>Doing serious math is not something anyone can learn.
example of doing serious math by any idiot; Black-Scholes formula.
At the beginning it used to be rocket-surgery and people made wonderful profits from it. Now, everyone uses it, even if they don't understand the underlying principals. Just plug in the numbers and you get the answer or a pretty chart.
>I know that I have learnt things that mostly have not changed for the last 100 years and are not going to change for the next 100 years all that much and so I don't need to worry about what the _next_ big thing will be
That actually is a career death-wish if I've ever seen one.
If things haven't changed in the past 100 years, why should I hire anyone except the lowest bidder? Its been done the same way for generations, you can't add value.
Why couldn't I replace you with a computer program? Even a good calculator and textbook would be better than hiring you!
What is stopping anyone from learning things by rote/memory and competing with your job? Its all in textbooks for years!
Name another technology that is hard to do today what was done 100 years ago?
If it is spyware, the its a great piece of social engineering.
Wrap your self up in the "OpenSource" flag, add a dash of bashing MS and instant approval form mindless hordes. Get your code installed and leave OpenSource with a black mark.
>Get the sourcecode,chech it and recompile and use that.
This is where theory and reality breaks down.
Assume that I am not a programmer. I just use IE and I hear about this great new patch from this OpenSource guys. (OpenSource is good, right? I should trust them automatically!)
Do you think that I will sit down, learn C++, go through the 23 files and figure out how the program works OR just install the damned binary and fix it. (I mean it can't be worst than that Gator plugin with its pretty effects?)
Suppose MS came out with a 3 meg "patch" to Linux claiming to fix all the bugs in the kernal programmed in LISP (or some other language you have zero clue about). Would you install it as is? Would you sit down, learn a new language and go through the huge listing of source code?
>Why does one have to CARRY THE RING on their body. Just put it on a stick.
Think about it as its radioactive. And there are no effective "lead boxes". I get close to it, it will reach out telepathically and try and control me.
>That says little about Gandalf or the elves self control.
It says something about their wisdom of knowing that they can be corrupted (as were the foolish humans and dwarfs and learned their lesson from what happened to Gollum) and the importance of serious this matter is to succeed.
Abstract idealism is too general to accurately predict anything.
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>Environmentalism is much more about ideaology than realism.
More than anything, this sort of thing makes me a pestimist.
In high school, when saving the planet was hip and cool, people jumping on the band wagon. Years later, they are the ones with the SUV and sports cars and demanding air-conditioning.
Recently, I met an old science teacher I had before. He started to bring up the case about how our enviroment is fragile and we have to preserve things as they are now and we have to reduce our consumptions.
I raised up the point that he was effectively asking people to not have these big houses, to not have as many childern as they can (control their natural desire to reproduce), to tell people who are poorer than him to not obtain what he has.
What was sad to me was that he couldn't (wouldn't?) directly address any of these points. It was shocking to me how some people get so blinded by the ideaology that they cannot handle a dose of serious realism.
>He started on an upgrade, found that several of his VBX vendors had vanished, stayed with the old code.
Is that MS fault that the third party vendors had vanished?
Oracle has tonnes of drivers that work with only one verion. Sun and IBM have lots of integrated products that they will only support a particular version combination. I ask you again, what is so special about MS?
>it may have the same name (VB) but it is at least 3 totally incompatible products.
You seriously need to get some first hand experience with VB.
>No real application written for an old version of VB can run on a new one.
You are basing this on ONE person's project many many years ago (win 3.1 era) and applying it to all versions?
Suppose I did this with X11 from years ago? Or Linux early beta versions? Code breaks due to incompatiblities. Again, how is this a MS thing?
>But I suspect your views are bought and paid for, eh? No point in this discussion.
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is bought by MS. Grocery clerk: bought by MS. Bus driver: bought by MS. That person you passed by this morning: not only bought by MS but has his pet dog held as a hostage personnally by Bill Gates.
How come you still have not directly answered any of the questions about non-MS products which display the exact same characteristics that makes MS products bad?
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Great advice.
Control of your future is important if only for a piece of mind.
The brain would have thought about this and have already prepared to outsource the kidney functions to the liver.
>I'm just waiting for my moment.
And I'm sure that cheerleader from highschool is suddenly going to realize that, after all these years, she wants you.
>If you are a problems solver you will get to choose the bid you accept.
If you are a problem solver and creative, then its a field that is changing, unlike what the original poster first stated (100 years unchanged).
Its the practicality of claiming its Open when its not.
How am I suppose to compile my new clean source code? How can I get my hands on a C++ compiler that will create a win32 plugin to IE?
Not very practial, is it?
>Doing serious math is not something anyone can learn.
example of doing serious math by any idiot; Black-Scholes formula.
At the beginning it used to be rocket-surgery and people made wonderful profits from it. Now, everyone uses it, even if they don't understand the underlying principals. Just plug in the numbers and you get the answer or a pretty chart.
>I know that I have learnt things that mostly have not changed for the last 100 years and are not going to change for the next 100 years all that much and so I don't need to worry about what the _next_ big thing will be
That actually is a career death-wish if I've ever seen one.
If things haven't changed in the past 100 years, why should I hire anyone except the lowest bidder? Its been done the same way for generations, you can't add value.
Why couldn't I replace you with a computer program? Even a good calculator and textbook would be better than hiring you!
What is stopping anyone from learning things by rote/memory and competing with your job? Its all in textbooks for years!
Name another technology that is hard to do today what was done 100 years ago?
The ironic thing is that management want to people who just sit in the cubes, program happily and require very little interaction.
Its when they show up late, do other things than they get paid for and make management feel like they require attention, when there is a problem.
Better yet, redirect to a local machine HTML page.
Why does it have to be a cgi script on their machine?
If it is spyware, the its a great piece of social engineering.
Wrap your self up in the "OpenSource" flag, add a dash of bashing MS and instant approval form mindless hordes. Get your code installed and leave OpenSource with a black mark.
>If 20 different people verify that the patch is good, then will you believe?
Good point.
In this case, I would trust the MS. I already trusted them already, why should I widen my circle of trust? Just for this third party patch?
And this call to exploit.cgi question others are raising might never get resolved.
>Get the sourcecode,chech it and recompile and use that.
This is where theory and reality breaks down.
Assume that I am not a programmer. I just use IE and I hear about this great new patch from this OpenSource guys. (OpenSource is good, right? I should trust them automatically!)
Do you think that I will sit down, learn C++, go through the 23 files and figure out how the program works OR just install the damned binary and fix it. (I mean it can't be worst than that Gator plugin with its pretty effects?)
Suppose MS came out with a 3 meg "patch" to Linux claiming to fix all the bugs in the kernal programmed in LISP (or some other language you have zero clue about). Would you install it as is? Would you sit down, learn a new language and go through the huge listing of source code?
A third party releasing a patch to a browser. How safe is this?
Yes the source code is there, but how do we know the executable doesn't have crap in there?
Even if everything is clean now, how about the next patch from another source?
(Not even saying anything about testing and how it can break something. They don't even have the source code of the original product.)
>The movies lack the gravity and emotion of the books
>Well DUH! Show me a movie that does.
To Kill a Mockingbird
>"I'm going to buy a new SUV." ...
>"Uhm, but those aren't cool."
I swear I had the exact same conversation a couple of months ago.
It was sad, not because of the environmental damage (assuming that an SUV consumes more gas than a minivan), but because of the financial damage.
I choose the "I have enough and can tell the difference between a 'want' and a 'need'".
>Why does one have to CARRY THE RING on their body. Just put it on a stick.
Think about it as its radioactive. And there are no effective "lead boxes". I get close to it, it will reach out telepathically and try and control me.
>That says little about Gandalf or the elves self control.
It says something about their wisdom of knowing that they can be corrupted (as were the foolish humans and dwarfs and learned their lesson from what happened to Gollum) and the importance of serious this matter is to succeed.
I'll say it.
Why should Peter Jackson get the Oscar?
Its a big trilogy. It has very nice CG. Theme music is great.
But is this worthy of a "Best Director" award?
Any other reason besides "OMG ITS PETER JACKSON. HE MADE MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS COME TRUE! AIIIEEEEE!"?
>Seems to me that some pretty interesting and progressive artists have won lately.
B es t_New_Artist
Like Milli-Vanili?
They are so out of touch, there is a "Best New Artist" award curse.
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_
>This has been one of the best book to movie conversions I have seen.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is the best conversion IMO.
Exactly how much more could LOTR be hyped up more?
Perhaps another fast food merchandising deal?
More action figures?
More "movie to watch this year" commericals?
>look down the blouse of the attractive blonde standing at the corner.....
Now there is something I am willing to give up my Constitutional Rights and Freedoms for.
>Abstract idealism often tells the future.
Abstract idealism is too general to accurately predict anything.
>Environmentalism is much more about ideaology than realism.
More than anything, this sort of thing makes me a pestimist.
In high school, when saving the planet was hip and cool, people jumping on the band wagon. Years later, they are the ones with the SUV and sports cars and demanding air-conditioning.
Recently, I met an old science teacher I had before. He started to bring up the case about how our enviroment is fragile and we have to preserve things as they are now and we have to reduce our consumptions.
I raised up the point that he was effectively asking people to not have these big houses, to not have as many childern as they can (control their natural desire to reproduce), to tell people who are poorer than him to not obtain what he has.
What was sad to me was that he couldn't (wouldn't?) directly address any of these points. It was shocking to me how some people get so blinded by the ideaology that they cannot handle a dose of serious realism.
>Reminds me of the slew of buzzwords used in the movie Swordfish.
The tv show 24 really basterizes computer terms.
"Mount the filter to my screen so I can route it through the log files."
Still a good show.
>He started on an upgrade, found that several of his VBX vendors had vanished, stayed with the old code.
Is that MS fault that the third party vendors had vanished?
Oracle has tonnes of drivers that work with only one verion. Sun and IBM have lots of integrated products that they will only support a particular version combination. I ask you again, what is so special about MS?
>it may have the same name (VB) but it is at least 3 totally incompatible products.
You seriously need to get some first hand experience with VB.
>No real application written for an old version of VB can run on a new one.
You are basing this on ONE person's project many many years ago (win 3.1 era) and applying it to all versions?
Suppose I did this with X11 from years ago? Or Linux early beta versions? Code breaks due to incompatiblities. Again, how is this a MS thing?
>But I suspect your views are bought and paid for, eh? No point in this discussion.
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is bought by MS.
Grocery clerk: bought by MS.
Bus driver: bought by MS.
That person you passed by this morning: not only bought by MS but has his pet dog held as a hostage personnally by Bill Gates.
How come you still have not directly answered any of the questions about non-MS products which display the exact same characteristics that makes MS products bad?