I don't know about anyone else, but for me it's that I need my car to get around my area (metropolitan Denver/Boulder, Colorado) in any reasonable amount of time. Our mass transit system is great if you, say, live in the southwestern suburbs and work downtown (or vice-versa), but it sucks if you need to go any substantial distance.
An example: I used to live thirty miles away from where I worked. The company gave all the employees free bus passes, so I called up the local mass transit people and asked about routes, times, and so on.
I would have wound up changing buses three times and taking about two to three hours--one way. I'm a big fan of the environment, but I decided to save myself three or four hours of commute time a day and drive instead.
(I later moved to within five miles of work so I could bike in or take one bus...and they laid me off four months later. That's another story, though...)
"What is my role in society? What can I hope for? Who am I and what is my destiny"
Can I afford to eat this week? How much longer can I let the power bill slide before they shut off my electricity? How do I talk the finance people out of repossessing my car? How do I make rent this month?
Desperately out of work coder here. It's been four months now, and I'm starting to wonder how feasible a Ramen igloo would be as housing.
I'm drawing unemployment, but it's a third of what I was making before.
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Incompetents? Incompetents? Hah! I've got three-odd years of development experience in the usual things (C, Java, etc.), and I've been out of work for four months.
I've been sending out 6 to 10 resumes per week, and I have yet to get a single interview. This is in an area where the local paper used to have more than five pages of tech-related job ads and now has less than one. Don't tell me that only the "fluff" jobs are in short demand. It's getting brutal out here.
[...] which allowed all us BeOS users to get a little peak inside Be Inc.
Not to interrupt or anything, but it's peek. Not peak.
Sorry...I'd mod myself down as off-topic if I could. I'm just seeing this more and more lately, and it bugs me.
There was that article on F**cked Company and here on Slash about the guy who sent out the memo detailing his rage at people who were only putting in 40 hrs a week on the job.
> Why Java? I don't think you can do much exciting products for the consumer with it.
You'd be surprised. My company's major product is written almost entirely in Java. I can't go into too much detail--insert standard "I don't speak for the company" disclaimer--but it's sort of a Swiss Army knife of tools to integrate various telephony equipment with databases, speech recognition environments, and so on.
Anyone see that scene in Mission to Mars when he took off his helmet and his head froze up in less than a second? Wouldn't something similar happen?
No. Vacuum is an insulator...things stay cold/hot for so long in a Thermos bottle because there's a vacuum in between the outer shell and inner container. You would suffocate
long before having to worry about getting cold.
>It is time to leave the union! Let's find a few good states and just up and succede!
The first requirement for citizenship in the new country would be knowing how to spell words like "secede".
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They don't wear the bunnysuits because of toxicity. They wear them because the chips are manufactured in a cleanroom environment and they can't get any dust or skin flakes or hair in them.
> Anyone have their family not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth?
No, and I'm inexpressibly grateful. As a matter of fact, my wife (K@)got it in a big way and wrote the "My heart is breaking" response to the original Hellmouth article. It's at:
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> So if they use TCP/IP for the transport/network layer do they need to do a 3-way handshake?
If they do, sign me up for my first ever 3-way *anything*.
Just as long as they don't start using F-weapons. They'll never respect us in the morning, those bastards.
Very, very tiny hammers and a lot of hydrogen.
I'm still not joining your moleman army.
Not really. The bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis), not a virus at all.
I think you mean "willan on-need".
I don't know about anyone else, but for me it's that I need my car to get around my area (metropolitan Denver/Boulder, Colorado) in any reasonable amount of time. Our mass transit system is great if you, say, live in the southwestern suburbs and work downtown (or vice-versa), but it sucks if you need to go any substantial distance.
An example: I used to live thirty miles away from where I worked. The company gave all the employees free bus passes, so I called up the local mass transit people and asked about routes, times, and so on.
I would have wound up changing buses three times and taking about two to three hours--one way. I'm a big fan of the environment, but I decided to save myself three or four hours of commute time a day and drive instead.
(I later moved to within five miles of work so I could bike in or take one bus...and they laid me off four months later. That's another story, though...)
"What is my role in society? What can I hope for? Who am I and what is my destiny"
Can I afford to eat this week? How much longer can I let the power bill slide before they shut off my electricity? How do I talk the finance people out of repossessing my car? How do I make rent this month?
Be all Zen on your own time.
Desperately out of work coder here. It's been four months now, and I'm starting to wonder how feasible a Ramen igloo would be as housing.
I'm drawing unemployment, but it's a third of what I was making before.
Incompetents? Incompetents? Hah! I've got three-odd years of development experience in the usual things (C, Java, etc.), and I've been out of work for four months. I've been sending out 6 to 10 resumes per week, and I have yet to get a single interview. This is in an area where the local paper used to have more than five pages of tech-related job ads and now has less than one. Don't tell me that only the "fluff" jobs are in short demand. It's getting brutal out here.
[...] which allowed all us BeOS users to get a little peak inside Be Inc.
Not to interrupt or anything, but it's peek. Not peak.
Sorry...I'd mod myself down as off-topic if I could. I'm just seeing this more and more lately, and it bugs me.
I think you're talking about this.
Oh, the planet will be just fine. Us, on the other hand...
> Damn, I converted my girlfriend to computergames [...]
What's the exchange rate on something like that?
> Why Java? I don't think you can do much exciting products for the consumer with it.
You'd be surprised. My company's major product is written almost entirely in Java. I can't go into too much detail--insert standard "I don't speak for the company" disclaimer--but it's sort of a Swiss Army knife of tools to integrate various telephony equipment with databases, speech recognition environments, and so on.
> Berserker hardware that Larry Niven wrote about
You're thinking of Fred Saberhagen.
No, no...Neil's little-known brother worked on it with him. One Gaiman, two Gaimen. Simple, really.
> Unfortunately JBuilder only works on Windows > NT, not on 95/98.
What? Since when? News to me...I've been running
JBuilder 3 on my Win98 machine just fine for months.
>It is time to leave the union! Let's find a few good states and just up and succede!
The first requirement for citizenship in the new country would be knowing how to spell words like "secede".
They don't wear the bunnysuits because of toxicity. They wear them because the chips are manufactured in a cleanroom environment and they can't get any dust or skin flakes or hair in them.
> Anyone have their family not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth?
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No, and I'm inexpressibly grateful. As a matter of fact, my wife (K@)got it in a big way and wrote the "My heart is breaking"
response to the original Hellmouth article. It's at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/04/25/14
Joe Bob says check it out.