I can't say the response in Canada to MP3s has been too much different in nature than the US, although it's probably less heavy-handed. Isn't it like a law or something that one out of every four songs traded on Napster in Canada has to be by a Canadian artist?
By giving your children, which are supposed to be the most important thing in your life, to daycare, you are explicitly opting out of taking parental responsibility. Either this is a great troll, or you really haven't thought things out.
My son goes to daycare. He has since the age of three. He doesn't need to be in daycare. He's in daycare for the social aspect. My wife does work, but she can take him to work with her. It's a good setup:). There's more to parenting than watching your children like a hawk. Social skills can't be taught solely by parents.
Group interation is a difficult thing to teach in a child/parent relationship. The child will always take the submissive role, and the parent the dominant role. Put a kid in a room with other children, and let them figure out the roles. If a child spends every waking moment in the submissive role, he/she will be submissive for life. Learing the dynamics of groups has to be done at an early age and with people of the same age.
I do spend time with my son on a daily basis, and we do talk about his day and my day. Most of the time he does "nothing" or "I forget", but on those days when he has something to talk about, we talk about it. He's already encountered that first bullie and stood up to him. He shows me his art, and our fridge is covered.
I would love to spend all of my time with my son, but is it what I want, or what he needs?
Okay, everyone who has been on/. calling Metallica sellouts had better jump on this and start calling Napster sellouts. And how about the Offspring? Those guys crumbled to the will of Sony faster than you can say countersuit.
Napster had to come to this move. It was a matter of time. And of course, now all we get are people bitching about having to pay for Napster now. Folks, Napster sold out because they didn't have a choice, and were probably planning to do it all along. If you didn't see this coming, I'm sorry for you.
My neighbors do have guns, but they're just for hunting.:)
I've got a Turtle Beach Montegeo. Other than Turtle Beach having binary only linux drivers, the card works like a champ. I run the output from the card into my 75 watt/channel receiver and out to speakers with 16" bass cones. I've got a EQ hooked up also, and I use that to tailor the sound. The receiver, EQ, and speakers are Kenwood stuff I bought back in the 80's.
Pardon me for butting in, but I don't recall Dell posting a loss this year. Dell's problem was that they did not meet earning expectations. Gateway, on the other hand, surpassed their earning expectations.
I'm not voting. Wow. That's pretty frightening. Do you at least vote in your local elections? There your vote does make a difference, and you are a participant in government.
IIRC, Florida has a substandard public school system because the senior voters don't want to fund the schools. Imagine if the seniors voted to change the laws to raise the legal voting age to 50. Sounds outrageous, but it could happen.
Sure, the electoral process is _not_ perfect, but consider not having a voice at all. I'd rather be a whisper in a crowd than silent.
Rather than piss and moan about a charade, get involved. Apathy is not the solution. Don't think about yourself, think about your children.
You can put whoever you want in office, and the net result is going to be the same - a small group of people slowly turning the screws on the rest of us. If I gotta get screwed, I'd like to have the choice of the person doing the screwing.
I've got a 21" Trinitron and a ATI Rage Turbo Fury Pro (Pro Rage Turbo Fury? Whatever.) and I love it. I run 1600x1200x16bit @ 80Hz. No flicker, and great Linux support.
The only problem is the weight and the size. The thing is a real bitch to haul around to LAN parties.:)
I think sig raises some valid issues but I tend to agree with taco that the system mostly works for the benefit of the of the majority. Siggy takes the whole thing far too seriously, IMHO. He set out to deliberately test the system to prove that it didn't work. You're right, moderation is not perfect, and will never be. It works for the most part. The good posts tend to come out, and the junk drops to the bottom.
Siggy is just worked up about it. He badgers Taco and wants him to fix it, but won't jump in and fix the code or make good suggestions. He seems really concerned that/. has some weight in the world, and he's somehow connected to it. Deep in his mind, he must equate his worth to the worth of/.. I dunno. I get a kick out of getting a post modded up to +5, but it doesn't rule my life.
/. is doing fine. It could be better (less duplicate stories), but it could be a heck of a lot worse.
Sig also seems to miss the point that most people who run across/. are indeed like minded, because you don't end up reading/. if you aren't a geek. If you always post what the herd wants to hear, it's going to get modded up. He got exactly what he asked for. Why is he bitching? Ye reap what ye sow. He claims all of his whoring was an experiment. Sometimes the scientist finds what he's looking for, sometimes he gets burned.
I used to value my Karma, but I really don't anymore. It's just a number. I encounter people in meatspace who don't know/., and wouldn't care if my Karma was -50 or +1000.
What about Starfleet Command? It rocks! Well, okay, it's pretty good. It plays a great deal like Star Fleet Battles and is based on the SFB rules. Starfleet Command 2 is coming out soon, and it looks pretty good.
Now if somebody would only take and make a ST game based on the Diablo 2 engine. Then we would have something.
I'm not going to make the same mistake, there's no hidden catch that will turn me back into a speed freak six months down the line. Sounds like you've got your act together, but it also sounds like the chain smoker's "I can quit anytime I want to." If you really can just keep things recreational, and aren't harming anyone else, the Libertarian in me says go for it.
Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but being chemically enhanced to enjoy an evening out isn't necessary anymore. I'm not sure in was necessary in the old days either. I really do seem to enjoy and remember my evenings out more now that I'm sober for them. I'll still have a beer or two, but after that I'm buzzing so hard I can't drive home.
Not only were we stupid to do the price adjustments, we're really sorry about patenting the mouse click. We were just kidding about that one. As soon as we run out of vulture capital, we will close our doors, shutdown our website, and donate the patent on the mouse click to the FSF.
Sincerly,
Jeff Bezos -- then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Any poorly written program is difficult to maintain. Constantly using this as an argument against Perl is silly.
I've wondered this about Perl programming: Why continue doing something you know is bad? This applies to any language. If you are working for a company that is producing code that is hard to maintain, the problem lies within the company, not the tools. If the company makes it possible to produce bad code, the only solution to the problem is to change the way the company produces code.
-- then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
I know that I can sit down with a bunch of artists, listen to how they work and what they do, then design a network, server, and program automated scripts that will make their lives ten times easier -- because I understand what an artist needs. Yeah, but wouldn't it be more fun to learn from the artists and try to do what they do without computers? If all you can do for people is hook them up with computers, that's the only reason they'll want to deal with you.
You may have been exposed to other facets of work, but have your jobs exposed you to things that don't deal with computers? Can you go to a social gather and not get asked a computer question? Can you get asked a computer question and change the subject?
From what I can tell, law, medicine, physics, and things of that nature are the types of things you really DO need to attend college for. College isn't a trade school. I a great number of people miss that point. I think a school that taught only computer science would be a good thing. There's more to life than computers. Don't miss out on it like I did.
I've read your other posts and your resume. It sounds like you have a great desire to learn. Use it, and go to college at night. I've done the "I-have-no-degree-and-I-have-to-prove-myself-every -time-I-start-a-new-job" thing four times in my career, and I could have saved myself six months of grunt work on each one of those jobs. It's just not worth it. I've been a (paid) programmer for 13 years now, and even without college, I know I could get a job with no problems.
Being established, I college for me was not about getting educated so I could get a job. I had the school of learning on the job for that. College for me was about finishing what I had started 13 years ago, and finding out that there is more to life than computers. I didn't view my last decade of college as a pain, I rather enjoyed it towards the end.
College doesn't make a person better. I've seen more degreed programmers fired than I have seen non-degreed programmers fired. Knowledge and the ability to think and the ability to learn are the keys to being employed. If you don't need formal education for that, more power to you.
-- then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Exactly. College used to be a thing that very few people attended. A college education used to mean the holder of the degree was intelligent and did know a thing or two. Now it just seems to mean you can put up with 4 years of BS.
A college prof of mine used to tell me that the purpose of a college education was to produce a well rounded person.
I took the rather non-tradional route through college (13 years), and I think I got more out of it because I already had the job, wife, kids, and career. I could really sit back and enjoy the classes. I learned a great deal about myself and other people from the western civilization classes and the various discussion groups that I had. The importance of these classes to computer science is minimal, but there is more to life than computers.
Having been exposed to things besides computers has given me a greater common base with non-computer people. At some point in your life, you're going to want to deal with a person without having a computer involved, and if you don't have something to bring to the table besides computer skills, it's going to be difficult to relate to the other person.
I don't know if I'm a well rounded person, but college did give me some intellectual pursuits that don't directly relate to computers. It's nice to have something else to do once and a while. -- then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
No thanks, I don't want a doctor that needs to refer to his college text books to perform surgery! I do. In the computer field, you need to keep learning and reviewing what you know. I can't always recall everything trapped in my brain, and I like to have the book available to look things up if need be.
Doctors are no different. When it comes down to it, would you like your doctor to review the surgical procedure before he cuts you open? I know I would. -- then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
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Hey, I submitted it too and it was rejected!
:)
Of course, it probably bothered you more since the story was about you.
...CmdrTaco is going to change his nick to
Wokohito Mumuwama
I can't say the response in Canada to MP3s has been too much different in nature than the US, although it's probably less heavy-handed.
Isn't it like a law or something that one out of every four songs traded on Napster in Canada has to be by a Canadian artist?
By giving your children, which are supposed to be the most important thing in your life, to daycare, you are explicitly opting out of taking parental responsibility.
:). There's more to parenting than watching your children like a hawk. Social skills can't be taught solely by parents.
Either this is a great troll, or you really haven't thought things out.
My son goes to daycare. He has since the age of three. He doesn't need to be in daycare. He's in daycare for the social aspect. My wife does work, but she can take him to work with her. It's a good setup
Group interation is a difficult thing to teach in a child/parent relationship. The child will always take the submissive role, and the parent the dominant role. Put a kid in a room with other children, and let them figure out the roles. If a child spends every waking moment in the submissive role, he/she will be submissive for life. Learing the dynamics of groups has to be done at an early age and with people of the same age.
I do spend time with my son on a daily basis, and we do talk about his day and my day. Most of the time he does "nothing" or "I forget", but on those days when he has something to talk about, we talk about it. He's already encountered that first bullie and stood up to him. He shows me his art, and our fridge is covered.
I would love to spend all of my time with my son, but is it what I want, or what he needs?
IBM, who sold the machines, is happy as can be, of course.
IBM is happy because they are getting paid in Lawson's chip dip.
Well the Hurd, Hurd, Hurd,
Hurd is the word!
Have you heard about the Hurd?
Well the Hurd, Hurd, Hurd,
Hurd is the word!
Okay, everyone who has been on /. calling Metallica sellouts had better jump on this and start calling Napster sellouts. And how about the Offspring? Those guys crumbled to the will of Sony faster than you can say countersuit.
Napster had to come to this move. It was a matter of time. And of course, now all we get are people bitching about having to pay for Napster now. Folks, Napster sold out because they didn't have a choice, and were probably planning to do it all along. If you didn't see this coming, I'm sorry for you.
Go ahead, mod me down. I've got Karma to burn.
My neighbors do have guns, but they're just for hunting. :)
I've got a Turtle Beach Montegeo. Other than Turtle Beach having binary only linux drivers, the card works like a champ. I run the output from the card into my 75 watt/channel receiver and out to speakers with 16" bass cones. I've got a EQ hooked up also, and I use that to tailor the sound. The receiver, EQ, and speakers are Kenwood stuff I bought back in the 80's.
Processor wise, I'm just running a p2 400.
I've never been shot at for excessive stereo volume. Usually the neighbors ask me to turn it up.
:)
Oddly enough, the only people who ask me to turn my music down are my kids.
...but if I can't hear my mp3s in the other room, I just turn up the volume on my stereo. It works wonders.
Pardon me for butting in, but I don't recall Dell posting a loss this year. Dell's problem was that they did not meet earning expectations. Gateway, on the other hand, surpassed their earning expectations.
I'm not voting.
Wow. That's pretty frightening. Do you at least vote in your local elections? There your vote does make a difference, and you are a participant in government.
IIRC, Florida has a substandard public school system because the senior voters don't want to fund the schools. Imagine if the seniors voted to change the laws to raise the legal voting age to 50. Sounds outrageous, but it could happen.
Sure, the electoral process is _not_ perfect, but consider not having a voice at all. I'd rather be a whisper in a crowd than silent.
Rather than piss and moan about a charade, get involved. Apathy is not the solution. Don't think about yourself, think about your children.
You can put whoever you want in office, and the net result is going to be the same - a small group of people slowly turning the screws on the rest of us.
If I gotta get screwed, I'd like to have the choice of the person doing the screwing.
Dude, that was awesome.
This has to be in the HOF along with The Real Bruce Perens.
I've got a 21" Trinitron and a ATI Rage Turbo Fury Pro (Pro Rage Turbo Fury? Whatever.) and I love it. I run 1600x1200x16bit @ 80Hz. No flicker, and great Linux support.
:)
The only problem is the weight and the size. The thing is a real bitch to haul around to LAN parties.
I think sig raises some valid issues but I tend to agree with taco that the system mostly works for the benefit of the of the majority.
/. has some weight in the world, and he's somehow connected to it. Deep in his mind, he must equate his worth to the worth of /.. I dunno. I get a kick out of getting a post modded up to +5, but it doesn't rule my life.
/. are indeed like minded, because you don't end up reading /. if you aren't a geek. If you always post what the herd wants to hear, it's going to get modded up. He got exactly what he asked for. Why is he bitching? Ye reap what ye sow. He claims all of his whoring was an experiment. Sometimes the scientist finds what he's looking for, sometimes he gets burned.
/., and wouldn't care if my Karma was -50 or +1000.
Siggy takes the whole thing far too seriously, IMHO. He set out to deliberately test the system to prove that it didn't work. You're right, moderation is not perfect, and will never be. It works for the most part. The good posts tend to come out, and the junk drops to the bottom.
Siggy is just worked up about it. He badgers Taco and wants him to fix it, but won't jump in and fix the code or make good suggestions. He seems really concerned that
/. is doing fine. It could be better (less duplicate stories), but it could be a heck of a lot worse.
Sig also seems to miss the point that most people who run across
I used to value my Karma, but I really don't anymore. It's just a number. I encounter people in meatspace who don't know
It's just a number. Get over it, dude.
VA Linux should buy MIR and raffle it off to someone who joins OSDN. They could paint it green and Geeks in Space could truly be Geeks _IN_ Space.
OT, but do you think the mold on MIR is from a leftover piece of Pizza Hut pizza?
What about Starfleet Command? It rocks! Well, okay, it's pretty good. It plays a great deal like Star Fleet Battles and is based on the SFB rules. Starfleet Command 2 is coming out soon, and it looks pretty good.
Now if somebody would only take and make a ST game based on the Diablo 2 engine. Then we would have something.
ObDisclosure: I use Diet Pepsi for blood.
I'm not going to make the same mistake, there's no hidden catch that will turn me back into a speed freak six months down the line.
Sounds like you've got your act together, but it also sounds like the chain smoker's "I can quit anytime I want to." If you really can just keep things recreational, and aren't harming anyone else, the Libertarian in me says go for it.
Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but being chemically enhanced to enjoy an evening out isn't necessary anymore. I'm not sure in was necessary in the old days either. I really do seem to enjoy and remember my evenings out more now that I'm sober for them. I'll still have a beer or two, but after that I'm buzzing so hard I can't drive home.
MS is doing this to convince the DOJ that they have competition, and that competition is conspiring to crush them.
Odd that they have to legitimize what they really don't regard as a threat in order to save themselves.
Open source PalmOS and let us fix all the bugs and problems. They can still sell the hardware, and we can upgrade the OS.
Dear Amazon Customer:
Not only were we stupid to do the price adjustments, we're really sorry about patenting the mouse click. We were just kidding about that one. As soon as we run out of vulture capital, we will close our doors, shutdown our website, and donate the patent on the mouse click to the FSF.
Sincerly,
Jeff Bezos
--
then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Any poorly written program is difficult to maintain. Constantly using this as an argument against Perl is silly.
I've wondered this about Perl programming: Why continue doing something you know is bad?
This applies to any language. If you are working for a company that is producing code that is hard to maintain, the problem lies within the company, not the tools. If the company makes it possible to produce bad code, the only solution to the problem is to change the way the company produces code.
--
then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
I know that I can sit down with a bunch of artists, listen to how they work and what they do, then design a network, server, and program automated scripts that will make their lives ten times easier -- because I understand what an artist needs.
y -time-I-start-a-new-job" thing four times in my career, and I could have saved myself six months of grunt work on each one of those jobs. It's just not worth it. I've been a (paid) programmer for 13 years now, and even without college, I know I could get a job with no problems.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be more fun to learn from the artists and try to do what they do without computers? If all you can do for people is hook them up with computers, that's the only reason they'll want to deal with you.
You may have been exposed to other facets of work, but have your jobs exposed you to things that don't deal with computers? Can you go to a social gather and not get asked a computer question? Can you get asked a computer question and change the subject?
From what I can tell, law, medicine, physics, and things of that nature are the types of things you really DO need to attend college for.
College isn't a trade school. I a great number of people miss that point. I think a school that taught only computer science would be a good thing. There's more to life than computers. Don't miss out on it like I did.
I've read your other posts and your resume. It sounds like you have a great desire to learn. Use it, and go to college at night. I've done the "I-have-no-degree-and-I-have-to-prove-myself-ever
Being established, I college for me was not about getting educated so I could get a job. I had the school of learning on the job for that. College for me was about finishing what I had started 13 years ago, and finding out that there is more to life than computers. I didn't view my last decade of college as a pain, I rather enjoyed it towards the end.
College doesn't make a person better. I've seen more degreed programmers fired than I have seen non-degreed programmers fired. Knowledge and the ability to think and the ability to learn are the keys to being employed. If you don't need formal education for that, more power to you.
--
then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
Exactly. College used to be a thing that very few people attended. A college education used to mean the holder of the degree was intelligent and did know a thing or two. Now it just seems to mean you can put up with 4 years of BS.
A college prof of mine used to tell me that the purpose of a college education was to produce a well rounded person.
I took the rather non-tradional route through college (13 years), and I think I got more out of it because I already had the job, wife, kids, and career. I could really sit back and enjoy the classes. I learned a great deal about myself and other people from the western civilization classes and the various discussion groups that I had. The importance of these classes to computer science is minimal, but there is more to life than computers.
Having been exposed to things besides computers has given me a greater common base with non-computer people. At some point in your life, you're going to want to deal with a person without having a computer involved, and if you don't have something to bring to the table besides computer skills, it's going to be difficult to relate to the other person.
I don't know if I'm a well rounded person, but college did give me some intellectual pursuits that don't directly relate to computers. It's nice to have something else to do once and a while.
--
then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way
No thanks, I don't want a doctor that needs to refer to his college text books to perform surgery!
I do. In the computer field, you need to keep learning and reviewing what you know. I can't always recall everything trapped in my brain, and I like to have the book available to look things up if need be.
Doctors are no different. When it comes down to it, would you like your doctor to review the surgical procedure before he cuts you open? I know I would.
--
then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way