I'm all for supporting artists (real artists that is). That's why I give into paying often times ridiculous ticket prices to see concerts. Also, I have no problem supporting the artists I like. In fact I wish someone would just set up a web site where you could donate money to your favorite artists. (no min's no maxes, pure donation and the money should go directly to the artists, not some cheesy no talent middle man), then we could see who the real artists are. In fact I registered my copy of Winamp (way back when it was shareware/donationware) even though the software wasn't crippled in anyway, because I loved the software and wanted to see it get better. I think real artists and a lot of anti-IP people, basically want the same thing. They just don't understand or trust each other enough to make logical compromises. Alot of anti-IP people are good at heart, they just don't like corporate America's practice of extorsion when it comes to things like CD sales. Also the topic is a bigger powder keg then abortion since it deals with money (becasue we've proved, time and time agian, money is more important than human life) so its not very easy to have civil discussion about change. PS I hate the idea that when I buy one artists CD, some of that money may be going into the production of the next boy bands album... yuck!
I bet you're the type of guy that drives 5 miles under the speed limit in the far left lane and doesn't move over no matter how much traffic he backs up. I hate Left-Lane-Whores!!! PS. Generation...speneration, our species will be extint by 2030 anyway. Copyrights and patents are small potatoes compared to nuclear war, self replicating machines, artificial intelligence, genetics, etc...
You're not an artisit! True artists are about beauty and sharing, NOT MONEY! If you don't want to share your work don't release it to the public. Keep it under your bed with your porno mags. I write code. I give away my code. I make a living by writing custom code for companies and supporting that code. I don't believe in writing one program and then kicking back, getting high, and finding lawyers to sue the poor saps who have it worse than me. Putting someone in jail for COPYING is fucking retarded. Half my high school class would be in jail write now for copying my work if I had a bunch of greed high priced lawyers to do my dirty work. Love, peace, and sharing... Fuck money!
Hmm...another way to make money? How about going on tour and earning a living by doing concerts. I work every day and won't make as much in a year as most artists spend on drugs in a year. I really feel guilty that I've downloaded music made by a man whose message is to "fuck the police", "smoke weed", "bitches aint shit". And what about Metallica? Were big bad ass rockers, who wine like little bitches when their fans (who made the no talent fags who they are) try and listen to their music. Way to bite the hand that feeds you. Another thing, I love how all Americans have basically accepted the notion of copyrights. Copying music is NOT stealing! The original is still their. That's why copying machines aren't called "stealing machinges". If we could copy food, would you do it? Besides, Napster music isn't free! Price of computer over $1500, cost of broadband $50/month. Cost of stereo equipment in home and car $God-only-knows. Fuck America! and Fuck You Echelon! PS. You know what??? I think I forgot about Dre.
Oops, I forgot to thank you. The Y2K bug (of course it wasn't actually a bug) was real even though some of the media would like us to think otherwise now. So, Thanks goes to you and all the other people who worked to fix it!
If Y2K is one of the greatest moments of your life you should really re-evaluate what's important to you. Plus if it wasn't for the media you probably wouldn't think 01/01/2000 was that important in the first place. Time is just a measure of change, and not much changed besides a couple of numbers in some arbitrary measure of change. Yippity Shit, the year 2000, my life has changed so drastically...
This book has proved to be a great investment of time. Its slow and rather pedantic beginning almost turned me off.
Note to Neal: "Please, do not introduce your characters as if you were introducing the Super Friends. Everybody does not have special powers, nor do they need them. You eventually settled down with human-like people, but you came very close to giving them Clancy-like super-abilities that, had they not had them, the book would be bunk"
Neal does one other thing that irks me, but does not detract from the book. While gladly using the names of Alan Turing and Winston Churchill, etc etc, he then decides to create new names for existing people (Commander Schoen, for instance). He also does this for companies (ETC, i.e. IBM/Motorola), software (ORDO, i.e. PGP) and for certain operating systems we all love (Finux...well, I get the pun here, but Linux would have worked fine). Microsoft Windows gets no modifications, interestingly enough.
Well, I needed a place to say this. These are minor things and come mainly from having been a Clancy junkie in high school. The rather predictible and annoying introduction of "super" characters gets old.
One big positive: This is very fresh and original for me and probably a lot of people my age who did not cut their teeth on Ian Flemming and Dean Koontz spy novels.
You could always mangle your sentence to prevent writers from cutting and pasting your sentence segments...they would have to use a lot of elipses. Curse every third word, or use a bizarre numbering scheme.
e.g. One has a good 445 argument saying that 445 Linux is *not tunable* for the 445 reason that it has a decent 445 design with reasonable 445 defaults and there's not much that needs to be 445 tuned!
Insurance...insurance...yeah, I like it. Guess that makes me old. Oh well. Insurance means more time with my daughter and less time hoof pounding and chest beating so I "look" better to more and more employers.
As for survival of the fittest...you're right. That's what an anarchic job market creates. Unfortunately, the fittest are *not* the best and brightest. It's usually the guys with low handicaps and that "million dollar smile". American business is built on the sale, and being hired is no different. I think a lot of people hold the anarchic viewpoint since the corporate world is experiencing a shortage. Anybody who can claim to know what a conditional loop is will be hired. If you want to know what it's like when this kind of job market bombs out, ask some certified and non-certified architects...or some c/nc aero-engineers. Compare the stories and see which side you would want to be on.
As a side note, it's funny to see how "personally attacked" some people feel on this issue. History has shown that there is room for both and people who truly love their craft exhibit ideas and solutions that transcend this certification issue. Of course, there is only room for one best, and so there needs to be a platform for the rest of us to sit...because, frankly, I don't think my daughter cares what kind of a programmer I am. And if *that* kind of insurance scares you, well, that's you. Variety is the spice of life, they always say.
And, given your obvious motivational and salesmanship skills, regardless of your certification, you would probably be hired.
I think a lot of people, my noting case after case of someone who *may* slip through the certification cracks miss the overall point that certification is still open to all those who wish to achieve it. Most of these people who claim they would be left out seem to be prime certification candidates...your years of experience, for example, could propel you into a school scholarship. So your dream of attending college is quite feasible.
Also, no one is talking about a "blind rush". I think that everyone who thinks certification is bunk is missing the writing on the wall. If programmers insist to be considered designers and engineers rather than blue-collar tech workers, then we will soon find ourselves in the same predicament doctors, lawyers, engineers, and, more recently, nurses found themselves: poor treatment by a business world that did not see the obvious value of such learned specialists. Once MD, RN, PE and Bar licenses were provided, business and people alike were shown that there is a limit to incompetence and that high quality can exist.
One last thing about these "case studies". For each "programming since some single-digit age" crack professionals who would supposedly lose their job, there are 50 incompetent programmers-for-dummies getting the same level of credit and recognition in the work place. I for one would like to be recognized as a qualfied employee who is professional and aims for the highest quality. Regardless of my "background", no employer can check up on my supposed skills since they were all obtained via NDA's and intellectual property agreements. With certification, I can walk proudly into a hiring manager's office, write a number on a piece of paper and walk out with the manager happy and myself happy. No muss. No fuss.
So will this also mean that the machine can automatically convert PAL and NTSC signals?
From living in Europe, I've learned that the prime technology of the future will be something that will push the picture formats to one source. I can't imagine it being very cheap for Sony and Sharp et. al making PAL and NTSC versions of their hardware.
Five comments, five "no sympathy" responses. As if , enemy #1 had written these posts.
Now, I will go on the assumption Jon did not fake any of these letters. If he did, my judgement would be pleasant compared to those who "supposedly" represents.
Three years of my life will go down as the worst ever: 1987-1990 (7th-10th grades). During this time I eschewed the social game of life, was excluded from practically every party/event (even some classes for which I was considered "too curious"). I aimed for perfection, and, given the skill level required for things, quite often met it...with disasterous results. I thought (and was constantly taught) that success and perfection was the goal. Yet everytime I did well, it was yet another "beating", another time my books were stolen and burned, another time I was locked in a bathroom. Why?! I was different. Due to a very healthy family life, I never was seen as different at home. I entrenched myself into computers, but my parents believed that this was where things were going and that it should always be encouraged. Lessee, I have a CS degree and am a working programmer...imagine that, encouragement and acceptance at home actually did something.
What really irritates me about these first few posts is that they do not see the obvious lack of acceptance and understanding these people deserve. Especially during this fearful and paranoid time when every parent worries for their child (I know, I have 2), it is a shame that the response be even more oppression, even more alienation. Not NERD news? This is NERD social studies. It's NERD history.
I want so hard not to lower myself to the level that so many of my classmates did. Call names. Tell people to get a life/clue. And I will succeed, because I learned to be accepting since I learned the lesson the hard way.
Age is supposed to grow experience, and experience wisdom. If people do not learn from this, we have lost all chance for wisdom...and will suffer its repetition.
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I'm all for supporting artists (real artists that is). That's why I give into paying often times ridiculous ticket prices to see concerts. Also, I have no problem supporting the artists I like. In fact I wish someone would just set up a web site where you could donate money to your favorite artists. (no min's no maxes, pure donation and the money should go directly to the artists, not some cheesy no talent middle man), then we could see who the real artists are. In fact I registered my copy of Winamp (way back when it was shareware/donationware) even though the software wasn't crippled in anyway, because I loved the software and wanted to see it get better. I think real artists and a lot of anti-IP people, basically want the same thing. They just don't understand or trust each other enough to make logical compromises. Alot of anti-IP people are good at heart, they just don't like corporate America's practice of extorsion when it comes to things like CD sales. Also the topic is a bigger powder keg then abortion since it deals with money (becasue we've proved, time and time agian, money is more important than human life) so its not very easy to have civil discussion about change. PS I hate the idea that when I buy one artists CD, some of that money may be going into the production of the next boy bands album... yuck!
I bet you're the type of guy that drives 5 miles under the speed limit in the far left lane and doesn't move over no matter how much traffic he backs up. I hate Left-Lane-Whores!!! PS. Generation...speneration, our species will be extint by 2030 anyway. Copyrights and patents are small potatoes compared to nuclear war, self replicating machines, artificial intelligence, genetics, etc...
You're not an artisit! True artists are about beauty and sharing, NOT MONEY! If you don't want to share your work don't release it to the public. Keep it under your bed with your porno mags. I write code. I give away my code. I make a living by writing custom code for companies and supporting that code. I don't believe in writing one program and then kicking back, getting high, and finding lawyers to sue the poor saps who have it worse than me. Putting someone in jail for COPYING is fucking retarded. Half my high school class would be in jail write now for copying my work if I had a bunch of greed high priced lawyers to do my dirty work. Love, peace, and sharing... Fuck money!
Hmm...another way to make money? How about going on tour and earning a living by doing concerts. I work every day and won't make as much in a year as most artists spend on drugs in a year. I really feel guilty that I've downloaded music made by a man whose message is to "fuck the police", "smoke weed", "bitches aint shit". And what about Metallica? Were big bad ass rockers, who wine like little bitches when their fans (who made the no talent fags who they are) try and listen to their music. Way to bite the hand that feeds you. Another thing, I love how all Americans have basically accepted the notion of copyrights. Copying music is NOT stealing! The original is still their. That's why copying machines aren't called "stealing machinges". If we could copy food, would you do it? Besides, Napster music isn't free! Price of computer over $1500, cost of broadband $50/month. Cost of stereo equipment in home and car $God-only-knows. Fuck America! and Fuck You Echelon! PS. You know what??? I think I forgot about Dre.
Oops, I forgot to thank you. The Y2K bug (of course it wasn't actually a bug) was real even though some of the media would like us to think otherwise now. So, Thanks goes to you and all the other people who worked to fix it!
If Y2K is one of the greatest moments of your life you should really re-evaluate what's important to you. Plus if it wasn't for the media you probably wouldn't think 01/01/2000 was that important in the first place. Time is just a measure of change, and not much changed besides a couple of numbers in some arbitrary measure of change. Yippity Shit, the year 2000, my life has changed so drastically...
You forgot the biggest one of all:
Eaglesoft.
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Jesse
This book has proved to be a great investment of time. Its slow and rather pedantic beginning almost turned me off.
Note to Neal: "Please, do not introduce your characters as if you were introducing the Super Friends. Everybody does not have special powers, nor do they need them. You eventually settled down with human-like people, but you came very close to giving them Clancy-like super-abilities that, had they not had them, the book would be bunk"
Neal does one other thing that irks me, but does not detract from the book. While gladly using the names of Alan Turing and Winston Churchill, etc etc, he then decides to create new names for existing people (Commander Schoen, for instance). He also does this for companies (ETC, i.e. IBM/Motorola), software (ORDO, i.e. PGP) and for certain operating systems we all love (Finux...well, I get the pun here, but Linux would have worked fine). Microsoft Windows gets no modifications, interestingly enough.
Well, I needed a place to say this. These are minor things and come mainly from having been a Clancy junkie in high school. The rather predictible and annoying introduction of "super" characters gets old.
One big positive: This is very fresh and original for me and probably a lot of people my age who did not cut their teeth on Ian Flemming and Dean Koontz spy novels.
Jesse
Well, don't forget the farting and "pudu" jokes in SW:TPM...
Jesse
You could always mangle your sentence to prevent writers from cutting and pasting your sentence segments...they would have to use a lot of elipses. Curse every third word, or use a bizarre numbering scheme.
e.g.
One has a good 445 argument saying that 445 Linux is *not tunable* for the 445 reason that it has a decent 445 design with reasonable 445 defaults and there's not much that needs to be 445 tuned!
Just a crazy idea...
Jesse
Insurance...insurance...yeah, I like it. Guess that makes me old. Oh well. Insurance means more time with my daughter and less time hoof pounding and chest beating so I "look" better to more and more employers.
As for survival of the fittest...you're right. That's what an anarchic job market creates. Unfortunately, the fittest are *not* the best and brightest. It's usually the guys with low handicaps and that "million dollar smile". American business is built on the sale, and being hired is no different.
I think a lot of people hold the anarchic viewpoint since the corporate world is experiencing a shortage. Anybody who can claim to know what a conditional loop is will be hired. If you want to know what it's like when this kind of job market bombs out, ask some certified and non-certified architects...or some c/nc aero-engineers. Compare the stories and see which side you would want to be on.
As a side note, it's funny to see how "personally attacked" some people feel on this issue. History has shown that there is room for both and people who truly love their craft exhibit ideas and solutions that transcend this certification issue. Of course, there is only room for one best, and so there needs to be a platform for the rest of us to sit...because, frankly, I don't think my daughter cares what kind of a programmer I am. And if *that* kind of insurance scares you, well, that's you. Variety is the spice of life, they always say.
Jesse
And, given your obvious motivational and salesmanship skills, regardless of your certification, you would probably be hired.
I think a lot of people, my noting case after case of someone who *may* slip through the certification cracks miss the overall point that certification is still open to all those who wish to achieve it. Most of these people who claim they would be left out seem to be prime certification candidates...your years of experience, for example, could propel you into a school scholarship. So your dream of attending college is quite feasible.
Also, no one is talking about a "blind rush". I think that everyone who thinks certification is bunk is missing the writing on the wall. If programmers insist to be considered designers and engineers rather than blue-collar tech workers, then we will soon find ourselves in the same predicament doctors, lawyers, engineers, and, more recently, nurses found themselves: poor treatment by a business world that did not see the obvious value of such learned specialists. Once MD, RN, PE and Bar licenses were provided, business and people alike were shown that there is a limit to incompetence and that high quality can exist.
One last thing about these "case studies". For each "programming since some single-digit age" crack professionals who would supposedly lose their job, there are 50 incompetent programmers-for-dummies getting the same level of credit and recognition in the work place. I for one would like to be recognized as a qualfied employee who is professional and aims for the highest quality. Regardless of my "background", no employer can check up on my supposed skills since they were all obtained via NDA's and intellectual property agreements. With certification, I can walk proudly into a hiring manager's office, write a number on a piece of paper and walk out with the manager happy and myself happy. No muss. No fuss.
Jesse
So will this also mean that the machine can automatically convert PAL and NTSC signals?
From living in Europe, I've learned that the prime technology of the future will be something that will push the picture formats to one source. I can't imagine it being very cheap for Sony and Sharp et. al making PAL and NTSC versions of their hardware.
Jesse
Five comments, five "no sympathy" responses. As if , enemy #1 had written these posts.
Now, I will go on the assumption Jon did not fake any of these letters. If he did, my judgement would be pleasant compared to those who "supposedly" represents.
Three years of my life will go down as the worst ever: 1987-1990 (7th-10th grades). During this time I eschewed the social game of life, was excluded from practically every party/event (even some classes for which I was considered "too curious"). I aimed for perfection, and, given the skill level required for things, quite often met it...with disasterous results. I thought (and was constantly taught) that success and perfection was the goal. Yet everytime I did well, it was yet another "beating", another time my books were stolen and burned, another time I was locked in a bathroom. Why?! I was different. Due to a very healthy family life, I never was seen as different at home. I entrenched myself into computers, but my parents believed that this was where things were going and that it should always be encouraged. Lessee, I have a CS degree and am a working programmer...imagine that, encouragement and acceptance at home actually did something.
What really irritates me about these first few posts is that they do not see the obvious lack of acceptance and understanding these people deserve. Especially during this fearful and paranoid time when every parent worries for their child (I know, I have 2), it is a shame that the response be even more oppression, even more alienation. Not NERD news? This is NERD social studies. It's NERD history.
I want so hard not to lower myself to the level that so many of my classmates did. Call names. Tell people to get a life/clue. And I will succeed, because I learned to be accepting since I learned the lesson the hard way.
Age is supposed to grow experience, and experience wisdom. If people do not learn from this, we have lost all chance for wisdom...and will suffer its repetition.
Jesse