1. Join a local freelance contractor group or website 2. Advertise, advertise, advertise 3. Shoe-string budget (macaroni-cheese and Top-Ramen) 4. Network, network, network (the social kind, not the other kind) 5. Brush up on phone etitiquette 6. Learn legalese on contractual languages or hire a lawyer 7. Complete the job 8. File taxes regularily 9. Profit!
It is a good thing that regardless of HOW the state choose their own electoral delegates, the fact remains that the electoral college is composed of 51 states and district.
This seperation of 51 states/district is a good thing.
We wouldn't want one region of the country to impose value on the other region. North vs. South (Civil War) came to mind.
Nowaday, it could be easily East vs. West or NW vs. SE or Midwest vs. the rest....
Your votes counts... believe it or not...One must shed the popular and sorely misperceived perception that popular vote is a result of your vote. Instead, your vote goes to pick the delegates representing your state (and for some state, your delegate's district).
It works likes this in one state and one district. Your vote is tabulated within a district (it may or may not be a congressional district, but usually is). A pair (or couple of) party-specific and party-nominated delegate represents your vote. (Few states allow renegade delegates to defy your district's choice).
Then each state's assembly (or unicameral) house then convene and tabulated the delegates' vote. Most states use all-for-one tabulation, Some states require split representation of delegate, instead of all for one.
Then the state government (various method used here) then sends a certified delegate(s) to carry the state's choice of presidential candidate(s) to Washington, DC.
So, get out and vote. Your vote impacts your one delegate, so its your community, your vote.
How about more the Federalist style of government and not the "Republic" government. It's always seems to be this way since then anonymous PUBLIUS authored the Federalist papers.
Now, I'm wondering why we are currently enspousing a "democracy" in budding 3rd world nations?
Why don't we hear more about advocating "Republic" government instead?
Or is this more of the media's misguided use of terminology and its application whenever they report "Democracy". Does it really mean "Republic"?
The law is so vague that it didn't specify what a valid e-mail address is. Should have reference something like
RFC 831 - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
or more importantly, what the email syntax SHOULD BE
RFC 822 - Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages
This bill will get thrown out of court easily but only AFTER the EFF expends additional money due to our overpaid legislators' technologically-clueless ineptitudes.
(sigh)... Orson Welles said it best... "... before its time."
1. 360 degree camera with mandatory governmental tap for stealth survilleance feedback in every car.
2. Radar Jammer used by terrorist in creating traffic jams which all cars outfitted with RCA (radar collision avoidance) system.
3. Teenage timer kill-switch. To stop those 15 kids jammed-in 5-seater with a potential drunk driver at the wheel and to comply with after 10PM prohibition.
4. Breath analyzer starter-kill in every car
5. voice-activated motorized vanity mirror for those vain-enough not to look ahead but only at themselves.
6. Ejection seat to safely discharge passengers during carjacking and to implode when carjacker is alone.
7. Automatic turn-signals for those who never use it.
8. Laser gun to deflate rude driver's tires (last time I checked, its legal in California Vehicle Code, unless they want to treat light beams as material goods, which isn't in a physic-sense of a word).
9. Auto-matic defensive driving mode for evading bad drivers (not that I would ever advocate its use against law enforcement). This is in opposite comparision with OnStar's remote kill-switch.
10. Two-way electric mirror on all windows for privacy in your car with your mate.
Noticed that I didn't bother to mention tricked out, boom box, chrome, or movie theatre (that is so passe).
I bet you didn't know that there are way too many regional dialect of American Sign Language.
Most animated ones are the one-hander New York/NJ (it isn't the Bronx, thats for sure) dialect of which the signer keeps one hand in their pocket and conduct the entire conversation with their other hand. It was cool for a veteran ASL to STILL be able to understand them flawlessly without a hitch.
Studies have been made to show that environment is a largest driven factor in the development of sign language, followed by personality.
Naval SEAL also developed their own dialect as well to conduct underwater missions (demo anyone?)
Various elite US Army and Marine has their own as well (team-snipers, recon).
Iowan Deaf farmers also have their own structure that is closer to English syntax (as opposed to the usual French grammer, verb first, subject last). Some of you in Deaf Studies academic circles will quickly surmise that this is PSE (Pigeon Signed English) but I assured you, that is far from it.
The most disserviced group of the ASL community are some department heads of languages at various universities who are clueless to enforce a god-like edict to implement PSE as their main driving force for teach such a broken and stunted language to our deaf children. The correct language is ASL. Not Exact English, not PSE. We don't teach Ebonic to Black children, thus we shouldn't teach anything but ASL to Deaf children.
Dipolmatic Deaf corps also have their own nuances to ensure a smoother dialoge and less misunderstanding across international borders. That language is called G.... guess anyone?
Personalized is just another subset under regional dialect.
It gets more interesting as you travel from one microsociety to another.
Try it! You'll never know that it may save your life. The US Army/Navy/Marine can't be wrong.
For a non-public APIs, there is no good reason for a range checking on the lower-tier modules for a carefully integrated module stacking. It is superfluous coding.
That is, the 2nd programmer's module calling the 1st programmer's function without consulting the 1st programmers documentation, be that it may: verbal, written, guesture or even smoke signals.
Tight cohesive teamwork is the key... Get it together.
Just as we, the lowly programmers, should know this... when building functional blocks on top of lower functional blocks (think pyramid, not spaghetti), we take out the range checking from lower functional blocks as we progress in our development cycle (at least the good programmers do).
Just as my subject line is treated as a rock-steady axiom of Computer Science, particularly of Software Quality and Software Engineering electives, fixes that results in slower codes usually a BIG sign that range checking have been incorporated in repetitive functional loop (no matter how deep inside the loop gets.
Such a pity. A well designed code (i.e., FireFox browser) obviate the need for same range checking in multiple layer of the code.
I'm sorry, it is NOT always this way; maybe for a slipshod programmer, yes. But not in my book.
I'm sorry but some of the most frustrating trying time (not to mention many caffinated eye-drops, endless tech call cycles, and expensive service calls)... I can quickly point out the ONES I experienced with XP and the fabled BLUE SCREEN OF DEEEEEEEAAAAAATH (whew), that is BSOD, for those are are monikered-included.
In last 5 years, 9 different deliverable and stable releases of BSD, Linux (and MacOS) distros that I have the fortune of selecting (alibet a conservative release) have yet to procure a kernel fault. Only my Gentoo is bleeding edge and still they were smart enough to avoid a certain subversion of Linux 2.6.8 kernel (or advocate them).
So, OBVIOUSLY, it would appear that the product is slipping by the MSFT quality control checkpoint too often.
Me think, MSFT-QA's desk must situated somewhere outside of the Redmond loading dock.
Slashdot Mirror
I seem to recall from the heydays that Walmart used to put on a PR saying "Made in U.S.A."
What happened to that?
Buy a Microsoft-based computer from any store, hook it up to the Net, get r0073d!
Install the Microsoft-supplied Windows CD (pick any version), hook it up to the net, get r0073d.
God forbid, if you dust off your favorite old Windows that you hook that up also!!!
Uh? This has nothing to do with 3rd parties SW, Bill.
American OnLine + Microsoft Network = MOAN?
1. Join a local freelance contractor group or website
2. Advertise, advertise, advertise
3. Shoe-string budget (macaroni-cheese and Top-Ramen)
4. Network, network, network (the social kind, not the other kind)
5. Brush up on phone etitiquette
6. Learn legalese on contractual languages or hire a lawyer
7. Complete the job
8. File taxes regularily
9. Profit!
It is a good thing that regardless of HOW the state choose their own electoral delegates, the fact remains that the electoral college is composed of 51 states and district.
This seperation of 51 states/district is a good thing.
We wouldn't want one region of the country to impose value on the other region. North vs. South (Civil War) came to mind.
Nowaday, it could be easily East vs. West or NW vs. SE or Midwest vs. the rest....
No... E.C. is the best thing since slice bread.
Your votes counts... believe it or not...One must shed the popular and sorely misperceived perception that popular vote is a result of your vote. Instead, your vote goes to pick the delegates representing your state (and for some state, your delegate's district).
It works likes this in one state and one district. Your vote is tabulated within a district (it may or may not be a congressional district, but usually is). A pair (or couple of) party-specific and party-nominated delegate represents your vote. (Few states allow renegade delegates to defy your district's choice).
Then each state's assembly (or unicameral) house then convene and tabulated the delegates' vote. Most states use all-for-one tabulation, Some states require split representation of delegate, instead of all for one.
Then the state government (various method used here) then sends a certified delegate(s) to carry the state's choice of presidential candidate(s) to Washington, DC.
So, get out and vote. Your vote impacts your one delegate, so its your community, your vote.
Make your vote felt!
Just a thought... And I have been wrong before...
How about more the Federalist style of government and not the "Republic" government. It's always seems to be this way since then anonymous PUBLIUS authored the Federalist papers.
Now, I'm wondering why we are currently enspousing a "democracy" in budding 3rd world nations?
Why don't we hear more about advocating "Republic" government instead?
Or is this more of the media's misguided use of terminology and its application whenever they report "Democracy". Does it really mean "Republic"?
As a comparative analysis... an uninformed reader only needs to read two disparate statements and decide which is more true.
"We probably have the most secure system in the nation," said Lamone
and
according to Associate Director Andy Stephenson, "The entire voting record can be deleted by choosing "reset the election" on a drop-down menu."
Only a fool would pick an otherwise obvious statement...
Not replacing the lopped-off research lab (Western Lab, er no, AT&T Lab, I mean, Bell Labs, I mean, Lucent, ummm, nevermind) with their very own.
Dear Presidential Candidates,
In light of the looming budget cut, which cabinet or department would you deemed as overbloated and could stand to be made more effectual?
No, the Congress nor US Supreme Court would not be a viable nor constituional option, but their program-specific entities are fair game.
actually, the following are legal email addresses:
root@localhost
Administrator@localhost
webmaster@your-hostname-without-a-TLD
The law is so vague that it didn't specify what a valid e-mail address is. Should have reference something like
RFC 831 - Simple Mail Transport Protocol
or more importantly, what the email syntax SHOULD BE
RFC 822 - Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages
This bill will get thrown out of court easily but only AFTER the EFF expends additional money due to our overpaid legislators' technologically-clueless ineptitudes.
Get with the program, EFF lobbyists.
(sigh)... Orson Welles said it best... "... before its time."
1. 360 degree camera with mandatory governmental tap for stealth survilleance feedback in every car.
2. Radar Jammer used by terrorist in creating traffic jams which all cars outfitted with RCA (radar collision avoidance) system.
3. Teenage timer kill-switch. To stop those 15 kids jammed-in 5-seater with a potential drunk driver at the wheel and to comply with after 10PM prohibition.
4. Breath analyzer starter-kill in every car
5. voice-activated motorized vanity mirror for those vain-enough not to look ahead but only at themselves.
6. Ejection seat to safely discharge passengers during carjacking and to implode when carjacker is alone.
7. Automatic turn-signals for those who never use it.
8. Laser gun to deflate rude driver's tires (last time I checked, its legal in California Vehicle Code, unless they want to treat light beams as material goods, which isn't in a physic-sense of a word).
9. Auto-matic defensive driving mode for evading bad drivers (not that I would ever advocate its use against law enforcement). This is in opposite comparision with OnStar's remote kill-switch.
10. Two-way electric mirror on all windows for privacy in your car with your mate.
Noticed that I didn't bother to mention tricked out, boom box, chrome, or movie theatre (that is so passe).
Sorry. Sports signs lacks the following criteria to consist of a language:
syntax
ruleset
a robust vocabulary to cover most environment
a community to support this (existing or not).
Latin meets that criteria, zebras do not.
I bet you didn't know that there are way too many regional dialect of American Sign Language.
Most animated ones are the one-hander New York/NJ (it isn't the Bronx, thats for sure) dialect of which the signer keeps one hand in their pocket and conduct the entire conversation with their other hand. It was cool for a veteran ASL to STILL be able to understand them flawlessly without a hitch.
Studies have been made to show that environment is a largest driven factor in the development of sign language, followed by personality.
Naval SEAL also developed their own dialect as well to conduct underwater missions (demo anyone?)
Various elite US Army and Marine has their own as well (team-snipers, recon).
Iowan Deaf farmers also have their own structure that is closer to English syntax (as opposed to the usual French grammer, verb first, subject last). Some of you in Deaf Studies academic circles will quickly surmise that this is PSE (Pigeon Signed English) but I assured you, that is far from it.
The most disserviced group of the ASL community are some department heads of languages at various universities who are clueless to enforce a god-like edict to implement PSE as their main driving force for teach such a broken and stunted language to our deaf children. The correct language is ASL. Not Exact English, not PSE. We don't teach Ebonic to Black children, thus we shouldn't teach anything but ASL to Deaf children.
Dipolmatic Deaf corps also have their own nuances to ensure a smoother dialoge and less misunderstanding across international borders. That language is called G.... guess anyone?
Personalized is just another subset under regional dialect.
It gets more interesting as you travel from one microsociety to another.
Try it! You'll never know that it may save your life. The US Army/Navy/Marine can't be wrong.
I said "non-public API" which would equate with your "non-front-end" code.
All front-end code should not have to do range checking prior to calling a published API.
It is unpublished (non-public) API that shouldn't have to do redundant range checking.
Is English your forte? Or are you happy to be an AC?
For a non-public APIs, there is no good reason for a range checking on the lower-tier modules for a carefully integrated module stacking. It is superfluous coding.
That is, the 2nd programmer's module calling the 1st programmer's function without consulting the 1st programmers documentation, be that it may: verbal, written, guesture or even smoke signals.
Tight cohesive teamwork is the key... Get it together.
Yes, I should. But it sure beats 130+ bug fixes per months for IE.
I did have a HD failure...A controller failure.
And yes, I do have both said printers. One swapped out for another during each BSOD.
Surprised, uh? Yes I sucked MSFT's BSOD big time.
My best printer is managed nicely by Gentoo.
Talk about one unlucky guy...I only wish to be as lucky as the cricket from a Disney movie, Mulan.
Just as we, the lowly programmers, should know this... when building functional blocks on top of lower functional blocks (think pyramid, not spaghetti), we take out the range checking from lower functional blocks as we progress in our development cycle (at least the good programmers do).
Just as my subject line is treated as a rock-steady axiom of Computer Science, particularly of Software Quality and Software Engineering electives, fixes that results in slower codes usually a BIG sign that range checking have been incorporated in repetitive functional loop (no matter how deep inside the loop gets.
Such a pity. A well designed code (i.e., FireFox browser) obviate the need for same range checking in multiple layer of the code.
I'm sorry, it is NOT always this way; maybe for a slipshod programmer, yes. But not in my book.
My HD bit the dust... They offered me an upgrade to XP, XP-SP2 or W2K.
You guess which one I picked.
W2K is more stable than NT or 98SE. I wondered what happened to all of those laid-off MSFT-QA people in 2000 and 2002? Were they too good for you?
1. KB 314830 - "Stop 0x000000A5" Error When You Are Installing Windows XP
2. KB 315192 - Windows Unexpectedly Restarts or You Receive a Stop Error When You Play or Start Microsoft Games
3. KB 307129 - "Fatal System Error" When You Try to Use a Hewlett-Packard 5100C ScanJet
4. KB 291808 - You receive a "STOP: How to Troubleshoot a STOP 0x00000073 CONFIG_LIST_FAILED" error message in Windows 2000 or in Windows XP
5. KB 315249 - Troubleshooting a Stop 0x9F Error in Windows XP
In last 5 years, 9 different deliverable and stable releases of BSD, Linux (and MacOS) distros that I have the fortune of selecting (alibet a conservative release) have yet to procure a kernel fault. Only my Gentoo is bleeding edge and still they were smart enough to avoid a certain subversion of Linux 2.6.8 kernel (or advocate them). So, OBVIOUSLY, it would appear that the product is slipping by the MSFT quality control checkpoint too often.
Me think, MSFT-QA's desk must situated somewhere outside of the Redmond loading dock.
Throw away an entire useless industry and something better ALWAYS comes along and replaces it.
-- I leave it to your mind to peg that "useless" industry.
Oh, I thought it was a bank of monkeys surfing the MS Tech Web for the first tier suggested tips.
For second tier, all demoted MSFT contractors with marginal skills.
For third tier, all actual hard-working MSFT demoted employees with fair skills.
For fourth tier ($$$), all MSFT "non-employee, but should be employee"
For fifth "executive" tier (lifetime clients only), you talk to the developers directly.
-- Those are my experience only and not a reflection on anyone else. If your mileage varies (which can only get better)... stuff it.
Chinese APEX 600 DVD player came out with Macrovision disable/enable option. :-)
-- A proud owner of APEX (disassociative disclaimer : I didn't say which model).
For the uninitiated, "CYA Memo Diff" is the comparision of two documents during W's Guard years.