You make a good point re: their advertising based revenue model and all that, but here on Linux, like everyone else , I prefer to use an all-in-one client (in my case , Gaim). So while my IM client of choice is restricted (not going to stir the pot , already well mixed in the posts above, and say "blocked"), I will use the free Yahoo Messenger client.
Which , while driving traffic to their sites via news and other links, does not send any ads directly via the IM client.
Re:Obsession? How about just plain old usability?
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not to be pendantic, but if a Serial Port is NOT a "contraption that somebody (sic) dreamed up" that how exactly did it come into existence?
Note to brain dead moderators -- "offtopic" refers to something completely outside of the discussion , not merely a divergence from the main post. That's why these forums are refered to as "threads". The post I was replying did make a legitimate point but in a manner that was strayed far to close to the realm of what I call "computer illiteracy" (those who know their way around a computer so well that they've forsaken regular communication.) You'll consider this response "off topic" as well. Next time I'll cut and paste one of those hundred other similar responses so it too will be proper evidence of the Slashdot Hive Mind
you're right, I should have proofed it. Although at least these were typos, I wasn't inventing words and phrases out of whole cloth. (PS. it's etc... you anonymous fucking coward)
Beofre inventing plural forms of proper nouns, get your English straight.
The phrase is "nip them in the bud", as in preventing something from flowering. Althought "knit them in the butt" conjures up wonderful images of these aforementioned old ladies wielding deadly knitting needles.
uh, this isn't for corporate info, it is for their large masthead of magazine content (including People, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Sports Illustrated).
Sure, I think this is a stupid idea, like everyone else but that unfortunate poster up there who was moderated +5 for "Insightful" while ironically missing the entire point of this dicussion.
Just wanted to point out WHAT it is that they are restricting.
I felt the same way you did upon graduating, and the economy sucked twelve years ago too. I didn't want to join the Navy for personal reasons so I joined the Coast Guard.
Junior Officers have a lot of responsibility there, the job can get pretty technical and it is great training for the real world.
I did get to travel all over the world because I was willing to go to sea to do so.
I don't care that this guy published his findings in the Times, since terrorists and intelligence agencies have probably been aware of this trick for awhile.
And I am not in favor of Big Brother any more than the rest of you (in fact probably less than the rest of you) but...
there's an asshole with a gun shooting and killing, preying upon, innocent citizens in and around Washington DC right now (my hometown.
If a camera helps record one of his attacks then that is one argument for their use. And if a survelliance camera helps lead to the apprehension of this creep then that will turn out to be the line where I am willing to trade privacy for security.
And even if survelliance cameras have nothing to do with this nutjob's eventual capture, you can be sure that crimes like these will only make survelliance more common place.
so you can put that sophomoric, "if the cops don't see me, tough" rhetoric back in your pocket protector.
> I like Scott Adams and want him to get paid for >his work.
If there is , as you say, always a way, I'd really be interested in knowing how you'd ensure that Scott Adams continues to get paid for his work.
(just kidding around - I agree with you entirely on the main point - the intellectual property genie is out of the bottle and all the media moguls in the world won't be able to bottle it up again)
You're correct, you are in a fortunate postion, being able to select company-wide development tools from scratch. Do you have other requirements for which you've found solutions?
Some of us might find your requirements and selections interesting and it would provide more detail re: what PM software would be appropriate for you.
And the rest of the readers will appreciate the opprtunity to flame and argue over your other choices. ~:-0.
unless you plan to stay in academia, which probably isn't without stress, some point you'll have to give up on the big rock candy mountain and return to the real world.
What makes you think it will be any easier with an advanced degree and no experience outside of "late nights, late mornings, beautiful women everywhere, lots of beer and no drug tests"?
My guess is you'll be one of many applicants who chose this great escape, as many of my friends did in the early 90s (that was during the first Bush recession and those friends are all professors now, sweating about tenure and publication).
Someone please mod this response (#4303398) up, he raises a good point about station id and station budgets (which I can verify from my own experiences)
that way snobs like myself, who broswe at +3 or higher, will actually see this (hint, informative)
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You make a good point re: their advertising based revenue model and all that, but here on Linux, like everyone else , I prefer to use an all-in-one client (in my case , Gaim). So while my IM client of choice is restricted (not going to stir the pot , already well mixed in the posts above, and say "blocked"), I will use the free Yahoo Messenger client.
Which , while driving traffic to their sites via news and other links, does not send any ads directly via the IM client.
not to be pendantic, but if a Serial Port is NOT a "contraption that somebody (sic) dreamed up" that how exactly did it come into existence?
Great Points!
Email is not only a great way to archive and reference issues, writing itself forces one to think out wtf is actually being said.
Too often I've been on the `phone with sales/mgt types who need to "talk through" some point that could be communicated in a few succint lines.
Note to brain dead moderators -- "offtopic" refers to something completely outside of the discussion , not merely a divergence from the main post. That's why these forums are refered to as "threads". The post I was replying did make a legitimate point but in a manner that was strayed far to close to the realm of what I call "computer illiteracy" (those who know their way around a computer so well that they've forsaken regular communication.) You'll consider this response "off topic" as well. Next time I'll cut and paste one of those hundred other similar responses so it too will be proper evidence of the Slashdot Hive Mind
you're right, I should have proofed it. Although at least these were typos, I wasn't inventing words and phrases out of whole cloth. (PS. it's etc ... you anonymous fucking coward)
Segwii???
Beofre inventing plural forms of proper nouns, get your English straight.
The phrase is "nip them in the bud", as in preventing something from flowering. Althought "knit them in the butt" conjures up wonderful images of these aforementioned old ladies wielding deadly knitting needles.
Perhaps you were thinking of a "stich in time"?
rather than just sitting there like a turd on a log, belching out criticism, write your own novel. otherwise, stop your croaking.
It's the razor scooter of the new millenia , apparently to some yet another overengineered toy
"I've always thought that the hard sciences were more immune to that effect than the humanities. I guess not."
Perhaps there's some research you could cite, or is this just myopic left-brianed bias?
uh, this isn't for corporate info, it is for their large masthead of magazine content (including People, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Sports Illustrated).
Sure, I think this is a stupid idea, like everyone else but that unfortunate poster up there who was moderated +5 for "Insightful" while ironically missing the entire point of this dicussion.
Just wanted to point out WHAT it is that they are restricting.
when you go for hyper-realism with characters you wind up with those odd waxy-looking homonuclia like the princess in Shrek
Archeaologists have been able to recover sounds from pottery spun thousands of years ago
> Huh? Care to provide a link?
Hear! Hear!
I felt the same way you did upon graduating, and the economy sucked twelve years ago too. I didn't want to join the Navy for personal reasons so I joined the Coast Guard.
Junior Officers have a lot of responsibility there, the job can get pretty technical and it is great training for the real world.
I did get to travel all over the world because I was willing to go to sea to do so.
Just think, you might even get to see Iraq!
For the Google impaired: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
>incrementalism towarss fascism
are you deliberately trying to sound like GW?
I don't care that this guy published his findings in the Times, since terrorists and intelligence agencies have probably been aware of this trick for awhile.
...
And I am not in favor of Big Brother any more than the rest of you (in fact probably less than the rest of you) but
there's an asshole with a gun shooting and killing, preying upon, innocent citizens in and around Washington DC right now (my hometown.
If a camera helps record one of his attacks then that is one argument for their use. And if a survelliance camera helps lead to the apprehension of this creep then that will turn out to be the line where I am willing to trade privacy for security.
And even if survelliance cameras have nothing to do with this nutjob's eventual capture, you can be sure that crimes like these will only make survelliance more common place.
so you can put that sophomoric, "if the cops don't see me, tough" rhetoric back in your pocket protector.
> I like Scott Adams and want him to get paid for >his work.
If there is , as you say, always a way, I'd really be interested in knowing how you'd ensure that Scott Adams continues to get paid for his work.
(just kidding around - I agree with you entirely on the main point - the intellectual property genie is out of the bottle and all the media moguls in the world won't be able to bottle it up again)
You're correct, you are in a fortunate postion, being able to select company-wide development tools from scratch. Do you have other requirements for which you've found solutions?
Some of us might find your requirements and selections interesting and it would provide more detail re: what PM software would be appropriate for you.
And the rest of the readers will appreciate the opprtunity to flame and argue over your other choices. ~:-0.
unless you plan to stay in academia, which probably isn't without stress, some point you'll have to give up on the big rock candy mountain and return to the real world.
What makes you think it will be any easier with an advanced degree and no experience outside of "late nights, late mornings, beautiful women everywhere, lots of beer and no drug tests"?
My guess is you'll be one of many applicants who chose this great escape, as many of my friends did in the early 90s (that was during the first Bush recession and those friends are all professors now, sweating about tenure and publication).
Someone please mod this response (#4303398) up, he raises a good point about station id and station budgets (which I can verify from my own experiences)
that way snobs like myself, who broswe at +3 or higher, will actually see this (hint, informative)