Or just be crude about it and says Nazis are assholes but even assholes have the right to make fools of themselves via the spoken or written word.
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That's the funniest thing I have heard all day.
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How about a medium length book and a short one?
I would start with Visual Interface Design for Windows : Effective User Interfaces for Windows 95, Windows Nt, and Windows 3.1 by Virginia Howlett which is old but a useful foundation. After allowing some time to digest it, I'd follow it with GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers by Jeff Johnson, which I confess to having skimmed rather then read, but was worth every second.
Neither is gods gift to design but they are as good as it gets, AFAIK.
If you really like those suggestions, forget gratitude, ask for a copy of my resume to pass on. ;
The first thing that ran through my mind after reading your post was "been there, done that" or at least I thought so at the time. Some of the best advice in response so far has been along the vein of "don't get cocky". It really doesn't take much to get that label of primma donna or 'difficult to work with' and it's damn hard to shake.
The economy is going to hell in a handbasket and some of the first people to go sound just like you. Fewer years of experience coupled with a higher hourly rate make a good target. I'm not saying it will happen, the odds just favor it. FYI, I'll grant you I might be biased as it just happened to me.
The longer your work on a system fixing problems, the more people come to you when they decide to alter it. It's a natural progression and no big deal.
It sounds like things are going well for you in the office. Keep doing what your doing and make sure you continue to produce results and that your happy doing the work. With those two things in mind, you can't fail.
Career direction doesn't matter until you come across the ideal job, and go "Wow! I want to DO THAT!!!" There is not a single person here that will be able your office, your environment, or what you will need to do there to succeed.
Any person required to file an information return on you to the IRS will give you one. Employers, real estate agents, banks, etc. It's how non-government types collect TINs (Tax Payer Identification Numbers).
Now sure if they misuse it, they are violating federal law. On the other side of the coin, so are you if you bullshit them. If you decide to dodge it by not filling it out, you will find yourself in the joyful situation of learning the meaning of 'backup withholding' (Hint, see W-9).
Sorry, I'm feel sarcastic at the moment. It's not you.
I would experiment with some new software development methodolgies on a pilot basis. At least until I came up with some better then the NASA approach or attempts at CMM at NASA. CMM and it's ilk are combersome enough initially, I cannot imagine how burdensome it is in a organization where that Capability Maturity Model stuff is entrenched.
Sure I don't know what would come out of the experiments but I suspect it would be something better. At the same time I'd rate the odds of this happening are as good as me being picked for a Mars mission.
While this may seem way off the wall, please give me a moment.
Kirk Russell, on the commentary to the Big Trouble in Little Chinia DVD, talks about how his trip down the elevator on the way to confront "the ultimate evil spirit" has generated more comments then any other. Fans are always quoting back lines from that scene, particularly in elevators.
Here is the question. Are there particlar lines from one of your roles that fans repeat back to you? Which role do people most often identify you with when they see you in the real world? If you could change this defining moment to an alternate scene or line, what would it be and why?
The part that pisses me off is that I submitted this same story before the Senate voted but Slashdot couldn't be bothered until after it passed to post the damn article. With the numbers of Slashdot readers, the ACLU alert going live on Slashdot immediately after it was posted might have put in dent is this beast at least.
I've been using it for years and it just keeps getting better and better. As much as I like the distro though, the main user mailing list (suse-linux-e) just rocks, it's probably the nicest online community that I have ever participated in except perhaps ISCA in it's day.
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Actually, it does. At this point it is obvious your wrong, lying and criminally insane!
Laws are effective at controlling the behavior of people who choose to obey them. The usefullness of regulating behavior drecreases as people become inreasingly willing to violate the law.
The law cannot eliminate crimes. You can hang each pickpocket on the first offence but you will not stop pickpocketing from occuring. You can take away tweasers from all passengers at the airport but the determined crminal will simply make weapons from the tray table or what he can scavage from the bathroom. You cannot stop a determined crminal willing to sacrifice his life 100% of the time.
The government is the ultimate 500 pound gorilla. It is too slow and too plodding to stop a motivatd individual. The government was warned by the French and warned by Isreal yet was unable to stop it. Turning loose the police state won't help, it will bury them in irrelevant information and errode our cival rights.
Terrorists are not effective becasuse of encryption or stenography despite propoganda to the countrary. They freakin' use AOL and Earthlink.
I realize that nearly everyone is upset & angry right now. That's one of many reasons we should think carefully, act slowly, and not have midnight votes taking away our cival rights.
This may sound like flamebait but I don't give a damn.
Where the hell are the click and drool fax form letters? The HOWTO is great but if I forward it to everyone I know, I'd be lucky if five or six letters were written from scratch. The ACLU has a large but not very up to date collection of fast fax iasue letters. I am dissapointed they don't usually drop the ball.
Why doesn't the EFF have fax servers primed and ready to go? I agree we are in a cival liberties crisis but most people are still comsumed by grief and shock, not writing their represenatives.
Ok sure, this may not be totaly "on topic" but it is the background to what turned me into a Tolkien fanatic.
I play a LARP, called Dagorhir battlegames, that combines Tolkien's Middle Earth, the Dark Ages, and pure fantasy in a full contact combat sport. It is the most fun that I have had in years and is an amazingly cheap yet rewording hobby.
It is an excellent book and one that I am glad that I added to my library.
I am a sucker for a lot of J.R.R. Tolkien stuff largely because I play about a Tolkien based LARP called Dagorhir Battlegames which has elements of middle earth, the dark ages, and fantasy rolled into a full contact combat sport. There are some pictures of it here. During our big regional war, called Ragnarok, they shot footage for a documentary called "Searching for the Hobbit". Gods that was a fun, crazy week.
I guess I got way off topic there but the book is an essiential resource and even makes a nice coffee table book. There is so much cool stuff coming now that they are making movies. I cannot wait!
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So tell me what to do!
Quote someone like Beatrice Hall who was really the one who said 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it...'.
Or just be crude about it and says Nazis are assholes but even assholes have the right to make fools of themselves via the spoken or written word.
That's the funniest thing I have heard all day.
How about a medium length book and a short one?
I would start with Visual Interface Design for Windows : Effective User Interfaces for Windows 95, Windows Nt, and Windows 3.1 by Virginia Howlett which is old but a useful foundation. After allowing some time to digest it, I'd follow it with GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's for Software Developers and Web Designers by Jeff Johnson, which I confess to having skimmed rather then read, but was worth every second.
Neither is gods gift to design but they are as good as it gets, AFAIK.
If you really like those suggestions, forget gratitude, ask for a copy of my resume to pass on. ;
Informix 4GL doesnt have file access?
That is not true. Sure 4GL for file access is not the most concise but it reusable if you have a half way decent design.
Generate a REPORT with 0 values for the MARGINs and a 1 line for PAGE LENGTH and poof you got a flat file.
Sure you can just LOAD what you need but one can always use something like this when it's the right tool for the job.
Sure there is more to it then some of the alternatives but it works just fine. Gods it's a scary, scary day when I defend Informix's 4GL.
Merry Xmas! The source never dies...
Insightful my ass. RTFM.
Start by searching for "Religious allegories" in this Matrix FAQ. Afterwards, slap yourself seven times with a clue stick.
Hells bells. Thank you, spelling has never been my strong point. Thank the gods for multiple drafts and constructive criticism.
If your in the D.C. area, I owe you a beer.
The first thing that ran through my mind after reading your post was "been there, done that" or at least I thought so at the time. Some of the best advice in response so far has been along the vein of "don't get cocky". It really doesn't take much to get that label of primma donna or 'difficult to work with' and it's damn hard to shake.
The economy is going to hell in a handbasket and some of the first people to go sound just like you. Fewer years of experience coupled with a higher hourly rate make a good target. I'm not saying it will happen, the odds just favor it. FYI, I'll grant you I might be biased as it just happened to me.
The longer your work on a system fixing problems, the more people come to you when they decide to alter it. It's a natural progression and no big deal.
It sounds like things are going well for you in the office. Keep doing what your doing and make sure you continue to produce results and that your happy doing the work. With those two things in mind, you can't fail.
Career direction doesn't matter until you come across the ideal job, and go "Wow! I want to DO THAT!!!" There is not a single person here that will be able your office, your environment, or what you will need to do there to succeed.
Look out for those of us into Dagorhir. As far as I can tell almost all of us are planning on turning out in garb, in force.
Ever heard of a W-9?
Any person required to file an information return on you to the IRS will give you one. Employers, real estate agents, banks, etc. It's how non-government types collect TINs (Tax Payer Identification Numbers).
Now sure if they misuse it, they are violating federal law. On the other side of the coin, so are you if you bullshit them. If you decide to dodge it by not filling it out, you will find yourself in the joyful situation of learning the meaning of 'backup withholding' (Hint, see W-9).
Sorry, I'm feel sarcastic at the moment. It's not you.
I would experiment with some new software development methodolgies on a pilot basis. At least until I came up with some better then the NASA approach or attempts at CMM at NASA. CMM and it's ilk are combersome enough initially, I cannot imagine how burdensome it is in a organization where that Capability Maturity Model stuff is entrenched.
Sure I don't know what would come out of the experiments but I suspect it would be something better. At the same time I'd rate the odds of this happening are as good as me being picked for a Mars mission.
I wonder what they all did with them...
My sister keeps her's on top of her desk because she thinks it is cute. *shudders* She never installed any software for it though.
Talk about a Freudian slip. I must have the original Star Trek on the brain.
Stolen from the ain't it cool interview:
I like things that are traditionally nerdy, like role playing games.
So what do you play? How often? Ever try Over the Edge? If so, what did you think of OTE?
While this may seem way off the wall, please give me a moment.
Kirk Russell, on the commentary to the Big Trouble in Little Chinia DVD, talks about how his trip down the elevator on the way to confront "the ultimate evil spirit" has generated more comments then any other. Fans are always quoting back lines from that scene, particularly in elevators.
Here is the question. Are there particlar lines from one of your roles that fans repeat back to you? Which role do people most often identify you with when they see you in the real world? If you could change this defining moment to an alternate scene or line, what would it be and why?
Your priorities are out of whack.
The part that pisses me off is that I submitted this same story before the Senate voted but Slashdot couldn't be bothered until after it passed to post the damn article. With the numbers of Slashdot readers, the ACLU alert going live on Slashdot immediately after it was posted might have put in dent is this beast at least.
Does anyone have a decent list of potential alternatives? The nym thing was too cool.
I love SuSE.
I've been using it for years and it just keeps getting better and better. As much as I like the distro though, the main user mailing list (suse-linux-e) just rocks, it's probably the nicest online community that I have ever participated in except perhaps ISCA in it's day.
Actually, it does. At this point it is obvious your wrong, lying and criminally insane!
Laws are effective at controlling the behavior of people who choose to obey them. The usefullness of regulating behavior drecreases as people become inreasingly willing to violate the law.
The law cannot eliminate crimes. You can hang each pickpocket on the first offence but you will not stop pickpocketing from occuring. You can take away tweasers from all passengers at the airport but the determined crminal will simply make weapons from the tray table or what he can scavage from the bathroom. You cannot stop a determined crminal willing to sacrifice his life 100% of the time.
The government is the ultimate 500 pound gorilla. It is too slow and too plodding to stop a motivatd individual. The government was warned by the French and warned by Isreal yet was unable to stop it. Turning loose the police state won't help, it will bury them in irrelevant information and errode our cival rights.
Terrorists are not effective becasuse of encryption or stenography despite propoganda to the countrary. They freakin' use AOL and Earthlink.
I realize that nearly everyone is upset & angry right now. That's one of many reasons we should think carefully, act slowly, and not have midnight votes taking away our cival rights.
BTW, fax congress and urge restraint now!
This may sound like flamebait but I don't give a damn.
Where the hell are the click and drool fax form letters? The HOWTO is great but if I forward it to everyone I know, I'd be lucky if five or six letters were written from scratch. The ACLU has a large but not very up to date collection of fast fax iasue letters. I am dissapointed they don't usually drop the ball.
Why doesn't the EFF have fax servers primed and ready to go? I agree we are in a cival liberties crisis but most people are still comsumed by grief and shock, not writing their represenatives.
Thanks I needed to vent that one...
Ok sure, this may not be totaly "on topic" but it is the background to what turned me into a Tolkien fanatic.
I play a LARP, called Dagorhir battlegames, that combines Tolkien's Middle Earth, the Dark Ages, and pure fantasy in a full contact combat sport. It is the most fun that I have had in years and is an amazingly cheap yet rewording hobby.
Check out the website. Look at the pictures. See you at the next battle!
It is an excellent book and one that I am glad that I added to my library.
I am a sucker for a lot of J.R.R. Tolkien stuff largely because I play about a Tolkien based LARP called Dagorhir Battlegames which has elements of middle earth, the dark ages, and fantasy rolled into a full contact combat sport. There are some pictures of it here. During our big regional war, called Ragnarok, they shot footage for a documentary called "Searching for the Hobbit". Gods that was a fun, crazy week.
I guess I got way off topic there but the book is an essiential resource and even makes a nice coffee table book. There is so much cool stuff coming now that they are making movies. I cannot wait!
Dude, if you just want to view quicktime files, save the twenty bucks and use real free software.
Install plugger and Xanim.
Now shockwave is an entirely different matter...
What kind of lamer fakes "grassroots support" for thier site?
BTW, check out this really jazzy site that I am a fanboy for...