Banks are capped on the amount of money they can loan out.
10x is a good number. It guarantees every employee will be treated fairly instead 1 person making 99% of the wages, and the 99 other employees getting 1%.
Would you really want to work for a company that doesn't respect everyone's pay grade?
-- First (public) Contact is coming 2024 Are you ready for one answer that will spawn infinite questions?
"On the next plane, from Phoenix to LA, I was ready to sleep. But I got to talking to the guy next to me, who was into Big Investments and moving money through time and all that cash stuff. He seemed pretty "up." He especially was excited about model trains. When I asked him what motivates him, this is what came out: "I had a rough divorce. My wife set fire to my house, destroying everything I owned. She was convicted of arson, so there was no insurance. She then killed my 14-year-old daughter, and herself. That changed my priorities. Now--I have good days, and great days. That's it."
That is why many call it Imaginary Property Rights, because it is neither intellectual, nor property, nor rights. Audio, Video, and/or Textual information can be represented as a number. To say someone somehow "magically" "owns" ones a particular sequence of bits is asinine.
The motorcycle community is facing the exact same problem of declining numbers. Libraries are facing the same problem. Classical music is facing the same problem. Newspaper readers are dwindling.
The source of the problem is the same:
There are less and less younger pilots, riders, readers, etc. interested.
As the Baby Boomers slowly are forced to give up their passion / hobbies due to age, sickness, etc the rate of exit is significantly >>> the rate of entering.:-/ Liability (getting sued) and Risks (crashing) are seen as "not worth it" by the younger crowd. Like any community, you need enough "new blood" to sustain it and that isn't happening. Is that a bad thing? I don't know, but we can see trends and it looks like our world is changing. I guess that is the million dollar question: Is it changing for the better ?
I also wonder if/. mirrors this change to some degree? You have new "hip" / "emo" sites like Reddit, Dig, 4chan, etc., yet sites like/. have been around "forever" in internet time but for the most part people don't want "deep intellectual stimulation" anymore. They want "sound bites." the "10-second news."
The same trend is also happening in gaming; I call it "Fast Food Gaming" -- dumbed down button mashing of which Diablo 3, COD, etc. are the perfect examples. Now there is a time and a place for less cerebral challenges but I wonder if we're losing something along the way...
Developing the heart & soul of personal relationships, and we no longer care about experiencing and exploring our passions physically. Why, when we can do it "all" virtually?
> So in a sense we should thank Hurd for being so badly mismanaged, mired in politics and kernel correctness that it drove someone to produce something better and more useful.
I don't disagree with how it is often ironic for some software to be the father of a good idea but someone else comes along and uses that as motivation to produce something even better. The history of computer software is littered with examples. i.e. Closed source compilers -> open source gcc (originally), Xerox Park, Mac GUI, Visicalc -> Lotus 123, Unix -> Linux, Infiminer -> Minecraft, etc.
What I do disagree with is that I'm tempted to call bullshit on that claim; you do you have _any_ credible sources to back the GNU/Hurd politics claim up ?
> Pragmatism won the day. That is true! It is easy to start a software project, the hard part is shipping it !
I respect Stallman for giving us GNU, GCC, and Linus for Linux.
> like Apple 2 and Commodore systems were 8 bit but really didn't have OSes.
Amnesia much? Do you even understand what the acronym RWTS - Read/Write Track/Sector means? Do you even understand what a File System is? Do you understand what a Device Driver is??
I also guess these books are just figments of my imagination:
> Some students complained that they were doing well and learning the material, but are only getting Bs because of superstars in the course. To that, I say tough, because in the real world,
How is the hell is that fair to steal a legitimate grade from people who earned it simply because you want the grade to be Relative to others?!?! The WHOLE point of a grading system is to have an Absolute measurement system!
That is you, 50% means you only know 50% of the material. A 100% means you know 100% of the subject. Not, gee, you know 95% of the material but since 10% of the people know more then you we will lie and say you only know 90%.
Fuck You and your Grade Theft aka "grading on a curve".
In the real world most people don't give a shit if you got a C or an A in a course, only that you put in the required effort, you are certified as knowing the material, and the university / college has proof of your efforts.
Also, Stack Ranking sends the wrong message to employees.
It tells employees that they are an liability instead of an investment. Oh, gee, we forgot to include the cost & time of training their replacement./Sarcasm Nah, that can't be a valid factor to consider. Talk about the cliche "Cut off your nose, to spite your face".
Aren't you as manager supposed to hire an "all-star team" to begin with?
Let's say I'm doing my job as a great manager and only accept the best people that mesh well with the team; then why the hell should I be artificially forced to get rid of X % of my good employees??
> Ah yes, a currency based on wasting electricity makes sense.
So those precious metals deep underground just magically appeared on the surface? Those printing presses, dyes, ink, and paper just magically transported themselves from the outside trees, other plants, and/or animals??
Methinks you need to re-think what you are railing against.
As I explained before, there are 3 levels to understand what money IS:
- the exchange of physical things aka barter, - a token the exchange of a common unit (physical or digital / virtual) for experience, wisdom, effort and/or time, - we have not progressed to the last one: an exchange of energy
-- Fuck the/. Beta ! No thanks, would rather NOT catch bad UI principles!
Good Form Helps Function. Bad Form Hinders Function./. only needs a few tweaks to go from good to great. Namely,
* Can the editors PLEASE actually do their freaking JOB of fixing typos, spelling, grammar, dupes, bad/inaccurate headlines, * Please define abbreviations the first time they are used in the article summary * Please add UTF-8 support. Only of these I'll be able to post diacritics such as über -- that is "Uber" with two umlauts, and not worry about "Smart Quotes" getting mangled. WTF is this 1997? * Please Allow us to edit our posts -- BUT show the original post so we can do a _visual_ DIFF of what has changed !/. innovated moderation from that usenet S/N cesspool.. PLEASE innovate again. * Please actually fix the broken 'ecode' tag -- I'm a programmer yet still can't post whitespace aligned code!? * Please fix the lame-ass lameness filter -- against I've been here years, I want to post CODE but I can't. WTH. * Please allow us to private message (PM) other members like every other forum does. * Lastly, please STOP with the crappy Betteridge's Law of Headlines -- that is, stop trolling us just to get more "ad revenue"; we're here for the insightful / informative / interesting _user_ comments, not for some 2-second "sound bite".
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah pretty much
> Sony was relatively good in the PS1 and 2 age.
Selective memory much?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Banks are capped on the amount of money they can loan out.
10x is a good number. It guarantees every employee will be treated fairly instead 1 person making 99% of the wages, and the 99 other employees getting 1%.
Would you really want to work for a company that doesn't respect everyone's pay grade?
--
First (public) Contact is coming 2024
Are you ready for one answer that will spawn infinite questions?
/rant I wish people realize that they are fucking up searching for your product when they rename the sequel back at 1.
Xbox .. no it's not one .. its the third generation / version.
Xbox 360
Xbone One
iPad ... no, it's the 3rd or 4th generation ... does "iPad" refer to the latest version or the "iPad" original ??
iPad 2
iPad
* I can understand the iPad Air because there wasn't a previous version, though technically it is the iPad 5.
That's because they failed to learn the first 2 lessons about the internet:
* "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore
* Streisand Effect, or stated more eloquently:
"What you resists, persists."
which is just the spiritual version of Newton's Law:
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
That's why we shouldn't we:
"Fighting against War"
Instead: we should be:
"Loving for Peace".
--
"First" (public) Contact is coming 2024
Please mod parents +Insightful.
Wow ! Thanks for posting that link.
And we thought we had a bad day ... LOL ...
Always enjoyed your music in the games I played over the years! Do you have a CD or .mp3's of all your work over the years? iTunes? :-)
You are the perfect example (for music) of why "Games Are Art" that that blow-hard Roger Ebert never understood.
America really needs a new tag-line: Lawyers for the Rich; Injustice for the Poor.
That is why many call it Imaginary Property Rights, because it is neither intellectual, nor property, nor rights. Audio, Video, and/or Textual information can be represented as a number. To say someone somehow "magically" "owns" ones a particular sequence of bits is asinine.
--
Piracy == Disrepsect
Piracy != Theft
The motorcycle community is facing the exact same problem of declining numbers.
Libraries are facing the same problem.
Classical music is facing the same problem.
Newspaper readers are dwindling.
The source of the problem is the same:
There are less and less younger pilots, riders, readers, etc. interested.
As the Baby Boomers slowly are forced to give up their passion / hobbies due to age, sickness, etc the rate of exit is significantly >>> the rate of entering. :-/ Liability (getting sued) and Risks (crashing) are seen as "not worth it" by the younger crowd. Like any community, you need enough "new blood" to sustain it and that isn't happening. Is that a bad thing? I don't know, but we can see trends and it looks like our world is changing. I guess that is the million dollar question: Is it changing for the better ?
I also wonder if /. mirrors this change to some degree? You have new "hip" / "emo" sites like Reddit, Dig, 4chan, etc., yet sites like /. have been around "forever" in internet time but for the most part people don't want "deep intellectual stimulation" anymore. They want "sound bites." the "10-second news."
The same trend is also happening in gaming; I call it "Fast Food Gaming" -- dumbed down button mashing of which Diablo 3, COD, etc. are the perfect examples. Now there is a time and a place for less cerebral challenges but I wonder if we're losing something along the way ...
Developing the heart & soul of personal relationships, and we no longer care about experiencing and exploring our passions physically. Why, when we can do it "all" virtually?
--
Piracy === Disrespect.
Piracy =/= Theft.
The AC actually brings up a good point ! Whatever happened to CrystalSpace, Orge3D and other 3D game engines?
The only one I hear about these days is the FPS "Cube" and "Cube 2: Sauerbraten"
* http://cubeengine.com/
* http://sauerbraten.org/
That is _precisely_ part of the problem! Teachers who can't teach for shit.
"Fix the cause, not treat the symptom."
If _that_ many students are failing then most likely you are FAILING to TEACH !
> So in a sense we should thank Hurd for being so badly mismanaged, mired in politics and kernel correctness that it drove someone to produce something better and more useful.
I don't disagree with how it is often ironic for some software to be the father of a good idea but someone else comes along and uses that as motivation to produce something even better. The history of computer software is littered with examples. i.e. Closed source compilers -> open source gcc (originally), Xerox Park, Mac GUI, Visicalc -> Lotus 123, Unix -> Linux, Infiminer -> Minecraft, etc.
What I do disagree with is that I'm tempted to call bullshit on that claim; you do you have _any_ credible sources to back the GNU/Hurd politics claim up ?
> Pragmatism won the day.
That is true! It is easy to start a software project, the hard part is shipping it !
I respect Stallman for giving us GNU, GCC, and Linus for Linux.
--
Piracy === Disrespect.
Piracy =/= Theft
Touche! Mod parent up insightful / funny !
> like Apple 2 and Commodore systems were 8 bit but really didn't have OSes.
Amnesia much? Do you even understand what the acronym RWTS - Read/Write Track/Sector means? Do you even understand what a File System is? Do you understand what a Device Driver is??
I also guess these books are just figments of my imagination:
* Beneath Apple DOS http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-...
* Beneath Apple ProDOS http://www.amazon.com/Beneath-...
Gee, I wonder what these programs are?
* Apple DOS 3.2 and DOS 3.3 = Disk Operating System.
* ProDOS/8 = Professional DOS
* ProDOS/16
Maybe you should try reading the source code before making ignorant claims:
"Apple ][ ProDOS 1.7 Operating System Source Listing "
* ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub...
References:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
==
Piracy === Disrespect.
Piracy =/= Theft
> Some students complained that they were doing well and learning the material, but are only getting Bs because of superstars in the course. To that, I say tough, because in the real world,
How is the hell is that fair to steal a legitimate grade from people who earned it simply because you want the grade to be Relative to others?!?!
The WHOLE point of a grading system is to have an Absolute measurement system!
That is you, 50% means you only know 50% of the material. A 100% means you know 100% of the subject. Not, gee, you know 95% of the material but since 10% of the people know more then you we will lie and say you only know 90%.
Fuck You and your Grade Theft aka "grading on a curve".
In the real world most people don't give a shit if you got a C or an A in a course, only that you put in the required effort, you are certified as knowing the material, and the university / college has proof of your efforts.
--
Piracy === Disrespect.
Piracy =/= Theft
> If you don't like it, leave, or at least shut the fuck up,
So your solution to all your problems is to run away from or ignore them???
Agreed.
Also, Stack Ranking sends the wrong message to employees.
It tells employees that they are an liability instead of an investment. Oh, gee, we forgot to include the cost & time of training their replacement. /Sarcasm Nah, that can't be a valid factor to consider. Talk about the cliche "Cut off your nose, to spite your face".
Exactly!
Aren't you as manager supposed to hire an "all-star team" to begin with?
Let's say I'm doing my job as a great manager and only accept the best people that mesh well with the team; then why the hell should I be artificially forced to get rid of X % of my good employees??
Short term thinking indeed.
> Ah yes, a currency based on wasting electricity makes sense.
So those precious metals deep underground just magically appeared on the surface?
Those printing presses, dyes, ink, and paper just magically transported themselves from the outside trees, other plants, and/or animals??
Methinks you need to re-think what you are railing against.
As I explained before, there are 3 levels to understand what money IS:
- the exchange of physical things aka barter,
- a token the exchange of a common unit (physical or digital / virtual) for experience, wisdom, effort and/or time,
- we have not progressed to the last one: an exchange of energy
-- /. Beta !
Fuck the
No thanks, would rather NOT catch bad UI principles!
Touché, or well, would be if /. allowed diacritics, namely the acute e. :)
/Oblg. The beatings will continue until morale improves. :-/
Good Form Helps Function. /. only needs a few tweaks to go from good to great. Namely,
Bad Form Hinders Function.
* Can the editors PLEASE actually do their freaking JOB of fixing typos, spelling, grammar, dupes, bad/inaccurate headlines, /. innovated moderation from that usenet S/N cesspool .. PLEASE innovate again.
* Please define abbreviations the first time they are used in the article summary
* Please add UTF-8 support. Only of these I'll be able to post diacritics such as über -- that is "Uber" with two umlauts, and not worry about "Smart Quotes" getting mangled. WTF is this 1997?
* Please Allow us to edit our posts -- BUT show the original post so we can do a _visual_ DIFF of what has changed !
* Please actually fix the broken 'ecode' tag -- I'm a programmer yet still can't post whitespace aligned code!?
* Please fix the lame-ass lameness filter -- against I've been here years, I want to post CODE but I can't. WTH.
* Please allow us to private message (PM) other members like every other forum does.
* Lastly, please STOP with the crappy Betteridge's Law of Headlines -- that is, stop trolling us just to get more "ad revenue"; we're here for the insightful / informative / interesting _user_ comments, not for some 2-second "sound bite".
Thanks, /. reader sine ~2000.
A long time
Olbg. s/ arguments will go away / arguments won't go away / g