The reason I tend to get upset is that I don't like people showing up on my doorstep or stopping me at the bus stop or handing me pamphlets at McDonalds and telling me about how God will save me if I just give him a chance. Or the old guy in downtown Portland who screams out about Christ saving me. Sure, he's convicted. Sure, he's standing up for his beliefs. But I don't want to hear it.
Granted, these are not "typical" religious people. They are zealots, LDS or Witnesses. I understand. But these people drive me crazy. They get into little corners of my life and disrupt it, trying to get me to come and witness some^H^H^H^HGod and give money^H^H^H^H^Htithe to their churches. I don't like it, and I don't do it. How do you deal with it? One way, as I see it, is by letting your thoughts be known to large groups via message boards. Supporting your own belief that their IS no God, and that you think they're all nuts.
I used to (15 years ago) politely listen and nod, then go my own way. That didn't save me any time or make me feel better. Then (5 years ago) I started arguing with them about how stupid I thought their ideas were. Definitely a time-waster. Now, I just tell them to piss off, shut up, or get the hell out of my way. It's amazing to me that I could have the gall to be that rude to another human, but...
THAT's why all the comments pop up about religious zealots.
You know, this may sound silly, but I had the same situation not long ago, and ended up taking both jobs. I explained to both employers that I had a contract opportunity that I needed to pursue in which I needed to work earlier/later than usual (at either job), and got away with it for two weeks. It was a complete bitch, pulling 16-20 hour days, but I learned a lot about both companies...it was a golden opportunity.
(I was able to VNC into both jobs from the other, they weren't more than 10 miles from each other, and it was all good.)
What I learned (aside from the fact that two CS jobs aren't worth $200k/year) is that the new job I would have taken was prime to overwork me, there was lots of disorganization, simply too much to do, and the expectation was too high. I also realized how great I had things at my current job. I was happy to come back, and have realized that i can be much more productive there.
It may not be a possibility in your case, and it's rather tricky (you could get fired from both), but it worked out great for me. I'm happy where I'm at.
I gracefully quit the second job. Of course, not without an offer of a 25% pay raise (they were quite happy with me) and a pleading call from the CEO of the recruitment company. I explained truthfully what had happened and that I simply didn't like the new position.
I call bullshit. Of course the Internet is "neither unlimited nor free", and there are costs, and YES, we're paying for them. At $50 a month, we're subsidizing the big corporations with their > $1M / year salaries for CEOs at $600 each USER every year. That's not a money-losing proposition. No, I'm not whining about costs going up a few bucks a month. I'll pay it, no problem. But when you start capping me or charging me per use, I start looking at dialup a lot more closely. I don't need the speed so much as I need the ability to not worry about when/where/what I do online.
What the hell does Quicktime 6 have to do with MPEG-4? No offense, but MPEG-4 has been around a lot longer than Apple has been in the mix. They've jumped on the MPEG-4 standard bandwagon at the "last minute" for licensing fears, and now that's their big selling point for QT6. They act like they invented it.
And people are starting to beLIEVE they invented it. That's the scary part.
This seems like absolute junk to me. No offense, but any CPU or box you hook this up to would be toast in minutes. I know, I toasted one with this same technique a few months ago looking for a cheap solution.
The problems with this system are numerous.
1. The pump will only work for 10 minutes at a time. Great if you power up once a day to check email and then power down again.
2. The surface of the cooling block is absurd. If you don't have good contact, you're out of luck.
3. The cotton thread will stretch and contract, and eventually the "double knot" will break or become worthless. Savage an old CPU fan connection bracket if you must, but don't do THIS. Please.
4. The leaks would be horrendous and fast. The rubberbands are susceptible to the heat of the block, and will break immediately.
I'm not trying to be a jerk. I did try this unsuccessfully a few months ago, and then sucked it up and shelled out $90 at Fry's for some moderately good quality parts - a block, some real pipe fittings, and a good eHeim pump. It's been running 24-7 for some months now, with absolute perfection. It's quiet, fast, and the tests I run (every month) when I shut down the pump just to see what would happen, result in a nice, quick shutdown upon CPU core overheat (takes about 5 minutes). Distilled, clean water thrown on a running motherboard had no effect, so I've used that. No oil, no antifreeze, no water wetter. It's all worked out great.
Just shell out the $90 or $100, spend some time, and do it right.
What the Fuck?! Who CARES!? So, what you're saying is that to this whole kidnapping problem, you'd say "Do Nothing. It's not really a problem!" I agree completely...not.
I think that if someone ELSE wants to shell out $400 clams to TRY and protect their kids, let them go for it. What if a child was recovered using this locator? Would you say to the parents, "Fucking morons. It would NEVER happen. And I had to shoulder your burden"
YOU have to "shoulder the burden of child paranioa?" Yeah, that's right. YOU. Welcome to America, bud. If you don't like it, don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Asking why everyone is saying how great XP is, (when you only used it for part of a 30 day trial) is like pushing a Porsche around the dealer's lot for 5 minutes, and then refusing to buy one because it just didn't perform the way you expected.
Hate to say it, because it just feels wrong to promote MS apps, but with a decent system and a good knowledge of pre-XP Office, XP was just smooth. Yes, it was a little invasive the first time you use it, but with some patience, it's easily customized, intuitive (with former Office experience, granted) and, best of all, free to those of us with employers with deep pockets.
The plusses, as I saw them : It's MUCH faster than Office 2000. It's more reliable. (I had an air pocket in the water cooling system that overheated the CPU that shut down the system - Document recovery got the document back to within a few seconds of my last typed word.) It hasn't crashed, in my 6 months of using it. All the features in Word are available in all the other products. Same layout, same look and feel to each of the 7 or so major products that come included. The toolbars are more flexible and more configurable.
Granted, I have a faster and more stable system now than I have had in the past with other versions of Office apps, but I think there are reasons that Office is the number one office app for Windows platforms. Aside from the aformentioned, it's the largest, most fully integrated, full-featured, newest, cleanest office app out there for XP.
At least as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, how many Windows job reqs DON'T require Office knowledge of some sort? I have yet to see a req with StarOffice on it, and haven't seen one with a Corel product on it for a few years.
I know that many of the players _I_ use haven't had the means or necessity to "report back the time used to some organization..." I don't know how they're enforcing this, but it certainly isn't with the player at this point.
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The dual sea shore photo labeled : "one from MO300945 on Mars and one from the Columbia River basin in Washington State"?
That, to me, implies that it pays to not ignore the "junk science nonsense".
:)
Kudos. Clear, concise argument. Good point.
BUT.
The reason I tend to get upset is that I don't like people showing up on my doorstep or stopping me at the bus stop or handing me pamphlets at McDonalds and telling me about how God will save me if I just give him a chance. Or the old guy in downtown Portland who screams out about Christ saving me. Sure, he's convicted. Sure, he's standing up for his beliefs. But I don't want to hear it.
Granted, these are not "typical" religious people. They are zealots, LDS or Witnesses. I understand. But these people drive me crazy. They get into little corners of my life and disrupt it, trying to get me to come and witness some^H^H^H^HGod and give money^H^H^H^H^Htithe to their churches. I don't like it, and I don't do it. How do you deal with it? One way, as I see it, is by letting your thoughts be known to large groups via message boards. Supporting your own belief that their IS no God, and that you think they're all nuts.
I used to (15 years ago) politely listen and nod, then go my own way. That didn't save me any time or make me feel better. Then (5 years ago) I started arguing with them about how stupid I thought their ideas were. Definitely a time-waster. Now, I just tell them to piss off, shut up, or get the hell out of my way. It's amazing to me that I could have the gall to be that rude to another human, but...
THAT's why all the comments pop up about religious zealots.
I think what we're doing is not putting our FAVORITE bands in the lurch. We BUY those CDs religiously.
It's the mediocre ones and the ones we don't care about that we dl with no regrets.
I own the new Vapor Trails CD by Rush, but I forgot it at work. Do I drive 30 miles to pick it up or dl and burn a new one?
I drove. It makes me sick to download stuff I really like.
So, this thing is one giant redirect for amazon sales, huh?
If only spammers would get this creative.
Kudos to this guy. We need more like him.
You know, this may sound silly, but I had the same situation not long ago, and ended up taking both jobs. I explained to both employers that I had a contract opportunity that I needed to pursue in which I needed to work earlier/later than usual (at either job), and got away with it for two weeks. It was a complete bitch, pulling 16-20 hour days, but I learned a lot about both companies...it was a golden opportunity.
(I was able to VNC into both jobs from the other, they weren't more than 10 miles from each other, and it was all good.)
What I learned (aside from the fact that two CS jobs aren't worth $200k/year) is that the new job I would have taken was prime to overwork me, there was lots of disorganization, simply too much to do, and the expectation was too high. I also realized how great I had things at my current job. I was happy to come back, and have realized that i can be much more productive there.
It may not be a possibility in your case, and it's rather tricky (you could get fired from both), but it worked out great for me. I'm happy where I'm at.
I gracefully quit the second job. Of course, not without an offer of a 25% pay raise (they were quite happy with me) and a pleading call from the CEO of the recruitment company. I explained truthfully what had happened and that I simply didn't like the new position.
Ummmm. Hi.
I think unsolicited email IS illegal, yes?
I call bullshit. Of course the Internet is "neither unlimited nor free", and there are costs, and YES, we're paying for them. At $50 a month, we're subsidizing the big corporations with their > $1M / year salaries for CEOs at $600 each USER every year. That's not a money-losing proposition. No, I'm not whining about costs going up a few bucks a month. I'll pay it, no problem. But when you start capping me or charging me per use, I start looking at dialup a lot more closely. I don't need the speed so much as I need the ability to not worry about when/where/what I do online.
This isn't going to be the last security hole found in IE.
Yes it is. I called Microsoft and asked.
What the hell does Quicktime 6 have to do with MPEG-4? No offense, but MPEG-4 has been around a lot longer than Apple has been in the mix. They've jumped on the MPEG-4 standard bandwagon at the "last minute" for licensing fears, and now that's their big selling point for QT6. They act like they invented it.
And people are starting to beLIEVE they invented it. That's the scary part.
I work for a company that's had an end-to-end MP4 solution on the market for over a year. Check Google.
Get with it, Apple. Sheesh.
Yeah, he's an idiot. I had a flame ready for this one, but refrained until I searched /. for 'Sandscript' comments.
I refused to continue reading at that point.
Putz. Go play with your dollies.
http://12.225.182.52/valenti_mirror.htm
On the other hard, eh?
Well, we know why YOU watch HBO, Chester.
:)
Ha! Removing the MS software would do squat.
Not buying it in the first place....now that's a better plan. :)
The problems with this system are numerous.
1. The pump will only work for 10 minutes at a time. Great if you power up once a day to check email and then power down again.
2. The surface of the cooling block is absurd. If you don't have good contact, you're out of luck.
3. The cotton thread will stretch and contract, and eventually the "double knot" will break or become worthless. Savage an old CPU fan connection bracket if you must, but don't do THIS. Please.
4. The leaks would be horrendous and fast. The rubberbands are susceptible to the heat of the block, and will break immediately.
I'm not trying to be a jerk. I did try this unsuccessfully a few months ago, and then sucked it up and shelled out $90 at Fry's for some moderately good quality parts - a block, some real pipe fittings, and a good eHeim pump. It's been running 24-7 for some months now, with absolute perfection. It's quiet, fast, and the tests I run (every month) when I shut down the pump just to see what would happen, result in a nice, quick shutdown upon CPU core overheat (takes about 5 minutes). Distilled, clean water thrown on a running motherboard had no effect, so I've used that. No oil, no antifreeze, no water wetter. It's all worked out great.
Just shell out the $90 or $100, spend some time, and do it right.
I think that if someone ELSE wants to shell out $400 clams to TRY and protect their kids, let them go for it. What if a child was recovered using this locator? Would you say to the parents, "Fucking morons. It would NEVER happen. And I had to shoulder your burden"
YOU have to "shoulder the burden of child paranioa?" Yeah, that's right. YOU. Welcome to America, bud. If you don't like it, don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Hate to say it, because it just feels wrong to promote MS apps, but with a decent system and a good knowledge of pre-XP Office, XP was just smooth. Yes, it was a little invasive the first time you use it, but with some patience, it's easily customized, intuitive (with former Office experience, granted) and, best of all, free to those of us with employers with deep pockets.
The plusses, as I saw them : It's MUCH faster than Office 2000. It's more reliable. (I had an air pocket in the water cooling system that overheated the CPU that shut down the system - Document recovery got the document back to within a few seconds of my last typed word.) It hasn't crashed, in my 6 months of using it. All the features in Word are available in all the other products. Same layout, same look and feel to each of the 7 or so major products that come included. The toolbars are more flexible and more configurable.
Granted, I have a faster and more stable system now than I have had in the past with other versions of Office apps, but I think there are reasons that Office is the number one office app for Windows platforms. Aside from the aformentioned, it's the largest, most fully integrated, full-featured, newest, cleanest office app out there for XP.
At least as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, how many Windows job reqs DON'T require Office knowledge of some sort? I have yet to see a req with StarOffice on it, and haven't seen one with a Corel product on it for a few years.
Or whatever the hell they were called?
Who wants to join me in buying these all up (that aren't destroyed) and selling them to the guvment as portable scanners for cops @ $149.99 each?
What about automated encoders? How hard could it be?
I know that many of the players _I_ use haven't had the means or necessity to "report back the time used to some organization..." I don't know how they're enforcing this, but it certainly isn't with the player at this point.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2001/12/
It's absolutely possible. Anything can be compressed and recompressed and recompressed.
The problem is not in their claim of compression.
Their problem will be when the claim they can uncompress. Then, I'll call bullshit.
No, no. YOU get it right.
There is NO way that ANY acronym could stand for anything other than it's FIRST intended meaning.
Fucking Anonymous Know-it-alls.
I posted this about 20 pages down the list, and wondered if anyone else caught it. They're wrong about Imagery. You're right.