I have an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters generating all of statements ever made and ever to be made. They will all be assigned the name of the monkey that generated it, so all data of any size will be compressed to a single monkey's name.
Example: Spanky ==>It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
Could somebody please submit this story to Slashdot so it gets mentioned?
No no no...this game system be the greatest advance in gaming technology to date! This hardware be the item everyone be wanting this Christmas! And it be obvious what the X-Box should become...
Anyway, the Jungle is an appropriate comparison, because like your analysis of floppies, they are both misunderstood. Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle as a pro-Communism piece, but the only message that people got was that the slaughterhouses were filthy and needed to be cleaned up. Likewise, you argue that we need to be developing Yet Another Storage Medium without thinking that millions of floppies that might otherwise be headed to a landfill might find a useful purpose once again.
New technology that promotes recycling and a positive effect on ecology. Upton Sinclair would have liked it that way (or at least, the people who read his books would...)
> Whenever I goto talk to my friends about football and the XFL is mentioned I think about XML.
You know, this might be worth looking into. Throw in a few tags like <SCREAM> (148-pt bold yellow font), <L33T>, and <LAMER>, and see what kind of new-age psycho web sites come out of it...
Re:Yes, Let's Keep Perspective...
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If the majority of the world's population wasn't living in shanty-town conditions, we wouldn't see 30,000-100,000 people dead from an earthquake
Wouldn't you agree that a faulty O-ring is a much easier and "fixable" problem than global poverty?
Yes, Let's Keep Perspective...
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The earthquake would have happened no matter what (I believe that reliable earthquake prediction won't happen for about 100 years, and earthquake prevention technology will take at least a thousand years from that point).
The Challenger incident was a totally preventable accident. Without it, we'd have had an international space station with all it's benefits years ago, and would probably be about 10 years away from a manned mission to Mars. Seven individuals were lost, but MORE importantly, space exploration was set back an entire generation, at least.
What's that? Your highly trained, and have a unique skill set? That's what IronWorker Dan thought at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Then one day he looked around, and all his friends were trained as iron workers as well. Now, maybe Dan's company recognizes his true skill and value, or maybe they just see 100 other guys who will do Dan's job for half the price.
That's cause Iron Worker Dan can only Work with Iron. I'm sure I could do Iron Worker Dan's work with a month of training, maybe less.
IT workers, on the other hand, have a diverse range of skills that get more diverse every year. Not just any Joe can do that. IT workers are hired not only for what they can do, but for what else they can learn to do.
If any one skill set becomes less in demand, an IT worker can quickly jump to another. I think it is highly unlikely that everything related to IT will become more supplied than demanded in my lifetime, as the world becomes more and more inaccessable to those without basic computer skills.
From what I have seen, unless you have a personal contact of somesort that can get you into a startup over there (a startup of english speaking people) solid japanese verbal and written skills seem like a must. Atleast to warrent the job that will pay the salery I am looking for to work over there. (Being subject to the US tax as well as the Japanese taxes).
That's if you want to do it the direct way. If you want to give up a year or two of your life to low pay and partying, you come to Japan as an Engilsh teacher. Then start your networking, and eventually you find a company that's willing to hire you for what you really want to do.
BTW, you can make up to $78,000 in a foreign country without being subject to US taxes, so you should be alright for at least a couple years.
You passed JLPT level 1? I've lived in Japan 4 years, and it took all the effort I could muster just to pass level 2 last year. My Japanese wife says many Japanese adults would have a hard time passing level 1! And where am I gonna find the time to study all these kanji??
I've lived in Japan for four years. My first two years were working for a traditional Japanese company. In a Japanese company, compared to what you are used to in America, you will have a lower salary, especially if you are young. The ways of lifetime employment and seniority-based employment are taking a licking, but are still alive and well. On the plus side, everyone is paid for overtime, and I've seen more than my share of Japanese salarymen taking advantage of this by staying until 9 or 10 every night just talking, drinking beer, playing Solitare, and getting paid time and a half for it. But as the token gaijin, many of the rules don't apply to you. You can come in at 10:30, dress up in t-shirt and jeans, and few people will have the guts to complain because you're...well...different.
These last two years have been spent working for American companies. My salary is probably higher than the industry average. And because I can speak Japanese an English, I have more opportunities made available to me, and I'm sure I have risen higher up the corporate ladder than I would have had I been working at the US HQ.
As for contractors, the ones that I've known who can speak both their native language and the language of the country that they're working in can charge an arm and a leg. But unless you are married to a Japanese and have a spouse visa, you won't be able to take advantage of this, since you can't get a work visa in Japan without having a company in Japan to sponsor you.
In any case, you should earn enough to live on no matter what you do. It's up to you to decide which style fits you best. For me, it is obviously the American company, but I know others who are perfectly happy working in (abusing?) the Japanese environment.
I live in Japan, and I assure that, at least as of 1999, child porn is illegal. All actresses have to be at least 18 years of age. Furthermore, an adult who has sex with a woman under a certain age (either 17 or 18, I forget which) is guilty of statutory rape, although this is another rule that only recently came into affect (to combat all the enjo kosai cases of old men paying money to high school girls so they can buy more designer bags)
The point is, five years ago Japan was still one of the most backward countries in the world in terms of cracking down on child porn, but even they are finally starting to realize that it is wrong.
Now "virtual porn" is another story. If someone who gets off on kiddie porn gets his kicks out of his system this way rather than by abducting some kid, then I have no complaints about that. Anyone who goes from kiddie porn comics to moving on to a real child has other problems far above a simple fetish.
Suppose you're a site that's selling something.
No, nothing geekish. Things like pet food, frying
pans, tuna sandwiches, etc. Who do you think is a prime target for these things, the techie
FreeBSD hacker? Or the clueless Windows 98 newbie who thinks that MAKE MONEY FAST is a good idea?
Most sites want stupid customers. They
question the least, and are most amused by many
of the gee-whiz effects that only IE supports.
You think they're going to go out of their way to
support the minority market that's probably more
likely to flame them than to buy something?
"You can never go wrong appealing to the lowest common denominator." - Lisa Simpson
How can a slashdot user with a number like #532 be so clueless?
The other guy was agreeing with you! He was using sarcasm to make a point!
It doesn't matter what degree you get
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I graduated with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Michigan. Figured out midway through that I was more of a software than a hardware person (translation: only a heavy-duty HP calculator got me through my calculus classes), but CE still exposed me to a lot of things that interested me, so I fought through and got the CE degree. That decision never hindered my software career, and so much has advanced since then that any additional software specific stuff I might have learned is now almost totally irrelevant (Hypercard anyone?)
A CS degree may sound a little more prestigious to the first company that hires you, but I think that CE, CS, and CIS all would give you enough of the fundamentals to enable you to grow and take on anything in the software world. The real training begins, not ends with graduation.
10 x 20 = 200. But since a Tetris piece is either there or not ("on" or "off") you could easily render that in 200 bits, which would fit into just 25 bytes.
I'd say he's probably just not an auction type of guy, and is doing this for the first time. I mean, how often can anybody do a huge auction the likes of this?
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, the load time would be brutal, but I bet a lot of people would kill to have a .eros domain name...
Example: Spanky ==>It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
Could somebody please submit this story to Slashdot so it gets mentioned?
Horny engineers try harder when they're doing something even remotely related to sex, such as landing on Eros.
Why is this column called Slashback anyway? Wouldn't "Backslash" or "Backslashdot" be a bit more appropriate?
Presenting...the B-Box!
(am I a marketing genius or what?)
I vote for "XXX-Box"
Anyway, the Jungle is an appropriate comparison, because like your analysis of floppies, they are both misunderstood. Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle as a pro-Communism piece, but the only message that people got was that the slaughterhouses were filthy and needed to be cleaned up. Likewise, you argue that we need to be developing Yet Another Storage Medium without thinking that millions of floppies that might otherwise be headed to a landfill might find a useful purpose once again.
New technology that promotes recycling and a positive effect on ecology. Upton Sinclair would have liked it that way (or at least, the people who read his books would...)
...but if they could do the same thing for the 5 1/4 inch floppies, I'd be able to fit my entire Commodore 64 collection on a single disk!
You know, this might be worth looking into. Throw in a few tags like <SCREAM> (148-pt bold yellow font), <L33T>, and <LAMER>, and see what kind of new-age psycho web sites come out of it...
Are all Linux zealots as clueless as you?
Wouldn't you agree that a faulty O-ring is a much easier and "fixable" problem than global poverty?
The Challenger incident was a totally preventable accident. Without it, we'd have had an international space station with all it's benefits years ago, and would probably be about 10 years away from a manned mission to Mars. Seven individuals were lost, but MORE importantly, space exploration was set back an entire generation, at least.
That's cause Iron Worker Dan can only Work with Iron. I'm sure I could do Iron Worker Dan's work with a month of training, maybe less.
IT workers, on the other hand, have a diverse range of skills that get more diverse every year. Not just any Joe can do that. IT workers are hired not only for what they can do, but for what else they can learn to do.
If any one skill set becomes less in demand, an IT worker can quickly jump to another. I think it is highly unlikely that everything related to IT will become more supplied than demanded in my lifetime, as the world becomes more and more inaccessable to those without basic computer skills.
It also has the most advanced otaku culture and the greatest geek toys in the world. The sushi is cheaper, too.
That's if you want to do it the direct way. If you want to give up a year or two of your life to low pay and partying, you come to Japan as an Engilsh teacher. Then start your networking, and eventually you find a company that's willing to hire you for what you really want to do. BTW, you can make up to $78,000 in a foreign country without being subject to US taxes, so you should be alright for at least a couple years.
You passed JLPT level 1? I've lived in Japan 4 years, and it took all the effort I could muster just to pass level 2 last year. My Japanese wife says many Japanese adults would have a hard time passing level 1! And where am I gonna find the time to study all these kanji??
These last two years have been spent working for American companies. My salary is probably higher than the industry average. And because I can speak Japanese an English, I have more opportunities made available to me, and I'm sure I have risen higher up the corporate ladder than I would have had I been working at the US HQ.
As for contractors, the ones that I've known who can speak both their native language and the language of the country that they're working in can charge an arm and a leg. But unless you are married to a Japanese and have a spouse visa, you won't be able to take advantage of this, since you can't get a work visa in Japan without having a company in Japan to sponsor you.
In any case, you should earn enough to live on no matter what you do. It's up to you to decide which style fits you best. For me, it is obviously the American company, but I know others who are perfectly happy working in (abusing?) the Japanese environment.
There is a Maglex train in Japan, but it's confined to a 20 mile test track in the boonies. I don't think a "normal" person can ride it.
Where do you get this misinformation from??
I live in Japan, and I assure that, at least as of 1999, child porn is illegal. All actresses have to be at least 18 years of age. Furthermore, an adult who has sex with a woman under a certain age (either 17 or 18, I forget which) is guilty of statutory rape, although this is another rule that only recently came into affect (to combat all the enjo kosai cases of old men paying money to high school girls so they can buy more designer bags)
The point is, five years ago Japan was still one of the most backward countries in the world in terms of cracking down on child porn, but even they are finally starting to realize that it is wrong.
Now "virtual porn" is another story. If someone who gets off on kiddie porn gets his kicks out of his system this way rather than by abducting some kid, then I have no complaints about that. Anyone who goes from kiddie porn comics to moving on to a real child has other problems far above a simple fetish.
Most sites want stupid customers. They question the least, and are most amused by many of the gee-whiz effects that only IE supports. You think they're going to go out of their way to support the minority market that's probably more likely to flame them than to buy something?
"You can never go wrong appealing to the lowest common denominator." - Lisa Simpson
I created a doodle add on for my laptop in about 10 minutes!
The other guy was agreeing with you! He was using sarcasm to make a point!
A CS degree may sound a little more prestigious to the first company that hires you, but I think that CE, CS, and CIS all would give you enough of the fundamentals to enable you to grow and take on anything in the software world. The real training begins, not ends with graduation.
10 x 20 = 200. But since a Tetris piece is either there or not ("on" or "off") you could easily render that in 200 bits, which would fit into just 25 bytes.
I'd say he's probably just not an auction type of guy, and is doing this for the first time. I mean, how often can anybody do a huge auction the likes of this?