I've got a rinky-dink college diploma that got me into the industry. Now I grind out code. Not like an engineer.
Of course, all the ppl that have worked under or alongside me, with their fancy comp-sci degrees, always take notes off my code.
Because an education can give you a body of knowledge, but it cannot make you innovative, creative, intuitive or smart. Pretty much anyone can get through school and get a degree.
Usually, the more education you have, the less innovative you are. Your creativity gets squashed beneath a mound of other ppls ideas. If you disagree, you probably paid too much money for your education.
I'm not really interested in listening to your half-assed attempts to excuse and justify the actions of your country.
Rather, I'm interested in intelligent suggestions from other non-Americans on how we can collectively remove the repeatedly abused "Superpower" status from your country so you won't continue to create world strife.
Perhaps Saddam doesn't want to facilitate the spin being put on this illegal war? CNN cuts reports of Arab responses to the war and it shows scenes of peace and quiet in Bagdhad while buildings are burning.
An interesting discussion would be, what can/should the world do to punish America for this? They are flouting international law, they are intentionally discrediting and destroying the UN, and they are bombing a foreign country with nuclear waste with no provocation whatsoever.
In a simple world, it would be clear that we should demand that the US withdraws, destroys its weapons of mass destruction, and cease selling arms around the world. But it's not a simple world. Every member of the older generation has massive amounts of their retirement money tied up in the US, so they're not going to be inclined to do anything too disruptive. Facist America (aka Corporate America - learn) has its fingers in the industry of most nations around the world, and has always been pretty brutal about using its economic power to crush opposition. So doing something about America would require most countries to seize American ownership of business and infrastructure within their own nations and redistrbute it, while also dealing with the political and military aspects of the task... an expensive logistical nightmare.
That said, America is an ever growing threat to world peace. Take a look at www.newamericancentury.org... The clearly stated intention of the American government is to crush any opposing leadership, destroy the UN, and control the world through economic and military might.
So what do we do? Cause it beats the hell out of me.
It does when buying all new hardware is MUCH less expensive than buying all new software.
If buying a new machine means you need to replace every single piece of software you use, possibly losing access to old data in the process, most ppl are just not going to buy it.
If you're designing centralized apps there are always people who are "master users" within the company that owns the system, and if you'd rather write code than be an admin, they won't be you.
They will be required to have powers with the potential to break the system. You can say "Oh, you shouldn't have that power" till you're blue in the face, but unless you're signing your own paychecks, your opinion don't mean shit.
Often (usually?) these people will be stupid, lazy, busy, or some combination of the three. They will break it, and you will have to fix it.
Proper backdoors will let you fix the system from your desk, and the powers that be will say "Man, that guy's great... I called him up after Joe broke the system, and 5 minutes later, it was fixed."
Backdoors have gotten me good references and new jobs. I'm not likely to stop building em anytime soon.
You're suggesting that by creating an environment that allows the (rich) decision makers to have a fast internet, without requiring the (poor) others to also have a fast internet, is going to make the internet better?
Simple concept for you: If your structure resists preference, the rich will insist that it's good for everyone so it will be good for them. If your structure accomodates preference, the rich will insist that it's good for them.
Collecting garbage is one of the most hazardous jobs on earth. Heavy machinery, sharps, biological and chemical hazards, exhausting hours... doesn't matter if it takes brains or not, if you want people to work an unpleasant, essential and extremely dangerous job, you need to pay them well.
It didn't resemble Eaters of the Dead or the 13th warrior at all. The section of the work dealing with Grendel resembled it only in the sense that there was cannabilism, and that's about it.
Like others have said, Eaters of the Dead was based on real (as in existing, if not true) historical manuscripts written by the travalling Arab.
At first, you just looked misinformed. Now YOU are revealed to be a schmuck.
And you know what? My reference to the men enjoying porn wasn't flamebait, it was a statement of fact, backed up by the rampant commercial success pornography has had around the globe.
However, your implication that my enjoying pornography and being a sexual beast means I have no honour IS flamebait.
Go get fucked. Sounds like you desparately need it.
Every CD I've bought over the last 4 years was handed to me by the artist who made it during intermission. And while I haven't bought a mass-market CD in that time, I've spent close to a grand on live shows.
News flash: This means that YOU are personally funding the RIAA, while WE are not. WE have no impact on their bottom line. YOU are a continued source of operating revenue.
The point is not to have them "care" about us.
The point is not to reform them, and enjoy freedom at their sufferance.
The point is to create an environment where there is no financial incentive for new bands and artists to sign over the rights to their creations to large media companies.
The point is to have bands and artists financially compensated for creativity and merit by the people who enjoy their creative works.
The point is to stop having hacks make remakes and remixes of Elvis and Madonna tunes owned by big media companies while taking their clothes off, then selling the tripe by saturating our living environment with it until we grow to enjoy it.
The point is to destroy them, and any other organization that shares their qualities.
The point is not to commit piracy and create an environment where the media companies become more and more invasive and money-grubbing while still remaining necessary.
The point is to withhold your money from the Big 5, and give your money instead to the small artists who make their money off live performance, creating a new and better source of entertainment to fill the niche that the Big 5 currently hold.
The point is to make the promotional industry exist to support the artist, and not the other way around.
We like to pretend that we don't like the porn industry, but the fact is that every swinging dick above the age of 15 has enjoyed pornography, and most continue to do so for the entirity of their lives. They just don't tell their wives.
There aren't many better non-violent ways to piss off all the men than to go after their porn.
Yes it does. It means they're united in buying aftermarket parts, add-ons and services that meet the same specifications. That's why popular cars that are seen everywhere have tons of products available at reasonable prices, while cars that are less popular cost a fortune to fix and have few sources for after-market parts.
And people make their purchasing decisions based on this. If spare parts for a car cost a fortune, people will avoid that car. Just like they avoid linux.
This isn't a democracy: Just because you don't like the answer, doesn't mean its wrong.
No, I thought I made it pretty clear in my original post that my other characters did not exist to support my main character. They existed so I could have fun playing a different role.
For example, in one campaign I had a male half-ogre fighter and a female swashbuckler.
One was a big, dumb, mean, scary brute who was so big he had to sleep in the barn with the horses. Except he evolved into a (relatively) more sophisticated character, aquired a small army of followers, developed a sense of responsibility, and became a leader.
The other was a gorgeous bombshell who started out as a tease, evolved into a tramp, then evolved into a cruel and bitter woman.
Both were very different to role play, neither resembled ME very much, and the whole experience was great fun.
While there are morons who will corrupt any game, that doesn't change the fact that it's not a RTS game, it's a big game of pretend. This rule change takes out the ability to have fun playing pretend, and makes the focus developing the power and abilities of your only character, who will inevitibly compromise the role to the circumstances and come to resemble you. Thus, you've killed the last vestige of role-playing in the game.
Sometimes it's fun to be a brute, sometimes it's fun to be honorable to the point of stupidity, sometimes it's fun to be evil. But this game won't be a "Pretend to be someone else" game. It will be a "What would happen if I personally was in the star wars universe" game. Which is not role playing at all.
It may be a fun game for all that, although I doubt it. But so is Quake, and it's not a role-playing game either.
That movie was the closest to Akira-dom levels of incredibleness of any I've seen.
This one I'll actually buy before I rip n crunch.
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Couldn't agree more.
I'm a linux newbie. Not an IT newbie, not an idiot. I can and will figure out how to do it the hard way if I have to.
If you're going to put in a config applet, make the damned thing work or leave it out. I don't want to waste half an hour or (much) more trying to figure out how to get your broken tool to work before I start learning how to do it the hard way.
Long path... I can handle that. Dead end paths all over the place... damn, I'd rather use Windows.
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I've got a rinky-dink college diploma that got me into the industry. Now I grind out code. Not like an engineer.
Of course, all the ppl that have worked under or alongside me, with their fancy comp-sci degrees, always take notes off my code.
Because an education can give you a body of knowledge, but it cannot make you innovative, creative, intuitive or smart. Pretty much anyone can get through school and get a degree.
Usually, the more education you have, the less innovative you are. Your creativity gets squashed beneath a mound of other ppls ideas. If you disagree, you probably paid too much money for your education.
Oh yeah, I'd be there....
I'm not really interested in listening to your half-assed attempts to excuse and justify the actions of your country. Rather, I'm interested in intelligent suggestions from other non-Americans on how we can collectively remove the repeatedly abused "Superpower" status from your country so you won't continue to create world strife.
Perhaps Saddam doesn't want to facilitate the spin being put on this illegal war? CNN cuts reports of Arab responses to the war and it shows scenes of peace and quiet in Bagdhad while buildings are burning.
... The clearly stated intention of the American government is to crush any opposing leadership, destroy the UN, and control the world through economic and military might.
An interesting discussion would be, what can/should the world do to punish America for this? They are flouting international law, they are intentionally discrediting and destroying the UN, and they are bombing a foreign country with nuclear waste with no provocation whatsoever.
In a simple world, it would be clear that we should demand that the US withdraws, destroys its weapons of mass destruction, and cease selling arms around the world. But it's not a simple world. Every member of the older generation has massive amounts of their retirement money tied up in the US, so they're not going to be inclined to do anything too disruptive. Facist America (aka Corporate America - learn) has its fingers in the industry of most nations around the world, and has always been pretty brutal about using its economic power to crush opposition. So doing something about America would require most countries to seize American ownership of business and infrastructure within their own nations and redistrbute it, while also dealing with the political and military aspects of the task... an expensive logistical nightmare.
That said, America is an ever growing threat to world peace. Take a look at www.newamericancentury.org
So what do we do? Cause it beats the hell out of me.
Did you find the WTC bombing awe inspiring? That was only one building.
1) No Subqueries
2) No Stored Procedures
3) Why bother, could have stopped at #1
MySQL is CRUD. Why do I use it? Hosting providers offer it dirt cheap. Any other reason? Um... no.
It does when buying all new hardware is MUCH less expensive than buying all new software.
If buying a new machine means you need to replace every single piece of software you use, possibly losing access to old data in the process, most ppl are just not going to buy it.
...who is Gail Wynand
If you're designing centralized apps there are always people who are "master users" within the company that owns the system, and if you'd rather write code than be an admin, they won't be you. They will be required to have powers with the potential to break the system. You can say "Oh, you shouldn't have that power" till you're blue in the face, but unless you're signing your own paychecks, your opinion don't mean shit. Often (usually?) these people will be stupid, lazy, busy, or some combination of the three. They will break it, and you will have to fix it. Proper backdoors will let you fix the system from your desk, and the powers that be will say "Man, that guy's great... I called him up after Joe broke the system, and 5 minutes later, it was fixed." Backdoors have gotten me good references and new jobs. I'm not likely to stop building em anytime soon.
You're suggesting that by creating an environment that allows the (rich) decision makers to have a fast internet, without requiring the (poor) others to also have a fast internet, is going to make the internet better?
Simple concept for you: If your structure resists preference, the rich will insist that it's good for everyone so it will be good for them. If your structure accomodates preference, the rich will insist that it's good for them.
Short term, the real power of this device is to allow rapid prototyping.
Long term, the power of this device is the ability to render both shipping and warehousing redundant.
Now, if it can recycle what it makes, that would really make it killer tech.
Collecting garbage is one of the most hazardous jobs on earth. Heavy machinery, sharps, biological and chemical hazards, exhausting hours... doesn't matter if it takes brains or not, if you want people to work an unpleasant, essential and extremely dangerous job, you need to pay them well.
It didn't resemble Eaters of the Dead or the 13th warrior at all. The section of the work dealing with Grendel resembled it only in the sense that there was cannabilism, and that's about it.
Like others have said, Eaters of the Dead was based on real (as in existing, if not true) historical manuscripts written by the travalling Arab.
At first, you just looked misinformed. Now YOU are revealed to be a schmuck.
Why do they take everything you own when you need help?
LMFAO!
[Points and laughs]
Stop I can't breathe!
Sounds like a cool guy to me.
Time to get the gloves on and start shaking hands with politicians :)
How about a website full of photos of politicians fingerprints? Lets go shopping!
You're right.
You're in the minority.
And you know what? My reference to the men enjoying porn wasn't flamebait, it was a statement of fact, backed up by the rampant commercial success pornography has had around the globe.
However, your implication that my enjoying pornography and being a sexual beast means I have no honour IS flamebait.
Go get fucked. Sounds like you desparately need it.
Every CD I've bought over the last 4 years was handed to me by the artist who made it during intermission. And while I haven't bought a mass-market CD in that time, I've spent close to a grand on live shows.
I think I'm doing my part.
News flash: This means that YOU are personally funding the RIAA, while WE are not. WE have no impact on their bottom line. YOU are a continued source of operating revenue.
The point is not to have them "care" about us.
The point is not to reform them, and enjoy freedom at their sufferance.
The point is to create an environment where there is no financial incentive for new bands and artists to sign over the rights to their creations to large media companies.
The point is to have bands and artists financially compensated for creativity and merit by the people who enjoy their creative works.
The point is to stop having hacks make remakes and remixes of Elvis and Madonna tunes owned by big media companies while taking their clothes off, then selling the tripe by saturating our living environment with it until we grow to enjoy it.
The point is to destroy them, and any other organization that shares their qualities.
The point is not to commit piracy and create an environment where the media companies become more and more invasive and money-grubbing while still remaining necessary.
The point is to withhold your money from the Big 5, and give your money instead to the small artists who make their money off live performance, creating a new and better source of entertainment to fill the niche that the Big 5 currently hold.
The point is to make the promotional industry exist to support the artist, and not the other way around.
Get the point?
We like to pretend that we don't like the porn industry, but the fact is that every swinging dick above the age of 15 has enjoyed pornography, and most continue to do so for the entirity of their lives. They just don't tell their wives.
There aren't many better non-violent ways to piss off all the men than to go after their porn.
Yes it does. It means they're united in buying aftermarket parts, add-ons and services that meet the same specifications. That's why popular cars that are seen everywhere have tons of products available at reasonable prices, while cars that are less popular cost a fortune to fix and have few sources for after-market parts. And people make their purchasing decisions based on this. If spare parts for a car cost a fortune, people will avoid that car. Just like they avoid linux. This isn't a democracy: Just because you don't like the answer, doesn't mean its wrong.
No, I thought I made it pretty clear in my original post that my other characters did not exist to support my main character. They existed so I could have fun playing a different role.
For example, in one campaign I had a male half-ogre fighter and a female swashbuckler.
One was a big, dumb, mean, scary brute who was so big he had to sleep in the barn with the horses. Except he evolved into a (relatively) more sophisticated character, aquired a small army of followers, developed a sense of responsibility, and became a leader.
The other was a gorgeous bombshell who started out as a tease, evolved into a tramp, then evolved into a cruel and bitter woman.
Both were very different to role play, neither resembled ME very much, and the whole experience was great fun.
While there are morons who will corrupt any game, that doesn't change the fact that it's not a RTS game, it's a big game of pretend. This rule change takes out the ability to have fun playing pretend, and makes the focus developing the power and abilities of your only character, who will inevitibly compromise the role to the circumstances and come to resemble you. Thus, you've killed the last vestige of role-playing in the game.
Sometimes it's fun to be a brute, sometimes it's fun to be honorable to the point of stupidity, sometimes it's fun to be evil. But this game won't be a "Pretend to be someone else" game. It will be a "What would happen if I personally was in the star wars universe" game. Which is not role playing at all.
It may be a fun game for all that, although I doubt it. But so is Quake, and it's not a role-playing game either.
That movie was the closest to Akira-dom levels of incredibleness of any I've seen. This one I'll actually buy before I rip n crunch.
Couldn't agree more.
I'm a linux newbie. Not an IT newbie, not an idiot. I can and will figure out how to do it the hard way if I have to.
If you're going to put in a config applet, make the damned thing work or leave it out. I don't want to waste half an hour or (much) more trying to figure out how to get your broken tool to work before I start learning how to do it the hard way.
Long path... I can handle that. Dead end paths all over the place... damn, I'd rather use Windows.