For example, "must be able to lift 50 pounds repeatedly" is a requirement for many jobs
In that case, the job description should have said, "Must not be genetically predisposed to getting CTS." But it doesn't say that, does it?
I agree that the test ought not to be done in secret, it ought to be part of the normal employment process
The whole point behind the article is that it wasn't done in secret! --
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Re:Tivo does NOT have a 30 second skip feature
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TiVo goes one step beyond that. First off, the 30-second skip feature is not useful, IMHO, since you need to wait until the next commercial starts before you can know whether to skip 30 seconds. And then, if for some reason the next commercial is less than 30 seconds, you've skipped to far.
TiVo's solution is better. You can fast forward at three different speeds. When you hit play, it jumps back a few seconds. Why? Because it expects you to be fast forwarding through commercials, and once you see the show is back on, you press play. TiVo makes it easier for you by rewinding a bit. This makes it MUCH easier and faster to skip commercials than some stupid 30-second skip feature. --
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POP3 is only for retieval of mail residing on the server. It does not send outbound mail,
Not true. There is an extension to POP3 that allows you to send email. My email client, MR/2 ICE for OS/2, supports it. It's also supported by InetMail for OS/2, a POP3 server. --
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Would this even be an issue for software under the BSD license? My understanding is that the whole point behind the BSD license is that companies can take your code and repackage it any way they want. I don't think the GPL lets companies do that. --
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Re:Oracle submits a laundry list of changes?
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It should be obvious that Oracle's software engineers are some of the best, if not the best, database designers in the world. They can provide insight that 99% of Linux kernel programmers would never have. The whole point is for the kernel developers to review the proposals and make a judgement on each one.
Obviously, if Oracle really cared about these changes, they'd make them themselves and submit the code along with the ideas. There's nothing wrong with a version of the Linux kernel that adds features specific Oracle, it's up to Linus to decide whether these changes are #ifdef'd into the official kernel.
Unfortunately, Linus has been known to make incredibly stupid decisions. For instance, he refuses to add a kernel debugger because he thinks that real programmers don't need a debugger, and all it will do is reduce the quality of the code because programmers will (somehow) suddenly stop caring about good design and just write a bunch of hacks instead. Yes, I know it's absurd, but that's exactly what he thinks. --
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That 2.9% is basically what the riverboat has to pay the credit card company (CC companies charge vendors 2 to 5% of the charged amount), and the $2 probably covers the cost of maintaining the ATM. --
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It's likely the doctors would have been murdered even if not listed on this particular website.
I don't think so. The whole point behind this argument is that the web site did aid, in some manner, these murders. The only way to know for sure is to catch the murderers and find out if they saw the web site before they killed those doctors. Until then, I think you'll find most people would disagree with you. --
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But the more people use it, the more refined it will be.
Really? I don't think so. The more people there are who use it, the more screwed up it will be. Ten million people will not be able to agree on something more than one million people will. --
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I'm still waiting for one of you religious nut cases to provide any kind of evidence that playing D&D will somehow bring me closer to Satan. I've never seen it happen, and I don't know anyone who has. Do you know of any D&D player who wasn't already mentally unstable and was drawn to Satan? Just name one! I bet you can't. --
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Character levels are just a way to measure the increase in ability that experience gives you. Someone who's been a soldier for 20 years is going to be better at combat than someone who's just started. How else can you reflect that without using character levels? --
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Modding this post down would not be "squelching a valid but unpopular viewpoint" because this viewpoint is not valid.
I personally don't know any Christian who views D&D as "evil" in any way. You make it sound as if just thinking about spellcasting will cause you to be tempted by Satan, and that's just plain absurd. I play D&D regularly, and I have never known or even heard of anyone being drawn to Satan because of it.
I hate to break it to you, but D&D really is just a game. If you can point to any evidence otherwise, please do so. But until then, all you're doing is giving Christianity a bad name. --
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I just wanted to include this text from an editorial in a paper I read last month. It's from Phillip Thompson, the directory of the Center for Ethics and Leadership at St. Edwards University in Austin. It's about people who choose to clone themselves as an alterternative to birthing a child.
"The primary problem is that cloning violates the unique identity and inherent dignity of each person. The clone will not be the genetically unique mixture of two parents, but an exact replica of only one person. This lack of individual identity will cause massive psychological scarring and familial disruption. How can one live in the shadow of one's older self and their reputation, accomplishments (good or bad) and physical ailments? How do we view ourselves if our sole reason for existence is not love, but utility? How do we make sense of our identity within a family? These questions suggest that our culture's sense of human development, personal identity and family relationships will be shattered."
Anyone who's considering cloning themselves should think very hard about this. The parents and other family members will always expect the clone to be "just as good" as the original. If a doctor clones himself, and the clone decides that he wants to be an artist instead, the doctor will consider his "son" (or daughter) to be defective somehow. I suspect that if human cloning does become possible, we'll have a collection of clones with such massive psychological problems that it will become illegal. --
Lord Nimon
Don't put a computer or a TV in their room. Force them to watch TV and use the computer in a room where the parents frequently are, like the living room. --
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It's still showing because the SciFi channel purchased the entire series. They've already paid for it, and they don't have anything else they can show, so they may as well show it.
I received my MS degree at the same university where I got my BS degree (both in Computer Science). While a grad student, I tought undergraduates in exchange for free tuition. I can tell you one thing: I learned a whole lot more than the students did.
Granted, this is just one school, but I think it's something you'll find in most universities. My students just did NOT want to learn the material. They would skip class and not visit me during office hours, and then complain that they didn't get enough help for the projects (I'm serious!). None of them showed any natural aptitude or curiosity whatsoever.
I was one of those students who generally knew more than the teaching assistants, since I had already been programming for ten years by the time I was a freshman (I miss my TRS-80:-)). But when it was my turn to teach, I was amazed at the laziness and ineptitude I saw. I know my classmates back in college were never this bad, so I can only assume one of two things:
I'm a really, really bad teacher and somehow I convinced the students they'd be better off not doing any work.
My students really were less competent.
Reason #2 makes a lot more sense to me.
So before you go trying to improve the CS curriculum, take a look and see if your classmates are worth it. You might be better off finding a good professor and volunteering to work with him on projects. --
I use it too, but I get to use it for free every year because I'm a WingspanBank.com customer (free ATM country-wide!). I like it because it is well-done and it works equally well on my Mac and OS/2 machines - now THAT'S cross-platform! In fact, I wonder why anyone would use the boxed software, considering how much better the web verison is.
Tax software is so complicated that there's no way it will ever be free, let alone open source. It costs A LOT of money to hire the accountants you need to translate the complex tax code into software that anyone can understand. --
No state would be foolish enough to tax exports. If it costs 49 other states x% more to buy from such a state, thats 49 state populations that would
buy elsewhere. They might as well shut all businesses down within their borders.
Not necessarily. Only business that do a significant portion of there business as mail order will need to consider moving. But businesses that rely on in-store sales are safe.
Mail-order businesses can locate themselves anywhere. Frankly, I think the Federal government needs to step in here, because you're right: if only one state does it, it won't be effective. ALL the states need to adopt this policy together, otherwise it will fail. --
That's up to Delaware. If Deleware is happy with all these companies moving into the state and not charging sales tax, then that's fine. However, I get the feeling that such a free ride won't last long if its abused. --
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In that case, the job description should have said, "Must not be genetically predisposed to getting CTS." But it doesn't say that, does it?
I agree that the test ought not to be done in secret, it ought to be part of the normal employment process
The whole point behind the article is that it wasn't done in secret!
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Lord Nimon
TiVo's solution is better. You can fast forward at three different speeds. When you hit play, it jumps back a few seconds. Why? Because it expects you to be fast forwarding through commercials, and once you see the show is back on, you press play. TiVo makes it easier for you by rewinding a bit. This makes it MUCH easier and faster to skip commercials than some stupid 30-second skip feature.
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Lord Nimon
Not true. There is an extension to POP3 that allows you to send email. My email client, MR/2 ICE for OS/2, supports it. It's also supported by InetMail for OS/2, a POP3 server.
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Lord Nimon
Highly unlikely. The US plane was on autopilot, which means the pilot could not make such a maneuver.
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Lord Nimon
Would this even be an issue for software under the BSD license? My understanding is that the whole point behind the BSD license is that companies can take your code and repackage it any way they want. I don't think the GPL lets companies do that.
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Don't know anything about this one.
http://www.openwatcom.org/.
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Obviously, if Oracle really cared about these changes, they'd make them themselves and submit the code along with the ideas. There's nothing wrong with a version of the Linux kernel that adds features specific Oracle, it's up to Linus to decide whether these changes are #ifdef'd into the official kernel.
Unfortunately, Linus has been known to make incredibly stupid decisions. For instance, he refuses to add a kernel debugger because he thinks that real programmers don't need a debugger, and all it will do is reduce the quality of the code because programmers will (somehow) suddenly stop caring about good design and just write a bunch of hacks instead. Yes, I know it's absurd, but that's exactly what he thinks.
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Lord Nimon
That 2.9% is basically what the riverboat has to pay the credit card company (CC companies charge vendors 2 to 5% of the charged amount), and the $2 probably covers the cost of maintaining the ATM.
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Lord Nimon
That rule has been deprecated. Whoever invented it was a moron.
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(Score: -1, Redundant)
Sorry, I couldn't help myself :-)
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I don't think so. The whole point behind this argument is that the web site did aid, in some manner, these murders. The only way to know for sure is to catch the murderers and find out if they saw the web site before they killed those doctors. Until then, I think you'll find most people would disagree with you.
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Lord Nimon
Really? I don't think so. The more people there are who use it, the more screwed up it will be. Ten million people will not be able to agree on something more than one million people will.
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Lord Nimon
Dude, that was brilliant! Kudos for providing real evidence that RPGs are not "anti-Christian".
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I'm still waiting for one of you religious nut cases to provide any kind of evidence that playing D&D will somehow bring me closer to Satan. I've never seen it happen, and I don't know anyone who has. Do you know of any D&D player who wasn't already mentally unstable and was drawn to Satan? Just name one! I bet you can't.
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Lord Nimon
Character levels are just a way to measure the increase in ability that experience gives you. Someone who's been a soldier for 20 years is going to be better at combat than someone who's just started. How else can you reflect that without using character levels?
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Lord Nimon
I personally don't know any Christian who views D&D as "evil" in any way. You make it sound as if just thinking about spellcasting will cause you to be tempted by Satan, and that's just plain absurd. I play D&D regularly, and I have never known or even heard of anyone being drawn to Satan because of it.
I hate to break it to you, but D&D really is just a game. If you can point to any evidence otherwise, please do so. But until then, all you're doing is giving Christianity a bad name.
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Sorry dude, but I loved Hong Kong Phooey.
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"The primary problem is that cloning violates the unique identity and inherent dignity of each person. The clone will not be the genetically unique mixture of two parents, but an exact replica of only one person. This lack of individual identity will cause massive psychological scarring and familial disruption. How can one live in the shadow of one's older self and their reputation, accomplishments (good or bad) and physical ailments? How do we view ourselves if our sole reason for existence is not love, but utility? How do we make sense of our identity within a family? These questions suggest that our culture's sense of human development, personal identity and family relationships will be shattered."
Anyone who's considering cloning themselves should think very hard about this. The parents and other family members will always expect the clone to be "just as good" as the original. If a doctor clones himself, and the clone decides that he wants to be an artist instead, the doctor will consider his "son" (or daughter) to be defective somehow. I suspect that if human cloning does become possible, we'll have a collection of clones with such massive psychological problems that it will become illegal.
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Lord Nimon
Stories like this belong on Kuro5hin, not Slashdot.
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Don't put a computer or a TV in their room. Force them to watch TV and use the computer in a room where the parents frequently are, like the living room.
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Besides, some people (no one I know) like it.
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Granted, this is just one school, but I think it's something you'll find in most universities. My students just did NOT want to learn the material. They would skip class and not visit me during office hours, and then complain that they didn't get enough help for the projects (I'm serious!). None of them showed any natural aptitude or curiosity whatsoever.
I was one of those students who generally knew more than the teaching assistants, since I had already been programming for ten years by the time I was a freshman (I miss my TRS-80 :-)). But when it was my turn to teach, I was amazed at the laziness and ineptitude I saw. I know my classmates back in college were never this bad, so I can only assume one of two things:
- I'm a really, really bad teacher and somehow I convinced the students they'd be better off not doing any work.
- My students really were less competent.
Reason #2 makes a lot more sense to me.So before you go trying to improve the CS curriculum, take a look and see if your classmates are worth it. You might be better off finding a good professor and volunteering to work with him on projects.
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Tax software is so complicated that there's no way it will ever be free, let alone open source. It costs A LOT of money to hire the accountants you need to translate the complex tax code into software that anyone can understand.
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Not necessarily. Only business that do a significant portion of there business as mail order will need to consider moving. But businesses that rely on in-store sales are safe.
Mail-order businesses can locate themselves anywhere. Frankly, I think the Federal government needs to step in here, because you're right: if only one state does it, it won't be effective. ALL the states need to adopt this policy together, otherwise it will fail.
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That's up to Delaware. If Deleware is happy with all these companies moving into the state and not charging sales tax, then that's fine. However, I get the feeling that such a free ride won't last long if its abused.
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