I was laid off via an email back in aught-three, albeit inadvertently.
I had sent an email to a client in which I had CC'd my boss-man (the owner). He replied to the client with, "Please send all future correspondance on this subject to me." Not being in full control of his email client, I was included in the recipient list.
The next morning was quite entertaining. I ended up coaching him through how to publicize the layoffs to the remaining staff. It makes for a good story. Now.
However, this (very) relatively corruption-free government comes at a high price - efficiency.
You know, that's a helluva thesis. I'd love to see a study on that. I've never thought of it from that direction before. There's no data, but it kind of feels right.
Umm, finally someone in the thread who sounds like a parent.
I know I was bored in High School, and felt it was a waste of time, but that's because I didn't have a very strong appreciation for education. That changed as I aged. There's a reason they say, 'Education is wasted on the young.'
Back on point, the OP better find a pretty good wife (either rich or willing to teach his kids). This simple word problem should help illuminate why:
If Daddy leaves for work at 7:00 AM, gets home at 5:00 PM, and finishes dinner and dishes by 6:30 PM, and you go to bed at 9:00 PM, how much time does he have to teach you Math, Reading, Spelling, Music, Gym, Civics, and Sociology?
The way I see it (and have empirical evidence to back/it/ having raised our troubled teen nephew), if you're _involved_ in your child's education (read: knowing their syllabi and talking to their teachers) and you, yourself, exhibit an appreciation for learning, your kids will too. "Bad" schools notwithstanding.
Unless, of course, they're just not wired that way.:-)
mlwmohawk said: "If computer science isn't about computers, what is it about?"
cain said: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" -- Edsger Dijkstra
rbarreira said: "Sorry, but in the context of a rational argument, appeal to authority [wikipedia.org] is a logical fallacy."
rbarreira, I believe you skipped out of that wikipedia article before reading the last sentence:
"However, referencing authority may carry a high enough probability of truth that it would be correct to base decisions on it."
Considering Djikstra's authority in the field, I'd would claim that the statement's probability of truth is quite high, or at least higher than mlwmohawk's. I mean, come on, when was the last time you used MlwMohawks Algorithm to calculate anything?
Having gutted out a Master's Degree in Computer Science, I know I come down on the side of Dijkstra. Most of the professors I encountered weren't about programming, they were about theory and algorithms.
mlwmohawk sounds a little curmudgeony, that's all.
If I didn't want to pay the sniper fee, I'd just set my sniping software to bid just before your threshold.
No, I think that despite eBay being calling themselves an "Auction site", it really isn't. It's more of a, "What's the most you'll pay at the last possible minute" site.
Because they're getting a ridiculous amount of money in the form of scholarships and such, in exchange for which they do terribly in classes (dragging their groups down with them, much of the time), drink as much or more as anybody else here (which is no small amount) and then go throw a ball around every now and then in exchange.
Think about that. You're in college. Perhaps you've taken an economics class. The university is certainly getting more than heavy drinkers in the exchange. They aren't giving away their money for nothing, despite what you say.
They're getting revenue from those atheletes in the form of donations, gate, concessions, applicants/students, and I'm sure other things I'm not aware of (I'm not in the industry).
I was a walk-on Football player at Colorado (the 5th down National Champ years). While we had more than our share of low-lifes, we also had a Rhodes Scholar, a few well-studied engineers (hello), some architects, and other genuinely intelligent and thoughtful people who I was proud to associate with.
I know you're pissed that they get a free ride and you don't. I get that (a walk-on doesn't get a scholarship). But college is all about preparing you for life, and life isn't fair. So buck up, start a business, and hire those former college stars as your sales people, cashing in on their glory days.
Don't Buy It. DRM might still exist, but not in the world on the non-buyer.
But what happens when there is no alternative product available because eh-vee-bah-dee else is using DRM?
If there are enough people who care about non-DRM content, businesses will emerge to supply them with what they want.
If there aren't, then they are a statistically insignificant market share and are SOL. Fair? Probably not. Free market? Absolutely. Am I for it? You bet.
For those who know, most of my employees work at minimum wage with a large project bonus (up to 80%), and I have enough people looking to work for us that it isn't the pay structure that isn't helping me find good help.
So, your paying people $5.15 * 1.8 = $9.27/hr TOPS? I don't know about the rest of the crowd here, but that seems awfully low for an IT worker. Or are you being loose with the term 'minimum wage'?
Now, I don't want to insult you, but come on! When has it ever not been about power and money?
If you're thinking about the rose-colored view of WWII, we didn't start that one. We ended it. You can pretty much assume that anyone who starts a war is doing so for money and power. The United States not withstanding.
To some men, Haynes argues, clicking on porn is simply a way to pass the time. It's a hobby. Once they'd idly play solitaire; now they idly click on a porn site. Others, though, succumb to addiction: Most addictions are to do with internal emptiness, wanting to fill up dead space, and addiction is always destructive.
So, before, a Solitaire addiction turned to gambling, and now a Pr0n addiction turns to looking at free Pr0n?
When you are talking about nanobots that are replicating, evolving, and potentially viral (moving from human to human), the potential for a global pandemic is what concerns me.
I think it's the replication that's the most worrying. If some T-101 is running around killing folk, we can kill it. If it can build millions of itself, we have a problem. But at the macro level, we're probably a long way off from that.
So then what about the nano level stuff. If we conjure up a couple of nanobots, Alpha and Bravo. Alpha's sole mission in life is to manufacture Bravo units. Bravo's sole mission is to kill locusts. All of a sudden, no more locust plagues in Africa which yields more crop for local consumption. w00t! Headshot for the scientists.
Now along comes Mr. Psycopath. He gets himself a few of those Alpha units, reverse engineers them, and creates Alpha-prime (A'). A' builds Beta-prime (B') units, whose sole purpose mission is to eat through crop stalks, killing the plants. Sorry n00bs! You've been pwn3d!.
Your vision of an underground is true for products like alcohol and marijuana, not for truly cutting edge research. There's no underground to do things that are genuinely difficult.
Have you ever tried to grow the Kronic or brew up a good moonshine? Didn't think so.
It's a beta. It has some interesting features. Yes, not everything makes sense or works well. It's a beta. But, with all that said, remember, it's a beta. Beta.
I particularly liked the mouse scroll zoom capabilities on the map.
It certainly doesn't seem as crappy as the fanboyz would have you believe.
I'm far from an MS lover, but give credit where it's due...
The OP that you're referring to is a boob. He's mistaking a democracy for a communist society (the kind where everyone *shares* and is happy; we saw how that worked out).
Now, as for the upmodding, I attribute it to my pet theory that people want to be ruled with an iron fist. Probably not true, upmodding notwithstanding, but it's fun to say.
For all you idiots who think that you'd be better off in a Monarchy versus a Democracy, feel free to move to Saudi, or some other such haven of peace, love, and fairness. I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms and give you a great job.
On a tangent, as an American, I'm not sure how I'd react to meeting 'royalty'. Are you supposed to bow when you meet the Queen of England? I don't think I would. Of course, I'll never get that opportunity, but there it is anyway.
Okay. That's the second post I've seen saying most/.ers are too young to have kids. But you yourself have kids. I have kids. Some other poster has kids. And the OP has kids.
Am I the only one who thinks most people reading this site are in their 30s?
Come on, people, all the hip teeny-boppers left a long time ago (they're all over at digg.com).
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I was laid off via an email back in aught-three, albeit inadvertently.
I had sent an email to a client in which I had CC'd my boss-man (the owner). He replied to the client with, "Please send all future correspondance on this subject to me." Not being in full control of his email client, I was included in the recipient list.
The next morning was quite entertaining. I ended up coaching him through how to publicize the layoffs to the remaining staff. It makes for a good story. Now.
You know, that's a helluva thesis. I'd love to see a study on that. I've never thought of it from that direction before. There's no data, but it kind of feels right.
Umm, finally someone in the thread who sounds like a parent.
I know I was bored in High School, and felt it was a waste of time, but that's because I didn't have a very strong appreciation for education. That changed as I aged. There's a reason they say, 'Education is wasted on the young.'
Back on point, the OP better find a pretty good wife (either rich or willing to teach his kids). This simple word problem should help illuminate why:
The way I see it (and have empirical evidence to back /it/ having raised our troubled teen nephew), if you're _involved_ in your child's education (read: knowing their syllabi and talking to their teachers) and you, yourself, exhibit an appreciation for learning, your kids will too. "Bad" schools notwithstanding.
Unless, of course, they're just not wired that way. :-)
Yes, because everyone knows the world revolves around the U S and A!
Joke Disclaimer: If you think this is flamebait, get a grip on yourself and lighten up.
Dude, you need to keep taking your Thorazine.
Or, you could always make the parents into Chili and trick the children into eating it [them].
We can't all live in an absolute world like yourself. You know, the one where you're absolutely right all the time...
rbarreira, I believe you skipped out of that wikipedia article before reading the last sentence:
Considering Djikstra's authority in the field, I'd would claim that the statement's probability of truth is quite high, or at least higher than mlwmohawk's. I mean, come on, when was the last time you used MlwMohawks Algorithm to calculate anything?
Having gutted out a Master's Degree in Computer Science, I know I come down on the side of Dijkstra. Most of the professors I encountered weren't about programming, they were about theory and algorithms.
mlwmohawk sounds a little curmudgeony, that's all.
Umm... What the AC said.
Or just turn off his Internet connection. That's what I do to get my nephew's attention. He's 19 and just moved to the basement.
I'm a living cliche. Man, how did that happen?
:-(
Was that offer right after you got caught cutting in front of the guy? Certainly there were witnesses in the line who could corroborate your story.
I'm just saying, your story, it smells... smells bad... smells real bad...
If I didn't want to pay the sniper fee, I'd just set my sniping software to bid just before your threshold.
No, I think that despite eBay being calling themselves an "Auction site", it really isn't. It's more of a, "What's the most you'll pay at the last possible minute" site.
doug.
Think about that. You're in college. Perhaps you've taken an economics class. The university is certainly getting more than heavy drinkers in the exchange. They aren't giving away their money for nothing, despite what you say.
They're getting revenue from those atheletes in the form of donations, gate, concessions, applicants/students, and I'm sure other things I'm not aware of (I'm not in the industry).
I was a walk-on Football player at Colorado (the 5th down National Champ years). While we had more than our share of low-lifes, we also had a Rhodes Scholar, a few well-studied engineers (hello), some architects, and other genuinely intelligent and thoughtful people who I was proud to associate with.
I know you're pissed that they get a free ride and you don't. I get that (a walk-on doesn't get a scholarship). But college is all about preparing you for life, and life isn't fair. So buck up, start a business, and hire those former college stars as your sales people, cashing in on their glory days.
doug.
If there are enough people who care about non-DRM content, businesses will emerge to supply them with what they want.
If there aren't, then they are a statistically insignificant market share and are SOL. Fair? Probably not. Free market? Absolutely. Am I for it? You bet.
Let the market settle it.
That's frickin' hilarious! Sorry about that.
Maybe log in and post next time, that might make you more visible.
If I could give it back I would.
Since no one has said it,
"Dude, you're getting a skin graft!"
/
Nope, only a third is spam. The other third is pr0n. And a quarter of that is me.
I know I'm too late to the game, but:
So, your paying people $5.15 * 1.8 = $9.27/hr TOPS? I don't know about the rest of the crowd here, but that seems awfully low for an IT worker. Or are you being loose with the term 'minimum wage'?
...embraced and extended this new technology? :-P
Now, I don't want to insult you, but come on! When has it ever not been about power and money?
If you're thinking about the rose-colored view of WWII, we didn't start that one. We ended it. You can pretty much assume that anyone who starts a war is doing so for money and power. The United States not withstanding.
So, before, a Solitaire addiction turned to gambling, and now a Pr0n addiction turns to looking at free Pr0n?
That seems like an improvement.
/oversimplified and loving it!
Volume.
I think it's the replication that's the most worrying. If some T-101 is running around killing folk, we can kill it. If it can build millions of itself, we have a problem. But at the macro level, we're probably a long way off from that.
So then what about the nano level stuff. If we conjure up a couple of nanobots, Alpha and Bravo. Alpha's sole mission in life is to manufacture Bravo units. Bravo's sole mission is to kill locusts. All of a sudden, no more locust plagues in Africa which yields more crop for local consumption. w00t! Headshot for the scientists.
Now along comes Mr. Psycopath. He gets himself a few of those Alpha units, reverse engineers them, and creates Alpha-prime (A'). A' builds Beta-prime (B') units, whose sole purpose mission is to eat through crop stalks, killing the plants. Sorry n00bs! You've been pwn3d!.
And from there, let the Diamond Age begin.
Have you ever tried to grow the Kronic or brew up a good moonshine? Didn't think so.
It's a beta. It has some interesting features. Yes, not everything makes sense or works well. It's a beta. But, with all that said, remember, it's a beta. Beta.
I particularly liked the mouse scroll zoom capabilities on the map.
It certainly doesn't seem as crappy as the fanboyz would have you believe.
I'm far from an MS lover, but give credit where it's due...
I'm with you, Dude.
The OP that you're referring to is a boob. He's mistaking a democracy for a communist society (the kind where everyone *shares* and is happy; we saw how that worked out).
Now, as for the upmodding, I attribute it to my pet theory that people want to be ruled with an iron fist. Probably not true, upmodding notwithstanding, but it's fun to say.
For all you idiots who think that you'd be better off in a Monarchy versus a Democracy, feel free to move to Saudi, or some other such haven of peace, love, and fairness. I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms and give you a great job.
On a tangent, as an American, I'm not sure how I'd react to meeting 'royalty'. Are you supposed to bow when you meet the Queen of England? I don't think I would. Of course, I'll never get that opportunity, but there it is anyway.
Okay. That's the second post I've seen saying most /.ers are too young to have kids. But you yourself have kids. I have kids. Some other poster has kids. And the OP has kids.
Am I the only one who thinks most people reading this site are in their 30s?
Come on, people, all the hip teeny-boppers left a long time ago (they're all over at digg.com).