Depending on where you're looking, it's not uncommon for HR people to use some software to search for certain buzz words in a resume. The lock on.doc files may be (have been) as much a limitation of their software than anything else.
HR? Who be 'dat?
My first job out of college ('84) and '90 have had two memorable things:
1. HR was involved with the former, as they were the ones running with headhunters.
2. The second one was via a headhunter. I was handed a clipboard with paperwork. I hadn't it back to them and said something to the effect, "I have to leave". I stopped by the first phone booth I could find and called the responsible party. His first comment? "That was short -- how did it go?" "I am terminating our relationship. One of the things which is supposed to happen is to bypass the HR people, regardless of how tightly woven are the organizational chart. Besides, don't you get a commission if you place me? That should make certain burdens a lot lighter."
Word got around that this guy was doing nothing but pulling ads out of the newspaper and cold-calling both parties.
bottom line: I don't go through HR and I don't fill out applications.
If they are so bureaucratic [b]everything[/b] they have to jump through loops, then they are too tightly wound and I know I don't want to work there.
Speaking of HR, I can't resist dragging this to the forefront:
A woman was facing an application and ran into this:
Oh, one other thing: anyone want to tell us what candidate has made it quite public she sees nothing good in it, "i.e., as anyone who has a copy of it can find its weaknesses and hack [sic] into those systems because they would be vulnerable.
It would appear if she takes office, we better start grabbing copies from http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ before she gets to it
It's obvious she was thrown into the garbage chute because she was going to interfere with their real work. Cracking open the nuts was just a diversion.
no use of way, exactly the same, sameexact, exact same!
Could it be these things will disappear because they increase the time spent creating (not crafting) messages>
Within the previous year? (2?) There was a contest of sending a text message, putting some hams using Morse. It was no contest. The kids weren't even close.
Hams: has Morse (or morse?) been removed from the list of requirements to get a license? I know there was talk about it at one point...
When looking at the use of communications methods, when you (usually) have to play the whole thing and take notes. If it's something in text, regardless of the medium, you can look at it at any time.
My apologies to the gentleman (Sorry, Scott!) who invented voicemail.
That's how pinball tables, video games, and anything else you can find in an arcade.etc.
When you own a (casino) chip, you can cash it, you'll get money just as you can buy more tokens. Chips are essentially each casino's currency. Pay the same method of gambling for a time and the nice folks who walk around with drinks will comp whatever drink you request. ( I'm rather fond of (very cold) Bombay Sapphire in a goblet with a twist of lime).
One other defense they use to cut the odds against card counting is to add additional packs to the shoe. This won't affect something like the MIT crew for long, but they'll have to improve their playing skills a bit more. What's the current shoe size? (11 decks? 12? 13?)
An excellent good book is, The Eudaemonic Pie. (search The Eudaemonic Pie bass at Amazon). This isn't a spoiler because it's on the cover: cracking the roulette wheel. (and not using the red/black see below), I have the '92 version (which is out of print) so I have no idea about what's in the '00 edition. It was very interesting to see how they did it.
IIRC, the game which offers players the best odds (obviously, no games tilt the odds for the players to win) for their investment is baccarat.
As far as roulette wheel goes (and versus counting cards), you will problems if you pick the red/black game: pick a color and keep doubling it. They are not going to be amused by those who think they're going to beat the system with something they've never seen before.
Should you get away with it, it's (I think) as little better than facing three curtains and knowing when to change your decision.
Back to the one-armed bandit. If you see someone playing across a few machines, it would not be wise to step in to play one of them. Those machines belong to them and you face some severe problems if you try to make it known, "These machines are available to everyone."
There are a few people who have continued to work on cheating the machines, and the casinos & their providers have to work to stay ahead of them as the machines evolve.
#1: Why would they do it? They already created a facebook API...
But the question just itching to come out is: Did they develop it with an API as they went -- even just to make their lives easier; or, did they shoehorn it in after the fact? It's sad when the latter takes place. The code is forked and anyone who is hopeful things are well and find themselves forked up because their code behaves differently than the original source.
#2: "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do"
I'm guessing you didn't make it to Operating Systems before you dropped out of Computer Science.
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They dropped it? I figured it wasn't their choice.;)
I'm always amazed people get through with a BS in CompSci when the degree should be "Computer Programming". (In college, there was a business track and a science track. The biz track people were madder than half-squashed bees because I started suggesting their degree should read, "Business Data Processing" because the rest of us had CompSci, but took classes where we had to write our own compiler, OS, device driver, DBMS, take Electronics, Microcomputer Interfacing, etc. I don't think they (the biz folks) wouldn't know how to write a compiler, DBMS, etc...even as a collective group. Heck, they only had to take one year of Calculus. I can't complained: I tested out of three years, so they still had to take more than I did. There are a lot of posers with a CompSci degree don't know about anything about Computer Science but programming a couple of programming languages. Besides, none of them had things like a sports team. There were a lot of CompSci program who did hit athletics. For my roommate, his brother, and I were on the Soccer team. I hated the "ten minute get in shape" drills.
What's fun is to give them (fresh off the turnip truck): "It's midnight. Your material is the last part of a [i]Death March[/i] and everyone is gone. It must be done by 8am or everyone goes outside to see you push a peanut on your nose around the building or you're toast. You've got a stubborn error, but you don't know what's causing it, including something outside of the IDE which is also affecting your ability to compile your code. What will you do?"
{deer looking into the headlights}
"Ummmm, I'd send email to my friends."
And what will you do in the meantime?
(deer looking into the headlights of a convoy of semi trucks. ("Con-on-voy, Con-voy")
Riddle me this one, Batman:
Where and when we've seen assets seized, and even when innocent, it's almost impossible to get your assets (returned to you)?
Personally, I use CDs, DVDs, PCs. It's still legible.
And there's also the Idiot's Acronym.
That means if it's an unfamiliar term, treat it as an acronym.
A good example was during the Gulf War: Scud. The media didn't know what it meant and seemingly had no interest in finding out, it was like this in the media: SCUD.
Things such as Perl, scuba, and radar have dropped their acronym standing with capitalization, so why not other terms?
When people (on here) proclaim, "Grammar Nazi!". This is on their first reply. They seem unfamiliar with Godwin's Law. It's a pity they invoke it so quickly in a thread. Just three messages.
(Speaking of wars and not working on anyone's position: When Russia decided to take over Afghanistan, it took them over a decade and they limped home with their collective tails between their legs. It could easily be a repeat of Kennedy's mistake: go into Vietnam and try to "help". Look at the duration and butt kicking successors inherited. Now that we're there, we might as well clean up the mess. Otherwise, it's will be a political vacuum with all sorts of power hungry people getting sucked into it.
If you install software, shouldn't it deinstall itself (completely)?
There are two exceptions: dependencies and things which affect the OS or OS-related processes; i.e.,things which are "bad thing" for the machine's health and function.
Something like Office, regardless of the version, should be able to remove all software and related changes (e.g., the registry). If there are extraneous files which are unrelated, then the user should be prompted for a decision or leave them in place (by default). Think of it like the saying about the wilderness: take only pictures, leave only footprints. Microsoft is leaving more than footprints. A lot of registry clutter is Microsoft's equivalent of your dog having a date with the poop fairy in a well-trafficked area which you find in the middle of the night if you don't turn the lights on.
If your mother asks you if you cleaned off your shoes before you get beyond the door, doesn't she expect you to clean up after yourself? If you see dear ole Mom walking in without the same requirement, that's like MS deinstalls.
Operating System files are another story.
But... I should be able to deinstall Office 2003 and install Office 2000 without any hitches whatsoever.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has always had a policy of "do as we say, not as we do". To get certification in the past, you'd have to really toe the line, even when MS ware didn't.
The other issue I didn't address yet is the user files. That's kind of a toss-up. Should a software vendor be responsible for every previous format older versions were compatible with?
I think that's a bit too much. I can see progressions from version to version to be acceptable.
The only time things should break between two versions is if something is evolutionary|revolutionary in magnitude. Something people would pay twice the price because it's so obviously incredible. Something that they wouldn't need Huey, Dewey and Louie (Marketing, PR, and Sales) for.
As I've noted with another article - it sucks when they start making things incompatible across versions because they can't convince people to upgrade old software without a major investment.
And the EULA basically states you don't own the product. You're just renting it.
Anything (MS) which doesn't currently die within a year of installation (to force an upgrade) will do so before long. Many software vendors currently do this.
Personally, I think they've lost the creative spark and have to require people to update because they can't come up with something new.
In my mainframe days, you could install and leave it be until you want to upgrade. No time bombs, no rental. Heck, IBM at least provided file formats and left exits in place so you could make plenty of your own features in useful places. I think there were even sections of vital code which was provided on microfiche. It's been a little over fifteen years. It makes me wish Microsoft was a bit gentler about what they do to our machines than IBM did with the boat anchors. The only things which required a reboot was OS-critical stuff. Everything else was pretty much a hot install & use.
So what's going to happen to those who use the nasty online services (dial-up, I think) which already bombard users with ads -- to offset the discount?
Ads on top of ads.
We've gone from sick browsers which supported popup crap, popunder, multiple flashing GIFs on the same web pages (ads). Spam - in many forms.
I can understand ads supporting TV shows -- that's how it stays inexpensive.
So they expect people to pay for these ads but MS isn't going to give a discount. They just don't have to create, sell, and support what I call "Pass the Hat" releases (see Win98 SE and ME) in order to generate money.
This only seals Microsoft's fate as a second-rate software provider.
They've always said they displaced IBM and someone else will replace them, but they aren't going quietly. They still care about being #1, but more importantly, their ultimate fear is in not setting or inventing standards and staying ahead of everyone else.
Only support some versions of HTML but add other features which they state others have to abide by. They weren't HTML-compliant and fill in the tags (or closed them) which people have overlooked. That meant proofreading the things which were IE-only in Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox.[1] They appear to have ignored all of the support of RSS but create their interpretation of the features they want to without regard to what everyone else wants (or supports).
Some media have asserted there are tens (some say hundreds) of thousands of Win2K running in business/corporate settings. Win2K/Office 2000/VS6.0 is probably the most stable of a combination of those three things which Microsoft has produced -- honestly, no matter what you're thinking without a C&C warning.
Businesses don't want to change and see no reason to do so: the hardware they have runs okay, the software is a known evil and things are as stable as they are able to manage. Move to XP or Vista, and it's start all over. New hardware (across the board), new training (especially technical people), new bugs, new support, new everything. Microsoft's Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Marketing, Sales, and PR) haven't found a way to crack that nut...until they started making things, albeit not showstoppers, incompatible with Win2k.
Until they convert those licenses to XP, and more importantly Vista, it's lost revenue, and smaller dividends paid.
Cramming ads into the kernel are their best solution (under the circumstances), hoping the ability to crack it will take some time and be considered risky at best.
All they are doing is telling their little herds of 'softie software is they are getting desperate.
We've gone from IBM mainframes with 3270 screens to desktops to desktops connected to the 'net, the web, and now, (practically) needing nothing but a browser on a dumb PC in order to deal with everything. Figure out where the MS software fits that timeline.
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[1] for a while, it was an easy interview question for HTML people, then ASP. "What happens if things appear on the screen in IE; but a blank screen in browser , but the text is visible when you View|Source?" (unbalanced tags, usually in tables)
Those "powers" will be in place for the next White House occupant. And if you think they'll rescind them, regardless of the political leanings, you're sorely mistaken. They will only add to the tools they have available. Pre Homeland Security, the CIA had no jurisdiction in the US. Now that Homeland Security is in place, they can simply make a request of someone at a higher level who can pose it to someone who does have the authority, then throw it back over the wall for the CIA to use.
Perhaps we need to heed Dr. Kurtzweil from the X-Files movie?
...during a vacation when everyone is away from home, a national emergency is declared, FEMA takes over...
(Or should we be wearing tinfoil hats, waiting for the black helicopters?)
Providing they explicitly state where the violations are.
I can see Viacom saying something to this tune: "please remove all Viacom-owned materials."
I believe this is something which will be invoked and things will go downhill from there, no matter how cooperative Google|YouTube would like to be.
But it does remind me of the days where the FBI would permit you to ensure the information they had on someone was accurate: "You send what you think is the information which you believe might be incorrect (and what it should be)." And if they didn't have the information you sent them, they'd have something (new) to add to their files.
If the issue is the Rapture, I think most of the people left behind will have tougher aspects of their lives than whether their cars will function safely.
As far as testing goes, when we were working on the jeep two years ago, we had a nice, big, back yard to play, courtesy of as he has considerable acreage (20? 30? 40?). It cuts down additional neighbors and there's a lot of nature preserve. You can't hear the traffic a few blocks east of it from the major thoroughfare coming it's like a nature preserve in most of it.
When we were testing, it was someone in the front seat to stop it if something went wrong; also you had a walkie talkie to talk to the pit crew. Everyone had a two-hour shift. Big tips: Go before you start. Only drink water with you if you must. There's nothing like driving 100 yards away from the bathroom and you can't stop. You basically sat behind the wheel and if something looked abnormal, you could wire it back for feedback (or stop it if it seemed terrible).
The feature I've always thought would be nice for the open traffic vehicles is to be able to chain them together such that if ten cars are passing along a common stretch of distance, they could be spaced out, but a safe distance apart. It would be like a e-(train and caboose). The head of the chain would know when to stop for lines, to stop before railroad crossings, etc. That should reduce accidents, permit a decent speed beyond today, and perhaps give them a certain lane for e-trains and people would have to move over. Think of a rush-hour lane in some larger cities.
There would be the inherent problems of taking advantage (criminally). Broadcast a signal telling it to go ahead measurement ahead, then turn right, then stop. Ducks in a barrel. Pop a barricade up and watch the vehicle stop. Another sitting duck.
Most vehicles with fatalities to so because someone forgot there's a real-world Physics Police. They don't issue warnings.
As far as safety issues: at 4:12am this morning, someone hopped onto I-465 and started driving against traffic for nine miles. That is, until someone didn't react fast enough and they had a contest of car vs. (oncoming) SUV. All three died. The driver (at fault) couldn't switch directions (if they even realized it) when they realized there was a problem because the medians are made from nasty pieces of concrete. But they did have several exits to get off. They also could have pulled off to the shoulder or median and sought help. A lot of people managed to avoid the car and there was an onslaught of 911 calls.
Most of the good pictures aren't online, poorly uploaded, etc. The local affiliates showed cars which looked like the T-1000 when it was blasted to some pretty funky thin, rough edges. If they were still alive, there would have been nothing to pry apart because the pieces were just big enough to hold together but too thin to use the Jaws of Life against. I have seen a couple of these ((back in the day). A few with just one car: 90+mph and running into a street light. It hurt the light pole but goodly sized trees have a few, big scratches into the bark. Give yourself the task of scraping as much bark as you can in fifteen seconds. That will be considerately more damage than most accidents rip off.
Something which most people don't think about is: if the front end crumples too much, the engine has to go somewhere. It certainly doesn't jump out from under the hood and clear itself from the car. It's not going to deflate into a small piece of rubber. Imagine parking an engine in your passenger area at a pretty good speed and (people) trying to survive. Did you watch Twister and see the tower fly into the truck's front window? That's minor.
The issue of DARPA is still to be decided. There's a Grand Challenge 3 this fall, two years after #2 completed the desert challenge; i.e., they figured people would need two years for preparation. And that is for realistic traffic. Six hours, six miles...in Europe. There's a demo to be met by April 13. I'd be comfortable saying I've received 200 messages so far. They've been coming in pretty regularly since the May 1, '6 News Release (a two page PDF).
Mind you, I didn't read this in a tabloid. Some of the stories and|or facts may have are as far back as fifteen years ago. Some of it might have been made up in order to make things fit together a bit more.
IIRC, Access was released on Nov 15, '92: for $99. No one knows how many copies were shelfware, but it was selling as fast as shrinkwrap could be shrinked;) I'm thinking the (total) number was in excess of 1M within two or three months. Oh, I almost forgot: Access wasn't their first go 'round with Access. They did some exclusive testing and it just wasn't what they wanted.
Everyone and their brother were all screaming VB couldn't tap into Access and a quick update was circulated.
Rushmore Technology was the reason for purchasing FoxBase. Between Access & FoxPro, there were Windows-based methods of playing with dBase files. In fact, I think the first version of FoxPro for both DOS and Windows was 2.5? And FoxPro for DOS disappeared like a fart in the wind. I won't bet my left nut on this, but I don't think you're going to see the Rushmore Technology seeing the light of day. Kind of like VB. I figure both of those will end up in the Vatican's underground storage where all sorts of interesting bling.
What happened next was Borland trying to kick themselves in the posterior. In a couple of ways. (#1): Borland bought Ashton-Tate for one reason: dBase. They basically shut everything else down the next few days and those users were SOL. This was '90-'91, but no later than '92. Borland's obvious goal was to get dBase into Windows. (I have it on very good authority) There was a lot of hemming & hawing and finally, there were two groups to put together their options. The "get it into Windows ASAP. Estimated time: 18-24 months; to make it kick ass against anything which was on or would be in Windows; estimated time: 5 years. They took the former and spent at least 3 years getting it into beta. When the dust settled, dBase/Windows was about as popular as Paradox was.
(#2) C++. Borland had a Windows-based IDE and Microsoft's C6 and C7 were DOS-based. Rather strange, wouldn't you think? The Windows manufacturer couldn't create a C++ IDE which ran in Windows.(!) Borland had 85+% of the market share in the C++ market. But they did a very, very bad thing: OWL I wasn't compatible with OWL II. There were some utilities to aid in the conversion. As I used to say with the way 97% of the people working in the original ASP did the same thing: it looked like a frog in a blender. All of the pieces & DNA is available, but you can't make hide nor hair of it and you can't put it back together. (Everyone made a mess out of vanilla ASP. It was horrible to look at and it was horrible to debug. "Make things simple, not simpler" -Erasmus)
When VC++ 1.0 came out in Jan/Feb '93 (twenty diskettes), a lot of people had an excuse to pop their heads up out of the rabbit warren to see what their options were. MFC had been a placeholder before and suddenly grew into a nice tool. Most people didn't want to deal with the OWL II issues. As they'd have to rewrite a lot of code, they chose that as an opportunity to migrate. Within a few months, Borland was sinking like the Edmund Fitsgerald, but Gordon Lightfoot wasn't singing.
This was considered gospel, but I was never able to get a confirmation. The rule of them was always, "For Microsoft to hire you, you have to go to {Mecca}. [1] (remember, this was '93 and their headcount was considerably smaller than it is now) Borland was considered an exception and there were two or three people who rented a hotel room as close to Borland's people as possible. They could screen candidates and had the authority to hire, on the spot. People were going to "going early, taking "walks" during breaks, lunch, supper, etc. It was said there was a sizable line of people who were looking to jump off of a sinking barge. (And Microso
Having grown up with hardcopy, I still use it. If I find something whilst online, that's fine.
Someone was mentioning Game Magazines, it's almost as if they are interchangeable.
For a long, long, long time, there have been but three PC-only game magazines:
1. Computer Gaming World
2. PC Gamer
3. Computer Games
Other magazines mentioned PC-based games on their covers and dedicated a minimal number of pages to PC-based until consoles were such a major force.
Then there was the issue of PC-only games, desktop-only, and MMORPGs. Once it was evident the MMORPGs was making hand over fist, charging 300'000 people only $10/month for $3'000'000 per month or $36'000'000/year. Other business forces saw this as a salt lick and jumped on the bandwagon, but like a pizza delivery firm, you can't take the pizza out before it's done, expect it to bake, even a smidgin on the way there. As a result, you get lots of chewy pizza.
This is what happened to MMORPGs, when a shell game was made available (what was it? My memory is failing me in my old age. It was a military game) and a 20MB patch was required to actually do anything, surpassing several months of (Microsoft's) Patch Tuesday. Even then, there was a modicum of a game, asking the customers to bear with them, still charging the clientele, meaning money was coming in and they didn't have quite the urgency they would have had when no money was coming in. Of course, that would have created a Death March.
Companies who want excellent reputations and keep their entire staff happy, especially in the game industry, do not impose Death Marches lightly. Unless you've been out of college for fewer than five years, you know Death Marches are the same in every industry which may claim allegiance to the people who pound keys.
Large PC-based computer games are dying a slow death. Multiple versions of Windows, different drivers for many graphics cards, inconsistent amounts of memory, disk space, etc. is too much of a headache to make it worth the while. Consider being a hunter and every animal requires a small range of different gauges, distances to do the damage, and so on. One gun doesn't work in all situations.
A console-based game, standalone IOR online is more a matter of competition against any other vendor without worrying about the spectrum of hardware.
I'm still a desktop-only, PC-based game fan, but it's going to be jumping from puddle to puddle for anyone willing to remain with my confines.
It would almost be more worthwhile for Linux-based & -only games because there are fewer variables in the equation. (I'm not pushing Linux, I'm just saying the math is simpler.)
I remember starting to work for a computer book publishing division (late '92) which wrote about technologies they wouldn't use. Word/DOS until I dragged them to Word/Windows, when it jumped from 2.0 to 6.0. Create toolbars with buttons to relieve the tedium of finding any special characters inventoried for the Production Department, count and|or renumber tables, figures, etc. You'd be surprised how many things which were done manually.
[Almost] everyone had a door so they could isolate themselves and focus upon the text (task) at hand. I took the full version of Wolfenstein with me not long after I started for somewhere between 1-2 work weeks, the Wolfenstein Productivity Virus hit. Even the pacifists who wouldn't have picked up a gun to save themselves, their children, etc. were playing. If you knocked on someone's door......."Hold on!" (no boss key) I believe productivity was chasing an asymptote of zero.
In the 93-94 timeframe DOOM emerged and several of us broke into a phone closet and found some NIC cards sitting around, wired the spare connections in our offices & closet, and at 5pm every day, we locked our doors, put our phones on conference call mode with speakerphones turned on, and played DOOM.
That brings back memories. I was in grade school during late part of the '60s ('67 was kindergarden)) and it's incredible now to hear kids are surprised there was a nice paddle inside the personal closet of every male teachers. It's kind of like listening to early teens after they've seen an older movie and wonder how that many people were smoking compared to these days.) The funniest one was "The End" with 3/4" holes drilled thru it to reduce air resistance (or so they said); i.e., they'd have a better swing going to the back end. Occasionally, there would be two or three and the teacher would have them all at once. The others would watch the current delinquent get his whacks. I don't remember what the maximum # of whacks there were, but I think they'd figured out what the dimishing returns were such that some part of them would not feel additional pain. The lady teachers would walk someone to the hall just outside the whackers glass, motion to them that they had someone to be brought into line and out would come the paddle. If a teacher leaves a classroom empty today (in the same school district), they're written up with some form of penalty - I don't even remember the entire situation is. I'd have to ask my mom, who has taught for ca. 35 years.
When it was time to assume the position, everyone would get very, very quiet, hoping to hear everything, including anything they might hear words. I found it was a good time to slide a textbook to the edge of my desk and carefully let it find the floor. Everyone jumped as if someone got a whack. Usually, the standard was to go to the "Principal's Bench" - a lengthy, smooth bench sitting just inside the main door and outside of Administration. The goals were solitary confinement, other students passing by and see you sitting there, and in the teachers' eyes, the principal might walk in|out and interrogating them re: why they are there, and after a good tongue lashing, sent back to class.
Take any of the blades on the market, let me use it once, then clean it as thorough as you can. I can try each of them and tell you which one is the used one. I'm not spending money to deal with that.
I go for the scruffy look and just run a groomer every few days. If I don't get home to clean up during a death march, I don't look out of place. And, a full beard even carefully groomed, it's like velcro for things such as dog hair, loose lint, etc.
In the world of submarines (as in patents), when the first three-blade came out, it was announced they'd filed more than 32-34 patents.
Gag me with a chainsaw.
Oh, one other thing...I've discovered Saddam in court: he's got a full beard, whereas we alway saw him with a moustache. He looks like two different people. Psychologically, it's got to have an effect because he's "Not Kramer.
One of the first things I noticed after growing my first (full) beard, then shaving it a few weeks later (keeping a moustache), many people asked, "When did you grow a moustache?" This is a common response.
pet peeve: not understanding the difference betwixt a goatee and a VanDyck. This is also pretty common in the US "and I" as something other than the subject. I'm guessing it's a grammar change we're seeing first-hand.
The (our) state's Secretary of State has taken time to frequently announce "the system is working to where a proper piece of recognition with a picture will permit you to vote without hassle.
Then again, the state purchased many, many voting machines three years ago but their contracted company couldn't make it work. ES&S was sneaking sotware so untested code was going to be used. When a whistleblower terminated her about an hour later, the state turned around and hired her as a watchdog.
ES&S and Diebold seem to have a combined corner on the market but collectively have a problem of getting things to work.
The state's BMV finally went live (six->eight years late, after several governor and buckets of money after a "CEO" ("Half of the time I don't know what's going on.") resigned.
In both situations, why not pick a precinct or two to test either of those systems, kick the bugs, then go state?
As it is, you're going to look at a lot of handcounting in Indiana if one of their engineers used meters|yards improperly.:(
Potential sales shouldn't be an issue. "We need a bigger, cooler telescope" seems to be a good label.
Allow enough time for people get used to a it, they have no preferene except to have cool images to look at. NASA, however, wants the next generation picture toy.
Finding other potential planet, binary stars, etc. should to be less important when the local (our) neighborhood needs to be fully played with. Or, this planet. How much do we know about where we live (Earth)?
I can't see my tax money diverted so someone can find "connect the dots"? (all of the objects & their behavior against others)
Perhaps we're pushing this so hard is makework for all of people who have degrees (in this field)?
Addall will reference Amazon stores and it's not difficult to find a brand new (or "like new", etc.) book. It's like being able to purchase the previously college textbook, but at a discounted price. If I buy books online, I go to those two as a rule.
I suppose some people go to other sities such as OverStock there with other things in mind; e.g., Showing the luscious MILF Sabine Ehrenfeld your "O" face.
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HR? Who be 'dat?
My first job out of college ('84) and '90 have had two memorable things:
1. HR was involved with the former, as they were the ones running with headhunters.
2. The second one was via a headhunter. I was handed a clipboard with paperwork. I hadn't it back to them and said something to the effect, "I have to leave". I stopped by the first phone booth I could find and called the responsible party. His first comment? "That was short -- how did it go?" "I am terminating our relationship. One of the things which is supposed to happen is to bypass the HR people, regardless of how tightly woven are the organizational chart. Besides, don't you get a commission if you place me? That should make certain burdens a lot lighter."
Word got around that this guy was doing nothing but pulling ads out of the newspaper and cold-calling both parties.
bottom line: I don't go through HR and I don't fill out applications.
If they are so bureaucratic [b]everything[/b] they have to jump through loops, then they are too tightly wound and I know I don't want to work there.
Speaking of HR, I can't resist dragging this to the forefront:
A woman was facing an application and ran into this:
Sex [x]M [x]F (And sometimes on Wednesday!)
Not Gitmo....Manhattan.
Oh, one other thing: anyone want to tell us what candidate has made it quite public she sees nothing good in it, "i.e., as anyone who has a copy of it can find its weaknesses and hack [sic] into those systems because they would be vulnerable.
It would appear if she takes office, we better start grabbing copies from http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ before she gets to it
If I had to pick just one:
1) reread all of the calibrations to verify the ability to land (safely)
Once that is verified, how about a remake of Capricorn One?.
I'll overlook the fact (in CI) conversations are instantaneous (instead of a delay).
This time, leave OJ[1] on Mars and let the other two come back, even if the simulations say it won't happen.
[1]Yes, OJ Simpson. If you haven't watched it, there's no spoiler there because the rest of the statement is explained fairly early in the film.
I wonder what the Dream Team would say about OJ being stranded on Mars and they're trying to file a writs are habeas corpus?
When you're on Mars, _______________
(feel free to fill in the blank.
I knew it!
Veruca Salt has a hand in this!
It's obvious she was thrown into the garbage chute because she was going to interfere with their real work. Cracking open the nuts was just a diversion.
I was shocked.
no use of way, exactly the same, same exact, exact same!
Could it be these things will disappear because they increase the time spent creating (not crafting) messages>
Within the previous year? (2?) There was a contest of sending a text message, putting some hams using Morse. It was no contest. The kids weren't even close.
Hams: has Morse (or morse?) been removed from the list of requirements to get a license? I know there was talk about it at one point...
When looking at the use of communications methods, when you (usually) have to play the whole thing and take notes. If it's something in text, regardless of the medium, you can look at it at any time.
My apologies to the gentleman (Sorry, Scott!) who invented voicemail.
That's how pinball tables, video games, and anything else you can find in an arcade.etc.
When you own a (casino) chip, you can cash it, you'll get money just as you can buy more tokens. Chips are essentially each casino's currency. Pay the same method of gambling for a time and the nice folks who walk around with drinks will comp whatever drink you request. ( I'm rather fond of (very cold) Bombay Sapphire in a goblet with a twist of lime).
One other defense they use to cut the odds against card counting is to add additional packs to the shoe. This won't affect something like the MIT crew for long, but they'll have to improve their playing skills a bit more. What's the current shoe size? (11 decks? 12? 13?)
An excellent good book is, The Eudaemonic Pie. (search The Eudaemonic Pie bass at Amazon). This isn't a spoiler because it's on the cover: cracking the roulette wheel. (and not using the red/black see below), I have the '92 version (which is out of print) so I have no idea about what's in the '00 edition. It was very interesting to see how they did it.
IIRC, the game which offers players the best odds (obviously, no games tilt the odds for the players to win) for their investment is baccarat.
As far as roulette wheel goes (and versus counting cards), you will problems if you pick the red/black game: pick a color and keep doubling it. They are not going to be amused by those who think they're going to beat the system with something they've never seen before. Should you get away with it, it's (I think) as little better than facing three curtains and knowing when to change your decision.
Back to the one-armed bandit. If you see someone playing across a few machines, it would not be wise to step in to play one of them. Those machines belong to them and you face some severe problems if you try to make it known, "These machines are available to everyone."
There are a few people who have continued to work on cheating the machines, and the casinos & their providers have to work to stay ahead of them as the machines evolve.
You get two, two, two replies in one.
;)
#1: Why would they do it? They already created a facebook API...
But the question just itching to come out is: Did they develop it with an API as they went -- even just to make their lives easier; or, did they shoehorn it in after the fact? It's sad when the latter takes place. The code is forked and anyone who is hopeful things are well and find themselves forked up because their code behaves differently than the original source.
#2: "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do"
I'm guessing you didn't make it to Operating Systems before you dropped out of Computer Science.
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They dropped it? I figured it wasn't their choice.
I'm always amazed people get through with a BS in CompSci when the degree should be "Computer Programming". (In college, there was a business track and a science track. The biz track people were madder than half-squashed bees because I started suggesting their degree should read, "Business Data Processing" because the rest of us had CompSci, but took classes where we had to write our own compiler, OS, device driver, DBMS, take Electronics, Microcomputer Interfacing, etc. I don't think they (the biz folks) wouldn't know how to write a compiler, DBMS, etc...even as a collective group. Heck, they only had to take one year of Calculus. I can't complained: I tested out of three years, so they still had to take more than I did. There are a lot of posers with a CompSci degree don't know about anything about Computer Science but programming a couple of programming languages. Besides, none of them had things like a sports team. There were a lot of CompSci program who did hit athletics. For my roommate, his brother, and I were on the Soccer team. I hated the "ten minute get in shape" drills.
What's fun is to give them (fresh off the turnip truck): "It's midnight. Your material is the last part of a [i]Death March[/i] and everyone is gone. It must be done by 8am or everyone goes outside to see you push a peanut on your nose around the building or you're toast. You've got a stubborn error, but you don't know what's causing it, including something outside of the IDE which is also affecting your ability to compile your code. What will you do?"
{deer looking into the headlights}
"Ummmm, I'd send email to my friends."
And what will you do in the meantime?
(deer looking into the headlights of a convoy of semi trucks. ("Con-on-voy, Con-voy")
Riddle me this one, Batman:
Where and when we've seen assets seized, and even when innocent, it's almost impossible to get your assets (returned to you)?
"someone else will pick it up"
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and
"MOSIX is very hard to obtain unless you're a student
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Both of these things can best be solved by an obvious solution.
It's known as the Greengrocers' apostrophe.
Personally, I use CDs, DVDs, PCs. It's still legible.
And there's also the Idiot's Acronym.
That means if it's an unfamiliar term, treat it as an acronym.
A good example was during the Gulf War: Scud. The media didn't know what it meant and seemingly had no interest in finding out, it was like this in the media: SCUD.
Things such as Perl, scuba, and radar have dropped their acronym standing with capitalization, so why not other terms?
When people (on here) proclaim, "Grammar Nazi!". This is on their first reply. They seem unfamiliar with Godwin's Law. It's a pity they invoke it so quickly in a thread. Just three messages.
(Speaking of wars and not working on anyone's position: When Russia decided to take over Afghanistan, it took them over a decade and they limped home with their collective tails between their legs. It could easily be a repeat of Kennedy's mistake: go into Vietnam and try to "help". Look at the duration and butt kicking successors inherited. Now that we're there, we might as well clean up the mess. Otherwise, it's will be a political vacuum with all sorts of power hungry people getting sucked into it.
You're adding a twist to the subject at hand:
There's the software install/deinstall.
The other is user files.
Let's put the user files aside for now.
If you install software, shouldn't it deinstall itself (completely)?
There are two exceptions: dependencies and things which affect the OS or OS-related processes; i.e.,things which are "bad thing" for the machine's health and function.
Something like Office, regardless of the version, should be able to remove all software and related changes (e.g., the registry). If there are extraneous files which are unrelated, then the user should be prompted for a decision or leave them in place (by default). Think of it like the saying about the wilderness: take only pictures, leave only footprints. Microsoft is leaving more than footprints. A lot of registry clutter is Microsoft's equivalent of your dog having a date with the poop fairy in a well-trafficked area which you find in the middle of the night if you don't turn the lights on.
If your mother asks you if you cleaned off your shoes before you get beyond the door, doesn't she expect you to clean up after yourself? If you see dear ole Mom walking in without the same requirement, that's like MS deinstalls.
Operating System files are another story.
But
Unfortunately, Microsoft has always had a policy of "do as we say, not as we do". To get certification in the past, you'd have to really toe the line, even when MS ware didn't.
The other issue I didn't address yet is the user files. That's kind of a toss-up. Should a software vendor be responsible for every previous format older versions were compatible with?
I think that's a bit too much. I can see progressions from version to version to be acceptable.
The only time things should break between two versions is if something is evolutionary|revolutionary in magnitude. Something people would pay twice the price because it's so obviously incredible. Something that they wouldn't need Huey, Dewey and Louie (Marketing, PR, and Sales) for.
As I've noted with another article - it sucks when they start making things incompatible across versions because they can't convince people to upgrade old software without a major investment.
And the EULA basically states you don't own the product. You're just renting it.
Anything (MS) which doesn't currently die within a year of installation (to force an upgrade) will do so before long. Many software vendors currently do this.
Personally, I think they've lost the creative spark and have to require people to update because they can't come up with something new.
In my mainframe days, you could install and leave it be until you want to upgrade. No time bombs, no rental. Heck, IBM at least provided file formats and left exits in place so you could make plenty of your own features in useful places. I think there were even sections of vital code which was provided on microfiche. It's been a little over fifteen years. It makes me wish Microsoft was a bit gentler about what they do to our machines than IBM did with the boat anchors. The only things which required a reboot was OS-critical stuff. Everything else was pretty much a hot install & use.
So what's going to happen to those who use the nasty online services (dial-up, I think) which already bombard users with ads -- to offset the discount?
Ads on top of ads.
We've gone from sick browsers which supported popup crap, popunder, multiple flashing GIFs on the same web pages (ads). Spam - in many forms.
I can understand ads supporting TV shows -- that's how it stays inexpensive.
So they expect people to pay for these ads but MS isn't going to give a discount. They just don't have to create, sell, and support what I call "Pass the Hat" releases (see Win98 SE and ME) in order to generate money.
This only seals Microsoft's fate as a second-rate software provider.
They've always said they displaced IBM and someone else will replace them, but they aren't going quietly. They still care about being #1, but more importantly, their ultimate fear is in not setting or inventing standards and staying ahead of everyone else.
Only support some versions of HTML but add other features which they state others have to abide by. They weren't HTML-compliant and fill in the tags (or closed them) which people have overlooked. That meant proofreading the things which were IE-only in Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox.[1] They appear to have ignored all of the support of RSS but create their interpretation of the features they want to without regard to what everyone else wants (or supports).
Some media have asserted there are tens (some say hundreds) of thousands of Win2K running in business/corporate settings. Win2K/Office 2000/VS6.0 is probably the most stable of a combination of those three things which Microsoft has produced -- honestly, no matter what you're thinking without a C&C warning.
Businesses don't want to change and see no reason to do so: the hardware they have runs okay, the software is a known evil and things are as stable as they are able to manage. Move to XP or Vista, and it's start all over. New hardware (across the board), new training (especially technical people), new bugs, new support, new everything. Microsoft's Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Marketing, Sales, and PR) haven't found a way to crack that nut...until they started making things, albeit not showstoppers, incompatible with Win2k.
Until they convert those licenses to XP, and more importantly Vista, it's lost revenue, and smaller dividends paid.
Cramming ads into the kernel are their best solution (under the circumstances), hoping the ability to crack it will take some time and be considered risky at best.
All they are doing is telling their little herds of 'softie software is they are getting desperate.
We've gone from IBM mainframes with 3270 screens to desktops to desktops connected to the 'net, the web, and now, (practically) needing nothing but a browser on a dumb PC in order to deal with everything. Figure out where the MS software fits that timeline.
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[1] for a while, it was an easy interview question for HTML people, then ASP. "What happens if things appear on the screen in IE; but a blank screen in browser , but the text is visible when you View|Source?" (unbalanced tags, usually in tables)
OT:
Speaking of Texas, has anyone heard Texas is now the third largest state?
They cut Alaska in half.
(most of my friends from Texas seem a bit upset about that joke.)
But have you given thought to the slippery slope?
Those "powers" will be in place for the next White House occupant. And if you think they'll rescind them, regardless of the political leanings, you're sorely mistaken. They will only add to the tools they have available. Pre Homeland Security, the CIA had no jurisdiction in the US. Now that Homeland Security is in place, they can simply make a request of someone at a higher level who can pose it to someone who does have the authority, then throw it back over the wall for the CIA to use.
Perhaps we need to heed Dr. Kurtzweil from the X-Files movie?
(Or should we be wearing tinfoil hats, waiting for the black helicopters?)
Providing they explicitly state where the violations are.
I can see Viacom saying something to this tune: "please remove all Viacom-owned materials."
I believe this is something which will be invoked and things will go downhill from there, no matter how cooperative Google|YouTube would like to be.
But it does remind me of the days where the FBI would permit you to ensure the information they had on someone was accurate: "You send what you think is the information which you believe might be incorrect (and what it should be)." And if they didn't have the information you sent them, they'd have something (new) to add to their files.
If the issue is the Rapture, I think most of the people left behind will have tougher aspects of their lives than whether their cars will function safely.
As far as testing goes, when we were working on the jeep two years ago, we had a nice, big, back yard to play, courtesy of as he has considerable acreage (20? 30? 40?). It cuts down additional neighbors and there's a lot of nature preserve. You can't hear the traffic a few blocks east of it from the major thoroughfare coming it's like a nature preserve in most of it.
When we were testing, it was someone in the front seat to stop it if something went wrong; also you had a walkie talkie to talk to the pit crew. Everyone had a two-hour shift. Big tips: Go before you start. Only drink water with you if you must. There's nothing like driving 100 yards away from the bathroom and you can't stop. You basically sat behind the wheel and if something looked abnormal, you could wire it back for feedback (or stop it if it seemed terrible).
The feature I've always thought would be nice for the open traffic vehicles is to be able to chain them together such that if ten cars are passing along a common stretch of distance, they could be spaced out, but a safe distance apart. It would be like a e-(train and caboose). The head of the chain would know when to stop for lines, to stop before railroad crossings, etc. That should reduce accidents, permit a decent speed beyond today, and perhaps give them a certain lane for e-trains and people would have to move over. Think of a rush-hour lane in some larger cities.
There would be the inherent problems of taking advantage (criminally). Broadcast a signal telling it to go ahead measurement ahead, then turn right, then stop. Ducks in a barrel. Pop a barricade up and watch the vehicle stop. Another sitting duck.
Most vehicles with fatalities to so because someone forgot there's a real-world Physics Police . They don't issue warnings.
As far as safety issues: at 4:12am this morning, someone hopped onto I-465 and started driving against traffic for nine miles. That is, until someone didn't react fast enough and they had a contest of car vs. (oncoming) SUV. All three died. The driver (at fault) couldn't switch directions (if they even realized it) when they realized there was a problem because the medians are made from nasty pieces of concrete. But they did have several exits to get off. They also could have pulled off to the shoulder or median and sought help. A lot of people managed to avoid the car and there was an onslaught of 911 calls.
Most of the good pictures aren't online, poorly uploaded, etc. The local affiliates showed cars which looked like the T-1000 when it was blasted to some pretty funky thin, rough edges. If they were still alive, there would have been nothing to pry apart because the pieces were just big enough to hold together but too thin to use the Jaws of Life against. I have seen a couple of these ((back in the day). A few with just one car: 90+mph and running into a street light. It hurt the light pole but goodly sized trees have a few, big scratches into the bark. Give yourself the task of scraping as much bark as you can in fifteen seconds. That will be considerately more damage than most accidents rip off.
Something which most people don't think about is: if the front end crumples too much, the engine has to go somewhere. It certainly doesn't jump out from under the hood and clear itself from the car. It's not going to deflate into a small piece of rubber. Imagine parking an engine in your passenger area at a pretty good speed and (people) trying to survive. Did you watch Twister and see the tower fly into the truck's front window? That's minor.
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As far as taking the keys away, my grandmother wi
The issue of DARPA is still to be decided. There's a Grand Challenge 3 this fall, two years after #2 completed the desert challenge; i.e., they figured people would need two years for preparation. And that is for realistic traffic. Six hours, six miles...in Europe. There's a demo to be met by April 13. I'd be comfortable saying I've received 200 messages so far. They've been coming in pretty regularly since the May 1, '6 News Release (a two page PDF).
heard ?
Mind you, I didn't read this in a tabloid. Some of the stories and|or facts may have are as far back as fifteen years ago. Some of it might have been made up in order to make things fit together a bit more.
IIRC, Access was released on Nov 15, '92: for $99. No one knows how many copies were shelfware, but it was selling as fast as shrinkwrap could be shrinked
Everyone and their brother were all screaming VB couldn't tap into Access and a quick update was circulated.
Rushmore Technology was the reason for purchasing FoxBase. Between Access & FoxPro, there were Windows-based methods of playing with dBase files. In fact, I think the first version of FoxPro for both DOS and Windows was 2.5? And FoxPro for DOS disappeared like a fart in the wind. I won't bet my left nut on this, but I don't think you're going to see the Rushmore Technology seeing the light of day. Kind of like VB. I figure both of those will end up in the Vatican's underground storage where all sorts of interesting bling.
What happened next was Borland trying to kick themselves in the posterior. In a couple of ways. (#1): Borland bought Ashton-Tate for one reason: dBase. They basically shut everything else down the next few days and those users were SOL. This was '90-'91, but no later than '92. Borland's obvious goal was to get dBase into Windows. (I have it on very good authority) There was a lot of hemming & hawing and finally, there were two groups to put together their options. The "get it into Windows ASAP. Estimated time: 18-24 months; to make it kick ass against anything which was on or would be in Windows; estimated time: 5 years. They took the former and spent at least 3 years getting it into beta. When the dust settled, dBase/Windows was about as popular as Paradox was.
(#2) C++. Borland had a Windows-based IDE and Microsoft's C6 and C7 were DOS-based. Rather strange, wouldn't you think? The Windows manufacturer couldn't create a C++ IDE which ran in Windows.(!) Borland had 85+% of the market share in the C++ market. But they did a very, very bad thing: OWL I wasn't compatible with OWL II. There were some utilities to aid in the conversion. As I used to say with the way 97% of the people working in the original ASP did the same thing: it looked like a frog in a blender. All of the pieces & DNA is available, but you can't make hide nor hair of it and you can't put it back together. (Everyone made a mess out of vanilla ASP. It was horrible to look at and it was horrible to debug. "Make things simple, not simpler" -Erasmus)
When VC++ 1.0 came out in Jan/Feb '93 (twenty diskettes), a lot of people had an excuse to pop their heads up out of the rabbit warren to see what their options were. MFC had been a placeholder before and suddenly grew into a nice tool. Most people didn't want to deal with the OWL II issues. As they'd have to rewrite a lot of code, they chose that as an opportunity to migrate. Within a few months, Borland was sinking like the Edmund Fitsgerald, but Gordon Lightfoot wasn't singing.
This was considered gospel, but I was never able to get a confirmation. The rule of them was always, "For Microsoft to hire you, you have to go to {Mecca}. [1] (remember, this was '93 and their headcount was considerably smaller than it is now) Borland was considered an exception and there were two or three people who rented a hotel room as close to Borland's people as possible. They could screen candidates and had the authority to hire, on the spot. People were going to "going early, taking "walks" during breaks, lunch, supper, etc. It was said there was a sizable line of people who were looking to jump off of a sinking barge. (And Microso
Having grown up with hardcopy, I still use it. If I find something whilst online, that's fine.
Someone was mentioning Game Magazines, it's almost as if they are interchangeable.
For a long, long, long time, there have been but three PC-only game magazines:
1. Computer Gaming World
2. PC Gamer
3. Computer Games
Other magazines mentioned PC-based games on their covers and dedicated a minimal number of pages to PC-based until consoles were such a major force.
Then there was the issue of PC-only games, desktop-only, and MMORPGs. Once it was evident the MMORPGs was making hand over fist, charging 300'000 people only $10/month for $3'000'000 per month or $36'000'000/year. Other business forces saw this as a salt lick and jumped on the bandwagon, but like a pizza delivery firm, you can't take the pizza out before it's done, expect it to bake, even a smidgin on the way there. As a result, you get lots of chewy pizza.
This is what happened to MMORPGs, when a shell game was made available (what was it? My memory is failing me in my old age. It was a military game) and a 20MB patch was required to actually do anything, surpassing several months of (Microsoft's) Patch Tuesday. Even then, there was a modicum of a game, asking the customers to bear with them, still charging the clientele, meaning money was coming in and they didn't have quite the urgency they would have had when no money was coming in. Of course, that would have created a Death March.
Companies who want excellent reputations and keep their entire staff happy, especially in the game industry, do not impose Death Marches lightly. Unless you've been out of college for fewer than five years, you know Death Marches are the same in every industry which may claim allegiance to the people who pound keys.
Large PC-based computer games are dying a slow death. Multiple versions of Windows, different drivers for many graphics cards, inconsistent amounts of memory, disk space, etc. is too much of a headache to make it worth the while. Consider being a hunter and every animal requires a small range of different gauges, distances to do the damage, and so on. One gun doesn't work in all situations.
A console-based game, standalone IOR online is more a matter of competition against any other vendor without worrying about the spectrum of hardware.
I'm still a desktop-only, PC-based game fan, but it's going to be jumping from puddle to puddle for anyone willing to remain with my confines.
It would almost be more worthwhile for Linux-based & -only games because there are fewer variables in the equation. (I'm not pushing Linux, I'm just saying the math is simpler.)
I remember starting to work for a computer book publishing division (late '92) which wrote about technologies they wouldn't use. Word/DOS until I dragged them to Word/Windows, when it jumped from 2.0 to 6.0. Create toolbars with buttons to relieve the tedium of finding any special characters inventoried for the Production Department, count and|or renumber tables, figures, etc. You'd be surprised how many things which were done manually.
[Almost] everyone had a door so they could isolate themselves and focus upon the text (task) at hand. I took the full version of Wolfenstein with me not long after I started for somewhere between 1-2 work weeks, the Wolfenstein Productivity Virus hit. Even the pacifists who wouldn't have picked up a gun to save themselves, their children, etc. were playing. If you knocked on someone's door......."Hold on!" (no boss key) I believe productivity was chasing an asymptote of zero.
In the 93-94 timeframe DOOM emerged and several of us broke into a phone closet and found some NIC cards sitting around, wired the spare connections in our offices & closet, and at 5pm every day, we locked our doors, put our phones on conference call mode with speakerphones turned on, and played DOOM.
<sigh> Those were the days.
Assume the position
That brings back memories. I was in grade school during late part of the '60s ('67 was kindergarden)) and it's incredible now to hear kids are surprised there was a nice paddle inside the personal closet of every male teachers. It's kind of like listening to early teens after they've seen an older movie and wonder how that many people were smoking compared to these days.) The funniest one was "The End" with 3/4" holes drilled thru it to reduce air resistance (or so they said); i.e., they'd have a better swing going to the back end. Occasionally, there would be two or three and the teacher would have them all at once. The others would watch the current delinquent get his whacks. I don't remember what the maximum # of whacks there were, but I think they'd figured out what the dimishing returns were such that some part of them would not feel additional pain. The lady teachers would walk someone to the hall just outside the whackers glass, motion to them that they had someone to be brought into line and out would come the paddle. If a teacher leaves a classroom empty today (in the same school district), they're written up with some form of penalty - I don't even remember the entire situation is. I'd have to ask my mom, who has taught for ca. 35 years.
When it was time to assume the position, everyone would get very, very quiet, hoping to hear everything, including anything they might hear words. I found it was a good time to slide a textbook to the edge of my desk and carefully let it find the floor. Everyone jumped as if someone got a whack. Usually, the standard was to go to the "Principal's Bench" - a lengthy, smooth bench sitting just inside the main door and outside of Administration. The goals were solitary confinement, other students passing by and see you sitting there, and in the teachers' eyes, the principal might walk in|out and interrogating them re: why they are there, and after a good tongue lashing, sent back to class.
Forget shaving.
Take any of the blades on the market, let me use it once, then clean it as thorough as you can. I can try each of them and tell you which one is the used one. I'm not spending money to deal with that.
I go for the scruffy look and just run a groomer every few days. If I don't get home to clean up during a death march, I don't look out of place. And, a full beard even carefully groomed, it's like velcro for things such as dog hair, loose lint, etc.
In the world of submarines (as in patents), when the first three-blade came out, it was announced they'd filed more than 32-34 patents.
Gag me with a chainsaw.
Oh, one other thing...I've discovered Saddam in court: he's got a full beard, whereas we alway saw him with a moustache. He looks like two different people. Psychologically, it's got to have an effect because he's "Not Kramer.
One of the first things I noticed after growing my first (full) beard, then shaving it a few weeks later (keeping a moustache), many people asked, "When did you grow a moustache?" This is a common response.
pet peeve: not understanding the difference betwixt a goatee and a VanDyck. This is also pretty common in the US "and I" as something other than the subject. I'm guessing it's a grammar change we're seeing first-hand.
The (our) state's Secretary of State has taken time to frequently announce "the system is working to where a proper piece of recognition with a picture will permit you to vote without hassle.
Then again, the state purchased many, many voting machines three years ago but their contracted company couldn't make it work. ES&S was sneaking sotware so untested code was going to be used. When a whistleblower terminated her about an hour later, the state turned around and hired her as a watchdog.
ES&S and Diebold seem to have a combined corner on the market but collectively have a problem of getting things to work.
The state's BMV finally went live (six->eight years late, after several governor and buckets of money after a "CEO" ("Half of the time I don't know what's going on.") resigned.
In both situations, why not pick a precinct or two to test either of those systems, kick the bugs, then go state?
As it is, you're going to look at a lot of handcounting in Indiana if one of their engineers used meters|yards improperly.
Oil is not a fossil fuel.
I'd enjoy someone proving otherwise beyond fiat, let alone ukase.
Oh, when will(or has already occured) the Hubbert Curve peaked?
Potential sales shouldn't be an issue. "We need a bigger, cooler telescope" seems to be a good label.
Allow enough time for people get used to a it, they have no preferene except to have cool images to look at. NASA, however, wants the next generation picture toy.
Finding other potential planet, binary stars, etc. should to be less important when the local (our) neighborhood needs to be fully played with. Or, this planet. How much do we know about where we live (Earth)?
I can't see my tax money diverted so someone can find "connect the dots"? (all of the objects & their behavior against others)
Perhaps we're pushing this so hard is makework for all of people who have degrees (in this field)?
B&N?
Addall.com
BookPool.com
Addall will reference Amazon stores and it's not difficult to find a brand new (or "like new", etc.) book. It's like being able to purchase the previously college textbook, but at a discounted price. If I buy books online, I go to those two as a rule.
I suppose some people go to other sities such as OverStock there with other things in mind; e.g., Showing the luscious MILF Sabine Ehrenfeld your "O" face.