I'm a mathematician. Many Slashdotters are programmers, engineers, etc. Isn't our work creative? How come we don;t get a lifetime +90 years gravy train? Is what we do simply not worth as much to society as movies about comic book superheroes and books about high school for witches and wizards?
The truth is you're replacable. In most cases in the area you have described a dude can be dropped and another dude instantly dropped in his place. That's why.
Let me put it another way: I am an artist. I work on movies. I don't get the gravy train, either. Why? Despite being in a creative position, I'm in a replacable creative position. Somebody else can take my place and get the job done. I cannot do what the actors do. Replace the principal actor with me and the movie won't make as many millions of dollars. Replace the script-writer with me and bam, exact same problem.
It has nothing to do with the importance of mathematics. It's all about supply and demand, not about importance or what's fair.
You mean as opposed to the several dozen different phones Apple has on the market?
As opposed to the several dozen phones Android has the potential to have on the market in the not-too-distant-future. The G1 has a potential to sharply grow that the iPhone doesn't have since it's unlikely Apple will release more than one phone every year or two.
Way to end a horribly fragmented run-on sentence with a cringe inducing logical fallacy, buddy.
"Real 3-D" to me should be at least 2048x1080x1080- and allow me to choose to sit in the theater @ 2048x1080x730, or any other row away from the screen....
That technology's been around for thousands of years. It's called a 'play'.:P
in other words, a defective phone, only useful in areas where you trust the wifi connection.
Yeah, like the cordless phone you have sitting on the charger at home. Only it doesn't cost anything per month and doesn't necessarily need to be restricted to just working at home.
It sucks that it wouldn't help you much if you travel through time and space, but it's not exactly a lump of nothing, either.
Protip: the women who bother reading this story are probably at least somewhat interested in the subject, and thus won't be impressed by you showing how uninterested you are.
Yeah because if one thing from my post is clear, it's that I'd totally go for a chick that'd find his comment interesting. Maybe I could flirt with her by tugging on her third ponytail.
1234567890 is some arbitrary decimal string, if you wished to note a notable number, why not one which is 2^N, for something so entirely based within computers, it seems much more sensible to think in binary than some decimal number which happens to look a little pretty
Oh, come on, filesharers may think it is their right to copy whatever they want to, but it is still illegal.
So? What does that have to do with everybody uniformally paying them money? This isn't a deterrent. They can't even tell you how much they've 'lost' so we don't even know if they're recouperating an actual loss or making a profit on it.
don't think big trusted names can't fold. and if it happens, how will you get this data? i would advise extreme caution on what you use this for.
Is there any form of data storage that doesn't beg for advice like this?
- Hard drives fail. - CDRs deteroriate. - USB may not be around forever.
I mean, I appreciate the suggestion and all, but it's like there's a story about being able to purchase a flying car and me advising that you get insurance for it.
I hear this is replacing Blu-Ray as the basis for the storage disk for the PS4, which now has an estimated MSRP of $4260285021.99.
Yeah I read that, too. The author of the article said we should buy the PS4 instead of Nintendo's next console (called the Ur-In) because it cost them $4,260,286,021.00 to make. He rationalized that since Sony's bleeding $1,000 per console (not including the cost of their unsold inventory...) so we should pony up because they're giving to us whereas Nintendo's making an evil profit.
What the hell do you do to back up your 2TB drive?
Eh that depends on what you do with the machine. In the last few years, I've found that maybe 1/4th of my HD contained really-necessary-to-back-up data. The rest was stuff that I didn't want to lose, but if I lost it I wouldn't be terribly upset.
That's just me, though. I mean, the content came from somewhere, it didn't just magically breed on my machine.
Why do people assume it's so easy to magically improve the infrastructure of the entire US?
Critcism makes us appear smarter. I remember one time there was a story about a 55x CD burner being the fastest one available at the time. I sarcastically said something like "why do we need faster burners? All you have to do is wait longer!" and was modded Insightful.
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I'm a mathematician. Many Slashdotters are programmers, engineers, etc. Isn't our work creative? How come we don;t get a lifetime +90 years gravy train? Is what we do simply not worth as much to society as movies about comic book superheroes and books about high school for witches and wizards?
The truth is you're replacable. In most cases in the area you have described a dude can be dropped and another dude instantly dropped in his place. That's why.
Let me put it another way: I am an artist. I work on movies. I don't get the gravy train, either. Why? Despite being in a creative position, I'm in a replacable creative position. Somebody else can take my place and get the job done. I cannot do what the actors do. Replace the principal actor with me and the movie won't make as many millions of dollars. Replace the script-writer with me and bam, exact same problem.
It has nothing to do with the importance of mathematics. It's all about supply and demand, not about importance or what's fair.
Yeah, I suppose it is too much to ask for more than high school freshman level writing from the largest technology news site on the internet.
The technology site didn't write that comment. Besides that, understanding is a more important skill than language parsing.
You mean as opposed to the several dozen different phones Apple has on the market?
As opposed to the several dozen phones Android has the potential to have on the market in the not-too-distant-future. The G1 has a potential to sharply grow that the iPhone doesn't have since it's unlikely Apple will release more than one phone every year or two.
Way to end a horribly fragmented run-on sentence with a cringe inducing logical fallacy, buddy.
not deserving of a mod-point.
Here's a novel idea, DONT FUCKING STEAL SHIT
Then you won't have any problems whatsoever!!
Answers sure do come easy to those who don't know what the fuck they're talking about.
"Real 3-D" to me should be at least 2048x1080x1080- and allow me to choose to sit in the theater @ 2048x1080x730, or
any other row away from the screen....
That technology's been around for thousands of years. It's called a 'play'. :P
Where do they get their "twice the resolution?"
One image for each eye.
So you're saying it's NOT "just like" the cordless phone sitting on the charger at home after all?
Yeah, it does more than your cordless phone.
I'm sorry, I'll try to keep up, can try not changing direction so often?
Would it help if we used words with fewer syllables?
Does it also cost $30.00 with two handsets and extra charging station?
No, but it doesn't cost you ~$300 a year, either.
in other words, a defective phone, only useful in areas where you trust the wifi connection.
Yeah, like the cordless phone you have sitting on the charger at home. Only it doesn't cost anything per month and doesn't necessarily need to be restricted to just working at home.
It sucks that it wouldn't help you much if you travel through time and space, but it's not exactly a lump of nothing, either.
Tell that to anyone who refers to the blue 'E' as "The Internet".
This'd be more interesting if Office wasn't such a huge seller next to WordPad.
You mean bundling IE did not kill Netscape, which at the time, was the dominant browser?
IE was a better browser. Netscape was so prone to crashing that it simply would not have required an unfair advantage to be de-throned.
Looks like fans of the original device paid a steep bleeding-edge tax for seven times less storage and 25% less battery life for the same price.
And a year of use and... erm.. wait are you using your first computer ever or something? Electronics get cheaper. Oh you poor sucker!!
Hmm. I don't know what posessed me to make that post, but I wish I hadn't. That was shitheaded and patently undeserved. I'm sorry.
Protip: the women who bother reading this story are probably at least somewhat interested in the subject, and thus won't be impressed by you showing how uninterested you are.
Yeah because if one thing from my post is clear, it's that I'd totally go for a chick that'd find his comment interesting. Maybe I could flirt with her by tugging on her third ponytail.
1234567890 is some arbitrary decimal string, if you wished to note a notable number, why not one which is 2^N, for something so entirely based within computers, it seems much more sensible to think in binary than some decimal number which happens to look a little pretty
Why do we have gaydar but not virgindar?
Note to Mods.
Sarcasm is NOT trolling. TYVM.
Being an over-reactive loud-mouth is, however.
A bit-flip on a home heating circuit will make 70F appear to be a target heat of 6F and never turn on.
Who said anything at all about bit-flips? You and the dudes that wasted their mod-points on your post need to re-read the summary.
Oh, come on, filesharers may think it is their right to copy whatever they want to, but it is still illegal.
So? What does that have to do with everybody uniformally paying them money? This isn't a deterrent. They can't even tell you how much they've 'lost' so we don't even know if they're recouperating an actual loss or making a profit on it.
It's awful easy to shake your finger at people.
don't think big trusted names can't fold. and if it happens, how will you get this data? i would advise extreme caution on what you use this for.
Is there any form of data storage that doesn't beg for advice like this?
- Hard drives fail.
- CDRs deteroriate.
- USB may not be around forever.
I mean, I appreciate the suggestion and all, but it's like there's a story about being able to purchase a flying car and me advising that you get insurance for it.
I hear this is replacing Blu-Ray as the basis for the storage disk for the PS4, which now has an estimated MSRP of $4260285021.99.
Yeah I read that, too. The author of the article said we should buy the PS4 instead of Nintendo's next console (called the Ur-In) because it cost them $4,260,286,021.00 to make. He rationalized that since Sony's bleeding $1,000 per console (not including the cost of their unsold inventory...) so we should pony up because they're giving to us whereas Nintendo's making an evil profit.
In other news, Sony's announced layoffs...
Everyone start making excessive Skynet jokes!
I like how this is 'off-topic' but 'skynet' is one of the tags.
I wouldn't mind but Terminator wasn't even a cautionary tale. Mentioning it when anything is automated IS NOT FUNNY.
Maybe we would have other technological advancements, we don't have the ability to peer into alternative universes to compare.
Unless NASA scared off an alien ship that was going to deliver technology to us, it's a lot stronger than 'maybe'.
There are very few modern MP3 devices which _don't_ have sufficient horsepower to decode ogg, yet can handle MP3s.
The problem isn't horsepower, it's battery life.
What the hell do you do to back up your 2TB drive?
Eh that depends on what you do with the machine. In the last few years, I've found that maybe 1/4th of my HD contained really-necessary-to-back-up data. The rest was stuff that I didn't want to lose, but if I lost it I wouldn't be terribly upset.
That's just me, though. I mean, the content came from somewhere, it didn't just magically breed on my machine.
Why do people assume it's so easy to magically improve the infrastructure of the entire US?
Critcism makes us appear smarter. I remember one time there was a story about a 55x CD burner being the fastest one available at the time. I sarcastically said something like "why do we need faster burners? All you have to do is wait longer!" and was modded Insightful.