"Boring" and "Not enough likeable characters" is a decent distillation of a common criticism. Many people need their stories to have entertainment value... not just pretty pictures. I havn't seen it, but I have been bored to fucking tears by plenty of anime before. Anime mistakes slow panning shots of scenery, and lengthy close ups of twitchy tear-filled eyes as effective characterization. Non-sequitor quotes from modern philsophers as good dialog. These conventions rarely ever work, and they rely on the viewer too much to fill in the gaps. This isn't a problem for otakus hyped up on pixi sticks and coke. It is a problem for people who go into a movie with their brain fully engaged, looking for mental stimulation.
Anime needs more heros. Not the muscle-bulging kind, but the kind that can write some fucking good stories for once.
My boss is so anal that he'd rather go through a rebuild and redeploy to make a config change than make it in place. Besides, our promote process from corp is so insanely bureaucratic that it's just as fast to rebuild. each of our main apps has a config file but what's the point of having a config file if you have to rebuild it anyway? I don't get it.
The world is full of pompous assholes that never learned that you're not supposed to know everything as you get older. Most of them are managers. Deal w/it.
I'm not the kid that thinks the old programmers are ignorant here, I'm the one in the position of the more-experienced guy that has to display a level of experience. It's very nerve-wracking, when you work in real world. The company dictates that you should know this, even if you don't, you have to put on the air of doing so.
It's not that I can't learn, but - again, with the reality thing that's so hard for most of/. to comprehend - a corp doesn't give you time or training, and when you have a life and a family you can't spend all of your time learning new shit. They'll shitcan you whether you sacrifice your personal life or not, so why waste it?
In my experience older programmers are the ones that act proprietary because they're (usually rightfully) concerned about job security and not looking like they're no good anymore.
The main reason programmers appear to have an ego about their work is that as you get older and more experienced you're expected to know more about software engineering than the people younger or less experienced than you. Never mind that you've never worked with Package X, you are a senior guy and you can handle it. They also have their junior people lean on you and then their success depends on yours.
If you appear egoless and unashamed to draw from others' advice, you appear to be ignorant and unmotivated once you get to be a certain age or get a certain amount of experience.
Yeah, even when I was single and in the worst dry spells I didn't feel so lonely that a cell phone program gave me companionship.. I still had friends and family.
The way to prevent hijackings is to turn all airliners into UAVs. No pilot in the plane + no flight controls in the plane = nothing to hijack. The airlines would have "flight centers" full of full-sized mockups of real cockpits (until the day that no airplane is made with a cockpit anymore), that fly the actual airliners via satellite uplink.
The points of possible failure are the sensor systems used to provide feedback to the pilots (cameras, servos, strain gauges, etc.), the satellite link to/from the plane, and the security of the flight center.
The security would be the easiest risk to mitigate. People have long perfected the art of keeping other people out of buildings. The satellite link would have to be as secure as the ones that the military uses, to prevent any kind of "code-grabbing" attacks. And the sensors would need to be as redundant as possible with no access to the wiring from the interior of the plane. The 'preflight check' would also add a step for confirming the working of the sensor systems and the uplink, as well as the actual flight systems of the aircraft.
You know who hangs out at bars? Drunks. I don't want a social circle of drunks.
It's also a hell of a lot harder to make friends without a huge common ground. If you are in college and at a bar in town you run into someone around your age in that bar, they most likely go to school and you can talk about that. When everyone works different jobs with different lives and families are scattered it's really freakin' hard to meet new people. My wife and I are dealing with this right now and it's not a minor issue.
I've thought about trying the Friendster thing... but usually shit like that ends up being used to arrange hookups for wannabe swingers and gay men, regular people seem to be getting results, though.
You shouldn't be able to say, walk into a convention center that has been paid for by party A in order to disrupt their right to free assembly/speech.
There you have the issue in a nutshell. In today's USA money is worth more than freedom of speech. If you tried to have a demonstration like the Boston Tea Party today, you'd be shot the second you showed up at the docks.
I didn't finish my degree and I have mixed feelings about it.
On the one hand, I've reached a level of job experience where it doesn't matter too much. I'm 28 now, and have been working in one IT field or the other since I was 19. My employer is normally a major stickler for degrees but they made an exception for me, which is flattering and something that I'm thankful for.
On the other hand, I don't have the security that having it would provide. That's more important to me now that I have a wife (no kids) and a mortgage. If I had a degree nobody could fault me for not having one. If one applies oneself to one's education, a degree can be a valuable addition to your life, but it's no guarantee of anything other than this person has spent a lot of money to sit through a bunch of classes for 4-5 years. I understand and accept the consequences of not having a degree. Sometimes I envy my co-workers for having theirs. I wish I had some formal software engineering and high level design background, in particular. But then you've got the guy on the other side of the cube wall from me. He's my age, and is living proof that you don't necessarily have to learn anything in college to get the degree. Part of it is the school he went to (they were still teaching Pascal in his Software 101 classes), but he didn't have money either and couldn't afford the best schools.
are horror-based (I can't handle them anymore), sports, or some kind of japanese car simulation. What's out there that's NOT Resident Doom Evil 3, Madden 5000, or Gran Turismo X: The Rice Capades?
You've obviously never worked with high-end Sun hardware. PC hardware still can't hold a candle to it or any other manufacturer's high end servers for reliability and fault tolerance.
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Quoting you with my karma bonus:
"Boring" and "Not enough likeable characters" is a decent distillation of a common criticism. Many people need their stories to have entertainment value... not just pretty pictures. I havn't seen it, but I have been bored to fucking tears by plenty of anime before. Anime mistakes slow panning shots of scenery, and lengthy close ups of twitchy tear-filled eyes as effective characterization. Non-sequitor quotes from modern philsophers as good dialog. These conventions rarely ever work, and they rely on the viewer too much to fill in the gaps. This isn't a problem for otakus hyped up on pixi sticks and coke. It is a problem for people who go into a movie with their brain fully engaged, looking for mental stimulation.
Anime needs more heros. Not the muscle-bulging kind, but the kind that can write some fucking good stories for once.
oh god that was funny
good work
they are tokens. If they disappeared people would realize what's going on.
:(
That's ok, they'll become enemies of the state after the next terrorist attack happens, and it probably will
And knowing which of your joysticks is a bit stiff and giving that to your friend?
So you're the guy that bought and enjoyed Custer's Revenge!
My boss is so anal that he'd rather go through a rebuild and redeploy to make a config change than make it in place. Besides, our promote process from corp is so insanely bureaucratic that it's just as fast to rebuild. each of our main apps has a config file but what's the point of having a config file if you have to rebuild it anyway? I don't get it.
The world is full of pompous assholes that never learned that you're not supposed to know everything as you get older. Most of them are managers. Deal w/it.
I'm not the kid that thinks the old programmers are ignorant here, I'm the one in the position of the more-experienced guy that has to display a level of experience. It's very nerve-wracking, when you work in real world. The company dictates that you should know this, even if you don't, you have to put on the air of doing so.
/. to comprehend - a corp doesn't give you time or training, and when you have a life and a family you can't spend all of your time learning new shit. They'll shitcan you whether you sacrifice your personal life or not, so why waste it?
It's not that I can't learn, but - again, with the reality thing that's so hard for most of
In my experience older programmers are the ones that act proprietary because they're (usually rightfully) concerned about job security and not looking like they're no good anymore.
The main reason programmers appear to have an ego about their work is that as you get older and more experienced you're expected to know more about software engineering than the people younger or less experienced than you. Never mind that you've never worked with Package X, you are a senior guy and you can handle it. They also have their junior people lean on you and then their success depends on yours.
If you appear egoless and unashamed to draw from others' advice, you appear to be ignorant and unmotivated once you get to be a certain age or get a certain amount of experience.
Yeah, even when I was single and in the worst dry spells I didn't feel so lonely that a cell phone program gave me companionship.. I still had friends and family.
this is so sad that it makes me want to cry. Are there some people that are really this lonely?
The way to prevent hijackings is to turn all airliners into UAVs. No pilot in the plane + no flight controls in the plane = nothing to hijack. The airlines would have "flight centers" full of full-sized mockups of real cockpits (until the day that no airplane is made with a cockpit anymore), that fly the actual airliners via satellite uplink.
The points of possible failure are the sensor systems used to provide feedback to the pilots (cameras, servos, strain gauges, etc.), the satellite link to/from the plane, and the security of the flight center.
The security would be the easiest risk to mitigate. People have long perfected the art of keeping other people out of buildings. The satellite link would have to be as secure as the ones that the military uses, to prevent any kind of "code-grabbing" attacks. And the sensors would need to be as redundant as possible with no access to the wiring from the interior of the plane. The 'preflight check' would also add a step for confirming the working of the sensor systems and the uplink, as well as the actual flight systems of the aircraft.
you can try LOAF, I'm gonna pitch it.
You know who hangs out at bars? Drunks. I don't want a social circle of drunks.
It's also a hell of a lot harder to make friends without a huge common ground. If you are in college and at a bar in town you run into someone around your age in that bar, they most likely go to school and you can talk about that. When everyone works different jobs with different lives and families are scattered it's really freakin' hard to meet new people. My wife and I are dealing with this right now and it's not a minor issue.
I've thought about trying the Friendster thing... but usually shit like that ends up being used to arrange hookups for wannabe swingers and gay men, regular people seem to be getting results, though.
You shouldn't be able to say, walk into a convention center that has been paid for by party A in order to disrupt their right to free assembly/speech.
There you have the issue in a nutshell. In today's USA money is worth more than freedom of speech. If you tried to have a demonstration like the Boston Tea Party today, you'd be shot the second you showed up at the docks.
thank you. Wish I had mod points today.
well, the NHL has guys like J-S Giguere, AKA The Michelin Man...
not only does Windows have a TCO, it has a TCP - Total Cost of pwn3rsh1p
there's a manual for women at www.cosmopolitan.com . about 2/3 the articles there and in the print mag are about the 'magic button'
I didn't finish my degree and I have mixed feelings about it.
On the one hand, I've reached a level of job experience where it doesn't matter too much. I'm 28 now, and have been working in one IT field or the other since I was 19. My employer is normally a major stickler for degrees but they made an exception for me, which is flattering and something that I'm thankful for.
On the other hand, I don't have the security that having it would provide. That's more important to me now that I have a wife (no kids) and a mortgage. If I had a degree nobody could fault me for not having one. If one applies oneself to one's education, a degree can be a valuable addition to your life, but it's no guarantee of anything other than this person has spent a lot of money to sit through a bunch of classes for 4-5 years.
I understand and accept the consequences of not having a degree. Sometimes I envy my co-workers for having theirs. I wish I had some formal software engineering and high level design background, in particular. But then you've got the guy on the other side of the cube wall from me. He's my age, and is living proof that you don't necessarily have to learn anything in college to get the degree. Part of it is the school he went to (they were still teaching Pascal in his Software 101 classes), but he didn't have money either and couldn't afford the best schools.
are horror-based (I can't handle them anymore), sports, or some kind of japanese car simulation. What's out there that's NOT Resident Doom Evil 3, Madden 5000, or Gran Turismo X: The Rice Capades?
no it doesn't! It just takes 3 rings spinning at odd axes!
Those people are usually in or just out of their teenage years and not emotionally or intellectually capable of space travel.
You've obviously never worked with high-end Sun hardware. PC hardware still can't hold a candle to it or any other manufacturer's high end servers for reliability and fault tolerance.
not a Troll:
And meanwhile you're eating Ramen noodles in mommys basement.
Do OS folks ever feel like complete chumps when they see IBM exec's sipping champagne and gulping down caviar paid for by OS zealots hard work?