Citizen: You may execise your Constitional freedoms at (almost) any time. First, file an application, allow a three day wainting period, and if you haven't abused your freedom, you will have the our permission to execise it.
One more thing, Citizen...If you truly wish to speak freely, do *not* forget to bring your National ID. Applications to get government permission to execise Constitutional freedoms will not be processed without valid ID.
Citizen: There is no need to exercise your 2nd amendment rights!
Just like with your 2nd amendment rights...you may now exercise your 1st amendment right to free speech after the requisite 3-day waiting period from the day you file your application to speak freely.
Don't forget to bring a valid national identification card. Your application for free speech will not be processed without valid ID.
We just want to make sure you have a reasonable cooling off period and won't say anything dangerous to society. We'd also like to make sure that you've had no prior convictions related to saying anything dangerous before granting you permission to speak freely.
We have preserved your rights. Now move along before I arrest you.
...of conforming the search engine to their other applications.
1. It has a cluttered, busy looking screen.
2. I find myself waiting while it loads.
3. It freezes up with displaying an animated "loading..." message.
4. It has more annoying bells and whistles than actual functionality.
5. A person with the very latest in hardware (AMD64) with invested time in the latest patches says "it works!"
They did a great job of making something that has all the attributes of their other wildly successful products.
Now if only they can shut down user-choice by forcing people to use their search engine rather than Google buried in a "click to accept" license condition of Vista.
No argument here. My point is that the "slave" declaration will likely be construed as racist by those that react emotionally and a good at sound-bites.
I'm not saying that that makes sense, but it's too easy to misconstrue.
White man says white man in strange place = "adventurous explorer"
White man says black man in strange place = "slave"
Um, is this the scientific reasoning?
I know. I know. It's a cheap shot at acadamia. However, I just *had* to say it because the irony of it amuses me. Trust me, I won't be the last to point this out!
If they didn't want me to put my Christian Rock there, then why is there a folder labeled "My Music" in "My Documents" (emphasis on "My") Answer me that!
Furthermore, I don't even *have* an H: drive, you silly man. I *only* store stuff in my documents folder, which I always keep stored on the upper left part of my screen and nowhere else!
Am I the only one here think thinks it might be kind of cool to work in a paranoid place requires you to check cell phones at the door? Now if only they could eliminate my pesky desk phone and email (um, in the name of security leaks, of course) I might actually have time to productive!
Would anybody beleive me if I made the case that status meetings and rambling, pointless telecons with 3rd parties are risky security leaks too?
I read the FA and the student requested a special direct translation version at the direction of his Dartmouth professors. (Whom I can envision snickering and trading a $1 after winning a bet.) I wonder if the professors were conducting some research of their own.
"Hey, I've got five bucks that says you can't convince that nerdy little nuclear physics student of yours that he needs to borrow a copy of the Anarchist's C..."
I could flip a switch and start typing code in second or two. It was silent, no fans or hard drive. It's keyboard was well-cushioned and you could pound it comfortably all day. I could turn a knob on my "monitor" and watch David Letterman, then turn the knob back to switch tasks without installing any special software.
Comfortable, fast, silent, efficient...It was a good computer for writing code and making business spreadsheets in "multi-plan" I'd never be able to buy a computer with those characteristics today!...sniff...sniff...quiver...sniff...sniff... quiver...
I'd warn you to be careful considering public service.
I won't describe the advantages, because most people already know them and if not, others can address them.
There is a downside that *few* people talk about. Make sure you're a good personality fit, especially if you're independent and frustrated by corporate bureaucracy, because it's amplified 10x at larger agencies. You might consider a small agency over a large one. Civil service looks attractive in the short-term, but it can be career hell in the long term, driven by a combination of technical skill atrophy, civil-service stigma and mind-numbing stupidity on a daily basis that saps your spirit.
My Story: 15 years ago I was offered a federal programming job at a "safety agency" that shall remain unnamed. It paid more money, better initial benefits, stability, etc. doing the same work I was doing as a contractor. On my Dad's advice, I ignored the offers, but my friends took the civil service positions in the agency as they opened. The result?
ME: Despite lower initial pay, I bounced around from contract to contract and gained a lot of wide and varied experience at many different organizations, meeting a lot of great people along the way, few of them mediocre. My growing resume, technical and business contacts make me sought after. I got a lot of skills from the exposure. Despite the "lack of stability and security" from being a contractor I was never out of work more than a two weeks and I kind of look forward to that time as a break without responsibility to any employer during the break. I could just travel on airlines' "web specials" and drift until bored and ready to get back work again, a process that takes about a week.
FRIENDS: They are no longer the creative, dynamic geeks I once knew. They work for a system they can't stand. They whine about co-workers that ought to be fired but they know never will be. They try to make the person want to leave, only to find out that is illegal discrimination. They whine about a boss under which they are "trapped" yet refuse to quit because of "longevity." They are still trying to do the same project, but spend most of their efforts on after-hours internal lobbying to preserve their project budget. They worry about the "whims of the congressional budget process." They have never been laid off in the 15 years (I have) yet, it is a constant worry for them, for their stability comes not from their resume and skills (which have atrophied) but from preserving their budget on an overbudget, overdue, ill-concieved project, which they privately admit should get axed. (This makes them two-faced, in my opinion.) They're no longer helpful on technical issues, because they no longer have relevent technical expertise. They've come to be all about petty issues, whining, secrets of bureacratic manipulation and pay advancement tactics. The one who still focuses on "what matters" rather than the petty stuff, gets punished and excluded as the "loose cannon" in the group.
They have the gall to accuse me of drifting away. Simply put, they're not stimulating anymore. I don't learn from them anymore. They don't seem interested in learning what I can share. They started out as good people and ended up as bitter, petty people. What, besides history and alcohol, can serve as the basis for a continued relationship?
Conclusion: I know I'm not smarter than my former friends, but did better. I have to conclude there's better "stability" more variety and faster advancement in bouncing from contract to contract and keeping up, rather than letting your technical skills atrophy in a "one stable job with less competition equals a good career." They live in false fear of the axe, because they haven't been through the experience to realize it's just a speed bump and a welcome break not worth worrying about.
The main advantage to civil service I can see is the "defined benefits" retirement. That also seems to be why they won't leave a miserable job.
2+2 always equals 4, when calculated by competent people. Those that would argue otherwise pre-classify themselves.
I've had my issues with Microsoft products but I must admit, I've never had even a single problem with Office '96...especially running on Windows '99.;^)
But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame.
I have not pirated any music over the internet...ever. Yet I stopped buying CDs:
1. I found out some are disabled for my digital devices.
(I buy music for simple enjoyment, for FUD, hassle & frustration)
2. I discovered new artists at the free legal download sites.
3. I discovered commercial-free, announcer-free internet radio, like SomaFM.
I might resume buying CD's when music companies can gurantee they'll work and will accept liability for selling me crap. On the other hand, I must give credit to their mis-treatment's role in expanding my digital music horizons beyond the limited world of CDs.
It seems the problem wasn't noticable until after about 50,000 miles. If you're thinking of a "special use" (rather than a daily driver) then parts longevity won't be much of an issue.
Interesting thought for a "green" racer. I have fewer mechincal skills and I'm not into racing so if I had an older light-weight car, and some time, I'd rather convert it to electric-drive or find a used diesel to drop in it and make it a "grease car" running on bio-diesel.
Then again, I don't have a spare car, so I'm just dreaming.
Here's a clue Dvorak, doing complex things requires you to learn how to do them.
I don't know if you've thought deeply about this. I appreciate good tools. Hopefully, you don't think that my kids should have to learn how to use a slide rule if they want to do any complex math?
Let me just say that some people, like Steve Jobs or John Fluke, can make a lot of money by enabling people to do complex things very simply and very quickly.
Improving tools is the essence of productivity and progress.
I agree. Most photo editing packages suffer from tremendous feature bloat and simple paint packages miss key basic functions. I work with a lot of time frustrated web artists and they have the same complaints about packages being too much or too little with no good middle-ground packages.
I'd to see a non-technical "Gimp Lite" or "PhotoShop lite-lite-lite" that still had the very few features that are used 90% of the time on just a handful of buttons or controls.
1. ability to insert text into a different (second) layer
2. ability to crop and resize
3. ability to define "blobby" non-geometric areas for manipulation
4. 1 or 2 color balance sliders (think warm---cool)
5. a contrast slider
6. a brightness slider
7. a size compression vs. quality slider that showed the output image and probable size
8. burn and dodge tools.
Oh....as long as I'm dreaming about ideal software...how about a quick, intuitive way of toggle "tool tips" and such on and off, such as right-clicking?
Those of us with ADD find that animations and pop-ups really interfere with our creative trains of hey...I've got mail!
Games are my remaining use for Windows. I tried cedega about a year ago and couldn't get it to work. After about 6 frustrating hours trying to RTFM and Google for solutions, I decided to wait a year for cedega to:
1. Evolve into something a little more idiot-proof, or
2. Wait until some of my more fanatical friends got a lot of experience with cedega and could hold my hand.
As I know, hydrogen embrittlement effects steel. I'm not sure how it effects cast iron, forged piston heads, rings, or valves. I tried doing a search on google about this topic and found nothing in regards to long term effects on a standard engine block. I can only assume one of two things.
1. No information is available due to lack of study.
2. The hydrogen burns fast and clean and thus makes the issue moot.
I had the same train of thought and Googled around. Here's what I found:
1. While most articles mention effects on titanium, steel and aluminum alloys, only a few mention real world experience with typical autos.
2. Those with more experience with typical late model autos indicate hydrogen embrittlement problems.
...they will find a bunch of cd's, but they'll also find a bunch of computers that can read them...
I'm pretty sure the computer's broke or something. I tried plugging the computer into a regular hydrogen outlet and the hydrogen receptacle claimed in a very insistent voice that device didn't meet code for an approved hydrogen appliance. I figured I was Foobar.
Then, I remembered a story about how energy used to be distributed. After extensive research, I sucessfully built a 120 volt sine wave generator, plugged the computer in, and spoke into the mouse. Guess what? The computer didn't say a thing back.
Still more research made it clear that sound would come from the silver platter things. I held one tight against my ear when I spoke into the mouse...still nothing.
After still more research, I connected the big vacuum tube thingy (which also runs on 120 volt sine waves) to the computer. After a few microblicks, I saw some strange white symbols glowing on the surface. It that looked like this "C: Drive Error: No Bootable Device." BR>
Now where getting somewhere. I'm sure the pattern of glowing dots is tightly compressed data being shown on the screen. I've got a pattern recognition expert looking at the pattern of glowing dots on the screen. It's probably some sort of ancient code.
Yesterday, someone said that feelings of surprise, anxiety and disbelief was represented by a glowing pattern of dots that looked like this =:O
...can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues
I'm a graduate and I'll tell you what I think...as soon as I figure out how to post as "Anonymous Coward."
I'm sure not sure this has to due with annual pass fraud detection. In the aftermatch of the London bombers, Disney doesn't want to point out that their park involves "very tightly packed crowds" and "international symbol of American decadence/innocence" -very bad for ticket sales.
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Citizen: There has been no coup d'etat.
1. You have not exercized your first amendment freedom responsibly here.
2. It has been duly noted in your national record.
Citizen: You may execise your Constitional freedoms at (almost) any time. First, file an application, allow a three day wainting period, and if you haven't abused your freedom, you will have the our permission to execise it.
One more thing, Citizen...If you truly wish to speak freely, do *not* forget to bring your National ID. Applications to get government permission to execise Constitutional freedoms will not be processed without valid ID.
Citizen: There is no need to exercise your 2nd amendment rights!
Just like with your 2nd amendment rights...you may now exercise your 1st amendment right to free speech after the requisite 3-day waiting period from the day you file your application to speak freely.
Don't forget to bring a valid national identification card. Your application for free speech will not be processed without valid ID.
We just want to make sure you have a reasonable cooling off period and won't say anything dangerous to society. We'd also like to make sure that you've had no prior convictions related to saying anything dangerous before granting you permission to speak freely.
We have preserved your rights. Now move along before I arrest you.
...of conforming the search engine to their other applications.
1. It has a cluttered, busy looking screen.
2. I find myself waiting while it loads.
3. It freezes up with displaying an animated "loading..." message.
4. It has more annoying bells and whistles than actual functionality.
5. A person with the very latest in hardware (AMD64) with invested time in the latest patches says "it works!" They did a great job of making something that has all the attributes of their other wildly successful products.
Now if only they can shut down user-choice by forcing people to use their search engine rather than Google buried in a "click to accept" license condition of Vista.
I just press the eject button and a motorized coffee cup holder slides out. Must be some kind of productivity option on my cheap PC.
No argument here. My point is that the "slave" declaration will likely be construed as racist by those that react emotionally and a good at sound-bites.
I'm not saying that that makes sense, but it's too easy to misconstrue.
White man says white man in strange place = "adventurous explorer"
White man says black man in strange place = "slave"
Um, is this the scientific reasoning?
I know. I know. It's a cheap shot at acadamia. However, I just *had* to say it because the irony of it amuses me. Trust me, I won't be the last to point this out!
If they didn't want me to put my Christian Rock there, then why is there a folder labeled "My Music" in "My Documents" (emphasis on "My") Answer me that!
Furthermore, I don't even *have* an H: drive, you silly man. I *only* store stuff in my documents folder, which I always keep stored on the upper left part of my screen and nowhere else!
Am I the only one here think thinks it might be kind of cool to work in a paranoid place requires you to check cell phones at the door? Now if only they could eliminate my pesky desk phone and email (um, in the name of security leaks, of course) I might actually have time to productive!
Would anybody beleive me if I made the case that status meetings and rambling, pointless telecons with 3rd parties are risky security leaks too?
...that the mystery is "What game is still interesting after 20 days?"
I read the FA and the student requested a special direct translation version at the direction of his Dartmouth professors. (Whom I can envision snickering and trading a $1 after winning a bet.) I wonder if the professors were conducting some research of their own.
"Hey, I've got five bucks that says you can't convince that nerdy little nuclear physics student of yours that he needs to borrow a copy of the Anarchist's C..."
seat in an air based vechile?
"vechile?" WTF? Everyone knows "Chile verde" is what gets you the best air from your seat.
I'd like Dell or Apple to consider these traits.
. quiver...
I could flip a switch and start typing code in second or two. It was silent, no fans or hard drive. It's keyboard was well-cushioned and you could pound it comfortably all day. I could turn a knob on my "monitor" and watch David Letterman, then turn the knob back to switch tasks without installing any special software.
Comfortable, fast, silent, efficient...It was a good computer for writing code and making business spreadsheets in "multi-plan" I'd never be able to buy a computer with those characteristics today!...sniff...sniff...quiver...sniff...sniff..
I'd warn you to be careful considering public service.
I won't describe the advantages, because most people already know them and if not, others can address them.
There is a downside that *few* people talk about. Make sure you're a good personality fit, especially if you're independent and frustrated by corporate bureaucracy, because it's amplified 10x at larger agencies. You might consider a small agency over a large one. Civil service looks attractive in the short-term, but it can be career hell in the long term, driven by a combination of technical skill atrophy, civil-service stigma and mind-numbing stupidity on a daily basis that saps your spirit.
My Story: 15 years ago I was offered a federal programming job at a "safety agency" that shall remain unnamed. It paid more money, better initial benefits, stability, etc. doing the same work I was doing as a contractor. On my Dad's advice, I ignored the offers, but my friends took the civil service positions in the agency as they opened. The result?
ME: Despite lower initial pay, I bounced around from contract to contract and gained a lot of wide and varied experience at many different organizations, meeting a lot of great people along the way, few of them mediocre. My growing resume, technical and business contacts make me sought after. I got a lot of skills from the exposure. Despite the "lack of stability and security" from being a contractor I was never out of work more than a two weeks and I kind of look forward to that time as a break without responsibility to any employer during the break. I could just travel on airlines' "web specials" and drift until bored and ready to get back work again, a process that takes about a week.
FRIENDS: They are no longer the creative, dynamic geeks I once knew. They work for a system they can't stand. They whine about co-workers that ought to be fired but they know never will be. They try to make the person want to leave, only to find out that is illegal discrimination. They whine about a boss under which they are "trapped" yet refuse to quit because of "longevity." They are still trying to do the same project, but spend most of their efforts on after-hours internal lobbying to preserve their project budget. They worry about the "whims of the congressional budget process." They have never been laid off in the 15 years (I have) yet, it is a constant worry for them, for their stability comes not from their resume and skills (which have atrophied) but from preserving their budget on an overbudget, overdue, ill-concieved project, which they privately admit should get axed. (This makes them two-faced, in my opinion.) They're no longer helpful on technical issues, because they no longer have relevent technical expertise. They've come to be all about petty issues, whining, secrets of bureacratic manipulation and pay advancement tactics. The one who still focuses on "what matters" rather than the petty stuff, gets punished and excluded as the "loose cannon" in the group.
They have the gall to accuse me of drifting away. Simply put, they're not stimulating anymore. I don't learn from them anymore. They don't seem interested in learning what I can share. They started out as good people and ended up as bitter, petty people. What, besides history and alcohol, can serve as the basis for a continued relationship?
Conclusion: I know I'm not smarter than my former friends, but did better. I have to conclude there's better "stability" more variety and faster advancement in bouncing from contract to contract and keeping up, rather than letting your technical skills atrophy in a "one stable job with less competition equals a good career." They live in false fear of the axe, because they haven't been through the experience to realize it's just a speed bump and a welcome break not worth worrying about.
The main advantage to civil service I can see is the "defined benefits" retirement. That also seems to be why they won't leave a miserable job.
2+2 always equals 4, when calculated by competent people. Those that would argue otherwise pre-classify themselves.
a lot of massaging was necessary for MS Office 96
;^)
I've had my issues with Microsoft products but I must admit, I've never had even a single problem with Office '96...especially running on Windows '99.
But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame.
I have not pirated any music over the internet...ever. Yet I stopped buying CDs:
1. I found out some are disabled for my digital devices.
(I buy music for simple enjoyment, for FUD, hassle & frustration)
2. I discovered new artists at the free legal download sites.
3. I discovered commercial-free, announcer-free internet radio, like SomaFM.
I might resume buying CD's when music companies can gurantee they'll work and will accept liability for selling me crap. On the other hand, I must give credit to their mis-treatment's role in expanding my digital music horizons beyond the limited world of CDs.
It seems the problem wasn't noticable until after about 50,000 miles. If you're thinking of a "special use" (rather than a daily driver) then parts longevity won't be much of an issue.
Interesting thought for a "green" racer. I have fewer mechincal skills and I'm not into racing so if I had an older light-weight car, and some time, I'd rather convert it to electric-drive or find a used diesel to drop in it and make it a "grease car" running on bio-diesel.
Then again, I don't have a spare car, so I'm just dreaming.
Here's a clue Dvorak, doing complex things requires you to learn how to do them.
I don't know if you've thought deeply about this.
I appreciate good tools. Hopefully, you don't think that my kids should have to learn how to use a slide rule if they want to do any complex math?
Let me just say that some people, like Steve Jobs or John Fluke, can make a lot of money by enabling people to do complex things very simply and very quickly.
Improving tools is the essence of productivity and progress.
I agree.
Most photo editing packages suffer from tremendous feature bloat and simple paint packages miss key basic functions. I work with a lot of time frustrated web artists and they have the same complaints about packages being too much or too little with no good middle-ground packages.
I'd to see a non-technical "Gimp Lite" or "PhotoShop lite-lite-lite" that still had the very few features that are used 90% of the time on just a handful of buttons or controls.
1. ability to insert text into a different (second) layer
2. ability to crop and resize
3. ability to define "blobby" non-geometric areas for manipulation
4. 1 or 2 color balance sliders (think warm---cool)
5. a contrast slider
6. a brightness slider
7. a size compression vs. quality slider that showed the output image and probable size
8. burn and dodge tools.
Oh....as long as I'm dreaming about ideal software...how about a quick, intuitive way of toggle "tool tips" and such on and off, such as right-clicking?
Those of us with ADD find that animations and pop-ups really interfere with our creative trains of
hey...I've got mail!
Games are my remaining use for Windows. I tried cedega about a year ago and couldn't get it to work. After about 6 frustrating hours trying to RTFM and Google for solutions, I decided to wait a year for cedega to:
1. Evolve into something a little more idiot-proof, or
2. Wait until some of my more fanatical friends got a lot of experience with cedega and could hold my hand.
(sigh)
As I know, hydrogen embrittlement effects steel. I'm not sure how it effects cast iron, forged piston heads, rings, or valves. I tried doing a search on google about this topic and found nothing in regards to long term effects on a standard engine block. I can only assume one of two things.
1. No information is available due to lack of study.
2. The hydrogen burns fast and clean and thus makes the issue moot.
I had the same train of thought and Googled around. Here's what I found:
1. While most articles mention effects on titanium, steel and aluminum alloys, only a few mention real world experience with typical autos.
2. Those with more experience with typical late model autos indicate hydrogen embrittlement problems.
Reference: http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/
I hope this helps...
...they will find a bunch of cd's, but they'll also find a bunch of computers that can read them...
I'm pretty sure the computer's broke or something. I tried plugging the computer into a regular hydrogen outlet and the hydrogen receptacle claimed in a very insistent voice that device didn't meet code for an approved hydrogen appliance. I figured I was Foobar.
Then, I remembered a story about how energy used to be distributed. After extensive research, I sucessfully built a 120 volt sine wave generator, plugged the computer in, and spoke into the mouse. Guess what? The computer didn't say a thing back.
Still more research made it clear that sound would come from the silver platter things. I held one tight against my ear when I spoke into the mouse...still nothing.
After still more research, I connected the big vacuum tube thingy (which also runs on 120 volt sine waves) to the computer. After a few microblicks, I saw some strange white symbols glowing on the surface. It that looked like this "C: Drive Error: No Bootable Device."
BR> Now where getting somewhere. I'm sure the pattern of glowing dots is tightly compressed data being shown on the screen. I've got a pattern recognition expert looking at the pattern of glowing dots on the screen. It's probably some sort of ancient code.
Yesterday, someone said that feelings of surprise, anxiety and disbelief was represented by a glowing pattern of dots that looked like this =:O
...Oh shit! Maybe MS will invade us first when the EU starts a war against them...
May I assume the EU war staffers are using Excel, Word and Outlook to plan their war against MS?
The MS invasion strikes me as a done deal.
Unlike you Europeans, my tin-foil hat has a grounding strap!
...can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues I'm a graduate and I'll tell you what I think...as soon as I figure out how to post as "Anonymous Coward."
I'm sure not sure this has to due with annual pass fraud detection. In the aftermatch of the London bombers, Disney doesn't want to point out that their park involves "very tightly packed crowds" and "international symbol of American decadence/innocence" -very bad for ticket sales.