It's not 'his' ideal form of etiquette - it used to be quite common and well understood.
Kinda like the discussions I (used to) have with friends and co-workers about top-posting in their replies, or using HTML or other rich-format text instead of plaintext, etc. It's reached a point where I (a) am the only person I know who still uses in-line quoting and plaintext and (b) have given up on the arguments on what's the "right" way to do things and why. It doesn't help that it seems like the default configuration of most common email clients seems to do things the "wrong" way.
(Hint: Hellboy sucked, Pan's Labyrinth didn't. See the "two del Toros" joke yet?)
I would argue that "Hellboy" was great for what it was supposed to be, as an adaptation of Mignola's source material. The comics were directly influenced by the pulp action/adventure/occult rags of previous decades, and the film (mostly) showed this.
"Pan's Labyrinth," though, was supposed to be a fairy tale (in all the original form of such), complete with all the dark and disturbing overtones that were in those tales before they became so whitewashed. I think, with respect to the Lovecraft material, that we'll see similar treatment.
Remember the Air Force Axiom; when the only tool you have is a multi-warhead thermo-nuclear ICBM, all your problems look like the Soviets invading West Germany.
I love that - is it an original paraphrasing, or something you'd heard somewhere? I'd like to make sure I attribute it properly should I happen to use it.:)
I can't remember for the life of me where I read it, but one assertion I'd read was that Gen-Xers were those born to Boomer parents and before the "end" of the Vietnam War. Said assertion then stated that the youngest Gen-Xers would have been born in 1975.
Either way, it's a (relatively) pointless definition/label, in my mind.:)
There are plenty of other things that people regularly break in Leviticus that a campaign could've been based on, but the whole "God hates shrimp" campaign just earns the scorn of fundies over their gross ignorance of the Bible.
Hell, I just tossed it up there because I find it conceptually hilarious, not because I think their position is the omega of the argument.:P
In any case, anybody who cites Leviticus as proof that homosexuality or Wicca is an abomination will have a difficult time proving that they really consider the commandments of Leviticus binding.
I see a crowd mentality at work here -- people buy and then vigorously defend having bought an iPod, not because it's better than the competition, but because it's what your friends have.
While I can't argue that many people may have done that, I went from swimming upstream to something that was designed to work with what I had. I had a Rio Karma from a few years back, specifically for the Ogg Vorbis support, but once I made the transition from Windows to Mac, I found that I was swimming upstream in my insistence on using this device. Still, I persisted until the hard drive died, and once the time came to buy another device - well, since I already had and really liked my iBook, I decided to go along with the design flow and picked up an iPod Nano. I wish I hadn't had to re-rip my collection, but I've been very happy with the aesthetics and the usability, given that I use a digital audio player specifically for working out, running/biking, or long drives.
A number of people will complain about iTunes and how it manages files and playlists - and I agree that it doesn't do things the way I want, the way I'd done them before. It is very easy to use, but does some things I don't like and doesn't present the flexibility or power in use. Do you know what I discovered after a short while? I didn't care - it did a good enough job, and it wasn't worth the effort of micro-managing my playlists in painstaking detail the way I'd done before.
These problems would go away quickly if people would just educate themselves a bit and learn that the Internet is a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" and you just HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
I don't think you're blaming the victim by stating a fact - and I think it is likely fact that a significant proportion of these crimes occur because the victim either didn't know better or didn't think it over in an adequately critical fashion.
In an offline example, I got beaten and mugged earlier this summer while walking home. I had my iPod going, was in my own little world, and wasn't paying close enough (nor paranoid enough) attention around me. In the back of my mind, I registered the presence of the assailants, but wasn't cautious enough. Was it my fault? Not by any means - the fault lies with the two bastards who jumped me and took my stuff. Would it have been avoided if I'd been more situationally aware and paranoid? Hell yeah.
Where will the next generation of experienced old hands come from if not from within? At some point, all the experienced people will be too old to work any more, and then what will we do?
It's not just in IT that this is occurring, but in other technical fields as well. I work in industrial specialty chemicals, and most of the big players in our markets (and in related/nearby markets) have, for the most part, simply stopped hiring people who don't automatically come with ~5-10 years experience. This has made for the beginnings of a shortage in able workers, made worse by the fact that onerous and heavily-applied non-competes in what is already a relatively narrow field of competitors means that people who leave their job generally leave the industry as a whole.
It's a short-sighted approach to managing talent in the workpool, but then again, when hasn't American business (as a whole) taken the short view in recent years?
I'm a more recent Wisconsin acquisition, but I also have to admit I like Russ. I'm just sick and tired of the letters in the Editorial Section of the Journal Sentinel that denounce him as unpatriotic. Makes me wanna shake sense into people.
Schizophrenia runs in my family and I want to see a cure as much as anyone else.
I find myself in a similar boat - my mother was, among other things, a diagnosed low-functioning paranoid schizophrene, and I've spent a good portion of my life concerned that I'm going to see similar problems manifest themselves in my mental and emotional health. (Thankfully, I don't seem to have any symptoms or behavior sets of the various schizotypical disorders, and I've been assured that at age 32, I'm pretty safe from seeing them crop up in the future. In some retrospect, I don't think my younger brother has been as lucky...)
I'm less concerned with the fact of the testing and more concerned with the protocols of the handling and standards in care and treatment. Provided that these are done within reasonable limits of humane behavior, then I believe animal testing for this kind of purpose is acceptable. Over the course of my life I've been surrounded by mental health problems and the subsequent failures of our society/system to address them. This is a price worth paying, in my view.
If you're looking for well-crafted story in the FPS genre, an oft-overlooked and not-as-well-known entry has to be Undying, with backstory penned by (or under the direction of) Clive Barker. As a game it was somewhere between average and good, but the story was definitely solid.
I'll admit that I picked it up mostly out of good memories from other Treasure titles, as well as for the fact that it sounded and looked quirky and interestingly odd - and, in my own defense, I think I got it for $5-10 used, if I remember correctly - but I don't know that I'd toss it up there with the other terrible titles listed. I _do_ recall thinking at some point that it felt more like a tech demo than a game, one that got bundled and marketed when it was really just an interesting experiment. As such, I'm not surprised the list comments ran along the same lines.
Assuming that someone who robs you is the victim is pretty sick, and you might want to seek help with that.
IAWTP. A few weeks ago, I was jumped, beaten, and robbed while walking home just after sunset and in what's considered a safe part of town. In the space of a few seconds, these two punks had broken my nose, bashed up my mouth bad enough I was eating soft foods for nearly two weeks, and damned near gave me a concussion. And for what? They got a cell phone (cancelled within minutes, not even used by them), my wallet (no cash, credit cards that were cancelled promptly and apparently also not used by them), and an iPod Nano.
I had to change the locks on my house (had a key in my wallet), get new ID and credit cards, buy a new wallet and cell phone, spend time in the hospital, etc. For the damage they did, they gained little - and I can virtually guarantee that it wasn't desperation, but self-centered and sociopathic greed that drove them. I can also virtually guarantee that there's almost certainly no chance of them being caught, and that they are likely never going to change their ways. Society as a whole would be better if they were removed from the population and unable to bring any new thugs into the world.
Would Oedipus have killed his father had the Oracle at Delphi never prophecied that he would and thus his father never sent him to die in the wilderness? Had the witches not said that Macbeth would not be harmed by any of woman born, would he have gone down the path that led to him being killed by the C-section-birthed Macduff?
Awww, man, would it have killed you to put a "SPOILER" warning on that?
My question is, are we some kind of freaks when it comes to gas use compared to most Americans?
I'm going to say you're likely really, really lucky here. I took a look at what was probably the best time for me, in terms of gas expenditures - spring and summer 2005, when I moved to a townhouse that was literally right next door to the office, lived alone, and the only driving I did was typically for travel to see family or work-related (to and from the airport, usually), and occasionally going out (shopping, etc.). In that time, I was filling my car (2001 Ford Focus, ~30MPG) between twice and three times a month. For that stretch, my gas spend was still 2.29% of my total spend. This is in the Chicago-Milwaukee area, so our gas prices are relatively high.
Interestingly, I got a look at the data for what an average "fill-up" costs me. Making the assumption that every spend was to completely fill a completely empty tank (generally true for me - I drive until the fuel light has been on a while), my average fill cost me just under $20 back in January 2005, and currently sits at nearly $31 for April 2005. (This is the average within the month.) May isn't done yet, but it's looking like that's going to have an average of nearly $38.
IBM gave something like this a whirl back in the day (late 90s) with their Aptiva product line (at least - possibly with others), called "Rapid Resume." If I recall correctly, it just dumped the contents of all memory to an image file on the hard drive, and preserved the swap and shut down. The theory was, on start-up, it would just load the state right back into RAM, and away you went.
The problems I recall it having for certain wer that the time to dump to disk was waaaaay too long, and I don't think it was compatible with FAT32, among other issues. Anyone else remember this thing?
One thing I've found that works well to tame the compulsion, is to wear one of those thick rubber-bands around your wrist. Whenever you feel the urge coming on, stretch the rubber-band and then let it snap back against your wrist. Hard. Over time, the urges will fade, or even disappear.
For those who might be unfamiliar, this is a basic method that's taught in many Dialectic Behavioral Therapy programs. If you find yourself dealing with the kind of pathology represented by compulsive behavior (not just OCD, and not just BlackBerry addiction), you may well find DBT or the more logic-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy programs very helpful. They're typically used to treat personality disorders, but are amazingly effective at dealing with problems in high-functioning but troubled intellectuals, as well.
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot the tags... :P
It's not 'his' ideal form of etiquette - it used to be quite common and well understood.
Kinda like the discussions I (used to) have with friends and co-workers about top-posting in their replies, or using HTML or other rich-format text instead of plaintext, etc. It's reached a point where I (a) am the only person I know who still uses in-line quoting and plaintext and (b) have given up on the arguments on what's the "right" way to do things and why. It doesn't help that it seems like the default configuration of most common email clients seems to do things the "wrong" way.
(Hint: Hellboy sucked, Pan's Labyrinth didn't. See the "two del Toros" joke yet?)
I would argue that "Hellboy" was great for what it was supposed to be, as an adaptation of Mignola's source material. The comics were directly influenced by the pulp action/adventure/occult rags of previous decades, and the film (mostly) showed this.
"Pan's Labyrinth," though, was supposed to be a fairy tale (in all the original form of such), complete with all the dark and disturbing overtones that were in those tales before they became so whitewashed. I think, with respect to the Lovecraft material, that we'll see similar treatment.
There is also one that goes something like: if you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
...and just found the re-phrasing funny, hence my curiosity as to its origins. :)
I'm aware of the original quote:
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" (Abraham Maslow, though a similar quote is attributed to Bernard Baruch)
Remember the Air Force Axiom; when the only tool you have is a multi-warhead thermo-nuclear ICBM, all your problems look like the Soviets invading West Germany.
:)
I love that - is it an original paraphrasing, or something you'd heard somewhere? I'd like to make sure I attribute it properly should I happen to use it.
I can't remember for the life of me where I read it, but one assertion I'd read was that Gen-Xers were those born to Boomer parents and before the "end" of the Vietnam War. Said assertion then stated that the youngest Gen-Xers would have been born in 1975.
:)
Either way, it's a (relatively) pointless definition/label, in my mind.
There are plenty of other things that people regularly break in Leviticus that a campaign could've been based on, but the whole "God hates shrimp" campaign just earns the scorn of fundies over their gross ignorance of the Bible.
Hell, I just tossed it up there because I find it conceptually hilarious, not because I think their position is the omega of the argument.
In any case, anybody who cites Leviticus as proof that homosexuality or Wicca is an abomination will have a difficult time proving that they really consider the commandments of Leviticus binding.
:)
To wit: God hates shrimp.
How the hell did you get it right in the subject ("lose"), yet screw it up twice in the post? :P
I see a crowd mentality at work here -- people buy and then vigorously defend having bought an iPod, not because it's better than the competition, but because it's what your friends have.
While I can't argue that many people may have done that, I went from swimming upstream to something that was designed to work with what I had. I had a Rio Karma from a few years back, specifically for the Ogg Vorbis support, but once I made the transition from Windows to Mac, I found that I was swimming upstream in my insistence on using this device. Still, I persisted until the hard drive died, and once the time came to buy another device - well, since I already had and really liked my iBook, I decided to go along with the design flow and picked up an iPod Nano. I wish I hadn't had to re-rip my collection, but I've been very happy with the aesthetics and the usability, given that I use a digital audio player specifically for working out, running/biking, or long drives.
A number of people will complain about iTunes and how it manages files and playlists - and I agree that it doesn't do things the way I want, the way I'd done them before. It is very easy to use, but does some things I don't like and doesn't present the flexibility or power in use. Do you know what I discovered after a short while? I didn't care - it did a good enough job, and it wasn't worth the effort of micro-managing my playlists in painstaking detail the way I'd done before.
These problems would go away quickly if people would just educate themselves a bit and learn that the Internet is a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" and you just HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
I don't think you're blaming the victim by stating a fact - and I think it is likely fact that a significant proportion of these crimes occur because the victim either didn't know better or didn't think it over in an adequately critical fashion.
In an offline example, I got beaten and mugged earlier this summer while walking home. I had my iPod going, was in my own little world, and wasn't paying close enough (nor paranoid enough) attention around me. In the back of my mind, I registered the presence of the assailants, but wasn't cautious enough. Was it my fault? Not by any means - the fault lies with the two bastards who jumped me and took my stuff. Would it have been avoided if I'd been more situationally aware and paranoid? Hell yeah.
Where will the next generation of experienced old hands come from if not from within? At some point, all the experienced people will be too old to work any more, and then what will we do?
It's not just in IT that this is occurring, but in other technical fields as well. I work in industrial specialty chemicals, and most of the big players in our markets (and in related/nearby markets) have, for the most part, simply stopped hiring people who don't automatically come with ~5-10 years experience. This has made for the beginnings of a shortage in able workers, made worse by the fact that onerous and heavily-applied non-competes in what is already a relatively narrow field of competitors means that people who leave their job generally leave the industry as a whole.
It's a short-sighted approach to managing talent in the workpool, but then again, when hasn't American business (as a whole) taken the short view in recent years?
/proud cheesehead
I'm a more recent Wisconsin acquisition, but I also have to admit I like Russ. I'm just sick and tired of the letters in the Editorial Section of the Journal Sentinel that denounce him as unpatriotic. Makes me wanna shake sense into people.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
.sig I've read in a long time - got a good out-loud chuckle out of me. :)
Best
Schizophrenia runs in my family and I want to see a cure as much as anyone else.
I find myself in a similar boat - my mother was, among other things, a diagnosed low-functioning paranoid schizophrene, and I've spent a good portion of my life concerned that I'm going to see similar problems manifest themselves in my mental and emotional health. (Thankfully, I don't seem to have any symptoms or behavior sets of the various schizotypical disorders, and I've been assured that at age 32, I'm pretty safe from seeing them crop up in the future. In some retrospect, I don't think my younger brother has been as lucky...)
I'm less concerned with the fact of the testing and more concerned with the protocols of the handling and standards in care and treatment. Provided that these are done within reasonable limits of humane behavior, then I believe animal testing for this kind of purpose is acceptable. Over the course of my life I've been surrounded by mental health problems and the subsequent failures of our society/system to address them. This is a price worth paying, in my view.
If you're looking for well-crafted story in the FPS genre, an oft-overlooked and not-as-well-known entry has to be Undying, with backstory penned by (or under the direction of) Clive Barker. As a game it was somewhere between average and good, but the story was definitely solid.
"When will people learn? She acted like she didn't even know it was wrong."
I want to laugh, but something just won't let me.
I'll admit that I picked it up mostly out of good memories from other Treasure titles, as well as for the fact that it sounded and looked quirky and interestingly odd - and, in my own defense, I think I got it for $5-10 used, if I remember correctly - but I don't know that I'd toss it up there with the other terrible titles listed. I _do_ recall thinking at some point that it felt more like a tech demo than a game, one that got bundled and marketed when it was really just an interesting experiment. As such, I'm not surprised the list comments ran along the same lines.
Assuming that someone who robs you is the victim is pretty sick, and you might want to seek help with that.
IAWTP. A few weeks ago, I was jumped, beaten, and robbed while walking home just after sunset and in what's considered a safe part of town. In the space of a few seconds, these two punks had broken my nose, bashed up my mouth bad enough I was eating soft foods for nearly two weeks, and damned near gave me a concussion. And for what? They got a cell phone (cancelled within minutes, not even used by them), my wallet (no cash, credit cards that were cancelled promptly and apparently also not used by them), and an iPod Nano.
I had to change the locks on my house (had a key in my wallet), get new ID and credit cards, buy a new wallet and cell phone, spend time in the hospital, etc. For the damage they did, they gained little - and I can virtually guarantee that it wasn't desperation, but self-centered and sociopathic greed that drove them. I can also virtually guarantee that there's almost certainly no chance of them being caught, and that they are likely never going to change their ways. Society as a whole would be better if they were removed from the population and unable to bring any new thugs into the world.
Would Oedipus have killed his father had the Oracle at Delphi never prophecied that he would and thus his father never sent him to die in the wilderness? Had the witches not said that Macbeth would not be harmed by any of woman born, would he have gone down the path that led to him being killed by the C-section-birthed Macduff?
Awww, man, would it have killed you to put a "SPOILER" warning on that?
My question is, are we some kind of freaks when it comes to gas use compared to most Americans?
:)
I'm going to say you're likely really, really lucky here. I took a look at what was probably the best time for me, in terms of gas expenditures - spring and summer 2005, when I moved to a townhouse that was literally right next door to the office, lived alone, and the only driving I did was typically for travel to see family or work-related (to and from the airport, usually), and occasionally going out (shopping, etc.). In that time, I was filling my car (2001 Ford Focus, ~30MPG) between twice and three times a month. For that stretch, my gas spend was still 2.29% of my total spend. This is in the Chicago-Milwaukee area, so our gas prices are relatively high.
Interestingly, I got a look at the data for what an average "fill-up" costs me. Making the assumption that every spend was to completely fill a completely empty tank (generally true for me - I drive until the fuel light has been on a while), my average fill cost me just under $20 back in January 2005, and currently sits at nearly $31 for April 2005. (This is the average within the month.) May isn't done yet, but it's looking like that's going to have an average of nearly $38.
Just my anecdotal referential $0.02, or so.
Stephen Notley's comments
IBM gave something like this a whirl back in the day (late 90s) with their Aptiva product line (at least - possibly with others), called "Rapid Resume." If I recall correctly, it just dumped the contents of all memory to an image file on the hard drive, and preserved the swap and shut down. The theory was, on start-up, it would just load the state right back into RAM, and away you went.
The problems I recall it having for certain wer that the time to dump to disk was waaaaay too long, and I don't think it was compatible with FAT32, among other issues. Anyone else remember this thing?
One thing I've found that works well to tame the compulsion, is to wear one of those thick rubber-bands around your wrist. Whenever you feel the urge coming on, stretch the rubber-band and then let it snap back against your wrist. Hard. Over time, the urges will fade, or even disappear.
For those who might be unfamiliar, this is a basic method that's taught in many Dialectic Behavioral Therapy programs. If you find yourself dealing with the kind of pathology represented by compulsive behavior (not just OCD, and not just BlackBerry addiction), you may well find DBT or the more logic-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy programs very helpful. They're typically used to treat personality disorders, but are amazingly effective at dealing with problems in high-functioning but troubled intellectuals, as well.
Anybody else hear Akbar in their heads? :P