please for the love of god tell me you're joking. I believe BlueJ to be a convoluted plot to turn people off from programming, thus shrinking the supply of programmers and raising the demand and hence salaries. I didn't say it was a good plot or that it was working, but I believe it's a plot nonetheless.
It might be a bit much. I just threw that number out there. Seasons of Futurama or Simpsons cost about $35 here. There are about 24 episodes per season, which comes out to $1.45 an episode, which if you add in the bonus features, makes $2 an episode reasonable I suppose. However, downloading TV for me is different than buying DVD season sets. I only buy the season sets for a few shows that I love and want to watch over and over again. On the other hand, not having a television, I would pay $2-3 an episode to be able to watch Numb3rs or the Shield whenever I want.
I stole movies. Then they gave me Netflix, and that was more convenient and reasonable, so I don't download movies anymore. I stole music. Then they gave me iTuenes music store, and that was more convenient and reasonable, so I don't do that anymore. Now I download TV shows. Charge me $5 and episode for good quality, everlasting rights, and I'll happily pay for that.
Low-cost, disposable, environentally friendly computers (or more general information devices) that can be distributed to the third world and developing areas in concert with global wireless networks. Half the world still doesn't have electricity or telephones, but once we get everybody on board a real global internet, I can see the demand for paper books diminishing greatly. I'm not saying that's necessarily an entirely good thing...
News flash: A brontosaurus is not too fond of mammels and live birth. 'The mammels (or their sublcass who are monkeys) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of being small, having a relatively large brain and the ability to withstand, say, a large meterorite striking the earth. Given the quality of their roars, I doubt that many of the mammals are in the habit of thundering across the primordial plains. It is entirely possible their survial needs are met through hair, live birth and quick adaptability.'
It seems that the onus should be on the vendor to explain very, very convincingly why you should abandon decades of standard practice and good coding practice. This better be one hell of a good product you're developing to justify the should a radical change. You shouldn't need to defend standard practice, they must campaign for a change to that practice. Imagine trying to explain this to all the coders who will work on the product for the next decade - will they think you're crazy or is there really a reason to do this?
It must be very lonely up there on high... We had an election under the laws as they stand. We followed the law and ended up with a result. If you don't like the law, sure you can ask to change it, but for the next election. We're playing by the rules the legislature gave us for this particular go-around and Gregoire is the winner under those rules. On what grounds could the leg possibly step in or Rossi contest the election? Not even Rossi has come up with any. Beyond a few conspiracy theories - the right has their wackos just like the left in 2004 - I've not heard one single thing that would make me think was anything beyond an incredibly close contest between two moderate candidates that reflects the general 50/50 split of the nation and urban versus rural areas. Legally he might contest or beg for a mulligan to be granted, but pragmatically you have to agree he should use this loss as a jumping off point for his next campaign. Nixon did it in 1960. Reagan did it 1976. Rossi can do it 2006 or 2008.
Dino Rossi has no more legal process. He has lost. Any voter can now challenge the election - I guess that would include Rossi, I suppose - and see where that takes him. Rossi is asking for a recount - something not provided for in the legal process. Gregoire asked for what she's entitled to under state law and won, Rossi's asking for a whole new law - a new election! - so that he can have another chance. The arrogance of the republicans is stunning, no matter how often I see it.
Normally I'd say you're right, but not in Washington State. The Republicans here have a bad habit of picking really, really lousy gubernatorial candidates who get their butts whipped. One reason I expected the dems not to do well this election was that we've held the governorship for 20 years and were very sucetible to "kick the incumbent out" syndrome. Plus, Dino Rossi happens to be a very middle-of-the-road candidate.
... I'm happy with the result. It's legal and consistent with the incredibly close nature of the race - the general crapiness of both candidates. Even if you get mad about the extra votes in King Co. that were included, Gregoire would have won. If Rossi just keeps his mouth shut and behaves as a gracious winner, he will be quite a force to reckon with in 2006 against Sen. Cantwell or 2008 against Gregoire's re-election. I don't have a very high opinion of him though, so I doubt it.
I am definitely going to spend a lot of time deciding where to plop my $150. It takes about six months to see where the best games are coming out for a system. The PSP looks to be more hackable than the DS - AVI playback built in? MP3? Gorgeous screen? Nice. Now, what about the games?
And we're going to pay for that how? And what multinational corporation/government/multigovernment alliance is going to enforce it? A better solution would be to rework the Internet so that it's more costly/difficult to send anonymous, bulk email. A technological soluction, not a governmental/corporate one.
It's funny, but it's also true. I'd imagine you're more likely to get spam on the AOL domain than on some piddling little domain, just by virture of the bots looking out for you.
... like 10 free days or so. Money's very tight, I've been burned before, and I tend to be oddly picky about what games I allow to become my masters. Something that you have to pay for upfront and then to continue using (versus say UT or the likes where online is free) needs to have a very good way to prove it's worth its customers' money. Star Wars Jump to Lightspeed just offered something like that but you have to sign up for a $15 subscription to FilePlanet, a site that offends me by its very money-grubbing existence.
I see your point and it's a good one, but I'm not sure I necessarily agree with. Snohomish Co. has a pretty large urban/middle class popultion - not as much as King, but more so than Kitsap. The city of Snohomish and its socially conservative/economically conservative voters can't match the numbers of the socially moderate-liberal/economically moderate voters of Edmonds and Lynnwood. Rossi won Snoho and did as well as he did around the state not because of his tax policies, which really aren't that radical - he's no John Carlson - but because he's an economic moderate who promised to keep his socially conservative views out of the governor's mansion.
' In Bothell
My comment went back and forth between this election and WA elections in general, which was my mistake. It was strange for a Republican to take Snohomish (particularly in the last 20 years or so), and so normally Snoho helps re-enforce King's population superiority. I didn't state this clearly. Sorry.
A former secretary of state (republican) suggested the same thing and was pretty well laughed at, which is unfortunate. Most likely this will end up in the legislature, which by an obscure section of our state constitution can decide in cases like this. Then the issue becomes when the Leg will decide because until the end of this session it's Republican controlled, afterward it belongs to the Democrats. Oh, the lawsuits will fly.
I should add that the same Dem-Rep breakdown will occur if Rossi wins, and it might be even more acid given the drubbing we Dems have taken over the past five years. I think Wa and Fl are in some type of quantum entanglement...
... about WA state is its geography. King County is very big population wise and very Democratic. The counties to the west of the Cascades (which divide the state N-S about 1/4 of the way E from the ocean), are all blue to purple and then all of the counties to the east of the Cascades are blood red republican. Rossi won most of the counties in the state, but King County's population (along with neighboring Snohomish County) almost has the power to make all of those moot. It's like Texas, California and New York all rolled into one. So when Gregoire does win - which I hope she does - it'll really set the stage for a Seattle vs rest-of-the-state animosity that will take years to resolve.
Freakishly prophetic... What will happen once somebody manages to patent fission? - you know the US Patent Office would rubber stamp that one Solar cells with license fees?
Isn't that name kinda ominous? A canopy blocks out the sun, gets everybody under one thing and cuts you off from the primal forces. Perhaps something more honest, like maybe COBRA?
I think you're being cruel. Lots of laypersons have intellectual curiosity that may not have been fed either because they were too poor to go on to higher education, there were family problems, whatever. Not everyone who ends up without an education is dumb and uninterested. Lots of people are interested in space travel, chemistry, astronomy - why not math? I have a lady at work who is always asking me questions about some math thing or another she heard about and I've been looking for a good book like this to give her. Although I think I'll start with "The Myster of the Aleph" on Kantor and Infinity - that was a rocking read!
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please for the love of god tell me you're joking. I believe BlueJ to be a convoluted plot to turn people off from programming, thus shrinking the supply of programmers and raising the demand and hence salaries. I didn't say it was a good plot or that it was working, but I believe it's a plot nonetheless.
It might be a bit much. I just threw that number out there. Seasons of Futurama or Simpsons cost about $35 here. There are about 24 episodes per season, which comes out to $1.45 an episode, which if you add in the bonus features, makes $2 an episode reasonable I suppose. However, downloading TV for me is different than buying DVD season sets. I only buy the season sets for a few shows that I love and want to watch over and over again. On the other hand, not having a television, I would pay $2-3 an episode to be able to watch Numb3rs or the Shield whenever I want.
I stole movies. Then they gave me Netflix, and that was more convenient and reasonable, so I don't download movies anymore. I stole music. Then they gave me iTuenes music store, and that was more convenient and reasonable, so I don't do that anymore. Now I download TV shows. Charge me $5 and episode for good quality, everlasting rights, and I'll happily pay for that.
I use variable names. int v1, string v2, float v3, etc. Seems pretty clear to me!
Low-cost, disposable, environentally friendly computers (or more general information devices) that can be distributed to the third world and developing areas in concert with global wireless networks. Half the world still doesn't have electricity or telephones, but once we get everybody on board a real global internet, I can see the demand for paper books diminishing greatly. I'm not saying that's necessarily an entirely good thing...
News flash: A brontosaurus is not too fond of mammels and live birth. 'The mammels (or their sublcass who are monkeys) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of being small, having a relatively large brain and the ability to withstand, say, a large meterorite striking the earth. Given the quality of their roars, I doubt that many of the mammals are in the habit of thundering across the primordial plains. It is entirely possible their survial needs are met through hair, live birth and quick adaptability.'
It seems that the onus should be on the vendor to explain very, very convincingly why you should abandon decades of standard practice and good coding practice. This better be one hell of a good product you're developing to justify the should a radical change. You shouldn't need to defend standard practice, they must campaign for a change to that practice. Imagine trying to explain this to all the coders who will work on the product for the next decade - will they think you're crazy or is there really a reason to do this?
It must be very lonely up there on high... We had an election under the laws as they stand. We followed the law and ended up with a result. If you don't like the law, sure you can ask to change it, but for the next election. We're playing by the rules the legislature gave us for this particular go-around and Gregoire is the winner under those rules. On what grounds could the leg possibly step in or Rossi contest the election? Not even Rossi has come up with any. Beyond a few conspiracy theories - the right has their wackos just like the left in 2004 - I've not heard one single thing that would make me think was anything beyond an incredibly close contest between two moderate candidates that reflects the general 50/50 split of the nation and urban versus rural areas. Legally he might contest or beg for a mulligan to be granted, but pragmatically you have to agree he should use this loss as a jumping off point for his next campaign. Nixon did it in 1960. Reagan did it 1976. Rossi can do it 2006 or 2008.
Re-vote. Not recount. "Rossing is asking for a re-vote" ... Sorry.
Dino Rossi has no more legal process. He has lost. Any voter can now challenge the election - I guess that would include Rossi, I suppose - and see where that takes him. Rossi is asking for a recount - something not provided for in the legal process. Gregoire asked for what she's entitled to under state law and won, Rossi's asking for a whole new law - a new election! - so that he can have another chance. The arrogance of the republicans is stunning, no matter how often I see it.
Normally I'd say you're right, but not in Washington State. The Republicans here have a bad habit of picking really, really lousy gubernatorial candidates who get their butts whipped. One reason I expected the dems not to do well this election was that we've held the governorship for 20 years and were very sucetible to "kick the incumbent out" syndrome. Plus, Dino Rossi happens to be a very middle-of-the-road candidate.
I am definitely going to spend a lot of time deciding where to plop my $150. It takes about six months to see where the best games are coming out for a system. The PSP looks to be more hackable than the DS - AVI playback built in? MP3? Gorgeous screen? Nice. Now, what about the games?
And we're going to pay for that how? And what multinational corporation/government/multigovernment alliance is going to enforce it? A better solution would be to rework the Internet so that it's more costly/difficult to send anonymous, bulk email. A technological soluction, not a governmental/corporate one.
It's funny, but it's also true. I'd imagine you're more likely to get spam on the AOL domain than on some piddling little domain, just by virture of the bots looking out for you.
... like 10 free days or so. Money's very tight, I've been burned before, and I tend to be oddly picky about what games I allow to become my masters. Something that you have to pay for upfront and then to continue using (versus say UT or the likes where online is free) needs to have a very good way to prove it's worth its customers' money. Star Wars Jump to Lightspeed just offered something like that but you have to sign up for a $15 subscription to FilePlanet, a site that offends me by its very money-grubbing existence.
You wouldn't happen to live in Freedom County, would you?
I see your point and it's a good one, but I'm not sure I necessarily agree with. Snohomish Co. has a pretty large urban/middle class popultion - not as much as King, but more so than Kitsap. The city of Snohomish and its socially conservative/economically conservative voters can't match the numbers of the socially moderate-liberal/economically moderate voters of Edmonds and Lynnwood. Rossi won Snoho and did as well as he did around the state not because of his tax policies, which really aren't that radical - he's no John Carlson - but because he's an economic moderate who promised to keep his socially conservative views out of the governor's mansion. ' In Bothell
My comment went back and forth between this election and WA elections in general, which was my mistake. It was strange for a Republican to take Snohomish (particularly in the last 20 years or so), and so normally Snoho helps re-enforce King's population superiority. I didn't state this clearly. Sorry.
A former secretary of state (republican) suggested the same thing and was pretty well laughed at, which is unfortunate. Most likely this will end up in the legislature, which by an obscure section of our state constitution can decide in cases like this. Then the issue becomes when the Leg will decide because until the end of this session it's Republican controlled, afterward it belongs to the Democrats. Oh, the lawsuits will fly.
I should add that the same Dem-Rep breakdown will occur if Rossi wins, and it might be even more acid given the drubbing we Dems have taken over the past five years. I think Wa and Fl are in some type of quantum entanglement...
... about WA state is its geography. King County is very big population wise and very Democratic. The counties to the west of the Cascades (which divide the state N-S about 1/4 of the way E from the ocean), are all blue to purple and then all of the counties to the east of the Cascades are blood red republican. Rossi won most of the counties in the state, but King County's population (along with neighboring Snohomish County) almost has the power to make all of those moot. It's like Texas, California and New York all rolled into one. So when Gregoire does win - which I hope she does - it'll really set the stage for a Seattle vs rest-of-the-state animosity that will take years to resolve.
Freakishly prophetic... What will happen once somebody manages to patent fission? - you know the US Patent Office would rubber stamp that one Solar cells with license fees?
Isn't that name kinda ominous? A canopy blocks out the sun, gets everybody under one thing and cuts you off from the primal forces. Perhaps something more honest, like maybe COBRA?
I think you're being cruel. Lots of laypersons have intellectual curiosity that may not have been fed either because they were too poor to go on to higher education, there were family problems, whatever. Not everyone who ends up without an education is dumb and uninterested. Lots of people are interested in space travel, chemistry, astronomy - why not math? I have a lady at work who is always asking me questions about some math thing or another she heard about and I've been looking for a good book like this to give her. Although I think I'll start with "The Myster of the Aleph" on Kantor and Infinity - that was a rocking read!