I've fallen asleep through NBC twice, once in the theater. I don't care for what I've seen, didn't change my mind when the ex-gf was working her way through Kingdom Hearts.
And I honestly don't care for much of Burton's stuff to the point where I attempt to avoid it when I see he's attached. My enjoyment of his stuff stops at Beetlejuice and his Batmans. Sleepy Hollow was meh.
Parental incarceration affects a large and increasing number of children. The most recent estimates (for 2002) indicate that over 1.5 million children have a parent who is currently in state or federal prison. Most of these children are young, low-income, and black or Hispanic.
If you think any surface on the human body is sterile, you're getting your information from the wrong places. I would trust theseguys more than wherever you heard that.
That's the thing, the quote was used at the end speech. Not only that, it's the "no one" version of TNG and forward rather than the TOS "no man" quote.
I sent my rep a letter over the weekend about the e-mail monitoring, citing the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act (TRPPA) of 2006 (during which I was working for Cingular at the height of the pretexting scandals) and the Katz v. United States (1967) case that has a definition of "unreasonable searches" as 1) when a person expects privacy and 2) society believes it to be reasonable.
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The scope and depth of the surveillance on American citizens under this Administration is unacceptable. There is always a careful balance that must be met between securing public safety and the erosion of our civil liberties, and the recent Administration scandals make it difficult to trust them with this kind of power. I will work with my House colleagues who share these concerns to make sure that we get all of the facts about these programs and ensure that our civil liberties are continually protected.
My issues in the long term are with the highlighted portions, as I'm not real keen on his party's next candidate having access to call records without a warrant either, but I'll not throw away the tool I have in hand at the moment just because he's ill-suited to other tasks. Besides, as a moderate in Texas, I'm not likely to see one more suited to my needs in the foreseeable future in any case.
I watched this evening, and my take is that it's a Trek-flavored action film.
Spoiler for Hiden:
First off, apparently no one has ever heard of perimeter security. Not Starfleet, not the Klingons, not the top secret military facilities off of Jupiter.
Second, I understand they're trying to pull on the old Khan hallmarks of the reactor scene, old Spock, etc., but to me, it just seemed cheap. I don't have the emotional attachment to these versions of the characters, and they don't even have that great a connection to each other yet. It just seemed to me to be trying to tug on my emotional and nostalgia strings, and failing.
Also, why the hell do we need Khan to survive when we have 72 others genetically engineered to be just like him in cryotubes? To the point where we're pulling one of them out to stick Kirk in it. Was there some rare blood type establishing dialogue that I missed?
And then, true to the worst of Trek Reset Buttons, we flip the script on the death of a major character, only to undo it by the time that the credits roll. We know that they're not going to let either of them die this early in a reboot, so it just seemed cheesy to try and recreate that moment.
All in all, it's decent as an action film to today's standards, and enjoyable as such, but it's not the old Trek, and I wish they'd stop trying to tie it back to the old stuff. Boldly go where no one has gone before.
A fitness game could measure heart rate data to provide you with improved feedback on your workout, allow you to track your progress, or even measure calories burned.
still curious about the heart rate thing. I didn't realize cameras could pick that up all that well. I've heard of an iPhone app that supposedly does it, but you have to be very close to the camera.
They can tell your pulse from your appearance in a Youtube video.
If you use Firefox or Chrome, install Enhanced Steam. It's not perfect in that it misses the occasional DLC pack, but the ~90% success rate more than makes up for it.
True, and they even acknowledge it in the first episode as he tried to figure out what type of doctor he is. It allows them to keep both the character fresh and give each actor a chance to make it their own. Can you imagine if all of them were still trying to give us William Hartnell?
Quote from: Isgrimnur on June 03, 2013, 07:22:22 AM
But then, I don't consider coding a hobby. I consider it the intersection of a career field that benefits from my ability to take a problem or set of requirements and generate a solution to meet those needs.
That's the difference between a programmer and a system developer. The former can come up with ideas and implement them well enough, while the latter can take a development project from its infancy to maturity in a business environment. That's why system developer education covers so many fields beyond mere programming.
Pretty much. My degree is MIS, a business degree fraught with all the attendant accounting, finance, marketing, and management classes. I've had conversations with business analysts where I call a requirement into question by trying to figure out the intent of the requirement rather than just coding to spec. Sometimes I learn more about the business case, sometimes I get the spec changed to something that makes more sense.
Coming off of 5.5 years of working on new systems for banking clients, there's a balance between front end processing and middleware and server solutions. Programming for the Atari might be fun, but writing code that's the computer equivalent of a warehouse operation where data's being received, re-packaged, and shipped back out is what pays the bills.
But then, I don't consider coding a hobby. I consider it the intersection of a career field that benefits from my ability to take a problem or set of requirements and generate a solution to meet those needs.
The New Mexico landfill or "Atari Dump" where the game console maker buried its mistakes — the biggest being the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — will be dug up by game developer Fuel Industries, which hopes to make a documentary about the project.
Also known as the "Atari Graveyard" or the "E.T. Dump", the desert landfill is the spot where Atari decided to permanently off-load tons of games that were sitting unsold in a warehouse in El Paso, Texas, in 1983. So they went to a dump in Alamogordo, N.M. This week the city council voted to allow Fuel to excavate.
I've spent the last 5.5 years coding banking systems using HTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, the occasional foray into JQuery, XML data transfer to a proprietary transactional middle tier system, and performing system integration with legacy mainframe systems using a variety of solutions such as SOAP and Web services. And I've been working with various database systems since 1996, SQL since 2003.
I'm out of a job as of Friday. I've got marketable skills and my current recruiting employer has a right to represent to try and find me some new contracts.
A quick perusal of other jobs at my target companies show a good number of Java positions, so my new "job" next week will be to spend half the day looking for employment and half the day learning Java. Finally.
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Quote from: Turtle on May 27, 2013, 01:44:38 AM
Never underestimate peoples' fallability for the monthly payment over up front.
No kidding. Just tell that to all the people signing up for $2400 2-year phone contracts to save $300 on a phone.
Not the same. There's no discount in postpaid service for paying full price for the phone. And the technology differences in the US means that there's at most one other national carrier to which you could take any phone you purchase. And none of them compete on price.
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