That's America... people won't spend any tax money to help out with education that they won't directly benefit from.
But when those people who weren't properly taught by the badly-funded schools and libraries are robbing stores, making meth, and doing other such things, suddenly they're willing to spend MORE in taxes to keep them in jail.
All I can guess is that since more profit is made off of the pound of cure, nobody wants the ounce of prevention.
I found a simple test. Go to Chicago, IL, and scroll over to the airport. Since it doesn't show 3.2 ^ (10^23) taxis sitting at the airport, surely it can't be real. There are approximately as many taxis waiting outside as there are people disembarking from planes.
Being an ass just after I got done saying "I don't usually see people being asses to me" doesn't qualify as a joke.
I understood what was being attempted... and it failed miserably.
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In action games, I get just as much crap as everyone else does - but it's the kind of crap that idiots toss out against other people in general. I don't really get specific crap at me because I'm a girl except rarely. My gamertag on Xbox Live is the same as the name I used back in my Quake days, and it plainly says "girl" in the name - so it's not like they don't know, either.
Non-action games - such as Diablo II, MMORPGs, etc - those there is a clear bias toward treating females better. That's because most of the guys want to be "friends" with the girl and thus they give them gifts and such. Too bad most of them don't know how to properly be friendly.
I don't know which is worse... the fact that some idiot posted this, or that someone moderated it up...
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I actually haven't run into that a whole lot. I spent a lot of time playing Q2CTF on a few servers, and received very little harassment during the overall time I was there. The occasional person would come by and say a couple things, but overall people were friendly to me without being overly so. It was a very enjoyable experience.
I've had a little bit of it over Xbox Live Halo 2, but it's been usually the exception. The only thing I've really had to deal with is random people friending me after a game - I'm just used to declining them.
Most of the obnoxiousness I've seen has not been directed at me personally, but just teenage boys in general trying to pretend they're something incredibly cool or such. And those people are obnoxious to EVERYONE. It's unbelievable how much feedback I leave about people being lewd, obnoxious, or threatening - and I don't do it without good reason.
"Microsoft will be the first console manufacturer to ship wireless pads as standard with its hardware, but not the first to ship an official wireless controller; Nintendo has already enjoyed significant success with the WaveBird, its wireless pad for the GameCube."
Aah, so Nintendo was the first to have official wireless controllers?
Agreed. Evolution as it's theorized has happened on Earth has mainly been pushed by inter-species interaction. Parasites, competition for scarce resources, predator/prey relationships, etc.
I think a much greater complexity could come out of increased opportunities for interaction between separate digital organisms. The ability for an organism to live off of other living/dead programs I'd think would greatly boost variety.
I've had a passing interest in A-Life, and have contemplated putting together something similar, but with a different environment for the programs to live in. My thoughts (just thoughts for now, not even explored from a practical sense) were along the lines of treating them as 'physical' objects in a 'physical' world - self-contained digital organisms that would have to move to find food, would be able to interact with their environment and other organisms, have a body consisting of 'memory cells', where greater numbers of cells allow larger programs to be held or give them more 'workspace', but require more energy, and so on.
I really need to sit down some day and look over existing projects closely to see what they've done, and start putting down some of my ideas into more concrete form and analyzing what's needed to do it and if it's practical.
If nothing else, add a fancy GUI and allow it to run as an interesting toy.
the computer you're using, the chair in which you sit, the glass from which you drink all had an intelligent designer. What makes the planet and the universe different?
We know the chair, the glass, the computer, all of them had to be designed - because they are so different from what appears naturally in the world.
The planet, the universe - we don't have things to compare them to. Where's the known "non-designed" universe to compare ours to, to demonstrate the differences?
The problem is that we're missing a frame of reference to differentiate designed and non-designed.
Besides, there's also the fact that by arguing that complexity means a designer is necessary, it's implying that the designer is more complex, and thus has a stronger requirement for itself to have a designer, and thus into infinite regress.
I didn't work a 40 hour week at Mot for years before I left. I couldn't get exicted about my job, the product I was working on, or the people I worked with. Heck, there were times I was certain that if I died in my cube, nobody would notice until the smell started bothering others. The managment and bureaucracy and process strangled the life out of things.
I spent about 6 months on loan to a testing team there not long before I left, and loved it. I was putting in the time, liked showing up to work, and had fun with working on the testing tools. When the time came to go back to where I was, I tried talking to management about staying there, because of how I felt - a happy, excited employee is going to do more and better work. They never even tried to arrange it, and told me no.
That's why I happily raced out that door when the opportunity came by to move to Seattle and work for MS.
Motorola still very much has a hardware engineering attitude going on. Too bad it's not working well with all the software they need to create nowadays.
You see, I can prove who I am, I can prove all of the above.
You, on the other hand, can't even bother to post from an account. You're an anonymous coward.
And yes, there are a significant number of MS techies who read Slashdot regularly, because of the whole "News for Nerds" thing. We just don't buy into the whole "MS is evil and only produces horrible products" line.
I spent 6+ years fighting 290, 294, 90, 88 and all that back in Chicago. They're nothing, and since I'm not living in the city yet, I don't deal with them that often.
Of course, when I do move into the city, my opinion might change a bit. But I never got annoyed with traffic the way I did back in the endless Chicago sprawl.
Some of us use GMail. Some people run Linux - last I knew, there was even a Linux user's group within the company. There are plenty of people running WinAMP instead of WMP, or Firefox/Mozilla instead of IE.
It's not a monolithic company, and we all have our opinions and preferences. But we do pass on suggestions for other products that we don't work on, we do listen to comments from other teams, and everyone makes a point of using the product you work on - after all, if it sucks, the best way to know is to deal with it yourself, cause then you'll fix it.
And whatever I use that's not MS software, I'll gladly switch the day it addresses the reasons I don't use it.
The variety and seasons are just wonderful. Back in Chicago, there were two seasons - Winter and Summer. It would be bitter cold, then it seemed like no time and it was horribly hot. I spent more time outside in the last year here then I did in 6 years in Chicago, because the weather allows me to do it without freezing/dying of heat stroke.
It's all relative. 29 years in the midwest, and Seattle is paradise.
No kidding. The parent was so insulting that I didn't even feel like it was worth my time to dignify it with a response. Claiming that somehow working for people who are all about breaking the law, intimidating, stealing, and mudering is somehow less despicible than working for Microsoft?
When I was with Mot, I worked on the iDEN phone system - the one run by Nextel. I learned while working there that a metal that's pretty much needed for all cell phones is primarily mined in Africa, and all of those mines routinely poach endangered species for food for the miners. So I was working for a company that was indirectly sponsoring the slaughter of endangered animals.
And yes, there is plenty of reason to be happy about working at MS. The work environment is great - I know bat at Mot I didn't get to have my own deckedoutoffice, or be able to do funky things with my appearance without having to worry about it affecting my job.
I can guarantee that most of the Slashdotters who hate MS so much would really enjoy working here. Though many would never even consider it.
[don't feel like arguing about the main point right now... perhaps later if I have time]
And the winters here *DO* suck.
I grew up in the midwest. I've had plenty of days where I had to wear a heavy coat, gloves, earmuffs, and a scarf just to walk through the parking lot into work. I've woken up to 6+ inches of snow of the ground, still coming down, and having to go into work while sliding around on the road.
The rain and less sunlight, while not pleasant, I find much more tolerable. Besides, a gray rainy January day in Seattle is more beautiful than a sunny clear January day in Chicago, cause there's still hills, green, water, mountains, instead of the endless concrete flatness in every direction.
Suck is relative. It can't suck that bad, since I moved here with the intention to never leave.
Five years ago it was a source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire -- now, who cares? It's just Motorola with wetter winters.
Umm... no. Definitely not.
As I went from the latter to the former, I can tell you there's a lot of difference. Motorola is bogged down, lacking excitement in teams that should be excited. The place was being "SEI/CMM Level 5"'ed and "Six Sigma"'ed to death. The personality of the employees and teams was as interesting as the endless rows of slate gray cubicles. And it was horrid to take an internal class on Perl, and see experienced software developers that couldn't finish a simple basic program in 20 minutes that I had finished before the instructor was done explaining.
At Microsoft, I'm excited about my job and the product I'm working on in ways I never was before. I'm more impressed by both the knowledge and passion of the people here than I ever was at Motorola. It's nothing like anything I saw in my 6 1/2 years at Motorola.
I don't mean to sound like a MS cheerleader here, I just want to make it clear that this is definitely not a valid comparison to anyone who has spent any significant time inside the two companies.
Oh, and the winter here is a hell of a lot better, even if it wetter. And the summers... wow.
Don't you realize you've said two things that will get you lynched by the Slashdot crowd? First, you point out that the vunerability isn't in MS code. Second, you mention that they're using an open source library!
You're probably marked for death now by the Slashdot enforcers. Hope you had fun living.
Because the "militant following" carries with it an image that is unnecessary and even downright silly when done on the mainstream product.
Many people who use Macs and Linux are proud of not going with the mainstream. Their "militant"-ness is a way of saying "I'm too (cool/smart/knowledgable/hip) to use what everyone else is using, and look at me using it". They're proud of their alternative choice, primarily due to it's alternativeness.
You can't really have that attitude when going with the most popular product.
The more obscure something is, the more militant advocates/users/followers of that thing get.
Mash-ups seem to be the new big thing in music (The Beatles vs. Jay-Z, Linkin Park vs. Jay-Z, Conway Twitty vs. The Sex Pistols (j/k)), why not take it to video games?
GTA vs. SimCity - city building determines the locations and type of missions, successfully becoming a bigger crime lord brings down property values and drives out sims.
Halo vs. Master of Orion - fight out those inter-empire battles in the first person
Quake vs. Home Architect 3D - design a nice home... and have a huge fragfest in it and destroy the place.
Slashdot Mirror
To hell with that...
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Be part of a group that contains a female slashdotter. Can this "UC IT Colony" compete with that allure?
That's America... people won't spend any tax money to help out with education that they won't directly benefit from.
But when those people who weren't properly taught by the badly-funded schools and libraries are robbing stores, making meth, and doing other such things, suddenly they're willing to spend MORE in taxes to keep them in jail.
All I can guess is that since more profit is made off of the pound of cure, nobody wants the ounce of prevention.
And also the only one that's actually been funny.
I found a simple test. Go to Chicago, IL, and scroll over to the airport. Since it doesn't show 3.2 ^ (10^23) taxis sitting at the airport, surely it can't be real. There are approximately as many taxis waiting outside as there are people disembarking from planes.
Being an ass just after I got done saying "I don't usually see people being asses to me" doesn't qualify as a joke.
I understood what was being attempted... and it failed miserably.
In action games, I get just as much crap as everyone else does - but it's the kind of crap that idiots toss out against other people in general. I don't really get specific crap at me because I'm a girl except rarely. My gamertag on Xbox Live is the same as the name I used back in my Quake days, and it plainly says "girl" in the name - so it's not like they don't know, either.
Non-action games - such as Diablo II, MMORPGs, etc - those there is a clear bias toward treating females better. That's because most of the guys want to be "friends" with the girl and thus they give them gifts and such. Too bad most of them don't know how to properly be friendly.
I don't know which is worse... the fact that some idiot posted this, or that someone moderated it up...
I actually haven't run into that a whole lot. I spent a lot of time playing Q2CTF on a few servers, and received very little harassment during the overall time I was there. The occasional person would come by and say a couple things, but overall people were friendly to me without being overly so. It was a very enjoyable experience.
I've had a little bit of it over Xbox Live Halo 2, but it's been usually the exception. The only thing I've really had to deal with is random people friending me after a game - I'm just used to declining them.
Most of the obnoxiousness I've seen has not been directed at me personally, but just teenage boys in general trying to pretend they're something incredibly cool or such. And those people are obnoxious to EVERYONE. It's unbelievable how much feedback I leave about people being lewd, obnoxious, or threatening - and I don't do it without good reason.
That command only works in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
"Microsoft will be the first console manufacturer to ship wireless pads as standard with its hardware, but not the first to ship an official wireless controller; Nintendo has already enjoyed significant success with the WaveBird, its wireless pad for the GameCube."
Aah, so Nintendo was the first to have official wireless controllers?
How soon people forget. They were only beaten by, what, 2 DECADES?
Did the video game crash result in peoples' memories being wiped of everything that came before it?
Agreed. Evolution as it's theorized has happened on Earth has mainly been pushed by inter-species interaction. Parasites, competition for scarce resources, predator/prey relationships, etc.
I think a much greater complexity could come out of increased opportunities for interaction between separate digital organisms. The ability for an organism to live off of other living/dead programs I'd think would greatly boost variety.
I've had a passing interest in A-Life, and have contemplated putting together something similar, but with a different environment for the programs to live in. My thoughts (just thoughts for now, not even explored from a practical sense) were along the lines of treating them as 'physical' objects in a 'physical' world - self-contained digital organisms that would have to move to find food, would be able to interact with their environment and other organisms, have a body consisting of 'memory cells', where greater numbers of cells allow larger programs to be held or give them more 'workspace', but require more energy, and so on.
I really need to sit down some day and look over existing projects closely to see what they've done, and start putting down some of my ideas into more concrete form and analyzing what's needed to do it and if it's practical.
If nothing else, add a fancy GUI and allow it to run as an interesting toy.
the computer you're using, the chair in which you sit, the glass from which you drink all had an intelligent designer. What makes the planet and the universe different?
We know the chair, the glass, the computer, all of them had to be designed - because they are so different from what appears naturally in the world.
The planet, the universe - we don't have things to compare them to. Where's the known "non-designed" universe to compare ours to, to demonstrate the differences?
The problem is that we're missing a frame of reference to differentiate designed and non-designed.
Besides, there's also the fact that by arguing that complexity means a designer is necessary, it's implying that the designer is more complex, and thus has a stronger requirement for itself to have a designer, and thus into infinite regress.
I didn't work a 40 hour week at Mot for years before I left. I couldn't get exicted about my job, the product I was working on, or the people I worked with. Heck, there were times I was certain that if I died in my cube, nobody would notice until the smell started bothering others. The managment and bureaucracy and process strangled the life out of things.
I spent about 6 months on loan to a testing team there not long before I left, and loved it. I was putting in the time, liked showing up to work, and had fun with working on the testing tools. When the time came to go back to where I was, I tried talking to management about staying there, because of how I felt - a happy, excited employee is going to do more and better work. They never even tried to arrange it, and told me no.
That's why I happily raced out that door when the opportunity came by to move to Seattle and work for MS.
Motorola still very much has a hardware engineering attitude going on. Too bad it's not working well with all the software they need to create nowadays.
You see, I can prove who I am, I can prove all of the above.
You, on the other hand, can't even bother to post from an account. You're an anonymous coward.
And yes, there are a significant number of MS techies who read Slashdot regularly, because of the whole "News for Nerds" thing. We just don't buy into the whole "MS is evil and only produces horrible products" line.
I spent 6+ years fighting 290, 294, 90, 88 and all that back in Chicago. They're nothing, and since I'm not living in the city yet, I don't deal with them that often.
Of course, when I do move into the city, my opinion might change a bit. But I never got annoyed with traffic the way I did back in the endless Chicago sprawl.
Some of us use GMail. Some people run Linux - last I knew, there was even a Linux user's group within the company. There are plenty of people running WinAMP instead of WMP, or Firefox/Mozilla instead of IE.
It's not a monolithic company, and we all have our opinions and preferences. But we do pass on suggestions for other products that we don't work on, we do listen to comments from other teams, and everyone makes a point of using the product you work on - after all, if it sucks, the best way to know is to deal with it yourself, cause then you'll fix it.
And whatever I use that's not MS software, I'll gladly switch the day it addresses the reasons I don't use it.
The variety and seasons are just wonderful. Back in Chicago, there were two seasons - Winter and Summer. It would be bitter cold, then it seemed like no time and it was horribly hot. I spent more time outside in the last year here then I did in 6 years in Chicago, because the weather allows me to do it without freezing/dying of heat stroke.
It's all relative. 29 years in the midwest, and Seattle is paradise.
They don't do stock options any more. Just straight out stock awards.
And that's irrelevant. I barely even think about them.
No kidding. The parent was so insulting that I didn't even feel like it was worth my time to dignify it with a response. Claiming that somehow working for people who are all about breaking the law, intimidating, stealing, and mudering is somehow less despicible than working for Microsoft?
When I was with Mot, I worked on the iDEN phone system - the one run by Nextel. I learned while working there that a metal that's pretty much needed for all cell phones is primarily mined in Africa, and all of those mines routinely poach endangered species for food for the miners. So I was working for a company that was indirectly sponsoring the slaughter of endangered animals.
And yes, there is plenty of reason to be happy about working at MS. The work environment is great - I know bat at Mot I didn't get to have my own decked out office,
or be able to do funky things with my appearance without having to worry about it affecting my job.
I can guarantee that most of the Slashdotters who hate MS so much would really enjoy working here. Though many would never even consider it.
Sir?
:)
Sir?
Did you even look at my email addy?
[don't feel like arguing about the main point right now... perhaps later if I have time]
And the winters here *DO* suck.
I grew up in the midwest. I've had plenty of days where I had to wear a heavy coat, gloves, earmuffs, and a scarf just to walk through the parking lot into work. I've woken up to 6+ inches of snow of the ground, still coming down, and having to go into work while sliding around on the road.
The rain and less sunlight, while not pleasant, I find much more tolerable. Besides, a gray rainy January day in Seattle is more beautiful than a sunny clear January day in Chicago, cause there's still hills, green, water, mountains, instead of the endless concrete flatness in every direction.
Suck is relative. It can't suck that bad, since I moved here with the intention to never leave.
Five years ago it was a source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire -- now, who cares? It's just Motorola with wetter winters.
Umm... no. Definitely not.
As I went from the latter to the former, I can tell you there's a lot of difference. Motorola is bogged down, lacking excitement in teams that should be excited. The place was being "SEI/CMM Level 5"'ed and "Six Sigma"'ed to death. The personality of the employees and teams was as interesting as the endless rows of slate gray cubicles. And it was horrid to take an internal class on Perl, and see experienced software developers that couldn't finish a simple basic program in 20 minutes that I had finished before the instructor was done explaining.
At Microsoft, I'm excited about my job and the product I'm working on in ways I never was before. I'm more impressed by both the knowledge and passion of the people here than I ever was at Motorola. It's nothing like anything I saw in my 6 1/2 years at Motorola.
I don't mean to sound like a MS cheerleader here, I just want to make it clear that this is definitely not a valid comparison to anyone who has spent any significant time inside the two companies.
Oh, and the winter here is a hell of a lot better, even if it wetter. And the summers... wow.
Shhh... quiet!
Don't you realize you've said two things that will get you lynched by the Slashdot crowd? First, you point out that the vunerability isn't in MS code. Second, you mention that they're using an open source library!
You're probably marked for death now by the Slashdot enforcers. Hope you had fun living.
Because the "militant following" carries with it an image that is unnecessary and even downright silly when done on the mainstream product.
Many people who use Macs and Linux are proud of not going with the mainstream. Their "militant"-ness is a way of saying "I'm too (cool/smart/knowledgable/hip) to use what everyone else is using, and look at me using it". They're proud of their alternative choice, primarily due to it's alternativeness.
You can't really have that attitude when going with the most popular product.
The more obscure something is, the more militant advocates/users/followers of that thing get.
Mash-ups seem to be the new big thing in music (The Beatles vs. Jay-Z, Linkin Park vs. Jay-Z, Conway Twitty vs. The Sex Pistols (j/k)), why not take it to video games?
GTA vs. SimCity - city building determines the locations and type of missions, successfully becoming a bigger crime lord brings down property values and drives out sims.
Halo vs. Master of Orion - fight out those inter-empire battles in the first person
Quake vs. Home Architect 3D - design a nice home... and have a huge fragfest in it and destroy the place.
Why not? Could be interesting.