effecting to the meaning of 'aliens dont exist/cant visit earth you moron, everyone knows it'.
can you see the irony when all those sarcastic, smartass, know-it-all comments are put in a plain language such as that one ? it seems like a high school jerk trying to outsmart a classmate doesnt it ? well it does.
sometimes i cant believe slashdot.
we are discussing particle accelerators, zero energy fields, parallel universes, wormholes, dark matter/energy, boundaries of universe and what probably *may* exist beyond, schrodinger's cat, and so on at slashdot....
and yet, there are still a smartmouth opinion that can assuredly say 'aliens cant visit earth' (im even leaving aside the ones that say aliens cant exist). thats after discussing all those surreal looking scientific subjects too !
105 year ago, there were still people who were saying 'if god wanted man to fly, he would have given him wings. its impossible to fly like birds'. 500 years ago people were crapping in the streets. we have made the stride from poking each other's butts with metal needles (swords) to particle accelerators in just 300 years, and yet some of you are STILL witless as to believe some other intelligence somewhere in the universe may not be able to have invented some technology to make viable interstellar travel possible...
"but then why dont they openly contact us" -- well, our civilization is a baby in diapers yet, and even we are isolating some amazon tribes from modern civilization to 'preserve their culture and lifestyle', and not letting any form of contact with them. is there any among you that is stupid enough to think, another intelligent species in the universe would not be able to have thought of the same thing ?
well, if there are, that can probably due to either of those 2 reasons :
- lack of vision
- self centered, arrogant view of life, albeit in a global scale
well, at least not big, corporate enterprises. i believe the main thrust for this change is coming from small to medium businesses, then individuals. at least, its what im experiencing in my job.
a number of bigger enterprises (that are smaller than google, but bigger than avg joe inc medium business) are probably switching to open source due to costs and security as well, probably.
but the main drive to get one's business to internet is causing huge boost for ecommerce site production and maintenance, like oscommerce. even though its not a perfect piece of code, its very widely used, and curiously, loved.
dont get me wrong - i would definitely not like a piece of software i wrote being stolen.
but patenting software and methods are WAY stupid. its basically patenting algorithms, which is basically the PROCESS OF THINKING. can you imagine ? we are allowing people to patent complex THOUGHTS. and even many are not complex either. we are issuing patents on the process of THINKING.
its totally absurd. the new stance office is taking is spot on.
losing does not mean 'losing instantly and immediately canceling'.
by the time you cancel (and if you can, actually manage to cancel) your details in all those sites would have gone out into the wild already. its not a credit card. a credit card and its debts are still under bank's control regardless of its lost or not. your personal details are not as such.
and also openajax alliance constitutes what we call 'browser users' on the internet...
that alliance should try to make ajax actually something of use to the internet, rather than trying to shape future browsers to their preference by staging limited scope polls and then pushing it as browser community's preferences.
or, we can just kill all buzzword crowd and get it over with.
you need to get a domain name for yourself at a respectable registrar (avoid godaddy and 1and1 at all costs), set up a nice portfolio site there, stuff it with every kind of project you have been involved in, all the skills you have, your background (professional) and everything. then you need to acquire accounts at elance and similar services and start bidding for projects to add to your portfolio. you gotta start small to make a name. foremost is reliability, price comes second.
in the meantime you need to be applying for conventional positions with the resume site (and printed resume) you popped up. the two activities will support each other if you keep doing them simultaneously.
you'll notice that you will start to have regular contracts from the same people as time goes by, and freelancing will probably start turning to contracting.
this thing eventually ends up with you having your own small software house business generally. even if it doesnt, it will boost your resume for any official position.
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everyone gets paid per their quality. there are indian coders that ask for $15 hourly, which is a phenomenonal rate for india. as you build up your reputation, you can ask even up to 40 hourly and get jobs from within u.s. even if you are outside united states.
my guess is that if u.s. it workers can lower their expectations a bit, they can survive anything. but then again they need to be not indebted with mortgages, kid college fees etc. but then again with the global recession looming these kind of commitments would be a problem anywhere in the world.
but the opportunities are also increasing. 15 years ago there were high wages for i.t., today lower, but we have elance, rentacoder and a lot of area of interest i.t. communities. people come and post when they look for some certain professional.
whilst i.t. was a corporate playground, today it has become the daily life. so people may find themselves coding an estore to a grampa from ohio nowadays.
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no, i.t. is not the same as other fields.
if you are a mechanical engineer, you may not be able to find any jobs. you cant lower your expectations and go doing plumbing.
but in i.t. we have the ability to downgrade our expectations. a programmer can downgrade expectations and work during a recession coding small contract jobs until economy gets back on track, for example. even by only himself/herself. or a network engineer/ server admin can find small jobs enough to make a living in web hosting industry in the meantime. actually many of them can turn into full time jobs. a civil engineer cant do that.
i kinda own my own business though. but, judging from the possibilities available in dev communities around the net, i can say that there are decent number of telecommuting jobs for many programming positions. provided that you can prove experience and track record. elance is one.
what i think is, many people who always worked in corporate culture either dont know where to look telecommuting jobs, or look down when they find them.
Eric S. Raymond discusses the recent Microsoft security debacle in which an engineer inserted a back door in a library that allowed access with the phrase 'Netscape engineers are weenies!' The article notes that 'Apache will *never* have a back door like this one.
AND, since, our area, i.t., is a field that is kinda the originator of the concept of telecommuting, wont many i.t. people in u.s. be able to find work overseas, working through telecommuting ?
i dare not say demand for i.t. people will go down worldwide. its kinda impossible, since i.t. revolution is on full steam right now - we, as a civilization, are little far from trying to integrate our toilets to computers and internet.
if you had, you'd see that it is basically almost on the same outline as wow, however improved.
vista and linux are not comparable items. they are fundamentally different not only in their code and implementation, but philosophy. this doesnt apply here.
In an efficient system, the people that pirate the game (or other material) then pass it on to others. There are zero sales. Music is slowing approaching that point. When WalMart finally gives up selling CDs you will know it has pretty much reached that point - no more recorded music sales. I believe it has reached that in China already. The difference is that the US and Western Europe have many more people that can afford to shop at WalMart and the like but are not extremely computer literate
you are wrong there. i was one of the youth that pirated almost everything. you dont get to have much money whilst you are young.
however when grown up, have a job and a decent income, i tend to buy stuff. its much easier than pirating. its there, you grab it, you get home and just use it. music, movie. game. you dont need to worry about recording quality or cracks or hacks or whether the movie was recorded by a handcam in a theater.
thats the way it goes.
there are basic facts of life that any anti-piracy person seems to ignore :
- first, you cant sell anything to someone who doesnt have money. they dont have money, and they will pirate whatever they need. preventing them from pirating by placing and enforcing practices that costs more for society than what they worth accomplishes nothing. case in point - me (while i was much younger) and zillions of other students, or poor people in 3rd world countries.
- second, there are people who will pirate stuff regardless of how much money they have. these people are basically scrooges. they are never a noticeable percentage of any country, but they are nevertheless there. again, you cant sell anything to these people. you need to kill them to take their money.
- apart from these, there are normal people with purchasing power. you dont need to enforce any laws upon these people. because if you dont act stupid and try to sell your commodity from exorbitantly inflated prices, they see no point in pirating. they have better stuff to do with their time than pirating stuff. case in point - me, in my current age and purchasing power.
The whole point of piracy is to zero out the sales. The truely dedicated folks out there are making purchases with stolen credit cards and then posting whatever they bought so nobody else has to steal to get the goods. I don't think there are a lot of truely dedicated pirates like that out there, but there are plenty that will spend $100 (time, computer hardware, etc.) to avoid paying $10 for music, movies, software, etc.
remember that ANYthing mankind has invented, can be abused to evil ends. that has not been a reason for us to extremely limit usage of cars, guns, household appliances that can kill people, and it cant made into a reason for crippling the biggest revolution mankind ever had - the information revolution.
I think it is primarily bandwidth-limited. If (when?) the US has 10x the bandwidth available you will see a huge jump in pirate quality and distribution. Normal distribution channels will not be able to keep up. There is also a knowledge limitation. Today you have to know something about how to download and what software to use. In 20 years everyone that went to school will know this and the folks that do not will have died.
normal distribution channels do not need to be able to keep up, or live, or do anything. tv killed the radio. maybe rather transformed its functionality. then internet came, and almost killed the libraries, books, and even now even tv. more correctly though, it is changing their functionality.
just like how cars replaced or changed the functionality of horses and carriages. thats the progression.
what those distribution channels need to do is to adapt to coming times and new ways. many are refusing to do it, yet some are doing it. that some will be the winners, just like who invested in cars at the onset of the century.
age of conan and world of warcraft are two close competitors for the top slot of mmo genre. the two games also generally employ very similar concepts. although age of conan generally expands on many of them.
whomever modded the parent offtopic is either someone who didnt play both of the games or a fanboi of world of warcraft. or clueless. either applies. combinations may apply too.
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effecting to the meaning of 'aliens dont exist/cant visit earth you moron, everyone knows it'.
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can you see the irony when all those sarcastic, smartass, know-it-all comments are put in a plain language such as that one ? it seems like a high school jerk trying to outsmart a classmate doesnt it ? well it does.
sometimes i cant believe slashdot.
we are discussing particle accelerators, zero energy fields, parallel universes, wormholes, dark matter/energy, boundaries of universe and what probably *may* exist beyond, schrodinger's cat, and so on at slashdot
and yet, there are still a smartmouth opinion that can assuredly say 'aliens cant visit earth' (im even leaving aside the ones that say aliens cant exist). thats after discussing all those surreal looking scientific subjects too !
105 year ago, there were still people who were saying 'if god wanted man to fly, he would have given him wings. its impossible to fly like birds'. 500 years ago people were crapping in the streets. we have made the stride from poking each other's butts with metal needles (swords) to particle accelerators in just 300 years, and yet some of you are STILL witless as to believe some other intelligence somewhere in the universe may not be able to have invented some technology to make viable interstellar travel possible
"but then why dont they openly contact us" -- well, our civilization is a baby in diapers yet, and even we are isolating some amazon tribes from modern civilization to 'preserve their culture and lifestyle', and not letting any form of contact with them. is there any among you that is stupid enough to think, another intelligent species in the universe would not be able to have thought of the same thing ?
well, if there are, that can probably due to either of those 2 reasons :
- lack of vision
- self centered, arrogant view of life, albeit in a global scale
after you are sure that they are acting in bad faith, ban. thats what moderation features are for.
well, at least not big, corporate enterprises. i believe the main thrust for this change is coming from small to medium businesses, then individuals. at least, its what im experiencing in my job.
a number of bigger enterprises (that are smaller than google, but bigger than avg joe inc medium business) are probably switching to open source due to costs and security as well, probably.
but the main drive to get one's business to internet is causing huge boost for ecommerce site production and maintenance, like oscommerce. even though its not a perfect piece of code, its very widely used, and curiously, loved.
dont get me wrong - i would definitely not like a piece of software i wrote being stolen.
but patenting software and methods are WAY stupid. its basically patenting algorithms, which is basically the PROCESS OF THINKING. can you imagine ? we are allowing people to patent complex THOUGHTS. and even many are not complex either. we are issuing patents on the process of THINKING.
its totally absurd. the new stance office is taking is spot on.
you know you need it.
losing does not mean 'losing instantly and immediately canceling'.
by the time you cancel (and if you can, actually manage to cancel) your details in all those sites would have gone out into the wild already. its not a credit card. a credit card and its debts are still under bank's control regardless of its lost or not. your personal details are not as such.
losing just one password or openid databases getting hacked will mean loss of all services related to it, even if they have other login systems.
we wont be suffering that kind of shit here.
yea. you can get jobs to design weapons just like that, round the corner.
and also openajax alliance constitutes what we call 'browser users' on the internet ...
that alliance should try to make ajax actually something of use to the internet, rather than trying to shape future browsers to their preference by staging limited scope polls and then pushing it as browser community's preferences.
or, we can just kill all buzzword crowd and get it over with.
unfortunately the requirement of being able to making your value known is valid for every aspect of life, leave aside any profession.
a person who was at the level of working at silicon valley would be able to find contracts with much higher than bangalore rates.
you need to get a domain name for yourself at a respectable registrar (avoid godaddy and 1and1 at all costs), set up a nice portfolio site there, stuff it with every kind of project you have been involved in, all the skills you have, your background (professional) and everything. then you need to acquire accounts at elance and similar services and start bidding for projects to add to your portfolio. you gotta start small to make a name. foremost is reliability, price comes second.
in the meantime you need to be applying for conventional positions with the resume site (and printed resume) you popped up. the two activities will support each other if you keep doing them simultaneously.
you'll notice that you will start to have regular contracts from the same people as time goes by, and freelancing will probably start turning to contracting.
this thing eventually ends up with you having your own small software house business generally. even if it doesnt, it will boost your resume for any official position.
everyone gets paid per their quality. there are indian coders that ask for $15 hourly, which is a phenomenonal rate for india. as you build up your reputation, you can ask even up to 40 hourly and get jobs from within u.s. even if you are outside united states.
my guess is that if u.s. it workers can lower their expectations a bit, they can survive anything. but then again they need to be not indebted with mortgages, kid college fees etc. but then again with the global recession looming these kind of commitments would be a problem anywhere in the world.
but the opportunities are also increasing. 15 years ago there were high wages for i.t., today lower, but we have elance, rentacoder and a lot of area of interest i.t. communities. people come and post when they look for some certain professional.
whilst i.t. was a corporate playground, today it has become the daily life. so people may find themselves coding an estore to a grampa from ohio nowadays.
no, i.t. is not the same as other fields.
if you are a mechanical engineer, you may not be able to find any jobs. you cant lower your expectations and go doing plumbing.
but in i.t. we have the ability to downgrade our expectations. a programmer can downgrade expectations and work during a recession coding small contract jobs until economy gets back on track, for example. even by only himself/herself. or a network engineer/ server admin can find small jobs enough to make a living in web hosting industry in the meantime. actually many of them can turn into full time jobs. a civil engineer cant do that.
me and my colleagues actually are telecommuting.
i kinda own my own business though. but, judging from the possibilities available in dev communities around the net, i can say that there are decent number of telecommuting jobs for many programming positions. provided that you can prove experience and track record. elance is one.
what i think is, many people who always worked in corporate culture either dont know where to look telecommuting jobs, or look down when they find them.
too much sarcasm and smarthmouthing is bad for your stomach. increases ph and punches holes in its walls.
Eric S. Raymond discusses the recent Microsoft security debacle in which an engineer inserted a back door in a library that allowed access with the phrase 'Netscape engineers are weenies!' The article notes that 'Apache will *never* have a back door like this one.
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/20234.html
do i have to give out any examples ? how long does it take microsoft to fix issues and holes with asp, or windows ?
even shitty i.t. staff can take on small stuff from small businesses and make a decent living these days.
but, will they really drop globally ?
AND, since, our area, i.t., is a field that is kinda the originator of the concept of telecommuting, wont many i.t. people in u.s. be able to find work overseas, working through telecommuting ?
i dare not say demand for i.t. people will go down worldwide. its kinda impossible, since i.t. revolution is on full steam right now - we, as a civilization, are little far from trying to integrate our toilets to computers and internet.
did you play that other game ?
if you had, you'd see that it is basically almost on the same outline as wow, however improved.
vista and linux are not comparable items. they are fundamentally different not only in their code and implementation, but philosophy. this doesnt apply here.
In an efficient system, the people that pirate the game (or other material) then pass it on to others. There are zero sales. Music is slowing approaching that point. When WalMart finally gives up selling CDs you will know it has pretty much reached that point - no more recorded music sales. I believe it has reached that in China already. The difference is that the US and Western Europe have many more people that can afford to shop at WalMart and the like but are not extremely computer literate
you are wrong there. i was one of the youth that pirated almost everything. you dont get to have much money whilst you are young.
however when grown up, have a job and a decent income, i tend to buy stuff. its much easier than pirating. its there, you grab it, you get home and just use it. music, movie. game. you dont need to worry about recording quality or cracks or hacks or whether the movie was recorded by a handcam in a theater.
thats the way it goes.
there are basic facts of life that any anti-piracy person seems to ignore :
- first, you cant sell anything to someone who doesnt have money. they dont have money, and they will pirate whatever they need. preventing them from pirating by placing and enforcing practices that costs more for society than what they worth accomplishes nothing. case in point - me (while i was much younger) and zillions of other students, or poor people in 3rd world countries.
- second, there are people who will pirate stuff regardless of how much money they have. these people are basically scrooges. they are never a noticeable percentage of any country, but they are nevertheless there. again, you cant sell anything to these people. you need to kill them to take their money.
- apart from these, there are normal people with purchasing power. you dont need to enforce any laws upon these people. because if you dont act stupid and try to sell your commodity from exorbitantly inflated prices, they see no point in pirating. they have better stuff to do with their time than pirating stuff. case in point - me, in my current age and purchasing power.
The whole point of piracy is to zero out the sales. The truely dedicated folks out there are making purchases with stolen credit cards and then posting whatever they bought so nobody else has to steal to get the goods. I don't think there are a lot of truely dedicated pirates like that out there, but there are plenty that will spend $100 (time, computer hardware, etc.) to avoid paying $10 for music, movies, software, etc.
remember that ANYthing mankind has invented, can be abused to evil ends. that has not been a reason for us to extremely limit usage of cars, guns, household appliances that can kill people, and it cant made into a reason for crippling the biggest revolution mankind ever had - the information revolution.
I think it is primarily bandwidth-limited. If (when?) the US has 10x the bandwidth available you will see a huge jump in pirate quality and distribution. Normal distribution channels will not be able to keep up. There is also a knowledge limitation. Today you have to know something about how to download and what software to use. In 20 years everyone that went to school will know this and the folks that do not will have died.
normal distribution channels do not need to be able to keep up, or live, or do anything. tv killed the radio. maybe rather transformed its functionality. then internet came, and almost killed the libraries, books, and even now even tv. more correctly though, it is changing their functionality.
just like how cars replaced or changed the functionality of horses and carriages. thats the progression.
what those distribution channels need to do is to adapt to coming times and new ways. many are refusing to do it, yet some are doing it. that some will be the winners, just like who invested in cars at the onset of the century.
apart from that
age of conan and world of warcraft are two close competitors for the top slot of mmo genre. the two games also generally employ very similar concepts. although age of conan generally expands on many of them.
whomever modded the parent offtopic is either someone who didnt play both of the games or a fanboi of world of warcraft. or clueless. either applies. combinations may apply too.