That's because a language that's that blase about what type your data is is probably not what you want to run something like an Operating System on. Most batch-level languages are typeless. Batch = quick and dirty for scripting only. Not for running full-fledged applications or handling sensitive data. Imagine what would happen if your were calculating disk space and you could without generating an error mistakenly use the letter "l" for 1 in your code.
What is it with the current trend to romanticizing trolls and their lifestyles, no matter how poorly they do it? Sure, this man isn't exactly Signal 11, but there are other books out there which both allow trolls to attempt to justify and/or glorify what they did as well as profit from them. This is a pretty sad indication of Slashdot's culture.
And surely this sort of thing is just as cruel to the sysadmins? If your beloved comment was trolled by some maniac and then you saw his book everywhere bragging about what a troll he is you'd be both disgusted and upset? Why should people who have been victimized by trolls have to deal with this additional indignity?
Sorry, but trolls should not be lauded for their deeds. It's only a small step from there to a Slashdot in which trolling becomes accepted as a fundamental part of life . ..oh, wait a minute. I'm barking up the wrong fucking tree here.
The RIAA is the association of record companies. And they are usually the copyright holder. For example, I am holding my copy of Yessongs right now. Copyright 1973 Atlantic Recording Corporation. That means that the $25 I laid down for this (or more accurately, the $25 that the original purchaser laid down for it, since I bought it used) went directly to Atlantic. There is no mention of the artists names in that copyright statement. It's doubtful that five guys named Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White see dime one out of purchases of this still-popular album. Since it cost Atlantic probably twenty cents (at the time 8 years ago) to press this CD, or less than 10 today, they make a killing.
Being a musician is a really bad business move. Your average musician, even one who sells multiplatinum records, often has signed a recording deal that entitles them to jack and shit. And they have to give jack back to recover the "recording costs" of having a studio setup in some bastard producer's living room for a month. The industry attracts crooks almost as magnetically as politics does.
Record companies really are pimps. And the sooner napster-like activites drive them out of business, the better it will be for real musicians and artists who genuinely care for their craft.
You obviously have no concept of what it requires to even begin making money as a musician, so I'll ignore your opinion like the uninformed drivel it is.
Most importantly, how do the First Posters really know that actual conversation exists on SlashDot? Since they're incapable of reading beyond the first five or six comments on a story, they probably have no concept that other conversation takes place, and is actually relevant to the story in question.
Hear hear. Even some musicians tend to agree (read second comment). I personally went through my record collection again just the other day, and it wasn't long before I recalled why I was so quick to put them away -- they just wear out. I usually bought an album and recorded it to a high-quality tape immediately, then shelved the album. I would re-tape it about every three years. But the nonsense about vinyl sounding "warmer" or something is just that -- nonsense. All you're hearing is the extra distortion added by the analog equipment -- distortion equals sustain as any sixteen-year-old guitar player with a cheap fuzz pedal learns. And as Howe mentions in his article linked above, the distortion and crackling ruins the good studio sound that these guys work so hard to achieve.
I read all six. Stop after the first three. That is fine. You are missing nothing thereafter. Herbert was a genius but he was erratic. It's pretty clear he was on a gravy train after that.
That's not to say there won't be suspense at all, simply that it will be in "the details"... the rules of war / swordmaster training plotline, etc
But unfortunately when it's done with all the literary dexterity of a fifteen-year-old whose apparent reading diet consists solely of Marvel Comics, it sucks. I've read Kevin Anderson's drivel and have no time for it. He has a knack for beating to death the great lines of other authors. He can also with almost no apparent effort reduce a complex and interesting character to a one-dimensional knee-jerking idiot. It's seriously doubtful that Brian Herbert adds anything to the mix; literary talent has been proven time and again to be un-inheritable. He's probably just putting his name on the cover so that it goes in the same section as his father's books.
There are a million better and more intersting books to read than the squeeze-dried castoffs of some long-dead author. Herbert's originals were greats. Read them again if you're dying for some nostalgia. But you can go to a used bookstore and randomly select twenty sci-fi greats that without a doubt knock the socks off of any lame production of Kevin Anderson.
Idiot! I hate this. If I hadn't had a choice besides Gore vs. Bush I would have just stayed home. And I sleep very well knowing that whichever loser gets into office, I voted my conscience.
but only a truly naive person does not really pay attention to who the source is.
Yes, and I will consider an argument that makes an ad hominem attack to be far weaker than one that actually addresses the point. Which is what the parent of my comment was not doing. What I'm saying is, if you have a reason to doubt the validity of someone's statement, you can either speak to that statement, or throw around innuendo about the speaker.
Doing the latter doesn't resolve anything and merely serves to prove that you yourself are irrationally biased. So it's a good way to shoot your argument in the foot before it ever gets off the ground. But please, don't let me stop you from looking like a fool and a bigot.
Remember, all corporations are out to make money, anything else are just unforeseen side effects.
Corporations would do well to remember that customers are just out to get good value for their money, and whether the corporation makes a profit or not is just an unforseen side effect. Intel has been churning out vapor in the processor field for a few months now. When they do turn out an actual product it's a disaster. They're falling farther and farther behind AMD. It would be unfortunate for them if there was a fork in the processor architecture and they found themselves standing on the wrong side of it. Because at the moment, the company with the higher-quality product stands the better chance of running away with the market. In my ever-so-humble opinion.
Because we do not belong to the government. It's the other way around. They only need to know what we desire from them in their capacity as our public servants.
"Consider the source" is an ad hominem attack. Ad hominem essentially means that we should think that the speaker has some irrational or underhanded motive for adopting their point of view; and therefore their point of view is invalid. Never considering the actual strength or weakness of the argument, nor whether its premises might be true or not.
It's also a quick way out for an opponent who has no convincing argument to stand against it. Like you.
But it will be. Come back in 100 years and there is a chance (a 10% chance?) that it will be. The point is that usage dictates form, not the other way around.
Before departure, we each thought about the problems that might arise in our respective departments and wrote procedures so that pages wouldn't be needed
That assumes that the people you leave behind are intelligent enough to read and follow them.
Would you hire a plumber that wouldn't warranty his work? If you spent $65,000 a year on a piece of software, wouldn't you want 24/7 support from the vendor?
The plumber charges quite a fucking bit more to come in at 4:00 a.m., mister. That's the whole point.
I take great pride in my ability to do my job well. When I put together a server, I will stand behind the work I've
I would take pride in having spent at least a couple of hours with my own children before they made college. Sure, I think doing it right the first time is great. But I usually get called in to clean up someone else's mess. And it's more important to me that my life is in order than the company's ill-managed business.
done . ..We haven't missed a single newspaper in 124 years.
If the system you run is so critical that it can never be down, and you are the only person who can get it back up and running, the company needs to examine their priorities, not yours. Some redundancy would help. Maybe hiring a competent tech to work after-hours. Or paying you for your time.
if you're a typical IT worker grossing more than $40k and are required to carry a pager, I don't think you have a leg to stand on.
I believe the U.S. wage and labor requirements for "salaried" workers in a computer-related field is six times minimum wage. I believe I do have a leg to stand on, legally.
If you are getting paged a lot such that it is interrupting your life, you need to look at what you can do to change the situation
Sure. Let's start by firing the CIO who bought all the shitty software and hardware that falls apart at the slightest provocation. Then we'll take his ass-kissing vendors and drag them through the streets behind a pickup. Then we'll fire all hangers-on and rogue nightstalkers who come in and fuck things up behind my back. Just as soon as I become CEO and lord and master of all creation. You assume that people have control of these things.
I see a pager as a warranty. If you're not willing to be on-call 24/7 to stand behind your work, I'm not sure I want you working for me or with me.
If you pay me for the extended warranty, that's one thing. But your expectations are that I live for the existence of the company. That's garbage. The average company has invested exactly zero in the well-being of their relationship with their employees. They pay, we work. Any notion of company loyalty was discarded by the corporations themselves during the 1980's explosion of corporate greed. If I'm supposed to care so much that I sacrifice my life for the well-being of the company, I expect employment for life, a golden parachute, and a fat-ass pension, and also health benefits that are worth a shit, and some stock options would be nice . . . you don't see most of this at a company unless you're with it at start-up. I give as I've been given. Only a fool does otherwise. If you're being paid $40k to jump up 24x7, you're digging your own grave. Wait until you come to the end of your life and wonder what the hell all that activity was for. I gave myself a serious health condition working like you describe. I now suffer from the joys of diabetes brought on by an insane work schedule and diet dictated by my job. And all I can say to the pager now is fuck . . . that . . . shit. I have better things to do.
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That's because a language that's that blase about what type your data is is probably not what you want to run something like an Operating System on. Most batch-level languages are typeless. Batch = quick and dirty for scripting only. Not for running full-fledged applications or handling sensitive data. Imagine what would happen if your were calculating disk space and you could without generating an error mistakenly use the letter "l" for 1 in your code.
What is it with the current trend to romanticizing trolls and their lifestyles, no matter how poorly they do it? Sure, this man isn't exactly Signal 11, but there are other books out there which both allow trolls to attempt to justify and/or glorify what they did as well as profit from them. This is a pretty sad indication of Slashdot's culture.
.oh, wait a minute. I'm barking up the wrong fucking tree here.
And surely this sort of thing is just as cruel to the sysadmins? If your beloved comment was trolled by some maniac and then you saw his book everywhere bragging about what a troll he is you'd be both disgusted and upset? Why should people who have been victimized by trolls have to deal with this additional indignity?
Sorry, but trolls should not be lauded for their deeds. It's only a small step from there to a Slashdot in which trolling becomes accepted as a fundamental part of life . .
The RIAA is the association of record companies. And they are usually the copyright holder. For example, I am holding my copy of Yessongs right now. Copyright 1973 Atlantic Recording Corporation. That means that the $25 I laid down for this (or more accurately, the $25 that the original purchaser laid down for it, since I bought it used) went directly to Atlantic. There is no mention of the artists names in that copyright statement. It's doubtful that five guys named Anderson, Wakeman, Howe, Squire and White see dime one out of purchases of this still-popular album. Since it cost Atlantic probably twenty cents (at the time 8 years ago) to press this CD, or less than 10 today, they make a killing.
Being a musician is a really bad business move. Your average musician, even one who sells multiplatinum records, often has signed a recording deal that entitles them to jack and shit. And they have to give jack back to recover the "recording costs" of having a studio setup in some bastard producer's living room for a month. The industry attracts crooks almost as magnetically as politics does.
Record companies really are pimps. And the sooner napster-like activites drive them out of business, the better it will be for real musicians and artists who genuinely care for their craft.
You obviously have no concept of what it requires to even begin making money as a musician, so I'll ignore your opinion like the uninformed drivel it is.
Most importantly, how do the First Posters really know that actual conversation exists on SlashDot? Since they're incapable of reading beyond the first five or six comments on a story, they probably have no concept that other conversation takes place, and is actually relevant to the story in question.
You have to have a fuckin' little eraser for that.
Hear hear. Even some musicians tend to agree (read second comment). I personally went through my record collection again just the other day, and it wasn't long before I recalled why I was so quick to put them away -- they just wear out. I usually bought an album and recorded it to a high-quality tape immediately, then shelved the album. I would re-tape it about every three years. But the nonsense about vinyl sounding "warmer" or something is just that -- nonsense. All you're hearing is the extra distortion added by the analog equipment -- distortion equals sustain as any sixteen-year-old guitar player with a cheap fuzz pedal learns. And as Howe mentions in his article linked above, the distortion and crackling ruins the good studio sound that these guys work so hard to achieve.
I read all six. Stop after the first three. That is fine. You are missing nothing thereafter. Herbert was a genius but he was erratic. It's pretty clear he was on a gravy train after that.
But unfortunately when it's done with all the literary dexterity of a fifteen-year-old whose apparent reading diet consists solely of Marvel Comics, it sucks. I've read Kevin Anderson's drivel and have no time for it. He has a knack for beating to death the great lines of other authors. He can also with almost no apparent effort reduce a complex and interesting character to a one-dimensional knee-jerking idiot. It's seriously doubtful that Brian Herbert adds anything to the mix; literary talent has been proven time and again to be un-inheritable. He's probably just putting his name on the cover so that it goes in the same section as his father's books.
There are a million better and more intersting books to read than the squeeze-dried castoffs of some long-dead author. Herbert's originals were greats. Read them again if you're dying for some nostalgia. But you can go to a used bookstore and randomly select twenty sci-fi greats that without a doubt knock the socks off of any lame production of Kevin Anderson.
Hello, this is the central scroooootinizer!!!! -Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage
There's a nasty hole in X? I was totally unaware of that. I haven't seen anything in the man pages. Shit. . . where is it? Ahhhh!!!!
I had to take a flashlight to the Ballot Example Office just to find my way around.
.)
Well the lights had gone
So had the stairs. It was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet with a sign on it saying "Beware of the Leopard."
(a paraphrase, but . .
Idiot! I hate this. If I hadn't had a choice besides Gore vs. Bush I would have just stayed home. And I sleep very well knowing that whichever loser gets into office, I voted my conscience.
Either you're a troll or an idiot. But I repeat myself.
It would fit perfectly with the Republican standard of having no principles whatsoever except the ones you're paid to endorse.
Yes, and I will consider an argument that makes an ad hominem attack to be far weaker than one that actually addresses the point. Which is what the parent of my comment was not doing. What I'm saying is, if you have a reason to doubt the validity of someone's statement, you can either speak to that statement, or throw around innuendo about the speaker.
Doing the latter doesn't resolve anything and merely serves to prove that you yourself are irrationally biased. So it's a good way to shoot your argument in the foot before it ever gets off the ground. But please, don't let me stop you from looking like a fool and a bigot.
If only we could have an entry for the World's Suckiest Beer in the Guiness Book of World Records.
Corporations would do well to remember that customers are just out to get good value for their money, and whether the corporation makes a profit or not is just an unforseen side effect. Intel has been churning out vapor in the processor field for a few months now. When they do turn out an actual product it's a disaster. They're falling farther and farther behind AMD. It would be unfortunate for them if there was a fork in the processor architecture and they found themselves standing on the wrong side of it. Because at the moment, the company with the higher-quality product stands the better chance of running away with the market. In my ever-so-humble opinion.
Microsoft will be in full complicance, of course.
Because we do not belong to the government. It's the other way around. They only need to know what we desire from them in their capacity as our public servants.
"Consider the source" is an ad hominem attack. Ad hominem essentially means that we should think that the speaker has some irrational or underhanded motive for adopting their point of view; and therefore their point of view is invalid. Never considering the actual strength or weakness of the argument, nor whether its premises might be true or not.
It's also a quick way out for an opponent who has no convincing argument to stand against it. Like you.
But it will be. Come back in 100 years and there is a chance (a 10% chance?) that it will be. The point is that usage dictates form, not the other way around.
I want to hear about you trying to return software for a full refund. Go ahead, try it. After you've opened it and started install.
Is whether or not there's a hyphen in "anal retentive."
That assumes that the people you leave behind are intelligent enough to read and follow them.
Would you hire a plumber that wouldn't warranty his work? If you spent $65,000 a year on a piece of software, wouldn't you want 24/7 support from the vendor?
The plumber charges quite a fucking bit more to come in at 4:00 a.m., mister. That's the whole point.
I take great pride in my ability to do my job well. When I put together a server, I will stand behind the work I've
I would take pride in having spent at least a couple of hours with my own children before they made college. Sure, I think doing it right the first time is great. But I usually get called in to clean up someone else's mess. And it's more important to me that my life is in order than the company's ill-managed business.
done . . .We haven't missed a single newspaper in 124 years.
If the system you run is so critical that it can never be down, and you are the only person who can get it back up and running, the company needs to examine their priorities, not yours. Some redundancy would help. Maybe hiring a competent tech to work after-hours. Or paying you for your time.
if you're a typical IT worker grossing more than $40k and are required to carry a pager, I don't think you have a leg to stand on.
I believe the U.S. wage and labor requirements for "salaried" workers in a computer-related field is six times minimum wage. I believe I do have a leg to stand on, legally.
If you are getting paged a lot such that it is interrupting your life, you need to look at what you can do to change the situation
Sure. Let's start by firing the CIO who bought all the shitty software and hardware that falls apart at the slightest provocation. Then we'll take his ass-kissing vendors and drag them through the streets behind a pickup. Then we'll fire all hangers-on and rogue nightstalkers who come in and fuck things up behind my back. Just as soon as I become CEO and lord and master of all creation. You assume that people have control of these things.
I see a pager as a warranty. If you're not willing to be on-call 24/7 to stand behind your work, I'm not sure I want you working for me or with me.
If you pay me for the extended warranty, that's one thing. But your expectations are that I live for the existence of the company. That's garbage. The average company has invested exactly zero in the well-being of their relationship with their employees. They pay, we work. Any notion of company loyalty was discarded by the corporations themselves during the 1980's explosion of corporate greed. If I'm supposed to care so much that I sacrifice my life for the well-being of the company, I expect employment for life, a golden parachute, and a fat-ass pension, and also health benefits that are worth a shit, and some stock options would be nice . . . you don't see most of this at a company unless you're with it at start-up. I give as I've been given. Only a fool does otherwise. If you're being paid $40k to jump up 24x7, you're digging your own grave. Wait until you come to the end of your life and wonder what the hell all that activity was for. I gave myself a serious health condition working like you describe. I now suffer from the joys of diabetes brought on by an insane work schedule and diet dictated by my job. And all I can say to the pager now is fuck . . . that . . . shit. I have better things to do.