It's only entrapment if they weren't PREVIOUSLY breaking the law.
E.g. non-criminal guy sees $100 bill on table left by cop and he takes it. That could be entrapment.
In this case it's
Hub operator who has been running the hub for a while offers up replies to cop searching for copyrighted music.
The guy was already in the act of "breaking the law" when the law got involved.
While I think the hub operators should be broken up I don't see the "urgency in it". Thousands upon thousands of Americans are scammed out of nickle and dime, often more by companies [hey cell phones, retail stores that don't service warranties and just plain old con artists].
Those should get this attention. I'd love to see stings on local retailers who don't honour their OWN WRITTEN REFUND POLICIES. That to me would be worth tax payer dollars.
BTW, anyone in the Ottawa area... Stay away from OEM EXPRESS, the OEM stands for "One Every Minute". They basically IGNORE their own written refund/exchange policy and will try to squeeze money out of you for returning [the next day] defective merchandise.
A better store is RB Computing [www.shoprbc.com] since they have a larger store, offer more and better product and their sales staff are generally out to help the customers. No I don't work for either company. I just happen to be the proud owner of two fine [and competitively priced] desktops from RB.;-)
The problem is it's a tough sell to tell students "hey, just learn math because enlightenment leads to discovery" when you swindle them out of huge tuition fees, book fees [books authored by profs or chosen because they're hard to find leading to gouging] and resident/food fees marked up.
People look at university as means to an ends. If they can't make money off going to university [and taking hard academic courses] they rarely do.
At my college at least there are more females in the media/journalism type courses. And mostly they form the same style of cliques they had in high school. That's a social function not genetic.
Sure they're no good at math. That's because they took general math in high school. Why did they do that? Well in elementary they were in the same math courses. What changed?
Well little sussie grew breasts and wanted to impress little billy. To do that she did all the cool things like "hang out" and "chill" and "chat" instead of do homework. Now little sussie didn't want to fail at school [because as much as students hate school they hate failure more] so she dropped the advanced math and science for general level.
Now little sussie is fully grown sussie, with years of experience enticing mates and little working knowledge of math and science. She wants to head off to college to meet more mates and reproduce like a good little serf. But again, she can't enroll in any academic courses because she only has general level courses. So she becomes a journalist or radio/television student.... Now I'm not saying being a journalist is "for stupid people only". I'm saying you don't have to be an academic to do it...
So did fully grown sussie end up in a non-academic track because of genetics? Well she did grow those nice soft breasts back in middle school... yum... but she chose to be a mating toy. She wasn't forced into doing it.... ok enough talking about female anatomy... hehehe
Point is middle/high school students tend to spend more time "hanging out" or impressing others than actually doing their school work [or heaven forbid extra curricular activities...]
My point though, it's a function of being big enough not male enough.
If a 5'10" 160lbs female can carry 200lbs on her back and march 50 miles with 80lbs then so what?
I still say it's a function of society. I mean how many female teenagers actually strength train? I'd say very few. Sure they do endurance training [e.g. running, cycling, swimming] but those are "attractive sports" that society pays the cash money for.
I'm sure if you sat down with a not-petite female at age 12 and started them on strength training by time they hit 18 they would be strong enough to serve in the military.
The problem is they don't.
On the flipside don't get me wrong about that. I don't believe in affirmative action. If you can't carry 200lbs or march 50 miles you don't belong in the military [female or male].
I mean how much would a Mona Lisa clone painted by the latest prodigy have sold for 6 months after the original was released?
Sure people wrote music and painted for money but I don't recall them getting super rich off it. You had to love it and put something into it to make your life meaningful.
Nowadays you hope to make a couple million then go spend it on shiny cars and big mansions in crowed cities.
muscle... I've met some weak males and strong females. It's a matter of picking up some weights.
I've met some small [short and small frame] males and tall females. It's a matter of genetics.... [etc]...
Don't get me wrong. I ***DO*** think there are physical causes and limits to minds of matter and thought [e.g. chemical makeup making for less intelligence or less muscle, etc...]. I just don't think they're strictly gender based.
You say you're not good at doing economics work. Maybe that's because you haven't studied it. Or if you did study it maybe you didn't try hard, do the assignments, pay attention. Maybe you do lack the mental faculties to perform the math, etc. Is that because you're a male?
Why not just say "black people have a tendency to loot"? That's following the SAME LOGIC.
When we start closing doors to jobs and education based on race or sex we're essentially going back to the 1950s in terms of society.
You might as well put the blacks on the back of the bus and split colleges up so females can learn how to become better wives.
So is being short, of german descent and the ability to grow a mustache.
Can any of those affect your ability to learn math?
"Prove it. What you've said is an unsubstantiated hypothesis and will not hold up in scientific circles. What happens if your studies *do* show an innate difference? Does that automatically make you sexist?"
I wasn't saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's unlikely and the more likely culprit is just social stigma of being "smart".
The fact that modern history has WELL DOCUMENTED CASES of such biggotry is a good indication that any phyiscal condition is not the cause.
Math and science isn't 50/50 because we still don't value people who seek academia. "nerds" are subject of ridicule and females are often pressured by males to suit them instead of fill out their own desires.
I don't have an agenda here. Personally I still think that many females simply CHOOSE to avoid the academic route. At my college there were females in the classes and they weren't ridiculed or picked on etc... There were many females in the less academic fields though like media or business....
But as a president of a university to go out and say "females are incapable of the same achievements" without at least some proof during the talk is really borderline crazy.
"Art can also include the making of something beautiful for its own sake. No story, no message, just nice to look at. Consider paintings of fields full of flowers & light like those done by all those famed French guys."
Usually that's state of mind. When you hit a peaceful state and can express such things.
A faithful representation of a field or house [or whatever] is technically challenging but isn't art. For instance, a circuit diagram may be nice looking, hell it's even creative. Its still not art [or at least not normally, I wouldn't doubt if Intel cpus had engineer names etched in by mistake...;-)].
Nah she wears that tie and "acts out" that makes her badass. I want to grow up just like her [except I'm male and 5 years older than she is........sad...]
It's funny, during the holidays I watched a bit too much MTV and there was a "meet a rockstar" where some teenage chick met Avril. The best part though is Avril was off in space during most of the taping. Throughout the show it looked like she couldn't give a rats ass about the "fan" she was about to meet.
If she's that rude and inconsiderate now that she's a star and well todo what is she gonna be like in 30 years when she's a has-been? I can see a string of Avril arrests coming up in the future;-)
"This isn't really true... abstract painting, experimental composition are good counterexamples. These things are art, but they contain no message or story."
The defintion of "art" is largely subjective. Though even stuff I find offensive I could call art. Generally my only criteria is that the creation must be motivated by the creators actual emotions.
So if you just run up to a canvas and throw a gallon of paint at it, that's not art. That's canvas with paint on it [hint: think house painting...].
Sadly even "artsy art" can go sideways. The "voices of fire" that Ottawa bought is a good example. It was by no means driven by the creator. It's a stupid tall canvas with three stripes on it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think art has to be "accurate" or "beautiful". Contemporary piano for example is often considered "not music" but I find it can actually carry something of the author in it.
Oh really? Because many people are composing actual music today right?...
Just because you can play three chords, wail into a microphone and dress like a "$THING_TEENAGERS_WANT_TO_LOOK_LIKE" doesn't mean you're an artist. You're a performer.
Fuck, even Titney spears admits she doesn't write the songs she sings. I seriously doubt lavigne, simpsons or the other MTV mutts write their own songs either.
Let's just not confuse music/art with "noise that they produce". Sure it's a diversion and occasionally entertaining but it's not art.
Art is something made with a message or story in mind.
"baby baby I love you baby touch me baby baby" is
a) not original b) getting really boring c) not well motivated
The same can be said for the average movie out there. let's see
- explosions - oddly casted music - some "tough guy" - girl (the more titties the better) - car chase scene - gun battle where you see large sparks off bullet richochets [hint: you wouldn't in reality and yes I've really fired.40 and.223 calibre weapons]
Hey I wrote the next Bourne series movie!!! holy shit! Time to ship it off to WB and see if I can make some cash money.
Because history is littered with biggots who use "science" as a backing for discrimination?
I mean it's just as easy to point out all the violence in the world, note that it's mostly male and say "they're not worthy of education because of what they'll do with it".
But a view like that would immediately become suspect because not all males are violent homicidal "freedom givers".
I've met quite a few ditsy stupid females in my life time. I've also met quite a few power-tripping idiot males [oh, wait they have an MBA!!!]. I've met some stupid black people and I've met some ignorant chinese people.
So what?
I've also met some very intelligent females who did well in courses like Calculus and Algebra. I've met generous and kind males. I've met some very welcoming black folk and I've met a few chinese that I get along with just fine.
All this "president" did was show that even the supposedly well enlightened can be biggots.
I mean I'm sure there are physical conditions that pre-disposes someone to be good at math/science. I just don't think they're gender specific. I think more than anything social pressure is the culprit for any "lacking in numbers" the females might have. I also think they bring it on themselves.
From what I saw while at college, if you come to class with makeup on I can't help but not take you seriously. Sorry, thems the breaks. And no guy and their biggoted ways made them dress in tight shirts, wear makeup and drop the math courses. They did that because it was the popular thing todo.
But to suggest that it's gender specific is really lame and very 1950s'ish.
That's not always true. Some languages do have idiosyncrasies that are nasty to overcome. Ruby for instance is nothing like C. Same thing with Python.
So if you put on your resume
- Mastery of C
- familiar with Java, Perl, C++
I wouldn't expect them to ask you to write a Python webserver or something "to see how you think" during an interview.
RiM [the blackberry makers] are big on quizzes too. I posted for a job online and they made me solve some "number of shapes with N sides" puzzle. I was 99% to an answer so they were a bit annoyed but decided to interview anyways. During the interview they gave me another question [about how to draw some form of pascal triangle].
While we were discussing the question I basically asked him "does solving puzzles make me a great employee?" to which he replied "it's good to know how you think" or some such.
See my background is crypto and math. I know how to multiply fast, how to exponentiate fast, etc. But because I took the full 3 minutes to write the algo [for the triangle thingy] he seemed not pleased as if I wasn't smart enough for the job.
So I then asked him to give me an algorithm to multiply 1024-bit numbers quickly [less than n^2 time] to put him in his place. He said he didn't know how and was mystified by the question. I told him "oh, well because YOU can't solve that puzzle you're a bad employee".
At which point the interview was over.
To me interviews are stressful. Giving stupid questions is retarded. Wanna see what I'm capable of? Check out the 100,368 lines of C, TeX and Perl that make up my public domain portfolio [e.g. libtom projects] that is used by corporations around the globe.
But somehow that doesn't count.
During an interview at entrust [a crypto company] they didn't seem to care about LibTomCrypt and more so if I could debug a Java program they printed out [it had a race condition]. I never said I was proficient at Java [my resume lists it but all my projects are in C].
Mostly I think interviewers don't do proper background checks. They [entrust] never downloaded a copy of LibTomCrypt to look at it. The questions were not suited to my resume [they called me first!] and I left feeling stupid because I couldn't answer the questions properly.... just my experience...
Besides playing with "Real players (tm)" just celebrates them. I find nothing to celebrate in whiny, often questionable and rarely honourable people that play a game for a couple of years for many millions.
Oh it's tough work. No doubt about it. But they also get to "play for a dozen years" then retire at 30 with millions in their pockets. Pay the players say 60 to 80 grand a year plus travel expenses [e.g. hotels, food] and then we can say "whoa, they work hard for the money"....
Lots of video games aren't based in reality. That's usually a good thing since they're a diversion. Sure "real teams" is a nice touch but I personally wouldn't care.
Personally I don't assume that evolution was the only path to where we are today.
I just hate that so many religious types sit at "this is the way it is".
Religion by far is a scam. Good people come in all shapes and sizes and it has nothing todo with God. I personally don't devote much if any time to the matter yet I still hold doors for people, donate my software to the public domain, and give people directions when I can [etc...]. You don't have to do church fundraisers and carry a bible to be a "good person".
All religion does is fill the gap of the unknown with a nice story that isn't supported by even a modicum of fact.
Did Jesus exist? Who the fuck knows. It was 2000 years ago. He could have been a she, she could have been a thief who raped hordes of people.
Anyone play the telephone game? Anyone surprised that after 10 people a simple message gets messed up?
For all we know, Jesus could have been a notorious murderer who praid on "virgins"...
Just as/. types bitch that "MPAA cracking down on torrents" makes BitTorrent look bad so does saying "hardware X doesn't work in Linux [when comparing to Windows]" make Linux sound bad.
The reason why most wifi hardware doesn't work in Linux isn't a lack of trying. It's that hardware manufacturers GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to not support Linux.
For example, my friend got a "v4 Linksys" 802.11b card [iirc it was Linksys....] and found out that only the v3 card works in Linux.
Similarly the "SoundMAX" cmpci asus chipset [at least when first introduced] was purposefully different from the original cmpci chipset [and didn't work at least in the 2.4 kernels].
So it's not that Linux developers don't develop drivers [or try to] it's that hardware developers change specs and don't document things.
In the future just say "Linksys doesn't support their customers [*]" instead of saying "Linux doesn't support Linksys".
[*] Any BS about not being enough Linux users is just stupid. The benefit from taking the time to write competent Linux drivers [or just release the specs] would far outweigh the cost of doing so.
"whatever other miscellaneous hardware linux doesn't support."
That's awfully backwards thinking. I'd say the hardware manufacturers don't support linux.
I remember back in the day when DOS moved into Windows 3.0 and it was a question of whether the [mostly sound cards] device manufacturer supported windows and not if windows supported the device. It was understood that hardware alone isn't the only responsibility.
But let's not forget that Windows barely supports any recent hardware [graphics/sound/tv tuner] anyways. In my windows install at least I had to install the nvidia and hauppage drivers manually.
Do I now say "Windows doesn't support bt848 cards!!!"?
Say of the taxes we pay 2$ a year per person goes to roads [universally]. That means in Ottawa we pay 1.4 million [which is grossly inaccurate] for roads a year.
Compare that to the other city [smith falls, pop say 10k to make the numbers easier]. They get 20k a year for roads.
Seems unfair that we have four lane highways, plowed roads, etc...
Except 70 times more people walk the streets of Ottawa. That means they have to be cleaner and more stable for the masses to commute just as efficiently.
Should ottawa and smith falls combine the 1.42 million and split it as $710,000 between the two? That would be "equal" if you assume ottawa == smith falls. But just "counting cities" isn't logical.
So there isn't "more money" in Ottawa just because the people who live there are "richer". It's because more people live and commute there than other cities.
This also doesn't mean we don't transfer wealth. Not all of the tax that Ontarians pay goes back into Ontario. Quite a bit goes to programs all over the country.
"Capitalism is a social system, as is socialism and communism. Just because it's a "social" concept does not make it socialism. If anything- this is an example of elite capitalism as richer areas like cities that have the excess CAPTIAL get the SERVICES."
No that's just naive. There are 700,000 people in Ottawa. you're saying they should get the same road budge as Smith Falls with it's 9,000 people?
How's that socialism if Smith Falls people get more per capita than Ottawa people?
Me thinks you know not about what you are speaking...
In canada we have dirt roads in the country because the population density is lower.
Why sacrifice for the many [e.g. Ottawa] by paving roads for the few [say Arnprior or Smith Falls]? That's a "social" concept if I ever heard one.
Just like you could give medicine to everyone but why not save it for those that need it? [I'm sure everyone wants their share of gauze and salene [sp?]]...
Is medicine "capitilistic" because we don't issue gauze to everyone, even those who don't need it right now? I don't think so. It's more pragmatic. It would be "captilism" if we made you pay for the city roads or admission to schools/hospitals.
Where it gets into classes though is that it's harder to afford living in the cities where such services is abundant.
Tom
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Wrong.
I run gentoo on x86_64 and x86_32. I want both boxes to be as close as possible [e.g. if my x86_64 box dies I can resume work on the 32... which is a laptop actually].
Why should I be at the whim of some binary master to make x86_64 then x86_32 binaries for me? All I need is the source and I can make them myself.
oh and Gentoo does support binary package install you ignorant fool. Just rarely anyone uses it beyond say arrays of computers.
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It's only entrapment if they weren't PREVIOUSLY breaking the law.
;-)
E.g. non-criminal guy sees $100 bill on table left by cop and he takes it. That could be entrapment.
In this case it's
Hub operator who has been running the hub for a while offers up replies to cop searching for copyrighted music.
The guy was already in the act of "breaking the law" when the law got involved.
While I think the hub operators should be broken up I don't see the "urgency in it". Thousands upon thousands of Americans are scammed out of nickle and dime, often more by companies [hey cell phones, retail stores that don't service warranties and just plain old con artists].
Those should get this attention. I'd love to see stings on local retailers who don't honour their OWN WRITTEN REFUND POLICIES. That to me would be worth tax payer dollars.
BTW, anyone in the Ottawa area... Stay away from OEM EXPRESS, the OEM stands for "One Every Minute". They basically IGNORE their own written refund/exchange policy and will try to squeeze money out of you for returning [the next day] defective merchandise.
A better store is RB Computing [www.shoprbc.com] since they have a larger store, offer more and better product and their sales staff are generally out to help the customers. No I don't work for either company. I just happen to be the proud owner of two fine [and competitively priced] desktops from RB.
Tom
They want whatever the commercial tells them they want. As I recall correctly they did sell pong machines in the 70s/80s.
That's why they're serfs. Let's see 20$ realistic football game with made up team names or the EA NFL 2k5 ultra-gourmet-quality-licensed 40$ title...
Well EA has three times as many commercials. Therefore I want the EA game. Even though it costs twice as much and has the SAME GAME PLAY.
Look at excitbike/atv/waverace games. They introduce some brand names here and there but largely the make up the tracks, people, etc.
Do people care? Answer: not yet.
Until they license an ATV leagues competitors likeness to EA then "ATV 2k6 super-road" comes out.
Tom
True dat.
... Now I'm not saying being a journalist is "for stupid people only". I'm saying you don't have to be an academic to do it ...
... ok enough talking about female anatomy... hehehe
...]
The problem is it's a tough sell to tell students "hey, just learn math because enlightenment leads to discovery" when you swindle them out of huge tuition fees, book fees [books authored by profs or chosen because they're hard to find leading to gouging] and resident/food fees marked up.
People look at university as means to an ends. If they can't make money off going to university [and taking hard academic courses] they rarely do.
At my college at least there are more females in the media/journalism type courses. And mostly they form the same style of cliques they had in high school. That's a social function not genetic.
Sure they're no good at math. That's because they took general math in high school. Why did they do that? Well in elementary they were in the same math courses. What changed?
Well little sussie grew breasts and wanted to impress little billy. To do that she did all the cool things like "hang out" and "chill" and "chat" instead of do homework. Now little sussie didn't want to fail at school [because as much as students hate school they hate failure more] so she dropped the advanced math and science for general level.
Now little sussie is fully grown sussie, with years of experience enticing mates and little working knowledge of math and science. She wants to head off to college to meet more mates and reproduce like a good little serf. But again, she can't enroll in any academic courses because she only has general level courses. So she becomes a journalist or radio/television student.
So did fully grown sussie end up in a non-academic track because of genetics? Well she did grow those nice soft breasts back in middle school... yum... but she chose to be a mating toy. She wasn't forced into doing it.
Point is middle/high school students tend to spend more time "hanging out" or impressing others than actually doing their school work [or heaven forbid extra curricular activities
Tom
My point though, it's a function of being big enough not male enough.
If a 5'10" 160lbs female can carry 200lbs on her back and march 50 miles with 80lbs then so what?
I still say it's a function of society. I mean how many female teenagers actually strength train? I'd say very few. Sure they do endurance training [e.g. running, cycling, swimming] but those are "attractive sports" that society pays the cash money for.
I'm sure if you sat down with a not-petite female at age 12 and started them on strength training by time they hit 18 they would be strong enough to serve in the military.
The problem is they don't.
On the flipside don't get me wrong about that. I don't believe in affirmative action. If you can't carry 200lbs or march 50 miles you don't belong in the military [female or male].
Tom
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Thanks for correcting me.
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tom
I think as a whole we've regressed.
I mean how much would a Mona Lisa clone painted by the latest prodigy have sold for 6 months after the original was released?
Sure people wrote music and painted for money but I don't recall them getting super rich off it. You had to love it and put something into it to make your life meaningful.
Nowadays you hope to make a couple million then go spend it on shiny cars and big mansions in crowed cities.
muscle... I've met some weak males and strong females. It's a matter of picking up some weights.
... [etc] ...
I've met some small [short and small frame] males and tall females. It's a matter of genetics.
Don't get me wrong. I ***DO*** think there are physical causes and limits to minds of matter and thought [e.g. chemical makeup making for less intelligence or less muscle, etc...]. I just don't think they're strictly gender based.
You say you're not good at doing economics work. Maybe that's because you haven't studied it. Or if you did study it maybe you didn't try hard, do the assignments, pay attention. Maybe you do lack the mental faculties to perform the math, etc. Is that because you're a male?
Why not just say "black people have a tendency to loot"? That's following the SAME LOGIC.
When we start closing doors to jobs and education based on race or sex we're essentially going back to the 1950s in terms of society.
You might as well put the blacks on the back of the bus and split colleges up so females can learn how to become better wives.
Tom
"Gender is a phyisical condition."
...
So is being short, of german descent and the ability to grow a mustache.
Can any of those affect your ability to learn math?
"Prove it. What you've said is an unsubstantiated hypothesis and will not hold up in scientific circles. What happens if your studies *do* show an innate difference? Does that automatically make you sexist?"
I wasn't saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's unlikely and the more likely culprit is just social stigma of being "smart".
The fact that modern history has WELL DOCUMENTED CASES of such biggotry is a good indication that any phyiscal condition is not the cause.
Math and science isn't 50/50 because we still don't value people who seek academia. "nerds" are subject of ridicule and females are often pressured by males to suit them instead of fill out their own desires.
I don't have an agenda here. Personally I still think that many females simply CHOOSE to avoid the academic route. At my college there were females in the classes and they weren't ridiculed or picked on etc... There were many females in the less academic fields though like media or business.
But as a president of a university to go out and say "females are incapable of the same achievements" without at least some proof during the talk is really borderline crazy.
Tom
"Art can also include the making of something beautiful for its own sake. No story, no message, just nice to look at. Consider paintings of fields full of flowers & light like those done by all those famed French guys."
;-)].
Usually that's state of mind. When you hit a peaceful state and can express such things.
A faithful representation of a field or house [or whatever] is technically challenging but isn't art. For instance, a circuit diagram may be nice looking, hell it's even creative. Its still not art [or at least not normally, I wouldn't doubt if Intel cpus had engineer names etched in by mistake...
Tom
Nah she wears that tie and "acts out" that makes her badass. I want to grow up just like her [except I'm male and 5 years older than she is........sad...]
;-)
It's funny, during the holidays I watched a bit too much MTV and there was a "meet a rockstar" where some teenage chick met Avril. The best part though is Avril was off in space during most of the taping. Throughout the show it looked like she couldn't give a rats ass about the "fan" she was about to meet.
If she's that rude and inconsiderate now that she's a star and well todo what is she gonna be like in 30 years when she's a has-been? I can see a string of Avril arrests coming up in the future
Tom
So what you're saying is in 300 years we've made no progress?
Tom
"This isn't really true... abstract painting, experimental composition are good counterexamples. These things are art, but they contain no message or story."
The defintion of "art" is largely subjective. Though even stuff I find offensive I could call art. Generally my only criteria is that the creation must be motivated by the creators actual emotions.
So if you just run up to a canvas and throw a gallon of paint at it, that's not art. That's canvas with paint on it [hint: think house painting...].
Sadly even "artsy art" can go sideways. The "voices of fire" that Ottawa bought is a good example. It was by no means driven by the creator. It's a stupid tall canvas with three stripes on it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think art has to be "accurate" or "beautiful". Contemporary piano for example is often considered "not music" but I find it can actually carry something of the author in it.
Tom
Oh really? Because many people are composing actual music today right? ...
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Just because you can play three chords, wail into a microphone and dress like a "$THING_TEENAGERS_WANT_TO_LOOK_LIKE" doesn't mean you're an artist. You're a performer.
Fuck, even Titney spears admits she doesn't write the songs she sings. I seriously doubt lavigne, simpsons or the other MTV mutts write their own songs either.
Let's just not confuse music/art with "noise that they produce". Sure it's a diversion and occasionally entertaining but it's not art.
Art is something made with a message or story in mind.
"baby baby I love you baby touch me baby baby" is
a) not original
b) getting really boring
c) not well motivated
The same can be said for the average movie out there. let's see
- explosions
- oddly casted music
- some "tough guy"
- girl (the more titties the better)
- car chase scene
- gun battle where you see large sparks off bullet richochets [hint: you wouldn't in reality and yes I've really fired
Hey I wrote the next Bourne series movie!!! holy shit! Time to ship it off to WB and see if I can make some cash money.
Tom
Because history is littered with biggots who use "science" as a backing for discrimination?
I mean it's just as easy to point out all the violence in the world, note that it's mostly male and say "they're not worthy of education because of what they'll do with it".
But a view like that would immediately become suspect because not all males are violent homicidal "freedom givers".
I've met quite a few ditsy stupid females in my life time. I've also met quite a few power-tripping idiot males [oh, wait they have an MBA!!!]. I've met some stupid black people and I've met some ignorant chinese people.
So what?
I've also met some very intelligent females who did well in courses like Calculus and Algebra. I've met generous and kind males. I've met some very welcoming black folk and I've met a few chinese that I get along with just fine.
All this "president" did was show that even the supposedly well enlightened can be biggots.
I mean I'm sure there are physical conditions that pre-disposes someone to be good at math/science. I just don't think they're gender specific. I think more than anything social pressure is the culprit for any "lacking in numbers" the females might have. I also think they bring it on themselves.
From what I saw while at college, if you come to class with makeup on I can't help but not take you seriously. Sorry, thems the breaks. And no guy and their biggoted ways made them dress in tight shirts, wear makeup and drop the math courses. They did that because it was the popular thing todo.
But to suggest that it's gender specific is really lame and very 1950s'ish.
Tom
That's not always true. Some languages do have idiosyncrasies that are nasty to overcome. Ruby for instance is nothing like C. Same thing with Python.
... just my experience...
So if you put on your resume
- Mastery of C
- familiar with Java, Perl, C++
I wouldn't expect them to ask you to write a Python webserver or something "to see how you think" during an interview.
RiM [the blackberry makers] are big on quizzes too. I posted for a job online and they made me solve some "number of shapes with N sides" puzzle. I was 99% to an answer so they were a bit annoyed but decided to interview anyways. During the interview they gave me another question [about how to draw some form of pascal triangle].
While we were discussing the question I basically asked him "does solving puzzles make me a great employee?" to which he replied "it's good to know how you think" or some such.
See my background is crypto and math. I know how to multiply fast, how to exponentiate fast, etc. But because I took the full 3 minutes to write the algo [for the triangle thingy] he seemed not pleased as if I wasn't smart enough for the job.
So I then asked him to give me an algorithm to multiply 1024-bit numbers quickly [less than n^2 time] to put him in his place. He said he didn't know how and was mystified by the question. I told him "oh, well because YOU can't solve that puzzle you're a bad employee".
At which point the interview was over.
To me interviews are stressful. Giving stupid questions is retarded. Wanna see what I'm capable of? Check out the 100,368 lines of C, TeX and Perl that make up my public domain portfolio [e.g. libtom projects] that is used by corporations around the globe.
But somehow that doesn't count.
During an interview at entrust [a crypto company] they didn't seem to care about LibTomCrypt and more so if I could debug a Java program they printed out [it had a race condition]. I never said I was proficient at Java [my resume lists it but all my projects are in C].
Mostly I think interviewers don't do proper background checks. They [entrust] never downloaded a copy of LibTomCrypt to look at it. The questions were not suited to my resume [they called me first!] and I left feeling stupid because I couldn't answer the questions properly.
Tom
You're just jealous.
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Besides playing with "Real players (tm)" just celebrates them. I find nothing to celebrate in whiny, often questionable and rarely honourable people that play a game for a couple of years for many millions.
Oh it's tough work. No doubt about it. But they also get to "play for a dozen years" then retire at 30 with millions in their pockets. Pay the players say 60 to 80 grand a year plus travel expenses [e.g. hotels, food] and then we can say "whoa, they work hard for the money".
Tom
"... but it won't be the same."
Yeah they'll be original... oops...
Lots of video games aren't based in reality. That's usually a good thing since they're a diversion. Sure "real teams" is a nice touch but I personally wouldn't care.
To me it's about the reflexes and/or strategy.
Tom
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Just don't buy EA sports games? Does a game [say football or hockey] strictly need real "pro teams" to make it fun?
Of course like windows most consumers are serfs that buy whatever commercials tell them to so they will buy into EA games...
Tom
Personally I don't assume that evolution was the only path to where we are today.
I just hate that so many religious types sit at "this is the way it is".
Religion by far is a scam. Good people come in all shapes and sizes and it has nothing todo with God. I personally don't devote much if any time to the matter yet I still hold doors for people, donate my software to the public domain, and give people directions when I can [etc...]. You don't have to do church fundraisers and carry a bible to be a "good person".
All religion does is fill the gap of the unknown with a nice story that isn't supported by even a modicum of fact.
Did Jesus exist? Who the fuck knows. It was 2000 years ago. He could have been a she, she could have been a thief who raped hordes of people.
Anyone play the telephone game? Anyone surprised that after 10 people a simple message gets messed up?
For all we know, Jesus could have been a notorious murderer who praid on "virgins"...
Tom
No the argument is the wording is misleading.
/. types bitch that "MPAA cracking down on torrents" makes BitTorrent look bad so does saying "hardware X doesn't work in Linux [when comparing to Windows]" make Linux sound bad.
Just as
The reason why most wifi hardware doesn't work in Linux isn't a lack of trying. It's that hardware manufacturers GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to not support Linux.
For example, my friend got a "v4 Linksys" 802.11b card [iirc it was Linksys....] and found out that only the v3 card works in Linux.
Similarly the "SoundMAX" cmpci asus chipset [at least when first introduced] was purposefully different from the original cmpci chipset [and didn't work at least in the 2.4 kernels].
So it's not that Linux developers don't develop drivers [or try to] it's that hardware developers change specs and don't document things.
In the future just say "Linksys doesn't support their customers [*]" instead of saying "Linux doesn't support Linksys".
[*] Any BS about not being enough Linux users is just stupid. The benefit from taking the time to write competent Linux drivers [or just release the specs] would far outweigh the cost of doing so.
Tom
"whatever other miscellaneous hardware linux doesn't support."
That's awfully backwards thinking. I'd say the hardware manufacturers don't support linux.
I remember back in the day when DOS moved into Windows 3.0 and it was a question of whether the [mostly sound cards] device manufacturer supported windows and not if windows supported the device. It was understood that hardware alone isn't the only responsibility.
But let's not forget that Windows barely supports any recent hardware [graphics/sound/tv tuner] anyways. In my windows install at least I had to install the nvidia and hauppage drivers manually.
Do I now say "Windows doesn't support bt848 cards!!!"?
Tom
Let me mathify this for ya.
Say of the taxes we pay 2$ a year per person goes to roads [universally]. That means in Ottawa we pay 1.4 million [which is grossly inaccurate] for roads a year.
Compare that to the other city [smith falls, pop say 10k to make the numbers easier]. They get 20k a year for roads.
Seems unfair that we have four lane highways, plowed roads, etc...
Except 70 times more people walk the streets of Ottawa. That means they have to be cleaner and more stable for the masses to commute just as efficiently.
Should ottawa and smith falls combine the 1.42 million and split it as $710,000 between the two? That would be "equal" if you assume ottawa == smith falls. But just "counting cities" isn't logical.
So there isn't "more money" in Ottawa just because the people who live there are "richer". It's because more people live and commute there than other cities.
This also doesn't mean we don't transfer wealth. Not all of the tax that Ontarians pay goes back into Ontario. Quite a bit goes to programs all over the country.
Tom
"Capitalism is a social system, as is socialism and communism. Just because it's a "social" concept does not make it socialism. If anything- this is an example of elite capitalism as richer areas like cities that have the excess CAPTIAL get the SERVICES."
No that's just naive. There are 700,000 people in Ottawa. you're saying they should get the same road budge as Smith Falls with it's 9,000 people?
How's that socialism if Smith Falls people get more per capita than Ottawa people?
Me thinks you know not about what you are speaking...
Tom
In canada we have dirt roads in the country because the population density is lower.
Why sacrifice for the many [e.g. Ottawa] by paving roads for the few [say Arnprior or Smith Falls]? That's a "social" concept if I ever heard one.
Just like you could give medicine to everyone but why not save it for those that need it? [I'm sure everyone wants their share of gauze and salene [sp?]]...
Is medicine "capitilistic" because we don't issue gauze to everyone, even those who don't need it right now? I don't think so. It's more pragmatic. It would be "captilism" if we made you pay for the city roads or admission to schools/hospitals.
Where it gets into classes though is that it's harder to afford living in the cities where such services is abundant.
Tom
Wrong.
... which is a laptop actually].
I run gentoo on x86_64 and x86_32. I want both boxes to be as close as possible [e.g. if my x86_64 box dies I can resume work on the 32
Why should I be at the whim of some binary master to make x86_64 then x86_32 binaries for me? All I need is the source and I can make them myself.
oh and Gentoo does support binary package install you ignorant fool. Just rarely anyone uses it beyond say arrays of computers.
Tom