http://draginol.joeuser.com/rss/articles© 2006 - 2012 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.Brad' site where he mouths off about technology, politics, religion, world affairs, and all sorts of politically incorrect topics.en-usWed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -0500Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -0500http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.htmlStardock Rss Generator v1.0, Andrew Powellinfo@stardock.comapowell@stardock.comDraginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417525
I get a lot of these resumes on my desk now. 4-5 years in college, living at home, never worked. No mall job. No McDonalds. No summer landscaping. Nothing.

I used to not pay that close attention to that but I do now.  I have to because kids who have never had a job have no idea what’s expected at a job. Basic things like getting up every day and being at work at a consistent time. 5 days a week.

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And sites keep making the requirements more and more complex.  Mixed case, numbers, etc. 

I already use LastPass and such but still, I wish we could get to a point where there was some better way to verify identification.]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417524http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417524Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417509
As a statistical nut, I made a pie chart of what I spend my day doing. It was depressing.

Most of my work day is spent doing business stuff.  And the more “successful” (and I use that term with some derision these days) the worse it gets. 

Every week I can count on an hour of legal review. What kind of legal landmines do we need to watch out for now? If you’re a bus...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417509http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417509Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417507
Jeff’s blog had come up quite a bit recently as we are in the process of coming up with new coding standards here at work.  More specifically, his recent blog on anti-aliasing was a major inspiration for doing “spot antialising” in Elemental: Fallen Enchantress (the idea is to do anti-alias...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417507http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/417507Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/416101
 

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If you haven’t read it, you can find the article here.

I was reading comments on Slashdot and it was apparent that most of them didn’t read the article. They assumed it was all because of “cheap labor”.

According to the article, it has more to do with the type of expertise that is readily available there – lots of people with mid level technical knowledge (i.e. people with say 2 year de...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/416000http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/416000Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415999
It’s missing a few items that I think should be added or emphasized more. Here are 7 through 10 that I would have added:

7. Get used to failing often.

The article talks about not being afraid to fail. But I think most people will take that as meaning that your business might fail.  In my 20 years of running a business, 90% of the things I’ve worked on have failed (from...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415999http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415999Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415996
I can’t say I’m terribly excited about any of them.

You’ve got Newt who is all over the place on issues and frankly, makes me think it’s more about him and his love of power than any thought of public service.

You’ve got Romney who I can’t even understand why he’s running in the first place as he doesn’t seem to be very passionate about anything.

There’s Santorum who I w...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415996http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415996Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415995
Powerline article:

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So who has a Kinect? What do you think of it?]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415993http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415993Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415883
Apparently, new Macs coming out this year are going to have screens that do crazy high ...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415883http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415883Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415143
But it turns out that a lot, perhaps even most, people are right of center (in the United States anyway) but we often don’t realize it because we get so beaten down that our opinions on liberty and freedom are so “unfair”.

So usually a discussion will slowly unwind where a person stands bit by by.  First, you start o...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415143http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415143Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415074http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415074http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/415074Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/414996

First, here's what it looks like:



The idea was to have something that produced enough power to offset our family's daily energy use. So I'll walk through how this worked out:


The house consumes the Solar Array first. Anything left over goes back to DTE in which...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/414996http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/414996Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00Draginolhttp://draginol.joeuser.com/article/414945


For Tireless Rebutter there is no such thing as a trivial dispute. He regards all challenges as barbarians at the gates. His unflagging tenacity in making his points numbs and eventually wears down the opposition. Confident that his arguments are sound, Tireless Rebutter can't understand why he is universally loathed.

Source: http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/tirelessrebutter.htm

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It’s a bad habit that I need to break. One nice ...]]>http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/414945http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/414945Wed, 08 Feb 2012 8:26:14 PM -05002012-02-08T20:26:14-05:00