He obviously went to Flint before/during the war and spoke to parents whose children were in the military overseas. He didn't scour the country, he was illustrating how the war directly affected people in his hometown. It wasn't exactly an unlikely coincidence that one of the parents would lose a child.
Artists aren't aware that they don't have to play ball with that industry to eat. They can promote themselves and collectively form distribution networks.
If they're only in the game to get rich and bag hot chicks, let them fellate the record label that will co-opt their art and steal their money, but don't assume that the only way to make money is to be on a major label.
Sales are down because the effort the industry puts into marketing (and molding bands to an image) taints the final result. We're just not that stupid anymore. A _kid_ can tell when you are condescending. The magic formula that extrapolates marketing effort into profit potential neglects to address the fact that THE MARKETING EFFORT CORRUPTS THE ART. It is amazing that they can't see that after having a shitty song rammed down my throat for a month, I NEVER WANT TO HEAR IT AGAIN. It is time to fork this industry. One one side we can let the RIAA and ClearChannel have their fun pumping shit onto the airwaves for morons who buy CDs because of one single, and on the other we need to build a decent distribution network for actual ARTISTS, the real victims in all this. Check out record labels Alternative Tentacles or Dischord to find businesses that have gained considerable success outside the mainstream for DECADES. "Independent" is too often dismissed as "punk". There is nothing stopping musicians of any genre from gathering to collectively promote themselves without any interference from the mainstream recording industry. The only thing keeping this from succeeding is apathy. Mobilize. Go see local music. Buy records direct from the band or their label instead of on Amazon.
The horrible result of the last stock market boom is that supply-demand capitalism has been practically abandoned. Instead of accepting that supply & demand has a cyclic nature, corporations are aggressively defending past profit numbers in the face of decreased demand. It has become the consumers responsibility to maintain the multi-billion dollar business.
demand is down profits shrink stockholders whine because it is Acme's responsibility to make them rich Acme asserts that profits are down because of some outside influence instead of admitting that the demand for the product just isn't there Acme throws money at the problem and product quality DECLINES Acme attacks with litigation, lays off North American employees, but refuses to innovate Acme falls and a new innovation takes its place rinse, repeat how boring...
there is nothing alike about the names "redhat" and "netbsd"
they are different OSs and people complaining about differences as minor as that are missing the point. when you get a new car do you complain that the knobs are not placed exactly as your old car? you paid for the chassis - the placement of the headlight switch is insignificant (unless it is under the seat, in which case it serves you right if you bought it). IMO, unix gets easier if you spend less time reading and more time doing.
Looking like crap is highly subjective, and uniforms are apex of looking like crap my friend. Vanity in men is VERY distasteful and quite paradoxical, seeing as how you choose to assert your masculinity through decorating yourself. Just because GQ told you what to wear, you don't have to take it out on me:)
I wouldn't call daily changing of a mere 24 sqare inches of your uniform "having fun with it." I'd phrase it more like "a Star Wars tie is all the creativity I have left - I can't wait to get into sales!" I'll continue to hack with 20 billion in the bank and you can worry about how to include your appearance with your skills on your next resume.
there's no reason any educated person should be tying a knot around his neck, and i wouldn't work for an employer who respected me so little as to not allow me to dress comfortably.
and i'd like to add another vote for the high at work campaign
I'm one of those short-attention-span people who gets really into things for a few months and then moves on. These days I'm playing guitar again and studying/practicing poker strategy.
I highly recommend stunt kites - if you're a cube-toy type person, kites will be right up your alley.
I read an interesting article stating that our obsession with self-esteem is a factor. Current grade-school grading systems are geared to make the children feel good (ie. "needs improvement" instead of "If you don't buck up you'll fail this course"). Then they get to college believing that the sun shines out of their asses and are suddenly offended by being given a realistic C grade. I don't care how friggin special every single person is - if you don't know the material you don't deserve the credit.
Sounds like the prof in the article is just too lazy to stick to his guns and maintain his authority over the brats.
Unfortunately we're stuck in a paradigm which doesn't leave much more room for innovation. C and straight-ahead procedural programming are still used for most complex systems, and C++/Java are used for larger systems where OO is suitable. Unfortunately for the advocates of each of the other popular languages today, a real change in thought is going to have to happen to bring them into the mainstream.
The largest hindrance to software design is the free software world, where far too many people are hacking code without the proper skills. Linux is already behind the eight-ball because of this - a million people hacking constantly without cohesive structure makes for chaos, versionitis, and distributionitis. These hacker kids don't have to interact with anyone they don't want to - in the event of a design disagreement, the kiddo takes his ball and goes home to start his own distribution. That doesn't lead to advanced design (or soft-skills either). Think of the 16 year old kid who has an inflated opinion of his skills - he's never going to learn a thing in university because the "hello world" lesson in day 1 will prove his opinion that this is beneath him. Unfortunately he won't be listening when the curriculum passes him by and leaves him in the dust in second year.
To the 16 year old wearing the "code poet" (shudder) T-shirt because you made the kernel print your name while booting: learn humility - without it you won't be able to access the most powerful tool of all: the wisdom of your peers. While that Knuth box-set looks l33+ on your shelf, you'd be surprised at what you'll learn by opening it.
Unfortunately you can't do anything about that. This is effective for stopping ad images from loading as , but when Javascript tries to do something behind your back (ie. doubleclick) but can't connect, there's not much you can do to avoid that error message.
alias to 127.0.0.1 and then nothing loads at all
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http://smartin-designs.com/
This guy is maintaining an/etc/hosts file specifically tailored to blocking ads. Alias everything to 127.0.0.1 and voila - banners are now broken images. I haven't installed it yet - I've been getting by with this list which I started before I discovered that guy (sorry Slashdot):
I thought it was in very poor taste to post Anonymous Cowdog's remark "eat Tofu, enjoy free love!" AIDS is a horrible disease, and to joke about promiscuity is incredibly insensitive and ignorant.
Soon as I saw the story on the front page I knew what awaited inside. Hundreds of posts from zitty geeks trying to be punker-than-thou by coming up with ever-more-obscure namedropping to make up for their lack of real style (or to pretend that they are actually old enough to have been involved). Drop the pretension kiddos. We all know that your Blink 182 CD is older than your copy of Bollocks.
I love how a whole new level of conformity has been created by the average bozo's efforts at individuality. It might almost work if your personal definition of individuality didn't depend so heavily on how you present yourself to others. I mean, what's the sense of being into bullshit like [insert pseudo-non-mainstream hobby here] if you can't talk about it to make yourself superior to your peers?
Kinda sounds like the Linux crowd, huh? "I'm so ALTERNATIVE by patching my kernel every day while you brainwashed Windows sheep meander in unenlightened tedium." Funny to think that if you had back all the time you spent tweaking and patching (for no good reason other than to say you have the latest version), you wouldn't know what to do with the workstation on your desk.
Let's see... 2 movie tix at $12-13 each to see a movie once, or $25 for a DVD that I can watch as much as I want. Combine that with the home comfort factor and you've got a nobrainer.
Not only have I given up watching movies in the theatre, I have given up renting at chain stores. Their inventory prices have gone down, yet their rental prices keep going up. Try asking a kid at Blockbuster about a movie that isn't on the "New Releases" wall and I'll give you a buck if you get back anything besides a blank stare. Support your local cult/indie/art video rental shop - quality selection and knowledgable service.
The video distribution system is the same as the radio - big promotional money is spent to clog the shelves/airwaves (yet everyone still pretends that payola is a thing of the past). Blockbuster gets their videos practically for free (and in copius volumes) while your local small-time player buys 2 copies at $30 each and needs to rent them both 6 times just to break even. Its a shame, considering which one of those actually cares about movies.
We've gotta get back to respecting the artist and the art instead of raping something for profit. Isn't that what the whole open source thing is all about?
They make great sense when you have everything distributed from one core CVS tree, thus any snapshot of the tree will give you a choerent OS (if it is properly managed that is). That's the FreeBSD method, and IMHO it's fantastic. You shouldn't ever get a kernel & userland that are out of synch with each other. Given how many Linux distributions are packages taken blindly from all over and then duct-taped together I think this is a step in the right direction. Centralized control enforces coherency.
Now you gotta break the users out of "Linux freak mode" where they read freshmeat every day and upgrade individual items by hand simply to have the latest versions. "You'll get the new kernel when the core group says it's ready and not before!"
I use FreeBSD for this reason. Linux got to be a headache with multiple independent development projects moving at breakneck speeds such that it was impossible to build a coherent system at times. I gave up with RedHat 5 and haven't looked back. I don't need the latest version of everything. What I need is a reasonably recent working version. I'll let the FreeBSD core team work out all the integration headaches and I'll take the OS as a cohesive unit as opposed to managing all that stuff by hand. You gotta love "cvs update; make buildworld; make buildkernel; make installkernel; make installworld"
I'm not a nitpicking pundit. I'm a user of free software that GNU doesn't consider to be "free". The licenses page on gnu.org does not mention X11 or BSD, and Stallman (as GNU spokesman) has vocally stated that these are not "free" software.
GNU refuses to respect other points of view on this subject (and to think that one of their supposed goals is collaborative learning). I am grateful for the work that has gone into "free" software - I just oppose the use of the term "free".
Reading the award page (http://www.gnu.org/award/2002/2002.html) I found a very interesting quote:
We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free Software (free as in freedom as defined in the Free Software Definition)
So you see, this IS a GNU award, because it is not given to proponents of free software, but to proponents of GNU software.
The GNU Award for the Advancement of GNU Software?
Define "free" however you like, but I hate hearing "free" when it means GNU. If they want to be so pickey about defining all their terms, they should stop leaning on the ambiguity that the term "free" gives them. The neophyte immediately understands free to be free beer. GNU is exploiting that, since 6 pages of legalese in the GPL doesn't add up to free beer OR free speech.
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UNIX advocates can now be smugly confident in saying "UNIX systems won't have a Y2K meldown in 2038"
He obviously went to Flint before/during the war and spoke to parents whose children were in the military overseas. He didn't scour the country, he was illustrating how the war directly affected people in his hometown. It wasn't exactly an unlikely coincidence that one of the parents would lose a child.
It's not running IOS.
Artists aren't aware that they don't have to play ball with that industry to eat. They can promote themselves and collectively form distribution networks.
If they're only in the game to get rich and bag hot chicks, let them fellate the record label that will co-opt their art and steal their money, but don't assume that the only way to make money is to be on a major label.
Sales are down because the effort the industry puts into marketing (and molding bands to an image) taints the final result. We're just not that stupid anymore. A _kid_ can tell when you are condescending. The magic formula that extrapolates marketing effort into profit potential neglects to address the fact that THE MARKETING EFFORT CORRUPTS THE ART. It is amazing that they can't see that after having a shitty song rammed down my throat for a month, I NEVER WANT TO HEAR IT AGAIN. It is time to fork this industry. One one side we can let the RIAA and ClearChannel have their fun pumping shit onto the airwaves for morons who buy CDs because of one single, and on the other we need to build a decent distribution network for actual ARTISTS, the real victims in all this. Check out record labels Alternative Tentacles or Dischord to find businesses that have gained considerable success outside the mainstream for DECADES. "Independent" is too often dismissed as "punk". There is nothing stopping musicians of any genre from gathering to collectively promote themselves without any interference from the mainstream recording industry. The only thing keeping this from succeeding is apathy. Mobilize. Go see local music. Buy records direct from the band or their label instead of on Amazon.
The horrible result of the last stock market boom is that supply-demand capitalism has been practically abandoned. Instead of accepting that supply & demand has a cyclic nature, corporations are aggressively defending past profit numbers in the face of decreased demand. It has become the consumers responsibility to maintain the multi-billion dollar business.
demand is down
profits shrink
stockholders whine because it is Acme's responsibility to make them rich
Acme asserts that profits are down because of some outside influence instead of admitting that the demand for the product just isn't there
Acme throws money at the problem and product quality DECLINES
Acme attacks with litigation, lays off North American employees, but refuses to innovate
Acme falls and a new innovation takes its place
rinse, repeat
how boring...
there is nothing alike about the names "redhat" and "netbsd"
they are different OSs and people complaining about differences as minor as that are missing the point. when you get a new car do you complain that the knobs are not placed exactly as your old car? you paid for the chassis - the placement of the headlight switch is insignificant (unless it is under the seat, in which case it serves you right if you bought it). IMO, unix gets easier if you spend less time reading and more time doing.
I can't comment on the virus thing because I'm still reeling from the statement "nobody died" in reference to child pornography.
I didn't claim to make 20 billion - that's what my company has in the bank you fool.
when you assume, you make an ASS out of U and ME
when you voice that assumption with "you are full of shit" you simply make an ASS out of U
remember Jerry
you'll note that I didn't even say what I wear every day and you've already made 2 or 3 assumptions about my slobbishness.
I hope Jerry didn't hear you or he'd roll over in his grave.
conformist == sheep == ideal consumer
Looking like crap is highly subjective, and uniforms are apex of looking like crap my friend. Vanity in men is VERY distasteful and quite paradoxical, seeing as how you choose to assert your masculinity through decorating yourself. Just because GQ told you what to wear, you don't have to take it out on me
I wouldn't call daily changing of a mere 24 sqare inches of your uniform "having fun with it." I'd phrase it more like "a Star Wars tie is all the creativity I have left - I can't wait to get into sales!" I'll continue to hack with 20 billion in the bank and you can worry about how to include your appearance with your skills on your next resume.
there's no reason any educated person should be tying a knot around his neck, and i wouldn't work for an employer who respected me so little as to not allow me to dress comfortably.
and i'd like to add another vote for the high at work campaign
I'm one of those short-attention-span people who gets really into things for a few months and then moves on. These days I'm playing guitar again and studying/practicing poker strategy.
I highly recommend stunt kites - if you're a cube-toy type person, kites will be right up your alley.
and he's too lazy to solve a problem. If that doesn't get you fired it should greenlight your idea
I read an interesting article stating that our obsession with self-esteem is a factor. Current grade-school grading systems are geared to make the children feel good (ie. "needs improvement" instead of "If you don't buck up you'll fail this course"). Then they get to college believing that the sun shines out of their asses and are suddenly offended by being given a realistic C grade. I don't care how friggin special every single person is - if you don't know the material you don't deserve the credit.
Sounds like the prof in the article is just too lazy to stick to his guns and maintain his authority over the brats.
Unfortunately we're stuck in a paradigm which doesn't leave much more room for innovation. C and straight-ahead procedural programming are still used for most complex systems, and C++/Java are used for larger systems where OO is suitable. Unfortunately for the advocates of each of the other popular languages today, a real change in thought is going to have to happen to bring them into the mainstream.
The largest hindrance to software design is the free software world, where far too many people are hacking code without the proper skills. Linux is already behind the eight-ball because of this - a million people hacking constantly without cohesive structure makes for chaos, versionitis, and distributionitis. These hacker kids don't have to interact with anyone they don't want to - in the event of a design disagreement, the kiddo takes his ball and goes home to start his own distribution. That doesn't lead to advanced design (or soft-skills either). Think of the 16 year old kid who has an inflated opinion of his skills - he's never going to learn a thing in university because the "hello world" lesson in day 1 will prove his opinion that this is beneath him. Unfortunately he won't be listening when the curriculum passes him by and leaves him in the dust in second year.
To the 16 year old wearing the "code poet" (shudder) T-shirt because you made the kernel print your name while booting: learn humility - without it you won't be able to access the most powerful tool of all: the wisdom of your peers. While that Knuth box-set looks l33+ on your shelf, you'd be surprised at what you'll learn by opening it.
Unfortunately you can't do anything about that. This is effective for stopping ad images from loading as , but when Javascript tries to do something behind your back (ie. doubleclick) but can't connect, there's not much you can do to avoid that error message.
http://smartin-designs.com/
This guy is maintaining an
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I thought it was in very poor taste to post Anonymous Cowdog's remark "eat Tofu, enjoy free love!" AIDS is a horrible disease, and to joke about promiscuity is incredibly insensitive and ignorant.
Soon as I saw the story on the front page I knew what awaited inside. Hundreds of posts from zitty geeks trying to be punker-than-thou by coming up with ever-more-obscure namedropping to make up for their lack of real style (or to pretend that they are actually old enough to have been involved). Drop the pretension kiddos. We all know that your Blink 182 CD is older than your copy of Bollocks.
I love how a whole new level of conformity has been created by the average bozo's efforts at individuality. It might almost work if your personal definition of individuality didn't depend so heavily on how you present yourself to others. I mean, what's the sense of being into bullshit like [insert pseudo-non-mainstream hobby here] if you can't talk about it to make yourself superior to your peers?
Kinda sounds like the Linux crowd, huh? "I'm so ALTERNATIVE by patching my kernel every day while you brainwashed Windows sheep meander in unenlightened tedium." Funny to think that if you had back all the time you spent tweaking and patching (for no good reason other than to say you have the latest version), you wouldn't know what to do with the workstation on your desk.
*sigh*
excuse the rant. caffiene has yet to be digested.
Let's see... 2 movie tix at $12-13 each to see a movie once, or $25 for a DVD that I can watch as much as I want. Combine that with the home comfort factor and you've got a nobrainer.
Not only have I given up watching movies in the theatre, I have given up renting at chain stores. Their inventory prices have gone down, yet their rental prices keep going up. Try asking a kid at Blockbuster about a movie that isn't on the "New Releases" wall and I'll give you a buck if you get back anything besides a blank stare. Support your local cult/indie/art video rental shop - quality selection and knowledgable service.
The video distribution system is the same as the radio - big promotional money is spent to clog the shelves/airwaves (yet everyone still pretends that payola is a thing of the past). Blockbuster gets their videos practically for free (and in copius volumes) while your local small-time player buys 2 copies at $30 each and needs to rent them both 6 times just to break even. Its a shame, considering which one of those actually cares about movies.
We've gotta get back to respecting the artist and the art instead of raping something for profit. Isn't that what the whole open source thing is all about?
They make great sense when you have everything distributed from one core CVS tree, thus any snapshot of the tree will give you a choerent OS (if it is properly managed that is). That's the FreeBSD method, and IMHO it's fantastic. You shouldn't ever get a kernel & userland that are out of synch with each other. Given how many Linux distributions are packages taken blindly from all over and then duct-taped together I think this is a step in the right direction. Centralized control enforces coherency.
Now you gotta break the users out of "Linux freak mode" where they read freshmeat every day and upgrade individual items by hand simply to have the latest versions. "You'll get the new kernel when the core group says it's ready and not before!"
I use FreeBSD for this reason. Linux got to be a headache with multiple independent development projects moving at breakneck speeds such that it was impossible to build a coherent system at times. I gave up with RedHat 5 and haven't looked back. I don't need the latest version of everything. What I need is a reasonably recent working version. I'll let the FreeBSD core team work out all the integration headaches and I'll take the OS as a cohesive unit as opposed to managing all that stuff by hand. You gotta love "cvs update; make buildworld; make buildkernel; make installkernel; make installworld"
I'm not a nitpicking pundit. I'm a user of free software that GNU doesn't consider to be "free". The licenses page on gnu.org does not mention X11 or BSD, and Stallman (as GNU spokesman) has vocally stated that these are not "free" software.
GNU refuses to respect other points of view on this subject (and to think that one of their supposed goals is collaborative learning). I am grateful for the work that has gone into "free" software - I just oppose the use of the term "free".
Reading the award page (http://www.gnu.org/award/2002/2002.html) I found a very interesting quote:
We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free Software (free as in freedom as defined in the Free Software Definition)
So you see, this IS a GNU award, because it is not given to proponents of free software, but to proponents of GNU software.
The GNU Award for the Advancement of GNU Software?
Define "free" however you like, but I hate hearing "free" when it means GNU. If they want to be so pickey about defining all their terms, they should stop leaning on the ambiguity that the term "free" gives them. The neophyte immediately understands free to be free beer. GNU is exploiting that, since 6 pages of legalese in the GPL doesn't add up to free beer OR free speech.