FTA: "Continental finds that frequent players of titles like Gran Turismo and Grand Theft Auto are more likely to crash their real-life cars than those that don't."
There's a huge difference between driving a car in Gran Turismo (or any racing sim for that matter) and driving one in Grand Theft Auto. If you can keep your car on the road in Gran Turismo, there's a good chance you can keep it on the road in real life. If you drive your car like Carl or Niko... well...
Now on a bit more serious side note, you can approach (parts of) astrology in a scientific sort of way: I don't believe in astrology. But I do believe that the time of birth can have an impact on the way you experience the rest of your life. The first 2 or 3 years of you life you develop alot. This goes in clearly definable stages. Say you gain the ability to walk. This usualy happens between 9 and 14 months. If you were born in the fall, then you start walking sometime during the summer. Having your first walking experience during the summer will impact you differently from having it during the cold winter months.
This was just an example. If you put all abilities and levels of conscienceness in the same perspective I think there will be some characteristics typical for someone born in, say september for example.
Astrology does just that. It categorizes people according to the month (and probably even the year) they were born.
The only way you can make sure while refactoring an application that at the end of the process it will still behave the same way as it did before the refactoring is to write unit tests. Never (heavily) refactor untested code.
But seriously: Things like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and even Behavior-Driven Development have proven to be great approaches in software development.
Also, software management methodologies have evolved in a tight interaction between business (customer) and the development team. Take 'Scrum' for example... think 'iterative'.
If your superiors aren't convinced that at least the test driven part is necessary then you should seriously consider getting out of there.
You can still write crap code, but at least that crap code is backed up by a unit test. Otoh, if your test is crap... you _are_ the weakest link: Goodbye!
Now a sidenote that I should have written before: you mention the 3000 gross. Sounds reasonable, but do you have a company car? If yes, remove another 700 from my gross to compare. That's why I would have to sacrifice to get a company car. Nothing fancy even, a bland Audi A3 or a BMW 120i (Working for a German company, they don't do french cars that would end up being cheaper). It is one factor I always forget when comparing wages. The guy I mentioned above with kids, and house has a company car.
I'm not comparing my wage with yours. I was trying to compare the percentile of taxes (and if you must, other deductions) we both have to pay to our government. I still think you pay less than I do regardless of what we get in return (because I think that ain't worth that much for me. I'd rather decide myself what to do with my money than what some pimp-ass government official thinks it is good for).
You're right offcourse. I just looked a bit deeper into that social security thing;-) Turns out I pay about 25% (that's 750 euro) on social security (not everyone does, if you earn more you pay a higher percentage and if you earn less it can get as 'low' as 10%). Yet I still pay for extra insurance because otherwise when a family member or I should ever get hospitalized I will still have to pay most of the bills.
Pensions? Well, we'll still have to see about that now don't we? I still have a good 30 years of working ahead of me (less if all goes as planned and I win the lottery;-)). Just to be on the safe side I also have a separate pension account.
But now... I have a gross income of about 3000 euro. Yet I cost alot more than that to my employer (only talking wages here). He gets taxed too! If he wants to give me a NET raise of 100 euro it'll cost him about 3 or 4 times that much.
Your buying power in real estate is less but your booze, sigarettes and petrol are way cheaper than here;-)
Too bad the batteries are sooo big, it's a hell of a drag bike but i don't think it's a very agile circuit runner.
Still, this gets my hopes back up. Up until now I could've never imagined a blazing fast motorcycle that runs on electricity. By the time I hit my mid-life crisis I hope they've marketed some of these;-)
No question about it: Speedball 3 !!! And with multiplayer this time;-)
Also... I remember playing a game 'The Creed' in the late nineties. You had a top down/perspective view of a character ('Syndicate'-style) in a futuristic urban setting. I really liked that game but haven't been able to find anything about it since...
"Here's a question: what happens when you start jamming with two of these robots, and then you stop playing? Do they just duet until you unplug one of them or what?"
Here's an idea!
You should give one of them a guitar, and the other one a banjo! Then start playing C C F C and add a bit of yankee doodley into the mix...
"Don't forget the massive tornadoes of super-cool air being pulled down from space causing helicopters to instantly freeze over and fall from the sky. It's only a matter of days before we all freeze to death because of global warming god damnit! We need to fundamentally change the way humans do things NOW, not tomorrow. Turn off all your electronic stuff immediately and don't use any fuel!"
you're not going to be one of those 'i told you so'-nitwits when the time has come now are you?
well, i'm not the first to give you a list... but these just have to be mentioned
- adolph sax - toots tielemans - django reinhardt - jean claude van damme (hmmm... i know i know... you said 'famous' not 'great') - anouck lepeire - kim clijsters - justine henin - ardenne - audrey hepburn - rene magritte (ceci n'est pas...) - peter paul rubens
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FTA: "Continental finds that frequent players of titles like Gran Turismo and Grand Theft Auto are more likely to crash their real-life cars than those that don't."
There's a huge difference between driving a car in Gran Turismo (or any racing sim for that matter) and driving one in Grand Theft Auto. If you can keep your car on the road in Gran Turismo, there's a good chance you can keep it on the road in real life. If you drive your car like Carl or Niko... well...
Seriously, sharepoint? Costs way too much, is buggy, hard to extend (workarounds workarounds workarounds) and looks like crap.
Some people make a bunch of money because they 'know' SharePoint... they are SharePoint 'developers' or even SharePoint 'Architects'
(rethorical)Did you ever came across a well architected, customized, extensible SharePoint implementation?
Nice approach ;-)
Now on a bit more serious side note, you can approach (parts of) astrology in a scientific sort of way:
I don't believe in astrology. But I do believe that the time of birth can have an impact on the way you experience the rest of your life. The first 2 or 3 years of you life you develop alot. This goes in clearly definable stages. Say you gain the ability to walk. This usualy happens between 9 and 14 months. If you were born in the fall, then you start walking sometime during the summer. Having your first walking experience during the summer will impact you differently from having it during the cold winter months.
This was just an example. If you put all abilities and levels of conscienceness in the same perspective I think there will be some characteristics typical for someone born in, say september for example.
Astrology does just that. It categorizes people according to the month (and probably even the year) they were born.
in south korea only old people use thumb drives
Write tests!
The only way you can make sure while refactoring an application that at the end of the process it will still behave the same way as it did before the refactoring is to write unit tests. Never (heavily) refactor untested code.
Buzzword alert: Agile!
But seriously: Things like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and even Behavior-Driven Development have proven to be great approaches in software development.
Also, software management methodologies have evolved in a tight interaction between business (customer) and the development team. Take 'Scrum' for example... think 'iterative'.
If your superiors aren't convinced that at least the test driven part is necessary then you should seriously consider getting out of there.
You can still write crap code, but at least that crap code is backed up by a unit test. Otoh, if your test is crap... you _are_ the weakest link: Goodbye!
Allright... not as good as a Gibson
;-)
But at least the Epiphone price/quality ratio is on par.
You get about 3/4th of the quality of a Gibson for 1/4th of the price
I paid 500 euro for an Epi Les Paul Standard ebony. And that's a verrry nice guitar for that kind of money.
(Sorry, I don't like sharepoint at all!)
Or build your own app on top of a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Full Text Search
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No need for tags... let the document itself be the tags...
The free-as-in-beer express ed. (with advanced blahblah..) however is limited to 2Gb. So you will at the least need a Standard ed. though.
Now a sidenote that I should have written before: you mention the 3000 gross. Sounds reasonable, but do you have a company car? If yes, remove another 700 from my gross to compare. That's why I would have to sacrifice to get a company car. Nothing fancy even, a bland Audi A3 or a BMW 120i (Working for a German company, they don't do french cars that would end up being cheaper). It is one factor I always forget when comparing wages. The guy I mentioned above with kids, and house has a company car.
;-)
I'm not comparing my wage with yours. I was trying to compare the percentile of taxes (and if you must, other deductions) we both have to pay to our government. I still think you pay less than I do regardless of what we get in return (because I think that ain't worth that much for me. I'd rather decide myself what to do with my money than what some pimp-ass government official thinks it is good for).
Nice car
ooooohw....
;-) Turns out I pay about 25% (that's 750 euro) on social security (not everyone does, if you earn more you pay a higher percentage and if you earn less it can get as 'low' as 10%). Yet I still pay for extra insurance because otherwise when a family member or I should ever get hospitalized I will still have to pay most of the bills.
;-)). Just to be on the safe side I also have a separate pension account.
;-)
You're right offcourse. I just looked a bit deeper into that social security thing
Pensions? Well, we'll still have to see about that now don't we? I still have a good 30 years of working ahead of me (less if all goes as planned and I win the lottery
But now... I have a gross income of about 3000 euro. Yet I cost alot more than that to my employer (only talking wages here). He gets taxed too! If he wants to give me a NET raise of 100 euro it'll cost him about 3 or 4 times that much.
Your buying power in real estate is less but your booze, sigarettes and petrol are way cheaper than here
Than that just leaves the question of how many income taxes you have to pay.
My gross is exactly like the parent poster stipulated. I guess that means I am on average.
With one working wife and 1 child I get to keep about 1650 of that. That are alot of taxes imo... and I doubt you pay that much.
why, what, how?
I know 65535... it was called a WORD back in the old days (16-bit). (And a WORD is an unsigned INTEGER).
All of the sudden if anybody just 'knows' stuff it is because he read in on an overhyped wiki?
I propose going one step further, and am proposing the Humour-XML standard
...
;-)
Why? Why only humour? What if I wanted to express an emotion other than any humourous one? Bored, terrified, horny,
Make it a TextComm-XML standard
man... do i want one...
;-)
Too bad the batteries are sooo big, it's a hell of a drag bike but i don't think it's a very agile circuit runner.
Still, this gets my hopes back up. Up until now I could've never imagined a blazing fast motorcycle that runs on electricity. By the time I hit my mid-life crisis I hope they've marketed some of these
Duke Nukem Forever !!!
Nah... seriously though. I'm waiting for UT 2007
No question about it:
Speedball 3 !!!
And with multiplayer this time
Also... I remember playing a game 'The Creed' in the late nineties. You had a top down/perspective view of a character ('Syndicate'-style) in a futuristic urban setting. I really liked that game but haven't been able to find anything about it since...
My monster will not pursue a level 4 or below unless you're a male character, it is saturday, and your nick name starts with an f!
It has a +4 bonus against goblins or dwarves (actually, it has nothing against dwarves but it is too stupid to notice the difference).
When struck with an unholy bastard sword of doom it immediately vanishes leaving its treasures behind, but you don't gain any experience.
Really... it is for game balance.
(Style blatantly copied from Steve Jacksons Munchkin series)
"But if he is using Sony batteries, he might spontaneously combust... "
;-)
This sound like a perfect Spinal Tap drummer candidate
"Here's a question: what happens when you start jamming with two of these robots, and then you stop playing? Do they just duet until you unplug one of them or what?"
Here's an idea!
You should give one of them a guitar, and the other one a banjo!
Then start playing C C F C and add a bit of yankee doodley into the mix...
"Don't forget the massive tornadoes of super-cool air being pulled down from space causing helicopters to instantly freeze over and fall from the sky. It's only a matter of days before we all freeze to death because of global warming god damnit! We need to fundamentally change the way humans do things NOW, not tomorrow. Turn off all your electronic stuff immediately and don't use any fuel!"
you're not going to be one of those 'i told you so'-nitwits when the time has come now are you?
well, i'm not the first to give you a list... but these just have to be mentioned
...)
- adolph sax
- toots tielemans
- django reinhardt
- jean claude van damme (hmmm... i know i know... you said 'famous' not 'great')
- anouck lepeire
- kim clijsters
- justine henin - ardenne
- audrey hepburn
- rene magritte (ceci n'est pas
- peter paul rubens
well, i'm belgian
;-)
and i'm not exactly proud of Helmut Lotti
but you left out Django Reinhardt !
and Toots Tielemans
Well, Frequently Uttered Disinformation :-) ... yeah, i know... my mistake
FUD!
You don't need to replace the hard drive... it's got 10Gb stock, and i assume that is more than enough to run the rehab software.
Ohw, and softmodding an xbox to make it run linux doesn't require a dashboard replacement at all!
i happen to like titan quest ;-)
very addictive game
even though it is a shameless diablo clone...