Trent Reznor sells his discs online for 5$/ea (8.50$/ea including s&h); no way a bar band cd is going to get bought for 20$/ea. Not by me anyway. I see, and buy, them at shows for 10$/ea. Immortal Technique sold his for 10$/ea on the street (40 thousand records sold, 400 grand...). Not really sure where the justification for 20$/ea, at a show I probably paid to go to, would come from either.
You are the CEO of a multinational corporation. You manage the company into the ground. You are fired, but the golden handshake provision of your contract entitles you to 150M$. Money you didn't, in the strictest sense of the word, earn. Are you stealing?
Look, if I leave a sofa on the curb in San Francisco, and don't look like I am moving, it will disafsckingppear in less than an hour. The internet is no different; you make a stream avail without any protection, I tap into the stream, you don't want me to, you block it. You don't block, you are ok with it. Like leaving the sofa out, implied consent to access unprotected content/stuff.
Your argument essentially distills into having a house with glass walls in the middle of a crowded city and then complaining when people look in. Don't want observers, don't use glass walls.
Amen. I want a piece of software on a linux box, open the pkg mngr and click (or open a terminal and type) and its there. And when I want to update, everything does, automatically, with one command. Usually in cron. If I want to reinstall, copy home and the dir with all the dl'ed pkgs in it somewhere, nuke, copy back, update from the dir, and back to happy. It ain't religious anymore, Windows really does suckTM, I will take any *nix os. And what up with Win2k3 server? 885$?! For a damn OS? Damn, it costs twice the hardware its going to run on. Will all you stop freaking developing on Windows already? Hardware is commodity, so I shouldn't be paying more for a damn shiny disk than 2 (or 3!) 1u hearing-destroying space heaters, dig? Its less I am willing to pay for your crapware; my budget gets almost 3k$ richer for your fscktard masterpiece spaghetti-code niche software if I don't have to pay the MS (win2k3/SQL) tax to run it. Think of it that way, next time you open Visual Studio.NET and feel the urge to code. Fsck.
I think the problem with all of these is that without a tremendous increase in the fundamental efficiency of aircraft engines, its _always_ going to be too expensive. Power to overcome drag increases with the cube of velocity, meaning that going mach 2.4-2.7 (3x faster vs. normal mach 0.8-0.9 for airliners) would require 27x more power. If the fundamental efficiency of the engines (pound of fuel per pound of thrust) is unchanged (and I don't see that going up 10x, jet engines are already more than 10% of theoretical efficiency) then, naively, fuel cost alone will be 27x. Maybe they get around this somehow (fly higher, etc) but either way, I don't see this getting usefully cheap. I would pay 1200$ SFO-NRT (instead of 600$) but not 6000$, or 12000$....
The guy who graduated from a major technical university with a _masters degree_ in network engineering who couldn't tell me what the network and broadcast IPs were for a classless network? For example, 123.123.123.123/11.... Couldn't even make an attempt. Knew 8 bit cold tho, surprisingly enough. Floored me. Lost respect for that uni/program.
About those server names, I _like_ that there is a standard. I always chuckle when I think of the University/.com naming standard (Tolkien/anime chars, flowers, etc). Can you imagine running an outage call? Ayukawa is up, Hikaru is down, Kyosuke can't figure out which one to send the requests to and Komatsu and Hatta are still load balancing requests? Actually, that is pretty cool, now that I think about it...*cackle* Wouldn't sound very "business" tho.
Uh, exactly. If we are going to call this a realistic corporate scenario, you would only use vendor-supported versions of software. If that meant you had to upgrade the OS you do, or you use (gasp!) previous/later versions of your application software. This kind of review is usually accomplished at the architect stage, not done on the fly in production. Does Sun Cluster x.x support Oracle x.x.x.x? No. Does Win2k3 support fill-in-the-blank x.x? My cordless phone doesn't support bitcomet either, I wouldn't get out the soldering iron to fix it. Geez....
Orders of magnitude? Jeez, you have to reboot every month for black tuesday at the least dude. Come on. Or, you are a participant in the Zombie Nation.
I think it would be better if you explained this with some sort of Flyingman Diagram, with straight lines along with the little squiggles. Some people are visual learners. *cackle*
I have to agree, the type of Bachelor's degree doesn't matter, unless you are going into a very specific line of work. But even those are open as long as you can do the work. So get a degree in whatever you want. As for work, I recommend avoiding it as long as possible. Find rich parents to adopt you, or take Great-Grandfather's advice and marry a rich girl.
Your problem is that you only have a BS in Aero and there are still a ton of Defense Industry guys in the market with years of experience who have worked on more than one aircraft/missile system. You have to get a PhD in Aero to get a job, apparently your school failed to inform you of that. Go back and get at least a masters but know that there are tons* of folks with PhDs that you are competing with.
Engineering degrees other than EE and ME require advanced degrees to become useful; I know, I did't use my BS in Materials Engineering from prestegious undergraduate engineering university on Central Coast** to get my current (5+ years now) job (they don't know or care that I have it).
andy
* where tons means many in comparison to the small number of jobs available....
** This means Cal Poly SLO to those non-engineers in the house.
Exactly right. People don't understand this natively, but when I explain it this way they get it: If your annual wage is 600$, then you can work all year to scam 600$ and its a good job. So putting in what to us is rediculous amounts of work to scam 50$ is normal to someone making that in a month.
This will only continue; witness what happens on the US-Mexico border if you need more evidence. US average income is 4x Mexican with less internal disparity. Now contrast that with India, which is 1/12 US per capita income and even more internal wealth disparity than Mexico.
These idiots just screwed up because they went after wealthy clients; imagine if they took 9 dollar fees monthly from.1% of the bottom quintile of customers and called them legitimate sounding names, then wrote bogus procedures for the call center to follow regarding the fees. They would hvae skimmed billions before they were caught.
Hey uh, China trolls may suck, but when you read the text out of a Chinese-English dictionary that your Chinese National Grad student brought with him, that he used to learn English while growing up in China, printed by the National Chinese Printing Company (or somesuch), its not a troll. Just cause you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
For your part, know that the fuck you are saying before you say it. I realize that a lot of bad China shit gets posted here, that's probably because the Chinese do a lot of bad shit. Honestly. Go do research. The US does a lot of bad shit too. Honestly. Go do research. But shitting on an honest report just makes you ignorant.
Honestly, six-digits need to remember that some of us have been around for a while....
And therein lies the value of WIkipedia, even if you didn't notice it. Nothing is free of bias, its an indeterminate state. So there is mention of crazy fringes, that you can google and discount on your own. Now you know, instead of being ignorant. Ignorance is not knowledge; knowledge is hard; its hard to trust; trust no one. General rules. If you want spoon feeding, don't use it. Actual examples of where this is important: Chinese-English dictionary printed by the Chinese Govt had definitions of english words like:
religion - The persuit of superprofits is the religion of the capitalist. party - The one party, the glorious party, our party, the Communist Party.
etc. If that's what you want, so be it. But to criticize something because it forces you to have stronger knowledge is pretty fucking weird. I know that my history classes had no mention of things like Baconian Theory or the Warsaw Riots. Coverage is important as the article says, human knowledge isn't cast in stone, and crazy shit is out there. Do you want exposure to it as a thinking feeling human being or do you just want your vat-fed lifestyle? There was a movie that covered this that you probably like, and you probably cheered the hero for escaping the lifestyle you are now advocating. Crazy....
This reminds me of the SCSI-IDE debate; if you have used multi processor boxes as your primary workstation you will always want one from that point on. Same with SCSI back in the day, doesn't make sense until you use it and get used to how much better it is, going back is like getting your hair pulled. Netscape could crash and I wouldn't know it, I could encode mp3s without worrying if playing another one at the same time was going to get hokey, CD burning was not failure prone, etc. Just makes the experience better if you are actively doing more than one thing at a time. If you don't agree, don't buy one, I don't care.... I love duals tho, if I used a desktop instead of a laptop now it would be a dual anything (PIII 500ish+) with scsi.
Hey, its cool my last comment on this caught so much hell. Please see the url below for why I will never buy games with this crap.... Hey Politburo, you 0:0 or 0:1? Hey, maybe with DRM your freaking machine will do this too when it can't talk to the network servers; sounds like a good excuse to not work to me. Maybe I have been too hard on this after all.
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Trent Reznor sells his discs online for 5$/ea (8.50$/ea including s&h); no way a bar band cd is going to get bought for 20$/ea. Not by me anyway. I see, and buy, them at shows for 10$/ea. Immortal Technique sold his for 10$/ea on the street (40 thousand records sold, 400 grand...). Not really sure where the justification for 20$/ea, at a show I probably paid to go to, would come from either.
andy
You are the CEO of a multinational corporation. You manage the company into the ground. You are fired, but the golden handshake provision of your contract entitles you to 150M$. Money you didn't, in the strictest sense of the word, earn. Are you stealing?
Look, if I leave a sofa on the curb in San Francisco, and don't look like I am moving, it will disafsckingppear in less than an hour. The internet is no different; you make a stream avail without any protection, I tap into the stream, you don't want me to, you block it. You don't block, you are ok with it. Like leaving the sofa out, implied consent to access unprotected content/stuff.
Your argument essentially distills into having a house with glass walls in the middle of a crowded city and then complaining when people look in. Don't want observers, don't use glass walls.
andy
Amen. I want a piece of software on a linux box, open the pkg mngr and click (or open a terminal and type) and its there. And when I want to update, everything does, automatically, with one command. Usually in cron. If I want to reinstall, copy home and the dir with all the dl'ed pkgs in it somewhere, nuke, copy back, update from the dir, and back to happy. It ain't religious anymore, Windows really does suckTM, I will take any *nix os. And what up with Win2k3 server? 885$?! For a damn OS? Damn, it costs twice the hardware its going to run on. Will all you stop freaking developing on Windows already? Hardware is commodity, so I shouldn't be paying more for a damn shiny disk than 2 (or 3!) 1u hearing-destroying space heaters, dig? Its less I am willing to pay for your crapware; my budget gets almost 3k$ richer for your fscktard masterpiece spaghetti-code niche software if I don't have to pay the MS (win2k3/SQL) tax to run it. Think of it that way, next time you open Visual Studio .NET and feel the urge to code. Fsck.
andy
Ok, I still read slashdot comments for just this....*cackle* Nicely done. Fscking rat poison.
andy
I think the problem with all of these is that without a tremendous increase in the fundamental efficiency of aircraft engines, its _always_ going to be too expensive. Power to overcome drag increases with the cube of velocity, meaning that going mach 2.4-2.7 (3x faster vs. normal mach 0.8-0.9 for airliners) would require 27x more power. If the fundamental efficiency of the engines (pound of fuel per pound of thrust) is unchanged (and I don't see that going up 10x, jet engines are already more than 10% of theoretical efficiency) then, naively, fuel cost alone will be 27x. Maybe they get around this somehow (fly higher, etc) but either way, I don't see this getting usefully cheap. I would pay 1200$ SFO-NRT (instead of 600$) but not 6000$, or 12000$....
andy
The guy who graduated from a major technical university with a _masters degree_ in network engineering who couldn't tell me what the network and broadcast IPs were for a classless network? For example, 123.123.123.123/11.... Couldn't even make an attempt. Knew 8 bit cold tho, surprisingly enough. Floored me. Lost respect for that uni/program.
andy
That's only funny because its true.
andy
Wow. Who woulda thunk it?
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137739&cid=11518823
Re. Dic. Ulous.
About those server names, I _like_ that there is a standard. I always chuckle when I think of the University/.com naming standard (Tolkien/anime chars, flowers, etc). Can you imagine running an outage call? Ayukawa is up, Hikaru is down, Kyosuke can't figure out which one to send the requests to and Komatsu and Hatta are still load balancing requests?
Actually, that is pretty cool, now that I think about it...*cackle* Wouldn't sound very "business" tho.
andy
Posts like this make me wish I had monthly moderator points. Nicely done.
andy
or, like, sudo su -
or something
or sudo vi , then !
or something
Somebody mod this guy insightful. *cackle* Can I break the Hitler cherry here?
andy
So, throwing those in the dumpster and watching them shatter as a child, that was a BAD thing to do?
andy
Uh, exactly. If we are going to call this a realistic corporate scenario, you would only use vendor-supported versions of software. If that meant you had to upgrade the OS you do, or you use (gasp!) previous/later versions of your application software. This kind of review is usually accomplished at the architect stage, not done on the fly in production. Does Sun Cluster x.x support Oracle x.x.x.x? No. Does Win2k3 support fill-in-the-blank x.x? My cordless phone doesn't support bitcomet either, I wouldn't get out the soldering iron to fix it. Geez....
andy
Orders of magnitude? Jeez, you have to reboot every month for black tuesday at the least dude. Come on. Or, you are a participant in the Zombie Nation.
andy
I think it would be better if you explained this with some sort of Flyingman Diagram, with straight lines along with the little squiggles. Some people are visual learners. *cackle*
andy
How is genentech?
andy
The Shuttle has had 113 flights with two failures over 25 years. That's almost a 2% failure rate. That's playing roulette with a 50 shot revolver.
andy
I have to agree, the type of Bachelor's degree doesn't matter, unless you are going into a very specific line of work. But even those are open as long as you can do the work. So get a degree in whatever you want. As for work, I recommend avoiding it as long as possible. Find rich parents to adopt you, or take Great-Grandfather's advice and marry a rich girl.
andy
Your problem is that you only have a BS in Aero and there are still a ton of Defense Industry guys in the market with years of experience who have worked on more than one aircraft/missile system. You have to get a PhD in Aero to get a job, apparently your school failed to inform you of that. Go back and get at least a masters but know that there are tons* of folks with PhDs that you are competing with.
Engineering degrees other than EE and ME require advanced degrees to become useful; I know, I did't use my BS in Materials Engineering from prestegious undergraduate engineering university on Central Coast** to get my current (5+ years now) job (they don't know or care that I have it).
andy
* where tons means many in comparison to the small number of jobs available....
** This means Cal Poly SLO to those non-engineers in the house.
Exactly right. People don't understand this natively, but when I explain it this way they get it:
.1% of the bottom quintile of customers and called them legitimate sounding names, then wrote bogus procedures for the call center to follow regarding the fees. They would hvae skimmed billions before they were caught.
If your annual wage is 600$, then you can work all year to scam 600$ and its a good job. So putting in what to us is rediculous amounts of work to scam 50$ is normal to someone making that in a month.
This will only continue; witness what happens on the US-Mexico border if you need more evidence. US average income is 4x Mexican with less internal disparity. Now contrast that with India, which is 1/12 US per capita income and even more internal wealth disparity than Mexico.
These idiots just screwed up because they went after wealthy clients; imagine if they took 9 dollar fees monthly from
andy
Hey uh, China trolls may suck, but when you read the text out of a Chinese-English dictionary that your Chinese National Grad student brought with him, that he used to learn English while growing up in China, printed by the National Chinese Printing Company (or somesuch), its not a troll. Just cause you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
For your part, know that the fuck you are saying before you say it. I realize that a lot of bad China shit gets posted here, that's probably because the Chinese do a lot of bad shit. Honestly. Go do research. The US does a lot of bad shit too. Honestly. Go do research. But shitting on an honest report just makes you ignorant.
Honestly, six-digits need to remember that some of us have been around for a while....
andy
And therein lies the value of WIkipedia, even if you didn't notice it. Nothing is free of bias, its an indeterminate state. So there is mention of crazy fringes, that you can google and discount on your own. Now you know, instead of being ignorant. Ignorance is not knowledge; knowledge is hard; its hard to trust; trust no one. General rules. If you want spoon feeding, don't use it.
Actual examples of where this is important:
Chinese-English dictionary printed by the Chinese Govt had definitions of english words like:
religion - The persuit of superprofits is the religion of the capitalist.
party - The one party, the glorious party, our party, the Communist Party.
etc.
If that's what you want, so be it. But to criticize something because it forces you to have stronger knowledge is pretty fucking weird. I know that my history classes had no mention of things like Baconian Theory or the Warsaw Riots. Coverage is important as the article says, human knowledge isn't cast in stone, and crazy shit is out there. Do you want exposure to it as a thinking feeling human being or do you just want your vat-fed lifestyle? There was a movie that covered this that you probably like, and you probably cheered the hero for escaping the lifestyle you are now advocating. Crazy....
andy
This reminds me of the SCSI-IDE debate; if you have used multi processor boxes as your primary workstation you will always want one from that point on. Same with SCSI back in the day, doesn't make sense until you use it and get used to how much better it is, going back is like getting your hair pulled. Netscape could crash and I wouldn't know it, I could encode mp3s without worrying if playing another one at the same time was going to get hokey, CD burning was not failure prone, etc. Just makes the experience better if you are actively doing more than one thing at a time. If you don't agree, don't buy one, I don't care.... I love duals tho, if I used a desktop instead of a laptop now it would be a dual anything (PIII 500ish+) with scsi.
andy
Hey, its cool my last comment on this caught so much hell. Please see the url below for why I will never buy games with this crap.... Hey Politburo, you 0:0 or 0:1? Hey, maybe with DRM your freaking machine will do this too when it can't talk to the network servers; sounds like a good excuse to not work to me. Maybe I have been too hard on this after all.
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