I just looked at the site using Netscrape running on Solaris, and it worked fine - so it's more a windoze/macos/linux problem than a netscrape problem. Oh, sure, I had to reload the page once 'coz it was pretty blank the first time, & it kept wanting to set cookies that would persist for 20 years, but I got to see the first page. (I didn't look at any more 'coz the connection was s...l...o...w).
During our last-but-one federal election in Australia, Albert Langer (an old comrade from the campaign against the military adventure in Vietnam) pointed out that our two major parties were like Tweedledum and Tweedledee - AND THEY DIFFER MORE THAN YOUR TWO MAJOR PARTIES! No wonder something like 95% of Americans don't bother to vote.
The best chair i ever had was one of those weird chairs with no back and a kneepad. They're particularly good for geriatric old farts with fucked backs like me. Unfortunately my middle child broke it by actually kneeling (and bouncing around) on the kneepad for extended periods (he weighed about 15 stone at the time and used to get pretty wired playing revenge at krondor or something) so I'm back to a very second rate chair.
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because we've *already* run out of space in the prisons - we'd never be able to fit in about 70% of the population.
I think you've missed the point. If I understand RMS correctly he has no argument at all with people being reimbursed for their efforts, he just has a moral objection to proprietary software. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and an inability to see that indicates sloppy thinking.
Don't get too wrapped around the axles about finding the perfect (or even an acceptable) job right away. Over the 35 or so years since I finished high school, I've had several major career changes: clerk, layabout/labourer, architecture student (failed), soldier/cartographer, GIS "expert" and, now, analyst/programmer. I don't exclude the possibility of further changes, either. All in all, life's been pretty good to me, and it's been a blast getting here.
Actually Babbage *did* have a working Difference Engine which he had installed in his living room to impress the visitors (and hopefully attract some venture capital), although he never built the laptop^H^H^H^H^H^Hprinter.
I had a couple of good managers while I was in the Army (not IT work - map making). They were technicians who'd worked their way up (the shitty managers were often young blokes with a shiny new degree and a commission). I haven't found too many since, although the bloke I work for now is pretty good - like the better managers I had in the Army he looks after his people.
The same problem exists in Australia, for exactly the same reasons, that is employers generally aren't prepared to invest in their own people, but want someone else to pay for the training/experience they want to use. I'm about your age (although I have much less programming experience - I'm a cartographer by trade), and, in a country where employers are whining about a skills shortage I was unemployed for nearly 3 months last year. Fortunately my current employer *is* prepared to pay for skills development.
Gibson may be a better writer (arguable) but he is less genuinely dystopic than Brunner. I enjoyed this book enormously when I read it (about 20 years ago), and everything else Brunner wrote, and I also enjoy some of Gibson's work, but they are imo writing about quite different things - Gibson appears to celebrate this kind of future (or at least accepts it), while Brunner deplores it. There is a more obvious and consistent moral stance in Brunner's work than in superficially similar stuff written since.
This is not strictly true. GPS will report the receiver's *spheroidal* altitude (ie, height above the theoretical figure of the earth it used to calculate your latitude and longitude), while the aircraft's altimeter will report *geoidal* altitude (ie, height above sea level) and these are usually significantly different. Add to this the complications of GPS giving height in meters and aircraft instruments giving height in feet, and the possibility that some people will be using a spheroid other than WGS84 (thereby being somewhere other than where they think they are), and you have the makings of a mars lander sized disaster, only involving real live people.
i read _atlas shrugged_ about 30 years ago (when i was a spotty youth) and i couldn't take ayn rand seriously *then* (i always preferred betrand russell, who *could* write). it always beat the shit out of me that anyone could seriously regard her as a philosopher, with her gift for non-analytic thought
Falling down is *not* a funny film. Also, America is not a young country with a short history - Anglos have been there since at least the 16th century, for a start. Australia is a much younger country (invaded in the late 18th century), and we *do* think failure is funny (sometimes). We are also not too sensitive about our failures (we regard the military failure at Gallipoli during WW1 as the defining moment of our nation). I think there is a profound difference between Americans and the rest of the English-speaking world - you are perceived as having no sense of irony, which is what makes failure funny (before anyone flames me I realise that this is an unfair genralisation).
I agree. Name the bastards, and see if you have any legal recourse.
Some years ago, I was contracting for a place which gave me the impression I'd have a job until the following March/April (the deadline had slipped), and then got told on Xmas Eve 'aah... sorry... we've got to let you go immediately so we'll at least be able to pay the permanents'. I name them to anyone who asks (although I believe they went pear-shaped). Unfortunately I didn't have any legal recourse, but if I had...
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I just looked at the site using Netscrape running on Solaris, and it worked fine - so it's more a windoze/macos/linux problem than a netscrape problem. Oh, sure, I had to reload the page once 'coz it was pretty blank the first time, & it kept wanting to set cookies that would persist for 20 years, but I got to see the first page. (I didn't look at any more 'coz the connection was s...l...o...w).
During our last-but-one federal election in Australia, Albert Langer (an old comrade from the campaign against the military adventure in Vietnam) pointed out that our two major parties were like Tweedledum and Tweedledee - AND THEY DIFFER MORE THAN YOUR TWO MAJOR PARTIES! No wonder something like 95% of Americans don't bother to vote.
The best chair i ever had was one of those weird chairs with no back and a kneepad. They're particularly good for geriatric old farts with fucked backs like me. Unfortunately my middle child broke it by actually kneeling (and bouncing around) on the kneepad for extended periods (he weighed about 15 stone at the time and used to get pretty wired playing revenge at krondor or something) so I'm back to a very second rate chair.
because we've *already* run out of space in the prisons - we'd never be able to fit in about 70% of the population.
Aaah - someone else who:
(a) has actually read Ayn Rand; and therefore
(b) thinks she was a dangerous fool.
Or am I putting words in your mouth?
I think you've missed the point. If I understand RMS correctly he has no argument at all with people being reimbursed for their efforts, he just has a moral objection to proprietary software. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and an inability to see that indicates sloppy thinking.
Don't get too wrapped around the axles about finding the perfect (or even an acceptable) job right away. Over the 35 or so years since I finished high school, I've had several major career changes: clerk, layabout/labourer, architecture student (failed), soldier/cartographer, GIS "expert" and, now, analyst/programmer. I don't exclude the possibility of further changes, either. All in all, life's been pretty good to me, and it's been a blast getting here.
... and you'd be quite mistaken. None of them are much like either of the others, let alone subsets of the same discipline.
Only if your employer is prepared to allow you to publish ...
Actually Babbage *did* have a working Difference Engine which he had installed in his living room to impress the visitors (and hopefully attract some venture capital), although he never built the laptop^H^H^H^H^H^Hprinter.
I had a couple of good managers while I was in the Army (not IT work - map making). They were technicians who'd worked their way up (the shitty managers were often young blokes with a shiny new degree and a commission). I haven't found too many since, although the bloke I work for now is pretty good - like the better managers I had in the Army he looks after his people.
The same problem exists in Australia, for exactly the same reasons, that is employers generally aren't prepared to invest in their own people, but want someone else to pay for the training/experience they want to use. I'm about your age (although I have much less programming experience - I'm a cartographer by trade), and, in a country where employers are whining about a skills shortage I was unemployed for nearly 3 months last year. Fortunately my current employer *is* prepared to pay for skills development.
Gibson may be a better writer (arguable) but he is less genuinely dystopic than Brunner. I enjoyed this book enormously when I read it (about 20 years ago), and everything else Brunner wrote, and I also enjoy some of Gibson's work, but they are imo writing about quite different things - Gibson appears to celebrate this kind of future (or at least accepts it), while Brunner deplores it. There is a more obvious and consistent moral stance in Brunner's work than in superficially similar stuff written since.
This is not strictly true. GPS will report the receiver's *spheroidal* altitude (ie, height above the theoretical figure of the earth it used to calculate your latitude and longitude), while the aircraft's altimeter will report *geoidal* altitude (ie, height above sea level) and these are usually significantly different. Add to this the complications of GPS giving height in meters and aircraft instruments giving height in feet, and the possibility that some people will be using a spheroid other than WGS84 (thereby being somewhere other than where they think they are), and you have the makings of a mars lander sized disaster, only involving real live people.
i read _atlas shrugged_ about 30 years ago (when i was a spotty youth) and i couldn't take ayn rand seriously *then* (i always preferred betrand russell, who *could* write). it always beat the shit out of me that anyone could seriously regard her as a philosopher, with her gift for non-analytic thought
Falling down is *not* a funny film. Also, America is not a young country with a short history - Anglos have been there since at least the 16th century, for a start. Australia is a much younger country (invaded in the late 18th century), and we *do* think failure is funny (sometimes). We are also not too sensitive about our failures (we regard the military failure at Gallipoli during WW1 as the defining moment of our nation). I think there is a profound difference between Americans and the rest of the English-speaking world - you are perceived as having no sense of irony, which is what makes failure funny (before anyone flames me I realise that this is an unfair genralisation).
Glad I'm not the only person old enough to have read it ... interestingly, I saw a new reprint on sale the other day.
I agree. Name the bastards, and see if you have any legal recourse.
... sorry ... we've got to let you go immediately so we'll at least be able to pay the permanents'. I name them to anyone who asks (although I believe they went pear-shaped). Unfortunately I didn't have any legal recourse, but if I had ...
Some years ago, I was contracting for a place which gave me the impression I'd have a job until the following March/April (the deadline had slipped), and then got told on Xmas Eve 'aah