I call it "game theory politics." Namely, preserve people's rights to the utmost practical limit, and have government only involve itself in programs that would otherwise fail due to game theory considerations.
This is genius - and I have been thinking along the same lines but didn't articulate it quite as well.
Is this when one says the "newsletter"-thing? I didn't quite catch up to that meme.
Well, now that I'm not going to buy any of 'em, the following is just a question out of curiosity: which DVD are you talking about, the Wall-E one, or Bolt?
for putting these men into jail. I'll start by not buying that Wall-E special edition DVD I was eyeing for some time. Also, the Bolt DVD will get a pass.
And I think my GF and I will spend more afternoons at various restaurants rather than at the cinema.
Thanks MPAA for providing me the motivation..... to poop on you.
We've got tons of coal that's (relatively) easy to mine and (if not clean) not nearly as bad as it used to be and its environmental impact isn't all that much worse than a lot of the "green" sources.
That's bullshit on a stick. Mining coal is extremely damaging to the environment and it releases a lot of pollutants, including radiating ones. The process of conversion into electrical energy is, likewise, very polluting, even with filtration in place. The filters just can't remove all the pollutants from the exhaust, because you need to burn so much coal to produce the same amount of energy that, for instance, nuclear produces.
At parity of energy, coal produces by far the largest amount of pollutants, environment damage, work-injuries, diseases and fatalities.
Yes, coal is evil. Clean coal is just a political stratagem to get the coal-votes.
Gravity isn't going to necessarily solve the problem for us - saturn's rings come to mind. I do take your point about the scientific community being now aware of the problem. However, the problem is going to gradually increase in severity, as various satellites are going out of commission. It's a slow process, granted, but there's quite a lot of junk that NASA has to monitor already. And a space janitor in the form of a water-squirting satellite, or a powerful laser, is not yet underway as a project. Summing up, I feel that the debris, for an object of such prominent dimensions, is a problem.
I am really a supporter of solar energy - I even have invested some of my money in it - but THIS to me seems like technological masturbation. I do not believe it's cost-effective, and the debris in orbit is only going to increase, so it's a risky investment in any case.
Ridicolous. Microsoft could sell MS-branded kicks in the groin for a year, exclusively, and even THAT wouldn't guarantee their "undoing".
Also: since that POS called Windows Vista was released, Microsoft made over 4+ billions net revenues per quarter. Forcing people to do a clean install of Windows 7 will have no bearing on their profits.
...I have to wonder if it was designed by a metally retarded slug.
No, not by retarded slugs, but for retarded slugs. It's just greed on their part, playing with the wallets of the retarded slugs willing to be taken advantage of.
Assuming a quarter has 90 days (and not distinguishing between working and non working days), MS makes 4370000000 / (90 * 24 * 60) = 33719 US$/minute which means that Microsoft will make the 12.000.000 US$ in less than 7 hours - and this including non-working days, and assuming 24-hour days.
And by the way: unless you are really crafty and have good contacts, there's nothing you can do, because psychopaths are great at manipulating people. That's what I think about the "take counter measures" - it's the noble and just thing to do, but the good guys are rarely apt to pull it off.
I believe everyone who has, at one point in their lives, worked for a larger publicly traded company, has had run-ins with such people. Sometimes you're charmed by them and then left wondering WTF happened, sometimes you see right through the bastard but it's too late, because the catastrophic migration from Sun Clusters to IBM Blades has almost destroyed your department (customers leaving or cashing in HUGE penalties, emplyee morale under the balls, many tried their best and are burned out or have quit...) but HE has managed to find a better position using this "transition to leaner architecture" in his fucking resume. For instance. After millions of EUR in losses, customers that have left and will never come back, key employees that said "screw this shit" and left and a department that, as a whole, has been thoroughly neutered, the previous manager had done great for himself, and used the rubble to get one more step ahead.
In what backwards, idiotic country do you live, that you have to pay for RECEIVED SMSes? That's so wrong and upside-down, I have to wonder if it was designed by a metally retarded slug.
A pro-cycling candidate didn't get in because he was short just a handful of votes. Well, now they're organizing the voting again (from the article in Finnish (yeah, I'm one of those who actually understand that crazy language)) and my candidate has another shot at it:o)
Don't you love second chances?
Of course, the real reason I'm happy is that this absurdity with 2% invalid voting has been overturned. Everybody knew that Helsinki Administrative Court's (Hallinto Oikeus) decision was shit - so, I celebrate this sudden and unexpected victory of common sense.
In theory, because of the voting system used, 2% of the votes could have dramatic consequences. Of course, we'll never know because the votes are anonymous and the recipients secret, but if you think that quite a lot of candidates got in with just a few dozen of votes, you can clearly see how 2% could have determined a lot.
This is not necessarily tied to MBAs as much as it's tied to corporate psychopaths - the ones most likely to succeed in the modern chaotic corporate world (especially in larger publicly-traded companies). They will lie, manipulate and use everything and everybody only to further their own interest. If the company, their workers or even the economy of the whole USA will suffer, they won't care one bit - no conscience.
There will allways be arrogant people on forums. I have found that Windows fanboys shows by far the worst combination of cluelessness and arrogance. YMMV.
I won't argue with you on this, you may very well be right. Thing is, I didn't have to recompile my app in order to have it run, on Windows. I just didn't have the need to expose myself to Windows Fanboi arrogance.
An easy way to resolve library dependency problems are to simply compile the libraries yourself. With autoconfig it should be a matter of configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install.
I tried to compile the necessary libraries, but then I was required some other (missing) libraries. What did you think why have I called it a library hell? It's a hellhole that goes deep, and I went down that hole, real deep, before quitting. With autoconfig, of course.
Additionally, most distributions now ship compatibility packages.
Tell me more, I'm listening. I would guess RHAS 3 didn't have those, 'cause I was really into resolving the issue and I should have bumped into them, if they were there, but I am definitely willing to learn about these compatibility packages.
As other posters have suggested, the Ubuntu netbook remix looks promising.
No working version for the Eee PC 701. In fact, even many of the Eee PC 901 have complained that it just doesn't boot. Maybe there will be a better version later, maybe not. After all, it's a community effort, so I have not right to complain, so screw me for even opening my mouth about it, right? So, nlited Winxp it is.
Which netbooks did the students get? I am most interested in the CPU and the RAM size. And what was their experience of running Visual Studio on on those machines? It seems to me that Visual Studio is somewhat resource-hungry, so I'd be wary of running it on a netbook, but I woud like to learn from your experience.
I agree that Yahoo should clean up and just offer search results when people ask for that. I do think they still can be a portal, if they keep it simple and well-integrated, rather than forcing their users to search for bits and pieces of Yahoo, in a sea of shit they don't need (I'd like to have access to yahoo groups and calendar, and perhaps an easy way to add babelfish - but no, you can't have that! But here's the weather in bananaland, for the next 7 days, that'll be something I need, surely.)
Also, I agree that Yahoo should think about courting Firefox, now that Google has interest in their (excellent, imho) Chrome, but keep in mind that Google is still funding Mozilla to the tune of tens of millions of $, and it's uestionable whether Yahoo can outbid them, or whether Yahoo would get a return on their investment (that would, as I said, have to be significantly enough larger than Google's), especially now that Firefox 3 is looking quite a bit crappier than 2 used to be.
I have to wonder about your "credentials." My 83 year old father manages to use Linux for pretty much anything he want to, and has had virtually nothing in the way of a problem. So... I'd have to guess you're more confused by how things work if it's not Windows rather than being what you claim.
And this, ladies and gents, is exactly the reason Linux is, and will stay where it is now - that is, on a very small minority of desktops: arrogance of some loudmouthed Linux fans. This sort of comments does have an effect, I guarantee you: I will never forget when I tried to compile a version of Mozilla on RHAS 3 (Advanced Server, predecessor of their Enterprise Linux line). I ran into a library hell and there just didn't seem any way to resolve the dependancies. I tried to look for help online, asked in some forums, and was thoroughly ridiculed. And my "credentials as a developer" were questioned in smirky, arrogant language.
To people like this, and people like the poster I'm replying to, I must say: fuck you and your Linux credentials.
I did get myself an Eee PC 701 with Xandros, and was actually pleased, but there have been problems with repositories (because it's not really/exactly Debian, and the Xandros depositories for that version were very limited), and the fact that Asus decided to use UnionFS didn't fucking help (because now even if I uninstall some of the crap I don't need, I won't free up any space, and there is no practical way to get from UnionFS to Ext2). So my EeePC doesn't get used very much lately, and I am thinking of just putting an nlited WinXP on it.
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I call it "game theory politics." Namely, preserve people's rights to the utmost practical limit, and have government only involve itself in programs that would otherwise fail due to game theory considerations.
This is genius - and I have been thinking along the same lines but didn't articulate it quite as well.
Is this when one says the "newsletter"-thing? I didn't quite catch up to that meme.
You would have just illegally downloaded it, so your boycott is meaningless.
As I wrote, I was going to buy those DVDs. But either you can't read or you can't comprehend what you read.
Can you return it? After all, it is not working (for you).
Well, now that I'm not going to buy any of 'em, the following is just a question out of curiosity: which DVD are you talking about, the Wall-E one, or Bolt?
for putting these men into jail. I'll start by not buying that Wall-E special edition DVD I was eyeing for some time. Also, the Bolt DVD will get a pass.
And I think my GF and I will spend more afternoons at various restaurants rather than at the cinema.
Thanks MPAA for providing me the motivation..... to poop on you.
Guess the right religion? I thought it was already well known that the Mormons were right all along.
We've got tons of coal that's (relatively) easy to mine and (if not clean) not nearly as bad as it used to be and its environmental impact isn't all that much worse than a lot of the "green" sources.
That's bullshit on a stick. Mining coal is extremely damaging to the environment and it releases a lot of pollutants, including radiating ones. The process of conversion into electrical energy is, likewise, very polluting, even with filtration in place. The filters just can't remove all the pollutants from the exhaust, because you need to burn so much coal to produce the same amount of energy that, for instance, nuclear produces.
At parity of energy, coal produces by far the largest amount of pollutants, environment damage, work-injuries, diseases and fatalities.
Yes, coal is evil. Clean coal is just a political stratagem to get the coal-votes.
Gravity isn't going to necessarily solve the problem for us - saturn's rings come to mind. I do take your point about the scientific community being now aware of the problem. However, the problem is going to gradually increase in severity, as various satellites are going out of commission. It's a slow process, granted, but there's quite a lot of junk that NASA has to monitor already. And a space janitor in the form of a water-squirting satellite, or a powerful laser, is not yet underway as a project. Summing up, I feel that the debris, for an object of such prominent dimensions, is a problem.
But how is this satellite going to provide 24/7 uptime? Isn't it going to be in earth's shade pretty much as the spot where it's beaming to?
I am really a supporter of solar energy - I even have invested some of my money in it - but THIS to me seems like technological masturbation. I do not believe it's cost-effective, and the debris in orbit is only going to increase, so it's a risky investment in any case.
I, too, hope that an XP-compatible OS, possibly ReactOS, will be created. That would be fantastic.
But DirectX 10 isn't exactly hugely important. I'd say that nobody really gives two shits about it, outside of some gamers.
Ridicolous. Microsoft could sell MS-branded kicks in the groin for a year, exclusively, and even THAT wouldn't guarantee their "undoing".
Also: since that POS called Windows Vista was released, Microsoft made over 4+ billions net revenues per quarter. Forcing people to do a clean install of Windows 7 will have no bearing on their profits.
...I have to wonder if it was designed by a metally retarded slug.
No, not by retarded slugs, but for retarded slugs. It's just greed on their part, playing with the wallets of the retarded slugs willing to be taken advantage of.
Ouch!!
According to Microsoft's 1st quarter 2009 earnings report, net income for the quarter was 4.37 billion US$.
Assuming a quarter has 90 days (and not distinguishing between working and non working days), MS makes
4370000000 / (90 * 24 * 60) = 33719 US$/minute
which means that Microsoft will make the 12.000.000 US$ in less than 7 hours - and this including non-working days, and assuming 24-hour days.
If you're not MS, you may weep now.
And by the way: unless you are really crafty and have good contacts, there's nothing you can do, because psychopaths are great at manipulating people. That's what I think about the "take counter measures" - it's the noble and just thing to do, but the good guys are rarely apt to pull it off.
I believe everyone who has, at one point in their lives, worked for a larger publicly traded company, has had run-ins with such people. Sometimes you're charmed by them and then left wondering WTF happened, sometimes you see right through the bastard but it's too late, because the catastrophic migration from Sun Clusters to IBM Blades has almost destroyed your department (customers leaving or cashing in HUGE penalties, emplyee morale under the balls, many tried their best and are burned out or have quit...) but HE has managed to find a better position using this "transition to leaner architecture" in his fucking resume. For instance. After millions of EUR in losses, customers that have left and will never come back, key employees that said "screw this shit" and left and a department that, as a whole, has been thoroughly neutered, the previous manager had done great for himself, and used the rubble to get one more step ahead.
rant over :)
In what backwards, idiotic country do you live, that you have to pay for RECEIVED SMSes? That's so wrong and upside-down, I have to wonder if it was designed by a metally retarded slug.
P.S. Now if you want a really short URL, try http://tinyarro.ws/ [tinyarro.ws] (no affiliation; just impressed by the idea)
OK. I also am impressed.
A pro-cycling candidate didn't get in because he was short just a handful of votes. Well, now they're organizing the voting again (from the article in Finnish (yeah, I'm one of those who actually understand that crazy language)) and my candidate has another shot at it :o)
Don't you love second chances?
Of course, the real reason I'm happy is that this absurdity with 2% invalid voting has been overturned. Everybody knew that Helsinki Administrative Court's (Hallinto Oikeus) decision was shit - so, I celebrate this sudden and unexpected victory of common sense.
In theory, because of the voting system used, 2% of the votes could have dramatic consequences. Of course, we'll never know because the votes are anonymous and the recipients secret, but if you think that quite a lot of candidates got in with just a few dozen of votes, you can clearly see how 2% could have determined a lot.
This is not necessarily tied to MBAs as much as it's tied to corporate psychopaths - the ones most likely to succeed in the modern chaotic corporate world (especially in larger publicly-traded companies). They will lie, manipulate and use everything and everybody only to further their own interest. If the company, their workers or even the economy of the whole USA will suffer, they won't care one bit - no conscience.
There will allways be arrogant people on forums. I have found that Windows fanboys shows by far the worst combination of cluelessness and arrogance. YMMV.
I won't argue with you on this, you may very well be right. Thing is, I didn't have to recompile my app in order to have it run, on Windows. I just didn't have the need to expose myself to Windows Fanboi arrogance.
An easy way to resolve library dependency problems are to simply compile the libraries yourself. With autoconfig it should be a matter of configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install.
I tried to compile the necessary libraries, but then I was required some other (missing) libraries. What did you think why have I called it a library hell? It's a hellhole that goes deep, and I went down that hole, real deep, before quitting. With autoconfig, of course.
Additionally, most distributions now ship compatibility packages.
Tell me more, I'm listening. I would guess RHAS 3 didn't have those, 'cause I was really into resolving the issue and I should have bumped into them, if they were there, but I am definitely willing to learn about these compatibility packages.
As other posters have suggested, the Ubuntu netbook remix looks promising.
No working version for the Eee PC 701. In fact, even many of the Eee PC 901 have complained that it just doesn't boot. Maybe there will be a better version later, maybe not. After all, it's a community effort, so I have not right to complain, so screw me for even opening my mouth about it, right? So, nlited Winxp it is.
Which netbooks did the students get? I am most interested in the CPU and the RAM size. And what was their experience of running Visual Studio on on those machines? It seems to me that Visual Studio is somewhat resource-hungry, so I'd be wary of running it on a netbook, but I woud like to learn from your experience.
I agree that Yahoo should clean up and just offer search results when people ask for that. I do think they still can be a portal, if they keep it simple and well-integrated, rather than forcing their users to search for bits and pieces of Yahoo, in a sea of shit they don't need (I'd like to have access to yahoo groups and calendar, and perhaps an easy way to add babelfish - but no, you can't have that! But here's the weather in bananaland, for the next 7 days, that'll be something I need, surely.)
Also, I agree that Yahoo should think about courting Firefox, now that Google has interest in their (excellent, imho) Chrome, but keep in mind that Google is still funding Mozilla to the tune of tens of millions of $, and it's uestionable whether Yahoo can outbid them, or whether Yahoo would get a return on their investment (that would, as I said, have to be significantly enough larger than Google's), especially now that Firefox 3 is looking quite a bit crappier than 2 used to be.
I have to wonder about your "credentials." My 83 year old father manages to use Linux for pretty much anything he want to, and has had virtually nothing in the way of a problem. So... I'd have to guess you're more confused by how things work if it's not Windows rather than being what you claim.
And this, ladies and gents, is exactly the reason Linux is, and will stay where it is now - that is, on a very small minority of desktops: arrogance of some loudmouthed Linux fans. This sort of comments does have an effect, I guarantee you: I will never forget when I tried to compile a version of Mozilla on RHAS 3 (Advanced Server, predecessor of their Enterprise Linux line). I ran into a library hell and there just didn't seem any way to resolve the dependancies. I tried to look for help online, asked in some forums, and was thoroughly ridiculed. And my "credentials as a developer" were questioned in smirky, arrogant language.
To people like this, and people like the poster I'm replying to, I must say: fuck you and your Linux credentials.
I did get myself an Eee PC 701 with Xandros, and was actually pleased, but there have been problems with repositories (because it's not really/exactly Debian, and the Xandros depositories for that version were very limited), and the fact that Asus decided to use UnionFS didn't fucking help (because now even if I uninstall some of the crap I don't need, I won't free up any space, and there is no practical way to get from UnionFS to Ext2). So my EeePC doesn't get used very much lately, and I am thinking of just putting an nlited WinXP on it.