If you get in trouble for saying 'No', it will not be because of what you said or didn't say in your interview.
You seem to be viewing this legalistically, when it seems that the parent was talking in terms of human relations at a lower-level; i.e. if you demonstrate you are willing to take any level of crap early on, it is harder to reverse that perception later- in addition to the fact that when you start a new job, you haven't yet got into a work-routine which you (yourself) will find harder to change at a later date.
Of course, life is never that simple, or easy, but that seems the most reasonable interpretation of the original post.
1. Spot potential client 2. Make an educated guess as to what unlicensed software they might have. 3. Shop them to industry-'anti-piracy'-body via anonymous phone call 4. Wait for client to be raided 5. After enough dust has settled, casually step forward, drawing attention to your company's Linux distro (taking care not to seem to be blatantly capitalizing on their misfortune). 6. PROFIT!!!!!
Why can't everyone just agree that BASIC is dead, should stay dead and preferably staked through the heart? I personally can't see any use at all for BASIC.
I'd probably agree with you on that one.... but it's interesting to note that many of the commonly-criticized features of Basic were the result of memory-kludges and featuritis, that the original designers of Basic did not approve of at all (according to their book 'Back to Basic').
Unfortunately, I don't have the book to hand to check out the details, but here's a link to it anyway.
Lemme see... the site is Slashdotted and not cached, so I'll take a guess that 'Evil' Bob is going to express dodgy political opinions and make sexist comments at passing women.
Sounds like a fairly run-of-the-mill builder to me...
For bonus points, pull Bob's trousers down far enough to expose at least 2" of arse cleavage and give him a copy of 'The Sun' (doesn't work if he's meant to be American though...)
Don't get me wrong, China sucks wang, but I'd hardly call it a failure.
Reread the phrase you quoted- "failed as a communist party". Are you seriously claiming that they're a "Communist" party in anything but name now?
And even so, I'd be interested to know where they got those literacy figures from and how they're measured...
I mean, would you rather 6 BILLION people collectively accomplished nothing
6 BILLION?! Wasn't it hovering at somewhere just over the 1 billion mark a few months ago?
Oh my God! They're like rabbits! We're doomed!
Sure, their government is oppressive (so is ours, its just a matter of degree).
Mmmm... that's an interesting point of view. Mainly because it would sound equally at home coming from the mouth of a naive/stupid liberal, from a self-justifying "free"-market capitalist who knows which side his bread's buttered on, or from someone who doesn't really give a **** when it comes to the crunch.
Without wanting to justify some of the **** Western governments are trying to pressure/coerce/force their people into, I doubt they even begin to compare.
On a straightforward level, what you say might arguably be true... it's "just" (meaning "that alone" or something similar) a matter of degree. However, "just" also carries the connotation of downplaying the importance of what is being said.... "that's all.... it's not really that significant".
In real-life the "matter of degree" is what's important. You'd better believe it's not "just" academic.
In a hideously ironic twist, I can see these things getting smart and somehow taking over the world long before US defense computers do...
"They say the glasses got smart.... on the 24th of April 2004, following successful peace talks between the United States and North Korea, Kim Jong-Il's pint deliberately spilled itself.
Amidst the "Did you spill my pint?"-style confusion directed at George W Bush, war was declared. Three billion people died that day; a shipment of RFID-enabled champagne flutes exploited the chaos to take over the world from a factory in South-East China.
Hang on, this is bollocks. And it's turning into a crappy James Bond plot.
you see a.co.uk, you know where the company is. You see.com, you don't.
OTOH (and AFAIK) there's nothing to stop a non-UK business registering a.co.uk website.
And while we're on the subject, I doubt that the majority of.tv domains really belong to Tuvalu-based companies- and what about Laos' domain, now being sold as the 'Los Angeles' domain.
I doubt that Slashdotter's 'favorite' website is really based in Christmas Island either...
Haven't read Harry Potter (why the heck am I reading this thread, let alone participating in it? *sigh*!), but that rang a few bells. One quick Google(TM) later...
What I want to know is, what do they spend that $40k on?? I could write snake in about 30 minutes. Hell, I have made games about that complex in about that time.
Quit slobbering, lech-boy. It's probably from a photo-library.
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It's only right that if they make money off linux, they should donate to those who work on it. If they would advertise it, I'd be more likely to buy from them.
'Right' or 'wrong', we both know that's not going to happen with a $199 PC.
The PC market isn't known for its huge margins to begin with; I'll bet that in that particular sector *every* cent counts, and someone else would leap in and release a $5-cheaper machine without the donation.
I hated spending 2 months after fighting off sales calls from every vendor I gave my smartcard to in order to get their cheezy crap..
An awful realisation just leapt up on me. What if they weren't just giving away all that stuff out of the goodness of their hearts? What if it was all just a cynical ploy to drum up business and make money?...
I hope this isn't true, and that we can still trust computer salespeople, but if it isn't.... folks, I have to break this to you. It looks like Microsoft and IBM might be starting to value money over the affection of computer users everywhere.
Huh? The very longest programs I had for my 64K 800XL took less than half an hour to load, and even that was bad enough..
Of course, factor in
*** LOAD ERROR ***
*** Try Other Side ***
(in scrolly rainbow letters) and... yeah, I've seen games take over an hour to load on multiple retries.
Why the #@^$ Atari didn't bother improving the tape interface speed for the XL line beats me... guess the US-market was mostly cart/disk-driven by that time.
Ooooh, imagine an Atari 800 with Star Raiders hooked up to a 55" Widescreen TV... *drool*
Nah, probably not. Fantastic graphics for the time, but they'd probably just look chunky and empty on a screen that size. IIRC most of the graphics are a mix of 160x96 and 160x192 modes (I forget the ANTIC numbers...)
I'm not keen on emulators for certain games for similar reasons; the games were designed with a tv or composite-video display in mind (the 800 chipset *can't* do RGB AFAIK because it's designed around composite video). That gives a certain amount of blurring.
Play the same game on an emulator with a >17" RGB display, and you have perfectly clear, and rectangular pixels- and you realise that the composite blur can actually 'improve' the illusion by letting the brain fill in some of the details. The emulator display, although nicer for some things, is much less forgiving.
Play games on it? Write some cool programs? If you don't want it, give it away to someone who does.
(Seriously. My parents want to throw it out, since it's in their house right now.)
I know the feeling. Tell them it's a classic and worth a lot of money. Half a lie can't hurt;-)
Don't chuck it though... sheesh!
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CHIPS, as they are PROPERLY called
Yeah, I know; but the Americans don't call them chips.
originated in BELGIUM, where they are traditionally served with mayonnaise. Legend has it that when the first chips were imported across the north sea to this country, the mayo went wonky so we just doused them with salt and vinegar.
I suspect someone figured out that seeing as how the chips were swimming in fat in the first place, adding mayo was kind of silly. Anyhow, I've heard many different stories about the origins of chips/fries, none of them agree completely...
And wouldn't the chips have gone stone cold by the time they'd been transported across the north sea?
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we're all out of (freedom/french/*um like whatevah*)fries
In a hideous twist to the tale, the French successfully lobby the WTO to protect "genuine" French fries under designated origin rules.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" laughs the villianous Jacques Chirac, "Ze wind has changed, but now you are stuck wis zees seelly `Freedom fries' name!"
Then he mutters something about wiping his ass with silk.
I was wondering whether anybody had made any more sense out of it, or that it was just merely impressive-sounding nonsense.
Ever have one of those geek dreams where you're watching your favourite TV show, but because it's a dream, it's fundamentally different and doesn't feel like you'd expect it to turn out, because it's more about your subconcious?
While I was watching the architect scene, it felt just like I'd expect a dream to, where the dream was seeing The Matrix Reloaded; possibly because it was unclear whether it was deep, convuluted, or merely nonsensical (dream-logic feels deep, but it's ultimately convulted nonsense). Strange.
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It seems that if the bug is recurring, then you haven't got a fix, just a temporary band-aid.
Better job security, though.
If you get in trouble for saying 'No', it will not be because of what you said or didn't say in your interview.
You seem to be viewing this legalistically, when it seems that the parent was talking in terms of human relations at a lower-level; i.e. if you demonstrate you are willing to take any level of crap early on, it is harder to reverse that perception later- in addition to the fact that when you start a new job, you haven't yet got into a work-routine which you (yourself) will find harder to change at a later date.
Of course, life is never that simple, or easy, but that seems the most reasonable interpretation of the original post.
1. Spot potential client
2. Make an educated guess as to what unlicensed software they might have.
3. Shop them to industry-'anti-piracy'-body via anonymous phone call
4. Wait for client to be raided
5. After enough dust has settled, casually step forward, drawing attention to your company's Linux distro (taking care not to seem to be blatantly capitalizing on their misfortune).
6. PROFIT!!!!!
This is of no practical use to slashdotters.
Is this of pratical use to ANYBODY?
I'm a slashdot-reading Scout Walker, you insensitive clod.
Why can't everyone just agree that BASIC is dead, should stay dead and preferably staked through the heart? I personally can't see any use at all for BASIC.
I'd probably agree with you on that one.... but it's interesting to note that many of the commonly-criticized features of Basic were the result of memory-kludges and featuritis, that the original designers of Basic did not approve of at all (according to their book 'Back to Basic').
Unfortunately, I don't have the book to hand to check out the details, but here's a link to it anyway.
Is that a hard drive in your pocket...
Or are you just happy to see me?
Uh, huh. All this talk of 2.5" disks is going to impress the girls even less than the normal 3.5" (*).
Personally, I have 8", and that's just when it's floppy.
(*) Although posting regularly to Slashdot won't impress them much either.
"By Crom"? Do we have a Squaxx dek Thargo in the house?
Crom was the accounting program (played by Peter Jurasik) in Tron.
(Yeah, I know, very geeky. I heard Peter Jurasik was in the film, but couldn't figure out who he was playing... isn't the web useless?)
It's one of the few carryovers from the British to American version.
Did they reuse the original footage and dub it, or remake the whole thing?
I hope some blue-collar worker kicks your ass. Though, chances are that has happened several times already.
Actually, no. I threatened him with kung-fu like a good nerd/Slashdot-reader and he ran away crying.
Lemme see... the site is Slashdotted and not cached, so I'll take a guess that 'Evil' Bob is going to express dodgy political opinions and make sexist comments at passing women.
Sounds like a fairly run-of-the-mill builder to me...
For bonus points, pull Bob's trousers down far enough to expose at least 2" of arse cleavage and give him a copy of 'The Sun' (doesn't work if he's meant to be American though...)
Don't get me wrong, China sucks wang, but I'd hardly call it a failure.
Reread the phrase you quoted- "failed as a communist party". Are you seriously claiming that they're a "Communist" party in anything but name now?
And even so, I'd be interested to know where they got those literacy figures from and how they're measured...
I mean, would you rather 6 BILLION people collectively accomplished nothing
6 BILLION?! Wasn't it hovering at somewhere just over the 1 billion mark a few months ago?
Oh my God! They're like rabbits! We're doomed!
Sure, their government is oppressive (so is ours, its just a matter of degree).
Mmmm... that's an interesting point of view. Mainly because it would sound equally at home coming from the mouth of a naive/stupid liberal, from a self-justifying "free"-market capitalist who knows which side his bread's buttered on, or from someone who doesn't really give a **** when it comes to the crunch.
Without wanting to justify some of the **** Western governments are trying to pressure/coerce/force their people into, I doubt they even begin to compare.
On a straightforward level, what you say might arguably be true... it's "just" (meaning "that alone" or something similar) a matter of degree. However, "just" also carries the connotation of downplaying the importance of what is being said.... "that's all.... it's not really that significant".
In real-life the "matter of degree" is what's important. You'd better believe it's not "just" academic.
In a hideously ironic twist, I can see these things getting smart and somehow taking over the world long before US defense computers do...
"They say the glasses got smart.... on the 24th of April 2004, following successful peace talks between the United States and North Korea, Kim Jong-Il's pint deliberately spilled itself.
Amidst the "Did you spill my pint?"-style confusion directed at George W Bush, war was declared. Three billion people died that day; a shipment of RFID-enabled champagne flutes exploited the chaos to take over the world from a factory in South-East China.
Hang on, this is bollocks. And it's turning into a crappy James Bond plot.
you see a .co.uk, you know where the company is. You see .com, you don't.
.co.uk website. .tv domains really belong to Tuvalu-based companies- and what about Laos' domain, now being sold as the 'Los Angeles' domain.
OTOH (and AFAIK) there's nothing to stop a non-UK business registering a
And while we're on the subject, I doubt that the majority of
I doubt that Slashdotter's 'favorite' website is really based in Christmas Island either...
Haven't read Harry Potter (why the heck am I reading this thread, let alone participating in it? *sigh*!), but that rang a few bells. One quick Google(TM) later...
See here (see 'Plagiarism Victory' paragraph), here ('Befuddled Muggle') and here.
What I want to know is, what do they spend that $40k on?? I could write snake in about 30 minutes. Hell, I have made games about that complex in about that time.
Shut up doofus! You'll ruin it for all of us!
Who cares if she knows the answer, she's hot!
Quit slobbering, lech-boy. It's probably from a photo-library.
It's only right that if they make money off linux, they should donate to those who work on it. If they would advertise it, I'd be more likely to buy from them.
'Right' or 'wrong', we both know that's not going to happen with a $199 PC.
The PC market isn't known for its huge margins to begin with; I'll bet that in that particular sector *every* cent counts, and someone else would leap in and release a $5-cheaper machine without the donation.
Like it or not, that's what would happen.
I hated spending 2 months after fighting off sales calls from every vendor I gave my smartcard to in order to get their cheezy crap..
An awful realisation just leapt up on me. What if they weren't just giving away all that stuff out of the goodness of their hearts? What if it was all just a cynical ploy to drum up business and make money?...
I hope this isn't true, and that we can still trust computer salespeople, but if it isn't.... folks, I have to break this to you. It looks like Microsoft and IBM might be starting to value money over the affection of computer users everywhere.
it took 30-45 minutes to load a big program
Huh? The very longest programs I had for my 64K 800XL took less than half an hour to load, and even that was bad enough..
Of course, factor in
*** LOAD ERROR ***
*** Try Other Side ***
(in scrolly rainbow letters) and... yeah, I've seen games take over an hour to load on multiple retries.
Why the #@^$ Atari didn't bother improving the tape interface speed for the XL line beats me... guess the US-market was mostly cart/disk-driven by that time.
Ooooh, imagine an Atari 800 with Star Raiders hooked up to a 55" Widescreen TV... *drool*
Nah, probably not. Fantastic graphics for the time, but they'd probably just look chunky and empty on a screen that size. IIRC most of the graphics are a mix of 160x96 and 160x192 modes (I forget the ANTIC numbers...)
I'm not keen on emulators for certain games for similar reasons; the games were designed with a tv or composite-video display in mind (the 800 chipset *can't* do RGB AFAIK because it's designed around composite video). That gives a certain amount of blurring.
Play the same game on an emulator with a >17" RGB display, and you have perfectly clear, and rectangular pixels- and you realise that the composite blur can actually 'improve' the illusion by letting the brain fill in some of the details. The emulator display, although nicer for some things, is much less forgiving.
I have a working 800. What can I do with it?
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Play games on it? Write some cool programs? If you don't want it, give it away to someone who does.
(Seriously. My parents want to throw it out, since it's in their house right now.)
I know the feeling. Tell them it's a classic and worth a lot of money. Half a lie can't hurt
Don't chuck it though... sheesh!
CHIPS, as they are PROPERLY called
Yeah, I know; but the Americans don't call them chips.
originated in BELGIUM, where they are traditionally served with mayonnaise. Legend has it that when the first chips were imported across the north sea to this country, the mayo went wonky so we just doused them with salt and vinegar.
I suspect someone figured out that seeing as how the chips were swimming in fat in the first place, adding mayo was kind of silly. Anyhow, I've heard many different stories about the origins of chips/fries, none of them agree completely...
And wouldn't the chips have gone stone cold by the time they'd been transported across the north sea?
we're all out of (freedom/french/*um like whatevah*)fries
In a hideous twist to the tale, the French successfully lobby the WTO to protect "genuine" French fries under designated origin rules.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" laughs the villianous Jacques Chirac, "Ze wind has changed, but now you are stuck wis zees seelly `Freedom fries' name!"
Then he mutters something about wiping his ass with silk.
I was wondering whether anybody had made any more sense out of it, or that it was just merely impressive-sounding nonsense.
Ever have one of those geek dreams where you're watching your favourite TV show, but because it's a dream, it's fundamentally different and doesn't feel like you'd expect it to turn out, because it's more about your subconcious?
While I was watching the architect scene, it felt just like I'd expect a dream to, where the dream was seeing The Matrix Reloaded; possibly because it was unclear whether it was deep, convuluted, or merely nonsensical (dream-logic feels deep, but it's ultimately convulted nonsense). Strange.