I agree, and I think we need to get over the concept that failure is unacceptable. The world needs janitors, garbage men, and other manual laborers just as badly as it needs programmers and scientists and doctors. The bar of excellence should be raised progressively higher as we advance as a society, but its actually being lowered every year so that nobody feels left out. So what if someone failed high school, are they any different than the 40-year old person at McDonalds who was waved through with a D- average? We have a GED system for a reason.
You're also right about regular exams being worthless. It does NOT take an intelligent, productive person to memorize facts from a book! Did anyone see Rainman?
It's called a firewall with NAT. I've set up Windows boxes professionally for years and never had a problem in that critical period between installing network drivers and installing security patches. Once the machine goes out my door, however, its a whole different world, and I don't get paid enough to educate every customer about the wonders of security and the perils of clicky fever.
I'm sorry, you may have some valid points buried down in all of that horse shit, but if you are trying to say for one second that Hitler was not evil and that anyone who gave their life to fight him was not a real hero, then you can go to hell. You should be ashamed, people died for your right to sit there and spout bullshit about how the Allied Forces weren't "good" enough for you. Maybe good and evil are not black and white concepts, but if there is one shining example, this is it.
Shit man, I know GERMANS and JAPANESE people who agree that their countries were in the wrong and are ashamed to be associated with it. Next I guess you'll tell me that Bin Laden is a noble freedom fighter and we should just leave him alone?
For myself, and I'm sure many others, its not about getting free stuff as much as its about getting something the way I want it. If I could drive across town and get a new game/movie that I want for free, or download it at home for a few dollars debited from my bank account, I'd download it to save the trouble of actually going out and making a physical purchase. Sadly, reality has been working the other way around, and the industry is just starting to catch on.
So what is your argument? Was fighting against the Axis not the right thing to do? I'm not saying it was all rainbows and ponies on our end, but if you look at the big picture, I (like most people) think the ends justified the means.
Mozilla never shipped FF2 pre-installed on millions of PCs. I'd say a good portion of the XP users never upgraded past 6 because it wasn't listed as a critical update, if they even have auto updates turned on.
As opposed to imaginary wars like World War 2 and Vietnam?
WW2 wasn't all that controversial at the time, and especially not now. Everyone is pretty clear that we did (mostly) the right things and the good guys won. Vietnam is another story completely, but look how long it took to make video game about it, and even then I'm not sure they were based so closely on real, historical battles. Maybe 50 years from now we'll have games with Saddam running around in a mechanical battle suit, but not today.
Area51/meyekul for me. I don't remember the numbers I had before I got GeoPlus. GC was a great place back in the day, I'll always have fond memories of the friends I made in the Area51 chat room.
I don't think you'd need to modify the whole archive of data to render it all useless. I'm sure a few carefully altered decimal points is all you'd need to turn a $300B jet into a $300B burning piece of scrap metal.
You don't even need to swipe the card to make a sale anymore, you can just punch the number and exp. date into the terminal and it will go through. That's how you do telephone/Internet sales without physical access to the card. It's probably safer for the customer this way, if someone stole the credit card DB they would have a harder time doing anything with the numbers without names and address stored with them.
Also, what if it starts raining while you're at work and you don't have an umbrella? That 10 minute walk and X minute train ride home just got a whole lot less comfortable.
You don't need the name to use a credit card. When you go through the drive thru at a fast food restaurant and pay with a card do they ask for your name? Sure its printed on the card, but they don't record it, they just swipe the card and hand it back. The only time you need more information than the number and exp. date is if the customer disputes the charges and you need to provide proof that they made a purchase. If you have a monthly contract with an ISP, there's not much you can dispute anyway, so I think this is a wonderful idea for all parties involved (except IPRED).
Yeah, try showing up at a bar, playing for a couple hours, and then being told that the club had a slow night and didn't make enough money so you don't get paid. Better yet, tell that to your empty gas tank and hope it gets you home. That doesn't happen at Madison Square Garden with a label backing you up.
Its the same difference between having a steady 9-5 job vs. standing on the street begging for quarters. If you're happy with begging for quarters, cool, go with it. My point is, if you're not happy with quarters, and you go get the steady job, don't be mad because you aren't making 100k/year right away. You can always walk back out to the street and pick up a cup if you feel you're getting the shaft.
Poorer than having nothing but a guitar, a van, and a dirty t-shirt? Poorer than driving and playing music all night for gas money and a couple bucks? Some people (myself included) do it for the fun, and routinely spend more than we make in order to get out and live the life, and then these snobs want to turn their nose up at a portion of a fortune because the people that made it for them got a bigger share! I'll take 1/100 of a few million over 0/100 any damn day of the week, especially if I get to have fun while making it! Maybe their sob story works on the average Joe who doesn't understand how it is, but I'm calling shenanigans on the theory that they are getting screwed out of something they deserve. When it comes down to it, recording artists are a marketable product, and the labels are the marketers.
And they should get their fair share. Say what you will about money grubbing labels, and I know there are true horror stories of how they've taken advantage of their artists, but those artists do basically owe everything to the label. I don't care how good a band is, without a label they are nothing but a local act playing for peanuts. No band today can get rich on their own, you have to be promoted and be exposed to a large audience to generate a following, which is practically impossible without major label support.
Its like your grandfather. Everyone knows he's too old and can't keep up with the kids anymore, but you don't want to say it to his face right? We're just waiting for the last COBOL programmer to die off and then then everyone will breath a remorseful sigh of relief and start coding in Java again.
I used to have a few of them but they got thrown out by some morons at the office who were getting rid of old junk to make space in the storage room. I guess I'm the only one there that appreciates old hardware and doesn't care about storing frivolous things like financial records or cleaning supplies.
Only a geek would have a "girl that got away" story for a keyboard... and only on/. will it be modded up.
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I agree, and I think we need to get over the concept that failure is unacceptable. The world needs janitors, garbage men, and other manual laborers just as badly as it needs programmers and scientists and doctors. The bar of excellence should be raised progressively higher as we advance as a society, but its actually being lowered every year so that nobody feels left out. So what if someone failed high school, are they any different than the 40-year old person at McDonalds who was waved through with a D- average? We have a GED system for a reason.
You're also right about regular exams being worthless. It does NOT take an intelligent, productive person to memorize facts from a book! Did anyone see Rainman?
It's called a firewall with NAT. I've set up Windows boxes professionally for years and never had a problem in that critical period between installing network drivers and installing security patches. Once the machine goes out my door, however, its a whole different world, and I don't get paid enough to educate every customer about the wonders of security and the perils of clicky fever.
I'm sorry, you may have some valid points buried down in all of that horse shit, but if you are trying to say for one second that Hitler was not evil and that anyone who gave their life to fight him was not a real hero, then you can go to hell. You should be ashamed, people died for your right to sit there and spout bullshit about how the Allied Forces weren't "good" enough for you. Maybe good and evil are not black and white concepts, but if there is one shining example, this is it.
Shit man, I know GERMANS and JAPANESE people who agree that their countries were in the wrong and are ashamed to be associated with it. Next I guess you'll tell me that Bin Laden is a noble freedom fighter and we should just leave him alone?
It would be cheaper just to film the whole thing on earth and nobody would know the difference. Why didn't they think of that before? Oh wait...
For myself, and I'm sure many others, its not about getting free stuff as much as its about getting something the way I want it. If I could drive across town and get a new game/movie that I want for free, or download it at home for a few dollars debited from my bank account, I'd download it to save the trouble of actually going out and making a physical purchase. Sadly, reality has been working the other way around, and the industry is just starting to catch on.
So what is your argument? Was fighting against the Axis not the right thing to do? I'm not saying it was all rainbows and ponies on our end, but if you look at the big picture, I (like most people) think the ends justified the means.
I'll get some of my grandfather's friends, who died at Pearl Harbor, to ask them.
Thanks for the car analogy, I wondered what these "computers" were that everyone keeps talking about.
Mozilla never shipped FF2 pre-installed on millions of PCs. I'd say a good portion of the XP users never upgraded past 6 because it wasn't listed as a critical update, if they even have auto updates turned on.
The irony is as soon as they step out of the valley, they drop their eye glasses and shatter them on the rocks.
Depends on the resolution.. a 10 megapixel JPG of someone's ankle would show pretty good detail I think.
As opposed to imaginary wars like World War 2 and Vietnam?
WW2 wasn't all that controversial at the time, and especially not now. Everyone is pretty clear that we did (mostly) the right things and the good guys won. Vietnam is another story completely, but look how long it took to make video game about it, and even then I'm not sure they were based so closely on real, historical battles. Maybe 50 years from now we'll have games with Saddam running around in a mechanical battle suit, but not today.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- T. S. Eliot
Area51/meyekul for me. I don't remember the numbers I had before I got GeoPlus. GC was a great place back in the day, I'll always have fond memories of the friends I made in the Area51 chat room.
I don't think you'd need to modify the whole archive of data to render it all useless. I'm sure a few carefully altered decimal points is all you'd need to turn a $300B jet into a $300B burning piece of scrap metal.
You don't even need to swipe the card to make a sale anymore, you can just punch the number and exp. date into the terminal and it will go through. That's how you do telephone/Internet sales without physical access to the card. It's probably safer for the customer this way, if someone stole the credit card DB they would have a harder time doing anything with the numbers without names and address stored with them.
Also, what if it starts raining while you're at work and you don't have an umbrella? That 10 minute walk and X minute train ride home just got a whole lot less comfortable.
You don't need the name to use a credit card. When you go through the drive thru at a fast food restaurant and pay with a card do they ask for your name? Sure its printed on the card, but they don't record it, they just swipe the card and hand it back. The only time you need more information than the number and exp. date is if the customer disputes the charges and you need to provide proof that they made a purchase. If you have a monthly contract with an ISP, there's not much you can dispute anyway, so I think this is a wonderful idea for all parties involved (except IPRED).
Yeah, try showing up at a bar, playing for a couple hours, and then being told that the club had a slow night and didn't make enough money so you don't get paid. Better yet, tell that to your empty gas tank and hope it gets you home. That doesn't happen at Madison Square Garden with a label backing you up.
Its the same difference between having a steady 9-5 job vs. standing on the street begging for quarters. If you're happy with begging for quarters, cool, go with it. My point is, if you're not happy with quarters, and you go get the steady job, don't be mad because you aren't making 100k/year right away. You can always walk back out to the street and pick up a cup if you feel you're getting the shaft.
Poorer than having nothing but a guitar, a van, and a dirty t-shirt? Poorer than driving and playing music all night for gas money and a couple bucks? Some people (myself included) do it for the fun, and routinely spend more than we make in order to get out and live the life, and then these snobs want to turn their nose up at a portion of a fortune because the people that made it for them got a bigger share! I'll take 1/100 of a few million over 0/100 any damn day of the week, especially if I get to have fun while making it! Maybe their sob story works on the average Joe who doesn't understand how it is, but I'm calling shenanigans on the theory that they are getting screwed out of something they deserve. When it comes down to it, recording artists are a marketable product, and the labels are the marketers.
And they should get their fair share. Say what you will about money grubbing labels, and I know there are true horror stories of how they've taken advantage of their artists, but those artists do basically owe everything to the label. I don't care how good a band is, without a label they are nothing but a local act playing for peanuts. No band today can get rich on their own, you have to be promoted and be exposed to a large audience to generate a following, which is practically impossible without major label support.
Its like your grandfather. Everyone knows he's too old and can't keep up with the kids anymore, but you don't want to say it to his face right? We're just waiting for the last COBOL programmer to die off and then then everyone will breath a remorseful sigh of relief and start coding in Java again.
Yes, but what if the Kindle is broken?
I used to have a few of them but they got thrown out by some morons at the office who were getting rid of old junk to make space in the storage room. I guess I'm the only one there that appreciates old hardware and doesn't care about storing frivolous things like financial records or cleaning supplies.
/. will it be modded up.
Only a geek would have a "girl that got away" story for a keyboard... and only on