30 an hour would help me get out of debt! I don't feel too bad though because I have always had insurance. Insurance has helped me out alot as well as some of the county services with my son (he needed speech therapy and physical therapy do to a developmental disability that insurance would not pay...the county paid it all). My main problem is I have similar issues to this guy. I need to get a second job as well just to climb out of debt. Oh sure, I bought some things that I probably did not need, but non of those were on credit cards. They were on loans. My problem has been the house I bought 6-7 years ago was so quickly put up that I have had to do many things to repair it and I had to put it on credit just after I got out of debt. My floor rotted in my bathroom so I had to repair it. My second dishwasher in 6 years has just broke and I can't afford to get it fixed. Even if I did have someone try and repair it, it would end up being as much to repair it as a new one would cost to have delivered and installed. So I wash dishes by hand. Things are not so bad. My job is stable. Sure I don't get paid what I should (working in support for a community college), but I don't live in fear for my job on a week in week out basis. I just need a little boost to get things over the hump.
And yes I would agree with that, excep that precinct only had like 683 registered voters. Statistically, it would not have made a difference. I would like to hope that our low paid election workers would have better ethics then your common grocery store worker.
Franklin county is not tiny. It's large. It only holds most of Columbus, OH of which Gahanna is a suburb. Not much has been reported about the anomoly here in Columbus. By the way...even with the extra help, Kerry still won Franklin county handily. Also, these machines are not Diebold machines. I am not sure WHO makes them. There's no identifying markind on them.
This happens all the time. I myself got the Tron Collector's DVD at Walmart 2 days before (wasn't realy looking for it, but I saw it and realized it was early and picked it up anyway...). Usually the way it goes is EBGames, or Meijer or some other retailer will have some low wage guy accidently pop it in the case and start selling it. It wasn't his fault. Then people will see it, think it's out, and go to thier favorite store and ask them about it. Most managers of these stores figures well if one store is selling it, then I sure as hell am going to make a sale as well. Then it just goes by local gamer grapevine and the day before the release date, everyone has it out for sale. I honestly don't understand why they do things like this. If it's not supposed to come out til X date, why ship it so it's sitting in the store room for 3 days? I doubt Meijer will have anything happen to them. They sell too many Xboxes and game for Microsoft for Microsoft to even care. For all we know, it may be a stunt being pulled by Microsoft....i mean the game was advertised by ilovebees.
I doubt it. Creative has everything proprietary in the Zen line. It won't even sync regular MP3's or WMA's with iTunes on a PC or Mac. Your muvo is a anomoly. It's like the Muvo and the Zen lines are built by two different companies.
Um...how have the been disproven? WMD's can have LEGS! They may have had them right before the war, but because we American's have a walk across this line or else attitude and then sit back and wait, he had all the time in the world to get them out of there. That and the war is STILL happening. War is tuff. We American's have to buck up and realize there are GOING to be men that won't come back. Is it worth it? I say yes. Was Saddam linked to Osama? Maybe not directly, but definitely in a indirect way. Is it making me feel safer? You bet. We have to have a SPINE and show that we think they are wrong. Bush was right when he says your either with us or against us. We have to think of our country first sometimes and worry less about repurcussions we can deal with later like France and the UK and the other governments that were violating UN sanctions that were supposed to be enforced on Iraq.
Do you have a electric vehicle or any other vehicle that can get me to work as fast and as cheaply as a gas powered automobile? If you do, i bet you could make lots of money excpet that electric vehicles DON'T prevent pollution.
Yucca Mountain? Well you got a better plan for getting rid of Nuclear waste??
The point is the alternatives ain't all that good right now. What many people fail to realize is that the President by and large has so little to do with the economy in general and the price of oil to be specific that nothing he can do can prevent the price of gas from spinning out of control in either a downward or a upwad trend. He also has little impact on the environment as well. What does it matter if we're the cleanest nation on the Earth if China, India and other countries allow all of the bad for the Environment stuff to continue?
20 counties may use Diebold machines, but the rest surely do not all use punch card, but be sure alot of them do. Franklin used a different electronic machine and has in the last 4 presidential elections.
Franklin County has had Electronic Machines for every presidential election I have ever voted in while I have lived in the county. They are not Diebold machines. They basically have this big printed ballot with lights on them. Press the person you want and the lights stop flashing. Want to change a vote, press your old vote, press the new one. When all the lights are not flashing, and you don't want to change a thing, press the big green VOTE button. Not sure what other counties used the Diebold machines in Ohio. Ohio has the LARGEST percentage of people using punch card ballots I may add as well. Personally, I think that the whole electronic atm style voting machine "problem" thing is a bit overblown. I am sure there are problems. None that I think of that can't be fixed in some way.
Go ahead. You keep on thinking that. I'll have you know that while you think I voted for Bush because I happen to be a Christian, I also voted because he doesn't Waffle or flip flop (as much), because I think he was right for going to Iraq (anyone who has ever thought war is easy would be a fool), and I happen to have benefitted much from his tax plan (we still pay too much taxes from the middle class on up....remember....the lower class folks don't pay taxes so how would they benefit from a tax cut? Do we just give them our money??), I also happento agree with him on just about every other thign he has done, with exception of him signing off on the patriot act.
At least I had MANY reasons and wasn't a anybody but Bush guy which means you didn't realy want Kerry either.
Go ahead. You keep on thinking that. I'll have you know that while you think I voted for Bush because I happen to be a Christian, I also voted because he doesn't Waffle or flip flop (as much), because I think he was right for going to Iraq (anyone who has ever thought war is easy would be a fool), and I happen to have benefitted much from his tax plan (we still pay too much taxes from the middle class on up....remember....the lower class folks don't pay taxes so how would they benefit from a tax cut? Do we just give them our money??), I also happento agree with him on just about every other thign he has done, with exception of him signing off on the patriot act.
At least I had MANY reasons and wasn't a anybody but Bush guy.
Gentoo is nice, but I wasted my time. Binary packages are great because I didn't have to wait for the damn thing to compile. Optimizing to the hilt is only necessary if you really need too and most of the comments on that page sound like comments you'd see on MacRumors when the latest security patch comes out:
I applied the latest security patch from Apple and my Powerbook seems to have more zip.
If your Gentoo:
The just released a new package for X11 (4.3.9 up from 4.3.8) and I spent all night compiling it and it just seem so much faster then 4.3.8!
It's ridiculous. I have better things to do then compile X11 4-5 times a month or year depending on how fast the new packages come out just so I can gain 1 fps in a game or whatever.
Granted, if you actualy and really need that extra performance, then it's worth it (say if your working on embedded or other types of constrained platforms).
Electoral College is a part of our checks and balances, but not the traditional one. Even our forefathers realized how HARD it would be to get a TRUE count of the votes nation wide....even when there was only 13 states. The way it works is not pretty, but it DOES work.
Direct elections just would not work. How would you recount MILLIONS of votes in a reasonable time? We all know what it was like in 2000 and it would be WORSE if we elected teh president via a direct vote. TRUST ME....much worse.
Our election system is not RACIST. There is no way Ican even see why you would bring that up.
In a Democracy, everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING...), from the simplest law to the election of the president would be done by popular vote. Majority rules. Come to think of it, that is fair and I hate to tell you this, but the MAJORITY of the country thinks like a republican. The sad thing is the amount of people that are actually registered compared to the actual population. I am so sick and tired of minorities pushing their issues on the rest of the country. Is it fair the minority do not get their say? In a country like ours, yes it is fair. You have to work at converting more of us to be like you before you will get your way.
Popular vote means diddly squat. We elect our ELECTORS and if you get enough states to pledge their electors for you (270) you win even if you lost the popular vote. It's part of our checks and balances. Would you complain about that if Gore had won the electors, but lost the popular vote?
Last I checked, we were a republic and not a democracy.
Yes you are right.....but the American Soldier in Iraq likely may already have made up his mind and...HE'S an American! Odds are our military probably have a good ole American Satellite dish with military grade hardware and american IP's.
You are so right. Granted, the absentees do deserve to see this, but that's the point. I personally don't care too damn much who gets elected president in any country except my own. Only ones that can help me out are the idiots in my own country.
I havea 1 GHz G4 PowerBook and it runs just fine. There are whole hordes of people running Panther on lesser G4's and even a few who run it on G3's. In fact I saw Mac OS X being used on a Pismo (G3 Powerbook). The G3 is very capable of running OS X, but it may not run on older G3's. A G3 now, is like a Pentium II now. A PIII is more like a G4. A PII is capable of running Windows XP, but PII's would be very slow. A G5 is more like a Pentium IV. How is that bad? You simply cannot compare the X86 to the RISC based G3, G4 and G5. My Windows computer is a Pentium IV running at 2.53GHz. My 1 GHz Powerbook runs rings around that desktop when editing video. With the proper memory setup, any G3 (with the right rom) will run Mac OS X. What does surprise me some is they still have 256 MB as a standard RAM setup and Mac OS X runs much better with 512 MB.
If the class is not a early class in the CS flow, don't place the focus of the course on simple documentation. Also, on a scripting class like Javascript, enforce what would be asked for on your job. Inline comments. Block diagrams or system flows are more used in industry then nitty gritty flowcharts and pseudo code. As most CS projects are too small to go beyond building just a flow, I can see why they don't use block diagrams.
Classes should try to focus on teaching as much of the subject as possible in the time alotted especially if it's further down the prereq list. The subject should not be if you got your flowchart right! it should be if you got the program right AND knowing how you did it. Require the documentation, but don't let it weigh in heavy on the grade.
In my current class, there are also group projects (in a web class no less). While a little hard to deal with, it's not too bad as that is the way alot of developers are meeting.....just in e-mail or IRC or what have you.
In any case, as far as supporting others work, comments in the code and decent end user documents is all I ask.
Also, alot of languages don't lend themselves to flowcharting...so why require it?
Sorry, just venting on how far back in the times some instructors are! I spent the first 3 weeks of class learning basics....basics I learned 15 years ago.
IE isn't the only thing that accepts sloppy code. Currently taking a SQL Server 2000 class and Query Analyzer let's you create queries with out ending semicolons and with out regards to case sensitivity of the field names. I was amazed at the sloppy SQL I could send it.granted, you make a actual mistake in the syntax like a bad select it would not work, but if you jusr had say a capital H instead of a lower case h in a field where the name of the field showed as a lowercase h and it would work. Case sensitivity is there for a reason. I guess it could be the specific collation I set up the server with, but it shoudl have never accepted a select without a semicolon at the end. Plus don't get me started on why it was bad for Microsoft trying to improve SQL by adding their own things to there varient of SQL, T-SQL. Of course, Oracle and others have doen the same thing. It would be so nice for SQL to just work from one server to another.
I COULD see a reason to connect a cam to the internet, but would it not be better to just have the networking in it like the Dlink cameras and the Axis webcam's? Once you have a network connection on it, the need for on board storage is minimal. All you would need is some flash rom to store a OS of sorts on the cam so it can handle all of hte nasty stuff like the networking.
listen..I know...it sucks. I have been in and around Hurricanes and I know its no picnic. But to poopoo emergency use of cellphones just cuz you have had a hurricane go through your area of the country doesn't mean they are very valuable to people in other emergency situations. I don't think my post was very inflammatory at all. PLUS, you have already had one other reply with a link pointing to a companies who had COW's in range of Florida BEFORE Charley blew through. In fact, ALL of the carriers had done so. In an emergency, planning is the best thing you can do. I have been to Southern Florida and see the amount of planning alot of folks do when hurricane's come. The thing that impressed me wa that the buildings were ALL very strong. Even the homes were stronger then the typicassl home from where I am from in Ohio. I know, that doesn't save you from a cat four, but planning will make the damages less painful. I know life sucks now, but it will only get better. I am sorry you feel like telling me so, but you know, I don't live in Florida. I don't live there for a reason. You live there by choice. If life is that bad, after you get things back on track, you can always move. Just remember that natural disasters happen anywhere. In Ohio, I will probably get snowed on....alot. We also get tornados. Its luck of the draw for any of these. I tend to look at what I have and try not to get mad when disaster strikes. When you are down in your newly repaired house enjoying 50-70 degree days, remember I will be freezing my ass off in -20 below wind chills here in Ohio.
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You try paying 40,000 in medical bills plus food, housing and etc and see how well off you are.
30 an hour would help me get out of debt! I don't feel too bad though because I have always had insurance. Insurance has helped me out alot as well as some of the county services with my son (he needed speech therapy and physical therapy do to a developmental disability that insurance would not pay...the county paid it all). My main problem is I have similar issues to this guy. I need to get a second job as well just to climb out of debt. Oh sure, I bought some things that I probably did not need, but non of those were on credit cards. They were on loans. My problem has been the house I bought 6-7 years ago was so quickly put up that I have had to do many things to repair it and I had to put it on credit just after I got out of debt. My floor rotted in my bathroom so I had to repair it. My second dishwasher in 6 years has just broke and I can't afford to get it fixed. Even if I did have someone try and repair it, it would end up being as much to repair it as a new one would cost to have delivered and installed. So I wash dishes by hand. Things are not so bad. My job is stable. Sure I don't get paid what I should (working in support for a community college), but I don't live in fear for my job on a week in week out basis. I just need a little boost to get things over the hump.
And yes I would agree with that, excep that precinct only had like 683 registered voters. Statistically, it would not have made a difference. I would like to hope that our low paid election workers would have better ethics then your common grocery store worker.
Franklin county is not tiny. It's large. It only holds most of Columbus, OH of which Gahanna is a suburb. Not much has been reported about the anomoly here in Columbus. By the way...even with the extra help, Kerry still won Franklin county handily. Also, these machines are not Diebold machines. I am not sure WHO makes them. There's no identifying markind on them.
This happens all the time. I myself got the Tron Collector's DVD at Walmart 2 days before (wasn't realy looking for it, but I saw it and realized it was early and picked it up anyway...). Usually the way it goes is EBGames, or Meijer or some other retailer will have some low wage guy accidently pop it in the case and start selling it. It wasn't his fault. Then people will see it, think it's out, and go to thier favorite store and ask them about it. Most managers of these stores figures well if one store is selling it, then I sure as hell am going to make a sale as well. Then it just goes by local gamer grapevine and the day before the release date, everyone has it out for sale. I honestly don't understand why they do things like this. If it's not supposed to come out til X date, why ship it so it's sitting in the store room for 3 days? I doubt Meijer will have anything happen to them. They sell too many Xboxes and game for Microsoft for Microsoft to even care. For all we know, it may be a stunt being pulled by Microsoft....i mean the game was advertised by ilovebees.
I doubt it. Creative has everything proprietary in the Zen line. It won't even sync regular MP3's or WMA's with iTunes on a PC or Mac. Your muvo is a anomoly. It's like the Muvo and the Zen lines are built by two different companies.
Um...how have the been disproven? WMD's can have LEGS! They may have had them right before the war, but because we American's have a walk across this line or else attitude and then sit back and wait, he had all the time in the world to get them out of there. That and the war is STILL happening. War is tuff. We American's have to buck up and realize there are GOING to be men that won't come back. Is it worth it? I say yes. Was Saddam linked to Osama? Maybe not directly, but definitely in a indirect way. Is it making me feel safer? You bet. We have to have a SPINE and show that we think they are wrong. Bush was right when he says your either with us or against us. We have to think of our country first sometimes and worry less about repurcussions we can deal with later like France and the UK and the other governments that were violating UN sanctions that were supposed to be enforced on Iraq.
Do you have a electric vehicle or any other vehicle that can get me to work as fast and as cheaply as a gas powered automobile? If you do, i bet you could make lots of money excpet that electric vehicles DON'T prevent pollution.
Yucca Mountain? Well you got a better plan for getting rid of Nuclear waste??
The point is the alternatives ain't all that good right now. What many people fail to realize is that the President by and large has so little to do with the economy in general and the price of oil to be specific that nothing he can do can prevent the price of gas from spinning out of control in either a downward or a upwad trend. He also has little impact on the environment as well. What does it matter if we're the cleanest nation on the Earth if China, India and other countries allow all of the bad for the Environment stuff to continue?
20 counties may use Diebold machines, but the rest surely do not all use punch card, but be sure alot of them do. Franklin used a different electronic machine and has in the last 4 presidential elections.
Ohio uses punch cards more then any other state...including THIS election.
Franklin County has had Electronic Machines for every presidential election I have ever voted in while I have lived in the county. They are not Diebold machines. They basically have this big printed ballot with lights on them. Press the person you want and the lights stop flashing. Want to change a vote, press your old vote, press the new one. When all the lights are not flashing, and you don't want to change a thing, press the big green VOTE button. Not sure what other counties used the Diebold machines in Ohio. Ohio has the LARGEST percentage of people using punch card ballots I may add as well. Personally, I think that the whole electronic atm style voting machine "problem" thing is a bit overblown. I am sure there are problems. None that I think of that can't be fixed in some way.
Go ahead. You keep on thinking that. I'll have you know that while you think I voted for Bush because I happen to be a Christian, I also voted because he doesn't Waffle or flip flop (as much), because I think he was right for going to Iraq (anyone who has ever thought war is easy would be a fool), and I happen to have benefitted much from his tax plan (we still pay too much taxes from the middle class on up....remember....the lower class folks don't pay taxes so how would they benefit from a tax cut? Do we just give them our money??), I also happento agree with him on just about every other thign he has done, with exception of him signing off on the patriot act.
At least I had MANY reasons and wasn't a anybody but Bush guy which means you didn't realy want Kerry either.
Go ahead. You keep on thinking that. I'll have you know that while you think I voted for Bush because I happen to be a Christian, I also voted because he doesn't Waffle or flip flop (as much), because I think he was right for going to Iraq (anyone who has ever thought war is easy would be a fool), and I happen to have benefitted much from his tax plan (we still pay too much taxes from the middle class on up....remember....the lower class folks don't pay taxes so how would they benefit from a tax cut? Do we just give them our money??), I also happento agree with him on just about every other thign he has done, with exception of him signing off on the patriot act.
At least I had MANY reasons and wasn't a anybody but Bush guy.
Gentoo is nice, but I wasted my time. Binary packages are great because I didn't have to wait for the damn thing to compile. Optimizing to the hilt is only necessary if you really need too and most of the comments on that page sound like comments you'd see on MacRumors when the latest security patch comes out:
I applied the latest security patch from Apple and my Powerbook seems to have more zip.
If your Gentoo:
The just released a new package for X11 (4.3.9 up from 4.3.8) and I spent all night compiling it and it just seem so much faster then 4.3.8!
It's ridiculous. I have better things to do then compile X11 4-5 times a month or year depending on how fast the new packages come out just so I can gain 1 fps in a game or whatever.
Granted, if you actualy and really need that extra performance, then it's worth it (say if your working on embedded or other types of constrained platforms).
Electoral College is a part of our checks and balances, but not the traditional one. Even our forefathers realized how HARD it would be to get a TRUE count of the votes nation wide....even when there was only 13 states. The way it works is not pretty, but it DOES work.
Direct elections just would not work. How would you recount MILLIONS of votes in a reasonable time? We all know what it was like in 2000 and it would be WORSE if we elected teh president via a direct vote. TRUST ME....much worse.
Our election system is not RACIST. There is no way Ican even see why you would bring that up.
In a Democracy, everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING...), from the simplest law to the election of the president would be done by popular vote. Majority rules. Come to think of it, that is fair and I hate to tell you this, but the MAJORITY of the country thinks like a republican. The sad thing is the amount of people that are actually registered compared to the actual population. I am so sick and tired of minorities pushing their issues on the rest of the country. Is it fair the minority do not get their say? In a country like ours, yes it is fair. You have to work at converting more of us to be like you before you will get your way.
Engadget had this three days ago.
Popular vote means diddly squat. We elect our ELECTORS and if you get enough states to pledge their electors for you (270) you win even if you lost the popular vote. It's part of our checks and balances. Would you complain about that if Gore had won the electors, but lost the popular vote?
Last I checked, we were a republic and not a democracy.
Yes you are right.....but the American Soldier in Iraq likely may already have made up his mind and...HE'S an American! Odds are our military probably have a good ole American Satellite dish with military grade hardware and american IP's.
You are so right. Granted, the absentees do deserve to see this, but that's the point. I personally don't care too damn much who gets elected president in any country except my own. Only ones that can help me out are the idiots in my own country.
I havea 1 GHz G4 PowerBook and it runs just fine. There are whole hordes of people running Panther on lesser G4's and even a few who run it on G3's. In fact I saw Mac OS X being used on a Pismo (G3 Powerbook). The G3 is very capable of running OS X, but it may not run on older G3's. A G3 now, is like a Pentium II now. A PIII is more like a G4. A PII is capable of running Windows XP, but PII's would be very slow. A G5 is more like a Pentium IV. How is that bad? You simply cannot compare the X86 to the RISC based G3, G4 and G5. My Windows computer is a Pentium IV running at 2.53GHz. My 1 GHz Powerbook runs rings around that desktop when editing video. With the proper memory setup, any G3 (with the right rom) will run Mac OS X. What does surprise me some is they still have 256 MB as a standard RAM setup and Mac OS X runs much better with 512 MB.
If the class is not a early class in the CS flow, don't place the focus of the course on simple documentation. Also, on a scripting class like Javascript, enforce what would be asked for on your job. Inline comments. Block diagrams or system flows are more used in industry then nitty gritty flowcharts and pseudo code. As most CS projects are too small to go beyond building just a flow, I can see why they don't use block diagrams.
Classes should try to focus on teaching as much of the subject as possible in the time alotted especially if it's further down the prereq list. The subject should not be if you got your flowchart right! it should be if you got the program right AND knowing how you did it. Require the documentation, but don't let it weigh in heavy on the grade.
In my current class, there are also group projects (in a web class no less). While a little hard to deal with, it's not too bad as that is the way alot of developers are meeting.....just in e-mail or IRC or what have you.
In any case, as far as supporting others work, comments in the code and decent end user documents is all I ask.
Also, alot of languages don't lend themselves to flowcharting...so why require it?
Sorry, just venting on how far back in the times some instructors are! I spent the first 3 weeks of class learning basics....basics I learned 15 years ago.
IE isn't the only thing that accepts sloppy code. Currently taking a SQL Server 2000 class and Query Analyzer let's you create queries with out ending semicolons and with out regards to case sensitivity of the field names. I was amazed at the sloppy SQL I could send it.granted, you make a actual mistake in the syntax like a bad select it would not work, but if you jusr had say a capital H instead of a lower case h in a field where the name of the field showed as a lowercase h and it would work. Case sensitivity is there for a reason. I guess it could be the specific collation I set up the server with, but it shoudl have never accepted a select without a semicolon at the end. Plus don't get me started on why it was bad for Microsoft trying to improve SQL by adding their own things to there varient of SQL, T-SQL. Of course, Oracle and others have doen the same thing. It would be so nice for SQL to just work from one server to another.
I secodn that. Tried the 4 or 5 examples on the web page and had zero issues. My guess? They only tried browsers available on windows.
I COULD see a reason to connect a cam to the internet, but would it not be better to just have the networking in it like the Dlink cameras and the Axis webcam's? Once you have a network connection on it, the need for on board storage is minimal. All you would need is some flash rom to store a OS of sorts on the cam so it can handle all of hte nasty stuff like the networking.
listen..I know...it sucks. I have been in and around Hurricanes and I know its no picnic. But to poopoo emergency use of cellphones just cuz you have had a hurricane go through your area of the country doesn't mean they are very valuable to people in other emergency situations. I don't think my post was very inflammatory at all. PLUS, you have already had one other reply with a link pointing to a companies who had COW's in range of Florida BEFORE Charley blew through. In fact, ALL of the carriers had done so. In an emergency, planning is the best thing you can do. I have been to Southern Florida and see the amount of planning alot of folks do when hurricane's come. The thing that impressed me wa that the buildings were ALL very strong. Even the homes were stronger then the typicassl home from where I am from in Ohio. I know, that doesn't save you from a cat four, but planning will make the damages less painful. I know life sucks now, but it will only get better. I am sorry you feel like telling me so, but you know, I don't live in Florida. I don't live there for a reason. You live there by choice. If life is that bad, after you get things back on track, you can always move. Just remember that natural disasters happen anywhere. In Ohio, I will probably get snowed on....alot. We also get tornados. Its luck of the draw for any of these. I tend to look at what I have and try not to get mad when disaster strikes. When you are down in your newly repaired house enjoying 50-70 degree days, remember I will be freezing my ass off in -20 below wind chills here in Ohio.