You'd be surprised what the real world is actually like.
At least in the real world you can tell your boss you don't have the time for stuff and unless he's a complete asshat then you don't have to work for more than eight hours per day.
This was one of the things that bothered me about school, you never got to choose how much work you had to do on a given day, some days you'd have a total of ten hours of work, others four and on others twelve. This creates quite a bit of stress if you are also trying to have a normal life and you can't make changes to your daily schedule just to fit in school (just like I and many with me would refuse to change our plans for the evening just because the boss decided that it's crunchtime and we should all be willing to put in five extra hours today).
The flip side is that because we live longer, we must work longer. Everyone seems to be pursuing a longer life, but almost no one wants to work past the age of 65. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a free lunch. If you live longer, then you must work longer. That's the rub.
That's a bit of a myth, one of the big problem in today's post-industrial world seems to be how to keep people employed when it takes less and less people to do the same or more work. I've read a couple of good articles (in swedish unfortunately) about how automation is being avoided because it would result in increased unemployment.
It seems that the hard part about going from a world where everyone must work to a world where only a few truly willing must work is to get people to make the change, perhaps it's simply so ingrained into our heads that one "must" work (even when there is no work to do)?
I've never been a fan of wireless mice, they always seem to not quite work right, they have heavy batteries and they tend to be optical which is great if things work properly, but a lot of times they don't (I'm not talking about anything huge and constant here, I'm talking "Damnit, the vertex point just jumped halfway across the screen for no apparent reason").
Now, the mice that come with some Wacom tablets I do like. I like how they're lightweight, good for left-handed as well as right-handed users (I'm left-handed) and they have this nice thing where their movement is dictated by how you move the mouse across the tablet so that you could rotate the mouse and it would still move along the x and y-axis of the tablet instead of its own "local" axis... (I hope that makes sense)
You're not listening, are you? If you're shopping for a $5000 camera body, chances are that you already have a fair amount of lenses (have you checked the prices of these things? hint: they're not cheap, my high-end laptop is cheap in comparison).
Uh.. no? I don't know anyone who has a Yahoo! account, just about everyone I know does have a Helgon.net, Badboll.nu or MSN account though, your social circle is not the world...
My implied point was that one of the main reasons a lot of people who don't just use MS Office for work don't switch to Apple is that their software just isn't available and in this age of apathy it's very hard to get all the users who would actually consider switching to tell the software companies that they'd be interested in a OSX version of their software.
I know I'd definitely help boost Apple's marketshare if 3D Studio MAX was available for OSX, it's really the only thing stopping me from making my next machine an Apple, I need 3DSMax for my everday work (and changing to another software is not an option).
I also know others who feel the same way about either 3DSMax or some other software that they use every day that is not feasible to run via an emulator...
I didn't say it wasn't annoying, I just pointed out that it's equally impolite to throw a fit because someone forgot to turn off the sound, that's the sort of thing you shouldn't do to an adult (and college students are adults).
I've had a couple of profs who would throw temper tantrums every time a phone rang or someone got an SMS, even when doing labs. But most of the ones that were actually liked by the students didn't really care as long as you handled it sensibly (if your phone rings and it's not from someone important then you hang up and turn off the sound), in fact, I've had a couple of profs who themselves have interrupted lectures to answer their phones, but then I'm in Sweden and from my experiences of studying in other countries I've gotten the impression that in many other countries college/university students are treated like grade schoolers are treated here, shut up, pay attention and do as you're told at all times...
One reason I hate "word problems" is because I had a math prof that used to turn them into reading comprehension tests, we actually had a final where the last question was later disregarded during grading due to almost all students misinterpreting it, me included. And this was what he was trying to do, there was nothing about this that tested your math skills, it was about understanding weird grammar and text formatting (the question that was disregarded had odd punctuation which made most people think he missed a comma but if you re-read it a couple of times it became obvious he meant something completely differen...)
The only ISPs here in Sweden that I've heard of that have/had download caps were Chello (and I haven't heard anything about them in years) and some ISP up north that have a monthly cap for data downloaded from outside their network (but otoh they offer 10/100Mbps and there are DC hubs run by people on their network that are only for those using the same ISP, so zoom zoom zoom there...)
I think I can remember the first "fun little 9/11 references" within a week after 9/11 here in Europe.
Yes, and if you posted anything like that on teh intarweb(tm) you would receive death threats from half a dozen americans who would go on about how it was the worst thing to ever have happened to anyone anywhere...
At least under windows there's a Program Files where things are installed. Ideally. Except for windows components. And only if it's on C:. And that's not counting in the registry. Sigh.
Don't forget that you can't just set the default install path to C:\Program Files\YourApp when developing an app either, as a lot of non-english windows versions use a different dir for this, quite annoying how they try to hide the "real" filesystem layout from the user yet translate it to your native language so it's harder for an admin from one country to work on a computer from another...
/Mikael (from.se where it's C:\Program\, no " files" here..)
As far as I can tell, there are a few high-profile scientists, who know very little of climate research, that are coming up with "humans don't affect the climate"-theories while most others seem to agree that we should try to decrease our impact on the environment as it will have negative consequences...
Um. You're very confused. The UN Security Council, in the person of permanent member France, told us to fuck off, not the other way around.
And yes, we invaded on our own terms. That's the only way an invasion happens. You don't invade on anybody else's terms.
Uhm, did you pay any attention to what was going on at the time? The rest of the world (there is such a thing you know..) wanted to give the weapons inspectors more time before deciding on whether or not to invade. What happened instead was that the US decided that since the rest of the UN didn't agree with them they would just ignore the UN and go forward with the invasion of a sovereign nation on their own (ok, there are a few other countries in the "coalition of willing" but most of them just have a couple of hundred soldiers there to make themselves look good in the eyes of the US).
Really, the WoD isn't over yet, I think a better way of looking at it would be to say that P2P is to the WoCI (War on Copyright Infringement) as marijuana is to the WoD.
So kevlar is an offensive weapon because it helps protect our soldiers from being shot? A concrete bunker is an offensive weapon then, since it helps protect our soldiers while they fire their guns.
Kevlar and bunkers can both be used when attacking someone, if you're controlling your artillery from a bunker while your enemy is out in the open (because they have a concrete shortage or something..) then obviously you'd be less hesitant to attack your enemy than if you were also out in the open.
If Iran has nukes, and can reach the US with them, expect terror to go on an immediate rise, because their 2 bit dictator can talk from a position of strength to the US and stop them from ever coming in and rooting out the terrorists. North Korea doesn't do the terror thing like the rest of the Axis of Evil, so I'm not nearly as concerned about them.
Hmm, I'm more worried about ol' Kim than Iran, at least there are elections there, and they're slowly changing to a better society (although they do have a long way to go).
Another interesting little detail is that some people have this crazy idea that one of the reasons for the cultural och political extremism was that the people of Iran didn't like the shah (who was backed by the US, go figure..).
And the US will have to stand idly by as the terrorists destroy democracy in the world.
Actually, as far as I can tell most of us are more afraid of you guys than The Terrorists(tm), seems to have something to do with your self-righteous attitude and your habit of interfering with other countries when you have something to gain from it and bitch about how other countries should help out every once in a while when you don't stand to gain anything from interfering.
If I can just sort out this little Holy War I've been waging with IRIX 6.2's DHCP client (and its networking set-up in general), the workstation could very well end up being a computer that I use for real work.
Why not install 6.5.x on it? It runs quite well as long as you can keep yourself from installing everything that seems like it might be useful..
Also, the DHCP client is quite odd, not to mention that if you boot IRIX with a serial console it seems to like to reset things a couple of reboots later, almost like it's trying to force you to use the GUI tools (or maybe my SGI boxes are just insane).
Your (and the post you were referring to) both assume that someone from UKia wouldn't know that the emergency number in USia is 911, something that everyone except perhaps some loner living in a cave in the himalayas knows (thanks to US TV/movies).
I still use Trillian for ICQ because I think it works better than the regular ICQ client but for MSN I'm now using MSN Messenger so that I can use my webcam every now and then, anyone know if there are any plans to add webcam support to the MSN part of Trillian?
I never heard anyone say that but OTOH around here (.se) AOL made some weak attempt at grabbing some marketshare and then more or less disappeared as no one was interested...
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At least in the real world you can tell your boss you don't have the time for stuff and unless he's a complete asshat then you don't have to work for more than eight hours per day.
This was one of the things that bothered me about school, you never got to choose how much work you had to do on a given day, some days you'd have a total of ten hours of work, others four and on others twelve. This creates quite a bit of stress if you are also trying to have a normal life and you can't make changes to your daily schedule just to fit in school (just like I and many with me would refuse to change our plans for the evening just because the boss decided that it's crunchtime and we should all be willing to put in five extra hours today).
/Mikael
That's a bit of a myth, one of the big problem in today's post-industrial world seems to be how to keep people employed when it takes less and less people to do the same or more work. I've read a couple of good articles (in swedish unfortunately) about how automation is being avoided because it would result in increased unemployment.
It seems that the hard part about going from a world where everyone must work to a world where only a few truly willing must work is to get people to make the change, perhaps it's simply so ingrained into our heads that one "must" work (even when there is no work to do)?
/Mikael
Now, the mice that come with some Wacom tablets I do like. I like how they're lightweight, good for left-handed as well as right-handed users (I'm left-handed) and they have this nice thing where their movement is dictated by how you move the mouse across the tablet so that you could rotate the mouse and it would still move along the x and y-axis of the tablet instead of its own "local" axis... (I hope that makes sense)
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I also know others who feel the same way about either 3DSMax or some other software that they use every day that is not feasible to run via an emulator...
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Yes, and if you posted anything like that on teh intarweb(tm) you would receive death threats from half a dozen americans who would go on about how it was the worst thing to ever have happened to anyone anywhere...
/Mikael
Don't forget that you can't just set the default install path to C:\Program Files\YourApp when developing an app either, as a lot of non-english windows versions use a different dir for this, quite annoying how they try to hide the "real" filesystem layout from the user yet translate it to your native language so it's harder for an admin from one country to work on a computer from another...
/Mikael (from .se where it's C:\Program\, no " files" here..)
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Uhm, did you pay any attention to what was going on at the time? The rest of the world (there is such a thing you know..) wanted to give the weapons inspectors more time before deciding on whether or not to invade. What happened instead was that the US decided that since the rest of the UN didn't agree with them they would just ignore the UN and go forward with the invasion of a sovereign nation on their own (ok, there are a few other countries in the "coalition of willing" but most of them just have a couple of hundred soldiers there to make themselves look good in the eyes of the US).
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Kevlar and bunkers can both be used when attacking someone, if you're controlling your artillery from a bunker while your enemy is out in the open (because they have a concrete shortage or something..) then obviously you'd be less hesitant to attack your enemy than if you were also out in the open.
If Iran has nukes, and can reach the US with them, expect terror to go on an immediate rise, because their 2 bit dictator can talk from a position of strength to the US and stop them from ever coming in and rooting out the terrorists. North Korea doesn't do the terror thing like the rest of the Axis of Evil, so I'm not nearly as concerned about them.
Hmm, I'm more worried about ol' Kim than Iran, at least there are elections there, and they're slowly changing to a better society (although they do have a long way to go).
Another interesting little detail is that some people have this crazy idea that one of the reasons for the cultural och political extremism was that the people of Iran didn't like the shah (who was backed by the US, go figure..).
And the US will have to stand idly by as the terrorists destroy democracy in the world.
Actually, as far as I can tell most of us are more afraid of you guys than The Terrorists(tm), seems to have something to do with your self-righteous attitude and your habit of interfering with other countries when you have something to gain from it and bitch about how other countries should help out every once in a while when you don't stand to gain anything from interfering.
/Mikael
Why not install 6.5.x on it? It runs quite well as long as you can keep yourself from installing everything that seems like it might be useful..
Also, the DHCP client is quite odd, not to mention that if you boot IRIX with a serial console it seems to like to reset things a couple of reboots later, almost like it's trying to force you to use the GUI tools (or maybe my SGI boxes are just insane).
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