I'm also not worried: I don't live in California. Nobody here in the midwest that I know of is worried about their company going under because of some 23 year old proto-CEO not having the experience to handle his/her millions in startup cash.
Back when I was 18, I worked at a place that built Unix-based voicemail and fax storage systems for large customers. It was a fun job, and I got a good start learning SunOS and continuing to do stuff with PC hardware. I was very humble and respectful because everyone obviously knew an obscene amount about PC hardware (more than me, which was a lot) and Unix, and everything went well. It was, I daresay, a family environment. Then I quit so I could do college full time.
College bored me after a year, so I left and took the first geek job that I could, which was in the operations department at an international long distance carrier reseller. This job was even more fun because in addition to Unix I got to play with telephony switches and WANs, and got to work with people all over the world on the stuff. I also experienced a new concept: knowing noticably more than people who were older than me and getting paid more than me. It made me mad because they were complacent with their small skillsets and because, really, it would have been nice to have the money. I started getting cocky and somewhat abrasive, and although I would teach what I knew to anyone who wanted to know, I was definitely not approachable. I considered it good-natured ribbing. Anyone in my path probably considered it me acting like I owned the place and that they didn't deserve jobs. Eventually, I got set up and fired by my boss (who I had schooled more than a few times). It depressed the hell out of me, and it was a while before I was willing to jump back into being a pro geek.
When I did though (at a WAN-only regional ISP), I absolutely took great pains to conceal it if I thought that I knew more than my superiors. I started listening, and when it became obvious that I didn't have to have stuff explained to me twice, the people teaching me things respected me for being smart and would let me handle interesting tasks, some of which were boring but I did efficiently without bitching that I was "too good". I actually learned a great deal more than I had at the previous company because of it. People are very willing to teach you *a lot* if you're curious and not a dick it seems:) In the end, that company was bought by Verio and I was one of the few people in the tech crew that was promoted and asked to stay.
In a nutshell, I don't know if you're being a dick or not, but you may not know either. I know that it took getting fired for me to realize it. I'm a nice guy, and it's hard for me even now to look back on some of the stuff I said/did while knowing that my intentions were good.
If you know you're not and you're still not given your proper due, you should find another place. If you actually have the skills, it shouldn't be a problem. If you don't have the skills to work elsewhere, then I guess you know why you aren't getting props.
Loyalty to shitty management is useless. The only reason I'd stay at a job like that is because of my friends, and even then I'd start working to make sure they knew I was leaving and were ready to jump ship with me. Unless you have a sizable financial stake in the company, there's no point in staying unless it's feasable that you could get management to let you call the shots to bring the company back up to where it needs to be (which isn't likely).
Questions like this are what make me not want to join LUGs and be part of the "Linux community". You shouldn't be using an OS because it's "cool". This question screams "I'm cool because I run Linux and I'm scared that this little community that I'm part of will go away because of big bad Apple!" Give me a god damn break. If an OS is useful to you, use it. OS bigotry has to be the most asinine concept I've ever heard of. There have been several times that someone has asked, "What OS do you use?" The first time was at a LUG meeting and I replied "Solaris x86". I thought everything was cool, but I guess not, nobody except my girlfriend talked to me the rest of the meeting. Recently it happened again.. "blah blah OS?" "IRIX." "Oh, uh.. why don't you run Linux?" It's like a damn epidemic.
That notwithstanding, who cares if more people install OS X than Linux PPC on their Macs? I certainly don't. I've only been forced to use a Mac hardware twice, and while it may be good for others, it's not as good for me as PC hardware. I've been running Linux for years and I'm not planning on stopping just because of OS X.
Furthermore, it's not like Linux is a for-profit venture. If half of the Linux users in the world stopped using Linux tomorrow, would Linus go broke? Would people who have been developing portable source code for years suddenly yank their Linux support? A lot of stuff still has support for Ultrix and SCO, for christ's sake.
I hate to be a naysayer about such a cool idea, but none of what you are talking about is a new concept. People have been talking about ideas like this for years, it just (evidently) hasn't been all that feasable or useful.
I haven't gotten that email, and a quick poll of some ebay users that I'm friends with indicate that I'm not alone. Have you ever thought that maybe a drive died somewhere and they had to restore from tape, resetting your settings or something like that? Maybe you should consider it next time before you start with this "I think I'll use my slashdot gun to get back at them for such an irritation", Hemos. Children like you shouldn't have such power.
Anyway, if you're pissed at the ebay/spam connection, there are much better things to raise your hackles about.. such as spammers getting email addresses from ebay.
I, for one, would love to see this. Once more decks come out it'll be great for those who want high-end video in a compact package without putting up with compression.
The question that everyone is asking is, "will it fly with consumers?" My answer to that is, "how many consumers have a DAT deck sitting around in their house/car?" It's the same concept, but in the audio world. 24 bit digital audio sampled at 48k, and spat onto tape. Better than CD "quality", so good in fact, that it's often used in the recording process for commercial music (as a redundancy mechanism, to deliver masters, etc). DAT has been around for years, and by now DAT players are not that expensive. The tape winding mechanisms are far superior to cassette tape, the analog outs are better than most CD players, there are digital outs, etc. So why isn't DAT *the goods* as far as consumers are concerned?
Besides, HDTV is immaterial. As a friend of mine often gripes, "until pixels are individually addressable in the TV format, TV is always going to suck compared to watching it on your laptop".
It'd be smooth to see more educational games ported. Not like I'd play them at all, but there's obviously a market for them, and what better way to get UNIX into schools and get people (boys AND girls) started using it early?
Stuff like Oregon Trail was what got me into playing with basic on the Apple IIe way back in the day, I can only imagine what fun I'd had if UNIX as it is today had been around back then.
This is NO JOKE. I type an average of 14 hours per day with almost no break and am also a drummer. I flux in and out of having problems with my hands and without a doubt, B6 and B12 (suggested to me by an occupational therapist at UNMC) are 50% of the cure. The other 50% is stretching your hands out frequently and making sure you have adequate bloodflow to carry the cellular toxins (this might be the wrong terminology, but is close) away from your hands.
Maybe if Clotho existed, I wouldn't have found out about this inane article about Clotho and mistakenly read it.
Or was I FORCED to read it? This person seems to think that the wave of cyber-culture is unstoppable or something. Maybe they need to stop reading so much Ray Bradbury.
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, on a planet called Coruscant.
I'm also not worried: I don't live in California. Nobody here in the midwest that I know of is worried about their company going under because of some 23 year old proto-CEO not having the experience to handle his/her millions in startup cash.
I was playing Starcraft last night and I grew several guardians from mutalisks. My biotech > *
1) You don't need Beyer mics to do good recording. It's nice, but hardly necessary.
2) Stuff like the SM57 are the workhorse of the studio world, and not very expensive.
Back when I was 18, I worked at a place that built Unix-based voicemail and fax storage systems for large customers. It was a fun job, and I got a good start learning SunOS and continuing to do stuff with PC hardware. I was very humble and respectful because everyone obviously knew an obscene amount about PC hardware (more than me, which was a lot) and Unix, and everything went well. It was, I daresay, a family environment. Then I quit so I could do college full time.
:) In the end, that company was bought by Verio and I was one of the few people in the tech crew that was promoted and asked to stay.
College bored me after a year, so I left and took the first geek job that I could, which was in the operations department at an international long distance carrier reseller. This job was even more fun because in addition to Unix I got to play with telephony switches and WANs, and got to work with people all over the world on the stuff. I also experienced a new concept: knowing noticably more than people who were older than me and getting paid more than me. It made me mad because they were complacent with their small skillsets and because, really, it would have been nice to have the money. I started getting cocky and somewhat abrasive, and although I would teach what I knew to anyone who wanted to know, I was definitely not approachable. I considered it good-natured ribbing. Anyone in my path probably considered it me acting like I owned the place and that they didn't deserve jobs. Eventually, I got set up and fired by my boss (who I had schooled more than a few times). It depressed the hell out of me, and it was a while before I was willing to jump back into being a pro geek.
When I did though (at a WAN-only regional ISP), I absolutely took great pains to conceal it if I thought that I knew more than my superiors. I started listening, and when it became obvious that I didn't have to have stuff explained to me twice, the people teaching me things respected me for being smart and would let me handle interesting tasks, some of which were boring but I did efficiently without bitching that I was "too good". I actually learned a great deal more than I had at the previous company because of it. People are very willing to teach you *a lot* if you're curious and not a dick it seems
In a nutshell, I don't know if you're being a dick or not, but you may not know either. I know that it took getting fired for me to realize it. I'm a nice guy, and it's hard for me even now to look back on some of the stuff I said/did while knowing that my intentions were good.
If you know you're not and you're still not given your proper due, you should find another place. If you actually have the skills, it shouldn't be a problem. If you don't have the skills to work elsewhere, then I guess you know why you aren't getting props.
Loyalty to shitty management is useless. The only reason I'd stay at a job like that is because of my friends, and even then I'd start working to make sure they knew I was leaving and were ready to jump ship with me. Unless you have a sizable financial stake in the company, there's no point in staying unless it's feasable that you could get management to let you call the shots to bring the company back up to where it needs to be (which isn't likely).
Questions like this are what make me not want to join LUGs and be part of the "Linux community". You shouldn't be using an OS because it's "cool". This question screams "I'm cool because I run Linux and I'm scared that this little community that I'm part of will go away because of big bad Apple!" Give me a god damn break. If an OS is useful to you, use it. OS bigotry has to be the most asinine concept I've ever heard of. There have been several times that someone has asked, "What OS do you use?" The first time was at a LUG meeting and I replied "Solaris x86". I thought everything was cool, but I guess not, nobody except my girlfriend talked to me the rest of the meeting. Recently it happened again.. "blah blah OS?" "IRIX." "Oh, uh.. why don't you run Linux?" It's like a damn epidemic.
That notwithstanding, who cares if more people install OS X than Linux PPC on their Macs? I certainly don't. I've only been forced to use a Mac hardware twice, and while it may be good for others, it's not as good for me as PC hardware. I've been running Linux for years and I'm not planning on stopping just because of OS X.
Furthermore, it's not like Linux is a for-profit venture. If half of the Linux users in the world stopped using Linux tomorrow, would Linus go broke? Would people who have been developing portable source code for years suddenly yank their Linux support? A lot of stuff still has support for Ultrix and SCO, for christ's sake.
I hate to be a naysayer about such a cool idea, but none of what you are talking about is a new concept. People have been talking about ideas like this for years, it just (evidently) hasn't been all that feasable or useful.
I used to bullseye womp rats in beggar's canyon back home.. they're not much bigger than 2 meters.
Sun spots.
Linux is certainly a threat to NT/2000, but the 98% of home users who have Windows aren't going to go anywhere soon.
Oh come on now.. how many people do you know that fit into the categories of both "home user" and "I actually paid for my copy of Windows"?
I haven't gotten that email, and a quick poll of some ebay users that I'm friends with indicate that I'm not alone. Have you ever thought that maybe a drive died somewhere and they had to restore from tape, resetting your settings or something like that? Maybe you should consider it next time before you start with this "I think I'll use my slashdot gun to get back at them for such an irritation", Hemos. Children like you shouldn't have such power.
Anyway, if you're pissed at the ebay/spam connection, there are much better things to raise your hackles about.. such as spammers getting email addresses from ebay.
I, for one, would love to see this. Once more decks come out it'll be great for those who want high-end video in a compact package without putting up with compression.
The question that everyone is asking is, "will it fly with consumers?" My answer to that is, "how many consumers have a DAT deck sitting around in their house/car?" It's the same concept, but in the audio world. 24 bit digital audio sampled at 48k, and spat onto tape. Better than CD "quality", so good in fact, that it's often used in the recording process for commercial music (as a redundancy mechanism, to deliver masters, etc). DAT has been around for years, and by now DAT players are not that expensive. The tape winding mechanisms are far superior to cassette tape, the analog outs are better than most CD players, there are digital outs, etc. So why isn't DAT *the goods* as far as consumers are concerned?
Besides, HDTV is immaterial. As a friend of mine often gripes, "until pixels are individually addressable in the TV format, TV is always going to suck compared to watching it on your laptop".
My favorite part about the article: The popup ad window when you hit the back button.
It'd be smooth to see more educational games ported. Not like I'd play them at all, but there's obviously a market for them, and what better way to get UNIX into schools and get people (boys AND girls) started using it early?
Stuff like Oregon Trail was what got me into playing with basic on the Apple IIe way back in the day, I can only imagine what fun I'd had if UNIX as it is today had been around back then.
This is NO JOKE. I type an average of 14 hours per day with almost no break and am also a drummer. I flux in and out of having problems with my hands and without a doubt, B6 and B12 (suggested to me by an occupational therapist at UNMC) are 50% of the cure. The other 50% is stretching your hands out frequently and making sure you have adequate bloodflow to carry the cellular toxins (this might be the wrong terminology, but is close) away from your hands.
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Maybe if Clotho existed, I wouldn't have found out about this inane article about Clotho and mistakenly read it.
Or was I FORCED to read it? This person seems to think that the wave of cyber-culture is unstoppable or something. Maybe they need to stop reading so much Ray Bradbury.