Universities are businesses that have managed to artificially create a demand for their product. The vast majority of jobs don't require a college degree or any kind of advanced training beyond what you get 'on-the-job' to do. Other than the medical field, or something like law where you NEED to learn from mistakes of the whole of the profession, I can tell you why you don't need a degree for almost any job.
Here's what I see when I watch anime (yes, -any- anime, don't come back with "but DragonBuggy PokeMotoro isn't like that"):
1) Bad stories
2) Bad animation, jerkiness with poor color composition
3) Bad translations of
4) Bad dialogue
5) A bunch of people OBSESSED with this shit to a sickening point.
I used to like dramatic cartoons when I was a kid, but then I grew up. Maybe I'm just too old now, I don't know. I still like the classics like old Warner Brothers and Tom and Jerry cartoons, but this Japanese shit just seems really childish to me and the fanaticism of the fans turns my stomach.
Nobody should enjoy WATCHING something that much, you should save your fanaticism for creating things.
Furthermore, I don't like the cultural ideas of Japan (i.e. work till you drop dead of work, hate all other ethnic groups, etc.), which a lot of anime attempts to further.
nobody's figured out a way to quantify software quality and automate software QA. Cars, you can crash-test with dummies, check the pressure of the fuel system with a gauge that sends a signal to a PLC that goes into the fault log if it's bad, check the horsepower with a dyno, etc.
Software, the only people that can certify it are real-live humans. Testing software (except for games) is a tedious, boring job that nobody wants to do, therefore there's a huge gap between the QA management (who get paid big $$ to be the gatekeepers) and the peons (who get paid squat because "all they do is follow instructions"). Such an arrangement is not conducive to true quality.
There's a reason why everything from lumber to condoms is tested by a machine - because it sucks to test it yourself (except for the condoms, but wait, what if they fail?)
Some people have speculated that bacterial or similar life found on Mars or elsewhere within this solar system is completely different from that found on Earth -- I would postulate that it is probably no more 'alien' that what we might find in the ocean near black smokers, that big underice lake in Antarctica (can't remember the name), or a barren, cold, high altitude mountain.
I would guess that low order protists like bacteria, slime molds, etc. on other planets would be similar to those on earth. Any higher-evolved life forms would be quite a bit different. Bacteria in isolated environments (deep ocean, polar lakes) are basically the same as any other bacteria on earth, single-cell with a nucleus and a penchant to multiply. But look at some of the fish and crustaceans that they find near the atlantic vents - freakish things by everyday earth standards.
If there were surface life on Mars (personally I don't believe there is) it would also have to be evolved to the Martian environment. Maybe the heart-lung system isn't the most efficient circulatory system for Mars. Maybe the high amount of CO2 in the atmosphere makes a better case for photosynthesis. We won't know unless we go there.
My big question is: Rather than giving Microsoft and other big media companies the ability to rake in enormous profits through insane markups on their product, would it be possible to legislate away the sale of OSes for more than their distribution is worth, and instead focus on the support side of things?
Congratulations. You've just found a way to totally demotivate anyone from innovating in Operating System Design.
Know you know what it feels like trying to edit a "Perl Guru's" code.
You have three options:
1) Learn Perl better
2) Write the same thing in another language that you like better
3) Do not program
All of the above include implicitly the requirement to quit bitching that you can't understand it. You think that'll get you anywhere with intelligent people?
I said this a couple of weeks ago. OSS programmers develop because OSS programmers want the recognition and the prestige of having written something 'kewl'. This is meaningless prestige in the real world, but to the academic halls and places where they live, it means something.
It's like doing things for 'school spirit' in high school - means nothing after you graduate, but it's the world you're in at the time.
I don't think there's anything wrong with this, if that's what you choose, but don't think that one hierarchical structure is inherently better than another. Linus or RMS are at the top of the OSS totem pole, just like the captain of the football team was at the top of the high school totem pole.
Humans are followers and tend to latch onto leaders and examples, it's as simple as that. I do it, you do it, your mom and dad do it.
it would take a lot of coincidence, but it could happen. Maybe it was built on a plateau inside a large ring of higher ground, and a landslide/quake caused the higher ground to slip and let in water. Sort of like a natural dam breaking.
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Ohio-Michigan and Kentucky-Tennessee are pretty bad, too. Likewise Alabama and all other states in the south:)
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that's correct, the doctrine is that the.50 BMG sniper rifles are to be used vs. equipment only (anti-materiel weapons). I doubt anyone in SOCOM takes that seriously, though.
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Ever seen what a.50 can do? How you going to prove that it wasn't a grenade or artillery when people are blown to tiny pieces?
Want a good life for masses? Stop picking on people who are sucessfull and start emulating any good ideas they might have. The third world does this. They also tend to take our ideas and use them against innocent people in the Tribal-War-of-the-Week or in acts of terrorism against our citizens.
You know, the USA was founded on, among many others, a principle of letting anyone become a citizen and open immigration - so what happens? A bunch of pissed off Arabs come over here, learn to fly at American private flight schools, and kill 5,000 people. We give the world air travel, and then they do this? I think we're justified in being slightly distrustful of other cultures now, which is a shame for the truly GOOD people that live in those other cultures.
The hormones/neurotransmitters do make a difference, I'm sure - especially in action games.
However, maybe most addictive gaming is more of an intellectual addiction. It's like being hooked on success - gaming lets you be good at something, and as a geek there are many days in the real world (not so many now that I'm respected at my job) where I don't feel very successful compared to the rest of the world. I can come home, fire up Civ 3, and at least pretend to conquer the world. Know any overachievers? Chances are they're hooked on praise and a feeling of superiority they get from winning. It's a big crash when they lose.
Likewise, games.
Oh, yeah, and I'm not sure I'd call having sex "extreme". Unless you're into kinky stuff, anyway. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I know you're joking, but as a geek that got to have sex relatively late, I was totally freaked out the first time I had sex. When you live by your intellect for so many years, going into an animal-like mode where you're acting purely on instinct is a real shock. It's a "didn't know I had it in me" kind of thing.
My point is: what shape society takes is your responsibility
Damn, I wish that was really true. I don't have enough money to buy enough politicians and media outlets to make that happen. Therefore, escapism it is.
Like someone else in the discussion said, it's what you don't have that determines how addictive your personality is. My spare time determines how much into games I get - more spare time, more games. That's what I do instead of staring at TV until bedtime.
IMO it was much worse before computers became mainstream. Then, not only did you have addictiveness to contend with, but if you didn't want to suffer socially you had to hide your computer interests in the first place.
So naturally, the best way to break a video game addiction is to withdraw from Hollywood/Viacom/AOLTimeWarner/Disney in every conceivable form. Or at least develop enough of a cynical veneer to be able to look someone in the eye and say, "The Matrix was good...for a Hollywood film." This being our society, explain how not being a part of the society in which we live is better for us in the long run than being a part of it?
I know that I've been much happier since I decided to break my addiction to rebellion and see just what was so great about all this mass market stuff that people seem to obsess so much about, both fot and against. I discovered that it is actually fun to be part of a group and I felt like I belonged. I began to have things in common with people, which meant that I could actually hold conversations. I could get dates, like all these 'mainstream losers' could.
Why do I feel better? Is it because I'm brainwashed to think that all this stuff is better? No, because I know it's not. In my private life I'm a total iconoclast. There is a fundamental joy in being part of something. It's Maslow Level 2, Safety and Security. I know that because I can communicate as part of American Consumer Society, that I am someone my neighbors can relate to.
This sounds chilling. It sounds like Orwell. But it's not just me, either. Nobody in the USA has a higher purpose anymore. It could be argued that they didn't before, but the freedom to choose not to enter the military/go to church/work at menial labor has taken away our exposure to suffering. I grew up in a very poverty-stricken part of the country. I blow the minds of my upper-middle-class-raised coworkers when I tell them about my friends and relatives that didn't have running water or gas heat. I appreciate what I have, which is belonging.
The intellectual side of me wishes I didn't need this. The emotional side takes whatever it can get.
if you think anyone does OSS out of love you're sadly mistaken. They do it to get fame and prestige in their society (the OSS community, i.e. Slashdot, k5). Very few people do anything for other people because they want to, and they've usually taken an oath to their God and believe they'll burn for eternity if they don't.
Line 6's recording processor.. it's a digital amp and cabinet modeler that allows one to get a CLOSE approximation to a mic'd cabinet sound going direct. Much better than the old way of preamp->direct box.
That's what I said. It's just the same kind of cabling. That means this Gibson thing is probably just some kind of digital pickup that uses cat5 instead of proprietary cables.
Line 6 stuff has its limitations (I just have a POD) but it's still miles and miles better than the alternative - paying $$$ for a triple rectifier and finding a place to mic it (in a woodframe apartment building? I don't think so)
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Universities are businesses that have managed to artificially create a demand for their product. The vast majority of jobs don't require a college degree or any kind of advanced training beyond what you get 'on-the-job' to do. Other than the medical field, or something like law where you NEED to learn from mistakes of the whole of the profession, I can tell you why you don't need a degree for almost any job.
I've always wondered something:
WHY do you people like anime so damn much?
Here's what I see when I watch anime (yes, -any- anime, don't come back with "but DragonBuggy PokeMotoro isn't like that"):
1) Bad stories
2) Bad animation, jerkiness with poor color composition
3) Bad translations of
4) Bad dialogue
5) A bunch of people OBSESSED with this shit to a sickening point.
I used to like dramatic cartoons when I was a kid, but then I grew up. Maybe I'm just too old now, I don't know. I still like the classics like old Warner Brothers and Tom and Jerry cartoons, but this Japanese shit just seems really childish to me and the fanaticism of the fans turns my stomach.
Nobody should enjoy WATCHING something that much, you should save your fanaticism for creating things.
Furthermore, I don't like the cultural ideas of Japan (i.e. work till you drop dead of work, hate all other ethnic groups, etc.), which a lot of anime attempts to further.
it could be some kind of cuttlefish - don't they move by fins on their body?
nobody's figured out a way to quantify software quality and automate software QA. Cars, you can crash-test with dummies, check the pressure of the fuel system with a gauge that sends a signal to a PLC that goes into the fault log if it's bad, check the horsepower with a dyno, etc.
Software, the only people that can certify it are real-live humans. Testing software (except for games) is a tedious, boring job that nobody wants to do, therefore there's a huge gap between the QA management (who get paid big $$ to be the gatekeepers) and the peons (who get paid squat because "all they do is follow instructions"). Such an arrangement is not conducive to true quality.
There's a reason why everything from lumber to condoms is tested by a machine - because it sucks to test it yourself (except for the condoms, but wait, what if they fail?)
Some people have speculated that bacterial or similar life found on Mars or elsewhere within this solar system is completely different from that found on Earth -- I would postulate that it is probably no more 'alien' that what we might find in the ocean near black smokers, that big underice lake in Antarctica (can't remember the name), or a barren, cold, high altitude mountain.
I would guess that low order protists like bacteria, slime molds, etc. on other planets would be similar to those on earth. Any higher-evolved life forms would be quite a bit different. Bacteria in isolated environments (deep ocean, polar lakes) are basically the same as any other bacteria on earth, single-cell with a nucleus and a penchant to multiply. But look at some of the fish and crustaceans that they find near the atlantic vents - freakish things by everyday earth standards.
If there were surface life on Mars (personally I don't believe there is) it would also have to be evolved to the Martian environment. Maybe the heart-lung system isn't the most efficient circulatory system for Mars. Maybe the high amount of CO2 in the atmosphere makes a better case for photosynthesis. We won't know unless we go there.
My big question is: Rather than giving Microsoft and other big media companies the ability to rake in enormous profits through insane markups on their product, would it be possible to legislate away the sale of OSes for more than their distribution is worth, and instead focus on the support side of things?
Congratulations. You've just found a way to totally demotivate anyone from innovating in Operating System Design.
all of which is.. reality. deal with it. it sucks so take what you can from them and be happy in your spare time.
Know you know what it feels like trying to edit a "Perl Guru's" code.
You have three options:
1) Learn Perl better
2) Write the same thing in another language that you like better
3) Do not program
All of the above include implicitly the requirement to quit bitching that you can't understand it. You think that'll get you anywhere with intelligent people?
I said this a couple of weeks ago. OSS programmers develop because OSS programmers want the recognition and the prestige of having written something 'kewl'. This is meaningless prestige in the real world, but to the academic halls and places where they live, it means something.
It's like doing things for 'school spirit' in high school - means nothing after you graduate, but it's the world you're in at the time.
I don't think there's anything wrong with this, if that's what you choose, but don't think that one hierarchical structure is inherently better than another. Linus or RMS are at the top of the OSS totem pole, just like the captain of the football team was at the top of the high school totem pole.
Humans are followers and tend to latch onto leaders and examples, it's as simple as that. I do it, you do it, your mom and dad do it.
The true Santa knows. That's one of the many reasons why Satan =~ Santa.
it would take a lot of coincidence, but it could happen. Maybe it was built on a plateau inside a large ring of higher ground, and a landslide/quake caused the higher ground to slip and let in water. Sort of like a natural dam breaking.
Ohio-Michigan and Kentucky-Tennessee are pretty bad, too. Likewise Alabama and all other states in the south :)
that's correct, the doctrine is that the .50 BMG sniper rifles are to be used vs. equipment only (anti-materiel weapons). I doubt anyone in SOCOM takes that seriously, though.
Ever seen what a .50 can do? How you going to prove that it wasn't a grenade or artillery when people are blown to tiny pieces?
Want a good life for masses? Stop picking on people who are sucessfull and start emulating any good ideas they might have.
The third world does this. They also tend to take our ideas and use them against innocent people in the Tribal-War-of-the-Week or in acts of terrorism against our citizens.
You know, the USA was founded on, among many others, a principle of letting anyone become a citizen and open immigration - so what happens? A bunch of pissed off Arabs come over here, learn to fly at American private flight schools, and kill 5,000 people. We give the world air travel, and then they do this? I think we're justified in being slightly distrustful of other cultures now, which is a shame for the truly GOOD people that live in those other cultures.
The hormones/neurotransmitters do make a difference, I'm sure - especially in action games.
However, maybe most addictive gaming is more of an intellectual addiction. It's like being hooked on success - gaming lets you be good at something, and as a geek there are many days in the real world (not so many now that I'm respected at my job) where I don't feel very successful compared to the rest of the world. I can come home, fire up Civ 3, and at least pretend to conquer the world. Know any overachievers? Chances are they're hooked on praise and a feeling of superiority they get from winning. It's a big crash when they lose.
Likewise, games.
Oh, yeah, and I'm not sure I'd call having sex "extreme". Unless you're into kinky stuff, anyway. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I know you're joking, but as a geek that got to have sex relatively late, I was totally freaked out the first time I had sex. When you live by your intellect for so many years, going into an animal-like mode where you're acting purely on instinct is a real shock. It's a "didn't know I had it in me" kind of thing.
My point is: what shape society takes is your responsibility
Damn, I wish that was really true. I don't have enough money to buy enough politicians and media outlets to make that happen. Therefore, escapism it is.
Your bike would just cause most of us to die. Likewise the race track. Likewise skydiving or any of this other "extreme" shit.
Being an adrenaline junkie is NOT superior to being a gaming addict.
Like someone else in the discussion said, it's what you don't have that determines how addictive your personality is. My spare time determines how much into games I get - more spare time, more games. That's what I do instead of staring at TV until bedtime.
IMO it was much worse before computers became mainstream. Then, not only did you have addictiveness to contend with, but if you didn't want to suffer socially you had to hide your computer interests in the first place.
So naturally, the best way to break a video game addiction is to withdraw from Hollywood/Viacom/AOLTimeWarner/Disney in every conceivable form. Or at least develop enough of a cynical veneer to be able to look someone in the eye and say, "The Matrix was good...for a Hollywood film."
This being our society, explain how not being a part of the society in which we live is better for us in the long run than being a part of it?
I know that I've been much happier since I decided to break my addiction to rebellion and see just what was so great about all this mass market stuff that people seem to obsess so much about, both fot and against. I discovered that it is actually fun to be part of a group and I felt like I belonged. I began to have things in common with people, which meant that I could actually hold conversations. I could get dates, like all these 'mainstream losers' could.
Why do I feel better? Is it because I'm brainwashed to think that all this stuff is better? No, because I know it's not. In my private life I'm a total iconoclast. There is a fundamental joy in being part of something. It's Maslow Level 2, Safety and Security. I know that because I can communicate as part of American Consumer Society, that I am someone my neighbors can relate to.
This sounds chilling. It sounds like Orwell. But it's not just me, either. Nobody in the USA has a higher purpose anymore. It could be argued that they didn't before, but the freedom to choose not to enter the military/go to church/work at menial labor has taken away our exposure to suffering. I grew up in a very poverty-stricken part of the country. I blow the minds of my upper-middle-class-raised coworkers when I tell them about my friends and relatives that didn't have running water or gas heat. I appreciate what I have, which is belonging.
The intellectual side of me wishes I didn't need this. The emotional side takes whatever it can get.
if you think anyone does OSS out of love you're sadly mistaken. They do it to get fame and prestige in their society (the OSS community, i.e. Slashdot, k5). Very few people do anything for other people because they want to, and they've usually taken an oath to their God and believe they'll burn for eternity if they don't.
naah, we just actually want to do useful stuff with our PCs instead of making them the center of our ideology.
Line 6's recording processor.. it's a digital amp and cabinet modeler that allows one to get a CLOSE approximation to a mic'd cabinet sound going direct. Much better than the old way of preamp->direct box.
my mistake... I knew it used 5-pin DIN connectors but I thought that 'cannon' was just slang for any connector bigger than 1/4-inch.
That's what I said. It's just the same kind of cabling. That means this Gibson thing is probably just some kind of digital pickup that uses cat5 instead of proprietary cables.
Line 6 stuff has its limitations (I just have a POD) but it's still miles and miles better than the alternative - paying $$$ for a triple rectifier and finding a place to mic it (in a woodframe apartment building? I don't think so)