Just as a comparison, I'm a hardcore gamer, I love doing it, I don't get to do it all day at work, but I still get burnt out on gaming. Different strokes for different folks. And if my doctor walked in wearing a ThinkGeek slogan, I'd be impressed, my doctor is over 50 and I don't think he's ever even looked at the screen of his secretary's machine. A computer illiterate "professional" of ANY line of work destroys my confidence.
My old doctor, before I moved, was very computer literate. You may get burnt-out of gaming temporarily, but I doubt that one day you will just fade away and not be able to game anymore. Coding is like that for the true coders of the world. I say this with much chagrin, because coding is something one does because of the personality they are. If you get burnt out doing it, you aren't supposed to be programming.
Certain behaviors are necessary for social standards. Whether you agree with them or not, wearing a stupid t-shirt instead of professional attire isn't going to change it, it will make you look like a chimp. Unless you are rich, then you can be like Hugh Heffner.
T1=1.5Mbps, $350/1.5 = $233 per Mbps, while he was quoting $75/Mbps-$200Mbps!
Yeah, I really botched writing it. T1s are not commonly used anymore because they are too expensive. DSL prices (redundant DSL lines or sDSL) are much more effective for businesses. When latency isn't an issue, even Satellite is cheaper for what you get.
My point was that T1s aren't what are being used anymore, so bandwidth isn't that expensive. I completely missed writing that.
Calling someone as clueless as they come, when you don't even understand how bandwidth is priced, is pretty damn silly.
Wha? I pay $150 for a quarter rack of space, and $200 per 256kbits/sec ($700 for a full T1) of pipe. Granted, there is a premium b/c it is at a hosting facility on eight different backbones with garunteed 100% uptime (where they define 'up' as less than 100% packet loss, but in reality it is always up).
I'm talking about T1s to a location, not in a datacenter. I'm not sure what you mean though, if you are at a datacenter you should be riding on their pipes to the backbones, and a T1 should never be mentioned. I pay $200/mo for a leased server at 10MBs at Rackspace, and will probably switch to a better deal soon.
Are you saying I got a raw deal? The premium name-brand folks wanted $800+ for the same thing (asking price, of course, not what they would really settle for).
The best prices you can get if you are just looking for coloc space is to find a datacenter and use them directly. HE.net is a great one, and is fairly reasonable in what you can get, if buying in larger quantities.
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make here. A T1 is 1.5 mpbs. The article and the post you're replying to are talking about 100 mpbs. $350 * 100 mpbs / 1.5 mpbs = $23k/month, which is significantly more than the $7500/month that was quoted in the post you're replying to.
Sorry, I should have clarified this. T1s are largely archaic/obsolete technologies for doing data transfers and are primarily used for doing voice calls (24 channels.) What he did say was off base, in that he was going off of T1 pricing. This is why I put it in comparison with leasing from a datacenter that uses OC48s and modern communication. I apologize for the confusion, I re-read it and my point was very muttled.
This is where I realize that this post is a troll, and feel silly responding to it...
If you feel it's a troll, than you are also sorely outdated.
Here is the first site that came up searching "300GB bandwidth" on Google, and it's at $99 a month. https://secure.burst.net/orders/nocster/1. shtml
Now I will accept your apology for calling me a troll. I'm trying to educate a mass of idiots who think that bandwidth is still in some mythical shortage. And yes, that was trollish, I'm aware.
You honestly think that $39.95/month 'pays' for a 100mbps Internet feed? The current going rate for el cheapo national ISPs is about $75/meg in 100 meg chunks so you are talking about $7500/month. Decent backbones (i.e. WCOM, Sprint, ATT...) charge $200+/meg/month.
You are officially outdated here. This is not 1992. Bandwidth is plentiful, and cheap. The pipes are bigger, maintenance costs are the same. I have personally priced out getting my own trunk and I can gaurantee you that it isn't that much through Sprint. Try about $350 for a dedicated T1 (not counting telco charges) with no bandwidth cap. In case you failed to noticed, backbones transfer huge amounts of data, and are no where near capacity.
I can get 300GB of bandwidth at a datacenter for $100/mo.
Now, assuming the fiber to the home is similar to Ashland, Oregons product it's a large ethernet network over the city. It has several ISPs that relay the traffic to the fiber backbone.
Get real people, the Internet is EXPENSIVE to operate and maintain. throw all the spammers in jail and the price would drop some I'm sure.
Wow. Could you please just disconnect yourself, now. You are about as clueless as they come. You are the same type of people who were ranting about the Skyline being brought to the US market and costing over $60K because that's what it costs to buy one in Japan, ship it over, switch the steering wheel to the left side, pay taxes on it, and perform the rest of the street legal modifications.
Actually, I'm the guy that you agreed with 2 posts ago. But anyway.
I wasn't directly disagreeing with you in my previous post, just saying I think that a lot of CS/IT people need to grow up, in general:)
Software is not a matter of life and death. I wouldn't want my doctor to wear a ThinkGeek shirt, but I wouldn't mind if my manager did, if he's a good manager.
Neither are most doctors. Your average family doctor rarely sees something that can count as a life threatening point.
I'm a programmer, and I don't like it. I'd rather be doing about 10 other things, but I need the money. Burnout is not a cop-out at all, there are real work environments beyond the ones that involve sitting on your ass and being someone's corporate cocksucker or bitch.
Burn-out is a sign of immaturity, in my opinion. If you are mature, professional, and good being the corporate cocksucker is something that will never happen. I can count the times I've been a bitch on one finger, and that was because I had zero professional development experience.
I can think of other jobs I'd rather do for a while, but as a profession I'd only choose software in some manner. Whether it's managing or developing, I'm happy. I like creating things.
If you are working in a place that you don't count as a real work environment, I would suggest finding a new job. Office Space is supposed to be a joke;)
I never said that Bush was bad. He seems to understand only one thing, and that is aggression. The economy is in shambles and its only getting worse. There are a lot of issues on the table right now, but only Iraq is getting looked at. Before that all attention was on terrorism and before that (within the first week of his being in office) it was drugs. He just hasn't proven himself a worthy leader. Memorable? Yes. Patriotic? To an extreme. Worthy? Far from it.
I don't think you are giving them nearly as much credit as they deserve. They are doing quite a few things to help the economy. One thing that doesn't help an economy is investor uncertainty. The Iraq situation is a huge What If that is looming over the heads of everybody. What if Iraq manages to setup of a chemical weapon in the US? The economy gets even worse...
They are trying out different budget plans, but the best thing to do is just ride it out and let the entrepeneurs pick up the economy again. This isn't the first time the economy has slumped. Each time the entrepeneurs have picked it back up to a point of steady growth, then there is typically a surge. (Economics I enjoy talking about:)) There have been 55,000 failed car companies since the Model T Ford, booms and busts happen and are a natural cycle of capitalistic societies. Checks and balances, just like what happens with food in animal herds.
Personally, I think Powell may be one of the last people I'd have as any sort of advisor on this matter, but I guess its all a matter of opinion.
Powell has an excellent running history for his military strategy.
Sorry for bringing you into this discussion (since you hate it and all), but an exchange in ideas is occasionally a good thing. You are remarkably pleasant to talk to.
Software might be fun (before the inevitable burnout and shift to some sort of career that humans should do) but fun and professional are not mutually exclusive
Inveitable burnout is a cop-out for kids who don't like having a real job and dealing with the social dynamics of a professional work environment.
I'm a hardcore programmer, and I do it for fun, but I also do many other things that are just as fun. By looking at me, you'd think I was (*shudder*) a laywer, or in some sort of business oriented profession.
Fun and professional are not mutually exclusive, but being immature and wearing a wookie shirt while calling yourself Nugle is. When I meet people I don't say, "Hi, I'm Xerithane and I can code mad l33t and recite star wars backwards."
When you step into the real world, certain things are expected. Like, you know, adult behavior. Continuing to wear t-shirts and watch kids shows (Yes, Star Wars is a kids show) and discussing it like a religion do not reflect kindly on your mental state.
I have a great time at my job, and I doubt I'll ever get burned out doing software development. Maybe professionally, yes, but that's because I find myself having an urge to go into project management just to increase my God-complex even more. If your doctor walked in wearing a shirt that was the equivalent of a ThinkGeek slogan, how confident would you feel?
Granted, but then you fall into a catch-22. American says it must stop Iraq because it was given that responsibilty by the UN, but the UN so far has been against invading Iraq. You can't use the former without accepting the latter.
The UN voted 15-0 with no absentees on UN Resolution 1441, which calls for military-enforced regime change if Saddam fails to comply. The opposition is the timeline when that regime change will happen, and whether Saddam is complying. From the resolution itself, those who are opposing it are contradicting what they originally voted for.
Damn straight they do. But attacking Iraq won't stop any of it (going back to my original post).
Iraq does sell chemical weapons to known terrorist groups, though. This is what must stop, whether you are for war or against. Iraq must not have any weapons of mass destruction, because they cannot be trusted to use those responsibly. This is why I support the war, and wish we'd hurry up and get it over with. I don't want to have to wake up one morning and realize half of a city is dead because someone setup of a chemical weapon.
Hell, I'm not even against this war on Iraq. I was just correcting some points by that previous poster. My stance is basically; USA shouldn't go it alone. They should wait for the UN to acknowledge the problem and decide what to do then. The UN should get off there asses and wake up. Things need to change in every respect. And just so you know I'm a "liberal" Canadian that thinks Bush is way out of his league, but your not going to see me cheering on any other side than that of America's in this war.
Bush isn't bad, just a Texan. I'm not going to blame Bush for wanting to get it over with. It's something that is wasting the US governments time, and the rest of the world. It has the potential to hurt a lot of people, if Iraq isn't "reformed."
The countries opposing the war know they have no grounds to say No to war, but they are stalling because they think Saddam is actually going to change. Or it's like the French who are selling weapons to Iraq.
I don't think Bush is out of his league, because he does have a competent military advisory board. Mr. Powell is more than able to advise and manage the Iraqi conflict. I believe Bush is doing a good job pushing the UN for a final decision, and if you'll notice Bush isn't doing it alone.
He's saying, "Make up your minds, or we'll do it for you." He's giving the UN a timeline in which they must decide, because according to UN Resolution 1441, they already did decide.
Ironically, I hate talking about politics, and this is the first time I've entered into one of these threads...
When people realize this, laptop speeds will go down to usable levels (1GHz will play DivX movies fine, and that's probably the most intensive thing you could possibly do well on a laptop). Until then, expect those laptops to continue tacking on more battery burning "features."
Well, what about people who do realize this. They realize that is what PDAs are for and such, and for a laptop they do want a powerhouse. I want a laptop that can run my entire development environment, quick compiles, while listening to mp3s and when I'm finished, reboot into windows and play some warcraft 3.
Remember, not everybody feels the same way as you. This is why their is market diversity.
Iraq has nothing to do with the terrorists. The same group that flies planes into buildings and blows up clubs in Bali dislike Iraq just as much.
This is not quite correct. While they do not have an Al Queda connection, Iraq does have other terrorist factions they support and whom support Iraq.
As for the weapons, that is the U.N.'s concern, not America. Its bad enough that it was Reagan who sold a majority of those weapons to Iraq.
It is actually Americas obligation, dating back pre-gulf war to enforce the UN resolutions on Iraq. This has been going on for over a decade now, and I think America is mostly just fed up with having to keep this Iraq situation in their minds and want to end it now.
If you had to babysit someone for 10 years, who constantly was doing things they weren't supposed to, wouldn't you want to punish them too?
The genocide is also a foolish comment, considering that type of thing hasn't occured since the last time USA was over there in 1991.
Genocide is, but there has been combat. In 1996 against Kurdish forces, for instance. Of course 26,000 Iraqi soldiers defected and fought for the opposition...
And just so you know the "SUVs funding terrorism" has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with Saudi Arabia. The majority of terrorist who are an actual threat to the god ol' USA are middle-class to wealthy Saudies who are mad at America for a number of reasons, starting with the American assistance to keep the monarchy in power instead of a democratic government.
Terrorism costs money, the people supporting it are not necessarily the oil tychoons of Saudi, but they feed off of those oil tychoons.
You should read back on Twirlip of the Mists journal, if you can stomache his warmongering. If you look at the facts he presents, it shows there is a lot more to the Iraq conflict than just oil.
First of all, the asteroid probably didn't contriubute a substantial amount of material to the Earth. While I'm no physicist, a crater that size could be made by an object roughly the size of the Empire State Building or the Pentagon (or/.'s favorite metric measure: the LOC). In the large scale of things, this adds up to nothing. Correct me if i'm wrong.
It may have contributed some important elements, as well as providing climactic changes so that different organic material (like ferns, for instance, which took over after the impact) takes over. The estimate for the size of the meteor is ~6miles.
Finally, I don't believe this helped the mammals very much. It's arguable that mammals didn't emerge until after the impact (think of it, a 50 foot reptile is more likely to survive ANYTHING than a badger.) In addition, the smaller reptiles and fish are argued to be some of the only remaining life left.
This is intuitively incorrect. Most of the dinosaurs did not die out at the same time, as a cause of the asteroid. It happened when food supplies diminished and climates changed. A 50 foot reptile, that just had it's food supply (whether it be carnivore or omnivore) take a huge dip is going to be hard pressed to survive. In the mean time, a badger eats much less and can also scavange for all the dead meat laying around. Omnivores will thrive, because of the increase of vegetation after the initial shroud. There are many studies that show in the million years after the impact, vegetation thrived globally (especially ferns, which is just weird to me.)
As a little bit of trivia, the "scientist" (or greedy tax accountant killed in the French Revolution) who came up with the conservation of mass principle asked a simple question: Does slow burning a piece of metal, to cause rust and oxidization of the metal increase weight, keep the weight the same, or decrease weight? He found it increased in weight, after building a cool little mass conservation box, but the air weighed less.
It really is a shame he got his head chopped off, because he was a dedicated scientist and very meticulous in his work.
To be honest, I had to search google to find how exactly the "hippie" phrase is spelled because I usually think in spanish. Names, phrases, a lot changes between languages and writing jokes in other languages is sometimes hard.
I'll agree. This is why I explicitely put in "Standardizing English" in the quote. I was just secretly hoping you spoke Spanish natively, and weren't just an idiot American.
But I agree that is bad enough that all must talk one language here to add another language to understand to be capable to read slashdot properly.
I'm still pissed off that you can't put in Japanese characters in here. They are standard unicode, and if it's my journal, why can't I write in Japanese?
The Spanish word for subtle is sutil. Spanish and English seem to have a lot of words where a word in one language just looks like a misspelled word in the other.
Now, if he was speaking in Spanish it would be different and I wouldn't correct. Seeing as it was an English post, the spelling is 'subtle' not 'sutil'.
Therefore I propose a settlement: I'll admit you are right (and obviously have a superior intellect), if you'll agree that my message (poorly constructed, considering its audience) has perhaps a meager amount of insight... assuming we, for this argument, take away the word "domain".
Good enough, removing the word domain from the original statement makes your statement very correct.
The definition of the public domain, regardless of whether referring to software, patents or books, is as I've described -- and is a common legally used definition
The legal definition of Public Domain Software, or Software released into the Public Domain explicitely states it is not encumbered by patents or copyrights. Freeware applications fall under Mostly Public Domain.
You said, "Windows 95 was released into the public domain." By stating something is released into the public domain, especially software, you are explicitely stating that it's release satisfies the definition for software in the public domain. This is completely and totally incorrect.
Soon as you admit that you are wrong in your statement, and what you said is not what you intended to mean, I'll give you respect you seem to think you deserve.
It breaks down like this. You get default civil responses and respect until you say something stupid. You say something stupid, it's gone, I'm not going to be nice to you because you have not proven yourself to not be stupid. By admitting you were wrong, you show yourself to not be so stupid and be able to admit fallibility. By arguing that under obscure trade definitions of public domain, you were correct, you look like a total jack ass.
Follow me? Good. Admit you were wrong, and I will not think your brain mass is better suited for science, as in it's current state it is wasting resources.
Until then, fuck you and your civil responses.
If you don't like being told you are wrong and stupid, don't post on Slashdot.
I would expect people would be able to make a point without resorting to insults and flames.
I don't insult you, I label you. You are an idiot, and I find nothing insulting about saying it. If a wall is white, and I say it is white, it's not insulting. Because you take offense in what you are, it is of no concern to me.
"Information that is published and which is generally accessible or available to the public" Definition [ncsu.edu]
Ok, if you are talking about Import/Export controls than I will say that you are correct in your understanding of Public Domain. Unfortunately, your definition is only applicable for import and export of goods. Discussing anything else, especially Intellectual Property and Copyrights, your definition is completely wrong.
Repeat after me, "Mr. Sane is wrong." "Public Domain, in the context of the discussion, which is Intellectual Property; of relation to the sales and licensing of Windows 95, is defined as something free for use without any attachments of copyrights or patents." See also, encumbrance and a vast array of other definitions that you would do well to learn.
On a side note, I love it when people post websites trying to justify their incorrectness without reading the entire page and understanding the scope of what they are trying to prove.
I know a person who owns his own company and writes code on a for-hire basis. He puts in timed expiration code such that if they don't pay him within 30 days of delivery, his code de-activates.
My favorite practice is the license keyset approach. After a period of time the code will self-encrypt itself using 2048-bit Blowfish or something, then exit out. You have to have the keyset to decrypt it back out. If they don't pay up, they never get the keyset.
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Just as a comparison, I'm a hardcore gamer, I love doing it, I don't get to do it all day at work, but I still get burnt out on gaming. Different strokes for different folks. And if my doctor walked in wearing a ThinkGeek slogan, I'd be impressed, my doctor is over 50 and I don't think he's ever even looked at the screen of his secretary's machine. A computer illiterate "professional" of ANY line of work destroys my confidence.
My old doctor, before I moved, was very computer literate. You may get burnt-out of gaming temporarily, but I doubt that one day you will just fade away and not be able to game anymore. Coding is like that for the true coders of the world. I say this with much chagrin, because coding is something one does because of the personality they are. If you get burnt out doing it, you aren't supposed to be programming.
Certain behaviors are necessary for social standards. Whether you agree with them or not, wearing a stupid t-shirt instead of professional attire isn't going to change it, it will make you look like a chimp. Unless you are rich, then you can be like Hugh Heffner.
T1=1.5Mbps, $350/1.5 = $233 per Mbps, while he was quoting $75/Mbps-$200Mbps!
Yeah, I really botched writing it. T1s are not commonly used anymore because they are too expensive. DSL prices (redundant DSL lines or sDSL) are much more effective for businesses. When latency isn't an issue, even Satellite is cheaper for what you get.
My point was that T1s aren't what are being used anymore, so bandwidth isn't that expensive. I completely missed writing that.
Calling someone as clueless as they come, when you don't even understand how bandwidth is priced, is pretty damn silly.
No... I'm just illiterate.
Wha? I pay $150 for a quarter rack of space, and $200 per 256kbits/sec ($700 for a full T1) of pipe.
Granted, there is a premium b/c it is at a hosting facility on eight different backbones with garunteed 100% uptime (where they define 'up' as less than 100% packet loss, but in reality it is always up).
I'm talking about T1s to a location, not in a datacenter. I'm not sure what you mean though, if you are at a datacenter you should be riding on their pipes to the backbones, and a T1 should never be mentioned. I pay $200/mo for a leased server at 10MBs at Rackspace, and will probably switch to a better deal soon.
Are you saying I got a raw deal? The premium name-brand folks wanted $800+ for the same thing (asking price, of course, not what they would really settle for).
The best prices you can get if you are just looking for coloc space is to find a datacenter and use them directly. HE.net is a great one, and is fairly reasonable in what you can get, if buying in larger quantities.
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make here. A T1 is 1.5 mpbs. The article and the post you're replying to are talking about 100 mpbs. $350 * 100 mpbs / 1.5 mpbs = $23k/month, which is significantly more than the $7500/month that was quoted in the post you're replying to.
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Sorry, I should have clarified this. T1s are largely archaic/obsolete technologies for doing data transfers and are primarily used for doing voice calls (24 channels.) What he did say was off base, in that he was going off of T1 pricing. This is why I put it in comparison with leasing from a datacenter that uses OC48s and modern communication. I apologize for the confusion, I re-read it and my point was very muttled.
This is where I realize that this post is a troll, and feel silly responding to it...
If you feel it's a troll, than you are also sorely outdated.
Here is the first site that came up searching "300GB bandwidth" on Google, and it's at $99 a month.
https://secure.burst.net/orders/nocster/1
Now I will accept your apology for calling me a troll. I'm trying to educate a mass of idiots who think that bandwidth is still in some mythical shortage. And yes, that was trollish, I'm aware.
You honestly think that $39.95/month 'pays' for a 100mbps Internet feed? The current going rate for el cheapo national ISPs is about $75/meg in 100 meg chunks so you are talking about $7500/month. Decent backbones (i.e. WCOM, Sprint, ATT ...) charge $200+/meg/month.
You are officially outdated here. This is not 1992. Bandwidth is plentiful, and cheap. The pipes are bigger, maintenance costs are the same. I have personally priced out getting my own trunk and I can gaurantee you that it isn't that much through Sprint. Try about $350 for a dedicated T1 (not counting telco charges) with no bandwidth cap. In case you failed to noticed, backbones transfer huge amounts of data, and are no where near capacity.
I can get 300GB of bandwidth at a datacenter for $100/mo.
Now, assuming the fiber to the home is similar to Ashland, Oregons product it's a large ethernet network over the city. It has several ISPs that relay the traffic to the fiber backbone.
Get real people, the Internet is EXPENSIVE to operate and maintain. throw all the spammers in jail and the price would drop some I'm sure.
Wow. Could you please just disconnect yourself, now. You are about as clueless as they come. You are the same type of people who were ranting about the Skyline being brought to the US market and costing over $60K because that's what it costs to buy one in Japan, ship it over, switch the steering wheel to the left side, pay taxes on it, and perform the rest of the street legal modifications.
Actually, I'm the guy that you agreed with 2 posts ago. But anyway.
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I wasn't directly disagreeing with you in my previous post, just saying I think that a lot of CS/IT people need to grow up, in general
Software is not a matter of life and death. I wouldn't want my doctor to wear a ThinkGeek shirt, but I wouldn't mind if my manager did, if he's a good manager.
Neither are most doctors. Your average family doctor rarely sees something that can count as a life threatening point.
I'm a programmer, and I don't like it. I'd rather be doing about 10 other things, but I need the money. Burnout is not a cop-out at all, there are real work environments beyond the ones that involve sitting on your ass and being someone's corporate cocksucker or bitch.
Burn-out is a sign of immaturity, in my opinion. If you are mature, professional, and good being the corporate cocksucker is something that will never happen. I can count the times I've been a bitch on one finger, and that was because I had zero professional development experience.
I can think of other jobs I'd rather do for a while, but as a profession I'd only choose software in some manner. Whether it's managing or developing, I'm happy. I like creating things.
If you are working in a place that you don't count as a real work environment, I would suggest finding a new job. Office Space is supposed to be a joke
I never said that Bush was bad. He seems to understand only one thing, and that is aggression. The economy is in shambles and its only getting worse. There are a lot of issues on the table right now, but only Iraq is getting looked at. Before that all attention was on terrorism and before that (within the first week of his being in office) it was drugs. He just hasn't proven himself a worthy leader. Memorable? Yes. Patriotic? To an extreme. Worthy? Far from it.
:)) There have been 55,000 failed car companies since the Model T Ford, booms and busts happen and are a natural cycle of capitalistic societies. Checks and balances, just like what happens with food in animal herds.
I don't think you are giving them nearly as much credit as they deserve. They are doing quite a few things to help the economy. One thing that doesn't help an economy is investor uncertainty. The Iraq situation is a huge What If that is looming over the heads of everybody. What if Iraq manages to setup of a chemical weapon in the US? The economy gets even worse...
They are trying out different budget plans, but the best thing to do is just ride it out and let the entrepeneurs pick up the economy again. This isn't the first time the economy has slumped. Each time the entrepeneurs have picked it back up to a point of steady growth, then there is typically a surge. (Economics I enjoy talking about
Personally, I think Powell may be one of the last people I'd have as any sort of advisor on this matter, but I guess its all a matter of opinion.
Powell has an excellent running history for his military strategy.
Sorry for bringing you into this discussion (since you hate it and all), but an exchange in ideas is occasionally a good thing.
You are remarkably pleasant to talk to.
Software might be fun (before the inevitable burnout and shift to some sort of career that humans should do) but fun and professional are not mutually exclusive
Inveitable burnout is a cop-out for kids who don't like having a real job and dealing with the social dynamics of a professional work environment.
I'm a hardcore programmer, and I do it for fun, but I also do many other things that are just as fun. By looking at me, you'd think I was (*shudder*) a laywer, or in some sort of business oriented profession.
Fun and professional are not mutually exclusive, but being immature and wearing a wookie shirt while calling yourself Nugle is. When I meet people I don't say, "Hi, I'm Xerithane and I can code mad l33t and recite star wars backwards."
When you step into the real world, certain things are expected. Like, you know, adult behavior. Continuing to wear t-shirts and watch kids shows (Yes, Star Wars is a kids show) and discussing it like a religion do not reflect kindly on your mental state.
I have a great time at my job, and I doubt I'll ever get burned out doing software development. Maybe professionally, yes, but that's because I find myself having an urge to go into project management just to increase my God-complex even more. If your doctor walked in wearing a shirt that was the equivalent of a ThinkGeek slogan, how confident would you feel?
You should turn comments on in your Journal, makes journals a bit more fun :)
Granted, but then you fall into a catch-22. American says it must stop Iraq because it was given that responsibilty by the UN, but the UN so far has been against invading Iraq. You can't use the former without accepting the latter.
The UN voted 15-0 with no absentees on UN Resolution 1441, which calls for military-enforced regime change if Saddam fails to comply. The opposition is the timeline when that regime change will happen, and whether Saddam is complying. From the resolution itself, those who are opposing it are contradicting what they originally voted for.
Damn straight they do. But attacking Iraq won't stop any of it (going back to my original post).
Iraq does sell chemical weapons to known terrorist groups, though. This is what must stop, whether you are for war or against. Iraq must not have any weapons of mass destruction, because they cannot be trusted to use those responsibly. This is why I support the war, and wish we'd hurry up and get it over with. I don't want to have to wake up one morning and realize half of a city is dead because someone setup of a chemical weapon.
Hell, I'm not even against this war on Iraq. I was just correcting some points by that previous poster. My stance is basically; USA shouldn't go it alone. They should wait for the UN to acknowledge the problem and decide what to do then. The UN should get off there asses and wake up. Things need to change in every respect. And just so you know I'm a "liberal" Canadian that thinks Bush is way out of his league, but your not going to see me cheering on any other side than that of America's in this war.
Bush isn't bad, just a Texan. I'm not going to blame Bush for wanting to get it over with. It's something that is wasting the US governments time, and the rest of the world. It has the potential to hurt a lot of people, if Iraq isn't "reformed."
The countries opposing the war know they have no grounds to say No to war, but they are stalling because they think Saddam is actually going to change. Or it's like the French who are selling weapons to Iraq.
I don't think Bush is out of his league, because he does have a competent military advisory board. Mr. Powell is more than able to advise and manage the Iraqi conflict. I believe Bush is doing a good job pushing the UN for a final decision, and if you'll notice Bush isn't doing it alone.
He's saying, "Make up your minds, or we'll do it for you." He's giving the UN a timeline in which they must decide, because according to UN Resolution 1441, they already did decide.
Ironically, I hate talking about politics, and this is the first time I've entered into one of these threads...
When people realize this, laptop speeds will go down to usable levels (1GHz will play DivX movies fine, and that's probably the most intensive thing you could possibly do well on a laptop). Until then, expect those laptops to continue tacking on more battery burning "features."
Well, what about people who do realize this. They realize that is what PDAs are for and such, and for a laptop they do want a powerhouse. I want a laptop that can run my entire development environment, quick compiles, while listening to mp3s and when I'm finished, reboot into windows and play some warcraft 3.
Remember, not everybody feels the same way as you. This is why their is market diversity.
No wonder nobody takes Linux seriously. How many people in the real world software community go by stupid childish nicknames? I know of none..
No kidding; get the fucking wookie off your shirt and understand a degree of professionalism.
Iraq has nothing to do with the terrorists. The same group that flies planes into buildings and blows up clubs in Bali dislike Iraq just as much.
This is not quite correct. While they do not have an Al Queda connection, Iraq does have other terrorist factions they support and whom support Iraq.
As for the weapons, that is the U.N.'s concern, not America. Its bad enough that it was Reagan who sold a majority of those weapons to Iraq.
It is actually Americas obligation, dating back pre-gulf war to enforce the UN resolutions on Iraq. This has been going on for over a decade now, and I think America is mostly just fed up with having to keep this Iraq situation in their minds and want to end it now.
If you had to babysit someone for 10 years, who constantly was doing things they weren't supposed to, wouldn't you want to punish them too?
The genocide is also a foolish comment, considering that type of thing hasn't occured since the last time USA was over there in 1991.
Genocide is, but there has been combat. In 1996 against Kurdish forces, for instance. Of course 26,000 Iraqi soldiers defected and fought for the opposition...
And just so you know the "SUVs funding terrorism" has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with Saudi Arabia. The majority of terrorist who are an actual threat to the god ol' USA are middle-class to wealthy Saudies who are mad at America for a number of reasons, starting with the American assistance to keep the monarchy in power instead of a democratic government.
Terrorism costs money, the people supporting it are not necessarily the oil tychoons of Saudi, but they feed off of those oil tychoons.
You should read back on Twirlip of the Mists journal, if you can stomache his warmongering. If you look at the facts he presents, it shows there is a lot more to the Iraq conflict than just oil.
Wow am I an idiot... disregard my comment. I'm as bad as the editors sometimes.
Due here. Word for word rip, no less. Unless it was actually him, in which case, sorry for giving you the spotlight.
First of all, the asteroid probably didn't contriubute a substantial amount of material to the Earth. While I'm no physicist, a crater that size could be made by an object roughly the size of the Empire State Building or the Pentagon (or /.'s favorite metric measure: the LOC). In the large scale of things, this adds up to nothing. Correct me if i'm wrong.
It may have contributed some important elements, as well as providing climactic changes so that different organic material (like ferns, for instance, which took over after the impact) takes over. The estimate for the size of the meteor is ~6miles.
Finally, I don't believe this helped the mammals very much. It's arguable that mammals didn't emerge until after the impact (think of it, a 50 foot reptile is more likely to survive ANYTHING than a badger.) In addition, the smaller reptiles and fish are argued to be some of the only remaining life left.
This is intuitively incorrect. Most of the dinosaurs did not die out at the same time, as a cause of the asteroid. It happened when food supplies diminished and climates changed. A 50 foot reptile, that just had it's food supply (whether it be carnivore or omnivore) take a huge dip is going to be hard pressed to survive. In the mean time, a badger eats much less and can also scavange for all the dead meat laying around. Omnivores will thrive, because of the increase of vegetation after the initial shroud. There are many studies that show in the million years after the impact, vegetation thrived globally (especially ferns, which is just weird to me.)
As a little bit of trivia, the "scientist" (or greedy tax accountant killed in the French Revolution) who came up with the conservation of mass principle asked a simple question: Does slow burning a piece of metal, to cause rust and oxidization of the metal increase weight, keep the weight the same, or decrease weight? He found it increased in weight, after building a cool little mass conservation box, but the air weighed less.
It really is a shame he got his head chopped off, because he was a dedicated scientist and very meticulous in his work.
To be honest, I had to search google to find how exactly the "hippie" phrase is spelled because I usually think in spanish. Names, phrases, a lot changes between languages and writing jokes in other languages is sometimes hard.
I'll agree. This is why I explicitely put in "Standardizing English" in the quote. I was just secretly hoping you spoke Spanish natively, and weren't just an idiot American.
But I agree that is bad enough that all must talk one language here to add another language to understand to be capable to read slashdot properly.
I'm still pissed off that you can't put in Japanese characters in here. They are standard unicode, and if it's my journal, why can't I write in Japanese?
Now, if he was speaking in Spanish it would be different and I wouldn't correct. Seeing as it was an English post, the spelling is 'subtle' not 'sutil'.
In an effort to promote standardization in the English language, I must correct this.
Subtle.
Thank you.
Criticism of Slashdot is not tolerated around... um... Slashdot.
The first rule of Slashdot is... DO NOT TALK ABOUT SLASHDOT.
The second rule of Slashdot is... DO NOT TALK ABOUT SLASHDOT.
Therefore I propose a settlement: I'll admit you are right (and obviously have a superior intellect), if you'll agree that my message (poorly constructed, considering its audience) has perhaps a meager amount of insight... assuming we, for this argument, take away the word "domain".
Good enough, removing the word domain from the original statement makes your statement very correct.
The definition of the public domain, regardless of whether referring to software, patents or books, is as I've described -- and is a common legally used definition
The legal definition of Public Domain Software, or Software released into the Public Domain explicitely states it is not encumbered by patents or copyrights. Freeware applications fall under Mostly Public Domain.
You said, "Windows 95 was released into the public domain." By stating something is released into the public domain, especially software, you are explicitely stating that it's release satisfies the definition for software in the public domain. This is completely and totally incorrect.
Soon as you admit that you are wrong in your statement, and what you said is not what you intended to mean, I'll give you respect you seem to think you deserve.
It breaks down like this. You get default civil responses and respect until you say something stupid. You say something stupid, it's gone, I'm not going to be nice to you because you have not proven yourself to not be stupid. By admitting you were wrong, you show yourself to not be so stupid and be able to admit fallibility. By arguing that under obscure trade definitions of public domain, you were correct, you look like a total jack ass.
Follow me? Good. Admit you were wrong, and I will not think your brain mass is better suited for science, as in it's current state it is wasting resources.
Until then, fuck you and your civil responses.
If you don't like being told you are wrong and stupid, don't post on Slashdot.
I would expect people would be able to make a point without resorting to insults and flames.
I don't insult you, I label you. You are an idiot, and I find nothing insulting about saying it. If a wall is white, and I say it is white, it's not insulting. Because you take offense in what you are, it is of no concern to me.
"Information that is published and which is generally accessible or available to the public" Definition [ncsu.edu]
Ok, if you are talking about Import/Export controls than I will say that you are correct in your understanding of Public Domain. Unfortunately, your definition is only applicable for import and export of goods. Discussing anything else, especially Intellectual Property and Copyrights, your definition is completely wrong.
Repeat after me, "Mr. Sane is wrong." "Public Domain, in the context of the discussion, which is Intellectual Property; of relation to the sales and licensing of Windows 95, is defined as something free for use without any attachments of copyrights or patents." See also, encumbrance and a vast array of other definitions that you would do well to learn.
On a side note, I love it when people post websites trying to justify their incorrectness without reading the entire page and understanding the scope of what they are trying to prove.
I know a person who owns his own company and writes code on a for-hire basis. He puts in timed expiration code such that if they don't pay him within 30 days of delivery, his code de-activates.
My favorite practice is the license keyset approach. After a period of time the code will self-encrypt itself using 2048-bit Blowfish or something, then exit out. You have to have the keyset to decrypt it back out. If they don't pay up, they never get the keyset.
You should tell your friend, next time to use his hazard lights :)