I think you're grossly overestimating his status as a musician. I'm pretty sure his income from this career stems from the selling of 5 dollar home made cd's after his show at your friend Jimmy's Barmitzfah(sp?).
These kind of actions I hold the utmost distain for, even worse than armed robbery. It's just so fucking slimy and underhanded. The levels to which these people will go would be considered incredibly resourceful if they weren't so pathetic.
I once read somewhere a quote that was pretty good.."An MIT graduate has no more elightenment than say a library employee that loves to read, or a Blockbuster employee for that matter."
I completely believe education is desire, not location.
How do you feel about the internet going from a place of knowledge, beauty, and limitless potential to a place of Porn, Scams, and Cons? Geez, often times you can get all 3 at one site. I would think this polution of your idea to such an extent leaves a bad taste in your mouth, I know it does mine.
The funny thing is I'm sure you found that reply intelligent when you were writing it. The difference is in the real world people are required to all play on the same fair playing ground while following a set of rules. People in CS aren't bound by this. My boss can't screw me over and hire a girl with big tits even though I'm more qualified for an internal position because I'll go over his head on it. Whether or not a bank loans to me is based on my actions and past, not their current mood. A police officer pulling me over for speeding is in the right.
I'm usually a calm person. If my day isn't going great, I can usually remain calm if I know I am to blame. Your analogy is completely off base. I choose to get pissed off in counter-strike because no one really cares, and if can't really affect me. I can't really get mad at a bank if I've pissed away my credit for 10 years and they deny my loan application.
The Heisenberg Uncertainy principle basically states that their is no such thing as a truly closed system. Rough explanation is this: You can't look at something/anything without changing it somehow. In this application, the results gathered from a quantum computer wouldn't be accurate because to obtain them, you had to observe, and therefore changed something, no matter how small.
Personally, I see some games making people more angry and edgy. Take, for example, Counter-Strike. I've been at lan parties where people have gotten seriously pissed off while playing this game, even to the point of violence more than once. And almost everytime it's the same thing: Someone says the way in which they died doesn't count because of any number of complete bullshit reasons(awp shot, camping, even accusations of cheating).
Even I'm guilty of this. I get midly pissed off if I own someone and they go "luck" or "won't happen again". I've seen people that shout "BS" after every single death, it's pretty fucking sad.
Not every game is going to relieve stress. If you're serious about the game, and you're not playing up to your usual standard for whatever reason, you're very quick to anger. It's not very theraputic if cs is giving you a pissed-off anxiety attack.
P.S. Camping with the awp=sniping(fair, and expected). Camping with the mp5=camping(cheap).
:"Gentlemen, let me begin by saying that the litter box you have provided me is completely inadequite. While I know I am a creature prone to walking in it's own shit while I shit some more, I must insist you clean it out post-haste.
: From this point on I will always be fucked in the head.
Remember driving down the street last night? That trick working the street corner with the leather miniskirt, 4 inch pumps, and frazzled hair? That was slashdot's advertising department hard at work.
I have to agree with him./. these days is about misinterpreting free speech laws. I'm surrounded by people that think any software developer and/or musician that might want to profit from their craft is evil, as are their management. It's pretty sad actually, that so many people can justify theft and copy-right violations to themselves.
"But the only currency are ideas, don't you know that!?"
"Lemme tell you a story. I knew a guy, a lot like you. Didn't have his rent check. So I kicked his ass out on the street, shoveled all his things into a furnace. Parents came by looking for him, told them he ran off with some guy. Right now, he's thinking about drinking his own pee."
"But you don't understand, I'm freely exchanging ideas in a competitive environment."
"Ain't that something? I'm doing a little EX-changing of my own! I'm exchanging your broke ass for someone that can pay the rent. Me and you, we're like kindred spirits!"
My verdict is you shouldn't mod someone down because you don't agree with their opinion. Make a reply explaining your side, try to make others believe you're the one in the right, but, for example, to call someone a troll because he likes Windows more than Linux is assinine, and counter-productive to everything this page is supposed to stand for.
Yeah, no shit. I remember back in the day when you might actually be hard to replace. Now, even in the most advanced IT positions, your boss has a drawer full of resumes of people just as smart as you think you are. Pretty scary, actually.
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I think you're grossly overestimating his status as a musician. I'm pretty sure his income from this career stems from the selling of 5 dollar home made cd's after his show at your friend Jimmy's Barmitzfah(sp?).
"What's your band called? Memorex?"
Where can I get myself a senator?
"Can I keep him?"
"I don't know, he looks pretty hungry. Here, give him some booze."
I would've joined their conversation but my room buster wasn't working.
Die.
I'm currenty wearing the Perl Camel t-shirt from thinkgeek.com. The code on the back is more neatly formatted than your post is. Congratulations.
Meanwhile, across town, John Romero is working hard on a prototype BFG to blow said rocket out of the air.
He'll end up getting the high-tone, pimple-faced kid from the Simpsons.
"Uh-oh, Dr. Smith, I did it again."
These kind of actions I hold the utmost distain for, even worse than armed robbery. It's just so fucking slimy and underhanded. The levels to which these people will go would be considered incredibly resourceful if they weren't so pathetic.
I once read somewhere a quote that was pretty good.."An MIT graduate has no more elightenment than say a library employee that loves to read, or a Blockbuster employee for that matter."
I completely believe education is desire, not location.
Maybe the poster is in greenpeace...riding around in a piece of shit, crazy oil-leaking boat, looking for whalers.
Greenpeace will be sure to flip over their van.
How do you feel about the internet going from a place of knowledge, beauty, and limitless potential to a place of Porn, Scams, and Cons? Geez, often times you can get all 3 at one site. I would think this polution of your idea to such an extent leaves a bad taste in your mouth, I know it does mine.
Follow up question: Has fire made this a better world, and how do you feel about the wheel and agriculture?
Just bury $5,000 worth of subwoofers under your couch, same thing.
Fucking classic. That's some awesome shit. I'd love to see what they have to say to that.
The funny thing is I'm sure you found that reply intelligent when you were writing it. The difference is in the real world people are required to all play on the same fair playing ground while following a set of rules. People in CS aren't bound by this. My boss can't screw me over and hire a girl with big tits even though I'm more qualified for an internal position because I'll go over his head on it. Whether or not a bank loans to me is based on my actions and past, not their current mood. A police officer pulling me over for speeding is in the right.
I'm usually a calm person. If my day isn't going great, I can usually remain calm if I know I am to blame. Your analogy is completely off base. I choose to get pissed off in counter-strike because no one really cares, and if can't really affect me. I can't really get mad at a bank if I've pissed away my credit for 10 years and they deny my loan application.
The Heisenberg Uncertainy principle basically states that their is no such thing as a truly closed system. Rough explanation is this: You can't look at something/anything without changing it somehow. In this application, the results gathered from a quantum computer wouldn't be accurate because to obtain them, you had to observe, and therefore changed something, no matter how small.
Personally, I see some games making people more angry and edgy. Take, for example, Counter-Strike. I've been at lan parties where people have gotten seriously pissed off while playing this game, even to the point of violence more than once. And almost everytime it's the same thing: Someone says the way in which they died doesn't count because of any number of complete bullshit reasons(awp shot, camping, even accusations of cheating).
Even I'm guilty of this. I get midly pissed off if I own someone and they go "luck" or "won't happen again". I've seen people that shout "BS" after every single death, it's pretty fucking sad.
Not every game is going to relieve stress. If you're serious about the game, and you're not playing up to your usual standard for whatever reason, you're very quick to anger. It's not very theraputic if cs is giving you a pissed-off anxiety attack.
P.S. Camping with the awp=sniping(fair, and expected). Camping with the mp5=camping(cheap).
:"Gentlemen, let me begin by saying that the litter box you have provided me is completely inadequite. While I know I am a creature prone to walking in it's own shit while I shit some more, I must insist you clean it out post-haste.
: From this point on I will always be fucked in the head.
: Ditto.
Remember driving down the street last night? That trick working the street corner with the leather miniskirt, 4 inch pumps, and frazzled hair? That was slashdot's advertising department hard at work.
I have to agree with him. /. these days is about misinterpreting free speech laws. I'm surrounded by people that think any software developer and/or musician that might want to profit from their craft is evil, as are their management. It's pretty sad actually, that so many people can justify theft and copy-right violations to themselves.
"But the only currency are ideas, don't you know that!?"
"Lemme tell you a story. I knew a guy, a lot like you. Didn't have his rent check. So I kicked his ass out on the street, shoveled all his things into a furnace. Parents came by looking for him, told them he ran off with some guy. Right now, he's thinking about drinking his own pee."
"But you don't understand, I'm freely exchanging ideas in a competitive environment."
"Ain't that something? I'm doing a little EX-changing of my own! I'm exchanging your broke ass for someone that can pay the rent. Me and you, we're like kindred spirits!"
How many computers were working on rc5-64 for how many years? White isn't that many factors faster.
All bets are off though once we get quantum machines up and running...provided we can get around the whole heisenberg principle.
My verdict is you shouldn't mod someone down because you don't agree with their opinion. Make a reply explaining your side, try to make others believe you're the one in the right, but, for example, to call someone a troll because he likes Windows more than Linux is assinine, and counter-productive to everything this page is supposed to stand for.
Yeah, no shit. I remember back in the day when you might actually be hard to replace. Now, even in the most advanced IT positions, your boss has a drawer full of resumes of people just as smart as you think you are. Pretty scary, actually.