Actually, now it says:
"The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment regrets that this service is not avaialble at this time. "
Note the spelling error... I guess that's forgivable.
I hear this complaint a lot, usually from people who don't take the time to seek out "good" music. By "good" music, I mean music that suits you personally, that moves you personally.
There is more music being made today than ever before, thanks to technology. The downside is that anybody with Garage Band can churn out shit, but it also means that there is some really great, moving music being released independently, on small labels, and the like.
Go seek it out, it is there. I am almost 40 and I buy a lot of current music, none of it that you'd hear on the radio/tv/etc. And I don't mean to be elitist, but do a little surfing and there is greatness being produced all the time. And boy is it rewarding when you find it.
A third purpose: to gather names, phone numbers, email address, and physical addresses of people who buy their products. Then their spam and telemarketing are legal due to the "established business relationship".
A corollary to your pet peeve: In the US, we can deduct the cost of tax-preparation software from our income. These always seems to come with deep rebates. So I figure I can deduct the original ~$50 cost from my income, despite the fact that I ended up eventually getting a $20 rebate (albeit after a long painstaking submission and wait process).
Agreed. There is a bowling alley near where I live that has something like 30 reallllly big screen tvs all along the walls above the pins. At any given non-game-day time, about half of these are tuned to news stations. The visual stimulation from all the resulting oversized tickers and indicators is pretty nasty and distracting to the point of seizure inducing.
Comp Sci students are not (or should not be) training to be system administrators. That is a vocational program. That would be like complaining that electrical engineers are no longer taught how to manufacture and assemble vacuum tubes. Serisouly, why complain that students are not being taught long obsolete technology?
I agree with the majority of your post, but what about z/OS is "long obselete technology"? It isn't used much in academia, but is still being marketed/upgraded among big businesses. It is also one of IBM's primary technology focuses.
This proposal doesn't necessarily incent spammers to stop spamming - instead it incents spammers to hijack other machines (a la SoBig) so that innocent bystanders get the tax.
The same thing happenned to me with Morrissey's recent Under The Influence compilation. I sent a kind email to the folks at the record company (DMC), and within a day, they sent an apology, and a request for my home address. Within two weeks, I had a non-restricted copy of the same cd that actually plays in my PC's cd-rom drive. They also admitted regret to pressing the restricted cds in the first place. An example of a record company understanding the downside of this "technology".
The way I see it, another problem is the way cities have been designed in the last 50 years. Spawling suburbs present a significant challenge to bus route designers, since they can't possibly add a "stop" within walking distance of every house. This necessitates the park-and-ride idea. If suburbs were compacted and more pedestrian friendly, then mass transit might be more popular.
Technically, this wouldn't solve the MPAA's problem. I'd still be able to make numerous "illegal" copies. (Sure I couldn't listen to them, but they would still be copies that the did not make any money for big corporations.)
1) Why are classes like Integer so weird? It is such a pain to, for example, increment them... Change of this would conflict with absence of operator overloading, true (I don't like that too much either, but at least can imagine why it's (not) there). However, why not make them magical like String's "+"?
I think I heard them say at JavaOne this year that they are considering some type of automatic casting mechanism between ints and Integers (and analogously for other types) for a future J2SE release.
I'm not trying to be elitist, I'm sure at one point I'll get married and the drudgery of work and family will stretch my mind so much I'll take solace in the soothing simplicity of bad TV, while stretching my wallet to the point where sales at Wal-Mart will become interesting.
I might point out that your view of married and family life seems to be culled right out of bad TV shows.
I am married and have several children. Most of my friends are also married and have several children. For the most part, we enjoy drudgery-free lives. Sure we are busier than you are, but that means we must be much more selective with our TV watching. I can afford about two hours per week to watch TV, so I surely am not interested in watching Walmart commercials.
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Didn't Professor Farnsworth invent the smelloscope for just this type of research?
Actually, now it says: "The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment regrets that this service is not avaialble at this time. " Note the spelling error... I guess that's forgivable.
Looks like they just took the Firefox derision off the page. Way to go Slashdot!
There is more music being made today than ever before, thanks to technology. The downside is that anybody with Garage Band can churn out shit, but it also means that there is some really great, moving music being released independently, on small labels, and the like.
Go seek it out, it is there. I am almost 40 and I buy a lot of current music, none of it that you'd hear on the radio/tv/etc. And I don't mean to be elitist, but do a little surfing and there is greatness being produced all the time. And boy is it rewarding when you find it.
Just read a book like Java for S/390 and AS/400 COBOL Programmers and reverse-engineer it.
Does anybody know, do they take PayPal?
Like jury duty! Only less fun.
The phrase I really dislike is "on a go-forward basis". I hear this from executives a lot. Why not just say "going forward"?
"... and those who can't teach, teach gym." - Woody Allen
A third purpose: to gather names, phone numbers, email address, and physical addresses of people who buy their products. Then their spam and telemarketing are legal due to the "established business relationship".
A corollary to your pet peeve: In the US, we can deduct the cost of tax-preparation software from our income. These always seems to come with deep rebates. So I figure I can deduct the original ~$50 cost from my income, despite the fact that I ended up eventually getting a $20 rebate (albeit after a long painstaking submission and wait process).
Agreed. There is a bowling alley near where I live that has something like 30 reallllly big screen tvs all along the walls above the pins. At any given non-game-day time, about half of these are tuned to news stations. The visual stimulation from all the resulting oversized tickers and indicators is pretty nasty and distracting to the point of seizure inducing.
or my personal favorite: "Its working as coded."
This proposal doesn't necessarily incent spammers to stop spamming - instead it incents spammers to hijack other machines (a la SoBig) so that innocent bystanders get the tax.
The same thing happenned to me with Morrissey's recent Under The Influence compilation. I sent a kind email to the folks at the record company (DMC), and within a day, they sent an apology, and a request for my home address. Within two weeks, I had a non-restricted copy of the same cd that actually plays in my PC's cd-rom drive. They also admitted regret to pressing the restricted cds in the first place. An example of a record company understanding the downside of this "technology".
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F1ED D-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/0 2/1918210&mode=thread&tid=134&tid=160
Although I hate the idea of never having known Michael Jackson circa 1972!
The way I see it, another problem is the way cities have been designed in the last 50 years. Spawling suburbs present a significant challenge to bus route designers, since they can't possibly add a "stop" within walking distance of every house. This necessitates the park-and-ride idea. If suburbs were compacted and more pedestrian friendly, then mass transit might be more popular.
So BT lost his lawsuit against The Prodigy. I hope that other electronic musicians recognize this precedent and stop suing each other.
Did anyone else notice that the article was concluded by an ironic advertisement by Sony?
Technically, this wouldn't solve the MPAA's problem. I'd still be able to make numerous "illegal" copies. (Sure I couldn't listen to them, but they would still be copies that the did not make any money for big corporations.)
I think I heard them say at JavaOne this year that they are considering some type of automatic casting mechanism between ints and Integers (and analogously for other types) for a future J2SE release.
I'm not trying to be elitist, I'm sure at one point I'll get married and the drudgery of work and family will stretch my mind so much I'll take solace in the soothing simplicity of bad TV, while stretching my wallet to the point where sales at Wal-Mart will become interesting.
I might point out that your view of married and family life seems to be culled right out of bad TV shows.
I am married and have several children. Most of my friends are also married and have several children. For the most part, we enjoy drudgery-free lives. Sure we are busier than you are, but that means we must be much more selective with our TV watching. I can afford about two hours per week to watch TV, so I surely am not interested in watching Walmart commercials.
Please be careful with your generalizations.