No shit Sherlock. Even the US government, with it's grants for developing viable grain ethanol solutions, recognizes that fact.
I wish people would be more honest on ALL sides of this issue. Fossil fuel consumption should be replaced for many valid reasons (pollution, limited world supply, global warming) but no alternative solution is yet capable of fully replacing the world's oil-based infrastructure. Solar plants and windmills are insufficient.
Gradual steps like cleaner and more effficient uses of coal, more popular acceptance of hybrid cars, and solar rooftops will help... but it won't be done overnight, and certainly not with the unproductive "big oil is evil" mentality.
It figures I'd be branded a troll by the Mac cheerleaders... still, it doesn't take away from the fact that Apple owes a lot to the creativity that came out of SGI. Apple, like Microsoft, rode on the backs of a lot of talented people that didn't have the economic sensibilities to match. It's unfortunate that SGI didn't have the market skills to keep itself alive.
the ultimate solution is neither, i.e. absolutely free code... with no required assignments of credit... no required delivery of source code... no strings whatsoever... once you put your code out there then anyone can do anything with it.
coming to a concensus over any other solution is just squabbling over people's different preferences.
For someone championing individual opinions, you sure parrot the extreme liberal talking-points pretty well.
Do you even know what a "religious fundamendalist zealot" is? I've yet to read about Bush hanging Laura in the name of God for some minor mistake she made.
any idiot with a C-compiler can create a PC software title and be assured of some sales
Only an idiot would be so naive and think it's that simple.
Any user-friendly software useful enough to regular people to be worthwhile buying requires some decent amount of development. Development skills going above "any idiot"'s ability, especially if it's written in C.
For the love of Jebus, someone get women gamers the hell out of online combat/FPS games.
The level of annoying chatting almost always goes up in their presence, not to mention the pathetic attempts by guys to sound cool. Try charging the enemy when half your team is building a pyramid, all the while LOL'ng away as you get hopelessly outnumbered and killed out in the field.
Worst of all, if you try telling them to shut up (because CptPwnALot here doesn't want to hear about your day) then some wannabe-hero admin grows a pair of tights and starts getting all superman on you... ugh./end rant/commence apology flowers purchase
No offense, but sounds like you sat around the phone for a week and left the fate of your career to, pretty much, a complete stranger.
Even after a good interview, you should always continue shopping around until you sign something. The end of the 1st day (when he told you he was having problems with HR) should of raised all sorts of red flags about the certainty of the job.
So I don't understand your bitterness towards them. Rich sounds like he liked you but just couldn't justify the expense of your employement to the others in charge. In hindsight, you can cry about how he should of been more upfront about your chances but, ultimately, it's your future that's in question... take some more responsibility for it for fuck's sake.
Sure, much of the content is poorly written, or not applicable to what most people - or, well, rather, 90% of a given population - are interested in
pretty much sums up why blogs are not much better than keyword-stuffed spam.
the general intent, when using a search engine, is too find the best online material dealing with my keywords as they relate to each other... i don't want to read someone's self-serving diary entries that are more about cathartic releases than providing useful info.
while that sounds nice, we can't all have cushy university jobs... the leasurely-paced environment of academia is inadequate for most of the things the real world needs done... having myself worked in a university lab, i suspect you're overpaid in relation to value of your output when compared to the pay/output ratio of those in commercial settings... so while it's admirable that you value things over money, it's a bit disengenous considering how parents have to work so hard just to afford today's insane tutions... tuitions which are justified, in part, by the costs of your employment.
what a sad attempt to ride the buzzword bandwagon... opinion pieces are suppose to be just that, someone's single opinion (hopefully with thought-out points to back up their argument)
a mass of varying opinions, all editing the same page (especially on heated topics) is just going to produce chaotic garbage.
be honest to yourself about your skill level, then go for something that needs something a bit more... you'll be able to get away with "faking it" long enough for you to actually learn it.
software producers are primarily looking for experiece so education will get you only so far... i too have a masters, but the focus of all interviews i've ever had was always what i did in previous jobs.
I don't like someone keeping track of my browsing preferences for unrelated sites.
actually, your browser should be only allowing a site to see its cookies (created originally by that site) and not others.
clearly, there are many different types of software users... from those that actively contribute to it's code, to those that test out the latest versions and report bugs, to pure users that just want to use your tool to get their own stuff done.
most users fall in the last category and they'll quickly jump ships if your stuff is too buggy/unusable and/or there's something better out there user-wise... case in point, firefox, where the majority of the 30+ million downloaders were not open-source contributers but rather software users that found something better.
but hey, if you're just interested in chucking untested code out there for your "partners" then more power to you... this "passive slug" will be supporting more serious projects.
Now we are overloaded with video game shelves filled with crap. Why? Because nobody is inventing anything new
that's just plain rubbish... there's lots of different stuff out there, it just doesn't sell... what's on the shelf does... retailers don't care, and shouldn't, if you persoally think its crap.
and maybe if the cheapskates in the open source community demostrated that they'd be willing to pay for something "new", someone might invest in creating it... or better yet, let's get some OSS game projects going!
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Maybe because questions often expose an alternative perspective on the thing in question?
oil is not the only source of energy
No shit Sherlock. Even the US government, with it's grants for developing viable grain ethanol solutions, recognizes that fact.
I wish people would be more honest on ALL sides of this issue. Fossil fuel consumption should be replaced for many valid reasons (pollution, limited world supply, global warming) but no alternative solution is yet capable of fully replacing the world's oil-based infrastructure. Solar plants and windmills are insufficient.
Gradual steps like cleaner and more effficient uses of coal, more popular acceptance of hybrid cars, and solar rooftops will help... but it won't be done overnight, and certainly not with the unproductive "big oil is evil" mentality.
It figures I'd be branded a troll by the Mac cheerleaders... still, it doesn't take away from the fact that Apple owes a lot to the creativity that came out of SGI. Apple, like Microsoft, rode on the backs of a lot of talented people that didn't have the economic sensibilities to match. It's unfortunate that SGI didn't have the market skills to keep itself alive.
A more powerful PC, with high-end video card, easily outprices SGIs nowadays, so it's no surprise.
The next question is, with SGI on it's way out, where will Apple get it's new ideas from?
humans!
d y-had-a-simple-solution-since-day-one, i.e. quit screwing around
for most-effort-put-into-solving-a-problem-that-alrea
now for the next category, most-bodily-gases-expelled-in-a-minute, the winner is...
the Verticons!
the ultimate solution is neither, i.e. absolutely free code... with no required assignments of credit... no required delivery of source code... no strings whatsoever... once you put your code out there then anyone can do anything with it.
coming to a concensus over any other solution is just squabbling over people's different preferences.
things as the rampant belief in nonsense like 'creationism'
fyi, creationists would believe the converse is true about science... but I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
For someone championing individual opinions, you sure parrot the extreme liberal talking-points pretty well.
Do you even know what a "religious fundamendalist zealot" is? I've yet to read about Bush hanging Laura in the name of God for some minor mistake she made.
any idiot with a C-compiler can create a PC software title and be assured of some sales
Only an idiot would be so naive and think it's that simple.
Any user-friendly software useful enough to regular people to be worthwhile buying requires some decent amount of development. Development skills going above "any idiot"'s ability, especially if it's written in C.
For the love of Jebus, someone get women gamers the hell out of online combat/FPS games.
/end rant /commence apology flowers purchase
The level of annoying chatting almost always goes up in their presence, not to mention the pathetic attempts by guys to sound cool. Try charging the enemy when half your team is building a pyramid, all the while LOL'ng away as you get hopelessly outnumbered and killed out in the field.
Worst of all, if you try telling them to shut up (because CptPwnALot here doesn't want to hear about your day) then some wannabe-hero admin grows a pair of tights and starts getting all superman on you... ugh.
No offense, but sounds like you sat around the phone for a week and left the fate of your career to, pretty much, a complete stranger.
Even after a good interview, you should always continue shopping around until you sign something. The end of the 1st day (when he told you he was having problems with HR) should of raised all sorts of red flags about the certainty of the job.
So I don't understand your bitterness towards them. Rich sounds like he liked you but just couldn't justify the expense of your employement to the others in charge. In hindsight, you can cry about how he should of been more upfront about your chances but, ultimately, it's your future that's in question... take some more responsibility for it for fuck's sake.
Is everyone growing retarded these days?
http://everyone.com/growing.php?retarded=yes
Sure, much of the content is poorly written, or not applicable to what most people - or, well, rather, 90% of a given population - are interested in
pretty much sums up why blogs are not much better than keyword-stuffed spam.
the general intent, when using a search engine, is too find the best online material dealing with my keywords as they relate to each other... i don't want to read someone's self-serving diary entries that are more about cathartic releases than providing useful info.
Oh just shut up and respect their culture! Southern American slave owners were saying a similar thing leading up to the Civil war.
I see Netscape now has some competion in the d'oh department.
while that sounds nice, we can't all have cushy university jobs... the leasurely-paced environment of academia is inadequate for most of the things the real world needs done... having myself worked in a university lab, i suspect you're overpaid in relation to value of your output when compared to the pay/output ratio of those in commercial settings... so while it's admirable that you value things over money, it's a bit disengenous considering how parents have to work so hard just to afford today's insane tutions... tuitions which are justified, in part, by the costs of your employment.
I think you're on to something... opinions work well enough for American Idol, so why not international policies?!!
what a sad attempt to ride the buzzword bandwagon... opinion pieces are suppose to be just that, someone's single opinion (hopefully with thought-out points to back up their argument) a mass of varying opinions, all editing the same page (especially on heated topics) is just going to produce chaotic garbage.
be honest to yourself about your skill level, then go for something that needs something a bit more... you'll be able to get away with "faking it" long enough for you to actually learn it.
software producers are primarily looking for experiece so education will get you only so far... i too have a masters, but the focus of all interviews i've ever had was always what i did in previous jobs.
I don't like someone keeping track of my browsing preferences for unrelated sites. actually, your browser should be only allowing a site to see its cookies (created originally by that site) and not others.
if you did kill Bush, and he never existed, then you'd never have a reason to travel back in time to kill him in the 1st place.
me too (i'm piggybacking on your fp)
how do you get away with claiming that /. is lauding tor just because they post a story about it?
clearly, there are many different types of software users... from those that actively contribute to it's code, to those that test out the latest versions and report bugs, to pure users that just want to use your tool to get their own stuff done.
most users fall in the last category and they'll quickly jump ships if your stuff is too buggy/unusable and/or there's something better out there user-wise... case in point, firefox, where the majority of the 30+ million downloaders were not open-source contributers but rather software users that found something better.
but hey, if you're just interested in chucking untested code out there for your "partners" then more power to you... this "passive slug" will be supporting more serious projects.
Now we are overloaded with video game shelves filled with crap. Why? Because nobody is inventing anything new
that's just plain rubbish... there's lots of different stuff out there, it just doesn't sell... what's on the shelf does... retailers don't care, and shouldn't, if you persoally think its crap.
and maybe if the cheapskates in the open source community demostrated that they'd be willing to pay for something "new", someone might invest in creating it... or better yet, let's get some OSS game projects going!