should a doctor, after years of training (and debt for that schooling) not be able to hang their shingle out and make a good bit of money on a very highly prized work skills?
Doctors don't make good money like they used to. New doctors mostly work for "provider" corporations. The only doctors that make money in medicine now do it by owning provider corporations, pharmacies, medical office buildings, etc. Nobody "hangs their shingle" anymore. The cost of malpractice insurance is far too high.
Although lots of clauses in the Constitution have been abused, establishing clean air and water are textbook examples of measures taken "to promote the general welfare". There is no amendment needed.
"promote the general welfare" is not a clause enumerating a power of the federal government, dumbass. It's a phrase out of the preamble. The preamble grants nothing. It's a general outline of why the constitution was written.
I don't think I've ever really understood what happened to strategy gaming on the PC around about the turn of the new Millennium.
Cheap computer and console gamers happened. The unlimited ammo, keep shooting till the millions of identical enemies are dead, learn to twitch faster than the boss on the screen to win the level, action action ACTION gaming idiot happened. Vast hordes of unsophisticated gamers created a big market that dwarfed the previous smaller market of more cerebral computer dorks. Companies started developing games for them, rather than us. That's why we have slightly updated EA sports games released every year.
The key point you seem to have missed is that lightsabers are largely ineffective in the hands of rubes. Some background training, force ability, etc. are the prerequisite.
It's only stupid in the context of the assumed game mechanics in your head.It's entirely possible to build a game that works with a one unit per hex limit.
25-plus years ago, my boss bought a camera in Mexico on his honeymoon because he forgot his. He was surprised at the deal he got, and the camera even came with batteries and flash cubes. It wasn't until later that he noticed it was a "KODAR" camera, and the logo was only similar to the Kodak logo. THe camera lasted through the vacation, at least.
I think you sort of have to cultivate your own myth if you want to become famous.
ehhhhh..... I think you have to cultivate your own myth if you don't have a great number of concrete accomplishments to cement your reputation. Richard Feynman was a pretty unassuming guy, and he ended up famous anyway. Dijkstra probably didn't need to sell himself, so he really doesn't fit the category. He was just a kind of a loudmouth by nature.
I wouldn't say that. Pretty much any quote from Richard Feynman is solid gold. Most quotes from Dijkstra are ridiculous generalizations sparked by minor pet peeves ("these damn first year students keep asking where GOTO is!!!")
Adherents to the various religions tend to conform to a prevailing attitude associated with their specific faith.
That's what statements like "[religion] has [attitude X]" mean. Seriously, get with the program. Language has many shortcuts, and if you insist upon taking them literally in order to say they're technically wrong, you're just another jackass blasting an airhorn in the audience during a debate.
Eh. I was writing simple games in BASIC at age 6. I'm pretty sure C memory management would have kicked my ass sideways at the time.
Likewise, only I was doing it at 9 over an Adds-Regent print terminal with a 300baud acoustic coupler to the mainframe where my father worked. The line number paradigm is easy to grasp for a beginner, and allows practically effortless transition to the address paradigm in assembly. I was working for (game company) writing assembly for the C64 several years before I even learned C. The one thing that most helped me in learning C was a full understanding of how the assembly underneath worked. Pointers? Walk in the park. Structures? Unions? Memory management? Buffering? Null terminated "strings" that are really only character arrays? No problem for someone with assembly experience. You ever see someone try to learn assembly when all they know is Pascal? It's ridiculous.
For purposes of this submission and the comment from Dijkstra, we are talking only about the line-numbered "classic" BASIC. The non-numbered variations were developed as a direct response to the very criticisms leveled by Dijkstra et al.
Dijkstra does have quite a few genuinely useful and lasting achievements speaking for him
The important thing to remember about Dijkstra is to look at what he did more than what he said. He made a lot of really asinine sweeping generalizations that, for some reason, people have taken as some sort of universal truth. I transitioned from BASIC to 6502 assembly to C to C++ to (everything else) without any serious injury. The notion that BASIC "ruins you" is the griping of a cranky old professor complaining about students who keep asking him where "GOTO" is in whatever language he's trying to teach.
This design does not meet the basic definition of a proper science fiction jetpack. Specifically, you cannot walk around with it on your back, then decide "you know, I think I'll fly over that wall" and then WHOOOOOOSH! over the wall you go. This thing is obviously too big and heavy to tote around on your back. Heck, I don't even really see the point of harnessing to it with straps--- you'd be better off with a seat, maybe with and instrument panel, and perhaps a windscreen, because if you can't carry the thing on your back, what does it matter?
Sorry, but whatever fantasies you may have that the NZ police are limited to strong language and stern looks are somewhat inaccurate. Granted you apparently have to start shooting indiscriminately before the lethal force comes out, but the do, in fact, have the discretion to use it.
Please. Family farms started dying around the end of the 19th century, when mechanization started to make operating a farm a business rather than a family pastime. Various forms of farm subsidies managed to stave off the inevitable decline of "pa and his sons working the farm" for quite some time, but by the 70's, the ride was just plain fucking over. Seriously, in this day of GPS guided multi-hundred-thousand dollar combine harvesters, there simply ain't no efficient way to operate a "family farm". The reason we have all the agri-business corps running giant farms is that technology has allowed tremendous economies of scale. There are a number of families that still manage to run small businesses based on farming, but that's because they run them as businesses. Most of them don't even live on the land they farm anymore, because there's no advantage to living on site when all you are is a manager and your kids don't work on the farm. The quaint notion of a man making a living hitching a plow to an ox while his wife sows behind him is ancient history.
You're missing the point. You essentially have to hack the registry and add the drivers to the install image. You can't just stick a CDROM in with the drivers, because the OS doesn't support loading drivers off anything but a floppy as it is configured out of the box.
it's hard to take anyone seriously that uses Windows in a server role.
It's harder to take seriously anyone who can't manage to grok the fact that Microsoft sells a server OS that actually works for a large number of entities, and that some aspects of its functionality are unavailable outside of the Windows OS.
Yeah, I tried to put XP on my new machine a couple years ago. It couldn't see the RAID array, so I grabbed the driver CD and pressed (whatever) to load the driver.... and it said INSERT FLOPPY DISK! WTF?!? It might as well have said "Insert papyrus scroll"!
Certainly nothing major in the hospital that I work in uses serial connections.
We're not talking about what the knowlessman users work with on these machines, we're talking about what service technicians use. When the controller for (device X) goes feet up and you call the tech, I guarantee he's not going to be diagnosing through the ethernet jack. He's going to pull a service panel off, and plug in a serial cable.
Heh. Indeed. If grandma is standing in the MDF room cursing at a Cisco router with a laptop balanced on the back of a chair, she probably knows how to disable/enable a serial port in Device Manager
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Mine is called "NotForYou!".... and then is unsecured. I like to be generous to those who don't do as they're told
should a doctor, after years of training (and debt for that schooling) not be able to hang their shingle out and make a good bit of money on a very highly prized work skills?
Doctors don't make good money like they used to. New doctors mostly work for "provider" corporations. The only doctors that make money in medicine now do it by owning provider corporations, pharmacies, medical office buildings, etc. Nobody "hangs their shingle" anymore. The cost of malpractice insurance is far too high.
Although lots of clauses in the Constitution have been abused, establishing clean air and water are textbook examples of measures taken "to promote the general welfare". There is no amendment needed.
"promote the general welfare" is not a clause enumerating a power of the federal government, dumbass. It's a phrase out of the preamble. The preamble grants nothing. It's a general outline of why the constitution was written.
We sent a hold box of paper when we submitted out 510
Some of this is good, and a good part of GMP
These two sentences are wholly incomprehensible. Please repost when [sober|awake].
I don't think I've ever really understood what happened to strategy gaming on the PC around about the turn of the new Millennium.
Cheap computer and console gamers happened. The unlimited ammo, keep shooting till the millions of identical enemies are dead, learn to twitch faster than the boss on the screen to win the level, action action ACTION gaming idiot happened. Vast hordes of unsophisticated gamers created a big market that dwarfed the previous smaller market of more cerebral computer dorks. Companies started developing games for them, rather than us. That's why we have slightly updated EA sports games released every year.
The key point you seem to have missed is that lightsabers are largely ineffective in the hands of rubes. Some background training, force ability, etc. are the prerequisite.
Seriously, did you not get that from the movies?
It's only stupid in the context of the assumed game mechanics in your head.It's entirely possible to build a game that works with a one unit per hex limit.
25-plus years ago, my boss bought a camera in Mexico on his honeymoon because he forgot his. He was surprised at the deal he got, and the camera even came with batteries and flash cubes. It wasn't until later that he noticed it was a "KODAR" camera, and the logo was only similar to the Kodak logo. THe camera lasted through the vacation, at least.
I think you sort of have to cultivate your own myth if you want to become famous.
ehhhhh..... I think you have to cultivate your own myth if you don't have a great number of concrete accomplishments to cement your reputation. Richard Feynman was a pretty unassuming guy, and he ended up famous anyway. Dijkstra probably didn't need to sell himself, so he really doesn't fit the category. He was just a kind of a loudmouth by nature.
I wouldn't say that. Pretty much any quote from Richard Feynman is solid gold. Most quotes from Dijkstra are ridiculous generalizations sparked by minor pet peeves ("these damn first year students keep asking where GOTO is!!!")
Adherents to the various religions tend to conform to a prevailing attitude associated with their specific faith.
That's what statements like "[religion] has [attitude X]" mean. Seriously, get with the program. Language has many shortcuts, and if you insist upon taking them literally in order to say they're technically wrong, you're just another jackass blasting an airhorn in the audience during a debate.
Eh. I was writing simple games in BASIC at age 6. I'm pretty sure C memory management would have kicked my ass sideways at the time.
Likewise, only I was doing it at 9 over an Adds-Regent print terminal with a 300baud acoustic coupler to the mainframe where my father worked. The line number paradigm is easy to grasp for a beginner, and allows practically effortless transition to the address paradigm in assembly. I was working for (game company) writing assembly for the C64 several years before I even learned C. The one thing that most helped me in learning C was a full understanding of how the assembly underneath worked. Pointers? Walk in the park. Structures? Unions? Memory management? Buffering? Null terminated "strings" that are really only character arrays? No problem for someone with assembly experience. You ever see someone try to learn assembly when all they know is Pascal? It's ridiculous.
For purposes of this submission and the comment from Dijkstra, we are talking only about the line-numbered "classic" BASIC. The non-numbered variations were developed as a direct response to the very criticisms leveled by Dijkstra et al.
Dijkstra does have quite a few genuinely useful and lasting achievements speaking for him
The important thing to remember about Dijkstra is to look at what he did more than what he said. He made a lot of really asinine sweeping generalizations that, for some reason, people have taken as some sort of universal truth. I transitioned from BASIC to 6502 assembly to C to C++ to (everything else) without any serious injury. The notion that BASIC "ruins you" is the griping of a cranky old professor complaining about students who keep asking him where "GOTO" is in whatever language he's trying to teach.
This design does not meet the basic definition of a proper science fiction jetpack. Specifically, you cannot walk around with it on your back, then decide "you know, I think I'll fly over that wall" and then WHOOOOOOSH! over the wall you go. This thing is obviously too big and heavy to tote around on your back. Heck, I don't even really see the point of harnessing to it with straps--- you'd be better off with a seat, maybe with and instrument panel, and perhaps a windscreen, because if you can't carry the thing on your back, what does it matter?
Sorry, but whatever fantasies you may have that the NZ police are limited to strong language and stern looks are somewhat inaccurate. Granted you apparently have to start shooting indiscriminately before the lethal force comes out, but the do, in fact, have the discretion to use it.
family farms dying
Please. Family farms started dying around the end of the 19th century, when mechanization started to make operating a farm a business rather than a family pastime. Various forms of farm subsidies managed to stave off the inevitable decline of "pa and his sons working the farm" for quite some time, but by the 70's, the ride was just plain fucking over. Seriously, in this day of GPS guided multi-hundred-thousand dollar combine harvesters, there simply ain't no efficient way to operate a "family farm". The reason we have all the agri-business corps running giant farms is that technology has allowed tremendous economies of scale. There are a number of families that still manage to run small businesses based on farming, but that's because they run them as businesses. Most of them don't even live on the land they farm anymore, because there's no advantage to living on site when all you are is a manager and your kids don't work on the farm. The quaint notion of a man making a living hitching a plow to an ox while his wife sows behind him is ancient history.
This is the internet. We're allowed to say "shit".
...and when you plug the USB cable in, which serial->USB converter chipset driver does it load?
You're missing the point. You essentially have to hack the registry and add the drivers to the install image. You can't just stick a CDROM in with the drivers, because the OS doesn't support loading drivers off anything but a floppy as it is configured out of the box.
it's hard to take anyone seriously that uses Windows in a server role.
It's harder to take seriously anyone who can't manage to grok the fact that Microsoft sells a server OS that actually works for a large number of entities, and that some aspects of its functionality are unavailable outside of the Windows OS.
Yeah, I tried to put XP on my new machine a couple years ago. It couldn't see the RAID array, so I grabbed the driver CD and pressed (whatever) to load the driver.... and it said INSERT FLOPPY DISK! WTF?!? It might as well have said "Insert papyrus scroll"!
Certainly nothing major in the hospital that I work in uses serial connections.
We're not talking about what the knowlessman users work with on these machines, we're talking about what service technicians use. When the controller for (device X) goes feet up and you call the tech, I guarantee he's not going to be diagnosing through the ethernet jack. He's going to pull a service panel off, and plug in a serial cable.
Heh. Indeed. If grandma is standing in the MDF room cursing at a Cisco router with a laptop balanced on the back of a chair, she probably knows how to disable/enable a serial port in Device Manager
You really think they'll switch to a connection standard that will require a separate client-side driver for each OS?