I am a fairly skilled nerd with experience in digital and analog electronics testing, as well as some programming. I lost my job a while ago due to a sweatshop my old company opened in china.
I was out of work for a while and just recently was lucky enough to score a job working in an irrigation supply house... doing deliveries and stuff like that. I like so many/. readers grew up hearing that I was "lucky" to love computers because "thats where the money is". I don't care if I make 20k or 100k, I WANT TO BE A PROGRAMMER. it is a sad state of affairs when all this stuff gets sent over seas. Now we see cases like this where even remotely related jobs are sent away.
NAFTA SUCKS
world trade SUCKS
any american who HONESTLY believes otherwise SUCKS
Whatever you do... don't release a patch for these problems anymore.. I hear from an "industry leader" that exploits only happen after a patch is released.
better safe than sorry!!!
*CHANTING*
"JUST GIVE HUGS... don't fix bugs!"
"START FROM SCRATCH... don't release that patch!"
and...so on
Warning... OFF-Topic content below:
ok this reminds me of a high school english class that I had. I had this teacher, Mr. Tupper. I really liked to fuck with him. He was a good guy with a good sense of humor, so we were always joking around in class.
One day we get our weekly vocab. assignment and gullable is one of the words. Monday night every week we were supposed to go home and write down dictionary definitions of all the words. (I know... stupid busy work). Then for the rest of the week we would use that page of definitions to help with other assignments. This was a 10th grade class btw.
So I went home and did my homework but left the definition of gullable blank. Then the next day the teacher always looked at our homework to make sure we had it done (since we needed that page to do tuesdays work). I walked into class a couple minutes late (as usual). He took one look at my homework and asked why I didn't define gullable.
I told him it was really strange. I checked in 4 different dictionaries... all the ones at my house, and it wasn't in any of them. I told him even though I kind of know what it means I couldn't think of a good wording for the definition. I said I would really appreciate it if he would check his dictionary for me before we started class, so that I would be able to keep up.
He said OH sure... I can't imagine why that wouldn't be in there. Are you sure you were spelling it correctly? I said I was very careful and checked several times. Which dictionaries did you use? I looked at his bookshelf to see he had Webster's so I said Random house and one or two others. I said I thought maybe it was technically a slang word or something.
So he walked to the bookshelf determined to prove me wrong. He flipped through it and said oh... well it is in this one.
I said "REALLY?" wow... what does it say?
"someone who is easily fooled...."
at this point he gave me a dirty look and the class completely fell apart laughing. It took him several minutes to restore order in the classroom... and kids made fun of him for the rest of the year.
sorry.. I just had to share this one.
this is a terrible idea to have DARPA involved with the internet. I personally don't want my tax dollars powering some big tic tac toe machine.
Would you like to play a game?
This guy needs to check his priorities. He has all that crap with him just in case... but what if he gets laid?
Lets face it... nerds dont get that many chances... so we should all cary condoms at all times. It would be terrible to have the chance of a lifetime and not be prepared. They are much cheaper than child support and antibiotics.
this makes me think back to when I was young and my parents took me on a tour of a nearby dam where our electricity was generated. I thought it was a lot of fun. I shudder to think of the psychological effects of taking a small child on a tour of these power plants of the future.
I am beginning to think we can't ever get rid of spam through legal measures. I am not an expert on the subject... an I admit that I haven't paid that much attention to it. IT just feels like this is gonna be another case where the US or any other country can't control the global internet. We make it illegal and it isn't going to go away... it might go overseas...
I am convinced that the answer lies in spam filtration. If we stay one technological step ahead of the spammers, they will have to find some other way to make money. I suppose the next problem will be that not all email providers will implement the filters.. but having free software out there to do it will surely increase the number of filtered servers out there.
I think that clients with built in filters (see like stuff from mozilla are a good option). If more people would use these type of clients, it would really hurt spammers.
I have an email address that I have been using for a while now and I have not yet recieved ANY spam (thanks to the good admins of that server I am sure). So if more servers were like that one spam could be a thing of the past.
I love those old games. I hear people argue for emulators that nintendo isn't using those old roms anyway.... well I think this is shortsighted. I mean we HAVE been seeing nintendo re-release some of these old games in various forms. The laws allow them intellectual property rights over these programs... and you cant blame them for trying to excercise those rights. They may yet have plans for the old games they own.
I am torn. The free software nut in me wants these legal battles to go away. but the truth is that most or ALL of those games would never have been written for free. I love free software... I am not perfect... but nearly all of the software I use is free.
I can't forget however, that I am the guy that grew up with an NES controller in my hand. I have never been a kid that spent a TON of time on it. I was just as likely to go outside and play as I was to sit down and play nintendo. OTOH I have spent much of my more recent life studying computers and software, and I realize that I owe that to those years of playing good old copyrighted, proprietary, video games.
When I was a kid I didn't worry about making RMS cry. I was too busy trying to figure out what that guy in zelda meant when he said "Master using this And you can have it!". I certainly don't think it should be illegal to make an emulator, or rip your roms for you own use. I strongly believe I should be able to do anything I want with the hardware I own (unless it causes some problem in society, like the death of my neighbors from radiation exposure). This issue DOES illustrate however, what is in my opinion a grey area in the free software movement.
This is the only area where I still have reservations about which side of the fence I want to be on. When I think that great games like Contra wouldn't have been created without the proprietary game market... I feel that maybe us free software guys should be careful what we wish for. Sure there are great free games out now. Bzflag is a good example. But Go look up NES on ebay and think about how many THOUSANDS of console games are out there. I want all these legal troubles to be a thing of the past... but at the same time I DON'T want to hurt the market that created these games.
I mean this in reference to all the articles saying C is dead lately... not JUST this one.
look... I am very tired of people overgeneralizing stuff like this. C is dead... define dead in the context of programming languages. Last I checked C was never ALIVE. People decide they don't like something these days and they decide it must not usefull to other people either. In my eyes the strength of open source is that it offers a broad range of choices. If Mono...or Bill Gates... or ANYBODY decides something is dead, does that mean I am not allowed to use it anymore?
Bah, I am sick of this. I still enjoy getting out my old Nintendo Entertainment System and playing a few old games. This is completely contrary to the people who told me it was DEAD when SNES was released. I may not use that nintendo as often as before... but I still find it usefull. If something is of less use than when it was new... should we declare it dead? of course not. I will feel very free to write software in any language I wish. I will feel very free to write software in a language that is not well suited to the task... if that fires my rocket. Many of us are having trouble finding programming jobs... but work on open source for various reasons. My reason is plain old FUN.
Maybe tomorrow I will decide it would be FUN to write a game in cobol. but COBOL is DEAD you say... well sue me. sorry. I am bored tonight and getting rather worked up over stuff that shouldn't bother me.
I am gonna go to bed and try to have happy dreams... dreams where I don't feel like I am surrounded by idiots.
well one difference is that looking at pr0n in linux doesn't make me feel as guilty as if I did it in windows.
I figure...yeah I am making jesus sad...but at least I am supporting free software.
I wish someone would show me how to do this on the nintendo 64. Perfect dark was one of my altime favorite games...but it is truely unplayable in some situations. For example if you play the cooperative mode... the frame rate is absolutely terrible.
Ok.. so what you do is you heat up your soldering iron and you burn a small hole in the corner of the disk. This will cause the bios to detect massive amounts of free disk space.
and best of all... it is completely reliable storage!
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I am a fairly skilled nerd with experience in digital and analog electronics testing, as well as some programming. I lost my job a while ago due to a sweatshop my old company opened in china.
/. readers grew up hearing that I was "lucky" to love computers because "thats where the money is". I don't care if I make 20k or 100k, I WANT TO BE A PROGRAMMER. it is a sad state of affairs when all this stuff gets sent over seas. Now we see cases like this where even remotely related jobs are sent away.
I was out of work for a while and just recently was lucky enough to score a job working in an irrigation supply house... doing deliveries and stuff like that. I like so many
NAFTA SUCKS
world trade SUCKS
any american who HONESTLY believes otherwise SUCKS
Whatever you do... don't release a patch for these problems anymore.. I hear from an "industry leader" that exploits only happen after a patch is released.
better safe than sorry!!!
*CHANTING*
"JUST GIVE HUGS... don't fix bugs!"
"START FROM SCRATCH... don't release that patch!"
and...so on
Warning... OFF-Topic content below: ok this reminds me of a high school english class that I had. I had this teacher, Mr. Tupper. I really liked to fuck with him. He was a good guy with a good sense of humor, so we were always joking around in class. One day we get our weekly vocab. assignment and gullable is one of the words. Monday night every week we were supposed to go home and write down dictionary definitions of all the words. (I know... stupid busy work). Then for the rest of the week we would use that page of definitions to help with other assignments. This was a 10th grade class btw. So I went home and did my homework but left the definition of gullable blank. Then the next day the teacher always looked at our homework to make sure we had it done (since we needed that page to do tuesdays work). I walked into class a couple minutes late (as usual). He took one look at my homework and asked why I didn't define gullable. I told him it was really strange. I checked in 4 different dictionaries... all the ones at my house, and it wasn't in any of them. I told him even though I kind of know what it means I couldn't think of a good wording for the definition. I said I would really appreciate it if he would check his dictionary for me before we started class, so that I would be able to keep up. He said OH sure... I can't imagine why that wouldn't be in there. Are you sure you were spelling it correctly? I said I was very careful and checked several times. Which dictionaries did you use? I looked at his bookshelf to see he had Webster's so I said Random house and one or two others. I said I thought maybe it was technically a slang word or something. So he walked to the bookshelf determined to prove me wrong. He flipped through it and said oh... well it is in this one. I said "REALLY?" wow... what does it say? "someone who is easily fooled...." at this point he gave me a dirty look and the class completely fell apart laughing. It took him several minutes to restore order in the classroom... and kids made fun of him for the rest of the year. sorry.. I just had to share this one.
I think I hear the rusty gears of the change machine.... They are creaking and grinding... are they starting to move?
god I hope so.
lets all keep our fingers crossed that we see a lot more stories like this in the near future.
"...and it's all thanks to YES-I-Can-ibus"
At least then I would HAVE a job
lunchtime whackin booth...
need I say more?
this is a terrible idea to have DARPA involved with the internet. I personally don't want my tax dollars powering some big tic tac toe machine.
Would you like to play a game?
This guy needs to check his priorities. He has all that crap with him just in case... but what if he gets laid?
Lets face it... nerds dont get that many chances... so we should all cary condoms at all times. It would be terrible to have the chance of a lifetime and not be prepared. They are much cheaper than child support and antibiotics.
this makes me think back to when I was young and my parents took me on a tour of a nearby dam where our electricity was generated. I thought it was a lot of fun. I shudder to think of the psychological effects of taking a small child on a tour of these power plants of the future.
I am beginning to think we can't ever get rid of spam through legal measures. I am not an expert on the subject... an I admit that I haven't paid that much attention to it. IT just feels like this is gonna be another case where the US or any other country can't control the global internet. We make it illegal and it isn't going to go away... it might go overseas...
I am convinced that the answer lies in spam filtration. If we stay one technological step ahead of the spammers, they will have to find some other way to make money. I suppose the next problem will be that not all email providers will implement the filters.. but having free software out there to do it will surely increase the number of filtered servers out there.
I think that clients with built in filters (see like stuff from mozilla are a good option). If more people would use these type of clients, it would really hurt spammers.
I have an email address that I have been using for a while now and I have not yet recieved ANY spam (thanks to the good admins of that server I am sure). So if more servers were like that one spam could be a thing of the past.
I love those old games. I hear people argue for emulators that nintendo isn't using those old roms anyway.... well I think this is shortsighted. I mean we HAVE been seeing nintendo re-release some of these old games in various forms. The laws allow them intellectual property rights over these programs... and you cant blame them for trying to excercise those rights. They may yet have plans for the old games they own.
I am torn. The free software nut in me wants these legal battles to go away. but the truth is that most or ALL of those games would never have been written for free. I love free software... I am not perfect... but nearly all of the software I use is free.
I can't forget however, that I am the guy that grew up with an NES controller in my hand. I have never been a kid that spent a TON of time on it. I was just as likely to go outside and play as I was to sit down and play nintendo. OTOH I have spent much of my more recent life studying computers and software, and I realize that I owe that to those years of playing good old copyrighted, proprietary, video games.
When I was a kid I didn't worry about making RMS cry. I was too busy trying to figure out what that guy in zelda meant when he said "Master using this And you can have it!". I certainly don't think it should be illegal to make an emulator, or rip your roms for you own use. I strongly believe I should be able to do anything I want with the hardware I own (unless it causes some problem in society, like the death of my neighbors from radiation exposure). This issue DOES illustrate however, what is in my opinion a grey area in the free software movement.
This is the only area where I still have reservations about which side of the fence I want to be on. When I think that great games like Contra wouldn't have been created without the proprietary game market... I feel that maybe us free software guys should be careful what we wish for. Sure there are great free games out now. Bzflag is a good example. But Go look up NES on ebay and think about how many THOUSANDS of console games are out there. I want all these legal troubles to be a thing of the past... but at the same time I DON'T want to hurt the market that created these games.
I just don't know what the answer is anymore.
I mean this in reference to all the articles saying C is dead lately... not JUST this one. look... I am very tired of people overgeneralizing stuff like this. C is dead... define dead in the context of programming languages. Last I checked C was never ALIVE. People decide they don't like something these days and they decide it must not usefull to other people either. In my eyes the strength of open source is that it offers a broad range of choices. If Mono...or Bill Gates... or ANYBODY decides something is dead, does that mean I am not allowed to use it anymore? Bah, I am sick of this. I still enjoy getting out my old Nintendo Entertainment System and playing a few old games. This is completely contrary to the people who told me it was DEAD when SNES was released. I may not use that nintendo as often as before... but I still find it usefull. If something is of less use than when it was new... should we declare it dead? of course not. I will feel very free to write software in any language I wish. I will feel very free to write software in a language that is not well suited to the task... if that fires my rocket. Many of us are having trouble finding programming jobs... but work on open source for various reasons. My reason is plain old FUN. Maybe tomorrow I will decide it would be FUN to write a game in cobol. but COBOL is DEAD you say... well sue me. sorry. I am bored tonight and getting rather worked up over stuff that shouldn't bother me. I am gonna go to bed and try to have happy dreams... dreams where I don't feel like I am surrounded by idiots.
I've been doing this for years look
well one difference is that looking at pr0n in linux doesn't make me feel as guilty as if I did it in windows. I figure...yeah I am making jesus sad...but at least I am supporting free software.
I wish someone would show me how to do this on the nintendo 64. Perfect dark was one of my altime favorite games...but it is truely unplayable in some situations. For example if you play the cooperative mode... the frame rate is absolutely terrible.
peebles also said one of the deciding factors was that the computers remind him of his favorite... CARBON flavored jolly ranchers.
Ok.. so what you do is you heat up your soldering iron and you burn a small hole in the corner of the disk. This will cause the bios to detect massive amounts of free disk space. and best of all... it is completely reliable storage!
Here it is! Really... did you think nobody would have done this yet?