I had a similar experience at my previous employer. This was a global fortune 500 company, and I was on the local site's IT team. I was sent an email from the global IT team saying that Firefox had been detected on my machine, this was unauthorized software and I needed to uninstall it. Being a developer, I was generally allowed to install whatever tools I needed to get my job done, and therefore had administrator priveliges. However, the Global IT deparment didn't know me from Suzie in purchasing.
I simply went to my manager, who was an open-source/Linux nut. He emailed the Global IT people and told them it was "required for my job" (which it wasn't).
I graduated with a CS degree from a Liberal Arts college. Perhaps at a tech school you are surrounded by people who know about the subjects you wish to learn about. The key to a Liberal Arts college is surrounding yourself with a variety of people. You're going to learn a lot more partying with a history or philosophy major than you are partying with another programmer.
Also, you are forced to take classes you wouldn't have wanted to, and *gasp* you'll actually learn about new things! Perhaps when you're 40, you'll decide that you don't want to be a programmer anymore. Instead, you want to become a writer, or open your own restaurant. You're going to have a wider variety of knowledge and contacts in a wider variety of fields if you went to a Liberal Arts college.
Admittedly, I've not tried for a job at Google or Sun. However, I've had no trouble finding good work, and interviewers are usually impressed by the college I graduated from.
I think you missed the analogy. In this analogy "You" are the government and "I" am the private citizen. He's saying "You" shouldn't provide services (like mowing the grass or providing ER service) if you dont like dealing with my behavior.
I'm not generating the PDFs in my program. They're documents attached to an order. User selects some orders in my program and clicks "Print Documents". I want to send them to the printer. Without an acrobat window popping up in front.
Unfortunately, I have no way of knowing when the printing is complete. It prints asynchronously and has no event hooks or callbacks . I dabbled in monitoring the print queue, but the only example I could find for this (in VB.NET) online was incomplete.
Acrobat Reader works fine on our Linux and Solaris machines.
Thats funny, cause it doesn't work for shyt under Windows.
I've spent a good deal of effort trying to figure out a way to print PDFs from my.NET Windows Forms app. So far I've found 2 free (as in beer) alternatives. Acrobat Reader (post-v8.0) leaves an empty Reader window up on the desktop and doesn't play well with batches of print jobs. And Ghostscript requires an install and then needs directories manually added to the user's PATH.
I'm mostly ranting off topic here cause I'd love it if anyone could tell me a good way to silently send PDFs to the printer on a windows machine.
You may refuse to believe it, but according to a survey that was released this week. More than 50% of Americans claim to be Protestants and 25% claim to be Catholic. Now, it is true that only 26% of American's claim to be Evangelical Protestants, which is not a majority, but rather a plurality.
I don't think you guys are using your imagination. "milk.com" does not necessarily need to sell milk to be a marketing goldmine. It just has to do something relating to milk. Maybe it could be a place to research where your milk came from. You could learn about different kinds of milk like
whole milk
soy milk
2% milk
1% milk
skim milk
goat milk
chocolate milk
milk-shakes
milk chocolate
condensed milk
evaporated milk
powdered milk
butter-milk
malted milk
milk of magnesia
br3@st milk
sour milk
milk and honey
milk duds
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Well, there's your false assumption. Christianity is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ -- not the rules and stories of the Old Testament. Those stories and rules, the ones that outsiders like to point to as being so ridiculous, are there for background. They were the legends of the Hebrew people and give Cultural Guidance. Jesus only ever stated two rules.
Love God
Love everyone else.
He did give a good deal of advice though.
Don't judge other people.
Pay your taxes.
etc. etc.
you want to call yourself a follower of it, you should follow each and every rule without questioning
That's a ridiculous straw-man. Jesus himself questioned God. Of course we question it. If there was never a question, there was never a decision made. Being a Christian means making that decision.
Non-fundamentalist Christians believe that much of the bible is metaphorical -- especially the early parts of Genesis. These stories evolved from legends that the Hebrew people told for many generations. Parts of the Christian creation story are very similar to parts of Babylonian creation stories. Thats not surprising. Abraham was from the Babylonian region. Ironically, the Christian creation story is probably a result of cultural "evolution".
There's another post in this thread asking for some methodology that can be used to determine which parts of the Bible are metaphorical and which are "factual". Thats a subject that has been debated for centuries and resulted in the large variety of Christian sects that we have today.
I, personally, think that it doesn't really matter. I'm a non-fundamentalist Christian. I see the Bible (especially the Old Testament) as a cultural guide rather than a declaration of historical facts.
The point of the story of the Fall of Man is not that a talking snake gave an apple to the first two people. The point is that all people have an inherent impurity that requires an act of God to remove.
My first video game experience was playing a table-top Pac-man at some pizza place when I was about 5. My clueless mother kept telling me "You're supposed to try to eat the ghosts!" The game lasted under a minute, and she wouldn't give me another quarter:'(
My first real GAMING experience was Risk(TM) at about the same age. God I love that game.
I'd think more 30's and under men would at least like a little eye-candy with their news.
Its kind of like Paris Hilton or Jessica Simpson. Some people think they're hotties. But as soon as they open their mouths and that garbage spews forth, they are no longer attractive. I, for one, won't subject myself to the horror of Fox News simply to look at some eye-candy
Are you seriously saying that after the government beat the location of the secret operatives out of captured combatants...?
I think he's saying we shouldn't have beaten the information out of them. So far, the American people know of no actionable intelligence that was gained in this manner.
How much information gathered would be enough to satisfy you and how much would be enough to foil any advantage of knowing this information?
I can't speak for the GP, but for me there is NO amount of information that makes it acceptable to torture people. We are the good guys. We are better than that. The good guys don't need to resort to these tactics. If they do, they are no longer the good guys.
As long as we can monitor what we found, we can stop anything from happening
The point here is that we can't.
If something happens and American people are killed again, are you guys going to dance and proclaim that you were right?
Nice straw-man. What you're really saying is: If you don't like violence, you must be a traitor.
I'm not really sure what you're saying, but I'm guessing that you're saying I'm the battered wife and brick&morter retail is the abusive husband?
Your cute little analogy is not very applicable, nor does it suggest an alternative -- which was the original question. Are you saying I simply shouldn't buy video games? Or that I should get them from some nameless faceless entity online?
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I would like to know what a real alternative is. I like to shop for and buy video games at real brick&mortar stores. CompUSA is a joke. Wal-mart is the perennial bad guy. Target and KMart have very limited selections and arent any better than Wal-mart really.
EBGames and Gamestop are already on my boycott list. They like to hire arrogant pimple-faced punks who treat anyone who isn't a "Hardcore Gamer" as if they are somehow inferior (Give it a rest -- you work at Gamestop for chrissake). And they never really have anything in stock -- preferring that you pre-order.
So, where am I to go when I want to buy a new video game? In my experience, Best Buy is the least of the evils.
I think he was making fun of the GP who mis-spelled "contact" as "contract". Then he continued the joke by making an ironic confusion of "ISP" and "STD". So, he spoke about "contracting a Russian STD".
That reminds me of when I saw the remake of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" a few years ago. There were two kids sitting in front of us, a boy and a girl. They couldn't have been more than 7. The boy was crying during the movie. The girl got up and walked out. She came back a little while later and I heard her telling the "adults" she was with "I called my mommy and she's coming to get me."
I thought it was bad enough that someone took kids to this movie. But they took someone else's kids to the movie! And then let a little girl go wait in the parking lot by herself, rather than being responsible enough to leave with her.
Of course, I may not know the whole story. I'm sure someone can come up with a hypothetical situation where this person may not have been irresponsible. I'm just telling what I saw and the (possibly flawed) conclusions that I drew from it.
I got my information from Wikipedia. I realize that its not always the "God's Honest Truth", but its usually pretty reliable.
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar (born May 5, 1983 in Tehran) is an Iranian-born American citizen who confessed to intentionally hitting people with a car on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide" and to "punish" the United States government. While no one was killed in the attack, nine people were injured (none seriously). Shortly after the attack, he turned himself in and was arrested. He currently awaits trial. In one letter, Taheri-azar wrote, "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammad Atta, one of the 9/11/01 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree."
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Popal "was terrorizing the neighborhoods near the Western Addition and Pacific Heights",[7] and KTVU reported that a woman at the scene of the arrest heard Popal say "I'm a terrorist, I don't care." A second witness confirmed the first's account
Also both are listed here. Upon closer inspection, there is indeed some contraversy over Omeed Aziz Popal's mental competency at the time he made his claim. However, I don't think I was being racist, bigoted or ignorant to equate their actions to terrorism.
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I had a similar experience at my previous employer. This was a global fortune 500 company, and I was on the local site's IT team. I was sent an email from the global IT team saying that Firefox had been detected on my machine, this was unauthorized software and I needed to uninstall it. Being a developer, I was generally allowed to install whatever tools I needed to get my job done, and therefore had administrator priveliges. However, the Global IT deparment didn't know me from Suzie in purchasing.
I simply went to my manager, who was an open-source/Linux nut. He emailed the Global IT people and told them it was "required for my job" (which it wasn't).
There's actually a serious point here.
I graduated with a CS degree from a Liberal Arts college. Perhaps at a tech school you are surrounded by people who know about the subjects you wish to learn about. The key to a Liberal Arts college is surrounding yourself with a variety of people. You're going to learn a lot more partying with a history or philosophy major than you are partying with another programmer.
Also, you are forced to take classes you wouldn't have wanted to, and *gasp* you'll actually learn about new things! Perhaps when you're 40, you'll decide that you don't want to be a programmer anymore. Instead, you want to become a writer, or open your own restaurant. You're going to have a wider variety of knowledge and contacts in a wider variety of fields if you went to a Liberal Arts college.
Admittedly, I've not tried for a job at Google or Sun. However, I've had no trouble finding good work, and interviewers are usually impressed by the college I graduated from.
I think you missed the analogy. In this analogy "You" are the government and "I" am the private citizen. He's saying "You" shouldn't provide services (like mowing the grass or providing ER service) if you dont like dealing with my behavior.
I'm not generating the PDFs in my program. They're documents attached to an order. User selects some orders in my program and clicks "Print Documents". I want to send them to the printer. Without an acrobat window popping up in front.
Unfortunately, I have no way of knowing when the printing is complete. It prints asynchronously and has no event hooks or callbacks
. I dabbled in monitoring the print queue, but the only example I could find for this (in VB.NET) online was incomplete.
Thats funny, cause it doesn't work for shyt under Windows.
I've spent a good deal of effort trying to figure out a way to print PDFs from my
I'm mostly ranting off topic here cause I'd love it if anyone could tell me a good way to silently send PDFs to the printer on a windows machine.
You may refuse to believe it, but according to a survey that was released this week. More than 50% of Americans claim to be Protestants and 25% claim to be Catholic. Now, it is true that only 26% of American's claim to be Evangelical Protestants, which is not a majority, but rather a plurality.
You could learn about different kinds of milk like
- milk duds
Slashdot won't let me post anymore....it says I have too few characters per lineWell, there's your false assumption. Christianity is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ -- not the rules and stories of the Old Testament. Those stories and rules, the ones that outsiders like to point to as being so ridiculous, are there for background. They were the legends of the Hebrew people and give Cultural Guidance. Jesus only ever stated two rules.
He did give a good deal of advice though.
- etc. etc.
you want to call yourself a follower of it, you should follow each and every rule without questioningThat's a ridiculous straw-man. Jesus himself questioned God. Of course we question it. If there was never a question, there was never a decision made. Being a Christian means making that decision.
Non-fundamentalist Christians believe that much of the bible is metaphorical -- especially the early parts of Genesis. These stories evolved from legends that the Hebrew people told for many generations. Parts of the Christian creation story are very similar to parts of Babylonian creation stories. Thats not surprising. Abraham was from the Babylonian region. Ironically, the Christian creation story is probably a result of cultural "evolution".
There's another post in this thread asking for some methodology that can be used to determine which parts of the Bible are metaphorical and which are "factual". Thats a subject that has been debated for centuries and resulted in the large variety of Christian sects that we have today.
I, personally, think that it doesn't really matter. I'm a non-fundamentalist Christian. I see the Bible (especially the Old Testament) as a cultural guide rather than a declaration of historical facts.
The point of the story of the Fall of Man is not that a talking snake gave an apple to the first two people. The point is that all people have an inherent impurity that requires an act of God to remove.
I haven't played it, but its my understanding that "Pirates of the Burning Sea" has this kind of dynamic.
My first video game experience was playing a table-top Pac-man at some pizza place when I was about 5. My clueless mother kept telling me "You're supposed to try to eat the ghosts!" The game lasted under a minute, and she wouldn't give me another quarter :'(
My first real GAMING experience was Risk(TM) at about the same age. God I love that game.
I believe the GP was pointing out that he was just as careless with his information as were "the idiots who lost the discs".
Its kind of like Paris Hilton or Jessica Simpson. Some people think they're hotties. But as soon as they open their mouths and that garbage spews forth, they are no longer attractive. I, for one, won't subject myself to the horror of Fox News simply to look at some eye-candy
At the risk of feeding a troll...
Are you seriously saying that after the government beat the location of the secret operatives out of captured combatants...?I think he's saying we shouldn't have beaten the information out of them. So far, the American people know of no actionable intelligence that was gained in this manner.
How much information gathered would be enough to satisfy you and how much would be enough to foil any advantage of knowing this information?I can't speak for the GP, but for me there is NO amount of information that makes it acceptable to torture people. We are the good guys. We are better than that. The good guys don't need to resort to these tactics. If they do, they are no longer the good guys.
As long as we can monitor what we found, we can stop anything from happeningThe point here is that we can't.
If something happens and American people are killed again, are you guys going to dance and proclaim that you were right?Nice straw-man. What you're really saying is: If you don't like violence, you must be a traitor.
There is just _No_ other way of looking at it.There is ALWAYS another way of looking at things.
I was talking about video games. From what I've seen, Best Buy has a much better selection of video games -- especially for PC
Best Buy's produce is even worse than Walmart's
I'm not really sure what you're saying, but I'm guessing that you're saying I'm the battered wife and brick&morter retail is the abusive husband?
Your cute little analogy is not very applicable, nor does it suggest an alternative -- which was the original question. Are you saying I simply shouldn't buy video games? Or that I should get them from some nameless faceless entity online?
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I would like to know what a real alternative is. I like to shop for and buy video games at real brick&mortar stores. CompUSA is a joke. Wal-mart is the perennial bad guy. Target and KMart have very limited selections and arent any better than Wal-mart really.
EBGames and Gamestop are already on my boycott list. They like to hire arrogant pimple-faced punks who treat anyone who isn't a "Hardcore Gamer" as if they are somehow inferior (Give it a rest -- you work at Gamestop for chrissake). And they never really have anything in stock -- preferring that you pre-order.
So, where am I to go when I want to buy a new video game? In my experience, Best Buy is the least of the evils.
I've been listening to the voices in my head for years and noone else seems to know about them. Wow! I must be extremely cool!
Right now they're telling me I should seek out indie-music snobs and sacrifice them to the Space God Zorkon...
I think he was making fun of the GP who mis-spelled "contact" as "contract". Then he continued the joke by making an ironic confusion of "ISP" and "STD". So, he spoke about "contracting a Russian STD".
Its true. A joke is lost when its explained.
That reminds me of when I saw the remake of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" a few years ago. There were two kids sitting in front of us, a boy and a girl. They couldn't have been more than 7. The boy was crying during the movie. The girl got up and walked out. She came back a little while later and I heard her telling the "adults" she was with "I called my mommy and she's coming to get me." I thought it was bad enough that someone took kids to this movie. But they took someone else's kids to the movie! And then let a little girl go wait in the parking lot by herself, rather than being responsible enough to leave with her. Of course, I may not know the whole story. I'm sure someone can come up with a hypothetical situation where this person may not have been irresponsible. I'm just telling what I saw and the (possibly flawed) conclusions that I drew from it.
Oops. I meant to include this link in the second quote.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Popal "was terrorizing the neighborhoods near the Western Addition and Pacific Heights",[7] and KTVU reported that a woman at the scene of the arrest heard Popal say "I'm a terrorist, I don't care." A second witness confirmed the first's account
Also both are listed here. Upon closer inspection, there is indeed some contraversy over Omeed Aziz Popal's mental competency at the time he made his claim. However, I don't think I was being racist, bigoted or ignorant to equate their actions to terrorism.
Irrelevant. The original quote said that "But there have been no more terrorist attacks on the US during that time." Sounds great. But its not true.