You have it backwards. The economy is supposed to work for us rather than us working for the economy.
It is the company's (highly irresponsible) choice to outsource, as evidenced by the fact that they push for higher quotas on work and student visas. If they wanted to hire US workers, they would. After all, many foreign workers either trained here or were trained by others who had trained here, so everyone's got the same knowledge and skills all around. The only difference is that the guy in India or China can make a wage I would be dirt poor at while living comfortably. How the hell am I supposed to compete with that? Your answer is probably to be better trained and more skilled than Mr. Anderson from overseas, but why should I train more than necessary to get the degree in order to please some greedy firm that considers me expendible anyway?
I'm waiting for the day they produce a full Virtual Reality system I can jack into like The Matrix, complete with modified/strange physics. That'll be the greatest game ever.
Hi, I'm a 16 year-old Linux From Scratch user and homebrew kernel hacker posting from Firefox who runs GAIM to talk to his best friend in New Jersey who hasn't been able to find a driver for the Wifi card that came with his shiny new laptop.
Therefore, the OSS community would have at least one more convert if they'd make with the drivers. To that note, I never was able to get my Hewlett Packard Deskjet 932C printer configured under Linux.
Why don't these "desktop standards" folks get it? We, the people of Open Source, like having choice in our desktop environments, our window managers, and how they all look. If having ever bloody Linux distro switch to offering a KDE/GNOME choice by default didn't "standardize" (ie: kill choice and competition) Open Source desktops, what makes them think they can?
They are contrary to the aims and values of the Free Software and Open Source movements, and simply wish greater market share for Linux. Shmeh.
It means the number is actually encrypted by an algorithm that doesn't lose bits in the process, thereby making every hash unique to the number it came from.
I'm certainly suggesting that minors should have a say in the matter. We speak of the money-spending and property liberties of adults as inviolate despite irresponsibility, stupidity, and other impairments to their proper use. Why should a different standard be applied to those under an arbitrary age? Parents can buy the kids the games they want to buy, but if the kid buys a game with their own money the parents should have no right to demand it go.
These things would be far more trustworthy if you could cold boot the machine off of a flash drive, which I think you can do on some newer systems. You install an OS of your choosing (it can be assumed you trust the OS) and boot wherever.
Of course, this means hardware configuration and driver checking would have to be done every boot, which is why I think the idea of carrying a complete computing environment and data with you won't catch on. Too much adaptation for EVERY operating system.
On the other hand, that adaptation could open the market to new systems or distros if carrying your computer's contents around with you becomes popular.
Why can't we just allow kids to go and buy video games like they have for about 15 years? Won't somebody please think of the children and their rights!?
I would just call it a hoax because the people wearing the thing in those pictures look WAY too serious. It's as though they don't realize the exact kinds of jokes they're FEEDING Slashdotters.
Given that most Sega video game systems are no longer manufactured (along with some early Nintendo systems, and IDK about the original PSX), YES it should be called so, and it should allow copy protection circumvention on Sega and PSX games.
There should also be a law giving companies a reason to help out emulator authors who want to emulate an obsolete system.
I remember too, because I've recently written operating system code that put me in segmentation/paging-combination Hell!
Truth be told, though, segmentation is a brilliant scheme for designating how memory regions should be protected, and an elegant segmentation scheme on top of paging hardware (to let you mismatch virtual/physical addresses but still have the same logical address with segmentation used) is a beautiful thing.
There's also the fact that if every seperate computer were assigned a single IP address (rather than a public IP for its network and a private for the machine itself) we'd all have to switch to (GASP!) IPv6, and for some reason nobody wants to do so.
I think I'll bring up something that was mentioned in "Citywide Fiber Project Challenges and Goals" and then ignored in the political quibbling: It is entirely possible to start a cooperative ISP owned by its customers. Such a company, by mandate of its charter and its Board, will HAVE to provide the best service they can at the best price they can with the best reliability they can. And if they don't, the customers can vote them out.
I really don't know if this game is good for anything, especially because the she-gamer/she-geek you thought you met in-game will probably turn out to be a guy, anyway.
If they had verification of the player's actual gender, though... Giggidy, giggidy, GIGGIDY!
A grouping of game elements into substance and style is somewhat useful, but really couldn't anyone with a decent knowledge of game development have figured it out?
I've only really forgotten some parts of my childhood, but all the really good and bad moments stay with me, as well as the flashes and memories that come back from (for some reason) reading "Ender's Game";-).
Of course, I only really have maybe 13 years of life since I started remembering things, but I always have wondered why the hell adults never seem to remember what it was like to be a kid.
Foodservice workers and "customer service" "representatives" speak and act from scripts that they were trained in, hence their sheer inhuman stupidity combined with a resentment for everyone they serve. However, they're probably perfectly nice people when they can act like their own selves.
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You have it backwards. The economy is supposed to work for us rather than us working for the economy.
It is the company's (highly irresponsible) choice to outsource, as evidenced by the fact that they push for higher quotas on work and student visas. If they wanted to hire US workers, they would. After all, many foreign workers either trained here or were trained by others who had trained here, so everyone's got the same knowledge and skills all around. The only difference is that the guy in India or China can make a wage I would be dirt poor at while living comfortably. How the hell am I supposed to compete with that? Your answer is probably to be better trained and more skilled than Mr. Anderson from overseas, but why should I train more than necessary to get the degree in order to please some greedy firm that considers me expendible anyway?
We need goddamn CS/programming coops.
I just love a moronic troll in the morning.
I'm waiting for the day they produce a full Virtual Reality system I can jack into like The Matrix, complete with modified/strange physics. That'll be the greatest game ever.
Let's just hope that DreamMaker's Inc. never gets a hold of you...
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http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract
You'll get what I'm talking about if you read that.
Actually, it's really, really, really easy to make software more secure and bug-free. Just cut features ;-).
Thank you, Dr. Tanenbaum.
Hi, I'm a 16 year-old Linux From Scratch user and homebrew kernel hacker posting from Firefox who runs GAIM to talk to his best friend in New Jersey who hasn't been able to find a driver for the Wifi card that came with his shiny new laptop.
Therefore, the OSS community would have at least one more convert if they'd make with the drivers. To that note, I never was able to get my Hewlett Packard Deskjet 932C printer configured under Linux.
Why don't these "desktop standards" folks get it? We, the people of Open Source, like having choice in our desktop environments, our window managers, and how they all look. If having ever bloody Linux distro switch to offering a KDE/GNOME choice by default didn't "standardize" (ie: kill choice and competition) Open Source desktops, what makes them think they can?
They are contrary to the aims and values of the Free Software and Open Source movements, and simply wish greater market share for Linux. Shmeh.
It means the number is actually encrypted by an algorithm that doesn't lose bits in the process, thereby making every hash unique to the number it came from.
I'm certainly suggesting that minors should have a say in the matter. We speak of the money-spending and property liberties of adults as inviolate despite irresponsibility, stupidity, and other impairments to their proper use. Why should a different standard be applied to those under an arbitrary age? Parents can buy the kids the games they want to buy, but if the kid buys a game with their own money the parents should have no right to demand it go.
These things would be far more trustworthy if you could cold boot the machine off of a flash drive, which I think you can do on some newer systems. You install an OS of your choosing (it can be assumed you trust the OS) and boot wherever.
Of course, this means hardware configuration and driver checking would have to be done every boot, which is why I think the idea of carrying a complete computing environment and data with you won't catch on. Too much adaptation for EVERY operating system.
On the other hand, that adaptation could open the market to new systems or distros if carrying your computer's contents around with you becomes popular.
Yeah, and I suppose the Law-Breaking Fairy gives you a quarter when you violate a statute?
Why can't we just allow kids to go and buy video games like they have for about 15 years? Won't somebody please think of the children and their rights!?
I would just call it a hoax because the people wearing the thing in those pictures look WAY too serious. It's as though they don't realize the exact kinds of jokes they're FEEDING Slashdotters.
Given that most Sega video game systems are no longer manufactured (along with some early Nintendo systems, and IDK about the original PSX), YES it should be called so, and it should allow copy protection circumvention on Sega and PSX games.
There should also be a law giving companies a reason to help out emulator authors who want to emulate an obsolete system.
Pascal: The Compiler Won't Let You Shoot Yourself in the Foot
And that is why I use FPC.
I remember too, because I've recently written operating system code that put me in segmentation/paging-combination Hell!
Truth be told, though, segmentation is a brilliant scheme for designating how memory regions should be protected, and an elegant segmentation scheme on top of paging hardware (to let you mismatch virtual/physical addresses but still have the same logical address with segmentation used) is a beautiful thing.
NOW IF ONLY MORE HARDWARE WOULD SUPPORT IT!
I'd far rather have the freedom afforded me by the General Public License than see Linux's market share increase, if I had to choose.
There's also the fact that if every seperate computer were assigned a single IP address (rather than a public IP for its network and a private for the machine itself) we'd all have to switch to (GASP!) IPv6, and for some reason nobody wants to do so.
I think I'll bring up something that was mentioned in "Citywide Fiber Project Challenges and Goals" and then ignored in the political quibbling: It is entirely possible to start a cooperative ISP owned by its customers. Such a company, by mandate of its charter and its Board, will HAVE to provide the best service they can at the best price they can with the best reliability they can. And if they don't, the customers can vote them out.
All without getting the government involved.
I really don't know if this game is good for anything, especially because the she-gamer/she-geek you thought you met in-game will probably turn out to be a guy, anyway.
If they had verification of the player's actual gender, though... Giggidy, giggidy, GIGGIDY!
A grouping of game elements into substance and style is somewhat useful, but really couldn't anyone with a decent knowledge of game development have figured it out?
Thank you for showing us exactly what Aldous Huxley was terrified of us becoming, and with very good reason.
I've only really forgotten some parts of my childhood, but all the really good and bad moments stay with me, as well as the flashes and memories that come back from (for some reason) reading "Ender's Game" ;-).
Of course, I only really have maybe 13 years of life since I started remembering things, but I always have wondered why the hell adults never seem to remember what it was like to be a kid.
Foodservice workers and "customer service" "representatives" speak and act from scripts that they were trained in, hence their sheer inhuman stupidity combined with a resentment for everyone they serve. However, they're probably perfectly nice people when they can act like their own selves.