The decline of the quality of the family is THE biggest issue that we face as a nation and it's very often the answer to other national issues that we face.
I have to disagree with you on that one; I agree with all of your other points, but it looks to me like it is the decline of personal responsibility that we should be talking about. It seems to lead to most of our issues, including what I think you meant to say above.
It's my understanding that you can get Debian support through HP. I know you could get per-incident before, and according to this, it looks like they support Debian as well as the "more commercial-friendly" distros.
There is another way to deal with this, if indeed you are going to take the offensive (if she is planning on fighting dirty, you might not have a choice). There is a single magical word that all lawyers love, and it's retainer.
In a sufficiently small area (i.e. not New York, L.A., etc), there is a limited pool of good divorce lawyers. If you can afford it, put them all on retainer. That way, your ex cannot use any of them, as it would constitute a conflict of interest for the lawyer to be on retainer for you, but representing her.
Disclaimer: I just went through a very mature divorce and we are still on good terms, but I made sure I did my homework first
There is another way I've noticed email being used, though, and that is when you want a "written" record of a conversation that you couldn't get with a phone conversation. Those same middle managers that you talk about are the ones most interested in having the ability to pull up an old email (out of their 5 GB mailbox) and say "see, the vendor told me this, it's not my fault". It is the classic "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" argument, and that is why they think it should be realtime; because in their mind it is replacing the phone, not memos.
totally off-topic, but the best way to get the best deal on a car is to ask to see their invoice for it. You can say you were on the internet & it was a lot cheaper there; whatever, as long as he shows it to you.
However you get to see it, just add somewhere between 500 to 1000 dollars on top of that and they'll love to see it off the lot. Everybody wins; they move a car and make a profit and you end up basically getting dealer cost.
I actually had the exact opposite problem when developing an intranet site about 4 months ago. I use firefox, so I tested with firefox. However, all of my users run IE, and because of the non-standard implementations that it has, I ended up having to redo a significant portion of the work.
In this particular case, which I can see happening in the (not too distant) future, the developer uses anything non-IE and tests all of his work there, and when he finds out that his code does not port well to IT, he may be in a position to change his corporate users' browsers. Disclaimer: I work in a small office, so I make a lot of the decisions like this
Let's not forget that most companies are not Fortune 500 - they are small, and they have less than 5 people that they trust with the technical parts of their business. Once those 5 people are convinced that IE is evil, their CEO's become convinced, and we are looking at a true grassroots effort.
The Red Sox won the series in 1917, but Chicago has TWO teams that haven't won it since 1918 (the White Sox in 1918 & the Cubs in 1907?). Almost exactly the same time frame, but twice the opportunities.
Imagine how frustrating it is to have 2 choices of a team to back, and know both of them are wrong.
I thought there was a ruling (no clue when, by whom, or about what) that stated that loading the program into memory constituted "making a copy", though, which would lead to copyright law extending into the realm of using software.
spoken like someone without a family. While you may be willing to uproot your kids and basically force your spouse to quit their job, there are those of us who won't.
I was just reading through the posts here and noticed a lot that read "well, I'm not going to do this, because the artist would only get $.05 of that $.99, so forget paying for these songs, I'll just go download them" or "MP3 is lossy, so I'm not going to pay an entire dollar for these tracks".
People, this is what we have all been screaming for...no restrictions on downloads and a fair price for the songs themselves, instead of $18-$20 for a CD that contains 2 decent songs and 12 crappy ones. If we don't take some kind of action and show these studios that consumers are willing to pay for decent service, that service is going to disintegrate and leave us with a lot of bad laws in its place. You have to crawl before you walk, and especially for a first offering, I don't think the details of this look bad at all. Please at the very least consider paying a couple of bucks the next time you get the urge to grab some music.
(Note: for all you people actively boycotting the RIAA for their other stunts/attacks, this post was not meant for you, but rather people who simply don't want to pay for MP3's)
do you even know any farmers? I know, food comes from the grocery store, right? Sorry, but a mission to Mars doesn't make a whole lot of sense if we can't grow any food either here or there.
I got news for you...it all comes from farmers, most of whom would not survive without those government subsidies. Farming is also the closest the U.S. can come to having a true free market, and I don't think we should ever underestimate that.
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This is the kind of post I wish I had moderator points for...it's one of the better I've seen on/. for quite a while.
One thing you mentioned that I disagree with, though, is the "(hopefully very long) lives". I don't know about the rest of you, but I've gotta think that once you get past a certain age, there's not a whole lot of goals you set for yourself any more. Granted, this age probably changes for each individual person, but I think most elderly people (>85 or so) are just going day to day living for their grandkids and certain other social groups. What happens if Grandma is 180, and her grandkids are 110 and both are living day-to-day lives. I just think that would be horribly depressing.
This is not going to make the AI community shake in their boots, that's for certain:
me: die, scum SmarterChild: Could you please use more... decorous language? me: would you please die? SmarterChild: Would who die? me: you SmarterChild: Yes? me: die! SmarterChild: That's so uncool.
the correct quote is "The love of money is the root of all evil". The problem isn't money itself, but the chasing of it to the exclusion of everything else
hate to reply to a post twice, but as soon as I read through this thread, I contacted the FBI phone number listed on their website...They already know about this post, so please do not re-submit, as it will only clog the lines for new leads
I don't think that teaching Java as a first language is a good idea, for the simple reason that it allows way too many crutches for the user. For instance, some people have brought up the fact that beginning programmers don't need to worry about memory leaks this way because of Java's garbage collection. Poing taken (and I know my first 2 years w/ C++ would have been a lot less stressful:)
However, there are some C/C++ topics that are just impossible to get around. Pointers, for instance. Instead of actually showing these beginners what pointers are and what they are good for, you simply tell them to use a reference, because references are magically delicious. That is the impression I got when I took my first Java class, and I remember feeling sick because of my experience with C beforehand.
Another good point to bring up is type safety. How can anything be type-safe in a language where everything is an Object??? I never really thought of Java this way until the past year or so, when I started dealing with legacy code that went something along the lines of: ooh, it's not the right type, I'll just cast it to an Object & then cast it back. Void pointers anyone?
This is not to slam Java. It wouldn't be where it is today without bring some pretty heavy firepower to the table, and in certain situations, it is probably the best choice for development.
I don't know what the best beginner language is out there, but I'll just say that when I started in school with C++, I was totally lost for about 6 months, and then one day it just clicked. Everything made sense. Ever since then, new languages, such as Perl and Java, have been almost trivial to learn.
repeat after me... the US is not in a recession right now. Our GNP went up in the final quarter of 2000 (albeit only 1%). Technically, a recession is defined as 2 consecutive quarters of DECLINING GNP.
The problem with the economy right now is that people got used to bringing in 30% returns, and now that we're just barely growing, everyone is in a panic. The press is a major factor in this whole thing. Sheeple believe whatever the press tells them, and panic sells newspapers
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The decline of the quality of the family is THE biggest issue that we face as a nation and it's very often the answer to other national issues that we face.
I have to disagree with you on that one; I agree with all of your other points, but it looks to me like it is the decline of personal responsibility that we should be talking about. It seems to lead to most of our issues, including what I think you meant to say above.
It's my understanding that you can get Debian support through HP. I know you could get per-incident before, and according to this, it looks like they support Debian as well as the "more commercial-friendly" distros.
Correct answer: I don't use Internet Explorer. What's a pop-up box?
There is another way to deal with this, if indeed you are going to take the offensive (if she is planning on fighting dirty, you might not have a choice). There is a single magical word that all lawyers love, and it's retainer.
In a sufficiently small area (i.e. not New York, L.A., etc), there is a limited pool of good divorce lawyers. If you can afford it, put them all on retainer. That way, your ex cannot use any of them, as it would constitute a conflict of interest for the lawyer to be on retainer for you, but representing her.
Disclaimer: I just went through a very mature divorce and we are still on good terms, but I made sure I did my homework first
There is another way I've noticed email being used, though, and that is when you want a "written" record of a conversation that you couldn't get with a phone conversation. Those same middle managers that you talk about are the ones most interested in having the ability to pull up an old email (out of their 5 GB mailbox) and say "see, the vendor told me this, it's not my fault". It is the classic "no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" argument, and that is why they think it should be realtime; because in their mind it is replacing the phone, not memos.
totally off-topic, but the best way to get the best deal on a car is to ask to see their invoice for it. You can say you were on the internet & it was a lot cheaper there; whatever, as long as he shows it to you.
However you get to see it, just add somewhere between 500 to 1000 dollars on top of that and they'll love to see it off the lot. Everybody wins; they move a car and make a profit and you end up basically getting dealer cost.
I actually had the exact opposite problem when developing an intranet site about 4 months ago. I use firefox, so I tested with firefox. However, all of my users run IE, and because of the non-standard implementations that it has, I ended up having to redo a significant portion of the work.
In this particular case, which I can see happening in the (not too distant) future, the developer uses anything non-IE and tests all of his work there, and when he finds out that his code does not port well to IT, he may be in a position to change his corporate users' browsers. Disclaimer: I work in a small office, so I make a lot of the decisions like this
Let's not forget that most companies are not Fortune 500 - they are small, and they have less than 5 people that they trust with the technical parts of their business. Once those 5 people are convinced that IE is evil, their CEO's become convinced, and we are looking at a true grassroots effort.
If there is hope, it lies in the proles...
The Red Sox won the series in 1917, but Chicago has TWO teams that haven't won it since 1918 (the White Sox in 1918 & the Cubs in 1907?). Almost exactly the same time frame, but twice the opportunities.
Imagine how frustrating it is to have 2 choices of a team to back, and know both of them are wrong.
I thought there was a ruling (no clue when, by whom, or about what) that stated that loading the program into memory constituted "making a copy", though, which would lead to copyright law extending into the realm of using software.
spoken like someone without a family. While you may be willing to uproot your kids and basically force your spouse to quit their job, there are those of us who won't.
whoever modded this funny, I've got news for you...it's not, it's sad.
I feel your pain, man (has she started to watch the other design shows now, too? - they make Trading Spaces look pretty good by comparison)
will my physical email box be free of physical bulkmail, then?
;)
I can almost guarantee it
I was just reading through the posts here and noticed a lot that read "well, I'm not going to do this, because the artist would only get $.05 of that $.99, so forget paying for these songs, I'll just go download them" or "MP3 is lossy, so I'm not going to pay an entire dollar for these tracks".
People, this is what we have all been screaming for...no restrictions on downloads and a fair price for the songs themselves, instead of $18-$20 for a CD that contains 2 decent songs and 12 crappy ones. If we don't take some kind of action and show these studios that consumers are willing to pay for decent service, that service is going to disintegrate and leave us with a lot of bad laws in its place. You have to crawl before you walk, and especially for a first offering, I don't think the details of this look bad at all. Please at the very least consider paying a couple of bucks the next time you get the urge to grab some music.
(Note: for all you people actively boycotting the RIAA for their other stunts/attacks, this post was not meant for you, but rather people who simply don't want to pay for MP3's)
More coverage on this entire topic here
do you even know any farmers? I know, food comes from the grocery store, right? Sorry, but a mission to Mars doesn't make a whole lot of sense if we can't grow any food either here or there.
I got news for you...it all comes from farmers, most of whom would not survive without those government subsidies. Farming is also the closest the U.S. can come to having a true free market, and I don't think we should ever underestimate that.
This is the kind of post I wish I had moderator points for...it's one of the better I've seen on /. for quite a while.
One thing you mentioned that I disagree with, though, is the "(hopefully very long) lives". I don't know about the rest of you, but I've gotta think that once you get past a certain age, there's not a whole lot of goals you set for yourself any more. Granted, this age probably changes for each individual person, but I think most elderly people (>85 or so) are just going day to day living for their grandkids and certain other social groups. What happens if Grandma is 180, and her grandkids are 110 and both are living day-to-day lives. I just think that would be horribly depressing.
This is not going to make the AI community shake in their boots, that's for certain:
:)
me: die, scum
SmarterChild: Could you please use more... decorous language?
me: would you please die?
SmarterChild: Would who die?
me: you
SmarterChild: Yes?
me: die!
SmarterChild: That's so uncool.
but the movie quotes and forecasts are helpful
the correct quote is "The love of money is the root of all evil". The problem isn't money itself, but the chasing of it to the exclusion of everything else
hate to reply to a post twice, but as soon as I read through this thread, I contacted the FBI phone number listed on their website...They already know about this post, so please do not re-submit, as it will only clog the lines for new leads
look at message #7 on that thread.
Wait 7 days, and then maybe I'll answer this post. You see, I am going away
in seven days, and you will not hear from me again.
dated: 9/4/2001.
I'm shaking as I type this
she makes music? sorry, I guess I just never noticed she had a head before
I don't think that teaching Java as a first language is a good idea, for the simple reason that it allows way too many crutches for the user. For instance, some people have brought up the fact that beginning programmers don't need to worry about memory leaks this way because of Java's garbage collection. Poing taken (and I know my first 2 years w/ C++ would have been a lot less stressful :)
However, there are some C/C++ topics that are just impossible to get around. Pointers, for instance. Instead of actually showing these beginners what pointers are and what they are good for, you simply tell them to use a reference, because references are magically delicious. That is the impression I got when I took my first Java class, and I remember feeling sick because of my experience with C beforehand.
Another good point to bring up is type safety. How can anything be type-safe in a language where everything is an Object??? I never really thought of Java this way until the past year or so, when I started dealing with legacy code that went something along the lines of: ooh, it's not the right type, I'll just cast it to an Object & then cast it back. Void pointers anyone?
This is not to slam Java. It wouldn't be where it is today without bring some pretty heavy firepower to the table, and in certain situations, it is probably the best choice for development.
I don't know what the best beginner language is out there, but I'll just say that when I started in school with C++, I was totally lost for about 6 months, and then one day it just clicked. Everything made sense. Ever since then, new languages, such as Perl and Java, have been almost trivial to learn.
though we have a good, strong beachhead here
I'd feel a lot better if we had some nice cliffs
I don't know about you, but the PC is already the quietest thing in this office. If you can get me some quiet cow-irkers, though ...
repeat after me ... the US is not in a recession right now. Our GNP went up in the final quarter of 2000 (albeit only 1%). Technically, a recession is defined as 2 consecutive quarters of DECLINING GNP.
The problem with the economy right now is that people got used to bringing in 30% returns, and now that we're just barely growing, everyone is in a panic. The press is a major factor in this whole thing. Sheeple believe whatever the press tells them, and panic sells newspapers
Rubbish