Criminals, CRIMINALS I SAY ! Drive cars, ride on the bus right beside us, eat food, sleep and defecate just like regular people. Call on God or the wizard of Oz to do something. Please. Please. Oh woe. Oh woe we are doomed, so doomed. Oh grievous despair...
actuaries
engineers
accountants
and anyone else that does code as a process component rather than as an end product. I've dealt with this for 30 years...
Now in the age facile convenience we may Grok our loved ones with jello shots at the wake. No muss no fuss, and for added experiential profundity lace those shots with psilocybin.
I have a couple of hard cover IBM equipment brochures from the early 1960's and box of colored Hollerith punch cards from the 1970's and a couple of reels of tape complete with write-protect rings. Anything later than 1975 or so is to new to generate feelings of nostalgia.
I find all visible and audible representations of religious doctrine highly offensive as I am offended by superstition and magical thinking. Do you think I can bring charges against the purveyors of such doctrine? Of course not, even though they are frauds.
We have the right to free expression NOT the right to NOT be offended.
true, that would be better, but better still would be to use the funds and expertise in pursuit of something more likely to have a practical application rather than continually chasing an antique 'record' that hasn't had any true meaning since 1950 or so just for the advert wow factor...
The gratuitous condemnation to a career in the fryer line I will take as an attempt at humour however I agree that honesty in evaluating the performance of students is better than lying to them. Evaluation should, though, be done without malice and with constructive criticism and perhaps some council as to direction of study. While it is generally believed that positive re-enforcement has positive results, in certain circumstances blunt evaluation is indeed warranted. In the case of science fairs (which are in most circumstances counter productive in a one size fits all educational tract, but that's another conversation) honest and blunt evaluation probably is productive as the participants understand the rules of the game. Most of the participants are participating under some form of coercion and are fully aware of the qualitative short comings of their offerings usually due to disinterest which is why the project was done in three hours the night before. The students due to years of experience also understand that they will receive cloying promotion rather than honest evaluation for simply having presented something orderly and presentable regardless of content. Oh and Science Fair projects should never be done for grade. Failing to present the sciences in a manner which encourages interest and participation is a failure of the community and the school not the student.
No, I use little email as well. For real correspondence I still use stationary and a stamp. Yes I am a Luddite however I also don't say much unless I have something that is worth saying. Posting occasionally on Stroke Full Stop being an exception of course.
The amount of information one receives is relative to to the number of job descriptions that are folded into the one that describes ones position. Almost everyone, especially in a tech position, has a job description that reads like a department roster.
From my experience working with Indian software developers this is actually what they intend, however they will rename, shift and colour everything so that it is superficially "new", add the few bits of which they are actually needful and proclaim it NEW OS. They learn from the best such as [Large Ubiquitous American Software Company From Which None Can Escape].
So What? Ju-ju is still ju-ju. As a young person I was a Cat-lick and quite thoroughly "educated" in and by "The Church" and I say that understanding the doctrinal definition of transubstantiation makes it no less of a idiots finger grab than the common misconception.
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Criminals, CRIMINALS I SAY ! Drive cars, ride on the bus right beside us, eat food, sleep and defecate just like regular people. Call on God or the wizard of Oz to do something. Please. Please. Oh woe. Oh woe we are doomed, so doomed. Oh grievous despair...
my aren't we optimistic...
linking to personalized images on cuteoverload ?
Slave labour is profitable.
rarely
started asking rhetorical questions just to start a discussion ?
You don't get it.
actuaries engineers accountants and anyone else that does code as a process component rather than as an end product. I've dealt with this for 30 years...
... Same thing we do every night Pinky; try and take over the world !
Now in the age facile convenience we may Grok our loved ones with jello shots at the wake. No muss no fuss, and for added experiential profundity lace those shots with psilocybin.
damn I dropped an 'o'. well my code was always real buggy firtst shot out, I guess well see the dump tomorrow.
I have a couple of hard cover IBM equipment brochures from the early 1960's and box of colored Hollerith punch cards from the 1970's and a couple of reels of tape complete with write-protect rings. Anything later than 1975 or so is to new to generate feelings of nostalgia.
Accent : Deep East Texas dripping with envy cloaked in sarcasm. Well ain't yeewww just tooo spayyshull Mister Cmdr Tahko.....
I find all visible and audible representations of religious doctrine highly offensive as I am offended by superstition and magical thinking. Do you think I can bring charges against the purveyors of such doctrine? Of course not, even though they are frauds. We have the right to free expression NOT the right to NOT be offended.
You are doomed, at least in this endeavor. Welcome to the education that is leaping before you look.
Is just how did Obama manage this from Kenya BEFORE hes was born, I bet Glen knows...
true, that would be better, but better still would be to use the funds and expertise in pursuit of something more likely to have a practical application rather than continually chasing an antique 'record' that hasn't had any true meaning since 1950 or so just for the advert wow factor...
Which one is Beiber? (ducks)
The gratuitous condemnation to a career in the fryer line I will take as an attempt at humour however I agree that honesty in evaluating the performance of students is better than lying to them. Evaluation should, though, be done without malice and with constructive criticism and perhaps some council as to direction of study. While it is generally believed that positive re-enforcement has positive results, in certain circumstances blunt evaluation is indeed warranted. In the case of science fairs (which are in most circumstances counter productive in a one size fits all educational tract, but that's another conversation) honest and blunt evaluation probably is productive as the participants understand the rules of the game. Most of the participants are participating under some form of coercion and are fully aware of the qualitative short comings of their offerings usually due to disinterest which is why the project was done in three hours the night before. The students due to years of experience also understand that they will receive cloying promotion rather than honest evaluation for simply having presented something orderly and presentable regardless of content. Oh and Science Fair projects should never be done for grade. Failing to present the sciences in a manner which encourages interest and participation is a failure of the community and the school not the student.
synonym of 'fog'.
No, I use little email as well. For real correspondence I still use stationary and a stamp. Yes I am a Luddite however I also don't say much unless I have something that is worth saying. Posting occasionally on Stroke Full Stop being an exception of course.
The amount of information one receives is relative to to the number of job descriptions that are folded into the one that describes ones position. Almost everyone, especially in a tech position, has a job description that reads like a department roster.
This is as meaningful as a Kardashian post. It's evening news filler. I mean it's not terribly usual but not really worth mentioning.
From my experience working with Indian software developers this is actually what they intend, however they will rename, shift and colour everything so that it is superficially "new", add the few bits of which they are actually needful and proclaim it NEW OS. They learn from the best such as [Large Ubiquitous American Software Company From Which None Can Escape].
So What? Ju-ju is still ju-ju. As a young person I was a Cat-lick and quite thoroughly "educated" in and by "The Church" and I say that understanding the doctrinal definition of transubstantiation makes it no less of a idiots finger grab than the common misconception.