While nodding (internally, I'm not that much of a freak) at this, I imagined that legions of Europeans are shaking their heads at the nutty Americans, for two reasons:
* $48k/year is lean? After taxes?? Sheesh! * Why would you be so willing to sacrifice your own comfort and standard of living just for a very slim chance to make more money than you need?
I think you misunderstood my statement. I worried about that when writing the original reply, but I didn't want to be preachy, and I definitely didn't want to sound like an Ayn Rand fanboy.
It is a moral consideration to value the ability to produce monetary value. On a simplistic level, if you spend your life producing something that other people want enough to trade the produce of their lives, then you are enriching the lives of other people. Especially in much of the free world, we equate the ability to generate wealth with a type of moral goodness. Rich people are listened to more than poor people. We may not like this, but this is a moral of our culture.
Life and business are all about choices and consequences. Sometimes, the choice to increase monetary value has the negative consequence of destroying the environment, or what-have-you.
However, to discard things we don't like as "immoral" or "amoral" is sophistry.
FYI: My objective is generalized because I'm applying to anything that I'm even remotely qualified for. Pigeonholing myself is a good way to get my resume tossed. Even if it were more specific, it wouldn't be the kind of "power adjective" laden nonsense that you suggested.
The reality is a *nix developer has all of the options available to him; he is not constricted by artificial barriers; a Windows programmer is at the mercy of Microsoft - who can change APIs at the drop of a hat.
While this is not to be discounted (I remember fondly the pain of the BMP format changing between < win95 and >= win95, and its impact on printing, especially on slowly updated drivers), I've had many, many more problems with APIs changing under me on OSS code than on Windows. MSFT APIs tend to stick around for a very long time, and are disambiguated between versions either with long argument lists, many fields of which are reserved for future use, or with painful naming suffixes, such as "-Ex".
The lack of opacity with open source code has mainly helped me find out that, sure enough, I can't take the application I built against libdb3 and build it on a system with only libdb4. I can either install libdb3 if possible, or pore through the code and figure out the mapping between versions, if such a simple transformation does indeed exist.
His quote above really hits the nail on the head: the Microsoft monoculture is about money above and beyond any moral considerations.
This is a moral consideration, as I'm sure other people will point out.
Not to defend, but 'frack' was the silly curse word used in the original series. If they brought it forward for this 're-imagining', it shows relatively careful attention to the details of the original, rather than a "based on the back of a novel" adaptation.
This is again along the lines of "We dont really want to make sure were secure so we'll just sue/have arrested anyone who finds anything." These are also the same people who loby the gov to pass laws to do this. It's amazing how little people acutally care about how secure their network or computers are and instead care more about huge fines and sentences so they can keep their networks insecure.
Sounds good to me. Going back to the overused house analogy: Should I have to have bars on all my windows because some asshole isn't going to be dissuaded by a locked window? This guy isn't the equivalent of someone walking across the corner of your un-fenced lawn. This guy is doing the equivalent of trying all your doors and windows to see if they're unlocked; then, he's jimmying the doors and windows to see if they have deadbolts; then, he's drilling the door or window to remove the screws that hold the hinges.
How _do_ you protect against some amoral or immoral person trying all exploits until they gain entry to your property? You have laws to deter them from doing things that violate other people's natural rights, and you invoke those laws as necessary.
Your frame of mind is the same idiocy that declares,"She was asking for it," when some girl is raped if she's wearing a short skirt or a low-cut blouse. In this case, the NYT is macing the rapist.
Try growing up outside Walla Walla and looking forward to driving to town so you can get the good station(s). I was always trying to get another mile of reception out of KWCW when driving on HWY 12.
I sure wouldn't want to buy anything from the Redmond Empire... but if BFD-2 comes out for X-Box, I may have to put my moral compass back in the box.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but Nintendo is also in Redmond...across the freeway from the MSFT main campus, and just a stone's throw from RedWest.
You're buying from the Redmond empire no matter what, unless you're supporting Sony.:-)
I am a college student (my second time around). Specifically, I'm studying to become a high school history teacher. I am a student with a lifelong habit though, Macintosh. I got my first Mac in 1986, a used Mac Plus with 1 megabyte of RAM a massive 40 megabyte external hardrive.
The Mac Plus was released in January of 1986. If he found someone to sell him a used one at a time when people kept their machines for years, he either found a sucker, or someone who tried a Mac and had to switch back. Possible, but not probable.
How the heck much was a 40M HD in 1986? As much as the Mac Plus? What kind of student spends $2-3k for a HD? Every student Mac geek I knew until about 1990 made do with floppies.
More likely he's trying to establish Mac cred and fudging his dates, because that extra year or three matters so much. That, or he's the kind of idjit who would send off a bunch of stuff without getting paid, and can't remember.:-)
He has a T1 in Reno, shoots that over the mountains (two repeater sites with line of sight) via 5.8ghz, and drops into Fernley, which is a small town w/ nothing but 56K.
Fernley has to have more than 56k. Amazon's major distribution center is there. You just have to find out who provides them their connection.:-)
Way to read the post you're replying to. Or did you just refuse to respond to the "WITHOUT WORKING LONG HOURS" part?
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Worse than that is when you buy stuff you don't need but really want, then two days later you realise you don't have much of a use for it, and don't really want it anymore.
What's worst is all of this, but doing it with your Visa/MC/etc. Frivolous debt is a disturbing thing.
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it was called "Snow Crash"!
While nodding (internally, I'm not that much of a freak) at this, I imagined that legions of Europeans are shaking their heads at the nutty Americans, for two reasons:
:-)
* $48k/year is lean? After taxes?? Sheesh!
* Why would you be so willing to sacrifice your own comfort and standard of living just for a very slim chance to make more money than you need?
Because it's right and just, of course.
Way to go and make me tear up and miss my mom.
I think you misunderstood my statement. I worried about that when writing the original reply, but I didn't want to be preachy, and I definitely didn't want to sound like an Ayn Rand fanboy.
It is a moral consideration to value the ability to produce monetary value. On a simplistic level, if you spend your life producing something that other people want enough to trade the produce of their lives, then you are enriching the lives of other people. Especially in much of the free world, we equate the ability to generate wealth with a type of moral goodness. Rich people are listened to more than poor people. We may not like this, but this is a moral of our culture.
Life and business are all about choices and consequences. Sometimes, the choice to increase monetary value has the negative consequence of destroying the environment, or what-have-you.
However, to discard things we don't like as "immoral" or "amoral" is sophistry.
How's that working out for you?
What are you talking about? They've already licensed the code from SCO!
While this is not to be discounted (I remember fondly the pain of the BMP format changing between < win95 and >= win95, and its impact on printing, especially on slowly updated drivers), I've had many, many more problems with APIs changing under me on OSS code than on Windows. MSFT APIs tend to stick around for a very long time, and are disambiguated between versions either with long argument lists, many fields of which are reserved for future use, or with painful naming suffixes, such as "-Ex".
The lack of opacity with open source code has mainly helped me find out that, sure enough, I can't take the application I built against libdb3 and build it on a system with only libdb4. I can either install libdb3 if possible, or pore through the code and figure out the mapping between versions, if such a simple transformation does indeed exist.
This is a moral consideration, as I'm sure other people will point out.
Not to defend, but 'frack' was the silly curse word used in the original series. If they brought it forward for this 're-imagining', it shows relatively careful attention to the details of the original, rather than a "based on the back of a novel" adaptation.
Teach him to type, and he can write his own 419 spam, which will be even more profitable.
Plus, he can pick up camgirls.
Sounds good to me. Going back to the overused house analogy: Should I have to have bars on all my windows because some asshole isn't going to be dissuaded by a locked window? This guy isn't the equivalent of someone walking across the corner of your un-fenced lawn. This guy is doing the equivalent of trying all your doors and windows to see if they're unlocked; then, he's jimmying the doors and windows to see if they have deadbolts; then, he's drilling the door or window to remove the screws that hold the hinges.
How _do_ you protect against some amoral or immoral person trying all exploits until they gain entry to your property? You have laws to deter them from doing things that violate other people's natural rights, and you invoke those laws as necessary.
Your frame of mind is the same idiocy that declares,"She was asking for it," when some girl is raped if she's wearing a short skirt or a low-cut blouse. In this case, the NYT is macing the rapist.
Cuts down on the emails from ex-girlfriends, too, I suspect.
That's because cracking the voting boxes is so easy, even a...
Dude, you're an idiot. A little helpful advice -- take the hit and walk away. Arguing is only making you look even more stupid.
Wait, didn't the keep all the objects in RAM part of the article make your concluding paragraph superfluous?
Try growing up outside Walla Walla and looking forward to driving to town so you can get the good station(s). I was always trying to get another mile of reception out of KWCW when driving on HWY 12.
WTF are you from, anyway?
You're buying from the Redmond empire no matter what, unless you're supporting Sony.
More likely he's trying to establish Mac cred and fudging his dates, because that extra year or three matters so much. That, or he's the kind of idjit who would send off a bunch of stuff without getting paid, and can't remember.
Great, now all someone has to do is claim that they're a genius and they don't need to refactor.
:P Being a genius does not mean one can see the future with Infinity+/epsilon vision.
I'll say it -- I'm a genius, and I refactor!
Fernley has to have more than 56k. Amazon's major distribution center is there. You just have to find out who provides them their connection.
I haven't used JRun since discovering Resin about three years ago, but the advantages Resin had over it were:
No explanation necessary. It looks as if you have a complete grasp of the subtleties of the American two-party political system. :-)
Yeah, can't have that. The next thing you know, that damned horse will be pulling the cart!
(I'm bored enough to make fun of people who can't get metaphors right...shoot me.)
You should read up on currying.
Way to read the post you're replying to. Or did you just refuse to respond to the "WITHOUT WORKING LONG HOURS" part?
What's worst is all of this, but doing it with your Visa/MC/etc. Frivolous debt is a disturbing thing.