the article (you DID read it, didn't you) seems to indicate that it's being pursued due to the unique nature of facial tissue than about the actual structure.
For example, burn victims can have skin grafts, but skin from other areas of the body doesn't have the same properties as the skin that naturally develops on the face. Facial skin in particular has a much higher concentration of nerve endings than that on your upper back.
I don't worship my job. I don't think I'm some kind of great human being because I can write a program. I think I'm a good person when I do good things for the people I care about, and when I create things others can appreciate. It's called having a little perspective. You'll understand when you get older.
all this angst over something that records non-interactive garbage like TV. Why don't you turn off the TV and go do something that you actually get to be involved in and don't just lay there and stare at?
(Sports don't apply since the price of tickets is so insane)
I maintaint that there is nothing in software that can be called an Engineering Discipline. It's just not that important. People die if a bridge isn't designed right. People have to do things by hand if the software doesn't work. Which of these is more real?
Coding is not an engineering discipline. Coding is typing. Coding can be done from a Rose.mdl that you ftp to some cut-rate sweat shop in Bangalore.
I'm going to get flamebait for this but I don't care. I'm a programmer and I know my line of work is a crock of shit, but I'll take all the money my employer will give me.
from what I can tell programmers (or if you are self-important, Software Engineers) haven't improved at all, but management has. Languages like Java and stuff like UML and pure OO development aren't really aids to programming, they're aids to communicating your design to management. Management is thus more clueful and will allow the good shit to go and the slop to go back to the drawing board.
No, it'll be based on games theory. Or maybe chaos theory.
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As animals we are driven by our need to reproduce. Games are one method of deferring that need into another accomplishment structure. I play a LOT fewer games when I have a girlfriend. And before you make the obvious joke, this isn't THAT rare of an occurence for geeks.
Sorry dude, you totally fucked up your credibility by quoting Ayn Rand in your sig. Why do the people with common sense have to be so enamored with psychopaths?
Now, can we integrate this into the next version of SimCity - have those little critters pray to me that I don't destroy them, etc...? After all, I am the creator/ruler/god of their world.
Protesting and stopping traffic downtown is a DoS attack on the transportation system, but it's protected under the Constitution as a peaceable assembly.
Before you label me a coldhearted bastard, let me ask you...what entitles you or your family members to the fruits of other people's labors through forced taxation? Hmmm? 1) Because you didn't have the balls and the drive to vote in people that believe the same way. 2) Because people are worth keeping alive no matter whether they make as much money as you or not, or whether they come from the same social class as you, or whether you even like them.
If he won't tell you they're wasteful, I will. Have you and your relatives ever heard of charity and insurance policies and planning ahead? Have you ever heard of pissing into the wind? Charity is a joke, insurance policies are for the rich, and planning ahead is impossible for people that are just barely getting by to start with. Of course, you'd probably rather send out death squads to kill anyone making less than $35,000 a year, so there's that pissing into the wind thing again.
The rest of your message is basic right wing talk radio political fast food, so I'm not even going to dignify it with a direct response.
The most ridiculous notion is that you're equating american social programs with Soviet communism, which not even Reagan did at his most reactionary.
I would rather starve in the street than accept medicare, social security, or any other government subsidy or be dependent on government (or contractor) employment. Would you rather your children starve than take government money to feed them? If so, I hope to hell you don't have kids or never have kids because I can just imagine how fucked up they will turn out.
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the article (you DID read it, didn't you) seems to indicate that it's being pursued due to the unique nature of facial tissue than about the actual structure.
For example, burn victims can have skin grafts, but skin from other areas of the body doesn't have the same properties as the skin that naturally develops on the face. Facial skin in particular has a much higher concentration of nerve endings than that on your upper back.
so what happens when everyone is beautiful? a planet-wide orgy? COOL!!! Can I have a face transplant now, can I can I can I??
oh wait, I forgot, you're an H-1B, you get $50k instead of $100k
0. Be born into priveliged family in Bangalore or Calcutta
7. Profit!
I don't worship my job. I don't think I'm some kind of great human being because I can write a program. I think I'm a good person when I do good things for the people I care about, and when I create things others can appreciate. It's called having a little perspective. You'll understand when you get older.
all this angst over something that records non-interactive garbage like TV. Why don't you turn off the TV and go do something that you actually get to be involved in and don't just lay there and stare at?
(Sports don't apply since the price of tickets is so insane)
I maintaint that there is nothing in software that can be called an Engineering Discipline. It's just not that important. People die if a bridge isn't designed right. People have to do things by hand if the software doesn't work. Which of these is more real?
.mdl that you ftp to some cut-rate sweat shop in Bangalore.
Coding is not an engineering discipline. Coding is typing. Coding can be done from a Rose
I'm going to get flamebait for this but I don't care. I'm a programmer and I know my line of work is a crock of shit, but I'll take all the money my employer will give me.
Bill Gates didn't write DOS, a guy named Tim Patterson did. Bill basically did
sed s/QDOS/MS-DOS on command.com for DOS 1.0
from what I can tell programmers (or if you are self-important, Software Engineers) haven't improved at all, but management has. Languages like Java and stuff like UML and pure OO development aren't really aids to programming, they're aids to communicating your design to management. Management is thus more clueful and will allow the good shit to go and the slop to go back to the drawing board.
um... yeah, you can be.
people who experience extreme grief deal with it in extreme ways. Whatever helps the poor woman heal, I say.
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Defense contractor? Let's see how long you think that's a "nice" job. You'll be burning an ounce a week by your second month.
No, it'll be based on games theory. Or maybe chaos theory.
As animals we are driven by our need to reproduce. Games are one method of deferring that need into another accomplishment structure. I play a LOT fewer games when I have a girlfriend. And before you make the obvious joke, this isn't THAT rare of an occurence for geeks.
Sorry dude, you totally fucked up your credibility by quoting Ayn Rand in your sig. Why do the people with common sense have to be so enamored with psychopaths?
the only solution is to cover the entire rocket with a layer of tinfoil.
Peter Molyneux? Is that you?
yeah, because the apartment is private property and unwelcome entry on private property is trespassing. The street, parks, etc. are public property.
Protesting and stopping traffic downtown is a DoS attack on the transportation system, but it's protected under the Constitution as a peaceable assembly.
I'll let the sub-posters draw conclusions..
No, but it dumps when it processes too much data.
so it's into German porn then?
hehe.. how about S.H.I.T.T.
The perfect solution! Run the power plants on 130 octane racing gas :)
I thought this was NEWS for nerds? Since when has cell phone service in the USA not sucked?
Before you label me a coldhearted bastard, let me ask you...what entitles you or your family members to the fruits of other people's labors through forced taxation? Hmmm?
1) Because you didn't have the balls and the drive to vote in people that believe the same way.
2) Because people are worth keeping alive no matter whether they make as much money as you or not, or whether they come from the same social class as you, or whether you even like them.
If he won't tell you they're wasteful, I will. Have you and your relatives ever heard of charity and insurance policies and planning ahead?
Have you ever heard of pissing into the wind? Charity is a joke, insurance policies are for the rich, and planning ahead is impossible for people that are just barely getting by to start with. Of course, you'd probably rather send out death squads to kill anyone making less than $35,000 a year, so there's that pissing into the wind thing again.
The rest of your message is basic right wing talk radio political fast food, so I'm not even going to dignify it with a direct response.
The most ridiculous notion is that you're equating american social programs with Soviet communism, which not even Reagan did at his most reactionary.
I would rather starve in the street than accept medicare, social security, or any other government subsidy or be dependent on government (or contractor) employment.
Would you rather your children starve than take government money to feed them? If so, I hope to hell you don't have kids or never have kids because I can just imagine how fucked up they will turn out.