I have been both a temp and a full time employee at Micro$oft, so I've seen both sides. The employee benefits were MUCH better, let me tell you!
I worked at their tech support center in Las Colinas, TX. One day, after support calls had fallen off for a month, they fired all of the temps. All of them. Without warning. We called it "the Great Purge." I'd already been hired on as a perm by that time, so I wasn't affected, but my roommate was still a temp. It wasn't very pleasant.
I can see why Micro$oft temps could build up a little angst, in other words...
My first act as President will be to imprison myself.
I have possessed cocaine on several occasions, too many times to count.
Additionally, I have been guilty of drunk driving on several occasions, again too many times to count.
I have heretofore concealed these facts from the American people. That information was "need to know" and the American people just didn't need to know...
The first act was The Last Days of Politics where he performed his exposition, telling us things were in transition and times would be a'chaingin'.
The second act is usually more depressed as our hero (democracy) goes through the wringer at the hands of the villian (corps). It consisted of Should You Voce? and Messages From Democracy's Ghosts.
Finally we have the third act where we discover if this little play is a tragedy or if there's any hope whatsoever. Will our hero triumph? Read Cyberdemocracy And The Public Sphere and find out!
Being a free-thinking individual doesn't mean taking a single position -- like the belief that voting is a moral imperative -- and always adhering to it.
I guess you're not a free thinker, then. You seem to be adhering to the single position that you should never be tied down to any single position...
At least until we get some pretty damm bug free auto-flight/landing/takeoff code, and you know how little bug free code is out there... (NASA comes pretty damm close on the shuttle code, but it is very expensave and slow code to have written, and doesn't to as much real-time machine vision and control system work as this would...)
That's a straw man argument. You set too high a standard. What about the autopilot code that runs commercial jet liners? Millions of lives depend on it daily. Seems to work fine.
So many posters on this bord are naysayers. While you're all out there running around yelling "it can't be done" at the top of your lungs, someone's out there doing it. Why not focus your energy on doing something productive?
Nobody with a pilot's license believes any of these "everyone will be flying a personal craft in the next 10 years" stories. We never have and we never will...
Yeah. I guess those guys at Nasa's Ames research center don't know what they're talking about. I'll bet none of them even has a pilot's license, especially that former Navy fighter pilot who developed the thing.
My attitude is this: Fine, accept the repeal of estate taxes. You won't be around in a few generations when we're back to being completely ruled by a rich aristocracy. And I do mean "we." Have geeks ever been the ones in the aristocracy? No.
Just when we've started gaining a modicum of social power you all want to throw it away.
I realized in college that I was playing too much Tetris when, during lectures, I would play games in my head. I could see the pieces falling in front of my eyes...
When I have kids, this is what I'll do: I'll proxy all traffic from the house and log it. I'll tell my kids that I'm doing this, and that they can go to any site they want, but I'll know about it. Then I'll tell them that if they want the logging stopped they'll have to crack the proxy box...:-)
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Just like printers created a revolution in desktop publishing, this could revolutionize sculpture. Just think of the whacked out stuff you could make with this tech! All the insane 3d puzzles I've dreamed of will be brought to life...
I'll have to second that. I've had a great experience with SWBell. Connection speeds have been excellent. (I do live 1/4 mile from a CO, though.:-) ) I've had it for almost a year and there has only been one significant downtime. Also, it took a while to get ahold of someone to help with DNS, but once I did there were no problems.
By this logic any software that comes from "mucking about with" GPL'ed code isn't all that great, right? I mean, it's just giving back what they took in the first place...
Good point, but you miss a possibility: Chaos. Consider water dripping from a faucet. As the flow increases, the dripping changes from a regular rythym to a chaotic one. What has changed? Nothing except the rate of flow. Consider then the flow of information. Fundamentally, the nature of information flow has not changed, but the rate of that flow has. This rate increase could create chaotic effects that were not present before. So, you don't necessarily need a "fundamental material change" to alter the structure of society, or any dynamic system for that matter.
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I have been both a temp and a full time employee at Micro$oft, so I've seen both sides. The employee benefits were MUCH better, let me tell you!
I worked at their tech support center in Las Colinas, TX. One day, after support calls had fallen off for a month, they fired all of the temps. All of them. Without warning. We called it "the Great Purge." I'd already been hired on as a perm by that time, so I wasn't affected, but my roommate was still a temp. It wasn't very pleasant.
I can see why Micro$oft temps could build up a little angst, in other words...
Making a living summarizing /. posts for over a year now.
Uhh...he's a journalist. That's what they do...
Is there a site I can go to to find a computer recycler in my area?
1) War on Drugs
Bush's answer:
My first act as President will be to imprison myself.
I have possessed cocaine on several occasions, too many times to count.
Additionally, I have been guilty of drunk driving on several occasions, again too many times to count.
I have heretofore concealed these facts from the American people. That information was "need to know" and the American people just didn't need to know...
...because they're "tough on crime." See this Scientific American article.
This is genius.
Katz is just following dramatic form.
The first act was The Last Days of Politics where he performed his exposition, telling us things were in transition and times would be a'chaingin'.
The second act is usually more depressed as our hero (democracy) goes through the wringer at the hands of the villian (corps). It consisted of Should You Voce? and Messages From Democracy's Ghosts.
Finally we have the third act where we discover if this little play is a tragedy or if there's any hope whatsoever. Will our hero triumph? Read Cyberdemocracy And The Public Sphere and find out!
Yes. I spelled productive correctly.
:-P
Being a free-thinking individual doesn't mean taking a single position -- like the belief that voting is a moral imperative -- and always adhering to it.
I guess you're not a free thinker, then. You seem to be adhering to the single position that you should never be tied down to any single position...
You wouldn't happen to be from Crete, by chance?
At least until we get some pretty damm bug free auto-flight/landing/takeoff code, and you know how little bug free code is out there... (NASA comes pretty damm close on the shuttle code, but it is very expensave and slow code to have written, and doesn't to as much real-time machine vision and control system work as this would...)
That's a straw man argument. You set too high a standard. What about the autopilot code that runs commercial jet liners? Millions of lives depend on it daily. Seems to work fine.
So many posters on this bord are naysayers. While you're all out there running around yelling "it can't be done" at the top of your lungs, someone's out there doing it. Why not focus your energy on doing something productive?
Nobody with a pilot's license believes any of these "everyone will be flying a personal craft in the next 10 years" stories. We never have and we never will...
Yeah. I guess those guys at Nasa's Ames research center don't know what they're talking about. I'll bet none of them even has a pilot's license, especially that former Navy fighter pilot who developed the thing.
Wait a sec...
Sure it can be done.
SO WHAT? The richest 1% pay 1/3rd of the taxes? Big deal! They own 2/3rds of the capital! They can afford it...
...against Brin, but he's right.
My attitude is this: Fine, accept the repeal of estate taxes. You won't be around in a few generations when we're back to being completely ruled by a rich aristocracy. And I do mean "we." Have geeks ever been the ones in the aristocracy? No.
Just when we've started gaining a modicum of social power you all want to throw it away.
Ah... Maybe we can't handle it anyway.
Boxers or Briefs?
I realized in college that I was playing too much Tetris when, during lectures, I would play games in my head. I could see the pieces falling in front of my eyes...
But I still lost...
What's 5 x $0.00???
On a pentium? $7777.77
When I have kids, this is what I'll do: I'll proxy all traffic from the house and log it. I'll tell my kids that I'm doing this, and that they can go to any site they want, but I'll know about it. Then I'll tell them that if they want the logging stopped they'll have to crack the proxy box... :-)
Just like printers created a revolution in desktop publishing, this could revolutionize sculpture. Just think of the whacked out stuff you could make with this tech! All the insane 3d puzzles I've dreamed of will be brought to life...
...to self replicating machines...
Awww, shuddap! I've got a lower userid than you, you pissant...
I'll have to second that. I've had a great experience with SWBell. Connection speeds have been excellent. (I do live 1/4 mile from a CO, though. :-) ) I've had it for almost a year and there has only been one significant downtime. Also, it took a while to get ahold of someone to help with DNS, but once I did there were no problems.
Over all a great experience...
By this logic any software that comes from "mucking about with" GPL'ed code isn't all that great, right? I mean, it's just giving back what they took in the first place...
WHAT are you planning to do with the heat?
Touch the metal on your computer case.
Good...
Kinda cool to the touch, yes?
Good point, but you miss a possibility: Chaos. Consider water dripping from a faucet. As the flow increases, the dripping changes from a regular rythym to a chaotic one. What has changed? Nothing except the rate of flow. Consider then the flow of information. Fundamentally, the nature of information flow has not changed, but the rate of that flow has. This rate increase could create chaotic effects that were not present before. So, you don't necessarily need a "fundamental material change" to alter the structure of society, or any dynamic system for that matter.