I wonder if studies exist of correlations between higher education and pacifism...
Correlation/causation/etc.
Off the top of my head, a strong correlation would point to at least two possible causes:
1. Educated people "see the light", whereby they can achieve World Peace by allowing other countries to wipe out America once America is out-gunned.
2. University life indoctrinates students to believe they've had the revelation in #1. Of course, because America Is Evil, the ultimate outcome of #1 is seen as a Good Thing.
Of course you're right. Thousands of years ago, firearms didn't exist, and animals did. Thanks for the revelation. Here's a little revelation for you: at that time, people weren't exactly "ranching", nor were they attempting to support a world population of 6 billion.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that the fact that it used to be possible without a given technology justifies the sacrifice of modern technology at a time when these ranches and farms are supporting the most massive population ever. Nor does it justify the idea that this would only be some sort of minor inconvenience.
There was also a time when men hadn't tamed dogs. Should we go back to clubs and spears and spend time honing our sense of smell? Or did you think that dogs were always man's best friend?
The premise of your statement is ridiculous. The scaffold of modern technology is what makes modern life possible. To give up any part of it is more than a minor inconvenience, as you imply.
Watching the video, it seems as if the placement is relative to other commits. The developer's name will always be in the center of the ring of his committed files. If those files were also committed by someone else, those two names float closer together to signify that they work on overlapping code. It's sort-of an animated Venn diagram.
At least that's my interpretation of it from watching the videos.
Considering that Europeans came to this continent with firearms, I'd venture that ranching on the North American continent was NEVER done without firearms. Before that, there were spears and bow and arrow.
And yes, if predators were taking out a substantial number of livestock, the ranchers would go out of business.
And you still haven't answered my question about why this needs to be regulated at the federal level.
I was looking at the geohashing map for my area of NJ a while ago. That particular day, the site happened to fall in someone's back yard in suburbia, with no apparent way to get there using public property.
I wondered how the geohashers, if they went, would handle that. I assumed they'd just meet up on the street instead of actually going onto someone's private property. Now, I'm not so sure. Do these guys make a practice of meeting on private property? If so, they're probably lucky they haven't been challenged before this.
I don't really understand why this is such a surprise to people. Countries spy on each other. News at 11. No one is starting a war, it's plain ol' espionage such as has gone on since the beginning of civilizations.
The fact that the US government seems to think that this doesn't apply to computers and the internet is what's appalling, not the fact that China has spies.
It's time that the government wake up and secure their systems. That the Chinese and every other government will look out for their own interests by whatever means they can get away with should simply be assumed.
Because that's nigh on impossible, and they'd never get anything for the wage they're paying. Your wage would be a complete waste of money.
On the other hand, a small improvement in productivity is not necessarily worth an expenditure, especially when they know you're going to sacrifice your own time to make up the difference.
Moral of the story: Leave at 5. Do not work unpaid overtime. If they complain, tell them you're using inadequate tools, and tool X would be a big help.
Too many people do exactly what you said, and it sets up employees to routinely do work they're not being paid for. Emergencies are one thing, but you're only hurting yourself and your peers if you work large amounts of time unpaid.
Of course it can be. Take a solved cube and rotate it one single move. That's an arbitrary configuration, and it's solvable in one move. (Or are we using a definition of "arbitrary" I'm not familiar with?)
I had T-Mobile for my contractually mandated time. During that time, I couldn't even keep a call going in midtown Manhattan, let alone suburbia. I hated going to Verizon because I've had bad experiences with their billing people screwing things up, but I did it because I at least wanted the service I was paying for.
Well now I've got FiOS and Verizon Wireless and so far have been happy. My expectations of horrifically screwed-up billing never did come true, so I can say that right now, at this moment, I'm a happy customer. I make no claims or prognostications concerning next week.
I know people in IT at ALLTEL (used to work there myself), and they're in the phase of wondering what's going to happen with their jobs. Verizon is a company of some considerable size, and may find a few "redundancies" in the new organization. They've been trying to convert to consultant staffing for a while now, probably to reduce the number of actual layoffs (and accompanying severance packages) when the time came. Hopefully VZW can find other jobs within the company for those who are left.
ALLTEL forms a pretty big part of the local IT job market where I'm from, and I'd hate to see those positions closed.
1000? That's "One Thousand" ?? As in ten times more than 100?
You might want to take some database design courses if you consider a 1000 column limit to be unreasonable or unworkable. The widest table I'd ever seen was one where the original programmer did a poor job of normalization (that is, he didn't do it), and even that only hit about 150 to 200 columns (times about 60 million rows. Ouch.) Not only is it difficult to maintain wide tables like that, the database will probably perform poorly as well when dealing with that table -- especially if it needs to table scan.
With proper schema design, you should never have to pick and choose which attributes to keep due to table width limitations. Also, I get the feeling that, when you say "consolidate", you mean moving several columns into a single delimited field, which is the makings of another unmaintainable mess.
If this is a database that a real company depends on, you really might want to get someone in who can refactor your data model. It'll be painful at first, but it'll save you some real trouble down the road.
From the scary-but-true dept. I don't know if you read Fark, but they had a guy on there who was barred from entering a plane because he was wearing a Transformers shirt.
On the offending shirt, the transformer's arm was a gun (drawn, completely cartoon-ey), but that was enough for Security to bar him from entering the plane unless he changed his shirt.
Heh - thanks. I'd be pretty upset too if my butt was on a 700 (?) degree burner too, I guess.
Oddly, of all the things in the kitchen that make me think "be careful with this thing" -- knives, the stove, garbage disposal -- "measuring cup" was never really on the list until that day.
That said, it'd probably be kinda fun to do in a controlled environment in a MythBusters blowing stuff up kind of way.:-)
This happened with a Pyrex measuring cup and an electric stove. I don't really know the sequence of events that lead to it being on the stove with the element on "high". It didn't seem important enough to notice before the explosion....
It knocked everything off the nearby counter top, and we were picking up glass shards for days. My wife was standing pretty close to the stove, but luckily had her back to it. I hate to think of the consequences if she'd turned to face the stove right at that moment. I'm sure she'd have been blinded. Scary shit, and the biggest noise you never want to hear coming from a kitchen.
Isn't that how it always is? The people who are already struggling just get hit harder. At least there's some warning. The question is what the companies/communities/governments will do about it.
Perhaps there's another staple crop that can be started in those areas so that the economies can begin shifting away from bananas before drop-dead time comes -- rice, wheat, potatoes....?
Take that one step further. Allow Dragon to learn their speech, or "language" and convert it to text. Then pump the text through Festival, and you now have a functioning Rosetta stone for people with severe speech impairments. The computer functions as an automatic translator.
I have the Blackberry 8830 and use MidpSSH. With the full keyboard on the blackberry and wide screen (relatively speaking) it works great for terminal access.
No one said that you can't be a moral person without God in your life. You can live morally and still make mistakes, bad decisions, get pissed off and do the wrong thing. That doesn't make you immoral at your core, but the sin itself does distance you from God.
The idea of Jesus was not that you can then do whatever you want and get into Heaven anyway. It's that he takes the blame for all those screw-ups that you regret so that you, a basically moral person, can get into heaven.
There won't be any people in heaven who are "immoral" at their core, because people like that don't know how to truly apologize when they do bad things, and would never put any effort into their salvation, because they don't "regret" anything. I'm talking here about people who truly have no conscience.
The entire point was to bridge that final gap, where "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God". It means that even good people screw up and come up short in the end. Obviously, if you don't believe in Heaven or Hell, then you don't need Jesus. You can still live by the rules of society, try to help people out, and be a "good" person as defined by your society. The trouble comes in if Heaven and Hell really do exist, and you find that you really do come up short. If that's a gamble you want to take, that's up to you. Unlike a cult, no one is going to force you to believe anything.
Admittedly, everything one reads is filtered through their previous experience and the resulting world view. That said, you seem to be coming at that from an overly cynical point of view.
If you read the Bible, you'll find that *everything* was an object lesson to Jesus. The simple act of eating and drinking, family, death, sickness, birds and flowers, life itself -- he never missed an opportunity to explain his thoughts. He was, after all, acting as a teacher figure.
To single this particular event out and say he was being cruel to that guy is really spinning it all wrong. He was giving that guy an opportunity to do what all of his disciples had already done. They'd left their families and all their possessions to follow him around the countryside. Why could they do it and he couldn't? Because he had much more to lose? Maybe. Maybe it was because he didn't have enough faith that Jesus really *was* more than a wise man and prophet, and so to throw away everything based on the word of some guy who may or may not be someone special -- that's tough.
Now, as a family man myself, I understand this guy's conundrum. It's easy to make a decision for yourself, but can you imagine coming home and telling your wife and kids that they're now homeless because you're giving all your stuff to the poor..... eh... not an easy thing to do.
Anyway, don't be so hard on Jesus. He was really forcing this guy to realize what was important in his own life, and where his priorities were. Honestly, if you're not doing that to yourself once in a while, you really stand to get pretty far off-track in your life. You can look back over your life and realize that you haven't done anything you've wanted to do -- the big things, I mean -- or that you've become someone very different than you'd hoped. Everyone needs those course corrections sometimes, whether they're self-imposed, spouse or friend-imposed, or Jesus-imposed.
It wasn't a mistake either, from the sounds of it. It was work he was in the middle of doing and probably expected to babysit.
As someone who's seen many people laid off (and is currently going through my first layoff involving me), they don't give you any notice whatsoever. They don't let you return to your desk, and they certainly don't let you touch the computer. If it's cold out or something, they might let you come back for your coat, but you'll be escorted by security.
This happened to my boss. We had a meeting with him, which he postponed because he had to have a sudden meeting with his boss. Next thing you know, he called us from his cell phone saying he was escorted out - along with about 400 others that day. Yikes.
Nah - totally different joke. She needed her satellite TV fixed.:-P
Seriously, that's bizarre coincidence. I hadn't seen that until you and the two AC's below mentioned it. Just goes to show that great minds think alike. Well, that, or we all just keep repeating the same tired jokes.:-)
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Correlation/causation/etc.
Off the top of my head, a strong correlation would point to at least two possible causes:
1. Educated people "see the light", whereby they can achieve World Peace by allowing other countries to wipe out America once America is out-gunned.
2. University life indoctrinates students to believe they've had the revelation in #1. Of course, because America Is Evil, the ultimate outcome of #1 is seen as a Good Thing.
Apparently.
Of course you're right. Thousands of years ago, firearms didn't exist, and animals did. Thanks for the revelation. Here's a little revelation for you: at that time, people weren't exactly "ranching", nor were they attempting to support a world population of 6 billion.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that the fact that it used to be possible without a given technology justifies the sacrifice of modern technology at a time when these ranches and farms are supporting the most massive population ever. Nor does it justify the idea that this would only be some sort of minor inconvenience.
There was also a time when men hadn't tamed dogs. Should we go back to clubs and spears and spend time honing our sense of smell? Or did you think that dogs were always man's best friend?
The premise of your statement is ridiculous. The scaffold of modern technology is what makes modern life possible. To give up any part of it is more than a minor inconvenience, as you imply.
"No guns, just get dogs." Get real.
Watching the video, it seems as if the placement is relative to other commits. The developer's name will always be in the center of the ring of his committed files. If those files were also committed by someone else, those two names float closer together to signify that they work on overlapping code. It's sort-of an animated Venn diagram.
At least that's my interpretation of it from watching the videos.
Considering that Europeans came to this continent with firearms, I'd venture that ranching on the North American continent was NEVER done without firearms. Before that, there were spears and bow and arrow.
And yes, if predators were taking out a substantial number of livestock, the ranchers would go out of business.
And you still haven't answered my question about why this needs to be regulated at the federal level.
So... what was the point of your post again?
This is why I'm sick to death that people seem to think that gun regulation is a function of the federal government.
There are many states where the lack of a gun would put people out of business as fast as the lack of a tractor or chainsaw.
I was looking at the geohashing map for my area of NJ a while ago. That particular day, the site happened to fall in someone's back yard in suburbia, with no apparent way to get there using public property.
I wondered how the geohashers, if they went, would handle that. I assumed they'd just meet up on the street instead of actually going onto someone's private property. Now, I'm not so sure. Do these guys make a practice of meeting on private property? If so, they're probably lucky they haven't been challenged before this.
I don't really understand why this is such a surprise to people. Countries spy on each other. News at 11. No one is starting a war, it's plain ol' espionage such as has gone on since the beginning of civilizations.
The fact that the US government seems to think that this doesn't apply to computers and the internet is what's appalling, not the fact that China has spies.
It's time that the government wake up and secure their systems. That the Chinese and every other government will look out for their own interests by whatever means they can get away with should simply be assumed.
Because that's nigh on impossible, and they'd never get anything for the wage they're paying. Your wage would be a complete waste of money.
On the other hand, a small improvement in productivity is not necessarily worth an expenditure, especially when they know you're going to sacrifice your own time to make up the difference.
Moral of the story: Leave at 5. Do not work unpaid overtime. If they complain, tell them you're using inadequate tools, and tool X would be a big help.
Too many people do exactly what you said, and it sets up employees to routinely do work they're not being paid for. Emergencies are one thing, but you're only hurting yourself and your peers if you work large amounts of time unpaid.
Of course it can be. Take a solved cube and rotate it one single move. That's an arbitrary configuration, and it's solvable in one move. (Or are we using a definition of "arbitrary" I'm not familiar with?)
I had T-Mobile for my contractually mandated time. During that time, I couldn't even keep a call going in midtown Manhattan, let alone suburbia. I hated going to Verizon because I've had bad experiences with their billing people screwing things up, but I did it because I at least wanted the service I was paying for.
Well now I've got FiOS and Verizon Wireless and so far have been happy. My expectations of horrifically screwed-up billing never did come true, so I can say that right now, at this moment, I'm a happy customer. I make no claims or prognostications concerning next week.
I know people in IT at ALLTEL (used to work there myself), and they're in the phase of wondering what's going to happen with their jobs. Verizon is a company of some considerable size, and may find a few "redundancies" in the new organization. They've been trying to convert to consultant staffing for a while now, probably to reduce the number of actual layoffs (and accompanying severance packages) when the time came. Hopefully VZW can find other jobs within the company for those who are left.
ALLTEL forms a pretty big part of the local IT job market where I'm from, and I'd hate to see those positions closed.
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1000? That's "One Thousand" ?? As in ten times more than 100?
You might want to take some database design courses if you consider a 1000 column limit to be unreasonable or unworkable. The widest table I'd ever seen was one where the original programmer did a poor job of normalization (that is, he didn't do it), and even that only hit about 150 to 200 columns (times about 60 million rows. Ouch.) Not only is it difficult to maintain wide tables like that, the database will probably perform poorly as well when dealing with that table -- especially if it needs to table scan.
With proper schema design, you should never have to pick and choose which attributes to keep due to table width limitations. Also, I get the feeling that, when you say "consolidate", you mean moving several columns into a single delimited field, which is the makings of another unmaintainable mess.
If this is a database that a real company depends on, you really might want to get someone in who can refactor your data model. It'll be painful at first, but it'll save you some real trouble down the road.
From the scary-but-true dept. I don't know if you read Fark, but they had a guy on there who was barred from entering a plane because he was wearing a Transformers shirt.
On the offending shirt, the transformer's arm was a gun (drawn, completely cartoon-ey), but that was enough for Security to bar him from entering the plane unless he changed his shirt.
Read it and weep for our world:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece
Dave
Heh - thanks. I'd be pretty upset too if my butt was on a 700 (?) degree burner too, I guess.
:-)
Oddly, of all the things in the kitchen that make me think "be careful with this thing" -- knives, the stove, garbage disposal -- "measuring cup" was never really on the list until that day.
That said, it'd probably be kinda fun to do in a controlled environment in a MythBusters blowing stuff up kind of way.
This happened with a Pyrex measuring cup and an electric stove. I don't really know the sequence of events that lead to it being on the stove with the element on "high". It didn't seem important enough to notice before the explosion....
It knocked everything off the nearby counter top, and we were picking up glass shards for days. My wife was standing pretty close to the stove, but luckily had her back to it. I hate to think of the consequences if she'd turned to face the stove right at that moment. I'm sure she'd have been blinded. Scary shit, and the biggest noise you never want to hear coming from a kitchen.
Mind-reading computer trifecta is in play.
Isn't that how it always is? The people who are already struggling just get hit harder. At least there's some warning. The question is what the companies/communities/governments will do about it.
Perhaps there's another staple crop that can be started in those areas so that the economies can begin shifting away from bananas before drop-dead time comes -- rice, wheat, potatoes....?
Take that one step further. Allow Dragon to learn their speech, or "language" and convert it to text. Then pump the text through Festival, and you now have a functioning Rosetta stone for people with severe speech impairments. The computer functions as an automatic translator.
As opposed to the wide variety of wireless drivers that Windows supports out-of-the-box without manufacturer software?
Hint: MS doesn't write wireless drivers, the manufacturers do. The fact that Linux has native, non-manufacturer drivers at all speaks well for it.
Linux is different for the sake of being better.
I love the smell of troll food in the morning.
No doubt. Even the commander can't take a Schlitt without supervision.
I have the Blackberry 8830 and use MidpSSH. With the full keyboard on the blackberry and wide screen (relatively speaking) it works great for terminal access.
No one said that you can't be a moral person without God in your life. You can live morally and still make mistakes, bad decisions, get pissed off and do the wrong thing. That doesn't make you immoral at your core, but the sin itself does distance you from God.
The idea of Jesus was not that you can then do whatever you want and get into Heaven anyway. It's that he takes the blame for all those screw-ups that you regret so that you, a basically moral person, can get into heaven.
There won't be any people in heaven who are "immoral" at their core, because people like that don't know how to truly apologize when they do bad things, and would never put any effort into their salvation, because they don't "regret" anything. I'm talking here about people who truly have no conscience.
The entire point was to bridge that final gap, where "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God". It means that even good people screw up and come up short in the end. Obviously, if you don't believe in Heaven or Hell, then you don't need Jesus. You can still live by the rules of society, try to help people out, and be a "good" person as defined by your society. The trouble comes in if Heaven and Hell really do exist, and you find that you really do come up short. If that's a gamble you want to take, that's up to you. Unlike a cult, no one is going to force you to believe anything.
Admittedly, everything one reads is filtered through their previous experience and the resulting world view. That said, you seem to be coming at that from an overly cynical point of view.
If you read the Bible, you'll find that *everything* was an object lesson to Jesus. The simple act of eating and drinking, family, death, sickness, birds and flowers, life itself -- he never missed an opportunity to explain his thoughts. He was, after all, acting as a teacher figure.
To single this particular event out and say he was being cruel to that guy is really spinning it all wrong. He was giving that guy an opportunity to do what all of his disciples had already done. They'd left their families and all their possessions to follow him around the countryside. Why could they do it and he couldn't? Because he had much more to lose? Maybe. Maybe it was because he didn't have enough faith that Jesus really *was* more than a wise man and prophet, and so to throw away everything based on the word of some guy who may or may not be someone special -- that's tough.
Now, as a family man myself, I understand this guy's conundrum. It's easy to make a decision for yourself, but can you imagine coming home and telling your wife and kids that they're now homeless because you're giving all your stuff to the poor..... eh... not an easy thing to do.
Anyway, don't be so hard on Jesus. He was really forcing this guy to realize what was important in his own life, and where his priorities were. Honestly, if you're not doing that to yourself once in a while, you really stand to get pretty far off-track in your life. You can look back over your life and realize that you haven't done anything you've wanted to do -- the big things, I mean -- or that you've become someone very different than you'd hoped. Everyone needs those course corrections sometimes, whether they're self-imposed, spouse or friend-imposed, or Jesus-imposed.
It wasn't a mistake either, from the sounds of it. It was work he was in the middle of doing and probably expected to babysit.
As someone who's seen many people laid off (and is currently going through my first layoff involving me), they don't give you any notice whatsoever. They don't let you return to your desk, and they certainly don't let you touch the computer. If it's cold out or something, they might let you come back for your coat, but you'll be escorted by security.
This happened to my boss. We had a meeting with him, which he postponed because he had to have a sudden meeting with his boss. Next thing you know, he called us from his cell phone saying he was escorted out - along with about 400 others that day. Yikes.
Nah - totally different joke. She needed her satellite TV fixed. :-P
:-)
Seriously, that's bizarre coincidence. I hadn't seen that until you and the two AC's below mentioned it. Just goes to show that great minds think alike. Well, that, or we all just keep repeating the same tired jokes.