I don't remember anything else from that first season lasting more than a year or two.
Or anything since. Man, I can remember some of bad shows they tried to see if they would stick just because they were science fictionish:
7 Days... crap!
That one with the monsters running amock... crap
Why the hell can't they pay a tiny amount of their budget to a good science fiction writer is beyond me.
Why do those who oppose something government does (e.g. the current mess we're in in Iraq) instantaneously jump the gun and say we should be spending the money on something else? Why can't we KEEP our well earned money for a change? Why must we spend it on *your* favorite badly-run corrupt government-sponsored program?
Always go back to the essence. People question the spending of public money on a particular program but rarely question the source of that public money in the first place, its very spending (and taking).
I've been voting Libertarian every election since Reagan, and it's not working.
It's working perfectly for me, I can go to the poll, cast my ballot for my favorite party and not feel like I need a deep shower afterwards. That to me is enough.
I recently read (here in/. as a matter of fact) about a bumper sticker:
I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, Vote Kuthulu 2004.
Either way, Its better than voting for either side of the totalitarian party.
Just this week my hard drive crashed and I had to install from scratch. Moved from RH9 to Fedora. Was there something in RH9 that made my hard drive crash?
Mhh, my memory fails, but I remember that applesoft basic had a way to renumber the whole thing in 10 increments so you could put things in the middle if you forgot something.
It's not only visiting. I am a member of every museum and zoo I visit regularly (SFMOMA, Crocker in Sacramento, ZFZoo, Folsom Zoo), I give each a chunk of change a year, plus money I spend in their stores and food stops.
I also tell everyone I can about it when it comes up. e.g. This and previous post.
During my last visit to the Exploratorium (about 5 years ago), I remember seeing a display in which they had (behind a "closed casket" I guess so as not to scare little children) a complete human skeleton. In prominent letters it stated clearly that women have one pair less of ribs than men.
I'm not sure what medical textbook they are using, but I hope that my doctor doesn't use it.
I boycott the museum whenever I can since
Not necesarily, I once took the counteroffer, because it was too sweet to pass (about 1.33 times what I was making before). But I mostly took it because the new job didn't seem that much fun. I did quit for a job I liked 4 months later though, with the big advantage that because I was already making that amount of money my salary history looked better..
Forget that, just so that I can have cell reception in my house (a nicely secluded lot in the middle of a city, but one in a ravine without any reception at all).
I have to wonder...
None of the galaxies in this image seems different in color from something like Andromeda. Are these images manipulated? perhaps all colors shift and while some dissapear into the infrared you see new ones coming in from the ultraviolet?
Peeve of mine... why does every appliance in the modern kitchen need to come with a digital clock and kitchen timer? I count five as I stand in my kitchen. I DON'T want another clock in my can opener! They are a pain to set (the U.I. in each one is slightly difference) and everytime we have a blackout (about twice a year), or I'm working on the lights, or when I need to adjust savings time I have to set all of them over again.
C'mon, learn from software engineering: Create components that do ONE thing only and do it well.
In the U.S.
Add to that:
Sales tax (another 7.5% on everything you buy, sometimes more).
Property taxes
License and permit fees for everything under the sun.
Bonds and similar
Did you put in the 7.5% of social insecurity your employer pays on your behalf?
Direct and indirect costs to comply with uncountable regulations.
I bet the actual number is much higher than 60% in the U.S.
It is time that dumb republicans and dumb democrats figure it out: any law passed with the nicest of intentions can and WILL be used against you once the other party is in power.
It is only by looking at all possible side effects of your laws that you should be deciding.
The same laws that yesterday were being used to stop drug traffic are now being used on you. Same goes with those well intentioned laws that are being passed today to combat terrorism, you will see much more of them and much more closely.
Because it's too cold and the atmosphere is too thin for windshield wiper fluid to last in a liquid state. (at least at the height at which the solar panels are mounted)
You are going to make me cry. I loved seeing the game again! I bought that game when it was first out and played it to the end in my old IIc. I wish I knew what I did with the pocket fluff and Peril Sensitive Sunglasses that came with it. I'm sure they are in a box somewhere (it doesn't seem like the kind of thing I would throw away).
I'll have a blast replaying this game, thanks.
Please note Ron Paul there. Once Libertarian Candidate for President Ron "Dr. No" Paul is nicknamed that because he votes no on principle more often than any other congressman, I think he is one of the few (if not only) M.D's in congress as well.
He deserves an honorable mention.
Would you have entered the same boycott if the Exploratorium had an exhibit stating that the nearest star was 8.4 light years (double the truth)?
Not likely, I would have been upset, but not as much as I am by the source.
Traditional judeo-christian religion IS anti-science in that it places blind faith above observation and reason. It is anti-mind in the same way, and it is anti-human in that it totally ignores our very essence: human=rational animal. I disagree with you, science (in essence believing that our observation and reason trump all else) and religion (founded on blind faith despite our senses and reason) ARE mutually exclusive.
But this is probably not the best forum to discuss this.
It didn't say anything about the Garden of Eden, but I know of very few other mythologies that imply that the number of bones in a man are different than in a woman.
I do not doubt my knowledge (I don't like to call them beliefs), do you doubt men have the same number of ribs as women?.
A place that calls itself a scientific museum is not worthy of my $x if it has something as basic as this wrong, especially because of the source of the misake: anti-science, anti-mind, anti-human.
I refuse to visit the place ever since (about 4 years ago) I went and saw a skeleton they had, with a very clear sign explaining the difference in the number of ribs between men and women. Presumably having to do with the Garden of Eden mythos.
I certainly took no offense, and I hope you take no offense when I say I can't believe anyone would pass up a contract just because of a lack of source control.
Maybe I exagerated, not *just* because of a lack of source control, but that is one question that I do ask and I find it indicative of the maturity of the environment I'll be working with.
If the place is immature, chaotic and unwilling to learn and apply good engineering practices (which in part is why my expertise is valuable) then I'm not sure I want to set myself up for failure. Can your project succeed without good engineering practices? Most certainly! Can it fail because of lack of them? Likely. It's a risk assesment that I do, and I have turned down gigs that smell fishy, even if they are otherwise ok. Most of the times it doesn't matter though, because the kind of shop that doesn't value these things often doesn't value a good Software Engineer either.
No offense, but I hope I'm never in a project with you.
Programming (at any level, small OR large) without source control is like playing in the high trapeze without a net, yeah, you can do it, and if you're really good you'll get away with it for a while, but when you miss you'll be sorry.
Source control gives you a backup of your work, a storyline of what you've changed add to that the advantages of such a system when working with more people and I really can't imagine not having a source control system.
As a consultant, it is the first question I asked before taking on a project: what do you use for source control. I run away if they don't have one and are not willing to let me install one.
Slashdot Mirror
will upgrade as soon as the slashdot effect is gone from the download sites
Actually, you I thought of it backwards, I wanted to download from the torrent while it was still hot. *Much* faster than using FTP or HTTP.
I don't remember anything else from that first season lasting more than a year or two.
Or anything since. Man, I can remember some of bad shows they tried to see if they would stick just because they were science fictionish:
7 Days... crap!
That one with the monsters running amock... crap
Why the hell can't they pay a tiny amount of their budget to a good science fiction writer is beyond me.
Why do those who oppose something government does (e.g. the current mess we're in in Iraq) instantaneously jump the gun and say we should be spending the money on something else? Why can't we KEEP our well earned money for a change? Why must we spend it on *your* favorite badly-run corrupt government-sponsored program?
Always go back to the essence. People question the spending of public money on a particular program but rarely question the source of that public money in the first place, its very spending (and taking).
I've been voting Libertarian every election since Reagan, and it's not working.
/. as a matter of fact) about a bumper sticker:
It's working perfectly for me, I can go to the poll, cast my ballot for my favorite party and not feel like I need a deep shower afterwards. That to me is enough.
I recently read (here in
I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, Vote Kuthulu 2004.
Either way, Its better than voting for either side of the totalitarian party.
I can't believe it's not FUGU.
Just this week my hard drive crashed and I had to install from scratch. Moved from RH9 to Fedora. Was there something in RH9 that made my hard drive crash?
Mhh, my memory fails, but I remember that applesoft basic had a way to renumber the whole thing in 10 increments so you could put things in the middle if you forgot something.
It's not only visiting. I am a member of every museum and zoo I visit regularly (SFMOMA, Crocker in Sacramento, ZFZoo, Folsom Zoo), I give each a chunk of change a year, plus money I spend in their stores and food stops.
I also tell everyone I can about it when it comes up. e.g. This and previous post.
During my last visit to the Exploratorium (about 5 years ago), I remember seeing a display in which they had (behind a "closed casket" I guess so as not to scare little children) a complete human skeleton. In prominent letters it stated clearly that women have one pair less of ribs than men.
I'm not sure what medical textbook they are using, but I hope that my doctor doesn't use it.
I boycott the museum whenever I can since
Not necesarily, I once took the counteroffer, because it was too sweet to pass (about 1.33 times what I was making before). But I mostly took it because the new job didn't seem that much fun. I did quit for a job I liked 4 months later though, with the big advantage that because I was already making that amount of money my salary history looked better..
Forget that, just so that I can have cell reception in my house (a nicely secluded lot in the middle of a city, but one in a ravine without any reception at all).
I have to wonder...
None of the galaxies in this image seems different in color from something like Andromeda. Are these images manipulated? perhaps all colors shift and while some dissapear into the infrared you see new ones coming in from the ultraviolet?
the digital clock and status lights never worked.
Peeve of mine... why does every appliance in the modern kitchen need to come with a digital clock and kitchen timer? I count five as I stand in my kitchen. I DON'T want another clock in my can opener! They are a pain to set (the U.I. in each one is slightly difference) and everytime we have a blackout (about twice a year), or I'm working on the lights, or when I need to adjust savings time I have to set all of them over again.
C'mon, learn from software engineering: Create components that do ONE thing only and do it well.
In the U.S.
Add to that:
Sales tax (another 7.5% on everything you buy, sometimes more).
Property taxes
License and permit fees for everything under the sun.
Bonds and similar
Did you put in the 7.5% of social insecurity your employer pays on your behalf?
Direct and indirect costs to comply with uncountable regulations.
I bet the actual number is much higher than 60% in the U.S.
- Read the first three books a few times over.
- Play the infocom game
- Read the first three books again
- Buy "The more than complete hitchhiker's guide", read it
- Read the radio scripts
- Read the whole series over again (repeat yearly)
- Read So Long and thanks for all the fish
- Yup, the whole series again
- Download from napster the radio show and listen to it
- Read Mostly Harmless
- Watch some chapters of the TV show
- Series
- Salmon of doubt
Somewhere in there you should read The meaning of liff, the expanded meaning of liff, and of course the Dirk Gently books.It is time that dumb republicans and dumb democrats figure it out: any law passed with the nicest of intentions can and WILL be used against you once the other party is in power.
It is only by looking at all possible side effects of your laws that you should be deciding.
The same laws that yesterday were being used to stop drug traffic are now being used on you. Same goes with those well intentioned laws that are being passed today to combat terrorism, you will see much more of them and much more closely.
Good, now if we can only convince the other zillion users out there to do the same we should be set.
Thanks.
Because it's too cold and the atmosphere is too thin for windshield wiper fluid to last in a liquid state. (at least at the height at which the solar panels are mounted)
You are going to make me cry. I loved seeing the game again! I bought that game when it was first out and played it to the end in my old IIc. I wish I knew what I did with the pocket fluff and Peril Sensitive Sunglasses that came with it. I'm sure they are in a box somewhere (it doesn't seem like the kind of thing I would throw away).
I'll have a blast replaying this game, thanks.
Please note Ron Paul there. Once Libertarian Candidate for President Ron "Dr. No" Paul is nicknamed that because he votes no on principle more often than any other congressman, I think he is one of the few (if not only) M.D's in congress as well. He deserves an honorable mention.
Would you have entered the same boycott if the Exploratorium had an exhibit stating that the nearest star was 8.4 light years (double the truth)?
Not likely, I would have been upset, but not as much as I am by the source.
Traditional judeo-christian religion IS anti-science in that it places blind faith above observation and reason. It is anti-mind in the same way, and it is anti-human in that it totally ignores our very essence: human=rational animal. I disagree with you, science (in essence believing that our observation and reason trump all else) and religion (founded on blind faith despite our senses and reason) ARE mutually exclusive.
But this is probably not the best forum to discuss this.
It didn't say anything about the Garden of Eden, but I know of very few other mythologies that imply that the number of bones in a man are different than in a woman.
I do not doubt my knowledge (I don't like to call them beliefs), do you doubt men have the same number of ribs as women?.
A place that calls itself a scientific museum is not worthy of my $x if it has something as basic as this wrong, especially because of the source of the misake: anti-science, anti-mind, anti-human.
I refuse to visit the place ever since (about 4 years ago) I went and saw a skeleton they had, with a very clear sign explaining the difference in the number of ribs between men and women. Presumably having to do with the Garden of Eden mythos.
I certainly took no offense, and I hope you take no offense when I say I can't believe anyone would pass up a contract just because of a lack of source control.
Maybe I exagerated, not *just* because of a lack of source control, but that is one question that I do ask and I find it indicative of the maturity of the environment I'll be working with.
If the place is immature, chaotic and unwilling to learn and apply good engineering practices (which in part is why my expertise is valuable) then I'm not sure I want to set myself up for failure. Can your project succeed without good engineering practices? Most certainly! Can it fail because of lack of them? Likely. It's a risk assesment that I do, and I have turned down gigs that smell fishy, even if they are otherwise ok. Most of the times it doesn't matter though, because the kind of shop that doesn't value these things often doesn't value a good Software Engineer either.
No offense, but I hope I'm never in a project with you.
Programming (at any level, small OR large) without source control is like playing in the high trapeze without a net, yeah, you can do it, and if you're really good you'll get away with it for a while, but when you miss you'll be sorry.
Source control gives you a backup of your work, a storyline of what you've changed add to that the advantages of such a system when working with more people and I really can't imagine not having a source control system.
As a consultant, it is the first question I asked before taking on a project: what do you use for source control. I run away if they don't have one and are not willing to let me install one.