I worked for US Bank as a consultant at one of their *gigantic* warehouse cube-farms. They had stopped providing free coffee at the many "coffee centers" in the building, which I found incredibly short-sighted. Coffee is fuel. Programmer + Coffee = Productivity.
To acquire said fuel, it was necessary to take a 15 minute round trip hike to the cafeteria on the other side of the building - for which I, of course, charged the time.
$100/hr x.25 = $25. I made money going to buy coffee.
Canceling the Griswald X-mas bonus level stupidity - you're just going to end up kidnapped, tied up with a dog chain and presented to your employee wrapped in a ribbon. Everyone knows that.
It's this kindergarten shit that keeps the world from moving forward. Freakin pissing contests with no winner.
Plus - the Russian bathroom doesn't have a webcam.
My introductory courses were taught in Java... almost 10 years ago.
Java has proven itself beyond a flash in the pan, despite many significant failures (AWT or EJB 1.0, anyone?).
I would propose this would qualify Java as a language to be respected, if for no other reason than A LOT of useful work has been accomplished with this pointer-less, self-garbage-collecting, virtual-machine-using, heathen half-breed of a tool.
I would propose that perhaps the age-old argument for the presence of violent media - that it mitigates real violence by offering a release valve - would be the explanation here.
I'm not a neuro-scientist (IANANS), but wouldn't less activity mean that that portion of the brain is not working as hard at blocking violent impulses, maybe because there are fewer of these impulses?
an audience lends power and validity to a work of art. what artists tend to forget is that w/o an audience art is meaningless and masturbatory. if that was the intended reason for the creation, so be it - but as soon as a work of art is public it is no longer sole property of the artist.
consensus makes something more than a lump of clay or a random wave of sound or a string of pictures.
I've got to agree completely. I'm fairly positive that having a phone on me all the time makes me *less* likely to call anyone.
And I assume all my friends feel the same way, as they very rarely call me. Yeah, I'll blame that on technological alienation and just ignore my lack of hygiene...
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Against whomever smacked Sun with the ClueStick(tm)
If Toohey had Gates' ear he'd be suggesting that Bill contribute to social services in order to maintain the lowest common denominator and be 'selfless'.
Ms. Rand was diametricly opposed to hand outs, as they tie power to willing, dependent slaves - thereby enslaving the altruist.
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I worked for US Bank as a consultant at one of their *gigantic* warehouse cube-farms. They had stopped providing free coffee at the many "coffee centers" in the building, which I found incredibly short-sighted. Coffee is fuel. Programmer + Coffee = Productivity. To acquire said fuel, it was necessary to take a 15 minute round trip hike to the cafeteria on the other side of the building - for which I, of course, charged the time. $100/hr x .25 = $25. I made money going to buy coffee.
Canceling the Griswald X-mas bonus level stupidity - you're just going to end up kidnapped, tied up with a dog chain and presented to your employee wrapped in a ribbon. Everyone knows that.
Comcast is a monopoly in my area (Twin Cities). How exactly do I vote with my dollar?
I can't believe I'm a Stephen King nerd too, but it's the Walking Dude... c'mon!
It's this kindergarten shit that keeps the world from moving forward. Freakin pissing contests with no winner. Plus - the Russian bathroom doesn't have a webcam.
My introductory courses were taught in Java... almost 10 years ago. Java has proven itself beyond a flash in the pan, despite many significant failures (AWT or EJB 1.0, anyone?). I would propose this would qualify Java as a language to be respected, if for no other reason than A LOT of useful work has been accomplished with this pointer-less, self-garbage-collecting, virtual-machine-using, heathen half-breed of a tool.
I would propose that perhaps the age-old argument for the presence of violent media - that it mitigates real violence by offering a release valve - would be the explanation here. I'm not a neuro-scientist (IANANS), but wouldn't less activity mean that that portion of the brain is not working as hard at blocking violent impulses, maybe because there are fewer of these impulses?
>Come on America, be a leader again, and not an empire.
Can't we be both?
could be written right on top.
however, game engines are a bit harder to create than 3d engines - it's like developing a programming language vs. creating an industry specific api.
the great thing here, though, is that the project's begun as os, so finding a team to do the game engine should be a natural evolution.
an audience lends power and validity to a work of art. what artists tend to forget is that w/o an audience art is meaningless and masturbatory. if that was the intended reason for the creation, so be it - but as soon as a work of art is public it is no longer sole property of the artist.
consensus makes something more than a lump of clay or a random wave of sound or a string of pictures.
even thought there exist several versions of the scream, all are available for public view.
Welcome to the meat hook realities HST was talking about, you hippy.
I've got to agree completely. I'm fairly positive that having a phone on me all the time makes me *less* likely to call anyone. And I assume all my friends feel the same way, as they very rarely call me. Yeah, I'll blame that on technological alienation and just ignore my lack of hygiene...
Against whomever smacked Sun with the ClueStick(tm)
maybe i'm one of the people that would score low on these tests but how, exactly, do you test for humor?
wow, mr. positivity.
If Toohey had Gates' ear he'd be suggesting that Bill contribute to social services in order to maintain the lowest common denominator and be 'selfless'.
Ms. Rand was diametricly opposed to hand outs, as they tie power to willing, dependent slaves - thereby enslaving the altruist.
Did you even read the book?
Hasn't it been readily apparent that MS can stand up like Ellsworth Toohey, admit their evil intent, and all we do is gasp and accept it?