So I took a walk this evening, actually while visiting family. We cruise on past this house in a nearby neighborhood and then stop, because I've backtracked. Next to the trash can is a Dell computer. I think, how bad can it be? And take it home. Older processor, dead hard drive, monitor with a bad cap causing intermittent screwups. The only part not fixed is the monitor, but I dropped in an old IDE drive and it's a perfect FreeBSD machine. Heck, if I had the bandwidth at home, I'd serve my website off of it.
The Linux box came from three or four older computers, two of which belonged to me, combined in the least-junky case I could find. I'm still not certain of which distro will be "final" on it, but I'm trying Ubuntu now. This machine gets re-imaged at least once a week, because it's the "beater" box for experiments.
I've also got a Windows XP machine that I love dearly. It's an Intel board, a 2.4ghz P4, some other stuff I forgot. I put it together for $600 and it's more stable than the Windows machines my neighbors bought from Dell. I have no plans to upgrade to Vista for another two or three years, for the largest part because I don't want to buy the hardware.
Life rewards intelligence if you're willing to apply it. Is this hacking, best practices, or common sense? I also get free jalapeno peppers from a very small garden, if I remember to water it. No "corporate chilis" for me. Linus would be proud.
Yes, he's guilty. No, busting him won't solve the larger problem. American prosecutors seek to deter criminals by coming down hard on a test case, but the biggest threat to them is probably foreign espionage. American hackers are more interested in Second Life and World of Warcraft accounts than busting into their government's networks.
MySpace 2.0 is then, by extension, doomed. Watch CNN for exciting stories of the kiddie Internet wild west, where sexual predators and teenage hackers battle over rocky terrain useless to anyone with anything of import on their minds.
And the RIAA was getting such great negative press/FUD for those accused of the evil crime of piracy. From the RIAA's perspective, it's a shame they don't do public floggings anymore. The real reason you don't get caught by the RIAA is the damage they'll do to your professional reputation, Lexis/Nexis file and possible, Google results.
Steve does. Apple Macintosh and iPod products were formed by "intelligent design." We have no need for this atheistic "evolving" hardware. Praise Steve, for the rapture comes.
I know I've woken some people up by giving them copies of EditPad, or PuTTY, or Opera or other open-source software. I tell them it's like indie music, but software, and you don't have to look like Michael Stipe.
Sorry, your license has expired. If you would like to spy on your fellow citizens in the future, please contact Microsoft for an updated license. Error 04-2007-225-EFE0
A computer can fit in a phone, and a phone's basically a computer. An iPod is a phone with more storage and a headphone jack, with the nifty interface from Apple. One of these phonePods with a keyboard is a tablet, and if you make it bigger, it's a laptop. The only problem that remains is the keyboard. Can we have mind-control computers please? I know there would be viruses, but those aren't so different than mass media FUD so why worry.
My preference at jobs is to go in, get the task done, and then go do something fun.
Most "work" done during workdays could be done in four hours, tops, if people were committed to efficiency.
I think many people like being at work because they feel a total lack of doubt. I'm doing the right thing, earning money, forget about the divorce, the kids, the debt, the extra 25 pounds, the smoking habit, distant mortality, etc.
But seriously... focus on major technologies and be flexible in specialization.
The same stuff that's always been hot always will be:
. Database administration and programming
. Application development, esp..NET
. Network administration and security
. Data conformity, formatting and storage esp. XML-based
Find some way to make it fun. The first step is to eliminate tedious work by better time management and custom code, even if it just fills in your expense reports for you.
Britney Spears goes insane and shaves her head, and the music industry declines instantly. It wasn't piracy, it was Kevin Federline. He ruined her life. He gave her herpes. He made her miserable. In turn, she will have her revenge on all of us.
I learned all this from CNN.
My experience has been quite different. Gifted and Talented programs are prep programs that prepare you for the SAT and the state-mandated abilities test. They have little to do with getting a real education. They set up the hoops, and teach you to jump through them, but if you want to learn real abilities like analytical thought, intuitive problem-solving, critical thinking or creative discipline, you'll have to do it yourself.
This article overstates a few things, and I don't know enough about some others, but:
"The public school system has four purposes:
1. Economic: to keep children out of the job market until they're grown, to provide jobs for adults; and to provide child care for working parents.
2. Social: to indoctrinate children to the culture (originally it was to protestantize Catholic immigrants, but now it is for social engineering, mixing races -- they call it 'diversity,' when it's really homogenization).
3. Political: to teach attitudes such as political correctness and consumerism.
4. Academic: offer a minimum body of skills and knowledge."
Didn't you read Brave New World or Animal Farm?
They're making workers, not thinkers. The best worker is a consumer who has no roots, no background, no loyalties, no spirit. That's the future of humanity there. Cancerous drones working under a dead sun for large corporations like M$ who just do it for an f'n buck. How did we go so wrong?
We all know our modern plastic society has feeble digital means that won't even last as long as an Egyptian mummy. But... do we want anyone reading this garbage? Marketing reports, superbowl commercials and gummy pop music is all we produce. Let's archive it in double thin DVDs made from recycled trash bags and stored in damp basements.
I wonder how many millions a year of litigation the RIAA has passed on to the taxpayer, all for an industry that doesn't do much for most of us (an album is a smash when it sells a million copies, but there's 300 million or so of us).
What about the user experience? How well the software works directly influences mood. I know that anytime I have to work with Real Audio apps on a Windows box, I'm sociopathic for at least four hours.
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Which is what you'll need to get those cheapo Dells running Vista.
I think hippies have been hacking our five senses for years. No word yet on POSIX compliance.
Open Source pornography? Some of you nerds must have girlfriends who aren't camera shy.
So I took a walk this evening, actually while visiting family. We cruise on past this house in a nearby neighborhood and then stop, because I've backtracked. Next to the trash can is a Dell computer. I think, how bad can it be? And take it home. Older processor, dead hard drive, monitor with a bad cap causing intermittent screwups. The only part not fixed is the monitor, but I dropped in an old IDE drive and it's a perfect FreeBSD machine. Heck, if I had the bandwidth at home, I'd serve my website off of it.
The Linux box came from three or four older computers, two of which belonged to me, combined in the least-junky case I could find. I'm still not certain of which distro will be "final" on it, but I'm trying Ubuntu now. This machine gets re-imaged at least once a week, because it's the "beater" box for experiments.
I've also got a Windows XP machine that I love dearly. It's an Intel board, a 2.4ghz P4, some other stuff I forgot. I put it together for $600 and it's more stable than the Windows machines my neighbors bought from Dell. I have no plans to upgrade to Vista for another two or three years, for the largest part because I don't want to buy the hardware.
Life rewards intelligence if you're willing to apply it. Is this hacking, best practices, or common sense? I also get free jalapeno peppers from a very small garden, if I remember to water it. No "corporate chilis" for me. Linus would be proud.
It should be replaced with Esperanto when we all upgrade to Vista.
Yes, he's guilty. No, busting him won't solve the larger problem. American prosecutors seek to deter criminals by coming down hard on a test case, but the biggest threat to them is probably foreign espionage. American hackers are more interested in Second Life and World of Warcraft accounts than busting into their government's networks.
MySpace 2.0 is then, by extension, doomed. Watch CNN for exciting stories of the kiddie Internet wild west, where sexual predators and teenage hackers battle over rocky terrain useless to anyone with anything of import on their minds.
And the RIAA was getting such great negative press/FUD for those accused of the evil crime of piracy. From the RIAA's perspective, it's a shame they don't do public floggings anymore. The real reason you don't get caught by the RIAA is the damage they'll do to your professional reputation, Lexis/Nexis file and possible, Google results.
With verification, the Encyclopedia becomes... hey we have one of those already, it's called Brittanica, why bother.
Steve does. Apple Macintosh and iPod products were formed by "intelligent design." We have no need for this atheistic "evolving" hardware. Praise Steve, for the rapture comes.
I know I've woken some people up by giving them copies of EditPad, or PuTTY, or Opera or other open-source software. I tell them it's like indie music, but software, and you don't have to look like Michael Stipe.
Sorry, your license has expired. If you would like to spy on your fellow citizens in the future, please contact Microsoft for an updated license. Error 04-2007-225-EFE0
A computer can fit in a phone, and a phone's basically a computer. An iPod is a phone with more storage and a headphone jack, with the nifty interface from Apple. One of these phonePods with a keyboard is a tablet, and if you make it bigger, it's a laptop. The only problem that remains is the keyboard. Can we have mind-control computers please? I know there would be viruses, but those aren't so different than mass media FUD so why worry.
My preference at jobs is to go in, get the task done, and then go do something fun.
Most "work" done during workdays could be done in four hours, tops, if people were committed to efficiency.
I think many people like being at work because they feel a total lack of doubt. I'm doing the right thing, earning money, forget about the divorce, the kids, the debt, the extra 25 pounds, the smoking habit, distant mortality, etc.
But seriously... focus on major technologies and be flexible in specialization.
The same stuff that's always been hot always will be:
. Database administration and programming .NET
. Application development, esp.
. Network administration and security
. Data conformity, formatting and storage esp. XML-based
Find some way to make it fun. The first step is to eliminate tedious work by better time management and custom code, even if it just fills in your expense reports for you.
Britney Spears goes insane and shaves her head, and the music industry declines instantly. It wasn't piracy, it was Kevin Federline. He ruined her life. He gave her herpes. He made her miserable. In turn, she will have her revenge on all of us. I learned all this from CNN.
Unlike the older series, which was "campy," this looks "cheesy." Too much CSI for the UK TV people?
This article overstates a few things, and I don't know enough about some others, but:
"The public school system has four purposes:
1. Economic: to keep children out of the job market until they're grown, to provide jobs for adults; and to provide child care for working parents.
2. Social: to indoctrinate children to the culture (originally it was to protestantize Catholic immigrants, but now it is for social engineering, mixing races -- they call it 'diversity,' when it's really homogenization).
3. Political: to teach attitudes such as political correctness and consumerism.
4. Academic: offer a minimum body of skills and knowledge."
Didn't you read Brave New World or Animal Farm?
They're making workers, not thinkers. The best worker is a consumer who has no roots, no background, no loyalties, no spirit. That's the future of humanity there. Cancerous drones working under a dead sun for large corporations like M$ who just do it for an f'n buck. How did we go so wrong?
We all know our modern plastic society has feeble digital means that won't even last as long as an Egyptian mummy. But... do we want anyone reading this garbage? Marketing reports, superbowl commercials and gummy pop music is all we produce. Let's archive it in double thin DVDs made from recycled trash bags and stored in damp basements.
I thought Open Source was about each of us having it our way instead. Compilation without representation is tyranny!
Have any of you encountered a job that required more than four hours of actual working time a day?
"Good lord, it's full of... porn"
I wonder how many millions a year of litigation the RIAA has passed on to the taxpayer, all for an industry that doesn't do much for most of us (an album is a smash when it sells a million copies, but there's 300 million or so of us).
But we've finally perfected all the trolls, griefers, basement dwellers, spammers, curmudgeons and porno freaks that a growing network needs!
What about the user experience? How well the software works directly influences mood. I know that anytime I have to work with Real Audio apps on a Windows box, I'm sociopathic for at least four hours.