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1) Technical Skills - The skills actually needed to do your job. Essential.
Irrelevant. Lots of morons getting paid well that can't do shit. Lots of highly skilled folks underemployed.
2) People Skills - The skills to actually talk to people and convince them that you're not an idiot. Convincing people that you're worth the time and the money is the 2nd most important skill you can have.
Absolutely; however, if you never get the chance to talk to someone, does it really matter?
I am in a similar position to you: No degree and making much more than most of my "friends" who did get a four year degree. Let's be real here, there was a large chunk of luck involved to even get where we are regardless of the primary two skills that you listed.
Have you ever tried to get a teenager to defrag his room?
Yes. I tried for years and years. Then I had an idea which was quite weird. I told him that I do not care about his room, just no biological warfare lab stuff.
So one day, several months later, he asks if some friends can spend the night. I told him, "sure, not a problem."
The next day after his friends leave, he starts cleaning his room religiously and has kept it clean ever since. Why? Because he was embarassed by one of his friends comments on his room.
So simple. I wish I had thought of it earlier. I guess it depends on the friends though. Having a girl come over would have probably had the same effect.
Lucas is a phenomenal artist, but not in the way that we laud most artists. And, not in some obscure academic way either. He created an intriguing universe where I want to spin my own stories.
America's so selfish nowadays it doesn't deserve children.
Just wow. Such brutal negativity. Perhaps children are not top of their list for reasons other than selfishness such as the falling wages and outrageous costs of medical care? It seems rather irresponsible to bring a child into this world if you can not afford to provide proper care.
The whole point of teaching science is teaching kids the proper way to think and approach problems.
I think you are correct for the most part; however, I disagree with your exact wording. Please permit me to rephrase it for you:
The whole point of teaching science is teaching kids a very useful way to think and approach problems.
The word "proper" is the problem. I have had my eyes opened numerous times concerning what I thought was proper and useful and finding out that other modes are equally useful.
Someone needs to come up with a docking module on the dash, to which you can dock a standard device that can be upgraded over the years.
You need to understand WHY the manufacturers do what they do. It is so bad now that the ECU (Engine Control Unit) is part of the stereo on most vehicles now. The reason why they do this is so they can "differentiate" various price points to maximize their profit. If you could just drop in a new stereo system any time you wanted, it makes it more difficult to differentiate.
Of course, since you are prohibited from installing an aftermarket stereo, the manufacturer *must* build in the features that customers want, which all become obsolete within a few years. Meh. A pox on all auto manufacturers. Normal profit is not enough, they have to not give us what we want so they can make even more profits. Gotta maximize profits ya know. It is not like you can just build a quality car and make profits.
I have never really understood why many Americans are so hostile to unionization.
Because it will not work in America. All we will get are lost jobs and a corrupted union. Meh. It is better to sink slowly and enrich a few (the owners) than to sink quickly and enrich a few more (owners and union "officials").
American workers will be end up being paid the same wages that are paid in India and China, regardless of unions, but with MUCH higher monthly expenses to pay. The only question is when. Wages have been in free fall for the past decade.:(
When some debate arises, I don't mind; I just win.
Debates are not about winning, they are about airing ideas. What happens when you win? Someone else is now forced to follow your mode of thought? You get to treat them like shit? What is winning in this context?
Debates are a chance to reality check your ideas. Each person will still go away thinking whatever they want to think regardless of who won.
Now this doesn't mean all young adults/teens/kids like DRM it just means kids tend to accept what they grow up with and don't question what has always been there.
I disagree with your premise that people accept what they grow up with. Do not get me wrong, I am sure there is some level of acceptance for things that do not become an issue for a person; however, let me illustrate:
I bought a game called Armour Geddon published by Psygnosis for my Commodore Amiga. I was playing the game when suddenly the entire screen went black and had flashing red text saying something about a Guru Meditation Mode.
Now, this was the first "modern" computer that I had bought and to be quite honest, the flashing red text on a black background rather scared me. It seemed serious enough that I was worried about the hardware being damaged so I immediately ejected the disk and powered down the computer and thought for a while.
I then powered the computer back on and it booted up normally. With a sigh of relief, I inserted the Armour Geddon disk back into the floppy drive. Oops. I was actually supposed to boot off of the disk, not stick it in while the computer was booted up... but, the operating system told me that the disk was corrupted. I figured that the crash had corrupted the disk.
Fuck. That game cost me $30 and I was pretty damned poor at the time, but wait! The operating system says that it can FIX the disk. Hurray! So I telll it to fix the disk and it does. It fixed the corruption on the disk as promised and renamed the disk to Lazarus to indicate it had been brought back from the dead.
So I reboot the computer with my uncorrupted disk in and Armour Geddon does not run. WTF? So I call up someone more knowledgable than myself and ask what happened. I almost cried as he explained it to me:
The disk was sold with intentional corruption on it to prevent people from copying it and by "fixing" the corruption", I had destroyed the game.
If your kids do not care when this kind of shit happens to them, then they will never grow up to be interesting (to me) people. It has nothing to do with this or that generation being better, smarter, or more accepting with what they grew up with.
In conclusion, my friend introduced me to something called a BBS where I could download Armour Geddon again, but without the disk corruption. My moral strength is not perfect so I not only downloaded Armour Geddon, I downloaded everything else too. Fuck it. They took the first shot.
DRM is not unacceptable to me because I grew up without it and then it was forced on me, it is unacceptable to me because of what it does to me and takes away from me. It would be unacceptable whether or not I grew up with it.
Typical bean counter math. It could be $5 billion X 70 million units - some ridiculously huge number and and it does not matter
How about this: the unit goes from $300 to $325. The question actually is: What is the optimal price for the optimal experience to maximize the number of units sold? It is a foregone conclusion that a suboptimal experience will reduce the total amount of units sold; therefore, the costs of making an optimal experience should only be used to determine if the added price will reduce the total number of units sold.
Assuming the exact same profit per unit, all that matters is the number of units sold, not how much $25 per unit adds to the final build cost of billions of units. Meh. 1.75 billion dollars extra sounds like a lot. It absolutely is not.
Fuck you. Your morals disgust me. If people want to play slots, then it is not your place to judge them. Get over yourself.
I guess you find crack and cigarettes morally disgusting too? Fuck you again. Grow a spine and let others do what they will. If someone is crying that they chose to be addicted, help them if you want, but it is their fucking choice to do whatever the fuck they want with themselves... even if it leads them into areas that morally disgust you.
Diversity is a good thing, and it should be deliberately incorporated.
If by diversity you mean race and gender, you are wrong. Diversity in ideas is nice, but assuming that a black woman would think differently about an issue than a Chinese man is absurd. What if they both learned from the same book? They will likely have the same perspective.
As the parent said, there should be no effort to choose or not choose based on race or gender. You will get more diversity by examining where people learned their Ruby skills from and what environments they have been using them in than by using race and gender as discriminators. Meh to you sir.
Hm. Your comment got me to thinking about some experiences that I have had. Another comment further up in the comments helped to spark this thought:
It seems that our bodies need a certain amount of X in its diet. I am unsure what X is. Proteins? Carbohydrates? Some mixture of the two? I do not know, but I will call it X.
X is, apparently, very expensive. What is the best way to maximize profits in relation to X? Add Y. What is Y? Again, I do not know. Some sort of filler material that you can eat a lot of but will not directly kill you.
Okay, so our bodies want a certain amount of X but in order to get that amount of X, we are forced to eat very large amounts of Y. Y does not give our bodies energy but X does. Because we are eating large amounts of Y, we gain weight, calories without energy to burn them.
Long story short, do not eat any food which is mass produced. That includes beef, chicken, canned soups, etc. Unless you raise the animal or plant yourself, you are getting fed too much Y without enough X. Gotta make that extra profit since normal profit is not enough. Even better, the situation of too much Y can be blamed on the consumers for being too price conscious. "They forced us to do it", lol. Wheeee.:)
Considering that there is at least one exploitable vulnerability per month in Adobe plugins and the number of computers getting pwned through that vector, this is still a good thing... even if it is not as useful as something like flashblock or noscript. Can't have the user in control over their own experience now can we? External entities should be in control.
I'm really done with computer gaming. Now if you want to talk about how Netflix keeps me from using Linux, I'll be glad to talk.
Your title is: Games are why I have a PS3 (Score:4, Insightful)
Why you could not include that in your message is beyond me... but whatever. What I logged in to say is that you are full of shit. The PS3 can do Netflix just fine. If you can play games on the PS3, then you can use that same PS3 to watch Netflix. Netflix is NOT preventing you from using Linux.
Without an easy method of controlling scripting, it is still worthless. Why can't any browsers offer the functionality that No-script provides as a plug-in for Firefox? I mean, controlling the behavior of the browser seems like an obvious feature unless we are all supposed to passive consumers... I think I see a pattern here.
Their response, even after the Teamsters agreed, was "up yours". Shockingly, the company closed. The Baker's Union was greedy and assumed the owners were lying to them. They weren't. End of Story.
I dunno... I am sure the bakers union has members in other shops. Perhaps the death of Hostess was to set an example for the other companies they are dealing with, "Yes, we will kill you if you do not take us seriously."
Really, Hostess was going to die one way or another: The execs were giving themselves huge amounts of money when the company could not afford it. What do YOU think was going to happen?
I don't quite see, on a dedicated Linux system, how running anything in the kernel will improve things.
Context switches are horribly expensive. It is why Linux and the NT kernel are monolithic designs and micro-kernels have not really become mainstream.
I am unsure why a kernel has to run on all cores: Why not have the kernel reserve a core for itself and send off processes to other cores... possibly reserving an entire core for a single threaded process that requires maximum performance? Writing kernels is so painful. *sigh*
"The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii are nearing their end. As powerful as they have been in the living room, gamers want more."
Quoted from TFA. Am I the only one who wants LESS? I don't really want my game system to do 9 million things. I just want it to play games.
I read that quote differently than you did but I am likely the one who is misinterpreting. "Gamers want more" in this context meant to me more powerful hardware, more interesting graphics, and more interesting game play... not more functions, ads, social stuff, etc. *shrug*
I completely agree with you. I took a look at my son's Xbox 360 recently and I was almost sent into spasms of revulsion by the "front page" or whatever you call the initial screen. It was so busy with stuff. Absolutely terrible. I guess it makes money?
The US does all it can to be in the forefront, so it seems disingenuous for the USA to put itself in front, then claim everyone's looking at them.
I apologize. I was wrong. Reality really is that simple. It is all about America and how evil those in control of it are acting. There are no other forces in the entire world. It is all so simple and I just did not understand. Thank you for enlightening me.:)
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1) Technical Skills - The skills actually needed to do your job. Essential.
Irrelevant. Lots of morons getting paid well that can't do shit. Lots of highly skilled folks underemployed.
2) People Skills - The skills to actually talk to people and convince them that you're not an idiot. Convincing people that you're worth the time and the money is the 2nd most important skill you can have.
Absolutely; however, if you never get the chance to talk to someone, does it really matter?
I am in a similar position to you: No degree and making much more than most of my "friends" who did get a four year degree. Let's be real here, there was a large chunk of luck involved to even get where we are regardless of the primary two skills that you listed.
Breeding requires a male-to-female adaptor plug...
Hm. You do realize that the male has the proper plug and the female has the proper receptacle... right? ;)
Have you ever tried to get a teenager to defrag his room?
Yes. I tried for years and years. Then I had an idea which was quite weird. I told him that I do not care about his room, just no biological warfare lab stuff.
So one day, several months later, he asks if some friends can spend the night. I told him, "sure, not a problem."
The next day after his friends leave, he starts cleaning his room religiously and has kept it clean ever since. Why? Because he was embarassed by one of his friends comments on his room.
So simple. I wish I had thought of it earlier. I guess it depends on the friends though. Having a girl come over would have probably had the same effect.
Is this a weak CPU? Yep...
ROFLMAO. My first "real" computer had a CPU clocked at ~7mhz. The Wii U CPU only seems weak in comparison to what is currently available.
Lucas is a phenomenal artist, but not in the way that we laud most artists. And, not in some obscure academic way either. He created an intriguing universe where I want to spin my own stories.
I see your point... but Episode III? Noooooooo. ;)
Anyone can load new keys into the UEFI boot key-store no problems via the BIOS options.
For now, yes; however, have you actually tested whether or not any other key works?
Our population is far too high as is and it going shrinking some isn't a bad thing.
This article is about the USA. The USA does not have an overpopulation problem. There is plenty of space left to support people in the USA.
America's so selfish nowadays it doesn't deserve children.
Just wow. Such brutal negativity. Perhaps children are not top of their list for reasons other than selfishness such as the falling wages and outrageous costs of medical care? It seems rather irresponsible to bring a child into this world if you can not afford to provide proper care.
An outstanding refutation. Simple. Clear. Concise.
The whole point of teaching science is teaching kids the proper way to think and approach problems.
I think you are correct for the most part; however, I disagree with your exact wording. Please permit me to rephrase it for you:
The whole point of teaching science is teaching kids a very useful way to think and approach problems.
The word "proper" is the problem. I have had my eyes opened numerous times concerning what I thought was proper and useful and finding out that other modes are equally useful.
Someone needs to come up with a docking module on the dash, to which you can dock a standard device that can be upgraded over the years.
You need to understand WHY the manufacturers do what they do. It is so bad now that the ECU (Engine Control Unit) is part of the stereo on most vehicles now. The reason why they do this is so they can "differentiate" various price points to maximize their profit. If you could just drop in a new stereo system any time you wanted, it makes it more difficult to differentiate.
Of course, since you are prohibited from installing an aftermarket stereo, the manufacturer *must* build in the features that customers want, which all become obsolete within a few years. Meh. A pox on all auto manufacturers. Normal profit is not enough, they have to not give us what we want so they can make even more profits. Gotta maximize profits ya know. It is not like you can just build a quality car and make profits.
I have never really understood why many Americans are so hostile to unionization.
Because it will not work in America. All we will get are lost jobs and a corrupted union. Meh. It is better to sink slowly and enrich a few (the owners) than to sink quickly and enrich a few more (owners and union "officials").
American workers will be end up being paid the same wages that are paid in India and China, regardless of unions, but with MUCH higher monthly expenses to pay. The only question is when. Wages have been in free fall for the past decade. :(
When some debate arises, I don't mind; I just win.
Debates are not about winning, they are about airing ideas. What happens when you win? Someone else is now forced to follow your mode of thought? You get to treat them like shit? What is winning in this context?
Debates are a chance to reality check your ideas. Each person will still go away thinking whatever they want to think regardless of who won.
Now this doesn't mean all young adults/teens/kids like DRM it just means kids tend to accept what they grow up with and don't question what has always been there.
I disagree with your premise that people accept what they grow up with. Do not get me wrong, I am sure there is some level of acceptance for things that do not become an issue for a person; however, let me illustrate:
I bought a game called Armour Geddon published by Psygnosis for my Commodore Amiga. I was playing the game when suddenly the entire screen went black and had flashing red text saying something about a Guru Meditation Mode.
Now, this was the first "modern" computer that I had bought and to be quite honest, the flashing red text on a black background rather scared me. It seemed serious enough that I was worried about the hardware being damaged so I immediately ejected the disk and powered down the computer and thought for a while.
I then powered the computer back on and it booted up normally. With a sigh of relief, I inserted the Armour Geddon disk back into the floppy drive. Oops. I was actually supposed to boot off of the disk, not stick it in while the computer was booted up... but, the operating system told me that the disk was corrupted. I figured that the crash had corrupted the disk.
Fuck. That game cost me $30 and I was pretty damned poor at the time, but wait! The operating system says that it can FIX the disk. Hurray! So I telll it to fix the disk and it does. It fixed the corruption on the disk as promised and renamed the disk to Lazarus to indicate it had been brought back from the dead.
So I reboot the computer with my uncorrupted disk in and Armour Geddon does not run. WTF? So I call up someone more knowledgable than myself and ask what happened. I almost cried as he explained it to me:
The disk was sold with intentional corruption on it to prevent people from copying it and by "fixing" the corruption", I had destroyed the game.
If your kids do not care when this kind of shit happens to them, then they will never grow up to be interesting (to me) people. It has nothing to do with this or that generation being better, smarter, or more accepting with what they grew up with.
In conclusion, my friend introduced me to something called a BBS where I could download Armour Geddon again, but without the disk corruption. My moral strength is not perfect so I not only downloaded Armour Geddon, I downloaded everything else too. Fuck it. They took the first shot.
DRM is not unacceptable to me because I grew up without it and then it was forced on me, it is unacceptable to me because of what it does to me and takes away from me. It would be unacceptable whether or not I grew up with it.
$25 x 70 million units = $1.75 billion
Typical bean counter math. It could be $5 billion X 70 million units - some ridiculously huge number and and it does not matter
How about this: the unit goes from $300 to $325. The question actually is: What is the optimal price for the optimal experience to maximize the number of units sold? It is a foregone conclusion that a suboptimal experience will reduce the total amount of units sold; therefore, the costs of making an optimal experience should only be used to determine if the added price will reduce the total number of units sold.
Assuming the exact same profit per unit, all that matters is the number of units sold, not how much $25 per unit adds to the final build cost of billions of units. Meh. 1.75 billion dollars extra sounds like a lot. It absolutely is not.
Poker machines are morally disgusting
Fuck you. Your morals disgust me. If people want to play slots, then it is not your place to judge them. Get over yourself.
I guess you find crack and cigarettes morally disgusting too? Fuck you again. Grow a spine and let others do what they will. If someone is crying that they chose to be addicted, help them if you want, but it is their fucking choice to do whatever the fuck they want with themselves... even if it leads them into areas that morally disgust you.
Diversity is a good thing, and it should be deliberately incorporated.
If by diversity you mean race and gender, you are wrong. Diversity in ideas is nice, but assuming that a black woman would think differently about an issue than a Chinese man is absurd. What if they both learned from the same book? They will likely have the same perspective.
As the parent said, there should be no effort to choose or not choose based on race or gender. You will get more diversity by examining where people learned their Ruby skills from and what environments they have been using them in than by using race and gender as discriminators. Meh to you sir.
Hm. Your comment got me to thinking about some experiences that I have had. Another comment further up in the comments helped to spark this thought:
It seems that our bodies need a certain amount of X in its diet. I am unsure what X is. Proteins? Carbohydrates? Some mixture of the two? I do not know, but I will call it X.
X is, apparently, very expensive. What is the best way to maximize profits in relation to X? Add Y. What is Y? Again, I do not know. Some sort of filler material that you can eat a lot of but will not directly kill you.
Okay, so our bodies want a certain amount of X but in order to get that amount of X, we are forced to eat very large amounts of Y. Y does not give our bodies energy but X does. Because we are eating large amounts of Y, we gain weight, calories without energy to burn them.
Long story short, do not eat any food which is mass produced. That includes beef, chicken, canned soups, etc. Unless you raise the animal or plant yourself, you are getting fed too much Y without enough X. Gotta make that extra profit since normal profit is not enough. Even better, the situation of too much Y can be blamed on the consumers for being too price conscious. "They forced us to do it", lol. Wheeee. :)
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Considering that there is at least one exploitable vulnerability per month in Adobe plugins and the number of computers getting pwned through that vector, this is still a good thing... even if it is not as useful as something like flashblock or noscript. Can't have the user in control over their own experience now can we? External entities should be in control.
Noscript for the win.
I'm really done with computer gaming. Now if you want to talk about how Netflix keeps me from using Linux, I'll be glad to talk.
Your title is:
Games are why I have a PS3 (Score:4, Insightful)
Why you could not include that in your message is beyond me... but whatever. What I logged in to say is that you are full of shit. The PS3 can do Netflix just fine. If you can play games on the PS3, then you can use that same PS3 to watch Netflix. Netflix is NOT preventing you from using Linux.
Without an easy method of controlling scripting, it is still worthless. Why can't any browsers offer the functionality that No-script provides as a plug-in for Firefox? I mean, controlling the behavior of the browser seems like an obvious feature unless we are all supposed to passive consumers... I think I see a pattern here.
Their response, even after the Teamsters agreed, was "up yours". Shockingly, the company closed. The Baker's Union was greedy and assumed the owners were lying to them. They weren't. End of Story.
I dunno... I am sure the bakers union has members in other shops. Perhaps the death of Hostess was to set an example for the other companies they are dealing with, "Yes, we will kill you if you do not take us seriously."
Really, Hostess was going to die one way or another: The execs were giving themselves huge amounts of money when the company could not afford it. What do YOU think was going to happen?
I don't quite see, on a dedicated Linux system, how running anything in the kernel will improve things.
Context switches are horribly expensive. It is why Linux and the NT kernel are monolithic designs and micro-kernels have not really become mainstream.
I am unsure why a kernel has to run on all cores: Why not have the kernel reserve a core for itself and send off processes to other cores... possibly reserving an entire core for a single threaded process that requires maximum performance? Writing kernels is so painful. *sigh*
"The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii are nearing their end. As powerful as they have been in the living room, gamers want more."
Quoted from TFA. Am I the only one who wants LESS? I don't really want my game system to do 9 million things. I just want it to play games.
I read that quote differently than you did but I am likely the one who is misinterpreting. "Gamers want more" in this context meant to me more powerful hardware, more interesting graphics, and more interesting game play... not more functions, ads, social stuff, etc. *shrug*
I completely agree with you. I took a look at my son's Xbox 360 recently and I was almost sent into spasms of revulsion by the "front page" or whatever you call the initial screen. It was so busy with stuff. Absolutely terrible. I guess it makes money?
The US does all it can to be in the forefront, so it seems disingenuous for the USA to put itself in front, then claim everyone's looking at them.
I apologize. I was wrong. Reality really is that simple. It is all about America and how evil those in control of it are acting. There are no other forces in the entire world. It is all so simple and I just did not understand. Thank you for enlightening me. :)