In Holland there was a nice program where people could get their house robbed by a formerly professional thief (convicted, sentenced, done his time). It looked fairly realistically done (he didn't loiter, he rushed through the house). Children's bedrooms and kitchens are prime targets, precisely because of your reasoning.
If you want to store something securely, do an off-site backup.
If it's enterprise stuff, and the timeline is not horrible 'optimistic', I suggest you really get to know and love JUnit. Test-driven development pretty much cannot be beat for serious development work.
First make the test, and determine what the heck you want to see. Make stub methods where needed, but only do actual coding once the test case is complete. Afterwards, you can automate functional testing completely, ensuring that you can prove your stuff still works. And in the event of failure, your tests will show precisely where failure occurred.
Agreed. Eclipse is very flexible in terms of "what's your source directory, where are the libraries and where do I put my binaries?" and so on. Before you figure out how to modify those, it can be frustrating to work in an existing project structure. But any 'hot Eclipse guy should know how to do these things.
I switched to Eclipse a while back (Netbeans 5.0 or 5.5-ish) for, mainly, speed. Netbeans was slow as all fuck, whereas Eclipse, when you click on something, actually *does something*. Also, the user interface of Eclipse appealed to me a lot more. I have no desire to switch to Netbeans. Have *you* ever used Eclipse?
A few months ago I switched to a Macbook. When writing (for) server applications to be run on a unix environment, it helps to run a unix variant for local testing. Native terminals also help a lot. Linux is not an option because I have no desire to have to tinker with the OS to actually get it to work, on a machine I use for actual work.
Eddings tells a good story, it must be said. Then he files off the serial numbers and tells the story again, this time set X years earlier/later.
I've never read Moorecock. ("Moorecock than what?" you say. Ba-dum-ching)
On that first page I see a reference to Hinduism (yes, reincarnation is repetitive), I see one review for the third book only, and some reviews of Crossroads of Twilight (which sucked ass). I do not feel the immense repetition of story that you seem to feel. That is not to say there isn't a lot of repetition in things like the description of dresses, arms folded under breasts, braids tugged and women sniffing, of course, but that's part of the style.
Point the first: The books start with the main characters being hunted. Of course there's going to be fights, and they're going to be flight. I'm sure you'd rather characters stayed in one place, not doing anything, such as Tolkien?
Point the second: Tolkien was just a piss-poor story teller by today's standards. Horrid pacing, an aborted love interest that went nowhere (Why the fuck would you go for some soppy elf bint when you could have Eowyn, Aragorn?), and trying to get way *too* much backstory in the books. Awesome backstory, sure, set in an imaginative and intelligent world of wonder. But poorly told.
Point the third: I do not recall the bits about main characters passing out and missing the end of the book, though I may be good for another re-read. I recall some hugely climactic endings.
Point the fourth: The 'huge master plan' was originally six books. He sucked at keeping things short, mainly when he became succesful enough that publisher-appointed editors became an option instead of a requirement. He wanted to *avoid* 13 books, and he'd said so before he was diagnosed with his illness.
He wrote fantasy of a clean variety (there is nastiness, but it's only done by capital-E Evil persons), in a complex and detailed world. His work is fully epic fantasy, and one of the best (as yet) uncompleted series out there.
And we should both learn to not state our opinions as facts.
That idea, "I want to try and become like them", is still firmly an American idea. The vinegar-pissers would be more at home in a country with socialist influences, like my Netherlands. Much as I tend to like it here, the attitude that people who made it big somehow should don't deserve it is not conducive to entrepeneurialism (not sure that's a word, but you know what I mean). In fact, it's leading to an emigration wave of even mildly financially successful people.
I also find myself occasionally thinking "It's not fair", but I have a functioning brain, so I get over it. Probably not the best investment they can make, and it's showy, but hey, it's their money and they worked for it.
The US is not at war. Stop spreading that lie. It is engaged in military activity, but not at war with anyone.
Granted, though, people who fly planes in the wrong places have bad things happen to them. I do believe that those events are significantly logged, and someone would make the connection to a missing airman in their neck of the woods. If it was legitimate, it is regrettable and no more.
Anyone know of an easy way to turn the background color of the page to black? The images aren't too bright, and a bright white background doesn't help.
For the crater thing, you'd be wrong: The data is old, yes, but not out-of-date.
For the Steve Fossett (as distinct from other craters) thing: They provide data from after Steve's disappearance, specifically for the reason you cite. Being able to compare old vs new is handy there.
The lawyers were retained by Iowa state government. That means that if they incurred $8 million in costs and lost, Iowa would have had to pay them. At least, that's how it happens in my own la-la-fairy land, where people get paid to perform a service to the best of their ability, even if the end-result does not correlate to my desired outcome. I suppose it's possible the laywer said "You know, I'll do this, but if we get a settlement I want 25%", but it does reek a little.
I did not watch Sicko, no. Michael Moore blatantly lies to his viewing audience. Most movie makers are clear about this, but Moore pretends he makes documentaries. I have no desire to see someone lie to me in the assumption that I'll believe him.
As for running out of space, your nation has an incredibly low population density. That means that a good road network is a requirement. But it does not need 'big government' as the grandparent said; state or even local government can handle this. Public transport is somewhat different, since you'll be running a service that is only useful if all the connecting bits (across local government areas of influence) are managed together.
Trains are a nice idea for long-range transport. For small commuter trips they're essentially useless: They take significantly longer, you have to deal with the people, you pay per trip, there's a good chance of delays and you have to connect to last-mile transportation. At least, that's the way it is now in Holland. Trains would seem ideal for non-haste cross country or cross state trips in the US.
Libertarians, especially big-L Libertarians, are often deluded about that. There are things that must be handled by government, on a larger level. Healthcare is one. Public transport is another, unless you want it to go to shit, as in some European countries.
Certainly in the Netherlands, socialism hasn't reigned alone in a long time. In a multi-party system (as opposed to the US de facto two-party system) with a decently split electorate, there is always either a more moderate party, or a party from the different side of the political spectrum, with whom power is shared in a coalition. It's an influence, nothing more.
The Socialist Party in Holland is currently headed by a man who, apparently, at one time considered Mao Zedong, responsible for tens of millions of deaths, a good political role model for himself.
Granted, essential services (healthcare, military and police, public transport and the power grid) should (have) remain(ed) under government control.
Very often, especially for a smaller company, the goal of getting a patent isn't holding up larger companies for large wads of dough. It's a protective measure.
Another company, the aggressor, walks up and says "Hey, we own the patent to that technology!". Hero says "So? So do we!". Rather than slugging it out, where aggressor might well lose the patent (since they're just being litigious and Hero is actually making products), they might as well go after someone else who *didn't* patent it.
It's fucking stupid, but that's your patent system for you:-)
I dunno, I tried EVE and kinda liked it. It seems a lot more mature than most other MMORPGs, in the sense of less-cartoony. It is, of course, also a massive time-sink, as with all MMO games, and so I didn't partake of a subscription.
I think blind people should be banned from stores. They never look at the displays, and are obviously stealing from the store. Blind people are THIEVES!
3. Normal copyright lawyers don't sue, they send cease and desist letters. And then they sue if they cannot get a cease and desist agreement, or if the defendant is a bad actor, [...]
Well hot damn, check this out!
(ba-dum-CHING. Sorry, had to state the obvious)
I'm going to assume, henceforth, that a bad actor is someone who looks at a cease and desist letter and says 'No'. Is the receiver of a cease and desist technically already a defendant? I thought that term only applied to someone who's been sued or charged with something?
(this time, appropriate HTML formatting chosen. *grmbl*
3. Normal copyright lawyers don't sue, they send cease and desist letters. And then they sue if they cannot get a cease and desist agreement, or if the defendant is a bad actor, [...]
<p> Well hot damn, check <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Worst_ Actor_Razzie">this</a> out! (ba-dum-CHING. Sorry, had to state the obvious) <p> I'm going to assume, henceforth, that a bad actor is someone who looks at a cease and desist letter and says 'No'. Is the receiver of a cease and desist technically already a defendant? I thought that term only applied to someone who's been sued or charged with something?
And since a well-supplied militia is not necessary to the free state in which we live, unless you also think we should disband the standing army and stop buying it weapons, the basis of the noninfringement is gone.
As I understand it, having heard it a while back from a generally insightful poster on Usenet, the US was not meant to have a federally controlled standing army. Instead, the individual states were responsible for maintaining their armies, and only in case of invasion or pursuit of foreign interests should the army be temporarily placed under federal control.
He then continued on to state that the federal army, essentially unconstitutional, has been in place since about WWII. I remember looking it up back then, and agreeing, but I'm not sure where to find references at this point.
Normally I'd agree, but actually having your personal and private life rooted around in can make a person quite paranoid, and *can* cause emotional distress. In this case I'd call it appropriate.
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In Holland there was a nice program where people could get their house robbed by a formerly professional thief (convicted, sentenced, done his time). It looked fairly realistically done (he didn't loiter, he rushed through the house). Children's bedrooms and kitchens are prime targets, precisely because of your reasoning.
If you want to store something securely, do an off-site backup.
If it's enterprise stuff, and the timeline is not horrible 'optimistic', I suggest you really get to know and love JUnit. Test-driven development pretty much cannot be beat for serious development work.
First make the test, and determine what the heck you want to see. Make stub methods where needed, but only do actual coding once the test case is complete. Afterwards, you can automate functional testing completely, ensuring that you can prove your stuff still works. And in the event of failure, your tests will show precisely where failure occurred.
Best thing since sliced bread.
Agreed. Eclipse is very flexible in terms of "what's your source directory, where are the libraries and where do I put my binaries?" and so on. Before you figure out how to modify those, it can be frustrating to work in an existing project structure. But any 'hot Eclipse guy should know how to do these things.
I switched to Eclipse a while back (Netbeans 5.0 or 5.5-ish) for, mainly, speed. Netbeans was slow as all fuck, whereas Eclipse, when you click on something, actually *does something*. Also, the user interface of Eclipse appealed to me a lot more. I have no desire to switch to Netbeans. Have *you* ever used Eclipse?
A few months ago I switched to a Macbook. When writing (for) server applications to be run on a unix environment, it helps to run a unix variant for local testing. Native terminals also help a lot. Linux is not an option because I have no desire to have to tinker with the OS to actually get it to work, on a machine I use for actual work.
Due process may include a declaration of war.
Eddings tells a good story, it must be said. Then he files off the serial numbers and tells the story again, this time set X years earlier/later.
I've never read Moorecock. ("Moorecock than what?" you say. Ba-dum-ching)
On that first page I see a reference to Hinduism (yes, reincarnation is repetitive), I see one review for the third book only, and some reviews of Crossroads of Twilight (which sucked ass). I do not feel the immense repetition of story that you seem to feel. That is not to say there isn't a lot of repetition in things like the description of dresses, arms folded under breasts, braids tugged and women sniffing, of course, but that's part of the style.
Point the first: The books start with the main characters being hunted. Of course there's going to be fights, and they're going to be flight. I'm sure you'd rather characters stayed in one place, not doing anything, such as Tolkien?
Point the second: Tolkien was just a piss-poor story teller by today's standards. Horrid pacing, an aborted love interest that went nowhere (Why the fuck would you go for some soppy elf bint when you could have Eowyn, Aragorn?), and trying to get way *too* much backstory in the books. Awesome backstory, sure, set in an imaginative and intelligent world of wonder. But poorly told.
Point the third: I do not recall the bits about main characters passing out and missing the end of the book, though I may be good for another re-read. I recall some hugely climactic endings.
Point the fourth: The 'huge master plan' was originally six books. He sucked at keeping things short, mainly when he became succesful enough that publisher-appointed editors became an option instead of a requirement. He wanted to *avoid* 13 books, and he'd said so before he was diagnosed with his illness.
He wrote fantasy of a clean variety (there is nastiness, but it's only done by capital-E Evil persons), in a complex and detailed world. His work is fully epic fantasy, and one of the best (as yet) uncompleted series out there.
And we should both learn to not state our opinions as facts.
Ten years ago, I said that if he were to die before he finishes the series, I'd kill him. Suddenly, I am seeing logistical difficulties.
My thoughts go out to those who have lost more than a good author.
That idea, "I want to try and become like them", is still firmly an American idea. The vinegar-pissers would be more at home in a country with socialist influences, like my Netherlands. Much as I tend to like it here, the attitude that people who made it big somehow should don't deserve it is not conducive to entrepeneurialism (not sure that's a word, but you know what I mean). In fact, it's leading to an emigration wave of even mildly financially successful people.
I also find myself occasionally thinking "It's not fair", but I have a functioning brain, so I get over it. Probably not the best investment they can make, and it's showy, but hey, it's their money and they worked for it.
It looks pretty cool to me.
The US is not at war. Stop spreading that lie. It is engaged in military activity, but not at war with anyone.
Granted, though, people who fly planes in the wrong places have bad things happen to them. I do believe that those events are significantly logged, and someone would make the connection to a missing airman in their neck of the woods. If it was legitimate, it is regrettable and no more.
Following up on myself: In Firefox, set text to white, background to black, and go to View->Style->None.
Anyone know of an easy way to turn the background color of the page to black? The images aren't too bright, and a bright white background doesn't help.
For the crater thing, you'd be wrong: The data is old, yes, but not out-of-date.
For the Steve Fossett (as distinct from other craters) thing: They provide data from after Steve's disappearance, specifically for the reason you cite. Being able to compare old vs new is handy there.
The lawyers were retained by Iowa state government. That means that if they incurred $8 million in costs and lost, Iowa would have had to pay them. At least, that's how it happens in my own la-la-fairy land, where people get paid to perform a service to the best of their ability, even if the end-result does not correlate to my desired outcome. I suppose it's possible the laywer said "You know, I'll do this, but if we get a settlement I want 25%", but it does reek a little.
I did not watch Sicko, no. Michael Moore blatantly lies to his viewing audience. Most movie makers are clear about this, but Moore pretends he makes documentaries. I have no desire to see someone lie to me in the assumption that I'll believe him.
As for running out of space, your nation has an incredibly low population density. That means that a good road network is a requirement. But it does not need 'big government' as the grandparent said; state or even local government can handle this. Public transport is somewhat different, since you'll be running a service that is only useful if all the connecting bits (across local government areas of influence) are managed together.
Trains are a nice idea for long-range transport. For small commuter trips they're essentially useless: They take significantly longer, you have to deal with the people, you pay per trip, there's a good chance of delays and you have to connect to last-mile transportation. At least, that's the way it is now in Holland. Trains would seem ideal for non-haste cross country or cross state trips in the US.
Libertarians, especially big-L Libertarians, are often deluded about that. There are things that must be handled by government, on a larger level. Healthcare is one. Public transport is another, unless you want it to go to shit, as in some European countries.
Certainly in the Netherlands, socialism hasn't reigned alone in a long time. In a multi-party system (as opposed to the US de facto two-party system) with a decently split electorate, there is always either a more moderate party, or a party from the different side of the political spectrum, with whom power is shared in a coalition. It's an influence, nothing more.
The Socialist Party in Holland is currently headed by a man who, apparently, at one time considered Mao Zedong, responsible for tens of millions of deaths, a good political role model for himself.
Granted, essential services (healthcare, military and police, public transport and the power grid) should (have) remain(ed) under government control.
Very often, especially for a smaller company, the goal of getting a patent isn't holding up larger companies for large wads of dough. It's a protective measure.
:-)
Another company, the aggressor, walks up and says "Hey, we own the patent to that technology!". Hero says "So? So do we!". Rather than slugging it out, where aggressor might well lose the patent (since they're just being litigious and Hero is actually making products), they might as well go after someone else who *didn't* patent it.
It's fucking stupid, but that's your patent system for you
I dunno, I tried EVE and kinda liked it. It seems a lot more mature than most other MMORPGs, in the sense of less-cartoony. It is, of course, also a massive time-sink, as with all MMO games, and so I didn't partake of a subscription.
I think blind people should be banned from stores. They never look at the displays, and are obviously stealing from the store. Blind people are THIEVES!
Well hot damn, check this out! (ba-dum-CHING. Sorry, had to state the obvious)
I'm going to assume, henceforth, that a bad actor is someone who looks at a cease and desist letter and says 'No'. Is the receiver of a cease and desist technically already a defendant? I thought that term only applied to someone who's been sued or charged with something?
(this time, appropriate HTML formatting chosen. *grmbl*
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Well hot damn, check <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Worst
(ba-dum-CHING. Sorry, had to state the obvious)
<p>
I'm going to assume, henceforth, that a bad actor is someone who looks at a cease and desist letter and says 'No'. Is the receiver of a cease and desist technically already a defendant? I thought that term only applied to someone who's been sued or charged with something?
As I understand it, having heard it a while back from a generally insightful poster on Usenet, the US was not meant to have a federally controlled standing army. Instead, the individual states were responsible for maintaining their armies, and only in case of invasion or pursuit of foreign interests should the army be temporarily placed under federal control.
He then continued on to state that the federal army, essentially unconstitutional, has been in place since about WWII. I remember looking it up back then, and agreeing, but I'm not sure where to find references at this point.
Normally I'd agree, but actually having your personal and private life rooted around in can make a person quite paranoid, and *can* cause emotional distress. In this case I'd call it appropriate.