Universe, I'm wishing desperately for mod points for the parent. People are so blind to just how horribly insecure the system is already. A rooted phone is the least of your worries. They just busted a skimming ring here in Atlanta restaurants a few months ago. This is no less insecure than what's already in place but far more convenient.
As for the GP: Also, realize that most of this is US based and we don't use "chip & pin". Period. Also, most people run debit cards as credit cards. Companies actively encourage you to sign for purchases and not key in your pin with various rewards. Some banks even charge the customer a fee per pin-based transaction. These are magnetic stripe machines that always run the card via the Credit Card processing company (MasterCard and Visa), not via the bank. The rules are different for those, and you most certainly won't be using your craptastic PIN.
I won't go into the level of security a 4 digit PIN does not provide given enough money you can get via fraud for a particular card.
Also, since you went off on my random tangent: I'm not accusing anyone of having screaming kids. I was just stating that I'm one of those so-called rude people who is not afraid to turn around and say, "Your child is loud and just placed their hands in my food. You are officially a shitty parent." I really don't care if it's true or not, it just makes me feel better to get a rise out of them. After all, they sat around giggling at little Johnny ruining everyone else's dinner.
I do see it. My best friend doesn't remember the first few months after they brought the baby home because lack of sleep killed her ability to form long term memories. However, her and her husband saved up over $400,000 before trying to get pregnant. They both spent the first few months on (m|p)aternity leave, but also so that her husband could stay home with the child until pre-K. After that, he worked part-time so that he could have afternoons off to take care of the kid.
Everyone got plenty of sleep by the second or third year, too.
Nothing pisses me off more than people who have kids without making the proper fiscal preparations. If you can't afford kids or the time necessary to care for them, don't have them. Having multiple kids and no time to cook for them because both parents must work to keep a roof over their heads and nasty quick-fix food in the pantry is disgusting.
It's time for society to give up on the reproduction "mandate" and start moving attitudes more towards making having a child a long term, career like, goal.
True, but very harsh. Bringing up kids is tiring and few can afford to have one parent stay at home - parenting is itself a job and for most it is in addition to a paid one.
Frankly, then you shouldn't have kids if you can't afford to raise them properly. Unfortunately, I really don't have a say in your choices. Well, I don't, except when your kid is screaming at the table next to me while I'm trying to eat. Then, I will have plenty to say about your parenting skills.
We've talked about adopting several times, but neither of us feel that we are in the right place. We do not own a house. We cannot afford, nor wish to abandon his pursuit of building a successful small business. I can't leave my job because the business doesn't make enough to support us, much less us and a child. We don't like the schools in our city, don't like the tuition at the private schools here, and don't feel comfortable home schooling*. Hence, we are not going to have children for sometime, if at all. We just aren't willing to put forth the changes necessary to feel that we are doing the best we can to raise a child.
* Homeschooling irks us because while we are very well educated, we don't have Masters in education. We didn't go to school to be teachers. Perhaps through the elementary school years it's acceptable, but past that needs specialization. Even then, we don't think it makes a good long-term social outlook to keep your kid home in those early years.
Also, the few times that I've actually engaged the sales people at Fry's, they were fairly competent. I could easily say, "My partner needs a good Quad Core desktop, 64-bit Windows 7, and at least 4 gigabytes of RAM. Integrated graphics are fine as long as there's a PCIex16 slot and the power supply is a standard ATX."
15 minutes later we walked out with a full desktop/monitor combo with a free Fry's 2 Year extended warranty for less than $500. Yay?
Yeah that reminds me, this was supposed to be an MMO. I remember my partner watching some "MMO Addiction" special that claimed it was a documentary. He was curious because I played MMO's at the time and didn't know there was such a thing. Anyway, I remember Curt was supposed to be developing an MMO. I had totally forgot about that. How sad...it would've been a cool MMO. Then again, I've been single player for a while now and have no desire to deal with MMO's again. So maybe it is for the best. The demo played awesome.
But the fact remains: We the consumers remain nothing more than collateral damage in the ongoing war between game studios and Gamestop*. Both sides are losing out. Furthermore, in the big scheme of things, 7 piddly side quests is a joke compared to some of the idiocy EA has put into place in other games.
*Play 'N Trade...sort of. Every one I've walked into has NOTHING for stock and generally just seems to be a hangout for the employee's friends. I still don't get that store.
I was wondering about that. I always thought Dreamweaver was some sort of Click&Drag developer tool (a la Visual Studio Web RAD?) that mostly tried to get you to use Cold Fusion. However, because Cold Fusion is...let's not talk about full fledged enterprise applications in Cold Fusion. It's not the point and I just got off my blood pressure medicine.
Anyway, later on because no one was using it, they bolted on php/ASP and some other stuff too, right? Or am I completely off on this?
Not quite. *twitch* You have to enable it manually right now and the completion of the package signing work is only fully complete on [core]. [extra] is about halfway there and [community] is...well....NOT.:-/
If I recall correctly, because everything, including the package build system, is based off of PKGBUILD's. I've never really worked at making packages for RPM or DEB, but PKGBUILD's are supposed to be simpler. (Though it may be compromise of simplicity for robustness of features.)
Over the course of about 3 installs, the process gets a lot faster. The Beginner's Guide on the wiki takes you along the scenic route to get you acclimated to the system.
Personally, of all the Linux distributions I've worked with, I like Arch as a server. This is simply because I find the configuration from the command line to be far simpler than Debian based distributions. Comparing to RedHat/CentOS, for me, lands in the middle of Arch and Debian in complexity. However, if you have some fairly complex requirements for a server, I find that Arch has traded robustness for simplicity, so you may find that a RedHat based distribution is better suited.
The AUR provides a Gentoo style system where a fairly standard script will download the source from upstream and compile it into a package you can then install. There are "AUR Helpers", a favorite is yaourt, which will manage dependencies that are both within the AUR and the standard repositories. I see this as a major benefit because people are far more inclined to simply write a PKGBUILD instead of creating their own repository. (I just recall Fedora requiring 2 "unofficial" repositories to run properly.
Arch also makes a big deal out of being as close to upstream releases as possible. For instance,/usr/bin/python points to/usr/bin/python3 instead of python2, simply because Python people said at some point they'd like distributions to move to a default of python3. Unfortunately, doing so causes all sorts of breakage and screaming developers, so Arch is still one of the few that do it.
I've not had too many support questions for Arch because the Wiki is usually all I need. On occasion, I'll dig through the BB's, but I've yet to need to ask a question about setting up nearly anything.
To me, Arch just brings into focus a very straightforward ideal to distribution management. If upstream makes a release, build a new package, test, put it in core/extra/community. Keep patching to a minimum to reduce the work required to get from upstream code to binary package.
So I guess good docs, decent package system, short time-to-package for upstream release, and the AUR removing the incentive for unofficial repositories are what Arch brings to the table.
The main thing that makes most people leave is they don't subscribe to the arch-general and arch-announce mailing lists. If an upgrade to a core package ever fails with a weird message, the reason and how to fix it has generally been discussed in depth on the general list for a few weeks. Even then, there's almost always an announcement and a post to the front page of the website.
If they do subscribe to the mailing lists, a lot of Ubuntu users come to Arch for some strange reason and get offended when they're handed a RTFW on the mailing list in response to a basic question. The boards are a bit more tame, but there is the same tendency to say, "Did you read this [link] on the wiki? Because it clearly states you're doing it wrong." Also, there's this strange obsession with bottom-posting that will completely derail a thread due to one person putting their reply at the top of the thread.
So yeah, asking questions covered in the Wiki will get you some flack. Which I guess is a big turn off for people. God forbid you actually try to search in the wiki or forums first. (Those last few sentences are probably why I fit in with Arch.:-D)
Wish I had mod points. Albeit, when I'm not distracted by some computer-y type stuff, I've been having a great time working through Lost Odyssey. However, the XBox Live Subscription sucks balls. I hate having it linked to my PayPal account too. See this site for stories of just how you scam up an XBox Live account. *shudder*
Sony isn't much better with the PSN network, but at least there aren't monthly fees that have you running to the store every so often when Netflix just stops working.
Ummm...how about tether your phone? My whole family wanted to root their phones as soon as they saw me turn my Optimus V into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Not bad for $35 a month.
Strange. Most of the time when I'm a passenger and the driver is screaming bloody murder at the old lady/man in front of us, he/she is just simply going the posted speed limit. Separate conversation, but I've never felt that elderly people can't drive, per say, but they drive more carefully. South Park aside, that is. They apparently have a statistically anomalous concentration of bad elderly drivers.
Also, since getting my Progressive Hand-Us-Your-Driving-Habits-For-A-Discount doo-hicky, I've found that most people mistake me for an elderly person. Going the speed limit and leaving several car lengths in front of me has kept me at less than 5 hard brakes this month. Yay?
I haven't had a buggy experience since they moved to HipHop generated C++. Then again, I don't play cow-clickers or wall-posters either (aka apps). That's where most the complaining comes from, the part where everyone and their mother writes some piece of crap to harvest your data in exchange for posting some pixels on your wall for you.:-)
God what I would give for mod points. Drupal, Wordpress, and PHP-Nuke are to blame. The skinning/module/plug-in ecosystems alone will keep inertia for years. And then, because of them, all the people on in-house projects think that they can emulate these PHP based successes. I don't have a problem with Drupal or Wordpress and I've not a clue about PHP-Nuke. I can only imagine the struggle it is to keep up with all the "PHP version N+1 breaks X".
As an aside, DotNetNuke is really not that bad, and I've seen some pretty awesome things on the designer side. I think my favorite was my friend dropped $99 USD for a WYSIWYG skinner that worked right in the browser. Very sexy.
Profit beyond that which is necessary to cover risk (unfortunate troubles) is theft
Really? Tell you what you swing by my house I will pay you only in your material cost to paint my house. You dont deserve anything beyond that. It would just be you stealing from me. You may be a bit angry at this point at what I said. But it is the logical extreme of what you are saying.
Repeat across 3 paragraphs
This falls apart very quickly. What you will be charged by the painting company is the exact amount needed to cover: materials, wages of the workers sent out, and the projected costs of the new van we are buying to allow us to haul around more paint. As you'll see, I agree with you in the end, but "risk" covers future investments. You're doing the argument wrong.
The appropriate response is that there are no profits. Profits is simply money not spent today. In the end, all of the money in a company goes into something. Even the company's liquid cash hoard is a hedge against debts, sudden disaster, and the possibility of acquisition. That money is in a bank that is leveraging it to circulate back into the economy. (A protest on leveraging is a separate argument, no need to respond to this. The point is simply the money is doing stuff.)
The OP has missed the point that money made is money spent from the perspective of the company-as-entity. Now, executive pay and bonuses are a different story. I don't have a big hate for the actual cash salaries they make. However, I've got plenty of frustration at the rigged bonus schemes and separation packages that encourage a nomadic executive class that has no real concern than to walk in, cut costs to the bone, and walk back out leaving a wake of destruction behind them. Sure, pay the millions. Just don't give them a shred of stock till 10 years in.
Ever actually get a USPS shipment that's tracked? I live in the Atlanta-metro area in Georgia. As in, I live in the Atlanta. My gift for someone I ordered online went to Atlanta, California, Atlanta, Texas, Atlanta, Delaware, Atlanta, Kansas, and finally Atlanta, Georgia. The worst part was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shipping address. Even the ending part of the Zip+4 was right. You can only imagine the ass-fuckery that Amazon's "Super Saver Shipping" suffers. I just sign up for Prime and get 2-day UPS. At least it arrives, get's left at the leasing office, and is at my door in our locked breezeway by the time I'm home from work.
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Universe, I'm wishing desperately for mod points for the parent. People are so blind to just how horribly insecure the system is already. A rooted phone is the least of your worries. They just busted a skimming ring here in Atlanta restaurants a few months ago. This is no less insecure than what's already in place but far more convenient.
As for the GP: Also, realize that most of this is US based and we don't use "chip & pin". Period. Also, most people run debit cards as credit cards. Companies actively encourage you to sign for purchases and not key in your pin with various rewards. Some banks even charge the customer a fee per pin-based transaction. These are magnetic stripe machines that always run the card via the Credit Card processing company (MasterCard and Visa), not via the bank. The rules are different for those, and you most certainly won't be using your craptastic PIN.
I won't go into the level of security a 4 digit PIN does not provide given enough money you can get via fraud for a particular card.
Also, since you went off on my random tangent: I'm not accusing anyone of having screaming kids. I was just stating that I'm one of those so-called rude people who is not afraid to turn around and say, "Your child is loud and just placed their hands in my food. You are officially a shitty parent." I really don't care if it's true or not, it just makes me feel better to get a rise out of them. After all, they sat around giggling at little Johnny ruining everyone else's dinner.
I do see it. My best friend doesn't remember the first few months after they brought the baby home because lack of sleep killed her ability to form long term memories. However, her and her husband saved up over $400,000 before trying to get pregnant. They both spent the first few months on (m|p)aternity leave, but also so that her husband could stay home with the child until pre-K. After that, he worked part-time so that he could have afternoons off to take care of the kid.
Everyone got plenty of sleep by the second or third year, too.
Nothing pisses me off more than people who have kids without making the proper fiscal preparations. If you can't afford kids or the time necessary to care for them, don't have them. Having multiple kids and no time to cook for them because both parents must work to keep a roof over their heads and nasty quick-fix food in the pantry is disgusting.
It's time for society to give up on the reproduction "mandate" and start moving attitudes more towards making having a child a long term, career like, goal.
True, but very harsh. Bringing up kids is tiring and few can afford to have one parent stay at home - parenting is itself a job and for most it is in addition to a paid one.
Frankly, then you shouldn't have kids if you can't afford to raise them properly. Unfortunately, I really don't have a say in your choices. Well, I don't, except when your kid is screaming at the table next to me while I'm trying to eat. Then, I will have plenty to say about your parenting skills.
We've talked about adopting several times, but neither of us feel that we are in the right place. We do not own a house. We cannot afford, nor wish to abandon his pursuit of building a successful small business. I can't leave my job because the business doesn't make enough to support us, much less us and a child. We don't like the schools in our city, don't like the tuition at the private schools here, and don't feel comfortable home schooling*. Hence, we are not going to have children for sometime, if at all. We just aren't willing to put forth the changes necessary to feel that we are doing the best we can to raise a child.
* Homeschooling irks us because while we are very well educated, we don't have Masters in education. We didn't go to school to be teachers. Perhaps through the elementary school years it's acceptable, but past that needs specialization. Even then, we don't think it makes a good long-term social outlook to keep your kid home in those early years.
Also, the few times that I've actually engaged the sales people at Fry's, they were fairly competent. I could easily say, "My partner needs a good Quad Core desktop, 64-bit Windows 7, and at least 4 gigabytes of RAM. Integrated graphics are fine as long as there's a PCIex16 slot and the power supply is a standard ATX."
15 minutes later we walked out with a full desktop/monitor combo with a free Fry's 2 Year extended warranty for less than $500. Yay?
Yeah that reminds me, this was supposed to be an MMO. I remember my partner watching some "MMO Addiction" special that claimed it was a documentary. He was curious because I played MMO's at the time and didn't know there was such a thing. Anyway, I remember Curt was supposed to be developing an MMO. I had totally forgot about that. How sad...it would've been a cool MMO. Then again, I've been single player for a while now and have no desire to deal with MMO's again. So maybe it is for the best. The demo played awesome.
It's the model most of us expect now. DA:O Ultimate Edition, being a prime example.
In fact, I won't pick up Skyrim till it hits the $29.99 mark.
I'll probably pick up KoA when it hits the $39.99 mark.
But the fact remains: We the consumers remain nothing more than collateral damage in the ongoing war between game studios and Gamestop*. Both sides are losing out. Furthermore, in the big scheme of things, 7 piddly side quests is a joke compared to some of the idiocy EA has put into place in other games.
*Play 'N Trade...sort of. Every one I've walked into has NOTHING for stock and generally just seems to be a hangout for the employee's friends. I still don't get that store.
I was wondering about that. I always thought Dreamweaver was some sort of Click&Drag developer tool (a la Visual Studio Web RAD?) that mostly tried to get you to use Cold Fusion. However, because Cold Fusion is...let's not talk about full fledged enterprise applications in Cold Fusion. It's not the point and I just got off my blood pressure medicine.
Anyway, later on because no one was using it, they bolted on php/ASP and some other stuff too, right? Or am I completely off on this?
Not quite. *twitch* You have to enable it manually right now and the completion of the package signing work is only fully complete on [core]. [extra] is about halfway there and [community] is...well....NOT. :-/
If I recall correctly, because everything, including the package build system, is based off of PKGBUILD's. I've never really worked at making packages for RPM or DEB, but PKGBUILD's are supposed to be simpler. (Though it may be compromise of simplicity for robustness of features.)
Over the course of about 3 installs, the process gets a lot faster. The Beginner's Guide on the wiki takes you along the scenic route to get you acclimated to the system.
Personally, of all the Linux distributions I've worked with, I like Arch as a server. This is simply because I find the configuration from the command line to be far simpler than Debian based distributions. Comparing to RedHat/CentOS, for me, lands in the middle of Arch and Debian in complexity. However, if you have some fairly complex requirements for a server, I find that Arch has traded robustness for simplicity, so you may find that a RedHat based distribution is better suited.
The AUR provides a Gentoo style system where a fairly standard script will download the source from upstream and compile it into a package you can then install. There are "AUR Helpers", a favorite is yaourt, which will manage dependencies that are both within the AUR and the standard repositories. I see this as a major benefit because people are far more inclined to simply write a PKGBUILD instead of creating their own repository. (I just recall Fedora requiring 2 "unofficial" repositories to run properly.
Arch also makes a big deal out of being as close to upstream releases as possible. For instance, /usr/bin/python points to /usr/bin/python3 instead of python2, simply because Python people said at some point they'd like distributions to move to a default of python3. Unfortunately, doing so causes all sorts of breakage and screaming developers, so Arch is still one of the few that do it.
I've not had too many support questions for Arch because the Wiki is usually all I need. On occasion, I'll dig through the BB's, but I've yet to need to ask a question about setting up nearly anything.
To me, Arch just brings into focus a very straightforward ideal to distribution management. If upstream makes a release, build a new package, test, put it in core/extra/community. Keep patching to a minimum to reduce the work required to get from upstream code to binary package.
So I guess good docs, decent package system, short time-to-package for upstream release, and the AUR removing the incentive for unofficial repositories are what Arch brings to the table.
The main thing that makes most people leave is they don't subscribe to the arch-general and arch-announce mailing lists. If an upgrade to a core package ever fails with a weird message, the reason and how to fix it has generally been discussed in depth on the general list for a few weeks. Even then, there's almost always an announcement and a post to the front page of the website.
If they do subscribe to the mailing lists, a lot of Ubuntu users come to Arch for some strange reason and get offended when they're handed a RTFW on the mailing list in response to a basic question. The boards are a bit more tame, but there is the same tendency to say, "Did you read this [link] on the wiki? Because it clearly states you're doing it wrong." Also, there's this strange obsession with bottom-posting that will completely derail a thread due to one person putting their reply at the top of the thread.
So yeah, asking questions covered in the Wiki will get you some flack. Which I guess is a big turn off for people. God forbid you actually try to search in the wiki or forums first. (Those last few sentences are probably why I fit in with Arch. :-D)
Last Pass for those of us in Android land. :-)
Wish I had mod points. Albeit, when I'm not distracted by some computer-y type stuff, I've been having a great time working through Lost Odyssey. However, the XBox Live Subscription sucks balls. I hate having it linked to my PayPal account too. See this site for stories of just how you scam up an XBox Live account. *shudder*
Sony isn't much better with the PSN network, but at least there aren't monthly fees that have you running to the store every so often when Netflix just stops working.
Ummm...how about tether your phone? My whole family wanted to root their phones as soon as they saw me turn my Optimus V into a Wi-Fi hotspot. Not bad for $35 a month.
I didn't know it came out so recently. My bad.
Samsung has a direct Android competitor to iTouch.
Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0
My sister got one for Christmas. It runs all of the Google Apps and has the Android Market.
32 as of now. 95% have mobile referrers...the exact target of QR codes. Doesn't bode well for telling anyone to think about the content.
On the other hand: thanks! Does that work for most shorteners or is bit.ly just cool like that?
Would you look at that. I made my first foe today! *hands you "Foe'ed because you are an idiot" award*
Strange. Most of the time when I'm a passenger and the driver is screaming bloody murder at the old lady/man in front of us, he/she is just simply going the posted speed limit. Separate conversation, but I've never felt that elderly people can't drive, per say, but they drive more carefully. South Park aside, that is. They apparently have a statistically anomalous concentration of bad elderly drivers.
Also, since getting my Progressive Hand-Us-Your-Driving-Habits-For-A-Discount doo-hicky, I've found that most people mistake me for an elderly person. Going the speed limit and leaving several car lengths in front of me has kept me at less than 5 hard brakes this month. Yay?
I haven't had a buggy experience since they moved to HipHop generated C++. Then again, I don't play cow-clickers or wall-posters either (aka apps). That's where most the complaining comes from, the part where everyone and their mother writes some piece of crap to harvest your data in exchange for posting some pixels on your wall for you. :-)
Robot Unicorn Attack is similar with "reaching your dreams."
God what I would give for mod points. Drupal, Wordpress, and PHP-Nuke are to blame. The skinning/module/plug-in ecosystems alone will keep inertia for years. And then, because of them, all the people on in-house projects think that they can emulate these PHP based successes. I don't have a problem with Drupal or Wordpress and I've not a clue about PHP-Nuke. I can only imagine the struggle it is to keep up with all the "PHP version N+1 breaks X".
As an aside, DotNetNuke is really not that bad, and I've seen some pretty awesome things on the designer side. I think my favorite was my friend dropped $99 USD for a WYSIWYG skinner that worked right in the browser. Very sexy.
Profit beyond that which is necessary to cover risk (unfortunate troubles) is theft
Really? Tell you what you swing by my house I will pay you only in your material cost to paint my house. You dont deserve anything beyond that. It would just be you stealing from me. You may be a bit angry at this point at what I said. But it is the logical extreme of what you are saying.
Repeat across 3 paragraphs
This falls apart very quickly. What you will be charged by the painting company is the exact amount needed to cover: materials, wages of the workers sent out, and the projected costs of the new van we are buying to allow us to haul around more paint. As you'll see, I agree with you in the end, but "risk" covers future investments. You're doing the argument wrong.
The appropriate response is that there are no profits. Profits is simply money not spent today. In the end, all of the money in a company goes into something. Even the company's liquid cash hoard is a hedge against debts, sudden disaster, and the possibility of acquisition. That money is in a bank that is leveraging it to circulate back into the economy. (A protest on leveraging is a separate argument, no need to respond to this. The point is simply the money is doing stuff.)
The OP has missed the point that money made is money spent from the perspective of the company-as-entity. Now, executive pay and bonuses are a different story. I don't have a big hate for the actual cash salaries they make. However, I've got plenty of frustration at the rigged bonus schemes and separation packages that encourage a nomadic executive class that has no real concern than to walk in, cut costs to the bone, and walk back out leaving a wake of destruction behind them. Sure, pay the millions. Just don't give them a shred of stock till 10 years in.
Ever actually get a USPS shipment that's tracked? I live in the Atlanta-metro area in Georgia. As in, I live in the Atlanta. My gift for someone I ordered online went to Atlanta, California, Atlanta, Texas, Atlanta, Delaware, Atlanta, Kansas, and finally Atlanta, Georgia. The worst part was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shipping address. Even the ending part of the Zip+4 was right. You can only imagine the ass-fuckery that Amazon's "Super Saver Shipping" suffers. I just sign up for Prime and get 2-day UPS. At least it arrives, get's left at the leasing office, and is at my door in our locked breezeway by the time I'm home from work.