Flash is what DHTML should have been, and there are some kinds of content (like anything with sound or movement, or a reliable font) where Flash has absolutely no competition at all. None.
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Uh, pretty much anywhere. Obviously, you aren't trying very hard if you can't find a place for under $1000/month.
Uh, nice troll.
Without "trying very hard" I could be living in a urine-soaked refrigerator box at the beach for under $1000/month. What's your point?
This is a lesson that seems to be lost on a cynical entertainment industry that places Pavlovian marketing above creativity, on the assumption that young consumers don't know the difference. Many of them do know the difference. There is a lot for grownups to learn -- and those in Hollywood most of all -- by reading the books, not merely the grosses, spawned by Harry Potter.
I haven't even read the Harry Potter books yet. Nevertheless, this has to be one of the most concise and brilliant conclusions in this entire discussion.
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See? I'm not being a "team player," right?
Your Honor, plaintiff rests.
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Moving out of the high-rent district would fix that.
What high-rent district? Oh, you mean everywhere west of Wyoming?
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Oh, please. One box of Corn Flakes is almost 5% of your monthly food budget.
Thanks for playing.
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Yes you can go with the flow, agree with your PHB no matter what drivel he spews, and mindlessly repeat "yes" to every question your are asked. You can do that and keep your job....but if you hate your job so much, why exactly do you want to stay there?
lol Like I have a choice whether I stay there. I haven't had a "job" in over two years.
The other option is that you pick your battles, and when the time comes, stick up for what you think is right.
And STILL get fired.
Will you rub people the wrong way? Yes.
Why? Why does "sticking up for what you think is right" rub people the wrong way. Why are THOSE people given the benefit of the doubt?
So you might get fired, but you also might get promoted.
And then get fired.
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at home unemployed and unemployable, complaining how they got screwed and life owes them a living
What a fucking pantload. It's always the same justification, isn't it? "Hey look, that person is complaining because we just got through busting them in the mouth over and over again with a heavy wooden club. They must just have a bad attitude."
It's a load of bullshit, of course, but who cares, right? It's just another whole neighborhood of people out on the streets having lost their home, career, education, money, family...
Competency is the best job guarantee you could possibly have.
I know eight programming languages. I have helped develop systems used by more than 20,000 people to operate a multi-million dollar accounting system. I am college educated and I have over 10 years experience in both management and programming careers.
I couldn't buy a job with a coupon. THAT's the problem. Even if I got a job (fat chance), I wouldn't stay employed for more than a couple of months, because the moment I opened my mouth, some lying, cheating asshole would start whining that I'm not being a team player. That's the OTHER problem.
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Nice troll.
I did. I don't work in a ****ing cubicle any more. I don't work for liars and cheats any more. The average office drone can't "change it" because that would qualify as "thinking" and that isn't allowed in the average workplace.
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Basic no-frills subsistence: almost $4000/month or $25/hour
No medical insurance No new clothes No family No entertainment No vacations (even if work allowed them)
Whaddya get just out of college with a new degree? $40K a year? How long do you get to keep that job? Six weeks? Six months? Long enough to raise a family? Long enough to pay off a mortgage? Not likely. THAT is the problem.
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Hmmm... why am I posting at '0?' I'm plus ten on moderation.
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...and eventually, no job.
Avarice, treachery, greed, lying, gluttony, cheating and petty office politics have become their own justification in the average workplace. Unless you "fit in," you will eventually be fired. In order to fit in, you must:
1) Do exactly as you are told: no more, no less.
2) Accept every lunch and meeting invitation
3) Reply enthusiastically to every e-mail, especially if it has a colorful signature.
4) Agree, even when the people you are agreeing with are wrong.
5) Never offer an opinion, or attempt to think about your job or the company.
The educations of an entire generation are being destroyed in the rush to below-average mediocrity. Only the very few companies actually accomplish anything truly innovative. The rest simply exist, like tree moss, consuming resources and producing very little. This better get fixed, because this process is called "eating your own seedcorn."
Someday, hope will be born of something other than a business case.
I don't suppose those thousands of people might send a couple bucks to the authors of those manga who worked 15 hour days for years to get them drawn and written?
I know all businesses are not like this, but what is wrong with simply working hard and producing your product with craft and skill and not resorting to all sorts of "strategies for success"?
Because to do so would instantly expose the idiots (most of management and their lapdog apologists among the workers) for exactly what they are, and would result in their immediate dismissal and subsequent career pushing the go-backs cart at Wal-Mart.
If office politics were replaced in equal measure with real attention to quality, craft and honesty, the workplace would be entirely different, and I submit that society would change dramatically for the better.
While we're beating the nerds upside the shell, how about pointing out a few things the PHBs could do better:
1) Stop assuming they know everything, because they don't.
2) Stop interrupting productive people with trivialities.
3) Stop scheduling all-day meetings, especially for the development staff.
4) Shut their fucking mouths long enough to listen to the people they qualified through four interviews, five years of experience and a 10-page resume.
If Kazaa plans on making money from using other people's bandwidth, isn't that going to be in violation of some ISP's service agreements?
That's a stretch.
I know my ISP prohibts "commercial" use, so if I share files and for which I am paid in some form, wouldn't that in violation of that agreement?
Probably. Then again, you could be selling your Wacky Packs collection on eBay and be using your bandwidth "commercially." Unless the First Amendment was repealed recently, I don't think the "commercial use" (whatever that is) clause is going to stand up anyway. Might as well start regulating what you can say on the phone. It's an exact analog.
The answer is that without the publicity and promotion that the major labels provide, you simply can't get the exposure necessary to really 'make it big'.
Bullshit. There is such a thing as overexposure. Look at the Hulk. Most people were violently sick of it by day four, and it was still three weeks from release.
Unfortunately, the average CD buyer has been swayed by P2P sites, being satisfied with the quality of the files they get from them.
You know, it's funny how Joe Six-Pack can't find his ass with both hands when it comes to installing a new operating system, but somehow he (and millions more like him) can operate a P2P client like a fucking pro.
The P2P thing is way overestimated. Half the files are shit, and it probably takes hours and hours to download anything useful, because the available bandwidth sucks.
Yeah, I know you downloaded 57TB of music and games on your 2400 baud phone-coupler. I fly to work with an anti-gravity helmet.
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Flash is what DHTML should have been, and there are some kinds of content (like anything with sound or movement, or a reliable font) where Flash has absolutely no competition at all. None.
Uh, pretty much anywhere. Obviously, you aren't trying very hard if you can't find a place for under $1000/month.
Uh, nice troll.
Without "trying very hard" I could be living in a urine-soaked refrigerator box at the beach for under $1000/month. What's your point?
This is a lesson that seems to be lost on a cynical entertainment industry that places Pavlovian marketing above creativity, on the assumption that young consumers don't know the difference. Many of them do know the difference. There is a lot for grownups to learn -- and those in Hollywood most of all -- by reading the books, not merely the grosses, spawned by Harry Potter.
I haven't even read the Harry Potter books yet. Nevertheless, this has to be one of the most concise and brilliant conclusions in this entire discussion.
See? I'm not being a "team player," right?
Your Honor, plaintiff rests.
Moving out of the high-rent district would fix that.
What high-rent district? Oh, you mean everywhere west of Wyoming?
Rent: $555/month (800sq.ft, w/garage, 1/2mi from work, nice area)
Food: $100/month
Oh, please. One box of Corn Flakes is almost 5% of your monthly food budget.
Thanks for playing.
Yes you can go with the flow, agree with your PHB no matter what drivel he spews, and mindlessly repeat "yes" to every question your are asked. You can do that and keep your job....but if you hate your job so much, why exactly do you want to stay there?
lol Like I have a choice whether I stay there. I haven't had a "job" in over two years.
The other option is that you pick your battles, and when the time comes, stick up for what you think is right.
And STILL get fired.
Will you rub people the wrong way? Yes.
Why? Why does "sticking up for what you think is right" rub people the wrong way. Why are THOSE people given the benefit of the doubt?
So you might get fired, but you also might get promoted.
And then get fired.
at home unemployed and unemployable, complaining how they got screwed and life owes them a living
What a fucking pantload. It's always the same justification, isn't it? "Hey look, that person is complaining because we just got through busting them in the mouth over and over again with a heavy wooden club. They must just have a bad attitude."
It's a load of bullshit, of course, but who cares, right? It's just another whole neighborhood of people out on the streets having lost their home, career, education, money, family...
Competency is the best job guarantee you could possibly have.
I know eight programming languages. I have helped develop systems used by more than 20,000 people to operate a multi-million dollar accounting system. I am college educated and I have over 10 years experience in both management and programming careers.
I couldn't buy a job with a coupon. THAT's the problem. Even if I got a job (fat chance), I wouldn't stay employed for more than a couple of months, because the moment I opened my mouth, some lying, cheating asshole would start whining that I'm not being a team player. That's the OTHER problem.
Nice troll.
I did. I don't work in a ****ing cubicle any more. I don't work for liars and cheats any more. The average office drone can't "change it" because that would qualify as "thinking" and that isn't allowed in the average workplace.
we need our ... STUFF!
Rent: $1400/month
Food: $500/month
Taxes: $1500/month
Auto: $250/month (not counting repairs or payments)
Basic no-frills subsistence: almost $4000/month or $25/hour
No medical insurance
No new clothes
No family
No entertainment
No vacations (even if work allowed them)
Whaddya get just out of college with a new degree? $40K a year? How long do you get to keep that job? Six weeks? Six months? Long enough to raise a family? Long enough to pay off a mortgage? Not likely. THAT is the problem.
Hmmm... why am I posting at '0?' I'm plus ten on moderation.
...and eventually, no job.
Avarice, treachery, greed, lying, gluttony, cheating and petty office politics have become their own justification in the average workplace. Unless you "fit in," you will eventually be fired. In order to fit in, you must:
1) Do exactly as you are told: no more, no less.
2) Accept every lunch and meeting invitation
3) Reply enthusiastically to every e-mail, especially if it has a colorful signature.
4) Agree, even when the people you are agreeing with are wrong.
5) Never offer an opinion, or attempt to think about your job or the company.
The educations of an entire generation are being destroyed in the rush to below-average mediocrity.
Only the very few companies actually accomplish anything truly innovative. The rest simply exist, like tree moss, consuming resources and producing very little. This better get fixed, because this process is called "eating your own seedcorn."
Someday, hope will be born of something other than a business case.
Go to Mos Eisley Cantina: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to Mos Eisley Spaceport: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to Aunt Beru's kitchen for some blue milk: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Hide from stormtroopers in the Millennium Falcon's hidden bay: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Go to appeal to the Imperial Senate for trade rights: mass of people randomly firing blasters
Jump in the X-wing to defeat the Death Star: fly through a trench filled with a mass of people randomly firing blasters to fire proton torpedos.
(Three months later, after everyone becomes a Jedi, replace "firing blasters" with "waving lightsabers")
A 24-hour a day, 15,000 person, lightsaber-wielding melee over who gets to buy the Millennium Falcon.
Sounds great.
I don't suppose those thousands of people might send a couple bucks to the authors of those manga who worked 15 hour days for years to get them drawn and written?
Wider distribution? Lower costs?
Oh, bullshit. Comics piracy... lol
I know all businesses are not like this, but what is wrong with simply working hard and producing your product with craft and skill and not resorting to all sorts of "strategies for success"?
Because to do so would instantly expose the idiots (most of management and their lapdog apologists among the workers) for exactly what they are, and would result in their immediate dismissal and subsequent career pushing the go-backs cart at Wal-Mart.
If office politics were replaced in equal measure with real attention to quality, craft and honesty, the workplace would be entirely different, and I submit that society would change dramatically for the better.
While we're beating the nerds upside the shell, how about pointing out a few things the PHBs could do better:
1) Stop assuming they know everything, because they don't.
2) Stop interrupting productive people with trivialities.
3) Stop scheduling all-day meetings, especially for the development staff.
4) Shut their fucking mouths long enough to listen to the people they qualified through four interviews, five years of experience and a 10-page resume.
5) Stop encouraging petty, destructive office politics.
6) Stop the six-week hire-fire cycle.
7) Stop lying and cheating
There's a start.
If Kazaa plans on making money from using other people's bandwidth, isn't that going to be in violation of some ISP's service agreements?
That's a stretch.
I know my ISP prohibts "commercial" use, so if I share files and for which I am paid in some form, wouldn't that in violation of that agreement?
Probably. Then again, you could be selling your Wacky Packs collection on eBay and be using your bandwidth "commercially." Unless the First Amendment was repealed recently, I don't think the "commercial use" (whatever that is) clause is going to stand up anyway. Might as well start regulating what you can say on the phone. It's an exact analog.
You actually think PHBs give a flying rabbit-shit what Open Source is?
Here is the PHB daily priority list:
1) The Lunch Menu
2) What's at Blockbuster on Friday
3) Today's all-day meeting refreshments
With everyone already constantly bitching and griping about Flash? Not likely.
The answer is that without the publicity and promotion that the major labels provide, you simply can't get the exposure necessary to really 'make it big'.
Bullshit. There is such a thing as overexposure. Look at the Hulk. Most people were violently sick of it by day four, and it was still three weeks from release.
Unfortunately, the average CD buyer has been swayed by P2P sites, being satisfied with the quality of the files they get from them.
You know, it's funny how Joe Six-Pack can't find his ass with both hands when it comes to installing a new operating system, but somehow he (and millions more like him) can operate a P2P client like a fucking pro.
The P2P thing is way overestimated. Half the files are shit, and it probably takes hours and hours to download anything useful, because the available bandwidth sucks.
Yeah, I know you downloaded 57TB of music and games on your 2400 baud phone-coupler. I fly to work with an anti-gravity helmet.
"Someone's trying to make money again."
"Do they use, sell or develop products for computers?"
"Yes."
"Stop them. I don't care what it costs."