I think you are probably in a rare and lucky position. People I know in academia tend to have a lot more complaints than you have. Many of the professors I had in college certainly did NOT enjoy their jobs. This was terribly obvious in the way they taught.
That said, someone who guns for a more lucrative career than teaching, and invests heavily, could have a trust fund in 20 years, at which time he could chose to go BACK to academia, he could consult part time, or he could just chill by the beach all day--whatever he feels like doing.
You may find you tire of your job at some point in your life--wouldn't it be nice to have options? Wouldn't it be nice to know, at any moment, that you could take a year off to relax on a tropical island... maybe study for a new career or new field as you sit on the beach drinking margaritas? You can't honestly tell me you don't want to have that option. You can tell me you don't think it is worth the up-front investment in time, but all I can say is: I disagree.
I've been rich and I've been poor and you know what? Happiness wise, I've never really been able to tell the difference. When I was rich, I was busy working for others.
Did you read my post? I'm not advocating being rich while working for others. I'm advocating being rich enough to not have to work for ANYONE. That is what it means to have all your living expenses met by passive income.
You say that there are parts of the world where working at McDonalds will meet your needs. That may be true, but with a few hundred grand in the bond market, you could live in that same place and NOT HAVE TO WORK AT ALL. If you really like flippin burgers, you have that option, but if you MUST work at ANY job to get by, you are not truly free.
I don't know what you're talking about, but stuff, power, and sex sure seem to satisfy me.
Psychological studies also seem to back up the theories that stuff, power (actually, control), and sex make people happy.
Desiring these things does not lead to "frustration, deeper debt, and hopelessness." Bad finance management is what causes those problems. You have your causation confused.
In terms of money, what career would you pursue coming out of college right now with a math or science degree?
The one you're most interested in. Seriously, if all you care about is money, go be an investment banker or a money whore somewhere else.
The only way anyone will ever truly be able to do "what they love" is by first being a "money whore" (or being born rich).
No man has true freedom unless his passive income exceeds his living expenses. Only once you reach this level of freedom (which corresponds to having about $800k well-invested in most of the USA), can you really do whatever the hell you are truly passionate about, with no compromises.
The quickest way to get there, for most people, is to get a college degree in a field with high market value, live cheap, and invest everything you can in revenue-generating business that you don't have to manage (so you can keep working on what you specialize in). ETFs (like DIA) make this REALLY easy to do. If you can stomach extra volatility, leveraged ETFs (like DDM) could greatly shorten the time it takes for you to be be a self-made trust-fund baby (er... middle aged person).
Advice of "do whatever you're most interested in [regardless of pay]" sounds nice, and may be more fun in the short term, but it is much less likely to bring you true freedom than being a "money whore."
When you can live off of your investments, you can change jobs, contracts, and careers at will. Otherwise, you will be filling out TPS reports, all-the-while chained to your current job for the ability to feed yourself and afford medical care.
Crime exists in relation to the drug market because government has outlawed drugs, creating a black market. People like you vote for politicians who outlaw drugs and funnel vast amounts of MY tax dollars to fight a "war on drugs." In doing so, they CREATE crime that would not have existed if the drugs were legal.
If it weren't for YOU and the anti-social miscreants like yourself, drugs would not be so expensive that addicts must steal to afford them. If it weren't for scumbags like you, organized crime would not exist to satisfy the drug market. Thanks to people like you, my country's tax money and its citizens lives are being wasted on a losing war.
It is a result of YOUR actions that drug trade is not entirely victimless.
IMAP is certainly NOT call it's cracked up to be. Depending on which IMAP client you use, your home directory gets filled with directories and files named "Mail", "mail", "Inbox", "Trash", "trash", and various other things. They are indexed using various methods. They are not all compatible between different IMAP clients.
Basically, what I am saying, is that because the IMAP protocol does not mandate default values for clients and servers, the protocol itself is fundamentally flawed due to the fact that a mailbox accessed with one mail client can not be accessed with any other mail client without spending some SERIOUS time on reconfiguring everything.
There is no barrier, no repercussions for actions, no tarnishing of your actual name by your behavior in game.
In lots of games players can be muted, kicked, or banned based on either votes or administrator decisions. That is a repercussion. It may not work this way for MMORPGs.
the adoption of base-10 meanings had jack shit to do with the "correct" use of the prefixes and everything to do with making some HDDs look better than they were.
Base 10 meanings have been used in networking since forever. Using decimal prefixes to mean decimal multiples in computing is NOT an invention of the HDD industry.That's my point.
Substitute "piss-ant kid" for "boy", and "adult" for "girl", and you might better understand the issue.
Wrong. Adult men trash talk in competitions. I have rarely observed this in women of any age.
I don't find racism funny, despite your assertion that it's a "joke".
Richard Prior, Carlos Mencia, and countless other comedians make careers of racist jokes. But you missed my point: online racism can't possibly be sincere because nobody knows anybody else's race.
the misogyny enbedded[sic] in your post
Misogyny? I was pointing out the observable evidence that boys trash talk in competition much more than girls do. If anything, that is a compliment to girls. It is not sexist to state the difference between sexes. It is a fact that the average IQ of men is higher than the average IQ of women. It isn't sexist to say that. Thin-skinned people, regardless of sex, don't get much respect from me.
Currently, if we are offended by what we hear in a game, we have limited options to hold the actual author of those statements accountable.
Most games have "ignore player" and "mute player" options. Many also have "initiate kick vote against player." That is somewhat similar to what happens in real life. Getting banned from a server for saying offensive things is like getting kicked out of a frat for saying offensive things.
I hope to God you're never picked for jury duty on a rape case. Harrassment (verbal or otherwise) is always the harassers fault, no matter what the target may have done to inspire harassment.
I hope to God you're never involved in a game of street basketball. What does harassment have to do with rape? Rape is a violent crime, harassment is not. They are totally different.
Also, harassment is certainly not always the harasser's fault. It's subjective. One person's insult is another person's friendly jab. I can't control how you interpret everything I say.
I don't know why I should waste my time talking to an AC, though.
I don't know whether it is cultural or instinctual, but when boys compete, they "trash-talk" eachother. It is the competitive spirit of the game bleeding into language.
Think about a street basketball game and the "yo momma's so fat" jokes. The same thing happens in online FPS games.
Players tend to build up an immunity to such insults, so there is an arms race of conceiving increasingly offensive verbal jabs. It gets worse and worse.
The solution, of course, is to just ignore offensive words altogether. Think "sticks and stones" and get on with the game! Racism in online games is a joke anyway--nobody knows your race so they can't mean it seriously. There is nothing special or magical about taboo words, either. Hearing "swear" words only hurts your feelings because you let them. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
If you can't handle trash talk in competitive games, whether they are on the court or on the net, you can either stop playing or stop giving taboo words power over you.
Alternatively, start a girls league or have referees which enforce a code of good sportsmanship. Pick-up games of basketball and of counter-strike don't have refs, so you will always have boys' competitive spirits showing in the language.
Physical units? Really? How fast is your 4Mbps internet connection?
Oh, that's right, you are just full of it with that "physical unit" garbage. Context sensitivity for fundamental terms is unnecessarily confusing, despite the fact that you managed to make a career in computing doing it. Doctors spent the majority of their lifetimes using bloodletting as a medical treatment... that' doesn't make it a good idea.
You are saying that we should switch from metric to binary prefixes when we switch from talking about bits to talking about groups of eight bits? That's stupid. Good luck with that lawsuit.
"mega" was a decimal prefix long before the first programmer misused it as a binary prefix for lack of a better word. Now, we have words for binary prefixes.
A good engineer would loathe the ambiguity created by the context-sensitivity of such a fundamental term, especially when more accurate terminology exists.
Manufacturers report a megabyte as 10^6 bytes (1,000,000), while computers report a megabyte as 2^20 bytes (1,048,576).
Bzzzt. Wrong.
Manufactures correctly report a megabyte as 10^6 bytes (1,000,000), while good quality computer software also reports a megabyte as 10^6 bytes, while reporting a mebibyte as 2^20 bytes (1,048,576).
For an example of bad quality software which confuses binary and decimal prefixes, see Microsoft Windows.
Is there anyone out there who would be buying a 1TB hard drive who doesn't already know the difference between binary and decimal prefixes? I think their target market is well aware of the differences between GiB and GB.
Actually, it seems some Microsoft programmers still don't know the difference. At least most open source apps properly distinguish between binary and decimal prefixes. Not so for Windows...
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I think you are probably in a rare and lucky position. People I know in academia tend to have a lot more complaints than you have. Many of the professors I had in college certainly did NOT enjoy their jobs. This was terribly obvious in the way they taught.
That said, someone who guns for a more lucrative career than teaching, and invests heavily, could have a trust fund in 20 years, at which time he could chose to go BACK to academia, he could consult part time, or he could just chill by the beach all day--whatever he feels like doing.
You may find you tire of your job at some point in your life--wouldn't it be nice to have options? Wouldn't it be nice to know, at any moment, that you could take a year off to relax on a tropical island... maybe study for a new career or new field as you sit on the beach drinking margaritas? You can't honestly tell me you don't want to have that option. You can tell me you don't think it is worth the up-front investment in time, but all I can say is: I disagree.
You say that there are parts of the world where working at McDonalds will meet your needs. That may be true, but with a few hundred grand in the bond market, you could live in that same place and NOT HAVE TO WORK AT ALL. If you really like flippin burgers, you have that option, but if you MUST work at ANY job to get by, you are not truly free.
I don't know what you're talking about, but stuff, power, and sex sure seem to satisfy me.
Psychological studies also seem to back up the theories that stuff, power (actually, control), and sex make people happy.
Desiring these things does not lead to "frustration, deeper debt, and hopelessness." Bad finance management is what causes those problems. You have your causation confused.
No man has true freedom unless his passive income exceeds his living expenses. Only once you reach this level of freedom (which corresponds to having about $800k well-invested in most of the USA), can you really do whatever the hell you are truly passionate about, with no compromises.
The quickest way to get there, for most people, is to get a college degree in a field with high market value, live cheap, and invest everything you can in revenue-generating business that you don't have to manage (so you can keep working on what you specialize in). ETFs (like DIA) make this REALLY easy to do. If you can stomach extra volatility, leveraged ETFs (like DDM) could greatly shorten the time it takes for you to be be a self-made trust-fund baby (er... middle aged person).
Advice of "do whatever you're most interested in [regardless of pay]" sounds nice, and may be more fun in the short term, but it is much less likely to bring you true freedom than being a "money whore."
When you can live off of your investments, you can change jobs, contracts, and careers at will. Otherwise, you will be filling out TPS reports, all-the-while chained to your current job for the ability to feed yourself and afford medical care.
Tobacco, drugs, weapons, prostitution, and essays should not be a list of banned searches, it should be a convenience store.
Considering RSA Inc. sells X.509 token/smart card devices which support ONLY 1024-bit keys, I don't think it's going anywhere for a while.
You and people like you are a cancer on society.
Crime exists in relation to the drug market because government has outlawed drugs, creating a black market. People like you vote for politicians who outlaw drugs and funnel vast amounts of MY tax dollars to fight a "war on drugs." In doing so, they CREATE crime that would not have existed if the drugs were legal.
If it weren't for YOU and the anti-social miscreants like yourself, drugs would not be so expensive that addicts must steal to afford them. If it weren't for scumbags like you, organized crime would not exist to satisfy the drug market. Thanks to people like you, my country's tax money and its citizens lives are being wasted on a losing war.
It is a result of YOUR actions that drug trade is not entirely victimless.
I do not, and have never, done illegal drugs.
vi is for noobs. ed is the standard text editor.
CAcert? They are free? What is their financial incentive to undergo the heavy security investment required to keep their root private key secure?
How much money do they spend, per cert, verifying that the certs they issue are to legitimate businesses and not to phishing scams?
What does CAcert have to lose if they make a serious mistake, such as issuing a major bank certificate to a scammer?
With free SSL certificates, is there any sort of money trail to follow to hunt down and prosecute criminals who abuse the system?
Free SSL certs sound great it principle, but not so great in practice...
IMAP is certainly NOT call it's cracked up to be. Depending on which IMAP client you use, your home directory gets filled with directories and files named "Mail", "mail", "Inbox", "Trash", "trash", and various other things. They are indexed using various methods. They are not all compatible between different IMAP clients.
Basically, what I am saying, is that because the IMAP protocol does not mandate default values for clients and servers, the protocol itself is fundamentally flawed due to the fact that a mailbox accessed with one mail client can not be accessed with any other mail client without spending some SERIOUS time on reconfiguring everything.
IMAP is DOA.
The reason: The MythTV project does not do a good job of listing which HD tuners are compatible with it!
I would love to build a MythTV box, but literally NONE of the HD tuners available on the store shelves in my area are listed as being compatible!
Somehow you are wrong.
I don't think my office can be sued for anything I say on a basketball court on my own time. You might want to brush up on your knowledge of law.
Also, harassment is certainly not always the harasser's fault. It's subjective. One person's insult is another person's friendly jab. I can't control how you interpret everything I say.
I don't know why I should waste my time talking to an AC, though.
Tell me how fast my 2Mbps internet connection is. Go ahead.
Want to blame that on marketing, too?
I don't know whether it is cultural or instinctual, but when boys compete, they "trash-talk" eachother. It is the competitive spirit of the game bleeding into language.
Think about a street basketball game and the "yo momma's so fat" jokes. The same thing happens in online FPS games.
Players tend to build up an immunity to such insults, so there is an arms race of conceiving increasingly offensive verbal jabs. It gets worse and worse.
The solution, of course, is to just ignore offensive words altogether. Think "sticks and stones" and get on with the game! Racism in online games is a joke anyway--nobody knows your race so they can't mean it seriously. There is nothing special or magical about taboo words, either. Hearing "swear" words only hurts your feelings because you let them. You have nobody to blame but yourself.
If you can't handle trash talk in competitive games, whether they are on the court or on the net, you can either stop playing or stop giving taboo words power over you.
Alternatively, start a girls league or have referees which enforce a code of good sportsmanship. Pick-up games of basketball and of counter-strike don't have refs, so you will always have boys' competitive spirits showing in the language.
Physical units? Really? How fast is your 4Mbps internet connection?
Oh, that's right, you are just full of it with that "physical unit" garbage. Context sensitivity for fundamental terms is unnecessarily confusing, despite the fact that you managed to make a career in computing doing it. Doctors spent the majority of their lifetimes using bloodletting as a medical treatment... that' doesn't make it a good idea.
You are saying that we should switch from metric to binary prefixes when we switch from talking about bits to talking about groups of eight bits? That's stupid. Good luck with that lawsuit.
"mega" was a decimal prefix long before the first programmer misused it as a binary prefix for lack of a better word. Now, we have words for binary prefixes.
A good engineer would loathe the ambiguity created by the context-sensitivity of such a fundamental term, especially when more accurate terminology exists.
Manufactures correctly report a megabyte as 10^6 bytes (1,000,000), while good quality computer software also reports a megabyte as 10^6 bytes, while reporting a mebibyte as 2^20 bytes (1,048,576).
For an example of bad quality software which confuses binary and decimal prefixes, see Microsoft Windows.
Is there anyone out there who would be buying a 1TB hard drive who doesn't already know the difference between binary and decimal prefixes? I think their target market is well aware of the differences between GiB and GB.
Actually, it seems some Microsoft programmers still don't know the difference. At least most open source apps properly distinguish between binary and decimal prefixes. Not so for Windows...