You are so right that this should have been the article to new grads. Money is very important and the more you have, the better off you are, but it's very hard for people to make a decent salary and not spend up to it. I'll go one step further and say that although gadgets are nice to play with, I find them stressful.
Stressful in the sense that you have to research what you're buying (waste of time), opinions and contradictory opinions. You have to find the best place to order (not just cheap, but reliable). Once you order, there's a good chance that something will go wrong, like they're out of stock or send the wrong item. Once you get it, you realize the gadget would have been great if only.... You spend a bunch of time configuring the gadget. You have to clean up the packaging (yes, I can be lazy) and find a spot in your house for the gadget. A month later, you hardly use it and wonder what even prompted you to buy it in the first place. It's nothing more than a symbol that has likely brought you more stress than joy.
I use to move from job to job, thinking I was being underpaid. I end up back at once of my first jobs because I can work normal hours, work from home when I need to, flex my hours, surf the web when I have the time, wear jeans, speak freely, and most important or all, I have sensible management for a change. I could get more money somewhere else, but I don't have the fortitude to work in a place that makes me miserable. I'm happy here and I get enough money. I still buy gadgets once in a while, but I realize that peace comes from silence and not having a million things on my plate, so I only buy them sparingly. Well I've kind of fallen off the wagon as I got a raise a few months back. I've been going through a mini-spending spree and have been strugling to get back to my pre-raise balanced self ever since. But at least I feel I've pulled myself away from the trap and can see it for what it is.
No, but I'm sure there were quite a few people who said they wish they would have accomplished more in life. You certainly don't achieve great accomplishments by not working.
That sounds absolutely horrible. I've always been in a cubicled environment and people tend to respect it as if it were an office (ie. knocking before interrupting). I don't want to get to know the people, I don't want to hear what's on the grapevine, I want to get my work done so I can go home and do the things I really want to do. A cube gives me some protection from those people.
I've noticed that those people tend to be the ones "stuck" at work until 8:00 each night. They're always complaining about how busy they are. I'm home by 5:00 and get twice as much done as they do. They often (quite vocally) start bitching when people leave (early from their perspective) around 5 and I'm always tempted to yell back, "If you weren't shooting the shit all day, you could leave now too." But they wouldn't understand. They think that their value is derived from the amount of time they spend at work, rather than what they actually get done. It's just another way to kiss ass and, come layoff time, nobody really cares.
I've been in situations like yours with three people to a cube, and although it can be fun (sometimes), you simply can't get the same amount of work done. Headphones are no solution to me, as the sound that comes out of them is just as distracting as people gossiping. Nah, the extra privacy and silence (cube walls do absorb quite a bit of sound) are easily worth 5 to 10k of salary. Actually, I'd probably need at least 15k extra to work a job like that. I hope that UK "fashion" never makes it to US shores.
Without a doubt. No programming tool, in my 25 years or so of programming experience, has ever granted me such productivty gains. Many of it's features aren't new, but they're put together so well. My company never spends money on developer software, but they recently shelled out the money for this as I showed it to a couple of people (and they showed it to people) and now they can't do without it. No serious Java/J2EE developer should be using anything else.
Whiteboards are useful for collaborative efforts, but I hate writing on them. It's unnatural to write that big. It's tiring too. I prefer good ole pencil and paper for these things. In fact, I've never seen much of anything useful, writen on a whiteboard. You can only fit the most generic overviews that could only ever satisfy managers and marketing types, who need pretty pictures and bubble diagrams to understand anything.
If you're just doing Java/J2EE, then IntelliJ is king. Eclipse is too generic and not good enough at any one thing. I still use KDevelop for C++ but anyone in the industry will tell you IntelliJ is the best Java IDE out there.
If Louisiana's money hadn't been stolen from them and sent to Washington, perhaps they would understand that the responsibility was their own and then would have built up the levees. People seem to think that every failure of goverment could be averted if only they had more money and more power. It's not a question of more, it's a question of where. They'll spend that money and power whereever they damn well please and it will never benefit America. This whole excercise has been a case study in not centralizing power, as the centralized authority's only purpose seems to have been turning away people from the private sector, who might have actually been able to help and instead of just strutting around with assault rifles, patting "Brownie" on the back. I honestly thought this would be the wake up call for America. But you can't wake up the dead of mind and heart.
Anybody know of a definitive site for TV discussion forums? I like to go to a site and talk about what I saw last night. Presently, I go to ain-it-cool news for that, but they usually just pick a couple of shows a week for that and most of the people there are gayer than rainbows starring in musicals about Judy Garland (shit-together-wise, not sexually speaking). Not to mention they don't use a standard bulletin board system.
I know that each show usually has it's own webpage for these things, but I'd rather just go to a single login site for all TV. I see a discussion link on the wiki pages, but it's a general one. I'm looking for the most heavily trafficed TV discussion group site, that covers all/most of the new TV shows, and uses that standard BB system that you see everywhere. It use to be called the USENET. Even TvTomb didn't really seem to have this. Anybody know of such a site?
I can have a USB key, but there's still no way to plug in an MP3 player into a Mazda car without getting the $200 tape deck "upgrade" (or other after market stereo with an aux in jack). I would have bought a Mazda 3 this month in a second if it had an auxilliary input jack for my mp3 player. And no, I don't want an optical player since they aren't convenient for listening to daily podcasts. I felt like they were making me use a freakin' 8-track (normal CD players are pretty much 8-tracks at this point). And I'm sure we'll have some new kind of player before I'm done with my new car, they should let you just plug anything in. So instead I bought a new Civic, just because it had that jack. But thanks Mazda for some stupid USB key that I'll never have any use for. Geez!
This is it exactly. And everyone I know sees it this way. I saw recent interview with people working on the next Quake and Age of Empires. All they would talk about were the suped up graphics. When will these idiots ever learn? We want gameplay. What new things can I do?
Most people aren't running the latest hardware to take advantage of these "great" graphics, so the game companies are just wasting their time there. And even if you can take advantage of them, why would a person spend valuable time on a crappy game just to look at pretty graphics?
It's all about gameplay. You don't even have to take a chance. I can think of dozens of great new things they can do for RTS games, without changing their essential nature. But games companies waste their time giving me "special shading" that I'm just going to turn off anyway. Games companies can probably save money by just giving us what they want, instead of what their marketing department thinks we want.
Hell, I still want to see that Babylon 5 combat sim they scrapped, just as it was nearing completion. It was going to use the actual models from the show. I so would have bought that game. As it is, the only games I've purchased since then were Unreal 2k4 and some marked down copy of AOEII.
They cancelled that game because they said the market was saturated with space combat games. Aside from Wing Commander, which was old at that point, I had no idea what they were talking about. There are all of these great flight controllers out on the market (like that fancy Saitek split controller, x45? maybe) that I want to buy, but I don't because they only game I can use it with is some lame Microsoft Cessna simulator. I would love a new kick-ass Wing Commander type game.
I'm not too famliar with Debian's apt-get, but Gentoo has something similar with 'emerge'. It sounded great in theory, until I had to go through the 100s of conf files to decide if I can just overwrite them or if I had to manually merge them. This system was only 1 month old when I did my update and I spent most of my Sunday on this crap. Are you saying that apt-get magically takes care of all of this without screwing anything up?
Let me also ask you, have you ever found anything in the EULA that made you say, gee, I just don't think I'm willing to apply these security patches? I'll wait for a more reasonable EULA.
All I want is a Linux distro that is actually easy to update. That's my main problem with it. I can write any apps I need to replace the crappy ones you can get for it. Linux apps are like hogging, you may be getting laid, but the thrill is gone when you actually look at what you're fucking. (no, I've never actually went hoggin')
Right, and then they stop writing when it's just barely usable enough. I've written about half the software I use on a daily basis. Most of that software is written for me only and is not meant for anyone else to use. But at least I make it look nice, because I'm the one who'll have to stare at it all day. I'll make it endlessly configurable, because once you've written the core, making the app configurable is a breeze. I've never understood why someone would go through all the effort to make an app, package it for general use, yet leave the same crappy interface and bugs in from their initial prototype for YEARS. Have they no pride? Linux apps are the stick figures of good software. I hate frilly animations and pointless crap, but comb you fucking hair once in a while.
It's not just what you're use to, there's so much more you have to know to use Linux. I've been using it on and off since 96' and I suppose I use it more now than ever. But I'm sick of having to Google every little problem. Upgrades are still a nightmare. I did an update world of a Gentoo system that was only one month old and I spent many hours manually merging conf files (I never trust auto-merging) that I haven't updated it since. I have enough crap to do already. Once you're up and running, it's a great OS, but if you like to keep up with the constant changes and updates, you better have a lot of disposable time on your hands.
If you want to add hardware, then start hunting for those system-specific patches that only work on that one version of the kernel that you don't want to use anymore. And then keep track of those patches so you know what to look for when you finally get around to updating that kernel (if a patch is even necessary in that new kernel verison). I'm sorry, I love Linux, but it's a major pain in the ass sometimes and I don't see that going away anytime soon. I guess I could use one of the "simpler" distros, but they throw so much clutter at you, that I'd almost rather use XP and the end of the day. The notion of a learning curve doesn't really apply unless you're a sysadmin working with the same conf files everyday. The end user typically figures out enough to fix their problem, and then forgets how they did it 8 months down the line when it pops up again.
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Why on earth would anyone want to purchase a topical news show on DVD? There's a new episode every night that you can watch instead. Not to mention that you'd end up with a 30 disc season, and you'd have to give up watching the new episodes, just to free up the time to watch the old ones. This is almost as bad as wanting CNN Season 2002 on DVD. Some things were just not meant to be archived. But hey, if they can find enough people to pay for it (and enough blank DVDs to burn).
Are you just talking about 2.0? I use version 1.1.3 and I find the numbering always gets messed up. Even when I create a fresh document in openoffice, the numbering for the headings will be completely off in Word. I just export everything as PDF, but that's not always practical. If they can fix this, then I'd be a lot more enthusiastic about it. I am amazed that I've opened up the most complex word docs without much incident. However, I've also had very simple docs crash it. It's good enough that I can get away with using Linux at work.
Perhaps women are perceived as bitches (I don't see them that way) because women have so much power, yet they keep bitching about how they're treated. Make no mistake, women get preferential treatment in just about everything.
I don't want to hear about the workplace because I interview people from time to time. When it's just us guys talking about it later, we always lean heavily towards the female candidates despite the fact that they're simply not as well qualified. We do it, because we want more women in our workplace (cause women are purty). I'm quite certain that many others have their gotten jobs, just because they are women. The lesser wages are typically a result of them not being as qualified. People with high wages are the indispensible ones (or the best bullshitters).
Everything I consume in life, I have to work and pay for. I get NOTHING for free. As a woman, you just naturally expect to be taken out for a night on the town, now and then. Guys are constantly doing favors for women or buying them things. That adds up over time. Women who don't understand this are completely out of touch with reality.
As for voting, women live longer and outnumber men. That gives you MORE political power than men. If women aren't exercising that power, then they shouldn't blame men for it.
I can't argue your point on objectification. You're right there. Most women I come across wear clothing that you'd only see at strip clubs ten years earlier and I can't even recall the last time I ever heard a woman talk about anything of substance (not counting talking about babies). But when I see a woman as an object, I am demeaned as much as you are. I'm tired of the trash I meet and I don't even bother anymore. I actually once dated a millionaire (family money) who literally prostituted herself from time to time cause "it was something to do." When women stop acting like objects, I'll stop seeing them that way. I don't treat them as objects, I simply avoid the ones who act like objects (most).
If you're just talking bout how things were 100 years ago, then you have no complaint, because you weren't living through it. The tables have turned since then.
[Btw, I do believe you that you have more guy friends than girl friends. Most girls do. Women do not get along with each other, in my experience and in the experience of my women friends (who also don't hang out with other women). I thought most women accepted this as an axiom.]
On "24" the CTU director couldn't handle her emotions and got fired. On "Alias," Sidney keeps on trusting Sloan, her mother, Sark and everyone else who fucked her over, time and time again. That's hardly competent. Plus, she runs to her Daddy whenever she's in real trouble. Buffy was always portrayed as not-too-bright. Her magical powers were the only thing that distinguished her and she knew it. Plus that whole concept was meant to be comical (a cheerleader named Buffy with super powers) so it falls in line with the original posters comment. Perhaps if they made Dune into a TV show, then we'd have some of those convincing female leaders on TV.
Thank you! You don't need a study to understand that women aren't as bright as men. You just need a little experience living on this planet.
Once women start getting noticed by men, it's all over for them. Even for smart women. You simply can't have that much attention foisted on you and not end up being damaged. Even not-so-good looking women have enough men who will do things for them (buy them things, help them move, drive, etc), that they aren't driven to do anything but look pretty (or worse, be easy).
I know that if I were constantly being pursued by random women, I'd get little done. My mind wouldn't be as immersed in technical or philosphical concerns if I were always wondering if Jane likes me. If had to spend extra time each day on makeup or outfits, that would further starve my mind. Brains, like muscles, atrophy from non-use.
Physiologically speaking, women are more emotional. I'm can't concentrate or get much done when I'm angry or in love. Maybe women can, but I doubt it. Emotions cloud intellect. The more you have, the less intellectual you are.
I do think that women are harder workers than men. And that often makes up for any intellectual deficiencies in the workplace. But the things that are simple for men, at my company, are often a tremendous struggle for the women. They get those things done by staying late and on weekends, but they shouldn't have too. I'm happy to be working with them, because like I said, they make up for it. But I've never known a single woman to be the go-to-guy when you need a technical real-world problem solved.
For the record, I very much prefer smarter women. Dumb women have no appeal to me, even when it's just for sex. I come from a family of smart women. My sister teaches statistics to PHD students at a major university. But just like all women, when she gets caught up in a relationship with loser boyfriend of the week, that spark goes out the window and she becomes as dumb as every other girl out there. And as much as she's a loner like me, she's never alone because boyfriends and stalkers are always pursuing her. On those rare times that she is alone, she's always working on some theorem or project.
Although I would have hated it when I was in high school, I've become convinced that schools would benefit from a division of the sexes. The public school system is bad for everyone, but placing a girl in a public school is tantamount to child abuse, in my mind. If you want your daughter to grow up to be intelligent, send her somewhere where she'll be treated like a person instead of a sperm dumpster.
I think a big difference is that we married in our late 20s / early 30s. By that point in life, we'd gotten the young-and-stupid life out of our system and had pretty much figured out what we want out of life and who we wanted to share it with.
I'm in my early 30s. How are you so sure you've gotten the "young-and-stupid" out of your life? I know what you mean when you say that, but what that's taught me is that I'm gonna look back on myself today as young-and-stupid as well. I have no problem with monogamy, but I suppose I do with committment. It's natural for people to change and there's no way to predict that you'll change in the same direction as your spouse. Sounds like it worked out good for you though. It's nice to hear the occasional success story. Marriage is probably not for me, but I sometimes forget that, in a society that pushes marriage so hard.
Don't any men like marriage? Joking aside, none of my friends make it out to be anything good. They just bitch about it and tell me how much they envy my life. My life, is not one to envy, aside from me being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want. Marriage seems nice on paper, but every time I consider it, I get discouraged by all the divorces and bitching. Why do people do it if it's so horrible? I don't want to be a bachelor for life, but it seems way better than the alternative at this point.
I find that women tend to be terrible at reading men's minds, even after we say what's on them. It's sometimes as if they ignore anything you say, if it deviates from their preconceptions (mind reading). I also think that women are so use to being indirect that they have difficulty related to men, who are typically very direct. Maybe I've only run into the bad sort though.
Oh my god! When will they ever learn? I should be the target audience for this crap. I grew up on Dukes of Hazzard and A-Team (I'm sure Knight Rider has gotta be coming too) and even I won't watch these movies. So who is? Hell I don't even bother with Rotten Tomatoes because I know they'll be bad. Obviously these stupid remakes haven't been doing wonders at the box office or Hollywood wouldn't be so concerned that nobody is going to the movies anymore. Almost every single movie is a lame TV show remake (cool when I was like 8, but now??). Ugghh!!! Everyone in Hollywood needs to have all of their money taken away from them so that they will stop assualting our senses like this.
The same price for Spider-Man and XXX: State of the Union? A lower price for films not that much in demand would increase the amount of overall tickets sold in gross revenue.
Yeah, I've been thinking about this lately too. I would happily pay more (perhaps up to $20) for a good movie that the sheeple have no interest in and I might actually go see the crap (read blockbuster) movies if they were only a buck. It might very well generate more revenue on the blockbusters as well because your typical wrestling fan doesn't have the spare cash to see every movie the Rock is in. A true free market would be the cure to so many woes in our economy. And more good movies would be made as the box office proceeds for those types of movies start to soar. The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that it's the right thing for the studios to do. It may be the only thing at this point.
This is so true. Everything can be downloaded these days, yet I never want to download any of it because it just ain't worth stealing. It's not just movies, it's games and music as well. Corporations need to learn to invest in creativity, rather than trying to manage it. They've peddled to the lowest common denominator, only to now realize that the lowest common denominator doesn't have the money to purchase their crappy products. And those that do, have already moved on.
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You are so right that this should have been the article to new grads. Money is very important and the more you have, the better off you are, but it's very hard for people to make a decent salary and not spend up to it. I'll go one step further and say that although gadgets are nice to play with, I find them stressful.
Stressful in the sense that you have to research what you're buying (waste of time), opinions and contradictory opinions. You have to find the best place to order (not just cheap, but reliable). Once you order, there's a good chance that something will go wrong, like they're out of stock or send the wrong item. Once you get it, you realize the gadget would have been great if only.... You spend a bunch of time configuring the gadget. You have to clean up the packaging (yes, I can be lazy) and find a spot in your house for the gadget. A month later, you hardly use it and wonder what even prompted you to buy it in the first place. It's nothing more than a symbol that has likely brought you more stress than joy.
I use to move from job to job, thinking I was being underpaid. I end up back at once of my first jobs because I can work normal hours, work from home when I need to, flex my hours, surf the web when I have the time, wear jeans, speak freely, and most important or all, I have sensible management for a change. I could get more money somewhere else, but I don't have the fortitude to work in a place that makes me miserable. I'm happy here and I get enough money. I still buy gadgets once in a while, but I realize that peace comes from silence and not having a million things on my plate, so I only buy them sparingly. Well I've kind of fallen off the wagon as I got a raise a few months back. I've been going through a mini-spending spree and have been strugling to get back to my pre-raise balanced self ever since. But at least I feel I've pulled myself away from the trap and can see it for what it is.
No, but I'm sure there were quite a few people who said they wish they would have accomplished more in life. You certainly don't achieve great accomplishments by not working.
That sounds absolutely horrible. I've always been in a cubicled environment and people tend to respect it as if it were an office (ie. knocking before interrupting). I don't want to get to know the people, I don't want to hear what's on the grapevine, I want to get my work done so I can go home and do the things I really want to do. A cube gives me some protection from those people.
I've noticed that those people tend to be the ones "stuck" at work until 8:00 each night. They're always complaining about how busy they are. I'm home by 5:00 and get twice as much done as they do. They often (quite vocally) start bitching when people leave (early from their perspective) around 5 and I'm always tempted to yell back, "If you weren't shooting the shit all day, you could leave now too." But they wouldn't understand. They think that their value is derived from the amount of time they spend at work, rather than what they actually get done. It's just another way to kiss ass and, come layoff time, nobody really cares.
I've been in situations like yours with three people to a cube, and although it can be fun (sometimes), you simply can't get the same amount of work done. Headphones are no solution to me, as the sound that comes out of them is just as distracting as people gossiping. Nah, the extra privacy and silence (cube walls do absorb quite a bit of sound) are easily worth 5 to 10k of salary. Actually, I'd probably need at least 15k extra to work a job like that. I hope that UK "fashion" never makes it to US shores.
Without a doubt. No programming tool, in my 25 years or so of programming experience, has ever granted me such productivty gains. Many of it's features aren't new, but they're put together so well. My company never spends money on developer software, but they recently shelled out the money for this as I showed it to a couple of people (and they showed it to people) and now they can't do without it. No serious Java/J2EE developer should be using anything else.
Whiteboards are useful for collaborative efforts, but I hate writing on them. It's unnatural to write that big. It's tiring too. I prefer good ole pencil and paper for these things. In fact, I've never seen much of anything useful, writen on a whiteboard. You can only fit the most generic overviews that could only ever satisfy managers and marketing types, who need pretty pictures and bubble diagrams to understand anything.
If you're just doing Java/J2EE, then IntelliJ is king. Eclipse is too generic and not good enough at any one thing. I still use KDevelop for C++ but anyone in the industry will tell you IntelliJ is the best Java IDE out there.
If Louisiana's money hadn't been stolen from them and sent to Washington, perhaps they would understand that the responsibility was their own and then would have built up the levees. People seem to think that every failure of goverment could be averted if only they had more money and more power. It's not a question of more, it's a question of where. They'll spend that money and power whereever they damn well please and it will never benefit America. This whole excercise has been a case study in not centralizing power, as the centralized authority's only purpose seems to have been turning away people from the private sector, who might have actually been able to help and instead of just strutting around with assault rifles, patting "Brownie" on the back. I honestly thought this would be the wake up call for America. But you can't wake up the dead of mind and heart.
Anybody know of a definitive site for TV discussion forums? I like to go to a site and talk about what I saw last night. Presently, I go to ain-it-cool news for that, but they usually just pick a couple of shows a week for that and most of the people there are gayer than rainbows starring in musicals about Judy Garland (shit-together-wise, not sexually speaking). Not to mention they don't use a standard bulletin board system.
I know that each show usually has it's own webpage for these things, but I'd rather just go to a single login site for all TV. I see a discussion link on the wiki pages, but it's a general one. I'm looking for the most heavily trafficed TV discussion group site, that covers all/most of the new TV shows, and uses that standard BB system that you see everywhere. It use to be called the USENET. Even TvTomb didn't really seem to have this. Anybody know of such a site?
I can have a USB key, but there's still no way to plug in an MP3 player into a Mazda car without getting the $200 tape deck "upgrade" (or other after market stereo with an aux in jack). I would have bought a Mazda 3 this month in a second if it had an auxilliary input jack for my mp3 player. And no, I don't want an optical player since they aren't convenient for listening to daily podcasts. I felt like they were making me use a freakin' 8-track (normal CD players are pretty much 8-tracks at this point). And I'm sure we'll have some new kind of player before I'm done with my new car, they should let you just plug anything in. So instead I bought a new Civic, just because it had that jack. But thanks Mazda for some stupid USB key that I'll never have any use for. Geez!
This is it exactly. And everyone I know sees it this way. I saw recent interview with people working on the next Quake and Age of Empires. All they would talk about were the suped up graphics. When will these idiots ever learn? We want gameplay. What new things can I do?
Most people aren't running the latest hardware to take advantage of these "great" graphics, so the game companies are just wasting their time there. And even if you can take advantage of them, why would a person spend valuable time on a crappy game just to look at pretty graphics?
It's all about gameplay. You don't even have to take a chance. I can think of dozens of great new things they can do for RTS games, without changing their essential nature. But games companies waste their time giving me "special shading" that I'm just going to turn off anyway. Games companies can probably save money by just giving us what they want, instead of what their marketing department thinks we want.
Hell, I still want to see that Babylon 5 combat sim they scrapped, just as it was nearing completion. It was going to use the actual models from the show. I so would have bought that game. As it is, the only games I've purchased since then were Unreal 2k4 and some marked down copy of AOEII.
They cancelled that game because they said the market was saturated with space combat games. Aside from Wing Commander, which was old at that point, I had no idea what they were talking about. There are all of these great flight controllers out on the market (like that fancy Saitek split controller, x45? maybe) that I want to buy, but I don't because they only game I can use it with is some lame Microsoft Cessna simulator. I would love a new kick-ass Wing Commander type game.
I'm not too famliar with Debian's apt-get, but Gentoo has something similar with 'emerge'. It sounded great in theory, until I had to go through the 100s of conf files to decide if I can just overwrite them or if I had to manually merge them. This system was only 1 month old when I did my update and I spent most of my Sunday on this crap. Are you saying that apt-get magically takes care of all of this without screwing anything up?
Let me also ask you, have you ever found anything in the EULA that made you say, gee, I just don't think I'm willing to apply these security patches? I'll wait for a more reasonable EULA.
All I want is a Linux distro that is actually easy to update. That's my main problem with it. I can write any apps I need to replace the crappy ones you can get for it. Linux apps are like hogging, you may be getting laid, but the thrill is gone when you actually look at what you're fucking. (no, I've never actually went hoggin')
Right, and then they stop writing when it's just barely usable enough. I've written about half the software I use on a daily basis. Most of that software is written for me only and is not meant for anyone else to use. But at least I make it look nice, because I'm the one who'll have to stare at it all day. I'll make it endlessly configurable, because once you've written the core, making the app configurable is a breeze. I've never understood why someone would go through all the effort to make an app, package it for general use, yet leave the same crappy interface and bugs in from their initial prototype for YEARS. Have they no pride? Linux apps are the stick figures of good software. I hate frilly animations and pointless crap, but comb you fucking hair once in a while.
It's not just what you're use to, there's so much more you have to know to use Linux. I've been using it on and off since 96' and I suppose I use it more now than ever. But I'm sick of having to Google every little problem. Upgrades are still a nightmare. I did an update world of a Gentoo system that was only one month old and I spent many hours manually merging conf files (I never trust auto-merging) that I haven't updated it since. I have enough crap to do already. Once you're up and running, it's a great OS, but if you like to keep up with the constant changes and updates, you better have a lot of disposable time on your hands.
If you want to add hardware, then start hunting for those system-specific patches that only work on that one version of the kernel that you don't want to use anymore. And then keep track of those patches so you know what to look for when you finally get around to updating that kernel (if a patch is even necessary in that new kernel verison). I'm sorry, I love Linux, but it's a major pain in the ass sometimes and I don't see that going away anytime soon. I guess I could use one of the "simpler" distros, but they throw so much clutter at you, that I'd almost rather use XP and the end of the day. The notion of a learning curve doesn't really apply unless you're a sysadmin working with the same conf files everyday. The end user typically figures out enough to fix their problem, and then forgets how they did it 8 months down the line when it pops up again.
The Daily Show complete run from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005
Why on earth would anyone want to purchase a topical news show on DVD? There's a new episode every night that you can watch instead. Not to mention that you'd end up with a 30 disc season, and you'd have to give up watching the new episodes, just to free up the time to watch the old ones. This is almost as bad as wanting CNN Season 2002 on DVD. Some things were just not meant to be archived. But hey, if they can find enough people to pay for it (and enough blank DVDs to burn).
Are you just talking about 2.0? I use version 1.1.3 and I find the numbering always gets messed up. Even when I create a fresh document in openoffice, the numbering for the headings will be completely off in Word. I just export everything as PDF, but that's not always practical. If they can fix this, then I'd be a lot more enthusiastic about it. I am amazed that I've opened up the most complex word docs without much incident. However, I've also had very simple docs crash it. It's good enough that I can get away with using Linux at work.
Perhaps women are perceived as bitches (I don't see them that way) because women have so much power, yet they keep bitching about how they're treated. Make no mistake, women get preferential treatment in just about everything.
I don't want to hear about the workplace because I interview people from time to time. When it's just us guys talking about it later, we always lean heavily towards the female candidates despite the fact that they're simply not as well qualified. We do it, because we want more women in our workplace (cause women are purty). I'm quite certain that many others have their gotten jobs, just because they are women. The lesser wages are typically a result of them not being as qualified. People with high wages are the indispensible ones (or the best bullshitters).
Everything I consume in life, I have to work and pay for. I get NOTHING for free. As a woman, you just naturally expect to be taken out for a night on the town, now and then. Guys are constantly doing favors for women or buying them things. That adds up over time. Women who don't understand this are completely out of touch with reality.
As for voting, women live longer and outnumber men. That gives you MORE political power than men. If women aren't exercising that power, then they shouldn't blame men for it.
I can't argue your point on objectification. You're right there. Most women I come across wear clothing that you'd only see at strip clubs ten years earlier and I can't even recall the last time I ever heard a woman talk about anything of substance (not counting talking about babies). But when I see a woman as an object, I am demeaned as much as you are. I'm tired of the trash I meet and I don't even bother anymore. I actually once dated a millionaire (family money) who literally prostituted herself from time to time cause "it was something to do." When women stop acting like objects, I'll stop seeing them that way. I don't treat them as objects, I simply avoid the ones who act like objects (most).
If you're just talking bout how things were 100 years ago, then you have no complaint, because you weren't living through it. The tables have turned since then.
[Btw, I do believe you that you have more guy friends than girl friends. Most girls do. Women do not get along with each other, in my experience and in the experience of my women friends (who also don't hang out with other women). I thought most women accepted this as an axiom.]
On "24" the CTU director couldn't handle her emotions and got fired. On "Alias," Sidney keeps on trusting Sloan, her mother, Sark and everyone else who fucked her over, time and time again. That's hardly competent. Plus, she runs to her Daddy whenever she's in real trouble. Buffy was always portrayed as not-too-bright. Her magical powers were the only thing that distinguished her and she knew it. Plus that whole concept was meant to be comical (a cheerleader named Buffy with super powers) so it falls in line with the original posters comment. Perhaps if they made Dune into a TV show, then we'd have some of those convincing female leaders on TV.
Thank you! You don't need a study to understand that women aren't as bright as men. You just need a little experience living on this planet.
Once women start getting noticed by men, it's all over for them. Even for smart women. You simply can't have that much attention foisted on you and not end up being damaged. Even not-so-good looking women have enough men who will do things for them (buy them things, help them move, drive, etc), that they aren't driven to do anything but look pretty (or worse, be easy).
I know that if I were constantly being pursued by random women, I'd get little done. My mind wouldn't be as immersed in technical or philosphical concerns if I were always wondering if Jane likes me. If had to spend extra time each day on makeup or outfits, that would further starve my mind. Brains, like muscles, atrophy from non-use.
Physiologically speaking, women are more emotional. I'm can't concentrate or get much done when I'm angry or in love. Maybe women can, but I doubt it. Emotions cloud intellect. The more you have, the less intellectual you are.
I do think that women are harder workers than men. And that often makes up for any intellectual deficiencies in the workplace. But the things that are simple for men, at my company, are often a tremendous struggle for the women. They get those things done by staying late and on weekends, but they shouldn't have too. I'm happy to be working with them, because like I said, they make up for it. But I've never known a single woman to be the go-to-guy when you need a technical real-world problem solved.
For the record, I very much prefer smarter women. Dumb women have no appeal to me, even when it's just for sex. I come from a family of smart women. My sister teaches statistics to PHD students at a major university. But just like all women, when she gets caught up in a relationship with loser boyfriend of the week, that spark goes out the window and she becomes as dumb as every other girl out there. And as much as she's a loner like me, she's never alone because boyfriends and stalkers are always pursuing her. On those rare times that she is alone, she's always working on some theorem or project.
Although I would have hated it when I was in high school, I've become convinced that schools would benefit from a division of the sexes. The public school system is bad for everyone, but placing a girl in a public school is tantamount to child abuse, in my mind. If you want your daughter to grow up to be intelligent, send her somewhere where she'll be treated like a person instead of a sperm dumpster.
I think a big difference is that we married in our late 20s / early 30s. By that point in life, we'd gotten the young-and-stupid life out of our system and had pretty much figured out what we want out of life and who we wanted to share it with.
I'm in my early 30s. How are you so sure you've gotten the "young-and-stupid" out of your life? I know what you mean when you say that, but what that's taught me is that I'm gonna look back on myself today as young-and-stupid as well. I have no problem with monogamy, but I suppose I do with committment. It's natural for people to change and there's no way to predict that you'll change in the same direction as your spouse. Sounds like it worked out good for you though. It's nice to hear the occasional success story. Marriage is probably not for me, but I sometimes forget that, in a society that pushes marriage so hard.
Don't any men like marriage? Joking aside, none of my friends make it out to be anything good. They just bitch about it and tell me how much they envy my life. My life, is not one to envy, aside from me being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want. Marriage seems nice on paper, but every time I consider it, I get discouraged by all the divorces and bitching. Why do people do it if it's so horrible? I don't want to be a bachelor for life, but it seems way better than the alternative at this point.
I find that women tend to be terrible at reading men's minds, even after we say what's on them. It's sometimes as if they ignore anything you say, if it deviates from their preconceptions (mind reading). I also think that women are so use to being indirect that they have difficulty related to men, who are typically very direct. Maybe I've only run into the bad sort though.
Oh my god! When will they ever learn? I should be the target audience for this crap. I grew up on Dukes of Hazzard and A-Team (I'm sure Knight Rider has gotta be coming too) and even I won't watch these movies. So who is? Hell I don't even bother with Rotten Tomatoes because I know they'll be bad. Obviously these stupid remakes haven't been doing wonders at the box office or Hollywood wouldn't be so concerned that nobody is going to the movies anymore. Almost every single movie is a lame TV show remake (cool when I was like 8, but now??). Ugghh!!! Everyone in Hollywood needs to have all of their money taken away from them so that they will stop assualting our senses like this.
The same price for Spider-Man and XXX: State of the Union? A lower price for films not that much in demand would increase the amount of overall tickets sold in gross revenue.
Yeah, I've been thinking about this lately too. I would happily pay more (perhaps up to $20) for a good movie that the sheeple have no interest in and I might actually go see the crap (read blockbuster) movies if they were only a buck. It might very well generate more revenue on the blockbusters as well because your typical wrestling fan doesn't have the spare cash to see every movie the Rock is in. A true free market would be the cure to so many woes in our economy. And more good movies would be made as the box office proceeds for those types of movies start to soar. The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that it's the right thing for the studios to do. It may be the only thing at this point.
This is so true. Everything can be downloaded these days, yet I never want to download any of it because it just ain't worth stealing. It's not just movies, it's games and music as well. Corporations need to learn to invest in creativity, rather than trying to manage it. They've peddled to the lowest common denominator, only to now realize that the lowest common denominator doesn't have the money to purchase their crappy products. And those that do, have already moved on.