I've never understood the infatuation with flip-phones
flip phone = larger screen & buttons.
That said, Nokia's interface is sooo much better than anything else anyone has to offer and Nokia haven't made a small, well featured flip phone, so I'm sticking with candy bar phones for the moment.
The funniest thing in 24 was the second season. I didn't watch much but 3 episode cycle seemed to go like this: 1. Oh noes terrorists are going to do X (where X is kill secretary of state etc) 2. Jack foils the dastardly terrorists 3. Oh noes it turns out the terrorists have another plant, X was just a cover
Seriously it was like a Russian doll of plans. How long did these guys have plan this stuff? Why did they plan for *everything* to fail?
And they can grade papers whenever (most teachers do not teach every period and class ends at 2:30)
Teachers also have staff meetings. They also need to plan and organise lessons.
as well as put in for tax credit for unreimbursed job expenses
Which will not completely reimburse them for the money spent.
So your 'good' teachers can't apportion their time well or figure out the tax system, eh? They should be glad they don't have a job that is based on accountability or did not have legally mandated pay increases.
I think you should stick to talking about stuff you know.
Sorry that wasn't mean as a really serious comment. More of an obervation that most people who talk about courses being hard tend to talk about theirs being the hardest.
I also trained as an engineer (Mechatronic) and we looked down on everyone who wasn't an engineer. We also had a similar subject load & difficulty, in general a heavier load than most other courses at the university. The only people we looked up to were the electrical engineers. Actually it was more like pity than looking up to, they had the heaviest workload of all the engineers and the worst teaching staff.
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I've worked with architects. One thing I think that is different about software is that you can change things once they are in place. That is it is possible to move the whole building 100m down the road. The very changability tempts people to change things, which causes problems.
Secondly I think people know more what they want when it comes to buildings because the options are more restricted. In software there are no restrictions on what can be built (although you can run into performance restrictions).
I'm sure the code to interface with the gfx card isn't written in.Net. On the other hand all the UE stuff for the control panel is written in.Net. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it is probably easier to write and maintain.
My actual point is that Microsoft has caused problems for.Net programmers by not destributing the.Net runtime to desktops. Far from being the next great platform (which it was sold as),.Net has been largely relegated to servers where the environment can be controlled. ATI has done a better job of putting the.Net runtime on desktops than Microsoft.
The problem is partly interia. The problem is also that the sexy area of linux distros is still server side and command line. And that is not what desktop users want.
In Australia we have the lowest unemployment we have had for some time. However the quality of the work has dropped from the perspective of the employee. There are far more jobs that are casual only, with people working more than one casual job to make up a full time job. As you say unemployment figures aren't everything.
How can Microsoft simultaneously focus on their large enterprise customers (who have hundreds of thousands of end users) and simultaneously stop focusing on end users?
Microsoft sells home and business versions of Vista. QED.
My problem with American attitudes to communism are: 1) The cold war was less a clash of ideologies one than a clash of two countries, or more accurately two power blocks. Communism was not the sole factor. 2) Communism was used as a catch all phrase to describe things that it did not encompass, dividing the world into those against us and those for us. Rather like the war on terror. This gave rise to views that there was a vast and unified enemy. Giving a real example, Vietnam. This had nothing to do with communism, everything to do with nationalism and colonialism. 3) If communism is so broken it will be apparent. And it is apparent now that is broken and always has been. Nice theory, broken in practice in so many ways. In this day and age communism isn't something to be afraid of. It's a slightly quaint view. Rather like someone who believes the earth is flat.
Addressing one of your points, the US "started brushfire wars around the world to increase the extent of their hegemony". And "All the while talking up 'peace' and sponsoring 'peace organizations'". Do you know that the US is the only democracy in the world to invade another democracy? The dominican republic.
Yes, I hate the whole concept, whatever spin you put on it and whomever happens to be engaging in the 'science' of Marxism/Leninism.
Why? I think it is unworkable but that doesn't necessarily mean I hate it.
That may be part of the reason why they hold that view. However they are misinformed. Christians are also called to be stewards of the world. So while the world has been given to them, it was given to them to take care of.
I wanted to schedule a couple of drives being added to a server. a) They got me the wrong parts (which meant two visits from a tech) b) It took 2 months for the whole process
Dell has this retarded sales model where they segment the market into home, small business and large business. This means they charge more to their business customers. To get the same price as Joe average consumer pays you have to fight them for a discount. And when you have to fight for a discount you never quite know if you have pushed them enough.
They also sell substantially the same products and don't differentiate them well.
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Yeah I am looking to get something to fix it over the weekend. Been a little too busy with work to do anything about if for a week or so.
I've never understood the infatuation with flip-phones
flip phone = larger screen & buttons.
That said, Nokia's interface is sooo much better than anything else anyone has to offer and Nokia haven't made a small, well featured flip phone, so I'm sticking with candy bar phones for the moment.
The fan on my graphics card has died, so at the moment my case is open with a room fan pointing at the graphics card.
The funniest thing in 24 was the second season. I didn't watch much but 3 episode cycle seemed to go like this:
1. Oh noes terrorists are going to do X (where X is kill secretary of state etc)
2. Jack foils the dastardly terrorists
3. Oh noes it turns out the terrorists have another plant, X was just a cover
Seriously it was like a Russian doll of plans. How long did these guys have plan this stuff? Why did they plan for *everything* to fail?
And they can grade papers whenever (most teachers do not teach every period and class ends at 2:30)
Teachers also have staff meetings. They also need to plan and organise lessons.
as well as put in for tax credit for unreimbursed job expenses
Which will not completely reimburse them for the money spent.
So your 'good' teachers can't apportion their time well or figure out the tax system, eh?
They should be glad they don't have a job that is based on accountability or did not have legally mandated pay increases.
I think you should stick to talking about stuff you know.
Sorry that wasn't mean as a really serious comment. More of an obervation that most people who talk about courses being hard tend to talk about theirs being the hardest.
I also trained as an engineer (Mechatronic) and we looked down on everyone who wasn't an engineer. We also had a similar subject load & difficulty, in general a heavier load than most other courses at the university. The only people we looked up to were the electrical engineers. Actually it was more like pity than looking up to, they had the heaviest workload of all the engineers and the worst teaching staff.
To me it seems Netscape has lost his reputation as best browser.
Wow. Welcome to 1999.
Who would have thought that your degree somehow ended up as the hardest one on that list?
someone claiming perl is a bad language can't possibly be expected to think for himself without falling over on the pavement every time.
Someone who can't read the article and at least agree with some of it can't be expected to do more than dribble and make goo goo noises.
I digress.
I was being sarcastic. I wasn't trying for flamebait. Somehow that seems to have passed over your head, like my finely honed article on perl.
Haha I got modded flamebait. I was going for funny.
Give 'em hell for me Jack. Protect those kiddies!
I've worked with architects. One thing I think that is different about software is that you can change things once they are in place. That is it is possible to move the whole building 100m down the road. The very changability tempts people to change things, which causes problems.
Secondly I think people know more what they want when it comes to buildings because the options are more restricted. In software there are no restrictions on what can be built (although you can run into performance restrictions).
Thirdly you can see and touch a building.
I'm sure the code to interface with the gfx card isn't written in .Net. On the other hand all the UE stuff for the control panel is written in .Net. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it is probably easier to write and maintain.
.Net programmers by not destributing the .Net runtime to desktops. Far from being the next great platform (which it was sold as), .Net has been largely relegated to servers where the environment can be controlled. ATI has done a better job of putting the .Net runtime on desktops than Microsoft.
My actual point is that Microsoft has caused problems for
And yet they miss key features like WPA.
The problem is partly interia. The problem is also that the sexy area of linux distros is still server side and command line. And that is not what desktop users want.
As a .Net programmmer I love this options for ATI. They do a better job of ensuring the .Net runtime is running on a desktop than Microsoft does.
In Australia we have the lowest unemployment we have had for some time. However the quality of the work has dropped from the perspective of the employee. There are far more jobs that are casual only, with people working more than one casual job to make up a full time job. As you say unemployment figures aren't everything.
How can Microsoft simultaneously focus on their large enterprise customers (who have hundreds of thousands of end users) and simultaneously stop focusing on end users?
Microsoft sells home and business versions of Vista. QED.
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My problem with American attitudes to communism are:
1) The cold war was less a clash of ideologies one than a clash of two countries, or more accurately two power blocks. Communism was not the sole factor.
2) Communism was used as a catch all phrase to describe things that it did not encompass, dividing the world into those against us and those for us. Rather like the war on terror. This gave rise to views that there was a vast and unified enemy. Giving a real example, Vietnam. This had nothing to do with communism, everything to do with nationalism and colonialism.
3) If communism is so broken it will be apparent. And it is apparent now that is broken and always has been. Nice theory, broken in practice in so many ways. In this day and age communism isn't something to be afraid of. It's a slightly quaint view. Rather like someone who believes the earth is flat.
Addressing one of your points, the US "started brushfire wars around the world to increase the extent of their hegemony". And "All the while talking up 'peace' and sponsoring 'peace organizations'". Do you know that the US is the only democracy in the world to invade another democracy? The dominican republic.
Yes, I hate the whole concept, whatever spin you put on it and whomever happens to be engaging in the 'science' of Marxism/Leninism.
Why? I think it is unworkable but that doesn't necessarily mean I hate it.
I simply don't understand how a product so prominent in the open source community that has been around for so long can still suck so bad
It doesn't run on a server and it has a GUI.
I think I've asked this before, but why do American's hate comunists? It seems such an irrational fear/dislike.
That may be part of the reason why they hold that view. However they are misinformed. Christians are also called to be stewards of the world. So while the world has been given to them, it was given to them to take care of.
Yes.
I wanted to schedule a couple of drives being added to a server.
a) They got me the wrong parts (which meant two visits from a tech)
b) It took 2 months for the whole process
Dell has this retarded sales model where they segment the market into home, small business and large business. This means they charge more to their business customers. To get the same price as Joe average consumer pays you have to fight them for a discount. And when you have to fight for a discount you never quite know if you have pushed them enough.
They also sell substantially the same products and don't differentiate them well.
But lawyers are evil. Slashdot told me so.
The trend seems to favor this; every time I see a news item on Slashdot along these lines I give a small cheer.
You must be hoarse.