This is such a load of bollocks. Killing a rabbit takes whole of 10 seconds, most of which are spent trying to grab his wriggling hind legs in one hand. Skinning a rabbit takes almost 10 minutes if you know what you are doing and if you add the rest of the work and cooking its just easy to kill the rabbit compared to the rest. Same with fish. I'd say any other animal is going to be either same or for larger animals the post-processing work will be even more difficult.
If killing animals for food is this difficult for you, there is something wrong with your evolutionary process. I suggest to terminate this part of the genetic experiment in order to leave space for healthier and less pretentious samples.:)
Unfortunately the government maintains that any search at the border is by its nature reasonable and somehow they extended this stuff for international flights to all flights. Whatever. I believe I'm gonna live to see another revolution:)
It is not just that. Much of the education you get at school will be much more useful when viewed in the light of a real world experience. If you have a few solid projects behind you by the time you even enter school or at the least by the end of 2nd year, the rest of your education will be so much more useful to you. If not, you will fall deeper in the pure theoretical knowledge without active ability to use it.
I'm getting coworkers that have not even touched a computer until their 2nd year in college. By the time you are 20-21 your brain and the way you think has been fully formed and introducing a radical new way of thiking about problems is close to impossible. Even investing years of effort into mentoring is not yielding sufficient results sadly.
I always ask about outside work, outside school projects, done for fun or to learn a new concept. If I get a blank stare or avoidance anwer (usually describing some on job project instead) I always smell trouble.
Let's extend the original criteria then. If you are considering standard University workload challenging with no spare time left, they probably shouldn't hire you either:)
Why cannot they just ask the ISP to disconnect infected computers from the network? It should be responsibility of each owner to connect with uninfected computer. The company responsible for this whole mess - Microsoft - will likely not be held accountable, but the users should. And when the OS they use start to be liability in their lives, then maybe they will choose based on that as well.
YACA: If someone installed randomly firing machine guns in the trunk of your car, I doubt FBI response would be a letter asking you if they could please uninstall those for you.
AT&T, Verizon have much better information than the data stored on those iPhones which are not even transmitted to Apple. Why is there no outcry over the information that the mobile operators have?
The world seems to naturally progress toward more connectedness. Gestures, speech, storytelling, painting, writting, travel, mail, shipping, telegraph, telephone, internet. There are more and denser connections between people and places. It seems only natural that the brightest minds are involved in this phenomena, helping our world to evolve into a higher state of self-awareness.
Yes? I am a developer at Oracle. I worked for 5 years on my original computer. After that I went through a lot of hassle, it took me about 6 hours of my time in total over few days to get a new computer. I've got 3 years old refurbished one. They kept in place my old CRT monitor, because it was "working". Now another 5 years passed, I've still got that now 8 years old computer and that 10 years old CRT monitor. There was no way I would go through the Oracle Procurement again. I bought myself an iMac some 4 years ago and worked from home just so I could keep being productive and actually enjoy working on the computer in front of me instead of getting sick to my stomach every day from looking at 8 year old piece of junk from Dell. YMMV
Any sufficiently big level of stupidity is indistinguishable from malice:)
Actually it is better for you to assume malice than stupidity, because if you go after a fool, he kinda sorta deserved it anyway, if you think a malicious enemy is stupid, you are gonna pay twice for being fool yourself. Game theory in action.:)
SE is likely not a word, but a word delimiter (space). Also 'BE' and 'NE' fit the profile of delimiters. Interesting words are 'TE' and 'TRF'. 'NC' will be Number something probably + BE = end of word/sentence?
He is clearly using 'SE', 'BE' and possibly 'NE' as some sort of delimiters. It appears numbers are not encoded. I see other patterns, but not as significant.
Subverting governments: They paid people who should represent the government to instead represent Microsoft in the standards body. It might or might not have been illegal, but it subverted the government's interests.
Monopoly: They had been tried and convicted under US law and they have managed to reduce their penalty largely through bribes, but they still were convicted. Nobody ever disputed the facts of the case or ruling under the law, only the size of the punishment.
Breaking contracts, while potentially not illegal is certainly unethical. And that should be the standard to judge their acts in this case.
Paying trolls like you or Forbes to defend their actions as ethical is quite funny.
Windows might not be a Russian OS, but I would bet you three months salary that if Microsoft fired all of its russian developers, the next version of Windows would be delayed by two years.
I'd much rather developers didn't have the option, so half of the content wouldn't be terribly slow or unaccessible on mobile device. Killing flash is just a Good Thing (TM)
Have you ever walked around a new appartment building with a big sign and web address and wanted to check that out on your phone? You get to a flash based site without fail that is impossible to navigate and the best you can do is write down the URL to view it on your computer later. Well, there is simply no "later" in my ADHD based world:)
The fact that this argument is still on-going shows that there is still much demand for Flash. Apple can choose to exclude those customers if it wants, you can buy into that if you want, but I for one am very very glad that Android is a viable alternative that gives me the choice of HTML5 and Flash.
The fact that there is still much argument about Sarah Palin to this day, shows me she must have been great candidate and there is still demand for politicians like her. I for one am very glad the Republicans give me the choice of Sarah Palin on the ticket.
You arguments are all sound and reasonable. Except that you don't look at the speed of recovery from this mutually assured destruction. China is actually a manufacturing country and internally self-sufficient. They might lack in food, but that problem can be easily solved with most other countries having strong overproductions of food anyway. The US on the other hand, is self-sufficient only in food and a global meltdown caused by destroying the value of dolar would be almost unrecoverable at this point. In time of such meltdown, BRIC (Brasil, Russia, India, China) would simply work tightly together re-establish new financial market and US and EU would pretty much go to hell instantly.
As for the "you are getting reamed" part. I find out I spend at average 2 hours a week doing maintanance stuff and being prevented from work by various windows activilties. The 10 minutes a day while my harddrive is locked out by the anti-virus, answering stupid dialogues, looking for stuff in obvious places just to not find it there, the day of reinstalling windows and all apps after a major breakdown divided by the number of weeks it actually worked. All these and more are things I don't have to deal with on Mac. To me this time is worth real money. Even if I cut it in half and say just one hour a week at $50 per hour is $7,500 over the 3 year lifespan of the computer. Microsoft would have to pay me approximately $5,000 a year before I would consider using their software. This is what I call the Microsoft tax on productivity. That is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) Microsoft was so adamant for us to look at when talking about LInux as alternative. So I took a hint and looked at it and switched to Mac the next day. (Away from both Windows and Linux)
I know plenty of people who have computer at work, they do work there and they come home and do not touch or own computer. They might buy an iPad though, to read books or browse web, read email, but they don't need to do anything else beside that. Just because you don't know anybody living without computers or using them just to read email at best doesn't mean that such people don't exist or even are hard to find.
Slashdot just became a place for delusional conspiracy theorists. Oracle has nothing to gain by what you suggest and plenty to lose. Almost 2/3 of Oracle developers use Java to write code that Oracle wants to sell. By harming the language in any way Oracle would forgo a very significant investment in people, in products and in their future ability to maintain those products and get paid for support contracts, which are what feeds the company.
I don't understand how nobody can see that IBM could kill Java much more easily than Oracle. In fact, IBM might do it just to harm Oracle if they got their hands on Java. If you watch any of the news about Sun takeover, Larry Ellison clearly says that Java is a key strategic asset for Oracle and there is no reason at all, as far as I know, to doubt that.
Nobody in the Eastern Bloc believed the propaganda even to start with. I grew up there and now I live in US. There is both more propaganda and brain washing in US than there ever was in my country and people believe it more. They are largely not even aware of the propaganda or able to recognize it. The fact that a constitution protects free speach does not mean anything, but false sense of security.
Another thing the comminists always tried was to restrict the movement and travel, yet again US succeeds much better in this regard with 94% of americans never been out of country or even owning a passport. That is much higher level than my country ever reached when they tried to. Again, the freedom of movement does not work quite so well for US citizens.
Your premise is completely false. The more a truth is distorted and the less you can believe in anything you hear, the more is a consistent and repeated message effective, however untrue.
Crete is 200 miles from coast now. How high was middeterean see during the ice age and have there been islands in between? Maybe they did not travel 200 miles but much lower distance.
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This is such a load of bollocks. Killing a rabbit takes whole of 10 seconds, most of which are spent trying to grab his wriggling hind legs in one hand. Skinning a rabbit takes almost 10 minutes if you know what you are doing and if you add the rest of the work and cooking its just easy to kill the rabbit compared to the rest. Same with fish. I'd say any other animal is going to be either same or for larger animals the post-processing work will be even more difficult.
If killing animals for food is this difficult for you, there is something wrong with your evolutionary process. I suggest to terminate this part of the genetic experiment in order to leave space for healthier and less pretentious samples. :)
Unfortunately the government maintains that any search at the border is by its nature reasonable and somehow they extended this stuff for international flights to all flights. Whatever. I believe I'm gonna live to see another revolution :)
It is not just that. Much of the education you get at school will be much more useful when viewed in the light of a real world experience. If you have a few solid projects behind you by the time you even enter school or at the least by the end of 2nd year, the rest of your education will be so much more useful to you. If not, you will fall deeper in the pure theoretical knowledge without active ability to use it.
I'm getting coworkers that have not even touched a computer until their 2nd year in college. By the time you are 20-21 your brain and the way you think has been fully formed and introducing a radical new way of thiking about problems is close to impossible. Even investing years of effort into mentoring is not yielding sufficient results sadly.
I always ask about outside work, outside school projects, done for fun or to learn a new concept. If I get a blank stare or avoidance anwer (usually describing some on job project instead) I always smell trouble.
Let's extend the original criteria then. If you are considering standard University workload challenging with no spare time left, they probably shouldn't hire you either :)
Why cannot they just ask the ISP to disconnect infected computers from the network? It should be responsibility of each owner to connect with uninfected computer. The company responsible for this whole mess - Microsoft - will likely not be held accountable, but the users should. And when the OS they use start to be liability in their lives, then maybe they will choose based on that as well.
YACA: If someone installed randomly firing machine guns in the trunk of your car, I doubt FBI response would be a letter asking you if they could please uninstall those for you.
AT&T, Verizon have much better information than the data stored on those iPhones which are not even transmitted to Apple. Why is there no outcry over the information that the mobile operators have?
The world seems to naturally progress toward more connectedness. Gestures, speech, storytelling, painting, writting, travel, mail, shipping, telegraph, telephone, internet. There are more and denser connections between people and places. It seems only natural that the brightest minds are involved in this phenomena, helping our world to evolve into a higher state of self-awareness.
Yes? I am a developer at Oracle. I worked for 5 years on my original computer. After that I went through a lot of hassle, it took me about 6 hours of my time in total over few days to get a new computer. I've got 3 years old refurbished one. They kept in place my old CRT monitor, because it was "working". Now another 5 years passed, I've still got that now 8 years old computer and that 10 years old CRT monitor. There was no way I would go through the Oracle Procurement again. I bought myself an iMac some 4 years ago and worked from home just so I could keep being productive and actually enjoy working on the computer in front of me instead of getting sick to my stomach every day from looking at 8 year old piece of junk from Dell. YMMV
I've got OCD and ADD, so I should be as good as Google and Apple combined :)
I think Pat and Mat win this one. Look at some of the animated short stories below and check some more about them on wiki.
http://www.patmat.cz/?lang=e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%26_Mat
Any sufficiently big level of stupidity is indistinguishable from malice :)
Actually it is better for you to assume malice than stupidity, because if you go after a fool, he kinda sorta deserved it anyway, if you think a malicious enemy is stupid, you are gonna pay twice for being fool yourself. Game theory in action. :)
SE is likely not a word, but a word delimiter (space). Also 'BE' and 'NE' fit the profile of delimiters. Interesting words are 'TE' and 'TRF'. 'NC' will be Number something probably + BE = end of word/sentence?
He is clearly using 'SE', 'BE' and possibly 'NE' as some sort of delimiters. It appears numbers are not encoded. I see other patterns, but not as significant.
Subverting governments: They paid people who should represent the government to instead represent Microsoft in the standards body. It might or might not have been illegal, but it subverted the government's interests.
Monopoly: They had been tried and convicted under US law and they have managed to reduce their penalty largely through bribes, but they still were convicted. Nobody ever disputed the facts of the case or ruling under the law, only the size of the punishment.
Breaking contracts, while potentially not illegal is certainly unethical. And that should be the standard to judge their acts in this case.
Paying trolls like you or Forbes to defend their actions as ethical is quite funny.
Windows might not be a Russian OS, but I would bet you three months salary that if Microsoft fired all of its russian developers, the next version of Windows would be delayed by two years.
After 5 years at the company with the same desktop, I requested a new one and got a 3 year old refurbished one. Oracle is not very spendy ...
I'd much rather developers didn't have the option, so half of the content wouldn't be terribly slow or unaccessible on mobile device. Killing flash is just a Good Thing (TM)
Have you ever walked around a new appartment building with a big sign and web address and wanted to check that out on your phone? You get to a flash based site without fail that is impossible to navigate and the best you can do is write down the URL to view it on your computer later. Well, there is simply no "later" in my ADHD based world :)
The fact that this argument is still on-going shows that there is still much demand for Flash. Apple can choose to exclude those customers if it wants, you can buy into that if you want, but I for one am very very glad that Android is a viable alternative that gives me the choice of HTML5 and Flash.
The fact that there is still much argument about Sarah Palin to this day, shows me she must have been great candidate and there is still demand for politicians like her. I for one am very glad the Republicans give me the choice of Sarah Palin on the ticket.
You arguments are all sound and reasonable. Except that you don't look at the speed of recovery from this mutually assured destruction. China is actually a manufacturing country and internally self-sufficient. They might lack in food, but that problem can be easily solved with most other countries having strong overproductions of food anyway. The US on the other hand, is self-sufficient only in food and a global meltdown caused by destroying the value of dolar would be almost unrecoverable at this point. In time of such meltdown, BRIC (Brasil, Russia, India, China) would simply work tightly together re-establish new financial market and US and EU would pretty much go to hell instantly.
As for the "you are getting reamed" part. I find out I spend at average 2 hours a week doing maintanance stuff and being prevented from work by various windows activilties. The 10 minutes a day while my harddrive is locked out by the anti-virus, answering stupid dialogues, looking for stuff in obvious places just to not find it there, the day of reinstalling windows and all apps after a major breakdown divided by the number of weeks it actually worked. All these and more are things I don't have to deal with on Mac. To me this time is worth real money. Even if I cut it in half and say just one hour a week at $50 per hour is $7,500 over the 3 year lifespan of the computer. Microsoft would have to pay me approximately $5,000 a year before I would consider using their software. This is what I call the Microsoft tax on productivity. That is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) Microsoft was so adamant for us to look at when talking about LInux as alternative. So I took a hint and looked at it and switched to Mac the next day. (Away from both Windows and Linux)
I think I watched much much more Ballmer than that, but in small Monkey Boy increments spread over time :)
I know plenty of people who have computer at work, they do work there and they come home and do not touch or own computer. They might buy an iPad though, to read books or browse web, read email, but they don't need to do anything else beside that. Just because you don't know anybody living without computers or using them just to read email at best doesn't mean that such people don't exist or even are hard to find.
Slashdot just became a place for delusional conspiracy theorists. Oracle has nothing to gain by what you suggest and plenty to lose. Almost 2/3 of Oracle developers use Java to write code that Oracle wants to sell. By harming the language in any way Oracle would forgo a very significant investment in people, in products and in their future ability to maintain those products and get paid for support contracts, which are what feeds the company.
I don't understand how nobody can see that IBM could kill Java much more easily than Oracle. In fact, IBM might do it just to harm Oracle if they got their hands on Java. If you watch any of the news about Sun takeover, Larry Ellison clearly says that Java is a key strategic asset for Oracle and there is no reason at all, as far as I know, to doubt that.
Nobody in the Eastern Bloc believed the propaganda even to start with. I grew up there and now I live in US. There is both more propaganda and brain washing in US than there ever was in my country and people believe it more. They are largely not even aware of the propaganda or able to recognize it. The fact that a constitution protects free speach does not mean anything, but false sense of security.
Another thing the comminists always tried was to restrict the movement and travel, yet again US succeeds much better in this regard with 94% of americans never been out of country or even owning a passport. That is much higher level than my country ever reached when they tried to. Again, the freedom of movement does not work quite so well for US citizens.
Your premise is completely false. The more a truth is distorted and the less you can believe in anything you hear, the more is a consistent and repeated message effective, however untrue.
Crete is 200 miles from coast now. How high was middeterean see during the ice age and have there been islands in between? Maybe they did not travel 200 miles but much lower distance.