"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Sadly, enough people seem to honestly believe the idea you presented sarcastically that it becmes difficult to catch the sarcastic tone. I've seen enough people who would make the very same "you only have something to hide if you're a criminal" argument with a straight face, and would even go so far as to argue with me when I gave those examples, that I no longer even try to determine if someone's being sarcastic about it.
Maybe I'm calling my doctor about a health problem I don't care anyone else to know about (rash? std? hemmrhoids?), or I'm feeling lonely and decide to call up a phone sex company, or I'm on the phone with a significant other talking about private matters, etc.
There are plenty of topics I could be chatting about on the phone that have zero sinister/criminal element but are extremely personal and undesirable to have eavesdroppers.
Well, C-Span has one. You can search by subject, month, member, and vote number. Upon finding the desired bill, it pops up a map that colors states based upon the overall vote, bringing up a vote count by Dem or Rep when your mouse cursor hovers over the state, and upon clicking a state, you can get detailed information, including votes by representative name.
Actually, it's a neat site that I oughtta keep in mind come November.
Not having the attention for ones parents, one won't get the parenting one needs...
I don't know about your parents, but mine had abilities far beyond the TV, computer, game console... they could interact with me, even when I didn't specifically ask for their interaction. It takes some pretty sad parenting to give up whenever the kid decides he/she doesn't want to listen.
If you honestly believe it's impossible to parent a child that decides TV and video games are more interesting, please do us a favor and never have kids of your own.
This leaves the economy. In one way the economy is definitely a big cause, as an unemployed person may be more liable to resort to pirating music than the same person would if they still had a job. But it's tough to blame the drop in CD sales entirely on the economy, for a couple of reasons: other forms of entertainment (including those that aren't piratable) haven't dropped nearly as much, and while the economy has had its ups and downs over the past several decades, this drop in CD sales is unprecedented.
Not really. If I were buying hand lotion and Maxim, there would be witnesses to corroborate my story (the people in line and the person at the register). Not to mention, if you used a credit/debit card in that purchase, there would be a log of the transaction occuring and where it happened.
And half of those programmers graduating from a university aren't only below average, they're totally inexperienced too.
This is largely due to the fact that internships dried up before jobs did. As far as I can tell, all the companies around here put hiring freezes on internships a good year before they did so with regular jobs.
Funny... my OS class was mostly implementing Thread synchronization objects (locks, condition variables, etc), file systems, system calls, and virtual memory in the NACHOS OS. In fact, the first question on the final was "what is an operating system?" with a guaranteed failing grade in the class if you answered something like "Windows." I could have been saved a lot of late-night coding sessions if it was just an intro to Windows:P
"It's not, it's a class distinction, as is the nature of the degree attained. Business majors get more respect than do engineers, management training recieves more respect than technical skill."
This is an unfortunate truth that defies the fact that most business majors in my old college were failed engineering students.
Actually, there are an abundance of crimes for which you can be made to stand trial twice in the US. For example, murder is illegal in most states, as well as the federal level. If you are acquitted at the state level, you can still be brought to trial at the federal level, in effect, being tried twice for the same crime.
Chances are, it will take some group hacking a few voting machines to stuff the ballot for a no-name third-party candidate before anyone cares enough to demand better security.
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Nah, it's better just to lay out in front of a microwave dish.
I rather enjoyed his quotes:
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
...and thus, we've revealed the fact that it's not cell phones we hate, but rather the average cell phone user.
Sadly, enough people seem to honestly believe the idea you presented sarcastically that it becmes difficult to catch the sarcastic tone. I've seen enough people who would make the very same "you only have something to hide if you're a criminal" argument with a straight face, and would even go so far as to argue with me when I gave those examples, that I no longer even try to determine if someone's being sarcastic about it.
Maybe I'm calling my doctor about a health problem I don't care anyone else to know about (rash? std? hemmrhoids?), or I'm feeling lonely and decide to call up a phone sex company, or I'm on the phone with a significant other talking about private matters, etc.
There are plenty of topics I could be chatting about on the phone that have zero sinister/criminal element but are extremely personal and undesirable to have eavesdroppers.
Actually, he simply posted the highlights of Microsoft's paid-for "objective third-party information" comparison between Windows and Linux we saw posted on Tuesday.
That's easy - the threat of possibly unstable and/or reduced oil supply
In that case, we should systematically start invading every oil-producing country in the world.
Well, C-Span has one. You can search by subject, month, member, and vote number. Upon finding the desired bill, it pops up a map that colors states based upon the overall vote, bringing up a vote count by Dem or Rep when your mouse cursor hovers over the state, and upon clicking a state, you can get detailed information, including votes by representative name.
Actually, it's a neat site that I oughtta keep in mind come November.
Not having the attention for ones parents, one won't get the parenting one needs ...
I don't know about your parents, but mine had abilities far beyond the TV, computer, game console... they could interact with me, even when I didn't specifically ask for their interaction. It takes some pretty sad parenting to give up whenever the kid decides he/she doesn't want to listen.
If you honestly believe it's impossible to parent a child that decides TV and video games are more interesting, please do us a favor and never have kids of your own.
I'm a little source code, robust and stout.
Here is my input, here is my out.
If you are working alone, then its worth it if you want to track down the date and exact changes you made.
Some IDEs (e.g. JBuilder) have this built-in, so you don't need CVS et al for it.
This leaves the economy. In one way the economy is definitely a big cause, as an unemployed person may be more liable to resort to pirating music than the same person would if they still had a job. But it's tough to blame the drop in CD sales entirely on the economy, for a couple of reasons: other forms of entertainment (including those that aren't piratable) haven't dropped nearly as much, and while the economy has had its ups and downs over the past several decades, this drop in CD sales is unprecedented.
You might want to look here.
It is worth noting that CD album sales began to drop right about when the economy tanked.
Given the rotation I've heard on clearchannel stations, God is dead.
Many people are closely monitored in the workplace. Why should politicians be any different?
Not really. If I were buying hand lotion and Maxim, there would be witnesses to corroborate my story (the people in line and the person at the register). Not to mention, if you used a credit/debit card in that purchase, there would be a log of the transaction occuring and where it happened.
How hard would it be to modify the program so that any emails sent to the originating address go through?
And half of those programmers graduating from a university aren't only below average, they're totally inexperienced too.
This is largely due to the fact that internships dried up before jobs did. As far as I can tell, all the companies around here put hiring freezes on internships a good year before they did so with regular jobs.
Funny... my OS class was mostly implementing Thread synchronization objects (locks, condition variables, etc), file systems, system calls, and virtual memory in the NACHOS OS. In fact, the first question on the final was "what is an operating system?" with a guaranteed failing grade in the class if you answered something like "Windows." I could have been saved a lot of late-night coding sessions if it was just an intro to Windows :P
"It's not, it's a class distinction, as is the nature of the degree attained. Business majors get more respect than do engineers, management training recieves more respect than technical skill."
This is an unfortunate truth that defies the fact that most business majors in my old college were failed engineering students.
Actually, there are an abundance of crimes for which you can be made to stand trial twice in the US. For example, murder is illegal in most states, as well as the federal level. If you are acquitted at the state level, you can still be brought to trial at the federal level, in effect, being tried twice for the same crime.
There has been a ban in place for awhile. The problem is that it's a temporary ban. This new bill would just have made it permanent.
Chances are, it will take some group hacking a few voting machines to stuff the ballot for a no-name third-party candidate before anyone cares enough to demand better security.
Software wants to be free. Unfortunately, bandwidth does not.
That would be because Win2k/XP is written to reboot automatically instead of dispay a blue screen. I'm surprised you've seen one at all.
My jaw dropped when I heard my dad say the acronym "RTFM" to mom one day.