I noticed that this story got tagged "biggerlunchbox". I've scoured the internets, but I can't find anything but people complaining about actual lunchboxes. I'd be much obliged if someone could clue me in.
I agree. If your kid needs surgery, then surely drugs in the form of anesthesia are NOT the way to go. Clearly it's much better to just beat the child until they "cowboy up", and take it like a man.
Seriously though, I pity you, BAG. I'm not quite sure if you really are a zealous advocate of child abuse, a troll, or maybe just a guy who made an unfunny joke that betrayed some major psychological issues, but regardless... no one likes you. And I think that's sad, so hugs! I hope you feel better soon, bro. There is help available! Let me know if you ever need someone to talk to, ok?
You've proposed a false dilemma - that the spotty-faced people in question would either a) use your book for free, or b) pay you for its use. The third choice that you didn't mention is that they would simply not use your book at all.
My attitude is that if anyone uses your book, for free or not, you've just earned a tiny chunk of fame, or good reputation. Most of the time, you'll gain nothing from it. But once in a while, you'll get a job because of that book. If enough people like your book, you'll get speaking engagements or other public appearances.
What it comes down to is that if large numbers of people use your book, you WILL find ways to monetize that. And if small numbers of people use your book, then you didn't deserve much money anyhow.
I get that this is an imperfect system at best, but the digital genie is out of the toothpaste tube, and he just won't go back in.
Amen. Even if we lived in a world where the most prudent course of action was always to just follow orders (we don't), these discussions are usually worthwhile on their technical merits alone.
What it comes down to for me is that while I certainly have enough experience on this particular matter to have formed my own opinion, it's interesting to hear from others who have differing views.
Nope, they don't. They just do things like amass huge amounts of wealth by inventing the PC, Internet search engines, and iPods. What is it that the conservatives do again? Oh yeah; start wars, invent Walmart, inhale exhaust fumes at NASCAR. I'll go ahead and remain a hippie, thanks. Ya'll can keep Sarah Palin and Heidi Montag!
Silicon Valley will never be a GOP stronghold, because creative people are rarely conservative. And this town is fueled by creative people, because without them it would no longer be Silicon Valley.
And how about the carbon frakking footprint of all of the physical junkmail and newspaper inserts from retailers like Best Buy which contains ads for (among other things) PC security suites? I'm pretty sure that cutting down a tree, making paper, printing an ad, and then delivering it to my house emits just a tad more carbon than me deleting an email. Oh, sweet irony... delicious!
One way to cut the RIAA out of the mix while still supporting your favorite artist is to just buy their t-shirt. Many artists retain merchandising rights, so the record company sees none of this money. Or, if they did manage to con the artist into giving up these rights, the artist will still probably see a lot bigger chunk of change than if you had bought the CD. You don't have to wear the shirt if you don't want to. You could always use it to wipe up your spills!
The whole thing reminds me of Yahoo's acquisition of broadcast.com. In 2001 (or so) Yahoo figured that the world was very nearly ready to get all of their video online, and that someone was going to get astonishingly rich providing it to them.
Of course, most observers now think that Yahoo flushed a massive amount of dough down the drain. Even today, no one is making huge dough selling video online, although several companies are still trying.
Years later, Google repeats the error. In fact, Google is repeating several of Yahoo's errors, and I expect will share a similar fate: rapidly decreasing relevancy, but enough strong core businesses to keep chugging along, hoping to stumble into a new cash cow.
If a company has a huge pile of money, they can keep throwing darts at a board until they hit the domino, and the whole house of cards tumbles... Checkmate!
Everything needs to be 3000 times cheaper! Gas should cost 8 cents a gallon, a candy bar should be US$00.0003, and the services of a quality prostitute ought to run about 16 cents... for the works!
Pulling numbers out of your ass is one thing. Those fake numbers should at least make sense at first glance. This is more like just being silly, and then waiting to see if anyone notices.
He was a scientist, so he probably for a government-funded agency. If he used a.gov website to make those predictions, then you have your answer. I'm assuming that the Italian government did not make him take down his twitter tweets.. "equake soon! bail!!!!11".
Quayle was VP, true. But he was also a VP loser, in 1992. I certainly do get your point, that someone who actually held the office is going to be remember a lot longer than someone who never won. But Quayle IS a loser... a big, fat, loser!;)
Dukakis was running for president, not VP. His VP candidate was Lloyd Bentsen, already mentioned in this thread.
But I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned the second most recent VP loser in this thread... John Edwards. Also from my lifetime but not yet mentioned: Walter Mondale (1980) and Jack Kemp (1996). I was 9 years old in 1980, so my memory of the elections before that is rather hazy.
My point being that I for one can remember all of the VP losers of the last 30 years. I don't expect Palin to just vanish in a puff of smoke, sadly.
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... says a lonely young man who has never known the touch of a beautiful woman. Bitter much?
A customer *literally* threw money at you? I hope it was paper money, because coins can hurt!
It sure would be interesting if you were right about Windows 7. It would be really stupid for MS to include DRM that makes 7 as sluggish as Vista. But then again, it's possible that they really are that dumb.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if you were correct, and nVidia ended up going the same way as 3com and other vendors whose products ended up being integrated into the MB. But, I think it's also a pretty valid argument to say that there will continue to be space at the top of the food chain, selling cards that appeal only to the more hardcore gaming enthusiast. There are just too many gamers out there who have plenty of money and a love of bleeding-edge hardware.
Maybe, but maybe there's no good reason to spread throughout the galaxy. Maybe the profit gained from space travel over long distances never gets anywhere close to the cost of materials expended. In that case, I'd expect just a few research vessels, and finding their signals is like looking a needle in a haystack... a really big haystack.
Also, it's possible that long distance space travel is simply never feasible, no matter how advanced your technology gets.
We're so used to seeing things happen that had been thought impossible that we're starting to think that nothing is impossible. But I'm pretty sure that lots of things remain impossible or very difficult, even for ET.
Dad, when did you start posting on slashdot? Seriously... I've heard this rant from him a million times. And I think you're both correct, for the most part. I suppose there are a few highly-paid workers who actually are worth all that money. Perhaps Steve Jobs. When you look at Apple's record with him, and without him...
But an equally valid way to look at it is that it's not that Jobs is such a genius. It's that people like John Sculley simply were not qualified to run Apple, and that lots of people could have done as well as Jobs, but people like that don't get picked to run big companies by a typical board of directors. Consider their different backgrounds: Sculley came from the prestigious Wharten School of Business, while Jobs is a college drop-out.
I think that hiring practices that focus on fancy degrees while ignoring basic competencies necessary to really understand the product have been the downfall of many companies. I mean, Dubya has an MBA from Harvard... and we all know where he got us. Degrees are way over-rated in most jobs.
My hand is already "equipped with a means"... my thumb. Put that over the speaker, and I don't think many people will hear that click. Now that's some advanced hacking, but I do think that one or two other people might be capable of such a thing.
Furthermore, what about a camera that is not a phone? They're tiny and cheap, and they sport quite a few more pixels than the typical phone. Must all cameras make loud noises? Won't that be distracting? "you may now kiss bride..."
Yes, this law is pretty silly. But what else is new. Nice government we've got here in the US...
Perhaps you should be a bit less concerned about the internets for a while. It's just one semester. Your friends and family will be there when you return. Well, most of them.
I advise (since you asked) that you spend a lot less time thinking about the technological challenges of life at sea, and a lot more time thinking about the social challenge of getting into the pants of your schoolmates (or instructors, if the mood strikes). You're only going to be young once. There will be lots of time for techie fussing later.
Live, damn you... LIVE!!! That's the true educational value of a semester at sea.
...they need to make a Wii that goes to my job for me. I enjoy playing the games, so I have that part covered. What's next, a Wii that drinks my beer and has sex with my girlfriend?
I currently work for the smallest company that I've ever been employed by - 3.5 people (no, one is not victim of a shark attack, he's part-time). And it's been a blast. I'm never bored, and I'm adding tons of stuff to my resume.
Sure, there are stressful moments, where I am definitely out of my normal comfort zone. But I prefer it to the mind-numbing boredom of doing the same task again and again, as I did when I worked for a large company.
That said, while smaller companies are usually better, small companies can suck too - especially when they are losing money. When I worked for a company with 40 people, I still had no autonomy, no diversity of tasks, no learning of new skills, and I was routinely asked to work long hours for no extra pay. So rather than working for a small company at all costs, I'd say work for a successful company.
Because competing browsers are on version 7 (IE), or 9 (Opera). So, they're going to call any update that adds a feature a new version, in an effort to "catch up". It's just about how consumers perceive the product. It's not like there are hard and fast rules to this numbering stuff. I imagine they'll skip 3 altogether, and go right to 4.5.
This one got tagged "googlefood", which I think is funny, but I feel compelled to mention that I dined on Google food for several months in the early part of this decade, when I was a temp at GOOG for 4 months. This was back when they had this guy named Charlie cooking for them. He used to be the personal chef for the Grateful Dead, and he was no slouch in the kitchen. Since GOOG gave you every meal for free in those days, and since I was making temp money, I took full advantage. Each and every meal was culinary adventure, in a good way. There was always something to delight everyone, and it was all delicious.
I understand that Charlie departed some time ago (in a private jet made of solid gold, no doubt), and GOOG in general just ain't what she used to be when they still had less than 1000 employees. It's probably still way better than working for HP or Sun, but still... there was a time when Googlefood really meant something!
Absolutely. No one claims that any lightbulb is good for the environment - only that it's less harmful than the alternative bulb.
Certainly a locally produced bulb would be better for the environment than a bulb that travels a long way, but economic factors trump environmental ones nearly every time.
I was watching a documentary about energy some time ago, and an energy expert of some sort summed up the situation very well when he said "every time you turn on the lights, something dies". I wish I could remember the name of the documentary. It's a morbid way to put it, but apt. The power we burn has to come from somewhere, and as of right now, a very very small percentage of it comes from anything that is even close to "green".
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I noticed that this story got tagged "biggerlunchbox". I've scoured the internets, but I can't find anything but people complaining about actual lunchboxes. I'd be much obliged if someone could clue me in.
I agree. If your kid needs surgery, then surely drugs in the form of anesthesia are NOT the way to go. Clearly it's much better to just beat the child until they "cowboy up", and take it like a man.
Seriously though, I pity you, BAG. I'm not quite sure if you really are a zealous advocate of child abuse, a troll, or maybe just a guy who made an unfunny joke that betrayed some major psychological issues, but regardless... no one likes you. And I think that's sad, so hugs! I hope you feel better soon, bro. There is help available! Let me know if you ever need someone to talk to, ok?
You've proposed a false dilemma - that the spotty-faced people in question would either a) use your book for free, or b) pay you for its use. The third choice that you didn't mention is that they would simply not use your book at all.
My attitude is that if anyone uses your book, for free or not, you've just earned a tiny chunk of fame, or good reputation. Most of the time, you'll gain nothing from it. But once in a while, you'll get a job because of that book. If enough people like your book, you'll get speaking engagements or other public appearances.
What it comes down to is that if large numbers of people use your book, you WILL find ways to monetize that. And if small numbers of people use your book, then you didn't deserve much money anyhow.
I get that this is an imperfect system at best, but the digital genie is out of the toothpaste tube, and he just won't go back in.
So... you were so eager to make a stranger feel bad that you chimed in on a subject about which you were ignorant? You're a jackass alright!
Amen. Even if we lived in a world where the most prudent course of action was always to just follow orders (we don't), these discussions are usually worthwhile on their technical merits alone.
What it comes down to for me is that while I certainly have enough experience on this particular matter to have formed my own opinion, it's interesting to hear from others who have differing views.
Nope, they don't. They just do things like amass huge amounts of wealth by inventing the PC, Internet search engines, and iPods. What is it that the conservatives do again? Oh yeah; start wars, invent Walmart, inhale exhaust fumes at NASCAR. I'll go ahead and remain a hippie, thanks. Ya'll can keep Sarah Palin and Heidi Montag!
Silicon Valley will never be a GOP stronghold, because creative people are rarely conservative. And this town is fueled by creative people, because without them it would no longer be Silicon Valley.
And how about the carbon frakking footprint of all of the physical junkmail and newspaper inserts from retailers like Best Buy which contains ads for (among other things) PC security suites? I'm pretty sure that cutting down a tree, making paper, printing an ad, and then delivering it to my house emits just a tad more carbon than me deleting an email. Oh, sweet irony... delicious!
One way to cut the RIAA out of the mix while still supporting your favorite artist is to just buy their t-shirt. Many artists retain merchandising rights, so the record company sees none of this money. Or, if they did manage to con the artist into giving up these rights, the artist will still probably see a lot bigger chunk of change than if you had bought the CD. You don't have to wear the shirt if you don't want to. You could always use it to wipe up your spills!
The whole thing reminds me of Yahoo's acquisition of broadcast.com. In 2001 (or so) Yahoo figured that the world was very nearly ready to get all of their video online, and that someone was going to get astonishingly rich providing it to them.
Of course, most observers now think that Yahoo flushed a massive amount of dough down the drain. Even today, no one is making huge dough selling video online, although several companies are still trying.
Years later, Google repeats the error. In fact, Google is repeating several of Yahoo's errors, and I expect will share a similar fate: rapidly decreasing relevancy, but enough strong core businesses to keep chugging along, hoping to stumble into a new cash cow.
If a company has a huge pile of money, they can keep throwing darts at a board until they hit the domino, and the whole house of cards tumbles... Checkmate!
Everything needs to be 3000 times cheaper! Gas should cost 8 cents a gallon, a candy bar should be US$00.0003, and the services of a quality prostitute ought to run about 16 cents... for the works!
Pulling numbers out of your ass is one thing. Those fake numbers should at least make sense at first glance. This is more like just being silly, and then waiting to see if anyone notices.
Or else it was a typo. Did anyone actually rtfa?
He was a scientist, so he probably for a government-funded agency. If he used a .gov website to make those predictions, then you have your answer. I'm assuming that the Italian government did not make him take down his twitter tweets.. "equake soon! bail!!!!11".
Quayle was VP, true. But he was also a VP loser, in 1992. I certainly do get your point, that someone who actually held the office is going to be remember a lot longer than someone who never won. But Quayle IS a loser... a big, fat, loser! ;)
Dukakis was running for president, not VP. His VP candidate was Lloyd Bentsen, already mentioned in this thread.
But I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned the second most recent VP loser in this thread... John Edwards. Also from my lifetime but not yet mentioned: Walter Mondale (1980) and Jack Kemp (1996). I was 9 years old in 1980, so my memory of the elections before that is rather hazy.
My point being that I for one can remember all of the VP losers of the last 30 years. I don't expect Palin to just vanish in a puff of smoke, sadly.
... says a lonely young man who has never known the touch of a beautiful woman. Bitter much?
A customer *literally* threw money at you? I hope it was paper money, because coins can hurt!
It sure would be interesting if you were right about Windows 7. It would be really stupid for MS to include DRM that makes 7 as sluggish as Vista. But then again, it's possible that they really are that dumb.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if you were correct, and nVidia ended up going the same way as 3com and other vendors whose products ended up being integrated into the MB. But, I think it's also a pretty valid argument to say that there will continue to be space at the top of the food chain, selling cards that appeal only to the more hardcore gaming enthusiast. There are just too many gamers out there who have plenty of money and a love of bleeding-edge hardware.
Maybe, but maybe there's no good reason to spread throughout the galaxy. Maybe the profit gained from space travel over long distances never gets anywhere close to the cost of materials expended. In that case, I'd expect just a few research vessels, and finding their signals is like looking a needle in a haystack... a really big haystack.
Also, it's possible that long distance space travel is simply never feasible, no matter how advanced your technology gets.
We're so used to seeing things happen that had been thought impossible that we're starting to think that nothing is impossible. But I'm pretty sure that lots of things remain impossible or very difficult, even for ET.
Dad, when did you start posting on slashdot? Seriously... I've heard this rant from him a million times. And I think you're both correct, for the most part. I suppose there are a few highly-paid workers who actually are worth all that money. Perhaps Steve Jobs. When you look at Apple's record with him, and without him...
But an equally valid way to look at it is that it's not that Jobs is such a genius. It's that people like John Sculley simply were not qualified to run Apple, and that lots of people could have done as well as Jobs, but people like that don't get picked to run big companies by a typical board of directors. Consider their different backgrounds: Sculley came from the prestigious Wharten School of Business, while Jobs is a college drop-out.
I think that hiring practices that focus on fancy degrees while ignoring basic competencies necessary to really understand the product have been the downfall of many companies. I mean, Dubya has an MBA from Harvard... and we all know where he got us. Degrees are way over-rated in most jobs.
My hand is already "equipped with a means"... my thumb. Put that over the speaker, and I don't think many people will hear that click. Now that's some advanced hacking, but I do think that one or two other people might be capable of such a thing.
Furthermore, what about a camera that is not a phone? They're tiny and cheap, and they sport quite a few more pixels than the typical phone. Must all cameras make loud noises? Won't that be distracting? "you may now kiss bride..."
Yes, this law is pretty silly. But what else is new. Nice government we've got here in the US...
Perhaps you should be a bit less concerned about the internets for a while. It's just one semester. Your friends and family will be there when you return. Well, most of them.
I advise (since you asked) that you spend a lot less time thinking about the technological challenges of life at sea, and a lot more time thinking about the social challenge of getting into the pants of your schoolmates (or instructors, if the mood strikes). You're only going to be young once. There will be lots of time for techie fussing later.
Live, damn you... LIVE!!! That's the true educational value of a semester at sea.
...they need to make a Wii that goes to my job for me. I enjoy playing the games, so I have that part covered. What's next, a Wii that drinks my beer and has sex with my girlfriend?
I currently work for the smallest company that I've ever been employed by - 3.5 people (no, one is not victim of a shark attack, he's part-time). And it's been a blast. I'm never bored, and I'm adding tons of stuff to my resume.
Sure, there are stressful moments, where I am definitely out of my normal comfort zone. But I prefer it to the mind-numbing boredom of doing the same task again and again, as I did when I worked for a large company.
That said, while smaller companies are usually better, small companies can suck too - especially when they are losing money. When I worked for a company with 40 people, I still had no autonomy, no diversity of tasks, no learning of new skills, and I was routinely asked to work long hours for no extra pay. So rather than working for a small company at all costs, I'd say work for a successful company.
>> I'm not sure why they call it 2.0
Because competing browsers are on version 7 (IE), or 9 (Opera). So, they're going to call any update that adds a feature a new version, in an effort to "catch up". It's just about how consumers perceive the product. It's not like there are hard and fast rules to this numbering stuff. I imagine they'll skip 3 altogether, and go right to 4.5.
This one got tagged "googlefood", which I think is funny, but I feel compelled to mention that I dined on Google food for several months in the early part of this decade, when I was a temp at GOOG for 4 months. This was back when they had this guy named Charlie cooking for them. He used to be the personal chef for the Grateful Dead, and he was no slouch in the kitchen. Since GOOG gave you every meal for free in those days, and since I was making temp money, I took full advantage. Each and every meal was culinary adventure, in a good way. There was always something to delight everyone, and it was all delicious.
I understand that Charlie departed some time ago (in a private jet made of solid gold, no doubt), and GOOG in general just ain't what she used to be when they still had less than 1000 employees. It's probably still way better than working for HP or Sun, but still... there was a time when Googlefood really meant something!
Absolutely. No one claims that any lightbulb is good for the environment - only that it's less harmful than the alternative bulb.
Certainly a locally produced bulb would be better for the environment than a bulb that travels a long way, but economic factors trump environmental ones nearly every time.
I was watching a documentary about energy some time ago, and an energy expert of some sort summed up the situation very well when he said "every time you turn on the lights, something dies". I wish I could remember the name of the documentary. It's a morbid way to put it, but apt. The power we burn has to come from somewhere, and as of right now, a very very small percentage of it comes from anything that is even close to "green".