and I don't make no 60 dollars an hour. I don't even make 50K...I'm assuming that the article meant 60 dollars on paper, not the total cost, or they would have been more specific.
Interestingly, we have a whole bunch of contractors, they are all foreign nationals and they are making way more than I do. If they want cheap labor, maybe my company should hire more people in house and try to exercise some restraint in taking on new projects we aren't staffed for.
I think cost is not the whole issue really, as much as it is to exercise greater control over their staffing. if you compare overpriced contracting to offshore outsourcing, outsourcing probably does come up cheaper every time. it probably wouldn't be so big if companies didn't rely on contract workers, but I suspect that contracting is here to stay. If I'm right, I'm a little annoyed that they are lumping comtract labor costs with my lower wages as an excuse to outsource more jobs overseas. why don't they fire the contractors?
If you were the type of person who becomes a terrorist over there, I bet you are also the same kind of person who would claim that Syria is a great place to live.
I'd imagine it would be really awkward to be dedicated to destroying the US because it deports people to Islamic countries that torture and kill expatriates.
Isn't the point of XML that its a fucking document markup language? If this patent made any god damn sense, whats to stop people from patenting marking up ANYTHING in xml?
Patents are supposed to be nonobvious, and marking up documents in XML is PRETTY DAMN OBVIOUS.
The GIMP just keeps getting better and better. I think this is great for open source, and for the thousands of people who need a really good graphics tool but don't want to chuck out the money for Photoshop.
But to head all the photoshop comparisons off at the pass...Don't assume that most people who already use photoshop even care. They've got a time and education investment. Their tool is literally 100% supported in their profession. It does almost everything they need, and has near perfect interoperability with other industry tools. You are hired based on how well you know photoshop.
I haven't done any graphic design since college, but I still know all the people I went to school with. Not a single one has the slightest professional interest in a new tool. Before anyone takes this as a troll, I'll say that the number of people I know who AREN'T paid professionals far exceed the ones who are, and every one of them was interested in a free photoshop-like tool.
I'm slightly worried about people labelling this as flamebait, but its fairly frustrating when you look around and see people talking about how its just a matter of time before GIMP swats photoshop out of the air. To me, thats kind of akin to saying that gravity is going to reverse itself tomorrow--simply too much has to change overnight for me to buy that.
(as a side note, does anyone use GIMP with a Wacom pad in Xfree86? Do all the basic tools and plugins take advantage of tilt and pressure? I can't find any user experiences with this on the net, and I'd like to know before I recompile X for pad support, and actually dig the thing out of the attic.)
Vices are called "bad" for a reason. they are the causes of human suffering.
Let me use pornography as an example, since slashdotters love that one.
Why in the world would I let my child view pornography? this is not some "sacred depiction of love between man and woman" or whatever. It's the degradation of human beings for profit. The people in these videos and pictures are suffering--either right now, or later when they realize what their life is like. Many of them were sexually abused as children. For our own sexual curiosity we're willing to support a multibillion dollar industry whose commodity is exploitable people.
I do not want my child to see pornography at a young age. whatever/whenever they see pornography, it becomes the baseline for their escalating interest. the more they are exposed to, the greater the interest in the fringe realms of sexuality. You'd better hope that doesn't happen too early, or its going to hinder any possible sexual relationship they have in the future. There is no reason whatsoever for a child to view pornography. They don't need pornography to learn about sex, and they don't need it to be aroused by the opposite sex. They don't need to see pornography as a rite of passage into adulthood, especially if they are only five years old.
I have two rational reasons to "hide" some things from my children: those things are "wrong"; and those things are "bad" for them. It hurts them, and it teaches them that its okay to hurt other people for your own benefit. no. I will not teach my child that that is alright.
I don't know what you're talking about. We have more information than ever. I remember when companies either didn't have a website, or didn't understand what they were for. It's the rare company now that can afford to have a useless website. I buy almost all my stuff online. A few years ago, we were arguing over whether that would really happen, because we had a hard time even conceiving of it..
The other day I was looking at mini-ipods on the apple site. You can download PDF stat sheets, a few high-resolution JPGs, or even look at the thing from any angle via some sort of quicktime 3D plugin thingy. I'm sorry, but thats a GOOD thing, and I want more of it.
(And by the way, what's wrong with "pretty pictures"? Since I got on the internet in 1995, I've managed to collect TENS OF THOUSANDS of photographs and scans of famous artwork. I can't think of a more comprehensive way to expose someone to art.)
The fact that anime characters in general tend to be wispy and tall is irrelevant in face of the fact that there exists many, many teenagers who are both wispy and tall. They are not what I would consider "deformed". I have seen plenty of teenagers who would look perfect for this movie.
I think the parent poster was more annoyed that, by casting 20-30 year olds, they simply wouldn't look like teenagers.
something other people seem to have ignored is how much of the feeling of Evangelion is tied into experiences and emotions someone would have as a young teenager. If this movie gets made and they decide to cast adults...they can do that--but I won't watch it, because it'll probably just be a mindless action/scifi flick.
So, I decided to check out some human rights websites.
Provided the information is up to date, Oman has no privately owned broadcast media. Criticizing the Sultan is specifically prohbited by law. All publication is censored by a government office.
Oman has an official religion, which is Islam. While freedom to practice your religion is allowed, other religions besides Islam are barred from proselytizing.
The government must approve public events. Public gatherings require government approval. NGOs must be governmentally approved. Police do not require search warrants. The right to unionize and strike is specifically prohibited by law. The sultan can overturn parliament.
You've mentioned you don't have gun rights in Oman. I couldn't find reference to whether there is gay marriage in Oman, but I'm betting there isn't. Personally I'm not impressed that you don't need a fishing license in Oman, and I wonder if discussing gay marriage is even allowed there.
From what I've read, Oman does seem pretty progressive compared to many other arab countries, but theres all kinds of things that Americans would find completely and totally antithetical to our definition of freedom. so, I suppose in day to day living Oman might be nicer than the USA--providing you are the type of person who day to day doesn't criticise the leader of your government, or participate in any non-government approved organizations, or have a union job. How many americans don't do those things?
I'm 26, but for a significant chunk of my childhood Dr. Who was played on PBS every (I recall) Friday night, which I watched religiously with my dad. It's one of the few things we could do together without getting into a fight.
I remember it quite well, albeit in reruns, and in the USA.
But where are the "art sites" alluded to in the main submission? I want high-resolution (as high as possible) image files of famous/classic paintings. Are there sites like this? I can't find them,except sporadically.
The paintings obviously aren't copyright controlled, and I understand that simple photographs can't be copyrighted, since they don't add anything creatively. Are museums restricting access? Where are the high resolution photographs?
It has been verified that faulty citizen failure has resulted in at least one contested Florida election. It's no surprise. Some of these citizens have been around since the '20s! They cost a fortune to maintain. Clearly we can do better than this.
I recommend replacing them. Shiny new electronic voters would reduce the problem of incorrect vote selection, as well as ambiguous ballots, or the inability to understand clear, spoken or written English. Computers are far better at binary selection than senior citizens, so they should have no problem.
It's not uncommon for schools to lock out the DOS prompt because it allows you to run arbitrary applications on a win9x machine. Maybe you can get around it, but if thats the case at this school and he did, that pretty much proves he knew he was doing something wrong.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here. We don't know what exactly he did. The REAL problem is that the school doesn't have a clear policy, and now he's suspended for three days. It's unacceptable for a school to not have a usage policy.
Years ago, I got punished when I did this on my school's IPX network using a netware message command. It certainly was "hacking."
Know why?
Because the machines were locked down so you couldn't get to the console or execute arbitary programs. If you could do a net send, you obviously did something to get around this.
It'll have a home right next to my Betamax player and my Sony Superstation tape backup drive. Right across from all my memory stick components and my lovely SACD player. I already had minidisc and long play minidisc and their last PC mindisc drive (I was on of the 5 proud owners!), now I can add HD minidisc.
Sony is like the Voltron of crappy proprietary hardware.
I don't know about society, but I consider nudity in combination with an oversexualized popular culture a bad thing. Maybe in a cultural vacuum nudity would be acceptable around children, but not our current one in the USA.
As a matter of fact, when I was a child my family was quite open about nudity. It didn't really bother any of us to see other family members naked, which was quite normal getting ready for work/school in the morning. This surprised some of my other friends years later to hear this, who had never seen their parents naked apparently.
This actually really messed with my sense of privacy, so the open minded 70s atmosphere backfired. Taboos don't exist solely as a property of close-mindedness, its just an acknowlegement of the present state of the culture. I didn't gain anything by being open about nudity in my childhood, and was actually hurt developmentally by it. Societal laws may be completely arbitrary and self-perpetuating, but the consequences of working against them are as real as ignoring natural laws. Not because it's "wrong" in any objective sense, but because you are fighting the current.
Based on my personal experience, I don't believe that nudity is very compatible with the american culture, which is why the taboo exists. I don't think it would be the end of the world if we practiced postmortem cannibalism here in the USA, but it would be directly incompatible with at least four major religions, so the fact that it can't objectively harm anyone is irrelevant in the face of the fact that it would be massively culturally disruptive.
Fighting Taboos seem to be based on the idea that culture doesn't matter because it's arbitrary, which is distinctly the impression I got from Graham's article. I believe it does matter.
I'm not in the camp that starts a new thread complaining about NYT every time someone submits their stories. He asked, I offered my situation. A typical transaction for me involving a NYTimes article on Slashdot is to simply ignore it, without complaining or responding, and move on to the next submission.
Given the opportunity to explain in detail why I hate it, I did.
Because I have a computer at work, three computers at home, and regularly visit slashdot at other locations, all of which require logging in or otherwise maintaining a cookie, and requires the use of yet another password and username, all for to accomplish the ostensibly simple task of reading an article.
People complain about it because it is a repetitive waste of time and memory to deal with all this, not to mention a privacy violation if you actually enter correct information in an attempt to simplify your account management.
People resent it because practically no one else makes you register to read their silly articles.
And just to cut any repliers off at the pass, as a matter of fact, I don't read the articles because I have to register.
I'm not trashing on you in particular about not posting the Google cache. you are correct about that. I'm just offering an answer to your question. People complain about it because a significant subset of slashdotters have simply too many computers/too many login accounts/or care significantly about privacy, and so registration is a huge annoyance to them and they won't do it. Consequently, even the presence of a NYTimes article is a waste of their time.
Personally I would like to see a filter to hide all slashdot articles that require registration to access.
When you factor in for example, the lost precision overcoming static friction on the ball in a ball mouse, your response time drastically improves using an optical mouse. This is of course unless you can keep your ball mouse perfectly clean, and free from any wear at all, which isn't possible.
Furthermore, while the DPI might not make a huge difference, the polling rate between a serial mouse and an optical mouse is insane. I can say unequivocally that if you are a hard core gamer, that an optical mouse is the way to go.
As for whether that difference in DPI between two optical mouses is significant, I can't say. I've never tried that. But I say with confidence that optical is measurably better than mechanical.
Inciting people to violence against a particular ethnic group would be a hate crime, but "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS!" is a fictional utterance by a fictional character in a dramatic work of fiction. It is clearly protected speech. Florida is smoking crack.
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and I don't make no 60 dollars an hour. I don't even make 50K...I'm assuming that the article meant 60 dollars on paper, not the total cost, or they would have been more specific.
Interestingly, we have a whole bunch of contractors, they are all foreign nationals and they are making way more than I do. If they want cheap labor, maybe my company should hire more people in house and try to exercise some restraint in taking on new projects we aren't staffed for.
I think cost is not the whole issue really, as much as it is to exercise greater control over their staffing. if you compare overpriced contracting to offshore outsourcing, outsourcing probably does come up cheaper every time. it probably wouldn't be so big if companies didn't rely on contract workers, but I suspect that contracting is here to stay. If I'm right, I'm a little annoyed that they are lumping comtract labor costs with my lower wages as an excuse to outsource more jobs overseas. why don't they fire the contractors?
This is all postulation.
If you were the type of person who becomes a terrorist over there, I bet you are also the same kind of person who would claim that Syria is a great place to live.
I'd imagine it would be really awkward to be dedicated to destroying the US because it deports people to Islamic countries that torture and kill expatriates.
I don't believe that opening the Windows source is more important than educating children or trying to treat AIDS in Africa.
The first rule of Orkut club is you don't talk about Orkut club.
Isn't the point of XML that its a fucking document markup language? If this patent made any god damn sense, whats to stop people from patenting marking up ANYTHING in xml? Patents are supposed to be nonobvious, and marking up documents in XML is PRETTY DAMN OBVIOUS.
The GIMP just keeps getting better and better. I think this is great for open source, and for the thousands of people who need a really good graphics tool but don't want to chuck out the money for Photoshop.
But to head all the photoshop comparisons off at the pass...Don't assume that most people who already use photoshop even care. They've got a time and education investment. Their tool is literally 100% supported in their profession. It does almost everything they need, and has near perfect interoperability with other industry tools. You are hired based on how well you know photoshop.
I haven't done any graphic design since college, but I still know all the people I went to school with. Not a single one has the slightest professional interest in a new tool. Before anyone takes this as a troll, I'll say that the number of people I know who AREN'T paid professionals far exceed the ones who are, and every one of them was interested in a free photoshop-like tool.
I'm slightly worried about people labelling this as flamebait, but its fairly frustrating when you look around and see people talking about how its just a matter of time before GIMP swats photoshop out of the air. To me, thats kind of akin to saying that gravity is going to reverse itself tomorrow--simply too much has to change overnight for me to buy that.
(as a side note, does anyone use GIMP with a Wacom pad in Xfree86? Do all the basic tools and plugins take advantage of tilt and pressure? I can't find any user experiences with this on the net, and I'd like to know before I recompile X for pad support, and actually dig the thing out of the attic.)
Vices are called "bad" for a reason. they are the causes of human suffering.
Let me use pornography as an example, since slashdotters love that one.
Why in the world would I let my child view pornography? this is not some "sacred depiction of love between man and woman" or whatever. It's the degradation of human beings for profit. The people in these videos and pictures are suffering--either right now, or later when they realize what their life is like. Many of them were sexually abused as children. For our own sexual curiosity we're willing to support a multibillion dollar industry whose commodity is exploitable people.
I do not want my child to see pornography at a young age. whatever/whenever they see pornography, it becomes the baseline for their escalating interest. the more they are exposed to, the greater the interest in the fringe realms of sexuality. You'd better hope that doesn't happen too early, or its going to hinder any possible sexual relationship they have in the future. There is no reason whatsoever for a child to view pornography. They don't need pornography to learn about sex, and they don't need it to be aroused by the opposite sex. They don't need to see pornography as a rite of passage into adulthood, especially if they are only five years old.
I have two rational reasons to "hide" some things from my children: those things are "wrong"; and those things are "bad" for them. It hurts them, and it teaches them that its okay to hurt other people for your own benefit. no. I will not teach my child that that is alright.
I don't know what you're talking about. We have more information than ever. I remember when companies either didn't have a website, or didn't understand what they were for. It's the rare company now that can afford to have a useless website. I buy almost all my stuff online. A few years ago, we were arguing over whether that would really happen, because we had a hard time even conceiving of it..
The other day I was looking at mini-ipods on the apple site. You can download PDF stat sheets, a few high-resolution JPGs, or even look at the thing from any angle via some sort of quicktime 3D plugin thingy. I'm sorry, but thats a GOOD thing, and I want more of it.
(And by the way, what's wrong with "pretty pictures"? Since I got on the internet in 1995, I've managed to collect TENS OF THOUSANDS of photographs and scans of famous artwork. I can't think of a more comprehensive way to expose someone to art.)
I think the parent poster was more annoyed that, by casting 20-30 year olds, they simply wouldn't look like teenagers.
something other people seem to have ignored is how much of the feeling of Evangelion is tied into experiences and emotions someone would have as a young teenager. If this movie gets made and they decide to cast adults...they can do that--but I won't watch it, because it'll probably just be a mindless action/scifi flick.
So, I decided to check out some human rights websites.
Provided the information is up to date, Oman has no privately owned broadcast media. Criticizing the Sultan is specifically prohbited by law. All publication is censored by a government office.
Oman has an official religion, which is Islam. While freedom to practice your religion is allowed, other religions besides Islam are barred from proselytizing.
The government must approve public events. Public gatherings require government approval. NGOs must be governmentally approved. Police do not require search warrants. The right to unionize and strike is specifically prohibited by law. The sultan can overturn parliament.
You've mentioned you don't have gun rights in Oman. I couldn't find reference to whether there is gay marriage in Oman, but I'm betting there isn't. Personally I'm not impressed that you don't need a fishing license in Oman, and I wonder if discussing gay marriage is even allowed there.
From what I've read, Oman does seem pretty progressive compared to many other arab countries, but theres all kinds of things that Americans would find completely and totally antithetical to our definition of freedom. so, I suppose in day to day living Oman might be nicer than the USA--providing you are the type of person who day to day doesn't criticise the leader of your government, or participate in any non-government approved organizations, or have a union job. How many americans don't do those things?
http://www.nationbynation.com/Oman/Human.html0 02?open&of=ENG-OMN6 .htm
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE200012
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/nea/828
http://www.saudihr.org/en/oman.htm
I'm 26, but for a significant chunk of my childhood Dr. Who was played on PBS every (I recall) Friday night, which I watched religiously with my dad. It's one of the few things we could do together without getting into a fight.
I remember it quite well, albeit in reruns, and in the USA.
It would be completely rational for the robot to conclude that it was in fact a product of intelligent creation and not evolution.
The term "professional" is elitist too. thats the point. It differentiates me from people who don't do what I'm doing at a professional level.
When asked to comment, a South Korean Diablo II player named LJGHasdffggSFDGsdfasdfFgS on Battle.net had this to say:
TRAD PLZ. GIV ITAM 2 ME. U SUK AMERCAN KOREA NUKE U HAHA
But where are the "art sites" alluded to in the main submission? I want high-resolution (as high as possible) image files of famous/classic paintings. Are there sites like this? I can't find them,except sporadically.
The paintings obviously aren't copyright controlled, and I understand that simple photographs can't be copyrighted, since they don't add anything creatively. Are museums restricting access? Where are the high resolution photographs?
It has been verified that faulty citizen failure has resulted in at least one contested Florida election. It's no surprise. Some of these citizens have been around since the '20s! They cost a fortune to maintain. Clearly we can do better than this.
I recommend replacing them. Shiny new electronic voters would reduce the problem of incorrect vote selection, as well as ambiguous ballots, or the inability to understand clear, spoken or written English. Computers are far better at binary selection than senior citizens, so they should have no problem.
It's not uncommon for schools to lock out the DOS prompt because it allows you to run arbitrary applications on a win9x machine. Maybe you can get around it, but if thats the case at this school and he did, that pretty much proves he knew he was doing something wrong.
I'm just playing devil's advocate here. We don't know what exactly he did. The REAL problem is that the school doesn't have a clear policy, and now he's suspended for three days. It's unacceptable for a school to not have a usage policy.
Years ago, I got punished when I did this on my school's IPX network using a netware message command. It certainly was "hacking."
Know why?
Because the machines were locked down so you couldn't get to the console or execute arbitary programs. If you could do a net send, you obviously did something to get around this.
Think about it, people.
It'll have a home right next to my Betamax player and my Sony Superstation tape backup drive. Right across from all my memory stick components and my lovely SACD player. I already had minidisc and long play minidisc and their last PC mindisc drive (I was on of the 5 proud owners!), now I can add HD minidisc.
Sony is like the Voltron of crappy proprietary hardware.
I don't know about society, but I consider nudity in combination with an oversexualized popular culture a bad thing. Maybe in a cultural vacuum nudity would be acceptable around children, but not our current one in the USA.
As a matter of fact, when I was a child my family was quite open about nudity. It didn't really bother any of us to see other family members naked, which was quite normal getting ready for work/school in the morning. This surprised some of my other friends years later to hear this, who had never seen their parents naked apparently.
This actually really messed with my sense of privacy, so the open minded 70s atmosphere backfired. Taboos don't exist solely as a property of close-mindedness, its just an acknowlegement of the present state of the culture. I didn't gain anything by being open about nudity in my childhood, and was actually hurt developmentally by it. Societal laws may be completely arbitrary and self-perpetuating, but the consequences of working against them are as real as ignoring natural laws. Not because it's "wrong" in any objective sense, but because you are fighting the current.
Based on my personal experience, I don't believe that nudity is very compatible with the american culture, which is why the taboo exists. I don't think it would be the end of the world if we practiced postmortem cannibalism here in the USA, but it would be directly incompatible with at least four major religions, so the fact that it can't objectively harm anyone is irrelevant in the face of the fact that it would be massively culturally disruptive.
Fighting Taboos seem to be based on the idea that culture doesn't matter because it's arbitrary, which is distinctly the impression I got from Graham's article. I believe it does matter.
Just my two cents.
I'm not in the camp that starts a new thread complaining about NYT every time someone submits their stories. He asked, I offered my situation. A typical transaction for me involving a NYTimes article on Slashdot is to simply ignore it, without complaining or responding, and move on to the next submission.
Given the opportunity to explain in detail why I hate it, I did.
People complain about it because it is a repetitive waste of time and memory to deal with all this, not to mention a privacy violation if you actually enter correct information in an attempt to simplify your account management.
People resent it because practically no one else makes you register to read their silly articles.
And just to cut any repliers off at the pass, as a matter of fact, I don't read the articles because I have to register.
I'm not trashing on you in particular about not posting the Google cache. you are correct about that. I'm just offering an answer to your question. People complain about it because a significant subset of slashdotters have simply too many computers/too many login accounts/or care significantly about privacy, and so registration is a huge annoyance to them and they won't do it. Consequently, even the presence of a NYTimes article is a waste of their time.
Personally I would like to see a filter to hide all slashdot articles that require registration to access.
Thanks for your submission nonetheless.
When you factor in for example, the lost precision overcoming static friction on the ball in a ball mouse, your response time drastically improves using an optical mouse. This is of course unless you can keep your ball mouse perfectly clean, and free from any wear at all, which isn't possible.
Furthermore, while the DPI might not make a huge difference, the polling rate between a serial mouse and an optical mouse is insane. I can say unequivocally that if you are a hard core gamer, that an optical mouse is the way to go.
As for whether that difference in DPI between two optical mouses is significant, I can't say. I've never tried that. But I say with confidence that optical is measurably better than mechanical.
So what do you say when she asks "But everyone uses MP3. Why don't they?"
Inciting people to violence against a particular ethnic group would be a hate crime, but "KILL ALL THE HAITIANS!" is a fictional utterance by a fictional character in a dramatic work of fiction. It is clearly protected speech. Florida is smoking crack.