Do they offer an option as to whether or not I want to help subsidize the filtering software through higher service charges? Do you actually think they will only pass on the costs of the new filtering service only to those who use it?
On a completely unrelated note:
I wanted to add another pet peeve of mine regarding Latin phrases. It's when people write "et. al." rather than "et al.". There should be no period after the "et" because "et" is the entire word. Thanks for listening.
If your conscience is bothered as much as mine is by the horror stories of the diamond-mining industry, there are always the Canadian alternatives.
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That's why I don't talk to people. Inter-personal communication is really just a terrorist-friendly and pedophile-friendly network. There really ought to be some agency to police verbal conversations between people so no bad things are discussed. I don't want to be seen conversing with someone on the sidewalk because that's how terrorists and pedophiles communicate and I don't want to be lumped in with those vicious creeps.
It's required when applying for a passport. From the official website (down at the very bottom):
6. Provide a Social Security Number
If you do not provide your Social Security Number, the Internal Revenue Service may impose a $500 penalty. If you have any questions please call your nearest IRS office.
I don't know how exactly the state department can make he IRS impose a fine, but that's what they say.
The exact same skills are required of all college graduates (at least here in Texas). At my school (from which I'm graduating next week!!), it's up to each department within the university how those requirements are met, but most departments just created a 1-credit-hour class that's required before you can graduate. In the CSE (my) department, it was lumped into a very generic "computer ethics" course that hardly no one goes to except to turn in their "lab assignments", which are things like creating a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation (!), etc.
Just this week I had exactly the opposite experience. I've had several Linux distros on this particular box, including the recent Ubuntu release. Installs were all flawless, system ran great, etc. When I tried to install XP on it, the installer kept crapping out. Come to find out, Memtest86 showed errors on a particular address every time I ran it no matter what RAM sticks were in the system. New mobo and CPU and now XP installs just fine.
Computer Science is a branch of Mathematics. This confuses a lot of people who have different ideas of what Math is, and it apparently confuses a lot of Slashdotters too. To Joe Public, Math={Algebra, Trig, maybe high-school Calculus}. It confuses my Mechanical Engineering friends, because to them Math={DiffEq, Numerical Analysis, etc.}. The confusion comes from the fact that Computer Science doesn't "look" like those other branches of Math. More often than not, there are no numbers involved. Computer Science has little to do with the things you can percieve when you use a computer. It has little to do with hardware or applications or anything you can type in, click on, plug in, email, or listen to.
Off the top of my head, these areas fall under the umbrella of Computer Science:
Discrete Math (this is the heart of CS because lots of stuff gets lumped in here including propositional logic, relational algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, automata and formal languages, computational cost analysis, upper/lower bounds, sorting and searching, data structures, and anything else that I can't think of right now)
Linear Algebra (algorithms for solving systems of linear equations, matrix operations)
Communication theory (packetizing, error-checking, error-correction, compression)
Digital Logic (circuits, state-machine design, control units)
And finally, "Applied Technology" which builds upon the previous list but is so far removed from real Computer Science that they are nothing more than trade skills:
Programming languages (asm, C, C++, Java, PHP, Lisp, Fortran, ad nauseum...)
I had to chuckle when I saw this. Last week we hired a new manager for me (yes, me - I'm the entire technical support/software development department in a 6-person company). When I say we hired him, I don't actually mean I had anything to do with the decision process. Evidently, my six years here (far longer than anyone but the owner) have not been sufficient to give me any insight into the company's needs. But in the words of said owner, I should "consider myself lucky to be able to work under this guy with all of his technical background and expertise."
I've spent the last four workdays trying to get this guy up to speed with some of the unique apsects of our company - like the intricacies of using "cd" to change directories, and the complexities of absolute pathnames. Oh, and the highly-touted technical background turns out to be an A+ cert. W00t!!
The world is full of tools and I (now) work under two of them.
so perhaps you can expect more realism from Midway without the NFL's license.
That's too bad. I always liked the NFL Blitz series because of the cartoon-ish gameplay and simplified playbooks. It's not meant to be a realistic (American) football simulation. Same with the NBA Jams (I think that was the name) series of basketball games. If I wanted realism I would have played Madden or some other EA sports series. Both are good games, they just weren't trying to accomplish the same thing.
I install and use OS/2 on modern hardware on a weekly basis. It works just fine. A lot of our customers want the old OS/2 software because they know how stable it is and how unstable the Windows ports are. Of course, this is all back-office server stuff so pretty GUIs and sound effects aren't important.
JQJ says "Vendor X sold me a PC with dodgy Windows on it" to Microsoft (note: not someone with any legal authority to act in this matter).
MS gives JQJ a shiny new Windows, which JQJ then dutifully installs on the PC.
Here's where I think you skipped a step. Microsoft will almost certainly verify that you obtained the OS from the specified vendor (paid or otherwise) before sending the hellhounds after them. You have to provide some sort of proof of purchase at the time that you make the claim, or you're really just shouting, "Hey Bill - I've got an unauthorized copy of your OS!" with a smug grin, thinking you've outsmarted the most powerful legal team in recorded history.
Why is my rent cut-rate just because I'm in college? Are you saying that if I were to drop out of school, my landlord would raise my rent? And I sure don't remember ever getting a college discount at the grocery store. Library? I don't know what country you're from, but in the US the libraries are free to everyone. My cable internet service costs me the same amount of money as it does you. And education? I don't even know what you mean. That's what I pay $400 an hour for - at a cheap state school. To what financial burden of yours are you comparing tuition costs?
Your cost of living may have tripled, but that's purely by choice. One is not required to jump into a mortgage, car loan, marriage, etc. as soon as you first get hired out of school. And student loans are not forced upon anyone - they are completely voluntary.
If you go to one of the currency plants there is a gift shop where you can buy all of these things and more. I've never been to the one in D.C., but I have been to the one near my home in Fort Worth, TX (these are the only two places in the world where U.S. money is printed). I have an uncut sheet of $1 bills hanging in a frame on my wall. I also have a few bags of the shredded money you mentioned, as well as a clicky-pen with shredded money in it and probably a few other cheesy things too. My father gave me this stuff when the plant was being built a few years back (maybe 10 years ago???) because he was an architect that worked on the building. He also took me and my brothers on the public tour, which was pretty neat. I've never seen so much money in my life - pallets of currency stacked 6-8 feet high, with millions of dollars just sitting there.
This is typically a result of user permissions or user-level registry keys (or both). You can usually fix this by granting the user write access to certain files or registry keys.
I always assumed that's what it would take, but in my opinion it's not worth the trouble for me to spend the time trying to find out exactly what the user needs write perms on.
Fair enough, I suppose. I can only talk about my XP box at home that I just use for (here's the shocker) games. I don't have a guest account, only the Admin and my normal user, both of which you have to enter a password to log in. Seems pretty much like the standard "Ctl-Alt-Del" method, but hey - suum cuique. And I have a cat too, but I've never had a problem with her walking across the keyboard. And If I remember correctly (I'm not at home to look) there is a "Lock Screen" option on the Start Menu. And I know for a fact that the screensaver can be set to lock the screen after x seconds.
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...for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return.
We used to call it viruses, spam, spyware, and adware. Digital Pop Art sounds much friendlier.
Do they offer an option as to whether or not I want to help subsidize the filtering software through higher service charges? Do you actually think they will only pass on the costs of the new filtering service only to those who use it?
On a completely unrelated note: I wanted to add another pet peeve of mine regarding Latin phrases. It's when people write "et. al." rather than "et al.". There should be no period after the "et" because "et" is the entire word. Thanks for listening.
If your conscience is bothered as much as mine is by the horror stories of the diamond-mining industry, there are always the Canadian alternatives.
That's why I don't talk to people. Inter-personal communication is really just a terrorist-friendly and pedophile-friendly network. There really ought to be some agency to police verbal conversations between people so no bad things are discussed. I don't want to be seen conversing with someone on the sidewalk because that's how terrorists and pedophiles communicate and I don't want to be lumped in with those vicious creeps.
I don't know how exactly the state department can make he IRS impose a fine, but that's what they say.
The exact same skills are required of all college graduates (at least here in Texas). At my school (from which I'm graduating next week!!), it's up to each department within the university how those requirements are met, but most departments just created a 1-credit-hour class that's required before you can graduate. In the CSE (my) department, it was lumped into a very generic "computer ethics" course that hardly no one goes to except to turn in their "lab assignments", which are things like creating a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation (!), etc.
Perhaps....Palmela Handerson?
Just this week I had exactly the opposite experience. I've had several Linux distros on this particular box, including the recent Ubuntu release. Installs were all flawless, system ran great, etc. When I tried to install XP on it, the installer kept crapping out. Come to find out, Memtest86 showed errors on a particular address every time I ran it no matter what RAM sticks were in the system. New mobo and CPU and now XP installs just fine.
Computer Science is a branch of Mathematics. This confuses a lot of people who have different ideas of what Math is, and it apparently confuses a lot of Slashdotters too. To Joe Public, Math={Algebra, Trig, maybe high-school Calculus}. It confuses my Mechanical Engineering friends, because to them Math={DiffEq, Numerical Analysis, etc.}. The confusion comes from the fact that Computer Science doesn't "look" like those other branches of Math. More often than not, there are no numbers involved. Computer Science has little to do with the things you can percieve when you use a computer. It has little to do with hardware or applications or anything you can type in, click on, plug in, email, or listen to.
Off the top of my head, these areas fall under the umbrella of Computer Science:
- Discrete Math (this is the heart of CS because lots of stuff gets lumped in here including propositional logic, relational algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, automata and formal languages, computational cost analysis, upper/lower bounds, sorting and searching, data structures, and anything else that I can't think of right now)
- Linear Algebra (algorithms for solving systems of linear equations, matrix operations)
- Abstract (aka Modern) Algebra (functions/relations, groups/fields/rings)
Some of the areas of "Applied Theory" which build on the previous list and might be considered a part of Computer Science:- Languages (compiled vs. interpreted, functional, procedural, object-oriented, etc.)
- Compilers (language structure, parsers, data-flow analysis)
- Databases (file structures, Entity-Relationship modeling, indexing/hashing/trees)
- Operating systems (scheduling, memory management, file systems, loaders/linkers/assemblers)
- Graphics (2- and 3-D transformations, planes and curved surfaces, ray tracing, etc.)
- Computer Architecture (Von Neuman (sp?), instruction sets, fetch/decode/store, I/O and memory)
- Communication theory (packetizing, error-checking, error-correction, compression)
- Digital Logic (circuits, state-machine design, control units)
And finally, "Applied Technology" which builds upon the previous list but is so far removed from real Computer Science that they are nothing more than trade skills:*None of the above should be taken as comprehensive, authoritative, or even accurate.
The first one it generated for me was "deploy wireless eyeballs". That made me giggle.
I'm a geek. When I read this I thought to myself, "I know what an Erdos number is, but what does Francis Bacon have to do with it?"
It wasn't until I followed the link that I realized that it might have something to do with Kevin Bacon and the whole "degrees of separation" thing.
I had to chuckle when I saw this. Last week we hired a new manager for me (yes, me - I'm the entire technical support/software development department in a 6-person company). When I say we hired him, I don't actually mean I had anything to do with the decision process. Evidently, my six years here (far longer than anyone but the owner) have not been sufficient to give me any insight into the company's needs. But in the words of said owner, I should "consider myself lucky to be able to work under this guy with all of his technical background and expertise."
I've spent the last four workdays trying to get this guy up to speed with some of the unique apsects of our company - like the intricacies of using "cd" to change directories, and the complexities of absolute pathnames. Oh, and the highly-touted technical background turns out to be an A+ cert. W00t!!
The world is full of tools and I (now) work under two of them.
I'm not going to buy one. Are you? Enough said.
That's too bad. I always liked the NFL Blitz series because of the cartoon-ish gameplay and simplified playbooks. It's not meant to be a realistic (American) football simulation. Same with the NBA Jams (I think that was the name) series of basketball games. If I wanted realism I would have played Madden or some other EA sports series. Both are good games, they just weren't trying to accomplish the same thing.
I install and use OS/2 on modern hardware on a weekly basis. It works just fine. A lot of our customers want the old OS/2 software because they know how stable it is and how unstable the Windows ports are. Of course, this is all back-office server stuff so pretty GUIs and sound effects aren't important.
Here's where I think you skipped a step. Microsoft will almost certainly verify that you obtained the OS from the specified vendor (paid or otherwise) before sending the hellhounds after them. You have to provide some sort of proof of purchase at the time that you make the claim, or you're really just shouting, "Hey Bill - I've got an unauthorized copy of your OS!" with a smug grin, thinking you've outsmarted the most powerful legal team in recorded history.
Could it be possible that "this guy" didn't contribute to the huge stink you speak of?
What you say makes no sense to me.
Why is my rent cut-rate just because I'm in college? Are you saying that if I were to drop out of school, my landlord would raise my rent? And I sure don't remember ever getting a college discount at the grocery store. Library? I don't know what country you're from, but in the US the libraries are free to everyone. My cable internet service costs me the same amount of money as it does you. And education? I don't even know what you mean. That's what I pay $400 an hour for - at a cheap state school. To what financial burden of yours are you comparing tuition costs?
Your cost of living may have tripled, but that's purely by choice. One is not required to jump into a mortgage, car loan, marriage, etc. as soon as you first get hired out of school. And student loans are not forced upon anyone - they are completely voluntary.
If you go to one of the currency plants there is a gift shop where you can buy all of these things and more. I've never been to the one in D.C., but I have been to the one near my home in Fort Worth, TX (these are the only two places in the world where U.S. money is printed). I have an uncut sheet of $1 bills hanging in a frame on my wall. I also have a few bags of the shredded money you mentioned, as well as a clicky-pen with shredded money in it and probably a few other cheesy things too. My father gave me this stuff when the plant was being built a few years back (maybe 10 years ago???) because he was an architect that worked on the building. He also took me and my brothers on the public tour, which was pretty neat. I've never seen so much money in my life - pallets of currency stacked 6-8 feet high, with millions of dollars just sitting there.
Helmets just make it easier to find your head after the wreck.
I always assumed that's what it would take, but in my opinion it's not worth the trouble for me to spend the time trying to find out exactly what the user needs write perms on.
Correcting myself here...
I suppose "x seconds" is accurate, but I meant to write "x minutes".
Fair enough, I suppose. I can only talk about my XP box at home that I just use for (here's the shocker) games. I don't have a guest account, only the Admin and my normal user, both of which you have to enter a password to log in. Seems pretty much like the standard "Ctl-Alt-Del" method, but hey - suum cuique. And I have a cat too, but I've never had a problem with her walking across the keyboard. And If I remember correctly (I'm not at home to look) there is a "Lock Screen" option on the Start Menu. And I know for a fact that the screensaver can be set to lock the screen after x seconds.