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Or if I write an application for personal use I get to install it for $99 (each year) IF Apple says OK. This is a major impediment to me buying an iPhone currently. I want something to serve as a PDA/Phone/Mobile net device and the iPhone is perfect except the Apple based tyranny.
Further my understanding is that they can also DELETE stuff from MY phone (not sure the mechanism).
I like the Mac integration and functionality but lack trust in any big company not to screw me if they get the upper hand.
The professors are pathetic. OOO we can't stop cheating OOO guess we will just keep turning out dunces....
Why not randomly select some papers and ask some questions? If you really wrote it you can easily explain 90%+.
I am sure there is a LOT of other methods if the instructor actually put some thought and effort into doing their job.
So in essence we have slackers complaining that slackers are bypassing the training. Personally it sounds like the instructor is getting across how they work quite well, how ironic.
Yep Mike Judge has it correct and we are headed toward an idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/). Smart is no longer respected. If you want respect be a thug or pervert. Even better be good at pretending to be someone else. Be a manipulator of people and you can make millions but actually create something LOL!
In the 60's while huge advances were being made the title of scientist meant a lot. Now it is a negative.
Sorry bureaucracy produces nothing and is bad. It is possible that it provides a structure that allows real productivity however with time the bureaucrats tend to think bureaucracy is the product and slowly grind down anyone trying to excel. The Vogans were a parody but like all parodies there was a kernel of reality.
It is also hard to get recognized for excellence. The government is busy promoting people to ensure groups are treated equal and in the process fails to create PEOPLE equal. Further I would not want to work for an organization that rewards someone that can barely find their way to work with one that produces 10 times as much equally.
No they criticize China because you are a bunch of pirating communist scum. As to price manipulation being a bad thing... from a communist country that has practiced both price controls and currency manipulation. Not to mention the closed market.... This is just a chance for China to shake MS down.
Women and Men DO think different. The men are evil and women rock tone of this article however is pathetic as are her conclusions.
However you could leverage the fact that men and women think different to gain fault tolerance. If you have two independent programmers do the same work, with the same requirements they will frequently arrive at different solutions. As most know this can be leveraged by comparing the output of both solutions to verify the solution is proper. If one solution was done by a male and the other by a female the probability of difference should go up due to the difference in thought patterns, I would think.
That is a real chance of benefit versus the male hating nonsense she spewed.
I am not a fan of Bush but this is laughable. V It was authorized by Congress but then facts won't stop this idiot.
VIII Fuck the UN and ANY person in the government that bows to it rather than the US Constitution that they swore to defend (and that authorizes ANY authority they have).
IX Congress is in charge of supplying the troops it is YOUR fault Mr K.
XVII I agree on US citizens, foreign people that were not in uniform and mingling with the citizenry deserve the protection that the Geneva Conventions Treaty provides, none.
XXVII Please just take a deep breath and get over it. AlGore lost.
XXXI Again the constitution spells out ZERO of this duty (or even the authority) and the people that failed to plan was New Orleans (party on dude) and the state of Arkansas. We had damage in Alabama as did Mississippi and we dealt with it locally and fast. Guess what we have done that EVERYTIME including more direct hits. Only in a communist government is the centralized authority responsible for every minor thing and that has been demonstrated to be even worse. If you want to criticize the federal government it should be for the massive amounts of cash given away down there after being confiscated from responsible people.
XXXII Spreading Green madness is not a constitutional duty
I could address everyone of these but cannot be bothered to refute such a loon.
I have a Pontiac Vibe for commuting and a GMC Sierra for towing my covered trailer. Maybe this means I can find cheap tow vehicles again. Or at least get a truck that is a truck rather than a mommy bling mobile.
Yep I am frequently asked to write job descriptions and give them to Human Resources. Those same people then comment on how they do not understand a bit of it. Then THEY filter the list before allowing the engineers to pick candidates (maybe).
Also check where pay tops out for a great engineer and where it tops for a mediocre manager in the same company.
I love doing technical work but am considering jumping to the dark side for the last 10 or so years to accumulate more dollars for retirement.
For the same reason that you cannot keep and bear arms and the rights allowed to you plus more are granted to those that are not part of "we the people". Our government has only honored the parts they like for my lifetime.
Agree and if the telco contacted the customer telling them EXACTLY what was given to the police I have no issue. If the person is truly missing then they won't get the notice. If the person is being illegally tracked or harassed they can find out and take legal action against the police. This would seem like a simple answer that balances safety and freedom without damaging either.
limitations that hampered our ability to fight and killed civilians on the ground Guess what war does? It kills people and breaks things. The ability to fight is hampered by the assclowns that think war should be fought nicely, with more risk to our soldiers but none to them. As to the civilians it killed; try a MOAB, cluster bombs or fire bombing. Yep the alternatives suck but then so does war. Be thankful any day we can avoid both.
In the real world however... taxes gets cut for the rich, and the poor pay for the infrastructure, education, military,... You haven't looked at who really pays taxes have you. The poor usually get money in the form of earned income tax credit while paying zero taxes. Those poorer than that get welfare of all sorts and pay zero taxes. The only tax that ALL workers pay is Social Security tax and no liberal wants that touched. The reason is they use that money to control YOU. Every penny the government gets from ANYONE is a reduction in freedom. You just keep on worrying who they take it from and one day they will get to you also (or you will have sucked the well of producers dry)
When a company stops trying to satisfy the needs of its customers the customers become unhappy. This is not unique and has happened many times it is called arrogance. 3M used to own the automotive body repair business because they made excellent products at a fair price that made the body shops $$$$. When they went to a multi-tier price system to ring the last penny out of the customer while cutting support and innovation they lost control of the market.
This is what IBM did, what MS is doing and yes probably what Apple will one day do.
Not that complicated. The company loses focus on the customer and gets greedy when competition ceases. This is part of why an open market is more efficient than a centrally controlled market.
This is largely due to the fact that few who benefit the most actually created the product. Mickey Mouse is a prime example. In the past the actual creator of the character benefitted and prospered because of his creativity. Now a conglomerate run by people who focus on money more than entertainment or families are the chief beneficiaries. The copyright has been extended to a time far beyond the life of the creator to benefit parasites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act). Further the new characters created enrich stock holders and board members but seldom authors. Sadly Mickey is not an exception but rather the norm.
Only in alternative universes where geeks are considered hot. Did you see that cutie in the article? Are y'all trying to tell me that you are rejecting that? Oh let's be honest how many geeks are rejecting ANY woman?
Yes it is
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
The same idiots were screaming ice age in the late 70's to early 80's. Further they are using it to proposed government initiatives at a global level. Good bye freedoms and even the pittance of accountability we have now have once the UN (majority tyrants) get control. This is junk science at its worst.
As long as sheeple sign up for 'customer appreciation' cards and willingly respond when asked for a phone number at places like Worst Buy the companies will continue to collect the information. It is profitable to track your sheeple for later shearing. It is not profitable to police your employees abuse of your sheeple under the current system. So this should be no surprise to anyone. The only way to combat this as an individual is to refuse to provide data and provide bad data that screws up the database whenever possible (have 6 cards if you must have one). Reduce the profitability of the shearing they plan. Or if the lady working the register is hot reply only if I get your phone number also:-)
Or government could stay the heck out of something that is has no constitutional requirement to do. Instead if YOU or anyone else can figure a way to not waste all that light (aka energy) then you or anyone else could easily sell it to the cities so that they can save big $$$$ Government causes more problems than it cures.
...and all Democrats want to abort fetuses. Come on grow up. There is MUCH more to a party made up of individuals for BOTH sides. As stated some businesses tend to support Republicans because the majority are pro business, while government workers tend to support Democrats as they tend toward socialism. But all votes are an exercise in compromise as no one has positions in 100% agreement with yours (unless they are conning you). As to your anti-business tirade check the board at Apple, George Soros is a HUGE democrat supporter, and there is many more. John Kerry is married to Heinz (oh wait she no longer produces anything just living off the work of her ancestors).
DRM tends to punish your paying customers as much (or more) than those stealing it. When your business model punishes your customer the result will be decline and eventually failure.
Amusing that you are concerned with creep but refer to illegal aliens as illegal immigrants. That shift of terminology was used to make illegal aliens seem more like the admirable people that are immigrants.
Yes this can be abused but total lack of identification is being exploited by the illegal aliens overrunning our country. It was made more necessary by states that granted identical ID to legal residents and illegal aliens as a policy.
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Or if I write an application for personal use I get to install it for $99 (each year) IF Apple says OK. This is a major impediment to me buying an iPhone currently. I want something to serve as a PDA/Phone/Mobile net device and the iPhone is perfect except the Apple based tyranny.
Further my understanding is that they can also DELETE stuff from MY phone (not sure the mechanism).
I like the Mac integration and functionality but lack trust in any big company not to screw me if they get the upper hand.
The professors are pathetic. OOO we can't stop cheating OOO guess we will just keep turning out dunces....
Why not randomly select some papers and ask some questions? If you really wrote it you can easily explain 90%+.
I am sure there is a LOT of other methods if the instructor actually put some thought and effort into doing their job.
So in essence we have slackers complaining that slackers are bypassing the training. Personally it sounds like the instructor is getting across how they work quite well, how ironic.
Yep Mike Judge has it correct and we are headed toward an idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/). Smart is no longer respected. If you want respect be a thug or pervert. Even better be good at pretending to be someone else. Be a manipulator of people and you can make millions but actually create something LOL!
In the 60's while huge advances were being made the title of scientist meant a lot. Now it is a negative.
Sorry bureaucracy produces nothing and is bad. It is possible that it provides a structure that allows real productivity however with time the bureaucrats tend to think bureaucracy is the product and slowly grind down anyone trying to excel. The Vogans were a parody but like all parodies there was a kernel of reality.
It is also hard to get recognized for excellence. The government is busy promoting people to ensure groups are treated equal and in the process fails to create PEOPLE equal. Further I would not want to work for an organization that rewards someone that can barely find their way to work with one that produces 10 times as much equally.
No they criticize China because you are a bunch of pirating communist scum. As to price manipulation being a bad thing... from a communist country that has practiced both price controls and currency manipulation. Not to mention the closed market.... This is just a chance for China to shake MS down.
Women and Men DO think different. The men are evil and women rock tone of this article however is pathetic as are her conclusions.
However you could leverage the fact that men and women think different to gain fault tolerance. If you have two independent programmers do the same work, with the same requirements they will frequently arrive at different solutions. As most know this can be leveraged by comparing the output of both solutions to verify the solution is proper. If one solution was done by a male and the other by a female the probability of difference should go up due to the difference in thought patterns, I would think.
That is a real chance of benefit versus the male hating nonsense she spewed.
I am not a fan of Bush but this is laughable.
V It was authorized by Congress but then facts won't stop this idiot.
VIII Fuck the UN and ANY person in the government that bows to it rather than the US Constitution that they swore to defend (and that authorizes ANY authority they have).
IX Congress is in charge of supplying the troops it is YOUR fault Mr K.
XVII I agree on US citizens, foreign people that were not in uniform and mingling with the citizenry deserve the protection that the Geneva Conventions Treaty provides, none.
XXVII Please just take a deep breath and get over it. AlGore lost.
XXXI Again the constitution spells out ZERO of this duty (or even the authority) and the people that failed to plan was New Orleans (party on dude) and the state of Arkansas. We had damage in Alabama as did Mississippi and we dealt with it locally and fast. Guess what we have done that EVERYTIME including more direct hits. Only in a communist government is the centralized authority responsible for every minor thing and that has been demonstrated to be even worse. If you want to criticize the federal government it should be for the massive amounts of cash given away down there after being confiscated from responsible people.
XXXII Spreading Green madness is not a constitutional duty
I could address everyone of these but cannot be bothered to refute such a loon.
I have a Pontiac Vibe for commuting and a GMC Sierra for towing my covered trailer. Maybe this means I can find cheap tow vehicles again. Or at least get a truck that is a truck rather than a mommy bling mobile.
Yep I am frequently asked to write job descriptions and give them to Human Resources. Those same people then comment on how they do not understand a bit of it. Then THEY filter the list before allowing the engineers to pick candidates (maybe). Also check where pay tops out for a great engineer and where it tops for a mediocre manager in the same company. I love doing technical work but am considering jumping to the dark side for the last 10 or so years to accumulate more dollars for retirement.
For the same reason that you cannot keep and bear arms and the rights allowed to you plus more are granted to those that are not part of "we the people". Our government has only honored the parts they like for my lifetime.
Agree and if the telco contacted the customer telling them EXACTLY what was given to the police I have no issue. If the person is truly missing then they won't get the notice. If the person is being illegally tracked or harassed they can find out and take legal action against the police. This would seem like a simple answer that balances safety and freedom without damaging either.
When a company stops trying to satisfy the needs of its customers the customers become unhappy. This is not unique and has happened many times it is called arrogance. 3M used to own the automotive body repair business because they made excellent products at a fair price that made the body shops $$$$. When they went to a multi-tier price system to ring the last penny out of the customer while cutting support and innovation they lost control of the market. This is what IBM did, what MS is doing and yes probably what Apple will one day do. Not that complicated. The company loses focus on the customer and gets greedy when competition ceases. This is part of why an open market is more efficient than a centrally controlled market.
This is largely due to the fact that few who benefit the most actually created the product. Mickey Mouse is a prime example. In the past the actual creator of the character benefitted and prospered because of his creativity. Now a conglomerate run by people who focus on money more than entertainment or families are the chief beneficiaries. The copyright has been extended to a time far beyond the life of the creator to benefit parasites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act). Further the new characters created enrich stock holders and board members but seldom authors. Sadly Mickey is not an exception but rather the norm.
Yes the site is stupid and poorly done. However if free speech had to be intelligent the silence would be deafening
Only in alternative universes where geeks are considered hot. Did you see that cutie in the article? Are y'all trying to tell me that you are rejecting that? Oh let's be honest how many geeks are rejecting ANY woman?
Yes it is http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm The same idiots were screaming ice age in the late 70's to early 80's. Further they are using it to proposed government initiatives at a global level. Good bye freedoms and even the pittance of accountability we have now have once the UN (majority tyrants) get control. This is junk science at its worst.
As long as sheeple sign up for 'customer appreciation' cards and willingly respond when asked for a phone number at places like Worst Buy the companies will continue to collect the information. It is profitable to track your sheeple for later shearing. It is not profitable to police your employees abuse of your sheeple under the current system. So this should be no surprise to anyone. The only way to combat this as an individual is to refuse to provide data and provide bad data that screws up the database whenever possible (have 6 cards if you must have one). Reduce the profitability of the shearing they plan. Or if the lady working the register is hot reply only if I get your phone number also :-)
Or government could stay the heck out of something that is has no constitutional requirement to do. Instead if YOU or anyone else can figure a way to not waste all that light (aka energy) then you or anyone else could easily sell it to the cities so that they can save big $$$$ Government causes more problems than it cures.
...and all Democrats want to abort fetuses. Come on grow up. There is MUCH more to a party made up of individuals for BOTH sides. As stated some businesses tend to support Republicans because the majority are pro business, while government workers tend to support Democrats as they tend toward socialism. But all votes are an exercise in compromise as no one has positions in 100% agreement with yours (unless they are conning you). As to your anti-business tirade check the board at Apple, George Soros is a HUGE democrat supporter, and there is many more. John Kerry is married to Heinz (oh wait she no longer produces anything just living off the work of her ancestors).
DRM tends to punish your paying customers as much (or more) than those stealing it. When your business model punishes your customer the result will be decline and eventually failure.
Amusing that you are concerned with creep but refer to illegal aliens as illegal immigrants. That shift of terminology was used to make illegal aliens seem more like the admirable people that are immigrants. Yes this can be abused but total lack of identification is being exploited by the illegal aliens overrunning our country. It was made more necessary by states that granted identical ID to legal residents and illegal aliens as a policy.
Nope they all died of starvation waiting in line at the DMV