At my corporation there are business rules that have not changed in 25 years.
Part of the reason so many cobol programmers were needed in 2000 was that many insurance companies code / rules had not changed since the 1970's and 1980's.
Actually, "male menopause" or "andropause" is so well known now that they are trying to come up with a formal name for it. There are a lot ( over a million?) of men on HRT for this problem. And even more for just low Teste in general.
However- remember- Treat the PATIENT- not the NUMBERS. Putting someone on HRT who feels great, has great sex drive, has great muscle tone but has a free T of 161 is a bad idea even tho 270 is "normal". Likewise, another person may have a 330 and feel like hell.
Ironically, I drank a lot more after 45 than I did before that.
My parents ruined me for alchohol at age 5. I got drunk once at 25 on tequila poppers while on a college trip. I had maybe 3 strawberry daquiri's before age 26. I added kohlua (sp) about age 26. Added bailey's at 33.
Finally about age 42, I was part of a mmorg guild that chose brewing as their activity (because of a bug that let that trade skill earn money). As a result, we sort of attracted people who drank in real life. I started drinking at our annual guild parties.
Over the last 12 months, I've probably been drunk 5 times (including one with Absinthe) and buzzed a dozen times. Still quite the lightweight compared to the rest of the world.
I finally developed a taste for wine (and started picking better wines) in the last 6 months. And I recently added Port.
1) They keep extending the length of copyright and somehow treat creative works as different than other inventions (patents have a much shorter period and may be much more valuable than a book).
2) The idea of copyright is changing. Up until 30 years ago it was very common for songs to "steal" melodies from each other (hell most of blues is based on a small number of stolen phrases and would not exist if the first song that invented them locked them down). Then suddenly they started suing over small sequences of notes. The net result is that an interesting set of (7? 11?) musical notes is basically locked down for over a hundred years now. It may be legal but I don't think it is moral.
Seriously- your mood is a reflection of your internal chemical state.
There are long term studies that show people's basic moods do not change.
In my case, everything went to hell about 18 months ago after a lifetime of being very easy going.
All the sudden, I was anxious, irritable, had night sweats, couldn't think straight, was sleeping 9+ hours and still tired, had low sex drive, my reaction speed in sports sucked, and I was getting sick after years of not getting sick. My mood sucked!
After a comprehensive physical the reason was clear. My free testosterone levels had dropped from some normal range to below 270. A few *DAYS* of hormone replacement cream and the anxiety and night sweats stopped. My thinking took maybe 5 or 6 days to return. At the same time, I started waking up rested after 7 hours of sleep. My sex drive came back with a vengence. My reaction speed came back in sports (tho the gimp knee is still gimp).
I *SERIOUSLY* think low testosterone levels explains a huge number of problems with men past 40 (about 43 to 44 to be precise). I even think it explains a lot of alcoholism even tho I didn't have that issue- I did experience a lot of relief from my anxiety from casual drinking. Anxiety that is gone now.
And when I forget to put on the cream- I can *FEEL* the anxiety creep back over me. My logical mind knows there is no cause for it (it feels like when your boss asks you to drop by their office on the way out and you know it's going to be a bad meeting) I still feel that way anyway.
So my theory is that you fix hormones (well- and for a lot of other people Thyroid), you fix "mood" secondarily while also fixing getting sick.
Oh yea... been sick maybe 3 days since I started the HRT.
You are drifting way off topic into a lot of other issues.
Addressing your points tho...
The isreali issue is almost a side issue at this point. Wahabi islamists are teaching their children that anyone who is not exactly like them is not human and should be converted by the sword or killed. Even various factions of islam are now getting out the sharp knives and killing each other in huge quantities. We have a very toxic group of people over there. If isreal disappeared tomorrow (certainly possible once iran gets a nuke) then the problem will not resolve it self until they stop teaching their children these wasy.
Small governments are no safer than large governments. Jim Jones and Kim Jong Ill in the Head show that. Your average lynch mob shows that.
Yes the nazi's killing 6 million doesn't justify anyone else killing 1 person. However, that's not the argument in this area. The argument being put to us is: Can we justify killing 1 person to save 6 million? Can we justify torturing the hell out of someone to save 6 million. Can we justify a *policy* that torture is okay? How can we say we are the good guys when we have a policy of torture. Is the idea of being a good guy really very unrealistic in this world where genocide is a regular occurence?
I agree with many of your points such as tapping phone calls without a wiretap.
However, this discussion was about a *national ID card*. I believe that a national id card is justified and reasonable and necessary for law enforcement in an age of terrorism. Right now we have defacto national id cards and a lot of problems because we pretend they are not. We also for the most part also have state id cards. It hasn't been the end of the world.
They now make CF's that fit. Check at lowes or home depot.
There are a wide variety of form factors available these days.
They make teeny ones that fit in cieling fan and candle type settings, bulb size ones, they make cold white, cool white, warm, and very warm lights. etc.
It makes a dramatic difference to how painted walls look.
Green under "warm" vs "Mint green" under "blue".
I have a wide variety of CFL's in my house and have at least 4 different shades from a very reddish light to a very blue/white light (like a reveal bulb).
No confusion- if you want to use it, you'll need to pay for the cost of running it in some way. The costs will be lower but there will still be costs if it involves more than a few dozen users.
It's not this particular game. It's all those other games folks can make from this code.
And to be honest, looking at japan and korea we are paying about 22 times what we should for bandwidth and servers 10 years from now will be cheap. I could see someone easily running a game with a few hundred users based on this free code.
To be fair, the well meaning good samaritan might drag you out, crippling you for life. or they might pull you free, opening the wound (that was pinched closed) in your femoral artery to open so you bleed to death in seconds.
while the experienced and well trained emt might know not to do these things.
given no EMT, or a tunnel that is likely to collapse and finish killing you any second- go for anyone.
But if it is not an issue of seconds, wait for the EMT who has proper gear and a little experience to get there and do the job.
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While I agree with you, I just wanted to say that your data doesn't really support your argument.
A slow decline implies time.
For example: If java had 8240 jobs last month and 8000 jobs this month while ruby had 80 jobs last month and 160 jobs this month, then java would be in a slow decline (roughly -3%) while ruby would be in a steep increase (100%). And of course, you would need to compare year to year. Installed projects, etc.
In my opinion, java is increasing- especially for enterprise level applications. It just runs so well on so many different platforms that many of our software vendors prefer it for products they sell to us. And we like it for our customizations.
I know demand for C# is out there- some of our C# programmers have left for other opportunities since our shop is java centric.
Java has never completely negated a prior version of the language yet (as the move from vb6 to.net did).
There is no promise from Microsoft that when they introduce C& that they will drop support for C# and instantly make it a dead language and leave all the C# programmers holding the bag.
Java is great for writing business rules and the back end and for industrial enterprise level scalable code.
Other things are better for the front end these days. No big deal.
Front ends change a lot. Business rules tend to be stable. Do you really want to redevelop all your business rule every 3 to 5 years? With java, you write it once and for the foreseeable future don't have to rewrite it. But java is a bit heavy for fast moving stuff.
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Beers are out.
That's what ruined me for ages-- a "rootbeer" that was really a german dark beer.
Have had maybe 3 beers in my life and they just taste bad.
Liqueors (sp) I have to be careful with-- too much sugar.
This is the funny bit.
I went on HRT a year ago.
I cut sugar, bread and potatoes out of my diet.
I added tons of olive oil, nuts, vegetables, heavy cream, and butter- eat eggs daily. (All about 90% organic since fat is a concentrator)
I've lost 21-25 pounds and when the doc had my blood tested this week....
All my numbers were now in the normal ranges.
I really think sugar is the debil.
I was lucky- all artificial sweeteners taste fine- I also love all the non-diabetic sugar alcohols- and I love stevia.
At my corporation there are business rules that have not changed in 25 years.
Part of the reason so many cobol programmers were needed in 2000 was that many insurance companies code / rules had not changed since the 1970's and 1980's.
So it depends on the business.
Actually, "male menopause" or "andropause" is so well known now that they are trying to come up with a formal name for it. There are a lot ( over a million?) of men on HRT for this problem. And even more for just low Teste in general.
However- remember- Treat the PATIENT- not the NUMBERS. Putting someone on HRT who feels great, has great sex drive, has great muscle tone but has a free T of 161 is a bad idea even tho 270 is "normal". Likewise, another person may have a 330 and feel like hell.
Ironically, I drank a lot more after 45 than I did before that.
My parents ruined me for alchohol at age 5.
I got drunk once at 25 on tequila poppers while on a college trip.
I had maybe 3 strawberry daquiri's before age 26.
I added kohlua (sp) about age 26.
Added bailey's at 33.
Finally about age 42, I was part of a mmorg guild that chose brewing as their activity (because of a bug that let that trade skill earn money). As a result, we sort of attracted people who drank in real life. I started drinking at our annual guild parties.
Over the last 12 months, I've probably been drunk 5 times (including one with Absinthe) and buzzed a dozen times. Still quite the lightweight compared to the rest of the world.
I finally developed a taste for wine (and started picking better wines) in the last 6 months. And I recently added Port.
The only problem with this is that we have solid examples in the past of software checking for such codes and then executing code to NOT run.
Dr Dos and Win 311 being one of the more famous examples. (If DR Dos, Fail).
Good points all.
I would only add two mildly tangental comments.
1) They keep extending the length of copyright and somehow treat creative works as different than other inventions (patents have a much shorter period and may be much more valuable than a book).
2) The idea of copyright is changing. Up until 30 years ago it was very common for songs to "steal" melodies from each other (hell most of blues is based on a small number of stolen phrases and would not exist if the first song that invented them locked them down). Then suddenly they started suing over small sequences of notes. The net result is that an interesting set of (7? 11?) musical notes is basically locked down for over a hundred years now. It may be legal but I don't think it is moral.
Wow!
That's really cool the way "rights" and rights are different! It's almost like looking right into your brain and likely employment!
No.
Picture a balloon with dimples in it near stars.
Seriously- your mood is a reflection of your internal chemical state.
There are long term studies that show people's basic moods do not change.
In my case, everything went to hell about 18 months ago after a lifetime of being very easy going.
All the sudden, I was anxious, irritable, had night sweats, couldn't think straight, was sleeping 9+ hours and still tired, had low sex drive, my reaction speed in sports sucked, and I was getting sick after years of not getting sick. My mood sucked!
After a comprehensive physical the reason was clear. My free testosterone levels had dropped from some normal range to below 270. A few *DAYS* of hormone replacement cream and the anxiety and night sweats stopped. My thinking took maybe 5 or 6 days to return. At the same time, I started waking up rested after 7 hours of sleep. My sex drive came back with a vengence. My reaction speed came back in sports (tho the gimp knee is still gimp).
I *SERIOUSLY* think low testosterone levels explains a huge number of problems with men past 40 (about 43 to 44 to be precise). I even think it explains a lot of alcoholism even tho I didn't have that issue- I did experience a lot of relief from my anxiety from casual drinking. Anxiety that is gone now.
And when I forget to put on the cream- I can *FEEL* the anxiety creep back over me. My logical mind knows there is no cause for it (it feels like when your boss asks you to drop by their office on the way out and you know it's going to be a bad meeting) I still feel that way anyway.
So my theory is that you fix hormones (well- and for a lot of other people Thyroid), you fix "mood" secondarily while also fixing getting sick.
Oh yea... been sick maybe 3 days since I started the HRT.
And a list of books about blowing shit up?
And a book of lists about books of various subversive subjects including that list?
So if you set up a site with lists of torrents AND an encyclopedia of wildflowers you are legal?
If you set up an automated google search of torrent sites and mp3's?
I don't think legal people realize just how slippery computer stuff can be.
They are getting a little better handle on it over time but they are also saying some really boneheaded things too.
In the end data is data is data.
You are drifting way off topic into a lot of other issues.
Addressing your points tho...
The isreali issue is almost a side issue at this point. Wahabi islamists are teaching their children that anyone who is not exactly like them is not human and should be converted by the sword or killed. Even various factions of islam are now getting out the sharp knives and killing each other in huge quantities. We have a very toxic group of people over there. If isreal disappeared tomorrow (certainly possible once iran gets a nuke) then the problem will not resolve it self until they stop teaching their children these wasy.
Small governments are no safer than large governments. Jim Jones and Kim Jong Ill in the Head show that. Your average lynch mob shows that.
Yes the nazi's killing 6 million doesn't justify anyone else killing 1 person. However, that's not the argument in this area. The argument being put to us is: Can we justify killing 1 person to save 6 million? Can we justify torturing the hell out of someone to save 6 million. Can we justify a *policy* that torture is okay? How can we say we are the good guys when we have a policy of torture. Is the idea of being a good guy really very unrealistic in this world where genocide is a regular occurence?
I agree with many of your points such as tapping phone calls without a wiretap.
However, this discussion was about a *national ID card*. I believe that a national id card is justified and reasonable and necessary for law enforcement in an age of terrorism. Right now we have defacto national id cards and a lot of problems because we pretend they are not. We also for the most part also have state id cards. It hasn't been the end of the world.
You can use google for the express purpose of finding both torrents, and sites that host torrent links.
I really don't see how you say that's any different unless google disables the ability to perform those searches.
So basically... no google since it links to sites that link torrents.
During the summer, you save with CF's in two ways.
1) They use less electricity.
2) They make less heat (so you don't have to run the AC to cool off that heat).
I guess in the winter you have to run the heater slightly more!
They now make CF's that fit. Check at lowes or home depot.
There are a wide variety of form factors available these days.
They make teeny ones that fit in cieling fan and candle type settings, bulb size ones, they make cold white, cool white, warm, and very warm lights. etc.
They sell warm and cool CFL's.
It makes a dramatic difference to how painted walls look.
Green under "warm" vs "Mint green" under "blue".
I have a wide variety of CFL's in my house and have at least 4 different shades from a very reddish light to a very blue/white light (like a reveal bulb).
I'd really doubt you can drive an electric stove from alternative energy that well.
You'd be much better off to have one of those solar cookers most of the year- they can hit over 300 degrees in sub-optimal light.
Maybe when solar drops by an order of magnitude in price.
This is a very easy target if it is just floating out there with protection.
I'm not sure they are including the cost of providing military security in their costs but they probably need to.
No confusion- if you want to use it, you'll need to pay for the cost of running it in some way. The costs will be lower but there will still be costs if it involves more than a few dozen users.
It's not this particular game. It's all those other games folks can make from this code.
And to be honest, looking at japan and korea we are paying about 22 times what we should for bandwidth and servers 10 years from now will be cheap. I could see someone easily running a game with a few hundred users based on this free code.
The costs will be the same except subtract executive and staff salaries.
Basically you have free development and deployment and only have to pay for bandwidth and servers.
To be fair,
the well meaning good samaritan might drag you out, crippling you for life.
or they might pull you free, opening the wound (that was pinched closed) in your femoral artery to open so you bleed to death in seconds.
while the experienced and well trained emt might know not to do these things.
given no EMT, or a tunnel that is likely to collapse and finish killing you any second- go for anyone.
But if it is not an issue of seconds, wait for the EMT who has proper gear and a little experience to get there and do the job.
While I agree with you, I just wanted to say that your data doesn't really support your argument.
A slow decline implies time.
For example:
If java had 8240 jobs last month and 8000 jobs this month while ruby had 80 jobs last month and 160 jobs this month, then java would be in a slow decline (roughly -3%) while ruby would be in a steep increase (100%). And of course, you would need to compare year to year. Installed projects, etc.
In my opinion, java is increasing- especially for enterprise level applications. It just runs so well on so many different platforms that many of our software vendors prefer it for products they sell to us. And we like it for our customizations.
I know demand for C# is out there- some of our C# programmers have left for other opportunities since our shop is java centric.
.net did).
Java has never completely negated a prior version of the language yet (as the move from vb6 to
There is no promise from Microsoft that when they introduce C& that they will drop support for C# and instantly make it a dead language and leave all the C# programmers holding the bag.
Java is great for writing business rules and the back end and for industrial enterprise level scalable code.
Other things are better for the front end these days. No big deal.
Front ends change a lot. Business rules tend to be stable. Do you really want to redevelop all your business rule every 3 to 5 years? With java, you write it once and for the foreseeable future don't have to rewrite it. But java is a bit heavy for fast moving stuff.