Even better is political surveys. I especially like the national republican ones since I frequently get asked was religion I am. The last one I was a satanist who was going to write in Ralph Nader. When asked which of the republican candidates I would vote for in the primary I usually toss Ron Paul out there. Now if it is for an actual local official (even my US senator or house member) I usually provide valid answers even if it is for the party I am not going to be voting for. I would have preferred the MN governor race be between Tom Emmer (the republican) and Margaret Anderson Kelliher (the democrat who lost the nomination to Mark Dayton) as I felt she would have made a better governor that Dayton, even if I disagree with about the same amount of things from each of them.
I love surveys as companies and organizations use them to make decisions. This is why I mostly keep the land line, especially during political season (which now seems to be every day except for the week after an election). Granted I tend to be a statistical outlier in most cases, but if it can swing their decision making to something more favorable then I feel it is worth it. Sales calls on the other hand I just hang up, I am not rude or abusive, just the quick hang up. Most of those call centers that have people calling to sell you crap have an expectation that they make X number of call or Y sales a shift so since I am not going to buy anything from them it probably makes it easier for the employee who is already treated like crap. The auto dialers really piss me off though since there is always that 3-5 second delay from when I say hello to when they start doing something. I do like messing with these and will fill them with bogus info.
As opposed to using a somewhat intelligent human (they can read the script) to replace real customer support. At this point I am somewhat ambivalent about customer support as it has been declining for years. Previously I liked being able to call company x have a real person answer and provide me with what I wanted. Now I have to navigate a huge press X for Y tree to do even the most simple tasks. If this removes the press X tree and I can get simple answers quickly again I would be for it.
I have thought of similar things, but far more devastating than strapping explosives to yourself would be a roller bar suitcase full of explosives and ball bearings. You would be able to carry in far more explosives and no one would wonder about the heavy coat.
With plentiful cheep power we wouldn't need to have electric cars we could waste some electricity and convert CO2 and water to hydrocarbons. Granted this wouldn't be the most efficient use of excess power, but it could be done but pure electric vehicle would still be more efficient. I have wondered what the price point of gasoline would have to be for generating liquid hydrocarbons from CO2 and water to be competitive?
We could also use sugar beets and get better results than using corn, but the beet people don't have as powerful of a lobby as the corn people do. Personally I would like to see biomass to gasoline or diesel as it doesn't require special bacteria or enzymes. You can use switch grass as input or any other carbon based material. Bio gasoline or diesel also can be transported using conventional pipelines and doesn't result in the massive drop in mileage that alcohol fuels do. Finally ethanol does carry some baggage with it that may be worse than that from gasoline or diesel according to this article from the New Scientist.
Why do people tolerate it? Are they just uninformed? Willfully ignorant? Afraid of the boogeyman? What?
I think the correct answer is all of the above. There are those who don't know, those who think it won't ever capture them, and those who want a be all end all security product. This is the same reasons we get crappy laws like the PATRIOT ACT and a nice TSA grope or irradiation when we want to fly.
The corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits. Look at Wal*Mart, people boycott them all the time, but it still makes economic sense for them to not care since complying with the demands of the boycott would be less profitable than just ignoring them.
And this is why I read/.
I find out new stuff every day. I am not a big A/V person (I like watching movies and just want reasonable quality from across the living room), so the fine details of the different connections is something that I didn't know much about.
Yes I am south of the river. Neat I will ask them about it since $175 isn't a bad price, even if it has gone up to something like $200 now it still would be worth while.
Never had that problem. Picture quality with Netflix from the computer is better than from the dvd player with composite video connection. It is only a short run of about 4 feet from the powered VGA splitter through the wall
The UPS does provide cleaner power than the outlets in my house with its old wiring (it was build in the 50's) especially since I am using one that actually produces sine waves, granted these ones are cheep but I have been using some of my computer equipment (laser printer, scanner, and monitor) for over ten year. I live in Minnesota (south suburbs of the twin cities) and we do get a fair number of lightning storms, but no were near the number they get in southwest Minnesota so I know what you are talking about since I went through a couple of surge protectors in college at Mankato during summer school. Those little fuses are cheep and and can be bought at the hardware store for a couple of bucks for a 15 pack.
I use to just have everything connected to a standard surge protector, hence going up to a power conditioner with surge protection. $24 was for the power conditioner but a nice 8 outlet surge protector can be had for about $6 (for a 2 pack) at the hardware store.
Power conditioning power strips are worth while for the protection against over and under voltages as it seems they do extend the life of electronics. For a while there I was going through a DVD player every 6-8 months and I wasn't buying the cheep crap ones (you know the $5 ones) but was purchasing decent ones. About 2 years ago I bought a power conditioning power strip at the hardware store for $24 haven't any issues with electronics since. The computers are connected to a UPS so I never noticed issues there.
You have stumbled upon the difference between music lovers and audiophiles. Music lovers listen to music, where audiophiles listen to stereos.
Problem is even if the API is deprecated that reason given for not supporting it will be that it isn't a punishment. Another thing this law may run afoul of is the takings clause, but that is also in the same section as the other deprecated APIs, and has also been found to no longer be a supported function.
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Even with my strong libertarian leaning I realize there is a social benefit to perusing real science and innovation.
Even better is political surveys. I especially like the national republican ones since I frequently get asked was religion I am. The last one I was a satanist who was going to write in Ralph Nader. When asked which of the republican candidates I would vote for in the primary I usually toss Ron Paul out there. Now if it is for an actual local official (even my US senator or house member) I usually provide valid answers even if it is for the party I am not going to be voting for. I would have preferred the MN governor race be between Tom Emmer (the republican) and Margaret Anderson Kelliher (the democrat who lost the nomination to Mark Dayton) as I felt she would have made a better governor that Dayton, even if I disagree with about the same amount of things from each of them.
I love surveys as companies and organizations use them to make decisions. This is why I mostly keep the land line, especially during political season (which now seems to be every day except for the week after an election). Granted I tend to be a statistical outlier in most cases, but if it can swing their decision making to something more favorable then I feel it is worth it. Sales calls on the other hand I just hang up, I am not rude or abusive, just the quick hang up. Most of those call centers that have people calling to sell you crap have an expectation that they make X number of call or Y sales a shift so since I am not going to buy anything from them it probably makes it easier for the employee who is already treated like crap. The auto dialers really piss me off though since there is always that 3-5 second delay from when I say hello to when they start doing something. I do like messing with these and will fill them with bogus info.
As opposed to using a somewhat intelligent human (they can read the script) to replace real customer support. At this point I am somewhat ambivalent about customer support as it has been declining for years. Previously I liked being able to call company x have a real person answer and provide me with what I wanted. Now I have to navigate a huge press X for Y tree to do even the most simple tasks. If this removes the press X tree and I can get simple answers quickly again I would be for it.
They are working on a fembot version.
I believe that this poster says it all. The people in call centers already just follow a script so is this any surprise.
That is the problem, the TSA isn't intelligent, or logical therefore to them it makes perfect sense.
I have thought of similar things, but far more devastating than strapping explosives to yourself would be a roller bar suitcase full of explosives and ball bearings. You would be able to carry in far more explosives and no one would wonder about the heavy coat.
It was also done in the Dark Knight and used by the Joker to escape jail.
So that must be where they got the 85% from. 15% managers 85% regular employees.
With plentiful cheep power we wouldn't need to have electric cars we could waste some electricity and convert CO2 and water to hydrocarbons. Granted this wouldn't be the most efficient use of excess power, but it could be done but pure electric vehicle would still be more efficient. I have wondered what the price point of gasoline would have to be for generating liquid hydrocarbons from CO2 and water to be competitive?
We could also use sugar beets and get better results than using corn, but the beet people don't have as powerful of a lobby as the corn people do. Personally I would like to see biomass to gasoline or diesel as it doesn't require special bacteria or enzymes. You can use switch grass as input or any other carbon based material. Bio gasoline or diesel also can be transported using conventional pipelines and doesn't result in the massive drop in mileage that alcohol fuels do. Finally ethanol does carry some baggage with it that may be worse than that from gasoline or diesel according to this article from the New Scientist.
Why do people tolerate it? Are they just uninformed? Willfully ignorant? Afraid of the boogeyman? What?
I think the correct answer is all of the above. There are those who don't know, those who think it won't ever capture them, and those who want a be all end all security product. This is the same reasons we get crappy laws like the PATRIOT ACT and a nice TSA grope or irradiation when we want to fly.
The corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits. Look at Wal*Mart, people boycott them all the time, but it still makes economic sense for them to not care since complying with the demands of the boycott would be less profitable than just ignoring them.
an amoral, sociopathic, profit-seeking entity, and just doesn't give a fuck
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Right. As much as I would like this to be true there is too much group think in management where anything from MS is deemed as good.
And this is why I read /.
I find out new stuff every day. I am not a big A/V person (I like watching movies and just want reasonable quality from across the living room), so the fine details of the different connections is something that I didn't know much about.
Now granted I don't sit through very many power point presentations, but I would think that more the 85% of people view them as useless.
Yes I am south of the river. Neat I will ask them about it since $175 isn't a bad price, even if it has gone up to something like $200 now it still would be worth while.
Never had that problem. Picture quality with Netflix from the computer is better than from the dvd player with composite video connection. It is only a short run of about 4 feet from the powered VGA splitter through the wall
The UPS does provide cleaner power than the outlets in my house with its old wiring (it was build in the 50's) especially since I am using one that actually produces sine waves, granted these ones are cheep but I have been using some of my computer equipment (laser printer, scanner, and monitor) for over ten year. I live in Minnesota (south suburbs of the twin cities) and we do get a fair number of lightning storms, but no were near the number they get in southwest Minnesota so I know what you are talking about since I went through a couple of surge protectors in college at Mankato during summer school. Those little fuses are cheep and and can be bought at the hardware store for a couple of bucks for a 15 pack.
I use to just have everything connected to a standard surge protector, hence going up to a power conditioner with surge protection. $24 was for the power conditioner but a nice 8 outlet surge protector can be had for about $6 (for a 2 pack) at the hardware store.
Just do what I do and run VGA cable from the computer to the TV. then you don't have to worry about the HDMI cable scams.
Power conditioning power strips are worth while for the protection against over and under voltages as it seems they do extend the life of electronics. For a while there I was going through a DVD player every 6-8 months and I wasn't buying the cheep crap ones (you know the $5 ones) but was purchasing decent ones. About 2 years ago I bought a power conditioning power strip at the hardware store for $24 haven't any issues with electronics since. The computers are connected to a UPS so I never noticed issues there.
You have stumbled upon the difference between music lovers and audiophiles. Music lovers listen to music, where audiophiles listen to stereos.
Problem is even if the API is deprecated that reason given for not supporting it will be that it isn't a punishment. Another thing this law may run afoul of is the takings clause, but that is also in the same section as the other deprecated APIs, and has also been found to no longer be a supported function.