If you ever look at a large nursery catalog, you may see that a specific apple tree is available with a variety of root stocks (often patented/trademarked). These various root stocks aren't necessarily from different species of trees, but instead come from different cultivars of that same tree.
What you end up with is the ability to buy a truck-load of apple trees with an apple root stock that has adapted to better survive cold winters (at the expense of larger fruit, for example).
Or, at a different level, consider how large colonies of trees can share the same root system, specifically the poplar family.
This would allow a shared root system to adapt independently of the trunks/limbs/leaves so that you get a root stock adapted to its specific soil type, while at the same time you get mutations up top which introduce better adaptations for the world above.
Label me flamebait if you'd like, but with the over-population problem facing us, just a bit more troublesome as it's ever been, why are we so concerned about how to increase the life-span of the average dolt?
I see many of them, while I commute my 1.x miles on a bike to work, yapping away on their devices; ignoring signs that are there for a reason.
My own physical and mental capabilities are superior to that of the average dolt, and when I notice someone that seems like they're going to blow through a stop sign, I ease up.
This is work that I have done to increase the odds that my offspring survive.
The further we venture into the land of reduced fatalities (by any means) the further we reduce the odds of our survival as a species.
Darwin is rolling over in his coffin... as we speak.
I had one of those a few years ago. I think someone got it for me for Christmas because I was "into computers or something".
I had it for quite some time, and then somewhere along the line I realized I needed a new motherboard. I decided to check out what they had in stock and ended up getting an Asus board from them.
It's worked well, but I would likely have been better served to sell the card and get a motherboard that wasn't an ugly step-child model, since I have been unable to upgrade the memory to the advertised 16Gb. Hell, I've spent a few hundred bucks on a few different sets of DIMMS trying to get the board to 16Gb to no avail.
I don't deal with IP6 yet, but I do know that the day is coming.... likely to be determined by the powers at Century Link. I will never remember the specifics of your post, but I will remember that there are "localhost" type defaults and my Google search time will be reduced from 10 minutes to 1 minute.
Time is money and money is beer... so I guess I owe you a cold one. Swing by Denver (GABF is coming in October) to collect.
Can we please just vote for "No President" for the next four years? Honestly, it would be a nice change, and if your biggest fear is that Jon Stewart won't have anybody to make fun of, I believe the contrary, and that he will simply find a plethora of other dirtbags to make fun of instead.
Let's at least get Gary Johnson some poll points. I'd like to listen to him rip both of those yahoos a new one.
On one hand, you say that you disagree with Arizona laws because of the beliefs of the people that live there. This is a problem because it makes Arizona out of step with the majority of the US.
But.. the majority of the US is not in Arizona. That's why it's called Arizona. It's a different place from where you live. If you don't live there, why do you care?
Do you have a problem with marijuana dispensaries every three blocks in Denver (assuming you don't live in Colorado)?
How about *insert some other random law approved by the state which gets challenged federally*?
Every now and then I double click some random oddball extension and it opens in Dreamweaver. That's about the extent of my experience with the software.
I can certainly attest that Denver is NOT hip. It sucks here, we have crime everywhere, the girls are all fat and unhealthy, and... the worst part... the beer is horrible.
Certainly not a place anyone should want to move! =)
(If you're from Denver, you know I'm right... so shhh.
I'm sure he understands the contrary point of view just fine.
Of course there is something to be said for 1.0 versus 0.1. That's not the point here. You mention balance, and that's what's important. It's become so easy to get lost in Moore's Law and spend your days and nights learning something well only to find out that by the time you have, it is already being replaced by something new... thus you have to continue learning simply to stay current.
Granted, IT is a different animal that doesn't necessarily allow for bleeding edge to be used; however, he's claiming that his coworkers call him "Google". People come to me all day asking how to do something, or asking me to do that something, or whatever, and there is somewhere between 20-40% of those interactions that could be solved if the other person simply googled it themselves.
Seriously? A new box that doesn't work right in XP? Like others have mentioned, how do you not look immediately at the BIOS? I haven't worked any kind of support of this level in awhile, but I can't imagine things change that much.
Sounds to me like a classic case of a young non-IT guy getting caught up in IT. Be careful of letting others know what skills you know. You may find yourself supporting some POS at 3 am.
I understand this argument, and I'm honestly not trolling, but what about the times when bitching is warranted and demands resolution?
If there is a developer complaint that design is dictating functionality that is out of scope, sales that is not accounting for that in the contract, and a developer that ends up need an extra week to implement the design, then yes, process needs to change or it's mostly downhill from here.
That said, sure, you can begin looking for work elsewhere, or you can stand up and bitch about the process in the hopes that it changes and your efforts/wisdom/etc are acknowledged. I guess there is a third option, you can sit and do nothing and be happy you have a job.
If one opts to stand up and bitch, how do you do it?
TBPFH... There are plenty of us who have "gone first". We have been the ones that don't necessarily feel the effects of the downturn because we were the ones inventing new shit for the past decade and a half. It's the rest of the poor saps that haven't figured out that they will need to retrain and learn something if they intend to hold a job. And I don't necessarily mean asking Uncle Sam for some cash to go back to school (unbelievable waste of money), but just taking it upon yourself to learn for learning's sake.
I went first, and you know what I found? A nice niche where I can make a comfortable living. If you're incapable of doing the same... well... Darwin kind of had a point there...
can be played with 1 stick/bat and 1 ball between dozens of kids
Let's not forget the bad ass milk container glove.
batters don't just take walks or run up your pitch coun
Pitch count? They're knuckleballers. They can throw 18 innings if they wanted. Hell, I'm going to be 34 this year, and I still hold out hope that I might be able to develop a knuckleball and make the bigs.
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Not necessarily.
If you ever look at a large nursery catalog, you may see that a specific apple tree is available with a variety of root stocks (often patented/trademarked). These various root stocks aren't necessarily from different species of trees, but instead come from different cultivars of that same tree.
What you end up with is the ability to buy a truck-load of apple trees with an apple root stock that has adapted to better survive cold winters (at the expense of larger fruit, for example).
Or, at a different level, consider how large colonies of trees can share the same root system, specifically the poplar family.
This would allow a shared root system to adapt independently of the trunks/limbs/leaves so that you get a root stock adapted to its specific soil type, while at the same time you get mutations up top which introduce better adaptations for the world above.
Trees are awesome.
Thank you.
Label me flamebait if you'd like, but with the over-population problem facing us, just a bit more troublesome as it's ever been, why are we so concerned about how to increase the life-span of the average dolt?
I see many of them, while I commute my 1.x miles on a bike to work, yapping away on their devices; ignoring signs that are there for a reason.
My own physical and mental capabilities are superior to that of the average dolt, and when I notice someone that seems like they're going to blow through a stop sign, I ease up.
This is work that I have done to increase the odds that my offspring survive.
The further we venture into the land of reduced fatalities (by any means) the further we reduce the odds of our survival as a species.
Darwin is rolling over in his coffin... as we speak.
I had one of those a few years ago. I think someone got it for me for Christmas because I was "into computers or something".
I had it for quite some time, and then somewhere along the line I realized I needed a new motherboard. I decided to check out what they had in stock and ended up getting an Asus board from them.
It's worked well, but I would likely have been better served to sell the card and get a motherboard that wasn't an ugly step-child model, since I have been unable to upgrade the memory to the advertised 16Gb. Hell, I've spent a few hundred bucks on a few different sets of DIMMS trying to get the board to 16Gb to no avail.
Quite an expensive gift card it turns out to be.
I'm not even sure what this post is about or why it is something that matters.
I imagine there will be a troll fest coming in 3... 2...
Congrats on your most recent +5 comment.
I don't deal with IP6 yet, but I do know that the day is coming.... likely to be determined by the powers at Century Link. I will never remember the specifics of your post, but I will remember that there are "localhost" type defaults and my Google search time will be reduced from 10 minutes to 1 minute.
Time is money and money is beer... so I guess I owe you a cold one. Swing by Denver (GABF is coming in October) to collect.
Can we please just vote for "No President" for the next four years? Honestly, it would be a nice change, and if your biggest fear is that Jon Stewart won't have anybody to make fun of, I believe the contrary, and that he will simply find a plethora of other dirtbags to make fun of instead.
Let's at least get Gary Johnson some poll points. I'd like to listen to him rip both of those yahoos a new one.
This series was pretty much the most offensive. It's like a Family Guy joke that keeps going even when it isn't funny.
You have essentially answered your own question.
On one hand, you say that you disagree with Arizona laws because of the beliefs of the people that live there. This is a problem because it makes Arizona out of step with the majority of the US.
But.. the majority of the US is not in Arizona. That's why it's called Arizona. It's a different place from where you live. If you don't live there, why do you care?
Do you have a problem with marijuana dispensaries every three blocks in Denver (assuming you don't live in Colorado)?
How about *insert some other random law approved by the state which gets challenged federally*?
Let the states conduct their own business.
I'm pretty sure it's partly due to the amount of their crap that gets sold here.
Pretty much just exploding termites.
I think I saw that in a Loony Toons episode once.
I listen to music while I'm at the dev station, as I'm sure many others do.
I'm not sure how much it helps, but my legs are generally in motion while I sit.
So, chair dancing... I guess that's the solution?
Every now and then I double click some random oddball extension and it opens in Dreamweaver. That's about the extent of my experience with the software.
Zen coding is everywhere.
Snippets (I heart Sublime) are amazing.
Tight CSS libraries are widely supported.
What's the need for a visual editor again?
I can certainly attest that Denver is NOT hip. It sucks here, we have crime everywhere, the girls are all fat and unhealthy, and... the worst part... the beer is horrible.
Certainly not a place anyone should want to move! =)
(If you're from Denver, you know I'm right... so shhh.
A report that I read said that one of the victims in Aurora had previously survived a mall shooting in Toronto.
=(
I am suddenly fearful for my retirement years.
I imagine loads of teenagers running around with augmented vision while I struggle to figure out how to configure the device.
Hopefully this doesn't happen before I can afford to disappear into the mountains and just go fishing every day.
That 15% is still kinda scary though, huh?
Every now and then I'm forced to debug something in IE and I have yet to really figure out how to use their debug tools.
To think that 15% of their visits are in IE makes me wonder what the hell that 15% produces for clients.
I'm sure he understands the contrary point of view just fine.
Of course there is something to be said for 1.0 versus 0.1. That's not the point here. You mention balance, and that's what's important. It's become so easy to get lost in Moore's Law and spend your days and nights learning something well only to find out that by the time you have, it is already being replaced by something new... thus you have to continue learning simply to stay current.
Granted, IT is a different animal that doesn't necessarily allow for bleeding edge to be used; however, he's claiming that his coworkers call him "Google". People come to me all day asking how to do something, or asking me to do that something, or whatever, and there is somewhere between 20-40% of those interactions that could be solved if the other person simply googled it themselves.
Seriously? A new box that doesn't work right in XP? Like others have mentioned, how do you not look immediately at the BIOS? I haven't worked any kind of support of this level in awhile, but I can't imagine things change that much.
Sounds to me like a classic case of a young non-IT guy getting caught up in IT. Be careful of letting others know what skills you know. You may find yourself supporting some POS at 3 am.
Yes, I'm old enough to know it was different at one time.
Somewhere between my teens and late 20's, it changed. I'm not really sure when, but it did. I had a legitimate question... =)
I understand this argument, and I'm honestly not trolling, but what about the times when bitching is warranted and demands resolution?
If there is a developer complaint that design is dictating functionality that is out of scope, sales that is not accounting for that in the contract, and a developer that ends up need an extra week to implement the design, then yes, process needs to change or it's mostly downhill from here.
That said, sure, you can begin looking for work elsewhere, or you can stand up and bitch about the process in the hopes that it changes and your efforts/wisdom/etc are acknowledged. I guess there is a third option, you can sit and do nothing and be happy you have a job.
If one opts to stand up and bitch, how do you do it?
...but the philosophy of the US is freedom. People are free to screw with their lives if they want.
Since fucking when?
diluting the already thin pool.
*applause*
The average voter is that stupid.
Is that it? Really? Don't you think that legislation could be a little bit more laymen friendly?
TBPFH... There are plenty of us who have "gone first". We have been the ones that don't necessarily feel the effects of the downturn because we were the ones inventing new shit for the past decade and a half. It's the rest of the poor saps that haven't figured out that they will need to retrain and learn something if they intend to hold a job. And I don't necessarily mean asking Uncle Sam for some cash to go back to school (unbelievable waste of money), but just taking it upon yourself to learn for learning's sake. I went first, and you know what I found? A nice niche where I can make a comfortable living. If you're incapable of doing the same... well... Darwin kind of had a point there...
can be played with 1 stick/bat and 1 ball between dozens of kids
Let's not forget the bad ass milk container glove.
batters don't just take walks or run up your pitch coun
Pitch count? They're knuckleballers. They can throw 18 innings if they wanted. Hell, I'm going to be 34 this year, and I still hold out hope that I might be able to develop a knuckleball and make the bigs.