. Discussions of the sociaological causes of crime, or the statistics of prison populations are irrelevant when discussing capital punishment. Each case MUST be taken on it's own; aggregate statistics are irrelevant.
This is why AI and the UN are irrelevant. You cannot compare an enlightened, liberal (in the true sense of the word) and open system like the US to any totalitarian regime in the rest of the world.
Once a person has committed a capital crime, they forfeit their own. It's that simple. I am in favor of capital punishment. I am also pro-life, in the debate over abortion and euthanasia/assisted suicide. This is not an inconsistent position, although it is at odds with the Catholic Church. The difference is that the unborn child is as innocent as can be, has done nothing deserving death, except to exist. It is ironic that some many people who oppose the death penalty for criminals support the right of a Mother to kill her own children.
Not all online versions are better than their dead tree predecessors. Byte magazine, until it's last few years was an excellent publication. They started to suck when they stopped publishing hardware projects and source listings. The online version now is jsut more marketing crap, like PC mag.
My 64K Z80 still runs CP/M. Of course, I'm posting this from my shiny white iBook, and not my rusty blue Kaypro, but I still fire it up, and try to remember PIP syntax once in a while.
The 'Models' in pornographic films and pictures are often exploited and brutalized.
Pornography depicts women as nothing more than sexual toys, who live only to service men.
Exposure to pornography warps the normal sexual relations between a husband and wife, by setting up unrealistic expectaions, and inciting unhealthy desires.
I don't expect my comments to be taken seriously here. It seems whenever someone takes a stand in favor of self-respect, self-discipline, and public morality and decency they are flamed, and then modded out of view.
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Why do you care? Don't go to those sites. It's simple. Do you sit and watch some stupid Sitcom on TV, even though you decided it sucked after 2 episodes, and whinge about it?
The rules are quite strict about size and wieght. The wheels cannot be modified from the state they come in the kit. You can lube the axles, which are also supplied in the box.
You've still got a little of that axe left.
Welding was much more fun. Immediate feedback if a weld was good, or not, and while you had to measure and mark accurately, and clamp things properly, you could at least use a tpae measure, instead of a micrometer. I hated those things.
I am going to be taking some courses in welding from the local Junior College. At least until UE runs out.
They don't want 15+ years experience in 5 different platforms, 8 languages, database design, applications, systems analysis, or training and documentation backgrounds.
They aren't looking for programmers who understand business requirements, or who have full life-cycle experience with real-world applications.
They want youth, to be ground-up and spit out in 10 years.
Yes, I am bitter. I am a damn good programmer. But I'm 37, with no degree, and a mortgage and family to look out for.
Even short-term contracts are impossible to find these days.
I am starting to take some vo-tech courses. I'm thinking welding might be a good career move. Programming and UNIX administration is a field for the young.
I agree that for Europe, trains are much to be preferred for many commuters, and some holiday travel. You have the advantage of many centers of population, relatively close together. This is not true for the US, Canada, and many other places with vast distances to be crossed.
Even within a continent, time is money, and taking a 2 hour plane flight beats a 7 hour train, if you can even get a train that goes where you need to go, when you need to go.
MSN, like AOL, is not just an ISP. They are a content provider, and have many features which go beyond simply establishing a TCP/IP connection to the Internet. While many /.'ers find that amusing, or absurd, the fact is, most ordinary people actually like those additional features. The new MSN's child-safe stuff shows real promise, and the ability to share a browser session with someone else is downright cool.
I wouldn't want all that stuff, but I've got friends and relatives who do, and none of them are lame-brained idiots.
Yes.
This is NOT some Starwars Fan Weblog we're talking about here. This is the Big Time. This is where the the Grownups play. Mysql or postgress haven't got the balls to handle the kinds of data sets and transaction times this kind of application requires. You need Big Iron, and Big Commercial Databases.
It sucks, but that really is the only way to handdle more than a handful of desktops. The best situation had different rules for the data center staff. IT handled everything for both the ordinary users, and the developers. Those of us that built and maintained the data center were allowed more lattitude in what we could use, in exchange for never bothering the MCSE's. That was a sacrifice I could live with.
I really like the idea of these glasses, though. I see them as a force-multiplier. A single optometrist could examine and correct a whole villiage in a few days, without having to wait for prescriptions to be filled in some optical lab somewhere. The benefits to the population would be immediately felt, and those who need additional care could be helped in the time that is saved from all the rest.
It's a moral imperative.
Productivity went right in the toilet. The users, some of whom had only been in the department, and others who had been there from years could not use the new GUI with any degree of efficiency. Long-time coders and CLI users know how important it is to keep the hands on the keyboard. Data Entry people, and others have the same requirements.
Several versions of the new software have gone by, and the GUI has been modified over and over, each time becoming more keyboard friendly. But in the meantime, the department has wasted many dollars in training, re-training, development, and paying overtime on the weekends to catch up on the data entry tasks.
A good terminal application, with well-designed screens and a key-oriented approach was thrown out for the latest, lickable interface. Just because it's old, or ugly, or doesn't drag-n-drop, doesn't make it obsolete.
I am pro-life in the case of the unborn children primarily because it is impossible to determine when human life begins, scientifically. The only reasonable boundaries are conception, and birth. Given that the conditions for sustainable life keep getting pushed further and further back in the gestational life of the fetus, birth is an obsolete boundary for determining human life. Therefore, conception is the benchmark I find the most reasonable, given that human life is sacred. The fact that many concieved embryos never implant, or spontaneously abort without the mother ever knowing about it is outside the ability of anyone to regulate. I am prolife in regards to assisted suicide and euthanasia for many reasons, not the least of which is self-preservation. By legislating ways in which the medical profession can legally kill a patient who has become 'burdensome', we open the door to a world where the state may decide who is burdensome, and may make euthanasia mandatory, for the elderly, the infirm, the retarded, the undesirable. The other problem I have, especially with assisted suicide, is the root cause. Most people promoting assisted suicide talk about the suffering of the terminally ill. There are a number of problems with this, but the primary one is that the problem is the pain and difficulty with a terminal illness. There are humane, caring ways of dealing with this, in a way which maintains the dignity of the dying.
Capital punishment is reserved for those who's crimes offend the human rights of the innocent, or of the security of society at large. The ultimate human right is life, and those who would shed human blood on purpose, or as the result of committing some other crime must be dealt with. Discussions of the sociaological causes of crime, or the statistics of prison populations are irrelevant when discussing capital punishment. Each case MUST be taken on it's own; aggregate statistics are irrelevant.
This is why AI and the UN are irrelevant. You cannot compare an enlightened, liberal (in the true sense of the word) and open system like the US to any totalitarian regime in the rest of the world.
Once a person has committed a capital crime, they forfeit their own. It's that simple. I am in favor of capital punishment. I am also pro-life, in the debate over abortion and euthanasia/assisted suicide. This is not an inconsistent position, although it is at odds with the Catholic Church. The difference is that the unborn child is as innocent as can be, has done nothing deserving death, except to exist. It is ironic that some many people who oppose the death penalty for criminals support the right of a Mother to kill her own children.
Not all online versions are better than their dead tree predecessors. Byte magazine, until it's last few years was an excellent publication. They started to suck when they stopped publishing hardware projects and source listings. The online version now is jsut more marketing crap, like PC mag.
My 64K Z80 still runs CP/M. Of course, I'm posting this from my shiny white iBook, and not my rusty blue Kaypro, but I still fire it up, and try to remember PIP syntax once in a while.
I wish some of the downtown outfits would put some data centers out here in Rockford. I need a job.
That's excellent! Bravo! A very concise and appealing way of describing the problem, and MS's way of dealing with it.
Pornography depicts women as nothing more than sexual toys, who live only to service men.
Exposure to pornography warps the normal sexual relations between a husband and wife, by setting up unrealistic expectaions, and inciting unhealthy desires.
I don't expect my comments to be taken seriously here. It seems whenever someone takes a stand in favor of self-respect, self-discipline, and public morality and decency they are flamed, and then modded out of view.
Oh, well. At least the moderators will see this.
Oh, You mean 'Baba O'Reilly'. That's the name of the song, that has the phrase 'teenage wasteland' in the chorus.
I love that kind of stuff.