because when she dies, what then?
or what about when she retires? her pension (if she has one) cant cover both of them
sooner or later, unless you inherent a fuckton of money, you need to work and live in the "real world". and, barring the fact that you might want to work at mcdonalds and live a shitty life playing EQ for the rest of it, or until the servers go down, you need to start early in the real world.
I agree that the masters is for people who just want to "know" more, and it's not for marketability.
But what about those (like me), who have their CS degree, and still think education was a waste of time? A big waste. I like computers, but i don't give a shit about a lot of what they taught me. Do i want to make money off them? Of course, they're my job and my hobby. But a lot of what they taught was irrelevant or not interesting, and certainly not practical. There's interest, and then there's stupidity, where it just goes TOO far.
It seems i was wrong, a C# search does work. Looks like google hardcoded it to work for specificaly C#, as if you try K#, or im sure very many other variations, it doesn't work.
Maybe this is the problem with current submit story method/. has. A lot of people want their story to appear, and the best way to do that (to compete with the most likely hundreds of dupes) is to make yours sound more "sensational". As such, the editors pick that one as it sounds like it would make a story better.
I'm like most/. users, i've used linux flavours, etc etc..
Right now my primary desktop machine is WindowsXP, and my laptop is an iBookG4. Definitely more productive on OSX, without a doubt. Task switching is faster (Expose), and everything is fast, efficient, and a drag away. There's no question about it. I've used windows all my life and OSX less than 6 months, and I'm more productive in it. Impressive to say the least.
Are different. I've seen it through all my friends, and most people who are +/- 5 years of my age (22). The fact is, we love learning. But we love learning about different things, things we like, stupid things.. Sometimes I sit around and read about something stupid (N. Korea one day) for a solid 8 hours for no reason at all. University's environment, and i hear this over and over, is just stifling to creativity. You have to do what they say, you have to do a crapload of work in a very specific area (your major), and you just don't have time to sit in a library or on the internet and learn about random things.
So why do we rush through uni just for a degree? To get a decent paying job that gives us enough free time to do what we want. That's why university sucks, that's why we hate it but need it, that's why everyone bad mouths it. I realize i made some generalizations, so forgive me, i'm just going by what i've seen.
They'd never try to completely tear down pirated copies of XP. Think about it, if they FORCE users to buy the OS and completely stop pirating, then the kids (yes, usually it's the kids in the house who are the sysadmin) will not buy it, and move the computer to Linux or something else. The fact is, piracy is the reason MS has such a great userbase. Plus, what you use at home, business will be forced to use in the workplace. Stopping piracy would be the end of microsoft's OS monopoly.
To give a very interesting example, I "heard from a friend" that certain new dev platforms were released by some MS employees under direction of their manager on BT and kazaa to increase usage and promote it.
Likewise, the kind of "loser" who has better things to do with their time than sift through P2P networks trying to weed out the quality from the crap, or searching and re-searching to find a complete album;
Erm, not to troll or anything, but i don't know if you visit some of the bigger bittorrent sites. They usually have full albums for a lot of artists, and if you look just a little harder (ie. google) you can often find the more obscure ones. Failing that, there's always Limewire which is pretty damn good. Honestly, getting a free full album in good quality isn't hard at all now, especially with BT.
A lot of people kill other people. A lot of people drink while driving. A lot of people drive twenty miles over the speed limit. A lot of people rape other people. A lot of people shoplift batteries. Should we ignore the laws because a lot of other people do?
Ya, except those who do aren't the majority. If the majority of people drove drunk, we'd have a series road problem out there. He said the majority, not specific instances of dumbass.
The law is not there to uphold the beliefs of society. It is there to maintain order.
Order according to whom might i ask? The current ruling political body? If it is, i thought this was a democracy in which the political body represents us. If this is the case, by induction society's rule is that which should be represented. No, perhaps you meant religious? Which religion? And i thought church and state were supposed to be separated, so that makes no sense. So i don't see who's "order" we're supposed to maintain. Obviously if you go against the majority of societies opinion, there wont be order because people will eventually revolt.
Hey, fuck you. I pay a monthly fee for shit i don't even own? Oh, i stopped paying them monthly, now where's all that music i payed for?
Must companies and the RIAA can suck my dick. Everyone is trying to make a buck, including the artists, but the artist is the only one who actually fucking did something. If the artist puts it on the net and charges me a few cents to buy the mp3, and they're getting the profit, i have no problem in doing it.
But for now, ill build my music collection freely thank you very much.
Just as a side note, you seem like someone supporting the patriot act. Please, do us all a favour and just stay in the U.S. Fucker.
does this. He owns easily over a few thousand miss-spells, and offers services to buy up expired domains. There's really 2 tricks to this service. The first is to have a program to find domains that expire, and find them the day of expiry so you can pick them up before others trying to do the same. Of course, some domains will do better (ie. miss-spell of slashdot) than others (ie. miss-spell of some joe-blow site). The second is to target the material on it to the types of visitors it would get. Of course, with the new domain ad pages from google, it makes this really easy. This is a huge business, honestly, you have no idea how many people, when they get to the wrong page, go through and click on an advertisement.
So how well does this do? He makes 6 figures canadian a year on it, and that's not including business derived from his own programs to find expired domains. Furthermore, he's my age (22) and still in university. How can you argue with something that brings that type of money for doing so little work?
Not really. To be honest i chortled quite a lot during the brief minute i read the first line of your post. Good work at re-inforcing my current take on linux users. I never thought the use of the '$' was cute, and i still think anybody who uses it, does very much like you, feel the need to use "grandiose" words and little allusions to try and justify themselves.
So let's make this clear for you. You're a fuck twat, linux isn't #1, or anywhere close on the desktop, and nobody gives a shit what you have to say. Or perhaps i'll phrase it like this: your death will have no impact, on anyone, and your life is just as useless.
Something similar to this happened in Canada, namely involving U.S. DirecTV. (Un)fortunately, DTV signals get to canada just as well as the rest of the united states, and furthermore, you can get pirated DTV boxes and cards to decrypt the network and watch it for free. For a long time it was a "grey" area due to one very similar reason: You can't buy directTV here. If you can't buy it, you're not stealing it. As such, there has been rulings about it, and Bell argued that they offer a service similar to DTV and thus this is unfair loss of profits (Bell's potential profits).
Anyways, to sum it up, the court ruled in favour of the citizens, as you can't buy DTV here so they should offer it before complaining.
Now, that's Canada's courts, i'm not sure how America's operates, but i have a feeling it's borderline shitty.
While I agree with your post not being a "pure troll", the following bothers me:
My post is based on ten years worth of waiting on Netscape updates. I remember being excited by 2.0. Those were the days. This is just candy for hyperactive neo-nerds of the new century. Fuck 'em. Call me at the major release dates and don't give me a shitty product, ok?
This is so common in "group" settings. I like star wars, nobody else can possibly like it as much as me. I'm a geek, nobody else can be as much of a geek as me, and if they are they're doing it wrong. They like macs, no true geek likes apple.
What, you labelled them as a hyperactive neo-nerd to separate them from you? They're from the "new century" and thus young, naive, and surely not a true geek such as yourself?
Stop being an egotistical prick. You're a geek, I'm a geek, most people who read this site are geeks. Some people enjoy rolling in the minor updates to an open source browser that is winning, although I'm not one of them. In fact, I don't even like open source all that much, and I certainly dislike linux. What does it matter? We're all here for tech news, whether we're new to the nerd culture or old, whether we used fortran, know algol 60 or have only started with.NET.
But who cares. Honestly. Times change, people change, cliques change.
How is this useful?
The pictures are still loading off the/.'d server (read: not loading), and since the pictures make this story, this link is useless.
I hate how people think google cache is useful regardless of the content it's caching.
Good work RIAA. Keep pissing off and targeting the students today. All your doing is devising your demise in the future.
The university students today will be in the work force in the next few years, and then the main force of the work world not long after, as the baby boomers are getting all to be seniors.
So good work. Keep pissing us off. Keep targeting us. Your end will be tragic, except you can go fuck yourselves because nobody will care.
Slashdot Mirror
because when she dies, what then?
or what about when she retires? her pension (if she has one) cant cover both of them
sooner or later, unless you inherent a fuckton of money, you need to work and live in the "real world". and, barring the fact that you might want to work at mcdonalds and live a shitty life playing EQ for the rest of it, or until the servers go down, you need to start early in the real world.
I agree that the masters is for people who just want to "know" more, and it's not for marketability.
But what about those (like me), who have their CS degree, and still think education was a waste of time? A big waste. I like computers, but i don't give a shit about a lot of what they taught me. Do i want to make money off them? Of course, they're my job and my hobby. But a lot of what they taught was irrelevant or not interesting, and certainly not practical. There's interest, and then there's stupidity, where it just goes TOO far.
Hm, not to respond to myself, but..
It seems i was wrong, a C# search does work. Looks like google hardcoded it to work for specificaly C#, as if you try K#, or im sure very many other variations, it doesn't work.
I think you missed the point.
Google won't search for a # sign (among other symbols), so when you search for "C#", all it searches for is "C".
It's a bash quote in case you didn't already know.
Maybe this is the problem with current submit story method /. has. A lot of people want their story to appear, and the best way to do that (to compete with the most likely hundreds of dupes) is to make yours sound more "sensational". As such, the editors pick that one as it sounds like it would make a story better.
I'm like most /. users, i've used linux flavours, etc etc..
Right now my primary desktop machine is WindowsXP, and my laptop is an iBookG4. Definitely more productive on OSX, without a doubt. Task switching is faster (Expose), and everything is fast, efficient, and a drag away. There's no question about it. I've used windows all my life and OSX less than 6 months, and I'm more productive in it. Impressive to say the least.
Our attention spans are longer than the average person.
speak for yourse-COOKIES!
Are different. I've seen it through all my friends, and most people who are +/- 5 years of my age (22). The fact is, we love learning. But we love learning about different things, things we like, stupid things.. Sometimes I sit around and read about something stupid (N. Korea one day) for a solid 8 hours for no reason at all. University's environment, and i hear this over and over, is just stifling to creativity. You have to do what they say, you have to do a crapload of work in a very specific area (your major), and you just don't have time to sit in a library or on the internet and learn about random things.
So why do we rush through uni just for a degree? To get a decent paying job that gives us enough free time to do what we want. That's why university sucks, that's why we hate it but need it, that's why everyone bad mouths it. I realize i made some generalizations, so forgive me, i'm just going by what i've seen.
They'd never try to completely tear down pirated copies of XP. Think about it, if they FORCE users to buy the OS and completely stop pirating, then the kids (yes, usually it's the kids in the house who are the sysadmin) will not buy it, and move the computer to Linux or something else. The fact is, piracy is the reason MS has such a great userbase. Plus, what you use at home, business will be forced to use in the workplace. Stopping piracy would be the end of microsoft's OS monopoly.
To give a very interesting example, I "heard from a friend" that certain new dev platforms were released by some MS employees under direction of their manager on BT and kazaa to increase usage and promote it.
Likewise, the kind of "loser" who has better things to do with their time than sift through P2P networks trying to weed out the quality from the crap, or searching and re-searching to find a complete album;
Erm, not to troll or anything, but i don't know if you visit some of the bigger bittorrent sites. They usually have full albums for a lot of artists, and if you look just a little harder (ie. google) you can often find the more obscure ones. Failing that, there's always Limewire which is pretty damn good. Honestly, getting a free full album in good quality isn't hard at all now, especially with BT.
A lot of people kill other people. A lot of people drink while driving. A lot of people drive twenty miles over the speed limit. A lot of people rape other people. A lot of people shoplift batteries. Should we ignore the laws because a lot of other people do?
Ya, except those who do aren't the majority. If the majority of people drove drunk, we'd have a series road problem out there. He said the majority, not specific instances of dumbass.
The law is not there to uphold the beliefs of society. It is there to maintain order.
Order according to whom might i ask? The current ruling political body? If it is, i thought this was a democracy in which the political body represents us. If this is the case, by induction society's rule is that which should be represented. No, perhaps you meant religious? Which religion? And i thought church and state were supposed to be separated, so that makes no sense. So i don't see who's "order" we're supposed to maintain. Obviously if you go against the majority of societies opinion, there wont be order because people will eventually revolt.
Hey, fuck you. I pay a monthly fee for shit i don't even own? Oh, i stopped paying them monthly, now where's all that music i payed for?
Must companies and the RIAA can suck my dick. Everyone is trying to make a buck, including the artists, but the artist is the only one who actually fucking did something. If the artist puts it on the net and charges me a few cents to buy the mp3, and they're getting the profit, i have no problem in doing it.
But for now, ill build my music collection freely thank you very much.
Just as a side note, you seem like someone supporting the patriot act. Please, do us all a favour and just stay in the U.S. Fucker.
does this. He owns easily over a few thousand miss-spells, and offers services to buy up expired domains. There's really 2 tricks to this service.
The first is to have a program to find domains that expire, and find them the day of expiry so you can pick them up before others trying to do the same. Of course, some domains will do better (ie. miss-spell of slashdot) than others (ie. miss-spell of some joe-blow site).
The second is to target the material on it to the types of visitors it would get. Of course, with the new domain ad pages from google, it makes this really easy. This is a huge business, honestly, you have no idea how many people, when they get to the wrong page, go through and click on an advertisement.
So how well does this do? He makes 6 figures canadian a year on it, and that's not including business derived from his own programs to find expired domains. Furthermore, he's my age (22) and still in university. How can you argue with something that brings that type of money for doing so little work?
I guess I should just off myself, then.
Excellent
Not really. To be honest i chortled quite a lot during the brief minute i read the first line of your post. Good work at re-inforcing my current take on linux users. I never thought the use of the '$' was cute, and i still think anybody who uses it, does very much like you, feel the need to use "grandiose" words and little allusions to try and justify themselves.
So let's make this clear for you. You're a fuck twat, linux isn't #1, or anywhere close on the desktop, and nobody gives a shit what you have to say. Or perhaps i'll phrase it like this: your death will have no impact, on anyone, and your life is just as useless.
Micro$oft? Get a life fucker.
Something similar to this happened in Canada, namely involving U.S. DirecTV. (Un)fortunately, DTV signals get to canada just as well as the rest of the united states, and furthermore, you can get pirated DTV boxes and cards to decrypt the network and watch it for free. For a long time it was a "grey" area due to one very similar reason: You can't buy directTV here. If you can't buy it, you're not stealing it. As such, there has been rulings about it, and Bell argued that they offer a service similar to DTV and thus this is unfair loss of profits (Bell's potential profits).
Anyways, to sum it up, the court ruled in favour of the citizens, as you can't buy DTV here so they should offer it before complaining.
Now, that's Canada's courts, i'm not sure how America's operates, but i have a feeling it's borderline shitty.
Thanks, fark.
;)
While I agree with your post not being a "pure troll", the following bothers me:
.NET.
My post is based on ten years worth of waiting on Netscape updates. I remember being excited by 2.0. Those were the days. This is just candy for hyperactive neo-nerds of the new century. Fuck 'em. Call me at the major release dates and don't give me a shitty product, ok?
This is so common in "group" settings. I like star wars, nobody else can possibly like it as much as me. I'm a geek, nobody else can be as much of a geek as me, and if they are they're doing it wrong. They like macs, no true geek likes apple.
What, you labelled them as a hyperactive neo-nerd to separate them from you? They're from the "new century" and thus young, naive, and surely not a true geek such as yourself?
Stop being an egotistical prick. You're a geek, I'm a geek, most people who read this site are geeks. Some people enjoy rolling in the minor updates to an open source browser that is winning, although I'm not one of them. In fact, I don't even like open source all that much, and I certainly dislike linux. What does it matter? We're all here for tech news, whether we're new to the nerd culture or old, whether we used fortran, know algol 60 or have only started with
But who cares. Honestly. Times change, people change, cliques change.
How is this useful? /.'d server (read: not loading), and since the pictures make this story, this link is useless.
The pictures are still loading off the
I hate how people think google cache is useful regardless of the content it's caching.
I'm running Firefox 1.0, and I also could not reproduce it.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
Yea i found quite a few drunken comments. Unfortunately it was all in code i've written. Nice tip.
Good work RIAA. Keep pissing off and targeting the students today. All your doing is devising your demise in the future.
The university students today will be in the work force in the next few years, and then the main force of the work world not long after, as the baby boomers are getting all to be seniors.
So good work. Keep pissing us off. Keep targeting us. Your end will be tragic, except you can go fuck yourselves because nobody will care.