I think you will feel a lot better, when you explain that you are African-American to your parents. They will be more accepting than you expect.
Especially your mother.
Your father might give her some dirty looks for a while.
Pity poor me: I favor Obama, but also think that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is doing a rather fine job. So I have to tell my mother that, not only that I am African-American, but that her son is really a daughter as well!
Family members have said Kambakhsh was beaten and threatened with death until he signed a confession and that local journalists who expressed support for him were warned they would be arrested if they persisted.
Sounds like the RIAA/MPAA were at work here to me . . .
Sorry, I must have missed this punditry... which candidate has the most affinity for the fish electorate in the swing states?
The great seer, John Cleese, anticipated these problems back in the late 60's early 70's with his passive civil disobedience campaign, demanding a fish license (government ID) for "Eric, the Fish."
Since it was a "gold"-fish, I suspect that the usual group of Ron Paul supporters will be blamed for this.
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
Don't say that too loud! People might listen and say, "Hey, all these Hollywood scripts are a bunch of crap!"
Then you can cough up another $800 billion to bail out Hollywood, as well as Wall Street.
After shrinking down audio technology with integrated circuits, true audiophiles decided that big, 'ol honkers with tubes are better. I predict that the same will happen with PCs. What? A PC in your pocket, how mundane. I have a tube powered ENIAC in my basement. In fact, it IS my basement.
I can really tell the difference, because every month when the power bill comes, I know it must be good, because it is using butt-loads of electricity.
Every drug store used to have a tube tester where you could bring in the vacuum tubes from your TV to see if they needed replacement.
Ah, trips to the hardware store with my dad. He'd look up the tube number in that plastic flip chart thingy. Then he would let me set those big black plastic dials. Let the tube heat up, then push a button, and see if the needle jumped up to a green area.
When you turned off the TV, there was a little white dot that remained in the middle of the screen.
Wow, *THAT* dot! And then they got Walter Cronkite out of bed too early, and he really had bags under his eyes . . . and then Alan Shepard hit golf balls on the Moon!
What is the technical significance of all those numbers on the test pattern?
Alas, my dad would be able to tell you that. He designed television transmitter antenna for RCA. His biggest work went down with the World Trade Center. Sniff, sniff:-(
If I had the choice of spending six billion euros on a quest to unlock some of the greatest mysteries on earth, or spend $US700 billion bailing out overpaid bankers and their cash-poor customers, I know what I would choose.
I thought that "spend $US700 billion bailing out overpaid bankers and their cash-poor customers" *ARE* "some of the greatest mysteries on earth".
. . . "Using advanced quantum cryptography technologies, this system is unbreakable," announced the joint US and British officers in charge of the system, Aldrich Ames and OBE Kim Philby . . .
Sadly, the US Intelligence [sic] Services tend to rely too much on SIGINT instead of HUMINT.
Well, thanks to you, at least I'm not ignorant anymore. Actually, this makes a lot of sense to me, now. I take a train to work every day. Sometimes, when the engineer has to brake real hard, the breaks give off that familiar "burning your brakes" smell. One time I mentioned it to the conductor, when he was checking my ticket. He quipped:
Oh, that's nothing . . . a total brake failure smells entirely different. And you would notice it immediately . . . because I would not be checking tickets!"
Your programming skills should not be tied to the language you use.
A more important skill is recognizing what languages, platforms, etc. to avoid, and convincing your manager that whatever he has read about the "Silver Bullet" stuff is incorrect.
So, it is not a questions of what your programming skill are, I assume that any good programmer will get the job done in a reasonable amount of time, regardless of the language. Provided, that the language is suited to the task!
So it is not just a question of:
PHP, Perl, Python... and anything else that starts with "P".
How about SNOBOL, JCL, FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal (oh, erase that, it starts with "P")?
A "no Perl" strategy is asinine. As is also "no COBOL."
It all depends one what you need to produce. And what rat-tail the code has.
Yes, I was going to post that... but to add a little more, it is the difference between "investing", and "speculating." Short selling is "speculating"... buying low is "investing."
Have you ever heard someone call Warren Buffet a speculator?
My girlfriend worked as a graphics artist at a medium sized advertising agency (that got gobbled up by Ogilvy), that did a lot of Web stuff. She smokes, and regularly met people from other departments and exchanged ideas and gossip about "what was coming next." The higher management realized that this had positive benefits. Mangers in the advertising business are not necessarily very "intelligent", but they are very "smart" or "sharp", in the "sly" sense of the words. One manager was giving a briefing about a new project to a new team, and noticed that the smokers already knew all the details.
They floated around ideas about how to emulate the "Smokers' Meetings" for non-smokers, but never found a model that would work for non-smokers.
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There was one here in Europe a few years back, and all stores were offering cheapo, but safe "stare at the sun like you are an idiot" cardboard glasses with some kind of "save your ass from going blind" plastic film lenses.
It's really an impressive thing to see, and you can really imagine how private humans must have went literally ape-shit during an occurrence.
Oh, you might need to wait a bit for an occurrence in your area.
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Walk away from your debt.
Literally.
Seriously, the starving artists must have a secret plan. I'll bet that house will just disappear someday, when nobody's looking.
"Hey where did that darn house run off to?"
Obama/Biden? McCain/Palin? Nader? H. Ron Paul?
Fuck 'em.
Vote for yourself!
Plant dippy looking campaign signs on your front lawn with your name on it.
Oh, your name is not on the ballot? My tip: ANYTHING is possible with a Diebold voting machine!
I plan on becoming the next county dog catcher, myself.
I think you will feel a lot better, when you explain that you are African-American to your parents. They will be more accepting than you expect.
Especially your mother.
Your father might give her some dirty looks for a while.
Pity poor me: I favor Obama, but also think that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is doing a rather fine job. So I have to tell my mother that, not only that I am African-American, but that her son is really a daughter as well!
Family members have said Kambakhsh was beaten and threatened with death until he signed a confession and that local journalists who expressed support for him were warned they would be arrested if they persisted.
Sounds like the RIAA/MPAA were at work here to me . . .
I used an old vacuum tube and high voltage.
Well, I don't necessarily endorse your kink, but if it provides a cost effective alternative to Viagra for you ...
Sorry, I must have missed this punditry ... which candidate has the most affinity for the fish electorate in the swing states?
The great seer, John Cleese, anticipated these problems back in the late 60's early 70's with his passive civil disobedience campaign, demanding a fish license (government ID) for "Eric, the Fish."
Since it was a "gold"-fish, I suspect that the usual group of Ron Paul supporters will be blamed for this.
No alien civilization is expending the mammoth amount of resources needed to traverse the vast distances of interstellar space just to stick a probe up your ass. Deal with it.
Don't say that too loud! People might listen and say, "Hey, all these Hollywood scripts are a bunch of crap!"
Then you can cough up another $800 billion to bail out Hollywood, as well as Wall Street.
Two things:
First, Van Gogh painted Bruce Schneier's portrait over a hundred years ago.
Funny, I used to watch him on Saturday Night Live back in the 80's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Miller
Well ok, that's not Bruce but it sure looks like him, doesn't it? The linked picture is a Van Gogh self-portrait.
That's because super-secret security experts are masters of disguises. Bruce regularly travels as a comedian as a cover.
And you'll find that all the employees of his company are called "Bruce."
I have an N800, and have a one-hour train ride to work every day. With two 8 GB SDHC chips in it, I'm set for a month of video viewing.
After shrinking down audio technology with integrated circuits, true audiophiles decided that big, 'ol honkers with tubes are better. I predict that the same will happen with PCs. What? A PC in your pocket, how mundane. I have a tube powered ENIAC in my basement. In fact, it IS my basement.
I can really tell the difference, because every month when the power bill comes, I know it must be good, because it is using butt-loads of electricity.
Every drug store used to have a tube tester where you could bring in the vacuum tubes from your TV to see if they needed replacement.
Ah, trips to the hardware store with my dad. He'd look up the tube number in that plastic flip chart thingy. Then he would let me set those big black plastic dials. Let the tube heat up, then push a button, and see if the needle jumped up to a green area.
When you turned off the TV, there was a little white dot that remained in the middle of the screen.
Wow, *THAT* dot! And then they got Walter Cronkite out of bed too early, and he really had bags under his eyes . . . and then Alan Shepard hit golf balls on the Moon!
What is the technical significance of all those numbers on the test pattern?
Alas, my dad would be able to tell you that. He designed television transmitter antenna for RCA. His biggest work went down with the World Trade Center. Sniff, sniff :-(
If I had the choice of spending six billion euros on a quest to unlock some of the greatest mysteries on earth, or spend $US700 billion bailing out overpaid bankers and their cash-poor customers, I know what I would choose.
I thought that "spend $US700 billion bailing out overpaid bankers and their cash-poor customers" *ARE* "some of the greatest mysteries on earth".
. . . "Using advanced quantum cryptography technologies, this system is unbreakable," announced the joint US and British officers in charge of the system, Aldrich Ames and OBE Kim Philby . . .
Sadly, the US Intelligence [sic] Services tend to rely too much on SIGINT instead of HUMINT.
Well, thanks to you, at least I'm not ignorant anymore. Actually, this makes a lot of sense to me, now. I take a train to work every day. Sometimes, when the engineer has to brake real hard, the breaks give off that familiar "burning your brakes" smell. One time I mentioned it to the conductor, when he was checking my ticket. He quipped:
Oh, that's nothing . . . a total brake failure smells entirely different. And you would notice it immediately . . . because I would not be checking tickets!"
That is not space that you are smelling . . . it is what your fellow astronauts had to eat yesterday . . . digested.
. . . when they announce that next week, we're all set!
Your programming skills should not be tied to the language you use.
A more important skill is recognizing what languages, platforms, etc. to avoid, and convincing your manager that whatever he has read about the "Silver Bullet" stuff is incorrect.
So, it is not a questions of what your programming skill are, I assume that any good programmer will get the job done in a reasonable amount of time, regardless of the language. Provided, that the language is suited to the task!
So it is not just a question of: PHP, Perl, Python ... and anything else that starts with "P".
How about SNOBOL, JCL, FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal (oh, erase that, it starts with "P")?
A "no Perl" strategy is asinine. As is also "no COBOL."
It all depends one what you need to produce. And what rat-tail the code has.
Hey, that looks like my resume!
It's pretty amazing that these parts are still working after...how many years?
Maybe NVIDIA needs to have a chat with NASA about quality assurance.
Well, that and Tang, of course.
Yes, I was going to post that ... but to add a little more, it is the difference between "investing", and "speculating." Short selling is "speculating" ... buying low is "investing."
Have you ever heard someone call Warren Buffet a speculator?
He's an investor.
No, call it a "nano company," and then fudge in somewhere on your resume, "experience with nano technologies."
Guaranteed to help you get an interview for that next job.
My girlfriend worked as a graphics artist at a medium sized advertising agency (that got gobbled up by Ogilvy), that did a lot of Web stuff. She smokes, and regularly met people from other departments and exchanged ideas and gossip about "what was coming next." The higher management realized that this had positive benefits. Mangers in the advertising business are not necessarily very "intelligent", but they are very "smart" or "sharp", in the "sly" sense of the words. One manager was giving a briefing about a new project to a new team, and noticed that the smokers already knew all the details.
They floated around ideas about how to emulate the "Smokers' Meetings" for non-smokers, but never found a model that would work for non-smokers.
There was one here in Europe a few years back, and all stores were offering cheapo, but safe "stare at the sun like you are an idiot" cardboard glasses with some kind of "save your ass from going blind" plastic film lenses.
It's really an impressive thing to see, and you can really imagine how private humans must have went literally ape-shit during an occurrence.
Oh, you might need to wait a bit for an occurrence in your area.
It's sort of creepy ... but maybe that's why this stuff seems to be popular ... anyone remember ELIZA?
Like Nokia or Android or Eee PC stuff?
"Board of Regents owns Apple Stock!"
"C'mon baby, President of the University needs a new yacht!"