Hrm, interesting. I've been feeling really distracted for the last couple of days - unable to concentrate and the like. I've heard that this is sometimes the effect of solar activity in people that are sensitive to their environment (dusts, molds, odors, light, and the like), as I am.
Additionally, it explains why I've been noticing a significant number of 500 errors while browsing the web (particularly slashdot). Anyone else notice this over the last couple days? Any flakey internet connectivity? My connection has been down every couple minutes for the last week or so.
On the upside, when I get calls from clients, I can now honestly tell them that solar flares are causing the problem.:)
You should have contacted the old boss after getting fired, and asked him for a job. Or asked the NBFH if she would transfer you to his area instead. Especially if you had a good report with him (which is what I'm hearing).
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You're confusing "standard of living" with "quality of life". A frequent mistake. "Standard of living" is how much shit you can buy, your buying power, and what causes some people to say "he who dies with the most toys, wins". "Quality of life" is how much you enjoy your life, how healthy you are, how much stress you have, and the like. Considering most americans are fatasses, the level fo stress here, the length of daily commutes, and other factors, I'd say that that American "Quality of Life" is actually quite low. That's hwat you get when your society is so materialistic, I guess.
This is simply the logical next step of public education.
The original supporters of public education were largely supporting it for the purpose of subjugating the public. They saw mandatory public education as a means to subvert those of higher intellect, and to "level the playing field" so that people would be more easily managaged. Additionally, it was seen as a tool to sundivide people, and to cause folks to see artificial social barriers (such as age) where they were not, by dividing them up into such age-based groups.
When you consider that people throughout our history have been doing college-level work at around 12 (Benjamin Franklin, anyone?), this isn't in the least bit inconceiveable. Franklin wasn't a savant or anything like that - he had quite a few contemporaries: Washinton, Jefferson, Adams and the like. They also started adulthood at a younger age. (Franklin was a printer's apprentice at 12, and was doing graduate-level work, ot a degree, at that time).
When you contrast this historical treatment of education, vs. modern situations, where there are often intelligent people that do poorly in school, or simply do medicorely because they don't have the desire to invest themselves in something that is incredibly slow paced, and teens in general feel distant and confused, it's no small wonder.
This is just one step closer towards the Governing class being able to truely and completely subvert people: we're well on our way to thoughtcrime. I give he US (and maybe other countries too?) no more than 20 years until there is mandatory RFID-taging of every student, and maybe 30 years for every citizen - all globally locateable. All in the name of "stopping terrorists", and the easier management and control of the populace.
Doesn't make those "crazy" biblical philosophy folks seem that far off with the "mark of the beast". I guess now would probably be the right time to mention that Christianity has a strong centric emphasis on the individual, if I wanted to be flamed and start the trolls a' rolling.
That's a wonderful term to use! The MPAA and the like are using "pirate" (and misusing it, I might add), but "sharecropper" is a perfectly appropos term to use in reference to people that develop for closed platforms. Hopefully it will catch on. Maybe one day we'll see computing companies advertise things like, "We don't use sharecropping technology, so you can always depend on our products in the future." as marketing drizzle, and people will understand it.
There's another group out there somewhere that has a logo very similar (if not the same) to the debian swirl. I've seen it a couple times, but can never remember who uses it. I think it's the debian swirl, backwards, and it may be a phone company of some sort that I'm thinking of.
It's simply enough put. "Linux Specialist" directly refers to someone that has specialized in providing Linux solutions. That is their area of expertise - linux. Not servers, specifically, but doing things with linux.
How about, "Yes, all of the above", including more basic "old school" admin tasks, such as distro building, compiling, and other basic system administration tasks?
You actually think you -do- have control over the various things of life? Taxes, disease, getting hit by a car from behind, etc? Sure, you can impact those things (not paying taxes, eating right, avoiding streets), but how realistic is that, for most people? Something is still going to happen.
You obviously know very little, if anything, about religion or life in general. Do you still live at home? Religion and various faiths, for the most part, are not about "an invisible man in the sky coming along to override you". Prayer is basically the same thing as Eastern meditation methods.
I don't think I've ever seen someone actually call Apple a monopoly, and seriously mean it, before reading this article. Is he serious? Apple a monopoly?
I think that's the first time I've seen a monopoly with something relatively insignificant like 10% of their given market. Didn't I recently read that even linux has a higher market share than Apple?
The fact that apple has good products, and has a very exclusive set of products that interact with each other well, has nothing to do with being a monopoly, directly.
That's because they're 15, and are too busy being a gothy, linux-using elitist intellectual to bother with such things. I suspect these are your peers.
Not only that, but, A) Rush admitted, on TV, willingly before he was caught, and said he was reforming himself. B) Clinton was caught, and, on TV, willingly denied that he ever inhaled.
That right there goes to prove the "more upstanding man than either Clinton" statement. He faces up to his mistakes, depsite any perceived justification on anyone's part. "Oh, he was in pain". So what, he still confessed, willingly, and admitted that he was wrong.
(Yes, Hillary is a man. Why do you think that Bill kept seeking extra-marital affairs?:P)
Good point. Ithink this is basically what was intended by "computer science". Just imagine what - say - chemistry would be like, if some large corporation had their hands in the actual formulas that make things work in chemestry (at the more basic level, not chemical engineering and the like). Chemistry would be much less of a science, just as computer "science" hasn't been for the last 10 years or so. The winds of change blow!
Are you fucking kidding? Max Payne is -nothing- like Mafia except that a) they both deal with organized crime, and b) they are both 3rd person shooters to some degree.
Mafia was slow, repetitive, and had no ability to save between checkpoints. Not only that, but the game was really, really long, and sometimes savepoints were a good 30+ minutes appart, requiring - at the very least - that much gameplay time in order to get anywhere. It was tragically difficult, you got all the weapons within the first couple levels. The levels also got repetitive - get a new car, shoot someone, pick someone up, etc. - basically the same template for them all. Deviate even just a little bit from the designated plotline, and you fail the mission - 20 minutes down the drain. The majority of the gameplay (75%+?) is spent driving a car around a city that resembles 1920's NYC. The textures are great, but the lighting and other elements of graphic quality kind of suck - it had a half-finished feel to it. The music was better than par by a hair, and there was very little game 'atmosphere'. I could only tolerate to beat this game with cheats - which there weren't any of; instead, I had to use a trainer/memory editor. The only reason why I bothered to beat it was because I'm a huge italian mafia buff, and I wanted to see where they took the story. The high point to the game was the realism in which they modeled and designed the cars you drive throughout the game.
Max Payne, on the other hand, shouldn't have taken more than 8 hours for a normal player to beat. You could save at any point you wanted. The gameplay was fairly varried, and it took some skill to actually get good at efficiently using bulletime alongside the reloading of your gun (which bullettime 2.0 fucked up, I might add). Not only that, but the game was heavily integrated with an -integral- storyline that was creative, humorous, creepy, and indepth throughout. Graphic attention was top-notch. It was just long enough so you didn't get tired of it, but also short enough that you wanted more when you were done.
There's one critical element they forgot to incldue in this study: intelligence. Both intelligence and size are closely linked to the nutrients that a person gets while growing up, and in the womb. Could it not be that tall people are simply more intelligent, and thus warrant higher pay due to better performance?
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I've got news for you, NTFS doesn't handle well on a desktop, either.:) At least not as a stand-alone workstation. If you start to get any significant amount of data on a volume, performance goes to hell. (even 30G being significant in this case)
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Sweet virgin Mary! You... are... stupid.
Adjective: decent Enough to meet a purpose ... and not the name of a popular game series. Noun: descent A movement downward ... also the name of a popular game series.
I can't tell whether you were trying to be funny, or trying to be critical; at any rate, you failed on either attempt. The original poster was correct, and you still tried to 'correct' him. Pathetic.
Which is what, exactly? In my experience, NTFS has been nothing but slow, unreliable, and utterly unscaleable. Ever try running an NTFS volume as a cache or some other-small file storage device? Utterly unuseable.
So if WinFS is to augment NTFS, my prayers go out to you Windows administrators.
I wasn't targetting Chinese, I was simply talking about the socio-political mindset that I've heard exists in that region of the world, as opposed to that of over in the West. As in, encouraged freedom and thought (theoretically, at least) in the West, and constriction of the populace in the East, and the resulting effects on mindset.
Same basic idea as outsourcing to India. They produce shoddy code, possibly due to politics. It's theorized, with some circumstantial evidence, that India had nuclear weapontry thousands of years ago. So what? Look where they are now.
I am in no way saying that the West is superior, either. Don't get on that high horse.
See, the reason why America felt motivated to keep up with/surpass the Russians during the Cold War was because we saw them as a threat. They were our enemies, and their philosophy/outlook on the world was in drastic contrast to our's. Both sides saw this, and saw the other side as a threat to their way of life and power base - politically and economically. As it turns out, both sides managed to prosper pretty well during the whole ordeal.
Now, in this situation, America has become placated, liberal, and fairly socialistic, if not even communist in some respects and attitudes. People want something for nothing. China is fundamentally communist, and closely resembles a socialistic state in practice. We don't see them as an 'enemy' but as a 'ally'. Unfortunately, China sees the US and Europe as "the West", and we are to be conquered; we are still seen as fundamentally and philosophically conflicting to their leaders.
I would agree with your basic premise, though. If we did it, we'd reap the benefits. However, it's not going to happen.
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Hrm, interesting. I've been feeling really distracted for the last couple of days - unable to concentrate and the like. I've heard that this is sometimes the effect of solar activity in people that are sensitive to their environment (dusts, molds, odors, light, and the like), as I am.
:)
Additionally, it explains why I've been noticing a significant number of 500 errors while browsing the web (particularly slashdot). Anyone else notice this over the last couple days? Any flakey internet connectivity? My connection has been down every couple minutes for the last week or so.
On the upside, when I get calls from clients, I can now honestly tell them that solar flares are causing the problem.
Think of trying to take the customers with you, and contract on your own? Then you wouldn't have had anyone skimming off the top.
You should have contacted the old boss after getting fired, and asked him for a job. Or asked the NBFH if she would transfer you to his area instead. Especially if you had a good report with him (which is what I'm hearing).
You're confusing "standard of living" with "quality of life". A frequent mistake. "Standard of living" is how much shit you can buy, your buying power, and what causes some people to say "he who dies with the most toys, wins". "Quality of life" is how much you enjoy your life, how healthy you are, how much stress you have, and the like. Considering most americans are fatasses, the level fo stress here, the length of daily commutes, and other factors, I'd say that that American "Quality of Life" is actually quite low. That's hwat you get when your society is so materialistic, I guess.
This is simply the logical next step of public education.
The original supporters of public education were largely supporting it for the purpose of subjugating the public. They saw mandatory public education as a means to subvert those of higher intellect, and to "level the playing field" so that people would be more easily managaged. Additionally, it was seen as a tool to sundivide people, and to cause folks to see artificial social barriers (such as age) where they were not, by dividing them up into such age-based groups.
When you consider that people throughout our history have been doing college-level work at around 12 (Benjamin Franklin, anyone?), this isn't in the least bit inconceiveable. Franklin wasn't a savant or anything like that - he had quite a few contemporaries: Washinton, Jefferson, Adams and the like. They also started adulthood at a younger age. (Franklin was a printer's apprentice at 12, and was doing graduate-level work, ot a degree, at that time).
When you contrast this historical treatment of education, vs. modern situations, where there are often intelligent people that do poorly in school, or simply do medicorely because they don't have the desire to invest themselves in something that is incredibly slow paced, and teens in general feel distant and confused, it's no small wonder.
This is just one step closer towards the Governing class being able to truely and completely subvert people: we're well on our way to thoughtcrime. I give he US (and maybe other countries too?) no more than 20 years until there is mandatory RFID-taging of every student, and maybe 30 years for every citizen - all globally locateable. All in the name of "stopping terrorists", and the easier management and control of the populace.
Doesn't make those "crazy" biblical philosophy folks seem that far off with the "mark of the beast". I guess now would probably be the right time to mention that Christianity has a strong centric emphasis on the individual, if I wanted to be flamed and start the trolls a' rolling.
That's a wonderful term to use! The MPAA and the like are using "pirate" (and misusing it, I might add), but "sharecropper" is a perfectly appropos term to use in reference to people that develop for closed platforms. Hopefully it will catch on. Maybe one day we'll see computing companies advertise things like, "We don't use sharecropping technology, so you can always depend on our products in the future." as marketing drizzle, and people will understand it.
Purple skirt - right out. Hideous choice of aesthetic.
Same goes for anything remotely 70's-style, such as stripes or mixed colors.
Yes, "stop" and "poison" are my exact thoughts when I see the sexy blonde in the tight red skirt walk by. Seriously.
There's another group out there somewhere that has a logo very similar (if not the same) to the debian swirl. I've seen it a couple times, but can never remember who uses it. I think it's the debian swirl, backwards, and it may be a phone company of some sort that I'm thinking of.
If indeed you're going to make your own certification program, here's my personal suggestion.
Do NOT use multiple choice. Use essays.
It's simply enough put. "Linux Specialist" directly refers to someone that has specialized in providing Linux solutions. That is their area of expertise - linux. Not servers, specifically, but doing things with linux.
How about, "Yes, all of the above", including more basic "old school" admin tasks, such as distro building, compiling, and other basic system administration tasks?
You actually think you -do- have control over the various things of life? Taxes, disease, getting hit by a car from behind, etc? Sure, you can impact those things (not paying taxes, eating right, avoiding streets), but how realistic is that, for most people? Something is still going to happen.
You obviously know very little, if anything, about religion or life in general. Do you still live at home? Religion and various faiths, for the most part, are not about "an invisible man in the sky coming along to override you". Prayer is basically the same thing as Eastern meditation methods.
I don't think I've ever seen someone actually call Apple a monopoly, and seriously mean it, before reading this article. Is he serious? Apple a monopoly?
I think that's the first time I've seen a monopoly with something relatively insignificant like 10% of their given market. Didn't I recently read that even linux has a higher market share than Apple?
The fact that apple has good products, and has a very exclusive set of products that interact with each other well, has nothing to do with being a monopoly, directly.
That's because they're 15, and are too busy being a gothy, linux-using elitist intellectual to bother with such things. I suspect these are your peers.
Not only that, but,
:P)
A) Rush admitted, on TV, willingly before he was caught, and said he was reforming himself.
B) Clinton was caught, and, on TV, willingly denied that he ever inhaled.
That right there goes to prove the "more upstanding man than either Clinton" statement. He faces up to his mistakes, depsite any perceived justification on anyone's part. "Oh, he was in pain". So what, he still confessed, willingly, and admitted that he was wrong.
(Yes, Hillary is a man. Why do you think that Bill kept seeking extra-marital affairs?
Good point. Ithink this is basically what was intended by "computer science". Just imagine what - say - chemistry would be like, if some large corporation had their hands in the actual formulas that make things work in chemestry (at the more basic level, not chemical engineering and the like). Chemistry would be much less of a science, just as computer "science" hasn't been for the last 10 years or so. The winds of change blow!
As someone else mentioned: you are a dumbass. Granted, they missed the point too, but...
He's simply saying that Open Source ideals are superior because they allow - and encourage - such scientific testing of software.
Are you fucking kidding? Max Payne is -nothing- like Mafia except that a) they both deal with organized crime, and b) they are both 3rd person shooters to some degree.
Mafia was slow, repetitive, and had no ability to save between checkpoints. Not only that, but the game was really, really long, and sometimes savepoints were a good 30+ minutes appart, requiring - at the very least - that much gameplay time in order to get anywhere. It was tragically difficult, you got all the weapons within the first couple levels. The levels also got repetitive - get a new car, shoot someone, pick someone up, etc. - basically the same template for them all. Deviate even just a little bit from the designated plotline, and you fail the mission - 20 minutes down the drain. The majority of the gameplay (75%+?) is spent driving a car around a city that resembles 1920's NYC. The textures are great, but the lighting and other elements of graphic quality kind of suck - it had a half-finished feel to it. The music was better than par by a hair, and there was very little game 'atmosphere'. I could only tolerate to beat this game with cheats - which there weren't any of; instead, I had to use a trainer/memory editor. The only reason why I bothered to beat it was because I'm a huge italian mafia buff, and I wanted to see where they took the story. The high point to the game was the realism in which they modeled and designed the cars you drive throughout the game.
Max Payne, on the other hand, shouldn't have taken more than 8 hours for a normal player to beat. You could save at any point you wanted. The gameplay was fairly varried, and it took some skill to actually get good at efficiently using bulletime alongside the reloading of your gun (which bullettime 2.0 fucked up, I might add). Not only that, but the game was heavily integrated with an -integral- storyline that was creative, humorous, creepy, and indepth throughout. Graphic attention was top-notch. It was just long enough so you didn't get tired of it, but also short enough that you wanted more when you were done.
So where is the similarity?
There's one critical element they forgot to incldue in this study: intelligence. Both intelligence and size are closely linked to the nutrients that a person gets while growing up, and in the womb. Could it not be that tall people are simply more intelligent, and thus warrant higher pay due to better performance?
I've got news for you, NTFS doesn't handle well on a desktop, either. :) At least not as a stand-alone workstation. If you start to get any significant amount of data on a volume, performance goes to hell. (even 30G being significant in this case)
Sweet virgin Mary! You... are... stupid.
... and not the name of a popular game series.
... also the name of a popular game series.
Adjective: decent
Enough to meet a purpose
Noun: descent
A movement downward
I can't tell whether you were trying to be funny, or trying to be critical; at any rate, you failed on either attempt. The original poster was correct, and you still tried to 'correct' him. Pathetic.
"NTFS does what it does incredibly well."
Which is what, exactly? In my experience, NTFS has been nothing but slow, unreliable, and utterly unscaleable. Ever try running an NTFS volume as a cache or some other-small file storage device? Utterly unuseable.
So if WinFS is to augment NTFS, my prayers go out to you Windows administrators.
You need to learn how to read more thoroughly.
I wasn't targetting Chinese, I was simply talking about the socio-political mindset that I've heard exists in that region of the world, as opposed to that of over in the West. As in, encouraged freedom and thought (theoretically, at least) in the West, and constriction of the populace in the East, and the resulting effects on mindset.
Same basic idea as outsourcing to India. They produce shoddy code, possibly due to politics. It's theorized, with some circumstantial evidence, that India had nuclear weapontry thousands of years ago. So what? Look where they are now.
I am in no way saying that the West is superior, either. Don't get on that high horse.
See, the reason why America felt motivated to keep up with/surpass the Russians during the Cold War was because we saw them as a threat. They were our enemies, and their philosophy/outlook on the world was in drastic contrast to our's. Both sides saw this, and saw the other side as a threat to their way of life and power base - politically and economically. As it turns out, both sides managed to prosper pretty well during the whole ordeal.
Now, in this situation, America has become placated, liberal, and fairly socialistic, if not even communist in some respects and attitudes. People want something for nothing. China is fundamentally communist, and closely resembles a socialistic state in practice. We don't see them as an 'enemy' but as a 'ally'. Unfortunately, China sees the US and Europe as "the West", and we are to be conquered; we are still seen as fundamentally and philosophically conflicting to their leaders.
I would agree with your basic premise, though. If we did it, we'd reap the benefits. However, it's not going to happen.