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stgagnon wrote: Also, what is the average age of Loungers?
I do not admit to being older than 6.5E8 µfortnights.
First machine was an IBM 1130.
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1)Take the trouble of collecting scenes and sounds from many movies.
2)Put them together.
3)Post them on youtube with the word official in it.
4)Go back to number one.
I've got nothing against fan made trailers and short movies. But why bother to pretend it is real?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
modified 21-Nov-13 8:06am.
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More views - more ad money
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One thing I learned a loooong time ago... there are people with A LOT of time on their hands. 
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Well, if you've got a computer and you live in a trailer, what else is there to do?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Paulo Augusto Künzel wrote: 3)Post them on youtube with the word Oficial in it.
Not being able to spell the word "official" should give you the first clue that it's not real. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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my bad... 
fixed it
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Prologue[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Oooh, the fall of Arcadia. Saturday night can't come quick enough for me.
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Why are you, and the other daleks, going to invade Gallifrey?
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Have any of you ever done volunteer development work? If so, was it for a large organization, perhaps nationwide? Or something smaller, like a local cause? Through my girlfriend's mother, I got in contact with a local non-profit group. Their Web site was horribly put together by some guy, a slackjob. Luckily it isn't very complicated and we could keep the design and just rework the small amount of server-side stuff.
Anyhow, have any of you ever done something like that? I've been looking for places to volunteer my skills for a long time. I just didn't find it until now. Just curious. 
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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Based on how long its taking for some of my customers to pay me, all my work is volunteer
I've done work for friends on websites, I also worked for a non-profit[^] (but didn't volunteer). I also do a lot of R&D work for myself that doesn't pay (yet) if that counts...
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Ron Beyer wrote: but didn't volunteer
You were sent there by a judge?
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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Some days it felt like it, yes. Government run program, so we had more meetings about work than work to perform. As it turns out I spent about a year re-writing the survey tracking and reporting (STAR) system that they were running in MS Access when they cancelled the program with the group who was running it and transferred control to a new company, hence everybody was let go.
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If you are in New England, several of my cow-orkers volunteer here.
"GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals – including designers, developers and database administrators as well as marketers and web strategists – donate their time and unique
talents to provide software solutions for local charities and other non-profit organizations. "
http://newenglandgivecamp.org/about/[^]
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That's great! I've never seen anything like that. Unfortunately, I'm not in New England. I'm in Middle Tennessee. I wonder if they have anything like that around here -- I may have to do a little research this evening. Thank you.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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Cow-Orker? Is that some variety of super-Ork, or a particularly vicious Cow? Or an Ork riding to Gondor on the back of a cow?
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Ork riding to Gondor on the back of a cow?
Nay, nay. Saruman's minions are orCs. In this case, Ork is a verb. I leave finding the definition as an exercise.
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Simon: Cow-worker is a Scott Adams phrase used when talking about the idiots we are sometimes forced to work with.
Matt: Hardly unfortunate that you're not in New England, I'd say. 
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Ah, Dilbert. I'm more a Douglas Adams fan.
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I've been involved in volunteer development work projects over the years.
You can read about a few in my Coder interview here:
A Coder Interview With Bryan Carter[^]
Or, continue reading for a less verbose/boring version.
For the Santa Clara County Public Library Reading Comprehension Program (1989 to 1992) I used HyperCard to program a series of modules to enable patrons from 3 to 83 learn to read English, including English as a Second Language (ESL). Over 500 successful “graduates” in the 2+ years it was in use.
For the American Red Cross, back in October, 1989, I developed a server-client app using FileMaker Pro. Created the Resource Management System (RMS) within 32 hours of the Loma Prieta earthquake of '89 hitting the San Fran Bay Area. Used 4 Apple Laptops, all "networked" via Apple's then "AppleLink" internal worldwide communications system (AppleLink later became AOL!). RMS would match up resources (blankets, food, clothing, money) & volunteers donated to those in need of such having been impacted by the earthquake. The sync between Macs was exporting out a CSV, send it as an attachment, downloading & importing it. That alone "wow'd" non-techies of the day.
I've developed a few websites for some now-defunct "non-profits".
These were all back when I was single. Since marriage, I've tried becoming involved in a few volunteer projects, but time constraints and my being needed, well, at home take priority.
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Life is Precious.
CarryTheTruth
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The lack of time to devote to volunteer work is certainly understandable. But that's quite an impressive list of volunteer work. That's awesome.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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In regards to my lack of time, that lack is wholly attributed by my, well, "volunteering" to be a Dad, the best volunteer work I'll ever do, 'cept when volunteering to being a Grandpa (Lord willing) comes around!
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When I was living in California I decided I was going to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity to do electrical work, as in design and wire the houses for free (I'm an Electrical Engineer). I set out to figure out what I had to do to obtain an electrician's license in the state. Low and behold, they make it VERY difficult to get licensed and there's no exceptions for engineers, which doesn't make sense to me (same amount of time for an engineer to get licensed as for someone who has NO experience at all). You essentially have to be in an apprenticeship for some ridiculous amount of time (7 years if I remember correctly).
So... I ended up not doing it. Don't understand the crazy regulations some states have. It almost sounds like they're controlled by a union.
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That does sound rather ridiculous. Of course I would want someone with the knowledge to wire my house. But come on, 7 years thereabout? That's just crazy...
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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