Human systems are intriguing. Every group system ever devised by man has always been made to work in ways it wasn't intended to be used by the actors in the system. Every creator of such a system always starts out with a vision. They put constraints and controls in place to attempt to force the system to work the way they envisioned and do these systems ever ultimately look like what the creator envisioned? NEVER. NOT ONCE. NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Humans have a very odd desire to want to feel in control of things that they are not in control of and never will be in control of. There are those of us that got over this years ago and there are those of us still attempting to control that which cannot be controlled. To quote Wesley Snipes in Blade: "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate up hill."
Not having the patience for ads is not the same as having a short attention span. Maybe millennials are just a little more savvy than former generations and realize that all marketing is toxic horseshit.
That sad thing is this is more true than people realize. They've dressed it up better these days but in the 50's, Fred Flintstone was smoking Winstons in a cartoon commercial. Camels: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." And we thought this was perfectly socially acceptable at one point!
Copyright law being used for what it was intended then? Rather than something snarky like the summary claims - people are distributing the SDK without permission or reasonable grounds for fair use, and Sony is using the law to prevent someone from distributing copyrighted material without permission...
It doesn't matter. There's a difference between theory and practice. Some things sound good in your mind but when they come out you're like "Hey, that sounded better in my head.":P Theory is a construct of your mind, Practice is in the material world. When it doesn't work in practice, it means the simulation you ran in your brain wasn't accurate.
Anyway, I'd be tempted to mod you down just for reacting to a mod like this, but I will instead point out to you, that when it comes to hidden terms in agreements, there is a consideration that they can constitute fraud, and even actual challenges to them. You can find more in the recent discussion about a WiFi's terms of service agreement, but I don't feel like bothering twice.
Go hire a law firm and prove it in court then. I await your results. Good luck.
If you made the original post, it's likely you did because you have all the context in your mind for the comment. The thing you don't realize most likely is that it's unlikely anyone else will have that specific context in their mind and therefore you would need to convey it in order for them to truly understand what you mean by very short sentence fragments. That would require you to not live inside your own mind and actually consider what it's like to be in someone else's shoes though. That seems very difficult for most people I interact with unfortunately... but it is fundamental to learning how to communicate better with your fellow human beings. No one can read your mind.
I would hypothesize that most people who substitute sugar for artificial sweeteners already have poor diets and are making some attempts to change that. Replacing sugar in a few sugary items with non-metabolized sugars probably won't make significant changes alone. Even if you were to substitute most all of the sugar in a typical American diet, it wouldn't really tip the scale to a non-obese BMI.
I use artificial sweeteners and haven't had additional problems losing weight more than when I cut out artificial sweeteners and sugar simultaneously. Maybe I'm different (shrug).
I never made the claim that artificial sweeteners would make you fit. They can be a part of your diet for your specific goals was the point I was trying to make. You are also making an interesting point, if Americans eat like shit like they usually do (obesity statistics confirms that), most likely whether they eat sugar or artificial sweetener and in what amounts makes no difference to improving their health. They're going to have shitty health regardless unless they fundamentally change their life style.
Perhaps stress contributes. Work was killing me and I'm not the only person I know like that. One friend dropped 5 of 6 blood pressure medicines in the 6 months after he retired.
Ding ding ding! Tell him what he's won Bob! I can testify to this too. When I was in competitive athletic running and weight-lifting shape, I ate artificial sweetener because it was a way to lower your carbohydrate intake to stay in Ketosis easier. Granted I did stick primarily to sucralose so that may have been a factor. My blood pressure and blood work were all fantastic too and I was eating a 3 egg omelette every day for breakfast. My doctor was like "whatever your doing, keep doing it."
I know this is hard for some people to grasp, but there are other reasons to work hard besides "getting rich." The happiest people I've met are those who get to do what they love every day. When you find yourself in that position, working crazy hours and getting immersed in trying to figure something out for days on end, and then actually accomplishing something real *is* a very big part of it. Rich people can't buy that feeling -- it has to be earned.
No hubris in your post at all. Yes we know Confucius once said "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." The reality is, how many people can find a paying job doing what they love? Not very many it turns out.
And you know, it turns out that you don't need to get paid to do work you love either. The problem is though if you have bills and you choose to do work that doesn't provide a source of revenue, you get to live as a homeless bum on the street after you get sued into oblivion and lose all your possessions.
Let's refine your point. There is a need for money to pay taxes, bills, buy food, etc. And there is work. There is paid work and there is not paid work. Both paid work and not paid work can yield a sense of accomplishment and we find from the data that it's the non-paid work that more often gives you that sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. Why? Because you don't have to compromise with paying fucking bills that's why. The problem is we don't live in a world that affords us that luxury unless you work real hard, you invest your money wisely and have it pay you guaranteed income and then you can do whatever the hell you want. For many of us, that "work" would be some very serious projects that would yield a great sense of fulfillment and accomplishment and maybe even help our fellow man. It's too bad we have to do a lot of useless, mundane work like creating TPS reports to pay the bills.
Want to talk about that problem? What's the solution to that one spanky?
We don't choose libraries and architectures necessarily because they are the best for your business. Sometimes, it is because they are hot in the market and we want professional experience to put on our resumes.
Oh, yeah. And we are keeping our resumes updated.
Heh, if only it were mostly because of resume experience. I think it's really just pure stupidity and lack of experience, e.g. Hanlon's Razor. Very few people these days have any experience launching enterprise systems and there is very little if any relevant education and training that directly supports this type of effort. Agile doesn't get you there either. IMHO, whether you sink or swim depends on dumb luck unless you have very experienced and talented people.
I seriously doubt it's just a market share problem. Can someone else who actually knows shed some light on the problem? I'm guessing it must be relatively difficult to port games to *nix.
Beavis: Yea? Butthead: He used his real date of birth on his MySpace account Beavis: What a dumbass, heh heh. Butthead: Heh heh heh heh heh heh. What's MySpace?
Please try to be kind. The person whose comment you're eviscerating probably hasn't been out of school very long.
There is no excuse for ignorance and propagating ignorance. We all have a shared responsibility to that end for the benefit of our entire civilization. If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, go learn about it until you do or STFU.
Do you need some tissues because there's no award for just showing up in the real world? Maybe Mommy has some.
The problem is that the PC Desktop is a dead market, it has gone to the Tablets and Phones for a normal personal computing. Thus the Windows 8/10 interface, is focused for this market. However the Table and Phone Market is dominated by Apple and Google, and Microsoft is a Distant Third.
What we need our x86 PC systems for is no longer a normal Personal Computer, but a Personal Workstation. For our Workstations, we don't need a Table OS, or a Server OS. But a work station OS, with UI features meant for people with a Keyboard, Large Screens, Who will be expected to have a lot of things going on at the same time.
Oh my this is ADORABLE. Let me guess. There's a good chance you're <= 30 years old. Otherwise you might possibly remember that once upon a time there were two flavors of Windows. One was called WORKSTATION even! There are HUGE problems with your post. Ok, no Server OS huh? What runs on Amazon EC2 then? Do you event know what you're talking about? I doubt it. Tablets and Phones don't cover personal computing. Are you really going to write school papers on a phone? Yard sale signs? Didn't think so. Even a tablet with a keyboard dock doesn't really do this well. Have you tried to print to a printer by chance? Laptops are for personal computing for the most part unless you're a serious PC gamer then a desktop is what gets you there.
Then you pretty much have the operating system that everyone actually wanted. Name me a Windows operating system that didn't require this level of customization in order to make it what consumers wanted. Keep in the mind, the first one that didn't crash on a regular basis was Windows 2000. I really wish *nix would get equal or better game support because then all of Microsoft's shenanigans would be a thing of the past. Why can't *nix seem to get past that one? I'd really love to know what's in the way of that.
What the heck are you talking about. The credit card companies make fist fulls of cash off your personal data. They also make money off of transaction fees. What items you buy where you shop they are tracking it all.
I'm talking about credit cards are not a revenue stream of this nature. It's your personal data. It would have been more appropriate to say "Just like credit card companies and financial institutions". But instead the poster said "Just like a credit card". You should have made the post for that person. It would have been significantly more coherent.
Capitalism is about making profits. It's not about morality or ethics. The only "morality" or "ethics" is what is imposed via government regulation. That's the dark truth.
Wow, it didn't take long for some liberal to mod me down. Hey, I didn't say I agreed with it. I just said that's the way it is and that's the truth. If you want to change it, instead of getting pissy with me get into politics and get some real change in there. The first step to addressing any problem is admitting there is a problem. The second step is not sitting on your ass behind a keyboard or a smart phone constantly whining about somebody else not doing something about it.
Many are also opposed to companies not telling you they are spying on you, or hiding it in sophistry about increasing your experience at the bottom of page 97 of a click thru, where they know you will misunderstand and hope and pray you don't figure it out, for their financial benefit.
That is fraud, and stopping fraud is a legitimate interest.
Nope, that's not fraud. That's your failure to read and understand the legal disclosure. In order to constitute fraud, the information has to not be disclosed to you purposefully. What you're actually bitching about is the nature of Capitalism. Capitalism is about making profits. It's not about morality or ethics. The only "morality" or "ethics" is what is imposed via government regulation. That's the dark truth.
Credit cards aren't revenue streams. Interest made on credit cards is for the issuing financial institution. Merchants accepting credit cards as forms of payment gives them more opportunity for customer transactions. What is your point?
Slashdot Mirror
Human systems are intriguing. Every group system ever devised by man has always been made to work in ways it wasn't intended to be used by the actors in the system. Every creator of such a system always starts out with a vision. They put constraints and controls in place to attempt to force the system to work the way they envisioned and do these systems ever ultimately look like what the creator envisioned? NEVER. NOT ONCE. NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Humans have a very odd desire to want to feel in control of things that they are not in control of and never will be in control of. There are those of us that got over this years ago and there are those of us still attempting to control that which cannot be controlled. To quote Wesley Snipes in Blade: "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate up hill."
I still use it in a professional setting! YES, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.
It is beyond me how you could admit this publicly when much better, free alternatives like Paint.NET and Gimp that have been available FOREVER
That's so turn of the millennium. 1692 tabs is where it's at now. All the cool kidz are doing it.
Not having the patience for ads is not the same as having a short attention span. Maybe millennials are just a little more savvy than former generations and realize that all marketing is toxic horseshit.
That sad thing is this is more true than people realize. They've dressed it up better these days but in the 50's, Fred Flintstone was smoking Winstons in a cartoon commercial. Camels: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." And we thought this was perfectly socially acceptable at one point!
Usually my attention span for ads is less than 1 second. Way to go millenials!
Copyright law being used for what it was intended then? Rather than something snarky like the summary claims - people are distributing the SDK without permission or reasonable grounds for fair use, and Sony is using the law to prevent someone from distributing copyrighted material without permission...
It doesn't matter. There's a difference between theory and practice. Some things sound good in your mind but when they come out you're like "Hey, that sounded better in my head." :P Theory is a construct of your mind, Practice is in the material world. When it doesn't work in practice, it means the simulation you ran in your brain wasn't accurate.
Many moons ago, the MPAA tried this trick and they failed because it was posted all over the internet and on T-Shirts even! DVD Jon FTW.
Good luck with that Sony. You can't bend the universe to your whims. I hate to break to you. But by all means, go ahead and try.
Oh, the irony.
Anyway, I'd be tempted to mod you down just for reacting to a mod like this, but I will instead point out to you, that when it comes to hidden terms in agreements, there is a consideration that they can constitute fraud, and even actual challenges to them. You can find more in the recent discussion about a WiFi's terms of service agreement, but I don't feel like bothering twice.
Go hire a law firm and prove it in court then. I await your results. Good luck.
I understood perfectly.
If you made the original post, it's likely you did because you have all the context in your mind for the comment. The thing you don't realize most likely is that it's unlikely anyone else will have that specific context in their mind and therefore you would need to convey it in order for them to truly understand what you mean by very short sentence fragments. That would require you to not live inside your own mind and actually consider what it's like to be in someone else's shoes though. That seems very difficult for most people I interact with unfortunately... but it is fundamental to learning how to communicate better with your fellow human beings. No one can read your mind.
I would hypothesize that most people who substitute sugar for artificial sweeteners already have poor diets and are making some attempts to change that. Replacing sugar in a few sugary items with non-metabolized sugars probably won't make significant changes alone. Even if you were to substitute most all of the sugar in a typical American diet, it wouldn't really tip the scale to a non-obese BMI.
I use artificial sweeteners and haven't had additional problems losing weight more than when I cut out artificial sweeteners and sugar simultaneously. Maybe I'm different (shrug).
I never made the claim that artificial sweeteners would make you fit. They can be a part of your diet for your specific goals was the point I was trying to make. You are also making an interesting point, if Americans eat like shit like they usually do (obesity statistics confirms that), most likely whether they eat sugar or artificial sweetener and in what amounts makes no difference to improving their health. They're going to have shitty health regardless unless they fundamentally change their life style.
Perhaps stress contributes. Work was killing me and I'm not the only person I know like that. One friend dropped 5 of 6 blood pressure medicines in the 6 months after he retired.
Ding ding ding! Tell him what he's won Bob! I can testify to this too. When I was in competitive athletic running and weight-lifting shape, I ate artificial sweetener because it was a way to lower your carbohydrate intake to stay in Ketosis easier. Granted I did stick primarily to sucralose so that may have been a factor. My blood pressure and blood work were all fantastic too and I was eating a 3 egg omelette every day for breakfast. My doctor was like "whatever your doing, keep doing it."
I know this is hard for some people to grasp, but there are other reasons to work hard besides "getting rich." The happiest people I've met are those who get to do what they love every day. When you find yourself in that position, working crazy hours and getting immersed in trying to figure something out for days on end, and then actually accomplishing something real *is* a very big part of it. Rich people can't buy that feeling -- it has to be earned.
No hubris in your post at all. Yes we know Confucius once said "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." The reality is, how many people can find a paying job doing what they love? Not very many it turns out.
And you know, it turns out that you don't need to get paid to do work you love either. The problem is though if you have bills and you choose to do work that doesn't provide a source of revenue, you get to live as a homeless bum on the street after you get sued into oblivion and lose all your possessions.
Let's refine your point. There is a need for money to pay taxes, bills, buy food, etc. And there is work. There is paid work and there is not paid work. Both paid work and not paid work can yield a sense of accomplishment and we find from the data that it's the non-paid work that more often gives you that sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. Why? Because you don't have to compromise with paying fucking bills that's why. The problem is we don't live in a world that affords us that luxury unless you work real hard, you invest your money wisely and have it pay you guaranteed income and then you can do whatever the hell you want. For many of us, that "work" would be some very serious projects that would yield a great sense of fulfillment and accomplishment and maybe even help our fellow man. It's too bad we have to do a lot of useless, mundane work like creating TPS reports to pay the bills.
Want to talk about that problem? What's the solution to that one spanky?
We don't choose libraries and architectures necessarily because they are the best for your business. Sometimes, it is because they are hot in the market and we want professional experience to put on our resumes.
Oh, yeah. And we are keeping our resumes updated.
Heh, if only it were mostly because of resume experience. I think it's really just pure stupidity and lack of experience, e.g. Hanlon's Razor. Very few people these days have any experience launching enterprise systems and there is very little if any relevant education and training that directly supports this type of effort. Agile doesn't get you there either. IMHO, whether you sink or swim depends on dumb luck unless you have very experienced and talented people.
Fuck all for marketshare.
I seriously doubt it's just a market share problem. Can someone else who actually knows shed some light on the problem? I'm guessing it must be relatively difficult to port games to *nix.
Beavis: Yea?
Butthead: He used his real date of birth on his MySpace account
Beavis: What a dumbass, heh heh.
Butthead: Heh heh heh heh heh heh. What's MySpace?
Please try to be kind. The person whose comment you're eviscerating probably hasn't been out of school very long.
There is no excuse for ignorance and propagating ignorance. We all have a shared responsibility to that end for the benefit of our entire civilization. If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, go learn about it until you do or STFU.
Do you need some tissues because there's no award for just showing up in the real world? Maybe Mommy has some.
The problem is that the PC Desktop is a dead market, it has gone to the Tablets and Phones for a normal personal computing. Thus the Windows 8/10 interface, is focused for this market. However the Table and Phone Market is dominated by Apple and Google, and Microsoft is a Distant Third. What we need our x86 PC systems for is no longer a normal Personal Computer, but a Personal Workstation. For our Workstations, we don't need a Table OS, or a Server OS. But a work station OS, with UI features meant for people with a Keyboard, Large Screens, Who will be expected to have a lot of things going on at the same time.
Oh my this is ADORABLE. Let me guess. There's a good chance you're <= 30 years old. Otherwise you might possibly remember that once upon a time there were two flavors of Windows. One was called WORKSTATION even! There are HUGE problems with your post. Ok, no Server OS huh? What runs on Amazon EC2 then? Do you event know what you're talking about? I doubt it. Tablets and Phones don't cover personal computing. Are you really going to write school papers on a phone? Yard sale signs? Didn't think so. Even a tablet with a keyboard dock doesn't really do this well. Have you tried to print to a printer by chance? Laptops are for personal computing for the most part unless you're a serious PC gamer then a desktop is what gets you there.
1) Start 10
2) Spybot Anti-Beacon
Then you pretty much have the operating system that everyone actually wanted. Name me a Windows operating system that didn't require this level of customization in order to make it what consumers wanted. Keep in the mind, the first one that didn't crash on a regular basis was Windows 2000. I really wish *nix would get equal or better game support because then all of Microsoft's shenanigans would be a thing of the past. Why can't *nix seem to get past that one? I'd really love to know what's in the way of that.
What the heck are you talking about. The credit card companies make fist fulls of cash off your personal data. They also make money off of transaction fees. What items you buy where you shop they are tracking it all.
I'm talking about credit cards are not a revenue stream of this nature. It's your personal data. It would have been more appropriate to say "Just like credit card companies and financial institutions". But instead the poster said "Just like a credit card". You should have made the post for that person. It would have been significantly more coherent.
Capitalism is about making profits. It's not about morality or ethics. The only "morality" or "ethics" is what is imposed via government regulation. That's the dark truth.
Wow, it didn't take long for some liberal to mod me down. Hey, I didn't say I agreed with it. I just said that's the way it is and that's the truth. If you want to change it, instead of getting pissy with me get into politics and get some real change in there. The first step to addressing any problem is admitting there is a problem. The second step is not sitting on your ass behind a keyboard or a smart phone constantly whining about somebody else not doing something about it.
Many are also opposed to companies not telling you they are spying on you, or hiding it in sophistry about increasing your experience at the bottom of page 97 of a click thru, where they know you will misunderstand and hope and pray you don't figure it out, for their financial benefit.
That is fraud, and stopping fraud is a legitimate interest.
Nope, that's not fraud. That's your failure to read and understand the legal disclosure. In order to constitute fraud, the information has to not be disclosed to you purposefully. What you're actually bitching about is the nature of Capitalism. Capitalism is about making profits. It's not about morality or ethics. The only "morality" or "ethics" is what is imposed via government regulation. That's the dark truth.
Just like a credit card.
Credit cards aren't revenue streams. Interest made on credit cards is for the issuing financial institution. Merchants accepting credit cards as forms of payment gives them more opportunity for customer transactions. What is your point?
Of course they would fight this. Selling your data is a revenue stream and it's very popular these days.
At the end of the day, it comes down to a simple fact: the elite doesn't want to pay a fair wage, so they'll use state power to drive it down.
Socialize the cost, privatize the profits.
Companies should have to compete over talent just like every other market.