Everyone else in most 1st world countries work 40 hours a week. Infact its illegal to go over 45 or 50 in France. America as a result is leading in divorce.
I was curious about the accuracy of this statement --here are the data. My summary:
The US marriage rate is about double that of Western European countries, which is probably the main reason the divorce rate is also roughly double. (See, the "Marriage causes divorce!" guy was correct!)
If you rank by divorce rate/marriage rate, most Protestant countries are in the 45-55% range, with the US lower than Germany or the UK.
Catholic countries have much lower divorce rates, which is probably the main reason why nominally Catholic France is down at 46%.
If you have job offers from both Microsoft and Google, you're obviously orders of magnitude superior as a programmer to 99.99% of the dullards here. What the hell do you care what they think? Ask your professors if they can hook you up with some alumni who work at one company or the other and see what they say.
A generation ago, if the environment was considered at all, it was viewed as a niche issue too complex to matter to the average voter.
In the US: Earth Day began in 1970, the Clean Air Act was passed in 1963, what is now called the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972. I know bloggers are routinely unaware that anything happened before the 2000 presidential election, but you'd think a professor might. "The average voter" was quite aware of the importance of clean air and water; today they're much less conscious of the importance of not paying for music and movies.
Once the open source version of Eudora is released, Qualcomm will cease to sell Eudora commercially.
I was reading the blurb and wondering what kind of viable long-term plan that scheme has -- apparently they don't have one.
It's certainly laudable of them to wind it down so gracefully. Like a lot of others, apparently, I haven't used it in ages but there was a long time when it was the only decent GUI for Internet email. I ditched it when I switched to OS X and Entourage at home, and they make me use Lotus Freaking Notes at work, but whatever it looks like nowadays, it has to at least be better than the latter.
After hearing chatter about PS3 pre-orders at GameStop in #ps2 on efnet, I checked your site in order to see if it was true. I figured since it was my night off, I might as well waste it camping out for a few hours...Once I got to my nearest Gamestop, I saw there was only one guy camping...He had gotten there at 5 a.m.
Now there's a gamer -- standing in line at GameStop from 6:30 to 9 qualifies as "camping out".
I suppose this is welcome news to all the fourth grade lawyers out there, but it seems to me that if Google needs a subpoena to discover that Microsoft and Yahoo also do something that Google issues loud press releases about, that largely justifies singling Google out for lawsuits.
That's his point -- the "upgrade" would be done as new computers need to be brought in. The article assumes that when Microsoft releases a new OS, you instantly throw all your computers out the window and buy new everything.
Jesus, are you a simpleton or what? You can't dual license any code you developed against the GPL version of Qt.
Uh, no shit. You can't dual license code developed against the GPL version of anything. (You're confusing it with the LGPL, perhaps?)
Look, you have a shred of a valid point here (although I guarantee that if you really found yourself in that situation, they'd be glad to let you pay retroactively to resolve it), but why not state it clearly in the first place instead of ranting and raving about a nonsensical GPL violation and abusing people until you get around to clarifying it?
The problem is your inability to do a small amount of research on your own.
I don't understand -- you're in such a rage because their dual licensing (which you're claiming, completely falsely, is a GPL violation) requires you to pay to do your own dual licensing?
How is this technique going to maintain a person? Arent you essentially killing the person and reassembling their likeness in a remote location?
As I understand it, this process starts with atoms at both locations and superimposes the quantum state of one onto the other. "Quantum faxing" would probably be a better metaphor than "teleportation".
I was reading this wondering what "non-tech people" would read a book like this or why Addison-Wesley would publish it. Perhaps it's supposed to be a Comic Book Guy-ish* , self-deprecating, humorous look at programmers? It sounds pretty unfunny, but as this morning's paean to tedious "Discordia" stupidity demonstrates, there's no accounting for what nerds will find funny.
...and clickfraud at the expense of class-action lawyers trying to sue whatever is left on the skeletons of asbestos companies (who did you think had such an expensive interest in mesothelioma?), while undoubtedly Wrong, isn't high on my list of the world's problems.
Actually, that was a sincere question and you gave a clear answer. (I suspect, though, that I'm too old to learn to use such a complicated, newfangled device. Plus, it sounds like a real carpal tunnel destroyer.)
Are the six axes not orthogonal or has Sony come up with some practical use for string theory? (If the latter, I can see why it's on the expensive side...)
Blocking a phishing Web site earned you twice as many points as just warning about it in this test, but is blocking really twice as effective as just warning users?
In fact, blocking is pi times as effective as warning, so this result is even better for IE than it appears. (Yeesh, even by Obligatory Stupid Question standards, that one was pretty stupid.)
Like I said, the company has two genuinely superb projects at its core -- the search engine and the ad system.
It's great if those cash cows can now support an army of prima donna developers jumping from project to project, but that doesn't mean I have to buy into their myth about how productive their little welfare state is.
Also, all that profit comes from the two core inventions (which were genuinely superb) that launched the company. For all the slobbering over Google development (OMG, a blog!), they've done exactly what in the last five years that's significantly better than their competitors? GMail is the only thing that comes to mind, and that's not exactly earthshaking either.
Ed Bott at ZDNet went through 137 problem reports submitted there during a two-week period, each one accompanied by the output from the official Microsoft diagnostic utility, and found that 42% of the people reporting problems were actually running Genuine software.
Wild guess here -- people with legitimate software are a lot more likely to submit problem reports than people with bad copies are to post "My 1337 w4r3z w0n7 w0rk! G00d j0b!"
Hmmm, that's an idea -- I usually swing the yogurt container before opening it, so the centrifugal force clears it off the rim and lid, leaving nothing to spray.
See, that's why I'm an optimist about technology. Human intelligence should be able to keep one step ahead of yogurt.
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...and given that I have no home page link and there were no links in my comment, I don't think it's unfair to describe the grandparent as an imbecile.
What if those companies had the same sort of regulatory problems in their own country?
Even if the regulatory issues were identical (which isn't the case, anyway) one hand doesn't care what the other is doing. I'm sure the Italian trade attaches around the world didn't stop lobbying for Parmalat however much trouble they got into at home.
I don't understand what the issue is -- if Siemens or Airbus or Glaxo gets into some regulatory issue in the US, you think their countries' embassies don't try to pull a few strings?
I plugged away at the game whenever I could squeeze an hour away from my day job and my family. All told, I spent far more than 40 hours -- but still only got two-thirds through.
That's because you're old and you suck. I can state that with confidence because I also am old and suck. It's a young person's world, guy.
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I was curious about the accuracy of this statement --here are the data. My summary:
I would also suggest that, in my ignorant layman's opinion, turning your trauma into your new career is likely to impede your rebuilding your life.
If you have job offers from both Microsoft and Google, you're obviously orders of magnitude superior as a programmer to 99.99% of the dullards here. What the hell do you care what they think? Ask your professors if they can hook you up with some alumni who work at one company or the other and see what they say.
In the US: Earth Day began in 1970, the Clean Air Act was passed in 1963, what is now called the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972. I know bloggers are routinely unaware that anything happened before the 2000 presidential election, but you'd think a professor might. "The average voter" was quite aware of the importance of clean air and water; today they're much less conscious of the importance of not paying for music and movies.
I was reading the blurb and wondering what kind of viable long-term plan that scheme has -- apparently they don't have one.
It's certainly laudable of them to wind it down so gracefully. Like a lot of others, apparently, I haven't used it in ages but there was a long time when it was the only decent GUI for Internet email. I ditched it when I switched to OS X and Entourage at home, and they make me use Lotus Freaking Notes at work, but whatever it looks like nowadays, it has to at least be better than the latter.
Now there's a gamer -- standing in line at GameStop from 6:30 to 9 qualifies as "camping out".
I suppose this is welcome news to all the fourth grade lawyers out there, but it seems to me that if Google needs a subpoena to discover that Microsoft and Yahoo also do something that Google issues loud press releases about, that largely justifies singling Google out for lawsuits.
That's his point -- the "upgrade" would be done as new computers need to be brought in. The article assumes that when Microsoft releases a new OS, you instantly throw all your computers out the window and buy new everything.
Uh, no shit. You can't dual license code developed against the GPL version of anything. (You're confusing it with the LGPL, perhaps?)
Look, you have a shred of a valid point here (although I guarantee that if you really found yourself in that situation, they'd be glad to let you pay retroactively to resolve it), but why not state it clearly in the first place instead of ranting and raving about a nonsensical GPL violation and abusing people until you get around to clarifying it?
I don't understand -- you're in such a rage because their dual licensing (which you're claiming, completely falsely, is a GPL violation) requires you to pay to do your own dual licensing?
As I understand it, this process starts with atoms at both locations and superimposes the quantum state of one onto the other. "Quantum faxing" would probably be a better metaphor than "teleportation".
* BTW, Ann Coulter? Huh?
...and clickfraud at the expense of class-action lawyers trying to sue whatever is left on the skeletons of asbestos companies (who did you think had such an expensive interest in mesothelioma?), while undoubtedly Wrong, isn't high on my list of the world's problems.
Actually, that was a sincere question and you gave a clear answer. (I suspect, though, that I'm too old to learn to use such a complicated, newfangled device. Plus, it sounds like a real carpal tunnel destroyer.)
Are the six axes not orthogonal or has Sony come up with some practical use for string theory? (If the latter, I can see why it's on the expensive side...)
In fact, blocking is pi times as effective as warning, so this result is even better for IE than it appears. (Yeesh, even by Obligatory Stupid Question standards, that one was pretty stupid.)
It's great if those cash cows can now support an army of prima donna developers jumping from project to project, but that doesn't mean I have to buy into their myth about how productive their little welfare state is.
Also, all that profit comes from the two core inventions (which were genuinely superb) that launched the company. For all the slobbering over Google development (OMG, a blog!), they've done exactly what in the last five years that's significantly better than their competitors? GMail is the only thing that comes to mind, and that's not exactly earthshaking either.
Wild guess here -- people with legitimate software are a lot more likely to submit problem reports than people with bad copies are to post "My 1337 w4r3z w0n7 w0rk! G00d j0b!"
See, that's why I'm an optimist about technology. Human intelligence should be able to keep one step ahead of yogurt.
...and given that I have no home page link and there were no links in my comment, I don't think it's unfair to describe the grandparent as an imbecile.
Even if the regulatory issues were identical (which isn't the case, anyway) one hand doesn't care what the other is doing. I'm sure the Italian trade attaches around the world didn't stop lobbying for Parmalat however much trouble they got into at home.
I don't understand what the issue is -- if Siemens or Airbus or Glaxo gets into some regulatory issue in the US, you think their countries' embassies don't try to pull a few strings?
That's because you're old and you suck. I can state that with confidence because I also am old and suck. It's a young person's world, guy.
Bottom line, this is a perfectly routine default password issue. Blame your bank.