If you want to see dot.com Bust 2.0, this will contribute to it. Do you remember the dot.com era? Most of those people with no technical or coding background who tried to learn how to code in 1 year (or less) and obtained some flea-bag certificate were the first ones to be let go. And yes, there were a lot of them. Without having the fundamentals of data structures, coding style, documentation skills, and good logic and problem solving skills, those new "coders" will have a very short career, if any. Most companies learned their lesson from dot.com 1.0.
... the best two are Verizon and US Cellular. Verizon gets the edge for variety of cell phones to choose from and nationwide coverage, but US Cellular gets the edge for better service although their regional coverage is just as good if not better than Verizon's.
Sprint and T-Mobile only care about getting customers to sign a contract. Their service is atrocious and cellular coverage is spotty around the city and really crappy in the rural areas.
The only thing going for AT&T is the iPhone. If it weren't for that, they'd be down there with Sprint and T-Mobile.
The Vatican is run like a business and has done so since its inception. It is one of the richest entities in the world that is its own country, has its own army and has its own economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_city.
How in the heck can a religion do this? It seems to contradict everything Jesus stood for: Peace, love, and helping people, not killing countless millions and building an empire in the name of God. What a bunch of hypocrites! It wouldn't surprise me that the Vatican will try and copyright (trademark, too) the name Vatican or even Jesus Christ one of these days.
Personally, KDE and Gnome both suck. They're both heavy-weight X-Window environments. I like XFCE better because it's simple, doesn't contain all of those "extra applications" I will never use, and is lightweight (IMHO).
There is such a thing as good genes, and it's called a fast metabolism. I have them plus I exercise. I'm 40 years old, and I have the body of a 20 year old - slim and fit (29-30" waist and 133 pounds). Even when I don't exercise, my metabolism is so fast that I can eat the crappiest foods for a week and not gain a pound. I have to say that I'm blessed to have a fast metabolism.
I do agree, however, that the number of healthy foods in regular grocery stores have diminished drastically over the last couple of years (at least in the Chicago area). I have to go to Whole Foods for the good stuff (and pay through the nose).
I have posted a similar comment for another person claiming that software engineering is engineering and will reiterate: Software engineering is NOT engineering and should not even be classified as such. I have degrees in Aerospace engineering (AE) and Software engineering (SE). SE was a walk in the park compared to AE.
Sorry, dude (or dudette), but you're disillusioned. Software Engineering doesn't even come close to "real" engineering (i.e. Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering). I have an Aerospace degree and a software engineering degree. Software engineering was a walk in the park compared to Aerospace. Software engineering shouldn't be classified as engineering.
First, the transporter device like in Star Trek is needed ASAP. This will eliminate the need for goods to travel in trucks on our already congested roads in the USA. Goods will arrive in warehouses, stores, homes, etc. practically instantaneously. And also, let's not forget about the person getting from point A to point B. Air, train and road travel is practically eliminated.
Second, the food replicator needs to be invented, which, again, is from Star Trek. Famine would be wiped out for good.
Now, this is all assuming that these inventions would be intended for good use.
Unions are the cause of a lot problems in the U.S. In Illinois, you are required to join a union if your job function is unionized. They're huge bureaucratic entities that are corrupt, they waste time, and they especially waste money. I've been in a union (UFCW), and it sucked. Unions are always talking about striking while at the same time take a large chunk of money out one's paycheck. These "union dues" or extortion fees would never, ever be seen again. And the biggest problem with unions is that it is very difficult to get rid of a crappy worker.
I'll be damned if I have to be forced to join a union because I write blogs. Unions were needed at the beginning of the 20th century because there were no laws to protect the worker. Today, there are laws in force that do protect the worker. Additional laws for bloggers would not be that tough to do. Plus, there wouldn't be any extortion fees to pay.
Even if SCO loses for good, there is Novell. While it's great that Novell will get the rights to Unix, in the meantime, Microsoft has a vested interest with the company. There may be a day when Microsoft will just buy out/absorb Novell, and MS will own the Unix rights. And MS being a company with really deep pockets and ever more resources, may actually pull off lawsuits ala RIAA against any Unix/Linux user. MS funded SCO indirectly to "help" with the lawsuit. It seems that MS knew SCO was going to lose. Thus, a partnership with Novell with a sweet deal it could not refuse was made. MS does not lose here. MS wins either way. I don't believe this is over by a long shot.
I don't believe in all of this global warming stuff. I have heard both sides of the story and have concluded that no one knows anything, especially the non-scientific community who tend to be ignorant and don't do any research themselves. If anyone remembers the late 70's, scientists were predicting that an ice-age was going to happen within 20 - 50 years. Well, it's been more than 20 years and nothing has happened. According to this wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age, we could be at the end of the little ice age.
One other thing to note is that we don't have any accurate weather data going back thousands of years. Everything is hear-say and pure speculation before the 19th century. So, how can we make any conclusions about our future climate if there isn't any hard evidence to go by? We can only speculate as to what is going to happen in the future based on data that is too "new" (within the last 2,000+ years as opposed to the last 1,000,000 years). I guess we can look at sediment and arctic ice layers, but again, most of the evidence are speculations.
I work for a company who's main motto is something like this: Put customers first. Thus, if anything goes wrong with the software/hardware system in which customers are directly affected, it is our responsibility to find the cause, fix it, and ensure any customers affected are properly compensated. In the end, if working 60 - 80 hours per week is required, we do it.
Sure it sucks, but the only choice that we have is to quit. But, even though we have to work a lot of extra hours, very few complain in my IT department because the perks we get are actually pretty good: compensation days, free breakfast/lunch/dinner, stock options, 100% tuition reimbursement and bonuses. In other words, my company takes care of us.
I'm not sure what companies you've worked for, but you would have been fired on the spot in my company, even if you were a programmer-extraordinaire. The main reason being that you didn't fit the company's model. No lawsuit would've helped you because our code of conduct handbook would've been used in the court system because of one line: 'you failed to put customers first'.
On a similar note, to consistently work 60 - 80 hours per week every week is a problem and a trend I'm seeing in corporate America. Corporations are running lean IT departments in which IT individuals have to wear several different hats for several different roles: programmer, project manager, business liaison, etc. These companies aren't hiring anyone either. Though most companies aren't like my company, I can see why these class action lawsuits are popping up. But, in the end, class action lawsuits will ultimately hurt the IT individual because now companies can get rid of their IT departments and outsource them citing cost overruns.
If there are approximately 50,000,000 web pages out there (average of 5 web pages times approximately 10,000,000 websites - very rough estimate), 1% of 50,000,000 is 500,000 web pages. To me, that's a lot of porn.
...how will this benefit me? This is nothing but eye-candy. To truly achieve all of those nice features, I'll need to go out and buy a super-duper computer with a very fast GPU card. All of my computers that are more than 2 years old (maybe even 1 year old) will fail to do any of those fancy, graphical "acrobatics". People who are computer illiterate (and God knows there are a lot of them) and really want Vista but not a new computer are going to be in for a surprise: BSOD's and frozen screens. Nope. I'll stick with WinXp, Linux, and Mac O/S-X, but mostly Linux:-)
The worse has got to be "At the end of the day,......"
It makes no sense if you think about it. At the end of which day? It doesn't imply today. It implies sometime in the future, near or far. The sad part is that people use it because everyone else is using it, and they have no idea how to use it.
So, I ask them, "At the end of which day?" This annoys the person because now he/she has to explain the term to me. It's rather hilarious hearing their explanation.
A laptop is only good when you're typing in notes while not looking at the keyboard. Most students suck at typing and will concentrate more on where the letter 's' is than listening and understanding what the lecturer has to say.
In the Chicagoland area, movie tickets are anywhere from $8.50 in the suburbs to almost $12.00 in the city. When I take a date (that's right, a woman), I'm shelling out about $20 for the tix and $$$ for really overpriced drinks and food. Come on, $4.00 for a medium pop and $3.00 for a small popcorn?? So, if you add it all up, that's about $34 (2 tix, 2 pops, and 2 popcorn bags)! I'll wait for the DVD.
The majority of movies also suck nowadays. There's no imagination. They are either remakes or based on some comic book (although Spiderman II was pretty good). Why remake movies? Do the producers/writers think they can make it better than the original? Prime examples of crap remakes: Pink Panther, War of the Worlds, Shaft, Starsky and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard. The only movie I would like to see remade is Plan 9 from Outer Space. It wasn't voted "worse movie ever" for nothing.
It just puzzles me why anyone would want to buy something that's imaginary. It doesn't make sense. I would've put that $60 in the stock market and watch it grow, but that's just me.
But to answer your question of cheating or shortcut, it's definitely cheating. The poor 16 year old getting paid minimum wage who can't afford spending $60 on imaginary gold is at a disadvantage with someone who has a much better job. Where are the ethics in game playing??
My favorite is Elements (I think it's by Snapple). It's not carbonated (which I believe kills the overall experience of an energy drink) and not as sweet as the others like Red Bull or Monster. Since I'm a lightweight (130 lbs), a half-bottle of this stuff will send me flying for the next 4 - 6 hours. If I only want a quick pick-me-up, say for an hour or two, I'll just water it down.
I totally agree with your comments. I also want to add that, at least in Chicago, UPN decided to put Enterprise on Friday's at 7pm. I believe this totally killed the show over here because most people are out relaxing at the bars and restaurants after a long week of work. I would like to bitch-slap the marketing genious (and anyone else involved) who thought Friday's at 7pm was a good idea in Chicago (pardon my language).
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And you're the guy we probably fired.
If you want to see dot.com Bust 2.0, this will contribute to it. Do you remember the dot.com era? Most of those people with no technical or coding background who tried to learn how to code in 1 year (or less) and obtained some flea-bag certificate were the first ones to be let go. And yes, there were a lot of them. Without having the fundamentals of data structures, coding style, documentation skills, and good logic and problem solving skills, those new "coders" will have a very short career, if any. Most companies learned their lesson from dot.com 1.0.
Q. What did Mr. Spock say to Captain Kirk?
... booooo!
A. Captain, there are Klingons Uranus.
Yes, I know, I know, lame
I haven't had cable in over seven years, and I don't miss it. I refuse to pay for commercials.
... the best two are Verizon and US Cellular. Verizon gets the edge for variety of cell phones to choose from and nationwide coverage, but US Cellular gets the edge for better service although their regional coverage is just as good if not better than Verizon's.
Sprint and T-Mobile only care about getting customers to sign a contract. Their service is atrocious and cellular coverage is spotty around the city and really crappy in the rural areas.
The only thing going for AT&T is the iPhone. If it weren't for that, they'd be down there with Sprint and T-Mobile.
The Vatican is run like a business and has done so since its inception. It is one of the richest entities in the world that is its own country, has its own army and has its own economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_city.
How in the heck can a religion do this? It seems to contradict everything Jesus stood for: Peace, love, and helping people, not killing countless millions and building an empire in the name of God. What a bunch of hypocrites! It wouldn't surprise me that the Vatican will try and copyright (trademark, too) the name Vatican or even Jesus Christ one of these days.
Personally, KDE and Gnome both suck. They're both heavy-weight X-Window environments. I like XFCE better because it's simple, doesn't contain all of those "extra applications" I will never use, and is lightweight (IMHO).
There is such a thing as good genes, and it's called a fast metabolism. I have them plus I exercise. I'm 40 years old, and I have the body of a 20 year old - slim and fit (29-30" waist and 133 pounds). Even when I don't exercise, my metabolism is so fast that I can eat the crappiest foods for a week and not gain a pound. I have to say that I'm blessed to have a fast metabolism.
I do agree, however, that the number of healthy foods in regular grocery stores have diminished drastically over the last couple of years (at least in the Chicago area). I have to go to Whole Foods for the good stuff (and pay through the nose).
I have posted a similar comment for another person claiming that software engineering is engineering and will reiterate: Software engineering is NOT engineering and should not even be classified as such. I have degrees in Aerospace engineering (AE) and Software engineering (SE). SE was a walk in the park compared to AE.
Sorry, dude (or dudette), but you're disillusioned. Software Engineering doesn't even come close to "real" engineering (i.e. Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering). I have an Aerospace degree and a software engineering degree. Software engineering was a walk in the park compared to Aerospace. Software engineering shouldn't be classified as engineering.
First, the transporter device like in Star Trek is needed ASAP. This will eliminate the need for goods to travel in trucks on our already congested roads in the USA. Goods will arrive in warehouses, stores, homes, etc. practically instantaneously. And also, let's not forget about the person getting from point A to point B. Air, train and road travel is practically eliminated.
Second, the food replicator needs to be invented, which, again, is from Star Trek. Famine would be wiped out for good.
Now, this is all assuming that these inventions would be intended for good use.
Unions are the cause of a lot problems in the U.S. In Illinois, you are required to join a union if your job function is unionized. They're huge bureaucratic entities that are corrupt, they waste time, and they especially waste money. I've been in a union (UFCW), and it sucked. Unions are always talking about striking while at the same time take a large chunk of money out one's paycheck. These "union dues" or extortion fees would never, ever be seen again. And the biggest problem with unions is that it is very difficult to get rid of a crappy worker.
I'll be damned if I have to be forced to join a union because I write blogs. Unions were needed at the beginning of the 20th century because there were no laws to protect the worker. Today, there are laws in force that do protect the worker. Additional laws for bloggers would not be that tough to do. Plus, there wouldn't be any extortion fees to pay.
Even if SCO loses for good, there is Novell. While it's great that Novell will get the rights to Unix, in the meantime, Microsoft has a vested interest with the company. There may be a day when Microsoft will just buy out/absorb Novell, and MS will own the Unix rights. And MS being a company with really deep pockets and ever more resources, may actually pull off lawsuits ala RIAA against any Unix/Linux user. MS funded SCO indirectly to "help" with the lawsuit. It seems that MS knew SCO was going to lose. Thus, a partnership with Novell with a sweet deal it could not refuse was made. MS does not lose here. MS wins either way. I don't believe this is over by a long shot.
I don't believe in all of this global warming stuff. I have heard both sides of the story and have concluded that no one knows anything, especially the non-scientific community who tend to be ignorant and don't do any research themselves. If anyone remembers the late 70's, scientists were predicting that an ice-age was going to happen within 20 - 50 years. Well, it's been more than 20 years and nothing has happened. According to this wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age, we could be at the end of the little ice age.
One other thing to note is that we don't have any accurate weather data going back thousands of years. Everything is hear-say and pure speculation before the 19th century. So, how can we make any conclusions about our future climate if there isn't any hard evidence to go by? We can only speculate as to what is going to happen in the future based on data that is too "new" (within the last 2,000+ years as opposed to the last 1,000,000 years). I guess we can look at sediment and arctic ice layers, but again, most of the evidence are speculations.
Dude, you forgot 2005 http://imdb.com/title/tt0407304/.
I work for a company who's main motto is something like this: Put customers first. Thus, if anything goes wrong with the software/hardware system in which customers are directly affected, it is our responsibility to find the cause, fix it, and ensure any customers affected are properly compensated. In the end, if working 60 - 80 hours per week is required, we do it.
Sure it sucks, but the only choice that we have is to quit. But, even though we have to work a lot of extra hours, very few complain in my IT department because the perks we get are actually pretty good: compensation days, free breakfast/lunch/dinner, stock options, 100% tuition reimbursement and bonuses. In other words, my company takes care of us.
I'm not sure what companies you've worked for, but you would have been fired on the spot in my company, even if you were a programmer-extraordinaire. The main reason being that you didn't fit the company's model. No lawsuit would've helped you because our code of conduct handbook would've been used in the court system because of one line: 'you failed to put customers first'.
On a similar note, to consistently work 60 - 80 hours per week every week is a problem and a trend I'm seeing in corporate America. Corporations are running lean IT departments in which IT individuals have to wear several different hats for several different roles: programmer, project manager, business liaison, etc. These companies aren't hiring anyone either. Though most companies aren't like my company, I can see why these class action lawsuits are popping up. But, in the end, class action lawsuits will ultimately hurt the IT individual because now companies can get rid of their IT departments and outsource them citing cost overruns.
If there are approximately 50,000,000 web pages out there (average of 5 web pages times approximately 10,000,000 websites - very rough estimate), 1% of 50,000,000 is 500,000 web pages. To me, that's a lot of porn.
Vince
...how will this benefit me? This is nothing but eye-candy. To truly achieve all of those nice features, I'll need to go out and buy a super-duper computer with a very fast GPU card. All of my computers that are more than 2 years old (maybe even 1 year old) will fail to do any of those fancy, graphical "acrobatics". People who are computer illiterate (and God knows there are a lot of them) and really want Vista but not a new computer are going to be in for a surprise: BSOD's and frozen screens. Nope. I'll stick with WinXp, Linux, and Mac O/S-X, but mostly Linux :-)
It makes no sense if you think about it. At the end of which day? It doesn't imply today. It implies sometime in the future, near or far. The sad part is that people use it because everyone else is using it, and they have no idea how to use it.
So, I ask them, "At the end of which day?" This annoys the person because now he/she has to explain the term to me. It's rather hilarious hearing their explanation.
I would say it's more cruelty to animals than cute.
A laptop is only good when you're typing in notes while not looking at the keyboard. Most students suck at typing and will concentrate more on where the letter 's' is than listening and understanding what the lecturer has to say.
The majority of movies also suck nowadays. There's no imagination. They are either remakes or based on some comic book (although Spiderman II was pretty good). Why remake movies? Do the producers/writers think they can make it better than the original? Prime examples of crap remakes: Pink Panther, War of the Worlds, Shaft, Starsky and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard. The only movie I would like to see remade is Plan 9 from Outer Space. It wasn't voted "worse movie ever" for nothing.
But to answer your question of cheating or shortcut, it's definitely cheating. The poor 16 year old getting paid minimum wage who can't afford spending $60 on imaginary gold is at a disadvantage with someone who has a much better job. Where are the ethics in game playing??
My favorite is Elements (I think it's by Snapple). It's not carbonated (which I believe kills the overall experience of an energy drink) and not as sweet as the others like Red Bull or Monster. Since I'm a lightweight (130 lbs), a half-bottle of this stuff will send me flying for the next 4 - 6 hours. If I only want a quick pick-me-up, say for an hour or two, I'll just water it down.
I totally agree with your comments. I also want to add that, at least in Chicago, UPN decided to put Enterprise on Friday's at 7pm. I believe this totally killed the show over here because most people are out relaxing at the bars and restaurants after a long week of work. I would like to bitch-slap the marketing genious (and anyone else involved) who thought Friday's at 7pm was a good idea in Chicago (pardon my language).
Vince