Why would you want to be an engineer? Seriously why, when you could do manual labour, be an electrician, cementer, crane driver, or work in a number of other trades? The other trades pay more, give you better conditions, and you don't need to go work for some mining company in the middle of no where to earn a wage.
I know electricians who did their trade after their EE degree for this reason. Sure you can make a mint as an engineer but is it worth it having to live in a remote country town in order to do so?
Or why not become a "financial engineer". You get to use your brain, you get paid massive bonuses for creating zero wealth, and you don't get treated as a second class citizen.
China or Germany don't have this problem. They raise their engineers onto pedestals bigger than those the Americans would reserve for bankers.
Why would you want to be an engineer?
Am I the only person who sees this post as crazy?
I don't live in the middle of nowhere. I live in a city.
I make better wages, have better benefits, and better working conditions than the trades.
Again, I don't live in a remote country town. Granted, I have to commute to the suburbs, but I can still live in a city.
I feel like I'm raised onto a pedestal. I feel respected whenever I meet people and they ask what my profession is. I date a lot and girls always get a little misty eyed when they find out (Yes, lots of interesting and attractive women actually respect brains).
Also, the work is AWESOME! Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Firmware, Software, Fixtures.
Suicide is mans attempt to keep control of what he never had any control of. Himself.
Legal suicide is an invitation for the 'state' to decide who is worthy to live and die because it immediately puts law makers in the position of deciding who's life is worthy of being required to live. As has always happened in the past legal suicide will not be fully voluntary for long , because it will be used as an excuse to not take care of those people who choose not to use the 'option' when they are no longer 'worthy' of support.
Just because *you* have the darkness inside of you to force suicide and you see it in others, doesn't mean that the people who are in control will be doing so. "As has always happened in the past?" Please be mindful of your absurd absolute statements. I think that fear of abuse is real, but saying that it is inevitable is missing the point of free will and the good that is in many of us.
Dude, that's complete bullshit. The majority of Apple Store employees are part time and don't get any benefits (except for cheap benefits like commuter checks.) Part timers start at ~$12 an hour.
Apple Store has a reputation for firing people at the drop of a hat. There's simply no value for them in retaining employees in the long run simply BECAUSE their employees are easily replaceable and the cost of retention is higher than the cost of training.
And who expects awesome pay and benefits at part time? I should've clarified that I was talking about full-time, granted, but the point still stands. What the hell do you expect as a part-time employee? Awesome pay and a benefits package? Gimme a break.
You're missing the point. They don't expect awesome pay and benefits as a part timer. Most retail companies cap the number of full time employees and over-hire part time employees. Granted, this results in more jobs, but also limits the amount of good benefits.
Apple should be free to enact whatever compensation they choose and employees should be free to achieve whatever kind of collective bargaining they can convince their fellow employees to agree to. It's called the invisible hand and it works both ways.
I don't understand why so many people put "Free Book" on the web, but put it in an HTML page with links to the various chapters. Is it too much to ask for the convenience of a single PDF, MOBI, or EPUB I can download to an eReader? They went to the trouble of publishing on Lulu, could they take the additional step of checking the "Make my book available as a free ebook" checkbox so I could download the PDF that Lulu uses to print it?
Other than that, this sounds like something I look forward to reading, after I copy and paste each chapter into a Word Document and convert it myself. : )
So wait, you give consumers what they want for a reasonable price, and they'll pay for it? Who would have thought! One can hope they'll learn from this, but somehow I suspect not:P.
Yes, but Cable is giving the customer much of what they don't want for an unreasonable price.
Furthermore, we all know that a program that's still being beta tested still has its bugs. Even if the bugs were worked out so that a car "experienced a bug" only once every 100,000 miles, given the number of vehicles presently on the road and how much they are driven every day, that would still be too many "crashes" for society to find acceptable.
One error every 100,000 miles is several orders of magnitude less than a human. I have a hard time believing this is not an eventuality, both in safety and customer acceptance.
Why don't you have the packages delivered to your office?
I have done this for some smaller items. But it just is not an option for larger or heavier items. Here is why:
When I get done with work I walk 20 minutes to the train, Ride the train for 40 minutes, walk to my car, then drive 45 more minutes. Or I can drive to work and pay obscene parking, and deal with a bridge that has a lineup to cross it 18 hours a day, on a highway with extensive construction along most of my route.
(Vancouver, BC, Canada. Port Mann Bridge in case anyone cares.)
This is not going to change any time soon. My skills mean I will have to work in the downtown core. My lifestyle, and housing prices mean I will live far outside the downtown core.
UPS and FedEx still suck!
Someone needs to start a delivery service that delivers at night. (I would pay extra.)
Ask your local 7-11 to accept packages for you. If you live in an uncivilized environment without a 7-11, you should have one delivered to you so that you can sell slurpies to snotnosed children, cigarettes to miscreants, and mad dog to horny teenagers.
I hate UPS and FedEx! So much so that I will not buy from anywhere that will not ship postal. Here is why: I am at work all day. UPS and FedEx will knock on my door, and then leave a note. Of course I will not be at home any weekday, so I have no choice but to go to their warehouse and pick up my package. Due to the hours they are open, and the obscene commute I have, I will have to leave work early to pick up my package.
Now postal on the other hand, will drop the key to the large mailbox in my box and I get my package without needing to take time off work. Or if it requires a signature, the post office is only 4 blocks away and it is open quite late so I can pick up my package the following day.
Canadian post office, so your mileage may vary.
USPS, why not simply give up the Saturday delivery?
I had this problem too, except that instead of bitching, I just had all my packages delivered to work, where I was during the day. Failing that, there are mailbox centers or small business all over the place that would love $1 per package.
Treating adults like little children is ridiculous.
Treating adults like everything has to be serious all of the time and that they have to eschew a sense of spontaneity and wonder is ridiculous. I'm not really sure why you feel the need to draw the line.
The unemployed did need games for their self esteem. It's really sad that you and others find this demeaning. I think you fundamentally misunderstand what joy life can bring you and the nature of humor. I think that jarring someone's self image at a time when they need to rethink everything is brilliant.
On the other hand, I would imagine that most people's reaction wouldn't understand it and would mentally show up with pitchforks and torches; so I wouldn't have given the green light either. But that's only because that would be a waste of good capes.
Crazy as that state is, there had to be at least *one* sane person in the room when that was pitched. Surely to god, there had to be one person there who saw the disaster coming. My question is "What kind of environment was so toxic that he wouldn't or couldn't speak up and challenge such an obviously FUCKING INSANE idea?" How beaten down and scared do you have to be before you let something like that slide by without comment? How crazy does a boss have to be before his subordinates are so tired that no one even bothers to say "I think this might be a bad idea."?
Actually, this is a great idea. The problem is on the people who receive the capes and say "I am not willing to change my worldview and become a hero instead of a victim". You can't serious your way out of unemployment or depression. You can make light of a bad situation. Most people who find various stabs at humor insensitive generally don't understand the nature of humor.
On the other hand, I probably wouldn't have greenlighted this because I know that most people are cowards.
That's one thing I can't understand about Twitter — how can you have a conversation with arbitrary people, and have others view that conversation, if only Tweets inside follow-cliques appear on a person's timeline? Do conversations instead happen on hashtag streams, or Is it expected that one should monitor the "mention" tab so you can talk with people you don't follow (even though people watching your timeline will only see your side of the conversation).
I think you hit the nail on the head on why most slashdotters hate Twitter. It doesn't make sense from an objective point of view. Yet most people like it and want to use it. I think the fundamental lesson is that people *want* to use the best of what is available to them that they understand, and that they think other people are using, whether it really is the best tool for the job.
As far as I know, doesn't matter that it is older, or that they didn't personally develop it. It is still copyrighted, and unless someone can show it was given to public domain, EA is within their rights to do this.
And I don't blame them for doing so. Ultima IV is better and has more depth than a majority of it's modern descendants. I would assert that Ultima 5, 6, or 7 were better than any Final Fantasy game.
Although I agree that your life would be better with some therapy, I have a feeling it would be lost on you. Have fun marginalizing and retaliating after being marginalized. Keep posting what you like. Nobody is in your way.
Groupon has a great business idea, AND it's mainly targeted to girls and women who also spend a lot for beauty things. They make shitloads of money as well as does the partner companies and their users. Win-win-win.
What are you talking about? All of my Groupons are for Role Playing books and All Terrain Vehicle discounts. Not to mention the lifesize trojan horses and doomsday devices.
Hey, some of us live in Japan and are members of both Slashdots! (I admit, though, that I post on this one far more often than the Japanese one, which I mostly just read.)
So, is the Japanese Slashdot filled with as many arrogant pendants, or have they developed civilized discourse over there?
You probably just used the wrong form of its/it's or their/they're/there. Please double check, before I have an aneurysm
Offtopic, but you've probably never heard of Neutral Possessive. "it's", as in "The tidal wave and it's destruction were watched throughout the world". Now I know you're saying that this does not exist in the English language, but language is open source and dynamic. Any opinion against this rule change is bigoted against inanimate objects. Or in the case of the tidal wave, animated objects without cognitive abilities; or taken further, water based disaster events not named by a scientific body such as a hurricane or typhoon.
Well, are you sure would really want to tell right away to some girl you meet that you read comic books or watch anime? Things like can make people think about you wrongly. And for example, when I'm visiting Thailand I like the ladyboys there, but it's not something I'd say to anyone when I first meet them.
One of my best friends became that way because of a clear and direct admission of ladyboys and capes.
On a side topic, I'm sure you're familiar with women who pretend to like sports in order to be more appealing to a romantic partner. I've found in the last few years women who pretend to like comic books. They have them on the shelf, but do not survive more than a cursory question about the content or characters. (This is independent of the women who actually like sports or comic books. Or, men like myself who pretend to know about sports in the company of men because it's preferable to talking about the weather, their children, or their lawns; which is shameful where I come from)
I don't understand what my computer is supposed to DO once it has determined what my emotion is. The only everyday application I can see for this is marketing. I am sure marketers would like to register your reaction when you see something. I don't see how that helps ME. I mean, if the computer sees that I'm angry or surprised or whatever, what is it supposed to DO?
If I were a marketing researcher for an OS company, I would log whenever extreme reactions take place and use that to prioritize my bugs / feature improvements. You can't fix all the bugs, but you can fix the ones that cause the most people the most ire.
Who even gives a shit about those kinds of things anyway?
And this is why most slashdotters hate facebook. Because they don't understand friendship, or the equivalent stimulation provided by nostalgia of said friendships.
Do you remember the first time you played Doom? How about the first time you compiled a program. It's like that, but with people.
When driving a big heavy thing that can easily kill people.. if you don't have the decency to pay attention, then when you do kill someone the penalty should be much steeper than a fine and/or slap on the wrist.
That said, I'd say there are enough questions here that it's 50/50 whether she is guilty or not. Luckily that's what investigations and trials are for.
I think this story is proof that I should be allowed to use my cell phone while driving.
I agree, if it was something like OMG I was in a car accident, then really no case.
No case??? Seriously?? If you hit a man with your car and first thing you think about is "oh, I need to update my facebook status", than.... WTF is wrong with you???
If I were in a bad car accident, one of the first things I would do is update my facebook, so the people who give a shit about me can start looking for me before I lose consciousness. I would rather cast a wide net, then call people one at a time. 10 second txt message, then on to 911. You know, unless my body was shooting blood everywhere. Then I would take a picture and upload it.
...am far more likely to go somewhere which bans all this junk. It's like passive smoking, except being surrounded by pretentious jack-offs with unnecessary toys is painful to my mental health.
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Um, that's not called love. You can call it eccentric, kinky, quirky ... even obsessive and crazy. But love? No, that's not love.
Love is just projection anyways. This seems to qualify.
Why would you want to be an engineer? Seriously why, when you could do manual labour, be an electrician, cementer, crane driver, or work in a number of other trades? The other trades pay more, give you better conditions, and you don't need to go work for some mining company in the middle of no where to earn a wage.
I know electricians who did their trade after their EE degree for this reason. Sure you can make a mint as an engineer but is it worth it having to live in a remote country town in order to do so?
Or why not become a "financial engineer". You get to use your brain, you get paid massive bonuses for creating zero wealth, and you don't get treated as a second class citizen.
China or Germany don't have this problem. They raise their engineers onto pedestals bigger than those the Americans would reserve for bankers.
Why would you want to be an engineer?
Am I the only person who sees this post as crazy?
I don't live in the middle of nowhere. I live in a city.
I make better wages, have better benefits, and better working conditions than the trades.
Again, I don't live in a remote country town. Granted, I have to commute to the suburbs, but I can still live in a city.
I feel like I'm raised onto a pedestal. I feel respected whenever I meet people and they ask what my profession is. I date a lot and girls always get a little misty eyed when they find out (Yes, lots of interesting and attractive women actually respect brains).
Also, the work is AWESOME! Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Firmware, Software, Fixtures.
It really doesn't get better than this.
Suicide is mans attempt to keep control of what he never had any control of. Himself. Legal suicide is an invitation for the 'state' to decide who is worthy to live and die because it immediately puts law makers in the position of deciding who's life is worthy of being required to live. As has always happened in the past legal suicide will not be fully voluntary for long , because it will be used as an excuse to not take care of those people who choose not to use the 'option' when they are no longer 'worthy' of support.
Just because *you* have the darkness inside of you to force suicide and you see it in others, doesn't mean that the people who are in control will be doing so. "As has always happened in the past?" Please be mindful of your absurd absolute statements. I think that fear of abuse is real, but saying that it is inevitable is missing the point of free will and the good that is in many of us.
Dude, that's complete bullshit. The majority of Apple Store employees are part time and don't get any benefits (except for cheap benefits like commuter checks.) Part timers start at ~$12 an hour.
Apple Store has a reputation for firing people at the drop of a hat. There's simply no value for them in retaining employees in the long run simply BECAUSE their employees are easily replaceable and the cost of retention is higher than the cost of training.
And who expects awesome pay and benefits at part time? I should've clarified that I was talking about full-time, granted, but the point still stands. What the hell do you expect as a part-time employee? Awesome pay and a benefits package? Gimme a break.
You're missing the point. They don't expect awesome pay and benefits as a part timer. Most retail companies cap the number of full time employees and over-hire part time employees. Granted, this results in more jobs, but also limits the amount of good benefits.
Apple should be free to enact whatever compensation they choose and employees should be free to achieve whatever kind of collective bargaining they can convince their fellow employees to agree to. It's called the invisible hand and it works both ways.
I don't understand why so many people put "Free Book" on the web, but put it in an HTML page with links to the various chapters. Is it too much to ask for the convenience of a single PDF, MOBI, or EPUB I can download to an eReader? They went to the trouble of publishing on Lulu, could they take the additional step of checking the "Make my book available as a free ebook" checkbox so I could download the PDF that Lulu uses to print it?
Other than that, this sounds like something I look forward to reading, after I copy and paste each chapter into a Word Document and convert it myself. : )
I'm sorry, I thought you were a programmer.
So wait, you give consumers what they want for a reasonable price, and they'll pay for it? Who would have thought! One can hope they'll learn from this, but somehow I suspect not :P.
Yes, but Cable is giving the customer much of what they don't want for an unreasonable price.
Furthermore, we all know that a program that's still being beta tested still has its bugs. Even if the bugs were worked out so that a car "experienced a bug" only once every 100,000 miles, given the number of vehicles presently on the road and how much they are driven every day, that would still be too many "crashes" for society to find acceptable.
One error every 100,000 miles is several orders of magnitude less than a human. I have a hard time believing this is not an eventuality, both in safety and customer acceptance.
I have done this for some smaller items. But it just is not an option for larger or heavier items. Here is why: When I get done with work I walk 20 minutes to the train, Ride the train for 40 minutes, walk to my car, then drive 45 more minutes. Or I can drive to work and pay obscene parking, and deal with a bridge that has a lineup to cross it 18 hours a day, on a highway with extensive construction along most of my route. (Vancouver, BC, Canada. Port Mann Bridge in case anyone cares.) This is not going to change any time soon. My skills mean I will have to work in the downtown core. My lifestyle, and housing prices mean I will live far outside the downtown core. UPS and FedEx still suck! Someone needs to start a delivery service that delivers at night. (I would pay extra.)
Ask your local 7-11 to accept packages for you. If you live in an uncivilized environment without a 7-11, you should have one delivered to you so that you can sell slurpies to snotnosed children, cigarettes to miscreants, and mad dog to horny teenagers.
I hate UPS and FedEx! So much so that I will not buy from anywhere that will not ship postal. Here is why: I am at work all day. UPS and FedEx will knock on my door, and then leave a note. Of course I will not be at home any weekday, so I have no choice but to go to their warehouse and pick up my package. Due to the hours they are open, and the obscene commute I have, I will have to leave work early to pick up my package. Now postal on the other hand, will drop the key to the large mailbox in my box and I get my package without needing to take time off work. Or if it requires a signature, the post office is only 4 blocks away and it is open quite late so I can pick up my package the following day. Canadian post office, so your mileage may vary. USPS, why not simply give up the Saturday delivery?
I had this problem too, except that instead of bitching, I just had all my packages delivered to work, where I was during the day. Failing that, there are mailbox centers or small business all over the place that would love $1 per package.
Treating adults like little children is ridiculous.
Treating adults like everything has to be serious all of the time and that they have to eschew a sense of spontaneity and wonder is ridiculous. I'm not really sure why you feel the need to draw the line.
The unemployed did need games for their self esteem. It's really sad that you and others find this demeaning. I think you fundamentally misunderstand what joy life can bring you and the nature of humor. I think that jarring someone's self image at a time when they need to rethink everything is brilliant.
On the other hand, I would imagine that most people's reaction wouldn't understand it and would mentally show up with pitchforks and torches; so I wouldn't have given the green light either. But that's only because that would be a waste of good capes.
Crazy as that state is, there had to be at least *one* sane person in the room when that was pitched. Surely to god, there had to be one person there who saw the disaster coming. My question is "What kind of environment was so toxic that he wouldn't or couldn't speak up and challenge such an obviously FUCKING INSANE idea?" How beaten down and scared do you have to be before you let something like that slide by without comment? How crazy does a boss have to be before his subordinates are so tired that no one even bothers to say "I think this might be a bad idea."?
Actually, this is a great idea. The problem is on the people who receive the capes and say "I am not willing to change my worldview and become a hero instead of a victim". You can't serious your way out of unemployment or depression. You can make light of a bad situation. Most people who find various stabs at humor insensitive generally don't understand the nature of humor.
On the other hand, I probably wouldn't have greenlighted this because I know that most people are cowards.
Nothing to see here but a bunch of amerifags crying. Move along.
You're quite mistaken. We're breeding.
That's one thing I can't understand about Twitter — how can you have a conversation with arbitrary people, and have others view that conversation, if only Tweets inside follow-cliques appear on a person's timeline? Do conversations instead happen on hashtag streams, or Is it expected that one should monitor the "mention" tab so you can talk with people you don't follow (even though people watching your timeline will only see your side of the conversation).
I think you hit the nail on the head on why most slashdotters hate Twitter. It doesn't make sense from an objective point of view. Yet most people like it and want to use it. I think the fundamental lesson is that people *want* to use the best of what is available to them that they understand, and that they think other people are using, whether it really is the best tool for the job.
As far as I know, doesn't matter that it is older, or that they didn't personally develop it. It is still copyrighted, and unless someone can show it was given to public domain, EA is within their rights to do this.
And I don't blame them for doing so. Ultima IV is better and has more depth than a majority of it's modern descendants. I would assert that Ultima 5, 6, or 7 were better than any Final Fantasy game.
I think your comments are out of line.
Although I agree that your life would be better with some therapy, I have a feeling it would be lost on you. Have fun marginalizing and retaliating after being marginalized. Keep posting what you like. Nobody is in your way.
Your "piss" has a Frost to it. That's all I need to know about you. Idiot.
And while I post under my account with "excellent" karma, you post as an Anon Coward.
Wait a sec.
And while I post under my account with excellent "karma", you post as an Anon Coward.
There, I fixed that for you. Have fun becoming successively angrier as people figure out ways to use the internet that suit their own needs.
Groupon has a great business idea, AND it's mainly targeted to girls and women who also spend a lot for beauty things. They make shitloads of money as well as does the partner companies and their users. Win-win-win.
What are you talking about? All of my Groupons are for Role Playing books and All Terrain Vehicle discounts. Not to mention the lifesize trojan horses and doomsday devices.
Hey, some of us live in Japan and are members of both Slashdots! (I admit, though, that I post on this one far more often than the Japanese one, which I mostly just read.)
So, is the Japanese Slashdot filled with as many arrogant pendants, or have they developed civilized discourse over there?
You probably just used the wrong form of its/it's or their/they're/there. Please double check, before I have an aneurysm
Offtopic, but you've probably never heard of Neutral Possessive. "it's", as in "The tidal wave and it's destruction were watched throughout the world". Now I know you're saying that this does not exist in the English language, but language is open source and dynamic. Any opinion against this rule change is bigoted against inanimate objects. Or in the case of the tidal wave, animated objects without cognitive abilities; or taken further, water based disaster events not named by a scientific body such as a hurricane or typhoon.
Well, are you sure would really want to tell right away to some girl you meet that you read comic books or watch anime? Things like can make people think about you wrongly. And for example, when I'm visiting Thailand I like the ladyboys there, but it's not something I'd say to anyone when I first meet them.
One of my best friends became that way because of a clear and direct admission of ladyboys and capes.
On a side topic, I'm sure you're familiar with women who pretend to like sports in order to be more appealing to a romantic partner. I've found in the last few years women who pretend to like comic books. They have them on the shelf, but do not survive more than a cursory question about the content or characters. (This is independent of the women who actually like sports or comic books. Or, men like myself who pretend to know about sports in the company of men because it's preferable to talking about the weather, their children, or their lawns; which is shameful where I come from)
I don't understand what my computer is supposed to DO once it has determined what my emotion is. The only everyday application I can see for this is marketing. I am sure marketers would like to register your reaction when you see something. I don't see how that helps ME. I mean, if the computer sees that I'm angry or surprised or whatever, what is it supposed to DO?
If I were a marketing researcher for an OS company, I would log whenever extreme reactions take place and use that to prioritize my bugs / feature improvements. You can't fix all the bugs, but you can fix the ones that cause the most people the most ire.
Who even gives a shit about those kinds of things anyway?
And this is why most slashdotters hate facebook. Because they don't understand friendship, or the equivalent stimulation provided by nostalgia of said friendships.
Do you remember the first time you played Doom? How about the first time you compiled a program. It's like that, but with people.
Totally agree if she did it.
When driving a big heavy thing that can easily kill people.. if you don't have the decency to pay attention, then when you do kill someone the penalty should be much steeper than a fine and/or slap on the wrist.
That said, I'd say there are enough questions here that it's 50/50 whether she is guilty or not. Luckily that's what investigations and trials are for.
I think this story is proof that I should be allowed to use my cell phone while driving.
I agree, if it was something like OMG I was in a car accident, then really no case.
No case??? Seriously?? If you hit a man with your car and first thing you think about is "oh, I need to update my facebook status", than .... WTF is wrong with you???
If I were in a bad car accident, one of the first things I would do is update my facebook, so the people who give a shit about me can start looking for me before I lose consciousness. I would rather cast a wide net, then call people one at a time. 10 second txt message, then on to 911. You know, unless my body was shooting blood everywhere. Then I would take a picture and upload it.
...am far more likely to go somewhere which bans all this junk. It's like passive smoking, except being surrounded by pretentious jack-offs with unnecessary toys is painful to my mental health.
Oh, do you mean the entire country of America?