The fact that he's Argentinian should be reason enough to convict him. It's well known in Latin America that Argentinians are all assholes who think they are God's gift to women. Gont's blog is the typical porteño logorrhea that you get to endure every time you meet one of these morons. Nobody in LA likes them.
MS has a 27-story tower in the middle of tony Bellevue, WA stuffed with Bing programmers, and all they can come up with is this?
Excuse me, but this is the zenith of lame, and Die Gotterdamerung for Ballmer and minions. MS should stick to what they do best: games and t-shirts.
I still have a black polo one with the BackOrifice logo and it's my favorite one because it's sturdy and comfortable.
He was a great man in every sense of the word. Despite his enormous accomplishments and being a historical figure, he still took time to address his emails personally and answered every reasonable request. I was his assistant of sorts during a period in Cambridge, MA, and one time he got this request from a person asking him to write to his HS math teacher because this teacher had inspired him to go into math. Well Prof Mandelbrot wrote him a beautiful letter that still chokes me up when I remember it. After he dictated it to me, I told him that at that moment and from then on, that I would be glad to take a bullet for him. He chuckled, thanked me in a very modest tone and proceeded to the next topic. He was always polite and pleasant and full of energy. May he rest in peace.
I'm a scientist (male, divorced, 2 spawned processes) at a government lab, and though at least 40-50% of my coworkers are female, I still have a hard time meeting more of them. My suggestions: get your behind to the nearest community center and take and non-tech-related class such as cooking or dancing. Just get out of your comfort zone and get into any situation that will involve meeting people.
An online petition is already available, with signees agreeing to either move to a cheaper plan, put their account on hold, or cancel their accounts entirely. Netflix must be banking that the improvements to its web site will offset the ill will and lost subscribers that this news has engendered. Let's get our derrieres in gear and sign this petition. So far there are only 462 signatures collected. I'm sure that we can do better than that.
I don't either and they failed to explain it in their notice. I wrote to them explaining my displeasure though I refrained from threatening to switch to Blockbuster. Let's use our collective power as consumers and swamp them with our annoyance at this asinine "improvement". There is a link at the bottom of the NF page that says "Contact Us". Well *Contact Them*
Start charging for it! Probably not at private school prices but something reasonable.
Cut down the stupid summer vacations from three months to one month at most. Realize that in four years your children will have wasted one full calendar year of learning. You'll have legions of grateful parents behind this idea I'll bet.
Raise the teachers salaries accordingly. They take care of your kids for almost half the day, don't they?
Let's be a little more strict with the teachers' credentials, shall we? Otherwise we end up with the kinds of morons yagu mentioned or like the one who taught my daughter first grade.
Let's rely a little less on "educational" software and a little more on the teachers and on the books, yes? I still haven't seen any ed-software that actually taught something worthwhile or better than a good teacher.
Fuck Kellaris and the horse he rode in on. I'm 42 years old and I like my music shuffled all over the place. e.g: Carmina Burana followed by Chill-Out Brazil followed by anything by John Digweed followed by Jan Garbarek. That just rocks my day.
James Kellaris can go stick his linear phonograph and 8-track tapes up his academic ass.
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Gretchen Pirillo is one hot number. She's living proof that there is justice in this world and hope for single geeks. Especially really ugly ones like Mr Pirillo.
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The fact that he's Argentinian should be reason enough to convict him. It's well known in Latin America that Argentinians are all assholes who think they are God's gift to women. Gont's blog is the typical porteño logorrhea that you get to endure every time you meet one of these morons. Nobody in LA likes them.
MS has a 27-story tower in the middle of tony Bellevue, WA stuffed with Bing programmers, and all they can come up with is this? Excuse me, but this is the zenith of lame, and Die Gotterdamerung for Ballmer and minions. MS should stick to what they do best: games and t-shirts. I still have a black polo one with the BackOrifice logo and it's my favorite one because it's sturdy and comfortable.
He was a great man in every sense of the word. Despite his enormous accomplishments and being a historical figure, he still took time to address his emails personally and answered every reasonable request. I was his assistant of sorts during a period in Cambridge, MA, and one time he got this request from a person asking him to write to his HS math teacher because this teacher had inspired him to go into math. Well Prof Mandelbrot wrote him a beautiful letter that still chokes me up when I remember it. After he dictated it to me, I told him that at that moment and from then on, that I would be glad to take a bullet for him. He chuckled, thanked me in a very modest tone and proceeded to the next topic. He was always polite and pleasant and full of energy. May he rest in peace.
My Favorite Martian! I loved Uncle Martin's flying saucer.
I'm a scientist (male, divorced, 2 spawned processes) at a government lab, and though at least 40-50% of my coworkers are female, I still have a hard time meeting more of them. My suggestions: get your behind to the nearest community center and take and non-tech-related class such as cooking or dancing. Just get out of your comfort zone and get into any situation that will involve meeting people.
I'm completely with you on the Steve Reich part (Different Trains, followed by Tehillim) but with a cigar (Montecristo No. 3) and a mug of Earl Grey.
An online petition is already available, with signees agreeing to either move to a cheaper plan, put their account on hold, or cancel their accounts entirely. Netflix must be banking that the improvements to its web site will offset the ill will and lost subscribers that this news has engendered. Let's get our derrieres in gear and sign this petition. So far there are only 462 signatures collected. I'm sure that we can do better than that.
I don't either and they failed to explain it in their notice. I wrote to them explaining my displeasure though I refrained from threatening to switch to Blockbuster. Let's use our collective power as consumers and swamp them with our annoyance at this asinine "improvement". There is a link at the bottom of the NF page that says "Contact Us". Well *Contact Them*
Better yet, go to www.sit4less.com They have Aerons for $600 or so.
Why don't we ask that eminent child development and gaming expert Jack Thompson? I'm sure he'll spew some appropriate bile on the subject...
Asshole Christian fundamental lawyer
Isn't that some sort of complex oxymoron?
- Start charging for it! Probably not at private school prices but something reasonable.
- Cut down the stupid summer vacations from three months to one month at most. Realize that in four years your children will have wasted one full calendar year of learning. You'll have legions of grateful parents behind this idea I'll bet.
- Raise the teachers salaries accordingly. They take care of your kids for almost half the day, don't they?
- Let's be a little more strict with the teachers' credentials, shall we? Otherwise we end up with the kinds of morons yagu mentioned or like the one who taught my daughter first grade.
- Let's rely a little less on "educational" software and a little more on the teachers and on the books, yes? I still haven't seen any ed-software that actually taught something worthwhile or better than a good teacher.
OK, off the soapbox.Fuck Kellaris and the horse he rode in on. I'm 42 years old and I like my music shuffled all over the place. e.g: Carmina Burana followed by Chill-Out Brazil followed by anything by John Digweed followed by Jan Garbarek. That just rocks my day. James Kellaris can go stick his linear phonograph and 8-track tapes up his academic ass.
Gretchen Pirillo is one hot number. She's living proof that there is justice in this world and hope for single geeks.
Especially really ugly ones like Mr Pirillo.
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Peritissimos semper praevidere possumus, rudi autem periculosi sunt.
Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs who are dangerous.
Good. That means I'm in the same league as all the other kick-ass female programmers I know. Stay away from Perl, moron.
We have a group dedicated to cybersecurity.