You missed the point. It's not about the tool specifically, of course you need to skill yourself in whatever applications your field is going to use. But if you are merely becoming a pro at using that 1 tool you are likely not thinking past how to use that tool.
Want an example? Web hosting. So you are a wiz at dreamweaver or whatever other crapware people use to make template webpages these days, great for you. What happens when the company that hires you expects you to actually UNDERSTAND HTML and PHP and AJAX and JAVASCRIPT? You fail miserably as you don't actually have web hosting skills, you have point and click dreamweaver skills.
To the GP's point, I have seen many employers who would ask if you know Dreamweaver. If you respond "I know HTML and PHP and AJAX and JAVASCRIPT, and have not had the need for that particular tool", then you are dismissed as someone who doesn't know anything.
Like I said guns don't kill people; criminals and stupid people do. Clearly you are one of the latter. Knives don't kill? Baseball bats don't kill? You live in a fantasy world. Quit playing Minecraft and try GTA V. That's what some cities are like.
Do you have any proof that I have killed people? Because I never have, so I wonder how you are so sure that I have.
Support your favorite musicians by going to live performances instead.
Musicians who are signed with a label rarely make much money off of a performance either. They get a small piece of ticket sales and maybe a small piece or no piece of merchandising. They usually don't get any part of concessions, although the promoter that places them there often gets a share of the concessions.
If you go to see local bands, they will get a more reasonable percent of entry fees or tickets, and pretty much 100% of merchandise, minus costs for creating the merchandise.
If you like record label bands that are not in the top 100 or so groups, then it almost doesn't matter whether you get their CDs or go to their concert, they basically get a pittance either way.
Excellent rant. There's just one problem with it: piracy actually increases music sales.
I'm sure that some people have bought music after listening to a pirated version. I'm sure hundreds of times more people have not bought music because they already had the pirated copy. If you have some documentation that shows that there are more people that buy the music after pirating it than don't, I would love to see it and I'm sure that lots of other people do as well.
But that being said, there is no reason why the record industry has to give any kudos to people who pirated and then came back and bought later. I could go to the grocery store 1,000 times and pay for the groceries, but the one time I walk out without paying, they can have me arrested. Even if I then offer to pay them for the groceries, they can still hold up the charges.
You also neglect to mention those areas with the highest rates already tend to have the strictest gun laws, yet still the highest incidences of gun violence.
Well, that makes some sense. As a criminal, you know that the people in that area are less likely to be able to defend themselves. So you know you are relatively safe robbing, burglarizing or committing other crimes in that area.
Remember it's the 95% of authority figures that make the 5% looks bad.
They can shoot you if they feel like it and as a matter of policy. They can lie to you. They will frame you. They will spy on you, innocent it not. They will confiscate your money, your property, your freedom and your life, with no judge or jury involved.
So the outcome doesn't match up with your made up statistic, so you question the outcome?
They're "law abiding" until they're not. Then they're criminals with guns.
Yes, but still the fact is that the overwhelming majority of murders by gun are done by people who don't legally own a gun. If we successfully take away all guns from everyone who legally owns a gun, the number of murders by gun will go down by almost nothing. As a side benefit, the number of murders by illegally owned guns will go to 100%.
The bulk of the taxpayers paying for this will be middle class. Not everybody in the middle class can afford broadband, or may choose to forgo broadband in favor of something more important like food or shelter. Why should we increase the middle class taxes so that the poor can have yet one more thing that the middle class doesn't have? Or are we going to subsidize it for the middle class too?
>The bill would require safety features for new consumer drones such as Geo-fencing to govern the altitude and location of flights, collision-avoidance software, and more.
Way to suck the fun out of everything, sheesh.
No kiiding. We should go find the irresponsible drone pilots that made this bill necessary and beat the crap out of them.
I can beat 1 in 900 handily. I would say about 1 in 20 calls that I get are scam calls. Just 2 minutes ago I erased a message from a robotic voice telling me that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against me.
The truth is once they ran the numbers for how much the program was going to cost, they decided to fake it. Then they ran the numbers on developing the technology to convincingly fake it, and that was even worse. So they sent some guys to the moon in a rocket and faked it from there.
They can't compete with Uber, so they're paying the legislature to outlaw their competition.
-jcr
They could compete with Uber if Uber would obey the law. They are not paying the legislature to outlaw Uber, Uber is already operating illegally in most jurisdictions. Where Uber is operating legally, the taxis are sometimes even cheaper than Uber.
There are some pretty dumb copper thieves out there (the really dumb ones mostly get electrocuted when they try and steal live power cables)
I don't know if they are all that dumb. Not half a mile from my house, a copper thief got himself electrocuted and now his family is set for life thanks to the successful lawsuit. And in order to pay their family, I'm sure my cost of electricity went up slightly. A small price to pay to make sure that the next generation understands that a life of crime is more rewarding than honest work.
Google "Android NDK". That should point you in he right direction. However, I am not sure how much of the "app" is C++ versus the back end, which is the more likely place for the image processing to occur and C++ is an excellent tool for image processing.
Well, that's because you are relatively poor, and go to fast food, or occasionally low-end chain restaurants. Quality restaurants will generally not have music, and even semi-decent restaurants will either not have music, or will have it playing at barely-noticeable volumes.
Well, I am relatively poor, meaning that I make under $100k, so the restaurants I frequent are more the $10-$20 a plate restaurants, all of which play music and most of which are also playing TVs. Maybe if I went to $40-$50 per plate restaurants, they don't do that, but it would be irresponsible of me to spend that kind of money on a single meal.
. Stories like this one is why I will never feel bad about piracy.
It should make you feel bad about being a pirate. By pirating music, you let the company know that you enjoy their music and are too cheap to pay for it. Instead, you should abstain from it altogether. If nobody bought it and nobody pirated it, they would get a clue.
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Whether it's the predominance of Visual Studio in many computer science programs
I must have missed that.
You know, I don't believe I used an IDE at all in any of my University classes.
You missed the point. It's not about the tool specifically, of course you need to skill yourself in whatever applications your field is going to use. But if you are merely becoming a pro at using that 1 tool you are likely not thinking past how to use that tool. Want an example? Web hosting. So you are a wiz at dreamweaver or whatever other crapware people use to make template webpages these days, great for you. What happens when the company that hires you expects you to actually UNDERSTAND HTML and PHP and AJAX and JAVASCRIPT? You fail miserably as you don't actually have web hosting skills, you have point and click dreamweaver skills.
To the GP's point, I have seen many employers who would ask if you know Dreamweaver. If you respond "I know HTML and PHP and AJAX and JAVASCRIPT, and have not had the need for that particular tool", then you are dismissed as someone who doesn't know anything.
I don't deny that it happens, but I do deny that a majority of the officers are involved in that criminal behavior.
Like I said guns don't kill people; criminals and stupid people do. Clearly you are one of the latter. Knives don't kill? Baseball bats don't kill? You live in a fantasy world. Quit playing Minecraft and try GTA V. That's what some cities are like.
Do you have any proof that I have killed people? Because I never have, so I wonder how you are so sure that I have.
Support your favorite musicians by going to live performances instead.
Musicians who are signed with a label rarely make much money off of a performance either. They get a small piece of ticket sales and maybe a small piece or no piece of merchandising. They usually don't get any part of concessions, although the promoter that places them there often gets a share of the concessions.
If you go to see local bands, they will get a more reasonable percent of entry fees or tickets, and pretty much 100% of merchandise, minus costs for creating the merchandise.
If you like record label bands that are not in the top 100 or so groups, then it almost doesn't matter whether you get their CDs or go to their concert, they basically get a pittance either way.
Excellent rant. There's just one problem with it: piracy actually increases music sales.
I'm sure that some people have bought music after listening to a pirated version. I'm sure hundreds of times more people have not bought music because they already had the pirated copy. If you have some documentation that shows that there are more people that buy the music after pirating it than don't, I would love to see it and I'm sure that lots of other people do as well.
But that being said, there is no reason why the record industry has to give any kudos to people who pirated and then came back and bought later. I could go to the grocery store 1,000 times and pay for the groceries, but the one time I walk out without paying, they can have me arrested. Even if I then offer to pay them for the groceries, they can still hold up the charges.
Seeing tanks driving down the street can bring up some scary memories for some people.
I used to live by an army base when I was a kid. I remember occasionally seeing tanks and halftracks on the road.
You also neglect to mention those areas with the highest rates already tend to have the strictest gun laws, yet still the highest incidences of gun violence.
Well, that makes some sense. As a criminal, you know that the people in that area are less likely to be able to defend themselves. So you know you are relatively safe robbing, burglarizing or committing other crimes in that area.
Remember it's the 95% of authority figures that make the 5% looks bad.
They can shoot you if they feel like it and as a matter of policy. They can lie to you. They will frame you. They will spy on you, innocent it not. They will confiscate your money, your property, your freedom and your life, with no judge or jury involved.
So the outcome doesn't match up with your made up statistic, so you question the outcome?
They're "law abiding" until they're not. Then they're criminals with guns.
Yes, but still the fact is that the overwhelming majority of murders by gun are done by people who don't legally own a gun. If we successfully take away all guns from everyone who legally owns a gun, the number of murders by gun will go down by almost nothing. As a side benefit, the number of murders by illegally owned guns will go to 100%.
The bulk of the taxpayers paying for this will be middle class. Not everybody in the middle class can afford broadband, or may choose to forgo broadband in favor of something more important like food or shelter. Why should we increase the middle class taxes so that the poor can have yet one more thing that the middle class doesn't have? Or are we going to subsidize it for the middle class too?
>The bill would require safety features for new consumer drones such as Geo-fencing to govern the altitude and location of flights, collision-avoidance software, and more.
Way to suck the fun out of everything, sheesh.
No kiiding. We should go find the irresponsible drone pilots that made this bill necessary and beat the crap out of them.
I can beat 1 in 900 handily. I would say about 1 in 20 calls that I get are scam calls. Just 2 minutes ago I erased a message from a robotic voice telling me that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against me.
It will not end until the truth comes out
The truth is once they ran the numbers for how much the program was going to cost, they decided to fake it. Then they ran the numbers on developing the technology to convincingly fake it, and that was even worse. So they sent some guys to the moon in a rocket and faked it from there.
They can't compete with Uber, so they're paying the legislature to outlaw their competition.
-jcr
They could compete with Uber if Uber would obey the law. They are not paying the legislature to outlaw Uber, Uber is already operating illegally in most jurisdictions. Where Uber is operating legally, the taxis are sometimes even cheaper than Uber.
What delusional, drunken moneys could possibly claim Uber is worth $40 freaking billion dollars?
Wait, did they value it at that, or value the liability of it at that?
and that is what the Republicans want.
You know what is funny, is every single time somebody puts in the word Republican, the word Democrat works just as well.
Good thing? If Slashdot is not responsible for your comments then you're the one risking a lawsuit if someone is offended.
If people are prone to getting offended by what they see, boy are they looking at the WRONG Internet.
OG&E, Del City and Apartment Owner sued over death of copper thief
Olive oil is fine on bread and salad but if you use anything above a low heat it just smokes.
Bullcrap. I use it for making fried rice and even for eggs.
whose job was replaced by an H1B worker? There must be thousands of them in silicon valley, all with motive.
Because H1Bs are replacing people who lay/maintain cables? I think not...
Why not? If they are cheaper than hiring locally, then it is easy enough to make a job requirement that excludes local cable maintenance techs.
There are some pretty dumb copper thieves out there (the really dumb ones mostly get electrocuted when they try and steal live power cables)
I don't know if they are all that dumb. Not half a mile from my house, a copper thief got himself electrocuted and now his family is set for life thanks to the successful lawsuit. And in order to pay their family, I'm sure my cost of electricity went up slightly. A small price to pay to make sure that the next generation understands that a life of crime is more rewarding than honest work.
Google "Android NDK". That should point you in he right direction. However, I am not sure how much of the "app" is C++ versus the back end, which is the more likely place for the image processing to occur and C++ is an excellent tool for image processing.
Well, that's because you are relatively poor, and go to fast food, or occasionally low-end chain restaurants. Quality restaurants will generally not have music, and even semi-decent restaurants will either not have music, or will have it playing at barely-noticeable volumes.
Well, I am relatively poor, meaning that I make under $100k, so the restaurants I frequent are more the $10-$20 a plate restaurants, all of which play music and most of which are also playing TVs. Maybe if I went to $40-$50 per plate restaurants, they don't do that, but it would be irresponsible of me to spend that kind of money on a single meal.
. Stories like this one is why I will never feel bad about piracy.
It should make you feel bad about being a pirate. By pirating music, you let the company know that you enjoy their music and are too cheap to pay for it. Instead, you should abstain from it altogether. If nobody bought it and nobody pirated it, they would get a clue.