. . . they teach Java in the introductory courses, and then tell students to buy Kerrigan-Ritchie and give network and systems programming assignments in C.
I pick up most non-technical subjects easily, but anything that involves mathematics I have to practice, practice, practice.
I filled notebooks for algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and basic physics classes with example equations and practice problems - it was the only way I could be sure I would remember them at test time.
And then I would promptly forget them. Although it wouldn't take as long as the first time I learned how to solve a quadratic equation, I couldn't do it unless I had an example to work from.
English, history, etc., all I had to do was listen in class, take a few notes, and review before a test.
I really envy folks who are intuitive with mathematics and related subjects like music.
Seriously - how is that handled? Are they taken to a private room with a female TSA employee and made to remove it?
I hope so. . . Because I'm not getting on a plane with anyone who doesn't have to submit to the same level of scrutiny as the rest of us, regardless of their religious beliefs.
I've bought and sold on eBay about 25 times in the past few years without any problems.
Now I'm watching for camera lenses for a new Canon 40D (bought from Amazon), but my wife (who checked out several 40Ds on eBay) warned me about these scam rings and that cameras and camera accessories are a favorite bait to lure unknowing buyers.
Apparently the eBay ratings system can be gamed. Does anyone know of a way to confirm a seller is legit before placing a bid?
Whoa - I remember mis-reading the resistor color codes for a couple of boards my Dad let me work on (for a 1970's era color TV kit). ..
Damn good thing by the time I joined the Air Force and started working on ECM pods they only trusted us to swap circuit cards or the tax payers would have been out a few tens of thousands of dollars.
Anytime you put a group of humans together, a pecking order will be established and the group will establish and enforce its own set of informal rules, often overriding any formal rules the group may have set forth to guide its actions and behavior.
It doesn't matter if its the local garden club or an open source project - leaders will emerge and their followers will do almost anything to protect the leader's position in the hopes of protecting their own elevated ranking.
So many Americans have no idea of their true origins because of the transitory nature of our culture - successive generations who pick up and move and settle and then the next generation repeats the process. Our family histories are lost in the shuffle.
My father's family history ends four generations ago in Cairo, Illinois. We can guess from the family name that it probably originated in Scotland, possibly came through Ireland, and then arrived in America. But no one knows for sure and no one knows what other blood may have been added to the line after it arrived in the New World. I'd like to know, for curiosity's sake, but I'll wait until the price comes down a bit (more proof of my Scots heritage).
The cost of using GDrive is allowing Google to mine the information you store with them so they can refine the type of advertising they present to you on the other services they provide for "free."
Looks like our pr0n collections will have to stay hidden on our hard drives unless we don't mind receiving ads for hot singles waiting to meet us NOW everytime we check our gmail accounts. ..
Why sell a crippled version of your operating system? Even if the average user may not think she needs the more advanced features, chances are another application she may install will, and then the user is left angry and confused.
But on the other hand, this may be a good thing - it was when I discovered I couldn't install an Oracle database on XP Home edition that I began to explore Linux.
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. . . they teach Java in the introductory courses, and then tell students to buy Kerrigan-Ritchie and give network and systems programming assignments in C.
Bastards.
I pick up most non-technical subjects easily, but anything that involves mathematics I have to practice, practice, practice.
I filled notebooks for algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and basic physics classes with example equations and practice problems - it was the only way I could be sure I would remember them at test time.
And then I would promptly forget them. Although it wouldn't take as long as the first time I learned how to solve a quadratic equation, I couldn't do it unless I had an example to work from.
English, history, etc., all I had to do was listen in class, take a few notes, and review before a test.
I really envy folks who are intuitive with mathematics and related subjects like music.
. . . is wearing a burqa or niqab?
Seriously - how is that handled? Are they taken to a private room with a female TSA employee and made to remove it?
I hope so. . . Because I'm not getting on a plane with anyone who doesn't have to submit to the same level of scrutiny as the rest of us, regardless of their religious beliefs.
"My boys can swim!
. . . for walking my high school hallways in my underwear?
Why pay $200 when you can get everything you need for less than $50 at Goodwill or another thrift store and slap Ubuntu on it?
I've bought and sold on eBay about 25 times in the past few years without any problems.
Now I'm watching for camera lenses for a new Canon 40D (bought from Amazon), but my wife (who checked out several 40Ds on eBay) warned me about these scam rings and that cameras and camera accessories are a favorite bait to lure unknowing buyers.
Apparently the eBay ratings system can be gamed. Does anyone know of a way to confirm a seller is legit before placing a bid?
Whoa - I remember mis-reading the resistor color codes for a couple of boards my Dad let me work on (for a 1970's era color TV kit). . .
Damn good thing by the time I joined the Air Force and started working on ECM pods they only trusted us to swap circuit cards or the tax payers would have been out a few tens of thousands of dollars.
Better cash in the kids' college funds, head for Vegas, find some hookers, some coke and go out in style.
. . . fly over Interstate 15 between Las Vegas and San Bernadino on a Friday night.
I think you can see the brake lights from space. . .
Hell, mine's a slut.
But then, so am I.
You realize of course that Ron Paul is the favorite of American neo-Nazi and White Supremacist organizations?
And that Ron Paul has and continues to accept financial contributions from these organizations and refuses to renounce them?
This link is a redirect to a statement by the "Commander" of the American National Socialist Workers Party stating the Ron Paul is "one of them."
No candidate is perfect, but some are obviously worse than others and Ron Paul is not being honest with the public.
Slashdot tags are now officially funnier than the posts themselves.
Is that better or worse than being Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland?
No, disgruntled developer responsible for installing and configuring Oracle products.
Let me amend my original post - I want a video of a pod of killer whales tossing Larry Ellison to and fro before they tear his body to shreds.
That would be sweet.
. . . is a video of Larry Ellison being eaten alive by a killer whale.
When I first saw it, I thought it said "linuxpenguingohome".
Anytime you put a group of humans together, a pecking order will be established and the group will establish and enforce its own set of informal rules, often overriding any formal rules the group may have set forth to guide its actions and behavior.
It doesn't matter if its the local garden club or an open source project - leaders will emerge and their followers will do almost anything to protect the leader's position in the hopes of protecting their own elevated ranking.
. . . when your desk is next to the furnace in the plant room?
BTW, I haven't been paid in six months - can somebody do something about that?
So many Americans have no idea of their true origins because of the transitory nature of our culture - successive generations who pick up and move and settle and then the next generation repeats the process. Our family histories are lost in the shuffle.
My father's family history ends four generations ago in Cairo, Illinois. We can guess from the family name that it probably originated in Scotland, possibly came through Ireland, and then arrived in America. But no one knows for sure and no one knows what other blood may have been added to the line after it arrived in the New World. I'd like to know, for curiosity's sake, but I'll wait until the price comes down a bit (more proof of my Scots heritage).
The cost of using GDrive is allowing Google to mine the information you store with them so they can refine the type of advertising they present to you on the other services they provide for "free."
Looks like our pr0n collections will have to stay hidden on our hard drives unless we don't mind receiving ads for hot singles waiting to meet us NOW everytime we check our gmail accounts. . .
Why sell a crippled version of your operating system? Even if the average user may not think she needs the more advanced features, chances are another application she may install will, and then the user is left angry and confused.
But on the other hand, this may be a good thing - it was when I discovered I couldn't install an Oracle database on XP Home edition that I began to explore Linux.
They don't have a clue what Facebook is, and even if they did, they wouldn't use it because the UI is too confusing for them.
That's what happens when you code PL/SQL for ten-plus years in a 4-GL IDE - your brain turns to mashed turnips.
. . . memories of throwing Ron Ramey's KISS collection off his back deck and shooting at them with a 12-gauge shotgun.
Sigh. . .
I'm more worried about the other half that don't need drugs to enjoy Kiss.