My favorite letters are the "your qualifications are impressive, but..." ones that I get from someone in the HR department without actually talking to anyone from the company.
It appears that most of the hiring managers and HR drones that I have dealt with seem to lack common courtesy, then. I've never gotten any assessment about my skills after an interview for a job.
How do we know? Some specific points of evidence that say it is our fault? Some experiment? Or a computer model?
Yes, global warming is occurring. Yes, there is climate change. Now let me tell you a little secret - the Earth has a dynamic climate. It changes. Ice cores even tell us that the Earth goes through warming and cooling phases, and our records of climate data show that the Earth has been this warm in the past.
The problem with the global warming community is that we can't get over our own ego and self-hatred. "The planet is warming, it must be our fault!" What a load of poop!
Does this mean we have no part in it? Of course not. We do have a hand in climate change because we make changes to the Earth.
But to sit here and spout this crap that it is all mankind's fault is ludicrous. We don't even know all the factors that go into climate and what triggers climate change. We don't have accurate enough records dating back more than 200 years to determine if this year's weather is just a spike in the equation or if it is some part of a growing trend.
The original idea was to compete with the campus paper. Using OSS and some private funds, I could have run that "paper" for a year on about $100. My writers probably wouldn't be paid unless I could get advertisers, and the campus paper didn't pay anyone on the staff at all despite being school funded and having advertisers. At the time, my whole reason for wanting to do it was the complete lack of coverage for campus sports.
Now that I've graduated, the idea has faded a bit, and I know it wouldn't be feasible for an area with a weekly paper that covers 2-3 small towns.
I've contemplated starting an online newspaper once in a while. The first was when I was in college, but I ended up joining the deadtree paper even though I could have put out a higher quality product. Now I'm thinking about putting out my own local paper.
In both cases, the papers weren't daily. My local paper is a weekly publication, and my college paper was bi-monthly. There doesn't have to be a daily edition, but the ability to get a story up within a day or two, while it's still current, beats out out-of-date local editions.
That's true, Malakusen. Cheney is likely as dirty as Bush, if not dirtier. But the problem is that you have to prove that he is dirty - and while it's easy to prove that Bush broke the law through a number of acts, Cheney could possibly be a tougher nut to crack.
The crumbling education system
That's supposed to be a state/local issue, so blame your local school district or state board of education first. That NCLB adds to the mess doesn't take the responsibility away from lower levels of government.
The mortgaging of our livelihood to countries like China, Japan and Russia
And this is the government's fault? Why is the government blamed for corporations moving jobs out of the country?
The unemployment situation that squeezes the middle class
This isn't the government's problem either. Blame the guys making $$$ at the tops of corporations as you start your own company.
Come on now! Do we really want to impeach Bush? Cause then we would get Heart Attack Cheney next, followed by Nancy Pelosi. Both of those scare me more than Bush.
You're right. We don't know what this kid's side of the story is...but whatever happened, it doesn't justify breaking a teacher's window in retaliation. That is, of course, assuming that the kid is retaliating for some actual wrong instead of just being a spoiled prick who was upset over a bad grade.
And yes, SOME teachers do some pretty sick things. SOME teachers are the scum of the Earth. But please...lets not generalize a whole profession based on a fraction of your experience because I am sure you can provide examples of where a teacher went the extra mile to help you or someone you know.
I had a few professors in college that fit that description, and two teachers in high school that could be shoe-horned into it (one threatened to destroy my calculator because he thought I was playing a game and the other cheated on a district assessment). But most of my teachers weren't egotistical ratbags.
No...most of the teachers I had were good. They enjoyed the students who challenged them and were enthusiastic about learning.
I liked physics in high school, but many of my classmates were in the AP class with me just to take the test and get the college credit. But you know what got everyone's attention? Blowing things up!
That's right. A little "go-go" juice, a tin-can cannon, and a couple of tennis balls, hacky sacks, or even a potato gun will go a long way towards getting your student's attention.
Or in my case...a fully charged Leyden Jar just left sitting in the middle of a table. My arm still goes numb thinking about that....
No, one could not say that: the Constitution recognizes ownership of physical property, it does not recognize ownership of ideas. The government cannot arbitrarily limit your ownership of physical property to a certain period, but it can limit the temporary monopoly it gives you on exploiting your ideas.
Well, case law and contract law disagree with you. There are cases of companies "owning" the ideas of their employees.
As for what the Constitution recognizes, it does indeed recognize ownership of ideas. From Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Exclusive right...sounds an awful lot like ownership.
No, they are not. They are out of touch with a common element of our culture, and they are as deficient as people with a limited vocabulary.
Hey slapnuts...this is why you can't get laid. There is more to life, and our culture, than a low-budget cult-classic from the 1970s.
Sometimes, though, the first problem isn't the hardware or software but the clients. I was hired as a cheap consultant for a woman who wanted to open her own fitness center. After hearing her song and dance and everything she wanted, I put together a thorough budget that not only covered her current needs, but her proposed expansion that she had planned in two years.
But after two months, my client fired me. She didn't want $1000 custom-built white box machines (with monitor) that did everything she wanted and more, she wanted $2000 Sony Viao desktops purchased from Best Buy because they had a little button that glowed blue (even though the white box machines would have had backlit keyboards and LED fans).
And as there is forensic software available that allows investigators to see what has been deleted from the hard drive, I would ask what methods were used to determine if any such files every existed on the computer.
For everything Microsoft tried to break, though, OpenOffice developers could, and probably would, reverse engineer or develop workarounds. Consider Microsoft's own handling of the.doc format. They tried to introduce quirks between different versions of Word that would force people to upgrade to the newest version.
I believe Microsoft actually tried something like this once. Most OEM PCs, the ones you buy at Best Buy or Walmart anyway, would come with Microsoft Works. Works, for some unknown reason, wasn't compatible with Word. Word could open files from a variety of office suites, but it couldn't open a file from their lower-end suite. Even the converters Microsoft developed wouldn't work properly.
Of course, no one ever needed to do type a file in Works and print it off in Word. Except for those kids in high school (or college) who's printer wouldn't work at home.
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My favorite letters are the "your qualifications are impressive, but..." ones that I get from someone in the HR department without actually talking to anyone from the company.
It appears that most of the hiring managers and HR drones that I have dealt with seem to lack common courtesy, then. I've never gotten any assessment about my skills after an interview for a job.
Why should developing nations be given a pass on how much they pollute when they are contributing as much, if not more, than the developed nations?
How do we know? Some specific points of evidence that say it is our fault? Some experiment? Or a computer model?
Yes, global warming is occurring. Yes, there is climate change. Now let me tell you a little secret - the Earth has a dynamic climate. It changes. Ice cores even tell us that the Earth goes through warming and cooling phases, and our records of climate data show that the Earth has been this warm in the past.
The problem with the global warming community is that we can't get over our own ego and self-hatred. "The planet is warming, it must be our fault!" What a load of poop!
Does this mean we have no part in it? Of course not. We do have a hand in climate change because we make changes to the Earth.
But to sit here and spout this crap that it is all mankind's fault is ludicrous. We don't even know all the factors that go into climate and what triggers climate change. We don't have accurate enough records dating back more than 200 years to determine if this year's weather is just a spike in the equation or if it is some part of a growing trend.
Apparently some advertisers do, otherwise they wouldn't have pulled advertising from this particular station.
The original idea was to compete with the campus paper. Using OSS and some private funds, I could have run that "paper" for a year on about $100. My writers probably wouldn't be paid unless I could get advertisers, and the campus paper didn't pay anyone on the staff at all despite being school funded and having advertisers. At the time, my whole reason for wanting to do it was the complete lack of coverage for campus sports.
Now that I've graduated, the idea has faded a bit, and I know it wouldn't be feasible for an area with a weekly paper that covers 2-3 small towns.
I've contemplated starting an online newspaper once in a while. The first was when I was in college, but I ended up joining the deadtree paper even though I could have put out a higher quality product. Now I'm thinking about putting out my own local paper.
In both cases, the papers weren't daily. My local paper is a weekly publication, and my college paper was bi-monthly. There doesn't have to be a daily edition, but the ability to get a story up within a day or two, while it's still current, beats out out-of-date local editions.
Will it come with a built-in HD-DVD drive, or will I still be expected to pay $200 for that add-on?
That's true, Malakusen. Cheney is likely as dirty as Bush, if not dirtier. But the problem is that you have to prove that he is dirty - and while it's easy to prove that Bush broke the law through a number of acts, Cheney could possibly be a tougher nut to crack.
So you think it is ok to impeach and remove a lesser evil knowing that you're putting a greater evil into power? That doesn't make any sense to me.
I'll ride out the last two years of Bush if it means that Cheney, a clearly greater evil, will never step foot in the Oval Office as President.
That's supposed to be a state/local issue, so blame your local school district or state board of education first. That NCLB adds to the mess doesn't take the responsibility away from lower levels of government.
The mortgaging of our livelihood to countries like China, Japan and Russia
And this is the government's fault? Why is the government blamed for corporations moving jobs out of the country?
The unemployment situation that squeezes the middle class
This isn't the government's problem either. Blame the guys making $$$ at the tops of corporations as you start your own company.
Come on now! Do we really want to impeach Bush? Cause then we would get Heart Attack Cheney next, followed by Nancy Pelosi. Both of those scare me more than Bush.
Arrest you, demand your private keys, and sort the rest out later?
I don't know if there is any working DL media for blu-ray. I don't have $800.00 to do tests to find out.
You're right. We don't know what this kid's side of the story is...but whatever happened, it doesn't justify breaking a teacher's window in retaliation. That is, of course, assuming that the kid is retaliating for some actual wrong instead of just being a spoiled prick who was upset over a bad grade.
And yes, SOME teachers do some pretty sick things. SOME teachers are the scum of the Earth. But please...lets not generalize a whole profession based on a fraction of your experience because I am sure you can provide examples of where a teacher went the extra mile to help you or someone you know.
I had a few professors in college that fit that description, and two teachers in high school that could be shoe-horned into it (one threatened to destroy my calculator because he thought I was playing a game and the other cheated on a district assessment). But most of my teachers weren't egotistical ratbags.
No...most of the teachers I had were good. They enjoyed the students who challenged them and were enthusiastic about learning.
I liked physics in high school, but many of my classmates were in the AP class with me just to take the test and get the college credit. But you know what got everyone's attention? Blowing things up!
That's right. A little "go-go" juice, a tin-can cannon, and a couple of tennis balls, hacky sacks, or even a potato gun will go a long way towards getting your student's attention.
Or in my case...a fully charged Leyden Jar just left sitting in the middle of a table. My arm still goes numb thinking about that....
Blu-ray already has DL out. The Sony Blu-ray burner supports it.
And if it wasn't so farking expensive, it would make a great storage solution.
Well, case law and contract law disagree with you. There are cases of companies "owning" the ideas of their employees.
As for what the Constitution recognizes, it does indeed recognize ownership of ideas. From Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Exclusive right...sounds an awful lot like ownership.
No, they are not. They are out of touch with a common element of our culture, and they are as deficient as people with a limited vocabulary.
Hey slapnuts...this is why you can't get laid. There is more to life, and our culture, than a low-budget cult-classic from the 1970s.
He's talking about video, not audio. As far as I can tell, iTunes has no work-around for copying a segment of video.
At least with the audio, you can burn it to a CD.
Why can't it be hire a consultant to evaluate off-the-shelf and open source software and set it up for you?
Sometimes, though, the first problem isn't the hardware or software but the clients. I was hired as a cheap consultant for a woman who wanted to open her own fitness center. After hearing her song and dance and everything she wanted, I put together a thorough budget that not only covered her current needs, but her proposed expansion that she had planned in two years.
But after two months, my client fired me. She didn't want $1000 custom-built white box machines (with monitor) that did everything she wanted and more, she wanted $2000 Sony Viao desktops purchased from Best Buy because they had a little button that glowed blue (even though the white box machines would have had backlit keyboards and LED fans).
Doesn't seem to affect Major League Baseball. They make you drink Bud Light.
And as there is forensic software available that allows investigators to see what has been deleted from the hard drive, I would ask what methods were used to determine if any such files every existed on the computer.
For everything Microsoft tried to break, though, OpenOffice developers could, and probably would, reverse engineer or develop workarounds. Consider Microsoft's own handling of the .doc format. They tried to introduce quirks between different versions of Word that would force people to upgrade to the newest version.
I believe Microsoft actually tried something like this once. Most OEM PCs, the ones you buy at Best Buy or Walmart anyway, would come with Microsoft Works. Works, for some unknown reason, wasn't compatible with Word. Word could open files from a variety of office suites, but it couldn't open a file from their lower-end suite. Even the converters Microsoft developed wouldn't work properly.
Of course, no one ever needed to do type a file in Works and print it off in Word. Except for those kids in high school (or college) who's printer wouldn't work at home.