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There really isn't a good analogy that refers to media. I was going to say that he's like the kid that has grown up on phantom menace, judging by the magnitude of his UID, but that doesn't work so well in/. sense. Sure, there are older articles, but that form of media isn't as readily accessible as the Star Wars trilogy on DVD.
I'm willing to bet that he wasn't around much before 2001, and isn't quite hip to what the "old" days were like. I remember. We'd have announcements of new ways of playing with E, or the newest version of red hat./. got heavier into the news-news when the MS anti-trust thing was going on. It's been that way since, I guess, with all of the SCO crap, and this and that.
So, yeah. This is good content. It spreads the word on Ruby, which looks to be a cool language. I don't care whether or not it's cooler than Python, I relegate those types of arguments to the insecure-geek scrapheap.
The pagan traditions were adopted into Christianity by the Catholic church. The reason for this was that the church was converting massive numbers of people, and the people held on to old traditions. The same thing happens in Latin America now.
It is no coincidence that Christmas falls near the Winter solstice. It is no coincidence that the Catholics hail Mary. There were a number of Mother/Son-based-God pagan religions around.
To Christians, though, the only holidays that really matter are Good Friday and Easter. The other Christian holidays that are celebrated by the secular world are really just adopted fluff.
I read it as "Don't eat anything that is still living."
When God says that he will demand an accounting of our lifeblood, it refers to the sin that we live in, which means we are spiritually dead. Christ fixed this by fulfilling the sacrifice that God, the Father, demanded.
I imagine that the thermal expansion of water is less than the amount of volume that is lost from the ice melting. The parent poster didn't mention that ice has a lower density than water, which means that the there is less mass in a greater volume.
A glass with water and ice will have a higher level than the same glass after all of the ice has melted.
Yeah. That's basically the same as the "pets" that you get if you purchase the Collectors Edition. It's funny. My Mini Diablo sits on my feet when I stand still in the same way that my cat does when I've got my feet on the ground.
* You need to *install* the game, which takes as long as installing & unlocking HL2
* You must be online to play the game, because that's where the content is
* The updates are distributed through a bittorrent client, which sucks your bandwidth dry.
* A disk drive is probably not necessary, but HL2, if purchased through steam, does not either.
* Just for fun, go to their web site and try to figure out how to submit a bug.
* All of this hassle, and you only get a freaken game to play.
* Oh, and you have to *pay* as long as you play.
It's WoW. I don't know why people chooses to bitch about Valve, when there are bunches of MMORPG's out there with the same "problems." I have no problem with Valve, Steam, or HL2. It's their product, and they can dictate how it is to be distributed.
If you don't like the terms, don't buy the game. It's that simple.
Maybe he should. When I get home, I know that I loathe opening up a programming environment. I've thought about some various side projects and stuff, but I never follow through on them. The reason is that I get paid to program. I think it's fun, but I don't find recreation in it.
I also have quite a bit of IT knowledge: fixing up computers, abolishing ad-ware, fixing user accounts, training, getting things to "work..." I hate it when my aunt says to me, "Mike, I've got a problem with my computer. My scanner..." First off, I dislike the headache I get when trying to fix things, when I could be doing something fun (i.e. playing pool). Second, I hate that I feel an obligation to work because she's my aunt.
A good side job is what I had a couple of years ago. I was a barista in a coffee shop. I could relax, talk to the customers, shoot the breeze with my co-workers, and generally not think about computers at all. I came home tired, but happy. I was refreshed in the morning as well.
Probably the best way to do it is to use E as the WM, and use nautilus or some other desktop manager around it. That way, you can have your icons, panels, and taskbar (if you want to use it). I forego the taskbar, because the pager is good enough.
The best way to learn is to experiment with it. If you want to get even more in depth, check out CmdrTaco's site.
The parent is probably saying that because the parent is a troll.
There's really no way that you can look at Enlightenment and miss the virtual desktop capabilities, or the fact that it has the best pager of all wm's I've seen.
E is great. There's so much you can do with it, especially when it's combined with a normal desktop environment.
I hope that your admins test out the patches before they install them on production systems. I can't tell you how many times our Exchange server has been knocked out, due to a MS patch. Then, after about a day and a half without e-mail, a "hotfix" gets installed, which lets us have our mail again.
I don't think that all of the open beta accounts were created at near the same time, nor were they all trying to get on-line all at the same time.
The DB is probably chugging to create the user accounts, but then you have close to 5,000 users in all the same area... it probably causes problems. Even in the stress test, I don't remember seeing more than 200 or 300 people in a newb zone.
Thank goodness that my copy isn't arriving until December.
Isn't calling the argument a cop out a cop out itself? You can't reasonably argue with it one way or the other. You're just affronted by it, because it assumes that you are less than what God is, which is essentially true.
You can't back up faith with science or reason, nor can you deny it with science or reason.
And no. There is no secret code. God is also not evil, because being evil is defined in God's eyes as denying God. Prayer also does effect much, but it is usually answered in a way that you don't think or want it to be answered.
What bothers me is that there are so many humans trying to assign human values to God. There's no way you can understand the motivations of God. It's like a dog trying to understand nuclear physics.
The bible says "Ask, and it will be given." Christ tells us that we need to be insistent. We're supposed to take everything to God in prayer.
Prayer may or may not be effective. There's no way to empiracally prove it one way or the other. Spending all of this time arguing about it, whether because you want to support your own belief in no God, or because you're scared of it, or for whatever other reason is pointless. Believers don't believe because they were convinced to do it. There's no way to convince them not to believe.
Try to stay ahead of the people's needs, and predict what they will find useful in the future. My department has done this successfully. I would have to say that my boss lets me have quite a bit of autonomy, and I produce good stuff for him. Very few items have real deadlines, and those things are usually menial tasks like scanning & editing & converting things, or programming projects for less responsive and less responsibile organizations.
Provide the required amount of support, but always keep an eye out for what is holding people back. Try to get it written and tested before people ask for it. If they don't ask for it, give a demo and show why it's useful. This will increase their efficiency for one, and also will lessen the likelihood of them requesting something else. Rinse, repeat.
Another good tip is to develop very generic tools that you can mold into many things. A good example is our reporting system. I wrote it so that it is very non-specific, and works with our database very well. It just happens to integrate well into every other web application that we have, so we run all of our reports through it now. There is no more need for Crystal or any other extra crap like that.
Lastly, it's wise to understand that a manager's job revolves around organization and communication. Don't hoodwink yourself into thinking that you'll have time to do coding. Also, don't try to stick your finger into your underlings' code, or dictate to them how they should program. This only causes distress and anger on their part, and only wastes time on your part. If your programmers can't do the work without you, go hire someone that is more qualified to replace them. Firing people is one of the hardest things to do, but it's a necessity.
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There really isn't a good analogy that refers to media. I was going to say that he's like the kid that has grown up on phantom menace, judging by the magnitude of his UID, but that doesn't work so well in /. sense. Sure, there are older articles, but that form of media isn't as readily accessible as the Star Wars trilogy on DVD.
I'm willing to bet that he wasn't around much before 2001, and isn't quite hip to what the "old" days were like. I remember. We'd have announcements of new ways of playing with E, or the newest version of red hat. /. got heavier into the news-news when the MS anti-trust thing was going on. It's been that way since, I guess, with all of the SCO crap, and this and that.
So, yeah. This is good content. It spreads the word on Ruby, which looks to be a cool language. I don't care whether or not it's cooler than Python, I relegate those types of arguments to the insecure-geek scrapheap.
Not to mention that it ignores the buzzword that rules them all: Diversify!
The pagan traditions were adopted into Christianity by the Catholic church. The reason for this was that the church was converting massive numbers of people, and the people held on to old traditions. The same thing happens in Latin America now.
It is no coincidence that Christmas falls near the Winter solstice. It is no coincidence that the Catholics hail Mary. There were a number of Mother/Son-based-God pagan religions around.
To Christians, though, the only holidays that really matter are Good Friday and Easter. The other Christian holidays that are celebrated by the secular world are really just adopted fluff.
I read it as "Don't eat anything that is still living."
When God says that he will demand an accounting of our lifeblood, it refers to the sin that we live in, which means we are spiritually dead. Christ fixed this by fulfilling the sacrifice that God, the Father, demanded.
Well... it would solve the social security problem.
I imagine that the thermal expansion of water is less than the amount of volume that is lost from the ice melting. The parent poster didn't mention that ice has a lower density than water, which means that the there is less mass in a greater volume.
A glass with water and ice will have a higher level than the same glass after all of the ice has melted.
All I have to do is get my billions by the age of 40. Then I have 960 years of excellent retirement to look forward to.
Yeah. That's basically the same as the "pets" that you get if you purchase the Collectors Edition. It's funny. My Mini Diablo sits on my feet when I stand still in the same way that my cat does when I've got my feet on the ground.
By your logic... what is this:
* It REQUIRES YOU to create a user account.
* You need to *install* the game, which takes as long as installing & unlocking HL2
* You must be online to play the game, because that's where the content is
* The updates are distributed through a bittorrent client, which sucks your bandwidth dry.
* A disk drive is probably not necessary, but HL2, if purchased through steam, does not either.
* Just for fun, go to their web site and try to figure out how to submit a bug.
* All of this hassle, and you only get a freaken game to play.
* Oh, and you have to *pay* as long as you play.
It's WoW. I don't know why people chooses to bitch about Valve, when there are bunches of MMORPG's out there with the same "problems." I have no problem with Valve, Steam, or HL2. It's their product, and they can dictate how it is to be distributed.
If you don't like the terms, don't buy the game. It's that simple.
It wouldn't.
But that's because God pointed a finger and said "Let there be Life!"
For a moment, I read that as "email is used only for normal fornications."
In Korea, Non-Premature Culture Is For Old People.
Only after they take your money and buy a film production studio with it.
Every time I saw that show on my grandma's television, it looked like their chairs were always more pimped out than before.
Yeah, right after "Have Sex" ;-)
You forgot the "with another person."
I read it as "Rot Key."
Then I realized that it was an acronym, and that I had to guess what "EE" meant.
Maybe he should. When I get home, I know that I loathe opening up a programming environment. I've thought about some various side projects and stuff, but I never follow through on them. The reason is that I get paid to program. I think it's fun, but I don't find recreation in it.
I also have quite a bit of IT knowledge: fixing up computers, abolishing ad-ware, fixing user accounts, training, getting things to "work..." I hate it when my aunt says to me, "Mike, I've got a problem with my computer. My scanner..." First off, I dislike the headache I get when trying to fix things, when I could be doing something fun (i.e. playing pool). Second, I hate that I feel an obligation to work because she's my aunt.
A good side job is what I had a couple of years ago. I was a barista in a coffee shop. I could relax, talk to the customers, shoot the breeze with my co-workers, and generally not think about computers at all. I came home tired, but happy. I was refreshed in the morning as well.
Wikipedia needs another troll definition:
The Religious Troll: When a poster intentionally invokes the existance or nonexistance of God in order to illicit a response. Example Here.
Probably the best way to do it is to use E as the WM, and use nautilus or some other desktop manager around it. That way, you can have your icons, panels, and taskbar (if you want to use it). I forego the taskbar, because the pager is good enough.
The best way to learn is to experiment with it. If you want to get even more in depth, check out CmdrTaco's site.
The parent is probably saying that because the parent is a troll.
There's really no way that you can look at Enlightenment and miss the virtual desktop capabilities, or the fact that it has the best pager of all wm's I've seen.
E is great. There's so much you can do with it, especially when it's combined with a normal desktop environment.
I hope that your admins test out the patches before they install them on production systems. I can't tell you how many times our Exchange server has been knocked out, due to a MS patch. Then, after about a day and a half without e-mail, a "hotfix" gets installed, which lets us have our mail again.
I don't think that all of the open beta accounts were created at near the same time, nor were they all trying to get on-line all at the same time.
The DB is probably chugging to create the user accounts, but then you have close to 5,000 users in all the same area... it probably causes problems. Even in the stress test, I don't remember seeing more than 200 or 300 people in a newb zone.
Thank goodness that my copy isn't arriving until December.
Isn't calling the argument a cop out a cop out itself? You can't reasonably argue with it one way or the other. You're just affronted by it, because it assumes that you are less than what God is, which is essentially true.
You can't back up faith with science or reason, nor can you deny it with science or reason.
And no. There is no secret code. God is also not evil, because being evil is defined in God's eyes as denying God. Prayer also does effect much, but it is usually answered in a way that you don't think or want it to be answered.
What bothers me is that there are so many humans trying to assign human values to God. There's no way you can understand the motivations of God. It's like a dog trying to understand nuclear physics.
The bible says "Ask, and it will be given." Christ tells us that we need to be insistent. We're supposed to take everything to God in prayer.
Prayer may or may not be effective. There's no way to empiracally prove it one way or the other. Spending all of this time arguing about it, whether because you want to support your own belief in no God, or because you're scared of it, or for whatever other reason is pointless. Believers don't believe because they were convinced to do it. There's no way to convince them not to believe.
Faith.... it's an interesting thing.
Try to stay ahead of the people's needs, and predict what they will find useful in the future. My department has done this successfully. I would have to say that my boss lets me have quite a bit of autonomy, and I produce good stuff for him. Very few items have real deadlines, and those things are usually menial tasks like scanning & editing & converting things, or programming projects for less responsive and less responsibile organizations.
Provide the required amount of support, but always keep an eye out for what is holding people back. Try to get it written and tested before people ask for it. If they don't ask for it, give a demo and show why it's useful. This will increase their efficiency for one, and also will lessen the likelihood of them requesting something else. Rinse, repeat.
Another good tip is to develop very generic tools that you can mold into many things. A good example is our reporting system. I wrote it so that it is very non-specific, and works with our database very well. It just happens to integrate well into every other web application that we have, so we run all of our reports through it now. There is no more need for Crystal or any other extra crap like that.
Lastly, it's wise to understand that a manager's job revolves around organization and communication. Don't hoodwink yourself into thinking that you'll have time to do coding. Also, don't try to stick your finger into your underlings' code, or dictate to them how they should program. This only causes distress and anger on their part, and only wastes time on your part. If your programmers can't do the work without you, go hire someone that is more qualified to replace them. Firing people is one of the hardest things to do, but it's a necessity.
Good ol' PrtScn lets me get images well enough...
The text, on the other hand, is a tad more difficult.