What's so surprising about this? The modern Republican party is full of people who believe that anything that gets in the way of the Free Market is evil, and that includes intellectual property rights. He's probably no different from a hippie who grows up and settles down a little, then gets involved in the Democratic party as watered down, centrist version of their half-baked youthful idealism.
The solution to this is to find more than one thing that you love. Do one of them for a living; you'll end up losing your love for it, but you'll be able to tolerate it well enough for a job. Meanwhile, do another one for the pure enjoyment of it.
I've had a couple of IT jobs that were less than full-time.
One was 20 hours/week, but even though it included a benefits package (pro-rated), it didn't pay a good hourly rate. And eventually I got laid off when the budget got tight: it was less disruptive to lose a half-timer than one of the full-timers.
The other was 32 hours/week, which was really just an excuse not to pay benefits of any kind. This would have been OK, leaving me time to do consulting jobs on the side, which would pay for my health insurance, etc. Except that the job frequently required 40-60 hours a week, which killed my consulting business, but wasn't reliable enough to count on for income.
So in theory, a high-paying part-time job would be ideal. With competent management (like the first job) and a job-appropriate pay rate, it could work. The problem is that employers who venture into the realm of part-time IT jobs tend to treat them the same way they would treat part-time food-service jobs: as the province of short-term employees that they can dispose of at will, rather than as fellow professionals.
The fact that Reiser was not the only nut-case she got involved with is not odd at all. Some people have an unfortunate tendency to fall for people who are bad for them, and in this case fatally so.
I drink locally-produced (Michigan) wine, but that's just out of economic self-interest and ecological concern. ("Buy local.")
The yahoos who were boycotting French goods and bellowing "freedom fries" during the rush to war a few years ago were doing so for one reason only: France was telling us (and the world) that Iraq apparently didn't have WMDs and that we should not invade it and destabilize the whole region. The yahoos accused them of being "cowards". The notion that these people were concerned about EU politics is just silly.
Anyone who singles out a group of people and says they aren't human... well, it doesn't exactly put you in good company, Herr BVis. I was being polite by calling it "misanthropic"; a better description would be "hateful and bigoted".
As for your "revenge" justification for hating entire classes of people, it may surprise you to learn that most IT people get treated OK by the general population. Some of us even get treated well. If people are treating you that badly, and it's probably about you. Good luck with that.
"These people aren't even human beings." How... charming.
I guess I neglected to consider the possibility that no school can overcome the kind of misanthropic, hateful bile that you're full of. And I'm afraid there isn't an HR drone or hiring manager that looks forward to hiring someone who bathes in that kind of antisocial sewer. No matter where they went to school, or what employer is trying to get rid of them.
Wow, you sure managed to squander a good opportunity.
And I'm not talking about the chance of getting in bed with Fashion Marketing majors.
I'm talking about pulling your head out of your ass long enough to, say, get to know some of them, as people. Which you obviously didn't do, if you think they're a bunch of airheaded bimbos. After I got my CS degree, I went to an art school, where they have majors like Interior Design and Painting, and some of those students were the most intelligent and hard-working people I've known. And the chance to talk to students who had absolutely no interest in computers was both a world-broadening experience and a breath of fresh air.
The hiring manager at anyplace worth working at will be more interested in your skills and experience, not whether you went to Popcorn State or BigHardcore Tech.
Yes, they will, which is why you'll find that hiring managers at all sorts of places do look at where you went to school to get an idea of what kind of experiences you've had, and they look favorably on small- to medium-sized Liberal Arts schools, over both Popcorn State and BigHardcore Tech.
Of course there are non-tech classes at any good Tech school. But it's still a Tech school, so a huge percentage of the people you'll be taking those History and Poli Sci classes with will be... technology students. At a Liberal Arts school, you'll be taking Principles of Econ with people who intend to study and work in Economics for the rest of their careers, and you'll be taking English Literature class with people who plan to become writers, and your Modern Philosophy class will be with people who will actually be waiting tables in a few years. You get a much broader view of these topics by learning them with people with different outlooks and interests, than you will from sitting in a room full of people whose papers about Pointillism will all compare the technique to the functioning of a CRT.
Oh, he'll learn CS just fine at a Liberal Arts school (assuming its CS program is accredited, of course). He'll also learn things that aren't CS at a Liberal Arts school, which is why I would always hire one of their graduates over a Tech school graduate (grades, personality, etc. being roughly equal).
If you want to spend your whole career competing with folks in India, China, and other low-wage emerging tech economies, get a degree that's focused entirely on CS. Those skills are trivially easy to outsource overseas, and they will be. On the other hand, if you want to have a competitive advantage based on your familiarity with Western culture, economics, human psychology, creative arts, and a foreign language, get a degree with a CS major at a Liberal Arts school, and take all those non-CS "core" classes seriously. You'll also meet a more interesting cross-section of people.:)
Calling these machines "underpowered" shows a gross misunderstanding of their purpose. They're not supposed to be desktop replacements. They're designed to be "enough" computer for use on the road or in the field. You don't need a supercomputer to run an office suite, web browser, and e-mail client, and these laptops are designed with that in mind.
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What's so surprising about this? The modern Republican party is full of people who believe that anything that gets in the way of the Free Market is evil, and that includes intellectual property rights. He's probably no different from a hippie who grows up and settles down a little, then gets involved in the Democratic party as watered down, centrist version of their half-baked youthful idealism.
The solution to this is to find more than one thing that you love. Do one of them for a living; you'll end up losing your love for it, but you'll be able to tolerate it well enough for a job. Meanwhile, do another one for the pure enjoyment of it.
I've had a couple of IT jobs that were less than full-time.
One was 20 hours/week, but even though it included a benefits package (pro-rated), it didn't pay a good hourly rate. And eventually I got laid off when the budget got tight: it was less disruptive to lose a half-timer than one of the full-timers.
The other was 32 hours/week, which was really just an excuse not to pay benefits of any kind. This would have been OK, leaving me time to do consulting jobs on the side, which would pay for my health insurance, etc. Except that the job frequently required 40-60 hours a week, which killed my consulting business, but wasn't reliable enough to count on for income.
So in theory, a high-paying part-time job would be ideal. With competent management (like the first job) and a job-appropriate pay rate, it could work. The problem is that employers who venture into the realm of part-time IT jobs tend to treat them the same way they would treat part-time food-service jobs: as the province of short-term employees that they can dispose of at will, rather than as fellow professionals.
The fact that Reiser was not the only nut-case she got involved with is not odd at all. Some people have an unfortunate tendency to fall for people who are bad for them, and in this case fatally so.
I think this discovery calls for the fast-tracking of unbibium through the IUPAC committee that assigns real names to elements.
And the ones who don't "game" will be bored out of their skulls.
The burden has always been on the copyright holder to be vigilant for infringment.
You're projecting your own concerns onto people who knew nothing about them. The "freedom fries" morons didn't know or care one bit about the EU.
I drink locally-produced (Michigan) wine, but that's just out of economic self-interest and ecological concern. ("Buy local.")
The yahoos who were boycotting French goods and bellowing "freedom fries" during the rush to war a few years ago were doing so for one reason only: France was telling us (and the world) that Iraq apparently didn't have WMDs and that we should not invade it and destabilize the whole region. The yahoos accused them of being "cowards". The notion that these people were concerned about EU politics is just silly.
Anyone who singles out a group of people and says they aren't human... well, it doesn't exactly put you in good company, Herr BVis. I was being polite by calling it "misanthropic"; a better description would be "hateful and bigoted".
As for your "revenge" justification for hating entire classes of people, it may surprise you to learn that most IT people get treated OK by the general population. Some of us even get treated well. If people are treating you that badly, and it's probably about you. Good luck with that.
"These people aren't even human beings." How... charming.
I guess I neglected to consider the possibility that no school can overcome the kind of misanthropic, hateful bile that you're full of. And I'm afraid there isn't an HR drone or hiring manager that looks forward to hiring someone who bathes in that kind of antisocial sewer. No matter where they went to school, or what employer is trying to get rid of them.
And I'm not talking about the chance of getting in bed with Fashion Marketing majors.
I'm talking about pulling your head out of your ass long enough to, say, get to know some of them, as people. Which you obviously didn't do, if you think they're a bunch of airheaded bimbos. After I got my CS degree, I went to an art school, where they have majors like Interior Design and Painting, and some of those students were the most intelligent and hard-working people I've known. And the chance to talk to students who had absolutely no interest in computers was both a world-broadening experience and a breath of fresh air.Yes, they will, which is why you'll find that hiring managers at all sorts of places do look at where you went to school to get an idea of what kind of experiences you've had, and they look favorably on small- to medium-sized Liberal Arts schools, over both Popcorn State and BigHardcore Tech.
Of course there are non-tech classes at any good Tech school. But it's still a Tech school, so a huge percentage of the people you'll be taking those History and Poli Sci classes with will be... technology students. At a Liberal Arts school, you'll be taking Principles of Econ with people who intend to study and work in Economics for the rest of their careers, and you'll be taking English Literature class with people who plan to become writers, and your Modern Philosophy class will be with people who will actually be waiting tables in a few years. You get a much broader view of these topics by learning them with people with different outlooks and interests, than you will from sitting in a room full of people whose papers about Pointillism will all compare the technique to the functioning of a CRT.
Those are precisely the things he'd learn from non-CS people.
Oh, he'll learn CS just fine at a Liberal Arts school (assuming its CS program is accredited, of course). He'll also learn things that aren't CS at a Liberal Arts school, which is why I would always hire one of their graduates over a Tech school graduate (grades, personality, etc. being roughly equal).
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If you want to spend your whole career competing with folks in India, China, and other low-wage emerging tech economies, get a degree that's focused entirely on CS. Those skills are trivially easy to outsource overseas, and they will be. On the other hand, if you want to have a competitive advantage based on your familiarity with Western culture, economics, human psychology, creative arts, and a foreign language, get a degree with a CS major at a Liberal Arts school, and take all those non-CS "core" classes seriously. You'll also meet a more interesting cross-section of people.
Have you considered "Internet"?
Here, I'll pay for it. Whom do I make the check out to?
Because the Market is not the all-wise, all-powerful God that mainstream economist-priests claim it to be?
You can install Tiger on a Pismo using XpostFacto.
Calling these machines "underpowered" shows a gross misunderstanding of their purpose. They're not supposed to be desktop replacements. They're designed to be "enough" computer for use on the road or in the field. You don't need a supercomputer to run an office suite, web browser, and e-mail client, and these laptops are designed with that in mind.
Regardless of whether you consider "The Ten Commandments" a sci-fi/fantasy film or not, it certainly had an impact on special effects for the genre.
I get my HDTV content over the air, as God intended.
Did you notice what version? Apparently Windows XP will still be in use in 2015.
It gets even worse than that. In theory a 17-year-old could be tried as an adult for taking nude photos of himself.