Men (in general) do not have tits, and therefore must actually work for a living.
Western society is ruled by worship of the juvenile female form. (And we wonder why Islamic extremists are so offended by our perversion that retards human progress and evolution.)
You will never find good looking women in engineering, because they are presented with many opportunities with much greater earning potential with far less work.
Those that you do find are there simply to prove something to themselves and others, and once they have graduated, they will simply move on to opportunities that are not available to men.
This is not to denigrate women in the least, the reason for this is that society creates a situation where it is illogical for women to work hard at a technical occupation when unskilled labour will pay them far more for their decorative properties.
Proprietary closed source software cannot be validated. You cannot trust that it will always work properly, because the source is not available for validation.
Software pricing has nothing to do with it. The validation process in regulated environments will cost many times more than the actual value of the software itself. The cost of the actual software is trivial.
Closed source software has no future in regulated, mission-critical applications.
Why doesn't anybody complain about Safari, or Voyager or Konqueror being bundled with thier respective OS distributions? (Yes, I know Konqueror belongs to KDE, but think Knoppix and the like)
IE is not integral to Windows. Some of its dlls perhaps but not IE itself. IF you cannot figure out how to remove all the stupid web page integration in Explorer and the desktop then you have not tried very hard.
Why does no one complain that Windows (and other OS's) bundle notepad, calculator, hyperterminal, wordpad...
Do people really want an OS that includes nothing but a functional command line? (In some cases yes, but a boot floppy for any OS will give you this - except Macs, they never could figure out how floppies work)
This shit really grows tiresome. Who fucking cares? Get a life people. Just use a the browser you like and get on with it.
I'm not defending IE here (it needs none), I'm just questioning the illogical, asinine, knee-jerk MS hater reaction.
Should MacOS not include Safari? Should QNX not include Voyager? Why no irrational outrage over those? Huh?
The whole anti-trust thing is just completely retarded, it just goes to show how the law will never comprehend technology, yet will always pretend they do to give themselves the illusion of control.
A web browser is just that, not an instrument of global domination as some would think. For fucks sake, get a grip people.
I will not say what browser I use, it does not matter, it works (basically) and I'm happy with it for now.
Now Javascript is another matter, it is the work of the devil and a genuine threat to quality software experiences.
Now I have to check I'm not buying crippleware, too.
You mean like the oh so common ~3GHz P4 systems with a 16K L1 and 128K L2 cache that are outperformed by a PIII 1000MHz with a 32K L1 and 512K L2 cache?
This is yet another Slashdot article that assumes too much. I don't think the average reader is going to know what "VT" is. I certainly don't. It shouldn't be necessary to click through a link to understand the gist of what this story is about. VT should be explained in the synopsis.
But then the submitter wouldn't sound so cool in his own mind! There is a proportional relationship between self-importance and overuse of obscure acronyms that could mean just about anything. We should bow to the illiterate inadequate communication skills of such people, it clearly indicates their superior intelligence.
I, for one, welcome our illiterate, obscure acronym overusing, hyper intelligent overlords.
My seven year old Asus mainboard with six year old Award bios runs VMWare images of all kinds just fine. (it can also natively run just about any OS you can throw at it)
Virtualisation software that has specific "virtualisation technology" hardware requirements is pretty retarded, kind of defeats the whole purpose of it if you ask me.
HP has been slaughtering Phoenix bios for ages. Buy real hardware and you will find you have no software limitations.
In my opinion MySpace's success is due in large part to strategic product placement style advertising in television and movies popular amongst their target demographic.
The kids don't care if its buggy or ugly, if its on TV and in the movies, then it must be cool.
Small claims caps vary from state to state, but there aren't many states where the full value of even a two year mobile contract surpasses the limit. In some states the cap is as high as 15k USD.
Nevertheless, lawyer's hourly rates are far more than I can afford. Even if the court awarded me the costs on winning the case, I could not pay at the outset. I cannot afford to fight, nor will I pay. Its a lose-lose situation.
How much is a "lost job" worth to you? How much is damaged credit worth to you? Do you own your home? Are you going to get a new car soon? Do you have a subscription to DSL? All these use credit history, and will most likely lead for you to have little or no credit.
Owning my own home is a pipe dream and will never happen. Only very rich people can own homes. (I remember as a child envisioning life as an empowered adult with my own house, car, family etc... its pretty funny looking back at it now, ah, the naiveté of youth...)
New car? Same goes for that. (Now, an unregistered and uninsured $500 beater is another matter... only good for the backroads where the cops don't go though.)
I use a hijacked dial-up account for internet service. The ISP does not seem to care, I guess dial-up bandwidth is just not much of a concern to them anymore.
Now the "lost jobs" do hurt, but what can I do? I'm powerless.
I have not resorted to crime to survive yet, but the time will come. The law and big business is very efficient at creating the criminals they need to perpetuate the perceived artificial need for their services.
The problem isn't the feds pulling your credit report, the real problem is that the credit bureaus are allowed to compile a file on you without your consent. It even more wrong that they are allowed to sell *your* information to others without paying you or even checking the accuracy of the information/allegations in the file.
At least in the US, if you dispute any item on your credit report, the credit bureau has thirty days to investigate. Unless the entity that placed the negative information sends proof of its claim, the item has to be removed. In a case like yours where Rogers most likely has a signed contract, the onus of proving that they breached the contract is on you. If you never received service you ought to have taken them to court rather than simply not paying.
Taking rogers to court would have cost many times more than the amount that they claim I owe them.
I will not relent to such extortion tactics, I'd rather drop out, there is no sense trying to fight such powerful evil.
> When you apply for a car, they run your credit report. You apply for an apartment, they run a credit report. You apply for a job, they run a credit report.
Yeah, but you give them permission to those people.
The difference is that the car dealer has to ask for your permission first.
Wrong. A potential employer does not require my permission to receive lies about my character from a credit reporting agency. All they have to do is pay the parasite for the "information".
Credit report agencies collaborate with criminal organisations/corporations and collection agencies/goons as a matter of routine.
Credit report agencies take corporations(criminals) at their word that you owe them money. They require no proof whatsoever. They empower goons to harass and violate your property and character.
Try it and see, you can ruin anyone, easy as pie.
My credit report is abysmal because Rogers Cellular violated our contract and failed to provide service, therefore I did not pay them and never will. They are in breach of contract, yet credit agencies take them at their word that they are in the right and I have no recourse whatsoever.
This has made me unemployable as it is routine for employers to check your credit record as a measure of "reliability".
Credit agencies are parasitic and evil, accepting fallacious information without question and then providing it to anyone who asks.
It is unbelievable that they get away with this, it is absolutely criminal and extremely damaging to society as a whole.
The solution? For me, just drop out, forget it altogether, go underground.
Maybe my comments will be seen now. (And I don't have to accept images from images.slashdot.org to post anymore! Yay!) . . My comments on this thread so far: . . .
Will it work on those too? Or it's another "5Gb Internet connection needed" ?
Streaming video over dial-up is just not possible. Unless perhaps the resolution is 80x60 and frame rate is 2fps.
Myself, I have to use flashblock and disable images in Firefox to browse the web with any efficiency these days. You'd be suprised how many pages have absolutely zero text on them whatsoever, using only flash and images to deliver content. Tards.
(however, I have to allow images from images.slashdot.org for the captcha to post anonymously here) . . . .
With as little as 6,000 people currently testing the project details are a bit scarce...
Sounds like a pretty large and widespread test to me. I do not consider 6000 people a small number.
I still will never trust the developers of Kazaa. Spyware/Malware bundlers just cannot be trusted, ever.
I tell people to avoid Skype like the plague. TeamSpeak and the old RogerWilco still work just fine for me and I know that they do not contain any malware. I cannot say the same for Kazaa spinoff turds. . . . .
When Skype developed their phone/IM software, voice over IP was in its infancy. Skype was leading edge stuff.
Bullshit. I have RogerWilco installs that date back to '94. It is still a superior technology.
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Now you too can load Flashblock and browse the web unfettered by all that ridiculous bandwidth hogging flash crap!
Its simple:
Men (in general) do not have tits, and therefore must actually work for a living.
Western society is ruled by worship of the juvenile female form. (And we wonder why Islamic extremists are so offended by our perversion that retards human progress and evolution.)
You will never find good looking women in engineering, because they are presented with many opportunities with much greater earning potential with far less work.
Those that you do find are there simply to prove something to themselves and others, and once they have graduated, they will simply move on to opportunities that are not available to men.
This is not to denigrate women in the least, the reason for this is that society creates a situation where it is illogical for women to work hard at a technical occupation when unskilled labour will pay them far more for their decorative properties.
The answer is simple.
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Proprietary closed source software cannot be validated. You cannot trust that it will always work properly, because the source is not available for validation.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/comp/guidance/938.html
http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/olis/se.html
http://hissa.nist.gov/HHRFdata/Artifacts/ITLdoc/2
http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/cfrassemble.cgi
Software pricing has nothing to do with it. The validation process in regulated environments will cost many times more than the actual value of the software itself. The cost of the actual software is trivial.
Closed source software has no future in regulated, mission-critical applications.
Belief and faith are irrelevant.
-rant on-
If its free its not a "monopoly".
If its free, there is no "market".
Why doesn't anybody complain about Safari, or Voyager or Konqueror being bundled with thier respective OS distributions? (Yes, I know Konqueror belongs to KDE, but think Knoppix and the like)
IE is not integral to Windows. Some of its dlls perhaps but not IE itself. IF you cannot figure out how to remove all the stupid web page integration in Explorer and the desktop then you have not tried very hard.
Why does no one complain that Windows (and other OS's) bundle notepad, calculator, hyperterminal, wordpad...
Do people really want an OS that includes nothing but a functional command line? (In some cases yes, but a boot floppy for any OS will give you this - except Macs, they never could figure out how floppies work)
This shit really grows tiresome. Who fucking cares? Get a life people. Just use a the browser you like and get on with it.
I'm not defending IE here (it needs none), I'm just questioning the illogical, asinine, knee-jerk MS hater reaction.
Should MacOS not include Safari? Should QNX not include Voyager? Why no irrational outrage over those? Huh?
The whole anti-trust thing is just completely retarded, it just goes to show how the law will never comprehend technology, yet will always pretend they do to give themselves the illusion of control.
A web browser is just that, not an instrument of global domination as some would think. For fucks sake, get a grip people.
I will not say what browser I use, it does not matter, it works (basically) and I'm happy with it for now.
Now Javascript is another matter, it is the work of the devil and a genuine threat to quality software experiences.
-rant to be continued at an unspecified time-
You mean like the oh so common ~3GHz P4 systems with a 16K L1 and 128K L2 cache that are outperformed by a PIII 1000MHz with a 32K L1 and 512K L2 cache?
But then the submitter wouldn't sound so cool in his own mind! There is a proportional relationship between self-importance and overuse of obscure acronyms that could mean just about anything. We should bow to the illiterate inadequate communication skills of such people, it clearly indicates their superior intelligence.
I, for one, welcome our illiterate, obscure acronym overusing, hyper intelligent overlords.
My seven year old Asus mainboard with six year old Award bios runs VMWare images of all kinds just fine. (it can also natively run just about any OS you can throw at it)
Virtualisation software that has specific "virtualisation technology" hardware requirements is pretty retarded, kind of defeats the whole purpose of it if you ask me.
HP has been slaughtering Phoenix bios for ages. Buy real hardware and you will find you have no software limitations.
In my opinion MySpace's success is due in large part to strategic product placement style advertising in television and movies popular amongst their target demographic.
The kids don't care if its buggy or ugly, if its on TV and in the movies, then it must be cool.
Nevertheless, lawyer's hourly rates are far more than I can afford. Even if the court awarded me the costs on winning the case, I could not pay at the outset. I cannot afford to fight, nor will I pay. Its a lose-lose situation.
Owning my own home is a pipe dream and will never happen. Only very rich people can own homes. (I remember as a child envisioning life as an empowered adult with my own house, car, family etc... its pretty funny looking back at it now, ah, the naiveté of youth...)
New car? Same goes for that. (Now, an unregistered and uninsured $500 beater is another matter... only good for the backroads where the cops don't go though.)
I use a hijacked dial-up account for internet service. The ISP does not seem to care, I guess dial-up bandwidth is just not much of a concern to them anymore.
Now the "lost jobs" do hurt, but what can I do? I'm powerless.
I have not resorted to crime to survive yet, but the time will come. The law and big business is very efficient at creating the criminals they need to perpetuate the perceived artificial need for their services.
Hear, fucking hear!
Taking rogers to court would have cost many times more than the amount that they claim I owe them.
I will not relent to such extortion tactics, I'd rather drop out, there is no sense trying to fight such powerful evil.
Wrong. A potential employer does not require my permission to receive lies about my character from a credit reporting agency. All they have to do is pay the parasite for the "information".
Credit report agencies collaborate with criminal organisations/corporations and collection agencies/goons as a matter of routine.
Credit report agencies take corporations(criminals) at their word that you owe them money. They require no proof whatsoever. They empower goons to harass and violate your property and character.
Try it and see, you can ruin anyone, easy as pie.
My credit report is abysmal because Rogers Cellular violated our contract and failed to provide service, therefore I did not pay them and never will. They are in breach of contract, yet credit agencies take them at their word that they are in the right and I have no recourse whatsoever.
This has made me unemployable as it is routine for employers to check your credit record as a measure of "reliability".
Credit agencies are parasitic and evil, accepting fallacious information without question and then providing it to anyone who asks.
It is unbelievable that they get away with this, it is absolutely criminal and extremely damaging to society as a whole.
The solution? For me, just drop out, forget it altogether, go underground.
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Streaming video over dial-up is just not possible. Unless perhaps the resolution is 80x60 and frame rate is 2fps.
Myself, I have to use flashblock and disable images in Firefox to browse the web with any efficiency these days. You'd be suprised how many pages have absolutely zero text on them whatsoever, using only flash and images to deliver content. Tards.
(however, I have to allow images from images.slashdot.org for the captcha to post anonymously here)
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Sounds like a pretty large and widespread test to me. I do not consider 6000 people a small number.
I still will never trust the developers of Kazaa. Spyware/Malware bundlers just cannot be trusted, ever.
I tell people to avoid Skype like the plague. TeamSpeak and the old RogerWilco still work just fine for me and I know that they do not contain any malware. I cannot say the same for Kazaa spinoff turds.
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Bullshit. I have RogerWilco installs that date back to '94. It is still a superior technology.