That's what tenure is SUPPOSED to do. In actual practice it's been my experience that tenure only serves to protect really godawful teachers (whose research work is pretty uncontroversial anyway) and complete wackjobs (whose work is only controversial because it's deranged or just indefensibly bad scholarship). I have been in academia for a long time, and I have never once seen tenure protect someone whose ideas were actually needing or worthy of protection. I *have* seen it used to make it damn near impossible to fire incompetent boobs who have no business in either a classroom or an academic journal. There is many a half-senile old fart in America still drawing a public university paycheck only because he/she has tenure and because age discrimination laws made mandatory retirement rules illegal.
Ha, judging from the shit documentation of most FOSS software, I'd say that the odds of them producing any tutorial *AT ALL* is pretty slim. At most, you might get a list of bug fixes.
I would think that a show of armed crew and a few warning shots would be sufficient to send a "back the fuck off" message quite clearly to any mere fishermen. I suspect the reason we don't see more crews fighting back against pirates is probably due more to insurance and maritime law issues than to any consideration for fishermen.
First of all, the abstract acknowledges that guilds are quite UNLIKE gangs in many important respects. They are much more varied in "backgrounds, age groups, and genders" than real gangs and they are rarely based on "like-seeking" (kinship).
Secondly, there are *many* more offline groups that are more closely related to street gangs in structure and practices than guilds, and no one seems too alarmist about that. Odds are your local church, your business, your college fraternity, even many of your local civic organizations have initiations/hazing/etc. that more closely resemble that of gangs than any guild I've ever been part of. And those are *certainly* more homogeneous in "backgrounds, age groups, and genders" (like most street gangs) than any WoW guild.
In other words, guilds bear a pretty piss-poor correlation to street gangs, compared to just about any small real-world organization. I suspect the authors were either reaching here or were so hopped up on the idea of studying online guilds that they lost their way (the famous line from PCU comes to mind "You can write your thesis on Gameboy if you can bullshit well enough."). And does anyone else find it academically strange that this came from a bunch of grad students in Physics?!?!?
I've talked myself into eating some pretty nasty stuff with that philosophy. Reminds me of an old SNL skit "Bad Idea Jeans Commerical" where Bob Odenkirk says "Well, I didn't have a condom, but I figured, what the hell, when am I going to be in Guam again?"
Is anyone writing SF like that these days? It seems to have stopped in the '70s or early '80s.
There are still tons of good "hard" science fiction writers out there working: Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan (to name a few). You'll still find plenty of hard science fiction in Asimov's, Analog, and Dozois's annual "Years Best Science Fiction" collection.
It's a question of exploitation. It's one thing to say "We're going to send you decent paying work." It's quite another to say "We're going to exploit your poverty by paying you as little as possible, so we can make more money for ourselves."
I'm still there because I got grandfathered in to the old weekly allowance years ago and, with the Linden real dollar exchange being what it is, they actually pay *me* to be there. I haven't actually logged on in ages.
The upside would be that I would be able to talk about it seriously one of my classes without having to worry about the student in the wheelchair coming up afterward and punching me in the balls.
It's bizarre that OSS developers talk one second about wanting to be taken seriously, then turn around and stick one of their most well-known programs with a name that simultaneously conjures up both a nasty derogatory term for the handicapped and an anal rape scene from "Pulp Fiction." Yeah, way to show how OSS has matured, guys.
Oh, that's a bunch of BS. Apple manages to do great UI design without "pandering to Windows-refugee ingrates." It's just a question of too many OSS projects being done completely by coders who think they don't need to bring designers and technical writers onboard (hence the long list of OSS programs with great code but really shitty UI's and piss-poor documentation).
A lot of us have been saying that UI is godawful for a LONG time, only to be shouted down by the fanboys. Now it looks like the developers at Canonical agree. And considering that one of their big goals was to make a user-friendly Linux distro, with a halfway decent GUI, I can understand why they would appreciate something that's obvious to anyone who isn't wearing blinders.
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That's what tenure is SUPPOSED to do. In actual practice it's been my experience that tenure only serves to protect really godawful teachers (whose research work is pretty uncontroversial anyway) and complete wackjobs (whose work is only controversial because it's deranged or just indefensibly bad scholarship). I have been in academia for a long time, and I have never once seen tenure protect someone whose ideas were actually needing or worthy of protection. I *have* seen it used to make it damn near impossible to fire incompetent boobs who have no business in either a classroom or an academic journal. There is many a half-senile old fart in America still drawing a public university paycheck only because he/she has tenure and because age discrimination laws made mandatory retirement rules illegal.
Take my anecdotal experience for what it's worth.
Ha, judging from the shit documentation of most FOSS software, I'd say that the odds of them producing any tutorial *AT ALL* is pretty slim. At most, you might get a list of bug fixes.
I would think that a show of armed crew and a few warning shots would be sufficient to send a "back the fuck off" message quite clearly to any mere fishermen. I suspect the reason we don't see more crews fighting back against pirates is probably due more to insurance and maritime law issues than to any consideration for fishermen.
Secondly, there are *many* more offline groups that are more closely related to street gangs in structure and practices than guilds, and no one seems too alarmist about that. Odds are your local church, your business, your college fraternity, even many of your local civic organizations have initiations/hazing/etc. that more closely resemble that of gangs than any guild I've ever been part of. And those are *certainly* more homogeneous in "backgrounds, age groups, and genders" (like most street gangs) than any WoW guild.
In other words, guilds bear a pretty piss-poor correlation to street gangs, compared to just about any small real-world organization. I suspect the authors were either reaching here or were so hopped up on the idea of studying online guilds that they lost their way (the famous line from PCU comes to mind "You can write your thesis on Gameboy if you can bullshit well enough."). And does anyone else find it academically strange that this came from a bunch of grad students in Physics?!?!?
Now there's a wifi hotspot for the moonbase that we're never going to build.
I've talked myself into eating some pretty nasty stuff with that philosophy. Reminds me of an old SNL skit "Bad Idea Jeans Commerical" where Bob Odenkirk says "Well, I didn't have a condom, but I figured, what the hell, when am I going to be in Guam again?"
A "chosen one," destined to save all mankind? That could never work as a videogame.
There are still tons of good "hard" science fiction writers out there working: Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan (to name a few). You'll still find plenty of hard science fiction in Asimov's, Analog, and Dozois's annual "Years Best Science Fiction" collection.
Please stop with the anal probes. Trailer parks angry.
It's a question of exploitation. It's one thing to say "We're going to send you decent paying work." It's quite another to say "We're going to exploit your poverty by paying you as little as possible, so we can make more money for ourselves."
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I'm still there because I got grandfathered in to the old weekly allowance years ago and, with the Linden real dollar exchange being what it is, they actually pay *me* to be there. I haven't actually logged on in ages.
And this is exactly why OSS will never be taken seriously, or be anything more than a niche.
Yeah, and "faggot" is just a bunch of sticks. But that doesn't mean I'm naming my software that and expecting people to take me seriously.
The upside would be that I would be able to talk about it seriously one of my classes without having to worry about the student in the wheelchair coming up afterward and punching me in the balls.
It's bizarre that OSS developers talk one second about wanting to be taken seriously, then turn around and stick one of their most well-known programs with a name that simultaneously conjures up both a nasty derogatory term for the handicapped and an anal rape scene from "Pulp Fiction." Yeah, way to show how OSS has matured, guys.
It's like when my bosses at work complained about my "Retention/Evaluation of Timely Archived Relevant Data" program acronym. I don't get it.
So what, does my computer boot up to magic, or are they building a BIOS or LiveCD specific to Chrome?
The kind of girl I could pick up with the line "Hey, I'm really skilled with the GIMP" is probably a pretty scary gal.
So your contention is that it was dropped from Ubuntu by, what, accident?
Oh, that's a bunch of BS. Apple manages to do great UI design without "pandering to Windows-refugee ingrates." It's just a question of too many OSS projects being done completely by coders who think they don't need to bring designers and technical writers onboard (hence the long list of OSS programs with great code but really shitty UI's and piss-poor documentation).
Oh man, I forgot about Blender. That UI makes GIMP's look like it was designed by Apple.
Cameron did the special FX on Escape From New York (before he was a director).
It's called an ellipsis and it's a perfectly valid way of indicating a trailing thought.
A lot of us have been saying that UI is godawful for a LONG time, only to be shouted down by the fanboys. Now it looks like the developers at Canonical agree. And considering that one of their big goals was to make a user-friendly Linux distro, with a halfway decent GUI, I can understand why they would appreciate something that's obvious to anyone who isn't wearing blinders.