There was an amazing variety of 8-bit platforms manufactured between 1976-1985, the more you have the better. But take my advice, having refurbished a number of these machines: Plan on buying 3 for every one you get working, Ebay is your friend, no single machine is worth more than $5. You should be able to pick up core cpu/keyboards for $15 following these rules. Use a modern audio cable switch box and a single composite monitor to switch between them- Composite monitors are hard to find and expensive, but many modern cheap 15" TV sets have the correct RCA inputs.
From TFA: With each bang, the theory predicts that matter keeps on expanding and dissipating into infinite space before another horrendous blast of radiation and matter replenishes it.
Shades of Babylon 5 there. From one of the Season 4 episodes, Into the Fire (I couldn't find the exact quotes online from work, this is my idea of what happened):
And at the end of the war, all of the remaining First Ones went Beyond the Rim, and were never heard from again.
It could be that they just admit to it on the show for comic effect- and it could be a mixture of the two (in fact, I'd expect it to be- how else would they be able to capture some of those clips unless they actually had digital video recorders on the channels involved running 24x7? It also explains their "day late" nature to their "fake news", if they have to get releases to use the footage.)
I think my +1 interesting was pointing out the use of Tivo'd material in the fake news industry, not the weak conspiracy theory, but hey. Would be better if you jumped one better than me and pointed out that this whole thing was just writing into international law what the Big Media companies alreay write into their contracts anyway: This Game may not be taped or shown publically without the express permission of Major League Baseball and NBC. Been happening for YEARS.
They moded it as "interesting" so far. I just thought that the juxtaposition of Stephen Colbert's recent pro-Bush-anti-Media diatribe (or was it anti-Bush-anti-Media) and this obviously corporate-written treaty coming to light in the same week was pretty wierd.
On Comedy Central I'd say. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have made fun of traditional media- and this attacks their primary way of getting their fake "news" (by Tivo'ing the other channels and picking out stuff to make fun of).
Not by a corporations. Corporations have refused to hire me at all since 2001.
Do you receive any benefits beyond a simple wage?
Only thanks to the state- which has a vested interest in paying a living wage (seeing as how my job is keeping me off of welfare- they can pay me one way or another).
If the Evil Corporations can do anything they want, why don't they refuse to pay you more than the legal minimum... after all... you have no choice but to work for them... since the market's rigged and you're not unique and someone else could do it just as well.
Which is why, today, I finally interview for that permanent position in State Bureaucracy- because it isn't worth working for the corporations at all anymore.
From the end of TFA: So far the researchers have only worked through the mathematics to prove that the device is plausible. The practicalities of making one have yet to be solved.
What I was trying to get at was that it's not the employer's responsibility to make certain that the employee is sufficiently compensated for their work. It's the employee's responsibility to negotiate for themselves compensation which they feel is sufficient.
The problem with this theory is that the employee is negotiating from a position of extreme weakness. I don't care who you are- under globalization, there is somebody, somewhere, who is as smart as you are who WILL do your job for less if offered it. Do you really think you're so unique that out of 6.5 billion people on this planet, you are indespensible? Everybody can be replaced.
Not everyone will succeed. Some people have unreasonable views on what is sufficient compensation. However, if you feel that you can make more money, or simply have a better life, by finding employment elsewhere, it is your responsibility to either find that better employment, or stay where you are.
In this day and age, you can't. You are simply NOT that unique. If what is offered is within 5% of prevailing wage for your industry, then take it, because if you try to negotiate for more, they'll simply move on to one of the other 30 resumes and applications they got for your job.
It is certainly your right to complain, and to seek improvements from within. However, I have little (some, but very little) sympathy for people who say "my boss treats me like crap" but then refuse to leave because "it's too hard" to find a better place.
Agreed on that one- the problem is, there ARE no better places- that's why we have 4.5% unemployment in this country (12.5% in high skilled, high tech). If there were better places to work, we'd be going to find them.
The free market is a beautiful thing: unlimited potential. It is also a scary and dangerous thing: your life is what you make of it, nobody else will make of it for you.
The labor market isn't a free market- if it were, there would be no unemployment. Because unemployment exists, because the supply of workers exceeds the demand for work, the employee is ALWAYS negotiating from a point of weakness. Because of this, what we need is more noblese oblige- the obligation of the rich to take care of the poor and provide them with work and a living wage.
Consumers need to pay for what they use. In other words, if my employer chooses to burn me out on my chosen profession, then that employer owes me the full value of that education- and the full value of the expected career thereof. Not burning me out is cheaper, as it means that my education and talents can be sold to the next employer down the road.
It's basically the idea of "Thou shalt not make money off of other people's misery"- an ideal that admitedly is long dead in today's world of people as commodities.
If you don't have the skill and expertise to make this choice, perhaps (quite sincerely) you're in the wrong line of work, and be better investing your time in gaining experience or useful qualifications in another field.
Most people don't have the extra money to get thousands of degrees until they find out what they're good at- they have to make a decision by the time they're 18, and do their best to gain that training by the time they're 28 at the latest.
Here's an idea -- once you get burned out at a stressful job, try quitting instead of murdering some middle managers (who probably hates their jobs as much as you hate yours).
Yeah- right- like middle managers have emotions or souls left to hate with. Plus, note that I said the targets should be C-level execs, not middle managers. The middle managers don't make those decisions in the end- policy decisions are made at the top.
The real point is that real world actions should have real world consequences- one should not be able to get profit by mistreating people without being murdered for the crime.
More people who get burned out ought to get guns- then maybe the corporations would begin to take a different attitude towards "deadweight". I wonder how many C-level executives would have to die to make the change?
I've often wondered how on earth this gets to happen. I've been using the 'net almost daily since 1991 and I've never yet received a single piece of unsolicited email to any of my email addresses. Yet somehow I don't feel like I am in possession of some secret that no one else knows.
Note the majority was recieved by the server to non-existant e-mail boxes. However- I guarantee you that if you want spam, all you have to do is use an un-obscifacted e-mail address in the HTML code of a website, perhaps in a mailto tag. Then you will have about 20 minutes before the crapflood starts.
Seems to me that if you used one of several free Bayesian Spam filters out there in addition to BlueSecurity, this could be easily foiled and all such e-mails could be targeted on their misspellings alone.
Either that or just use LOCAL variables, and make sure your code is re-enterant. Don't they teach CS students to avoid global variables and global files anymore?
Yeah, you're right, that was pretty impressive, he coded that whole animation bit in what, like 5 seconds?
Just about. I was rather disapointed when it took me about 45 minutes trying to impress a girl in high school- using loaded bitmaps drawn on a sketch pad on an Apple IIe (the hard part was the wierd way high res graphics was mapped into memory on the apple- I had to build an entire offset table in assembly to remap the graphics).
These days of course- with modern RAD tools- it would take you about 5-15 seconds once you already have the cropped pictures.
All of the above had components you had to take that were unrelated to what you would have studied on your own or what you use in your job. Sun Certifications, like Microsoft Certifications, are more about a single version of software and a single set of menus and wizards. Getting a Bachelor's in IT means that you had to take humanities courses as well. A diploma in IS means you had to take a bunch of financial classes that may or may not apply to the job at hand.
This isn't a bad thing- ALL jobs in IT have pieces that aren't related to computers- this is a plus.
Thank you for the explaination- given that I can certainly see how the cert may be considered more valueable by employers- where obviously TFA is talking about the US version of the word, which is limited to Vendor Certs.
Thats funny. Some people seem to think that just getting a degree makes you better or smarter.
Depends on the degree and the school- some certainly don't. How President Bush ever got out of Yale or Harvard speaks volumes about the academic value of those Ivy League degrees.
Any way you look at it, its just a way to give a baseline of what you know. A degree is better documentation than a certification. A certification is better documentation than just saying you know it.
True enough- and experience trumps both.
Beyond that, this whole article is a joke -- like people complaining that a decrease in the rate of increase of a budget is a 'cut' regardless if the amount of money is above the inflation rate.
Well, the general inflation rate is a relatively useless predictor of how specific money should be spent- especially for government services. A much better predictor would be the increase in population served.
They didn't use digital photography or vector graphics to get the girl, they used another standard staple of the geek - a Darth Vader mask. Just imagine the hordes of chicks that Tron-suit-guy could have wooed.
I was talking about the other guy, wooing the girl in the computer lab- typing rapidly as vector-graphics male and female characters met on the screen, danced, and kissed. That to me was FAR more impressive than the Darth Vader Mask scene.
After which their project gets canceled and they get laid off- because PHB read an article someplace that said any project that took more than 4 months was a failure.
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There was an amazing variety of 8-bit platforms manufactured between 1976-1985, the more you have the better. But take my advice, having refurbished a number of these machines: Plan on buying 3 for every one you get working, Ebay is your friend, no single machine is worth more than $5. You should be able to pick up core cpu/keyboards for $15 following these rules. Use a modern audio cable switch box and a single composite monitor to switch between them- Composite monitors are hard to find and expensive, but many modern cheap 15" TV sets have the correct RCA inputs.
From TFA: With each bang, the theory predicts that matter keeps on expanding and dissipating into infinite space before another horrendous blast of radiation and matter replenishes it.
Shades of Babylon 5 there. From one of the Season 4 episodes, Into the Fire (I couldn't find the exact quotes online from work, this is my idea of what happened):
And at the end of the war, all of the remaining First Ones went Beyond the Rim, and were never heard from again.
It could be that they just admit to it on the show for comic effect- and it could be a mixture of the two (in fact, I'd expect it to be- how else would they be able to capture some of those clips unless they actually had digital video recorders on the channels involved running 24x7? It also explains their "day late" nature to their "fake news", if they have to get releases to use the footage.)
I think my +1 interesting was pointing out the use of Tivo'd material in the fake news industry, not the weak conspiracy theory, but hey. Would be better if you jumped one better than me and pointed out that this whole thing was just writing into international law what the Big Media companies alreay write into their contracts anyway: This Game may not be taped or shown publically without the express permission of Major League Baseball and NBC. Been happening for YEARS.
They moded it as "interesting" so far. I just thought that the juxtaposition of Stephen Colbert's recent pro-Bush-anti-Media diatribe (or was it anti-Bush-anti-Media) and this obviously corporate-written treaty coming to light in the same week was pretty wierd.
On Comedy Central I'd say. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have made fun of traditional media- and this attacks their primary way of getting their fake "news" (by Tivo'ing the other channels and picking out stuff to make fun of).
Are you paid more than minimum wage?
Not by a corporations. Corporations have refused to hire me at all since 2001.
Do you receive any benefits beyond a simple wage?
Only thanks to the state- which has a vested interest in paying a living wage (seeing as how my job is keeping me off of welfare- they can pay me one way or another).
If the Evil Corporations can do anything they want, why don't they refuse to pay you more than the legal minimum... after all... you have no choice but to work for them... since the market's rigged and you're not unique and someone else could do it just as well.
Which is why, today, I finally interview for that permanent position in State Bureaucracy- because it isn't worth working for the corporations at all anymore.
Why is it that everything you say on slashdot is so fucking stupid?
I don't know- why didn't your second grade teacher teach you the difference between STUPID and OBVIOUS?
From the end of TFA: So far the researchers have only worked through the mathematics to prove that the device is plausible. The practicalities of making one have yet to be solved.
What I was trying to get at was that it's not the employer's responsibility to make certain that the employee is sufficiently compensated for their work. It's the employee's responsibility to negotiate for themselves compensation which they feel is sufficient.
The problem with this theory is that the employee is negotiating from a position of extreme weakness. I don't care who you are- under globalization, there is somebody, somewhere, who is as smart as you are who WILL do your job for less if offered it. Do you really think you're so unique that out of 6.5 billion people on this planet, you are indespensible? Everybody can be replaced.
Not everyone will succeed. Some people have unreasonable views on what is sufficient compensation. However, if you feel that you can make more money, or simply have a better life, by finding employment elsewhere, it is your responsibility to either find that better employment, or stay where you are.
In this day and age, you can't. You are simply NOT that unique. If what is offered is within 5% of prevailing wage for your industry, then take it, because if you try to negotiate for more, they'll simply move on to one of the other 30 resumes and applications they got for your job.
It is certainly your right to complain, and to seek improvements from within. However, I have little (some, but very little) sympathy for people who say "my boss treats me like crap" but then refuse to leave because "it's too hard" to find a better place.
Agreed on that one- the problem is, there ARE no better places- that's why we have 4.5% unemployment in this country (12.5% in high skilled, high tech). If there were better places to work, we'd be going to find them.
The free market is a beautiful thing: unlimited potential. It is also a scary and dangerous thing: your life is what you make of it, nobody else will make of it for you.
The labor market isn't a free market- if it were, there would be no unemployment. Because unemployment exists, because the supply of workers exceeds the demand for work, the employee is ALWAYS negotiating from a point of weakness. Because of this, what we need is more noblese oblige- the obligation of the rich to take care of the poor and provide them with work and a living wage.
and that's your employer's problem how, exactly?
Consumers need to pay for what they use. In other words, if my employer chooses to burn me out on my chosen profession, then that employer owes me the full value of that education- and the full value of the expected career thereof. Not burning me out is cheaper, as it means that my education and talents can be sold to the next employer down the road.
It's basically the idea of "Thou shalt not make money off of other people's misery"- an ideal that admitedly is long dead in today's world of people as commodities.
If you don't have the skill and expertise to make this choice, perhaps (quite sincerely) you're in the wrong line of work, and be better investing your time in gaining experience or useful qualifications in another field.
Most people don't have the extra money to get thousands of degrees until they find out what they're good at- they have to make a decision by the time they're 18, and do their best to gain that training by the time they're 28 at the latest.
Here's an idea -- once you get burned out at a stressful job, try quitting instead of murdering some middle managers (who probably hates their jobs as much as you hate yours).
Yeah- right- like middle managers have emotions or souls left to hate with. Plus, note that I said the targets should be C-level execs, not middle managers. The middle managers don't make those decisions in the end- policy decisions are made at the top.
The real point is that real world actions should have real world consequences- one should not be able to get profit by mistreating people without being murdered for the crime.
More people who get burned out ought to get guns- then maybe the corporations would begin to take a different attitude towards "deadweight". I wonder how many C-level executives would have to die to make the change?
I've often wondered how on earth this gets to happen. I've been using the 'net almost daily since 1991 and I've never yet received a single piece of unsolicited email to any of my email addresses. Yet somehow I don't feel like I am in possession of some secret that no one else knows.
Note the majority was recieved by the server to non-existant e-mail boxes. However- I guarantee you that if you want spam, all you have to do is use an un-obscifacted e-mail address in the HTML code of a website, perhaps in a mailto tag. Then you will have about 20 minutes before the crapflood starts.
Seems to me that if you used one of several free Bayesian Spam filters out there in addition to BlueSecurity, this could be easily foiled and all such e-mails could be targeted on their misspellings alone.
Either that or just use LOCAL variables, and make sure your code is re-enterant. Don't they teach CS students to avoid global variables and global files anymore?
Yeah, you're right, that was pretty impressive, he coded that whole animation bit in what, like 5 seconds?
Just about. I was rather disapointed when it took me about 45 minutes trying to impress a girl in high school- using loaded bitmaps drawn on a sketch pad on an Apple IIe (the hard part was the wierd way high res graphics was mapped into memory on the apple- I had to build an entire offset table in assembly to remap the graphics).
These days of course- with modern RAD tools- it would take you about 5-15 seconds once you already have the cropped pictures.
All of the above had components you had to take that were unrelated to what you would have studied on your own or what you use in your job. Sun Certifications, like Microsoft Certifications, are more about a single version of software and a single set of menus and wizards. Getting a Bachelor's in IT means that you had to take humanities courses as well. A diploma in IS means you had to take a bunch of financial classes that may or may not apply to the job at hand.
This isn't a bad thing- ALL jobs in IT have pieces that aren't related to computers- this is a plus.
Thank you for the explaination- given that I can certainly see how the cert may be considered more valueable by employers- where obviously TFA is talking about the US version of the word, which is limited to Vendor Certs.
Thats funny. Some people seem to think that just getting a degree makes you better or smarter.
Depends on the degree and the school- some certainly don't. How President Bush ever got out of Yale or Harvard speaks volumes about the academic value of those Ivy League degrees.
Any way you look at it, its just a way to give a baseline of what you know. A degree is better documentation than a certification. A certification is better documentation than just saying you know it.
True enough- and experience trumps both.
Beyond that, this whole article is a joke -- like people complaining that a decrease in the rate of increase of a budget is a 'cut' regardless if the amount of money is above the inflation rate.
Well, the general inflation rate is a relatively useless predictor of how specific money should be spent- especially for government services. A much better predictor would be the increase in population served.
Well, I guess that proves you can study large amounts of information utterly unrelated to your passion in a career...got to be useful to somebody.
They didn't use digital photography or vector graphics to get the girl, they used another standard staple of the geek - a Darth Vader mask. Just imagine the hordes of chicks that Tron-suit-guy could have wooed.
I was talking about the other guy, wooing the girl in the computer lab- typing rapidly as vector-graphics male and female characters met on the screen, danced, and kissed. That to me was FAR more impressive than the Darth Vader Mask scene.
And I apparently should not have believed that error message about the form being invalid, silly me.
After which their project gets canceled and they get laid off- because PHB read an article someplace that said any project that took more than 4 months was a failure.