This is a common excuse for people reticent about joining the military. The obvious response is 1) You take orders regardless of whether they come from a sergeant or your shift manager at the Taco Bell. Live with it. 2) Someone has got to be giving the orders, so if you think you can do better, get yourself some stripes or a commision and try it yourself tough guy. Seriously, the military is only as good as its personnel. It needs smart kids (geeks even) as much as it needs stereotypical grunts. The majority of manpower aren't people shooting, but supporting those who shoot.
If an API is undocumented because it's internal to the OS it's OK, but if it's undocumented to give you an edge over other application vendors then it's wrong.
But I thought MSIE was internal to the OS.... oh it's all so confusing...
Yeah he was probably a troll, but he doesnt need proof to states how he feels.
If someone makes claims for supernatural phenomenon, I can call bullshit pretty much immediately. I dont have to disprove unicorns and elves do I? Same thing with [mono|poly]theism, deism, wicca, etc. Burden of proof is on the claimant.
Do you HAVE to have the fastest computer out there because you're doing rendering or financial modelling or something really CPU intensive ?
I disagree with this argument. I heard the same thing 10 years ago from someone trying to dissuade me from buying a 486. "What do you need all that power for?"
Thanks to Mr. Moore, all computers, from the cheapy second hand one, to the fancy-dancy new $5000 jobbie, will be obsolete at some point. There are only two real considerations to buying new hardware. 1) How much money do you have to spend and 2) How long do you need to run the current crop of bloat^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware.
The newer machine you buy, the longer you can stave off obsolesence. Therefore, you should decide how much you want to spend, before you even start looking at machines, then buy the best one for that amount of money.
It's time for PC games to move beyond the Charlie Chaplin -> Talkies phase and into the Studio Picture phase.
Woe unto he who would compare PC games to movies, lest I should incant the unholy name "Wing Commander 3"
Yes, Doom 3 is awfully pretty, but it is not a shift in paradigm. It is an iteration going back to Wolf3d (or even further back to that wireframe star wars arcade game of the early 80s whose name escapes me).
hyper-conservative parents and lawmakers who can somehow justify relinquishing responsibility for their children through legislation.
That's not really a fair way to characterize the opposition in this case; the truth is scarier. The core behind these ideas are indeed proactive caring parents. They don't let their children buy or play these games, but even even further they don't want their children influenced by any other children as to how cool these games really are. They therefore petition the powerful to prevent this (unintended alliteration, i swear). All of this is whipped up by the now well-trod path of other victimless crimes' mythologies of a gateway to dark depths of moral decrepitude. Sex education leads to teen pregnancy, science education leads to the death of morality, pot leads to property crime, GTA3 leads to your children becoming the next Charles Manson. All of it total crap, but the pseudo-reasoning behind it has been drummed and drummed again into the heads of Joe and Jane sixpack such that they accept it and continue to watch survivor..
What it comes down to is that They are more numerous and more influential. We need to make up for that fact by speaking out twice as often and maybe a little louder. Not in the million geek march sense, but in a more pervasive way. Write letters. To your congressman, to the editor of your local paper, to the game companies whom you support, express your take on the issues. Call into radio talk shows, tell em there too. The more voices expressing these ideas we have, the greater chance we have of being heard.
Im interested in jaguar for that reason, but I have an older Lombard. from what i understand, the speed boost is by better use of hardware acceleration. would it have that same noticable difference on something with 4mb of video ram?
However, Microsoft is also a taxpayer - although in some years they've managed to avoid U.S. corporate income taxes entirely. As a taxpayer, perhaps they should be able to embed the result of government-funded work in their products and charge other taxpayers for it a second time.
It's just that Mr Perens' article had the tone of something out of the Revolutionary Worker, and conveyed the same about of credibility / objectivity.
I make it habit to compliment good service wherever I receive it. When you find a person who is actually nice and personable, make sure to take their name down. Then write a letter to their supervisor. Not many people actually do this, so a single letter mentioning superior performance can make a difference on their next review.
This isn't just for phone service. For instance, I just replaced my battery at Sears (at Vallco in Cupertino). A guy named Frank provided superior service and proved himself an all around decent human being. I wrote a letter to the manager and would recommend anyone to him and to that Sears.
What about independent record labels etc. within the US who don't particularly mind people sharing their music? I seem to remember one of the original Dead Kennedys [alternativetentacles.com] albums came on one side of a cassette tape, with an inscription in the liner notes something like "Home-recorded cassettes are killing the music industry. Go and do your part."
That was In God We Trust, Inc. The Casette version (it was an EP, their best one imho). The B side was blank with a note encouraging the listener to record other music on the blank side.
If you can't compete with an illiterate Mexican who is glad to not be working in the fields under the punishing summer sun, then perhaps you need to ask yourself why you are a "working stiff" after receiving a free high school education and the opportunity to go to college on the GI Bill?
I can't compete because labor is becoming more and more a commodity on a broad 'global' scale. I can't compete with someone who is willing to work for minimum wage in a sweatshop (here in San Jose) doing E/M assembly for instance, living 12 to an apartment just to take the money and support their family back home. Don't fool yourself, the labor market is not sustainable for them either. You have a choice of either living in poverty here, or becoming migrant labor.
As far as education, not everyone can work your IT job. Remember that (by definition) half of the population has an IQ of 100 or less. Are these people condemned to compete with sweatshop migrant labor because they cannot complete a higher degree? The free high school is no longer sufficient to provide an acceptable standard of living.
I know a Salvadoran who lived in poverty, came to the US, worked as a maid ("low-paid sevice industry"), saved her money, and started a restaurant. Now she has a chain of three, and is doing quite well. Nor is she the only poor immigrant success story I know.
Ahh the great American myth. That Salvadoran woman surely employs a number of people at marginal subsistence levels so that she can live more comfortably and thus poverty is perpetuated. Not everyone can be a restaurant owner or the equivalent. There must always exist labor to staff the businesses, labor will always outnumber non-labor, and if the standard of living is forced further down by the introduction of sweatshop labor, bad bad things result.
Anyone who is "hurting" should not have time to be reading Slashdot!
Listen to what you're saying! Is leisure a luxury? Is the weekend a privilege?
For full disclosure, I did receive that free high school education, and I am using that GI Bill for which I spent years in the military, you're welcome.
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This is a common excuse for people reticent about joining the military. The obvious response is 1) You take orders regardless of whether they come from a sergeant or your shift manager at the Taco Bell. Live with it. 2) Someone has got to be giving the orders, so if you think you can do better, get yourself some stripes or a commision and try it yourself tough guy. Seriously, the military is only as good as its personnel. It needs smart kids (geeks even) as much as it needs stereotypical grunts. The majority of manpower aren't people shooting, but supporting those who shoot.
And he's got a whole platoon of wives with AK-47s to fight the feds off! Live on Pay per View!
The navy already has plenty of drones. It's just we usually call them Gunner's mates to their faces.
Are we not missing the irony of nitpicking apostrophes and less / fewer in a sentence that contains the phrase "mad propz" ??
But I thought MSIE was internal to the OS.... oh it's all so confusing...
It's Commander Taco. He didn't spend 6 years in Taco military school to be called Mista, ok?
This one?
Yeah he was probably a troll, but he doesnt need proof to states how he feels.
If someone makes claims for supernatural phenomenon, I can call bullshit pretty much immediately. I dont have to disprove unicorns and elves do I? Same thing with [mono|poly]theism, deism, wicca, etc. Burden of proof is on the claimant.
Not to be snide, but it seems to be that the bible is the one making such strong claims. The burden of proof is on the Christian.
"In order to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
I disagree with this argument. I heard the same thing 10 years ago from someone trying to dissuade me from buying a 486. "What do you need all that power for?"
Thanks to Mr. Moore, all computers, from the cheapy second hand one, to the fancy-dancy new $5000 jobbie, will be obsolete at some point. There are only two real considerations to buying new hardware. 1) How much money do you have to spend and 2) How long do you need to run the current crop of bloat^H^H^H^H^Hsoftware.
The newer machine you buy, the longer you can stave off obsolesence. Therefore, you should decide how much you want to spend, before you even start looking at machines, then buy the best one for that amount of money.
Mini-Google, stop humping the laser..
I.... Love.... This.... Company...err, i mean country.
I can't believe this was offtopic. That was funny.
this might be a stupid question, but is there a way to rearrange the tabs once they are open?
Woe unto he who would compare PC games to movies, lest I should incant the unholy name "Wing Commander 3"
Yes, Doom 3 is awfully pretty, but it is not a shift in paradigm. It is an iteration going back to Wolf3d (or even further back to that wireframe star wars arcade game of the early 80s whose name escapes me).
I never understood this. I mean, if you're going out, why not go out in style? Only genuine Kool-Aid (tm) brand for my suicide!
That's not really a fair way to characterize the opposition in this case; the truth is scarier. The core behind these ideas are indeed proactive caring parents. They don't let their children buy or play these games, but even even further they don't want their children influenced by any other children as to how cool these games really are. They therefore petition the powerful to prevent this (unintended alliteration, i swear). All of this is whipped up by the now well-trod path of other victimless crimes' mythologies of a gateway to dark depths of moral decrepitude. Sex education leads to teen pregnancy, science education leads to the death of morality, pot leads to property crime, GTA3 leads to your children becoming the next Charles Manson. All of it total crap, but the pseudo-reasoning behind it has been drummed and drummed again into the heads of Joe and Jane sixpack such that they accept it and continue to watch survivor..
What it comes down to is that They are more numerous and more influential. We need to make up for that fact by speaking out twice as often and maybe a little louder. Not in the million geek march sense, but in a more pervasive way. Write letters. To your congressman, to the editor of your local paper, to the game companies whom you support, express your take on the issues. Call into radio talk shows, tell em there too. The more voices expressing these ideas we have, the greater chance we have of being heard.
You mean Jack Chick?
Im interested in jaguar for that reason, but I have an older Lombard. from what i understand, the speed boost is by better use of hardware acceleration. would it have that same noticable difference on something with 4mb of video ram?
However, Microsoft is also a taxpayer - although in some years they've managed to avoid U.S. corporate income taxes entirely. As a taxpayer, perhaps they should be able to embed the result of government-funded work in their products and charge other taxpayers for it a second time.
It's just that Mr Perens' article had the tone of something out of the Revolutionary Worker, and conveyed the same about of credibility / objectivity.
This isn't just for phone service. For instance, I just replaced my battery at Sears (at Vallco in Cupertino). A guy named Frank provided superior service and proved himself an all around decent human being. I wrote a letter to the manager and would recommend anyone to him and to that Sears.
That was In God We Trust, Inc. The Casette version (it was an EP, their best one imho). The B side was blank with a note encouraging the listener to record other music on the blank side.
How then did you manage to elect Hitler chancellor?
I can't compete because labor is becoming more and more a commodity on a broad 'global' scale. I can't compete with someone who is willing to work for minimum wage in a sweatshop (here in San Jose) doing E/M assembly for instance, living 12 to an apartment just to take the money and support their family back home. Don't fool yourself, the labor market is not sustainable for them either. You have a choice of either living in poverty here, or becoming migrant labor.
As far as education, not everyone can work your IT job. Remember that (by definition) half of the population has an IQ of 100 or less. Are these people condemned to compete with sweatshop migrant labor because they cannot complete a higher degree? The free high school is no longer sufficient to provide an acceptable standard of living.
I know a Salvadoran who lived in poverty, came to the US, worked as a maid ("low-paid sevice industry"), saved her money, and started a restaurant. Now she has a chain of three, and is doing quite well. Nor is she the only poor immigrant success story I know.
Ahh the great American myth. That Salvadoran woman surely employs a number of people at marginal subsistence levels so that she can live more comfortably and thus poverty is perpetuated. Not everyone can be a restaurant owner or the equivalent. There must always exist labor to staff the businesses, labor will always outnumber non-labor, and if the standard of living is forced further down by the introduction of sweatshop labor, bad bad things result.
Anyone who is "hurting" should not have time to be reading Slashdot!
Listen to what you're saying! Is leisure a luxury? Is the weekend a privilege?
For full disclosure, I did receive that free high school education, and I am using that GI Bill for which I spent years in the military, you're welcome.