That's true - this could have happened with any company. However, to play Devil's advocate:
Since this is an outsourced job, there is very little, if any recourse that can be taken against the person in question. Perhaps US companies will see this and think "whoa, if this happens to me, and somebody sues me...who can I sue?"
It's sad that corporations are sending jobs overseas in the name of cheap labour. I frown upon the implications of the term "human resources". However, it's also sad that there are countries in the world poor enough that they can offer labour at those prices. I wish everyone had a standard of living equal to what I enjoy here, and I'm afraid outsourcing may be the way to do it. At this point, all I can hope is that the outsourcing is done in an ethical way - no sweatshops, no gang-ruled factories, no government corruption. Unfortunately, since money is involved, it suffers from all those things and more...
Don't really do it for any modern architecture. Visit 6502.org and look at the sample operating systems they have there.
Why? Because on your first (and second, and third, and forth...) you're not going to want to learn all about the inner workings of the Intel architecture. Segmented memory. *shudder*
The 6502 is still small enough that you can wrap your head around it easily. 6502 emulators are plentiful. An operating system for a 6502-based machine would be small and simple, but still a useful tool.
Once you get your head around that, then try the 6510 - same instruction set, but up to 16MB of memory.
Finally, when you feel good with all that, try Intel, or Sparc, or PPC. My personal favorite processor to code for (assembly-language speaking) is Motorola's 68k.
I realize that, outside of North America, most places charge even for local (short-distance) calls. However, I would think that Japan, with it's (relatively small) land area and its highly-developed phone network, phone calls there would be essentially free, or at least free for intra-city calling. I always here that Japan has extremely expensive phone service. Any reason?
Speakeasy does nice things like have a truly "unlimited" policy. For around US$60 a month, I get a 640/128k pipe, and two static IPs. That's it.
The really cool unlimited part is this:
* I can use as much of that bandwidth as I want. * There are no content restrictions.
And this is the big one...
* I CAN RUN SERVERS. Yes, I realize that a lot of broadband providers don't stop you at their routers or anything, but most of them have it in their AUP that you can't run your own servers. Speakeasy just asks that you don't make money.
Oh, and I get free nationwide dialup. It's not bad.
Oh, and one other cool thing: They even explicitly say that you can set up a WAP and share your access with anyone you want, so long as you don't charge money for it.
There's the obvious "Parent/Child" possibility, but since the actual standard uses the terms "Master/Slave", I really think this is overreaction on the county's part...
A lot of people are trying to save the movie, saying that it had a much deeper meaning, or that it somehow left questions unanswered.
I didn't really see that. My entire problem with the movie was that it took everything from the second movie at face value.
The Architect had to be lying, there weren't six other Ones! It was a ruse to manipulate Neo's emotions! (Yes, there were six other Ones.)
Neo can control machines outside the Matrix! There must be something deep and meaningful and cool and have a big twist at the end because of this seemingly impossible feat! (No, he can do it "just because he can", which basically adds another layer of fiction on top of the triology that I'm not sure I'm willing to accept.)
The sad thing is, all of the twists in the plot were given in Reloaded. While I have no problem with giving twists in the second film, I do have a problem with the twists amounting to nothing more than "we threw these twists in here, but don't expect us to do anything more with them".
On a lighter note, Revolutions did have a *lot* less gratuitous fighting. The scene that irritated me the most in Reloaded was "You cannot know someone until you fight them." (Translation: "Holy crap! Fighting really sold the first one! Find every opportunity possible to throw a fight into the second one!")
All-in-all, I'm becoming more and more party to the theory that, while The Matrix was originally intended to be a triology, they didn't think it would do well enough to make three, and therefore rolled all three into one.
Either way, the general review: More watchable but less interesting than the second, and, much like Episodes I and II of Star Wars, should not be considered part of the canon.
I can decipher it using my magical deciphering powers known as "being able to read Greek."
(Please note that I can not, in fact, read Greek. It was more just to point out that it's not, you know, Symbol font.)
The ACLU is a great organization, but...
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...It's up to you if you agree with what they do enough to join them or give them money. Their website is particularly well-done in terms of the amount of information present, so I would recommend a bit of research there.
As for my personal opinion, I think you should make as large of a donation as possible, and join if you can. The ACLU is one of the few organizations out there which operates on the principles of freedom, not just the ones that they agree with. For example, the ACLU has defended Nazi's rights to march through mostly-Jewish areas, and the KKK's right to protest on MLK day.
Yes, they are extremely leftist. No, that's not a bad thing. They believe that the state exists to serve the people, and to ensure their freedom. It's not a Libertarian organization - they believe that the government has the right to enforce environmental laws, to make sure the people remain alive long enough to be free. It's not a Republican organization - they believe that religion has no place in government. They do, however, believe that people have the right to exercise their religion whenever and however they want, so long as they don't force it on others, and that people can do whatever they want environmentally on their property, so long as it's *only* their property that's affected.
So, yes, I'm a bleeding-heart liberal, and proud of it. And I'm proud to be part of an organization that defends my bleeding-heart liberal rights, as well as the rights of those I do not agree with. That's what makes the ACLU a great organization.
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The ACLU is quite in favor of maintaining privacy in our increasingly technological world, which I think would make it applicable to the Slashdot crowd.
As for the "ACLU is an American thing, Slashdot's international" thing - I watch the BBC, which broadcasts all over the world. I don't bitch when they show something particularly British - they're a British organization. Don't bitch when Slashdot does something particularly American - it's an American organization.
You know, I've been waiting for ages for this to show up on Slashdot. Not because I'm a big fan of the game (hell, I haven't even played the first one), or even because I'm a big gamer (I'm not), but because I'm dating one of the developers.
So...er...anyway. Yeah, this game r0xors. Yeah. Hardcore. Please don't hit me honey.
(Although, ya gotta admit - being a geek and dating an attractive programmer chick who's working on a hit game is pretty cool...)
Well, I was going to issue a fatwah that you be flamed for not knowing who Strong Sad is, but I figured given the nature of the thread, it would be more appropriate to call for your...BURNINATION!
TROGDOR! TROGDOR!
Seriously, though, Strong Sad it Strog Bad's little brother who is always - you guessed it - sad.
Well, I was all excited about this, and now I discover that it doesn't seem to want to work. *sigh* Anyone else getting
"The installer was unable to find a required package for this install (xsane, 271)"? I get this even off of ftp.ximian.org, and several of the mirrors.
If you wanted to be nice to those folks at the FreeBSD project, you could always use a mirror.
In fact, in the future it might not be a bad idea to have Slashdot only link to freebsdmirrors.org. I know that the FreeBSD people have gotten pissed in the past about that...
...seriously. It's a good strategy game, and it panders to your megalomaniacal instinct. Plus, it requires careful strategizing, so your brain won't turn to complete mush.
Of course, if your wife's going to be gone for a month, I hear there are quite a few hentai games out there. It'll give you something to try on her when she gets back.
At least, in my opinion. Miyazaki has done many, many films, and Spirited Away was actually one of my least favorite. Don't get me wrong, I still loved it, but anyone who liked Spirited Away really needs to see:
* Laputa - Castle in the Sky (Possibly the best anime ever) * Girl From the Valley of the Wind * Princess Mononoke * Kiki's Delivery Service * Porco Rosso (this one's just weird, but very good) * My Neighbor Totoro
He's done plenty of others, but those are the best, IMHO.
I'd suggest getting the whole "Studio Ghibli Collection" from Anime on DVD.
Slashdot Mirror
That's true - this could have happened with any company. However, to play Devil's advocate:
Since this is an outsourced job, there is very little, if any recourse that can be taken against the person in question. Perhaps US companies will see this and think "whoa, if this happens to me, and somebody sues me...who can I sue?"
It's sad that corporations are sending jobs overseas in the name of cheap labour. I frown upon the implications of the term "human resources". However, it's also sad that there are countries in the world poor enough that they can offer labour at those prices. I wish everyone had a standard of living equal to what I enjoy here, and I'm afraid outsourcing may be the way to do it. At this point, all I can hope is that the outsourcing is done in an ethical way - no sweatshops, no gang-ruled factories, no government corruption. Unfortunately, since money is involved, it suffers from all those things and more...
Don't really do it for any modern architecture. Visit 6502.org and look at the sample operating systems they have there.
Why? Because on your first (and second, and third, and forth...) you're not going to want to learn all about the inner workings of the Intel architecture. Segmented memory. *shudder*
The 6502 is still small enough that you can wrap your head around it easily. 6502 emulators are plentiful. An operating system for a 6502-based machine would be small and simple, but still a useful tool.
Once you get your head around that, then try the 6510 - same instruction set, but up to 16MB of memory.
Finally, when you feel good with all that, try Intel, or Sparc, or PPC. My personal favorite processor to code for (assembly-language speaking) is Motorola's 68k.
Right, I knew its size - I meant relatively small compared to the US, which I was using for my reference.
I realize that, outside of North America, most places charge even for local (short-distance) calls. However, I would think that Japan, with it's (relatively small) land area and its highly-developed phone network, phone calls there would be essentially free, or at least free for intra-city calling. I always here that Japan has extremely expensive phone service. Any reason?
Speakeasy does nice things like have a truly "unlimited" policy. For around US$60 a month, I get a 640/128k pipe, and two static IPs. That's it.
The really cool unlimited part is this:
* I can use as much of that bandwidth as I want.
* There are no content restrictions.
And this is the big one...
* I CAN RUN SERVERS. Yes, I realize that a lot of broadband providers don't stop you at their routers or anything, but most of them have it in their AUP that you can't run your own servers. Speakeasy just asks that you don't make money.
Oh, and I get free nationwide dialup. It's not bad.
Oh, and one other cool thing: They even explicitly say that you can set up a WAP and share your access with anyone you want, so long as you don't charge money for it.
I was in South Dakota last year, and I was just driving through this nice wooded area, when I rounded a bend and...
THERE WERE FOUR FACES, RIGHT THERE IN THE ROCK!
I mean, like, GIANT faces, not small at all. I was pretty freaked out. I turned the car around and high-tailed it out of there!
I can't be sure, but one of the guys looked just like Abraham Lincoln! The other one might have been Stalin, but I'm not sure...
AsksPolitelyDrive / HappyWorkerDrive?
PresidentDrive / VicePresidentDrive?
KingDrive/ViceroyDrive?
(My favorite...)
WillyWonkaDrive / OompaLoompaDrive?
There's the obvious "Parent/Child" possibility, but since the actual standard uses the terms "Master/Slave", I really think this is overreaction on the county's part...
I mean, there hasn't been a rock that large hitting us in, like, 599,000 years...
Aw FUCK!
A lot of people are trying to save the movie, saying that it had a much deeper meaning, or that it somehow left questions unanswered.
I didn't really see that. My entire problem with the movie was that it took everything from the second movie at face value.
The Architect had to be lying, there weren't six other Ones! It was a ruse to manipulate Neo's emotions! (Yes, there were six other Ones.)
Neo can control machines outside the Matrix! There must be something deep and meaningful and cool and have a big twist at the end because of this seemingly impossible feat!
(No, he can do it "just because he can", which basically adds another layer of fiction on top of the triology that I'm not sure I'm willing to accept.)
The sad thing is, all of the twists in the plot were given in Reloaded. While I have no problem with giving twists in the second film, I do have a problem with the twists amounting to nothing more than "we threw these twists in here, but don't expect us to do anything more with them".
On a lighter note, Revolutions did have a *lot* less gratuitous fighting. The scene that irritated me the most in Reloaded was "You cannot know someone until you fight them." (Translation: "Holy crap! Fighting really sold the first one! Find every opportunity possible to throw a fight into the second one!")
All-in-all, I'm becoming more and more party to the theory that, while The Matrix was originally intended to be a triology, they didn't think it would do well enough to make three, and therefore rolled all three into one.
Either way, the general review: More watchable but less interesting than the second, and, much like Episodes I and II of Star Wars, should not be considered part of the canon.
RMS mentions in the "Who Am I?" section that he's already written one crashproof filesystem and two windowing systems for Lisp machines.
Anyone have any documentation on this? I'd like to see a crashproof filesystem from 20 years ago, and I've always been fascinated by Lisp machines...
"T-shirts are optional, but recommended for you."
Just so you know...the "other" writer is Sarah Paestch, not Sarah Page.
Yes, yes, I'm dating a video game writer. And she's a *girl*! How cool is that?
How about the government proposes a massive homeless HOUSING project instead?
*grins* Boy is my face red. Sorry about that.
I can decipher it using my magical deciphering powers known as "being able to read Greek."
(Please note that I can not, in fact, read Greek. It was more just to point out that it's not, you know, Symbol font.)
...It's up to you if you agree with what they do enough to join them or give them money. Their website is particularly well-done in terms of the amount of information present, so I would recommend a bit of research there.
As for my personal opinion, I think you should make as large of a donation as possible, and join if you can. The ACLU is one of the few organizations out there which operates on the principles of freedom, not just the ones that they agree with. For example, the ACLU has defended Nazi's rights to march through mostly-Jewish areas, and the KKK's right to protest on MLK day.
Yes, they are extremely leftist. No, that's not a bad thing. They believe that the state exists to serve the people, and to ensure their freedom. It's not a Libertarian organization - they believe that the government has the right to enforce environmental laws, to make sure the people remain alive long enough to be free. It's not a Republican organization - they believe that religion has no place in government. They do, however, believe that people have the right to exercise their religion whenever and however they want, so long as they don't force it on others, and that people can do whatever they want environmentally on their property, so long as it's *only* their property that's affected.
So, yes, I'm a bleeding-heart liberal, and proud of it. And I'm proud to be part of an organization that defends my bleeding-heart liberal rights, as well as the rights of those I do not agree with. That's what makes the ACLU a great organization.
The ACLU is quite in favor of maintaining privacy in our increasingly technological world, which I think would make it applicable to the Slashdot crowd.
As for the "ACLU is an American thing, Slashdot's international" thing - I watch the BBC, which broadcasts all over the world. I don't bitch when they show something particularly British - they're a British organization. Don't bitch when Slashdot does something particularly American - it's an American organization.
You know, I've been waiting for ages for this to show up on Slashdot. Not because I'm a big fan of the game (hell, I haven't even played the first one), or even because I'm a big gamer (I'm not), but because I'm dating one of the developers.
So...er...anyway. Yeah, this game r0xors. Yeah. Hardcore. Please don't hit me honey.
(Although, ya gotta admit - being a geek and dating an attractive programmer chick who's working on a hit game is pretty cool...)
Well, I was going to issue a fatwah that you be flamed for not knowing who Strong Sad is, but I figured given the nature of the thread, it would be more appropriate to call for your...BURNINATION!
TROGDOR! TROGDOR!
Seriously, though, Strong Sad it Strog Bad's little brother who is always - you guessed it - sad.
Well, I was all excited about this, and now I discover that it doesn't seem to want to work. *sigh* Anyone else getting
"The installer was unable to find a required package for this install (xsane, 271)"? I get this even off of ftp.ximian.org, and several of the mirrors.
If you wanted to be nice to those folks at the FreeBSD project, you could always use a mirror.
In fact, in the future it might not be a bad idea to have Slashdot only link to freebsdmirrors.org. I know that the FreeBSD people have gotten pissed in the past about that...
...seriously. It's a good strategy game, and it panders to your megalomaniacal instinct. Plus, it requires careful strategizing, so your brain won't turn to complete mush.
Of course, if your wife's going to be gone for a month, I hear there are quite a few hentai games out there. It'll give you something to try on her when she gets back.
Hey! It's not GNUCash, it's GNU/GNUCash!
Finally there're tools out there that will allow developers to write and sell their own applications!
It's revolutionary!
At least, in my opinion. Miyazaki has done many, many films, and Spirited Away was actually one of my least favorite. Don't get me wrong, I still loved it, but anyone who liked Spirited Away really needs to see:
* Laputa - Castle in the Sky (Possibly the best anime ever)
* Girl From the Valley of the Wind
* Princess Mononoke
* Kiki's Delivery Service
* Porco Rosso (this one's just weird, but very good)
* My Neighbor Totoro
He's done plenty of others, but those are the best, IMHO.
I'd suggest getting the whole "Studio Ghibli Collection" from Anime on DVD.
Just my two cents...