" everyone insists that it's the greatest city on the planet."
I think the reason for this is quite simple: when you're young, you're surrounded by young people. Pretty much anywhere is the greatest place to be when you're surrounded and accepted by young people. (Barring war and disasters)
I experienced this in the 1990s, I was a 20-something doing equipment installations in factories in Poland and the Czech Republic. In my spare time I went out and was immediately welcomed and accepted by the local young people and I had a blast.
Now I'm in my 40s and life is now a mix between being invisible or viewed with suspicion. It's like humans have the life cycle of a barnacle. A few years floating around with millions of baby barnacles, then decades being attached to a house and marriage, and only seeing the 4 or 5 nearest barnacles while the ocean passes you by.
Turanno is definitely looking good these days. I have a few leads over there but I am a purple-scaled horned dinosaur as I work in hardware. I'm not young, I'm not pretty, and I have nothing but scorn for what passes for "software" these days.
I don't care about AI, 3D printing, social media, or any of the dozens of increasingly incomprehensible and dubious phone-based "services" plagued with ads and no privacy.
If I could, I'd work on 60GHz systems at work and use a AM radio and CB at home. In other words, I don't mind making money working on the latest devices, but not actually use any of them personally.
"Are you serious? If I'm going to university for engineering, I'm going to focus on that and not care about MSND."
You have the mind of a child. Your university will be over in four years. Then what? You stop thinking and learning and just apply the few things you'll remember like a robot?
What good are you?
"Why is it pissing on other people's fields when I have no interest in learning about it?"
What good are you?
" is him saying he devoted things that mattered to him and his future prospects."
You'll notice that he didn't say that, you added it, you lying twat.
"You're out of your mind."
I don't make stuff up and twist people's words to fit my needs. That's probably why you can't hack an English lit class, you can't read, and you can't express yourself clearly.
A bright future in engineering is ahead for you!
That is, until you hit 40, or have more than 50% white hairs on your head.
Then don't fucking piss on and look down on other people's fields. With that dismissive arrogant childishness I see all too often in engineering.
You memorized some math and have a hard time dealing with people.
Get over yourself.
" Real life is not like college."
Jesus, the irony of an engineering Asperger's spouting that while not realizing that 99% of the engineering crap absorbed in college/uni is far more worthless than a 400 year old part of human culture.
Face. Palm.
(More replying to Bill really, but I don't care to reply twice)
"Would a handful of Roman or Greek or ancient Chinese metal coins do?"
Sure, given their scarcity and how people react to that perception, I could probably buy a house with them, which I couldn't do with the equivalent mass of metal without a head stamped on it. Kind of my point.
" Currency started out as useful metals traded for other goods"
And now it's bits in computers. You're agreeing with me? You're kind of hard to follow.
It already is. It's a human invention, unless you can show it to me in a physics or chemistry textbook? It's like the Matrix, just a consensual hallucination mediated by computers.
I feel the same way about "The Art of Electronics" on the hardware side. Useless book, except as a symbol, or if you enjoy reading two old men wool-gathering about obsolete technologies.
Working on Ka-band amplifiers... what a waste of my time. I should be working on networked AI smart underwear, with 3D printed reinforced gussets and IoT connectivity to the cloud, and automatic Facebook updates and VR glasses.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that describes it quite well.
" everyone insists that it's the greatest city on the planet."
I think the reason for this is quite simple: when you're young, you're surrounded by young people. Pretty much anywhere is the greatest place to be when you're surrounded and accepted by young people. (Barring war and disasters)
I experienced this in the 1990s, I was a 20-something doing equipment installations in factories in Poland and the Czech Republic. In my spare time I went out and was immediately welcomed and accepted by the local young people and I had a blast.
Now I'm in my 40s and life is now a mix between being invisible or viewed with suspicion. It's like humans have the life cycle of a barnacle. A few years floating around with millions of baby barnacles, then decades being attached to a house and marriage, and only seeing the 4 or 5 nearest barnacles while the ocean passes you by.
Well that made my morning! Somehow, your line reminded me of the movie "The Bothersome Man".
The scene were he's digging in the basement.
Turanno is definitely looking good these days. I have a few leads over there but I am a purple-scaled horned dinosaur as I work in hardware. I'm not young, I'm not pretty, and I have nothing but scorn for what passes for "software" these days.
I don't care about AI, 3D printing, social media, or any of the dozens of increasingly incomprehensible and dubious phone-based "services" plagued with ads and no privacy.
If I could, I'd work on 60GHz systems at work and use a AM radio and CB at home. In other words, I don't mind making money working on the latest devices, but not actually use any of them personally.
If were young again, I would leave Montreal as if it were a medieval plague city.
Sky high taxes, dirty, gray downtown, corruption everywhere, low wages, endless regulations, terrible weather.
Young people! You are free! Enjoy what you can.
"Are you serious? If I'm going to university for engineering, I'm going to focus on that and not care about MSND."
You have the mind of a child. Your university will be over in four years. Then what? You stop thinking and learning and just apply the few things you'll remember like a robot?
What good are you?
"Why is it pissing on other people's fields when I have no interest in learning about it?"
What good are you?
" is him saying he devoted things that mattered to him and his future prospects."
You'll notice that he didn't say that, you added it, you lying twat.
"You're out of your mind."
I don't make stuff up and twist people's words to fit my needs. That's probably why you can't hack an English lit class, you can't read, and you can't express yourself clearly.
A bright future in engineering is ahead for you!
That is, until you hit 40, or have more than 50% white hairs on your head.
Then we'll see.
"Engineering saves lives"
To do what with that life? So you can live to be entertained, read books, watch movies, listen to music?
Then don't fucking piss on and look down on other people's fields. With that dismissive arrogant childishness I see all too often in engineering.
You memorized some math and have a hard time dealing with people.
Get over yourself.
" Real life is not like college."
Jesus, the irony of an engineering Asperger's spouting that while not realizing that 99% of the engineering crap absorbed in college/uni is far more worthless than a 400 year old part of human culture.
Face. Palm.
(More replying to Bill really, but I don't care to reply twice)
"I just preferred to devote time to things that actually mattered, like my engineering courses."
A Midsummer Night's Dream was written over four hundred years ago. Care to tell us what you're working on now that people in 2418 will talk about?
Still think what you're doing matters?
This contemptuous and dismissive arrogance from engineers whose only contributions are to next year's e-waste is tiresome.
And I work in engineering.
Yeah, well, considering you think no computer ever ran at 1.023MHz, everything you say is automatically suspect, and probably wrong.
"b) No computer ever ran at 1.023 MHz."
Only the Guinness World Record highest selling single model of home computer.
So much for "no". That's the NTSC version BTW. The VIC-20 also ran at that frequency.
"or maybe a multiple of 3.579545Mhz"
So why contradict yourself?
14.31818MHz/14 = 1.022MHz. What a coinkydink!
Hey, what about the Atari 800?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
1.79MHz.
ZX80?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
3.25MHz...
You're a poser, friend.
"Would a handful of Roman or Greek or ancient Chinese metal coins do?"
Sure, given their scarcity and how people react to that perception, I could probably buy a house with them, which I couldn't do with the equivalent mass of metal without a head stamped on it. Kind of my point.
" Currency started out as useful metals traded for other goods"
And now it's bits in computers. You're agreeing with me? You're kind of hard to follow.
"Just create money out of thin air. "
It already is. It's a human invention, unless you can show it to me in a physics or chemistry textbook? It's like the Matrix, just a consensual hallucination mediated by computers.
Really? No one remembers this?
https://youtu.be/1qtxPSR8q98
Please provide a list of Slashdot stories talking about that in the last 12 months.
we get some medical breakthroughs. I don't think I can handle another SpaceX, 3D printer, virtual reality, cryptocurrency, or Apple story.
None of these things matter if you can't see.
"he problem is you don't realize it until you can accurately calculate about 15 decimal places"
Huh? You can calculate to any number of decimal places by hand. What's your point?
OK but can you at least learn to spell "atheist" correctly?
I feel the same way about "The Art of Electronics" on the hardware side. Useless book, except as a symbol, or if you enjoy reading two old men wool-gathering about obsolete technologies.
"Sputnik was 1958"
Fuck. What timeline is this?
Entomology is the study of insects. Perhaps you should have spent 6 seconds online looking up the definition of words...
PS: You wanted "etymology".
Replacing fast food with home-cooked meals.
3D printing, AI, IoT, gig economy. Millenials!
What do you think 98% of our Western economic model is all about?
Working on Ka-band amplifiers... what a waste of my time. I should be working on networked AI smart underwear, with 3D printed reinforced gussets and IoT connectivity to the cloud, and automatic Facebook updates and VR glasses.
FUND ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and you have a lack of facts.