IT is the only industry where the lower staff are superior-in-skill over the people who manage them. That is fact.
This is only true for a very narrowly defined version of skill. Certainly, your average server room script monkey is likely better at adding new users to the email system than the CTO. No one questions that. On the other hand, your average server room script monkey is generally unable to deal with people well enough to get anyone to talk to him for more than 10 minutes. It shouldn't be a tradeoff, but apparently it is.
Trollish rhetoric aside, the goal of management isn't to handle the nitty-gritty details directly - it's to decide how to best delegate the handling to people who are specialized. A misunderstanding of this principle leads to attitudes like yours.
Empower is a word I can agree with in this context, but enslave? We are talking about entertainment here. Let's not pretend that if we were to lose TV clips on the internet our entire world would suddenly be under the control of some corporate master. Hell, it might mean people would leave the house more often.
I'm not trying for a debate, and I'm not putting the GPL down. There are definitely restrictions on code that uses the GPL in situations regarding modification and distribution. That's not disputable.
Anyone can mean anything when they redefine language to suit their own personal agenda.
There's only one city that's "the city." If you don't know what it is, maybe your reading comprehension skills can kick in and you can figure it out from context.
Exactly. I don't know why Microsoft is allowed to market their products at all. If our friends in Congress have any backbone at all, they'll legislate this horrid practice out of existence.
The motto of our brave new world shall be a warning to those corporations who dare to find a formula for excessive financial gain: Success is failure!
Frankly, if they're doing something to make it right, I don't think it's all that big a deal. If they aren't then it's a problem.
In any case, I can't really get outraged over a few mistakes, particularly when Viacom is just protecting their rights. I know that's not a popular sentiment around here, but that means nothing to me. I can't get caught up in the 'corporations must act perfectly, but individuals can do whatever asshole things they want as long as their victims are rich' mentality. The rich aren't naturally evil. The 'poor' aren't naturally noble. And free entertainment is not a moral high ground.
The first requirement of a joke, being funny, was not met in the original post. Only the most rabid of Bush haters can still laugh at the same jokes 6 years later. The rest of us are just waiting for the next shithead so we can make new jokes that you guys can copy for years after.
I'm not sure I'm reading you correctly, so I figure to ask: is it your contention that a person dragging themselves into deep debt by engaging in such foolhardy practices as buying food on credit is merely a stooge of financiers? I ask vis a vi your stance on personal responsibility.
Lack of belief is not a belief system. Perhaps you have a hard time personally conceiving of the concept, but speaking as someone with no religious beliefs, I can assure you that it is possible.
The core problem is that you are (understandably) arguing from personal experience. Ultimately, you are making the assumption that your personal experience is applicable to everybody. I'm here to tell you, unequivocally, this is not at all true.
So far as "it sure does seem that under the modern definition of religion that it is virtually impossible to be areligious" goes, it's always possible to redefine a term to mean anything. In that respect, feel free to call my (and others) lack or religion to be a religion. That doesn't necessarily make it so.
I've been reading through these comments and people seem to have become very attached to either one format or the other, but my personal suspicion is neither will matter in the long run. I have to wonder why people get so obsessed about supporting the eventual "winner" though. It's an awfully odd thing to get so wrapped up in it.
Ah, they've forced you. Well then, it's all justified. I had a big rant prepared for you until I saw that they were taking away your entertainment, against all reasonable sense of entitlement. Pirate away!
In fact, we didn't even elect the man that started those wars, we elected Al Gore.
I'm fascinated that you still cling to this. It shows a willingness to believe in the face of opposing evidence that rivals the most fundamental of Christians.
Slashdot Mirror
IT is the only industry where the lower staff are superior-in-skill over the people who manage them. That is fact.
This is only true for a very narrowly defined version of skill. Certainly, your average server room script monkey is likely better at adding new users to the email system than the CTO. No one questions that. On the other hand, your average server room script monkey is generally unable to deal with people well enough to get anyone to talk to him for more than 10 minutes. It shouldn't be a tradeoff, but apparently it is.
Trollish rhetoric aside, the goal of management isn't to handle the nitty-gritty details directly - it's to decide how to best delegate the handling to people who are specialized. A misunderstanding of this principle leads to attitudes like yours.
Empower is a word I can agree with in this context, but enslave? We are talking about entertainment here. Let's not pretend that if we were to lose TV clips on the internet our entire world would suddenly be under the control of some corporate master. Hell, it might mean people would leave the house more often.
You obviously don't understand how ripping digital audio to FLAC works.
I'm not trying for a debate, and I'm not putting the GPL down. There are definitely restrictions on code that uses the GPL in situations regarding modification and distribution. That's not disputable.
Anyone can mean anything when they redefine language to suit their own personal agenda.
I laughed. Quietly, but it still met my funny test. I'd say a few Funny mods and an Underrated or two are in order here.
Of course, I don't get my panties in a wad over any pet causes, so I may be a little more open with my sense of humor than others.
The GPL is certainly not without restriction, so unrestricted may not be the best word to use.
If they were given away for free, who would buy one from you? Just admit you want to fuck a hunk of plastic and you'll feel better about yourself.
The Earth is getting warmer, and at a greater rate than ever previously occurred
Good example of the hyperbole that causes people to stop paying attention. I don't know if that's what you're going for, but you got it down pat.
Manhattan is small? NYC is only Manhattan? And I'm the fucktard?
Something's not right here.
There's only one city that's "the city." If you don't know what it is, maybe your reading comprehension skills can kick in and you can figure it out from context.
I'll give you a hint: it's really fuckin big.
You censored crap? I must know why.
Exactly. I don't know why Microsoft is allowed to market their products at all. If our friends in Congress have any backbone at all, they'll legislate this horrid practice out of existence.
The motto of our brave new world shall be a warning to those corporations who dare to find a formula for excessive financial gain: Success is failure!
I'm guessing you don't get too many kids yet because of the price. Should the PS3 take off, they will come. Enjoy it while you can.
Frankly, if they're doing something to make it right, I don't think it's all that big a deal. If they aren't then it's a problem.
In any case, I can't really get outraged over a few mistakes, particularly when Viacom is just protecting their rights. I know that's not a popular sentiment around here, but that means nothing to me. I can't get caught up in the 'corporations must act perfectly, but individuals can do whatever asshole things they want as long as their victims are rich' mentality. The rich aren't naturally evil. The 'poor' aren't naturally noble. And free entertainment is not a moral high ground.
The first requirement of a joke, being funny, was not met in the original post. Only the most rabid of Bush haters can still laugh at the same jokes 6 years later. The rest of us are just waiting for the next shithead so we can make new jokes that you guys can copy for years after.
I'm not sure I'm reading you correctly, so I figure to ask: is it your contention that a person dragging themselves into deep debt by engaging in such foolhardy practices as buying food on credit is merely a stooge of financiers? I ask vis a vi your stance on personal responsibility.
When was the last time Microsoft's stock was over $100, let alone $400?
There may well be a more useless measure than direct comparison of share prices, but I'm not sure what it is.
Maybe something like the number of employees between 1.8 and 1.85 meters tall? That might compete.
Probably because it was built as a DirectX engine, and selling to Linux users is worth around 1000 sales and a huge spike in piracy.
So far as Mac - who games on Mac?
You can rail til the end of time, but the only effect will be an increase in Slashdot karma (and you've even forsworn that.)
and it is impossible to have no beliefs
Lack of belief is not a belief system. Perhaps you have a hard time personally conceiving of the concept, but speaking as someone with no religious beliefs, I can assure you that it is possible.
The core problem is that you are (understandably) arguing from personal experience. Ultimately, you are making the assumption that your personal experience is applicable to everybody. I'm here to tell you, unequivocally, this is not at all true.
So far as "it sure does seem that under the modern definition of religion that it is virtually impossible to be areligious" goes, it's always possible to redefine a term to mean anything. In that respect, feel free to call my (and others) lack or religion to be a religion. That doesn't necessarily make it so.
Atheism is a religion like not collecting postage stamps is a hobby.
Credit the dude who uses it for his sig. Or wherever he got it.
Bingo.
I've been reading through these comments and people seem to have become very attached to either one format or the other, but my personal suspicion is neither will matter in the long run. I have to wonder why people get so obsessed about supporting the eventual "winner" though. It's an awfully odd thing to get so wrapped up in it.
Ah, they've forced you. Well then, it's all justified. I had a big rant prepared for you until I saw that they were taking away your entertainment, against all reasonable sense of entitlement. Pirate away!
Everything is easier when you skip steps.
Why can't it be both?
In fact, we didn't even elect the man that started those wars, we elected Al Gore.
I'm fascinated that you still cling to this. It shows a willingness to believe in the face of opposing evidence that rivals the most fundamental of Christians.