Playing with Legos as an adult is not weird. It is AWESOME!
For one thing you can build really awesome giant detailed models because when you need a certain brick that you don't have, you can JUST BUY IT! You can either buy a new set or go someplace like http://www.bricklink.com/ to buy specific pieces (there are people who run businesses where they buy sets and break them apart just to sell on bricklink).
There is a huge underground industry supporting adults who play with Legos and clubs made up of adults (like http://sealug.org/). There are even Lego conferences for adults.
If you think that playing with Legos as an adult might make you happy then you owe it to yourself to give it a shot.
Where can you get Fallout 3 for $20? I've been waiting for the price to drop on that but haven't seen much of a price drop anywayre. The cheapest I've seen is $35 used at Blockbuster.
Go join the local Chamber of Commerce. Attend networking meetings and find a business that needs software. Offer to write it for them in exchange for money. It may take time to find the first client and you may need to seriously undercut the prices on potential competitors, but I've seen it done before.
That is a fascinating perspective. Does that mean I should look at employers looking for self-motivating employees the same way I might look at employees who want to get paid for doing nothing?
It would be hilarious if the first episode of the relaunch had all of the characters drawn as if they were many years old trying to play the part of their younger counterparts. Also, maybe there would be a new kid who was added to freshen things up. He would supposedly be around Fry's age, but the 'actor' would be 30 years younger. Their mission would end up restoring the glory days.
That is correct. The energy in a spinning saw blade has to be dissipated in a fraction of a second. I seem to remember the friction used to do so creates enough heat to fuse the saw blade with the brake pads.
That is a statement uttered by inexperienced software developers. To any developer with more than a few years of decent experience, it is only good for getting a laugh (note the +5 funny moderation).
I wouldn't say it to a customer, even as a joke, unless I knew them very, very well and knew they knew I was joking.
You will have rules soon enough. They will be dictated by business and customer needs.
Ask for more money and take the job.
Or tell the company that you really want the experience of growing a business. Ask the company if they would be interested in a partnership. Possibly with partial ownership and an advisory role. Make them your first and biggest customer.
I want a multiplayer game for GTA4 where the city is filled with zombies and the first person to reach the helicopter at the airport wins (or multiple people who reach the helicopter before it takes off).
There should be police barricades up and crashed vehicles blocking roads. Vehicles should take take more damage hitting things and hitting masses of zombies should slow you down more. There might also be other human NPCs who try to shoot at you.
Interesting. I wonder if biology uses mobius strips for channels through membranes. I'm imagining a gauntlet of proteins along the mobius strip that move things along the surface and reject things before they get to the other side.
If profits were being driven down by competition that would be fine. The real problem is the wealth created by these improvements in labor allocation are going to a small percentage of the population. A large economy needs a lot of people creating and consuming. When wealth becomes too concentrated, you get a small number of people consuming and a large number creating. The large numbers creating quickly run out of things to create because the few with all of the money can't consume enough. That causes part of the economy to die (people dropping out of participation in the economy) and shrink.
Talent and hard work do not guarantee huge success. I agree that you also need to get lucky. But someone with talent who works hard has a higher chance of getting lucky than someone who is lazy and talentless.
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Playing with Legos as an adult is not weird. It is AWESOME!
For one thing you can build really awesome giant detailed models because when you need a certain brick that you don't have, you can JUST BUY IT! You can either buy a new set or go someplace like http://www.bricklink.com/ to buy specific pieces (there are people who run businesses where they buy sets and break them apart just to sell on bricklink).
There is a huge underground industry supporting adults who play with Legos and clubs made up of adults (like http://sealug.org/). There are even Lego conferences for adults.
If you think that playing with Legos as an adult might make you happy then you owe it to yourself to give it a shot.
Where can you get Fallout 3 for $20? I've been waiting for the price to drop on that but haven't seen much of a price drop anywayre. The cheapest I've seen is $35 used at Blockbuster.
Go join the local Chamber of Commerce. Attend networking meetings and find a business that needs software. Offer to write it for them in exchange for money. It may take time to find the first client and you may need to seriously undercut the prices on potential competitors, but I've seen it done before.
Why? If we only owed $114 to the rest of the world, then the rest of the world wouldn't have a vested interest in our economy doing well.
Isn't the purpose of consulting firms to hasten the failure of poorly managed companies by draining them of their money?
A company that sends their best workers out the door will not be in business very long. That is a self-correcting problem.
History shows us how well that worked in a certain Soviet-style republic.
That is a fascinating perspective. Does that mean I should look at employers looking for self-motivating employees the same way I might look at employees who want to get paid for doing nothing?
It would be hilarious if the first episode of the relaunch had all of the characters drawn as if they were many years old trying to play the part of their younger counterparts. Also, maybe there would be a new kid who was added to freshen things up. He would supposedly be around Fry's age, but the 'actor' would be 30 years younger. Their mission would end up restoring the glory days.
That is correct. The energy in a spinning saw blade has to be dissipated in a fraction of a second. I seem to remember the friction used to do so creates enough heat to fuse the saw blade with the brake pads.
You can test it with hotdog.
I can put my hand near a hot stove to test that hypothesis. I don't have to expose my hand to tissue-damaging levels of heat to do so.
Induction stove tops don't get hot (so I hear).
http://theinductionsite.com/proandcon.shtml
The public is free to call someone a douche even if they are acting within the law.
That is a statement uttered by inexperienced software developers. To any developer with more than a few years of decent experience, it is only good for getting a laugh (note the +5 funny moderation).
I wouldn't say it to a customer, even as a joke, unless I knew them very, very well and knew they knew I was joking.
It worked on my box.
You will have rules soon enough. They will be dictated by business and customer needs.
Ask for more money and take the job.
Or tell the company that you really want the experience of growing a business. Ask the company if they would be interested in a partnership. Possibly with partial ownership and an advisory role. Make them your first and biggest customer.
David Gerrold predicted the unit of currency in the future would be the calorie.
Yes. No, they might.
I want a multiplayer game for GTA4 where the city is filled with zombies and the first person to reach the helicopter at the airport wins (or multiple people who reach the helicopter before it takes off).
There should be police barricades up and crashed vehicles blocking roads. Vehicles should take take more damage hitting things and hitting masses of zombies should slow you down more. There might also be other human NPCs who try to shoot at you.
Interesting. I wonder if biology uses mobius strips for channels through membranes. I'm imagining a gauntlet of proteins along the mobius strip that move things along the surface and reject things before they get to the other side.
If profits were being driven down by competition that would be fine. The real problem is the wealth created by these improvements in labor allocation are going to a small percentage of the population. A large economy needs a lot of people creating and consuming. When wealth becomes too concentrated, you get a small number of people consuming and a large number creating. The large numbers creating quickly run out of things to create because the few with all of the money can't consume enough. That causes part of the economy to die (people dropping out of participation in the economy) and shrink.
Your decision will collapse to 'accepted' once it has been observed in a court of law.
This is simply organized crime. It in no way fits the definition of a flash mob any more than 5 people showing up to rob a bank is a flash mod.
The group of criminals in that article isn't a flash mob. Stop perpetuating the FUD.
You're are right. And they make some people nervous. So not TPTB are working to associate flash mobs with crime so they can make them illegal.
Do you mind if I pitch this at my next meeting?
Talent and hard work do not guarantee huge success. I agree that you also need to get lucky. But someone with talent who works hard has a higher chance of getting lucky than someone who is lazy and talentless.