I blame this on only having two political parties. Since each party only really has one competitor, it boils down to us versus them rhetoric.
With a viable third or fourth party, I think we'd see less "that party wants to eat your children" attacks and more stands on what they believe in. Because it's much harder to go on the attack against two or three opponents, the merits of a particular stance would have to take center stage or least get out of the back alley behind the concert where it's drinking it's cheap whiskey and crying itself to sleep.
But, for that to happen we'd need to have less of a winner takes all approach to our election system.
The problem isn't that he didn't make another great movie.
The problem is he took that great movie and manipulated it again and again.
To use your analogy, he cooked us dinner and took us around the block. And now he's retelling us that same story night after night with new fabrications such as changing the steak to salmon and making us believe that we blew him instead.
Living on past accomplishments is one thing. Dwelling on them and reminding us frequently how great it was that ONE time. Not so great.
I concur with that problem with Skype. However, for voice over IP it does seem to be a great solution in terms of sound quality and talking in groups.
The trouble I see initially is that members of a team, particularly those in the main office are less inclined to kick off a skype session. IT people/Coders tend to route around inefficient areas and chatting with somebody over the internet to a different timezone seems much more difficult than walking down the hall and having a conversation. What I see happen is that people who do similar tasks abroad as those in the office will get less input because of that perceived barrier. So breaking that perception is very important.
For whatever reason a group chat doesn't seem to have that same perception barrier even though you can get better idea bandwidth through conversation.
I think it depends on what you do and some of the corporate culture. I work in a place that is very progressive in it's telecommuting policy.
So, we've learned as a development staff how to communicate across the country or across the room. I happen to live close to the office, so I spend a few days in a week. But realistically, I end up being more productive at home. I find at home that a lot of the incidental conversations are lost. (You know the lol's over the latest meme conversations.) While, the important ones still happen.
All it takes is a team that is willing to learn how to do that and it becomes no obstacle.
In some places you can write off the cost of certain home expenses on your taxes if you work from home. I have a friend who gets to write off some of his utilities as well as some of the mortgage on his house.
Sure it sucks if you're there already and you have to fork it over.
But, what the parent is saying is that you're foregoing 30% of your revenue to go from the small sliver of pie and get in on a much bigger whole pie. You can lose 30% of your income and not even notice if the opportunity nets you 1000%+ gain in new customers and revenue.
That's totally worth it. That doesn't change the fact that this is a dick move, but still worth it in monetarily.
Do you think this is because of the quality of the teachers or the administrators?
In my experience teachers are often very open to different avenues of parental involvement and new education approaches but are often handcuffed by bureaucracy and poor administrators.
I'm hoping these funds will act like a big fat carrot to get these administrations to update their lines of thinking and adapt.
When I first saw this, I thought to myself, you know who would really want this?
Drug Runners!
IThey already go through a lot of trouble to make cheap subs to get around customs. Well, this couldn't be too much more expensive and it's reusable and safe. And if they got picked up on radar... Well, they could brush up on dolphin mating calls.
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The weirdest is that Germany does not have a legal minimum wage yet any reputable(!) company pays well above what is minimum in comparable countries.
That's not terribly weird. I mean, as a land mass, Germany isn't very large. So, if I don't like what I'm getting paid, going to another country isn't that difficult of a commute. That is, the countries actually compete with each other and have similar standards of living. In the US, if you're not going to get your fair pay in this country, where are you going to go? Mexico? Canada? You might get a better wage in Canada, but who lives close enough to commute?
There's a lot of things you can do while you're working. But, they may make you look odd to the causual observer.
I actually keep a pair of foam nunchucks at the office. While I'm thinking through a problem or waiting for some code to compile/process to complete, I whip them out.
Granted, real nunchucks would be better training, but I can't have weapons at work. (Those sticks in the mud.) And at least with the foam ones, I don't have to worry about bashing my computer screen in when they slip.
I went to a weeping jujutsu seminar once. They were teaching all sorts of hand locks and such. When the sensei came around to help us refine our techniques it was always a bitter sweet experience. He really knew what he was doing. And he was always eager to demonstrate.
I'm a highly introverted person and I found that Martial Arts worked well for me. The goals are internally focused, since your success or failure depends on you. Most will teach you exercises that you can carry on your own. It builds confidence. And there is just enough desire to keep up with your class mates that you stay motivated.
Of course, the downside is they are expensive and you can get some really bad teachers.
What stupidity would be required? Again, imagine you're an alien. You know these inferior beings represent no threat to you at all. Likewise, you know their civilization will deny your existence. Why, then, would you waste any spare cycles on camo?
We've had the automobile around for over a hundred years. It doesn't seem to stop every idiot and their cousin from colliding with stationary objects. I think there is a difference between technical malfunction and biological coordination/reasoning failures.
That is to say, you can have all the high tech sophistication and innovation you want, but if a nimrod or klutz gets a hold of it, you can throw it out the window. Anybody who has ever had to deal with tech support can attest to that.
You're right, users don't care about the the poorly written code.
They do however, care about the freezes, the crashes, the intensive processing times and general bugginess that the poorly written code brings. They don't know enough to know that one causes the other.
Sure the world isn't perfect. Every software project has crappy code in it. Mine included. But when you intentionally neglect the code, it shows in the final product. And that is something that OSS developers understand.
Even Lincoln had to run for re-election during the Civil War (and almost lost!); You should check out FDR.
He is the one and only president to sit for more than two terms in office. Before FDR's time, a president really had no limits on how many times they could get re-elected. It was sort of a gentleman's agreement not to. The law binding that is a relatively recent addition.
Granted, there was WWII going on and we were knee deep in major war. And it happened because FDR was handling the war effort well. So, there is some precedence for this sort of thing.
Will it happen to Bush? I think your calculation of the odds were pretty good. Even with a loop-hole in the patriot act, I think it would be nearly impossible.
Goodwills have a deal with Dell to recycle just about any computer hardware you bring them. No restrictions that I know of. And Goodwills are everywhere. As a bonus they'll make a little money on the stuff that's still good enough to resell.
Yeah, you would. What's to stop the US Gov't from tying into those civilian networks? The government already has a relationship to a number of ISPs for purposes of wiretapping and packet sniffing. What sort of agreements, financial or political, would have to be made to allow them to slip in their computers?
Tin foil hats reasons aside, I don't think many ISP's would think twice at a chance to help the military.
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I blame this on only having two political parties. Since each party only really has one competitor, it boils down to us versus them rhetoric.
With a viable third or fourth party, I think we'd see less "that party wants to eat your children" attacks and more stands on what they believe in. Because it's much harder to go on the attack against two or three opponents, the merits of a particular stance would have to take center stage or least get out of the back alley behind the concert where it's drinking it's cheap whiskey and crying itself to sleep.
But, for that to happen we'd need to have less of a winner takes all approach to our election system.
The problem isn't that he didn't make another great movie.
The problem is he took that great movie and manipulated it again and again.
To use your analogy, he cooked us dinner and took us around the block. And now he's retelling us that same story night after night with new fabrications such as changing the steak to salmon and making us believe that we blew him instead.
Living on past accomplishments is one thing. Dwelling on them and reminding us frequently how great it was that ONE time. Not so great.
I concur with that problem with Skype. However, for voice over IP it does seem to be a great solution in terms of sound quality and talking in groups.
The trouble I see initially is that members of a team, particularly those in the main office are less inclined to kick off a skype session. IT people/Coders tend to route around inefficient areas and chatting with somebody over the internet to a different timezone seems much more difficult than walking down the hall and having a conversation. What I see happen is that people who do similar tasks abroad as those in the office will get less input because of that perceived barrier. So breaking that perception is very important.
For whatever reason a group chat doesn't seem to have that same perception barrier even though you can get better idea bandwidth through conversation.
I think it depends on what you do and some of the corporate culture. I work in a place that is very progressive in it's telecommuting policy.
So, we've learned as a development staff how to communicate across the country or across the room. I happen to live close to the office, so I spend a few days in a week. But realistically, I end up being more productive at home. I find at home that a lot of the incidental conversations are lost. (You know the lol's over the latest meme conversations.) While, the important ones still happen.
All it takes is a team that is willing to learn how to do that and it becomes no obstacle.
In some places you can write off the cost of certain home expenses on your taxes if you work from home. I have a friend who gets to write off some of his utilities as well as some of the mortgage on his house.
YMMV.
Sure it sucks if you're there already and you have to fork it over. But, what the parent is saying is that you're foregoing 30% of your revenue to go from the small sliver of pie and get in on a much bigger whole pie. You can lose 30% of your income and not even notice if the opportunity nets you 1000%+ gain in new customers and revenue. That's totally worth it. That doesn't change the fact that this is a dick move, but still worth it in monetarily.
Do you think this is because of the quality of the teachers or the administrators? In my experience teachers are often very open to different avenues of parental involvement and new education approaches but are often handcuffed by bureaucracy and poor administrators. I'm hoping these funds will act like a big fat carrot to get these administrations to update their lines of thinking and adapt.
This is extremely fascinating. I'm not quite sure how it becomes news for nerds. But fascinating none the less.
The mystery of the Elvii is a deep and dangerous one.
Ah... but the real question is: Why did they use the young Elvis Picture over the Old Fat Elvis Picture?
Maybe they didn't clone Elvis' passport but made Clone Elvis' passport.
Completely brain dead minds want to know...
When I first saw this, I thought to myself, you know who would really want this?
Drug Runners!
IThey already go through a lot of trouble to make cheap subs to get around customs. Well, this couldn't be too much more expensive and it's reusable and safe. And if they got picked up on radar... Well, they could brush up on dolphin mating calls.
I poster farther down seems to think so.
The weirdest is that Germany does not have a legal minimum wage yet any reputable(!) company pays well above what is minimum in comparable countries.
That's not terribly weird. I mean, as a land mass, Germany isn't very large. So, if I don't like what I'm getting paid, going to another country isn't that difficult of a commute. That is, the countries actually compete with each other and have similar standards of living. In the US, if you're not going to get your fair pay in this country, where are you going to go? Mexico? Canada? You might get a better wage in Canada, but who lives close enough to commute?
On the other hand, if the restaurant had paid for the translation service, would we have even heard of it?
There's a lot of things you can do while you're working. But, they may make you look odd to the causual observer.
I actually keep a pair of foam nunchucks at the office. While I'm thinking through a problem or waiting for some code to compile/process to complete, I whip them out.
Granted, real nunchucks would be better training, but I can't have weapons at work. (Those sticks in the mud.) And at least with the foam ones, I don't have to worry about bashing my computer screen in when they slip.
I went to a weeping jujutsu seminar once. They were teaching all sorts of hand locks and such. When the sensei came around to help us refine our techniques it was always a bitter sweet experience. He really knew what he was doing. And he was always eager to demonstrate.
I'm a highly introverted person and I found that Martial Arts worked well for me. The goals are internally focused, since your success or failure depends on you. Most will teach you exercises that you can carry on your own. It builds confidence. And there is just enough desire to keep up with your class mates that you stay motivated.
Of course, the downside is they are expensive and you can get some really bad teachers.
What stupidity would be required? Again, imagine you're an alien. You know these inferior beings represent no threat to you at all. Likewise, you know their civilization will deny your existence. Why, then, would you waste any spare cycles on camo?
You sir, just described an SEP Field.
We've had the automobile around for over a hundred years. It doesn't seem to stop every idiot and their cousin from colliding with stationary objects. I think there is a difference between technical malfunction and biological coordination/reasoning failures.
That is to say, you can have all the high tech sophistication and innovation you want, but if a nimrod or klutz gets a hold of it, you can throw it out the window. Anybody who has ever had to deal with tech support can attest to that.
No, but the coconuts aren't going to be happy.
You're right, users don't care about the the poorly written code.
They do however, care about the freezes, the crashes, the intensive processing times and general bugginess that the poorly written code brings. They don't know enough to know that one causes the other.
Sure the world isn't perfect. Every software project has crappy code in it. Mine included. But when you intentionally neglect the code, it shows in the final product. And that is something that OSS developers understand.
Granted, there was WWII going on and we were knee deep in major war. And it happened because FDR was handling the war effort well. So, there is some precedence for this sort of thing.
Will it happen to Bush? I think your calculation of the odds were pretty good. Even with a loop-hole in the patriot act, I think it would be nearly impossible.
Goodwills have a deal with Dell to recycle just about any computer hardware you bring them. No restrictions that I know of. And Goodwills are everywhere. As a bonus they'll make a little money on the stuff that's still good enough to resell.
When I was younger, I used to kill ant swarms by dribbling a basketball on them.
"Run! It's the giant orange orb of death! It decendeth from the sky to smite us for our foul meddling."
Yeah, you would. What's to stop the US Gov't from tying into those civilian networks? The government already has a relationship to a number of ISPs for purposes of wiretapping and packet sniffing. What sort of agreements, financial or political, would have to be made to allow them to slip in their computers?
Tin foil hats reasons aside, I don't think many ISP's would think twice at a chance to help the military.