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well.....in all actuality, the first 2 films ARE like this, just the technology has changed......found sound and sampling of imagry go back much further then Dj Shadow! Check out PlUnDeRpHoNiCs, Evolution Control Committee, negativland, and Orchid Spangiofora just to name a few in music.....then there's always the cut up arwork of Keith Harring, Warhol [obviously] and others........I believe Glass was one of the innovators in the film medium to do this, but then there's always Firesign Theater's "J-Men"!
I have found these quotes from Ayn Rand [philosopher/author] to be most fitting for today:
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?...Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window -- no, I don't feel how small I am -- but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.
-The Fountainhead
The building stood on the shore of the East River, a structure rapt as raised arms. The rock crystal forms mounted in such eloquent steps that the building did not seem stationary, but moving upward in a continuous flow - until one realized that it was only the movement of one's glance and that one's glance was forced to move in that particular rhythm. The walls of pale gray limestone looked silver against the sky, with the clean, dulled luster of metal, but a metal that had become a warm, living substance, carved by the most cutting of all instruments - a purposeful human will; the skyscrapers, the shapes of man's achievement on earth.
-The Fountainhead
...those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of no value; parasite(s) in spirit, who plunder the ideas created by others...There is only one state that fulfills the mystics longing for infinity, non-causality, non-identity: death. A mystic relishes the spectacle of suffering, of poverty, subservience, and terror; these give him a feeling of triumph, a proof for the defeat of rational reality.
-Atlas Shrugged
For more information on Ayn Rand and Objectivism, go here.
After earning a PhD in psychology in 1998 [perception & psychophysics research] I started working for the military in a post-doc position.....well, good old Bubba Clinton decided we didn't need military research anymore and closed tha base I was working on........since I did all my research on M$ and *NIX machines, I was able to land a quick job in the IT field without having a degree in it! {ahhh the good old days). I figured that I could do it for a couple of months until I could get back into academia.
Well.....here is is 4 years later and I am just getting back into academia! The past 4 years were HOT! Huge contracts with HUGE rates and frills meant easy student loan payoffs, houses, cars, etc. Then the other shoe dropped.......everyone was getting cut, contracts dried up, pay scales slid like so much California property into the ocean.......I was actually out of work for 3 months! LUCKILY....I grabbed and stashed all the dough I could when I was making it and managed never to buy any stock or take any options ["These days if you own anything but land, you own a popcorn fart!" Rodney Dangerfield, Caddyshack]......so I sold some stuff off and started looking. Here is what I found:
Infrastructure support seems to have gone the way of the dodo.....there is no need to double staff when you have competent programmers who can also provide support [if they want a job, they will!]. Contracting agencies are more like pimps then anything these days and we lowly contractors are their techno whores....they know we are stuck and they take advantage of us to the hilt.....
Once this realization hit...I started looking HARD at academia.....obviously the degree helped, but I was lucky enough to land a position at a VERY small libral arts college teaching stats software [SPSS] to undergraduate psychology students and support the psych dept M$ and MAC boxes........the position isn't faculty nor is it tenure-tract and the pay is A LOT lower then the contracting gigs but, it is PERMANENT and the benefits are HUGE. I work 9-4 [I am the work-a-holic of the department] and enjoy every July off.
I don't think we will ever see another BOOM in IT again: the golden age is over, a 12 year old can become a MCSE now and he market is flooded with "certified" people willing to work for 1/2 of what you are.....so I am staying here for the rest of my life.
If you can get into it.....I highly reccomend it. Try to stay out of administration, too many politics and too much stress......work with students, it is very rewarding and a lot more fun.
I have a friend in the Army who is a CIo for a military hospital [he has a basic understanding of technology]. He has been told that he will be working for Microsoft next year!
Kind of makes me sick.....he is going to have PKI crammed down his throat then take it back to the military!
Didn't the government have those folks in court for some reason????? Holy conflict of interest!!!!!
You have a good point......the air force flight helmets are much more securely fastened to the head, including the oxygen mask which straps across the entire lower half of the face. The display itself is actually part of the resin form of the helmet itself, so there is very little bounce........of course, those are designed for speeds in excess of mach 2! Now only if I could get my CAR to go mach 1!
Slashdot Mirror
Wikipedia...the walmart of online information.
classic!
Two of the greatest IT quotes to live by come from Tron:
"On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy."
"I shouldn't have written all of those tank programs."
you can also take a look
here
sounds like somebody's got a case of the MONDAYS!
The lameness filter is off the CHARTS!
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HILARIOUS!!!
I AM TRIUMPH OH HUGE NERD!
AMEN.....I get all the bandwidth I need when I am at work.....in academia....with no content filters!
This is why my boss asked me to download a backup copy of the internet for him!
HEY! My name in real life IS Donald T. Rump! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
Until the anti-virus software developers, M$ and the general e-mail population can out-wit a 12 year old script kiddie, no progress will be made.
Both outcomes are funny though, don't you think? :)
This is the magic I got in that link!!!!
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This is a great book! It is where I learned that Coleco stood for Colorado Leather Company was not a foreign name!
EXACTLY! My favorites are the ones like: must have 5 years experience with windows 2000.
HUH?
hmmmmmmm....could someone please print out the above post and have Kevin read and then write a response then post that response? ;)
well.....in all actuality, the first 2 films ARE like this, just the technology has changed......found sound and sampling of imagry go back much further then Dj Shadow! Check out PlUnDeRpHoNiCs, Evolution Control Committee, negativland, and Orchid Spangiofora just to name a few in music.....then there's always the cut up arwork of Keith Harring, Warhol [obviously] and others........I believe Glass was one of the innovators in the film medium to do this, but then there's always Firesign Theater's "J-Men"!
most fitting for today:
I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New
York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes.
The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the
will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?...Is it beauty
and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them
come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When
I see the city from my window -- no, I don't feel how small I am -- but
I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself
into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.
-The Fountainhead
The building stood on the shore of the East River, a structure rapt
as raised arms. The rock crystal forms mounted in such eloquent steps that
the building did not seem stationary, but moving upward in a continuous
flow - until one realized that it was only the movement of one's glance
and that one's glance was forced to move in that particular rhythm. The
walls of pale gray limestone looked silver against the sky, with the clean,
dulled luster of metal, but a metal that had become a warm, living substance,
carved by the most cutting of all instruments - a purposeful human will;
the skyscrapers, the shapes of man's achievement on earth.
-The Fountainhead
preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life
as of no value; parasite(s) in spirit, who plunder the ideas created by
others...There is only one state that fulfills the mystics longing for
infinity, non-causality, non-identity: death. A mystic relishes the spectacle
of suffering, of poverty, subservience, and terror; these give him a feeling
of triumph, a proof for the defeat of rational reality.
-Atlas Shrugged
For more information on Ayn Rand and Objectivism, go here.
After earning a PhD in psychology in 1998 [perception & psychophysics research] I started working for the military in a post-doc position.....well, good old Bubba Clinton decided we didn't need military research anymore and closed tha base I was working on........since I did all my research on M$ and *NIX machines, I was able to land a quick job in the IT field without having a degree in it! {ahhh the good old days). I figured that I could do it for a couple of months until I could get back into academia.
Well.....here is is 4 years later and I am just getting back into academia! The past 4 years were HOT! Huge contracts with HUGE rates and frills meant easy student loan payoffs, houses, cars, etc. Then the other shoe dropped.......everyone was getting cut, contracts dried up, pay scales slid like so much California property into the ocean.......I was actually out of work for 3 months! LUCKILY....I grabbed and stashed all the dough I could when I was making it and managed never to buy any stock or take any options ["These days if you own anything but land, you own a popcorn fart!" Rodney Dangerfield, Caddyshack]......so I sold some stuff off and started looking. Here is what I found:
Infrastructure support seems to have gone the way of the dodo.....there is no need to double staff when you have competent programmers who can also provide support [if they want a job, they will!]. Contracting agencies are more like pimps then anything these days and we lowly contractors are their techno whores....they know we are stuck and they take advantage of us to the hilt.....
Once this realization hit...I started looking HARD at academia.....obviously the degree helped, but I was lucky enough to land a position at a VERY small libral arts college teaching stats software [SPSS] to undergraduate psychology students and support the psych dept M$ and MAC boxes........the position isn't faculty nor is it tenure-tract and the pay is A LOT lower then the contracting gigs but, it is PERMANENT and the benefits are HUGE. I work 9-4 [I am the work-a-holic of the department] and enjoy every July off.
I don't think we will ever see another BOOM in IT again: the golden age is over, a 12 year old can become a MCSE now and he market is flooded with "certified" people willing to work for 1/2 of what you are.....so I am staying here for the rest of my life.
If you can get into it.....I highly reccomend it. Try to stay out of administration, too many politics and too much stress......work with students, it is very rewarding and a lot more fun.
Check out the reply of the so called "stalker"
http://www.toledocybercafe.com/ivtg/index.htm
check out finalscratch.com!!!!!!!!
I have a friend in the Army who is a CIo for a military hospital [he has a basic understanding of technology]. He has been told that he will be working for Microsoft next year!
Kind of makes me sick.....he is going to have PKI crammed down his throat then take it back to the military!
Didn't the government have those folks in court for some reason????? Holy conflict of interest!!!!!
I think that it is EXACTLY what Devo is all about......the RIGHT people get it, and they even managed to undermine the Beautiful People at Target!
You have a good point......the air force flight helmets are much more securely fastened to the head, including the oxygen mask which straps across the entire lower half of the face. The display itself is actually part of the resin form of the helmet itself, so there is very little bounce........of course, those are designed for speeds in excess of mach 2! Now only if I could get my CAR to go mach 1!