I don't want to pay a monthly subscription for my internet radio. I jump all over the place and listen to various stations. Instead I would rather pay as I go... like the cell phone model. I can top-up my card and use it at the various radion stations. I think a micropayment solution or PayPal debit would be appropriate. Something like.0056 cents/minute, like a whole buck for three hours or so. Looking in my Winamp Radio station list, I see the average listeners is ~100 at any time, ~3500 is the highest for a large/really popular station. So with 100 listeners you make $33/hour. Also throw in some advertising revenue. Does anybody know if that would cover the costs of the songs?
What does it cost to play songs as a radio station? I have no clue.
IMHO, there is always more to the story. Rarely will an employer blow his top and let go a valuable employee because of a seemingly minor offence, especially if the employee has the longevity of 6 years.
There's more to the story than we know, the media is only framing the most entertaining situation to gain readership. Most likely the solitaire game was the last straw in a series of events over a long period of time.
People don't just let people go at the drop of a hat. Don't get bent out of shape or scared by this story.
If you decide on multiple languages, you can use the.NET framework because all languages that sit on top of it boil down to the single Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code meaning: - classes, methods and algorithms written in one language can be accessed, re-encapsulated, extended, etc from the other languages. Write a class in VB.NET and access it from C#, write a C# object and extend it using VisualCobol.NET, etc etc. - MSIL can be ported to other platforms (in the future) provided the full implementation of the.NET runtime is ported. - It promotes code reuse and easy sharing between languages. Your programmers might be more efficient if they stay in their language of choice (provided there is difference experience within your company). - The MSIL code supports most of the latest object-oriented concepts (although not aspect-oriented yet) unlike classic VB
Some here would suggest the Mono platform, the open-source version. I don't know enough about its particulars, but I assume it supports the same concepts.
Slashdot should be delisted soon because there's a whole bunch of @#$#!! yapping going on that doesn't make any sense at all to a search engine or human being, and I for one take responsibility and admit I enjoy it.
From the article: the ADAS system will beep every 10 seconds to make sure you're paying attention, requiring you to touch the steering wheel to inform the car you're still in charge,
And if you don't touch the steering wheel in 10 seconds -- maybe because you're sleeping -- does the system shut itself off, sending you driving straight into the ditch or the oncoming traffic......
Or I create a session with a site but don't log in, and I give it to them. They use it, find they aren't logged in, log in, and I'm also logged in as them (since I'm using the same session).
Most reliable sites also do an IP address check (in addition to just using the cookie-based session) to prevent against session hijacking.
Microsoft stock can tank, but Microsoft can continue to exist for many years. With the installed base of Windows machines, they aren't going to be losing non-stock money anytime soon, unless everybody switches, an ideal to be sure but it never comes to fruition because the two camps are distinct and don't cross over easily. Anyway, if M$ tanked, life would really suck to not have that alternative.
I got the point that the tags are optional for the programmer to input. One point: I can see HEAD standing above the others (no pun intended) as far as being close to a requirement as any for web page designers when using DHTML because client-side scripting is processed inside the HEAD first before the BODY scripting is executed. This, a programmer can be sure of. One of the few things you can be sure of when JavaScripting is concerned. Now somebody prove me wrong....
Yes, it's hard to tell around here who's pulling legs and not, however you brought to mind a recent story. Just this week in Toronto (Canada) a cab driver was killed by one of two teens street racing their parent's BMWs; the interesting part about the story is "Investigators say a copy of a popular video game simulating car races was found in one of the cars" Do I believe the game put the idea in their heads? Yes. Do I believe the game is bad? No. (but I digress) Those were two normal kids who pulled a stupid stunt. I did stupid tricks in vehicles when I was young; most of us have. It's just a bad decision, not a case of reality vs. fantasy. Unfortunately sometimes somebody gets hurt or dies. On the other hand I have a friend who suffered from schizonphrenia and at a certain time in his life had a really hard time separating reality from fantasy (e.g. the government was after him, bill gates put microchips in his family's heads, etc). Fortunately he pulled through thre roughest parts, And he's always been the most careful driver I know (remember "Driving MIss Daisy"!) even though he played racing games and such, funny enough. His fantasy vs. reality struggle wasn't based on a notion from a video game or movie. His world was very different from within his own mind. You just never know. It all depends on the person. I don't think you can fit all AD&D players into one category to be "Careful" of.
I don't know about scrapping Toy Story 3. Personally I would watch another just for the laughs. The latest Cars previews just don't capture my interest. However maybe Pixar will end up dazzling me once again. It's early to tell. In fact from what I know I'd put Toy Story 3 and Cars on the same interest level right now.
It makes you wonder though, how many hits in a row can you produce. Pixar's had an awesome streak so far.
So our planet can be seen from space as a million pinpoints of light. It will camouflage our earth against the stars from the eyes of onlookers and would-be invaders, allowing us enough time to build up our technology and arsenal against them. C'mon, doesn't anybody see the big picture anymore? The media grabs ahold of small environmental issue and look what happens... Think people. THINK!
I would rather think of Netscape as having provided intial codebase and support to produce the Mozilla project as successor and as Netscape having been transformed from the ashes and rising like a Fire Bird, oh @^$@$@$! wait... wrong analogy.. the um,... now hot Firefox product.
Regardless, Netscape has evolved purposely. The shell of the Netscape browser you now see bundled with all kinds of other software is just a marketing piece based on the new successor, (same gecko engine internals as Firefox). The suppression of Netscape is just some sad chrome features and a white elephant being put to rest and bowing to its next evolutionary step. Netscape may no longer be recognized for what it was, but right now Firefox is what it is and that's most important. Netscape played the role that caused its own downfall into something greater. That's a pretty cool ending.
something new was created or made that did not previously exist.
In the case of the RIAA, maybe this is good news for people because the RIAA is concerned about "copying" music, not "creating" music. So in the latter case if it didn't previously exist then we're not copying anything. Hahaha. Screwed up logic but the courts are screwed up often-time so maybe this could make 'em think for a while.
I see somebody already posted the Google video of Octopus attacking shark. "first documented attack" is *not* true.
And since when is any type of wild animal not supposed to attack? So a diver interacts with octopi a lot and loves them. Should you really be surprised when one day you don't surface because a P.O'd Octopus decided to hug you too long? They're damn strong creatures, and you cannot say they will only behave in manner X, Y, or Z. I've seen a small bird "attack" a person. WTF?!? you say? I say, why not? You're not going to convince the bird any different if it wants to attach you. Same with the octopus that can number your days if it wants.
Since he would have recently died before being frozen, he can wake up in 100 years and be the crappiest-feeling richest guy on earth! They say money can't buy everything.
BTW on the serious side, I've been sitting on an always-on DSL connection since 1999 (two computers on it). That's 2005 - 1999 = 6 years * 365 days = 2190 days (okay, maybe minus a day or two for accumulated brief power outages) and I have *never* had a problem with being infected or comprised. Yes, I have been attacked... they just have never got in! The secret for me has been a hardware firewall/router in front of my computer + relatively long cryptic passwords on the router and Windwos + also keeping my Windows software firewall turned on + keeping updated automatically with latest patches. The math is simple. High speed is worth it. Do it and leave your dial-up friend in the dust.
Tell your friend to buy a Sherman Tank and drive it to work so he'll be less affected by traffic accidents. It goes slower, is harder to dent so has great security. All other things aside, this is the ultimate way to get to work.
If there was ever a time when I was glad I'm not a pig, it's NOW! Sheesh. Put them out of their experimenal multi-gunshot simulated injury misery and just salp them alongside my eggs.
Surely if your heart is stopped and your brain dead then your soul leaves your body
That's is really interesting question (or assumption about what happens). When does the sould leave the body? What causes it to happen? Is it some kind of self-detach mechanism that fires when the heart and brain stop, which seems the most evident assumption to jump to... or otherwise?
I suppose if people are put into suspended animation and brought back from it, then indeed we have to look for other solutions. Of course it doesn't mean the human doesn't have a soul. That would be jumping to conclusions. But it looks like we could take the opportunity to re-evaluate the theory of how souls work. Super interesting indeed.
As a tech person having been at the same company for 8 years, I also do some hiring (small company, no HR dept), Toronto Ontario Canada.
The majority of applicants coming through our door are European, Russian and Chinese. Racism doesn't play a role. We look for people who can get the job done. We've hired a WASP guy out of university, and also a lady in her mid-forties from the the Ukraine (my guess -- I wouldn't ask her age). We're all there to do the work the best we can. If somebody cannot fulfill the position or cannot keep up to the rest of the group, for any of various reasons, we replace them and try somebody else... and they go to a different environemnt that they fit into better.
The other day I wondered why we have have had *no* African-American candidates. Maybe somebody can shed some light on this. I have assumptions, but I'm not sure if they're true.
Another item which plays a huge role in hiring is whether or not the candidate can communicate well. I've run into candidates who can progam three of us into the floor, but if there's a communication gap, it just doesn't work out in our setting, in the longrun, because we're a small company and do not have super-specific roles. Whoever we hire will be dealing with clients either over the phone or at meetings once in a while, will be involved in the planning and analysis parts of the project and must be able to express abstract though well. From experience we do not hire a person anymore if there is a communication gap. It inevitable ends up that we replace the person and it's not good for them or us. This isn't prejudice or racism, but a problem that can be overcome no matter the origin of the person.
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I don't want to pay a monthly subscription for my internet radio. I jump all over the place and listen to various stations. Instead I would rather pay as I go ... like the cell phone model. .0056 cents/minute, like a whole buck for three hours or so.
I can top-up my card and use it at the various radion stations. I think a micropayment solution or PayPal debit would be appropriate. Something like
Looking in my Winamp Radio station list, I see the average listeners is ~100 at any time, ~3500 is the highest for a large/really popular station.
So with 100 listeners you make $33/hour. Also throw in some advertising revenue.
Does anybody know if that would cover the costs of the songs?
What does it cost to play songs as a radio station? I have no clue.
IMHO, there is always more to the story. Rarely will an employer blow his top and let go a valuable employee because of a seemingly minor offence, especially if the employee has the longevity of 6 years.
There's more to the story than we know, the media is only framing the most entertaining situation to gain readership. Most likely the solitaire game was the last straw in a series of events over a long period of time. People don't just let people go at the drop of a hat. Don't get bent out of shape or scared by this story.
Hell, not even Microsoft can do it that bad. This sucks.
If you decide on multiple languages, you can use the .NET framework because all languages that sit on top of it boil down to the single Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code meaning: .NET runtime is ported.
- classes, methods and algorithms written in one language can be accessed, re-encapsulated, extended, etc from the other languages.
Write a class in VB.NET and access it from C#, write a C# object and extend it using VisualCobol.NET, etc etc.
- MSIL can be ported to other platforms (in the future) provided the full implementation of the
- It promotes code reuse and easy sharing between languages.
Your programmers might be more efficient if they stay in their language of choice (provided there is difference experience within your company).
- The MSIL code supports most of the latest object-oriented concepts (although not aspect-oriented yet) unlike classic VB
Some here would suggest the Mono platform, the open-source version. I don't know enough about its particulars, but I assume it supports the same concepts.
Slashdot should be delisted soon because there's a whole bunch of @#$#!! yapping going on that doesn't make any sense at all to a search engine or human being, and I for one take responsibility and admit I enjoy it.
And if you don't touch the steering wheel in 10 seconds -- maybe because you're sleeping -- does the system shut itself off, sending you driving straight into the ditch or the oncoming traffic ......
Most reliable sites also do an IP address check (in addition to just using the cookie-based session) to prevent against session hijacking.
Microsoft stock can tank, but Microsoft can continue to exist for many years. With the installed base of Windows machines, they aren't going to be losing non-stock money anytime soon, unless everybody switches, an ideal to be sure but it never comes to fruition because the two camps are distinct and don't cross over easily. Anyway, if M$ tanked, life would really suck to not have that alternative.
Extremely good point. Somebody mod this up. I would but I can't.
I got the point that the tags are optional for the programmer to input. One point: I can see HEAD standing above the others (no pun intended) as far as being close to a requirement as any for web page designers when using DHTML because client-side scripting is processed inside the HEAD first before the BODY scripting is executed. This, a programmer can be sure of. One of the few things you can be sure of when JavaScripting is concerned. Now somebody prove me wrong ....
Yes, it's hard to tell around here who's pulling legs and not, however you brought to mind a recent story. Just this week in Toronto (Canada) a cab driver was killed by one of two teens street racing their parent's BMWs; the interesting part about the story is "Investigators say a copy of a popular video game simulating car races was found in one of the cars" Do I believe the game put the idea in their heads? Yes. Do I believe the game is bad? No. (but I digress) Those were two normal kids who pulled a stupid stunt. I did stupid tricks in vehicles when I was young; most of us have. It's just a bad decision, not a case of reality vs. fantasy. Unfortunately sometimes somebody gets hurt or dies. On the other hand I have a friend who suffered from schizonphrenia and at a certain time in his life had a really hard time separating reality from fantasy (e.g. the government was after him, bill gates put microchips in his family's heads, etc). Fortunately he pulled through thre roughest parts, And he's always been the most careful driver I know (remember "Driving MIss Daisy"!) even though he played racing games and such, funny enough. His fantasy vs. reality struggle wasn't based on a notion from a video game or movie. His world was very different from within his own mind. You just never know. It all depends on the person. I don't think you can fit all AD&D players into one category to be "Careful" of.
It makes you wonder though, how many hits in a row can you produce. Pixar's had an awesome streak so far.
That's a lot of weight to place on one man's shoulders instead of the administration.
So our planet can be seen from space as a million pinpoints of light. It will camouflage our earth against the stars from the eyes of onlookers and would-be invaders, allowing us enough time to build up our technology and arsenal against them. C'mon, doesn't anybody see the big picture anymore? The media grabs ahold of small environmental issue and look what happens ... Think people. THINK!
I would rather think of Netscape as having provided intial codebase and support to produce the Mozilla project as successor and as Netscape having been transformed from the ashes and rising like a Fire Bird, oh @^$@$@$! wait ... wrong analogy .. the um, ... now hot Firefox product.
Regardless, Netscape has evolved purposely. The shell of the Netscape browser you now see bundled with all kinds of other software is just a marketing piece based on the new successor, (same gecko engine internals as Firefox). The suppression of Netscape is just some sad chrome features and a white elephant being put to rest and bowing to its next evolutionary step. Netscape may no longer be recognized for what it was, but right now Firefox is what it is and that's most important. Netscape played the role that caused its own downfall into something greater. That's a pretty cool ending.
In the case of the RIAA, maybe this is good news for people because the RIAA is concerned about "copying" music, not "creating" music. So in the latter case if it didn't previously exist then we're not copying anything. Hahaha. Screwed up logic but the courts are screwed up often-time so maybe this could make 'em think for a while.
"first documented attack" is *not* true.
And since when is any type of wild animal not supposed to attack? So a diver interacts with octopi a lot and loves them. Should you really be surprised when one day you don't surface because a P.O'd Octopus decided to hug you too long? They're damn strong creatures, and you cannot say they will only behave in manner X, Y, or Z. I've seen a small bird "attack" a person. WTF?!? you say? I say, why not? You're not going to convince the bird any different if it wants to attach you. Same with the octopus that can number your days if it wants.
If you're under that much stress and duress, and you're able to handle it, you may be able to handle looking for a job at the same time.
Since he would have recently died before being frozen, he can wake up in 100 years and be the crappiest-feeling richest guy on earth! They say money can't buy everything.
BTW on the serious side, I've been sitting on an always-on DSL connection since 1999 (two computers on it). That's 2005 - 1999 = 6 years * 365 days = 2190 days (okay, maybe minus a day or two for accumulated brief power outages) and I have *never* had a problem with being infected or comprised. Yes, I have been attacked ... they just have never got in! The secret for me has been a hardware firewall/router in front of my computer + relatively long cryptic passwords on the router and Windwos + also keeping my Windows software firewall turned on + keeping updated automatically with latest patches. The math is simple. High speed is worth it. Do it and leave your dial-up friend in the dust.
Tell your friend to buy a Sherman Tank and drive it to work so he'll be less affected by traffic accidents. It goes slower, is harder to dent so has great security. All other things aside, this is the ultimate way to get to work.
If there was ever a time when I was glad I'm not a pig, it's NOW! Sheesh. Put them out of their experimenal multi-gunshot simulated injury misery and just salp them alongside my eggs.
That's is really interesting question (or assumption about what happens). When does the sould leave the body? What causes it to happen? Is it some kind of self-detach mechanism that fires when the heart and brain stop, which seems the most evident assumption to jump to ... or otherwise?
I suppose if people are put into suspended animation and brought back from it, then indeed we have to look for other solutions. Of course it doesn't mean the human doesn't have a soul. That would be jumping to conclusions. But it looks like we could take the opportunity to re-evaluate the theory of how souls work. Super interesting indeed.
The other day I wondered why we have have had *no* African-American candidates. Maybe somebody can shed some light on this. I have assumptions, but I'm not sure if they're true.
Another item which plays a huge role in hiring is whether or not the candidate can communicate well. I've run into candidates who can progam three of us into the floor, but if there's a communication gap, it just doesn't work out in our setting, in the longrun, because we're a small company and do not have super-specific roles. Whoever we hire will be dealing with clients either over the phone or at meetings once in a while, will be involved in the planning and analysis parts of the project and must be able to express abstract though well. From experience we do not hire a person anymore if there is a communication gap. It inevitable ends up that we replace the person and it's not good for them or us. This isn't prejudice or racism, but a problem that can be overcome no matter the origin of the person.
And then what .... duck?