Interesting variation on the behavior. I suppose a qualified psycologist would be better to weigh in on why this happens than we amatures: Curiousity? Rebellion against peer (self imposed or external or both) pressure? Or simply what they'd prefer, despite what they normally consume?
I've got beyond the "just surviving" part of vegetarian diet, and am proceding well along inventing my own recipes and food combinations. This often results in cases like I posted. Similar we have a source, at work, of some high quality juices (Hansen's/Jarritos, i.e. better than generic sodas or Hawaiian Punch) and they go first during parties. I've even noticed people taking bottled water rather than name brand sodas, diet or regular.
Inspired somewhat by the poll and Q #3 (which I feel he kinda weaseled on) I'll pass along a tid-bit of wisdom gleaned from experience:
If you are a vegetarian and participating in a potluck/buffet with non-vegetarians (this particularly if you are one of one or two) plan for more. As much as I've got a few views on eating animals, it's been exasperating to bring the only vegetarian dish and have non-veg people suddenly decide to try them and take all before you get a chance (or just keep a private stash in a container for yourself to guarrantee you eat!)
If you want to sell people on virtues of vegetarian dining, make good dishes to share. Beats the heck out of getting into debates.:o)
I dub thee Stanley
I dub thee Craftsman
I dub thee Snap-On
I dub thee Russian Airsickness Bag
I dub thee Paint Chip
I dub thee Scott Evil's Secret Hideout
I dub thee...
Sounds like my laptop (VAIO) screen. Certain colors are only visible while tilting the screen at extreme angles, which makes other colors less visible. Not sure I'd call it an invention, more of a discovery.
In particular, if you have a 505tx, or similar laptop, download CCS (the c64 emulator) and play M.U.L.E. and try to find the mountains. There's a way to change color settings, but It's not high on my priority list, yet, to figure out.
I don't think Boycotting copy-protected CD's will be so much an issue, as was highlighted in a speech last week (guy really had a way of making things clear), as the CD makers increasing the difficulty of using CD's (i.e. you can't listen to on your PC) will naturally stem sales.
People will go to what is convenient. Create a threshold to high for them and they'll simply go somewhere else. The music producer who bucks the RIAA's trend will prosper.
You're 18-19 years old. You've played in your garage, a few local pubs, a some public performaces. You cut a demo and send it in. Next thing someone is waving more money than your father made in the last 5 years in front of your face. You see an exciting life, full of possibilities opening up before you. You don't even bother getting a lawyer to check the fine print, and sign up for the big life.
Heck, I'd have done it myself. The reality is young people are some of the worst judges of character, simply for lack of exposure to all the crap which words can put your through, particularly when you're bound to them.
I do recall some artists attempting to help new talent avoid pitfalls, but you know, if the big money says sign here or forget it, it's not too hard to imagine.
I've read how the record industry effectively robbed many early recording artists, requiring them to sign exclusive contracts which resulted in all rights and most profits remained with the producer and artists like Chubby Checker, despite a very productive career ended up with very little to show for it.
How much has ownership of lyrics, music and captured peformances shifted in favor of the artists? How much of a factor do you view the RIAA's alleged-piracey tactics are to avert risk of further erosion of these lucrative properties away from producers (i.e. big labels)?
See, if he hadn't gotten his hands on others code, he'd have gone nowhere...
Wasn't it DR's (Digital Research) work which he licensed or bought?
Imagine the world today if IBM had sewn up the hardware IP and refused Gates the right to sell copies of DOS under his own company's name. Yeah. Mac's all over the place... or something Open would have come along. Entertaining thought for late on a Monday night.
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I caught up with Neil at a book reading in Palo Alto last year, after reading something on slashdot about Good Omens becoming a movie. I checked his site and found within a few days he would be in PA, good timing. I took the Good Omens (which can't be recommended enough, though it took me a few years to actually get around to reading it) and headed on over, snagging a seat in the front row. He read from the first chapter (which I really can't see recommend to children) and also made a passing reference to the sad an untimely departure of DNA. I picked up an a copy and he signed it for me, also signing the borrowed copy of G.O. (which I borrowed from someone named Chris "Chris- Burn this -Neil Gaiman") and it's been sitting on my shelf unread since. I suppose I should take it with me on my flight in the next few days and actually read it.
Why I haven't got to it is I've been plowing through Terry Pratchett's works (Night Watch due in November) and have a way to go before finishing warping my mind with those.
From personal experience, anecdotal for sure, I've written code during an all-nighter, which after a few hours sleep, was obviously not just wrong, but not even code, although it seemed perfectly fine at the time.
I left a job I had worked for 15 years because I was pulling 16-18 hour days for the last two years and, I was just discussing this with a friend a couple hours ago, didn't even realize it had happened. I was chugging extreme amounts of caffeine, going through a pound of Kona a week, and doing some serious damage to my own health with lack of exercise and fast food diet. If this is your manager's idea of how to _regularly_ accomplish things, then get the hell out. I mean it. Once managers realize they can pull shit like this all the time, they will! And guess who gets fair compensation for this, not you!
It is the result of poor management, particularly very bad planning. If there's some advantage your employer can gain by pulling all the strings, once, ok, particularly if it means you get compensated fairly or your employer stays in business, I can see it. But if they're doing this as habit, you seriousl are doing yourself harm by remaining staying and becoming a victim.
When I started my next job, after the one which nearly burned me out, I was shocked when my manager asked me why I was staying 10 minutes after five, "just a few things", his response was, "they'll be there tomorrow, go home, get!"
It really was a different world, where work got done in 8 hour days, and planning made it work. Too bad new management came in and fouled it up and sunk it, but that's another story.
Good move, for a country with some economic (as well as political) issues. Possibly aside from pragmatic issues, there's a less willingness to go along with businesses from that giant to the north, after Bush's administration so heartily embraced the results of a coup d'etat against Chavez. Oh, how red our faces be, when he returned to office the next day. (Though it's anyone's guess how he'll fair in the next elections as economic and unemployement problems persist) Perhaps it's just an iconoclastic move, perhaps Microsoft will join american predecessors and back their own coup to get back in. Heck, fruit companies did it, right?
Other note, heard enough Matrix? How about The Animatrix Geez. Time to get a DVD player.
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ust imagine when you come into your laundry room to find it full of suds and your clothes shrunk so much it wouldn't fit on your kids. "I'll p4ck3t j00r w45h3r lolol"
Imagine this, not only do they need a plumber to work on the laundry machines, but field service techs, too, assuming the number of washing machines has reached an unaccetable level of failures and they bother to come out and fix them.
This has several advantages: coins aren't needed since credit cards are accepted
Make it easy for cc's to be accepted and watch the price go up, since hell, it's so easy. Not like americans have a problem with overspending with the use of these things, hmm? Besides, more technology isn't necessarily a good thing, make a more complicated system and there's more links to find a weak one in.
The only practical use I see for connecting washing machine/drier would be like the following example:
I'm sitting on my ass in the living room, watching some reality show about people trying to stab each other in the back and the washing machine or drier finishes, it would be handy to have an indicator flash on the screen somewhere.
The epic failures of past couple years have something to do with the overzealous pursuit of useless technology. Too bad some real babies went out with the bathwater.
I'm personally waiting for Hammer to come out, as well as serial ATA, and whatever the next DDR speed is going to be (400?) before I overhaul my 1.2ghz Tbird 640megs of SDRAM and 265gigs of IDE drives.
Looking over at Asustek and a few other mobo makers, these things should (barring the usual initial bugs) provide some serious stomping power, for apps compiled to run native 64. Expect games to take some serious advantage of this, and as has been noted by CNN, gamers can drive the high end PC market. Naturally, this means everyone else benefits from the spending of the trailblazers.
You didn't have Windows on your Osborne, sucking all the power out of it. Clear enough?
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Might as well wait for the Hammer.
This, of course, is the risk of having a really sexy new item coming down the pipeline. At some point those Xtreme gamers/programmers/modelers/or just people who like to have the latest and most expensive thing on their desk to play solitaire with, begin to hold back on purchases and wait for that new item.
I'm on the fence, but at the rate I've actually done anything to build my next system (hey, I did buy a cabinet!:-) the wait for the Hammer shouldn't be much longer (why does this name summon the memory of the artwork inside PF:The Wall, hmm, something there, but what...)
Fortunately for AMD, not everyone is holding off and all these really spifftacular improvements of , what will eventually be $60 processors in a couple years, are pretty damn exciting.
I did talk to someone in Japan in the late Eighties who was planning on selling consumer software via vending machines, but I don't know if this ever materialised.
Think about this... put up a few screens on the machine showing the software in action, i.e. performing personal finance management, word processing, recipe card look-up and use (ever notice you spend like mad when you're hungry?;), games, educational stuff, etc. Seems like a good way to sell the product, at least when I think about it.
When will we see such things dispensing the latest computer hardware and accessories, maybe even a few hot video game titles?
Granted, where I live the machine owner would still need to place it somewhere with some security, as we have a problem with vandals, I saw a spraypainted BMW on Sunday, (What's up with tagging? The uncontested modus of announcing "I'm the least secure person on my block"?) this in a fairly expensive neighborhood (I think it's mostly rich kids who fsck things up, but that's a whole different can of worms) How secure are such monstrosities, which can't defend themselves, in Japan? Seems like Munich would be another place you could put something like this without coming back in 24 hours and finding it defaced and/or robbed.
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I've got beyond the "just surviving" part of vegetarian diet, and am proceding well along inventing my own recipes and food combinations. This often results in cases like I posted. Similar we have a source, at work, of some high quality juices (Hansen's/Jarritos, i.e. better than generic sodas or Hawaiian Punch) and they go first during parties. I've even noticed people taking bottled water rather than name brand sodas, diet or regular.
If you are a vegetarian and participating in a potluck/buffet with non-vegetarians (this particularly if you are one of one or two) plan for more. As much as I've got a few views on eating animals, it's been exasperating to bring the only vegetarian dish and have non-veg people suddenly decide to try them and take all before you get a chance (or just keep a private stash in a container for yourself to guarrantee you eat!)
If you want to sell people on virtues of vegetarian dining, make good dishes to share. Beats the heck out of getting into debates. :o)
Find the 2N2222 in this picture and win a prize!
And don't even get me started on mounting heatsinks on these tiny buggers...
I dub thee Stanley ...
I dub thee Craftsman
I dub thee Snap-On
I dub thee Russian Airsickness Bag
I dub thee Paint Chip
I dub thee Scott Evil's Secret Hideout
I dub thee
I wondered who that was... Anyone else get called by them?
In particular, if you have a 505tx, or similar laptop, download CCS (the c64 emulator) and play M.U.L.E. and try to find the mountains. There's a way to change color settings, but It's not high on my priority list, yet, to figure out.
People will go to what is convenient. Create a threshold to high for them and they'll simply go somewhere else. The music producer who bucks the RIAA's trend will prosper.
You're 18-19 years old. You've played in your garage, a few local pubs, a some public performaces. You cut a demo and send it in. Next thing someone is waving more money than your father made in the last 5 years in front of your face. You see an exciting life, full of possibilities opening up before you. You don't even bother getting a lawyer to check the fine print, and sign up for the big life.
Heck, I'd have done it myself. The reality is young people are some of the worst judges of character, simply for lack of exposure to all the crap which words can put your through, particularly when you're bound to them.
I do recall some artists attempting to help new talent avoid pitfalls, but you know, if the big money says sign here or forget it, it's not too hard to imagine.
How much has ownership of lyrics, music and captured peformances shifted in favor of the artists? How much of a factor do you view the RIAA's alleged-piracey tactics are to avert risk of further erosion of these lucrative properties away from producers (i.e. big labels)?
Wasn't it DR's (Digital Research) work which he licensed or bought?
Imagine the world today if IBM had sewn up the hardware IP and refused Gates the right to sell copies of DOS under his own company's name. Yeah. Mac's all over the place... or something Open would have come along. Entertaining thought for late on a Monday night.
Nothing like short notice. Now I'll be out of town and miss it. Bugger!
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Why I haven't got to it is I've been plowing through Terry Pratchett's works (Night Watch due in November) and have a way to go before finishing warping my mind with those.
From personal experience, anecdotal for sure, I've written code during an all-nighter, which after a few hours sleep, was obviously not just wrong, but not even code, although it seemed perfectly fine at the time.
I left a job I had worked for 15 years because I was pulling 16-18 hour days for the last two years and, I was just discussing this with a friend a couple hours ago, didn't even realize it had happened. I was chugging extreme amounts of caffeine, going through a pound of Kona a week, and doing some serious damage to my own health with lack of exercise and fast food diet. If this is your manager's idea of how to _regularly_ accomplish things, then get the hell out. I mean it. Once managers realize they can pull shit like this all the time, they will! And guess who gets fair compensation for this, not you!
It is the result of poor management, particularly very bad planning. If there's some advantage your employer can gain by pulling all the strings, once, ok, particularly if it means you get compensated fairly or your employer stays in business, I can see it. But if they're doing this as habit, you seriousl are doing yourself harm by remaining staying and becoming a victim.
When I started my next job, after the one which nearly burned me out, I was shocked when my manager asked me why I was staying 10 minutes after five, "just a few things", his response was, "they'll be there tomorrow, go home, get!" It really was a different world, where work got done in 8 hour days, and planning made it work. Too bad new management came in and fouled it up and sunk it, but that's another story.
Other note, heard enough Matrix? How about The Animatrix Geez. Time to get a DVD player.
Imagine this, not only do they need a plumber to work on the laundry machines, but field service techs, too, assuming the number of washing machines has reached an unaccetable level of failures and they bother to come out and fix them.
So that's where the missing ones go...
Remember sh!tt!ng your pants or not wiping sufficiently and just tossing the underwear in the hamper? Well, now people can see your poor hygiene. 8-)
Make it easy for cc's to be accepted and watch the price go up, since hell, it's so easy. Not like americans have a problem with overspending with the use of these things, hmm? Besides, more technology isn't necessarily a good thing, make a more complicated system and there's more links to find a weak one in.
The only practical use I see for connecting washing machine/drier would be like the following example:
I'm sitting on my ass in the living room, watching some reality show about people trying to stab each other in the back and the washing machine or drier finishes, it would be handy to have an indicator flash on the screen somewhere.
The epic failures of past couple years have something to do with the overzealous pursuit of useless technology. Too bad some real babies went out with the bathwater.
Looking over at Asustek and a few other mobo makers, these things should (barring the usual initial bugs) provide some serious stomping power, for apps compiled to run native 64. Expect games to take some serious advantage of this, and as has been noted by CNN, gamers can drive the high end PC market. Naturally, this means everyone else benefits from the spending of the trailblazers.
You didn't have Windows on your Osborne, sucking all the power out of it. Clear enough?
This, of course, is the risk of having a really sexy new item coming down the pipeline. At some point those Xtreme gamers/programmers/modelers/or just people who like to have the latest and most expensive thing on their desk to play solitaire with, begin to hold back on purchases and wait for that new item.
I'm on the fence, but at the rate I've actually done anything to build my next system (hey, I did buy a cabinet! :-) the wait for the Hammer shouldn't be much longer (why does this name summon the memory of the artwork inside PF:The Wall, hmm, something there, but what...)
Fortunately for AMD, not everyone is holding off and all these really spifftacular improvements of , what will eventually be $60 processors in a couple years, are pretty damn exciting.
Think about this... put up a few screens on the machine showing the software in action, i.e. performing personal finance management, word processing, recipe card look-up and use (ever notice you spend like mad when you're hungry? ;), games, educational stuff, etc. Seems like a good way to sell the product, at least when I think about it.
Granted, where I live the machine owner would still need to place it somewhere with some security, as we have a problem with vandals, I saw a spraypainted BMW on Sunday, (What's up with tagging? The uncontested modus of announcing "I'm the least secure person on my block"?) this in a fairly expensive neighborhood (I think it's mostly rich kids who fsck things up, but that's a whole different can of worms) How secure are such monstrosities, which can't defend themselves, in Japan? Seems like Munich would be another place you could put something like this without coming back in 24 hours and finding it defaced and/or robbed.