Your old Rights 1.0 have been made totally obsolete by the new Right's Rights 2.0.
1. You have the right to go shopping. Whenever, whereever, however. 2. You have the right to stop criticizing the Administration during time of war. For the troops, or for the children, take your pick. 3. It's always a time of war. 4. We were wrong about Torture, it's actually kinda fun, if not particularly useful. And anyhow, cruel and unusual has changed over time. Go watch Sopranos or 24 and shut up...or better yet... go shopping.
There are more rights in Rights 2.0, but you're going to be too busy watching TV, shopping, commuting 2 hours each way, and spending time in court ajudicating the foreclosure of your house due to the 19% interest on your 2/28 sub-prime loan, so don't bother yourself to learn them.
The real Sri Lankan terror threat involves a secret combination of chili peppers, tamarind seed pod pulp and cabbage. Applying these materials in just the right proportion to human gut flora results is a virtually undetectable autonomous self-propelled chemical weapon of mass disgustipation that can be deployed anywhere on the globe.
To Trosch: To damage one's reputation in an effort to prevent damage to one's reputation. The self-inflicted damage is typically 3 or 4 orders of magnitude greater than the damage one originally sought to prevent.
I've got 3 friends who have had their Cable Modems turned off because "they used excessive bandwidth." In those cases, I suspect the early termination fees are not recoverable. If that's the way it works, and you want out, just write up a little program that downloads lots of big files...put it in an infinite loop and voila...in a month or two, the ISP will cancel you.
Methods...you want methodology? I tend to agree with you, it is better to reason with the kids than simply say: THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE [feel free to substitute any other prohibited behavior for SMOKE in this example]!
That said, if I find my kid smoking tobacco, pot, meth, crack, heroin or PCP, I am going to confiscate (and dispose of) the combustibles and penalize the kid with a major [loss of privileges]. After the naturally ensuing drama dies down, conversations will be had around the topics of motivation to [SMOKE], potential long-term consequences of [SMOKING] and short-term consequences of getting caught [SMOKING] again.
These conversations, along with all kinds of education on the mechanics of the human body should be ongoing from an early age.
On the other hand, if a kid does abuse substances or have sex early on and manage to get away with it without attentive parents, teachers or peace officers noticing... well, then it's obviously not interfering in their lives and I don't really mind. This is what I call functional parento-igno-bliss.
As for web-cam freakiness leading to STD's or pregnancy, I guess I'm watching different web-cams...the ones I see usually involve a single person and generally one person doing freaky naked things won't get pregnant or pick up a dose of the clap unless they happen to have a turkey baster full of semen on hand.
As a parent of two, I can tell you I'm not worried about my kid having a sip of ceremonial wine before 21. And, frankly, I don't care if they get "naked and freaky on their webcams." Here's what I'm worried about:
1. my kids dying or getting maimed in a car accident with or without involvement of alcohol. 2. my kids getting an STD. 3. my kids getting addicted to tobacco. 4. my kids getting addicted to any other drug, including alcohol. 5. my kids getting pregnant before they're ready to take care of a child.
All of those things happened to kids I at the high school I attended during the 1970's. Call it hypocrisy if you like, but I think it's called learning from experience and trying to pass the benefit of that experience down through the generations. When we do this with science, it's generally recognized as a good thing.
The time passed, usually 10 or 20 years and the fact that the parents usually aren't currently engaged in the risky behaviors they once were and now want to prevent their children from engaging in mitigates, in my mind, the hypocrisy of it all.
On the other side of it, I've seen parents "teach" their kids how to "hold their likker" and that's uglier than the hypocrisy.
As for violent video games, I try to get my kids to play them, but they just want to play fluffy happy games like Sim City. It drives me nuts.
#73401293458323 for a system of representing sounds using glpyhs, which we call an Alphabet(tm) has been granted. By my calculations, the posters in this thread owe a total of $87,043.51 in licensing fees. Please pay by check to: General Patent Enterprises, Inc. Attn: Patent Licensing Dept. 6123 West Covina Blvd, #3432, Newport Beach CA, 90232-1233. If payment is not received prior to June 1st, 2007, you can expect to hear from our legal team.
lobby Congress to alter copyright law in the USA to change the duration to something more reasonable, like 50, 60, hell, even 70 years from the date of original publication, I'd be more sympathetic to their case.
With the current: "nothing from the date of the creation of the Mouse will ever enter the public domain situation", I've got zero sympathy for copyright holders.
I'd slam his head in a 17" HP clamshell laptop repeatedly...it's just like a car door, you know....except smaller....and lighter...and it glows...well, it's got a hinge anyhow....ok, so it's not really very much like a car door after all, is it?
Windows Kernel. This is Windows Kernel on ACID. Any questions?
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Select your developers very carefully because top-notch developers are 100x as productive run-of-the-mill developers. Make sure the users/customers goals and tasks are clearly understood by the team members. Usually by sitting down the developers and end users in a room together with a little bit of structure. Then, get out of the developers' way and do not let untalented bozo's from other teams suck your team's time. Test. Test some more. Read their code. Automate tests if you must. Keep testing. Approach your users/customers with a sense of humility and assume they know the business better than you do...then ask them to forgive you for your humble efforts on their behalf. Let them provide feedback directly to the developers. Make a few diagrams, comment the code, use source control and do not get bogged down writing useless documents. All the rest is crap.
According to a new exhibit at the Minnesota Science Museum, the concept of Race has little or no basis in science. That said, it has a real effect because of the importance most of us assign to racial group identification. It seems to me the existence of people like Tiger Woods or Barack Obama challenge our racial categorization.
Marketing will make it all ok. Don't worry. Watch TV and eat your Frito's.
How long will seeds remain viable stored at 0F? Putting it at Svalbard makes sense. You don't want Mel Gibson or the blond kid with no underwear getting ahold of the seeds, you want someone who can organize an expedition to a place like Svalbard because they're probably organized enough to make good use of the seeds.
Quest for Broccoli!
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You think drowning on a canoe trip at age 60+ is a bad way to die? I think it was a pretty good one considering some of the alternatives I've seen. Perhaps you'd prefer spending your last decade from age 85 to 95, bed-ridden, incoherent and pissing yourself in a nursing home with one visitor a week (or month or year for that matter)?
...is that a large number of people will now know they can die from drinking too much water. If only she'd had a bag of Lay's or Frito's handy and the knowledge that eating them could have saved her life.
There's a real irony...a situation where eating chips is good for you.
If you are trading your medical health for a salary in a job that makes you unhappy, you need to move. To another company, to another city, somewhere. If you have, like a friend of mine, a spouse that wants to live close to their family and you cannot find work that supports you and does not make you unhealthy in that community, then you need a divorce and then you need to move.
We trap ourselves in all kinds of unhealthy situations for all kinds of reasons. In this land of the free, the traps are all self-imposed.
If a child's education does not matter to a child's parents, the schools are not going to be able to educate the child.
Of course there are exceptional cases (less than 1 in 100) but that's not what we're discussing.
H = C - D.
H represents Happiness.
C represents your current situation.
D represents your desired situation. When your current situation meets or exceeds your desires, you're happy. You have control of both C and D. Most people forget that they control D and cede control of it to "Marketers."
So, is it more important to you to be debt-free or play Half-life with your co-workers in the off-hours?
Do you personally prefer.NET or Perl? I would NOT give language a lot of weight unless I was giving financial rewards a lot of weight, then I'd probably go.NET.
To me, being a happy software developer is related to the puzzle solving nature of the work, not the language or operating system. I really like debugging and just love optimizing. I don't care if it's SQL or C# or Java or COBOL or C++ or C or 80x86 as long as the development tools are not an impediment to the problem solving. It's also fun seeing people use my products in the real world.
P.S. I know of some.NET shops that have XBoxes and play Halo together during the work day and I know of some UNIX shops where gaming is viewed with great contempt.
I live in an older home that I co-own with my lender. In a city. If my neighbor wants to erect as 10-story garage on the adjacent lot, that has an effect on my property and as such, he does not get complete control and autonomy with regards to the choices of what he can do on his property. By the same token, if I decide to spray enriched uranium on my lawn to kill weeds, that has an effect on his property and I have my "property rights" limited.
Within reason, I can do whatever I want. If I want to step outside the rules, like our neighbors across the street when they added to the height of their house beyond the zoning limits, I can get a variance by checking with my neighbors to see if anyone objects. If nobody objects, the city (in a blue state, btw) does not mind.
As for buying into new developments with restrictive covenants on what you can and cannot do (it can get pretty darn picky), read the covenants and understand them before you hand over your earnest money.
At my house, I don't always control who uses my computer. I've got a wife, kids, and babysitters using the computers. When I realized the kids and babysitters download and run programs, without, what I'd consider a reasonable amount of thought, I figured I'm vulnerable to a trojan password sniffer. Since I cannot realistically lock their priviledge level down, I called my brokers and banks and had them turn-off web-access to my accounts. They were puzzled why I'd want to do this. I explained to them that there's no law protecting me if my PC's security is breached and my account is drained. I figure it's a long-shot...about 10x as likely as winning powerball, but the magnitude of loss (my life savings) is too great a risk.
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Your old Rights 1.0 have been made totally obsolete by the new Right's Rights 2.0.
1. You have the right to go shopping. Whenever, whereever, however.
2. You have the right to stop criticizing the Administration during time of war. For the troops, or for the children, take your pick.
3. It's always a time of war.
4. We were wrong about Torture, it's actually kinda fun, if not particularly useful. And anyhow, cruel and unusual has changed over time. Go watch Sopranos or 24 and shut up...or better yet... go shopping.
There are more rights in Rights 2.0, but you're going to be too busy watching TV, shopping, commuting 2 hours each way, and spending time in court ajudicating the foreclosure of your house due to the 19% interest on your 2/28 sub-prime loan, so don't bother yourself to learn them.
...put a 275-ton super computer on the shake table to cut out the middlemen.
server farm in the Caymans or Bahamas or Macao or some other off-shore tax haven?
The real Sri Lankan terror threat involves a secret combination of chili peppers, tamarind seed pod pulp and cabbage. Applying these materials in just the right proportion to human gut flora results is a virtually undetectable autonomous self-propelled chemical weapon of mass disgustipation that can be deployed anywhere on the globe.
To Trosch: To damage one's reputation in an effort to prevent damage to one's reputation. The self-inflicted damage is typically 3 or 4 orders of magnitude greater than the damage one originally sought to prevent.
the ISP dumps the consumer?
I've got 3 friends who have had their Cable Modems turned off because "they used excessive bandwidth." In those cases, I suspect the early termination fees are not recoverable. If that's the way it works, and you want out, just write up a little program that downloads lots of big files...put it in an infinite loop and voila...in a month or two, the ISP will cancel you.
Methods...you want methodology? I tend to agree with you, it is better to reason with the kids than simply say: THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE [feel free to substitute any other prohibited behavior for SMOKE in this example]!
... well, then it's obviously not interfering in their lives and I don't really mind. This is what I call functional parento-igno-bliss.
That said, if I find my kid smoking tobacco, pot, meth, crack, heroin or PCP, I am going to confiscate (and dispose of) the combustibles and penalize the kid with a major [loss of privileges]. After the naturally ensuing drama dies down, conversations will be had around the topics of motivation to [SMOKE], potential long-term consequences of [SMOKING] and short-term consequences of getting caught [SMOKING] again.
These conversations, along with all kinds of education on the mechanics of the human body should be ongoing from an early age.
On the other hand, if a kid does abuse substances or have sex early on and manage to get away with it without attentive parents, teachers or peace officers noticing
As for web-cam freakiness leading to STD's or pregnancy, I guess I'm watching different web-cams...the ones I see usually involve a single person and generally one person doing freaky naked things won't get pregnant or pick up a dose of the clap unless they happen to have a turkey baster full of semen on hand.
As a parent of two, I can tell you I'm not worried about my kid having a sip of ceremonial wine before 21. And, frankly, I don't care if they get "naked and freaky on their webcams." Here's what I'm worried about:
1. my kids dying or getting maimed in a car accident with or without involvement of alcohol.
2. my kids getting an STD.
3. my kids getting addicted to tobacco.
4. my kids getting addicted to any other drug, including alcohol.
5. my kids getting pregnant before they're ready to take care of a child.
All of those things happened to kids I at the high school I attended during the 1970's. Call it hypocrisy if you like, but I think it's called learning from experience and trying to pass the benefit of that experience down through the generations. When we do this with science, it's generally recognized as a good thing.
The time passed, usually 10 or 20 years and the fact that the parents usually aren't currently engaged in the risky behaviors they once were and now want to prevent their children from engaging in mitigates, in my mind, the hypocrisy of it all.
On the other side of it, I've seen parents "teach" their kids how to "hold their likker" and that's uglier than the hypocrisy.
As for violent video games, I try to get my kids to play them, but they just want to play fluffy happy games like Sim City. It drives me nuts.
#73401293458323 for a system of representing sounds using glpyhs, which we call an Alphabet(tm) has been granted. By my calculations, the posters in this thread owe a total of $87,043.51 in licensing fees. Please pay by check to: General Patent Enterprises, Inc. Attn: Patent Licensing Dept. 6123 West Covina Blvd, #3432, Newport Beach CA, 90232-1233. If payment is not received prior to June 1st, 2007, you can expect to hear from our legal team.
lobby Congress to alter copyright law in the USA to change the duration to something more reasonable, like 50, 60, hell, even 70 years from the date of original publication, I'd be more sympathetic to their case. With the current: "nothing from the date of the creation of the Mouse will ever enter the public domain situation", I've got zero sympathy for copyright holders.
I'd slam his head in a 17" HP clamshell laptop repeatedly...it's just like a car door, you know....except smaller....and lighter...and it glows...well, it's got a hinge anyhow....ok, so it's not really very much like a car door after all, is it?
Windows Kernel. This is Windows Kernel on ACID. Any questions?
Select your developers very carefully because top-notch developers are 100x as productive run-of-the-mill developers. Make sure the users/customers goals and tasks are clearly understood by the team members. Usually by sitting down the developers and end users in a room together with a little bit of structure. Then, get out of the developers' way and do not let untalented bozo's from other teams suck your team's time. Test. Test some more. Read their code. Automate tests if you must. Keep testing. Approach your users/customers with a sense of humility and assume they know the business better than you do...then ask them to forgive you for your humble efforts on their behalf. Let them provide feedback directly to the developers. Make a few diagrams, comment the code, use source control and do not get bogged down writing useless documents. All the rest is crap.
... was just granted the distribution rights to compressed air in the USA. They will sell you enough compressed air to go 200 km for $60.00.
That violence is ok because it's not on TV.
http://www.smm.org/race/about/
I'm with the guy who goes Dwarf for warriors and Elf for mages.
Marketing will make it all ok. Don't worry. Watch TV and eat your Frito's. How long will seeds remain viable stored at 0F? Putting it at Svalbard makes sense. You don't want Mel Gibson or the blond kid with no underwear getting ahold of the seeds, you want someone who can organize an expedition to a place like Svalbard because they're probably organized enough to make good use of the seeds. Quest for Broccoli!
You think drowning on a canoe trip at age 60+ is a bad way to die? I think it was a pretty good one considering some of the alternatives I've seen. Perhaps you'd prefer spending your last decade from age 85 to 95, bed-ridden, incoherent and pissing yourself in a nursing home with one visitor a week (or month or year for that matter)?
...is that a large number of people will now know they can die from drinking too much water. If only she'd had a bag of Lay's or Frito's handy and the knowledge that eating them could have saved her life. There's a real irony...a situation where eating chips is good for you.
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If you are trading your medical health for a salary in a job that makes you unhappy, you need to move. To another company, to another city, somewhere. If you have, like a friend of mine, a spouse that wants to live close to their family and you cannot find work that supports you and does not make you unhealthy in that community, then you need a divorce and then you need to move.
We trap ourselves in all kinds of unhealthy situations for all kinds of reasons. In this land of the free, the traps are all self-imposed.
We better stop thinking of the children or we might end up like Rep. Mark Foley.
If a child's education does not matter to a child's parents, the schools are not going to be able to educate the child. Of course there are exceptional cases (less than 1 in 100) but that's not what we're discussing.
H = C - D. H represents Happiness. C represents your current situation. D represents your desired situation. When your current situation meets or exceeds your desires, you're happy. You have control of both C and D. Most people forget that they control D and cede control of it to "Marketers." So, is it more important to you to be debt-free or play Half-life with your co-workers in the off-hours? Do you personally prefer .NET or Perl? I would NOT give language a lot of weight unless I was giving financial rewards a lot of weight, then I'd probably go .NET.
To me, being a happy software developer is related to the puzzle solving nature of the work, not the language or operating system. I really like debugging and just love optimizing. I don't care if it's SQL or C# or Java or COBOL or C++ or C or 80x86 as long as the development tools are not an impediment to the problem solving. It's also fun seeing people use my products in the real world.
P.S. I know of some .NET shops that have XBoxes and play Halo together during the work day and I know of some UNIX shops where gaming is viewed with great contempt.
I live in an older home that I co-own with my lender. In a city. If my neighbor wants to erect as 10-story garage on the adjacent lot, that has an effect on my property and as such, he does not get complete control and autonomy with regards to the choices of what he can do on his property. By the same token, if I decide to spray enriched uranium on my lawn to kill weeds, that has an effect on his property and I have my "property rights" limited.
Within reason, I can do whatever I want. If I want to step outside the rules, like our neighbors across the street when they added to the height of their house beyond the zoning limits, I can get a variance by checking with my neighbors to see if anyone objects. If nobody objects, the city (in a blue state, btw) does not mind.
As for buying into new developments with restrictive covenants on what you can and cannot do (it can get pretty darn picky), read the covenants and understand them before you hand over your earnest money.
At my house, I don't always control who uses my computer. I've got a wife, kids, and babysitters using the computers. When I realized the kids and babysitters download and run programs, without, what I'd consider a reasonable amount of thought, I figured I'm vulnerable to a trojan password sniffer. Since I cannot realistically lock their priviledge level down, I called my brokers and banks and had them turn-off web-access to my accounts. They were puzzled why I'd want to do this. I explained to them that there's no law protecting me if my PC's security is breached and my account is drained. I figure it's a long-shot...about 10x as likely as winning powerball, but the magnitude of loss (my life savings) is too great a risk.