I had an uplifting experience at an Australian government's department meeting last week. They are sharing code around the different departments (tax office and others) to minimize cost to the taxpayer and maximise the effectiveness of their development cycles to the end-user.
Setting fire to tobacco leaves and breathing in the smoke gave Nicotine, an innocent bystander (in moderation), with potential for improving the brain's concentration levels, a bad name.
Bad company corrupts good character. And in the case of Nicotine, bad cigarette companies.
It wasn't ice, it was rice. After rice lost it's job as a staple diet after being liberated by Atkins, it ungratefully bumped him off so as to regain it's place as a sovereign food.
In some countries, you die In some countries, you cry You don't die for a lie in the countries who lie But you cry for the lie in the countries who die.
It just doesn't contain ads, music, or talk-back. In Australia, Radio National (tax paid-for radio) has rational people talking about all kinds of shit from science through to sociology to comedy to lectures from brilliant dudes to long discussions about topics that other "news" services want to turn into sound bites, like the legitimacy of war, marriage, religion, etc.
It is definitely not teh ghey, but sometimes they talk about that too.
Um, excellent. We can teleport light away from the Earth just before we destroy it? Phew, light would have been fucked. At least someone thought of the photon:)
Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time/space to cross the i's and dot the t's in the comment. So I suppose what I left unsaid was just going to be filled with the reader's own biases and prejudices about where they think I was coming from.
hehe. No, I'm not new round here.
Cheers!
By the way, on top of textbooks being expensive, it's worse when they change the textbook for a course every year, thus killing the second-hand market. It annoys me when the actual material of the course doesn't change that much from year to year (Comp. Sci, Engineering)
That, my good friend, is a short sentence introduction to one of today's greatest conundrums: the western world is scared shitless of how certain elements in a certain "foreign" religion have taken over the education agenda in certain countries. Western governments are bankrolling moderate schools in Indonesia (that's one country I know for sure) to make them more attractive than schools run by extremists.
Yet in America, there is a pitched battle to let acknowledged truth be taught in their own schools.
Replacing education with religious mythology and ideology is the most powerful way to instill hate and fear into children, and every major religious leader in the world knows it. And governments won't stop it because: a) They contain members of these elements. b) It creates "better" citizens.
Sorry that this is so offtopic. I think I'll find another forum to keep talking about it.
From the people who can't get plastic breast implants right (See class action against Dow for failure of breast implants), comes a new and safe method of storing data that is guaranteed not to come apart in your CD ROM drive.
Very amusing that not many around here talk about WHY the french actually took their position.
Namely, they have strong trade links with Iraq (so does Russia) and the middle east, and knew that the US where going to destroy the country and rebuild it with their own corporations and chosen leaders, thus winning trade.
Australia used to have strong trade links, as well ($800mil/year wheat). I think our leader knew that even if he couldn't continue to trade with Iraq, he hoped to get better agricultural trade concessions with the states (he didn't read enough history books). Now, we can't even sell a sheep in Saudi Arabia (let alone 50000), even though the quality of our meat is quite good.
Ah, sorry. Bullshit to you. If a company is faced with a new technology, especially a new platform, training is vital. New software requires training. Especially if the staff are good at their jobs, but not computer power users. They need to be told how to do their jobs in the new tech environment. They can't work it out themselves, but once they are shown, they continue to do the job that they are experts in, but using a new set of tools.
You are right on the money. That's why they will be releasing a 90 minute combination of the highlights of the three movies in all the other cinemas, repackaged as LOTR:FTRD - Lord of the Rings: For The Ritalin Deficient.
It can also be argued that it is there to keep law-abiding citizens satisfied in their law-abiding ways, and content that crime doesn't really pay. It's a two-fold effect.
"Them's those untouchable things what got vaginas in them. They're all pretty (printable), quiet, take up little room (individually), and don't have any body hair."
It wasn't exactly that they called him a worm. They made a special edition of the paper with a huge worm spiralling out of a map of France with Chirac's head on the the top of it, and they gave it out for free in Paris. I'd say the fine was more of a way of England saying, "Sorry. We thought we had the hooligan problem under control."
In a team I code as simply as possible. I think lots of lines of simple code is easier to maintain than clever programs in a single line, even if both ways are documented.
Oh yeah, I have tried coding on LSD (computer science and uni life). The screen looked awesome, but I couldn't type much in, and what I typed in didn't make any sense.
I'll look at it, but I can imagine myself just pissing off my programming partner by inserting characters right where her cursor is until she smashes the backspace key... on my head.
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I had an uplifting experience at an Australian government's department meeting last week. They are sharing code around the different departments (tax office and others) to minimize cost to the taxpayer and maximise the effectiveness of their development cycles to the end-user.
I still feel warm and fuzzy.
Setting fire to tobacco leaves and breathing in the smoke gave Nicotine, an innocent bystander (in moderation), with potential for improving the brain's concentration levels, a bad name.
Bad company corrupts good character. And in the case of Nicotine, bad cigarette companies.
It wasn't ice, it was rice. After rice lost it's job as a staple diet after being liberated by Atkins, it ungratefully bumped him off so as to regain it's place as a sovereign food.
In some countries, you die
In some countries, you cry
You don't die for a lie in the countries who lie
But you cry for the lie in the countries who die.
It just doesn't contain ads, music, or talk-back. In Australia, Radio National (tax paid-for radio) has rational people talking about all kinds of shit from science through to sociology to comedy to lectures from brilliant dudes to long discussions about topics that other "news" services want to turn into sound bites, like the legitimacy of war, marriage, religion, etc.
It is definitely not teh ghey, but sometimes they talk about that too.
I know the 80/10 rule in software. Guess where the features I want are?
Um, excellent. We can teleport light away from the Earth just before we destroy it? Phew, light would have been fucked. At least someone thought of the photon :)
Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time/space to cross the i's and dot the t's in the comment. So I suppose what I left unsaid was just going to be filled with the reader's own biases and prejudices about where they think I was coming from.
hehe. No, I'm not new round here.
Cheers!
By the way, on top of textbooks being expensive, it's worse when they change the textbook for a course every year, thus killing the second-hand market. It annoys me when the actual material of the course doesn't change that much from year to year (Comp. Sci, Engineering)
That, my good friend, is a short sentence introduction to one of today's greatest conundrums: the western world is scared shitless of how certain elements in a certain "foreign" religion have taken over the education agenda in certain countries. Western governments are bankrolling moderate schools in Indonesia (that's one country I know for sure) to make them more attractive than schools run by extremists.
Yet in America, there is a pitched battle to let acknowledged truth be taught in their own schools.
Replacing education with religious mythology and ideology is the most powerful way to instill hate and fear into children, and every major religious leader in the world knows it. And governments won't stop it because:
a) They contain members of these elements.
b) It creates "better" citizens.
Sorry that this is so offtopic. I think I'll find another forum to keep talking about it.
From the people who can't get plastic breast implants right (See class action against Dow for failure of breast implants), comes a new and safe method of storing data that is guaranteed not to come apart in your CD ROM drive.
Sure....
Very amusing that not many around here talk about WHY the french actually took their position.
Namely, they have strong trade links with Iraq (so does Russia) and the middle east, and knew that the US where going to destroy the country and rebuild it with their own corporations and chosen leaders, thus winning trade.
Australia used to have strong trade links, as well ($800mil/year wheat). I think our leader knew that even if he couldn't continue to trade with Iraq, he hoped to get better agricultural trade concessions with the states (he didn't read enough history books). Now, we can't even sell a sheep in Saudi Arabia (let alone 50000), even though the quality of our meat is quite good.
Ah, sorry. Bullshit to you. If a company is faced with a new technology, especially a new platform, training is vital. New software requires training. Especially if the staff are good at their jobs, but not computer power users. They need to be told how to do their jobs in the new tech environment. They can't work it out themselves, but once they are shown, they continue to do the job that they are experts in, but using a new set of tools.
I can highly recommend against grounding your tinfoil hat. Think about it.
You are right on the money. That's why they will be releasing a 90 minute combination of the highlights of the three movies in all the other cinemas, repackaged as LOTR:FTRD - Lord of the Rings: For The Ritalin Deficient.
Strikingly similar to (and sounds like a parody/homage) Orson Welles doing the same thing.
Can't find the link off-hand.
Dude. That was your memory of playing Daikatana.
It can also be argued that it is there to keep law-abiding citizens satisfied in their law-abiding ways, and content that crime doesn't really pay. It's a two-fold effect.
about three minutes by the look of it.
Also, if you are programming, instead of just "open"ing a url programmatically, get it to call "newwindow" instead.
As opposed to the Womyn's Studies in Slashdot?
"Them's those untouchable things what got vaginas in them. They're all pretty (printable), quiet, take up little room (individually), and don't have any body hair."
Course finished.
It wasn't exactly that they called him a worm. They made a special edition of the paper with a huge worm spiralling out of a map of France with Chirac's head on the the top of it, and they gave it out for free in Paris. I'd say the fine was more of a way of England saying, "Sorry. We thought we had the hooligan problem under control."
If you are careful during construction, you can make sure the RFID tag is on the inside of the hat.
Click here to find out.
I _was_ exaggerating to make a point :)
In a team I code as simply as possible. I think lots of lines of simple code is easier to maintain than clever programs in a single line, even if both ways are documented.
Oh yeah, I have tried coding on LSD (computer science and uni life). The screen looked awesome, but I couldn't type much in, and what I typed in didn't make any sense.
I'll look at it, but I can imagine myself just pissing off my programming partner by inserting characters right where her cursor is until she smashes the backspace key... on my head.