You have to understand the culture of car modding. It goes counter to everything that people commonly do with cars. It's making fun of people who install crazy body modifications without doing anything to affect the performance or handling of their cars.
The performance of cars is greatly affected by these mods. Take a look at these:
There's a lot more car modders than case modders, people have been modding cars for 50 years before the Internet was born. The network guys at my office spend EVERY DIME THEY HAVE on modifying their cars, and they're the best network engineers I've seen! They're a lot better than all the Harvard CS 1st class graduates I've met. I think instead of "experience" the employers should look for "mindset".
Make available all her credit card numbers, PINs, bank account numbers, and all personal financial information, including bank statements and both personal and professional tax information. Make available for public viewing all personal correspondences via all mediums (i.e., email, written, phone, etc.)
Yeaaaaaaaah, don't just licence as GPL, live the GPL!
On what you studied, here i took a 5 college year course including physics 1 & 2, thermodynamics, calculs, adv calculus and all the regular programming/db/hw subjects
I EARNED the right to be a Software Engineer.
Same here. Whenever I collect my welfare check I have to remind myself of this fact.
Then Capitalism is working, the Americans have too much money to spend on shoes and Nike manufactures them in the cheapest place (with high unemployment and poor people). What's wrong with that? Should Nike be forced to make expensive shoes in Silicon Valley? How many Slashdotters would be willing to work in Silicon Valley making shoes for minimum wage when delivering pizza in Silicon Valley pays $15 per hour more than a C++ 20 years experience man?
Sure other smaller companies can make good shoes, but Nike buys these companies out.
Yes, monopoly is bad for prices. It's the job of the Monopolies & Mergers commission which is run by the Government to stop monopolies forming by the big company buying out all its competitors. There are massive fines when this occurs, and the company can be ordered by the Courts to break up because customers (voters) will have to pay artificially high prices. Personally I like Reebok so I think competition is working fine.
This isnt about the chinese getting raises or having jobs, its about the fact they have a different currency than us, therefore the money isnt properly distributed
Incorrect. The Foreign Exchange mechanism works fine. China has a floating currency, so as the Chinese economy becomes stronger (which it will) their currency will rise. It's even possible that in a few decades one Yuan = one Dollar, and we will all be trying to immigrate to China
The rich Chinese are VERY rich. As an example, they own the Hotel Mandarin in Singapore which has golden lifts, goldcoloured carpets, Gold-plated showers and Platinum waterfalls. Their inclusive breakfast is frankfurters, Chinese special fried rice with Jasmine, Eggs, Hash Browns. It is like a dream palace, and it's all Chinese. The Chinese are having the same problems - the businessmen are getting paid a lot more than the normal worker (big rich-poor gap) look at how much money Dung Xiao Ping's friends have made (hundreds of millions of dollars). The United States has the same problem. These businessmen make money in Dollars/Pounds from outsourcing and then CONVERT this money into Yuan to pay their workers. If there was a global minimum wage then the Chinese companies wouldn't get the contract and the Chinese people would all be unemployed farmers. It's up to the Chinese workers to demand good working conditions, but there are 1 billion people competing for your job in China so it's better to not be fussy. But when China becomes rich then, well you have 500 million people competing for your job in the US but you can still expect a very good "market" salary which will pay for your second hand 10-year old Sedan and you can sleep in your car if you're poor.
The price of labor should not be as cheap as possible, it should be as fair as possible, period, so things we dont really need would suddenly be more expensive, so what? I currently have to pay $200 for sneakers which cost about $2 to make, just so some rich greedy CEO at Nike can make a few hundred million extra dollars.
Then go to a flea market in an old US town and buy $5 unbranded sneakers. This money will go straight to the sweatshop. The fact is Americans want Nike for $500 because Michael Jordan wears them. It's not your place to comment on how Nike distributes or raises that money. I know McDonalds is crap, but then why does my stomach rumble whe I see one of their beautiful juicy Big Macs on TV mmmmmm? If China becomes one big sweatshop and Chinese employment rises to almost 100% then the Chinese economy will be stronger than the American economy after 100 years of redistribution. The Chinese will choose better and better sweatshops to work for, and then the best workers will go for perks like "Free jade vase when you join our company". Then the Chinese will be richer than the Americans.
If we are going to have a global economy, we need a global minimum wage, a global dollar/euro/yen all worth the same, and a global tax system which follows American companies overseas
Impossible. There is not that much wealth in the world. We are a poor planet with billions of starving and dying people. It's right that they take money from us, our selfishness dictates that we must now go and bomb those starving Ethiopean bastards for taking our jobs. They should shut up and eat our damn grain handouts. Do Americans eat grain or McDonalds? Hmmmm....
Experience is the key. This is because as part of a CS degree you aren't taught practical skills(I know - I went to a good college). In a job you are required to use a software product like VC++, and you have to have in your head all the necessary workarounds, such as Micro$oft scoping errors and know how to not code yourself into requiring pointer manipulation eg. &(*(&(p*)))++ and weird nuances such as &int(void*(void**(malloc)(25)))
Software that we use is not intuitive and the workarounds are terrible, even something as simple as crystal reports requires an in-depth knowledge of hundreds of workarounds that only some guru would know. You have to "know" that due to a bug/something that using the ODBC driver to update data fields does not allow the data to be stored with the reports in the runtime subsystem, so you need to use the SQL-server interface to extract data because its OK for an SQL-Server to be unavailable, but it's not OK for an ODBC data source to suddenly disappear when you try to run the report an another machine.
It should not need a CS-degree to write a "Hello World" program in PHP, but it does because you're supposed to magically "know" that Apache spits out HTML, and PHP modifies this HTML so you have to output valid HTML from a PHP script running on Apache. So a simple PHP "Hello World" program would give a parse error in your browser - no <HTML> <HEAD> <BODY> tags found in HTML document
Our expectations of software are so byzantine that we don't even try to make it easier. The fact that it's just a bunch of workarounds means that it's so hard to learn all these things. For instance if I wanted to decrease the number of spinlocks in my linux kernel I have to magically "know" that I should download this patch and recompile the kernel with it. There's no button on the dekstop saying, "Click here to increase the responsiveness of you kernel". Actually most people don't know what a kernel is, my secretary was playing with her new stapler for three days so uhhhh I think our expectations are a bit high.
Parents do things to children that would be unconscionable on ordinary citizens, or even the worst criminals.
It's no coincidence that most prison officers regard their inmates as children. If you ever visit a mental asylum you'll see loads of adults behaving liek children or worse. Right now we're treating the Iraqi government like children and removing their "toys" from them. We're only adults if we're willing to fight to stay adults.
If we lowered oil consumption enough, then maybe we could do without OPEC oil. That would certainly help out with our problems in the Middle East. Personally, I think that there is enough market pressure pushing us in this direction that further legislation is not necessary
Do you see any of these "Stop the war" protestors running to their auto dealer to sell their SUVs? Nope? Well then the American public (Joe sixpack) has spoken - THEY WANT SUVs AND THEY WANT TO SHOUT AT STUFF, LIKE WAR AND BIG MACS. But they don't want to actually sacrifice anything to stop the war such as going out and buying new hybrid vehicles.
After all, the company that comes up with a cost-effective power source that doesn't involve the Middle East is going to make a fat pile of money
General Motors has withdrawn their EV1 electric car from sale.
If a company starts selling new technology vehicles, the oil companies will sue his ass off, and the arabs will bomb him using their usual tactics (if you're willing to fly a plane into the WTC, then running over the inventor of hydrogen-powered vehicles is nothing).
Decreased oil consumption would certainly help out with our problems in the Middle East
Nope. Then OPEC would raise the price of oil. OPEC has calculated that the US is willing to give about 3% of US GDP to Oil. Even if OPEC had free oil, they would charge this profit-maximising price.
Why do you think the oil sheikhs have Mercedes and Rolls Royces?
I strongly doubt that there is enough evidence to support such a claim at the present time. The era of satellite observations of the sun has only really just started, and any rise may be simply noise from a short duration sample, or due to the decreasing minimum signal capable of being detected.
And when everything except the Rockies and Arecibo radio telescope are underwater due to glacial melting, we will continue to gather evidence for global warming. Then we will use SETI@home on all the underwater Lindows2050 and WinXPPPP2050 to do parrallel computing on all this data to find correlations. Thing is we don't have any computers that work entirely submerged underwater, not even UltraSPARC III, ah well.
Even Cisco 15000 and Wireless LANs don't work fully submerged...
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It is written all over the walls. America is claiming that they
want to protect all of those oil wells because they belong to
the Iraqi people, and because they're banking on the oil wells
to pay for reconstruction.
Conveniently, that implies that America and others will be
"buying" that oil in exchange for Iraq to be reconstructed
If a US-sympathetic ruler heads Iraq, then he could collapse OPEC from the inside, and could sell cheap/free oil to the US which would upset the French and Russian oilfield stakeholders. France and Russia may get the money from oil, but at what prce will the oil be sold? Undoubtedly the Americans will bill the Iraqis for invading, like they did to the Kuwaitis. From where can the Iraqis get this money apart from their oil? No arab state has a thriving diversified manufacturing economy. If not for oil, all arab cities may be consumed by the desert from whence they came.
The decadence of their oil tycoons is astonishing, my friend in UAE told me that they buy Mercedes and Rolls-Royces, and then do a wheelie whilst leaning out of the window and lighting a match. Many of these six-figure priced cars get trashed but they don't care because there's plenty of money to go around. These stories are censored in the West because there would be race riots, they're doing this with our petrol money after all. Good to hear from you also.
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The sad thing is that people form communities and will usually rally behind their own communities regardless of whether they are the scum of the Earth. Even intellectuals have carnal and emotional attachment to family which makes them unable to kill their own evil people, instead they delude themselves into believing other people are seperate from their own group. This is one of the reasons why the Iraqi people cannot overthrow their Government.
Afghanistan had nothing to lose. If you have nothing to lose then you can do anything.
A democracy is representative of its people - Americans don't make 50-year investments, so Saddam has to be killed fast for the Americans to achieve a success. Otherwise the American MTV people (and therefore Bush) will look elsewhere and the troops will disappear overnight.
That's crap. Hopefully you know it. Nobody in their right mind would rely on OS fingerprinting software for licensing.
If I put all my windows servers behind a firewall, suddenly I have no windows servers! So I don't need any licenses! Hooray!
If Hewlett Packard or something said "Uhhh we have a firewall and no Windows seats" then all it takes is ONE EMPLOYEE's sworn affidavit and he'll get a $250,000 BSA reward. Hewlett Packard's bosses will then even have their shit collected by lawyers to see if they're "pirating" Micro$oft like Cocaine. Ahem read this. I'm commenting on the general belief that corporations might think it's a good idea to hide the OSes they have installed. These companies use the automated scanning software above to perform scans and software audits on all their machines including mp3 files. Checksums are performed on all files with their full pathname. Linux and Unix are also scanned with all filenames, ownerships, attributes and checksums being catalogued to a central database. If the corporations don't do this the BSA will kick their ass. It's not just Micro$oft. For a large corporation this database can be 100 Gigs in size which is why I have a job.
No. Either everybody gets it or nobody gets it. People like my Uncle who have had tortured lives sorting out everybody else's problems will be forced to extend their lives. And because they're nice people they'll feel forced by their friends and relatives (and employer!) into extending their life.
Much like in the Olympics to get in front some people take drugs. First is first so the honest people suffer. The honest people always suffer after these descriminative decisions.
Hiding your OS is something the corporations will not do. To maintain compliance with Micro$oft licence terms and the BSA they mnust periodically audit their systems to count the number of software installations using automated scanning software such as Centennial
If their computers start lying about their OS and software installed then the BSA will invade them and stick 100 lawyers on their head before you can say "Nmap"
Step 1: use stone and concrete. The Romans used stone and concrete extensively, and many of their public works projects are STILL standing two thousand years later.
Instead of building this nuclear bunker, just buy a cheap house that'll last for 10 years, then move out after 5 years into another house and so on. If you get fired from your job and have to move 500 miles then you'll just have to ditch the massive investment you've placed in your reinforced concrete house.
Americans especially need to face the reality that in today's hire-fire Capitalist society, you should buy a house wherever you want to live and sell it whenever you don't want to live there. A reinforced concrete house in Silicon Valley with full maintenance is a perfect example of liability - better to live in your car. So do the minimum amount of maintenance to maintain the value of your investment in your cheap house so that you don't end up selling it for $1.
Only if your *location* means something should you invest in something like reinforced concrete. For example:
You live in an ancestral Red Indian reservation in Indiana,
You're Duncan McLeod of the clan McLeod building his clan's castle and ancestral home in the Scottish highlands,
You're testing captured UFOs in the middle of the Arizona desert.
Follow-your-job houses MUST NOT be made of reinforced concrete.
I still have my 486 with 16MB memory running a firewall/DSL router
For the last 10 years I've had a watch running on a 3 volt Lithium battery. I thought about increasing the chip VCC, overclocking the FSB, and modding the Quartz crystal, but I keep getting the feeling that I should leave it the way it is.
I took the case off of the drive, and I could see the platters and the arms and everything right there... I tried turning it on and I saw how it sort of jerked in one direction... So, I started it spinning in that direction by myself
DO NOT DO THIS WITH A 15k RPM SEAGATE CHEETAH!
It'll chop your finger off, or if the platters explode you'll probably be dead!
eventually you will grow old, and your job at the gas station or mc donalds will not help you raise your children.
The key to success in this world is to focus on something
Focus on something like IT and then it implodes.... A well-rounded person can deal in whatever field the market throws at him, and can manage people. Here nobody stays technical for more than 4 years, everybody becomes a manager even if they want to stay technical, and they have to deal with all sorts of clients. The Indian H-1B specialists are now screwed.
Even though I get attention from women, I dont know if its because they think I'm attractive or they think I have potential to be successful because they feel I'm smart, I ignore most women due to the fact that they usually have motives which arent pure
99% of women are as you say, that's why you must look hard to find the 1%
I went out of my way to entertain people, even at the expense of being a class clown. Sure I was popuar but these people didnt give a fuck about me. The friends I have now do, thats the difference. I'm not popuar and I can count my friends on one hand, but these people are part of my circle and we will be cool till death.
Yes I know HanzoSan, we're cool. What we say on Slashdot will live forever! I don't care about your toys, and on Slashdot I can't say anything behind your back. We're all true friends here. We will be friends for 100 years HanzoSan!
They seem to never reach my moral or emotional level
Self-righteousness alarm!!!
I mean really these so called intelligent people who has short tempers and no self control so they get into fights, how intelligent is that?
A very intelligent person that got his PhD at 16 years old (gifted child) was complaining to me that he skipped his childhood. It's only when I saw him calculating that a 1% death rate for a new car would be acceptable, then I told him about the old Ford Pinto, and he said, "Awwww crap, so the Judges kick the crap out of car companies unless they make their cars super-safe. Dang!"
Childhood creates our morality. The scary thing is that without a childhood and mistakes and regret you cannot have morality.
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There's a lot more car modders than case modders, people have been modding cars for 50 years before the Internet was born. The network guys at my office spend EVERY DIME THEY HAVE on modifying their cars, and they're the best network engineers I've seen! They're a lot better than all the Harvard CS 1st class graduates I've met. I think instead of "experience" the employers should look for "mindset".The rich Chinese are VERY rich. As an example, they own the Hotel Mandarin in Singapore which has golden lifts, goldcoloured carpets, Gold-plated showers and Platinum waterfalls. Their inclusive breakfast is frankfurters, Chinese special fried rice with Jasmine, Eggs, Hash Browns. It is like a dream palace, and it's all Chinese. The Chinese are having the same problems - the businessmen are getting paid a lot more than the normal worker (big rich-poor gap) look at how much money Dung Xiao Ping's friends have made (hundreds of millions of dollars). The United States has the same problem. These businessmen make money in Dollars/Pounds from outsourcing and then CONVERT this money into Yuan to pay their workers. If there was a global minimum wage then the Chinese companies wouldn't get the contract and the Chinese people would all be unemployed farmers. It's up to the Chinese workers to demand good working conditions, but there are 1 billion people competing for your job in China so it's better to not be fussy. But when China becomes rich then, well you have 500 million people competing for your job in the US but you can still expect a very good "market" salary which will pay for your second hand 10-year old Sedan and you can sleep in your car if you're poor.
Oh wait...
Software that we use is not intuitive and the workarounds are terrible, even something as simple as crystal reports requires an in-depth knowledge of hundreds of workarounds that only some guru would know. You have to "know" that due to a bug/something that using the ODBC driver to update data fields does not allow the data to be stored with the reports in the runtime subsystem, so you need to use the SQL-server interface to extract data because its OK for an SQL-Server to be unavailable, but it's not OK for an ODBC data source to suddenly disappear when you try to run the report an another machine.
It should not need a CS-degree to write a "Hello World" program in PHP, but it does because you're supposed to magically "know" that Apache spits out HTML, and PHP modifies this HTML so you have to output valid HTML from a PHP script running on Apache. So a simple PHP "Hello World" program would give a parse error in your browser - no <HTML> <HEAD> <BODY> tags found in HTML document
Our expectations of software are so byzantine that we don't even try to make it easier. The fact that it's just a bunch of workarounds means that it's so hard to learn all these things. For instance if I wanted to decrease the number of spinlocks in my linux kernel I have to magically "know" that I should download this patch and recompile the kernel with it. There's no button on the dekstop saying, "Click here to increase the responsiveness of you kernel". Actually most people don't know what a kernel is, my secretary was playing with her new stapler for three days so uhhhh I think our expectations are a bit high.
Five space cowboys on robotic horses, and a cowboy computer h4cX0r. YEAH!
If a company starts selling new technology vehicles, the oil companies will sue his ass off, and the arabs will bomb him using their usual tactics (if you're willing to fly a plane into the WTC, then running over the inventor of hydrogen-powered vehicles is nothing).
Why do you think the oil sheikhs have Mercedes and Rolls Royces?
Even Cisco 15000 and Wireless LANs don't work fully submerged...
If a US-sympathetic ruler heads Iraq, then he could collapse OPEC from the inside, and could sell cheap/free oil to the US which would upset the French and Russian oilfield stakeholders. France and Russia may get the money from oil, but at what prce will the oil be sold? Undoubtedly the Americans will bill the Iraqis for invading, like they did to the Kuwaitis. From where can the Iraqis get this money apart from their oil? No arab state has a thriving diversified manufacturing economy. If not for oil, all arab cities may be consumed by the desert from whence they came.
The decadence of their oil tycoons is astonishing, my friend in UAE told me that they buy Mercedes and Rolls-Royces, and then do a wheelie whilst leaning out of the window and lighting a match. Many of these six-figure priced cars get trashed but they don't care because there's plenty of money to go around. These stories are censored in the West because there would be race riots, they're doing this with our petrol money after all.
Good to hear from you also.
Afghanistan had nothing to lose. If you have nothing to lose then you can do anything.
A democracy is representative of its people - Americans don't make 50-year investments, so Saddam has to be killed fast for the Americans to achieve a success. Otherwise the American MTV people (and therefore Bush) will look elsewhere and the troops will disappear overnight.
Much like in the Olympics to get in front some people take drugs. First is first so the honest people suffer. The honest people always suffer after these descriminative decisions.
If their computers start lying about their OS and software installed then the BSA will invade them and stick 100 lawyers on their head before you can say "Nmap"
Americans especially need to face the reality that in today's hire-fire Capitalist society, you should buy a house wherever you want to live and sell it whenever you don't want to live there. A reinforced concrete house in Silicon Valley with full maintenance is a perfect example of liability - better to live in your car. So do the minimum amount of maintenance to maintain the value of your investment in your cheap house so that you don't end up selling it for $1.
Only if your *location* means something should you invest in something like reinforced concrete. For example:
Follow-your-job houses MUST NOT be made of reinforced concrete.
It'll chop your finger off, or if the platters explode you'll probably be dead!
Childhood creates our morality. The scary thing is that without a childhood and mistakes and regret you cannot have morality.