And old geezers completely out of touch with reality are retarded too.
Yes, people can create text files with other various editors, but thats not the same thing.
You COULD use WordPerfect for DOS if you wanted too. I'm sure others you communicate with would be happen to deal with all the wonderful formatting you added in WP that Word knows nothing about.
Oh, they shouldn't be using Word? To fucking bad, they are, and you're obnoxious ass just lost the deal because you think your gods gift to the IT world and YOU know what companies need.
You want to communicate with other companies, you better support Doc files at least as good as Word, so that means you want Word, not OO.org or anything else.
People were simulating the physics of the atomic bomb with out computers, are you saying that we should continue to do that as well... because we can and be cause you think some company in the supply chain is evil?
New generations may be retarded, at least they have an excuse for making statements that show themselves to be completely ignorant of the real world. Whats your excuse?
Yep, it does... of course when you compare/contrast those problems to the ones OO.org has, its a fucking retarded contrast, but technically you are correct... regardless of how incorrect you are from a practical perspective.
Yes, the primary reason is they have to communicate with people other than OO.org zealots and actually want it to all work.
Sure OO can open a word doc... sorta, and it can output a word doc... sorta... but for people who actually care about getting things done, the cost of Office is trivial in comparison to the headaches that go with using OO.org when you actually don't live in a bubble.
They gave them a 250k discount on the fees the University was going to pay to move the data from one system to the next, and deal with conversions and such.
Microsoft basically said 'Look, if you switch, we'll help you with the conversion for FREE!'. I'm not sure about MS's policies, at this company, we 'waive the setup fee' all the time, which is just a different name for the same thing. The setup fee for us is to deal with the issues of getting them converted from their old system to ours.
We never expect to collect it. Its a flag by the sales people, if a sales person collects the setup fee, watch out, thats the salesman flagging the account as obnoxious fucks that are going to be so difficult to deal with, we're going to have to charge them a setup fee to account for the amount of time we'll be wasting on them above and beyond what we would normally do for a new customer.
To our sales people, its simply a feature. 'You know what, I want you guys as a customer, I'll wave the setup fee... I'll have to get approval, but for you guys, I don't think it'll be a problem'... of course, all our sales people are told up front not to collect a setup fee unless you expect a problem or there is something specific thats going to require more work. If its something specific, they are instructed to bill it as something other than the plain Jane setup fee, such as document conversion or something like that... but most of the time, we just don't charge a setup fee. We'll loose some money up front, but if they stay with us more than a couple years, its well worth the up front loss to reel them in.
I'm not saying I was an early adopter... especially here on slashdot... but I was chatting in a browser a year or two ago with Google Chat...
Seems more or less that this is exactly the same thing.
Google had the initial perceived advantage that I could just get any video capable XMPP client to work with it... which of course isn't the case since no one follows any standard when it comes to video so there really is no difference, except this is way later, by someone I trust even less than Google with my personal data, and someone who I trust completely to intentionally fuck up the implementation resulting in data being available to those who shouldn't see it.
Not that Google did browser based video first or anything... not like we weren't dicking around and 'webchatting' in the late 90s or anything either.
You know why no one knows that anyone with a web cam and some software could do this any time in the last 10 years? Because, as it turns out, just because you CAN video chat with your 'friends'... doesn't mean you actually want to or have a use for this ability. Sure, some people do, but lets just be realistic, as cool as it looks on TV, no one ACTUALLY wants to video chat on a regular basis. Hell most people SMS rather than just calling someone on the phone if possible. I predict people (in general) would rather spend 15 minutes texting than 7 on the phone, 3 in a video chat.
Why should Samsung help Apple with the iPad3? They got their own tablets to sell.
Lets assume $50 profit on a Tab, and $5 profit on the display they sell to apple.
They my sell 1 million of their own tablets, but their going to sell 60 million Apple tables, so selling to Apple is still far more intelligent than not selling to them. The Tab offers nothing that make people want to buy it. Specifically 'its not an iPad' is why people won't buy it on any sort of quantity that would allow it to compete with the profit they stand to make selling iPad displays to Apple.
I sell my own software, but not enough of it to make a living, hence why I work as a developer full time as well.
or did the component company have something cool and Apple said "Okay, we'll back you in exchange for the first production runs."?
And that is 100% legal to do, there is nothing monopolistic about it. Doing that very thing is in fact one of the reasons the patent system was established.
Apple didn't say 'give us exclusive access or will run you into the ground' they said 'want us to bankroll your massive new factory? We get exclusive access to those component designs for 5 years in exchange for the loan then'.
Those are two entirely different things, one is evil, one is doing business. One prevents expansion and innovation, one actually works hand in hand with it.
You're right, you're far better than Apple users since you think spending your time digging through random settings to connect to a network is a better way to do things then having the device prompt you when it needs connectivity and finds a bunch of potentials to use.
Are you fucking retarded? You're calling someone stupid because they don't remember how to dig through some bunch of menu options on their phone? You and I... well not me, I'm not a retard, just you... may have so little to do in life that memorizing a menu sequence makes you proud of what you've accomplished, but I for one write software under the assumption that my goal is to make the computer do everything the user doesn't need to be involved in on its own so the user can do as little as possible. When I write software, it is a tool for making the users life easier, not to please idiots who think their better than someone else because they are an awesome menu navigator.
Good for you, you can navigate menus on your phone like a pro. The rest of us are busy getting laid.
I ended up yanking my two boys out of public and going home school because not only was the public school a *football school* but probably one of the most bigoted places I had the misfortune to step foot in.
So you taught your child to be intolerant of someone elses views and to run away and hide from people that aren't like you and/or don't think like you.
Ironic.
Might I suggest considering teaching your children how to deal with people who have different view points, and most important of all, you failed to teach them how to deal with bigots in the real world after you and whatever else you claim as a parent for the kid are no longer there to hold his/her hand.
As for the rest of your post... sounds like bullshit from someone trying to make themselves look like they stuck it to the man on slashdot. I'd bet money that the reality of it is you dropped out or failed out. Your post wreaks of the stereotypical high school drop out who thought he knew way more than everyone else and completely failed to realize that what you learn in high school has less to do with whats in the books and a lot more to do with social interactions and becoming a self sufficient adult. I'd be willing to bet that your either unemployed or your employer has several words to describe you that probably are synonyms for arrogant, ignorant, and prick.
Your post makes me think that I'm sure your child will be another productive member of society just like you, one more douche I'll have to support as they constantly end up back on unemployment over and over again.
Well, its not just the Sw's (Switzerland and Sweden) but most all of Scandinavia...
I don't disagree with them in principle... but there are probably more important things to worry about.
I'd love to think America is the 'best country in the world'... but I have to admit, you know you live in a pretty good place when the big political news for your country is related to the 'Anti-PowerPoint/Crappy Presentations Movement'. I can see the appeal. I don't think it makes up for living under 3 meters of snow for 9 months out of the year, but they may have the right idea.
They are basically repositories for all materials our society uses in its daily business.
Wait 300 years, start processing the land fill to recover high quantities (per cubic meter of Earth) of all the materials and metals we use to build things.
On analog equipment? A couple years if you live in las vegas and the connectors were loose, a couple of weeks with weak connectors in an ocean front home.
With digital equipment, you'll get longer time frames, but worse, when it start happening it'll be weird random pixelation due to missing data at random times... because your air conditioner just turned on and happens to be moving the cable JUST enough, not even a visible amount, to cause a bad connection. Good luck making that correlation mentally. Maybe it'll only happen when the ceiling fan is on... or theres a lot of traffic on the road near your home.
Digital is FAR better at dealing with FAR noisier connections, but when it fails, its a bitch to deal with the failure unless you have good diag equipment... which I've yet to see anything take HDMI input that would warn you of a weak input signal, so there isn't any diag equipment, let alone good equipment.
Gold plated connectors are worth while any time, just gold plated connectors are cheap enough and push connection related issues out to decades. Well worth the $0.50 price increase on an otherwise normal quality cable.
You can't always make that choice when an industry holds all the cards.
Really? There is only one industry? You may have spent 8 years in school and be $200k in debt due to med school and not like the workplace when you come out but that doesn't mean you have no other options, you can always go work at McDonalds. The outcome in that case may be unacceptable to you, in which case you'll have to deal with how much it sucks to work as an unpaid intern.
You have a choice. You're trying to ignore things you don't like as if they aren't choices, but thats just because you're whining about it rather than facing reality.
This is an excellent issue in general - and it's the first article I've seen on Slashdot or Reddit about it. More young people need to be told not to bend over and take it.
Really? So you've not known about slashdot for more than a month or two eh? We have at least one whiney 'OMG ITS HARD FOR ME AS A NEWBIE EVEN THOUGH I'M THE SMARTEST BESTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD' story every three months. Its always someone who thinks they are gods gift to the industry but they are being held back by all these silly little things that make it 'hard' on them and 'unfair'.
The real problem is just that those who are whining are too stupid to realize they are being beat out by people who are more qualified at the job. Let me make it simple for you.
I got 400 people who want a job, they are all more or less equally qualified in that they all think they know everything because they installed Linux/Windows/OSX and a netgear box at grandmas and know how to use Google. All of those people worked some shitty unpaid intern spot to get real experience in the field my company works in, except for 1... that person thought they'd get further in life by blogging about how much it sucks to get a job in a field thats already saturated with useless know it alls who barely deserve the oxygen they breath, let alone a job in the industry.
When you boil it down, you end up realizing that the guy really is just whiney because he's unable to compete in and unqualified to work in a field that he thinks his fully qualified and knowledgable about. While he's spewing words about how everyone is abused in an effort to get sympathy from others, he's really whining about his own lot in life and the stark realization that he's not nearly as special as everyone tells him.
This is what happens when 'self entitled spoiled brat' meets 'reality'. Sucks, doesn't it?
So let me get this straight, you live in a country where it is literally illegal for you to help your friends struggling business for free? Cut off your own face to spite your nose often over there? We've got plenty of bandaids over here if you need them.
I understand that someone well meaning made up this law, but its a pretty fucking stupid law to have.
McDonalds doesn't require that you've interned at BurgerKing on your resume before hiring you. You can get a job without being an intern. You may not want the job, but thats entirely different than being unable to get a job.
On the other hand, most of the other things you said are the same way. I can move for better broadband service, I can make my own cleaning products or use several things that aren't labeled specifically as 'cleaning products' for the same purpose as they were used for 100 years ago.
Actually, you easily have a choice in everything you listed, you just don't like the choices because they mean too much change or effort for you.
So back to the original point, if you don't want to be an unpaid intern, DON'T BE. Its your choice. If you choose to be an unpaid intern today so that you don't have to work at McDonalds tomorrow, then good for you, but you still made the choice, now stop your fucking whining and live with your choice. If there weren't plenty of other people in line to take your place, then you wouldn't have to fight so hard to get the intern spot, but the reality of it is, while you're just bitching and moaning, there are plenty of other people who accept the 'shitty intern' job as fully acceptable to meet their personal goals.
Welcome to supply and demand, and let me give you a hint, the more you scream and cry about how unfair your little life is, the less demand they'll be for you by any in your life, not just employers.
Its only an idiotic assumption if its not true, you can't provide one instance where its not true, so calling it idiotic seems... well, pretty stupid to me.
Doctors don't do internships, they do residencies, which are different.
An intern is expected to be fully qualified for the job they are doing, they may not be fast, they may not be extremely efficient, but they should be able to get the job done. An intern is a person saying 'I know, I don't really meet the needs you have, but I'll make up for it by working extra hard or for a low rate in exchange for the experience I'll get from you that will maybe make it so I meet you or someone elses needs better so I can command a proper wage for my services'.
A resident is expected to be knowledgable on the theory of practicing medicine, but they are in no way expected to be able to fully handle a patient with no supervision. A resident is still very much learning how to do their job, they've demonstrated they have several important and required skills needed by doctors (making it through med school is a skill in and of itself). They bring to the table new medicine that existing doctors may not have been exposed too yet, they don't come to the table with nothing to offer. They can be trusted to do what is asked and to know when its getting too far over there head and to call in someone who knows better. There is a level of professionalism you expect from a resident since they've made it this far into the program. A resident is someone saying 'look, I've proved I CAN do the job. I've proved I WANT to do the job. I bring with me most of the required skills, but I just need someone to keep an eye on my because the shit we're doing can kill someone. Unless something major happens, my employeer can depend on me to fill the roll I need to fill as long as someone takes a quick look at it to make sure I'm not missing something slightly uncommon that you just won't recognize without experience. If this all works out well, I would also stay on as an employee after my residency'.
A resident brings something to the table that the company (hospital or otherwise) wants in the future, almost every hospital could make more money if they had more beds and more doctors so a resident fills those holes both long and short term. A intern is someone asking the company to help him or her out so that in the future they may be able to provide something to the company.
Residents are wanted by the company. Interns aren't, but the company will take them cause its such a good deal theres no way the company is going to lose money in the process. A resident is an investment, an intern is just another resource that can be replaced easily.
Heh. You think you're being insightful, but I'd have complete and absolute trust in a pilot who has only flown in a simulator before (a real simulator, with a real structured training program, not some dude playing computer games). On the other hand, I'm wary of pilots who have never used simulators, I don't care how many hours they have logged.
You are, without a doubt, one of the most ignorant people I know in this respect. Ignorant as in lacking of knowledge, nothing more.
First off, simulators are approximated recreations of the real world. A simulator does not act like a real aircraft in multiple ways. They work VERY hard to make it as close as possible, but its always different and you'll always know it so the reaction in the simulator will never be the same as in a real aircraft. No one is going to die in the simulator, and the pilot knows it. Its entirely different when you put them in the same situation in a real aircraft where real panic, fear and uncertainity are all running around there heads.
Simulators allow you to practice dangerous malfunctions over and over again. Chances are if something goes *really* bad in an airplane, the simulator guy isn't the one who is going to go, "crap, what was that?". He'd be the one to immediately recognize and handle the problem.
And rarely if ever do problems in the real world present themselves the same as they do in a simulator. A simulated stall is an experience nothing like the real deal, its different when you can feel your stomach in your mouth and you're life at very real risk... and a simulator will never give you that.
Simulators allow you to practice dangerous malfunctions over and over again. Chances are if something goes *really* bad in an airplane, the simulator guy isn't the one who is going to go, "crap, what was that?". He'd be the one to immediately recognize and handle the problem.
They allow you to go over dangerous PREDETERMINED malfunctions over and over again, and present you with a checklist of ways to resolve the problem, and if you think thats good training your a fucking moron cause it does you next to no help in the real world when something unexpected happens because what you trained on in the simulator is not what happens in real life.
I am an electrical engineer (and a pilot, although no airliners, just single engine cessnas).
And I can say without a single bit of doubt in my mind you will never be doing any of those things anywhere near me and mine. I'm absolutely shocked that someone who calls himself an engineer is so head over heels in love with simulators. That clearly shows you're lack of experience. 5 minutes of practical experience is worth years of simulation, especially in an emergency situation.
My university had real lab courses, but honestly, there's nothing I learned there that couldn't be learned with a simulation. Other than the practical experience of having to fuck with a pot instead of typing in the exact resistance value you want.
And did your simulator provide you with experience on the failure modes of POTs so you'd know how to recognize the difference between a shitty design on your part and a failed component?
You're not an engineer, you're a guy who plays with circuit emulator video games and calls it engineering. You are, in my opinion, the absolute most dangerous kind of engineer. You may have passed the tests, but you clearly don't get it. The real world has entropy that none of your simulations will ever take into account, and you're lack of considering that entropy makes you an absolutely shitty person to be called an engineer or a pilot.
Let me give you a hint, he can 'suggest' things and hypotheticals... and when he goes to court, no one will give a shit how he 'pretended' he wasn't living in reality.
Trying to word it in such a way that you pretend you didn't do it, but its clear to everyone you did, won't actually get you anywhere legally.
Contrary to popular belief, lawyers are actually smarter than you or the idiot who is 'suggesting' things think, and judges wouldn't let this sort of silly bullshit last for more than a few seconds in any court room. The best you could hope for is that the judge thinks you're just retarded and not actually trying to pull the shit for real.
There's no magic way to tell if the page is being loaded in a frame or not.
Yea, except... you know... see if theres been a recent request from the same browser session for the main page. You're right its not magic, its actually really simple, and its not even new. The very same thing was once used for various silly things like authing SMTP send without logging into the SMTP server by allowing sends from IP for a few minutes after seeing a POP3 connection.
Its basic SPAM prevention really, LOTS of popular sites do this exact sort of thing, including gmail and yahoo for webmail accounts in various places.
Good graphics on desktop machines. What was happening at that time? The PC crowd was rapidly catching up. Where's that niche now?
Well, not sure if its the same niche, but PCs still haven't caught up, sorry.
PCs may be pushing the same number of pixel fragments, but having a matched monitor/video card with the proper color profiles and a monitor which looks good is what matters to a photoshop user, not how many billions of triangles it can push.
PCs and generic PC video hardware is all about pushing lots of pixel fragments, not about making it look good. A lot of quality is sacrificed in exchange for speed and price.
Hell, they let Wintel boxes outrun them
Yes, they let someone else take over the market for cheap web server boxes that host a few static sites. I'm afraid that if you look for big processing power, you'll find people still more than happy (well until Oracle came into the picture) to buy a big ass SPARC machine rather than 25 intel boxes and a few cluster controllers to make something almost capable of handling the same load.
intel and Windows beat them out in a market they weren't in at any point, and a market they didn't even try to get into as it was emerging. I don't really think its fair to say someone won a race when one of the two contestants didn't sign up for the race in the first place.
The only thing RIM ever had was a usable keyboard and an email client that managed to suck a little bit less than what came before it... but was it in no way 'good' compared to... well anything else other than even shittier 'smart phones'. They never really offered anything new, just slightly less suck than anyone else. Now that someone else bothered to put real effort into doing what BBs do, well, it makes a BB look like a complete joke. They will fail because their only selling point was 'we suck less than everyone else in an area that no one is putting any actual effort into!'... then apple came along and made a minimal email client for a smart phone... that was at least up to modern standards, and a web browser to match. At which point, every black berry on the planet instantly looked like something from the 80s... which is more or less where its software and UI was always from anyway.
The problem is... every single one of those is better as a web app rather than a native app. They all require a working connection to relay the data off to a central server or download it, so a HTML5 app with a local data cache would be far more intelligent from a vender perspective than a local app.
Since the 'good' apps you point out (and they do sound like good apps) are clearly designed wrong, it puts even less faith in the platform.
Considering they made nearly $2.5 billion in revenue last year they must have some sizable user base left.
Revenue means nothing. You want high revenue for your business?
1. Setup a kiosk/vending machine in a populated area. 2. Sell a $20 bill, for $15. 3. Turn the machine on. 4. The revenue is only limited by how fast you can have the machine work and how quickly you can reload it with $20 bills.
Of course, for every transaction you loss money, and so more revenue means you're actually further in debt, but if you decide to start a business let me know, I'd love to drive your revenue numbers up and I can give you some great ways to do it. Sure, its going to cost you some money, but hey, you gotta spend money to make it right? Now whats your bank account numbers?
Revenue means absolutely nothing to anyone other that morons.
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And old geezers completely out of touch with reality are retarded too.
Yes, people can create text files with other various editors, but thats not the same thing.
You COULD use WordPerfect for DOS if you wanted too. I'm sure others you communicate with would be happen to deal with all the wonderful formatting you added in WP that Word knows nothing about.
Oh, they shouldn't be using Word? To fucking bad, they are, and you're obnoxious ass just lost the deal because you think your gods gift to the IT world and YOU know what companies need.
You want to communicate with other companies, you better support Doc files at least as good as Word, so that means you want Word, not OO.org or anything else.
People were simulating the physics of the atomic bomb with out computers, are you saying that we should continue to do that as well ... because we can and be cause you think some company in the supply chain is evil?
New generations may be retarded, at least they have an excuse for making statements that show themselves to be completely ignorant of the real world. Whats your excuse?
Yep, it does ... of course when you compare/contrast those problems to the ones OO.org has, its a fucking retarded contrast, but technically you are correct ... regardless of how incorrect you are from a practical perspective.
Yes, the primary reason is they have to communicate with people other than OO.org zealots and actually want it to all work.
Sure OO can open a word doc ... sorta, and it can output a word doc ... sorta ... but for people who actually care about getting things done, the cost of Office is trivial in comparison to the headaches that go with using OO.org when you actually don't live in a bubble.
No.
They gave them a 250k discount on the fees the University was going to pay to move the data from one system to the next, and deal with conversions and such.
Microsoft basically said 'Look, if you switch, we'll help you with the conversion for FREE!'. I'm not sure about MS's policies, at this company, we 'waive the setup fee' all the time, which is just a different name for the same thing. The setup fee for us is to deal with the issues of getting them converted from their old system to ours.
We never expect to collect it. Its a flag by the sales people, if a sales person collects the setup fee, watch out, thats the salesman flagging the account as obnoxious fucks that are going to be so difficult to deal with, we're going to have to charge them a setup fee to account for the amount of time we'll be wasting on them above and beyond what we would normally do for a new customer.
To our sales people, its simply a feature. 'You know what, I want you guys as a customer, I'll wave the setup fee ... I'll have to get approval, but for you guys, I don't think it'll be a problem' ... of course, all our sales people are told up front not to collect a setup fee unless you expect a problem or there is something specific thats going to require more work. If its something specific, they are instructed to bill it as something other than the plain Jane setup fee, such as document conversion or something like that ... but most of the time, we just don't charge a setup fee. We'll loose some money up front, but if they stay with us more than a couple years, its well worth the up front loss to reel them in.
I'm not saying I was an early adopter ... especially here on slashdot ... but I was chatting in a browser a year or two ago with Google Chat ...
Seems more or less that this is exactly the same thing.
Google had the initial perceived advantage that I could just get any video capable XMPP client to work with it ... which of course isn't the case since no one follows any standard when it comes to video so there really is no difference, except this is way later, by someone I trust even less than Google with my personal data, and someone who I trust completely to intentionally fuck up the implementation resulting in data being available to those who shouldn't see it.
Not that Google did browser based video first or anything ... not like we weren't dicking around and 'webchatting' in the late 90s or anything either.
You know why no one knows that anyone with a web cam and some software could do this any time in the last 10 years? Because, as it turns out, just because you CAN video chat with your 'friends' ... doesn't mean you actually want to or have a use for this ability. Sure, some people do, but lets just be realistic, as cool as it looks on TV, no one ACTUALLY wants to video chat on a regular basis. Hell most people SMS rather than just calling someone on the phone if possible. I predict people (in general) would rather spend 15 minutes texting than 7 on the phone, 3 in a video chat.
Why should Samsung help Apple with the iPad3? They got their own tablets to sell.
Lets assume $50 profit on a Tab, and $5 profit on the display they sell to apple.
They my sell 1 million of their own tablets, but their going to sell 60 million Apple tables, so selling to Apple is still far more intelligent than not selling to them. The Tab offers nothing that make people want to buy it. Specifically 'its not an iPad' is why people won't buy it on any sort of quantity that would allow it to compete with the profit they stand to make selling iPad displays to Apple.
I sell my own software, but not enough of it to make a living, hence why I work as a developer full time as well.
Not really exclusive tech, but more like "we can get them and you can't".
Just curious, do you actually know what 'exclusive' means? I'm guessing you don't.
or did the component company have something cool and Apple said "Okay, we'll back you in exchange for the first production runs."?
And that is 100% legal to do, there is nothing monopolistic about it. Doing that very thing is in fact one of the reasons the patent system was established.
Apple didn't say 'give us exclusive access or will run you into the ground' they said 'want us to bankroll your massive new factory? We get exclusive access to those component designs for 5 years in exchange for the loan then'.
Those are two entirely different things, one is evil, one is doing business. One prevents expansion and innovation, one actually works hand in hand with it.
You're right, you're far better than Apple users since you think spending your time digging through random settings to connect to a network is a better way to do things then having the device prompt you when it needs connectivity and finds a bunch of potentials to use.
Are you fucking retarded? You're calling someone stupid because they don't remember how to dig through some bunch of menu options on their phone? You and I ... well not me, I'm not a retard, just you ... may have so little to do in life that memorizing a menu sequence makes you proud of what you've accomplished, but I for one write software under the assumption that my goal is to make the computer do everything the user doesn't need to be involved in on its own so the user can do as little as possible. When I write software, it is a tool for making the users life easier, not to please idiots who think their better than someone else because they are an awesome menu navigator.
Good for you, you can navigate menus on your phone like a pro. The rest of us are busy getting laid.
My child
I ended up yanking my two boys out of public and going home school because not only was the public school a *football school* but probably one of the most bigoted places I had the misfortune to step foot in.
So you taught your child to be intolerant of someone elses views and to run away and hide from people that aren't like you and/or don't think like you.
Ironic.
Might I suggest considering teaching your children how to deal with people who have different view points, and most important of all, you failed to teach them how to deal with bigots in the real world after you and whatever else you claim as a parent for the kid are no longer there to hold his/her hand.
As for the rest of your post ... sounds like bullshit from someone trying to make themselves look like they stuck it to the man on slashdot. I'd bet money that the reality of it is you dropped out or failed out. Your post wreaks of the stereotypical high school drop out who thought he knew way more than everyone else and completely failed to realize that what you learn in high school has less to do with whats in the books and a lot more to do with social interactions and becoming a self sufficient adult. I'd be willing to bet that your either unemployed or your employer has several words to describe you that probably are synonyms for arrogant, ignorant, and prick.
Your post makes me think that I'm sure your child will be another productive member of society just like you, one more douche I'll have to support as they constantly end up back on unemployment over and over again.
Well, its not just the Sw's (Switzerland and Sweden) but most all of Scandinavia ...
I don't disagree with them in principle ... but there are probably more important things to worry about.
I'd love to think America is the 'best country in the world' ... but I have to admit, you know you live in a pretty good place when the big political news for your country is related to the 'Anti-PowerPoint/Crappy Presentations Movement'. I can see the appeal. I don't think it makes up for living under 3 meters of snow for 9 months out of the year, but they may have the right idea.
Landfills today are tomorrows gold mine.
They are basically repositories for all materials our society uses in its daily business.
Wait 300 years, start processing the land fill to recover high quantities (per cubic meter of Earth) of all the materials and metals we use to build things.
Rinse, repeat.
On analog equipment? A couple years if you live in las vegas and the connectors were loose, a couple of weeks with weak connectors in an ocean front home.
With digital equipment, you'll get longer time frames, but worse, when it start happening it'll be weird random pixelation due to missing data at random times ... because your air conditioner just turned on and happens to be moving the cable JUST enough, not even a visible amount, to cause a bad connection. Good luck making that correlation mentally. Maybe it'll only happen when the ceiling fan is on ... or theres a lot of traffic on the road near your home.
Digital is FAR better at dealing with FAR noisier connections, but when it fails, its a bitch to deal with the failure unless you have good diag equipment ... which I've yet to see anything take HDMI input that would warn you of a weak input signal, so there isn't any diag equipment, let alone good equipment.
Gold plated connectors are worth while any time, just gold plated connectors are cheap enough and push connection related issues out to decades. Well worth the $0.50 price increase on an otherwise normal quality cable.
You can't always make that choice when an industry holds all the cards.
Really? There is only one industry? You may have spent 8 years in school and be $200k in debt due to med school and not like the workplace when you come out but that doesn't mean you have no other options, you can always go work at McDonalds. The outcome in that case may be unacceptable to you, in which case you'll have to deal with how much it sucks to work as an unpaid intern.
You have a choice. You're trying to ignore things you don't like as if they aren't choices, but thats just because you're whining about it rather than facing reality.
This is an excellent issue in general - and it's the first article I've seen on Slashdot or Reddit about it. More young people need to be told not to bend over and take it.
Really? So you've not known about slashdot for more than a month or two eh? We have at least one whiney 'OMG ITS HARD FOR ME AS A NEWBIE EVEN THOUGH I'M THE SMARTEST BESTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD' story every three months. Its always someone who thinks they are gods gift to the industry but they are being held back by all these silly little things that make it 'hard' on them and 'unfair'.
The real problem is just that those who are whining are too stupid to realize they are being beat out by people who are more qualified at the job. Let me make it simple for you.
I got 400 people who want a job, they are all more or less equally qualified in that they all think they know everything because they installed Linux/Windows/OSX and a netgear box at grandmas and know how to use Google. All of those people worked some shitty unpaid intern spot to get real experience in the field my company works in, except for 1 ... that person thought they'd get further in life by blogging about how much it sucks to get a job in a field thats already saturated with useless know it alls who barely deserve the oxygen they breath, let alone a job in the industry.
When you boil it down, you end up realizing that the guy really is just whiney because he's unable to compete in and unqualified to work in a field that he thinks his fully qualified and knowledgable about. While he's spewing words about how everyone is abused in an effort to get sympathy from others, he's really whining about his own lot in life and the stark realization that he's not nearly as special as everyone tells him.
This is what happens when 'self entitled spoiled brat' meets 'reality'. Sucks, doesn't it?
So let me get this straight, you live in a country where it is literally illegal for you to help your friends struggling business for free? Cut off your own face to spite your nose often over there? We've got plenty of bandaids over here if you need them.
I understand that someone well meaning made up this law, but its a pretty fucking stupid law to have.
Except being an intern isn't forced on anyone.
McDonalds doesn't require that you've interned at BurgerKing on your resume before hiring you. You can get a job without being an intern. You may not want the job, but thats entirely different than being unable to get a job.
On the other hand, most of the other things you said are the same way. I can move for better broadband service, I can make my own cleaning products or use several things that aren't labeled specifically as 'cleaning products' for the same purpose as they were used for 100 years ago.
Actually, you easily have a choice in everything you listed, you just don't like the choices because they mean too much change or effort for you.
So back to the original point, if you don't want to be an unpaid intern, DON'T BE. Its your choice. If you choose to be an unpaid intern today so that you don't have to work at McDonalds tomorrow, then good for you, but you still made the choice, now stop your fucking whining and live with your choice. If there weren't plenty of other people in line to take your place, then you wouldn't have to fight so hard to get the intern spot, but the reality of it is, while you're just bitching and moaning, there are plenty of other people who accept the 'shitty intern' job as fully acceptable to meet their personal goals.
Welcome to supply and demand, and let me give you a hint, the more you scream and cry about how unfair your little life is, the less demand they'll be for you by any in your life, not just employers.
Its only an idiotic assumption if its not true, you can't provide one instance where its not true, so calling it idiotic seems ... well, pretty stupid to me.
Doctors don't do internships, they do residencies, which are different.
An intern is expected to be fully qualified for the job they are doing, they may not be fast, they may not be extremely efficient, but they should be able to get the job done. An intern is a person saying 'I know, I don't really meet the needs you have, but I'll make up for it by working extra hard or for a low rate in exchange for the experience I'll get from you that will maybe make it so I meet you or someone elses needs better so I can command a proper wage for my services'.
A resident is expected to be knowledgable on the theory of practicing medicine, but they are in no way expected to be able to fully handle a patient with no supervision. A resident is still very much learning how to do their job, they've demonstrated they have several important and required skills needed by doctors (making it through med school is a skill in and of itself). They bring to the table new medicine that existing doctors may not have been exposed too yet, they don't come to the table with nothing to offer. They can be trusted to do what is asked and to know when its getting too far over there head and to call in someone who knows better. There is a level of professionalism you expect from a resident since they've made it this far into the program. A resident is someone saying 'look, I've proved I CAN do the job. I've proved I WANT to do the job. I bring with me most of the required skills, but I just need someone to keep an eye on my because the shit we're doing can kill someone. Unless something major happens, my employeer can depend on me to fill the roll I need to fill as long as someone takes a quick look at it to make sure I'm not missing something slightly uncommon that you just won't recognize without experience. If this all works out well, I would also stay on as an employee after my residency'.
A resident brings something to the table that the company (hospital or otherwise) wants in the future, almost every hospital could make more money if they had more beds and more doctors so a resident fills those holes both long and short term. A intern is someone asking the company to help him or her out so that in the future they may be able to provide something to the company.
Residents are wanted by the company. Interns aren't, but the company will take them cause its such a good deal theres no way the company is going to lose money in the process. A resident is an investment, an intern is just another resource that can be replaced easily.
Heh. You think you're being insightful, but I'd have complete and absolute trust in a pilot who has only flown in a simulator before (a real simulator, with a real structured training program, not some dude playing computer games). On the other hand, I'm wary of pilots who have never used simulators, I don't care how many hours they have logged.
You are, without a doubt, one of the most ignorant people I know in this respect. Ignorant as in lacking of knowledge, nothing more.
First off, simulators are approximated recreations of the real world. A simulator does not act like a real aircraft in multiple ways. They work VERY hard to make it as close as possible, but its always different and you'll always know it so the reaction in the simulator will never be the same as in a real aircraft. No one is going to die in the simulator, and the pilot knows it. Its entirely different when you put them in the same situation in a real aircraft where real panic, fear and uncertainity are all running around there heads.
Simulators allow you to practice dangerous malfunctions over and over again. Chances are if something goes *really* bad in an airplane, the simulator guy isn't the one who is going to go, "crap, what was that?". He'd be the one to immediately recognize and handle the problem.
And rarely if ever do problems in the real world present themselves the same as they do in a simulator. A simulated stall is an experience nothing like the real deal, its different when you can feel your stomach in your mouth and you're life at very real risk ... and a simulator will never give you that.
Simulators allow you to practice dangerous malfunctions over and over again. Chances are if something goes *really* bad in an airplane, the simulator guy isn't the one who is going to go, "crap, what was that?". He'd be the one to immediately recognize and handle the problem.
They allow you to go over dangerous PREDETERMINED malfunctions over and over again, and present you with a checklist of ways to resolve the problem, and if you think thats good training your a fucking moron cause it does you next to no help in the real world when something unexpected happens because what you trained on in the simulator is not what happens in real life.
I am an electrical engineer (and a pilot, although no airliners, just single engine cessnas).
And I can say without a single bit of doubt in my mind you will never be doing any of those things anywhere near me and mine. I'm absolutely shocked that someone who calls himself an engineer is so head over heels in love with simulators. That clearly shows you're lack of experience. 5 minutes of practical experience is worth years of simulation, especially in an emergency situation.
My university had real lab courses, but honestly, there's nothing I learned there that couldn't be learned with a simulation. Other than the practical experience of having to fuck with a pot instead of typing in the exact resistance value you want.
And did your simulator provide you with experience on the failure modes of POTs so you'd know how to recognize the difference between a shitty design on your part and a failed component?
You're not an engineer, you're a guy who plays with circuit emulator video games and calls it engineering. You are, in my opinion, the absolute most dangerous kind of engineer. You may have passed the tests, but you clearly don't get it. The real world has entropy that none of your simulations will ever take into account, and you're lack of considering that entropy makes you an absolutely shitty person to be called an engineer or a pilot.
Let me give you a hint, he can 'suggest' things and hypotheticals ... and when he goes to court, no one will give a shit how he 'pretended' he wasn't living in reality.
Trying to word it in such a way that you pretend you didn't do it, but its clear to everyone you did, won't actually get you anywhere legally.
Contrary to popular belief, lawyers are actually smarter than you or the idiot who is 'suggesting' things think, and judges wouldn't let this sort of silly bullshit last for more than a few seconds in any court room. The best you could hope for is that the judge thinks you're just retarded and not actually trying to pull the shit for real.
There's no magic way to tell if the page is being loaded in a frame or not.
Yea, except ... you know ... see if theres been a recent request from the same browser session for the main page. You're right its not magic, its actually really simple, and its not even new. The very same thing was once used for various silly things like authing SMTP send without logging into the SMTP server by allowing sends from IP for a few minutes after seeing a POP3 connection.
Its basic SPAM prevention really, LOTS of popular sites do this exact sort of thing, including gmail and yahoo for webmail accounts in various places.
Good graphics on desktop machines. What was happening at that time? The PC crowd was rapidly catching up. Where's that niche now?
Well, not sure if its the same niche, but PCs still haven't caught up, sorry.
PCs may be pushing the same number of pixel fragments, but having a matched monitor/video card with the proper color profiles and a monitor which looks good is what matters to a photoshop user, not how many billions of triangles it can push.
PCs and generic PC video hardware is all about pushing lots of pixel fragments, not about making it look good. A lot of quality is sacrificed in exchange for speed and price.
Hell, they let Wintel boxes outrun them
Yes, they let someone else take over the market for cheap web server boxes that host a few static sites. I'm afraid that if you look for big processing power, you'll find people still more than happy (well until Oracle came into the picture) to buy a big ass SPARC machine rather than 25 intel boxes and a few cluster controllers to make something almost capable of handling the same load.
intel and Windows beat them out in a market they weren't in at any point, and a market they didn't even try to get into as it was emerging. I don't really think its fair to say someone won a race when one of the two contestants didn't sign up for the race in the first place.
The only thing RIM ever had was a usable keyboard and an email client that managed to suck a little bit less than what came before it ... but was it in no way 'good' compared to ... well anything else other than even shittier 'smart phones'. They never really offered anything new, just slightly less suck than anyone else. Now that someone else bothered to put real effort into doing what BBs do, well, it makes a BB look like a complete joke. They will fail because their only selling point was 'we suck less than everyone else in an area that no one is putting any actual effort into!' ... then apple came along and made a minimal email client for a smart phone ... that was at least up to modern standards, and a web browser to match. At which point, every black berry on the planet instantly looked like something from the 80s ... which is more or less where its software and UI was always from anyway.
The problem is ... every single one of those is better as a web app rather than a native app. They all require a working connection to relay the data off to a central server or download it, so a HTML5 app with a local data cache would be far more intelligent from a vender perspective than a local app.
Since the 'good' apps you point out (and they do sound like good apps) are clearly designed wrong, it puts even less faith in the platform.
Considering they made nearly $2.5 billion in revenue last year they must have some sizable user base left.
Revenue means nothing. You want high revenue for your business?
1. Setup a kiosk/vending machine in a populated area.
2. Sell a $20 bill, for $15.
3. Turn the machine on.
4. The revenue is only limited by how fast you can have the machine work and how quickly you can reload it with $20 bills.
Of course, for every transaction you loss money, and so more revenue means you're actually further in debt, but if you decide to start a business let me know, I'd love to drive your revenue numbers up and I can give you some great ways to do it. Sure, its going to cost you some money, but hey, you gotta spend money to make it right? Now whats your bank account numbers?
Revenue means absolutely nothing to anyone other that morons.