IMHO, it comes from years of being right. nerds are problem solvers. it's a thing they do, and they have years of experience in finding answers and having many moments where they can experience the feeling of not knowing something, thinking about it and then at some point finding out they were right. I am simplifying of course but the constant feeling of "being right" leads them to believe they will always be "right". Thus they become arrogant.
The problem is learning how to cope with people who will need your "brains" and not alienate them with your" arrogance" . try not talking. it's best to listen instead.
Just remember, you need the others too. No one will pull you from the wreckage if they don't like you. And you make a lot of mistakes being arrogant but you don't see them. so you are not really that smart.
If you are able to work in financial markets or any old school systems, Perl will keep you in piles of money. I get offers everyday from large companies who need Perl programmers.
If you need to work remotely then try any coders for hire web services. you can quickly get paid for a weeks work. and move on or take more jobs. Usually spend a few months per project.
What is not mentioned here is that the methods by which those great tech startups got big.
" behind every great fortune is a great crime"
Apple Microsoft Facebook Oracle are all great heists
And thus it's good to study those crimes if you wish to become rich. The MBA is really good training for finding your mark to exploit and understanding risks..but anyone can steal.
Hey, I just turned 40 and I'm a Senior Dev at Big Bank too. I'm not at all worried about the future because for the last 5 years I've been a contractor, free to charge as much as I want and move where the money is. Working for yourself means not giving a $#!% about office politics.
To answer your questions: 1: As a contractor (in America) you can buy your own medical. It's about the same cost. Talk to a medical broker. They will do all the work for you. 2: Do what you like, if you haven't thought about managerial until now, you're not likely to "get it" or or be good at it. 3: Knowledge is Power. But the acquisition of a degree can also be a waste of time if you are expecting it to advance your career on it's own. An MBA is great training for being your own boss though. 4: Stop paying rent. Now is a great market to pick up something.
1: I personally found the Eye-Fi to be too slow and I had drain the battery and keep the laptop and camera on at the same time. 2: 3G data prices on vacation in not my home country are crazy. 3: having to do this in the only cafe that had wifi was nice the first day, then a chore every other day. 4: I didn't like spending my vacation working
basically a portable HD with battery power and a card reader. I take the phone, tablet, camera and backup drive in a small hard shell case and leave the computer at home. the tablet is just the luxury item so I can view things in a larger format and only gets used on the plane or for research that the phone's screen is too small for. I really don't need it.
everything is backed up for when I return, and then I put it together .
If I absolutely have to work on the remote event, then it's camera > laptop [edit, select] > phone > 3g to web publish. Full online backup is going to cost significant time and money.
Been there, Done that, so I sympathize with your situation. Here's what I did to make it interesting without going through a career change
A: Get away from putting out fires. you can not survive this way of life, no matter how much you like the rush. B: Start creating more. this means letting others put out the fire, you are now on track to be a producer rather then an agent. C: be the only one who does what you do. example, I left the big IT shop where I was 1 of 1000 geeks to work with Medical professionals where I'm the only geek and I never have to live in the shadow of someone more geekier than me.
It's imposible to measure productivity in jobs where there is no standard work unit. Instead, measure the productivity of the process which does have a standard work unit. Ticket counting is indeed dangerious in a SA job as some tasks can take longer than others.
What we do is quantify stabality alone ie. the process earns X $s and when down it's easy to see what the cost is ("hey, that's my salary not being generated."). So when fixing the problem it's easy to judge which solution is best (short term vs. long term fix)
case in point:
A: process dies, reducing revenue by X$s per minute
(web server dies, reducing ad hits) B: SA is paged and knows the impact of the issue
(2 of 4 servers are down, 50% capacity in this case) C: SA investivates and generates a quick fix
(log files filled disk, halting services, clears logs, restarts servers) D: SA writes recomedations on long term solution and cost to implement
(cron job to rotate logs....5 minutes (gotta pad ya know..)) E: Bean Counters can justify SA's salary and still see profit.
(systems at 99.999 stability means estimated revenue can be projected through next quarter)
To elaborate more, when I had this case the SA in charge of the system, DIDN'T write the log rotate script, thus the servers crashed again and again and other SA's continued to get paged for dead servers, reducing the revenue realibility and increasing stress. Counting errors, it was easy to see which SA's were responsible for stable systems, thus which were better SA's.
Focus on reducing errors. everything else will flow after that.
Well , we could go on for pages about the entire history of civilization forcing thought and behavior to get in line with the powers that be, so I think you (and I mean everyone ) do understand where they derived the right. But in this case I'll sum it up in a single sentence.
Anyone's right to debate ends when it impacts the ability of another to exist.
You can stand on the street corner on your soap box and yell at the top of your lungs and I'll support you, but the moment you someone from sleep, Society will make a law, require you to have a permit, pass the law, find you don't have a permit and put you in jail. Rights are fickle, they only exist when enough people fight for them.
Now back to the subject of diversity in thought. Global warming is a great topic to approach the debate on debate because diversity in thought is exactly what will lead to RBTHUS (Really Bad Things Happening For Us) This isn't debating weather or whether, this is rolling the dice to see how long the planet will be livable for us. If I bet short and you bet long, and I notice that people are not sure whom to follow, it's still in my best interest to get people to not believe you. Your thoughts on the matter are irrelevant because any delay in order to debate or convince you that minute changes in the biosphere cause massive amount economical fallout reduce my ability to make necessary changes to prevent it.
The is no debate on climate change, it's real and realized. There is a debate on the rate of change and how to prevent those changes. That debate is unnecessary because it just prevents action and leads to debates on how to debate.
Would you rather be right or alive? If you can't make that decision in a timely manner, please step out of the way while those of us who enjoy making the world a better place get to work.
so some guy with a web sites says..."blah blah blah"...and not a single "blah" has any relevance to the rest of the world because "blah" isn't an action, it's just a dialog between two people about something that someone might do to someone else.
So you want me to not believe something that isn't news, isn't impacting anyone and now isn't real.
No problem.
Please editors, post something that is "NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS"
It is A killer app, because the ReplayTV had/still has it, and that is what killed ReplayTV via a loss of revenue defending themselves in court. While my original Series 5000 is still in daily use (with auto commerical skip, thank you very much) and my tivo friends envy this feature, you can't buy this product anymore.
I was waiting for a reason to go to mythTV and Commerical Skip will absolutly get me to try it out. I can't afford to watch commericals anymore or press a damn button 5 times, but I doubt it'll swing anyone with a tivo to it. it's still not as easy as buying a box with a monthly subscription.
I don't think he's whining, I think this is an attempt to find evidence for a thesis. You see, he's not complaining about it, he's flat, void of emotion, and focused on "facts". Which is precisely the problem, as he's unable to understand why someone would feel the need to end a relationship because it is unfulfilling or unrewarding. The inabliity to understand how someone else could feel could be boiolgical (1 in 50 score high on psychopathy) or just a social awareness he never developed.
as such, the subject is clearly out of touch with the shared reality . which I must say...my god, a buch of geeks read this and nuked him...that is encouraging for alll those ITSO's out there!
I'd revise 3 to read "... because you rationalize everything." Seriously, get some therapy, it'll help you understand.
As someone who took every class offered and finally fell into a degree, allow me to argue a possibility. What if Mr. Bahn gets the exact same social education he should have gotten in College, in the real world? While having a captive audience in the form of dorms greatly increases you ability to meet,mingle,score, get rejected, grow emotionally,find yourself- it in no way is necessary.
While our subject most likely won't be exploring himself because there is no evidence to suggest he wanted to, he's perfectly able to grow as a human outside of college.
My guess though is that sometimes they (people like our subject) are uncomfortable learning how interact and would rather just focus on the things they can control. College isn't about becomeing a more well rounded, socially adaptive human. It's about what you make of it. He didn't miss the point, but he will miss life if he doesn't learn those things at some point.
give the guy a break. maybe he's just not cut out for social interaction just like I'm not cut out to be a patent laywer.
Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college. Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too
millions of years of solar radiation is stored in plants, converted to sugars, converted to carbon, and then locked away, deep underground. the energy is still there, just stored. Humans come along, unlock all the energy by burning the stores in a few hundred years, thus releasing millions of years of solar radiation. the atmosphere heats up as a result and cycles of hot and cold climates become more extreme. some things die and other things take their place.
we're talking basic physics here, nothing to debate. stand in a room and now you are by default heating the air in that room. add some more people and it gets hotter quicker, give them all lighters and it happens even faster. what about heat/energy release would you like to debate?
What is debateable is what will change as a result. are we all going to die? donno. are we all going to survive? unlikely, i'd say. will humanity go on? most likely. will your kids completly resent you? most likely.
I was that kid 20 years ago. Dad and I built a Zenith HeathKit Hero Robot and I learned about programing as well building analog and digital circuts. I look back fondly on those days, it truely was a life shaping experience. It enabled me to excel in school, get jobs, write code and build custom devices to sell for insane money. and now I don't have to build that shit any more. thank god.
It matters not what the paper says. you think someone is just going to pop up at the end of college and GIVE you a job?
A more realistic view would be that you will have to fight to get noticed, have to make many many contacts durng job fairs, and basicaly market yourself with a kick ass resume and some demo code. then maybe they might interview you. and maybe you can show up that person with the degree from DeVry.
There is already evidence of life in extreme conditions on earth. Our biosphere extends from as deep as we can measure to space. There is evidence that life can sustain radiation that would kill a city.
To look at a rock in space and say, " I doubt there is life there" is to ignore the fact that we have yet to find a place where life can't exist (maybe the sun...). In essence, if there is energy, then there exists the potential for something to exploit that energy. And more often the not, something does.
The question should be "What is living on this rock, and why can't I find it?"
It still exists and I would highly recommend it as well. anyone can turn out quick and dirty applications that do real work, without having to really understand anything other than ordering instructions. Metacard andRuntime Revolution being the best current examples. Rev is my favorite for doing alpha testa.
BOTH do record the commericals (this is important) but have options for not viewing them during the replay of the show. My ReplayTV guesses where the commericals are about 99.9% of the time. when it doesn't it's obvious and i push a button to turn it off then rewind 4 minutes.
From a production standpoint Macs have an advantage that PC's will have a hard time overtaking. If you are a prop master, you like Macs for three simple reasons:
A: they look good just sitting there. it's a prop, that's all. and the audience can recognigize the "computer" aspect of it as well as the "new glitizy paperweight" without looking like several beige turds stacked on top of each other. Clearly our hero has his act togething since his computer looks so much better then ours
B: They are very reliable. When you need them to perform in front of a camera, they do. back in the day of DOS, no one wanted a PC on the set unless you were trying to show frustration..
C: not universal, but the "all in one" design had a lot to do with it. less parts to keep track of means less work for the propmaster. the SE30 was a revolution for the stage. it could fit in a little cardboard box and it didn't weigh a ton. The mouse you hired as the set designer could move it without calling for the gaffer. The iMac brought that back.
Moore's law prediects that a single CPU will have connections equal to the number in the human brain by 2020.
with evolutionary computing, the time to "can do what we do" should be a matter of days after you turn it on. of course you will have a lot of survivability issues with evolutionary hardware...but it's possible that could take another 10 years.
i don't know if they will take over, but it's a good bet that they may find us in the way.
I would call this an old school ideology. Consciousness as some intangible item that can't be copied. A gestalt function. Fact is consciousness is just a function of the brain mapping. Because we don't understand it doesn't mean we can't copy it. With every new finding in neurology, the "mind" gets a little smaller and the "brain" gets a little bigger proving that science marches toward discovering the nature of thought and thought is something that be measured.
If you have the ability to read 7 trillion neurons and what weights and connections they respond with to the other 7 trillion neurons, you can copy a brain. it's just that simple. '
problem is hardware and reading voltage transfers. It looks damn near impossible to read that much data without being destructive or changing bits in the organ as you read.
I think we will bypass this task entirely in favor of adding replicable parts. Cost benefit for adding capacity to a brain vs. trying to map out every neuron's output channel is a simple equation.
You will be abel to access every moment of your life, every conversation and play it back at anytime.
in my case you could simply make a symlink to the common points and store only the changes. So that drive to and from work could be the same file for every day...hell..just about everyhting else too. Maybe I could fit my life on a CD.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, good on you!
IMHO, it comes from years of being right. nerds are problem solvers. it's a thing they do, and they have years of experience in finding answers and having many moments where they can experience the feeling of not knowing something, thinking about it and then at some point finding out they were right. I am simplifying of course but the constant feeling of "being right" leads them to believe they will always be "right". Thus they become arrogant.
The problem is learning how to cope with people who will need your "brains" and not alienate them with your" arrogance" . try not talking. it's best to listen instead.
Just remember, you need the others too. No one will pull you from the wreckage if they don't like you. And you make a lot of mistakes being arrogant but you don't see them. so you are not really that smart.
good luck smart ass!
If you are able to work in financial markets or any old school systems, Perl will keep you in piles of money. I get offers everyday from large companies who need Perl programmers.
If you need to work remotely then try any coders for hire web services. you can quickly get paid for a weeks work. and move on or take more jobs. Usually spend a few months per project.
What is not mentioned here is that the methods by which those great tech startups got big.
" behind every great fortune is a great crime"
Apple
Microsoft
Facebook
Oracle
are all great heists
And thus it's good to study those crimes if you wish to become rich. The MBA is really good training for finding your mark to exploit and understanding risks..but anyone can steal.
Hey, I just turned 40 and I'm a Senior Dev at Big Bank too. I'm not at all worried about the future because for the last 5 years I've been a contractor, free to charge as much as I want and move where the money is. Working for yourself means not giving a $#!% about office politics.
To answer your questions:
1: As a contractor (in America) you can buy your own medical. It's about the same cost. Talk to a medical broker. They will do all the work for you.
2: Do what you like, if you haven't thought about managerial until now, you're not likely to "get it" or or be good at it.
3: Knowledge is Power. But the acquisition of a degree can also be a waste of time if you are expecting it to advance your career on it's own. An MBA is great training for being your own boss though.
4: Stop paying rent. Now is a great market to pick up something.
1: I personally found the Eye-Fi to be too slow and I had drain the battery and keep the laptop and camera on at the same time.
2: 3G data prices on vacation in not my home country are crazy.
3: having to do this in the only cafe that had wifi was nice the first day, then a chore every other day.
4: I didn't like spending my vacation working
so I use a product similar to this one. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/828315-REG/Digital_Foci_P19_320_PST_251_Photo_Safe_II.html
basically a portable HD with battery power and a card reader. I take the phone, tablet, camera and backup drive in a small hard shell case and leave the computer at home. the tablet is just the luxury item so I can view things in a larger format and only gets used on the plane or for research that the phone's screen is too small for. I really don't need it.
everything is backed up for when I return, and then I put it together .
If I absolutely have to work on the remote event, then it's camera > laptop [edit, select] > phone > 3g to web publish. Full online backup is going to cost significant time and money.
android, beagle or arduino versions of what you need
Been there, Done that, so I sympathize with your situation. Here's what I did to make it interesting without going through a career change
A: Get away from putting out fires. you can not survive this way of life, no matter how much you like the rush.
B: Start creating more. this means letting others put out the fire, you are now on track to be a producer rather then an agent.
C: be the only one who does what you do. example, I left the big IT shop where I was 1 of 1000 geeks to work with Medical professionals where I'm the only geek and I never have to live in the shadow of someone more geekier than me.
It's imposible to measure productivity in jobs where there is no standard work unit. Instead, measure the productivity of the process which does have a standard work unit. Ticket counting is indeed dangerious in a SA job as some tasks can take longer than others.
What we do is quantify stabality alone ie. the process earns X $s and when down it's easy to see what the cost is ("hey, that's my salary not being generated."). So when fixing the problem it's easy to judge which solution is best (short term vs. long term fix)
case in point:
A: process dies, reducing revenue by X$s per minute
(web server dies, reducing ad hits)
B: SA is paged and knows the impact of the issue
(2 of 4 servers are down, 50% capacity in this case)
C: SA investivates and generates a quick fix
(log files filled disk, halting services, clears logs, restarts servers)
D: SA writes recomedations on long term solution and cost to implement
(cron job to rotate logs....5 minutes (gotta pad ya know..))
E: Bean Counters can justify SA's salary and still see profit.
(systems at 99.999 stability means estimated revenue can be projected through next quarter)
To elaborate more, when I had this case the SA in charge of the system, DIDN'T write the log rotate script, thus the servers crashed again and again and other SA's continued to get paged for dead servers, reducing the revenue realibility and increasing stress. Counting errors, it was easy to see which SA's were responsible for stable systems, thus which were better SA's.
Focus on reducing errors. everything else will flow after that.
Well , we could go on for pages about the entire history of civilization forcing thought and behavior to get in line with the powers that be, so I think you (and I mean everyone ) do understand where they derived the right. But in this case I'll sum it up in a single sentence.
Anyone's right to debate ends when it impacts the ability of another to exist.
You can stand on the street corner on your soap box and yell at the top of your lungs and I'll support you, but the moment you someone from sleep, Society will make a law, require you to have a permit, pass the law, find you don't have a permit and put you in jail. Rights are fickle, they only exist when enough people fight for them.
Now back to the subject of diversity in thought. Global warming is a great topic to approach the debate on debate because diversity in thought is exactly what will lead to RBTHUS (Really Bad Things Happening For Us) This isn't debating weather or whether, this is rolling the dice to see how long the planet will be livable for us. If I bet short and you bet long, and I notice that people are not sure whom to follow, it's still in my best interest to get people to not believe you. Your thoughts on the matter are irrelevant because any delay in order to debate or convince you that minute changes in the biosphere cause massive amount economical fallout reduce my ability to make necessary changes to prevent it.
The is no debate on climate change, it's real and realized. There is a debate on the rate of change and how to prevent those changes. That debate is unnecessary because it just prevents action and leads to debates on how to debate.
Would you rather be right or alive? If you can't make that decision in a timely manner, please step out of the way while those of us who enjoy making the world a better place get to work.
so some guy with a web sites says ..."blah blah blah"...and not a single "blah" has any relevance to the rest of the world because "blah" isn't an action, it's just a dialog between two people about something that someone might do to someone else.
So you want me to not believe something that isn't news, isn't impacting anyone and now isn't real.
No problem.
Please editors, post something that is "NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS"
It is A killer app, because the ReplayTV had/still has it, and that is what killed ReplayTV via a loss of revenue defending themselves in court. While my original Series 5000 is still in daily use (with auto commerical skip, thank you very much) and my tivo friends envy this feature, you can't buy this product anymore.
I was waiting for a reason to go to mythTV and Commerical Skip will absolutly get me to try it out. I can't afford to watch commericals anymore or press a damn button 5 times, but I doubt it'll swing anyone with a tivo to it. it's still not as easy as buying a box with a monthly subscription.
ummmm......no no. We didn't do something similar. We started it. http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/LynchburgStory.htm
I don't think he's whining, I think this is an attempt to find evidence for a thesis. You see, he's not complaining about it, he's flat, void of emotion, and focused on "facts". Which is precisely the problem, as he's unable to understand why someone would feel the need to end a relationship because it is unfulfilling or unrewarding. The inabliity to understand how someone else could feel could be boiolgical (1 in 50 score high on psychopathy) or just a social awareness he never developed.
as such, the subject is clearly out of touch with the shared reality . which I must say...my god, a buch of geeks read this and nuked him...that is encouraging for alll those ITSO's out there!
I'd revise 3 to read "... because you rationalize everything." Seriously, get some therapy, it'll help you understand.
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As someone who took every class offered and finally fell into a degree, allow me to argue a possibility. What if Mr. Bahn gets the exact same social education he should have gotten in College, in the real world? While having a captive audience in the form of dorms greatly increases you ability to meet,mingle,score, get rejected, grow emotionally,find yourself- it in no way is necessary.
While our subject most likely won't be exploring himself because there is no evidence to suggest he wanted to, he's perfectly able to grow as a human outside of college.
My guess though is that sometimes they (people like our subject) are uncomfortable learning how interact and would rather just focus on the things they can control. College isn't about becomeing a more well rounded, socially adaptive human. It's about what you make of it. He didn't miss the point, but he will miss life if he doesn't learn those things at some point.
give the guy a break. maybe he's just not cut out for social interaction just like I'm not cut out to be a patent laywer.
Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too
what's debateable here? energy transfer?
millions of years of solar radiation is stored in plants, converted to sugars, converted to carbon, and then locked away, deep underground. the energy is still there, just stored. Humans come along, unlock all the energy by burning the stores in a few hundred years, thus releasing millions of years of solar radiation. the atmosphere heats up as a result and cycles of hot and cold climates become more extreme. some things die and other things take their place.
we're talking basic physics here, nothing to debate. stand in a room and now you are by default heating the air in that room. add some more people and it gets hotter quicker, give them all lighters and it happens even faster. what about heat/energy release would you like to debate?
What is debateable is what will change as a result. are we all going to die? donno. are we all going to survive? unlikely, i'd say. will humanity go on? most likely. will your kids completly resent you? most likely.
I was that kid 20 years ago. Dad and I built a Zenith HeathKit Hero Robot and I learned about programing as well building analog and digital circuts. I look back fondly on those days, it truely was a life shaping experience. It enabled me to excel in school, get jobs, write code and build custom devices to sell for insane money. and now I don't have to build that shit any more. thank god.
It matters not what the paper says. you think someone is just going to pop up at the end of college and GIVE you a job?
A more realistic view would be that you will have to fight to get noticed, have to make many many contacts durng job fairs, and basicaly market yourself with a kick ass resume and some demo code. then maybe they might interview you. and maybe you can show up that person with the degree from DeVry.
To look at a rock in space and say, " I doubt there is life there" is to ignore the fact that we have yet to find a place where life can't exist (maybe the sun...). In essence, if there is energy, then there exists the potential for something to exploit that energy. And more often the not, something does.
The question should be "What is living on this rock, and why can't I find it?"
It still exists and I would highly recommend it as well. anyone can turn out quick and dirty applications that do real work, without having to really understand anything other than ordering instructions. Metacard andRuntime Revolution being the best current examples. Rev is my favorite for doing alpha testa.
BOTH do record the commericals (this is important) but have options for not viewing them during the replay of the show. My ReplayTV guesses where the commericals are about 99.9% of the time. when it doesn't it's obvious and i push a button to turn it off then rewind 4 minutes.
I can't stand normal TV now.
From a production standpoint Macs have an advantage that PC's will have a hard time overtaking. If you are a prop master, you like Macs for three simple reasons:
A: they look good just sitting there. it's a prop, that's all. and the audience can recognigize the "computer" aspect of it as well as the "new glitizy paperweight" without looking like several beige turds stacked on top of each other. Clearly our hero has his act togething since his computer looks so much better then ours
B: They are very reliable. When you need them to perform in front of a camera, they do. back in the day of DOS, no one wanted a PC on the set unless you were trying to show frustration..
C: not universal, but the "all in one" design had a lot to do with it. less parts to keep track of means less work for the propmaster. the SE30 was a revolution for the stage. it could fit in a little cardboard box and it didn't weigh a ton. The mouse you hired as the set designer could move it without calling for the gaffer. The iMac brought that back.
Moore's law prediects that a single CPU will have connections equal to the number in the human brain by 2020.
with evolutionary computing, the time to "can do what we do" should be a matter of days after you turn it on. of course you will have a lot of survivability issues with evolutionary hardware...but it's possible that could take another 10 years.
i don't know if they will take over, but it's a good bet that they may find us in the way.
they can take away all the UHF bands as long as they give us the ability to broadcast something else...like network access
that's 460-890Mhz that could be used for lowbandwidth packet data...much like the original internet was used for:
text based
I would call this an old school ideology. Consciousness as some intangible item that can't be copied. A gestalt function. Fact is consciousness is just a function of the brain mapping. Because we don't understand it doesn't mean we can't copy it. With every new finding in neurology, the "mind" gets a little smaller and the "brain" gets a little bigger proving that science marches toward discovering the nature of thought and thought is something that be measured.
If you have the ability to read 7 trillion neurons and what weights and connections they respond with to the other 7 trillion neurons, you can copy a brain. it's just that simple. '
problem is hardware and reading voltage transfers. It looks damn near impossible to read that much data without being destructive or changing bits in the organ as you read.
I think we will bypass this task entirely in favor of adding replicable parts. Cost benefit for adding capacity to a brain vs. trying to map out every neuron's output channel is a simple equation.
in my case you could simply make a symlink to the common points and store only the changes. So that drive to and from work could be the same file for every day...hell..just about everyhting else too. Maybe I could fit my life on a CD.