OTOH, if you are of the *nix persuasion, you could place your VMs on either an (XFS XOR ZFS) formatted slice, or any other file system (journaled FTW, kids!) on top of LVMv3; snapshot the sucker and put it where ever you'd like. Also, if you want to do this over a network, you can use samba's VSS VFS module on the net share and pull the VM over CIFS. Extra flexibility points for intelligent use of iSCSI or AOE.
Killerbob, what are you using for your incremental backups? AMANDA or rsync or something of the likes?
Usually, though, a good amount of the fine print doesn't stand up in court.
I think the fine print usually equates to putting on a really thick winter coat under a bulletproof vest; yeah, it's technically extra protection, but if you're at the point where you need it, barring a miracle, you're probably already screwed. You can put anything in a contract, but if it says that you don't have to support your other obligations within the contract, it won't stand.
IANAL and I only took 1 business law class in high school, so I'm more than likely wrong.;)
What, the $5k per student that they've been funding for the last 3 or 4 years doesn't count for anything? That's like saying that IBM doesn't care about Eclipse because they aren't the largest contributers to the project. I have absolutely no idea if they are, but you get the point. Also, Google has Jeremy Allison; while not a kernel dev., he has probably had more of a positive impact on open source than he'll ever see credit for - and I bet he does quite a bit of Samba work on the Google clock. Either that, or he sneaks to the bathroom and posts to the news group every hour or so.
Kinda'. I dropped out of my warez scene, for many reasons, about 3 or 4 years ago. But, the when I left the scene, warez was really a pride thing between IRC channels and groups. It was all about having the most servers, the most efficient distribution network (and when I left, those guys had it down to a science!), the power to hold 'dump' access over someones head so that they'll serve for free while working up the ladder, and being the first group and channel to have a release within hours of a release.
I mean, in theory you could make money if you got dump access to a few TB of warez and started pressing cds and selling them, but the overhead in time and hardware (your bandwidth is maxed constantly, you're only downloading something new when it comes out and then you're sending it to people who have been idle for days on queue - and you gotta' have the space to keep everything that's hot) to keep a library of warez on cd/dvd marginalizes any profit you could make. You never run off more than 5 copies at a time, so you don't really get the benefit of the economy of scales. You'll want to keep everything organized, and stuff is coming in every day, that's a good chunk of your time.
At some point, you'll get infected or hacked - it will happen, it's just a matter of when, by whom, and how badly they want to make your life miserable. Worse than that, you might go and sell some discs with viruses on them; not something you want to deal with for a $5-$10 sale. The only way anyone could make money doing it is getting a specific hot software package (say, Windows) and spending the time to release it in mass quantities, passing it off as legit or selling in quantity to a middleman and making it up on sheer volume (greatly decreasing your ability to conceal your affairs). That also is exactly the behavior that will get you a nice sentence and fine if you're caught. The risk/reward ratios just don't line up with warez to a place where it makes sense, IMHO. When you don't have the risk, you'll never be in the black, and when you're in the black, the risk is more than its worth.
Unfortunately, in your insightful response (no sarcasm, that really was insightful and I wouldn't have caught it if you didn't say something), you stumbled upon the counter problem; if software were free, people with the ability would charge for the service instead of the software. If this theory doesn't hold up, open source will have a bit problem in the coming years. Ouch, I just realized how I've just managed to cut myself with a double edged sword.
Just wondering... under the GPL, would I be required to publish my version of the source after doing this? Erm, what can I say, I lose sleep over stupid stuff.
You'll not be able to find the minimum gauge wire you'll need (probably 16, maybe 14) for under $100. I just ran a 9.1 surround setup in my studio apartment; for a approx. 15' x 10' corner, it took me around 200 feet of wire or so and each spool of 16 AWG was somewhere around $40-$45 retail from WallyWorld and RadioShack. If you value your equipment, you'll use at least an 18 AWG for any run over, say, 20 feet.
Hrm, not sure. ALSA scares me. I kinda' like pulseAudio because I haven't tried to set it up yet. Swap your cables at the sound card. Plug the rear in to the front and the front to the rear.:)
These issues pertain to all Creative cards, but not to the E-mu APS and some Audigy2 Platinum Ex cards. Creative audio cards based on the EMU10kX audio DSP require a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) in order to produce analog output. In general, this task is typically performed by either AC97 Codecs or I2S Codecs.
As a rule, Creative audio cards use the AC97 Codec for Front and Center/Subwoofer outputs, and I2S Codec for Rear output. The AC97 Codec is also used as an ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) and, thus, is responsible for all on-board analog inputs. (Note that LiveDrives and other DaughterBoard cards use different schemes).
The AC97 Codecs used in SBLive! cards are rather noisy devices (when compared to I2S Codecs), and this leads to some quality problems. As a rule, SBLive Rear outputs have much better Signal To Noise Ratio (SNR), Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and Channel Separation (acs) since they use the I2S Codec. So, if you want to get better sound quality for music playback it is recommended that you plug your speakers into the 'Rear Out' and enable the 'Swap Front and Rear' kX Mixer option (the swap is enabled by default).
The Audigy and Audigy2 cards use both AC97 and I2S Codecs for Front output and this theoretically gives you rather good Front quality. But nevertheless, the AC97 Codec causes some distortion and thus the same procedure is recommended for use with Audigy / Audigy2 cards as well.
Certain Audigy2 Platinum Ex cards lack AC97 codec and thus don't require Front and Rear outputs to be swapped.
Of course, the above should be considered as a recommendation only.
on-demand streaming, you can play your media over a LAN or the internet using only a web browser and a player
on-the-fly transcoding
Jukebox Mode
When your computer is connected to your stereo set or a hardware jukebox device, you can use Jinzora to send your music to that device
Jinzora can automatically tag and organize your media collection and download song lyrics, album covers, artist pictures, biographies and reviews to complement it
The advanced built-in authentication system offers administrators a flexible way to control access for individual users or user groups.
user and media statistics, logging, RSS feeds, and an open API to access from third-party software.
Plays and transcodes on the fly (at any bitrate) to:
I'm not affiliated with Jinzora in any way, it's just a software package that blows my socks off. And, it runs on Linux. Did I mention it's GPL'd? Oh, yeah, and it streams video, too.;)
Yeah, but things just seemed to happen faster in beta; it was really an informal continuation of alpha, but labeled in a way so as to make the marketing guys think we were actually making headway and fixing bugs. We actually skipped beta and just went RTM.
To be completely honest, I'm not that familiar with Apples' hardware (although I hear their servers are screaming fast); I've got a G3 PPC and it has outlasted its PC brethren of the same age, FWIW.
Huh, shoulda' learned to shut my big mouth. I apologize for going off about that mobo; Asus finally released a BIOS to support the 23xx series Barcelonas two weeks ago. The motherboard is a KFN5-D SLI. The nForce chipset has an AHCI problem with almost all the kernel except for 2.6.21-2.6.23 or so. The problem reappeared after that, IIRC and AHCI support was repealed. It's been a few months since I've toyed with it, but I think that it was DMA not playing nicely with NCQ (the chipset doesn't like it when the NCQ code sends resets too quickly and one of the kernel devs hacked around it by inserting a millisecond delay between NCQ commands).
Your point on the memory is well taken. Although when I said "... if they ever release processors for it...", I was exaggerating to make a point about platform support. 4 CPUs is quite different than the days of Socket A where I could almost grab a Duron or Athlon from any system a drop it in another. There was a Socket A for every speed, series and cache size that AMD had in production it seemed.
Anyways, that example blew up in my face... but I meant to show that even if you don't mind paying top dollar for the top tier product, you don't even get a great product. So, I'll stick to my guns on the original intent of my post; Google and Apple still deliver a solid product at the end of the day, and that's why people like them.
Real Programmers push their data to the web and let everyone else mirror it;)
I think the same applies here, except google is doing the mirroring and it's one less hassle at the cost of them knowing that I have a spreadsheet that holds library dependencies for my slackware packages. I can deal with that.
[...]you are essentially telling every web site you visit: "I am a user who is excessively concerned with privacy and knows how to anonymize himself. Statistically speaking, I am probably (though not certainly) college-age, computer-savvy, geeky, single, and male. Effective ads for me are likely to include ads for dating services, computer hardware, nifty gadgets[...] Wow! That's just eerie. Guess what number I'm thinking of and my favorite distro...
I think this is because every company is going to do what the Goog' and Apple do; Hardware is going to be expensive, and a data company is going to mine data. The difference is that unlike other companies, they actually deliver a product that is worth the cost. I can't stand it when a sub-par company wastes my time and energy, and their product sucks, big time! I understand that Apple's hardware costs more and is probably somewhat inflated, but, at the end of the day, I'm not screwing around. I want the most reliable product/software/widget/operating system/insert object here and I don't care about the cost until the benefits are painfully marginalized. But, if I'm paying my time/data/money, said product had better deliver with more than mediocre performance.
Unfortunately, these days you just can't seem to find things worth the money or time they cost. If I stood outside with a hand full of cash and waved it at everyone passing by and offering that fistful of cash for the first person who could deliver to me a motherboard that's fully functional, delivers performance, is upgradeable, delivers on every bullet point on the box, fits in a standard 1U case with heatsink, and has drivers for Linux, I still couldn't it.
I've got a Dual Socket 1207 if AMD ever releases processors for it - and it promised to work with quad core when they came out... except for that hardware bug that prevented it. Oh, yeah, and that memory interface that was going to be forwards compatible fell through, too. Did I mention DMA doesn't work with Asus' Linux drivers? I shelled out $300 (mind you, I'm a student, that's big cash) for a dual socket motherboard because I wanted the best money could buy and I still got screwed. By Asus, nonetheless. The only reason I put up with them is because the alternative is BioStar who unashamedly pumps out crap that limps along for a year before dying. At least Apple and Google are delivering!
...isn't it time the "Software" category was represented by something else than a shiny disc icon? You apparently don't have Shiny Object Syndrome; you just don't understand, man. It's... SHINY!
Oh... I feel rather foolish for applying to write Samba's 3.2 user space ACLs, then. Not sure how the 'Goog' is going to turn that in to their own proprietary software. Or, you have not the first idea what you're talking about.
Slackware proper only ships with KDE (and fluxbox, and XFCE, IIRC - they're in the 'extras' discs). You can get Gnome on Slackware via other projects, but Slackware doesn't support Gnome. So, that's one distro that is straight out of the box KDE. In fact, that's why KDE is my favorite desktop environment; Slackware was my first distro, and I just got used to it.
Although, I do appreciate Gnome for what it is, but it just doesn't feel as familiar as KDE. So, yeah, the main distros these days are debian derived and that's why Gnome is dominant, IMHO. Whatever a user is subjected to first, they'll find to be more comfortable with.
This (the US) is the country that perfected the robber barons, exploitation of the masses to benefit the wealthy, elite upper class, and gave the world MICROSOFT. To be fair, though, Microsoft then gave us "Bob".
Not funny. I had this cube in my car for years (something to do at traffic lights and when there's an accident during rush hour traffic in Allentown)... could never beat the friggin' thing. I got it in a box from my cousin (along with a commodore 64 and VIC 20).
One day I decided to look up the algorithm to beat it, and you can imagine how I felt when I realized that the stickers had been removed and there was no solution. I nearly pulled a Ballmer, but I happened to be sitting in the only chair in the room. Not that it stopped me from trying to throw it.
That is, without a doubt, the most logical, well thought out, and expertly phrased argument I've seen on slashdot in ages. But, you know the saying, "Don't worry about anyone stealing your ideas; if they're any good you'll have to cram them down peoples' throats!" (forgot the original author of quote)
In other words, you can watch the demise of Motorolla, with the smug satisfaction that us geeks get when we've shouted the answer, no one has listened, and everyone is suddenly panicked. Don't Panic. Buy popcorn, enjoy show.
Right, if you don't understand the benefit of a community of people getting behind your product, helping to produce it (and helping themselves become experts at it in order to consult) and then having a pool of eligible consultants who know your product down to the code level, you probably are better off leveraging SAP consultants at $$$/hour to save cash; your logic would be consistent that way. Just remember one consultant has it in their best interest to serve you best (you can hire another one from the pool), and the other has it in their best interest to waste your time (paid per hour, and the only way out is to start from scratch... the hole gets deeper by the hour).
I've never thought of it like that; looking at it from that angle really does change my entire attitude. I feel a little foolish now for ranting up and down and not taking the time to even consider that. That's, seriously, one of the most insightful things anyone has told me in a long time.
Out of curiosity, how did you see that? I almost get a hint that this is a lesson you've had to learn in the past (and perhaps were too stubborn and young to understand, like myself), and has an anecdote attached? There's just no way that you saw straight through the situation without having "been there, done that"!
I'm seriously hoping you could follow up that thought a bit; I could use a bit of wisdom as of late. My advisor wants me to apply for our grad. program, but he's beside himself at my QPA ("You're entirely too smart to have a 2.35, come on!") since he does the Computer Science grad school admissions. I've been at war with myself over selling out by "playing the game" to boost my QPA, or continue to learn as much as possible, grades notwithstanding. My sister has a 4.0, but only plays the game... she doesn't even know what classes she's taken and forgets everything after the exam... drives me nuts.
My post:
As a software development major, I'm starting to get really sick of constantly having three or four projects on my plate at any given moment. I love writing software, but if I have three projects in different languages, all due the same week (and I'll be getting three more when I hand in the current ones), I can't really put that much time in to any of the projects. However, this isn't so bad when you consider I've been writing the same crap for about three years now.
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OTOH, if you are of the *nix persuasion, you could place your VMs on either an (XFS XOR ZFS) formatted slice, or any other file system (journaled FTW, kids!) on top of LVMv3; snapshot the sucker and put it where ever you'd like. Also, if you want to do this over a network, you can use samba's VSS VFS module on the net share and pull the VM over CIFS. Extra flexibility points for intelligent use of iSCSI or AOE.
Killerbob, what are you using for your incremental backups? AMANDA or rsync or something of the likes?
Usually, though, a good amount of the fine print doesn't stand up in court.
;)
I think the fine print usually equates to putting on a really thick winter coat under a bulletproof vest; yeah, it's technically extra protection, but if you're at the point where you need it, barring a miracle, you're probably already screwed. You can put anything in a contract, but if it says that you don't have to support your other obligations within the contract, it won't stand.
IANAL and I only took 1 business law class in high school, so I'm more than likely wrong.
What, the $5k per student that they've been funding for the last 3 or 4 years doesn't count for anything? That's like saying that IBM doesn't care about Eclipse because they aren't the largest contributers to the project. I have absolutely no idea if they are, but you get the point. Also, Google has Jeremy Allison; while not a kernel dev., he has probably had more of a positive impact on open source than he'll ever see credit for - and I bet he does quite a bit of Samba work on the Google clock. Either that, or he sneaks to the bathroom and posts to the news group every hour or so.
Kinda'. I dropped out of my warez scene, for many reasons, about 3 or 4 years ago. But, the when I left the scene, warez was really a pride thing between IRC channels and groups. It was all about having the most servers, the most efficient distribution network (and when I left, those guys had it down to a science!), the power to hold 'dump' access over someones head so that they'll serve for free while working up the ladder, and being the first group and channel to have a release within hours of a release.
I mean, in theory you could make money if you got dump access to a few TB of warez and started pressing cds and selling them, but the overhead in time and hardware (your bandwidth is maxed constantly, you're only downloading something new when it comes out and then you're sending it to people who have been idle for days on queue - and you gotta' have the space to keep everything that's hot) to keep a library of warez on cd/dvd marginalizes any profit you could make. You never run off more than 5 copies at a time, so you don't really get the benefit of the economy of scales. You'll want to keep everything organized, and stuff is coming in every day, that's a good chunk of your time.
At some point, you'll get infected or hacked - it will happen, it's just a matter of when, by whom, and how badly they want to make your life miserable. Worse than that, you might go and sell some discs with viruses on them; not something you want to deal with for a $5-$10 sale. The only way anyone could make money doing it is getting a specific hot software package (say, Windows) and spending the time to release it in mass quantities, passing it off as legit or selling in quantity to a middleman and making it up on sheer volume (greatly decreasing your ability to conceal your affairs). That also is exactly the behavior that will get you a nice sentence and fine if you're caught. The risk/reward ratios just don't line up with warez to a place where it makes sense, IMHO. When you don't have the risk, you'll never be in the black, and when you're in the black, the risk is more than its worth.
Unfortunately, in your insightful response (no sarcasm, that really was insightful and I wouldn't have caught it if you didn't say something), you stumbled upon the counter problem; if software were free, people with the ability would charge for the service instead of the software. If this theory doesn't hold up, open source will have a bit problem in the coming years. Ouch, I just realized how I've just managed to cut myself with a double edged sword.
Just wondering... under the GPL, would I be required to publish my version of the source after doing this? Erm, what can I say, I lose sleep over stupid stuff.
You'll not be able to find the minimum gauge wire you'll need (probably 16, maybe 14) for under $100. I just ran a 9.1 surround setup in my studio apartment; for a approx. 15' x 10' corner, it took me around 200 feet of wire or so and each spool of 16 AWG was somewhere around $40-$45 retail from WallyWorld and RadioShack. If you value your equipment, you'll use at least an 18 AWG for any run over, say, 20 feet.
Hrm, not sure. ALSA scares me. I kinda' like pulseAudio because I haven't tried to set it up yet. Swap your cables at the sound card. Plug the rear in to the front and the front to the rear. :)
From the Kx Audio Drivers FAQ
These issues pertain to all Creative cards, but not to the E-mu APS and some Audigy2 Platinum Ex cards. Creative audio cards based on the EMU10kX audio DSP require a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) in order to produce analog output. In general, this task is typically performed by either AC97 Codecs or I2S Codecs.
As a rule, Creative audio cards use the AC97 Codec for Front and Center/Subwoofer outputs, and I2S Codec for Rear output. The AC97 Codec is also used as an ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) and, thus, is responsible for all on-board analog inputs. (Note that LiveDrives and other DaughterBoard cards use different schemes).
The AC97 Codecs used in SBLive! cards are rather noisy devices (when compared to I2S Codecs), and this leads to some quality problems. As a rule, SBLive Rear outputs have much better Signal To Noise Ratio (SNR), Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and Channel Separation (acs) since they use the I2S Codec. So, if you want to get better sound quality for music playback it is recommended that you plug your speakers into the 'Rear Out' and enable the 'Swap Front and Rear' kX Mixer option (the swap is enabled by default).
The Audigy and Audigy2 cards use both AC97 and I2S Codecs for Front output and this theoretically gives you rather good Front quality. But nevertheless, the AC97 Codec causes some distortion and thus the same procedure is recommended for use with Audigy / Audigy2 cards as well.
Certain Audigy2 Platinum Ex cards lack AC97 codec and thus don't require Front and Rear outputs to be swapped.
Of course, the above should be considered as a recommendation only.Quick rundown of The Feature List to pique your interest:
Plays and transcodes on the fly (at any bitrate) to:
More Geeky Specs (an impressive list!)
I'm not affiliated with Jinzora in any way, it's just a software package that blows my socks off. And, it runs on Linux. Did I mention it's GPL'd? Oh, yeah, and it streams video, too.
Yeah, but things just seemed to happen faster in beta; it was really an informal continuation of alpha, but labeled in a way so as to make the marketing guys think we were actually making headway and fixing bugs. We actually skipped beta and just went RTM.
To be completely honest, I'm not that familiar with Apples' hardware (although I hear their servers are screaming fast); I've got a G3 PPC and it has outlasted its PC brethren of the same age, FWIW.
Huh, shoulda' learned to shut my big mouth. I apologize for going off about that mobo; Asus finally released a BIOS to support the 23xx series Barcelonas two weeks ago. The motherboard is a KFN5-D SLI. The nForce chipset has an AHCI problem with almost all the kernel except for 2.6.21-2.6.23 or so. The problem reappeared after that, IIRC and AHCI support was repealed. It's been a few months since I've toyed with it, but I think that it was DMA not playing nicely with NCQ (the chipset doesn't like it when the NCQ code sends resets too quickly and one of the kernel devs hacked around it by inserting a millisecond delay between NCQ commands).
Your point on the memory is well taken. Although when I said "... if they ever release processors for it...", I was exaggerating to make a point about platform support. 4 CPUs is quite different than the days of Socket A where I could almost grab a Duron or Athlon from any system a drop it in another. There was a Socket A for every speed, series and cache size that AMD had in production it seemed.
Anyways, that example blew up in my face... but I meant to show that even if you don't mind paying top dollar for the top tier product, you don't even get a great product. So, I'll stick to my guns on the original intent of my post; Google and Apple still deliver a solid product at the end of the day, and that's why people like them.
Real Programmers push their data to the web and let everyone else mirror it ;)
I think the same applies here, except google is doing the mirroring and it's one less hassle at the cost of them knowing that I have a spreadsheet that holds library dependencies for my slackware packages. I can deal with that.
I think this is because every company is going to do what the Goog' and Apple do; Hardware is going to be expensive, and a data company is going to mine data. The difference is that unlike other companies, they actually deliver a product that is worth the cost. I can't stand it when a sub-par company wastes my time and energy, and their product sucks, big time ! I understand that Apple's hardware costs more and is probably somewhat inflated, but, at the end of the day, I'm not screwing around. I want the most reliable product/software/widget/operating system/insert object here and I don't care about the cost until the benefits are painfully marginalized. But, if I'm paying my time/data/money, said product had better deliver with more than mediocre performance.
Unfortunately, these days you just can't seem to find things worth the money or time they cost. If I stood outside with a hand full of cash and waved it at everyone passing by and offering that fistful of cash for the first person who could deliver to me a motherboard that's fully functional, delivers performance, is upgradeable, delivers on every bullet point on the box, fits in a standard 1U case with heatsink, and has drivers for Linux, I still couldn't it.
I've got a Dual Socket 1207 if AMD ever releases processors for it - and it promised to work with quad core when they came out... except for that hardware bug that prevented it. Oh, yeah, and that memory interface that was going to be forwards compatible fell through, too. Did I mention DMA doesn't work with Asus' Linux drivers? I shelled out $300 (mind you, I'm a student, that's big cash) for a dual socket motherboard because I wanted the best money could buy and I still got screwed. By Asus, nonetheless. The only reason I put up with them is because the alternative is BioStar who unashamedly pumps out crap that limps along for a year before dying. At least Apple and Google are delivering!
...isn't it time the "Software" category was represented by something else than a shiny disc icon? You apparently don't have Shiny Object Syndrome; you just don't understand, man. It's... SHINY!Oh... I feel rather foolish for applying to write Samba's 3.2 user space ACLs, then. Not sure how the 'Goog' is going to turn that in to their own proprietary software. Or, you have not the first idea what you're talking about.
Slackware proper only ships with KDE (and fluxbox, and XFCE, IIRC - they're in the 'extras' discs). You can get Gnome on Slackware via other projects, but Slackware doesn't support Gnome. So, that's one distro that is straight out of the box KDE. In fact, that's why KDE is my favorite desktop environment; Slackware was my first distro, and I just got used to it.
Although, I do appreciate Gnome for what it is, but it just doesn't feel as familiar as KDE. So, yeah, the main distros these days are debian derived and that's why Gnome is dominant, IMHO. Whatever a user is subjected to first, they'll find to be more comfortable with.
Yeah... that Java JRE that doesn't run anything correctly. It's been nothing but troubles for me, at least. YMMV.
Not funny. I had this cube in my car for years (something to do at traffic lights and when there's an accident during rush hour traffic in Allentown)... could never beat the friggin' thing. I got it in a box from my cousin (along with a commodore 64 and VIC 20).
One day I decided to look up the algorithm to beat it, and you can imagine how I felt when I realized that the stickers had been removed and there was no solution. I nearly pulled a Ballmer, but I happened to be sitting in the only chair in the room. Not that it stopped me from trying to throw it.
That is, without a doubt, the most logical, well thought out, and expertly phrased argument I've seen on slashdot in ages. But, you know the saying, "Don't worry about anyone stealing your ideas; if they're any good you'll have to cram them down peoples' throats!" (forgot the original author of quote)
In other words, you can watch the demise of Motorolla, with the smug satisfaction that us geeks get when we've shouted the answer, no one has listened, and everyone is suddenly panicked. Don't Panic. Buy popcorn, enjoy show.
Right, if you don't understand the benefit of a community of people getting behind your product, helping to produce it (and helping themselves become experts at it in order to consult) and then having a pool of eligible consultants who know your product down to the code level, you probably are better off leveraging SAP consultants at $$$/hour to save cash; your logic would be consistent that way. Just remember one consultant has it in their best interest to serve you best (you can hire another one from the pool), and the other has it in their best interest to waste your time (paid per hour, and the only way out is to start from scratch... the hole gets deeper by the hour).
I've never thought of it like that; looking at it from that angle really does change my entire attitude. I feel a little foolish now for ranting up and down and not taking the time to even consider that. That's, seriously, one of the most insightful things anyone has told me in a long time.
Out of curiosity, how did you see that? I almost get a hint that this is a lesson you've had to learn in the past (and perhaps were too stubborn and young to understand, like myself), and has an anecdote attached? There's just no way that you saw straight through the situation without having "been there, done that"!
I'm seriously hoping you could follow up that thought a bit; I could use a bit of wisdom as of late. My advisor wants me to apply for our grad. program, but he's beside himself at my QPA ("You're entirely too smart to have a 2.35, come on!") since he does the Computer Science grad school admissions. I've been at war with myself over selling out by "playing the game" to boost my QPA, or continue to learn as much as possible, grades notwithstanding. My sister has a 4.0, but only plays the game... she doesn't even know what classes she's taken and forgets everything after the exam... drives me nuts.
My post: As a software development major, I'm starting to get really sick of constantly having three or four projects on my plate at any given moment. I love writing software, but if I have three projects in different languages, all due the same week (and I'll be getting three more when I hand in the current ones), I can't really put that much time in to any of the projects. However, this isn't so bad when you consider I've been writing the same crap for about three years now.
TFA: 1. Every Assignment Feels the Same