Doctors don't know what things cost, so they tick all the boxes without considering the cost-benefits.
Do you really want to be the patient who gets the absolute bare minimum of tests? Every single time? People complain about doctors issuing the gamut of tests but when they become the patient it's suddenly a different story.
With that logic small independent video game companies should not exist, because they serve a minuscule population compared to the big name companies. Since their expenses are smaller, their profit requirements (and expectations) are lower.
Also, it only takes 1 trojan developer to go rogue and write a trojan for a platform largely ignored by the big players. A lone developer reaping 5% of an untouched market will profit far more than working for the mob going after 95% portion of the market loaded with cut-throat competitors.
He said, nobody gives a shit about attacking apple's products (Mac's in particular)
Let's accept that as true. The result would be zero competition in the Mac trojan marketplace. Also consider that the lack of competition combined with a large population will make a marketplace very attractive for trojan entrepreneurs. As competitors enter the marketplace, margins will diminish until equilibrium is met. This contradicts your claim. One logical conclusion is the Mac is considerably more difficult to exploit compared to a Windows system so that presents itself as a barrier to entry with the Mac population. It's the barrier to entry that can explain why there are so few trojans on the Mac.
However, how is this any different from buying a map at the gas station and using that as a reference
Have you ever used google maps and street view? How about a paper map from the gas station? If one has used both for more than a minute, the differences of level of detail and interactivity are obvious. You can't zoom into a psuedo-3D view of your house using only a paper map.
Id rather be hit with a tazer then a 40cal any day. Nothing is 100% safe
That is a false dilemma. You have a right not to be assaulted in the first place.
and besides 99.999% of the time you did something to warrant getting hit, so its your own damned fault if you die.
You're right. You must have viewed the video I pasted. It was indeed that teenage boy's fault for being tasered. It was his fault that his back and leg were broken and he was in confused daze when officers tased 19 times for not complying. It was his fault he was charged with resisting arrest.
Sarcasm aside, I suppose you believe police are infallible and there is nothing wrong with an unusually high number of otherwise peaceful people being arrested for minor infractions with charges of resisting arrest and assault on a police officer thrown in for good measure.
Of course it will immediately be adopted across police departments because as we all know tasers are perfectly safe. It is interesting to note when officers fire their pistols, they continue firing until the ammo is depleted. There is no reason to believe this practice won't continue with semi-automatic taser guns because many taser deaths were due to multiple hits from several officers. Of course these occurred because the suspect would not stop flailing about on the ground due to being repeatedly hit with electricity (officers refer to this as resisting). That is merely the unfortunate side effect of electricity causing involuntary muscle contractions.
A person's right to feel indignation ends when they start issuing death threats. These are cartoons, so I don't care who they insult. You are free to draw a cartoon of Jesus being raped by a goat. You will not find Christian church leaders issuing death fatwas over it.
You're looking at this from the point of "those Muslims are trying to tell us what we can say.
They are telling us what we can (and can't) say.
Theo van Gogh
Salmon Rushdie
Taslima Nasreen
The Facebook campaign was indeed a "fuck you" to Muslims. It aimed at those wishing to dominate and control the speech and beliefs of others. If I told you that I forbid you from uttering the word "abcxyz" and that if you didn't comply, I'd issue a fatwa demanding your head. You'd tell me that I was trampling on your freedom and not so kindly tell me to fuck off wouldn't you? I'm curious. Did you plea the same case when groups of Muslims were burning foreign flags and effigies? Those were also "fuck you" statements, but instead issued by Muslims to westerners. I'd wager $100 that you didn't.
You seem ignore that complex problems often require complex solutions. Waving a wand and uttering a few tidy quotes won't magically simplify away complexity.
Complexity becomes manageable by generalizing and abstracting code, which by its very nature generates reusable code, but not every piece of code is reusable because at some point you must deal with the reality that unique functionality must eventually be implemented. As functionality grows so does implementation grow.
Looking at it another way. Writing reusable code means you're writing abstract code. It's easy to know when the code is reusable; simply count the times it is referenced. It's difficult to tell when abstractions are correct, but a very good indicator is when your abstractions are reused.
Abstraction and reuse are complementary concepts so your quotes are enormous oversimplifications. When dealing with complexity, abstraction is inevitable. It's the abstraction that introduces layer and interface bloat. The net result is the forces increasing software size are more plentiful than forces decreasing software size (and for very good reasons).
It's 1K alright.. but the source code is also unreadable. Complex software requires complex source code which is the source of code bloat. Bloat comes from designing the code using abstractions and generalized interfaces. Without abstraction, no human would be able to understand or maintain the source code of a modern web browser if it were coded as a highly optimized monolithic blob of code.
This is not very impressive for 3 years in production for what other comments are saying is a 5-8 minute film
I imagine because it was a handful of people working part-time on weekends? Big studios employ hundreds and use expensive render farms and still take up to a year.
Not to mention anyone buying a PC generally bought an ISA sound card with it: adlib or soundblaster. It was unusual to find a home PC without one due to gaming, but common to find an office PC without one.
Amazon has an insane amount of redundancy with dozens of physical data centers spread over the world. They regularly perform game day disaster scenarios taking out entire data centers to test the recovery of the infrastructure and Amazon applications.
In this instance, you'll note only a few clients were impacted because a switch had incorrect configuration. There is not much you can do about some types of human errors, which can come from all sorts of unexpected angles. Regardless, a number EC2 nodes were lost but were replaceable with EC2 nodes in other data centers. If clients lost data then it was due to clients not following the principle of building in redundancy into their applications. Amazon can only implement redundancy in the infrastructure, not client applications. Amazon advises EC2 customers not to build in single node dependencies into their apps. This cannot not be made more clear in their documentation and support.
You are very ignorant regarding your speculation about Amazon's infrastructure.
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Do you really want to be the patient who gets the absolute bare minimum of tests? Every single time? People complain about doctors issuing the gamut of tests but when they become the patient it's suddenly a different story.
With that logic small independent video game companies should not exist, because they serve a minuscule population compared to the big name companies. Since their expenses are smaller, their profit requirements (and expectations) are lower.
Also, it only takes 1 trojan developer to go rogue and write a trojan for a platform largely ignored by the big players. A lone developer reaping 5% of an untouched market will profit far more than working for the mob going after 95% portion of the market loaded with cut-throat competitors.
Let's accept that as true. The result would be zero competition in the Mac trojan marketplace. Also consider that the lack of competition combined with a large population will make a marketplace very attractive for trojan entrepreneurs. As competitors enter the marketplace, margins will diminish until equilibrium is met. This contradicts your claim. One logical conclusion is the Mac is considerably more difficult to exploit compared to a Windows system so that presents itself as a barrier to entry with the Mac population. It's the barrier to entry that can explain why there are so few trojans on the Mac.
Have you ever used google maps and street view? How about a paper map from the gas station? If one has used both for more than a minute, the differences of level of detail and interactivity are obvious. You can't zoom into a psuedo-3D view of your house using only a paper map.
That would be like using gravel to dam a lake. It'll still seep and then erode away the material.
And carrying 50lbs of books around all day was oh so much fun.
By the way: Get off my lawn!
keeping your parents confused about what you're s^Htexting.
Technology changes. Design principles don't. Case study: mankind's history and study of structural engineering and architecture.
Tell that to a French chef... they'll throw a cleaver at your head.
That is a false dilemma. You have a right not to be assaulted in the first place.
You're right. You must have viewed the video I pasted. It was indeed that teenage boy's fault for being tasered. It was his fault that his back and leg were broken and he was in confused daze when officers tased 19 times for not complying. It was his fault he was charged with resisting arrest.
Sarcasm aside, I suppose you believe police are infallible and there is nothing wrong with an unusually high number of otherwise peaceful people being arrested for minor infractions with charges of resisting arrest and assault on a police officer thrown in for good measure.
Wake up. You are losing your civil rights. You probably don't realize it because it hasn't yet happened to you. Don't worry; at will at some point.
Of course it will immediately be adopted across police departments because as we all know tasers are perfectly safe. It is interesting to note when officers fire their pistols, they continue firing until the ammo is depleted. There is no reason to believe this practice won't continue with semi-automatic taser guns because many taser deaths were due to multiple hits from several officers. Of course these occurred because the suspect would not stop flailing about on the ground due to being repeatedly hit with electricity (officers refer to this as resisting). That is merely the unfortunate side effect of electricity causing involuntary muscle contractions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuXR0F6ZQzc
I forgot something in my other post.
A person's right to feel indignation ends when they start issuing death threats. These are cartoons, so I don't care who they insult. You are free to draw a cartoon of Jesus being raped by a goat. You will not find Christian church leaders issuing death fatwas over it.
They are telling us what we can (and can't) say.
The Facebook campaign was indeed a "fuck you" to Muslims. It aimed at those wishing to dominate and control the speech and beliefs of others. If I told you that I forbid you from uttering the word "abcxyz" and that if you didn't comply, I'd issue a fatwa demanding your head. You'd tell me that I was trampling on your freedom and not so kindly tell me to fuck off wouldn't you? I'm curious. Did you plea the same case when groups of Muslims were burning foreign flags and effigies? Those were also "fuck you" statements, but instead issued by Muslims to westerners. I'd wager $100 that you didn't.
Massachutax.
Uhh... Software engineering is not an art. It is an applied science. It's why it's called "software engineering" and not "software theater".
You seem ignore that complex problems often require complex solutions. Waving a wand and uttering a few tidy quotes won't magically simplify away complexity.
Complexity becomes manageable by generalizing and abstracting code, which by its very nature generates reusable code, but not every piece of code is reusable because at some point you must deal with the reality that unique functionality must eventually be implemented. As functionality grows so does implementation grow.
Looking at it another way. Writing reusable code means you're writing abstract code. It's easy to know when the code is reusable; simply count the times it is referenced. It's difficult to tell when abstractions are correct, but a very good indicator is when your abstractions are reused.
Abstraction and reuse are complementary concepts so your quotes are enormous oversimplifications. When dealing with complexity, abstraction is inevitable. It's the abstraction that introduces layer and interface bloat. The net result is the forces increasing software size are more plentiful than forces decreasing software size (and for very good reasons).
It's 1K alright.. but the source code is also unreadable. Complex software requires complex source code which is the source of code bloat. Bloat comes from designing the code using abstractions and generalized interfaces. Without abstraction, no human would be able to understand or maintain the source code of a modern web browser if it were coded as a highly optimized monolithic blob of code.
And I was critiquing his (unfunny) joke.
Kernel version != OS version
I said SHOO!!
I imagine because it was a handful of people working part-time on weekends? Big studios employ hundreds and use expensive render farms and still take up to a year.
Typical Slashdot fashion; way to be a kill joy. Anyway, I DID say almost. Read my post again.
Additionally
Now... SHOO!
The trailer is almost 1 minute.. so that means the trailer is almost 20% of the movie. LOLZ....
Not to mention anyone buying a PC generally bought an ISA sound card with it: adlib or soundblaster. It was unusual to find a home PC without one due to gaming, but common to find an office PC without one.
Amazon has an insane amount of redundancy with dozens of physical data centers spread over the world. They regularly perform game day disaster scenarios taking out entire data centers to test the recovery of the infrastructure and Amazon applications.
In this instance, you'll note only a few clients were impacted because a switch had incorrect configuration. There is not much you can do about some types of human errors, which can come from all sorts of unexpected angles. Regardless, a number EC2 nodes were lost but were replaceable with EC2 nodes in other data centers. If clients lost data then it was due to clients not following the principle of building in redundancy into their applications. Amazon can only implement redundancy in the infrastructure, not client applications. Amazon advises EC2 customers not to build in single node dependencies into their apps. This cannot not be made more clear in their documentation and support.
You are very ignorant regarding your speculation about Amazon's infrastructure.