Find a job you don't like, then while you have a positive cash flow, look for a job that better 'suits' you.
Most jobs today require unofficial 12hr shifts, leaving very little time or energy for any sort of self improvement.. Most people fall into this rut until they burn out, and then everyone wonders why society is so miserable.
Yeah great, wonderful.. That was your personal experience back when the economy was booming.. Your experience is out of date, just like your assumptions.
So what do you say to those who didn't have your opportunities? Are they to spend the rest of their days being 'punished' for that, unable to get a job because no one will employ a homeless person? Dont be surprised if one of those people raids your family's home for food/money/valuables..
You can preach about responsibility all you want, but without opportunity to exercise it, the argument is worthless.
Generally, in order to create, destruction is inevitable. The only kind of 'create' that doesn't destroy anything is the most passive-aggressive watered down kind..ie blue ribbon accomplishments that change little. Today's politicians, for example, are so wedded to 'compromise', they routinely ignore alternative solutions that would label them 'extreme'. Sometimes the unilateral choices are the correct ones, moreso when societies are in strife, and such 'great leaders' were the ones with the brains AND the balls to acknowledge and execute them.
I agree with this. It's too bad the absurdly pro-female bias from the 1950 and 60s is still biasing policy today. We treat women as these delicate little flowers that need all this primping and space, yet we teach they are 'equal' by default. How can they learn self-respect knowing their standards are different or lower than the boys? How can boys really be expected to respect them? How can boys be motivated to do their best when their performance measurements are curtailed and/or made irrelevant wherever they come out ahead? How can society assume this doesn't propagate into adulthood?
The proof for a systemic, culturally reenforced feminist counterpart to your accusation exists in the law and the growing malaise towards men and boys in western culture these days. A quick overview of public school policy and university politics, television programming and advertisments, pop music, and (recently) video games, makes it quite obvious. Sadly, it is, for the most part, men who are at fault for this, men who've been convinced to feel 'male guilt' who then pass the laws and decree pro female bias in their organizations in attempts to 'prove' just how much of a feminist they are. It it sad they've internalized this insecurity and self-hatred as they assume the guilt because of having a penis. Basically it's stockholm syndrome exacerbated by misapplied notions of chivalry.
There is nothing wrong with an individualist agenda. You support it for girls and women, don't you? All that 'my body my right' (yet somehow his responsibility) and 'I don't need a man' egocentricity isn't individualist?
when I was in primary/highschool both genders were pretty close. boys did a bit better in math and hard science while the girls did a bit better in language arts. Either this article is misandric trash which wouldn' t be tolerated for a second if it was talking about males, or it is telling the truth, and the school system, like most publicly funded services these days, is catering to girls at the expense of boys.
Until we openly acknowledge that biased accessibility/social dynamics/funding/etc for specific groups results in the discrimination of others, under the assumption that these others are immune, we will continue to see the discrimination these policies claim to fight. They do nothing but teach us all to stay divided and demand entitlements at each other' s expense. The only people who win are the lawyers, and only when they don' t get tripped up by their own machinations.
In any other context, we wouldn' t assume equal perfomance without testing each case under like conditions. We also wouldn' t consider tinkering with the results just to give each case the appearance of equivalent performance. So why do we tolerate it with people? School systems have been systematically removing motivators for boys for the last twenty years or so in order to make it more ' comfortable' for girls, then attempting to ' adapt' boys by feminizing their behavior. It doesnt surprise me that more and more male students are growing disillusioned about school, from elementary to college.
yet these ' god damned phone' people benefit from open hardware indirectly when their relatively tech inclined friend suggests a 3rd party firmware in order to gain desired capability.
well, I wouldnt hire anyone citing 'professionalism' as justification for anything. Fallacious ' reasoning' is the cornerstone of passive- aggressive office politics.
Why should they have to work around bugs in closed binaries? One of the complaints against windows is all the shim code it has to keep ancient binaries working. The reason they went without an ABI was not to stick it to closed software as much as it was about not wanting to be responsible for bugs caused by other people who don't release their code. If linus was truly doing this for idealistic reasons, he would've relicensed under GPL3. He chose not to.
1. my xfce desktop boots to about 160MB usage. With all software installed, it's about 8GB of storage. 2. windows 7 boots to about 1GB. It takes 9GB of storage just for the operating system, before service packs These are both x86_64 installs so each has redundant copies of libraries for 32 and 64 bit. Where I sit, both windows AND modern linux distros are too bloated, probably for somewhat different reasons. Most distributions use too much interpreted code in their userland, and windows attempts crazy amounts of backward compatibility, to name two possibilities.
3. power management has never been linux' best suit, even back in the day. It does vary by hardware though. Most of this has to do with buggy acpi firmware as well as lack of documentation. I've seen acpi bugs break windows machines too, in fact they may be the #1 reason you will still see bluescreens today.
4. IE has gotten better, but it's still a non starter for me because it hides its cache in hidden directories and there is little in the way of extensions for it. For me, 'the' extension is adblock plus. Also, there is the legacy of being too closely tied with the system, making it an easy attack vector. That may or may not be as true today, but it's easier just to use something else. Here is an example of where microsoft dropped the ball.
5. 'business software' is a catch 22 situation. few build it for other platforms because few users are present, and few users are present because few build such apps. This has little to do with the os itself and more to do with the fact it's not the entrenched incumbent. Even if libreoffice et al were functionally superior in all respects, they still wouldn't get much headway.
6. the fact there's no massive, undocumented database in linux that hides internal configurations is a big plus for me. Windows people like to bitch about needing to use the command line with linux, but then ignore having to dick with the registry...and if it gets corrupt, you're finished.. time to reinstall your entire system, which, if it's a complex developer setup, can take days. With linux it's easy to back up your home directory and/etc and the files inside are documented (or at least commented). This makes them easily migrated to new installs. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had to rebuild a linux system from scratch due to software unmanageability.
They also ignore that the many circumstances where the command line in windows must be used, usually to toggle some undocumented feature that has no gui counterpart. Windows' command line is horrible, even with powershell, which is slow as hell too thanks to its C# heritage.
7. application performance. While you can get perl/python/php etc for windows, their performance is usually sub par. They were designed around posix apis and windows' support for that is hit or miss these days. You're really better off just using microsoft's services/apis if you're going to host on their OS.
8. ati's drivers. They suck on EVERY platform, not just linux. This has been true since 1998 with the rage pro. If this is your show stopper, do yourself a favor and get yourself an nvidia card. If you don't game, just get a used 7800 and use the nouveau driver. If you do, nvidia's binary is the way to go.
in this case 'multiplatform' means 'dumbed down to Lowest Common Formfactor'. It doesn't matter how powerful one platform is when the game is targeted at hardware designed in 2004.
Arrogance can be found anywhere, but it is disproportionately concentrated in those with the most power in organizations...ie NOT IT people. Someone's superiority complex comes from familiarity with being right all the time, mainly because their coworkers are idiots in the areas he's knowledgeable. It's not really a complex at all unless the knowledge base is misappropriated into a profession lacking much intuitive compatibility.
You have to see it every time you want to start an application (without hackish workarounds). Just stick with 7. 8 offers very little over it to justify its huge negative.
My understanding is that they actually promoted the one who designed metro when they fired sinofsky, Julie Larson-green. iirc, sinofsky was actually fighting to prevent metro from being the primary interface and was labeled an old stodge by his peers.
There's more to this than simply selecting or not selecting a product. If UEFI locked out devices become dominant, say goodbye to computing that empowers the user. Even if most users aren't 'fossies', or use OSS, they still benefit from from it because even an inferior OSS package keeps the commercial vendors somewhat honest. A locked out ecosystem ensures computing becomes as loaded with passive aggressive restrictions as cable tv.
People like yourself focus on the here and now, pretending that any predictions, no matter how likely, are paranoia. Cut the crap already.
Because, most software today seems to expand outward, consuming more and more resources without getting anything more done or making things any better for the user. It just allows 3rd rate programmers the opportunity to make money. Without all those gobs of ram and disk space, they wouldn't be competitive.
Projects like slax are done, if nothing else, to see if it's (still) possible for software to scale well. An environment that can operate acceptably on 1993 era hardware and still scale to use today's is a damn good design. I wish the kernel and glibc guys still attempted to use their stuff on 486s sometimes, just to get some perspective on what their old code could do with puny hardware. It should be a requirement for new college undergrads to get their code running well on anemic hardware. It would save us the bloated mess that passes for software today.
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Find a job you don't like, then while you have a positive cash flow, look for a job that better 'suits' you.
Most jobs today require unofficial 12hr shifts, leaving very little time or energy for any sort of self improvement.. Most people fall into this rut until they burn out, and then everyone wonders why society is so miserable.
Yeah great, wonderful.. That was your personal experience back when the economy was booming.. Your experience is out of date, just like your assumptions.
So what do you say to those who didn't have your opportunities? Are they to spend the rest of their days being 'punished' for that, unable to get a job because no one will employ a homeless person? Dont be surprised if one of those people raids your family's home for food/money/valuables..
You can preach about responsibility all you want, but without opportunity to exercise it, the argument is worthless.
If the kid chooses the latter, that's his fault.
Not if there's no gainful employment available.
Why was this modded down? This describes a typical highschool or college.
Generally, in order to create, destruction is inevitable. The only kind of 'create' that doesn't destroy anything is the most passive-aggressive watered down kind..ie blue ribbon accomplishments that change little. Today's politicians, for example, are so wedded to 'compromise', they routinely ignore alternative solutions that would label them 'extreme'. Sometimes the unilateral choices are the correct ones, moreso when societies are in strife, and such 'great leaders' were the ones with the brains AND the balls to acknowledge and execute them.
Historically, the best leaders were almost never the best followers..anything but.
I agree with this. It's too bad the absurdly pro-female bias from the 1950 and 60s is still biasing policy today. We treat women as these delicate little flowers that need all this primping and space, yet we teach they are 'equal' by default. How can they learn self-respect knowing their standards are different or lower than the boys? How can boys really be expected to respect them? How can boys be motivated to do their best when their performance measurements are curtailed and/or made irrelevant wherever they come out ahead? How can society assume this doesn't propagate into adulthood?
The proof for a systemic, culturally reenforced feminist counterpart to your accusation exists in the law and the growing malaise towards men and boys in western culture these days. A quick overview of public school policy and university politics, television programming and advertisments, pop music, and (recently) video games, makes it quite obvious. Sadly, it is, for the most part, men who are at fault for this, men who've been convinced to feel 'male guilt' who then pass the laws and decree pro female bias in their organizations in attempts to 'prove' just how much of a feminist they are. It it sad they've internalized this insecurity and self-hatred as they assume the guilt because of having a penis. Basically it's stockholm syndrome exacerbated by misapplied notions of chivalry.
There is nothing wrong with an individualist agenda. You support it for girls and women, don't you? All that 'my body my right' (yet somehow his responsibility) and 'I don't need a man' egocentricity isn't individualist?
questioning feminism and state sponsored discrimination is not hatred.
when I was in primary/highschool both genders were pretty close. boys did a bit better in math and hard science while the girls did a bit better in language arts. Either this article is misandric trash which wouldn' t be tolerated for a second if it was talking about males, or it is telling the truth, and the school system, like most publicly funded services these days, is catering to girls at the expense of boys.
Until we openly acknowledge that biased accessibility/social dynamics/funding/etc for specific groups results in the discrimination of others, under the assumption that these others are immune, we will continue to see the discrimination these policies claim to fight. They do nothing but teach us all to stay divided and demand entitlements at each other' s expense. The only people who win are the lawyers, and only when they don' t get tripped up by their own machinations.
In any other context, we wouldn' t assume equal perfomance without testing each case under like conditions. We also wouldn' t consider tinkering with the results just to give each case the appearance of equivalent performance. So why do we tolerate it with people? School systems have been systematically removing motivators for boys for the last twenty years or so in order to make it more ' comfortable' for girls, then attempting to ' adapt' boys by feminizing their behavior. It doesnt surprise me that more and more male students are growing disillusioned about school, from elementary to college.
yet these ' god damned phone' people benefit from open hardware indirectly when their relatively tech inclined friend suggests a 3rd party firmware in order to gain desired capability.
well, I wouldnt hire anyone citing 'professionalism' as justification for anything. Fallacious ' reasoning' is the cornerstone of passive- aggressive office politics.
Why should they have to work around bugs in closed binaries? One of the complaints against windows is all the shim code it has to keep ancient binaries working. The reason they went without an ABI was not to stick it to closed software as much as it was about not wanting to be responsible for bugs caused by other people who don't release their code. If linus was truly doing this for idealistic reasons, he would've relicensed under GPL3. He chose not to.
here are my anecdotal comparisons
1. my xfce desktop boots to about 160MB usage. With all software installed, it's about 8GB of storage.
2. windows 7 boots to about 1GB. It takes 9GB of storage just for the operating system, before service packs
These are both x86_64 installs so each has redundant copies of libraries for 32 and 64 bit. Where I sit, both windows AND modern linux distros are too bloated, probably for somewhat different reasons. Most distributions use too much interpreted code in their userland, and windows attempts crazy amounts of backward compatibility, to name two possibilities.
3. power management has never been linux' best suit, even back in the day. It does vary by hardware though. Most of this has to do with buggy acpi firmware as well as lack of documentation. I've seen acpi bugs break windows machines too, in fact they may be the #1 reason you will still see bluescreens today.
4. IE has gotten better, but it's still a non starter for me because it hides its cache in hidden directories and there is little in the way of extensions for it. For me, 'the' extension is adblock plus. Also, there is the legacy of being too closely tied with the system, making it an easy attack vector. That may or may not be as true today, but it's easier just to use something else. Here is an example of where microsoft dropped the ball.
5. 'business software' is a catch 22 situation. few build it for other platforms because few users are present, and few users are present because few build such apps. This has little to do with the os itself and more to do with the fact it's not the entrenched incumbent. Even if libreoffice et al were functionally superior in all respects, they still wouldn't get much headway.
6. the fact there's no massive, undocumented database in linux that hides internal configurations is a big plus for me. Windows people like to bitch about needing to use the command line with linux, but then ignore having to dick with the registry...and if it gets corrupt, you're finished.. time to reinstall your entire system, which, if it's a complex developer setup, can take days. With linux it's easy to back up your home directory and /etc and the files inside are documented (or at least commented). This makes them easily migrated to new installs. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had to rebuild a linux system from scratch due to software unmanageability.
They also ignore that the many circumstances where the command line in windows must be used, usually to toggle some undocumented feature that has no gui counterpart. Windows' command line is horrible, even with powershell, which is slow as hell too thanks to its C# heritage.
7. application performance. While you can get perl/python/php etc for windows, their performance is usually sub par. They were designed around posix apis and windows' support for that is hit or miss these days. You're really better off just using microsoft's services/apis if you're going to host on their OS.
8. ati's drivers. They suck on EVERY platform, not just linux. This has been true since 1998 with the rage pro. If this is your show stopper, do yourself a favor and get yourself an nvidia card. If you don't game, just get a used 7800 and use the nouveau driver. If you do, nvidia's binary is the way to go.
in this case 'multiplatform' means 'dumbed down to Lowest Common Formfactor'. It doesn't matter how powerful one platform is when the game is targeted at hardware designed in 2004.
Arrogance can be found anywhere, but it is disproportionately concentrated in those with the most power in organizations...ie NOT IT people. Someone's superiority complex comes from familiarity with being right all the time, mainly because their coworkers are idiots in the areas he's knowledgeable. It's not really a complex at all unless the knowledge base is misappropriated into a profession lacking much intuitive compatibility.
You have to see it every time you want to start an application (without hackish workarounds). Just stick with 7. 8 offers very little over it to justify its huge negative.
Your feelings are irrelevant. How much one person cares more directly correlates with the content of the message rather than the grammar.
My understanding is that they actually promoted the one who designed metro when they fired sinofsky, Julie Larson-green. iirc, sinofsky was actually fighting to prevent metro from being the primary interface and was labeled an old stodge by his peers.
There's more to this than simply selecting or not selecting a product. If UEFI locked out devices become dominant, say goodbye to computing that empowers the user. Even if most users aren't 'fossies', or use OSS, they still benefit from from it because even an inferior OSS package keeps the commercial vendors somewhat honest. A locked out ecosystem ensures computing becomes as loaded with passive aggressive restrictions as cable tv.
People like yourself focus on the here and now, pretending that any predictions, no matter how likely, are paranoia. Cut the crap already.
How about letting people use the energy and resources they buy as they choose, instead of punishing them for it?
so where's my sonic the hedgehog port? (I kid, the speed came from the custom gfx support, not the cpu itself)
Because, most software today seems to expand outward, consuming more and more resources without getting anything more done or making things any better for the user. It just allows 3rd rate programmers the opportunity to make money. Without all those gobs of ram and disk space, they wouldn't be competitive.
Projects like slax are done, if nothing else, to see if it's (still) possible for software to scale well. An environment that can operate acceptably on 1993 era hardware and still scale to use today's is a damn good design. I wish the kernel and glibc guys still attempted to use their stuff on 486s sometimes, just to get some perspective on what their old code could do with puny hardware. It should be a requirement for new college undergrads to get their code running well on anemic hardware. It would save us the bloated mess that passes for software today.
Don't worry the ivy-league trained communists and 'social constructionists' behind idiocy like this will make exceptions for feminist 'empowerment.'
There is no reason why actors need millions of dollars for their tradeskills. Perhaps the market just doesn't support that anymore.