I can actually see a future in such a methodology. However, instead of utilizing only the homeless, use anyone willing to take on the task.
+1.
Although the founders may have thought there was a benefit in getting homeless people to actually "do something productive, for something that benefits them", rather than just sit around begging.
As such, allowing anyone to do it, goes against that goal, if it is one.
For me, it was that TV resolution was too lousy to make it worth while to "internet-connect" it.
Now I have a pretty awesome 1080p HD display, so it's KINDA worth it. and in fact, I temporarily connect it to the internet, by virtue of an HDMI cable from my laptop. Then I can use Hulu, etc. in comfort.
Only problem is.... the TV isnt portable. So now, my laptop (macbook pro) is effectively my "internet-connected TV". But I hook up the big screen, when I want to more comfortably share stuff with family. (Or i just want that "big screen effect".. or I wanna sit back and eat, etc)
PS: forgot to mention; there's perfect, and there's good. and there's "cluess first year CS student".
there may not be time for "perfect". but there's no excuse for a professional (sysadmin/coder) to write code like a n00b. Ever. If they do, then they are simply not a professional.
yes, sadly, there are too many non-professionals writing code, and scripts. The best path out of that hole, though, is for them to take the first step of saying, "I'm not going to do that any more", and then go learn how to do it right.
I think you misunderstand. There is "Documentation" and there is "documentation".
There may well not be time for "Documentation: reams of output targetted for handholding CluelessUser"
But there is *ALWAYS* time for "documentation: a quickie note to describe WTH you are doing on this bit".
The most valuable CS teacher I ever had, put it something like this: If you dont have time to put in even BASIC comments in your code... the problem is not that you "dont have time", is that you are an incompetant typist. Go away, and come back after you've learned to type at a decent speed.
Think about how you use the internet....
you spend most of your time looking at contend created by regular users.
Helpful hint for you, for the future:
Whenever you start writing something that looks something like
"I use... I do..."
and you egotistically replace "I" with "you" or "we"...
rethink your action. Because you will almost always be wrong.
I look for "useful/interesting, and free". I dont give a @#$ whether the content was created by "regular users".
A very large chunk of the time, it isnt.
Depending on whether I have found a cool demo that day, almost none of my time on a particular day might be centered on "user generated content".
Connecting your PC to your TV through VGA or HDMI has its own set of problems, which is why the general non-geek public tends not to do it.
Errr, what? what problems?
I have a macbook pro. I plug in ONE cable to the displayport, that is an HDMI converter. I plug in a normal hdmi cable between tv and computer.
It then proceeds to work flawlessly, with only the usual stuff you have to deal with when using a dvd player, etc. Change the 'input' on my tv, and it's good to go. video, and sound, through a single cord.
Should work the same for any decent "PeeCee" computer with HDMI out.
Ah memories... I was a "poor" student, so i stayed at 1200 for a long time. eventually got a "zoom" modem (frigging overheating piece of...)
but was so cheap, NO ERROR CORRECTION.
and then I found a terminal/modem program, that could actually fake the modem-layer error correction and compression, at the host layer. That was amusing, not to mention useful.
stuff gets missed because we NEVER get administrative time scheduled to do documentation.
/* Note: This is an article to demonstrate in practical terms, how to improve lack of documentation */
The way you "fix" this problem, is to make documentation part of the work.
Dont write code, before you have first written the spec for it.
Even if it's "inline" documentation, it sure beats zero documentation.
When working as a sysadmin (or heck, even a regular coder in some places) ALWAYS write ALL your code/scripts/blah that could POSSIBLY run in a production setting, as though they already are. Because someday, they will be. Always presume there will be no "I'll go back and fix it later".
Did you learn this yet? The problem was not the job, it was you. (yes, the job had problems, but you should never have implemented that junk like that) There's probably one o them there named internet rules about this, but i'm old, so i ferget thangs.
Jamie Zawinski was feeling the irritation back in 2003: Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers.
well put by him.
I think this points out a problem with software, that is the opposite from business, at least politically. in (free) software, there becomes a point where it is "too big to succeed".
When the software is so huge that it would take more time to completely rewrite it, than to understand it well enough to fix problems with it... it's too big.
(Mind you, there are also problems with "break up BIG program, into thousands of tiny smaller 'managable' pieces.. which are then too numerous to manage collectively)
This shows that you (and many, MANY others, sadly) misunderstand the point, and responsabilities of, marriage.
Marriage isnt a promise to never change.
Marriage is a promise that, as both people WILL change over the years, you will put in effort to keep your lives merged.
There's a saying that needs to be brought back into common usage: "Marriage is Hard Work".
You've missed on the part where you have to put in effort, to stay hapily together.
Who you become over the next 10 years, is primarily determined by what choices you make. Someone who lives up to the responsability of marriage, *chooses* to make decisions that lead them down a path compatible with their spouse.
Anyway, my point is: If you do it right, over time, your kids won't see how difficult the divorce was; it'll just seem like a "meh" type thing to them.
and that, in and of itself, can be a problem, when your kids get married themselves.. and then get tired of the marriage, and think, "oh hey no problem I can just get divorced. my parents' one went fine..."
Even a "good divorce" is a bad divorce, when there are children.
Then why don't you just go to the movies. If the point of the game is to slug thru levels just so you can advance the plot, you are just putting yourself under stress just to watch the next chapter, you are not enjoying the game, you are using the stress of the game so you can enjoy the next cut scene.
What's the point of "3D" movies? So you can "feel like you are part of it".
Actually getting to CONTROL a character in a story, rather than just watching it, makes you feel even more a part of it.
So no, not same effect.
Although, that being said, games that actually change the outcome of the story to a lesser or greater degree, based on the choices you make as a player, are way better than other 100% fixed ones.
Prime Example: Mass effect? !! Choices made in ME1, affect what stuff is available in ME2?? !! Wow.
Bullshit! Santorum put homosexuals in the same catagory as animal and child rapists in a serious speech before congress that represents his actual policy goals which is to enshrine discrimination in law
Actually, you are putting them in the same category. Here's how:
Santorum said that *the same rationale* for making things legal/not legal, applies equally to those supposedly different categories of things. There's an implication there that, for people who count those things as NOT the same categories of things... they would then conclude that there is something wrong with the legal standard.
You, however, are refusing to recognize that logical chain of reasoning. You are clinging hard and fast to the converse. Your anger implys that you believe, "hey, the legal standard DOES equally apply to all those categories.... therefore, those categories are all the same! Hey, I'm really pissed off that Santorum made me conclude that they are all the same!"
bottom line: you are being closed minded. You are coming at the issue with a closed-minded prejudged decision , and then getting pissed off about the implications your own judgement brings about vis-a-vis homosexual sex, and animal sex,etc.
Santorum got exactly as he deserved. He attacked a group of people relentlessly...
And so did (insert your favourite candidate's name here).
The only difference is that in your case, presumably the group of people your candidate attacked are (Christians/Right wing/..whoever) but that's just fine with you.
You're a hypocrite.
Do you have the guts to, first, state who your preferred candidate for US president is, and then say that it's just fine by you, if his name got messed with on google rankings?
Religion on the other hand is resting on fact-free foundation of faith
Incorrect. More on this lower down.
frequently in direct contradiction with actual scientificly established fact.
The funny thing about "scientifically established fact", is that it is all so often proved wrong. There are plenty of "scientific facts" held to be fact 100 years ago, that are now scoffed at.
But of course, THIS year, is the year that science knows EVERYTHING, right? that's good to know. I guess the scientific future is very boring, since everything is now known, and 100% correct. Excellent.
Decent religions are based on fact. Yes, facts that conflict with "science". They have a technical term for this; it's called a "miracle". If miracles could be explained by science, then they wouldnt be miraculous any more.
"The fact is", that miracles have occured. Science is inadequate to explain what happened in those cases. Therefore, something more than science is needed.
I will also point out, that a blind belief in "Everything can be explained by Science!! If it's not explainable, it didnt happen!!"
is, by its very nature, a "religious belief".
If someone denies that something that happened, actually happened, based on their personally held beliefs... they are by that action, showing themselves to be a reality-denying, religious bigot.
Something for the more intelligent readers to ponder.
"warns me that if I remove an electrode and break the connection, the voltage passing through my brain will blind me for a good few seconds."
oh, yay. zappiezappie
but worse:
In the sudden quiet amid the bodies around me, I was really expecting more assailants, and I'm a bit disappointed when the team begins to remove my electrodes. I look up and wonder if someone wound the clocks forward. Inexplicably, 20 minutes have just passed. "How many did I get?" I ask the assistant.
She looks at me quizzically. "All of them."
This should freak you the hell out
The beginnings of a "super soldier" program, that not only improves performance dramatically, but also disengages the higher brain functions
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It's ALMOST worth it... except for the fact that you have to pay the $100 every year, if I recall correctly.
If the cost is anything greater than $0, then by definition, they are not "free"loaders.
McDonald's employees don't have to wear a shirt saying "I am a fast-food serving automoton"
yes they do. They wear a mcdonalds uniform, after all.
Also, even if they didnt, they stand behind a cash register, which also announces them as such.
that being said, I agree that the wording on the T-shirt is tacky, and should be changed to "Get Your WiFi here" or something like that.
As a side issue: have you tried out any of the religious affiliated shelters?
Can you put aside any atheist bigotry you might have, to give an objective comparison to the one you are currently affiliated with?
http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/city.cgi?city=Santa%20Cruz&state=CA says that there exists in that area;
- Salvation Army shelter in watsonville
- pajaro rescue mission (watsonville)
Or, contrariwise, we wont ,because that would lead to a bunch of lazy, (even more) selfcentered bastards.
It's easy when there's no accountability.
Err.. so why isnt there?? It sounds straightforward enough to add some in. Seems like a loophole that needs to be closed.
I can actually see a future in such a methodology. However, instead of utilizing only the homeless, use anyone willing to take on the task.
+1.
Although the founders may have thought there was a benefit in getting homeless people to actually "do something productive, for something that benefits them", rather than just sit around begging.
As such, allowing anyone to do it, goes against that goal, if it is one.
For me, it was that TV resolution was too lousy to make it worth while to "internet-connect" it.
Now I have a pretty awesome 1080p HD display, so it's KINDA worth it. and in fact, I temporarily connect it to the internet, by virtue of an HDMI cable from my laptop. Then I can use Hulu, etc. in comfort.
Only problem is.... the TV isnt portable. So now, my laptop (macbook pro) is effectively my "internet-connected TV". But I hook up the big screen, when I want to more comfortably share stuff with family. (Or i just want that "big screen effect".. or I wanna sit back and eat, etc)
PS: forgot to mention; there's perfect, and there's good. and there's "cluess first year CS student".
there may not be time for "perfect". but there's no excuse for a professional (sysadmin/coder) to write code like a n00b. Ever.
If they do, then they are simply not a professional.
yes, sadly, there are too many non-professionals writing code, and scripts. The best path out of that hole, though, is for them to take the first step of saying, "I'm not going to do that any more", and then go learn how to do it right.
see: http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/ksh-sampleprog.html
for examples of different levels of professionalism, for the same task.
I think you misunderstand.
There is "Documentation" and there is "documentation".
There may well not be time for "Documentation: reams of output targetted for handholding CluelessUser"
But there is *ALWAYS* time for
"documentation: a quickie note to describe WTH you are doing on this bit".
The most valuable CS teacher I ever had, put it something like this: If you dont have time to put in even BASIC comments in your code... the problem is not that you "dont have time", is that you are an incompetant typist. Go away, and come back after you've learned to type at a decent speed.
Think about how you use the internet. ...
you spend most of your time looking at contend created by regular users.
Helpful hint for you, for the future: Whenever you start writing something that looks something like
"I use... I do..."
and you egotistically replace "I" with "you" or "we"...
rethink your action. Because you will almost always be wrong.
I look for "useful/interesting, and free". I dont give a @#$ whether the content was created by "regular users". A very large chunk of the time, it isnt. Depending on whether I have found a cool demo that day, almost none of my time on a particular day might be centered on "user generated content".
Connecting your PC to your TV through VGA or HDMI has its own set of problems, which is why the general non-geek public tends not to do it.
Errr, what? what problems? I have a macbook pro. I plug in ONE cable to the displayport, that is an HDMI converter. I plug in a normal hdmi cable between tv and computer. It then proceeds to work flawlessly, with only the usual stuff you have to deal with when using a dvd player, etc. Change the 'input' on my tv, and it's good to go. video, and sound, through a single cord.
Should work the same for any decent "PeeCee" computer with HDMI out.
Ah memories... ...)
I was a "poor" student, so i stayed at 1200 for a long time. eventually got a "zoom" modem (frigging overheating piece of
but was so cheap, NO ERROR CORRECTION.
and then I found a terminal/modem program, that could actually fake the modem-layer error correction and compression, at the host layer.
That was amusing, not to mention useful.
stuff gets missed because we NEVER get administrative time scheduled to do documentation.
/* Note: This is an article to demonstrate in practical terms, how to improve lack of documentation */
The way you "fix" this problem, is to make documentation part of the work. Dont write code, before you have first written the spec for it. Even if it's "inline" documentation, it sure beats zero documentation.
You fail basic sysadmin paranoia testing.
When working as a sysadmin (or heck, even a regular coder in some places)
ALWAYS write ALL your code/scripts/blah that could POSSIBLY run in a production setting, as though they already are.
Because someday, they will be.
Always presume there will be no "I'll go back and fix it later".
Did you learn this yet? The problem was not the job, it was you. (yes, the job had problems, but you should never have implemented that junk like that)
There's probably one o them there named internet rules about this, but i'm old, so i ferget thangs.
Jamie Zawinski was feeling the irritation back in 2003: Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers.
well put by him.
I think this points out a problem with software, that is the opposite from business, at least politically. in (free) software, there becomes a point where it is "too big to succeed". When the software is so huge that it would take more time to completely rewrite it, than to understand it well enough to fix problems with it... it's too big. (Mind you, there are also problems with "break up BIG program, into thousands of tiny smaller 'managable' pieces.. which are then too numerous to manage collectively)
Marriage isnt a promise to never change.
Marriage is a promise that, as both people WILL change over the years, you will put in effort to keep your lives merged.
There's a saying that needs to be brought back into common usage: "Marriage is Hard Work". You've missed on the part where you have to put in effort, to stay hapily together.
Who you become over the next 10 years, is primarily determined by what choices you make. Someone who lives up to the responsability of marriage, *chooses* to make decisions that lead them down a path compatible with their spouse.
Anyway, my point is: If you do it right, over time, your kids won't see how difficult the divorce was; it'll just seem like a "meh" type thing to them.
and that, in and of itself, can be a problem, when your kids get married themselves.. and then get tired of the marriage, and think, "oh hey no problem I can just get divorced. my parents' one went fine..."
Even a "good divorce" is a bad divorce, when there are children.
Then why don't you just go to the movies. If the point of the game is to slug thru levels just so you can advance the plot, you are just putting yourself under stress just to watch the next chapter, you are not enjoying the game, you are using the stress of the game so you can enjoy the next cut scene.
What's the point of "3D" movies? So you can "feel like you are part of it".
Actually getting to CONTROL a character in a story, rather than just watching it, makes you feel even more a part of it. So no, not same effect.
Although, that being said, games that actually change the outcome of the story to a lesser or greater degree, based on the choices you make as a player, are way better than other 100% fixed ones.
Prime Example: Mass effect? !! Choices made in ME1, affect what stuff is available in ME2?? !! Wow.
Bullshit! Santorum put homosexuals in the same catagory as animal and child rapists in a serious speech before congress that represents his actual policy goals which is to enshrine discrimination in law
Actually, you are putting them in the same category. Here's how:
Santorum said that *the same rationale* for making things legal/not legal, applies equally to those supposedly different categories of things. There's an implication there that, for people who count those things as NOT the same categories of things... they would then conclude that there is something wrong with the legal standard.
You, however, are refusing to recognize that logical chain of reasoning. You are clinging hard and fast to the converse. Your anger implys that you believe, "hey, the legal standard DOES equally apply to all those categories.... therefore, those categories are all the same! Hey, I'm really pissed off that Santorum made me conclude that they are all the same!"
bottom line: you are being closed minded. You are coming at the issue with a closed-minded prejudged decision , and then getting pissed off about the implications your own judgement brings about vis-a-vis homosexual sex, and animal sex,etc.
Santorum got exactly as he deserved. He attacked a group of people relentlessly...
And so did (insert your favourite candidate's name here). The only difference is that in your case, presumably the group of people your candidate attacked are (Christians/Right wing/..whoever) but that's just fine with you. You're a hypocrite.
Do you have the guts to, first, state who your preferred candidate for US president is, and then say that it's just fine by you, if his name got messed with on google rankings?
Here's a slightly better lawn, btw: http://www.cepro.com/story/alanparsons.html but still no google cache of it :(
In other news, Bose, Monster Cable, Bang & Olufsen and other brands announce a entirely new line of room acoustics kits for the audiophile
In a related question: Can anyone tell me how to get more Bang for my buck?
Religion on the other hand is resting on fact-free foundation of faith
Incorrect. More on this lower down.
frequently in direct contradiction with actual scientificly established fact.
The funny thing about "scientifically established fact", is that it is all so often proved wrong. There are plenty of "scientific facts" held to be fact 100 years ago, that are now scoffed at. But of course, THIS year, is the year that science knows EVERYTHING, right? that's good to know. I guess the scientific future is very boring, since everything is now known, and 100% correct. Excellent.
Decent religions are based on fact. Yes, facts that conflict with "science". They have a technical term for this; it's called a "miracle". If miracles could be explained by science, then they wouldnt be miraculous any more.
"The fact is", that miracles have occured. Science is inadequate to explain what happened in those cases. Therefore, something more than science is needed.
I will also point out, that a blind belief in "Everything can be explained by Science!! If it's not explainable, it didnt happen!!" is, by its very nature, a "religious belief". If someone denies that something that happened, actually happened, based on their personally held beliefs... they are by that action, showing themselves to be a reality-denying, religious bigot.
Something for the more intelligent readers to ponder.
"warns me that if I remove an electrode and break the connection, the voltage passing through my brain will blind me for a good few seconds."
oh, yay. zappiezappie
but worse:
In the sudden quiet amid the bodies around me, I was really expecting more assailants, and I'm a bit disappointed when the team begins to remove my electrodes. I look up and wonder if someone wound the clocks forward. Inexplicably, 20 minutes have just passed. "How many did I get?" I ask the assistant. She looks at me quizzically. "All of them."
This should freak you the hell out
The beginnings of a "super soldier" program, that not only improves performance dramatically, but also disengages the higher brain functions ZombieSoldier, (c)US Army, all rights reserved(to the government)