Property owners can put any stupid term in their lease they want. Damned, though, if I appreciate the gummint making it easy for these idiots to jerk their knees, and damned if I'm not going to fight any attempts by these demagogues to get their claws further into our culture.
The people in favor of these ratings know damn well that crap like these lease terms will happen -- they're counting on it. In light of that, I think the "censorship" label is accurate and descriptive.
But even he doesn't get paid for making you money; he gets paid for moving your money from place to place. Does your stockbroker get paid on commission?
I'm currently using SuSE, but it's not because of YaST. If I could figure out how, I'd toss YaST out for a combination of linuxconf and plain old rpm or kpackage, along with clear labels on the CDs explaining, at least in general terms, what is on the disc.
What I like about SuSE is the fact that it's five whole CDs of hot, buttered Linux lovin'. Can't gripe about that, but I hate using YaST because I don't quite know what grief I'll bring upon myself from bypassing it.
And even some of us here in Heaven would rather buy a frickin' CD than download 40 megabytes of stuff at home. Of course, my shadowy masters don't mind me slurping some stuff through the T1s, but there's no way in hell I'm saving all of SuSE onto seventy jillion Zip disks!
The problem is, Lucas _didn't_ plot out this arc ahead of time. He made a one-off movie that was vastly more successful than he thought it would be, decided to make more of them, and he's been assembling the story on the fly ever since.
Oh man oh man. I've thought this all along, and just e-mailed Brin with it.
How else do you explain the way Yoda and Obi-Wan lied to Luke all that time? "He is dead, from a certain point of view?" Bullshit!
A lot of the inconsistencies Brin mentions do make more sense, if you hold in mind the fact that Lucas came up with the "trilogy" idea after "Star Wars" grossed hundreds of millions of dollars.
At my soon-to-be-former company, the engineering process was horrible. We consistently underestimated schedule and budget, with the expected negative effects on employee morale and client relations. This company gave me $20,000 US in raises in less than two years, yet I quit because the chaos was driving me mad.
The company I'm going to is paying me more, but what I didn't tell them was that I would have accepted their offer if they had offered the same salary I was getting before, because I felt the process and learning opportunities were that much greater at the new place.
As it is, the old company loses me because their policy is "get the job, no matter what," and the new company was actually willing to walk away from a job because it was bad for the company, even though it was lucrative.
It may not suite some people, but it has its advantages. For one thing, Internet access can be made available anywhere in the country (resteraunts, schools, kindergardens even) without having to worry about people visiting offensive sites, and causing problems for everyone.
Problems for everyone? Or problems for a few people who care a bit too much about what other people are doing, whether or not it hurts others?
I'm not saying that I promote censorship, nor am I saying that I'm against it. I'm just saying, it has its obviouse advantages.
Yeah, so does living with your parents. The question is whether or not one wants to move out and grow up some day.
Personally, I prefer being a grownup, even when it's scary.
Maybe things have changed in the two years since I was there, but the lab is open on Sundays, and Ramsey Auditorium is in Wilson Hall (the big building) which is also (partly) open to the public on Sunday. Call and ask first, but I doubt anybody would mind if you dropped by to see this, as the Lab holds public events at Ramsey all the time, and it surely has the space.
Yes. I looked at only a few of my projects from the last year. A rough count gives me 20k. I regularly write more than 1500 lines of code in one day. Watch me be accused of writing bad code now. Oh well.
Your code is probably fine. Looking at your web page, it looks like a lot of the programs you've written were things you wanted to write, and that they are pretty small. What this means is that you don't have to spend as much time defining requirements (they're in your head, so you know them as well as anybody else,) meeting with clients (you're the client,) and trying to coordinate with larger teams (small project, one programmer.) These are absolutely necessary if one is to deliver large-scale software to others, but they don't produce a single line of code.
For example, the current web project that I'm on has been going on for two months, and is scheduled to go on for a third. We just finished requirements definition and design, which means no code. I'm not worried, though -- the time spent in defining the problem means that we will waste less time in coding, and probably actually write less code as a result.
Again, lines of code is not a good measure of productivity, because it doesn't distinguish between code that needed to be written, and code that didn't. It also neglects the important front-end processes that ultimately (unless taken to ridiculous extremes) compress schedules and make each line of code more efficient.
I had this problem on my RH5.2 system, but I had always been specifying these parameters, courtesy of sndconfig. Unfortunately, the parameter format changed, so that the transition from 2.0.36 to 2.2.2 broke sound until I specified the DMA settings in the above format.
I read these stories and see something pretty awesome happening. Katz is making the transformation from user to hacker -- from someone who asks others for answers, to someone who asks himself for them first. "I'm so confused" is replaced by "I can figure this out." I'm glad he's documenting it, as a reminder of where I've been, and as an example to those who will come after.
People who dare to try pissing on someone making these steps are our worst enemy. "Don't try" is their only message.
If you can't do anything to help people better themselves, at least get out of the fucking way, Bubba.
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Property owners can put any stupid term in their lease they want. Damned, though, if I appreciate the gummint making it easy for these idiots to jerk their knees, and damned if I'm not going to fight any attempts by these demagogues to get their claws further into our culture.
The people in favor of these ratings know damn well that crap like these lease terms will happen -- they're counting on it. In light of that, I think the "censorship" label is accurate and descriptive.
Oh, that's right, freedom is a bad thing for corporations, but is good for individuals.
Corporate freedom is not bad, just less important than individual freedom.
But even he doesn't get paid for making you money; he gets paid for moving your money from place to place. Does your stockbroker get paid on commission?
Ooooh, not fair, not fair, not fair.
I'm currently using SuSE, but it's not because of YaST. If I could figure out how, I'd toss YaST out for a combination of linuxconf and plain old rpm or kpackage, along with clear labels on the CDs explaining, at least in general terms, what is on the disc.
What I like about SuSE is the fact that it's five whole CDs of hot, buttered Linux lovin'. Can't gripe about that, but I hate using YaST because I don't quite know what grief I'll bring upon myself from bypassing it.
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And even some of us here in Heaven would rather buy a frickin' CD than download 40 megabytes of stuff at home. Of course, my shadowy masters don't mind me slurping some stuff through the T1s, but there's no way in hell I'm saving all of SuSE onto seventy jillion Zip disks!
The problem is, Lucas _didn't_ plot out this arc ahead of time. He made a one-off movie that was vastly more successful than he thought it would be, decided to make more of them, and he's been assembling the story on the fly ever since.
Oh man oh man. I've thought this all along,
and just e-mailed Brin with it.
How else do you explain the way Yoda and Obi-Wan lied to Luke all that time? "He is dead, from a certain point of view?" Bullshit!
A lot of the inconsistencies Brin mentions do make more sense, if you hold in mind the fact that Lucas came up with the "trilogy" idea after "Star Wars" grossed hundreds of millions of dollars.
Sounds neat, but that's not all of it.
At my soon-to-be-former company, the engineering process was horrible. We consistently underestimated schedule and budget, with the expected negative effects on employee morale and client relations. This company gave me $20,000 US in raises in less than two years, yet I quit because the chaos was driving me mad.
The company I'm going to is paying me more, but what I didn't tell them was that I would have accepted their offer if they had offered the same salary I was getting before, because I felt the process and learning opportunities were that much greater at the new place.
As it is, the old company loses me because their policy is "get the job, no matter what," and the new company was actually willing to walk away from a job because it was bad for the company, even though it was lucrative.
Phillip
So you'd turn the world into a nursery so your children can be safe?
It may not suite some people, but it has its advantages. For one thing, Internet access can be made available anywhere in the country (resteraunts, schools, kindergardens even) without having to worry about people visiting offensive sites, and causing problems for everyone.
Problems for everyone? Or problems for a few people who care a bit too much about what other people are doing, whether or not it hurts others?
I'm not saying that I promote censorship, nor am I saying that I'm against it. I'm just saying, it has its obviouse advantages.
Yeah, so does living with your parents. The question is whether or not one wants to move out and grow up some day.
Personally, I prefer being a grownup, even when it's scary.
Maybe things have changed in the two years since I was there, but the lab is open on Sundays, and Ramsey Auditorium is in Wilson Hall (the big building) which is also (partly) open to the public on Sunday. Call and ask first, but I doubt anybody would mind if you dropped by to see this, as the Lab holds public events at Ramsey all the time, and it surely has the space.
Yes. I looked at only a few of my projects from the last year. A rough count gives me 20k. I regularly write more than 1500 lines of code in one day. Watch me be accused of writing bad code now. Oh well.
Your code is probably fine. Looking at your web page, it looks like a lot of the programs you've written were things you wanted to write, and that they are pretty small. What this means is that you don't have to spend as much time defining requirements (they're in your head, so you know them as well as anybody else,) meeting with clients (you're the client,) and trying to coordinate with larger teams (small project, one programmer.) These are absolutely necessary if one is to deliver large-scale software to others, but they don't produce a single line of code.
For example, the current web project that I'm on has been going on for two months, and is scheduled to go on for a third. We just finished requirements definition and design, which means no code. I'm not worried, though -- the time spent in defining the problem means that we will waste less time in coding, and probably actually write less code as a result.
Again, lines of code is not a good measure of productivity, because it doesn't distinguish between code that needed to be written, and code that didn't. It also neglects the important front-end processes that ultimately (unless taken to ridiculous extremes) compress schedules and make each line of code more efficient.
I had this problem on my RH5.2 system, but I had always been specifying these parameters, courtesy of sndconfig. Unfortunately, the parameter format changed, so that the transition from 2.0.36 to 2.2.2 broke sound until I specified the DMA settings in the above format.
Much better now.
Put your money where your mouth is, if so many people like you and want you here, put it to a public vote.
If we vote to keep 'im, does that mean you'll shut up? If not, why should we bother?
Every infant brought to the attention of a pro-choice doctor will most certainly die.
You mean they're going to try to snatch my five-month-old niece out of my sister's arms and kill her?
Or do you want to re-visit that statement?
I read these stories and see something pretty awesome happening. Katz is making the transformation from user to hacker -- from someone who asks others for answers, to someone who asks himself for them first. "I'm so confused" is replaced by "I can figure this out." I'm glad he's documenting it, as a reminder of where I've been, and as an example to those who will come after.
People who dare to try pissing on someone making these steps are our worst enemy. "Don't try" is their only message.
If you can't do anything to help people better themselves, at least get out of the fucking way, Bubba.