There's also the higher pay, the fact that you're sitting in a climate-controlled office instead of a dim factory or coal mine, that you get to sit on your ass typing on a computer instead of standing on your feet swinging picks or pulling levers.
but labor unions effectively ended this problem for auto workers who once faced the exact same issues
And today, labor unions are putting auto workers out of a job by destroying American auto manufacturers, while Toyota can set up factories in this country and hire scabs. Not the keenest analogy.
He found, through reading emails that there was a full on, unprofessional grade prostitution ring going on with about 10-12 employees in the company and 2 of the female employees.
What's "unprofessional grade" in the context of prostitution rings!?
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Depends. Am I hiring someone to program, or to chase shiny certificates? Degrees and certs are great, but if you have other ways of proving you have the necessary knowledge and expertise, that's good too.
I'm not the original AC, but I learned how to read before I went to school, and it shocks me that not everyone does that. Heck, I even remember my dad trying to teach me long division (after I started school but before they got to long division). Too many kids are being screwed out of good parenting these days--I wasn't raised perfectly but at least they tried.
I would rather the industry was self regulated, instead of having big government come in, who has no effin clue about games and tell us what we can and cannot have.
The only reason the industry is self-regulated is because the government threatened to involve themselves. "Self-regulation" is a sham. I would rather have no ESRB, and a government that minded its own business--and the business of government is not to regulate videogames.
Did Microsoft receive a series of vague threats from the patent holder? Did the patent holder make a specific deal with, I dunno, Tandy or Compaq or Packard Bell to protect customers from these vague patent threats before Microsoft gave in? Is Microsoft only paying forward the same abuse it received in its formative years?
Mail Merge is one of the coolest things you can do with an office suite to save some time. It shouldn't be too far beyond any Slashdotter.
Basically, with Mail Merge, you create a document and you also create a data table in a DB or spreadsheet program. For instance, a form letter. You might write a form letter that says, "Dear $DONOR, Thank you for your $AMOUNT contribution to our campaign. We are $EMOTION at your generosity. With your donation, we will be able to feed $NUMCHILDREN children in the fiscal year 2008, build $NUMHOMES homes for third world families, and provide basic medical care and education to an entire village of $POPVILLAGE." Then, in your data table, you have the donor's name in one column, the amount they contributed in the next, a word like "glad", "overjoyed", etc. in the third, and so forth. Mail merge automatically takes the data table and letter template and churns out potentially millions of personalized form letters by taking each row and substituting each entry in its designated place. You might have wondered how form letters were made? You can also use it to manufacture printed envelopes and such.
Of course, for dadaist fun you can write a madlib in mail merge format and randomly generate the data table from a dictionary--it's not only for form letters, although I imagine that's the primary application.
I feel sorry for the coders you hire who have to implement your idiotic ideas - designing a game is an art/science that takes dedication and real experience, not just a random idea and a sack of money. It's like a wealthy financier trying to become a world-renowned filmmaker just because he has the money to hire a camera crew.
Except we do have runoff elections for President--it's the general election. The real election is the primary, coming in 2008 or maybe late 2007 to a state near you.
And therefore, anyone who doesn't succeed has chosen to fail, and thus is unworthy not just of success, but also of support of any kind, like Medicare, education, or aught else.
And something that bugs me is this constant denial that some people do, in fact, choose to fail. I think there should be numerous opportunities given to people to succeed, but if you give people freedom, some of them will use that freedom to ruin their own lives.
Being a former business major, I can tell you that's not quite the case. See, "profit" is assessed when costs and revenues are accrued, not when they're actually paid out. If I owe you $10, but I have $15 coming to me, I have already made a profit, even before cashflow happens. So you don't have to actually pay your iPhone bill before you profit, as long as your revenues are greater than your costs (and both are known).
You know, calling me a racist doesn't actually accomplish anything other than lowering the level of discourse. Yes, people still have to face racist assumptions. That doesn't forcibly prevent people from thinking of themselves in non-racial terms. I have no respect for people who choose to identify themselves based on the way they're treated by others. Choosing to accept the dictates of society unquestioningly is what denies minorities the privilege of thinking of themselves in non-racial terms.
I don't know a single phone that doesn't power down its display to save battery.
I used to have a Samsung A-series flip phone like Anonymous Brave Guy, and it actually doesn't. Of course, it has a one-line monochrome LCD front display that probably doesn't consume much power (the main display, of course, powers down when the phone is closed and powers up when you open it again). I can't remember what the old LED-display phones did, but they were still in use well into the 90's.
Even my primitive RAZR goes dark without actually being off. It saves battery life. When my phone is dark but not off, when I punch buttons on it, it lights up without going through the turning-on phase. When it actually is off, I have to push the "on" button and it turns on. iPhone works the exact same way.
Actually, the basic PageRank algorithm is disclosed in a patent issued to Stanford University with Larry Page listed as the inventor. Google rotates between different implementations and variations on the algorithm from time to time, and Google's own site gives basic advice and information on how PageRank works. That doesn't mean you can read the source code that Google actually uses, but it's not a total trade secret how it's supposed to work.
I'm fairly sure that anyone who respected women at all wouldn't use a term denoting their genitalia as a generic* term of abuse. Using "cunt" as a term of abuse (or considering it a vulgar or disrespectful term at all when used literally) implies that you find female genitalia vulgar. Sure, the usage is a cultural norm, but that's only because disrespect for women and their bodies has also been a cultural norm. Changing one requires changing the other. Aside from certain specific uses footnoted below, I don't find anything wrong with the term, and rather prefer it due to its Anglo-Saxon origin.
*Using it as a term of abuse against women is indeed offensive, as it identifies women with their genitals, strongly implying sexual objectification.
Congratulations, you've just compared people of color to adolescents.
No, only people who use their race as an excuse to avoid developing an individual identity.
The way ethnic minorities are treated, day after day after day, is full of constant reminders that they are seen as members of a racially defined group. No matter how they may choose to think of themselves, they can't control how others see them, so they have to deal with the consequences of how other people see them, in their everyday interaction. They share a forced commonality with people of the same "race" as them, whether they like it or not.
That's an oversimplification. In reality, one's mannerisms, mode of dress, and dialect also have an effect. If you choose to act out your racial stereotype, you're more likely to be racially stereotyped. People categorize by nature--if you whole-heartedly adopt a certain culture or subculture, you're going to be identified with it by others.
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There's also the higher pay, the fact that you're sitting in a climate-controlled office instead of a dim factory or coal mine, that you get to sit on your ass typing on a computer instead of standing on your feet swinging picks or pulling levers.
but labor unions effectively ended this problem for auto workers who once faced the exact same issuesAnd today, labor unions are putting auto workers out of a job by destroying American auto manufacturers, while Toyota can set up factories in this country and hire scabs. Not the keenest analogy.
At one of those places, I found one of the big old-timey boxes of Duke Nukem 3D. Price? $45.95. And this was just this summer.
What's "unprofessional grade" in the context of prostitution rings!?
Depends. Am I hiring someone to program, or to chase shiny certificates? Degrees and certs are great, but if you have other ways of proving you have the necessary knowledge and expertise, that's good too.
I'm not the original AC, but I learned how to read before I went to school, and it shocks me that not everyone does that. Heck, I even remember my dad trying to teach me long division (after I started school but before they got to long division). Too many kids are being screwed out of good parenting these days--I wasn't raised perfectly but at least they tried.
The only reason the industry is self-regulated is because the government threatened to involve themselves. "Self-regulation" is a sham. I would rather have no ESRB, and a government that minded its own business--and the business of government is not to regulate videogames.
Did Microsoft receive a series of vague threats from the patent holder? Did the patent holder make a specific deal with, I dunno, Tandy or Compaq or Packard Bell to protect customers from these vague patent threats before Microsoft gave in? Is Microsoft only paying forward the same abuse it received in its formative years?
Yeah, mail merge isn't anything you can't do using regexes, but somehow it's easier for some people to use mail merge than a regex.
Mail Merge is one of the coolest things you can do with an office suite to save some time. It shouldn't be too far beyond any Slashdotter.
Basically, with Mail Merge, you create a document and you also create a data table in a DB or spreadsheet program. For instance, a form letter. You might write a form letter that says, "Dear $DONOR, Thank you for your $AMOUNT contribution to our campaign. We are $EMOTION at your generosity. With your donation, we will be able to feed $NUMCHILDREN children in the fiscal year 2008, build $NUMHOMES homes for third world families, and provide basic medical care and education to an entire village of $POPVILLAGE." Then, in your data table, you have the donor's name in one column, the amount they contributed in the next, a word like "glad", "overjoyed", etc. in the third, and so forth. Mail merge automatically takes the data table and letter template and churns out potentially millions of personalized form letters by taking each row and substituting each entry in its designated place. You might have wondered how form letters were made? You can also use it to manufacture printed envelopes and such.
Of course, for dadaist fun you can write a madlib in mail merge format and randomly generate the data table from a dictionary--it's not only for form letters, although I imagine that's the primary application.
You mean like Howard Hughes?
Except we do have runoff elections for President--it's the general election. The real election is the primary, coming in 2008 or maybe late 2007 to a state near you.
Buddhism is just as dogmatic, irrational, and life-denying as the others--Westerners just like to romanticize eastern traditions.
And yet you want them forced at gunpoint back into those hard situations?
'/' is a forward slash. '\' is a backslash.
And something that bugs me is this constant denial that some people do, in fact, choose to fail. I think there should be numerous opportunities given to people to succeed, but if you give people freedom, some of them will use that freedom to ruin their own lives.
And that means you support restrictions on immigration? I take it you didn't like your family that much...?
But he thought the phone was off. That makes him a double dumbass.
Being a former business major, I can tell you that's not quite the case. See, "profit" is assessed when costs and revenues are accrued, not when they're actually paid out. If I owe you $10, but I have $15 coming to me, I have already made a profit, even before cashflow happens. So you don't have to actually pay your iPhone bill before you profit, as long as your revenues are greater than your costs (and both are known).
You know, calling me a racist doesn't actually accomplish anything other than lowering the level of discourse. Yes, people still have to face racist assumptions. That doesn't forcibly prevent people from thinking of themselves in non-racial terms. I have no respect for people who choose to identify themselves based on the way they're treated by others. Choosing to accept the dictates of society unquestioningly is what denies minorities the privilege of thinking of themselves in non-racial terms.
I used to have a Samsung A-series flip phone like Anonymous Brave Guy, and it actually doesn't. Of course, it has a one-line monochrome LCD front display that probably doesn't consume much power (the main display, of course, powers down when the phone is closed and powers up when you open it again). I can't remember what the old LED-display phones did, but they were still in use well into the 90's.
To limit power consumption. Phones are supposed to last at least 24 hours if not days when you're not talking on them.
Even my primitive RAZR goes dark without actually being off. It saves battery life. When my phone is dark but not off, when I punch buttons on it, it lights up without going through the turning-on phase. When it actually is off, I have to push the "on" button and it turns on. iPhone works the exact same way.
Actually, the basic PageRank algorithm is disclosed in a patent issued to Stanford University with Larry Page listed as the inventor. Google rotates between different implementations and variations on the algorithm from time to time, and Google's own site gives basic advice and information on how PageRank works. That doesn't mean you can read the source code that Google actually uses, but it's not a total trade secret how it's supposed to work.
I'm fairly sure that anyone who respected women at all wouldn't use a term denoting their genitalia as a generic* term of abuse. Using "cunt" as a term of abuse (or considering it a vulgar or disrespectful term at all when used literally) implies that you find female genitalia vulgar. Sure, the usage is a cultural norm, but that's only because disrespect for women and their bodies has also been a cultural norm. Changing one requires changing the other. Aside from certain specific uses footnoted below, I don't find anything wrong with the term, and rather prefer it due to its Anglo-Saxon origin.
*Using it as a term of abuse against women is indeed offensive, as it identifies women with their genitals, strongly implying sexual objectification.
No, only people who use their race as an excuse to avoid developing an individual identity.
The way ethnic minorities are treated, day after day after day, is full of constant reminders that they are seen as members of a racially defined group. No matter how they may choose to think of themselves, they can't control how others see them, so they have to deal with the consequences of how other people see them, in their everyday interaction. They share a forced commonality with people of the same "race" as them, whether they like it or not.That's an oversimplification. In reality, one's mannerisms, mode of dress, and dialect also have an effect. If you choose to act out your racial stereotype, you're more likely to be racially stereotyped. People categorize by nature--if you whole-heartedly adopt a certain culture or subculture, you're going to be identified with it by others.