...it all started going downhill when...professional language designers abdicated their role, and the void was filled by amateurs...people who use these languages have no fucking clue what they're doing and we're all paying the price...
No, it started when we had to take over your obfuscated crap which is technically C but most resembles the bastard love-child of BASIC and assember, you know, the stuff with variable and type names like "__MfxVge__" you didn't bother to comment because you wanted to artificially inflate your worth? The kind of crap that would be easier to rewrite than refactor?
Your job security is my job security - Only your code will be forever locked in a vault and replaced with mine, which will live on because I know how to write comments and spell out complete words.
Scalia was also notorious for expressing concern during an interview that too many people are becoming lawyers and that they add nothing of value to society.
As for Thomas, well, he's probably giving Herman Cain high-fives right now.
You know what I hate? I hate motherfuckers who listen to music out loud on their phones, polluting my serene environment with their cacophonous garbage. I understand the concept of instant gratification as well as anybody else, but you should not be allowed to be in public if you're too stupid or too weak to stand listening to yourself think for a few minutes.
Additionally, your phones are not audiophile-grade stereo systems. They have a shitty, scratchy-sounding little speaker with the frequency response of a chalkboard screech. So when you're forcing those around you to listen your 50-Cent garbage, the shrill quality of the already-stupid audio is adding injury to insult.
Do you know that scene in Star Trek 4 when Spock nerve-pinches the punk on the bus? Do you know that scene in Star Trek: TNG when Worf snatches the lute out of Geordi's hands and bashes it against a tree? Well, I want to beat the shit out of you, the annoying asshole playing music out loud, on your cell-phone, in public. You are truly scum.
I am a developer and entrepreneur and I am considering developing a very graphically rich and custom interface for my latest application which does charting and analysis of large data sets. The application would feature lots of gauges, knobs and levers.
Labview's already been invented, man. Get yourself a project box and some synchros, servos, stepper motors, and you're all set.
Here at least we shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Too bad for the honest hard working startups that are prepared to do the hard yards and get their just rewards.
Hmmph, at least somebody in the tech industry is working to prevent future bubbles by discouraging rampant startups and the idiots who invest money in them.
If the planet weren't busy with squabbling with each other and getting fat with short-term greed, we'd have at least a habitable station on the moon by now.
Most likely, it is a generally unimportant COTS part.
...that a medical device company needs to make sure its life-critical gadgets work.
You wouldn't want the government spending millions to develop a mil-spec version of a standard component that is already (or should be) perfectly reliable and functional
To ensure that our Taiwanese allies fabricated a product that doesn't include exploding power transistors? That these products aren't being sold to the government for the purpose of keeping soldiers alive?!
I work on stuff that hits home to most Americans. In fact, my company got all of our contracts because of Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
I will continue to like it until I try to run something I know I installed but can't remember the name of, because there doesn't seem to be any way to show an organized list of installed programs like in the old GNOME2 interface.
They want to steer you into the locked-down mobile paradigm where less is more. And war is peace. And some other generic but worrysome contradiction. Why bother even thinking about other things? They are not prerequisites to going to Facebook and Amazon. Facebook. Amazon.
You're missing the point. With the total lack of privacy online and the risk of leakage of so-called "private" pictures, it's about time for a camera that can print real pictures on impulse.
A real-life example - many years ago, My girlfriend and I used a Polaroid to manufacture child pornography of ourselves and some of our friends (we were all 15 at the time). It was a crime most heinous, but high-school kids don't deserve to be charged and have their lives ruined because of it.
But Ethanol, why not just have them printed at a drugstore?
I was a film developer at a drugstore. All images are archived (yes, even at the "print your own" kiosks) and every picture on a roll of film is seen by the developer, because we have to manually correct for CMY, density, and a host of other factors for maximum customer satisfaction - which means that your trick of taking a few "normal" pics followed by a bunch of nudes and finally more "normal" pics doesn't keep your dirty secrets from us. Fortunately, I saw a lot of nudes but never saw anything questionable.
You're probably talking about all those reservists and guardsmen who have been put on active duty by order, and you're right, but there are still constraints. Note that those are not true active-duty troops.
The real full-time active duty troops are going to get the short-end of the shit-stick either way. They can choose to stay in and increase the risk that they'll be turned into hamburger or driven insane, or they can hope to work for the DHS. Either way, there will be a lot of pissed-off people with extensive firearm training and combat experience who need something to do.
What the military wants, it gets. See stop-loss. It can also choose to cut back and limit re/enlistment numbers when the American public opinion turns against it.
This is totally related to Occupy Wall Street: In one of the Cops: Too hot for TV videos(the yellow one I think), some police officers arrest what appears to be a female prostitute. The cop sizes up the foreign "woman" and then asks her, "do you have a penis?"
"She" answers, "No."
The cop, smoothly playing it for the camera, looks her in the eye and repeats slowly, "Do, you, have, a penis?"
Looking ashamed and distraught, the prostitute looks down at the floor of the patrol car and says, "Yes, yes I got* penis."
* A brilliant double-entendre from an unwitting ladyboy!
"rich" people (those who actually create jobs and make things happen)
PfffhahaHAWHAWheohoohoohaaHAAAAAAA! You had me until there, bro!
At least your first paragraph is right, though. You can expect to see real mob justice after all those disgruntled soldiers and Marines come back from the sandbox with PTSD and no jobs to support themselves.
Now, sorry, it could be that a person highly respected in population studies, and with academic or at least scientific credibility did a study, and found that this was actually a true statement.
Controversial studies are done all the time(nature vs. nurture, indicators of success, and intelligence with respect to race) but they're kept hidden or put on the media's back-burner because they're too dangerous for a touchy-feely culture. The fact that stereotypes are often offensive does not mean that they are the exception rather than the rule.
Speaking of stereotypes, I know what you need - you need me to feed you Ben and Jerry's Ice cream while massaging your callused feet, building up the foreplay while we watch Law and Order and discus what pigs men are. You want to cuff me to the bed and slap me around for being the naughty boy that I am. Oh Yeah, give it to me, baby!
There are indeed filler classes. Consider that some people who go to college already have the skills in question but are forced to take the class for the sake of the credit.
English 101, for example, is a class I would have totally cheated if I knew I could have gotten away with it. We were forced to write canned responses to Dick and Jane stories and the grades were wildly inconsistent, even though the quality of the writings were consistent. At one point a group of students complained, saying that the grading appeared to be totally random! English, being a more subjective subject, can be quirky like that - especially when the professor hates your writing style or color of your shirt. I think the only reason why I got an "A" was because I told the professor that I wasn't a snitch and that he was doing a fine job.
Why didn't I get the credit in high-school? My AP English teacher was a former Mormon missionary who forced us to read Stephen Covey, who also happens to be a Mormon. Yeah. I spent the whole class farting and drawing dicks in my notebook.
Art history is also known as a throwaway class, but I learned tons from it. An artist would consider it throwaway class, but the difference between art 101 and English 101 is that English is a requirement. If you'd studied art in your spare time you could choose something else like psychology and actually learn something. English not so much.
Not to mention that many students use adderall and other amphetimines, even methamphetamine as study aids, especially during finals and almost always without prescription.
My alumnus was a MIT physics grad. He expanded what should have been a simple problem to 14 steps across both boards when the whole class deduced the answer at the second step and was already yawning and walking out when he finally hit the punchline.
I went back to the Just Works(tm) environment of Cubase + Win XP after nearly throwing my computer out the window trying to get that steaming pile of shit Jack to work with Ardour.
It's not always about poor performance. I have a decent-paying job, no expensive wife or kids, no house, and only a couple-thousand dollars debt; so why the hell should I miss out on life? I quit going to community college after 2 years because going to school is like having two additional jobs - First, you work your day-job. Then, you have to go out of your way to your second "job," school, usually just to do nothing but sit and listen. After that, you go to your third job, homework, which takes all your weekend time. Or you could get a worthless degree from an all-online for-profit school, but why bother?
It's all part of that pipe-dream known as the American Dream. Everybody I know who chased the American dream is miserable. It's called the American Dream for a reason. They're all divorced and fighting child support battles, they have to rent rooms to dirty unscrupulous douches just to stay financially afloat, they're drowning in debt from student loans, and their kids take whatever meager monies may be left over. Live free or die, baby!
I'll be content with my shitty but cozy studio apartment and the fact that I have no nagging wife, kids, or roommates to deal with. I'll be content with being able to surf everyday after work because I'm not stuck in school. I'll be content with having free time and money for dating and crawling pubs because I don't have any homework to do. I can also be choosy about dating because, at my age, most of the single women either have kids or really want kids, and I can string them along to see if they're worthy of carrying my seed. No harm, no foul!
I also found that chart hard to believe - For example, the highest risk for alcoholism was in Indonesia(a Muslim country) but NOT Mexico?!
Also, I rolled my eyes at "restless leg syndrome," aka "get-some-more-exercise-fatso" syndrome. Here are the biggest losers of the somewhat racist implications of the chart:
Prostate cancer - sub-Saharan Africa Cirrhosis - China Parkinson's - China, Indonesia Asthma - Mexico, sub-Saharan Africa Inflammatory bowel disease - Italy all the way, baby Obesity - Northern South America, but NOT the US?! Schizophrenia - Mid+Southern Africa, Sino-Asia
The problem is that all of the dry lightly-technical but uninteresting "junk" stories are saved for Friday and Saturday evenings, while people like me who would enjoy real intellectual stimulation but have no lives (actually, I almost died in a car accident at the hands of a drunken madman last night, then kicked his ass in a hotel parking lot, but life is overrated like that anyway) are becoming twitchy for action.
Droll, insignificant content - check.
Hordes of pimply-faced drunkards, stoners, and chronic masturbators with nothing better to do - check.
2 to 4-post allowance before the mods bomb you into banville for the night - check.
Goatse links- check.
GNAA - check.
I am sure that there are many companies out there who would be more than happy to hire these folks to gain some insight into what plans are for the next few years from AMD.
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...it all started going downhill when...professional language designers abdicated their role, and the void was filled by amateurs...people who use these languages have no fucking clue what they're doing and we're all paying the price...
No, it started when we had to take over your obfuscated crap which is technically C but most resembles the bastard love-child of BASIC and assember, you know, the stuff with variable and type names like "__MfxVge__" you didn't bother to comment because you wanted to artificially inflate your worth? The kind of crap that would be easier to rewrite than refactor?
Your job security is my job security - Only your code will be forever locked in a vault and replaced with mine, which will live on because I know how to write comments and spell out complete words.
Scalia was also notorious for expressing concern during an interview that too many people are becoming lawyers and that they add nothing of value to society.
As for Thomas, well, he's probably giving Herman Cain high-fives right now.
You know what I hate? I hate motherfuckers who listen to music out loud on their phones, polluting my serene environment with their cacophonous garbage. I understand the concept of instant gratification as well as anybody else, but you should not be allowed to be in public if you're too stupid or too weak to stand listening to yourself think for a few minutes.
Additionally, your phones are not audiophile-grade stereo systems. They have a shitty, scratchy-sounding little speaker with the frequency response of a chalkboard screech. So when you're forcing those around you to listen your 50-Cent garbage, the shrill quality of the already-stupid audio is adding injury to insult.
Do you know that scene in Star Trek 4 when Spock nerve-pinches the punk on the bus? Do you know that scene in Star Trek: TNG when Worf snatches the lute out of Geordi's hands and bashes it against a tree? Well, I want to beat the shit out of you, the annoying asshole playing music out loud, on your cell-phone, in public. You are truly scum.
I am a developer and entrepreneur and I am considering developing a very graphically rich and custom interface for my latest application which does charting and analysis of large data sets. The application would feature lots of gauges, knobs and levers.
Labview's already been invented, man. Get yourself a project box and some synchros, servos, stepper motors, and you're all set.
/discussion
Here at least we shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Too bad for the honest hard working startups that are prepared to do the hard yards and get their just rewards.
Hmmph, at least somebody in the tech industry is working to prevent future bubbles by discouraging rampant startups and the idiots who invest money in them.
Zynga are the heroes of the ninety-nine percent.
If the planet weren't busy with squabbling with each other and getting fat with short-term greed, we'd have at least a habitable station on the moon by now.
Most likely, it is a generally unimportant COTS part.
...that a medical device company needs to make sure its life-critical gadgets work.
You wouldn't want the government spending millions to develop a mil-spec version of a standard component that is already (or should be) perfectly reliable and functional
To ensure that our Taiwanese allies fabricated a product that doesn't include exploding power transistors? That these products aren't being sold to the government for the purpose of keeping soldiers alive?!
I work on stuff that hits home to most Americans. In fact, my company got all of our contracts because of Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
I am the ninety-nine percent.
I will continue to like it until I try to run something I know I installed but can't remember the name of, because there doesn't seem to be any way to show an organized list of installed programs like in the old GNOME2 interface.
They want to steer you into the locked-down mobile paradigm where less is more. And war is peace. And some other generic but worrysome contradiction. Why bother even thinking about other things? They are not prerequisites to going to Facebook and Amazon. Facebook. Amazon.
A real-life example - many years ago, My girlfriend and I used a Polaroid to manufacture child pornography of ourselves and some of our friends (we were all 15 at the time). It was a crime most heinous, but high-school kids don't deserve to be charged and have their lives ruined because of it.
But Ethanol, why not just have them printed at a drugstore?
I was a film developer at a drugstore. All images are archived (yes, even at the "print your own" kiosks) and every picture on a roll of film is seen by the developer, because we have to manually correct for CMY, density, and a host of other factors for maximum customer satisfaction - which means that your trick of taking a few "normal" pics followed by a bunch of nudes and finally more "normal" pics doesn't keep your dirty secrets from us. Fortunately, I saw a lot of nudes but never saw anything questionable.
You're probably talking about all those reservists and guardsmen who have been put on active duty by order, and you're right, but there are still constraints. Note that those are not true active-duty troops.
The real full-time active duty troops are going to get the short-end of the shit-stick either way. They can choose to stay in and increase the risk that they'll be turned into hamburger or driven insane, or they can hope to work for the DHS. Either way, there will be a lot of pissed-off people with extensive firearm training and combat experience who need something to do.
What the military wants, it gets. See stop-loss. It can also choose to cut back and limit re/enlistment numbers when the American public opinion turns against it.
This is totally related to Occupy Wall Street: In one of the Cops: Too hot for TV videos(the yellow one I think), some police officers arrest what appears to be a female prostitute. The cop sizes up the foreign "woman" and then asks her, "do you have a penis?"
"She" answers, "No."
The cop, smoothly playing it for the camera, looks her in the eye and repeats slowly, "Do, you, have, a penis?"
Looking ashamed and distraught, the prostitute looks down at the floor of the patrol car and says, "Yes, yes I got* penis."
* A brilliant double-entendre from an unwitting ladyboy!
"rich" people (those who actually create jobs and make things happen)
PfffhahaHAWHAWheohoohoohaaHAAAAAAA! You had me until there, bro!
At least your first paragraph is right, though. You can expect to see real mob justice after all those disgruntled soldiers and Marines come back from the sandbox with PTSD and no jobs to support themselves.
Now, sorry, it could be that a person highly respected in population studies, and with academic or at least scientific credibility did a study, and found that this was actually a true statement.
Controversial studies are done all the time(nature vs. nurture, indicators of success, and intelligence with respect to race) but they're kept hidden or put on the media's back-burner because they're too dangerous for a touchy-feely culture. The fact that stereotypes are often offensive does not mean that they are the exception rather than the rule.
Speaking of stereotypes, I know what you need - you need me to feed you Ben and Jerry's Ice cream while massaging your callused feet, building up the foreplay while we watch Law and Order and discus what pigs men are. You want to cuff me to the bed and slap me around for being the naughty boy that I am. Oh Yeah, give it to me, baby!
There are indeed filler classes. Consider that some people who go to college already have the skills in question but are forced to take the class for the sake of the credit.
English 101, for example, is a class I would have totally cheated if I knew I could have gotten away with it. We were forced to write canned responses to Dick and Jane stories and the grades were wildly inconsistent, even though the quality of the writings were consistent. At one point a group of students complained, saying that the grading appeared to be totally random! English, being a more subjective subject, can be quirky like that - especially when the professor hates your writing style or color of your shirt. I think the only reason why I got an "A" was because I told the professor that I wasn't a snitch and that he was doing a fine job.
Why didn't I get the credit in high-school? My AP English teacher was a former Mormon missionary who forced us to read Stephen Covey, who also happens to be a Mormon. Yeah. I spent the whole class farting and drawing dicks in my notebook. Art history is also known as a throwaway class, but I learned tons from it. An artist would consider it throwaway class, but the difference between art 101 and English 101 is that English is a requirement. If you'd studied art in your spare time you could choose something else like psychology and actually learn something. English not so much.
Not to mention that many students use adderall and other amphetimines, even methamphetamine as study aids, especially during finals and almost always without prescription.
They should ask Herman Cain about those four wimmins he tried to muh dikk.
Note: that comment was not at all racist, so don't tell me it be like it is, 'cause it don't.
My alumnus was a MIT physics grad. He expanded what should have been a simple problem to 14 steps across both boards when the whole class deduced the answer at the second step and was already yawning and walking out when he finally hit the punchline.
MIT FTW.
Or maybe..dun dun dun...he was in on the leaks!
Why not?
I went back to the Just Works(tm) environment of Cubase + Win XP after nearly throwing my computer out the window trying to get that steaming pile of shit Jack to work with Ardour.
It's not always about poor performance. I have a decent-paying job, no expensive wife or kids, no house, and only a couple-thousand dollars debt; so why the hell should I miss out on life? I quit going to community college after 2 years because going to school is like having two additional jobs - First, you work your day-job. Then, you have to go out of your way to your second "job," school, usually just to do nothing but sit and listen. After that, you go to your third job, homework, which takes all your weekend time. Or you could get a worthless degree from an all-online for-profit school, but why bother?
It's all part of that pipe-dream known as the American Dream. Everybody I know who chased the American dream is miserable. It's called the American Dream for a reason. They're all divorced and fighting child support battles, they have to rent rooms to dirty unscrupulous douches just to stay financially afloat, they're drowning in debt from student loans, and their kids take whatever meager monies may be left over. Live free or die, baby!
I'll be content with my shitty but cozy studio apartment and the fact that I have no nagging wife, kids, or roommates to deal with. I'll be content with being able to surf everyday after work because I'm not stuck in school. I'll be content with having free time and money for dating and crawling pubs because I don't have any homework to do. I can also be choosy about dating because, at my age, most of the single women either have kids or really want kids, and I can string them along to see if they're worthy of carrying my seed. No harm, no foul!
It doesn't replace a good textbook
I've never read a decent textbook that didn't require a teacher to actually teach the material. I think they're all written that way on purpose.
I also found that chart hard to believe - For example, the highest risk for alcoholism was in Indonesia(a Muslim country) but NOT Mexico?!
Also, I rolled my eyes at "restless leg syndrome," aka "get-some-more-exercise-fatso" syndrome. Here are the biggest losers of the somewhat racist implications of the chart:
Prostate cancer - sub-Saharan Africa
Cirrhosis - China
Parkinson's - China, Indonesia
Asthma - Mexico, sub-Saharan Africa
Inflammatory bowel disease - Italy all the way, baby
Obesity - Northern South America, but NOT the US?!
Schizophrenia - Mid+Southern Africa, Sino-Asia
The problem is that all of the dry lightly-technical but uninteresting "junk" stories are saved for Friday and Saturday evenings, while people like me who would enjoy real intellectual stimulation but have no lives (actually, I almost died in a car accident at the hands of a drunken madman last night, then kicked his ass in a hotel parking lot, but life is overrated like that anyway) are becoming twitchy for action.
Droll, insignificant content - check.
Hordes of pimply-faced drunkards, stoners, and chronic masturbators with nothing better to do - check.
2 to 4-post allowance before the mods bomb you into banville for the night - check.
Goatse links- check.
GNAA - check.
Locked, cocked, and ready to rock.
I am sure that there are many companies out there who would be more than happy to hire these folks to gain some insight into what plans are for the next few years from AMD.
Have you met my friend, mister Breach of contract suit?