I already claimed to be on a previous Slashdot story about handsfree headsets. While *I* almost certainly am one of the 1/40 that can multitask, I am all for laws like this because I have seen the people that can't.
That being said, I am also aware enough to realize when the task at hand requires full concentration and I stop talking on the phone at that point.
The original box clearly states that you can install Linux and that you can play games on the PlayStation Network. Now Sony is saying that you cannot do both.
People do this from LA to Vegas all the time. It's like "Are you trying to make me crash for passing you? And if so, is that really what you want to do?"
As a person who took Computer Science in college, I have never used any Calculus or Physics. I have worked in the health care, mortgage and law enforcement industries and it has never come up. Sure, there are times when an understanding of a math concept has helped, but those could be easily looked up and understood by most smart non-mathematicians.
The three best programmers I know, who came up with incredibly clever algorithms and got large projects done in amazing ways were all high school dropouts. They were guys that were so smart that school bored them. They didn't need math to get things done, they had logic that was never trained but they were really clever and wrote very little code, because they figured out efficient ways to do things without code.
On the other hand, we had a guy working for us that solved and unsolved math problem in his spare time! He was an amazing mathematician but a really average coder. His code was boring, poor and did things in the least elegant most straightforward way possible. It took him a long time to do things that were seemingly easy for many of the rest of us. Sure, his code worked, but there was nothing great about it.
I would venture to say that if I were presented with equal programmers, I would take the guy who loves to code in his spare time for fun and has written something really cool where his eyes light up when he talks about it. Secondly, I would take the better artist, because finding really elegant coders who can make beautiful, logical and useful UIs is extremely rare.
Pity the lesson of Y2K went unheeded - where every COBOL programmer was paid whatever they asked to fix their code, but after should have all been taken out to a field and shot in the head.
You don't remember the days of limited storage, do you? Those 2 extra bytes times 100000 records * 20 date fields was 1/10 of your drive back then.
For the record, St. Augustine wasn't very good at being against sex altogether, considering he took a mistress late in life because he couldn't deal with celibacy.
God only wants the best for you. If you want to settle for second-best, that's your problem.
Oh and the afterschool program, which has had hundreds of teenagers going to thousands of sites (God knows what), they have never gotten a virus in about a year. They love the systems I set up for them.
I never used an AV product at all at home. Using most of them, the cure is worse than the disease. Many viruses use less resources than McAfee and Norton.
I did some work for a church for an afterschool computer lab and they really wanted (and needed) something. After reading that Microsoft's offering was free and the best and after seeing that it used virtually no resources, and updates itself with Automatic Updates, I went with it.
After my girls got on Facebook and got a virus, I put it on their computer too. Virtually no impact at all.
I had a professor once who would send students away if they were late. She would lock the doors once class started. I worked in IT on campus and had a server emergency and was about 2 minutes late. I tried the back door and it wasn't locked all the way. (I was the top student in a class of 150, BTW.)
She told me that I had to leave because I was 2 minutes late!
I told her that I am paying for this education and I will get as much or as little of it as I like and to please continue. I never did leave and I ended up with the highest grade in the class at the end. She later gave $100 to a fundraiser I was doing (to me directly).
As for my personal opinion, I would never approve of abortion unless the mothers life were in danger, but unless my sperm are involved it's simply none of my damn business, nor is it the governments.
Is murder fine as long as nobody in your immediate family is killed? Why should your tax money pay to put that guy away? He didn't kill your family...
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Have you gone to www.google.com today?
I already claimed to be on a previous Slashdot story about handsfree headsets. While *I* almost certainly am one of the 1/40 that can multitask, I am all for laws like this because I have seen the people that can't.
That being said, I am also aware enough to realize when the task at hand requires full concentration and I stop talking on the phone at that point.
False advertising of course.
The original box clearly states that you can install Linux and that you can play games on the PlayStation Network. Now Sony is saying that you cannot do both.
People do this from LA to Vegas all the time. It's like "Are you trying to make me crash for passing you? And if so, is that really what you want to do?"
Not to mention the worst court system for convicting Google executives of criminal charges.
In my experience, I couldn't disagree more.
As a person who took Computer Science in college, I have never used any Calculus or Physics. I have worked in the health care, mortgage and law enforcement industries and it has never come up. Sure, there are times when an understanding of a math concept has helped, but those could be easily looked up and understood by most smart non-mathematicians.
The three best programmers I know, who came up with incredibly clever algorithms and got large projects done in amazing ways were all high school dropouts. They were guys that were so smart that school bored them. They didn't need math to get things done, they had logic that was never trained but they were really clever and wrote very little code, because they figured out efficient ways to do things without code.
On the other hand, we had a guy working for us that solved and unsolved math problem in his spare time! He was an amazing mathematician but a really average coder. His code was boring, poor and did things in the least elegant most straightforward way possible. It took him a long time to do things that were seemingly easy for many of the rest of us. Sure, his code worked, but there was nothing great about it.
I would venture to say that if I were presented with equal programmers, I would take the guy who loves to code in his spare time for fun and has written something really cool where his eyes light up when he talks about it. Secondly, I would take the better artist, because finding really elegant coders who can make beautiful, logical and useful UIs is extremely rare.
Wow, you really used your math skills to solve that one...
And the rest of us just solved that problem with no math skills at all... Thanks for the link.
Pity the lesson of Y2K went unheeded - where every COBOL programmer was paid whatever they asked to fix their code, but after should have all been taken out to a field and shot in the head.
You don't remember the days of limited storage, do you? Those 2 extra bytes times 100000 records * 20 date fields was 1/10 of your drive back then.
Now get off my lawn!
I have a white friend from South Africa that always marks "African American" on everything...
Tracking spammers down so you can sue them is not cheap. Nor is showing up in court. It's not that profitable.
Is $1000 for littering "rediculous"? That's the same amount in California.
Littering is $1000 in California, too. What's the harm to anyone if someone throws a piece of (biodegradable) paper out their window?
The harm is not the 1 piece of paper, it's the 1,000,000 that result if there is no fine. The fine has to be punitive enough to stop the 1,000,000.
Think of this as littering in someone else's inbox.
He had to find the guy in order to sue them. That part is done.
Dan IS the lawyer. He runs a law firm.
Also, you might offer to buy the TV from him for $1 billion.
If you want to rate the SuperBowl TV-MA, go ahead, but I think viewership and advertising revenues would plummet.
If you want to rate it TV-G and get the massive viewership, then you can't put nudity on it.
Why is this difficult for people to understand?
For the record, St. Augustine wasn't very good at being against sex altogether, considering he took a mistress late in life because he couldn't deal with celibacy.
God only wants the best for you. If you want to settle for second-best, that's your problem.
Oh and the afterschool program, which has had hundreds of teenagers going to thousands of sites (God knows what), they have never gotten a virus in about a year. They love the systems I set up for them.
I never used an AV product at all at home. Using most of them, the cure is worse than the disease. Many viruses use less resources than McAfee and Norton.
I did some work for a church for an afterschool computer lab and they really wanted (and needed) something. After reading that Microsoft's offering was free and the best and after seeing that it used virtually no resources, and updates itself with Automatic Updates, I went with it.
After my girls got on Facebook and got a virus, I put it on their computer too. Virtually no impact at all.
I had a professor once who would send students away if they were late. She would lock the doors once class started. I worked in IT on campus and had a server emergency and was about 2 minutes late. I tried the back door and it wasn't locked all the way. (I was the top student in a class of 150, BTW.)
She told me that I had to leave because I was 2 minutes late!
I told her that I am paying for this education and I will get as much or as little of it as I like and to please continue. I never did leave and I ended up with the highest grade in the class at the end. She later gave $100 to a fundraiser I was doing (to me directly).
Hold your wee for a Wii
Smart people don't want to run for office. Do you? I know I don't.
Is murder fine as long as nobody in your immediate family is killed? Why should your tax money pay to put that guy away? He didn't kill your family...
Actually, they do use saline solution...
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