I'll bite the buller on this one - but I won't be replying to questions the rest of the day. I would like people to think of my post on a general level. People can't expect./ posts to be PHd dissertations for fucks sakes. I tried to clarify as much as I can here. More effort than most posts nowadays.
Clothes: Almost all my clothes 90% is made in Canada, the USA or Western Europe. I haven't spent a fortune on clothes either. There are only several brands still made in USA/Canada now. Socks - all Brooks (made in USA). White t-Shirts - all Stanfields, made in Canada. I buy on sale where I can, I try at discount retailers and don't buy a lot of clothes. If its good quality I technically don't have to. The only things in my closet that I have to have purchased that is made in China are my running shoes (I have 5 pairs - I run a lot).
Misc. stuff: There's still a good amount of dishes, cutlery, furniture and household goods that aren't made in China. Again, shop around and choose carefully. And at least where I live, I can walk/bike where I need to. Vancouver is awesome for that. Delivery yes, but the shopping experience is walking.
Car: None. Motorcycle none (though I admit soon). Public transit yes. Bicycle yes (made in Taiwan and Japan - its a high-end racing bike). Yes, someone else has to drive to keep economy going so I'm as responsible as anyone.
Electronics: Consumer electronics as a whole are made in China/Taiwan. Can't aviod it. Only one execption I know of. Toshiba AFAIK anyways makes LCD products in Japan if they're over a certain price point - I think its $500 US.
Summary: If you shop carefully you *can* buy at least some/most consumer goods that don't come from China. I won't pretend that buying stuff in Europe and having shipped to Canada is good on carbon footprint. Subject is China technically though.I buy mostly non-Chinese made goods to support other economies. And its a question of safety imo. God knows how much lead and other crap are in Chinese made goods, IMO.
I don't know that I'll permanently avoid Chinese made goods. I just think that they really need to emphazie product safety.
No. But, I'm using a public terminal.... so I never bought it.;)
I can't, unfortunately, buy everything made in the USA or Canada. But I'm trying.
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I agree Heath deserves an award for this one. Absolutely amazing portrayal of Joker.
OT here - But what, if any, screening or conselling do actors get for playing these roles. Between Heath's Joker, Hopkin's Lecter, and Michael Hall's Dexter, I'm not sure I would want any of these roles. I think the characters are so powerful and genuinely evil after playing them for a while its hard to separate fiction from reality.
Its fine and fair to blame the Chinese government for not bringing up tougher industrial anto-pollution laws. We are also being narrow-minded in saying this is alll a Chinese problem.
The Western world has made China one giant production facility. All the really toxic production facilities - PCBs, paper (increasingly), steel and other metals, etc. are all being made in China. And they're making our clothes, food (which I *dont* buy), and so on. The shipping yards in China are the largest in the world for good reason.
I'm buying made in the USA or Canada - first, less pollution in transportation, saves jobs, and (should) be higher quality and safer.
China is overpopulated, yes, and thats a problem they (and we all have) to work to solve. Even if they had reduced pollution say by even 80% over the last decade, there's still too much being produced and too many people. We'd still have a problem.
I don't think for many reasons it was wise of IOC to approve China. Living in the city of the host of the next Games, development ain't all that environmentally friendly either. Sea-Sky highway being one of them.
I don't understand Sun. They could easily have saved 2 boxes. Cut a hole in each box for the server and have the power cord plugged into the server and sticking out of the box.
Its saves from having to unpack the box and bolt the server onto a rackmount. Duct tape should hold them well - they are in a box afterall.
This is certainly an interesting post and a consequence most of us probably haven't considered yet. I'm definitely going to check before investing in any of these lamps how easy it is to replace the light or if its the entire fixture. Kind of kills the whole idea of environmental friendliness. If some manufacturers choose to do this, I will boycott their products.
As the aide returns to the UK and several months pass, he forgets all about the incident. One day, from his original Blackberry, Honeypot sends an e-mail.
From: Honeypot@blackberry.gov.co.uk To: PMsAide@blackberry.
Dear Mr......
It seems that in our last encounter, you said that "Wearing one doesn't feel right".
I can tell you it will cause you indigestion and heartburn in the next sentence.
Its a girl!!!!!
I hope to see you soon. Bring some gifts for the kid.
Love Honeypot PS - Show up or your paying child support.
I had Rogers up until about 1 year ago and the DNS servers were generally flaky. I guess they'll work better now that they have a way to make money off it. Ditto QUS on VoIP call since there's Rogers Home Phone. Does QOS still work against Vonage and such?
Strangely, I remember reading about 4 to 6 months ago the redirections were already starting. Rogers tends to release things into test markets and see how many complaints they get. If most people don't know or don't care they go ahead and roll it out.
I've studied in kinesiology (graduated in different field). I'm a bit rusty, but I'm sure the last paragraph will prove correct to 99.9% of Slashdot readers;)
Generally, if you spend about 400 - 500 hours training, to be a competent user of a skill. At least, that's the kinetics text book definition. There's also some huge assumptions: you are training seriously for a sport, that those hours are quality hours, that you are in good condition (flexible, fast, strong) etc.
For skill mastery, 10,000 hours sounds probably as close as anyone will get. In sports conditioning is the big factor. You have to develop muscle memory and have a good sense of the kinestetics of how to play the sport. For some sports, your brain needs to adapt and really learn to calculate how hard or far to throw/hit an object - which then translates to reflexes and muscle memory. There's a lot of complex math that goes behind a lot of movements like hitting a baseball. A lot more complicated then what most realize (I wrote a paper on the matter).
There's nobody counting 10,000 hours with a stop watch on something this long, I imagine! I'd have probably stopped at 8,000 hours and rounded up to 10,000!;)
As a programmer, I'm sure drinking beer while mastering the art of "work" is sure to help. This is my professional opinion. Tell your boss;)..... I'm helping all of you (I hope).
This upward trend in marketshare trend might be over if Pystar wins their court case.
On a side note, I still like desktop towers as opposed to laptops and mini-computers. But I quess the market is headed in the laptop and iMac direction.
I'd like to see how transformative / revolutionary Ballmer could make Apple.... before he gets FIRED! I'd like to think that in most other tech companies, Ballmer would get ousted by either the Board of Directors or the shareholders. At least at Apple, he wouldn't last long. They figured out long ago that Jobs is the best thing.
All I know is that from reading that anonymous Microsoft blog, that its one big, bloated comapny. While individuals within are highly qualified, it looks like the Harvard MBAs and business managers are the ones + Ballmer thats sucking all the creativity out.
I agree too that Win 2k is definately one of the best products (I prefer Win 2003 myself).
I dunno for sure but it seems a lot of manufacturers aren't making IPS pannels. Do they want to attact more customers with lower priced pannels? Low Supply? Or larger markup/margins with less expensive pannels? All the above?
I think one of the harder fields to break into nowadays are "computing professionals". While there's some accreditation involved, there's not much to go on - unlike a doctor, dentist, lawyer. While those professions have specialties within and you can't dig yourself into a new one easily (e.g. IP lawyer to family law), you computer guys are screwed: there's not as much financial incentive to upgrade, a wave of employment/unemployment and no set skill set. There's too many languages to learn and for creative professionals too many software pacakges to learn. I'm a hobbiest computer user and programmer, but as I go through job descriptions recently (DBA, web developer, programmer etc) my jaw drops at the skill requirement vs compensation.
I don't know how you guys/gals do it (all the skills required) but I'm impressed. My hat off to all of you. Its too bad 1) People like me with some apprecaition for the skills needed can't get into HR to give some of you a break 2) employers don't split up jobs more easily.
It certainly is incentive to create your own web-language, stiick it on your resume and say your the only expert in the world.;)
I'm not being a karma whore with this post either. I think I'm doing pretty well for my self anyways!
In summary for Slashdot users your profile can either:
1) Tell that you are a Karma whore 2) Tell that you are always baiting to be flamed 3) You actually have good Karma 4) Never take anything seriously if everything is modded +5 Funny 5) Are way too serious and boring if everything is +5 Interesting 6) You ask too many questions if +5 interesting 7) Show you take too much pride in being the first at anything (first post or low UID) 8) Have too much spare time if you post on Slashdot! 9) If you link to Goatse you have a very troubled mind 10) Take advantage of others if you post an article on your website for ad-revenue 11) Fail to recognize patterns for posting dupe articles 12) Are greedy if you always post.... 1).... 2).... 3).... 4) ????.... 5) Profit! 13) You are Cowboy Neal. ( I think this was obligatory:) )
"What are the odds that Windows 7 won't be even more fucked up than Vista with whatever service pack they're up to by then?" A betting man huh? I would say 50/50. Its as likely it will just as fucked up as Vista, but given that they have 2 - 3 more years to add-on all kinds of extra crap into the OS, I'd say its just as likely its more fucked up.
I wonder if there is a defective merchandise clause to the transaction? How are you supposed to know that he didn't treat friends and co-workers miserably before he left? What if his friends suck? And a house in need of disrepair (e.g. a carpenter's dream or a real fixer-upper)? If the ex is still available and hot, can you reconcile the relationship without getting the hook for the alimony? These would certainly add to a defective merchandise argument.
I've taken back bad clothes, stuff that doesn't fit after washing, electronics that don't work, products that don't work as advertised. I'd at least want to make sure that after spending $300,000 that if his life really did suck before the divorce that you can approach the guy and say "Look, this isn't working out. I think you should give me my money back. And, no charging a 5% re-stocking fee is not fair."
Well, it was a prediction. Just because the event didn't happen doesn't mean their theory is incorrect. Nature has a way of regulating things that Pastafarinists cannot predict.
I used to race bikes competitively and still do a lot of races. My bike is close-to $3,000. I prefer to ride it over the "cheaper" bikes as its lighter, faster and more agile. Were it not for very aggressive drivers on the road, in a city section I can usually keep pace with cars. IMO, having bikes as a main transportation for the physically able would reduce waist-lines and dependency on oil. It does mean people need to live closer to work and shopping.
The biggest problem with expensive bikes, and the reason I'm posting as a reply to you thread, is that I saw the word vandalism. For me, the problem is having the bike turned into a "Stolen Good". Its very difficult to leave a bike in a secure location - chained or not. You really need to take it in the building. The problem that needs to be focused on is reducing bicycle theft.
I've seen the asshole types and at least the smart women are totally put off by them. I remember many times while at university, some guy who thinks he *is* the shit tries to pick up a woman. He pretty much implies he wants to have sex with her that night and then ditch her afterwords. I fell sorry for the women this happens to. It always happen to them and they can't prevent/stop it. You find they're pretty angry/sad afterwords and by that point they won't even talk to the nice guys.
Frankly, I'm a nice guy and I'm never going to change. Someone accepts me for who I am, as they would expect me to do for them.
Yeah, some women really do have some "failed logic" when they choose guys to date.
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I'll bite the buller on this one - but I won't be replying to questions the rest of the day. I would like people to think of my post on a general level. People can't expect ./ posts to be PHd dissertations for fucks sakes. I tried to clarify as much as I can here. More effort than most posts nowadays.
Clothes: Almost all my clothes 90% is made in Canada, the USA or Western Europe. I haven't spent a fortune on clothes either. There are only several brands still made in USA/Canada now. Socks - all Brooks (made in USA). White t-Shirts - all Stanfields, made in Canada. I buy on sale where I can, I try at discount retailers and don't buy a lot of clothes. If its good quality I technically don't have to. The only things in my closet that I have to have purchased that is made in China are my running shoes (I have 5 pairs - I run a lot).
Misc. stuff: There's still a good amount of dishes, cutlery, furniture and household goods that aren't made in China. Again, shop around and choose carefully. And at least where I live, I can walk/bike where I need to. Vancouver is awesome for that. Delivery yes, but the shopping experience is walking.
Car: None. Motorcycle none (though I admit soon). Public transit yes. Bicycle yes (made in Taiwan and Japan - its a high-end racing bike). Yes, someone else has to drive to keep economy going so I'm as responsible as anyone.
Electronics: Consumer electronics as a whole are made in China/Taiwan. Can't aviod it. Only one execption I know of. Toshiba AFAIK anyways makes LCD products in Japan if they're over a certain price point - I think its $500 US.
Summary: If you shop carefully you *can* buy at least some/most consumer goods that don't come from China. I won't pretend that buying stuff in Europe and having shipped to Canada is good on carbon footprint. Subject is China technically though.I buy mostly non-Chinese made goods to support other economies. And its a question of safety imo. God knows how much lead and other crap are in Chinese made goods, IMO.
I don't know that I'll permanently avoid Chinese made goods. I just think that they really need to emphazie product safety.
No. But, I'm using a public terminal .... so I never bought it. ;)
I can't, unfortunately, buy everything made in the USA or Canada. But I'm trying.
I agree Heath deserves an award for this one. Absolutely amazing portrayal of Joker.
OT here - But what, if any, screening or conselling do actors get for playing these roles. Between Heath's Joker, Hopkin's Lecter, and Michael Hall's Dexter, I'm not sure I would want any of these roles. I think the characters are so powerful and genuinely evil after playing them for a while its hard to separate fiction from reality.
I would really like to have them use Catwoman. They need to find another Sharron Stone. Halley Berry ruined all the appeal of Catwoman.
Its fine and fair to blame the Chinese government for not bringing up tougher industrial anto-pollution laws. We are also being narrow-minded in saying this is alll a Chinese problem.
The Western world has made China one giant production facility. All the really toxic production facilities - PCBs, paper (increasingly), steel and other metals, etc. are all being made in China. And they're making our clothes, food (which I *dont* buy), and so on. The shipping yards in China are the largest in the world for good reason.
I'm buying made in the USA or Canada - first, less pollution in transportation, saves jobs, and (should) be higher quality and safer.
China is overpopulated, yes, and thats a problem they (and we all have) to work to solve. Even if they had reduced pollution say by even 80% over the last decade, there's still too much being produced and too many people. We'd still have a problem.
I don't think for many reasons it was wise of IOC to approve China. Living in the city of the host of the next Games, development ain't all that environmentally friendly either. Sea-Sky highway being one of them.
I don't understand Sun. They could easily have saved 2 boxes. Cut a hole in each box for the server and have the power cord plugged into the server and sticking out of the box.
Its saves from having to unpack the box and bolt the server onto a rackmount. Duct tape should hold them well - they are in a box afterall.
This is certainly an interesting post and a consequence most of us probably haven't considered yet. I'm definitely going to check before investing in any of these lamps how easy it is to replace the light or if its the entire fixture. Kind of kills the whole idea of environmental friendliness. If some manufacturers choose to do this, I will boycott their products.
As the aide returns to the UK and several months pass, he forgets all about the incident. One day, from his original Blackberry, Honeypot sends an e-mail.
From: Honeypot@blackberry.gov.co.uk
To: PMsAide@blackberry.
Dear Mr. .....
It seems that in our last encounter, you said that "Wearing one doesn't feel right".
I can tell you it will cause you indigestion and heartburn in the next sentence.
Its a girl!!!!!
I hope to see you soon. Bring some gifts for the kid.
Love Honeypot
PS - Show up or your paying child support.
NO!!!!!!!
Sounds like you do this a lot. Hello Honeytrap!
I had Rogers up until about 1 year ago and the DNS servers were generally flaky. I guess they'll work better now that they have a way to make money off it. Ditto QUS on VoIP call since there's Rogers Home Phone. Does QOS still work against Vonage and such?
Strangely, I remember reading about 4 to 6 months ago the redirections were already starting. Rogers tends to release things into test markets and see how many complaints they get. If most people don't know or don't care they go ahead and roll it out.
I've studied in kinesiology (graduated in different field). I'm a bit rusty, but I'm sure the last paragraph will prove correct to 99.9% of Slashdot readers ;)
Generally, if you spend about 400 - 500 hours training, to be a competent user of a skill. At least, that's the kinetics text book definition. There's also some huge assumptions: you are training seriously for a sport, that those hours are quality hours, that you are in good condition (flexible, fast, strong) etc.
For skill mastery, 10,000 hours sounds probably as close as anyone will get. In sports conditioning is the big factor. You have to develop muscle memory and have a good sense of the kinestetics of how to play the sport. For some sports, your brain needs to adapt and really learn to calculate how hard or far to throw/hit an object - which then translates to reflexes and muscle memory. There's a lot of complex math that goes behind a lot of movements like hitting a baseball. A lot more complicated then what most realize (I wrote a paper on the matter).
There's nobody counting 10,000 hours with a stop watch on something this long, I imagine! I'd have probably stopped at 8,000 hours and rounded up to 10,000! ;)
As a programmer, I'm sure drinking beer while mastering the art of "work" is sure to help. This is my professional opinion. Tell your boss ;) ..... I'm helping all of you (I hope).
This upward trend in marketshare trend might be over if Pystar wins their court case.
On a side note, I still like desktop towers as opposed to laptops and mini-computers. But I quess the market is headed in the laptop and iMac direction.
Duh ... That's what page numbers are for! ;)
I won't be fast enough for Windows 7.
I'd like to see how transformative / revolutionary Ballmer could make Apple .... before he gets FIRED! I'd like to think that in most other tech companies, Ballmer would get ousted by either the Board of Directors or the shareholders. At least at Apple, he wouldn't last long. They figured out long ago that Jobs is the best thing.
All I know is that from reading that anonymous Microsoft blog, that its one big, bloated comapny. While individuals within are highly qualified, it looks like the Harvard MBAs and business managers are the ones + Ballmer thats sucking all the creativity out.
I agree too that Win 2k is definately one of the best products (I prefer Win 2003 myself).
I dunno for sure but it seems a lot of manufacturers aren't making IPS pannels. Do they want to attact more customers with lower priced pannels? Low Supply? Or larger markup/margins with less expensive pannels? All the above?
I think one of the harder fields to break into nowadays are "computing professionals". While there's some accreditation involved, there's not much to go on - unlike a doctor, dentist, lawyer. While those professions have specialties within and you can't dig yourself into a new one easily (e.g. IP lawyer to family law), you computer guys are screwed: there's not as much financial incentive to upgrade, a wave of employment/unemployment and no set skill set. There's too many languages to learn and for creative professionals too many software pacakges to learn. I'm a hobbiest computer user and programmer, but as I go through job descriptions recently (DBA, web developer, programmer etc) my jaw drops at the skill requirement vs compensation.
I don't know how you guys/gals do it (all the skills required) but I'm impressed. My hat off to all of you. Its too bad 1) People like me with some apprecaition for the skills needed can't get into HR to give some of you a break 2) employers don't split up jobs more easily.
It certainly is incentive to create your own web-language, stiick it on your resume and say your the only expert in the world. ;)
I'm not being a karma whore with this post either. I think I'm doing pretty well for my self anyways!
In summary for Slashdot users your profile can either:
1) Tell that you are a Karma whore .... 1) .... 2) .... 3) .... 4) ???? .... 5) Profit! :) )
2) Tell that you are always baiting to be flamed
3) You actually have good Karma
4) Never take anything seriously if everything is modded +5 Funny
5) Are way too serious and boring if everything is +5 Interesting
6) You ask too many questions if +5 interesting
7) Show you take too much pride in being the first at anything (first post or low UID)
8) Have too much spare time if you post on Slashdot!
9) If you link to Goatse you have a very troubled mind
10) Take advantage of others if you post an article on your website for ad-revenue
11) Fail to recognize patterns for posting dupe articles
12) Are greedy if you always post
13) You are Cowboy Neal. ( I think this was obligatory
Nope. Typo. Need Coffee!!!
I wonder if there is a defective merchandise clause to the transaction? How are you supposed to know that he didn't treat friends and co-workers miserably before he left? What if his friends suck? And a house in need of disrepair (e.g. a carpenter's dream or a real fixer-upper)? If the ex is still available and hot, can you reconcile the relationship without getting the hook for the alimony? These would certainly add to a defective merchandise argument.
I've taken back bad clothes, stuff that doesn't fit after washing, electronics that don't work, products that don't work as advertised. I'd at least want to make sure that after spending $300,000 that if his life really did suck before the divorce that you can approach the guy and say "Look, this isn't working out. I think you should give me my money back. And, no charging a 5% re-stocking fee is not fair."
Well, it was a prediction. Just because the event didn't happen doesn't mean their theory is incorrect. Nature has a way of regulating things that Pastafarinists cannot predict.
George is one of the few people who could really use swear words to make them funny, relevant and never use them in anger. That's talent!
I always piss my self-laughing when listening to his routines. I'll miss you good friend!
I used to race bikes competitively and still do a lot of races. My bike is close-to $3,000. I prefer to ride it over the "cheaper" bikes as its lighter, faster and more agile. Were it not for very aggressive drivers on the road, in a city section I can usually keep pace with cars. IMO, having bikes as a main transportation for the physically able would reduce waist-lines and dependency on oil. It does mean people need to live closer to work and shopping.
The biggest problem with expensive bikes, and the reason I'm posting as a reply to you thread, is that I saw the word vandalism. For me, the problem is having the bike turned into a "Stolen Good". Its very difficult to leave a bike in a secure location - chained or not. You really need to take it in the building. The problem that needs to be focused on is reducing bicycle theft.
I've seen the asshole types and at least the smart women are totally put off by them. I remember many times while at university, some guy who thinks he *is* the shit tries to pick up a woman. He pretty much implies he wants to have sex with her that night and then ditch her afterwords. I fell sorry for the women this happens to. It always happen to them and they can't prevent/stop it. You find they're pretty angry/sad afterwords and by that point they won't even talk to the nice guys.
Frankly, I'm a nice guy and I'm never going to change. Someone accepts me for who I am, as they would expect me to do for them.
Yeah, some women really do have some "failed logic" when they choose guys to date.