>If you will, it's sorta how every good Christian >believes that someone else will go to Hell, but >noone believes that he'll personally go there.
Slightly OT, but no. A good Christian believes that he does indeed *fully deserve* to go to hell (as do all sinful, fallen men, like himself), but through the miracle of God's grace in Christ he will not.
But more interestingly to most, probably, is to ponder this phenomenon you describe. People do indeed feel that there is a standard to be lived up to. People are indeed troubled if they don't see themselves living up to it. People do indeed feel as though they are being watched and judged from without, even when they are apparently not.
So, why is that? Maybe this Christian thing is worth looking into after all...
Run the election as normal and count the votes fairly. If your chosen candidate wins, stop right now. If anyone else wins, you need to adjust the figures just enough to create a favourable result which incorporates a sufficient majority to be unlikely to be challenged.
Been done manually, sorta. This was the recount SOP - "recount" until Gore "wins". Fortunately it failed and Gore still lost.
I fake my way along with Vim, in fact, use it frequently, but fake my way along with mostly "i" and ESC.
I've looked at the help for the new thingie, and googled a bit, but would really appreciate a simple step-by-step for getting autocomplete working for, say, Javascript or C#. Or even HTML.
Well, you may have a point here. I did know JavaScript and some Python before learning VB, so that may have helped me avoid the "brain damaging" effects;)
No offense taken, but I won't be discussing my children's sexuality on the internet. Especially not in this context, as there are some people out there with... unusual tastes. Not accusing you of being one, but they do exist.
>I get a little irked at the "hope for amputees thing". One of my best >friends has an arm to the elbow only, and he doesn't need any hope - >he's just fine.
Yep. My son was born with no arms or legs, and he is amazing. He's still just a baby (OK, almost "toddler") and he rolls everywhere, manipulates stuff with his arm stubs (1" or less), and just astounds us with what he can do.
He's being fitted for a "training arm" with no elbow now (a lengthy process of taking molds, making "test sockets", checking the fit, coming back, etc.), and I have no idea how he's going to react when he actually gets it. It'll be cool for some things, but I bet his first reaction will be to be ticked off that he can't roll so easily:)
>Not to knock VB, but if you learn BASIC or VB you can >basically program in... BASIC or VB.
You know, I used to knock VB, but VB.NET is actually quite nice. And it's nice, for example, to grab some database lookup code from my web page and pratically drop it in to a Word macro.
As for a learning language - I mean, big deal, line break instead of opening bracket, "End If" instead of closing bracket, "Sub" instead of a function returning void, etc. If that's a big barrier to a switch, then perhaps somebody doesn't have the aptitude anyway...
>>Back in the '70's the big scare was Global Cooling. >>We were told that we would all freeze to death. Now >>the big scare is Global Warming. We're all going to >>overheat, melt the icecaps, and drown.
>Weird, because when I was in school in the 80s, they >were telling us about global warming (and the ozone >hole). Of course global warming has been warned about >since then, non-stop.
Um, minor point here, but the 70s are not the 80s.
Getting excited about stuff that isn't actually banned anymore is a pretty cheap and easy way of feeling like a rebel...
Banned books are a historical curiosity now, at least in the lands where people are going to get excited about this. You aren't brave for reading Lolita.
>You like to THINK that you have a tight little private group, >but that's just an illusion.
An illusion that seems to pervade the lives of many young folk, even outside the Internet.
More news flashes:
* When you talk really loudly, *everyone* can overhear you, not just the cool kids that you want to overhear you.
* When you wear that little thing (or maybe I should say "wear" that little thing), then even the nerdy and old guys will be able to see all the way to Christmas and halfway to the New Year, *not* just the guys you had in mind... no point being offended about it:)
Does anyone else see a problem with modeling a school after a management style better at spin than substance? Or with MS managers telling teachers how to do their jobs?
As opposed to the modified Prussian "train obedient subjects" model we've known and loved for so long...
This is the fallacy of the false alternative at work. So public schools are great now? You're assuming that the way we do things now makes any sense.
...because they've been trying for five freakin' years to repeat 9/11, and they haven't been able to do it. And despite their (according to slashdot) supervillian powers, many have been caught.
But I suppose that just means they were never a threat, right? Like Y2K was just a hoax and we didn't need to rewrite a single line of code...
Convert dark-skin into white - benoquin is a permanent and highly effective permanent skin bleacher.
Convert black irises into blue eyes - blue contact lenses
Convert black hair into blonde - peroxide - "blonde in a bottle"
Convert man into woman - a thin man can easily pass for a woman with make-up, depillatory, strategic duct taping and a pair of $100 silicone bra fillers (no surgery needed for any of that).
Fake-ID - steal one from a christian woman with a strong physical resemblence, hell you don't even have to steal it, just "steal her identity" and make a duplicate ID.
Buying a round-trip ticket versus one-way is trivial.
As is flying out of Sweden rather than Saudi Arabia.
Anything you can come up with to base your profiling on can be used to work the system. All it takes is to figure out what the profiling rules are. Then all you are left with a big false sense of security.
Oh come on. No form of screening is perfect. It's "trivial" to overcome swipe card systems too, but guess what, people use 'em, and they aren't stupid to do so.
Yes, hoops can be jumped through, but security does in fact consist of requiring you to jump through more of them. Because in real life, people aren't supervillians who can effortlessley jump through endless hoops without ever tripping.
Why do I have to be treated "with extra decency and respect"? What exactly is the difference you perceive, between all the men in the world and all the women in the world, that makes the amount of decency and respect you need to apply different?
The same differences that every culture in history has perceived, and has come up with social customs and rules (some good, some bad) to handle.
The idea that we can create a new ruleset based on ideas that nobody has ever truly held (that there is no difference between men and women) seems pretty farfetched to me. And it doesn't seem to be working out too well - when we removed the "be a gentleman" ruleset from the culture, it seems we ended up trying to bring it back (inconsistently) through the legal system.
I think I must break something to women readers (I know, all two of them...):
You will *never* be "one of the guys".
The men may find you attractive. They may not find you attractive. They may or may not do anything with either reaction (other than mentally note it) but a reaction *will* be there.
There will be potential awkwardness and problems (and, of course, potential joys) that simply don't exist between coworkers of the same gender. That's just how it is.
None of this, of course, means that you can't be great friends and coworkers, have a great working relationship, etc. But that phrase ("one of the guys") always worries me. If the guys at work are telling dirty jokes to you / with you (and you are going along with because you want to be "one of the guys") they aren't experiencing it the same way as when they tell dirty jokes with the guys. They're getting an extra thrill out of talking dirty with a woman. Bonus points because she doesn't even realize it. Extra bonus points if you are unavailable or married.
Of course, the ones who seem the least uncomfortable or awkward, *by the "one of the guys" standard*, are the ones smoothest at fooling you... complicated, isn't it?
But what do I know, I'm just an old-fashioned fossil who thinks that women should be treated with extra decency and respect. It's precisely because of that that I am not going to pretend that they are "one of the guys".
[Now a bunch of guys are going to post that this is bunk, it's just me, that *they* can see you as just one of the guys. Take careful note - they're the ones you need to watch out for!;)]
... why some people just refuse to use email at all. Or they answer every email *with a phone call*.
I do freelance web development and other stuff (like Access front-ends) in my "spare time". Memo to clients - I *need* you to put your thoughts into words; words that actually fit together and make sense, so that I can work with them. No, I don't want to take your rambling half-hour call about how you got some sort of vague error, I want screenshots, and numbered steps on how you produced it. As I patiently explained to you the last fifteen times:)
Actually, I wouldn't mind a call so much if they actually organized their thoughts and communicated them effectively. But to do that, they'd have to first write them down - and if they're going to write them down, why not just send them to me?
I mean, I'd just hate to have a nice record of what we talked about to refer back to, copies of relevant text, images of relevant popups, etc. And I'd hate to communicate asynchronously when we're working asynchronously;)
So yes, the psychology of email (or in this case, non-email) interests me:)
[Captian Obvious disclaimer: Yes, I know I can bill them for the phone time. Yes, I could sit on the phone with them, patiently coax it out of them, and type it all up for them. But I have too much work and too many competing priorities as it is! And most of them *don't* actually want to pay for project planning and management time; they just want to call "quickly" and "chat" about things]
>I've said this in the Mozilla forums and I'll say it here: what the hell >are you people doing with your systems that Firefox brings your system >to a crawl?
Opening an average of six tabs. One is always on gmail; the others vary - blogs, news, etc. Usually *not* any Flash-heavy, music-heavy, video-heavy stuff. In fact the only Flash running would usually be something I didn't bother to / haven't yet Adblocked.
Yes, I have a few extensions - if I can't adblock, use gmail by default, have a nice googlebar lite toolbar (I personally hate the weird sidebar-plug-in-a-million-search-engines thing, sorry) then what's the point? OK, I'd probably still use Firefox on principle, but it wouldn't be nearly as essential and cool.
There's usually a few other programs open at the same time - Outlook Express (for the wife), Word, Windows Explorer.
Memory usage for Firefox will slowly grow until I need to restart Firefox and/or reboot.
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Thanks much!!
>If you will, it's sorta how every good Christian
...
>believes that someone else will go to Hell, but
>noone believes that he'll personally go there.
Slightly OT, but no. A good Christian believes that
he does indeed *fully deserve* to go to hell (as do all
sinful, fallen men, like himself), but through the
miracle of God's grace in Christ he will not.
But more interestingly to most, probably, is to ponder this phenomenon you describe. People do indeed feel that there is a standard to be lived up to. People are indeed troubled if they don't see themselves living up to it. People do indeed feel as though they are being watched and judged from without, even when they are apparently not.
So, why is that? Maybe this Christian thing is worth looking into after all
Run the election as normal and count the votes fairly. If your chosen candidate wins, stop right now. If anyone else wins, you need to adjust the figures just enough to create a favourable result which incorporates a sufficient majority to be unlikely to be challenged.
Been done manually, sorta. This was the recount SOP - "recount" until Gore "wins". Fortunately it failed and Gore still lost.
I fake my way along with Vim, in fact, use it frequently, but fake my way along with mostly "i" and ESC.
I've looked at the help for the new thingie, and googled a bit, but would really appreciate a simple step-by-step for getting autocomplete working for, say, Javascript or C#. Or even HTML.
Well, you may have a point here. I did know JavaScript and some Python before learning VB, so that may have helped me avoid the "brain damaging" effects ;)
No offense taken, but I won't be discussing my children's sexuality on the internet. Especially not in this context, as there are some people out there with ... unusual tastes. Not accusing you of being one, but they do exist.
>I get a little irked at the "hope for amputees thing". One of my best
:)
>friends has an arm to the elbow only, and he doesn't need any hope -
>he's just fine.
Yep. My son was born with no arms or legs, and he is amazing. He's still just a baby (OK, almost "toddler") and he rolls everywhere, manipulates stuff with his arm stubs (1" or less), and just astounds us with what he can do.
He's being fitted for a "training arm" with no elbow now (a lengthy process of taking molds, making "test sockets", checking the fit, coming back, etc.), and I have no idea how he's going to react when he actually gets it. It'll be cool for some things, but I bet his first reaction will be to be ticked off that he can't roll so easily
>Not to knock VB, but if you learn BASIC or VB you can
...
>basically program in... BASIC or VB.
You know, I used to knock VB, but VB.NET is actually quite nice. And it's nice, for example, to grab some database lookup code from my web page and pratically drop it in to a Word macro.
As for a learning language - I mean, big deal, line break instead of opening bracket, "End If" instead of closing bracket, "Sub" instead of a function returning void, etc. If that's a big barrier to a switch, then perhaps somebody doesn't have the aptitude anyway
>>Back in the '70's the big scare was Global Cooling.
>>We were told that we would all freeze to death. Now
>>the big scare is Global Warming. We're all going to
>>overheat, melt the icecaps, and drown.
>Weird, because when I was in school in the 80s, they
>were telling us about global warming (and the ozone
>hole). Of course global warming has been warned about
>since then, non-stop.
Um, minor point here, but the 70s are not the 80s.
Getting excited about stuff that isn't actually banned anymore is a pretty cheap and easy way of feeling like a rebel ...
Banned books are a historical curiosity now, at least in the lands where people are going to get excited about this. You aren't brave for reading Lolita.
I want a full unification of the front and backend. That is why Rails, Turbogears and Cake appear to be more exciting.
Sounds like you're talking about ASP.NET and Atlas with Visual Studio ...
that'll teach me to mess with third party USB drivers
Let me check ... yep, for some reason, that's a valid excuse for Macs, but a lame one for Windows.
Nevermind - carry on! ;)
>When you start using severe discipline [...]
...
>After that you just have to keep up the pace, divide people to
>different difficulty levels based on their success [...]
See, you're not going to get that. Unless you return the Prussian system of government, too
>You like to THINK that you have a tight little private group,
... no point being offended about it :)
>but that's just an illusion.
An illusion that seems to pervade the lives of many young folk, even outside the Internet.
More news flashes:
* When you talk really loudly, *everyone* can overhear you, not just the cool kids that you want to overhear you.
* When you wear that little thing (or maybe I should say "wear" that little thing), then even the nerdy and old guys will be able to see all the way to Christmas and halfway to the New Year, *not* just the guys you had in mind
Does anyone else see a problem with modeling a school after a management style better at spin than substance? Or with MS managers telling teachers how to do their jobs?
As opposed to the modified Prussian "train obedient subjects" model we've known and loved for so long ...
This is the fallacy of the false alternative at work. So public schools are great now? You're assuming that the way we do things now makes any sense.
...because they've been trying for five freakin' years to repeat 9/11, and they haven't been able to do it. And despite their (according to slashdot) supervillian powers, many have been caught.
...
But I suppose that just means they were never a threat, right? Like Y2K was just a hoax and we didn't need to rewrite a single line of code
Convert dark-skin into white - benoquin is a permanent and highly effective permanent skin bleacher.
Convert black irises into blue eyes - blue contact lenses
Convert black hair into blonde - peroxide - "blonde in a bottle"
Convert man into woman - a thin man can easily pass for a woman with make-up, depillatory, strategic duct taping and a pair of $100 silicone bra fillers (no surgery needed for any of that).
Fake-ID - steal one from a christian woman with a strong physical resemblence, hell you don't even have to steal it, just "steal her identity" and make a duplicate ID.
Buying a round-trip ticket versus one-way is trivial.
As is flying out of Sweden rather than Saudi Arabia.
Anything you can come up with to base your profiling on can be used to work the system. All it takes is to figure out what the profiling rules are. Then all you are left with a big false sense of security.
Oh come on. No form of screening is perfect. It's "trivial" to overcome swipe card systems too, but guess what, people use 'em, and they aren't stupid to do so.
Yes, hoops can be jumped through, but security does in fact consist of requiring you to jump through more of them. Because in real life, people aren't supervillians who can effortlessley jump through endless hoops without ever tripping.
>but not for us, programmers. We code. There isn't such a thing as
;)
>"something else" for us, but hey, thanks for your concern =P
Which is why I do all my data access code in assembler
>this is one of the reasons why I still use mutt - don't
... OTOH, gmail doesn't show images by default.
>have to look at the images/attachments unless I choose to
Well, yeah
And it's easy enough to configure other graphical mail
clients to do likewise.
Most of those are pretty subjective, so I'll stick to two:
:)
>4. Yahoo's Mail service actually works: Unlike Gmail,
>Google's mail service, Yahoo Mail actually works. Gmail has been in BETA for years.
What about GMail doesn't work? I use it constantly and successfully.
>8. Stock Price: Google is trading at a 600% EPS premium over Yahoo.
>This is what happens when emotions trump logic in the stock market.
So short it
Why do I have to be treated "with extra decency and respect"? What exactly is the difference you perceive, between all the men in the world and all the women in the world, that makes the amount of decency and respect you need to apply different?
The same differences that every culture in history has perceived, and has come up with social customs and rules (some good, some bad) to handle.
The idea that we can create a new ruleset based on ideas that nobody has ever truly held (that there is no difference between men and women) seems pretty farfetched to me. And it doesn't seem to be working out too well - when we removed the "be a gentleman" ruleset from the culture, it seems we ended up trying to bring it back (inconsistently) through the legal system.
I think I must break something to women readers (I know, all two of them ...):
... complicated, isn't it?
;)]
You will *never* be "one of the guys".
The men may find you attractive. They may not find you attractive. They may or may not do anything with either reaction (other than mentally note it) but a reaction *will* be there.
There will be potential awkwardness and problems (and, of course, potential joys) that simply don't exist between coworkers of the same gender. That's just how it is.
None of this, of course, means that you can't be great friends and coworkers, have a great working relationship, etc. But that phrase ("one of the guys") always worries me. If the guys at work are telling dirty jokes to you / with you (and you are going along with because you want to be "one of the guys") they aren't experiencing it the same way as when they tell dirty jokes with the guys. They're getting an extra thrill out of talking dirty with a woman. Bonus points because she doesn't even realize it. Extra bonus points if you are unavailable or married.
Of course, the ones who seem the least uncomfortable or awkward, *by the "one of the guys" standard*, are the ones smoothest at fooling you
But what do I know, I'm just an old-fashioned fossil who thinks that women should be treated with extra decency and respect. It's precisely because of that that I am not going to pretend that they are "one of the guys".
[Now a bunch of guys are going to post that this is bunk, it's just me, that *they* can see you as just one of the guys. Take careful note - they're the ones you need to watch out for!
... why some people just refuse to use email at all. Or they answer every email *with a phone call*.
:)
;)
:)
I do freelance web development and other stuff (like Access front-ends) in my "spare time". Memo to clients - I *need* you to put your thoughts into words; words that actually fit together and make sense, so that I can work with them. No, I don't want to take your rambling half-hour call about how you got some sort of vague error, I want screenshots, and numbered steps on how you produced it. As I patiently explained to you the last fifteen times
Actually, I wouldn't mind a call so much if they actually organized their thoughts and communicated them effectively. But to do that, they'd have to first write them down - and if they're going to write them down, why not just send them to me?
I mean, I'd just hate to have a nice record of what we talked about to refer back to, copies of relevant text, images of relevant popups, etc. And I'd hate to communicate asynchronously when we're working asynchronously
So yes, the psychology of email (or in this case, non-email) interests me
[Captian Obvious disclaimer: Yes, I know I can bill them for the phone time. Yes, I could sit on the phone with them, patiently coax it out of them, and type it all up for them. But I have too much work and too many competing priorities as it is! And most of them *don't* actually want to pay for project planning and management time; they just want to call "quickly" and "chat" about things]
>People have tried to show that the eye meets this criteria,
>but we now know that light sensing organs can develop
>incrementally.
Out of curiousity, we know this how?
>I've said this in the Mozilla forums and I'll say it here: what the hell
>are you people doing with your systems that Firefox brings your system
>to a crawl?
Opening an average of six tabs. One is always on gmail; the others vary - blogs, news, etc. Usually *not* any Flash-heavy, music-heavy, video-heavy stuff. In fact the only Flash running would usually be something I didn't bother to / haven't yet Adblocked.
Yes, I have a few extensions - if I can't adblock, use gmail by default, have a nice googlebar lite toolbar (I personally hate the weird sidebar-plug-in-a-million-search-engines thing, sorry) then what's the point? OK, I'd probably still use Firefox on principle, but it wouldn't be nearly as essential and cool.
There's usually a few other programs open at the same time - Outlook Express (for the wife), Word, Windows Explorer.
Memory usage for Firefox will slowly grow until I need to restart Firefox and/or reboot.