I easily reach 5500' shooting my guns off at new years and those rockets are really small! (Of course I never shoot straight up, always slightly down-wind!)
I think I can get something to help you do that... let me check my deleted mail folder. I am sure I saw something about that somewhere...
Tech workers get lots of "vacation"
on
Working Hard?
·
· Score: 1
AKA (Also Known As, for you kids) "time between jobs".
Live under your means, and if you can, snag a working spouse from a different industry so you aren't both on "vacation" at the same time.
Getting a "Backup You" - Ultimate Altruism?
on
Altered Carbon
·
· Score: 1
I haven't read a lot of the stories mentioned that touch on the subject, but I have read lots of SF.
I have thought about the possibility of getting a "brain dump" (and a way to do something with it) or an "upload", etc.
The question is, wouldn't it be the case, from the point of view of "you" that "you" get nothing out of it? After the copy is made, you branch off and eventually die or whatever.
When your copy is "activated", what's in it for "you". Sure, your "copy" is happy, but you died miserably in a ditch somewhere, or whatever.
So, all these ideas are neat, and if ever possible, most people would avail themselves of the idea, but it is really only a nice gesture on the part of the "donor" personality...
I have a passport, but it is long expired. Without the passport, I have been to Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. I suppose there are places I might like to go to that require a passport, but there are far more that require a passport that I have no desire to visit.
Meanwhile, plenty of people visit and permenantly inhabit my state (California) without out passports from their (non-USA) countries of origin just fine.
It seems to me this is the way old fashioned, real books, public libraries work (or at least lots of them.) E.g. You can check out a certain number of items. When you return some, you can get some more.
Sounds good to me. Colorful fish are very relaxing to watch. Homo Sapiens won't be around forever anyhow, no species lasts too long. The sun will bloat up large enough to purge life off this planet in a few billion years anyhow. I doubt glow-in-the-dark fish will have escaped the solar system by then anyhow.
The trouble with the really long view is that it is depressing.
The live for today attitude ain't so good either.
Genetically engineer me to live to, oh, say 250 years, in good health and let me know the expiration date. That sounds about right.
If a teacher makes (only) $30K/year, for 40 weeks, that's $150 a day. So you think 1/3 of a day's salary isn't noise?
I send my kids to private school (so my kids will never be featured on Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" segment), so I am paying public school taxes + tuition. To be honest, I don't even know what my kids use at school, but the people I have met running the IT infrastruction don't know much, and I suspect it is the same (or worse) at public school.
I reiterate - I really don't care what people use for software, but if it costs more and a days labor to figure out something that they don't "already know", then it is not cost effective.
Who cares, one way or the other? Use open source, save a few bucks. Do it if it makes sense. Don't use open source, so what.
Profit making companies (proprietary software firms, if they are lucky) pay taxes. "Open source" doesn't, by and large. So, on top of GSA discounts and tax revenue, the cost is lowered, for commercial software.
How much does non-free software cost anyhow? Even if it is a lot of money, it is in the noise, compared to salaries.
I really don't care, either way. "Free" software, paid-for software, peanuts in the big picture.
Politics pisses me off, but (by and large) There is no consirpacy. "Shit happens". Or, if you prefer; "The road to hell is paved in good intentions." Or, my words, every little step towards jumping in the shit seemed like a good idea, at the time.
Sorry, the gin (good stuff) is talking. The sun will burn the planet up, someday. All computers suck, that's my professional opinion (and I make ~$100K/yr dealing with them, give or take a dot-com bust.)
In my case, at this momement (don't trash me, I'm only making a living) I use LOTS of code - it comes in the form of the CLR (Microsoft.NET). In the past I have used lot of other code too, like the Java libraries, MFC, Win32 API, etc. etc.
I mean, really, lots of the "trivial" stuff is handled by the libraries in your development environment of choice (or assigned to you).
Stuff that isn't "trivial" is what developers are being paid to do!
Any current software engineer has to admit that the tools available today are much better than they were 10 years ago.
Hey, I may be using VS.NET, but I still use vi and various cygwin tools on a daily basis. Whatever works.
Really. This won't affect my ASP.NET/IIS/C# contract one wit.
Only doing what they pay me to do. If they want my opinion, I tell 'em straight up - it all sucks. That invoice is due now.
I might be interested. I've never spend a single hour in a Train (and I am over 40) but I spend time on the freeway. Since CA just outlawed cell phone use in the car, I might as well watch movies!
If I understand things correctly, we all crave "karma" - if you have bad karma, you get reincarnated to try again. The ultimate goal is blissful non existence, right? (AKA Nirvana).
So, wouldn't it be a great thing if everyone could achieve this all at once?
Maybe it's the gin...
I don't think I care to read about your cat, but if you have any good recipies FOR cat I would read them. The standard "Costco Yoshida's sauce" stir-fry is getting old...
This is not a troll, I really want to know. Does the plastic leach some chemical or something? The disc seem like they'd be pretty inert to me.
On the subject of landfills - why don't we put landfills for nasty stuff on a downgoing subduction plate, where "in the long run" the stuff ends up in the earths magma to be recycled?
Slashdot Mirror
I easily reach 5500' shooting my guns off at new years and those rockets are really small! (Of course I never shoot straight up, always slightly down-wind!)
I think I can get something to help you do that... let me check my deleted mail folder. I am sure I saw something about that somewhere...
Live under your means, and if you can, snag a working spouse from a different industry so you aren't both on "vacation" at the same time.
I have thought about the possibility of getting a "brain dump" (and a way to do something with it) or an "upload", etc.
The question is, wouldn't it be the case, from the point of view of "you" that "you" get nothing out of it? After the copy is made, you branch off and eventually die or whatever.
When your copy is "activated", what's in it for "you". Sure, your "copy" is happy, but you died miserably in a ditch somewhere, or whatever.
So, all these ideas are neat, and if ever possible, most people would avail themselves of the idea, but it is really only a nice gesture on the part of the "donor" personality...
Meanwhile, plenty of people visit and permenantly inhabit my state (California) without out passports from their (non-USA) countries of origin just fine.
The trouble with the really long view is that it is depressing.
The live for today attitude ain't so good either.
Genetically engineer me to live to, oh, say 250 years, in good health and let me know the expiration date. That sounds about right.
I was going to say something on the subject, but this is the correct answer.
If a teacher makes (only) $30K/year, for 40 weeks, that's $150 a day. So you think 1/3 of a day's salary isn't noise?
I send my kids to private school (so my kids will never be featured on Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" segment), so I am paying public school taxes + tuition. To be honest, I don't even know what my kids use at school, but the people I have met running the IT infrastruction don't know much, and I suspect it is the same (or worse) at public school.
I reiterate - I really don't care what people use for software, but if it costs more and a days labor to figure out something that they don't "already know", then it is not cost effective.
That is the crux of the OSS vs MS "problem".
(Gin still very much in effect.)
As a shareholder, I certainly hope they are buying something with that $40B (with a "b") in cash. They aren't giving it to me!
Who cares, one way or the other? Use open source, save a few bucks. Do it if it makes sense. Don't use open source, so what.
Profit making companies (proprietary software firms, if they are lucky) pay taxes. "Open source" doesn't, by and large. So, on top of GSA discounts and tax revenue, the cost is lowered, for commercial software.
How much does non-free software cost anyhow? Even if it is a lot of money, it is in the noise, compared to salaries.
I really don't care, either way. "Free" software, paid-for software, peanuts in the big picture.
Politics pisses me off, but (by and large) There is no consirpacy. "Shit happens". Or, if you prefer; "The road to hell is paved in good intentions." Or, my words, every little step towards jumping in the shit seemed like a good idea, at the time.
Sorry, the gin (good stuff) is talking. The sun will burn the planet up, someday. All computers suck, that's my professional opinion (and I make ~$100K/yr dealing with them, give or take a dot-com bust.)
Does this mean you are looking for some open source actors and actresses for this project?
Does anyone else think that (at least the smaller) planets will have to be regularly replaced?
Home Depot sells bolt cutters and university students drink beer, right?
In my case, at this momement (don't trash me, I'm only making a living) I use LOTS of code - it comes in the form of the CLR (Microsoft .NET). In the past I have used lot of other code too, like the Java libraries, MFC, Win32 API, etc. etc.
I mean, really, lots of the "trivial" stuff is handled by the libraries in your development environment of choice (or assigned to you).
Stuff that isn't "trivial" is what developers are being paid to do!
Any current software engineer has to admit that the tools available today are much better than they were 10 years ago.
Hey, I may be using VS.NET, but I still use vi and various cygwin tools on a daily basis. Whatever works.
Really. This won't affect my ASP.NET/IIS/C# contract one wit.
Only doing what they pay me to do. If they want my opinion, I tell 'em straight up - it all sucks. That invoice is due now.
I might be interested. I've never spend a single hour in a Train (and I am over 40) but I spend time on the freeway. Since CA just outlawed cell phone use in the car, I might as well watch movies!
Fine then. We'll see who leaves in Nov of 2004.
Put your money where your mouth is. I, too say we will NEVER run out of IPV6 addresses, and to prove it I will bet you $US1,000,000.00 straight, up.
All I as is that you send me 10% now to hold the bet. I will pay off 1,100,000.00 if I lose the bet.
If I understand things correctly, we all crave "karma" - if you have bad karma, you get reincarnated to try again. The ultimate goal is blissful non existence, right? (AKA Nirvana). So, wouldn't it be a great thing if everyone could achieve this all at once? Maybe it's the gin...
Yes. We are all gonna [sic] die. Don't rub it in.
I don't think I care to read about your cat, but if you have any good recipies FOR cat I would read them. The standard "Costco Yoshida's sauce" stir-fry is getting old...
Um, if you post your URL here on slashdot, I would guess you will get a lot more hits.
This is not a troll, I really want to know. Does the plastic leach some chemical or something? The disc seem like they'd be pretty inert to me. On the subject of landfills - why don't we put landfills for nasty stuff on a downgoing subduction plate, where "in the long run" the stuff ends up in the earths magma to be recycled?