Comment "mobius"? (Score 4, Interesting) 53
Since when did we stop using the capital M on a proper name? Do we talk about Maxwell's equations or maxwell's? Is it einstein's theory, or Einstein's?
Since when did we stop using the capital M on a proper name? Do we talk about Maxwell's equations or maxwell's? Is it einstein's theory, or Einstein's?
"Atari 2600 cartridges are 4 kB maximum."
Not really, once they figured out some simple logic circuits they could bank switch more ROM than that, and probably address RAM chips too.
You know, the kind that doesn't fire you after the first mistake, the kind that provides guidance, training, education, and invests in its workers.
(AAHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHA!!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAAA!!!!!)
You know, an employer that's willing to take the same risk in hiring you, that you took in paying for that four-year degree?
Oh sorry, "risk" is for *you*, *they* get the profit!
Yes, I still have my awards for hard work, etc, all meaningless.
This really annoyed me so I have to post again. It's all about this idea of "reputation" being very important. But reputation for things that have no bearing on my technical or professional capacities.
You know, lately, I think we've all seen, or should have seen, what "reputation" really means:
David Russell Williams. Highly respected soldier, decorated, blah blah blah, it's nauseating. oops, the guy likes to wear the underwear of the women he killed.
Tiger Woods. Oh what a model, what a hero, if only everyone could be like him! oops
Lance Armstrong. Oh what a model, what a hero, if only everyone could be like him! He's clean! He works hard! Oops.
Jian Ghomeshi. Wow, what an interviewer, what a star! He makes money for us! Let's keep his proclivities quiet until so many people come forward... oops.
Bill Cosby. Such a role model! He's such a sweetheart! The Cosby Show! Oops.
So we can see how people can do anything they want as long as they make money for powerful people. (I'm sure there are many NFL stories ). You need to literally rape or kill to have problems. And even then it takes time.
But if you're just a simple fool like me, well, you better be careful what you say to who. Just *saying* something is enough. Once. 15 years ago.
I'm seriously in debt and have huge problems finding work. I've done the 10$/hour warehouse work. I'm getting old, I can't keep lifting 200 pound vanities out of trucks in poorly lit warehouses.
I've done the 16$/hour "technical" work, stripping wires and tightening screws while lying on my back on a cold cement floor with forklifts running around one foot from my head.
What am I supposed to do? We no longer live in a world were simply working is enough!
And the job I applied for previously was being done by a drunk, someone who showed up drunk, every day. And I coudn't even get that job. People prefer working with people that don't disturb, don't complain. We'll put up with tardiness, drunkenness, schedules can slip, it's OK as long as we like you.
But don't make weird jokes.
Guaranteed. I show up for the interview, person A is quite happy to see me, I'm almost hired on the spot, oops, the next day turns out person B had something to say and suddenly there "are many applicants".
Other job, I get through the first two screening interviews, my CV ends up on the manager's desk with recommendations, I get an email asking me to come in for an interview, two hours later the interview is cancelled. I look up the company registrar and find names of people I worked with 15 years ago.
I know now that I make jokes no one else understands and I have a dark, cynical sense of humor. But they're jokes.
Absolutely. I can't find work today because people remember some weird joke or comment I made 15 years ago, but not the over-nighters I pulled.
What a wonderful world we live in.
Wait til you see the Political Science department!
LOL pretty sure the microwatts, or maybe even milliwatts, of sound energy won't be missed. Roll up your windows and you reduce drag.
That's what I was going for. Plus ça change...
Vote on the value of acceleration in Earth's gravity field? The speed of light?
The value of pi????
Commodore wasn't into "successors". They were into genetic mutations.
For me, sadly, it is the opposite. Once I started cooking and baking, I got good at it. Then I realized "you mean I can have butter chicken and chocolate cake whenever I want?"
Don't tell us, tell them!
Well don't just tell us, do something about it!
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
