Thank you for one of the most tortured analogies ever posted. Seriously, if I were to spend days dreaming up the most irrelevent and inappropriate analogy regarding any subject matter on earth, I would never conceive of an RIAA equals Christianity analogy, so credit to you, an idea worthy of present-day academia. No matter, I'm sure that if the topic were baseball or C++, you would still find some way to work in an anti-Christian slam in there somewhere, not that you might have an agenda...
This is terrible! These greedy MS investors not only expecting, but actually GETTING a return on their investment! If those scoundrels at MS had any conscience at all they would give away their products, then repay investors by begging for money or selling T-Shirts. Mr. Gates shame on you, I invested in your company hoping not to make a dime, but there you go again, raising the value of your stock and paying out a dividend. Next time I will do the smart thing and invest in Mandrakesoft.
Between the time the company notifies you and you receive your new card in the mail, that's damn near 14 days of sales tax he can't collect on purchases you might make
a) In the post 9/11 world, there's people that don't like America
b) Google is the most powerful search engine out there
c) The people in A can use the internet to communicate with each other
d) ?
e) PROFIT
In other words, a goofy essay laboring to tie together technology and anti-americanism. But then again, what do you expect from the NTY op-ed page? By the way, I'm still waiting for Jayson Blair's Op-Ed debut
I realize that on/. the demonization of capitalism in general and corporations specifically is as obligatory as praying in church, but the truth of matter is that the overwhelming majority of businesses are small businesses and sole proprietorships. Once you change shoes from being the employee to being the business owner, everything changes. Your main focus is now how to make enough money and minimize your expenses in order to stay in business. If you can't stay in business then your employees' real or imagined sense of entitlement is of little consequence. Now, employees have every advocacy group and government agency under the sun fighting for their interests. Who fights for the interests of small business owners who can't afford to give people vacation or give people 2 weeks off for family and medical leave because it could break the business? A small business owner these days can't dare let someone go these days due to repeated, abusive requests for time off for fear of lawsuits and bogus harrassment/worker's comp. claims by vindictive employees. If there is a system of tyranny, it is the small business owner that suffers most from it. And if you're one of the "business is evil, workers of the World Unite" crowd, do me a favor and start a business someday, and I guarantee that in less than 1 year you'll despise people who think like you do now.
Applied SP4 to a test machine and all has been well so far, but will need several more days hammering on it hard. I have found Win2000 to be very stable and reliable. Oh sorry, I forgot I was on Slashdot, were any positive thing said about Microsoft must be prefaced with:
1) I'm no fan of Microsoft, but...
2) I'm forced to use it at work, and...
3) I'd hate to admit it, but..
4) It's painful to say so, but...
For the W. brothers in Revolutions to deliver an intentionally lame and anti-climatic ending, such as the entire Matrix existing in an Atari 2600. I can see it now, thousands of trenchcoat- wearing acne faced teens, goatee-wearing philosphy graduate students, and the entire geek community having to be put on suicide watch due to the tremendous let down at the meaning of life having it's root in pong and space invaders.
OK, then substitute Christianity for Wicca, Rastafaria, or some other goofy practice that will allow you to like the movie and still see yourself as a non-conformist rebel. Pleeze...
I tried Eclipse a month ago, and was severly disappointed. First off, I had to read the tutorial to figure out how to build HelloWorld with their system. Not intuitive. Also, the SWT library is a complete joke -- it doesn't look like the host OS, and requires native code. No java program using SWT is cross-platform, so what's the point?
Are we using two different Eclipses? From unzipping the binary distribution to setting a couple preferences to a System.out.println("Hello world"): 2 min.
Also, how can SWT not look like the native OS when it's a JNI wrapper around native widgets? Furthermore, to write SWT apps no native code has to be written by the developer, you simply need to include the SWT native library in your java.library.path. SWT is cross platform! The widget classes are nicely abstracted so that each implementation of the JNI library for each platform requires no code changes on your part. Please learn more [SWT FAQ] before dismissing it wholesale based on incomplete information!
I think you guys were able to develop and release 5 or so games in during the time span Duke Nukem Forever has been in development. Teach those knuckleheads over there how to get a game out the door!
I think the hiring of all the conservative voices on FOX,MSNBC,CNN, etc. is in response to marketplace demand,as it should. Remember MSNBC's hiring of Donahue was heralded as the liberal answer to the conservative commentators? Well Donahue's ratings are in the toilet, and his days are numbered. There have been many attempts at a radio talk show response to Limbaugh but they all consistently fail. Could it be due to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy(tm) Hillary spoke of, or could it be that many leftist ideas fail in the marketplace in forums where they can be directly challenged? TV and radio need to sell advertising dollars and are purely ratings driven. If a TV or radio broadcaster had a left-wing commentator who consistently scores high ratings do you seriously think they would get rid them for ideological reasons, even though they bring in the advertising bucks? Of course not- they're in business to make money. But the liberal viewpoint in these media outlets fails time after time. Is it because the liberal viewpoint is being silenced or because the liberal ideas aren't that great to begin with? (the answer to that probably depends on your own political beliefs.) As far as bias in the print media (L.A. Times, Washington Times,etc.) it does exist but now that it is being exposed it doesn't occur as blantantly. Back in the day, whenever describing a republican such as Dick Armey, Tom Delay, etc. it would be prefaced with "right-wing","extreme-right wing",or "ultra-conservative". Do you recall the last time a democrat such as Ted Kennedy or Maxine Waters was referred to as "extreme-left wing" or "ultra-liberal" in mainstream print? The phrases "big oil" and "big tabacco" are frequently used. Do you recall ever seeing the phrases "big union" or "big environmental lobby"? Pro-gun control people are referred to as "activists". Anti-gun control people are referred to as "lobbyists".
Where I am going to go for news from a leftist slant now? Oh, I forgot about the mainstream media and the humanities department of every college campus. I guess Salon going belly up is not so disasterous after all for the lefties. By the way, appearing in Salon's "catch of the day" makes the chicks from Joe Millionaire appear to have dignity by comparison.
With regard to the poster's situation, if the cronology is accurate, the company appears to be in wrong not because it requires a credit history, but because this requirement was not disclosed prior to the poster accepting the offer. When an offer is extended you should be able to assume you've met all the criteria necessary for employment. For them to drop this bomb AFTER you've accepted might be the basis for some legal options (IANAL), since you might have incurred losses in the sense of declining other offers, etc.
I don't understand why a company would require this unless the position was financially sensitive or you had the authority to incur company debt. As a general way to judge one's judgement, responsibility, and reliability, credit reports are fair indicators. Yes, there's been some extraordinary stories about illnesses, messy divorces, etc. but as general rule you can use a credit history to predict future behavior.
My first exposure to widespread cheating was playing StarCraft on battle.net, when in just a few seconds into a 3 on 3 game, all 3 of the enemy players would charge into my base with a massive zealot rush, and I don't care how good of a player you are, you're not surviving an early game zealot rush by 3 players. I always wondered how they knew exactly where I was before even exploring the area...very frustrating. It seemed whenever Blizzard released a patch, this type of early rushing behavior would stop-- for a week or so, then start up again. Then once I learned of the widespread use of the map hack, I had to get it-- not to cheat, but to level the playing field. Sort of the old balance of power thing. Blizzard would never mention addressing the map hack in their patch release notes, but obviously a new map hack would be out within a week to circumvent the latest patch. The cheating was so insane and widespread, that before playing with strangers (when lounging in the pre-game chat room) I actually encouraged them to find the map hack and install it. Most of them feigned ignorance of its existance (yeah right).
It's amazing the lengths the RIAA will go to breathe life into their obsolete business model. What if you lose your high-quality archival copy? You can't create a new one? I suspect the marketplace will reject this new paradigm. The premise behind schemes like these is that in order to stop a few bad people, everyone must be treated like a criminal.
Does anyone think after hearing this parody, Disney will have some epic crisis of conscience and immediately reverse its support of anti-freedom legislation?
Seems like the time and effort behind this would be better spent mailing/e-mailing/snail-mailing/phoning legislators to voice your opposition.
Yeah, I suspected that Darth Vader would kill Jar Jar in Ep.III, but Lucas probably backed off that idea after considering the audience reaction would mostly likely be laughter and applause rather than shock and horror.
If Lucas is really out to tie up every loose end, then Star Wars will literally be a work in progress forever. To these ends, maybe Lucas should model Star Wars on.NET. You could buy a Star Wars subscription and every quarter you will be sent a SWAN (Star Wars addict Network) DVD pack, consisting of all 6 episodes with the latest patches and service packs applied, which fix plot and continuity errors. The first service pack will address why in the 10 years between TPM and AOTC, the Jedi/republic/Naboo did not buy Anakin's mom's freedom, especially after he saved Naboo.
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Thank you for one of the most tortured analogies ever posted. Seriously, if I were to spend days dreaming up the most irrelevent and inappropriate analogy regarding any subject matter on earth, I would never conceive of an RIAA equals Christianity analogy, so credit to you, an idea worthy of present-day academia. No matter, I'm sure that if the topic were baseball or C++, you would still find some way to work in an anti-Christian slam in there somewhere, not that you might have an agenda...
This is terrible! These greedy MS investors not only expecting, but actually GETTING a return on their investment! If those scoundrels at MS had any conscience at all they would give away their products, then repay investors by begging for money or selling T-Shirts. Mr. Gates shame on you, I invested in your company hoping not to make a dime, but there you go again, raising the value of your stock and paying out a dividend. Next time I will do the smart thing and invest in Mandrakesoft.
Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Adam West as Batman
Stallone as Rocky
Arnold as the Term....oh wait
Between the time the company notifies you and you receive your new card in the mail, that's damn near 14 days of sales tax he can't collect on purchases you might make
a) In the post 9/11 world, there's people that don't like America
b) Google is the most powerful search engine out there
c) The people in A can use the internet to communicate with each other
d) ?
e) PROFIT
In other words, a goofy essay laboring to tie together technology and anti-americanism. But then again, what do you expect from the NTY op-ed page? By the way, I'm still waiting for Jayson Blair's Op-Ed debut
I realize that on /. the demonization of capitalism in general and corporations specifically is as obligatory as praying in church, but the truth of matter is that the overwhelming majority of businesses are small businesses and sole proprietorships. Once you change shoes from being the employee to being the business owner, everything changes. Your main focus is now how to make enough money and minimize your expenses in order to stay in business. If you can't stay in business then your employees' real or imagined sense of entitlement is of little consequence. Now, employees have every advocacy group and government agency under the sun fighting for their interests. Who fights for the interests of small business owners who can't afford to give people vacation or give people 2 weeks off for family and medical leave because it could break the business? A small business owner these days can't dare let someone go these days due to repeated, abusive requests for time off for fear of lawsuits and bogus harrassment/worker's comp. claims by vindictive employees. If there is a system of tyranny, it is the small business owner that suffers most from it. And if you're one of the "business is evil, workers of the World Unite" crowd, do me a favor and start a business someday, and I guarantee that in less than 1 year you'll despise people who think like you do now.
Applied SP4 to a test machine and all has been well so far, but will need several more days hammering on it hard. I have found Win2000 to be very stable and reliable. Oh sorry, I forgot I was on Slashdot, were any positive thing said about Microsoft must be prefaced with:
1) I'm no fan of Microsoft, but...
2) I'm forced to use it at work, and...
3) I'd hate to admit it, but..
4) It's painful to say so, but...
For the W. brothers in Revolutions to deliver an intentionally lame and anti-climatic ending, such as the entire Matrix existing in an Atari 2600. I can see it now, thousands of trenchcoat- wearing acne faced teens, goatee-wearing philosphy graduate students, and the entire geek community having to be put on suicide watch due to the tremendous let down at the meaning of life having it's root in pong and space invaders.
OK, then substitute Christianity for Wicca, Rastafaria, or some other goofy practice that will allow you to like the movie and still see yourself as a non-conformist rebel. Pleeze...
I tried Eclipse a month ago, and was severly disappointed. First off, I had to read the tutorial to figure out how to build HelloWorld with their system. Not intuitive. Also, the SWT library is a complete joke -- it doesn't look like the host OS, and requires native code. No java program using SWT is cross-platform, so what's the point?
Are we using two different Eclipses? From unzipping the binary distribution to setting a couple preferences to a System.out.println("Hello world"): 2 min.
Also, how can SWT not look like the native OS when it's a JNI wrapper around native widgets? Furthermore, to write SWT apps no native code has to be written by the developer, you simply need to include the SWT native library in your java.library.path. SWT is cross platform! The widget classes are nicely abstracted so that each implementation of the JNI library for each platform requires no code changes on your part. Please learn more [SWT FAQ] before dismissing it wholesale based on incomplete information!
I think you guys were able to develop and release 5 or so games in during the time span Duke Nukem Forever has been in development. Teach those knuckleheads over there how to get a game out the door!
Then Microsoft Bob was silenced. Had nothing to do with the marketplace rejecting it.
I think the hiring of all the conservative voices on FOX,MSNBC,CNN, etc. is in response to marketplace demand,as it should. Remember MSNBC's hiring of Donahue was heralded as the liberal answer to the conservative commentators? Well Donahue's ratings are in the toilet, and his days are numbered. There have been many attempts at a radio talk show response to Limbaugh but they all consistently fail. Could it be due to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy(tm) Hillary spoke of, or could it be that many leftist ideas fail in the marketplace in forums where they can be directly challenged? TV and radio need to sell advertising dollars and are purely ratings driven. If a TV or radio broadcaster had a left-wing commentator who consistently scores high ratings do you seriously think they would get rid them for ideological reasons, even though they bring in the advertising bucks? Of course not- they're in business to make money. But the liberal viewpoint in these media outlets fails time after time. Is it because the liberal viewpoint is being silenced or because the liberal ideas aren't that great to begin with? (the answer to that probably depends on your own political beliefs.) As far as bias in the print media (L.A. Times, Washington Times,etc.) it does exist but now that it is being exposed it doesn't occur as blantantly. Back in the day, whenever describing a republican such as Dick Armey, Tom Delay, etc. it would be prefaced with "right-wing","extreme-right wing",or "ultra-conservative". Do you recall the last time a democrat such as Ted Kennedy or Maxine Waters was referred to as "extreme-left wing" or "ultra-liberal" in mainstream print? The phrases "big oil" and "big tabacco" are frequently used. Do you recall ever seeing the phrases "big union" or "big environmental lobby"? Pro-gun control people are referred to as "activists". Anti-gun control people are referred to as "lobbyists".
Where I am going to go for news from a leftist slant now? Oh, I forgot about the mainstream media and the humanities department of every college campus. I guess Salon going belly up is not so disasterous after all for the lefties. By the way, appearing in Salon's "catch of the day" makes the chicks from Joe Millionaire appear to have dignity by comparison.
With regard to the poster's situation, if the cronology is accurate, the company appears to be in wrong not because it requires a credit history, but because this requirement was not disclosed prior to the poster accepting the offer. When an offer is extended you should be able to assume you've met all the criteria necessary for employment. For them to drop this bomb AFTER you've accepted might be the basis for some legal options (IANAL), since you might have incurred losses in the sense of declining other offers, etc.
I don't understand why a company would require this unless the position was financially sensitive or you had the authority to incur company debt. As a general way to judge one's judgement, responsibility, and reliability, credit reports are fair indicators. Yes, there's been some extraordinary stories about illnesses, messy divorces, etc. but as general rule you can use a credit history to predict future behavior.
The international space station's new skipper says forget 'N Sync singer Lance Bass as the orbiting outpost's next tourist. Send up Cindy Crawford!
In space, no one can hear Cindy Crawford sing, and that's a good thing.
My first exposure to widespread cheating was playing StarCraft on battle.net, when in just a few seconds into a 3 on 3 game, all 3 of the enemy players would charge into my base with a massive zealot rush, and I don't care how good of a player you are, you're not surviving an early game zealot rush by 3 players. I always wondered how they knew exactly where I was before even exploring the area...very frustrating. It seemed whenever Blizzard released a patch, this type of early rushing behavior would stop-- for a week or so, then start up again. Then once I learned of the widespread use of the map hack, I had to get it-- not to cheat, but to level the playing field. Sort of the old balance of power thing. Blizzard would never mention addressing the map hack in their patch release notes, but obviously a new map hack would be out within a week to circumvent the latest patch. The cheating was so insane and widespread, that before playing with strangers (when lounging in the pre-game chat room) I actually encouraged them to find the map hack and install it. Most of them feigned ignorance of its existance (yeah right).
It's amazing the lengths the RIAA will go to breathe life into their obsolete business model. What if you lose your high-quality archival copy? You can't create a new one? I suspect the marketplace will reject this new paradigm. The premise behind schemes like these is that in order to stop a few bad people, everyone must be treated like a criminal.
Does anyone think after hearing this parody, Disney will have some epic crisis of conscience and immediately reverse its support of anti-freedom legislation?
Seems like the time and effort behind this would be better spent mailing/e-mailing/snail-mailing/phoning legislators to voice your opposition.
Yeah, I suspected that Darth Vader would kill Jar Jar in Ep.III, but Lucas probably backed off that idea after considering the audience reaction would mostly likely be laughter and applause rather than shock and horror.
If Lucas is really out to tie up every loose end, then Star Wars will literally be a work in progress forever. To these ends, maybe Lucas should model Star Wars on .NET. You could buy a Star Wars subscription and every quarter you will be sent a SWAN (Star Wars addict Network) DVD pack, consisting of all 6 episodes with the latest patches and service packs applied, which fix plot and continuity errors. The first service pack will address why in the 10 years between TPM and AOTC, the Jedi/republic/Naboo did not buy Anakin's mom's freedom, especially after he saved Naboo.