If they function AT ALL without further expense I can think of several deserving charities here in Costa Rica that would certainly appreciate getting 5 laptops. Contact me if interested
Gee - and I swore I would never be drawn into another/. discussion:-)
Better a fool than a sheep I say.
I may have a little more hindsight than your average/.'er as I'm fifty years old and have always played by the rule of "me first".
Sound selfish? Only at first glance. I cannot be a good husband to my wife if I am unhappy at my job; I cannot be a good employee doing what I dislike/disagree with; my "self" is retarded in an unhappy environment; my health - and thus my relationships/life - will suffer ditto etc. etc. You cannot be a good human in servitude.
On the win/lose list where do you stand? What have you gained lost by your decision? I do a review of my own goals and ambitions when I'm feeling that perhaps I did a stupid thing - it almost always turns out that it was stupid looked at through most everyone else's eyes. And it almost always turns out to be the most fun I've ever had.
But I gotta tell you - I've done things and been places that make my sib's/peers/business partners turn green with envy (okay - some things make them sick too but skydiving isn't for everybody). So many of my best experiences/relationships have happened because I DID chuck out the conventional thinking and went with "me".
I have walked away from $65,000.00 a year. I am not independantly wealthy or anything - I had some savings and a house with a mortgage. I'd been at that job for years and years and had just decided that I'd had enough and it was time for an adventure.
So we, my loving wife and I, cashed it all in - sold the house, sold the furniture etc. and moved to Costa Rica. That was a 18 months ago. We are still living on our savings but on the win/lose list we're doing just great thanks.
Now I have some new exciting projects that I'm thinking about that I never would have considered in my previous locale. I'm learning a new language. I'm experiencing a new culture.
Go for it! Have fun and don't worry too much about the highly over-rated North American-centric "security" thing. What you've given yourself is a gift - serendipity is a wonderful thing when you open yourself up to it.
AND dumpster diving for dinner (yep - been there too) is a step up from servitude. And I mean servitude to a system or a job or a relationship . . .
Case quitting is only **Good News**. He hobbled millions of people's development by promoting a fluffy, saccharine-coated, "HEY - you really ARE an idiot", mindless piece of trash. Sort of like what Disney did for the classics:-) Have you actually watched an AOL commercial lately?
Steve Case did no one any favors, except maybe himself, and neither did the guy with the six-foot rat icon.
I think if you look at the history of unions objectively (did I just say that? On slashdot? nahhhhh) you'll see that they had their time and place. They are responsible for a great deal of good and promoted the "idea" of workers as humans desrving of respect.
However (and you knew there was a however coming didn't you?) their time has come and gone. I know you americans are quite enamoured of unions even yet, I mean, after all, you invented them, but it's true.
They are now doing more harm than good. I don't know what model should replace unions but I do know that the time has come to seriously discuss it. Before someone starts chopping off heads and allowing you "to eat cake".
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Well, yeah, but so what? That speaks more to the capability of the tool. My point was that the tool user is not defined by the tool.
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You really are kidding yourself if you think that just because someone admins an MS system they are any less inquisitive, less bright, worse problem solvers etc., etc.
Let's another look at that too-little-used phrase once more shall we?
"IT'S A TOOL!"
Also, some folks do have to eat and pay the mortgage and MS admins make a good buck.
Yikes - they should have a look at Project Gutenberg to see how a Digital Library is built - cheap, effective and very accessible. Now there is a Digital Library worthy of the name.
Now that DOES make a lot more sense. I'm using POPfile on my local machine - Bayesean filtering. Similar approach except SpamNet uses all humans for the filtering. I'll look into it.
Fom the generation that gave the world "The Brady Bunch" _and_ can quote relevant episodes.
At least in _MY_ day we could quote umm, well, we could quote ahhh, Dylan! Yeah - we could quote Dylan and nobody ever knew what we were talking about either!
Sheer profundity! It is about reliability. See? If you cannot GET to the data at ALL then no one cares about how FAST it comes in - I want it to WORK, always. Our clients WILL want to know WHY it failed - they are only curious about it being faster. JMHO
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Its just a way of ramming the worst modern ideals in architecture down socety's collective throat.
We've already done, and are doing, that. We just haven't dicussed it much. Wolfe made some very vaild points but times/ideologies change. Perhaps it is time to seriously again look at what this "dogma" can produce.
modernist ideal in architecture.
Neither this view nor its anithesis should be holy ground here. We're talking about efficient, affordable, suitable housing. We're not talking about a critics "views" on what is "good architecture". I've seen mud huts that I would live in:-)
You can sure tell this is a geek site when someone makes a post about anything slightly "artsy-fartsy". I especially liked the response wondering why it was 19 parts and not 24. Maybe it was just to make you wonder why 19 and not 17 or 24?
HEY - IT'S ART!
While that is not, in and of itself, a good reason for being (or doing for that matter) all art provokes a response.:-) To that extent, it looks like it is a success.
Maybe, just maybe, the only reason they did it was so that they _could_ submit the story to slashdot and read these responses. (All artists need feedback too.) I'd love it if this were true.
Now, while I love classical music, audio experimentation has never held much attraction for me. I like a nicely structured (and way shorter) musicscape thanks. What I do appreciate is that they are taking a work that has been with us a long time - and with which most of us are familiar - and making something new out of it. Derivative? Of course. But original and thought-provoking? Yep. But I might just listen to the original in a whole new way next time. I might wonder about why that piece, in its original form, is timed the way it is and why it has such an emotional effect on people and I might just discover something new about it or me.
I might even get around to watching that 24 hour movie of the Empire State Building. Anybody know if its on DVD yet?
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If they function AT ALL without further expense I can think of several deserving charities here in Costa Rica that would certainly appreciate getting 5 laptops. Contact me if interested
Gee - and I swore I would never be drawn into another /. discussion :-)
/.'er as I'm fifty years old and have always played by the rule of "me first".
Better a fool than a sheep I say.
I may have a little more hindsight than your average
Sound selfish? Only at first glance. I cannot be a good husband to my wife if I am unhappy at my job; I cannot be a good employee doing what I dislike/disagree with; my "self" is retarded in an unhappy environment; my health - and thus my relationships/life - will suffer ditto etc. etc. You cannot be a good human in servitude.
On the win/lose list where do you stand? What have you gained lost by your decision? I do a review of my own goals and ambitions when I'm feeling that perhaps I did a stupid thing - it almost always turns out that it was stupid looked at through most everyone else's eyes. And it almost always turns out to be the most fun I've ever had.
But I gotta tell you - I've done things and been places that make my sib's/peers/business partners turn green with envy (okay - some things make them sick too but skydiving isn't for everybody). So many of my best experiences/relationships have happened because I DID chuck out the conventional thinking and went with "me".
I have walked away from $65,000.00 a year. I am not independantly wealthy or anything - I had some savings and a house with a mortgage. I'd been at that job for years and years and had just decided that I'd had enough and it was time for an adventure.
So we, my loving wife and I, cashed it all in - sold the house, sold the furniture etc. and moved to Costa Rica. That was a 18 months ago. We are still living on our savings but on the win/lose list we're doing just great thanks.
Now I have some new exciting projects that I'm thinking about that I never would have considered in my previous locale.
I'm learning a new language.
I'm experiencing a new culture.
Go for it! Have fun and don't worry too much about the highly over-rated North American-centric "security" thing. What you've given yourself is a gift - serendipity is a wonderful thing when you open yourself up to it.
AND dumpster diving for dinner (yep - been there too) is a step up from servitude. And I mean servitude to a system or a job or a relationship . . .
No.
It's a gift. Some folks might actually be able to see Mars tonight. This will be the first time in ~40 years that some will get to see the heavens!
Enjoy!
I thought this was funny.
If I still participated in the moderation fiasco I would have mod'ed this up as funny.
I LIKE it!
:-)
But then - I'm a 47 year-old buttonhead who gave up on computer games when Pac-man was a pup so I'd bet that this is my one and only appearance here.
Ahhhh . . . I'd say you have some more focus grouping to do
Well, it would certainly deter some bootleggers . . .
Case quitting is only **Good News**. He hobbled millions of people's development by promoting a fluffy, saccharine-coated, "HEY - you really ARE an idiot", mindless piece of trash. Sort of like what Disney did for the classics :-) Have you actually watched an AOL commercial lately?
Steve Case did no one any favors, except maybe himself, and neither did the guy with the six-foot rat icon.
I think if you look at the history of unions objectively (did I just say that? On slashdot? nahhhhh) you'll see that they had their time and place. They are responsible for a great deal of good and promoted the "idea" of workers as humans desrving of respect.
However (and you knew there was a however coming didn't you?) their time has come and gone. I know you americans are quite enamoured of unions even yet, I mean, after all, you invented them, but it's true.
They are now doing more harm than good. I don't know what model should replace unions but I do know that the time has come to seriously discuss it. Before someone starts chopping off heads and allowing you "to eat cake".
Bad day at the office?
Well, yeah, but so what? That speaks more to the capability of the tool. My point was that the tool user is not defined by the tool.
You really are kidding yourself if you think that just because someone admins an MS system they are any less inquisitive, less bright, worse problem solvers etc., etc. Let's another look at that too-little-used phrase once more shall we? "IT'S A TOOL!" Also, some folks do have to eat and pay the mortgage and MS admins make a good buck.
You're Canadian aren't you ;-)
Yikes - they should have a look at Project Gutenberg to see how a Digital Library is built - cheap, effective and very accessible. Now there is a Digital Library worthy of the name.
Now that DOES make a lot more sense. I'm using POPfile on my local machine - Bayesean filtering. Similar approach except SpamNet uses all humans for the filtering. I'll look into it.
. . . so anyone else receiving the same (or nearly similar, I think) email will have it blocked as well. . .
I'd rather have the extra 3 or 4 dozen spam per day that have a "community" filter my email thank you very much.
Fom the generation that gave the world "The Brady Bunch" _and_ can quote relevant episodes.
At least in _MY_ day we could quote umm, well, we could quote ahhh, Dylan! Yeah - we could quote Dylan and nobody ever knew what we were talking about either!
We WILL get laid off.
Sheer profundity! It is about reliability. See? If you cannot GET to the data at ALL then no one cares about how FAST it comes in - I want it to WORK, always. Our clients WILL want to know WHY it failed - they are only curious about it being faster. JMHO
Its just a way of ramming the worst modern ideals in architecture down socety's collective throat.
:-)
We've already done, and are doing, that. We just haven't dicussed it much. Wolfe made some very vaild points but times/ideologies change. Perhaps it is time to seriously again look at what this "dogma" can produce.
modernist ideal in architecture.
Neither this view nor its anithesis should be holy ground here. We're talking about efficient, affordable, suitable housing. We're not talking about a critics "views" on what is "good architecture". I've seen mud huts that I would live in
You can sure tell this is a geek site when someone makes a post about anything slightly "artsy-fartsy". I especially liked the response wondering why it was 19 parts and not 24. Maybe it was just to make you wonder why 19 and not 17 or 24?
:-) To that extent, it looks like it is a success.
HEY - IT'S ART!
While that is not, in and of itself, a good reason for being (or doing for that matter) all art provokes a response.
Maybe, just maybe, the only reason they did it was so that they _could_ submit the story to slashdot and read these responses. (All artists need feedback too.) I'd love it if this were true.
Now, while I love classical music, audio experimentation has never held much attraction for me. I like a nicely structured (and way shorter) musicscape thanks. What I do appreciate is that they are taking a work that has been with us a long time - and with which most of us are familiar - and making something new out of it. Derivative? Of course. But original and thought-provoking? Yep. But I might just listen to the original in a whole new way next time. I might wonder about why that piece, in its original form, is timed the way it is and why it has such an emotional effect on people and I might just discover something new about it or me.
I might even get around to watching that 24 hour movie of the Empire State Building. Anybody know if its on DVD yet?
This cannot POSSIBLY be interesting "Stuff that matters". It's only the first time it's been posted on Slashdot. :-)
I'm afraid there's nothing for it then . .
Line them up with the spammer and execute them. It's really the only humane thing to do now. Put them out of our misery.
"I study meterology at MIT [mit.edu], so I feel that . . . "
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"I own a chain of stores here in London, and after several meetings with lower management, . . . "
"Seriously. I've noticed this too, lately, as I work for a small Verizon Wireless store . .
Oh how the mighty have fallen. If you're going to make up stories at least make sure your past stories agree. Or at least are not so accessible.
He really meant to say "Emporers"