Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) boot camps produced a generation of sub-par sys admins Microsoft Certified Engineer / Developer (MSCE/D) produced a generation of sub-par engineers / developers
This is just more of the same:) The wheat will separate from the chaff and the consultants will make a small mint fixing all of the bad code
I spent I don't know how many hours navigating then running the C-64 BBSs in the mid to late 80s. God those were good time! haha
One person in particular sticks out in my mind, mainly because of his distinct voice, the BBS with 8 high capacity 1MB floppy drives (yes 1 whole megabyte), and running afoul of some other pirates and having (allegedly) all kinds of stuff shipped / ordered to his house and service and god knows what else... Pira-Ted!
Migration requests to Production (signed off by the person who requested the change/bugfix/new dev/whatever) are supposed to be to QA (who does the migrations) by the prior Thursday but that can be modified as necessary:) This is for any of the dozens of systems we develop for - the several-hundred-page in-house ERP system written in.NET, the legacy Oracle Forms system being upgraded to.NET, or the myriad one-off special purpose web sites.
If it's an *emergency* it can be slipped into Production during the week as needed, but as the process has become more refined over the last year, they try and not do that unless absolutely necessary
How are unmanned flying vehicles any different than manned helicopters and airplanes used by various agencies during the course of duty? Manned aircraft are used daily for any number of law enforcement (surveillance, speed traps, border protection, etc), fire protection, crop dusting, and even news and traffic gathering?
Why is not having a pilot in the actual aircraft a reason to pull out the tinfoil and white noise makers?
"But they can arm them" isn't a valid excuse because there's no reason they can't arm a piloted aircraft.
it just means royalties and licenses go to ms instead of others. this contributed to microsoft, not the world. your citation is invalid, try again.:)
.NET, C#, VB.NET, and F# are all free... Download the.NET framework, fire up a text editor, and use the command-line compiler. Visual Studio Express versions are free... Wrap a GUI around your development. Parts of ASP.NET are even open source now... And they're accepting contributions from the public.
The problem is we as a culture already treat universal healthcare as a universal right. If you walk into almost any hospital in the country without insurance or money with a critical health problem, you will be treated.
Hell, you don't need a critical health problem to be treated. The ER at a lot of public hospitals has become the general practitioner for many people. Got a cold? Go to the ER. Stub your toe? Go to the ER... Better yet, call 911 and get a free ride.
Assuming the environment can "balance itself out", could "global warming" be the environment's way to increase the temperate zones on the planet in order to allow for more foliage to grow? Could the reported excess CO2 be the environment's response to feed the plant life in these new growing areas? Maybe the environment was cold and created homo sapiens to warm things up?
So add them to the "Quick Access Toolbar" up at the top of the window and you're golden. Don't like the toolbar there? Click on the drop-down and have it displayed below the ribbon. Don't like the ribbon taking up space? Click that same drop-down and minimize the ribbon.
Want to copy them from computer to computer? You can do that too!
Long Live the Punter Protocol! Transferring 170K in 30 minutes!
After getting my first modem for my C-64 (that used the audio out of the C-64, connected to the audio in of the modem, to generate touch tones), I remember having to go to a couple of computer stores (remember them?) to get something called "Punter" lol. It seems so long ago:( You damn kids with your smart phones and multi-megabit connections, get off my lawn!
It's only warm in the eastern half. In California it's freakin' cold!
In October we had snow in the east, which was one of he earliest snows ever. And LAST winter we set records for cold & snowfall amounts! So it is not really global warming; it's just month-to-month/year-to-year variation.
It's not flaky in the least with legacy apps. Legacy apps run on a non-Aero looking "desktop". You can pin stuff to the desktop taskbar. There's a "desktop" to drop icons and folders on. It looks just like the Windows 7 desktop minus the Start button (and with hot corners for the "new Start Menu" and the whole right-side of the screen bring up some Metro-esque context stuff). The icons that would go on the Start Menu end up on the Metro Desktop.
The biggest problem I see is with applications that create too many icons in the Start Menu
I run all kinds of non-metro apps and haven't had an issue with any of them.
Temple of Apshai is a FABULOUS game. I spent many hours (playing and waiting for it load on the cassette player) on this game on my VIC-20. I even had to go out and buy the 16K expansion module to run it!
Back in the 70s my grandfather's doctor told him he should start drinking distilled water. Sparkletts (http://www.sparkletts.com) delivered (and still delivers) 5 gallon bottles of distilled water so it certainly can't be *that bad* for you. Given our litigious society I would imagine that distilled water at the grocery store would either be plastered with warning labels or only available behind the counter with proof of ID:)
The C-64 was my second computer (the VIC-20 being the first) and my first experience with the on-line world (and a modem that used the sound output from the computer to generate touch tones). Not knowing what I was doing I remember spending hours looking for something with the Punter Protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punter_(protocol) ) so I could partake in downloading of software...
The C-64 was later replaced with a C-128 (and a 3.5" floppy drive *gasp*) which turned into my first attempt at running a BBS.
I have the first gen Transformer and I like it ALOT. The screen is fantastic and the ability to slap a real keyboard (and multi-hour extra battery) on it is just icing on the cake. I upgraded from a 7" Galaxy Tab and while I miss the built-in cellular access at times, that's nothing that can't be overcome by the hotspot in my Galaxy S II;)
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Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) boot camps produced a generation of sub-par sys admins
Microsoft Certified Engineer / Developer (MSCE/D) produced a generation of sub-par engineers / developers
This is just more of the same :) The wheat will separate from the chaff and the consultants will make a small mint fixing all of the bad code
I spent I don't know how many hours navigating then running the C-64 BBSs in the mid to late 80s. God those were good time! haha
One person in particular sticks out in my mind, mainly because of his distinct voice, the BBS with 8 high capacity 1MB floppy drives (yes 1 whole megabyte), and running afoul of some other pirates and having (allegedly) all kinds of stuff shipped / ordered to his house and service and god knows what else... Pira-Ted!
great. just waiting for laptops to follow this format as they inevitably will. then we'll be able to read up to 3 lines of text at a time!
Toshiba's had one for a few weeks (at least)
http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/satellite/U840W/U845W-S410/
DISPLAY RESOLUTION
1792x768 (HD+), 21:9 aspect ratio, Supports 720p content
Migration requests to Production (signed off by the person who requested the change/bugfix/new dev/whatever) are supposed to be to QA (who does the migrations) by the prior Thursday but that can be modified as necessary :) This is for any of the dozens of systems we develop for - the several-hundred-page in-house ERP system written in .NET, the legacy Oracle Forms system being upgraded to .NET, or the myriad one-off special purpose web sites.
If it's an *emergency* it can be slipped into Production during the week as needed, but as the process has become more refined over the last year, they try and not do that unless absolutely necessary
If everything moves to the metric system how will we measure things without units like
- libraries of congress
- earths
- olympic sized swimming pools
- shittons (although there are metric shittons)
??
Still more secure than PINs of 1234, 0000, etc and passwords of (well) "password", "god", "joshua", etc
Makes perfect sense!
If they deny it, they're lying
If they admit it, it's because we forced them to admit it "by knowing what they're doing"
*Cue country music for jeans with kevlar codpieces or freeze dried food or Reynolds Wrap*
How are unmanned flying vehicles any different than manned helicopters and airplanes used by various agencies during the course of duty? Manned aircraft are used daily for any number of law enforcement (surveillance, speed traps, border protection, etc), fire protection, crop dusting, and even news and traffic gathering?
Why is not having a pilot in the actual aircraft a reason to pull out the tinfoil and white noise makers?
"But they can arm them" isn't a valid excuse because there's no reason they can't arm a piloted aircraft.
it just means royalties and licenses go to ms instead of others. this contributed to microsoft, not the world. your citation is invalid, try again. :)
.NET, C#, VB.NET, and F# are all free... Download the .NET framework, fire up a text editor, and use the command-line compiler.
Visual Studio Express versions are free... Wrap a GUI around your development.
Parts of ASP.NET are even open source now... And they're accepting contributions from the public.
What exactly hasn't been contributed?
From the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research#Laboratories), all of the following have come from MS Research
C#
Comic Chat (IRC Client)
F#
Sideshow (Became Desktop Gadgets)
Surface (TouchLight)
SenseCam
ClearType
Group Shot
Allegiance (Game)
Songsmith
I'd say C#, F#, and ClearType are pretty big contributions
The problem is we as a culture already treat universal healthcare as a universal right. If you walk into almost any hospital in the country without insurance or money with a critical health problem, you will be treated.
Hell, you don't need a critical health problem to be treated. The ER at a lot of public hospitals has become the general practitioner for many people. Got a cold? Go to the ER. Stub your toe? Go to the ER... Better yet, call 911 and get a free ride.
Yes it's a victimless crime to possess anything, but the subjects of child porn photos are most certainly victims.
Assuming the environment can "balance itself out", could "global warming" be the environment's way to increase the temperate zones on the planet in order to allow for more foliage to grow? Could the reported excess CO2 be the environment's response to feed the plant life in these new growing areas? Maybe the environment was cold and created homo sapiens to warm things up?
Maybe god created us because he wanted plastic?
*shrug*
So add them to the "Quick Access Toolbar" up at the top of the window and you're golden. Don't like the toolbar there? Click on the drop-down and have it displayed below the ribbon. Don't like the ribbon taking up space? Click that same drop-down and minimize the ribbon.
Want to copy them from computer to computer? You can do that too!
Copying Office Quick Access Toolbars
When I first saw the ribbon in Office 2007 I was apprehensive but I've come to really like it.
Long Live the Punter Protocol! Transferring 170K in 30 minutes!
After getting my first modem for my C-64 (that used the audio out of the C-64, connected to the audio in of the modem, to generate touch tones), I remember having to go to a couple of computer stores (remember them?) to get something called "Punter" lol. It seems so long ago :( You damn kids with your smart phones and multi-megabit connections, get off my lawn!
What's an extra 16 bits per pixel between friends?
It's only warm in the eastern half. In California it's freakin' cold!
In October we had snow in the east, which was one of he earliest snows ever. And LAST winter we set records for cold & snowfall amounts! So it is not really global warming; it's just month-to-month/year-to-year variation.
Heresy!
It's not flaky in the least with legacy apps. Legacy apps run on a non-Aero looking "desktop". You can pin stuff to the desktop taskbar. There's a "desktop" to drop icons and folders on. It looks just like the Windows 7 desktop minus the Start button (and with hot corners for the "new Start Menu" and the whole right-side of the screen bring up some Metro-esque context stuff). The icons that would go on the Start Menu end up on the Metro Desktop.
The biggest problem I see is with applications that create too many icons in the Start Menu
I run all kinds of non-metro apps and haven't had an issue with any of them.
Temple of Apshai is a FABULOUS game. I spent many hours (playing and waiting for it load on the cassette player) on this game on my VIC-20. I even had to go out and buy the 16K expansion module to run it!
It seems so long ago now :(
If you believe the whack jobs out there, Google is run by the NSA so you would think they would just share what they have :)
Back in the 70s my grandfather's doctor told him he should start drinking distilled water. Sparkletts (http://www.sparkletts.com) delivered (and still delivers) 5 gallon bottles of distilled water so it certainly can't be *that bad* for you. Given our litigious society I would imagine that distilled water at the grocery store would either be plastered with warning labels or only available behind the counter with proof of ID :)
The C-64 was my second computer (the VIC-20 being the first) and my first experience with the on-line world (and a modem that used the sound output from the computer to generate touch tones). Not knowing what I was doing I remember spending hours looking for something with the Punter Protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punter_(protocol) ) so I could partake in downloading of software...
The C-64 was later replaced with a C-128 (and a 3.5" floppy drive *gasp*) which turned into my first attempt at running a BBS.
Ah the memories
I have the first gen Transformer and I like it ALOT. The screen is fantastic and the ability to slap a real keyboard (and multi-hour extra battery) on it is just icing on the cake. I upgraded from a 7" Galaxy Tab and while I miss the built-in cellular access at times, that's nothing that can't be overcome by the hotspot in my Galaxy S II ;)
http://skepticalhumanities.com/2011/11/26/stanislaw-burzynskis-public-record/
Oh crap, now I'm gonna get sued! I shoulda posted AC
Apparently they do - the luxury car market is make money too http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/22/autos/bmw_sales_future.fortune/