Texting avoids the "HELLO, I'M ON THE TRAIN!" syndrome.
There's an even lower-tech way to avoid that. When you are sitting there on the train and get that urge to communicate with someone just to tell them you're on the train.....
Hahahahahahahaha. This is the funniest thing I've read all day.
I think we "IT Guys" need to come to grips with how important our jobs really are to the companies we serve. The boss decided that your steps 1, 2, and 3 are adequate and provide shareholders with short-term gains. Who are YOU to question him? Do you have a business degree? No? Economics?
We're pretty much the janitors of the computer world. We are expendable and interchangable. We are not saviors of the world, and we are certainly not the company's "brainforce".
I live in Broward county, and I can back that up, at least for southeast Florida. Retirees are moving farther up north, and to the gulf coast. Same sunny climate but fewer idiots. People move down here to southeast florida for one reason: To get their hands on as much money as they possibly can in any way possible, and not let go. And thanks to our (quite libertarian, economically) laws, this is the best place to do just that.
Not coincidentally, this is probably the most cosmopolitan place I've ever lived. There are folks here from all over the world looking to grab cash any way possible
More wealth disparity here too, than anywhere I've been. Where else but Miami can you be in the ghettoest of the ghettos and then cross the right street to find gated multi-million dollar mansions with 3mil yachts out back.
It's a capitalist slugfest at its finest, pitting wealth against uberwealth. Almost rivals Las Vegas for the sheer number of people looking out for only themselves and their bottom lines.
As you can see, it's a fun place to live, as long as you're at least employed. Loose your job though and you are ROYALLY SCREWED. I'll probably be leaving soon if I have kids. This is definitely no place to have a family and raise children.
You totally missed the point. You would not have come to the conclusion that the war is illegal, based on the "facts" provided by our so-called liberal mainstream media. You would have instead heard:
1. A White House provided press release saying the war is justified.
2. Political pundit A, who claims it is not.
3. Political pundit B, who claims it is, and is given a forum where he slanders A's credibility with lies.
4. A White House press conference where journalists lob softball questions, giving the White house a forum to justify the war unchallenged.
5. Patriotic programming designed to emotionally appeal to you, with the purpose of justifying the war.
6. Pictures of triumphant US soldiers, carefully edited to shed only good light on the war.
Absent will be:
1. Criticism of the White House, except when portrayed in a light that ridicules the criticizer.
2. Tough questions directed at the White House
3. Any video, picures, or interviews which shed a negative light on the war.
You, of course (and many do, who only have access to mainstream media) would come to the conclusion that war is justified. Any opposition you have of the war came from something you read/saw/heard outside of mainstream media.
I really wonder sometimes what goes on in the minds of censors.
then...
You can call an african american that or a n****er,
Self-censorship is the worst kind, my friend. If you're going to point out the goofiness of censorship, It doesn't help your argument when you censor yourself!
Ahh, the hymn of the church of consumerism. Such a sweet sound. Addicted to "product" we all are, and our addiction makes companies like Walmart, Kmart, etc. rich indeed.
Why the stereotype about NSA agents disappearing people? That kind of crap only happens in dictatorships. You can't do that in the USA because we are the land of the free! I know some NSA agents and they're great gu.f.a.,.adf,.ty....mrgATZ+++++
The Estate Tax was enacted to keep a few wealthy families from forming an Aristocracy and simply purchasing the government. Looking around, I don't think it has gone far enough.
Roll the Estate Tax into the more general Gift Tax we already have. I'd like to see gifts (inheritance or not) taxed at 0% for the first $X a year and 100% for anything over $X a year, where X wouuld start at perhaps $10,000 this year and is ratcheted up along with inflation.
Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate (+1, non-action) the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions (+1, vague), to the synthetic thinking (+1, jargon), required for analogies generation (+2, prepositional phrase overload), which calls for multi-focus (+2, oxymoron) domain and divergent (+1, buzzword) thinking (+1, word used three times in one sentence). Sentence bonus (+3 run-on)
We are trying (+1, repeat) to promote (+1, non-action) a synergic (+1, buzzword) relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds (+1, jargon), as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of (+2, prepositional phrase overload) the corpus callosum (+1, jargon). Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived (+1, non-action) as a research corpus callosum (+1, jargon), trying to bridge (+1, non-action) analytically (+1, word overuse) with synthetically (+1, word overuse) oriented (+1, buzzword) efforts, convergent (+1, buzzword) with divergent (+1, buzzword) thinkers and focused (+1, word overuse) specialists with non-focused (+2, again?) or multi-focused (+3, AAAGGHH) generalists. Sentence bonus (+3 run-on)Paragraph bonus (+5 meaningless)
Strange: If any one company out there has the install base to actually do something technical about spam, it's Microsoft, yet they'd rather sue than improve their product.
I'm surprised ISP's aren't filing hundreds of lawsuits. They claim their servers are so overworked by all the spam, but they aren't doing anything effective about it (legally or technically).
Can we NOT have a repeat of last year, where you couldn't find any serious articles on 1 Apr? Sure, some of the fake news is funny, and maybe one or two are actually clever, but most of them (especially last year, ARGGHHH) are awful, stupid, and uncreative. Let's put the really good joke stories up and intermix them with some real stories!
As an aside, I hope I don't get put on a "You have been temporarily forbidden from posting" holiday for speaking out against the editors (do any of you guys know the editors actually do this now?) but I think it had to be said.
If someone wants to buy a "spirit healing rock" from me, why shouldn't he be able to? If he's dumb enough to buy it, well, what do they say about a fool and his money?
Reading the results of the "PPU" is going to be the stumbling block. Graphics accelerators work because you compose the geometry then send it off to the other processor, and from then on you don't worry about the data. You don't have to worry about reading anything back.
I assume having a seperate "physics processor" will mean the app has to send the data off to be processed (say, a couple thousand points to collision-detect against a couple thousand planes), but then your app needs to read the results back across the bus! Is the time saved off-loading these computations going to be worth all this IO?
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Texting avoids the "HELLO, I'M ON THE TRAIN!" syndrome.
There's an even lower-tech way to avoid that. When you are sitting there on the train and get that urge to communicate with someone just to tell them you're on the train.....
PICK UP A DAMN BOOK INSTEAD.
That was a problem in the old west, perhaps, but, well, it doesn't apply here. I'm not running a phishing site.
Mob justice doesn't need a bad guy. It only needs a guy.
All it takes is a couple of people that don't like you to say the right words in the right IRC channel, and kaboom there goes your site.
BRAINFORCE?
Hahahahahahahaha. This is the funniest thing I've read all day.
I think we "IT Guys" need to come to grips with how important our jobs really are to the companies we serve. The boss decided that your steps 1, 2, and 3 are adequate and provide shareholders with short-term gains. Who are YOU to question him? Do you have a business degree? No? Economics?
We're pretty much the janitors of the computer world. We are expendable and interchangable. We are not saviors of the world, and we are certainly not the company's "brainforce".
oh, and for the spelling nazis out there (I'm one of them too), I meant lose, not loose.
I live in Broward county, and I can back that up, at least for southeast Florida. Retirees are moving farther up north, and to the gulf coast. Same sunny climate but fewer idiots. People move down here to southeast florida for one reason: To get their hands on as much money as they possibly can in any way possible, and not let go. And thanks to our (quite libertarian, economically) laws, this is the best place to do just that.
Not coincidentally, this is probably the most cosmopolitan place I've ever lived. There are folks here from all over the world looking to grab cash any way possible
More wealth disparity here too, than anywhere I've been. Where else but Miami can you be in the ghettoest of the ghettos and then cross the right street to find gated multi-million dollar mansions with 3mil yachts out back.
It's a capitalist slugfest at its finest, pitting wealth against uberwealth. Almost rivals Las Vegas for the sheer number of people looking out for only themselves and their bottom lines.
As you can see, it's a fun place to live, as long as you're at least employed. Loose your job though and you are ROYALLY SCREWED. I'll probably be leaving soon if I have kids. This is definitely no place to have a family and raise children.
Dear pikine,
We editors no longer even care about Slashdot, much less some other site we link to. So shut up and buy a subscription.
Love,
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You totally missed the point. You would not have come to the conclusion that the war is illegal, based on the "facts" provided by our so-called liberal mainstream media. You would have instead heard:
1. A White House provided press release saying the war is justified.
2. Political pundit A, who claims it is not.
3. Political pundit B, who claims it is, and is given a forum where he slanders A's credibility with lies.
4. A White House press conference where journalists lob softball questions, giving the White house a forum to justify the war unchallenged.
5. Patriotic programming designed to emotionally appeal to you, with the purpose of justifying the war.
6. Pictures of triumphant US soldiers, carefully edited to shed only good light on the war.
Absent will be:
1. Criticism of the White House, except when portrayed in a light that ridicules the criticizer.
2. Tough questions directed at the White House
3. Any video, picures, or interviews which shed a negative light on the war.
You, of course (and many do, who only have access to mainstream media) would come to the conclusion that war is justified. Any opposition you have of the war came from something you read/saw/heard outside of mainstream media.
I really wonder sometimes what goes on in the minds of censors.
then...
You can call an african american that or a n****er,
Self-censorship is the worst kind, my friend. If you're going to point out the goofiness of censorship, It doesn't help your argument when you censor yourself!
I've never heard of these swear words "F***" and "S***". I've heard of "FUCK" and "SHIT" though. Is this what you meant?
If you really, positively need an extra 5% performance, you might as well just buy a computer that's 5% faster.
You work at Microsoft, right? No? Intel?
Followed, of course, by a half a dozen sniggering posts.
Don't you mean "s!@#$%^ing" posts?
If I need a product, what choice do I have ?
Ahh, the hymn of the church of consumerism. Such a sweet sound. Addicted to "product" we all are, and our addiction makes companies like Walmart, Kmart, etc. rich indeed.
Why the stereotype about NSA agents disappearing people? That kind of crap only happens in dictatorships. You can't do that in the USA because we are the land of the free! I know some NSA agents and they're great gu.f.a.,.adf,.ty....mrgATZ+++++
The Estate Tax was enacted to keep a few wealthy families from forming an Aristocracy and simply purchasing the government. Looking around, I don't think it has gone far enough.
Roll the Estate Tax into the more general Gift Tax we already have. I'd like to see gifts (inheritance or not) taxed at 0% for the first $X a year and 100% for anything over $X a year, where X wouuld start at perhaps $10,000 this year and is ratcheted up along with inflation.
TOTAL SCORE: 41 (a new world record)
The U.S. educates every child
Debatable.
We mash them through the meat grinder of what we call the "school system" but I'd say 90% of them come out less than educated.
I guess it helps (tax-wise) to not have to fund any military whatsoever, and to only have to cover 1000 square kilometers with public services.
I don't think it's a very fair comparison to the USA.
Strange: If any one company out there has the install base to actually do something technical about spam, it's Microsoft, yet they'd rather sue than improve their product.
I'm surprised ISP's aren't filing hundreds of lawsuits. They claim their servers are so overworked by all the spam, but they aren't doing anything effective about it (legally or technically).
Can we NOT have a repeat of last year, where you couldn't find any serious articles on 1 Apr? Sure, some of the fake news is funny, and maybe one or two are actually clever, but most of them (especially last year, ARGGHHH) are awful, stupid, and uncreative. Let's put the really good joke stories up and intermix them with some real stories!
As an aside, I hope I don't get put on a "You have been temporarily forbidden from posting" holiday for speaking out against the editors (do any of you guys know the editors actually do this now?) but I think it had to be said.
Simple: Two factors:
1. Most people who threaten to sue dont. They either don't have the time or are not comfortable with confrontation.
2. There are a (growing) number of people who believe they don't HAVE to do something until a judge orders it (and in many cases they're right!).
"To imagine the future, imagine a boot stepping on a human face -- forever."
-George Orwell
If they can't make money selling their product, the'll make it by collecting "piracy" settlements. The margins are probably better, too!
If someone wants to buy a "spirit healing rock" from me, why shouldn't he be able to? If he's dumb enough to buy it, well, what do they say about a fool and his money?
Q: Why did Australia get the criminals and the USA get the religious zealots?
A: Australia was allowed to choose first!
Reading the results of the "PPU" is going to be the stumbling block. Graphics accelerators work because you compose the geometry then send it off to the other processor, and from then on you don't worry about the data. You don't have to worry about reading anything back.
I assume having a seperate "physics processor" will mean the app has to send the data off to be processed (say, a couple thousand points to collision-detect against a couple thousand planes), but then your app needs to read the results back across the bus! Is the time saved off-loading these computations going to be worth all this IO?