OMFG that was the most pedantic piece of gibberish I've tried to read in a long time. Too much for my ADD. Can somebody summarize it in one or two sentences?
Absolutely perfect post. I could not have said it better and won't even try.
And not that you asked, but Craigslist jobs and gigs section has turned into a Mobius curve of suckitude, with pie-in-the-sky, crack-addled job descriptions and requirements, and a general aura of 'we want something for nothing, and we're hiring!!11!1'
I'm getting pretty irritated with the amount of money which is continuously poured into AIDS research. There are dozens of other diseases which deserve more attention, NONE of which can be prevented by something as simple as wrapping your pecker, for instance.
Many companies hire whomever is trained in what the company needs. The problem is that once the company needs a worker who knows X--and you don't--you'll find yourself laid off.
The company sees it as easier and less expensive to hire workers, burn them out, refuse to pay for new education, and hire those who have paid for their own training.
Disgusting, but true. The bright side of this phenomenon is that word tends to get around, and after 2-3 years, finds itself tacitly 'blacklisted' among IT workers in that city.
There's still racism in hiring practices, but these days it's in favor of non-whites.
Having worked at a lily-white organization in a large northeastern city, this phenomenon became apparent when I noticed, over the course of some five odd years, middle management was falling over themselves to hire black sysadmins and support staff.
Some of these people were less than qualified, but what could anybody do? They're there to increase the minority head count, so management isn't going to fire them. This has a detrimental effect on morale, but non-minorities can't do a thing but pick up the slack, knowing they'll never be fired.
Worst of all, this has a terrible effect on the minorities who are well-qualified: They're brought on to do a job and other folks in the department automatically think: "oh...we're going to have to pick up the slack for this one...damn".
I agree with this. It seems like a good concept, but as the owner of an almost-20-year-old daily driver BMW, (which has been remarkably reliable for the last 6+ years that I've owned it) I'd hate to see what this looks like when all that extra plumbing gets old.
"'We are confident that our version of 'text' books will genuinely help thousands of students remember key plots and quotes, and raise up educational standards rather than decrease levels of literacy,'"
The home audio industry (and to a great extent, pro as well) can be summed up as:
Whatever newfangled, over-hyped technology (x) tacked onto (n) existing hardware = more marketable snake oil for the gullible audiophile market. More fodder for the magazines and something to blab about at CEDIA.
This was explained to me by a marketing manager at one such DSP/audio company almost ten years ago.
And not that anybody's asked, but "Hostway"? Reminds me of "Safeway"...which quickly makes me think of Bon-Bon eating, Oprah-watching people who buy those magazines at the grocery checkout counter.
In other words, move along people; nothing to see here...
I got to meet Dr. Moog (rhymes with 'vogue') about ten years ago. Affable, intelligent guy. He's the Les Paul/Leo Fender of the synthesizer. His current company is Big Briar, which make very cool (albeit expensive) effects pedals.
Fairlight: The "original" OS9!;-) For anybody who wants a sample (heh) of what the Fairlight CMI can do, Jan Hammer really brought it to the fore with his contributions to the 'Miami Vice' sountrack. I believe the CMI is also on Herbie Hancock's 'Future Shock' album and his others of the mid-80s.
While useful in it's own right, the lack of copy-editing and fact checking--to name just two issues--makes blogging, at best, and outlet for editorializing.
I'm not a citizen of California, but I'd suggest the pols there stop running the place like it's a welfare state and let people keep their damned money.
The blogging world is being touted (by other bloggers) as the Next Big Thing(tm). It is not.
How is blogging, when distilled to it's core elements, different than, say, Usenet, circa 1993?
It isn't--it's just in a different form.
The self-congratulatory talk of 'open source' blogging, blah blah blah is premature: If I 'm going to read news or commentary, I want it to be proofread, copy-edited, and I want an intelligent editor to be the gatekeeper holding the various trolls, tinfoil hats, and demagogues, at bay. At their very best, blogs do a mediocre job of this.
This kid clearly did not suffer through the mid-90s, when the Internet was gaining popularity and the great shoal of idiots stormed computer stores to get a Mac "because I heard it was easy to use" and load up one of those ubiquitous copies of "American Online".
I sold Macs the--along with their peripherals--for an awful (and now out of business) New England-based reseller. Along with inept and shifty-eyed management, we sales drones needed to suffer the Apple product line concocted in part by that former sugar-water selling guy and Gil Amelio. Herewith, a short list of the Apple products that always guaranteed heartburn:
- the Apple Centris series. IIRC, had some bizarre 'multimedia' chip that disliked a large number of MIDI software apps of the day.
- those horrible 6xxx series PowerMacs. When Apple made the slightest production change, they incremented the model number by ONE, quickly ending up with a mish-mosh of sluggish pizzaboxes that puzzled we salespeople almost as much as prospective customers. It turned explaining the product line into alphabet soup.
- that horrible 'answering machine' contraption that Apple sold. Difficult for most customers to make work properly, and ate hard disk space.
- eWorld. I think that was in the article. No need to floss a dead horse.
- the stupid hockey puck mouse that was sold with the first wave of iMacs. Annoying beyond belief. How that thing made it out of the Apple ergonomics department is beyond me.
In light of the abysmal failures of the first two prequels, I'd suggest that this poor loser needs to get a life.
There was one Star Wars movie worth the type of fanaticism that some 'fans' have been showing: The Empire Strikes back. And that was 25 years ago, most likely before this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles enthusiast was born.
You're late, my friend.
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I agree.
And not to be all tin-foiled-hat about it, but I'd suggest we solve the problem of illegal aliens from Mexico first, then tend to transportation issues.
Moreover, I recall reading that Oklahoma has perhaps the largest concentration of Muslims in the US. It doesn't take a great leap of intellect to consider that some of those persons might not have warm and fuzzy feelings about the us, and would employ the Sgt. Schultzes-as-border-guards, plus this glorious new highway to Okee, and, well, you'd have a bit of a way-station for evildoing field trips.
Of course, that could never happen, and this is just racist blathering from me...
This creates a self-fulfilling prophesy, where the kid is not trusted enough to drive responsibly and so drive irresponsibly.
The greater problem here is that the concept of 'teen years' has been manufactured and perpetuated in the last 50 years by [pick your culprit here]. That is, a certain time when kids live off their parents, indulge in conspicuous consumption, and are somehow allowed to make a myriad of mistakes before they are expected to act like adults.
Whereas, up until the 40s and 50s, young people were expected to work, go to college, or learn a trade in an apprenticeship, they're now allowed some sort of Disney/neverland, fatuous existence, where they go to college, buy a Che poster, grow dreadlocks, and generally act like adolescents well into their early 20s.
To sum up: Whereas in previous generations, responsibility was expected, today we give our kids way too much rope to hang themselves with, then use technology like this in some inane, misguided attempt to reign them in.
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OMFG that was the most pedantic piece of gibberish I've tried to read in a long time. Too much for my ADD. Can somebody summarize it in one or two sentences?
Absolutely perfect post. I could not have said it better and won't even try.
And not that you asked, but Craigslist jobs and gigs section has turned into a Mobius curve of suckitude, with pie-in-the-sky, crack-addled job descriptions and requirements, and a general aura of 'we want something for nothing, and we're hiring!!11!1'
I suspect that NOT fact-checking non-fiction books will, over time, be even more costly.
I'm getting pretty irritated with the amount of money which is continuously poured into AIDS research. There are dozens of other diseases which deserve more attention, NONE of which can be prevented by something as simple as wrapping your pecker, for instance.
Many companies hire whomever is trained in what the company needs. The problem is that once the company needs a worker who knows X--and you don't--you'll find yourself laid off.
The company sees it as easier and less expensive to hire workers, burn them out, refuse to pay for new education, and hire those who have paid for their own training.
Disgusting, but true. The bright side of this phenomenon is that word tends to get around, and after 2-3 years, finds itself tacitly 'blacklisted' among IT workers in that city.
There's still racism in hiring practices, but these days it's in favor of non-whites.
Having worked at a lily-white organization in a large northeastern city, this phenomenon became apparent when I noticed, over the course of some five odd years, middle management was falling over themselves to hire black sysadmins and support staff.
Some of these people were less than qualified, but what could anybody do? They're there to increase the minority head count, so management isn't going to fire them. This has a detrimental effect on morale, but non-minorities can't do a thing but pick up the slack, knowing they'll never be fired.
Worst of all, this has a terrible effect on the minorities who are well-qualified: They're brought on to do a job and other folks in the department automatically think: "oh...we're going to have to pick up the slack for this one...damn".
This law is unenforceable, and it's likely the only enforcement this receives will be selective. Which is very, very bad.
Worse yet, the people this law most stands to benefit are politicians and their ilk.
Here's to seeing this law get seriously pwnt in court when it's challenged by the ACLU.
I agree with this. It seems like a good concept, but as the owner of an almost-20-year-old daily driver BMW, (which has been remarkably reliable for the last 6+ years that I've owned it) I'd hate to see what this looks like when all that extra plumbing gets old.
"'We are confident that our version of 'text' books will genuinely help thousands of students remember key plots and quotes, and raise up educational standards rather than decrease levels of literacy,'"
Chocolate christ on a stick.
The home audio industry (and to a great extent, pro as well) can be summed up as:
Whatever newfangled, over-hyped technology (x) tacked onto (n) existing hardware = more marketable snake oil for the gullible audiophile market. More fodder for the magazines and something to blab about at CEDIA.
This was explained to me by a marketing manager at one such DSP/audio company almost ten years ago.
Nothing's changed.
Exactly. I'm sure he was one of the ones proclaiming the Segway as destined to change the space-time continuum, also.
If Microsoft is do damned picky about who they hire, why, after all these years, does their software suck so badly?
Dumb survey, dumb methodology, dumb people.
And not that anybody's asked, but "Hostway"? Reminds me of "Safeway"...which quickly makes me think of Bon-Bon eating, Oprah-watching people who buy those magazines at the grocery checkout counter.
In other words, move along people; nothing to see here...
Both watershed instruments of their day.
;-) For anybody who wants a sample (heh) of what the Fairlight CMI can do, Jan Hammer really brought it to the fore with his contributions to the 'Miami Vice' sountrack. I believe the CMI is also on Herbie Hancock's 'Future Shock' album and his others of the mid-80s.
I got to meet Dr. Moog (rhymes with 'vogue') about ten years ago. Affable, intelligent guy. He's the Les Paul/Leo Fender of the synthesizer. His current company is Big Briar, which make very cool (albeit expensive) effects pedals.
Fairlight: The "original" OS9!
Will Lucas ever stop engaging in Star Wars necrophilia?
Apparently not.
No.
Blogging is not journalism. Please stop asking.
While useful in it's own right, the lack of copy-editing and fact checking--to name just two issues--makes blogging, at best, and outlet for editorializing.
Blockbuster is circling the drain, anyway. I doubt if the public will rue their loss.
They've had a good run--draining their customer's pockets since the late 80s.
Good riddance.
Yes this is probably redundant, but it's worth repeating:
Get. A. Macintosh.
I'm not a citizen of California, but I'd suggest the pols there stop running the place like it's a welfare state and let people keep their damned money.
Very well said.
The blogging world is being touted (by other bloggers) as the Next Big Thing(tm). It is not.
How is blogging, when distilled to it's core elements, different than, say, Usenet, circa 1993?
It isn't--it's just in a different form.
The self-congratulatory talk of 'open source' blogging, blah blah blah is premature: If I 'm going to read news or commentary, I want it to be proofread, copy-edited, and I want an intelligent editor to be the gatekeeper holding the various trolls, tinfoil hats, and demagogues, at bay. At their very best, blogs do a mediocre job of this.
This kid clearly did not suffer through the mid-90s, when the Internet was gaining popularity and the great shoal of idiots stormed computer stores to get a Mac "because I heard it was easy to use" and load up one of those ubiquitous copies of "American Online".
I sold Macs the--along with their peripherals--for an awful (and now out of business) New England-based reseller. Along with inept and shifty-eyed management, we sales drones needed to suffer the Apple product line concocted in part by that former sugar-water selling guy and Gil Amelio. Herewith, a short list of the Apple products that always guaranteed heartburn:
- the Apple Centris series. IIRC, had some bizarre 'multimedia' chip that disliked a large number of MIDI software apps of the day.
- those horrible 6xxx series PowerMacs. When Apple made the slightest production change, they incremented the model number by ONE, quickly ending up with a mish-mosh of sluggish pizzaboxes that puzzled we salespeople almost as much as prospective customers. It turned explaining the product line into alphabet soup.
- that horrible 'answering machine' contraption that Apple sold. Difficult for most customers to make work properly, and ate hard disk space.
- eWorld. I think that was in the article. No need to floss a dead horse.
- the stupid hockey puck mouse that was sold with the first wave of iMacs. Annoying beyond belief. How that thing made it out of the Apple ergonomics department is beyond me.
In light of the abysmal failures of the first two prequels, I'd suggest that this poor loser needs to get a life.
There was one Star Wars movie worth the type of fanaticism that some 'fans' have been showing: The Empire Strikes back. And that was 25 years ago, most likely before this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles enthusiast was born.
You're late, my friend.
I agree.
And not to be all tin-foiled-hat about it, but I'd suggest we solve the problem of illegal aliens from Mexico first, then tend to transportation issues.
Moreover, I recall reading that Oklahoma has perhaps the largest concentration of Muslims in the US. It doesn't take a great leap of intellect to consider that some of those persons might not have warm and fuzzy feelings about the us, and would employ the Sgt. Schultzes-as-border-guards, plus this glorious new highway to Okee, and, well, you'd have a bit of a way-station for evildoing field trips.
Of course, that could never happen, and this is just racist blathering from me...
This creates a self-fulfilling prophesy, where the kid is not trusted enough to drive responsibly and so drive irresponsibly.
The greater problem here is that the concept of 'teen years' has been manufactured and perpetuated in the last 50 years by [pick your culprit here]. That is, a certain time when kids live off their parents, indulge in conspicuous consumption, and are somehow allowed to make a myriad of mistakes before they are expected to act like adults.
Whereas, up until the 40s and 50s, young people were expected to work, go to college, or learn a trade in an apprenticeship, they're now allowed some sort of Disney/neverland, fatuous existence, where they go to college, buy a Che poster, grow dreadlocks, and generally act like adolescents well into their early 20s.
To sum up: Whereas in previous generations, responsibility was expected, today we give our kids way too much rope to hang themselves with, then use technology like this in some inane, misguided attempt to reign them in.
Well said.
I recall reading a quote somewhere, years ago:
"Democracy in it's purest form is nothing but mob rule."
Kudos to the framers of the Constitution for their genious in creating the electoral college.