Networks don't want to make the language "more harsh" or realistic, or mature, they want to make it more profitable
and every little "bitch" counts. They ruled out appropriate behavior by The Tick in favor of appeal-to-young-men-with-disposable-income behavior.
Cause The Tick wasn't even broadcast last week (Turkey/Adam Sandler day), and it is not scheduled for this week, either (Lord of the Rings informercial will be on). Maybe I've seen (and enjoyed) the only two episodes that will ever be broadcast.
Little kid told me,"I used to watch The Tick cartoon show, but now I watch the real Tick."
In many cases it is a hassle and expensive to graduate and then get the 2nd bachelors degree. The Administration thinks that you are slacking (who, me?) and is always eager for a reason to charge higher tuition. If you are going to stay in school DO NOT apply for your first degree until you are good and ready, maybe when you have finished up the work for a second degree, or go for a double major.
Totally agree. They sort of, kind of, think that the ISS will be the first step to space stations - but from the start it was so vague and underfunded (because no one could justify more money for the vague - this isn't a military project!) that by the time it is finished or stopped I believe that many of the lessons needed for the next generation will have been learned by cheaper means, independent of the ISS. It's the CueCat of astronautics.
Yes! This is what I do when I write the thank you letter. Bring up anything that was started during the interview process. It can just be how you felt about the work environment. If you sit down and can't say ANYTHING about your interview activity, maybe that place isn't really much. It can let you and the interviewers think about the interview and how they feel about the whole thing.
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I'll go with the Emacs auto-completion features any day. It's enough to be useful but not dangerous. The various Builder features in JBuilder and C++ Builder make it frightfully easy to automatically build a new class or resource over what I've been working on for several hours. In JBuilder I would have to make a backup of my directory every hour just to be slightly safe.
Left out the part where AC said: His [RMS] statement was fairly accurate in describing how we finally entered the war. Perhaps you should go back to US History class before you launch verbal attacks.
I'm already carrying around my iPaq anyway, you Luddite. I'd like to deal with an e-book the same way I already deal with my combination electronic rolodex/ photo viewer/data base/media player/GPS/avant go/audio book player/ iPaq. An e-book is no more an additional burden to this set-up then it is a a burden to need a light source and my eyeglasses to read a paper book.
Our prima jackass said "Coding standards? I use lots of coding standards! Which one do you want to talk about?" p.s. He was a rotten coder and designer.
I find many of the hardware review articles hard to take. They don't get the editing they need before they are posted, and once posted, they never seem to be corrected or updated as the product gets into the user's hands and more is learned.
I encounter the remark "question 9 below" but the poster HAS NOT NUMBERED the questions. Ravecher went to a lot of effort to answer these questions, so how about fixing that up? Or stick in a hyperlink.
My experience with the AIW is that Win98 resources are so pathetic, it probably cannot do these things. When I am running the TV window I can't play an audio clip (audio, mind you) with the Windows sound recorder. The necessary Windows (whatever) resource is already in use! And that is just audio, imagine threading a video resource! MS sure couldn't imagine that.
I think a lot of spammers get their money by convincing someone to "invest" in their spam operation. They show them their huge file of e-mail addresses and explain the immense profit that will be made by selling some low-cost product at high prices to millions of people. The sucker puts his money into this "high-tech" investment and the spammers pocket and piss it all away without even caring if anyone who is spammed buys anything.
AT&T loved the competitive freeze which regulations generated. The regulations of the 60s and 70s kept modem leasing prices insanely high. And if you wanted to own a modem you still had to pay ripoff fees because your modem might corrupt the entire phone system. If AT&T had pressed for the mobile phones they might have gotten them, but then other parties and the FCC itself might have developed the expectation that the FCC should allow modern THINKING about things like the modem ripoffs.
I'll say something. Really, there is so little to this guy.
In that management
article there is a paragraph:
"Your business success will
depend on the extent to which programmers essentially live at your
office. For this to be a common choice, your office had better be
nicer than the average programmer's home. There are two ways to
achieve this result. One is to hire programmers who live in extremely
shabby apartments. The other is to create a nice office. Microsoft
understands this. In the early 1990s they did radio spots with John
Cleese as a spokesman. One of the main points of the ad was to
ridicule the cheap open-plan offices in which programmers were
traditionally housed and promote the fact that at Microsoft each
developer gets a plush personal office."
The remark about shabby apartments are pretty snotty. Oh,
it was humor. If there is anything right about this paragraph it is
the idea that personal offices are good. I'm in an organization with
individual offices and I feel there is no substitute for the ways it
improves our productivity.
Then Phil gets into various dimensions of improving the office
and, guess what, that's the last mention of personal offices. He talks
about Aeron chairs, and spreading desks apart, and pin ball
machines. Anyone who works in their own office will tell you that
those other things are nothing compared to their own office. This is
major league hand waving to me. It is followed by more nothing
attempts to keep the programmers shackled to their job.
And back to working: the idea is to work programmers 70 hours a week but that
includes "25 hours of coordination and structure comprehension time." Does that
mean 25 hours of meetings? I don't feel that he clarifies what these 25 hours of whatever are for. He also leaves out the part that the programmer is paid $100,000 a year and gets 5 weeks vacation. He mentions that in a post to slashdot, but didn't include that here. He also posted that this is about getting the best out of the next Linus Torvalds and it isn't about regular programmers; and something about getting a person to work 70 hours, but the time could include learning the piano. I can't figure out who he is writing about, or who he's addressing the article to.
It's stupid ideas, based on false or absurd presumptions. It's
someone who just likes to hear himself talk. Hand-waving. It all just
gets real smelly to me, and this is just the tiniest part of the
article and his followup posts. I've reached my limit now.
That managing software article presented the management theories of a complete jackass. And then here at slashdot he filled in the gaps in the article with outrageous excuses and backpedaling for about half of the screwy ideas. That was double-jackass. Get what I'm saying?
The 1997 book by James Harford, "Korolev : How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon" seems to cover all the bases of Soviet space flight facts and rumors.
Yes, you are dreaming. That expert you call on will not play "editor"- they will naturally expect to be a CO-AUTHOR. That is how they got and keep their reputation in the field. Why will they settle for a check when they can get their payment in something much more valuable? And then why would they NOT want to be published in the usual channels? Now, when you become the big-shot then...
oh yeah, first you have to publish to become the big-shot. Ask any of the published grad students what they had to do to be published - it's pretty sick.
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Networks don't want to make the language "more harsh" or realistic, or mature, they want to make it more profitable
and every little "bitch" counts. They ruled out appropriate behavior by The Tick in favor of appeal-to-young-men-with-disposable-income behavior.
Cause The Tick wasn't even broadcast last week (Turkey/Adam Sandler day), and it is not scheduled for this week, either (Lord of the Rings informercial will be on). Maybe I've seen (and enjoyed) the only two episodes that will ever be broadcast.
Little kid told me,"I used to watch The Tick cartoon show, but now I watch the real Tick."
In many cases it is a hassle and expensive to graduate and then get the 2nd bachelors degree. The Administration thinks that you are slacking (who, me?) and is always eager for a reason to charge higher tuition. If you are going to stay in school DO NOT apply for your first degree until you are good and ready, maybe when you have finished up the work for a second degree, or go for a double major.
"Ducktape" is what people ask for when they go to the hardware store. "Duct tape" is what they end up buying. So much for the power of plain text.
Totally agree. They sort of, kind of, think that the ISS will be the first step to space stations - but from the start it was so vague and underfunded (because no one could justify more money for the vague - this isn't a military project!) that by the time it is finished or stopped I believe that many of the lessons needed for the next generation will have been learned by cheaper means, independent of the ISS. It's the CueCat of astronautics.
Yes! This is what I do when I write the thank you letter. Bring up anything that was started during the interview process. It can just be how you felt about the work environment. If you sit down and can't say ANYTHING about your interview activity, maybe that place isn't really much. It can let you and the interviewers think about the interview and how they feel about the whole thing.
I'll go with the Emacs auto-completion features any day. It's enough to be useful but not dangerous. The various Builder features in JBuilder and C++ Builder make it frightfully easy to automatically build a new class or resource over what I've been working on for several hours. In JBuilder I would have to make a backup of my directory every hour just to be slightly safe.
You don't have that problem? Someday you will.
Left out the part where AC said:
His [RMS] statement was fairly accurate in describing how we finally entered the war. Perhaps you should go back to US History class before you launch verbal attacks.
I'm already carrying around my iPaq anyway, you Luddite. I'd like to deal with an e-book the same way I already deal with my combination electronic rolodex/ photo viewer /data base /media player /GPS /avant go /audio book player/ iPaq. An e-book is no more an additional burden to this set-up then it is a a burden to need a light source and my eyeglasses to read a paper book.
That may satisfy the HR-tards with requirements for "5 years as a Curl or C developer"
Our prima jackass said "Coding standards? I use lots of coding standards! Which one do you want to talk about?" p.s. He was a rotten coder and designer.
Of that great Popeye musical cartoon about Alladin and his lamp, with Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl. Most of the Popeye tunes were also better.
What! You wasted a "First Post!" on something that is actually funny!
I find many of the hardware review articles hard to take. They don't get the editing they need before they are posted, and once posted, they never seem to be corrected or updated as the product gets into the user's hands and more is learned.
I encounter the remark "question 9 below" but the poster HAS NOT NUMBERED the questions. Ravecher went to a lot of effort to answer these questions, so how about fixing that up? Or stick in a hyperlink.
My experience with the AIW is that Win98 resources are so pathetic, it probably cannot do these things. When I am running the TV window I can't play an audio clip (audio, mind you) with the Windows sound recorder. The necessary Windows (whatever) resource is already in use! And that is just audio, imagine threading a video resource! MS sure couldn't imagine that.
I think a lot of spammers get their money by convincing someone to "invest" in their spam operation. They show them their huge file of e-mail addresses and explain the immense profit that will be made by selling some low-cost product at high prices to millions of people. The sucker puts his money into this "high-tech" investment and the spammers pocket and piss it all away without even caring if anyone who is spammed buys anything.
I don't know of any country-music-only zone. It could be pretty good. Oh, you mean that crap-commercial-twangie-music-only zone. That's different.
"Drop everything" means drop everything.
AT&T loved the competitive freeze which regulations generated. The regulations of the 60s and 70s kept modem leasing prices insanely high. And if you wanted to own a modem you still had to pay ripoff fees because your modem might corrupt the entire phone system. If AT&T had pressed for the mobile phones they might have gotten them, but then other parties and the FCC itself might have developed the expectation that the FCC should allow modern THINKING about things like the modem ripoffs.
I'll say something. Really, there is so little to this guy. In that management article there is a paragraph:
"Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers essentially live at your office. For this to be a common choice, your office had better be nicer than the average programmer's home. There are two ways to achieve this result. One is to hire programmers who live in extremely shabby apartments. The other is to create a nice office. Microsoft understands this. In the early 1990s they did radio spots with John Cleese as a spokesman. One of the main points of the ad was to ridicule the cheap open-plan offices in which programmers were traditionally housed and promote the fact that at Microsoft each developer gets a plush personal office."
The remark about shabby apartments are pretty snotty. Oh, it was humor. If there is anything right about this paragraph it is the idea that personal offices are good. I'm in an organization with individual offices and I feel there is no substitute for the ways it improves our productivity.
Then Phil gets into various dimensions of improving the office and, guess what, that's the last mention of personal offices. He talks about Aeron chairs, and spreading desks apart, and pin ball machines. Anyone who works in their own office will tell you that those other things are nothing compared to their own office. This is major league hand waving to me. It is followed by more nothing attempts to keep the programmers shackled to their job.
And back to working: the idea is to work programmers 70 hours a week but that includes "25 hours of coordination and structure comprehension time." Does that mean 25 hours of meetings? I don't feel that he clarifies what these 25 hours of whatever are for. He also leaves out the part that the programmer is paid $100,000 a year and gets 5 weeks vacation. He mentions that in a post to slashdot, but didn't include that here. He also posted that this is about getting the best out of the next Linus Torvalds and it isn't about regular programmers; and something about getting a person to work 70 hours, but the time could include learning the piano. I can't figure out who he is writing about, or who he's addressing the article to.
It's stupid ideas, based on false or absurd presumptions. It's someone who just likes to hear himself talk. Hand-waving. It all just gets real smelly to me, and this is just the tiniest part of the article and his followup posts. I've reached my limit now.
That managing software article presented the management theories of a complete jackass. And then here at slashdot he filled in the gaps in the article with outrageous excuses and backpedaling for about half of the screwy ideas. That was double-jackass. Get what I'm saying?
The 1997 book by James Harford, "Korolev : How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon" seems to cover all the bases of Soviet space flight facts and rumors.
Yes, you are dreaming. That expert you call on will not play "editor"- they will naturally expect to be a CO-AUTHOR. That is how they got and keep their reputation in the field. Why will they settle for a check when they can get their payment in something much more valuable? And then why would they NOT want to be published in the usual channels? Now, when you become the big-shot then... oh yeah, first you have to publish to become the big-shot. Ask any of the published grad students what they had to do to be published - it's pretty sick.
whose discovery of jazz was also lost for many ages.