I worked hard, really hard, throughout my 20s. Two, sometimes 3 jobs, trying to juggle schedules with a couple courses here and there. And at my job(s), I strived to work hard and achieve success, and was fast tracked to "minor management" quickly. Eighty-115 hour work weeks were not uncommon, plus the load of a class or two.
You know what working hard got me? More work. More responsibility. Same pay. The same "good old boy" management taking advantage of me. And it got me sick. The stress, the fast food from never having time to sit down and properly eat, wolfing down snickers bars while running back and forth to put out "fires", huge family history of Type II diabetes and Congratulations! You're officially working yourself to death! Hey, see that guy over there, who is doing the bare minimum? He makes just as much as you. And he goes home, and he doesn't think about work at his other job. He doesn't have another job. He goes home.. and writes music, tends his garden, and plays with his kids? Kids? Hard to have kids when you don't have time to date, right?
So, 10 years. Wasted.
Fuck working hard. Working hard gets you nowhere, fast. I should've spent those 10 years enjoying myself, working less, but working smarter. There is a difference.
It's not that they're "blaming Bush" for starting it, but blaming him for not STOPPING it,and indeed, advancing it at a pace that would, under "normal" circumstances, be hard fought in the legislature. Bush, champion of the Republican Party, which champions "individual rights", "smaller government", "personal responsibility", etc etc, is actively acting contrary to the position that the Republican party worked so hard to present during the Clinton administration. Yeah, Clinton started it. Once the Republicans took power, they didn't use their power to reverse any of those discretions.
Actually I was going to bring something like that up. After I RTFA, I was left wondering: (unless I misread it, which I may have in my haste) The kid Ivan said no one ever paid him the extortion money. There were also others in the group, as well. However, the betting sites admitted to paying the money (same guys? who knows). Well, that just makes me think that the guys running the show were just using poor Ivan and the other tech-geeks and telling them "Get better! We still haven't made any money!" while pocketing all that extra cash.
Fuck, man. Imagine quitting your thankless IT job and going to work for the "darkside"... as a thankless IT worker.:(
They *have* contributed to open source. It's not just "an impression". Fact: Apple gives their code changes BACK to the Konqueror guys. The fact is, a lot of those changes are specific to OS X and to get at the actual changes that can be useful, it will require many man hours to seperate the code. Maybe Konqueror needs to go hire a couple Indian programmers to do this mundane task for them.* The code is there to peruse, it's not Apple's fault that the Konq guys don't have the time to wade through all the code. Apple could be "nicer" about it, but I don't recall the FSF having to go after Apple for blatantly stealing the LGPL'd code like many other folks have done. They're playing by the exact rules, and for this, they should be commended.
(This is not a bash against Indians or Konqueror. If there's an avenue of cheap developer talent, there's no reason Open Source proponents can't take advantage of it, either. Hell, I've proposed before that a foundation should put together some money and hire a team of Indian programmers to polish up code that's no longer in the "fun" stage, but still lacks major functionality that prevents it from wider adoption.)
That's currently what I'm running. Apache2 +PHP +MySQL under WinXP. Works pretty much fine. I'll be migrating to Linux once I finish my webserver (an HP LH4R quad Xeon), but mainly because I don't want to fork out the cash for XP 2003 Server and I need a good excuse to futz with Linux (or FreeBSD) again.
I used to be one of those "I wish Debian were more up-to-date" people until I got a server that was going to be used strictly for... serving. That's when I realized I don't need the "flash" of the latest greatest GNOME or KDE or fancy audio players or anything like that (headless server). I just need a machine that can run Apache, PHP (wordpress + Gallery), and MySQL. And I need this machine to be easily updateable with the lastest security updates. And for this, I have discovered that Debian is ideal: For machines you just want to work and mostly forget about.
I used to work for a small company ( 50 employees) and asked why they didn't consider OOo a couple years ago when most of the folks in the office never needed anything more than Word (Writer). The reason? The CFO was something of a VBA guy. Here's a guy who couldn't setup a dialup connection, much less do an OS install who could do some of the most convulted (and damned impressive, IMO) things with Excel, Access, and Word using VBA. And, because he was "stuck" (in love with) Office and VBA, he chose to stick with Microsoft. I'm not sure about the DB situation with OOo anymore (which if not available would make it worthless to him), but as a Senior level executive, he certainly wasn't going to port all of his VBA to OOo to save a few bucks in licensing. Hire a programmer? Might as well pay the MS licensing and not worry about it.
So, some people DO use Office for more than just Outlook, which is, btw, pretty fucking nifty, too.:)
Similar to other posters' responses, it's not exactly an uncommon occurence in the animal kingdom. The "annual killifishes" in the Genus Nothobranchius (Africa) and Cynolebias (South America) (and their various kin fishes.. go check em out on www.aquabid.com and see www.aka.org) have adapted a similar survival mechanism to deal with rainy-season/drought. Basically, the fish hatch in the rainy season, grow extremely rapidly and usually within 3 weeks are laying eggs in the mud of their own. The ponds dry out, fish die, but the next generation sits dormant, awaiting the cycle again. Not all eggs hatch upon the next rains, however, and some eggs require multiple wettings (seasons) to hatch. It is surmised this is part of the survial mechanism, as well, because what would happen if every egg hatched during a rare drought-season rainstorm? The fish would hatch, but the pond would dry up before they could breed.
Also, another poster mentioned Artemia, what you probably know as sea monkeys. Interestingly, when conditions are good, they give livebirth (more efficient than producing an eggshell). When conditions go south (season changes), they produce dormant eggs. In the US, there are two major varieties found the Great Salt Lake and in the San Francisco Salt Flats. Other species are found in other parts of the world (china, russia, peru..).
What's even niftier is that annual killifish keepers use artemia and daphnia to feed their killies.:)
So.. What happens to the arresting officer who makes the demonstrably false claims? I, as a citizen, would be charged with perjury and contempt of court and be thrown in jail. What happens to the Officer who lies? Is there any recourse to get actual justice done?
As a developer in a private company, yes, we do discuss tools. We don't have public arguments about them. These are details our customers don't need to know, because it doesn't directly impact them (or at least, we don't let them know if it does). Keep your dirty laundry in-house, present a unified front to the world.
/* What are you suggesting here? That the source code management software debate makes linux as such less predictable? This makes no sense. */
No, it makes a LOT of sense. When the decision to move to a non-Free (speech) was made, there was a huge outcry from "ethical" developers who were literally threatening to jump ship over it. That's the kind of stuff that makes the entire community look flakey and, frankly, foolish. Even if their reasoning is CORRECT (and it was). It's a public admission that there's not a unified front that the kernel developers are fighting along, and the in-fighting gives the public the feeling that "those linux guys" don't have their shit all together. It looks unstable, and unpredictable, becuase who knows what's going to happen? Are some of the top developers going to quit?
1) I don't know his specific beef about Linux and its scalability. I do know that if you need multi-thousand node computing power, Windows is probably not your answer, either. I seem to recall that most clusters run some sort of *NIX (Linux, Solaris, OS X) or a custom OS.:: shrug::
2) Yes, the inconsistency between distributions is part of it, but the inconsistency between different versions of the same distribution is also an issue. I know I had tons of issues "upgrading" from version to version of Redhat years ago, has that been fixed? By far, the best distro I've had for upgradeability was Debian, but where's the Redhat-like support for debian? The company I work for has a Redhat 6.2 box. Trying to upgrade that to FC3 or RHEL would be a nightmare, but it's getting to the point where security updates are having to be patched by hand, with unknown consequences on our software. It's really "cross your fingers and hope". And from a corporate desktop standpoint: GNOME? KDE? Something else? Who's behind it? Who's not? It can be disheartening to see all the choices at times. I like GNOME for some things. I like KDE for others. Yes, I can run applications for both at the same time, but that seems like an assbackwards way of doing things.
3) Linux is unpredictable. From scheduler changes in the middle of a kernel series, to changes in fucking "source code management" software. What Version Control software does Microsoft use for Windows? The correct answer for the people outside of microsoft is: Who fucking cares? And yet with Linux, it's a daytime soap opera. Why does this matter? Because there's a lot of Linux kernel developers out there who make it a big deal and say they can't work with it because of their ethics and would rather stand around and bitch about it rather than deal with it and move on. And that's what Linux seems to be becoming: A giant bitch-fest party. I'm sure there's lots (the majority) of developers who don't really care one way or another about GNU ethics and what not, they just want to write quality code and produce a quality product. It's the religious zealots that are vocal and really make the entire group look unstable and unfocuses. "It's gotta be free!" "No, it doesn't" "Yes, it does! I'm taking my ball away!" "We're taking our ball away, too!" Is that really what you want to rest your business plan on? A bunch of bickering anti-social primadonnas? And, add to that constantly changing driver interfaces, etc, and it can make development difficult. Sure, they could develop their own version of the kernel for their usage, right? But that requires hiring programmers, OS developers, kernel programmers, etc, you might as well just buy a closed source solution from Sun or MS and save the money.
4) Self-contained: I take that to mean it's all under one-roof. One person dictates direction. Linus sorta does that, but there's a giant herd of cats out there determined to do something else.
And, more importantly, they're still using Windows and (probably) Windows-only applications, which keeps the developers in line (target the largest demographic). When the next version of Windows comes out, they'll be lined up, cash in hand.
Uh, maybe I like Fedora more? Or Ubunto? Or generic Debian? Or even slackware? Maybe I like to keep my machines consistent from my desktop to my laptop, from administration to application concurrency. I've run multiple distros and found it a hassle. I'd rather pick ONE distro and use it exclusively.
Or, I could just use OS X or FreeBSD.
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Unfortunately, the only way you could think most of those bands were any good would be to smoke something that's currently *illegal* in the US.
If you do any sort of audio editing (think recording studio), you will quickly find yourself wanting more disk space. Quickly. Especially when working with multi-track recording, etc. We tend to keep several firewire harddrives laying around with different musician's "sessions" stored on them until we can make backups to DVD-R.
Even home sessions can start chewing up diskspace rather frighteningly if you keep your raw audio tracks laying around (frequently when you don't have time to mix down).
Also, a few folks do a lot of 3D animation, those 5 minutes short films start taking up space, too.
But, over all, I agree with you. I still use a 10 gig HD as my System disk and an 80 gig drive partitioned for music (40 gigs) and everything else and I'm still about 50 gigs shy of filling it.
If I were HD shopping today, of course I'd buy a 200 gig drive, simply because they're at the same pricepoint my 80gig 3 or 4 years ago.
Apparently you didn't RTFA because it mentions that these kids are "undocumented" (their parents are illegals) and are disqualified from loans, grants, subsidies, scholarships, financial aid, etc.
Most of us here are intimately familiar with the workings (inner and outer) of financial aid and have significant loan-payback obligations. Hell, sometimes I wished I didn't get a job during my college years so I would've qualified for a grant, but such is life.
I saw the reference to "Neighborhood Texture Jam" and had to do a double take. Another memphian on/. who actually has a clue about music? Wow. Then I realized it was Joe fucking Red talking. Sup Joe.:)
While they may be two different companies, many spammers also get a commision on sales generated by the spam they send out. That's how (and why) many spammers don't really care that 10 million people hate their spam, because 10,000 people bought the product which generated, say, $10/sale (I've heard of commisions in the hundreds of dollars/sale). So, you pissed off 10 million people. You made $100k. You also have 5 or 6 other spamvertisments ready to go with similar commisions.
For several million a year, I'd tell 100 million people to fuck off, too, if it were legal.:)
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SOmething about "working hard" gets me.
I worked hard, really hard, throughout my 20s. Two, sometimes 3 jobs, trying to juggle schedules with a couple courses here and there. And at my job(s), I strived to work hard and achieve success, and was fast tracked to "minor management" quickly. Eighty-115 hour work weeks were not uncommon, plus the load of a class or two.
You know what working hard got me?
More work. More responsibility. Same pay. The same "good old boy" management taking advantage of me. And it got me sick. The stress, the fast food from never having time to sit down and properly eat, wolfing down snickers bars while running back and forth to put out "fires", huge family history of Type II diabetes and Congratulations! You're officially working yourself to death! Hey, see that guy over there, who is doing the bare minimum? He makes just as much as you. And he goes home, and he doesn't think about work at his other job. He doesn't have another job. He goes home.. and writes music, tends his garden, and plays with his kids? Kids? Hard to have kids when you don't have time to date, right?
So, 10 years. Wasted.
Fuck working hard. Working hard gets you nowhere, fast. I should've spent those 10 years enjoying myself, working less, but working smarter. There is a difference.
It's not that they're "blaming Bush" for starting it, but blaming him for not STOPPING it,and indeed, advancing it at a pace that would, under "normal" circumstances, be hard fought in the legislature. Bush, champion of the Republican Party, which champions "individual rights", "smaller government", "personal responsibility", etc etc, is actively acting contrary to the position that the Republican party worked so hard to present during the Clinton administration. Yeah, Clinton started it. Once the Republicans took power, they didn't use their power to reverse any of those discretions.
Actually I was going to bring something like that up. After I RTFA, I was left wondering:
:(
(unless I misread it, which I may have in my haste)
The kid Ivan said no one ever paid him the extortion money. There were also others in the group, as well. However, the betting sites admitted to paying the money (same guys? who knows). Well, that just makes me think that the guys running the show were just using poor Ivan and the other tech-geeks and telling them "Get better! We still haven't made any money!" while pocketing all that extra cash.
Fuck, man. Imagine quitting your thankless IT job and going to work for the "darkside"... as a thankless IT worker.
It'd be nice to have a "go Fuck Yourself, chico" option in the moderation category, as well.
Barring that, go fuck your sister some more, bitch.
It's true.
In order to "crash" a vehicle, it needs to be working to begin with. If your car is BSOD'd in the driveway, I think that qualifies.
/* At best, you could call Intelligent Design a "conjecture" or perhaps a "hunch." */
I think the word/phrase you're looking for is 'fairy tale'.
They *have* contributed to open source. It's not just "an impression". Fact: Apple gives their code changes BACK to the Konqueror guys. The fact is, a lot of those changes are specific to OS X and to get at the actual changes that can be useful, it will require many man hours to seperate the code. Maybe Konqueror needs to go hire a couple Indian programmers to do this mundane task for them.* The code is there to peruse, it's not Apple's fault that the Konq guys don't have the time to wade through all the code. Apple could be "nicer" about it, but I don't recall the FSF having to go after Apple for blatantly stealing the LGPL'd code like many other folks have done. They're playing by the exact rules, and for this, they should be commended.
(This is not a bash against Indians or Konqueror. If there's an avenue of cheap developer talent, there's no reason Open Source proponents can't take advantage of it, either. Hell, I've proposed before that a foundation should put together some money and hire a team of Indian programmers to polish up code that's no longer in the "fun" stage, but still lacks major functionality that prevents it from wider adoption.)
That's currently what I'm running. Apache2 +PHP +MySQL under WinXP. Works pretty much fine. I'll be migrating to Linux once I finish my webserver (an HP LH4R quad Xeon), but mainly because I don't want to fork out the cash for XP 2003 Server and I need a good excuse to futz with Linux (or FreeBSD) again.
I used to be one of those "I wish Debian were more up-to-date" people until I got a server that was going to be used strictly for... serving. That's when I realized I don't need the "flash" of the latest greatest GNOME or KDE or fancy audio players or anything like that (headless server). I just need a machine that can run Apache, PHP (wordpress + Gallery), and MySQL. And I need this machine to be easily updateable with the lastest security updates. And for this, I have discovered that Debian is ideal: For machines you just want to work and mostly forget about.
Uh, it's not just that.
:)
I used to work for a small company ( 50 employees) and asked why they didn't consider OOo a couple years ago when most of the folks in the office never needed anything more than Word (Writer). The reason? The CFO was something of a VBA guy. Here's a guy who couldn't setup a dialup connection, much less do an OS install who could do some of the most convulted (and damned impressive, IMO) things with Excel, Access, and Word using VBA. And, because he was "stuck" (in love with) Office and VBA, he chose to stick with Microsoft. I'm not sure about the DB situation with OOo anymore (which if not available would make it worthless to him), but as a Senior level executive, he certainly wasn't going to port all of his VBA to OOo to save a few bucks in licensing. Hire a programmer? Might as well pay the MS licensing and not worry about it.
So, some people DO use Office for more than just Outlook, which is, btw, pretty fucking nifty, too.
Similar to other posters' responses, it's not exactly an uncommon occurence in the animal kingdom. The "annual killifishes" in the Genus Nothobranchius (Africa) and Cynolebias (South America) (and their various kin fishes.. go check em out on www.aquabid.com and see www.aka.org) have adapted a similar survival mechanism to deal with rainy-season/drought. Basically, the fish hatch in the rainy season, grow extremely rapidly and usually within 3 weeks are laying eggs in the mud of their own. The ponds dry out, fish die, but the next generation sits dormant, awaiting the cycle again. Not all eggs hatch upon the next rains, however, and some eggs require multiple wettings (seasons) to hatch. It is surmised this is part of the survial mechanism, as well, because what would happen if every egg hatched during a rare drought-season rainstorm? The fish would hatch, but the pond would dry up before they could breed.
:)
Also, another poster mentioned Artemia, what you probably know as sea monkeys. Interestingly, when conditions are good, they give livebirth (more efficient than producing an eggshell). When conditions go south (season changes), they produce dormant eggs. In the US, there are two major varieties found the Great Salt Lake and in the San Francisco Salt Flats. Other species are found in other parts of the world (china, russia, peru..).
What's even niftier is that annual killifish keepers use artemia and daphnia to feed their killies.
So.. What happens to the arresting officer who makes the demonstrably false claims? I, as a citizen, would be charged with perjury and contempt of court and be thrown in jail. What happens to the Officer who lies? Is there any recourse to get actual justice done?
forgot to address another point:
As a developer in a private company, yes, we do discuss tools. We don't have public arguments about them. These are details our customers don't need to know, because it doesn't directly impact them (or at least, we don't let them know if it does). Keep your dirty laundry in-house, present a unified front to the world.
/* What are you suggesting here? That the source code management software debate makes linux as such less predictable? This makes no sense. */
No, it makes a LOT of sense. When the decision to move to a non-Free (speech) was made, there was a huge outcry from "ethical" developers who were literally threatening to jump ship over it. That's the kind of stuff that makes the entire community look flakey and, frankly, foolish. Even if their reasoning is CORRECT (and it was). It's a public admission that there's not a unified front that the kernel developers are fighting along, and the in-fighting gives the public the feeling that "those linux guys" don't have their shit all together. It looks unstable, and unpredictable, becuase who knows what's going to happen? Are some of the top developers going to quit?
So, yes, it does make a lot of sense.
1) I don't know his specific beef about Linux and its scalability. I do know that if you need multi-thousand node computing power, Windows is probably not your answer, either. I seem to recall that most clusters run some sort of *NIX (Linux, Solaris, OS X) or a custom OS. :: shrug ::
2) Yes, the inconsistency between distributions is part of it, but the inconsistency between different versions of the same distribution is also an issue. I know I had tons of issues "upgrading" from version to version of Redhat years ago, has that been fixed? By far, the best distro I've had for upgradeability was Debian, but where's the Redhat-like support for debian? The company I work for has a Redhat 6.2 box. Trying to upgrade that to FC3 or RHEL would be a nightmare, but it's getting to the point where security updates are having to be patched by hand, with unknown consequences on our software. It's really "cross your fingers and hope". And from a corporate desktop standpoint: GNOME? KDE? Something else? Who's behind it? Who's not? It can be disheartening to see all the choices at times. I like GNOME for some things. I like KDE for others. Yes, I can run applications for both at the same time, but that seems like an assbackwards way of doing things.
3) Linux is unpredictable. From scheduler changes in the middle of a kernel series, to changes in fucking "source code management" software. What Version Control software does Microsoft use for Windows? The correct answer for the people outside of microsoft is: Who fucking cares? And yet with Linux, it's a daytime soap opera. Why does this matter? Because there's a lot of Linux kernel developers out there who make it a big deal and say they can't work with it because of their ethics and would rather stand around and bitch about it rather than deal with it and move on. And that's what Linux seems to be becoming: A giant bitch-fest party. I'm sure there's lots (the majority) of developers who don't really care one way or another about GNU ethics and what not, they just want to write quality code and produce a quality product. It's the religious zealots that are vocal and really make the entire group look unstable and unfocuses. "It's gotta be free!" "No, it doesn't" "Yes, it does! I'm taking my ball away!" "We're taking our ball away, too!" Is that really what you want to rest your business plan on? A bunch of bickering anti-social primadonnas? And, add to that constantly changing driver interfaces, etc, and it can make development difficult. Sure, they could develop their own version of the kernel for their usage, right? But that requires hiring programmers, OS developers, kernel programmers, etc, you might as well just buy a closed source solution from Sun or MS and save the money.
4) Self-contained: I take that to mean it's all under one-roof. One person dictates direction. Linus sorta does that, but there's a giant herd of cats out there determined to do something else.
And, more importantly, they're still using Windows and (probably) Windows-only applications, which keeps the developers in line (target the largest demographic). When the next version of Windows comes out, they'll be lined up, cash in hand.
I hate tabbed browsing, but I still use Firefox. Mainly because of the security and pop-up blocking features.
If you had shown me tabbed browsing first, I'd have given you a big "meh".
As an artist, I'd agree to that. I think the current copyright extensions are horrible.
But since when did the artist's opinion count for anything?
Uh, maybe I like Fedora more? Or Ubunto? Or generic Debian? Or even slackware? Maybe I like to keep my machines consistent from my desktop to my laptop, from administration to application concurrency. I've run multiple distros and found it a hassle. I'd rather pick ONE distro and use it exclusively.
Or, I could just use OS X or FreeBSD.
Unfortunately, the only way you could think most of those bands were any good would be to smoke something that's currently *illegal* in the US.
Fucking hippie jam bands.
If you do any sort of audio editing (think recording studio), you will quickly find yourself wanting more disk space. Quickly. Especially when working with multi-track recording, etc. We tend to keep several firewire harddrives laying around with different musician's "sessions" stored on them until we can make backups to DVD-R.
Even home sessions can start chewing up diskspace rather frighteningly if you keep your raw audio tracks laying around (frequently when you don't have time to mix down).
Also, a few folks do a lot of 3D animation, those 5 minutes short films start taking up space, too.
But, over all, I agree with you. I still use a 10 gig HD as my System disk and an 80 gig drive partitioned for music (40 gigs) and everything else and I'm still about 50 gigs shy of filling it.
If I were HD shopping today, of course I'd buy a 200 gig drive, simply because they're at the same pricepoint my 80gig 3 or 4 years ago.
Apparently you didn't RTFA because it mentions that these kids are "undocumented" (their parents are illegals) and are disqualified from loans, grants, subsidies, scholarships, financial aid, etc.
Most of us here are intimately familiar with the workings (inner and outer) of financial aid and have significant loan-payback obligations. Hell, sometimes I wished I didn't get a job during my college years so I would've qualified for a grant, but such is life.
Yep. And I occasionally see you around (I think the Laundromat with your daughter last time). Gotta get back to looking busy at work...
I saw the reference to "Neighborhood Texture Jam" and had to do a double take. Another memphian on /. who actually has a clue about music? Wow. Then I realized it was Joe fucking Red talking. Sup Joe. :)
While they may be two different companies, many spammers also get a commision on sales generated by the spam they send out. That's how (and why) many spammers don't really care that 10 million people hate their spam, because 10,000 people bought the product which generated, say, $10/sale (I've heard of commisions in the hundreds of dollars/sale). So, you pissed off 10 million people. You made $100k. You also have 5 or 6 other spamvertisments ready to go with similar commisions.
:)
For several million a year, I'd tell 100 million people to fuck off, too, if it were legal.