Sac also gets all the pollution from the Bay Area due to the wind patterns, so the more successful the Bay Area gets (or at least the more cars people drive), the shittier the air gets in Sac. It's depressing, but hilarious.
Why are you picking a random town? That doesn't seem to be close to good weather, other tech companies, or start up capital. I'm sure there's a good school or two nearby, but there's clearly a higher concentration of tech focused school in northern California than near Nashville.
If you're choosing a location simply based off of cost of living, you might as well start wishing for a pony. Every major metro region in the country has a tech area, or even a booming technology sector, but that's very different from being a "startup hub."
Even if we disregard the fact that you're pulling numbers out of your ass, you're off by nearly 30% in your calculations based on your made up numbers!
You can't just use minimum wage like that because it isn't directly tied to inflation, or to the more appropriate Consumer Price Index. http://www.usinflationcalculat...
And that doesn't isn't even that tied to the durability of the car, which would include repair and upkeep costs as well as life expectancy!
And besides all that, your math is horribly inaccurate! $15,080/$4,160 * 2500 = $9062.5 for a minimum wage job according to your math.
I think stuff like that has to be solved by things like physics engines. The difficulty of making a deep game that allows all interactions of the real world is that you need either a programmer to think of all these possibilities, or an engine sophisticated enough to deal with them. Since the first one gets impractical very quickly, you usually rely on the engine instead.
I would also like to point out that most games, even in real life, are pretty simple, as far as natural language descriptions go. Sports tend to boil down to "make ball fly in direction x using tool y" or "run/walk/climb faster than your opponent." Solutions to real life challenges tend to be very hard to input into a computer.
More than that though.... if there is no need to go back and verify the original tip, if it can be anonymous....then the police can phone in their own tips!
That's silly. If you have cops willing to lie, they could just pull you over for speeding, driving erratically, or not wearing your seatbelt. This is about the 4th Amendment, not about corrupt cops.
This is yet more parallell construction bullshit. How do we even know there was such a woman? For all we really know it was a cop, or the wife of a cop, making a call to cover up the real source of the information....ie a criminal conspiracy to deny the driver the right to a fair trial.
Again, a complete a non-issue. The driver isn't getting denied any sort of a fair trail. The defense wanted to throw out that fact that they were carrying 30 lbs of weed on a (admittedly very important) technicality. His right to a trial is in no way threatened.
The Justices were split 5-4 because it's a difficult question to ask, but not for any of the nonsense you brought up.
I don't know which side of the fence I am on this, but I believe that misrepresenting facts is harmful to the debate.
We know a lot more than that about the "anonymous" tip. The prosecution didn't bring in the 911 operator or the caller (who provided her name) and just treated the call as anonymous for the trial. TFA also points out that there are heavy legal penalties for abusing 911 as well as technological measures in place to locate false callers.
I'd argue that the police can reasonable dismiss that it might be an upset ex, and if it turns out it was just an angry ex, just getting pulled over once is not that big of a deal. I'd also argue that the title on/. is incorrect. The Supreme court only ruled that it's OK to perform a traffic stop based on anonymous 911 tips.
That's is because the drivers didn't stop driving and pull over when the weather got bad. While that delays your trip, the maneuver is perfectly safe and takes just a few seconds (or minutes if you need to find a motel).
Now try deciding that you underestimated the weather and you want to land your plane. It's much harder and takes much longer and you can't just land anywhere you please. Your safety margin is greatly decreased. Anyone who doesn't respect that fact that driving is not like flying hasn't been in a situation where you don't have the option to bail at a moment's notice.
Poorly maintained XP machines are actively causing other people lots and lots of pain as zombie botnets, the same way bad cars are dangers to other people as well. And it's quickly getting to the point where a well maintained XP machine on the internet is not much better than a poorly maintained one. No one else is forcing people to switch to a mordern OS, so the stuff MS is doing is pretty necessary. They even offer rebates for turning in an old XP machine.
Don't worry. Mobile browsers and tablets solved this for us. We used to charge you extra so that you site would work on 600x400 pixel screens. Now it's for 400x600 pixel screens instead. In a few years, we'll have you convinced that your site needs to work with 20x600 px columns (thanks to wraparound displays from Samsung and Apple: http://www.patentlyapple.com/p...), and on wearable t-shirts.
The panty hose thing is silly: there are a million brands of hose you could buy instead if any company tried to create such a scheme for such a cheap and replaceable product.
The XP thing is also nothing like panty hose. Your copy of XP doesn't "wear out" more quickly because something MS did. It doesn't rely on servers like Halo. You're complaining that something that MS is no longer doing something that costs lots of money (writing patches for an old OS to keep it secure) for little benefit (XP's architecture was create in a different era of computing and at this point cannot be made meaningfully secure).
There are no technical reasons to keep XP on life support, but if you want to keep running XP, no one is stopping you. Meanwhile, since XP's release, we've gone through 7+ iterations of Moore's law and there's no way to make XP keep up. This is not planned obsolescence. Stop being stupid.
That's silly. Bill Gates doesn't need more money either and he is incredibly productive and menial labor is not going to advance humanity. Keeping minimum wage low has nothing to do with keeping humanity from stagnating.
Also, you can keep competition alive without holding the threat of being unable to pay rent or feed a family over people's head if they don't work at least 40 hours a week, which is an arbitrary number.
OkCupid isn't even blocking Firefox; it's just speaking out and raising awareness about an issue the people running the company (and they probably believe a large portion of their user base) feel strongly about.
It's pretty easy for me to see why proponents of gay marriage feel like they've been treated by badly by the pro Prop 8 organizations (note I did not say the opponents to gay marriage), and it would leave a bad taste in my mouth too to use a product with a CEO who actively donated to the cause (albeit not a huge sum). Prop 8 was all kinds of wrong, including fear-mongering commercials, people donating to the cause that had no business getting mucking about in California politics ($20 million from Utah alone), and a lot of religious organizations backing what should have been a political decision. I'm sure all it would take is for the CEO to really try to understand how he's offended people and make a heartfelt apology to smotth things over. As it is, I can definitely how a CTO can get away with some things that a CEO cannot.
You should probably reread the article (if you did at all), because you have gotten it anything but straight. Dropbox is doing this with public files, no private ones, and it's just notifying you that some files can't be shared.
Since your unencrypted files are on Dropbox servers, they have had "the ability" to identify pirate files at any point that they decided to code that, but anyone with a basic knowledge of how "files stored on someone else's computer" works should already know this.
By whom, exactly? At the moment, using the INTERNET means your data goes through NSA servers, but that's not exactly a list. The people who'd care to put you on a list are people like the MPAA and RIAA, and I seriously doubt they have a digital surveillence arm. Are you just spewing random paranoia to sound smart?
I am not an expert, but my understanding of GeoDNS is that you would still have to own those IP addresses (at least in Turkey) to make that feasible. It doesn't seem like it would be that easy to clobber legitimate website's IP address.
You seem confused about how the government works: 1) A big government is what keeps companies in check. More regulations = bigger government. Fewer regulations = big companies have more power. Read up on the Square Deal and President Theodore Roosevelt and see what happens when there are not enough regulations. Monopolies are very, very bad. 2) Copyright and patents came about because it protects the artist/inventor who could be run out of business by someone copying his own creation. The fact that IP law abuses are occurring is a flaw/loophole in the system that can be fixed, but IP law is and has always been about protecting the little guy and they are the only reason the Industrial Revolution could even happen. 3) The term "handouts" is a generally derogatory term and doesn't refer to anything specific. If you're talking about bailouts of companies during the recession, you're again mistaken. The collapse happened in the first place because big systems get too complex for most people to understand, so the few people who did actually understand the house of cards we had set up made off with a ton of money at the expense of a lot of other people. 4) Most of the problems you bring up are with a corrupt government, not a big government. And unlike a corrupt corporation, you have the option to elect people and impeach people in a government (and we will barring some major collapse of the government), and the public sector is required to withstand scrutiny, current NSA bullshit notwithstanding.
I share your current dissatisfaction of how our current elected officials are running things, but I don't think the solution is returning to time that history has demonstrated DOES NOT WORK.
It's called OVERuse for a reason. If you use these technologies in reasonable ways, you can control pest populations while maintaining the effectiveness of the toxin. If you ONLY use this corn and it's this effective, you are basically breading the corn rootworms for resistance.
If you stupidly sprint at the start of a marathon you burn up your resources too quickly, and the same thing is happening here.
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Sac also gets all the pollution from the Bay Area due to the wind patterns, so the more successful the Bay Area gets (or at least the more cars people drive), the shittier the air gets in Sac. It's depressing, but hilarious.
Why are you picking a random town? That doesn't seem to be close to good weather, other tech companies, or start up capital. I'm sure there's a good school or two nearby, but there's clearly a higher concentration of tech focused school in northern California than near Nashville.
If you're choosing a location simply based off of cost of living, you might as well start wishing for a pony. Every major metro region in the country has a tech area, or even a booming technology sector, but that's very different from being a "startup hub."
Source?
Even if we disregard the fact that you're pulling numbers out of your ass, you're off by nearly 30% in your calculations based on your made up numbers!
You can't just use minimum wage like that because it isn't directly tied to inflation, or to the more appropriate Consumer Price Index. http://www.usinflationcalculat...
And that doesn't isn't even that tied to the durability of the car, which would include repair and upkeep costs as well as life expectancy!
And besides all that, your math is horribly inaccurate!
$15,080/$4,160 * 2500 = $9062.5 for a minimum wage job according to your math.
It's coming in Goat Simulator 2.0
I think stuff like that has to be solved by things like physics engines. The difficulty of making a deep game that allows all interactions of the real world is that you need either a programmer to think of all these possibilities, or an engine sophisticated enough to deal with them. Since the first one gets impractical very quickly, you usually rely on the engine instead.
I would also like to point out that most games, even in real life, are pretty simple, as far as natural language descriptions go. Sports tend to boil down to "make ball fly in direction x using tool y" or "run/walk/climb faster than your opponent." Solutions to real life challenges tend to be very hard to input into a computer.
Wow. So much fear-mongering.
More than that though.... if there is no need to go back and verify the original tip, if it can be anonymous....then the police can phone in their own tips!
That's silly. If you have cops willing to lie, they could just pull you over for speeding, driving erratically, or not wearing your seatbelt. This is about the 4th Amendment, not about corrupt cops.
This is yet more parallell construction bullshit. How do we even know there was such a woman? For all we really know it was a cop, or the wife of a cop, making a call to cover up the real source of the information....ie a criminal conspiracy to deny the driver the right to a fair trial.
Again, a complete a non-issue. The driver isn't getting denied any sort of a fair trail. The defense wanted to throw out that fact that they were carrying 30 lbs of weed on a (admittedly very important) technicality. His right to a trial is in no way threatened.
The Justices were split 5-4 because it's a difficult question to ask, but not for any of the nonsense you brought up.
I don't know which side of the fence I am on this, but I believe that misrepresenting facts is harmful to the debate.
We know a lot more than that about the "anonymous" tip. The prosecution didn't bring in the 911 operator or the caller (who provided her name) and just treated the call as anonymous for the trial. TFA also points out that there are heavy legal penalties for abusing 911 as well as technological measures in place to locate false callers.
I'd argue that the police can reasonable dismiss that it might be an upset ex, and if it turns out it was just an angry ex, just getting pulled over once is not that big of a deal. I'd also argue that the title on /. is incorrect. The Supreme court only ruled that it's OK to perform a traffic stop based on anonymous 911 tips.
That's is because the drivers didn't stop driving and pull over when the weather got bad. While that delays your trip, the maneuver is perfectly safe and takes just a few seconds (or minutes if you need to find a motel).
Now try deciding that you underestimated the weather and you want to land your plane. It's much harder and takes much longer and you can't just land anywhere you please. Your safety margin is greatly decreased. Anyone who doesn't respect that fact that driving is not like flying hasn't been in a situation where you don't have the option to bail at a moment's notice.
What do you have on XP that doesn't run on Linux these days?
Poorly maintained XP machines are actively causing other people lots and lots of pain as zombie botnets, the same way bad cars are dangers to other people as well. And it's quickly getting to the point where a well maintained XP machine on the internet is not much better than a poorly maintained one. No one else is forcing people to switch to a mordern OS, so the stuff MS is doing is pretty necessary. They even offer rebates for turning in an old XP machine.
Then you should read up on it and be surprised?
Don't worry. Mobile browsers and tablets solved this for us. We used to charge you extra so that you site would work on 600x400 pixel screens. Now it's for 400x600 pixel screens instead. In a few years, we'll have you convinced that your site needs to work with 20x600 px columns (thanks to wraparound displays from Samsung and Apple: http://www.patentlyapple.com/p...), and on wearable t-shirts.
You are full of it.
The panty hose thing is silly: there are a million brands of hose you could buy instead if any company tried to create such a scheme for such a cheap and replaceable product.
The XP thing is also nothing like panty hose. Your copy of XP doesn't "wear out" more quickly because something MS did. It doesn't rely on servers like Halo. You're complaining that something that MS is no longer doing something that costs lots of money (writing patches for an old OS to keep it secure) for little benefit (XP's architecture was create in a different era of computing and at this point cannot be made meaningfully secure).
There are no technical reasons to keep XP on life support, but if you want to keep running XP, no one is stopping you. Meanwhile, since XP's release, we've gone through 7+ iterations of Moore's law and there's no way to make XP keep up. This is not planned obsolescence. Stop being stupid.
There are plenty of other things we can sanction. Scientific progress is a stupid one to choose.
That's silly. Bill Gates doesn't need more money either and he is incredibly productive and menial labor is not going to advance humanity. Keeping minimum wage low has nothing to do with keeping humanity from stagnating.
Also, you can keep competition alive without holding the threat of being unable to pay rent or feed a family over people's head if they don't work at least 40 hours a week, which is an arbitrary number.
...No?
OkCupid isn't even blocking Firefox; it's just speaking out and raising awareness about an issue the people running the company (and they probably believe a large portion of their user base) feel strongly about.
It's pretty easy for me to see why proponents of gay marriage feel like they've been treated by badly by the pro Prop 8 organizations (note I did not say the opponents to gay marriage), and it would leave a bad taste in my mouth too to use a product with a CEO who actively donated to the cause (albeit not a huge sum). Prop 8 was all kinds of wrong, including fear-mongering commercials, people donating to the cause that had no business getting mucking about in California politics ($20 million from Utah alone), and a lot of religious organizations backing what should have been a political decision. I'm sure all it would take is for the CEO to really try to understand how he's offended people and make a heartfelt apology to smotth things over. As it is, I can definitely how a CTO can get away with some things that a CEO cannot.
Aren't all cyborgs?
You should probably reread the article (if you did at all), because you have gotten it anything but straight. Dropbox is doing this with public files, no private ones, and it's just notifying you that some files can't be shared.
Since your unencrypted files are on Dropbox servers, they have had "the ability" to identify pirate files at any point that they decided to code that, but anyone with a basic knowledge of how "files stored on someone else's computer" works should already know this.
You don't need public links for keeping your own account in sync.
By whom, exactly? At the moment, using the INTERNET means your data goes through NSA servers, but that's not exactly a list. The people who'd care to put you on a list are people like the MPAA and RIAA, and I seriously doubt they have a digital surveillence arm. Are you just spewing random paranoia to sound smart?
I see no problem with this. You had to deal with it when people only released software for Windows. How is this any different?
I am not an expert, but my understanding of GeoDNS is that you would still have to own those IP addresses (at least in Turkey) to make that feasible. It doesn't seem like it would be that easy to clobber legitimate website's IP address.
You seem confused about how the government works:
1) A big government is what keeps companies in check. More regulations = bigger government. Fewer regulations = big companies have more power. Read up on the Square Deal and President Theodore Roosevelt and see what happens when there are not enough regulations. Monopolies are very, very bad.
2) Copyright and patents came about because it protects the artist/inventor who could be run out of business by someone copying his own creation. The fact that IP law abuses are occurring is a flaw/loophole in the system that can be fixed, but IP law is and has always been about protecting the little guy and they are the only reason the Industrial Revolution could even happen.
3) The term "handouts" is a generally derogatory term and doesn't refer to anything specific. If you're talking about bailouts of companies during the recession, you're again mistaken. The collapse happened in the first place because big systems get too complex for most people to understand, so the few people who did actually understand the house of cards we had set up made off with a ton of money at the expense of a lot of other people.
4) Most of the problems you bring up are with a corrupt government, not a big government. And unlike a corrupt corporation, you have the option to elect people and impeach people in a government (and we will barring some major collapse of the government), and the public sector is required to withstand scrutiny, current NSA bullshit notwithstanding.
I share your current dissatisfaction of how our current elected officials are running things, but I don't think the solution is returning to time that history has demonstrated DOES NOT WORK.
It's called OVERuse for a reason. If you use these technologies in reasonable ways, you can control pest populations while maintaining the effectiveness of the toxin. If you ONLY use this corn and it's this effective, you are basically breading the corn rootworms for resistance.
If you stupidly sprint at the start of a marathon you burn up your resources too quickly, and the same thing is happening here.