I've got karma to burn so I'll bite. It has become an accepted and somewhat encouraged practice in today's culture to stereotype disorders (especially mental disorders) and religions that we do not understand completely in order for the "normal people" and Christians to accept it better. You've probably not read the books on Scientology and probably don't know shit about the disorder or the drugs used to treat ADHD. A lot of the Christian religion was adopted from the Pagan religions amongst others to get more people into Christianity. Christianity is not the biggest religion in the world either. What about the Buddhists and Muslims? Christians are so self-righteous as to think every other religion is wrong and therefore unaccepted. I am by no means a fan of Scientology. I actually read the books and found it to be as practical and truthful as the common medical "practice" of Psychology today. I agreed with one or two points, but found it to be about as appealing as Christianity.
It has also become common practice to take medicine for anything that ails you. That is not always the best practice. Today's youth is being subjected to anti-bacterial soaps and cleansers and such. When I was a kid, we ate dirt. By using today's anti-bacterial EVERYTHING your body does not have bacteria for your immune system to practice on therefore leaving you later in life with a very weak immune system. These mothers who have to have everything disinfected before their child can touch it also make me sick. The manufactures and doctors who created this mass hysteria of cleansing everything know this and are breeding the next generation of medicated consumers. Think about all the commercials you see for new medicines. These companies are showing you these drugs so you can say, âoehmm... maybe I've got anxiety disorder and need drug X. I'll contact my doctor right away.â Don't you think your doctor would know about this drug before you would? Don't you think that if the doctor thought you needed this drug he would have prescribed it for you? The doctor isn't hording all the new medications you know. This reminds me of a commercial I saw:
âoeAt Gene Enterprises we've harnessed the power of the human gene, so you can say goodbye to your allergies forever with new Nozulla. Nozulla may cause the following symptoms: itchy rashes, full body hair loss, projectile vomiting, gigantic eyeball, the condition known as 'hot dog fingers,' children born with the head of a golden retriever, seeing the dead, bone liquification, possession by the Prince of Darkness, tail growth, elderly pregnancy...â
Nowadays, drugs are not fully tested and understood because of the need to get the product to market. Doctors create disorders such as ADHD to push more drugs to the market. How many 10 year olds exhibit hyperactive qualities? Certainly every single one that I've ever known.
I've been diagnosed with a few "mental disorders" by a few psychologists ranging from ADHD, chronic depression, bipolar disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, etc. I came to realize that none of those psychologists really knew what they were talking about. I don't think there is anything wrong with me, though you might now. I've been on numerous drugs such as Ritalin, Wellbutrin, Felixer, Adderol, Depakote, Effexor, Neurontin, Prozac, Risperdal, etc. During the month that I took Ritalin I was a software developer for an ISP in town. I could not focus, was lethargic, apathetic and depressed. Since I could not focus enough to do my job, I quit the drug as you should. I'm not saying all drugs are bad. Do what you like to your body. And remember folks, I'm a depressed bipolar paranoid schizophrenic with ADHD.;)
You can't actually believe this! Read the "Things to keep in mind" section.
This sounds like my roomate's girlfriend who tells me every time I hit a porn
website the DEA is watching me because I'm a drug dealer. This is some mid-level
manager at the RIAA whose kid is a "hacker" because he can empty the recycle
bin on his 486dx2. Look at the phrasing of the sentences and the words used:
Special thanks to stran9er@openwall.com for the ethnic-cleansing shellcode (RIAA is one to talk about ethics)
when it can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings against those criminals who think it's OK to break the law. (Speaking of criminal actions... isn't the program that does all this illegal?)
Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids. (Sounds like a really loyal hacker)
not the hard-working artists who p2p technology rapes, and the RIAA protects (hard working... yeah) all p2p-serving software on the machine is infected (quite a large list, eh?)
Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not help you. (OK, sure)
"all p2p-serving software on the machine is infected"
So, apparently this thing is architecture and OS independant. I guess it's
written in Java. There is no way they could possibly know all the p2p apps and
be able to infect them all.
"all media on the machine is cataloged, and the full list is sent back to the RIAA headquarters"
This is quite possible (I can think of a dozen ways to do this) and
probably the only thing they are actually doing. The problem with this is:
How can they possibly determine which MP3s are pirated and which ones are you
recording yourself playing the guitar.
Granted this type of worm/virus has been around for a while, but really, nobody
in the RIAA gives two shits about Linux users downloading MP3s becuase Linux has
such little market share on the desktop. I seriously doubt this "complex hyrda"
is able to find relatively unheard of p2p software on OSes the RIAA has never
heard of.
JSP for web page generation, servlets as my logic and any scripting and customizing is being used by either Perl or Python
You can do all that in PHP and not need Python, PERL, and Java for your website. I have been working w/ PHP for three years now, but, I went out and learned Java over thae last week. However, I am still using PHP as my scripting/web language because it is lightning fast. Basically, just use the best tool for the job (whatever that may be for you).
This brings up an interesting point about other languages. Think about chineese. There is basically, Traditional (aka big5) and simplified. In some other languages, there are certain ways to converse professionally. Perhaps the english language will split as such.
For those in need of translation, hear ti 1z: +h15 br1|\|g5 up 4|\| 1|\|+ere5+1|\|g p01|\|+ 4b0u+ 0+her 74|\|gu4ge5. +h1|\|k 4b0u+ ch1|\|ee5e. +here 15 b451c477y, +r4d1+10|\|47 (4k4 b1g5) 4|\|d 51mp71f1ed. 1|\| 50me 0+her 74|\|gu4ge5, +here 4re cer+41|\| w4y5 +0 c0|\|ver5e pr0fe5510|\|477y. Perh4p5 +he e|\|g715h 74|\|gu4ge w177 5p71+ 45 5uch.
I agree somwhat with *no comment*, but I think the best documentation on any site has to go to php.net. The main thing that makes it easy to use is the ability to type your query at the end of the domain and after the slash like php.net/mysql_query and it goes directly to the functions' definition. If apache's site did this like httpd.apache.org/mod_ssl or httpd.apache.org/htacces, I would definitely be pleased. Also the ability for user comments is great. Sometimes the developers (I am guilty of this as well) are not very use friendly and have a hard time expressing themselves therefore leading to bad documentation, not saying apache is guilty of this.
American's are, in general, Ameri-centric assholes.
I should know. I live here. I have since birth.
We believe atleast as strongly, if not more strongly than most nations, that our ways are the correct ones and we have the right to make others live by those same beliefs. Whatever we want is good. Whatever opposes us is bad.
We are always right. It just happens that every other nationality is always wrong.
The problem with certain sites is you must enter an email address. I will never enter anything remotely close to being my valid address, so I routinly enter 'fuck_everyone@the_site_i_am_on.com' or 'fuck_everyone@microsoft.com'. Some sites don't allow me to enter thier domain, so I must use the latter.
Using hello world as a benchmark? This doesn't make much sense since "hello world" is a learning / testing application for developers and no technical merits can be properly tested using this method except initial load time, initial memory usage, etc.
Regardless, I think most admins understand apache is one of (I would say the fastest) the fastest web servers in the market.
I take it you majored in English or some kind of communication skills? Just in case you don't have your degree close by to wave in my face, "I" before "E" except after "C".
MS Bob - No explanation requred. USS Yorktown - 'nuff said. IIS - A webserver so holy it could put the Pope out of commission. Hotmail acquisition - Couln't get it to work for a while without existing open-source software. MSN.com - For a while didn't allow any non-MS browsers to access the site. Windows ME - short lived. Permissions of Win2k and XP - Was it supposed to work? .NET - cracked before it was released. Palladium *new*
Does anyone else find it strange MSNBC is always bashing MS? Perhaps something's going on we don't know about.
IANAKH (I am not a kernel hacker), but if the basis for his argument is the usage of GNU/gcc to compile the kernel, he has no case. When I write Win32 apps in VC6, I don't call the finished product MFC/myapp or VS6/myapp.
If the kernel itself has GNU code in it, it's a different story, but this does not require the finished product to make notice of the code in the product's name. One example of this is Internet Explorer. No one calls Internet Explorer "zlib Internet Explorer" or any of the other libraries used for the application. It should be noted in the documentation as the GPL states which external sources were used for the app.
If the usage of GNU tools is the argument, he should be taking his case to RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, etc. This point has already been made.
I write code on both sides of the fence. You can now begin flames on Win32 apps.
almost. My family never had much money and still doesn't. My father is permenantly disabled and my mother is a nurse (RN). Here's my story:
When I was going through high school, I got a job a tech shop repairing and troubleshooting PCs (making $5.50/hr) in a farm town of ~1000 people. I got A+ certified (which is basically worthless to me now) because the other A+ certified guys made $30K / year which I though was a LOT of money. During those high school days I took a few programming classes (Qbasic, Pascal, then C/C++ in that order). I did that tech shop gig for 6 months and left to work at the local ISP for tech support (making $7/hr). There I was introduced to PHP. I worked the graveyard shift there for 6 months and drove 2 hours to work and 2 hours back and gasoline was eating up the money quick. The drive was a huge sacrafice on my part. Every night when I got to work, I spent the 8 hours there reading and learning everything I could relating to programming just becuase it was interesting. I picked up PHP quickly because it's so similar to C/C++. I rewrote the tech support website in PHP with a MySQL backend on Linux while I was answering the phones. I ftp'd everything and had no clue I was working on linux. I didn't know what linux was back then anyway. I left there after 6 months to go to my first real programming position. This is the way I got in:
1. I rewrote the tech support site in PHP, therefore I had sample code and proof I understand basic programming concepts. Code is basically a must have for any development postition (in my experience, YMMV). 2. The company I went to was small 50 people and they were growing. They were interested in me because I was young (17 y/o) and extremely cheap according to the other programmers. I started off at $27,000 / year with benefits while the others were $50k to $75K. This was good for them because they could POSSIblY get a good developer for pennies on the dollar. It's a low risk / high gain opportunity for the company. 3. I was local and didn't require any relocation (I still made the 4 hour a day drive since I couldn't afford to move). 4. I could start immediately without giving 2 weeks. 5. I had a personality as did the company.
I left from there after 6 months to go to my next job making $50,000 year because I had _real_world_ experience. All that happened less than 5 years ago. I have yet to go to college or even take the SATs. The rest is history.
Currently, I am making much more. I have been living in another state ever since I started making $50K / year at the age of 18. You are still relativly young. Almost all of the developers I have had the pleasure of meeting are between 23 and 35.
This is my story. YMMV. A few things you might want to know. The raises you get are bullshit. The only way (IMHO) to get an increase in a pay is to switch jobs. Hope this helps.
Slashdot Mirror
'interesting info', he says.
;)
The site is run by Scientologists.
How 'informative' do you think that post is now?
I've got karma to burn so I'll bite. It has become an accepted and somewhat encouraged practice in today's culture to stereotype disorders (especially mental disorders) and religions that we do not understand completely in order for the "normal people" and Christians to accept it better. You've probably not read the books on Scientology and probably don't know shit about the disorder or the drugs used to treat ADHD. A lot of the Christian religion was adopted from the Pagan religions amongst others to get more people into Christianity. Christianity is not the biggest religion in the world either. What about the Buddhists and Muslims? Christians are so self-righteous as to think every other religion is wrong and therefore unaccepted. I am by no means a fan of Scientology. I actually read the books and found it to be as practical and truthful as the common medical "practice" of Psychology today. I agreed with one or two points, but found it to be about as appealing as Christianity.
It has also become common practice to take medicine for anything that ails you. That is not always the best practice. Today's youth is being subjected to anti-bacterial soaps and cleansers and such. When I was a kid, we ate dirt. By using today's anti-bacterial EVERYTHING your body does not have bacteria for your immune system to practice on therefore leaving you later in life with a very weak immune system. These mothers who have to have everything disinfected before their child can touch it also make me sick. The manufactures and doctors who created this mass hysteria of cleansing everything know this and are breeding the next generation of medicated consumers. Think about all the commercials you see for new medicines. These companies are showing you these drugs so you can say, âoehmm... maybe I've got anxiety disorder and need drug X. I'll contact my doctor right away.â Don't you think your doctor would know about this drug before you would? Don't you think that if the doctor thought you needed this drug he would have prescribed it for you? The doctor isn't hording all the new medications you know. This reminds me of a commercial I saw:
âoeAt Gene Enterprises we've harnessed the power of the human gene, so you can say goodbye to your allergies forever with new Nozulla. Nozulla may cause the following symptoms: itchy rashes, full body hair loss, projectile vomiting, gigantic eyeball, the condition known as 'hot dog fingers,' children born with the head of a golden retriever, seeing the dead, bone liquification, possession by the Prince of Darkness, tail growth, elderly pregnancy...â
Nowadays, drugs are not fully tested and understood because of the need to get the product to market. Doctors create disorders such as ADHD to push more drugs to the market. How many 10 year olds exhibit hyperactive qualities? Certainly every single one that I've ever known.
I've been diagnosed with a few "mental disorders" by a few psychologists ranging from ADHD, chronic depression, bipolar disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, etc. I came to realize that none of those psychologists really knew what they were talking about. I don't think there is anything wrong with me, though you might now. I've been on numerous drugs such as Ritalin, Wellbutrin, Felixer, Adderol, Depakote, Effexor, Neurontin, Prozac, Risperdal, etc. During the month that I took Ritalin I was a software developer for an ISP in town. I could not focus, was lethargic, apathetic and depressed. Since I could not focus enough to do my job, I quit the drug as you should. I'm not saying all drugs are bad. Do what you like to your body. And remember folks, I'm a depressed bipolar paranoid schizophrenic with ADHD.
...this sceen was so easy to understand you your genius mind. Just go away and let the rest of use lower life forms talk about this, can you?
"Stupid humans..." -- John Travolta (BFE)
Seriously... tell us how you really feel.
Otherwise I think a picture of a trashcan with the legend "This is not a trashcan" would do nicely as a logo.
I think a recycle bin instead would work better for the icon.
and people would be using PHP 5 on Apache 2. ;)
I feel the movie Deuce Bigalow is an acurate portrayal of my current profession. Gotta pay the bills somehow ya know.
Same shit, different color, as the humble janitors say.
I'm not joking. And don't call me Shirly.
- Naked Gun
or
If I were joking I would say: "What do you do with an elephant with three balls? You walk him and pitch to the Rhino."
- Hot Shots
Just seen this game sold in local computer store here (Frys electronics) for Macintosh
Who's to say Apple has a bad seletion of new games?
You can't actually believe this! Read the "Things to keep in mind" section. This sounds like my roomate's girlfriend who tells me every time I hit a porn website the DEA is watching me because I'm a drug dealer. This is some mid-level manager at the RIAA whose kid is a "hacker" because he can empty the recycle bin on his 486dx2. Look at the phrasing of the sentences and the words used:
Special thanks to stran9er@openwall.com for the ethnic-cleansing shellcode (RIAA is one to talk about ethics)
when it can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings against those criminals who think it's OK to break the law. (Speaking of criminal actions... isn't the program that does all this illegal?)
Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids. (Sounds like a really loyal hacker)
not the hard-working artists who p2p technology rapes, and the RIAA protects (hard working... yeah)
all p2p-serving software on the machine is infected (quite a large list, eh?)
Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not help you. (OK, sure)
"all p2p-serving software on the machine is infected"
So, apparently this thing is architecture and OS independant. I guess it's written in Java. There is no way they could possibly know all the p2p apps and be able to infect them all.
"all media on the machine is cataloged, and the full list is sent back to the RIAA headquarters"
This is quite possible (I can think of a dozen ways to do this) and probably the only thing they are actually doing. The problem with this is: How can they possibly determine which MP3s are pirated and which ones are you recording yourself playing the guitar.
Granted this type of worm/virus has been around for a while, but really, nobody in the RIAA gives two shits about Linux users downloading MP3s becuase Linux has such little market share on the desktop. I seriously doubt this "complex hyrda" is able to find relatively unheard of p2p software on OSes the RIAA has never heard of.
Let's go buy some CDs.
Nice cover indeed...
...but which one's the penguin??
;)
The one with the spine
it was causing major problems (ie: crashes)
You should use "eg" instead of "ie" next time when discussing this topic. Everone knows "ie crashes."
...they needed something done a different way than originally planned...
...software would be easily able to change and keep up with everything else...
...they[engineers] put the burden on them[software developers]...
Surely you must be joking. This never happens in software development.
JSP for web page generation, servlets as my logic and any scripting and customizing is being used by either Perl or Python
You can do all that in PHP and not need Python, PERL, and Java for your website. I have been working w/ PHP for three years now, but, I went out and learned Java over thae last week. However, I am still using PHP as my scripting/web language because it is lightning fast. Basically, just use the best tool for the job (whatever that may be for you).
This brings up an interesting point about other languages. Think about chineese. There is basically, Traditional (aka big5) and simplified. In some other languages, there are certain ways to converse professionally. Perhaps the english language will split as such.
For those in need of translation, hear ti 1z:
+h15 br1|\|g5 up 4|\| 1|\|+ere5+1|\|g p01|\|+ 4b0u+ 0+her 74|\|gu4ge5. +h1|\|k 4b0u+ ch1|\|ee5e. +here 15 b451c477y, +r4d1+10|\|47 (4k4 b1g5) 4|\|d 51mp71f1ed. 1|\| 50me 0+her 74|\|gu4ge5, +here 4re cer+41|\| w4y5 +0 c0|\|ver5e pr0fe5510|\|477y. Perh4p5 +he e|\|g715h 74|\|gu4ge w177 5p71+ 45 5uch.
I agree somwhat with *no comment*, but I think the best documentation on any site has to go to php.net. The main thing that makes it easy to use is the ability to type your query at the end of the domain and after the slash like php.net/mysql_query and it goes directly to the functions' definition. If apache's site did this like httpd.apache.org/mod_ssl or httpd.apache.org/htacces, I would definitely be pleased. Also the ability for user comments is great. Sometimes the developers (I am guilty of this as well) are not very use friendly and have a hard time expressing themselves therefore leading to bad documentation, not saying apache is guilty of this.
>In the Movie Lawnmower man the OS was three dimensional. That movie is 10 years old why hasn't something like that gone mainstream yet?
>>'cause a 3D OS would be pretty clunky?
Some people refer to that as Bob.
American's are, in general, Ameri-centric assholes.
I should know. I live here. I have since birth.
We believe atleast as strongly, if not more strongly than most nations, that our ways are the correct ones and we have the right to make others live by those same beliefs. Whatever we want is good. Whatever opposes us is bad.
We are always right. It just happens that every other nationality is always wrong.
The problem with certain sites is you must enter an email address. I will never enter anything remotely close to being my valid address, so I routinly enter 'fuck_everyone@the_site_i_am_on.com' or 'fuck_everyone@microsoft.com'. Some sites don't allow me to enter thier domain, so I must use the latter.
Using hello world as a benchmark? This doesn't make much sense since "hello world" is a learning / testing application for developers and no technical merits can be properly tested using this method except initial load time, initial memory usage, etc.
Regardless, I think most admins understand apache is one of (I would say the fastest) the fastest web servers in the market.
way thru school. Beleive me
I take it you majored in English or some kind of communication skills? Just in case you don't have your degree close by to wave in my face, "I" before "E" except after "C".
MS Bob - No explanation requred.
USS Yorktown - 'nuff said.
IIS - A webserver so holy it could put the Pope out of commission.
Hotmail acquisition - Couln't get it to work for a while without existing open-source software.
MSN.com - For a while didn't allow any non-MS browsers to access the site.
Windows ME - short lived.
Permissions of Win2k and XP - Was it supposed to work?
.NET - cracked before it was released.
Palladium *new*
Does anyone else find it strange MSNBC is always bashing MS? Perhaps something's going on we don't know about.
I have no problems with it. Specs:
1.1ghz Celeron
256MB PC133
15GB HDD
14in LCD
$850US
It does get rather hot, but has yet to crash. I have left this thing on for days on end with no problems.
I think I got a rather good deal for the hardware.
IANAKH (I am not a kernel hacker), but if the basis for his argument is the usage of GNU/gcc to compile the kernel, he has no case. When I write Win32 apps in VC6, I don't call the finished product MFC/myapp or VS6/myapp.
If the kernel itself has GNU code in it, it's a different story, but this does not require the finished product to make notice of the code in the product's name. One example of this is Internet Explorer. No one calls Internet Explorer "zlib Internet Explorer" or any of the other libraries used for the application. It should be noted in the documentation as the GPL states which external sources were used for the app.
If the usage of GNU tools is the argument, he should be taking his case to RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, etc. This point has already been made.
I write code on both sides of the fence. You can now begin flames on Win32 apps.
almost. My family never had much money and still doesn't. My father is permenantly disabled and my mother is a nurse (RN). Here's my story:
When I was going through high school, I got a job a tech shop repairing and troubleshooting PCs (making $5.50/hr) in a farm town of ~1000 people. I got A+ certified (which is basically worthless to me now) because the other A+ certified guys made $30K / year which I though was a LOT of money. During those high school days I took a few programming classes (Qbasic, Pascal, then C/C++ in that order). I did that tech shop gig for 6 months and left to work at the local ISP for tech support (making $7/hr). There I was introduced to PHP. I worked the graveyard shift there for 6 months and drove 2 hours to work and 2 hours back and gasoline was eating up the money quick. The drive was a huge sacrafice on my part. Every night when I got to work, I spent the 8 hours there reading and learning everything I could relating to programming just becuase it was interesting. I picked up PHP quickly because it's so similar to C/C++. I rewrote the tech support website in PHP with a MySQL backend on Linux while I was answering the phones. I ftp'd everything and had no clue I was working on linux. I didn't know what linux was back then anyway. I left there after 6 months to go to my first real programming position. This is the way I got in:
1. I rewrote the tech support site in PHP, therefore I had sample code and proof I understand basic programming concepts. Code is basically a must have for any development postition (in my experience, YMMV).
2. The company I went to was small 50 people and they were growing. They were interested in me because I was young (17 y/o) and extremely cheap according to the other programmers. I started off at $27,000 / year with benefits while the others were $50k to $75K. This was good for them because they could POSSIblY get a good developer for pennies on the dollar. It's a low risk / high gain opportunity for the company.
3. I was local and didn't require any relocation (I still made the 4 hour a day drive since I couldn't afford to move).
4. I could start immediately without giving 2 weeks.
5. I had a personality as did the company.
I left from there after 6 months to go to my next job making $50,000 year because I had _real_world_ experience. All that happened less than 5 years ago. I have yet to go to college or even take the SATs. The rest is history.
Currently, I am making much more. I have been living in another state ever since I started making $50K / year at the age of 18. You are still relativly young. Almost all of the developers I have had the pleasure of meeting are between 23 and 35.
This is my story. YMMV. A few things you might want to know. The raises you get are bullshit. The only way (IMHO) to get an increase in a pay is to switch jobs. Hope this helps.