So the current propoganda would have you believe ('cuz it's cool to hate the blue man). It was the majority Liberals who introduced it the first time around, but we don't often hear that, do we?
I think you hit the nail on the head. Actual skilled people are valued more and can ask for more; they have more to bargain with. The disconnect we have is that it's hard to qualify someone as a true professional in this field, especially when the specific skills needed are so broad. The very nature of this area makes it hard to understand someone's job function, never mind value it.
Are the great jobs very far and few between, then?
A couple weeks ago, there was a ComputerWorld magazine letter to the editor. It suggested that instead of asking why more women aren't in IT, we should be asking why so many men put up with it.
Lack of unions aren't a problem. IT people just don't value themselves as much as they should. They just keep beating themselves with the smelly, poorly-adjusted nerd stick (+1 bsh).
It's much easier to whine about your "rights" instead of doing something to actually fix the problem.
For example, most people would rather waste hours with no benefits, avoiding responsibility and thought, living off pizza and coke instead of being part of a creative process and contributing positively to themselves and others (ex. creating their own games, game company, getting off their arses and spending time with their spouse, children, and friends instead).
i.e. we're actually missing the relevant issue
I used to play games. They can be fun on short spurts, but many have a nature that require a serious time investment to get anywhere. What makes it worth it? If you're actually investing the time, you're throwing the rest of your life away. You don't develop other skills, personal skills, and your health suffers in many respects. When you do see people, you alienate them because you have only one conversation topic in your repertoire.
I see few gamers that enjoy their games in a healthy way. Those who don't are generally stuck in a very child-like state of sloth, self-gratification, and selfishness. Whining is in accordance with such people.
"Gamer's Rights"? I didn't realize we all had an innate right to getting our toys in a very specific manner. Good thing we have some revolutionary to stand up for the tragic rights violations of gamers.
I'm not trying to intentionally upset people, but I know it will. I'm just calling it like I see it.
Stop buying crap, get off your asses, and create something useful. Acting a like a victim isn't pretty on anyone.
For Disney? Try 5-15 minutes. More than a minor inconvenience.
One of the reasons I don't bother with that stuff anymore. I guess some people feel like they don't have the option, but I don't understand that either.
I just wish both my cell phone company and my city's transit would both learn to use freaking atomic time. Nothing like being dead-on one day (relative to one another), and 6 minutes late the next.
From what you're saying, it doesn't matter what equipment you buy because you're determined to hole up at home. Health and any degree of commitment to it requires.. commitment. You *know* what you *should* be doing. A minute part of the population is actually unable to do the things they should be doing. It's just a matter of choices and priorities.
Sounds like seeing the sun sometime might do you some good too.
It also sounds like you're beginning to acknowledge that health might be a bigger priority than it used to be.
The main thing you need is aerobic exercise, not weight training. Get a little weight training in at the same time by doing things like walking to the grocery store.
I find walking to the grocery store gives me a little exercise, sunlight, freaking awesome arms, and better decision making (I'll carry four litres of milk home instead of four litres of Coke)
My company gets a lot of material for jobs via email. The email gets printed out and attached to a carbonless job form. The details from the email are written on the job form (plus extra details we need to do the job). When the job is done, this paper monstrosity is sent to billing, including the email. On top of this we want to search the details of the job, so we scan the docket into the computer after the job is done. We scan the email as well.
So what started out as 8KB of text ends up as 300KB-800KB of images, with a lot of extra work in between.
Never underestimate to power of business to create work.
The right way doesn't matter, which is the point. Purposefully planned obsolescence boosts sales to a large degree. It's a golden goose for hardware manufacturers, especially if they're in cahoots with other vendors. You have to give vendors a *really* good reason to give up their golden egg. It usually requires a *better* golden egg, or at the very least, another one.
Pasta takes 10 minutes to cook, but you don't have to sit staring at it for the whole ten minutes.
A roast can take 2 hours to cook, but you don't have to spend all two hours staring at it.
Furthermore, if you have kids and they aren't babies anymore, they can help out with at least some of the process. Solves both the problem of how to get dinner going and occupying your kids so they don't get into trouble while you're trying to make supper.
As a woman, and having had experience this, I would like to add other possibilities:
a) she thinks he's too much of a pussy b) she's tired of getting mixed signals (often goes along with item a )
Decent women don't want to be "sorta liked, kinda". Shit or get off the pot. Don't play games. We get way too much attention to entertain any one person's twaddle for an extended period of time.
Someone earlier suggested heartlessbitches.com I'm going to suggest it again.
I've been happy to live in Canada because we've been keeping freedoms like this... it's a little more along the spirit of allowing people to further culture, not supress it.
I am not talking necessarily about "ripping off music just to listen to it", I am talking more about allowing people to experiment and tinker with systems and produce derivative works. It kind of goes along with the whole free and open source ideals, which is something I would like to see perpetuated.
Laws like these are not innovation, it's not the way the future should be going.
Bullshit like this starts happening, and I'm going to have many fewer reasons to stay in Canada. If I have an Americanized "we're watching you" country, I may as well move to the United States, get paid more and taxed less.
The prof is held hostage. We are all held hostage. We aren't even told we have one option because it doesn't even occur to us to ask.
The comments about DRM, university/publisher deals, I agree that's how it happens. But I see the potential, and see this system is very broken.
Education is very important to governments. It directly effects economy, mental and physical health issues, and crime. But it's strange... they won't allow a "monopoly" with a large software company that competes with a few other companies, but make no move to step in this arena of making education accessible.
I'm assuming some profs may have to sign agreements re: publishing when they get hired by the university. What if those asking for those agreements was illegal and enforced by law? What if profs could write their own pdfs and slap it on the web for free, protected from repercussions from their university?
Worried about quality control? That's what peer review is for. That could be open and accessible too.
//even without this, costs should go down. But they won't. System is broken, I tell you.
//wikibooks is a slightly different issue but could become important
I used to do digital prepress layout work, so get off your high horse. I'm very familiar with all the other costs, including the specialized machinery and processes that have to be done by hand.
I'm saying $100+ for a text is excessively expensive when you consider:
a) other low-run books are much cheaper
b) all books have prepress work involved
c) you don't have to market textbooks to the same degree other books are marketed (because you have a captive audience and low competition)
d) ebooks, (which don't require plates and trees and the process of making physical books) are still not presented as an option
e) ebooks would be more useful to students, but no one gives a damn because it's much easier to make money off four pounds of dead tree
It's not even that profs are making a killing because of their niche expertise. They aren't. One of my engineering profs (who is appropriately nicknamed "God" by both students and faculty) was so pissed about the whole situation, he told students to photocopy his book from the bookstore. He makes peanuts off his texts.
It's all about keeping the golden goose in its cage.
That's why textbooks are $20 and they offer ebooks of textbooks, right?
$100+ is typical for a textbook these days. New editions of material that doesn't change are put out every 1-2 years. And how many wonderfully portable digital copies do we see?
Textbook theft from lockers was a big thing at my university (8 years ago). As a result, I never took textbooks to school, and did most of my coursework at home (very inconvenient at times).
When I go back to school, I'll probably use Tesseract, as LinuxJournal suggests.
My ex-spouse and I used to play this game all the time when driving. We'd take a different route when we're going somewhere or going home "so the assassins won't get us".
Though he pointed out that if they just waited at home for us to come back, we're screwed.
You can find a find some interesting things you didn't know about if you take a different route... and some scary ones...
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This would be an ideal problem to be solved by open source (other than physical issues like being able to easily mash the keys).
What we have now is lots of phones with little to no support that don't share their efforts.
Open source and open phones would allow users to benefit from a group effort/concern that is small locally but large online.
So the current propoganda would have you believe ('cuz it's cool to hate the blue man). It was the majority Liberals who introduced it the first time around, but we don't often hear that, do we?
This thread is an Escher thread.
Except for all you retards who aren't geeky enough to know who Escher was.
I've discovered they don't allow you to have the name Stinky. My cat is being oppressed.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Actual skilled people are valued more and can ask for more; they have more to bargain with. The disconnect we have is that it's hard to qualify someone as a true professional in this field, especially when the specific skills needed are so broad. The very nature of this area makes it hard to understand someone's job function, never mind value it.
Are the great jobs very far and few between, then?
A couple weeks ago, there was a ComputerWorld magazine letter to the editor. It suggested that instead of asking why more women aren't in IT, we should be asking why so many men put up with it.
Lack of unions aren't a problem. IT people just don't value themselves as much as they should. They just keep beating themselves with the smelly, poorly-adjusted nerd stick (+1 bsh).
It's much easier to whine about your "rights" instead of doing something to actually fix the problem.
For example, most people would rather waste hours with no benefits, avoiding responsibility and thought, living off pizza and coke instead of being part of a creative process and contributing positively to themselves and others (ex. creating their own games, game company, getting off their arses and spending time with their spouse, children, and friends instead).
i.e. we're actually missing the relevant issue
I used to play games. They can be fun on short spurts, but many have a nature that require a serious time investment to get anywhere. What makes it worth it? If you're actually investing the time, you're throwing the rest of your life away. You don't develop other skills, personal skills, and your health suffers in many respects. When you do see people, you alienate them because you have only one conversation topic in your repertoire.
I see few gamers that enjoy their games in a healthy way. Those who don't are generally stuck in a very child-like state of sloth, self-gratification, and selfishness. Whining is in accordance with such people.
"Gamer's Rights"? I didn't realize we all had an innate right to getting our toys in a very specific manner. Good thing we have some revolutionary to stand up for the tragic rights violations of gamers.
I'm not trying to intentionally upset people, but I know it will. I'm just calling it like I see it.
Stop buying crap, get off your asses, and create something useful. Acting a like a victim isn't pretty on anyone.
For Disney? Try 5-15 minutes. More than a minor inconvenience. One of the reasons I don't bother with that stuff anymore. I guess some people feel like they don't have the option, but I don't understand that either.
I just wish both my cell phone company and my city's transit would both learn to use freaking atomic time. Nothing like being dead-on one day (relative to one another), and 6 minutes late the next.
It's called a TIME SERVER, you bastards!
From what you're saying, it doesn't matter what equipment you buy because you're determined to hole up at home. Health and any degree of commitment to it requires.. commitment. You *know* what you *should* be doing. A minute part of the population is actually unable to do the things they should be doing. It's just a matter of choices and priorities.
Sounds like seeing the sun sometime might do you some good too.
It also sounds like you're beginning to acknowledge that health might be a bigger priority than it used to be.
The main thing you need is aerobic exercise, not weight training. Get a little weight training in at the same time by doing things like walking to the grocery store.
I find walking to the grocery store gives me a little exercise, sunlight, freaking awesome arms, and better decision making (I'll carry four litres of milk home instead of four litres of Coke)
I swear to God, it's not a street light. There were no street lights around. It's gotta be a UFO!
Insert tasteless Chinese joke here...
My company gets a lot of material for jobs via email. The email gets printed out and attached to a carbonless job form. The details from the email are written on the job form (plus extra details we need to do the job). When the job is done, this paper monstrosity is sent to billing, including the email. On top of this we want to search the details of the job, so we scan the docket into the computer after the job is done. We scan the email as well. So what started out as 8KB of text ends up as 300KB-800KB of images, with a lot of extra work in between. Never underestimate to power of business to create work.
Printscreen.
Unless maybe you're a cell phone or internet company...? How does that work over there?
"That's happening, but nuclear winter will cancel it out."
Paraphrased.
The right way doesn't matter, which is the point. Purposefully planned obsolescence boosts sales to a large degree. It's a golden goose for hardware manufacturers, especially if they're in cahoots with other vendors. You have to give vendors a *really* good reason to give up their golden egg. It usually requires a *better* golden egg, or at the very least, another one.
Pasta takes 10 minutes to cook, but you don't have to sit staring at it for the whole ten minutes.
A roast can take 2 hours to cook, but you don't have to spend all two hours staring at it.
Furthermore, if you have kids and they aren't babies anymore, they can help out with at least some of the process. Solves both the problem of how to get dinner going and occupying your kids so they don't get into trouble while you're trying to make supper.
*and* Futurama. With Al Gore, no less. The greatest scientists of our time.
As a woman, and having had experience this, I would like to add other possibilities:
a) she thinks he's too much of a pussy
b) she's tired of getting mixed signals (often goes along with item a )
Decent women don't want to be "sorta liked, kinda". Shit or get off the pot. Don't play games. We get way too much attention to entertain any one person's twaddle for an extended period of time.
Someone earlier suggested heartlessbitches.com I'm going to suggest it again.
You guys started it. *pout*
I've been happy to live in Canada because we've been keeping freedoms like this... it's a little more along the spirit of allowing people to further culture, not supress it. I am not talking necessarily about "ripping off music just to listen to it", I am talking more about allowing people to experiment and tinker with systems and produce derivative works. It kind of goes along with the whole free and open source ideals, which is something I would like to see perpetuated. Laws like these are not innovation, it's not the way the future should be going. Bullshit like this starts happening, and I'm going to have many fewer reasons to stay in Canada. If I have an Americanized "we're watching you" country, I may as well move to the United States, get paid more and taxed less.
The prof is held hostage. We are all held hostage. We aren't even told we have one option because it doesn't even occur to us to ask.
The comments about DRM, university/publisher deals, I agree that's how it happens. But I see the potential, and see this system is very broken.
Education is very important to governments. It directly effects economy, mental and physical health issues, and crime. But it's strange... they won't allow a "monopoly" with a large software company that competes with a few other companies, but make no move to step in this arena of making education accessible.
I'm assuming some profs may have to sign agreements re: publishing when they get hired by the university. What if those asking for those agreements was illegal and enforced by law? What if profs could write their own pdfs and slap it on the web for free, protected from repercussions from their university?
Worried about quality control? That's what peer review is for. That could be open and accessible too.
//even without this, costs should go down. But they won't. System is broken, I tell you.
//wikibooks is a slightly different issue but could become important
I used to do digital prepress layout work, so get off your high horse. I'm very familiar with all the other costs, including the specialized machinery and processes that have to be done by hand. I'm saying $100+ for a text is excessively expensive when you consider: a) other low-run books are much cheaper b) all books have prepress work involved c) you don't have to market textbooks to the same degree other books are marketed (because you have a captive audience and low competition) d) ebooks, (which don't require plates and trees and the process of making physical books) are still not presented as an option e) ebooks would be more useful to students, but no one gives a damn because it's much easier to make money off four pounds of dead tree It's not even that profs are making a killing because of their niche expertise. They aren't. One of my engineering profs (who is appropriately nicknamed "God" by both students and faculty) was so pissed about the whole situation, he told students to photocopy his book from the bookstore. He makes peanuts off his texts. It's all about keeping the golden goose in its cage.
That's why textbooks are $20 and they offer ebooks of textbooks, right?
$100+ is typical for a textbook these days. New editions of material that doesn't change are put out every 1-2 years. And how many wonderfully portable digital copies do we see?
Textbook theft from lockers was a big thing at my university (8 years ago). As a result, I never took textbooks to school, and did most of my coursework at home (very inconvenient at times).
When I go back to school, I'll probably use Tesseract, as LinuxJournal suggests.
My ex-spouse and I used to play this game all the time when driving. We'd take a different route when we're going somewhere or going home "so the assassins won't get us".
Though he pointed out that if they just waited at home for us to come back, we're screwed.
You can find a find some interesting things you didn't know about if you take a different route... and some scary ones...