If it makes you feel better, you can keep playing this game. Or, alternatively, you could just man-up and accept that there will be some risks if you don't live in a shell and let yourself be terrorized.
The shuttle was sold as a spaceship that could take off and land Buck Rogers style. What we actually got was a big, fragile splashdown pod with wheels.
"Can't get qualified Americans to do the job" is business speak for "Can't get qualified Americans to do the job for minimum wage or some other joke salary." Imported labor artificially drives down wages, then hides behind the excuse that no American wants to do it. When I was in college, you could get $7 an hour cutting tobacco on local farms, and a lot of us did it during the summer. A few years later, the farmers started to bring in illegals and H1-B's from Mexico, and the pay suddenly dropped from $7/hour to $4-$5/hr., with the farmers complaining they just couldn't get us lazy Americans to do it.
When I tell my techie friends that Linux will never, ever, ever be a significant player in the desktop market they often challenge me. My answer to them is thus: Linux is exactly the kind of product whose most ardent supporters actually *resent* success. Anytime a distro like Ubuntu looks like it might go even slightly mainstream, the Linux community viciously turns on it. Linux is like a starving artist whose entire existence is predicated on STARVING. The Linux community will never have success because they don't WANT it, wouldn't know what to do with it if they got it, and resent even the attempt to achieve it. Linux is a born loser, championed by born losers. It can't be anything else.
I still remember an episode of Northern Exposure where one of the characters was walking around with that silly headgear on. Not that that made any sense, mind you, since the town where that show was set seemed to exist in a fictional world where they were both below the tree line and above the arctic circle.
Considering the amounts they've been hitting her with, what's she got to lose? All but the $54,000 verdict were so high that she couldn't have possibly ever paid them off. Hiring the lawyers is probably considerably cheaper than actually trying to comply.
That's why I like the BBC model you see with a lot of Brit shows (most notably "The Office"): Two short seasons, one or two follow-up specials, end of series. Even when they do run their dramatic series longer, they tend to shake things up after the second season (with a long break or a fresh new set of characters). Series rarely have time to lose their way and start to suck there.
Of course, that means accepting that quantity doesn't equal quality, which is un-American.
Obviously you fail to understand how my superior browser makes me a better human being than you. As such, I will disregard the rest of your post. It is likely just to bore me, or possibly even lead to a headache. When you realize the error of your ways, and are willing to admit that I am right in this and all things, I will once again indulge you.
First of all, if this were an indicator, it would seem logical that Internet Explorer users would trend lower incomes than anyone else. Anyone educated enough to even be using an alternate browser on a PC is probably educated enough to be making more money than your run-of-the-mill user. At least with Safari it kind of makes sense. Anyone using an Apple has enough extra money to waste it on hipster cred.
Of course these opinions are soley those of a Firefox user who likely makes considerably more than the average schlub who's surfing the internet for porn between his shifts at Denney's.
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I wouldn't recommend BASIC or LISP for someone wanting to learn modern object-oriented programming today. A lot of us started out with a structured languages like this, but you wouldn't want to start out that way if you were doing it for the first time now. My university uses Alice and it works pretty well. Alice teaches much more modern object-oriented principles that would be much more useful than BASIC or LISP to a modern programming student.
Now why would the NSA be interested in technology that could identify anonymous posters using "textual clues even after explicitly identifiable data has been removed"? That's just silly talk.
Every day, your life is effected directly by thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of pieces of software written during the waterfall era. So it must not have stagnated the programming field *too* much.
Personally, I always thought "agile" sounds like a dodge--suspiciously like a bunch of business doublespeak being hawked by con men who are selling managers on the bullshit idea that they can have fast, quality programming on the cheap. At the end of the day, quality work still takes time, someone still has to do the coding, and there are no free rides. "Agile" newspeak doesn't change the truth of the old axiom "Fast, cheap, or good: Pick any two."
Your post reminds me of a Muslim friend who told me once (dead seriously) that Muslims didn't attack the World Trade Center. They weren't REAL Muslims, you see.
Reminds me of an old poster from my CS department. It features legendary crotchety old fart John McCarthy angrily looking at the camera, with the caption "Programming: You're Doing It Completely Wrong."
If they really let it play out democratically (and I doubt they will after they see the initial results), I picture the television equivalent of a Mad Lib with the word "Ass" in every blank.
No kidding, for a board that hates MS, it's strange to see posters cheering the demise of Java (one of the last modern languages that hasn't absorbed into the Visual Studio hive mind).
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If it makes you feel better, you can keep playing this game. Or, alternatively, you could just man-up and accept that there will be some risks if you don't live in a shell and let yourself be terrorized.
The shuttle was sold as a spaceship that could take off and land Buck Rogers style. What we actually got was a big, fragile splashdown pod with wheels.
Proving once again that nothing bad ever came out of the 70's.
Bad new is, their beer tastes like warm yeast soup. Good news is, there's tons of it!
"Can't get qualified Americans to do the job" is business speak for "Can't get qualified Americans to do the job for minimum wage or some other joke salary." Imported labor artificially drives down wages, then hides behind the excuse that no American wants to do it. When I was in college, you could get $7 an hour cutting tobacco on local farms, and a lot of us did it during the summer. A few years later, the farmers started to bring in illegals and H1-B's from Mexico, and the pay suddenly dropped from $7/hour to $4-$5/hr., with the farmers complaining they just couldn't get us lazy Americans to do it.
And #1 on the terrorist list: College kids who pirate movies and music.
Come apply at the Princeton University, where you can explore all your horizons!
When I tell my techie friends that Linux will never, ever, ever be a significant player in the desktop market they often challenge me. My answer to them is thus: Linux is exactly the kind of product whose most ardent supporters actually *resent* success. Anytime a distro like Ubuntu looks like it might go even slightly mainstream, the Linux community viciously turns on it. Linux is like a starving artist whose entire existence is predicated on STARVING. The Linux community will never have success because they don't WANT it, wouldn't know what to do with it if they got it, and resent even the attempt to achieve it. Linux is a born loser, championed by born losers. It can't be anything else.
I still remember an episode of Northern Exposure where one of the characters was walking around with that silly headgear on. Not that that made any sense, mind you, since the town where that show was set seemed to exist in a fictional world where they were both below the tree line and above the arctic circle.
See, it's stuff like this that's going to give South American military juntas a bad name.
Considering the amounts they've been hitting her with, what's she got to lose? All but the $54,000 verdict were so high that she couldn't have possibly ever paid them off. Hiring the lawyers is probably considerably cheaper than actually trying to comply.
That's why I like the BBC model you see with a lot of Brit shows (most notably "The Office"): Two short seasons, one or two follow-up specials, end of series. Even when they do run their dramatic series longer, they tend to shake things up after the second season (with a long break or a fresh new set of characters). Series rarely have time to lose their way and start to suck there.
Of course, that means accepting that quantity doesn't equal quality, which is un-American.
If you just want to see shit get blowed up, may I suggest every show on network television?
Obviously you fail to understand how my superior browser makes me a better human being than you. As such, I will disregard the rest of your post. It is likely just to bore me, or possibly even lead to a headache. When you realize the error of your ways, and are willing to admit that I am right in this and all things, I will once again indulge you.
First of all, if this were an indicator, it would seem logical that Internet Explorer users would trend lower incomes than anyone else. Anyone educated enough to even be using an alternate browser on a PC is probably educated enough to be making more money than your run-of-the-mill user. At least with Safari it kind of makes sense. Anyone using an Apple has enough extra money to waste it on hipster cred.
Of course these opinions are soley those of a Firefox user who likely makes considerably more than the average schlub who's surfing the internet for porn between his shifts at Denney's.
I wouldn't recommend BASIC or LISP for someone wanting to learn modern object-oriented programming today. A lot of us started out with a structured languages like this, but you wouldn't want to start out that way if you were doing it for the first time now. My university uses Alice and it works pretty well. Alice teaches much more modern object-oriented principles that would be much more useful than BASIC or LISP to a modern programming student.
I say we nuke the school from space.
And Denver thought they said " Illegal alien" and signed up.
Now why would the NSA be interested in technology that could identify anonymous posters using "textual clues even after explicitly identifiable data has been removed"? That's just silly talk.
Every day, your life is effected directly by thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of pieces of software written during the waterfall era. So it must not have stagnated the programming field *too* much.
Personally, I always thought "agile" sounds like a dodge--suspiciously like a bunch of business doublespeak being hawked by con men who are selling managers on the bullshit idea that they can have fast, quality programming on the cheap. At the end of the day, quality work still takes time, someone still has to do the coding, and there are no free rides. "Agile" newspeak doesn't change the truth of the old axiom "Fast, cheap, or good: Pick any two."
Your post reminds me of a Muslim friend who told me once (dead seriously) that Muslims didn't attack the World Trade Center. They weren't REAL Muslims, you see.
Reminds me of an old poster from my CS department. It features legendary crotchety old fart John McCarthy angrily looking at the camera, with the caption "Programming: You're Doing It Completely Wrong."
Yeah--until they realized that, without regular support from Earth, humans can't survive anywhere else for very long.
If they really let it play out democratically (and I doubt they will after they see the initial results), I picture the television equivalent of a Mad Lib with the word "Ass" in every blank.
No kidding, for a board that hates MS, it's strange to see posters cheering the demise of Java (one of the last modern languages that hasn't absorbed into the Visual Studio hive mind).