My company hasn't given a Christmas bonus in several years. I weep for the guys at Google, I really do.
How many slashdotters work for a company that gives a Christmas bonus? Maybe that should be a poll question.
On the flip side, we've let no one go, not even contractors. Maybe not having Christmas bonuses is the reason we can afford a full staff even during an economic down turn. Maybe Google will come back wiser for it.
Dell is building this thing for gamers. Who else do you think the target market is?
And not to be rude but if someone can afford to buy this rig and still have enough money to ride the bus who are you to question it? It's not like they're molesting children or kicking puppies.
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't pay a dollar for an extra frame a second out of any game that I play but at the same time I normally pay many times the normal going rate for a set of headphones. We each have our thing that we're into. It's ok, it doesn't hurt anyone. Live and let live, brother.
When it comes down to it just about everything NASA has ever done outside of contributions to satellite technology has "little practical value" to us today. But those of us who can see the forest in spite of the trees knows where the value of all these other "pipe dreams" lies.
And I always thought that the new moon missions were to focus on a permanent colony. I think that's a little bit better than "bring back a few more moon rocks."
1) Your post has been modded up to 4. This indicates your post is part of the agenda you seem to be complaining about or that those that modded you up have voted you into their conspiracy.
Actually, my post doesn't offset an agenda either way. Please reread my post and learn what I'm talking about.
2) Claiming to be cynical about "geekdom" indicates you were never a geek in your life and only hang out in places like/. to make you feel like you "get" technology and that "science like stuff." Apparently you don't.
Care to back up this correlation in any way shape or form? Just because I am disillusioned by geek culture it suddenly means I'm clueless about tech and science? Huh? Where do you come up with that kind of nonsense?
That's like saying that a Christian who becomes disillusioned with the organized church is automatically an atheist.
3) The open season on "facts" is proportional to your actually understanding the hard data and not what someone telling you the hard data means. So far all I've heard is a lot of yammering of "this side says this" or "that side says that". Seeing media conspiracies or business conspiracies is not science it is politics. As far as the issue at hand I'd say that Clarke's first and fourth laws apply:
1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
If this were the case than why aren't people discussing the facts instead of trying to bury them with an unmeta-modable moderation? Please, re-read my post again and understand what I'm saying. If you had you wouldn't have said most of this.
4)"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
This is the way *real* science is done. Just remember that if the global warming folks are wrong, there is no real harm done... but if they are right you and all of your decendants (if any) are screwed. Think about that. What kind of world do you want to give to your children? The same kind os !@#$ kind of world your parents gave you?
You don't even need to look as far as politics. Just look at some of the moderations around here and you'll see a clear agenda behind some of them. If that can drive us at this level there's no telling where things will go when there is money and real power behind the same kind of thinking that gets totally valid posts modded down as over rated.
Seeing some facts being shot down around here because they're not in line with someone elses way of thinking has made me a cynic about geekdom in general. All of the mouths yammering on about truth via scientific reasoning are completely drowned out by those who feel the need to push their ideas on other regardless of the truth being 6 inches from their faces.
If you have a glass of magma, and I have a glass of magma and I have a straw. And let's say my straw and it reaches across the room and into your magma. I drink your magma. I DRINK IT UP!
Please consider that this is part of her job. If something happens on school grounds to a child and an adult is aware of the danger before it happens than there will be hell to pay. Maybe you're different than most other parents but given the temperament of most parents a teacher really needs to cover themselves for all kinds of levels of liability when it comes down to the students well being as well as school property.
Well, one of the first things most people do when they get a new boss is try to justify their position in the company. This is especially true if there are blank pink slips in his hand. so this is a pretty typical response.
Unfortunately I haven't seen anything where Obama is going to ditch crap government programs that don't have half the scientific return of NASA. And with the winking that the public did in the face of earmarks I don't expect anything to change as far as government waste.
First, they simply won't. The question is little more than theoretical and we all know how that goes.
And secondly, they'll end up like Microsoft? Do you mean they'll end up with 85%+ of the market share? How is that a loss?
I know OSS is real popular around here but let's face facts, MS and Apple have a combined 98% of the marketshare in their primary markets and tons of side markets that are doing well. Give us a real reason they want to be in alignment with the other 2% of the market.
I know, most folks here have a real love for the open source way but when it comes down to making a dollar off it the ratio of wins to loses is pretty sad. Given all the advantages of open source it's hard to understand why it never really got a bigger foothold and now it seems to be little more than that... a foothold that those involved are trying to keep in fear from falling off the mountain altogether.
None of the top comments even mention gold farming. Every MMO game that I'm aware of has the farmer element. Sony is just cutting them to the quick.
But that aside I just kind of shrug at this. I was an EQ2er for a while but gave it up. Sony fouled their own game. First they lost a ton of people to WoW who thought that EQ2 was too hard than they lost more people when they dumbed it down to WoWs level and lost more people who wanted a hardcore gaming experience. That's where they lost me.
Oh well, I still have EVE. Who knows how long that will go until someone aside from the gold farmers learns to foul it up in some fashion.
And every modern PC has a thing called the internet and with a single google search I can find out more about C++, Java or any other contemporary language than was published at the time about all languages combined. What is your point?
My post wasn't about developing for a cell phone, it was about not needing high end technology to learn to code. Please re-read my post.
Sorry that you weren't sent the memo. It was Alcor Pascal. We ran it across a network hosted by a TRS-80 III. And no, I don't remember the exact networking technology but I assure you it did exist. You should feel dirtier for slighting someone out of ignorance.
Lack of funding? Young man, I learned Pascal on a TRS-80 Model II. The cellphone that is likely in your pocket is probably more powerful in just about every aspect. The book we learned from was probably close to a decade old at the time and was sad in the shadow of what you can get at Borders for 25 bucks. I learned programming just fine.
You don't need the latest and greatest to learn how to code. Infact, the more I see of computers and teenagers the more I think I had it better being limited to machines that didn't have a 1/10th of a meg of RAM and no Internet. Today there are just far too many distractions on a PC to get kids away from the task at hand. To be honest, if I were teaching coding I would go with the 2004 text about whatever language that normally can be found in the bargin bin for 5 bucks, a bunch of P-II 350s, a 10 dollar flash drive for each student and whatever freeware IDE I could find for the chosen language. No other software on the PC and no network connections either, thankyouverymuch.
This would keep the students mind on the task in front of him. When I first got my Vic 20 with no media storage and no game cartridges I had to sit down and learn how to make the machine do what I want it to. I found that it was a very gratifying thing to do. If I would have had MySpace and EverQuest I doubt I would have ever have gotten as far.
Ok, so we're low on the list of the best educated. What are those high on the list doing? I'd really like to see where and how technology is entering the schools in other countries that are doing better than us. I know that social values count a lot towards a student's education and, frankly, ours sucks. We also need to get the parents involved again. Does this take the place of technology in the school room?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm not sold on technology in the classroom. We never had computers in each classroom when I went to school (I'm a 1991 HS graduate) but I had one at home and I learned tons more from my home computing than my schooling. But I also think that was a mark of the times. I honestly don't know if that would work today.
As for broadband? I see Obama's interest in getting broadband to everyone as a gateway to the government getting their fingers into every broadband connection nation wide. If there will be government money spent on the project that means that they will have some level of oversight. And with oversight comes the likelihood of the government writing in some clauses from which they will benefit in some fashion. Keep their actions on the radar if Obama does get a footing for this kind of thing on his budget and in the legislature.
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I'll back you on this when they ban big SUVs that never carry more than a 90 pound woman and a couple sacks of groceries.
Dianetics is one hell of a programming book.
Oh, you meant computers... Sorry.
Gang of Four is great. Entertainment! is one of the best post punk albums ever.
My company hasn't given a Christmas bonus in several years. I weep for the guys at Google, I really do.
How many slashdotters work for a company that gives a Christmas bonus? Maybe that should be a poll question.
On the flip side, we've let no one go, not even contractors. Maybe not having Christmas bonuses is the reason we can afford a full staff even during an economic down turn. Maybe Google will come back wiser for it.
That's the market and who are you to say?
Dell is building this thing for gamers. Who else do you think the target market is?
And not to be rude but if someone can afford to buy this rig and still have enough money to ride the bus who are you to question it? It's not like they're molesting children or kicking puppies.
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't pay a dollar for an extra frame a second out of any game that I play but at the same time I normally pay many times the normal going rate for a set of headphones. We each have our thing that we're into. It's ok, it doesn't hurt anyone. Live and let live, brother.
Finally! A real world use for the nano-payment system.
When it comes down to it just about everything NASA has ever done outside of contributions to satellite technology has "little practical value" to us today. But those of us who can see the forest in spite of the trees knows where the value of all these other "pipe dreams" lies.
And I always thought that the new moon missions were to focus on a permanent colony. I think that's a little bit better than "bring back a few more moon rocks."
I thought Obama's plan was to keep the jobs and technology home based. After all, outsourcing doesn't do much to create jobs.
he's either going to have to do this with NASA and keep their funding up or it's just more banter from a politician.
because the voyage they embark on is for eternity -- there's no advantage to speed.
Well, at least that's the Judio-Christian-Muslim version of it.
1) Your post has been modded up to 4. This indicates your post is part of the agenda you seem to be complaining about or that those that modded you up have voted you into their conspiracy.
/. to make you feel like you "get" technology and that "science like stuff." Apparently you don't.
Actually, my post doesn't offset an agenda either way. Please reread my post and learn what I'm talking about.
2) Claiming to be cynical about "geekdom" indicates you were never a geek in your life and only hang out in places like
Care to back up this correlation in any way shape or form? Just because I am disillusioned by geek culture it suddenly means I'm clueless about tech and science? Huh? Where do you come up with that kind of nonsense?
That's like saying that a Christian who becomes disillusioned with the organized church is automatically an atheist.
3) The open season on "facts" is proportional to your actually understanding the hard data and not what someone telling you the hard data means. So far all I've heard is a lot of yammering of "this side says this" or "that side says that". Seeing media conspiracies or business conspiracies is not science it is politics. As far as the issue at hand I'd say that Clarke's first and fourth laws apply:
1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
If this were the case than why aren't people discussing the facts instead of trying to bury them with an unmeta-modable moderation? Please, re-read my post again and understand what I'm saying. If you had you wouldn't have said most of this.
4)"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
This is the way *real* science is done. Just remember that if the global warming folks are wrong, there is no real harm done... but if they are right you and all of your decendants (if any) are screwed. Think about that. What kind of world do you want to give to your children? The same kind os !@#$ kind of world your parents gave you?
What does this have to do with my post at all?
Godspeed Majel.
You don't even need to look as far as politics. Just look at some of the moderations around here and you'll see a clear agenda behind some of them. If that can drive us at this level there's no telling where things will go when there is money and real power behind the same kind of thinking that gets totally valid posts modded down as over rated.
Seeing some facts being shot down around here because they're not in line with someone elses way of thinking has made me a cynic about geekdom in general. All of the mouths yammering on about truth via scientific reasoning are completely drowned out by those who feel the need to push their ideas on other regardless of the truth being 6 inches from their faces.
He's done it before.
If you have a glass of magma, and I have a glass of magma and I have a straw. And let's say my straw and it reaches across the room and into your magma. I drink your magma. I DRINK IT UP!
Isn't this the kind of crap that Idle was created for?
Modded troll? Great rebuttal! Slashdot just amazes me more and more each day.
Please consider that this is part of her job. If something happens on school grounds to a child and an adult is aware of the danger before it happens than there will be hell to pay. Maybe you're different than most other parents but given the temperament of most parents a teacher really needs to cover themselves for all kinds of levels of liability when it comes down to the students well being as well as school property.
Well, one of the first things most people do when they get a new boss is try to justify their position in the company. This is especially true if there are blank pink slips in his hand. so this is a pretty typical response.
Unfortunately I haven't seen anything where Obama is going to ditch crap government programs that don't have half the scientific return of NASA. And with the winking that the public did in the face of earmarks I don't expect anything to change as far as government waste.
First, they simply won't. The question is little more than theoretical and we all know how that goes.
And secondly, they'll end up like Microsoft? Do you mean they'll end up with 85%+ of the market share? How is that a loss?
I know OSS is real popular around here but let's face facts, MS and Apple have a combined 98% of the marketshare in their primary markets and tons of side markets that are doing well. Give us a real reason they want to be in alignment with the other 2% of the market.
I know, most folks here have a real love for the open source way but when it comes down to making a dollar off it the ratio of wins to loses is pretty sad. Given all the advantages of open source it's hard to understand why it never really got a bigger foothold and now it seems to be little more than that... a foothold that those involved are trying to keep in fear from falling off the mountain altogether.
None of the top comments even mention gold farming. Every MMO game that I'm aware of has the farmer element. Sony is just cutting them to the quick.
But that aside I just kind of shrug at this. I was an EQ2er for a while but gave it up. Sony fouled their own game. First they lost a ton of people to WoW who thought that EQ2 was too hard than they lost more people when they dumbed it down to WoWs level and lost more people who wanted a hardcore gaming experience. That's where they lost me.
Oh well, I still have EVE. Who knows how long that will go until someone aside from the gold farmers learns to foul it up in some fashion.
And every modern PC has a thing called the internet and with a single google search I can find out more about C++, Java or any other contemporary language than was published at the time about all languages combined. What is your point?
My post wasn't about developing for a cell phone, it was about not needing high end technology to learn to code. Please re-read my post.
Sorry that you weren't sent the memo. It was Alcor Pascal. We ran it across a network hosted by a TRS-80 III. And no, I don't remember the exact networking technology but I assure you it did exist. You should feel dirtier for slighting someone out of ignorance.
Lack of funding? Young man, I learned Pascal on a TRS-80 Model II. The cellphone that is likely in your pocket is probably more powerful in just about every aspect. The book we learned from was probably close to a decade old at the time and was sad in the shadow of what you can get at Borders for 25 bucks. I learned programming just fine.
You don't need the latest and greatest to learn how to code. Infact, the more I see of computers and teenagers the more I think I had it better being limited to machines that didn't have a 1/10th of a meg of RAM and no Internet. Today there are just far too many distractions on a PC to get kids away from the task at hand. To be honest, if I were teaching coding I would go with the 2004 text about whatever language that normally can be found in the bargin bin for 5 bucks, a bunch of P-II 350s, a 10 dollar flash drive for each student and whatever freeware IDE I could find for the chosen language. No other software on the PC and no network connections either, thankyouverymuch.
This would keep the students mind on the task in front of him. When I first got my Vic 20 with no media storage and no game cartridges I had to sit down and learn how to make the machine do what I want it to. I found that it was a very gratifying thing to do. If I would have had MySpace and EverQuest I doubt I would have ever have gotten as far.
BTW: Get off my lawn!
Safe for work? It's not safe for any setting. My faith in humanity has dropped yet another notch.
Ok, so we're low on the list of the best educated. What are those high on the list doing? I'd really like to see where and how technology is entering the schools in other countries that are doing better than us. I know that social values count a lot towards a student's education and, frankly, ours sucks. We also need to get the parents involved again. Does this take the place of technology in the school room?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm not sold on technology in the classroom. We never had computers in each classroom when I went to school (I'm a 1991 HS graduate) but I had one at home and I learned tons more from my home computing than my schooling. But I also think that was a mark of the times. I honestly don't know if that would work today.
As for broadband? I see Obama's interest in getting broadband to everyone as a gateway to the government getting their fingers into every broadband connection nation wide. If there will be government money spent on the project that means that they will have some level of oversight. And with oversight comes the likelihood of the government writing in some clauses from which they will benefit in some fashion. Keep their actions on the radar if Obama does get a footing for this kind of thing on his budget and in the legislature.