Yeah, have people who are talented coders get promoted to designers or code supervisors. Actually writing code can easily be a generic position, easily swappable (assuming company coding standards). Code design, writing the pseudocode or flowchart or whatever to define the steps code must take to be functional, that's the stuff for coders who can think of a task in the same way a computer does. Code supervising would then be the review of code being produced by the low level code monkeys. This kind of promotion goes to the coders who are also good proofreaders, the ones that have a knack for spotting inefficiencies and unintended features (bugs). Those are the difficult parts of coding.
That was my first thought on seeing this headline. If on my deathbed, I have the opportunity to fuck around with the minds of half as many people he just did, I would do so, and die a happy man.
The Rainbow 6 games had that heartbeat sensor. Saw through walls and everything. You couldn't be using that and a gun at the same time (as of the last Rainbow 6 game I played), and someone could be using his anti-heartbeat sensor to sneak up behind you with a shotgun. That was still pretty cool.
Enemy Territory had leveling up, so that the more you used the sniper rifle, the less your point of aim would move around. That's not quite the same thing as an aimbot, but it's more realistic.
I'm not positive what auto-trigger is, it sounds like something that automatically shoots when you're aiming at an enemy. A lot of the time, I wouldn't use something like that even if it was available. Give up my element of surprise by shooting him from long range with a pistol? No thanks.
I couldn't agree more. Our troop is lucky, in that we have a beautiful camping area that's actually owned by the Boy Scouts less than 5 miles from where we meet. It's not an uncommon thing for one of the Scouts to suggest a campout during the meeting. The Scoutmaster and the other assistant scoutmasters try to encourage this sort of thing, but it does tend to put the patrol leaders on the spot as far as activities go. Also, most of the scouts do know better than to pull out the bug spray and lighter, this one was actually the only one to behave inappropriately with fire on this particular campout. Forgot to mention, he lost his Fireman's Chit for that too.
Tell me about it, I'm an assistant scoutmaster for a troop full of pyros. A few camp-outs back, one of them was using an aerosol can of bug spray and a lighter to make a flamethrower. After that got boring, he tossed the can in the campfire. Cue the fastest run away from fire I've ever seen in all my time with the scouts. Seeing as we can't beat them for stupidity, we made him police the campsite to pick up all the little pieces of can, and then he got to do push-ups for each of the pieces. If I'd been thinking, I'd have multiplied it by the number of feet the farthest piece got launched.
I think touch screens kind of suck because I have fingers like sausages. My laptop gives me issues. My cellphone is one of the older, larger ones, and it causes grief. I'm considering getting a stylus like you'd use with a PDA to deal with it. Touch screens are right out for me.
No one has perfectly steady hands. I did a project demonstrating this in high school with a photosensor, a laser pointer, and a simple program that kept track of two timers, one running from the first contact and continuing for a set time, and one that only ran while the photosensor was being activated. Don't remember the exact numbers I got from testing everyone in the class, but the best was something like 60%, and he held the laser pointer against his body for extra stability.
Like, a battery? Or are you talking about something like those flashlights you shake? I think using your computer like an Etch-a-Sketch would get old quickly, and would pretty much require using Flash storage instead of something with moving parts.
On/., about 90% of the population already has wide experience with rubbing and squeezing a pair of soft squishy balls while using a computer. Don't even get me started on joysticks.
That's just the distraction that lets the Mounties attack from the flank.
The sneaky way is to invite the person over, then when they freeze to death, no one notices. Kinda like how if someone is shot in gang territory, the assumption is random victim, not assassin.
I'm willing to fix things when they break, even if I'm not actually supposed to be there, because I get paid for the time when I am supposed to be there whether anything is broken or not. Things so nebulous as 'research' count, and that's the sort of thing I generally do on my own time for free anyway. I get to do my job apart from all the corporate politics bullshit. No one tries to deny me the things I need. And the amount that I get called in (which I do get paid for) is directly related to how robust I've made the systems. Last call I got was from a hard drive failure, which was worth a drive in to hotswap it and let the RAID rebuild itself. Ordered a replacement for the spare next time I was scheduled to be in, it was there by the end of the week.
I don't like the type of drug users that make my life more difficult by coming to work stoned. I don't like the type of drug user that finds it reasonable to drive while stoned. My friend's dad was killed by a drunk driver, and I have the same enmity for the people who drink while impaired or come to work drunk.
As far as Ecstasy, I apologize for not knowing my drugs as well as I should for making these kinds of statements. Whenever drugs are used to spike something, I am against it. If you want to use, fine. But I don't want to worry about whether I'm going to end up using despite my wishes. I really could care less about what other people use on their own time, in their own homes. Also, I am actually very pro-gun. My grandfather hunting and my aunt's concealed carry to protect herself are rights I wouldn't see given up. I use buckshot as a home defense load. Besides, I'm pretty sure the sound of a pump action 12 gauge is more effective against burglars than any beeping alarm system. But the difference is that while looser gun laws can be demonstrated to have a chilling effect on violent crime, more drug use (not the drug laws, I'm in agreement that those aren't helping) has no such benefit.
Pot, other than being a drug, is also a very useful plant. I have no doubt that hemp farming would occur, and it will of course be more efficiently done. The price of marijuana would drop, but the people who grow their own would pretty much stop too. No money to be made in it, just like the price of alcohol dropped when Prohibition ended. But when it's all (or mostly) flowing through official channels, it all (or mostly) gets taxed. Probably not huge, but it's there.
And I thank you for the compliment. It has been a long time since I've had a civil discussion with a pro-drug fellow. Most people as divided as we are tend to be rather rabid about our positions. Same thing with anti-gun people, pro-gun people, Republicans, Democrats, religious people of all varieties, and so on. It's good to see people hold a position with their beliefs, rather than by attacking everyone who opposes them.
Well, when one of my computers breaks at home, the same guy fixes it as the guy who does the company computers. Does that count? I've got all the responsibility for the computers, both good and bad. If something breaks, it is my job to fix it. On the other hand, when I need something, it's maybe three days, tops, before the funds have been allocated to buy whatever I need. Now, I can only assume that abusing this power would lead to repercussions, but I really don't have the desire to risk ruining a good thing.
As for the employee stock, I'll let it be known right now that I've never been in a position to get employee stock. My work experience is mostly contract work and smaller businesses. But it seems to me that it doesn't have to be statistically significant when compared to all the money gained by various entities who stood to gain from the stock price increase. It just has to be statistically significant when compared to the money you have. I am reminded of the story of the young boy who was going down a beach, picking up starfish, and throwing them into the ocean. A man stopped him, and asked what he was doing. The boy said that he was throwing the starfish back into the ocean before they died. The man said that there were so many starfish, the boy couldn't possibly make a difference. The boy threw another starfish back and said, "It made a difference to that one." Now, if the extra work that you do is not worth the $300 you'll make above what you'd make just doing your job, then don't do it. Opportunity cost is a very real thing. But how something benefits or doesn't benefit someone else is not part of the economics of this situation, other than that if the powers that be didn't think giving employees stock would lead to increased value for their own, they wouldn't do it.
Let's put it another way. The meager wage generic Wal-Mart employee gets is insignificant compared to the money Sam Walton gets. But that wage is still a benefit to the employee.
Some people don't work for large nameless corporations. When you're the only tech guy at a small business, and you go on vacation, everything that breaks while you're on vacation either results in a phone call to you, or a phone call to the Geek Squad. I wouldn't let the Geek Squad close enough to my computers to hit them with a 10' pole. I'll take the phone call.
Granted, small companies don't have the budget for Presence Systems. But someone mentioned doctors. Sometimes, a doctor really does need to be on call.
As far as the employee stock thing goes, you're absolutely right. If they can get you to work harder to increase the value of your stock, it also increases the value of their stock. Now, why do you feel you're losing on this win-win? Because someone else is winning more? If I do something fantastic for the stock prices, and I make a few hundred bucks, that's a few hundred bucks that I wouldn't have had otherwise. You recommend screwing yourself, and justify it with 'sticking it to the man.' Believe it or not, you only need to worry about whether something will help you. You sound just as greedy as you accuse the people on top of being, just less successful.
It is my opinion that the 'War on Drugs' has been a colossal failure. I am personally against drug use, but I don't really see a decent way to deal with the problem. The most effective way I can think of is to open it up. I don't have any numbers, but I seem to recall hearing that Germany has a lower rate of alcoholism and alcohol related incidents than the US, and it has a drinking age of 12. It's very true that removing the allure of the forbidden would remove most of the drug users I find most offensive. This would also have the effect of increasing tax revenue while helping to put an end to the 'drugs fund terrorism' line of thought.
On the other hand, some things have to be closed. I can agree that marijuana is a less harmful substance that alcohol, but stuff like Ecstasy is used as a date rape drug, and I wouldn't condone its legalization under anything but the most unreasonable circumstances. I think we can both agree that the current classification of drugs is too granular, there's no difference between marijuana and PCP or cocaine. This must be the first change.
I stand corrected. As it turns out, I'm also viewing the world through my own set of rose colored glasses unique to the city I live in, where the biggest complaint most people have about the local police is that they're too strict in enforcing traffic laws. I was busted going home from work at 3 am, not another car on the road as far as I could see looking forward or in the mirrors, driving 10 over.
Your small rant over drug laws led me to believe you were likely a user of some sort. The users I've known were generally prone to being verbally abusive, which the profanity in your post also suggested. It seemed a reasonable set of assumptions, but it wasn't fair to make that kind of an accusation. Sorry.
That's right, I forgot, Putin is made of cotton candy and rainbows, while Bush is made of barbed wire and goatse pictures. I'm no fan of Bush, but if we state that he's capable of that, we've got to put Putin on the same list.
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Yeah, have people who are talented coders get promoted to designers or code supervisors. Actually writing code can easily be a generic position, easily swappable (assuming company coding standards). Code design, writing the pseudocode or flowchart or whatever to define the steps code must take to be functional, that's the stuff for coders who can think of a task in the same way a computer does. Code supervising would then be the review of code being produced by the low level code monkeys. This kind of promotion goes to the coders who are also good proofreaders, the ones that have a knack for spotting inefficiencies and unintended features (bugs). Those are the difficult parts of coding.
Good point. Steel shot, like you have to use for hunting waterfowl around here.
You're painting the minds of military people with a fairly broad stroke there, aren't you? I'm pretty sure this guy would do the same.
That was my first thought on seeing this headline. If on my deathbed, I have the opportunity to fuck around with the minds of half as many people he just did, I would do so, and die a happy man.
The Rainbow 6 games had that heartbeat sensor. Saw through walls and everything. You couldn't be using that and a gun at the same time (as of the last Rainbow 6 game I played), and someone could be using his anti-heartbeat sensor to sneak up behind you with a shotgun. That was still pretty cool.
Enemy Territory had leveling up, so that the more you used the sniper rifle, the less your point of aim would move around. That's not quite the same thing as an aimbot, but it's more realistic.
I'm not positive what auto-trigger is, it sounds like something that automatically shoots when you're aiming at an enemy. A lot of the time, I wouldn't use something like that even if it was available. Give up my element of surprise by shooting him from long range with a pistol? No thanks.
"There is a gadget for everything a person could possibly need, except one to take a shit for them."
What about the iPoo?
I couldn't agree more. Our troop is lucky, in that we have a beautiful camping area that's actually owned by the Boy Scouts less than 5 miles from where we meet. It's not an uncommon thing for one of the Scouts to suggest a campout during the meeting. The Scoutmaster and the other assistant scoutmasters try to encourage this sort of thing, but it does tend to put the patrol leaders on the spot as far as activities go. Also, most of the scouts do know better than to pull out the bug spray and lighter, this one was actually the only one to behave inappropriately with fire on this particular campout. Forgot to mention, he lost his Fireman's Chit for that too.
Tell me about it, I'm an assistant scoutmaster for a troop full of pyros. A few camp-outs back, one of them was using an aerosol can of bug spray and a lighter to make a flamethrower. After that got boring, he tossed the can in the campfire. Cue the fastest run away from fire I've ever seen in all my time with the scouts. Seeing as we can't beat them for stupidity, we made him police the campsite to pick up all the little pieces of can, and then he got to do push-ups for each of the pieces. If I'd been thinking, I'd have multiplied it by the number of feet the farthest piece got launched.
I think touch screens kind of suck because I have fingers like sausages. My laptop gives me issues. My cellphone is one of the older, larger ones, and it causes grief. I'm considering getting a stylus like you'd use with a PDA to deal with it. Touch screens are right out for me.
No one has perfectly steady hands. I did a project demonstrating this in high school with a photosensor, a laser pointer, and a simple program that kept track of two timers, one running from the first contact and continuing for a set time, and one that only ran while the photosensor was being activated. Don't remember the exact numbers I got from testing everyone in the class, but the best was something like 60%, and he held the laser pointer against his body for extra stability.
"4. A computer with a wireless power supply"
Like, a battery? Or are you talking about something like those flashlights you shake? I think using your computer like an Etch-a-Sketch would get old quickly, and would pretty much require using Flash storage instead of something with moving parts.
On /., about 90% of the population already has wide experience with rubbing and squeezing a pair of soft squishy balls while using a computer. Don't even get me started on joysticks.
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That's just the distraction that lets the Mounties attack from the flank.
The sneaky way is to invite the person over, then when they freeze to death, no one notices. Kinda like how if someone is shot in gang territory, the assumption is random victim, not assassin.
We don't know, because they're -really- good at it.
Including my favorite one, when Bart gets emancipated. The judge tells Homer that he's going to garnish his wages. Mmm, garnish.
Still won't stop Micah.
Nathan Petrelli for President!
I'm willing to fix things when they break, even if I'm not actually supposed to be there, because I get paid for the time when I am supposed to be there whether anything is broken or not. Things so nebulous as 'research' count, and that's the sort of thing I generally do on my own time for free anyway. I get to do my job apart from all the corporate politics bullshit. No one tries to deny me the things I need. And the amount that I get called in (which I do get paid for) is directly related to how robust I've made the systems. Last call I got was from a hard drive failure, which was worth a drive in to hotswap it and let the RAID rebuild itself. Ordered a replacement for the spare next time I was scheduled to be in, it was there by the end of the week.
I don't like the type of drug users that make my life more difficult by coming to work stoned. I don't like the type of drug user that finds it reasonable to drive while stoned. My friend's dad was killed by a drunk driver, and I have the same enmity for the people who drink while impaired or come to work drunk.
As far as Ecstasy, I apologize for not knowing my drugs as well as I should for making these kinds of statements. Whenever drugs are used to spike something, I am against it. If you want to use, fine. But I don't want to worry about whether I'm going to end up using despite my wishes. I really could care less about what other people use on their own time, in their own homes. Also, I am actually very pro-gun. My grandfather hunting and my aunt's concealed carry to protect herself are rights I wouldn't see given up. I use buckshot as a home defense load. Besides, I'm pretty sure the sound of a pump action 12 gauge is more effective against burglars than any beeping alarm system. But the difference is that while looser gun laws can be demonstrated to have a chilling effect on violent crime, more drug use (not the drug laws, I'm in agreement that those aren't helping) has no such benefit.
Pot, other than being a drug, is also a very useful plant. I have no doubt that hemp farming would occur, and it will of course be more efficiently done. The price of marijuana would drop, but the people who grow their own would pretty much stop too. No money to be made in it, just like the price of alcohol dropped when Prohibition ended. But when it's all (or mostly) flowing through official channels, it all (or mostly) gets taxed. Probably not huge, but it's there.
And I thank you for the compliment. It has been a long time since I've had a civil discussion with a pro-drug fellow. Most people as divided as we are tend to be rather rabid about our positions. Same thing with anti-gun people, pro-gun people, Republicans, Democrats, religious people of all varieties, and so on. It's good to see people hold a position with their beliefs, rather than by attacking everyone who opposes them.
Well, when one of my computers breaks at home, the same guy fixes it as the guy who does the company computers. Does that count? I've got all the responsibility for the computers, both good and bad. If something breaks, it is my job to fix it. On the other hand, when I need something, it's maybe three days, tops, before the funds have been allocated to buy whatever I need. Now, I can only assume that abusing this power would lead to repercussions, but I really don't have the desire to risk ruining a good thing.
As for the employee stock, I'll let it be known right now that I've never been in a position to get employee stock. My work experience is mostly contract work and smaller businesses. But it seems to me that it doesn't have to be statistically significant when compared to all the money gained by various entities who stood to gain from the stock price increase. It just has to be statistically significant when compared to the money you have. I am reminded of the story of the young boy who was going down a beach, picking up starfish, and throwing them into the ocean. A man stopped him, and asked what he was doing. The boy said that he was throwing the starfish back into the ocean before they died. The man said that there were so many starfish, the boy couldn't possibly make a difference. The boy threw another starfish back and said, "It made a difference to that one." Now, if the extra work that you do is not worth the $300 you'll make above what you'd make just doing your job, then don't do it. Opportunity cost is a very real thing. But how something benefits or doesn't benefit someone else is not part of the economics of this situation, other than that if the powers that be didn't think giving employees stock would lead to increased value for their own, they wouldn't do it.
Let's put it another way. The meager wage generic Wal-Mart employee gets is insignificant compared to the money Sam Walton gets. But that wage is still a benefit to the employee.
Some people don't work for large nameless corporations. When you're the only tech guy at a small business, and you go on vacation, everything that breaks while you're on vacation either results in a phone call to you, or a phone call to the Geek Squad. I wouldn't let the Geek Squad close enough to my computers to hit them with a 10' pole. I'll take the phone call.
Granted, small companies don't have the budget for Presence Systems. But someone mentioned doctors. Sometimes, a doctor really does need to be on call.
As far as the employee stock thing goes, you're absolutely right. If they can get you to work harder to increase the value of your stock, it also increases the value of their stock. Now, why do you feel you're losing on this win-win? Because someone else is winning more? If I do something fantastic for the stock prices, and I make a few hundred bucks, that's a few hundred bucks that I wouldn't have had otherwise. You recommend screwing yourself, and justify it with 'sticking it to the man.' Believe it or not, you only need to worry about whether something will help you. You sound just as greedy as you accuse the people on top of being, just less successful.
It is my opinion that the 'War on Drugs' has been a colossal failure. I am personally against drug use, but I don't really see a decent way to deal with the problem. The most effective way I can think of is to open it up. I don't have any numbers, but I seem to recall hearing that Germany has a lower rate of alcoholism and alcohol related incidents than the US, and it has a drinking age of 12. It's very true that removing the allure of the forbidden would remove most of the drug users I find most offensive. This would also have the effect of increasing tax revenue while helping to put an end to the 'drugs fund terrorism' line of thought.
On the other hand, some things have to be closed. I can agree that marijuana is a less harmful substance that alcohol, but stuff like Ecstasy is used as a date rape drug, and I wouldn't condone its legalization under anything but the most unreasonable circumstances. I think we can both agree that the current classification of drugs is too granular, there's no difference between marijuana and PCP or cocaine. This must be the first change.
I stand corrected. As it turns out, I'm also viewing the world through my own set of rose colored glasses unique to the city I live in, where the biggest complaint most people have about the local police is that they're too strict in enforcing traffic laws. I was busted going home from work at 3 am, not another car on the road as far as I could see looking forward or in the mirrors, driving 10 over.
Your small rant over drug laws led me to believe you were likely a user of some sort. The users I've known were generally prone to being verbally abusive, which the profanity in your post also suggested. It seemed a reasonable set of assumptions, but it wasn't fair to make that kind of an accusation. Sorry.
If a qubit is both 0 and 1 at the same time, what the hell does an inverter do? Make it 1 and 0 at the same time instead?
That's right, I forgot, Putin is made of cotton candy and rainbows, while Bush is made of barbed wire and goatse pictures. I'm no fan of Bush, but if we state that he's capable of that, we've got to put Putin on the same list.