Not only is this an issue of, "Should the parents have let their kids play the game," but I think it is more important to discuss why the kids didn't understand that killing is wrong.
Is that a concept that is no longer taught to children? I watched Bugs Bunny as a kid, and you never saw me dropping anvils on people's heads.
If you are going to allow your 14 year old child to play a game that is rated for adults over 17 y/o, then you need to at least look at the game first. And, when you realize it is violent maybe you need to have a talk with your children about realite and what is acceptable in society
Struts 1.1 is currently in Beta3, and it is going to fill in many of the gaps where the previous releases of Struts was deficient. I have been developing in struts for quite a while now (almost 2 years), and have had to desing a couple of patterns to make some things happen. This should all be fixed.
Struts 1.1 has added nice features like Dynamic Action Forms, integration with JAAS for request level authorization, and separation of functionality through modules.
If you have not previously used Struts this may not mean anything to you. Trust me when I tell you that these advances will be very welcomed by Struts users. I higly reccomend learning Struts, however the existing books only cover previous versions. If you are looking into using Struts on a future project you may want to check out the upcoming release.
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft.
I currently have several 1U servers hosted at American ISP. They offer very reasonable prices as well as awesome service. They have a colocation calculator on their website so you could figure out what you would be spending.
The prices are good - for a 1U server it can cost as little as $20 / month with a contract or $25 / month without an extended contract. I can also attest to the quality of their service. Their security and sys-admin people are great.
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft
I have used several books from NOLO Press to draft legal documents and contracts. All of which revolve around my Software business. Their books are very well written and understandable by us geeks with out a lot of legal knowledge.
One book stands out in my mind that you may want to check out - Web & Software Development: A Legal Guide. If you do end up talking with a lawery, this book may help you to fully understand what you want and to be able to make sure that everything is included in the contract.
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft
It does not matter what size the technical book is, it only takes 5 pages to induce deep sleep and dooling!
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft
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Along the lines of this question, it is my understanding that you met Leonard Nemoy in B'nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO). Is this true? If this had not happened, would you both have ended up in the series?
I have used one of these previously while giving presentations. It is really neat and handy, however I tend to be somewhat animated while talking. The pointer was relatively sensitive and danced around the screen during my presentation. I think that it was somewhat distracting to everyone watching.
I will be in Vegas in a couple of weeks and have been practicing my card counting. It is really not that hard - You start with 2 of them and add one to that every time you hit.
Suppose you have a programmer in 1992 with 3 years experience and transported him/her to 2002. If that programmer was a Windows programmer, he'd have a hard time finding a job today and have a hard time adapting. If that programmer was a Unix programmer, he shouldn't find it too difficult to find a job or adapt to Linux today.
Funny enough, this is part of Microsoft's money grubbing attitude. It allows them to make all of the people who payed a lot of money to become MCSE certified obsolete. That person must now invest more money to pay MS to recertify on a new platform.
If you have someone that is creative, have them use one of the level modelers (like the one provided w/ Unreal Tournament) to design a level that models your school, or a subsection.
We did this with our office, and just had a blast. The only problem was that we would walk around during work and try to come up with better places to hide the Redeemer!
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I am always sure to get the rep's name, first and last, before I start dealing with them. In many cases it seems to make them a little more hesitant to become fired-up.
This actually benefitted me once... I was trying to have a billing problem taken care of with my ISP, and it got to the point where the rep hung up on me. So I called back, happened to get the same person, and the first words out of my mouth were - May I speak with your manager please. I was friendly, but I guess he recognized my voice, seeing as how we had just spoken 30 seconds ago, and he immediately hung up on me again. On my first try, I got someone different, who not only solved my problem very easily, refered me to their manager who promptly dealt with the arrogant rep while still on the phone with me.
So, every once in a while you get a nice warm fuzzy from customer service, however this does not in any way out-weigh the headaches I usually leave the experience with.
Is it ironic to anyone other than myself, that comapnies such as this are reacting to a down turn in the US economy by placing their money into circulation in other contries. I feel that we need to somehow make it difficult for them to do this.
I have a great idea, how about being part of the solution instead of the problem by keeping your money right here in the good old U.S. of A. Where is your sense of patriotism. Not only would you be helping your country, but you might actually end up with a product that works!
More to the point of the question. I have been in the position of leading software teams that were brought in to clean-up (i.e. re-write correctly) systems that were outsourced to Indian companies. It is often far more costly in the long run to deal with inferior off-shore companies just to save a little cash up front. There are quite a few issues to think about along the lines of the quality of the work, the knowledge that the team has (or most likely, doesn't have), the cost of maintaining and expanding poorly writen code, etc..
Maybe your company needs to call me, and let me and my people take care of your software needs for a reasonable price.
Dude, would you like some cheese with that whine!!
My school was similar, yet we all still managed to learn UNIX. If you are going to be a CS major you really should be able to learn technical things on your own - how about a little initiative. Maybe the issue is not with your university or SUN. Please post your name so that I know not to hire you:)
Now a comment that relates to the topic... Microsoft claims to be involved in the development of this country's future, yet they are hounding schools to become legal on licensing. If they really wanted to help they would sponsor programs in schools where they donated computers or provided academic licensing for school districts.
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Now I know why it takes me so long to get to work. I spend my life speeding from red light to red light!
Is that a concept that is no longer taught to children? I watched Bugs Bunny as a kid, and you never saw me dropping anvils on people's heads.
If you are going to allow your 14 year old child to play a game that is rated for adults over 17 y/o, then you need to at least look at the game first. And, when you realize it is violent maybe you need to have a talk with your children about realite and what is acceptable in society
**steps down from soapbox**
I guess that in addition to getting out of school for snow days, you would also get a day off when the school crashes!
I can see the headlines now...
Microsoft Denies Responsibility for Security Issues, Says Developer Did It!
This is really going to piss me off when my radar detector goes off every time someone in a Honda is near me!
I have said it before, and will say it again.
Companies that are moving a lot of their operations off-shore are only making the bad economy they are trying to escape even worse.
They are removing their money from our economy and the hands of the people that will be buying their products.
I could go on all day, but will leave it at that.
At least if you are going to piss and moan get your quote right.
Here is your quote from the article:
'... a proliferation of free music-swapping services on the Internet has led to a decline in CD sales.'
Here is the REAL quote from the article:
'... a proliferation of free music-swapping services, among other factors, has led to a decline in CD sales.'
That makes a difference doesn't it.
Struts 1.1 has added nice features like Dynamic Action Forms, integration with JAAS for request level authorization, and separation of functionality through modules.
If you have not previously used Struts this may not mean anything to you. Trust me when I tell you that these advances will be very welcomed by Struts users. I higly reccomend learning Struts, however the existing books only cover previous versions. If you are looking into using Struts on a future project you may want to check out the upcoming release.
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft.
This is an awful expensive way to investigate Chaos Theory. All they really need to do is check out my living room. Talk about Chaos Theory!
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft.
I currently have several 1U servers hosted at American ISP. They offer very reasonable prices as well as awesome service. They have a colocation calculator on their website so you could figure out what you would be spending.
The prices are good - for a 1U server it can cost as little as $20 / month with a contract or $25 / month without an extended contract. I can also attest to the quality of their service. Their security and sys-admin people are great.
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft
So, this way everyone would know that I skipped work on Friday, and spent it at the stip bar!
I have used several books from NOLO Press to draft legal documents and contracts. All of which revolve around my Software business. Their books are very well written and understandable by us geeks with out a lot of legal knowledge.
One book stands out in my mind that you may want to check out - Web & Software Development: A Legal Guide. If you do end up talking with a lawery, this book may help you to fully understand what you want and to be able to make sure that everything is included in the contract.
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft
It does not matter what size the technical book is, it only takes 5 pages to induce deep sleep and dooling!
Life is like an elevator, sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft
Along the lines of this question, it is my understanding that you met Leonard Nemoy in B'nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO). Is this true? If this had not happened, would you both have ended up in the series?
I am glad that you feel that Tomcat is J2EE compiant, but...
It's not. It is a Servlet / JSP engine, and not a J2EE server. If you want to integrate Tomcat with JBoss then you have a nice J2EE platform.
Sorry, just needed to straighten this guy out.
~Ab
I have used one of these previously while giving presentations. It is really neat and handy, however I tend to be somewhat animated while talking. The pointer was relatively sensitive and danced around the screen during my presentation. I think that it was somewhat distracting to everyone watching.
I will be in Vegas in a couple of weeks and have been practicing my card counting. It is really not that hard - You start with 2 of them and add one to that every time you hit.
No big deal.
I'm always in the State of Confusion.
Funny enough, this is part of Microsoft's money grubbing attitude. It allows them to make all of the people who payed a lot of money to become MCSE certified obsolete. That person must now invest more money to pay MS to recertify on a new platform.
If you have someone that is creative, have them use one of the level modelers (like the one provided w/ Unreal Tournament) to design a level that models your school, or a subsection.
We did this with our office, and just had a blast. The only problem was that we would walk around during work and try to come up with better places to hide the Redeemer!
I am always sure to get the rep's name, first and last, before I start dealing with them. In many cases it seems to make them a little more hesitant to become fired-up.
This actually benefitted me once... I was trying to have a billing problem taken care of with my ISP, and it got to the point where the rep hung up on me. So I called back, happened to get the same person, and the first words out of my mouth were - May I speak with your manager please. I was friendly, but I guess he recognized my voice, seeing as how we had just spoken 30 seconds ago, and he immediately hung up on me again. On my first try, I got someone different, who not only solved my problem very easily, refered me to their manager who promptly dealt with the arrogant rep while still on the phone with me.
So, every once in a while you get a nice warm fuzzy from customer service, however this does not in any way out-weigh the headaches I usually leave the experience with.
Is it ironic to anyone other than myself, that comapnies such as this are reacting to a down turn in the US economy by placing their money into circulation in other contries. I feel that we need to somehow make it difficult for them to do this.
I have a great idea, how about being part of the solution instead of the problem by keeping your money right here in the good old U.S. of A. Where is your sense of patriotism. Not only would you be helping your country, but you might actually end up with a product that works!
More to the point of the question. I have been in the position of leading software teams that were brought in to clean-up (i.e. re-write correctly) systems that were outsourced to Indian companies. It is often far more costly in the long run to deal with inferior off-shore companies just to save a little cash up front. There are quite a few issues to think about along the lines of the quality of the work, the knowledge that the team has (or most likely, doesn't have), the cost of maintaining and expanding poorly writen code, etc..
Maybe your company needs to call me, and let me and my people take care of your software needs for a reasonable price.
My school was similar, yet we all still managed to learn UNIX. If you are going to be a CS major you really should be able to learn technical things on your own - how about a little initiative. Maybe the issue is not with your university or SUN. Please post your name so that I know not to hire you :)
Now a comment that relates to the topic...
Microsoft claims to be involved in the development of this country's future, yet they are hounding schools to become legal on licensing. If they really wanted to help they would sponsor programs in schools where they donated computers or provided academic licensing for school districts.