Are you sure you are ready to give up your place in the lucrative field of user support. You guys are the face of IT, the ones everyone looks to, the keepers of the flame and guardians at the gate. Even programmers look up to you when you find them on the floor of their cube catching a few z's. Remember how much chicks dig those sexy pagers.
Last time I looked, admittedly some time ago, the entire fscking nation is subject to massive lobbying by corporate interests. Most citizens, contrary to elitist libertarian dogma, can tell the difference between an editorial and an advertisement; so can the average congressman. Massive lobbying is not inherently a problem; unprincipled and unchallenged legislators are the problem.
"Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades," according to a spokespersonna for Donna Karan. "The fashion industry has led the way in the practical application of these technologies."
Please join me in welcoming Rep Boucher to the fold. To quote former President Kennedy regarding Pinochet: "He may be an asshole, but he's our asshole."
This is such a commonplace in IT and it really chaps my ham. If you can't keep up with the field, get out, but some of us don't have any problem keeping our skills up to date. No amount of whitepapering will eliminate the real value of experienced programming talent. Back off your HR dogs!
I believe the issue is that TransGaming's copy-protection support, which is a major feature incenting game shops to work with them, could be construed at law to constitute a circumvention technique against the game's copy-protection. Remember that the DMCA is concerned about sustaining copy-protection, not interdicting code. It remains technically illegal for one to explain how deCSS works, let alone write code to do it.
I'm familiar with McLuhan's work and find it just as problematic from a phenomenological standpoint as the remark I was mocking. I urge you to turn off your TV for a year and then re-read McLuhan. Motion pictures are a unique and compelling art form with an aesthetic language of their own, this does not a revolution of consciousness make.
That is so heavy, man. I mean, it's like, the site is about animated menus, naw'mean? I mean, like, my experience of the dancing text is the meaning of the text, naw'mean.
Those few farts clinging to the guilded age of industrial publishing are fast being replaced by the cottagers. It is the dawn of merchantile intellectualism.
Now the truly modern approach would be a wall of ready entrees behind glass doors, where you insert coinage (or perhaps an electronic coinage) and retrieve your entree. Like a cafeteria, only better... less waiter-like intermediaries!
You talking about an Automat. Common throughout cities in eastern US the middle the last century. The original disintermediation of food-service and the prototype for the helpless, ubiquitous fast-food joints of today.
It may or may not be ethical. From a practical standpoint its plain wrong. First rule of interviewing: emphasize your strengths, don't hide your weaknesses. If you need to lie to convince some drone you are qualified, the bucket-head isn't paying attention anyway and you probably don't want to be working for 'em.
Leverage your work experience. The boys out of school may have the sheepskin, but have frankly demonstrated nothing more than reading comprehension and the ability to get out of bed in the morning. Adult behavior, integrated personality, the ability to cooperate with others, all useful stuff that the average green grad cannot demonstrate. Domain knowledge, as well. I'm a 38 yr. old ex-typesetter who broke into programming three years ago. I spent eight years working with SGML systems. When XML took off, I leveraged that and a handful of CE credits in Java into a pretty nice career.
You reply as though each post were taking place in a vacuum.
Literacy:
(middle ages - single digits, admit vanishingly small)
(1870 america - 80%*)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970; and Current Population Reports, Series P-23, Ancestry and Language in the United States: November 1979.
Currency:
Prior to the eleventh century, an effective currency of exchange did not even exist. Coinage was that left from Roman times and did not figure in the effective economy at all. Even as late as the fifteenth century, commerce was carried out via Bills of Exchange denominated in Moneys of Account. The vast majority of Europeans before this lived and died without ever seeing a coin, let alone using one in a transaction.
The United States has enjoyed a more or less stable system of currency since its inception.
Horsepower:
Prior to the development of an agriculture based on animal husbandry in the fourteenth century, the use of draft animals in europe was effectively non-existent. Thus, available horsepower was contingent upon the size of one's family. Industry, such as it existed, was able to make use of wind and water to some benefit.
Steam.
SOURCE: The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol IV: The Economy of Expanding Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Rich, E.E. and Wilson, C.H. Eds. Cambridge, 1967.
You contend that a comparison between the rate of advancement of living standards in the Medieval period and even nineteenth century America supports your argument that the guild system is somehow inferior to a system of free enterprise. I suggest that a productive comparison between these two systems is effectively impossible, not least because a comparison of *rates of advancement* is untenable in consequence of the disparity of circumstance outlined above. This is merely *a precis*. Your argument is such a gross simplification as to beggar discussion. As to the evolution of capitalism, western economy in general and its relation to the medieval system of guilds, I refer you to the first chapter of the above book. Until you've done a deal of reading, further debate is impossible.
Forgive me, I mistakenly presumed your ability to follow a train of thought on a track other than your own.
You compare the rate of advancement (cultural/political/technical, I am unsure) during the Middle Ages to that demonstrated by America. The comparison is absurd in the extreme, partly by virtue of disparities in the three areas I mention, among a host of others, but principally in consequence of the fact that modern American progress is impossible without the historical foundation laid in the West. I was astonished at your snarky tone with a poster who was pointing out the benefits represented by a form of collective enterprise which predates and supports the latter development of mercantile capitalism and all the blossoms that tree bears.
As to the equation of value and property, perhaps you should consult your post again.
I'll save your Comp101 instructor some trouble: using Google hits as primary support for your thesis is of dubious value.
Just a few facts will serve to moot your comparison: literacy, currency, horsepower.
Your construction equating value with property is a gross simplification. You should do some reading beyond the material supporting your political fetish.
Not the one I'm using. Show me, master, I am eager for enlightenment. I know about DSSSL and its grandchild XSL, which has inherited its Schemy goodness. Which SGML processor are you thinking of? Clark's implementation did not, unless I wasn't paying close enough attention.
This is something I want. Not some crusty: Bah, its just sexps; but some working code.
Which is cool, I love Scheme. But can I inline Scheme and make my ten-year-old, SGML-based pagination engine understand it? Let go of your hype, Luke. Use the code.
Or better:
Dammit, Jim, I'm a publisher, not a data-modeller.
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Are you sure you are ready to give up your place in the lucrative field of user support. You guys are the face of IT, the ones everyone looks to, the keepers of the flame and guardians at the gate. Even programmers look up to you when you find them on the floor of their cube catching a few z's. Remember how much chicks dig those sexy pagers.
Last time I looked, admittedly some time ago, the entire fscking nation is subject to massive lobbying by corporate interests. Most citizens, contrary to elitist libertarian dogma, can tell the difference between an editorial and an advertisement; so can the average congressman. Massive lobbying is not inherently a problem; unprincipled and unchallenged legislators are the problem.
Peru giving the first world a lesson in democratic principles. Should be required reading for every candidate at every level in US politics.
Would that *any* us congressmen understood this. Peru giving us a lesson in democratic principles.
"Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades," according to a spokespersonna for Donna Karan. "The fashion industry has led the way in the practical application of these technologies."
You are right. I am thinking of Osorio or Fuentes or Armas? It was one of the South American, right-wing dictators of the era.
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Please join me in welcoming Rep Boucher to the fold. To quote former President Kennedy regarding Pinochet: "He may be an asshole, but he's our asshole."
This is such a commonplace in IT and it really chaps my ham. If you can't keep up with the field, get out, but some of us don't have any problem keeping our skills up to date. No amount of whitepapering will eliminate the real value of experienced programming talent. Back off your HR dogs!
gizmonic. gizmonic. go, gizmo.
I believe the issue is that TransGaming's copy-protection support, which is a major feature incenting game shops to work with them, could be construed at law to constitute a circumvention technique against the game's copy-protection. Remember that the DMCA is concerned about sustaining copy-protection, not interdicting code. It remains technically illegal for one to explain how deCSS works, let alone write code to do it.
I'm familiar with McLuhan's work and find it just as problematic from a phenomenological standpoint as the remark I was mocking. I urge you to turn off your TV for a year and then re-read McLuhan. Motion pictures are a unique and compelling art form with an aesthetic language of their own, this does not a revolution of consciousness make.
...the experience is the content...
That is so heavy, man. I mean, it's like, the site is about animated menus, naw'mean? I mean, like, my experience of the dancing text is the meaning of the text, naw'mean.
I thought so.
Sounds as though someone's portfolio needed a little stroking. Hrmm, Sun trading at a three-year low. We need to leak a takeover rumour.
Those few farts clinging to the guilded age of industrial publishing are fast being replaced by the cottagers. It is the dawn of merchantile intellectualism.
Now the truly modern approach would be a wall of ready entrees behind glass doors, where you insert coinage (or perhaps an electronic coinage) and retrieve your entree. Like a cafeteria, only better... less waiter-like intermediaries!
You talking about an Automat. Common throughout cities in eastern US the middle the last century. The original disintermediation of food-service and the prototype for the helpless, ubiquitous fast-food joints of today.
Hemingway's a prod.
If you want to find your limit, your minimized sleep requirement, have a baby, preferrably two. I've been working on five a night for three years.
It may or may not be ethical. From a practical standpoint its plain wrong. First rule of interviewing: emphasize your strengths, don't hide your weaknesses. If you need to lie to convince some drone you are qualified, the bucket-head isn't paying attention anyway and you probably don't want to be working for 'em.
Leverage your work experience. The boys out of school may have the sheepskin, but have frankly demonstrated nothing more than reading comprehension and the ability to get out of bed in the morning. Adult behavior, integrated personality, the ability to cooperate with others, all useful stuff that the average green grad cannot demonstrate. Domain knowledge, as well. I'm a 38 yr. old ex-typesetter who broke into programming three years ago. I spent eight years working with SGML systems. When XML took off, I leveraged that and a handful of CE credits in Java into a pretty nice career.
Literacy:
(middle ages - single digits, admit vanishingly small)
(1870 america - 80%*)
Currency:
Prior to the eleventh century, an effective currency of exchange did not even exist. Coinage was that left from Roman times and did not figure in the effective economy at all. Even as late as the fifteenth century, commerce was carried out via Bills of Exchange denominated in Moneys of Account. The vast majority of Europeans before this lived and died without ever seeing a coin, let alone using one in a transaction.
The United States has enjoyed a more or less stable system of currency since its inception.
Horsepower:
Prior to the development of an agriculture based on animal husbandry in the fourteenth century, the use of draft animals in europe was effectively non-existent. Thus, available horsepower was contingent upon the size of one's family. Industry, such as it existed, was able to make use of wind and water to some benefit.
Steam.
You contend that a comparison between the rate of advancement of living standards in the Medieval period and even nineteenth century America supports your argument that the guild system is somehow inferior to a system of free enterprise. I suggest that a productive comparison between these two systems is effectively impossible, not least because a comparison of *rates of advancement* is untenable in consequence of the disparity of circumstance outlined above. This is merely *a precis*. Your argument is such a gross simplification as to beggar discussion. As to the evolution of capitalism, western economy in general and its relation to the medieval system of guilds, I refer you to the first chapter of the above book. Until you've done a deal of reading, further debate is impossible.
Forgive me, I mistakenly presumed your ability to follow a train of thought on a track other than your own.
You compare the rate of advancement (cultural/political/technical, I am unsure) during the Middle Ages to that demonstrated by America. The comparison is absurd in the extreme, partly by virtue of disparities in the three areas I mention, among a host of others, but principally in consequence of the fact that modern American progress is impossible without the historical foundation laid in the West. I was astonished at your snarky tone with a poster who was pointing out the benefits represented by a form of collective enterprise which predates and supports the latter development of mercantile capitalism and all the blossoms that tree bears.
As to the equation of value and property, perhaps you should consult your post again.
I'll save your Comp101 instructor some trouble: using Google hits as primary support for your thesis is of dubious value.
Just a few facts will serve to moot your comparison: literacy, currency, horsepower.
Your construction equating value with property is a gross simplification. You should do some reading beyond the material supporting your political fetish.
That's some proprietary RDRAM with throughput in the neighborhood of 3Gb, behind a 300Mhz, 128-bit processor, IIRC. Prolly smoke your Ghz Athlon.
Not the one I'm using. Show me, master, I am eager for enlightenment. I know about DSSSL and its grandchild XSL, which has inherited its Schemy goodness. Which SGML processor are you thinking of? Clark's implementation did not, unless I wasn't paying close enough attention.
This is something I want. Not some crusty: Bah, its just sexps; but some working code.
Which is cool, I love Scheme. But can I inline Scheme and make my ten-year-old, SGML-based pagination engine understand it? Let go of your hype, Luke. Use the code.
Or better:
Dammit, Jim, I'm a publisher, not a data-modeller.