I think it might be very difficult to bring one of them to the surface without killing it.
I don't think people have even seen live giant squid. I know there have been several deep diving expeditions, including the one that was on the Discovery channel. It's hard to be excited over finding yet another dead one. Even if it is in better condition than usual.
I was so enthused thinking they'd finally caught a live giant squid, but the article said it was just another dead one. And it's not even as big as some of the previous examples shown in the documentary.
Too bad.
Of course, I wouldn't have wanted to be on the boat with a live giant squid.
Just about anything can be a terrific Valentine's celebration. My SO used to take me to Burger King because it was a tradition with us.
Just make sure that you don't ignore the opportunity. Any idea is better than being empty handed.
In my case geeky-ness was bravado. And I sincerely doubt anyone would be offended to get a traditional gift. Like dinner out, flowers, or chocolate.
Weirdly enough, I'm irritated that I don't get anything for any of these holidays. I don't even like flowers. What I hate is the idea that I'm not worth the trouble anymore.
Honestly finding an ISP with a decent shell is next to impossible. You probably are better off running your own box--- if that's allowed under the colo agreement. And if you can afford it.
But there are benefits to having someone else deal with the headaches, especially on days with new viruses.
Most of the decent shell ISPs are gone now, sold out to huge conglomerates. Mine has been sold 4 times in the last 1.5 years, lately to a Japanese company (it started out in California). I'll be first to admit that my shell account now is -way- better than the account I had in college. But I'm still shopping around for a new provider.
Some of that is probably because this is late Friday and a lot of posters/. from work.
It would be better if people read YRO anyway, but it's been a while since there was a YRO topic that didn't make the front page.
Not to be antagonistic, but a continual crisis mode that still gets regular comments is amazing. If people want to argue or score off one another, seems like a small price. The topic isn't gone.
don't think being older is necessarily better. many companies hire younger employees over older ones
I found that to be true at my last job. The web design team refused to listen to any of the comments from the QA people over 20. The discrimination works both ways.
You know there's a problem with the font size when 3 18-year old QA people put their faces 3 inches from the screen and squint.
For a long time during the testing, I just thought my screen was dirty.
Some places put so high a value on "fresh ideas" that they neglect experience entirely. It would be best if people were given opportunities before they were judged, and if we could let go of our prejudices from past experience. I don't think I can, and I won't hire a QA person to test web sites unless the person wears glasses and knows what it's like to not be able to see!
The caller ID is great, but the answering machine part bites. The outgoing message quality is like "paper cup on a string". We finally started using the default message where Mr. Fake Electronic-Voice tells people you're unavailable.
We are able to take the phone through the apartment building and into the garage and talk in the car. No interference across our room with wall-to-wall computers. Great sound quality through the handset, and incoming messages are OK.
We collect board games. Especially two player games. There are a lot of small game companies out there who make games that are less competitive and more "educational". Some of the games are truly bizarre, or hilarious to play.
In the educational realm, the best one of these is Maptitude (amazon sells it), and while you compete with other people, it's all chance and knowledge instead of resources. I'm an adult, and it's challenging for me. My niece and nephew play it with their parents and like it, so it must be possible for kids to play. I've only played with other adults.
Try University Games and Rio Grande Games, and choose carefully! If you focus on games that either require some knowledge or that have larger chance factors (as opposed to strategy), you'll find that they're less limited by resources.
The Game of the Year is one of the best ones, with not too much prior knowledge needed, lots of chance components (and reversals of fortune), and with most of the exchange coming from the bank instead of between players.
I suppose the other thing you could do that would increase the entertainment value of a competitive game is to choose a short game, so many rounds could be played. This works especially well among equal players, but that makes it good for adults after a casual dinner party. Set Games has a couple of really great games. Set for pattern matching, Five Crowns for sequences and number matching, and Quiddler for a "gin rummy" where you have to make words from your letters.
I can't promise that these aren't "zero sum" games, but there are more options, things with better odds for a friendly game. Games you can play with friends and still be friends with them afterwards, even if they lose.
I'm concerned that healthcare (and others) costs aren't scaleable. I don't honestly believe that "per capita" is a reasonable measure of expenditure for universal healthcare.
Not to say that it couldn't work... just that saying it costs X in Canada to serve Q-Million people doesn't mean it's going to cost Y times X to serve Y times Q-Million people anywhere else.
Sure some of the costs are quantized by the number of facilities and staff and equipment needed, but a lot of the cost is based on usage style and volume.
And having public/universal healthcare doesn't address the privacy issues. Seems like governmental medicine would fall under freedom of information acts. That would suck.
Even regular glasses help. Get the ones with the UV coating. Having lightly tinted glasses helps with the glare.
In fact my previous job has a vision care program to buy everyone a pair of tinted lens glasses (even no prescription people) because it helps with the eye problems.
You can set up an intermediate role between the marketing types and the geek types. The liason.
If you choose someone with a foot in both camps and who can encourage the coders to optimal productivity while staving off new features, you'll be pretty happy with the result. And even when things go badly, people who don't really speak the same language have someone who can interpret for them. The real thing I've heard everyone screaming for is information.
This is the true role of the project manager. And more than one project can share the project manager, so it's not a hideous resource sink.
The whole spam problem seems to result from people not seeing their own impact on the situation. I hate to see restrictions on email, and tracking the volume of mail sent... but I don't think I've ever sent out 50 emails in a day.
The braking idea seems decent. And if you could only send out 10 emails a day with an account... Or maybe we should say that you can't send more than 100 emails a day with a free account.
Wonder whose ass you have to kick to get them to actually do something about the abusers who are spoiling the playground.
My work forced me to get an AIM name. Then they tried to be angry that I put my work email address in instead of my personal one. I'm sure lots of people's jobs require them to use IM, and AOLs is popular.
Geek related charities, like science museums, PBS, and the various liberty organizations? Great. Also try your library, mine is looking for someone to underwrite their e-book subscription.
But why do people always think that charity is for children? Charity is to support causes, groups and events that wouldn't exist otherwise. I don't see any shortage of children. Children's charities seem to be encouraging more children which need more charity. All geeks should know about uncontrolled recursion being bad.
I work in an "open environment" which surprisingly is much less noisy than the cube farm.
Everyone there swears by these noise cancelling headphones/"ear bugs". I've had (bad?) white noise generators that are way more irritating than people talking loudly around me. I'd definitely look for a hardware solution over white noise CDs.
Wait! #1 Men can stay home with their kids.
#2 Not everybody wants kids (think _first_! It will screw up your whole life!)
Daycare won't solve the underlying problem, that people with children should (and often do) put them first but their job performance suffers. I -like- working with young and childless people because they don't leave early, they don't make a gazillion calls for PTA & doctors & play dates. I don't think that companies that rely on technical ability and concentration should hire people who are busy thinking about their kids not about code.
So providing daycare, lactation programs, etc. all it does is get you a whole host of lazy, useless people who won't be dedicated to doing their best work. And in practice it does discourage the average hormone-ridden female from taking a technical position, but we all know that hiring a sucky coder is much worse than having no one at all. Maybe we shouldn't hire people who want those kinds of "perks".
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I don't think people have even seen live giant squid. I know there have been several deep diving expeditions, including the one that was on the Discovery channel. It's hard to be excited over finding yet another dead one. Even if it is in better condition than usual.
Too bad.
Of course, I wouldn't have wanted to be on the boat with a live giant squid.
Just make sure that you don't ignore the opportunity. Any idea is better than being empty handed.
In my case geeky-ness was bravado. And I sincerely doubt anyone would be offended to get a traditional gift. Like dinner out, flowers, or chocolate.
Weirdly enough, I'm irritated that I don't get anything for any of these holidays. I don't even like flowers. What I hate is the idea that I'm not worth the trouble anymore.
But there are benefits to having someone else deal with the headaches, especially on days with new viruses.
Most of the decent shell ISPs are gone now, sold out to huge conglomerates. Mine has been sold 4 times in the last 1.5 years, lately to a Japanese company (it started out in California). I'll be first to admit that my shell account now is -way- better than the account I had in college. But I'm still shopping around for a new provider.
It would be better if people read YRO anyway, but it's been a while since there was a YRO topic that didn't make the front page.
Not to be antagonistic, but a continual crisis mode that still gets regular comments is amazing. If people want to argue or score off one another, seems like a small price. The topic isn't gone.
I found that to be true at my last job. The web design team refused to listen to any of the comments from the QA people over 20. The discrimination works both ways.
You know there's a problem with the font size when 3 18-year old QA people put their faces 3 inches from the screen and squint. For a long time during the testing, I just thought my screen was dirty.
Some places put so high a value on "fresh ideas" that they neglect experience entirely. It would be best if people were given opportunities before they were judged, and if we could let go of our prejudices from past experience. I don't think I can, and I won't hire a QA person to test web sites unless the person wears glasses and knows what it's like to not be able to see!
We are able to take the phone through the apartment building and into the garage and talk in the car. No interference across our room with wall-to-wall computers. Great sound quality through the handset, and incoming messages are OK.
In the educational realm, the best one of these is Maptitude (amazon sells it), and while you compete with other people, it's all chance and knowledge instead of resources. I'm an adult, and it's challenging for me. My niece and nephew play it with their parents and like it, so it must be possible for kids to play. I've only played with other adults.
Try University Games and Rio Grande Games, and choose carefully! If you focus on games that either require some knowledge or that have larger chance factors (as opposed to strategy), you'll find that they're less limited by resources. The Game of the Year is one of the best ones, with not too much prior knowledge needed, lots of chance components (and reversals of fortune), and with most of the exchange coming from the bank instead of between players.
I suppose the other thing you could do that would increase the entertainment value of a competitive game is to choose a short game, so many rounds could be played. This works especially well among equal players, but that makes it good for adults after a casual dinner party. Set Games has a couple of really great games. Set for pattern matching, Five Crowns for sequences and number matching, and Quiddler for a "gin rummy" where you have to make words from your letters.
I can't promise that these aren't "zero sum" games, but there are more options, things with better odds for a friendly game. Games you can play with friends and still be friends with them afterwards, even if they lose.
I guess no one told them about irony in school.
Not to say that it couldn't work... just that saying it costs X in Canada to serve Q-Million people doesn't mean it's going to cost Y times X to serve Y times Q-Million people anywhere else.
Sure some of the costs are quantized by the number of facilities and staff and equipment needed, but a lot of the cost is based on usage style and volume.
And having public/universal healthcare doesn't address the privacy issues. Seems like governmental medicine would fall under freedom of information acts. That would suck.
In fact my previous job has a vision care program to buy everyone a pair of tinted lens glasses (even no prescription people) because it helps with the eye problems.
If you choose someone with a foot in both camps and who can encourage the coders to optimal productivity while staving off new features, you'll be pretty happy with the result. And even when things go badly, people who don't really speak the same language have someone who can interpret for them. The real thing I've heard everyone screaming for is information.
This is the true role of the project manager. And more than one project can share the project manager, so it's not a hideous resource sink.
What kind of life does he live that he gets only porn spam? I see mostly beggar stories and MLM schemes.
Maybe spam could be declared "indecent" by the courts, and you'd have to prove you're over 18 to look at it. Why would anyone bother?
The braking idea seems decent. And if you could only send out 10 emails a day with an account... Or maybe we should say that you can't send more than 100 emails a day with a free account.
Wonder whose ass you have to kick to get them to actually do something about the abusers who are spoiling the playground.
My work forced me to get an AIM name. Then they tried to be angry that I put my work email address in instead of my personal one. I'm sure lots of people's jobs require them to use IM, and AOLs is popular.
But why do people always think that charity is for children? Charity is to support causes, groups and events that wouldn't exist otherwise. I don't see any shortage of children. Children's charities seem to be encouraging more children which need more charity. All geeks should know about uncontrolled recursion being bad.
Support groups that everyone benefits from.
Everyone there swears by these noise cancelling headphones/"ear bugs". I've had (bad?) white noise generators that are way more irritating than people talking loudly around me. I'd definitely look for a hardware solution over white noise CDs.
Wait! #1 Men can stay home with their kids.
#2 Not everybody wants kids (think _first_! It will screw up your whole life!)
Daycare won't solve the underlying problem, that people with children should (and often do) put them first but their job performance suffers. I -like- working with young and childless people because they don't leave early, they don't make a gazillion calls for PTA & doctors & play dates. I don't think that companies that rely on technical ability and concentration should hire people who are busy thinking about their kids not about code.
So providing daycare, lactation programs, etc. all it does is get you a whole host of lazy, useless people who won't be dedicated to doing their best work. And in practice it does discourage the average hormone-ridden female from taking a technical position, but we all know that hiring a sucky coder is much worse than having no one at all. Maybe we shouldn't hire people who want those kinds of "perks".