What are you crying about? There are lots of similar restrictions in Western culture. Just because we consider ourselves "modern" doesn't mean we've completely divorced ourselves from our cultural traditions. For example, when was the last time you used a public restroom that was co-ed (and not single-occupant) ? They exist, but rarely.
you definitely shouldn't blame the nerd for the existence of bullies. obviously, they suck. but they'd better learn how to have a little pride and be somewhat of a man. bullies are there all through life, and contrary to popular opinion they don't all become sad shells of themselves later in life. sometimes they become CEOs.
I disagree strongly with the idea that with a manual-everything camera, quickly getting a picture is impossible. In poor light, you may have a point, but if you're shooting outside in daylight, it's almost as easy as an automatic. Maybe it takes a couple seconds longer? I have the aforementioned Pentax K-1000, which was a Christmas present several years ago, and my first photos with it were taken on a trip to Ethiopia and came out stunning. It helps that the country is beautiful, of course, but I didn't get any of the pictures developed until I returned and so had virtually no feedback as to what I was doing right or wrong. It just worked as advertised -- focus, line the needle up in the light meter, click. Now again, indoors or night time is another story entirely. . .
Craftsmen may not scale, but if you are a highly skilled craftsman there is still the possibility that you can carve out a comfortable niche for yourself. In a non-computing example, I have a friend whose father makes handcrafted furniture. Obviously, making furniture by hand is not even state of the art by 19th century standards. But he has a three year waiting list of people wanting to buy his products and he does very well for himself. I'm not sure that the you can find many analogous examples in the world of software development, but there are probably a few.
actually, americans have every right to complain. it's not the average american wage-earner who has been the driving force behind free trade, it's the average american economists and ceos. these people have somewhat of a distorted sense of reality in which everything but themselves is dispensable.
ah yes. the last thing anyone needs in a field like banking is regulations. laws about banking would suck, eh?
actually, i think it's intentional money-stealing to get particular organized criminals' wallets fatter. if there's a conspiracy to be sniffed out here, that would be it.
I think that if they're set up to record the data on the magnetic stripe as well as your PIN, they can just reproduce your card -- there's no need to physically steal it. Reassuring, eh?
"BFD. I learnt ML, smalltalk, Pascal and Prolog at uni , never used them since I left."
yeah, but those are pretty much academic languages by nature. java is not in that position at all.
"Not really. For every web facing application a company has written it probably has a dozen internal apps that arn't"
I'm just saying, inside the web world is a whole lot of stuff. Sure, the embedded controller world and the corporate infrastructure world are larger. But the web world is probably larger than the game programming world in terms of number of ongoing projects.
I'd say that Java an "irrelevance" is pretty spurious. A large amount of academic coding gets done in Java, for the reason that students would rather spend their energies getting algorithms correct than debugging memory leaks. When you have a large base of CS students who are comfortable in a language, it's a good bet they're going to use it on industry projects as well.
Also, let's remember that the "web world" is a pretty large one. Not just serving up html pages for websites, but wireless apps, web services apps, online banking, online trading, J2ME apps on mobile devices, etc.
I imagine that some of them are ready to compete. The only impediment to marketing your products overseas is the cultural specificity of persuading buyers to buy. But surely that work can be outsourced, no?
Hmm. I think you're imbuing the "market" with a bit too much benevolence here. The way I see it, people in the management circle outsource as much as is practical/possible (excluding their own cadre) to lower wage countries, thereby slowly tightening the noose around their own necks. Eventually, as all the core skills are outsourced elsewhere, those "elsewhere" companies aren't going to need or want to get middled, and it won't be Microsoft selling you software, but Delhisoft. The corporations are slowly pulling their guts out through their rectums. I think the final stages of it will be messy.
easy, tiger. maybe you're trinidadian, maybe you're puerto rican, maybe you're persian. maybe you're just a very tan swedish person. we could all care less.
Orientals? You mean as in, inscrutable foreigners from the exotic East? Keepers of the elusive Ancient Chinese Secrets? My, what will those companies think of next -- talking dogs in the call centers? I shudder to think.
i'm sorry, but i think professional gaming is about the last thing the world needs. it comes right after genetically engineered glowing fish in my list of priorities for the world. it comes in third place to professional masturbating.
you miss the point. or perhaps he should have written more clearly. widespread conspiracy theories that accuse right wing (i.e. republican) partisans of being in bed with the voting technology companies have galvanized election officials against reconsidering their decisions to purchase these machines. that is, it's made it easier for them to scoff and say "oh, that's just a bunch of rabid conspiracy theory nonsense".
the reporter wasn't saying that the conspiracy theories were coming from right-wingers, or that cbsnews.com is a right-wing news source, or that being of a more rightist persuasion is bad. so ease up.
actually, the article said that while the typical pattern is for a reversal to happen every 250k years or so, we haven't had one for about a million years. that's longer than modern homo sapiens has been around. the last time it happened, it was just homo erectus running around in much smaller densities chopping stuff up w/ sharp rocks. i'd say with the population densities we have now, humans will almost definitely feel the effects.
ha. try the midwest. all the ice of the east coast w/o ANY altitude. lots of hiking up the sled hill to hit the one crusty jump you built over and over and over.
LOL. holy shit that's so true. i love my linux box, and i am willing to put up w/ the occasional irritations like that because i've seen the system improve so consistently over time. but the edge still bleeds a bit here and there, especially on UI factors:)
my suggestion is to find an up and coming jeweller who makes really beautiful one of a kind rings that could well become truly valuable over time. if you can give her something beautiful that no other woman will have, that is adequate proof of how special she is to you. you can avoid the whole diamonds debate altogether, or maybe get an antique stone from your family or hers reset in a new ring.
if you ever watch that pbs show antique roadshow, you see that a lot of the really valuable items are those from master craftsmen of a century or so ago who really made a name for themselves with a unique style. that's the kind of thing i'd shoot for.
also, as i understand it, motorola is more focused on embedded devices than on new chips for apple, and IBM doesn't own all the right patents to take the ball and run with it. seems a confusing situation.
mac's main advantage at this point over a cheaper, faster intel/amd running linux is that the os is (much) more idiot-proof and has more commercial multi-media apps written for it.
yeah, OS X is great for a general consumer operating system. probably great all around.
my dig at mac hardware is the fact that you're limited in terms of the amount of ram you can put in the box, and i don't know yet of any solid 64 bit plans for mac hardware. intel/amd are both going to be out the door w/ their 64 bit products very soon and linux will be ready to go right away.
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What are you crying about? There are lots of similar restrictions in Western culture. Just because we consider ourselves "modern" doesn't mean we've completely divorced ourselves from our cultural traditions. For example, when was the last time you used a public restroom that was co-ed (and not single-occupant) ? They exist, but rarely.
you definitely shouldn't blame the nerd for the existence of bullies. obviously, they suck. but they'd better learn how to have a little pride and be somewhat of a man. bullies are there all through life, and contrary to popular opinion they don't all become sad shells of themselves later in life. sometimes they become CEOs.
um, yeah, but. . . the kid might turn out to be a total pussy.
'cause you'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes, scum!
just kidding
I disagree strongly with the idea that with a manual-everything camera, quickly getting a picture is impossible. In poor light, you may have a point, but if you're shooting outside in daylight, it's almost as easy as an automatic. Maybe it takes a couple seconds longer? I have the aforementioned Pentax K-1000, which was a Christmas present several years ago, and my first photos with it were taken on a trip to Ethiopia and came out stunning. It helps that the country is beautiful, of course, but I didn't get any of the pictures developed until I returned and so had virtually no feedback as to what I was doing right or wrong. It just worked as advertised -- focus, line the needle up in the light meter, click. Now again, indoors or night time is another story entirely. . .
Craftsmen may not scale, but if you are a highly skilled craftsman there is still the possibility that you can carve out a comfortable niche for yourself. In a non-computing example, I have a friend whose father makes handcrafted furniture. Obviously, making furniture by hand is not even state of the art by 19th century standards. But he has a three year waiting list of people wanting to buy his products and he does very well for himself.
I'm not sure that the you can find many analogous examples in the world of software development, but there are probably a few.
actually, americans have every right to complain. it's not the average american wage-earner who has been the driving force behind free trade, it's the average american economists and ceos. these people have somewhat of a distorted sense of reality in which everything but themselves is dispensable.
ah yes. the last thing anyone needs in a field like banking is regulations. laws about banking would suck, eh?
actually, i think it's intentional money-stealing to get particular organized criminals' wallets fatter. if there's a conspiracy to be sniffed out here, that would be it.
I think that if they're set up to record the data on the magnetic stripe as well as your PIN, they can just reproduce your card -- there's no need to physically steal it. Reassuring, eh?
"BFD. I learnt ML, smalltalk, Pascal and Prolog at uni , never used them since I left."
yeah, but those are pretty much academic languages by nature. java is not in that position at all.
"Not really. For every web facing application a company has written it probably has a dozen internal apps that arn't"
I'm just saying, inside the web world is a whole lot of stuff. Sure, the embedded controller world and the corporate infrastructure world are larger. But the web world is probably larger than the game programming world in terms of number of ongoing projects.
I'd say that Java an "irrelevance" is pretty spurious. A large amount of academic coding gets done in Java, for the reason that students would rather spend their energies getting algorithms correct than debugging memory leaks. When you have a large base of CS students who are comfortable in a language, it's a good bet they're going to use it on industry projects as well.
Also, let's remember that the "web world" is a pretty large one. Not just serving up html pages for websites, but wireless apps, web services apps, online banking, online trading, J2ME apps on mobile devices, etc.
I imagine that some of them are ready to compete. The only impediment to marketing your products overseas is the cultural specificity of persuading buyers to buy. But surely that work can be outsourced, no?
Hmm. I think you're imbuing the "market" with a bit too much benevolence here. The way I see it, people in the management circle outsource as much as is practical/possible (excluding their own cadre) to lower wage countries, thereby slowly tightening the noose around their own necks. Eventually, as all the core skills are outsourced elsewhere, those "elsewhere" companies aren't going to need or want to get middled, and it won't be Microsoft selling you software, but Delhisoft. The corporations are slowly pulling their guts out through their rectums. I think the final stages of it will be messy.
easy, tiger. maybe you're trinidadian, maybe you're puerto rican, maybe you're persian. maybe you're just a very tan swedish person. we could all care less.
Orientals? You mean as in, inscrutable foreigners from the exotic East? Keepers of the elusive Ancient Chinese Secrets? My, what will those companies think of next -- talking dogs in the call centers? I shudder to think.
i'm sorry, but i think professional gaming is about the last thing the world needs. it comes right after genetically engineered glowing fish in my list of priorities for the world. it comes in third place to professional masturbating.
you miss the point. or perhaps he should have written more clearly. widespread conspiracy theories that accuse right wing (i.e. republican) partisans of being in bed with the voting technology companies have galvanized election officials against reconsidering their decisions to purchase these machines. that is, it's made it easier for them to scoff and say "oh, that's just a bunch of rabid conspiracy theory nonsense".
the reporter wasn't saying that the conspiracy theories were coming from right-wingers, or that cbsnews.com is a right-wing news source, or that being of a more rightist persuasion is bad. so ease up.
was that funny?
actually, the article said that while the typical pattern is for a reversal to happen every 250k years or
so, we haven't had one for about a million years. that's longer than modern homo sapiens has been around.
the last time it happened, it was just homo erectus running around in much smaller densities chopping stuff up w/ sharp rocks. i'd say with the population densities we have now, humans will almost definitely feel the effects.
I like the line in the article where it says, "some days he worked 11 hours".
gosh. that sure is a lot.
ha. try the midwest. all the ice of the east coast w/o ANY altitude. lots of hiking up the sled hill to hit the one crusty jump you built over and over and over.
LOL. holy shit that's so true. :)
i love my linux box, and i am willing
to put up w/ the occasional irritations
like that because i've seen the system
improve so consistently over time.
but the edge still bleeds a bit here
and there, especially on UI factors
my suggestion is to find an up and coming jeweller who makes really beautiful one of a kind rings that could well become truly valuable over time. if you can give her something beautiful that no other woman will have, that is adequate proof of how special she is to you. you can avoid the whole diamonds debate altogether, or maybe get an antique stone from your family or hers reset in a new ring.
if you ever watch that pbs show antique roadshow, you see that a lot of the really valuable items are those from master craftsmen of a century or so ago who really made a name for themselves with a unique style. that's the kind of thing i'd shoot for.
who uses windows?
also, as i understand it, motorola is more focused on embedded devices than on new chips for apple, and IBM doesn't own all the right patents to take the ball and run with it. seems a confusing situation.
mac's main advantage at this point over a cheaper, faster intel/amd running linux is that the os is (much) more idiot-proof and has more commercial multi-media apps written for it.
oh, also, steve jobs wears black turtlenecks.
yeah, OS X is great for a general consumer operating system. probably great all around.
my dig at mac hardware is the fact that you're limited in terms of the amount of ram you can put in the box, and i don't know yet of any solid 64 bit plans for mac hardware. intel/amd are both going to be out the door w/ their 64 bit products very soon and linux will be ready to go right away.