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Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco

Yeesh, that is going to be an expensive employee.

The setup was interesting, but I thought the follow-through was about as subtle as a brick to the head. Whatever magic Judge had with Office Space he forgot to use when he finished that movie.

I'm not surprised, given what I thought the last time I looked at VS Check out: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html The guys I used to work with use FizzBuzz as a weed-out mechanism. They can use the language of their choice, too, which is nice (lets you get someone who can code, no matter their language - they can learn whatever you need later). Sort applicants based on elegance of solution. Ouch. 8 years I spent in IT. The contracting life was awful, the you're-a-contractor-but-we-pretend-you're-almost-a-real-employee gig got real old (AT&T, IBM). I burned out at went to grad school Never thought I'd be happy earning less than 20k/yr People have been saying stuff like that since they were old enough to talk smack about the younger generation. I'm sure there are bad eggs, but I don't think it is indicative of some sky-is-falling trend. The generation concept as used in the popular media is bunk anyway (thanks alot, Mannheim). The birth cohort is the only distillation that has much use (or has any validity for talking about intergroup similarities). Even that potentially has issues. Current "gen y"ers are aged 26 to 12. Why anyone would think that is a valid unit of comparison is beyond me. Besides, everyone knows it's the boomers that broke the gen Y kiddies.

Damn, I blew my whole PR budget on HF hate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3atJSmgTM&feature=related intense.

They'd still be looking for answers that could theoretically be solved by searching, if by a great deal of it I sometimes get the impression that many people would just prefer that newbies don't ask questions at all, which is unfortunate. Many moons ago I putzed around on the occasional mud while at work (though no real die-hard mudder). It was always interesting to watch people fall over themselves offering help and advice to newbies - a very different climate. Zing.

And the threads get responses. It works, why stop? A headphone wiki would go a long way to solve those sorts of problems, and the issues of editing would be little different than the issues of selective moderation. I don't really see much point in a headphone-specific forum other than the odd review/impressions thread, debate about X vs Y, and what ____ is right for me, though. The third thread type results in new pairs of eyes to look at the sponsored ads. There is a steady influx of new blood making the same mistakes though, so it will be a new way of doing things rather than a temporary fix. I don't really get the impression HF exists to foster discussion anymore, though.

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Sociology, more specifically (quantitative) sociology of culture and social theory. I'm going to contribute to society! Ah. I can understand that. I am generally more snobby about interested in what material they are listening to, rather than which devices. I find the process by which people pick favored artists or music genres fascinating. I suppose buying habits are a somewhat similar animal. That is - social.

I don't think (s)he's trying to avoid discipline.

But it said there is no... I was thinking like a nicotine patch. For stupid. (Your sig is more of a netsec thing).

Don't hit your macbook! I was being facetious (and commenting on the part of the chain I was pretty sure postjack -wasn't-). The only reason to go MBP over MB is video card, or as I call it "play time".

They make a patch for that? Where can I get some?

Yeah, who the hell uses a macbook? MACBOOK PRO BABY!

Well, he'd watch House take a bite, and -then- ask him why he didn't buy his own sandwich with his fabulous doctoring-money. He wouldn't actually come out and tell House to stop.

Wait, so would that mean that Cameron would be the one lamenting that we don't just listen to the music anymore/enough?

I wish more discussions about audio took this tack. Yes, if headphone X won't reach its potential until you use gear of the quality of Y or Z, then you really don't know what X is really like. But, if you're stuck with gear like a or b, Then X either sounds good compared to other headphones in your current craptacular system, or it doesn't. There is no truth, only relevance. And bourbon - lots of bourbon.

As a random thread-crap (from s04e09): an ampeg svt 8x10 bass stack doesn't usually work without a: a cable from the head to the cab, or b: anything plugged in to the head. And really, sort of out of character. He does piano and the occasional guitar. But then I guess I suck pretty hard at the whole medical doctor thing, so whatever.

I have a working theory that it takes up to 4 episodes of any given show to "grow" on you, and if it hasn't by then, it probably won't. It doesn't often happen with just one episode anymore.

More like the part that makes the college experience possible for the undergrads. I got the impression from your post (particularly the part bolded) that you were arguing that listening to music in the absence of any other activity was the -only- way to enjoy it, and I thought that position was bunk. You can do that every once and awhile and listen to music as soundtrack the rest of the time. Someone that would avoid music unless they could listen to it free from distractions would be a sad panda.

People don't cast fireballs, either. BG let you be however good or evil you wanted, but your actions had consequences with your companions - I don't see the problem with that. It actually got quite interesting when you had the paladin and the evil cleric in your party. I don't know if I'd call BG the greatest game of all time, but I'd say it has a fighting chance to be in my top ten. But then, opinions differ: I never liked the old sierra games, myself, I found them quite boring. Well, except Leisure Suit Larry, but come on.

what games that you have played have better dialog than BG1/2? You didn't like the choice to be good evil or neutral?

It's almost four - what's the problem?

as long as I don't have to wear a pleated skirt and/or knee pads.