Actually I should have put a smiley or something at the end, because I just find it entertaining that some people become apoplectic at the mention of Ron Paul. I don't feel persecuted at all; I'm just a chain-puller who hoped somebody would post an entertaining screed of some sort.:P
That would be everyone in government of that time, except for Russ Feingold. ...and Ron Paul. I'm sure the very act of mentioning his name on Slashdot endangers my karma, but what the hell.
Thanks for posting some links; I skimmed TFA and didn't see anything other than "zomg people reference famous people in their code, and somebody did a search for it, PONIES!!!1" and was going to judge the article/topic a WOMFT.
You'd think they could have included some sample search links in the article, no? Searching for "fuck" in Linux code turns up more entertaining stuff if I recall correctly. Actually, seaching for "fuck" in Krugle is more entertaining than Satan:
"Fuck GNOME!" "public class FuckNut" "for (int i = 0; i n; i++) fuck(); "
I think what Pojut meant (please correct me if I'm wrong, Pojut) is that it's better to have an incompetent moron fighting against you than someone who is calm, well-spoken, and can present arguments that sound like they're based in some kind of logic.
It's the impression the spokesman makes, not whether or not he has a legitimate case. People enacting legislation might be afraid to be associated with a raving lunatic, because he produces ugly source material for your opponent's political ads next time around. The calm guy doesn't do that, so he's more likely to actually influence legislation and policy.
Silly me, expecting to get a free salary breakdown. Not that I want to change careers and go into help-desking, I was just curious to see how crappy the salaries would be.
Can we get a slashvertisement or shamelessplug tag for this one?
News flash for you. If you are buying notes to only use as a mail client then you wasted your money.
It is much more then a mail client. Personally, I wouldn't buy it for any reason. It just seems that the only times I've ever seen Notes in person is where people are using it pretty much just as a mail client. Easy money for the vendor, I guess. *shrug*
Most recent machines these days don't come with less then 1GB of memory. Yes, but WTF: you need at least a gig of RAM to run what's going to be used 99% of the time as a mail client? The world has gone mad. Mad I tell you!
Bummer, guess I don't have to cry endless tears over the loss of my "digital life". I know what you mean; I've lost backups (and stuff that I didn't back up), and it was really inconsequential. I really think if I hadn't lost it I'd never have looked at it again anyway. Keeping important stuff for work is one thing, but like you said, so far it will all fit on one USB key or some DVD's.
I suppose I'm an un-cool 21-st century luddite, since I don't feel the need to construct and preserve some massive digital emo-temple to myself.
If it hit's it will hit in the pacific ocean. So California may get wet.
Is that in the same way that ~250k people in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Thailand "got wet" after the earthquake in 2004?
So you're saying the Congresscritters can't make a law complicated enough to cover it? I beg to differ...it may not cover it perfectly, but generating complex rules doesn't seem to have ever been a problem for them.:)
No matter what I want to believe about merit and talent, there is an underlying "how did you get in, here?!" sentiment floating around the development industry when it comes to blacks doing design and engineering work. Yeah, unfortunately I've seen that, too, in a couple of technical fields now. Sometimes I think people showing that sentiment may not even be consciously aware of it, which makes it hard to do much about it (and it certainly wouldn't make me feel better if I were receiving the negative consequences of someone's unconscious bias).
It is a real shame that we as an industry can't just be above all of this a hire people based on there capability. Based on what I see on Slashdot and The Daily WTF (I certainly choose high quality, un-skewed data sources, don't I?), it seems that some people making the hiring decisions can't identify skilled technical people even when they're of the same ethnic background as themselves. I can only imagine that lack of ability to identify skill gets amplified when the interviewee is of an ethnic background that the interviewer might have a bias against.
I don't suppose I can ask this question without making it sound like I'm being an ass about it, but what is it you do that's so valuable? What objective measure do you have that you are so valuable? I'm really curious, honest--I'm not trying to pull your chain or anything.
Once upon a time, when $50k/yr was far more than I'd ever made before, companies were glad to hire me to write software. I think that's because they were charging the government ~$75/hr for my time, and other private companies paid ~$125/hr, and they only had to pass about $15-25/hr down to me. Once I got wind of how much my time was worth to the end customer, and wanted to get paid accordingly, I wasn't as interesting to employers.
It seems to me that if you want to take home any significant fraction of what your skill is actually worth, you have to be running your own business (and taking all the risk, of course). There's just too many people out there that don't know how much the end customer is paying for their work, and they're glad to be an employee at pay rates that are going to make you roll your eyes.
...the collision products scatter like billiard balls after a good break and thus taking them away from the planet in short order?
It seems to me that a significant fraction of the collisions would produce particle showers pointed towards the ground. Even if 99% of the "evil bits" have momenta that don't allow them to settle into the earth, there's still a lot of evil bits (produced by incident particles with energies 10^4-10^6 times more energy than the LHC) over the last 4+ billion years that haven't destroyed the earth.
Of course maybe I'm missing some fundamental point here, and there's a reason to view this as a "giant hole" in the theory. If someone could be so kind as to point it out I'd appreciate it.
You cannot call it "world's most powerful laser" until you understand the definition of power . I don't care if you ARE dumping jiggawats into it, if the time period is dividing it by a trillion to come up with the power which ends up somewhere around a AA battery
Yep, I think that's pretty much what I'd do unless I absolutely needed a job and there was nobody else offering. The last time I began to experience pushback about using that "hippified open source stuff that's not backed by a real company," (not stated in those terms of course, but that was basically the attitude) I decided to tough it out and keep working there. It turned out to be a colossal waste of my time, but I didn't realize it until I had put way too much time and effort into it. At least I learned to keep my eyes open for the next time, but it was still a pretty expensive lesson.
Sometimes I think the PHB fear of open source probably indicates a deeper distrust of people working for them who do stuff they don't understand. But maybe that's just my distrust of people that do all that businessy stuff that I don't understand.;)
....business model which includes software patents in its DNA.
Wow, they went to the trouble of getting gene therapy in order to have the text of their patents encoded in their DNA? That's some hard-core entrepeneurship!
Oh, wait, sorry; that's just some dumbass, buzzword-bingo-bound expression that's not yet considered as cliché as "paradigm shift" or "think outside the box." Sorry to spoil the moment.
The problem is that a lot of botters and spammers never venture into areas where they're likely to encounter members of the opposite faction. I'd like to see some way for them to be flagged for "anybody can kill you" PvP.
You're not allowed to kill players of your own faction, and on some servers, you can't kill players of the opposing faction unless they're flagged for player-vs-player combat. I really wish they would introduce some option to allow you to beat the living crap out of spammers and bots; it would certainly add some new fun to the game.:P Maybe even go so far as to add a "kill 10 spammers" daily quest....:)
Yay for non-technical decision makers making technical decisions!
My favorite procurement/supply story is from a guy I worked with in the Navy; we needed a switch for some system that required replacement parts to be some super-special reliability grade, so he got the part number and called up the company from home. "Hi this is Billy Joe Ray Bob's electronics supply in Podunk, Lousiana; I need a BR-549 limit switch, how much are they?" The answer was something like $12.
He calls back a week later as Petty Officer so-and-so from the USS Neveryoumind, and then the BR-549 limit switch costs $349. Apparently the super-special reliability grade sticker they put on it after they take it out of the bin costs $337.
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Actually I should have put a smiley or something at the end, because I just find it entertaining that some people become apoplectic at the mention of Ron Paul. I don't feel persecuted at all; I'm just a chain-puller who hoped somebody would post an entertaining screed of some sort. :P
Thanks for posting some links; I skimmed TFA and didn't see anything other than "zomg people reference famous people in their code, and somebody did a search for it, PONIES!!!1" and was going to judge the article/topic a WOMFT.
You'd think they could have included some sample search links in the article, no? Searching for "fuck" in Linux code turns up more entertaining stuff if I recall correctly. Actually, seaching for "fuck" in Krugle is more entertaining than Satan:
"Fuck GNOME!"
"public class FuckNut"
"for (int i = 0; i n; i++) fuck(); "
I think what Pojut meant (please correct me if I'm wrong, Pojut) is that it's better to have an incompetent moron fighting against you than someone who is calm, well-spoken, and can present arguments that sound like they're based in some kind of logic.
It's the impression the spokesman makes, not whether or not he has a legitimate case. People enacting legislation might be afraid to be associated with a raving lunatic, because he produces ugly source material for your opponent's political ads next time around. The calm guy doesn't do that, so he's more likely to actually influence legislation and policy.
Silly me, expecting to get a free salary breakdown. Not that I want to change careers and go into help-desking, I was just curious to see how crappy the salaries would be.
Can we get a slashvertisement or shamelessplug tag for this one?
Yeah, gotta watch out for those twitter shitters.
Cue the "if you have nothing to hide..." responses (and possibly some Hans Reiser jokes).
It is much more then a mail client. Personally, I wouldn't buy it for any reason. It just seems that the only times I've ever seen Notes in person is where people are using it pretty much just as a mail client. Easy money for the vendor, I guess. *shrug*
I suppose I'm an un-cool 21-st century luddite, since I don't feel the need to construct and preserve some massive digital emo-temple to myself.
Maybe you should say huge nads or something else that's more unisex, considering both of the astronauts in this case were women.
Is that in the same way that ~250k people in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Thailand "got wet" after the earthquake in 2004?
So you're saying the Congresscritters can't make a law complicated enough to cover it? I beg to differ...it may not cover it perfectly, but generating complex rules doesn't seem to have ever been a problem for them. :)
I don't suppose I can ask this question without making it sound like I'm being an ass about it, but what is it you do that's so valuable? What objective measure do you have that you are so valuable? I'm really curious, honest--I'm not trying to pull your chain or anything.
Once upon a time, when $50k/yr was far more than I'd ever made before, companies were glad to hire me to write software. I think that's because they were charging the government ~$75/hr for my time, and other private companies paid ~$125/hr, and they only had to pass about $15-25/hr down to me. Once I got wind of how much my time was worth to the end customer, and wanted to get paid accordingly, I wasn't as interesting to employers.
It seems to me that if you want to take home any significant fraction of what your skill is actually worth, you have to be running your own business (and taking all the risk, of course). There's just too many people out there that don't know how much the end customer is paying for their work, and they're glad to be an employee at pay rates that are going to make you roll your eyes.
Can we get a "fuckingstupid" tag?
It seems to me that a significant fraction of the collisions would produce particle showers pointed towards the ground. Even if 99% of the "evil bits" have momenta that don't allow them to settle into the earth, there's still a lot of evil bits (produced by incident particles with energies 10^4-10^6 times more energy than the LHC) over the last 4+ billion years that haven't destroyed the earth.
Of course maybe I'm missing some fundamental point here, and there's a reason to view this as a "giant hole" in the theory. If someone could be so kind as to point it out I'd appreciate it.
Yep, I think that's pretty much what I'd do unless I absolutely needed a job and there was nobody else offering. The last time I began to experience pushback about using that "hippified open source stuff that's not backed by a real company," (not stated in those terms of course, but that was basically the attitude) I decided to tough it out and keep working there. It turned out to be a colossal waste of my time, but I didn't realize it until I had put way too much time and effort into it. At least I learned to keep my eyes open for the next time, but it was still a pretty expensive lesson.
;)
Sometimes I think the PHB fear of open source probably indicates a deeper distrust of people working for them who do stuff they don't understand. But maybe that's just my distrust of people that do all that businessy stuff that I don't understand.
Wow, they went to the trouble of getting gene therapy in order to have the text of their patents encoded in their DNA? That's some hard-core entrepeneurship!
Oh, wait, sorry; that's just some dumbass, buzzword-bingo-bound expression that's not yet considered as cliché as "paradigm shift" or "think outside the box." Sorry to spoil the moment.
...when they're afraid of people getting hurt with a FREAKING *NERF* GUN!
The problem is that a lot of botters and spammers never venture into areas where they're likely to encounter members of the opposite faction. I'd like to see some way for them to be flagged for "anybody can kill you" PvP.
You're not allowed to kill players of your own faction, and on some servers, you can't kill players of the opposing faction unless they're flagged for player-vs-player combat. I really wish they would introduce some option to allow you to beat the living crap out of spammers and bots; it would certainly add some new fun to the game. :P Maybe even go so far as to add a "kill 10 spammers" daily quest.... :)
Yay for non-technical decision makers making technical decisions!
My favorite procurement/supply story is from a guy I worked with in the Navy; we needed a switch for some system that required replacement parts to be some super-special reliability grade, so he got the part number and called up the company from home. "Hi this is Billy Joe Ray Bob's electronics supply in Podunk, Lousiana; I need a BR-549 limit switch, how much are they?" The answer was something like $12.
He calls back a week later as Petty Officer so-and-so from the USS Neveryoumind, and then the BR-549 limit switch costs $349. Apparently the super-special reliability grade sticker they put on it after they take it out of the bin costs $337.