So, two clones of something that is little more than a furry playground?
I spent a couple of weeks on Second Life. By a couple of weeks I mean about an hour a day. I loved being able to fly. Everything else sucked. Who the hell wants to hang around with 40+ year old house wives who dress their teenage avatars in the skimpiest virtual gear possible then complain about a bunch of pre-teen boys harassing them??? Even a mother's club has more point, than the Seinfeld of virtual worlds (you know the game about nothing). At least Seinfeld didn't have to pay real money for his virtual penis. (I didn't pay one cent and I still don't understand people paying for virtual appendages and virtual housing - I've got a virtual bridge to sell someone) Not to mention crashes, freezes and service hassles.
Once I got over the novelty of my avatar flying, and learnt to mess with the interface I dropped it. I could have explored the scripting but I'd rather learn a real programming language - one that will last longer than the fad of this particular virtual world.
Your argument is pretty weak. Using your logic, because police officers detain suspects we the public should be able to as well. The public is not granted the same powers as law enforcement. The public enacts laws that apply in different ways to the general population vs law enforcement.
I don't thi8nk his argument is weak at all: It was illegal for the government to wiretap. They weren't entrusted with any such powers. However unlike the public the government can abuse it's power and retroactively change the law without seeking approval from the people. The key difference is this kid can't change the law at a whim.
The only privacy concerns which arise from this are if people are not careful enough with the addon to disable it.
When there are negative consequences to forgetting to disable a piece of software, it's malware in my book. I don't trust Mozilla any more. The final straw was awfulbar. I do not wish to broadcast unvisited bookmarks to anyone looking over my shoulder no matter how innocuous they are!
I _love_ perl. It's so simple, anyone can use it. In fact, the other day I found my 1½ yYO in front of the computer, and she had written a fully working email reader in perl. Truely amazing.
Smalltalk would have been much more suited to the job.
I'll take square over sloshed any day. I don't enjoy the taste of alcohol. In fact I don't enjoy a thing about it. There are plenty of things I do enjoy. Like the irony of a bloke who calls a slashdotter a square.
Global ecology might not even exist without NASA satellites both inspiring the public and gushing data to scientists.
I always find it strange that the same people who advocate killing off space exploration in favour of enviro-science don't realise that we wouldn't know there's a problem in the first place without the space research. In other words if we had listened to them in the first place we'd go on ignorantly polluting the planet and wondering why it's getting so damn hot.
All this means is that people will phone or sms or worse, show up drunk on their ex's door more often (perhaps even drive there). Sure it's a lot easier to send a drunken email than go see someone in person so that'll stop some of it but the reality is if you're a serial drunk, you need to get some help. Nothing else is going to fix it.
I've never understood why Western society (and others) glorify the pissup.
I've gone from watching games evolve from now recognised as awful but revolutionary at the time synthesized junk on tiny laughable speakers to incredibly epic wonderful scene setting thematic music that adds to the atmosphere of the game. I like to imagine what Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear or Karateka would sound like if the score was created with today's equipment.
I remember marvelling at my first sound blaster (plus 1 speed CD-ROM which I got criticized for buying by a friend because it was extravagant). I remember trying it out against an AWE32 years later and thinking "How could I have liked that". I remember trying my SBLive with surround sound speakers for the first time and loving it because it left the AWE32 in the dust. I remember my first taste of my latest sound card and Logitech X-530 speakers for $68 and thinking "sure I could do better than this, but why would I spend thousands for such a small game when this is so awesome". If one thing has gotten better in computing, it's music. Whining about it is about the silliest thing I can think of.
Perhaps. More likely you need a reading comprehension, as I said "probably" and clearly specified in my original post there is a RANGE of hours generally considered acceptable for the age range of my kids (10 to 11 hours for 7 to 12 years old).
Now go back and re-read what you ACTUALLY said.
Congratu-freaking-lations. In 10th grade here you'd be at least 15 years old, not nine.
By your reasoning the lack of sleep would mean I'm behind at school. A kid who's behind at 9 rarely tops the school at 15. According to my mother, I use to wait up for my dad to come home at midnight since I was 2 or 3.
WOW! Jump to conclusions much? Where did I say I didn't accept the fact that some people may fall out of the given range? Oh... right... nowhere.
Where you implied I was a liar and were saying you know better for everyone else's kids, not just your own.
Exactly, this is why I am attuned to my children's needs, and how I can tell that OTHER kids aren't getting enough sleep. Nowhere, no how, I did I say anything I do with my kids needs to be "imposed" on anybody.
Do you or don't you know better for other people's kids? Did you or didn't you make generalisations? Make up your mind.
I accept your child needs more sleep than I did. I don't think your child is abnormal either. Staying attuned to children's needs is a good thing when you're responsible for the child. Deciding you know what'll work for others and stating that the probem is people not adhering to the average range, not so much.
Your anti-social ranting proves you haven't had enough sleep.
Anti-social ranting??? I said I had to disagree and you're the one that got defensive and called me a liar, pal. You expect me to be friendly after that? Get a grip and get a life! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Extremist actions do isolate, so how about choosing what you do and don't put online.
I have a photo of myself and my wife taken at our wedding on my facebook account. I've asked my wife not to put photos of our 2 month old on there just yet (let him have some say in what's available to the world when he's older). If a few slip through from a family event I won't be happy but I won't get hysterical. I do have my name and age public but not addresses, phone numbers, what I'm doing that minute, photos of me or my family that would be considered compromising, sensitive political or work related opinions that may mean I don't get employed by someone at a future date.
Most normal sensibe people don't go out into the street naked, but we do still go out in public. In other words we excercise some judgement about what we do and don't make public. The net's not that different really.
We have web based banking. Why not web based voting?
If anyone thinks I care more about who I vote for than the money in my bank accounts (and my liability for debt) they're disillusional. The politicians are all just different monkeys screeching different things that suit them. In the last election I voted for (mandatory council elections) I didn't know or care about the candidates who'd only shown their faces 2 weeks beforehand. On the ballot I wrote "Fuck them liars all. This form of democrasy a joke". Am I the only one that thinks it's hilarious that we can bank online but not vote online?
Much, perhaps most, dangerous driving by kids is caused by trying to show off to their mates. Limit the speed and power and the vehicle to its baic transport function. No fun trying to do a burn out in a car that refuses to do it.
If your kid doesn't have the maturity not to show off, they'll find a different way to be dangerous and do something stupid. So for fuck sake if you admit to failing as a parent and can't get your kid to do the right thing, don't put him or her into a one ton plus vehicle and let him or her loose on the same roads I drive. There is no such thing as safe driving with an idiot behind the wheel.
That's right, it's just averages... which means probably 95% of the kids fall within that range.
You need a damned maths lesson. An average of 12 hours sleep could just as easily mean 50% of kids only need 8 hours and 50% need 16 hours.
I find it hard to believe that, at 9 years old, your parents didn't tell you to go to bed before midnight.
Your disbelief and implied accusation that I'm a liar (or delluded) are your problem, pal. My mother must be a liar too since that's what she recalls as well. Is this what you teach your child to do as well? Call strangers liars because their experience is different? Great parenting there, buddy.
Just because you managed doesn't mean it was the best way to go through childhood...
I was dux of my school at year 10 level. The results speak for themselves. Trying to force a child that isn't tired to sleep is asinine.... most of my son's friends I meet are in desperate need of getting more sleep, and studies indicate that most people, and especially children, don't get enough. Believe me, we are well attuned to what our kids need.
I don't have a problem with you being attuned to your own child's needs. Your inability to accept that there are others who may not need the same is what ticks me off. If a child's falling asleep in class and walking around with bags under their eyes it should be pretty clear you need to get them to bed earlier, and the consequences of not doing so are clear.
If on the other hand you try to put a child down and they just won't sleep (and have tired you out for a few hours trying to get them to sleep) then wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed, constantly trying to force them to bed early is a sure sign that you've got the mentality of a sheep and are an unfit parent.
Just because something works for you and your child, don't try to impose it on others who have different experiences.
My kids seem like the only ones who get the recommended amount of sleep... it's very difficult; they have friends who are going to bed at 10:00 and 11:00 at night and getting up for school at 7:00. At nine years old, they're supposed to be getting 10 to 11 hours of sleep. Sleep deprivation is linked with ADD and many other behavioral problems.
This one I got to disagree with. Whoever came up with these numbers needs a slap on the head. They're just averages. I know I didn't get that much sleep as a kid. I was an A student. My bed time was self imposed. It was around midnight, but I learnt to regulate myself. It's one thing to teach your child to make sure they're in bed at a reasonable hour so they're not exhausted the next day. It's another to try to force them to sleep when their body isn't telling them they're tired. Some of the best minds on the planet weren't big sleepers.
Maybe you should have thought about how difficult and time consuming parenting is before you had kids.
That's just funny! I take it you don't have kids? There's a simple truth: Until you've actually become a parent and looked after a baby for the first few weeks of their life you CAN'T have any idea how difficult and time consuming parenting is.
I'm not saying shirking responsibility for your kids is acceptable, but to admonish a guy for spending a few moments on slashdot (possibly from work) and suggest he should be spending that time with his children is not only insensitive and unrealistic, it's heartless.
Ask them to remove the non-compete, or limit the non-compete to a reasonable period (say 5 years), or pay through the nose for the privileged.
If they won't vary the terms then either they know something you don't and are trying to fleece you (ie. you'll find out something by working for them that could make you a lot of money), or the company is so inflexible it's going to be hell to work for.
If you want to see how badly you can do by agreeing to voluntarily giving up your IP rights for a relatively small amount of money see this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
Never trade future possibilities for small potatoes today.
I mean smart as in managed to lead an interesting and full life, and didn't die alone of a stress related illness.
You can define smart in a lot of ways, but you're making incorrect assumptions about how I define it. A smart person doesn't waste their life on a single endevour with little reward for that.
By the way by that definition even Einstein wasn't very smart for the last 30 or so years of his life - refusing to accept reality because it didn't suite what he believed was an elegant or nice universe meant he spent those years ignoring quantum mechanics and took himself right out of the scientific arena and didn't keep up with developments while he stumbled down a dead end road with grand unification on his own. I'd call that pretty stupid behaviour, especially for a man capable of coming up with Special and General Relativity.
Easy. You can supply obfuscated source and claim it is the original. Some of the source code I've come across has looked like it was run through an obfuscator anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
So, two clones of something that is little more than a furry playground?
I spent a couple of weeks on Second Life. By a couple of weeks I mean about an hour a day. I loved being able to fly. Everything else sucked. Who the hell wants to hang around with 40+ year old house wives who dress their teenage avatars in the skimpiest virtual gear possible then complain about a bunch of pre-teen boys harassing them??? Even a mother's club has more point, than the Seinfeld of virtual worlds (you know the game about nothing). At least Seinfeld didn't have to pay real money for his virtual penis. (I didn't pay one cent and I still don't understand people paying for virtual appendages and virtual housing - I've got a virtual bridge to sell someone) Not to mention crashes, freezes and service hassles.
Once I got over the novelty of my avatar flying, and learnt to mess with the interface I dropped it. I could have explored the scripting but I'd rather learn a real programming language - one that will last longer than the fad of this particular virtual world.
Sounds like somebody got a program working right and, instead of tweaking it some more and breaking it again, quit.
MYSQL is almost completely bug free? News to me.
Your argument is pretty weak. Using your logic, because police officers detain suspects we the public should be able to as well. The public is not granted the same powers as law enforcement. The public enacts laws that apply in different ways to the general population vs law enforcement.
I don't thi8nk his argument is weak at all: It was illegal for the government to wiretap. They weren't entrusted with any such powers. However unlike the public the government can abuse it's power and retroactively change the law without seeking approval from the people. The key difference is this kid can't change the law at a whim.
The only privacy concerns which arise from this are if people are not careful enough with the addon to disable it.
When there are negative consequences to forgetting to disable a piece of software, it's malware in my book. I don't trust Mozilla any more. The final straw was awfulbar. I do not wish to broadcast unvisited bookmarks to anyone looking over my shoulder no matter how innocuous they are!
...so we made up our own top 10! We even made it sound more authoritative with better hand waving mathematics. Take that US News!
Come on. Every tape record and VHS recorder has had these facilities for donkey's years. So what if you can do it live. GImme a break!!!
I _love_ perl. It's so simple, anyone can use it. In fact, the other day I found my 1½ yYO in front of the computer, and she had written a fully working email reader in perl. Truely amazing.
Smalltalk would have been much more suited to the job.
That's 'cos you're a square. Like a cube, man!
I'll take square over sloshed any day. I don't enjoy the taste of alcohol. In fact I don't enjoy a thing about it. There are plenty of things I do enjoy. Like the irony of a bloke who calls a slashdotter a square.
Global ecology might not even exist without NASA satellites both inspiring the public and gushing data to scientists.
I always find it strange that the same people who advocate killing off space exploration in favour of enviro-science don't realise that we wouldn't know there's a problem in the first place without the space research. In other words if we had listened to them in the first place we'd go on ignorantly polluting the planet and wondering why it's getting so damn hot.
All this means is that people will phone or sms or worse, show up drunk on their ex's door more often (perhaps even drive there). Sure it's a lot easier to send a drunken email than go see someone in person so that'll stop some of it but the reality is if you're a serial drunk, you need to get some help. Nothing else is going to fix it.
I've never understood why Western society (and others) glorify the pissup.
it might be prudent to think about what would happen if you ever wanted to run for office
I've already planned for that. If I ever say I'm running for office my family have been instructed to euthanase me.
Please consider the following a joke. I don't know you and my intent is humour not insult.
i consider privacy to include my password
You mean "IAmGod"?
to my bank account,
Number 444983 - funds $0.00
what my girlfirend looks like naked,
http://www.krugerpark.co.za/images/bush-pig-moswe280.jpg
and the details of how i lost my virginity,
Oh come on man, you're a slashdotter, you've not lost it yet. Who are you kidding!?
and a few other things
No one cares what level you're at in World of Warcraft or what your username is on Battlefield 2.
I've gone from watching games evolve from now recognised as awful but revolutionary at the time synthesized junk on tiny laughable speakers to incredibly epic wonderful scene setting thematic music that adds to the atmosphere of the game. I like to imagine what Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fear or Karateka would sound like if the score was created with today's equipment.
I remember marvelling at my first sound blaster (plus 1 speed CD-ROM which I got criticized for buying by a friend because it was extravagant). I remember trying it out against an AWE32 years later and thinking "How could I have liked that". I remember trying my SBLive with surround sound speakers for the first time and loving it because it left the AWE32 in the dust. I remember my first taste of my latest sound card and Logitech X-530 speakers for $68 and thinking "sure I could do better than this, but why would I spend thousands for such a small game when this is so awesome". If one thing has gotten better in computing, it's music. Whining about it is about the silliest thing I can think of.
Perhaps. More likely you need a reading comprehension, as I said "probably" and clearly specified in my original post there is a RANGE of hours generally considered acceptable for the age range of my kids (10 to 11 hours for 7 to 12 years old).
Now go back and re-read what you ACTUALLY said.
Congratu-freaking-lations. In 10th grade here you'd be at least 15 years old, not nine.
By your reasoning the lack of sleep would mean I'm behind at school. A kid who's behind at 9 rarely tops the school at 15. According to my mother, I use to wait up for my dad to come home at midnight since I was 2 or 3.
WOW! Jump to conclusions much? Where did I say I didn't accept the fact that some people may fall out of the given range? Oh... right... nowhere.
Where you implied I was a liar and were saying you know better for everyone else's kids, not just your own.
Exactly, this is why I am attuned to my children's needs, and how I can tell that OTHER kids aren't getting enough sleep. Nowhere, no how, I did I say anything I do with my kids needs to be "imposed" on anybody.
Do you or don't you know better for other people's kids? Did you or didn't you make generalisations? Make up your mind.
I accept your child needs more sleep than I did. I don't think your child is abnormal either. Staying attuned to children's needs is a good thing when you're responsible for the child. Deciding you know what'll work for others and stating that the probem is people not adhering to the average range, not so much.
Your anti-social ranting proves you haven't had enough sleep.
Anti-social ranting??? I said I had to disagree and you're the one that got defensive and called me a liar, pal. You expect me to be friendly after that? Get a grip and get a life! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Extremist actions do isolate, so how about choosing what you do and don't put online.
I have a photo of myself and my wife taken at our wedding on my facebook account. I've asked my wife not to put photos of our 2 month old on there just yet (let him have some say in what's available to the world when he's older). If a few slip through from a family event I won't be happy but I won't get hysterical. I do have my name and age public but not addresses, phone numbers, what I'm doing that minute, photos of me or my family that would be considered compromising, sensitive political or work related opinions that may mean I don't get employed by someone at a future date.
Most normal sensibe people don't go out into the street naked, but we do still go out in public. In other words we excercise some judgement about what we do and don't make public. The net's not that different really.
We have web based banking. Why not web based voting?
If anyone thinks I care more about who I vote for than the money in my bank accounts (and my liability for debt) they're disillusional. The politicians are all just different monkeys screeching different things that suit them. In the last election I voted for (mandatory council elections) I didn't know or care about the candidates who'd only shown their faces 2 weeks beforehand. On the ballot I wrote "Fuck them liars all. This form of democrasy a joke". Am I the only one that thinks it's hilarious that we can bank online but not vote online?
Much, perhaps most, dangerous driving by kids is caused by trying to show off to their mates. Limit the speed and power and the vehicle to its baic transport function. No fun trying to do a burn out in a car that refuses to do it.
If your kid doesn't have the maturity not to show off, they'll find a different way to be dangerous and do something stupid. So for fuck sake if you admit to failing as a parent and can't get your kid to do the right thing, don't put him or her into a one ton plus vehicle and let him or her loose on the same roads I drive. There is no such thing as safe driving with an idiot behind the wheel.
That's right, it's just averages... which means probably 95% of the kids fall within that range.
You need a damned maths lesson. An average of 12 hours sleep could just as easily mean 50% of kids only need 8 hours and 50% need 16 hours.
I find it hard to believe that, at 9 years old, your parents didn't tell you to go to bed before midnight.
Your disbelief and implied accusation that I'm a liar (or delluded) are your problem, pal. My mother must be a liar too since that's what she recalls as well. Is this what you teach your child to do as well? Call strangers liars because their experience is different? Great parenting there, buddy.
Just because you managed doesn't mean it was the best way to go through childhood...
I was dux of my school at year 10 level. The results speak for themselves. Trying to force a child that isn't tired to sleep is asinine. ... most of my son's friends I meet are in desperate need of getting more sleep, and studies indicate that most people, and especially children, don't get enough. Believe me, we are well attuned to what our kids need.
I don't have a problem with you being attuned to your own child's needs. Your inability to accept that there are others who may not need the same is what ticks me off. If a child's falling asleep in class and walking around with bags under their eyes it should be pretty clear you need to get them to bed earlier, and the consequences of not doing so are clear.
If on the other hand you try to put a child down and they just won't sleep (and have tired you out for a few hours trying to get them to sleep) then wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed, constantly trying to force them to bed early is a sure sign that you've got the mentality of a sheep and are an unfit parent.
Just because something works for you and your child, don't try to impose it on others who have different experiences.
My kids seem like the only ones who get the recommended amount of sleep... it's very difficult; they have friends who are going to bed at 10:00 and 11:00 at night and getting up for school at 7:00. At nine years old, they're supposed to be getting 10 to 11 hours of sleep. Sleep deprivation is linked with ADD and many other behavioral problems.
This one I got to disagree with. Whoever came up with these numbers needs a slap on the head. They're just averages. I know I didn't get that much sleep as a kid. I was an A student. My bed time was self imposed. It was around midnight, but I learnt to regulate myself. It's one thing to teach your child to make sure they're in bed at a reasonable hour so they're not exhausted the next day. It's another to try to force them to sleep when their body isn't telling them they're tired. Some of the best minds on the planet weren't big sleepers.
Maybe you should have thought about how difficult and time consuming parenting is before you had kids.
That's just funny! I take it you don't have kids? There's a simple truth: Until you've actually become a parent and looked after a baby for the first few weeks of their life you CAN'T have any idea how difficult and time consuming parenting is.
I'm not saying shirking responsibility for your kids is acceptable, but to admonish a guy for spending a few moments on slashdot (possibly from work) and suggest he should be spending that time with his children is not only insensitive and unrealistic, it's heartless.
Wait, are you talking about Seattle Computer Products selling their "QDOS" CP/M clone to Microsoft for $50,000?
Bingo!
Ask them to remove the non-compete, or limit the non-compete to a reasonable period (say 5 years), or pay through the nose for the privileged.
If they won't vary the terms then either they know something you don't and are trying to fleece you (ie. you'll find out something by working for them that could make you a lot of money), or the company is so inflexible it's going to be hell to work for.
If you want to see how badly you can do by agreeing to voluntarily giving up your IP rights for a relatively small amount of money see this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
Never trade future possibilities for small potatoes today.
Naked shorting is dirty, crappy stuff and those that engage in the practice should rightfully be put in jail.
Fuck you! If I want to sit around in my underwear in my own home I should be allowed to do so without fear of being put in jail!
It all depends on what you mean by "smart".
I mean smart as in managed to lead an interesting and full life, and didn't die alone of a stress related illness.
You can define smart in a lot of ways, but you're making incorrect assumptions about how I define it. A smart person doesn't waste their life on a single endevour with little reward for that.
By the way by that definition even Einstein wasn't very smart for the last 30 or so years of his life - refusing to accept reality because it didn't suite what he believed was an elegant or nice universe meant he spent those years ignoring quantum mechanics and took himself right out of the scientific arena and didn't keep up with developments while he stumbled down a dead end road with grand unification on his own. I'd call that pretty stupid behaviour, especially for a man capable of coming up with Special and General Relativity.
Easy. You can supply obfuscated source and claim it is the original. Some of the source code I've come across has looked like it was run through an obfuscator anyway.