The name is fine as is, and as one person suggests, the pufferization of jobs recently is ridiculous.
But what I've always found interesting is that I do work that's equivalent in many ways to an automechanic, plumber or other such craftsman. But they seem to get more respect than I do, probably because people can't live without them. From what I can tell they probably make more than me to. But the odd thing is that no one seems to think of computers as being as important as their cars or plumbing. How many people get disrespectful toward their auto mechanics or plumbers? At least where I live you hang onto them for dear life, once you've found a competent one. But how often does a Sysadmin get treated that way? I'm not treated badly mind you, and I'd have to say that I get treated better year by year. But I'm still a little puzzled that people don't consider us more important.
Of course part of it may be that cars and plumbing are personally important to people. Critical use of computers is still mainly in the workplace and most people somehow manage to not get as completely attached to their jobs as they do to their personal lives.
Some very good questions I think. And maybe the last is the most important? Are we asking these questions too late?
I'd say as a corollary: Will we always ask the questions too late? In other words do people just build things because of some creative need to and then only afterwards, or at least when it's too late, ask whether they should have? All in all I think it's in human nature to just build things. Questions are only asked afterwards. That's sad in a way and leads to some truly horrible inventions but I don't think it will ever change.
On the other hand if people at least talk about ethics and technology in the same breath maybe there's some hope that people will ask questions on the way to whatever they create.
On the OTHER other hand, though, who could know that the Internet and all that helped build it could have such negative as well as positive effects? I'm afraid it's pretty difficult to guess what uses technology might be used for. And you can't just stop inventing out of fear that some idiot somewhere might put your invention to an evil use.
Well I can't even read this thing because at every page IE tells me that there's an error on page and wants to know if I want to debug. So I decide yes and can never find the missing paren that IE thinks is so disastrous.
Right you are. Moderators or really Moderation gets a 0 for this one. And I think for the reasons you say. It's really the content of the message not the style that's important. But for unappreciated films if you haven't seen it you really can't evaluate it. So we get these few high mods, none of which are particularly noteworthy.
On the other hand: there's certainly a wealth of interesting comments to read through. I guess it says something about how strongly people feel about films.
Six Minutes Before Switching Channels in my opinion. Stilted, pretentious nonsense was what I thought of it in the time I watched it before I just couldn't stand it anymore.
The Duel, Lone Star, Brewster McCloud are the first ones that spring to mind. Actually just about any John Sayles seems to be underappreciated, given how good they are.
Thanks for the term. I've always known to shy away from people who came up with 'bright ideas', for just the reasons you said. Now I know that they actually have a name, 'bright sparks'. Very good.
but I first subscribed to TPJ about 18 months before its sale to EarthWeb. That sale seemed to be the beginning of the end. I loved TPJ and found that I often learned more from it than I did using either web pages or books. But obviously I must have been in the great minority. I'm still wondering why.
It does make me wonder though if any print programming magazines are doing well these days?
In my experience it is not just the web designers who are at fault. I've emailed 2 very large companies about problems with their web sites. In both cases they said they were sorry but that was just the way it was, i.e. it was my problem not theirs. Web designers will continue to develop IE-centric pages and ignore non-IE untl their bosses tell them not to. I'm not seeing that happen.
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You can read pages and pages on the ill effects of this type of patenting in the most recent issues of SeedSaversExchange journals. This is like allowing MS to sue you if you accidnentally let any MS software on your non-MS pc ever. So no matter how pure/noble or whatever your intentions are you can get charged by MS for having that one little MS product on your pc. That's what has happened to farmers and the Supreme Court has just said fine.
Good morning Mr. Katz,
Have you missed the entire proceedings? This article states the problem very clearly: they used their OS monopoly to create a new browser monopoly. If they'd had to compete fairly things might be different now and perhaps Netscape wouldn't be as bad as it currently is. Who can really judge what effect Microsoft's bundling of browser with OS had on the competing brower? No one really. But it's very hard not to believe that Netscape wouldn't have developed a better browser if they were not battling a monopoly. And in losing an improved Netscape browser everyone loses. Many people just aren't paying enough attention to know what they've lost or how they've been harmed.
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That's a mighty big HOPEFULLY, considering John Ashcroft and the administrations privacy abuses so far.
The name is fine as is, and as one person suggests, the pufferization of jobs recently is ridiculous.
But what I've always found interesting is that I do work that's equivalent in many ways to an automechanic, plumber or other such craftsman. But they seem to get more respect than I do, probably because people can't live without them. From what I can tell they probably make more than me to. But the odd thing is that no one seems to think of computers as being as important as their cars or plumbing. How many people get disrespectful toward their auto mechanics or plumbers? At least where I live you hang onto them for dear life, once you've found a competent one. But how often does a Sysadmin get treated that way? I'm not treated badly mind you, and I'd have to say that I get treated better year by year. But I'm still a little puzzled that people don't consider us more important.
Of course part of it may be that cars and plumbing are personally important to people. Critical use of computers is still mainly in the workplace and most people somehow manage to not get as completely attached to their jobs as they do to their personal lives.
Some very good questions I think. And maybe the last is the most important? Are we asking these questions too late?
I'd say as a corollary: Will we always ask the questions too late? In other words do people just build things because of some creative need to and then only afterwards, or at least when it's too late, ask whether they should have? All in all I think it's in human nature to just build things. Questions are only asked afterwards. That's sad in a way and leads to some truly horrible inventions but I don't think it will ever change.
On the other hand if people at least talk about ethics and technology in the same breath maybe there's some hope that people will ask questions on the way to whatever they create.
On the OTHER other hand, though, who could know that the Internet and all that helped build it could have such negative as well as positive effects? I'm afraid it's pretty difficult to guess what uses technology might be used for. And you can't just stop inventing out of fear that some idiot somewhere might put your invention to an evil use.
Well I can't even read this thing because at every page IE tells me that there's an error on page and wants to know if I want to debug. So I decide yes and can never find the missing paren that IE thinks is so disastrous.
Right you are. Moderators or really Moderation gets a 0 for this one. And I think for the reasons you say. It's really the content of the message not the style that's important. But for unappreciated films if you haven't seen it you really can't evaluate it. So we get these few high mods, none of which are particularly noteworthy.
On the other hand: there's certainly a wealth of interesting comments to read through. I guess it says something about how strongly people feel about films.
Six Minutes Before Switching Channels in my opinion. Stilted, pretentious nonsense was what I thought of it in the time I watched it before I just couldn't stand it anymore.
You know I taped this on my first watching many years ago and keep meaning to rewatch it. Maybe this will force the issue.
It probably is a good candidate for underappreciated film.
The Duel, Lone Star, Brewster McCloud are the first ones that spring to mind. Actually just about any John Sayles seems to be underappreciated, given how good they are.
Thanks for the term. I've always known to shy away from people who came up with 'bright ideas', for just the reasons you said. Now I know that they actually have a name, 'bright sparks'. Very good.
but I first subscribed to TPJ about 18 months before its sale to EarthWeb. That sale seemed to be the beginning of the end. I loved TPJ and found that I often learned more from it than I did using either web pages or books. But obviously I must have been in the great minority. I'm still wondering why.
It does make me wonder though if any print programming magazines are doing well these days?
how in the hell did this idiocy get rated 4?
In my experience it is not just the web designers who are at fault. I've emailed 2 very large companies about problems with their web sites. In both cases they said they were sorry but that was just the way it was, i.e. it was my problem not theirs. Web designers will continue to develop IE-centric pages and ignore non-IE untl their bosses tell them not to. I'm not seeing that happen.
You can read pages and pages on the ill effects of this type of patenting in the most recent issues of SeedSaversExchange journals. This is like allowing MS to sue you if you accidnentally let any MS software on your non-MS pc ever. So no matter how pure/noble or whatever your intentions are you can get charged by MS for having that one little MS product on your pc. That's what has happened to farmers and the Supreme Court has just said fine.
Good morning Mr. Katz, Have you missed the entire proceedings? This article states the problem very clearly: they used their OS monopoly to create a new browser monopoly. If they'd had to compete fairly things might be different now and perhaps Netscape wouldn't be as bad as it currently is. Who can really judge what effect Microsoft's bundling of browser with OS had on the competing brower? No one really. But it's very hard not to believe that Netscape wouldn't have developed a better browser if they were not battling a monopoly. And in losing an improved Netscape browser everyone loses. Many people just aren't paying enough attention to know what they've lost or how they've been harmed.