There is no reason a dedicated person can't learn pretty much any computer skill they want.
Please fly out to the Sudanese desert and make the same claim. I think you meant to say any dedicated *westerner*.
and we're not talking about my job, man. i already have a perfectly good job as a sysadmin:) I am just whining about that elitist attitude of "i'm better than you cuz i work more! You gonna go to Hell!!oneoneoneleventy!"
I never said "but it's too hard". and i certanly don't use the protestant work ethic to justify class struggle.
what i am saying though is that the social darwinism which you propose ("go home cuz you're not good enough") cannot possibly include all of society and it does reflect a certain attitude, which has led the western world during the 20th century.
How many are too afraid to take on a new job because they feel they might not measure up?
How many do not have the financial means to get training to get that jobs? have you seen those cisco training courses? bat crazy money
I would like to ask you what makes you think that *everybody* can work like that? or should work like that? what kind of attitude is that towards the 40-hour week? there was blood on the streets to win those 40 hours and now you're implying that we should go back to working day and night? I thought i worked to make a living, and not the other way around.
How many are too lazy to learn new skills because it might be hard, get in the way of WOW, or posting on boards?
How many are not willing to put in to learn new skills because they'd rather put their time towards raising their children or going out on a date or staying home with their girlfriend and oiling her hair/giving her a backrub?
maybe not everybody is lazy
Guess what, those working only 40 hours a day won't get anywhere.
not everybody has the same physical/psychological strength to work those hours. and by work i mean both make a living and learn something new. if you can do it, more kudos to you. why are you berating those who cannot? or will not? why are you creating a hypothetical social/work scale where everybody has to measure the size of their dick compared to yours?
furthermore, where are we supposed to go? wtf? is there a "destination" planned? cuz i didn't get the memo.
There are a lot of jobs out there. If you go through life in your 9 to 5 relying on things never changing you will get stung. When the job you had is lost it can be blamed on the economy many times, however not being able to get a new one rest on yourself more than not.
the idea of changing 4801840938 jobs in a lifetime may not be comforting to everybody for reasons of personal priorities and/or preference. i hate looking for a new job. it's draining me, psychologically. Life is not a dick measuring competition, again.
It's only in Western Capitalism that the idea of financial insecurity and instability pushing people into staying with there jobs
insert marxist rant here, but still, please get off your high horse. not everybody subscribes to the protestant ethic
The GPL (as is interpreted in the above example) isn't free at all. It is, in fact, adding limitations as to what one can and can't do with it to promote an idealism/agenda.
Freedom is not without restraint. Freedom, as it is defined in the GPL, is the ability of any end-user[1] to modify the source code. So, in that sence, it is free as in liberty [1] end-user::= {end-}end-user (BNF) the main idea is that in the face of an ever shrinking freely-usable-by-anyone codebase, you are more constrained as a programmer to implement a solution. Hypothesis, please criticize: The ultimate goal of the GPL is the abolishment of IP rights. In Marxist terms i think that until the time when copyright/IP is abolished, any license other than the GPL would be counter-revolutionary, since any of them does not help enlarge the free software pool, but it helps enlarge the PD/IP pool. I would count even the BSD license as counter-revolutionary since it allows for source to be closed up again
What are you people smocking? which sysadmin/dba does not have to code? wtf?!?! my ~/src dir is close to 20mb full of C, python, bash shell scripts and SQL queries! and though i will admit of being quite high while coding some of that stuff, i do take full responsibility for creating most of that Frank-N-Furter code.
how the heck are you gonna just ofload/automate your work if you do not code?
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ok, it's nice to think that someone understands that i need to space our for a while. and it's a good thing you're giving out consoles.
so why do you then monitor their use? it's like taking the consoles back?
Sir, I have seen stars explode off the belt of orion.
and i wish i had mod points to give you
Pissed me off? nah, far from it
There is no reason a dedicated person can't learn pretty much any computer skill they want.
Please fly out to the Sudanese desert and make the same claim. I think you meant to say any dedicated *westerner*.
and we're not talking about my job, man. i already have a perfectly good job as a sysadmin :) I am just whining about that elitist attitude of "i'm better than you cuz i work more! You gonna go to Hell!!oneoneoneleventy!"
Tovarich,
What is this outcompeting you are talking about? Outcompete me from what? where?
I never said "but it's too hard". and i certanly don't use the protestant work ethic to justify class struggle.
what i am saying though is that the social darwinism which you propose ("go home cuz you're not good enough") cannot possibly include all of society and it does reflect a certain attitude, which has led the western world during the 20th century.
need more clearning up?
going out on a date, fulfils one ore many emotional and psychological needs, which allows you to grow as an human being.
but seeing your 7 digit id number and this being slashdot...
Let us ask other questions.
yes, lets
How many are too afraid to take on a new job because they feel they might not measure up?
How many do not have the financial means to get training to get that jobs? have you seen those cisco training courses? bat crazy money
I would like to ask you what makes you think that *everybody* can work like that? or should work like that? what kind of attitude is that towards the 40-hour week? there was blood on the streets to win those 40 hours and now you're implying that we should go back to working day and night? I thought i worked to make a living, and not the other way around.
How many are too lazy to learn new skills because it might be hard, get in the way of WOW, or posting on boards?
How many are not willing to put in to learn new skills because they'd rather put their time towards raising their children or going out on a date or staying home with their girlfriend and oiling her hair/giving her a backrub?
maybe not everybody is lazy
Guess what, those working only 40 hours a day won't get anywhere.
not everybody has the same physical/psychological strength to work those hours. and by work i mean both make a living and learn something new. if you can do it, more kudos to you. why are you berating those who cannot? or will not? why are you creating a hypothetical social/work scale where everybody has to measure the size of their dick compared to yours?
furthermore, where are we supposed to go? wtf? is there a "destination" planned? cuz i didn't get the memo.
There are a lot of jobs out there. If you go through life in your 9 to 5 relying on things never changing you will get stung. When the job you had is lost it can be blamed on the economy many times, however not being able to get a new one rest on yourself more than not.
the idea of changing 4801840938 jobs in a lifetime may not be comforting to everybody for reasons of personal priorities and/or preference. i hate looking for a new job. it's draining me, psychologically. Life is not a dick measuring competition, again.
It's only in Western Capitalism that the idea of financial insecurity and instability pushing people into staying with there jobs
insert marxist rant here, but still, please get off your high horse. not everybody subscribes to the protestant ethic
Wow, I just love their new artistic direction, this game will be a killer!"
What's with the sarcasm in the summary? Oh... he was being serious.
With any luck the designers will cough the location of the body and get reduced sentence.
replying to undo moderation
If syntax errors made computers explode into shrapnel, it would be more even.
How much do you want for that idea? I need some compilers like that where i work.
I'll answer that
The GPL (as is interpreted in the above example) isn't free at all. It is, in fact, adding limitations as to what one can and can't do with it to promote an idealism/agenda.
Freedom is not without restraint. Freedom, as it is defined in the GPL, is the ability of any end-user[1] to modify the source code. So, in that sence, it is free as in liberty ::= {end-}end-user (BNF)
[1] end-user
the main idea is that in the face of an ever shrinking freely-usable-by-anyone codebase, you are more constrained as a programmer to implement a solution.
Hypothesis, please criticize:
The ultimate goal of the GPL is the abolishment of IP rights. In Marxist terms i think that until the time when copyright/IP is abolished, any license other than the GPL would be counter-revolutionary, since any of them does not help enlarge the free software pool, but it helps enlarge the PD/IP pool. I would count even the BSD license as counter-revolutionary since it allows for source to be closed up again
Alright, OJ, calm down...
and lose your chance to recieve a shiny orange crowbar and maybe some cake? NOWAI!
What are you people smocking? which sysadmin/dba does not have to code? wtf?!?! my ~/src dir is close to 20mb full of C, python, bash shell scripts and SQL queries! and though i will admit of being quite high while coding some of that stuff, i do take full responsibility for creating most of that Frank-N-Furter code.
how the heck are you gonna just ofload/automate your work if you do not code?
All H{e,ai}ll from the Scary Devil Monastery,
A Brother in A[rl]ms
90% of the time the headline gives me enough information
You must be new around slashdot...Churn the hype mill much?
> Silicon Valley's highest-ranking female programmers
[Citation needed]
highest ranking as what? who's on top? what's my ranking? shit, i need to level, wtf?
I guess the only thing i could say as a reply to such crap is
"Bring it"
UML was just an idea to communicate ideas.
Then came in the PHBs and thought that they could get rid of the programming part by converting the diagrams into code.
FAIL.
you forgot to mention Hitler.
You and Ayn Rand!
If i was using my router all the time, it wouldn't be a $30 router.
as it is not: i got a cisco 1841 with an adsl module on it.
thanks :)