I meant the more touristy eastern side of Mexico where Cancun is, where bicycles, pedestrians, beasts of burden, and cars all share the road with many people riding in crowded pickup trucks, seatbelts are optional, speed limits still ignored, and breakdown lanes are a valid option. (not that I've ever seen crowded freeways over there) Believe it or not, I didn't see dead bodies along the roads during the 600 or so miles I clocked on those roads either.
Not talking about the more beheadey western side.;)
I was actually poking fun at the fact your post reminded me of someone desperately seeking employment (in a way represented at least a few times in TV and film, and usually worked...) but I guess it was too esoteric.:P
most of us are driving 70-80mph anyways when the limits are 55-65mph...and arbitrarily enforced. Why not just make the limits 85mph...
The safety freaks will say people will start going 95-105mph if you raise the speed limit to 85, and people listen to them.
I can guarantee you that unless it's a steep downhill, there's no way I would've done so with the $500 cars I used to drive or the much nicer vehicle that I drive now. (which is an SUV -- I'm not often motivated to go 90) The only time I ever hit 100 was going downhill on Nevada's highway 6 (I think that's it, it's near 50 which is the "lonliest road in America"), which has no other traffic whatsoever and is generally a long straightaway. Yeah, you have your performance freaks who are already frequently going 90 and weaving in and out of traffic who might gain the confidence to make 100 their average, but that fringe does not represent the majority.
I sure hope safety is taking a back seat. We've gone WAY too far in terms of safety to the point where it's become some kind of mortality derangement. Life is a fatal disease, and there's no way to prevent driver fatalities unless we all go 10mph and prevent the physically infirm from driving. Frankly I find the chaos of Mexico's highways more appealing than the excessively proactive, taxation-masquerading-as-safety scheme we have on American highways today.
Too obvious. I think Norton got it right. We're calling them out but they showed enough restraint that any intended ploy will fly over most peoples' heads.
As a slashdoter and iHater, I find this to be insightful. Slashdotters have the power to raise indie devices, but we can't take down behemoths that are perceived as cool.
Funny or Insightful? I've met many people who have thrown that line at me straightfaced. I've heard it from Catholics (from where I spawned), friends who were Jehovah's Witnesses, and evangelicals on video...
In addition to purchasing stolen goods, they also attempted extortion.
[citation needed]. All I see is Steve Jobs -claiming- extortion, and these claims were made after respected Appleholics like Jon Stewart railed against Apple the DOJ for raiding Jason Chen's house.
I'm also loving the strong language used to convince us all that the company whose employee left their prototype phone in a bar, the lack of mention of the raid, and the fact that while Gizmodo and Apple are not exactly on speaking terms, virtually all other media outlets have been tools for Apple. So on one end, we have a company posing a (rather diplomatically worded) exposé that makes Apple look imperfect, and everyone else posting what qualifies as free advertisements for Apple (excluding the occasional Foxconn-esque article) and you want me to trust the mob? Fuck that.
That's not to say Gizmodo's article doesn't deserve a level of skepticism, but it doesn't deserve utter dismissal.
I think the hate's shifted more toward Apple these days. It's hard to say...Apple's been a lot more active than Microsoft on many fronts, so maybe for that reason I'm reading it wrong?
Is there a name for this kind of effect, a la Streisand Effect and Osborne Effect?
Maybe we should call it the Truman Effect (after the Truman Show movie), when people discover that they're lab rats, they intentionally tamper with the results...
...although they did try and convince me that "building your own is over, and its cheeper to buy an all in one"...
It does appear that a pre-assembled computer is cheaper, but they always include some junk I would never buy. A motherboard with no 16 lane PCIe (so you can't upgrade the video). Or an HDD where the next size up would have only cost $10 more for 50% more capacity, etc, etc. I know they're just trying to offload inventory at the lowest price point; which for 90% of people is all they care about.
Don't forget that it works the other way. There's diminishing returns to consider with building a custom. The way I see it:
* Low-end prebuilt systems, you get crap parts that would have given great returns for minor price increases (like you stated)
* High-end prebuilt systems, you may get the latest and greatest process, paying 2x more for the same number of cores and maybe a 5% speed increase.
* Mid-end prebuilt systems (which I typically got with laptops) are carefully crafted to be better than the lower end systems, while having enough weak links built in to force you to upgrade in a couple years. It becomes more economical to custom a high-end!
Good point, his net worth is only $2.5bn apparently, and I'm curious as to who his backers could possibly be for a company that's been tanking lately. On the other hand, with all the cheezy, unimaginative, and downright obnoxious ploys Best Buy has implemented in the last few years, I can see where losing the stress of those "pesky shareholders" could work in the company's favor. I'd be willing to step into a Best Buy again maybe 6 months after it went private just to see if it has improved. (as it stands now, I'd rather go to a used car lot)
I assumed that was treated as a given in the summary as well. I think the association is IT = hacker/gamer/warez culture = must be a bunch of misogynist 15 year olds. It's a stereotype that even resonates in geek culture because it too often ends up being, well, accurate. The tide is slowly turning as folks who were part of that culture (and there are -plenty- of women in said culture, btw) age. You never really completely fall out of it...after all. I for one will be one messed up senior citizen someday...
If you overdo it, people will get paranoid and generally avoid this woman. Also, are you really expecting a large amount of sexual harassment? Where is this business located? I've never gotten grief from coworkers and I'm in the bay area...
Security patches certainly have their value, but 30 years from now it'll still be user error that results in their system/data/finances being compromised. Security patches reduce the ways that users of all skill levels get blindsided, but they're not a catch-all.
I still contend that a seasoned user with EOL system software can pull it off. (hell, I'm sure a good number of slashdotters are what I just described)
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As long as you do not mind having a botnet zombie.
Botnet malware doesn't just pop in out of nowhere. It's gets in when the user does something careless. It's gotten much easier to avoid issues without being excessively paranoid. If you like torrents or porn, quarantine them in a Linux VM. I believe Chrome (and maybe Firefox) now sandboxes websites as well. (of course, VM works here too) Change the moronic default settings to various programs so executables don't get launched without your direct action. (I blame software developers, including Microsoft, in the early 00's for this) There are other things to do as well, but you still get to enjoy your Windows gaming.
I know you're joking, but I'm actually going to defend 4chan here. Yeah it's anonymous, and there's lots of things going on there that'd make a soldier who has done two tours in Iraq blush, but their culture of anonymity is surprisingly more mature than YouTube's. Everyone knows what's going on and why they're there, and that mutual understanding makes it somewhat civilized.
YouTube, on the other hand, is full of generally "normal" people with little to no internet savvy who spew bile from the heart. They're generally not trolling for shock value, they have hearts full of hate.
I'm starting to see why various powers rose up throughout history under the banner of controlling the populace. It never works, but I can see why...
I consider it free speech on the following grounds: It essentially says "we know what the TSA really wants, so lets skip all the foreplay and pretense." It's like a jester mocking the king, only this king can't just add another head to his collection.
This is actually pretty surprising because the main NBC envisions itself as more neutral and objective than MSNBC. There have been incidents where at Tea Party rallies, the protesters would be chanting "NBC" (not "MSNBC") when some sort of bias was brought up -- in fact this was part of the speculation as to why Keith Olbermann was suspended. (a few months before he quit)
On the flipside, it doesn't seem to benefit M$ to piss off conservatives either. I never really see them taking many partisan stances. (I -think- they came out pro gay marriage awhile back, but not until a bunch of other companies did first)
In any case, now that the line is no longer blurred, will NBC go partisan or will Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz be sending out resumes?
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I meant the more touristy eastern side of Mexico where Cancun is, where bicycles, pedestrians, beasts of burden, and cars all share the road with many people riding in crowded pickup trucks, seatbelts are optional, speed limits still ignored, and breakdown lanes are a valid option. (not that I've ever seen crowded freeways over there) Believe it or not, I didn't see dead bodies along the roads during the 600 or so miles I clocked on those roads either.
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Not talking about the more beheadey western side.
I was actually poking fun at the fact your post reminded me of someone desperately seeking employment (in a way represented at least a few times in TV and film, and usually worked...) but I guess it was too esoteric. :P
most of us are driving 70-80mph anyways when the limits are 55-65mph...and arbitrarily enforced. Why not just make the limits 85mph...
The safety freaks will say people will start going 95-105mph if you raise the speed limit to 85, and people listen to them.
I can guarantee you that unless it's a steep downhill, there's no way I would've done so with the $500 cars I used to drive or the much nicer vehicle that I drive now. (which is an SUV -- I'm not often motivated to go 90) The only time I ever hit 100 was going downhill on Nevada's highway 6 (I think that's it, it's near 50 which is the "lonliest road in America"), which has no other traffic whatsoever and is generally a long straightaway. Yeah, you have your performance freaks who are already frequently going 90 and weaving in and out of traffic who might gain the confidence to make 100 their average, but that fringe does not represent the majority.
I sure hope safety is taking a back seat. We've gone WAY too far in terms of safety to the point where it's become some kind of mortality derangement. Life is a fatal disease, and there's no way to prevent driver fatalities unless we all go 10mph and prevent the physically infirm from driving. Frankly I find the chaos of Mexico's highways more appealing than the excessively proactive, taxation-masquerading-as-safety scheme we have on American highways today.
Too obvious. I think Norton got it right. We're calling them out but they showed enough restraint that any intended ploy will fly over most peoples' heads.
If I give you the job will you PLEASE leave my office...
As a slashdoter and iHater, I find this to be insightful. Slashdotters have the power to raise indie devices, but we can't take down behemoths that are perceived as cool.
Or they misapply it. To them, it's simpler to write off everything complicated about existence with a single pen stroke than it is to explain it.
Funny or Insightful? I've met many people who have thrown that line at me straightfaced. I've heard it from Catholics (from where I spawned), friends who were Jehovah's Witnesses, and evangelicals on video...
In addition to purchasing stolen goods, they also attempted extortion.
[citation needed]. All I see is Steve Jobs -claiming- extortion, and these claims were made after respected Appleholics like Jon Stewart railed against Apple the DOJ for raiding Jason Chen's house.
I'm also loving the strong language used to convince us all that the company whose employee left their prototype phone in a bar, the lack of mention of the raid, and the fact that while Gizmodo and Apple are not exactly on speaking terms, virtually all other media outlets have been tools for Apple. So on one end, we have a company posing a (rather diplomatically worded) exposé that makes Apple look imperfect, and everyone else posting what qualifies as free advertisements for Apple (excluding the occasional Foxconn-esque article) and you want me to trust the mob? Fuck that.
That's not to say Gizmodo's article doesn't deserve a level of skepticism, but it doesn't deserve utter dismissal.
At least he wasn't referred to as "The Biebs"
Gimme the program that generates this epic message. I'll buy 5 of your product if you do...
I think the hate's shifted more toward Apple these days. It's hard to say...Apple's been a lot more active than Microsoft on many fronts, so maybe for that reason I'm reading it wrong?
Is there a name for this kind of effect, a la Streisand Effect and Osborne Effect?
Maybe we should call it the Truman Effect (after the Truman Show movie), when people discover that they're lab rats, they intentionally tamper with the results...
...although they did try and convince me that "building your own is over, and its cheeper to buy an all in one" ...
It does appear that a pre-assembled computer is cheaper, but they always include some junk I would never buy. A motherboard with no 16 lane PCIe (so you can't upgrade the video). Or an HDD where the next size up would have only cost $10 more for 50% more capacity, etc, etc. I know they're just trying to offload inventory at the lowest price point; which for 90% of people is all they care about.
Don't forget that it works the other way. There's diminishing returns to consider with building a custom. The way I see it:
You just can't win with prebuilt...
Good point, his net worth is only $2.5bn apparently, and I'm curious as to who his backers could possibly be for a company that's been tanking lately. On the other hand, with all the cheezy, unimaginative, and downright obnoxious ploys Best Buy has implemented in the last few years, I can see where losing the stress of those "pesky shareholders" could work in the company's favor. I'd be willing to step into a Best Buy again maybe 6 months after it went private just to see if it has improved. (as it stands now, I'd rather go to a used car lot)
I thought CDMA was the one people were rooting to go. I have a CDMA device but I recognize that it's essentially like the Imperial measurement system.
...and speaking of irony, my post time if you're in PST/PDT time zone...priceless.
I assumed that was treated as a given in the summary as well. I think the association is IT = hacker/gamer/warez culture = must be a bunch of misogynist 15 year olds. It's a stereotype that even resonates in geek culture because it too often ends up being, well, accurate. The tide is slowly turning as folks who were part of that culture (and there are -plenty- of women in said culture, btw) age. You never really completely fall out of it...after all. I for one will be one messed up senior citizen someday...
If you overdo it, people will get paranoid and generally avoid this woman. Also, are you really expecting a large amount of sexual harassment? Where is this business located? I've never gotten grief from coworkers and I'm in the bay area...
Security patches certainly have their value, but 30 years from now it'll still be user error that results in their system/data/finances being compromised. Security patches reduce the ways that users of all skill levels get blindsided, but they're not a catch-all.
I still contend that a seasoned user with EOL system software can pull it off. (hell, I'm sure a good number of slashdotters are what I just described)
As long as you do not mind having a botnet zombie.
Botnet malware doesn't just pop in out of nowhere. It's gets in when the user does something careless. It's gotten much easier to avoid issues without being excessively paranoid. If you like torrents or porn, quarantine them in a Linux VM. I believe Chrome (and maybe Firefox) now sandboxes websites as well. (of course, VM works here too) Change the moronic default settings to various programs so executables don't get launched without your direct action. (I blame software developers, including Microsoft, in the early 00's for this) There are other things to do as well, but you still get to enjoy your Windows gaming.
I know you're joking, but I'm actually going to defend 4chan here. Yeah it's anonymous, and there's lots of things going on there that'd make a soldier who has done two tours in Iraq blush, but their culture of anonymity is surprisingly more mature than YouTube's. Everyone knows what's going on and why they're there, and that mutual understanding makes it somewhat civilized.
YouTube, on the other hand, is full of generally "normal" people with little to no internet savvy who spew bile from the heart. They're generally not trolling for shock value, they have hearts full of hate.
I'm starting to see why various powers rose up throughout history under the banner of controlling the populace. It never works, but I can see why...
I consider it free speech on the following grounds: It essentially says "we know what the TSA really wants, so lets skip all the foreplay and pretense." It's like a jester mocking the king, only this king can't just add another head to his collection.
I'll bring the cool hwip.
FTFY
This is actually pretty surprising because the main NBC envisions itself as more neutral and objective than MSNBC. There have been incidents where at Tea Party rallies, the protesters would be chanting "NBC" (not "MSNBC") when some sort of bias was brought up -- in fact this was part of the speculation as to why Keith Olbermann was suspended. (a few months before he quit)
On the flipside, it doesn't seem to benefit M$ to piss off conservatives either. I never really see them taking many partisan stances. (I -think- they came out pro gay marriage awhile back, but not until a bunch of other companies did first)
In any case, now that the line is no longer blurred, will NBC go partisan or will Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz be sending out resumes?