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Cause, I think he just got penis, I mean crane, envy.

Built by Wolvertem, Belgium's Sarens Group, the Chandler crane is indeed an impressive feat of engineering. With a 740-foot boom, it can lift more than 3,500 tons, or 7 million pounds. Intel says its parts fill up 250 truckloads, and it's big enough to lift the 24,000 tons of rebar and 25,000 tons of structural steel going into Fab 42.

I'm not saying don't go, but you should think about it. Most lawyers have 100's of thousands of dollars of debt and there are too many; they make 40,000 if they are lucky out of school. Some work at McDonalds.

If you work in a Verizon store you can make 55,000 a year without debt.

Just saying, you should search in the area you plan on living to see what the average salary is. You should also expect your schooling to cost somewhere around $10,000 more in your fourth year than it did in your first year. No one told me these things. I graduated in the worst job market since the depression. So, if you go to college its a crap shoot.

That said, if you don't like retail and you're not good with people, you probably should go to college. Its just not nearly what its cracked up to be. Its a great 4 years; stressful, yet fun. Liberating. But your soul gets crushed after you graduate unless you are in the 10 % that gets to be happy.

Friendly warning. Now you know.

And knowing is half the battle.

At 1/25/12 09:39 PM, aviewaskewed wrote:

At 1/25/12 03:38 PM, adrshepard wrote: Hell, they worked for Obama.

Nah, I think it was a combination of 8 years of a president who had become unpopular with much of the country, and the knee jerk reaction that the economy going down was somehow all bush's fault is what got him in the chair. The election was very close until the economy went in the shitter, if you think anything else tipped that election, I just don't think you paid attention.

That and Palin. McCains numbers didn't really start dropping off until she got on the ticket. I think it was a combination of the two.

According to an alleged right wing think tank... what do you know?

At 1/25/12 04:38 AM, PrincessLuna wrote: Mitch Daniels said "It's not fair and it's not true for the President to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions". Funny, aye? The Republicans have been behaving like the corporate funded petulant multimillionaire zealots that they are.

Classic Republican maneuver.

>> Mitch Daniels punches a baby in the face.

>> Mitch Daniels says, "God dammit Obama, why'd you punch that baby in the face?!?!"

>> Republicans believe Obama punched a baby in the face.

At 1/25/12 07:38 AM, Korriken wrote: I ponder the intellect of anyone who is moved so much by words, myself.

Then get the fuck off the internet and become a deaf mute.

Most idiotic statement of 2012. Don't worry, its words. If they move you, you're not very intelligent. ;)

At 12/12/11 09:20 PM, Suprememessage wrote: Yes, get some knowledge of computers, you're going to need a good graphics card, a pretty large hard drive and about 8 Gb of ram would be good.

Recommendations?

I've been looking on Newegg and all of the motherboards seem to have a 20% dissatisfaction rating. Some of them seem to fail right out of the box and others supposedly catch on fire. Obviously, I'm feeling a little nervous about buying dead parts, which is why I'm trying to see if anyone here has experience.

Although this is newgrounds, feel free to make jocks about getting a vagina drive.

The ending of the Dark Tower is appropriate; its just not what most people want to read. That said, I liked the series and I generally stay away from horror. I'd recommend it to anyone that likes a good epic but is looking for a change of pace away from high fantasy or the common sci fi adventure.

Anyhow, like I said, I enjoyed it, but I don't feel very motivated to read anything other of his than perhaps The Stand at some point.

At 12/12/11 09:04 PM, Sequenced wrote: You can easily get that type of computer under $1500.

Yeah, but I want to build.

What I'd like it to do:
- Gaming: I don't play extreme games, but I'd like to be able to run TF2, portal, etc. Things basically that are pretty main stream. I'm not going to some convention to show off my pcs insides, but I don't want to burn out my parts when I pop a game in either.

- Designing 2D/3D games: This means, coding, compiling & testing. I'm probably going to want memory. Even if I don't go this route I want to have capability to do it. My current pc is 6 years old and hasn't been able to run the latest photoshop since maybe 3 years ago. I'd like to be able to run that, Mia, and be able to play with directX and OpenGL.

- Process a crap ton of data: I work with databases all the time. My computer NEEDS to be able to do multithreaded work like a pro. It also needs to be able to deal with large files and keep them in main memory to increase speed. I deal with 700MB plain text files all of the time and my boss has been known to ask me to deal with a terrabyte of data by the end of the week. I need a PC that can handle these demands.

Where am I? I think I know what processor I want. the I7-2600. I'm not worried about overclocking. I'm not interested in burning up product or wasting money replacing parts I fucked up. Now I need to pick a board & graphics card, a brand of ram, hard drive, CD/DVD burner, fans, and whatever I haven't mentioned. I want the graphics card so that I can possibly use it to run algorithms on the side has a hugely multi-threaded processor incase my I7 lets me down. Again, this should support games now, and for hopefully the next 4 years.

What's my price range? Not looking to go over 1500, so talk me down if I need talked down on anything.

This will be the first time I build my own computer, any resources you have would be appreciated.

Thanks,

gum

For what its worth the employment numbers are adjusted in an attempt to compensate for holiday employment & under employment. They are also affected, as people have pointed out, when people stop looking for work. 300,000 people stopped looking. These people may have been hired under the table (this is a more frequent practice); they may have simply retired as a lot of the unemployed were elderly; or they may be disenfranchised.

That said, jobs aren't being lost as quickly as people are being hired. Yeah, its still not good enough, but its better.

Frankly, I think Obama wasn't allowed to do enough thanks to this congress and as such isn't really responsible for anything other than stopping the free fall by implementing and overseeing bailouts/tarp/auto industry saving/ etc.

The recent stuff is mostly just the economy slowly trying to come back to life without the aid we could be giving it. That said, Obama does stand to benifit from an improved economy. And frankly I don't think anyone wants a bad one so everyone should have a reason to celebrate if these numbers continue to move the way they have been. Typically once a recovery starts the jobs keep coming in, so we'll see what we're dealing with soon.

Shouldn't come as a surprise. His family owned a campground called n*****head.

Guy is an empty suit the oil companies don't mind having around because he has no brain. From the same state as Bush, and somehow 1000xs worse. I know, you didn't think it was possible.

Don't worry, he scuttled h is campaign several weeks ago during a debate when he forgot how to count to two.

At 12/2/11 09:15 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 12/2/11 08:36 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: Guess Obama isn't sooooo bad for the economy after all.

And the cult of personality that surrounds our president wastes no time giving him the credit.

Well, you'll admit that the economy being shitty isn't his fault, right? You can't have it both ways.

Which means we're finally down below 9%.

Haven't been here since 2009. Feels good. We're still going too slow. But we're going positive and have been for a year. :)

Guess Obama isn't sooooo bad for the economy after all.

#2 by far. The white space in the text accents the hat more. I'd go so far as to say the bow on the e needs to be altered as well to look less dirty, unless there's going to be some coloration. But if you aren't making these fonts never mind.

At 11/21/11 11:51 PM, alfraydo wrote: my mind just can't wrap itself around the amounts of cash listed. thousands, millions, billions, TRILLIONS. it is quite overwhelming.

But its very concise. Top left regular dollars. Then thousands below. To the right millions. Above that billions. And trillions in the bottom left. It gives you an idea of just how much money is out there right now and where its collecting.

Its been a while since I bothered to post here, but I thought this would be an interesting thing to have a discussion about. Who doesn't care about money? Hope you bought a good screen, because the bigger it is the better this will go over:

All the money anywhere

Basically it outlines just how much CEOs make, coorporations, you and I. What charity occurs. Deficits, taxes, the price of starbucks a year, etc.

Very illuminating, but XKCD usually is. Thoughts?

Can't post the pick here, lol.

Afghanistan would be more likely than Iran. I'm not saying the president doesn't like spreading democracy; but Iran is a different cupcake than Libya.

And just because troops are pulling out, doesn't mean contractors are going too. I have a feeling the u.s. will still have a presence there in some form. Maybe it'll just be CIA & mercs.

As for OWS, its another topic but they aren't nearly as bad as they've been made out to be. From what I heard police in Oakland have a history of over reacting in particularly violent ways. i'm pretty sure mayor sent the police home and apologized to the protestors. Anyone else see the video of the former marine having a flash bang go off near his head after being wounded by police? Nasty stuff.

Obama certainly isn't poling as well as he did. And he's still not my favorite guy. At this point, however, I don't think I can vote for a Republican. My views are just too far away from theirs.

Perry & Cain are imploding. And they would raise taxes on the middle class, which is probably a DQ in a republican primary.

Bachman's out officially if anyone missed that.

Pawlenty is in it, but no one likes him.

Huntsman is being ignored. I think I saw 0% approval.

Gingrich will probably bubble up and then drop when people find out who he is again.

And that leaves Romney, eternal #2. He's maintained 23% of the republican electorate, but he's never managed to move up. He's Mormon, which I don't care about, but evangelicals (neocons) hate. And he looses to Bloomberg in polls. If you didn't know, Bloomberg isn't even running.

Aside from that, Romney has the flip flopping label, will do anything to get elected vibe.

Republican aren't trying very hard to win.

After something is on the page you can do this:

document.getElementById("element id").style.fontSize = myInt + "em/px/whatever";

Here you are missing quotes if you are going to embed in a p tag.

"<p style = font-size:" + i +

Should be:

'<p style="font-size:' + i + 'em">text</p>

Or alternatively escape the quotes inside the string. It is generally worth taking advantage of the fact that javascript can have strings using single or double quotes as a delimeter.

My suggestion is Java or Scheme.

Java is a great beginner language. Scheme is entirely simplistic and straight forward, but far more powerful.

The choice is this:

1) Java is a programming language where each line of the program follows another line.

2) Scheme is a language where each unit of the code should be functional (although you can do OO and sequential programming). So everything you do is passing an argument to a function, which is really all you need for most simple tasks.

Java is great for understanding basics.

Scheme is great for understanding programming. It really changes the way you look at code, and in a good way.

This is a pretty common CS 101 problem to teach users how to loop. So while reverse will probably work, I'm not sure that's what this person's professor is after. If I'm off the mark, apologies.

You probably want to use a for loop:

for (<create variable>; <condition>; <change variable value>) {

}

When you create the variable, give it a value.
The condition should test that variable. If the condition evaluates to true, the loop happens again like in a while loop.
The increment step should change the value of the created variable.

To loop through an entire string:

for (int i = 0; i < myString.length(); i++) {
     char nextCharacter = myString.charAt(i);
}

Now, you want to ignore capital letters. So you probably want to use the toLowerCase() function on myString before looping through it. You will also want a different condition since you only want to go through half of the string. I'll leave you to think about what that condition might be.

Something to think about.

If the first character of your string is 0, your string is 9 characters long, then what is the position of the last character in the string? How could you express that using a simple math operation, the size of your string, and the value of i?

I think you should see things starting to come together.

You can test whether two characters are equal to each other wit hthe following:

char a = 'a';
char b = 'b';
if(a == b) {
     System.out.println("A equals B!");
} else {
     System.out.println("A does not equal B!");
}

I've given you all the tools you need:

java logical control:
for
if
else

String functions:
myString.toLowerCase();
myString.size();
myString.getCharAt(i);

// If you need it, user input would use a Scanner on System.in;

At 10/18/11 05:16 PM, x-factor11 wrote: BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
String fileFiller = "";:
do
{
fileFiller += inFile.readLine();
fileFiller += "\n";
} while((fileFiller != null));

this is wrong regardless. I suggest this loop instead, though your problem will make sense in a moment.

String nextLine;
String fileFiller = "";
while((nextLine = inFile.readLine()) != null) {
fileFiller += nextLine + "\n";
}

Now, the reason you are getting out of memory errors is because you have an infinite loop.

: fileFiller += inFile.readLine();

fileFiller in your code is always the previous block of text + the next line (eventually this looks lie: "thisisallthetextofmyfilenullnullnullnul lnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnullnul lnullnullnullnullnullnull...") As you append nulls to the end of the string, the string still has a value.

: } while((fileFiller != null));

hence, fileFiller never equals null, the string gets huge and eventually takes up all of the memory allocated to the java heap.

Read into separate string. Test that string before trying to work with it. And then append it to a different buffer.

Regards,

gum

At 10/18/11 08:15 AM, lapis wrote:

At 10/18/11 08:07 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: Ignore unions. This isn't about unions. (...) Our labor isn't appreciated. And we're too weak and disorganized to do anything about it.

How exactly do you intend to raise the price of your labour if not through a union?

I'm not saying a unions shouldn't be used. They should be, but individuals ought to be more instant about getting raises. A lot of people I know don't even argue for higher pay. They just accept whatever they are being told, even if the pay is under the national average.

We're being boned.

Ignore unions. This isn't about unions. Ignore socialism. This isn't about the proletariate controlling the means of production.

This is about capatalism. The law of our land is Supply & Demand. Right now, we really suck at the demand. Somehow, you were convinced you didn't deserve a living wage or even a comfortable one, and you took no for an answer (or you will).

What happened to asking for a raise and actually getting one?

Coorporate earnings are at an all time high. They are, go look. Wages are falling. Unemployment is higher than its been since the 70s, which was only lower than it was during the depression. Our bosses at the tip top are making more money than bosses have since the depression. And the rest of us are suffering.

This has nothing to do with communism. We want to work. We want to buy things. We want to be good peaceful american citizens. We want to provide for ourselves and our children. But we're not being paid adequately and the funds exist!

We're being boned. Our labor isn't appreciated. And we're too weak and disorganized to do anything about it. The "job creators" have us by the balls.

I know the standard method of sending data to php is to use ?varName=value&etc=etc...

But, when I look at newgrounds and the Flash portal (which several of you suggested uses php), the only "argument" is the directory name. I take it I'm missing something here. As I'm relatively new to the practice of web development: how'd they do that?

I use html 5 on my site for masking images, but I don't plan (yet) to implement any games in the package. I hate debugging in the browser more than I hate debugging in flash (which is saying something). Having to deal with cross browser support is also a huge hassle. Maybe a long time after all of the standards are implemented and a sufficient ide exists I'll try it out. I'm sure eventually canvas/javascript will be huge. I'm just not sure that that is any time soon.

At 10/13/11 10:07 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 10/13/11 07:29 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: Did the man deserve a trial? Maybe. Was it worth the money to run an opp to capture and bring him back and try it. IMO no, but I suppose he was supposed to have that right.

So Osama was worth sending Seal Team 6 after, but this guy wasn't?

As usual you didn't read what I wrote.

1) Did the man deserve a trial (as a u.s. citizen)? Possibly. If he still was a citizen, yes.
2) Was it worth spending the money to arrest him and bring him to the us to stand trial? No.
3) I said nothing about whether it was worth the money to off him. He was a recruiter for al qaeda. He declared the U.S. as an enemy. There was a bullet with his name on it somewhere.

I know it seems people aren't interested in this, but I am. It'd be cool if you continued to post any gems you find. One of the great things about this age is the ability to actually log events as they are happening and distribute them all over the world. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

Here's the logic in a much shorter period of time. Then you need to look at it at a longer stretch. I will openly admit this is grey area, pushing towards the space of "you probably shouldn't do that," but lets move forward anyways.

1) Kid picks up a gun and goes on a rampage through a school.

2) Cops show up. Can they take this kids life?

--- 2 A) If they do they deprive the kid of life.
--- 3 B) If they don't he deprives other kids of life.

And here we have reality. Reality dictates that sometimes you don't get to make the best choice if you want to preserve your system. Our system says that if you are infringing on others rights, the police have the right to take you out.

Clearly someone in the government felt the american who had declared war on the U.S. and was trying to help create terrorists to attack u.s. citizens was a threat. I wasn't in the room when that decision was made; however, someone made that same decision about Osama Bin Laden, and all of Al Qaeda in general (which is the group this U.S. citizen (who seems to have denounced his citizenship) joined).

Did the man deserve a trial? Maybe. Was it worth the money to run an opp to capture and bring him back and try it. IMO no, but I suppose he was supposed to have that right. But the thing is, you've found on of the MANY hypocrisies in our supposedly holy constitution. People who are "us" and not "them" get rights. "They" get whatever we're generous enough to give them, be it bullets or peace.

http://www.applegeeks.com/sm/index.php?t opic=11003.0

I'm getting it on other sites (I'm in the us), so this isn't just an ng thing. But whoever you use to advertise in Britain vs Us must be doing something different. I usually see it on wired, but I'm not sure how that would help you triangulate the issue.