I really cannot believe the whining about "slavery" and "unpaid labour" from people who have probably done very little if any community service in their lives. There are a shitload of jobs that can be done to improve a community or the lives of those who live in it. All I hear are people worried that their free time to slack around with friends will be taken away.
Seriously, what have YOU done in the way of volunteer work for your community/state/country?
As another president once said: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
As long as the pro-Obama people didn't point out that they were pro-Obama, what is the problem? If they came on buses with Obama's picture and name on the outside, gave the homeless speeches about how Obama would be a batter choice for them on the way to the polling places then you have a problem.
We had that kind of idiocy in a recent municipal election here in Vancouver. When voting for a city council position went on all of a sudden busloads of old Indian women showed up who got off the bus and were immediately handed a fake ballot that looked like the real one with the Indo-Canadian candidate's name already checked supposedly as an example of the method of voting, but also obviously an example of who to vote for. Few of these women spoke any English and declined to speak with anyone about how they were gathered up.
The candidate's assistants told reporters that "This is the way it has been in the patriarchal Indian society for generations, the men tell the women who to vote for."
I have IP TV (Telus) and am essentially limited to 3Mbps down 700K up due to the presence of that TV. The total bandwidth coming down according to the tech is 15Mbps. 5Mbps is taken by each of the two TV adapters leaving 5 or less for regular Internet.
Dropped by my brother-in-law's apartment in Tokyo a few weeks ago who has 100Mbps fiber. Incredible.
I've started carrying around my Palm T3 with the Palm keyboard. I type faster than I write and have a doodling app when I need to write simple diagrams. I have the wireless card when I need to check email etc.
Smaller and lighter than even a micro laptop and turns on right where I left off.
Thank you for your extremely well-informed comment. I'm sure we can rely on your expertise in the future should the subject of graphene condoms and sex toys in general arise.
By the way, this is Slashdot so how DID you acquire your intimate knowledge?
You know. For a man who contributed a lot to the storage and management of information, CL/DM is an impossible book to find any particular citation in due to its literal cut-and-paste scrapbook layout.
Because I suggested to the managers that having some would be a good idea.
They had none. Zero. Zilch. Not a Sausage. All coding methods were left completely up to the individual developers whims and experience.
This was a software house that develops custom solutions for the world's largest legal firms. They are now part of one of the largest electronic information management corporations.
I was inheriting follow-on projects where half to three-quarters of the project time was spent figuring our how the previous developer did the task. I saw this as a problem and tactfully made suggestions that we may want to set some standards and start some regular developer group meetings to discuss those standards and ways of optimizing our development time.
Unfortunately the managers were only concerned that we put as many billable hours in no matter what the quality of the output which in many cases was absolute crap. My insistence that this was the case with more than adequate proof was not what management wanted to hear so the squeaky wheel was let go.
So the moral of the story: Coding standards are a good idea but if the house you're working for isn't ready to implement any, it's time to look for work elsewhere.
In reality the argument is asinine. "Look, you Atheists are just a religious as us!" is what seems to be the point. The reality is a bit deeper than that. As another post pointed out, an overwhelming lack of evidence of the positive existence of something requires that you default to "that thing does not exist".
The requirement that it *might* exist derives completely from the person making the positive proposition. You say that you believe a "God" exists. You have no proof of course, or at least none that would stand up as scientific proof that would truly establish the positive existence. You have defined the physical and/or metaphysical aspects of that "God" yourself or have accepted what you have been taught they are. Now you are expecting people to prove that an idea you came up with or chose to believe doesn't exist?
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I really cannot believe the whining about "slavery" and "unpaid labour" from people who have probably done very little if any community service in their lives. There are a shitload of jobs that can be done to improve a community or the lives of those who live in it. All I hear are people worried that their free time to slack around with friends will be taken away.
Seriously, what have YOU done in the way of volunteer work for your community/state/country?
As another president once said: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
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As long as the pro-Obama people didn't point out that they were pro-Obama, what is the problem? If they came on buses with Obama's picture and name on the outside, gave the homeless speeches about how Obama would be a batter choice for them on the way to the polling places then you have a problem.
We had that kind of idiocy in a recent municipal election here in Vancouver. When voting for a city council position went on all of a sudden busloads of old Indian women showed up who got off the bus and were immediately handed a fake ballot that looked like the real one with the Indo-Canadian candidate's name already checked supposedly as an example of the method of voting, but also obviously an example of who to vote for. Few of these women spoke any English and declined to speak with anyone about how they were gathered up.
The candidate's assistants told reporters that "This is the way it has been in the patriarchal Indian society for generations, the men tell the women who to vote for."
I have IP TV (Telus) and am essentially limited to 3Mbps down 700K up due to the presence of that TV. The total bandwidth coming down according to the tech is 15Mbps. 5Mbps is taken by each of the two TV adapters leaving 5 or less for regular Internet.
Dropped by my brother-in-law's apartment in Tokyo a few weeks ago who has 100Mbps fiber. Incredible.
Phenomenal Cosmic Bandwidth!!!!!
Itty bitty living space.
Not Slashdot's fault. Mine. I've been putting in networks long enough (22 years) to know the difference.
Must be getting senile.
Yes, I meant symmetric. Sorry, my brain fart. I was rushing out the door before posting and couldn't get the right word out.
I knew, however, that some pedantics would show up and correct the oversight in a suitably (im)mature fashion.
Bingo.
I've started carrying around my Palm T3 with the Palm keyboard. I type faster than I write and have a doodling app when I need to write simple diagrams. I have the wireless card when I need to check email etc.
Smaller and lighter than even a micro laptop and turns on right where I left off.
Oh dear. Watch an American otaku go to Japan and try and say the last one to someone.
That *will* get you strange looks.
OK, how many of us didn't get that at first because we pronounce it en-SEL-ah-dus.
That would be rare. They should at least say "Gomen kudasai!" as they open the door.
Thank you for your extremely well-informed comment. I'm sure we can rely on your expertise in the future should the subject of graphene condoms and sex toys in general arise.
By the way, this is Slashdot so how DID you acquire your intimate knowledge?
A while ago I had a regular email that would for whatever reason lock up Outlook when trying to download its HTML content.
So I set Outlook to always show plain text versions of all emails. This has provided two benefits:
1) Much faster message display
2) Malicious emails are easier to spot
In this case it was a while bunch of links where the text was http://x.cnn.com/ but the actual href was http://seomthing.de.
In Outlook 2007: Tools - Trust Center - E-Mail Security - Read all standard mail in plain text.
About 2 minutes after launch signal was lost from the vehicle.
Announcers just said there had been "an anomaly on the craft" and to check their website for details.
Damn.
I wasn't getting the webcast in FireFox but got it when switched to an IE tab.
(Get out his plastic-wrapped copy)
Let's see where is it...
You know. For a man who contributed a lot to the storage and management of information, CL/DM is an impossible book to find any particular citation in due to its literal cut-and-paste scrapbook layout.
Actually the business World runs on A4.
only the US and Canada along with a couple of other small countries use 8.5 x 11 (US Letter)
And a Penisieve is a ... is a...
Never mind.
Why rely on what the media finds "newsworthy"?
The MNF PAO has a website with RSS feeds of all releases.
Of course, now you're dependent on what the MNF find "newsworthy".
Geez. One misplaced single quote.
Fedex uses a major hub approach to distribution anyway. See the animation of their plane flights to see the grand dance in and out of Memphis.
Fedex uses a major hub approach to distribution anyway. See the animation of their plane flights to see the grand dance in and out of Memphis.
"Sites" or "Cites"
Not trying to be a GN but with the context it actually makes the post confusing to read.
Why?
Because I suggested to the managers that having some would be a good idea.
They had none. Zero. Zilch. Not a Sausage. All coding methods were left completely up to the individual developers whims and experience.
This was a software house that develops custom solutions for the world's largest legal firms. They are now part of one of the largest electronic information management corporations.
I was inheriting follow-on projects where half to three-quarters of the project time was spent figuring our how the previous developer did the task. I saw this as a problem and tactfully made suggestions that we may want to set some standards and start some regular developer group meetings to discuss those standards and ways of optimizing our development time.
Unfortunately the managers were only concerned that we put as many billable hours in no matter what the quality of the output which in many cases was absolute crap. My insistence that this was the case with more than adequate proof was not what management wanted to hear so the squeaky wheel was let go.
So the moral of the story: Coding standards are a good idea but if the house you're working for isn't ready to implement any, it's time to look for work elsewhere.
In reality the argument is asinine. "Look, you Atheists are just a religious as us!" is what seems to be the point. The reality is a bit deeper than that. As another post pointed out, an overwhelming lack of evidence of the positive existence of something requires that you default to "that thing does not exist".
The requirement that it *might* exist derives completely from the person making the positive proposition. You say that you believe a "God" exists. You have no proof of course, or at least none that would stand up as scientific proof that would truly establish the positive existence. You have defined the physical and/or metaphysical aspects of that "God" yourself or have accepted what you have been taught they are. Now you are expecting people to prove that an idea you came up with or chose to believe doesn't exist?
Sorry, the world doesn't work that way.
The typical response to that I see these days is that:
"Atheists have faith that there is no God since they have no proof that God does not exist.
Since they have faith then atheists are religious."
It would seem that all the reasons atheists may have for stating that do not count as "proof".
If you ignore the fallacy of proving a negative existence.
Don't confuse the Marshall Plan with martial law.
Kinda takes away from the rest of your post.