Programmers today just give up too easily, and companies cut costs by scriping on testing, ducumentation and verification.
I'll start with the cheap joke - apparently you didn't learn the lesson too well.
And then the actual point - this is the real world, sir. Academics may have the luxury of taking as much time as they like to never produce result. That's not how things actually work for the rest of us.
"Unacceptable" is strong. Sad, yes, but this is real life. There is no such thing as zero risk. Taking the attitude that it is somehow achievable despite the utter impossibility is something that makes for a good trial lawyer but a terrible human.
The average person's inability to maintain a computer is the reason we have massive botnets spewing out billions (am I several orders of magnitude low on that?) of spams a day. Your faith is people is highly misplaced, at least in this particular instance.
After all, its products are typically 3 to 4 times as expensive as its competitors' products, while typically being a fraction as powerful, and a fraction as capable.
The Unix process model doesn't work like you think it does. I'm not sure how you got modded as Insightful on this site, of all places, when you are dead wrong about something I would expect many people here to know.
I would say, based on iPhone sales figures, that the "controversy" largely exists in the minds of the people who spend their time on Internet forums, believing that because they share an opinion with a few hundred other people, they are some sort of hidden majority. The echo chamber effect is insidious like that.
Hahahaha you're cute, thinking that the people running the country aren't absolutely brilliant. They're taking whatever they want from whoever they want and thumbing their noses at anyone who tries to stop them. They happily let you believe they're stupid while they ram their giant metaphorical cocks straight up your collective asses. It would be funny if it weren't so fuckin sad.
You have no right to stop poor people from making stupid decisions. The only proper course of action is to subsidize them so they can continue being a drag on society.
Formulaic jokes make me shake my head in sadness. Unfortunately, formula works better than wit with the vast majority of people. This is why most people simply aren't funny.
I have a stupid question - why does the fact that someone has a whole lot of money put someone else who has very little in a worse situation? It's not like there is some static pool of wealth and one person being rich requires many other poor people. The economy is not and has never been zero-sum. What is the problem exactly? Do we really need to institutionally correct envy?
What about software makes it so that it shouldn't be patented? The only arguments I ever see boil down to "I WANT IT!!!"
Does anyone have an argument that doesn't come out to entitled whining? Is there a single logical way of stating this argument that doesn't involve the assumption that the world is entitled to share in the benefits of the work of everyone? If such an argument can be made, does it not apply to everything that is patentable? After all, it's not like inventing something in hardware is more clever than inventing something in software. Software is just easier to iterate.
Or! We could require that people who can only find work schlepping drinks to learn some skill that actually has value and can't be performed by well trained animals.
We need to move away from the person being trusted with running a company being concerned with destroying the value of that company? I take it you aren't running any large firms yourself...
If you are American, then I guess your assumption that Americans fly off the handle for no reason is a pretty good one, considering. If you're not, take a look in the mirror.
Either way, thanks for the laugh. Sputtering rage is probably the second funniest thing in the world, next to dudes getting punched in the beanbag.
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You're lucky this hasn't happened to you, that's the silly mistake all the people who have wrecked keep making.
Denier! How dare you question the truth.
And off topic, at that. You, sir, disgust me. Our lord Al Gore will consume your soul.
Programmers today just give up too easily, and companies cut costs by scriping on testing, ducumentation and verification.
I'll start with the cheap joke - apparently you didn't learn the lesson too well.
And then the actual point - this is the real world, sir. Academics may have the luxury of taking as much time as they like to never produce result. That's not how things actually work for the rest of us.
"Unacceptable" is strong. Sad, yes, but this is real life. There is no such thing as zero risk. Taking the attitude that it is somehow achievable despite the utter impossibility is something that makes for a good trial lawyer but a terrible human.
Whoever hacks up the iPhone to connect to this plan is going to be an Official Internet Hero.
That kinda nails why these Slashdot discussions are pure masturbation.
The average person's inability to maintain a computer is the reason we have massive botnets spewing out billions (am I several orders of magnitude low on that?) of spams a day. Your faith is people is highly misplaced, at least in this particular instance.
After all, its products are typically 3 to 4 times as expensive as its competitors' products, while typically being a fraction as powerful, and a fraction as capable.
This kind of hyperbole inspired my signature.
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Yeah, defending KDE on Slashdot is very risky.
The Unix process model doesn't work like you think it does. I'm not sure how you got modded as Insightful on this site, of all places, when you are dead wrong about something I would expect many people here to know.
I would say, based on iPhone sales figures, that the "controversy" largely exists in the minds of the people who spend their time on Internet forums, believing that because they share an opinion with a few hundred other people, they are some sort of hidden majority. The echo chamber effect is insidious like that.
The iPad is ridiculous, though.
What, pray tell, is unnatural sodium chloride? I can't for the life of me imagine what that would even mean.
Hahahaha you're cute, thinking that the people running the country aren't absolutely brilliant. They're taking whatever they want from whoever they want and thumbing their noses at anyone who tries to stop them. They happily let you believe they're stupid while they ram their giant metaphorical cocks straight up your collective asses. It would be funny if it weren't so fuckin sad.
You have no right to stop poor people from making stupid decisions. The only proper course of action is to subsidize them so they can continue being a drag on society.
That's what you get for letting lawyers run society.
The funny part is that some people like it. Then again, some people crave a good beating every now and again. I assume it's the same impulse.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm with you.
Formulaic jokes make me shake my head in sadness. Unfortunately, formula works better than wit with the vast majority of people. This is why most people simply aren't funny.
I have a stupid question - why does the fact that someone has a whole lot of money put someone else who has very little in a worse situation? It's not like there is some static pool of wealth and one person being rich requires many other poor people. The economy is not and has never been zero-sum. What is the problem exactly? Do we really need to institutionally correct envy?
This "all you can eat" price for using the shared server only encourages people to pirate games.
Oh, bullshit. People pirate games for one reason only: they are amoral entitled assholes who want free entertainment.
This just encourages people to come up with more bullshit justifications for pirating games, which is not the same thing at all.
Why would IBM have a problem getting consulting contracts on software that other companies are giving away for free?
What about software makes it so that it shouldn't be patented? The only arguments I ever see boil down to "I WANT IT!!!"
Does anyone have an argument that doesn't come out to entitled whining? Is there a single logical way of stating this argument that doesn't involve the assumption that the world is entitled to share in the benefits of the work of everyone? If such an argument can be made, does it not apply to everything that is patentable? After all, it's not like inventing something in hardware is more clever than inventing something in software. Software is just easier to iterate.
Or! We could require that people who can only find work schlepping drinks to learn some skill that actually has value and can't be performed by well trained animals.
We need to move away from the person being trusted with running a company being concerned with destroying the value of that company? I take it you aren't running any large firms yourself...
If you are American, then I guess your assumption that Americans fly off the handle for no reason is a pretty good one, considering. If you're not, take a look in the mirror.
Either way, thanks for the laugh. Sputtering rage is probably the second funniest thing in the world, next to dudes getting punched in the beanbag.
No, they are conspiring to get hippie-rich, which just means they want to make everyone poor. Get your conspiracy facts right.
In fairness, I have noticed that in terms of self-importance, the two professions are about equal.