Ryan Giggs is not "world-famous". If he was, he wouldn't have to bang "minor" celebrities, he'd be tapping some a-list babe.
What makes you think he hasn't? Giggs, before he got married, could've walked into any party in the country and pulled. Shit, he could've walked into any party in America and pulled.
In his twenties he was one of the best looking men in the country, with female admirers across the planet _and_ happened to be one of the most skilled sportsmen in the world.
And for god's sake stop calling it "football". You don't play football in short pants. Football is a man's game which requires a certain chromosomal configuration that does not occur in the UK. What you play is known, worldwide (at least the important parts) as "soccer".
Ah. A troll. You're right, you don't play football in pants at all.
Which "man's game" were you thinking of anyway? "Football" could refer to American Football (a bunch of pansies in body armour that can't play for more than 8 seconds in a row), Aussie Rules Football (the most homoerotic sport known to mankind, but also a brutal contact sport that shows up American Football players for the pansies they are) and Rugby Football (whether League, with its arcane, obtuse and stupid rules, or Union with its arcane, obtuse and bewildering rules, but either way is a full contact sport where men don't wear body armour).
There are other types of Football too, but worldwide the term is best known for a game in which men kick a round ball with their feet. How fucking novel.
I am however impressed. You're an American that's actually managed to get out of the country. Shame you're still an ignorant cunt.
Will you ignorant cunts please stop trolling with your bullshit lies?
Giggs has asked Twitter to provide the details of the user(s) that named him in contravention of a court order. Twitter may or may not be legally obliged to respond, but certainly if they wish to do business in the UK then they come under UK law and must respond to a court order.
If Twitter provides information to the effect that user ID "sausagemachine" tweeted "I can't imogen why this Giggs bloke is trending" from California, then he has no case, wont take it further and 'sausagemachine' continues to use social media.
If Twitter provides information to the effect that user ID "superinjunction" tweeted "Ryan Giggs fucked Big Brother star Imogen Thomas" and happens to be a Daily Mail journalist when he's not tweeting, then the courts will take the view that he knew about the injunction and find him in contempt of court.
Tell me, please, how is this not fair? How does this fuck you over? What rule of fucking law are you pretending is being missed here?
The 90 seconds from 4m10 in that clip is a beautifully eloquent explanation of why the fight against draconian copyright legislation on the 'net is nothing to do with freeloading, piracy, "illegal" sharing.. it's to do with the future of the human race.
Fuck illegal file sharing. Give me a free internet.
I had 11 minute compile times at my first job. It probably made me a more careful programmer but I was also significantly more productive when I got a Pentium PC and compilation dropped to just a minute.
These days my preferred software engineering approach includes compiling every minute or two, so anything over 2-3 seconds would slow me down.
And yes, employ fewer people. You can afford to pay them more and you have fewer team management issues. If I'm not good enough to be on that team, it's best for everyone involved if I'm not.
Anyway, i7 chips aren't that hot. My 3yo laptop has one..
(home laptop; i've never had a work PC as high spec as my home one. hell, my phone's catching up on my work laptop)
I work somewhere that the entire business can be shut down if the network is not secure, where margins are too tight to afford an extensive desktop support team and where 70000 staff need to be able to run the right software and know it's going to work.
And you want them to have Quicktime? That bugged shitless waste of disk space that adds no value in any organisation, except possibly (and maybe even not) Apple?
You pay for your interns to reghost machines, and I'll continue to work for a successful business.
Starcraft wasn't even the best RTS of its own time. But hey, I clearly value different things to you.
Do you think Korea just missed these other "great" RTSes while they devoted their lives to Starcraft?
Sorry, we're talking about a country that went insane over Lineage II? Forgive me if I don't share their cultural background and enthusiasm for twitch micromanagement attention to detail boring clickfest nonsense. It fails my 'fun' test.
Disregarding the entire point of that part of the film, a fixed interest mortgage would've left you missing out on the last couple of years of record low interest rates.
I'm paying 0.25% on my mortgage at the moment. With a ten year fixed interest loan taken out when I got this mortgage I'd be paying around 9%. With a new fixed interest loan I'd be paying 4-6%, depending on the term.
5% compound interest on my mortgage is worth saving, trust me.
Yes, rates are going to go up soon. Yes, my mortgage will go up too. 3 year interest rate projects would leave me still paying less on my variable rate than I'd be paying if I took out a fixed rate today.
It makes no sense for anybody to pay more than $500.00 for a PC
Can you please find me a 17" laptop with 1920x1200 resolution (ok, I'll settle for 1920x1080), a 3D graphics card that'll still run new games in two years time, a 250Gb SSD as a boot partition and at least 750Gb additional storage at a minimum of 7200rpm, 8Gb of RAM and a CPU capable of running FM2011 with a max-sized database, for $500.
When you puff up your chest and ball up your Cheeto stained fingers into fists and thump your tiny hairless chest and proclaim that you need this power for **, remember millions of people get by with way less just fine.
I like to pay for food, clothing and heat too, but remember, millions of people get by with way less just fine.
If it was a so-called Super Injunction then the media would not be able to report that the injunction exists. The British media have mentioned a number of times that this injunction exists.
But they -are- a freeloader within the context of said Movie X.
Oddly this is market forces in action.
Downloading many movies but paying for only a few, even when paying for as many as someone can afford, requires choice regarding which movies are paid for.
A movie that bores, disappoints, gets switched off halfway or is otherwise perceived as low quality is inherently less deserving of money than one that entertains, delights, educates or inspires.
The marginal cost of duplication has led to a position where many movies can be sampled, easing the targeting of available funds to reward the 'better' films.
I strongly suspect that many people don't apply that chain of logic, but when it comes to films I certainly do. Fortunately through ten dedicated film channels on TV and a DVD rental description I get to sample a vast number of films in an affordable manner, so I don't need to waste bandwidth/disk space downloading.
Many people can't however easily afford premium TV and expensive rental deals. It's hardly a surprise that they seek comparable benefits at lower total price, and morally I can't despise them for it. I certainly don't want to label them as freeloaders, even though individual movies may lose out as a result.
But they're not customers. They're consumers of the type who offer zero compensation for the consumption; freeloaders.
When it comes to music, you're wrong. The academic research suggests that people that share heavily tend to buy more music.
Films may be different, but everyone I know that admits to downloading films also buys them.
There's more content available than it's possible to view in a lifetime. There's more content available than most people can afford to buy.
So people use popularity metrics to determine what to watch, and buy as much as they can afford. If they download a little more, that hasn't stopped them being a customer, it hasn't led to lower total revenues for the industry, and it doesn't make them a freeloader.
They do if they let users post things to anything resembling a blog, forum, or wiki, and you want to let the site's users build up a reputation
Thus ignoring the millions of other websites out there.
If a video game is truly sessionless, it doesn't need CGI at all; it can be written in JavaScript to run entirely on the client side. Even an anonymous session is still a session and can still be hijacked with a tool like Firesheep.
Both are correct. A javascript app still qualifies as a web app, and still demonstrates the ability to produce software.
The likelihood of an anonymous stateless game session being firesheeped is only slightly less than the damage that would occur if it happened; both tend towards zero.
Without user accounts, how did you save a character's progress from one play session to the next, and how did you punish griefers?
The game did have user accounts, and wasn't web based. Hell, we started writing it in 1992.
And how did you pay for this Sun box?
In-game raffle, with intangible in-game rewards that didn't damage game balance. People sent RL cash to nominated collectors in their various countries, the box was bought in the US and shipped over to Sweden. We did benefit from patronage on the 'net connection and electricity.
However, I mentioned the MORPG to highlight that I entered the profession with referenceable extra-curricular programming experience, and so I'm naturally disposed towards thinking that other people shouldn't find it too hard.
Getting concerned about barriers to entry ignores the opportunities that do exist. If you're doing this sort of thing for fun, you can find ways to fund it (which was part of my point). If you're doing it for career purposes only, there are numerous ways of either hosting your own material for free, or contributing to someone else's already hosted project.
Letting the cost of SSL certificates stop you just isn't the answer.
Life expectancy - about the fifth misreading? Which part of adult sounds like at birth to you?
Yeah. Fifth misreading by you.
Which part of 'life expectancy at birth: 82 years' sounds like infant death to you?
Sure, people could track average life expectancy of 50 year olds, but if you're going to pick an arbitrary age, why not start with the common one?
Life expectancy at birth is the most straightforward measure of whether a population is like to live longer or not. It's the standard measure. It's used to understand adult populations. Can you please stop going at birth as though it's somehow beyond comprehension?
I remember qbasic. I remember being able to download and install Linux, running gcc on it. I remember Java being released.
Name one single year in the 90s when you couldn't buy a mainstream computer and acquire programming tools for it at no cost (let alone at minimal cost)?
I'm not hands-on programming at the moment, and I've kind of lost touch a little, but in the 90s when I first entered the job market, software engineering progressed enormously, both academically and in industry.
I can't believe everything's now sorted, and I would be very wary of giving specific programming advice to current graduates.
That said, I'd agree completely that mentoring is essential. Even if how you address certain common problems changes, knowing that problem will occur is valuable, sharing decade old best practices is at worse a start point, inviting discussion on how to approach it now gets the right thought processes occurring.
Perhaps software engineering is more akin to Accounting, where you can take the job with no experience at all and spend the first few years being paid to train and become qualified.
It's hardly surprising that just as a small accounting firm will look for someone with an Accounting degree, a small programming firm will look for someone that's done some programming.
Given the different bodies of knowledge in the two domains, the lack of formal industry standards and approaches in programming and the lack of clear academic indicators of likely success, I'm not remotely surprised that the evidence of programming sought includes actual delivery.
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Ryan Giggs is not "world-famous". If he was, he wouldn't have to bang "minor" celebrities, he'd be tapping some a-list babe.
What makes you think he hasn't? Giggs, before he got married, could've walked into any party in the country and pulled. Shit, he could've walked into any party in America and pulled.
In his twenties he was one of the best looking men in the country, with female admirers across the planet _and_ happened to be one of the most skilled sportsmen in the world.
And for god's sake stop calling it "football". You don't play football in short pants. Football is a man's game which requires a certain chromosomal configuration that does not occur in the UK. What you play is known, worldwide (at least the important parts) as "soccer".
Ah. A troll. You're right, you don't play football in pants at all.
Which "man's game" were you thinking of anyway? "Football" could refer to American Football (a bunch of pansies in body armour that can't play for more than 8 seconds in a row), Aussie Rules Football (the most homoerotic sport known to mankind, but also a brutal contact sport that shows up American Football players for the pansies they are) and Rugby Football (whether League, with its arcane, obtuse and stupid rules, or Union with its arcane, obtuse and bewildering rules, but either way is a full contact sport where men don't wear body armour).
There are other types of Football too, but worldwide the term is best known for a game in which men kick a round ball with their feet. How fucking novel.
I am however impressed. You're an American that's actually managed to get out of the country. Shame you're still an ignorant cunt.
Will you ignorant cunts please stop trolling with your bullshit lies?
Giggs has asked Twitter to provide the details of the user(s) that named him in contravention of a court order. Twitter may or may not be legally obliged to respond, but certainly if they wish to do business in the UK then they come under UK law and must respond to a court order.
If Twitter provides information to the effect that user ID "sausagemachine" tweeted "I can't imogen why this Giggs bloke is trending" from California, then he has no case, wont take it further and 'sausagemachine' continues to use social media.
If Twitter provides information to the effect that user ID "superinjunction" tweeted "Ryan Giggs fucked Big Brother star Imogen Thomas" and happens to be a Daily Mail journalist when he's not tweeting, then the courts will take the view that he knew about the injunction and find him in contempt of court.
Tell me, please, how is this not fair? How does this fuck you over? What rule of fucking law are you pretending is being missed here?
The 90 seconds from 4m10 in that clip is a beautifully eloquent explanation of why the fight against draconian copyright legislation on the 'net is nothing to do with freeloading, piracy, "illegal" sharing.. it's to do with the future of the human race.
Fuck illegal file sharing. Give me a free internet.
I had 11 minute compile times at my first job. It probably made me a more careful programmer but I was also significantly more productive when I got a Pentium PC and compilation dropped to just a minute.
These days my preferred software engineering approach includes compiling every minute or two, so anything over 2-3 seconds would slow me down.
And yes, employ fewer people. You can afford to pay them more and you have fewer team management issues. If I'm not good enough to be on that team, it's best for everyone involved if I'm not.
Anyway, i7 chips aren't that hot. My 3yo laptop has one..
(home laptop; i've never had a work PC as high spec as my home one. hell, my phone's catching up on my work laptop)
I work somewhere that the entire business can be shut down if the network is not secure, where margins are too tight to afford an extensive desktop support team and where 70000 staff need to be able to run the right software and know it's going to work.
And you want them to have Quicktime? That bugged shitless waste of disk space that adds no value in any organisation, except possibly (and maybe even not) Apple?
You pay for your interns to reghost machines, and I'll continue to work for a successful business.
Of course, most Windows users (even developers) are so glued to their mice, that switching desktops would be a time-consuming issue.
That prejudiced stereotyping just demonstrates your ignorance and explains the lack of understanding in the rest of your post.
I clearly value different things to you.
Starcraft is the best RTS of all time.
Starcraft wasn't even the best RTS of its own time. But hey, I clearly value different things to you.
Do you think Korea just missed these other "great" RTSes while they devoted their lives to Starcraft?
Sorry, we're talking about a country that went insane over Lineage II? Forgive me if I don't share their cultural background and enthusiasm for twitch micromanagement attention to detail boring clickfest nonsense. It fails my 'fun' test.
Disregarding the entire point of that part of the film, a fixed interest mortgage would've left you missing out on the last couple of years of record low interest rates.
I'm paying 0.25% on my mortgage at the moment. With a ten year fixed interest loan taken out when I got this mortgage I'd be paying around 9%. With a new fixed interest loan I'd be paying 4-6%, depending on the term.
5% compound interest on my mortgage is worth saving, trust me.
Yes, rates are going to go up soon. Yes, my mortgage will go up too. 3 year interest rate projects would leave me still paying less on my variable rate than I'd be paying if I took out a fixed rate today.
Whether the houses are available or not, the rule of thumb is a good one. It just means not owning your own home.
It's better than watching the bank repossess what used to be your home.
It makes no sense for anybody to pay more than $500.00 for a PC
Can you please find me a 17" laptop with 1920x1200 resolution (ok, I'll settle for 1920x1080), a 3D graphics card that'll still run new games in two years time, a 250Gb SSD as a boot partition and at least 750Gb additional storage at a minimum of 7200rpm, 8Gb of RAM and a CPU capable of running FM2011 with a max-sized database, for $500.
When you puff up your chest and ball up your Cheeto stained fingers into fists and thump your tiny hairless chest and proclaim that you need this power for **, remember millions of people get by with way less just fine.
I like to pay for food, clothing and heat too, but remember, millions of people get by with way less just fine.
As opposed to the utter asshattery of killing someone?
As I understand it, they aren't going to kill anybody. They're merely not going to continue to artificially extend life.
There's a big difference.
If it was a so-called Super Injunction then the media would not be able to report that the injunction exists. The British media have mentioned a number of times that this injunction exists.
This doesn't use libel laws. This is a court order, transgression of which is contempt of court.
I still don't see how it would apply to non-UK residents, but it's likely none of those know the lady's name anyway. Yet.
Oh yes. :)
But they -are- a freeloader within the context of said Movie X.
Oddly this is market forces in action.
Downloading many movies but paying for only a few, even when paying for as many as someone can afford, requires choice regarding which movies are paid for.
A movie that bores, disappoints, gets switched off halfway or is otherwise perceived as low quality is inherently less deserving of money than one that entertains, delights, educates or inspires.
The marginal cost of duplication has led to a position where many movies can be sampled, easing the targeting of available funds to reward the 'better' films.
I strongly suspect that many people don't apply that chain of logic, but when it comes to films I certainly do. Fortunately through ten dedicated film channels on TV and a DVD rental description I get to sample a vast number of films in an affordable manner, so I don't need to waste bandwidth/disk space downloading.
Many people can't however easily afford premium TV and expensive rental deals. It's hardly a surprise that they seek comparable benefits at lower total price, and morally I can't despise them for it. I certainly don't want to label them as freeloaders, even though individual movies may lose out as a result.
But they're not customers. They're consumers of the type who offer zero compensation for the consumption; freeloaders.
When it comes to music, you're wrong. The academic research suggests that people that share heavily tend to buy more music.
Films may be different, but everyone I know that admits to downloading films also buys them.
There's more content available than it's possible to view in a lifetime. There's more content available than most people can afford to buy.
So people use popularity metrics to determine what to watch, and buy as much as they can afford. If they download a little more, that hasn't stopped them being a customer, it hasn't led to lower total revenues for the industry, and it doesn't make them a freeloader.
I do apologise, I clearly made a very bad initial assumption.
I had thought that by posting on Slashdot you were capable of rational logical thought and had a certain minimum level of intelligence.
I am so terribly sorry for this misunderstanding, and hope this doesn't detract from the rest of your life.
They do if they let users post things to anything resembling a blog, forum, or wiki, and you want to let the site's users build up a reputation
Thus ignoring the millions of other websites out there.
If a video game is truly sessionless, it doesn't need CGI at all; it can be written in JavaScript to run entirely on the client side. Even an anonymous session is still a session and can still be hijacked with a tool like Firesheep.
Both are correct. A javascript app still qualifies as a web app, and still demonstrates the ability to produce software.
The likelihood of an anonymous stateless game session being firesheeped is only slightly less than the damage that would occur if it happened; both tend towards zero.
Without user accounts, how did you save a character's progress from one play session to the next, and how did you punish griefers?
The game did have user accounts, and wasn't web based. Hell, we started writing it in 1992.
And how did you pay for this Sun box?
In-game raffle, with intangible in-game rewards that didn't damage game balance. People sent RL cash to nominated collectors in their various countries, the box was bought in the US and shipped over to Sweden. We did benefit from patronage on the 'net connection and electricity.
However, I mentioned the MORPG to highlight that I entered the profession with referenceable extra-curricular programming experience, and so I'm naturally disposed towards thinking that other people shouldn't find it too hard.
Getting concerned about barriers to entry ignores the opportunities that do exist. If you're doing this sort of thing for fun, you can find ways to fund it (which was part of my point). If you're doing it for career purposes only, there are numerous ways of either hosting your own material for free, or contributing to someone else's already hosted project.
Letting the cost of SSL certificates stop you just isn't the answer.
Life expectancy - about the fifth misreading? Which part of adult sounds like at birth to you?
Yeah. Fifth misreading by you.
Which part of 'life expectancy at birth: 82 years' sounds like infant death to you?
Sure, people could track average life expectancy of 50 year olds, but if you're going to pick an arbitrary age, why not start with the common one?
Life expectancy at birth is the most straightforward measure of whether a population is like to live longer or not. It's the standard measure. It's used to understand adult populations. Can you please stop going at birth as though it's somehow beyond comprehension?
At risk of restarting a 12yo conversation on Slashdot, no criticism of Hungarian Notation is entirely without merit.
You didn't see some of my early code :)
I remember qbasic.
I remember being able to download and install Linux, running gcc on it.
I remember Java being released.
Name one single year in the 90s when you couldn't buy a mainstream computer and acquire programming tools for it at no cost (let alone at minimal cost)?
I'm not hands-on programming at the moment, and I've kind of lost touch a little, but in the 90s when I first entered the job market, software engineering progressed enormously, both academically and in industry.
I can't believe everything's now sorted, and I would be very wary of giving specific programming advice to current graduates.
That said, I'd agree completely that mentoring is essential. Even if how you address certain common problems changes, knowing that problem will occur is valuable, sharing decade old best practices is at worse a start point, inviting discussion on how to approach it now gets the right thought processes occurring.
Perhaps software engineering is more akin to Accounting, where you can take the job with no experience at all and spend the first few years being paid to train and become qualified.
It's hardly surprising that just as a small accounting firm will look for someone with an Accounting degree, a small programming firm will look for someone that's done some programming.
Given the different bodies of knowledge in the two domains, the lack of formal industry standards and approaches in programming and the lack of clear academic indicators of likely success, I'm not remotely surprised that the evidence of programming sought includes actual delivery.