a few degrees, unless the landlord pays for your electricity , which is bloody unlikely, pays off now, even if you don't own the house. It is a matter of choosing applicable strategy based on where you live
And nobody was talking about solar panels or other overly expensive methods anyway - polystyrene plates for wall insulation are reasonably cheap, and they do deliver.
Is that they are focused on the irrelevant. The biggest CO2 contribution of *anyone* is coming from car travel, just about the sum of all other CO2 expenditures on average - but since electric cars are a) overly expensive due to the cost of batteries b) total crap if you need to get anywhere over a certain distance due to the inability to "charge a tank" quickly, the idea is to improve public transports and have people use cars for long-distance travels for which other options suck.
Second important one is excessive house heating. That one has an appeal too - don't heat as much , and/or insulate your house, and you'll save money, and quite a lot - honestly I think it's one of the few cases where all that is needed is to inform people , because along with enviroment it brings a clear benefit to them.
Anything else, from charger unplugging to lights out/whatever is trying to douse a fire with teaspoons of water.
emperor's new clothes.
And, the idea is not to get it for the money , but to get it for hireability - sadly it seems companies these days require people to have college degrees even for jobs where it is irrelevant.
Well, i can't. Luckily, in the UK, an engineering course is focused on engineering.
See, you had a particular need and you found a rather unorthodox source of knowledge to learn it from This however hardly implies the stuff will be useful to anyone else, especially since AI and design of things isn't what most programmers do - most programmers are doing relatively repetitive, low - end tasks, or, they are working to implement stuff someone else has decided on
A specialised course , on the other hand , teaches you things that are going to be relevant at work. A mechanical engineer for example needs to know some failure mechanics in order eg. not to design "hollywood canisters" - ones that explode on failure instead of leaking. Furthermore the things that often get mentioned in this thread (eg writing proposals and similar) can, and are done with people who have never studied english or economics or whatever. Saying you need to be university-taught to be able to do that is kinda like saying you need home economy classes to cook dinner.
Students get the responsibility for making sure they learn and all that, but not the freedom to choose their specialisation without tons of tack-on garbage unrelated to their field they'll never use.
the net.
Furthermore, all a google search might reveal is someone with a name similar to his posting this up. Considering it isn't an unusual one..
Also, genius, the guy is mainly looking for an useful way to improve his CV, instead of doing the same wasting time and money learning about total BS. In pretty much all of europe (where i am from) you don't have to sit through useless classes at college learning instead stuff that's related to your profession. It might be because people here view higher education as something to give you competence in your field of work , not as some bourgeois status symbol.
And a small bonus - he is interested in learning,just not irrelevant baggage that comes alongside a degree in the US. Wasting the time of people who could actually be doing useful work isn't in any way laudable
than oil. Plus, using fuel cells to generate electricity is generally more fuel-wise efficient than trying to do it via combustion - so far , combined cycles (and there's few of those) have efficiencies between 50-60 % IIRC - in other words technology like this will make our stockpiles last *longer* not shorter.
Growing up happens when someone gets a job.
Useless intellectual wankery is useless - how many people have you met who went "oh, i was trying to code up this database and i couldn't figure out how to implement the storage, but then i remembered reading Hemingway and it was *obvious* what to do!"
Yeah, because at 52 or so, he's SO employable elsewhere
In his place, i'd have done the same - unlike him, it appears that you yourself when you got wrongfully fired, ended up in position to look for a better job, not screwed over. Either way i'd have tried to hurt them , specially because even if company fails normally, managers still have it good.
And for the last bit - i'll side with a worker over a rich classhole any day , simply because anything happening, i'm likely to end up in the second's situation, not the first's.
Seriously.... and the worse thing is that if this is tried often enough, eventually some imbecile will hammer it on, making it a precedent
From Right to Read by Richard M. Stallman
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her—but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.
And there wasn't much chance that the SPA—the Software Protection Authority—would fail to catch him. In his software class, Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to catch reading pirates, but also to sell personal interest profiles to retailers.) The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out. He, as computer owner, would receive the harshest punishment—for not taking pains to prevent the crime.
Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. She might want the computer only to write her midterm. But Dan knew she came from a middle-class family and could hardly afford the tuition, let alone her reading fees. Reading his books might be the only way she could graduate. He understood this situation; he himself had had to borrow to pay for all the research papers he read. (Ten percent of those fees went to the researchers who wrote the papers; since Dan aimed for an academic career, he could hope that his own research papers, if frequently referenced, would bring in enough to repay this loan.)
... This scarily reminds me of the swinery that regions are on DVD's
Allowing this for games would set a dangerous precedent for other products to follow... eventually you'll find yourself buying bread for twice the price of your neigbour because the 1k you earn more sets you in a higher income bracket
I wonder what'd happen with resale , too? I buy a game for 15 bucks and sell it to people for 20 for whom the company would sell it for 30? Meh, never mind, it'd probably be account-tied and OK with everyone since the law doesn't care much about making resale possible - see DRM
That said, i wouldn't mind there being rewards for skill , as in, a good player of one game earning credits to use to buy other games for achievements
And why should everything be focused on the lowest common denominator, just for the sake of bigger potential profits?
Blizzard has never done that (maybe except WoW) and it's kinda why games like starcraft are played 13 years since they were made
I'd have loved you, man!
In HS, i had a cheap casio programming calc, and since they didn't allow me to use it on exams, and i wasn't the person to go and buy a crippled one, i learned to use a slide rule and did my final HS exams with it.
OK stop.
I get it.
Some asshole said he was "open"
but he was only open for business
Anyone remember this lyrics segment from one of the OpenBSD release songs (a bonus track)
It's sad that what's a joke one day becomes reality in few years
Hmm.... did I at *any* point commend what the US does, and did in Iraq and Afghanistan ?
Me disliking Obama and his actions doesn't automatically mean i endorse GWB
And it fits with my previous analogy - UN also authorised the bloodshed in Jugoslavija.. for no reason, too as it was found out later I don't know what sort of people demanded either, but i sure wouldn't like to go anywhere near them... see H. Thaci.
If your father cultivated a wine berg, and you happen to own it, and you are still making wine: ofc you are payed based on his work.
Your analogy is utterly misguided.
The wineberg is still growing grapes, and he is making wine. He isn't paid for his father's wineberg, he's paid for the wine he produces. His father's labour has merely created some value - a well kept wineyard , which aids in the making of wine
Unlike information, wine is matter, and as such, it is scarce - he must make more of it to sell, and customers must buy more of it, to , well, get drunk
The analogy with regular labour is more like if every family, as long as the house stands, had to pay five bucks per given time period to every one of the builders, and then their children
That's essentially what royalties are
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a few degrees, unless the landlord pays for your electricity , which is bloody unlikely, pays off now, even if you don't own the house. It is a matter of choosing applicable strategy based on where you live
And nobody was talking about solar panels or other overly expensive methods anyway - polystyrene plates for wall insulation are reasonably cheap, and they do deliver.
Is that they are focused on the irrelevant. The biggest CO2 contribution of *anyone* is coming from car travel, just about the sum of all other CO2 expenditures on average - but since electric cars are
a) overly expensive due to the cost of batteries
b) total crap if you need to get anywhere over a certain distance due to the inability to "charge a tank" quickly, the idea is to improve public transports and have people use cars for long-distance travels for which other options suck.
Second important one is excessive house heating. That one has an appeal too - don't heat as much , and/or insulate your house, and you'll save money, and quite a lot - honestly I think it's one of the few cases where all that is needed is to inform people , because along with enviroment it brings a clear benefit to them.
Anything else, from charger unplugging to lights out/whatever is trying to douse a fire with teaspoons of water.
I played on was a chinese SNES clone.
emperor's new clothes.
And, the idea is not to get it for the money , but to get it for hireability - sadly it seems companies these days require people to have college degrees even for jobs where it is irrelevant.
Well, i can't. Luckily, in the UK, an engineering course is focused on engineering.
See, you had a particular need and you found a rather unorthodox source of knowledge to learn it from
This however hardly implies the stuff will be useful to anyone else, especially since AI and design of things isn't what most programmers do - most programmers are doing relatively repetitive, low - end tasks, or, they are working to implement stuff someone else has decided on
A specialised course , on the other hand , teaches you things that are going to be relevant at work. A mechanical engineer for example needs to know some failure mechanics in order eg. not to design "hollywood canisters" - ones that explode on failure instead of leaking. Furthermore the things that often get mentioned in this thread (eg writing proposals and similar) can, and are done with people who have never studied english or economics or whatever. Saying you need to be university-taught to be able to do that is kinda like saying you need home economy classes to cook dinner.
People don't go to college to get made a type of person, they go there to learn job-related skills and improve their chance to get one.
because of drones who just look for a college degree when hiring.
Ah well, best to go get valuable , enriching education in basket weaving.
Students get the responsibility for making sure they learn and all that, but not the freedom to choose their specialisation without tons of tack-on garbage unrelated to their field they'll never use.
the net. .. ,just not irrelevant baggage that comes alongside a degree in the US. Wasting the time of people who could actually be doing useful work isn't in any way laudable
Furthermore, all a google search might reveal is someone with a name similar to his posting this up. Considering it isn't an unusual one
Also, genius, the guy is mainly looking for an useful way to improve his CV, instead of doing the same wasting time and money learning about total BS. In pretty much all of europe (where i am from) you don't have to sit through useless classes at college learning instead stuff that's related to your profession.
It might be because people here view higher education as something to give you competence in your field of work , not as some bourgeois status symbol.
And a small bonus - he is interested in learning
than oil. Plus, using fuel cells to generate electricity is generally more fuel-wise efficient than trying to do it via combustion - so far , combined cycles (and there's few of those) have efficiencies between 50-60 % IIRC - in other words technology like this will make our stockpiles last *longer* not shorter.
Growing up happens when someone gets a job.
Useless intellectual wankery is useless - how many people have you met who went "oh, i was trying to code up this database and i couldn't figure out how to implement the storage, but then i remembered reading Hemingway and it was *obvious* what to do!"
Well, where do you think all these creative "solutions" to "piracy" and even more creative damage figures are coming from?
out of an expert body.
Fine, then i am anti intellectual, as i value those who create values, not those who rake in money for nothing.
Yeah, because at 52 or so, he's SO employable elsewhere
In his place, i'd have done the same - unlike him, it appears that you yourself when you got wrongfully fired, ended up in position to look for a better job, not screwed over. Either way i'd have tried to hurt them , specially because even if company fails normally, managers still have it good.
And for the last bit - i'll side with a worker over a rich classhole any day , simply because anything happening, i'm likely to end up in the second's situation, not the first's.
Interesting. Focusing on prisoners to lower reoffend rates, instead of focusing on kids who if aren't raised and grown well, become criminals.
Seriously.... and the worse thing is that if this is tried often enough, eventually some imbecile will hammer it on, making it a precedent
From Right to Read by Richard M. Stallman
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow
another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her—but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for
many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school
that sharing books was nasty and wrong—something that only pirates would do.
And there wasn't much chance that the SPA—the Software Protection Authority—would fail to catch him. In his software class, Dan had learned that each
book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to catch
reading pirates, but also to sell personal interest profiles to retailers.) The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out. He, as
computer owner, would receive the harshest punishment—for not taking pains to prevent the crime.
Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. She might want the computer only to write her midterm. But Dan knew she came from a
middle-class family and could hardly afford the tuition, let alone her reading fees. Reading his books might be the only way she could graduate. He
understood this situation; he himself had had to borrow to pay for all the research papers he read. (Ten percent of those fees went to the researchers who
wrote the papers; since Dan aimed for an academic career, he could hope that his own research papers, if frequently referenced, would bring in
enough to repay this loan.)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
... This scarily reminds me of the swinery that regions are on DVD's
Allowing this for games would set a dangerous precedent for other products to follow... eventually you'll find yourself buying bread for twice the price of your neigbour because the 1k you earn more sets you in a higher income bracket
I wonder what'd happen with resale , too? I buy a game for 15 bucks and sell it to people for 20 for whom the company would sell it for 30? Meh, never mind, it'd probably be account-tied and OK with everyone since the law doesn't care much about making resale possible - see DRM
That said, i wouldn't mind there being rewards for skill , as in, a good player of one game earning credits to use to buy other games for achievements
And why should everything be focused on the lowest common denominator, just for the sake of bigger potential profits?
Blizzard has never done that (maybe except WoW) and it's kinda why games like starcraft are played 13 years since they were made
Umm, if you just spam cannons, i'll take a few defilers and mass hydras and it'll go down
Heh... i definitely don't It's simple... they want to screw people over and get as much money as they can.... people want the opposite.
I'd have loved you, man! In HS, i had a cheap casio programming calc, and since they didn't allow me to use it on exams, and i wasn't the person to go and buy a crippled one, i learned to use a slide rule and did my final HS exams with it.
OK stop.
I get it.
Some asshole said he was "open"
but he was only open for business
Anyone remember this lyrics segment from one of the OpenBSD release songs (a bonus track)
It's sad that what's a joke one day becomes reality in few years
Hmm.... did I at *any* point commend what the US does, and did in Iraq and Afghanistan ?
Me disliking Obama and his actions doesn't automatically mean i endorse GWB
And it fits with my previous analogy - UN also authorised the bloodshed in Jugoslavija.. for no reason, too as it was found out later
I don't know what sort of people demanded either, but i sure wouldn't like to go anywhere near them... see H. Thaci.
If your father cultivated a wine berg, and you happen to own it, and you are still making wine: ofc you are payed based on his work.
Your analogy is utterly misguided.
The wineberg is still growing grapes, and he is making wine. He isn't paid for his father's wineberg, he's paid for the wine he produces. His father's labour has merely created some value - a well kept wineyard , which aids in the making of wine
Unlike information, wine is matter, and as such, it is scarce - he must make more of it to sell, and customers must buy more of it, to , well, get drunk
The analogy with regular labour is more like if every family, as long as the house stands, had to pay five bucks per given time period to every one of the builders, and then their children
That's essentially what royalties are