Don't they also take a percentage? So if you have a shill bidding account, and you bid against your own item, and someone doesn't follow... don't you end up paying eBay more for a product you didn't actually sell?
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Erm, there's a good chance it would have gone largely unnoticed for months if the story hadn't made/.
To be fair, months can mean the difference between sinking thousands of dollars into a patent and deciding to defend it, or cutting it loose.
That's really good info, but it's obvious that you're reasonably wealthy. You have room for 48 panels, can manage a 31k installation, handled swinging the 30k difference in tax credits, and have a decorative metal roof. This is not something your average Chicago suburbanite is going to be able to swing effectively.
Is there another method that's more reasonable for joe sixpack?
Given that the rendering is indeed better in IE7, and the security is supposed to be better, I'm glad people may have had it installed without their knowledge. It's not that I'm a fan of installing stuff without notification because I'm some technocrat that thinks he knows better than everyone else, but really, how many people would even know that they should consider upgrading (even if for good reason)? It's kinda like folks that end up with 4 hours worth of security patches to download on a machine that's been connected directly to their cable/dsl modem. I prefer that it's done for them, without intervention. Otherwise that machine is going to end up pounding away on my stuff after it gets thrashed. In fact, most of these situations usually end up being cases where the owner would have said, "Sure, sounds good to me" to updates if they saw them. Seems to me that people who don't want specific updates know how to keep them from being installed.
I'm pretty sure he stopped getting blowjobs for a while.
Somehow I doubt that... but that's just speculation. OTOH, I'm pretty sure he didn't lie outright in grand jury testimony after that.
People seem to find it very easy to cruise right past being under oath in an investigation regarding obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses and other crimes that may have been committed during Jones vs. Clinton. Not good stuff, and intentionally hiding your relationship to people who are under investigation may have been relevant. I guess we'll never know the whole story, just like we'll probably never get the whole story on Bush and his nefarious dealings.
But hey, Clinton was personable, so it's just about witch hunts and blowjobs, not about accountability and the law... right?
It wasn't so much non-interest (I love to code) as it was more about doing it for someone else, 40 hours a week, with no sunlight.
Now I make less, but I make my own hours, often work from home over VPN, code when I want to code, do other things when i want to do other things, and have a decent office that has a wall of just windows (SUNLIGHT!). It was the smartest decision I ever made.
Oh, and I personally don't have any objection to any programming philosophy. Different situations require different things. In fact, you could say we used to practice XP (we weren't exactly working on DOD projects), we just didn't refer to our methodologies with any formal name at the time. It was amazing how a few guys working hard could crank out apps that rivaled multi-million-dollar projects in just a couple of months.
"That's called 'fear' in the world of programming. Instead of digging into an open source project, or just jumping in and seeing what you could do, you turned away, and asked others to make it easy for you. Learn to recognize your fear, and you can master it."
Wow, that was kinda Yoda-esque.:)
I'd say your best resource is people who have already been down the road you're trying to walk. That's what school is, after all.
As many people have said, since you have a specific project type in mind, it wouldn't hurt to read through a working example. Remember all those examples you labored over in school? There's a reason for that.
Then pick your specific goal, and work towards it. Don't let it slide because you're tired from work. If you find yourself doing that too often, consider that programming for a living might not be your perfect occupation.
This exact thing happened to me. I went to work as a programmer because I needed a job. Inside a few months I was one of the shop's most effective and imaginative employees... but I decided that I didn't like doing it, and I had an offer to do something different. I turned down a huge raise to get away from programming all day. I just didn't enjoy it anymore.
You're familiar with that hokey line about doing what you want to do and you never work a day? Turns out there's some serious wisdom in that.
We've already had a sickening number of discussions about how people just click OK to everything anyways.
When the IT staff "deploys" a new app by just making a shortcut, never really has to admin anything except the building connectivity, and the user doesn't even see an OK box, all authentication is once-off... shit, it almost sounds perfect.
I think you and i are a tiny minority about using something like an MS app online.
"It also says that the overall human effect on global warming since the industrial revolution is less than had been thought, due to the unexpected levels of cooling caused by aerosol sprays, which reflect heat from the sun."
Wow, so uh, the aerosol sprays were helping? Damn... I'm getting rid of these awful pump-style hairspray bottles!
You guys make a strong point, except I feel like I've seen this philosophy play out in Israel... and it doesn't sound like it has worked well for them. Clearly they worry less about public opinion, and more about pounding the opposition. In fact, they seem like they fit the cowboy model better than even the US. However, their problems stand unresolved.
I'm not really disagreeing with you (I'm no tactician), I'm just wondering why it doesn't seem to work for the Israelis.
This is going to sound awful, but I've almost stopped trying to come up with solutions. I've implemented some that others have tried and like, but I don't go out of my way. Nothing works well without serious compromises.
Honestly, I'm glad spam has doubled in the last six months. I say pile it on... but not because I'm some sort of masochist. It became clear to me a long time ago that the current technology for sending email just don't cut it anymore, and we need to move to something new. Anything new is going to be painful, and it has to be ubiquitous. The only way to get people to make a huge shift like that is to make it the obvious decision.
So, if spam levels are so bad that email isn't even useful anymore, people would consider switching. Now we need some smart people to come to a sweeping consensus on what we should move to so we can all hop on board.:)
IMHO, the best bet for Zudeo is to reinvent themselves as an iTunes competitor. If they created a frontend program to Azureus that did all the dirty work, they could at least compete in an arena where they're more likely to succeed. Streaming will still be an issue, but consumers may be willing to wait for High Def content.
Check out their beta app. I think they were aiming for the iTunes feel.
Oh, and they do occasionally use the sheet here... only it's often held up by police or CSO's.
The last I'd heard of that being done was when a train around here plowed through a lady's car that was stopped (broken down?) on the tracks. The worst part was that her phone was beeping in the car with a voicemail. Her husband had seen a bad accident and called his wife to see if she was ok. My buddy was on duty when it happened... he was holding the sheet. One of the most awful stories I've ever heard.:(
A few years ago we had some paintings on a building by one of our highways (the kennedy expresway). I saw people stop their cars on the damn expressway
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OpenOffice. Then save it to an open format, and rest assured that google docs will import and export it nicely.
Well put.
Tell AMD that using Salesforce for their CRM means they're not a "real company".
Don't they also take a percentage?
So if you have a shill bidding account, and you bid against your own item, and someone doesn't follow... don't you end up paying eBay more for a product you didn't actually sell?
Erm, there's a good chance it would have gone largely unnoticed for months if the story hadn't made /.
To be fair, months can mean the difference between sinking thousands of dollars into a patent and deciding to defend it, or cutting it loose.
That's really good info, but it's obvious that you're reasonably wealthy. You have room for 48 panels, can manage a 31k installation, handled swinging the 30k difference in tax credits, and have a decorative metal roof. This is not something your average Chicago suburbanite is going to be able to swing effectively.
Is there another method that's more reasonable for joe sixpack?
Given that the rendering is indeed better in IE7, and the security is supposed to be better, I'm glad people may have had it installed without their knowledge. It's not that I'm a fan of installing stuff without notification because I'm some technocrat that thinks he knows better than everyone else, but really, how many people would even know that they should consider upgrading (even if for good reason)? It's kinda like folks that end up with 4 hours worth of security patches to download on a machine that's been connected directly to their cable/dsl modem. I prefer that it's done for them, without intervention. Otherwise that machine is going to end up pounding away on my stuff after it gets thrashed. In fact, most of these situations usually end up being cases where the owner would have said, "Sure, sounds good to me" to updates if they saw them. Seems to me that people who don't want specific updates know how to keep them from being installed.
Last time I did an IE7 install it wasn't a silent process. Is there some way that this would happen without a customized install script?
Sounds like you've thought it out.
So what are these guys selling?
Those are straightforward examples. If I'm carrying boxes and fall down the stairs, I don't deserve 40 million people laughing at me.
Damnit.
Best get it on Ebay before everyone has one.
I'm optimistic that people will stop assuming that Democrats, Republicans or any other particular party can solve their problems.
Notice both chrisckemp.com and the Google/Nasa site are running DotNetNuke?
I'm pretty sure he stopped getting blowjobs for a while.
Somehow I doubt that... but that's just speculation. OTOH, I'm pretty sure he didn't lie outright in grand jury testimony after that.
People seem to find it very easy to cruise right past being under oath in an investigation regarding obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses and other crimes that may have been committed during Jones vs. Clinton. Not good stuff, and intentionally hiding your relationship to people who are under investigation may have been relevant. I guess we'll never know the whole story, just like we'll probably never get the whole story on Bush and his nefarious dealings.
But hey, Clinton was personable, so it's just about witch hunts and blowjobs, not about accountability and the law... right?
Worst. Summary. Ever.
We're discussing it over on alt.nerd.obsessive
...oh thank god.
It wasn't so much non-interest (I love to code) as it was more about doing it for someone else, 40 hours a week, with no sunlight.
Now I make less, but I make my own hours, often work from home over VPN, code when I want to code, do other things when i want to do other things, and have a decent office that has a wall of just windows (SUNLIGHT!). It was the smartest decision I ever made.
Oh, and I personally don't have any objection to any programming philosophy. Different situations require different things. In fact, you could say we used to practice XP (we weren't exactly working on DOD projects), we just didn't refer to our methodologies with any formal name at the time. It was amazing how a few guys working hard could crank out apps that rivaled multi-million-dollar projects in just a couple of months.
"That's called 'fear' in the world of programming. Instead of digging into an open source project, or just jumping in and seeing what you could do, you turned away, and asked others to make it easy for you. Learn to recognize your fear, and you can master it."
:)
Wow, that was kinda Yoda-esque.
I'd say your best resource is people who have already been down the road you're trying to walk. That's what school is, after all.
As many people have said, since you have a specific project type in mind, it wouldn't hurt to read through a working example. Remember all those examples you labored over in school? There's a reason for that.
Then pick your specific goal, and work towards it. Don't let it slide because you're tired from work. If you find yourself doing that too often, consider that programming for a living might not be your perfect occupation.
This exact thing happened to me. I went to work as a programmer because I needed a job. Inside a few months I was one of the shop's most effective and imaginative employees... but I decided that I didn't like doing it, and I had an offer to do something different. I turned down a huge raise to get away from programming all day. I just didn't enjoy it anymore.
You're familiar with that hokey line about doing what you want to do and you never work a day? Turns out there's some serious wisdom in that.
We've already had a sickening number of discussions about how people just click OK to everything anyways.
When the IT staff "deploys" a new app by just making a shortcut, never really has to admin anything except the building connectivity, and the user doesn't even see an OK box, all authentication is once-off... shit, it almost sounds perfect.
I think you and i are a tiny minority about using something like an MS app online.
"It also says that the overall human effect on global warming since the industrial revolution is less than had been thought, due to the unexpected levels of cooling caused by aerosol sprays, which reflect heat from the sun."
Wow, so uh, the aerosol sprays were helping? Damn... I'm getting rid of these awful pump-style hairspray bottles!
You guys make a strong point, except I feel like I've seen this philosophy play out in Israel... and it doesn't sound like it has worked well for them. Clearly they worry less about public opinion, and more about pounding the opposition. In fact, they seem like they fit the cowboy model better than even the US. However, their problems stand unresolved.
I'm not really disagreeing with you (I'm no tactician), I'm just wondering why it doesn't seem to work for the Israelis.
Yeah, really.
/. article. How lazy can the editors get?
"Guns bad! Discuss."
What a fantastic
This is going to sound awful, but I've almost stopped trying to come up with solutions. I've implemented some that others have tried and like, but I don't go out of my way. Nothing works well without serious compromises.
:)
Honestly, I'm glad spam has doubled in the last six months. I say pile it on... but not because I'm some sort of masochist. It became clear to me a long time ago that the current technology for sending email just don't cut it anymore, and we need to move to something new. Anything new is going to be painful, and it has to be ubiquitous. The only way to get people to make a huge shift like that is to make it the obvious decision.
So, if spam levels are so bad that email isn't even useful anymore, people would consider switching. Now we need some smart people to come to a sweeping consensus on what we should move to so we can all hop on board.
IMHO, the best bet for Zudeo is to reinvent themselves as an iTunes competitor. If they created a frontend program to Azureus that did all the dirty work, they could at least compete in an arena where they're more likely to succeed. Streaming will still be an issue, but consumers may be willing to wait for High Def content.
Check out their beta app. I think they were aiming for the iTunes feel.
Oh, and they do occasionally use the sheet here... only it's often held up by police or CSO's.
:(
The last I'd heard of that being done was when a train around here plowed through a lady's car that was stopped (broken down?) on the tracks. The worst part was that her phone was beeping in the car with a voicemail. Her husband had seen a bad accident and called his wife to see if she was ok. My buddy was on duty when it happened... he was holding the sheet. One of the most awful stories I've ever heard.
A few years ago we had some paintings on a building by one of our highways (the kennedy expresway). I saw people stop their cars on the damn expressway
;)
Yeah, but it IS really cool.