I have never *ever* used my job when considering my own self worth.
Jobs are the means to make money. Sure if you enjoy them, great, but if you don't, and you judge your self worth by them, well then you're fucked.
Its better to have other measures, other means to judge how well you are doing in life. For me its my open source coding, and my amateur science efforts, as well as being a dad. Any job I do is only, and will only ever be, the means to provide the necessitaties of life, like savings, a home, money for my kid and such.
Ok, that's important, but its not a thing upon which your self image should be based. At least that's how I feel.
Maybe, but China's history of human rights abuses speaks for itself.
If its history we're talking about, then what about America's history of human rights abuse (slave trade anyone?), or the UK (slaves again, plus that whole empire thing, and navvies).
In fact almost all western countries have just as bad a record as China, only for us a lot of it is in the past. for the US that past isn't too far back, we are in fact talking just decades since the 'not slaves any more honest' were fully accorded the rights they were promised by Lincoln.
Not that I don't like America, I do, its just that I don't hide from the truth of things.
So, check your history before declaring China to be the fount of all that is wrong in the world.
Maybe its because of my background in nursing, but, um, the lower finger in the picture didn't look like a finger to me on first glance...
I'd say what it did look like, but I don't know what the slashdot filters are like. Lets just say I had to remove a soup spoon handle from one once during a shift on casualty and leave it at that.
The UK has all but handed over the handling of citizens data to lowest bidder IT companies.
I've experienced this first hand. I worked in a hospital where total access to everything on the hospitals network was available without even typing in a password if you used certain machines which were 'configured for ease of use'. You'd think those machines weren't reachable by member of the public, or externally, but you'd be wrong.
My point is Iran doesn't only contain religious nutbags,
The few religious nutbags happends to be the leaders of the country. They silence and kill any civilians who disagree with them. Does that not concern you?
Of course it concerns me, but do you think uninformed stereotyping and vilification is the way forward? Because that's what I see happening.
With C you can write blisteringly fast code, because it lets you do anything you want.
Of course that has its downside, because it 'lets you do anything you want', regardless of whether what you're doing is batshit insane or not.
It is, to be blunt, a bit of a barstard to use.
I've been using it for years, and its a real love/hate thing. I love the speed I can get using it, but getting from blank file to a finished application is harder work in C then in any other language I've encountered, except possibly Poplog.
In fact C++ is barely managing to hold its own any more against C# and Java.
It's not that C++ isn't good, its just that its harder to do things in it then it is to do those same things in either C# or Java. Harder to do means more expensive, and businesses all over are having to tighten their purse strings.
I keep finding that for fast number crunching apps, C beats C++, and for less intensive work its usually easier to use Java or C#, or indeed python, then it is to use C++.
Also, its certainly true to say that in the UK C++ is not anywhere near as useful in terms of getting yourself a job as it used to be.
A student I failed on a course did that to me once, using my email address to set up a sale on ebay that they then screwed buyers over with, to try and cause me trouble.
I didn't think to use password recovery, but I did send ebay an email detailing the account, and the fraud.
No idea what happened after that, but the emails from 'customers' stopped.
I would say that if you come up against failure too many times, its time to move to a different area of IT.
Personally I find its generally safer to be the one creating new technology then one of the coders who use that technology, even if it is much harder to do. That way if things go sour you are at least better prepared, in terms of skills, to transfer to a new job or area.
If all you do is follow the 'don't re-invent the wheel' philosophy, or use code to do complex tasks that other people have written, then I'm afraid you aren't as useful as someone who would work for a fraction of your pay in India, tough.
I stopped buying music years ago. Don't download it either. I am partial to live music, mind, just not canned 'aproved' music.
I have no interest in downloading it, illegally or otherwise, so any ISP that tries to force such a tax on me will find themselves being taken to court to make them give me the money back.
Linux won't succeed 'because Windows fails', because the simple fact is, Microsoft wont fail.
Vista isn't good, the mob have spoken, but such is Microsoft's lead, they can screw it completely, spend several years making an alternative, and *still* beat Linux on the desktop.
Its all about their installed and entrenched userbase.
All Linux can hope for is to even the home desktop playing field over say, the next 5 to ten years, until Windows is just one of several alternatives.
Microsoft are likely to still dominate, or at least remain extremely strong in the Business desktop and document editing spaces for many years to come.
Of course in internet servers and database clusters, Microsoft have already lost to Linux, so that's something. That was because of the strengths of Linux though, not because Windows was bad.
Actually, if you have a machine of epic power, or at least, a high performance gaming system (like I just happen to have..) Vista runs really rather well. Alas This means that Windows XP running on the same hardware is screamingly fast.
Quite possibly it was a nice way to say that many in the Groklaw crowd have hurled scorn upon SCO for years.
It may have been deserved, but its not suitable for most news sites to reproduce a lot of what's said. There is more than enough factual content that they can ignore the supposition.
PJ hasn't ever let people be obscene about SCO though, or anyone else, so at least there's that.
I find it somewhat implausible myself, but I wouldn't know how to go about revising it.
I dabble in physics, but I don't stray beyond the Newtonian model because my research is purely concerned with the practical realities of route finding in space.
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No-one who speak Arabic could be a bad man...
If you can find me one geek who doesn't list an SF writer as a major influence in their interest in technology, then I'll agree with you.
I have my doubts that you would succeed though. For me it was Douglas Adams.
I have never *ever* used my job when considering my own self worth.
Jobs are the means to make money. Sure if you enjoy them, great, but if you don't, and you judge your self worth by them, well then you're fucked.
Its better to have other measures, other means to judge how well you are doing in life. For me its my open source coding, and my amateur science efforts, as well as being a dad. Any job I do is only, and will only ever be, the means to provide the necessitaties of life, like savings, a home, money for my kid and such.
Ok, that's important, but its not a thing upon which your self image should be based. At least that's how I feel.
Maybe, but China's history of human rights abuses speaks for itself.
If its history we're talking about, then what about America's history of human rights abuse (slave trade anyone?), or the UK (slaves again, plus that whole empire thing, and navvies).
In fact almost all western countries have just as bad a record as China, only for us a lot of it is in the past. for the US that past isn't too far back, we are in fact talking just decades since the 'not slaves any more honest' were fully accorded the rights they were promised by Lincoln.
Not that I don't like America, I do, its just that I don't hide from the truth of things.
So, check your history before declaring China to be the fount of all that is wrong in the world.
Maybe its because of my background in nursing, but, um, the lower finger in the picture didn't look like a finger to me on first glance...
I'd say what it did look like, but I don't know what the slashdot filters are like. Lets just say I had to remove a soup spoon handle from one once during a shift on casualty and leave it at that.
The UK has all but handed over the handling of citizens data to lowest bidder IT companies.
I've experienced this first hand. I worked in a hospital where total access to everything on the hospitals network was available without even typing in a password if you used certain machines which were 'configured for ease of use'. You'd think those machines weren't reachable by member of the public, or externally, but you'd be wrong.
They aren't unique either.
My point is Iran doesn't only contain religious nutbags,
The few religious nutbags happends to be the leaders of the country. They silence and kill any civilians who disagree with them. Does that not concern you?
Of course it concerns me, but do you think uninformed stereotyping and vilification is the way forward? Because that's what I see happening.
and the US isn't run by a religious nutbag?
Come on, the guy uses God like a junkie uses needles
on set != he likes or even uses them. It means they were a prop.
Actually, the Iranian education system for the sciences is one of the best in the world.
Note that this is for the upper/middle classes only.
Iranian doctors have long been, or at least were until the whole post 9/11 thing started, considered to be among the finest in the world.
My point is Iran doesn't only contain religious nutbags, that's a little thing called propaganda.
With C you can write blisteringly fast code, because it lets you do anything you want.
Of course that has its downside, because it 'lets you do anything you want', regardless of whether what you're doing is batshit insane or not.
It is, to be blunt, a bit of a barstard to use.
I've been using it for years, and its a real love/hate thing. I love the speed I can get using it, but getting from blank file to a finished application is harder work in C then in any other language I've encountered, except possibly Poplog.
No, not really.
In fact C++ is barely managing to hold its own any more against C# and Java.
It's not that C++ isn't good, its just that its harder to do things in it then it is to do those same things in either C# or Java. Harder to do means more expensive, and businesses all over are having to tighten their purse strings.
I keep finding that for fast number crunching apps, C beats C++, and for less intensive work its usually easier to use Java or C#, or indeed python, then it is to use C++.
Also, its certainly true to say that in the UK C++ is not anywhere near as useful in terms of getting yourself a job as it used to be.
A student I failed on a course did that to me once, using my email address to set up a sale on ebay that they then screwed buyers over with, to try and cause me trouble.
I didn't think to use password recovery, but I did send ebay an email detailing the account, and the fraud.
No idea what happened after that, but the emails from 'customers' stopped.
But GPL-porn would probably be made by the same people that release software under the GPL......
Must...burn...imagination....
Stick one of those on the network, and people will be too busy downloading that to bother about stealing stuff.
I would say that if you come up against failure too many times, its time to move to a different area of IT.
Personally I find its generally safer to be the one creating new technology then one of the coders who use that technology, even if it is much harder to do. That way if things go sour you are at least better prepared, in terms of skills, to transfer to a new job or area.
If all you do is follow the 'don't re-invent the wheel' philosophy, or use code to do complex tasks that other people have written, then I'm afraid you aren't as useful as someone who would work for a fraction of your pay in India, tough.
I stopped buying music years ago. Don't download it either.
I am partial to live music, mind, just not canned 'aproved' music.
I have no interest in downloading it, illegally or otherwise, so any ISP that tries to force such a tax on me will find themselves being taken to court to make them give me the money back.
Your Onions are weak, old man...
No, /. editors not checking the actually story is not a sign of the Apocalypse.
It's more on the scale of "a sign that /. is not a real news source".
Given your low uid, if you haven't realised this by now its probably something you shouldn't worry about...
Linux won't succeed 'because Windows fails', because the simple fact is, Microsoft wont fail.
Vista isn't good, the mob have spoken, but such is Microsoft's lead, they can screw it completely, spend several years making an alternative, and *still* beat Linux on the desktop.
Its all about their installed and entrenched userbase.
All Linux can hope for is to even the home desktop playing field over say, the next 5 to ten years, until Windows is just one of several alternatives.
Microsoft are likely to still dominate, or at least remain extremely strong in the Business desktop and document editing spaces for many years to come.
Of course in internet servers and database clusters, Microsoft have already lost to Linux, so that's something. That was because of the strengths of Linux though, not because Windows was bad.
Actually, if you have a machine of epic power, or at least, a high performance gaming system (like I just happen to have..) Vista runs really rather well.
Alas This means that Windows XP running on the same hardware is screamingly fast.
Therefore Vista loses again, or did in my case.
Still, it does run ok with sufficiently fast kit.
Quite possibly it was a nice way to say that many in the Groklaw crowd have hurled scorn upon SCO for years.
It may have been deserved, but its not suitable for most news sites to reproduce a lot of what's said. There is more than enough factual content that they can ignore the supposition.
PJ hasn't ever let people be obscene about SCO though, or anyone else, so at least there's that.
no way, Cab Drivers get paid much more then I do.
I find it somewhat implausible myself, but I wouldn't know how to go about revising it.
I dabble in physics, but I don't stray beyond the Newtonian model because my research is purely concerned with the practical realities of route finding in space.
Whatever position one holds on the "irreducible complexity" argument, the argument is not "therefore we can learn no more."
Its my understanding that "irreducible complexity" means "we can make millions selling this idea to brainless idiots".