I have one tip for you - put the brennivín in the freezer some hours before consumption, and drink it in shots (similar to eastern europe tradition with vodka). Makes it much more tolerable.
ps What colour is your dog? Found some hairs in my kaviar...
I wonder why no-one is talking about the wonderful thorramatur mentioned in the summary (some examples on the wiki page). Sour lumps of fat, ram's balls, urinated sharks, the list is lovely. Fortunately we only have to eat this once a year, with large amounts of brennivín, which is not drinkable unless consumed with the otherwise unedible food specimens spoken of before.
I guess every country has its own favourite unedible food.
You are correct that if you live in a society where violence is prevalent, guns may be the only means by which to protect oneself. However, you talk as if banning guns is the main cause for higher homicide rates in the cases you mention. I live in a small country with relatively strict gun laws, and we have very low murder rates (ca 7*10^-6 per year), and very few of those are made with guns. I believe that the reason for our 'luck' in this matter is that there is very little unemployment here, and social welfare takes good care of those less unfortunate. The UK has seen much increase in all sorts of crimes in the last years. There are segments of their people where whole family lines go through life uneducated and unemployed for long periods. So, they're having increased problems with the welfare of their citizens, completely unrelated to banning handguns. Oh, and US welfare - does that even exist?
The bottom line in what I'm trying to say is that if you have a large number of people that feel they don't belong to your society, you will have problems when they try to break out of poverty with violent means.
I find it sad to see not only one, but two programming jokes modded offtopic. If you find them to be not funny, ignore it. And if you don't understand it, again ignoring is a much better policy than downmodding.
People who depend on a single source are unreliable. People who depend on a single source are unreliable. People who depend on a single source are unreliable.
Always glad to help.
My guess is that 30-50% of the programmers I've worked with would have the knack for it, if needed. It's still a minority, but not a small one. Maybe I've just been lucky, not seen too many copypasta monkeys.
Incidentally, I first got a 2 year software engineering degree, i.e. basic programming, data structures & algorithms and such stuff, but no theory and no mathematics. I only went back to school recently to finish off what was needed for my BSc in CS, and can definately say that I much more appreciated what was taught than I think I would have 10 years ago.
Back on topic, I think the OP is spot on that if there was sufficient demand and salaries to go with that, good embedded developers would come in hordes out of hiding:)
Not only are there probably more than a few people that already have the skills, but I also think that it isn't necessarily too difficult to get people into the mindset needed. I learned programming in C++ but without any real concern for efficiency or memory usage. On a job much later on, I had to write a browser for very limited j2me devices (total memory of 64KB). The browser downloaded, parsed a subset of xhtml, displayed (including images), navigated according to user action and even accepted text input (of course someone will now say that they can do the job in 1024 bytes or less). It was a total pain in the butt to write - however, having to rigorously manage the data structures, memory assigning and releasing, unrecurse functionality that is intuitively recursive in nature etc, I think that this has made me a better programmer. Even though I haven't done any embedded programming I don't think it would be too much of a problem.
Well, thank you for finding errors in my post too. I'm not normally a grammar nazi, just saw there instead of their a few times too often but wasn't trying to be mean in any way. Btw, english is not my first language either and indeed I take excuse in this not being a formal writing - I usually think of comments like these as conversation. Finally, your proposed changes to spelling certainly appease me, english is awful in this regard.
Exercise requires using calories already eaten. You opposed to that too? If you don't burn those calories, they end up as huge energy stores wrapped around your body. I'd be glad to give up those love handles if it would keep my mobile alive for longer. Or maybe I'm missing some obvious sarcasm here?
Their stuff is what they're making over there. See, not so hard. And no, it's no excuse if english isn't your first language. We all have c/c++/java/perl/cobol or whatever as our first language. Now I'm just hoping that someone will find grizzly errors in my pedantic rant.
For someone of my kind, your brain seems much more solid a meal than the one in the pope's skull - I'm afraid I might catch something if I had that for dinner!
I also thought that the plural was virii. And what do I get looking at online dictionaries? Proof that I'm wrong (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/virus.html).
Virus, schmirus, I'll get you next time!
Osama Bin Laden is responsible for killing a lot of people - Bobby Fischer is not. Still you can't stop comparing them.
I assume you're from the USA, correct me if wrong. What about the fundamentalist christians there that spew hate about homosexuals, doctors at abortion clinics and many more. If they're not insane, where's their punishment?
That aside, the laws in most countries do make a distinction for those mentally ill that commit crimes. So if Bin Laden were insane, he should end up in a mental institution, not prison. But I'm sure you disagree strongly.
Who's making a determination of intent if not you? And why the angry tone?
Googling "Bobby Fischer paranoid schizophrenia" quickly gives some reading material.
Take a look here, and here. From the second one: "Bobby Fischer has been swindled out of a "vast fortune" in royalties by book publishers, movie studios, and clock manufacturers (yes, clock manufacturers), who have brazenly pilfered his brand name, patents, and copyrights... Gary Kasparov, the world's top-rated player, is a "crook" and a former KGB spy who hasn't played a match in his life in which the outcome wasn't prearranged... Millions of dollars' worth of personal memorabilia, painstakingly collected and stockpiled by Bobby Fischer in a ten-by-ten-foot Bekins storage room in Pasadena, California, has been stolen from him in a secret plot involving the Rothschilds (Jews), Bill Clinton (a secret Jew), and unnamed Bekins executives (CIA rats who work for the Jews)". Sane?
FIY, I got a BA degree in psychology before I turned to CS. That in no way makes me capable of diagnosing someone I only know through the media. What makes you the authority to declare him having been a hate-spewing sane person?
How the hell can anyone tell if a person is depressed/bipolar/schizofrenic or not? Well, we have professionals that spend most of their adult life doing just that. I'm pretty sure you wont find many of those that would subscribe to your point of view, though no doubt you could find some. I've heard/seen interviews with psychiatrists talking about both Bin Laden and Fischer and that's what I base my opinions on - sorry I don't have any links now to back that up.
I don't admire B. Fischer as a person, and I only know the same generic stuff about his chess victories as most people do. I do however have a sympathetic bone for people that really can't help being the way they are. But each to his own opinion.
Bin Laden is not mentally ill any more than many other violent people unless you consider all fundamentalists (christian, muslim and other religions) to be nutjobs as well. At least I've never heard that he would be classified as mentally ill by a psychiatrist.
That said, I have no idea why you're comparing Bobby Fischer, admittedly a man of foul words (and who many professionals consider to have been mentally ill), with racist stabbers, Bin Laden and Hitler.
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Of course we eat the cute puffins, much better than horsemeat. They're rather dry, but good if cooked correctly.
And concenwhatdidyousay?
I have one tip for you - put the brennivín in the freezer some hours before consumption, and drink it in shots (similar to eastern europe tradition with vodka). Makes it much more tolerable.
ps What colour is your dog? Found some hairs in my kaviar...
I wonder why no-one is talking about the wonderful thorramatur mentioned in the summary (some examples on the wiki page). Sour lumps of fat, ram's balls, urinated sharks, the list is lovely. Fortunately we only have to eat this once a year, with large amounts of brennivín, which is not drinkable unless consumed with the otherwise unedible food specimens spoken of before.
I guess every country has its own favourite unedible food.
You are correct that if you live in a society where violence is prevalent, guns may be the only means by which to protect oneself. However, you talk as if banning guns is the main cause for higher homicide rates in the cases you mention. I live in a small country with relatively strict gun laws, and we have very low murder rates (ca 7*10^-6 per year), and very few of those are made with guns. I believe that the reason for our 'luck' in this matter is that there is very little unemployment here, and social welfare takes good care of those less unfortunate. The UK has seen much increase in all sorts of crimes in the last years. There are segments of their people where whole family lines go through life uneducated and unemployed for long periods. So, they're having increased problems with the welfare of their citizens, completely unrelated to banning handguns. Oh, and US welfare - does that even exist?
The bottom line in what I'm trying to say is that if you have a large number of people that feel they don't belong to your society, you will have problems when they try to break out of poverty with violent means.
I find it sad to see not only one, but two programming jokes modded offtopic. If you find them to be not funny, ignore it. And if you don't understand it, again ignoring is a much better policy than downmodding.
There were 666 comments when I opened this thread. Coincidence?
People who depend on a single source are unreliable. People who depend on a single source are unreliable. People who depend on a single source are unreliable.
Always glad to help.
This just in, from your citation assistant:
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory.
My guess is that 30-50% of the programmers I've worked with would have the knack for it, if needed. It's still a minority, but not a small one. Maybe I've just been lucky, not seen too many copypasta monkeys.
:)
Incidentally, I first got a 2 year software engineering degree, i.e. basic programming, data structures & algorithms and such stuff, but no theory and no mathematics. I only went back to school recently to finish off what was needed for my BSc in CS, and can definately say that I much more appreciated what was taught than I think I would have 10 years ago.
Back on topic, I think the OP is spot on that if there was sufficient demand and salaries to go with that, good embedded developers would come in hordes out of hiding
Not only are there probably more than a few people that already have the skills, but I also think that it isn't necessarily too difficult to get people into the mindset needed. I learned programming in C++ but without any real concern for efficiency or memory usage. On a job much later on, I had to write a browser for very limited j2me devices (total memory of 64KB). The browser downloaded, parsed a subset of xhtml, displayed (including images), navigated according to user action and even accepted text input (of course someone will now say that they can do the job in 1024 bytes or less). It was a total pain in the butt to write - however, having to rigorously manage the data structures, memory assigning and releasing, unrecurse functionality that is intuitively recursive in nature etc, I think that this has made me a better programmer. Even though I haven't done any embedded programming I don't think it would be too much of a problem.
Well, thank you for finding errors in my post too. I'm not normally a grammar nazi, just saw there instead of their a few times too often but wasn't trying to be mean in any way. Btw, english is not my first language either and indeed I take excuse in this not being a formal writing - I usually think of comments like these as conversation. Finally, your proposed changes to spelling certainly appease me, english is awful in this regard.
Exercise requires using calories already eaten. You opposed to that too? If you don't burn those calories, they end up as huge energy stores wrapped around your body. I'd be glad to give up those love handles if it would keep my mobile alive for longer. Or maybe I'm missing some obvious sarcasm here?
Their stuff is what they're making over there. See, not so hard. And no, it's no excuse if english isn't your first language. We all have c/c++/java/perl/cobol or whatever as our first language. Now I'm just hoping that someone will find grizzly errors in my pedantic rant.
I completely fail to see how the OP is flamebaiting. I'd rather mod it as interesting if I had any points.
Not only stupidly funny, but also terrible and frightening
Double negative... Must - not - not - imagine - this - scenario
For someone of my kind, your brain seems much more solid a meal than the one in the pope's skull - I'm afraid I might catch something if I had that for dinner!
Hmm, no funny mods yet. I'd give you informative though, if I had any mod points to give.
Powerful enemies, this one has.
I wonder if the flamebait stamp comes from Bill Murray's or Spielberg's fanbois?
I also thought that the plural was virii. And what do I get looking at online dictionaries? Proof that I'm wrong (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/virus.html).
Virus, schmirus, I'll get you next time!
Could you provide a street address with that?
Osama Bin Laden is responsible for killing a lot of people - Bobby Fischer is not. Still you can't stop comparing them.
I assume you're from the USA, correct me if wrong. What about the fundamentalist christians there that spew hate about homosexuals, doctors at abortion clinics and many more. If they're not insane, where's their punishment?
That aside, the laws in most countries do make a distinction for those mentally ill that commit crimes. So if Bin Laden were insane, he should end up in a mental institution, not prison. But I'm sure you disagree strongly.
Who's making a determination of intent if not you? And why the angry tone?
Googling "Bobby Fischer paranoid schizophrenia" quickly gives some reading material. Take a look here, and here. From the second one: "Bobby Fischer has been swindled out of a "vast fortune" in royalties by book publishers, movie studios, and clock manufacturers (yes, clock manufacturers), who have brazenly pilfered his brand name, patents, and copyrights... Gary Kasparov, the world's top-rated player, is a "crook" and a former KGB spy who hasn't played a match in his life in which the outcome wasn't prearranged... Millions of dollars' worth of personal memorabilia, painstakingly collected and stockpiled by Bobby Fischer in a ten-by-ten-foot Bekins storage room in Pasadena, California, has been stolen from him in a secret plot involving the Rothschilds (Jews), Bill Clinton (a secret Jew), and unnamed Bekins executives (CIA rats who work for the Jews)". Sane?
FIY, I got a BA degree in psychology before I turned to CS. That in no way makes me capable of diagnosing someone I only know through the media. What makes you the authority to declare him having been a hate-spewing sane person?
How the hell can anyone tell if a person is depressed/bipolar/schizofrenic or not? Well, we have professionals that spend most of their adult life doing just that. I'm pretty sure you wont find many of those that would subscribe to your point of view, though no doubt you could find some. I've heard/seen interviews with psychiatrists talking about both Bin Laden and Fischer and that's what I base my opinions on - sorry I don't have any links now to back that up.
I don't admire B. Fischer as a person, and I only know the same generic stuff about his chess victories as most people do. I do however have a sympathetic bone for people that really can't help being the way they are. But each to his own opinion.
Bin Laden is not mentally ill any more than many other violent people unless you consider all fundamentalists (christian, muslim and other religions) to be nutjobs as well. At least I've never heard that he would be classified as mentally ill by a psychiatrist.
That said, I have no idea why you're comparing Bobby Fischer, admittedly a man of foul words (and who many professionals consider to have been mentally ill), with racist stabbers, Bin Laden and Hitler.