I take 200Mg a day in the am as prescribed. Prior to this I had been suffering from a great deal of general fatigue, though not sleep deprived, and a pronounced inabillity to stay on task, (start coding function and forget why you were doing half way through)... Along comes Provigil.. The first couple of days I was VERY alert. After a few days, the rush wore off and now I just am able to stay awake and focused. It has improved my general mood consderably and my co-workers are happy that I am able to do my job again. My family is happier because I am more in the here and now and not as cranky as i had been.
Even on the first day when I went to bed I was able to sleep quite well. All very positive... No downside so far.. no side effects noticed. But then at some point my brain may implode, or grow it's own genetalia. Who knows ? But for now I'm glad I have it.
My favorite answer estimate is the same as the answer to "How long is the server going to be down?"
which is "How long does it take to catch a fish ?"
No one really knows untill they are well into the coding process... No matter how well defined all the components are...
Why would any one by this any way, presumably most people that would, already have at least one nsync CD and since all the songs sound pretty much the same...
FUn.... I feel lucky to have a job ( it's a real pain in the ass job too) I'm doing threeor four peoples jobs, am understaffed and trying to keep an antique undocumented and rediculously complex (mostly do to piecemeal design) piece of software going while it is be "redeveloped" in Calcutta....
fun and there aren't that many decent jobs to be had at the moment in case you haven't looked recently...
whats Your prefix ?
It takes very little contemplation (~3 milliseconds) to realize that this is not a good idea.
Unless you want to be branded like cattle.
Or happen to be the hearder.
This is a tactic of a police state for control not a convienience for individuals, custom built for abuse by those in and out of "authority" in what ever of the overlaping juridictions you happen to reside in to visit.
I squash many bugs each day and the remains seem to serve as fodder for nourishing those that remain so they can breed more... Such is working on.5 million lines of olllllld krufty code that has been re-worked over years by many hands of varying skill but stll klunking a long and making money kuz it's got a fairly protected niche...
It's still makes money who cares it it's good...
We'll just have it re-written in India next year..
even better listen to him on the radio, ot read the transcripts of his radio show at http://www.uh.edu/engines/ . I live in Houston where this originates and have had the privelifge of hearing Dr. Leinhard speak in person and to have a (albeit quite brief) conversation with him. He is given to a pariculary well rounded perception of events that have shaped our societ(y)(ies). He has been working quite some time on putting the content of his excelent radio commentary into book form and though I have not yet obtained my own copy ( I will soon) I understand that he has done an excelent adaptation to the different medium.
Just a wee nit to pick but I think that the MacDonald that is the current clan chieftan spells his name Ranald... And since I share his surname I find this entire situation quite interesting. I will not do business with this company in any way shape or form as they have co-opted my name and subjected me and my children to endless bad, insulting and generally anoying jokes from the less sophisticated people we encounter... MacDonald....
It was noted today in the Houston Chronicle (dead tree version only as far as I can tell) that during an interview yesterday Republican presidential hopeful Geo. W. Bush, while unaware of several sigificant issues in the state where he currently holds the office of governor, was quite aware that Mr. Boise was to be defending "that company that lets people steal music"... He has his finger on our pulse...
Studying numbers, strategy, tactics and the battle is fine, you know the war... but only the small part... Go learn about the effects on the civilian populations... Talk to people who survivrd the Siege of St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/Stailgrad/St. Petersburg.. Go find a couple of holocost survivors or a Parisian woman who was forst into a Nazi brothel in Paris... Learn the economics and soiological forces the instigated the war, even Hitler was a puppet of these... Do this Then come and tell us that you understand the war..
First IAAUSN ( I am a US native, 4th Generation even). The internet as a medium ihas obviously created a whole new dimension to international boundries and the way it shakes out will be an interesting play. At lesat initially the internet rather than being able to redefine international interaction will have to play within the context of non-virtual reality. The world not being an ideal place the occasional restriction may me neccessary... Germany restricts the marketing of things Nazi related and I think most(?) feel this is reasonable... Maybe Vichy should too...? There is a place for these items... They are called museums and schools. All uf us would do better to study not just the cool parts of war (to which these articals belong) but the effcts and causes of war. Such items presented out of context, without accomanying text and photos of the attending horrors of the Third Reich only tend to further distort an already distorted public view of the era. While i understand and fully support freedom of speech and I do not believe that censorship I also think that most here do not understand the depth of feeling envoked by Nazi related artifacts, philosophy and organizations in Europe as a whole(France is just usually the first to speak up). At this time there are two very real and palpable under crrents in Europe, first a resurgent xenophobic 'far-right' with a definate Nazi bent and secondly a fear of the first. Everyones's view of wars that racked Europe in the fist half of the 20th Century are skewed by a tempoaral lens however our view on this side of the pond is skewed also by physical distance and the fact that none us or our parents and grand parents (with the obvious exception of expeditionary miltary forces) for that matter have ever been caught up war, had our towns and citys occupied, our property comandered, been displaced, bombed, enslaved, etc. Think about the source of this request and read the news from the other side of the pond for context. The Third Reich may be dead but the sociological forces that made it possible are very much alive and the economic imperatives that froment such are only around the corner. This is a request made by people who have a fear and loathing that as Americans, unless you have delved very deeply into the lives of those who survived WWII in Europe, you cannot begin to imagine. They do not fear the past, they fear those among them who are embracing a past with a nostalgia for the simple answers of that past for the complex and very real social and economic problems that face Europe today.
to software liability. This seems to have been a very good call by the court. What the software is depends on how it is used. In this case it seems to have been a 'tool', a 'labor saving device' as it was used to save the user a great deal of hand calculation et al. This is not a simple tool i.e a hammer but a complex tool more like a large integrated fabrication device ( welding robots etc.) No user of complex tools in the meat world would think of using a new tool for production without running a number of preliminary process tests first. If then they find the product flawed the return to the manufacture and either get it fixed or demand their purchase price returned and find another source. Any one who 'assumes' that a complex product is flawless out of the box should reap his just deserts...
Not to support the trend toward more and more litigation but if the law provides for restitution bthrough litigation it is not a matter of enforcement. The law would work fine if there was a flat award in a reaonable amount, say about USD 15,000... ~500 is not enough to make the telemarketers care if they get sued once or twice, nor is it an mount most people would view as enough to be worth the trouble of liigation. It is a matter actually of a law being put on the books so that the legislators can say "we did someting" , without doing anything to anger the business...
These were most fun when they sprung a leak as, one id to me @ ~2:00a... spatks flew and the power shut down... It was more fun than "EMERGENCY PULL".... but then I date myself...
Thank you for the lesson it is very well placed. You know also more midrashim reb? maybe 'The Great Athiest of Minsk' ? Maybe/. could post 1 midrash a day There are many that would fit in with the ethicla/moral/social dilemas that are brought about by the continuing evoloution of the Open Source and the etherial nature of the internet and its impact on or society... A little Talmud, well placed, could not hurt... no..?
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Ease of Use and reliability are very important to Joe user.!!! The only reasons Joe ends up using Windows is that he had no choice. The sad thing is Joe still doesn't know he has a choice, and for all intents and purposes still has no choice as although the majot OEM's will now load an alternate OS they certainly do not spend a lot of time or money advertising the fact. The very fact that Win* are so dominant and that a shutdown of MS would have the potentialy disaterous affects on The Market and the political front is evidence enough that MS needs to be not only reigned in but chastized for pat abuses of the very consumers and industry the purport to serve...
Maybe these guys are secretly funded by some nameless loose-nit group with a lot of investments dependant on the success of another OS and they figgured that this was a good way to give Linux and Linux vendors/distros some really bad press... The general public loves bad news and scandal right? They remember only the loudest shortest scream and their first impressions... If these guys are enough peoples first impression of Linux it can do huge dammage and with enough Marketing/Advert funds that'll happen... Nahhh they're just a bunch of lamers after a fast buck... Genuine Linux compatable keyboards... Participating in the flame contest just helps them out. They will glean a great deal of press worthy comments and understanding and identity of their opponents through the communication. Best to attack in kind with information to the general public.
After you've read some of each and gleaned all you can from them... The ultimate Sci Fi summary (rather like that ultimate Country and western song 'You don't have to call ne Darlin' Darlin') You must read 'Venus on the Halfshell' by Kilgore Trout (Kurt Vonnegut) But then everyone should read a lot of Vonnegut...
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I take 200Mg a day in the am as prescribed. Prior to this I had been suffering from a great deal of general fatigue, though not sleep deprived, and a pronounced inabillity to stay on task, (start coding function and forget why you were doing half way through)... Along comes Provigil.. The first couple of days I was VERY alert. After a few days, the rush wore off and now I just am able to stay awake and focused. It has improved my general mood consderably and my co-workers are happy that I am able to do my job again. My family is happier because I am more in the here and now and not as cranky as i had been.
Even on the first day when I went to bed I was able to sleep quite well. All very positive... No downside so far.. no side effects noticed. But then at some point my brain may implode, or grow it's own genetalia. Who knows ? But for now I'm glad I have it.
Maybe they will make file attachments to mail illegal so I will have to drop cd roms in the post...
My favorite answer estimate is the same as the answer to "How long is the server going to be down?"
which is "How long does it take to catch a fish ?"
No one really knows untill they are well into the coding process... No matter how well defined all the components are...
Why would any one by this any way, presumably most people that would, already have at least one nsync CD and since all the songs sound pretty much the same...
This is a clasic reaction... To things they do not understand and can't control... fear
strike out at the things and people you fear...
FUn.... I feel lucky to have a job ( it's a real pain in the ass job too) I'm doing threeor four peoples jobs, am understaffed and trying to keep an antique undocumented and rediculously complex (mostly do to piecemeal design) piece of software going while it is be "redeveloped" in Calcutta....
fun and there aren't that many decent jobs to be had at the moment in case you haven't looked recently...
whats Your prefix ?
It takes very little contemplation (~3 milliseconds) to realize that this is not a good idea.
Unless you want to be branded like cattle.
Or happen to be the hearder.
This is a tactic of a police state for control not a convienience for individuals, custom built for abuse by those in and out of "authority" in what ever of the overlaping juridictions you happen to reside in to visit.
I squash many bugs each day and the remains seem to serve as fodder for nourishing those that remain so they can breed more... Such is working on .5 million lines of olllllld krufty code that has been re-worked over years by many hands of varying skill but stll klunking a long and making money kuz it's got a fairly protected niche...
It's still makes money who cares it it's good...
We'll just have it re-written in India next year..
even better listen to him on the radio, ot read the transcripts of his radio show at http://www.uh.edu/engines/ . I live in Houston where this originates and have had the privelifge of hearing Dr. Leinhard speak in person and to have a (albeit quite brief) conversation with him. He is given to a pariculary well rounded perception of events that have shaped our societ(y)(ies). He has been working quite some time on putting the content of his excelent radio commentary into book form and though I have not yet obtained my own copy ( I will soon) I understand that he has done an excelent adaptation to the different medium.
I know and I'm one of those C writting old COBOL programmers in serch of a job... teaching myself XML and PHP3 at the moment...
Just a wee nit to pick but I think that the MacDonald that is the current clan chieftan spells his name Ranald... And since I share his surname I find this entire situation quite interesting. I will not do business with this company in any way shape or form as they have co-opted my name and subjected me and my children to endless bad, insulting and generally anoying jokes from the less sophisticated people we encounter... MacDonald....
It was noted today in the Houston Chronicle (dead tree version only as far as I can tell) that during an interview yesterday Republican presidential hopeful Geo. W. Bush, while unaware of several sigificant issues in the state where he currently holds the office of governor, was quite aware that Mr. Boise was to be defending "that company that lets people steal music"... He has his finger on our pulse...
KDE is being devloped in Deutchland where Kleopatra is spelled w/ a 'K' as are most of the things that in English start w/ a 'hard C'...
As I understand it (having read a bunch on this elsewhere) the 66.6+ is an alias for 100 so as to not step on Quantums toes...
Studying numbers, strategy, tactics and the battle is fine, you know the war... but only the small part... Go learn about the effects on the civilian populations... Talk to people who survivrd the Siege of St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad/Stailgrad/St. Petersburg.. Go find a couple of holocost survivors or a Parisian woman who was forst into a Nazi brothel in Paris... Learn the economics and soiological forces the instigated the war, even Hitler was a puppet of these... Do this Then come and tell us that you understand the war..
First IAAUSN ( I am a US native, 4th Generation even). The internet as a medium ihas obviously created a whole new dimension to international boundries and the way it shakes out will be an interesting play. At lesat initially the internet rather than being able to redefine international interaction will have to play within the context of non-virtual reality. The world not being an ideal place the occasional restriction may me neccessary... Germany restricts the marketing of things Nazi related and I think most(?) feel this is reasonable... Maybe Vichy should too...? There is a place for these items... They are called museums and schools. All uf us would do better to study not just the cool parts of war (to which these articals belong) but the effcts and causes of war. Such items presented out of context, without accomanying text and photos of the attending horrors of the Third Reich only tend to further distort an already distorted public view of the era. While i understand and fully support freedom of speech and I do not believe that censorship I also think that most here do not understand the depth of feeling envoked by Nazi related artifacts, philosophy and organizations in Europe as a whole(France is just usually the first to speak up). At this time there are two very real and palpable under crrents in Europe, first a resurgent xenophobic 'far-right' with a definate Nazi bent and secondly a fear of the first. Everyones's view of wars that racked Europe in the fist half of the 20th Century are skewed by a tempoaral lens however our view on this side of the pond is skewed also by physical distance and the fact that none us or our parents and grand parents (with the obvious exception of expeditionary miltary forces) for that matter have ever been caught up war, had our towns and citys occupied, our property comandered, been displaced, bombed, enslaved, etc. Think about the source of this request and read the news from the other side of the pond for context. The Third Reich may be dead but the sociological forces that made it possible are very much alive and the economic imperatives that froment such are only around the corner. This is a request made by people who have a fear and loathing that as Americans, unless you have delved very deeply into the lives of those who survived WWII in Europe, you cannot begin to imagine. They do not fear the past, they fear those among them who are embracing a past with a nostalgia for the simple answers of that past for the complex and very real social and economic problems that face Europe today.
to software liability. This seems to have been a very good call by the court. What the software is depends on how it is used. In this case it seems to have been a 'tool', a 'labor saving device' as it was used to save the user a great deal of hand calculation et al. This is not a simple tool i.e a hammer but a complex tool more like a large integrated fabrication device ( welding robots etc.) No user of complex tools in the meat world would think of using a new tool for production without running a number of preliminary process tests first. If then they find the product flawed the return to the manufacture and either get it fixed or demand their purchase price returned and find another source. Any one who 'assumes' that a complex product is flawless out of the box should reap his just deserts...
Not to support the trend toward more and more litigation but if the law provides for restitution bthrough litigation it is not a matter of enforcement. The law would work fine if there was a flat award in a reaonable amount, say about USD 15,000 ... ~500 is not enough to make the telemarketers care if they get sued once or twice, nor is it an mount most people would view as enough to be worth the trouble of liigation. It is a matter actually of a law being put on the books so that the legislators can say "we did someting" , without doing anything to anger the business...
These were most fun when they sprung a leak as, one id to me @ ~2:00a ... spatks flew and the power shut down ... It was more fun than "EMERGENCY PULL".... but then I date myself...
Thank you for the lesson it is very well placed. You know also more midrashim reb? maybe 'The Great Athiest of Minsk' ? Maybe /. could post 1 midrash a day There are many that would fit in with the ethicla/moral/social dilemas that are brought about by the continuing evoloution of the Open Source and the etherial nature of the internet and its impact on or society... A little Talmud, well placed, could not hurt... no..?
Ease of Use and reliability are very important to Joe user.!!! The only reasons Joe ends up using Windows is that he had no choice. The sad thing is Joe still doesn't know he has a choice, and for all intents and purposes still has no choice as although the majot OEM's will now load an alternate OS they certainly do not spend a lot of time or money advertising the fact. The very fact that Win* are so dominant and that a shutdown of MS would have the potentialy disaterous affects on The Market and the political front is evidence enough that MS needs to be not only reigned in but chastized for pat abuses of the very consumers and industry the purport to serve...
Maybe these guys are secretly funded by some nameless loose-nit group with a lot of investments dependant on the success of another OS and they figgured that this was a good way to give Linux and Linux vendors/distros some really bad press... The general public loves bad news and scandal right? They remember only the loudest shortest scream and their first impressions... If these guys are enough peoples first impression of Linux it can do huge dammage and with enough Marketing/Advert funds that'll happen... Nahhh they're just a bunch of lamers after a fast buck... Genuine Linux compatable keyboards... Participating in the flame contest just helps them out. They will glean a great deal of press worthy comments and understanding and identity of their opponents through the communication. Best to attack in kind with information to the general public.
After you've read some of each and gleaned all you can from them... The ultimate Sci Fi summary (rather like that ultimate Country and western song 'You don't have to call ne Darlin' Darlin') You must read 'Venus on the Halfshell' by Kilgore Trout (Kurt Vonnegut) But then everyone should read a lot of Vonnegut...
how about " No Contest" always my favorite..
okay i cannot spell and I have clumsy fingers... so sue me