I think we all have become too comfortable in our collective knowledge of the solar system. The only problem is we don't really know that much at all. A lot of Astronomy 101 textbooks are going to be re-written in the next couple of decades.
I don't think the logos aren't similar enough to prove an infringement of trademark, especially international. This is going to be a big waste of money and time for Apple. Why attack Aussie businesses with fruity logos anyway? Don't they have anything better to do? Like, maybe fix the iMac "Big Yellow Line" display problems.
What a great use for a good ol' SparcStation! Hmmm.... as long as I don't end up in an HP 9000, I'll be eternally happy.
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I think this poster was trying to point out that in some cases smoking kills people. Where's the logic in paying high taxes on a product that has no lasting benefit to your health, family, etc.? A cigarette gives a few moments of weak pleasure. Is it really worth your money and health? (BTW, I just started again, so I'm not some high-and-mighty jerk who's above taking a drag off a smoke now and then. I just think this poster was trying to help people understand that death from smoking is real and it does suck)
I couldn't agree more. 20 years ago the energy and the creativity I witnessed in *everyday* IT was inspiring. Now, *everyday* IT is just boring and low-quality no matter how hard the people work at it. The technology, and it's application, is a self-referencing limit on progress.
1. Stupid people with money decide to do something to make even more money.
2. The stupid people hire smarter people to develop their idea and make it a reality.
3. The stupid people use the fruits of the smarter people's work to make millions or billions.
4. The stupid people squander the millions on cars, planes, boats, houses, fine dining, whores, and cocaine.
5. The smart people get laid off or fired and are left to go suck up to the next group of dumb people with money in order to support their families.
6. The stupid people repeat the cycle using their friend's money because they now have a track record of "generating millions/billions in income".
So who's really dumb and who's really smart? Is it the prostitute or the patron?
From 20+ years experience I can confirm that my personal productivity is greater when developing in "Anarchy" mode. When I work on a team that employs rigid methodologies I find that development output slows down significantly and that the resulting software is of no greater quality for the extra time spent building it. I also find that creativity is greatly reduced, and in many cases, devalued completely when using cookie-cutter techniques. This observation doesn't mean I don't see the value of discipline or patterns, but do I think programmers need to balance creativity and organization. It is the balance between power and control that allows something to navigate at high velocities. I suppose the same could be said for programming.
The Wii represents a successful deviation from the mainstream in console gaming. I hope this price drop helps them sell a zillion more units. They also proved that slick graphics only get you so far and that factors like fun, exercise, and creativity are still important to gamers.
Come on, everyone knows the moon is made out of cheese. I must say it is amazing that we actually know so little about the moon. If there was water on the moon, one would think we would have found it by now.
They probably don't want a bunch of hacking and tinkering of their product by the vast hordes of losers out there who get off on breaking protected devices.
Good coders get canned all the time. Often it's because they have and exercise integrity which equates to shitting on the kitchen floor in today's corporate environments. The advice in the article is entertaining but probably not practical. If you're on the chopping block there is little you can do to mitigate the outcome. It really depends on your *perceived* value to the organization. People are too smart and narcissistic to change their perception of you based on your bragging. Bragging used to work back when most people with power in an organization had absolutely no idea about technology. If I walk into work and start bragging about my work and skills today, my peers and superiors are just going to be annoyed and think I'm a jerk. Bragging about the team's successes, and how the current team is a cohesive unit, is better advice that may save not only your butt, but your entire team's as well.
If I had a huge fortune I would continue to develop software, but I'd probably pay younger folks to code. After you've written a few zillion lines of code the practice becomes trivial and modern tools are just boring to use. It's the design and the creative aspects that really light me up these days. I think it is also wise for people to share their wealth with open source developers. A lot of these cats get very little reward for their work. I make it a point to click the PayPal donate button whenever I download something useful. If I had a billion quid I would donate a whole lot more to the open source community.
Social networks are dangerous to secure organizations because they facilitate the very old and effective practice of social engineering. For example, one could use social networking sites to identify a person who works for a target organization, and then case or befriend that person to manipulate them, steal their identity, access rights, or even their entire computer. The most effective security is when people can't ascertain your employee's professional and personal associations. A skilled social engineer can do significant damage with basic information found on twitter, facebook, etc. Also, in my experience, low-tech threats like physical access, dumpster diving, bugging, and social engineering are far more effective and damaging than purely software and network-related security problems. Imagine how much trouble a disgruntled employee could cause with a bug in the boardroom.
Um, you just validated my entire argument in your fourth paragraph. So why the "Fuck You"?
Look, I wasn't calling Obama a Nazi. That would be ridiculous. I was simply pointing out the possibility of fascist tendencies in current U.S. politics. That is all.
I was not using terms incorrectly at all. To say that I was, is in fact, incorrect. Just because an untruth is popular doesn't make it true. Obama is closer to fascism than he is to conservatism- a plain, simple truth that the indoctrinated simply can't accept because of the social-political ramifications of fascism being related to Nazism. I thought slashdot peeps were supposed to be smart. All I'm seeing here is a regurgitation of wikipedia text and very weak arguments based on liberal rhetoric.
I never said Bush was a Saint or even a good leader. My post isn't well modded either. I was making a joke and pointing out easily verifiable similarities between two world leaders. I honestly didn't expect anyone to respond to the original post.
It's not about right or left. It is about the Third Way. If you knew anything about economic policy, you'd understand my posts. Fascism does not, by default, equal nazism.
I find it interesting that I'm presenting a very simple and clear idea without attacking anyone, but I'm being attacked and called ignorant or uneducated. To me, that kind of communication is both ignorant and uneducated. I went to college, I got good grades, I also knew better than to believe everything my stoned, pseudo-liberal professors told me.
1. Assuming I'm uneducated is, well, uneducated.
2. I never mentioned socialism or socialist nations.
3. I've been to almost all the nations you cite, none are like Nazi Germany and I have no problem with modern socialism.
4. The comments I made ARE verifiable and objective. Hitler and Obama were both "Men of the Year", they both support leftist, progressive, and fringe-science ideas and their fundamentals were/are rooted in fascism. Look it up.
The fact that you call me "ignorant" for typing a post containing facts that any undergrad could cite leads me to believe that you are offended by my statements in some way. That wasn't my objective. I was simply pointing out parallels in two world leader's political profiles.
Because their political ideals are closer than one would expect. Go read up on nazism, and fascism. You'll see the similarities these ways of thinking have with Obama's "progressive" initiatives. There is a form of governing called the "Third way" that Bill Clinton made famous, but is actually a well-known facet of fascism and Obama is practicing it everyday. Americans are too high, stupid, and brainwashed through academia, to realize that their nation is falling into really dark territory. I don't think Obama is a evil person like Hitler obviously was, but they share startling political traits. Look it up. I really noticed the similarities after I saw an video Obama ran in classrooms asking children to pledge themselves to Obama. Not to the President, or to the U.S., but to Obama. The video has his logo in it but no presidential seal. It reminded me of Nazi Germany when Hitler ran the exact same campaign to indoctrinate Nazi youth - except the symbol was a swastika.
When are U.S. citizens going to realize they voted in an administration bent on destroying the U.S. through greenwashing, corruption, and fascism?
1938 Time Magazine "Man of the Year": Adolf Hitler, who nationalized trade, healthcare, and promoted economical transportation (VolksWagon).
2008 Time Magazine "Man of the Year": Barack Obama, trying to nationalize trade, healthcare, and is promoting economical transportation.
Hmmm...... Now they want to store government data along side millions of videos of kids lighting their farts on fire. When is Chuck Norris going to go to D.C. and just kick everyone's asses?
Being patient, supportive, and doing something worthwhile with your knowledge, like teaching others who may not be as smart, is much more difficult and should be rewarded. I won't hire a person who is abrasive or rude no matter how "good" they think they are. I can always find someone as talented who's not a jerk.
How can a concrete, environmentally controlled, power sucking, place people drive to be considered green? Oh, I know, they're using 36 Watt light bulbs in the broom closets.
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I think we all have become too comfortable in our collective knowledge of the solar system. The only problem is we don't really know that much at all. A lot of Astronomy 101 textbooks are going to be re-written in the next couple of decades.
I don't think the logos aren't similar enough to prove an infringement of trademark, especially international. This is going to be a big waste of money and time for Apple. Why attack Aussie businesses with fruity logos anyway? Don't they have anything better to do? Like, maybe fix the iMac "Big Yellow Line" display problems.
What a great use for a good ol' SparcStation! Hmmm.... as long as I don't end up in an HP 9000, I'll be eternally happy.
I think this poster was trying to point out that in some cases smoking kills people. Where's the logic in paying high taxes on a product that has no lasting benefit to your health, family, etc.? A cigarette gives a few moments of weak pleasure. Is it really worth your money and health? (BTW, I just started again, so I'm not some high-and-mighty jerk who's above taking a drag off a smoke now and then. I just think this poster was trying to help people understand that death from smoking is real and it does suck)
Now I can submit my Michael Vick Dog Fighting game to the app store.
I couldn't agree more. 20 years ago the energy and the creativity I witnessed in *everyday* IT was inspiring. Now, *everyday* IT is just boring and low-quality no matter how hard the people work at it. The technology, and it's application, is a self-referencing limit on progress.
Here's how it works:
1. Stupid people with money decide to do something to make even more money.
2. The stupid people hire smarter people to develop their idea and make it a reality.
3. The stupid people use the fruits of the smarter people's work to make millions or billions.
4. The stupid people squander the millions on cars, planes, boats, houses, fine dining, whores, and cocaine.
5. The smart people get laid off or fired and are left to go suck up to the next group of dumb people with money in order to support their families.
6. The stupid people repeat the cycle using their friend's money because they now have a track record of "generating millions/billions in income".
So who's really dumb and who's really smart? Is it the prostitute or the patron?
From 20+ years experience I can confirm that my personal productivity is greater when developing in "Anarchy" mode. When I work on a team that employs rigid methodologies I find that development output slows down significantly and that the resulting software is of no greater quality for the extra time spent building it. I also find that creativity is greatly reduced, and in many cases, devalued completely when using cookie-cutter techniques. This observation doesn't mean I don't see the value of discipline or patterns, but do I think programmers need to balance creativity and organization. It is the balance between power and control that allows something to navigate at high velocities. I suppose the same could be said for programming.
The Wii represents a successful deviation from the mainstream in console gaming. I hope this price drop helps them sell a zillion more units. They also proved that slick graphics only get you so far and that factors like fun, exercise, and creativity are still important to gamers.
Come on, everyone knows the moon is made out of cheese. I must say it is amazing that we actually know so little about the moon. If there was water on the moon, one would think we would have found it by now.
They probably don't want a bunch of hacking and tinkering of their product by the vast hordes of losers out there who get off on breaking protected devices.
Good coders get canned all the time. Often it's because they have and exercise integrity which equates to shitting on the kitchen floor in today's corporate environments. The advice in the article is entertaining but probably not practical. If you're on the chopping block there is little you can do to mitigate the outcome. It really depends on your *perceived* value to the organization. People are too smart and narcissistic to change their perception of you based on your bragging. Bragging used to work back when most people with power in an organization had absolutely no idea about technology. If I walk into work and start bragging about my work and skills today, my peers and superiors are just going to be annoyed and think I'm a jerk. Bragging about the team's successes, and how the current team is a cohesive unit, is better advice that may save not only your butt, but your entire team's as well.
If I had a huge fortune I would continue to develop software, but I'd probably pay younger folks to code. After you've written a few zillion lines of code the practice becomes trivial and modern tools are just boring to use. It's the design and the creative aspects that really light me up these days. I think it is also wise for people to share their wealth with open source developers. A lot of these cats get very little reward for their work. I make it a point to click the PayPal donate button whenever I download something useful. If I had a billion quid I would donate a whole lot more to the open source community.
Social networks are dangerous to secure organizations because they facilitate the very old and effective practice of social engineering. For example, one could use social networking sites to identify a person who works for a target organization, and then case or befriend that person to manipulate them, steal their identity, access rights, or even their entire computer. The most effective security is when people can't ascertain your employee's professional and personal associations. A skilled social engineer can do significant damage with basic information found on twitter, facebook, etc. Also, in my experience, low-tech threats like physical access, dumpster diving, bugging, and social engineering are far more effective and damaging than purely software and network-related security problems. Imagine how much trouble a disgruntled employee could cause with a bug in the boardroom.
This will match my new cardboard house!
Um, you just validated my entire argument in your fourth paragraph. So why the "Fuck You"?
Look, I wasn't calling Obama a Nazi. That would be ridiculous. I was simply pointing out the possibility of fascist tendencies in current U.S. politics. That is all.
I was not using terms incorrectly at all. To say that I was, is in fact, incorrect. Just because an untruth is popular doesn't make it true. Obama is closer to fascism than he is to conservatism- a plain, simple truth that the indoctrinated simply can't accept because of the social-political ramifications of fascism being related to Nazism. I thought slashdot peeps were supposed to be smart. All I'm seeing here is a regurgitation of wikipedia text and very weak arguments based on liberal rhetoric.
I never said Bush was a Saint or even a good leader. My post isn't well modded either. I was making a joke and pointing out easily verifiable similarities between two world leaders. I honestly didn't expect anyone to respond to the original post.
Yes, but I didn't equate Nazism with current socialist movements. And, thank you for pointing out that Nazism indeed involves leftist thinking.
It's not about right or left. It is about the Third Way. If you knew anything about economic policy, you'd understand my posts. Fascism does not, by default, equal nazism.
I find it interesting that I'm presenting a very simple and clear idea without attacking anyone, but I'm being attacked and called ignorant or uneducated. To me, that kind of communication is both ignorant and uneducated. I went to college, I got good grades, I also knew better than to believe everything my stoned, pseudo-liberal professors told me.
1. Assuming I'm uneducated is, well, uneducated.
2. I never mentioned socialism or socialist nations.
3. I've been to almost all the nations you cite, none are like Nazi Germany and I have no problem with modern socialism.
4. The comments I made ARE verifiable and objective. Hitler and Obama were both "Men of the Year", they both support leftist, progressive, and fringe-science ideas and their fundamentals were/are rooted in fascism. Look it up.
The fact that you call me "ignorant" for typing a post containing facts that any undergrad could cite leads me to believe that you are offended by my statements in some way. That wasn't my objective. I was simply pointing out parallels in two world leader's political profiles.
Because their political ideals are closer than one would expect. Go read up on nazism, and fascism. You'll see the similarities these ways of thinking have with Obama's "progressive" initiatives. There is a form of governing called the "Third way" that Bill Clinton made famous, but is actually a well-known facet of fascism and Obama is practicing it everyday. Americans are too high, stupid, and brainwashed through academia, to realize that their nation is falling into really dark territory. I don't think Obama is a evil person like Hitler obviously was, but they share startling political traits. Look it up. I really noticed the similarities after I saw an video Obama ran in classrooms asking children to pledge themselves to Obama. Not to the President, or to the U.S., but to Obama. The video has his logo in it but no presidential seal. It reminded me of Nazi Germany when Hitler ran the exact same campaign to indoctrinate Nazi youth - except the symbol was a swastika.
When are U.S. citizens going to realize they voted in an administration bent on destroying the U.S. through greenwashing, corruption, and fascism?
1938 Time Magazine "Man of the Year": Adolf Hitler, who nationalized trade, healthcare, and promoted economical transportation (VolksWagon).
2008 Time Magazine "Man of the Year": Barack Obama, trying to nationalize trade, healthcare, and is promoting economical transportation.
Hmmm...... Now they want to store government data along side millions of videos of kids lighting their farts on fire. When is Chuck Norris going to go to D.C. and just kick everyone's asses?
Being patient, supportive, and doing something worthwhile with your knowledge, like teaching others who may not be as smart, is much more difficult and should be rewarded. I won't hire a person who is abrasive or rude no matter how "good" they think they are. I can always find someone as talented who's not a jerk.
How can a concrete, environmentally controlled, power sucking, place people drive to be considered green? Oh, I know, they're using 36 Watt light bulbs in the broom closets.