My point is that our use of the Earth is a "problem" that will solve itself. Do you really think that there is anything anyone can do to "save" the Earth short of killing billions of people?
People live and die every day, it is one big happy competition, and I don't believe that you'll find very many existing people willing to give up any advantage they have over other "tribes".
While the article referenced above points out a "problem", it does nothing to suggest a solution either. And I'm afraid your analogies don't work either.
Equilibrium is precisely what will "save" us all in the end. Resources will not get used up, because once they become scarce, price goes up, demand will decrease. That goes for food/oil/water/dirt/anything you can think of.
So, instead of screaming "THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM" about the elephant sitting in the back seat of the car, perhaps looking to reasons and conclusions about our problem might help in a more productive way.
We could talk about the global corruption that constantly keeps un-industrialized nations under the collective heel of the West. We could talk about political problems between the different civilizations on the Earth that keep certain sections of the population subjugated to whatever corrupt influences that exist.
The CNN article and the paper that inspired it is bunk, clear and simple. It does nothing, says nothing and means nothing. It is to express the opinion of people who want large sections of the Earth to be uninhabited to satisfy their sense of esthetics. Nothing more, nothing less.
I hate to bring this up, but we are all still subject to laws of conservation of mass and matter, which roughly translate into an equilibrium.
I really have a tough time stomaching environmentalist arguments about "overuse" and "overpopulation", because those arguments invariably ignore any idea of equilibrium. There will be an equilibrium to everything humans do. If we eat too much food, one of two things will happen: we figure out how to make more food, or we die. Period.
So I have a serious problem with this being an issue. Also, if you look at the map, a good percentage of the land surface was left out of the equation because of "no data". So what, no data. Just because it's inhospitable doesn't mean you leave it out of your equation. Add Antarctica (artica? arctica? I can never remember...) and I'll bet that number drops a good bit. No one can really live easily in Death Valley or the Sahara, but people still do it.
Hell, looking at the green area of the map really tells me that only about 50% of the land on Earth is really being used or exploited.
This article is just more of the same sensationalist crap that we have come to know and love from our environmentalist whacko friends.
Don't force my personal opinion on anyone else? Who the fuck is forcing anyone to do anything. Multiple posts to my previous comment told me not to force my opinion on someone else, but the last I heard, this is a fucking opinion oriented message board. And just who have I forced to change?
When is the last time someone posted something on/. that did not contain an opinion? Perhaps never? (and for you idiots, I'm being facetious).
What I said is "SETI@Home is a waste of CPU cycles."...not "change to Folding@Home or I will hunt you down and eat your children".
Last I heard, this was an opinion oriented discussion board. Your stupid fucking troll post could easily be applied to anything anyone says about anything. Fuck yourself.
Will all you million or two yahoos using SETI@Home please stop and start using Folding@Home and Genome@Home. SETI is a nice concept, and I don't wish for it to go away, but it is a waste of your spare CPU cycles.
Even if we do find "aliens", they are apt to be tens if not hundreds of light years away. Cancer and Cystic Fibrosis are here right now.
Put your CPU cycles to good use. Say NO to SETI and YES to Folding/Genome@Home.
I know this is a little late, but if you're smart enough, you'll read all these comments for good advice. Many of which are chaff.
First question to ask yourself: Why do you want a degree?
I think the only answer that would seem justifiable is "hot college aged co-eds". If you have a company that is "okay" (and that better mean "making money"), a degree does not help your career.
If however, your company is bleeding cash like a stuck pig, and you are looking for a job, getting your degree seems reasonable. Unfortunately, the time you spend in University is going to further detract from your bleeding company and it is going to go out of business even faster.
So, if you are currently living off the proceeds of your company's revenue, your best career move is to spend your time building your revenue stream. If you build that stream to the point where you can sell the company or "retire", then, by all means, go get that degree, so you can seem smarter in the eyes of others.
If you don't care what others think, screw it. Calculus is not going to help your bottom line. Neither is knowing how to write a compiler.
I wasn't specifically thinking of eXtreme programming, but pairing two of your lessers will certainly add motivation. It's much harder to play freecell if you have another person sitting there watching you be a dipshit.
One of the big problems with geeks is that they can be assholes, as you may witness by some of the replies to my first post.
Did y'all even read the whole original story? This guy has a problem that he needs to fix right now. Firing people for two weeks of uselessness isn't going to solve the problem. If you haven't read The Mythical Man Month, go read it now. Bringing on new programmers half way through a job often makes the job take longer. Firing the old, less effective folks, and bringing on new folks is going to do just that. At the very least, the programmers that are there know the company and know what the project is and know all the other people on the project.
The original poster did not ask "what should I do?", he asked "how do I make these people more effective?". Hiring replacements can sometimes take months, and when you do so, you're not guaranteed that the new programmers are going to be any different than the folks you just fired. So let us focus on how to solve the problem, not make it worse.
Number one, don't be an ass. I've been on projects where I've been treated as something less than human for asking questions. That is not very conducive to productivity.
If you truly want to bring the "lesser" coders up to speed, you're going to have to make an investment of time. You may even want to consider pair programming for a period of time. Not only will it make the other coders familiar with your style, but it may make them aware of many "tricks" that aren't documented in your standard learn-to-program-in-21-days piece of garbage college course.
...perhaps not "the Deity of your choosing" but "a Deity of your choosing"...That way, Ganesh or Vishnu, you could pick either one without making your choice mutually exclusive.
The employees in the store have both no control and no idea about delivery of product to their individual stores. I worked there for a while...we were all clueless and as full of it as any other salesperson.:-)
This may be the first somewhat innovative thing that M$ has done in a good long time. Unless innovation doesn't mean bringing things to market. I generally hate M$, but UltimateTV had two receivers before Tivo, still only costs $10/month (and they're still updating the software and coming out with new units).
If I could throw my DVD player into the same unit as my DSS/PVR, that would kick so much ass. I use the PS2 as my DVD player right now, but I'd like to free up a digital audio port for a CD player or mp3 storage box for my stereo. I don't care if the PS2 is digital because I've still only seen one game mixed in 5.1, and that was only SOME of the cutscenes of Metal Gear Solid 2...mucho dissapointing (on the audio angle...otherwise, kick ass game).
So what I get to do is buy the new UltimateTV/XBox thingy for $500 (or whatever) instead of buying a $1000 5.1 receiver with 4+ digital audio inputs on it. I like my receiver, and I don't want to buy a new one.
...as much. You've got to realize that the digital projectors don't have moving parts, and therefore, aren't going to be as prone to breakage. You'll have to replace the bulb now and again, just like any other projector, but not any motors or gears or wheels or any of that rot.
Don't worry about the thing breaking...just make sure you've got a warranty and a service contract.
Reason numero uno to go to college. Sex. I had more sex in college than ever and I sometimes think about going back just for that. You'll meat shedloads of people and have a lot of fun, but for the money, the sex is the biggest reason to go.
This is ridiculous...one Turner idiot bitching about PVR's while another increases their functionality. What a crock of shit...the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing and they both look stupid.
Well, if you'd be so kind as to point out my spelling mistakes, I'd much appreciate it. I pride myself on being a better speller than most, but sometimes I do hit the wrong key on the keyboard.
I did check again and cannot find what you reference. I wrote the letter in a personal tone, thus the contractions and terseness, so does that perhaps cover what you're bitching at me for?
Heheheh...sometimes when I write to an editor of a publication I like to write to the editor, not the public. It seems more personal to me rather than political.
And I agree, there's not a snowballs chance, one, because of swearing, and two, because the tone is rather blunt and accusatory...altogether, not my most professional letter.:-)
Sometimes you never know though. For instance, I wrote Peter Martin of the Financial Times about one of his op-ed columns the other day and he was nice enough to reply himself. He also included two other columns on the subject that he'd written before. I don't really care if FT publishes my letter, but I do care when journalists respond to their readers.
Funny that, more a courtesy than anything else...saying up front that I'm bitching at the editor rather than requesting that he publish my opinion in his newspaper. I suppose I could have worded that better.
I would guess a change of CPU is "not an upgrade" but a completely new machine in the mind of M$. Perhaps that's why Intel put that damn serial number on their CPU's...so M$ could track how you moved their software around and get you for more "pay per use".
...but Microsoft might be. You might want to take a look at the EULA from M$ and see if they allow the transfer of operating system. Not that I'm suggesting you follow that load of malarky, but it may be a consideration.
Personally, if they're just office type machines. Get Star Office and Linux and see what you can do. Experiment with a couple of your users to see how much trouble it might be.
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And your point is?
My point is that our use of the Earth is a "problem" that will solve itself. Do you really think that there is anything anyone can do to "save" the Earth short of killing billions of people?
People live and die every day, it is one big happy competition, and I don't believe that you'll find very many existing people willing to give up any advantage they have over other "tribes".
While the article referenced above points out a "problem", it does nothing to suggest a solution either. And I'm afraid your analogies don't work either.
Equilibrium is precisely what will "save" us all in the end. Resources will not get used up, because once they become scarce, price goes up, demand will decrease. That goes for food/oil/water/dirt/anything you can think of.
So, instead of screaming "THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM" about the elephant sitting in the back seat of the car, perhaps looking to reasons and conclusions about our problem might help in a more productive way.
We could talk about the global corruption that constantly keeps un-industrialized nations under the collective heel of the West. We could talk about political problems between the different civilizations on the Earth that keep certain sections of the population subjugated to whatever corrupt influences that exist.
The CNN article and the paper that inspired it is bunk, clear and simple. It does nothing, says nothing and means nothing. It is to express the opinion of people who want large sections of the Earth to be uninhabited to satisfy their sense of esthetics. Nothing more, nothing less.
I hate to bring this up, but we are all still subject to laws of conservation of mass and matter, which roughly translate into an equilibrium.
I really have a tough time stomaching environmentalist arguments about "overuse" and "overpopulation", because those arguments invariably ignore any idea of equilibrium. There will be an equilibrium to everything humans do. If we eat too much food, one of two things will happen: we figure out how to make more food, or we die. Period.
So I have a serious problem with this being an issue. Also, if you look at the map, a good percentage of the land surface was left out of the equation because of "no data". So what, no data. Just because it's inhospitable doesn't mean you leave it out of your equation. Add Antarctica (artica? arctica? I can never remember...) and I'll bet that number drops a good bit. No one can really live easily in Death Valley or the Sahara, but people still do it.
Hell, looking at the green area of the map really tells me that only about 50% of the land on Earth is really being used or exploited.
This article is just more of the same sensationalist crap that we have come to know and love from our environmentalist whacko friends.
Hear hear! We are agreed!
Don't force my personal opinion on anyone else? Who the fuck is forcing anyone to do anything. Multiple posts to my previous comment told me not to force my opinion on someone else, but the last I heard, this is a fucking opinion oriented message board. And just who have I forced to change?
/. that did not contain an opinion? Perhaps never? (and for you idiots, I'm being facetious).
When is the last time someone posted something on
What I said is "SETI@Home is a waste of CPU cycles."...not "change to Folding@Home or I will hunt you down and eat your children".
Flame on, morons.
Last I heard, this was an opinion oriented discussion board. Your stupid fucking troll post could easily be applied to anything anyone says about anything. Fuck yourself.
Will all you million or two yahoos using SETI@Home please stop and start using Folding@Home and Genome@Home. SETI is a nice concept, and I don't wish for it to go away, but it is a waste of your spare CPU cycles.
Even if we do find "aliens", they are apt to be tens if not hundreds of light years away. Cancer and Cystic Fibrosis are here right now.
Put your CPU cycles to good use. Say NO to SETI and YES to Folding/Genome@Home.
I know this is a little late, but if you're smart enough, you'll read all these comments for good advice. Many of which are chaff.
First question to ask yourself: Why do you want a degree?
I think the only answer that would seem justifiable is "hot college aged co-eds". If you have a company that is "okay" (and that better mean "making money"), a degree does not help your career.
If however, your company is bleeding cash like a stuck pig, and you are looking for a job, getting your degree seems reasonable. Unfortunately, the time you spend in University is going to further detract from your bleeding company and it is going to go out of business even faster.
So, if you are currently living off the proceeds of your company's revenue, your best career move is to spend your time building your revenue stream. If you build that stream to the point where you can sell the company or "retire", then, by all means, go get that degree, so you can seem smarter in the eyes of others.
If you don't care what others think, screw it. Calculus is not going to help your bottom line. Neither is knowing how to write a compiler.
Exactly. A good bunch of idears there...
I wasn't specifically thinking of eXtreme programming, but pairing two of your lessers will certainly add motivation. It's much harder to play freecell if you have another person sitting there watching you be a dipshit.
One of the big problems with geeks is that they can be assholes, as you may witness by some of the replies to my first post.
Did y'all even read the whole original story? This guy has a problem that he needs to fix right now . Firing people for two weeks of uselessness isn't going to solve the problem. If you haven't read The Mythical Man Month, go read it now. Bringing on new programmers half way through a job often makes the job take longer. Firing the old, less effective folks, and bringing on new folks is going to do just that. At the very least, the programmers that are there know the company and know what the project is and know all the other people on the project.
The original poster did not ask "what should I do?", he asked "how do I make these people more effective?". Hiring replacements can sometimes take months, and when you do so, you're not guaranteed that the new programmers are going to be any different than the folks you just fired. So let us focus on how to solve the problem, not make it worse.
Number one, don't be an ass. I've been on projects where I've been treated as something less than human for asking questions. That is not very conducive to productivity.
If you truly want to bring the "lesser" coders up to speed, you're going to have to make an investment of time. You may even want to consider pair programming for a period of time. Not only will it make the other coders familiar with your style, but it may make them aware of many "tricks" that aren't documented in your standard learn-to-program-in-21-days piece of garbage college course.
...perhaps not "the Deity of your choosing" but "a Deity of your choosing"...That way, Ganesh or Vishnu, you could pick either one without making your choice mutually exclusive.
The employees in the store have both no control and no idea about delivery of product to their individual stores. I worked there for a while...we were all clueless and as full of it as any other salesperson. :-)
http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11122313&m=1&c at=1551&scat=245
Bestbuy.com...tivo, $399. What kinda crack are you anti-pvr types smoking? PVR is the coolest thing in the world.
If you're going to say stupid shit like the PVR market is in trouble, you better be able to back it up.
This may be the first somewhat innovative thing that M$ has done in a good long time. Unless innovation doesn't mean bringing things to market. I generally hate M$, but UltimateTV had two receivers before Tivo, still only costs $10/month (and they're still updating the software and coming out with new units).
If I could throw my DVD player into the same unit as my DSS/PVR, that would kick so much ass. I use the PS2 as my DVD player right now, but I'd like to free up a digital audio port for a CD player or mp3 storage box for my stereo. I don't care if the PS2 is digital because I've still only seen one game mixed in 5.1, and that was only SOME of the cutscenes of Metal Gear Solid 2...mucho dissapointing (on the audio angle...otherwise, kick ass game).
So what I get to do is buy the new UltimateTV/XBox thingy for $500 (or whatever) instead of buying a $1000 5.1 receiver with 4+ digital audio inputs on it. I like my receiver, and I don't want to buy a new one.
...as much. You've got to realize that the digital projectors don't have moving parts, and therefore, aren't going to be as prone to breakage. You'll have to replace the bulb now and again, just like any other projector, but not any motors or gears or wheels or any of that rot.
Don't worry about the thing breaking...just make sure you've got a warranty and a service contract.
You should do both. That's what Hotfixes and Service Packs are for...except that M$ only fixes what it has to...not what it should.
Why not, fuckball? You got some sort of problem with your sex-shu-ality? Either that or just not any balls. Of course, that's a trait of most AC's.
Reason numero uno to go to college. Sex. I had more sex in college than ever and I sometimes think about going back just for that. You'll meat shedloads of people and have a lot of fun, but for the money, the sex is the biggest reason to go.
This is ridiculous...one Turner idiot bitching about PVR's while another increases their functionality. What a crock of shit...the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing and they both look stupid.
Well, if you'd be so kind as to point out my spelling mistakes, I'd much appreciate it. I pride myself on being a better speller than most, but sometimes I do hit the wrong key on the keyboard.
I did check again and cannot find what you reference. I wrote the letter in a personal tone, thus the contractions and terseness, so does that perhaps cover what you're bitching at me for?
Heheheh...sometimes when I write to an editor of a publication I like to write to the editor, not the public. It seems more personal to me rather than political.
:-)
And I agree, there's not a snowballs chance, one, because of swearing, and two, because the tone is rather blunt and accusatory...altogether, not my most professional letter.
Sometimes you never know though. For instance, I wrote Peter Martin of the Financial Times about one of his op-ed columns the other day and he was nice enough to reply himself. He also included two other columns on the subject that he'd written before. I don't really care if FT publishes my letter, but I do care when journalists respond to their readers.
Funny that, more a courtesy than anything else...saying up front that I'm bitching at the editor rather than requesting that he publish my opinion in his newspaper. I suppose I could have worded that better.
I already did bitch to them:
http://ginworks.ath.cx/misc/dallasmornnews.txt
I would guess a change of CPU is "not an upgrade" but a completely new machine in the mind of M$. Perhaps that's why Intel put that damn serial number on their CPU's...so M$ could track how you moved their software around and get you for more "pay per use".
...but Microsoft might be. You might want to take a look at the EULA from M$ and see if they allow the transfer of operating system. Not that I'm suggesting you follow that load of malarky, but it may be a consideration.
Personally, if they're just office type machines. Get Star Office and Linux and see what you can do. Experiment with a couple of your users to see how much trouble it might be.