I don't get it. How a missile defense system placed in eastern Europe can block Russia's missiles? Defense system should be placed here in Finland because if I'm not totally incorrect, ballistic missiles would travel over us on their way to the US from Russia, not over where they are planning to install the system. And besides, Russia has Kalingrad which is on the other/wrong side of the defense system. Also they could launch the missiles from their east coast over the Pacific, as China could too.
I was in a brief seminar some time ago where a consultant came to tell us (among other things) about time management. What strike me first funny, then rather interesting, was that his first sentences was "Time management is a stupid concept. You can't manage time.". The simple idea was that you have X amount of time in your calendar and that X doesn't change, ever. How you fill that X is other question. The thing is, just like you say, to learn to say no. If you need to start prioritize your tasks, you are already failing, because you need to fill in a spot in your calendar when you prioritize your tasks, which takes time off of the actual work. It's a vicious circle. You are simply doing too much because you didn't say no.
Now, of course, every person is not his own boss so taking this idea of doing-too-much upwards in a corporate ladder is hard. But analysis says (can't remember which analysis) that people who doesn't have to think about prioritizing work tasks all the time tend to be happier at work and happier worker means more effective work.
Currently I'm curiously observing how and if these consultant's ideas work. He had some interesting ideas other than time managing also.
I'm also a self-taught programmer. I can't remember how old I was when I got my hands on Commodore 64 and later Commodore 128 and their Basic. It must've been somewhere 1982-1985 so I was under 10 back then (I've born in 1977). I've never learned programming at school. In fact I went to business school and was allowed to skip all the computer classes:)
To put it short, the thing is you need to know your strengths and weaknesses. For example I can't write 3D stuff or anything that takes complex mathematics but I sure heck can write a full blown CRM app for you. And I'm quite fine with that as long as the paycheck comes every month.
Time and time again I need to explain this in Slashdot. Operating System does not know, does not care, if executable is malicious or not. It happily executes it when user doubleclicks nude_pics.exe. It's up to AV software to keep track which executables are considered evil and which not and protect user from his/her own stupidity.
Yes, anonymous = nimetÃn. Anomuumi is not actually a word at all. It can be a mix of the word "anonymous" and "muumi" where "muumi" means Moomin but I'm not sure about this. Basically it's just common nickname which a lot of people use. In fact, I used it some years ago at Helsingin Sanomat forum but I'm not the Anomuumi in question here.
And what comes to the incident, my knowledge is that Anonymous has already denied that they had anything to do with this.
Analogy still stands. Too big truck on bridge -> crash, too big input on input field -> crash. In the first case truck's weight exceeds the maximum capacity of the bridge, in the second case input's length exceeds the maximum capacity of the buffer. I find this analogy rather hilarious.
Well, yes it is if there's high enough mountains where you can pump the water using solar. Finland doesn't have but Sweden and Norway do. But then again, you need solar. I'm not sure about southern parts of Sweden if there's enough sun all through the year. Finland definitely doesn't have.
So what would you suggest? It's 8:40 am and it pretty dark out there and not a single leaf is moving in trees so there's no wind. And I'm living in southern part of Finland, at Tampere to be precise.
You can forget solar in Finland. It only works on small scale and is really unreliable. What comes to wind, I've read that there are couple of places which probably would have enough wind. But the problem is, who wants to have wind farms at the ocean shore or floating in the ocean? I don't. Other places it is said to be windy enough are hill tops at northern part of Finland. There isn't population much up there so maybe the NIMBY effect would be low but it would most likely kill tourism because it would kill the scenery. Besides the regulations about construction is so strict that you can't even expand a single hotel up there without years of fight with the government.
Hydro perhaps. Unfortunately every one of our rivers are being already used. There's some plans to build artificial lakes up in north but environment regulations prevents that.
So what's left... Burning leftovers from forest industry and turf. Those won't really resolve anything. They are just big cash machines to some few, at least what I've read. Importing energy from neighboring countries. We are currently importing one nuclear plant's worth of electricity from Russia. Sweden and Norway has hydro but they are running their power schemes with Denmark (buying wind cheap, selling hydro not-so-cheap).
If anyone has answer to our problem I'd say many of our politicians and every one of our industry owners would jump through the roof with joy!
And all these shitheads (see how I'm filled with rage!?) forget one little thing. We are humans and we do have emotions, including hatred and rage from time to time. Everyone's not a Gandhi FFS!
I didn't get headache or anything like that but I couldn't see the movie! I couldn't read subtitles, they were all blurred (luckily I understand spoken English). If the 3D effects was in the middle of the screen I couldn't see them clearly but if they were on the sides I could make something out of them. So I missed half of the movie (Thor) and have to go see it in old fashion 2D. Glasses were working fine and my date sitting next to me could see the movie just fine so it must be something with my eyes. If you have problems with eye vision (distortion, squint) like I do, I don't recommend 3D at all.
I don't have time to compile fricking source codes! I have better things to do, like actually use the software. Besides, Microsoft already compiled it for me.
It would be great to be able to link vote to the voter! I could finally make sure that my family members voted correctly and take appropriate measures if they didn't;)
I don't get it. Why should I write platform independent software? If I'm writing stuff at home I write it for myself. I have only Windows boxes at home so why should I bother making software portable? And when I'm writing stuff at work it's the customer that defines the requirements. In my 10+ year career I've never seen a requirement that the software must be (easily) portable to another platform. So why should I bother when customer doesn't pay for portability?
I've been a consultant too. The job didn't much differ from my current job which is writing code for customer projects at our own office. I did (and do) my job and was rather proud of it.
But what was bugging in consulting bisnes was that many times the customer wasn't up for the task. They thought that I come in and magically fix everything without even a single sheet of specifications about the system. It just doesn't work that way. I had to spend days without doing nothing when I was waiting for Someone in Somewhere to produce the specs for me. At one place I spent whole months sitting idle because customer didn't give me any tasks! They just liked me hanging around in case of something bad happens.
So one should not always blame the consultant for every bad thing in a world:)
I have problems with my HTC Wildfire. Sometimes it's really slow. Even vibration alert from incoming SMS comes slow. Sometimes it just refuses to open up apps. Worst of all it loses or misplaces incoming SMS (SMS send by person A appears under conversation with person B).
I don't know if HTC's problems are related to Motorola or not but I'm starting to think that there's something wrong with the Android itself. Hopefully not.
I think you are right about first trilogy's characters and plot. But what you criticized was special effect. You have to remember it was Lucas who started the whole special effects industry with original Star Wars trilogy. He wanted cool space battles and was determined to get them. So I would say special effects has always been at least one factor amongst the others (plot, characters) in Star Wars.
In second trilogy I agree with you completely. All effects, poor characters, mediocre plot. Nothing major like "Luke, I'm your father" twists in the plot. Only thing I liked was the light saber duels, especially in the Phantom Menace.
Hi. I would be very interested if you had any more informative source about Resume. This is kind of functionality I've thought about for some time and I'd be very happy to read how Apple does it "under the hood". Unfortunately the link you provided contained mainly market speech with no technical details.
It's rather easy to serialize program onto the disk (or whatever). All you need to have is well defined interface with Serialize(some stream) and Deserialize(some stream) kinds of methods. Application does all the heavy work, environment just provides the stream. In fact, Symbian had such functionality over ten years ago. But if the Operating System goes and probes process's memory and stores it, without any assistance from the application itself, and later writes it back to the process's memory when the application is started, then it's a totally different thing. Unfortunately it could be a security problem also.
Microsoft isn't the one responsible for that. Symantec and McAfee both spend a lot of money paying computer manufacturers to pre-load trial versions their software.
It also lowers the price of the computer. That's why computers with Windows can be cheaper than computers with Linux. It could be win-win-win-win (MS, manufacturer, AV-vendor, user) situation if only those Symantec and McAfee products would actually work and work good.
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I usually drive by steering with my legs while surfing these girl jpegs you are talking about.
I don't get it. How a missile defense system placed in eastern Europe can block Russia's missiles? Defense system should be placed here in Finland because if I'm not totally incorrect, ballistic missiles would travel over us on their way to the US from Russia, not over where they are planning to install the system. And besides, Russia has Kalingrad which is on the other/wrong side of the defense system. Also they could launch the missiles from their east coast over the Pacific, as China could too.
I was in a brief seminar some time ago where a consultant came to tell us (among other things) about time management. What strike me first funny, then rather interesting, was that his first sentences was "Time management is a stupid concept. You can't manage time.". The simple idea was that you have X amount of time in your calendar and that X doesn't change, ever. How you fill that X is other question. The thing is, just like you say, to learn to say no. If you need to start prioritize your tasks, you are already failing, because you need to fill in a spot in your calendar when you prioritize your tasks, which takes time off of the actual work. It's a vicious circle. You are simply doing too much because you didn't say no.
Now, of course, every person is not his own boss so taking this idea of doing-too-much upwards in a corporate ladder is hard. But analysis says (can't remember which analysis) that people who doesn't have to think about prioritizing work tasks all the time tend to be happier at work and happier worker means more effective work.
Currently I'm curiously observing how and if these consultant's ideas work. He had some interesting ideas other than time managing also.
I'm also a self-taught programmer. I can't remember how old I was when I got my hands on Commodore 64 and later Commodore 128 and their Basic. It must've been somewhere 1982-1985 so I was under 10 back then (I've born in 1977). I've never learned programming at school. In fact I went to business school and was allowed to skip all the computer classes :)
To put it short, the thing is you need to know your strengths and weaknesses. For example I can't write 3D stuff or anything that takes complex mathematics but I sure heck can write a full blown CRM app for you. And I'm quite fine with that as long as the paycheck comes every month.
Time and time again I need to explain this in Slashdot. Operating System does not know, does not care, if executable is malicious or not. It happily executes it when user doubleclicks nude_pics.exe. It's up to AV software to keep track which executables are considered evil and which not and protect user from his/her own stupidity.
Yes, anonymous = nimetÃn. Anomuumi is not actually a word at all. It can be a mix of the word "anonymous" and "muumi" where "muumi" means Moomin but I'm not sure about this. Basically it's just common nickname which a lot of people use. In fact, I used it some years ago at Helsingin Sanomat forum but I'm not the Anomuumi in question here.
And what comes to the incident, my knowledge is that Anonymous has already denied that they had anything to do with this.
Second that! I loved X-wing vs Tie Fighter.
Analogy still stands. Too big truck on bridge -> crash, too big input on input field -> crash. In the first case truck's weight exceeds the maximum capacity of the bridge, in the second case input's length exceeds the maximum capacity of the buffer. I find this analogy rather hilarious.
Well, yes it is if there's high enough mountains where you can pump the water using solar. Finland doesn't have but Sweden and Norway do. But then again, you need solar. I'm not sure about southern parts of Sweden if there's enough sun all through the year. Finland definitely doesn't have.
So what would you suggest? It's 8:40 am and it pretty dark out there and not a single leaf is moving in trees so there's no wind. And I'm living in southern part of Finland, at Tampere to be precise.
You can forget solar in Finland. It only works on small scale and is really unreliable. What comes to wind, I've read that there are couple of places which probably would have enough wind. But the problem is, who wants to have wind farms at the ocean shore or floating in the ocean? I don't. Other places it is said to be windy enough are hill tops at northern part of Finland. There isn't population much up there so maybe the NIMBY effect would be low but it would most likely kill tourism because it would kill the scenery. Besides the regulations about construction is so strict that you can't even expand a single hotel up there without years of fight with the government.
Hydro perhaps. Unfortunately every one of our rivers are being already used. There's some plans to build artificial lakes up in north but environment regulations prevents that.
So what's left... Burning leftovers from forest industry and turf. Those won't really resolve anything. They are just big cash machines to some few, at least what I've read. Importing energy from neighboring countries. We are currently importing one nuclear plant's worth of electricity from Russia. Sweden and Norway has hydro but they are running their power schemes with Denmark (buying wind cheap, selling hydro not-so-cheap).
If anyone has answer to our problem I'd say many of our politicians and every one of our industry owners would jump through the roof with joy!
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Ha! :)
Growth can be also making things more efficiently. Lower production cost, growth for the company.
And all these shitheads (see how I'm filled with rage!?) forget one little thing. We are humans and we do have emotions, including hatred and rage from time to time. Everyone's not a Gandhi FFS!
I didn't get headache or anything like that but I couldn't see the movie! I couldn't read subtitles, they were all blurred (luckily I understand spoken English). If the 3D effects was in the middle of the screen I couldn't see them clearly but if they were on the sides I could make something out of them. So I missed half of the movie (Thor) and have to go see it in old fashion 2D. Glasses were working fine and my date sitting next to me could see the movie just fine so it must be something with my eyes. If you have problems with eye vision (distortion, squint) like I do, I don't recommend 3D at all.
Why bother. End user does QA anyway.
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I don't have time to compile fricking source codes! I have better things to do, like actually use the software. Besides, Microsoft already compiled it for me.
It would be great to be able to link vote to the voter! I could finally make sure that my family members voted correctly and take appropriate measures if they didn't ;)
I don't get it. Why should I write platform independent software? If I'm writing stuff at home I write it for myself. I have only Windows boxes at home so why should I bother making software portable? And when I'm writing stuff at work it's the customer that defines the requirements. In my 10+ year career I've never seen a requirement that the software must be (easily) portable to another platform. So why should I bother when customer doesn't pay for portability?
I've been a consultant too. The job didn't much differ from my current job which is writing code for customer projects at our own office. I did (and do) my job and was rather proud of it.
But what was bugging in consulting bisnes was that many times the customer wasn't up for the task. They thought that I come in and magically fix everything without even a single sheet of specifications about the system. It just doesn't work that way. I had to spend days without doing nothing when I was waiting for Someone in Somewhere to produce the specs for me. At one place I spent whole months sitting idle because customer didn't give me any tasks! They just liked me hanging around in case of something bad happens.
So one should not always blame the consultant for every bad thing in a world :)
I have problems with my HTC Wildfire. Sometimes it's really slow. Even vibration alert from incoming SMS comes slow. Sometimes it just refuses to open up apps. Worst of all it loses or misplaces incoming SMS (SMS send by person A appears under conversation with person B).
I don't know if HTC's problems are related to Motorola or not but I'm starting to think that there's something wrong with the Android itself. Hopefully not.
I think you are right about first trilogy's characters and plot. But what you criticized was special effect. You have to remember it was Lucas who started the whole special effects industry with original Star Wars trilogy. He wanted cool space battles and was determined to get them. So I would say special effects has always been at least one factor amongst the others (plot, characters) in Star Wars.
In second trilogy I agree with you completely. All effects, poor characters, mediocre plot. Nothing major like "Luke, I'm your father" twists in the plot. Only thing I liked was the light saber duels, especially in the Phantom Menace.
Hi. I would be very interested if you had any more informative source about Resume. This is kind of functionality I've thought about for some time and I'd be very happy to read how Apple does it "under the hood". Unfortunately the link you provided contained mainly market speech with no technical details.
It's rather easy to serialize program onto the disk (or whatever). All you need to have is well defined interface with Serialize(some stream) and Deserialize(some stream) kinds of methods. Application does all the heavy work, environment just provides the stream. In fact, Symbian had such functionality over ten years ago. But if the Operating System goes and probes process's memory and stores it, without any assistance from the application itself, and later writes it back to the process's memory when the application is started, then it's a totally different thing. Unfortunately it could be a security problem also.
It also lowers the price of the computer. That's why computers with Windows can be cheaper than computers with Linux. It could be win-win-win-win (MS, manufacturer, AV-vendor, user) situation if only those Symantec and McAfee products would actually work and work good.
Did they have to shut down any factories during that time?