I won't tell you what 256Kbps of bandwidth costs in my city, but here's a hint: It's not $49, and it's not even two digits long. It's more than the average car payment.
If your ability to use a free and public resource is taken away by a governing body over which you have no control, are you still living in a Democracy? I think that equating the Net and Democracy makes perfect sense in this context.
I agree, but Metallica pretty much did sell out by making Load. Not because the music was different, but because they tried to rewrite history. They were interviewed about it, and said "Don't call us Heavy Metal. We were never Heavy Metal. We have always been, and always will be, Pop." That's bullshit, as any Metal fan knows. That's selling out. Ok, maybe NOW you're Pop, but trying to deny that you were ever Metal is bullshit.
Right on brother. I live in Tallahassee as well, and I'm finally going to get a cable modem in June. How much will it cost? $250 a month. Whee. I still have cable TV service, but it costs an unimaginable amount of money compared to 1987. Don't you just love this wonderful new freedom?
You win the irony prize for the day. "We are not numbers!" Then you boil your distinctiveness down to a single alphanumeric string in your.signature. Heheh.. I love it.
I feel for you man.. I work for the State of Florida.. We have the biggest mainframe farm in the country outside of the Pentagon. Like 40 quintillion lines of code. 90% of our mainframes are IBM.. We use COBOL, JCL, and TSO.. Luckily we met our April 1st full Y2K compliance deadline. We have an amazing advantage.. Even though I'm a contractor, 80% of the staff is made up of state employees, who are only required to work 40 hours a week by law. That means that there is no incentive to work longer hours, even though you can if you need to. When 5:00 rolls around, everyone goes home. 60 hours a week wouldn't make it past the first staff meeting where I work. I hope conditions improve! If you want to hear about our test protocols, or see a sample test script, let me know.. Maybe I can help.
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Yeah, I agree.. I hate how all the bank teller chicks have started hitting on me now.. They didn't do more than smile before I started this job.. Money isn't everything, people.
I won't specify how much I make, but it's a damn sight more than the 50k the article talks about. I left college in my Junior year of CS/Linguistics to become a contractor for the IT section of a state agency. It's an extremely weird feeling; I make as much as my parents, but I can't legally buy alcohol until August. I think that the problems listed in this article aren't symptoms of the industry itself as much as they are of those who work in it. The distinction might be minor, but I think living our your life as a network admin is not the only path in the IT field. Sure, that's where I started, but if you show some initiative you will be able to take on greater responsibility. Greater responsibility leads to a more rewarding job experience. I will admit that I have the advantage of working only 40 hours a week, and living 10 minutes away. I don't think that that's what makes me enjoy my job more than some nameless NT worker.
If you feel tired when you get home from work, maybe it's time to kick that caffeine habit.. Maybe it's time to stop smoking. If you're working 12 hours a day just to pull down $50k, it's time to look for another job. Next week, try fighting back the urge to crash when you get home.. Grab a good book.. try The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand.. I just finished it, and it's a fun read. Hell.. Just read the comics page of your local newspaper, or even just turn off the PC for a while! Take up racquetball, make a sock puppet.. Take a break, and watch your outlook improve.
I hope I didn't come off sounding like a cheerleader.;)
How exactly does the GPL define "keeping it to yourself." For example, Cygnus is under an NDA from Intel while working on the IA-64 gcc compiler. They are not required to release the modified source code until they make their changes "public." How do we define making something public? What happens if I make a product "public" by adding a license that makes anyone who downloads it an unpaid employee of my company? I can then argue that I haven't distributed my modified code beyond my own development group.. "We haven't released it yet, so we don't need to provide the source code."
One of my points was, of course, that it didn't have any "style" or "flair" in the first place. (Oops, sorry, I corrected your spelling. Heh.) The reason that I didn't take up a counter position was that I assumed that the counter was obvious to everyone who read the essay. Apparently not. Rather than the "help, slow down, I'm having a crisis!" opinions stated by the author, I would suggest that life has ALWAYS seemed this way. In fact, I already feel this way about "youth today" and I'm only 20 years old. I will readily admit that we have some new ways of acquiring and processing information that we've developed in recent years. The same has been true of every generation, however. Now we have PCs everywhere, before that we had new musical styles, before that we had color TVs, before that we had black and white TVs, before that we had radio, etc, off into the mists of time and the first legbone being beaten against the first drum. The majority of each generation fails to understand its children. This isn't new. I definitely feel out of touch with people who are younger than me. However, I attribute this mostly to my own superiority, rather than anything new occuring in the world. My intellect and income are both in the top nothingth of a percentile. That statement is a fact, and nothing other than a head wound and a demotion will change that. I feel that this essay is just restating the endless lament of everyone who has woken up to their 40th birthday: "I just don't understand THESE DAMN KIDS ANYMORE!!" Admittedly, most people my age still recognize the characters of HAL and Yoda, but how many of us know who Abbot and Costello were, much less are able to say what they are remembered for? People forget the culture of their parents. Get used to it.
I think it's great that you are dedicated to improving your education, and I applaud you for it. You should know, however, that just by thinking the phrase "Gee, I wonder how that works." you set yourself far beyond the norm. The average American goes to work, flips burgers, and admires the boss's new Trans Am. Make your money, retire early, and spend the last 50 years of your life learning.
Wherever this person went to high-school/college, please do not send your children there. Let me quote something from the essay:
"History as a discipline, threaded through textual narratives and how text defines time and causality, has morphed into a world of hyper-textual images, in which our personal interests determine the path we travel through images of meaningful events."
Let's deconstruct it. First we remove the useless comma-delimited buzzwords:
"History as a discipline has morphed into a world of hyper-textual images, in which our personal interests determine the path we travel through images of meaningful events."
Still doesn't really mean much, now does it? We'll try again:
"The study of history has morphed into a world in which our personal interests determine the patch we travel through images of meaningful events."
Now it makes some kind of sense, just barely. Basically he's saying that since we don't read about history in books anymore (his premise, not mine), we only learn about what we want to learn about? Gee.. That's a pretty bold statement.. It's not every day that we hear some inane truism shrouded in "new media" buzzwords.. Or is it? Maybe Katz should sue for damages.. Obviously this guy is out to steal bread from the mouth of our resident Master of Buzzwords.
You're wrong. There is no version of Windows 98 that comes with support for the 3C905B out of the box. It supports the 3C905, but not revision B. I didn't believe it either until I saw it happen last weekend. Crazy.
Personally, I love all the distributions. I myself chose Debian, and I'm planning on sending them a big fat donation in SCSI adapters and cash. However, I think the Linux movement is the coolest thing to happen in the computer industry since porn. Anyone who is contribution in any way, however minor, is my friend. Red Hat hasn't bitten us yet, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt. If they betray the community, well, we have ways of dealing with traitors. If they don't, then we haven't alienated anyone now have we?
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sed s/fsck/fuck/g might cause some problems, though. ;)
I won't tell you what 256Kbps of bandwidth costs in my city, but here's a hint: It's not $49, and it's not even two digits long. It's more than the average car payment.
If your ability to use a free and public resource is taken away by a governing body over which you have no control, are you still living in a Democracy? I think that equating the Net and Democracy makes perfect sense in this context.
Doesn't exist.
I think it's hilarious that you trust the text of an anonymous post more than a JPG. Which one seems easier to falsify to you?
I agree, but Metallica pretty much did sell out by making Load. Not because the music was different, but because they tried to rewrite history. They were interviewed about it, and said "Don't call us Heavy Metal. We were never Heavy Metal. We have always been, and always will be, Pop."
That's bullshit, as any Metal fan knows. That's selling out. Ok, maybe NOW you're Pop, but trying to deny that you were ever Metal is bullshit.
Sure. I'd bet that Virginia has plenty of people who bite the heads off chickens at carnivals.
Right on brother. I live in Tallahassee as well, and I'm finally going to get a cable modem in June. How much will it cost? $250 a month. Whee. I still have cable TV service, but it costs an unimaginable amount of money compared to 1987. Don't you just love this wonderful new freedom?
That's great, until someone makes an MP3 of you saying that, and plays it back from a RIO. ;)
Not that I know of, sorry.
You win the irony prize for the day. "We are not numbers!" .signature. Heheh.. I love it.
Then you boil your distinctiveness down to a single alphanumeric string in your
I feel for you man.. I work for the State of Florida.. We have the biggest mainframe farm in the country outside of the Pentagon. Like 40 quintillion lines of code. 90% of our mainframes are IBM.. We use COBOL, JCL, and TSO.. Luckily we met our April 1st full Y2K compliance deadline. We have an amazing advantage.. Even though I'm a contractor, 80% of the staff is made up of state employees, who are only required to work 40 hours a week by law. That means that there is no incentive to work longer hours, even though you can if you need to. When 5:00 rolls around, everyone goes home. 60 hours a week wouldn't make it past the first staff meeting where I work. I hope conditions improve! If you want to hear about our test protocols, or see a sample test script, let me know.. Maybe I can help.
Yeah, I agree.. I hate how all the bank teller chicks have started hitting on me now.. They didn't do more than smile before I started this job.. Money isn't everything, people.
I won't specify how much I make, but it's a damn sight more than the 50k the article talks about. I left college in my Junior year of CS/Linguistics to become a contractor for the IT section of a state agency. It's an extremely weird feeling; I make as much as my parents, but I can't legally buy alcohol until August. I think that the problems listed in this article aren't symptoms of the industry itself as much as they are of those who work in it. The distinction might be minor, but I think living our your life as a network admin is not the only path in the IT field. Sure, that's where I started, but if you show some initiative you will be able to take on greater responsibility. Greater responsibility leads to a more rewarding job experience. I will admit that I have the advantage of working only 40 hours a week, and living 10 minutes away. I don't think that that's what makes me enjoy my job more than some nameless NT worker.
;)
If you feel tired when you get home from work, maybe it's time to kick that caffeine habit.. Maybe it's time to stop smoking. If you're working 12 hours a day just to pull down $50k, it's time to look for another job. Next week, try fighting back the urge to crash when you get home.. Grab a good book.. try The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand.. I just finished it, and it's a fun read. Hell.. Just read the comics page of your local newspaper, or even just turn off the PC for a while! Take up racquetball, make a sock puppet.. Take a break, and watch your outlook improve.
I hope I didn't come off sounding like a cheerleader.
I think it's a "Grillion."
Now if we could just get one to stamp out those silos they're storing the grapes of wrath in...
You're so awesome.
Hey man.. What's your new e-mail address? After you left Brandeis I kinda lost track.. BTW.. What are you doing with my Wheel of Pain? ;)
How exactly does the GPL define "keeping it to yourself." For example, Cygnus is under an NDA from Intel while working on the IA-64 gcc compiler. They are not required to release the modified source code until they make their changes "public." How do we define making something public? What happens if I make a product "public" by adding a license that makes anyone who downloads it an unpaid employee of my company? I can then argue that I haven't distributed my modified code beyond my own development group.. "We haven't released it yet, so we don't need to provide the source code."
Does the GPL provide for this?
One of my points was, of course, that it didn't have any "style" or "flair" in the first place. (Oops, sorry, I corrected your spelling. Heh.)
The reason that I didn't take up a counter position was that I assumed that the counter was obvious to everyone who read the essay. Apparently not. Rather than the "help, slow down, I'm having a crisis!" opinions stated by the author, I would suggest that life has ALWAYS seemed this way. In fact, I already feel this way about "youth today" and I'm only 20 years old. I will readily admit that we have some new ways of acquiring and processing information that we've developed in recent years. The same has been true of every generation, however. Now we have PCs everywhere, before that we had new musical styles, before that we had color TVs, before that we had black and white TVs, before that we had radio, etc, off into the mists of time and the first legbone being beaten against the first drum.
The majority of each generation fails to understand its children. This isn't new.
I definitely feel out of touch with people who are younger than me. However, I attribute this mostly to my own superiority, rather than anything new occuring in the world. My intellect and income are both in the top nothingth of a percentile. That statement is a fact, and nothing other than a head wound and a demotion will change that.
I feel that this essay is just restating the endless lament of everyone who has woken up to their 40th birthday: "I just don't understand THESE DAMN KIDS ANYMORE!!"
Admittedly, most people my age still recognize the characters of HAL and Yoda, but how many of us know who Abbot and Costello were, much less are able to say what they are remembered for? People forget the culture of their parents. Get used to it.
I think it's great that you are dedicated to improving your education, and I applaud you for it. You should know, however, that just by thinking the phrase "Gee, I wonder how that works." you set yourself far beyond the norm. The average American goes to work, flips burgers, and admires the boss's new Trans Am. Make your money, retire early, and spend the last 50 years of your life learning.
Testify!
Wherever this person went to high-school/college, please do not send your children there. Let me quote something from the essay:
"History as a discipline, threaded through textual narratives and how text defines time and causality, has morphed into a world of hyper-textual images, in which our personal interests determine the path we travel through images of meaningful events."
Let's deconstruct it. First we remove the useless comma-delimited buzzwords:
"History as a discipline has morphed into a world of hyper-textual images, in which our personal interests determine the path we travel through images of meaningful events."
Still doesn't really mean much, now does it? We'll try again:
"The study of history has morphed into a world in which our personal interests determine the patch we travel through images of meaningful events."
Now it makes some kind of sense, just barely. Basically he's saying that since we don't read about history in books anymore (his premise, not mine), we only learn about what we want to learn about? Gee.. That's a pretty bold statement.. It's not every day that we hear some inane truism shrouded in "new media" buzzwords.. Or is it?
Maybe Katz should sue for damages.. Obviously this guy is out to steal bread from the mouth of our resident Master of Buzzwords.
You're wrong. There is no version of Windows 98 that comes with support for the 3C905B out of the box. It supports the 3C905, but not revision B. I didn't believe it either until I saw it happen last weekend. Crazy.
--Defiler.
Personally, I love all the distributions. I myself chose Debian, and I'm planning on sending them a big fat donation in SCSI adapters and cash. However, I think the Linux movement is the coolest thing to happen in the computer industry since porn. Anyone who is contribution in any way, however minor, is my friend. Red Hat hasn't bitten us yet, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt. If they betray the community, well, we have ways of dealing with traitors. If they don't, then we haven't alienated anyone now have we?
--Defiler.
So, when do we get to be immortal?