How dare that professor use the word "God" to describe a developer. To an atheist (I'd bet dollars to donuts) like the developer(s) this is one of the worst possible slanders you could use.
1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy 2 Create a gulag 3 Develop a thug caste 4 Set up an internal surveillance system 5 Harass citizens' groups 6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release 7 Target key individuals 8 Control the press 9 Dissent equals treason 10 Suspend the rule of law
Illegal MP3s copied from his CDs on his computer? Whatever happened to the whole concept of fair use? Granted the RIAA probably *always* hated the concept of fair use, but how can their whole court mafia get away with suggesting that fair-use on his computer (who wants to store all their CDs on their computers in WAV format???) is illegal? For reals, someone please come up with a good test case to bring this to the supreme court already!!!
You said "five year old" and "laid" and "pony" in the same sentence, which just triggered Echelon's autofilters and flagged this discussion for FBI staff to review before arrest. OMG I JUST DID THE SAME THING!!!!!!!!! SOMEBODY CALL RON KUBY.
You can't collect 1 million *anything* from the brain-dead morons that watch this guy's movies. 90% of them can't even properly spell their own names, much less sign a petition. Good luck!
On his application for the job, in the line indicating sex, he wrote in the word "YES" and checked it. MS didn't notice till they went to digitize their HR paperwork to store on their FILECABINET LIVE initiative.
Truth to tell, asking the crowd here a question like this is going to inherently bring you biased results; but this may be what you wanted. Ask any given group of mostly construction workers if construction is a good profession to undertake and they will probably tell you it's a great profession. Ask any given group of mostly IT nerds the same question and you will get the same answer. If you are worried about job stability, don't worry; there is none anymore. Companies and jobs come and go in IT just as they do in every other industry (Enron, anyone?).
The real question you should be asking yourself is what do you truly enjoy doing naturally? Take away every task that any given job can consist of and break it down to your personality traits. If you like problem-solving then look at the types of jobs that can fulfill your needs as a problem-solver. If you like helping people, consider the kinds of jobs where you will have more interactions and impact on people directly. College and high-school students tend to think more linearly, as if taking a job in a hot profession will mean success. The truth is that the best way to be successful is to maximize your desire to do your job and do it well; otherwise you may as well work at McDonald's.
My child walks by the computer with a magnetically mounted family photo frame, sticks it on the side of my computer. CPU ERASED! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
...for CLA (Chronic Lazy Ass) Syndrome. If proven to be a genetic disorder, a company can not fire someone suffering from CLA Syndrome but will instead have to modify that employee's job to no more than 21 hours a week or 3 full work days (no more than 7 hours a day naturally).
Who cares if Yahoo! gets acquired. Even *IF* Viacom or Disney acquired it and "walled" it off from the rest of the nasty ole 'net, another portal would open to take its place as an opening to the rest of the 'net. There is PLENTY of room on the 'net to create another Yahoo that would not be owned by mega corporations intent on shaping the 'net in its own image. Oh wait, I just remembered that this is what Yahoo already is. BWAHAHAHA
Actually, I have been working on this idea now for several months, and am not technically competent enough to work out the back-end architecture, so I have had to come up with user-driven ways to address the issue of keeping search results fresh and relevant. Your suggestion of opensourcing the search process is in a nutshell what I ultimately came up with, but in order for this to work, a community of search librarians (similar to the/. editors) would have to moderate the channels. I foresee the possibility of creating a shopping channel, several information research channels, and several news channels. The reason that/. works so well in attracting an audience is that it is topic-focused and does a great job of feeding its end-user input back into the channels it is providing to the user base. I would be more than happy to participate in the editorial part of running such a site, but could one of you guys configure this/. site code so that I can understand and use the administrative interface? -Grendel
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I second this motion against the humorless dick.
How dare that professor use the word "God" to describe a developer. To an atheist (I'd bet dollars to donuts) like the developer(s) this is one of the worst possible slanders you could use.
1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2 Create a gulag
3 Develop a thug caste
4 Set up an internal surveillance system
5 Harass citizens' groups
6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7 Target key individuals
8 Control the press
9 Dissent equals treason
10 Suspend the rule of law
Illegal MP3s copied from his CDs on his computer? Whatever happened to the whole concept of fair use? Granted the RIAA probably *always* hated the concept of fair use, but how can their whole court mafia get away with suggesting that fair-use on his computer (who wants to store all their CDs on their computers in WAV format???) is illegal? For reals, someone please come up with a good test case to bring this to the supreme court already!!!
You said "five year old" and "laid" and "pony" in the same sentence, which just triggered Echelon's autofilters and flagged this discussion for FBI staff to review before arrest. OMG I JUST DID THE SAME THING!!!!!!!!! SOMEBODY CALL RON KUBY.
It's got a dirty old goat in it!!!
:::shudders:::
Kinda doubtful Gordon is entirely forthright about "every website he's ever been on". Besides wouldn't that violate the DMCA or something?
Google to Yahoo! ad sales reps: All your client base are belong to us!
You can't collect 1 million *anything* from the brain-dead morons that watch this guy's movies. 90% of them can't even properly spell their own names, much less sign a petition. Good luck!
... or else they'd have *all* the components necessary to build nuclear weapons!
something witty
p.s. that was my sig
But you're suggesting there are a lot of apple fanboys on Slashdot? How, pray tell? I thought Slashdot was mostly read by smart people.
It was God, punishing Iran for being infidels! That, or it was that other stuff the article talks about.
No kidding!
On his application for the job, in the line indicating sex, he wrote in the word "YES" and checked it. MS didn't notice till they went to digitize their HR paperwork to store on their FILECABINET LIVE initiative.
Now that truly is some marketing genius. Do you work for HBO by any chance? lol
...is not the violent forcing of sex on another person, it's the terminology. Henceforth we will refer to rape as involuntary sex.
Make sure the guys "measure" up, if you know what I mean. Seriously, those NASA chicks can be so demanding once you get them.
t ronauts-alleged-crimes-of-passion/
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/an-as
Linux wept. All humans were dead.
Truth to tell, asking the crowd here a question like this is going to inherently bring you biased results; but this may be what you wanted. Ask any given group of mostly construction workers if construction is a good profession to undertake and they will probably tell you it's a great profession. Ask any given group of mostly IT nerds the same question and you will get the same answer. If you are worried about job stability, don't worry; there is none anymore. Companies and jobs come and go in IT just as they do in every other industry (Enron, anyone?).
The real question you should be asking yourself is what do you truly enjoy doing naturally? Take away every task that any given job can consist of and break it down to your personality traits. If you like problem-solving then look at the types of jobs that can fulfill your needs as a problem-solver. If you like helping people, consider the kinds of jobs where you will have more interactions and impact on people directly. College and high-school students tend to think more linearly, as if taking a job in a hot profession will mean success. The truth is that the best way to be successful is to maximize your desire to do your job and do it well; otherwise you may as well work at McDonald's.
My child walks by the computer with a magnetically mounted family photo frame, sticks it on the side of my computer. CPU ERASED! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
...for CLA (Chronic Lazy Ass) Syndrome. If proven to be a genetic disorder, a company can not fire someone suffering from CLA Syndrome but will instead have to modify that employee's job to no more than 21 hours a week or 3 full work days (no more than 7 hours a day naturally).
YaY for genetic disorders!
Nevermind the allergens, how about engineering a cat that won't poop or pee?
Who cares if Yahoo! gets acquired. Even *IF* Viacom or Disney acquired it and "walled" it off from the rest of the nasty ole 'net, another portal would open to take its place as an opening to the rest of the 'net. There is PLENTY of room on the 'net to create another Yahoo that would not be owned by mega corporations intent on shaping the 'net in its own image. Oh wait, I just remembered that this is what Yahoo already is. BWAHAHAHA
Actually, I have been working on this idea now for several months, and am not technically competent enough to work out the back-end architecture, so I have had to come up with user-driven ways to address the issue of keeping search results fresh and relevant. Your suggestion of opensourcing the search process is in a nutshell what I ultimately came up with, but in order for this to work, a community of search librarians (similar to the /. editors) would have to moderate the channels. I foresee the possibility of creating a shopping channel, several information research channels, and several news channels. The reason that /. works so well in attracting an audience is that it is topic-focused and does a great job of feeding its end-user input back into the channels it is providing to the user base. I would be more than happy to participate in the editorial part of running such a site, but could one of you guys configure this /. site code so that I can understand and use the administrative interface? -Grendel