It's fine for you to support whatever policies -- whether you've thought them out or not -- that you feel so inclined to support. Go for it. But hating me for taking your entry-level job? That's just plain stupid. My entry level job was at a f***ing BAKERY. Might as well blame everyone who ever got a job before you. Sounds like you've got a fine, fully-developed case of "blame-itis." As for selling out, I'm not sure what you mean: I currently work at a startup, where my future is anything but certain, all in the hope that a) I make some money, and b) that we grow a company that -- gasp -- can employ people and make cool product! I've also worked HARD to get people hired (both here and elsewhere), and have had some degree of success. Now, if you are still anxious to blame someone you've never met for all your life's ills, I suggest taking up religion, too: the devil's a real baddy, he is!
Oh, cry me a river. I got my start during a recession, with no college diploma. I'm sorry, but I worked five years in a bakery, and did contracting jobs for another five, slowly, arduously working my way up the IT ladder. I don't begrudge people who do it the "right" way by going to school and starting out with contacts, but I sure didn't do it that way, and I don't want to hear it when people whine about how hard it was for them. If you don't like IT: GET OUT. Others will be glad to fill your shoes.
No. That's not how it works. It -is- a level playing field, almost by default: their cost of living is lower than ours, regardless of the reason. That means that there are certain things that they can do cheaper. WE HAVE TO LET THEM. Eventually, their economy will get better, raising their cost of living... or it won't, and they'll no longer be a concern. But if you try to "level" the playing field, you're just kidding yourself. If someone else can do it cheaper, and you don't let them, YOU WILL LOSE: that's the only sure bet. Check history if you don't believe me; gov't instituted remedies in situations like this just don't work, as most socialist countries were fine examples of. Free market may not be fun, but it's the only game that consistently wins, because there's nothing artificial, and greed -- the great human motivator -- is allowed to run rampant.
I feel for people who've lost jobs -- my wife lost hers, twice, and several of my friends did as well. But you know what? It keeps the labor market dynamic. "Well, if this is dynamic, I want none of it!" Sorry, but that's a kneejerk reaction: if people overseas can do it cheaper, and maybe even better, WE HAVE TO LET THEM. If we don't, then some day they'll come along and simply overpower us, because they -aren't- stagnant. Look at what happened (say) to American automakers when they were dismissive of Japan! How about textile workers? It's part of being in a global economy. Unless we wish to become entirely self-sufficient and isolationist, we HAVE to learn to do well what we do well: innovate, create jobs, create wealth and opportunity. But don't try to bail out a tepid economy with finger pointing and a leaky pot.
I called up my ISP (Choice One Communications). Here's a rough transcription:
"Hello, Choice One Communications. How may I help you?" "Hi. I'd like to report a problem with our T1." "Okay, sir. Go ahead: what's your problem?" "Well, we're dropping between 15% and 20% of our packets." *pause* "What's a packet?"
There's this huge broughaha over jobs going overseas. Did anyone care when it was textile jobs going overseas? Not really. How about steel? Manufacturing? Nope. Barely a peep from anything that didn't have the word "union" associated. But now that it's finally worked its way up to white collar jobs, the nation is suddenly endangered.
You know what, folks? Cope! It's part of living in a global economy, whether you like free trade or not. Unless you're totally isolationist, it's something that is just going to have to be dealt with.
I'm not implying that I don't feel for those who've lost jobs, but I've known a LOT of people who have (including my wife, a tech writer, TWICE), and most all of them have found employment if they were, well, employable. Some had to change venues, but to be brutally honest, that was separating wheat from chaff.
Frankly, for the most of us, it's a good wakeup call. I've seen too many people grow cushy in their jobs, and buy houses that, once they get canned, they suddenly can't afford to live in, because nowhere else is paying like middle management job they had for the past 15 years.
I've always been interested in the Mindstorms, but never quite enough to buy 'em, always figuring "Some day, some day..." Well, it looks like "some day" has arrived, and I don't know which ones to geek out on. I'd like to:
- Have something mobile - Have it be controllable via Linux - Have it do nifty things
For those of you that've already bought/geeked out on/played with them, which models (that are still available) have brought you the most joy? ------------------
He's attempting to be even-handed, but, instead, is just stupid. Granted -- I'm not taking the time to actually read his unbalanced whine, but right off the bat, I see one out-and-out lie: "Apart from Ximian's desktop, there is no major product using GTK."
Ummm... would the GIMP count as a major product? How 'bout GNUCash?
Let's face it: this guy's a bozo. And, yeah, a coward -- which is the reason he sits there, makes all these amazing, bizarre claims, with nothing to back them up, and posts as an AC. Granted: I think Miguel's ego could drop a notch or two, and I definitely think the KDE developer community is more interested in harmony than... well, Miguel is. [Most of the GTK/Gnome developers are pretty reasonable folk, from what I've seen.]
Do I like GTK/Gnome more? Slightly -- or, perhaps I should say that I don't like being tied to a WM, and I like a panel, and Gnome's does a fine job. Does either "Suck"? Ummm... no. Stupid people who write stupid, long-winded rants "suck." People who attempt, instead, to inform, in an objective, open manner, OTOH, can actually help the OSS community AS A WHOLE, instead of picking sides, and sniping at those who disagree. Frankly, I'm -glad- there are two main competing libraries/environments: competition is good. Just look at Windows if you don't believe me. If either were the clear winner, stagnation would be the result. As it is, the developers are kept on their toes, and -- welcome to OSS -- can freely pilfer ideas from each other without fear of (say) patent reprisals.
Well, 'nuff for now: I'd hate to become as long-winded as the schmuck I'm criticizing...
Free Enterprise. It is a surprisingly good (really!) film about just the kinds of folks who read Slashdot. While not a spoof on Star Trek, it nevertheless has fun with it -- and even at Mr. Shatner's expense. And, yes, he plays himself. It's a heapload of fun -- and the DVD has some hysterical "special features." Get it.
Sharky? A/K/A Wormtongue? He's there -- look for him at Theoden's side in TTT. But, from appearances, we won't be seeing him in LotR, and I have to agree with you re: "The Scouring of the Shire". With regards to the original poster's feelings, I think you need to look at the films seperately from the books if you intend to enjoy them. Sadly, I know them a bit too well to do so, but everyone I know who -hasn't- virtually memorized them enjoy the movies, and I guess that that's okay. I don't mind change for brevity's sake, but change for change's sake annoys me.
Ummmm... knifed in the back, pulled a "Wicked Witch of the West," and his spirit -- or what-have-you -- gets denied permission to go to the West, and disappates. That's deader'n even Sauron ever got. Color me confused.
Sorry if I act unsurprised, but isn't this really the point we (the "hacker community," if you will) have been making all along? And isn't this exactly the same point that we (or, at least, I) have been flamingly livid with the bozos at the RIAA and MPAA for Just Not Getting? These freaking morons think that new technology is something to be scared of, instead of (*gasp*) exploited.
Duh.
Thank God in Heaven above that legit services -- with DRM or no -- have come about, and finally we have some real figures to shove down the throats of those who complain that CD sales are dropping because of piracy. NEWSFLASH: they're dropping because people don't find the medium -- and especially the tedium in acquiring said medium -- convenient. Get in the car, go to the mall, find a parking spot, go to the store, fight the crowds, wait on line, buy a CD, reverse process, play.
Look: we can't start clamping down ports -- especially on an Internet-wide basis -- merely because the predominant home-based OS is flakey. Who knows what other ports MS will suddenly start having dain-bramage on next week? No: the answer here, and the only real answer, is for MS to actually start a) taking security seriously, b) _FUCKING DISABLING SERVICES_ by default, c) implementing honest-to-goodness stateful firewalls -- with the default for ALL in-bound service requests being "if it isn't local, reject".
First and foremost, leave everything in your inbox. "But the point of this excercise is to _organize_ my ifnormation!" Well, yes. Which brings me two the second mechanism(s): use Evolution's v-folders. I really wish that more clients supported v-folders, because they the ideal metaphor for e-mail soft links. So, now you're stuff's "organized" in one folder, and many sub-folders. Why is the "one folder" bit important? Because -- and here's the nifty part -- you can now grep/Perl/regex the hell out of it with a fair bit of facility.
Dude. Whoah. You really need to lighten up a little. You have some valid points, but you also have some (almost incredibly so) invalid points. We put up RBLs about two months ago, and the stuff our Bayesian filter catches dropped by (are you watching closely?) _97%_. Terribly sorry, but I call that results. What you outline is indeed what many of the spammers do, but, apparently, nowhere near the majority. So lighten up, admit that black lists -- while an imperfect solution -- DO work, and move on with your life. Sheesh.
Nine times out of ten, a hard drive dies because of media defects -- then you're (pretty) screwed. Sometimes, the stepper motor dies. Then, you're screwed. But, if you give it juice, and either -nothing- happens (no LEDs, etc.), or the BIOS doesn't see it, it's likeley the board. As always, troubleshoot starting with the obvious, and work toward the unlikely.
Ummm... CN: the drive was -dead-. Ain't nothin' short of a new board that would've fixed it. (Okay -- sending the platters out for oodles of money would have, too.) Also, I don't know why this is labeled "the hard way." I've done it three times, en-toto, and it takes about ten minutes so long as you've got the correct Torx/Phillips/whatever. [Note: DON'T try doing it with the wrong tools; you'll probably just strip the head, and then it gets more fun.]
Actually, no: _also_ owning a 1600sw with Multilink adapter, I'll flat-out state that, unless you're driving it at an even divisor (it also allows 800x512, if you read the docs), you get fuzzy letters, somewhat akin to sub-pixel rendering. Having had to use it in non-1600x1024 resolution occasionally (my Number 9 died), it's like night and day when I go back.
What they have is a fixed number of pixels. The entirely unsatisfactory solution to this dilemma is to merely drive it at an inferior resolution. It'll look like garbage, but it'll be bigger. A much better solution, however, is to drive it at an even divisor of the number of pixels, which will give you clean output. For example, a 1600x1200 LCD could be driven at 800x600; the letters will be nice and crisp, and will be four times larger.
Shoplifting, by definition, infers the intent to take without remuneration. The taxicab driver leaves a (presumably his) credit card behind at the register -- a clear indication that, while humorously/morbidly conceding the inability to pay, he would have done so given the chance.
Just wanted to stick up for the good guys...
"On the Gripping Hand:" oh, puh-lease...
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This should _so_ have been titled, "Where's Waldo?"
I wonder... IANAL, but it still occurs to me that these bozos are really beginning to reach into the dreck, and they're doing it enough that it might be time for the Linux community might start to consider fighting fire with fire. Any lawyers out there who might give their considered opinion as to whether or not we, as a community, could sue them for something along the lines of "willfully and knowingly endangering our livelihoods by damaging the perception and credibility of the Linux operating system"?
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It's fine for you to support whatever policies -- whether you've thought them out or not -- that you feel so inclined to support. Go for it. But hating me for taking your entry-level job? That's just plain stupid. My entry level job was at a f***ing BAKERY. Might as well blame everyone who ever got a job before you. Sounds like you've got a fine, fully-developed case of "blame-itis." As for selling out, I'm not sure what you mean: I currently work at a startup, where my future is anything but certain, all in the hope that a) I make some money, and b) that we grow a company that -- gasp -- can employ people and make cool product! I've also worked HARD to get people hired (both here and elsewhere), and have had some degree of success. Now, if you are still anxious to blame someone you've never met for all your life's ills, I suggest taking up religion, too: the devil's a real baddy, he is!
Oh, cry me a river. I got my start during a recession, with no college diploma. I'm sorry, but I worked five years in a bakery, and did contracting jobs for another five, slowly, arduously working my way up the IT ladder. I don't begrudge people who do it the "right" way by going to school and starting out with contacts, but I sure didn't do it that way, and I don't want to hear it when people whine about how hard it was for them. If you don't like IT: GET OUT. Others will be glad to fill your shoes.
No. That's not how it works. It -is- a level playing field, almost by default: their cost of living is lower than ours, regardless of the reason. That means that there are certain things that they can do cheaper. WE HAVE TO LET THEM. Eventually, their economy will get better, raising their cost of living... or it won't, and they'll no longer be a concern. But if you try to "level" the playing field, you're just kidding yourself. If someone else can do it cheaper, and you don't let them, YOU WILL LOSE: that's the only sure bet. Check history if you don't believe me; gov't instituted remedies in situations like this just don't work, as most socialist countries were fine examples of. Free market may not be fun, but it's the only game that consistently wins, because there's nothing artificial, and greed -- the great human motivator -- is allowed to run rampant.
I feel for people who've lost jobs -- my wife lost hers, twice, and several of my friends did as well. But you know what? It keeps the labor market dynamic. "Well, if this is dynamic, I want none of it!" Sorry, but that's a kneejerk reaction: if people overseas can do it cheaper, and maybe even better, WE HAVE TO LET THEM. If we don't, then some day they'll come along and simply overpower us, because they -aren't- stagnant. Look at what happened (say) to American automakers when they were dismissive of Japan! How about textile workers? It's part of being in a global economy. Unless we wish to become entirely self-sufficient and isolationist, we HAVE to learn to do well what we do well: innovate, create jobs, create wealth and opportunity. But don't try to bail out a tepid economy with finger pointing and a leaky pot.
Should be 92 Tb/s. See the link. Still mighty zippy, though... I think I'll take two.
I called up my ISP (Choice One Communications). Here's a rough transcription:
"Hello, Choice One Communications. How may I help you?"
"Hi. I'd like to report a problem with our T1."
"Okay, sir. Go ahead: what's your problem?"
"Well, we're dropping between 15% and 20% of our packets."
*pause*
"What's a packet?"
There's this huge broughaha over jobs going overseas. Did anyone care when it was textile jobs going overseas? Not really. How about steel? Manufacturing? Nope. Barely a peep from anything that didn't have the word "union" associated. But now that it's finally worked its way up to white collar jobs, the nation is suddenly endangered.
You know what, folks? Cope! It's part of living in a global economy, whether you like free trade or not. Unless you're totally isolationist, it's something that is just going to have to be dealt with.
I'm not implying that I don't feel for those who've lost jobs, but I've known a LOT of people who have (including my wife, a tech writer, TWICE), and most all of them have found employment if they were, well, employable. Some had to change venues, but to be brutally honest, that was separating wheat from chaff.
Frankly, for the most of us, it's a good wakeup call. I've seen too many people grow cushy in their jobs, and buy houses that, once they get canned, they suddenly can't afford to live in, because nowhere else is paying like middle management job they had for the past 15 years.
$.02, + S&H
I've always been interested in the Mindstorms, but never quite enough to buy 'em, always figuring "Some day, some day..." Well, it looks like "some day" has arrived, and I don't know which ones to geek out on. I'd like to:
- Have something mobile
- Have it be controllable via Linux
- Have it do nifty things
For those of you that've already bought/geeked out on/played with them, which models (that are still available) have brought you the most joy?
------------------
He's attempting to be even-handed, but, instead, is just stupid. Granted -- I'm not taking the time to actually read his unbalanced whine, but right off the bat, I see one out-and-out lie: "Apart from Ximian's desktop, there is no major product using GTK."
Ummm... would the GIMP count as a major product? How 'bout GNUCash?
Let's face it: this guy's a bozo. And, yeah, a coward -- which is the reason he sits there, makes all these amazing, bizarre claims, with nothing to back them up, and posts as an AC. Granted: I think Miguel's ego could drop a notch or two, and I definitely think the KDE developer community is more interested in harmony than... well, Miguel is. [Most of the GTK/Gnome developers are pretty reasonable folk, from what I've seen.]
Do I like GTK/Gnome more? Slightly -- or, perhaps I should say that I don't like being tied to a WM, and I like a panel, and Gnome's does a fine job. Does either "Suck"? Ummm... no. Stupid people who write stupid, long-winded rants "suck." People who attempt, instead, to inform, in an objective, open manner, OTOH, can actually help the OSS community AS A WHOLE, instead of picking sides, and sniping at those who disagree. Frankly, I'm -glad- there are two main competing libraries/environments: competition is good. Just look at Windows if you don't believe me. If either were the clear winner, stagnation would be the result. As it is, the developers are kept on their toes, and -- welcome to OSS -- can freely pilfer ideas from each other without fear of (say) patent reprisals.
Well, 'nuff for now: I'd hate to become as long-winded as the schmuck I'm criticizing...
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Free Enterprise. It is a surprisingly good (really!) film about just the kinds of folks who read Slashdot. While not a spoof on Star Trek, it nevertheless has fun with it -- and even at Mr. Shatner's expense. And, yes, he plays himself. It's a heapload of fun -- and the DVD has some hysterical "special features." Get it.
Wow. And I thought -my- vocabulary was reasonably good; alas, I've been shown up. Thanks much for the pointer!
*mumbles "paralepsis" to self repeatedly*
It's called irony. Have some coffee.
Sharky? A/K/A Wormtongue? He's there -- look for him at Theoden's side in TTT. But, from appearances, we won't be seeing him in LotR, and I have to agree with you re: "The Scouring of the Shire". With regards to the original poster's feelings, I think you need to look at the films seperately from the books if you intend to enjoy them. Sadly, I know them a bit too well to do so, but everyone I know who -hasn't- virtually memorized them enjoy the movies, and I guess that that's okay. I don't mind change for brevity's sake, but change for change's sake annoys me.
[Spoiler warning:]
"Saruman was never destroyed in the book."
Ummmm... knifed in the back, pulled a "Wicked Witch of the West," and his spirit -- or what-have-you -- gets denied permission to go to the West, and disappates. That's deader'n even Sauron ever got. Color me confused.
Sorry if I act unsurprised, but isn't this really the point we (the "hacker community," if you will) have been making all along? And isn't this exactly the same point that we (or, at least, I) have been flamingly livid with the bozos at the RIAA and MPAA for Just Not Getting? These freaking morons think that new technology is something to be scared of, instead of (*gasp*) exploited.
Duh.
Thank God in Heaven above that legit services -- with DRM or no -- have come about, and finally we have some real figures to shove down the throats of those who complain that CD sales are dropping because of piracy. NEWSFLASH: they're dropping because people don't find the medium -- and especially the tedium in acquiring said medium -- convenient. Get in the car, go to the mall, find a parking spot, go to the store, fight the crowds, wait on line, buy a CD, reverse process, play.
Or, download.
Again, I say, duh.
Look: we can't start clamping down ports -- especially on an Internet-wide basis -- merely because the predominant home-based OS is flakey. Who knows what other ports MS will suddenly start having dain-bramage on next week? No: the answer here, and the only real answer, is for MS to actually start
a) taking security seriously,
b) _FUCKING DISABLING SERVICES_ by default,
c) implementing honest-to-goodness stateful firewalls -- with the default for ALL in-bound service requests being "if it isn't local, reject".
First and foremost, leave everything in your inbox.
"But the point of this excercise is to _organize_ my ifnormation!"
Well, yes. Which brings me two the second mechanism(s): use Evolution's v-folders. I really wish that more clients supported v-folders, because they the ideal metaphor for e-mail soft links. So, now you're stuff's "organized" in one folder, and many sub-folders. Why is the "one folder" bit important? Because -- and here's the nifty part -- you can now grep/Perl/regex the hell out of it with a fair bit of facility.
$.02
Dude. Whoah. You really need to lighten up a little. You have some valid points, but you also have some (almost incredibly so) invalid points. We put up RBLs about two months ago, and the stuff our Bayesian filter catches dropped by (are you watching closely?) _97%_. Terribly sorry, but I call that results. What you outline is indeed what many of the spammers do, but, apparently, nowhere near the majority. So lighten up, admit that black lists -- while an imperfect solution -- DO work, and move on with your life. Sheesh.
Nine times out of ten, a hard drive dies because of media defects -- then you're (pretty) screwed. Sometimes, the stepper motor dies. Then, you're screwed. But, if you give it juice, and either -nothing- happens (no LEDs, etc.), or the BIOS doesn't see it, it's likeley the board. As always, troubleshoot starting with the obvious, and work toward the unlikely.
Ummm... CN: the drive was -dead-. Ain't nothin' short of a new board that would've fixed it. (Okay -- sending the platters out for oodles of money would have, too.) Also, I don't know why this is labeled "the hard way." I've done it three times, en-toto, and it takes about ten minutes so long as you've got the correct Torx/Phillips/whatever. [Note: DON'T try doing it with the wrong tools; you'll probably just strip the head, and then it gets more fun.]
$.02...
Actually, no: _also_ owning a 1600sw with Multilink adapter, I'll flat-out state that, unless you're driving it at an even divisor (it also allows 800x512, if you read the docs), you get fuzzy letters, somewhat akin to sub-pixel rendering. Having had to use it in non-1600x1024 resolution occasionally (my Number 9 died), it's like night and day when I go back.
What they have is a fixed number of pixels. The entirely unsatisfactory solution to this dilemma is to merely drive it at an inferior resolution. It'll look like garbage, but it'll be bigger. A much better solution, however, is to drive it at an even divisor of the number of pixels, which will give you clean output. For example, a 1600x1200 LCD could be driven at 800x600; the letters will be nice and crisp, and will be four times larger.
Shoplifting, by definition, infers the intent to take without remuneration. The taxicab driver leaves a (presumably his) credit card behind at the register -- a clear indication that, while humorously/morbidly conceding the inability to pay, he would have done so given the chance.
Just wanted to stick up for the good guys...
This should _so_ have been titled, "Where's Waldo?"
[Bonus points to thems who get both allusions.]
I wonder... IANAL, but it still occurs to me that these bozos are really beginning to reach into the dreck, and they're doing it enough that it might be time for the Linux community might start to consider fighting fire with fire. Any lawyers out there who might give their considered opinion as to whether or not we, as a community, could sue them for something along the lines of "willfully and knowingly endangering our livelihoods by damaging the perception and credibility of the Linux operating system"?
Just curious...