You know, out of sight out of mind. The people who fear porn and their own sexuality often stand by these trite axioms. They don't want condom use being taught in school because it will increase teenage sexual activity. They don't want female nipples seen on television because it will encourge children to have sex. They don't want an XXX domain because it will make it easier for children to find porn, which will irreperably damage them somehow.
Also, they don't want their government supporting porn in any way. There is no grey area for these simplistic people. They got their marching orders from the corpse of a long-dead civilization and they are sticking with it.
Pffft...that's why I bought an iRiver.
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Creative's BS soundcard driver install process, and Apple's general loutishness drove me away from both companies. Why would I support someone who made me jump though hoops just to get the 'drivers only' installed for my soundcard? Why would I buy an over-priced, under-featured music player just because the 'interface is awesome!'? It's not so awesome...not the Apple Price Premium awesome, that's for sure.
Redundant FDDI perhaps? Reduce the weight, but still have a non-interferable network. This smacks of a PR stunt rather than a realistic approach to airplane systems.
Coastal town in CT. There is a main road that leads to the beach. About half of the store-fronts are different each year. Reastaurants, shops, whatever. They don't seem to stay in business, and this is only the retail businesses.
Obviously nothing like the 1 in 10 claim I quoted, but attrition seems pretty high.
I think that any decent CompSci program would cover the things you mentioned for precisely the reasons you gave. My Algorithms book is 800 pages thick. We learned how to do analysis. All this as an undergrad. Maybe I just got lucky and my local state college had a kick-ass program?
I see your point, I suppose we just differ as a matter of degree.
I got into this profession to build systems that solved problems and made people more efficient, leaving them time to do recreational things. So what if everyone can solve some arbitrary problem 20 seconds faster than myself? The job isn't all about coding, hell it isn't even 50% about coding.
But hey, good thing you found a niche I suppose. How's the pay working out for yah?
You know, he's a damn activist judge who's putting pesky rights and fruity ideals in the way of keeping the nation safe for obese children and their fear-stricken parents.
Anyone involved with software knows that NOTHING gets done on schedule. Smells of a marketing idea that got pushed onto the developers. I mean, it is a good idea...just not very practical.
Or, you have the recent American Illness of demanding immediate returns with no thoughts toward long-term performance. I call it Stockholder Syndrome.
Wait till the XBox 360 comes out and see what happens. I may be wrong, but I think they will turn a profit and get even more marketshare. Then the third iteration will put them even with Sony and Nintendo.
Disclaimer: I own a Sega Dreamcast and a Nintendo GameCube.
I'm sure you probably aren't attacking FOSS in order to defend MS, but computers have their own language domain! Usually done because terms that anyone would understand are too cumbersome.
Do you want your car's engine to be called the "Rotational Force Maker"? No, that's still too complicated. How about "Thing That Makes Wheels Turn"?
When TV arrived, it brought a whole new set of words an concepts. It's just part of the game.
Jesus spoke against the actions of the majority.
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Explorer Destroyer
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He denounced those who didn't worship his 'god'. Society at that time was accepting of others' beliefs...often regional gods were rolled into the Pantheon and everybody got along. Jebus didn't think that was OK. It's was his god or eternal pain.
You know, how mainstream 'christians' think about...oh...the Mormons...or the Scientologists.
Because anyone could write down any number of miracles and attribute them to this person. The Gospels were written long after his death. But hey, if it's in an old book, it's gotta be true!
My life is not special, and I don't pretend to be special. Perhaps you need to feel like you are more important than a plant or a bug in the grand scheme of the universe? Not I. I take my lot in life and run with it sans a silly belief about what happens when I die.
This man actually claimed to be the 'son of god'. His miracles weren't very impressive, and it wasn't till after his death that more than the lunatic fringe of society started to buy into the stories.
I'm thinking that we should model this attempt after another man, named after an anti-semite, Martin Luther King Jr. He had the right tactics I think.
You can still trash a mac if you know shit about computers and insist on fucking with them. You can still fall for the ol' 'allow this program to run as root' social exploit.
They need systems which do not allow for remote changing of system code. If this requires a man to show up once in a while to plug in a device to update the firmware, so be it.
I've been told that such service jobs are the future of our economy!
You think he didn't have to get approval to run the setup? You think he didn't have to get approval to talk about it? Geee...CS grads are down in the US, recruitment has finally reached the new lowered bar, and warfare is becoming more and more computerized. And here we go, on Slashdot, with this article.
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And I don't have a good enough reason to switch to it on my own, although it is supported. Hannover might be able to convince me tho.
They support a few more than 100,000 desktops :)
They make Slashdot every now and then too.
You know, mandatory vaccinations.
You know, out of sight out of mind. The people who fear porn and their own sexuality often stand by these trite axioms. They don't want condom use being taught in school because it will increase teenage sexual activity. They don't want female nipples seen on television because it will encourge children to have sex. They don't want an XXX domain because it will make it easier for children to find porn, which will irreperably damage them somehow.
Also, they don't want their government supporting porn in any way. There is no grey area for these simplistic people. They got their marching orders from the corpse of a long-dead civilization and they are sticking with it.
Creative's BS soundcard driver install process, and Apple's general loutishness drove me away from both companies. Why would I support someone who made me jump though hoops just to get the 'drivers only' installed for my soundcard? Why would I buy an over-priced, under-featured music player just because the 'interface is awesome!'? It's not so awesome...not the Apple Price Premium awesome, that's for sure.
This should be fun to watch.
It's going to be a little different than the usual Notes Client.
Redundant FDDI perhaps? Reduce the weight, but still have a non-interferable network. This smacks of a PR stunt rather than a realistic approach to airplane systems.
I mean...everyone seemed to think that the XBox 360 was the biggest debacle in console gaming ever...but I guess that was a few weeks ago...
Coastal town in CT. There is a main road that leads to the beach. About half of the store-fronts are different each year. Reastaurants, shops, whatever. They don't seem to stay in business, and this is only the retail businesses.
Obviously nothing like the 1 in 10 claim I quoted, but attrition seems pretty high.
It isn't just the product...software or hardware. It's the people who make it work. Sure, it isn't cheap.
You know, one nine of ten small businesses fail within a year. Of the remaining, nine out of ten fail the next year.
I remember hearing that a few years ago. The only places on the web to find the failure rates...want you to pay.
Pfft.
I think that any decent CompSci program would cover the things you mentioned for precisely the reasons you gave. My Algorithms book is 800 pages thick. We learned how to do analysis. All this as an undergrad. Maybe I just got lucky and my local state college had a kick-ass program?
I see your point, I suppose we just differ as a matter of degree.
I got into this profession to build systems that solved problems and made people more efficient, leaving them time to do recreational things. So what if everyone can solve some arbitrary problem 20 seconds faster than myself? The job isn't all about coding, hell it isn't even 50% about coding.
But hey, good thing you found a niche I suppose. How's the pay working out for yah?
You can be an excellent coder with a small sub-set of math knowledge, unless your application requires a bunch of complex mathematical computations.
I've yet to be assigned one.
If you are cranking out yet another web application, or a standardized patterns-following data system, then you have a point.
When you are chasing bugs and adding new features...these things are quite variable.
Here's an analogy...wiring a car on an assembly-line takes constant time, but solving a wiring problem on an existing car takes variable time.
You know, he's a damn activist judge who's putting pesky rights and fruity ideals in the way of keeping the nation safe for obese children and their fear-stricken parents.
Anyone involved with software knows that NOTHING gets done on schedule. Smells of a marketing idea that got pushed onto the developers. I mean, it is a good idea...just not very practical.
Or, you have the recent American Illness of demanding immediate returns with no thoughts toward long-term performance. I call it Stockholder Syndrome.
Wait till the XBox 360 comes out and see what happens. I may be wrong, but I think they will turn a profit and get even more marketshare. Then the third iteration will put them even with Sony and Nintendo.
Disclaimer: I own a Sega Dreamcast and a Nintendo GameCube.
I'm sure you probably aren't attacking FOSS in order to defend MS, but computers have their own language domain! Usually done because terms that anyone would understand are too cumbersome.
Do you want your car's engine to be called the "Rotational Force Maker"? No, that's still too complicated. How about "Thing That Makes Wheels Turn"?
When TV arrived, it brought a whole new set of words an concepts. It's just part of the game.
He denounced those who didn't worship his 'god'. Society at that time was accepting of others' beliefs...often regional gods were rolled into the Pantheon and everybody got along. Jebus didn't think that was OK. It's was his god or eternal pain.
You know, how mainstream 'christians' think about...oh...the Mormons...or the Scientologists.
Sure he attracted crowds...he was a freak!
Because anyone could write down any number of miracles and attribute them to this person. The Gospels were written long after his death. But hey, if it's in an old book, it's gotta be true!
My life is not special, and I don't pretend to be special. Perhaps you need to feel like you are more important than a plant or a bug in the grand scheme of the universe? Not I. I take my lot in life and run with it sans a silly belief about what happens when I die.
This man actually claimed to be the 'son of god'. His miracles weren't very impressive, and it wasn't till after his death that more than the lunatic fringe of society started to buy into the stories.
I'm thinking that we should model this attempt after another man, named after an anti-semite, Martin Luther King Jr. He had the right tactics I think.
You can still trash a mac if you know shit about computers and insist on fucking with them. You can still fall for the ol' 'allow this program to run as root' social exploit.
They need systems which do not allow for remote changing of system code. If this requires a man to show up once in a while to plug in a device to update the firmware, so be it.
I've been told that such service jobs are the future of our economy!
Seriously, I don't hate old people. Just the ones who drive like assholes and never get pulled over for it, but I get a ticket for 5MPH over.
You think he didn't have to get approval to run the setup? You think he didn't have to get approval to talk about it? Geee...CS grads are down in the US, recruitment has finally reached the new lowered bar, and warfare is becoming more and more computerized. And here we go, on Slashdot, with this article.
Whatever.