Electric lamps cost jobs when they were new, all those candlemakers in the street! The horrors! And the car companies put the buggy makers out of work, the whip manufacturers kaput, the ferriers all bankrupt.
Look at all that open source water that falls from the sky, depriving honest water sellers from making a living. Damn it, this is terrible! Nothing should be free, right?
Someone is complaining because Joe will do for free what Jim has been paid for? *sigh*. What a load of bull-oney.
You're right (or at least, were back in the day when storage and memory and CPU speed were limited). When I was coding, I spent way more time optimizing my code than writing it. Writing huge, bloated programs is easy. Writing fast, tight code is much harder. Maybe that's why so few do so today.
I can choose to not do business with any given corporation.
So, you're stuck with Apple then, since everybody else's computers have Windows preinstalled. And where are you getting your natural gas and electricity from? If you eat, you're doing business with Monsanto and ADM, even if you grow your own food. Cable TV? Well, your choices are Comcast, Dish, or an antenna.
What are you going to do when there are only three huge players in an industry you can't live without and they all behave in exactly the same way?
I can't affect a corporation at all; I'm one of seven billion prospective customers. With government at least I get a vote, meaningless as that vote may be.
The game development industry as a whole is a shitty place to work though,
That's sad, I really hoped things would have gotten better by now. Back in the '90s-'00s I was so heavily into gaming that Charles Broussard and Warren Marshall were on a first name basis with me (I ran a popular Quake site). I talked with both gamers and game devs, and was always glad I didn't go into that business.
I'd hoped they might have matured some since then. I see they haven't.
Thanks, but I wouldn't need it anyway. And someone gave it an "informative", I'm guessing that most young people today don't realize that SS was never intended to be an ID number, and in fact one of the reasons for being against SS when it was first enacted was that it would become a "national ID card", and were assured that "oh, no, we'll gurantee it isn't ID". Now they don't even bother printing that "Not to be used for identification purposes" on it.
Oh, and also having a life. Doing things to relax, like going for long walks, reading, spending time with friends, teaching my dog tricks, etc.
You're not going to be doing those things during working hours once you find that job.
If it takes you 8 hours a day to look for work in this day and age, you're either incredibly unchoosy about where you work (applying to everything in any industry and in any location) or you're just really not very efficient.
When you've been out of work for over a year and are impoverished as a result, you'd be a fool to turn almost any job down.
If the manufacturer and/or seller of a gun is liable for what the new owner does with it,
He isn't. Where are you getting this nonsense?
or a bartender is liable for what a patron does after purchasing booze,
He isn't liable selling booze to a sober person. Are you ten years old? It is definitely irresponsible to sell booze to someone who's drunk, especially if you know he's driving. In this case the bartender is responsibe, as he should be.
or I get in trouble for selling you a class 4 laser and you do something dumb
But you don't. Are you trolling, or are you really that ignorant?
Thats how it works in private aviation, anytime anyone crashes for any reason, the vehicle manufacturer gets sued, because that's where the money is.
Citation needed... and considering the earlier fantasies in the same comment, it needs to be a damned good citation.
Are you kidding, or are you young? Keeping SS#s secret is a new thing. Hell, they used to print your SS# on your driver's license. ID theft didn't become a big problem until the internet.
That's an incredibly naive statement. How is playing catch with your kids in any way illegal? How is my having a beer illegal (yes, it was in my grandfather's time). How is your having sex with your congressman's wife illegal (unless you pay her for it)?
I notice comments promoting the constitution have been heavily upvoted, while the post supporting the rule of law is actually downvoted as flamebait. Anyone else pondering the irony, and just how conformist Slashdot is?
It's neither ironic nor conformist. The constitutionalist will ask "is this law legal?" I see no point in accepting a law that's clearly illegal, and I see nothing in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to pass a DMCA. And any comment saying "you should OBEY YOUR MASTER" is clearly flamebait, especially if they say something like "only assholes smoke pot or download movies."
We don't have to do that with cds, and it's about time that a similar solution for dvds showed up.
Well, I usually have to manually name CD tracks, but that's because most of my CDs were originally records and tapes. Occasionally I'll be surprised and FreeDB will find a CD I've sampled from tape, but not often, and never with LPs.
And it's not just smartphones, either. It was so long since I booted a PC for anything except saving electricity and upgrading a kernel that when my phone stopped getting on the internet, my daughter had to remind me to try rebooting. And the reboot worked! Sometimes when I'm bluetoothing pictures from my phone to my computer, the phone gets confused and has to be rebooted before it will send pictures. And it runs neither Windows, Android, or iOS.
Add Eddie Lowen, my preacher, to the list. It's a rare Sunday that he doesn't have the entire congragation laughing, the guy could have been a stand-up comedian. And I think you're right about today's "Pharisees", a former girl friend was a bible thumper, once in annoyance I told her she should stop thumping that bible and read it. The churches are full of folks who are only there to be seen by others.
I don't think so. I find most blonde jokes are told by blondes, a guy named Kowalski once told me more Pollack jokes than I've ever heard elsewhere, and a fellow with an Irish accent told me these jokes:
How many Irishmen does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
If you're in a bar and hear a British accent, how do you tell where he's from? Easy, wait until a fly lands in his beer. An Englishman will push the beer aside and politely order another. A Scotsman will make a face, pull the fly out, and keep drinking.
An Irishman will pull the fly out and scream "SPIT IT OUT YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!!"
What's a seven course meal for an Irishman? A six pack and a potato.
A recent study found that athiests and fundies share a physical trait -- a portion of the brain that's smaller than in agnostics, Catholics, or Protestants. Perhaps that part of the brain is the funny part.
Myself, I find athiests and fundies to be hilarious.
It either victimizes the listener, or the subject. If you disagree, all you need to do is provide a counter example.
This is an incredibly old joke, back from the days before automobiles. A guy walks into a bar, orders a beer and says to the bartender "That's a nice horse outside, is it yours?" The bartender says yes. The guy says, "I can make your horse laugh."
"Impossible", says the bartender. The fellow replies "I'll bet you fifty bucks". The bartender makes his bet, the guy walks outside and whispers in the horse's ear, and the horse laughs uproarously.
"Amazing", says the bartender, handing the fellow his winnings. The fellow says "I'll bet you another fifty that I can make him cry."
The bartender says "I have a feeling I'm going to lose, but you're on. But you have to tell me how you do it."
The guy walks outside with his back to the window, nobody can see what he's doing, but when he walks back in, tears are streaming down the sobbing horse's face.
"Ok, so how did you make that horse laugh?"
"I told him my dick was bigger than his."
"How did you make him cry?"
"I showed him."
Note that the humor wasn't in the victim losing the bet. Monty Python's "brain surgery" sketch (as well as many of them) have no victims either.
One little error -- your list is upside down. You don't need sales and marketing unless you have a product, and you con't need accounting until you've made sales.
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do no evil? bullshit.
The motto wasn't "do no evil", it was "don't be evil."
Electric lamps cost jobs when they were new, all those candlemakers in the street! The horrors! And the car companies put the buggy makers out of work, the whip manufacturers kaput, the ferriers all bankrupt.
Look at all that open source water that falls from the sky, depriving honest water sellers from making a living. Damn it, this is terrible! Nothing should be free, right?
Someone is complaining because Joe will do for free what Jim has been paid for? *sigh*. What a load of bull-oney.
You're right (or at least, were back in the day when storage and memory and CPU speed were limited). When I was coding, I spent way more time optimizing my code than writing it. Writing huge, bloated programs is easy. Writing fast, tight code is much harder. Maybe that's why so few do so today.
Skinner boxes? Hardly. People wouldn't play if the games weren't fun. Just because you don't like them doesn't make them worthless.
I can choose to not do business with any given corporation.
So, you're stuck with Apple then, since everybody else's computers have Windows preinstalled. And where are you getting your natural gas and electricity from? If you eat, you're doing business with Monsanto and ADM, even if you grow your own food. Cable TV? Well, your choices are Comcast, Dish, or an antenna.
What are you going to do when there are only three huge players in an industry you can't live without and they all behave in exactly the same way?
I can't affect a corporation at all; I'm one of seven billion prospective customers. With government at least I get a vote, meaningless as that vote may be.
If you don't treat your employees like shit, they won't be disgruntled.
Sometimes they also look at somebody who will fit in the team as well.
That was exactly the case.
The game development industry as a whole is a shitty place to work though,
That's sad, I really hoped things would have gotten better by now. Back in the '90s-'00s I was so heavily into gaming that Charles Broussard and Warren Marshall were on a first name basis with me (I ran a popular Quake site). I talked with both gamers and game devs, and was always glad I didn't go into that business.
I'd hoped they might have matured some since then. I see they haven't.
Thanks, but I wouldn't need it anyway. And someone gave it an "informative", I'm guessing that most young people today don't realize that SS was never intended to be an ID number, and in fact one of the reasons for being against SS when it was first enacted was that it would become a "national ID card", and were assured that "oh, no, we'll gurantee it isn't ID". Now they don't even bother printing that "Not to be used for identification purposes" on it.
Oh, and also having a life. Doing things to relax, like going for long walks, reading, spending time with friends, teaching my dog tricks, etc.
You're not going to be doing those things during working hours once you find that job.
If it takes you 8 hours a day to look for work in this day and age, you're either incredibly unchoosy about where you work (applying to everything in any industry and in any location) or you're just really not very efficient.
When you've been out of work for over a year and are impoverished as a result, you'd be a fool to turn almost any job down.
If the manufacturer and/or seller of a gun is liable for what the new owner does with it,
He isn't. Where are you getting this nonsense?
or a bartender is liable for what a patron does after purchasing booze,
He isn't liable selling booze to a sober person. Are you ten years old? It is definitely irresponsible to sell booze to someone who's drunk, especially if you know he's driving. In this case the bartender is responsibe, as he should be.
or I get in trouble for selling you a class 4 laser and you do something dumb
But you don't. Are you trolling, or are you really that ignorant?
Thats how it works in private aviation, anytime anyone crashes for any reason, the vehicle manufacturer gets sued, because that's where the money is.
Citation needed... and considering the earlier fantasies in the same comment, it needs to be a damned good citation.
The only problem will be around purchasing online, booking a flight, or getting a hotel room.
Or renting a car. I'm sure there are more.
Are you kidding, or are you young? Keeping SS#s secret is a new thing. Hell, they used to print your SS# on your driver's license. ID theft didn't become a big problem until the internet.
In government unions, it's like the foxes negotiating with themselves about what to do with the chickens...
There are too many unions in bed with management (taking their bribes, maybe?), as well (I was in one once).
Anything that's fun is illegal in some way
That's an incredibly naive statement. How is playing catch with your kids in any way illegal? How is my having a beer illegal (yes, it was in my grandfather's time). How is your having sex with your congressman's wife illegal (unless you pay her for it)?
I notice comments promoting the constitution have been heavily upvoted, while the post supporting the rule of law is actually downvoted as flamebait. Anyone else pondering the irony, and just how conformist Slashdot is?
It's neither ironic nor conformist. The constitutionalist will ask "is this law legal?" I see no point in accepting a law that's clearly illegal, and I see nothing in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to pass a DMCA. And any comment saying "you should OBEY YOUR MASTER" is clearly flamebait, especially if they say something like "only assholes smoke pot or download movies."
We don't have to do that with cds, and it's about time that a similar solution for dvds showed up.
Well, I usually have to manually name CD tracks, but that's because most of my CDs were originally records and tapes. Occasionally I'll be surprised and FreeDB will find a CD I've sampled from tape, but not often, and never with LPs.
And it's not just smartphones, either. It was so long since I booted a PC for anything except saving electricity and upgrading a kernel that when my phone stopped getting on the internet, my daughter had to remind me to try rebooting. And the reboot worked! Sometimes when I'm bluetoothing pictures from my phone to my computer, the phone gets confused and has to be rebooted before it will send pictures. And it runs neither Windows, Android, or iOS.
Add Eddie Lowen, my preacher, to the list. It's a rare Sunday that he doesn't have the entire congragation laughing, the guy could have been a stand-up comedian. And I think you're right about today's "Pharisees", a former girl friend was a bible thumper, once in annoyance I told her she should stop thumping that bible and read it. The churches are full of folks who are only there to be seen by others.
I don't think so. I find most blonde jokes are told by blondes, a guy named Kowalski once told me more Pollack jokes than I've ever heard elsewhere, and a fellow with an Irish accent told me these jokes:
How many Irishmen does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
If you're in a bar and hear a British accent, how do you tell where he's from? Easy, wait until a fly lands in his beer. An Englishman will push the beer aside and politely order another. A Scotsman will make a face, pull the fly out, and keep drinking.
An Irishman will pull the fly out and scream "SPIT IT OUT YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!!"
What's a seven course meal for an Irishman? A six pack and a potato.
A recent study found that athiests and fundies share a physical trait -- a portion of the brain that's smaller than in agnostics, Catholics, or Protestants. Perhaps that part of the brain is the funny part.
Myself, I find athiests and fundies to be hilarious.
He forgot puns. I got a laugh out of a guy by making a word up.
It either victimizes the listener, or the subject. If you disagree, all you need to do is provide a counter example.
This is an incredibly old joke, back from the days before automobiles. A guy walks into a bar, orders a beer and says to the bartender "That's a nice horse outside, is it yours?" The bartender says yes. The guy says, "I can make your horse laugh."
"Impossible", says the bartender. The fellow replies "I'll bet you fifty bucks". The bartender makes his bet, the guy walks outside and whispers in the horse's ear, and the horse laughs uproarously.
"Amazing", says the bartender, handing the fellow his winnings. The fellow says "I'll bet you another fifty that I can make him cry."
The bartender says "I have a feeling I'm going to lose, but you're on. But you have to tell me how you do it."
The guy walks outside with his back to the window, nobody can see what he's doing, but when he walks back in, tears are streaming down the sobbing horse's face.
"Ok, so how did you make that horse laugh?"
"I told him my dick was bigger than his."
"How did you make him cry?"
"I showed him."
Note that the humor wasn't in the victim losing the bet. Monty Python's "brain surgery" sketch (as well as many of them) have no victims either.
One little error -- your list is upside down. You don't need sales and marketing unless you have a product, and you con't need accounting until you've made sales.
1) A product
2) Sales and marketing
3) Accounting
I wonder how easy or difficult it would be to hack a notebook screen
A little harder than a monitor I would think. Notebooks aren't easy to get apart and back together again.