I've been the victim of debit card identity theft, and the bank stands up for your money just the same as a credit card (you may want to talk to your bank and read your card holder's agreement carefully). It would be annoying if someone was depending on one of your checks to clear and your account had been drained without you noticing. But debit cards are for people who like to keep close track of their bank accounts anyway.
I don't think this would quite work for all calls in the game of football. For one thing, the rule on the tackle is when any part of the body other than the feet or hands touches the ground, the player is considered down. Also, when the player stops forward progress, he is considered down. I just can't see there being a system that could handle making this determination; it would require the player to wear some uncomfortable equipment and it would probably be possible for the player to interfere with that.
Not all receivers and defenders wear gloves, or even want to wear gloves. It's difficult enough for video game football to get these rules right where they have absolute control over player positions; how could we expect there to be sensors to get this right in meat space?
Only then would you realize that the grown-ups are talking about a train that covers 380 miles of transit. Many of your points don't apply; most people don't commute from SF to LA.
How about we just fix the bullshit flight screening process?
San Jose Light Rail is "widely used"? Bahahaha... A whole heck of a lot of good that 2 hour train ride to LA is when you have to spend 60 minutes to go just 4 miles on the Light Rail.
#6 is definitely not part of Scrum. The point is to be able to predict how much code is to be written in about 2 months, and to adjust schedule/expectations as parts of it take longer or shorter. That must suck being under the gun all the time. Look for a new job unless the base pay is great.
If you can get your team to agree on a code formatter, then yes. But my experience has been that even if one or two guys don't use it, then the files that they work on will end up being different from everyone else's and the system breaks down. Depending on the project, you may have silos of code that certain developers will work on most of the time and only rarely will anyone else get to touch those files.
Because in practice, the automated code cleaner results in almost every line of code in the file to have a difference highlighted by my company's source code repository diff generator. This obfuscates the true nature of the change to the logic in the code I am making in order to fix a bug or implement a feature. In turn, that makes it harder for people responsible for maintaining the code to determine what exactly changed from version to version.
90% * 90% = 81%. This is the chance that two events with 90% probability will occur at the same time independent of each other. I think what you're trying to say is 90% + (90% * 10%) = 99%.
There are people with class-action suits against EA for their monopolistic practices with NFL and NCAA football licenses. This would end people suing them for that, assuming that it's valid and legal to have this sort of thing in a ToS.
Put the letters addressed to the previous occupant back in the mail, and write "not at this address" on the outside. You'll be amazed at how quickly the post office fixes it.
What about not having cancelling a print job take forever and a day?
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"A more practical solution would be to increase the retirement age to above life expectancy, so that once again social security is a safety net for the occasional person who lives long or becomes disabled. The problem is that the average American wants to work for 0 years, and then retire for 60 years. That isn't cheap."
FTFY
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Without a mortgage, most people would never be able to own a home. Paying rent might make it so you can make your income/debt ratio is favorable month-to-month, but over time the rent is just throwing money out the window. Of course, everyone's situation and real estate market is a bit different. Generally speaking, with tax breaks for mortgage interest, borrowing to buy a home makes a lot of sense.
I went to college at a relatively cheap school, only $10k/year, I worked throughout, and still ended up with about $15k in debt. Very manageable, and I ended up just paying them off, but still if you're coming from nothing you're going to end up with a debt by the time you're done with school.
Car payments are dumb, but even a decent used car that doesn't crap out every week will set you back about $7k. When you're just starting out, you need a loan to buy that. Public transit is just not a viable option in many areas of this country.
Eh, it's not really all that clear. It could have been that you were trying to make the point that you need both committed parents and committed teachers.
But the bank didn't sell you the list of names. The only way to get a list of names is if someone from the community you are targeting actually clicks-through on your ad and places an order. I'm sure there are other existing ad networks that would allow you to do the same.
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I've been the victim of debit card identity theft, and the bank stands up for your money just the same as a credit card (you may want to talk to your bank and read your card holder's agreement carefully). It would be annoying if someone was depending on one of your checks to clear and your account had been drained without you noticing. But debit cards are for people who like to keep close track of their bank accounts anyway.
I don't think this would quite work for all calls in the game of football. For one thing, the rule on the tackle is when any part of the body other than the feet or hands touches the ground, the player is considered down. Also, when the player stops forward progress, he is considered down. I just can't see there being a system that could handle making this determination; it would require the player to wear some uncomfortable equipment and it would probably be possible for the player to interfere with that.
Not all receivers and defenders wear gloves, or even want to wear gloves. It's difficult enough for video game football to get these rules right where they have absolute control over player positions; how could we expect there to be sensors to get this right in meat space?
Slashdot: home of bad car^H^H^H desktop computer analogies?
Did you:
* Look at a map?
Only then would you realize that the grown-ups are talking about a train that covers 380 miles of transit. Many of your points don't apply; most people don't commute from SF to LA.
High-speed rail doesn't sound congruent with having many stops "right where you want to be".
How about we just fix the bullshit flight screening process?
San Jose Light Rail is "widely used"? Bahahaha... A whole heck of a lot of good that 2 hour train ride to LA is when you have to spend 60 minutes to go just 4 miles on the Light Rail.
This isn't about getting to the office, though I guess I would be angry if I had to commute 380 miles each way every day!
It's easier to just refactor for re-use after the fact than try to design upfront for something that might someday never happen.
#6 is definitely not part of Scrum. The point is to be able to predict how much code is to be written in about 2 months, and to adjust schedule/expectations as parts of it take longer or shorter. That must suck being under the gun all the time. Look for a new job unless the base pay is great.
If you can get your team to agree on a code formatter, then yes. But my experience has been that even if one or two guys don't use it, then the files that they work on will end up being different from everyone else's and the system breaks down. Depending on the project, you may have silos of code that certain developers will work on most of the time and only rarely will anyone else get to touch those files.
The diff from:
if(x==2){System.out.println("I love Java");}
to:
if (x == 2)
{
System.out.println("I love Java");
}
is regarded as more than just whitespace for any diff program I've ever worked with.
Because in practice, the automated code cleaner results in almost every line of code in the file to have a difference highlighted by my company's source code repository diff generator. This obfuscates the true nature of the change to the logic in the code I am making in order to fix a bug or implement a feature. In turn, that makes it harder for people responsible for maintaining the code to determine what exactly changed from version to version.
More astroturfing from TechLA.
90% * 90% = 81%. This is the chance that two events with 90% probability will occur at the same time independent of each other. I think what you're trying to say is 90% + (90% * 10%) = 99%.
There are people with class-action suits against EA for their monopolistic practices with NFL and NCAA football licenses. This would end people suing them for that, assuming that it's valid and legal to have this sort of thing in a ToS.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/04/class-action-suit-over-ea-football-games-charges-forward/1
Put the letters addressed to the previous occupant back in the mail, and write "not at this address" on the outside. You'll be amazed at how quickly the post office fixes it.
Peak Oil is not necessarily tied to AGW.
What about not having cancelling a print job take forever and a day?
"A more practical solution would be to increase the retirement age to above life expectancy, so that once again social security is a safety net for the occasional person who lives long or becomes disabled. The problem is that the average American wants to work for 0 years, and then retire for 60 years. That isn't cheap."
FTFY
Without a mortgage, most people would never be able to own a home. Paying rent might make it so you can make your income/debt ratio is favorable month-to-month, but over time the rent is just throwing money out the window. Of course, everyone's situation and real estate market is a bit different. Generally speaking, with tax breaks for mortgage interest, borrowing to buy a home makes a lot of sense.
I went to college at a relatively cheap school, only $10k/year, I worked throughout, and still ended up with about $15k in debt. Very manageable, and I ended up just paying them off, but still if you're coming from nothing you're going to end up with a debt by the time you're done with school.
Car payments are dumb, but even a decent used car that doesn't crap out every week will set you back about $7k. When you're just starting out, you need a loan to buy that. Public transit is just not a viable option in many areas of this country.
***Whoosh*** that joke just flew over your head.
...and, the point of education/school is NOT to train people to behave in the workplace, but somehow we've lost sight of that.
Eh, it's not really all that clear. It could have been that you were trying to make the point that you need both committed parents and committed teachers.
It also depends on where you live. $100,000 in San Francisco or New York City doesn't go very far.
But the bank didn't sell you the list of names. The only way to get a list of names is if someone from the community you are targeting actually clicks-through on your ad and places an order. I'm sure there are other existing ad networks that would allow you to do the same.