I did not realise it immediately, but losing my little paunch (15-20 pounds) did take a lot of time and money.
Gym: 2 full nights a week, plus 40 bucks a month Trainer to go with the gym because I need somebody to change the routine for me every 6 weeks: 450 bucks a year Clothes to go to the gym: 100 bucks a year Clothes to go with the body: a grand or two a year
Looking buff: priceless, but I had to change my weekly schedule permanently.
The problem is: you are trying to get 5, 10 or 15 years experience with 50-70% of the local normal salary. [sarcasm] I can't fathom why you only get liars and incompetents! [/sarcasm]
When you want top talent and/or qualifications, YOU PAY. Else, you get what you pay for.
I know what I am talking about, I am stuck at hiring people with 20%-under-norm salary and temporary status... and half of the people we get suck. But sometimes, we get good candidates... and all we have to retain them is warm, fuzzy "you're in the family" feelings. We are so notorious for our stingy paycheques that a candidate in the last recruiting round asked about the salary when we called him for the interview, and declined the invitation when we said the amount.
ATI has a good reputation at getting top-of-the-line ** review cards ** in working order.
As for drivers and bundled software, it is ALL shite. Ask anybody who has bought an All-in-wonder (aka ViVo): I never had a fully-functioning software set (compared to what was advertised on the box) since the day I bought it in 2002. At some point in time, a feature works, then an update breaks it and makes another one work, rinse, repeat.
And lately updates have started degrading the performance of my card during video capture because they rely on hardware features that did not exist back then... and many old features STILL don't work!
Because the voters do not control the slimy politicians, they can merely weed out some of them.
The problem IS the politicians: they are ALL crooks and liars. You can't blame the voters for being unable of choosing a good apple in a rotten batch of cabbage!
I couldn't agree more! What I don't understand is that meanwhile the french branch of CBC, Radio-Canada, has a lot of top audience-gathering shows of many types. And Radio-Canada has smaller budgets, being mostly targeted to 25% of the population of Canada!
Nobody who is used to a nordic climate would say that black ice does anything to stop an attack. Millions of canadians, russians and swedes go to work on icy roads every morning without a problem, even if it is at a slightly slower pace.
Cars start to sway on ice or oil only in movies! IRL a vehicle is a newtonian object: remove all friction and it keeps going in the same direction at the same speed. That means that the pursuit vehicle will keep up with the attacked vehicle until the next corner. And since the attacked vehicle has to slow down for the turn, if it ices the road for the pursuit vehicle it will get accidentaly rammed.
I don't know from what planet you come from, but here on Earth there is no link between Lotus 1-2-3 and Notes.(except that they were both spawned by Lotus)
I have just one question: do you know everything about everything?
You probably know nothing about quantum physics exept what you see on Sci-Fi Channel; does that mean that you are a worthless dumbass?
Most people do not understand computers, and do not know about the latest internet fad. With names like "kazaa" and "morpheus", how could one know the nature of filesharing programs at first glance?
One day, you will understand that the world is a complex place no one has a chance to completely understand. In the meantime, just STFU and go back to your games.
As I have been told when I got out of the university, "Congratulations on getting a degree, now you can begin your education".
I have now been out for 5 years, and I can tell you a few things: 1- no express route: as has been said by someone else, it takes at least 10 years to get 10 years' experience 2- every field of CS is like a new discipline: you have to learn a lot before being good. i.e.: you will have to learn before doing emulation, then restart from scratch before you can do browsers, etc... but some knowledge bits will be transferable from one field to another (AKA experience) 3- nobody will make you learn, catch all the opportunities to do it. 4- Focus: there is always cool/interesting stuff floating around any project; if you want to be finished, learn to weed out the less useful stuff; on the other hand, be wary of pruning the stuff that will be useful later. (yes, it is a Kung-fu-master-type saying, but life is ambiguous) 5- have staying power, but don't let yourself be somebody's tool. 6- maintain your code, it helps you learn what are your mistakes.
And the one thing you will always have to keep in mind: there is always someone better than you at what you are doing. When you find them, learn.
You are completely off-path, young grasshopper. When you get some experience under your wings, you will see that good programmers do indeed have a lot of will both in thinking and writing, but great programmers have that and extensive theoretical knowledge.
You see, the more theory you know, the less figuring-out you have to do on already-beaten footpaths. Then you can expend your precious, priceless, mental power on new problems. Of course, it may happen that you are forced to re-implement a B-tree or a Q-sort function, but if you don't have to think through it's intricacies it's just implementation; if you have to think and then write, you are wasting time and will probably not make it.
This is all a part of the "standing on the shoulder of giants" template. If you ignore or don't know about the concepts, then you try to re-do the work of really clever people that already have ironed out the problem and it's solution.
Well, it's not some intangible "something" in Canadian law that makes copying OK: when the canadian arm of the RIAA went and got the copyright law changed to get a "pirate tax", somebody in the system included explicitly the right for individuals to take copies of whatever music they wanted in the bill. The RIAA got screwed by the Parliament, and 15 years later The People get on with their lives without rackets.
Moreover, canadian privacy laws blocks the ISP's from giving away names, and the courts have rejected the bogus process the RIAA uses to get the courts to give them the names in the US.
I, for one, am building a shrine to the "unknown RIAA-tricker" every day I load up MP3's.
This comment shows the source of the patch situation: damn programmers are too lazy to do engineering right!
Do you thing hardware is easy?? It ain't, and it's tougher than software by miles. Why is it that hardware has to be perfect at all price points and "low cost" software has no such duty? I'll give you the answer: programmers are lazy. Programmers have been lazy for so long that even users have no expectation of quality for software. And software publishers have been so good at backing lazy programmers that putting a disclaimer inside the software, unaccessible before purchase and binding before it can be read, is a legally accepted way to do business.
I've done hardware, and am now in software. Still, I think that somebody should sue the pants off a sloppy software publisher just like the dumbass that sued Lawn-Boy for cutting off his own limb while using a lawnmower to do his hedge-trimming. Maybe sloppy asses would wake up and stop playing with computers and start engineering products instead.
I'll leave you with a question to answer: what is the lowest price, for a piece of software, at which it should behave as expected and be free of faults? 100$, 1 k$, 100k$?
That is, IF the Company allows it!
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It looks cool, and is a useful addition to my bluetooth phone. On the other hand, most phone companies lock most bluetooth modes out to force users to pass through their (for-pay) services.
Damn, I have just bought a Samsung A640 with bluetooth, and the only modes still avaliable are OPP and HSP. So there is just about zero chance this watch would work with my bluetooth-enabled phone.
It's frustating to think that I would have to hack my own hardware to access all of it's features.
If all bluetooth-enabled phones are like mine, nobody is going to send any data, sensitive or otherwise, by bluetooth.
In my mighty Samsung A640's user manual, the bluetooth section takes all of 1 page. Just enough to tell you how to turn it on and change the device name. Just like the GPS feature: it makes a little icon light up on the screen, no more.
Those who have not already left because of the 500$ video card upgrade treadmill will leave the PC gaming world instead of "upgrading" and turn to the shiny new consoles. Vista will probably cost the same as a Wii anyway, if you don't need new hardware to run it.
Anyway, there are not many game styles that are not easily adapted to console play. Maybe the strategy and the MMORPG styles will stay on the pc... scratch the MMORPG's, consoles are ok for those.
Well, the guaranteed one-shot cure exists, but nobody would want to use it more than once. It's a "next morning" cure that has to be taken 72 hours after exposition at most.
It's supposedly NOT funny to use, with serious side-effects lasting for a month, but it works well and is used by professionals in case of accidental exposure to infected blood.
Of course there are the Protestant Christians which, quite like the Muslims, recognise no superior earthly authority for their Church. And that's how you get kooks that speak for "the Christians" and officially voice extreme (and diverging) opinions, while there is just one kook that edicts conservative views for the all the Catholics... which are christians too.
Better yet, does anybody know how much the enterprise edition costs past the 15th seat? The whole site seems to be designed to go around the price question...
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Searching for the actors starring in "A time to kill".
Year-end 50%-off sale.
or a few others: Boxing day sale.
You know, money talks?
I did not realise it immediately, but losing my little paunch (15-20 pounds) did take a lot of time and money.
Gym: 2 full nights a week, plus 40 bucks a month
Trainer to go with the gym because I need somebody to change the routine for me every 6 weeks: 450 bucks a year
Clothes to go to the gym: 100 bucks a year
Clothes to go with the body: a grand or two a year
Looking buff: priceless, but I had to change my weekly schedule permanently.
The problem is: you are trying to get 5, 10 or 15 years experience with 50-70% of the local normal salary. [sarcasm] I can't fathom why you only get liars and incompetents! [/sarcasm]
When you want top talent and/or qualifications, YOU PAY. Else, you get what you pay for.
I know what I am talking about, I am stuck at hiring people with 20%-under-norm salary and temporary status... and half of the people we get suck. But sometimes, we get good candidates... and all we have to retain them is warm, fuzzy "you're in the family" feelings. We are so notorious for our stingy paycheques that a candidate in the last recruiting round asked about the salary when we called him for the interview, and declined the invitation when we said the amount.
Man, you made my day even if I cant pinpoint the song!
ATI has a good reputation at getting top-of-the-line ** review cards ** in working order.
As for drivers and bundled software, it is ALL shite. Ask anybody who has bought an All-in-wonder (aka ViVo): I never had a fully-functioning software set (compared to what was advertised on the box) since the day I bought it in 2002. At some point in time, a feature works, then an update breaks it and makes another one work, rinse, repeat.
And lately updates have started degrading the performance of my card during video capture because they rely on hardware features that did not exist back then... and many old features STILL don't work!
Why do people need to tool around with guns in their pockets again?
I don't get it, really.
Because the voters do not control the slimy politicians, they can merely weed out some of them.
The problem IS the politicians: they are ALL crooks and liars. You can't blame the voters for being unable of choosing a good apple in a rotten batch of cabbage!
I couldn't agree more! What I don't understand is that meanwhile the french branch of CBC, Radio-Canada, has a lot of top audience-gathering shows of many types. And Radio-Canada has smaller budgets, being mostly targeted to 25% of the population of Canada!
Nobody who is used to a nordic climate would say that black ice does anything to stop an attack. Millions of canadians, russians and swedes go to work on icy roads every morning without a problem, even if it is at a slightly slower pace.
Cars start to sway on ice or oil only in movies! IRL a vehicle is a newtonian object: remove all friction and it keeps going in the same direction at the same speed. That means that the pursuit vehicle will keep up with the attacked vehicle until the next corner. And since the attacked vehicle has to slow down for the turn, if it ices the road for the pursuit vehicle it will get accidentaly rammed.
Yes, most people will not pay more for more resistant mp3 players, but they will pay for the shiny version!
ooh! no-scratch Shiny!
Lotus 1-2-3 was a spreadsheet (taken over by Excel) and Notes is a collaboration tool (e-mail, shared apps, etc.)
I have just one question: do you know everything about everything?
You probably know nothing about quantum physics exept what you see on Sci-Fi Channel; does that mean that you are a worthless dumbass?
Most people do not understand computers, and do not know about the latest internet fad. With names like "kazaa" and "morpheus", how could one know the nature of filesharing programs at first glance?
One day, you will understand that the world is a complex place no one has a chance to completely understand. In the meantime, just STFU and go back to your games.
As I have been told when I got out of the university, "Congratulations on getting a degree, now you can begin your education".
I have now been out for 5 years, and I can tell you a few things:
1- no express route: as has been said by someone else, it takes at least 10 years to get 10 years' experience
2- every field of CS is like a new discipline: you have to learn a lot before being good. i.e.: you will have to learn before doing emulation, then restart from scratch before you can do browsers, etc... but some knowledge bits will be transferable from one field to another (AKA experience)
3- nobody will make you learn, catch all the opportunities to do it.
4- Focus: there is always cool/interesting stuff floating around any project; if you want to be finished, learn to weed out the less useful stuff; on the other hand, be wary of pruning the stuff that will be useful later. (yes, it is a Kung-fu-master-type saying, but life is ambiguous)
5- have staying power, but don't let yourself be somebody's tool.
6- maintain your code, it helps you learn what are your mistakes.
And the one thing you will always have to keep in mind: there is always someone better than you at what you are doing. When you find them, learn.
You are completely off-path, young grasshopper. When you get some experience under your wings, you will see that good programmers do indeed have a lot of will both in thinking and writing, but great programmers have that and extensive theoretical knowledge.
You see, the more theory you know, the less figuring-out you have to do on already-beaten footpaths. Then you can expend your precious, priceless, mental power on new problems. Of course, it may happen that you are forced to re-implement a B-tree or a Q-sort function, but if you don't have to think through it's intricacies it's just implementation; if you have to think and then write, you are wasting time and will probably not make it.
This is all a part of the "standing on the shoulder of giants" template. If you ignore or don't know about the concepts, then you try to re-do the work of really clever people that already have ironed out the problem and it's solution.
Well, it's not some intangible "something" in Canadian law that makes copying OK: when the canadian arm of the RIAA went and got the copyright law changed to get a "pirate tax", somebody in the system included explicitly the right for individuals to take copies of whatever music they wanted in the bill. The RIAA got screwed by the Parliament, and 15 years later The People get on with their lives without rackets.
Moreover, canadian privacy laws blocks the ISP's from giving away names, and the courts have rejected the bogus process the RIAA uses to get the courts to give them the names in the US.
I, for one, am building a shrine to the "unknown RIAA-tricker" every day I load up MP3's.
Go and see the video. If THAT is not torture to you, I don't know what could be.
Since the first shot was not on video, only the people present can tell what was going on. But all the other shots were pure sadistic torture.
I hope these assholes get fired, then convicted of aggravated armed assault.
You just kicked me out of my ranting mood. Thanks!
This comment shows the source of the patch situation: damn programmers are too lazy to do engineering right!
Do you thing hardware is easy?? It ain't, and it's tougher than software by miles. Why is it that hardware has to be perfect at all price points and "low cost" software has no such duty? I'll give you the answer: programmers are lazy. Programmers have been lazy for so long that even users have no expectation of quality for software. And software publishers have been so good at backing lazy programmers that putting a disclaimer inside the software, unaccessible before purchase and binding before it can be read, is a legally accepted way to do business.
I've done hardware, and am now in software. Still, I think that somebody should sue the pants off a sloppy software publisher just like the dumbass that sued Lawn-Boy for cutting off his own limb while using a lawnmower to do his hedge-trimming. Maybe sloppy asses would wake up and stop playing with computers and start engineering products instead.
I'll leave you with a question to answer: what is the lowest price, for a piece of software, at which it should behave as expected and be free of faults? 100$, 1 k$, 100k$?
It looks cool, and is a useful addition to my bluetooth phone. On the other hand, most phone companies lock most bluetooth modes out to force users to pass through their (for-pay) services.
Damn, I have just bought a Samsung A640 with bluetooth, and the only modes still avaliable are OPP and HSP. So there is just about zero chance this watch would work with my bluetooth-enabled phone.
It's frustating to think that I would have to hack my own hardware to access all of it's features.
If all bluetooth-enabled phones are like mine, nobody is going to send any data, sensitive or otherwise, by bluetooth.
In my mighty Samsung A640's user manual, the bluetooth section takes all of 1 page. Just enough to tell you how to turn it on and change the device name. Just like the GPS feature: it makes a little icon light up on the screen, no more.
Those who have not already left because of the 500$ video card upgrade treadmill will leave the PC gaming world instead of "upgrading" and turn to the shiny new consoles. Vista will probably cost the same as a Wii anyway, if you don't need new hardware to run it.
Anyway, there are not many game styles that are not easily adapted to console play. Maybe the strategy and the MMORPG styles will stay on the pc... scratch the MMORPG's, consoles are ok for those.
Well, the guaranteed one-shot cure exists, but nobody would want to use it more than once. It's a "next morning" cure that has to be taken 72 hours after exposition at most.
It's supposedly NOT funny to use, with serious side-effects lasting for a month, but it works well and is used by professionals in case of accidental exposure to infected blood.
Of course there are the Protestant Christians which, quite like the Muslims, recognise no superior earthly authority for their Church. And that's how you get kooks that speak for "the Christians" and officially voice extreme (and diverging) opinions, while there is just one kook that edicts conservative views for the all the Catholics... which are christians too.
Ah, the joys of secular Church leadership :D
Better yet, does anybody know how much the enterprise edition costs past the 15th seat? The whole site seems to be designed to go around the price question...