Isn't this problem about the level of a Freshman Programming Assignment?
What the hell is this world coming to when this is really such a problem? If it's not the programming (and it shouldn't be!!!), there's something wrong with our election monitoring process that's allowing people to vote more than once.
Assignment 1 - Week 1
1. Create an array of variables to hold election counters for each candidate.
2. Create an array of text strings to hold election choices. Use a multidimensional array so that rows may indicate offices of election and columns can indicate names.
3. Display Election choices on the screen
4. Increment array from step 1 as choices are made. Allow only one choice for each row.
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Not everyone has the time it takes to learn about computers, nor do they care to. I know that I, for one, won't take the time to rip apart my VCR or DVD player when it stops working. Instead, I'll just go buy another one. At $300 for a computer with Lindows on it, I'd say that we're rapidly approaching the point of having people buy computers just as they would buy a DVD player or VCR, or toaster, or microwave.
I don't think you're right in your assessment of this coming back to bite us in the butt. Indeed, you're missing one of the points, that those of us with skills will continue to be the handyman of tomorrow. What we need to worry about is when computers get cheap enough to throw away, rather than fix. That's when the handyman/fix-it shop will no longer be viable, and when our jobs will be in danger.
Could this device be the next step in tracking criminals on house arrest, or tracking parolee where-abouts? What types of applications might be possible when you can tell where a person has been all day, or while they were on a work-release program? Could this provide law enforcement with further accountability than the 'ankle-bracelet'?
Exactly! You see, it HAS to cut off circulation before it heats up, so that you don't feel it burning your skin. It's all part of the master plan!
Bwahahaha!
That's not true - DSL service is not available in many older suburban areas, much less rural areas. And cable service has virtually no competition in some of these areas, keeping pricing high. By offering BPL in these areas, cable will finally have competition.
I wish that I had mod points to mod up your post! This is all too true. It's important to note that the people doing technical hiring are frequently not doing a good job of screening candidates for skillsets. And once you hire someone, it's too late to do anything about it. It will take action plans, write-ups, months, maybe years to fire someone for being terrible at their job. Meanwhile, your company ends up technically bankrupt.
What's needed are technical hiring skills. Interviews that get to the nitty gritty of what someone knows. Too often candidates show up on our doorsteps with 10 years of experience, and no knowledge to back it up! They get upset and flustered when I sit them down for an hour long technical interview, saying "If I'd known there was going to be a test, I'd have studied..." Well, shoot, if I'm going to be recommending you for a job paying more than $50/60/80K a year, you would think you'd show up with your brain in your skull.
Bottom line is that your post is so dead on!
Don't know if I can control myself or not, and am rational enough to not even try it. But you're taking the side of 'the blame is completely on the luser, and none of the blame is on the dealer'. With thousands of KIDS on addictive substances in the inner cities of America, I don't believe that's a stance I can ever convert to.
Guess you've never heard of "The first one's free!". You're telling me that no dealer would EVER, EVER give away free X or rock just so the hosebag taking it would come back for more? I can't believe that.
People get themselves hooked by making just one mistake. Crack is HIGHLY addictive. One hit is all it takes to make you start thinking about wanting more and how you're going to get it. Two free hits would probably be enough to give you a lifetime customer.
And around here, they wonder how to get repeat customers. Their problem is they need more addictive products.
But the drug dealers are still affecting the economy of the neighborhood, causing normally rational people, hooked on their crank or horse, or whatever, to commit crimes against the innocent people of the 'hood.
To say that drug dealers don't consume the resources of the entire local economy is just plain wrong. When a drug-high jerkface breaks into my house and takes my stereo to feed his crank habit, the blame has to go back to the asshole that got him hooked in the first place.
Perhaps this means that all of those AT&T Wireless customers (I was one - no longer am) will now get better service, both customer service and carrier service.
Billing problems aside, trying to get ahold of the person in the current AT&T Customer Service to deal with a problem with either your phone or your bill is ridiculous. The Cingular people will likely do a MUCH better job than the behemoth that is AT&T.
As far as coverage, AT&T coverage was great when I had it, but it was definitely oversubscribed. With the addition of Cingular towers to the equation, perhaps AT&T's customers will see some relief soon in major metropolitan areas.
Try www.epinions.com for user reviews of products like this, with links to pricing scans on the net. I've gotten lots of information on things like TVs and video camcorders on this site, and you get to hear what people think who usually own the item.
Total Cost of Ownership is a marketing buzzword that is supposed to mean 'measurement of how much it costs to maintain'. There are so many variables involved in that definition:
Experience of personnel
Age of the system and its knowledge base
Number of inherent maintenance problems
Cost of expertise
Severity of maintenance issues
Perceived impact of issues
and so on, and so on...
Too often, the people making decisions based on marketing numbers like TCO fail to realize just how many issues are involved in these measurements. The buzzword TCO becomes another name for just one of the measurable items (e.g. Number of inherent problems).
What's needed are top-level executives that weren't churned out by a college and hired because of thier good-old boy connections. CIOs, CTOs and other executives in power need to be from one school, the school of hard knocks, so that they can make INFORMED decisions instead of blindly relying on the marketing fodder that are handed.
According to the Washington Post, Galvin said that the continued opposition stems from "an ideological belief by a narrow section of the technological community who don't believe you should innovate the core infrastructure of the Internet."
I think Galvin is missing the fact that we ARE for the innovation of the core infrastructure of the Internet - just not in the way he would hope.
After all, I'm all for revoking Verisign's IP address reservations.
The Internet is a connected suite of protocols that work off of a similar top layer of technology, permitting multiple types of information transfer. Granted, the WWW, being the kick-ass application it is, is a very large part of this.
However, what people ALWAYS fail to realize is that Electronic Mail, FTP, SSH, Telnet, Internet Gaming, X-Windows, ICQ, AIM, and every other Internet program under the sun utilizes DNS to try to get where it's going.
When Verisign turns on its crappy service, what happens is that every OTHER program that relies on host names will be SCREWED UP. Why? Because instead of an error message that says you are trying to access a host that doesn't exist, you'll get a message that is much more similar to the fact that the host is unavailable!
That means when you send an email message to dumbshit@verisiggn.com by mistake, instead of getting a response back immediately that you typed in a bad address, your message will sit in a queue for 3 days, and then you'll get an error message saying that your recipient couldn't be reached.
This will cause you to contact your system administrator, and waste hours of his time, and time at other remote administrators because no one will catch the typo until after they've exhausted all the possible reasons your mail systems cannot talk to each other. System Admins RELY on error messages that make sense. When those are absent, answering user questions of 'It doesn't work - fix it' is VERY VERY DIFFICULT.
This message is just for those of you who appear to not have a clue just how much frustration this causes, and who think that this makes even a modicum of sense to do.
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Stretchy wires would sure help my DDR pad from breaking....hey, one can only hope, right?
Isn't this problem about the level of a Freshman Programming Assignment?
What the hell is this world coming to when this is really such a problem? If it's not the programming (and it shouldn't be!!!), there's something wrong with our election monitoring process that's allowing people to vote more than once.
Assignment 1 - Week 1
1. Create an array of variables to hold election counters for each candidate.
2. Create an array of text strings to hold election choices. Use a multidimensional array so that rows may indicate offices of election and columns can indicate names.
3. Display Election choices on the screen
4. Increment array from step 1 as choices are made. Allow only one choice for each row.
Extra Credit: Allow write-ins.
OJ Says DirecTV is the way to go. Forget about cable and Dish Network. Whether you pay for your TV reception, or just steal it, the choice of the stars and ex-wife murderers everywhere is DirecTV
Not everyone has the time it takes to learn about computers, nor do they care to. I know that I, for one, won't take the time to rip apart my VCR or DVD player when it stops working. Instead, I'll just go buy another one. At $300 for a computer with Lindows on it, I'd say that we're rapidly approaching the point of having people buy computers just as they would buy a DVD player or VCR, or toaster, or microwave.
I don't think you're right in your assessment of this coming back to bite us in the butt. Indeed, you're missing one of the points, that those of us with skills will continue to be the handyman of tomorrow. What we need to worry about is when computers get cheap enough to throw away, rather than fix. That's when the handyman/fix-it shop will no longer be viable, and when our jobs will be in danger.
Could this device be the next step in tracking criminals on house arrest, or tracking parolee where-abouts? What types of applications might be possible when you can tell where a person has been all day, or while they were on a work-release program? Could this provide law enforcement with further accountability than the 'ankle-bracelet'?
Exactly! You see, it HAS to cut off circulation before it heats up, so that you don't feel it burning your skin. It's all part of the master plan! Bwahahaha!
That's not true - DSL service is not available in many older suburban areas, much less rural areas. And cable service has virtually no competition in some of these areas, keeping pricing high. By offering BPL in these areas, cable will finally have competition.
I wish that I had mod points to mod up your post! This is all too true. It's important to note that the people doing technical hiring are frequently not doing a good job of screening candidates for skillsets. And once you hire someone, it's too late to do anything about it.
It will take action plans, write-ups, months, maybe years to fire someone for being terrible at their job. Meanwhile, your company ends up technically bankrupt.
What's needed are technical hiring skills. Interviews that get to the nitty gritty of what someone knows. Too often candidates show up on our doorsteps with 10 years of experience, and no knowledge to back it up! They get upset and flustered when I sit them down for an hour long technical interview, saying "If I'd known there was going to be a test, I'd have studied..." Well, shoot, if I'm going to be recommending you for a job paying more than $50/60/80K a year, you would think you'd show up with your brain in your skull.
Bottom line is that your post is so dead on!
There'll be no poop for YOU!
Don't know if I can control myself or not, and am rational enough to not even try it. But you're taking the side of 'the blame is completely on the luser, and none of the blame is on the dealer'. With thousands of KIDS on addictive substances in the inner cities of America, I don't believe that's a stance I can ever convert to.
Guess you've never heard of "The first one's free!". You're telling me that no dealer would EVER, EVER give away free X or rock just so the hosebag taking it would come back for more? I can't believe that.
People get themselves hooked by making just one mistake. Crack is HIGHLY addictive. One hit is all it takes to make you start thinking about wanting more and how you're going to get it. Two free hits would probably be enough to give you a lifetime customer.
And around here, they wonder how to get repeat customers. Their problem is they need more addictive products.
But the drug dealers are still affecting the economy of the neighborhood, causing normally rational people, hooked on their crank or horse, or whatever, to commit crimes against the innocent people of the 'hood.
To say that drug dealers don't consume the resources of the entire local economy is just plain wrong. When a drug-high jerkface breaks into my house and takes my stereo to feed his crank habit, the blame has to go back to the asshole that got him hooked in the first place.
Perhaps this means that all of those AT&T Wireless customers (I was one - no longer am) will now get better service, both customer service and carrier service. Billing problems aside, trying to get ahold of the person in the current AT&T Customer Service to deal with a problem with either your phone or your bill is ridiculous. The Cingular people will likely do a MUCH better job than the behemoth that is AT&T. As far as coverage, AT&T coverage was great when I had it, but it was definitely oversubscribed. With the addition of Cingular towers to the equation, perhaps AT&T's customers will see some relief soon in major metropolitan areas.
It does not appear to be a patent for XML itself.
Try www.epinions.com for user reviews of products like this, with links to pricing scans on the net. I've gotten lots of information on things like TVs and video camcorders on this site, and you get to hear what people think who usually own the item.
Was it a buffer overflow? Nope!
It's apparently the symbol you get when you type ~ in that font - a slanted swastika!!
Of course, there IS equal time, considering that lower case t comes out as the star of David....
Someone's attempt at humour? Or practical jokes at Microsoft's font camp? Or is it just left over from old font design?
And was it really worth distributing as a CRITICAL patch?
- Experience of personnel
- Age of the system and its knowledge base
- Number of inherent maintenance problems
- Cost of expertise
- Severity of maintenance issues
- Perceived impact of issues
and so on, and so on...Too often, the people making decisions based on marketing numbers like TCO fail to realize just how many issues are involved in these measurements. The buzzword TCO becomes another name for just one of the measurable items (e.g. Number of inherent problems).
What's needed are top-level executives that weren't churned out by a college and hired because of thier good-old boy connections. CIOs, CTOs and other executives in power need to be from one school, the school of hard knocks, so that they can make INFORMED decisions instead of blindly relying on the marketing fodder that are handed.
The answer to the hole in the ozone layer is to install high-tension power lines in Antartica and tape millions of rats to the lines?
According to the Washington Post, Galvin said that the continued opposition stems from "an ideological belief by a narrow section of the technological community who don't believe you should innovate the core infrastructure of the Internet." I think Galvin is missing the fact that we ARE for the innovation of the core infrastructure of the Internet - just not in the way he would hope. After all, I'm all for revoking Verisign's IP address reservations.
Sounds like a wonderful case to take to the Department of Justice.
They're in disuise?
The Internet is a connected suite of protocols that work off of a similar top layer of technology, permitting multiple types of information transfer. Granted, the WWW, being the kick-ass application it is, is a very large part of this. However, what people ALWAYS fail to realize is that Electronic Mail, FTP, SSH, Telnet, Internet Gaming, X-Windows, ICQ, AIM, and every other Internet program under the sun utilizes DNS to try to get where it's going. When Verisign turns on its crappy service, what happens is that every OTHER program that relies on host names will be SCREWED UP. Why? Because instead of an error message that says you are trying to access a host that doesn't exist, you'll get a message that is much more similar to the fact that the host is unavailable! That means when you send an email message to dumbshit@verisiggn.com by mistake, instead of getting a response back immediately that you typed in a bad address, your message will sit in a queue for 3 days, and then you'll get an error message saying that your recipient couldn't be reached. This will cause you to contact your system administrator, and waste hours of his time, and time at other remote administrators because no one will catch the typo until after they've exhausted all the possible reasons your mail systems cannot talk to each other. System Admins RELY on error messages that make sense. When those are absent, answering user questions of 'It doesn't work - fix it' is VERY VERY DIFFICULT. This message is just for those of you who appear to not have a clue just how much frustration this causes, and who think that this makes even a modicum of sense to do.