And the last time he taught in an elementary or high school was...?
For somebody who is trained in astronomy, he sure knows a lot about child education...
Part of the problem with our schools is that people who were children or have children or went to school instantly think they know what is wrong with our schools and how to fix them. From mandatory testing to "moments of quiet reflection" to millions of dollars poured into IT infrastructure while the walls of the school are crumbling to home schooling... all of which are just manifestations of somebody political or cultural agenda. Nobody ever asks what the people who are actually trained in education what they need in order to better educate our children.
If you ask them, they would probably tell you that to do their job all they really need is support from the administration and from the parents, decent textbooks and a comfortable, non-distracting environment for the children to learn. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
I think the FTC needs to crack down on these so called "Nude Teen Cheerleader" websites. If they're nude, how do you know they're really cheerleaders?
I am demanding that the FTC require (under penalty of large fines) that all nude teen cheerleaders be photographed with their high school ID showing their date of birth and their high school yearbook turned to the page where their cheerleading squad group picture is.
I think if the web site says "cheerleader" and then the model was actually in the pom-pom or flag squad, the fines should be TREBLE.
Pbbbt... who actually uses the Unix GUIs with ClearCase? The only GUI to use with clearcase is xlsvtree and even then only as a reference to compose your cleartool command line command.:)
The cleartool command line command set and options are extremely powerful and highly scriptable. Why waste your time clicking around to do a main line merge from a development branch when one simple findmerge command can do the same thing?
I think your chicken got crossed with your egg somewhere along the lines of your argument. First you say there is extra stuff so we need create more money (or lower costs). Then you say that we create more money faster than we can create more stuff. Which is it?
Most of what you are talking about (how lending creates money, the money supply and inflation, etc.) ARE covered in most economic texts (macroeconomic at least). The conclusions in your argument that the current economic principles and mechanisms are somehow oppressive won't be found there however. The reason why is that people are not unwitting pawns in the economy. People make decisions based on their needs, desires and the information they have and those decisions affect demand which in turn affects supply. If people go into debt to purchase goods and services, that is their decision. They don't go into debt because there is debt to be created. Your arguments are like a variation of a Bataan Supply Side Death March where somehow excess forces people to demand more. I think the jury is still out on those economics.
I would not be suprised if Rowbotham's real feelings about the "tyranny" of our current monetary system is in fact rooted in the Bible and that whole pesky part about usury being a sin and all. Usury is how money gets created. But this is pure speculation on my part.
I wouldn't be too concerned. I bet that the RealMedia formatted stuff will be the stuff that Tivo downloads via the phone line like previews and commercials (like that Lexus commercial).
"very bloated" is really incorrect nowadays for modern compilers for OO languages such as C++. This is a common misconception that old timer real-time and embedded programmers like to cling to whenever anybody mentions OO. Basically, if you avoid relying heavily on polymorphism for method calls, C++ is just as fast as C. If executeable size is a problem then just don't use or link in standard libraries.
My opinion about the procedural vs. OO in RT or embedded systems debate is that if all of these platforms are so resource constrained, then the applications should really be written in assembly anyway. One can write really poor performing code in a procedural language just as easily as an OO language. Why risk it?:)
Some of the replies here are a little confused. To paraphrase The Princess Bride, the word does not mean what you think it does.
Functional programs evaluate expressions rather than execute commands to "get stuff done". Scheme (which is derived from Lisp) is one of the more well known functional programming languages.
I had one idiot spam me soliciting me to buy one of the the remaining 3 letter domain names he had for sale for hundreds of dollars. These were domains like jh3.net and 1aq.com and crap like that. I complained to his service provider which eventually got back to him and prompted him to call me at home and threaten to sell my name to all of the spam email providers. I told him that I'm probably already on those lists so don't bother. He mentioned something about already selling domain names for thousands of dollars and I uttered something about a fool and his money which caused him to hang up.
I just checked on his domain that he was using to sell domain names and it is porn ad site now. Big shock there...
I think what the poster was trying to elude to is that NT admins are fairly cheap because there are a lot of them. Unix (and Linux) admins are expensive because the supply is low.
He could also mean that a school might not want to hire an NT admin AND Linux admin. It is the rare individual who has expertise in both area so what ends up happening is two people are hired.
with the movie Final Fantasy. I saw the documentary where they reveal that a lot of the animation was done through motion capture. This explains why a lot of the quick movements of the characters was extremely realistic but whenever the characters were standing still, they always start floating like the animators were not content to just have characters that just stood still.
Aki's hair was still interesting to watch though...
I find it amusing that all of this new hardware/software/whatever is decided in the end is going to end up at all of these really poor schools that need money for capital repairs such as leaky roofs and peeling paint but Micoroft's settlement of the private suits is going to give these schools bright shiny new computers. I hope the leaky roof and the peeling paint don't screw up those new computers.
As somebody else who was unemployed recently during this "downturn", my experience with the recruiters is that they'll hire the person that has the most skills that match exactly what they need (down to the the application server and IDE tools). If your skills don't match what they're looking for, they're not going to hire you just because you like to code. That's just the simple reality of the job market right now. Maybe in a year or two things might be different.
Your statement about working at McDonalds to get by is cute. I can make more collecting unemployment insurance than working at McDonalds. And while you're working at McDonalds, when are you supposed to find time to go on interviews, send out resumes (I sent out 50 resumes in the span of two months) and work on an open source project?
They're not stuck up. Not only was the Internet invented in the Bay Area, they also invented food. The rest of us eat a pale imitation of "food" that cannot be had outside the Bay Area so we wouldn't understand what real food is supposed to be like.
I find it amusing that what you call "evil" is the reason why RPC and Corba/IIOP are they way they are. They're hiding the fact that the method call you make might be in process or might be on a remote machine.
"The other problem is that you don't have very much control over the state of the other program, especially if someone else wrote it."
And with SOAP and XML, you have total control over the remote program? Having "loosely coupled" "general" SOAP messages won't solve incorrect implementations of the remote service.
You get more energy than you put into it but it does require fuel to generate more energy.
Think of it like a car. A spark is required to ignite the gasoline but more energy is release in the combustion of the gasoline than the spark provided.
Can anybody who owns the DVDs comment on the video/audio quality? The version that Cartoon Network was running was pretty bad. Was any attempt made to clean up Robotech for the DVD version or maybe at least track down some quality masters?
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And the last time he taught in an elementary or high school was...?
For somebody who is trained in astronomy, he sure knows a lot about child education...
Part of the problem with our schools is that people who were children or have children or went to school instantly think they know what is wrong with our schools and how to fix them. From mandatory testing to "moments of quiet reflection" to millions of dollars poured into IT infrastructure while the walls of the school are crumbling to home schooling... all of which are just manifestations of somebody political or cultural agenda. Nobody ever asks what the people who are actually trained in education what they need in order to better educate our children.
If you ask them, they would probably tell you that to do their job all they really need is support from the administration and from the parents, decent textbooks and a comfortable, non-distracting environment for the children to learn. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.
Ummm... dude. 3rd Rock was cancelled last year. Not to mention that 3rd Rock was an NBC show.
:)
And Futurama and the Simpsons are both Fox shows. It would be a little difficult for Fox to schedule a show against another show on the same network.
But don't let the fact get in the way of your rant...
I think the FTC needs to crack down on these so called "Nude Teen Cheerleader" websites. If they're nude, how do you know they're really cheerleaders?
I am demanding that the FTC require (under penalty of large fines) that all nude teen cheerleaders be photographed with their high school ID showing their date of birth and their high school yearbook turned to the page where their cheerleading squad group picture is.
I think if the web site says "cheerleader" and then the model was actually in the pom-pom or flag squad, the fines should be TREBLE.
Pbbbt... who actually uses the Unix GUIs with ClearCase? The only GUI to use with clearcase is xlsvtree and even then only as a reference to compose your cleartool command line command. :)
The cleartool command line command set and options are extremely powerful and highly scriptable. Why waste your time clicking around to do a main line merge from a development branch when one simple findmerge command can do the same thing?
I think your chicken got crossed with your egg somewhere along the lines of your argument. First you say there is extra stuff so we need create more money (or lower costs). Then you say that we create more money faster than we can create more stuff. Which is it?
Most of what you are talking about (how lending creates money, the money supply and inflation, etc.) ARE covered in most economic texts (macroeconomic at least). The conclusions in your argument that the current economic principles and mechanisms are somehow oppressive won't be found there however. The reason why is that people are not unwitting pawns in the economy. People make decisions based on their needs, desires and the information they have and those decisions affect demand which in turn affects supply. If people go into debt to purchase goods and services, that is their decision. They don't go into debt because there is debt to be created. Your arguments are like a variation of a Bataan Supply Side Death March where somehow excess forces people to demand more. I think the jury is still out on those economics.
I would not be suprised if Rowbotham's real feelings about the "tyranny" of our current monetary system is in fact rooted in the Bible and that whole pesky part about usury being a sin and all. Usury is how money gets created. But this is pure speculation on my part.
I wouldn't be too concerned. I bet that the RealMedia formatted stuff will be the stuff that Tivo downloads via the phone line like previews and commercials (like that Lexus commercial).
"very bloated" is really incorrect nowadays for modern compilers for OO languages such as C++. This is a common misconception that old timer real-time and embedded programmers like to cling to whenever anybody mentions OO. Basically, if you avoid relying heavily on polymorphism for method calls, C++ is just as fast as C. If executeable size is a problem then just don't use or link in standard libraries.
:)
My opinion about the procedural vs. OO in RT or embedded systems debate is that if all of these platforms are so resource constrained, then the applications should really be written in assembly anyway. One can write really poor performing code in a procedural language just as easily as an OO language. Why risk it?
Chris
Some of the replies here are a little confused. To paraphrase The Princess Bride, the word does not mean what you think it does.
Functional programs evaluate expressions rather than execute commands to "get stuff done". Scheme (which is derived from Lisp) is one of the more well known functional programming languages.
I had one idiot spam me soliciting me to buy one of the the remaining 3 letter domain names he had for sale for hundreds of dollars. These were domains like jh3.net and 1aq.com and crap like that. I complained to his service provider which eventually got back to him and prompted him to call me at home and threaten to sell my name to all of the spam email providers. I told him that I'm probably already on those lists so don't bother. He mentioned something about already selling domain names for thousands of dollars and I uttered something about a fool and his money which caused him to hang up.
I just checked on his domain that he was using to sell domain names and it is porn ad site now. Big shock there...
Except for those times that the ACLU defended the KKK's right to protest and march, the right of abortion protesters to protest, etc.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your rant however. Just keep repeating what you heard on Rush or Dr. Laura. It'll be easier for you.
If the TV is telling you all that stuff, you need to adjust your dosage.
I think what the poster was trying to elude to is that NT admins are fairly cheap because there are a lot of them. Unix (and Linux) admins are expensive because the supply is low.
He could also mean that a school might not want to hire an NT admin AND Linux admin. It is the rare individual who has expertise in both area so what ends up happening is two people are hired.
But that's just my take one the whole situation.
Because Outlook virii and worms are about as topical as this story submission:
2001-12-19 08:15:21 Woke up, took a dump (article, news) (rejected)
with the movie Final Fantasy. I saw the documentary where they reveal that a lot of the animation was done through motion capture. This explains why a lot of the quick movements of the characters was extremely realistic but whenever the characters were standing still, they always start floating like the animators were not content to just have characters that just stood still.
Aki's hair was still interesting to watch though...
I find it amusing that all of this new hardware/software/whatever is decided in the end is going to end up at all of these really poor schools that need money for capital repairs such as leaky roofs and peeling paint but Micoroft's settlement of the private suits is going to give these schools bright shiny new computers. I hope the leaky roof and the peeling paint don't screw up those new computers.
I remember many people addicted to IRC in the early 1990s when there was one IRC network and it only had a couple hundred users online at anyone time.
IRC stood for I Repeat Class in those days. Is anybody addicted to IRC anymore?
Chris
As somebody else who was unemployed recently during this "downturn", my experience with the recruiters is that they'll hire the person that has the most skills that match exactly what they need (down to the the application server and IDE tools). If your skills don't match what they're looking for, they're not going to hire you just because you like to code. That's just the simple reality of the job market right now. Maybe in a year or two things might be different.
Your statement about working at McDonalds to get by is cute. I can make more collecting unemployment insurance than working at McDonalds. And while you're working at McDonalds, when are you supposed to find time to go on interviews, send out resumes (I sent out 50 resumes in the span of two months) and work on an open source project?
They're not stuck up. Not only was the Internet invented in the Bay Area, they also invented food. The rest of us eat a pale imitation of "food" that cannot be had outside the Bay Area so we wouldn't understand what real food is supposed to be like.
I find it amusing that what you call "evil" is the reason why RPC and Corba/IIOP are they way they are. They're hiding the fact that the method call you make might be in process or might be on a remote machine.
"The other problem is that you don't have very much control over the state of the other program, especially if someone else wrote it."
And with SOAP and XML, you have total control over the remote program? Having "loosely coupled" "general" SOAP messages won't solve incorrect implementations of the remote service.
With all of the first posts and goat sex links, can any of the data on Slashdot be really termed "critical data"?
:)
Just watch a lot of episodes of Murphy Brown...
You get more energy than you put into it but it does require fuel to generate more energy.
Think of it like a car. A spark is required to ignite the gasoline but more energy is release in the combustion of the gasoline than the spark provided.
You realize that the article is about a company spamming people (via EMAIL) to get them to BUY their service and get a free Motorola pager.
This has nothing to do with spam sent via pager or SMS.
I won't even go into the fact that the article is a month old.
Not to mention the fact that I've been getting the notices from banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, etc. for the past couple of months.
Yeah... REAL timely...
Can anybody who owns the DVDs comment on the video/audio quality? The version that Cartoon Network was running was pretty bad. Was any attempt made to clean up Robotech for the DVD version or maybe at least track down some quality masters?