Calm down there skip... the sky is not falling. Some people use Facebook, some don't. Some of those who do are 22-year-old binge drinking jackasses, some aren't. All of those jackasses will grow older, very likely will mature a bit, settle down, get married, have kids, work jobs and otherwise figure things out. Despite the entertainment value of grandiose comments on web forums, it's a little early to predict a forthcoming real-life Idiocracy because Mark Zuckerburg isn't much of a public speaker, or because a bunch of nerds in Thinkgeek t-shirts can't sit still at a conference for 45 minutes because they had laptops and free WiFi.
This little 'story' has been going around for about 24 hours and the root of it, in my opinion, is being obscured: the self-congratulation of a bunch of developers that they were able to chat online (with Twitter) about an event that they were all watching with their own eyes. The tweets took on a life of their own. That's why you keep seeing the same phrase, "train wreck", in all these write-ups. So one journalist did a poor job of interviewing some business owner? If it wasn't for the "live blogging" aspect, it wouldn't be news. And don't even get me started on how fucking rude it was for the audience to start interrupting them. I've seen some other people comment here that Zuckerburg and Lacy are lacking in social skills... sorry, but that doesn't compare to how completely out-of-line the audience members were.
Actually you just made a very keen observance when you say "you can gather the most sense of who a person is by seeing who their best friends are". This applies to people of all ages in all cultures. People will often pin you down with an inalterable first impression the second you walk in the room. Image, therefore, matters a LOT in the world of social dynamics -- of course you need to be a fun, charismatic person on the inside but without a favorable image you will be swimming upstream in their eyes. And that image, its components most certainly include the crowd you're with.
These suits provide protective padding for RACERS so they don't suffer bruises or breaks when the hit the gates. These suits are NOT for crashes.
I am a competitive alpine ski racer. Watch the slalom (SL) events in the Olympics and you will see that every athlete wears hard protective equipment on his poles (to protect his hands), his shins, and usually on his head. This is because the tightest, shortest, fastest line down the course involves literally running over the gate. The athlete generally "cross-blocks" the gate, meaning his feet are on the correct side of the pole and angled outward, while his body is upright with the pole directly in his path; he simultaneously hits the gate with the protector on the front of his pole ("pole guards") and his shin guards. Furthermore, he's wearing a lycra speed suit that's got padding in several key areas including the front of the forearms, the back of the thighs, the deltoid area of the upper back, and the bicep area of the upper arm. This is to provide protection for when the athlete performs an "inside clear" instead of a cross-block, or if he loses his rhythm or something else that causes him to hit a gate where he's not wearing molded plastic armor.
I got out of college and got a decent salaried position in NJ at a small online retailer. The pay was about what you'd expect. Then I quit because I was moving across the country, to Idaho. When I got here, I took a contracting position at a very VERY large computer/electronics firm here whose name consists of two letters. I was writing automated scripts in TCL to test the firmware on certain hardware devices they make. In general, contractors were looked down upon as second-class citizens, even though we made up like 50% of the workforce. Like in "Office Space," I had 8 bosses at LEAST. Nobody knew what anyone else was doing. Total corporate clusterf*ck.
After being there for 3 weeks, they pulled our entire team (about 50 contractors) into a conference room and told us the client had to meet a budget cut and we'd be put on "furlough" for 3 weeks, effective 5 minutes ago. I started looking for a new job the next morning, found one a few days later and I've been happy as a clam. Making more money, benefits are MUCH better, and it's a friendly collaborating working environment with no cubes.
So while contracting at some places might not be bad, my experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Control the user's typical experience with linux. They could make Office a steaming pile of dog crap on linux, but people would still buy it. Microsoft could basically control your average manager's impression of linux by making Office for Linux a dog.
IE for the Mac was a steaming pile and that didn't make people turn away from the Mac. The people who didn't know the difference kept using IE on the Mac, and they're inconsequential. The people who DO know the difference (like the IT managers you speak of) reacted when Safari came out by... switching to Safari.
That said, you do make an intersting point, and I'm not saying the situation you describe wouldn't happen in some cases. I'm just saying it probably wouldn't cause a global collapse of linux adoption. In a few cases where the zealot says "Lets use Linux on the desktop with MS Office", indeed you could see negative reactions. In many other cases, though, the zealot would say "Lets use Linux on the desktop with OpenOffice". The latter seems more likely.
And in addition, the article reads like it was written by a sixth-grader. Grammatical mistakes, missing pronouns, blatant typos... typical garbage you find on the WWW. Tough to take it seriously, even if you give him the benefit of the doubt on his facts and subjectivity.
You, like many other people on this board, appear to NOT know what WiMax is. WiMax is not the "cell phone" version of WiFi, it's a last-mile solution for fixed locations. It's basically a wireless version of DSL and cable modems.
That reminds me of how my cousin once told me he was pretty sure there was a program he wrote at a previous job that, under just the right obscure error condition, will send up a debugging alert box that says 'Dammit'.
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the frickin web site is/. already so who the heck knows what it is
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I recall reading something shortly after 9/11 about how the US started putting a lot of political pressure on the island-nations like the Caymans that had historically been safe-havens for money-laundering and such. The idea was to get those countries to cooperate with Interpol and US intelligence investigations. Not sure what ever came of that.
You sounded good until you misused the term 'schizophrenic', which doesn't mean "split personality" but rather refers to a psychosis marked by delusions and hallucinations.
I just smile and enjoy it. I actually look forward to April 1 on Slashdot... it's amusing, and yes part of the joke is that everyone knows it's coming. I certainly don't feel the need to prove to the entire online world that I'm too cool/smart for April Fools jokes.
True, spamd doesn't waste bandwidth, but depending on the agressiveness of your ruleset and the amount of mailing coming through, it can utilize quite a bit of CPU and memory.
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So, when people ask you for minor upgrades on their existing PHP websites, you rewrite the whole thing in Python. Do you really? I'm not buying it.
Calm down there skip... the sky is not falling. Some people use Facebook, some don't. Some of those who do are 22-year-old binge drinking jackasses, some aren't. All of those jackasses will grow older, very likely will mature a bit, settle down, get married, have kids, work jobs and otherwise figure things out. Despite the entertainment value of grandiose comments on web forums, it's a little early to predict a forthcoming real-life Idiocracy because Mark Zuckerburg isn't much of a public speaker, or because a bunch of nerds in Thinkgeek t-shirts can't sit still at a conference for 45 minutes because they had laptops and free WiFi.
This little 'story' has been going around for about 24 hours and the root of it, in my opinion, is being obscured: the self-congratulation of a bunch of developers that they were able to chat online (with Twitter) about an event that they were all watching with their own eyes. The tweets took on a life of their own. That's why you keep seeing the same phrase, "train wreck", in all these write-ups. So one journalist did a poor job of interviewing some business owner? If it wasn't for the "live blogging" aspect, it wouldn't be news. And don't even get me started on how fucking rude it was for the audience to start interrupting them. I've seen some other people comment here that Zuckerburg and Lacy are lacking in social skills... sorry, but that doesn't compare to how completely out-of-line the audience members were.
Actually you just made a very keen observance when you say "you can gather the most sense of who a person is by seeing who their best friends are". This applies to people of all ages in all cultures. People will often pin you down with an inalterable first impression the second you walk in the room. Image, therefore, matters a LOT in the world of social dynamics -- of course you need to be a fun, charismatic person on the inside but without a favorable image you will be swimming upstream in their eyes. And that image, its components most certainly include the crowd you're with.
I think Jason was, somewhat passive-aggressively, trying to show us how smart he is because he knows the difference between megabytes and megabits.
These suits provide protective padding for RACERS so they don't suffer bruises or breaks when the hit the gates. These suits are NOT for crashes.
I am a competitive alpine ski racer. Watch the slalom (SL) events in the Olympics and you will see that every athlete wears hard protective equipment on his poles (to protect his hands), his shins, and usually on his head. This is because the tightest, shortest, fastest line down the course involves literally running over the gate. The athlete generally "cross-blocks" the gate, meaning his feet are on the correct side of the pole and angled outward, while his body is upright with the pole directly in his path; he simultaneously hits the gate with the protector on the front of his pole ("pole guards") and his shin guards. Furthermore, he's wearing a lycra speed suit that's got padding in several key areas including the front of the forearms, the back of the thighs, the deltoid area of the upper back, and the bicep area of the upper arm. This is to provide protection for when the athlete performs an "inside clear" instead of a cross-block, or if he loses his rhythm or something else that causes him to hit a gate where he's not wearing molded plastic armor.
Or you could have just read the article.
I also race, and I'll amend that this might be useful for SG.
ballance the budget
the highering of government employees
Mr. President, is that you?
whoops. heh.
I usually *am* a grammer nazi so this shit bugs me. I think the Slashdot editors need to put this poster on their walls:
http://angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg
I got out of college and got a decent salaried position in NJ at a small online retailer. The pay was about what you'd expect. Then I quit because I was moving across the country, to Idaho. When I got here, I took a contracting position at a very VERY large computer/electronics firm here whose name consists of two letters. I was writing automated scripts in TCL to test the firmware on certain hardware devices they make. In general, contractors were looked down upon as second-class citizens, even though we made up like 50% of the workforce. Like in "Office Space," I had 8 bosses at LEAST. Nobody knew what anyone else was doing. Total corporate clusterf*ck.
After being there for 3 weeks, they pulled our entire team (about 50 contractors) into a conference room and told us the client had to meet a budget cut and we'd be put on "furlough" for 3 weeks, effective 5 minutes ago. I started looking for a new job the next morning, found one a few days later and I've been happy as a clam. Making more money, benefits are MUCH better, and it's a friendly collaborating working environment with no cubes.
So while contracting at some places might not be bad, my experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Why do people always assume the public to be... slobbering, inbred idiots... ?
May I please direct your attention to:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
Control the user's typical experience with linux. They could make Office a steaming pile of dog crap on linux, but people would still buy it. Microsoft could basically control your average manager's impression of linux by making Office for Linux a dog.
IE for the Mac was a steaming pile and that didn't make people turn away from the Mac. The people who didn't know the difference kept using IE on the Mac, and they're inconsequential. The people who DO know the difference (like the IT managers you speak of) reacted when Safari came out by... switching to Safari.
That said, you do make an intersting point, and I'm not saying the situation you describe wouldn't happen in some cases. I'm just saying it probably wouldn't cause a global collapse of linux adoption. In a few cases where the zealot says "Lets use Linux on the desktop with MS Office", indeed you could see negative reactions. In many other cases, though, the zealot would say "Lets use Linux on the desktop with OpenOffice". The latter seems more likely.
And in addition, the article reads like it was written by a sixth-grader. Grammatical mistakes, missing pronouns, blatant typos... typical garbage you find on the WWW. Tough to take it seriously, even if you give him the benefit of the doubt on his facts and subjectivity.
Yes but WiMax is ready and the mobile extensions are not, so it's likely that they will be marketed as different products for quite some time.
You, like many other people on this board, appear to NOT know what WiMax is. WiMax is not the "cell phone" version of WiFi, it's a last-mile solution for fixed locations. It's basically a wireless version of DSL and cable modems.
That reminds me of how my cousin once told me he was pretty sure there was a program he wrote at a previous job that, under just the right obscure error condition, will send up a debugging alert box that says 'Dammit'.
the frickin web site is /. already so who the heck knows what it is
Use MirrorDot to view Slashdot-linked articles that have gone down under the load.
W H O O S H !
I recall reading something shortly after 9/11 about how the US started putting a lot of political pressure on the island-nations like the Caymans that had historically been safe-havens for money-laundering and such. The idea was to get those countries to cooperate with Interpol and US intelligence investigations. Not sure what ever came of that.
maintained a remarkably schizophrenic attitude
You sounded good until you misused the term 'schizophrenic', which doesn't mean "split personality" but rather refers to a psychosis marked by delusions and hallucinations.
Ouch, you sound like me during my freshman year at Hopkins. B-more is okay once you find the good bars.
I don't care about desktop search one bit.
I just smile and enjoy it. I actually look forward to April 1 on Slashdot... it's amusing, and yes part of the joke is that everyone knows it's coming. I certainly don't feel the need to prove to the entire online world that I'm too cool/smart for April Fools jokes.
True, spamd doesn't waste bandwidth, but depending on the agressiveness of your ruleset and the amount of mailing coming through, it can utilize quite a bit of CPU and memory.