When I worked for a company that allowed me to telecommute, this was my preference. I could sit in the chair for 10+ hours a day, and it wouldn't bother me at all (unlike this chair I'm sitting in now which starts to irritate at 1/2 hour after I get here). It takes some work, but I put my recliner on casters, and its nice. When I was single, I could sit in the chair from Friday evening to Monday morning only getting up for food and bathroom breaks. Of course now, my gf has confiscated the chair.
Each time I read this, it gets easier to read the final paragraph. However, it still has at least two issues. The first is the overloading of the v with w which have different sounds. The second is that British English has about 11 non-dipthong vowels (which is really most of the issue with spelling), and the "new spelling system" (let's call it a Rechtschreibung) doesn't really address that. This of course, can also lead to the issues of sh and ch. Although if you left sh as the s symbol, you wouldn't be able to drop a letter from the keyboard. Furthermore, does Z replace th as in thin or th as in than? If it replaces both, there is not advantage to its replacement.
Since we are inclined to speak of a Rechtschreibung, can we address issues like it's versus its? Perhaps, we can add back some of our missing pronouns (i.e. wit to mean you, I, and maybe others versus I and others, excluding you; gé to mean plural you). Oh, the list can go on for some time, but if we propose a Rechtschreibung, we should do it right.
I went "green" 3 years ago. I don't miss TV at all anymore. In fact, on the few occasions I see my gf watching it, I'm amazed at what keeps the masses entertained. It hurts to even watch some of it (e.g. The Hills).
I broke from the music industry right after the Napster explosion. Currently, I'm working on breaking from the movie habit. Then I will be free from the grip of the media companies...okay, I'll keep my internet, but mostly free of the media companies.
Perhaps you should look at the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) data published by the Census bureau. It is a cool set of map files. You can find more at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/.
I know the transportation departments across the country use the files.
There is a reason for the liquid ban. The airlines will start charging $7 for 4oz of soda & water. I believe this was a purely economic move pushed by the airlines.
You might feel that way, but look at the cell phone or the ATM. 20 years ago, only the weathly had cell phones, and they didn't work very well. Today, most people have one, and they are getting better all the time. 20 years ago, the ATM existed, but few used it. Today, we now use debit cards, and few bemoan the loss of paper currency. I expect there is something that is currently in its infancy that will revolutionize our culture. 20 years from now, I hope my toilet and refridgerator collude to provide me a healthier diet.
Well, at first, I read it as "Al Taught How To Play Ms. Pac-Man", so my first thought was Al Gore. But a second parsing lead me to AI or Artificial Intelligence (though some my acquantences think American Idol). The font can really lead to an ambiguous reading.
I don't know why you were modded 'Troll'. I think your statements are accurate. There are way too many lines of VB code written for businesses to want it to go away. If they had to re-write those lines (no matter what new language will be, or what the quality of the VB is), they would more likely abandon the need to upgrade. As for the ribbon, I haven't seen it, but that might be because my company didn't think it was necessary to upgrade to the current version of Office.
Whether we like it or not VB is here to stay. The cost to convert the older stuff is way too high.
When I started college, we were required to take Pascal. As you may be aware, there is little Pascal being programmed today. But that doesn't make my experience in Pascal useless, nor the language useless. I generally program in C/C++, but a couple of times a year, I'm asked to program in some language I've never seen. Sometimes those languages have similarities to Pascal; sometimes they don't. Regardless, the more languages you have exposure to, the easier it will be to pick up the next one. There are some things I really liked about Pascal (inner functions), and many things I didn't.
Take the class, and enjoy it. Maybe think of it like learning a foreign language. If you learn Spanish, you tend to learn a bit more about English.
There were these pieces of printed cardboard paper called 'cards'. They look similar to the images in Windows "Solitaire", but we called the game "Klondike", as there were many forms of "Solitaire". We also used these 'cards' for "Go Fish", "Rummy", "Cribbage", and many other games.
To add to this comment, let me say my local tennis courts have 4" of snow on them (other locations have more) with a sheet of ice below that. If the snow didn't imped the ball from it's normally regular path, I'm sure the extreme sport of ice tennis would put some folks off from it.
Well, last night was the first time I looked at a Linux desktop in 3 years. I installed PCLinuxOS on my girlfriends box last night, and I was impressed. It looked and felt a lot like a windows machine (which she needs). Now that we have a desktop that works well as a competitor, maybe the migration can really start. My previous experiences have been severely disappointing for the desktop, and I'm a huge fan of *nix (for myself, I like OpenBSD). So, maybe if 'they' just keep using that phrase, it will stick.
Have you ever considered 3rd parties? Even if it is a "waste of vote" because the candidate "won't win", it isn't a wasted vote. Most of the time if a third party gains any strength, the major parties take a look at it to see what they need to incorporate from those parties to eliminate any threat of the third party. So, you could really look at voting 3rd party as a way of saying to the major parties, look at 'these' ideals. Even if the 3rd party is being run by some crackpot, you still might vote for them as a statement. Don't just sit at home and do nothing, vote against the two evils!
The senators enjoy wasting their time on this because it is a "feel good" "look at the monkey" tactic. It doesn't make sense for a 7' tall Wookie to be on a planet with a bunch of 3' tall Ewoks, but there he is, and it doesn't make sense. So our senators must discuss game ratings instead of good solutions to difficult questions.
As others have mentioned, the country can point to my representatives/senators also. We have the lying, self-serving Senator Craig. I'm fairly certain that when they count the votes here in Idaho, if it isn't for the Republican, they assume you meant to vote for the Republican and record it that way. Combine that with people who vote for the words of morality rather than the actions of morality.
For my own purchases, I have stopped purchasing music for the last several years. I do not copy or download songs either. However, the problem I have run into recently is I now have a girlfriend and she is always compelling me to purchase music. No amount of explaination about how horrible these people are, she *needs* the latest hits. I don't suppose anyone has found a good set of arguements to convince thier significant others?
Nintendo's mistake might be that many of the games people are looking forward to aren't coming out until after Christmas. I've been waiting for Smash Bros & Mario Kart. Before Christmas, the only game coming out that I will purchase is Mario Galaxy. Maybe there is something else, but they should have pushed the big titles to release before Christmas.
Another issue is that if people can't get a Nintendo, they will eventually give up on wanting one. I was lucky (and crazy enough to sit in the freezing weather) to get one when they first came out. I quite enjoy it, and play it weekly, but if I was one of the many who couldn't have got one early, I probably would have given up.
I'm not sure, but you might have been marked troll because the gp has been deleted, and someone may have attributed your comment to the article instead. Combine low comprehension with the tin-foil hats, and it looks like a troll.
Many cities have gone on to hire an Ombudsman. The role of the ombudsman is to be a liason between the people and the police. In some cities, these seats are "voted" upon. However, some cities, like the city of Boise, will have unscrupulous mayors (e.g. former mayor Brent Cole), who remove the elected official and replace them with puppets. Thus giving no more than a mere appearance of a review, rather than a serious review.
I'm not sure the people will ever actually get a proper group to review the police actions. Inappropriate shootings, taserings, arrests will continue for some time to come. Police are little more than a group of hoodlums organized against the people and ordained by the government.
I'm not normally a tin-foil hat type, but my experience has shown the police don't really care about protecting the people. They only care to feed their egos while bullying the average Joe.
I haven't any mod points, but let me say, that is very useful. I was unaware of the act until you listed it. I did a google search on it, and came upon the FTC site which nicely explains it. Next time I run into issues of this nature, I'll be sure to remember something protects me. Thanks.
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The police might be minutes away, but sometimes they take hours to get there. That's been my experience.
It was smart to post as an AC. 70K (without the degrees) is damned cold! 70 degrees C is really hot.
When I worked for a company that allowed me to telecommute, this was my preference. I could sit in the chair for 10+ hours a day, and it wouldn't bother me at all (unlike this chair I'm sitting in now which starts to irritate at 1/2 hour after I get here). It takes some work, but I put my recliner on casters, and its nice. When I was single, I could sit in the chair from Friday evening to Monday morning only getting up for food and bathroom breaks. Of course now, my gf has confiscated the chair.
Each time I read this, it gets easier to read the final paragraph. However, it still has at least two issues. The first is the overloading of the v with w which have different sounds. The second is that British English has about 11 non-dipthong vowels (which is really most of the issue with spelling), and the "new spelling system" (let's call it a Rechtschreibung) doesn't really address that. This of course, can also lead to the issues of sh and ch. Although if you left sh as the s symbol, you wouldn't be able to drop a letter from the keyboard. Furthermore, does Z replace th as in thin or th as in than? If it replaces both, there is not advantage to its replacement.
Since we are inclined to speak of a Rechtschreibung, can we address issues like it's versus its? Perhaps, we can add back some of our missing pronouns (i.e. wit to mean you, I, and maybe others versus I and others, excluding you; gé to mean plural you). Oh, the list can go on for some time, but if we propose a Rechtschreibung, we should do it right.
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I went "green" 3 years ago. I don't miss TV at all anymore. In fact, on the few occasions I see my gf watching it, I'm amazed at what keeps the masses entertained. It hurts to even watch some of it (e.g. The Hills).
I broke from the music industry right after the Napster explosion. Currently, I'm working on breaking from the movie habit. Then I will be free from the grip of the media companies...okay, I'll keep my internet, but mostly free of the media companies.
Now, if only I could get my yard to "go" green.
I recently opted out of advertising from MySpace...I closed my account.
Perhaps you should look at the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) data published by the Census bureau. It is a cool set of map files. You can find more at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/.
I know the transportation departments across the country use the files.
There is a reason for the liquid ban. The airlines will start charging $7 for 4oz of soda & water. I believe this was a purely economic move pushed by the airlines.
You might feel that way, but look at the cell phone or the ATM. 20 years ago, only the weathly had cell phones, and they didn't work very well. Today, most people have one, and they are getting better all the time. 20 years ago, the ATM existed, but few used it. Today, we now use debit cards, and few bemoan the loss of paper currency. I expect there is something that is currently in its infancy that will revolutionize our culture. 20 years from now, I hope my toilet and refridgerator collude to provide me a healthier diet.
Well, at first, I read it as "Al Taught How To Play Ms. Pac-Man", so my first thought was Al Gore. But a second parsing lead me to AI or Artificial Intelligence (though some my acquantences think American Idol). The font can really lead to an ambiguous reading.
I don't know why you were modded 'Troll'. I think your statements are accurate. There are way too many lines of VB code written for businesses to want it to go away. If they had to re-write those lines (no matter what new language will be, or what the quality of the VB is), they would more likely abandon the need to upgrade. As for the ribbon, I haven't seen it, but that might be because my company didn't think it was necessary to upgrade to the current version of Office.
Whether we like it or not VB is here to stay. The cost to convert the older stuff is way too high.
When I started college, we were required to take Pascal. As you may be aware, there is little Pascal being programmed today. But that doesn't make my experience in Pascal useless, nor the language useless. I generally program in C/C++, but a couple of times a year, I'm asked to program in some language I've never seen. Sometimes those languages have similarities to Pascal; sometimes they don't. Regardless, the more languages you have exposure to, the easier it will be to pick up the next one. There are some things I really liked about Pascal (inner functions), and many things I didn't.
Take the class, and enjoy it. Maybe think of it like learning a foreign language. If you learn Spanish, you tend to learn a bit more about English.
There were these pieces of printed cardboard paper called 'cards'. They look similar to the images in Windows "Solitaire", but we called the game "Klondike", as there were many forms of "Solitaire". We also used these 'cards' for "Go Fish", "Rummy", "Cribbage", and many other games.
To add to this comment, let me say my local tennis courts have 4" of snow on them (other locations have more) with a sheet of ice below that. If the snow didn't imped the ball from it's normally regular path, I'm sure the extreme sport of ice tennis would put some folks off from it.
Well, last night was the first time I looked at a Linux desktop in 3 years. I installed PCLinuxOS on my girlfriends box last night, and I was impressed. It looked and felt a lot like a windows machine (which she needs). Now that we have a desktop that works well as a competitor, maybe the migration can really start. My previous experiences have been severely disappointing for the desktop, and I'm a huge fan of *nix (for myself, I like OpenBSD). So, maybe if 'they' just keep using that phrase, it will stick.
Have you ever considered 3rd parties? Even if it is a "waste of vote" because the candidate "won't win", it isn't a wasted vote. Most of the time if a third party gains any strength, the major parties take a look at it to see what they need to incorporate from those parties to eliminate any threat of the third party. So, you could really look at voting 3rd party as a way of saying to the major parties, look at 'these' ideals. Even if the 3rd party is being run by some crackpot, you still might vote for them as a statement. Don't just sit at home and do nothing, vote against the two evils!
The senators enjoy wasting their time on this because it is a "feel good" "look at the monkey" tactic. It doesn't make sense for a 7' tall Wookie to be on a planet with a bunch of 3' tall Ewoks, but there he is, and it doesn't make sense. So our senators must discuss game ratings instead of good solutions to difficult questions.
As others have mentioned, the country can point to my representatives/senators also. We have the lying, self-serving Senator Craig. I'm fairly certain that when they count the votes here in Idaho, if it isn't for the Republican, they assume you meant to vote for the Republican and record it that way. Combine that with people who vote for the words of morality rather than the actions of morality.
My own personal theory to this might be a correllary: The first bag on the conveyer doesn't belong to anyone. It's just a teaser bag.
For my own purchases, I have stopped purchasing music for the last several years. I do not copy or download songs either. However, the problem I have run into recently is I now have a girlfriend and she is always compelling me to purchase music. No amount of explaination about how horrible these people are, she *needs* the latest hits. I don't suppose anyone has found a good set of arguements to convince thier significant others?
Nintendo's mistake might be that many of the games people are looking forward to aren't coming out until after Christmas. I've been waiting for Smash Bros & Mario Kart. Before Christmas, the only game coming out that I will purchase is Mario Galaxy. Maybe there is something else, but they should have pushed the big titles to release before Christmas.
Another issue is that if people can't get a Nintendo, they will eventually give up on wanting one. I was lucky (and crazy enough to sit in the freezing weather) to get one when they first came out. I quite enjoy it, and play it weekly, but if I was one of the many who couldn't have got one early, I probably would have given up.
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I'm not sure, but you might have been marked troll because the gp has been deleted, and someone may have attributed your comment to the article instead. Combine low comprehension with the tin-foil hats, and it looks like a troll.
I don't know, I'm just guessing.
Many cities have gone on to hire an Ombudsman. The role of the ombudsman is to be a liason between the people and the police. In some cities, these seats are "voted" upon. However, some cities, like the city of Boise, will have unscrupulous mayors (e.g. former mayor Brent Cole), who remove the elected official and replace them with puppets. Thus giving no more than a mere appearance of a review, rather than a serious review.
I'm not sure the people will ever actually get a proper group to review the police actions. Inappropriate shootings, taserings, arrests will continue for some time to come. Police are little more than a group of hoodlums organized against the people and ordained by the government.
I'm not normally a tin-foil hat type, but my experience has shown the police don't really care about protecting the people. They only care to feed their egos while bullying the average Joe.
I haven't any mod points, but let me say, that is very useful. I was unaware of the act until you listed it. I did a google search on it, and came upon the FTC site which nicely explains it. Next time I run into issues of this nature, I'll be sure to remember something protects me. Thanks.