They did make an animated movie of the Hobbit back in the '70s. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
I wonder who LOTR (the movie) will explain how Bilbo got the ring. I hope they don't gloss over that. To me, that is an integral part of the story - it makes it more complete. The old LOTR did a short blurb at the beginning to explain how Frodo got the ring. Maybe this version will do the same.
I read this in a Science Fiction course in my last year of University and I loathed this book. I got about 150 pages into it and I couldn't stand it anymore. I threw the book across the room and it stayed there until I moved 6 months later. I found the writing to be contrived and uninteresting.
I disagree with the non-man bashing part in the parent post. I found it to be very anti-male. At one point when the Narrator discovers the true nature of the race (I forget its name - I'm sure it will come back to me in a horrible flood of memories), she says something like (I wish I had the exact quote, but my copy of TLHOD is in storage somewhere.) this: "Imagine a world where there's no gender roles, no rape and no war. (This was referring to the world where there was no gender)." Give me a break. Lets remove all gender issues and see what happens. To me those words sounded like LaGuin was blaming men for all that troubles our world. Great. There was other stuff in there that I found very offensive, but, that passage really stuck in my mind.
I did enjoy all kinds of the books that I read in that class. We read some Asimov, some Womack. I loved A Clockwork Orange.
I was laid off 2 months ago by a small consulting company. There were 3 developers and the highest paid 2 were sent packing.
This was really a devestating blow for both of us who were laid off. The other guy had gotten back from sick leave. His kid had been diagnosed with cancer and had to go through 2 surgeries, the second was a couple of days before we were laid off. He's also going through a divorce. I was truely afraid that he was going to snap.
It was my first job after graduating from University and I only had been there 3 months (2 years part time before that). I was just starting to pay back my student loans. I had just gotten a new apartment that was a little more in line with what I was making.
I'm moving out of my apartment today. I'm taking a break from packing boxes right now.
I have to say that I feel very betrayed by my former empoyer right now. I felt horrible when I was laid off, but I got over that rather quickly. My former empoyer promised that as soon as they got more work that they would hire us right back. I also got a few interviews (I was completely insulted in one of those interviews. I was offered $15/hr to program Java, c/c++, perl, ASP and coldfusion as well as design and program databases - is this what the economy has left us with?) and a few contracts to help pay (some of) the bills. A couple of days ago I found out that the person left behind was given a (rather large) raise and is now between myself and the other guy who was laid off in terms of salary.
I compared what I have been going through to a kick in the teeth followed up by a kick in the groin.
I confronted the person who got the raise and she told me that it was true. The next day I got a call from my Former Employer and she told me that I had upset the other developer and should apologize.
To anyone who's still reading, thank you, I needed to rant somewhere and my friends and family has gotten sick of my bitching:).
Thank you for the timely article, Jon. I could really relate to it.
I think the nature of the IT industry is that we get huge salaries to start (I did anyway), but it's almost expected that we could lose our jobs at any time. My layoff came as a complete surprise to me and everyone in the company. Everything was fine in the morning and in the afternoon my bosses were in my office with the door closed laying me off. I do suggest to treat your job like a contract. Stuff as much money away as you possibly can while you have it. You won't know when you'll have a job next.
I'm assuming it's just a mockup, the nicer to be proved wrong about;)
It seems to be a working model. There's a picture of it working here
Re:Oh please, did you see Urban Legend II?
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Urban Legend II was filmed at my university. Thank you.
this thing is fascinating
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I gotta say this worm is really amazing. You can watch it's growth in your log files. Mine roll over daily and you can see the file sizes increase day by day. On Aug 1 I had an 8k log file. The 2nd I had a 12k one. The third was 32k the day after that was 64k. Today it was up to 192k so far and there's still another 2 hours till the log file rolls over.
Geeze - not to be rude or anything but I pictured you sitting with your parents trying to stop them from gettin' it on for another couple of hours. *shudder*
Eventually it will be a requirement to buy an LCD machine rather than the energy hogging CRT monitors. This cuts down on the average joe's ability to customize his own machine quite considerably.
I think the consumer will make this choice on his own. Would you rather have a low power consuming monitor with a small footprint or a large clunky power hog? I think alot of changes will be driven by market demand.
486es don't have enough processor power to justify the electrical cost of powering them on anymore
Not enough power? Whatever. Haven't you been reading/. long enough? I'm looking for some free 486s for a router for my 'rents. For my gf's mother who wants to learn how to use a computer. For a cousin of mine who's parents can't afford a computer for him. Take one of them apart and learn how a computer works.
Don't fall into the mindset that a computer has to be the greatest/fastest/newest to be useful. Geeze. They're free machines. They're not useless. (I feel like I'm writing something for a lost animal telethon - There are millions of lost animals in the city. Be kind to them.)
Spielberg raises some profound moral issues involving A.I. in his new movie, drawing a number of critical raves but proving a disappointment at the box office
I tried your search for "to be or not to be" using the +'s in front and I got this back:
Google always searches for pages containing all the words in your query, so you do not need to use + in front of words. [details]
The word "or" was ignored in your query -- for search results including one term or another, use capitalized "OR" between words.[details]
The following words are very common and were not included in your search: to be to be. [details]
There was an interesting article I found yesterday on the end of the Universe. Turns out the Universe will expand forever. I think a self renewing Universe would have been more interesting. The article also talks about the theory of flatness in space. The proof seems to be in that the Universe is flat-as-in-paper and not curved as thought. It's all got to do with the amount of Dark Matter in the Universe.
On being offtopic: Have you used VNC? I've heard about it but haven't had a chance to test it out. Is it any good.
It's quite excellent. I've been using it for about 8 months now. I like it much better than PCAnywhere since there's no client to use. The client is just a java applet that gets served out when you hit the server's port. My only complaint is that there's no logging for it that I could find.
Let them reap the consequences of choosing a lame dev shop, and perhaps next time they will choose you instead, having learned their lesson. Think long term!
I agree with this for past bids. What you should do is add to your bid package. You don't mention your presentation strategy here but what you should do is learn from your mistakes and strengthen your weeknesses. If you're concerned that you lost a bid because something, then point to some reasons why the perspective client couldn't pass you over. Show them the level of security behind a properly built linux box. Show them the number of security holes in NT. Do this ahead of time, then if/when these sites are hacked, the clients will think twice about security and hopefully choose you.
I don't think you can say anything about bids you've lost. I aree that it sounds like sour grapes.
Very funny:)
The thing I noticed was how unfeasible the idea was. Were most real.com ideas that unfeasible? Why were they unfeasible? In University I learned programming techniques the first two years and then had feasibility studies driven into my head in 3rd and 4th years. Was half the problem with startups that they were run by people who perhaps didn't have the expertise to design software properly? I'd be curious to hear what other people think.
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The chance of a fire is very low indeed.
True....very true.
Unless of course, you're an AMD owner (while I am an AMD supporter, this kinda worries me).
I'm sure we all remember article. Take a look at the results.
They did make an animated movie of the Hobbit back in the '70s. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
I wonder who LOTR (the movie) will explain how Bilbo got the ring. I hope they don't gloss over that. To me, that is an integral part of the story - it makes it more complete. The old LOTR did a short blurb at the beginning to explain how Frodo got the ring. Maybe this version will do the same.
and no, not the man-bashing sort of feminism
I read this in a Science Fiction course in my last year of University and I loathed this book. I got about 150 pages into it and I couldn't stand it anymore. I threw the book across the room and it stayed there until I moved 6 months later. I found the writing to be contrived and uninteresting.
I disagree with the non-man bashing part in the parent post. I found it to be very anti-male. At one point when the Narrator discovers the true nature of the race (I forget its name - I'm sure it will come back to me in a horrible flood of memories), she says something like (I wish I had the exact quote, but my copy of TLHOD is in storage somewhere.) this: "Imagine a world where there's no gender roles, no rape and no war. (This was referring to the world where there was no gender)." Give me a break. Lets remove all gender issues and see what happens. To me those words sounded like LaGuin was blaming men for all that troubles our world. Great. There was other stuff in there that I found very offensive, but, that passage really stuck in my mind.
I did enjoy all kinds of the books that I read in that class. We read some Asimov, some Womack. I loved A Clockwork Orange.
Man. These guys are silly.
The worst part is, I had a job interview with them earlier today.
I think it went quite well.
My God - I just had a disturbing thought.
Attack of the Clones? What if Jar Jar is cloned? What if he attacks? What if George thinks that is funny?
I think Lucas has gone off the deep end.
He's right, you know.
Unfortunatly, here's the (sorta) proof: IMDB has the lil' bastard listed.
On a related note, has anyone gotten ASPI to work in XP? Or for that matter, any CD burning apps with native CDI support?
I've been using Nero Burning ROM on XP for the last month or so and haven't had a problem.
I was laid off 2 months ago by a small consulting company. There were 3 developers and the highest paid 2 were sent packing.
:).
This was really a devestating blow for both of us who were laid off. The other guy had gotten back from sick leave. His kid had been diagnosed with cancer and had to go through 2 surgeries, the second was a couple of days before we were laid off. He's also going through a divorce. I was truely afraid that he was going to snap.
It was my first job after graduating from University and I only had been there 3 months (2 years part time before that). I was just starting to pay back my student loans. I had just gotten a new apartment that was a little more in line with what I was making.
I'm moving out of my apartment today. I'm taking a break from packing boxes right now.
I have to say that I feel very betrayed by my former empoyer right now. I felt horrible when I was laid off, but I got over that rather quickly. My former empoyer promised that as soon as they got more work that they would hire us right back. I also got a few interviews (I was completely insulted in one of those interviews. I was offered $15/hr to program Java, c/c++, perl, ASP and coldfusion as well as design and program databases - is this what the economy has left us with?) and a few contracts to help pay (some of) the bills. A couple of days ago I found out that the person left behind was given a (rather large) raise and is now between myself and the other guy who was laid off in terms of salary.
I compared what I have been going through to a kick in the teeth followed up by a kick in the groin.
I confronted the person who got the raise and she told me that it was true. The next day I got a call from my Former Employer and she told me that I had upset the other developer and should apologize.
To anyone who's still reading, thank you, I needed to rant somewhere and my friends and family has gotten sick of my bitching
Thank you for the timely article, Jon. I could really relate to it.
I think the nature of the IT industry is that we get huge salaries to start (I did anyway), but it's almost expected that we could lose our jobs at any time. My layoff came as a complete surprise to me and everyone in the company. Everything was fine in the morning and in the afternoon my bosses were in my office with the door closed laying me off. I do suggest to treat your job like a contract. Stuff as much money away as you possibly can while you have it. You won't know when you'll have a job next.
-j
I'm assuming it's just a mockup, the nicer to be proved wrong about ;)
It seems to be a working model. There's a picture of it working here
Urban Legend II was filmed at my university. Thank you.
I gotta say this worm is really amazing. You can watch it's growth in your log files. Mine roll over daily and you can see the file sizes increase day by day. On Aug 1 I had an 8k log file. The 2nd I had a 12k one. The third was 32k the day after that was 64k. Today it was up to 192k so far and there's still another 2 hours till the log file rolls over.
Quick! To the time machine!
Geeze - not to be rude or anything but I pictured you sitting with your parents trying to stop them from gettin' it on for another couple of hours. *shudder*
Eventually it will be a requirement to buy an LCD machine rather than the energy hogging CRT monitors. This cuts down on the average joe's ability to customize his own machine quite considerably.
I think the consumer will make this choice on his own. Would you rather have a low power consuming monitor with a small footprint or a large clunky power hog? I think alot of changes will be driven by market demand.
486es don't have enough processor power to justify the electrical cost of powering them on anymore
/. long enough? I'm looking for some free 486s for a router for my 'rents. For my gf's mother who wants to learn how to use a computer. For a cousin of mine who's parents can't afford a computer for him. Take one of them apart and learn how a computer works.
Not enough power? Whatever. Haven't you been reading
Don't fall into the mindset that a computer has to be the greatest/fastest/newest to be useful. Geeze. They're free machines. They're not useless. (I feel like I'm writing something for a lost animal telethon - There are millions of lost animals in the city. Be kind to them.)
What the...?
I have no reply to this.
well...maybe...'Guns at dawn! We'll battle for the maiden's hand then!'
Spielberg raises some profound moral issues involving A.I. in his new movie, drawing a number of critical raves but proving a disappointment at the box office
AI was a box office disappointment? It's made almost $60 million in less than 2 weeks. What do you call a success?
bah - my search returned very little in the way of self-loving-fun.
I tried your search for "to be or not to be" using the +'s in front and I got this back:
Google always searches for pages containing all the words in your query, so you do not need to use + in front of words. [details] The word "or" was ignored in your query -- for search results including one term or another, use capitalized "OR" between words.[details] The following words are very common and were not included in your search: to be to be. [details]
That seems so pointy-haired-bossish.
God bless those pagans.
I just posted a link to an article here
There was an interesting article I found yesterday on the end of the Universe. Turns out the Universe will expand forever. I think a self renewing Universe would have been more interesting. The article also talks about the theory of flatness in space. The proof seems to be in that the Universe is flat-as-in-paper and not curved as thought. It's all got to do with the amount of Dark Matter in the Universe.
Did anyone else use the nude patch for the movie? It's much better that way :)
On being offtopic: Have you used VNC? I've heard about it but haven't had a chance to test it out. Is it any good.
It's quite excellent. I've been using it for about 8 months now. I like it much better than PCAnywhere since there's no client to use. The client is just a java applet that gets served out when you hit the server's port. My only complaint is that there's no logging for it that I could find.
Let them reap the consequences of choosing a lame dev shop, and perhaps next time they will choose you instead, having learned their lesson. Think long term!
I agree with this for past bids. What you should do is add to your bid package. You don't mention your presentation strategy here but what you should do is learn from your mistakes and strengthen your weeknesses. If you're concerned that you lost a bid because something, then point to some reasons why the perspective client couldn't pass you over. Show them the level of security behind a properly built linux box. Show them the number of security holes in NT. Do this ahead of time, then if/when these sites are hacked, the clients will think twice about security and hopefully choose you.
I don't think you can say anything about bids you've lost. I aree that it sounds like sour grapes.
Very funny :) .com ideas that unfeasible? Why were they unfeasible? In University I learned programming techniques the first two years and then had feasibility studies driven into my head in 3rd and 4th years. Was half the problem with startups that they were run by people who perhaps didn't have the expertise to design software properly? I'd be curious to hear what other people think.
The thing I noticed was how unfeasible the idea was. Were most real