Huh... I just got a 4 year degree in Computer Science, seems that I have a job. You need to be able to sell yourself, and *gasp* be good at what you do and be able to show that to people.
It was actually amazing to me how many bad programmers there were in my class. A girl I know is getting a computer science MASTERS and I had to explain recursion to her this last semester. Those are the kind of people who pollute the marketplace and make employers wary of hiring graduates, and not having realistic expectations of their employees so leaving incompetents in positions better filled by skilled workers.
But those are just my feelings on the matter.
You know, when people say things like this it just makes me think that the rest of the world is just a bunch of whiners. Yes, the US != The World, BUT Slashdot is in the US, and the VAST majority of readers are from the US.
Low unemployment is not indicative of productivity. It just means people are paid for showing up somewhere, enforced in socialist places. In a capitalist system, the lazy are theoretically filtered out/down.
And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet?
Take a cue from Douglas Adams. The person least interested in having the power is more than likely the person most capable of handling it.
Your analogy isn't really applicable though. It would be more like someone taught you how to fish, and helped you for a long time, let you use their gear and all, and now says that you can't fish at all, even using your own tackle.
I think it's just a precedence setting move, allowing retroactive patents on ubiquitous technology. They're trying to milk a system that was established because anyone could access it. If anyone thought that they could have been charged for FAT, then they would have looked at alternatives. It's a simple bait and switch which should be found illegal.
Isn't that the point of Open Source software though? that it's open? The DVD is a 'standard'. Same with HTML, XML, OpenGL, etc. Why should it be closed while the rest of the things we use are open? It's simply corporate lockout/grubbery that forces fees for things like that. Look at things like ogg/flac and other open standards that are available. They're starting to gain a foothold. THAT is why people are upset. Because the corporation is forcing profit and lock-in from a standard.
Problem being that everyone can type ASCII. It's a segregationist move. Unless we want to start going to 200 key keyboards or something equally stupid.
Wait, what?
Eating all the calories the animal ate? So it didn't actually use any when it, say, mooed?
Get over yourself. Animals are pretty damn efficient, too. If they weren't, they wouldn't exist. Plants don't use the majority of energy coming into their leaves from the sun.
And anyway, life is pain. Get over it.
I think public humiliation really should be re-instituted. I hate how people can commit crimes and no one knows who they are. The only true pressure a lot of people feel is social, so what do we do? We lock them up for a few weeks with like-minded sociopaths, then let them back out. That's the way to rehabilitate someone.
I'll bet that if you knew your grandma would find out what you had done, you'd think twice about doing it.
Or perhaps we should just disallow 'donations' to political offices. We don't allow it in the judicial arena, why should we allow it in the politic general?
While we're at it, we should take the power away from congress to vote their own raises. The government should be accountable directly to the people. There are just too many issues to the general public to vote on every single one.
Try your senator for one:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/ senators_cfm.cfm
And your house reps:
http://www.house.gov/Welcome.html
They're the ones who really need to know your feelings on this.
"All of our phone/fax patch panels are mounted to large pieces of plywood, which are then mounted to the wall. Every time the office is moved, on the last day of the move, the cables are cut just above these plywood boards and the whole setup is moved to the next place.
You're right, though, this generally does leave no possibility of re-use for the next person. Then again, there was no cable there in the first place when we moved into most of these buildings."
That's the whole point though... that the wire can't be re-used, so they're forced to run new wire. On top of the crap you were too lazy to actually pull out. Leaving the tons of waste that is described in the article. Kinda like if you just took the wheels off of your car and left it in the middle of the road, rather than taking it to a junkyard, which would be responsible.
So why do people routinely refer to the USA as America? There's more than one country over here.
Oh, wait, it's the vernacular.
Maybe people should get the sticks out of their asses and stop being so damn sensitive to everything. It's obvious what they meant if you read the article. Hell, like you said, anyone who knows anything realizes that Africa is a continent, not a country.
Get over yourselves and off your damn high horses.
No, that's the point. ANYONE can walk away from it, smart or not. The point is that you have to take the effort to sustain the reaction, and if the effort isn't there or something breaks, the station stops. It's designed so that there is no way that it can overheat or do a lot of the nasty stuff that you hear about from other nuclear accidents.
Either way, it's in the middle of the freaking planet. It is about the safest way to dispose of nuclear material (in the long run) that anyone has come up with yet. If it's cycled into the center of the earth, it's melted, breaks apart, gets mixed around, won't see the surface again until it's well into it's decay cycle, if ever.
At least, that's the theory. The only problem people have is if the subduction zone somehow breaks open the containers or whatnot, rather than just acting as a shuttle.
I think the point of the article is that they wouldn't have been on the wireless connection through the internal router until their computer was guaranteed clear or had AV software on it.
It's not a bad idea, as long as we trust them to implement it correctly.
No, you don't NEED it. But then again, why am I using a graphical web browser? I have lynx. You don't need anything more than a green-hued terminal to do that stuff. I'll bet you have more than just a web browser open right now. That's not terribly efficient or possible without X or some other type of GUI.
The problem with your statement is that you're a luddite, and you don't see the promise or perhaps utility of the newer systems.
A lot of the development is game driven, yes, but do you really think something like Google could have been made back in the days of the 486?
My point is that you do need a lot of the power to have a lot of the newer features and such that make life nice for the general computer user. Maybe not for a 'techie' such as yourself, but every app consumes cycles.
The world is always changing, whether you like it or not. You can fight it with bass-ackwards views like yours, or adapt to it and understand it. Take your pick.
Too bad it's illegal to start a fax and tape the pages together to just run an infinite loop of faxing... of black paper...
Not that I'd suggest anyone do this. Ever.
Spam can be "legally" profitable, but not nearly as much as a nigerian-style scam. It's not done by many, but the losses to the victims are huge. That's why the government is going after them.
Read the other comments. Space isn't a complete vacuum. There is actually a significant amount of hydrogen in outer space, which becomes a problem when you're traveling at any appreciable fraction of the speed of light.
Slashdot Mirror
I've found that a great number of people can't understand a logarithmic scale. That's great for blowing things out of linear proportion.
I'd wager that Bob was referring to the consumers getting educated as far as doing us a favor, not the end result of SCO's stock tanking.
Huh... I just got a 4 year degree in Computer Science, seems that I have a job. You need to be able to sell yourself, and *gasp* be good at what you do and be able to show that to people.
It was actually amazing to me how many bad programmers there were in my class. A girl I know is getting a computer science MASTERS and I had to explain recursion to her this last semester. Those are the kind of people who pollute the marketplace and make employers wary of hiring graduates, and not having realistic expectations of their employees so leaving incompetents in positions better filled by skilled workers.
But those are just my feelings on the matter.
You know, when people say things like this it just makes me think that the rest of the world is just a bunch of whiners. Yes, the US != The World, BUT Slashdot is in the US, and the VAST majority of readers are from the US.
My advice? Deal with it.
Low unemployment is not indicative of productivity. It just means people are paid for showing up somewhere, enforced in socialist places. In a capitalist system, the lazy are theoretically filtered out/down.
And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet? Take a cue from Douglas Adams. The person least interested in having the power is more than likely the person most capable of handling it.
Your analogy isn't really applicable though. It would be more like someone taught you how to fish, and helped you for a long time, let you use their gear and all, and now says that you can't fish at all, even using your own tackle. I think it's just a precedence setting move, allowing retroactive patents on ubiquitous technology. They're trying to milk a system that was established because anyone could access it. If anyone thought that they could have been charged for FAT, then they would have looked at alternatives. It's a simple bait and switch which should be found illegal.
Isn't that the point of Open Source software though? that it's open? The DVD is a 'standard'. Same with HTML, XML, OpenGL, etc. Why should it be closed while the rest of the things we use are open? It's simply corporate lockout/grubbery that forces fees for things like that. Look at things like ogg/flac and other open standards that are available. They're starting to gain a foothold. THAT is why people are upset. Because the corporation is forcing profit and lock-in from a standard.
FYI, it's "ne'er-do-well", as in a contraction of "never" Not trying to flame ;)
Pita
Problem being that everyone can type ASCII. It's a segregationist move. Unless we want to start going to 200 key keyboards or something equally stupid.
Wait, what? Eating all the calories the animal ate? So it didn't actually use any when it, say, mooed? Get over yourself. Animals are pretty damn efficient, too. If they weren't, they wouldn't exist. Plants don't use the majority of energy coming into their leaves from the sun. And anyway, life is pain. Get over it.
I think public humiliation really should be re-instituted. I hate how people can commit crimes and no one knows who they are. The only true pressure a lot of people feel is social, so what do we do? We lock them up for a few weeks with like-minded sociopaths, then let them back out. That's the way to rehabilitate someone. I'll bet that if you knew your grandma would find out what you had done, you'd think twice about doing it.
Or perhaps we should just disallow 'donations' to political offices. We don't allow it in the judicial arena, why should we allow it in the politic general? While we're at it, we should take the power away from congress to vote their own raises. The government should be accountable directly to the people. There are just too many issues to the general public to vote on every single one.
Try your senator for one: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/ senators_cfm.cfm
And your house reps:
http://www.house.gov/Welcome.html
They're the ones who really need to know your feelings on this.
That's the whole point though... that the wire can't be re-used, so they're forced to run new wire. On top of the crap you were too lazy to actually pull out. Leaving the tons of waste that is described in the article. Kinda like if you just took the wheels off of your car and left it in the middle of the road, rather than taking it to a junkyard, which would be responsible.
So why do people routinely refer to the USA as America? There's more than one country over here. Oh, wait, it's the vernacular. Maybe people should get the sticks out of their asses and stop being so damn sensitive to everything. It's obvious what they meant if you read the article. Hell, like you said, anyone who knows anything realizes that Africa is a continent, not a country. Get over yourselves and off your damn high horses.
No, that's the point. ANYONE can walk away from it, smart or not. The point is that you have to take the effort to sustain the reaction, and if the effort isn't there or something breaks, the station stops. It's designed so that there is no way that it can overheat or do a lot of the nasty stuff that you hear about from other nuclear accidents.
Either way, it's in the middle of the freaking planet. It is about the safest way to dispose of nuclear material (in the long run) that anyone has come up with yet. If it's cycled into the center of the earth, it's melted, breaks apart, gets mixed around, won't see the surface again until it's well into it's decay cycle, if ever. At least, that's the theory. The only problem people have is if the subduction zone somehow breaks open the containers or whatnot, rather than just acting as a shuttle.
I think the point of the article is that they wouldn't have been on the wireless connection through the internal router until their computer was guaranteed clear or had AV software on it. It's not a bad idea, as long as we trust them to implement it correctly.
No, you don't NEED it. But then again, why am I using a graphical web browser? I have lynx. You don't need anything more than a green-hued terminal to do that stuff. I'll bet you have more than just a web browser open right now. That's not terribly efficient or possible without X or some other type of GUI. The problem with your statement is that you're a luddite, and you don't see the promise or perhaps utility of the newer systems. A lot of the development is game driven, yes, but do you really think something like Google could have been made back in the days of the 486? My point is that you do need a lot of the power to have a lot of the newer features and such that make life nice for the general computer user. Maybe not for a 'techie' such as yourself, but every app consumes cycles. The world is always changing, whether you like it or not. You can fight it with bass-ackwards views like yours, or adapt to it and understand it. Take your pick.
Too bad it's illegal to start a fax and tape the pages together to just run an infinite loop of faxing... of black paper... Not that I'd suggest anyone do this. Ever.
Spam can be "legally" profitable, but not nearly as much as a nigerian-style scam. It's not done by many, but the losses to the victims are huge. That's why the government is going after them.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20031029/563101 1s.htm
Or you can reject FUD in all walks of life, not just computers.
Because making money is bad, kids. You should do all work for free, especially if it's useful for only a minority of people.
Dumbass.
Read the other comments. Space isn't a complete vacuum. There is actually a significant amount of hydrogen in outer space, which becomes a problem when you're traveling at any appreciable fraction of the speed of light.