You gave yourself an out with "hopefully", but your comment still implies you're gaining experience, improving your skills, and your performance is improving. Unfortunately, I know too many who do the same job day-in an day-out, never crack a book or trade magazine, never take a class or seminar, and still somehow think they "deserve" a raise.
Are you clearly doing a better job than you were last year?
Sorry, but as I said, we're doing some things that can be described using calculus, but that's not the internal mechanism involved.
I can describe, using calculus, the path, speed, and trajectory of a bullet in flight from point A to point B, taking into account initial energy, spin, gravity, wind and wind resistance, and so on. The bullet, however, in its flight, is not doing calculus. A description is not the action.
"Maybe you don't realize just how much calculus is involved in walking down stairs."
Yes, but we don't do "calculus" either. The brain's neural net has learned over the years, mostly by trail and error, which sets of neurons to fire, and in what order, to make walking down the stairs happen.
Many seemingly complex actions can be created using a few simple rules.
This being Slashdot, and given the fact that insigthful posts are rare, a higher frequency of such must have meaning. Most likely due to the increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere due to global warming.
My first theory is that the increased CO2 is impacting the higher brain functions of the idiots who post here, causing them to be less idiotic than normal.
My second theory is that the increased CO2 is impacting the higher brain functions of the moderators, causing them to rate more comments insightful by mistake.
Either way, it's a definite indication that global warming is real.
Between entertainment shows, magazines, blogs, reviews, trailers, and the time honored practice of asking friends and co-workers their opinions, there's plenty of information upon which to make a decision if a movie is worth risking your $9.50.
As such, this is nothing more than yet another/. "yes but" rationalization...
Which was why I pointed out Rotten Tomatoes. With dozens and dozens of reviewers, it should be relatively easy to find one with similar tastes. Besides, all you have to do is follow a reviewer for a while and you quickly learn those places where your tastes diverge.
"If I slave away coding for 12 hours a day and seven days a week to meet the deadline for a project, do I get paid millions by my employer? Of course not."
Of course not. Because you, quite simply, are easily replaceable. There are, quite literally, millions of people ready, willing, and ABLE to do what you do.
I notice you conveniently failed to mention that there are highly paid developers and software types who've made millions of dollars creating things that people want and need.
In ANY profession there are people in the top tier, and then there are those who simply do the grunt work. For every multi-million dollar actor or actress there are 10,000 more who do minor roles, bit parts, commercials, or stand in as extras.
And forgive me, but your comments strike me as equal parts envy and jealousy: "How dare society consider those people as being better than I am. How dare the world reward them for their efforts and ideas and abilities, and ignore mine."
If you're slaving away for 12 hours a day, perhaps YOU'RE the one who didn't make the right career choice...
Well, you see, years ago they HAD an unencumbered format. It was called VHS. Unfortunately for you, people bought an extra VCR and copied the silly things right and left. Then came MacroVision. Casual copying, by and large, ceased.
So I doubt you'll ever see studios release films without some form of DRM. We've already proved we can't be trusted...
If that is all it was we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. However, it is a bit different when you have some 10,000 "friends" you don't know (BT), and you're redistributing someone's else's work to them for free. Sorry, but to my mind the later behaviour stretches the "fair" in fair use.
It will be interesting to see if we start hearing complaints about the video iPod, as it has basically the same design (just larger) as the nano. And unlike the nano, it's DESIGNED to be watched.
(Could be why every vPod ships with a slip-cover...)
Yeah. Not to mention that apparently the cool way to save your shuffle's, nano's, and pod's from scratching is to buy a aluminum protective cover for it... dumb.
"If Java was like this, I could ignore the stupid namingConvention of leaving the first letter of a class member in lower case."
And why ignore naming conventions? Just so you're code is different from everyone else's, or so someone else familiar with the language and who's attempting to read your "special" coding style has to shift mental gears every time he does so?
Huh. People say everyone else's code is unreadable. And we wonder why...
"This is what I use to watch movies on flights, since I have to take it with me anyway. Thus, I have no need for a video iPod."
A video ipod is still an ipod, still capable of playing music and audiobooks. The new 60GB ipod lasts for twenty hours doing just those things. How long does your notebook battery last again?
I suppose you can always carry five extra notebook batteries with you...
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Are you clearly doing a better job than you were last year?
If so, does your boss know it?
If it's the same as the US license then up five different computers may be authorized at a time, and as many pods as you want...
Woody Allen once said a few years back, "Eighty percent of success is showing up."
Unfortunately, too many people believed him...
Republicans do NOT hate the environment. It's a great resource...
I can describe, using calculus, the path, speed, and trajectory of a bullet in flight from point A to point B, taking into account initial energy, spin, gravity, wind and wind resistance, and so on. The bullet, however, in its flight, is not doing calculus. A description is not the action.
Yes, but we don't do calculus to walk down the stairs, even though those actions can be described using calculus.
If you don't want your friends (secondary users) on your computer snooping through your porn collection, just say so in the first place.
Yes, but we don't do "calculus" either. The brain's neural net has learned over the years, mostly by trail and error, which sets of neurons to fire, and in what order, to make walking down the stairs happen.
Many seemingly complex actions can be created using a few simple rules.
My first theory is that the increased CO2 is impacting the higher brain functions of the idiots who post here, causing them to be less idiotic than normal.
My second theory is that the increased CO2 is impacting the higher brain functions of the moderators, causing them to rate more comments insightful by mistake.
Either way, it's a definite indication that global warming is real.
I mentioned other suggestions. Or are you telling me your friends never go to the movies? Or are you implying you have no friends?
As such, this is nothing more than yet another /. "yes but" rationalization...
Which was why I pointed out Rotten Tomatoes. With dozens and dozens of reviewers, it should be relatively easy to find one with similar tastes. Besides, all you have to do is follow a reviewer for a while and you quickly learn those places where your tastes diverge.
Of course not. Because you, quite simply, are easily replaceable. There are, quite literally, millions of people ready, willing, and ABLE to do what you do.
I notice you conveniently failed to mention that there are highly paid developers and software types who've made millions of dollars creating things that people want and need.
In ANY profession there are people in the top tier, and then there are those who simply do the grunt work. For every multi-million dollar actor or actress there are 10,000 more who do minor roles, bit parts, commercials, or stand in as extras.
And forgive me, but your comments strike me as equal parts envy and jealousy: "How dare society consider those people as being better than I am. How dare the world reward them for their efforts and ideas and abilities, and ignore mine."
If you're slaving away for 12 hours a day, perhaps YOU'RE the one who didn't make the right career choice...
So I doubt you'll ever see studios release films without some form of DRM. We've already proved we can't be trusted...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
If that is all it was we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. However, it is a bit different when you have some 10,000 "friends" you don't know (BT), and you're redistributing someone's else's work to them for free. Sorry, but to my mind the later behaviour stretches the "fair" in fair use.
Don't forget that PDAs are also getting squeezed by the ultra-portable laptop market. If you want a computer, why not get a computer?
Agreed. My iPaq PDA has degenerated into being a glorified ebook reader.
(Could be why every vPod ships with a slip-cover...)
Huh? Care to explain how THAT follows?
(I'm sure that, with a username such as your own, the answer will at least be entertaining...)
A commitee worked on JPEG too, and look at what happened with Forgent.
Yeah. Not to mention that apparently the cool way to save your shuffle's, nano's, and pod's from scratching is to buy a aluminum protective cover for it... dumb.
And why ignore naming conventions? Just so you're code is different from everyone else's, or so someone else familiar with the language and who's attempting to read your "special" coding style has to shift mental gears every time he does so?
Huh. People say everyone else's code is unreadable. And we wonder why...
Of course, this brings us back to the point: If someone is stealing everything I produce, is he really a "customer"?
A video ipod is still an ipod, still capable of playing music and audiobooks. The new 60GB ipod lasts for twenty hours doing just those things. How long does your notebook battery last again?
I suppose you can always carry five extra notebook batteries with you...