Lets see... most liberals have Iphones/Ipads Most Apple users consider themselves "Internet experts" and are really clueless... Apple Maps... They click to like the local farmers market/Headshop/Union headquarters... Apple maps has that listed as "Mit Romney!" Viola... mystery solved.
Ah, I see. You're one of those TimeCube guys. Listen, if you believe in magic over science, I can't help you. Relativity is, at this point, fact. It is probably the most researched, proven, time tested theories in modern science. We are more sure of relativity than we are of Newtons laws. If you were to ask a physicist what were more likely to happen tomorrow, The sun to explode? or Relativity to be found incorrect... they'd choose the sun. If you google it, there are experiments you can do in your living room with pen lasers, flashlights and lenses that'll prove the theory for you. Unless of course, you believe in magic. If magic is real, well shit... you can prove much of anything can you?
Yes they have. It's the speed of light. The speed of information and the speed of gravitational force were both predicted by Einstein. The speed of information was proven rather quickly there-after in experiment. You'll have to wikipedia it for details because they escape me. The speed of gravitational force was proven recently. Maybe in the 90s? I believe by measuring some gravitational lensing effect the sun had on stars just past its horizon or some-such. I don't remember the specifics. But if the sun vanished right now, it would take 8 minutes for the earth to stop orbiting and shoot off into space.
The speed of universal laws? I'd think that would fall under information... irrelevant however, as everything obeys the speed of light.
But the mathematics do not work out neatly. They just skipped a whole bunch of math where E = infinity and broke their equations and went strait to "Now we're losing mas as we accelerate! Neat! Forget that whole "We just consumed all the energy in the universe and collapsed into a blackhole business back there!"
Now if they changed this to "A right to access the internet provided you pay for it" them I'm all in. Denying someone an internet connection because they use too much bandwidth, or posted something you dont like, etc... is wrong. Refusing to provide internet service because that person decided to live on the side of a mountain and trunking DSL to them would cost half a million dollars, that's their problem.
Well, no... they were both based on nonsense to begin with. The original meter was probably just an arm length or something silly. The only reason the metric system makes more sense is because it's base 10, which is what our common numerical system is based on. The only reason that base 10 is common is because we have 10 fingers. So the metric system is common because people could count on their fingers to make sense of it easier. I don't think that makes it more "Scientific", it just makes it so you don't have to use a pencil to do simple math.
The United States - The first economy based on hording "ideas" and forcing other countries to pay fees to use those ideas under threat of sanctions or military force. Patents are a very new invention. I wonder if we patented it?
Our modern metric system was long ago based on: one meter is equal to one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant through Paris. And the old definition of a gram was: the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice.
So technically our measurement for length is based on the size of the earth. And our measurement for mass is based on our measurement for length and there-by indirectly based on the size of the earth. So using the earth as a unit of measurement is perfecting in line with the metric system. Even if we have, in recent years refined those measurements using light waves and such so we can apply them to nonsense like atoms.
Um... that race wasn't even allowed to vote in every state until recently. Most of their grandparents couldn't even work the worst jobs in society because of discrimination. The fact that their grand children aren't running the country yet should be a given... oh wait.
Well, the VAST majority of musicians never even record a studio album. Most professionals earn their money playing local gigs or doing studio work for rich people that want to record something that'll never get heard. Most of the very talented guys I know can live off their earnings... just barely... and mostly because it allows them to get paid in cash and cheat on their taxes. There are a very very tiny percentage that even record an album. And of those and even tinier fraction that have their music end up on a store shelf. The path from album to store shelf is lined with bribery, payola, paid "reviews" and every other dirty trick you can imagine. The average person just doesn't have the money or connections to pull it off.
Also, it should be noted, Pandora is paying their LABEL. Not the artist. I doubt many of the people they mentioned saw a dime of this money. The record companies are almost entirely exploitative crooks. Most smart musicians that have garnered any moderate fame start their own label as soon as possible. They sell a lot less records due to exclusivity deals and out-right blacklisting from the recording industry but they still make more money over all because their label isn't taking 99% of the record sales from them simply for giving the artist the privilege of doing all the work.
I like Pandora, but it's not the answer. Piracy and its eventual destruction of the modern recording industry is the only way to save music. Wealth does not make good art.
I'd have to disagree. We have our own in house IT department... but a small part of our business is providing outsourced IT. And our stuff ridiculously overbuilt and robust. I doubt anyone could do it in house better. But it's expensive as hell, and not very flexible. If you're not getting too creative with your needs, and you have the money, you can get something very robust. But if you want to go on the cheap and still get some crazy ass system no ones ever tried before to work, then I think you're shit out of luck no matter who you go with.
I obviously have a great deal of respect for you. The world would be worse off without your contributions. Your insights into technology and software is unquestioned. But you've recently started speaking out publicly regarding politics, religion, and any number of issues are certainly not your area of expertise. In these subjects I often agree with you, some times I don't, but that's not really the point. Often we see those who achieve a certain level of fame get to the point where they are only surrounded by people that will agree with them simply based on their fame.
Now, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I don't want to tell you what to say or not to say. But don't you think that by speaking publicly on subjects that you have comparatively little experience in (politics for example) you degrade your own integrity as an advocate for Linux and open source? It would be one thing if you simply said "I'm voting for so and so" or "This is my religion" but you're coming across like a rabid dog and slinging offensive language. I'm certainly guilty of the same from time to time, but then again, I'm not the leader of the open source software movement either.
If the Chinese government is using Windows for their government computers, they're fucking insane. In fact, we're insane for using it. Closed source is not secure. Period. Closed source and compiled in a foreign country? Absolutely bat shit crazy.
If you even speak with Julian Assange, you can be killed. Not kidding: http://news.yahoo.com/jullian-assange-enemy-state-023345613.html
The US government successfully talked parts of the Australian government into attempting to charge him with Treason... but the Australian federal police commission rejected the argument after determining he had broken no Australian laws.
The only reason the mans not dead, is because he's famous. The US government, my government, has already tortured and killed people for less. Both during the Bush and Obama administrations. Our governments stance is that Alkiada is the same as a foreign government, so our actions against them are the same as if we were fighting a foreign government, we are not dealing with criminals. And yet, when we caught their "head of state" we executed him in front of his family. Which violates US law. They literally knelt him down, in front of his wife and shot him in the head. Read the account of the navy seal that wrote about it. Then this very same president declared a US citizen an "enemy combatant" and has a drone fire a missile into his home, while he was on foreign soil. No trial, no justice, just summary execution. This is our government. We can debate weather this is all justifiable or not, but the fact that Mr Assange has angered the US government enough to put his life in grave danger is a fact.
We had a bunch of Apple IIes and some macs. The Apple sales rep had the entire teaching body convinced kids would never understand a PC and apple was the way of the future. They got their first PCs in the year after I graduated, thanks in larger part to a group of kids lead by yours truly that called around and polled local businesses asking what types of systems they used.
Fast forward to last week, and I was in a C# training class... along with a a lady that worked for the local school district. I asked what she did there... "I'm a programmer" she replied. So I asked why the school district needed a C# developer. She went on to explain how all the classrooms now have digital chalkboards and interactive touchscreen displays. When I asked her why they we need a $10k chalkboard, she got offended and started talking about how it has "transformed learning" yada yada yada... "Then why are GPAs lower now than they've ever been in years?" I asked her... she just stared at me blankly. And the teachers wonder why they can't get a raise. Seriously, if someone can explained to me what the hell is going on in our school system that lets them think this sort of thing does anything other than destroy their budget... How many more teachers could they hire if they didn't have this kind of garbage?
Currently, the only thing keeping Mr Assange from torture and death is the public spotlight. Every time the public starts to forget about his plight you can rightly expect him to make a stink to get our attention again.
It's like deciding to have a baby. It's never the right time, you'll never have enough money... You just have to jump in with both feet at some point and say "fuck it" The entire point of what we do in space is to eventually send real people. We aren't going to get any better at that, until we send them. Will people die? You bet. There's nothing wrong with that. Many in this world long for the days when there were things you could still do that risked everything but rewarded the successful with glory unimagined in this day and age. Let those that dream of glory risk it all to better mankind. It's more immoral to chain them to this earth than let them reach for the stars on waxen wings.
Well, first... the lasers don't have much effect on the aircraft although they may suprize the pilot. Second: The technical solution is Polarized glass.
You don't need to be retrained. Microsoft has a whole set of courses designed to get developers familiar with older versions of.NET up to speed on the latest version. It costs about $2500 and your employer will usually pay. The course is only 5 days and it's pretty easy..NET has only gotten easier over the years... that's kind of the point. But you need to be willing to change the way you do things. The worst part of those classes is the dudes that come in there whos experience is all in Cobol or something and they question everything the instructor tells them.... "That's not REAL programming" blah blah blah... shut the fuck up, things are done differently now, get over it.
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Lets see... most liberals have Iphones/Ipads ... ...
Most Apple users consider themselves "Internet experts" and are really clueless
Apple Maps
They click to like the local farmers market/Headshop/Union headquarters...
Apple maps has that listed as "Mit Romney!"
Viola... mystery solved.
Ah, I see. You're one of those TimeCube guys. Listen, if you believe in magic over science, I can't help you. Relativity is, at this point, fact. It is probably the most researched, proven, time tested theories in modern science. We are more sure of relativity than we are of Newtons laws. If you were to ask a physicist what were more likely to happen tomorrow, The sun to explode? or Relativity to be found incorrect... they'd choose the sun. If you google it, there are experiments you can do in your living room with pen lasers, flashlights and lenses that'll prove the theory for you. Unless of course, you believe in magic. If magic is real, well shit... you can prove much of anything can you?
Yes they have. It's the speed of light.
The speed of information and the speed of gravitational force were both predicted by Einstein.
The speed of information was proven rather quickly there-after in experiment. You'll have to wikipedia it for details because they escape me.
The speed of gravitational force was proven recently. Maybe in the 90s? I believe by measuring some gravitational lensing effect the sun had on stars just past its horizon or some-such. I don't remember the specifics. But if the sun vanished right now, it would take 8 minutes for the earth to stop orbiting and shoot off into space.
The speed of universal laws? I'd think that would fall under information... irrelevant however, as everything obeys the speed of light.
But the mathematics do not work out neatly. They just skipped a whole bunch of math where E = infinity and broke their equations and went strait to "Now we're losing mas as we accelerate! Neat! Forget that whole "We just consumed all the energy in the universe and collapsed into a blackhole business back there!"
Exactly.
Now if they changed this to "A right to access the internet provided you pay for it" them I'm all in. Denying someone an internet connection because they use too much bandwidth, or posted something you dont like, etc... is wrong. Refusing to provide internet service because that person decided to live on the side of a mountain and trunking DSL to them would cost half a million dollars, that's their problem.
Well, no... they were both based on nonsense to begin with. The original meter was probably just an arm length or something silly. The only reason the metric system makes more sense is because it's base 10, which is what our common numerical system is based on. The only reason that base 10 is common is because we have 10 fingers. So the metric system is common because people could count on their fingers to make sense of it easier. I don't think that makes it more "Scientific", it just makes it so you don't have to use a pencil to do simple math.
The United States - The first economy based on hording "ideas" and forcing other countries to pay fees to use those ideas under threat of sanctions or military force. Patents are a very new invention. I wonder if we patented it?
Our modern metric system was long ago based on:
;-p
one meter is equal to one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant through Paris.
And the old definition of a gram was:
the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice.
So technically our measurement for length is based on the size of the earth. And our measurement for mass is based on our measurement for length and there-by indirectly based on the size of the earth. So using the earth as a unit of measurement is perfecting in line with the metric system. Even if we have, in recent years refined those measurements using light waves and such so we can apply them to nonsense like atoms.
I guess I'm nitpicking, but so are you
Um... that race wasn't even allowed to vote in every state until recently. Most of their grandparents couldn't even work the worst jobs in society because of discrimination. The fact that their grand children aren't running the country yet should be a given... oh wait.
He wasn't telling you the truth.
The artists aren't earning it. Their labels are. I doubt any of the people they mentioned had a clue this income even existed.
Well, the VAST majority of musicians never even record a studio album. Most professionals earn their money playing local gigs or doing studio work for rich people that want to record something that'll never get heard. Most of the very talented guys I know can live off their earnings... just barely... and mostly because it allows them to get paid in cash and cheat on their taxes. There are a very very tiny percentage that even record an album. And of those and even tinier fraction that have their music end up on a store shelf. The path from album to store shelf is lined with bribery, payola, paid "reviews" and every other dirty trick you can imagine. The average person just doesn't have the money or connections to pull it off.
Also, it should be noted, Pandora is paying their LABEL. Not the artist. I doubt many of the people they mentioned saw a dime of this money. The record companies are almost entirely exploitative crooks. Most smart musicians that have garnered any moderate fame start their own label as soon as possible. They sell a lot less records due to exclusivity deals and out-right blacklisting from the recording industry but they still make more money over all because their label isn't taking 99% of the record sales from them simply for giving the artist the privilege of doing all the work.
I like Pandora, but it's not the answer. Piracy and its eventual destruction of the modern recording industry is the only way to save music. Wealth does not make good art.
I take it that PETA wasn't sure if they had made themselves totally irrelevant yet so they come up with this?
I'd have to disagree. We have our own in house IT department... but a small part of our business is providing outsourced IT. And our stuff ridiculously overbuilt and robust. I doubt anyone could do it in house better. But it's expensive as hell, and not very flexible. If you're not getting too creative with your needs, and you have the money, you can get something very robust. But if you want to go on the cheap and still get some crazy ass system no ones ever tried before to work, then I think you're shit out of luck no matter who you go with.
http://www.itworld.com/security/281553/researcher-warns-stuxnet-flame-show-microsoft-may-have-been-infiltrated-nsa-cia
That's how.
I obviously have a great deal of respect for you. The world would be worse off without your contributions. Your insights into technology and software is unquestioned. But you've recently started speaking out publicly regarding politics, religion, and any number of issues are certainly not your area of expertise. In these subjects I often agree with you, some times I don't, but that's not really the point. Often we see those who achieve a certain level of fame get to the point where they are only surrounded by people that will agree with them simply based on their fame.
Now, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I don't want to tell you what to say or not to say. But don't you think that by speaking publicly on subjects that you have comparatively little experience in (politics for example) you degrade your own integrity as an advocate for Linux and open source? It would be one thing if you simply said "I'm voting for so and so" or "This is my religion" but you're coming across like a rabid dog and slinging offensive language. I'm certainly guilty of the same from time to time, but then again, I'm not the leader of the open source software movement either.
If the Chinese government is using Windows for their government computers, they're fucking insane. In fact, we're insane for using it. Closed source is not secure. Period. Closed source and compiled in a foreign country? Absolutely bat shit crazy.
If you even speak with Julian Assange, you can be killed. Not kidding:
http://news.yahoo.com/jullian-assange-enemy-state-023345613.html
The US government successfully talked parts of the Australian government into attempting to charge him with Treason... but the Australian federal police commission rejected the argument after determining he had broken no Australian laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Allegations_of_possible_extradition_to_the_United_States
The only reason the mans not dead, is because he's famous. The US government, my government, has already tortured and killed people for less. Both during the Bush and Obama administrations. Our governments stance is that Alkiada is the same as a foreign government, so our actions against them are the same as if we were fighting a foreign government, we are not dealing with criminals. And yet, when we caught their "head of state" we executed him in front of his family. Which violates US law. They literally knelt him down, in front of his wife and shot him in the head. Read the account of the navy seal that wrote about it. Then this very same president declared a US citizen an "enemy combatant" and has a drone fire a missile into his home, while he was on foreign soil. No trial, no justice, just summary execution. This is our government. We can debate weather this is all justifiable or not, but the fact that Mr Assange has angered the US government enough to put his life in grave danger is a fact.
We had a bunch of Apple IIes and some macs. The Apple sales rep had the entire teaching body convinced kids would never understand a PC and apple was the way of the future. They got their first PCs in the year after I graduated, thanks in larger part to a group of kids lead by yours truly that called around and polled local businesses asking what types of systems they used.
Fast forward to last week, and I was in a C# training class... along with a a lady that worked for the local school district. I asked what she did there... "I'm a programmer" she replied. So I asked why the school district needed a C# developer. She went on to explain how all the classrooms now have digital chalkboards and interactive touchscreen displays. When I asked her why they we need a $10k chalkboard, she got offended and started talking about how it has "transformed learning" yada yada yada... "Then why are GPAs lower now than they've ever been in years?" I asked her... she just stared at me blankly. And the teachers wonder why they can't get a raise. Seriously, if someone can explained to me what the hell is going on in our school system that lets them think this sort of thing does anything other than destroy their budget... How many more teachers could they hire if they didn't have this kind of garbage?
Currently, the only thing keeping Mr Assange from torture and death is the public spotlight. Every time the public starts to forget about his plight you can rightly expect him to make a stink to get our attention again.
It's like deciding to have a baby. It's never the right time, you'll never have enough money... You just have to jump in with both feet at some point and say "fuck it" The entire point of what we do in space is to eventually send real people. We aren't going to get any better at that, until we send them. Will people die? You bet. There's nothing wrong with that. Many in this world long for the days when there were things you could still do that risked everything but rewarded the successful with glory unimagined in this day and age. Let those that dream of glory risk it all to better mankind. It's more immoral to chain them to this earth than let them reach for the stars on waxen wings.
Well, first... the lasers don't have much effect on the aircraft although they may suprize the pilot.
Second: The technical solution is Polarized glass.
WE aren't building spaceships for rich tourists. Richard Branson is. And he can do whatever the fuck he wants to do with his money.
But in the US they have a high tax rate, and aren't allowed to just dump their waste in the local river... so that wont happen anyway.
You don't need to be retrained. Microsoft has a whole set of courses designed to get developers familiar with older versions of .NET up to speed on the latest version. It costs about $2500 and your employer will usually pay. The course is only 5 days and it's pretty easy. .NET has only gotten easier over the years... that's kind of the point. But you need to be willing to change the way you do things. The worst part of those classes is the dudes that come in there whos experience is all in Cobol or something and they question everything the instructor tells them.... "That's not REAL programming" blah blah blah... shut the fuck up, things are done differently now, get over it.