Some say that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future, and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of WalMart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence -- welcome to 2010.
TBH, this is the type of sentence I saw far too often in college textbooks -- lumping in two crazy large groups into the same clause and making sweeping claims with 10 words or so. What does "the likes of WalMart" mean? Large businesses, small companies that became mega-corporations, an abstract representation of Big Business in general or something else? And "the current political system" implies so much that we could write an entire page theorizing about what this implies.
Let me get you a band-aid so your heart doesn't bleed out.
Frankly, I find your "lack of morals" comment appallingly ignorant: the fact that you are posting on slashdot means you have no idea what it's like to live in poverty.
This makes no logical sense.
Let's throw out the Ferraris completely, and pretend you saw a loaf of bread on the street. Now imagine you and your family had no bread. Would you then be tempted to take the bread? Would this be solely driven by greed and a lack of morals?
I never said "solely". No, it wouldn't be driven "solely" by greed and shoddy morals, but they'd be in there.
Let me guess, you would "get a job" and "work hard" to support your family, not steal. Well, what if there were no jobs? What if the only job was to work for a scammer?...
Blah, blah, blah. Did you even RTFA? The dude was rolling in a BMW making $75k usd/year in a third-world country. This is not even CLOSE to the 'stealing a loaf of bread for the starving family' scenario above.
Why is it so difficult to acknowledge that some people are morally bankrupt, and being covetous human nature?
some folk are tempted into crime when they see their friends earning $4000 a month...
The causal relationship you imply here doesn't exist. It isn't inequality that's at fault, its these lads' greed coupled with lack of morals. I'm not tempted into crime where I see a Ferrari on the street -- and I would guess that the same is true for most folks.
It's a failure of management; I don't think his reaction can be attributed to ungratefulness. If management were clever, they would have said "If this project goes through, you all get $DOLLAR bonuses. If it fails, you get nothing." You gotta give folks a carrot, or they react like the OP.
As a woman, you don't want a man who will care for you when you are sick, even if he would rather go golfing with his friends? You don't want a man who will spend time planning a date or will go out of his way to find the perfect gift for you on your birthday? You don't want a man who is concerned about your needs over his own?
Right, exactly. I think the GP is (perhaps unintentionally) equivocating "sacrifice". In my world -- I'm getting married next month -- "sacrifice" means logging off of WoW in the middle of a raid because my fiancee wants something done, telling the office "No, I can't work those overtime hours" (and losing out on OT pay) so I can spend time with her, cleaning the house up before she gets home even though I -hate- doing it and couldn't care less about the mess... "Sacrifice" isn't just jumping in front of a bullet or dying on a cross; the times when you put her needs and desires ahead of your own are also sacrifice. You're sacrificing your own selfish wants for your spouse's.
It sounds like the GP is blindly following the I CAN DO EERRRRVRYTHING MYSELF AND I DON'T NEED ANYONE attitude of extreme feminism.
Too late to be seen, but I just noticed the other day that all it takes to transfer money online from my bank account to another account at the same bank is the pin number and the online login for my account.
Granted, if a thief had my online login, there's whole other mess happening, but holy crap.
It's simple -- everyone wants to be Cpt. Kirk, and nobody wants to be Ensign Ricky. How many starship captains can one MMO really have?
Alternately, everyone wants to be a Jedi and nobody wants to be a blaster-wielding doofus.
The success of MMOs is about enabling the player to wield ridiculous amounts of power and have obsessive-compulsive levels of control over their character. I do not believe this is an impossible task for a Sci-Fi MMO to achieve, it just hasn't been done really well yet. The Fantasy genre lends itself much more naturally to this type of thing.
I'm one of the core engineers for a web shop and this is what I (along with the team I'm with for whatever project I'm on) do basically every day. Maybe it's because we're a small shop (in the grand scheme... we're one of the largest for our niche) or because the projects are small (usually 10 coders), but this is a skill that my boss drilled into me from my first day on the job... it's the difference between an engineer and a consultant. I don't think you can reasonably expect most engineers to be both "in it" and "on it", which is the perspective shift needed to do this kind of analysis effectively. Many can, but most can't. That's ok, just make sure to hang on tight to the ones who can! *ahem*
No offense, but I don't agree with a single thing you have said. The human brain starts developing its "judgment part" when it's in the womb. Many children's "judgment" is a lot better than that of most adults.
It seems you may have hit reply before perusing the rest of GP's comment. I took the whole 'judgment' thing to be his main point, but I got caught up in the diction. . . turns out what (I think) he's saying is that the younger you are the less life experience you have, and consequently the more difficult it is to make correct decisions since you don't have any experience from which you can extrapolate possible outcomes.
I think we can all agree that the younger one is, the less experience they have; we can also agree that the more relevant experience one has, the easier it is to make informed decisions.
Our brains are also not fully developed until somewhere in our late teens/early 20s I believe it is? (if it weren't 3:30am I'd Google it myself). So throw an undeveloped decision-maker on top of all that, and there's your typical kid.
FWIW, I don't think this argument inexorably leads to the conclusion that Government must, then, control what our kids can consume. The best takeaway is "be a good parent," not "let the Government babysit for you."
Well, I guess that depends on what you consider "harmful". For example, there's a fair amount of academic research on how exposure to porn affects teens and preteens (nice rollup here: http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.html).
As a senior developer in a pretty well-known (to those who run in Drupal circles) Drupal shop, this book is relevant to my interests. After developing in Drupal for a while and releasing contrib modules, I think the next step in my Drupal learning curve is core architecture and understanding why choices were made -- "why go for role-based permissions rather than an abstracted administrative layer?" and so forth.
I'd use this book not so much to start Yet Another PHP CMS (tm), put to perhaps acquire a deeper understanding of the involved bits. That, in turn, leads to core patching, and then to development for HEAD.
Not thinking things through is, imo, one of the top time-wasters in any project -- php or otherwise -- and this book seems as if it'd help in that regard.
Congratulations, you've proven nothing. While you're surfing Wikipedia, may I suggest the section on soundness?
If you can't offer evidence to justify your accusation of "slave labor"...
Hi, my name is Hyperbole, I don't think we've met. ..
What exactly is "fair"? Go ahead, try to justify, why an American is entitled to a wage higher, than a Mexican, who -- upon coming to this country (legally or otherwise) not only manages to earn a living for himself, but to also support extended family back home?
Your argument is based upon the premise that a unit of currency has the same purchasing power in the US as it does in Mexico. This is incorrect. There are a ton of numbers that can be run to make a comprehensive argument here, but let me take just one metric to start: daily wages.
In the US, the median hourly wage for workers with 1-4 years experience in their field is $13.75. Assuming an 8 hour day, that's $110/day pre-tax. The same metric in Mexico is MX$209 per day, or about $20 USD. Think on that.
Sort of. . . I think it's disingenous to say that you deserve to be ganked if you roll on a PvP realm. What if you like world PvP if you have a fair chance? You shouldn't be forced to roll PvE just because you don't want to be camped by 3 70s in Hillsbrad.
WoW needs a global reputation system similar to Fable's. Do dishonorable stuff, and NPCs dislike you more and more. Vendors charge more. Repairs cost more. Etc.
How much ganking would you do if your repair bill went up 10% every 10 lowbies you ganked? The system is broken, and Blizz doesn't care.
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I find that people with even basic programming skills tend to have better general problem solving capacity
My experience is that it's the other way around. People with great general problem-solving capacity tend to be better programmers.
Perhaps neither of us is correct and those two things are merely correlated.
Some say that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future, and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of WalMart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence -- welcome to 2010.
TBH, this is the type of sentence I saw far too often in college textbooks -- lumping in two crazy large groups into the same clause and making sweeping claims with 10 words or so. What does "the likes of WalMart" mean? Large businesses, small companies that became mega-corporations, an abstract representation of Big Business in general or something else? And "the current political system" implies so much that we could write an entire page theorizing about what this implies.
Frankly, I find your "lack of morals" comment appallingly ignorant: the fact that you are posting on slashdot means you have no idea what it's like to live in poverty.
This makes no logical sense.
Let's throw out the Ferraris completely, and pretend you saw a loaf of bread on the street. Now imagine you and your family had no bread. Would you then be tempted to take the bread? Would this be solely driven by greed and a lack of morals? I never said "solely". No, it wouldn't be driven "solely" by greed and shoddy morals, but they'd be in there.
Let me guess, you would "get a job" and "work hard" to support your family, not steal. Well, what if there were no jobs? What if the only job was to work for a scammer?...
Blah, blah, blah. Did you even RTFA? The dude was rolling in a BMW making $75k usd/year in a third-world country. This is not even CLOSE to the 'stealing a loaf of bread for the starving family' scenario above. Why is it so difficult to acknowledge that some people are morally bankrupt, and being covetous human nature?
some folk are tempted into crime when they see their friends earning $4000 a month...
The causal relationship you imply here doesn't exist. It isn't inequality that's at fault, its these lads' greed coupled with lack of morals. I'm not tempted into crime where I see a Ferrari on the street -- and I would guess that the same is true for most folks.
Email it to yourself. Durrrrrr.
It's a failure of management; I don't think his reaction can be attributed to ungratefulness. If management were clever, they would have said "If this project goes through, you all get $DOLLAR bonuses. If it fails, you get nothing." You gotta give folks a carrot, or they react like the OP.
heading to thepiratebay brb
On the other hand, this isn't exactly PHP's fault (or MySQL's, for that matter). The query:
They're selecting a row (the user) by a column (user_activation_key) that can be blank. Not NULL but literally an empty string. Bad.
As a woman, you don't want a man who will care for you when you are sick, even if he would rather go golfing with his friends? You don't want a man who will spend time planning a date or will go out of his way to find the perfect gift for you on your birthday? You don't want a man who is concerned about your needs over his own?
Right, exactly. I think the GP is (perhaps unintentionally) equivocating "sacrifice". In my world -- I'm getting married next month -- "sacrifice" means logging off of WoW in the middle of a raid because my fiancee wants something done, telling the office "No, I can't work those overtime hours" (and losing out on OT pay) so I can spend time with her, cleaning the house up before she gets home even though I -hate- doing it and couldn't care less about the mess... "Sacrifice" isn't just jumping in front of a bullet or dying on a cross; the times when you put her needs and desires ahead of your own are also sacrifice. You're sacrificing your own selfish wants for your spouse's.
It sounds like the GP is blindly following the I CAN DO EERRRRVRYTHING MYSELF AND I DON'T NEED ANYONE attitude of extreme feminism.
I lol because you're making the same type of generalization that you're looking down your nose upon.
Too late to be seen, but I just noticed the other day that all it takes to transfer money online from my bank account to another account at the same bank is the pin number and the online login for my account. Granted, if a thief had my online login, there's whole other mess happening, but holy crap.
Right, that's the logical end of what I said above.
It's simple -- everyone wants to be Cpt. Kirk, and nobody wants to be Ensign Ricky. How many starship captains can one MMO really have?
Alternately, everyone wants to be a Jedi and nobody wants to be a blaster-wielding doofus.
The success of MMOs is about enabling the player to wield ridiculous amounts of power and have obsessive-compulsive levels of control over their character. I do not believe this is an impossible task for a Sci-Fi MMO to achieve, it just hasn't been done really well yet. The Fantasy genre lends itself much more naturally to this type of thing.
I'm one of the core engineers for a web shop and this is what I (along with the team I'm with for whatever project I'm on) do basically every day. Maybe it's because we're a small shop (in the grand scheme... we're one of the largest for our niche) or because the projects are small (usually 10 coders), but this is a skill that my boss drilled into me from my first day on the job... it's the difference between an engineer and a consultant. I don't think you can reasonably expect most engineers to be both "in it" and "on it", which is the perspective shift needed to do this kind of analysis effectively. Many can, but most can't. That's ok, just make sure to hang on tight to the ones who can! *ahem*
Unlike us regular folk, who have no need for food. . .
It seems you may have hit reply before perusing the rest of GP's comment. I took the whole 'judgment' thing to be his main point, but I got caught up in the diction. . . turns out what (I think) he's saying is that the younger you are the less life experience you have, and consequently the more difficult it is to make correct decisions since you don't have any experience from which you can extrapolate possible outcomes.
I think we can all agree that the younger one is, the less experience they have; we can also agree that the more relevant experience one has, the easier it is to make informed decisions.
Our brains are also not fully developed until somewhere in our late teens/early 20s I believe it is? (if it weren't 3:30am I'd Google it myself). So throw an undeveloped decision-maker on top of all that, and there's your typical kid.
FWIW, I don't think this argument inexorably leads to the conclusion that Government must, then, control what our kids can consume. The best takeaway is "be a good parent," not "let the Government babysit for you."
Well, I guess that depends on what you consider "harmful". For example, there's a fair amount of academic research on how exposure to porn affects teens and preteens (nice rollup here: http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.html).
And the corresponding link to what you were talking about... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Types_of_eye
Ridiculous. Time isn't free -- those programmers need to eat/pay rent/feed their families/etc.
And the word you're looking for is "their".
low price != low margin.
As a senior developer in a pretty well-known (to those who run in Drupal circles) Drupal shop, this book is relevant to my interests. After developing in Drupal for a while and releasing contrib modules, I think the next step in my Drupal learning curve is core architecture and understanding why choices were made -- "why go for role-based permissions rather than an abstracted administrative layer?" and so forth.
I'd use this book not so much to start Yet Another PHP CMS (tm), put to perhaps acquire a deeper understanding of the involved bits. That, in turn, leads to core patching, and then to development for HEAD.
Not thinking things through is, imo, one of the top time-wasters in any project -- php or otherwise -- and this book seems as if it'd help in that regard.
Congratulations, you've proven nothing. While you're surfing Wikipedia, may I suggest the section on soundness?
Hi, my name is Hyperbole, I don't think we've met. . .
Your argument is based upon the premise that a unit of currency has the same purchasing power in the US as it does in Mexico. This is incorrect. There are a ton of numbers that can be run to make a comprehensive argument here, but let me take just one metric to start: daily wages.
In the US, the median hourly wage for workers with 1-4 years experience in their field is $13.75. Assuming an 8 hour day, that's $110/day pre-tax. The same metric in Mexico is MX$209 per day, or about $20 USD. Think on that.
Sort of. . . I think it's disingenous to say that you deserve to be ganked if you roll on a PvP realm. What if you like world PvP if you have a fair chance? You shouldn't be forced to roll PvE just because you don't want to be camped by 3 70s in Hillsbrad. WoW needs a global reputation system similar to Fable's. Do dishonorable stuff, and NPCs dislike you more and more. Vendors charge more. Repairs cost more. Etc. How much ganking would you do if your repair bill went up 10% every 10 lowbies you ganked? The system is broken, and Blizz doesn't care.
Will it be capable of, correcting grammar?
Parent knows about online-boyfriend, parent (gently) demands IRL meeting.
done and done.