Clearly you've never eaten Mike & Ikes because they're definitely a drug. It took me years to get off of them and I'm now losing my horrific man breasts. They never show you the dark side of Mike & Ike.
But the Canadian won't ever get dropped or denied coverage because he used the service. Once you get cancer, even something fairly minor that you will live through, your insurance will sky rocket if you can get coverage. The Canadian will still be paying $404.04. What good is healthcare if you can't use it? Put the fucking money in the bank and earn interest.
Stress is the worst thing for you health so having to deal with mounting medical bills after cancer treatment and the insurance companies tell you to piss off will in no way help you at all and quite frankly isn't worth the ability to cut in line for a nose job. More so when it could be paid for with taxes rather than paying for questionable wars that will likely result in more terrorist attacks on the US thanks to the US pissing off the whole middle east.
That's because the US pays top dollar whether it is justified or not because people with insurance don't pay and don't care apparently. If your hospital isn't run by complete cunts they'll reduce the costs to you if you can prove that it's necessary yet you get the same service.
There is a huge difference in paying what's necessary to make a profit and paying out whatever the hospital wants but it has no bearing on the quality of the service. Your doctor won't suddenly get better if you double his wage.
What you mean to say is you don't trust the government yet you voted Bush in twice and scarily the odds of Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin becoming president are very high.
Clearly no one learns their lesson and the untrust and fighting is just wasted energy. Unfortunately the growing number of people untrusting of the government just sound like people who pine for the old days while wearing their "Don't tread on me" underwear. It's almost as bad as the lingering few British people who still think they've got to get their empire back.
Unfortunately this is what happens when education standards drop through the floor.
I recall a story in the news ages ago about David Crosby splashing out loads of money to ensure he got a liver over someone else. Nothing like ensuring a fat alcoholic gets a liver over someone who deserves it more.
The US wouldn't have been a world power and a source of so much innovation and wealth if wasn't for "socialist" acts that helped lay roads and communications to reach everyone.
The only reason the US government would fuck up healthcare is simply because the citizens don't care and aren't as educated enough to be voting but they do and for stupid reasons.
The government isn't at fault when they cock up, it's the voters who are.
I think there is a tax treaty between the US and Canada so no, not unless you earn over a certain amount.
I live in the UK and I think I would have to earn the equivalent of $90,000 a year (excluding the standard deductions every American has) before I pay any tax and I'm not even bothering to deduct for housing or anything because there's no point. I'm not quite there so why waste my time filling in forms. I'll just do the minimum until I have to do more.
Plus once you go over that limit plus the standard deductions, you're only taxed on what you earn on top of that so earning, for instance, $100,000 would see me having to claim less than $10,000. That's like minimum wage money and I could avoid that by spending a bit more time filling papers.
I file taxes every year but I haven't paid since 2002. Bush did send me an economic stimulus check though. I hope putting that in my UK bank account helped the US economy!:P
I had a major operation in the US and luckily it was after freelance work dried up (dot com bust) and I was jobless for a bit so I qualified for state assistance. For my particular state (PA) they just made me fill in a lot of forms and see some people and yes I had to have a meeting with the hospital about my situation but the time spent saved me shit loads. I spent under $1,000 for, if I recall at least $10,000 worth of treatment of which some was at a reduced cost. Funnily enough when you're down on your luck the hospitals can sometimes be willing to reduce their costs for things like beds and meals. My treatment wasn't any less and I still got loads of consultations afterwards but they know they're making a mint off of everyone else.
The US does indeed have socialised healthcare but it's for the elderly and the poor. So people fighting socialised healthcare already lost the battle a long time ago. The only difference is that it's completely unfair and does not cover huge chunks of the population despite the fact they're paying for it.
The US should do the right thing and make it 100% equal. Either take the help away from everyone or help everyone.
While I wouldn't say the UK system is perfect. Often if you're happy with the bare minimum you'll get just that with no argument whether it's right or not. The worst aspect is the fact that care isn't equal across the UK and that's why some people have good stories and some have bad. Luckily I am in a decent area. The UK does need to start dropping some of the PC shit like gender operations an breast implants because they supposedly make people feel happier. I don't care about anyone's happiness if it means making cuts on life threatening things because money has been gobbled up by frivolous crap.
Also the UK can offer anything the US has simply by going the "US route" and getting private healthcare yourself or through your employer but luckily if you can't get that you're not left in the cold or saddled with loads of debt.
I've been in both the US and UK and to be fair wisdom teeth are a very funny thing and it depends on when you get them done and how they come up.
I had mine done in the US. The actual surgery wasn't bad at all. Perfect even. I had it done while I was under and I didn't know anything went on but I very much needed pain killers for a week and was eating nothing but apple sauce for nearly two weeks while having swollen cheeks and looked like a chipmunk when I went back to work. I wouldn't complain at all. The doctor didn't do anything wrong. That's just how things went.
I've also had some friends that went through loads of pain having done in the US and some that had little pain (but yes unfortunately weren't put under) in the UK. Generally it's just better to get them out asap.
Because you systems can be compromised and no one will provide support for their ancient software and things have improved. The longer you wait the fewer options you have and it gets expensive.
The arguments about being stuck in an upgrade cycle or upgrading just for the sake of it is flawed.
No one thinks you should upgrade the second something becomes available but sticking with something that is insecure and outdated is just dumb. It's not upgrading for the sake of it. There are very valid reasons to dump IE6. If your apps won't run on a newer instance of windows then you made the wrong choice and will have to switch at some point.
Something like Linked Lists I'd remember. I was talking more in general and that people do get rusty (and languages move on) if they avoid programming...more so imo if they're relatively new to it.
Anyone saying that Netscape/Firefox isn't support used developers that are MS fanboys that used MS specific stuff and rather than supporting multiple browsers, would rather tell everyone else their browser sucks. So quite rightly the thing to do is turn the tables and tell IE6 users that now.
Most of IE6 loaded when Windows booted so it's not really faster. It just depends on where the wait is and quite frankly its JavaScript implementation is dog slow.
I'd much rather wait a whole 1 to 2 seconds for Chrome to load up and know it will work better and won't be slow as hell if a site uses any reasonable amount of JavaScript and the fact it renders pages slower. You're not saving any time at all even if psychologically you think you're loading your software and up and running faster and whether you've been lucky or not, it is less secure.
There will be a time they have to upgrade and what is the point of waiting the last minute and possibly making the situation more costly or time consuming? it's just idiotic and possibly not offering any savings at all in the long run.
There you go, if for some reason a new version of IE is out of the question then there is a MSI version of Firefox that allows you to deploy across numerous computers and use group policies.
True but technology moves fast. The idea is to use technology that allows you to keep up and move on when required. Microsoft fucked things up by locking people in and yes it probably will be costly for some people to move on but it will cost a lot more down the line to move on.
Had people opted for open formats and open standards then it wouldn't be as much of an issue. I have no pity for companies that have their data locked behind some outdated awful MS solution. I hope it hurts their pocket book big time when they're forced to move on.
I took two years of Spanish and was decent at the time but I'm absolutely crap at it now. Like anything it requires that you keep it up. The guy he mentioned may not actually write enough code to actually be that good. He may have worked his way out doing programming and forgot a lot or just doesn't care and did just enough to get a degree and to do his job.
I think that's why a degree doesn't really mean anything unless they have something else to prove they actually enjoy what they're doing and have done at least some coding outside of uni and work.
I just don't want him to get the idea that because he took a college course and read a couple books that he's a Java programmer ready for the Big Leagues. These are the kind of people who make it hell for those of us who bothered to get a proper Computer Science background, and then spent many additional years learning our craft. Just because somebody can use a saw it doesn't make them a carpenter, and just because somebody can plunge a toilet it doesn't make them a plumber.
Hopefully he won't have to work with a jack ass like you. I know people with a "proper computer science background" that cause grief for people without a proper Cs background and even those with a proper CS background. It doesn't matter how you learn if you don't take it seriously. People who think you're automatically good because you have a degree are one of the biggest problems.
A degree is very much a good way for most people to learn because they're given structure and can be forced into doing things right but in the end it doesn't mean shit. You still have to see what the individual can do
I would suggest the guy get the Algorithms book (have it myself it is decent) and as well books on design patterns and UML. But most importantly he just needs to start bashing out lots of code and once he's comfortable working with himself he needs to get into a team, whether by starting his own for a project or joining an open source project so he can get experience working with others which a lot of self learners can struggle with because it can be quite different.
But he's definitely got to start writing lots of code. This is what a lot of people miss out on. Especially those who think "Ok, I've got a degree now, give me $100,000". Everyone needs to get their hands dirty and all sorts of mistakes to learn from. Degrees and books can't cover everything and those alone won't make you an top notch programmer.
I am aware you mentioned spending years afterwards learning the craft but face it, everyone needs to start off somewhere and yes inexperienced people can make more mistakes but again those mistakes are what will help them improve. I would hope you're giving people some insight to how their mistakes can be avoided rather than just fixing them and saying nothing because you're not helping them or yourself.
Depends on the circumstances. If I'm just browsing the net then yes I expect to be use little memory. If I'm playing a new PC game then I plan on using every last ounce of memory.
Because there some tasks that I do want to use as much memory as possible then I would naturally want the OS to use as little as possible. I don't want to have worry about stupid little programs running in the background.
Instead of executing even more programs to cache crap to run a little faster, PC retailers need to start selling better PCs without crapware installed on top and Microsoft needs to make their OS leaner. Those two things will achieve better results than SuperFetch. MS does these things to help people because most people don't know how to sort out their new PC and so MS is just patching over the underlying problem.
Memory shouldn't always set there unused but all of it doesn't need to be used all the time.
Actually in the case of the DS and all past Nintendo portables, they were very easy to tinker with and it was only until the mass pirating on the DS that Nintendo decided to put region protection in the DSi for DSi only games.
Things, like the R4 cart aren't new. The GBC has similar items but it's much, much more rampant these days and quite frankly I don't blame them. Your right to tinker also goes away if they go under.
Mom and pop stores are going to go away. It's just cheaper for mom and pop to sell online and if governments care so much about the environment they'd support this transition rather than expecting everyone to have a physical shop. Protecting outdated models never works.
I'd prefer it worked more like Steam than iTunes. I don't see what the problem is with unlimited downloads for a game tied to an account. They'll just end up doing what MS did with Xbox 1 content and shut it down eventually so it's not like they have to face paying for the bandwidth of downloading these games for 50+ years.
Then there is simply the fact you bought it and should always have access to it. If you don't own it then they should never mention buy or purchase. Transactions should only be called renting but they know that'll put people off.
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Clearly you've never eaten Mike & Ikes because they're definitely a drug. It took me years to get off of them and I'm now losing my horrific man breasts. They never show you the dark side of Mike & Ike.
But the Canadian won't ever get dropped or denied coverage because he used the service. Once you get cancer, even something fairly minor that you will live through, your insurance will sky rocket if you can get coverage. The Canadian will still be paying $404.04. What good is healthcare if you can't use it? Put the fucking money in the bank and earn interest.
Stress is the worst thing for you health so having to deal with mounting medical bills after cancer treatment and the insurance companies tell you to piss off will in no way help you at all and quite frankly isn't worth the ability to cut in line for a nose job. More so when it could be paid for with taxes rather than paying for questionable wars that will likely result in more terrorist attacks on the US thanks to the US pissing off the whole middle east.
That's because the US pays top dollar whether it is justified or not because people with insurance don't pay and don't care apparently. If your hospital isn't run by complete cunts they'll reduce the costs to you if you can prove that it's necessary yet you get the same service.
There is a huge difference in paying what's necessary to make a profit and paying out whatever the hospital wants but it has no bearing on the quality of the service. Your doctor won't suddenly get better if you double his wage.
What you mean to say is you don't trust the government yet you voted Bush in twice and scarily the odds of Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin becoming president are very high.
Clearly no one learns their lesson and the untrust and fighting is just wasted energy. Unfortunately the growing number of people untrusting of the government just sound like people who pine for the old days while wearing their "Don't tread on me" underwear. It's almost as bad as the lingering few British people who still think they've got to get their empire back.
Unfortunately this is what happens when education standards drop through the floor.
I recall a story in the news ages ago about David Crosby splashing out loads of money to ensure he got a liver over someone else. Nothing like ensuring a fat alcoholic gets a liver over someone who deserves it more.
The US wouldn't have been a world power and a source of so much innovation and wealth if wasn't for "socialist" acts that helped lay roads and communications to reach everyone.
The only reason the US government would fuck up healthcare is simply because the citizens don't care and aren't as educated enough to be voting but they do and for stupid reasons.
The government isn't at fault when they cock up, it's the voters who are.
I think there is a tax treaty between the US and Canada so no, not unless you earn over a certain amount.
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I live in the UK and I think I would have to earn the equivalent of $90,000 a year (excluding the standard deductions every American has) before I pay any tax and I'm not even bothering to deduct for housing or anything because there's no point. I'm not quite there so why waste my time filling in forms. I'll just do the minimum until I have to do more.
Plus once you go over that limit plus the standard deductions, you're only taxed on what you earn on top of that so earning, for instance, $100,000 would see me having to claim less than $10,000. That's like minimum wage money and I could avoid that by spending a bit more time filling papers.
I file taxes every year but I haven't paid since 2002. Bush did send me an economic stimulus check though. I hope putting that in my UK bank account helped the US economy!
I had a major operation in the US and luckily it was after freelance work dried up (dot com bust) and I was jobless for a bit so I qualified for state assistance. For my particular state (PA) they just made me fill in a lot of forms and see some people and yes I had to have a meeting with the hospital about my situation but the time spent saved me shit loads. I spent under $1,000 for, if I recall at least $10,000 worth of treatment of which some was at a reduced cost. Funnily enough when you're down on your luck the hospitals can sometimes be willing to reduce their costs for things like beds and meals. My treatment wasn't any less and I still got loads of consultations afterwards but they know they're making a mint off of everyone else.
The US does indeed have socialised healthcare but it's for the elderly and the poor. So people fighting socialised healthcare already lost the battle a long time ago. The only difference is that it's completely unfair and does not cover huge chunks of the population despite the fact they're paying for it.
The US should do the right thing and make it 100% equal. Either take the help away from everyone or help everyone.
While I wouldn't say the UK system is perfect. Often if you're happy with the bare minimum you'll get just that with no argument whether it's right or not. The worst aspect is the fact that care isn't equal across the UK and that's why some people have good stories and some have bad. Luckily I am in a decent area. The UK does need to start dropping some of the PC shit like gender operations an breast implants because they supposedly make people feel happier. I don't care about anyone's happiness if it means making cuts on life threatening things because money has been gobbled up by frivolous crap.
Also the UK can offer anything the US has simply by going the "US route" and getting private healthcare yourself or through your employer but luckily if you can't get that you're not left in the cold or saddled with loads of debt.
I've been in both the US and UK and to be fair wisdom teeth are a very funny thing and it depends on when you get them done and how they come up.
I had mine done in the US. The actual surgery wasn't bad at all. Perfect even. I had it done while I was under and I didn't know anything went on but I very much needed pain killers for a week and was eating nothing but apple sauce for nearly two weeks while having swollen cheeks and looked like a chipmunk when I went back to work. I wouldn't complain at all. The doctor didn't do anything wrong. That's just how things went.
I've also had some friends that went through loads of pain having done in the US and some that had little pain (but yes unfortunately weren't put under) in the UK. Generally it's just better to get them out asap.
Wisdom teeth aren't a good way to judge care imo.
Because you systems can be compromised and no one will provide support for their ancient software and things have improved. The longer you wait the fewer options you have and it gets expensive.
The arguments about being stuck in an upgrade cycle or upgrading just for the sake of it is flawed.
No one thinks you should upgrade the second something becomes available but sticking with something that is insecure and outdated is just dumb. It's not upgrading for the sake of it. There are very valid reasons to dump IE6. If your apps won't run on a newer instance of windows then you made the wrong choice and will have to switch at some point.
Something like Linked Lists I'd remember. I was talking more in general and that people do get rusty (and languages move on) if they avoid programming...more so imo if they're relatively new to it.
Anyone saying that Netscape/Firefox isn't support used developers that are MS fanboys that used MS specific stuff and rather than supporting multiple browsers, would rather tell everyone else their browser sucks. So quite rightly the thing to do is turn the tables and tell IE6 users that now.
Most of IE6 loaded when Windows booted so it's not really faster. It just depends on where the wait is and quite frankly its JavaScript implementation is dog slow.
I'd much rather wait a whole 1 to 2 seconds for Chrome to load up and know it will work better and won't be slow as hell if a site uses any reasonable amount of JavaScript and the fact it renders pages slower. You're not saving any time at all even if psychologically you think you're loading your software and up and running faster and whether you've been lucky or not, it is less secure.
There will be a time they have to upgrade and what is the point of waiting the last minute and possibly making the situation more costly or time consuming? it's just idiotic and possibly not offering any savings at all in the long run.
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
There you go, if for some reason a new version of IE is out of the question then there is a MSI version of Firefox that allows you to deploy across numerous computers and use group policies.
True but technology moves fast. The idea is to use technology that allows you to keep up and move on when required. Microsoft fucked things up by locking people in and yes it probably will be costly for some people to move on but it will cost a lot more down the line to move on.
Had people opted for open formats and open standards then it wouldn't be as much of an issue. I have no pity for companies that have their data locked behind some outdated awful MS solution. I hope it hurts their pocket book big time when they're forced to move on.
I have 1, 2 and 4 and would definitely agree they're excellent books worth having.
I took two years of Spanish and was decent at the time but I'm absolutely crap at it now. Like anything it requires that you keep it up. The guy he mentioned may not actually write enough code to actually be that good. He may have worked his way out doing programming and forgot a lot or just doesn't care and did just enough to get a degree and to do his job.
I think that's why a degree doesn't really mean anything unless they have something else to prove they actually enjoy what they're doing and have done at least some coding outside of uni and work.
I just don't want him to get the idea that because he took a college course and read a couple books that he's a Java programmer ready for the Big Leagues. These are the kind of people who make it hell for those of us who bothered to get a proper Computer Science background, and then spent many additional years learning our craft. Just because somebody can use a saw it doesn't make them a carpenter, and just because somebody can plunge a toilet it doesn't make them a plumber.
Hopefully he won't have to work with a jack ass like you. I know people with a "proper computer science background" that cause grief for people without a proper Cs background and even those with a proper CS background. It doesn't matter how you learn if you don't take it seriously. People who think you're automatically good because you have a degree are one of the biggest problems.
A degree is very much a good way for most people to learn because they're given structure and can be forced into doing things right but in the end it doesn't mean shit. You still have to see what the individual can do
I would suggest the guy get the Algorithms book (have it myself it is decent) and as well books on design patterns and UML. But most importantly he just needs to start bashing out lots of code and once he's comfortable working with himself he needs to get into a team, whether by starting his own for a project or joining an open source project so he can get experience working with others which a lot of self learners can struggle with because it can be quite different.
But he's definitely got to start writing lots of code. This is what a lot of people miss out on. Especially those who think "Ok, I've got a degree now, give me $100,000". Everyone needs to get their hands dirty and all sorts of mistakes to learn from. Degrees and books can't cover everything and those alone won't make you an top notch programmer.
I am aware you mentioned spending years afterwards learning the craft but face it, everyone needs to start off somewhere and yes inexperienced people can make more mistakes but again those mistakes are what will help them improve. I would hope you're giving people some insight to how their mistakes can be avoided rather than just fixing them and saying nothing because you're not helping them or yourself.
Depends on the circumstances. If I'm just browsing the net then yes I expect to be use little memory. If I'm playing a new PC game then I plan on using every last ounce of memory.
Because there some tasks that I do want to use as much memory as possible then I would naturally want the OS to use as little as possible. I don't want to have worry about stupid little programs running in the background.
Instead of executing even more programs to cache crap to run a little faster, PC retailers need to start selling better PCs without crapware installed on top and Microsoft needs to make their OS leaner. Those two things will achieve better results than SuperFetch. MS does these things to help people because most people don't know how to sort out their new PC and so MS is just patching over the underlying problem.
Memory shouldn't always set there unused but all of it doesn't need to be used all the time.
Actually in the case of the DS and all past Nintendo portables, they were very easy to tinker with and it was only until the mass pirating on the DS that Nintendo decided to put region protection in the DSi for DSi only games.
Things, like the R4 cart aren't new. The GBC has similar items but it's much, much more rampant these days and quite frankly I don't blame them. Your right to tinker also goes away if they go under.
Mom and pop stores are going to go away. It's just cheaper for mom and pop to sell online and if governments care so much about the environment they'd support this transition rather than expecting everyone to have a physical shop. Protecting outdated models never works.
I'd prefer it worked more like Steam than iTunes. I don't see what the problem is with unlimited downloads for a game tied to an account. They'll just end up doing what MS did with Xbox 1 content and shut it down eventually so it's not like they have to face paying for the bandwidth of downloading these games for 50+ years.
Then there is simply the fact you bought it and should always have access to it. If you don't own it then they should never mention buy or purchase. Transactions should only be called renting but they know that'll put people off.