I submitted the Norm and Star Trek arguments to Bounty Quest a long time ago.
In Cheers, Norm orders a beer with one comment and receives it. All additional details of the transactions are handled using information already stored by the bar, similar to the amazon one-click experience. For example, see the exchange below.
What's going on Mr. Peterson? Norm: The question is what's going in Mr. Peterson. A beer please, Woody.
Norm has completed the entire shopping experience in one click of the tongue.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly didn't see fit to split the bounty with me but I'll be OK. I just hope this doesn't reduce my future 15 minutes of fame.
To be frank, I just don't believe you. There is no evidence to show that people did not whistle while they worked or sang or banged on things during that time. It may not have had a written language to go with it and it may not have been very organized but to say that everyday folk did not have music is downright ludicrous.
Being a lunar calendar I think they used them so they would know when to hide from the werewolves. Either that or to predict the full moon so they would know the best nights for outdoor toga parties.
Honestly, does every artifact have to be religious? You'd think the ancients never did anything secular.
Today's computer are so complex that code re-use is only the only natural way to progress. Any time you don't start coding in raw machine language you are re-using code.
Developers learn first to code at a high-level. As they progress they learn the limitations of coding at a high-level and occasionally drop down to the lower levels. (One advantage of open-source programming is the ability to do that.)
The low-level programming is there to enable the high-level programming and works best when it can be mostly forgotten. We need programmers who can understand programming at all the different levels and that can select the proper level for the job.
Make sure you get rid of cars too. I've driven past fatal collisions on the way to work. Our kids shouldn't have to be in that kind of danger. They should stay home where it is safe.
I expected an action movie featuring snakes. I expected it to take place on a plane. I didn't expect moronic scenes like snakes attacking boobs and penises or physically impossible scenes like a snake striking and being able to pierce through the eye into the head. I also didn't expect people to die every time they fell down, even if no snakes were present.
Sorry but I don't consider this movie to have had any snakes in it. While I know they had some real snakes involved in the filming, the computer generated ones were totally ridiculous.
I bought tickets to this stinker but I walked out halfway through. I don't know why they thought this would be good entertainment.
I'm not one for gross horror anyhow but this one could have been renamed "Tripping and Falling and Impaling On a Plane" or "The Attack of the Mutant Snakes on a Plane".
The reason it didn't do so well? It was a very stupid movie lacking any entertainment value whatsoever.
RIAA would love it if we would quit talking about it. I believe this is an attempt to run under the radar. Probably by selecting cities where the population is most likely to agree with them.
They would like to change public opinion and the nationwide attack strategy isn't working for them.
Personally I think that public opinion is generally anti-RIAA and no amount of attacking will change that. They're lucky we buy any of their recordings at all. If I had an option to choose artists who went with RIAA vs artists who went with Association X, I would probably pick Association X.
Two jobs does not automatically lead to retiring early unless it also means you don't have time to spend the money you make. In reality most people are very resourceful when it comes to finding time to spend money.
The key to retiring early is saving/investing money. Learn to live on 80% of your salary if possible. If you have 2 jobs specifically for the purpose of retiring early, can you save the entire salary from the 2nd job?
I agree. No one wants to pay full price for they crap they come out with these days.
I was looking at the upcoming movies and they appear to be a fair mix between drivel and crap. I thought maybe X-Men would be decent but I read further and discovered they replaced the director and large parts of the staff so I lost much of my optimism (I guess I'll still see it though)
No more laughing. I expect the proper somber attitude from now on.
Seriously, there are all kinds of horrors all around. If you wait until everything is fixed before anyone gets to laugh you certainly won't be laughing in this lifetime.
UNICEF puts the number of child deaths blamed on the 1990s embargo of Iraq by the US under crowd-favorite Bill Clinton at 500,000. Those deaths are said to have come from malnutrition and disease.
But I am sure that starving or dying of disease is much more comfortable than dying from a bullet or terrorist bomb.
Start putting money into investments that can support you wholly or partially without having to wait for retirement.
Suppose you reach a level where your investments are paying an amount equal to 25% of your current salary. You could then get a more exciting job that pays a bit less and still maintain the same level of earnings.
If you actually reached the level where your investment earnings were supplying all of your needs you could basically do whatever you want, in theory.
I also find that I do better at a job that I have a passion for, rather than one that I find boring and unchallenging so you might look for something like that. It could turn out to be more lucrative in the long run to take a job that pays a bit less and run with it, turning it into something that pays much more.
I definitely believe life is too short to spend it in a job you don't like but I also feel that you need to make sure you take care of your commitments such as your family.
Finding a balance and learn to avoid the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" syndrome.
I often avoid posting on this subject because the pseudo-scientific crowd are many times more rabid than the Creationists, at least on Slashdot. Both sides refuse to accept anything that might challenge their interpretation of the universe.
Let people put their own sprinkles on their cupcakes. This allows for people to change their minds when they see other people with sprinkles and they start feeling jealous
A good idea to patent genes. Let's think of what other things that already exist can be patented. Has anyone patented breasts yet? Cause I think they're the next big thing.
All things being equal I would pick the IIS guy for the IIS uses and the Apache guy for the Apache uses, but I would have no problem hiring a guy who spent 5 years rooting around in the IIS metabase to work on Apache. He obviously is familiar with web servers, web concepts, and configuration. In the long run he will do a better job than an under-experienced Apache admin.
Knowing concepts allows the administrator to function well beyond his knowledge level. Anyone can learn or get a list of "if X happens then do Y", which usually works out to "X happened, reboot again". If they actually learn the concepts and can figure out the reason behind it then they can say "X happened. We can do this and X will not happen again."
Not to mention that people above the age of 24 have better things to do than download music. Like work, take care of the house, put food on the table for the kids (who happen to be between 12 and 24).
You want to stop nearly all "illegal" music downloading? Put all those kids to work. A nice factory job will keep them too tired to download music or join a (bad) gang.
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1. Download a list of all patents.
2. Append "on a computer" to each of them
3. Resubmit to the USPTO
4. PROFIT!
I submitted the Norm and Star Trek arguments to Bounty Quest a long time ago.
In Cheers, Norm orders a beer with one comment and receives it. All additional details of the transactions are handled using information already stored by the bar, similar to the amazon one-click experience. For example, see the exchange below.
What's going on Mr. Peterson?
Norm: The question is what's going in Mr. Peterson. A beer please, Woody.
Norm has completed the entire shopping experience in one click of the tongue.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly didn't see fit to split the bounty with me but I'll be OK. I just hope this doesn't reduce my future 15 minutes of fame.
To be frank, I just don't believe you. There is no evidence to show that people did not whistle while they worked or sang or banged on things during that time. It may not have had a written language to go with it and it may not have been very organized but to say that everyday folk did not have music is downright ludicrous.
He is a movie character. It is well documented that movie computers lose all their information when their monitors are destroyed.
Being a lunar calendar I think they used them so they would know when to hide from the werewolves. Either that or to predict the full moon so they would know the best nights for outdoor toga parties.
Honestly, does every artifact have to be religious? You'd think the ancients never did anything secular.
Of course. Just ask anyone who is over 6000 years old. Or read the written history that is over 6000 years old.
Oops. I forgot. There isn't any.
Today's computer are so complex that code re-use is only the only natural way to progress.
Any time you don't start coding in raw machine language you are re-using code.
Developers learn first to code at a high-level. As they progress they learn the limitations of coding at a high-level and occasionally drop down to the lower levels. (One advantage of open-source programming is the ability to do that.)
The low-level programming is there to enable the high-level programming and works best when it can be mostly forgotten. We need programmers who can understand programming at all the different levels and that can select the proper level for the job.
Make sure you get rid of cars too. I've driven past fatal collisions on the way to work. Our kids shouldn't have to be in that kind of danger. They should stay home where it is safe.
I expected an action movie featuring snakes. I expected it to take place on a plane. I didn't expect moronic scenes like snakes attacking boobs and penises or physically impossible scenes like a snake striking and being able to pierce through the eye into the head. I also didn't expect people to die every time they fell down, even if no snakes were present.
Sorry but I don't consider this movie to have had any snakes in it. While I know they had some real snakes involved in the filming, the computer generated ones were totally ridiculous.
I bought tickets to this stinker but I walked out halfway through. I don't know why they thought this would be good entertainment.
I'm not one for gross horror anyhow but this one could have been renamed "Tripping and Falling and Impaling On a Plane" or "The Attack of the Mutant Snakes on a Plane".
The reason it didn't do so well? It was a very stupid movie lacking any entertainment value whatsoever.
RIAA would love it if we would quit talking about it. I believe this is an attempt to run under the radar. Probably by selecting cities where the population is most likely to agree with them.
They would like to change public opinion and the nationwide attack strategy isn't working for them.
Personally I think that public opinion is generally anti-RIAA and no amount of attacking will change that. They're lucky we buy any of their recordings at all. If I had an option to choose artists who went with RIAA vs artists who went with Association X, I would probably pick Association X.
Two jobs does not automatically lead to retiring early unless it also means you don't have time to spend the money you make. In reality most people are very resourceful when it comes to finding time to spend money.
The key to retiring early is saving/investing money. Learn to live on 80% of your salary if possible. If you have 2 jobs specifically for the purpose of retiring early, can you save the entire salary from the 2nd job?
I agree. No one wants to pay full price for they crap they come out with these days.
I was looking at the upcoming movies and they appear to be a fair mix between drivel and crap. I thought maybe X-Men would be decent but I read further and discovered they replaced the director and large parts of the staff so I lost much of my optimism (I guess I'll still see it though)
Thanks for the article. It looks like helpful information.
No more laughing. I expect the proper somber attitude from now on.
Seriously, there are all kinds of horrors all around. If you wait until everything is fixed before anyone gets to laugh you certainly won't be laughing in this lifetime.
UNICEF puts the number of child deaths blamed on the 1990s embargo of Iraq by the US under crowd-favorite Bill Clinton at 500,000. Those deaths are said to have come from malnutrition and disease.
But I am sure that starving or dying of disease is much more comfortable than dying from a bullet or terrorist bomb.
Start putting money into investments that can support you wholly or partially without having to wait for retirement.
Suppose you reach a level where your investments are paying an amount equal to 25% of your current salary. You could then get a more exciting job that pays a bit less and still maintain the same level of earnings.
If you actually reached the level where your investment earnings were supplying all of your needs you could basically do whatever you want, in theory.
I also find that I do better at a job that I have a passion for, rather than one that I find boring and unchallenging so you might look for something like that. It could turn out to be more lucrative in the long run to take a job that pays a bit less and run with it, turning it into something that pays much more.
I definitely believe life is too short to spend it in a job you don't like but I also feel that you need to make sure you take care of your commitments such as your family.
Finding a balance and learn to avoid the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" syndrome.
I often avoid posting on this subject because the pseudo-scientific crowd are many times more rabid than the Creationists, at least on Slashdot. Both sides refuse to accept anything that might challenge their interpretation of the universe.
His job is to be your lobbyist. Not all of them realize that.
It took me less time to write my sudoku-solver program than to complete one of those things manually.
Let people put their own sprinkles on their cupcakes. This allows for people to change their minds when they see other people with sprinkles and they start feeling jealous
A good idea to patent genes. Let's think of what other things that already exist can be patented. Has anyone patented breasts yet? Cause I think they're the next big thing.
All things being equal I would pick the IIS guy for the IIS uses and the Apache guy for the Apache uses, but I would have no problem hiring a guy who spent 5 years rooting around in the IIS metabase to work on Apache. He obviously is familiar with web servers, web concepts, and configuration. In the long run he will do a better job than an under-experienced Apache admin.
Knowing concepts allows the administrator to function well beyond his knowledge level. Anyone can learn or get a list of "if X happens then do Y", which usually works out to "X happened, reboot again". If they actually learn the concepts and can figure out the reason behind it then they can say "X happened. We can do this and X will not happen again."
Not to mention that people above the age of 24 have better things to do than download music. Like work, take care of the house, put food on the table for the kids (who happen to be between 12 and 24).
You want to stop nearly all "illegal" music downloading? Put all those kids to work. A nice factory job will keep them too tired to download music or join a (bad) gang.