Your interest will start to wane after the 75th massive cottage-cheese looking butt with an extra hairy crack that smells like it hasn't seen a shower in weeks. Never forget that whatever your fantasy is, 99% of women aren't it.
I am exactly the "you" you are referring to. Currently a resident of Phx, and all of the things that made this city attractive 10 years ago are pretty much gone. The sprawl over the past 5 years is ungodly. Outside of the engineering world in which I work, most people I talk to work in real estate, construction, or civil services, and all of that was fueled by the real estate boom. With that collapse, this city is going to go through some very rough times. It won't be quite as bad as a place like Detroit--our vast swaths of abandoned property are all brand new. Places like MN, CO, WA, and OR are high on my list of places to move to when a reasonable opportunity presents itself. Having experienced it in the past, smaller, more centralized living is vastly superior to exurb sprawl. All you have to do is get used to the idea that a 5000sq ft house on an acre of land isn't a requirement of success.
Should the company have a right to record every phone conversation you have?
As long as you're made aware that this will occur, then yes. As stated, it's a company phone. If you're not comfortable with that, then you get your own personal cell phone for personal calls.
Actually, for exactly this reason, I use my gmail account for email with all of my friends and family. Work email is used for work only. Only my wife and parents even know what my work email is.
d) God is actually a woman. Powerful, but insecure, and she needs you to show her how much you love her all the time. If you don't, she'll get depressed and eat her weight in mint-chocolate chip ice cream, in which case she'll end up omnipresent in more ways than one.
But it also includes a fail-over mechanism that disables the relevant mechanical parts and evacuates the contents of your abdomen on said female. Of the course the risk that still remains is that you may have had too much too quickly and overshot that threshold and taken home somebody who is so fugly and desperate that neither of those two problems are a game changer for her.
Except that the bulk of that news being delivered through Google News comes from those media moguls with a failed business model. What I expect will happen is that journalism will be consolidated into a few large companies (say, Turner & News Corp), that will then either do as you say and charge for content, or can guarantee enough eyeballs through their new oligopoly that ad rates go up. Regardless, I can't help but think that the consolidation of news sources will ultimately be a bad thing for our society. It was bad enough when ClearChannel took over radio...
Does this mean Nietzsche would have worked for Netcraft?
"This just in--COBOL is dead. Netcraft confirms it."
And in a slightly more serious vein, discussion of philosophy of language design is all well and good. At the very least it's the kind of masturbation one can do with the whole family. Kantian compilers and Platonic preprocessors are certainly titillating. But what I'd be more interested in is if there have been any studies of programming languages in terms of human language. I know you can make some superficial analogues of functions as verbs, variables as nouns, and some languages have syntax flexibility that reflects natural language to an extent (e.g., Perl's indirect object format: $awesome = 1 if $natalie_portman && $hot_grits;) These are intentionally created that way by the language designer, though. I'm wondering if, based on these superficial intentional "boundary conditions", any deeper parallels to natural language emerge. My intuition tells me that Lisp is likely very similar to how language is structured within our brains--a series of nested clauses, each representing its own set of ideas or objects. If you subscribe to any of Chomsky's or Pinker's ideas of how our brains use language, the simple combinatorial system that allows us to create arbitrarily complex sentences seems like it would apply equally well to many programming languages.
Just some of my musings while I avoid work in the morning...
I have a WinXP SP2 system at home, which for various reasons not of interest here, I am unable to upgrade to SP3. Chrome works just fine though, so maybe I'll just make that my full time browser on that machine.
Also running WinXP SP2 at work, as the admins haven't seen fit to make SP3 part of the supported environment. Looks like my Firefox install would have to plateau here as well.
This begs the question--are they TRYING to get me to quit using FF? XP SP2 isn't THAT old of an OS. I can't really understand why it would be dropped. I can understand Win2K, though I have a machine running that as well, since that one has been around a long time and the remaining userbase is likely small. Even so, unless there's an insurmountable technical hurdle supporting the newest OSes and the old ones, why bother? Near as I can tell from the article, Vista and Windows 7 have some *whiz bang!* features they can take advantage of. Hardly seems worth it.
What are you thinking? Disagreeing with the status quo is not flamebait. It's how grown-ups have discussions. Life would get pretty boring if everybody just patted each others' backs all day long, and there would certainly be no progress. Flamebait is just that: emotional bait to get others to flame it. The parent post is nothing of the sort. It's well thought out and well written, and even includes a nice disclaimer at the end to smooth ruffled feathers. And most importantly, it makes a good point. There are always at least two ways to react to any kind of challenge, be it physical, mental, environmental, or other--you can let it defeat you and give up, or you can work harder to try to overcome it. I can't fault any individual for their circumstances, choices, or results. I haven't experienced what they're going through, and can't say if I would be able to do any better. But there is a serious problem if institutionally we are telling people to quit trying because it's just too hard.
As the teacher, how exactly would you enforce the confiscation?
Teacher: Put your cell phone away--no texting in class Student: No Teacher: Okay, give me your phone. You can get it back after school. Student: (Sits on phone) No! Teacher: That's it. Go to the office Student: No!
Where would you go next?
Physical intervention? Historically, that would have been the way to go--a smack across the wrists with a ruler and dragged off to the principal's office by the ear. Not really an option anymore though. Assault charges are likely to be filed.
Go in and grab the phone from underneath the student? Molestation and sexual assault charges. Fun!
Ignore it? May be a possibility in a few cases, but my guess is that if something has already escalated to this point, then this student is a much bigger classroom disturbance than just in this instance.
Not being there, it's hard to say what the exact circumstances were, but it's quite easy to assume that the girl was being very belligerent and very disruptive. Not having any other real options of dealing with the problem, calling in the cops is probably the best option--most high schools will have at least one dedicated officer who's always on campus.
The point is that there are error bars on the measurements. Maybe the atom renders a single page in 500ms and the via in 300ms. That's all well and good, but what if the processor was handling some other background task for one or the other during that time? The extra few ms makes a difference. So, instead they have each one render some 100+ pages in a row. Little anomalies like that get averaged out, so you get a better comparison between the two.
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Your interest will start to wane after the 75th massive cottage-cheese looking butt with an extra hairy crack that smells like it hasn't seen a shower in weeks. Never forget that whatever your fantasy is, 99% of women aren't it.
...post on Slashdot. So, you're off to a good start!
I am exactly the "you" you are referring to. Currently a resident of Phx, and all of the things that made this city attractive 10 years ago are pretty much gone. The sprawl over the past 5 years is ungodly. Outside of the engineering world in which I work, most people I talk to work in real estate, construction, or civil services, and all of that was fueled by the real estate boom. With that collapse, this city is going to go through some very rough times. It won't be quite as bad as a place like Detroit--our vast swaths of abandoned property are all brand new. Places like MN, CO, WA, and OR are high on my list of places to move to when a reasonable opportunity presents itself. Having experienced it in the past, smaller, more centralized living is vastly superior to exurb sprawl. All you have to do is get used to the idea that a 5000sq ft house on an acre of land isn't a requirement of success.
I'm impressed that you came up with a list of applications and NONE of them included any combination of "sex" or "supermodels".
I think that domain should be reserved for bing's rule 37 entry.
Well, stop flushing your bulbs down the toilet after they burn out then... ;)
Should the company have a right to record every phone conversation you have?
As long as you're made aware that this will occur, then yes. As stated, it's a company phone. If you're not comfortable with that, then you get your own personal cell phone for personal calls.
Actually, for exactly this reason, I use my gmail account for email with all of my friends and family. Work email is used for work only. Only my wife and parents even know what my work email is.
Child process not responding
(A)bort (R)etry (F)ail ?
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I don't know that it will be enough to counter the increased methane emissions...
Time to fire up some gopher!
d) God is actually a woman. Powerful, but insecure, and she needs you to show her how much you love her all the time. If you don't, she'll get depressed and eat her weight in mint-chocolate chip ice cream, in which case she'll end up omnipresent in more ways than one.
Lock up your daughters! A pillow on the hood of the car? As if they needed any MORE encouragement...
But it also includes a fail-over mechanism that disables the relevant mechanical parts and evacuates the contents of your abdomen on said female. Of the course the risk that still remains is that you may have had too much too quickly and overshot that threshold and taken home somebody who is so fugly and desperate that neither of those two problems are a game changer for her.
Except that the bulk of that news being delivered through Google News comes from those media moguls with a failed business model. What I expect will happen is that journalism will be consolidated into a few large companies (say, Turner & News Corp), that will then either do as you say and charge for content, or can guarantee enough eyeballs through their new oligopoly that ad rates go up. Regardless, I can't help but think that the consolidation of news sources will ultimately be a bad thing for our society. It was bad enough when ClearChannel took over radio...
Does this mean Nietzsche would have worked for Netcraft?
"This just in--COBOL is dead. Netcraft confirms it."
And in a slightly more serious vein, discussion of philosophy of language design is all well and good. At the very least it's the kind of masturbation one can do with the whole family. Kantian compilers and Platonic preprocessors are certainly titillating. But what I'd be more interested in is if there have been any studies of programming languages in terms of human language. I know you can make some superficial analogues of functions as verbs, variables as nouns, and some languages have syntax flexibility that reflects natural language to an extent (e.g., Perl's indirect object format: $awesome = 1 if $natalie_portman && $hot_grits;) These are intentionally created that way by the language designer, though. I'm wondering if, based on these superficial intentional "boundary conditions", any deeper parallels to natural language emerge. My intuition tells me that Lisp is likely very similar to how language is structured within our brains--a series of nested clauses, each representing its own set of ideas or objects. If you subscribe to any of Chomsky's or Pinker's ideas of how our brains use language, the simple combinatorial system that allows us to create arbitrarily complex sentences seems like it would apply equally well to many programming languages.
Just some of my musings while I avoid work in the morning...
I have a WinXP SP2 system at home, which for various reasons not of interest here, I am unable to upgrade to SP3. Chrome works just fine though, so maybe I'll just make that my full time browser on that machine.
Also running WinXP SP2 at work, as the admins haven't seen fit to make SP3 part of the supported environment. Looks like my Firefox install would have to plateau here as well.
This begs the question--are they TRYING to get me to quit using FF? XP SP2 isn't THAT old of an OS. I can't really understand why it would be dropped. I can understand Win2K, though I have a machine running that as well, since that one has been around a long time and the remaining userbase is likely small. Even so, unless there's an insurmountable technical hurdle supporting the newest OSes and the old ones, why bother? Near as I can tell from the article, Vista and Windows 7 have some *whiz bang!* features they can take advantage of. Hardly seems worth it.
I don't thing any issue brings out more ideological morons than illegal immigration
Your post provides an excellent example. Unless of course, by "ideological moron" you mean anyone who disagrees with you.
To the mods that marked this "Flamebait":
What are you thinking? Disagreeing with the status quo is not flamebait. It's how grown-ups have discussions. Life would get pretty boring if everybody just patted each others' backs all day long, and there would certainly be no progress. Flamebait is just that: emotional bait to get others to flame it. The parent post is nothing of the sort. It's well thought out and well written, and even includes a nice disclaimer at the end to smooth ruffled feathers. And most importantly, it makes a good point. There are always at least two ways to react to any kind of challenge, be it physical, mental, environmental, or other--you can let it defeat you and give up, or you can work harder to try to overcome it. I can't fault any individual for their circumstances, choices, or results. I haven't experienced what they're going through, and can't say if I would be able to do any better. But there is a serious problem if institutionally we are telling people to quit trying because it's just too hard.
Apparently you are not a married father. ;)
alojikl,
"a lojikl"
Sincerely,
A Pedant from the Future.
$22,555.90
That includes all of the software and display options on there as well, which may not be fair. But that's the grand total for a fully loaded Mac Pro.
Doesn't he usually arise on Easter Sunday?
"caveats that it applies only to the Windows version of Adobe Reader 9.0 and comes with no guarantees."
My boss will be pleased. I can push all my releases up at LEAST two weeks earlier now by adding this caveat on to all of my code. Thanks, Geritol.
As the teacher, how exactly would you enforce the confiscation?
Teacher: Put your cell phone away--no texting in class
Student: No
Teacher: Okay, give me your phone. You can get it back after school.
Student: (Sits on phone) No!
Teacher: That's it. Go to the office
Student: No!
Where would you go next?
Physical intervention? Historically, that would have been the way to go--a smack across the wrists with a ruler and dragged off to the principal's office by the ear. Not really an option anymore though. Assault charges are likely to be filed.
Go in and grab the phone from underneath the student? Molestation and sexual assault charges. Fun!
Ignore it? May be a possibility in a few cases, but my guess is that if something has already escalated to this point, then this student is a much bigger classroom disturbance than just in this instance.
Not being there, it's hard to say what the exact circumstances were, but it's quite easy to assume that the girl was being very belligerent and very disruptive. Not having any other real options of dealing with the problem, calling in the cops is probably the best option--most high schools will have at least one dedicated officer who's always on campus.
The point is that there are error bars on the measurements. Maybe the atom renders a single page in 500ms and the via in 300ms. That's all well and good, but what if the processor was handling some other background task for one or the other during that time? The extra few ms makes a difference. So, instead they have each one render some 100+ pages in a row. Little anomalies like that get averaged out, so you get a better comparison between the two.