You've hit on one of the problems with the term IT. Some people think it applies to software development, others to help desk and infrastructure, or to HRs information systems. While it's easy to make the case they are all IT, i think it's a bad idea because programming is NOTHING like being a help desk techie or a sys admin. Different degrees, certs and career paths (and pay scales). Yeah, they all use computers and done by nerdy types, but the similarities end there. i can't program for shit and don't enjoy it. But i can make your network run.
i wrote a thing about an international virtual currency. The basis was 1 hour of unskilled labor would be 100 credits. Each credit has an entry in the database as to who owns it at the moment. Small transactions could be done with a private/public key transaction. Bigger transactions require more authentication.
The serial of a credit would be 128b. The first eight being the date of it's release into the system in CRC32, leaving 96b for the rest of the serial. That gives us an insane amount of credits even if the population hit 12B. The date would be a quick means to verify that the number of the credit someone is trying to spend isn't some random number.
Money enters the system by an employer and employee agreeing to do the transaction in this system for the minimum wage. Since money enters the system in batches, it could keep value tightly controlled. It would also address some problems with gulfs in currency/labor values ($1 doesn't buy shit here, but could buy a big meal elsewhere). People who are to be paid more than minimum wage must be paid in a transaction of already release currency.
It would be purely virtual and transactions would be tracked, making it less useful for criminal enterprise.
Seems like a case of endangering others (clear and present danger) and wasting public resources. Those cops could have been doing other things. Having lived in a place where bomb threats happened and bombs actually happened... i see no reason this dick should be treated nicely. Under US law, he committed a crime. Defending this asshat is misguided at best. If i were AQ, this would be my new tactic. "I'm in yr arprt, bmb'n yr *$! LoL". Tweet that over and over until they stop responding... them "KA-BOOM".
i'd steal a car or DVD if i knew i'd get away with it. i steal office supplies all the time... because i can and even if i get caught the punishment would be negligible.
Subby, what the fuck is so hard about forming a complete sentence? If you're going to resort to a lame ass question headline, could you at least make it a question that ASKS SOMETHING?
I sell Bottled Burps on BottledBurps.Biz. No one is buying because of piracy and it's wiping me out. People keep burping on their own instead of buying my product. What people don't realize is that i have bills to pay too. The bottles cost me real money, the labeling machine loan costs real money. I put a great deal of effort into these burps including research into what makes the loudest and smelliest burp. Not only that, but this is my passion! I pour my heart out into these belches. If my sales don't pick up I'm going to have to get a day job and give up my dream. But in the mean time I might lose my house!
If you tell someone to grab the controller, they're going to reach for the thing with sticks and buttons. If you told them "no, the IR camera", they'd look at you like you were three headed. Google web and image searches for "video game controller" show things with sticks and buttons. As does Amazon and Ebay.
Is a steering wheel a controller, or it is a steering wheel? It controls a car.
Did you celebrate the new millennium on 31 Dec 99 or on 31 Dec 01? You're gonna be alone on this one too.
The thing with the sticks and buttons are called controllers. Any 11 year old could tell you that. The infrared camera is an input device, but it's not a controller (which is also an input device [and sometimes an output device]).
Sure. But there's something to be said for "proved enough to be useful for now". There's no proof that the sun will rise tomorrow. Solipsism, while interesting, is useless. Thus far my efforts to ignore gravity have been fruitless. One definition of real is "that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it" is true enough to be useful. Gravity might be a setting we can change if we know the cheat code, but until i have that code... i'm going to use handrails.
Mod parent down for grossly exaggerating. Cases of over diagnosis/treatment are rare in the real world. Any doctor worth a damn will only medicate kids with a real problem. i think you're reacting to something that isn't as real as you think it is. We have a tendency to hear/think about negative things far more than positive. You won't hear about the 10 kids whose lives radically improved after being treated, only about the 1 kid that was misdiagnosed. If that rare misdiagnosis twists your panties you're going to think about it every time the matter appears (and ignore pounds of case files about proper treatment).
Some kids DO have these conditions. Some kids will cope, others will spend their lives struggling. Our prisons are packed with people who have these conditions and weren't diagnosed or treated. My own life could have been radically different if i had been diagnosed. i went to school under people who "think" like you do. So i was "undisciplined and lazy". With treatment i could have earned the grades to go to college with scholarships instead of doing four years in the USAF followed by borrowing $30K.
Much of this cavalier attitude you're showing comes from ignorance backed by a religious belief that humans are meat occupied by spirits. That all we do is a matter of choice and will. When the reality is that we're only meat. With the addition or removal of this or that chemical we can make a person more or less violent, attentive, horny or whatever. We can herd the cats in people heads to help them deal with a world that doesn't care if someone keeps changing the channel in their head. Consciousness can only do so much.
i'd love to be as disciplined and awesome as you are, but my brain works like a radio in scan mode. Ever few seconds the channel changes without any input from me. Without medication sleep i get about 4 hours of sleep per day because the noise will not stop. But the rest of the world is like you, they don't get it, and they don't give a shit. They don't care that i'm reliving conversations from 15 years ago while they are talking to me. All they care about is that i forgot what they said. If only i could be as attentive and perfect as you!
As for helmets... brain injuries are often permanent and life altering. It is a risk that just isn't worth taking. A helmet is tiny thing to require. Do you wear your seatbelt or are you so tough that you could just walk it off after slamming your head into a windshield at 50 MPH? Wow, you are so cool.
i will agree with you that some parents are over protective and paranoid with regards to kidnapping and molesters and the like. i was allowed to range far and wide as a kid. i didn't have to go far to encounter a molester, he was right next door which is more typical than the "guy in the van". Kids should be allowed a long enough leash to learn how to handle themselves.
On the matter of cocooning and protecting them from challenge, i agree. Giving kids challenges and allowing them to make decisions is usually great for their development. As long as some responsible adult is there to make sure it's not TOO stupid.
The third sentence from the end highlights your ignorance with a search light and flashing neon arrows. You say that they shouldn't be taking medication for anything less than a physical problem. ADD, ADHD, Aspergers and the like ARE PHYSICAL PROBLEMS. Your brain is part of your body. Those conditions are as physical as diabetes.
The last sentence makes me wonder if you're trolling. It's so unhinged that it seems like satire or concern trolling.
Yeah, that's a self fulfilling prophecy kinda thing. If you go to school for Graphics they make you use Macs, when you go to your first gig, they give you a Mac.
Macs are used for graphics because Macs are used for graphics. It's not that they are better for it, it's just that particular industry doesn't (and a few others) want to try anything else. OSX is not inherently better at running PS or other media edit products.
Apple gives deep discounts to universities to ensure this. Universities like to be trendy. The university i work for is trying to switch to more Macs and they are finding it to be an expensive nightmare. The students and professors coo for a few minutes and then find themselves lost and annoyed. They ask for help and we can't support them because we're all PC techs.
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"Dedicated Servers What?"
Complete sentence? Question not ask anything? English, you speak it?
You've hit on one of the problems with the term IT. Some people think it applies to software development, others to help desk and infrastructure, or to HRs information systems. While it's easy to make the case they are all IT, i think it's a bad idea because programming is NOTHING like being a help desk techie or a sys admin. Different degrees, certs and career paths (and pay scales). Yeah, they all use computers and done by nerdy types, but the similarities end there. i can't program for shit and don't enjoy it. But i can make your network run.
i wrote a thing about an international virtual currency. The basis was 1 hour of unskilled labor would be 100 credits. Each credit has an entry in the database as to who owns it at the moment. Small transactions could be done with a private/public key transaction. Bigger transactions require more authentication.
The serial of a credit would be 128b. The first eight being the date of it's release into the system in CRC32, leaving 96b for the rest of the serial. That gives us an insane amount of credits even if the population hit 12B. The date would be a quick means to verify that the number of the credit someone is trying to spend isn't some random number.
Money enters the system by an employer and employee agreeing to do the transaction in this system for the minimum wage. Since money enters the system in batches, it could keep value tightly controlled. It would also address some problems with gulfs in currency/labor values ($1 doesn't buy shit here, but could buy a big meal elsewhere). People who are to be paid more than minimum wage must be paid in a transaction of already release currency.
It would be purely virtual and transactions would be tracked, making it less useful for criminal enterprise.
Seems like a case of endangering others (clear and present danger) and wasting public resources. Those cops could have been doing other things. Having lived in a place where bomb threats happened and bombs actually happened... i see no reason this dick should be treated nicely. Under US law, he committed a crime. Defending this asshat is misguided at best. If i were AQ, this would be my new tactic. "I'm in yr arprt, bmb'n yr *$! LoL". Tweet that over and over until they stop responding... them "KA-BOOM".
i'd steal a car or DVD if i knew i'd get away with it. i steal office supplies all the time... because i can and even if i get caught the punishment would be negligible.
Subby, what the fuck is so hard about forming a complete sentence? If you're going to resort to a lame ass question headline, could you at least make it a question that ASKS SOMETHING?
Has someone bitched about "why does every game have to be multiplayer" yet like the Dragon Age thread?
I sell Bottled Burps on BottledBurps.Biz. No one is buying because of piracy and it's wiping me out. People keep burping on their own instead of buying my product. What people don't realize is that i have bills to pay too. The bottles cost me real money, the labeling machine loan costs real money. I put a great deal of effort into these burps including research into what makes the loudest and smelliest burp. Not only that, but this is my passion! I pour my heart out into these belches. If my sales don't pick up I'm going to have to get a day job and give up my dream. But in the mean time I might lose my house!
If you tell someone to grab the controller, they're going to reach for the thing with sticks and buttons. If you told them "no, the IR camera", they'd look at you like you were three headed. Google web and image searches for "video game controller" show things with sticks and buttons. As does Amazon and Ebay.
Is a steering wheel a controller, or it is a steering wheel? It controls a car.
Did you celebrate the new millennium on 31 Dec 99 or on 31 Dec 01? You're gonna be alone on this one too.
i suppose pedantry is relative after all. Huh.
The thing with the sticks and buttons are called controllers. Any 11 year old could tell you that. The infrared camera is an input device, but it's not a controller (which is also an input device [and sometimes an output device]).
""WtF?""
Sure. But there's something to be said for "proved enough to be useful for now". There's no proof that the sun will rise tomorrow. Solipsism, while interesting, is useless. Thus far my efforts to ignore gravity have been fruitless. One definition of real is "that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it" is true enough to be useful. Gravity might be a setting we can change if we know the cheat code, but until i have that code... i'm going to use handrails.
If you want to get a date, stop being a wuss. Be funny. Be confident. Bathe.
It's not difficult to get women once you know what they want.
Start with David DeAngelo's Double Your Dating. Stuff works.
Here's a freebie: It's not them... it's you.
Damn! i wish i had points for you. That might not only prove to be true, but it's a clever/funny use of a Star Trek reference.
MOD PARENT UP!
Mod parent down for grossly exaggerating. Cases of over diagnosis/treatment are rare in the real world. Any doctor worth a damn will only medicate kids with a real problem. i think you're reacting to something that isn't as real as you think it is. We have a tendency to hear/think about negative things far more than positive. You won't hear about the 10 kids whose lives radically improved after being treated, only about the 1 kid that was misdiagnosed. If that rare misdiagnosis twists your panties you're going to think about it every time the matter appears (and ignore pounds of case files about proper treatment).
Some kids DO have these conditions. Some kids will cope, others will spend their lives struggling. Our prisons are packed with people who have these conditions and weren't diagnosed or treated. My own life could have been radically different if i had been diagnosed. i went to school under people who "think" like you do. So i was "undisciplined and lazy". With treatment i could have earned the grades to go to college with scholarships instead of doing four years in the USAF followed by borrowing $30K.
Much of this cavalier attitude you're showing comes from ignorance backed by a religious belief that humans are meat occupied by spirits. That all we do is a matter of choice and will. When the reality is that we're only meat. With the addition or removal of this or that chemical we can make a person more or less violent, attentive, horny or whatever. We can herd the cats in people heads to help them deal with a world that doesn't care if someone keeps changing the channel in their head. Consciousness can only do so much.
i'd love to be as disciplined and awesome as you are, but my brain works like a radio in scan mode. Ever few seconds the channel changes without any input from me. Without medication sleep i get about 4 hours of sleep per day because the noise will not stop. But the rest of the world is like you, they don't get it, and they don't give a shit. They don't care that i'm reliving conversations from 15 years ago while they are talking to me. All they care about is that i forgot what they said. If only i could be as attentive and perfect as you!
As for helmets... brain injuries are often permanent and life altering. It is a risk that just isn't worth taking. A helmet is tiny thing to require. Do you wear your seatbelt or are you so tough that you could just walk it off after slamming your head into a windshield at 50 MPH? Wow, you are so cool.
i will agree with you that some parents are over protective and paranoid with regards to kidnapping and molesters and the like. i was allowed to range far and wide as a kid. i didn't have to go far to encounter a molester, he was right next door which is more typical than the "guy in the van". Kids should be allowed a long enough leash to learn how to handle themselves.
On the matter of cocooning and protecting them from challenge, i agree. Giving kids challenges and allowing them to make decisions is usually great for their development. As long as some responsible adult is there to make sure it's not TOO stupid.
The third sentence from the end highlights your ignorance with a search light and flashing neon arrows. You say that they shouldn't be taking medication for anything less than a physical problem. ADD, ADHD, Aspergers and the like ARE PHYSICAL PROBLEMS. Your brain is part of your body. Those conditions are as physical as diabetes.
The last sentence makes me wonder if you're trolling. It's so unhinged that it seems like satire or concern trolling.
Become less ignorant:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9679423
http://www.crimetimes.org/02b/w02bp1.htm
http://www.bhsi.org/stats.htm
http://enhs.umn.edu/current/6120/bicycle/index.html
i'd love a faithful version of Foundation. i'd do the entire Asimoverse in green screen with a 50's look like Sky Captain. It would be orgasmic.
How did your civilization survive this state of technological adolescence?
Atheism is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized unless it is the first word of the sentence or is a word in a book title.
Also, maybe you should refrain from ever speaking on the subject at all because you obviously don't understand it.
Then there is the whole matter of you being unable to distinguish between parts and wholes.
i hear these sex robots will heat up your case like an athlon XP.
Will Slashdotters ever stop posting headlines in the form of a stupid, meaningless headlines?
The g-sensor is a myth.
Well, we can do a search to find out what they are up to.
Yeah, that's a self fulfilling prophecy kinda thing. If you go to school for Graphics they make you use Macs, when you go to your first gig, they give you a Mac.
Macs are used for graphics because Macs are used for graphics. It's not that they are better for it, it's just that particular industry doesn't (and a few others) want to try anything else. OSX is not inherently better at running PS or other media edit products.
Apple gives deep discounts to universities to ensure this. Universities like to be trendy. The university i work for is trying to switch to more Macs and they are finding it to be an expensive nightmare. The students and professors coo for a few minutes and then find themselves lost and annoyed. They ask for help and we can't support them because we're all PC techs.
But they're SOOO SHINY and rebellious!
How long will it take before Dell, HP and the like copy this tablet innovation?
i've always despised the term Wi-Fi. Fidelity isn't the issue! Stop trying to steal recognition from a totally different type of product!
And get off my lawn.