Get this, someone in Area 51 leaks alien photographs and Julian publishes them. Now what? And what if, just what if, the alien is having Tom Cruise's baby.
We'll never believe it because now Julian is working for a Swedish National Enquirer and Tom gets his alien baby.
Parents often have so high expectations of their kids, that they push them. In the end kids are so stressed that they develop those symptoms. And the worst thing is, they can also get AHDS and other bevahior problems, just because the parents are not able to aow thery kids to develop naturally. And because all the stress is connected to the school it is logical that they develop these symptoms when entering school.
And instead of giving our kids more time to grow, we give them ritalin so they head strait for the goals we set for them. We forgot that children are also humans and they have also freedom rights. And pushing them in certain directions and hoping their can fulfill our dreams we failed to fulfill is totally wrong. So do not rip out the WI-FI just give them more time.
Parents have to. With today's World Wide Competition for everything, being average or even above average means a life of low wages.
It's no longer good enough to do well and go to college. A kid has to be the best and go to the best schools to climb the social ladder or even stay where their parents are socioeconomically.
We in the West are now in this downward spiral and an education and hard work isn't good enough anymore. There are tens of millions of people who are smarter and willing to work harder to get out of their poverty.
Got a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering? Not good enough. A company like Intel will still offshore that work too because they can get an Indian for a third the wage, he'll work more hours, and kiss their ass for the opportunity. He doesn't give a shit about leisure: he can now feed his extended family. MD? Medical tourism: and even then, there are some innovations being done in Asia that will increase physician productivity greatly - read they're salaries will come down. Lawyer? Contracts are being done in India. The only profession immune is politician and anything related to military: soldier or defense contractor - then again there's a bunch of laid off Lockheed workers that would disagree with that.
There's a lot of people in this World making labor, regardless of skill, a commodity. And as someone long ago said here on/., there's a lot of poverty to be exported out of those countries.
Reminds me of a news segment about that peanut based food for Third World Children in order to get some protein in their diet. The reporter asked one of the docs supervising the program about peanut allergies. The doc responded that there are no peanut allergies in developing countries.
I have a distant relative who bought a new Mercedes a couple of years ago. After purchasing the car, he had to attend several weekend classes. Rolling my eyes, I asked why in the World do you have to attend classes to use the car? The manual isn't god enough?
Apparently, the car has do much electronic shit: navigation, hands free "communications devices" and everything to operate anything has quite a bit of UIs and electronic shit.
The unfortunate thing is that all of that crap will trickle down into the "cheap" cars.
It's just gimmicks to increase margins and maintenance business down the road.
Another day another apple slashvert. How very fucking tedious.
It doesn't have to be. We can have fun with this.
I don't know, even days we just pick on fanbois - although, that's been getting a bit boring too. But there's still room for creativity like; "Ha ha fanbois! You're now mainstream and you aren't so different or rebellious anymore!"
Or "Hey fanbois! Like Jobs says, 'You have a computing appliance'. What's it like to have an expensive toaster?! When are you going to get your Apple branded microwave the.....iWave?"
On the odd days, we can pick on the F/oSS guys. "Hey guys! Apple has this and they were PAID to do it because they hate it! Why can't you guys do something better out of love?! Huh?!" Or
"Pfffft! F/oSS guys! Apple took BSD and look what they did! And you guys are wasting your time with outdoing MS? Apple did their own thing and look at them!"
And then, every Tuesday of Months were the temperature rises above 90 in Anchorage, we defend MS and say how MS did do things better than Apple here and there. - I'm not creative enough for those examples, so your on your own coming up with those.
That really happens to me:(
I'll be reading a technical article or something and as I'm flipping to a tab with the diagram or something, I look to see what the market is doing, what's posted on/., post some 2-bit opinion on/., then over to Digg to post another 2-bit opinion or fuck with someone, then to see news, then I realize I just pisses away 30-40 minutes and then I'm back to the article and looking at the diagram.
Then, the article mentions another diagram or I have to look up a term and round and round I go.
I'm supposed to be reading about some heterosexual radio receiver or something like that right now.
Imagine how thrilled little Billy's Mommy would have been if she only had the chance to read the story of her son's foray into Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
I thought it was a new O'Reily title and this was a book review. Doesn't that sound like a title of a book? The Animal on the cover would be some old Gypsy looking into a crystal ball.
If the programmer has enough free time to make something really great for a contest, then he's already a big name or capable of making lots of money and great projects, so somebody making use of his contest entry should be but a little blip on his radar; if his contest entry was that great then he surely can go big time.
Not necessarily. I can also see someone who's been cranking away code, researching algorithms, developing his own algorithms in his free time with no recognition and then one day, a contest that falls within his interests, he enters and wins. He now has a name in whatever it is and can claim that he won or even cam in second place in a World wide competition. That's something very few people can claim and I would think it would mean more than even graduating first place from a top university.
If you walked around their offices, it seemed like a software company. The cubicles were full of programmers writing code, product managers thinking about feature lists and ship dates, support people (yes, there were actually support people) telling users to restart their browsers, and so on, just like a software company. So why did they call themselves a media company?
You'd see the same thing at an insurance company, auto company, or any large company that has large in-house development department. And yet, they're not conflicted about if they're a tech company or an insurance company.
Here's a hint on how to decide. How are your revenues generated?
Yes. As a matter of fact, global warming is heating space! And eventually, the ice caps on Mars will melt and release even more CO2 - heating space even more! Then, the ice rings around Saturn will melt causing more global warming and eventually, it will affect Uranus - then a true disaster, you'll need K-Y.
Sometime in it's orbit, would it drop down to 12K? Meaning, could it be still used when and if it cools down enough - at least until someone can get up their to replenish it?
This may shock you, but the iPad (and the Star Trek prop) are portable.
Just an obvious enhancement because technology allows it.
If the Star Trek writers had any real imagination, they would have had a data display device that would induce an electrical current in one's occipital lobs thereby allowing said information to appear in their eyes. Or even have something that creates the memories in their brain so that as far as the recipient of the information is concerned, the information is a memory that they knew all along.
A PADD, iPad, or some sort of flat electronic information displaying device isn't exactly some whacked out idea - it's a natural and obvious design of a device - it's how everyone on the face of the planet consumes written material.Making computing more human friendly has been the goal of the comp. scientists since day one.
I really don't think Apple took any inspiration from Star Trek.
Without decent attorneys, those guys would probably be in prison now (instead of the piece-of-shit prosecutor who railroaded them for his own political gain).
That highlights the importance of money in getting justice. Those kids had very well-to-do parents that were able to launch a very effective legal and PR counter attack - and I'm sure they were also politically connected too.
For the rest of us, we'd have to take a "deal" (plead guilty to lesser but no less BS charges) from the prosecutor in order to get it over with so that we not only don't go to jail over the BS charges but also not be burdened with legal bills for the rest of our lives.
Justice seems to only apply to the rich these days.
The link I posted shows Mutual funds holding 81% (more than enough to do anything they please) , Brin has only 79,000 shares and I don't even see Page on the list. In other words, if came down to a vote of share, the founders have no voting power.
I ran over and glanced at the holding of GOOG to see if the insiders have much control. As far as stock ownership is concerned, management doesn't have that much direct voting power.
The key questions are:
1. Will some of the big holders get bitchy and want Google to start whoring they're data. 2. Does the management have enough backing votes to block other big shareholders from forcing the whoring.
When some of the shareholders get wind that Google is holding back to be "good", you can bet you asses that there's going to be some fighting and these are the times when founders and their values get thrown out the window.
What could save them is that most of the shareholders are mutual funds. Those guys are usually passive and are just along for the ride.
I've seen comments on Digg that were spot on about a topic regarding the facts and it would get buried into oblivion because it didn't mesh with the group think. It doesn't matter what the facts are, if you say something that doesn't jibe with what people believe, they'll consider it garbage.
It also varies with time. Many times a topic will get posted multiple times and the same comment will be dugg high one time and then another, it will get buried into oblivion. It's a really interesting phenomena.
We like to hear our beliefs re-enforced. If the facts match our beliefs, more the better; if they don't, well people will just consider it false - regardless of the truth.
I see folks who condemn Talk Radio for creating opinion. I think it's the other way around. I think those guys listen to their callers and get the "pulse" of their beliefs and then just ratchet it up while including the audience's common fears and resentments - I'm not going to mention them here because I know it'll start a whole off-topic posts.
Yes and no. Yes, it does not change, in fact it does not change since your first day, simply because your DNA is already setup, and ready to go. And NO, it does change, if you are willing to learn.
A couple of years ago, I bumped into an old friend that I lost touch with. Long story short, he said that I am a completely different person than the guy he met 15 years ago. I believe I am an outlier, though. I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
A person can and does change when they want to.
On the other hand, I was told by a professional that I really didn't change, per se, and that the old person was really a "false self" and that I becoming the real "me".
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Get this, someone in Area 51 leaks alien photographs and Julian publishes them. Now what? And what if, just what if, the alien is having Tom Cruise's baby.
We'll never believe it because now Julian is working for a Swedish National Enquirer and Tom gets his alien baby.
Parents often have so high expectations of their kids, that they push them. In the end kids are so stressed that they develop those symptoms. And the worst thing is, they can also get AHDS and other bevahior problems, just because the parents are not able to aow thery kids to develop naturally. And because all the stress is connected to the school it is logical that they develop these symptoms when entering school.
And instead of giving our kids more time to grow, we give them ritalin so they head strait for the goals we set for them. We forgot that children are also humans and they have also freedom rights. And pushing them in certain directions and hoping their can fulfill our dreams we failed to fulfill is totally wrong. So do not rip out the WI-FI just give them more time.
Parents have to. With today's World Wide Competition for everything, being average or even above average means a life of low wages.
It's no longer good enough to do well and go to college. A kid has to be the best and go to the best schools to climb the social ladder or even stay where their parents are socioeconomically.
We in the West are now in this downward spiral and an education and hard work isn't good enough anymore. There are tens of millions of people who are smarter and willing to work harder to get out of their poverty.
Got a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering? Not good enough. A company like Intel will still offshore that work too because they can get an Indian for a third the wage, he'll work more hours, and kiss their ass for the opportunity. He doesn't give a shit about leisure: he can now feed his extended family. MD? Medical tourism: and even then, there are some innovations being done in Asia that will increase physician productivity greatly - read they're salaries will come down. Lawyer? Contracts are being done in India. The only profession immune is politician and anything related to military: soldier or defense contractor - then again there's a bunch of laid off Lockheed workers that would disagree with that.
There's a lot of people in this World making labor, regardless of skill, a commodity. And as someone long ago said here on /., there's a lot of poverty to be exported out of those countries.
Reminds me of a news segment about that peanut based food for Third World Children in order to get some protein in their diet. The reporter asked one of the docs supervising the program about peanut allergies. The doc responded that there are no peanut allergies in developing countries.
It's very disturbing and you'll see why these things happen.
I have a distant relative who bought a new Mercedes a couple of years ago. After purchasing the car, he had to attend several weekend classes. Rolling my eyes, I asked why in the World do you have to attend classes to use the car? The manual isn't god enough?
Apparently, the car has do much electronic shit: navigation, hands free "communications devices" and everything to operate anything has quite a bit of UIs and electronic shit.
The unfortunate thing is that all of that crap will trickle down into the "cheap" cars.
It's just gimmicks to increase margins and maintenance business down the road.
Another day another apple slashvert. How very fucking tedious.
It doesn't have to be. We can have fun with this.
I don't know, even days we just pick on fanbois - although, that's been getting a bit boring too. But there's still room for creativity like; "Ha ha fanbois! You're now mainstream and you aren't so different or rebellious anymore!"
Or "Hey fanbois! Like Jobs says, 'You have a computing appliance'. What's it like to have an expensive toaster?! When are you going to get your Apple branded microwave the .....iWave?"
On the odd days, we can pick on the F/oSS guys. "Hey guys! Apple has this and they were PAID to do it because they hate it! Why can't you guys do something better out of love?! Huh?!" Or
"Pfffft! F/oSS guys! Apple took BSD and look what they did! And you guys are wasting your time with outdoing MS? Apple did their own thing and look at them!"
And then, every Tuesday of Months were the temperature rises above 90 in Anchorage, we defend MS and say how MS did do things better than Apple here and there. - I'm not creative enough for those examples, so your on your own coming up with those.
So there you go.
Then, the article mentions another diagram or I have to look up a term and round and round I go.
I'm supposed to be reading about some heterosexual radio receiver or something like that right now.
For some reason I concentrate on books better.
Imagine how thrilled little Billy's Mommy would have been if she only had the chance to read the story of her son's foray into Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
See Billy shoot the cop.
BLAM!
BLAM!
BLAM!
See Billy beat up hooker.
PUNCH!
KICK!
PUNCH!
See Billy run over pedestrian.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Never mind.
If the programmer has enough free time to make something really great for a contest, then he's already a big name or capable of making lots of money and great projects, so somebody making use of his contest entry should be but a little blip on his radar; if his contest entry was that great then he surely can go big time.
Not necessarily. I can also see someone who's been cranking away code, researching algorithms, developing his own algorithms in his free time with no recognition and then one day, a contest that falls within his interests, he enters and wins. He now has a name in whatever it is and can claim that he won or even cam in second place in a World wide competition. That's something very few people can claim and I would think it would mean more than even graduating first place from a top university.
At some point, we're going to see an argument that starts out with "It's like a Nazi eating a Tostito with ..."
At least a Tostito is a chip.
I've been hoping for COBOL.NET.
If you walked around their offices, it seemed like a software company. The cubicles were full of programmers writing code, product managers thinking about feature lists and ship dates, support people (yes, there were actually support people) telling users to restart their browsers, and so on, just like a software company. So why did they call themselves a media company?
You'd see the same thing at an insurance company, auto company, or any large company that has large in-house development department. And yet, they're not conflicted about if they're a tech company or an insurance company.
Here's a hint on how to decide. How are your revenues generated?
Sell software, hardware, algorithms? Tech company.
Sell advertising? Media company.
Yahoo! Is a media company and so is Google.
It's not rocket science.
I wonder why I root for Al Capone in all those gangster movies.....
IOW, they wanted everything.
Yes. As a matter of fact, global warming is heating space! And eventually, the ice caps on Mars will melt and release even more CO2 - heating space even more! Then, the ice rings around Saturn will melt causing more global warming and eventually, it will affect Uranus - then a true disaster, you'll need K-Y.
Sometime in it's orbit, would it drop down to 12K? Meaning, could it be still used when and if it cools down enough - at least until someone can get up their to replenish it?
This may shock you, but the iPad (and the Star Trek prop) are portable.
Just an obvious enhancement because technology allows it.
If the Star Trek writers had any real imagination, they would have had a data display device that would induce an electrical current in one's occipital lobs thereby allowing said information to appear in their eyes. Or even have something that creates the memories in their brain so that as far as the recipient of the information is concerned, the information is a memory that they knew all along.
Or something that no one has ever thought of.
I really don't think Apple took any inspiration from Star Trek.
Without decent attorneys, those guys would probably be in prison now (instead of the piece-of-shit prosecutor who railroaded them for his own political gain).
That highlights the importance of money in getting justice. Those kids had very well-to-do parents that were able to launch a very effective legal and PR counter attack - and I'm sure they were also politically connected too.
For the rest of us, we'd have to take a "deal" (plead guilty to lesser but no less BS charges) from the prosecutor in order to get it over with so that we not only don't go to jail over the BS charges but also not be burdened with legal bills for the rest of our lives.
Justice seems to only apply to the rich these days.
The link I posted shows Mutual funds holding 81% (more than enough to do anything they please) , Brin has only 79,000 shares and I don't even see Page on the list. In other words, if came down to a vote of share, the founders have no voting power.
The key questions are:
1. Will some of the big holders get bitchy and want Google to start whoring they're data.
2. Does the management have enough backing votes to block other big shareholders from forcing the whoring.
When some of the shareholders get wind that Google is holding back to be "good", you can bet you asses that there's going to be some fighting and these are the times when founders and their values get thrown out the window.
What could save them is that most of the shareholders are mutual funds. Those guys are usually passive and are just along for the ride.
I've seen comments on Digg that were spot on about a topic regarding the facts and it would get buried into oblivion because it didn't mesh with the group think. It doesn't matter what the facts are, if you say something that doesn't jibe with what people believe, they'll consider it garbage.
It also varies with time. Many times a topic will get posted multiple times and the same comment will be dugg high one time and then another, it will get buried into oblivion. It's a really interesting phenomena.
We like to hear our beliefs re-enforced. If the facts match our beliefs, more the better; if they don't, well people will just consider it false - regardless of the truth.
I see folks who condemn Talk Radio for creating opinion. I think it's the other way around. I think those guys listen to their callers and get the "pulse" of their beliefs and then just ratchet it up while including the audience's common fears and resentments - I'm not going to mention them here because I know it'll start a whole off-topic posts.
Yes and no. Yes, it does not change, in fact it does not change since your first day, simply because your DNA is already setup, and ready to go. And NO, it does change, if you are willing to learn.
A couple of years ago, I bumped into an old friend that I lost touch with. Long story short, he said that I am a completely different person than the guy he met 15 years ago. I believe I am an outlier, though. I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.
A person can and does change when they want to.
On the other hand, I was told by a professional that I really didn't change, per se, and that the old person was really a "false self" and that I becoming the real "me".
Uh huh. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.