Sorry, but you are totally wrong here. And what's funny about it is the way to break them of the bad habits brought about by early exposure to BASIC is a methodology that comes from Dijkstra himself.
After letting me learn BASIC, and play with it thru most of my first class in it, my Dad sat me down and introduced me to the 5 structure diagrams. And I have been using structured code ever since. (Note to others, Go TO less programming and Structured coding are not the same thing. Depending on the language, you may have to use GOTOs to simulate portions of the structure diagrams.)
The latest scam is machine calling you and saying you need to call Mrs x about some urgent thing or other. This gets them around the list, because you called them. And forget the list. An unlisted number works better and only costs.50$ a month. No surveys, no politicos, and only the occasional one asking me to call them. And the only actual sales calls I get are from the dammed local phone company wanting me to take THEIR long distance. I mean how many times do you have to say NO?
Oh, and I can always SAY I am on the list and put the fear of god in the honest ones.
To allow this totally BS use of statistics to actually MEAN something.
As one other photographer already mentioned part of.
1. Pro photographers are not going to store info on flicker 2. Pro photographers are going to be outnumbered by non pros, thus changing which is the best "camera" 3. It has been proven that a good photograper can take a better photo with a disposible camera than many consumers can with the "best" camera. 4. Others have noted that some cameras are lumped together, and others have multiple categories by the way the data is sampled. 5. No ratings of which photos are best are factored intot he sampling.
Sure, mod me down for this, but it doesn't change the fact that this story is totally BS.
I finally checked my credit histroy a while ago. And what I found:
1. A company had made me a job offer, and were listed as my current employer - even though I NEVER worked for them. 2. One credit company would not send a credit report to my home address. Since I got technical journals there, "it was a work address"! It took filing a FEDERAL compalaint before they backed off. 3. My Dad stayed with us for 5 months while his house was being built. After that, His name was on most histories with my wife's names in histories. 4. Wrong addresses and phone numbers.....
So, I don't mind being checked, but the information is BS anyway.... (even after all that my rating is very high)
for a 1/2 hour connecting to the mainframe, we lose thousands of dollars. That is why all the tech people have company paid for cable lines run to their homes. Those are business class cable lines, with 24 hour garunteed fix times (yeah right). Does this help you to understand?
It was about 20 years ago that they did a layoff. Everyone in the company was required to be at there desks at a particular time and date. Those whose phone rang were laid off.
Not sure wether I would prefer this or the e-mail.
Or would you prefer the way Travelers did it. Laid off some people in the 70s (I know, because my Dad was one of them) and to this day tell new employees that they have never laid anyone off in their history.
I have a laptop sitting here next to me which is a dual core 3.6 GHZ machine. It is already 1.5 years old.
Control panel says "Pentium(R) 4 3.59 GHZ 2.00 GB of RAM". Why yes, it was a custom build for me, and yes I do use it, but not as a gaming tool as much as I do for CASE tool processing.
So why do we care about a "top end" 2.33 GHZ machine?
I think I remember someone asking about his site too. I did a reverse phone number lookup and found that his phone number was a resedience in the north end of Lakeland - less than 5 miles from my house. At that point I knew he was crooked, and told the person to stay away from the website.
Makes me feel a lot better about that advice now.
I wonder if he knew the guy I used to sit next to here at work - who was featured on Dateline, in Ft Myers a few months ago? You might remember him - "Generic White Male"?
I got into the VHS vs Beta war early on, and got lucky. I chose VHS almost at random. My whole family followed my lead, simply because I was first and I said, "hey get this and we are compatible". I really don't have enough info on this one, so I don't want to spend the money to go random on it.
But, hey I'll meet you on the sidelines. Better yet, I'll go diving, where I am still using film in my cameras to record things.
I have yet to install WGA, and I am downloading the latest security patches with no trouble at all. Now, I am not using auto-update (I never used auto update, or I WOULD have WGA by now.) For example, last night I downloaded and installed all 12 patches.
Ford would be better off just building better cars. The last Ford I had the engine blew up. And the last Ford my Dad had while I was at home caught fire in the driveway. Why would this make me even consider buying a Ford?
Got a used IIP back around 1994 for cheap. Found a memory board for it and bumped it up to max memory. 2 or 3 years ago when I was building my lan, first I hung it off a print server machine on the serial port (the other printer went off the parallel, but the IIP was versitile enough to allow both printers on the one machine). More recently, I got a Linksys 3 port printer server. This printer, plus two more, now are on my home lan and just work. I was printing some forms last night on the IIP. The toner lasts for a long time too.
To the nay sayers, when I got this printer, the IIIPs were just coming out, and the 4,5,6 Ps were not around yet, so they were not an option.
The other thing about a IIP is that the drivers are rock solid. And even the oldest software supported these printers.
Personally, I don't think that the current crop of certs are worth the paper they are printed on. As for the general managers in the industry, some swear by them, some swear at them. You pays your money, and takes your chances.
Look for the college being regionally accredited. If it says something like accreditted by the state of xx, then it is garbage. Also, read this page: http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.html This page is the state of Oregon tracking down which schools are valid and which are crap. A really great reference.
Certificates are just pieces of paper. Many managers consider them so much toilet paper. I know I do. The reason behind that is that there are so many "certificate mills" around, which promise to teach you to pass the certificates, but end up not teaching you the basic knowledge the certificates are realing testing for.
No, type II isn't about sugar either. By why bother, nobodu bothers to read the facts anymore.
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The increase is caused by the AMA lowering the numbers of what they consider diabetic. So what were "normal" people are now diabetic. There is NO increase in diabetics.
And no, changing your diet does not prevent the desease. Insulin is mostly for type I diabetics, whom aquire the desease after a trauma to the system, like German Measles did for my mom, GRaves desease did for my brother.
Try looking intot he facts before you spout off garbage.
Type I diabetis causes have nothign to do with sugar. Surveys have found that the type I diabetic has a trauma to the system before onset. My mother had German Measles, for example. My brother had Graves desease. Type I is not caused by "eating too much sugar". This is only the opinon of the truely ignorant.
What is making more people diabetic is the fact that the AMA moved the bar as to the definition of Diabetic. Didn't you pay attention to the material in the "intro to diabetis" class that you got after being diagnosed?
There are no more diabetics than there ever were, it is just tht the AMA now determines that many people that were "normal" before, are now "diabetic".
As for this particular article. Yes, it is nice to see the cost come down, but it isn't a cure. And it doesn't stop the complications. I know what they look like, as I watched my mother get them all, over the 45 years she battled the desease.
And you think insulin is hard to live with, well Byetta is even harder to store, which is the new drug of choice for those that are not yet insulin dependant. Eli Lily has already admitted a short term shortage of this drug, as they ramp up production.
Stem cell research has nothing to do with a cure either, as they have already demonstrated cures with several different technologies. They just have to ramp them up to full human testing.
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No, I didn't avoid the question, as the controlling portion of this *IS* a shell script.
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>>"....I use Photoshop EVERY day to do images of ER diagrams, that are then written as Acrobat files."
>'ER' makes any difference? Re: Acrobat, any of a dozen print-to-pdf utilities.
The point is thatI can do it in one step, which saves a lot of time. I have also tried your "other" converters. No Dice.
>>"Does GIMP have the auto tool to allow me to batch together as many as 50 diagrams into one command of the tool and save myself time? Some of these diagrams are measured in FEET across, too."
>You know, I doubt the software will notice the differnece between FEET, MILES and MILLIMETERS. You seem impressed though. And yes, the Gimp has strong scripting functions.
And the point is that I have LARGE diagrams and scripting them all together using photoshop. It works, including the transformation into another format, which you have not indicated that Gimp can do.
>>"And the big reason for Photoshop - compatibility with my scanners - which GIMP isn't."
>The Gimp imports flawlessly from any TWAIN source I've used. Maybe you don't know how to set it up? Or use it?
Guess what, 2 of my 3 scanners are not Twain compliant. That's why you use photoshop in the first place, cause one of them has a direct module for Photoshop.
>>"I also managed to finally get a full blown copy of Acrobat, using a student discount. (Even as a working professional, I still have a current student ID at a local college)."
>LOL! Well, you got me there. It's almost impossible to defraud the creators of the Gimp!
No fraud, just knowing how to get around the system.
Don't make so many assumptions next time.
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The diagram on the wall, at a minimun readable level measures 2.5 feet tall, and about 4 feet wide. That's at about 300 DPI. The systems just have THAT many objects in them.
You have to remember that some of use work at REAL jobs.
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Sorry, but you are totally wrong here. And what's funny about it is the way to break them of the bad habits brought about by early exposure to BASIC is a methodology that comes from Dijkstra himself.
After letting me learn BASIC, and play with it thru most of my first class in it, my Dad sat me down and introduced me to the 5 structure diagrams. And I have been using structured code ever since. (Note to others, Go TO less programming and Structured coding are not the same thing. Depending on the language, you may have to use GOTOs to simulate portions of the structure diagrams.)
The latest scam is machine calling you and saying you need to call Mrs x about some urgent thing or other. This gets them around the list, because you called them. And forget the list. An unlisted number works better and only costs .50$ a month. No surveys, no politicos, and only the occasional one asking me to call them. And the only actual sales calls I get are from the dammed local phone company wanting me to take THEIR long distance. I mean how many times do you have to say NO?
Oh, and I can always SAY I am on the list and put the fear of god in the honest ones.
To allow this totally BS use of statistics to actually MEAN something.
As one other photographer already mentioned part of.
1. Pro photographers are not going to store info on flicker
2. Pro photographers are going to be outnumbered by non pros, thus changing which is the best "camera"
3. It has been proven that a good photograper can take a better photo with a disposible camera than many consumers can with the "best" camera.
4. Others have noted that some cameras are lumped together, and others have multiple categories by the way the data is sampled.
5. No ratings of which photos are best are factored intot he sampling.
Sure, mod me down for this, but it doesn't change the fact that this story is totally BS.
https://secure.slickwebsitedevelopment.com/bunkerh illgames.com/description.php?II=1082&UID=200609121 7304471.41.111.22
Many of the support sections are computerized, leaving the fun parts for the Ref and the players.
I finally checked my credit histroy a while ago. And what I found:
1. A company had made me a job offer, and were listed as my current employer - even though I NEVER worked for them.
2. One credit company would not send a credit report to my home address. Since I got technical journals there, "it was a work address"! It took filing a FEDERAL compalaint before they backed off.
3. My Dad stayed with us for 5 months while his house was being built. After that, His name was on most histories with my wife's names in histories.
4. Wrong addresses and phone numbers.....
So, I don't mind being checked, but the information is BS anyway.... (even after all that my rating is very high)
for a 1/2 hour connecting to the mainframe, we lose thousands of dollars. That is why all the tech people have company paid for cable lines run to their homes. Those are business class cable lines, with 24 hour garunteed fix times (yeah right). Does this help you to understand?
Probably the old guard management from Aetna.
It was about 20 years ago that they did a layoff. Everyone in the company was required to be at there desks at a particular time and date. Those whose phone rang were laid off.
Not sure wether I would prefer this or the e-mail.
Or would you prefer the way Travelers did it. Laid off some people in the 70s (I know, because my Dad was one of them) and to this day tell new employees that they have never laid anyone off in their history.
You can't change facts by marking something troll. The machine is right here and running fine. This whole article is not news it is garbage.
I have a laptop sitting here next to me which is a dual core 3.6 GHZ machine. It is already 1.5 years old.
Control panel says "Pentium(R) 4 3.59 GHZ 2.00 GB of RAM". Why yes, it was a custom build for me, and yes I do use it, but not as a gaming tool as much as I do for CASE tool processing.
So why do we care about a "top end" 2.33 GHZ machine?
This is old news, move along here.
The area is a totally non retail neighborhood. In other words, he was selling out of his home, and the area is not the "best" area of Lakeland either.
I think I remember someone asking about his site too. I did a reverse phone number lookup and found that his phone number was a resedience in the north end of Lakeland - less than 5 miles from my house. At that point I knew he was crooked, and told the person to stay away from the website.
Makes me feel a lot better about that advice now.
I wonder if he knew the guy I used to sit next to here at work - who was featured on Dateline, in Ft Myers a few months ago? You might remember him - "Generic White Male"?
I got into the VHS vs Beta war early on, and got lucky. I chose VHS almost at random. My whole family followed my lead, simply because I was first and I said, "hey get this and we are compatible". I really don't have enough info on this one, so I don't want to spend the money to go random on it.
But, hey I'll meet you on the sidelines. Better yet, I'll go diving, where I am still using film in my cameras to record things.
I'll sit on the sidelines a while and wait, thank you.
I have yet to install WGA, and I am downloading the latest security patches with no trouble at all. Now, I am not using auto-update (I never used auto update, or I WOULD have WGA by now.) For example, last night I downloaded and installed all 12 patches.
Ford would be better off just building better cars. The last Ford I had the engine blew up. And the last Ford my Dad had while I was at home caught fire in the driveway. Why would this make me even consider buying a Ford?
Got a used IIP back around 1994 for cheap. Found a memory board for it and bumped it up to max memory. 2 or 3 years ago when I was building my lan, first I hung it off a print server machine on the serial port (the other printer went off the parallel, but the IIP was versitile enough to allow both printers on the one machine). More recently, I got a Linksys 3 port printer server. This printer, plus two more, now are on my home lan and just work. I was printing some forms last night on the IIP. The toner lasts for a long time too.
To the nay sayers, when I got this printer, the IIIPs were just coming out, and the 4,5,6 Ps were not around yet, so they were not an option.
The other thing about a IIP is that the drivers are rock solid. And even the oldest software supported these printers.
Personally, I don't think that the current crop of certs are worth the paper they are printed on. As for the general managers in the industry, some swear by them, some swear at them. You pays your money, and takes your chances.
Look for the college being regionally accredited. If it says something like accreditted by the state of xx, then it is garbage. Also, read this page: http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.html This page is the state of Oregon tracking down which schools are valid and which are crap. A really great reference.
Certificates are just pieces of paper. Many managers consider them so much toilet paper. I know I do. The reason behind that is that there are so many "certificate mills" around, which promise to teach you to pass the certificates, but end up not teaching you the basic knowledge the certificates are realing testing for.
No, type II isn't about sugar either. By why bother, nobodu bothers to read the facts anymore.
The increase is caused by the AMA lowering the numbers of what they consider diabetic. So what were "normal" people are now diabetic. There is NO increase in diabetics.
And no, changing your diet does not prevent the desease. Insulin is mostly for type I diabetics, whom aquire the desease after a trauma to the system, like German Measles did for my mom, GRaves desease did for my brother.
Try looking intot he facts before you spout off garbage.
Type I diabetis causes have nothign to do with sugar. Surveys have found that the type I diabetic has a trauma to the system before onset. My mother had German Measles, for example. My brother had Graves desease. Type I is not caused by "eating too much sugar". This is only the opinon of the truely ignorant.
Type II is not about sugar to a lesser extent.
What is making more people diabetic is the fact that the AMA moved the bar as to the definition of Diabetic. Didn't you pay attention to the material in the "intro to diabetis" class that you got after being diagnosed?
There are no more diabetics than there ever were, it is just tht the AMA now determines that many people that were "normal" before, are now "diabetic".
As for this particular article. Yes, it is nice to see the cost come down, but it isn't a cure. And it doesn't stop the complications. I know what they look like, as I watched my mother get them all, over the 45 years she battled the desease.
And you think insulin is hard to live with, well Byetta is even harder to store, which is the new drug of choice for those that are not yet insulin dependant. Eli Lily has already admitted a short term shortage of this drug, as they ramp up production.
Stem cell research has nothing to do with a cure either, as they have already demonstrated cures with several different technologies. They just have to ramp them up to full human testing.
No, I didn't avoid the question, as the controlling portion of this *IS* a shell script.
>>"....I use Photoshop EVERY day to do images of ER diagrams, that are then written as Acrobat files."
>'ER' makes any difference? Re: Acrobat, any of a dozen print-to-pdf utilities.
The point is thatI can do it in one step, which saves a lot of time. I have also tried your "other" converters. No Dice.
>>"Does GIMP have the auto tool to allow me to batch together as many as 50 diagrams into one command of the tool and save myself time? Some of these diagrams are measured in FEET across, too."
>You know, I doubt the software will notice the differnece between FEET, MILES and MILLIMETERS. You seem impressed though. And yes, the Gimp has strong scripting functions.
And the point is that I have LARGE diagrams and scripting them all together using photoshop. It works, including the transformation into another format, which you have not indicated that Gimp can do.
>>"And the big reason for Photoshop - compatibility with my scanners - which GIMP isn't."
>The Gimp imports flawlessly from any TWAIN source I've used. Maybe you don't know how to set it up? Or use it?
Guess what, 2 of my 3 scanners are not Twain compliant. That's why you use photoshop in the first place, cause one of them has a direct module for Photoshop.
>>"I also managed to finally get a full blown copy of Acrobat, using a student discount. (Even as a working professional, I still have a current student ID at a local college)."
>LOL! Well, you got me there. It's almost impossible to defraud the creators of the Gimp!
No fraud, just knowing how to get around the system.
Don't make so many assumptions next time.
The diagram on the wall, at a minimun readable level measures 2.5 feet tall, and about 4 feet wide. That's at about 300 DPI. The systems just have THAT many objects in them.
You have to remember that some of use work at REAL jobs.