That being said, I do agree with you, "should of" is horrible, but you have to take the good with the bad.
If language is indeed evolving, then isn't it a process of keeping the good and weeding out the bad? I certainly hope "should of" doesn't become standard. I'm terrible with written English and "should of" makes me cringe.
Black people can get it together and learn some basic english, or they can be rappers, football players, and comedians till the end of time.
I wouldn't complain that a Korean company only hires people that speak fluent Korean. If you can't communicate with people because your English is so bad, you're worthless to a company. That just about covers employment woes.
This "dey cain't speak da language cause dey growed up broke, mofo!" is absolute horseshit. I know plenty of people that came to this country straight from rat holes in Asia or eastern Europe, dead broke, and learned to speak English better than your average urban black man (often even better than your average suburbanite white kid), in a couple years. Its an issue of attitude, not vast resources, and the world will not always bend for bad attitudes.
"As long as the page renders correctly in my browser does it matter if the HTML fails to conform to the DTD?"
Interesting you should mention that. I know millions of people that subscribe to that very statment, if you switch "my browser" with "Internet Explorer".
What's worse, I work in a web dev shop (a successful one), and nobody there but me even knew what a DTD line was for until I told them... today. How scary is that to a/.'r?
Agreed. I realise tapes aren't the new hotness, but they're the most reliable, and they have good storage capacity. In addition, I'd consider a larger capacity storage server. Together this stuff may not be as cheap as tossing everything on DVDs, but apparently this is for people who work in digital media for a living. From that perspective, its worth investing in your profession.
Perhaps better than slashdot, they're bound to have a huge network of friends in the profession who have already crossed this bridge. It couldn't hurt to ask how people specificaly in these professions manage their media storage.
I'm thinking, worse than my wireless cards strength, what about that of the AP's around me? Wouldn't this have to work by triangulation, assuming all AP's broadcast with the same strength?
Your post may not end up being found by the moderators, but that is the most informative thing I've read about the music industry on/.
Really, I don't need.5mil teenagers telling me about how the fat cats are recouping a big fat mercedes.
Now, a discussion about how virtually no production and distribution costs (new tech) should influence the price of music would be interesting. All you'd have to support is a much smaller version of this cross-subsidy concept you mentioned, and marketing. After all, the losses on a new band aren't as expensive anymore and the cost of distribution for your pop-star's new record should be nill, right?
PayPal does indeed blow. This is coming from someone who has used it as a small merchant and as a buyer.
As a merchant, I was more than a little peeved when I used the method of buying from myself and immediately refunding payments, as their manual suggested, and they processed the payments anyways (days later) against a checking account. Ok, so the manual didn't mention that they will still process cancelled transactions... fine. I called them to get it straightened out (really to let them know they should say that in the manual) and I was actually yelled at, and then hung up on. I couldn't believe this. I said screw em, and had my bank reverse the charges as fraudulent withdrawls and filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau who has regular meetings with the fucks at PayPal.
As a buyer I have had all kinds of problems as well. I personally can't wait for Google to become the standard... even if I DO normally worry about Google branching out. We're in desperate need of an alternative.
He's suggesting that all the coders are being laid off, while in the meantime, Google is setting up competitions where the unemployed can compete for scraps. These scraps don't amount to gainful employment for the laborers, but Google profits by way of good press and cheap, completed code.
I'm not entirely sure that I agree with this speculation (at least not to this degree) but its an idea. It could just be a cool idea that benefits everyone, including Google.
I am 20 years old, not a student yet though because I recently finished senior high school and don't know what to study yet. Why the hell am I not eligible?
Because you may yet decide on a business, marketing, law or PR degree. Lord knows we don't need any more of those!
Which is only natural. The problem is, the bar is continually being lowered. As part of a Marketing class assignment, we read about how major vendors in all industries are letting their support slide, because as it turns out, people don't care enough to do anything about it. They SAY they do, but they don't.
Customers that make real trouble, companies would rather lose to reduce support costs. Individuals just don't matter anymore. People will continue to buy Dells, no matter how bad the customer support is (oh, and how..) just like they continue to buy at Walmart even though they know they're evil.
The only stake-to-the-heart is when a company arrives that delivers as promised, and listens to people.
This is exactly what the ACLU wants you to say in response to this. Unfortunatly this scenario has nothing to do with religious freedom.
In fact, all this legislation does is gaurantee an option for consumers. The ACLU is going to try to have it stuck down.
The worst part is, we'd normally think legislation that provides consumers with options is great. In this case, however, we all want to believe that the ACLU is doing the right thing (they are, after all, properly aligned with/. ethics in other cases)... so people will try desperately to justify this.
The hard truth is that the ACLU is spending our Anti-Patriot Act (etc) dollars to strike down legislation that promises options to consumers, that is all.
It would be nice, but this will never happen. At least not considering external economies of scale. What we need is for seperate companies to be developing these technologies in parallel so they can gradually replace components. Unfortunatly, the dollar most often rules, even over my idealism.
The problem here is that she is learning to follow step-by-step instructions - and not learning to abstract what is actually happening. I notice this a lot when I'm helping non-techy people.
This is exactly right. It was also well outlined in "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson. Basically he details how various GUI's are a brutal facade over the actual functions you perform on a PC, and how this level of abstraction can be terribly confusing for people, instead of helping the user like they're intended to.
It's a good food-for-thought essay, and its a very fast read. I recommend it for anyone that's a fan of computer history. I believe its even available online somewhere (legally) in plaintext.
Interestingly enough, this was sometimes the case with chess and checkers with online play-for-money sites. People would download and run chess and checkers engines, and transcribe the moves to the online games. I'm sure this also happens on Yahoo alot... but a big part of the game was in tossing the occasional game or move to make someone think they were playing a person. Later you could take them for a bigger bet. A pirated copy of fritz could add a little bit of spending money to a persons budget.
I think the real genius of South Park is that it cracks jokes at everyone. Basically, it can make anyone laugh at themself. It more or less suggests that a hardcore anyone is probably way out of whack. Alot of SP episodes end up being Daedalus and Icarus stories. They just add a generous dose of humor in the extremes.
A little laughter can be worth a shitload of perspective.
The real frustrating part is that we wait YEARS for them to straighten this stuff out, figuring you're using the distro that takes the time to get it right, and avoiding headaches.
Now I have serious probs, and I'm wondering why I'm using Debian at all.
We can all agree that there is no true capitalist nation, anywhere. Really though, that's a red herring. We were talking about the spectacular failure of "communism" in practice.
I think the point was that communism is flawed in a more fundamental way. It assumes you can get a large mass of people to cooperate for an extended period of time, with only the best interest of the whole in mind.
To overcome this flaw, "communist" states have always resorted to dictatorial rule to ensure cooperation. So from the get-go, you've already seeded your demise.
As an aside, I seem to remember some sorts of smaller Jewish communities making communist arrangements work well (kibbutz?). I guess it all depends on how many strictly like-minded people you can get together in one place.
What happens when you hit a patch of oxygen poor water? Better have some reserve oxygen in the design just in case.
The diagram shows the diver with a pony bottle around his neck. It would be better to have one of those AND a reserve in the system itself, to compensate. I guess then you're talking more like rebreather size, though... not that little can.
Looks like your really trading an oxygen limit for a battery limit.
Yeah. I expect there is potential for battery tech to get better though. On the other hand air time is pretty tightly related to size of your gear (larger tanks, two tanks, etc). But like someone else says, you still have to worry about nitrogen buildup, etc. Does it provide the other gasses? I don't wanna breathe plain oxygen, that's for sure.
A centrifuge. Ah, wonder what the trade off is between swimming with a heavy tank and swimming with a spinning mass are like. Hope the moment of inertia isn't too big.
Hoot! Good question.
Wonder what other gasses you'll be collecting from the ocean along with your oxygen. Might not want to use this baby around any volcanic vents and such.
This thing is going to end up being just as big and cumbersome as a regular tank rig. Really, I think everyones better off with a rebreather if they wanna go higher tech. You're going to have to condition what you leach from the water anyways.
And what about this... it still has to make air for your buoyancy control vest. I just don't see this being as simple as the drawing.:)
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That being said, I do agree with you, "should of" is horrible, but you have to take the good with the bad.
If language is indeed evolving, then isn't it a process of keeping the good and weeding out the bad? I certainly hope "should of" doesn't become standard. I'm terrible with written English and "should of" makes me cringe.
Black people can get it together and learn some basic english, or they can be rappers, football players, and comedians till the end of time.
I wouldn't complain that a Korean company only hires people that speak fluent Korean. If you can't communicate with people because your English is so bad, you're worthless to a company. That just about covers employment woes.
This "dey cain't speak da language cause dey growed up broke, mofo!" is absolute horseshit. I know plenty of people that came to this country straight from rat holes in Asia or eastern Europe, dead broke, and learned to speak English better than your average urban black man (often even better than your average suburbanite white kid), in a couple years. Its an issue of attitude, not vast resources, and the world will not always bend for bad attitudes.
In short: enough with bullshit excuses.
"As long as the page renders correctly in my browser does it matter if the HTML fails to conform to the DTD?"
/.'r?
Interesting you should mention that. I know millions of people that subscribe to that very statment, if you switch "my browser" with "Internet Explorer".
What's worse, I work in a web dev shop (a successful one), and nobody there but me even knew what a DTD line was for until I told them... today. How scary is that to a
Agreed. I realise tapes aren't the new hotness, but they're the most reliable, and they have good storage capacity. In addition, I'd consider a larger capacity storage server. Together this stuff may not be as cheap as tossing everything on DVDs, but apparently this is for people who work in digital media for a living. From that perspective, its worth investing in your profession.
Perhaps better than slashdot, they're bound to have a huge network of friends in the profession who have already crossed this bridge. It couldn't hurt to ask how people specificaly in these professions manage their media storage.
I'm thinking, worse than my wireless cards strength, what about that of the AP's around me? Wouldn't this have to work by triangulation, assuming all AP's broadcast with the same strength?
I'm worried less about privacy, and more about how I'm going to tape my wireless access point to my roomba just to mess with them.
But then, with such poor accuracy, it's not like anyone will be worried about 40 or 50 feet here and there.
Your post may not end up being found by the moderators, but that is the most informative thing I've read about the music industry on
Really, I don't need
Now, a discussion about how virtually no production and distribution costs (new tech) should influence the price of music would be interesting. All you'd have to support is a much smaller version of this cross-subsidy concept you mentioned, and marketing. After all, the losses on a new band aren't as expensive anymore and the cost of distribution for your pop-star's new record should be nill, right?
PayPal does indeed blow. This is coming from someone who has used it as a small merchant and as a buyer.
As a merchant, I was more than a little peeved when I used the method of buying from myself and immediately refunding payments, as their manual suggested, and they processed the payments anyways (days later) against a checking account. Ok, so the manual didn't mention that they will still process cancelled transactions... fine. I called them to get it straightened out (really to let them know they should say that in the manual) and I was actually yelled at, and then hung up on. I couldn't believe this. I said screw em, and had my bank reverse the charges as fraudulent withdrawls and filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau who has regular meetings with the fucks at PayPal.
As a buyer I have had all kinds of problems as well. I personally can't wait for Google to become the standard... even if I DO normally worry about Google branching out. We're in desperate need of an alternative.
I was only kidding. Your guess is as good as mine. :)
hd's lasting tens of hours? I'm afraid you've misread something. Perhaps the battery won't last long, but the hd's are not that faulty.
It does, it just came out a little mangled.
You've heard of American Idol?
He's suggesting that all the coders are being laid off, while in the meantime, Google is setting up competitions where the unemployed can compete for scraps. These scraps don't amount to gainful employment for the laborers, but Google profits by way of good press and cheap, completed code.
I'm not entirely sure that I agree with this speculation (at least not to this degree) but its an idea. It could just be a cool idea that benefits everyone, including Google.
That make more sense?
I am 20 years old, not a student yet though because I recently finished senior high school and don't know what to study yet. Why the hell am I not eligible?
Because you may yet decide on a business, marketing, law or PR degree. Lord knows we don't need any more of those!
Which is only natural. The problem is, the bar is continually being lowered. As part of a Marketing class assignment, we read about how major vendors in all industries are letting their support slide, because as it turns out, people don't care enough to do anything about it. They SAY they do, but they don't.
Customers that make real trouble, companies would rather lose to reduce support costs. Individuals just don't matter anymore. People will continue to buy Dells, no matter how bad the customer support is (oh, and how..) just like they continue to buy at Walmart even though they know they're evil.
The only stake-to-the-heart is when a company arrives that delivers as promised, and listens to people.
This is exactly what the ACLU wants you to say in response to this. Unfortunatly this scenario has nothing to do with religious freedom.
In fact, all this legislation does is gaurantee an option for consumers. The ACLU is going to try to have it stuck down.
The worst part is, we'd normally think legislation that provides consumers with options is great. In this case, however, we all want to believe that the ACLU is doing the right thing (they are, after all, properly aligned with
The hard truth is that the ACLU is spending our Anti-Patriot Act (etc) dollars to strike down legislation that promises options to consumers, that is all.
It would be nice, but this will never happen. At least not considering external economies of scale. What we need is for seperate companies to be developing these technologies in parallel so they can gradually replace components. Unfortunatly, the dollar most often rules, even over my idealism.
The problem here is that she is learning to follow step-by-step instructions - and not learning to abstract what is actually happening. I notice this a lot when I'm helping non-techy people.
This is exactly right. It was also well outlined in "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson. Basically he details how various GUI's are a brutal facade over the actual functions you perform on a PC, and how this level of abstraction can be terribly confusing for people, instead of helping the user like they're intended to.
It's a good food-for-thought essay, and its a very fast read. I recommend it for anyone that's a fan of computer history. I believe its even available online somewhere (legally) in plaintext.
Interestingly enough, this was sometimes the case with chess and checkers with online play-for-money sites. People would download and run chess and checkers engines, and transcribe the moves to the online games. I'm sure this also happens on Yahoo alot... but a big part of the game was in tossing the occasional game or move to make someone think they were playing a person. Later you could take them for a bigger bet. A pirated copy of fritz could add a little bit of spending money to a persons budget.
So what you're saying is that our PHB's actually are more important than the guys getting their hands dirty?
Damn, that sucks.
I think the real genius of South Park is that it cracks jokes at everyone. Basically, it can make anyone laugh at themself. It more or less suggests that a hardcore anyone is probably way out of whack. Alot of SP episodes end up being Daedalus and Icarus stories. They just add a generous dose of humor in the extremes.
A little laughter can be worth a shitload of perspective.
The real frustrating part is that we wait YEARS for them to straighten this stuff out, figuring you're using the distro that takes the time to get it right, and avoiding headaches.
Now I have serious probs, and I'm wondering why I'm using Debian at all.
Don't waste the nukes. I'd personally enjoy the slow, public execution of Jar Jar and his most irritating brethren.
Oops, someone forgot to shut off the Messenger Service.
Damnit! Who sent 40,000 print jobs to the laser printer in the pit?!
We can all agree that there is no true capitalist nation, anywhere. Really though, that's a red herring. We were talking about the spectacular failure of "communism" in practice.
I think the point was that communism is flawed in a more fundamental way. It assumes you can get a large mass of people to cooperate for an extended period of time, with only the best interest of the whole in mind.
To overcome this flaw, "communist" states have always resorted to dictatorial rule to ensure cooperation. So from the get-go, you've already seeded your demise.
As an aside, I seem to remember some sorts of smaller Jewish communities making communist arrangements work well (kibbutz?). I guess it all depends on how many strictly like-minded people you can get together in one place.
What happens when you hit a patch of oxygen poor water? Better have some reserve oxygen in the design just in case.
:)
The diagram shows the diver with a pony bottle around his neck. It would be better to have one of those AND a reserve in the system itself, to compensate. I guess then you're talking more like rebreather size, though... not that little can.
Looks like your really trading an oxygen limit for a battery limit.
Yeah. I expect there is potential for battery tech to get better though. On the other hand air time is pretty tightly related to size of your gear (larger tanks, two tanks, etc). But like someone else says, you still have to worry about nitrogen buildup, etc. Does it provide the other gasses? I don't wanna breathe plain oxygen, that's for sure.
A centrifuge. Ah, wonder what the trade off is between swimming with a heavy tank and swimming with a spinning mass are like. Hope the moment of inertia isn't too big.
Hoot! Good question.
Wonder what other gasses you'll be collecting from the ocean along with your oxygen. Might not want to use this baby around any volcanic vents and such.
This thing is going to end up being just as big and cumbersome as a regular tank rig. Really, I think everyones better off with a rebreather if they wanna go higher tech. You're going to have to condition what you leach from the water anyways.
And what about this... it still has to make air for your buoyancy control vest. I just don't see this being as simple as the drawing.
Preferably with salami and mustard on rye.