Spend an hour reviewing the average job applications at any small business, or especially a fast food chain.
It's hard not to lose hope in the future of humanity when faced with such evidence.
Dumb or dumber? How do you know these kids are not smarter than kids 100 or 1000 years ago? You only have one data point: IQ of today's job applicants.
I imagine the overhead of managing the "Lego-like reconfiguring" would be HUGE... in addition to the company just trying to get its REAL work done. Companies grew large to improve their efficiency. Ironically, people now see big companies as great examples of inefficiency. After some ups and down, the end result will be a little of both and somewhere in the middle.
But then I guess anything that comes out of hollywood (or even before it comes out) is considered a blockbuster these days, regardless of how bad it is. Hooray for marketing.
exactly, the government should be arresting the filmmakers, not the file sharers. The filmmakers are responsible for creating crap films that people are unwilling to pay money for. The filmmakers are guilty.
After ten years, they've only made it to version 3.7. FreeBSD isn't that much older and I already have 7-CURRENT on my laptop. Even Windows progressed from 3.11 to 95 in a few short years.
Actually, Windows is up to version 2003 these days!
I configured my browser to hide the link underlining by default and show it again when I hover on the link
"Mr Mechanic, when I wear my sunglasses at night (I think it looks cooler), I keep crashing my car. Do you think there is something wrong with my car?"
Install Adobe Reader 6:) From the Start->Run windows menu, Open the "x:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader" folder, where x is the right drive letter. Find the plug_ins folder and rename it plug_ins_disabled Create a new folder named plug_ins Copy the following files from "plug_ins_disabled" to "plug_ins": EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api
Of course this will limit the functionality to viewing non-encrypted pdf files, but that's exactly what I want Acrobat ^B^B^B^B^B Adobe Reader for, 99.9% of the time. You might want to experiment leaving some of the fat in, I mean,.API files, like reflow.api and search5.api (if it's there), and see how it affects functionality and load times.
With the files listed, you get half the load time on low-end systems, and a 2-sec load time on high-end ones. Still, you might want to prefer using Acrobat Reader 4.05 on old systems, since it loads in just seven seconds instead of 20.
Yeah, but if someone says they have an "iRiver H300 series", atleast I know what they have. If someone says they have an "iPod", they could have any number of things, it's pretty ambigious.
Exactly! Joe User does not care. They are easily confused, but Apple has wrapped that confusing techno gizmology into a consumer-friendly concept: iPod = music to go. "Mommy, I want an iPod for Christmas! Joey next door got an iPod!"
In the 1990s, much R&D went into video-on-demand and set-top boxes. Everyone had a TV, so everyone assumed the TV would be the communication device of the future. But the market for video-on-demand never really materialized. Why not repurpose all the research for video-on-demand for my mobile phone? Sure, some operators offer some limited, gimicky video (like Verizon's VCast), but imagine a mobile phone service that combined Tivo+Netflix? Since mobile phone bandwidth is limited, maybe we can't have video-on-DEMAND today, but we could have a Netflix-like video wishlist that delivered your shows overnight into a Tivo-like "inbox" on your phone. This also lets operators make use of their network infrastructure "off-hours". Qualcomm's MediaFLO is sorta like this.
My wife and I just gave birth to our first child (well, she did most of the work, if you know what I mean). Then I got laid-off because my job was outsourced to India because some open-source software started copying the company's software. So now I'm a stay-at-home dad, a Mr Mom, if you will.
Spending time with our daughter, something buried in me began to shine through my depression. My childhood was happy and then everything started going down hill. The solution: I would become a man-baby.
I stopped searching for a new job. I cashed out my 401k to buy a queen-sized, custom-made baby crib. When my wife gets home from work, she changes our daughter's diapers. Then she changes my diapers. My man poopy is much larger (and stinkier) than my daughter's! My wife is still breast-feeding our daughter. She has yet to warm up to breast-feeding me. It took long enough to get her to change my diapers! I sneak some of my wife's milk from our daughter's bottle ('ba-ba"), though I add a splash of booze to my ba-ba.
I have a job interview next week, but I'm not sure if I'm going to go. My wife sent my resume to be bunch of job ads on craigslist. I guess she wants me to get a job. But I'm not ready for that. I still a little (man) baby, damn it! Wait til I get a little older before sending me off to work..
Doctors and lawyers get paid more because there are more buyers. Maybe we don't need as many scientists to "service" our nation's science needs that we need doctors to service our nation's health care needs.
Micheal Moore, George Soros, JOHN KERRY? By far left I consider these socialists to be apart of it.
In other countries, John Kerry would be considered a conservative member of their conservative political parties! In Canada, even the "conservatives" support socialized health care.
On Linux, checking whether malloc() returned NULL is a waste of time. Because Linux overcommits memory and tries to allocate the backing pages lazily, malloc() might return a pointer to memory that is not backed by real pages. When your code eventually uses that memory, Linux now can't find enough pages, so your app crashes. malloc() returned a non-NULL pointer, but you were OOM anyways.
J2ME JVMs are so buggy and inconsistent that JAMDAT has to create 100 different builds and packages to support different J2ME VM bugs and different screen sizes and resolutions.
I have the same problem. As an experiment, I used about:config to reduce the memory cache to 0 bytes (silly idea, I know, but it was an experiment). That did not reduce Firefox's memory footprint and it revealed a bug where some HTML pages would not render if I had the memory cache at 0 bytes but the disk cache at > 0 bytes. If I increased the memory cache to exactly 1 byte, then the problem pages would render. Yes, I reported this bug in Bugzilla, but I doubt it will ever be fixed..:\
Actually, "Postgres" is was a precursor to "PostgreSQL". The database started as a university research project called Ingress. A follow-on version was called Postgres (i.e., Post-Ingress). SQL support was added later; thus PostgreSQL (Postgres + SQL).
I'm sure that senators aren't quite as smart as you, but I bet they could do it in two sentences, or perhaps one run-on.
I think the grandparent post meant that the media's and Joe Voter's minds would explode because they must see everything as black/white, Democrat/GOP, pro-Bush/anti-Bush. They could not pinpoint an extreme libertarian postition on their one-dimensional scale.
Netflix is not an on-demand service, but my Netflix movie queue has 500 movies I *know* I want to see. I get 3 DVDs at a time, so while I'm waiting period for the next DVD arrive, I still have 2 other DVDs to watch.
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Spend an hour reviewing the average job applications at any small business, or especially a fast food chain.
It's hard not to lose hope in the future of humanity when faced with such evidence.
Dumb or dumber? How do you know these kids are not smarter than kids 100 or 1000 years ago? You only have one data point: IQ of today's job applicants.
I imagine the overhead of managing the "Lego-like reconfiguring" would be HUGE... in addition to the company just trying to get its REAL work done. Companies grew large to improve their efficiency. Ironically, people now see big companies as great examples of inefficiency. After some ups and down, the end result will be a little of both and somewhere in the middle.
But then I guess anything that comes out of hollywood (or even before it comes out) is considered a blockbuster these days, regardless of how bad it is. Hooray for marketing.
exactly, the government should be arresting the filmmakers, not the file sharers. The filmmakers are responsible for creating crap films that people are unwilling to pay money for. The filmmakers are guilty.
Nobody really knows. The city government and the company they contracted are being very tight-lipped about the whole deal.
Transparent government always inspires confidence.
They can take my TV when they pry the remote from my cold, dead fingers! When analog TV is outlawed, only outlaws will have analog TV!
What are some examples of natural monopolies that were not created or mandated by government regulation (such as the phone and cable service)?
Yes, we've been reading about this Long Now clock for a long time. What is taking these Long Now guys so damn long?!1!
After ten years, they've only made it to version 3.7. FreeBSD isn't that much older and I already have 7-CURRENT on my laptop. Even Windows progressed from 3.11 to 95 in a few short years.
Actually, Windows is up to version 2003 these days!
I configured my browser to hide the link underlining by default and show it again when I hover on the link
"Mr Mechanic, when I wear my sunglasses at night (I think it looks cooler), I keep crashing my car. Do you think there is something wrong with my car?"
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11041
Install Adobe Reader 6
From the Start->Run windows menu, Open the "x:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader" folder, where x is the right drive letter.
Find the plug_ins folder and rename it plug_ins_disabled
Create a new folder named plug_ins
Copy the following files from "plug_ins_disabled" to "plug_ins": EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api
Of course this will limit the functionality to viewing non-encrypted pdf files, but that's exactly what I want Acrobat ^B^B^B^B^B Adobe Reader for, 99.9% of the time. You might want to experiment leaving some of the fat in, I mean,
With the files listed, you get half the load time on low-end systems, and a 2-sec load time on high-end ones. Still, you might want to prefer using Acrobat Reader 4.05 on old systems, since it loads in just seven seconds instead of 20.
How much weed did you smoke before posting?
Yeah, but if someone says they have an "iRiver H300 series", atleast I know what they have. If someone says they have an "iPod", they could have any number of things, it's pretty ambigious.
Exactly! Joe User does not care. They are easily confused, but Apple has wrapped that confusing techno gizmology into a consumer-friendly concept: iPod = music to go. "Mommy, I want an iPod for Christmas! Joey next door got an iPod!"
In the 1990s, much R&D went into video-on-demand and set-top boxes. Everyone had a TV, so everyone assumed the TV would be the communication device of the future. But the market for video-on-demand never really materialized. Why not repurpose all the research for video-on-demand for my mobile phone? Sure, some operators offer some limited, gimicky video (like Verizon's VCast), but imagine a mobile phone service that combined Tivo+Netflix? Since mobile phone bandwidth is limited, maybe we can't have video-on-DEMAND today, but we could have a Netflix-like video wishlist that delivered your shows overnight into a Tivo-like "inbox" on your phone. This also lets operators make use of their network infrastructure "off-hours". Qualcomm's MediaFLO is sorta like this.
My wife and I just gave birth to our first child (well, she did most of the work, if you know what I mean). Then I got laid-off because my job was outsourced to India because some open-source software started copying the company's software. So now I'm a stay-at-home dad, a Mr Mom, if you will.
Spending time with our daughter, something buried in me began to shine through my depression. My childhood was happy and then everything started going down hill. The solution: I would become a man-baby.
I stopped searching for a new job. I cashed out my 401k to buy a queen-sized, custom-made baby crib. When my wife gets home from work, she changes our daughter's diapers. Then she changes my diapers. My man poopy is much larger (and stinkier) than my daughter's! My wife is still breast-feeding our daughter. She has yet to warm up to breast-feeding me. It took long enough to get her to change my diapers! I sneak some of my wife's milk from our daughter's bottle ('ba-ba"), though I add a splash of booze to my ba-ba.
I have a job interview next week, but I'm not sure if I'm going to go. My wife sent my resume to be bunch of job ads on craigslist. I guess she wants me to get a job. But I'm not ready for that. I still a little (man) baby, damn it! Wait til I get a little older before sending me off to work..
Doctors and lawyers get paid more because there are more buyers. Maybe we don't need as many scientists to "service" our nation's science needs that we need doctors to service our nation's health care needs.
Micheal Moore, George Soros, JOHN KERRY? By far left I consider these socialists to be apart of it.
In other countries, John Kerry would be considered a conservative member of their conservative political parties! In Canada, even the "conservatives" support socialized health care.
On Linux, checking whether malloc() returned NULL is a waste of time. Because Linux overcommits memory and tries to allocate the backing pages lazily, malloc() might return a pointer to memory that is not backed by real pages. When your code eventually uses that memory, Linux now can't find enough pages, so your app crashes. malloc() returned a non-NULL pointer, but you were OOM anyways.
J2ME JVMs are so buggy and inconsistent that JAMDAT has to create 100 different builds and packages to support different J2ME VM bugs and different screen sizes and resolutions.
I'm curious what brand/model of phone you have??
But the "consumers" are not the handset manufacturers' customers. The carriers are, so end users' demands don't really matter.
How's that Japanese economy doing these days?
I have the same problem. As an experiment, I used about:config to reduce the memory cache to 0 bytes (silly idea, I know, but it was an experiment). That did not reduce Firefox's memory footprint and it revealed a bug where some HTML pages would not render if I had the memory cache at 0 bytes but the disk cache at > 0 bytes. If I increased the memory cache to exactly 1 byte, then the problem pages would render. Yes, I reported this bug in Bugzilla, but I doubt it will ever be fixed..
Actually, "Postgres" is was a precursor to "PostgreSQL". The database started as a university research project called Ingress. A follow-on version was called Postgres (i.e., Post-Ingress). SQL support was added later; thus PostgreSQL (Postgres + SQL).
I'm sure that senators aren't quite as smart as you, but I bet they could do it in two sentences, or perhaps one run-on.
I think the grandparent post meant that the media's and Joe Voter's minds would explode because they must see everything as black/white, Democrat/GOP, pro-Bush/anti-Bush. They could not pinpoint an extreme libertarian postition on their one-dimensional scale.
Netflix is not an on-demand service, but my Netflix movie queue has 500 movies I *know* I want to see. I get 3 DVDs at a time, so while I'm waiting period for the next DVD arrive, I still have 2 other DVDs to watch.