It's like picking up a hooker to have someone to talk to while playing blackjack, then getting thrown out for counting cards even though you were just trying to make sure they were 52 in the deck, then a cop seeing you starting your own car with a screwdriver and arresting you for soliciting prostitution when he sees who you're with. Not a perfect analogy, but it happened to a friend of mine once.
My employer will pay my tuition for graduate school, on the condition that I work for them for 2 years. If I quit, the employer could file a lawsuit to recover any tuition they paid in the last 2 years.
That's the only reason I could see an employee getting sued for leaving with short notice..
I've seen a lot of posts saying the employer doesn't give 2 weeks notice. I've seen a lot of employees let go with no notice at all (well... once we had a day where they started firing people in the morning and you had to wait all day and see if you were still there at the end). But every employee I've known to get let go from here has received at least a couple months pay.
This merely converts "Mr2cents" to binary, which he should have done originally - this is slashdot. With the change in value of pennies, the login should become "Mr1010cents".
I've got a Wii and I don't know what to do now that I finished Zelda (first Zelda I've played to completion although I've been trying the original on and off for a couple decades.. the online walkthroughs helped)
I just talked to a friend who bought a 360 last year and loved it. It's been out for an extra year, so there's just a lot more stuff to do with it. Unfortunately his 360 broke last weekend, 1 month after the 12 month warranty expired.
I must be doing something wrong, because there's only 1 message in my gmail spam folder, and it's from MLB.com, a site I've made purchases from this year. I haven't seen any email from any genuine "spam" sources in a long time (probably never since I switched to gmail). Anything that hits my inbox is a conversation with a friend or an advertisement from a site I've done business with recently.
XP has DRM problems too. After weeks of the stupid thing telling me there were updates available, I finally gave the ok to install IE7 (I use Firefox). The installer starts and told me it needed to validate my copy of Windows... sure what the hell, I paid for it... the stupid "Validating Windows" window was on the screen for at least 5 minutes before I decided to close it.
Before anybody recommends Ubuntu.. I will install it, after I'm done with Zelda.
The same crazy company that makes people walk 100 yards to *buy* coffee. Where I work, the coffee is free, and about 2 feet from my office door. If the company didn't supply it, the employees would bring in their own coffee and coffee pot before ever walking that far for it.
If you ignore the first part of the sentence you get: "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
But why would they add the first part of the sentence if they didn't mean anything by it?
To paraphrase the whole thing: The right of the people to keep and bear arms in the context of a well regulated Militia, as long as it's necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed.
So if you are a member of a well regulated militia who's goal is to maintain the security of a free state (armed forces, law enforcement), and your particular militia grants you a weapon, then the 2nd amendment gives you the right to keep and bear it.
Not that I want all the guns taken away from citizens in the US, I just don't think the 2nd amendment gives means anything anymore. I live in northern Minnesota, and almost everybody hunts and there are a lot of guns around. A lot of people would be mad if they couldn't have their rifles and shotguns. Most of us would be happy if the handguns were taken away. The most stupid death we've had in this town was a girl who was taking a picture looking down the barrel of a pistol. For some reason he pulled the trigger, he claims he didn't know it was loaded.
However, we've learned our lesson, and have secured the airplanes better. In addition, I doubt, HIGHLY DOUBT, that they could get anywhere close to doing the same thing, given the same circumstances, mainly because the passengers wouldn't stand for it.
It was shown by the 4th plane on September 11th that passengers won't stand for it, and they did stop the plane from reaching its target, but all of the passengers died.
The only real airline security of course would be to seal off the cockpit, and fill the cabin with the gas the dentist uses and keep everybody in the passenger area "controlled". The terrorists will bring gas masks, so there will be automatic weapons to disable anybody who stands up.
Is this satellite not totally useless without notifying someone?
Maybe the satellite is tracking thousands of things at a time. I would bet it does send notification emails for everything, but anybody who gets them all has them marked as spam.
I switched to FireFox, but it would be nice to be able to use Internet Explorer without Zango. I've tried several times to get rid of it with Ad-Aware. Anybody know how an easy way to get rid of it?
It's pretty obvious that the ground clocks and shuttle clocks are reset before each launch, so why don't they just set the clocks to some date that won't cause a rollover? Pretend they are launching in July instead of December. I used to change my computer's clock all the time to mess with time expiring software.
Dijkstra said it was impossible to teach good programming to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC.
I had prior exposure to BASIC. In fact, the only programming class I ever learned anything in was a summer "College for Kids" BASIC class when I was 11. After that, I was self taught. Paid for quite of bit of college writing shareware. When I finally got around to taking programming classes my 3rd year of college, I'd taught myself well enough that I didn't need to go to class except for the exams. It seemed most of the other students struggled. I hated group assignments in computer science classes.
My argument to Dijkstra would be it's hard to teach good programming to anybody. The person needs to learn it for themselves.
But yeah... it did happen so fast. I mean, Google *started* in 1998... the web (and Yahoo) were already pretty established by that time.
I can remember using Google long before September of 1998, because I was introduced to Google by a classmate who I have not seen since I left that school in the spring of 1998. Is the real Google start date out there anywhere?
Are you thinking of a megarobot march? I could see 1,048,576 robots attending one of those.... or one huge, or "mega", robot. Either way, I imagine there will be plenty of alcohol on hand.
Futurama wouldn't do that, they'd know that there's near zero chance of throwing something out of the ISS and then meeting it again. Sure, if you don't put much change in velocity on the thing, it will follow you around for quite a while, but it won't hit you.
More likely, the space suit would make a splat on the delivery ship's windshield and Leela would turn on the wipers to clean it off.
Mac OS X has been "leading a secret double life" for the past five years, said Jobs. "So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years." http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate/index.php [macworld.com] why cant they just run the normal Max OS X binaries on X86 if they're universal binaries like they speak of?
They do not have "universal binaries". They have one set of binaries for the PPC, and one set of binaries for Intel.
Apparently binary applications for PPC OS X will run through emulation on Intel OS X, but that will still require having the Intel binaries for OS X.
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Didn't he already die saving the Earth? Do we have to rely on Ben Affleck?
It's like picking up a hooker to have someone to talk to while playing blackjack, then getting thrown out for counting cards even though you were just trying to make sure they were 52 in the deck, then a cop seeing you starting your own car with a screwdriver and arresting you for soliciting prostitution when he sees who you're with. Not a perfect analogy, but it happened to a friend of mine once.
That's the only reason I could see an employee getting sued for leaving with short notice..
I've seen a lot of posts saying the employer doesn't give 2 weeks notice. I've seen a lot of employees let go with no notice at all (well... once we had a day where they started firing people in the morning and you had to wait all day and see if you were still there at the end). But every employee I've known to get let go from here has received at least a couple months pay.
This merely converts "Mr2cents" to binary, which he should have done originally - this is slashdot. With the change in value of pennies, the login should become "Mr1010cents".
I just talked to a friend who bought a 360 last year and loved it. It's been out for an extra year, so there's just a lot more stuff to do with it. Unfortunately his 360 broke last weekend, 1 month after the 12 month warranty expired.
I must be doing something wrong, because there's only 1 message in my gmail spam folder, and it's from MLB.com, a site I've made purchases from this year. I haven't seen any email from any genuine "spam" sources in a long time (probably never since I switched to gmail). Anything that hits my inbox is a conversation with a friend or an advertisement from a site I've done business with recently.
Before anybody recommends Ubuntu.. I will install it, after I'm done with Zelda.
I had my doubts about that being a word, but it is in the http://urbandictionary.com/
The same crazy company that makes people walk 100 yards to *buy* coffee. Where I work, the coffee is free, and about 2 feet from my office door. If the company didn't supply it, the employees would bring in their own coffee and coffee pot before ever walking that far for it.
But why would they add the first part of the sentence if they didn't mean anything by it?
To paraphrase the whole thing: The right of the people to keep and bear arms in the context of a well regulated Militia, as long as it's necessary to the security of a free State, shall not be infringed.
So if you are a member of a well regulated militia who's goal is to maintain the security of a free state (armed forces, law enforcement), and your particular militia grants you a weapon, then the 2nd amendment gives you the right to keep and bear it.
Not that I want all the guns taken away from citizens in the US, I just don't think the 2nd amendment gives means anything anymore. I live in northern Minnesota, and almost everybody hunts and there are a lot of guns around. A lot of people would be mad if they couldn't have their rifles and shotguns. Most of us would be happy if the handguns were taken away. The most stupid death we've had in this town was a girl who was taking a picture looking down the barrel of a pistol. For some reason he pulled the trigger, he claims he didn't know it was loaded.
It was shown by the 4th plane on September 11th that passengers won't stand for it, and they did stop the plane from reaching its target, but all of the passengers died.
The only real airline security of course would be to seal off the cockpit, and fill the cabin with the gas the dentist uses and keep everybody in the passenger area "controlled". The terrorists will bring gas masks, so there will be automatic weapons to disable anybody who stands up.
Maybe the satellite is tracking thousands of things at a time. I would bet it does send notification emails for everything, but anybody who gets them all has them marked as spam.
I switched to FireFox, but it would be nice to be able to use Internet Explorer without Zango. I've tried several times to get rid of it with Ad-Aware. Anybody know how an easy way to get rid of it?
My karma's going to take a hit for saying this, but it always seems like anybody who mentions taking a karma hit gets rated 5.
How much vacation time does this future replacement of yours get? What if they want a day off in the 10 weeks that you are unreachable?
But why would you want a Ford that wasn't black?
It's pretty obvious that the ground clocks and shuttle clocks are reset before each launch, so why don't they just set the clocks to some date that won't cause a rollover? Pretend they are launching in July instead of December. I used to change my computer's clock all the time to mess with time expiring software.
I had prior exposure to BASIC. In fact, the only programming class I ever learned anything in was a summer "College for Kids" BASIC class when I was 11. After that, I was self taught. Paid for quite of bit of college writing shareware. When I finally got around to taking programming classes my 3rd year of college, I'd taught myself well enough that I didn't need to go to class except for the exams. It seemed most of the other students struggled. I hated group assignments in computer science classes.
My argument to Dijkstra would be it's hard to teach good programming to anybody. The person needs to learn it for themselves.
You must not have cable. It was on C-Span and CNN.
I can remember using Google long before September of 1998, because I was introduced to Google by a classmate who I have not seen since I left that school in the spring of 1998. Is the real Google start date out there anywhere?
Maybe they just expect the loss to be smaller if they wait. Potentially the loss could grow...
Are you thinking of a megarobot march? I could see 1,048,576 robots attending one of those.... or one huge, or "mega", robot. Either way, I imagine there will be plenty of alcohol on hand.
More likely, the space suit would make a splat on the delivery ship's windshield and Leela would turn on the wipers to clean it off.
They do not have "universal binaries". They have one set of binaries for the PPC, and one set of binaries for Intel.
Apparently binary applications for PPC OS X will run through emulation on Intel OS X, but that will still require having the Intel binaries for OS X.
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy
HHGG -> H2G2