Why we are not aggressively tracking down and prosecuting mass repeat spammers and phishers.
If we are, why are we not hearing about it?
I mean, spam and phishing is the blight of the internet. It is aggravating, costly and time consuming. I do not need a mortgage, cialis, a fake rolex, a "pleasure ring" or bogus stock tips. All this spam and phishing is fraud and through use of zombies of hijacked connections, theft or trespassing.
Should we write our congressmen? Become rich and hire the mob to find these people and break some knees?
Sometime last century, we were in QA on the Director Team at Macromedia. We'd all join up on our 486s and use the demo levels of Quake to de-stress by blowing the crap out of each other. This was back with keyboard only control too! On the release of Quake, about 6 or 7 of us came into the office on 600 Townsend St. in San Francisco. I downloaded the demo as soon as it was released and put it up on an internal server on our 10 base T network. We all went over to the SoundEdit team's desks and played the first 7 levels of Quake I cooperatively.
It was amazing.
After killing the lava boss in the seventh level, I leaned back in shock, horror, awe and exhaustion and we all looked at each other with our mouths agape. Shocked, I suddenly I bolted to the phone and we became the 400th people on Earth to have purchased Quake I.
Just awesome awesome awesome. American was in his level designing prime back then and we loved every minute of it.
Rocket jumps, poaching (sniping), the chaingun and quad damage. Rocket jumps with quad and the pent! Lightning gun in the water with the pentagram of protection. The pings as the nails bounced off the stone walls. The awesome horribly screaming gurgle in the demo when you fell into the lava.
The foom and clink of the 'nade launcher.
Running across the ceiling rocketing peasants (your buddies) down below.
The Squish and the floor that opened into the lava.
The pain (or joy) of the telefrag.
The brutal comic stylizing of the game and the speed you ran at.
You're got professional and accurate and you've got shoddy.
Does your compiler check your code for you and alert you to errors?
If you can't communicate properly and grammar check your communications, why do you even check your code for accuracy?
It's a simple point of being correct and accurate or looking like a chump because you don't proof your own work.
To illustrate my point, you typed: "Seriously if your just too damn stupid to figure it out maybe you should not be reading it."
Your you are. Basically, you told me that "just too damn stupid" belongs to me.
If you wish to insult me correctly, a proper version of your sentence is below. "Seriously, if you're just too damn stupid to figure it out maybe you should not be reading it."
On the other hand, if you can not type it correctly, maybe you should not be writing it?
If professionals can't master the basics of 5th grade English it's just a poor reflection on themselves and how they come across to others. In a question and answer session with President Bush, a woman from a professional news organization submitting a question for GWB, asked him if he "conversated" regularly with the person in question. Yes, she looked like a chump on national TV. As did her organization for hiring a reporter who uses words that do not exist.
Morally superiority doesn't even enter in to it. It's not something that I have even considered. It doesn't apply.
But you define if you are "a dick" or an otherwise less than positive contribution to society. It is up to internal interpretation and as I was thinking about this conversation this morning, I do realize that I built this mainly for myself as a guidepost; as soon as I develop it to apply to others I'm sure I'll have to do a lot more introspection into what that means.
What's wrong with being a "dick?" Though that seems self explanatory to me, it is more of how you influence your environment and the people around you. Positively or negatively. It is partly defined by my concept of people like mass murderers, polluters, thugs, crack dealers. I consider them blights upon society and I believe that if you go so far as to become a blight upon society then you deserve to be removed from it. We can point to easy examples like Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Jeffery Dahmer.
To be cliche, are you part of the solution, or part of the problem? This is taken in context of "if you want to take care of others and help others, if you do not take care of yourself and your needs FIRST, you can not afford to take care of others." I submit the book called "The Giving Tree" as an example.
So back to "being a dick" comes with how you contribute to the lives of others and the environment in which we live. Being or not being one can easily be influenced by social pressures and cultural assumptions. But one must take it upon themselves to see past social pressures, yet since you live within your culture (your environment) it IS influenced by your culture.
An interesting example comes with to how certain cultures treat animals. In the US, it is fashionable to "save the harp seals" because they are cute and people see a lot of blood when they are killed. I bet if harp seals did not have their cute little faces we would not be AS emotional about the matter. In China and parts of Korea, cat and dog is eaten and by our standards, it is damn cruel. Many believe that to get the best flavor, you must beat the animal before killing it. Pretty rough to tolerate. Yet, we in the US see dogs and cats as friends and pets, things we care about. These people see nothing wrong with what they are doing because in their eyes, the animals more akin to a piece of broccoli than a friend or companion. Yet in America, we regularly eat slaughtered cattle while in India, these animals are more sacred than our precious pets. You indeed are correct that "being a dick" or "doing wrong" is based upon the rules of the society you come from.
It appears that you read into (or I misrepresented my beliefs) that I feel morality is universal. In my opinion, what is right or wrong is based upon the opinion of the observer of the action. Killing Harp seals brings in money for the Canadian families in an otherwise depressed region. These people feed their families on the money they make, as distasteful as we may think it to be, and they are doing good by supporting their family. As a child, I supported the "save the seals" campaigns. I did it because they looked sad and cute and killing cute things is bad (but mosquitos who bite me need to die.) As I learned a little more about the whole picture, I learned that right and wrong often depends upon the perspective of who is viewing the act. Am I for starving children? No. Am I for blotting baby seals on the head? No. The situation is a little more complex than it initially appears.
In your final point, you mention a "sober analysis of any true measure of morality". It interests me in where you get your definition of "true morality" and what determines the its trueness. Anyway, work calls.
Well written. But I do have a comment. What exactly is our spirit? How do you know you have one? If you can't define a spirit, or if I don't have one or if there is no god, then "eternal existence separated from God" doesn't matter.
Also, I became an atheist or an "if there is a god, he's got more important things to do than worry about me and i can't really tell if there is or isn't one but I certainly don't detect a god around" after growing up catholic/christian.
Why and how does "God take care of sparrows"? I have issues with people who have not yet invented internal plumbing telling us the nature of our existence.
Well thought out reponse. I definitely do not have scientific proof of lack of god but as it turns out for me, this is the way I need to go.
As for prayer, everyone I know prays for something to happen. I wasn't taught how to pray and I do find it interesting that there are people (no offense intended) who "know" how to pray. Who determines "the right way"?
But "why so I feel obliged to take care of myself?" Because life has taught me that if I do not, I can not rely on anyone else to take their precious time to do so. If I want to take care of others, I need to make sure I take care of myself first. Make sure I'm OK, before I can spend my time and effort taking care of others. Because if I don't, I might not be in good enough shape to. It's selfishness for altruistic purposes. I guess I don't get your point there.
But what difference does it make? I like to accomplish things that are greater than myself. Your point is sadly amusing about starvation because many parts of the world are in food shortage already. Destabilizing systems that we rely on to live is what scares me about Global Warming. Hmmm... GWB. Global Warming Bush. I like it.
So in all this doom and gloom, what do I do for fun? I grow trees that should be majestic far after I'm dead. As long as someone is there to make sure they are not cut down. Someone's got to try to reverse the human trend of use the land till it's gone.
Because I'm an atheist, I believe that no one will save me but myself. Whatever you do, you do because no mysterious figure will coddle you, you've got to do it on your own and if you don't take care of yourself and your surroundings, you can't count on anyone else to do it for you.
God doesn't take care of you, you do.
IF there is a god, he's got better things to do than to worry about my sorry ass. He's got kids to put through college a universe to run and a big mortgage. To me seems VERY self centered and enormously selfish to believe that out of EVERYTHING in the universe that would need tending, (if there is a god who tends to things) that a worthwhile god would listen to my whining about the piddly events in my life.
The future you make, you make yourself and with the people and environment you surround yourself with.
I'm glad to hear that in other parts of the world, people are seeing mass disruptions of weather - glad because enough voices need to rise up and economies become affected or no one will take action.
People need to see the potential first hand and then MAYBE, they'll do something about it.
I'm a computer programmer but a formally trained Marine Biology major. In that, I took a season of Oceanography. What is IMPORTANT for the layman to understand here is that we have these cycles that one must understand FIRST. Every 10 years or so, there is a drying pattern in California that leads to drought. There are 10, 20, 50 and 100 year overlapping cycles of temperature, moisture, etc... cycling that happen everywhere in the world. Some areas have droughts every 10 years, some every 20. And sometimes, areas that have 100 year cycles and 10 year cycles overlap to be particularly worse. These time-scales are so large that 1 or three bad years do not definitely mean "OMG! Global warming is here!" It is very important for people to know that, especially when it is June and and already 100 degrees every day in Texas. There are also years where there are more hurricanes and hurricanes of greater severity as well as years with less.
It would do everyone well to look up a book on Oceanography and read how the ocean affects climate. It's just one chapter. Hit your local library.
Now, with that understanding under your belt, animal populations in the aquatic world (read: schools of fish) are fed by the ocean conveyor belt bring nutrient depleted hot water down to the bottom and causing the nutrient rich cold water to flow up. This feeds the krill and shrimp and plankton and they are eaten by bigger fish and so on. If this conveyor is stopped, all fisheries dependent upon it in the world are screwed and we don't know what will happen but it's most likely not good.
Climate (hotness, moisture, rainfall) affects food growers the world over. If the climate patterns change, it will mostly be destabilizing to farmers and that is bad. Less food, rising prices.
Everything we are doing to influence climate change builds up momentum towards that change. It may be slow but once it is started, it is hard to slow down and reverse. 1 degree difference in the entire ocean is a huge difference. Also, unlike us, water temperature in many parts of the ocean is constant to a few degrees. If it changes faster then the critters can handle, they die.
Once you know the rules upon which the ocean works and how it creates climate, running fast and lose with stuff that might change it is hugely dangerous and irresponsible to take a chance on. More moist warm air in places it wasn't before means more tornados and hurricanes in places they haven't been before. More extreme weather in general. This means more insurance claims and that means higher insurance costs factored into the economy.
Most of the times in America, we wait for disasters to happen before we spend enormous amounts off money and time to fix them. I don't want to be a betting man with our affect on the entire climate of the Earth. Calving icebergs the entire size of Rhode Island is not something normal. If we want Florida, New Orleans, Manhattan, Holland or those small islands in the pacific to be around in 50 years and have enough food to eat, I would not expect it to be if we (the US) and China (the largest emerging polluting market)do not take radical steps to curb global warming pollutants. It's that simple.
Actually, yes. That's what the article says. Being able to detect phone lines, magnetized speakers, etc...
I think this is actually similar to the active detection of electrical fields that many fish can do. Sharks have these "Ampules of Lorenzini" that they use to zero in on their pre from a distance by detecting the electrical signature of muscle contractions in a prey animal.
Thank you. I spent way too many days in study hall fixing my English because my grammar was too poor.
What you may not get is that "you become like those who you surround yourself with" and you contribute to your environment as well. Either with your mistakes or your attention to detail.
Take my example for instance.
It is inexcusable for a legal department to produce professional documents with spelling and grammar mistakes, let alone misspellings in the name of the intended recipient and his email address. Are we professionals or chumps? You won't aspire to write sloppy or inaccurate code, yet you don't care how accurate the English in your conversations are? People don't care about the accuracy of their English but they are fanatical about their code. How about paying the same attention to detail in both?
I forgot one more example. Yesterday, I got a resume from a very talented friend who is a graphical designer. In one of his finished comps the word "Precision" was spelled "Precission". That's like spelling accuracy with a k. He didn't get the job.
And FYI, I reread this post twice. Hopefully, I didn't miss any of my mistakes:].
In my career, I started out programing in BASIC on the Apple II and Trash-80.
I found the transition to languages like PASCAL impossible because of the syntax difference.
As I liked to put it "I learned most of my bad habits in BASIC". The transition to OO programming was particularly difficult because of the path I took from BASIC.
Now, I do love an English-like verbose syntax because it just allows me to eyeball my code and just get it.
That's the way Big Copyright and their lackey's want it...
Lackey's?
Oh come on people. This is 5th grade grammar. The proper spelling is lackeys. There is no apostrophe on a non possessive plural.
If you can program, you should at least know how to spell.
As a point of reference, yesterday, I counted three spelling mistakes in an important email from our legal department to a business partner. 1) the email address was misspelled, 2) the person's name was misspelled and the plural of "technologies" was spelled as "technology's".
Simply put, when you are a professional and you screw up on a 5th grade level, you look like a fool.
Slashdot Mirror
Why we are not aggressively tracking down and prosecuting mass repeat spammers and phishers.
If we are, why are we not hearing about it?
I mean, spam and phishing is the blight of the internet. It is aggravating, costly and time consuming. I do not need a mortgage, cialis, a fake rolex, a "pleasure ring" or bogus stock tips. All this spam and phishing is fraud and through use of zombies of hijacked connections, theft or trespassing.
Should we write our congressmen? Become rich and hire the mob to find these people and break some knees?
??
Sometime last century, we were in QA on the Director Team at Macromedia. We'd all join up on our 486s and use the demo levels of Quake to de-stress by blowing the crap out of each other. This was back with keyboard only control too! On the release of Quake, about 6 or 7 of us came into the office on 600 Townsend St. in San Francisco. I downloaded the demo as soon as it was released and put it up on an internal server on our 10 base T network. We all went over to the SoundEdit team's desks and played the first 7 levels of Quake I cooperatively.
It was amazing.
After killing the lava boss in the seventh level, I leaned back in shock, horror, awe and exhaustion and we all looked at each other with our mouths agape. Shocked, I suddenly I bolted to the phone and we became the 400th people on Earth to have purchased Quake I.
Just awesome awesome awesome. American was in his level designing prime back then and we loved every minute of it.
Rocket jumps, poaching (sniping), the chaingun and quad damage. Rocket jumps with quad and the pent! Lightning gun in the water with the pentagram of protection. The pings as the nails bounced off the stone walls. The awesome horribly screaming gurgle in the demo when you fell into the lava.
The foom and clink of the 'nade launcher.
Running across the ceiling rocketing peasants (your buddies) down below.
The Squish and the floor that opened into the lava.
The pain (or joy) of the telefrag.
The brutal comic stylizing of the game and the speed you ran at.
Good times, good times.
DM2, DM3 and DM4 baybee!
Red Armor! Red Armor!
I hate to pull a "me too" but considering your post got marked as flamebait, I feel that you are 100% correct.
Good thing Hubble's got a lot of spare gyros too.
Oh, wait.
It's a travesty since scientific discoveries are one of the reasons how society advances.
HEH
"You're got professional and accurate and you've got shoddy."
Looks like I'm a prime example.
"You've got professional and accurate and you've got shoddy."
It figures, I'd catch that one after proofing it and sending.
Also I typed "your is not your" using the greater than and less than symbols. Slashdot seems to filter that out.
You're got professional and accurate and you've got shoddy.
Does your compiler check your code for you and alert you to errors?
If you can't communicate properly and grammar check your communications, why do you even check your code for accuracy?
It's a simple point of being correct and accurate or looking like a chump because you don't proof your own work.
To illustrate my point, you typed:
"Seriously if your just too damn stupid to figure it out maybe you should not be reading it."
Your you are. Basically, you told me that "just too damn stupid" belongs to me.
If you wish to insult me correctly, a proper version of your sentence is below.
"Seriously, if you're just too damn stupid to figure it out maybe you should not be reading it."
On the other hand, if you can not type it correctly, maybe you should not be writing it?
If professionals can't master the basics of 5th grade English it's just a poor reflection on themselves and how they come across to others. In a question and answer session with President Bush, a woman from a professional news organization submitting a question for GWB, asked him if he "conversated" regularly with the person in question. Yes, she looked like a chump on national TV. As did her organization for hiring a reporter who uses words that do not exist.
"Existing president Ron Hovsepian was names CEO"
Names?
Why don't the editors actually correct errors in these articles they post?
It just looks shoddy when articles are posted to inform and aren't even checked for basic grammar.
Um, what I meant to type was "Why not Slashdot?"
And on that note, I hope Editors can edit their articles to fix stuff like that.
Damn send button.
Grumble.
All editors who post articles should be required to simply run spell check on their posts.
All the major news sites do it. Why now Slashdot?
Morally superiority doesn't even enter in to it. It's not something that I have even considered. It doesn't apply.
But you define if you are "a dick" or an otherwise less than positive contribution to society. It is up to internal interpretation and as I was thinking about this conversation this morning, I do realize that I built this mainly for myself as a guidepost; as soon as I develop it to apply to others I'm sure I'll have to do a lot more introspection into what that means.
What's wrong with being a "dick?" Though that seems self explanatory to me, it is more of how you influence your environment and the people around you. Positively or negatively. It is partly defined by my concept of people like mass murderers, polluters, thugs, crack dealers. I consider them blights upon society and I believe that if you go so far as to become a blight upon society then you deserve to be removed from it. We can point to easy examples like Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Jeffery Dahmer.
To be cliche, are you part of the solution, or part of the problem? This is taken in context of "if you want to take care of others and help others, if you do not take care of yourself and your needs FIRST, you can not afford to take care of others." I submit the book called "The Giving Tree" as an example.
So back to "being a dick" comes with how you contribute to the lives of others and the environment in which we live. Being or not being one can easily be influenced by social pressures and cultural assumptions. But one must take it upon themselves to see past social pressures, yet since you live within your culture (your environment) it IS influenced by your culture.
An interesting example comes with to how certain cultures treat animals. In the US, it is fashionable to "save the harp seals" because they are cute and people see a lot of blood when they are killed. I bet if harp seals did not have their cute little faces we would not be AS emotional about the matter. In China and parts of Korea, cat and dog is eaten and by our standards, it is damn cruel. Many believe that to get the best flavor, you must beat the animal before killing it. Pretty rough to tolerate. Yet, we in the US see dogs and cats as friends and pets, things we care about. These people see nothing wrong with what they are doing because in their eyes, the animals more akin to a piece of broccoli than a friend or companion. Yet in America, we regularly eat slaughtered cattle while in India, these animals are more sacred than our precious pets. You indeed are correct that "being a dick" or "doing wrong" is based upon the rules of the society you come from.
It appears that you read into (or I misrepresented my beliefs) that I feel morality is universal. In my opinion, what is right or wrong is based upon the opinion of the observer of the action. Killing Harp seals brings in money for the Canadian families in an otherwise depressed region. These people feed their families on the money they make, as distasteful as we may think it to be, and they are doing good by supporting their family. As a child, I supported the "save the seals" campaigns. I did it because they looked sad and cute and killing cute things is bad (but mosquitos who bite me need to die.) As I learned a little more about the whole picture, I learned that right and wrong often depends upon the perspective of who is viewing the act. Am I for starving children? No. Am I for blotting baby seals on the head? No. The situation is a little more complex than it initially appears.
In your final point, you mention a "sober analysis of any true measure of morality". It interests me in where you get your definition of "true morality" and what determines the its trueness. Anyway, work calls.
Cheers,
Well written. But I do have a comment. What exactly is our spirit? How do you know you have one? If you can't define a spirit, or if I don't have one or if there is no god, then "eternal existence separated from God" doesn't matter.
Also, I became an atheist or an "if there is a god, he's got more important things to do than worry about me and i can't really tell if there is or isn't one but I certainly don't detect a god around" after growing up catholic/christian.
Why and how does "God take care of sparrows"? I have issues with people who have not yet invented internal plumbing telling us the nature of our existence.
Just my 2.5 cents
Cheers.
You don't need a god or bible to help on this one though I'd admit the commandments have set a bit of a starting tone.
After serious reflection, it comes down to this for me.
Be educated.
You know how to be a dick.
Try not to be the dick you know you can be.
Simple but opens a lot up to personal interpretation.
"I believe Mr. Gore as he claims to be Christian has a higher level of responsibility to be scientific."
Ya, I don't get that either. Maybe that means he cares more about this Earth. Dunno.
Well thought out reponse. I definitely do not have scientific proof of lack of god but as it turns out for me, this is the way I need to go.
As for prayer, everyone I know prays for something to happen. I wasn't taught how to pray and I do find it interesting that there are people (no offense intended) who "know" how to pray. Who determines "the right way"?
But "why so I feel obliged to take care of myself?" Because life has taught me that if I do not, I can not rely on anyone else to take their precious time to do so. If I want to take care of others, I need to make sure I take care of myself first. Make sure I'm OK, before I can spend my time and effort taking care of others. Because if I don't, I might not be in good enough shape to. It's selfishness for altruistic purposes. I guess I don't get your point there.
But what difference does it make? I like to accomplish things that are greater than myself. Your point is sadly amusing about starvation because many parts of the world are in food shortage already. Destabilizing systems that we rely on to live is what scares me about Global Warming. Hmmm... GWB. Global Warming Bush. I like it.
So in all this doom and gloom, what do I do for fun? I grow trees that should be majestic far after I'm dead. As long as someone is there to make sure they are not cut down. Someone's got to try to reverse the human trend of use the land till it's gone.
Cheers,
Nice.
Because I'm an atheist, I believe that no one will save me but myself. Whatever you do, you do because no mysterious figure will coddle you, you've got to do it on your own and if you don't take care of yourself and your surroundings, you can't count on anyone else to do it for you.
God doesn't take care of you, you do.
IF there is a god, he's got better things to do than to worry about my sorry ass. He's got kids to put through college a universe to run and a big mortgage. To me seems VERY self centered and enormously selfish to believe that out of EVERYTHING in the universe that would need tending, (if there is a god who tends to things) that a worthwhile god would listen to my whining about the piddly events in my life.
The future you make, you make yourself and with the people and environment you surround yourself with.
Cheers, and make your own future,
You may with to read my little reply in another thread.
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link:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188481&cid=15
I'm glad to hear that in other parts of the world, people are seeing mass disruptions of weather - glad because enough voices need to rise up and economies become affected or no one will take action.
People need to see the potential first hand and then MAYBE, they'll do something about it.
I'm a computer programmer but a formally trained Marine Biology major. In that, I took a season of Oceanography. What is IMPORTANT for the layman to understand here is that we have these cycles that one must understand FIRST. Every 10 years or so, there is a drying pattern in California that leads to drought. There are 10, 20, 50 and 100 year overlapping cycles of temperature, moisture, etc... cycling that happen everywhere in the world. Some areas have droughts every 10 years, some every 20. And sometimes, areas that have 100 year cycles and 10 year cycles overlap to be particularly worse. These time-scales are so large that 1 or three bad years do not definitely mean "OMG! Global warming is here!" It is very important for people to know that, especially when it is June and and already 100 degrees every day in Texas. There are also years where there are more hurricanes and hurricanes of greater severity as well as years with less.
It would do everyone well to look up a book on Oceanography and read how the ocean affects climate. It's just one chapter. Hit your local library.
Now, with that understanding under your belt, animal populations in the aquatic world (read: schools of fish) are fed by the ocean conveyor belt bring nutrient depleted hot water down to the bottom and causing the nutrient rich cold water to flow up. This feeds the krill and shrimp and plankton and they are eaten by bigger fish and so on. If this conveyor is stopped, all fisheries dependent upon it in the world are screwed and we don't know what will happen but it's most likely not good.
Climate (hotness, moisture, rainfall) affects food growers the world over. If the climate patterns change, it will mostly be destabilizing to farmers and that is bad. Less food, rising prices.
Everything we are doing to influence climate change builds up momentum towards that change. It may be slow but once it is started, it is hard to slow down and reverse. 1 degree difference in the entire ocean is a huge difference. Also, unlike us, water temperature in many parts of the ocean is constant to a few degrees. If it changes faster then the critters can handle, they die.
Once you know the rules upon which the ocean works and how it creates climate, running fast and lose with stuff that might change it is hugely dangerous and irresponsible to take a chance on. More moist warm air in places it wasn't before means more tornados and hurricanes in places they haven't been before. More extreme weather in general. This means more insurance claims and that means higher insurance costs factored into the economy.
Most of the times in America, we wait for disasters to happen before we spend enormous amounts off money and time to fix them. I don't want to be a betting man with our affect on the entire climate of the Earth. Calving icebergs the entire size of Rhode Island is not something normal. If we want Florida, New Orleans, Manhattan, Holland or those small islands in the pacific to be around in 50 years and have enough food to eat, I would not expect it to be if we (the US) and China (the largest emerging polluting market)do not take radical steps to curb global warming pollutants. It's that simple.
"The Other Floor"
??
Here's a smaller file at identical quality (1/3 the size, 6 vs 20 MB)
Could someone please torrent this?
http://69.3.167.6/~zav/Dvorak-3ivx-streaming.mov
Cheers. Please don't melt my server.
Actually, yes. That's what the article says. Being able to detect phone lines, magnetized speakers, etc...
I think this is actually similar to the active detection of electrical fields that many fish can do. Sharks have these "Ampules of Lorenzini" that they use to zero in on their pre from a distance by detecting the electrical signature of muscle contractions in a prey animal.
At one point, the technician said...
The tech asked for my phone, made a quick call and then did another test.
"45 megabits . . . I know you didn't order that. It'll adjust."
You can get more bandwidth - you just have to pay for it.
I don't believe in Dog. :]
Thank you. I spent way too many days in study hall fixing my English because my grammar was too poor.
:].
What you may not get is that "you become like those who you surround yourself with" and you contribute to your environment as well. Either with your mistakes or your attention to detail.
Take my example for instance.
It is inexcusable for a legal department to produce professional documents with spelling and grammar mistakes, let alone misspellings in the name of the intended recipient and his email address. Are we professionals or chumps? You won't aspire to write sloppy or inaccurate code, yet you don't care how accurate the English in your conversations are? People don't care about the accuracy of their English but they are fanatical about their code. How about paying the same attention to detail in both?
I forgot one more example. Yesterday, I got a resume from a very talented friend who is a graphical designer. In one of his finished comps the word "Precision" was spelled "Precission". That's like spelling accuracy with a k. He didn't get the job.
And FYI, I reread this post twice. Hopefully, I didn't miss any of my mistakes
Oh, god no.
It burns, it burns!
In my career, I started out programing in BASIC on the Apple II and Trash-80.
I found the transition to languages like PASCAL impossible because of the syntax difference.
As I liked to put it "I learned most of my bad habits in BASIC". The transition to OO programming was particularly difficult because of the path I took from BASIC.
Now, I do love an English-like verbose syntax because it just allows me to eyeball my code and just get it.
That's the way Big Copyright and their lackey's want it...
Lackey's?
Oh come on people. This is 5th grade grammar. The proper spelling is lackeys. There is no apostrophe on a non possessive plural.
If you can program, you should at least know how to spell.
As a point of reference, yesterday, I counted three spelling mistakes in an important email from our legal department to a business partner. 1) the email address was misspelled, 2) the person's name was misspelled and the plural of "technologies" was spelled as "technology's".
Simply put, when you are a professional and you screw up on a 5th grade level, you look like a fool.