For several years, there was a supervisor in one of my company's main distribution centers that had the same name as me (I'm in IT). Our names showed up side by side in the company directory, so we would get each other's emails from time to time. The best one I received was from another shipping dock supervisor requesting forklift operation training for a couple of new employees. I considered showing up at the dock - I've always wanted to try to drive a forklift.
Those "knuckledragging retards" were smart enough to leave the UK (by force) 230 years ago when they realized then how fucked-up the British government was.
making verifiably false statements on a material matter And we can argue all day on what constitutes "material".
That said, I dont *support* what Slick Willy did, but his impeachment was nothing more than a media frenzy. Never said it wasn't. Just like an impeachment of Bush (however justified or not) would, at this point 8+ months from the election, be nothing more than a media frenzy.
Are you saying that if the President was a Democrat, the republican congressmen would go so far as to impeach him for something as trivial as lying under oath? Fixed that for you
I was 'stupid' to let my license expire instead of taking care of it when the DMV sent me an expiration notice 30 days ahead of time. Obviously, they let me on the plane without a valid license (which they treat the same as having no ID at all), but I had to go through extra security checks (looked through all of my carry on bags, checked me and everything I carried for explosive residue, etc.).
Funny, I've gone through TSA screening in Dallas, Las Vegas, and Orlando over the past couple of years and have never had a bad experience. Even when I (stupidly) went through security at DFW with an expired drivers license, they were friendly and quick to get me through the extra security.
Maybe in a lot of cases is has as much to do with the attitude of the person being screened as the screener.
A reasonable student might have said, "Yes ma'am/sir. After class, may I show you this alternative to IE?" This student, instead, chose to ignore/disobey the teacher, and will suffer the appropriate consequence.
I'm right there with you, except for the "then I have to admit that I believe that she has a right to do so" part. My house, my internet access, my rules. When my daughter is 17 and wants to send a "racy" picture of herself to her boyfriend, then I'll have to admit that I've failed my job of instilling moral values. At that point, it will be more about acceptable use policies (mine).
Speaking as a parent of 7 and 5 year olds, when they are 15 and want to send naked pictures of themselves to their 'friends', it will be MY business. Especially since law enforcement has decided (wrongly) that it is their business as well.
It also helps that most people do not understand the distinction between being 'rich' and being 'wealthy'*. As long as people perceive they too have a shot at becoming rich (i.e. have a pile of money) through winning the lottery, or winning American Idol, or other such foolishness, they'll be more content.
*If you are paid a lot of money for doing something, you are rich. If you pay people a lot of money to do stuff for you, you are wealthy.
All of the obfuscation in your example is the fault of the programmer, not the language. The only COBOL keywords in your example are 'MULTIPLY', 'BY', 'GIVING', 'SUBTRACT', 'FROM', 'COMPUTE', and 'DIVIDE'. If the programmer had defined descriptive variable names that indicate what the value it contains represents, then the code would be much less obscure. For example (simplistic, I know):
SUBTRACT TOTAL-EXPENSES FROM GROSS-SALES GIVING NET-PROFIT.
And what, pray tell, puts 'society' in the position to give anything to the relatives of the deceased. Society (i.e. the government) decides how much of the estate it will TAKE from the heirs. Your comment is nothing but collectivist BS. While I have heard some economic arguments for estate taxes, most people who support them don't understand one thing about economics. They just want to make sure that underserving rich kids don't get to keep Daddy's fortune. It's class-envy diguised as tax policy.
Dallas pretty much sucks. The Collin County suburbs north of Dallas (where I live) are basically a less expensive version of Orange County, CA, minus the surrounding mountains, nearby ocean, and Disneyland (not that I dislike Collin County, it's just not very exciting). Fort Worth is actually a very nice, laid-back, and suprisingly sophisticated city. It has real culture, a lively urban center, and a lower cost of living than the Dallas area. I grew up in Fort Worth, and would live there again in a minute, except most of the tech jobs are in Dallas and Collin County (though it's changing).
It's not about taking a management job. In corporate IT, it's all about understanding the business you are supporting. If you are a great coder but have zero understanding or interest in the business processes your systems support, you are not near as valuable to the company as the average coder who can successfully translate business requirements into a technical implementation. Or, as is more likely, translate those business requirements into a comprehensive technical spec that can be handed off to the contractors performing the actual coding.
Coding is skilled labor that the company prefers to acquire as needed on a contract basis. The 'professional' job is the business analyst, technical analyst, and architect.
It's the concept of freewill along with an omnipotent God. God could control man and nature, but he chooses not to (usually).
The really fun theological discussion is the idea of freewill vs. predestination along with an all-knowing God. Most mainline Christians accept the idea of God generally not controlling the actions of nature or man, but freewill vs. predestination is one of the biggest theological differences between the different denominations.
The main problem with Interstate 35 here in Texas (which is currently the main highway from Mexico north through Texas) is that it passes directly through San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas/Fort Worth, and all of the surrounding suburban sprawl. The Interstate has doubled as a high volume artery through all of these urban areas, with massive amounts of development surrounding them. Over many years, and accelerating rapidly post-NAFTA, the amount of truck traffic on I35 has caused (or at least been a major contributor to) gridlock in the urban areas.
If the new super highway is planned and executed correctly (i.e. limited development along the route, avoid passing directly through urban areas, etc.), it could do a lot to help traffic problems in the cities. Also, from the conceptual pictures I've seen, it will be safer for both passenger vehicles and trucks, because they will be running on separate sets of lanes with their own entrance/exit ramps, etc.
Oracle may try, and may succeed in a few cases, but I doubt there will be huge numbers of existing Peoplesoft customers changing their underlying databases. Most large companies tend to standardize on a single enterprise DB platform (Oracle, DB2, etc.) and expect all of their applications to use it. Otherwise, the cost of DBA operations is just way too high. It's unlikely Oracle could convince a company to switch their PeopleSoft software from DB2 to Oracle DB, if all of their other applications run on DB2.
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For several years, there was a supervisor in one of my company's main distribution centers that had the same name as me (I'm in IT). Our names showed up side by side in the company directory, so we would get each other's emails from time to time. The best one I received was from another shipping dock supervisor requesting forklift operation training for a couple of new employees. I considered showing up at the dock - I've always wanted to try to drive a forklift.
Do the same thing I did in the days before ubiquitous mobile devices: walk.
Way more people abusing return policies than casting fake votes in person.
In Texas, our four seasons are:
Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, Christmas
Road construction happens in all seasons except Christmas.
Sounds like cocaine.
Robin Williams: It intensifies your personality. But what if you're an asshole? That is a Bill Cosby quote (from "Himself") - looked it up on Google!
Those "knuckledragging retards" were smart enough to leave the UK (by force) 230 years ago when they realized then how fucked-up the British government was.
OK, taking off my patriotic hat now...
I was 'stupid' to let my license expire instead of taking care of it when the DMV sent me an expiration notice 30 days ahead of time. Obviously, they let me on the plane without a valid license (which they treat the same as having no ID at all), but I had to go through extra security checks (looked through all of my carry on bags, checked me and everything I carried for explosive residue, etc.).
Funny, I've gone through TSA screening in Dallas, Las Vegas, and Orlando over the past couple of years and have never had a bad experience. Even when I (stupidly) went through security at DFW with an expired drivers license, they were friendly and quick to get me through the extra security.
Maybe in a lot of cases is has as much to do with the attitude of the person being screened as the screener.
A reasonable student might have said, "Yes ma'am/sir. After class, may I show you this alternative to IE?" This student, instead, chose to ignore/disobey the teacher, and will suffer the appropriate consequence.
Respect works both ways.
When is brat season? I've never hunted brats.
I'm right there with you, except for the "then I have to admit that I believe that she has a right to do so" part. My house, my internet access, my rules. When my daughter is 17 and wants to send a "racy" picture of herself to her boyfriend, then I'll have to admit that I've failed my job of instilling moral values. At that point, it will be more about acceptable use policies (mine).
Speaking as a parent of 7 and 5 year olds, when they are 15 and want to send naked pictures of themselves to their 'friends', it will be MY business. Especially since law enforcement has decided (wrongly) that it is their business as well.
It also helps that most people do not understand the distinction between being 'rich' and being 'wealthy'*. As long as people perceive they too have a shot at becoming rich (i.e. have a pile of money) through winning the lottery, or winning American Idol, or other such foolishness, they'll be more content.
*If you are paid a lot of money for doing something, you are rich. If you pay people a lot of money to do stuff for you, you are wealthy.
All of the obfuscation in your example is the fault of the programmer, not the language. The only COBOL keywords in your example are 'MULTIPLY', 'BY', 'GIVING', 'SUBTRACT', 'FROM', 'COMPUTE', and 'DIVIDE'. If the programmer had defined descriptive variable names that indicate what the value it contains represents, then the code would be much less obscure. For example (simplistic, I know):
SUBTRACT TOTAL-EXPENSES FROM GROSS-SALES GIVING NET-PROFIT.
is much more clear than:
SUBTRACT TE FROM GS GIVING NP.
And what, pray tell, puts 'society' in the position to give anything to the relatives of the deceased. Society (i.e. the government) decides how much of the estate it will TAKE from the heirs. Your comment is nothing but collectivist BS. While I have heard some economic arguments for estate taxes, most people who support them don't understand one thing about economics. They just want to make sure that underserving rich kids don't get to keep Daddy's fortune. It's class-envy diguised as tax policy.
Dallas pretty much sucks. The Collin County suburbs north of Dallas (where I live) are basically a less expensive version of Orange County, CA, minus the surrounding mountains, nearby ocean, and Disneyland (not that I dislike Collin County, it's just not very exciting). Fort Worth is actually a very nice, laid-back, and suprisingly sophisticated city. It has real culture, a lively urban center, and a lower cost of living than the Dallas area. I grew up in Fort Worth, and would live there again in a minute, except most of the tech jobs are in Dallas and Collin County (though it's changing).
It's not about taking a management job. In corporate IT, it's all about understanding the business you are supporting. If you are a great coder but have zero understanding or interest in the business processes your systems support, you are not near as valuable to the company as the average coder who can successfully translate business requirements into a technical implementation. Or, as is more likely, translate those business requirements into a comprehensive technical spec that can be handed off to the contractors performing the actual coding.
Coding is skilled labor that the company prefers to acquire as needed on a contract basis. The 'professional' job is the business analyst, technical analyst, and architect.
This wasn't 'outsourced' work done in India. The Indian developers in this case are TI employees.
I (and my 5 year old son) play Tux Racer all the time my Windows XP box. It's on the GNUWin II CD.
:-)
Might want to check out those statements of fact before you make them
It's the concept of freewill along with an omnipotent God. God could control man and nature, but he chooses not to (usually).
The really fun theological discussion is the idea of freewill vs. predestination along with an all-knowing God. Most mainline Christians accept the idea of God generally not controlling the actions of nature or man, but freewill vs. predestination is one of the biggest theological differences between the different denominations.
The main problem with Interstate 35 here in Texas (which is currently the main highway from Mexico north through Texas) is that it passes directly through San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas/Fort Worth, and all of the surrounding suburban sprawl. The Interstate has doubled as a high volume artery through all of these urban areas, with massive amounts of development surrounding them. Over many years, and accelerating rapidly post-NAFTA, the amount of truck traffic on I35 has caused (or at least been a major contributor to) gridlock in the urban areas.
If the new super highway is planned and executed correctly (i.e. limited development along the route, avoid passing directly through urban areas, etc.), it could do a lot to help traffic problems in the cities. Also, from the conceptual pictures I've seen, it will be safer for both passenger vehicles and trucks, because they will be running on separate sets of lanes with their own entrance/exit ramps, etc.
Oracle may try, and may succeed in a few cases, but I doubt there will be huge numbers of existing Peoplesoft customers changing their underlying databases. Most large companies tend to standardize on a single enterprise DB platform (Oracle, DB2, etc.) and expect all of their applications to use it. Otherwise, the cost of DBA operations is just way too high. It's unlikely Oracle could convince a company to switch their PeopleSoft software from DB2 to Oracle DB, if all of their other applications run on DB2.
As someone who also lives in Dallas (Plano, actually), I'll concur with everything you said about the museum.
It is rather depressing, though, that one of the biggest tourist draws for the city is based on an assassination.