... I found it funny that they mentioned the Lost City of Gold as it accidentally referenced the old Allen Quartermaine days (a crappy knockoff of Indy Movies incase you missed them)... Huh? Quatermain was first from the book King Soloman's Mines written in 1885.
At any rate, take AICN stuff as you would with any critic. For those that have never visited the site, read only the first paragraph or two and then skip to the last paragraph or two of Harry's reviews. In between, he's going to expound about a recent mundane task he did which has no bearing on the review, such as his numerous trips to take his grandma to the vet or whatever. STFU, Harry, and get on the with the review. Sheesh.
... Considering that about half of them have made the NYT bestseller list, R.A. Salvatore's fan base is likely considerably larger than you think it is.... Indeed. Login to WoW and check out how many night elf hunters there are with some form of Drizzt as their name....then there are the Legolas clones.
The propensity to name ones character after a favorite fantasy character is amazing. Recently, WoW added a black panther figurine trinket. You can bet every Dizzolas and Legolizzt out there is drooling to get it. Sheep.
While there are probably some exceptions about the Wicked Cool series of books, the fact that it has wicked cool in the title means I won't buy it. It might as well be named "Hella Awesome Gnarly Bitchin' PHP". I wouldn't buy that book, either.
All too often, Google has done the interesting 80% of the functionality and leaves the boring 20% of the cleanup, followthrough, polish and finish languishing in "beta" stage for months, years, forever. Given their culture of 20% on your own projects and soliciting others to help out, this really isn't a surprise with creative people. At 80%, the puzzle and mystery is gone. Everything left to do is known and is the "boring" part.
I had to give my best friend a shout to get the recount of a time Gary called my friend's former roomate an ass.
Yeah, I remember that he and Ernest had a back and forth on an rpg theory newsgroup one time. Gary was getting a little weird in his diatribes, long existential stuff, and he had his core of fanboys that would eat it all up. Ernest kept analyzing what he actually said though and would bring up all sorts of counterpoint arguments, often much more cogent than Gary... who, in Ernest's opinion, had fried his brain on coke in the 80's. After one particular rant, Gary finished it off by "humbly submitting to the group that this Ernest is an ass.' Ernest could not have been prouder, lol. -fragbait
Until the cable companies begin delivering libraries of 1080p on-demand content through their set top boxes, Blu-Ray will pull in plenty of cash. 2004 called and wants its reality back? Granted, it might be 720p, but it is still HD. I watched Order of the Phoenix this past weekend.
Are you already in a leadership type position? Do the people you work with already accept, and respect, you as a leader? If so, you would probably do ok in management where you are. If not, do you think you can gain that acceptance and respect?
If you don't think you can get that acceptance, then it is probably best to go else where, especially if you have never been in a meaningful leadership position before. All.....ALL managers go through that new manager floundering stage. Do it where you where and you might lose respect because people still expect you to do what you used to do. Do it else where and they are probably more forgiving. Additionally, at the new place you are introduced as being "in charge" and the frame of the relationship is set. You don't have to be a jerk, but you do have the right to be the boss. Don't make the mistake of assuming that you can be all buddy, buddy and still be the boss. You have to draw a line.
My general advice of my short, 9 year IT career is...find a BUSINESS with which you like to work, the technology will be irrelevant at that point.
Generally speaking, IT sure is close minded for a group of people who promote open things. Granted, companies mergers always hurt someone. In my 9 years as an IT professional across three fortune 500 companies, I've met way to many close minded, technology biggotted people. Most often they promote open source. I call them yeahbut's. They agree (yeah) and they caveat (but) everything. Call them what you will (BOFH). The days of geek being chic are gone. Business don't care if you get to program something neat. They don't care about creativity. They don't care about innovation.
My advice is to find a business you like working with, not a technology. Once you like the business, you won't care about which language or technology the software is written.
...or even a $400 iPhone this holiday season. I swear these lists must be created by retailers or someone trying to convince you that you have to go all out and spend all your savings. every Christmas Assuming the savings is for retirement instead of a short term goal, e.g. the holiday season.....
First, I'm not advocating anyone spend this much on gifts or that they spend all their savings every year end holiday season. Second, you aren't saving enough for whatever you are saving for if you choose, instead of continuing to save, to buy a $400 iPhone that empties your savings. Even if the other two gifts mentioned are added, you still aren't saving enough if all together they empty your savings.
I'm not trying to belittle the parent poster, either....just adding another perspective.
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children builded. 6 And the Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel (confusion); because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
WoW guilds are a social club. We have an application process and do very informal interviews and make sure that someone fits in both in personality and skill. We have them run a few dungeons with some guild members to get an even better idea. It isn't elitist in the sense that we scoff at people. We just don't want to have excessive amounts of drama.
....who cares?....this is news because? I grew up in Gulfport, MS. I'd rather see it the old way then with all the 15+ story condos they are building now.
Any time I go in to a GameStop or EB Games, I stay about 20 minutes longer than I intended because I end up chatting with the employees about what's out/fun/sucks.
So YOU are the guy that monopolizes the time of the employees so that they ignore other customers or take several extra minutes to checkout customers!!! That's also assuming they aren't ignoring the rest of us by playing the video games, too. Gamestop/EB Games is always a last resort.
"...Your generation aren't the ones who've had to die by the thousands in Iraq...many of you, when you *were* our age yourselves, dodged service...which makes you sending members of my generation off to die that much more disgusting...."
You are partially ignorant. His generation would encompass Vietnam. Approximately 60,000 died and 150,000 wounded. Many suffered for significant periods of time as captives. While nearly 3000 in this Iraq war is significant, 3000 isn't 60,000.
Combating generalizations with generalizations isn't good, but then again what else did you have to go on?
To people who don't deal with the Periodic Table of Elements on a regular basis (i.e. it isn't part of the job or hobbies), this is overwhelming. I find this interesting because I can see how the brain of a fellow human works.
Why go this trouble if they will be presented in the index of a book or an order of operations table? He's forced the information into his way of understanding. He's taken the operators and organized them in a manner that he feels they are easy to deal with.
A chemist can make everything look like chemistry. Or for the programmers, a C programmer can program C in any language.
When I'm in the mood to print something, its print mechanism aches.
When it is in the mood, it takes forever to get warmed up. When it doesn't successfully print something, it's my fault no matter how long I spend trying to get it to print. Occasionally, it tries to fake printing.
Watch out for a paper jam! That takes months to work its way out....
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*whirls through nearest tree*
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... I found it funny that they mentioned the Lost City of Gold as it accidentally referenced the old Allen Quartermaine days (a crappy knockoff of Indy Movies incase you missed them)At any rate, take AICN stuff as you would with any critic. For those that have never visited the site, read only the first paragraph or two and then skip to the last paragraph or two of Harry's reviews. In between, he's going to expound about a recent mundane task he did which has no bearing on the review, such as his numerous trips to take his grandma to the vet or whatever. STFU, Harry, and get on the with the review. Sheesh.
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No, it is supposed to be in terms of Rhode Islands.
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... Considering that about half of them have made the NYT bestseller list, R.A. Salvatore's fan base is likely considerably larger than you think it is.The propensity to name ones character after a favorite fantasy character is amazing. Recently, WoW added a black panther figurine trinket. You can bet every Dizzolas and Legolizzt out there is drooling to get it. Sheep.
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While there are probably some exceptions about the Wicked Cool series of books, the fact that it has wicked cool in the title means I won't buy it. It might as well be named "Hella Awesome Gnarly Bitchin' PHP". I wouldn't buy that book, either.
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I WAs GOing TO SUggest THat ALl POsts ADhere TO THe NEw CApitalization SCheme. YEs, I REalize THat IT WAs ONly THe FIrst WOrd, BUt THis IS MOre FUn.
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Are you already in a leadership type position? Do the people you work with already accept, and respect, you as a leader? If so, you would probably do ok in management where you are. If not, do you think you can gain that acceptance and respect?
If you don't think you can get that acceptance, then it is probably best to go else where, especially if you have never been in a meaningful leadership position before. All.....ALL managers go through that new manager floundering stage. Do it where you where and you might lose respect because people still expect you to do what you used to do. Do it else where and they are probably more forgiving. Additionally, at the new place you are introduced as being "in charge" and the frame of the relationship is set. You don't have to be a jerk, but you do have the right to be the boss. Don't make the mistake of assuming that you can be all buddy, buddy and still be the boss. You have to draw a line.
My general advice of my short, 9 year IT career is...find a BUSINESS with which you like to work, the technology will be irrelevant at that point.
-fragbait
Generally speaking, IT sure is close minded for a group of people who promote open things. Granted, companies mergers always hurt someone. In my 9 years as an IT professional across three fortune 500 companies, I've met way to many close minded, technology biggotted people. Most often they promote open source. I call them yeahbut's. They agree (yeah) and they caveat (but) everything. Call them what you will (BOFH). The days of geek being chic are gone. Business don't care if you get to program something neat. They don't care about creativity. They don't care about innovation.
My advice is to find a business you like working with, not a technology. Once you like the business, you won't care about which language or technology the software is written.
-fragbait
...or even a $400 iPhone this holiday season. I swear these lists must be created by retailers or someone trying to convince you that you have to go all out and spend all your savings. every Christmas Assuming the savings is for retirement instead of a short term goal, e.g. the holiday season.....First, I'm not advocating anyone spend this much on gifts or that they spend all their savings every year end holiday season. Second, you aren't saving enough for whatever you are saving for if you choose, instead of continuing to save, to buy a $400 iPhone that empties your savings. Even if the other two gifts mentioned are added, you still aren't saving enough if all together they empty your savings.
I'm not trying to belittle the parent poster, either.
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1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children builded. 6 And the Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel (confusion); because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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WoW guilds are a social club. We have an application process and do very informal interviews and make sure that someone fits in both in personality and skill. We have them run a few dungeons with some guild members to get an even better idea. It isn't elitist in the sense that we scoff at people. We just don't want to have excessive amounts of drama.
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It looks like you need some padding....
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....who cares? ....this is news because? I grew up in Gulfport, MS. I'd rather see it the old way then with all the 15+ story condos they are building now.
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Along with the package of the day, put a "similar packages" list of links.
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So YOU are the guy that monopolizes the time of the employees so that they ignore other customers or take several extra minutes to checkout customers!!! That's also assuming they aren't ignoring the rest of us by playing the video games, too. Gamestop/EB Games is always a last resort.
You are partially ignorant. His generation would encompass Vietnam. Approximately 60,000 died and 150,000 wounded. Many suffered for significant periods of time as captives. While nearly 3000 in this Iraq war is significant, 3000 isn't 60,000.
Combating generalizations with generalizations isn't good, but then again what else did you have to go on?
I don't have experiences doing this, but trying out Neverwinter Nights GM functionality is the first thing that comes to mind.
Have you tried that?
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I know it doesn't give you the instant satisfaction, but this place has good prices.
http://www.bookpool.com/
I don't work there.
To play Doom, I remember having to boot my 386 without loading the TSRs....
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*hits nearest young'un with cane*
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To people who don't deal with the Periodic Table of Elements on a regular basis (i.e. it isn't part of the job or hobbies), this is overwhelming. I find this interesting because I can see how the brain of a fellow human works.
Why go this trouble if they will be presented in the index of a book or an order of operations table? He's forced the information into his way of understanding. He's taken the operators and organized them in a manner that he feels they are easy to deal with.
A chemist can make everything look like chemistry. Or for the programmers, a C programmer can program C in any language.
-fragbaitWhen I'm in the mood to print something, its print mechanism aches.
When it is in the mood, it takes forever to get warmed up. When it doesn't successfully print something, it's my fault no matter how long I spend trying to get it to print. Occasionally, it tries to fake printing.
Watch out for a paper jam! That takes months to work its way out....
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