I like the PR for Verizon's reaction to their hate site. Calling the site "pathetic" and "lame" gives the proper level of we-don't-care you want in your reaction. Maybe I have a future at the corporate level after all.
"What's really pathetic is not Verizon but this sort of lame Web site. In this day and age, anyone with a gripe can put up a Web site and make outrageous claims as the authors of this one did."
Because if you go from star to not-star, you gain weight. If you want to be a star again, you better lose the weight. So stars must have a weight limit.
What is acceptable for 16-year-olds isn't necessarily acceptable for my 16-year-old. What is acceptable for 10-year-olds isn't necessarily acceptable for my 10-year-old.
The basic flaw of age-based rating systems - this in includes movies, too - is that parents should know their kids best and determine what is most appropriate for them. A Mormon 13-year-old probably is going to be scandalized by relatively tame material.
That's why ratings should be based on content - language, sexuality, violence, etc. That way, that special population who think it's okay for games and movies to contain gratuitous violence, but absolutely no sex know which games to buy their children.
Your side of the coin is that you get some cash for your time. Their side of the coin is that what happens if they feel you didn't do what you said you would.
Nothing says bitter Thanksgiving like your aunt feeling like you shafted her out some cash. At least if you're working for free, you can always say, "I can't make any promises, but I'll look at it".
How rich does someone have to be to be "obscenely" rich? Better yet, where is the cutoff? At what point does the amount someone makes start to offend your sensibilities?
Well, I've been told if you know about how hard it is for a lot of people in this country to get enough heat to make it through a winter, and I still waste energy, I'm already obscenely rich.
But that's rubbish. If you can afford to wipe your ass with money and flush it, you're obscenely rich.
I went on over to Google News to see what other news organizations are calling this item worthy enough to mention. Notice that "Conspiracy Planet" is referencing this same article. What does that say about Slashdot?
And what does it say about what Google defines as news?
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I was in your boat. I graduated from a near-Ivy (think UNC, Northwestern, Stanford, etc.) with a *very* mediocre GPA (literally, find out the lowest GPA for which they'll give you a degree and add less than 0.1). I've been employed in the field of software engineering for every day of the 10 years since I've graduated.
Want to know how? It's all about exhibiting a willingness to work hard and take pride in your work. I've worked with guys who were smart, but of course, they thought they were too smart. It showed in their work because they couldn't do the job asked of them rather than the job they thought they should be doing.
Spend the rest of college passing your classes, of course, but also work on your interpersonal skills (drinking and partying foremost upon them). Oh, and stay out of serious trouble. If you can get a security clearance, you can always find a job in the field.
All I have to do is get my billions by the age of 40. Then I have 960 years of excellent retirement to look forward to.
Look here (http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/futuramamath/) re: the first episode of Futurama for the wonders of compound interest over a 1000-year period. You'll get your billions eventually.
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I like the PR for Verizon's reaction to their hate site. Calling the site "pathetic" and "lame" gives the proper level of we-don't-care you want in your reaction. Maybe I have a future at the corporate level after all.
"What's really pathetic is not Verizon but this sort of lame Web site. In this day and age, anyone with a gripe can put up a Web site and make outrageous claims as the authors of this one did."
Because if you go from star to not-star, you gain weight. If you want to be a star again, you better lose the weight. So stars must have a weight limit.
Oh wait ... I guess that's one more euphamism I can stop using.
This has to be the first time a CEO has used the word 'schwing!' in an official interview.
That's just because Derik Reese can't get an interview.
What is acceptable for 16-year-olds isn't necessarily acceptable for my 16-year-old. What is acceptable for 10-year-olds isn't necessarily acceptable for my 10-year-old.
The basic flaw of age-based rating systems - this in includes movies, too - is that parents should know their kids best and determine what is most appropriate for them. A Mormon 13-year-old probably is going to be scandalized by relatively tame material.
That's why ratings should be based on content - language, sexuality, violence, etc. That way, that special population who think it's okay for games and movies to contain gratuitous violence, but absolutely no sex know which games to buy their children.
Obfuscate. For the sole purpose of testing programmers who don't even know you exist, yet. Make a game of it.
1) All loops can be be rewritten as
do-while
loops. 2) Use the tertiary operator as much as possible. 3) Single statement
brackets are optional. 4) Remember, the compiler doesn't
care
where
you
put
the
carriage
returns.
How will you resolve disputes?
Your side of the coin is that you get some cash for your time. Their side of the coin is that what happens if they feel you didn't do what you said you would.
Nothing says bitter Thanksgiving like your aunt feeling like you shafted her out some cash. At least if you're working for free, you can always say, "I can't make any promises, but I'll look at it".
The easiest way to keep it cool to not run Intel.
Nor IBM
I used to be able to fit the system, the finder, mac write and 3 X 8K docs on a floppy. Now I could barely fit a word document.
Those word documents must be huge! Can you fit just the system, the finder, and mac write on a floppy?
Wouldn't cordless phones set this thing off constantly?
Or would cordless phones keep it from working correctly?
Women go near you?
Then what is the difference between talking to someone in your car, and talking to someone on a hands free headset.
Will knowing the difference suddenly make the effects of the two no longer approximate equal?
Stop putting your email address on your blog. And your phone number.
Does that mean there won't be any driver updates?
How rich does someone have to be to be "obscenely" rich? Better yet, where is the cutoff? At what point does the amount someone makes start to offend your sensibilities?
Well, I've been told if you know about how hard it is for a lot of people in this country to get enough heat to make it through a winter, and I still waste energy, I'm already obscenely rich.
But that's rubbish. If you can afford to wipe your ass with money and flush it, you're obscenely rich.
There's a link at the bottom of the page that explains the picture. http://space.mit.edu/~lewin/apod/
Come On. Read to the bottom!
I call it a skid mark. Whatever.
If I don't want Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail&News and Mozilla Thunderbird, what else *Open Source* e-mail clients can I choose in Windows?
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I went on over to Google News to see what other news organizations are calling this item worthy enough to mention. Notice that "Conspiracy Planet" is referencing this same article. What does that say about Slashdot?
And what does it say about what Google defines as news?
I was in your boat. I graduated from a near-Ivy (think UNC, Northwestern, Stanford, etc.) with a *very* mediocre GPA (literally, find out the lowest GPA for which they'll give you a degree and add less than 0.1). I've been employed in the field of software engineering for every day of the 10 years since I've graduated.
Want to know how? It's all about exhibiting a willingness to work hard and take pride in your work. I've worked with guys who were smart, but of course, they thought they were too smart. It showed in their work because they couldn't do the job asked of them rather than the job they thought they should be doing.
Spend the rest of college passing your classes, of course, but also work on your interpersonal skills (drinking and partying foremost upon them). Oh, and stay out of serious trouble. If you can get a security clearance, you can always find a job in the field.
All I have to do is get my billions by the age of 40. Then I have 960 years of excellent retirement to look forward to.
h /futuramamath/) re: the first episode of Futurama for the wonders of compound interest over a 1000-year period. You'll get your billions eventually.
Look here (http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmat
How long will it be before Firefox replaces IE?
Not sure
Any day now
We're still waiting for these to come to pass:
September 3, 2002
November 23, 1998
December 5, 2002
How long have people been saying the end of Microsoft is upon us?
The only other alternative is to stop immigrating people faster than we can expand the infrastructure they use.
Thank you for that bit of jingoism. Have some freedom fries on your way back to reality.
Maybe, just maybe, another alternative is to discourage massive numbers of no passenger vehicles on our highways.
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