Here's a good one for you to really piss her off and I use it all the time...
I'd RATHER be a doctor or veterinarian. It's so much easier. At least when your patient dies you can just say "Sorry, we did everything we could, but he/she didn't make it." Try telling that to the CEO of a corporation, "Sorry the computer crashed and the hard drive failed. We couldn't recover the data and the backups have been failing for the last 3 months because you wouldn't spend the money on performing any recovery tests. There's nothing we can do. Your business didn't make it." Yeah, right. You work until it's working again. You have roughly the same education as a doctor, but get paid a fraction of what they make and their procedures don't change every 3 months. They probably perform the same procedures they learned in their interships their entire careers. My dog got the equivalent of canine vertigo. You know what the vet told me? "We don't really know what causes it. It usually happens in older dogs. It should go away in a few days." Done. $150. Try pulling that shit about a computer issue. "Looks like you got a computer virus. We don't really know what causes it. It should go away in a few days. If it doesn't buy a new computer." Done. $150.
How ironic. I just now received an email from a group I've done work with in the past about providing some web services. Guess it's good to have well over a dozen recruiting firms in your pocket.
Seriously. Are you sure you're a contractor? You sound more like a full-time employee of a contracting company.
I don't think I've ever worked with the same head-hunter twice. There's been good and bad.
The ones I refuse to work with any longer are the ones who weren't paying me on time.
The ones who assist me with landing a contract for the rate I require are the ones I continue to keep in touch with.
The one who gets me my next contract at the rate I require is the next one I will be working with. I probably haven't met that person yet. Maybe I have. It's not much of a concern to me who the middle-man to my paycheck is as long as I get my rate and paid as agreed.
Anthropology would be FAR more useful to someone with poor social skills than Psychology. Psychology attempts to explain why you behave the way you do. Anthropology attempts to explain why everyone else behaves the way they do. It's like an RFC for social interaction.
Uh, first off. How bout comparing 80 years to 80 years or 40 years to 40 years?
What's this, "Let's compare 80 years to 40 years and say less has been accomplished in the 40."?
Secondly, way to pick an unarbitrary starting point for the 80 years at approximately the beginning of a major technological revolution and then use the current comparison time frame at a non-precursor to a major technological revolution, but rather a maturation period in the previous technology. Ever heard of incubation period?
If you want to be unbiased please compare 1860-1909 to 1960-2009. Or better yet, 1880-1960 to 1980-2060. You're going to have to wait another 50 years, but I am very eager to see your comparisons of those two timeframes with regards to rate of technological progress.
No kidding! I bet they haven't even considered all of the complications of taking off and landing on getto mars.
"Excuse me. How do I get back into space?"
"Yo fuck yo mamma!"
"Thank you. Thank you very much."
- Clark Griswold, trying to get to Martian Walley World
Agreed. Just look around for a hippie you know or have seen.:) Even if they don't know they'll easily be able to find one that does. And they're usually very open and eager to expose people to the experience.
A co-worker friend of mine has been trying to get me to go to one of the regionals for a while now.
I want to go to the big one in Nevada one day. I know it's not going to be "as good as it used to be". I've been to Grateful Dead shows in the mid 90s that weren't as good as they used to be back in the day. Lived in Boulder in the mid-late '90s. Lived in Austin in the Late, Late 90s. Yeah, I missed them all when they were awesome. I'll tell you what. My life is very much richer for at least getting to experience what they were when I was there and I could easily imagine what they used to be from it.
It's waaaay better than nothing and short of time travel that's your only other option, nothing.
I've been developing, not an OS, but a Java Framework for robotic control which allows third party developers to implement the low level I/O for components and trying to formulate a higher level general API to make calls to the devices.
The challenge is conceptualizing what those higher level commands would be that are general enough to all components and yet high level enough to be abstracted from the hardware.
Thank you. This happened to me.
I had my cell phone sitting out on the table in plain view the entire time and then in my pocket. It suddenly stopped receiving and making calls, otherwise all of the other functionality of the phone worked fine. I could even try to make calls it would just never connect to the tower.
I took it in to get it replaced and low and behold that little sticker had turned color and it was my fault for getting it wet. It hadn't even so much as touched the condensation from a glass and it worked fine except for the transmit/receive. This was a long time ago so I can't recall if it possibly even was receiving calls and text.
And anonymous coward below, I live in Dallas, TX. Not exactly a humid environment.
Scientific method, loosely, formulate a hypothesis. Test hypothesis.
Hypothesis 1, "it seems that techies (and especially developers) mostly hate Ribbon."
Test 1, Slashdot poll that will be answered by mostly techies will give a rough indication if this hypothesis is correct or not.
Hypothesis 2, "casual users mostly love it."
Test 2, Post a poll on a site where mostly casual users go for techie type information. That sounds like almost and oxymoron to me and I don't know of that site. So I don't know of how to test hypothesis 2. But that doesn't preclude us from testing hypothesis 1 to at least a small degree.
Never let the lack of achieving 100% enlightenment deter you from seeking knowledge and understanding.:)
Do what they do with other waste sites. Cover it up with dirt and turn it into a park. Charge admission and use the money to clean up the environment. Or put it in your pocket, whatever. We humans always seem to overestimate our significance to the universe. Even our planet. Destroy the planet? Really? Pretty sure we don't have the technology to destroy the planet. Make it uninhabitable for higher organisms, maybe, for a few hundred maybe even a couple thousand years. The planet'll get over it and life will continue without us.
I wonder if Dinosaurs were ever this arrogant?
Don't just ask people who are in a relationship what works.
Ask people who have ended relationships why it didn't.
You can learn as much from failure, if not more, as from success.
I believe the saying is, "If you're not failing. You're not trying." Or, if you've ever been to an MLM meeting. The only reason people fail is because they quit.
I'm out of a serious relationship, and looking back I agree with the above.
I had made the mistake of literally using the ball-n-chain excuse to get out of something I myself didn't want to do. My girl was standing there when I said it. She didn't appreciate it at all. NEVER make her an excuse.
On the other side. She stopped telling me things that she knew would make me mad because she didn't want to upset me. TRANSLATION - She didn't care about me enough to deal with me being upset with her.
Relationships fail. It happens. The reason above is why we're not still friends.
THANK GOD for you abnormals! That makes WAAAAY more sense now!
But yeah, Freud wouldn't have a clue what to make of you. Well, actually, he'd assume that you have some severely repressed sexual desires.
Sure. But I've also noticed the annoying trend of having to pose for over a half dozen shots to get it "Just Right". I somewhat miss the old days of take the picture and capture the moment as opposed to keep taking the picture until we capture the moment we want.
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Here's a good one for you to really piss her off and I use it all the time... I'd RATHER be a doctor or veterinarian. It's so much easier. At least when your patient dies you can just say "Sorry, we did everything we could, but he/she didn't make it." Try telling that to the CEO of a corporation, "Sorry the computer crashed and the hard drive failed. We couldn't recover the data and the backups have been failing for the last 3 months because you wouldn't spend the money on performing any recovery tests. There's nothing we can do. Your business didn't make it." Yeah, right. You work until it's working again. You have roughly the same education as a doctor, but get paid a fraction of what they make and their procedures don't change every 3 months. They probably perform the same procedures they learned in their interships their entire careers. My dog got the equivalent of canine vertigo. You know what the vet told me? "We don't really know what causes it. It usually happens in older dogs. It should go away in a few days." Done. $150. Try pulling that shit about a computer issue. "Looks like you got a computer virus. We don't really know what causes it. It should go away in a few days. If it doesn't buy a new computer." Done. $150.
How ironic. I just now received an email from a group I've done work with in the past about providing some web services. Guess it's good to have well over a dozen recruiting firms in your pocket.
Seriously. Are you sure you're a contractor? You sound more like a full-time employee of a contracting company.
I don't think I've ever worked with the same head-hunter twice. There's been good and bad.
The ones I refuse to work with any longer are the ones who weren't paying me on time.
The ones who assist me with landing a contract for the rate I require are the ones I continue to keep in touch with.
The one who gets me my next contract at the rate I require is the next one I will be working with. I probably haven't met that person yet. Maybe I have. It's not much of a concern to me who the middle-man to my paycheck is as long as I get my rate and paid as agreed.
Yeah, actually he did fail the technical interview because the correct response to the question is, "Do you understand recursion?"
Anthropology would be FAR more useful to someone with poor social skills than Psychology. Psychology attempts to explain why you behave the way you do. Anthropology attempts to explain why everyone else behaves the way they do. It's like an RFC for social interaction.
Uh, first off. How bout comparing 80 years to 80 years or 40 years to 40 years?
What's this, "Let's compare 80 years to 40 years and say less has been accomplished in the 40."?
Secondly, way to pick an unarbitrary starting point for the 80 years at approximately the beginning of a major technological revolution and then use the current comparison time frame at a non-precursor to a major technological revolution, but rather a maturation period in the previous technology. Ever heard of incubation period?
If you want to be unbiased please compare 1860-1909 to 1960-2009. Or better yet, 1880-1960 to 1980-2060. You're going to have to wait another 50 years, but I am very eager to see your comparisons of those two timeframes with regards to rate of technological progress.
Cool. So what's that? About 60-65 years away? Sounds about right. I might make it.
Yes, serious land, let's get all the old people off the planet! Seriously :)
No kidding! I bet they haven't even considered all of the complications of taking off and landing on getto mars.
"Excuse me. How do I get back into space?"
"Yo fuck yo mamma!"
"Thank you. Thank you very much."
- Clark Griswold, trying to get to Martian Walley World
Agreed. Just look around for a hippie you know or have seen. :) Even if they don't know they'll easily be able to find one that does. And they're usually very open and eager to expose people to the experience.
A co-worker friend of mine has been trying to get me to go to one of the regionals for a while now.
I want to go to the big one in Nevada one day. I know it's not going to be "as good as it used to be". I've been to Grateful Dead shows in the mid 90s that weren't as good as they used to be back in the day. Lived in Boulder in the mid-late '90s. Lived in Austin in the Late, Late 90s. Yeah, I missed them all when they were awesome. I'll tell you what. My life is very much richer for at least getting to experience what they were when I was there and I could easily imagine what they used to be from it.
It's waaaay better than nothing and short of time travel that's your only other option, nothing.
Or "My child is a GACT student."
I still play this game occasionally on my old Sega.
Also, how 'bout a new BattleToads?
I've been developing, not an OS, but a Java Framework for robotic control which allows third party developers to implement the low level I/O for components and trying to formulate a higher level general API to make calls to the devices. The challenge is conceptualizing what those higher level commands would be that are general enough to all components and yet high level enough to be abstracted from the hardware.
Thank you. This happened to me. I had my cell phone sitting out on the table in plain view the entire time and then in my pocket. It suddenly stopped receiving and making calls, otherwise all of the other functionality of the phone worked fine. I could even try to make calls it would just never connect to the tower. I took it in to get it replaced and low and behold that little sticker had turned color and it was my fault for getting it wet. It hadn't even so much as touched the condensation from a glass and it worked fine except for the transmit/receive. This was a long time ago so I can't recall if it possibly even was receiving calls and text. And anonymous coward below, I live in Dallas, TX. Not exactly a humid environment.
Agreed.
:)
Scientific method, loosely, formulate a hypothesis. Test hypothesis.
Hypothesis 1, "it seems that techies (and especially developers) mostly hate Ribbon."
Test 1, Slashdot poll that will be answered by mostly techies will give a rough indication if this hypothesis is correct or not.
Hypothesis 2, "casual users mostly love it."
Test 2, Post a poll on a site where mostly casual users go for techie type information. That sounds like almost and oxymoron to me and I don't know of that site. So I don't know of how to test hypothesis 2. But that doesn't preclude us from testing hypothesis 1 to at least a small degree.
Never let the lack of achieving 100% enlightenment deter you from seeking knowledge and understanding.
I hate it. Slashdot quiz anyone? It certainly won't constitute a broad based scientific study, but it'd be better than nothing.
So much for email.
Do what they do with other waste sites. Cover it up with dirt and turn it into a park. Charge admission and use the money to clean up the environment. Or put it in your pocket, whatever. We humans always seem to overestimate our significance to the universe. Even our planet. Destroy the planet? Really? Pretty sure we don't have the technology to destroy the planet. Make it uninhabitable for higher organisms, maybe, for a few hundred maybe even a couple thousand years. The planet'll get over it and life will continue without us. I wonder if Dinosaurs were ever this arrogant?
Don't just ask people who are in a relationship what works.
Ask people who have ended relationships why it didn't.
You can learn as much from failure, if not more, as from success.
I believe the saying is, "If you're not failing. You're not trying." Or, if you've ever been to an MLM meeting. The only reason people fail is because they quit.
I'm out of a serious relationship, and looking back I agree with the above.
I had made the mistake of literally using the ball-n-chain excuse to get out of something I myself didn't want to do. My girl was standing there when I said it. She didn't appreciate it at all. NEVER make her an excuse.
On the other side. She stopped telling me things that she knew would make me mad because she didn't want to upset me. TRANSLATION - She didn't care about me enough to deal with me being upset with her.
Relationships fail. It happens. The reason above is why we're not still friends.
THANK GOD for you abnormals! That makes WAAAAY more sense now! But yeah, Freud wouldn't have a clue what to make of you. Well, actually, he'd assume that you have some severely repressed sexual desires.
Sure. But I've also noticed the annoying trend of having to pose for over a half dozen shots to get it "Just Right". I somewhat miss the old days of take the picture and capture the moment as opposed to keep taking the picture until we capture the moment we want.
Damn! THANK YOU! C.I.P. I forgot my friend used my camera two weeks ago and I've forgotten to email her the pictures.
It will suck when everything's on the Cloud because I won't be able to claim my server's been down all day while I'm out playing golf.
Perfect timing! I was just about to launch my newest product line. Chimney sized fabric softener sheets!