>Of course McCain had a choice. One he was urged repeatedly by the media to take just after selection, many citing the previous example of George McGovern and Eagleton. Instead he stuck by here even through criticism from his own party, never mind the media.
I was talking about supporting the daughter after it became a big story, not the VP pick (which I think you are talking about). Both McCain and Palin had to stand by the daughter.
>You are not serious, right?
I really am. I barely knew anything about the election, except for the race between Obama and Clinton, but the stories about Palin were just too much to ignore. And no, they weren't positive stories. It just seemed to me to be, as other commentators had named it, a "hail mary" choice.
>You don't think tens of millions in contributons the days after the announcement, and as great a viewership of the Republican convention speeches as Obama got to be an amazing achievement?
I'm actually more impressed by the $10 million raised by Obama after Palin's first speech. She only raised $1 million after the speech.
The Republicans picked McCain. The American citizen picked to be a Republican delegate or not. Or to be involved in the process 18 months ago or not. The American citizen picked the two-party system and how people are elected.
If you think I'm being unfair, at least you get to pick from two pairs that eventually get into power. Think how the rest of the world feels.
>What I like about Palin, and now McCain, is that knowing that they are still supportive of the daughter
Do you think they really had a choice? Considering its a political campaign, it all seems so... clumsy. The story was broken by the National Inquirer. The first thing we heard about the father of the child is via a Facebook page. There are still questions regarding her actions during her time as mayor and governor.
Ignore Obama for a second. Look at the past 10 days since the announcement, is this the best that McCain can do?
... when $100,000 buys you a seat at the House of Representatives.
His incumbent opposition only expects to raise $35,000 and apparently money is the main factor in winning or losing the seat.
The annual salary is $169,000 plus benefits for a two year term. After five years, you get the retirement and health package as other federal employees.
And there is also that "legislative power" thing. Crazy.
And you can't afford a few deaths playing on Hardcore.
Buriza had 100% piercing. Guided Arrow changed the course of the arrow. So it went; 1. Hit boss with guided. 2. arrow pierces/passes through boss 3. guided is still active, so arrow does a 180 back to the boss 4. back to 1. up to five times.
They need quite a bit of play testing, 5 characters and say 3 builds for each. I can name quite a bit of very good companies/games with at least one big flaw that playtesting should have gotten.
E.g. - Bowazon vs. the boss Duriel. Small enclosed area with a very fast charge attack. Impossible when starting out because you are only level 8(?) (in the later two difficulties you better equipped/skilled/faster to handle him purely with a bow). You needed to put one point into Jab (the javalin tree) and wack away at him like that. You never use Jab again in the game. That should have been caught in playtesting.
Another issue that should have been caught during playtesting; Amazon with Buriza and Guided Arrow. (Burizon)
The problem with Marvel:Ulitmate Alliance and God of War is that everyone basically play the same character.
With Diablo you have characters that wear more armor, have higher hit points, less likely to get hit due to physical distance, do less damage/second to a single target.
Against a boss with 4000 hit points, a barbarian would be ok with getting a full health bar after dealing 1000 points of damage but a Sorc would need a recharge (health and mana) once every 500 points of damage delivered.
With 2005 you really need to hit the high end stuff of Oracle/DB2.
One example is Oracle RAC, multiple servers acting as one database using one set of data files. SQL Server has only really simple failover, I think they want you to use Windows Clustering(?).
Native geospacial datatype is not in 2005 but I think is in 2008.
Not run on Unix and the like. Yes, for some shops its required. Depending on the OS version, you hit file size and RAM limits.
Pet Peeve - What's up with having a generic dbo, but then each user has its own schema?
1. Just a massive slow down - login (SQL Server there is a Dedicated Administrator Connection, don't think I've had problems connecting with a problem Oracle db as long as I can get on the OS (partly because sessions are processes)), and just kill the process. The DB should clean everything up. (as long as its not a toy db; I'm looking at you MySQL.) 2. A crash - then you have to go through a whole number of steps to bring it up and then verify the data is ok, then let everyone back in. There may be an backup involved if you are unlucky. You definitely want to figure out what happened.
>employers of developers for closed source projects (regrettably the majority of software jobs) will think you are so kind of hippie rebel and they won't trust you keeping their code under wraps.
OpenSource is a hip new thing/buzzword and especially if its working on something that everyone in IT has heard about (Mozilla, Linux).
I would try and highlight the functional part of the software work (debugging, number of users, worked on OS kernel, code review/approval, etc) and not so much on the philosophical part of your work.
If it really concerns them, they would just get you to sign a NDA.
Ok, I went to UofT when Ryerson was still a technical college, but what is with them?
- From what I hear, they have to push really hard in their engineering classes since they need to build their rep., which in the short/medium term is unfair to their students since they don't get the same reputable degree from say Waterloo. - That whole Dragon's Den publicity crap ( http://canentrepreneur.blogspot.com/2006/11/hot-times-in-dragons-den-long-post-but.html ) - Now this.
>I've worked with junior developers who can't think their way out of a paper bag.
That's why they are junior and should be paid and managed as such.
>So, I would say that it IS important for EACH INDIVIDUAL to know what and why they are doing stuff.
I understand your point in terms of a pure technical view, but actually I feel that's pretty dangerous. Do you know how many times I and others I've worked with had to do extra work just because of someone else's incompetence or to meet "monthly revenue projections"? That is the real business world. *sigh*
I'm not sure he cheated. 1. He as an administrator of a Facebook group. The article doesn't say if he posted any solutions. 2. The homework was online and different for each person (again from the article). The Facebook postings were of general tips/"look out for". 3. The invitation to the group did request solutions, but is this cheating?
>at the federal level there are only 3 national parties that actually win seats in the House (I'm not sure where you got 4-5 from).
Liberals Conservatives NDP Bloc Green (and a whole bunch of little guys, including independents)
>only two parties -Liberals and Conservatives- have ever controlled the federal government.
But it doesn't mean that they can pass laws as they pleased because, at certain times, they don't have a simple majority. They need to work with the other parties, just as it is now.
>Yes he disrupted a couple of demonstrations, how many times had the presenter been through his script? For how many days? What exactly was lost by this disruption? How will the consumer electronics industry survive this loss?
Ever presented anything to an important client? Now as you are doing your presentation and right in the middle of it, take out your visual portion of it. Now pretend that the visual portion of it is what you are selling. Not exactly so small.
>> Sounds like the mistake was made by your company's management. >Not necessarily.
>If an employee's salary demands exceed the profit my company can generate from the goods >is allowing the other company to pay more to produce the same goods.
But if another company can make the same internally-based calcuation and still see profit, then something is wrong with your company's management.
>There is also the chance that the employee wasn't actually very good, or was difficult to manage.
1. You hired him initially. 2. You kept him on and were not pro-active in doing something about a problem.
Again, the two indicates a problem with your company's management.
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>Of course McCain had a choice. One he was urged repeatedly by the media to take just after selection, many citing the previous example of George McGovern and Eagleton. Instead he stuck by here even through criticism from his own party, never mind the media.
I was talking about supporting the daughter after it became a big story, not the VP pick (which I think you are talking about). Both McCain and Palin had to stand by the daughter.
>You are not serious, right?
I really am. I barely knew anything about the election, except for the race between Obama and Clinton, but the stories about Palin were just too much to ignore. And no, they weren't positive stories. It just seemed to me to be, as other commentators had named it, a "hail mary" choice.
>You don't think tens of millions in contributons the days after the announcement, and as great a viewership of the Republican convention speeches as Obama got to be an amazing achievement?
I'm actually more impressed by the $10 million raised by Obama after Palin's first speech. She only raised $1 million after the speech.
Er.. make that "two-party system".
The Republicans picked McCain.
The American citizen picked to be a Republican delegate or not. Or to be involved in the process 18 months ago or not.
The American citizen picked the two-party system and how people are elected.
If you think I'm being unfair, at least you get to pick from two pairs that eventually get into power. Think how the rest of the world feels.
>Anyone who says they will not vote for a candidate because of a single issue is simply not looking at the big picture.
With the two-system party, you really have no choice but to narrow it down to a single issue(a couple? a few if you are really lucky).
If you look at all the issues, then it really comes down to "what do I want to give up to get?". And that sucks for something this important.
>What I like about Palin, and now McCain, is that knowing that they are still supportive of the daughter
Do you think they really had a choice? Considering its a political campaign, it all seems so ... clumsy. The story was broken by the National Inquirer. The first thing we heard about the father of the child is via a Facebook page. There are still questions regarding her actions during her time as mayor and governor.
Ignore Obama for a second. Look at the past 10 days since the announcement, is this the best that McCain can do?
I _knew_ you were going to ask that question.
You are just so predictable.
His incumbent opposition only expects to raise $35,000 and apparently money is the main factor in winning or losing the seat.
The annual salary is $169,000 plus benefits for a two year term. After five years, you get the retirement and health package as other federal employees.
And there is also that "legislative power" thing. Crazy.
I stand corrected.
>Just fill up on pots, get a well equipped merc. At worse it may take a while, or a few deaths if you're not careful.
I wish it was that easy. Diablo was easier.
As one example:
http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/archive/index.php/t-127713.html
And you can't afford a few deaths playing on Hardcore.
Buriza had 100% piercing. Guided Arrow changed the course of the arrow. So it went;
1. Hit boss with guided.
2. arrow pierces/passes through boss
3. guided is still active, so arrow does a 180 back to the boss
4. back to 1. up to five times.
This was later corrected in a patch.
They need quite a bit of play testing, 5 characters and say 3 builds for each. I can name quite a bit of very good companies/games with at least one big flaw that playtesting should have gotten.
E.g. - Bowazon vs. the boss Duriel. Small enclosed area with a very fast charge attack. Impossible when starting out because you are only level 8(?) (in the later two difficulties you better equipped/skilled/faster to handle him purely with a bow). You needed to put one point into Jab (the javalin tree) and wack away at him like that. You never use Jab again in the game. That should have been caught in playtesting.
Another issue that should have been caught during playtesting; Amazon with Buriza and Guided Arrow. (Burizon)
The problem with Marvel:Ulitmate Alliance and God of War is that everyone basically play the same character.
With Diablo you have characters that wear more armor, have higher hit points, less likely to get hit due to physical distance, do less damage/second to a single target.
Against a boss with 4000 hit points, a barbarian would be ok with getting a full health bar after dealing 1000 points of damage but a Sorc would need a recharge (health and mana) once every 500 points of damage delivered.
Blizzard had better realize this.
There were lots in SQL Server 2000
With 2005 you really need to hit the high end stuff of Oracle/DB2.
One example is Oracle RAC, multiple servers acting as one database using one set of data files. SQL Server has only really simple failover, I think they want you to use Windows Clustering(?).
Native geospacial datatype is not in 2005 but I think is in 2008.
Not run on Unix and the like. Yes, for some shops its required. Depending on the OS version, you hit file size and RAM limits.
Pet Peeve - What's up with having a generic dbo, but then each user has its own schema?
>In practice, there's no difference.
To a DBA its a big difference.
1. Just a massive slow down - login (SQL Server there is a Dedicated Administrator Connection, don't think I've had problems connecting with a problem Oracle db as long as I can get on the OS (partly because sessions are processes)), and just kill the process. The DB should clean everything up. (as long as its not a toy db; I'm looking at you MySQL.)
2. A crash - then you have to go through a whole number of steps to bring it up and then verify the data is ok, then let everyone back in. There may be an backup involved if you are unlucky. You definitely want to figure out what happened.
I watch it to see what the latest in bio-technology can produce.
EVDO = Extra Virgin Donut Oil?
>Google ... but their interests are in keeping it to themselves
This is true right up until the moment that it is not. At that point its too late to do anything about it.
>employers of developers for closed source projects (regrettably the majority of software jobs) will think you are so kind of hippie rebel and they won't trust you keeping their code under wraps.
OpenSource is a hip new thing/buzzword and especially if its working on something that everyone in IT has heard about (Mozilla, Linux).
I would try and highlight the functional part of the software work (debugging, number of users, worked on OS kernel, code review/approval, etc) and not so much on the philosophical part of your work.
If it really concerns them, they would just get you to sign a NDA.
>if you create a good enough dare, people will take you up on it, just to prove you wrong.
That's sounds like a dare to me.
Ok, I went to UofT when Ryerson was still a technical college, but what is with them?
- From what I hear, they have to push really hard in their engineering classes since they need to build their rep., which in the short/medium term is unfair to their students since they don't get the same reputable degree from say Waterloo.
- That whole Dragon's Den publicity crap ( http://canentrepreneur.blogspot.com/2006/11/hot-times-in-dragons-den-long-post-but.html )
- Now this.
>I've worked with junior developers who can't think their way out of a paper bag.
That's why they are junior and should be paid and managed as such.
>So, I would say that it IS important for EACH INDIVIDUAL to know what and why they are doing stuff.
I understand your point in terms of a pure technical view, but actually I feel that's pretty dangerous. Do you know how many times I and others I've worked with had to do extra work just because of someone else's incompetence or to meet "monthly revenue projections"? That is the real business world. *sigh*
I'm not sure he cheated.
1. He as an administrator of a Facebook group. The article doesn't say if he posted any solutions.
2. The homework was online and different for each person (again from the article). The Facebook postings were of general tips/"look out for".
3. The invitation to the group did request solutions, but is this cheating?
>at the federal level there are only 3 national parties that actually win seats in the House (I'm not sure where you got 4-5 from).
Liberals
Conservatives
NDP
Bloc
Green
(and a whole bunch of little guys, including independents)
>only two parties -Liberals and Conservatives- have ever controlled the federal government.
But it doesn't mean that they can pass laws as they pleased because, at certain times, they don't have a simple majority. They need to work with the other parties, just as it is now.
There is enough competition from Google in almost all areas, except the Yahoo-Flicker part.
>Yes he disrupted a couple of demonstrations, how many times had the presenter been through his script? For how many days? What exactly was lost by this disruption? How will the consumer electronics industry survive this loss?
Ever presented anything to an important client? Now as you are doing your presentation and right in the middle of it, take out your visual portion of it. Now pretend that the visual portion of it is what you are selling.
Not exactly so small.
>> Sounds like the mistake was made by your company's management.
>Not necessarily.
>If an employee's salary demands exceed the profit my company can generate from the goods
>is allowing the other company to pay more to produce the same goods.
But if another company can make the same internally-based calcuation and still see profit, then something is wrong with your company's management.
>There is also the chance that the employee wasn't actually very good, or was difficult to manage.
1. You hired him initially.
2. You kept him on and were not pro-active in doing something about a problem.
Again, the two indicates a problem with your company's management.