Unfortunately you usually have to complain first. That means getting up and missing even more of the movie while you find someone who is willing to take care of it. I'd rather they were a bit more proactive.
Scratch that. I'd rather people were more polite in theatres.
Perhaps they can start working on ejecting people who talk during the movie. Other moviegoers inability to have respect for other people is the main reason I don't go to the movies any more. Or if I do, I try to do it on a weekday, late at night.
Our ability to think and reason was not the product of evolution, argues a new and credible scientific theory called intelligent design, but was deliberately chosen for us.
New and credible eh? Well crafted but a troll nonetheless.
There are many more points he made that I think MUST be addressed by the Bush administration. If they cannot dispute them, then in my opinion any person with one ounce of thought ability should never consider voting for him.
I think the Bush team has already disputed them on their website. They have said often that we shouldn't dwell on the past -- that's negative. We should look to the future -- that's positive(and convenient).
I agree. I look to the future of a new president taking the helm.
That's the only thing holding me back at this point. I must use SQL server and I think it's a rather good relational DB. But I cannot find a good replacement for Query analyzer. If I could, I'd never boot into win2k again.
What is the lesser of the 2 evils, Pushing some minor rights to the side or ensuring another 9/11 doesn't happen.
Typically when you are trying to determine the lesser of two evils, it's a good idea to have two evils to compare. Call me crazy but ensuring another 9/11 doesn't happen is not what I'd consider evil.
Curiously the democrats didn't make a big stink about it. Probably because it wouldn't have helped them win anyway. The thousands of people being pulled off the rolls, effectively having their right to vote stripped away at the last moment, the intimidation of black voters and the disappearing ballots from black districts were all reported independently.
The point is that you can't really say Bush won after all the votes were counted becasue not all of them were counted. Again this is not a "democratic charge" but rather something that was reported on in the press and then largely ignored.
If it weren't for voter fraud perpetrated by Jeb Bush and his minions Bush wouldn't have been installed by the Supreme Court.
E.g., there is no way in heck that an O(n * n) algorithm can beat an O(log(n)) algorithm for large data sets, and data sets _are_ getting larger. No matter how much loop unrolling you do, no matter how you cleverly replaced the loops to count downwards, it just won't. At best you'll manage to fool yourself that it runs fast enough on those 100 record test cases. Then it goes productive with a database with 350,000 records. (And that's a small one nowadays.) Poof, it needs two days to complete now.
And no hardware in the world will save you from that kind of a performance problem.
E.g., if most of the program's time is spent waiting for a database, there's no point in unrolling loops and such. You'll save... what? 100 CPU cycles, when you wait 100,000,000 cycles or more for a single SQL query? On the other hand, you'd be surprised how much of a difference can it make if you retrieve the data in a single SQL query, instead of causing a flurry of 1000 individual connect-query-close sequences.
(And you'd also be surprised how many clueless monkeys design their architecture without ever thinking of the database. They end up with a beautiful class architecture on paper, but a catastrophic flurry of querries when they actually have to read and write it.)
E.g., if you're using EJB, it's a pointless exercise to optimize 100 CPU cycles away, when the RMI/IIOP remote call's overhead is at least somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 CPU cycles by itself. That is, assuming that you don't also have network latency adding to that RPC time. On the other hand, optimizing the very design of your application, so it only uses 1 or 2 RPC calls, instead of a flurry of 1000 remote calls to individual getters and setters... well, that might just make or break the performance.
(And again, you'd be surprised how many people don't even know that those overheads exist. Much less actually design with them in mind.)
Not much surprises me these days. I had to rewrite a SQL trigger one time and I was very concerned about optimization because that sucker would get called all the time. I was shocked to discover that in this one particular instance a cusor solution was more efficient than utilizing a set processing methodology. I was so suprised that I wrote up a very nice paper about it for a presentation to my department, along with standard O notation and graphs.
No one knew what O notation was.
Not long after that I found out about knoppix. I burned a few disks and gave them out. Only one other person knew what linux was. It wasn't my manager.
Just last week one of our servers had a problem with IIS. "What's IIS?", My manager asks.
Here are some other gems
"We can't put indexes on our tables! It will screw up the data!"
"I've seen no evidence that shows set processing is faster than iterative processing" -- this one from our "Guru".
"What is a zip file and what am I supposed to do with it?" -- from one our our senior systems programmers in charge of citrix servers.
"What do you mean by register the dll?" -- from the same sysprog as above
They pushed a patch out for the sasser worm and about 2% of the machines got the BSOD. I finally decided to give the fix a try on my machine and it died too. I booted into safe mode and rolled it back. Everyone else had to get their machines reimaged because desktop support couldn't figure out what was wrong. Lucky for my neightbor I was able to recover most of his data before they wiped it clean. He made the mistake of letting his machine loop through reboots for two days, which hosed his HD up. Of course the PC "experts" couldn't recover any data because the machine wouldn't boot up.
Yes, I am in programmer purgatory. I am reluctant to say hell because I'm sure it can get worse.
No, I'm not kidding.
Atheism simply means without belief in god. Agnosticism is a belief that knowledge of god is inherently unattainable. Everyone is either a theist or an atheist. You either have a belief in god or gods or you don't. Knowledge does not equal belief. If you are an agnostic then you are either an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist.
People commonly like to think that atheism only means an active disbelief in god, the insistence that there cannot be one. People who insist on such usage typically have a bias against the word atheism and wish to position themselves on some sort of mythical middle ground that only exists by misusing the words atheism and agnosticism.
So feel free to take what I've said as you will. I can assure you, though, that the translation "it is finished" is at least as valid as "the debt is paid" if not a more accepted translation of what Jesus says.
By the way, all this comes by means of analysis from myself, a second year Greek student at the University of Illinois, so you could probably ask most people who know Greek and they could confirm what I have written here.
Words change their meaning over time. Sometimes quickly sometimes globally and especially locally. Ask a Brit what a fag is and he will tell you something completely different than an American. Only 40 years ago gay only meant happy, yet today its usage overwhelmingly means homosexual. Your understanding of ancient Greek cannot be trusted to be accurate. I don't think anyone's can, especially not for the hairs you are splitting. To deny this obvious truth would be to embrace intellectual dishonesty.
I find it disturbing that so many humans are infected with this incredible hubris that leads them to believe there's a being that knows everything down to the spin and location of every sub atomic particle but is intimately concerned with these relatively microscopic humans on this sand grain of a planet. You elevate your status unduly.
To be fair, the UN wasn't doing their job with Iraq. The US didn't ignore them, they just couldn't wait any longer. Somehow I doubt that'll take place here, especially if the US's interests are being served.
The US has done everything it can to make the UN completely ineffective. To use their ineffectiveness as a rationalization for a war that was already decided before the 2000 election is a bit like beating your wife and then rationalizing your visit to a hooker because your wife has ugly bruises on her face. Knowing the whole time you were going to see the hooker anyway.
Bush has abused his position. He should be impeached, tried and removed. Preferably in chains.
It's ironic that one of the most un-American people in the country is the leader of it.
Where is it stated that every initiative of the president has to be mentioned in the SOTU? How is not mentioning this in the SOTU proof of anything?
I'm not the brightest guy in the world but I would think that any program that is more important than getting atheletes off steroids would have been mentioned.
This president really should be impeached but not because of this, because he misled the US and the world. He came into office with every intention of invading Iraq. That is simply criminal. Much more so than lying about a blowjob, secretly selling drugs and arms for hostages or even covering up a break in. He should be impeached, convicted and removed in chains.
I've been seriously considering getting rid of my phone. I've already gotten rid of my landline and only use cell service. I have found that I tend to leave that phone turned off more often than I leave it on.
I'm not terribly interested in being instantly available to people. Phone service becomes less and less appealing to me every day.
I just sign up for the cards with a bogus name and address. Since they hand out the card when you fill out the app, problem solved.
"Thanks for shopping at Safeway Mr. Eno."
"Huh? oh yeah, sure thing"
No, it's cell phones and poor management. I worked at a telco that gave us free long distance at work. Calling long distance was not a problem for you unless you let it affect your duties. If you could perform and still use the free LD(without going apeshit of course) then no one bothered you. If your performance started slipping for whatever reason, your manager and your lead would try to find the reason and solve the problem. If the problem was your inability to be disciplined enough to not abuse a company benefit and get your work done on time then you were on your way out.
Obviously management at the company mentioned can't be trusted to actually manage their people so one more responsibility has been taken away from them. Soon they won't have to make any decisions at all.
I've been trying to find open plans for things like sheds and playground sets. It's bad enough that companies charge so much for swing set and slide hardware but 50 bucks for the plans? That's highway robbery.
Anyway, it would be nice to be able to do a google search for plans of any kind and not have hundreds of sites returned that want to sell you crappy plans.
What I'd love to see is a bootable distro with an MP3 player which you can configure and control via http. I think this would be a killer app for a bootable linux CD. I've wanted something like this for a while to breath new life into an old k62/350. It's not that fast but it should be fast enough to just play mp3's from my file server. Since I don't have the time I haven't really been able to work on it. But if I had a bootable CD ready to go it would probably take me all of 30 minutes to set up.
Then I could burn copies for my MS coworkers who all have similar situations and turn them on to linux.
But I would only be giving them more photons. Besides if I did like the other poster mentioned and used infrared only, it wouldn't even be noticeable except to the person monitoring the video feed.
I remember reading a while aback that you can temporarily blind CCD cameras by shining a laser pointer into the lens. Apparently you can do this from quite a distance. What we need now are glasses with tiny lasers embedded in them that identify and disable cameras that may be pointed at you.
I wonder how long it would be before the legality of thwarting observation by wearing such devices would be decided by the supreme court.
But wait until the networks realize it's incredibly cheaper to pay for an Indian with a newly localized accent to do the same thing. You can bet the Indian guy won't have a problem with any of those pesky ethics.
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Unfortunately you usually have to complain first. That means getting up and missing even more of the movie while you find someone who is willing to take care of it. I'd rather they were a bit more proactive. Scratch that. I'd rather people were more polite in theatres.
Perhaps they can start working on ejecting people who talk during the movie. Other moviegoers inability to have respect for other people is the main reason I don't go to the movies any more. Or if I do, I try to do it on a weekday, late at night.
New and credible eh? Well crafted but a troll nonetheless.
I agree. I look to the future of a new president taking the helm.
That's the only thing holding me back at this point. I must use SQL server and I think it's a rather good relational DB. But I cannot find a good replacement for Query analyzer. If I could, I'd never boot into win2k again.
Curiously the democrats didn't make a big stink about it. Probably because it wouldn't have helped them win anyway. The thousands of people being pulled off the rolls, effectively having their right to vote stripped away at the last moment, the intimidation of black voters and the disappearing ballots from black districts were all reported independently.
The point is that you can't really say Bush won after all the votes were counted becasue not all of them were counted. Again this is not a "democratic charge" but rather something that was reported on in the press and then largely ignored.
If it weren't for voter fraud perpetrated by Jeb Bush and his minions Bush wouldn't have been installed by the Supreme Court.
Thousands of people in Florida were denied their right to vote. Also thousands of ballots from black districts went missing.
How exactly were those votes counted?
OK then, that Klingon barge on the way to hell.
No one knew what O notation was.
Not long after that I found out about knoppix. I burned a few disks and gave them out. Only one other person knew what linux was. It wasn't my manager.
Just last week one of our servers had a problem with IIS. "What's IIS?", My manager asks.
Here are some other gems
"We can't put indexes on our tables! It will screw up the data!"
"I've seen no evidence that shows set processing is faster than iterative processing" -- this one from our "Guru".
"What is a zip file and what am I supposed to do with it?" -- from one our our senior systems programmers in charge of citrix servers.
"What do you mean by register the dll?" -- from the same sysprog as above
They pushed a patch out for the sasser worm and about 2% of the machines got the BSOD. I finally decided to give the fix a try on my machine and it died too. I booted into safe mode and rolled it back. Everyone else had to get their machines reimaged because desktop support couldn't figure out what was wrong. Lucky for my neightbor I was able to recover most of his data before they wiped it clean. He made the mistake of letting his machine loop through reboots for two days, which hosed his HD up. Of course the PC "experts" couldn't recover any data because the machine wouldn't boot up.
Yes, I am in programmer purgatory. I am reluctant to say hell because I'm sure it can get worse. No, I'm not kidding.
Atheism simply means without belief in god. Agnosticism is a belief that knowledge of god is inherently unattainable. Everyone is either a theist or an atheist. You either have a belief in god or gods or you don't. Knowledge does not equal belief. If you are an agnostic then you are either an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist.
People commonly like to think that atheism only means an active disbelief in god, the insistence that there cannot be one. People who insist on such usage typically have a bias against the word atheism and wish to position themselves on some sort of mythical middle ground that only exists by misusing the words atheism and agnosticism.
see http://about.atheism.com
So feel free to take what I've said as you will. I can assure you, though, that the translation "it is finished" is at least as valid as "the debt is paid" if not a more accepted translation of what Jesus says.
By the way, all this comes by means of analysis from myself, a second year Greek student at the University of Illinois, so you could probably ask most people who know Greek and they could confirm what I have written here.
Words change their meaning over time. Sometimes quickly sometimes globally and especially locally. Ask a Brit what a fag is and he will tell you something completely different than an American. Only 40 years ago gay only meant happy, yet today its usage overwhelmingly means homosexual. Your understanding of ancient Greek cannot be trusted to be accurate. I don't think anyone's can, especially not for the hairs you are splitting. To deny this obvious truth would be to embrace intellectual dishonesty.
I find it disturbing that so many humans are infected with this incredible hubris that leads them to believe there's a being that knows everything down to the spin and location of every sub atomic particle but is intimately concerned with these relatively microscopic humans on this sand grain of a planet. You elevate your status unduly.
Have some perspective.
To be fair, the UN wasn't doing their job with Iraq. The US didn't ignore them, they just couldn't wait any longer. Somehow I doubt that'll take place here, especially if the US's interests are being served.
The US has done everything it can to make the UN completely ineffective. To use their ineffectiveness as a rationalization for a war that was already decided before the 2000 election is a bit like beating your wife and then rationalizing your visit to a hooker because your wife has ugly bruises on her face. Knowing the whole time you were going to see the hooker anyway.
Bush has abused his position. He should be impeached, tried and removed. Preferably in chains.
It's ironic that one of the most un-American people in the country is the leader of it.
That's right I said it.
Where is it stated that every initiative of the president has to be mentioned in the SOTU? How is not mentioning this in the SOTU proof of anything?
I'm not the brightest guy in the world but I would think that any program that is more important than getting atheletes off steroids would have been mentioned.
This president really should be impeached but not because of this, because he misled the US and the world. He came into office with every intention of invading Iraq. That is simply criminal. Much more so than lying about a blowjob, secretly selling drugs and arms for hostages or even covering up a break in. He should be impeached, convicted and removed in chains.
I've been seriously considering getting rid of my phone. I've already gotten rid of my landline and only use cell service. I have found that I tend to leave that phone turned off more often than I leave it on.
I'm not terribly interested in being instantly available to people. Phone service becomes less and less appealing to me every day.
I just sign up for the cards with a bogus name and address. Since they hand out the card when you fill out the app, problem solved. "Thanks for shopping at Safeway Mr. Eno." "Huh? oh yeah, sure thing"
No, it's cell phones and poor management. I worked at a telco that gave us free long distance at work. Calling long distance was not a problem for you unless you let it affect your duties. If you could perform and still use the free LD(without going apeshit of course) then no one bothered you. If your performance started slipping for whatever reason, your manager and your lead would try to find the reason and solve the problem. If the problem was your inability to be disciplined enough to not abuse a company benefit and get your work done on time then you were on your way out.
Obviously management at the company mentioned can't be trusted to actually manage their people so one more responsibility has been taken away from them. Soon they won't have to make any decisions at all.
I've been trying to find open plans for things like sheds and playground sets. It's bad enough that companies charge so much for swing set and slide hardware but 50 bucks for the plans? That's highway robbery.
Anyway, it would be nice to be able to do a google search for plans of any kind and not have hundreds of sites returned that want to sell you crappy plans.
Can't you customize the keyboard shortcuts to make them anything you wish?
What I'd love to see is a bootable distro with an MP3 player which you can configure and control via http. I think this would be a killer app for a bootable linux CD. I've wanted something like this for a while to breath new life into an old k62/350. It's not that fast but it should be fast enough to just play mp3's from my file server. Since I don't have the time I haven't really been able to work on it. But if I had a bootable CD ready to go it would probably take me all of 30 minutes to set up.
Then I could burn copies for my MS coworkers who all have similar situations and turn them on to linux.
Probably because like most executives his answers were very long winded and only barely touched on the question at hand.
But I would only be giving them more photons. Besides if I did like the other poster mentioned and used infrared only, it wouldn't even be noticeable except to the person monitoring the video feed.
I remember reading a while aback that you can temporarily blind CCD cameras by shining a laser pointer into the lens. Apparently you can do this from quite a distance. What we need now are glasses with tiny lasers embedded in them that identify and disable cameras that may be pointed at you.
I wonder how long it would be before the legality of thwarting observation by wearing such devices would be decided by the supreme court.
That phrase alone deserves a +10
But wait until the networks realize it's incredibly cheaper to pay for an Indian with a newly localized accent to do the same thing. You can bet the Indian guy won't have a problem with any of those pesky ethics.