Linux works BECAUSE of the fracturing, not in spite of it.
I don't know what numbers you are looking at, but Linux is not "working" at least in the sense of user base. It has very low usage on the desktop. Very low.
than pay through the nose for OS X + hardware
Ok troll, nice try. Where did I say "my beloved OS X"? No where. Pay through the nose? Not quite. I did a price compare before I switched. Very competitive when you go feature for feature.
then all the little nickel and dime utilities you need for OS X
Nice try again troll. I have been using OS X for more than 2 years now and have never needed nor bought any of the apps listed on your link. I guess you are suggesting that there are not 10's of thousands of shareware apps out there for MS Windows?
The LGPL only comes into play if you make changes to the QT code base. So, if you do a closed source app and add a feature to the QT code itself, then you will have to release the QT code change(s), however NOT your applications code.
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Firstly, without competition, things tend to languish.
Competition is great, however GNU/Linux should not be competing against itself. There is too much fragmentation in Linux-land, 10 apps that all try to do the same thing, but each one does certain aspects better, yet none get it all right. Instead consolidate all that effort to 2 or 3 apps.
Linux gets to compete against Windows and OS X. Are you old enough to remember the Unix-wars? All the big Unix versions were all doing things their own way whilw MS and Apple were working on more consistent offerings. We all know what happened to the major Unix players.
Sadly, Linux desktop seems to be repeating the past. Constantly reinventing the wheel with tons of yet-another-app-X syndrome.
I have been using Linux since early Red Hat days. Then I used Slack, built my own Linux based on LFS for about 2 years. Then on to Gentoo, then to Fedora then finally Ubuntu.
Ubuntu made things a lot better IMO, however it still suffers with a felling of many apps tacked together instead of a more cohesive product. This was the main reason I switched to OS X 2 years ago and have been happy with that choice.
I still find myself missing Linux and would love to see a more unified final product. I don't want to have to be bothered with looking for a Gnome/GTK+ based app for Ubuntu so it works/integrates best.
There have been too many times I where I couldn't find a good Gnome/GTK+ based app but found it with a KDE based app. However, that one app pulls in a lot of KDE based bloat that I don't want/need. So I would try to switch to KDE from Gnome for a while, but found the same issue where I would have to pull in/use a Gnome/GTK+ based app.
Please spare me your crap. So you push meds on doctors for the pharmaceutical industry. Big deal. That hardly makes you an expert on "very complex organic chemistry and scientific reactions".
How long have you been taking an SSRI? I have met many "experts" on them, yet have met very few that have taken them for more than a year or more.
I have suffered from panic attacks, anxiety and depression for 15 years. I have been taking an SSRI for about 12 years now. They do have lasting effects on a person. And I do agree with you on how freaking crazy these meds are. One person is helped by a med while another is totally messed up by the same med. Hell, not one of the major SSRI's prescribed is really understood on how it works. Just basic understanding on how it works on Serotonin re-uptake.
I agree with you about the primary doctors. However, no psychologist should ever, ever be allowed to prescribe medication without having gone to medical school and earning a medical degree.
The psychiatrist/psychologist line is very definite. You either have a medical degree or you don't. It is that simple.
I agree with you for the most part. However, this case had A LOT OF EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE attached to it.
Also, she didn't "innocuously" join a website under a false name. She did it for one purpose. To harass and bring emotional damage to a child, an emotionally unstable child at that.
I also blame the parents of Megan for even letting her get on anti-depressants at such a young age. Those meds are harsh and should be only used under the care of a very, very good psychiatrist, note that I did NOT say psychologist. Huge, huge difference. I noticed a trend where a lot of non-medically trained psychologist are making recommendations about MEDICATIONS to their clients (they call them patients). This is very scary. Only a MEDICAL doctor should make those calls. Yet parents hear crap like ADD or ADHD from just a psychologist and run to their primary care doctor and tell him/her and bam the child is on very harsh drugs that DO have long-term effects and have been shown to cause suicidal thoughts. SSRI's.
Hell, I am only 35, I was never drugged out by my parents for "mood swings" or my "lack of attention". I spent most of my time in high school with a boner and looking out the window. I turned out OK and with a good career.
"Modern" parents, stop, stop, stop, drugging your kids because they don't fit into some model mold you created in your head. They are freaking kids for crying out loud.
Would Megan still be alive if she never took SSRI's? No one could say that. However, I personally believe she would.
Should we make this skank mother pay for what she did to Megan? No. She didn't break any laws, so let's not create new ones just for this waste of life.
I personally don't want to have to worry about criminal charges because I didn't adhere to some big corps. EULA. Jeez.
Thank you Apple Employee. That was a great ad for your products.:-)
Those "Interesting" features don't do anything for this topic. Accelerometer? Would this developer shake the IPhone to turn on a light? Silly and not a natural program feature. GPS? Would this developer use GPS to automate something in the house? Not likely. Camera? That is not unique to the IPhone, so no points there.
Only 30%? Your freaking kidding right? So I spend tons of time and money to design, develop, debug, etc an application and then I have to have Apple tell me how much I am allowed to make?
I read a post below that said 30% is "Comparable to any other software distributor". Uh, BS. Total, total BS. Sorry, but any distributor of MS software is NOT getting 30% of the cost/sale price. Never. If so, I would just quit my job as a software developer and just sell MS Windows OS versions from a web site and get 30% of the sale?!! Heck, 30% from the sale of MS software! Damn. I just found a new way to become a Billionaire (USD). Thanks MS!
Currently I'd go with the Web-based approach, which would not lock you in to any one device.
Until the mobile market in the USA comes up with more standards for software deployment, having an independent web-based approach seems to be the best way to go. (Maybe Google's phone software can change this?)
Some "smart phones" are really dumb when it comes to a browser. I just bought two LG enV phones for my wife and I, we have Verizon. The browser on the phone sucks. I tried to talk my wife to switch to an IPhone/AT&T deal, before we renewed our Verizon contract but the costs-per-feature(s) didn't justify a switch for us. We really only use our phones to actually talk and my wife likes to do txt messages (I paid for unlimited txt-ing).
Checking out the switching costs from Verizon to AT&T/IPhone would have been a lot more than just our "new every two" plan, so I didn't see any benefit
I am not an Apple hater. My entire home network is Apple based. Intel Macbooks and IMacs are all we have at our house. I have one IMac I use bootcamp on with WinXP for C#/SQL/MS-Only stuff I have to do at work that I sometimes bring home.
I would love for a reason to switch to an IPhone. Currently though the exclusive deal with AT&T stinks. Where I live Verizon offers the best coverage areas, period. I have never had a dropped call where I live (withing a 60 miles radius) in the past 2 years.
If Apple gets the IPhone to every provider, then I am game. Until then, I am stuck with far lesser phones, however with far better coverage.
[s]o I apple-tab to go to my Mail program and then... crap. Did I mention that this is a windows keyboard?
So, like OS X lets you change the key bindings. Go in your settings, change the cmd key to to alt, change the alt key to cmd, whatever. It is not hard. There is also a free little app out there to do it for you, but I have found I never needed it on my iMac. I use an MS Win keyboard because I hate the keyboard and mouse that came with my iMac. The keyboard keys feel too close and the keyboard feels too small for my hands. The "mighty" mouse is so small it is perfect for my kids, but in my hands feel like a laptop mouse. I am not some 6' 11" giant or something.
Anyway, just change your OS X keyboard settings to change what the keys do and enjoy.
How do you know if a child is going to have a known defect? The tests are not 100%.
See my other post about my story and my friends. We both were told we would have down syndrome kids, though he was basically told it was a guarantee, not us.
Turns out none of it was true. He has two healthy kids with no health symptoms and I have 3 great kids with no health symptoms.
What if you were aborted because you have a "defect"? That would have sucked huh? I am sure your friends and loved ones would think so now, after you have bee a part of their life.
My college room mate had a birth defect, he had a deformed right hand, no real fingers, just a "claw".
He was smart and the chicks liked him. Imagine if he was aborted just because his right hand wasn't "perfect".
While I am not against a women's right to choose. I find it sick to think a kid would be aborted because he may have a messed up hand, or foot, or whatever.
When my good friend was having his first kid, he went through hell.
I was coming into work and he was leaving first thing in the morning in a rush, eyes all teared up.
I asked him what the hell is wrong dog? Are you OK? Can I help. He just said no. We were just told a test said our first child was going to have down syndrome. He left.
I went to my desk and called my pregnant wife and told her. We were both so freaking sad for him and his wife. The genetic test "doesn't lie". Right? Right?
My wife had the same test and we too were told we had a high chance of having a child with down syndrome. I thought "holy shiat, bat man, a double hitter".
Well, to make it short, my buddy (well his wife) gave birth to a beautiful little girl, with NO health problems.
A few months later, I witnessed my wife do the same (damn, that was some crazy stuff).
What is the point of my rant? No genetic test can tell you 100% if your kid is going to be "smart" or "dumb" or "ugly" or whatever. Never. It may tell you your child had the genetic trait for XYZ, but not if that trait is going to be displayed.
Hell, hasn't anyone watched that show with the two little people parents and the one son who is little and the one who is normal-sized? No test could say, hey, two little people parents will give birth to one little person son and one normal-sized son. None.
Now imagine if parents just start to abort every freaking kid because some test say "hey your kid may be fat, or short or ugly, or dumb or a geek"?
Look up Chaos theory. Such a subtle change can mean a huge difference in how a child develops.
Please. Your not even close. If someone takes my 42" HDTV, I have lost a physical possession that I cannot get back, unless it is recovered by the police.
If someone COPIES Spider man 3, guess what, no physical property was taken. Someone copying spider man 3 doesn't take away the ability for other copies of spider man 3 to be sold.
I am not saying it is right. However, there is a HUGE difference and it should be treated as such. Maybe the cost of the movie/video/game/etc X 10?
So illegally upload/download spider man 3, and get fined $20 X 10 = $200. Sounds fair. The copyright holder would not have gotten a sale so now they get 10 sales! How more freaking fair can you be?
Oh, wait. Yeah, lets charge $1,000's for that copy AND put the person in jail for a long ass time.
First, someone uploading a copyrighted item is NOT the same as "turning someones life upside down". Sorry, it is just not even close. Can you tell me that one high-paid exec of the RIAA/MPAA has had their "life turned into hell" because someone uploaded "Spiderman 3"? No.
Please get some perspective.
Oh, and spare me the "little artist" crap. The MPAA/RIAA take away the copyrights of those "little artist" and then do "creative accounting" to basically pay them shit for their works of art while trying to maximize their profits.
I have an idea, how about no corp can buy a copyrighted work from someone, they can only exclusively lease it for a period of no more then 5 years. This way the TRUE artist still holds the copyright. If the work is great and makes great money, THEN the real ARTIST has the corps by the balls after 5 years and can get a real fair deal for their work.
Not this "creative accounting" deal where a popular artist seems to have made NEGATIVE money in the first few years.
Yeah, this will never happen as long as the MPAA/RIAA are allowed to bribe our "representatives". Mickey Mouse needs another 200 years!
10 years in prison? I realize that's a maximum, but the reality is he's done nothing that should be even closely considered to being a danger to society.
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This hangup about defending our bullshit economy which truly only services the "haves" in the first place is being taken to extremes...
Umm. the "haves" are the ones bribing our so called "representatives", until that changes, nothing else will. Your preaching to the quire brother!
They are using the "real" Java source. Only 4% of the Sun Java code wasn't released. So IcedTea only had to implement the 4% of Java that wasn't GPLed.
Yeah, there was. It was funny. Because everyone else there were "locked-in" employees of the state. They weren't going anywhere.
So.. the meetings were pretty funny. Asking anyone what they did was like pulling teeth. Most of the meeting was in silence.
Now, compare this to the for-profit fortune 500 I worked at and it is night-and-day. The fortune 500 meetings were engaging and the bosses were there wanting to know what was done or what goals are being targeted, etc.
Working at the state was weird. A lot of talk of doing this, and that... but nothing seemed to ever get done. It basically came down to, send X amount of money to consulting company. Consulting company show (X/2) amount of work and give some excuse. Send X+1 amount of money to consulting company. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I didn't see ONE line of code written by the staff programmers during the time I was there. Maybe they did, but I didn't see it, especially WRT the new system(s).
I was supposed to transition to a full-timer and help get more and more of the development done in-house, like a normal company. However, that was never going to be the case. Why? Well, too many middle-men/women in the mix. No one would commit, too many signatures needed, etc. Which boggles the mind since to be fired from the state is really hard. When I took the job I was all fired up. I thought I was getting in when "changes were happening".
It is a shame really. Because my boss at the state job was really cool, smart and a hard-core techie. While not a programmer, he was great at complex network setup and knew his shiat, especially WRT networks and security which is weird for a boss IMO. He actually had more talent and experience than any of the staff programmers.
So if you got paid to sit in an office all day, you had an opportunity to program anything you want...
Actually no. I signed an agreement as a "work for hire", "NDA", blah, blah, blah. Technically, _anything_ I programmed during work hours belonged to the company. So F/OSS was not an option. The only thing I did program for myself was a Mono/.Net Coast to Coast AM download app. It would log in as my paid account and download the most recent show for me to listen to at work. Beyond that, I didn't want to do anything outside of work parameters because the company was strict about Sarbanes-Oxley, company assests, files leaving a personal workstation, etc.
Never played WoW, though I doubt it would run through our locked-down firewall.
TV shows! I have watched all episodes of X-Files more times than I care to admit. I converted the DVD's I have to MPEG-4 vids and could fit a season on my USB key, then watch as much as I could at work with headphones. Hell, I even converted my kids Scooby-Doo DVD collection and watched those.
Personally, I am surprised by the number of people that say they would love a job sitting around. IMO, most that are saying that have never done that for 12+ weeks. It was like Chinese Water Torture for me.
Why? Because I was a "work for hire". Anything I did during the time I was being paid meant that it belonged to them.
Again, after 12+ years programming, what was I going to program? Yet Another CD Database Application? Anything trivial I have done or it has been done. Anything non-trivial was very specific for the business and you had to have the business requirements.
I wasn't going to program just random software that had no benefit for the company.
Have you ever worked at large companies before? Most in-house software is very, very custom. It is not just something you can make up in your spare time without the requirements. Hence my problem.
The place I was working at had a bunch of people too afraid to do stuff in-house because they didn't want to be in the "blame-circle". By outsourcing most stuff, they would just bitch and complain about the company doing the work. So I want from being a programmer to some type of "advice" giver on whether the paid company was doing things "right" or not. Lame.
I'm more inclined to believe that a lack of creativity and desire to learn are the real issues here (not lacking 8 hours of supervision).
Nah. You're wrong. It has nothing to do with the above. It has to do with being BORED.
See. I read all the time. At work, at home, during any downtime I have. Geek stuff for work and non-Geek for fun/entertainment.
You seem to be missing one MAJOR point. Reading technical stuff with no experimentation is just... lame.
I am not a blogger and would rather not write a blog bitching about someone who slurps his/her coffee or smacks their gum (though they both make me want to go Columbine).
Here is a strange thought. PEOPLE ARE MADE DIFFERENT! Wow, who would have thunk it.
I was in the US Marines. I need to either be physically active or mentally active.
After 12+ years as a programmer, I need more work than just reading crap on the net during the day. Been there, done that.
Give me a complex app to program, or a _really_ weird integration problem with software/settings issues to tackle.
Just spare me the reading web page after web page for 7-8 hours, please.
I do keep myself busy. Outside of work. After retirement? I will keep doing the woodworking projects I do now.
Nothing great, but I enjoy it and I have fun doing it.
Sorry, but I don't want to have to "keep myself busy" at work. I enjoy some downtime, but total downtime with little to do? No thanks.
I am sure there are a bunch of lazy workers that would love that job, I however want to feel like I contributed to a company and that my skills were utilized.
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I don't know what numbers you are looking at, but Linux is not "working" at least in the sense of user base. It has very low usage on the desktop. Very low.
Ok troll, nice try. Where did I say "my beloved OS X"? No where. Pay through the nose? Not quite. I did a price compare before I switched. Very competitive when you go feature for feature.
Nice try again troll. I have been using OS X for more than 2 years now and have never needed nor bought any of the apps listed on your link. I guess you are suggesting that there are not 10's of thousands of shareware apps out there for MS Windows?
Go back under your bridge.
The LGPL only comes into play if you make changes to the QT code base. So, if you do a closed source app and add a feature to the QT code itself, then you will have to release the QT code change(s), however NOT your applications code.
Competition is great, however GNU/Linux should not be competing against itself. There is too much fragmentation in Linux-land, 10 apps that all try to do the same thing, but each one does certain aspects better, yet none get it all right. Instead consolidate all that effort to 2 or 3 apps.
Linux gets to compete against Windows and OS X. Are you old enough to remember the Unix-wars? All the big Unix versions were all doing things their own way whilw MS and Apple were working on more consistent offerings. We all know what happened to the major Unix players.
Sadly, Linux desktop seems to be repeating the past. Constantly reinventing the wheel with tons of yet-another-app-X syndrome.
I have been using Linux since early Red Hat days. Then I used Slack, built my own Linux based on LFS for about 2 years. Then on to Gentoo, then to Fedora then finally Ubuntu.
Ubuntu made things a lot better IMO, however it still suffers with a felling of many apps tacked together instead of a more cohesive product. This was the main reason I switched to OS X 2 years ago and have been happy with that choice.
I still find myself missing Linux and would love to see a more unified final product. I don't want to have to be bothered with looking for a Gnome/GTK+ based app for Ubuntu so it works/integrates best.
There have been too many times I where I couldn't find a good Gnome/GTK+ based app but found it with a KDE based app. However, that one app pulls in a lot of KDE based bloat that I don't want/need. So I would try to switch to KDE from Gnome for a while, but found the same issue where I would have to pull in/use a Gnome/GTK+ based app.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
How long have you been taking an SSRI? I have met many "experts" on them, yet have met very few that have taken them for more than a year or more.
I have suffered from panic attacks, anxiety and depression for 15 years. I have been taking an SSRI for about 12 years now. They do have lasting effects on a person. And I do agree with you on how freaking crazy these meds are. One person is helped by a med while another is totally messed up by the same med. Hell, not one of the major SSRI's prescribed is really understood on how it works. Just basic understanding on how it works on Serotonin re-uptake.
Go the web site of Lexapro, the makers don't even know how it really works.
The brain chemistry of depression and anxiety is not fully understood.
I agree with you about the primary doctors. However, no psychologist should ever, ever be allowed to prescribe medication without having gone to medical school and earning a medical degree.
The psychiatrist/psychologist line is very definite. You either have a medical degree or you don't. It is that simple.
I agree with you for the most part. However, this case had A LOT OF EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE attached to it.
Also, she didn't "innocuously" join a website under a false name. She did it for one purpose. To harass and bring emotional damage to a child, an emotionally unstable child at that.
I also blame the parents of Megan for even letting her get on anti-depressants at such a young age. Those meds are harsh and should be only used under the care of a very, very good psychiatrist, note that I did NOT say psychologist. Huge, huge difference. I noticed a trend where a lot of non-medically trained psychologist are making recommendations about MEDICATIONS to their clients (they call them patients). This is very scary. Only a MEDICAL doctor should make those calls. Yet parents hear crap like ADD or ADHD from just a psychologist and run to their primary care doctor and tell him/her and bam the child is on very harsh drugs that DO have long-term effects and have been shown to cause suicidal thoughts. SSRI's.
Hell, I am only 35, I was never drugged out by my parents for "mood swings" or my "lack of attention". I spent most of my time in high school with a boner and looking out the window. I turned out OK and with a good career.
"Modern" parents, stop, stop, stop, drugging your kids because they don't fit into some model mold you created in your head. They are freaking kids for crying out loud.
Would Megan still be alive if she never took SSRI's? No one could say that. However, I personally believe she would.
Should we make this skank mother pay for what she did to Megan? No. She didn't break any laws, so let's not create new ones just for this waste of life.
I personally don't want to have to worry about criminal charges because I didn't adhere to some big corps. EULA. Jeez.
Thank you Apple Employee. That was a great ad for your products. :-)
Those "Interesting" features don't do anything for this topic. Accelerometer? Would this developer shake the IPhone to turn on a light? Silly and not a natural program feature. GPS? Would this developer use GPS to automate something in the house? Not likely. Camera? That is not unique to the IPhone, so no points there.
Only 30%? Your freaking kidding right? So I spend tons of time and money to design, develop, debug, etc an application and then I have to have Apple tell me how much I am allowed to make?
I read a post below that said 30% is "Comparable to any other software distributor". Uh, BS. Total, total BS. Sorry, but any distributor of MS software is NOT getting 30% of the cost/sale price. Never. If so, I would just quit my job as a software developer and just sell MS Windows OS versions from a web site and get 30% of the sale?!! Heck, 30% from the sale of MS software! Damn. I just found a new way to become a Billionaire (USD). Thanks MS!
Currently I'd go with the Web-based approach, which would not lock you in to any one device.
Until the mobile market in the USA comes up with more standards for software deployment, having an independent web-based approach seems to be the best way to go. (Maybe Google's phone software can change this?)
Some "smart phones" are really dumb when it comes to a browser. I just bought two LG enV phones for my wife and I, we have Verizon. The browser on the phone sucks. I tried to talk my wife to switch to an IPhone/AT&T deal, before we renewed our Verizon contract but the costs-per-feature(s) didn't justify a switch for us. We really only use our phones to actually talk and my wife likes to do txt messages (I paid for unlimited txt-ing).
Checking out the switching costs from Verizon to AT&T/IPhone would have been a lot more than just our "new every two" plan, so I didn't see any benefit
I am not an Apple hater. My entire home network is Apple based. Intel Macbooks and IMacs are all we have at our house. I have one IMac I use bootcamp on with WinXP for C#/SQL/MS-Only stuff I have to do at work that I sometimes bring home.
I would love for a reason to switch to an IPhone. Currently though the exclusive deal with AT&T stinks. Where I live Verizon offers the best coverage areas, period. I have never had a dropped call where I live (withing a 60 miles radius) in the past 2 years.
If Apple gets the IPhone to every provider, then I am game. Until then, I am stuck with far lesser phones, however with far better coverage.
Install the ReloadEvery Firefox add-on. Right click and select how often you want to reload the Exchange web interface page.
This could get you by until your email app supports Exchange 2007.
So the "service" was used 21 times. Total cost: $19,370 (USD).
So $19,370 / 21 = $922.38 (USD), PER USE.
WTF? How could they charge that much? Oh, because they can charge what ever they want. Nice..
Big cheer for monopolies charging what they want!
Sounds interesting. However, for $258.00 (USD), it better come plated in gold!
[s]o I apple-tab to go to my Mail program and then... crap. Did I mention that this is a windows keyboard?
So, like OS X lets you change the key bindings. Go in your settings, change the cmd key to to alt, change the alt key to cmd, whatever. It is not hard. There is also a free little app out there to do it for you, but I have found I never needed it on my iMac. I use an MS Win keyboard because I hate the keyboard and mouse that came with my iMac. The keyboard keys feel too close and the keyboard feels too small for my hands. The "mighty" mouse is so small it is perfect for my kids, but in my hands feel like a laptop mouse. I am not some 6' 11" giant or something.
Anyway, just change your OS X keyboard settings to change what the keys do and enjoy.
Go troll somewhere else AC.
That is why I said the cost of the item X 10 or something similar.
Download one song that is valued at $1 shouldn't cost $1,000's in "damages".
How do you know if a child is going to have a known defect? The tests are not 100%.
See my other post about my story and my friends. We both were told we would have down syndrome kids, though he was basically told it was a guarantee, not us.
Turns out none of it was true. He has two healthy kids with no health symptoms and I have 3 great kids with no health symptoms.
What if you were aborted because you have a "defect"? That would have sucked huh? I am sure your friends and loved ones would think so now, after you have bee a part of their life.
My college room mate had a birth defect, he had a deformed right hand, no real fingers, just a "claw".
He was smart and the chicks liked him. Imagine if he was aborted just because his right hand wasn't "perfect".
While I am not against a women's right to choose. I find it sick to think a kid would be aborted because he may have a messed up hand, or foot, or whatever.
Sounds good huh?
When my good friend was having his first kid, he went through hell.
I was coming into work and he was leaving first thing in the morning in a rush, eyes all teared up.
I asked him what the hell is wrong dog? Are you OK? Can I help. He just said no. We were just told a test said our first child was going to have down syndrome. He left.
I went to my desk and called my pregnant wife and told her. We were both so freaking sad for him and his wife. The genetic test "doesn't lie". Right? Right?
My wife had the same test and we too were told we had a high chance of having a child with down syndrome. I thought "holy shiat, bat man, a double hitter".
Well, to make it short, my buddy (well his wife) gave birth to a beautiful little girl, with NO health problems.
A few months later, I witnessed my wife do the same (damn, that was some crazy stuff).
What is the point of my rant? No genetic test can tell you 100% if your kid is going to be "smart" or "dumb" or "ugly" or whatever. Never. It may tell you your child had the genetic trait for XYZ, but not if that trait is going to be displayed.
Hell, hasn't anyone watched that show with the two little people parents and the one son who is little and the one who is normal-sized? No test could say, hey, two little people parents will give birth to one little person son and one normal-sized son. None.
Now imagine if parents just start to abort every freaking kid because some test say "hey your kid may be fat, or short or ugly, or dumb or a geek"?
Look up Chaos theory. Such a subtle change can mean a huge difference in how a child develops.
Please. Your not even close. If someone takes my 42" HDTV, I have lost a physical possession that I cannot get back, unless it is recovered by the police.
If someone COPIES Spider man 3, guess what, no physical property was taken. Someone copying spider man 3 doesn't take away the ability for other copies of spider man 3 to be sold.
I am not saying it is right. However, there is a HUGE difference and it should be treated as such. Maybe the cost of the movie/video/game/etc X 10?
So illegally upload/download spider man 3, and get fined $20 X 10 = $200. Sounds fair. The copyright holder would not have gotten a sale so now they get 10 sales! How more freaking fair can you be?
Oh, wait. Yeah, lets charge $1,000's for that copy AND put the person in jail for a long ass time.
Ah, the laws bought by Corporate America!
Huh? Your not even CLOSE in your stupid analogy.
First, someone uploading a copyrighted item is NOT the same as "turning someones life upside down". Sorry, it is just not even close. Can you tell me that one high-paid exec of the RIAA/MPAA has had their "life turned into hell" because someone uploaded "Spiderman 3"? No.
Please get some perspective.
Oh, and spare me the "little artist" crap. The MPAA/RIAA take away the copyrights of those "little artist" and then do "creative accounting" to basically pay them shit for their works of art while trying to maximize their profits.
I have an idea, how about no corp can buy a copyrighted work from someone, they can only exclusively lease it for a period of no more then 5 years. This way the TRUE artist still holds the copyright. If the work is great and makes great money, THEN the real ARTIST has the corps by the balls after 5 years and can get a real fair deal for their work.
Not this "creative accounting" deal where a popular artist seems to have made NEGATIVE money in the first few years.
Yeah, this will never happen as long as the MPAA/RIAA are allowed to bribe our "representatives". Mickey Mouse needs another 200 years!
10 years in prison? I realize that's a maximum, but the reality is he's done nothing that should be even closely considered to being a danger to society.
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This hangup about defending our bullshit economy which truly only services the "haves" in the first place is being taken to extremes...
Umm. the "haves" are the ones bribing our so called "representatives", until that changes, nothing else will. Your preaching to the quire brother!
They are using the "real" Java source. Only 4% of the Sun Java code wasn't released. So IcedTea only had to implement the 4% of Java that wasn't GPLed.
Yeah, there was. It was funny. Because everyone else there were "locked-in" employees of the state. They weren't going anywhere.
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So.. the meetings were pretty funny. Asking anyone what they did was like pulling teeth. Most of the meeting was in silence.
Now, compare this to the for-profit fortune 500 I worked at and it is night-and-day. The fortune 500 meetings were engaging and the bosses were there wanting to know what was done or what goals are being targeted, etc.
Working at the state was weird. A lot of talk of doing this, and that... but nothing seemed to ever get done. It basically came down to, send X amount of money to consulting company. Consulting company show (X/2) amount of work and give some excuse. Send X+1 amount of money to consulting company. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I didn't see ONE line of code written by the staff programmers during the time I was there. Maybe they did, but I didn't see it, especially WRT the new system(s).
I was supposed to transition to a full-timer and help get more and more of the development done in-house, like a normal company. However, that was never going to be the case. Why? Well, too many middle-men/women in the mix. No one would commit, too many signatures needed, etc. Which boggles the mind since to be fired from the state is really hard. When I took the job I was all fired up. I thought I was getting in when "changes were happening".
It is a shame really. Because my boss at the state job was really cool, smart and a hard-core techie. While not a programmer, he was great at complex network setup and knew his shiat, especially WRT networks and security which is weird for a boss IMO. He actually had more talent and experience than any of the staff programmers.
Oh well. I wish them luck.
Never played WoW, though I doubt it would run through our locked-down firewall.
TV shows! I have watched all episodes of X-Files more times than I care to admit. I converted the DVD's I have to MPEG-4 vids and could fit a season on my USB key, then watch as much as I could at work with headphones. Hell, I even converted my kids Scooby-Doo DVD collection and watched those.
Personally, I am surprised by the number of people that say they would love a job sitting around. IMO, most that are saying that have never done that for 12+ weeks. It was like Chinese Water Torture for me.
Tweezers, toothpicks, pencils, even a paper clip once.
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The paper clip had the best booger fling velocity IMO.
Why? Because I was a "work for hire". Anything I did during the time I was being paid meant that it belonged to them.
Again, after 12+ years programming, what was I going to program? Yet Another CD Database Application? Anything trivial I have done or it has been done. Anything non-trivial was very specific for the business and you had to have the business requirements.
I wasn't going to program just random software that had no benefit for the company.
Have you ever worked at large companies before? Most in-house software is very, very custom. It is not just something you can make up in your spare time without the requirements. Hence my problem.
The place I was working at had a bunch of people too afraid to do stuff in-house because they didn't want to be in the "blame-circle". By outsourcing most stuff, they would just bitch and complain about the company doing the work. So I want from being a programmer to some type of "advice" giver on whether the paid company was doing things "right" or not. Lame.
See. I read all the time. At work, at home, during any downtime I have. Geek stuff for work and non-Geek for fun/entertainment.
You seem to be missing one MAJOR point. Reading technical stuff with no experimentation is just... lame.
I am not a blogger and would rather not write a blog bitching about someone who slurps his/her coffee or smacks their gum (though they both make me want to go Columbine).
Here is a strange thought. PEOPLE ARE MADE DIFFERENT! Wow, who would have thunk it.
I was in the US Marines. I need to either be physically active or mentally active.
After 12+ years as a programmer, I need more work than just reading crap on the net during the day. Been there, done that.
Give me a complex app to program, or a _really_ weird integration problem with software/settings issues to tackle.
Just spare me the reading web page after web page for 7-8 hours, please.
I do keep myself busy. Outside of work. After retirement? I will keep doing the woodworking projects I do now.
Nothing great, but I enjoy it and I have fun doing it.
Sorry, but I don't want to have to "keep myself busy" at work. I enjoy some downtime, but total downtime with little to do? No thanks.
I am sure there are a bunch of lazy workers that would love that job, I however want to feel like I contributed to a company and that my skills were utilized.