Like Morrowind before it, the Oblivion previews are uniformly gushing. (Though one previewer was silly enough to stick his head up over the edge of the trench, only to get it blown off.) Like Morrowind before it, Oblivion is going to be a poorly realized, buggy, performance-hoging, bore of a game.
If Square is Ben & Jerry's, and if Black Isle is Häagen-Dazs, then Bethesda is whoever produces those gallon tubs of shit ice cream for fat people who don't care what they're shoving in their face so long as there's lots of it.
Ubuntu didn't work at all on my new Presario M2000. I had to disable framebuffer on boot and use the vesa drivers instead of ati. This allowed both the 64-bit and 32-bit version to function.
Knoppix by contrast worked great, no tweaking necessary. Although it was annoying to hit shutdown, go away, and come back to find the battery drained because it was stuck on the "Remove CD and hit ENTER" screen.
Windows + cygwin tends to be enough for me though.
The world is divided into two types of people: the competent and the incompetent. 90% of real work is done by competents. 90% of the population is made up of incompetents.
While the competents look benignly upon the incompents, the incompetents hate and fear the competents. The incompetents of this world have one goal in life: to use the power of numbers to make the competents spend their time slaving for them. Unions, credentials, and bureaucracies are their tools in this regard.
The closer a profession gets to engineering (and the more male a profession is), the higher the percentage of competents employed by it. For tech workers, the percentage of competents may reach as high as 30% or 40%. The competents, rightly, look upon unions as a tool of their oppressors (the incompetents).
I'm fond of remembering what I read for a long long time. It's a great advantage in an argument with a fool. I'm aware both the problems and advantages of the Hunter metastudy. Given that this is Slashdot and we're talking IT jobs, not ditch-digging, it's the right one to cite. I believe that Jensen's Bias in Mental Testing covered the GATB data—but I don't have a copy to look it up in.
Now fuck off, AC. If you're the same AC who didn't think the GATB correlated with IQ, or the same poster who learned all he knew about this subject from an Econ course he took once upon the time, you're hopeless. I haven't heard a single interesting point yet in this thread, all that's come up is shit which I've had to wade through and waste my time disproving. Post under your own account so that I know who I'm talking to from post to post, and come up with something that proves you're "way past Google," because you sure haven't shown it.
Your ass + Google still isn't a great combo. The GATB correlated at something like.9 with WAIS when Jensen tested it way back when. That's a good deal better than WAIS correlates with a lot of other IQ tests. It correlates better with WAIS than the ASVAB (which the military finds damn useful for predicting recruit performance).
I'm sorry. I had hoped that the stupid would just go away. Since it hasn't:
Hunter, J. E., and Hunter, R. F. 1984. Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance. Psychological Bull. 96:72-98
Your post is stupid not because of what you say about why employers find degrees useful, but because of a short phrase on which your entire argument rests: "not as meaningless as intelligence alone."
In fact, Hunter and Hunter found through the meta-analysis cited above that Cognitive test scores have a.53 correlation with future job performance ratings, while education has a.22 correlation. (And the more complex a job gets, the higher the validity of cognitive test scores.) The whole of biographical data about an employee only manages a.37 correlation with job performance.
In summary, it turns out that your ass is not a source of opinions of magnificent insight and perspicuity. It's a source of shit. Go away and start a blog.
"Not at all -- you could have a high IQ but be irresponsible or dishonest or difficult to work with."
I don't like arguing with stupid, but here goes: you could have a college degree but be irresponsible or dishonest or difficult to work with. What matters is that IQ is a better indicator of future job performance than a resume. Not a perfect indicator, but a better indicator, when measured.
An IQ test is better for eventual job performance evaluation than looking at educational background. And that only takes a couple hours, versus 4 years. It's also illegal for hiring purposes in the U.S. because the Supreme Court says IQ testing is racist towards blacks. So everyone needs 4-year degrees...
I view it as worthless because there is no positive evidence indicating that it has value. (I would consider positive evidence to be some sort of IQ-normed study that attempts to adjust for the effects of "credentialism.")
How about discovering themselves in Europe for a year? Or just reading a good book every once in a while. That'll do far more good than anything as worthless as a liberal arts college.
I just got through the first level and killed the 3-headed Hydra. I haven't had much fun so far.
The animations are neat, but the 4th or 5th time you've ripped apart the same enemy it gets pretty boring. The average level-grind monsters are too weak to be interesting and too strong to be fun (so GoW is neither Serious Sam or Half Life). The boss-hydra required some thought to defeat, but the button-mashing was boring.
Also, the nudity is poorly done in the game. It's not exciting. The sex mini-game was silly. Here you are, a bad-ass Spartan killing machine, as willing to kill friends as enemies, and you're the one pushing the buttons to make them giggle? I don't think so. Foreplay is for us normal mortals.
Enabling MAC filtering on a switch will usually cause (depending on switch type and configuration) a switch to stop routing traffic when a computer of a different MAC address is plugged into a port previously in use by another MAC address. The port then needs to be reset before the router will route any traffic on that port.
If Joe User comes by with his laptop, notes the MAC address from the already connected machine, spoofs his laptop's MAC address to be the same as the connected machine, then hooks up his laptop to the spot where the first machine was hooked up, the router will be fine and dandy with it.
You sure have a different definition of "security" than I do. A MAC address takes what, about 5 seconds to spoof? Your "security" is about as useful as a big sign in on your computers saying "don't hack me!"
And since we're arguing about running networks with Windows versus Unix servers, this is very on topic.
As a system administrator who has recently spent time trying to mitigate the security consequences of using NFS for a large campus network, I wonder if Windows may not have some advantages.
NFS security is Unix security writ large and networked: if it's not root it's not important. If your machine has the right IP, and you've got root on the box, switch your UID and NFS gives you all priviliges for that user. And NFS is the ubiquitous Unix Network Filesystem! Goddamn, what a security mess. I'm looking at alternatives like OpenAFS or Coda -- but hell, those aren't very mainstream. I could just use samba for everything I guess. But why not go all the way and run Active Directory servers?
This is not about Apple refusing to warranty their OS. This is about Apple calling people thieves for, your metaphor, "rip[ing] the engine out of your lexus and drop[ing] it into your VW Bug." You'd be more than offended if Lexus called you an "engine pirate" for taking out a Lexus engine from a Lexus you bought and putting it into a VW. That you are not offended by the same from Apple...well, maybe it really is the kool-aid.
Well, the idea that dinosaurs had hair is silly. Hair isn't going to evolve twice. Nor are feathers. But we know that birds descended from certain groups of dinosaurs and that feathers had to get started sometime. It's not unlikely that this is where birds got them from.
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Like Morrowind before it, the Oblivion previews are uniformly gushing. (Though one previewer was silly enough to stick his head up over the edge of the trench, only to get it blown off.) Like Morrowind before it, Oblivion is going to be a poorly realized, buggy, performance-hoging, bore of a game.
If Square is Ben & Jerry's, and if Black Isle is Häagen-Dazs, then Bethesda is whoever produces those gallon tubs of shit ice cream for fat people who don't care what they're shoving in their face so long as there's lots of it.
"... grandfather liked it," said Chester, averting his eyes from a lithograph titled Rush Hour at the Insemomat.
I just read The Great Time Machine Hoax. Very cool.
Ubuntu didn't work at all on my new Presario M2000. I had to disable framebuffer on boot and use the vesa drivers instead of ati. This allowed both the 64-bit and 32-bit version to function.
Knoppix by contrast worked great, no tweaking necessary. Although it was annoying to hit shutdown, go away, and come back to find the battery drained because it was stuck on the "Remove CD and hit ENTER" screen.
Windows + cygwin tends to be enough for me though.
Touché. I liked the recent one about the programmer who had to "add more days" every so often.
The world is divided into two types of people: the competent and the incompetent. 90% of real work is done by competents. 90% of the population is made up of incompetents.
While the competents look benignly upon the incompents, the incompetents hate and fear the competents. The incompetents of this world have one goal in life: to use the power of numbers to make the competents spend their time slaving for them. Unions, credentials, and bureaucracies are their tools in this regard.
The closer a profession gets to engineering (and the more male a profession is), the higher the percentage of competents employed by it. For tech workers, the percentage of competents may reach as high as 30% or 40%. The competents, rightly, look upon unions as a tool of their oppressors (the incompetents).
I'm fond of remembering what I read for a long long time. It's a great advantage in an argument with a fool. I'm aware both the problems and advantages of the Hunter metastudy. Given that this is Slashdot and we're talking IT jobs, not ditch-digging, it's the right one to cite. I believe that Jensen's Bias in Mental Testing covered the GATB data—but I don't have a copy to look it up in.
Now fuck off, AC. If you're the same AC who didn't think the GATB correlated with IQ, or the same poster who learned all he knew about this subject from an Econ course he took once upon the time, you're hopeless. I haven't heard a single interesting point yet in this thread, all that's come up is shit which I've had to wade through and waste my time disproving. Post under your own account so that I know who I'm talking to from post to post, and come up with something that proves you're "way past Google," because you sure haven't shown it.
Your ass + Google still isn't a great combo. The GATB correlated at something like .9 with WAIS when Jensen tested it way back when. That's a good deal better than WAIS correlates with a lot of other IQ tests. It correlates better with WAIS than the ASVAB (which the military finds damn useful for predicting recruit performance).
I'm sorry. I had hoped that the stupid would just go away. Since it hasn't:
.53 correlation with future job performance ratings, while education has a .22 correlation. (And the more complex a job gets, the higher the validity of cognitive test scores.) The whole of biographical data about an employee only manages a .37 correlation with job performance.
Hunter, J. E., and Hunter, R. F. 1984. Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance. Psychological Bull. 96:72-98
Your post is stupid not because of what you say about why employers find degrees useful, but because of a short phrase on which your entire argument rests: "not as meaningless as intelligence alone."
In fact, Hunter and Hunter found through the meta-analysis cited above that Cognitive test scores have a
In summary, it turns out that your ass is not a source of opinions of magnificent insight and perspicuity. It's a source of shit. Go away and start a blog.
"Not at all -- you could have a high IQ but be irresponsible or dishonest or difficult to work with."
I don't like arguing with stupid, but here goes: you could have a college degree but be irresponsible or dishonest or difficult to work with. What matters is that IQ is a better indicator of future job performance than a resume. Not a perfect indicator, but a better indicator, when measured.
An IQ test is better for eventual job performance evaluation than looking at educational background. And that only takes a couple hours, versus 4 years. It's also illegal for hiring purposes in the U.S. because the Supreme Court says IQ testing is racist towards blacks. So everyone needs 4-year degrees...
The EU has more evil in its little pinkie than all of Microsoft. Microsoft is annoying. The EU is scary.
"it's well demonstrated that people with bachelor's degrees earn significantly more than people with incomplete or no college education"
Until you norm for IQ. You've been lied to about the worth of college.
I view it as worthless because there is no positive evidence indicating that it has value. (I would consider positive evidence to be some sort of IQ-normed study that attempts to adjust for the effects of "credentialism.")
A lot of people confuse the benefits of college with the benefits of getting older and more experienced from living on their own for the first time.
How about discovering themselves in Europe for a year? Or just reading a good book every once in a while. That'll do far more good than anything as worthless as a liberal arts college.
I just got through the first level and killed the 3-headed Hydra. I haven't had much fun so far.
The animations are neat, but the 4th or 5th time you've ripped apart the same enemy it gets pretty boring. The average level-grind monsters are too weak to be interesting and too strong to be fun (so GoW is neither Serious Sam or Half Life). The boss-hydra required some thought to defeat, but the button-mashing was boring.
Also, the nudity is poorly done in the game. It's not exciting. The sex mini-game was silly. Here you are, a bad-ass Spartan killing machine, as willing to kill friends as enemies, and you're the one pushing the buttons to make them giggle? I don't think so. Foreplay is for us normal mortals.
Calm down. Like the EU, South Korea is just doing it to milk money out of a big company.
Enabling MAC filtering on a switch will usually cause (depending on switch type and configuration) a switch to stop routing traffic when a computer of a different MAC address is plugged into a port previously in use by another MAC address. The port then needs to be reset before the router will route any traffic on that port.
If Joe User comes by with his laptop, notes the MAC address from the already connected machine, spoofs his laptop's MAC address to be the same as the connected machine, then hooks up his laptop to the spot where the first machine was hooked up, the router will be fine and dandy with it.
You sure have a different definition of "security" than I do. A MAC address takes what, about 5 seconds to spoof? Your "security" is about as useful as a big sign in on your computers saying "don't hack me!"
And since we're arguing about running networks with Windows versus Unix servers, this is very on topic.
As a system administrator who has recently spent time trying to mitigate the security consequences of using NFS for a large campus network, I wonder if Windows may not have some advantages.
NFS security is Unix security writ large and networked: if it's not root it's not important. If your machine has the right IP, and you've got root on the box, switch your UID and NFS gives you all priviliges for that user. And NFS is the ubiquitous Unix Network Filesystem! Goddamn, what a security mess. I'm looking at alternatives like OpenAFS or Coda -- but hell, those aren't very mainstream. I could just use samba for everything I guess. But why not go all the way and run Active Directory servers?
This is not about Apple refusing to warranty their OS. This is about Apple calling people thieves for, your metaphor, "rip[ing] the engine out of your lexus and drop[ing] it into your VW Bug." You'd be more than offended if Lexus called you an "engine pirate" for taking out a Lexus engine from a Lexus you bought and putting it into a VW. That you are not offended by the same from Apple...well, maybe it really is the kool-aid.
theft is theft
I suppose your car dealership tells you where you can drive your car too. (A Lexus isn't for off-roading!) BTW, how's the kool-aid?
"retired cosmonaut"
He paid a bunch of money for the Russians to take him up. "Retired space tourist" maybe.
Well, the idea that dinosaurs had hair is silly. Hair isn't going to evolve twice. Nor are feathers. But we know that birds descended from certain groups of dinosaurs and that feathers had to get started sometime. It's not unlikely that this is where birds got them from.
You're more likely to get struck by lightning than get AIDS that way.