The thrill is for many people is designing redstone circuits to automate things, like mine carts and traps. Others like to be creative and build structures. I find some of that stuff interesting, but it's not my love. I haven't played minecraft seriously for a couple of months. Some more traditional RPG elements would be nice for me, but probably not others. Combat is a joke and and once you know how to set yourself up the first day, nothing is likely to hurt you, short of falling off a cliff or into deep lava. If you find a good cave system, then exploring can be fun, but again, combat is not a concern other than creepers but you just carry some food with you.
I like the game, but I wish there was other things to do other than build.
Wow, I think you need to switch to a different company. A lot of the positions I've worked, management had no idea about coding standards or code reviews, which is a whole different problem.
I've written Perl for the past 15 years. True, it can be a difficult language to read if some asshat insists on coding using the fewest keystrokes possible. Other than that, it is perfectly readable if you are willing to take the time to metally parse the code and have a reasonable amount of comments that describe the 'why' of the program.
But I am utterly amazed at how few places I have worked that actually do have code reviews. Granted most of the time they catch surface errors, but the real benefit of them is to spread out the knowledge among the team. Not just the knowledge of the code, but everything else around the code; coding is easy, but understanding the technical infrastructure and business processes around them are the pain. The places without code reviews tended to have developers siloed to their programs and nobody knows nothing outside their own little domain.
I used to wear a wristwatch religiously, but haven't for about 20 years now. I wanted to get back into wearing one, but never could stand it for more than a day. I agree with you about pocket watches. I used to carry one because I liked the look and feel of it, but it was totally impractical and got scratched a lot. My smartphone is my watch (and many other things) now.
I've been using a straight razor for the past 8 years and have had only minor cuts and that was simply carelessness on my part. At first I thought I would slice my own throat, but they're only dangerous if you let the angle get too steep between the blade and your skin, otherwise quite safe and nice to use. The cuts you might get are very fine and shallow and are not a problem if you have a septic stick. I still keep a disposable for a couple of problem spots that are more difficult to use the blade on. There are some videos on YouTube about how to use and sharpen a straight razor that are very informative. Buy a new modern straight razor, rather than an old one. I got a nice DOVO for about $100. You'll need to get a stropping strap and paste also.
The cons are that it takes more time and more focus to shave, but you get used to it. There is the initial outlay of more money and the maintenance on the blade. But I hate dropping big bucks every couple of months on disposibles.
I use the BodyMedia device, which is similar to FitBit in that it estimates calories burned by measuring various things: Galvanic skin response, skin temperature, body heat and has an accelerometer. I like it a lot, although there is a subscription required. The only data I enter manually are my food logs, which can be a pain but it helps keep you honest and focused. I wouldn't want to also have to enter my 'activities' each day. It's interesting enough to just see a bar graph of calories/minute and a total number. If that data did become searchable, only I would know what that sudden spike on last Saturday afternoon was. But you would find out I am a Taco Bell junkie.
I interviewed at a place that sold Time and Attendance software and I about fell out of my chair when the interviewer casually mentioned that the memory footprint of their product was 2GB.
Dogs have a pack mentality, so it's only necessary for the human to achieve alpha status in order to get the dogs to do something useful like herding, guarding, hunting or pulling a sled. Like you said, cats are into their humans for how it benefits them, which makes it clear which is the smartest of the three.
Full Disclosure: I am in servitude to a couple of cats with Jedi mind powers of cuteness.
Wow, Liberalism defined right from the asshole of the Right Wing media. Go ahead and believe that definition if it makes you feel superior or something. I don't think reason or even education would have any effect in changing your already made up mind.
Animals have souls because I say they do. You can't refute this because I give you no facts to refute. My argument is just as valid as the one you made, so nana-nana-boo-boo.
An animal's life has no inherent value to it.
You say this because an animal slaughter house is effectively a death camp, but your love of steak makes you feel uncomfortable about this, therefore it must be OK to kill animals, ergo animals have no inherent value. I'm a meat eater and will be all my life, but I have no illusions about what that means. "No inherent value" my ass you tard.
Trivialization of human life is what leads to the incessant atrocities of our mordern times.
Agreed that is it a necessary component in order to get ordinary people to carry out genocidal orders that achieve their master's political & economic goals. But it has always galled me anti-abortion people seem to think everyone will just follow the bandwagon and abort babies right and left leading to a general disregard for human life. Abortion has been legal a long time and personally I see the opposite, especially among young people. Some of us can make our own decisions and don't need to be saved from automatically chosing the worst path available to us
The distinction between pet and food is very culturally dependent. I would never want to eat dog/cat meat, but I don't hold blame for those who do. Some people consider a pig to be a great pet and I think it is a magical and delicious animal.
I think you missed the point. It's voice vs video not how that voice or video is delivered. It doesn't matter if it's POTS, Skype, VOIP or a herd of mutant cats. The point is even though video calling is available people still seem to prefer voice.
The mutant cat layer is very difficult to manage, unless you are using the EDS protocol.
Maybe the Alaskan state government should ask Yahoo to export the emails for them. I bet that's where the bulk of them are stored, in a personal account.
But at the same time the starving man and his family don't just go off and die peacefully in the gutter. Maintaining social order is impossible once a large enough percentage of the population is starving. People will grab guns, clubs & rocks to get at the food if they need to. Generally this is considered a bad thing for society at large. Perhaps for those behind the gated communities it may just be a nuisance, but I think that is wishful thinking on their part.
Call it blackmail by the starving masses, but we all are part of the same interconnected system.
I used to be a FedEx courier back in the mid 90s and the company was determined to keep the unions out. I don't know what the deal is nowadays with the separate non-express service. But I can tell you the attitude of the upper management was that the employees were overpaid. A couple of the regional managers were kind enough to let us know that on a regular basis. The max hourly wages were $15-something / hour back then plus benefits. If you busted your hump and grabbed all the overtime you could get, you could crack 50k. I have no idea what the wages are now. If it hadn't been for the unions, I don't think they would had treated their employees even that well.
I ended up quitting because I got an opportunity to get some training and started a job in network operations and worked up to become a programmer later. But the whole Fedex model was 100% service 100% of the time and if you wanted a raise in 6 months, then improve your delivery numbers to 110% service 110% of the time. Which meant a lot of couriers gamed their delivery times until they reached max hourly wage.
Managers will always make more than the people they manage. It defines the power relationship between them. Any other situation is just plain crazy talk.
Thank you for reaffirming my decision to write boring business logic programs for a large corporation. I now have a personal life again and time on the side to program personal projects, which was always my first love in programming.
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and PuTTY will release version 1.0
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The thrill is for many people is designing redstone circuits to automate things, like mine carts and traps. Others like to be creative and build structures. I find some of that stuff interesting, but it's not my love. I haven't played minecraft seriously for a couple of months. Some more traditional RPG elements would be nice for me, but probably not others. Combat is a joke and and once you know how to set yourself up the first day, nothing is likely to hurt you, short of falling off a cliff or into deep lava. If you find a good cave system, then exploring can be fun, but again, combat is not a concern other than creepers but you just carry some food with you.
I like the game, but I wish there was other things to do other than build.
Because some of work in corporate environments where desktops are Windows only.
Wow, I think you need to switch to a different company. A lot of the positions I've worked, management had no idea about coding standards or code reviews, which is a whole different problem.
I've written Perl for the past 15 years. True, it can be a difficult language to read if some asshat insists on coding using the fewest keystrokes possible. Other than that, it is perfectly readable if you are willing to take the time to metally parse the code and have a reasonable amount of comments that describe the 'why' of the program.
But I am utterly amazed at how few places I have worked that actually do have code reviews. Granted most of the time they catch surface errors, but the real benefit of them is to spread out the knowledge among the team. Not just the knowledge of the code, but everything else around the code; coding is easy, but understanding the technical infrastructure and business processes around them are the pain. The places without code reviews tended to have developers siloed to their programs and nobody knows nothing outside their own little domain.
I used to wear a wristwatch religiously, but haven't for about 20 years now. I wanted to get back into wearing one, but never could stand it for more than a day. I agree with you about pocket watches. I used to carry one because I liked the look and feel of it, but it was totally impractical and got scratched a lot. My smartphone is my watch (and many other things) now.
I've been using a straight razor for the past 8 years and have had only minor cuts and that was simply carelessness on my part. At first I thought I would slice my own throat, but they're only dangerous if you let the angle get too steep between the blade and your skin, otherwise quite safe and nice to use. The cuts you might get are very fine and shallow and are not a problem if you have a septic stick. I still keep a disposable for a couple of problem spots that are more difficult to use the blade on.
There are some videos on YouTube about how to use and sharpen a straight razor that are very informative. Buy a new modern straight razor, rather than an old one. I got a nice DOVO for about $100. You'll need to get a stropping strap and paste also.
The cons are that it takes more time and more focus to shave, but you get used to it. There is the initial outlay of more money and the maintenance on the blade. But I hate dropping big bucks every couple of months on disposibles.
I use the BodyMedia device, which is similar to FitBit in that it estimates calories burned by measuring various things: Galvanic skin response, skin temperature, body heat and has an accelerometer. I like it a lot, although there is a subscription required.
The only data I enter manually are my food logs, which can be a pain but it helps keep you honest and focused. I wouldn't want to also have to enter my 'activities' each day. It's interesting enough to just see a bar graph of calories/minute and a total number. If that data did become searchable, only I would know what that sudden spike on last Saturday afternoon was. But you would find out I am a Taco Bell junkie.
A snuke in her snizz.
I interviewed at a place that sold Time and Attendance software and I about fell out of my chair when the interviewer casually mentioned that the memory footprint of their product was 2GB.
Dogs have a pack mentality, so it's only necessary for the human to achieve alpha status in order to get the dogs to do something useful like herding, guarding, hunting or pulling a sled. Like you said, cats are into their humans for how it benefits them, which makes it clear which is the smartest of the three.
Full Disclosure: I am in servitude to a couple of cats with Jedi mind powers of cuteness.
Ummm....housing is cheap in Detroit.
Wow, Liberalism defined right from the asshole of the Right Wing media.
Go ahead and believe that definition if it makes you feel superior or something. I don't think reason or even education would have any effect in changing your already made up mind.
A fetus is a person and has a soul.
Animals have souls because I say they do. You can't refute this because I give you no facts to refute. My argument is just as valid as the one you made, so nana-nana-boo-boo.
An animal's life has no inherent value to it.
You say this because an animal slaughter house is effectively a death camp, but your love of steak makes you feel uncomfortable about this, therefore it must be OK to kill animals, ergo animals have no inherent value. I'm a meat eater and will be all my life, but I have no illusions about what that means. "No inherent value" my ass you tard.
Trivialization of human life is what leads to the incessant atrocities of our mordern times.
Agreed that is it a necessary component in order to get ordinary people to carry out genocidal orders that achieve their master's political & economic goals. But it has always galled me anti-abortion people seem to think everyone will just follow the bandwagon and abort babies right and left leading to a general disregard for human life. Abortion has been legal a long time and personally I see the opposite, especially among young people. Some of us can make our own decisions and don't need to be saved from automatically chosing the worst path available to us
The distinction between pet and food is very culturally dependent. I would never want to eat dog/cat meat, but I don't hold blame for those who do. Some people consider a pig to be a great pet and I think it is a magical and delicious animal.
Agreed. Videophones in TV/movies are about creating better entertainment than predicting an actual need.
I think you missed the point. It's voice vs video not how that voice or video is delivered. It doesn't matter if it's POTS, Skype, VOIP or a herd of mutant cats. The point is even though video calling is available people still seem to prefer voice.
The mutant cat layer is very difficult to manage, unless you are using the EDS protocol.
When your iPhone friends play with a block of wood, they're pretty much always impressed too. Don't give that too much weight.
What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good."
Everyone wants a log
You're gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log
*whistle*
LOG FROM BLAMMO
Maybe the Alaskan state government should ask Yahoo to export the emails for them. I bet that's where the bulk of them are stored, in a personal account.
You're blaming Obama for the bailouts? Really? You might as well blame him for Watergate and the Great Depression.
and at that point, the Republicans start drooling, asking themselves, "Can we?"
But at the same time the starving man and his family don't just go off and die peacefully in the gutter. Maintaining social order is impossible once a large enough percentage of the population is starving. People will grab guns, clubs & rocks to get at the food if they need to. Generally this is considered a bad thing for society at large. Perhaps for those behind the gated communities it may just be a nuisance, but I think that is wishful thinking on their part.
Call it blackmail by the starving masses, but we all are part of the same interconnected system.
I used to be a FedEx courier back in the mid 90s and the company was determined to keep the unions out. I don't know what the deal is nowadays with the separate non-express service. But I can tell you the attitude of the upper management was that the employees were overpaid. A couple of the regional managers were kind enough to let us know that on a regular basis. The max hourly wages were $15-something / hour back then plus benefits. If you busted your hump and grabbed all the overtime you could get, you could crack 50k. I have no idea what the wages are now. If it hadn't been for the unions, I don't think they would had treated their employees even that well.
I ended up quitting because I got an opportunity to get some training and started a job in network operations and worked up to become a programmer later. But the whole Fedex model was 100% service 100% of the time and if you wanted a raise in 6 months, then improve your delivery numbers to 110% service 110% of the time. Which meant a lot of couriers gamed their delivery times until they reached max hourly wage.
Managers will always make more than the people they manage. It defines the power relationship between them. Any other situation is just plain crazy talk.
Thank you for reaffirming my decision to write boring business logic programs for a large corporation. I now have a personal life again and time on the side to program personal projects, which was always my first love in programming.