I agree 100% on the lack of It Happened One Night. I wish I was 1/10 as smooth as Cary Grant in that movie. . . the primer on how to deal with spoiled women.
The interludes happened when the board layout changed, every 4 levels.
First was Pac Man and Ms Pac Man meeting (they run across different parts of the screen chased by ghosts, then coming from opposite sides of the screen, they dodge the ghosts by moving up. Ghosts bump into each other, a little heart appears) I forget what the act was titled.
The second was titled "The Chase" and it was right after the pretzel level IIRC.
The third act (which was hard as hell to get to at my young age) was Junior - where the stork drops off a baby pac man. These levels were hard as hell, mostly because the exits to get to the other side of the map were death traps. (they were long corridors that were dangerous as heck, even with the ghosts being afraid of the dark)
The FDA IT department is actually pretty good. They've disallowed all wireless routers, and actually patrol the halls of the Fisher Lane building (the main HQ for the FDA, located in Rockville, MD) sniffing for illegal wireless routers to shut down.
If they can ever get away from the "use two consulting firms in an adversarial role" implementation model, they might see some benefits to their IT advances.
There's an enormous correlation to hiring males as well. Not only that, but look to the general census figures of prior convictions; I'd be surprised if you have much deviation from societial norms.
Obviously if he's perpetrated something like this in the past it will show up, but the most rudimentary HR checks should have this show up as well. (either under investigation for a felony or a convicted felon)
What are you going to weed them out on, prior convictions in the last 10 years? For what sort of conviction? Is a drug offender going to sack the system? That's a big unknown. Someone convicted of extortion, more likely.
But like our finance gurus like to say - past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Dropped my cell phone in the toilet over the holidays this year . . . it powered up once, then emitted a mournful beep, and powered down. Never came back up again.
The worst part was that it slid BACK into the toilet bowl, and I had to get my arm soaked up to the elbow to get it out. (It was my parent's place. . . can't very well ignore the cell phone clogging the toilet if I want to come back the next year)
P.S. The toilet water was clean.;)
It used to be a lot better years ago.
Particularly on the Applications side, most times now when accessing Metalink for a Technical Assistance Request (TAR) you're talking to a level 1 support tech who has no understanding of the product, who will IM someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
For run of the mill support this is marginally OK, but when faced with serious issues, it sometimes takes a week before someone with a clue will even look at the problem. If it's in a production environment you can mitigate this by a Severity 1 TAR, but then you're 24-7 available to the team, and you're passed around the world from Australia to India to California, repeating what's been said and done to the new technician that inherits the TAR.
If you're in a project development environment (e.g. implementing a new Application) - good luck. I've had TARs open through a project go-live, with support coming back 48 hours prior to the official go-live stating that I must close a TAR and resubmit it with the "new problem" (which has not changed from the "old" problem, simply their understanding of the issue has changed) and has led me to normally troubleshooting these issues on my own by (possibly) breaking the law, decompiling the code on the applications tier to determine the problem and solution myself.
My mistake. Just recalled that a lot of the fancy eavesdropping/spy equipment you can buy have warnings all over them about the potential legal implications. But that's third party eavesdropping as well.
If you're entering the business world via a business degree, you WILL be using the Microsoft Office suite in the states.
On the outside chance you aren't, you're still doing the following:
Developing spreadsheets for cost analysis (tool is irrelevant at this point, as pointed out by other posters)
Developing presentations for your management classes
Writing papers with a word processor of some sort.
If you're any sort of scientific discipline, the toolkits you're using won't be Microsoft Office. Saying you've had exposure is enough; HR ain't looking at your leet Excel pivot table skills, they're looking at your technical degree and your ability to demonstrate the skills they require you for.
Additionally, sometimes beta testing doesn't reveal the bugs.
I did application development for a while in my past life, and I can't tell you how many times I fully tested a system on 3 different computers without a hitch. Then when I rolled it out to the remainder of the company, other computers simply couldn't run it as intended without me sitting down at their machines and troubleshooting.
Part of that is I'm simply not a computer scientist and most of my programming work is. . . infantile compared to those with a 4 year Comp Sci degree.
But a significant piece is still that the configuration variability (even within a company with relatively strict procedures with computers) wreaked havoc with something as high level as VB applications.
When you're addressing lower level functions (e.g. networking protocols) the problem can be more pronounced.
To me it feels like a GIGO principle - as long as the voters remain apathetic and uninformed, we're going to reap those rewards in our elected leaders.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean the system is broken. (Thank goodness for our "activist judges", eh?)
And there is hope out there - look to a recent book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. There's a mobilization on the left to match the one that has already happened on the right.
Moveon.org, Commondreams.org, et al are all raising the public awareness to a degree that hasn't occurred in a few decades.
While there are outstanding issues that are difficult to solve (such as the extreme polarization in America and a lack of prominent centrist voices) the bottom line is that people are becoming more involved. Look at voter turnout for the last election.
That said, the ongoing issue of money influencing politics is still a very real issue, and has been since the inception of the country. Look to Thomas Jefferson's remarks WRT campaign finance back in his day.
Corporations can't vote, per se, but money is a big factor in being able to enter the political arena in the first place.
There's a variety of factors in place, but if you posit that the average voter is intellectually curious and able to form opinions not based on sound bites I'd tend to agree with you.
However, this simply isn't the case. Congressional elections are viewed with much less interest than the Presidential election (which is ironic in itself) and voters as a whole don't tend to be intellectually curious OR well informed. So it truly does become a matter of money, which is where the corporations CAN influence policy.
Knowledge [of good and evil] is what got Man kicked out of the Garden in the first place.
Quite the object lesson - open up your religious text with the idea that knowledge has extremely negative consequences.
Begs the question, though, is religion a tool for understanding or control?
As a TOTAL sideways topic to this, it's interesting to compare the serpent in the garden to Prometheus of Greek legend. They essentially accomplished the same thing (granting humanity knowledge that allowed them to become more godlike).
Probably a function of the society both legends spawned from, but Greeks considered Prometheus to be a hero for his actions, with Hercules later rescuing P from his eternal punishment.
Not at all. The atheist viewpoint is primarily reactionary and defensive, aimed at defending the aims of the Constitution (separation of church and state).
It has no pre-defined value set as a religion does.
It doesn't engage in "viral marketing" or evangelism to recruit others to its cause.
Now if you want to point towards secular humanist organizations that engage in these behaviors, feel free. But these are parts of the whole, similar to militant muslims being a subset of Islam as a whole.
Only religions that are rooted in Judaic history (Islam, Christianity of all flavors, Judaism) follow this line of reasoning.
I could be missing one or two outliers, but it appears to be a function of the dualistic nature that these theologies exhibit, and non-dualistic religions don't have this eternal punishment clause.
Actually, Hinduism/Buddhism are rather appealing in this manner, as it's more about living correctly to reap rewards here, rather than living correctly to avoid punishment later.
I'd think pushover would be the furthest thing from my mind. Maybe sociopath, but certainly not pushover. Eternal damnation for 80 years of sin. . . the worldly equivalent seems to be the death penalty for shoplifting. A little excessive, IMO.
The funniest bit about S&G is that Lot offered his daughter and wife up to the mob to be raped in order to appease them. . . yet he is the righteous one spared. Ok I'm a sicko to find that funny but there it is.
Lucifer is never outlined as the serpent in Eden. Popular Christian belief states that it was, but that's not outlined specifically in Genesis or later.
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The Walls of Jericho, indeed.
Yep, I'm aware of that.
I remembered reading that the sequel to Spaceballs was not going to be #2 but Spaceballs 3: The Search for 2
First was Pac Man and Ms Pac Man meeting (they run across different parts of the screen chased by ghosts, then coming from opposite sides of the screen, they dodge the ghosts by moving up. Ghosts bump into each other, a little heart appears) I forget what the act was titled.
The second was titled "The Chase" and it was right after the pretzel level IIRC.
The third act (which was hard as hell to get to at my young age) was Junior - where the stork drops off a baby pac man. These levels were hard as hell, mostly because the exits to get to the other side of the map were death traps. (they were long corridors that were dangerous as heck, even with the ghosts being afraid of the dark)
certainly looks like it. Could the pw be the hash value, though, making it a little bit "less bad"?
If they can ever get away from the "use two consulting firms in an adversarial role" implementation model, they might see some benefits to their IT advances.
There's an enormous correlation to hiring males as well. Not only that, but look to the general census figures of prior convictions; I'd be surprised if you have much deviation from societial norms.
Obviously if he's perpetrated something like this in the past it will show up, but the most rudimentary HR checks should have this show up as well. (either under investigation for a felony or a convicted felon)
What are you going to weed them out on, prior convictions in the last 10 years? For what sort of conviction? Is a drug offender going to sack the system? That's a big unknown. Someone convicted of extortion, more likely.
But like our finance gurus like to say - past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
The worst part was that it slid BACK into the toilet bowl, and I had to get my arm soaked up to the elbow to get it out. (It was my parent's place. . . can't very well ignore the cell phone clogging the toilet if I want to come back the next year) ;)
P.S. The toilet water was clean.
For run of the mill support this is marginally OK, but when faced with serious issues, it sometimes takes a week before someone with a clue will even look at the problem. If it's in a production environment you can mitigate this by a Severity 1 TAR, but then you're 24-7 available to the team, and you're passed around the world from Australia to India to California, repeating what's been said and done to the new technician that inherits the TAR.
If you're in a project development environment (e.g. implementing a new Application) - good luck. I've had TARs open through a project go-live, with support coming back 48 hours prior to the official go-live stating that I must close a TAR and resubmit it with the "new problem" (which has not changed from the "old" problem, simply their understanding of the issue has changed) and has led me to normally troubleshooting these issues on my own by (possibly) breaking the law, decompiling the code on the applications tier to determine the problem and solution myself.
My mistake, thanks for clarifying Mr Hudson.
In quite a few states it's illegal to record a conversation w/o the victim's explicit permission.
If you're entering the business world via a business degree, you WILL be using the Microsoft Office suite in the states.
On the outside chance you aren't, you're still doing the following:
Developing spreadsheets for cost analysis (tool is irrelevant at this point, as pointed out by other posters)
Developing presentations for your management classes
Writing papers with a word processor of some sort.
If you're any sort of scientific discipline, the toolkits you're using won't be Microsoft Office. Saying you've had exposure is enough; HR ain't looking at your leet Excel pivot table skills, they're looking at your technical degree and your ability to demonstrate the skills they require you for.
I did application development for a while in my past life, and I can't tell you how many times I fully tested a system on 3 different computers without a hitch. Then when I rolled it out to the remainder of the company, other computers simply couldn't run it as intended without me sitting down at their machines and troubleshooting.
Part of that is I'm simply not a computer scientist and most of my programming work is. . . infantile compared to those with a 4 year Comp Sci degree.
But a significant piece is still that the configuration variability (even within a company with relatively strict procedures with computers) wreaked havoc with something as high level as VB applications.
When you're addressing lower level functions (e.g. networking protocols) the problem can be more pronounced.
We're one step closer to Ident-i-Eeze cards. And I can't wait! No more remembering passwords or ATM numbers!
However, that doesn't necessarily mean the system is broken. (Thank goodness for our "activist judges", eh?)
And there is hope out there - look to a recent book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. There's a mobilization on the left to match the one that has already happened on the right.
Moveon.org, Commondreams.org, et al are all raising the public awareness to a degree that hasn't occurred in a few decades.
While there are outstanding issues that are difficult to solve (such as the extreme polarization in America and a lack of prominent centrist voices) the bottom line is that people are becoming more involved. Look at voter turnout for the last election.
That said, the ongoing issue of money influencing politics is still a very real issue, and has been since the inception of the country. Look to Thomas Jefferson's remarks WRT campaign finance back in his day.
There's a variety of factors in place, but if you posit that the average voter is intellectually curious and able to form opinions not based on sound bites I'd tend to agree with you.
However, this simply isn't the case. Congressional elections are viewed with much less interest than the Presidential election (which is ironic in itself) and voters as a whole don't tend to be intellectually curious OR well informed. So it truly does become a matter of money, which is where the corporations CAN influence policy.
Quite the object lesson - open up your religious text with the idea that knowledge has extremely negative consequences.
Begs the question, though, is religion a tool for understanding or control?
As a TOTAL sideways topic to this, it's interesting to compare the serpent in the garden to Prometheus of Greek legend. They essentially accomplished the same thing (granting humanity knowledge that allowed them to become more godlike).
Probably a function of the society both legends spawned from, but Greeks considered Prometheus to be a hero for his actions, with Hercules later rescuing P from his eternal punishment.
It has no pre-defined value set as a religion does.
It doesn't engage in "viral marketing" or evangelism to recruit others to its cause.
Now if you want to point towards secular humanist organizations that engage in these behaviors, feel free. But these are parts of the whole, similar to militant muslims being a subset of Islam as a whole.
secularism isn't a religion. Its basic definition is the absence of religion.
The trick with the SNES version, though was L and R were the buttons, not the direction keys. If you used the direction keys your ship blew up ;)
I could be missing one or two outliers, but it appears to be a function of the dualistic nature that these theologies exhibit, and non-dualistic religions don't have this eternal punishment clause.
Actually, Hinduism/Buddhism are rather appealing in this manner, as it's more about living correctly to reap rewards here, rather than living correctly to avoid punishment later.
I'd think pushover would be the furthest thing from my mind. Maybe sociopath, but certainly not pushover. Eternal damnation for 80 years of sin. . . the worldly equivalent seems to be the death penalty for shoplifting. A little excessive, IMO.
The funniest bit about S&G is that Lot offered his daughter and wife up to the mob to be raped in order to appease them. . . yet he is the righteous one spared. Ok I'm a sicko to find that funny but there it is.
Lucifer is never outlined as the serpent in Eden. Popular Christian belief states that it was, but that's not outlined specifically in Genesis or later.