Yes.. with advertising and money and monopolistic abuses. Not product superiority on technical terms.
off-topic digression.. I happen to enjoy the luxury of recommending the best technology for the job, based in part on what the client needs the technology to do and based in part on how skilled the people I can farm it out to are. I rarely recommend Micorsoft solutions, and that is almost always when people need to integrate some turnkey system with my work. Then, it's usually possible to get the Micorsoft stuff to work, but it's never as simple or straightforward as the unix solutions. Some people really want MS, though, and that's what they get. But it costs them... end digression.
Hmm..collective power. isn't that the idea behind corps, too? Why don't more people use the same idea to _our_ advantage.. and be like this guy! skip an overpriced cup of joe and toss in yer $5 to redhat!
Nice sentiment, but is this the right forum for fictional sentimentality? Seriously, it may not be very nice the way we've treated our conquered peoples, but let's remember now that if this continent had been reached first by anyone other than the white christian settlers (like one of the african kings, or the chinese), there would be no reservations. Just towns named after the most fruitful massacres.
(of course, no one likes to think about the americans in a positive light, so let's pretend that _we_ were the vicious people, and that any other conquering nation would have lived in peace and harmony and danced with unicorns under the rainbows..)
It's called 'discipline'. Your parents/teachers/self obviously never instilled it in you. Try this:
* next time you want to 'click that browser' to escape into imagination, don't.
but how will you know not to? You can write that very simple directive down on a postit and stick it to your monitor. A gentle reminder not to do things that are 'not work' - in any form you can create it - is all it takes until you no longer want to skirt the responsibilities.
(yes, it is hard at first, but like anything, with practice, it gets easier.)
You idiot fuckers. If this is off-topic, so is every goddamn conspiracy-theory nutjob post "They'll get the money somewhere else!!!" What is this, a web-board for Art Bell?
It is as real as anything else in this world; the perceptions are as real; the emotions are as real. The people are real.
Sorry, it's fictional. There may be overlap with the real world, and you may take things seriously (that is, you may accept them as real), but your ability to confirm or disconfirm an online reality's validity and correct overlap/connection to the real world, even if you are skilled at reading-between-the-lines, is substantially lower than even an ordinary individual's ability to do the same in real life. If your ability not to read people in real life, your ability to play the only social game it even makes sense to approach as a confirmably serious one, is lacking, suggest you pursue avenues to improve that, not just check out to play in a world where the only limit is your imagination.
Life (for most, certainly for you) is not zombo.com
I was a dork, put on a helmet, and tried a Segway.
The thing really is incredible. It's almost like flying. You have the strangest sensation of "willing" yourself in a direction of movement (that is, it's like walking but without the muscle movement), and it only takes about 30 seconds to get the hang of it pretty much completely. I've heard learning to ride it up and down hills is trickier, because you have to unlearn your body's balancing act and let the machine do its.
I would buy one if I didn't live out in the sticks and was a 15 minute drive from anywhere. In fact, I might buy one if I can find dog-friendly housing closer into the city; I'd much rather take a segway around town than a car.
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I took up the fiddle at age 23, never having picked up an instrument in my life. Less than two years later, I'm playing old-time music in bars and at dances.
Many adults who take up an instrument that requires the kind of fluidity demanded by the fiddle can't do it, but those same adults will never be truly accomplished martial artists, or dancers, or painters, or anything else that requires that kind of motion. There's nothing particularly unique about the kind of movement required to play the fiddle, except that the same manner of grace isn't ordinarily contained anywhere in most people's lives, and so they have no experience with it.
Think of explaining how you break down a programming problem to someone who's never programmed in their life - they don't even know where to begin making simpler steps out of a complicated problem. Ordinary life doesn't really call for this kind of analytical thinking.
This type of biofeedback is definately useful! If any folk have ever attempted meditation and reaching towards understanding of self, the lack of instant-feedback makes this process extremely difficult for the uninitiated.
For any mods out there who buy this nonsense.. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY. furthermore, technology doesn't help (it doesn't necessarily hurt, either) - focusing on making the dolphin jump won't get you there any faster than sitting quietly in your room. these parlor-games ultimately can be harmful, though, as a distraction from the goal...knowing yourself.
"The plural of anecdote is not data."
It sounds like you've dealt with a handful of faux-hotshot developers who worked primarily with scripts, who left you in a mess. You haven't seen enormous unmanageable VB programs? And factory-fresh talent (as opposed to home-grown) has never turned out line upon line of spaghetti C?
Here's the counter-argument: I've worked with people who've produced tens of thousands of lines of PHP and perl that interact with multiple outside vendor systems, multiple various hardware add-ons, presenting a relatively bug-free interface to their users and admins. Some of them were trained in CS, some of them weren't. The difference? These people were good, unlike the people you've had contact with.
Good "programmers" exist too - look at the FreeBSD codebase.
I'm surprised you didn't post a moronic "Mod me down for my original thoughts" tagline.
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Yes.. with advertising and money and monopolistic abuses. Not product superiority on technical terms. off-topic digression.. I happen to enjoy the luxury of recommending the best technology for the job, based in part on what the client needs the technology to do and based in part on how skilled the people I can farm it out to are. I rarely recommend Micorsoft solutions, and that is almost always when people need to integrate some turnkey system with my work. Then, it's usually possible to get the Micorsoft stuff to work, but it's never as simple or straightforward as the unix solutions. Some people really want MS, though, and that's what they get. But it costs them. .. end digression.
... at Zombo.com?
Amend to read:
The only valid reason for doign anything is that you really want to. Life will be better once you do that.
Pulse DETONATION Jets, not Pulse jets. RTFA. Karma. YHL. HAND. ROFL. LOL. KTHXBYE. blahb lah blah
For some of us, the next big battle is control and ownership. My freebsd server won't have DRM, nor does my iBook.
Will you quit posting your pseudomoralizing drivel to slashdot, too?
You make investing sound like so much fun.. where can I sign up? I already have the body-armor and a can of that expanding insulation-spray-foam..
Hmm..collective power. isn't that the idea behind corps, too? Why don't more people use the same idea to _our_ advantage .. and be like this guy! skip an overpriced cup of joe and toss in yer $5 to redhat!
your parents notify the school and all is well.
Move along..
...true founders of this country...
Nice sentiment, but is this the right forum for fictional sentimentality? Seriously, it may not be very nice the way we've treated our conquered peoples, but let's remember now that if this continent had been reached first by anyone other than the white christian settlers (like one of the african kings, or the chinese), there would be no reservations. Just towns named after the most fruitful massacres.
(of course, no one likes to think about the americans in a positive light, so let's pretend that _we_ were the vicious people, and that any other conquering nation would have lived in peace and harmony and danced with unicorns under the rainbows..)
when it comes to word processing and simple GUI tasks.
because that's all _others_ need.. simple gui tasks. (just an observation - your post mirrors what most people here say about slower cpus..)
It's called 'discipline'. Your parents/teachers/self obviously never instilled it in you. Try this:
* next time you want to 'click that browser' to escape into imagination, don't.
but how will you know not to? You can write that very simple directive down on a postit and stick it to your monitor. A gentle reminder not to do things that are 'not work' - in any form you can create it - is all it takes until you no longer want to skirt the responsibilities.
(yes, it is hard at first, but like anything, with practice, it gets easier.)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the WOW signal. read the link..it'll send chills down yer spine!
In soviet russia.... ???? = #2!!
You idiot fuckers. If this is off-topic, so is every goddamn conspiracy-theory nutjob post "They'll get the money somewhere else!!!" What is this, a web-board for Art Bell?
asses
Of course not. They'll use the unicorns to spy on you.
Prove the unicorns don't exist, either.
It is as real as anything else in this world; the perceptions are as real; the emotions are as real. The people are real.
Sorry, it's fictional. There may be overlap with the real world, and you may take things seriously (that is, you may accept them as real), but your ability to confirm or disconfirm an online reality's validity and correct overlap/connection to the real world, even if you are skilled at reading-between-the-lines, is substantially lower than even an ordinary individual's ability to do the same in real life. If your ability not to read people in real life, your ability to play the only social game it even makes sense to approach as a confirmably serious one, is lacking, suggest you pursue avenues to improve that, not just check out to play in a world where the only limit is your imagination.
Life (for most, certainly for you) is not zombo.com
I was a dork, put on a helmet, and tried a Segway. The thing really is incredible . It's almost like flying. You have the strangest sensation of "willing" yourself in a direction of movement (that is, it's like walking but without the muscle movement), and it only takes about 30 seconds to get the hang of it pretty much completely. I've heard learning to ride it up and down hills is trickier, because you have to unlearn your body's balancing act and let the machine do its. I would buy one if I didn't live out in the sticks and was a 15 minute drive from anywhere. In fact, I might buy one if I can find dog-friendly housing closer into the city; I'd much rather take a segway around town than a car.
I took up the fiddle at age 23, never having picked up an instrument in my life. Less than two years later, I'm playing old-time music in bars and at dances. Many adults who take up an instrument that requires the kind of fluidity demanded by the fiddle can't do it, but those same adults will never be truly accomplished martial artists, or dancers, or painters, or anything else that requires that kind of motion. There's nothing particularly unique about the kind of movement required to play the fiddle, except that the same manner of grace isn't ordinarily contained anywhere in most people's lives, and so they have no experience with it. Think of explaining how you break down a programming problem to someone who's never programmed in their life - they don't even know where to begin making simpler steps out of a complicated problem. Ordinary life doesn't really call for this kind of analytical thinking.
For any mods out there who buy this nonsense.. IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY. furthermore, technology doesn't help (it doesn't necessarily hurt, either) - focusing on making the dolphin jump won't get you there any faster than sitting quietly in your room. these parlor-games ultimately can be harmful, though, as a distraction from the goal...knowing yourself.
you're new here, arenchya?
I WANT INFORMATION
Wait.. since we missed it the first time.
I WANT INFORMATION
And, because flash-oriented sites are so hard to navigate from way up on this high-horse of mine..
I WANT INFORMATION
There..do I get my complimentary copy of "Learn snobbery in 21 days"?
So add a bitfield to the sourceforge project (like our favorite recently popular RFC): 0 = not finished, 1 = finished.
Isn't one of the nice things about the GPL that once something is GPL'd, it can't be un-GPL'd?
if QT closes the source etc, won't the community always have the last GPL'd version, still free?
"The plural of anecdote is not data." It sounds like you've dealt with a handful of faux-hotshot developers who worked primarily with scripts, who left you in a mess. You haven't seen enormous unmanageable VB programs? And factory-fresh talent (as opposed to home-grown) has never turned out line upon line of spaghetti C? Here's the counter-argument: I've worked with people who've produced tens of thousands of lines of PHP and perl that interact with multiple outside vendor systems, multiple various hardware add-ons, presenting a relatively bug-free interface to their users and admins. Some of them were trained in CS, some of them weren't. The difference? These people were good, unlike the people you've had contact with. Good "programmers" exist too - look at the FreeBSD codebase. I'm surprised you didn't post a moronic "Mod me down for my original thoughts" tagline.