The French are quite passonate about their culture. Frankly I suspect they would rather allow some of their people to starve or live in poverty than lose their culture. This is not a bad thing per se; just a different value system than the one we have in the United States.
I agree, this is definately not a bad thing. But, in my view, if the French people so overwhelmingly abhored something as distateful as MacDonalds, wouldn't it be a safe assumption, that a MacDonalds 'restaraunt' in France, would be an utter flop. If there is no demand, there is no profit.
This is always the basis of my argument, whenever people start complaining about US culture invading their own country's. Obviously someone in your countries are enjoying what these companies are giving you, or you wouldn't buy it.
Unfortunately, after reading the "editorial" twice, I still can't figure out what specifically MacDonalds or the US, did to poor Jose. What would posess him to attack a unfinished restaraunt? And if it's just because you don't like taxes, or multi-national conglomerates, thats too bad. Taxes are a fact of life, as are conglomerates. Corporations aren't gaining anything by duties paid on items imported. And more countries than the United States have them.
Jon, I DID read this article, TWICE, and I still can't figure out why I should feel bad for this person. I don't agree with his actions. Now if I knew why he did what he did, I might feel differently. Your writing style assumes that I either know exactly what or who you are talking about, or just agree blindly in your hatred of corporate america (or just america for that matter).
I can't believe that you actually have the saq to critique ANYONE else's design, with the fetid pile of crap you call a webpage. OMG, did you forget that your usr shows up in your titles?
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
One-click buying is incrediby effective. I can't tell you how much I enjoy not having to fill out horribly designed forms every time I want to buy something.
As far as boycotting Amazon is concerned, I feel it's rediculous. So sorry if I offend anyone, I realize that the patent they recieved is stupid, and once it is determined to not be unique it more than likely will be overturned.
The idea that all patents are wrong bothers the crap out of me. Why shouldn't I gain from something that I create? And the return argument is going to be the you can make money from the GPL. You would be right. But the idea that EVERYTHING has to be GPL'ed to be ok is ludicrous.
Jarod
Its not as bad as all that...
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I'm a web developer for a startup, but I knew what I was getting into. Everybody was pretty upfront about what was going to be expected of you. And yes I have worked some insane hours. But then there are weeks when the hours are rediculusly short.
Why does everyone point to the Ten Commandments in Schools as a bad thing that oppresses people? Am I oppressing you if I tell you that Murder is a Bad Thing? If I tell you that stealing is Bad? It's not as if anyone is forcing kids to get down on their knees and beg for forgiveness or anything. I can't see how anyone could reasonably object to the prominent display of a good vlaue system... Would you be similarly objecting if it was the Wiccan Read (I want to say Rule of Three but I just know that isn't what it's called) being posted? When is it a bad thing to instill in children some kind of respect for human life and property?
Nothing is wrong with instilling a respect for human life in children, but why does your religion deserve to be the state sponsored one? Thou shall not kill, Thou shall not steal, etc. are all good, but it is the Thou shall not hold any other gods before me (or somesuch) that says to the young Wiccan that what they believe is wrong.
I'm going to explain it one more time. Only a yound adolescent that watched too much TV, or a grown-up with a sick mentality, would spent his time cracking systems belonging to others. I am too curious about the design and internals of the OSes, machines, programs,..., but I explore them on my own machine. Of course! It is something completly surrealistic, to watch people seriously telling that they crack, because of their curiosity. That's simply not true. They crack, because they love to invade some kind of privacy of others, and because of TV. But what would you think of someone that would dismantle your car on the grounds that "he is curious about cars internal" ? Probably that he is on crack (see, a bad justification for the "crackers"). "Why the FUCKING HELL aren't you dismantling your car and explore his internals ?" will you probably shout. And you'll be right. And people despising intruders are similary right. And no amount of slashdot kiddies will change this fundemental fact.
You speak like you are 12. When I defend the use of Hacker, I am not speaking of 14 year old script kiddies whacking websites like they are popping pez. I am speaking on behalf of myself and my friends. I no longer do any "black-hat" stuff. I have no desire. But I will say, that in the mid-80's it was much harder to find a Unix box to play around with, than it is now. Unless you were a university student at that time. The availability to most people to have one in their home to explore was rare. I have friends that were prosecuted for having nothing more than informational documents to the use of phone systems in their possession (They didn't take it. They just had it on their box.)
Now as with any community there were people that wanted nothing more than that feeling of power that comes with getting root and 0wning your box. The hackers I defend were out for information, not simply to intrude into your property. The drive to learn, was the goal..
The point? In my experience, people who wrongly call themselves "hackers" are either;
So young, that they believe that the mainstream media definition is the correct one. or
So incompetent at "cracking" that they even get the terms wrong (this is often the case)
In my experience the only people that I hear whine about some "big bad evil cracker guys" being called hacker are kids on Slashdot.
You need to get over it already, HACKERS have never been referred to as crackers, except by you.
I'm going to explain it one more time. Hackers are explorers, fiddlers, we like knowing what makes things tick, whether that be a computer, a phone system, a network, a squirrel's nervous system, etc... Hacker does NOT necessarily mean programmer. Crackers defeated software copyright protection.
Not all hackers are 'coders'. Some just want to know the in's and out's of systems. Some just want to know how certain things work. I've known many 'famous' hackers/crackers from back before the onslaught of the script kiddies, generally all they wanted to do is find out how and why things worked the way they did. This argument that hackers are supposed to be called crackers, is stupid, i've never heard a hacker refer to himself as a cracker. Crackers defeat software copy protection. Arguing about it here won't make you right or change anything.
Jarod
Jarod
Linuxcare ad isn't even original.
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Its too bad that Linuxcare can't even come up with an original ad idea. This parody of 3Com's ad has been done long ago by Jason Kottke at www.osil8.com. He has been forced to remove the images from his site. But i believe there are plenty of mirrors, linked from his site.
Best Buy had Red Hat 6.0, 5.2 and OpenLinux on an endcap when I stopped in this weekend. Very nice placement. That $75 for RedHat 6.0 kinda made my brain hurt though.
it won't work with javascript tuned off. It won't work with less than NS 3.0 or MSIE 4.0. It's not designed for less. Sorry. Your problem, not mine.
NS 3.0 and up is by no means 'latest and greatest'. I design for the highest percentage of browsers that are used. If you insist on using Navigator 2.0 or Lynx, my services are not for you anyway.
I realize that that is not a popular attitude. Frames are not evil. I don't know what browser you use. I know it works with the ones i've mentioned. My frame usage is designed to make the page look the same whether you have a 14" or 21" monitor.
I've looked at tuxedo.org. Sorry, but i wouldn't hire whoever created that site to make me one. This is what i do. No one is going to pay me to do a data dump on a page with alot of text links on it.
I understand your argument. And believe me, I truly wish everything could be standard, but since it isn't i'm not going to make a crappy looking page just to satisfy an out of date browser.
Dreamweaver. Hands down. Use it for creating the initial site, then use Homesite, BBedit, emacs, whatever to clean up the html and add javascript, etc... It's creation of Javascript out-of-the-box is nasty, but the ease of mocking up a page more than makes up for it.
I graduated from HS in 1990. I was prom king, I was the #1 golfer in school, played basketball, I was a complete computer geek (and still am), I wore combat boots, i had bleached blond hair spiked a foot into the air, wore a lot of black, and was in the band. These things didn't fit in a nice neat package that could be used to label me. And in my school of about 200 (very small school), i was the only freak. period. But I earned their respect by doing my own thing. I did what I enjoyed doing.
I had friends that were jocks, geeks, burn-outs, metalheads, whatever label anyone wanted to put on them. I didn't label any of them. They liked me for what i was and I dug them for what they were. As far as disliking someone or tormenting them for what they do or what they look like, my attitude was always "whats the point, it takes less energy to ignore or just smile, than to beat the hell out of someone.
Parents and educators and administrators need to open their eyes and face the cold hard facts. Some of your kids are assholes. They haven't been taught how to respect anyone or anything. Schools are not safe, healthy learning environments. They are a breeding ground for a majority of the injustices that exist in this world. So listen to your kids. Teach them to hold their heads high, encorage them to respect people, and follow their own path.
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The French are quite passonate about their culture. Frankly I suspect they would rather allow some of their people to starve or live in poverty than lose their culture. This is not a bad thing per se; just a different value system than the one we have in the United States.
I agree, this is definately not a bad thing. But, in my view, if the French people so overwhelmingly abhored something as distateful as MacDonalds, wouldn't it be a safe assumption, that a MacDonalds 'restaraunt' in France, would be an utter flop. If there is no demand, there is no profit.
This is always the basis of my argument, whenever people start complaining about US culture invading their own country's. Obviously someone in your countries are enjoying what these companies are giving you, or you wouldn't buy it.
JarodUnfortunately, after reading the "editorial" twice, I still can't figure out what specifically MacDonalds or the US, did to poor Jose. What would posess him to attack a unfinished restaraunt? And if it's just because you don't like taxes, or multi-national conglomerates, thats too bad. Taxes are a fact of life, as are conglomerates. Corporations aren't gaining anything by duties paid on items imported. And more countries than the United States have them.
Jon, I DID read this article, TWICE, and I still can't figure out why I should feel bad for this person. I don't agree with his actions. Now if I knew why he did what he did, I might feel differently. Your writing style assumes that I either know exactly what or who you are talking about, or just agree blindly in your hatred of corporate america (or just america for that matter).
Jarod
If you don't want your posts used in any way the /. editors see fit, don't post. That should be final. Don't like that, go somewhere else.
I can't believe that you actually have the saq to critique ANYONE else's design, with the fetid pile of crap you call a webpage. OMG, did you forget that your usr shows up in your titles?
Yah, I read that too. It smacked of fanboy, "my system is better than yours", crap. It sounded like it was written by Jeff K..
Jarod
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
-- President Theodore Roosevelt.
1858-1919
Its actually very cool. I just installed this on my PalmIIIe over the weekend. jarod
They must sell things for a profit. so in other words they are Bad. - jarod
One-click buying is incrediby effective. I can't tell you how much I enjoy not having to fill out horribly designed forms every time I want to buy something.
As far as boycotting Amazon is concerned, I feel it's rediculous. So sorry if I offend anyone, I realize that the patent they recieved is stupid, and once it is determined to not be unique it more than likely will be overturned.
The idea that all patents are wrong bothers the crap out of me. Why shouldn't I gain from something that I create? And the return argument is going to be the you can make money from the GPL. You would be right. But the idea that EVERYTHING has to be GPL'ed to be ok is ludicrous.
JarodI'm a web developer for a startup, but I knew what I was getting into. Everybody was pretty upfront about what was going to be expected of you. And yes I have worked some insane hours. But then there are weeks when the hours are rediculusly short.
Jon, what was the last startup you worked for?
Nothing is wrong with instilling a respect for human life in children, but why does your religion deserve to be the state sponsored one? Thou shall not kill, Thou shall not steal, etc. are all good, but it is the Thou shall not hold any other gods before me
(or somesuch) that says to the young Wiccan that what they believe is wrong.
- Jarod
careful, they're ruffled!
Jarod
Damn, I start my new job in Austin the 26th! Now you tell me everything sucks.
Jarod
I'm going to explain it one more time. Only a yound adolescent that watched too much TV, or a grown-up with a sick mentality, would spent his time cracking systems belonging to others. I am too curious about the design and internals of the OSes, machines, programs, ..., but I explore them on my own machine. Of course! It is something completly surrealistic, to watch people seriously telling that they crack, because of their curiosity. That's simply not true. They crack, because they love to invade some kind of privacy of others, and because of TV. But what would you think of someone that would dismantle your car on the grounds that "he is curious about cars internal" ?
Probably that he is on crack (see, a bad justification for the "crackers"). "Why the FUCKING HELL aren't you dismantling your car and explore his internals ?" will you probably shout. And you'll be right. And people despising intruders are similary right. And no amount of slashdot kiddies will change this fundemental fact.
You speak like you are 12. When I defend the use of Hacker, I am not speaking of 14 year old script kiddies whacking websites like they are popping pez. I am speaking on behalf of myself and my friends. I no longer do any "black-hat" stuff. I have no desire. But I will say, that in the mid-80's it was much harder to find a Unix box to play around with, than it is now. Unless you were a university student at that time. The availability to most people to have one in their home to explore was rare. I have friends that were prosecuted for having nothing more than informational documents to the use of phone systems in their possession (They didn't take it. They just had it on their box.)
Now as with any community there were people that wanted nothing more than that feeling of power that comes with getting root and 0wning your box. The hackers I defend were out for information, not simply to intrude into your property. The drive to learn, was the goal..
Jarod
The point? In my experience, people who wrongly call themselves "hackers" are either;
or
In my experience the only people that I hear whine about some "big bad evil cracker guys" being called hacker are kids on Slashdot.
You need to get over it already, HACKERS have never been referred to as crackers, except by you.
I'm going to explain it one more time. Hackers are explorers, fiddlers, we like knowing what makes things tick, whether that be a computer, a phone system, a network, a squirrel's nervous system, etc... Hacker does NOT necessarily mean programmer. Crackers defeated software copyright protection.
You've already lost
Not all hackers are 'coders'. Some just want to know the in's and out's of systems. Some just want to know how certain things work. I've known many 'famous' hackers/crackers from back before the onslaught of the script kiddies, generally all they wanted to do is find out how and why things worked the way they did. This argument that hackers are supposed to be called crackers, is stupid, i've never heard a hacker refer to himself as a cracker. Crackers defeat software copy protection. Arguing about it here won't make you right or change anything.
Jarod
Jarod
Its too bad that Linuxcare can't even come up with an original ad idea. This parody of 3Com's ad has been done long ago by Jason Kottke at www.osil8.com. He has been forced to remove the images from his site. But i believe there are plenty of mirrors, linked from his site.
Jarod
Best Buy had Red Hat 6.0, 5.2 and OpenLinux on an endcap when I stopped in this weekend. Very nice placement. That $75 for RedHat 6.0 kinda made my brain hurt though.
Jarod
it won't work with javascript tuned off. It won't work with less than NS 3.0 or MSIE 4.0. It's not designed for less. Sorry. Your problem, not mine.
NS 3.0 and up is by no means 'latest and greatest'. I design for the highest percentage of browsers that are used. If you insist on using Navigator 2.0 or Lynx, my services are not for you anyway.
I realize that that is not a popular attitude. Frames are not evil. I don't know what browser you use. I know it works with the ones i've mentioned. My frame usage is designed to make the page look the same whether you have a 14" or 21" monitor.
I've looked at tuxedo.org. Sorry, but i wouldn't hire whoever created that site to make me one. This is what i do. No one is going to pay me to do a data dump on a page with alot of text links on it.
I understand your argument. And believe me, I truly wish everything could be standard, but since it isn't i'm not going to make a crappy looking page just to satisfy an out of date browser.
Jarod
gee. I'd better go change my site... I suppose you'd rather read a column of text running edge to edge on a gray fucking background.
Granted, tables and frames can be evil in the wrong hands, but they aren't going away. Get over it. HTML is whatever i can make it.
Jarod
Dreamweaver. Hands down. Use it for creating the initial site, then use Homesite, BBedit, emacs, whatever to clean up the html and add javascript, etc... It's creation of Javascript out-of-the-box is nasty, but the ease of mocking up a page more than makes up for it.
Jarod
I graduated from HS in 1990. I was prom king, I was the #1 golfer in school, played basketball, I was a complete computer geek (and still am), I wore combat boots, i had bleached blond hair spiked a foot into the air, wore a lot of black, and was in the band. These things didn't fit in a nice neat package that could be used to label me. And in my school of about 200 (very small school), i was the only freak. period. But I earned their respect by doing my own thing. I did what I enjoyed doing.
I had friends that were jocks, geeks, burn-outs, metalheads, whatever label anyone wanted to put on them. I didn't label any of them. They liked me for what i was and I dug them for what they were. As far as disliking someone or tormenting them for what they do or what they look like, my attitude was always "whats the point, it takes less energy to ignore or just smile, than to beat the hell out of someone.
Parents and educators and administrators need to open their eyes and face the cold hard facts. Some of your kids are assholes. They haven't been taught how to respect anyone or anything. Schools are not safe, healthy learning environments. They are a breeding ground for a majority of the injustices that exist in this world. So listen to your kids. Teach them to hold their heads high, encorage them to respect people, and follow their own path.
JarodFinally, something comes to Austin!
You have SXSW. Which is quite possibly the coolest conf.
ones AND zeros? sheeeiiiit, back in my day, we could only afford zeros.
I was forced to learn PL/I in school. Just after I finished the class they switched to C. Pissed me off.
I use:
Perl, a bit of C,Javascript, Lingo (who0p), HTML (i know it doesnt really count).
Jarod