I always try to leave a place on a somewhat positive note, not bitching and moaning the whole way out. I don't tend to join places where they're completely incompetent or assholes, so I show the colleagues I leave behind the respect that I think they deserve.
What goes around comes around, too. I've never had someone just walk out on me and leave their projects hanging. People who work for me and feel they need to go work elsewhere almost universally have done so without just ditching me. They usually give me a couple weeks to a month.
Treat people with respect and you tend to get respect. Treat people like shit and they tend to treat you like shit.
Although I would agree that this is pretty much a Bush bashing article in its tone, I'm not sure if you can pick and choose your civil liberties defense depending upon which party you normally support. Your civil liberties are rights that can erode quickly without constant and vigorous vigilance.
I'm typically non-religious conservative/libertarian in my mindset, so I don't get into the Bush hating as much as the Moveon.org crowd; but I also see our rights shrinking across the board in the name of "fighting terrorism" and "protecting intellectual property"... I don't see these as good things.
It looks to me like fear and greed are overly dominating our rights to: travel unhindered, make free use of the products we buy, speak our minds, protest against perceived government and corporate wrongs, address real grievances in court, associate freely with whomever(adults) we wish in whatever manner we wish, etc.
I know it's harder to judge harshly the political party you normally support. When it comes to civil liberties, though, there are no political parties. There are the guys supporting them, and then there are the bad guys.
RTF: The same process that encourages regeneration also causes cancer. Cancer is such a huge problem that it counteracts the obvious advantages of long life and limb regeneration.
Once we figure out better ways to control cancer outbreaks in our cells, amazing opportunities to manipulate our bodies will become available to us.
Understanding and controlling cancer is the key to everything.
I blew tons of time playing Nethack back in the 80's in college, and every few years since I've rediscovered it. Besides the old Bolo game for the Macintosh, Nethack has been the most replayable game of all time for me.
I just telnetted into that nethack.alt.org server... you can WATCH OTHER PLAYERS! I spent ten minutes watching someone, and it's actually kind of fun. I'll be sucked back in tonight, looks like.
He's saying that they're changing one bit of syntax to conform with what people are used to in other languages while totally corrupting something else that was perfectly consistent with what everyone else already knew.
Understanding the nature of the universe better is what could very well enable the creation of materials strong enough to create a space elevator or alternative forms of energy. Maybe we could learn how to control gravity if we learn more about what causes it... gravitons?
Yeah, but when the choices are Bea Arthur, Rosie O'Donnell, and Natalie Portman; selecting either of the first two should give you an electric shock on top of not allowing you to post.
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I played about 10 times. 9 out of the 10 times, I got really lame people who mostly wanted to pass. 1 time, I got someone who was actually mentally engaged in the game and we got 900 points. It would be fun to do better, but if finding a non-retarded partner is typically such a pain, I'm not sure if it's worth it.
Look at how it affects MMORPGs. WoW is a no-brainer, sure; but making puzzle solutions so spelled-out for the user takes a lot of the fun out of solving difficult them.
One of the things that I kind of liked about EQ, was the fact that there were really tough puzzles where you could accidentally sacrifice some hard-won quest item if you didn't know what you were doing. Unfortuntately, after the first generation solves a puzzle, they post it on the Internet then it's easy for people after them. To compensate, EQ cranks down the drop rate for key quest items or they make the quests so unbelievably complicated. Imagine instead if information were much more limited.
Imagine if you and maybe just your guild had to figure out how to solve certain problems that were different from what everyone else was solving. Then, game makers could feel comfortable in making puzzles that teased your brain a bit, but weren't so ridiculously hard to make up for the Internet effect.
I'm going hunting tomorrow morning. I don't care for what. I'll just take my twenty gauge and a couple of boxes of shells; go out into the woods near my house; and start the massacre.
And in the afternoon?
Fishing with dynamite, baby.
You animal rights terrorists may have won a round against the researcher, but I am a one-man animal sadist terrorist cell... and I've now been activated.
Comparing the telephone to open internet access is like comparing marijuana to crack. Instead of a telephone, compare internet access with putting full cable television access on your employees' desks; where you as a manager would have difficulty distinguishing legitimate work from channel surfing.
Internet access is probably the biggest killer of productivity that the office working world has seen, in terms of its ability to addictively suck people in.
I know it has other benefits, like ease of research; but I'm unsure if those benefits outweigh the direct hit in hours that employees spend surfing rather than working.
Yeah, the fragmentation of the Linux desktop makes it worse, but even if Gnome and KDE were combined into one, it still wouldn't be interesting to Apple.
I'm not following the logic there. Apple isn't keeping iTunes/iPod support off of Linux because of open vs closed driver support issues. Apple could make a package that would install on Linux and talk to your iPod without that. It could sit right next to the Windows download for iTunes, or they could even include it on the CD that comes with your iPod.
Apple doesn't do such a thing because the Linux desktop market is too small to merit the effort of doing so. Even if the Linux desktop market were quite a bit larger, Apple still would probably resist because they don't want to lend support to a rival desktop environment. They only did it with Windows because that market is so gigantic that the revenue and dominance temptations for iPod outweighed the cost to their propietary OS and hardware platform.
They're right when they say that it's not "theft" -- in a strictly legal sense. They're using the legal definition of "theft" in use in the USA and most other countries.
It's really a semantic game that people who infringe on copyright (to get themselves free stuff) use to convince themselves and others that they're still good, ethical people. In reality, they're taking something that someone else created with a specific intention and not agreeing to the terms with which the creator was willing to perform the creation.
Piracy is a selfish, unethical way to deal with the people working to entertain us. Even worse than the damage that it does to artists who are just trying to use the gifts they have in life to make a living -- it also gives plenty of ammunition to the RIAA, the MPAA, and the BSA death squads on the other side of the argument. That ammunition allows them to push shit like the DMCA through congress and get away with no end of infringements upon our fair use and privacy rights.
For example: Unless you have some technical know-how (I'm the only one of my non-geek friends who has such divine insight); you can't make a god damned backup of the Disney DVDs that you legally purchased for your children, and that suffer constant abuses from little grubby fingers.
Why? Because fair use is a casualty of the war between the pirates and the content creators. Lawmakers make it illegal for consumer electronics manufacturers to sell simple backup functions in their hardware, since the pirates have proven that they'll abuse the hell out of that right and cost content creators a lot of money. I could go on at length of the other rights and products that we don't have in the US because of this war, but the point is that the casualties of the war are many and tragic.
So yes, all you pedantic jack-asses, you're technically correct that copyright infringement is not theft. Congratufuckinglations on being right on that one small point while being completely wrong about the damage that piracy does to society. Nice job.
While pirate-sympathetics may celebrate TFA because of the mindshare that they're capturing in the next generation, and content protectors' (RIAA, etc.) attorneys celebrate the new rounds of ammunition they'll have to pursue dead violators' familes and get laws passed -- those of us in the middle should continue to curse both sides loudly for waging an unnecessary battle in the name of pure selfishness.
That's pretty much in line with what I know of him from a friend of mine who knew him well back in the NCSA days. You've gotta give him credit for grabbing on to the web thing as it was taking off and getting a good ride, though. My friend's observations were that Marc wasn't a particularly noteworthy guy. Andreessen was a "bright enough" guy in the right place at the right time; but all the media hype that still gets him the title of "technical whiz kid" on the front page of/. was mostly manufactured bullshit that was eaten up by an eager new economy press.
To me, it looks like my friend was being generous too. Even with all that money and an entrepreneurial bent, Andreessen has spectacularly failed to do anything else.
If he were half as bright and visionary as he's given credit for being, he could have had at least one success by now with *no* money.
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Evidence? You look for statistical evidence?
That's your mistake. ESP is a faith-based science. No real evidence is required.
If you say so, man.
I always try to leave a place on a somewhat positive note, not bitching and moaning the whole way out. I don't tend to join places where they're completely incompetent or assholes, so I show the colleagues I leave behind the respect that I think they deserve.
What goes around comes around, too. I've never had someone just walk out on me and leave their projects hanging. People who work for me and feel they need to go work elsewhere almost universally have done so without just ditching me. They usually give me a couple weeks to a month.
Treat people with respect and you tend to get respect. Treat people like shit and they tend to treat you like shit.
The irony there is that such hardware would help out all the captcha-passing blog spammers. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.
Although I would agree that this is pretty much a Bush bashing article in its tone, I'm not sure if you can pick and choose your civil liberties defense depending upon which party you normally support. Your civil liberties are rights that can erode quickly without constant and vigorous vigilance.
I'm typically non-religious conservative/libertarian in my mindset, so I don't get into the Bush hating as much as the Moveon.org crowd; but I also see our rights shrinking across the board in the name of "fighting terrorism" and "protecting intellectual property"... I don't see these as good things.
It looks to me like fear and greed are overly dominating our rights to: travel unhindered, make free use of the products we buy, speak our minds, protest against perceived government and corporate wrongs, address real grievances in court, associate freely with whomever(adults) we wish in whatever manner we wish, etc.
I know it's harder to judge harshly the political party you normally support. When it comes to civil liberties, though, there are no political parties. There are the guys supporting them, and then there are the bad guys.
Well said. I guess by their same logic, summer vacation is a "school function".
RTF: The same process that encourages regeneration also causes cancer. Cancer is such a huge problem that it counteracts the obvious advantages of long life and limb regeneration.
Once we figure out better ways to control cancer outbreaks in our cells, amazing opportunities to manipulate our bodies will become available to us.
Understanding and controlling cancer is the key to everything.
I blew tons of time playing Nethack back in the 80's in college, and every few years since I've rediscovered it. Besides the old Bolo game for the Macintosh, Nethack has been the most replayable game of all time for me.
I just telnetted into that nethack.alt.org server... you can WATCH OTHER PLAYERS! I spent ten minutes watching someone, and it's actually kind of fun. I'll be sucked back in tonight, looks like.
You'd think that they could just mirror the site to a few places... or maybe let Google cache the pdfs.
Jesus Christ! Would someone please remove the large stick from Stroustrup's ass?
What a buzz kill that guy is.
He's saying that they're changing one bit of syntax to conform with what people are used to in other languages while totally corrupting something else that was perfectly consistent with what everyone else already knew.
Understanding the nature of the universe better is what could very well enable the creation of materials strong enough to create a space elevator or alternative forms of energy. Maybe we could learn how to control gravity if we learn more about what causes it... gravitons?
Mmmm... Kung Pao Kitty.
Not really.
There's no real argument being made, there's a factual assertion. Credibility of a witness making a factual assertion is a very valid consideration.
Yeah, but when the choices are Bea Arthur, Rosie O'Donnell, and Natalie Portman; selecting either of the first two should give you an electric shock on top of not allowing you to post.
My team of fine Southeast Asian workers will remove spam from your web site/bulletin board/blog for a low low price of $.60 US/hour.
Incidentally, for those of you in the market to advertise your wares: My team of fine Southeast Asian workers will circumvent those inconvenient captchas on web sites/bulletin boards/blogs for a low low price of $.60 US/hour.
Here at SweatShopSoftware.com, we have a solution to every problem.
I played about 10 times. 9 out of the 10 times, I got really lame people who mostly wanted to pass. 1 time, I got someone who was actually mentally engaged in the game and we got 900 points. It would be fun to do better, but if finding a non-retarded partner is typically such a pain, I'm not sure if it's worth it.
Look at how it affects MMORPGs. WoW is a no-brainer, sure; but making puzzle solutions so spelled-out for the user takes a lot of the fun out of solving difficult them.
One of the things that I kind of liked about EQ, was the fact that there were really tough puzzles where you could accidentally sacrifice some hard-won quest item if you didn't know what you were doing. Unfortuntately, after the first generation solves a puzzle, they post it on the Internet then it's easy for people after them. To compensate, EQ cranks down the drop rate for key quest items or they make the quests so unbelievably complicated. Imagine instead if information were much more limited.
Imagine if you and maybe just your guild had to figure out how to solve certain problems that were different from what everyone else was solving. Then, game makers could feel comfortable in making puzzles that teased your brain a bit, but weren't so ridiculously hard to make up for the Internet effect.
I'm going hunting tomorrow morning. I don't care for what. I'll just take my twenty gauge and a couple of boxes of shells; go out into the woods near my house; and start the massacre.
And in the afternoon?
Fishing with dynamite, baby.
You animal rights terrorists may have won a round against the researcher, but I am a one-man animal sadist terrorist cell... and I've now been activated.
Keep in mind that operations like his are responsible for sending us all a lot of spam for "cheap software".
Killing is too good for spammers.
May be, but that's not counting all the penguins. They make a huge difference over there.
Comparing the telephone to open internet access is like comparing marijuana to crack. Instead of a telephone, compare internet access with putting full cable television access on your employees' desks; where you as a manager would have difficulty distinguishing legitimate work from channel surfing.
Internet access is probably the biggest killer of productivity that the office working world has seen, in terms of its ability to addictively suck people in.
I know it has other benefits, like ease of research; but I'm unsure if those benefits outweigh the direct hit in hours that employees spend surfing rather than working.
Yeah, the fragmentation of the Linux desktop makes it worse, but even if Gnome and KDE were combined into one, it still wouldn't be interesting to Apple.
I'm not following the logic there. Apple isn't keeping iTunes/iPod support off of Linux because of open vs closed driver support issues. Apple could make a package that would install on Linux and talk to your iPod without that. It could sit right next to the Windows download for iTunes, or they could even include it on the CD that comes with your iPod.
Apple doesn't do such a thing because the Linux desktop market is too small to merit the effort of doing so. Even if the Linux desktop market were quite a bit larger, Apple still would probably resist because they don't want to lend support to a rival desktop environment. They only did it with Windows because that market is so gigantic that the revenue and dominance temptations for iPod outweighed the cost to their propietary OS and hardware platform.
They're right when they say that it's not "theft" -- in a strictly legal sense. They're using the legal definition of "theft" in use in the USA and most other countries.
It's really a semantic game that people who infringe on copyright (to get themselves free stuff) use to convince themselves and others that they're still good, ethical people. In reality, they're taking something that someone else created with a specific intention and not agreeing to the terms with which the creator was willing to perform the creation.
Piracy is a selfish, unethical way to deal with the people working to entertain us. Even worse than the damage that it does to artists who are just trying to use the gifts they have in life to make a living -- it also gives plenty of ammunition to the RIAA, the MPAA, and the BSA death squads on the other side of the argument. That ammunition allows them to push shit like the DMCA through congress and get away with no end of infringements upon our fair use and privacy rights.
For example: Unless you have some technical know-how (I'm the only one of my non-geek friends who has such divine insight); you can't make a god damned backup of the Disney DVDs that you legally purchased for your children, and that suffer constant abuses from little grubby fingers.
Why? Because fair use is a casualty of the war between the pirates and the content creators. Lawmakers make it illegal for consumer electronics manufacturers to sell simple backup functions in their hardware, since the pirates have proven that they'll abuse the hell out of that right and cost content creators a lot of money. I could go on at length of the other rights and products that we don't have in the US because of this war, but the point is that the casualties of the war are many and tragic.
So yes, all you pedantic jack-asses, you're technically correct that copyright infringement is not theft. Congratufuckinglations on being right on that one small point while being completely wrong about the damage that piracy does to society. Nice job.
While pirate-sympathetics may celebrate TFA because of the mindshare that they're capturing in the next generation, and content protectors' (RIAA, etc.) attorneys celebrate the new rounds of ammunition they'll have to pursue dead violators' familes and get laws passed -- those of us in the middle should continue to curse both sides loudly for waging an unnecessary battle in the name of pure selfishness.
That's pretty much in line with what I know of him from a friend of mine who knew him well back in the NCSA days. You've gotta give him credit for grabbing on to the web thing as it was taking off and getting a good ride, though. My friend's observations were that Marc wasn't a particularly noteworthy guy. Andreessen was a "bright enough" guy in the right place at the right time; but all the media hype that still gets him the title of "technical whiz kid" on the front page of /. was mostly manufactured bullshit that was eaten up by an eager new economy press.
To me, it looks like my friend was being generous too. Even with all that money and an entrepreneurial bent, Andreessen has spectacularly failed to do anything else.
If he were half as bright and visionary as he's given credit for being, he could have had at least one success by now with *no* money.