Well, when the media stop pumping into everyone just how special they are, how rich they will become and how little they will have to do to get it all, people will wake up and smell the roses. Until the time that people realize that wealth and power generally come from hard work or extreme talent (or normally both) they will keep clutching at straws to try to take the easy road to achieve the same end result.
Blame the media who is playing right into the hands of lazy people.
Well, the customers are using their fuel anyhow to drive in, I don't see what's wrong with making use of a kinetic generator which is also using the pull of gravity to generate the power.
Geez, I thought slashies would be more open to this. Go have your afternoon coffees people - and stop being so Captain Cranky Pants.
What you described isn't back peddling - that's where you make one statement, then change your mind and make a contradictory statement afterward while making arguments that countered what you originally said.
I do agree perfectly though with what you say, suing them won't help make a better search and rescue team.
IT is a support function, yes, but that's not to say that all IT people keep getting calls every five minutes when someone can't print an email.
I would go as far as to say that the folks we have here on the IT helpdesk are very tech un-savvy. They follow simple flowcharts to get resolutions and do very little actual IT work.
I also work in a 200,000 employee company at the head office which has 4,000 staffers. I would say that to get into the IT field, you need to either jump out into a side role and get yourself known, make friends with developers (if you have them in-house) or simply look to maybe even join a helpdesk in a larger firm.
Having said that, I don't really see why you cannot study while being at the helpdesk. It's not a stressful role, you answer calls, you help people with stupid things when they are clueless. Yes, it's numbing, yes it's boring - and it's perfect to use as a job while studying for something else or learning things on the side.
Not to be rude, but be prepared for a LOT more stress than a helpdesk if you do get seriously into the IT field. Developers are ALWAYS being pushed for quicker and cheaper developments, project managers get sizings and then shave off time for an action if it doesn't fit into the time constraints - and I ain't even going to start on the business users and what you will have to do for them during the warranty phase of developments when they start changing requirements left right and center.
I just spent six weeks traveling through Europe. Yes, I currently have a bit of a cough. I came in and it seems that my temperature was well within the limits as there were no issues with me coming into Australia.
The culmination of my trip was a wedding in Northern Ireland. During the wedding, there was a Caylie (Spelling?) band and the reception hall was soon filled with loads of couples spinning and dancing away merrily. Now, as I was wearing a morning suit at the time, I got bloody hot bloody quickly. Ducking outside (Cold Irish night time) cooled me off quick smart. After a few moments, I went back inside. Rinse and repeat a couple of times. Result? Runny nose and cough in the morning, and a tickle in my throat since then.
While I haven't bothered to take anything for it (I have just had a cough for about a week now, nothing else), the article seems to point that if I took some aspirin for what I thought was a cold, and somehow managed to sneak a case of swine flu into the country on my returning flight, I would be some kind of cheater monster evildoer. People take remedies when they feel bad. Get used to it. I dare say that there isn't a single person that doesn't catch swine flu that doesn't start off thinking that it's a normal cold or a nasty one.
If the only measure for tracking sick people entering a country relies on them NOT taking common medication for COMMON SYMPTOMS then the bloody tracking should be the point of the article, not the few people that did what everyone does when they get sick and then "smuggled" themselves into a country.
Don't ask questions that you don't want a stupid answer to. Especially in the middle of the US. Or on the interweb.
You just never know where the next creationist is these days. I even heard stories about how they have no toes, but just this square ending on their feet...
It's our simple attitude of society, give me instant reward and gratification over something that gives a bigger reward/gratification later on.
A small carrot within arms reach seems to be bigger than the bucket of carrots in the yard.
Part of it is the immense consumer style society in which we live. You want it NOW? Get it NOW! Can't afford it? Get a loan! Don't be content to pass or wait! Be gratified with this NOW! Frankly, it's both sickening and amusing if you manage to take yourself out of the current that's dragging most people along.
The difference is that a jogger won't lie to cover his jogging up from others. This hasn't got anything to do with "video games" as a key. It's looking at how people react and engage in addictive/enjoyable actions that they desire to keep secret from others - either for fear of being judged or for consequences that their actions bring.
Take your tin foil hat off for a moment, not ALL articles that include a subject matter of video games are written by people wanting to make your habit of video games the eighth deadly sin.
where's the study on the far greater number of jocks who are "addicted" to sports and their school performance suffers for it?
Way to go down "I Missed the Point" lane - grab a T-Shirt at the gift shop!
This study looked at two groups that LIE to continue doing what they want to do over what is right and wrong, and by deliberately covering up from others what they are doing - implying that they themselves know it is wrong in excess, or to avoid being judged by others.
Jocks as you put it are addicted to sport, sure, but you won't get a jock saying "Sorry, I was out watching a movie" to cover up being at the gym rather than doing homework. This is about the state of mind to lie to cover an action rather than a poor result in one area due to an emphasis on other areas.
Hey hey hey! Hold it right there. I think there is LITTLE that strikes fear into the hearts of most nerds like being cut off from the net. So before you go waving your burning flags and crying alla akbar, maybe you should consider whistling like a 14.4k baud, and putting on that "I make Token Ring Networks" t-shirt.
On slashdot, THAT my friend, is true terror.
If you want to be a real tard, maybe throw in some rhetoric about head to head gaming via Com1!
HOWEVER, in both cases, we're talking about an artifically created system that is allowing BOTH of them to make millions of dollars based on at most a few months of work.
They are not being paid that much for the time they put into it. They are being paid that much for the gift that they have to make music that people nod their heads to, or tap their feet to or do whatever else they do while they consume it.
While I often hear utter shit on the radio and think "I could write that" or "That's just rubbish". Maybe I could, but I have never put in enough effort to really find out if music that I have written is that worth it.
People should stop complaining that others are making too much money from what they are doing - if you can do it too, bloody go do it!
They aren't being paid for the time it takes, but the talent it takes. That talent might not appeal to everyone, but if it's on Video Hits or the radio, or whatever, it's appealed to enough people to make whatever they have made worthy of something. If they can make enough money to live off the rest of their lives with a few months work, more power to them I say.
Tell me how any of this is different to say a game designer or code monkey having a streak of genius and writing a killer game/app and living in comfort. No-one seems to have a problem with that on Slashdot. It's one size fits all people.
Putting colonies in space will help to prevent the extermination of mankind due to a single cataclysmic event.
After doing some research (the vast majority of which hasn't been referenced or quoted in the bits I read) it seems that the magic number for a minimum viable population seems to be about 50-250 so that there is enough genetic diversity to avoid serious inbreeding.
While there are examples of bottlenecks in human history (Example around the time of the Lake Toba explosion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba) and others, it doesn't appear that humanity has ever gone down to anything approaching a minimum viable population.
Other interesting things include the Black Robin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robin) which went down to only a single female in the population and is now at around 250 individuals.
Don't bother with "Citation needed" or "It's a Wikipedia reference" as I know both, but I ain't researching this for a doctorate, it's researching for a forum post:P
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Well, when the media stop pumping into everyone just how special they are, how rich they will become and how little they will have to do to get it all, people will wake up and smell the roses. Until the time that people realize that wealth and power generally come from hard work or extreme talent (or normally both) they will keep clutching at straws to try to take the easy road to achieve the same end result.
Blame the media who is playing right into the hands of lazy people.
Well, the customers are using their fuel anyhow to drive in, I don't see what's wrong with making use of a kinetic generator which is also using the pull of gravity to generate the power.
Geez, I thought slashies would be more open to this. Go have your afternoon coffees people - and stop being so Captain Cranky Pants.
Bastard! I actually clicked...
*grumpy face*
What you described isn't back peddling - that's where you make one statement, then change your mind and make a contradictory statement afterward while making arguments that countered what you originally said.
I do agree perfectly though with what you say, suing them won't help make a better search and rescue team.
IT is a support function, yes, but that's not to say that all IT people keep getting calls every five minutes when someone can't print an email.
I would go as far as to say that the folks we have here on the IT helpdesk are very tech un-savvy. They follow simple flowcharts to get resolutions and do very little actual IT work. I also work in a 200,000 employee company at the head office which has 4,000 staffers. I would say that to get into the IT field, you need to either jump out into a side role and get yourself known, make friends with developers (if you have them in-house) or simply look to maybe even join a helpdesk in a larger firm.
Having said that, I don't really see why you cannot study while being at the helpdesk. It's not a stressful role, you answer calls, you help people with stupid things when they are clueless. Yes, it's numbing, yes it's boring - and it's perfect to use as a job while studying for something else or learning things on the side.
Not to be rude, but be prepared for a LOT more stress than a helpdesk if you do get seriously into the IT field. Developers are ALWAYS being pushed for quicker and cheaper developments, project managers get sizings and then shave off time for an action if it doesn't fit into the time constraints - and I ain't even going to start on the business users and what you will have to do for them during the warranty phase of developments when they start changing requirements left right and center.
You and your obvious political ploys with your fancy logical analysis and your brainy smarts! Begone from here!
Goodness me, that's a horrendously difficult way to spell a simple sounding word - but that's the exact one I was looking for :)
Bravo!
I just spent six weeks traveling through Europe. Yes, I currently have a bit of a cough. I came in and it seems that my temperature was well within the limits as there were no issues with me coming into Australia.
The culmination of my trip was a wedding in Northern Ireland. During the wedding, there was a Caylie (Spelling?) band and the reception hall was soon filled with loads of couples spinning and dancing away merrily. Now, as I was wearing a morning suit at the time, I got bloody hot bloody quickly. Ducking outside (Cold Irish night time) cooled me off quick smart. After a few moments, I went back inside. Rinse and repeat a couple of times. Result? Runny nose and cough in the morning, and a tickle in my throat since then.
While I haven't bothered to take anything for it (I have just had a cough for about a week now, nothing else), the article seems to point that if I took some aspirin for what I thought was a cold, and somehow managed to sneak a case of swine flu into the country on my returning flight, I would be some kind of cheater monster evildoer. People take remedies when they feel bad. Get used to it. I dare say that there isn't a single person that doesn't catch swine flu that doesn't start off thinking that it's a normal cold or a nasty one.
If the only measure for tracking sick people entering a country relies on them NOT taking common medication for COMMON SYMPTOMS then the bloody tracking should be the point of the article, not the few people that did what everyone does when they get sick and then "smuggled" themselves into a country.
*Cranky mode off*
Kill them. Kill them all. Every last one. Then kill everyone who ever saw one, just in case.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
George W Bush.. is that you?
He's dead Jim.
Medical update, Dr. McCoy.
It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim
it's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it
it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.
and pet food that killed dogs.
Sure, it's bad news for the dogs, but it's PARTYTIME for the restaurants!
Silly boy, there is clearly Prior Use of that here on Slashdot.
Don't ask questions that you don't want a stupid answer to. Especially in the middle of the US. Or on the interweb.
You just never know where the next creationist is these days. I even heard stories about how they have no toes, but just this square ending on their feet...
It's our simple attitude of society, give me instant reward and gratification over something that gives a bigger reward/gratification later on.
A small carrot within arms reach seems to be bigger than the bucket of carrots in the yard.
Part of it is the immense consumer style society in which we live. You want it NOW? Get it NOW! Can't afford it? Get a loan! Don't be content to pass or wait! Be gratified with this NOW! Frankly, it's both sickening and amusing if you manage to take yourself out of the current that's dragging most people along.
Bzzzzt. Wrong.
The difference is that a jogger won't lie to cover his jogging up from others. This hasn't got anything to do with "video games" as a key. It's looking at how people react and engage in addictive/enjoyable actions that they desire to keep secret from others - either for fear of being judged or for consequences that their actions bring.
Take your tin foil hat off for a moment, not ALL articles that include a subject matter of video games are written by people wanting to make your habit of video games the eighth deadly sin.
where's the study on the far greater number of jocks who are "addicted" to sports and their school performance suffers for it?
Way to go down "I Missed the Point" lane - grab a T-Shirt at the gift shop!
This study looked at two groups that LIE to continue doing what they want to do over what is right and wrong, and by deliberately covering up from others what they are doing - implying that they themselves know it is wrong in excess, or to avoid being judged by others.
Jocks as you put it are addicted to sport, sure, but you won't get a jock saying "Sorry, I was out watching a movie" to cover up being at the gym rather than doing homework. This is about the state of mind to lie to cover an action rather than a poor result in one area due to an emphasis on other areas.
Hey hey hey! Hold it right there. I think there is LITTLE that strikes fear into the hearts of most nerds like being cut off from the net. So before you go waving your burning flags and crying alla akbar, maybe you should consider whistling like a 14.4k baud, and putting on that "I make Token Ring Networks" t-shirt.
On slashdot, THAT my friend, is true terror.
If you want to be a real tard, maybe throw in some rhetoric about head to head gaming via Com1!
Lets have that discussion about how your sister and your mother are in fact the same person. Counting to Potato doesn't mean you get first post.
Gold! I wonder how many will just WHOOOOSH that reference though.
Yeah, but that guy we painted bright red to give everyone else a fighting chance is gunna be your downfall!
Sometimes, I really think I need to start the morning with a coffee instead of a quick troll'ing.
Actually, that last episode of Blackadder was that powerful it was just utterly amazing when I saw it for the first time.
Okay, okay. You did say "green" and not "girl", so maybe...
I believe you just clarified his "left" and his "right".
HOWEVER, in both cases, we're talking about an artifically created system that is allowing BOTH of them to make millions of dollars based on at most a few months of work.
They are not being paid that much for the time they put into it. They are being paid that much for the gift that they have to make music that people nod their heads to, or tap their feet to or do whatever else they do while they consume it.
While I often hear utter shit on the radio and think "I could write that" or "That's just rubbish". Maybe I could, but I have never put in enough effort to really find out if music that I have written is that worth it.
People should stop complaining that others are making too much money from what they are doing - if you can do it too, bloody go do it!
They aren't being paid for the time it takes, but the talent it takes. That talent might not appeal to everyone, but if it's on Video Hits or the radio, or whatever, it's appealed to enough people to make whatever they have made worthy of something. If they can make enough money to live off the rest of their lives with a few months work, more power to them I say.
Tell me how any of this is different to say a game designer or code monkey having a streak of genius and writing a killer game/app and living in comfort. No-one seems to have a problem with that on Slashdot. It's one size fits all people.
oh my god! humanity is progressing!
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Amusing how sometimes a sig file can unleash a torrent of irony on a post.
Putting colonies in space will help to prevent the extermination of mankind due to a single cataclysmic event.
After doing some research (the vast majority of which hasn't been referenced or quoted in the bits I read) it seems that the magic number for a minimum viable population seems to be about 50-250 so that there is enough genetic diversity to avoid serious inbreeding.
:P
While there are examples of bottlenecks in human history (Example around the time of the Lake Toba explosion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba) and others, it doesn't appear that humanity has ever gone down to anything approaching a minimum viable population.
Other interesting things include the Black Robin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Robin) which went down to only a single female in the population and is now at around 250 individuals.
Don't bother with "Citation needed" or "It's a Wikipedia reference" as I know both, but I ain't researching this for a doctorate, it's researching for a forum post