There's a big difference between you doing this for some Chinese students who have 90% of the web blocked, but blocking myspace/messenger at schools is NOT about censorship, it's about saving PCs and bandwidth for people using those facilities for their fucking educations. There's no 'sticking it to the man' getting around a myspace block, you're not freeing the masses from tyranny, you're helping to fuck things up for people using school resources for school.
My advice, don't be a dick, if people need their goddamned myspace they can buy a computer and an internet connection. I get sick and tired of waiting in a queue at uni to use the library catalogue because every 18 year old tool is busy "LOL ASL"ing away on the machines my fees pay for.
I don't support the stand that you're arguing against, but yes, violence has been on a steady decrease for a long, long time. Yes, before video games, people hurt each other more. I don't think there's even the slightest causal connection between video game violence and global trends of people hitting each other, but actually people of any period in the past 1,000 years are less violent than their parents.
However, they didn't have Fox News &c skewing reality for them, so I can forgive your ignorance:D
Bollocks. Three mouse clicks in a fresh Ubuntu setup to get 1440x900 screen resolution? For a first-time user? Somewhere they're likely to find those options? Without using a terminal? In your eye that's a three-click job.
I can't stand M$ or their attitude, I LOVE the ideas and basic philosophy of open source, but when Linux zealots insist on their "you're all idiots, this is really easy" attitude, which flies directly in the face of reality, like fuck you're ever going to win on the desktop.
As a long-time, very savvy & intelligent PC user who's given up on linux half a dozen times (it's just not worth spending the few hours I have spare in the week reading forums so I can work out how to get my monitor's native resolution offered, or the six months it would take to get UT2k4 running), I find the idea that linux users are being treated like idiots hilarious. How the FUCK does a sub-average human get far enough into linux that they have GUI-config issues?
ok, so your response to 'yes it's cheating' is 'cheating is part of the game'. You're not actually arguing against my point, really. Yes, it's cheating, or you can call it metagaming. This has its problems, though...according to the wiki article you linked, metagaming includes watching a player play before you sit down at the table, giving you a tatical advantage. So I find the term unconstructive, as you've just taken something that's clearly cheating and redefined it in into the moral grey area of metagaming. It remains cheating, and cheating remains a form of metagaming. So?
How about offering your cousiin your desert for help paying the rent? Is that cheating?
Yes, it is. Gaming is an attempt to compete in a closed system with conditions which apply to everyone, and are explicitly stated. Bringing food offers into Monopoly, which has no food, is cheating.
Not cheating? Try whipping out your wallet and buying some $500 Monopoly bills off your cousin to pay your rent - and see whether uncle Frank thinks it's a foreign currency trade, or an asshole cheating.
My own experiences with hubris in management mostly consists of newcomers in high positions thinking that some management experience meant that they knew every industry better than those non-executives with 30 years experience. Being able to spell KPI does not an expert make! Humble (and goo) managers spend their first few months (at least) learning about the industry & company they're in. The rest come in and start hiring, firing, spending, slashing, basically making a lot of 'impact' without the first clue about the consequences. This is called "being pro-active"
That makes sense..I noticed the load time change from 1 second to 10-60 seconds with the experimental AJAX interface...which never really helped get me on board. Frankly, I find 99% of 'Web 2.0' pages are useless to me, and online apps are just laggy and feature-poor. It reminds me a lot of the early web, where half the pages said nothing at all, they only existed so people/companies had the 'must-have' thing. The usefulness came a lot later, as I suspect will be the case with INSERT-BUZZWORD-HERE.
My brother-in-law is a buyer for a company here in Australia, which buys massive lots of older computers and parts to sell to India, Malaysia, etc - countries that need a lot of hardware for their growing number of call centres, etc, but can't afford current-generation equipment. There's a pretty big market for working older machines. I'd guess that Google would sell their old hardware to someone like that, or if they use equipment until it dies, they pay to have it recycled or scrapped as cleanly as possible.
I agree entirely. Either way, pen and paper or a professional should be the only choices you look at. Software for tax is either overkill or underkill.
...is a qualified tax accountant, which you can access via an online virtual community called OutDoors, which features amazing high res graphics and panoramic 3d first person perspectives. When you locate the tax accountant, he or she will upload your financial data at a staggering speed with his or her eyes and ears, and using the revolutionary HumanBrain processor, calculate the maximum refund available to you.
It's quite a rush, get ready to ride the mongoose.
Effect. "Lifelong bilingualism" specifically precludes the intellectually curious & agile. Lifelong bilinguals are generally people raised in a bilingual home, so the children of immigrants, residents of polylingual societies, etc. People smart enough to want to learn another language when they're infants would have to be a teensy bit rare, I'd guess.
Agreed. I've been working mostly for big corporations over the past decade, and I was ready to slit my own throat, so hard did it suck. Now I work at a 35 person music exporter, I'm actually TRUSTED to do my job without supervision, KPIs, etc. It's flexible, everyone knows everyone, we drink together, work together, play together. The pay's about 20% more than a big company would ever pay me, and I haven't worn shoes to work once this summer. Google sounds awesome, but frankly, I like being the nerd at work. I don't need to be surrounded by them.
You're missing something essential about television - it needs vision, moving, interesting things to look at. I think that's the biggest stumbling block to a good IT based show. Just watch the awesome footage on the news these days of every internet or computer related story. Great stock footage of someone scrolling down a google page seems to cover about 90% of the voiceover time. Now consider what you'd have on screen during your one hour "the secret lives of routers". I'm a card-carrying geek, but I'd rather watch the 35-and-over curling finals.
What I noticed most strikingly was that words start popping up from MS about two or three years after the rest of us have been using them. 'Internet' 'linux' and many others made me think the picture was lagging behind my mouse-dragging, but it was just MS being part of the uncool crowd,who only get to hear about shit after it's already out of fashion.
There are about half a dozen episodes that make me cry (nb: 31 year old, big, tough and ugly dude), mostly they're Fry & Leela romance things, but Seymour waiting for Fry outside the pizza joint is the big kicker. And you're spot on, tv (particularly animated) that can conjure that much emotion from a shallow asshat like myself is damned good television.
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My advice, don't be a dick, if people need their goddamned myspace they can buy a computer and an internet connection. I get sick and tired of waiting in a queue at uni to use the library catalogue because every 18 year old tool is busy "LOL ASL"ing away on the machines my fees pay for.
Ah, that rant felt gooooood.
However, they didn't have Fox News &c skewing reality for them, so I can forgive your ignorance :D
Bollocks. Three mouse clicks in a fresh Ubuntu setup to get 1440x900 screen resolution? For a first-time user? Somewhere they're likely to find those options? Without using a terminal? In your eye that's a three-click job.
I can't stand M$ or their attitude, I LOVE the ideas and basic philosophy of open source, but when Linux zealots insist on their "you're all idiots, this is really easy" attitude, which flies directly in the face of reality, like fuck you're ever going to win on the desktop.
As a long-time, very savvy & intelligent PC user who's given up on linux half a dozen times (it's just not worth spending the few hours I have spare in the week reading forums so I can work out how to get my monitor's native resolution offered, or the six months it would take to get UT2k4 running), I find the idea that linux users are being treated like idiots hilarious. How the FUCK does a sub-average human get far enough into linux that they have GUI-config issues?
Wow, so much reaction...I've got nothing against nerds, I just found the name amusing.
I just can't get over the name...'summer of code' seems exactly right for a nerded-up spring break.
ok, so your response to 'yes it's cheating' is 'cheating is part of the game'. You're not actually arguing against my point, really. Yes, it's cheating, or you can call it metagaming. This has its problems, though...according to the wiki article you linked, metagaming includes watching a player play before you sit down at the table, giving you a tatical advantage. So I find the term unconstructive, as you've just taken something that's clearly cheating and redefined it in into the moral grey area of metagaming. It remains cheating, and cheating remains a form of metagaming. So?
So what you're adding to the debate with "anything can become meta-anything" is .... nothing at all.
Ummm...I don't think I was arguing about metagaming, I said gaming. You could also point to the wiki article about bricklaying to make your point.
Not cheating? Try whipping out your wallet and buying some $500 Monopoly bills off your cousin to pay your rent - and see whether uncle Frank thinks it's a foreign currency trade, or an asshole cheating.
...has to be the livejournal of the Illmatic, North Korean president Kim Jong-Il.
My own experiences with hubris in management mostly consists of newcomers in high positions thinking that some management experience meant that they knew every industry better than those non-executives with 30 years experience. Being able to spell KPI does not an expert make! Humble (and goo) managers spend their first few months (at least) learning about the industry & company they're in. The rest come in and start hiring, firing, spending, slashing, basically making a lot of 'impact' without the first clue about the consequences. This is called "being pro-active"
you mean...the AJAX discussion system is thew one with AJAX? Thanks for the clarification!
That makes sense..I noticed the load time change from 1 second to 10-60 seconds with the experimental AJAX interface...which never really helped get me on board. Frankly, I find 99% of 'Web 2.0' pages are useless to me, and online apps are just laggy and feature-poor. It reminds me a lot of the early web, where half the pages said nothing at all, they only existed so people/companies had the 'must-have' thing. The usefulness came a lot later, as I suspect will be the case with INSERT-BUZZWORD-HERE.
AJAX, that's the thing that makes my PC freeze for 45 seconds every time I load a /. article, right?
My brother-in-law is a buyer for a company here in Australia, which buys massive lots of older computers and parts to sell to India, Malaysia, etc - countries that need a lot of hardware for their growing number of call centres, etc, but can't afford current-generation equipment. There's a pretty big market for working older machines. I'd guess that Google would sell their old hardware to someone like that, or if they use equipment until it dies, they pay to have it recycled or scrapped as cleanly as possible.
I agree entirely. Either way, pen and paper or a professional should be the only choices you look at. Software for tax is either overkill or underkill.
...is a qualified tax accountant, which you can access via an online virtual community called OutDoors, which features amazing high res graphics and panoramic 3d first person perspectives. When you locate the tax accountant, he or she will upload your financial data at a staggering speed with his or her eyes and ears, and using the revolutionary HumanBrain processor, calculate the maximum refund available to you.
It's quite a rush, get ready to ride the mongoose.
Effect. "Lifelong bilingualism" specifically precludes the intellectually curious & agile. Lifelong bilinguals are generally people raised in a bilingual home, so the children of immigrants, residents of polylingual societies, etc. People smart enough to want to learn another language when they're infants would have to be a teensy bit rare, I'd guess.
Agreed. I've been working mostly for big corporations over the past decade, and I was ready to slit my own throat, so hard did it suck. Now I work at a 35 person music exporter, I'm actually TRUSTED to do my job without supervision, KPIs, etc. It's flexible, everyone knows everyone, we drink together, work together, play together. The pay's about 20% more than a big company would ever pay me, and I haven't worn shoes to work once this summer. Google sounds awesome, but frankly, I like being the nerd at work. I don't need to be surrounded by them.
You're missing something essential about television - it needs vision, moving, interesting things to look at. I think that's the biggest stumbling block to a good IT based show. Just watch the awesome footage on the news these days of every internet or computer related story. Great stock footage of someone scrolling down a google page seems to cover about 90% of the voiceover time. Now consider what you'd have on screen during your one hour "the secret lives of routers". I'm a card-carrying geek, but I'd rather watch the 35-and-over curling finals.
What I noticed most strikingly was that words start popping up from MS about two or three years after the rest of us have been using them. 'Internet' 'linux' and many others made me think the picture was lagging behind my mouse-dragging, but it was just MS being part of the uncool crowd,who only get to hear about shit after it's already out of fashion.
Web 2.0 was a lot of hype, but I hear they're bringing out the point release this year. Web 2.1 will be the shit.
There are about half a dozen episodes that make me cry (nb: 31 year old, big, tough and ugly dude), mostly they're Fry & Leela romance things, but Seymour waiting for Fry outside the pizza joint is the big kicker. And you're spot on, tv (particularly animated) that can conjure that much emotion from a shallow asshat like myself is damned good television.