The major ones I've noticed are Toner, and light bulbs.
These people obtain a name of an employee, and just send it, with the unsuspecting employees name as a PO. Then they bill it, hoping accounts payable will just pay it.
Not doubting you, but if you were returning then you would have a different experience than entering as a foreigner.
The other thing which you left out is where you were coming from.
I recently took my first airline trip since 911, including travelling to Germany with a layover in Amsterdam both ways. The airport experiences including my short US domestic hop were horrible in the US compared to Amsterdam and Frankfurt. It's not bad enough to stop me from doing it again next year though.
I would think that you might take a little criticism of how we treat visitors better, considering that you have been a visitor yourself.
Outlook without Exchange, itself isn't any better or worse than.. Thunderbird, Evolution, Pegasus, Eudora, or pretty much any email app.
Let's face the facts about exchange though.. In my experiences, it's main benefit is inter company correspondence. Any other email program could do your external contacts just fine. Personally I would rather we stop using emails at work, and switch to an internal instant messaging system. It would eliminate 90 percent of my email. Most emails I get internally could be handled by calling my extension. An instant messaging system, would at least tell them I am at my desk at the computer, and allow me to respond immediately even if I was on the phone.
In looking at your website, I saw that you are accepting ideas for topics for the conference. Does this include ideas for this game project ? or has the game concept already been decided ?
Not that I want to see you swamped with a million ideas, but I am sure there are plenty of people out there that have workable ideas for a game... just saying, not that I have one or anything... ok I do,.. but just saying.
I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time... peices of junk. My old ISA bus modem (with real hardware on it) ran circles around those PCI bus beauties.
In considering death, I often think about sleep. Not sleep where you dream, but out like a light sleep. You wake up, you have no memories of your exsitence during a good portion of your sleep. I assume death will be like that, except the waking up part.
Now consider a proceedure where you are asleep, exactly duplicated, with the original destroyed. The duplicate wakes and has all your memories, so in a sense "you" wake up. this is not really much different than your nightly experiences of sleep. Now you probably don't give a sceond though to destroying parts of yourself with a haircut, or nail clippings.. all you have to do is just get used to the idea of destroying the rest of it. and you'll be ready.
I think your right for the most part. I would say that the majority of posters on slashdot are individual thinkers. Sure you probably have people who actualy play slashdot like a game for mod points and karma (pretty sad actualy), but I think the number of these types is pretty small. Just becase a large number of people think the same way does not automaticly make it groupthink.
HR is a profession pretty much like most other business professions (for example accounting or purchasing) You can do the job without a degree, but a little easier to get started in it with one, and your starting pay will probably be higher.
Where I work, the HR department doesn't just do hiring and firing. You want to deal with insurance, or 401k ?, that's where you go... As for creativity, their job is to sell the company, and the position, to potential employees for the best price(lowest wage) they can get. That can sometimes take some real bullshit skills.
When you are in the position of needing to hire someone, it is time consuming to do the search for qualified people, and to arrange interviews. Our HR department supplies a list of recent candidates, and then does the work of arranging interviews. If you have ever had to try and contact and arrange to meet potential employees.. it's not as easy as you might think.
There is also the alternative.. Temp agencies. Deal with that reality, and I think you'll appreciate any company that has an HR department.
Although the body fat content probably is a factor, I think this is more interesting in respect to researching pain management in general. Some people (regardless of fat) can not handle pain very well at all. Others can live with a great deal of pain with no medication.. For instance, many years ago I had a motorcycle accident which destroyed my knee, and had to have surgery to rebuild it.. I have been in pain ever since, but I have learned to ignore it, and don't think about it.., it is just the way it is.., and I don't take any medication for it.. I have met other people who stub a toe, and run to the emergency room for vicodin... Perhaps these proteins work harder in some people than others.. The people like this who can't handle the most minor of pains, end up as pill junkies if they are not careful. If it is possible that these people could be relieved,or at least be made to better tolerate pain without narcotics they would be a whole lot better off.
If your going to have a registry, why not a registry for everything ?
Why is it more important for me to identify my neighbor as a sex offender (not knowing if that's child molester, rapist, or caught skinny dipping at the lake).. Than it is to know that he was busted for possession of meth, or that he assaulted his wife ?, or that he was busted for firing a weapon in the air on New Years eve ?
You think want any of those people as MY neighbor ??.. but it won't fly, because it shouldn't.. and I don't think the sex offender registry was a good idea or that it does any good at all. You should be punished for your crimes, not punished before you commit the next one. The fact that there are repeat offenders (of all crimes) doesn't mean that all will. Some people do learn.. some will never.. and those that never learn could and should end up in the pen permanently.
I will also point out, that the sex offender registry is not going to stop anyone from repeating if they are so inclined. The only sure way of that is for them to be locked up. That you know who they are means you could watch them, but it doesn't mean that they couldn't go into a different neighborhood, or that someone from another neighborhood could come to yours and commit the crimes.
Lets say you want to run some game developed in say Python. and it requires that you have 3 other pieces of software installed.,, and in particular these 3 others must be of a specific version (or better usually). Instead of you finding and installing all of the other pieces (which may need other pieces themselves) you tell it to install the game, and it finds and installs all the requirements.
Now you could do it the Windows way, but the repository way is pretty neat if you have ever tried it.
That you think that the average Debian user would be uncomfortable with a Windows installer is hilarious. Tell me another.
Ok, what I gotta point out for you and whoever first brought up their mom in the whole compiling issue in the first place...
If your mom is technically savvy enough to have created an application that is now to be compiled from source to different platforms then she obviously understands the original sentence.. and the typo... Unless she is a programming savant who creates source code not knowing what it is.
Again.. the original poster was talking about a (developer of an app) (compiling binaries from source) (for different platforms), not an end user or your mom.
Although the refinery problem contributes, lets take a look at the math...
I buy a product for x dollars, package it, mark it up 10 percent, and resell it.
when x = 30.00 (say per barrel)
x*.10 = 3.00 (final product 33.00) profit = 3.00
when x = 60.00
x*.10 = 6.00 (final product 66.00) profit = 6.00
In the particular case of oil, it is to the benifit of the oil companies that the price per barrel is high. Now, it is possible that they are nice people and don't mark up by percentage, but instead say "we just want to make 3.00 a barrel no matter what it costs"... umm yeah right.
When I recently upgraded my system, I thought it would be nice to see how my Linux system would do with a game. I couldn't find my Unreal CD, so I downloaded the Doom 3 demo.. ran like a champ, and ID got a sale. (mostly because just when it got interesting in the game, I would get killed, and there was no Save in the demo)
I am not much of a gamer, but there is a market for games in Linux.
I don't think it's as bad as you make it out to be, but you also have to realize that Slashdot is made up of people with similar interests. There are well made points on many issues, and the better ones do stick with like minded people. I have no fear to express any opinion that is against the grain, when I beleive it to be true, or to offer another perspective for the sake of showing people that there are other perspectives.
Some people take the whole mod thing waaaay to seriously. I could care less where I stand with the slashdot community. People either agree or disagree, and it's no big thing to me. I really don't know of any "Slashdot stars". There are frequent posters, and many who do a great job, but stars ???? It's a freakin bullitin board.. who cares ?
So your Switzerland when it comes to operating systems...
I'm fairly indifferent to which platform I use as long as it functions well.
If you think you will always have a highhorse to sit on just because you run Linux or Mac, then I'll be there when you fall and bust your ass on the first widespread linux or mac malware invasion to point and laugh at you.
It obviously bothers you a lot that Mac and Linux machines don't have the same experience as Windows users. Too bad my machine will be all screwed up from the malware to hear your laughing... well gotta go, and rock my highhorse now.. (see ?.. Linux rocks)
If that were the case you would push your air/fuel mixture back into the intake manifold (although some timings may let a little of that happen, I don't think it's a good thing)
A little complicated to decipher, but I guess your saying you would kill to stop someone from killing. That sounds reasonable, depending upon the circumstances. If there was another way to stop them without killing them would probably be one of those circumstances.
I have met a few people, that have said things like.. they would like to know what it felt like to kill someone, and I do beleive there are many people only stopped by "the consequeces". There are some real nuts in the world, most are reasonably harmless, but there are some scary people too. I really don't know if it's just my bad luck, me getting older, or what.. but it sure seems like there are A LOT more mentaly ill people that I meet these days. It seems to have gradually increased in the las 10-15 years, in my opinion. Some of it is self induced (meth is evil shit), but not all of it's drugs.. I think there are other causes, but it would all be speculation to even try and guess what's going on.
(I'll stop here before I am diagnosed with paranoia)
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These people obtain a name of an employee, and just send it, with the unsuspecting employees name as a PO. Then they bill it, hoping accounts payable will just pay it.
The other thing which you left out is where you were coming from.
I recently took my first airline trip since 911, including travelling to Germany with a layover in Amsterdam both ways. The airport experiences including my short US domestic hop were horrible in the US compared to Amsterdam and Frankfurt. It's not bad enough to stop me from doing it again next year though.
I would think that you might take a little criticism of how we treat visitors better, considering that you have been a visitor yourself.
Let's face the facts about exchange though.. In my experiences, it's main benefit is inter company correspondence. Any other email program could do your external contacts just fine. Personally I would rather we stop using emails at work, and switch to an internal instant messaging system. It would eliminate 90 percent of my email. Most emails I get internally could be handled by calling my extension. An instant messaging system, would at least tell them I am at my desk at the computer, and allow me to respond immediately even if I was on the phone.
Not that I want to see you swamped with a million ideas, but I am sure there are plenty of people out there that have workable ideas for a game... just saying, not that I have one or anything... ok I do,.. but just saying.
Followed by different pricing tiers...
"bettermail"
"bestmail"
"bestmailplus"
"bestmailultra"
"bestmailultraextreme"
I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time... peices of junk. My old ISA bus modem (with real hardware on it) ran circles around those PCI bus beauties.
Now consider a proceedure where you are asleep, exactly duplicated, with the original destroyed. The duplicate wakes and has all your memories, so in a sense "you" wake up. this is not really much different than your nightly experiences of sleep. Now you probably don't give a sceond though to destroying parts of yourself with a haircut, or nail clippings.. all you have to do is just get used to the idea of destroying the rest of it. and you'll be ready.
I think your right for the most part. I would say that the majority of posters on slashdot are individual thinkers. Sure you probably have people who actualy play slashdot like a game for mod points and karma (pretty sad actualy), but I think the number of these types is pretty small. Just becase a large number of people think the same way does not automaticly make it groupthink.
Just don't try and travel through Kansas.
Where I work, the HR department doesn't just do hiring and firing. You want to deal with insurance, or 401k ?, that's where you go... As for creativity, their job is to sell the company, and the position, to potential employees for the best price(lowest wage) they can get. That can sometimes take some real bullshit skills.
When you are in the position of needing to hire someone, it is time consuming to do the search for qualified people, and to arrange interviews. Our HR department supplies a list of recent candidates, and then does the work of arranging interviews. If you have ever had to try and contact and arrange to meet potential employees.. it's not as easy as you might think.
There is also the alternative.. Temp agencies. Deal with that reality, and I think you'll appreciate any company that has an HR department.
Although the body fat content probably is a factor, I think this is more interesting in respect to researching pain management in general. Some people (regardless of fat) can not handle pain very well at all. Others can live with a great deal of pain with no medication.. For instance, many years ago I had a motorcycle accident which destroyed my knee, and had to have surgery to rebuild it.. I have been in pain ever since, but I have learned to ignore it, and don't think about it.., it is just the way it is.., and I don't take any medication for it.. I have met other people who stub a toe, and run to the emergency room for vicodin... Perhaps these proteins work harder in some people than others.. The people like this who can't handle the most minor of pains, end up as pill junkies if they are not careful. If it is possible that these people could be relieved,or at least be made to better tolerate pain without narcotics they would be a whole lot better off.
Why is it more important for me to identify my neighbor as a sex offender (not knowing if that's child molester, rapist, or caught skinny dipping at the lake).. Than it is to know that he was busted for possession of meth, or that he assaulted his wife ?, or that he was busted for firing a weapon in the air on New Years eve ?
You think want any of those people as MY neighbor ?? .. but it won't fly, because it shouldn't.. and I don't think the sex offender registry was a good idea or that it does any good at all. You should be punished for your crimes, not punished before you commit the next one. The fact that there are repeat offenders (of all crimes) doesn't mean that all will. Some people do learn.. some will never.. and those that never learn could and should end up in the pen permanently.
I will also point out, that the sex offender registry is not going to stop anyone from repeating if they are so inclined. The only sure way of that is for them to be locked up. That you know who they are means you could watch them, but it doesn't mean that they couldn't go into a different neighborhood, or that someone from another neighborhood could come to yours and commit the crimes.
Now you could do it the Windows way, but the repository way is pretty neat if you have ever tried it.
That you think that the average Debian user would be uncomfortable with a Windows installer is hilarious. Tell me another.
No, it's what you would use to install Cygwin.
Considering the enormous amount of goods imported every day from China to us here in the US..
I'd say where responsible for a good chunk of that too.
If your mom is technically savvy enough to have created an application that is now to be compiled from source to different platforms then she obviously understands the original sentence.. and the typo... Unless she is a programming savant who creates source code not knowing what it is.
Again.. the original poster was talking about a (developer of an app) (compiling binaries from source) (for different platforms), not an end user or your mom.
I buy a product for x dollars, package it, mark it up 10 percent, and resell it.
when x = 30.00 (say per barrel)
x*.10 = 3.00 (final product 33.00) profit = 3.00
when x = 60.00
x*.10 = 6.00 (final product 66.00) profit = 6.00
In the particular case of oil, it is to the benifit of the oil companies that the price per barrel is high.
Now, it is possible that they are nice people and don't mark up by percentage, but instead say "we just want to make 3.00 a barrel no matter what it costs"... umm yeah right.
Hey, good looking, I'll be back to pick you up later !
I am not much of a gamer, but there is a market for games in Linux.
Some people take the whole mod thing waaaay to seriously. I could care less where I stand with the slashdot community. People either agree or disagree, and it's no big thing to me. I really don't know of any "Slashdot stars". There are frequent posters, and many who do a great job, but stars ???? It's a freakin bullitin board.. who cares ?
I'm fairly indifferent to which platform I use as long as it functions well.
If you think you will always have a highhorse to sit on just because you run Linux or Mac, then I'll be there when you fall and bust your ass on the first widespread linux or mac malware invasion to point and laugh at you.
It obviously bothers you a lot that Mac and Linux machines don't have the same experience as Windows users. Too bad my machine will be all screwed up from the malware to hear your laughing... well gotta go, and rock my highhorse now.. (see ?.. Linux rocks)
If that were the case you would push your air/fuel mixture back into the intake manifold (although some timings may let a little of that happen, I don't think it's a good thing)
left... "I'm melting..."
right... "boogy men.. boogy men.."
Neither can actualy DO anything about either things, but you don't actualy kill people trying to stop from melting.
You should be modded insightful..(understable since you get more space on your breaks)
Those modding you funny, must have low ceilings.
I have met a few people, that have said things like.. they would like to know what it felt like to kill someone, and I do beleive there are many people only stopped by "the consequeces". There are some real nuts in the world, most are reasonably harmless, but there are some scary people too. I really don't know if it's just my bad luck, me getting older, or what.. but it sure seems like there are A LOT more mentaly ill people that I meet these days. It seems to have gradually increased in the las 10-15 years, in my opinion. Some of it is self induced (meth is evil shit), but not all of it's drugs.. I think there are other causes, but it would all be speculation to even try and guess what's going on.
(I'll stop here before I am diagnosed with paranoia)