Well, I worked in a high school for admittedly only 2 years. What I took from the experience is you'd better be honest with kids and never try to shovel BS, propaganda, or ideology down their throats. As a parent thread stated, once kids personally experience anything that exposes your deception, they lose all faith in *anything* you've told them. Consistently, the most successful and liked teachers were the honest ones. It doesn't matter if heroin or meth is highly addictive or diabilitating (sp), if you lie about the effects of something they go on to try, they'll look at you as a liar and figure everything else out there is fair game.
WTF?!?!? I'm tired of this sensationalized, misleading garbage we're seeing in article summaries! This site has gone to hell and if the community moved elsewhere I would too. I don't even come here for the articles themselves any more, just to read the comments. Enough is enough! Try to at least PRETEND to have credibility!
I'm very much against the idea of "accessible" versions of literature. Often, you'll see authors using wordplay or the physical structure of words that can't be translated a la Lewis Carroll.
...I also learned to hate BSD-style init. I have found memories of Slackware since that's what I cut my Linux teeth on. I was too noob to even know there were easier distros to start with, but in retrospect you learn a heck of a lot more when the OS installer isn't slathered in wizards and GUIs.
I'd strongly recommend you read Darwin's Origin of Species. I'm about half way through it and I've been surprised by some of the common misconceptions people (including you and me) have about natural selection. Firstly, creatures don't will themselves to evolve; they mutate in a way that either makes their likelihood of reproduction stronger and/or allows them to best other species in their environment. These changes over long periods of time (or short periods for domesticated animals), accumulate into wildly different features.
Thing of those gliding squirrels evolving longer arms for a bigger wingspan, losing superfluous features like hair and a tail, and musculature adapted to flapping its inner-leg webbing. In a million years, you end up with a new bat-like creature. Do the evolution, baby!
Remember Johnny Cochran? They guy was a pariah for getting O.J. of and "just doing his job." I wonder how many of the same people who curse his name are now snuggly cozy with this nominee.
Funny that this list is mostly conservative states. Kinda ties well into the hypocrasy of Republicans and taxes and the taker-giver state reality.
Interesting diagram detailing population distribution of the US and voting. The Hannity's of the world love to show you a mostly-red map of the US while neglecting to mention the sparser populations in geographically larger red states:
I started working on a Palm/PPC application about a year ago and after my very cursory preference for the PPC, I came to see how superior Palm OS is. Palm OS is designed from the ground up to serve requirements of handheld users. Windows Mobile is basically a hacked version of a desktop OS and after the initial comfort you feel from its familiarity, you start to see how unwieldy it is for want you'll typically want to do with it.
Palm has been making some attrocious business decisions/prioritizing. Support is terrible on their developer network for noobies, especially considering how small the field is. The decision to cripple wireless support in the Treo also comes to mind.
There will always be a market for pure PDAs (nurses, in-the-field workers, etc.), Palm just needs to understand what it is and target it like a laser. As for PDA phones, this was probably the greatest opportunity for Palm and the decision to move the Treo to Windows Mobile is probably a fatal error.
I don't know which is the best example of poor journalistic integrity: Bild newspaper for concocting the "dead cat" story or Slashdot for repeating it. It seems like a daily occurrence that I tell myself to find a new geek news forum.
This is how a lot of "successful" criminals get caught. The same greed that leads them to break the law is also self-destructive in that the can't stop once the money starts pouring in. Saw this same phenomenon in that Las Vegas cheating special. Successful cheaters as well as gamblers just don't know when to quit.
Well, I'm a person who doesn't like the word "niggardly." Regardless of the etymology, *EVERY* time I've ever heard/seen it used has been by a vocal, far right guy as a backdoor way to rile up someone of color, then come back in self-defense with the legitimate definition. So, the user gets the benefit of feeling like he's thrown the N-bomb in someone's face and the added satisfaction of being about to one-up someone since they very likely won't know the difference. What's worse is half the time I've seen it used, it's not even with the proper definition. Like a bunch of dumbasses remembering it from a novel in 9th grade and deciding to drop it occassionally for the humor of it (this does not at all refer to the parent post who I believe is making a legitimate point).
You can gripe about people being too PC, but the simple fact is the word is almost identical to the N-bomb. Face it, language changes with culture. You can't go around calling waittresses "wenches," misuse of latin pluralism becomes so pervasive that the misuse becomes acceptable (agenda/agendum), etc. Niggardly just isn't an appropriate word any more. If you disagree, try using it in conversation wherever possible for a week and weigh the results.
I had read once some time ago that the apparent arms of galaxies are nothing more than interference patterns caused by the light emitted by stars; mostly young blue stars. The only caveat was when arms are physically created by two "colliding" galaxies separating and distorting each others star fields like stretching taffy.
Hillary specifically, and Democrats in general, have a long history of blaiming _things_ for the actions of people. I think it's a case of them not wanting to offend someone who might vote for them someday.
If you think that, you don't truly understand the position of Democrats. Republicans have a slew of things they blame for problems including movies for the corruption of our society, unions for high American labor costs, regulations for weakening our markets, etc. If anything, this is a very conservative move since it will appeal to the Christian right.
All Hillary is doing is positioning herself for her presidential run. But, it's all hype. Hillary has nothing but name recognition and the election is 3 years away. Yeah, Bush had nothing but name recognition to run on too, but Hillary doesn't have a colored baby to frighten Southern racists with.
Hillary isn't moving left at all, she's moving *RIGHT*. And, it's not going to work.
Robotech, or Macross if you will, made the whole transforming robots thing a hit. In fact, the Jetfire toy was a rip-off of a Robotech/Macross veritech fighter.
Regardless, this is just another in a long line of the lasted Hollywood crazy; remember-when-you-were-a-kid nostalgia remakes aimed more at the parents.
Nice job injecting your own ideology while conveniently ignoring the facts. RTFA, the guy has the documents citing collusion (if that's the proper business term). This isn't some ex post facto patent he's using to leech money off someone else's work. He may have very well have become Palm before Palm was Palm.
You go ahead and "draw your own conclusions" based on what you want to believe and I'll extrapolate from data.
Yeah, we all know the military *wants* volunteers. But, the fact is we're rapidly approaching a critical mass where there aren't enough troops for the military to fulfill its duties. Incentives during an unpopular war won't work well enough when a new recruit is almost guaranteed to go into a combat zone. Volunteer or draftee, the military still needs X number of soldiers to plug into Y number positions.
So, the point remains that a draft is very likely coming assuming things in Iraq and Afghanistan don't start looking as good as the Bush administration says they look.
As for ELS, I don't recall how it works, but I doubt it applies if you've been drafted.
Dude, just continue believing your "Poor people are lazy and rich people work hard" Limbaughist dogma. No point in attempting since you don't even have a clue as to why you're wrong.
I disagree. PODS is a young, but awesome IDE, and I think a lot of developers are slowly migrating over to it. In fact, I've heard it rumored that CodeWarrior is going to drop its Palm support (though this might have been miscommunication on their part).
Palms problems are at the top and some of their decision making. Such as crippling WiFi support in the successful Treo 650 in order to make Sprint happy (another poorly run corporation). Now that Nagel is gone, I think the ship will be righted again.
I've been developing for PDAs for about a year now, and I would hate to see Palm go under, forcing everyone to use Microsoft's horrible mobile device OSs.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh? ML? The same big financial institution that helped propagate the Enron pyramid scheme?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2786925.stm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2002/mer
http://www.stockbroker-fraud.com/enron-nigerian.h
Being a big company doesn't imply honesty or integrity.
Well, I worked in a high school for admittedly only 2 years. What I took from the experience is you'd better be honest with kids and never try to shovel BS, propaganda, or ideology down their throats. As a parent thread stated, once kids personally experience anything that exposes your deception, they lose all faith in *anything* you've told them. Consistently, the most successful and liked teachers were the honest ones. It doesn't matter if heroin or meth is highly addictive or diabilitating (sp), if you lie about the effects of something they go on to try, they'll look at you as a liar and figure everything else out there is fair game.
WTF?!?!? I'm tired of this sensationalized, misleading garbage we're seeing in article summaries! This site has gone to hell and if the community moved elsewhere I would too. I don't even come here for the articles themselves any more, just to read the comments. Enough is enough! Try to at least PRETEND to have credibility!
Go ahead and mod me -5 FlAmEbAiT!!!!
I'm very much against the idea of "accessible" versions of literature. Often, you'll see authors using wordplay or the physical structure of words that can't be translated a la Lewis Carroll.
Give yourself a promotion!
...I also learned to hate BSD-style init. I have found memories of Slackware since that's what I cut my Linux teeth on. I was too noob to even know there were easier distros to start with, but in retrospect you learn a heck of a lot more when the OS installer isn't slathered in wizards and GUIs.
I'd strongly recommend you read Darwin's Origin of Species. I'm about half way through it and I've been surprised by some of the common misconceptions people (including you and me) have about natural selection. Firstly, creatures don't will themselves to evolve; they mutate in a way that either makes their likelihood of reproduction stronger and/or allows them to best other species in their environment. These changes over long periods of time (or short periods for domesticated animals), accumulate into wildly different features.
Thing of those gliding squirrels evolving longer arms for a bigger wingspan, losing superfluous features like hair and a tail, and musculature adapted to flapping its inner-leg webbing. In a million years, you end up with a new bat-like creature. Do the evolution, baby!
Well, now that I have broadband access to the internet, I always know where my hands are when I'm online.
Remember Johnny Cochran? They guy was a pariah for getting O.J. of and "just doing his job." I wonder how many of the same people who curse his name are now snuggly cozy with this nominee.
Funny that this list is mostly conservative states. Kinda ties well into the hypocrasy of Republicans and taxes and the taker-giver state reality.
Interesting diagram detailing population distribution of the US and voting. The Hannity's of the world love to show you a mostly-red map of the US while neglecting to mention the sparser populations in geographically larger red states:
Voting Map
I started working on a Palm/PPC application about a year ago and after my very cursory preference for the PPC, I came to see how superior Palm OS is. Palm OS is designed from the ground up to serve requirements of handheld users. Windows Mobile is basically a hacked version of a desktop OS and after the initial comfort you feel from its familiarity, you start to see how unwieldy it is for want you'll typically want to do with it.
Palm has been making some attrocious business decisions/prioritizing. Support is terrible on their developer network for noobies, especially considering how small the field is. The decision to cripple wireless support in the Treo also comes to mind.
There will always be a market for pure PDAs (nurses, in-the-field workers, etc.), Palm just needs to understand what it is and target it like a laser. As for PDA phones, this was probably the greatest opportunity for Palm and the decision to move the Treo to Windows Mobile is probably a fatal error.
I don't know which is the best example of poor journalistic integrity: Bild newspaper for concocting the "dead cat" story or Slashdot for repeating it. It seems like a daily occurrence that I tell myself to find a new geek news forum.
This is how a lot of "successful" criminals get caught. The same greed that leads them to break the law is also self-destructive in that the can't stop once the money starts pouring in. Saw this same phenomenon in that Las Vegas cheating special. Successful cheaters as well as gamblers just don't know when to quit.
Well, I'm a person who doesn't like the word "niggardly." Regardless of the etymology, *EVERY* time I've ever heard/seen it used has been by a vocal, far right guy as a backdoor way to rile up someone of color, then come back in self-defense with the legitimate definition. So, the user gets the benefit of feeling like he's thrown the N-bomb in someone's face and the added satisfaction of being about to one-up someone since they very likely won't know the difference. What's worse is half the time I've seen it used, it's not even with the proper definition. Like a bunch of dumbasses remembering it from a novel in 9th grade and deciding to drop it occassionally for the humor of it (this does not at all refer to the parent post who I believe is making a legitimate point).
You can gripe about people being too PC, but the simple fact is the word is almost identical to the N-bomb. Face it, language changes with culture. You can't go around calling waittresses "wenches," misuse of latin pluralism becomes so pervasive that the misuse becomes acceptable (agenda/agendum), etc. Niggardly just isn't an appropriate word any more. If you disagree, try using it in conversation wherever possible for a week and weigh the results.
I had read once some time ago that the apparent arms of galaxies are nothing more than interference patterns caused by the light emitted by stars; mostly young blue stars. The only caveat was when arms are physically created by two "colliding" galaxies separating and distorting each others star fields like stretching taffy.
So, is that theory now debunked?
Why does everyone hate on hunters? I like my hunter!
Hillary specifically, and Democrats in general, have a long history of blaiming _things_ for the actions of people. I think it's a case of them not wanting to offend someone who might vote for them someday. If you think that, you don't truly understand the position of Democrats. Republicans have a slew of things they blame for problems including movies for the corruption of our society, unions for high American labor costs, regulations for weakening our markets, etc. If anything, this is a very conservative move since it will appeal to the Christian right. All Hillary is doing is positioning herself for her presidential run. But, it's all hype. Hillary has nothing but name recognition and the election is 3 years away. Yeah, Bush had nothing but name recognition to run on too, but Hillary doesn't have a colored baby to frighten Southern racists with. Hillary isn't moving left at all, she's moving *RIGHT*. And, it's not going to work.
Robotech, or Macross if you will, made the whole transforming robots thing a hit. In fact, the Jetfire toy was a rip-off of a Robotech/Macross veritech fighter.
Regardless, this is just another in a long line of the lasted Hollywood crazy; remember-when-you-were-a-kid nostalgia remakes aimed more at the parents.
It's a haiku:
Your evil empire,
Crushing those who oppose you,
Die, filthy penguin!
Nice job injecting your own ideology while conveniently ignoring the facts. RTFA, the guy has the documents citing collusion (if that's the proper business term). This isn't some ex post facto patent he's using to leech money off someone else's work. He may have very well have become Palm before Palm was Palm.
You go ahead and "draw your own conclusions" based on what you want to believe and I'll extrapolate from data.
Yeah, we all know the military *wants* volunteers. But, the fact is we're rapidly approaching a critical mass where there aren't enough troops for the military to fulfill its duties. Incentives during an unpopular war won't work well enough when a new recruit is almost guaranteed to go into a combat zone. Volunteer or draftee, the military still needs X number of soldiers to plug into Y number positions.
So, the point remains that a draft is very likely coming assuming things in Iraq and Afghanistan don't start looking as good as the Bush administration says they look.
As for ELS, I don't recall how it works, but I doubt it applies if you've been drafted.
Dude, just continue believing your "Poor people are lazy and rich people work hard" Limbaughist dogma. No point in attempting since you don't even have a clue as to why you're wrong.
"Anyone can have 2 years of living expenses saved."
You have just identified yourself as an elitist moron with no comprehension of how 80% of this country lives.
I disagree. PODS is a young, but awesome IDE, and I think a lot of developers are slowly migrating over to it. In fact, I've heard it rumored that CodeWarrior is going to drop its Palm support (though this might have been miscommunication on their part).
Palms problems are at the top and some of their decision making. Such as crippling WiFi support in the successful Treo 650 in order to make Sprint happy (another poorly run corporation). Now that Nagel is gone, I think the ship will be righted again.
I've been developing for PDAs for about a year now, and I would hate to see Palm go under, forcing everyone to use Microsoft's horrible mobile device OSs.
After seeing some of the business decisions Palm has made in the last couple years, I say they pick an icon like Prince did in the 90's.