I can confirm that S. Korea and Sweden have better service than us. In fact, my trips out of the US have helped me realize that other countries aren't catching up to our standard of living. Many have already surpassed the US.
I live in Berkeley so I know about the Bart and broken glass situation. Bart cop had a concussion and needed sto
itches. The drunk asshole just had some minor cuts. This goes along with the Bart story that the drunk wasn't neccesarily the one whose face broke that glass.
Being homeless on public property may be a crime, but have you ever been homeless? I have. It sucks getting cops come up to you, handcuff you, search through all your shit for crack or whatever, then tell you you're not legally allowed to exist there for the night. This has happened to me on multiple occasions. When I asked the cop where I could spend the nigh, I was told not within the county border. Do you understand how shitty this is? Just because being homeless is a crime doesn't mean you can have zero compassion for "law breakers." Seriously, do you know how much it sucks to be homeless???
It's fact that the US is falling behind techonolgy wise and infrastructure wise. We don't have the best cell phones, or good internet access, or a highway system that's in good shape. Most of our energy is from coal and oil. Compare to ther counties that have modern nuclear power plants. Hell, we quit our own particle accelerated program and now cutting edge science is done at the LHC. I don't need the US to be the best, but I don't want the country to seem run down after a couple of decades of not moving forward.
Past evidence shows what is likely here. I know this doesn't have anything to do directly with music, but corporations have taken over the government. They insist on having the same rights as a human being, yet when it comes to punishments they know they can get away with murder.
If I had attempted to root kit even a small fraction of the PCs that Sony did, or commit copyright infringement on a much much smaller scale than what this story talks about, I would be ruined. I would lose all my possessions, probably be thrown in jail, unable to contribute to society, and disconnected from social ties. But we all know that these record companies won't be drastically hurt by this. Besides, the executives have already given themselves bonuses and spent the money on blow, or whatever else it is that these people spend millions on.
No one is going to jail over this. The industry will not be hurt. And no lessons will be learned.
My fee to friends and family is generally a six pack of beer. If I'm not in the mood, or if it's just the user not learning how to not screw up his system, then my fee is a 12 pack. People usually figure it out before I start charging a keg per repair.
Some numbers for my own comparison... KPWR (A popular Hip Hop radio station in Los Angeles) transmitts 25,000 watts of power. This article claims that it can pull 50 milliwatts. If this technology became standard on all cell phones, 1 million cell phones in Los Angeles would be able to pull a collective 50,000 watts out of the air.
Wouldn't this draw energy out of the radio signal, thus making it weaker? If this becomes popular in Los Angeles, will a radio station's not be able to broadcast as far because a million people are leeching power off it's transmitting power?
As a transfer student at Berkeley I am guaranteed student housing for one year. In fact, they even have a dormitory set aside specifically for transfer students. I applied for housing at this dorm. Freshmen are guaranteed housing for two years.
Social peers is all to often a nice waying of saying "hang out with the half wits". There is a lot of value being put on "functioning well in groups" that for certain people mean they get to learn that they really don't want to be part of any group that they haven't selected for themselves.
Why do you gotta be a dick? Do you get to choose who is around you at all times? Probably not. Knowing how to interact with other people is not a useless skill.
All those "half wits" may not have the scientific and technical knowledge you have, but at least they aren't assholes. Everyone has specialized and does something much better than you can I'm sure. If I want to have a thoughtful political or scientific discussion, a Slashdot member would be great for that. If I wanted a crew mate on a fishing boat? Someone to help build a house? Someone to help me realize that I spend way too much time on the computer and that there's a shitload more shit to do before I die? I'd rather take a "half wit" than you!
I went to a California community college. This fall I'm transferring to the math program at Berkeley. There are a lot of reasons to go to a community college, and California actually has an excellent college and university system! (K-12 leaves a lot to be desired.)
Community colleges are cheaper. There are a lot of people who work full time and go to school full time just to pay for tuition.
Community colleges are local. Moving to a new location can be an enormous hassle. If they can get general ed requirements out of the way and stay with family, why not?
Perhaps best of all, the community colleges allow ANYONE at ANY AGE to get a higher education. The entire community college system has worked with the entire university system in California to make it really easy to transfer. General education requirements for ANY California univeristy can be completed at ANY community college. (Check out Assist.org & IGETC.)
I cannot stress this last point enough! I am a high school drop out. Yes, that's right. I took a test to get my high school diploma at the age of 19. However, that was almost a decade ago. I've learned a lot since then. For example, I've learned that school is *easy as shit* compared to working on the deck of a fishing boat or 60 hours a week at a crappy desk job. The California community college system has allowed me to go back to school and has given me the opportunity to transfer to the mathematics program at Berkeley. I feel that in most other states and countries I would've been screwed for mistakes I made as a teenager. I am really thankful that California has allowed me to try again for a degree, even if it's a decade late!
Personality - you need one. Get a personality and what to put on your web page comes naturally.
Why do you gotta be a dick? Have you never asked someone for advice? What's your advice to people who ask technical questions? "A brain - you need one."?
For others of us, while we may know some HTML, and perhaps can even do some php and database programming, we just don't have the time to build a web presence from scratch. The guy even stated he's looking for a free app to help him out. He is experiencing a TIME issue, not a PERSONALITY issue. If you ask me, refactored (260886) is the one with a personality problem.
How about redirecting to your Linkedin profile? It's quick, costs nothing, set-and-forget type thing. I know there are plenty of people here who could come up with all sorts of interesting and imaginative ideas, but sometimes we just want something that works and move on with our life, right?
Most people would think your an ass to try to teach them a computer lesson for Christmas. That this comment reached "Score:5, Interesting" shows how nerdy (and I mean that in the socially awkward way) much of/. members are. I only reply because I am a huge introvert, and little realizations like this have made big differences in my social life.
I haven't bothered to pirate games yet. FYI I bought mine to be a SNES emulator. That feature alone is what sold me on the PSP. (You mean I can get a portable Zelda: Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, etc.? Holy shit I must buy that!)
Nintendo should blame Sony for millions of dollars of profit lost in lost Super Metroid sales.
Growing up, and trying to deal with my diet, I realized at some point that all these drive-throughs kill people. You can't live off of McDonalds. If you ate Burger King for every meal you would die. Yet this food is marketed more, cheaper than, and more convenient than going to the grocery store. Going to the grocery store to pick up some fruit takes longer and costs more than stopping by Del Taco. Something is wrong here.
(To you people who can't live without your fast food, I just say this as someone who struggled with obesity, you diet is a huge part of your health. It's not easy. Going to drive throughs too often KILLS YOU.)
I've thought about this and similar subjects a lot (such as smoking cigarettes) and I think society has the following options.
Let fat people (or smokers or whatever) just have a worse quality of life than everyone else. Bad habits will most likely be passed on down to their children. Here we blame the fat kid with fat parents for being fat. Hopefully the fat kid learns some will power when he grows up, because he sure won't learn it from his parents.
Ban cigarettes and food not passing "nutritional requirements" completely. This is the fascist option. This removes the requirement for thought from the population.
We take steps to encourage citizens to be healthier. I prefer ongoing education over generations in the hope that eating fatty fast food becomes a rarity in culture. If options 1 and 2 are the extreme responses to an unhealthy population, this option is the middle ground. We already sin tax cigarettes. Heart Disease is America's top killer right now, and it is natural for the government to try to think of ways to combat that.
Re: Fat Tax. It doesn't sit well with me. However, I admit that this tax will affect some people who might get something from the grocery store instead of ordering Pizza. It will make fat food cost more than healthy food. (I almost like this tax for this reason alone.)
After thinking about it, I realized I wasn't so against a fat tax as I thought I was. But damn, if you're gonna make a fat tax then lower some other goddamn taxes! Make my fucking carrots and apples and oranges tax free! (Oh god... who gets to decide what food is "healthy" and what food is "unhealthy"?)
What really surprised me was that I saw the options to block ads, and I thought to myself, "Slashdot has provided me with much thoughtful discussion for years. Meh, I'll leave the ads. Hell, even I click on some random thinkgeek advertisement every blue moon."
"WTF? I just decided to KEEP ads? WTF is wrong with me?!?"
And now as I'm typing this I'm thinking I STILL have left the ads here. And all I gotta do is check a damn box! >.<
Yes the lingo was created way before WoW, but I stand by my comment! Everyone who played EQ, UO, or anything before WoW has either tried WoW and didn't like it, is playing WoW right now, or has refused to play WoW for the past 4 years and will probably refuse to ever play it. =p
I don't think anyone who doesn't already play Warcraft (or tried it and doesn't like it) know what dual-specs or what raids are. This is just so us WoWheads can discuss the patch. "Variable dungeon difficulty" seems more likely to be a line to try to bring new players to the game.
It has been challenged in court. The result has always been, "Show us more FDA approved studies." of course there have not been any, since it is a Schedule 1 drug and thus FDA studies aren't allowed. ='/ Go figure.
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I can confirm that S. Korea and Sweden have better service than us. In fact, my trips out of the US have helped me realize that other countries aren't catching up to our standard of living. Many have already surpassed the US.
Your boss is a retard.
I'm guessing you don't think cops are power hungry assholes because you're a WASP.
I live in Berkeley so I know about the Bart and broken glass situation. Bart cop had a concussion and needed sto itches. The drunk asshole just had some minor cuts. This goes along with the Bart story that the drunk wasn't neccesarily the one whose face broke that glass.
The vast majority are *not* scumbags. Many inmates are nonviolent drug offender such as myself.
Being homeless on public property may be a crime, but have you ever been homeless? I have. It sucks getting cops come up to you, handcuff you, search through all your shit for crack or whatever, then tell you you're not legally allowed to exist there for the night. This has happened to me on multiple occasions. When I asked the cop where I could spend the nigh, I was told not within the county border. Do you understand how shitty this is? Just because being homeless is a crime doesn't mean you can have zero compassion for "law breakers." Seriously, do you know how much it sucks to be homeless???
It's fact that the US is falling behind techonolgy wise and infrastructure wise. We don't have the best cell phones, or good internet access, or a highway system that's in good shape. Most of our energy is from coal and oil. Compare to ther counties that have modern nuclear power plants. Hell, we quit our own particle accelerated program and now cutting edge science is done at the LHC. I don't need the US to be the best, but I don't want the country to seem run down after a couple of decades of not moving forward.
Past evidence shows what is likely here. I know this doesn't have anything to do directly with music, but corporations have taken over the government. They insist on having the same rights as a human being, yet when it comes to punishments they know they can get away with murder.
If I had attempted to root kit even a small fraction of the PCs that Sony did, or commit copyright infringement on a much much smaller scale than what this story talks about, I would be ruined. I would lose all my possessions, probably be thrown in jail, unable to contribute to society, and disconnected from social ties. But we all know that these record companies won't be drastically hurt by this. Besides, the executives have already given themselves bonuses and spent the money on blow, or whatever else it is that these people spend millions on.
No one is going to jail over this. The industry will not be hurt. And no lessons will be learned.
You don't have to pay to go to Salon? News to me. I haven't visited that site for at least a couple of years.
My fee to friends and family is generally a six pack of beer. If I'm not in the mood, or if it's just the user not learning how to not screw up his system, then my fee is a 12 pack. People usually figure it out before I start charging a keg per repair.
Some numbers for my own comparison... KPWR (A popular Hip Hop radio station in Los Angeles) transmitts 25,000 watts of power. This article claims that it can pull 50 milliwatts. If this technology became standard on all cell phones, 1 million cell phones in Los Angeles would be able to pull a collective 50,000 watts out of the air.
Wouldn't this draw energy out of the radio signal, thus making it weaker? If this becomes popular in Los Angeles, will a radio station's not be able to broadcast as far because a million people are leeching power off it's transmitting power?
As a transfer student at Berkeley I am guaranteed student housing for one year. In fact, they even have a dormitory set aside specifically for transfer students. I applied for housing at this dorm. Freshmen are guaranteed housing for two years.
Why do you gotta be a dick? Do you get to choose who is around you at all times? Probably not. Knowing how to interact with other people is not a useless skill.
All those "half wits" may not have the scientific and technical knowledge you have, but at least they aren't assholes. Everyone has specialized and does something much better than you can I'm sure. If I want to have a thoughtful political or scientific discussion, a Slashdot member would be great for that. If I wanted a crew mate on a fishing boat? Someone to help build a house? Someone to help me realize that I spend way too much time on the computer and that there's a shitload more shit to do before I die? I'd rather take a "half wit" than you!
I went to a California community college. This fall I'm transferring to the math program at Berkeley. There are a lot of reasons to go to a community college, and California actually has an excellent college and university system! (K-12 leaves a lot to be desired.)
Community colleges are cheaper. There are a lot of people who work full time and go to school full time just to pay for tuition.
Community colleges are local. Moving to a new location can be an enormous hassle. If they can get general ed requirements out of the way and stay with family, why not?
Perhaps best of all, the community colleges allow ANYONE at ANY AGE to get a higher education. The entire community college system has worked with the entire university system in California to make it really easy to transfer. General education requirements for ANY California univeristy can be completed at ANY community college. (Check out Assist.org & IGETC.)
I cannot stress this last point enough! I am a high school drop out. Yes, that's right. I took a test to get my high school diploma at the age of 19. However, that was almost a decade ago. I've learned a lot since then. For example, I've learned that school is *easy as shit* compared to working on the deck of a fishing boat or 60 hours a week at a crappy desk job. The California community college system has allowed me to go back to school and has given me the opportunity to transfer to the mathematics program at Berkeley. I feel that in most other states and countries I would've been screwed for mistakes I made as a teenager. I am really thankful that California has allowed me to try again for a degree, even if it's a decade late!
Why do you gotta be a dick? Have you never asked someone for advice? What's your advice to people who ask technical questions? "A brain - you need one."?
For others of us, while we may know some HTML, and perhaps can even do some php and database programming, we just don't have the time to build a web presence from scratch. The guy even stated he's looking for a free app to help him out. He is experiencing a TIME issue, not a PERSONALITY issue. If you ask me, refactored (260886) is the one with a personality problem.
How about redirecting to your Linkedin profile? It's quick, costs nothing, set-and-forget type thing. I know there are plenty of people here who could come up with all sorts of interesting and imaginative ideas, but sometimes we just want something that works and move on with our life, right?
/facepalm
your != you're
Maybe I should head over to Digg... >.<
Most people would think your an ass to try to teach them a computer lesson for Christmas. That this comment reached "Score:5, Interesting" shows how nerdy (and I mean that in the socially awkward way) much of /. members are. I only reply because I am a huge introvert, and little realizations like this have made big differences in my social life.
I haven't bothered to pirate games yet. FYI I bought mine to be a SNES emulator. That feature alone is what sold me on the PSP. (You mean I can get a portable Zelda: Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, etc.? Holy shit I must buy that!)
Nintendo should blame Sony for millions of dollars of profit lost in lost Super Metroid sales.
Growing up, and trying to deal with my diet, I realized at some point that all these drive-throughs kill people. You can't live off of McDonalds. If you ate Burger King for every meal you would die. Yet this food is marketed more, cheaper than, and more convenient than going to the grocery store. Going to the grocery store to pick up some fruit takes longer and costs more than stopping by Del Taco. Something is wrong here.
(To you people who can't live without your fast food, I just say this as someone who struggled with obesity, you diet is a huge part of your health. It's not easy. Going to drive throughs too often KILLS YOU.)
I've thought about this and similar subjects a lot (such as smoking cigarettes) and I think society has the following options.
Re: Fat Tax. It doesn't sit well with me. However, I admit that this tax will affect some people who might get something from the grocery store instead of ordering Pizza. It will make fat food cost more than healthy food. (I almost like this tax for this reason alone.)
After thinking about it, I realized I wasn't so against a fat tax as I thought I was. But damn, if you're gonna make a fat tax then lower some other goddamn taxes! Make my fucking carrots and apples and oranges tax free! (Oh god... who gets to decide what food is "healthy" and what food is "unhealthy"?)
What really surprised me was that I saw the options to block ads, and I thought to myself, "Slashdot has provided me with much thoughtful discussion for years. Meh, I'll leave the ads. Hell, even I click on some random thinkgeek advertisement every blue moon."
"WTF? I just decided to KEEP ads? WTF is wrong with me?!?"
And now as I'm typing this I'm thinking I STILL have left the ads here. And all I gotta do is check a damn box! >.<
Yes the lingo was created way before WoW, but I stand by my comment! Everyone who played EQ, UO, or anything before WoW has either tried WoW and didn't like it, is playing WoW right now, or has refused to play WoW for the past 4 years and will probably refuse to ever play it. =p
I don't think anyone who doesn't already play Warcraft (or tried it and doesn't like it) know what dual-specs or what raids are. This is just so us WoWheads can discuss the patch. "Variable dungeon difficulty" seems more likely to be a line to try to bring new players to the game.
It has been challenged in court. The result has always been, "Show us more FDA approved studies." of course there have not been any, since it is a Schedule 1 drug and thus FDA studies aren't allowed. ='/ Go figure.