It's like the drug addict who thinks that moving away from the city will solve their drug addiction.
Drug addicts don't move to cure their addiction. They move to get away from their dealer, who has a financial interest in keeping them hooked. Addicts understand that they will always wake up wanting a fix. That's something considerably more bearable when someone isn't knocking on your door trying to move product.
I use the foes list to filter out comments I don't care to read, rather than an indicator of people I like or don't like. I don't have any idea who you are, nor do I dislike you, but your writing style doesn't entertain me enough, and my goal for reading Slashdot is entertainment.
For example, here are some things I don't like about your above comment, that would probably motivate me to put you on my foes list if you weren't already there:
Putting foes in single-quotes
Not capitalising the first word of a sentence
Being completely off-topic
Hate speak (delusional crack-head)
Not being sportsmanlike
This last item bears some explanation: You imply an insult in my placing you on my foes list, and then proceed to child-like name calling instead of either asking for redress or simply stating that you don't feel my action was warranted.
On the other hand, you took the time to look up Sobek, or maybe your memory of the Fiend-Folio is still sharp for whatever reason. So obviously you aren't an all-around bad guy, and hence I don't consider you a personal foe. But I still have no interest in reading your slashdot posts, they just don't do it for me.
Of course not. Whine, and don't define what you want, key indicators of your Americanism.
Overall, I don't think W3C is the end all of web design, however.
That was a beautifully misconstructed sentence. It made me cry.
Why not put a little thought into your posts? It almost sounded like you had something useful to say, that your post wasn't a veiled advertisement for your company meant to look like part of a discussion.
Here's what I want: I want you and your ilk to go away and stop wasting space on Slashdot. Find another marketing gimmick.
I remember reading somewhere that Buddhism is the only major religion that has been positively correlated with happiness.
Funny and ironic, isn't that? As stated by two previous ACs, one of the main observations of the Buddha is that all life is suffering. Perhaps Buddhists accept that life is going to be a drag, and stop trying to fix everything and just go on living, hence being happier.
On the other hand, I've always said that the problem in life is other people. If they would quit bugging me, things would be better. Perhaps Buddhists spend enough time trying to reach enlightenment through meditating, hence isolating themselves. Getting away from other people regularly might make them happier.
I had the privilege of reading some AIM conversations at my last job as a comm geek. I had a hard time believing the amount of personal traffic over AIM that was going on.
Among the more interesting was a married woman chatting with multiple men and arranging dates with them, and complaining about each to the other. The one that took the cake was a tech who was once on the same team as me talking like a pirate to a woman he was seeing... something along the lines of "spank your a** while riding me hard c***".
They all knew they had no expectation of privacy, and yet they all gladly typed away without a care. I think this is just part of the human condition: We are going to spend some of our day doing personal things, on the clock or not. Companies would have to fire more people than they could afford to if they wanted to assure that employees always followed the rules.
So what's the answer? Fire the people who are causing the most harm to the company. Who would you fire in this case, the adulteress or the pirate?
Given that RFID tags are barely even starting to be used by distributors, you're not going to convince me that a truck stop of all places is at the head of the technology curve using this expensive equipment that almost no manufacturers even support anyway.
You have no feel for the complexity of the logistics industry. Distribution was one of the first industries to adopt e-commerce. Truckers and truck stops have proprietary billing equipment for purchases, so RFIDs in truck stops shouldn't be suprising.
You should check out some of the bigger truck stops and see what they're all about. It's not all Mel's Diner and plastic Jesus dashboard icons.
All game were pirated before this happened and all have continued to be pirated afterwards.
That's possibly the worst grammar I've ever seen in a Slashdot post.
I like the way things are now with the piracy game. It's a safe way for kids to rebel against "the man", doesn't usually involve other vices, and is something you can grow out of when you get a job.
For me, software piracy was something I participated in until I was about 22, inertia carrying me past my teens. As a teenager, this was the only way I had at my disposal to get the latest games (back then the latest games were of the "Bolo" and "Rescue Raiders" variety).
As an adult, it actually cost me more in time and money to pirate games than it would have to just drop $40 on what looked the coolest. I had to invest in a CD burner, which was expensive at the time, as well as a Zip drive, and the media they required (also pricey at the time). Not to mention having a family to support meant that I had a lot more to lose than I did at 16. At 16 I was a punk with a chip on my shoulder, and never bothered to cover my tracks. Stupid. Lucky. But anyway, I grew out of it.
Video game companies will rail and demand justice, but the kids will still be given leeway with this vice.
The advanced copy grift was a different matter, though. First, it's a bad con -- that will always get you caught eventually. Second, it's an adult who is deliberately defrauding a company by posing as someone he's not. Screw him. I don't want him representing the software piracy market. He's a bad example. Give me back the whiz kids who buy a game (or shoplift it if circumstances warrant) and defeat the copy protection or write a crack. That's just good fun.
Mr. Jones, tell me about the night on the subway when you shot me...
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...is the study of history. The people most valuable in IT are the ones who have witnessed the changes the computer world has gone through.
As a (somewhat) mature IT professional, I don't make the same stupid mistakes in programming that I did as a kid, and I'm much more interested in what I'm coding for, how it will be implemented, and who will be using it. As a kid, I could care less. My basic motto was "Figure it out or smurf off." Also, at 32 I type faster and think more clearly than I did in my 20s and teens. I can also come back to code I haven't looked at in awhile and understand it. When I was younger, those were all major stumbling blocks.
I may charge more for myself now, but I do better work. The smart company will hire me despite the higher price. The company that hires the kid because he is priced cheaper and is eager and energetic looking is making its own proverbial bed. I'm all in favor of hiring young programmers and developing them into experienced and successful ones, but you need people like me to help get them that way.
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It's like the drug addict who thinks that moving away from the city will solve their drug addiction.
Drug addicts don't move to cure their addiction. They move to get away from their dealer, who has a financial interest in keeping them hooked. Addicts understand that they will always wake up wanting a fix. That's something considerably more bearable when someone isn't knocking on your door trying to move product.
I use the foes list to filter out comments I don't care to read, rather than an indicator of people I like or don't like. I don't have any idea who you are, nor do I dislike you, but your writing style doesn't entertain me enough, and my goal for reading Slashdot is entertainment.
For example, here are some things I don't like about your above comment, that would probably motivate me to put you on my foes list if you weren't already there:
This last item bears some explanation: You imply an insult in my placing you on my foes list, and then proceed to child-like name calling instead of either asking for redress or simply stating that you don't feel my action was warranted.
On the other hand, you took the time to look up Sobek, or maybe your memory of the Fiend-Folio is still sharp for whatever reason. So obviously you aren't an all-around bad guy, and hence I don't consider you a personal foe. But I still have no interest in reading your slashdot posts, they just don't do it for me.
Of course not. Whine, and don't define what you want, key indicators of your Americanism.
That was a beautifully misconstructed sentence. It made me cry.
Why not put a little thought into your posts? It almost sounded like you had something useful to say, that your post wasn't a veiled advertisement for your company meant to look like part of a discussion.
Here's what I want: I want you and your ilk to go away and stop wasting space on Slashdot. Find another marketing gimmick.
Right, because NASA has already solved the 10,000 body equation that was needed to precisely pinpoint where the asteroid will be in roughly 100 years.
Yeah, my bad. It was actually Yoda, not Buddha who talked about suffering.
Funny and ironic, isn't that? As stated by two previous ACs, one of the main observations of the Buddha is that all life is suffering. Perhaps Buddhists accept that life is going to be a drag, and stop trying to fix everything and just go on living, hence being happier.
On the other hand, I've always said that the problem in life is other people. If they would quit bugging me, things would be better. Perhaps Buddhists spend enough time trying to reach enlightenment through meditating, hence isolating themselves. Getting away from other people regularly might make them happier.
Yes, but no matter where you go, there you are.
Among the more interesting was a married woman chatting with multiple men and arranging dates with them, and complaining about each to the other. The one that took the cake was a tech who was once on the same team as me talking like a pirate to a woman he was seeing... something along the lines of "spank your a** while riding me hard c***".
They all knew they had no expectation of privacy, and yet they all gladly typed away without a care. I think this is just part of the human condition: We are going to spend some of our day doing personal things, on the clock or not. Companies would have to fire more people than they could afford to if they wanted to assure that employees always followed the rules.
So what's the answer? Fire the people who are causing the most harm to the company. Who would you fire in this case, the adulteress or the pirate?
We can't, you're anonymous.
+5 insightful my arse.
Of course, it's mainly a bookend right now, but still.
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You have no feel for the complexity of the logistics industry. Distribution was one of the first industries to adopt e-commerce. Truckers and truck stops have proprietary billing equipment for purchases, so RFIDs in truck stops shouldn't be suprising.
You should check out some of the bigger truck stops and see what they're all about. It's not all Mel's Diner and plastic Jesus dashboard icons.
That's possibly the worst grammar I've ever seen in a Slashdot post.
I like the way things are now with the piracy game. It's a safe way for kids to rebel against "the man", doesn't usually involve other vices, and is something you can grow out of when you get a job.
For me, software piracy was something I participated in until I was about 22, inertia carrying me past my teens. As a teenager, this was the only way I had at my disposal to get the latest games (back then the latest games were of the "Bolo" and "Rescue Raiders" variety).
As an adult, it actually cost me more in time and money to pirate games than it would have to just drop $40 on what looked the coolest. I had to invest in a CD burner, which was expensive at the time, as well as a Zip drive, and the media they required (also pricey at the time). Not to mention having a family to support meant that I had a lot more to lose than I did at 16. At 16 I was a punk with a chip on my shoulder, and never bothered to cover my tracks. Stupid. Lucky. But anyway, I grew out of it.
Video game companies will rail and demand justice, but the kids will still be given leeway with this vice.
The advanced copy grift was a different matter, though. First, it's a bad con -- that will always get you caught eventually. Second, it's an adult who is deliberately defrauding a company by posing as someone he's not. Screw him. I don't want him representing the software piracy market. He's a bad example. Give me back the whiz kids who buy a game (or shoplift it if circumstances warrant) and defeat the copy protection or write a crack. That's just good fun.
Mr. Jones, tell me about the night on the subway when you shot me...
...is the study of history. The people most valuable in IT are the ones who have witnessed the changes the computer world has gone through. As a (somewhat) mature IT professional, I don't make the same stupid mistakes in programming that I did as a kid, and I'm much more interested in what I'm coding for, how it will be implemented, and who will be using it. As a kid, I could care less. My basic motto was "Figure it out or smurf off." Also, at 32 I type faster and think more clearly than I did in my 20s and teens. I can also come back to code I haven't looked at in awhile and understand it. When I was younger, those were all major stumbling blocks. I may charge more for myself now, but I do better work. The smart company will hire me despite the higher price. The company that hires the kid because he is priced cheaper and is eager and energetic looking is making its own proverbial bed. I'm all in favor of hiring young programmers and developing them into experienced and successful ones, but you need people like me to help get them that way.