I'm not sure what's sadder. That you think this is true or that a bunch of other people have modded you +5 interesting.
I'm sure all those EU citizens casting votes in the elections for the European Parliament, as outlined in the Maastricht Treaty, would be astonished to learn that they are imagining all of that.
You do realize that none of the services you mention actually collect any information about you beyond what your browser delivers to every website you visit. Unless, of course, you are logged in to a Google account... Which is the point.
This is perhaps the single most stupid thing I've read on this topic. You admit to being an avid user of Google's services, yet you object to the "price" that they offer those services for. When you go to the grocery store, if you don't like the price of milk, do you demand that the government make the store give it to you for free?
Don't want to agree to Google's terms of use? I have a perfect solution for you - use somebody else's services.
Oh, and you're on the internet. Good luck with that fantasy of keeping your data under your absolute control...
All my billionaire scientist friends heat their homes by burning the trillions they get from grants. On special nights, they have big bonfires and invite the neighbourhood over to toast weenies over the money.
I have written a vague yet extensive theory of how one might use some technical means, as yet undefined, to make some sort of vehicle, also undefined, travel faster than the speed of light. I'm hoping someone will hurry up and violate it soon, as I could really use the money.
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Disable everything that it's possible to disable. Set to notify me by email of private messages, just in case. Disable ability to tag me in photos, post on my wall, etc, etc.
Put up a user photo on account that says "I DO NOT USE FB. SEND ME AN EMAIL AT >email addy".
Never touch Facebook again.
So, if I understand this correctly, you think that by registering a Facebook account in your name, no one else can register a different Facebook account in the same name? Did you miss the part where Facebook user names aren't unique? There are a couple of hundred Facebook accounts with exactly the same name as mine.
Grats on failing at the most elaborate yet pointless Facebook paranoia scheme I've seen yet.
That's moronic. The point of forums is for people to talk about your game. Sometimes, the things they say will be stupid. That's what happens when people talk. Ban everyone with an incorrect or unjustified point and you'll have a pretty empty forum.
What happened? He downloaded some papers from the public library in an automated fashion and shared them for his colleagues.
Sure, if by "some" you mean "4+ million", by "public library" you mean "a private datastore" and by "in an automated fashion" you mean "by sneaking into a computer room and illicitly connecting to the network".
I'm disgusted by the DOJ charges too, but people like you who try and gloss over the facts of what he was doing are just making the rest of us look bad. The DOJ response was ridiculous even given what he actually did. No need to pretend he was just innocently downloading a couple of papers from Gizmodo...
The Register article talks about squabbles over "underwhelming Windows 8 sales over Christmas", which isn't exactly the same thing as "the failure of Windows 8".
They seriously thought the Chinese were going to pay that kind of tuition, for a single course at the fucking University of California, that probably isn't even applicable to a degree?
I totally agree. I was very excited this morning to discover some predictive analysis graduate level courses online at Northwestern. I stayed excited right up until I spewed coffee all over myself when I saw that they wanted $3800 per course. I don't need that course to predict that I won't be taking it.
Having just returned from a 3 week trip, I can tell you that the 300 ebooks I took with me were a hell of a lot lighter than even one good sized paper book.
That's possibly the most moronic statement ever made about this topic.
The next time your salary is due to be deposited or a client is due to pay your bill, I hope they suggest that they refuse to be extorted and tell you to fuck off.
Most of these complaints are bullshit. They are choices you make. Don't want to pay for parking at the airport? Take a cab. Don't want to pay a lot for airport food? Bring snacks. Don't want to pay for wifi? Don't pay for wifi. Don't want to pay for a pillow? Bring one.
Then there are just the whiny ones - "OMG, I had to wait 15 mins for a shuttle! Don't these people realize how important I am?"
And, of course, there are the very rare ones that almost never occur during your trip. In over 20 years of extensive international travel including throughout Africa and the Middle East, I've never had anything stolen from my luggage and it's only been misdirected/delayed a handful of times (and never actually "lost").
So, if these whiny complaints are worth days of your time to drive from New York to LA, or New York to Brasilia, then clearly you have too much time on your hands.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm just saying he is grossly misinformed if he thinks Python is a niche language. It's used by huge sites and from what I've seen has replaced Java as the language most used to teach programming.
His whole point was that you'd be better off learning C (seriously, wtf?) and then C++ than Python, and I think that's just demonstrably not true across the board. Sure, there are still lots of areas where a language like C++ is superior, but for the vast majority of people looking to learn programming, Python is a much better choice and increasingly in high demand.
Personally, I use R, but I'm mostly a data analysis geek.
I think that if a language is being used to power sites like Reddit, Quora, Pintrest, Instagram, Disqus, Mozilla, and various bits of Google, it's disingenuous to call it "niche" and suggest learning C.
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I'm not sure what's sadder. That you think this is true or that a bunch of other people have modded you +5 interesting.
I'm sure all those EU citizens casting votes in the elections for the European Parliament, as outlined in the Maastricht Treaty, would be astonished to learn that they are imagining all of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_European_Union
You do realize that none of the services you mention actually collect any information about you beyond what your browser delivers to every website you visit. Unless, of course, you are logged in to a Google account... Which is the point.
I believe the Trade Federation is still reeling from that Naboo fiasco and unable to fulfill its obligations.
This is perhaps the single most stupid thing I've read on this topic. You admit to being an avid user of Google's services, yet you object to the "price" that they offer those services for. When you go to the grocery store, if you don't like the price of milk, do you demand that the government make the store give it to you for free?
Don't want to agree to Google's terms of use? I have a perfect solution for you - use somebody else's services.
Oh, and you're on the internet. Good luck with that fantasy of keeping your data under your absolute control...
If you have a trouble with how Google tracks you, why would you object to the suggestion that you not use Google?
Oh wait, wanting stuff for free is the thing I'd expect a European to say.
See what I did there?
This just in.... billionaires think the minimum wage is just fine where it is. Film at 11.
All my billionaire scientist friends heat their homes by burning the trillions they get from grants. On special nights, they have big bonfires and invite the neighbourhood over to toast weenies over the money.
I have written a vague yet extensive theory of how one might use some technical means, as yet undefined, to make some sort of vehicle, also undefined, travel faster than the speed of light. I'm hoping someone will hurry up and violate it soon, as I could really use the money.
Exactly.
My use of facebook is as follows:
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Disable everything that it's possible to disable. Set to notify me by email of private messages, just in case. Disable ability to tag me in photos, post on my wall, etc, etc.
Put up a user photo on account that says "I DO NOT USE FB. SEND ME AN EMAIL AT >email addy".
Never touch Facebook again.
So, if I understand this correctly, you think that by registering a Facebook account in your name, no one else can register a different Facebook account in the same name? Did you miss the part where Facebook user names aren't unique? There are a couple of hundred Facebook accounts with exactly the same name as mine.
Grats on failing at the most elaborate yet pointless Facebook paranoia scheme I've seen yet.
That's moronic. The point of forums is for people to talk about your game. Sometimes, the things they say will be stupid. That's what happens when people talk. Ban everyone with an incorrect or unjustified point and you'll have a pretty empty forum.
Maybe, but banning someone for complaining about being unable to log in is still ridiculous.
What happened? He downloaded some papers from the public library in an automated fashion and shared them for his colleagues.
Sure, if by "some" you mean "4+ million", by "public library" you mean "a private datastore" and by "in an automated fashion" you mean "by sneaking into a computer room and illicitly connecting to the network".
I'm disgusted by the DOJ charges too, but people like you who try and gloss over the facts of what he was doing are just making the rest of us look bad. The DOJ response was ridiculous even given what he actually did. No need to pretend he was just innocently downloading a couple of papers from Gizmodo...
The Register article talks about squabbles over "underwhelming Windows 8 sales over Christmas", which isn't exactly the same thing as "the failure of Windows 8".
Words. They actually mean things.
So he pirated a few documents and distributed them? Why did this end in his death?
If by "a few", you mean about 4 million, then, yes.
And from what I've read it ended in his death because sadly he suffered from depression for years and the stress of this case was too much for him.
They seriously thought the Chinese were going to pay that kind of tuition, for a single course at the fucking University of California, that probably isn't even applicable to a degree?
I totally agree. I was very excited this morning to discover some predictive analysis graduate level courses online at Northwestern. I stayed excited right up until I spewed coffee all over myself when I saw that they wanted $3800 per course. I don't need that course to predict that I won't be taking it.
In today's life lesson, you learn the difference between the life of a human being being treated in hospital and the life of a fetus.
The AAPS is a fringe group with less than 3000 doctors.
Exactly this. I am so sick of articles quoting fringe groups with authoritative sounding names but failing to disclose the fringe nature of the group.
The dead giveaway, of course, was the part where the alleged doctor tried to claim there was no scientific basis for vaccination... Fucking loons.
Having just returned from a 3 week trip, I can tell you that the 300 ebooks I took with me were a hell of a lot lighter than even one good sized paper book.
That's possibly the most moronic statement ever made about this topic.
The next time your salary is due to be deposited or a client is due to pay your bill, I hope they suggest that they refuse to be extorted and tell you to fuck off.
Most of these complaints are bullshit. They are choices you make. Don't want to pay for parking at the airport? Take a cab. Don't want to pay a lot for airport food? Bring snacks. Don't want to pay for wifi? Don't pay for wifi. Don't want to pay for a pillow? Bring one.
Then there are just the whiny ones - "OMG, I had to wait 15 mins for a shuttle! Don't these people realize how important I am?"
And, of course, there are the very rare ones that almost never occur during your trip. In over 20 years of extensive international travel including throughout Africa and the Middle East, I've never had anything stolen from my luggage and it's only been misdirected/delayed a handful of times (and never actually "lost").
So, if these whiny complaints are worth days of your time to drive from New York to LA, or New York to Brasilia, then clearly you have too much time on your hands.
'Why are so many crowdfunded projects blowing their deadlines? "
Because most tech timelines barely qualify as even Wild Ass Guesses?
Indeed, those results seem pretty conclusive. I yield in the face of my own apparent ignorance :)
I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm just saying he is grossly misinformed if he thinks Python is a niche language. It's used by huge sites and from what I've seen has replaced Java as the language most used to teach programming.
His whole point was that you'd be better off learning C (seriously, wtf?) and then C++ than Python, and I think that's just demonstrably not true across the board. Sure, there are still lots of areas where a language like C++ is superior, but for the vast majority of people looking to learn programming, Python is a much better choice and increasingly in high demand.
Personally, I use R, but I'm mostly a data analysis geek.
I think that if a language is being used to power sites like Reddit, Quora, Pintrest, Instagram, Disqus, Mozilla, and various bits of Google, it's disingenuous to call it "niche" and suggest learning C.
http://www.quora.com/Django/What-is-the-highest-traffic-website-built-on-top-of-Django
Progress may be slow, but going the C then C++/C# route seems to be more marketable than niche languages like Ruby, Python, or even perl.
1995 called. Your C books are in.
You might want to look up the definition of niche, cause I don't think it means what you think it means.