The criminal underworld also have governments with rulers who pass down law, albeit with their own code and ethics. These can be removed, via force, for the new guys with their own sets of rules which are then enforced.
And with the ever present threat of off-shoring (to hire non-computer science degree holding Indians), why saddle yourself with mountains of debt just to get a degree that's basically worthless for the "real world," and getting in on the bubble2.0 money? I don't mean this to say that Computer Science is worthless, but that for the vast majority of monkey work out there, it can and is being done by folks who wouldn't know a design pattern from their bosses' assholes. This is mainly because the smart guys doing the real CompSci are building the tools that make it possible for that fucking idiot in the next office over to look like a real fucking genius because he could modify a report someone else wrote to change the text a different color.
Yes yes, devs could potentially benefit from a real CompSci education. Sadly, most universities don't even teach that anymore; they've become vocational schools for the java/.net sweatshops out there. So, if you're going to be an easily replaceable cog, might as well go ahead and get in the workforce and get paid before the bubble bursts again.
Many Americans, myself included, live in population dense areas with no dedicated parking, much less public charging stations. I mean, the prices of eCars are already skewed towards the upper middle class and above, so maybe that's not on your radar, but I assure you the seething masses of underemployed city-dwellers are in no position to purchase an electric car. I'd love one, but recharging is the #1 issue I'd face (other than parking it, that is).
Interesting enough, I'm one of those guys with no interest in mobile or front-end dev. And everyone, I mean EVERYONE is looking for mobile and ASP.NET devs. Sigh.
Hell, I'd take a COBOL job for the right money, but what I really aspire to do is just grow out my beard and be one of those weird LISP/Smalltalk/Prolog guys.:)
I would absolutely support roving band of basebat wielding "luddites" locating the users and smashing the fuck out of their windows, and possibly the person themselves. And I would give zero fucks given.
Here's a better idea: an interactive map of parking spots that people can log as open/free so other people can find parking. This whole bidding war for parking and profiting off of that? Fuck you.
As an LA resident, I can confirm that parking isn't any fucking easier here than in SFO. We might have wider streets, but everyone still insists on having a car. Seriously, people *move* just so they can have a better chance of parking. I live in K-Town, and it's all street parking in my neighborhood and on some nights, my gf has to park a quarter-mile/half-mile away, especially if a club is having an event.
I hope they have a pretty accurate trading model with a good economic base. Need to buy and sell across multiple systems to save up for that bad-ass ship.
I've actually been looking at going that way for awhile. I currently have a smartphone and frankly, it's just one big distraction. Go out to eat? Everyone's on their phones. Go to the movies? Fuck me if everyone else in the theater can't seem to actually watch the movie rather than check and text on their phones. Driving cars? Oh, let's fucking respond to emails while driving.
And I'm just as guilty of it as everyone else (except for the driving part, I decided against car ownership in Los Angeles).
Lately I've been playing with the idea that I should just get a landline with an old fashioned phone and an answering machine (complete with stupid jingle message) and ditch the cellphone altogether, all in the name of human interactivity.
As others have stated, that might not be a bad thing.
For one, there's a chicken/egg problem. No reason to stay if there's no jobs, no reason to move if there's no jobs. But if there's jobs and a means to pay for people to stay/relocate, then that problem may solve itself. There's plenty of IT/Dev workers who've grown tired of "big city" life and the associated issues that come with it: Expensive Housing, Expensive transportation, constant congestion, tons of pollution (noise, light, sound, and environmental.. maybe even cultural if we want to bend a little), etc. For the right money, hell, I'd head to Montana, too. Gorgeous country up there. Just give me broadband and I'm good.
Having worked through montana, etc, well, I hope you like corn. And it's not even good corn, it's the stuff that's really starchy and is used to produce all those wonderful products that go into everything.
Farm country is now just one big monocrop monoculture just about everywhere.
To put a partisan twist on this: The urban areas are the heavily democratic areas. The desert farmers tend to be GOP supporters. Who are the real welfare queens? See also: Bundy.
You know.. we already have assholes who refuse to stop pointing lasers at airplanes and helicopters.. wait until these geniuses start trying to fly drones into the aircrafts' flight paths.
I volunteer to determine how much handing an individual unused to wealth a couple billion dollars will affect his moral and ethical judgments. I don't even need the billions.. just a couple million. And I can do this from home.
There are a few shitty T-Mobile spots: Howard Hughes Center by LAX is problematic, for instance. But over all, I've been extremely happy with t-mobile, especially now that 4G is rolled out and I don't switch to wireless many times for the same reason you've stated (hey, unlimited is unlimited). I would most likely just ditch TIme Warner if T-Mobile gave me an option to use my phone as a hotspot (and yes, I'd pay extra).
My dad was a machinist. Occasionally, he had bosses that were more interested in being bosses than actually listening and managing projects (hence the "You'll do this because I tell you to do this and you will like it" types). For these guys, he made a special point to always do *exactly* what they asked, without question, because hey "you're the fuckin' boss." So when his manager would occasionally bring him a napkin with a part drawn on it it, he'd quietly make a copy of that napkin, and get to work. So, when that boss would transpose his numbers.. say the inner diameter was greater than the outer diameter of the part in question, well, you can imagine. The boss would come back later and say "How's that part coming along?" "I dunno, boss, I'm just so confused. I keep trying to make it to the dimensions you requested, but it keeps disappearing" and he'd point to a pile of shavings/waste on the floor and shrug. If the boss tried to reprimand him, he'd have that napkin (and a copy) to produce and say "Well, you tell me what the problem is, hoss." Fortunately, those types of bosses didn't last very long (indeed.. they were usually promoted and transferred) and most of his bosses were reasonable and were open to discussion.
Just wondering what the racial breakdown comes out to be. I mean, if we're so concerned about equality, shouldn't we also be concerned with racial makeup and, hell, sexual orientation/gender identification as well?
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The criminal underworld also have governments with rulers who pass down law, albeit with their own code and ethics. These can be removed, via force, for the new guys with their own sets of rules which are then enforced.
And with the ever present threat of off-shoring (to hire non-computer science degree holding Indians), why saddle yourself with mountains of debt just to get a degree that's basically worthless for the "real world," and getting in on the bubble2.0 money? I don't mean this to say that Computer Science is worthless, but that for the vast majority of monkey work out there, it can and is being done by folks who wouldn't know a design pattern from their bosses' assholes. This is mainly because the smart guys doing the real CompSci are building the tools that make it possible for that fucking idiot in the next office over to look like a real fucking genius because he could modify a report someone else wrote to change the text a different color.
Yes yes, devs could potentially benefit from a real CompSci education. Sadly, most universities don't even teach that anymore; they've become vocational schools for the java/.net sweatshops out there. So, if you're going to be an easily replaceable cog, might as well go ahead and get in the workforce and get paid before the bubble bursts again.
By itself, neat story, but not something I'd spend $15 to see. Now, add some gratuitous explosions and robots...
VO: "They wanted him dead. He wanted to live."
little girl holding a teddy bear: "Daddy, will the bad men come for you?"
Jean Claude Van Damme as Edward Snowden: "No, sweetie... not with my army they won't..."
Thousands of little robots come streaming out of his garage, destroying an FBI surveillance van...
Many Americans, myself included, live in population dense areas with no dedicated parking, much less public charging stations. I mean, the prices of eCars are already skewed towards the upper middle class and above, so maybe that's not on your radar, but I assure you the seething masses of underemployed city-dwellers are in no position to purchase an electric car. I'd love one, but recharging is the #1 issue I'd face (other than parking it, that is).
Interesting enough, I'm one of those guys with no interest in mobile or front-end dev. And everyone, I mean EVERYONE is looking for mobile and ASP.NET devs. Sigh.
Hell, I'd take a COBOL job for the right money, but what I really aspire to do is just grow out my beard and be one of those weird LISP/Smalltalk/Prolog guys. :)
Of course, by burying carbon fiber, aren't we also sequestering that carbon?
doublegoodplusplus.
And where are they getting their data?
I would absolutely support roving band of basebat wielding "luddites" locating the users and smashing the fuck out of their windows, and possibly the person themselves. And I would give zero fucks given.
Here's a better idea: an interactive map of parking spots that people can log as open/free so other people can find parking. This whole bidding war for parking and profiting off of that? Fuck you.
No, this app sounds *exactly* the sort of thing a tech bro would come up with.
As an LA resident, I can confirm that parking isn't any fucking easier here than in SFO. We might have wider streets, but everyone still insists on having a car. Seriously, people *move* just so they can have a better chance of parking. I live in K-Town, and it's all street parking in my neighborhood and on some nights, my gf has to park a quarter-mile/half-mile away, especially if a club is having an event.
I hope they have a pretty accurate trading model with a good economic base. Need to buy and sell across multiple systems to save up for that bad-ass ship.
Wow, sensitive people here. RMS can go fuck himself in the asshole. Waste those points, fuckers.
I've actually been looking at going that way for awhile. I currently have a smartphone and frankly, it's just one big distraction. Go out to eat? Everyone's on their phones. Go to the movies? Fuck me if everyone else in the theater can't seem to actually watch the movie rather than check and text on their phones. Driving cars? Oh, let's fucking respond to emails while driving.
And I'm just as guilty of it as everyone else (except for the driving part, I decided against car ownership in Los Angeles).
Lately I've been playing with the idea that I should just get a landline with an old fashioned phone and an answering machine (complete with stupid jingle message) and ditch the cellphone altogether, all in the name of human interactivity.
I use it with complete indifference to the ideology behind it. If it works, it works, and let the market decide.
As others have stated, that might not be a bad thing.
For one, there's a chicken/egg problem. No reason to stay if there's no jobs, no reason to move if there's no jobs. But if there's jobs and a means to pay for people to stay/relocate, then that problem may solve itself. There's plenty of IT/Dev workers who've grown tired of "big city" life and the associated issues that come with it: Expensive Housing, Expensive transportation, constant congestion, tons of pollution (noise, light, sound, and environmental.. maybe even cultural if we want to bend a little), etc. For the right money, hell, I'd head to Montana, too. Gorgeous country up there. Just give me broadband and I'm good.
Having worked through montana, etc, well, I hope you like corn. And it's not even good corn, it's the stuff that's really starchy and is used to produce all those wonderful products that go into everything.
Farm country is now just one big monocrop monoculture just about everywhere.
To put a partisan twist on this: The urban areas are the heavily democratic areas. The desert farmers tend to be GOP supporters. Who are the real welfare queens? See also: Bundy.
Click the Unlimited and read the terms. If you call 2.5gb of data "unlimited", well, that's on you.
You know.. we already have assholes who refuse to stop pointing lasers at airplanes and helicopters.. wait until these geniuses start trying to fly drones into the aircrafts' flight paths.
I volunteer to determine how much handing an individual unused to wealth a couple billion dollars will affect his moral and ethical judgments. I don't even need the billions.. just a couple million. And I can do this from home.
Not with the Unlimited Data plan. They specifically disallow it. I've tried to add it, but no-go.
There are a few shitty T-Mobile spots: Howard Hughes Center by LAX is problematic, for instance. But over all, I've been extremely happy with t-mobile, especially now that 4G is rolled out and I don't switch to wireless many times for the same reason you've stated (hey, unlimited is unlimited). I would most likely just ditch TIme Warner if T-Mobile gave me an option to use my phone as a hotspot (and yes, I'd pay extra).
My dad was a machinist. Occasionally, he had bosses that were more interested in being bosses than actually listening and managing projects (hence the "You'll do this because I tell you to do this and you will like it" types). For these guys, he made a special point to always do *exactly* what they asked, without question, because hey "you're the fuckin' boss." So when his manager would occasionally bring him a napkin with a part drawn on it it, he'd quietly make a copy of that napkin, and get to work. So, when that boss would transpose his numbers.. say the inner diameter was greater than the outer diameter of the part in question, well, you can imagine. The boss would come back later and say "How's that part coming along?" "I dunno, boss, I'm just so confused. I keep trying to make it to the dimensions you requested, but it keeps disappearing" and he'd point to a pile of shavings/waste on the floor and shrug. If the boss tried to reprimand him, he'd have that napkin (and a copy) to produce and say "Well, you tell me what the problem is, hoss." Fortunately, those types of bosses didn't last very long (indeed.. they were usually promoted and transferred) and most of his bosses were reasonable and were open to discussion.
Just wondering what the racial breakdown comes out to be. I mean, if we're so concerned about equality, shouldn't we also be concerned with racial makeup and, hell, sexual orientation/gender identification as well?