I've a feeling one of the major reasons there's alot more support than flames on this post is because it's Apple.
That aside, I'm still going to wait until some company does it right. I refuse to accept any restrictions on anything I'm paying money for. Why do you think so many people are pissed at broadband monopolies like Comcast who restrict service through upload caps, VLAN refusals, and other ways of hampering of fair use? People get _really_ pissed when they're paying through the nose for crippled services. Let one company come along with a similar business model and no restrictions and they'll sell like hotcakes. I'll be one of their first customers at least.
I know for a fact I've burnt cds for my car, quite frequently reusing one or two songs on the same cd, but changing others. This "forcing" to change your playlist will be an annoyance and a hassle.
I applaud the first effort at single-song online sales, but frankly, those who copy for the sake of copying will still do it, through other means if necessary. These restrictions do nothing but annoy those who honestly want to pay for music.
But it's absurd to say that women shouldn't do those tasks because they're not as good at them
Well this is certainly an invite for a flame, but what the hell:
So...if they go ahead and "do the tasks they want", yet "not as good as men," and in doing so end up getting paid less for the resulting lesser value work, do they still have a right to bring gender differences into salary discussions as explanation for said difference in pay?
I think the original poster's point was that on average one gender is better than another at certain things, and thus people should stop bitching and crying bloody murder when someone simply states that. If you see a male-dominated career field, every feminist and her mother jumps on the "i'm oppressed and grew up raising dolls" bandwagon before even rationally considering it could be simply that ON AVERAGE men outperform women in said field, thus illustrating why the demogrpahics are as they are (after all employers are after the best value for their money)
I've been trying to figure out for a long time what the motive for this war really is.
How bout the simple explanation?
Hussein is an insane, cruel dictator who deserved death the FIRST time he launched a massive chemical attack against a neighboring country.
Our administration at the time was too incompetent to finish the job the first time, so we return to do it now.
As such an explanation would never be politcally feasbile, we make something up.
That's my guess, and hope too, because it sure as hell pissed me off the first time when we allowed that asshole to stick around and paid for all his repairs.
I could give a damn what reason is made up to go back in, it should have been long ago, and this is the only administration that had the balls to finish the job.
Ok, so that's 47% of the company had a password that anyone could guess in 10 seconds! WHAT?? OK, I believe people are stupid, even REALLY stupid. But this I'm not sure I can believe
I can. I have faith in the vast stupidity of the majority.
I only skimmed the article, but it looked like more self-indulgent "programmers are special" whining.
Heh, you start your tirade with a statement of ignorance. Good start, bud.
Anyone who has a degree has a longer attention span and greater ability to concentrate than the majority of the population
Troll alert. I know people who procrastinated their way through college and still pulled degrees. I know people without degrees that are _wizards_ in the comp sci field. Where's your evidence backing these absurd statements? I'm personally noticed degrees to be nothing more than a "foot in the door" business requirement. You learn more on your own or on the jobsite if you're worth your salt. Anyone with a degree without the capacity to continue growing will never amount to anything in computers anyways.
One database application, or web site, or GUI etc is really much like another.
OK, your code may suck, but don't push that onto mine. I've written SockStream objects that allowed simplicity in code to the point of:
mysock << "mydata" << myint << endl;
Was it necessary? Hell no. Was it creative and did it make programming easier and code reading nicer? Yes.
I've also done exception chaining, and FileStream objects that auto-append timestamping prefixes to each line.
I've designed some algorithms that use so many "Design Patterns" in so many different interesting ways that it would make your head spin.
Call any of that non-creative? Find me 5 people that have done the same.
What the hell DO you call creative if not the act of ingeniously coming up with new and interesting ways of doing something?
The fact you have about 5 billion different mail client to choose from and features out the wazoo should be enough of an indicator that there's people out there going "hey, what if we do things THIS way?"
Finally, if you have no idea what "flow" is all about, then you're too clueless to understand any of what's being said anyways, so I'll stop talking. Good programmers get into "a groove", a mental train of thought. And frankly I think yours is derailed.
What college is this that you can play games 14 hours a day and still pass? Everyone I know that did that either failed out or is taking so few credits they might as well have dropped out
I beg to differ. Although I doubt I spent 14 hours a day playing games, when you don't go to half your classes because you know the material, can teach it to yourself out of a book, or read class notes on the web in a quarter of the time, it's very easy to pass college while not going to a single class.
Except those pesky teachers that insist on attendance requirements. Fools.
Last summer, Tanya Bershadsky, a Web designer in her 20s who has worked in the up-and-down tech industry since the mid-1990s, was laid off from a big-name dot-com that unsurprisingly went belly up
Translation: Young person with little to no computer knowledge or experience, and most likely not even a degree, accepts incredibly simple tech related job for high pay. Bubble burst, incompetent web admin with no real ability lose their jobs.
Tanya Bershadsky says, "It's kind of embarrassing to tell people you worked on the Web. It's got this weird stigma attached to it now -- when you say what you do, people know you're unemployed
Translation: Whaaaaaaa, why do people patronize me? I'm a web admin! I'm a 1337 uber-hax0r HTML-programmer!
Tanya Bershadsky now wants to work as a publicist. "When the Web economy collapsed, I felt that I had to reinvent myself," she says. Now she's doing some part-time P.R. work, but permanent work in that industry isn't easy to come by, either
Web Economy? Lucrative WEB MASTER jobs are a PIPE DREAM you looney! You're lucky you had it when you did. "Reinvent" my ass, develop some real skills, pick up a C programming book or something. No web master should dare to bitch if they're expected to know Flash or Javascript. HTML is a damned joke.
To everyone claiming that taking the money would be as bad as Microsoft's leveraging of a monopoly, I say:
An eye for an eye.
Microsoft has long been guilty of many crimes, and the government even now continues to "underpunish" them. Anything that harms of hinders them, through whatever channels or measures, I've no qualms with. As far as I'm concerned, that's called punishment.
Troll? That's absurd, everything I said was completely accurate. That should at least be modded Funny.
I mean they're desperately clinging to the whole Time Travel plot line with Enterprise (which is frankly a little absurd for their timeline btw)...sheesh, it's been done. The captain is a wanna-be Kirk/Riker, the sole vulcan just like spock...it's all rehashing. As for repetitive episodes, a friend of mine mentioned some Enterprise episode that _directly_ matched the Deep Space 9 one where Odo/Quark (two chars that hated each other) crashed on a planet and had to hike a communication device to the top of a mountain.
I've yet to figure out what's great about that show...looks like typical rehashing to me.
Voyager exceeded your expectations? I thought it was the worst of the lot. The characters were flat, and the plots were repetitive. Every other damn episode was about time travel, and they did it poorly.
For people who supposedly have little to no income, they sure seem to have no problem coming up with the cash to fund their limos, drug habits, and huge houses/parties/etc...i've watched the television shows that show "an average day in the life of a rockstar", and it's not all thrift stores and dollar beers.
To them all, I say buy a copy of Good Charlotte's "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous", stop crying, and learn how to spend their money more properly.
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Always nice to see Windows following in the footsteps of Macintosh...senseless resource consuming eyecandy over practical functionality. Woo.
any marine mission,
lights out...
surround-sound...
I still get chills...
Microsoft bitched a storm when Lindows came out.
Now they're stealing...errrr, "mimicing" Apple nomenclature?
That aside, I'm still going to wait until some company does it right. I refuse to accept any restrictions on anything I'm paying money for. Why do you think so many people are pissed at broadband monopolies like Comcast who restrict service through upload caps, VLAN refusals, and other ways of hampering of fair use? People get _really_ pissed when they're paying through the nose for crippled services. Let one company come along with a similar business model and no restrictions and they'll sell like hotcakes. I'll be one of their first customers at least.
I know for a fact I've burnt cds for my car, quite frequently reusing one or two songs on the same cd, but changing others. This "forcing" to change your playlist will be an annoyance and a hassle.
I applaud the first effort at single-song online sales, but frankly, those who copy for the sake of copying will still do it, through other means if necessary. These restrictions do nothing but annoy those who honestly want to pay for music.
It's a time-honored tradition, and bound to work!
Creativity, what's that?
Magius_AR
Until I realized they posted the full-length of it as a book summary on Slashdot.
A statement based on a false premise...that a Slashdotter could actually have a girlfriend. Nice try troll!
Well this is certainly an invite for a flame, but what the hell:
So...if they go ahead and "do the tasks they want", yet "not as good as men," and in doing so end up getting paid less for the resulting lesser value work, do they still have a right to bring gender differences into salary discussions as explanation for said difference in pay?
I think the original poster's point was that on average one gender is better than another at certain things, and thus people should stop bitching and crying bloody murder when someone simply states that. If you see a male-dominated career field, every feminist and her mother jumps on the "i'm oppressed and grew up raising dolls" bandwagon before even rationally considering it could be simply that ON AVERAGE men outperform women in said field, thus illustrating why the demogrpahics are as they are (after all employers are after the best value for their money)
How bout the simple explanation?
Hussein is an insane, cruel dictator who deserved death the FIRST time he launched a massive chemical attack against a neighboring country.
Our administration at the time was too incompetent to finish the job the first time, so we return to do it now.
As such an explanation would never be politcally feasbile, we make something up.
That's my guess, and hope too, because it sure as hell pissed me off the first time when we allowed that asshole to stick around and paid for all his repairs.
I could give a damn what reason is made up to go back in, it should have been long ago, and this is the only administration that had the balls to finish the job.
I'm PROUD to be an RPI grad.
Go Phynd!
They bitch at Taco when the story gets posted over and over, yet everyone who says "this is a dupe" over and over never gets tired of saying it :)
Heh, you start your tirade with a statement of ignorance. Good start, bud.
Anyone who has a degree has a longer attention span and greater ability to concentrate than the majority of the population
Troll alert. I know people who procrastinated their way through college and still pulled degrees. I know people without degrees that are _wizards_ in the comp sci field. Where's your evidence backing these absurd statements? I'm personally noticed degrees to be nothing more than a "foot in the door" business requirement. You learn more on your own or on the jobsite if you're worth your salt. Anyone with a degree without the capacity to continue growing will never amount to anything in computers anyways.
One database application, or web site, or GUI etc is really much like another.
OK, your code may suck, but don't push that onto mine. I've written SockStream objects that allowed simplicity in code to the point of:
Was it necessary? Hell no. Was it creative and did it make programming easier and code reading nicer? Yes. I've also done exception chaining, and FileStream objects that auto-append timestamping prefixes to each line. I've designed some algorithms that use so many "Design Patterns" in so many different interesting ways that it would make your head spin. Call any of that non-creative? Find me 5 people that have done the same. What the hell DO you call creative if not the act of ingeniously coming up with new and interesting ways of doing something? The fact you have about 5 billion different mail client to choose from and features out the wazoo should be enough of an indicator that there's people out there going "hey, what if we do things THIS way?"Finally, if you have no idea what "flow" is all about, then you're too clueless to understand any of what's being said anyways, so I'll stop talking. Good programmers get into "a groove", a mental train of thought. And frankly I think yours is derailed.
There's no more gratifying experience than beating a Starcraft map hacker.
Except those pesky teachers that insist on attendance requirements. Fools.
What we can see, our enemy can see.
Why give our enemy free Intel using our technology?
Translation: Young person with little to no computer knowledge or experience, and most likely not even a degree, accepts incredibly simple tech related job for high pay. Bubble burst, incompetent web admin with no real ability lose their jobs.
Tanya Bershadsky says, "It's kind of embarrassing to tell people you worked on the Web. It's got this weird stigma attached to it now -- when you say what you do, people know you're unemployed
Translation: Whaaaaaaa, why do people patronize me? I'm a web admin! I'm a 1337 uber-hax0r HTML-programmer!
Tanya Bershadsky now wants to work as a publicist. "When the Web economy collapsed, I felt that I had to reinvent myself," she says. Now she's doing some part-time P.R. work, but permanent work in that industry isn't easy to come by, either
Web Economy? Lucrative WEB MASTER jobs are a PIPE DREAM you looney! You're lucky you had it when you did. "Reinvent" my ass, develop some real skills, pick up a C programming book or something. No web master should dare to bitch if they're expected to know Flash or Javascript. HTML is a damned joke.
Cretons.
An eye for an eye.
Microsoft has long been guilty of many crimes, and the government even now continues to "underpunish" them. Anything that harms of hinders them, through whatever channels or measures, I've no qualms with. As far as I'm concerned, that's called punishment.
Troll? That's absurd, everything I said was completely accurate. That should at least be modded Funny.
I mean they're desperately clinging to the whole Time Travel plot line with Enterprise (which is frankly a little absurd for their timeline btw)...sheesh, it's been done. The captain is a wanna-be Kirk/Riker, the sole vulcan just like spock...it's all rehashing. As for repetitive episodes, a friend of mine mentioned some Enterprise episode that _directly_ matched the Deep Space 9 one where Odo/Quark (two chars that hated each other) crashed on a planet and had to hike a communication device to the top of a mountain.
I've yet to figure out what's great about that show...looks like typical rehashing to me.
I can see you've never owned a Hotmail account.
Is it "12345"?
Dude, you have wayyyyyyy too much free time.
To them all, I say buy a copy of Good Charlotte's "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous", stop crying, and learn how to spend their money more properly.