It has been taken over by liberals, who are spreading the gospel of liberalism. I mean really, when I have to jump thru hoops to prove such a trivial error as John Kerry only ending as a LTjg, rather than a full LT, you know that bias has creep in. (And yes, I did manage to "prove it" to Wikipedia's satisfaction - I used John Kerry's own published records from John Kerry's website.)
Too bad the other documents were removed from his website, which coupled with facts about the Navy promotion system prove that John Kerry was given a dishonorable discharge - that's why JK pulled those documents from his website, and from the wayback machine.
But, try and get the garbage about George Bush being AWOL pulled from the Bush entry. No facts and it stays there, because "everyone knows" it is true.
Talk about a double standard.
And yes, I do have Karma to burn here, so go ahead and flame away, you know you want to, because the same thing is true here too. (By that, I mean that liberals rule here too. And this post, true as it is, will get flamed away. It is why I don't post that much anymore.)
in the resume. No better way to find your superstars. This is the guy who is thinking so far ahead of your regular programmers, he is in a different league.
I've done it a few times, and there are two levels to this. Writing code in language A to write code in Language B and writing code in A to write code in A. The latter is harder.
What this will bring about is someone who BUILDS HIS OWN TOOLS. Example. I just finished writing a program that takes a tablename, bounces off the system catalog and gets the databasename. It then writes parameters for a couple of utility steps later in the same jobstream. Why? So the DBA doesn't have to look up the databasename to perform the on request job stream. This saves him the time it takes to go manually look up the databasename. Now save that 10 minutes 6 times a week (and sometimes it is 6 times a DAY!) and he has an extra hour to work on other issues that week.
Another saying I have. I am "successful" at a company, if I implemented changes that would save them more than my salary cost them. For example. Three related changes at an insurance company, saved them $60K in processing costs per year - even after I left! (freed up about 3 hours of mainframe processing per night) Or how about this one - 1 line of code changed in 1 program at a major entertainment company - freed up $10 million in capital!
Your superstar has to be able to find stuff like that and DOCUMENT the effect.
FedEx has declared IE 7 off limits until further notice, so there is one place it won't get implemented. And all employees that want to access the LAN infrastructure are further forbidden to go to IE 7. Makes my decision easy on what to do about this, as I need my machines to be able to access that net.
First video game - Pong in a bowling alley - when they first came out First owned video game - family got an Atari 2600 that year First RPG - D&D Jan 1978 as a freshman in college First game like chess - well, I have a photo of me playing chess with my Dad from 1964, but I was probably playing it before that. First computer? IBM 360, followed by a DEC PDP 8/e/ IBM Pcs were not available until AFTER I graduated from college.
Went the readerware system as well, but instead of Cue cats (I even had some laying around) I went to e-bay and got the barcode reader for my Handspring (cost 20$). I had to also pick up Handybase software ($29.99 but had to go to older version 2.75 - DDH software was very cooperative about this).
We are not trying to sort the books, but I have 2,842 books cataloged at this moment. And about 50-75 books were weeded out as duplicates. 7 or 8 shelves left to go, I'm closing in on the end of it. I'll easily pass the 3000 mark.
Duplicate books were contributed to a local Scout troop to sell as part of a garage sale. Except for the latest pile which hasn't gotten to them yet.
The article is also wrong on one point. Hardcover books may have the barcode on the back cover, but modern paperbacks have them on the inside front cover. The barcode on the back cover is garbage.
The other good thing about readerware is that the report can be pushed back down to the Palm for taking with me to the bookstore....
And it has pieces you can get for DVDs and CDs, so when I finish th ebooks, then I move on.
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I've used all three and agree with the original poster.
Whenever I have an older computer, I have pushed it down the stack. My computer goes to my wife and so on down until the bottom level pops out. That computer is usually given to the public school system. And I get a nice tax write off.
Well, as of a few minutes ago, the patch failed. Back to the drawing board. Though in this case, I may take the VPN software off instead of Acrobat. See the VPN software is new and still hasn't been shaken out at our location. Acrobat I need to do my job....
I installed the latest corporate demanded software and then acrobat started requesting "activation" every few hours. Adobe sent me a patch, but I am still testing it. (Not the reader, this is full blown Adobe Acrobat 8.x professional)
Under Florida law EVERYONE may request an absentie ballot, no questions asked. So instead of waiting for 45 min to an hour (in a Republican area TOO!) my wife and I are on permanent absentie ballots. No muss, no fuss, no wait.
As for your claim of voter disenfranchisement? Horse hockey. It was investigated and found to be non existent. It was all made up, and that was even that j****** Jesse Jackson agreeing with that judgement.
As long as your manual recount takes one of two forms. Either recount EVERY ballot, or have the machine stop when it can not read a ballot, so that the ballot can be examined.
In Orange County, FL they were BRAGGING on TV abut manually seperating out the "non machine counted" votes from their optical scan machines. As if THEY could tell. I still want them arrested for vote fraud.
And BTW, that generated 50 illegal votes for Al Gore.
There is also an inherent bias in many of the articles. Also, I wonder if any of the drop off has to do with the discovery of the senior editor on Wiki that had all fake credentials?
I mean, how do you prove credentials in the internet age? Short of me having transcript sent to everyone on the internet from my 2 schools, how do you know I have a BSCS and an MBA? And BSA does not even maintain an active site that lists all Eagle Scouts.
Going to an unlisted number WORKS. Why? You can speed up ht eprocess by going thru the places like Zabasearch and the other reverse phone number lookups and having your number removed from them too. I did this after I moved back around 2000. I think we have gotten 5-10 TOTAL telemarketers since then.
Now that doesn't stop the stupid phone company calling and trying to upsell THEIR service every so often. But then the DNC won't stop that either.
And this also stops some places like banks who are looking for someone else with my name and a different middle initial from somewhere east of here by about 100 miles, but who is a deadbeat....
Try the link in my other post. It shows that the predicted rise in the next decade is down to.3 degrees C - which is not significant, because it is also below the level that can actually be MEASURED accurately!
The article appears in half a dozen places on the intranet. The original article talks about how the global data is still in the process of recalculation. And this is a quote from Hansen and NASA!
Thus, anything you see in the global data is total garbage, until the recalculation is complete.
The guy who found the error - Steve something or other, predicts that the change brings the surface mesasurements down to the point where Global warming will top out at a TOTAL of 1-2 degrees above where it is now. So far he is 2-0 against Hansen on the data. And a total of a 1-2 degree rise does not global warming make.
The global data is being recalculated right now and has not been released yet. Accords tot he source of the data, the US data makes up the bulk of the good global data. Therefore the current Global readouts are GARBAGE.
Wait a few more days for those calculations to be updated.
And according to the predictions, it WILL make a difference in the global data, and GLOBAL WARMING as a theory just died.
"Some of the best developers I know were originally trained as journalists, mathmaticians, linguists, and other professions not normally associated with software development."
Sorry, don't agree with this statement, nor the one about Perl being some great language. Every language has it's place, and you need to use the right one for the job, which a whole course was dedicated to in my BSCS.
One way to identify these develpers is to ask them what tools THEY have created to save time and effort.
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I still have one at home. Go it in 1990 or so. And it is still working fine!
Ahh, one test machine and you've written off Vista. I had print drivers that don't install, but that's because the manufactor hasn't released any Vista drivers for the printer. Personally, I've found things are better orgainized in Vista than with XP, once I figured out how they set it up."
I ran the setup test program for Vista. It identified all three of my printers as not supported by Vista, so I went to the Manufacturer. They stated that they were not creating VISTA drivers for ANY of the THREE printers. One of my Scanners is in the same boat. So, if I upgrade, I have to replace ALL my printers and my scanner (and about $1200 in software)
Anyway, I can report my company has also declared that Vista is forbidden (along with IE7) and that is 200,000 employees. I'm expecting my new laptop next week and it will have XP on it. The company made HP go back and write the needed XP drivers for the machine, before finishing the image for them.
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It has been taken over by liberals, who are spreading the gospel of liberalism. I mean really, when I have to jump thru hoops to prove such a trivial error as John Kerry only ending as a LTjg, rather than a full LT, you know that bias has creep in. (And yes, I did manage to "prove it" to Wikipedia's satisfaction - I used John Kerry's own published records from John Kerry's website.)
Too bad the other documents were removed from his website, which coupled with facts about the Navy promotion system prove that John Kerry was given a dishonorable discharge - that's why JK pulled those documents from his website, and from the wayback machine.
But, try and get the garbage about George Bush being AWOL pulled from the Bush entry. No facts and it stays there, because "everyone knows" it is true.
Talk about a double standard.
And yes, I do have Karma to burn here, so go ahead and flame away, you know you want to, because the same thing is true here too. (By that, I mean that liberals rule here too. And this post, true as it is, will get flamed away. It is why I don't post that much anymore.)
in the resume. No better way to find your superstars. This is the guy who is thinking so far ahead of your regular programmers, he is in a different league.
I've done it a few times, and there are two levels to this. Writing code in language A to write code in Language B and writing code in A to write code in A. The latter is harder.
What this will bring about is someone who BUILDS HIS OWN TOOLS. Example. I just finished writing a program that takes a tablename, bounces off the system catalog and gets the databasename. It then writes parameters for a couple of utility steps later in the same jobstream. Why? So the DBA doesn't have to look up the databasename to perform the on request job stream. This saves him the time it takes to go manually look up the databasename. Now save that 10 minutes 6 times a week (and sometimes it is 6 times a DAY!) and he has an extra hour to work on other issues that week.
Another saying I have. I am "successful" at a company, if I implemented changes that would save them more than my salary cost them. For example. Three related changes at an insurance company, saved them $60K in processing costs per year - even after I left! (freed up about 3 hours of mainframe processing per night) Or how about this one - 1 line of code changed in 1 program at a major entertainment company - freed up $10 million in capital!
Your superstar has to be able to find stuff like that and DOCUMENT the effect.
The first open source project I participated in was from around 1985-1996. The prject itself pre-dated that even.
Try to get over yourselves people.
FedEx has declared IE 7 off limits until further notice, so there is one place it won't get implemented. And all employees that want to access the LAN infrastructure are further forbidden to go to IE 7. Makes my decision easy on what to do about this, as I need my machines to be able to access that net.
First video game - Pong in a bowling alley - when they first came out
First owned video game - family got an Atari 2600 that year
First RPG - D&D Jan 1978 as a freshman in college
First game like chess - well, I have a photo of me playing chess with my Dad from 1964, but I was probably playing it before that.
First computer? IBM 360, followed by a DEC PDP 8/e/ IBM Pcs were not available until AFTER I graduated from college.
Boy do I feel old now.
Went the readerware system as well, but instead of Cue cats (I even had some laying around) I went to e-bay and got the barcode reader for my Handspring (cost 20$). I had to also pick up Handybase software ($29.99 but had to go to older version 2.75 - DDH software was very cooperative about this).
We are not trying to sort the books, but I have 2,842 books cataloged at this moment. And about 50-75 books were weeded out as duplicates. 7 or 8 shelves left to go, I'm closing in on the end of it. I'll easily pass the 3000 mark.
Duplicate books were contributed to a local Scout troop to sell as part of a garage sale. Except for the latest pile which hasn't gotten to them yet.
The article is also wrong on one point. Hardcover books may have the barcode on the back cover, but modern paperbacks have them on the inside front cover. The barcode on the back cover is garbage.
The other good thing about readerware is that the report can be pushed back down to the Palm for taking with me to the bookstore....
And it has pieces you can get for DVDs and CDs, so when I finish th ebooks, then I move on.
I've used all three and agree with the original poster.
Whenever I have an older computer, I have pushed it down the stack. My computer goes to my wife and so on down until the bottom level pops out. That computer is usually given to the public school system. And I get a nice tax write off.
Well, as of a few minutes ago, the patch failed. Back to the drawing board. Though in this case, I may take the VPN software off instead of Acrobat. See the VPN software is new and still hasn't been shaken out at our location. Acrobat I need to do my job....
I installed the latest corporate demanded software and then acrobat started requesting "activation" every few hours. Adobe sent me a patch, but I am still testing it. (Not the reader, this is full blown Adobe Acrobat 8.x professional)
Yeh right.
Under Florida law EVERYONE may request an absentie ballot, no questions asked. So instead of waiting for 45 min to an hour (in a Republican area TOO!) my wife and I are on permanent absentie ballots. No muss, no fuss, no wait.
As for your claim of voter disenfranchisement? Horse hockey. It was investigated and found to be non existent. It was all made up, and that was even that j****** Jesse Jackson agreeing with that judgement.
As long as your manual recount takes one of two forms. Either recount EVERY ballot, or have the machine stop when it can not read a ballot, so that the ballot can be examined.
In Orange County, FL they were BRAGGING on TV abut manually seperating out the "non machine counted" votes from their optical scan machines. As if THEY could tell. I still want them arrested for vote fraud.
And BTW, that generated 50 illegal votes for Al Gore.
There is also an inherent bias in many of the articles. Also, I wonder if any of the drop off has to do with the discovery of the senior editor on Wiki that had all fake credentials?
I mean, how do you prove credentials in the internet age? Short of me having transcript sent to everyone on the internet from my 2 schools, how do you know I have a BSCS and an MBA? And BSA does not even maintain an active site that lists all Eagle Scouts.
Going to an unlisted number WORKS. Why? You can speed up ht eprocess by going thru the places like Zabasearch and the other reverse phone number lookups and having your number removed from them too. I did this after I moved back around 2000. I think we have gotten 5-10 TOTAL telemarketers since then.
Now that doesn't stop the stupid phone company calling and trying to upsell THEIR service every so often. But then the DNC won't stop that either.
And this also stops some places like banks who are looking for someone else with my name and a different middle initial from somewhere east of here by about 100 miles, but who is a deadbeat....
I had 2 pets injected in 1992. Both died in 2004, niether from cancer. The new dog got injected in 2004. He is fine as of this writing.
Now I can sue /. for the unfavorable reviews.
The Global Warming adherants to start sueing the people who deny Global Warming.
What was the question again?
Try the link in my other post. It shows that the predicted rise in the next decade is down to .3 degrees C - which is not significant, because it is also below the level that can actually be MEASURED accurately!
http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20070809.h tml for the best article I have found so far.
The article appears in half a dozen places on the intranet. The original article talks about how the global data is still in the process of recalculation. And this is a quote from Hansen and NASA!
Thus, anything you see in the global data is total garbage, until the recalculation is complete.
The guy who found the error - Steve something or other, predicts that the change brings the surface mesasurements down to the point where Global warming will top out at a TOTAL of 1-2 degrees above where it is now. So far he is 2-0 against Hansen on the data. And a total of a 1-2 degree rise does not global warming make.
The global data is being recalculated right now and has not been released yet. Accords tot he source of the data, the US data makes up the bulk of the good global data. Therefore the current Global readouts are GARBAGE.
Wait a few more days for those calculations to be updated.
And according to the predictions, it WILL make a difference in the global data, and GLOBAL WARMING as a theory just died.
That's because you didn't read the whole article. The US data has been corrected, the Global data is in progress of being corrected.
Thus, the global data is STILL GARBAGE and can not be used to tell anything.
After reading on this thru quite a few places over the last 24 hours or so, it looks like Global Warming is toast.
"Some of the best developers I know were originally trained as journalists, mathmaticians, linguists, and other professions not normally associated with software development."
Sorry, don't agree with this statement, nor the one about Perl being some great language. Every language has it's place, and you need to use the right one for the job, which a whole course was dedicated to in my BSCS.
One way to identify these develpers is to ask them what tools THEY have created to save time and effort.
I still have one at home. Go it in 1990 or so. And it is still working fine!
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http://www.chproducts.com/oem/trackballs_desktop.
This is the one. A bit pricier than a mouse, but the best on the market, as far as I am concerned.
Ahh, one test machine and you've written off Vista. I had print drivers that don't install, but that's because the manufactor hasn't released any Vista drivers for the printer. Personally, I've found things are better orgainized in Vista than with XP, once I figured out how they set it up."
I ran the setup test program for Vista. It identified all three of my printers as not supported by Vista, so I went to the Manufacturer. They stated that they were not creating VISTA drivers for ANY of the THREE printers. One of my Scanners is in the same boat. So, if I upgrade, I have to replace ALL my printers and my scanner (and about $1200 in software)
Anyway, I can report my company has also declared that Vista is forbidden (along with IE7) and that is 200,000 employees. I'm expecting my new laptop next week and it will have XP on it. The company made HP go back and write the needed XP drivers for the machine, before finishing the image for them.