I don't think anything should be banned. (ie software or guns). Re-read my post.
PS- you do realize your signature is about the second amendment btw right?
Does this imply that reasonable steps should be taken by gun manufactures to prevents guns from being used for crimes?
Apples and oranges. The intended use for a gun is sport, and possibly self defense. The intended use of P2P programs is piracy.
Oh I'm sorry that's unconstitutional...
You're damn right it is, and no where in the constitution does it say "You have a right to bear software".
Maybe that should be written in, seriously. Instead of trying to use this to push a liberal agenda (this bill was proposed by a democrat btw) why not argue against the bill on it's merits or lack thereof (ie, it's dumb to make software illegal).
Futher proof that BOTH parties are in bed with big business. It's just that the democrats prefer the RIAA/MPAA while the Republicans prefer wall street.
For this bill in particular, does anyone really believe this is the will of the people? Were something like this up for a referendum it would lose 90% to 10%.
It's time for some new political parties that actually care about what people want out of government, and neither party fits that description.
Seriously. I'm not a PC guy, but when I see crap like this, I can only really see one reason for it. He's making a case that Harvard needen't worry about having a balanced enrollment in math or science,
Should they have to balance out who enrolls in their schoools? Seriously, if every math major is an Asian Male because they are the most qualified to do so then should certain qualified Asians be left out in the name of diversity? (I only picked asian male because I am not asian...)
because females are too stupid to be in those courses of study. He doesn't cite any studies, he doesn't seem to have any facts except for crap about his freaking 5 year old.
Uhh, it doesn't make one group "stupid" if they don't excel at something. While females may score below males in standardized mathmatical tests, I believe they do outscore males at english.
Trying to find out why different races and different sexes excel in some fields isn't racist or sexist, it's science. I hope our quest of l earning more about ourselves isn't derailed by PC flag wavers like yourself.
How is someone who spent much of the most delicate period of their post-birth brain development with a breast the size of their head shoved in their face going to be adversely affected by a glipse of nipple?
I don't think it was the nipple as much as the context of it. Showing a kid a nipple because some women is breast feeding on national geographic is one thing. To have Janet Jackson go through her simulated sex show with justin timberlake which ended with him ripping off her top isn't exactly the behavior parents want children to see, since children have a tendancy to repeat whatever they see. If your daughter went to school the next day and had her top ripped off, what would you say then? Let me guess, you are a liberal UKer and only us USians would get uptight about such a thing right?
How come no one is talking about Peak Oil (Hubbert Peak)? That's when global oil production peaks and begins its inevitable decline. It may be happening now even...
Because everyone is too busy making their repblican/democrat troll posts to discuss something interesting that might happen.
How the hell can you have a detailed forecast of something 15 years in the future? Do they employ an army of psychics or what?
Some political anaylists are very good at this sort of thing. Pat Buchanan predicted an attack on the US mainland that would kill "thousands" back in 1999, and a second Iraq war (he even got the year right) in his book "A Republic Not An Empire".
What does this gain? They're just throwing away money every 5 years.
It's mostly just:
a)Wishful thinking
b)bad extrapolation of current trends
It's good to work out all scenario's so you can plan for them. Speaking for the military, would you rather them have an attack plan for everyone, just the nations you don't like, or nobody since it might not get everything right anyway?
I'm glad our government is at least thinking about the future and planning.
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with the Dollar doing as shitty as it has been and the country being run into financial ruins by someone known to have little success with any other financial venture he spearheaded I really don't think that we will be able to recover in as little as twelve years.
The dollar coming down isn't that horrible for the US, you make it sound like it's worthless or something. When the dollar goes down, US workers become cheaper in the global scheme of things. Also, you may think "Bush is controlling the economy" but that is just silly. Presidents often take the blame (or the praise) for the economy but it's mostly out of their control. As for your 'as little as twelve years' remark, you can pick out plenty of times the market has swung from really bad to really good in less than 4 years.
We are digging an enormous hole right now both financially and in public opinion.
Who's public opinion? Just because you don't agree with this administration doesn't mean they are offending everyone. As a matter of fact, more people voted for them in 2004, so they must be doing something right. As for the finacial hole we are digging, we've been digging it for a long time. It's nothing new. The only reason Clinton was able to balance the budget is because of the historic tech boom at the time and the lack of military spending.
When a leader sends a country to war on what we figured were false pretenses but ends up ahead at the end we might forgive them. When a leader sends a country to war on what we figured were false pretenses but ends of admitting we found squat I just don't think that public opinion will remain high...
Blah Blah Blah, Iraq is simply a staging ground for the war on terror, and an attempt to bring democracy to the middle east. The first part worked (so far), the second part is yet to be determained.
The country may weaken itself due to internal conflict.
That is true, mostly because the political parties have been dividing people so sharply. The retoric nowadays is so harsh on both sides, it's disgusting. America is also loosing it's common values, as it becomes balkenized.
Especially if the draconian measures continue to erode our personal freedoms.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The only way your personal freedoms are restricted is if you are a suspected terrorist. All of the laws that are in the patriot act that can be applied to US citizens were used against the mob, why weren't you bitching back then?
As for the holding of prisoners who are NOT American and NOT fighting on the side of any country we are well within our rights to hold them for as long as we want.
And with the dollar so weak and public opinion (both nationally and internationally) low this will probably work. Any pressure they put on us 10 years ago would mean nothing. We would just use our leverage and shove back. With our country weakened on multiple fronts we won't have much leverage or public desire to have leverage (ie more deficit dollars).
Uhh, the US still has plenty of leverage. I know you like to live in a dream world where the US is weak, but the US still has the best military in the world, and the most economic might.
Another thing I forgot in my previous reply. Change your e-mail address or make it so potential employers can't get to your live journal and or website within a few clicks. Your website mentions politics which could likely turn down some potential employers, and your live journal talks about being depressed within the first 5 entries. Don't give a potential employer that much information about yourself. Even if you have to put a hotmail address on your resume, it's better than them knowing all there is to know about you, any of it can be held against you.
PS- Good luck with your newborn child. You have a very pretty wife, you are a lucky man.:)
So have I been parading around with my underwear showing, or is my resume pretty decent?:P
A few opinions here:
1. Make your resume available in more than 1 format, PDF is a very nice touch but I hope you have a word and plaintext resume also.
2. Why all of the different colleges? Did you drop out that many times? I don't know If I'd put all of those down....
3. Spell out Info Tech as Information Technology. HR people are stupid sometimes.
4. Under work experence, take out the (part time hours) under System Administrator. You can explain that in the interview if it comes up, but there is no reason to include it in your resume.
5. Take out the Pizza cook job, and the Movie Theater job, they aren't tech related, and you were working the whole time as a SysAdmin (even if it was part time).
6. Don't date the software packages you can do Desktop support for, at least not for Microsoft Office. All of that shit is the same, and someone might look at it and say "Well he can't support office version (x) so we won't hire him" when odds are you could support it just fine.
7. Take linux out of the networking stuff, unless you only want to admin linux boxes. I'm sure if you can set up apache for a linux box you could do it on windows if need be.
The rest of the stuff looks pretty good. Just remember, it's not lying on your resume if you don't include it (ie the part time job bit, and the pizza flipping) and the goal is to get yourself an interview. You can explain things then if need be.
Face it. Noone watched TechTV. It was a dismal failure.
In the early days, when it was ZDTV, and first changed to tech TV, it did fairly good ratings for a cable network.
The content was too watered down for a geek, I just couldn't sit and watch ScreenSavers since most of the info they'd give was pretty much remedial to me. (Coming up next! We'll show you how to change the background color of your desktop!)
I realize that you are kidding, but Screen Savers was mostly a mixed bag when I watched it. One day it would be something like "how to change file extensions in windows" another day it would be "We compare disk partionioning programs for duel booting Windows and Linux!". Call for help always seemed hopelessly remdial.
As far as non-geeks who don't really care about Tech, well, why would they watch TechTV?
I know non-geek people (ie, people who don't work in IT, program, or spend much time at the computer) who would watch TechTV from time to time just to get computer tips, especially screen savers and call for help.
The only thing they had going for them was the anime, but then Cartoon Network beat them at their own game with the Adult Swim and Miguzi programming blocks.
I had techtv dropped by my cable provider by the time they started doing the anime thing, I never got why they did it they should have just stuck to tech.
For the record, G4 is even worse. I can't believe anyone watches that shit.
I'm a gamer (as in, I've been to tournments, played in OGL ladders, etc), and it doesn't appeal to me.
I swear they just create these bullshit cable channels so they (the Hooray, now I get the Golf channel, two Black channels (BET and ONE), two Womens channels (Lifetime and WET), G4, the Food network, CMT.
I get four spanish channels, three womens channels, two to three black channels, and god knows what else. I don't even know what all the channels are anymore, I gave up on my TV after they dropped TechTV and picked up telemundo 4 and The Operah channel. I watch the history channel, cable news, and whatever sporting events are on. I plan on moving in the next 2 years, and I might not even bother with cable once I move. They obviously are marketing channels to everyone but me, so they won't have my money.
I'm not black and don't want to watch Good Times reruns, I'm not a woman, I don't cook or listen to country music.
Well, geeks aren't profitable to advertise to I guess. Who wants to advertise to 12-35 males who have decent spending power...oh wait a second.........
I can't wait for real digital delivery to happen, I predict schemes where I just pay some fee per channel I want (a couple of bucks a month).
Won't happen, John McCain was trying to make it happen but some crooked congress study came to the conclusion that cable TV ala Carte wouldn't save consumers money because they would just buy so many channels that the tradeoff would be the same.
Somehow I'm betting that congress study was funded by comcast and time warner.
Having lived in both Philadelphia and the greater Raleigh area, I can say that the smaller cities of the south just don't provide enough to do for someone used to a busy city lifestyle. The cultural diversions are few and far between. There is an art museum in Raleigh but it is so small you can breeze through it in a couple of hours.
Most of the programmers/IT people I know could care less about art museums. I work in NYC, and I network with a lot of people who are in IT, and many of them like me plan on moving somewhere more rural one day if they can find jobs out there.
I'd gladly trade NYC nightlife for fresh air, polite people and more personal space.
It's not liberal enough. Most geeks, webloggers, and Internet users are more liberal than average. That's why Kerry aced nearly every single online poll. It's part of the demographic.
I think that is overhyped a bit. Maybe most geeks on slashdot are liberal but I know plenty of conservative people who work in IT. As for "most internet users" I would bet a poll of internet users would favor conservatives more than democrats due to the demographics of the internet crowd nowadays.
I'm not sure what online poll you are talking about, but any poll will be biased by what website it's on. A slashdot poll is surely biased to the left, a fox news poll to the right.
IMHO Bush should fix democracy in his own country before spreading it to the rest of the world.
So, you are saying a flawed democracy where if an election is close it might (peacefully) go to the wrong person is not better than a ruthless dictatorship? Surely, you jest.
The south has a hard enough time as it is attracting geeks. The east coast silicon valley, Research Triangle Park, is about the best thing going for geeks and yet many of the companies there complain that it is hard to lure talent in because so many geeks just don't want to live in the Old South.
Please, there are plenty of us geeks who are in the city who wouldn't mind taking a stab at living in the "Old South" if the right job opening came up.
In your opinion, what exactly is it about "southern culture" that can not attract geeks?
Nibiru has an orbit around the sun of 3,600 Earth years. It is suggested that current astronomy points to the possibility that Nibiru is a brown dwarf or dark star rather than a planet. This has the implication that our solar system, like the majority in the known universe, is a binary star system; in other words, Earth has two suns with Nibiru being the second and less bright.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru/Marduk's inhabitants called Anunnaki (Ningischzida) survived and afterward came to Earth. Sitchin says some sources speak about the same planet, possibly being a brown dwarf star and still orbiting the Sun with a perihelion passage some 3,600 years ago and assumed orbital period of about 3,600 to 3,760 years or 3,741 years. Sitchin attributes these figures to astronomers of the Maya civilization, but the supposed sources are unfamiliar to Mayanists.
In a recently published book, titled 2012: Appointment With Marduk, Turkish writer/researcher Burak Eldem presents a new theory, suggesting a 3,661 years orbital period for the planet, and he claims a "return date" in the year 2012. According to Eldem's theory, 3,661 is one-seventh of 25,627, which is the total time span of "5 World Ages" according to Mayan Long Count Calendar system. The last orbital passage of Marduk, he adds, was in 1649 BC and caused great catastrophes on earth, including the Thera Eruption.
So there you have it. Planet X is coming, the internet said so. We are all going to die. Look at the bright side though, at least we won't have to watch Episode 3 or code for Longhorn.
I agree completely, I saw it on the channel bar and eagerly switched over expecting some real information, reviews, demos etc. I watched for about 5 seconds before I went back to what I was watching before. What I saw was so rediculous that I specifically avoided that channel for the rest of the night so as not to incur any more brain damage.
I think they had the same show on last year, or perhaps the year before. I had heard about it, and I thought COOL! A video game awards show. Probably all the developer types and artists will be there. I'll tape it! Of course, I turned it on and Snoop dog, along with a bunch of strippers were on. Needless to say, I was disapointed. If I wanted snoop and strippers, I'd just go rent one of his porn movies.
I am one 29 year old gamer of many in their 20s 30s and 40s who would request a bit more maturity and relevance.
Same here, I think tuning in to see if a game you enjoy won would be more entertaining that a third rate strip tease.
Targetting specific demographics just alienates everyone else. Note to the producers: Next time try focusing on the games.
TV producers are clueless to what the 20 something male wants, that is why the number of male TV viewers in their 20's is dropping. The only things worth watching for me are the History Channel, some sporting events and the News Telecasts. Everything else is near worthless and at times insulting.
America invented the personal computer, without which you wouldn't have a forum to spew your anti-American hate. They also invented the light bulb, bringing light to the world. They also invented the sewing machine. So America has clothed the world, brought light to the world, and given them the information age. This is what we get in return? Your hatred?
he MMORPG Project Entropia has just announced that its first treasure island sale via Auction has gone for a grand total of US$26,500.
This dude is out of his mind. For $26,000 he could have bought himself 260 Jedi in star wars galaxies. Now what is cooler? Owning some virtual island, or being the leader of an army of Jedi? Some people just don't understand the value of a dollar. *sigh*
You will see more innovative football games on the market next year. If you look back to when only one or two games would get a NFL licence, the other games had to come up with a gameplay quirk to make their game fun. For example, check out the game Arch Rivals from years ago. Arch Rivals had no NBA licence, and featured 2 on 2 basketball where fouling was encouraged. Midway basically knocked that off and ended up spawning the whole NBA Jam series (which lead to NFL Blitz).
Kids allowed to bring Game Boys into the OR showed no change in anxiety (compared to a small increase with tranquilizers, and a big increase in a control condition.)
This is probably because whatever part of the brain that tells us that there is 'danger' is distracted by the game. If you are busy thinking about the enemies inside the game, your brain has less of an ability to process the real danger of the upcoming operation.
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Now, tell me what authorizes any such ban.
I don't think anything should be banned. (ie software or guns). Re-read my post. PS- you do realize your signature is about the second amendment btw right?
Does this imply that reasonable steps should be taken by gun manufactures to prevents guns from being used for crimes?
Apples and oranges. The intended use for a gun is sport, and possibly self defense. The intended use of P2P programs is piracy.
Oh I'm sorry that's unconstitutional...
You're damn right it is, and no where in the constitution does it say "You have a right to bear software".
Maybe that should be written in, seriously. Instead of trying to use this to push a liberal agenda (this bill was proposed by a democrat btw) why not argue against the bill on it's merits or lack thereof (ie, it's dumb to make software illegal).
Futher proof that BOTH parties are in bed with big business. It's just that the democrats prefer the RIAA/MPAA while the Republicans prefer wall street.
For this bill in particular, does anyone really believe this is the will of the people? Were something like this up for a referendum it would lose 90% to 10%.
It's time for some new political parties that actually care about what people want out of government, and neither party fits that description.
Seriously. I'm not a PC guy, but when I see crap like this, I can only really see one reason for it. He's making a case that Harvard needen't worry about having a balanced enrollment in math or science,
Should they have to balance out who enrolls in their schoools? Seriously, if every math major is an Asian Male because they are the most qualified to do so then should certain qualified Asians be left out in the name of diversity? (I only picked asian male because I am not asian...)
because females are too stupid to be in those courses of study. He doesn't cite any studies, he doesn't seem to have any facts except for crap about his freaking 5 year old.
Uhh, it doesn't make one group "stupid" if they don't excel at something. While females may score below males in standardized mathmatical tests, I believe they do outscore males at english.
Trying to find out why different races and different sexes excel in some fields isn't racist or sexist, it's science. I hope our quest of l earning more about ourselves isn't derailed by PC flag wavers like yourself.
How is someone who spent much of the most delicate period of their post-birth brain development with a breast the size of their head shoved in their face going to be adversely affected by a glipse of nipple?
I don't think it was the nipple as much as the context of it. Showing a kid a nipple because some women is breast feeding on national geographic is one thing. To have Janet Jackson go through her simulated sex show with justin timberlake which ended with him ripping off her top isn't exactly the behavior parents want children to see, since children have a tendancy to repeat whatever they see. If your daughter went to school the next day and had her top ripped off, what would you say then? Let me guess, you are a liberal UKer and only us USians would get uptight about such a thing right?
How come no one is talking about Peak Oil (Hubbert Peak)? That's when global oil production peaks and begins its inevitable decline. It may be happening now even...
Because everyone is too busy making their repblican/democrat troll posts to discuss something interesting that might happen.
How the hell can you have a detailed forecast of something 15 years in the future? Do they employ an army of psychics or what?
Some political anaylists are very good at this sort of thing. Pat Buchanan predicted an attack on the US mainland that would kill "thousands" back in 1999, and a second Iraq war (he even got the year right) in his book "A Republic Not An Empire".
What does this gain? They're just throwing away money every 5 years. It's mostly just: a)Wishful thinking b)bad extrapolation of current trends
It's good to work out all scenario's so you can plan for them. Speaking for the military, would you rather them have an attack plan for everyone, just the nations you don't like, or nobody since it might not get everything right anyway?
I'm glad our government is at least thinking about the future and planning.
with the Dollar doing as shitty as it has been and the country being run into financial ruins by someone known to have little success with any other financial venture he spearheaded I really don't think that we will be able to recover in as little as twelve years.
The dollar coming down isn't that horrible for the US, you make it sound like it's worthless or something. When the dollar goes down, US workers become cheaper in the global scheme of things. Also, you may think "Bush is controlling the economy" but that is just silly. Presidents often take the blame (or the praise) for the economy but it's mostly out of their control. As for your 'as little as twelve years' remark, you can pick out plenty of times the market has swung from really bad to really good in less than 4 years.
We are digging an enormous hole right now both financially and in public opinion.
Who's public opinion? Just because you don't agree with this administration doesn't mean they are offending everyone. As a matter of fact, more people voted for them in 2004, so they must be doing something right. As for the finacial hole we are digging, we've been digging it for a long time. It's nothing new. The only reason Clinton was able to balance the budget is because of the historic tech boom at the time and the lack of military spending.
When a leader sends a country to war on what we figured were false pretenses but ends up ahead at the end we might forgive them. When a leader sends a country to war on what we figured were false pretenses but ends of admitting we found squat I just don't think that public opinion will remain high...
Blah Blah Blah, Iraq is simply a staging ground for the war on terror, and an attempt to bring democracy to the middle east. The first part worked (so far), the second part is yet to be determained.
The country may weaken itself due to internal conflict.
That is true, mostly because the political parties have been dividing people so sharply. The retoric nowadays is so harsh on both sides, it's disgusting. America is also loosing it's common values, as it becomes balkenized.
Especially if the draconian measures continue to erode our personal freedoms.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The only way your personal freedoms are restricted is if you are a suspected terrorist. All of the laws that are in the patriot act that can be applied to US citizens were used against the mob, why weren't you bitching back then?
As for the holding of prisoners who are NOT American and NOT fighting on the side of any country we are well within our rights to hold them for as long as we want.
And with the dollar so weak and public opinion (both nationally and internationally) low this will probably work. Any pressure they put on us 10 years ago would mean nothing. We would just use our leverage and shove back. With our country weakened on multiple fronts we won't have much leverage or public desire to have leverage (ie more deficit dollars).
Uhh, the US still has plenty of leverage. I know you like to live in a dream world where the US is weak, but the US still has the best military in the world, and the most economic might.
Another thing I forgot in my previous reply. Change your e-mail address or make it so potential employers can't get to your live journal and or website within a few clicks. Your website mentions politics which could likely turn down some potential employers, and your live journal talks about being depressed within the first 5 entries. Don't give a potential employer that much information about yourself. Even if you have to put a hotmail address on your resume, it's better than them knowing all there is to know about you, any of it can be held against you.
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PS- Good luck with your newborn child. You have a very pretty wife, you are a lucky man.
So have I been parading around with my underwear showing, or is my resume pretty decent? :P
A few opinions here:
1. Make your resume available in more than 1 format, PDF is a very nice touch but I hope you have a word and plaintext resume also.
2. Why all of the different colleges? Did you drop out that many times? I don't know If I'd put all of those down....
3. Spell out Info Tech as Information Technology. HR people are stupid sometimes.
4. Under work experence, take out the (part time hours) under System Administrator. You can explain that in the interview if it comes up, but there is no reason to include it in your resume.
5. Take out the Pizza cook job, and the Movie Theater job, they aren't tech related, and you were working the whole time as a SysAdmin (even if it was part time).
6. Don't date the software packages you can do Desktop support for, at least not for Microsoft Office. All of that shit is the same, and someone might look at it and say "Well he can't support office version (x) so we won't hire him" when odds are you could support it just fine.
7. Take linux out of the networking stuff, unless you only want to admin linux boxes. I'm sure if you can set up apache for a linux box you could do it on windows if need be.
The rest of the stuff looks pretty good. Just remember, it's not lying on your resume if you don't include it (ie the part time job bit, and the pizza flipping) and the goal is to get yourself an interview. You can explain things then if need be.
Face it. Noone watched TechTV. It was a dismal failure.
In the early days, when it was ZDTV, and first changed to tech TV, it did fairly good ratings for a cable network.
The content was too watered down for a geek, I just couldn't sit and watch ScreenSavers since most of the info they'd give was pretty much remedial to me. (Coming up next! We'll show you how to change the background color of your desktop!)
I realize that you are kidding, but Screen Savers was mostly a mixed bag when I watched it. One day it would be something like "how to change file extensions in windows" another day it would be "We compare disk partionioning programs for duel booting Windows and Linux!". Call for help always seemed hopelessly remdial.
As far as non-geeks who don't really care about Tech, well, why would they watch TechTV?
I know non-geek people (ie, people who don't work in IT, program, or spend much time at the computer) who would watch TechTV from time to time just to get computer tips, especially screen savers and call for help.
The only thing they had going for them was the anime, but then Cartoon Network beat them at their own game with the Adult Swim and Miguzi programming blocks.
I had techtv dropped by my cable provider by the time they started doing the anime thing, I never got why they did it they should have just stuck to tech.
For the record, G4 is even worse. I can't believe anyone watches that shit.
I'm a gamer (as in, I've been to tournments, played in OGL ladders, etc), and it doesn't appeal to me.
I swear they just create these bullshit cable channels so they (the Hooray, now I get the Golf channel, two Black channels (BET and ONE), two Womens channels (Lifetime and WET), G4, the Food network, CMT.
I get four spanish channels, three womens channels, two to three black channels, and god knows what else. I don't even know what all the channels are anymore, I gave up on my TV after they dropped TechTV and picked up telemundo 4 and The Operah channel. I watch the history channel, cable news, and whatever sporting events are on. I plan on moving in the next 2 years, and I might not even bother with cable once I move. They obviously are marketing channels to everyone but me, so they won't have my money.
I'm not black and don't want to watch Good Times reruns, I'm not a woman, I don't cook or listen to country music.
Well, geeks aren't profitable to advertise to I guess. Who wants to advertise to 12-35 males who have decent spending power...oh wait a second.........
I can't wait for real digital delivery to happen, I predict schemes where I just pay some fee per channel I want (a couple of bucks a month).
Won't happen, John McCain was trying to make it happen but some crooked congress study came to the conclusion that cable TV ala Carte wouldn't save consumers money because they would just buy so many channels that the tradeoff would be the same.
Somehow I'm betting that congress study was funded by comcast and time warner.
Blogging sucks. I'd rather code in java all day. The majority of Blogs are digital garbage.
Having lived in both Philadelphia and the greater Raleigh area, I can say that the smaller cities of the south just don't provide enough to do for someone used to a busy city lifestyle. The cultural diversions are few and far between. There is an art museum in Raleigh but it is so small you can breeze through it in a couple of hours.
Most of the programmers/IT people I know could care less about art museums. I work in NYC, and I network with a lot of people who are in IT, and many of them like me plan on moving somewhere more rural one day if they can find jobs out there.
I'd gladly trade NYC nightlife for fresh air, polite people and more personal space.
It's not liberal enough. Most geeks, webloggers, and Internet users are more liberal than average. That's why Kerry aced nearly every single online poll. It's part of the demographic.
I think that is overhyped a bit. Maybe most geeks on slashdot are liberal but I know plenty of conservative people who work in IT. As for "most internet users" I would bet a poll of internet users would favor conservatives more than democrats due to the demographics of the internet crowd nowadays.
I'm not sure what online poll you are talking about, but any poll will be biased by what website it's on. A slashdot poll is surely biased to the left, a fox news poll to the right.
IMHO Bush should fix democracy in his own country before spreading it to the rest of the world.
So, you are saying a flawed democracy where if an election is close it might (peacefully) go to the wrong person is not better than a ruthless dictatorship? Surely, you jest.
Kinda like Jack Ryans 'canary trap' concept mentioned in a few Tom Clancy books.
Please explain what the Canary Trap is, I've read a few of the Ryanverse books, but I don't recall it.
The south has a hard enough time as it is attracting geeks. The east coast silicon valley, Research Triangle Park, is about the best thing going for geeks and yet many of the companies there complain that it is hard to lure talent in because so many geeks just don't want to live in the Old South.
Please, there are plenty of us geeks who are in the city who wouldn't mind taking a stab at living in the "Old South" if the right job opening came up.
In your opinion, what exactly is it about "southern culture" that can not attract geeks?
You beat me to posting this, but it's obviously Planet X! The Sun's long lost brother is coming back to kill us, everyone knew we were a binary star right? Some people also call Planet X by the name "Nibiru"
From Wikipedia:
Nibiru has an orbit around the sun of 3,600 Earth years. It is suggested that current astronomy points to the possibility that Nibiru is a brown dwarf or dark star rather than a planet. This has the implication that our solar system, like the majority in the known universe, is a binary star system; in other words, Earth has two suns with Nibiru being the second and less bright.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru/Marduk's inhabitants called Anunnaki (Ningischzida) survived and afterward came to Earth. Sitchin says some sources speak about the same planet, possibly being a brown dwarf star and still orbiting the Sun with a perihelion passage some 3,600 years ago and assumed orbital period of about 3,600 to 3,760 years or 3,741 years. Sitchin attributes these figures to astronomers of the Maya civilization, but the supposed sources are unfamiliar to Mayanists.
In a recently published book, titled 2012: Appointment With Marduk, Turkish writer/researcher Burak Eldem presents a new theory, suggesting a 3,661 years orbital period for the planet, and he claims a "return date" in the year 2012. According to Eldem's theory, 3,661 is one-seventh of 25,627, which is the total time span of "5 World Ages" according to Mayan Long Count Calendar system. The last orbital passage of Marduk, he adds, was in 1649 BC and caused great catastrophes on earth, including the Thera Eruption.
So there you have it. Planet X is coming, the internet said so. We are all going to die. Look at the bright side though, at least we won't have to watch Episode 3 or code for Longhorn.
Why would anyone need this when there is Java!
I agree completely, I saw it on the channel bar and eagerly switched over expecting some real information, reviews, demos etc. I watched for about 5 seconds before I went back to what I was watching before. What I saw was so rediculous that I specifically avoided that channel for the rest of the night so as not to incur any more brain damage.
I think they had the same show on last year, or perhaps the year before. I had heard about it, and I thought COOL! A video game awards show. Probably all the developer types and artists will be there. I'll tape it! Of course, I turned it on and Snoop dog, along with a bunch of strippers were on. Needless to say, I was disapointed. If I wanted snoop and strippers, I'd just go rent one of his porn movies.
I am one 29 year old gamer of many in their 20s 30s and 40s who would request a bit more maturity and relevance.
Same here, I think tuning in to see if a game you enjoy won would be more entertaining that a third rate strip tease.
Targetting specific demographics just alienates everyone else. Note to the producers: Next time try focusing on the games.
TV producers are clueless to what the 20 something male wants, that is why the number of male TV viewers in their 20's is dropping. The only things worth watching for me are the History Channel, some sporting events and the News Telecasts. Everything else is near worthless and at times insulting.
America, leading the world in math and english
America invented the personal computer, without which you wouldn't have a forum to spew your anti-American hate. They also invented the light bulb, bringing light to the world. They also invented the sewing machine. So America has clothed the world, brought light to the world, and given them the information age. This is what we get in return? Your hatred?
he MMORPG Project Entropia has just announced that its first treasure island sale via Auction has gone for a grand total of US$26,500.
This dude is out of his mind. For $26,000 he could have bought himself 260 Jedi in star wars galaxies. Now what is cooler? Owning some virtual island, or being the leader of an army of Jedi? Some people just don't understand the value of a dollar. *sigh*
How about EA putting better gameplay into Madden?
EA puts new features in every year.
Once we finally get serious competition, it dies.
You will see more innovative football games on the market next year. If you look back to when only one or two games would get a NFL licence, the other games had to come up with a gameplay quirk to make their game fun. For example, check out the game Arch Rivals from years ago. Arch Rivals had no NBA licence, and featured 2 on 2 basketball where fouling was encouraged. Midway basically knocked that off and ended up spawning the whole NBA Jam series (which lead to NFL Blitz).
EA has signed a 5-year agreement with the NFL that gives them exclusive rights to use NFL players, teams, and stadiums in their products.
The good part about this is other game companies can put resources into creating better gameplay rather than paying for a NFL licence.
Kids allowed to bring Game Boys into the OR showed no change in anxiety (compared to a small increase with tranquilizers, and a big increase in a control condition.)
This is probably because whatever part of the brain that tells us that there is 'danger' is distracted by the game. If you are busy thinking about the enemies inside the game, your brain has less of an ability to process the real danger of the upcoming operation.