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Posts made by elnerdo
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RE: Today's Target - Dumb Question
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RE: Today's Target - Dumb Question
Let's see how they work for me.
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RE: Interviews
@Chris F said:
I had another interview that stuck out. Ah, the folly of failing to read the job description before firing off your resume and coming in for an interview. The advertisement clearly read that the company was seeking an "experienced C# developer." We receive a resume from a VB.Net programmer with "a PhD in reality" and decide to interview him.
So he comes into the interview, and after pleasantries we get to talking about his experience. Forgetting that he was a VB.Net guy for the moment, I ask him to highlight some of his C# projects.
The poor guy says, "I don't do C#."
I ask, "Why not?"
"I looked at what I was doing, thought about it, and drew a line in the sand. It's just not something I wanted to do with my life."
"You do realize C# and VB.Net are nearly identical languages?"
"I just don't like C#."
That interview was over pretty quick.I don't see how that's a problem. Why would someone who already does Vb.net even LEARN C#? They're basically the same language; there would be no point in learning both.
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RE: Feel Like Trolling
YES, IT"S VERY VERY VERY TEMPTING TO TYPE YOUR POST IN ALL CAPS AND TO TYPE IT WITHOUT PUNCTUATION MAYBE EVEN WITHOUT CORRECT GRAMMAR I ALWAYS WANT TO DO THESE!
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RE: Microsoft names next Windows 'Vista' ...
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
And, in that case, name ANY innovative software. By your rules, the only innovative software is software that was created at the dawn of computers.
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
Alright, so they didn't use it well, therefore it's not innovative?
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RE: Bytes suck!
If only you had thought of making the topic title a play on words..
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
WTF does that have to do with the state of the Earth's environment?
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
Most people simply hate Microsoft because they're big. They eventually stop caring about why they hate Microsoft and decide to call Microsoft 'stupid' and tell others that they hate Microsoft because it's products suck. I've learned to avoid questioning these people about that becuase eventually their argument turns to "n00b, microsoft = teh suck".
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
Sure, but you can't call Microsoft stupid for what one marketing person draws up.
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
I know that, but felix is trying to make it sound like their skill at marketing is 'no big deal.'
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
My God! Are you THAT biased? "All they did was start a marketing snowball" Congrats for pointing that out. That's no 'small' accomplishment as you're trying to pass it off as. All of the things you mentioned, you try to pass them off as small achievements that anyone could do. They're all great achievements that ONLY Microsoft managed to accomplish. And you try to say that they're not smart for that? Sure there was SOME luck involved, but why can't you just admit they Bill Gates is a freakin genius?
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RE: Microsoft goofs up again...
One thing though, calling Microsoft stupid is another WTF. Microsoft is successful for a reason, they're very, very smart.
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RE: Required reading for everyone!
A Human friendly computer:
No keyboard.
No mouse.
No monitor.
No case.No parts.
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RE: Jacko innocent????
Yeah, they let too many guilty people off just cause they're famous.
If it were up to me, he would be shot simply for assisted natural selection. -
RE: Comp sci project suggestions???
Beware, a lot of people see decompilers as very disrespectful programs. Your teacher may not like your project choice.
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RE: Gong to view private mesasges wipes your history
Yeah, those big round metal things. They always get ya.
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RE: Comp sci project suggestions???
Hmm..
I'm guessing you can't do a game as your final project. So that rules out my first 10 ideas.
How about some sort of image editing program? Like a photoshop-esque program. You can invert images, draw images, all sorts of weird effects you can do to images. Wouldn't really need to know databasing much. That sounds good. -
RE: America vs Europe
Man, that sucks, I wrote a big reply to rsynnott, but it didn't post..
bah.I found following country comparisons (dates from 1996):
US - 83.6 per 1,000
France - 20.2 per 1,000
Sweden - 25.0 per 1,000
Canada - 45.7 per 1,000
Britain - 46.7 per 1,000
United States 1996 83.6 2000 48.7 Great Britain 1995 46.7 2000 ? Canada 1995 45.7 2000 ? Sweden 1996 25.0 2000 <10 France 1995 20.2 2000 <10 That's a chart I found.
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RE: America vs Europe
@rsynnott said:
<FONT face="Times New Roman">It's not pornography, it's accidental exposure of a body part (pornography is display of the human body or sex in general with intent to arouse the viewer). Women have breasts and vaginas, men have penises. That's life :P And fining the broadcaster was stark raving mad; they were in no way responsible.
</FONT>That was the whole case. Whether it was actually a 'wardrobe malfunction' or if it was a pornographic publicity stunt is really up to the viewer. To many it seemed like it was done on purpose, this would make it pornographic. It's not really the fact that it happened that's all that bad. It's the fact that it happened on the most watched show in the US. And it was against the law. I agree with you that the broadcaster wasn't responsible, but they still could've done things to prevent it happening. <hyperbole>They could've screened half-time performers, and gotten only the least sexually arousing ones possible.</hyperbole>.
The OP is probably refering to Bush's obsession with abstinence over safe sex (nice idea in theory, in practice, not so nice), general lack of unbiased information about homosexuality in sex-ed classes
Bush doesn't really get to choose what schools teach... He can believe whatever he wants. general lack of unbiased information about homosexuality in sex-ed classes. What else is there to learn about homosexuals other than they are people of the same(Homo) sex(sexuality) who are attracted to eachother. Maybe we could learn about how they....do it. But nobody really wants to know that, and most people can figure that out for themselves anyway. School's don't teach that homosexuality is wrong as far as I know.
Erm, what? Best president? Iran-Contra? South Africa? Palestine? Grenada? Tax Policies? Strike-breaking? Maggie Thatcher-love? Graves of SS Officers? Whitehouse Solar Panels? War on Drugs? Jokes about the "gay plauge" (HIV/AIDS)? He probably wasn't actually the WORST, but one of the best? Come on.
Ok, Everything I'm about to say is guesswork and speculation. I wasn't alive when he was president, there's no one around to talk to who was alive when he was president and I only have 5 minutes so I can't research much.
The first few examples you give, "Iran-Contra? South Africa? Palestine? Grenada?" by the way you said it, I guess that bad things happened in those countries and we didn't do anything about it. Isn't this equally Europe's responsibility. Aren't you the people who rant on us for policing the world?aww crap, my mom says I gotta go. I'll continue this later today.
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RE: America vs Europe
You know something..? I forgot completely what I was trying to prove there. And I'm not sure what either of us accomplished with that argument. On that note, I guess I'm too used to living in the NorthEast US. Here it's big news if anyone gets executed. It's the rednecks in the south that ruin it for us.
Now, since I've lost that small argument that I foolishly didn't research first. I'll look through this thread for another....
Ok, I've found one.
@Katja Bergman said:Then again, I do have a good laugh about those "dumb" things that are going on in the USA. Like the fact that you can sue anyone for almost everything. Say, you go to a cafe and order a cup of coffee. And because you're in a hurry, you drink it immediately after they've put the cup in front of you. Of course you'll burn your lips and tongue and perhaps have a few more internal burns but hey... Afterwards you can just sue the cafe-owner for millions and millions of $$$ and even win it because they have served you a very dangerous beverage...
The same with smoking. People know smoking is dangerous for their health and still smoke two packs every day. And when they're about to die because of lungcancer, they just sue the tobacco industry so their family will have a nice amount after their deaths.
Or perhaps any burglar who breaks into someone's house and falls from the stairs in that house because it was a bit slippery and dark inside. Serious injuries as a result but hey, sue the house-owner to make his working area so dangerous. And win, of course...
Then again, a country that votes a movie-star for president and a terminator as governor doesn't seem to care much about intelligence, but just about appearances. As long as things appear to be okay, there's no problem. No matter what's going wrong all the time, just cover it up and keep quiet about it.
Things like teen pregnancies, for example. Sure, abstinence would prevent those but teens have these raging hormones in their bodies (believe me, I know about them) that will just force them to choose a different path sooner or later. And with no proper education about other birth control methods or safe sex, it's no wonder that there are that many teenage mothers in the USA...
Or gun control... Kids just go to school armed to the teeth, shoot anyone that moves and shoot them again if they keep moving before they kill themselves when the police arrives. Snipers in the big city using life targets to practice their skills. Parents shooting their children because the child comes home late and they think it's a burglar. Or my favorite: people shooting their own feet because they thought the gun was not loaded. Yet no one dares to even mention that these things would not happen if there was much better gun control.
Or the Janet Jackson incident. So she did show her tit in public, big deal. You didn't even see a nipple because that part was still covered up. No one here would even get excited about it yet in the USA they are already giving huge fines to the broadcasting companies and they're considering even further steps. As if a bare breast is such a big a deal.
This post katja... This post is the worst one I've ever seen.
Ok, let's start picking it apart.Then again, I do have a good laugh about those "dumb" things that are going on in the USA. Like the fact that you can sue anyone for almost everything. Say, you go to a cafe and order a cup of coffee. And because you're in a hurry, you drink it immediately after they've put the cup in front of you. Of course you'll burn your lips and tongue and perhaps have a few more internal burns but hey... Afterwards you can just sue the cafe-owner for millions and millions of $$$ and even win it because they have served you a very dangerous beverage...
Why don't you check this. http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.0107/0711.html
Or perhaps any burglar who breaks into someone's house and falls from the stairs in that house because it was a bit slippery and dark inside. Serious injuries as a result but hey, sue the house-owner to make his working area so dangerous. And win, of course...
When did that happen? Ever. I've heard of a few cases where a mailmen's sued because a porch step caved in when he stepped on it and he broke his ankle, but never anything like that.
Then again, a country that votes a movie-star for president and a terminator as governor doesn't seem to care much about intelligence, but just about appearances. As long as things appear to be okay, there's no problem. No matter what's going wrong all the time, just cover it up and keep quiet about it.
That movie-star president was the one who initiated the tearing down of the Berlin wall. He's was the president who ended the cold war. That doesn't seem bad. Many people consider him one of the best presidents we've had. He was Ronald Reagan, by the way. Ok, voting the terminator (arnold schwarzenegger) governer of California, I'm not sure about. I have no idea what he's done, I live on the other side of the country. So I won't say anything there, but I think that you are terribly misinformed.
Things like teen pregnancies, for example. Sure, abstinence would prevent those but teens have these raging hormones in their bodies (believe me, I know about them) that will just force them to choose a different path sooner or later. And with no proper education about other birth control methods or safe sex, it's no wonder that there are that many teenage mothers in the USA...
Or gun control... Kids just go to school armed to the teeth, shoot anyone that moves and shoot them again if they keep moving before they kill themselves when the police arrives. Snipers in the big city using life targets to practice their skills. Parents shooting their children because the child comes home late and they think it's a burglar. Or my favorite: people shooting their own feet because they thought the gun was not loaded. Yet no one dares to even mention that these things would not happen if there was much better gun control.What the hell are you talking about? No proper education about birth control or safe sex. That's ALL we learn about in health class. Yeah, we have an entire class dedicated to that. Let's see. I'm in 9th grade. I'm 15. I've had.. 3 classes of sex-ed. Is that enough? I tried to get a good chart online about teenage pregnancies, but there were too many gaps of information to compare countries. I DID Find that The USA's teenage pregnancy rate halved between 1995 and 2000.
Ahh yeah, those gun issues. <sarcasm>Yeah, I've seen 6 kids shoot themselves in the past 10 days at my school </sarcasm>. You make it sound like this is common. Sure there are school shootings every once in a while. When a crazy person does something stupid. You can't judge a country based on their crazy people. That's just stupid. I've never heard of a parent shooting a child because they came home late and thought it was a burglar. And that seems like it woulda been headline news. The reason the US doesn't have as strict gun control laws as Europe is because of that whole 'freedom' thing. It gives people a peace of mind if they have a gun. They know that if someone breaks in their house while they're there, they can shoot his head off and protect themselves/their children. (I actually support stricter gun control, but that's irrelevant). Heh, in googling this, the first thing I find is this
Stevincollege: A <FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">Deadly School Shooting in The Netherlands
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</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">Or the Janet Jackson incident. So she did show her tit in public, big deal. You didn't even see a nipple because that part was still covered up. No one here would even get excited about it yet in the USA they are already giving huge fines to the broadcasting companies and they're considering even further steps. As if a bare breast is such a big a deal.
. </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> It is a big deal. And it's a big deal anywhere. If a broadcasting company in the netherlands that was showing mid-day, To children and adults alike on the most watched show of the year, suddenly showed pornography, even minute pornography like that. It would be a big deal to a lot of people. </FONT>
<FONT face="Times New Roman">To tell you the truth. It wasn't a big deal to most people. Most people had the same attitude you have. So what? But even so, it breaks laws and there are plenty of paranoid mothers out there who need to see that company fined for showing her children pornography.
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RE: America vs Europe
@mattparkins said:
As an Englishman, you have to admit that the US is just better at some things than us Europeans. Ya know, take for instance the recently published league table of executions - the US is right up there with Iran and Vietnam - the yanks must be so proud. The United Kingdom, in fact, no European countries are to be seen in that list :
MOST EXECUTIONS
1 China 3,400* 2 Iran 159* 3 Vietnam 64* 4 United States 59* 5 Saudi Arabia 33* 6 Pakistan 15* 7 Kuwait 9* 8 Bangladesh 7* 9= Egypt 6* = Singapore 6* = Yemen 6* Why not think about it when eating your super-mega-sized lard burger.
Did you think that maybe the United states has more PEOPLE than England? Maybe this could have something to do with why they have more executions than England? Just a thought there.
Also, You're being far more ignorant than any American I've seen on this board so far with that last comment. We're seriously not all fatasses. Seriously. Also, almost every fast food chain has been working hard to cut down on the fatty foods.