I've worked with some folks in my career who should have been pissed upon.
"Ah, Donald Trump! I've been expecting you! You want to make a deal? Well, I'm a gonna whip it out, and then you can try to deal with this..."
On the other hand, a lot of the time that I've been working with certain executives . . . I think that their top skill is doing sword fights down at the pisser.
Hmmn . . . time to update my skills profile . . . "En Garde!"
Captain Kirk beams down there, takes his shirt off, and gets the chick. Wait, two planets? Wait a second, we'll have to fly in a second, evil, Captain Kirk from a parallel universe. And how about a Spock with a beard? Does Ryanair fly there? Can we get a discount rate for two? Well, knowing them, they'll charge an extra exorbitant fee for Spock's beard. And the plane won't even land in the parallel universe, but in another universe, "Really close by!"
Back when I was really a kid (7th and 8th grade, in the 70's), we had shop for the guys, and home economics for the chicks. Then the winds of change swept in and all pupils had to take both classes. In home economics, the teacher tried to put a mix of boys and girls at the kitchen. My group had four boys. What we cooked, you couldn't feed to starving buzzards. After one of the sessions, we had a school assembly. The guy sitting next to me, who was in my group, kept burping and saying, "It's coming up!" The gag was, that the home economics class never taught me how to sew a button on a shirt.
In shop, we had an old Italian guy. He loved his job, and when you came into his shop . . . he made it clear that it was his shop. When showing us how to use power drills, one of the chicks squealed, "I never want to use a power tool ever again! That's why I'm getting married for!"
In my experience, the quickest folks to get "up and running", are those with team experience. One of my profs, Arthur Lo, once said of his course, "Most students say that they get the most out of the lab exercises . . . I think that they get the most out of their lab partner." It sounds trivial, but it is rather insightful . . . the best newbies that I have worked with, had experience in working in teams.
"Hey, let's all of us work on a project together. We'll use a system like CVS so we can all see what's up. If some folks are better at programming, and others better at management stuff, we will divide the responsibilities, accordingly."
The worst case that I had, was a work student intern, who couldn't program himself out of a paper bag. I asked him why he chose to study CS. His answer: "Because I heard that you can earn a lot of money there."
My uncle has an eight year old IBM ThinkPad which he still uses as his primary computer
Eight year.. . old? A friend of mine works for an insurance company. He told me that they run IBM software and hardware mainframes, that were developed, "While he was swimming in his father's balls."
I think that when I go to meet my Maker, those things will be still running. When Saint Peter greets me at the heavenly gates, he will say, "Ah, mister Kid! We've been expecting you! We have a small activity for programming JPL for you!"
Me: "No thanks, send me on the elevator downstairs."
Saint Peter: "But down there is Hell!?!?!"
Me: "Well, since working with TSO and JPL, I'm used to Hell."
How damn big is your lava lamp that it uses a screw bulb larger than 40W?
My Lava Lamp is as big as Lindsay Lohan sitting on Charlie Sheen's lap, and is tanked more than the both of them . . . if that is humanly possible.
Where I live, in Central Europe, I have heard that all "classic" light bulbs will be replaced with CFL ones, regardless of the watts. Which makes me thing . . . what about my light in the oven? I travel often on trains here, and it's a hoot and a half to see folks trying to turn on the lights in the train. They hit the button . . . nothing happens . . . then they hit it again. Then I explain that those are energy saving light bulbs. They save energy, because it takes so damn long before they light up.
examples of Hilbert spaces include spaces of square-integrable functions, spaces of sequences, Sobolev spaces consisting of generalized functions, and Hardy spaces of holomorphic functions.
How the Hell will that work with a CFL? Thomas Edison had it right . . . he invented the light bulb, with Lava Lamps in mind. One smart inventor, he was....
Going with Microsoft may give Nokia the ability to quickly draw a common big picture, but it does really nothing to address the issues underneath.
I have a N800, and was looking forward to buying a N900. Then I saw the news about Maemo -> Meego. And then the news that Ari Jaaksi was leaving Nokia . . . well, that put it down for me.
Ham Sandwich theorem says that if you have n objects in n dimensional space, you can cut them all in half with a cut using an n-1 dimensional surface.
It's called Ham Sandwich because the analogy says if you have a chunk of ham, a chunk of cheese, and a chunk of bread (n = 3) in 3-D space, you can make a single "cut" to cut them all in exactly half. This single cut is achieved by finding the plane (3-1 = 2 dimensions) that goes through all of them.
Alternately, there's Pancake theorem that says if you have two flat pancakes on a 2-D surface (like on your countertop), there's a single line (1-D) that can cut both pancakes exactly in half. That might be easier to think of.
Does the pancake come with bacon?
Contingent on my alcohol intake, my counter-top can have 3-D, 4-D and 5-D dimensions. And scary green monsters on top. I guess that they like ham sandwiches . . . and pancakes,
Researchers say some people are sensation-seekers attracted to any emotional high, be it from sky diving, shark-punching or horror films.
My girlfriend (German) got hit by a car when she was a child, and had to undergo some nasty operations on her leg, which left her with "Frankenstein" scars on her leg.
On a business trip to Austin, Texas, she tagged along. She was concerned about how she should describe to the local yokels, what happened to her leg. I told her to tell the folks, that she was attacked by a shark, but that she fought off the shark, buy punching it in the head. It worked for five minutes, until she started giggling, and one of the guys that I worked with screamed, "Bullshit!"
I The Al Jazeera articles are usually well written, don't have sensationalist headlines, and you don't have to sift through all the latest celebrity crap.
John Barnett,
John Bigboote,
John Camp,
John Careful Walker,
John Chief Crier,
John Cooper,
John Coyote,
John Edwards,
John Fish,
John Fledgling,
John Gomez,
John Grim,
John Guardian,
John Icicle Boy,
John Jones,
John Joseph,
John Kim Chi,
John Lee,
John Littlejohn,
John Many Jars,
John Milton,
John Mud Head,
John Nephew,
John Nolan,
John O'Connor,
John Omar,
John Parrot,
John Rajeesh,
John Ready to Fly,
John Repeat Dance,
John Roberts,
John Scott,
John Smallberries,
John Starbird,
John Take Cover,
John Thorny Stick,
John Two Horns,
John Whorfin,
John Wood,
John Wright,
John Ya Ya
I don't know what the authors of this film were smoking, but I want some . . .
If a child/teenager doesn't want to learn, there is no point about forcing him/her into school. That's a sad fact to say, but where I went to school, a mother tried to sue the town school system for flunking her son. Well, duh, when he came to school in the morning, he had already smoked some stuff. He had no interest in learning anything.
So, back on topic: If some dumb-ass does not want to learn, there is no point in forcing him/her to go to school.
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I've worked with some folks in my career who should have been pissed upon.
"Ah, Donald Trump! I've been expecting you! You want to make a deal? Well, I'm a gonna whip it out, and then you can try to deal with this .. ."
On the other hand, a lot of the time that I've been working with certain executives . . . I think that their top skill is doing sword fights down at the pisser.
Hmmn . . . time to update my skills profile . . . "En Garde!"
"I want that firewall fire-bombed! Bomb that Internet and twitter back into the stone age, son! I love the smell of napalm in the morning . . . "
Although this sounds outrageous, this is probably what a bunch of them have their general staff working on . . .
Captain Kirk beams down there, takes his shirt off, and gets the chick. Wait, two planets? Wait a second, we'll have to fly in a second, evil, Captain Kirk from a parallel universe. And how about a Spock with a beard? Does Ryanair fly there? Can we get a discount rate for two? Well, knowing them, they'll charge an extra exorbitant fee for Spock's beard. And the plane won't even land in the parallel universe, but in another universe, "Really close by!"
Back when I was really a kid (7th and 8th grade, in the 70's), we had shop for the guys, and home economics for the chicks. Then the winds of change swept in and all pupils had to take both classes. In home economics, the teacher tried to put a mix of boys and girls at the kitchen. My group had four boys. What we cooked, you couldn't feed to starving buzzards. After one of the sessions, we had a school assembly. The guy sitting next to me, who was in my group, kept burping and saying, "It's coming up!" The gag was, that the home economics class never taught me how to sew a button on a shirt.
In shop, we had an old Italian guy. He loved his job, and when you came into his shop . . . he made it clear that it was his shop. When showing us how to use power drills, one of the chicks squealed, "I never want to use a power tool ever again! That's why I'm getting married for!"
In my experience, the quickest folks to get "up and running", are those with team experience. One of my profs, Arthur Lo, once said of his course, "Most students say that they get the most out of the lab exercises . . . I think that they get the most out of their lab partner." It sounds trivial, but it is rather insightful . . . the best newbies that I have worked with, had experience in working in teams.
"Hey, let's all of us work on a project together. We'll use a system like CVS so we can all see what's up. If some folks are better at programming, and others better at management stuff, we will divide the responsibilities, accordingly."
The worst case that I had, was a work student intern, who couldn't program himself out of a paper bag. I asked him why he chose to study CS. His answer: "Because I heard that you can earn a lot of money there."
Wrong answer.
My uncle has an eight year old IBM ThinkPad which he still uses as his primary computer
Eight year .. . old? A friend of mine works for an insurance company. He told me that they run IBM software and hardware mainframes, that were developed, "While he was swimming in his father's balls."
I think that when I go to meet my Maker, those things will be still running. When Saint Peter greets me at the heavenly gates, he will say, "Ah, mister Kid! We've been expecting you! We have a small activity for programming JPL for you!"
Me: "No thanks, send me on the elevator downstairs."
Saint Peter: "But down there is Hell!?!?!"
Me: "Well, since working with TSO and JPL, I'm used to Hell."
How damn big is your lava lamp that it uses a screw bulb larger than 40W?
My Lava Lamp is as big as Lindsay Lohan sitting on Charlie Sheen's lap, and is tanked more than the both of them . . . if that is humanly possible.
Where I live, in Central Europe, I have heard that all "classic" light bulbs will be replaced with CFL ones, regardless of the watts. Which makes me thing . . . what about my light in the oven? I travel often on trains here, and it's a hoot and a half to see folks trying to turn on the lights in the train. They hit the button . . . nothing happens . . . then they hit it again. Then I explain that those are energy saving light bulbs. They save energy, because it takes so damn long before they light up.
examples of Hilbert spaces include spaces of square-integrable functions, spaces of sequences, Sobolev spaces consisting of generalized functions, and Hardy spaces of holomorphic functions.
Well, that pretty much describes the closet where my girlfriend keeps her shoes. I call it Fibber McGee's closet, but she is German, and doesn't understand the joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly#The_Closet
It is a simple radio gag, but I still laugh my ass off whenever I hear it. "Oh, Molly, I'll get that, it must be here in my closet . . ."
or is it five in number?
either way, that's the coolest fucking thing I've seen in a while.
I dunno . . . some dude walked up to me and said, "YOU are . . . number six . . ." I'm still trying to find out what he meant be that . . .
How the Hell will that work with a CFL? Thomas Edison had it right . . . he invented the light bulb, with Lava Lamps in mind. One smart inventor, he was .. ..
Fujitsu has released a MeeGo netbook and I'm sure more will follow. MeeGo isn't just Nokia.
Yes, but it would be nice to see a telephone manufacturer to bring out MeeGo phones.
Going with Microsoft may give Nokia the ability to quickly draw a common big picture, but it does really nothing to address the issues underneath.
I have a N800, and was looking forward to buying a N900. Then I saw the news about Maemo -> Meego. And then the news that Ari Jaaksi was leaving Nokia . . . well, that put it down for me.
I have no idea how to cut the sandwich . . . I can't even manage to find the bugger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_space
Ham Sandwich theorem says that if you have n objects in n dimensional space, you can cut them all in half with a cut using an n-1 dimensional surface.
It's called Ham Sandwich because the analogy says if you have a chunk of ham, a chunk of cheese, and a chunk of bread (n = 3) in 3-D space, you can make a single "cut" to cut them all in exactly half. This single cut is achieved by finding the plane (3-1 = 2 dimensions) that goes through all of them.
Alternately, there's Pancake theorem that says if you have two flat pancakes on a 2-D surface (like on your countertop), there's a single line (1-D) that can cut both pancakes exactly in half. That might be easier to think of.
Does the pancake come with bacon?
Contingent on my alcohol intake, my counter-top can have 3-D, 4-D and 5-D dimensions. And scary green monsters on top. I guess that they like ham sandwiches . . . and pancakes,
We're - all - dying, chief.
I think I'll go for a walk!
I don't want to go on the cart!
I call it, "Home! Sweet Home!
Researchers say some people are sensation-seekers attracted to any emotional high, be it from sky diving, shark-punching or horror films.
My girlfriend (German) got hit by a car when she was a child, and had to undergo some nasty operations on her leg, which left her with "Frankenstein" scars on her leg. On a business trip to Austin, Texas, she tagged along. She was concerned about how she should describe to the local yokels, what happened to her leg. I told her to tell the folks, that she was attacked by a shark, but that she fought off the shark, buy punching it in the head. It worked for five minutes, until she started giggling, and one of the guys that I worked with screamed, "Bullshit!"
That's like asking why it's called the 100 meter dash instead of the 1 hectometer dash. >
Um, excuse me, but can you tell me how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Um, does that work? No, wait, in soviet church, Westboro . . . no, that's still not right . . .
How much antimatter do you need to make a bomb that will, say, take down an medium-to-high-rise apartment complex?ll
Well, given the definition of matter and antimatter, I guess you would need a medium-to-high-rise load of antimatter to take care of the matter stuff.
That should totally screw people up and result in total confusion.
I would also like to point out that these things are much more likely to break down the more frequently you change them.
I think that sums it up best . . .
I The Al Jazeera articles are usually well written, don't have sensationalist headlines, and you don't have to sift through all the latest celebrity crap.
all the latest celebrity crap
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Me, too!
John Barnett, John Bigboote, John Camp, John Careful Walker, John Chief Crier, John Cooper, John Coyote, John Edwards, John Fish, John Fledgling, John Gomez, John Grim, John Guardian, John Icicle Boy, John Jones, John Joseph, John Kim Chi, John Lee, John Littlejohn, John Many Jars, John Milton, John Mud Head, John Nephew, John Nolan, John O'Connor, John Omar, John Parrot, John Rajeesh, John Ready to Fly, John Repeat Dance, John Roberts, John Scott, John Smallberries, John Starbird, John Take Cover, John Thorny Stick, John Two Horns, John Whorfin, John Wood, John Wright, John Ya Ya
I don't know what the authors of this film were smoking, but I want some . . .
Most IPs only go up to 10 . . . so mine, which goes up to 11, is better . . .
If a child/teenager doesn't want to learn, there is no point about forcing him/her into school. That's a sad fact to say, but where I went to school, a mother tried to sue the town school system for flunking her son. Well, duh, when he came to school in the morning, he had already smoked some stuff. He had no interest in learning anything.
So, back on topic: If some dumb-ass does not want to learn, there is no point in forcing him/her to go to school.