Most workers in cube hell are no more addicted to checking email than they are addicted to the air they must breathe to survive.
I don't know about where you guys work, but to say that every co-worker I've had in the past 4 years "checks his email" is probably a misnomer. Outlook, that evil beast, is always open, always notifying people immediately when they have new mail.
(Side rant: Why do they insist on CC:ing half the company, even when they're not tattling or trying to save their own asses? The Reply-All button is a bug, not a feature. As a web dork, I have no need to know that Dolores in Accounts Receiveables needs clarification on that invoice Herb sent to ACME Inc.)
The same "infinite logical regressions" exist in the current scientific explanations of creation, too. What contains the universe? What contains the container? Science is a method, not a body of knowledge. Proponents of religion-based ID "theory" don't seem to have much of a method at all.
The same "infinite regression" exist in the scientific differences, too. Where did the universe come from? What "container" contains it? What contains the container? Science is a method, not a body of knowledge. Proponents of religion-based ID "theory" don't seem to have much of a method.
Interesting discussion. Any advice for this situation?
My employer hired an outside software vendor years ago who has provided us with very little end-user or developer documentation. I am new here, and I'm the only person on staff with any technical background or experience. In my opinion, we're being taken for a ride.
Granted, the software generally works, and it provides us with a revenue stream. But for what we're paying, I'd expect it to be spit-shined and polished, well-documented, and easy-to-use. It is none of these things. My guess is that we could have better products, better consulting, and better support for a hell of a lot less money, so "generally working" doesn't cut it.
My fear is that said documentation doesn't even exist. We're not ready to jump ship yet, but I wonder what steps we might need to take in order to jump ship. How do you go about getting a legacy developer to document the years of work they've already produced for you so that hiring another vendor is even an option?
While it may be true that there's always another place right around the corner, you can suffer from too many options. I thought the same thing about TV when I first got Tivo and now I am inundated with all kinds of wonderful programming to watch. I'd just rather sit in Newark and stare at one rock all day long, if'n you don't mind.
Art Bell, the retired/semi-retired late-night radio host, in the mid-to-late nineties frequently had as a guest Ed Dames, a former military psychic aka "remote viewer". Dames was generally pretty outlandish in his visions--I remember something about pregnant martians overrunning secret military bases in the southwestern US--but I recall that he once speculated that SETI would have better luck if they searched for lasers.
I played in a regular Hold 'Em game several years ago, before the recent popularity boom. A few months, I started getting back into the game, playing online and checking out some of the tournament play on cable TV. Pop culture has ruined the game.
The first sign was my 13 and 15 year-old cousins giving me playing tips at a low limit game at their aunt's wedding. These kids look up to poker "stars" with the same intensity they looked up to Derek Jeter a couple of years ago. Weird. (Their mother didn't seem to mind too much when I schooled them for about $20 total, by the way.)
The second sign was when I went to my first "real" game in several years. Many of the doofuses in attendance had donned "crazy" sunglasses--just like the "stars" on ESPN wear. Other guys had developed their own nervous habits of shuffling their cards, shuffling their chips, etc. So many of the iconic expressions of poker have now been popularized and I think it sucks. It reminds me of when the Red Hot Chili Peppers made it big in the early 1990s, and al of the sudden, all the jocks in high school were wearing Mother's Milk shirts.
I am by no means a pro poker player. I'm not even a good poker player. But damn if I don't hate to see the ghetto of poker being gentrified by a bunch of baseball-cap-wearing, Ray-Ban mofos from the 'burbs.
Rewind 30 years. I assume the vast majority of Americans received their news from the Big Three national news broadcasts and their local news. Cable TV and the Internet had not yet revolutionized the way we access information. If you wanted "hard news" on TV back then, you had to watch something dry as a bone, like the Macneill Leherer Report on PBS.
Cable TV news came along and started watering shit down. Look at the TV news playing field of today: flashy graphics and dramatic music, sound bites, Shepherd Smith, Crossfire, The Daily Show, Bill Mahr. News analysis is not an extreme sport, yet all the networks treat it as such. They have had to dumb down their content in order to appeal to a wider demographic.
By nature, news analysis is boring, analytical, academic stuff. And now, instead of having a large, possibly underinformed populace like we had 30 years ago, we now have a gigantic, misinformed populace who expects TV news to be as exciting as the latest episode of Survivor.
Michael Moore is guilty of the same offense. I have read interviews with Moore in which he has responded "What I do is satire" when the questions got too hot.
You are, at least in part, ill-informed. CDs can be ejected in any number of ways in OS X: keyboard shortcut (which is by default cmd-e), selecting File > Eject from the menu, dragging the CD to the trash (which changes to an eject icon when you start dragging, by the way), control-clicking or right-clicking (on a two-button mouse) on the CD and selecting eject.
Article II, Section I of the Constitution offers the following three requirements for becoming president of the United States:
* The candidate must be at least 35 years old.
* The candidate must be a natural-born U.S. citizen.
* The candidate must have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years at the time of the election.
Those are the only stipulations -- the Constitution doesn't mention anything about rap sheets. So technically you could preside in the White House after doing a stint in the Big House.
For several years, whoever happens to be President of the US at the time has made an annual Presidential Determination to prevent "disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location." Here is Bush's Determination from last year:
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Most workers in cube hell are no more addicted to checking email than they are addicted to the air they must breathe to survive.
I don't know about where you guys work, but to say that every co-worker I've had in the past 4 years "checks his email" is probably a misnomer. Outlook, that evil beast, is always open, always notifying people immediately when they have new mail.
(Side rant: Why do they insist on CC:ing half the company, even when they're not tattling or trying to save their own asses? The Reply-All button is a bug, not a feature. As a web dork, I have no need to know that Dolores in Accounts Receiveables needs clarification on that invoice Herb sent to ACME Inc.)
Remind me to proofread next time....Ahem:
The same "infinite logical regressions" exist in the current scientific explanations of creation, too. What contains the universe? What contains the container? Science is a method, not a body of knowledge. Proponents of religion-based ID "theory" don't seem to have much of a method at all.
The same "infinite regression" exist in the scientific differences, too. Where did the universe come from? What "container" contains it? What contains the container? Science is a method, not a body of knowledge. Proponents of religion-based ID "theory" don't seem to have much of a method.
U, S, and A! U, S, and A!
Interesting discussion. Any advice for this situation?
My employer hired an outside software vendor years ago who has provided us with very little end-user or developer documentation. I am new here, and I'm the only person on staff with any technical background or experience. In my opinion, we're being taken for a ride.
Granted, the software generally works, and it provides us with a revenue stream. But for what we're paying, I'd expect it to be spit-shined and polished, well-documented, and easy-to-use. It is none of these things. My guess is that we could have better products, better consulting, and better support for a hell of a lot less money, so "generally working" doesn't cut it.
My fear is that said documentation doesn't even exist. We're not ready to jump ship yet, but I wonder what steps we might need to take in order to jump ship. How do you go about getting a legacy developer to document the years of work they've already produced for you so that hiring another vendor is even an option?
Gee. Thanks for clarifying.
...say the Slashdotters as they goober in front of their computer monitors for the 18th hour in a row.
I second the Airport Extreme. An added bonus is the AE's mini-TOSLINK digital optical output.
While it may be true that there's always another place right around the corner, you can suffer from too many options. I thought the same thing about TV when I first got Tivo and now I am inundated with all kinds of wonderful programming to watch. I'd just rather sit in Newark and stare at one rock all day long, if'n you don't mind.
Art Bell, the retired/semi-retired late-night radio host, in the mid-to-late nineties frequently had as a guest Ed Dames, a former military psychic aka "remote viewer". Dames was generally pretty outlandish in his visions--I remember something about pregnant martians overrunning secret military bases in the southwestern US--but I recall that he once speculated that SETI would have better luck if they searched for lasers.
I played in a regular Hold 'Em game several years ago, before the recent popularity boom. A few months, I started getting back into the game, playing online and checking out some of the tournament play on cable TV. Pop culture has ruined the game.
The first sign was my 13 and 15 year-old cousins giving me playing tips at a low limit game at their aunt's wedding. These kids look up to poker "stars" with the same intensity they looked up to Derek Jeter a couple of years ago. Weird. (Their mother didn't seem to mind too much when I schooled them for about $20 total, by the way.)
The second sign was when I went to my first "real" game in several years. Many of the doofuses in attendance had donned "crazy" sunglasses--just like the "stars" on ESPN wear. Other guys had developed their own nervous habits of shuffling their cards, shuffling their chips, etc. So many of the iconic expressions of poker have now been popularized and I think it sucks. It reminds me of when the Red Hot Chili Peppers made it big in the early 1990s, and al of the sudden, all the jocks in high school were wearing Mother's Milk shirts.
I am by no means a pro poker player. I'm not even a good poker player. But damn if I don't hate to see the ghetto of poker being gentrified by a bunch of baseball-cap-wearing, Ray-Ban mofos from the 'burbs.
Rewind 30 years. I assume the vast majority of Americans received their news from the Big Three national news broadcasts and their local news. Cable TV and the Internet had not yet revolutionized the way we access information. If you wanted "hard news" on TV back then, you had to watch something dry as a bone, like the Macneill Leherer Report on PBS.
Cable TV news came along and started watering shit down. Look at the TV news playing field of today: flashy graphics and dramatic music, sound bites, Shepherd Smith, Crossfire, The Daily Show, Bill Mahr. News analysis is not an extreme sport, yet all the networks treat it as such. They have had to dumb down their content in order to appeal to a wider demographic.
By nature, news analysis is boring, analytical, academic stuff. And now, instead of having a large, possibly underinformed populace like we had 30 years ago, we now have a gigantic, misinformed populace who expects TV news to be as exciting as the latest episode of Survivor.
Michael Moore is guilty of the same offense. I have read interviews with Moore in which he has responded "What I do is satire" when the questions got too hot.
I skimmed the list of previous winners too fast and thought I saw:
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You are, at least in part, ill-informed. CDs can be ejected in any number of ways in OS X: keyboard shortcut (which is by default cmd-e), selecting File > Eject from the menu, dragging the CD to the trash (which changes to an eject icon when you start dragging, by the way), control-clicking or right-clicking (on a two-button mouse) on the CD and selecting eject.
Would a conviction automatically preclude Badnarik and Cobb from holding the office of President?
It's not "its," it's "it's."
For several years, whoever happens to be President of the US at the time has made an annual Presidential Determination to prevent "disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location." Here is Bush's Determination from last year :
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/2
Here is a website detailing a great Mac-based home theater PC with 1 TB of storage:
http://www2.enights.net:5505/htpc.html
I'd love to answer your question, but my current employment agreement forbids it.