I realised the other day that I am almost there already. I flipped through the TV guide for a few minutes and found that there was not a single thing on TV that I wanted to watch. It is not that I have unusual tastes. It was just all a complete and utter waste of my time.
Now, I carefully browse the guide, select a show - if possible, and watch only that. Then I get up and leave so that I can do something else.
I came to the shocking realisation that there is not a single movie that I would even be willing to search for on the internet right now as a free download. They simply are not making that many movies worth watching anymore.
"I personally am a little creeped out by it," said interior designer Heidi Hirvonen-White, who crosses the Golden Gate Bridge up to twice a day commuting between Tiburon and San Francisco. "In today's society it seems like any sort of code or whatnot can be broken."
Congratulations Heidi! You just broke it! Without having to resort to any script kiddie stuff I just figured out you cross the Golden Gate Bridge twice a day.
But wait, that is not all! I sense more coming through here... Yes, you are an interior designer!
For heavens sake, if she is that worried about her privacy why is she giving her name, location and profession to the newspaper to plaster all over the place!?
As I replied to the parent post; Recently, I programmed a tic-tac-toe game (noughts and crosses for the other people) and did not teach it any rules. All it knew was a history of games already played. The gist of it was as follows. It looked at a previous game and if the moves matched what was on the board already, then it tried to play the same way that the winner of that game played.
I thrashed it for about 50 games and then it steadily started pushing me to a draw in almost every game. Around 120 games it started beating me on the odd occasion. If you are a Delphi programmer, I will send you the source code if you are interested.
Recently, I programmed a tic-tac-toe game (noughts and crosses for the other people) and did not teach it any rules. All it knew was a history of games already played. The gist of it was as follows. It looked at a previous game and if the moves matched what was on the board already, then it tried to play the same way that the winner of that game played.
I thrashed it for about 50 games and then it steadily started pushing me to a draw in almost every game. Around 120 games it started beating me on the odd occasion. If you are a Delphi programmer, I will send you the source code if you are interested.
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We had quite a lively discussion about go on slashdot a while ago.
The reason the massive shipments of AIDS drugs are not going to South Africa is because there is somebody there called President Mbeki. He refuses to believe that AIDS is a problem. Yes, it all just propaganda. The only thing killing these people is poverty and oppression from the rich western countries.
And now for the next Mensa graduation step, he is considering wiping out the mining industry. Yes! That should sort out the poverty problem!
Could you give me some contact info on those lawyers? At the moment I am going through lawyers, but my application is not even through the department of labor yet and I have been going at it for more than a year already.
The problem with your scenario comes in when you are applying for a green card as well. I am currently in that situation. My current employer is the biggest lying stealing SOB that I have ever worked for, but I simply have to stick it out for the next 3 years to ensure I get my green card application through.
Sure, I could change employers - the law allows me to do that. Only problem is that I move back to the start of the queue again and wait another year or so. At this stage I cannot risk that as my H1 will run out before my GC is through. (And I started my application within 2 months of getting here!)
Come on! I am an H1B holder and I cannot get a job because all the openings specifically exclude H1-B candidates.
Browse the jobs yourself if you don't believe me. 98% of them say "US Citizen or Green Card holders only"
I know you are not going to believe me, but there is a recession on and it affects everybody. Meanwhile, my country of origin sits with a 37% unemployment rate. Do you want me take my family there to starve? (There is no social security or anything like that there. You work or you die.)
My mom is still trying to get the hang of her cellphone. She is way too scared to even venture into PC's at this stage despite all my prompting that it is "sooo easy". Somehow, they just manage to intimidate her, which is quite odd as most other things in life don't intimidate her.
So, you are saying that because the "paper" newspaper invaded your privacy with unneeded questions, then it is also Ok for the "internet" newspaper to invade your privacy. NO! NO! You should have said no to the newspaper in the first place. There is no, I REPEAT NO!, reason on earth that they need your telephone number to get the paper to you.
Stop this invasion of privacy right now!
[Oh, I just realised my sig is quite relevant to this post:) ]
At my local AMC they put up a fat advert on the screen asking people to switch off their cellphones. (Obviously it doesn't work) If you miss that warning then you are obviously too blind to be watching the movie or you are too stupid to be receiving important phone calls during a movie.
Use "The Proxomitron" (a proxy server for Windows machines, yes - I know).
I wasn't redirected to any ads.
I didn't see any ads.
I just glided straight into the article and read the relevant news unencumbered by the intrusive marketing ploys of, oh say maybe a competing cable company opening up in my area.
Oh come on! Where do you live? Out here (in LA) I only have 1 choice of Cable (ATT) and 1 choice of DSL (PacBell). Neither of them are "driving prices down" because they have reached a cushy level where both companies charge what they feel is right.
The only way you can have real competition is to have companies competing in the same market. I.e. more than 1 cable provider, more than 1 DSL provider, etc. Anything else is just a farce paid for by the companies trying to promote their own BS.
I am sorry. Your analogy is off. If a publisher employs me to write a book for them, then sure they own it. However, if I come to them with my book in hand already, then I own it. (At least until I sign the contract.) Whoever owns the book should be allowed some control over it.
I am sorry, but you are wrong.
Since I have the "free" version of Kylix2, the auditing paragraph is totally irrevelant to me.
If you used the "free" version to start churning out commercial products, then the audit would be very relevant to you.
So, don't assume anything here. Go get the door it's Borland. Or is that Dominos?
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Personally, I think India is just trying to "curry" favour with the more developed nations.
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
I realised the other day that I am almost there already. I flipped through the TV guide for a few minutes and found that there was not a single thing on TV that I wanted to watch. It is not that I have unusual tastes. It was just all a complete and utter waste of my time.
Now, I carefully browse the guide, select a show - if possible, and watch only that. Then I get up and leave so that I can do something else.
I came to the shocking realisation that there is not a single movie that I would even be willing to search for on the internet right now as a free download. They simply are not making that many movies worth watching anymore.
--
Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
If this thing doesn't have a "board", then how about calling it a keytube?
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Employing incompetence: $35/h
Fixing the resulting mistakes: $1000's
Employing me: Priceless
"I personally am a little creeped out by it," said interior designer Heidi Hirvonen-White, who crosses the Golden Gate Bridge up to twice a day commuting between Tiburon and San Francisco. "In today's society it seems like any sort of code or whatnot can be broken."
Congratulations Heidi! You just broke it! Without having to resort to any script kiddie stuff I just figured out you cross the Golden Gate Bridge twice a day.
But wait, that is not all! I sense more coming through here... Yes, you are an interior designer!
For heavens sake, if she is that worried about her privacy why is she giving her name, location and profession to the newspaper to plaster all over the place!?
As I replied to the parent post;
Recently, I programmed a tic-tac-toe game (noughts and crosses for the other people) and did not teach it any rules. All it knew was a history of games already played. The gist of it was as follows. It looked at a previous game and if the moves matched what was on the board already, then it tried to play the same way that the winner of that game played.
I thrashed it for about 50 games and then it steadily started pushing me to a draw in almost every game. Around 120 games it started beating me on the odd occasion. If you are a Delphi programmer, I will send you the source code if you are interested.
Recently, I programmed a tic-tac-toe game (noughts and crosses for the other people) and did not teach it any rules. All it knew was a history of games already played. The gist of it was as follows. It looked at a previous game and if the moves matched what was on the board already, then it tried to play the same way that the winner of that game played.
I thrashed it for about 50 games and then it steadily started pushing me to a draw in almost every game. Around 120 games it started beating me on the odd occasion. If you are a Delphi programmer, I will send you the source code if you are interested.
We had quite a lively discussion about go on slashdot a while ago.
Having travelled extensively in the USA, Europe and Africa, I think I can positively say that this is a USA only thing.
The reason the massive shipments of AIDS drugs are not going to South Africa is because there is somebody there called President Mbeki. He refuses to believe that AIDS is a problem. Yes, it all just propaganda. The only thing killing these people is poverty and oppression from the rich western countries.
And now for the next Mensa graduation step, he is considering wiping out the mining industry. Yes! That should sort out the poverty problem!
Where's the airbag for the windows users in case of the good old Blue Screen 'o death!!?
Talk about getting the priorities all wrong!
There you go. All your problems solved as soon as I walk through the door.
Seriously, if anybody is looking for an ABAP developer in the LA area, let me know. mstore1 at yahoo - you know the rest.
Could you give me some contact info on those lawyers? At the moment I am going through lawyers, but my application is not even through the department of labor yet and I have been going at it for more than a year already.
The problem with your scenario comes in when you are applying for a green card as well. I am currently in that situation. My current employer is the biggest lying stealing SOB that I have ever worked for, but I simply have to stick it out for the next 3 years to ensure I get my green card application through.
Sure, I could change employers - the law allows me to do that. Only problem is that I move back to the start of the queue again and wait another year or so. At this stage I cannot risk that as my H1 will run out before my GC is through. (And I started my application within 2 months of getting here!)
Come on! I am an H1B holder and I cannot get a job because all the openings specifically exclude H1-B candidates.
Browse the jobs yourself if you don't believe me. 98% of them say "US Citizen or Green Card holders only"
I know you are not going to believe me, but there is a recession on and it affects everybody. Meanwhile, my country of origin sits with a 37% unemployment rate. Do you want me take my family there to starve? (There is no social security or anything like that there. You work or you die.)
Light the first stick - this will burn for an hour.
Snap the second stick in half - the first half will burn for 30 minutes.
Snap the second half in half again - the first "quarter" will burn for 15 minutes.
1 h + 30 m + 15m = viola!
How could they have put all the comments on the page if it says;
Page last modified January 1, 1970 GMT
My mom is still trying to get the hang of her cellphone. She is way too scared to even venture into PC's at this stage despite all my prompting that it is "sooo easy". Somehow, they just manage to intimidate her, which is quite odd as most other things in life don't intimidate her.
I guess it is some kind of mental block.
Maybe the aerospace companies should have kept that in mind while building their Mars smasher...er explorer...
The reason the I, and the ISO incidentally, like the biggest unit first is because then you can sort the data easily. e.g.
20020705
20020802
compared to;
02082002
05072002
So, you are saying that because the "paper" newspaper invaded your privacy with unneeded questions, then it is also Ok for the "internet" newspaper to invade your privacy. NO! NO! You should have said no to the newspaper in the first place. There is no, I REPEAT NO!, reason on earth that they need your telephone number to get the paper to you.
:) ]
Stop this invasion of privacy right now!
[Oh, I just realised my sig is quite relevant to this post
At my local AMC they put up a fat advert on the screen asking people to switch off their cellphones. (Obviously it doesn't work) If you miss that warning then you are obviously too blind to be watching the movie or you are too stupid to be receiving important phone calls during a movie.
Use "The Proxomitron" (a proxy server for Windows machines, yes - I know). I wasn't redirected to any ads. I didn't see any ads. I just glided straight into the article and read the relevant news unencumbered by the intrusive marketing ploys of, oh say maybe a competing cable company opening up in my area.
Oh come on! Where do you live? Out here (in LA) I only have 1 choice of Cable (ATT) and 1 choice of DSL (PacBell). Neither of them are "driving prices down" because they have reached a cushy level where both companies charge what they feel is right. The only way you can have real competition is to have companies competing in the same market. I.e. more than 1 cable provider, more than 1 DSL provider, etc. Anything else is just a farce paid for by the companies trying to promote their own BS.
I am sorry. Your analogy is off. If a publisher employs me to write a book for them, then sure they own it. However, if I come to them with my book in hand already, then I own it. (At least until I sign the contract.) Whoever owns the book should be allowed some control over it.
I am sorry, but you are wrong. Since I have the "free" version of Kylix2, the auditing paragraph is totally irrevelant to me. If you used the "free" version to start churning out commercial products, then the audit would be very relevant to you. So, don't assume anything here. Go get the door it's Borland. Or is that Dominos?