Kind of what I was thinking, but the things they learn may prove rather practical since they will have to learn how to make stuff work in Linux.
I highly doubt I would have found interest in working with zeroes and ones as a career had I not been given a crappy Sperry IBM clone and some games that never ran unless you figured out what TSRs and extended memory were and how to manipulate them.
Kids will learn how to learn better if they are given things that only 'sort of' work' (some assembly required).
I've never seen a company run an advertising campaign purely pushing their facebook page.
In my world, I deal with clients constantly who literally do not have a clue how to use Fecebook. They come scrambling two weeks before their site's launch date saying things like "Oh but we still need to integrate Fecebook!".
I generally sort of shrug and ask them more specific questions, which they don't have answers to.
On the contrary to what you said, while not *never*, I have *rarely* seen the companies I deal with try and push anything BUT their Fecebook page. They read an article on Huffington Post and all of a sudden the only thing they know is that "We needz Fecebook integration!" Yet they don't have a clue what this means or how they will use it.
It is not a panacea. It's a tool to be used in specific ways to generate specific increases in brand recognition (ie. revenue). Unfortunately for most people, they don't know any of these specifics and they generally expect me (a developer) to know the answers. Thus, my answer is to plop some code widget on their pages.
Bring what down? Do you really expect the federal gov't to continue fighting 'another' war they have lost? Should someone abiding the state law really fear the feds from hauling them off to prison? Which prison? All the federal prisons they might use are actually here in this state.
Pff.. The cops here aren't going to bust you. They simply wont. With everything else on his plate, Obama wouldn't dare.
All I know is that Colorado looks to be passing Amendment 64 (as is Washington.. Oregon doesn't seem to be on the train). Here's a tip, start buying stock in lighting, security fencing, and organic soils.
I know they seem lame and those of us who have been voting awhile consider them "smug", I remember when I voted on my 18th birthday and when I came back to school after lunch and had the sticker, it was kind of a cool thing.
If they exist so that young people can feel a little cooler about voting, I'm all for it.
Sort of reminds of the formative years of Windows 9x. You had developers, well into the lifetime of 9x, still producing DOS games, which I assume is because that's what they were used to (I don't really know, I was still formative myself).
And then you had these 9x games starting to show up, which didn't require boot disks, or "eliminating TSRs" or whatever bullshit there was.
I remember the DOS games performing much snapper, but they were so few. For a time... we all know the rest of the story.
But it is vain to imagine that the mere perception or declaration of right principles, whether in one country or in many countries, will be of any value unless they are supported by those qualities of civic virtue and manly courageâ"aye, and by those instruments and agencies of force and science which in the last resort must be the defense of right and reason.
It has nothing to do with sanity and everything to do with what is judged to be "last resort".
At one point just before his jump, the external temp reading was approaching 30F. I'm guessing it was simply because he was not really rising anymore, just kind of bobbing there, and the sensor had time to warm up. Same reason the thermometer on your back fence will hit 110F when it's still only 93F or so.
You can skew your stats all you like to prove the point you want to prove.
In the city where I live (Denver), there is an average of about 1.5 bike fatalities per year for the last 10 years. For the same period, there was an average of about 55 automobile fatalities per year.
So by that metric, I am about 36 times more likely to die from an auto accident than a bicycle accident.
I can even recall a time when you could order a burger and fries and weren't asked, "Would you like that to be Large, Extra Large, or Super Extra Large?"
I don't think "small" is even a word that is associated with food portions any more.
All it takes is working in education for even a brief time to understand that the majority of administrators should not be doing the job they are getting paid for.
It's not so much that they are bad at their job, it's that their job is counter-productive.
They dictate how classrooms should be run when they themselves have either never taught or haven't taught in 15 years. They are often completely out of touch with today's children.
As a result, we end up with classrooms that are dictated to be run a specific way that simply DOES NOT WORK. Teachers get reprimands for straying from administrative policy even though it provides a better education for the kids.
In other news, your vegetables are all grown in feces too.;)
Yeah, but that's nice hearty steer manure. Good stuff. So rich and alive with plant loving goodness.
Goose shit is just disgusting. It's sorta green, sorta white, not really solid and all slimy and uck. I mean, can you imagine stepping into your garden to pick a tomato, and you get this slimy crap all over your clogs?
1) The browser is becoming the OS. The OS has no EOL, since it is updated to a new version every few weeks (about the same as soap),
2) The industrialized production of soap makes FreeSoap so impractical that most people don't use it. Anyone could take some ashes and river sand and make their own FreeSoap, but they don't, it's easier to buy it at the store... kind of like Windows.
3) Yeah, but what happens when all these fancy bottled soaps of all sorts start getting popular? I guess you could pour some leftovers into a new bottle, despite the brand, but then you might smell like a 16 year girl looking for hookers in Ireland.
4) Slippery is subjective. Grandma crossing the street in a blizzard? Not diggin' it.
5) Points are like sitcoms, every now and then they're worth the time, but generally in the end you simply feel cheated.
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Yeah, I bet they can't wait to come here and acquire tuberculosis.
Kind of what I was thinking, but the things they learn may prove rather practical since they will have to learn how to make stuff work in Linux.
I highly doubt I would have found interest in working with zeroes and ones as a career had I not been given a crappy Sperry IBM clone and some games that never ran unless you figured out what TSRs and extended memory were and how to manipulate them.
Kids will learn how to learn better if they are given things that only 'sort of' work' (some assembly required).
If someone would only somehow adapt a skateboard for such a situation. Maybe lose the wheels and strap yourself to it?
This year I am thankful for Tom Sims. Props bro.
It's been a week, and I wonder if you ever realized the sarcasm that was happening. =/
I've never seen a company run an advertising campaign purely pushing their facebook page.
In my world, I deal with clients constantly who literally do not have a clue how to use Fecebook. They come scrambling two weeks before their site's launch date saying things like "Oh but we still need to integrate Fecebook!".
I generally sort of shrug and ask them more specific questions, which they don't have answers to.
On the contrary to what you said, while not *never*, I have *rarely* seen the companies I deal with try and push anything BUT their Fecebook page. They read an article on Huffington Post and all of a sudden the only thing they know is that "We needz Fecebook integration!" Yet they don't have a clue what this means or how they will use it.
It is not a panacea. It's a tool to be used in specific ways to generate specific increases in brand recognition (ie. revenue). Unfortunately for most people, they don't know any of these specifics and they generally expect me (a developer) to know the answers. Thus, my answer is to plop some code widget on their pages.
Yeah, Colorado also sucks. Big time. You should see all the fat chicks we have.
Pff.. The cops here aren't going to bust you. They simply wont. With everything else on his plate, Obama wouldn't dare.
All I know is that Colorado looks to be passing Amendment 64 (as is Washington.. Oregon doesn't seem to be on the train). Here's a tip, start buying stock in lighting, security fencing, and organic soils.
I know they seem lame and those of us who have been voting awhile consider them "smug", I remember when I voted on my 18th birthday and when I came back to school after lunch and had the sticker, it was kind of a cool thing.
If they exist so that young people can feel a little cooler about voting, I'm all for it.
Very interesting perspective.
Sort of reminds of the formative years of Windows 9x. You had developers, well into the lifetime of 9x, still producing DOS games, which I assume is because that's what they were used to (I don't really know, I was still formative myself).
And then you had these 9x games starting to show up, which didn't require boot disks, or "eliminating TSRs" or whatever bullshit there was.
I remember the DOS games performing much snapper, but they were so few. For a time... we all know the rest of the story.
Much better use of your API is to start optimizing ease of development and adding features.
So what you're saying is that there is more money in creating bloat?
You don't say!
Not the AC above, but considering where I am now to where I was just a couple of years ago, starting from zero requires several things:
So let's give people six-shooter alarm clocks. If it's a foregone conclusion, what's the harm in expediting the process?
But it is vain to imagine that the mere perception or declaration of right principles, whether in one country or in many countries, will be of any value unless they are supported by those qualities of civic virtue and manly courageâ"aye, and by those instruments and agencies of force and science which in the last resort must be the defense of right and reason.
It has nothing to do with sanity and everything to do with what is judged to be "last resort".
At one point just before his jump, the external temp reading was approaching 30F. I'm guessing it was simply because he was not really rising anymore, just kind of bobbing there, and the sensor had time to warm up. Same reason the thermometer on your back fence will hit 110F when it's still only 93F or so.
See how easy it is?
The same way you do in a car. Slow down.
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You can skew your stats all you like to prove the point you want to prove.
In the city where I live (Denver), there is an average of about 1.5 bike fatalities per year for the last 10 years. For the same period, there was an average of about 55 automobile fatalities per year.
So by that metric, I am about 36 times more likely to die from an auto accident than a bicycle accident.
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I can even recall a time when you could order a burger and fries and weren't asked, "Would you like that to be Large, Extra Large, or Super Extra Large?"
I don't think "small" is even a word that is associated with food portions any more.
All it takes is working in education for even a brief time to understand that the majority of administrators should not be doing the job they are getting paid for.
It's not so much that they are bad at their job, it's that their job is counter-productive.
They dictate how classrooms should be run when they themselves have either never taught or haven't taught in 15 years. They are often completely out of touch with today's children.
As a result, we end up with classrooms that are dictated to be run a specific way that simply DOES NOT WORK. Teachers get reprimands for straying from administrative policy even though it provides a better education for the kids.
I don't know why... but I ended up on this page after posting this.
http://marzukionline.com/2010/09/one-glorious-fall-day-goose-shit-sinks-zukis-game/
It's not a bad idea, I must say.
In other news, your vegetables are all grown in feces too. ;)
Yeah, but that's nice hearty steer manure. Good stuff. So rich and alive with plant loving goodness.
Goose shit is just disgusting. It's sorta green, sorta white, not really solid and all slimy and uck. I mean, can you imagine stepping into your garden to pick a tomato, and you get this slimy crap all over your clogs?
Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.
1) The browser is becoming the OS. The OS has no EOL, since it is updated to a new version every few weeks (about the same as soap),
2) The industrialized production of soap makes FreeSoap so impractical that most people don't use it. Anyone could take some ashes and river sand and make their own FreeSoap, but they don't, it's easier to buy it at the store... kind of like Windows.
3) Yeah, but what happens when all these fancy bottled soaps of all sorts start getting popular? I guess you could pour some leftovers into a new bottle, despite the brand, but then you might smell like a 16 year girl looking for hookers in Ireland.
4) Slippery is subjective. Grandma crossing the street in a blizzard? Not diggin' it.
5) Points are like sitcoms, every now and then they're worth the time, but generally in the end you simply feel cheated.