You agreed. You signed the papers. You gave them your word and honesty that you would do whatever it would take to pay them back.
Er... no. The only creditor who requires you do "whatever it takes" to pay them back is a loanshark. To paraphrase Goodfellas: "Your kid needs an operation? F- you. PAY ME. House burned down? F- you PAY ME."
Loansharking, btw, is ILLEGAL.
For most types of loans, if the loan agreement can't be kept, you file for bankruptcy. The only debts that can't be discharged in bankruptcy are student loans and child support. For some reason, we hold financially naive 18-year-olds betting on their future to a higher standard than corporations betting on a business model.
Great! Now all we have to do is convince people like the Koch brothers to redistribute the majority of their wealth to the sciences and to the people who formerly would have been employed in their factories. So they can "play."
Neither I nor Karl Marx foresee any obstacles to the implementation of this scheme.
Then Apple Caymans, who owes no taxes of any kind, is a corp controlled by Apple USA. Apple Caymans then buys the laptop for $100 from the far east and sells it to Apple USA for $1000. The $900 profit is all profit, they pay no taxes on it.
Although I can hold Jobs somewhat accountable for this, I hold him less culpable than A) Corporate CEOs who actively lobby to ensure this state of affairs continues and B) the political leaders who cater to them. Is there any evidence that Jobs was part of Group A?
For my part, I think we should have "fair trade" agreements that require our trading partners to meet a minimum standard for democracy, human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection. And I think Apple should pay taxes on that $900 in the example you cited. I support companies and candidates that promote this view. But I don't boycott all Chinese, Burmese, Saudi Arabian et al products because it's just too hard to do, and I'm not of the view that consumer boycotts are going to change these trade agreements. And I sleep just fine at night. So I can't really hold a corporate CEO to a higher standard than I hold myself.
There is a decent light rail network through the South and East Bay and Silicon Valley, but there is literally no way for me to get to San Francisco via public transportation unless I go by bus,
We could have a Bart train across the Golden Gate, but Marin County prefers to use the Pacific Ocean as a moat to keep out all the "skeezy people" (as one friend of my mom's put it) from SF and Oakland.
Well, let's say you want to look up the process ID of the Bluefish editor you have running. You could write a perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl open(IN,"ps -ef |"); while (<IN>) {
if (/bluefish/) {
if (/^.*?\s(\d+)\s/) {
print "$1\n";
}
} }
Or you could type from the CLI: ps -ef | grep bluefish | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'
Which is more straightforward?
And I even cheated a little, by putting a bash system call in the perl script. I suppose there's a pure-perl way to get the process table, but why bother when I know what I want is ps?
Also, the mid-90s (for Perl) and early-2000s (for Python) is hardly the "beginning of time." (I know both languages have been around longer, but those are approximately the periods that each language began being used in production environments.) Please don't say that. I was doing stuff in Unix well before perl was considered anything but a toy language, and I'm only in my mid-30s! And that's not old, damn it!
In the future... when the movie studios make their entire catalogs available for streaming, all the time, at a reasonable price? I'm not holding my breath.
I worked on a corporate campus that was well integrated into the city of Berkeley, CA, for instance. Being able to easily go have lunch somewhere interesting, or stop by a bookstore, or visit the farmers' market--in other words, do the normal stuff that human beings like to do, as opposed to what food-court designers like to do--was a huge benefit of my job being located where it was.
Working in an office park in South San Francisco, on the other hand, was like being perpetually stuck at the airport. My company provided a video game room to compensate. But it was like being an intelligent animal given a tire to play with at a poorly designed zoo. It is amazing to me that a place where tens of thousands of people work could be designed with so little thought to their needs other than cubicle space.
This is why Silicon Valley companies such as Google provide all these seemingly cool benefits such as gourmet cafeterias. The office parks and campuses leave a lot to be desired in terms of quality of life when you're hiring people who may have just moved from a cool college town. As nice as the cafeteria at Google is, I doubt it's as cool as the gourmet gulch I left behind in Berkeley.
...and after perhaps 100 attempts, I *finally* passed the Burn and Lap challenge, after which it didn't take me that long to finish Driving School, which unlocks the street races and Export / Import missions. This is after I've completed the storyline for the first time 4 years ago, and completed it again once after that.
Is six years too long to be stopped by one stupid challenge from unlocking a significant portion of the game?
Dumb phones with prepaid minutes is more like it. A lot of poor people don't even have a checking account, never mind the credit rating to subscribe to a monthly plan.
I've copy edited books for the consumer market (mostly test prep for IT certifications) and we used Word for the job. It's not terrible, as long as you use stylesheets instead of physical markup. And no way was I going to force the author to use LaTex.
Did you really think $9.99/mo for 1 DVD at a time + all the streaming content you can eat was going to last forever? Those are *startup* prices. They do that to grow the business, then they jack up the prices when they need to be profitable.
And they're never going to include new releases in the all-you-can-eat streaming at that price.
I do wish they would stop changing the streaming / not streaming status of movies, however. It's frustrating when a movie that has been out for ten years, and was streamable last week, suddenly is not streamable. Can't say I understand the reasoning behind that, other than that their licensing just makes no damn sense.
You misunderstand the definition of "right" if you think rights are limited to those explicitly defined in the U.S. Constitution. The right to an education is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights, yet this is generally accepted as a right in all democratic countries. (And in many states, it is explicitly defined in the state constitution.) In the US, there is a wide array of rights that fall under the umbrella of the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And in the rest of the world's democracies, it is generally accepted that everyone is entitled to the things that are required for participation in democratic governance. In some societies, that means access to higher education, housing, health care--and more recently broadband Internet--are all considered rights. In the US that is stilll open to debate. But in no 21st century democracy are "rights" limited to what we define in the Bill of Rights.
Just take some CS classes and leave university without taking a degree. Oh, you think you should be able to get a B.S. degree without doing any non-C.S. coursework? Sorry, that's not what a bachelor's degree signifies.
By the time American colonists started moving westward from the East Coast in large numbers, most Native American tribes had already been exposed to European diseases and technology for more than 200 years. Most of the damage from disease followed the Spanish conquest of South American and Mexico in the 16th and 17th centuries and spread northward through trade.
In March, Connie Ballmer noted that Lakeside’s tuition is $8,446-a-year less than the per-student expenses incurred by the school, thanks to the magic of fundraising. Records show that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation contributed $34 million to Lakeside in 2008, and $40 million in 2005, primarily in support of the school’s capital campaigns.
Yes, there is something truly magical about being able to hold tuition down to $35,000 per year when you have backing from two Microsoft founders. Good job, fundraisers!
I'm assuming the kids are playing the game on the parents' iphone. Nothing wrong with keeping the kids occupied on a long car trip. Would you rather they count out-of-state license plates or something equally mind-numbing?
About half the desktop systems were Mac clones. No real Macs. And actually, in spite of the job security it wasn't that much fun supporting all these junky machines. From that job, I learned everything *not* to do.
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This business of locking up the supply of parts ought to pique the interest of antitrust regulators (if any still exist.)
You agreed. You signed the papers. You gave them your word and honesty that you would do whatever it would take to pay them back.
Er... no. The only creditor who requires you do "whatever it takes" to pay them back is a loanshark. To paraphrase Goodfellas: "Your kid needs an operation? F- you. PAY ME. House burned down? F- you PAY ME."
Loansharking, btw, is ILLEGAL.
For most types of loans, if the loan agreement can't be kept, you file for bankruptcy. The only debts that can't be discharged in bankruptcy are student loans and child support. For some reason, we hold financially naive 18-year-olds betting on their future to a higher standard than corporations betting on a business model.
Great! Now all we have to do is convince people like the Koch brothers to redistribute the majority of their wealth to the sciences and to the people who formerly would have been employed in their factories. So they can "play."
Neither I nor Karl Marx foresee any obstacles to the implementation of this scheme.
Then Apple Caymans, who owes no taxes of any kind, is a corp controlled by Apple USA. Apple Caymans then buys the laptop for $100 from the far east and sells it to Apple USA for $1000. The $900 profit is all profit, they pay no taxes on it.
Although I can hold Jobs somewhat accountable for this, I hold him less culpable than A) Corporate CEOs who actively lobby to ensure this state of affairs continues and B) the political leaders who cater to them. Is there any evidence that Jobs was part of Group A?
For my part, I think we should have "fair trade" agreements that require our trading partners to meet a minimum standard for democracy, human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection. And I think Apple should pay taxes on that $900 in the example you cited. I support companies and candidates that promote this view. But I don't boycott all Chinese, Burmese, Saudi Arabian et al products because it's just too hard to do, and I'm not of the view that consumer boycotts are going to change these trade agreements. And I sleep just fine at night. So I can't really hold a corporate CEO to a higher standard than I hold myself.
There is a decent light rail network through the South and East Bay and Silicon Valley, but there is literally no way for me to get to San Francisco via public transportation unless I go by bus,
We could have a Bart train across the Golden Gate, but Marin County prefers to use the Pacific Ocean as a moat to keep out all the "skeezy people" (as one friend of my mom's put it) from SF and Oakland.
/[b]luefish/ will match "bluefish" but not "awk /[b]luefish/"
Aha.
Why use grep (twice) if you call awk at the end anyway?
Because I have no idea why /[b]luefish/ doesn't match the "awk" line in the process list while /bluefish/ does?
Well, let's say you want to look up the process ID of the Bluefish editor you have running. You could write a perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
open(IN,"ps -ef |");
while (<IN>) {
if (/bluefish/) {
if (/^.*?\s(\d+)\s/) {
print "$1\n";
}
}
}
Or you could type from the CLI:
ps -ef | grep bluefish | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'
Which is more straightforward?
And I even cheated a little, by putting a bash system call in the perl script. I suppose there's a pure-perl way to get the process table, but why bother when I know what I want is ps?
Also, the mid-90s (for Perl) and early-2000s (for Python) is hardly the "beginning of time." (I know both languages have been around longer, but those are approximately the periods that each language began being used in production environments.) Please don't say that. I was doing stuff in Unix well before perl was considered anything but a toy language, and I'm only in my mid-30s! And that's not old, damn it!
In the future... when the movie studios make their entire catalogs available for streaming, all the time, at a reasonable price? I'm not holding my breath.
There's no issue whatsoever. They clearly violated his rights.
...I'll take a city any day.
I worked on a corporate campus that was well integrated into the city of Berkeley, CA, for instance. Being able to easily go have lunch somewhere interesting, or stop by a bookstore, or visit the farmers' market--in other words, do the normal stuff that human beings like to do, as opposed to what food-court designers like to do--was a huge benefit of my job being located where it was.
Working in an office park in South San Francisco, on the other hand, was like being perpetually stuck at the airport. My company provided a video game room to compensate. But it was like being an intelligent animal given a tire to play with at a poorly designed zoo. It is amazing to me that a place where tens of thousands of people work could be designed with so little thought to their needs other than cubicle space.
This is why Silicon Valley companies such as Google provide all these seemingly cool benefits such as gourmet cafeterias. The office parks and campuses leave a lot to be desired in terms of quality of life when you're hiring people who may have just moved from a cool college town. As nice as the cafeteria at Google is, I doubt it's as cool as the gourmet gulch I left behind in Berkeley.
It's his blog, he can post what he wants.
Some times he posts about science fiction.
Some times he posts about indie bands he's into.
It wouldn't surprise me if he were reading this thread.
...and after perhaps 100 attempts, I *finally* passed the Burn and Lap challenge, after which it didn't take me that long to finish Driving School, which unlocks the street races and Export / Import missions. This is after I've completed the storyline for the first time 4 years ago, and completed it again once after that.
Is six years too long to be stopped by one stupid challenge from unlocking a significant portion of the game?
YES!
The PC will not be obsolete as long as there are still a few people around who actually *do some work*, rather than just consume entertainment.
Dumb phones with prepaid minutes is more like it. A lot of poor people don't even have a checking account, never mind the credit rating to subscribe to a monthly plan.
I've copy edited books for the consumer market (mostly test prep for IT certifications) and we used Word for the job. It's not terrible, as long as you use stylesheets instead of physical markup. And no way was I going to force the author to use LaTex.
Is there some reason MS Word or OpenOffice + stylesheets aren't up to the task? It sounds like you might be overcomplicating things.
Did you really think $9.99/mo for 1 DVD at a time + all the streaming content you can eat was going to last forever? Those are *startup* prices. They do that to grow the business, then they jack up the prices when they need to be profitable.
And they're never going to include new releases in the all-you-can-eat streaming at that price.
I do wish they would stop changing the streaming / not streaming status of movies, however. It's frustrating when a movie that has been out for ten years, and was streamable last week, suddenly is not streamable. Can't say I understand the reasoning behind that, other than that their licensing just makes no damn sense.
You misunderstand the definition of "right" if you think rights are limited to those explicitly defined in the U.S. Constitution. The right to an education is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights, yet this is generally accepted as a right in all democratic countries. (And in many states, it is explicitly defined in the state constitution.) In the US, there is a wide array of rights that fall under the umbrella of the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And in the rest of the world's democracies, it is generally accepted that everyone is entitled to the things that are required for participation in democratic governance. In some societies, that means access to higher education, housing, health care--and more recently broadband Internet--are all considered rights. In the US that is stilll open to debate. But in no 21st century democracy are "rights" limited to what we define in the Bill of Rights.
Just take some CS classes and leave university without taking a degree. Oh, you think you should be able to get a B.S. degree without doing any non-C.S. coursework? Sorry, that's not what a bachelor's degree signifies.
By the time American colonists started moving westward from the East Coast in large numbers, most Native American tribes had already been exposed to European diseases and technology for more than 200 years. Most of the damage from disease followed the Spanish conquest of South American and Mexico in the 16th and 17th centuries and spread northward through trade.
I LOL'ed:
Yes, there is something truly magical about being able to hold tuition down to $35,000 per year when you have backing from two Microsoft founders. Good job, fundraisers!
I'm assuming the kids are playing the game on the parents' iphone. Nothing wrong with keeping the kids occupied on a long car trip. Would you rather they count out-of-state license plates or something equally mind-numbing?
About half the desktop systems were Mac clones. No real Macs. And actually, in spite of the job security it wasn't that much fun supporting all these junky machines. From that job, I learned everything *not* to do.
I should add, we assembled many of the desktop systems ourselves to save money. Woo-ee! What a tech support full-employment act!