Construction of the data center was not short term. It was yet another contract for the contractors. They are constantly needing to fill their time with a new contracts, lest they go out of business. You don't think a company just popped up out of nowhere, built the data center, then went away, do you?
As a proud native Californian, I say get the fuck out. You probably took that job from a Californian because you are cheap, and now you're just one of those inbred, cornfed assholes driving up the property costs.
U.S. out of California!
Holy pot-kettle-black Batman! Everywhere in the country we complain about Californians driving up our property costs. Why? Because it's true. You a-holes bought houses for $60k in 1970, sold them for $600,000 in 2008 then moved to Texas and buy three 2,000 sq. ft. modern houses with the equity from your overpriced CA house.
You sound more cornfed and inbred than most people I know here in Texas, btw.
How is something that is enumerated as a power to the federal government and to each State unconstitutional?
The "taking clause" of the 5th amendment disagrees with your assertion. Good thing you aren't a constitutional attorney, because it took me all of 5 seconds to disprove your assertion.
And compare all of your figures using a bullet train that goes non-stop from SF to LA without all the ridiculous inefficiencies of Amtrak, and the ridiculous security time wasters of the TSA, and the bullet train is starting to look like a good option (if you have a need to go from point A to point B without deviation).
They already do these targeted non-stop flights that don't seem to make sense to Average Joe (several flights from Austin to San Jose a day, because of the two cities large tech population, thus frequent business trips), so I'm willing to believe there's a market for a SF-LA train.
Because it probably takes longer to fly from SF to LA with all the security BS and poor time management exercised by airports than it would to get on a train. The "45 minute" flight from Austin to Dallas is a three hour ordeal, once you get checked in, through security, to your gate, boarded (seriously, why does it take so damn long to get on and off a plane people), de-planed, out of the terminal, to your transportation from the airport then to your destination.
Perhaps you were trying to reply to the guy I replied to, otherwise you need to reread my post. If you are indeed replying to me, then you just had your Romney moment by taking what I said out of context, when I said,
regardless of how "primitive" you think their gear is
That would be me disputing the guy above me claiming that old kits are 100 times more primitive than most point and clicks. No, actually, a good lens for an SLR camera from the 70s is 100 time better than any modern point-and-click lens (with a few exceptions).
So no, I don't think 70s optics are primitive, which is why I put "primitive" in quotes. I even said my grandfather has magazine covers because of the quality of his optics (60s and 70s).
Also actually learning what can't be done and with what is of as much importance as learning what can be done and with what. limitations also allow one to expand skills in to other areas, inabilty to isolate a subject by pulling a shallow depth of field forces you to think of the overall composition, plus I've seen too many photos where a person/object is so isolated by narrow DoF that for al intent and purpose it no longer exists with in any context. this is fine some times but the obsession with narrow DoF and Bokeh with total disregard to basic compositional skills is a pox upon Flickr etc.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not sure why you are following me around in this thread and arguing with me.
Forwarding/referencing/reposting xkcd comics is a way for a large minority of socially challenged people to express themselves in a way free of normal societal constraints. In other words, it's nerd humor, and there's nothing wrong with that. The Internet has given lots of small-but-passionate groups a voice.
anyone who has spent any time in an academic or laboratory setting would've seen years, or even decades, ago.
Oh, so you are a hipster of computer science. Interesting!
Apple users and xkcd are one in the same? Seriously? I'm in the first camp and don't get the second camp at all. I think the two are mutually exclusive, unless there's some sort of strange hybrid "I find SQL injection on my Mac to be funny" personas out there.
I immediately thought the same thing, then I realized that racist potty humor doesn't really challenge the brain that much, so therefore really isn't that funny. I'm looking at you Jeff Dunham.
So if the government buys screws from my ACME corp, I'm Big Brother all of a sudden?
I think you'd be surprised to see what qualifies as a government contractor these days. Plus, Palantir sells stuff off-the-shelf as well, and to the financial sector, so they aren't exclusively a government contractor.
Primarily dealing with end users, they are ignorant (not stupid most of the time)
And what's the problem again? Nearly all people who bring their cars in for service can't service it themselves. They are ignorant. No harm in that...that's why we have IT departments. It's the IT department spending their 8-5 lamenting the ignorance of the office staff (mixed in with an inordinate amount of smoke breaks) instead of, you know, helping them that makes everyone hate IT.
My anecdote. My new office mate moved into my office. IT did their duty and moved his gear, but setup the KVM switch incorrectly, so he got the wrong two displays on the wrong system. IT's response..."let him fix it". Um, no, assholes, your lazy asses set it up incorrectly. Even though we have the technical ability to set it up ourselves, your stupid IT policies won't let us. So when YOU screw it up, you can come back and fix it.
If you think Palantir looks like lame Windows dashboard apps, you should see how bad the competition looks (but has more market penetration)...Google Axis Pro and Analyst Notebook if you want to see why Palantir has any traction at all.
Do you have proof that "most of their funding [comes] from the government"? They sell Palantir Financial to non-government entities as well. Unless you can produce sales numbers, your claim is speculative at best.
I believe he said he wanted to learn about photography as well. Point-and-shoots don't do you any favors in that department. You point it and shoot. You "learn" about photography in that point-and-shoots in low light make horribly blown out images with bad red eyes, and that every nature picture has the exact same depth of field, because the person taking the picture is not in control.
With a DSLR you at least learn the relationship between shutter speed, aperture, and how those affect motion blur and depth of field, which is probably the most important thing to learn in beginning photography (maybe after basic composition?).
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If you aren't in charge of something or somebody by age 35, you are doing it wrong.
Construction of the data center was not short term. It was yet another contract for the contractors. They are constantly needing to fill their time with a new contracts, lest they go out of business. You don't think a company just popped up out of nowhere, built the data center, then went away, do you?
You need to be useful to others to be successful yourself. It applies to work, woman and everything.
I'm so sorry you only set your goals for one woman.
As a proud native Californian, I say get the fuck out. You probably took that job from a Californian because you are cheap, and now you're just one of those inbred, cornfed assholes driving up the property costs.
U.S. out of California!
Holy pot-kettle-black Batman! Everywhere in the country we complain about Californians driving up our property costs. Why? Because it's true. You a-holes bought houses for $60k in 1970, sold them for $600,000 in 2008 then moved to Texas and buy three 2,000 sq. ft. modern houses with the equity from your overpriced CA house.
You sound more cornfed and inbred than most people I know here in Texas, btw.
Hear, hear! The worst part about Austin? We're surrounded by Texas.
Holy logical fallacy Batman! A round trip ticket price isn't indicative of the total cost of operating airports and aircraft.
Eminent domain is unconstitutional,
How is something that is enumerated as a power to the federal government and to each State unconstitutional?
The "taking clause" of the 5th amendment disagrees with your assertion. Good thing you aren't a constitutional attorney, because it took me all of 5 seconds to disprove your assertion.
And compare all of your figures using a bullet train that goes non-stop from SF to LA without all the ridiculous inefficiencies of Amtrak, and the ridiculous security time wasters of the TSA, and the bullet train is starting to look like a good option (if you have a need to go from point A to point B without deviation).
They already do these targeted non-stop flights that don't seem to make sense to Average Joe (several flights from Austin to San Jose a day, because of the two cities large tech population, thus frequent business trips), so I'm willing to believe there's a market for a SF-LA train.
Who says something has to make money to be a worthy addition to a society? I don't see those fire stations and sidewalks making any money.
Yes, because it's so easy to fly a train into city buildings killing thousands of people that we need the TSA at train stations ...oh wait...
Because it probably takes longer to fly from SF to LA with all the security BS and poor time management exercised by airports than it would to get on a train. The "45 minute" flight from Austin to Dallas is a three hour ordeal, once you get checked in, through security, to your gate, boarded (seriously, why does it take so damn long to get on and off a plane people), de-planed, out of the terminal, to your transportation from the airport then to your destination.
Legislation by the judicial branch? Yes, it is unconstitutional.
The Constitution has been violated more than enough times by the court system.
Is this a pseudo-intellectual way of regurgitating the right wing talking point "legislating from the bench"?
Perhaps you were trying to reply to the guy I replied to, otherwise you need to reread my post. If you are indeed replying to me, then you just had your Romney moment by taking what I said out of context, when I said,
regardless of how "primitive" you think their gear is
That would be me disputing the guy above me claiming that old kits are 100 times more primitive than most point and clicks. No, actually, a good lens for an SLR camera from the 70s is 100 time better than any modern point-and-click lens (with a few exceptions).
So no, I don't think 70s optics are primitive, which is why I put "primitive" in quotes. I even said my grandfather has magazine covers because of the quality of his optics (60s and 70s).
Also actually learning what can't be done and with what is of as much importance as learning what can be done and with what.
limitations also allow one to expand skills in to other areas, inabilty to isolate a subject by pulling a shallow depth of field forces you to think of the overall composition, plus I've seen too many photos where a person/object is so isolated by narrow DoF that for al intent and purpose it no longer exists with in any context. this is fine some times but the obsession with narrow DoF and Bokeh with total disregard to basic compositional skills is a pox upon Flickr etc.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not sure why you are following me around in this thread and arguing with me.
Forwarding/referencing/reposting xkcd comics is a way for a large minority of socially challenged people to express themselves in a way free of normal societal constraints. In other words, it's nerd humor, and there's nothing wrong with that. The Internet has given lots of small-but-passionate groups a voice.
anyone who has spent any time in an academic or laboratory setting would've seen years, or even decades, ago.
Oh, so you are a hipster of computer science. Interesting!
Apple users and xkcd are one in the same? Seriously? I'm in the first camp and don't get the second camp at all. I think the two are mutually exclusive, unless there's some sort of strange hybrid "I find SQL injection on my Mac to be funny" personas out there.
I immediately thought the same thing, then I realized that racist potty humor doesn't really challenge the brain that much, so therefore really isn't that funny. I'm looking at you Jeff Dunham.
Not true. Germans only find jokes that contain the word "ass" to be funny.
So if the government buys screws from my ACME corp, I'm Big Brother all of a sudden?
I think you'd be surprised to see what qualifies as a government contractor these days. Plus, Palantir sells stuff off-the-shelf as well, and to the financial sector, so they aren't exclusively a government contractor.
Primarily dealing with end users, they are ignorant (not stupid most of the time)
And what's the problem again? Nearly all people who bring their cars in for service can't service it themselves. They are ignorant. No harm in that...that's why we have IT departments. It's the IT department spending their 8-5 lamenting the ignorance of the office staff (mixed in with an inordinate amount of smoke breaks) instead of, you know, helping them that makes everyone hate IT.
My anecdote. My new office mate moved into my office. IT did their duty and moved his gear, but setup the KVM switch incorrectly, so he got the wrong two displays on the wrong system. IT's response..."let him fix it". Um, no, assholes, your lazy asses set it up incorrectly. Even though we have the technical ability to set it up ourselves, your stupid IT policies won't let us. So when YOU screw it up, you can come back and fix it.
This is why we all hate IT.
If you think Palantir looks like lame Windows dashboard apps, you should see how bad the competition looks (but has more market penetration)...Google Axis Pro and Analyst Notebook if you want to see why Palantir has any traction at all.
Do you have proof that "most of their funding [comes] from the government"? They sell Palantir Financial to non-government entities as well. Unless you can produce sales numbers, your claim is speculative at best.
Palantir is a company, not just a product.
Google is not empowered to use force against the populace, nor to maintain order, nor to enact law. The Government is. There is a subtle difference.
Good thing Palantir is not the Government.
Big Brother.
Except for the small detail that Palantir is a privately owned corporation and not the government.
I believe he said he wanted to learn about photography as well. Point-and-shoots don't do you any favors in that department. You point it and shoot. You "learn" about photography in that point-and-shoots in low light make horribly blown out images with bad red eyes, and that every nature picture has the exact same depth of field, because the person taking the picture is not in control.
With a DSLR you at least learn the relationship between shutter speed, aperture, and how those affect motion blur and depth of field, which is probably the most important thing to learn in beginning photography (maybe after basic composition?).