Right. But you also need to know when to write your own optimized software and when by using the API toolbox you won't cause much slowdown and will be able to deliver faster and cheaper.
I would also observe that programmer can be a lot of fun.
Daily Show Different stuff off Adult Swim each night. Apprentice 7th Heaven Charmed I've also tripple thumbs upped a number of shows so I get them occassionaly to keep things interesting. Some things off Sci-Fi fall into that category as well as stuff like Good Eats.
There really are some pretty good shows out there and when you can watch them at your leisure, it's better. A show doesn't have to be spectacular because you don't need to schedule your life around it with Tivo. Nor do you watch commercials.
Probably about half of what we record is never watched. But whatever we are in the mood for is sitting there ready to be watched.
You should do more than the minimum as habit - just because you want to create a habit of being excellent at what you do. That's part of the point Joel is making. Speaking of which, I probably shouldn't be posting on slashdot right now.
It's probably somewhere in between. The MPAA tries to get everyone to take action when possible. If anyone does take action, regardless of whether they even read what the MPAA sends them, the MPAA takes credit and feels good about itself.
Sure. I tend to think that if you are selling cheap guns in a bad neighborhood, you are probably decreasing crime. Poor, scared people are more likely to by the cheapo gun whereas the less desireable elements in society tend towards more intimidating and more expensive weapons - like the Fecalator from Dogma.
In response to the others... it was just a question and assault weapons were not the right choice. Back to topic.
I do appreciate the thoughtful response and largely agree with you here. However, if I have a gun shop in a rough part of town and have good prices and somehow it was shown that my guns were being used almost always for criminal purposes, I would close up shop. I think that's the right thing to do. Am I legally liable? Probably not. Morally? Well, if I sell a single gun and know there's a 90% chance someone's going to get shot I'm doing wrong.
Does this apply to the less serious world of P2P? Probably not. There the small positives that are gained probably outweigh the large, but not tremendously damaging, negative use.
Interesting, but if you had a gun store that only sold assualt rifles and it became known to you that 90% of the rifles you sold were being used in crimes, would you still be justified in selling assault rifles?
Now that's a big "if", but it moves the discussion more towards what we're talking about with grokster.
Why deal in illegal drugs when there is a perfectly legal system of commerce on the surface of the economy where you can deal in legitimate goods and services?
Because when you go in violation of the rules, there's likely more money to be made due to the somewhat larger risk.
Sure, he may ask for permission or whatever, but he still has the balls to go off, by himself, into hell. That fundemental toughness comes through.
The lack of standing for himself at the ford is sad. But he was still rescued in the book. He stood against the 9, they decided to come get him and Elrond \ Gandalf sent the flood to bale him out.
The character development did suffer in the movies. It had to. They could have chopped out half of Helm's deep and got better development in, but other than that, it was rough going trying to develop a dozen decent characters. That said, in my mind the only really offensive deviation was the field trip to Osgilith.
I'd love better Saruman. I'd love to see Arwen pushed to the background (real bad film making there) and I'd really love to see the scouring of the shire. A better portrayal of the nature of Tolkien's evil and the lesson that one still needs to tend to their own homes were important themes.
The theme of the average guy sucking it up and doing what must be done was carried through by Frodo and Sam trecking alone in Mordor. Frodo's bravery in going it alone, on his own accord and Sam's steadfast loyalty to run him down and join him when it would have been exceptionally easy to take the safer road.
Frodo's development in the Fellowship? Sure, they dropped a couple decades, but whenever I read the books I read Frodo has been fundementally young anyway. What changes there do you see as tragic to the story?
The fighting wizards was fine. It conveyed the basic message of a duel between wizards where Saruman was the stronger. I would have loved to see the ringmaker, the wizard of many colors etc. The lack of character development on Saruman was more painful to me than the Elrond or Arwen.
Right, but I hardly remembered the books. My biggest gripe was that the show sucked, the actors were mostly unable to convey any emotion the script might have suggested and I was perpetually bored. My wife who never read the books, watched about 5 minutes before declaring, "This seems really bad." and looked at me like I was nuts for Tivoing it. I watched it alone the nexy day.
Movies do need to deviate from the books. The Fellowship in particular I thought was an excellent film adaptation. Sure, things were changed and scenes left out, but the themes were left in tact, most of the characters maintained their selfness (some were combined a bit) and the film was made into something accessible and good. I think EarthSea would have benifitted from the same hand.
However, they did not actually get Boyens to do the script. They apparently got someone with less interest in keeping the books together. Granted it may have been a difficult task given the short time allotted to the miniseries (two, two hour tv shows) but the script was shoddy, unimaginitive and lead to some pretty dull performances by the actors.
I can't remember where I read this, but I'm quite sure she has read LOTR and appreciates it. I'm happy to see her piece on slate disparaging the mini-series. I enjoyed the nastalgia of remembering scenes I had last read 10 years ago, but the series was boring, didn't really hold together and dropped central themes of the book on the floor.
Danny Glover almost made it pleasant to watch, but he wasn't around nearly enough.
Right. It's the threat of attack that could create a blackmail situation. That said, the threat of an attack against Seoul or Tokyo would be quite effective as well.
Again, getting nuked is not acceptable and we're not sure that MAD is an effective safety net against the N. Korean leadership.
The major test ban treaty prevents us from testing real nukes. The only treaty that covered missle defense shields was one we signed with the USSR.
The Bushies claim that treaty is now moot as the USSR no longer exists. Moscow didn't see it that way. The US was open about it's plans and if I recall correctly that would have matched protocol for leaving the treaty.
I may have that last part wrong. It all happened in the early part of the Bush presidency when he was withdrawing from, ignoring or unsigning a major international treaty every couple weeks.
We don't accept being nuked. Given that as a premise, and the possibility of N. Korea claiming to have an ICBM at some point as well as a dozen nukes, a system that could shoot down a handle of nukes could keep us out of another land war in Asia - which is, after all, one of the classic blunders.
I'm with you on this one. I read the reviews this year and everyone said that the 2K5 game was not only better but also cheaper. I went that route.
Frankly, I don't care for the nfl players - I do like the teams for cosmetic reasons though. I get these games and play franchise mode almost exclusively. At this point, my team doesn't have a single living nfl player on it.
Unless I have a new console next year and a desire to play football next year, my sports dollars are going elsewhere.
It goes further into why we need kids educated in math and science even if they aren't using it in day to day life. We're citizens of a fricken democracy. We need to pick between politicians who propose policies of economic and technical natures.
If I add 10% to something forever, does it grow quickly or slowly? How does that compare to the national debt? Do I trust that global warming is happening or not? Do either of these clowns have a solution that sounds practical? Having some basic understanding of how numbers and the natural world helps a ton here. This is the classic "liberal" education in the sense that it helps us be better citizens.
To be safe, I think you will want your skill set to extend beyond just writing code. Even if every programming gig in the states is offshored (won't happen) local companies will need people who can listen to a customer and write a spec. They'll also need people who can evaluate progress reports and code from the outsourced company to protect their investment. Others will need people who understand software to properly sell what they've made.
Be able to code, but also be able to listen to customers, write well, be useful as more than a code monkey.
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Right. But you also need to know when to write your own optimized software and when by using the API toolbox you won't cause much slowdown and will be able to deliver faster and cheaper.
I would also observe that programmer can be a lot of fun.
What percentage of people mod their consoles? Is it even 1%? Seriously, I doubt a mod chip is going to change sales.
My line-up (please keep in mind I'm married):
Daily Show
Different stuff off Adult Swim each night.
Apprentice
7th Heaven
Charmed
I've also tripple thumbs upped a number of shows so I get them occassionaly to keep things interesting. Some things off Sci-Fi fall into that category as well as stuff like Good Eats.
There really are some pretty good shows out there and when you can watch them at your leisure, it's better. A show doesn't have to be spectacular because you don't need to schedule your life around it with Tivo. Nor do you watch commercials.
Probably about half of what we record is never watched. But whatever we are in the mood for is sitting there ready to be watched.
You should do more than the minimum as habit - just because you want to create a habit of being excellent at what you do. That's part of the point Joel is making. Speaking of which, I probably shouldn't be posting on slashdot right now.
It's probably somewhere in between. The MPAA tries to get everyone to take action when possible. If anyone does take action, regardless of whether they even read what the MPAA sends them, the MPAA takes credit and feels good about itself.
Sure. I tend to think that if you are selling cheap guns in a bad neighborhood, you are probably decreasing crime. Poor, scared people are more likely to by the cheapo gun whereas the less desireable elements in society tend towards more intimidating and more expensive weapons - like the Fecalator from Dogma.
In response to the others... it was just a question and assault weapons were not the right choice. Back to topic.
I do appreciate the thoughtful response and largely agree with you here. However, if I have a gun shop in a rough part of town and have good prices and somehow it was shown that my guns were being used almost always for criminal purposes, I would close up shop. I think that's the right thing to do. Am I legally liable? Probably not. Morally? Well, if I sell a single gun and know there's a 90% chance someone's going to get shot I'm doing wrong.
Does this apply to the less serious world of P2P? Probably not. There the small positives that are gained probably outweigh the large, but not tremendously damaging, negative use.
Interesting, but if you had a gun store that only sold assualt rifles and it became known to you that 90% of the rifles you sold were being used in crimes, would you still be justified in selling assault rifles?
Now that's a big "if", but it moves the discussion more towards what we're talking about with grokster.
Fairwell Itanic, we hardly new thee.
Why deal in illegal drugs when there is a perfectly legal system of commerce on the surface of the economy where you can deal in legitimate goods and services?
Because when you go in violation of the rules, there's likely more money to be made due to the somewhat larger risk.
Yeah, for my wife and I DDR was the killer app for the PS2. I would have been happy and stayed with only a cube if DDR came out for it.
Sure, he may ask for permission or whatever, but he still has the balls to go off, by himself, into hell. That fundemental toughness comes through.
The lack of standing for himself at the ford is sad. But he was still rescued in the book. He stood against the 9, they decided to come get him and Elrond \ Gandalf sent the flood to bale him out.
The character development did suffer in the movies. It had to. They could have chopped out half of Helm's deep and got better development in, but other than that, it was rough going trying to develop a dozen decent characters. That said, in my mind the only really offensive deviation was the field trip to Osgilith.
I'd love better Saruman. I'd love to see Arwen pushed to the background (real bad film making there) and I'd really love to see the scouring of the shire. A better portrayal of the nature of Tolkien's evil and the lesson that one still needs to tend to their own homes were important themes.
The theme of the average guy sucking it up and doing what must be done was carried through by Frodo and Sam trecking alone in Mordor. Frodo's bravery in going it alone, on his own accord and Sam's steadfast loyalty to run him down and join him when it would have been exceptionally easy to take the safer road.
Frodo's development in the Fellowship? Sure, they dropped a couple decades, but whenever I read the books I read Frodo has been fundementally young anyway. What changes there do you see as tragic to the story?
The fighting wizards was fine. It conveyed the basic message of a duel between wizards where Saruman was the stronger. I would have loved to see the ringmaker, the wizard of many colors etc. The lack of character development on Saruman was more painful to me than the Elrond or Arwen.
The author another set of gripes which she shares with us on Slate.
Right, but I hardly remembered the books. My biggest gripe was that the show sucked, the actors were mostly unable to convey any emotion the script might have suggested and I was perpetually bored. My wife who never read the books, watched about 5 minutes before declaring, "This seems really bad." and looked at me like I was nuts for Tivoing it. I watched it alone the nexy day.
Movies do need to deviate from the books. The Fellowship in particular I thought was an excellent film adaptation. Sure, things were changed and scenes left out, but the themes were left in tact, most of the characters maintained their selfness (some were combined a bit) and the film was made into something accessible and good. I think EarthSea would have benifitted from the same hand.
However, they did not actually get Boyens to do the script. They apparently got someone with less interest in keeping the books together. Granted it may have been a difficult task given the short time allotted to the miniseries (two, two hour tv shows) but the script was shoddy, unimaginitive and lead to some pretty dull performances by the actors.
I can't remember where I read this, but I'm quite sure she has read LOTR and appreciates it. I'm happy to see her piece on slate disparaging the mini-series. I enjoyed the nastalgia of remembering scenes I had last read 10 years ago, but the series was boring, didn't really hold together and dropped central themes of the book on the floor.
Danny Glover almost made it pleasant to watch, but he wasn't around nearly enough.
True enough. I never said that I supported this sheild
Right. It's the threat of attack that could create a blackmail situation. That said, the threat of an attack against Seoul or Tokyo would be quite effective as well.
Again, getting nuked is not acceptable and we're not sure that MAD is an effective safety net against the N. Korean leadership.
The major test ban treaty prevents us from testing real nukes. The only treaty that covered missle defense shields was one we signed with the USSR.
The Bushies claim that treaty is now moot as the USSR no longer exists. Moscow didn't see it that way. The US was open about it's plans and if I recall correctly that would have matched protocol for leaving the treaty.
I may have that last part wrong. It all happened in the early part of the Bush presidency when he was withdrawing from, ignoring or unsigning a major international treaty every couple weeks.
We don't accept being nuked. Given that as a premise, and the possibility of N. Korea claiming to have an ICBM at some point as well as a dozen nukes, a system that could shoot down a handle of nukes could keep us out of another land war in Asia - which is, after all, one of the classic blunders.
I'm with you on this one. I read the reviews this year and everyone said that the 2K5 game was not only better but also cheaper. I went that route.
Frankly, I don't care for the nfl players - I do like the teams for cosmetic reasons though. I get these games and play franchise mode almost exclusively. At this point, my team doesn't have a single living nfl player on it.
Unless I have a new console next year and a desire to play football next year, my sports dollars are going elsewhere.
Good to hear I'm not alone on this one.
It goes further into why we need kids educated in math and science even if they aren't using it in day to day life. We're citizens of a fricken democracy. We need to pick between politicians who propose policies of economic and technical natures.
If I add 10% to something forever, does it grow quickly or slowly? How does that compare to the national debt? Do I trust that global warming is happening or not? Do either of these clowns have a solution that sounds practical? Having some basic understanding of how numbers and the natural world helps a ton here. This is the classic "liberal" education in the sense that it helps us be better citizens.
I've been in several small software companies recently who still love to hire new grads and are each making decent money.
To be safe, I think you will want your skill set to extend beyond just writing code. Even if every programming gig in the states is offshored (won't happen) local companies will need people who can listen to a customer and write a spec. They'll also need people who can evaluate progress reports and code from the outsourced company to protect their investment. Others will need people who understand software to properly sell what they've made.
Be able to code, but also be able to listen to customers, write well, be useful as more than a code monkey.