Above has it deed to rights. Hey, I want to see Last Starfighter, from '84? '85? No, I cannot stream it, DVD only. Actually, a year or so ago, I looked for some films that they do have... and all were DVD only.
But I suppose the OP is a kid who's gets cooties from movies made before they were born.
First, how does it know, or do you tell it, what language to translate?
And second... I read that red book that led me to want to learn more about lead, and wha's happenin', babeeee?
At work, we have a "hybrid phone, and we get "voicemail previews" "powered by M% speech technology". They range from sorta-kind ok, to Vogon poetry. Now, *I* wouldn't let alpha software out the door, but we are talking M$, where *you* are the (unpaid) beta tester.
Just skimming the newest responses, I see that. And don't forget, the pollution creating them causes *more* than 20 years of not requiring any fuel other than the sun.
Yep.
You suckers. A century ago, I can see the daily dot: these car things are just a fad, and they're only for rich folks, and where would you drive them, anyway....?
Experience and training count for nothing, we'll enforce "correct programs" by compiler.
For amusement value, kiddies, go look up how OO, OOP, and esp. java were being talked about in the mid-nineties. Really, "java won't allow null pointer exceptions" I read over and over (tell that to me as I show you a 150 line tomcat dump with a null pointer exception).
It got so sold that on the cover of the Jan, 94 issue of the IEEE's Computer magazine,, OO was *literally* pictured as the silver bullet to solve the programming backlog.
How many jobs that existed in 1900 still exist? Retail? Butchers? Doctors and nurses? People workin' on the railroad? Writers? Newspapers? I could go on for a long, long while.
And then there's this: in the last seventies and early eighties, there was all the talk of the "information economy", how although a lot of jobs would be automated, there'd be more, and better jobs created, rather than, say, being a robot on an assembly line.
Now... where are the jobs he thinks will be created? In the tens and hundreds of millions of jobs?
Really? Speaking as a programmer and systems administrator, who actually wants it to be "exciting", and why? Certainly, what you *do* can be exciting, from writing new systems to pr0m, but why would you want the o/s and all the tools to be "exciting"?
Do you *like* an o/s that crashes, that doesn't do today what it did perfectly well yesterday, due to last night's bugfix/bugmake update? Will it work again tomorrow?
And for the huge numbers of people who use, or want to use it at work, "exciting" is utterly the LAST thing in the world that you want. Management can be excited over *not* having to pay gigantic licensing fees annually to Redmond or Cupertino - that's where it matters most. And if it works, solidly... are you someone who enjoys debugging your o/s or the standard toolset? Even here on/., that's not the case for 80% at least, I'd guess.
Ready? Not until *your* insurance pays fora computer controlled, radar-guided antiaircraft gun to blow you out of the air before you crash into my second floor bedroom.
Yes, you bloody well *will*, Addicts on their zombiephones, distracted teenagers or parents, older folks who "lose control", and drunks, and.....
"You can get a computer virus by reading an email!" (And you should see your doctor to get a vaccination for that....)
Then, and thank you SO FUCKING MUCH, Bill the Gates, he made it possible.
I read and send all my email in plain text, unless a) whoever sent it didn't know what they were doing, and made it impossible to read that way, and b) I know *exactly* who sent it. Not under any other circumstance. And it's *email*. I want to know what you have to say to me, and I don't care what it looks like.
To paraphrase Sam Goldwin, if you've got a video, sent it youtube.
Either the buyer's an idiot, with a) more money than sense, or b) thinks they'll be rich any minute now; or else they're fucking flippers, who'll redo the kitchen, slap some paint on, and try to resell it.
People actually want to buy homes to live in? What a silly idea.... (and people who think that way should die under a bridge with their belongings in a shopping cart).
You think I'm exaggerating? In '11, in NOVA, I was househunting, and found one that I *knew* had been sold the year before for just over $270k; the real estate agents had redone the kitchen, slapped some paint on, and wanted $390.
As a late friend and literal rocket scientist used to say, "it's not like turning up the thermostat, it's pumping more energy into a heat engine."
I'm old enough to be farther, or grandfather, to most slashdotters, and I have *NEVER* seen three hurricanes, much less Cat 4, in three weeks, or even in a season.
But as long as you're making money from petrochemicals, you'll deny reality. And if you're not making money... you're a sucker.
Ah, yes, these SOBs, a few years ago, but the right to service a card I'd have, which had been sold at least two or three times, but was owned by another company when they "serviced" it.
And they cranked my interest rate up to, IIRC, 25.9%, and then, when I didn't use it for about a year because of that, and they wouldn't lower the rate, they cancelled my card.
But wait, it gets better: they sent a letter informing me of this, and when I wrote back to complain, the USPS bounced it, no such addressee.
AND this was while they were being investigated for money laundering. They clearly weren't interested in earning money the old-fashioned way, when they could make more by crime.
I knew it was bad when they bought Sun. After the first tech support disaster, and that was for a nice server, with paid NBD warranty, I started referring to dealing with them as self-abuse.
Institutionally, I'd say they didn't know what to do with a hardware company, and weren't ready to compete with Intel chips, and probably didn't really realize the kind of financial investment that a hardware company, with their own non-Intel chipset, meant, and their ROI accountants had the vapors when they looked.
A couple years ago, we went to see Interstellar in IMAX. $20/US for *each* ticket, and another $8? $10 for popcorn, we're talking in the neighborhood of $80 for three people.
And I trust/.'ers know that the theatre staff is paid out of the refreshments, and almost everything else goes to the company (and their CEO's bonuses).
They're surprised I only go to one or two a year? Shock! (We'll ignore the fact that when Star Wars came out, it was $3? $5?/ticket, popcorn on that order, too. And LARGE screens.
If I order from you, and send it by self-driving vehicle with no human, I will not accept it.
Of course, this just demonstrates how STOOOPID you are. If Dominos, and similar businesses do this, then what jobs are folks going to have to make money to order?
Henry Ford, Sr., decided to pay the employees on the assembly line enough so that they could buy what they built in a couple of years. You like that idea... but assume other companies will pick up for what you REFUSE to do.
Screw you. I do not suffer fools gladly, and this , most definitely, defines you as fools.
In the late seventies, the late Studs Terkel wrote a book entitled "Working", where he interviewed ordinary people about their working life. In it, he mentions a study that said that, I think it was 70% or 80% of *everyone*, didn't just dislike their job, but actively hated it.
And that was before the 40 hr week went away for a lot of people, and before the "job creators" uncreated jobs in the US, and created sweatshops in Asia and Southeast Asia, leaving a *lot* of folks here working two part-time crap jobs just to pay the rent.
We've got it on our hybrid phones. At least half the time, the voice transcription "preview" resembles, randomly, Vogon poetry, or perhaps only "computer poetry" from 40 years ago. It rarely gets a name or title correct, and the message they're trying to leave, *maybe* 50% is close enough to guess what they meant, without listening to the mp3.
And you seem to think that it means "you can say anything, anywhere, including yelling fire in a crowded theatre, or wearing Nazi regalia into the Holocaust Museum.
There is a line, and neofascists are well past it.
Not insightful. BS. A *lot* of jobs, everyone gets treated shitty; it's just that white males get treated less shitty.
Come on, tell me that women, and blacks, don't get paid less than you. You KNOW that is a fact, that they get paid less. And they get promoted less.
And the asshole fired from google expressed his jealousy, because what, he didn't get a promotion? He didn't get the bonus he thought he deserved. Yes, I'm speculating what pushed him to post, other than the current political climate in the US, and no, of course we can't find evidence, that's internal HR data, which damn well should *not* be open, except under subpoena in court.
In the meantime, deal with it, loser. I'm sure your boss is perfectly happy with you and women and blacks fighting, you're *so* much easier to manipulate that way.
No, you petty fascist. We, the fans, decided what *we* liked. Just because your racist and sexist biases overcomes what you learned about literature in school, which you either ignored or have forgotten, doesn't mean that the rest of us don't appreciate a good story and good writing.
I've been in my current job for twice as long as any other job I've had in my life. However, when I was interviewing, one of the things I always said was, "if you have a tech track and a management track, I'm on the tech track."
Not everyone should, or wants to be a manager. There are far toom many people who REALLY, REALLY SHOULD NOT BE A MANAGER. On the other hand, those folks may be really good at what they do.
Do you *really* want the manager who really knows the systems in an "emergency" meeting that runs on for hours, while a new hire who doesn't have anywhere near the experience as the manager, never mind they don't know the systems deeply yet, try to deal with the disaster?
If you think it should work that way, congratulations, here's your MBA, now get out there and destroy your company, too.
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Above has it deed to rights. Hey, I want to see Last Starfighter, from '84? '85? No, I cannot stream it, DVD only. Actually, a year or so ago, I looked for some films that they do have... and all were DVD only.
But I suppose the OP is a kid who's gets cooties from movies made before they were born.
First, how does it know, or do you tell it, what language to translate?
And second... I read that red book that led me to want to learn more about lead, and wha's happenin', babeeee?
At work, we have a "hybrid phone, and we get "voicemail previews" "powered by M% speech technology". They range from sorta-kind ok, to Vogon poetry. Now, *I* wouldn't let alpha software out the door, but we are talking M$, where *you* are the (unpaid) beta tester.
Just skimming the newest responses, I see that. And don't forget, the pollution creating them causes *more* than 20 years of not requiring any fuel other than the sun.
Yep.
You suckers. A century ago, I can see the daily dot: these car things are just a fad, and they're only for rich folks, and where would you drive them, anyway....?
Right. Sure.
Experience and training count for nothing, we'll enforce "correct programs" by compiler.
For amusement value, kiddies, go look up how OO, OOP, and esp. java were being talked about in the mid-nineties. Really, "java won't allow null pointer exceptions" I read over and over (tell that to me as I show you a 150 line tomcat dump with a null pointer exception).
It got so sold that on the cover of the Jan, 94 issue of the IEEE's Computer magazine,, OO was *literally* pictured as the silver bullet to solve the programming backlog.
They offshored jobs because they could pay them a hell of a lot less.
Example: I think it was PG&E in California that offshored their IT, and forcing their current employees to train their cheaper replacements.
How many jobs that existed in 1900 still exist? Retail? Butchers? Doctors and nurses? People workin' on the railroad? Writers? Newspapers? I could go on for a long, long while.
And then there's this: in the last seventies and early eighties, there was all the talk of the "information economy", how although a lot of jobs would be automated, there'd be more, and better jobs created, rather than, say, being a robot on an assembly line.
Now... where are the jobs he thinks will be created? In the tens and hundreds of millions of jobs?
Really? Speaking as a programmer and systems administrator, who actually wants it to be "exciting", and why? Certainly, what you *do* can be exciting, from writing new systems to pr0m, but why would you want the o/s and all the tools to be "exciting"?
Do you *like* an o/s that crashes, that doesn't do today what it did perfectly well yesterday, due to last night's bugfix/bugmake update? Will it work again tomorrow?
And for the huge numbers of people who use, or want to use it at work, "exciting" is utterly the LAST thing in the world that you want. Management can be excited over *not* having to pay gigantic licensing fees annually to Redmond or Cupertino - that's where it matters most. And if it works, solidly... are you someone who enjoys debugging your o/s or the standard toolset? Even here on /., that's not the case for 80% at least, I'd guess.
Ready? Not until *your* insurance pays fora computer controlled, radar-guided antiaircraft gun to blow you out of the air before you crash into my second floor bedroom.
Yes, you bloody well *will*, Addicts on their zombiephones, distracted teenagers or parents, older folks who "lose control", and drunks, and.....
One wonders how much M$ paid RH to let Pottering push systemd.....
...the better. And may they wind up working in a convenience corner store for a living....
"You can get a computer virus by reading an email!" (And you should see your doctor to get a vaccination for that....)
Then, and thank you SO FUCKING MUCH, Bill the Gates, he made it possible.
I read and send all my email in plain text, unless a) whoever sent it didn't know what they were doing, and made it impossible to read that way, and b) I know *exactly* who sent it. Not under any other circumstance. And it's *email*. I want to know what you have to say to me, and I don't care what it looks like.
To paraphrase Sam Goldwin, if you've got a video, sent it youtube.
Oddly enough, I've never gotten malware'd.
Either the buyer's an idiot, with a) more money than sense, or b) thinks they'll be rich any minute now; or else they're fucking flippers, who'll redo the kitchen, slap some paint on, and try to resell it.
People actually want to buy homes to live in? What a silly idea.... (and people who think that way should die under a bridge with their belongings in a shopping cart).
You think I'm exaggerating? In '11, in NOVA, I was househunting, and found one that I *knew* had been sold the year before for just over $270k; the real estate agents had redone the kitchen, slapped some paint on, and wanted $390.
Scum, 90% of them.
As a late friend and literal rocket scientist used to say, "it's not like turning up the thermostat, it's pumping more energy into a heat engine."
I'm old enough to be farther, or grandfather, to most slashdotters, and I have *NEVER* seen three hurricanes, much less Cat 4, in three weeks, or even in a season.
But as long as you're making money from petrochemicals, you'll deny reality. And if you're not making money... you're a sucker.
Ah, yes, these SOBs, a few years ago, but the right to service a card I'd have, which had been sold at least two or three times, but was owned by another company when they "serviced" it.
And they cranked my interest rate up to, IIRC, 25.9%, and then, when I didn't use it for about a year because of that, and they wouldn't lower the rate, they cancelled my card.
But wait, it gets better: they sent a letter informing me of this, and when I wrote back to complain, the USPS bounced it, no such addressee.
AND this was while they were being investigated for money laundering. They clearly weren't interested in earning money the old-fashioned way, when they could make more by crime.
Ego?
I knew it was bad when they bought Sun. After the first tech support disaster, and that was for a nice server, with paid NBD warranty, I started referring to dealing with them as self-abuse.
Institutionally, I'd say they didn't know what to do with a hardware company, and weren't ready to compete with Intel chips, and probably didn't really realize the kind of financial investment that a hardware company, with their own non-Intel chipset, meant, and their ROI accountants had the vapors when they looked.
Damn. Sic transit gloria Sol.
A couple years ago, we went to see Interstellar in IMAX. $20/US for *each* ticket, and another $8? $10 for popcorn, we're talking in the neighborhood of $80 for three people.
And I trust /.'ers know that the theatre staff is paid out of the refreshments, and almost everything else goes to the company (and their CEO's bonuses).
They're surprised I only go to one or two a year? Shock! (We'll ignore the fact that when Star Wars came out, it was $3? $5?/ticket, popcorn on that order, too. And LARGE screens.
If I order from you, and send it by self-driving vehicle with no human, I will not accept it.
Of course, this just demonstrates how STOOOPID you are. If Dominos, and similar businesses do this, then what jobs are folks going to have to make money to order?
Henry Ford, Sr., decided to pay the employees on the assembly line enough so that they could buy what they built in a couple of years. You like that idea... but assume other companies will pick up for what you REFUSE to do.
Screw you. I do not suffer fools gladly, and this , most definitely, defines you as fools.
In the late seventies, the late Studs Terkel wrote a book entitled "Working", where he interviewed ordinary people about their working life. In it, he mentions a study that said that, I think it was 70% or 80% of *everyone*, didn't just dislike their job, but actively hated it.
And that was before the 40 hr week went away for a lot of people, and before the "job creators" uncreated jobs in the US, and created sweatshops in Asia and Southeast Asia, leaving a *lot* of folks here working two part-time crap jobs just to pay the rent.
It is? And who decided *that*?
We've got it on our hybrid phones. At least half the time, the voice transcription "preview" resembles, randomly, Vogon poetry, or perhaps only "computer poetry" from 40 years ago. It rarely gets a name or title correct, and the message they're trying to leave, *maybe* 50% is close enough to guess what they meant, without listening to the mp3.
And you seem to think that it means "you can say anything, anywhere, including yelling fire in a crowded theatre, or wearing Nazi regalia into the Holocaust Museum.
There is a line, and neofascists are well past it.
Right, got it. Lie back, and think of the flag.
Screw you. They didn't do that in Russia during the Revolution, and they beat your kind.
Stalin was another story for another day, that should have died before he took power.
I start scrolling, and all I see are the usual suspects.
Guys, a) shut up, or b) you prove the point of shutting down women.
Oh, and one of my daughters is a better programmer than you.
Not insightful. BS. A *lot* of jobs, everyone gets treated shitty; it's just that white males get treated less shitty.
Come on, tell me that women, and blacks, don't get paid less than you. You KNOW that is a fact, that they get paid less. And they get promoted less.
And the asshole fired from google expressed his jealousy, because what, he didn't get a promotion? He didn't get the bonus he thought he deserved. Yes, I'm speculating what pushed him to post, other than the current political climate in the US, and no, of course we can't find evidence, that's internal HR data, which damn well should *not* be open, except under subpoena in court.
In the meantime, deal with it, loser. I'm sure your boss is perfectly happy with you and women and blacks fighting, you're *so* much easier to manipulate that way.
No, you petty fascist. We, the fans, decided what *we* liked. Just because your racist and sexist biases overcomes what you learned about literature in school, which you either ignored or have forgotten, doesn't mean that the rest of us don't appreciate a good story and good writing.
Poor wittle snowflake SIW (social injustice warrior), can't reed gude.
I've been in my current job for twice as long as any other job I've had in my life. However, when I was interviewing, one of the things I always said was, "if you have a tech track and a management track, I'm on the tech track."
Not everyone should, or wants to be a manager. There are far toom many people who REALLY, REALLY SHOULD NOT BE A MANAGER. On the other hand, those folks may be really good at what they do.
Do you *really* want the manager who really knows the systems in an "emergency" meeting that runs on for hours, while a new hire who doesn't have anywhere near the experience as the manager, never mind they don't know the systems deeply yet, try to deal with the disaster?
If you think it should work that way, congratulations, here's your MBA, now get out there and destroy your company, too.