"Because I keep lots of space between the car in front"
This. Can't say I approve of "I speed all the time" but it's tailgating that really causes problems (at least on a highway). I've seen people in vans & trucks driving 1 or 2 metres behind the car in front at 90+ mph, even when the car in front obviously has better braking. Very dangerous.
I stopped being a fan of McCain around the time he chose Palin, but I will say this for him - he was unequivocal about his feelings against torture. Not surprising, since he'd been at the receiving end.
No, Budweiser & Coors are why other countries think American beer sucks - PBR is so bad it doesn't even get sold outside of the US.
(Disclaimer: I *love* good American beer, especially Sierra Nevada and Brooklyn Lager, and think it's a crime that generally only the poor stuff makes it over to the UK)
In all seriousness, if you learn a C-based language it gives you a huge headstart towards learning the other C-based languages, and there are far more of those out there than Basic-type languages.
I agree. It's not fair to claim that file sharing is 'free advertising' - rehearsing, recording, editing, producing and mastering a track is not free. Unfortunately everyone involved in the process of making a record gets paid a salary, except for the musicians, who have to hope the track sells in order to make back their costs.
This is a bad bill, the result of lobbying by shady music industry bosses, but it worries me that the main force of the case against it seems to offer only one option: make your work available to download for free in the hope that people will go on to pay for it. That may work for artists that also have access to mainstream distribution, but it doesn't work for those that don't.
My suggestion would be to enforce copyright laws but restrict them to 5 or 10 years, or cap their related earnings so that the current bias towards already-rich artists is removed.
How is this modded interesting? It's just the same bullshit Orwellian cliches being rolled out again, along with with a lame accusation about 'freedom'.
Bonus points here for confusing England with Britain.
AGAIN.
Who the fuck modded this insightful? This coward keeps copy/pasting this exact same post every time Obama is mentioned. Dude - if you really believed this you'd post it under your own account.
- Bring your laptop, you won't need to change WiFi region or bring a transformer.
- Eat at Pizza Express, Nandos or Strada (good chains), or any pub where the menu changes every day (sign of a Gastropub where with any luck you'll get a good, if slightly pricey, meal).
- Buy a copy of Timeout and look for some fun music - lots to choose from, or just go to a music pub like the Dublin Castle (http://www.thedublincastle.com/) where they have 4 or 5 unsigned bands on every night.
- Bring a cell phone with you (must be Triband), as you can get pay-as-you-go sim cards for next to nothing, and it's much easier to deal with life in London with a phone.
- On that note, if you want to get a cab anywhere I'd recommend Addison Lee (http://www.addisonlee.com/) - best cab service by a LONG way, still cheaper than a black cab, and they text you when your taxi arrives.
Don't:
- Eat at any other chain restaurants (especially any 'Steak Houses', Angus or otherwise), or eat any street food.
- Stand on the left on escalators!
One simply spent another year studying their subject full-time before being tested to a slightly higher standard.
FTFY.
There are bad degrees, there are bad students. A year of full time studying does not count as a year of commercial experience, but then a year of commercial experience doesn't count as a year of proper study.
When I was a student (10 years ago now), I learnt the 'best' way of doing things - the way that engineers say things should be done (spec-driven development, unit tests for everything, beautiful object models etc).
As a commercial developer, the reality is usually different - documentation written after the development (if at all), clients changing the spec all the time, office politics. That's just how it is in the real world; I like my developers to have the high standards that a degree instills, but also to have gotten good at the actual work. Someone that has just graduated from a course needs to spend a couple of years coding for a living before the become useful, but once they've been tempered with some real experience, their potential will be higher than someone who's never studied.
The way
When creating a password for someone at work, I chose the song "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy" (why not?) - so he got 'yyy1gl1mt'. I told him how I came up with it and he never forgot his password again.
I can't really think of any work that someone could have done that would stop me from hiring them - certainly not gambling sites, which I would expect to be entirely above board and close to the cutting edge in terms of experience. I wouldn't be put off by someone who had experience in the adult industry... that would make me a hypocrit as my wife worked as a sub-editor for Club magazine for 5 years. It didn't hurt her prospects either - she told me that when she interviewed for her current job (now subbing for a telecomms magazine), the interviewer very seriously looked over her previous work, the Christmas Pussy episode of Club International.
I guess the thing that would be closest to a black mark would be any kind of enterprise that obviously failed - someone who had worked at Boo.com would have to answer some hard questions (e.g. what were you thinking?), but even then I still wouldn't blame the developers for the ethical / commercial decisions that the bosses had taken.
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Do WWWWWWW and MMMMMMMMMMMM count as words?
That's nice, but it's no Alien vs Pooh.
"Because I keep lots of space between the car in front"
This. Can't say I approve of "I speed all the time" but it's tailgating that really causes problems (at least on a highway). I've seen people in vans & trucks driving 1 or 2 metres behind the car in front at 90+ mph, even when the car in front obviously has better braking. Very dangerous.
The IRA certainly wanted to kill Mrs Thatcher, and very nearly succeeded:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_bombing
I stopped being a fan of McCain around the time he chose Palin, but I will say this for him - he was unequivocal about his feelings against torture. Not surprising, since he'd been at the receiving end.
Windmills do not work that way!
I dunno about you, but I'd rather tell my wheels to brake.
Right - I can't remember which comedian said this but:
"My wife has never had a car accident. She's SEEN hundreds though."
No, Budweiser & Coors are why other countries think American beer sucks - PBR is so bad it doesn't even get sold outside of the US.
(Disclaimer: I *love* good American beer, especially Sierra Nevada and Brooklyn Lager, and think it's a crime that generally only the poor stuff makes it over to the UK)
Hardly the same, but I always liked these: http://kisrael.com/features/gb.html
"EXACTLY THE SAME BUSINESS MODEL:" - no, if you can choose which song you want to listen to next, it's not the radio model.
Hmmm.... perhaps I should have qualified that, by 'out there' I meant 'in current use'.
Unless you're really telling us that, e.g. "Atari 2600 Basic Programming" is alive and well.
Quite. And VB is a horrible abomination.
In all seriousness, if you learn a C-based language it gives you a huge headstart towards learning the other C-based languages, and there are far more of those out there than Basic-type languages.
I agree. It's not fair to claim that file sharing is 'free advertising' - rehearsing, recording, editing, producing and mastering a track is not free. Unfortunately everyone involved in the process of making a record gets paid a salary, except for the musicians, who have to hope the track sells in order to make back their costs.
This is a bad bill, the result of lobbying by shady music industry bosses, but it worries me that the main force of the case against it seems to offer only one option: make your work available to download for free in the hope that people will go on to pay for it. That may work for artists that also have access to mainstream distribution, but it doesn't work for those that don't.
My suggestion would be to enforce copyright laws but restrict them to 5 or 10 years, or cap their related earnings so that the current bias towards already-rich artists is removed.
*clicks stopwatch*
16 minutes from posting of UK story to mention of Orwell. Not bad!
It's old now, but the Toughbook CF-27 definitely only has mono in (and stereo out).
You don't have to install Win7 to see this - I got the ballot box on my WinXP box, after it auto-updated.
Ironically, I thought it was malware and closed it via the task manager.
How is this modded interesting? It's just the same bullshit Orwellian cliches being rolled out again, along with with a lame accusation about 'freedom'. Bonus points here for confusing England with Britain. AGAIN.
Tell my wife I said... Hello.
Who the fuck modded this insightful? This coward keeps copy/pasting this exact same post every time Obama is mentioned. Dude - if you really believed this you'd post it under your own account.
Do:
- Bring your laptop, you won't need to change WiFi region or bring a transformer.
- Eat at Pizza Express, Nandos or Strada (good chains), or any pub where the menu changes every day (sign of a Gastropub where with any luck you'll get a good, if slightly pricey, meal).
- Buy a copy of Timeout and look for some fun music - lots to choose from, or just go to a music pub like the Dublin Castle (http://www.thedublincastle.com/) where they have 4 or 5 unsigned bands on every night.
- Bring a cell phone with you (must be Triband), as you can get pay-as-you-go sim cards for next to nothing, and it's much easier to deal with life in London with a phone.
- On that note, if you want to get a cab anywhere I'd recommend Addison Lee (http://www.addisonlee.com/) - best cab service by a LONG way, still cheaper than a black cab, and they text you when your taxi arrives.
Don't:
- Eat at any other chain restaurants (especially any 'Steak Houses', Angus or otherwise), or eat any street food.
- Stand on the left on escalators!
Yes, you said this before. Word for word. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1236735&cid=27997273
One simply spent another year studying their subject full-time before being tested to a slightly higher standard. FTFY. There are bad degrees, there are bad students. A year of full time studying does not count as a year of commercial experience, but then a year of commercial experience doesn't count as a year of proper study. When I was a student (10 years ago now), I learnt the 'best' way of doing things - the way that engineers say things should be done (spec-driven development, unit tests for everything, beautiful object models etc). As a commercial developer, the reality is usually different - documentation written after the development (if at all), clients changing the spec all the time, office politics. That's just how it is in the real world; I like my developers to have the high standards that a degree instills, but also to have gotten good at the actual work. Someone that has just graduated from a course needs to spend a couple of years coding for a living before the become useful, but once they've been tempered with some real experience, their potential will be higher than someone who's never studied. The way
Yes, I do the same thing.
When creating a password for someone at work, I chose the song "Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy" (why not?) - so he got 'yyy1gl1mt'. I told him how I came up with it and he never forgot his password again.
I can't really think of any work that someone could have done that would stop me from hiring them - certainly not gambling sites, which I would expect to be entirely above board and close to the cutting edge in terms of experience. I wouldn't be put off by someone who had experience in the adult industry... that would make me a hypocrit as my wife worked as a sub-editor for Club magazine for 5 years. It didn't hurt her prospects either - she told me that when she interviewed for her current job (now subbing for a telecomms magazine), the interviewer very seriously looked over her previous work, the Christmas Pussy episode of Club International.
I guess the thing that would be closest to a black mark would be any kind of enterprise that obviously failed - someone who had worked at Boo.com would have to answer some hard questions (e.g. what were you thinking?), but even then I still wouldn't blame the developers for the ethical / commercial decisions that the bosses had taken.