No contest. A great book will always win over anything anime, animated, audio, or video. Why settle for less than the best (that you can get) in anything?:{)||
Yeah, well, we can be either a part of the answer, part of the problem or work both sides of the fence, like I do.:) I have worked in both the fed. govt and private industry. There isn't really much difference in how things get done. The main difference is that where business people reward each other with fat contracts, in the fed. world, one must change the *policies* to reward your buddies. That is exactly what happens after every election. A new policy can reap billions in rewards. If you didn't know that, now you know why the position of president, though it "only" earns $200k/yr (+ room, board, and security detail), causes millions and millions to be spent to get someone the job. Interestingly, I feel more like a "stakeholder" as a govt. employee than I did as an industry stock-holding employee. It's my tax money, too, I guess.
Us people in big rich countries wonder why those people in little-bitty poor countries want to fight so much. Seems a little inefficient and self-defeating, you know.
Geez, I don't know whether to moderate or go comment. OK, I'll comment. I am SO confused about this election stuff. When I was growing up in back in the ought-50's, the party lines were clear. Well, sorta. There were military sorts who wanted "1984" for everyone not of the ruling class, worldwide. They were called Republicans. They acted like the British Tories. Old Money. There were the "Save the Poor (but ignore the minorities)" Democrats. Then the Southern Democrats got blind-sided by Johnson who managed to make it uneconomical to practice racial descrimination. Used to be all social outcasts were downtrodden Democrats. Now all them folks in the hills have become Republicans, wailing that the Democrats are coming to try to take their guns. Then, while the totalitarian Tory/Nixonites were snoozing, the anti-gun-control, anti-big-government, anti-federalized-medicine, and anti-Census Reagonites took over the Republican party. (The Repubicans were Tories, but now they are Labour?) Democrats were labeled "tax and spend" but they are only party that make Fed. Surpluses happen. (every time so far. really. Unfortunately, they do not seem to know how they do it.) The Republicans re-labeled themselves as anti-big-government, but they always enter office with a huge surplus and always leave with a huge deficit and much more government. Heck, even Bikers are now chic and becoming Conservatives (Tories?).
I cannot figure out if I am a compassionate Republican or a pragmatic Democrat. The British have the "Liberal Democrats" but over here that's considered redundant. When I was a kid (in my 20s), I was a flaming liberal. As near as I can tell, my political views have not changed an iota since 1972, with the exception of certain hawkish tendencies toward anything terroristic. I am also now considered a Conservative. (Ok, barely.) Over the years, my waist size passed my inseam and my radical viewpoints became mainstream. I am beginning to think that is no need to worry about the world not changing for the better. I do think we might need to get the damn thing slowed down a little bit. Whew! I am SO Confused.
I, too, hate waste. In the cases you site, the water is indeed used TEMPORARILY so that it TEPORARILY unavailable where it might have been used somewhere else more wisely, but it has not been wasted. Point two: After your brush your teeth, cook your food, flush your toilet, take your shower, clean your dishes, wash your clothers, you can then probably water your lawn and wash your car with considerably less water than you used in the above activities. (Not to mention all the water used in manufacturing every little thing you own.) Contrary to what your rant implies, water will be used as it flowing by your community or not. What you call for is not "saving" anything. It'll just "be used" or not and continue its way whether or not it has been used. I think you need to read and think J-U-S-T a little bit more before you display your ignorance and arrogance. According to your logic, shooting yourself would save us all beaucoup water, not to mention arrogant, ignorance comments like the one above.(ps. I couldn't decided which to do - mod you down or call you an idiot. I couldn't find a "STUPID ARROGANT STATEMENT" line on the moderation choice list so here's your reply.) Have nice weekend.:{)||
1. The Davis fellow is *my* congressman and he is strictly "cash and carry". 2. It is my understanding that any code developed with Fed$$ is either 49/51 (or 50/50?) co-owned by the developer & the Fed, & either can use it as they wish from that point, subject, of course, to any contractual agreements, etc. If contractually allowed, the developer can resell the software. The Fed could conceivably re-use software components (which might be great idea), but generally they are more interested in the product than the parts. 3. There is no program that I know of that might have the capability to catalogue what Uncle Sammy has received and whether it might be of use to any other Fed. Dept, etc. Few areas of the Federal government, civilian or militay, at any given time, have any idea what any other non-affliated part of Uncle Sam has in the way of software or capabilities. Even if they did, it probably wouldn't foster re-use of anything other than the contractor. Might be an interesting area to explore.:{)||
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I begin to see why other people think we are strange. Not that I care, but as I am reading your post, one half of my brain is saying, "WOW. Yeah." & the other half is just shaking its head. This may be why women wear silly stuff -- because they can.:{)||
A few items that are of note here: 1. The HIPAA mandates have been in place for about 3 years. The final date for compliance has been similarly known by all who need to be aware and compliant with HIPAA. There are no excuses. 2. For those who don't know what HIPAA is, it essentially mandates that anyone who handles personal medical information must insure the confidentiality of that personal medical information, ESPECIALLY when it is placed on-line or when it is sent anywhere electronically. As in YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE sort of personal confidentiality. As in securing personal data so it won't be viewed, handled, or sold by unauthorized people. This is not a trivial issue. 3. Just as I have no patience with companies that collect, mishandle, and/or sell my personal data, I have little patience for people or companies who, having known about this for over 3 YEARS, have done nothing to get into compliance with the securing of patient data. Your medical data.
Would you like your medical information passed out around like any old text file or even sold to the highest bidder, like your credit card info has been? It's happening and HIPAA is meant to stop it. I think this is a good thing.
I imagine they make their money from advertising, not access. This idea could backfire. With my luck, using 1000 hrs w/o paying WOULD make them money./.'ing their mail might not work. What do you do with the advertising you get in your mail?:{)||
Sorry, but the people of every nation are very responsible for their own government. It's their responsibility and they get exactly what they put into the government process. Which, apparently, in the case of most places, like China, Irag, Iran, etc., is damn near nothing. It's GIGO and NINO. (Nothing in, nothing out).:{(||
1. Well, I did 10 years in the military and I would only advise one to join the military if one has a real passion for things military, like lifestyle, paraphernalia, commonality, stress, etc, and a mad passion for success. Anything less and you will be made to feel like a loser so that others may climb over you. That's the military game.You really do need to love it, its ideas, and its ideals or you will be miserable.
2. I would be jealous of you if I weren't having so much fun myself. Take all of this advice and chuck it. The fun is in the discovery. Just do whatever you see in front of your face that most fits your idea of fun. (Well, the thing that will do you the least harm, anyway.) In 1992, I chucked my career plans, which were not doing well, anyway, and decided to only do things I enjoyed and the hell with any plan. Oddly, my career has taken off.
LucasFilms may go out of business, but I predict a Lucas DVD company forming soon!!! Senor Lucas is no dummy. He may be a lousy director, story writer, awful at casting and wears silly socks, but he is no money dummy.:{)||
Has anything ever actually been made with nanotechnology in it that has actually made anyone any money? Hell, that has actually made anyone outside of R&D and Marketing any money? I am beginning to think nanotechnology is a hoax or vaporware, at least.:{)||
Sure, no tel. lines, & satellite dishes, but it needs beaucoup wires, antennae, transmitting and receiving equipment and required paraphanalia. I have worked around packet radio and there are currently very good reasons that it is not a big hit in the US, such as low baud rate, high maintenance, and weird people everywhere. Then again, most of that sounds like us! (Maybe we need a Amateur Engineer Club. AARL is a very successful org.):{)||
BTW: ToysRUs has a mouse for little kids. It's has yellow plastic ball on it about the size of a grapefruit and one button on the front. I used it to introduce my kids to games back when they were 4-5 years old. Worked great. Now my 11-year-old son wants me to install a house network. I am stalling on that (until wifi is safe) but I don't really relish the idea of getting my butt handed to me by my son. He's too good for me, already. Have fun with the kids.
Well, judging from the # of posts here, either this ain't the place for CF posts or the market isn't too hot. Shame, too. CF4 did exactly just about everything that a developer of small to medium web-apps. needed or wanted to do. CF4 worked very well with Apache. As the market for small to medium web apps went towards the gutter, so did CF, I guess. Turns out the web wasn't as popular among the basic small- to medium-sized businesses in the business world was (and amazingly still is) thought.
CFMX, as far as I can tell, is the Allaire boys (after selling out to Macromedia) and CFMX trying to be the all-purpose IDE for all dev. environments, instead of just doing its own thing, which got it where it was. Those that try to please everybody generally just please no one. Oh, well. It was really fun while it lasted.
I think you have confused reading an article (talking the talk) with actual life experience (walking the walk). I agree with the post. Real life experience suggests to me that on-line education requires a commitment and self-discipline that is exceedingly higher than those found in full-time time programs. Working full-time while doing on-line education requires a real passion for either the subject or success. In my experience, most of those that do succeed in on-line education are very positive, motivated people. A real "cut-above" unlike folk that get a kick out of negative posts that only seem designed to boost the ego of the poster.
Halfway to pension age, she has just $5,000 in a 401(k) and $20,000 in home equity. Ideally, someone her age should have at least $100,000 stashed away.
What rubbish. I would like to see the numbers of people who have over $100K saved by the ripe old age of 32.5. Probably about the same number of people who are still rich using the Forbes philosophy of "buy and hold". Ideally, we would all love to be millionaires by the time we are 40, no, 30! While I would, indeed, recommend saving at least 10% of your pay and not spend it on anything less than a true emergency (after a house is bought), most of the people I know (most of whom make near $100K/year) spend just about every other penny on their families, especially on getting their kids quality education and giving them a quality environment to grow up in. Most of them took over 20-25 years to get to that sort of salary. Few of them got to their age without one or two episodes of work or family related emergencies that required tapping that next egg once or twice. (Unemployment would qualify. It did for me.) All of them worked their collective fannie off. Few of them or their parents read Forbes or any other magazine by and for people with silver spoons in every orifice. Few of them will retire rich, but they might have enough to have some fun for 5-10 years of retirement. I predict that, since he/she is an uninformed idiot, the author of that article will soon join the unemployed, too. But not the magazine owner. Nosirree, bob. He's some kind of insulated from the economy. That Forbes boy is about a good at giving financial advice (much less political) as the Catholic Church is at giving advice on how to avoid pedaphiles.
why not just put up a courtesy 802.11b network with a net ID of 'OPEN123'....Then people who just want to downlod their mail can get it. Are you really that simple? Sure, while you're at it, let people use your fridge, oven, bed, clothes, and your bathroom when you're not 'actively' using them. How selfish can you be! Hey, while you're asleep, let 'em use your car. You probably should put your home computer out out in front of your front door during the day while you are at work and while you're at home sleeping. Hey, you're not using it. Now, tomorrow's class is learning to see what is beyond the end of our noses! (Unbelievable.)
I find it highly offensive that this company has wangled an news interviews to take advantage of these killings. If anyone thinks they haven't, you have no idea of what marketing is about and how they do it. Since, I live in the 'affected' area, I'll be a whole lot more impressed if this wonder software actually finds the guy(s).
(My other.sig is brilliant and funny, but I left it in an another discussion thread.)
I bet there is no 'our sun is the center of the universe and therefore so, too, are we the most important thing in the universe' sort of thinking there. Then, again, if they are anything like us, they have probably figured out a way around that little problem, too.
(My other.sig is brilliant and funny, but I left it in my other discussion thread.)
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There are no such things as fundamental rights. nowhere, never. Have a nice day.:{)||
No contest. A great book will always win over anything anime, animated, audio, or video. Why settle for less than the best (that you can get) in anything? :{)||
Yeah, well, we can be either a part of the answer, part of the problem or work both sides of the fence, like I do. :) I have worked in both the fed. govt and private industry. There isn't really much difference in how things get done. The main difference is that where business people reward each other with fat contracts, in the fed. world, one must change the *policies* to reward your buddies. That is exactly what happens after every election. A new policy can reap billions in rewards. If you didn't know that, now you know why the position of president, though it "only" earns $200k/yr (+ room, board, and security detail), causes millions and millions to be spent to get someone the job.
Interestingly, I feel more like a "stakeholder" as a govt. employee than I did as an industry stock-holding employee. It's my tax money, too, I guess.
Us people in big rich countries wonder why those people in little-bitty poor countries want to fight so much. Seems a little inefficient and self-defeating, you know.
Geez, I don't know whether to moderate or go comment. OK, I'll comment. I am SO confused about this election stuff. When I was growing up in back in the ought-50's, the party lines were clear. Well, sorta. There were military sorts who wanted "1984" for everyone not of the ruling class, worldwide. They were called Republicans. They acted like the British Tories. Old Money. There were the "Save the Poor (but ignore the minorities)" Democrats. Then the Southern Democrats got blind-sided by Johnson who managed to make it uneconomical to practice racial descrimination. Used to be all social outcasts were downtrodden Democrats. Now all them folks in the hills have become Republicans, wailing that the Democrats are coming to try to take their guns. Then, while the totalitarian Tory/Nixonites were snoozing, the anti-gun-control, anti-big-government, anti-federalized-medicine, and anti-Census Reagonites took over the Republican party. (The Repubicans were Tories, but now they are Labour?) Democrats were labeled "tax and spend" but they are only party that make Fed. Surpluses happen. (every time so far. really. Unfortunately, they do not seem to know how they do it.) The Republicans re-labeled themselves as anti-big-government, but they always enter office with a huge surplus and always leave with a huge deficit and much more government. Heck, even Bikers are now chic and becoming Conservatives (Tories?).
I cannot figure out if I am a compassionate Republican or a pragmatic Democrat. The British have the "Liberal Democrats" but over here that's considered redundant. When I was a kid (in my 20s), I was a flaming liberal. As near as I can tell, my political views have not changed an iota since 1972, with the exception of certain hawkish tendencies toward anything terroristic. I am also now considered a Conservative. (Ok, barely.) Over the years, my waist size passed my inseam and my radical viewpoints became mainstream. I am beginning to think that is no need to worry about the world not changing for the better. I do think we might need to get the damn thing slowed down a little bit. Whew! I am SO Confused.
I, too, hate waste. In the cases you site, the water is indeed used TEMPORARILY so that it TEPORARILY unavailable where it might have been used somewhere else more wisely, but it has not been wasted. Point two: After your brush your teeth, cook your food, flush your toilet, take your shower, clean your dishes, wash your clothers, you can then probably water your lawn and wash your car with considerably less water than you used in the above activities. (Not to mention all the water used in manufacturing every little thing you own.) Contrary to what your rant implies, water will be used as it flowing by your community or not. What you call for is not "saving" anything. It'll just "be used" or not and continue its way whether or not it has been used. I think you need to read and think J-U-S-T a little bit more before you display your ignorance and arrogance. According to your logic, shooting yourself would save us all beaucoup water, not to mention arrogant, ignorance comments like the one above.(ps. I couldn't decided which to do - mod you down or call you an idiot. I couldn't find a "STUPID ARROGANT STATEMENT" line on the moderation choice list so here's your reply.) :{)||
Have nice weekend.
1. The Davis fellow is *my* congressman and he is strictly "cash and carry". :{)||
2. It is my understanding that any code developed with Fed$$ is either 49/51 (or 50/50?) co-owned by the developer & the Fed, & either can use it as they wish from that point, subject, of course, to any contractual agreements, etc. If contractually allowed, the developer can resell the software. The Fed could conceivably re-use software components (which might be great idea), but generally they are more interested in the product than the parts.
3. There is no program that I know of that might have the capability to catalogue what Uncle Sammy has received and whether it might be of use to any other Fed. Dept, etc. Few areas of the Federal government, civilian or militay, at any given time, have any idea what any other non-affliated part of Uncle Sam has in the way of software or capabilities. Even if they did, it probably wouldn't foster re-use of anything other than the contractor. Might be an interesting area to explore.
I begin to see why other people think we are strange. Not that I care, but as I am reading your post, one half of my brain is saying, "WOW. Yeah." & the other half is just shaking its head. This may be why women wear silly stuff -- because they can. :{)||
A few items that are of note here:
1. The HIPAA mandates have been in place for about 3 years. The final date for compliance has been similarly known by all who need to be aware and compliant with HIPAA. There are no excuses.
2. For those who don't know what HIPAA is, it essentially mandates that anyone who handles personal medical information must insure the confidentiality of that personal medical information, ESPECIALLY when it is placed on-line or when it is sent anywhere electronically. As in YOUR RIGHTS ONLINE sort of personal confidentiality. As in securing personal data so it won't be viewed, handled, or sold by unauthorized people. This is not a trivial issue.
3. Just as I have no patience with companies that collect, mishandle, and/or sell my personal data, I have little patience for people or companies who, having known about this for over 3 YEARS, have done nothing to get into compliance with the securing of patient data. Your medical data.
Would you like your medical information passed out around like any old text file or even sold to the highest bidder, like your credit card info has been? It's happening and HIPAA is meant to stop it. I think this is a good thing.
Thank you.
I imagine they make their money from advertising, not access. This idea could backfire. With my luck, using 1000 hrs w/o paying WOULD make them money. /.'ing their mail might not work. What do you do with the advertising you get in your mail? :{)||
Sorry, but the people of every nation are very responsible for their own government. It's their responsibility and they get exactly what they put into the government process. Which, apparently, in the case of most places, like China, Irag, Iran, etc., is damn near nothing. It's GIGO and NINO. (Nothing in, nothing out). :{(||
it won't be worth a $%^& if wireless speeds are still in the %^&**er. :{)||
1. Well, I did 10 years in the military and I would only advise one to join the military if one has a real passion for things military, like lifestyle, paraphernalia, commonality, stress, etc, and a mad passion for success. Anything less and you will be made to feel like a loser so that others may climb over you. That's the military game.You really do need to love it, its ideas, and its ideals or you will be miserable.
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2. I would be jealous of you if I weren't having so much fun myself. Take all of this advice and chuck it. The fun is in the discovery. Just do whatever you see in front of your face that most fits your idea of fun. (Well, the thing that will do you the least harm, anyway.) In 1992, I chucked my career plans, which were not doing well, anyway, and decided to only do things I enjoyed and the hell with any plan. Oddly, my career has taken off.
Have fun.
LucasFilms may go out of business, but I predict a Lucas DVD company forming soon!!! Senor Lucas is no dummy. He may be a lousy director, story writer, awful at casting and wears silly socks, but he is no money dummy. :{)||
Has anything ever actually been made with nanotechnology in it that has actually made anyone any money? Hell, that has actually made anyone outside of R&D and Marketing any money? I am beginning to think nanotechnology is a hoax or vaporware, at least. :{)||
Sure, no tel. lines, & satellite dishes, but it needs beaucoup wires, antennae, transmitting and receiving equipment and required paraphanalia. I have worked around packet radio and there are currently very good reasons that it is not a big hit in the US, such as low baud rate, high maintenance, and weird people everywhere. Then again, most of that sounds like us! (Maybe we need a Amateur Engineer Club. AARL is a very successful org.) :{)||
BTW: ToysRUs has a mouse for little kids. It's has yellow plastic ball on it about the size of a grapefruit and one button on the front. I used it to introduce my kids to games back when they were 4-5 years old. Worked great. Now my 11-year-old son wants me to install a house network. I am stalling on that (until wifi is safe) but I don't really relish the idea of getting my butt handed to me by my son. He's too good for me, already. Have fun with the kids.
Well, judging from the # of posts here, either this ain't the place for CF posts or the market isn't too hot. Shame, too. CF4 did exactly just about everything that a developer of small to medium web-apps. needed or wanted to do. CF4 worked very well with Apache. As the market for small to medium web apps went towards the gutter, so did CF, I guess. Turns out the web wasn't as popular among the basic small- to medium-sized businesses in the business world was (and amazingly still is) thought.
CFMX, as far as I can tell, is the Allaire boys (after selling out to Macromedia) and CFMX trying to be the all-purpose IDE for all dev. environments, instead of just doing its own thing, which got it where it was. Those that try to please everybody generally just please no one. Oh, well. It was really fun while it lasted.
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I think you have confused reading an article (talking the talk) with actual life experience (walking the walk). I agree with the post. Real life experience suggests to me that on-line education requires a commitment and self-discipline that is exceedingly higher than those found in full-time time programs. Working full-time while doing on-line education requires a real passion for either the subject or success. In my experience, most of those that do succeed in on-line education are very positive, motivated people. A real "cut-above" unlike folk that get a kick out of negative posts that only seem designed to boost the ego of the poster.
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"I would not want to be of any organization that would want me to a member!" - G. Marx.
.sig is brilliant and funny, but I left it in my other discussion threads.)
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Please ignore the rant on Forbes. Sorry. (Does he own stock in Forturne?) ps
Halfway to pension age, she has just $5,000 in a 401(k) and $20,000 in home equity. Ideally, someone her age should have at least $100,000 stashed away.
What rubbish. I would like to see the numbers of people who have over $100K saved by the ripe old age of 32.5. Probably about the same number of people who are still rich using the Forbes philosophy of "buy and hold". Ideally, we would all love to be millionaires by the time we are 40, no, 30! While I would, indeed, recommend saving at least 10% of your pay and not spend it on anything less than a true emergency (after a house is bought), most of the people I know (most of whom make near $100K/year) spend just about every other penny on their families, especially on getting their kids quality education and giving them a quality environment to grow up in. Most of them took over 20-25 years to get to that sort of salary. Few of them got to their age without one or two episodes of work or family related emergencies that required tapping that next egg once or twice. (Unemployment would qualify. It did for me.) All of them worked their collective fannie off. Few of them or their parents read Forbes or any other magazine by and for people with silver spoons in every orifice. Few of them will retire rich, but they might have enough to have some fun for 5-10 years of retirement.
I predict that, since he/she is an uninformed idiot, the author of that article will soon join the unemployed, too. But not the magazine owner. Nosirree, bob. He's some kind of insulated from the economy. That Forbes boy is about a good at giving financial advice (much less political) as the Catholic Church is at giving advice on how to avoid pedaphiles.
why not just put up a courtesy 802.11b network with a net ID of 'OPEN123'....Then people who just want to downlod their mail can get it. Are you really that simple? Sure, while you're at it, let people use your fridge, oven, bed, clothes, and your bathroom when you're not 'actively' using them. How selfish can you be! Hey, while you're asleep, let 'em use your car. You probably should put your home computer out out in front of your front door during the day while you are at work and while you're at home sleeping. Hey, you're not using it. Now, tomorrow's class is learning to see what is beyond the end of our noses! (Unbelievable.)
I find it highly offensive that this company has wangled an news interviews to take advantage of these killings. If anyone thinks they haven't, you have no idea of what marketing is about and how they do it. Since, I live in the 'affected' area, I'll be a whole lot more impressed if this wonder software actually finds the guy(s).
.sig is brilliant and funny, but I left it in an another discussion thread.)
(My other
I bet there is no 'our sun is the center of the universe and therefore so, too, are we the most important thing in the universe' sort of thinking there. Then, again, if they are anything like us, they have probably figured out a way around that little problem, too.
.sig is brilliant and funny, but I left it in my other discussion thread.)
(My other