It's true. Think about it -- Hollywood is your high school drama class, all grown up (figuratively speaking, of course).
Who wants to become famous? Kids who are obsessed with pop culture, and who watch TV, movies, and play video games all night (and sleep all day). Sound familiar?
So why is it surprising when celebrities hook up with people who are probably just like themselves?
I don't think most Apple users give a damn what's inside, as long as Apple continues to provide a slick user interface with no-hassle plug and play. People buy Apple because they have better things to do with their lives than pore over specs and argue about chips.
I'm glad you saw the light. I agree flipping burgers is a waste of your time. The life lessons learned through hard work and interacting with others can be learned anywhere real work is being done. Might as well do the kind of work you want to be doing, or at least heading in that direction.
You can indeed get a foot in the door of some really big stuff by working for free (or cheap). The experience and mentoring you'll get is even more valuable.
In fact this is how the rich kids manage to get so much further ahead in life than the rest of us -- they're the ones who can afford to work for practically nothing on Wall St., in Washington DC, doing PA work on movie sets in LA, etc. -- all the while living in the right neighborhoods in the most expensive cities, and being able to keep up socially, with the constant eating and drinking out with colleagues, not to mention looking the part in the right clothes. It's not so bleak for the rest of us who can't afford it, but at some level the basic idea is the same. Work for the experience, the mentoring, and the connections now, while you can still afford to.
Dare I say it -- have a look at Phillip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. The basic concepts of what makes a good web service were pretty much laid out here. It's all still as relevent as when it was written. This is the important part. The rest is just a technical exercise.
I see. So to corporate america, blogging equates to marketing.
How is this different from anyone else? "Self expression" -- give me a break. I can express myself without doing it to the whole world. There's definately an element of narcissism in blogging -- ie "look at me" -- which is self promotion.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Neither. It just is. I wonder what took them so long to figure it out. The internet as a commercial space has been around for how many years now?
Even if you buy a drink every time, WiFi squatting is often cheaper than broadband at home. Not everyone has to be online constantly, just an hour or two a few days a week.
Plus, it's a pay as you go system, with no monthly bill to worrry about. As long as you can scrounge some change out of the couch for a cup of tea...
...seems to work for most places. Most people's computers only work for 1-2 hours (most batteries aren't in top condition). So unless people bring more than one battery (unlikely for broke WiFi squatters), you can get them to leave by just not providing plugs.
Stupidly, some coffeehouses have plugs all over the place anyway. Often this is left over from a previous restaurant business, where they had a lamp on every table, etc.
So if you want people to limit their stay, just limit the electricity!
Paul Graham's article was great, but from the looks of it he's not preaching to the Slashdot crowd. He's talking to relatively ambitious people who would do well regardless.
I'm sorry to say, but I see little of that on Slashdot. Most of what I see here is a working-for-the-man, postal worker attitude toward life. Actually it's kind of depressing.
Forget the piddly stuff -- the minor everyday patches and rebooting. The big cost with keeping Windows running is that you need to fork out ton$ of money for new versions every few years, and all the costs associated with that. Older versions aren't supported, or even upgradeable in a practical sense.
OTOH, I have a couple of Linux servers that have had nothing but minor patches for almost ten years. They're still going strong, with no shortcomings WRT running the latest software. In this same time period I would have had to buy and reinstall Windows, and reconfigure the entire system, at least 3 times. Even considering my time as free, this is still too damned costly!
Ballmer is a jackass. Unfortunately he's making a good career for himself as a professional jackass, his antics becoming an effective PR tool for Microsoft. The press knows they can count on him to put on a good show, and that people will read his drivel just to see how stupid it is -- lowest common denominator tactics at their best -- Microsoft's trademark.
These numbers also represent the population of the United states as a whole. Yes 30 percent of the US population has been arrested before. more than 20% have a felony on their record and so on.
I call BS on this one. Prove it.
I don't know what the actual numbers are, but I know you're way off. A good friend of mine was a police officer in an anti-gang unit in southern CA. Even within bad neighborhoods the statistics weren't this bad.
...if you're going to fire someone (particularly company geeks who have the motive, means and access to inflict pain on your computer systems) make double sure you cut off their e-mail and network access at the same time you hand them their walking papers.'
It seems to me the real way to address the problem is to do a background check when you hire these people.
I also understand that your redneck stereo-type everybody is the south is stupid has nothing to with these problems.
Obviously not everyone in the South is stupid, but many of the people in charge of county governments have been there forever and are way behind the times. Then there are the developers who pay to keep them in power, and they're often not the sharpest tools in the shed either.
On a different note I have my theory on the reasons urban sprawl exists(safety), do you know the professional consensus?
I'm well aware of the safety argument, but that's outdated thinking too, straight from the 1950s.
The real problem is that people do not understand, believe, or acknowledge how the real costs of laissez-faire development are ultimately shifted to the public sector anyway. Better to plan for this from the beginning, than try to clean up the mess later on. That, my friend, is the professional consensus.
No way, shape, or form supported by Microsoft, since by that point MS was well into the Windows over everything mode.
That was my point! Team OS/2 was a bunch of IBM people operating in an unofficial capacity, because they were frustrated by IBM's dropping the ball with OS/2 because they didn't want to go head to head with Microsoft. To Microsoft's chagrin, Team OS/2 was quite effective -- they pretty much had everyone believing the best way to run Windows 3.1 apps was under OS/2 Warp.
Back in the day, there was "Team OS/2," perhaps the first internet astroturf campaign. It worked a little (at Microsoft's expense) but not enough. I bet Microsoft remembers though!
Talk about stupid. You show yours with your cliche filled statement.
And you show your lack of knowledge about land use and urban planning. Read some books, take some college courses, and travel a little to experience the alternatives.
The southeast is mostly suburbs and country side. Except for the few large cities it simple doesn't make sense. This is why peole don't take trains.
Where people live and work is very scattered, not something a train is good at dealing with, but guess what? A car is.
This is exactly the problem -- suburbs and sprawl.
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It's true. Think about it -- Hollywood is your high school drama class, all grown up (figuratively speaking, of course).
Who wants to become famous? Kids who are obsessed with pop culture, and who watch TV, movies, and play video games all night (and sleep all day). Sound familiar?
So why is it surprising when celebrities hook up with people who are probably just like themselves?
I don't think most Apple users give a damn what's inside, as long as Apple continues to provide a slick user interface with no-hassle plug and play. People buy Apple because they have better things to do with their lives than pore over specs and argue about chips.
...of a lot of things that I work on. I have to sign NDAs stating that I will do so, and that I have done so.
I'm glad you saw the light. I agree flipping burgers is a waste of your time. The life lessons learned through hard work and interacting with others can be learned anywhere real work is being done. Might as well do the kind of work you want to be doing, or at least heading in that direction.
You can indeed get a foot in the door of some really big stuff by working for free (or cheap). The experience and mentoring you'll get is even more valuable.
In fact this is how the rich kids manage to get so much further ahead in life than the rest of us -- they're the ones who can afford to work for practically nothing on Wall St., in Washington DC, doing PA work on movie sets in LA, etc. -- all the while living in the right neighborhoods in the most expensive cities, and being able to keep up socially, with the constant eating and drinking out with colleagues, not to mention looking the part in the right clothes. It's not so bleak for the rest of us who can't afford it, but at some level the basic idea is the same. Work for the experience, the mentoring, and the connections now, while you can still afford to.
Dare I say it -- have a look at Phillip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. The basic concepts of what makes a good web service were pretty much laid out here. It's all still as relevent as when it was written. This is the important part. The rest is just a technical exercise.
I see. So to corporate america, blogging equates to marketing.
How is this different from anyone else? "Self expression" -- give me a break. I can express myself without doing it to the whole world. There's definately an element of narcissism in blogging -- ie "look at me" -- which is self promotion.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Neither. It just is. I wonder what took them so long to figure it out. The internet as a commercial space has been around for how many years now?
[S]ome of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000.'
Oh, BS. This is just another way to justify getting us to pay for a new version of Windows.
Even if you buy a drink every time, WiFi squatting is often cheaper than broadband at home. Not everyone has to be online constantly, just an hour or two a few days a week.
Plus, it's a pay as you go system, with no monthly bill to worrry about. As long as you can scrounge some change out of the couch for a cup of tea...
...seems to work for most places. Most people's computers only work for 1-2 hours (most batteries aren't in top condition). So unless people bring more than one battery (unlikely for broke WiFi squatters), you can get them to leave by just not providing plugs.
Stupidly, some coffeehouses have plugs all over the place anyway. Often this is left over from a previous restaurant business, where they had a lamp on every table, etc.
So if you want people to limit their stay, just limit the electricity!
Paul Graham's article was great, but from the looks of it he's not preaching to the Slashdot crowd. He's talking to relatively ambitious people who would do well regardless.
I'm sorry to say, but I see little of that on Slashdot. Most of what I see here is a working-for-the-man, postal worker attitude toward life. Actually it's kind of depressing.
Third world skills, third world wages. Stay in school, kids, or lose out to kids in India who did.
Forget the piddly stuff -- the minor everyday patches and rebooting. The big cost with keeping Windows running is that you need to fork out ton$ of money for new versions every few years, and all the costs associated with that. Older versions aren't supported, or even upgradeable in a practical sense.
OTOH, I have a couple of Linux servers that have had nothing but minor patches for almost ten years. They're still going strong, with no shortcomings WRT running the latest software. In this same time period I would have had to buy and reinstall Windows, and reconfigure the entire system, at least 3 times. Even considering my time as free, this is still too damned costly!
Ballmer is a jackass. Unfortunately he's making a good career for himself as a professional jackass, his antics becoming an effective PR tool for Microsoft. The press knows they can count on him to put on a good show, and that people will read his drivel just to see how stupid it is -- lowest common denominator tactics at their best -- Microsoft's trademark.
But like our finance gurus like to say - past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
No, but according to this article there's a pretty strong correlation.
These numbers also represent the population of the United states as a whole. Yes 30 percent of the US population has been arrested before. more than 20% have a felony on their record and so on.
I call BS on this one. Prove it.
I don't know what the actual numbers are, but I know you're way off. A good friend of mine was a police officer in an anti-gang unit in southern CA. Even within bad neighborhoods the statistics weren't this bad.
...if you're going to fire someone (particularly company geeks who have the motive, means and access to inflict pain on your computer systems) make double sure you cut off their e-mail and network access at the same time you hand them their walking papers.'
It seems to me the real way to address the problem is to do a background check when you hire these people.
So buy a laptop! I did 5 years ago and I'll never go back.
As a Java developer for the past 7 years, can someone remind me as to how Java will benefit from being open source?
By not giving excuses to rabid, open-source fundamentalist freaks to attack every worthwhile project that uses Java?
Forget HTML -- most people have enough trouble sending well-formatted plain text messages! Again, Outlook Express is at least half the problem.
I also understand that your redneck stereo-type everybody is the south is stupid has nothing to with these problems.
Obviously not everyone in the South is stupid, but many of the people in charge of county governments have been there forever and are way behind the times. Then there are the developers who pay to keep them in power, and they're often not the sharpest tools in the shed either.
On a different note I have my theory on the reasons urban sprawl exists(safety), do you know the professional consensus?
I'm well aware of the safety argument, but that's outdated thinking too, straight from the 1950s.
The real problem is that people do not understand, believe, or acknowledge how the real costs of laissez-faire development are ultimately shifted to the public sector anyway. Better to plan for this from the beginning, than try to clean up the mess later on. That, my friend, is the professional consensus.
Team OS/2 was the OS/2 fan's group...
No way, shape, or form supported by Microsoft, since by that point MS was well into the Windows over everything mode.
That was my point! Team OS/2 was a bunch of IBM people operating in an unofficial capacity, because they were frustrated by IBM's dropping the ball with OS/2 because they didn't want to go head to head with Microsoft. To Microsoft's chagrin, Team OS/2 was quite effective -- they pretty much had everyone believing the best way to run Windows 3.1 apps was under OS/2 Warp.
... are more offended by sex than anything else.
Back in the day, there was "Team OS/2," perhaps the first internet astroturf campaign. It worked a little (at Microsoft's expense) but not enough. I bet Microsoft remembers though!
Talk about stupid. You show yours with your cliche filled statement.
And you show your lack of knowledge about land use and urban planning. Read some books, take some college courses, and travel a little to experience the alternatives.
The southeast is mostly suburbs and country side. Except for the few large cities it simple doesn't make sense. This is why peole don't take trains.
Where people live and work is very scattered, not something a train is good at dealing with, but guess what? A car is.
This is exactly the problem -- suburbs and sprawl.
...and then allow ourselves to be jerked around by the same wack-jobs in our own society.