Part of me wants to make a snide comment about the usefulness of this, part of me thinks that it is pretty cool that they could find this sort of stuff out and "discover" it so long after it had been written and the times and dates were erased into history.
Overall, I guess it's quite cool - even if it doesn't have a direct impact on my life.
Actually, my career is going along very nicely. I am in a project management role in a multinational and thus far have beaming reviews from both my business customers and my development teams.
I really don't get what the fuss is. When heading to work, I put on a shirt and tie, when I am at home on the weekend I am in cargos and a T. Why do do people get their knickers in a twist when others relax a little and let their hair out - or in this case, let the language used change from formal and proper to colloquial and casual?
Slashdot is supposed to be a place of peers and where a geek can feel at home. Honestly. I feel quite sorry for people that cannot imagine someone may reserve slightly different communication for somewhat different audiences:)
Are "smileys" okay or would they also undermine my apparent need for professionalism on a slashdot comment?
I write the way I speak, and I do include the word prolly in my vocabulary. I don't write comments to gratify your sense of proper English. Secondly, if you want to be identified with that much, why not post under who you are rather than old man anonymous. Guess you PROLLY don't have the minerals to do that.
I recall reading/seeing somewhere that Jupiter can pull Mars off axis causing it to buckle over to around 60 degrees before it works itself back to it's 23 degrees.
I still can't say that I agree on your point of view.
Space exploration has no benefit for society in general. So there is no point in understanding why we have tides? What about how sunspots generate random levels of radiation that plays havoc with the radio broadcasts and communications that we use? What about looking into the area of space around our humble planet to see if there is an asteroid or comet heading right for us? Don't you think that these three points off the top of my head have some sort of benefit for society in general?
As for the swearing, my point is that if it is used as commonly as in your original thread, it really does water down. I got absolutely nothing against colorful language. My point is if you put in too much color, the whole thing becomes a gaudy mess rather than a well accentuated splash here and there.
Your post is written in very good english, denoting that you have a good level of education. What a striking contrast is made by the content of your post.
You can't just segregate space exploration from the rest of science. Where do you want to end up? A glorious society that lives with the belief that everything revolves around the earth?
Rather than telling people they are fucking twits, why not relax a touch yourself and sip your own medicine? Secondly, I agree that things you raise are important to look at. Global warming, food production and a whole other plethora of things. But where I disagree is to say that someone studying something else shouldn't study it and put all that effort into the area that you like. You want more study on world food reserves? Great, get up off the chair in front of that PC and start making a change!
P.S. Using the word fuck over and over generally makes it lose the emphasizing effect greatly and just makes you look like a snotty nosed kid who can get away with swearing over the internet because mommy and daddy aren't watching.
Or the ones with a heavy political bias. And so the community has gone full circle. From humble beginnings as techno junkies to maturity as activists.
Much akin to many other types of social evolution such as the fisherman who enjoys reading up on the latest fishing gear, then eventually turns to protester against the new chemical plant that will pollute his favorite fishing spot.
Don't be silly. The people that CAN stop this sort of thing don't WANT to stop this sort of thing as it is not in THEIR interest to stop.
Just as with the majority of the wrongs in the world, the people that can stop them have utterly no benefit from doing so - and normally will in fact lose something if they do.
the largest ISP in Sweden, moved mail servers to Finland because their Finnish customers were getting worried. I would be too. Not sure if the Swedish folks really understand how much this sort of law will effect technology growth in their country detrimentally.
So, you write and distribute a trojan. If the trojan works properly, you get to snoop about the users PCs and find out what you want to know then hose their system. If it doesn't work properly, you can claim violation of your property rights, and then inspect their systems and finally hose them.
Today seems to be a good day for people wanting to cause grief on the net.
Boy, I hope that Google makes a violation claim against Microsoft. Let the battle begin!
The whole point of this is that the person putting this together might enjoy the experience of putting it together, get satisfaction from a finished product and have a cool novelty way of opening or closing a door.
Do you think that people making transistor radios do it for fun, or because they think that $20 worth of electronic junk from a electronic junk store will give them better sound than a manufactured stereo system?
I rarely go to this level of pointing out a clear case of "swing and miss" with a reply/post - but wow!
Microsoft on the other hand creates agreements to provide their software to programming students for free. It gives those who can't afford your software a break and gains their respect. *cough*
Rather it stops the students from learning other better programming languages. Dirty dirty Microsoft tactics!:P
In short, winning people's support and respect by using the laws more reasonably is a better long term solution. On a more serious note though, winning people's respect is a better long term solution, but this isn't what is happening. By giving away the software at the start, and having someone know your product, you are not gaining respect. You are gaining a person who knows your product. They may have a preference for using it, but I would balk at anyone wanting to hire a programmer who would change their prospective employee to use whatever language they wanted. Rather, a much more likely scenario would be looking for someone who knows what languages/software YOUR company uses and hiring people with the skills that you want. It's a employer's market out there in the IT world.
Should Internet Explorer be banned because it lost Netscape a lot of money? This comment of yours is too long and contains too many words. Here is a better version. (Slight liberty taken with wording)
"How much does it cost?" "Nothing, it's free." He freaked out: "Oh my God, how can that be legal? That could cost Microsoft so much in lost profits! That should really be illegal..." This is what happens when "Business Orientated" mummy and "IT Nerd" daddy really love one another very very much. Dopey kid who doesn't understand the concept of what an operating system is and thinks that people giving away "free open source" is stealing from someone else.
The frenchies had it right if you ask me, bring back the guillotine, lets start a new revolt against the classes!
Yes its true, Christianity would stop Nigerian scams - send more missionaries:-) Yes, please do. Missionaries are great with coco pops in the morning. Nom nom nom!
Perhaps I am getting too old, but every time I see AoC, I keep thinking that someone typo'ed when they meant to type in DAOC.
My brain happily refuses to acknowledge Age of Conan even though a few of my good mates talk nothing else MMO besides this (and the "good old days" spent playing every MMO going all the way back to Ultima Online)
you want to get in while there are still plenty of new players coming in so you'll have people of the same level to quest, hunt and trade with, but after the major bugs have been worked out. Yes and no, getting in at the ground level while there are a lot of bugs can be annoying for certain things, but very very beneficial for others.
Perfect example: If you got into crafting early in EverQuest II, you could have been lucky enough to use a lovely little crafting loop where you bought a few items from a NPC, crafted some goods and then sold your crafted goods back to the same vendor for a decent profit level. Outcome: Free easy cash. Subsequently these type of "bugs" are weeded out and follow on players can't benefit from this.
Therefore getting in right at the very very start:
Downside - Game is rather broken and things don't work as well as they should.
Upside - You can turn some of these things to your advantage quite quickly before these problems are fixed.
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Play first person shooters and download way too much porn. You should find yourself fitting right in.
Part of me wants to make a snide comment about the usefulness of this, part of me thinks that it is pretty cool that they could find this sort of stuff out and "discover" it so long after it had been written and the times and dates were erased into history.
Overall, I guess it's quite cool - even if it doesn't have a direct impact on my life.
Actually, my career is going along very nicely. I am in a project management role in a multinational and thus far have beaming reviews from both my business customers and my development teams.
:)
I really don't get what the fuss is. When heading to work, I put on a shirt and tie, when I am at home on the weekend I am in cargos and a T. Why do do people get their knickers in a twist when others relax a little and let their hair out - or in this case, let the language used change from formal and proper to colloquial and casual?
Slashdot is supposed to be a place of peers and where a geek can feel at home. Honestly. I feel quite sorry for people that cannot imagine someone may reserve slightly different communication for somewhat different audiences
Are "smileys" okay or would they also undermine my apparent need for professionalism on a slashdot comment?
I write the way I speak, and I do include the word prolly in my vocabulary. I don't write comments to gratify your sense of proper English. Secondly, if you want to be identified with that much, why not post under who you are rather than old man anonymous. Guess you PROLLY don't have the minerals to do that.
Given the stuff that I have read about him, he prolly would have fit in nicely with this little place we call Slashdot.
Mars has about 0.06 the pressure of earth's atmosphere, which means that carbon dioxide is a no-no for sublimation.
As much as we want it to be water sublimating, water actually does seem to be the best candidate at the moment for the white flecks.
I recall reading/seeing somewhere that Jupiter can pull Mars off axis causing it to buckle over to around 60 degrees before it works itself back to it's 23 degrees.
Space exploration has no benefit for society in general. So there is no point in understanding why we have tides? What about how sunspots generate random levels of radiation that plays havoc with the radio broadcasts and communications that we use? What about looking into the area of space around our humble planet to see if there is an asteroid or comet heading right for us? Don't you think that these three points off the top of my head have some sort of benefit for society in general?
As for the swearing, my point is that if it is used as commonly as in your original thread, it really does water down. I got absolutely nothing against colorful language. My point is if you put in too much color, the whole thing becomes a gaudy mess rather than a well accentuated splash here and there.
Your post is written in very good english, denoting that you have a good level of education. What a striking contrast is made by the content of your post.
You can't just segregate space exploration from the rest of science. Where do you want to end up? A glorious society that lives with the belief that everything revolves around the earth?
Rather than telling people they are fucking twits, why not relax a touch yourself and sip your own medicine? Secondly, I agree that things you raise are important to look at. Global warming, food production and a whole other plethora of things. But where I disagree is to say that someone studying something else shouldn't study it and put all that effort into the area that you like. You want more study on world food reserves? Great, get up off the chair in front of that PC and start making a change!
P.S. Using the word fuck over and over generally makes it lose the emphasizing effect greatly and just makes you look like a snotty nosed kid who can get away with swearing over the internet because mommy and daddy aren't watching.
Much akin to many other types of social evolution such as the fisherman who enjoys reading up on the latest fishing gear, then eventually turns to protester against the new chemical plant that will pollute his favorite fishing spot.
Don't be silly. The people that CAN stop this sort of thing don't WANT to stop this sort of thing as it is not in THEIR interest to stop.
Just as with the majority of the wrongs in the world, the people that can stop them have utterly no benefit from doing so - and normally will in fact lose something if they do.
Can someone look into the Guiness Records book thingy to see if this is the worlds longest "I TOLD YOU SO" comment?
Seriously. Eight Years between comment and I told you so? Wow.
So, you write and distribute a trojan. If the trojan works properly, you get to snoop about the users PCs and find out what you want to know then hose their system. If it doesn't work properly, you can claim violation of your property rights, and then inspect their systems and finally hose them.
Today seems to be a good day for people wanting to cause grief on the net.
Boy, I hope that Google makes a violation claim against Microsoft. Let the battle begin!
My suggestion would be not to back what Microsoft backs on this one.
*cough* Lets offer a HD-DVD addon for the X-Box *cough*
Sony seems to have done pretty damned well actually. *cough* PS3 will have a Blu-Ray DVD in the unit *cough*
Insightful? I was going for funny dammit!
Well, look out captain obvious.
The whole point of this is that the person putting this together might enjoy the experience of putting it together, get satisfaction from a finished product and have a cool novelty way of opening or closing a door.
Do you think that people making transistor radios do it for fun, or because they think that $20 worth of electronic junk from a electronic junk store will give them better sound than a manufactured stereo system?
I rarely go to this level of pointing out a clear case of "swing and miss" with a reply/post - but wow!
Rather it stops the students from learning other better programming languages. Dirty dirty Microsoft tactics!
In short, winning people's support and respect by using the laws more reasonably is a better long term solution. On a more serious note though, winning people's respect is a better long term solution, but this isn't what is happening. By giving away the software at the start, and having someone know your product, you are not gaining respect. You are gaining a person who knows your product. They may have a preference for using it, but I would balk at anyone wanting to hire a programmer who would change their prospective employee to use whatever language they wanted. Rather, a much more likely scenario would be looking for someone who knows what languages/software YOUR company uses and hiring people with the skills that you want. It's a employer's market out there in the IT world.
Also, don't let reason blind your rabid hatred of Microsoft :D
Internet Explorer should be banned.
Thank you for your time.
The frenchies had it right if you ask me, bring back the guillotine, lets start a new revolt against the classes!
Perhaps I am getting too old, but every time I see AoC, I keep thinking that someone typo'ed when they meant to type in DAOC.
My brain happily refuses to acknowledge Age of Conan even though a few of my good mates talk nothing else MMO besides this (and the "good old days" spent playing every MMO going all the way back to Ultima Online)
Perfect example: If you got into crafting early in EverQuest II, you could have been lucky enough to use a lovely little crafting loop where you bought a few items from a NPC, crafted some goods and then sold your crafted goods back to the same vendor for a decent profit level. Outcome: Free easy cash. Subsequently these type of "bugs" are weeded out and follow on players can't benefit from this.
Therefore getting in right at the very very start:
Downside - Game is rather broken and things don't work as well as they should.
Upside - You can turn some of these things to your advantage quite quickly before these problems are fixed.