The problem with cigarettes has nothing to do with advertising, but rather the addictive nature of nicotine. That's what gets in the way of people making an informed choice about whether to smoke or not. I think that on principle, if an item is legal to produce, sell, and consume, then it should be legal to advertise as well.
On the other hand, it can be a decent mental exercise to accurately and quickly make proper change under stress. I remember as a student I worked in the lone store with a liquor license between the University of Michigan campus and the football stadium. I made it through the 4 hours leading up to the Michigan/Michigan State game running the main register, and despite constantly being bombarded by wall-to-wall hooligans, my drawer was accurate to the penny. You gotta get some kinda satisfaction when you're working for $3.75 an hour...
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puh-lease... I get so sick of people ripping on parties that promote something by characterizing it as lying and mischaracterization. What is the army supposed to promote? "Come dig latrines and peel potatoes behind the mess hall, then get blown up by a suicide bomber while manning a checkpoint in a foreign land! Come be all you can be!"
Reminds me of the morons who object to liquor or tobacco ads, because they don't present "the whole picture". Why should they?
In further news, I'd like to announce that I am patenting the "ON/OFF" switch, a convenient device that enables safe, secure, and easy-to-use initiation and termination of electric current through a device.
When I sat down with this book my intention was to skim through each section, look to see if there was anything that they missed, and crank out the 'ol review.
Now that's in-depth reporting! Did this guy come from the NY Times? Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if a healthy portion of "reviews" are done in such fashion, even in professional rags.
In a way, it's a symptom of the importance that these benchmarks have assumed in reviews. Now, cards are tweaked towards improved performance within a particular benchmark, rather than improving overall.
An excellent point - for Linux zealots, this articles represents confirmation that MS sees a credible threat to their dominance on the desktop, and is willing to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to fight off the challenge. Such a strategy can only really delay competition, not thwart it completely.
Courtois also said Microsoft sometimes gave away software to "very low income countries." He cited a program where Microsoft donated software in South Africa and helped train teachers to use it.
Of course, if MS had charged them full price, they'd be pilloried for contributing to the "digital divide."
One can only hope that this point doesn't hinge on the "rising cost of programming, especially... sports." The networks locked themselves into long-term deals for events like the NCAA's just before the advertising market went into a downturn. This is more about the media companies making some really bad deals than anything else, and now they're looking to the government to bail them out from a regulatory standpoint.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the next round of sports contracts come up - is it actually possible that athletes might see some overall pay cuts coming? Please, let's hope so!
I truly think that the geeks of America could do this. After all, they wouldn't have to actually stand next to each other, just within a hotspot radius...
If you look at languages like COBOL, they have long descriptive keyword names designed to make the code easy to read. But you get tired of looking at those long keywords.
I guess this depends on the environment you're coding in. When you're in a department of 30+ programmers and you get into the inevitable maintenance, the legibility of COBOL becomes a major plus. I'm an ex-COBOLer who's having to migrate to RPG now (I can feel myself devolving by the day), and I find it an ugly task. Most of the time I feel like Gandalf towards the beginning of FotR:
USER: I can't make out the words. ME: There are few who can. It is written in RPG, a language which I will not utter here...
Quite the contrary - in a well crafted piece of work, 2 or 3 times is enough to plant the seed, without beating the audience over the head. Personally, I think it's a marvelous writing job to incorporate so many different religious/philosophical elements into a coherent whole. It'll keep people talking about this for a looooooooong time...
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Going nowhere? AI and the Sixers are still alive in the playoffs, it's not like they're getting swept or anything...
Use Tax is very common (if not in all 50 states), but enforcement has been nonexistent because of the difficulties involved. 99 out of 100 times, it is ignored...
and what are they doing involving temps in something like this anyway? I'd think that if you're going to start throwing around legal nastygrams, you'd at least have dedicated personnel involved!
A marginally useful application, which might be improved by the ability to weed out recordings that have DJ's talking over the opening or closing of the track. By and large, though, if Tivo is having a hard time reaching commercial success, I can't imagine this doing any better!
Hardly nonsense, it's closing a Mack-truck size enforcement loophole that certain companies are taking advantage of. Something like this had to come along sooner or later, did you really think they'd let these taxes go uncollected forever?
Speaking for the PHB's, this sounds very exciting. I can't wait until they have self-upgrading computers as well. No more replacing hardware every 3 years!
Personally, I think it would be more dramatic to tie him down and place one AOL CD at a time on his chest, eventually crushing him under the weight of 100 million disks. Talk about bulk email!
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The problem with cigarettes has nothing to do with advertising, but rather the addictive nature of nicotine. That's what gets in the way of people making an informed choice about whether to smoke or not. I think that on principle, if an item is legal to produce, sell, and consume, then it should be legal to advertise as well.
On the other hand, it can be a decent mental exercise to accurately and quickly make proper change under stress. I remember as a student I worked in the lone store with a liquor license between the University of Michigan campus and the football stadium. I made it through the 4 hours leading up to the Michigan/Michigan State game running the main register, and despite constantly being bombarded by wall-to-wall hooligans, my drawer was accurate to the penny. You gotta get some kinda satisfaction when you're working for $3.75 an hour...
Reminds me of the morons who object to liquor or tobacco ads, because they don't present "the whole picture". Why should they?
In further news, I'd like to announce that I am patenting the "ON/OFF" switch, a convenient device that enables safe, secure, and easy-to-use initiation and termination of electric current through a device.
Just gotta remember my EMP when driving about.
Now that's in-depth reporting! Did this guy come from the NY Times? Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if a healthy portion of "reviews" are done in such fashion, even in professional rags.
Be sure not to trust the NY Times either...
They survived because Taco Bell's main food source is known to survive any known catastrophe, even nuclear war...
In a way, it's a symptom of the importance that these benchmarks have assumed in reviews. Now, cards are tweaked towards improved performance within a particular benchmark, rather than improving overall.
I always thought Unisys was a dumb name for the combined entity. They should have gone with "Sperroughs"...
An excellent point - for Linux zealots, this articles represents confirmation that MS sees a credible threat to their dominance on the desktop, and is willing to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to fight off the challenge. Such a strategy can only really delay competition, not thwart it completely.
Of course, if MS had charged them full price, they'd be pilloried for contributing to the "digital divide."
It will be interesting to see what happens when the next round of sports contracts come up - is it actually possible that athletes might see some overall pay cuts coming? Please, let's hope so!
I truly think that the geeks of America could do this. After all, they wouldn't have to actually stand next to each other, just within a hotspot radius...
I guess this depends on the environment you're coding in. When you're in a department of 30+ programmers and you get into the inevitable maintenance, the legibility of COBOL becomes a major plus. I'm an ex-COBOLer who's having to migrate to RPG now (I can feel myself devolving by the day), and I find it an ugly task. Most of the time I feel like Gandalf towards the beginning of FotR:
USER: I can't make out the words.
ME: There are few who can. It is written in RPG, a language which I will not utter here...
err... Wiseguys, Wonder Boys, whatever!
You sure it wasn't Michael Douglas from Wiseguys?
Quite the contrary - in a well crafted piece of work, 2 or 3 times is enough to plant the seed, without beating the audience over the head. Personally, I think it's a marvelous writing job to incorporate so many different religious/philosophical elements into a coherent whole. It'll keep people talking about this for a looooooooong time...
Going nowhere? AI and the Sixers are still alive in the playoffs, it's not like they're getting swept or anything...
Use Tax is very common (if not in all 50 states), but enforcement has been nonexistent because of the difficulties involved. 99 out of 100 times, it is ignored...
and what are they doing involving temps in something like this anyway? I'd think that if you're going to start throwing around legal nastygrams, you'd at least have dedicated personnel involved!
A marginally useful application, which might be improved by the ability to weed out recordings that have DJ's talking over the opening or closing of the track. By and large, though, if Tivo is having a hard time reaching commercial success, I can't imagine this doing any better!
Hardly nonsense, it's closing a Mack-truck size enforcement loophole that certain companies are taking advantage of. Something like this had to come along sooner or later, did you really think they'd let these taxes go uncollected forever?
Speaking for the PHB's, this sounds very exciting. I can't wait until they have self-upgrading computers as well. No more replacing hardware every 3 years!
Personally, I think it would be more dramatic to tie him down and place one AOL CD at a time on his chest, eventually crushing him under the weight of 100 million disks. Talk about bulk email!