I believe that great programming, is an art. The creative processes needed and the energy used are no different from the painter, the poet, the musician, the sculptor. When I'm on, I can program for hours, block out the world and create things that my employer marvels at. When I'm off, I am unfocused, frustrated and wonder on the way home what I accomplished for the day. This down period may last a week. When I'm on, I feel a euphoric high that becomes more intense the longer I code. I put the phone on do not disturb and close the door. Nothing distracts me. I beleive my brain functions differently during these periods. I wonder, what research has been done on this? Does the programmer use his brain the way a poet would. I would love to walk around with an EEG on me to see what changes occur as I get into "the zone". Maybe this would help me into program mode, and reduce the frustraion of not always being able to get there. I double as a sys admin, so usually, I can go work on some hardware, a network problem or read slashdot till I get over it.
Exactly! And what implications might this have on other things, like cloning? Why can't I be allowed to copyright my DNA. And if you think that's crazy, look at what ppl are getting patents for now.
I just unisinstalled it, and I'll keep uninstalling software that reports, collects and analyzes what I eat, where I am, what I listen to, what I watch, what I buy and when I go to the water closet. Analyze that!
I refuse to use the Kroger (grocery store) discount card, and have not shopped there since their stores adopted it. A friend went in to buy soem stuff at a store near here. The cashier didn't know what to do when he didn't present the card. After calling the manager, she said it was ok to buy the stuff, but that he REALLY SHOULD sign up. I pay cash yes CASH for stuff I need at other places. I fear the day when we don't have the option buy without being recorded.
I read a few weeks ago about safeway threatening to use the fact the a customer bought alcohol against him in a suit. They got it off his "customer card". I heard about a Cal. woman who was suing her husband for custody of the kids and after a search of his grocery habits pointed out that he fed them to much junk food. I don't want my insurance comapny, or anyone else to know a bout the herbs I buy, the red meat I eat, the fact the I like matzo ball soup, the fact that I like tacos, tha fact that I (may) use rogaine, that fact that I haave allergies, have dandruff and wear depends undergarments.
I'm sick of being marketed and pitched to.
Now back to real player.
I read somewhere ( and wish I could remember so I could give credit to this person) that "if I buy a Sony cam-corder and took it home, and then i found out that camcorder sent pictures back to Sony and they were looking at them"... and I say yeah and they were selling them, well I would be calling Johnny Cochran and Sony would be selling stock and to pay for that one!!! (I by the way love SOny products, and I have no knowledge that they are doing something like this)
The point is this. The food we eat, the groceries we buy, the movies we watch, the tv we listen to, the music we listen to, where we go, what we do are all things that however small, MAKE UP OUR LIVES. When someone takes the pleasure out of them by making us wonder who is wathcing us, what are they going to do with this information, it ties us down, it makes us less free. Where is the line drawn? What line?
I have suggestion. I want to know if we can copyright our personal information. Why not? We created it. We wrote it. Do we not have ownership of the things that make up as indiviuals? Why not license your info out. Perhaps then I can attach a message that sys something like :
"Use of my personal information and storeage thereof means that you accept this license agreement. This license allows you to use and store my personal information for one month subject to a $1 charge per copy. You can renew the license on a monthly basis by sending me another $1. You may copy and/or transfer my personal information to another entity by acquiring written approval 30 days in advance. Failure to comply with this agreement will result in criminal charges and/or a fine. blabh blah blah".
How unreasonable is that? Microsoft does it everyday! WE'RE paying THEM to collect all this stuff on us. I think it's time for some payback. And I don't mean 5 cents off some tofu burgers, I want cold hard cash for being subjescted to all this interrogation. So to you real player, If you don't want to pay, I'll get another MP3 player. (The software sucked anyway.)
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I believe that great programming, is an art. The creative processes needed and the energy used are no different from the painter, the poet, the musician, the sculptor. When I'm on, I can program for hours, block out the world and create things that my employer marvels at. When I'm off, I am unfocused, frustrated and wonder on the way home what I accomplished for the day. This down period may last a week. When I'm on, I feel a euphoric high that becomes more intense the longer I code. I put the phone on do not disturb and close the door. Nothing distracts me. I beleive my brain functions differently during these periods. I wonder, what research has been done on this? Does the programmer use his brain the way a poet would. I would love to walk around with an EEG on me to see what changes occur as I get into "the zone". Maybe this would help me into program mode, and reduce the frustraion of not always being able to get there. I double as a sys admin, so usually, I can go work on some hardware, a network problem or read slashdot till I get over it.
Exactly! And what implications might this have on other things, like cloning? Why can't I be allowed to copyright my DNA. And if you think that's crazy, look at what ppl are getting patents for now.
I just unisinstalled it, and I'll keep uninstalling software that reports, collects and analyzes what I eat, where I am, what I listen to, what I watch, what I buy and when I go to the water closet. Analyze that!
... and I say yeah and they were selling them, well I would be calling Johnny Cochran and Sony would be selling stock and to pay for that one!!! (I by the way love SOny products, and I have no knowledge that they are doing something like this)
/or a fine. blabh blah blah".
I refuse to use the Kroger (grocery store) discount card, and have not shopped there since their stores adopted it. A friend went in to buy soem stuff at a store near here. The cashier didn't know what to do when he didn't present the card. After calling the manager, she said it was ok to buy the stuff, but that he REALLY SHOULD sign up. I pay cash yes CASH for stuff I need at other places. I fear the day when we don't have the option buy without being recorded.
I read a few weeks ago about safeway threatening to use the fact the a customer bought alcohol against him in a suit. They got it off his "customer card". I heard about a Cal. woman who was suing her husband for custody of the kids and after a search of his grocery habits pointed out that he fed them to much junk food. I don't want my insurance comapny, or anyone else to know a bout the herbs I buy, the red meat I eat, the fact the I like matzo ball soup, the fact that I like tacos, tha fact that I (may) use rogaine, that fact that I haave allergies, have dandruff and wear depends undergarments.
I'm sick of being marketed and pitched to.
Now back to real player.
I read somewhere ( and wish I could remember so I could give credit to this person) that "if I buy a Sony cam-corder and took it home, and then i found out that camcorder sent pictures back to Sony and they were looking at them"
The point is this. The food we eat, the groceries we buy, the movies we watch, the tv we listen to, the music we listen to, where we go, what we do are all things that however small, MAKE UP OUR LIVES. When someone takes the pleasure out of them by making us wonder who is wathcing us, what are they going to do with this information, it ties us down, it makes us less free. Where is the line drawn? What line?
I have suggestion. I want to know if we can copyright our personal information. Why not? We created it. We wrote it. Do we not have ownership of the things that make up as indiviuals? Why not license your info out. Perhaps then I can attach a message that sys something like :
"Use of my personal information and storeage thereof means that you accept this license agreement. This license allows you to use and store my personal information for one month subject to a $1 charge per copy. You can renew the license on a monthly basis by sending me another $1. You may copy and/or transfer my personal information to another entity by acquiring written approval 30 days in advance. Failure to comply with this agreement will result in criminal charges and
How unreasonable is that? Microsoft does it everyday! WE'RE paying THEM to collect all this stuff on us. I think it's time for some payback. And I don't mean 5 cents off some tofu burgers, I want cold hard cash for being subjescted to all this interrogation. So to you real player, If you don't want to pay, I'll get another MP3 player. (The software sucked anyway.)