Not necessarily disagreeing with your assessment of the efficacy of protests. However, it is a bit short-sighted to presume incentives as being the most effective policy for the greater good.
Speculation. Money pouring into market cap in the hopes of making more money. If there were no exchanges to facilitate speculation you may very well be right. But once people start trading it the value based on production cost is out the window.
I finally landed on the Netgear WNDR3700-v2, a nice dual-band atheros box. Got two of them for wireless bridging.
So far I've flashed DD-WRT and OpenWRT without any trouble at all. Though I've historically used WW-DRT and Tomato I'm still torn on which will be permanent. Tomato isn't an option with these due to them not being Broadcom based. I'm leaning strongly to OpenWRT as it seems to be the most mature and flexible of the two.
I'm not really contributing at this point (not spending time with my family, apparently. ..strict time management includes them). However, just to clarify, I'm pushing 45 - so no spring chicken here. . physically anyway. Mentally, I work hard to keep it agile and relevant.
The one thing I am getting from all this is that there is a lack of hope and even reasonable optimism. Something that can probably mostly be placed squarely on the media of today and nothing that can be rationally resolved with mere discussion here. Lot's of good points all around, but not much faith in the individual and a seeming overriding desire to see solutions come from elsewhere. I'll keep fighting (or succumbing as somebody said) my fight (or surrender) in my own way and at least know I gave it a shot for better or worse ; )
Great discussion and mostly above the belt, cheers for that!
Getting a business idea off the ground takes investment. When you're starting from zero, you can't go negative. No bugger will give you a loan. There are precious few business grants available. And if your family is historically poor, there's no way to start a business. That's just stupid.
Absolutely and categorically wrong. I come from a humble (blue collar) background and am completely self-trained (I don't have any piece of paper higher than a HS diploma). I've NEVER borrowed one penny (or more) to start a company. If you can save up a couple hundred bucks (I've never spent more than $500 including LLC papers and hosting) you can do it. . . and anybody in this industry should be able to do that. Is it more difficult? YES! Dramatically so. Is it doable? Absolutely. Don't study the problem for it's own sake, study the problem to find a solution. If you believe the problem has you beat, if you believe it's impossible, it certainly is. But don't try to convince me or sell your poison to others, I've done it. ..3 times.
Being a software developer in this day and age we have opportunities that were inconceivable to our ancestors, truly a blessing. But you have to believe that those opportunities exist and be willing to stare down the risk. It's not a given, but with so little to invest. . hell, I'll just take another stab.
I don't disagree. There really are problems. However, what frightens me is the potential for a cure much worse than the disease. Which is something our culture excels at right now. Less knee-jerk, more introspection, understanding, and willingness to work for the cure. Learn from history, learn from mistakes, plan for human nature, don't just buy into some utopian dream of a wonderful life for all. There will ALWAYS be a 1%, even if everybody earns $1, there will be those that gain power enough to get $2. The trick is, if that 1% is a political class they're almost certainly unassailable by any but violent means. I have a shot at taking down MSFT (If I were to try and had that particular talent, that's not my market). Trying to take down the Communists party in China will just end up with me being 6' under. Perhaps poorly explained but hopefully the point is there.
So. . instead I should be working my tail off to earn everybody a meager living? Except if I've got a meager living to look forward to regardless of expended effort I think I'll spend as much of that meager living with my wife and kids in the here and now as possible and work my tail off a little less (not a hypothetical).
I wish I could succeed like that as well (actually, I don't, what fun in that. ..but for argument's sake). However, I'm pragmatic enough to know that's not going to work for me, so what should I do? Expend effort moaning about it or do what I can to keep moving forward?
As far as welfare, 2 things come to mind: 1) Where does more of MY tax dollars go, corporate or social welfare? (not a trick question, I don't know but interesting to look up perhaps). 2) Nobody should be receiving the benefit of my labor without some effort in return. I don't care if they're top or bottom 1%.
Here here! I have a FT job, 2 businesses (1 Consulting, and 1 SaaS), and work my tail off (not to mention 2 young children). I have a small house, an '04 Corolla, and it's a challenge to make ends meet but I don't begrudge this "1%" too much as I've (as anyone does) got a shot at getting a slice of the pie.
I'm not a cheerleader or over-zealous optimist either. I think there are problems with corporate ethics and don't get me started on too big to fail, etc. But at least I'm taking something to market, making an effort. Not just whining and crying because somebody, somewhere, somewhen was successful before me.
I also acknowledge the significant risk of failure. However, I also know, as I've done before, I'll get up and get going again. Can't win if you don't play.
Go be disruptive in the marketplace, being "disruptive" standing in the street holding a sign just annoys the poor folks trying to do their part in moving their own situation forward.
Don't comment very often but have been here since pretty damned close to the beginning. I've read just about every day of my life since then. Hope everything is and will continue to be great. I'm sure there will be the normal trolls and whatnot, but the bottom line is: You will be missed.
I don't see anybody else mentioning it so I'll say that I have Qimo installed for my preschooler http://www.qimo4kids.com/ It's not perfect but it's a good start.
I have one of the 1920x1200 mac book pros. Also, anytime I'm not on the road I have it dual headed to a 1680x1050 (both at home and work). I love it. I'd MUCH rather have multiple editors open side by side and have to deal with the scrollwheel on my trackball.
But still, I understand that everybody has different habits and I agree that the choices should be there.
First and foremost, my prayers and heart go out to the families of those lost. I pray they had it a little better than the Challenger 7.
Second, this is so ironic and tragic. I was in DC this last week for some training, and as we were waiting to go to the airport to come home (Dallas) yesterday we spent a few hours at the Air and Space Museum. My first time there. The poor guy I was travelling with had to put up with at least 2 hours of me ranting and raving about the pathetic status of our manned space program and how little we've progressed in the last ~40 years in relation to the technology and knowledge we do actually have.
Then to wake up this morning to this. ..horrible.
I can only hope that NASA handles this practically. Learn from what happened, make appropriate adjustments, and continue on with the program. For us to scale back the manned program, or keep it grounded for over-long would be an insult to the lost lives of these 7 individuals. They knew the risk, as did NASA going in. The determination was made by each of them individually that the risk to themselves was of a lower priority than the mission at hand.
Rest in peace my friends. We thank you for your effort and sacrifice.
It's always a Mac in the movies, get with the program : b
(I'm sure this wasn't original, but just found out I slept an hour later than I thought I did, sure doesn't feel like it : b So I'm feeling kinda obnoxious.)
If I remember correctly, I remember this being spelled out clearly at some point during TiVo set up, or in the manual somewhere. This isn't surprising, or news, they were up front. They were also up front about the fact that they were decoupling the personal information. Hell, I don't care if my viewing habits are studied, as long as I'M not studied as an individual. All it can do is improve the quality of dribble that's being put on the toob.
I don't see how this is even pertinant to my remark? If you do or do not listen to pop music has no bearing on you being a musician either way (And I'm a semi-pro musician, and I don't listen to pop music, so there : b). I guess to try to match wits with you. ..I don't expect you to be offering a lot of high conviction opinions about pop-music if you don't listen to it.
He was clearly not conversant with the technology, said as much, didn't ask for much of any clarification and proceeded to issue his rubber-stamp opinion of the issue regardless. However, the REALITY of it is, that IF you are going to develop for a console platform (any current popular platform) you WILL have closed license considerations to deal with. Under no given circumstance do I believe telling somebody "just don't do it" is a correct response when I'm not familiar with the context of the question.
Anyway, hope this was semi-lucid. Don't feel that hot about it anyway, but couldn't let you put your oranges in my apple barrel.
Does it not put a little shiver down your spine that our community has a "leader" that is SO out of touch with the realities of our world that he understands neither the meaning of "console platform" nor what DirectX is(!!)?
Never mind my personal opinion (obviously not favorable), but that's pure idiocy. Has he no pride in his technical prowess any more? Or has this Church of his consumed and brainwashed him so completely?
RMS just lost big marks with me, and he didn't have many to begin with.
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Not necessarily disagreeing with your assessment of the efficacy of protests. However, it is a bit short-sighted to presume incentives as being the most effective policy for the greater good.
Speculation. Money pouring into market cap in the hopes of making more money. If there were no exchanges to facilitate speculation you may very well be right. But once people start trading it the value based on production cost is out the window.
P.S. This is sold as the Netgear N600.
I finally landed on the Netgear WNDR3700-v2, a nice dual-band atheros box. Got two of them for wireless bridging.
So far I've flashed DD-WRT and OpenWRT without any trouble at all. Though I've historically used WW-DRT and Tomato I'm still torn on which will be permanent. Tomato isn't an option with these due to them not being Broadcom based. I'm leaning strongly to OpenWRT as it seems to be the most mature and flexible of the two.
It's what we call incentive, innovation - in a perfect world - follows.
Congratulations - you're the latest YouTube viral geek sensation : b
I'm not really contributing at this point (not spending time with my family, apparently. . .strict time management includes them). However, just to clarify, I'm pushing 45 - so no spring chicken here. . physically anyway. Mentally, I work hard to keep it agile and relevant.
The one thing I am getting from all this is that there is a lack of hope and even reasonable optimism. Something that can probably mostly be placed squarely on the media of today and nothing that can be rationally resolved with mere discussion here. Lot's of good points all around, but not much faith in the individual and a seeming overriding desire to see solutions come from elsewhere. I'll keep fighting (or succumbing as somebody said) my fight (or surrender) in my own way and at least know I gave it a shot for better or worse ; )
Great discussion and mostly above the belt, cheers for that!
The G
ROFL
Here here!
Where where?
Or did you mean "hear hear"?
Got me - I noticed a little too late ; )
No, you are.
Getting a business idea off the ground takes investment. When you're starting from zero, you can't go negative. No bugger will give you a loan. There are precious few business grants available. And if your family is historically poor, there's no way to start a business. That's just stupid.
Absolutely and categorically wrong. I come from a humble (blue collar) background and am completely self-trained (I don't have any piece of paper higher than a HS diploma). I've NEVER borrowed one penny (or more) to start a company. If you can save up a couple hundred bucks (I've never spent more than $500 including LLC papers and hosting) you can do it. . . and anybody in this industry should be able to do that. Is it more difficult? YES! Dramatically so. Is it doable? Absolutely. Don't study the problem for it's own sake, study the problem to find a solution. If you believe the problem has you beat, if you believe it's impossible, it certainly is. But don't try to convince me or sell your poison to others, I've done it. . .3 times.
Being a software developer in this day and age we have opportunities that were inconceivable to our ancestors, truly a blessing. But you have to believe that those opportunities exist and be willing to stare down the risk. It's not a given, but with so little to invest. . hell, I'll just take another stab.
I know, ain't it grand? heh
I don't disagree. There really are problems. However, what frightens me is the potential for a cure much worse than the disease. Which is something our culture excels at right now. Less knee-jerk, more introspection, understanding, and willingness to work for the cure. Learn from history, learn from mistakes, plan for human nature, don't just buy into some utopian dream of a wonderful life for all. There will ALWAYS be a 1%, even if everybody earns $1, there will be those that gain power enough to get $2. The trick is, if that 1% is a political class they're almost certainly unassailable by any but violent means. I have a shot at taking down MSFT (If I were to try and had that particular talent, that's not my market). Trying to take down the Communists party in China will just end up with me being 6' under. Perhaps poorly explained but hopefully the point is there.
So. . instead I should be working my tail off to earn everybody a meager living? Except if I've got a meager living to look forward to regardless of expended effort I think I'll spend as much of that meager living with my wife and kids in the here and now as possible and work my tail off a little less (not a hypothetical).
I wish I could succeed like that as well (actually, I don't, what fun in that. . .but for argument's sake). However, I'm pragmatic enough to know that's not going to work for me, so what should I do? Expend effort moaning about it or do what I can to keep moving forward?
As far as welfare, 2 things come to mind: 1) Where does more of MY tax dollars go, corporate or social welfare? (not a trick question, I don't know but interesting to look up perhaps). 2) Nobody should be receiving the benefit of my labor without some effort in return. I don't care if they're top or bottom 1%.
So start your own business. I did.
Here here! I have a FT job, 2 businesses (1 Consulting, and 1 SaaS), and work my tail off (not to mention 2 young children). I have a small house, an '04 Corolla, and it's a challenge to make ends meet but I don't begrudge this "1%" too much as I've (as anyone does) got a shot at getting a slice of the pie.
I'm not a cheerleader or over-zealous optimist either. I think there are problems with corporate ethics and don't get me started on too big to fail, etc. But at least I'm taking something to market, making an effort. Not just whining and crying because somebody, somewhere, somewhen was successful before me.
I also acknowledge the significant risk of failure. However, I also know, as I've done before, I'll get up and get going again. Can't win if you don't play.
Go be disruptive in the marketplace, being "disruptive" standing in the street holding a sign just annoys the poor folks trying to do their part in moving their own situation forward.
btw: First Post(er)! Only one older (by UID) is Hemos and he doesn't count. Denny comes close but I still win. . .for the moment.
Gerald
Don't comment very often but have been here since pretty damned close to the beginning. I've read just about every day of my life since then. Hope everything is and will continue to be great. I'm sure there will be the normal trolls and whatnot, but the bottom line is: You will be missed.
Godspeed!
Gerald
I don't see anybody else mentioning it so I'll say that I have Qimo installed for my preschooler http://www.qimo4kids.com/ It's not perfect but it's a good start.
If you find an answer I want to know too!!
G
I have one of the 1920x1200 mac book pros. Also, anytime I'm not on the road I have it dual headed to a 1680x1050 (both at home and work). I love it. I'd MUCH rather have multiple editors open side by side and have to deal with the scrollwheel on my trackball.
But still, I understand that everybody has different habits and I agree that the choices should be there.
That would be the case, yes. But it's actually defined by the current body of scientific knowledge. Fire was magic at one point ; )
First and foremost, my prayers and heart go out to the families of those lost. I pray they had it a little better than the Challenger 7.
.horrible.
Second, this is so ironic and tragic. I was in DC this last week for some training, and as we were waiting to go to the airport to come home (Dallas) yesterday we spent a few hours at the Air and Space Museum. My first time there. The poor guy I was travelling with had to put up with at least 2 hours of me ranting and raving about the pathetic status of our manned space program and how little we've progressed in the last ~40 years in relation to the technology and knowledge we do actually have.
Then to wake up this morning to this. .
I can only hope that NASA handles this practically. Learn from what happened, make appropriate adjustments, and continue on with the program. For us to scale back the manned program, or keep it grounded for over-long would be an insult to the lost lives of these 7 individuals. They knew the risk, as did NASA going in. The determination was made by each of them individually that the risk to themselves was of a lower priority than the mission at hand.
Rest in peace my friends. We thank you for your effort and sacrifice.
G
It's always a Mac in the movies, get with the program : b
(I'm sure this wasn't original, but just found out I slept an hour later than I thought I did, sure doesn't feel like it : b So I'm feeling kinda obnoxious.)
G
If I remember correctly, I remember this being spelled out clearly at some point during TiVo set up, or in the manual somewhere. This isn't surprising, or news, they were up front. They were also up front about the fact that they were decoupling the personal information. Hell, I don't care if my viewing habits are studied, as long as I'M not studied as an individual. All it can do is improve the quality of dribble that's being put on the toob.
G
I don't see how this is even pertinant to my remark? If you do or do not listen to pop music has no bearing on you being a musician either way (And I'm a semi-pro musician, and I don't listen to pop music, so there : b). I guess to try to match wits with you. . .I don't expect you to be offering a lot of high conviction opinions about pop-music if you don't listen to it.
He was clearly not conversant with the technology, said as much, didn't ask for much of any clarification and proceeded to issue his rubber-stamp opinion of the issue regardless. However, the REALITY of it is, that IF you are going to develop for a console platform (any current popular platform) you WILL have closed license considerations to deal with. Under no given circumstance do I believe telling somebody "just don't do it" is a correct response when I'm not familiar with the context of the question.
Anyway, hope this was semi-lucid. Don't feel that hot about it anyway, but couldn't let you put your oranges in my apple barrel.
G
Does it not put a little shiver down your spine that our community has a "leader" that is SO out of touch with the realities of our world that he understands neither the meaning of "console platform" nor what DirectX is(!!)?
Never mind my personal opinion (obviously not favorable), but that's pure idiocy. Has he no pride in his technical prowess any more? Or has this Church of his consumed and brainwashed him so completely?
RMS just lost big marks with me, and he didn't have many to begin with.
G