The cynicism created by close races such as 2000 is incrediably detrimental. Understand that you are voting as a representive of your state, not as a representive of the union of those states (the electors). Theres a fundamental organization structure to our country that continues to be deminished by either false information, or I concede, changing outlooks. Election reform in this light becomes a neccessity, but that doesn't change the reality of where we are at today.
Where we are probably does include your outlook on our voting procedures, you do bring up an unfortunate aspect of our structure. However, I believe my intended point still stands. I'm sure every state has a close vote on an issue or a particular race. To state that your vote doesn't matter is to state that it never matters, and that, is a sad conclusion to come to as a member of a republic.
After all, if you want that election reform, it would be in your interest to advocate that change and help bring about voter awareness, thus making your vote count more and in theory, bringing about eventual change.
Just my two cents.. I hate pennies and felt the need to get rid of a few;)
Your vote doesn't count? The last election was decided by hundreds of votes.
Say what you will about the electoral college or even make the argument in regards to florida (but of course, we can't have digital voting machines to increase accuracy, thats to insecure!... sigh. pick a side..). Just remember that these are not mainstream issues in the rest of our government and those elections are just as important.
Don't like the sitting president? Don't wait four years and sit around bitching. Get off your ass and vote accordingly for your congressional races. Republicans swept up two years ago while all the dems sat at home and whined about what was going on. Their votes mattered then, it matters this November, and in two years, those votes will still be important.
You think after Clinton we would have learned.. the best presidents are presidents who are gridlocked by an opposing congress;) (I say that in jest, but in my short lifetime it does seem to hold a bit of water).
All that being said, I don't care who you vote for or what you base your vote on. Majority (of the union as a whole, not just the cities) rules. Get out and vote.
The concept of stupidity has been lost and replaced with victimization. It's not my childs fault he dove head first down the slide in the scorching heat. The slide shouldn't have been made of metal in the first place, and it can't be made of plastic because he might chew a peice of and swallow it. Get rid of it and give me money for my stupid child.
It's like all the whiney cause heads and all the whiney victims converged and formed some sort of sick and twisted super whiner.
I don't believe in social darwinism, but issues like this make me want to. We just need to stop rewarding victims and start compensating them instead. There's a huge, huge difference.
If you get rid of the electoral college, where would candidates spend the majority of their campaign money? Where that money is most efficiently used -- cities. The issues of the city would be represented more than the issues of the less dense country side.
Like it or not, "country" represents "more" of the union than the cities do. If a government fails to address the desires and beliefs of a vast amount of the land, I could very easily see how we could break down from a republic to another system of government..
Make sure you get rid of the floating currency exchange system first, or else you'd bankrupt all of our trading partners.. We *need* a national debt post economic changes made in the 70s. It's a question of determining and reaching equalibrium of that debt.
Soooo.. I'm supposed to pay a dollar to ride the bus, instead of paying a dollar to not have to ride a bus? Have you ever riden on a city bus? It's not that thrilling..;)
Why the hell would I EVER buy an LCD TV?
Uh... I just bought a 17" HDTV lcd TV with vga input for $500.. Soo... for 50 extra bucks, I have something of better quality..
I'm of the opposite opinion.. why the hell would anyone buy a lcd computer monitor instead of a lcd tv?
Sounds great and all, expect that I'm always late, and thus almost always spend more than the 4 bucks to order the on demand movie. Not to mention I'd pay a dollar to just avoid walking 10 blocks to blockbuster. Call me average, I guess...
Dependence on Chinese and Japanese foreign banks to prop up the dollar - how long can ths go on?
For as long as we're on a Floating Currency standard? I mean, isn't that the point?
Basically, instead of being backed by gold, our dollar is backed by investment from foreign nations, circa sometime in the 70s. Or something to that effect..;)/end college int'l biz flashback
All the movies take place in the same general region, so it makes since for the characters to know the same circles of people, but this is a bit different. This is a story of what happened to the Clerks themselves after the movie ended.. Neither of the actors are present in any of the other movies outside of minor cameos if I'm not mistaken..
When I lived in Orlando, I could drive to Atlanta just as easily as I could fly. More often than not, I did. I exclusively did so post-9/11 security measures. However until someone comes up with a quick way for me to get to California for that required weekend business trip, I'm pretty sure that qualifies as no other alternative.
Boycotts are hard because people don't have the time for alternatives, not because they "really want" x/y or z.
I graduated in December of 2003, went on a bunch of interviews shortly after.. After each one, I asked the interviewer what the most important skillset was to have right now.
Each one said J2EE. Java may have lost its sex appeal with the slashdot crowd, but it surely hasn't lost a step in the Real World(tm).
Must people I know who made the jump (I'm still sporting b myself) didn't do so for speed reasons at all.. G gets better reception/distance and thus better coverage than 802.11b, doesn't it? I'd imagine the same would be true of n.
I'm really curious as to what world he is living in that could justify that price as "relatively low".
One where people pay $10 to watch a two hour movie? Oh Oh! How about one where an "adult" rated game's target audience makes more than the average household american family? Ooooooo, and don't forget that the world where hundreds of thousands of high paid computer geeks spend 3 grand on a brand new PC before they can even dream of running a game like doom 3!
I'll play doom 3 10 hours in a single weekend (who am I kidding, friday night alone). They can glady have my $50 bucks.
The question really is, is it possible to be a hacker, and have a business mindset? What he proposes in this article would make it seem impossible, and the sysadmin crowd tends to not even fathom the possibility.
The industry doesn't give a rats ass for the perl/php/python/flavor-of-the-week mentality. Time is a resource and as a resource it's way more valuable than the hardware. They don't care about spending more money on bigger and badder equipment. Therefore, really, coding in the name of effeciency is truly a dying concept. It's coding in the name of delivery and maintainability (thus the need for fast, widespread standards, not difficult to understand syntax in the name of cool)
I spend my "hobby code" time hacking on whatever side project me and my buddies can come up with. But during the day hours, I sold my soul to the java world (and will undoubtedly do so again to another language in the future) to make that paper. More money = the sooner I have more freetime to play.
Design your software from use case perspectives to get a clear idea of what the user is actually doing with the system.
Seems to me programmer's don't tend to spend a lot of time getting a strong idea of how the client is actually using the product. Focus your energy on the paths that 80% of the product use follows.
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It seems to me, we already HAD space flight -- it just wasn't privatized.
Isn't this asking for solutions to problems that are not already solved, public or private?
The cynicism created by close races such as 2000 is incrediably detrimental. Understand that you are voting as a representive of your state, not as a representive of the union of those states (the electors). Theres a fundamental organization structure to our country that continues to be deminished by either false information, or I concede, changing outlooks. Election reform in this light becomes a neccessity, but that doesn't change the reality of where we are at today.
;)
Where we are probably does include your outlook on our voting procedures, you do bring up an unfortunate aspect of our structure. However, I believe my intended point still stands. I'm sure every state has a close vote on an issue or a particular race. To state that your vote doesn't matter is to state that it never matters, and that, is a sad conclusion to come to as a member of a republic.
After all, if you want that election reform, it would be in your interest to advocate that change and help bring about voter awareness, thus making your vote count more and in theory, bringing about eventual change.
Just my two cents.. I hate pennies and felt the need to get rid of a few
Your vote doesn't count? The last election was decided by hundreds of votes.
;) (I say that in jest, but in my short lifetime it does seem to hold a bit of water).
Say what you will about the electoral college or even make the argument in regards to florida (but of course, we can't have digital voting machines to increase accuracy, thats to insecure!... sigh. pick a side..). Just remember that these are not mainstream issues in the rest of our government and those elections are just as important.
Don't like the sitting president? Don't wait four years and sit around bitching. Get off your ass and vote accordingly for your congressional races. Republicans swept up two years ago while all the dems sat at home and whined about what was going on. Their votes mattered then, it matters this November, and in two years, those votes will still be important.
You think after Clinton we would have learned.. the best presidents are presidents who are gridlocked by an opposing congress
All that being said, I don't care who you vote for or what you base your vote on. Majority (of the union as a whole, not just the cities) rules. Get out and vote.
It's misleading.. if you look at the release notes, its "Java 2 Software Development Kit Version 5," or something to that effect..
I like it.. it's kinda like saying this is Version 2.0's version 5 when there was never a 2.x to begin with.. It's like a puzzle.. I like puzzles.....
New look and feel?
Anyone know of a screenshot highlighting metal vs ocean?
Here, here good sir.
The concept of stupidity has been lost and replaced with victimization. It's not my childs fault he dove head first down the slide in the scorching heat. The slide shouldn't have been made of metal in the first place, and it can't be made of plastic because he might chew a peice of and swallow it. Get rid of it and give me money for my stupid child.
It's like all the whiney cause heads and all the whiney victims converged and formed some sort of sick and twisted super whiner.
I don't believe in social darwinism, but issues like this make me want to. We just need to stop rewarding victims and start compensating them instead. There's a huge, huge difference.
If you get rid of the electoral college, where would candidates spend the majority of their campaign money? Where that money is most efficiently used -- cities. The issues of the city would be represented more than the issues of the less dense country side.
Like it or not, "country" represents "more" of the union than the cities do. If a government fails to address the desires and beliefs of a vast amount of the land, I could very easily see how we could break down from a republic to another system of government..
Remember Waco?
Make sure you get rid of the floating currency exchange system first, or else you'd bankrupt all of our trading partners.. We *need* a national debt post economic changes made in the 70s. It's a question of determining and reaching equalibrium of that debt.
Soooo.. I'm supposed to pay a dollar to ride the bus, instead of paying a dollar to not have to ride a bus? Have you ever riden on a city bus? It's not that thrilling.. ;)
Why the hell would I EVER buy an LCD TV? Uh... I just bought a 17" HDTV lcd TV with vga input for $500.. Soo... for 50 extra bucks, I have something of better quality.. I'm of the opposite opinion.. why the hell would anyone buy a lcd computer monitor instead of a lcd tv?
Sounds great and all, expect that I'm always late, and thus almost always spend more than the 4 bucks to order the on demand movie. Not to mention I'd pay a dollar to just avoid walking 10 blocks to blockbuster. Call me average, I guess...
What can you be disgusted about when there is already a demand for the product?
Uh... patent pending status?
Dependence on Chinese and Japanese foreign banks to prop up the dollar - how long can ths go on?
;) /end college int'l biz flashback
For as long as we're on a Floating Currency standard? I mean, isn't that the point?
Basically, instead of being backed by gold, our dollar is backed by investment from foreign nations, circa sometime in the 70s. Or something to that effect..
All the movies take place in the same general region, so it makes since for the characters to know the same circles of people, but this is a bit different. This is a story of what happened to the Clerks themselves after the movie ended.. Neither of the actors are present in any of the other movies outside of minor cameos if I'm not mistaken..
Viva la daunte!
is it cheaper to buy a faster system, or develop something in c?
time is a resource thats more valuable than memory and processors..
Ever since Al Gore created the internet, 31337 h4x0rs every where have hated the GOP.
When I lived in Orlando, I could drive to Atlanta just as easily as I could fly. More often than not, I did. I exclusively did so post-9/11 security measures. However until someone comes up with a quick way for me to get to California for that required weekend business trip, I'm pretty sure that qualifies as no other alternative. Boycotts are hard because people don't have the time for alternatives, not because they "really want" x/y or z.
I graduated in December of 2003, went on a bunch of interviews shortly after.. After each one, I asked the interviewer what the most important skillset was to have right now.
Each one said J2EE. Java may have lost its sex appeal with the slashdot crowd, but it surely hasn't lost a step in the Real World(tm).
Must people I know who made the jump (I'm still sporting b myself) didn't do so for speed reasons at all.. G gets better reception/distance and thus better coverage than 802.11b, doesn't it? I'd imagine the same would be true of n.
I'm really curious as to what world he is living in that could justify that price as "relatively low".
One where people pay $10 to watch a two hour movie? Oh Oh! How about one where an "adult" rated game's target audience makes more than the average household american family? Ooooooo, and don't forget that the world where hundreds of thousands of high paid computer geeks spend 3 grand on a brand new PC before they can even dream of running a game like doom 3!
I'll play doom 3 10 hours in a single weekend (who am I kidding, friday night alone). They can glady have my $50 bucks.
Piracy is theft. Get over it.
Wait till they find out how much they can save running OpenOffice
;) Just you, know... saying.
Which would be completely negated by how long it takes OpenOffice to load?
The question really is, is it possible to be a hacker, and have a business mindset? What he proposes in this article would make it seem impossible, and the sysadmin crowd tends to not even fathom the possibility.
The industry doesn't give a rats ass for the perl/php/python/flavor-of-the-week mentality. Time is a resource and as a resource it's way more valuable than the hardware. They don't care about spending more money on bigger and badder equipment. Therefore, really, coding in the name of effeciency is truly a dying concept. It's coding in the name of delivery and maintainability (thus the need for fast, widespread standards, not difficult to understand syntax in the name of cool)
I spend my "hobby code" time hacking on whatever side project me and my buddies can come up with. But during the day hours, I sold my soul to the java world (and will undoubtedly do so again to another language in the future) to make that paper. More money = the sooner I have more freetime to play.
Did John Titor submit these? ;)
Design your software from use case perspectives to get a clear idea of what the user is actually doing with the system. Seems to me programmer's don't tend to spend a lot of time getting a strong idea of how the client is actually using the product. Focus your energy on the paths that 80% of the product use follows.
No, but if you are just starting out and would like to be sitting at that desk one day, where's the harm in added material?
;)
Some of these books read like an informercial gone horribly wrong, but that doesn't mean theres not solid information in `em.
Just.. saying..