First of all, the word you're looking for is "hire", not "higher".
Second, are you saying the only options are paying janitors $100k/year or paying them $10k/year ($70k/year being seven times the lowest pay means the lowest pay is $10k/year, I can't believe I feel the need to point this out on Slashdot of all places)?
The kind of school environment you're describing sounds very "american" to me, I don't think it's really all that common in western europe, it sure isn't here in Scandinavia. Science fairs, School sports teams and other extracurricular activities are practically non-existant, most such activities happen outside of school and aren't connected to the school in any way.
Announcements? The only times I heard anyone use the PA system in school between ages 13 and 18 was when 1) someone started a fire in the cafeteria by shooting fireworks at other students, 2) Someone set off a small bomb in a bathroom and 3) during fire drills.
When I was ten the web was still brand new, I didn't actually use the internet until I was eleven, and at that age I used the web (as a curiosity), FTP, Usenet and email without any filtering and practically no parental supervision, I also remember how most people I encountered online seemed to use their real name (with the exception of those hanging out in shadier parts of usenet).
Also, no one I know who had unfiltered internet access at an early age seems to have had any real problems come from it, a little common sense goes a long way, and these are both male and female friends btw so no "but teh litul gurls must be protectad from teh intarweb predrtorz!!!1" please...
At least when you're building compilers the risk of getting that call at 4 AM on a saturday morning (just as you've fallen asleep) informing you that you need to get your laptop out, log in and FIX IT NOW is a lot smaller than when you're building websites ("Testing? We don't have time for that, it seems to work fine in IE and I was able to log in using Firefox so we're deploying it on friday.").
Ditto that sentiment. I'm very sorry to tell my OSX/Linux using friends that, no, your brand new $2000 Macbook Pro cannot play this 1080P x264 file because the decoder will only use one core and it's not fast enough to keep up.
Are you serious? I've never had any problems with decoding 1080p h.264 video on my iMac (white 24"), and I've never heard of anyone else with that problem (admittedly I haven't googled with the intent of finding people with that specific problem, considering all the problems people manage to have I have no doubt that there are those who have somehow managed to have that problem so please don't use google to find a handful of people who happen to have this particular problem just to "prove" that I couldn't possibly be playing 1080p h.264 video on my iMac since there's some idiot out there who has managed to fuck his machine up to the point where it will barely boot, let alone play high-def video).
As I mentioned in other posts, it's not just PC hardware, and for some reason a lot of matroska files seem to be of "sketchy" quality, probably because some warez kiddie was too rushed to get it out the door to bother making sure it wasn't half-broken. The latter is hardly something that is the fault of the container format but it's a good reason to prefer mp4 files.
Coming from an AC I'm inclined to believe you're just a random troll, especially since my experience is hardly unique, and screaming "anecdote!" at the top of your lungs doesn't mean that my cellphone and other non-PC hardware magically gains the ability to play mkv files, not to mention that for some reason a lot of mkv files seem to be of rather questionable quality, although obviously this is not something that you can find peer-reviewed research about...
To go slightly off-topic, I've had a lot more trouble with files distributed in the matroska format than I have with MPEG-4. For some reason there seem to be a lot more half-broken mkv files out there (as in, they'll sort of play but not quite right), even though I doubt this has anything to do with the container format itself it has kind of turned me off of mkv (not to mention that I have more hardware and software capable of playing mp4 than I have capable of playing mkv). Kind of reminds me of when 7zip showed up and a bunch of people started refusing to use any other format for compressing files, which just pissed everyone else off and then interest for the format declined.
But, just for fun let's say I can prove only I make/sell those jeans. Well, if I know I'm the only one who sells the jeans, and I didn't sell you the jeans, and you're wearing the jeans......Then yeah, you either stole the jeans or are in receipt of stolen property. Just like in the current scenario.
To make this about clipart again (since physical items aren't the same as data on a disk), let's say I can't remember where I got the clipart from, but I'm reasonably sure I got it from a backup of an original disk (that had been destroyed) that a friend of mine gave to me because he no longer had any use for it, and he bought the original disk from some guy ages ago, doesn't remember who this was and that person most likely doesn't have a receipt anymore? Would you say it's a clear-cut "YUO STOEL FROM ME!!!111" situation then?
Because that sounds a lot like what's going on, and to take it to the jeans analogy: I got a pair of jeans from a friend of mine, he got them from some guy in his dorm who most likely bought them years ago and now a Levi's just sent me a threatening letter telling me that I've been spotted wearing a pair of their jeans in public and that they have no record of ever selling me a pair of their jeans. Does that sound even remotely sane?
We'd all like to think "IT" is special, but it's just another career. Let's level with ourselves here.
Except it's only recently that IT/development have become "just another career", pre-dot com it was pretty uncommon for someone to just decide to work in IT compared to the situation post-dot com where lots of suit-wearing career-bots have joined IT, thank Bob I work on a team where all the guys have beards...
/Mikael
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Even more annoying is that I'd say about ever fourth time I visit a myspace page (which I only do by mistake) my browser ends up crashing from the 4-5 flash players playing different songs while another one shows video and the browser attempts to load the 20 fucking hi-res images on the page.
At least with geocities it was just painful for your eyes (and occasionally ears if they had figured out how to embed a midi file).
If you think IE8 is anywhere near standards-compliant then you need a serious reality check, it's not quite as horrible as IE6 and IE7 but it's still fucking painful to work with. I recently created a website just for shits and giggles, completely standards-compliant, worked perfectly in Safari/WebKit and Opera, needed some minor tweaking in Firefox, barely rendered in the IE8 beta (and it looked nothing like it was supposed to look like), produced a "blank" page in IE7 and IE6 asked me if I wanted to download it (application/xhtml+xml).
I wish all these incompetent web developers would defending IE, IE8 is still a complete failure when it comes to standards compliance but lots of people who have no idea what they're talking about are hailing it as an awesome browser because it's not completely and totally broken in every conceivable way. It's like saying "My 2009 Ford is awesome, it only randomly explodes every 200 miles or so instead of every 10 miles like my 2008 ford...".
Render sites properly, making things better in the long run, but taking a public relations hit in the process.
If the current state of IE8 is anything to go by they have a long way to become nearly as standards-compliant as the other well-known browsers. A few weeks ago I was messing around with a small site where I used well-documented parts of XHTML, CSS and a few other open standards, the results were pretty much what I expected; IE6 asked me if I wanted to save the page as a file (the ol' application/xhtml+xml MIME-type problem), IE7 rendered a blank page, IE8 rendered page elements all over the place (and with several missing), Firefox rendered the page fine except for the embedded fonts in the SVG images I used (read up on it, apparently Firefox currently doesn't have support for embedding fonts in SVG images), Safari, WebKit and Opera all rendered it just fine.
12 - when you can physically have sex - when women reach puberty
16 - when you're intellectually mature - people under 16 score quite badly on intelligence tests
25 - when you have some kind of emotional maturity - people under that age don't have proper self regulatory systems
I'm actually a proponent of having the "hard" age of consent set pretty low, perhaps around 12, with the age limit for marriage being higher and having the law take into account the circumstances of the sexual encounter; a 13 year-old who decides to go looking for a man/woman in his/her 20s isn't the same as someone in their 20s approaching a 13 year-old, and a 13 year-old who reacts to the latter with "sure, let's go back to your place/I'll be right over" isn't really victim while a 13 year-old who is practically bullied into having sex is. Not to mention that it's not exactly uncommon to see girls as young as 14-15 sneaking into bars (drinking age is 18 here in Sweden) either by picking the right bar at the right time or by using an older sibling's or friend's ID card, and if a 14 year-old is in a bar, drinking and looking to find herself a guy in his mid-20s chances are she's not much of a victim (and not very likely to tell the truth about her age to the guy).
So yeah, if you knowingly and in a sober state have sex with 12-13 year-old girls you'd probably be rightfully viewed as a bit odd/scummy, but if it was the "first and last time" you did that (and maybe it was one of those odd drunken encounters at 2 am on a saturday morning) then I don't see why it should be illegal as long as the 12-13 year-old consented without being pressured.
The problem is that a lot of time the first level of screening applicants is generally done by some HR drone following both corporate guidelines and his/her own voodoo guidelines for what should disqualify a candidate.
I've had quite a few first interviews where it became obvious that the person interviewing me seemed bent on trying to find very specific flaws based on what little info he had (my resumé, application letter and whatever he was able to google), yet in those cases that you make it past said drone it's not uncommon to find that the second interview goes much more smoothly (and is most likely handled by someone who knows why the terms "Megabyte" and "Hard drive" are not interchangeable).
I need to ask, why is that every time there's a file-sharing article on/. you start going about the sky falling, horses eating horses and the downfall of western civilization? (Yes, I know I'm exaggerating, I just want to know if you know that you're also exaggerating)
Well, if Apple ever wants to upgrade its iPhone's display resolution for play with the form factor, hopefully the API can handle that easily enough without most apps having overlapping elements and the like. But I'm sure that apps will eventually have compatibility icons for which versions of the iPhone its guaranteed to work with (when there are more versions in the future).
It's been a while since I was reading about the iPhone SDK but IIRC it's both possible and recommended to write your apps in a resolution-independent manner although I'm sure there are people out there doing things that would make Apple's engineers wonder if they're deliberately trying to make sure their apps AREN'T resolution independent...
I googled the text the previous poster quoted and apparently it's from "revelations" which I'm pretty sure is part of "the bible" so it's only natural that most regular people can't recognize the quotes from it while most jews (mostly the post-messianic ones) seem capable of throwing out a seemingly endless number of random quotes from it.
I would've been more impressed by a quote from Principia Discordia but I suppose the bible has it beat when it comes to the sheer amount of insanity.
Perhaps you should try this page instead of this one? For some reason it seems that the political party Piratpartiet and the website The Pirate Bay are not the same, amazing isn't it?
If only people would've thought to do so during the last election. Instead we got to hear a bunch of people here in Sweden go "Oh but the Moderates say that they're not anti-piracy and I don't want to throw my vote away and the moderates say we need change and they're saying the "new moderates" aren't just a special interests party for the rich anymore! And look how cuddly Fredrik Reinfeldt is! OMG PONIES!". A few months after they came into power the same people were going "Hey! They never said they'd do that! I didn't vote for this!", and pointing out to these people that if they had bothered actually reading up on what the moderates (and the rest of "the alliance") were planning instead of just going by what they heard in 20 second sound bites on TV got you angry stares...
If you truly think that the Pirate party is somehow only about "free stuff" then you are ignorant and shut STFU until you've actually bothered learning a bit more about the subject you're discussing. This is not a personal attack on you btw, this is a general advice from me to anyone who decides to condemn others without really knowing what they're talking about.
Wasn't this one of the "troll memes" on/b/ a while back? With the regular "your pronouncing it wrong, its pronounced 'me-me'. Also, your = you are and its = it is. gb2gaia".
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First of all, the word you're looking for is "hire", not "higher".
Second, are you saying the only options are paying janitors $100k/year or paying them $10k/year ($70k/year being seven times the lowest pay means the lowest pay is $10k/year, I can't believe I feel the need to point this out on Slashdot of all places)?
/Mikael
The kind of school environment you're describing sounds very "american" to me, I don't think it's really all that common in western europe, it sure isn't here in Scandinavia. Science fairs, School sports teams and other extracurricular activities are practically non-existant, most such activities happen outside of school and aren't connected to the school in any way.
Announcements? The only times I heard anyone use the PA system in school between ages 13 and 18 was when 1) someone started a fire in the cafeteria by shooting fireworks at other students, 2) Someone set off a small bomb in a bathroom and 3) during fire drills.
/Mikael
When I was ten the web was still brand new, I didn't actually use the internet until I was eleven, and at that age I used the web (as a curiosity), FTP, Usenet and email without any filtering and practically no parental supervision, I also remember how most people I encountered online seemed to use their real name (with the exception of those hanging out in shadier parts of usenet).
Also, no one I know who had unfiltered internet access at an early age seems to have had any real problems come from it, a little common sense goes a long way, and these are both male and female friends btw so no "but teh litul gurls must be protectad from teh intarweb predrtorz!!!1" please...
/Mikael
At least when you're building compilers the risk of getting that call at 4 AM on a saturday morning (just as you've fallen asleep) informing you that you need to get your laptop out, log in and FIX IT NOW is a lot smaller than when you're building websites ("Testing? We don't have time for that, it seems to work fine in IE and I was able to log in using Firefox so we're deploying it on friday.").
/Mikael
Ditto that sentiment. I'm very sorry to tell my OSX/Linux using friends that, no, your brand new $2000 Macbook Pro cannot play this 1080P x264 file because the decoder will only use one core and it's not fast enough to keep up.
Are you serious? I've never had any problems with decoding 1080p h.264 video on my iMac (white 24"), and I've never heard of anyone else with that problem (admittedly I haven't googled with the intent of finding people with that specific problem, considering all the problems people manage to have I have no doubt that there are those who have somehow managed to have that problem so please don't use google to find a handful of people who happen to have this particular problem just to "prove" that I couldn't possibly be playing 1080p h.264 video on my iMac since there's some idiot out there who has managed to fuck his machine up to the point where it will barely boot, let alone play high-def video).
/Mikael
As I mentioned in other posts, it's not just PC hardware, and for some reason a lot of matroska files seem to be of "sketchy" quality, probably because some warez kiddie was too rushed to get it out the door to bother making sure it wasn't half-broken. The latter is hardly something that is the fault of the container format but it's a good reason to prefer mp4 files.
/Mikael
Coming from an AC I'm inclined to believe you're just a random troll, especially since my experience is hardly unique, and screaming "anecdote!" at the top of your lungs doesn't mean that my cellphone and other non-PC hardware magically gains the ability to play mkv files, not to mention that for some reason a lot of mkv files seem to be of rather questionable quality, although obviously this is not something that you can find peer-reviewed research about...
/Mikael
Great, now I just need to throw out FreeBSD, MacOS X and Linux and replace them with Windows...
/Mikael
To go slightly off-topic, I've had a lot more trouble with files distributed in the matroska format than I have with MPEG-4. For some reason there seem to be a lot more half-broken mkv files out there (as in, they'll sort of play but not quite right), even though I doubt this has anything to do with the container format itself it has kind of turned me off of mkv (not to mention that I have more hardware and software capable of playing mp4 than I have capable of playing mkv). Kind of reminds me of when 7zip showed up and a bunch of people started refusing to use any other format for compressing files, which just pissed everyone else off and then interest for the format declined.
/Mikael
But, just for fun let's say I can prove only I make/sell those jeans. Well, if I know I'm the only one who sells the jeans, and I didn't sell you the jeans, and you're wearing the jeans... ...Then yeah, you either stole the jeans or are in receipt of stolen property. Just like in the current scenario.
To make this about clipart again (since physical items aren't the same as data on a disk), let's say I can't remember where I got the clipart from, but I'm reasonably sure I got it from a backup of an original disk (that had been destroyed) that a friend of mine gave to me because he no longer had any use for it, and he bought the original disk from some guy ages ago, doesn't remember who this was and that person most likely doesn't have a receipt anymore? Would you say it's a clear-cut "YUO STOEL FROM ME!!!111" situation then?
Because that sounds a lot like what's going on, and to take it to the jeans analogy: I got a pair of jeans from a friend of mine, he got them from some guy in his dorm who most likely bought them years ago and now a Levi's just sent me a threatening letter telling me that I've been spotted wearing a pair of their jeans in public and that they have no record of ever selling me a pair of their jeans. Does that sound even remotely sane?
/Mikael
The fact that you think it is easy means you are unable to do it properly and don't know that you don't know.
Or it's possible that, you know, he's an experienced developer who's got enough experience with PHP that to him it really is easy.
/Mikael
We'd all like to think "IT" is special, but it's just another career. Let's level with ourselves here.
Except it's only recently that IT/development have become "just another career", pre-dot com it was pretty uncommon for someone to just decide to work in IT compared to the situation post-dot com where lots of suit-wearing career-bots have joined IT, thank Bob I work on a team where all the guys have beards...
/Mikael
Even more annoying is that I'd say about ever fourth time I visit a myspace page (which I only do by mistake) my browser ends up crashing from the 4-5 flash players playing different songs while another one shows video and the browser attempts to load the 20 fucking hi-res images on the page.
At least with geocities it was just painful for your eyes (and occasionally ears if they had figured out how to embed a midi file).
/Mikael
If you think IE8 is anywhere near standards-compliant then you need a serious reality check, it's not quite as horrible as IE6 and IE7 but it's still fucking painful to work with. I recently created a website just for shits and giggles, completely standards-compliant, worked perfectly in Safari/WebKit and Opera, needed some minor tweaking in Firefox, barely rendered in the IE8 beta (and it looked nothing like it was supposed to look like), produced a "blank" page in IE7 and IE6 asked me if I wanted to download it (application/xhtml+xml).
I wish all these incompetent web developers would defending IE, IE8 is still a complete failure when it comes to standards compliance but lots of people who have no idea what they're talking about are hailing it as an awesome browser because it's not completely and totally broken in every conceivable way. It's like saying "My 2009 Ford is awesome, it only randomly explodes every 200 miles or so instead of every 10 miles like my 2008 ford...".
/Mikael
Render sites properly, making things better in the long run, but taking a public relations hit in the process.
If the current state of IE8 is anything to go by they have a long way to become nearly as standards-compliant as the other well-known browsers. A few weeks ago I was messing around with a small site where I used well-documented parts of XHTML, CSS and a few other open standards, the results were pretty much what I expected; IE6 asked me if I wanted to save the page as a file (the ol' application/xhtml+xml MIME-type problem), IE7 rendered a blank page, IE8 rendered page elements all over the place (and with several missing), Firefox rendered the page fine except for the embedded fonts in the SVG images I used (read up on it, apparently Firefox currently doesn't have support for embedding fonts in SVG images), Safari, WebKit and Opera all rendered it just fine.
/Mikael
12 - when you can physically have sex - when women reach puberty 16 - when you're intellectually mature - people under 16 score quite badly on intelligence tests 25 - when you have some kind of emotional maturity - people under that age don't have proper self regulatory systems
I'm actually a proponent of having the "hard" age of consent set pretty low, perhaps around 12, with the age limit for marriage being higher and having the law take into account the circumstances of the sexual encounter; a 13 year-old who decides to go looking for a man/woman in his/her 20s isn't the same as someone in their 20s approaching a 13 year-old, and a 13 year-old who reacts to the latter with "sure, let's go back to your place/I'll be right over" isn't really victim while a 13 year-old who is practically bullied into having sex is. Not to mention that it's not exactly uncommon to see girls as young as 14-15 sneaking into bars (drinking age is 18 here in Sweden) either by picking the right bar at the right time or by using an older sibling's or friend's ID card, and if a 14 year-old is in a bar, drinking and looking to find herself a guy in his mid-20s chances are she's not much of a victim (and not very likely to tell the truth about her age to the guy).
So yeah, if you knowingly and in a sober state have sex with 12-13 year-old girls you'd probably be rightfully viewed as a bit odd/scummy, but if it was the "first and last time" you did that (and maybe it was one of those odd drunken encounters at 2 am on a saturday morning) then I don't see why it should be illegal as long as the 12-13 year-old consented without being pressured.
/Mikael
The problem is that a lot of time the first level of screening applicants is generally done by some HR drone following both corporate guidelines and his/her own voodoo guidelines for what should disqualify a candidate.
I've had quite a few first interviews where it became obvious that the person interviewing me seemed bent on trying to find very specific flaws based on what little info he had (my resumé, application letter and whatever he was able to google), yet in those cases that you make it past said drone it's not uncommon to find that the second interview goes much more smoothly (and is most likely handled by someone who knows why the terms "Megabyte" and "Hard drive" are not interchangeable).
/Mikael
I need to ask, why is that every time there's a file-sharing article on /. you start going about the sky falling, horses eating horses and the downfall of western civilization? (Yes, I know I'm exaggerating, I just want to know if you know that you're also exaggerating)
/Mikael
Well, if Apple ever wants to upgrade its iPhone's display resolution for play with the form factor, hopefully the API can handle that easily enough without most apps having overlapping elements and the like. But I'm sure that apps will eventually have compatibility icons for which versions of the iPhone its guaranteed to work with (when there are more versions in the future).
It's been a while since I was reading about the iPhone SDK but IIRC it's both possible and recommended to write your apps in a resolution-independent manner although I'm sure there are people out there doing things that would make Apple's engineers wonder if they're deliberately trying to make sure their apps AREN'T resolution independent...
/Mikael
I googled the text the previous poster quoted and apparently it's from "revelations" which I'm pretty sure is part of "the bible" so it's only natural that most regular people can't recognize the quotes from it while most jews (mostly the post-messianic ones) seem capable of throwing out a seemingly endless number of random quotes from it.
I would've been more impressed by a quote from Principia Discordia but I suppose the bible has it beat when it comes to the sheer amount of insanity.
/Mikael
Nice troll, if you bothered reading any of the information available on the party website you'd know the answer.
/Mikael
/Mikael
It's time to vote for the Pirate Party.
If only people would've thought to do so during the last election. Instead we got to hear a bunch of people here in Sweden go "Oh but the Moderates say that they're not anti-piracy and I don't want to throw my vote away and the moderates say we need change and they're saying the "new moderates" aren't just a special interests party for the rich anymore! And look how cuddly Fredrik Reinfeldt is! OMG PONIES!". A few months after they came into power the same people were going "Hey! They never said they'd do that! I didn't vote for this!", and pointing out to these people that if they had bothered actually reading up on what the moderates (and the rest of "the alliance") were planning instead of just going by what they heard in 20 second sound bites on TV got you angry stares...
/Mikael
If you truly think that the Pirate party is somehow only about "free stuff" then you are ignorant and shut STFU until you've actually bothered learning a bit more about the subject you're discussing. This is not a personal attack on you btw, this is a general advice from me to anyone who decides to condemn others without really knowing what they're talking about.
/Mikael
Wasn't this one of the "troll memes" on /b/ a while back? With the regular "your pronouncing it wrong, its pronounced 'me-me'. Also, your = you are and its = it is. gb2gaia".
/Mikael