The goal of capitalism is to make money doing absolutely nothing of value? shuffling millions of fractions of imagined pennies back and forth in the ether, with a computer program at near light speed?
No wonder so many people have lost faith in capitalism! It has clearly become a shadow of its former self if "this is capitalism" as you say.
Funny, because in my view owning things is much less under other peoples thumb than renting them. For instance, one definitely is more free if one has their own tools to generate electricity, repair things, pump water, etc. You seem to be saying that its better to pay "someone else" to manage these things for you. Perhaps you like spending money to solve your problems, but I wouldn't call losing the ability to be self sufficient "being owned". Quite the opposite in fact. You are a slave to the streaming service, or whomever else you have to beg ($$) for access. Sure being a slave is probably liberating you from the hardship of making decisions and managing things, but at what cost?? You could plug your brain into the TV and "liberate" your ability to think as well. You just exchanged responsibility for cash, a popular thing to do, if you have the cash.
Ownership and control are the only true freedoms. Even nomads would own tools, and the means to survive.
"And if you see a vulnerability in scum like Kim Barking Mad Teapots North Korea or Ahmadinejad's Iran then we should be doing our best to take them out now whilst we still can."
Im pretty sure osama bin laden thought the exact same thing! Hint, its called terrorism if there isn't a war on. That is what is to be expected from america these days i guess.
"But again, the numbers involved are tiny, and it doesn't make Volkswagen produce cars with easily-changeable engines, or persuade builders to externalise all the wiring to make it easy for people to swap it in the future."
Just to nitpick, you clearly have never worked on a car. The designers for many cars (north american anyways, cant speak for other types) go out of their way to make things user serviceable (when they can, there are obvious limitations). A technician is no different than a backyard mechanic when it comes down to it. Try changing your serpentine belt, easy as pie once you know the "trick" for your particular car. Brake pads/ rotors and oil are trivially easy as well. So much so that 10$ an hour minimum wage person can do it with almost no training on many different cars.
After working on cars for a number of years, the one thing I have noticed is there is almost always a "trick" of some sort for getting components unbolted or tested. Be it a channel, hole or access facade where you can fit a tool, or a specific procedure which becomes very easy with a haynes manual or similar. Heck they even ship ODBII since 1996 (ODB1 since the 80s) which allows you to connect computers of varying degrees of complication in order to interface with the computer and do diagnostics. These computers are all available at varying price points, simple ones costing only 30$.
So i would say that compared to apple, cars are designed to be serviced by users or mechanics, and not just the dealership/manufacturer. They also do not go out of their way to make things difficult as apple seems to be doing (and always have done to some degree). Perhaps that does not apply with newer cars as much, but I doubt it. Nobody likes spending extra unnecessary effort with the only benefit being that the company can charge more. Well no one reputable anyways.
I guess a tab is not like a nexus? Nexus the battery couldn't be easier to replace.
Perhaps you didn't do the proper research before buying your phone.
FYI, every phone i have ever had has had a user replaceable battery. Period. Anything less would be a horrible design flaw as the battery WILL fail or fail to hold a charge after several hundred charge cycles (could be much lower based on usage and care). Perhaps you purchased a device with planned obsolescence built in. But aside from apple, this is not normal "industry standard" practice.
HAHAHA! I have had so many piss poor nvidia cards in the last few years that I switched to AMD now and havent looked back. IMHO the last good card that nvidia made was the 8800. I have a pile of broken 2xx cards in my desk that I am looking at right now. They seem to last a few months to a year. RMA'd cards from MSI and asus always come back and work for a few more months before failing to POST or creating graphics errors.
Things change people. ATI drivers are not even that bad anymore. Sure they update a bit much and nag you to update, however they are stable and I have had less problems with my current 6850 then any nvidia card since 8800 was popular. I think the reason was poor solder, or too heavy heatsyncs warping the cards or something on the 2xx series. Perhaps they have fixed it now with there newest cards but fuck if I am switching back till ati lets me down!
This is how the video card game always plays. Someone starts slipping and someone else takes the lead. For me, reliability is the best benchmark. Nvidia as I said has been shit so they lost me (and everyone i recommend cards to) as a customer. My 6850 has been rock solid since i purchased it. Not even any driver crashes! And yes I am aware that for the last 10 years ATI had crap drivers. This has been mostly fixed with their windows 7 drivers, so thats a few years ago now.
"I have never learned anything and thought, "gee, I wish they would have censored that""
What about showing rape porn to an 8 year old?
This is why i use openDNS on my kids computer. You do realize children are not capable of making their own decisions 100% of the time right? You do realize that some things should be censored from kids so that they can have a childhood right?
I dislike your absolute that "all censorhsip is evil". You will change your mind as soon as you have kids and see how helpless they are in the face of advertising and porn. They don't know what to make of it. Sure you can sit down and explain it, sometimes over and over, but there is no guarantee they will understand. Then when they start acting out in society, who gets the blame do you think? The parents of course!! That is who let them access this filthy stuff. Is it wikipedias fault, or my fault? Either way I want to try and manage that, since its my fucking kids and i am responsible! So I will filter my childrens net access.
You should try and be a bit more open minded, not just "censorship is the bad always for ALL cases". This is reality. Not some first year philosophy class. You kinda need to have gone through it with kids to be able to understand i think.
So because america got to the gun first, they now get to dictate who else can have a gun? And enforce this dictation with sanctions and if necessary all out wars.
That is tyranny on a global scale. Iran also does not claim to want the bomb. They claim to want nuclear power. All the sanctions and all that are basically punishing pre-crime, with the side effect of forcing them to be reliant on oil, CNG and coal. You can see how they might be upset with that, as you would be, being persecuted before committing a crime.
Ontop of that american rhetoric about iran is just as vitriolic if not more so. Your two countries are more alike than either would care to admit.
They ran out of letters for hurricanes a few years back and had to start using greek letters. So I don't know where you got this idea that hurricanes have not increased in the last 30 years. You do realize that the time scales we are talking (decades) are alot longer than you can perceive from year to year right? Not to mention that it is just more energy in the system. It can manifest in many different ways. Hotter drier summers where I am, cooler winters in europe, etc.
I don't get why americans have this huge denial about global climate change. Like we can measure the ppm of c02 in the atmosphere. Do you disagree with that science? Do you disagree with the historical climate change events that follow the c02 level in the atmosphere?
Like the data is there. You are being willfully ignorant. I am not sure what to say to someone who still persists with their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence. You can claim things wont be as bad as "they" say, however in this case 1m is a pretty conservative prediction if the Greenland ice sheet melts. Of course this may not happen, but pretending that there is no global climate change happening is crazy.
"What the results actually show is that right wing people and left wing people have different values. When they're ignorant of the facts, all they can go on is the mass media messages of "Oh noes, GW will ${bad things}", and having no real data simply default to "${bad things} = bad so GW is bad" logic. When educated as to the actually process, the risks and costs involved, they can actually evaluate the concerns of global warming against their own values. "
So the right says "wow look at all this data that proves global warming! The evidence is clearly there. However, this will force me to change my lifestyle/habits which as a right wing person i cannot do! (especially when its dictated by "the group") Therefore, I will nitpick the data and seize onto any conspiracy theory presented, as long as they have some "science" to back it up."
Whereas the lefty says "Wow look at all this data that proves global warming! Clearly I have to change my lifestyle/habits and I love change since I am a lefty! (especially when its eased by "the group" all changing too) So lets make vegetables the main course and not the side dish and start walking up stairs instead of taking the elevator! I am still really concerned, but at least I am trying to change!"
So you are right, but I think most people will get the wrong idea. An educated right winger only makes them craftier in their denials, whereas an educated left winger makes them start to go crazy because of what seems to be a rejection of the evidence at hand from the right. This is all assuming that the difference between right and left is the levels of open mindedness and resistance to change. But I think that is an accurate representation of the right/left split in america anyways. Since the left and right in america can agree on most things (if you consider obama and his democrats left. I personally do not, but this study is about america and their right-right / right-left split.)
Always important to remember the context, as I think in most other countries both their political parties can agree that climate change is at least occurring (which would make most of the world left wing apparently as viewed through the lens of american politics).
"Really, Really? The previous margins were tiny; the current margins are thin. I like low prices, too, but I also like companies that produce quality products to stay in business."
So you are implying that "tiny" margins would not allow them to stay in business? How do you explain the last 20 years then.
HDD's are a commodity. No matter what anyone says, there are very little difference between hard drive vendors products. Buy a seagate or buy a WD, they will have the same reliability and performance.
Considering that everyone consumes hard drives, and that they are more or less all the same, the prices should be as low as possible for the consumer at the low end of the market. These companies already do release "premium" drives, with dual proc or combined with SSD, rotational speed increases, etc.
A company making 200 mil instead of 100mil means absolutely dick to me. 30$ off of a hard drive however is alot of money to most people. And if all the hdd companies open sourced their R&D, they could save a ton of money in wasted effort and technological duplication.
"Being around people for too long drains me. Talking to someone online is manageable, because the person on the other side isn't taking up the entirety of my attention, and I'm free to do other things WHILE interacting"
It discusses exactly your point, and left me feeling sorry for the smart phoney's among us. The jist of her argument is that we only want the good parts of relationships which weakens relationships in general.
Here is a transcript that i have copied from the web. Hopefully slashdot doesnt brutalize it too much: ------------ Just a moment ago, my daughter Rebecca texted me for good luck. Her text said, "Mom, you will rock." I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug. And so there you have it. I embody the central paradox. I'm a woman who loves getting texts who's going to tell you that too many of them can be a problem.
Actually that reminder of my daughter brings me to the beginning of my story. 1996, when I gave my first TEDTalk, Rebecca was five years old and she was sitting right there in the front row. I had just written a book that celebrated our life on the internet and I was about to be on the cover of Wired magazine. In those heady days, we were experimenting with chat rooms and online virtual communities. We were exploring different aspects of ourselves. And then we unplugged. I was excited. And, as a psychologist, what excited me most was the idea that we would use what we learned in the virtual world about ourselves, about our identity, to live better lives in the real world.
Now fast-forward to 2012. I'm back here on the TED stage again. My daughter's 20. She's a college student. She sleeps with her cellphone, so do I. And I've just written a new book, but this time it's not one that will get me on the cover of Wired magazine. So what happened? I'm still excited by technology, but I believe, and I'm here to make the case, that we're letting it take us places that we don't want to go.
Over the past 15 years, I've studied technologies of mobile communication and I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, young and old, about their plugged in lives. And what I've found is that our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are. Some of the things we do now with our devices are things that, only a few years ago, we would have found odd or disturbing, but they've quickly come to seem familiar, just how we do things.
So just to take some quick examples: People text or do email during corporate board meetings. They text and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings. People talk to me about the important new skill of making eye contact while you're texting. (Laughter) People explain to me that it's hard, but that it can be done. Parents text and do email at breakfast and at dinner while their children complain about not having their parents' full attention. But then these same children deny each other their full attention. This is a recent shot of my daughter and her friends being together while not being together. And we even text at funerals. I study this. We remove ourselves from our grief or from our revery and we go into our phones.
Why does this matter? It matters to me because I think we're setting ourselves up for trouble -- trouble certainly in how we relate to each other, but also trouble in how we relate to ourselves and our capacity for self-reflection. We're getting used to a new way of being alone together. People want to be with each other, but also elsewhere -- connected to all the different places they want to be. People want to customize their lives. They want to go in and out of all the places they are because the thing that m
I ran it for a year or so after it first came out. Then one day i had popups on a machine. MSE said it was clean, MSE in another machine said it was clean (with hard drive removed and put in other machine). Only aviria was able to find the virus.
That said, aviria is godawful. The software itself shows popups forcing you to blacklist avnotify.exe with local group policies (yuk!) and they really push their premium version down your throats. Despite this, it does have the absolute best antivirus engine imho. It finds things avg, kaspersky and MSE do not find period. Which makes it the best.
This is a sad state of affairs indeed. The software is really scammy, but it does the best job of any free product i have tried. Once you jump through the hoops.
If anyone else has a better free antivirus, I am all ears to try it.
Did you send an email to your housekeeping or facilities management department outlining your concerns with the lax enforcement of your cleaning crew? Did you try and publicize and embarrass the company in internal emails, letting people know they are not doing their job?
No, you didn't. You just decided that people who recycle are fools because you know something that they do not. Not even remotely because you are smarter, merely because you are a night slave (and one can see why you dont get normal daytime office hours with the kind of hands off antisocial attitude the rest of your post indicates). Hope you enjoy feeling smug and superior about it, because that seems to be the only point of your anecdote.
"The environment" is not scamming you here. You are scamming yourself in the exact same way as if you have computers stolen because you didnt let anyone know that a door was propped open and they were stolen in the night. I would hold you responsible for the environmental damage your company is doing as you seem to have knowledge of it, yet do nothing but use it to absolve your guilt and perpetuate your laziness.
"It's a pain in the fucking ass. Now we've got AWG and metric cable types. I'm supposed to be able to find a substitute for a discontinued cable, specs in AWG, but replacements in metric, and every. single. fucking. time. I have to work out the characteristics because the sizes aren't exactly the same."
yeah, that was hard. How would you measure even what cable you have (assuming its not labeled) without measuring the diametre in mm?
Surely you can handle two decimal points with a micrometer. I am having a hard time understanding how this small conversion of known values could cause you that much grief. Perhaps it depends on your application, but still. How do you think people every figure out what gauge of wire they have? measure it!!!!
Oh so you dont like chemicals? *snicker* Well what happens if i told you that WATER was a CHEMICAL!?!?hahaha/conversation with snarky asshole
No, I don't like the overabundance of added man made chemicals with possibly dubious purposes. The history of petrochemicals is filled with horrible mistakes by mankind. There is nothing wrong with trying to resist the trend of the last 80 years to put chemicals into every food product in order to increase its shelf life, increase its colour, etc. Plus now they do genetic engineering so they can spray more and more petrochemical pesticides on crops. How could anyone make fun of someone for not wanting to put that kind of shit in their bodies? Only on the king of the literal, slashdot.
"blu ray playback. Which right now requires you buy any of a slew of fairly expensive players"
DVDfab has a blue ray ripper which is excellent. Whenever we are unfortunate enough to receive a bluray for something, this 60$ software tool (free trial of a month, or free on piratebay of course) will do the job. Then you can easily put in mp4 for distribution pretty much anywhere these days.
I dont see why anyone would want to keep and maintain spinning discs of plastic. its 2012 for petes sake! This announcement by microsoft pretty much just kills windows media player, if it wasnt already dead.
Every major and minor corporation does this. Non profits, schools, everyone. There is even a term for it, eating your own dogfood. Using a product or service that your company provides - as opposed to the competitors.
Your making it seem like jitjill is some sort of amoral conformist. Granted, they are (the conformist part anyways). However he points out and rightfully so, that this happens everywhere. You are expected not to say bad things about your employer and their products. If you really feel strongly and negatively about the products or services your company makes, the correct response in public is "no comment". As long as they are not breaking any laws, or abusing the employees. Asking the employees to vote for their companies product is hardly that.
We are talking about apps for a smartphone "toy" here. Hes doesnt work for a defence contractor, being asked to promote the sale of bombs and missiles. I think its pretty safe to either props it, or ignore it. The grandparent was right. Its just not a big deal.
You obviously haven't read the new yorker article here.
It was extremely more likely that the scorn he received from his mother likely pushed him over the edge. He even took her on "tours of bridges around new york". If thats not a cry for help...
"Clementi wrote a message to Justusboys. He was clearly pained, but there's little to support the idea that he was mortified by the thought that he'd been outed. There are only hints of Clementi's mood in the previous weeks and months. There was his claim that he hated high school, and there were three files on his computer, written in July and early September, whose contents are unknown but whose file names are Gah.docx, sorry.docx, and Why is everything so painful.docx. It may be significant that, on his initiative, he and his mother had taken excursions to bridges around New York; he kept photographs he had taken of the George Washington Bridge on his phone. Paul Mainardi, the lawyer, wondered if Tyler was "in the thinking-about-suicide world" sometime before college. "
The whole story was dramatized by various people with various goals. Alot of it was played out online, and tyler had used the same handle on multiple websites so he was easy to track down.
Personally, i think the whole case could have been solved if they just got in a fight and then had a beer. Of course people would rather write about it online now then even TALK to each other. and they lived in the same fucking room!!
Seriously, read the article. I would say as someone who also has a special interest to spin on this:), that the cause of all the problems can be traced to online vanity and lack of anonymity. Ravi even complained that the guy had a yahoo email address, i mean this is bullshit things ALL kids complain about. However, now all the kids do it online with their real names. This is the problem here, stupid kids stupidity amplified x100 because of the internets.
"Once Ravi understood that he would be living with Clementi, not Picone, he felt that he knew these essential facts: his roommate was gay, profoundly uncool, and not well off. If the first attribute presented both a complication and a happy chance to gossip, the second and third were perceived as failings. "I was fucking hoping for someone with a gmail but no," Ravi wrote to Tam. Clementi's Yahoo e-mail address symbolized a grim, dorky world, half seen, of fish tanks and violins. Ravi's I.M.s about Tyler's presumed poverty were far more blunt than those about sexual orientation. At one point during his exchanges with Tam that weekend, Ravi wrote, "Dude I hate poor people.""
The reason why people get divorced is because they are selfish. If you can't overcome your selfishness, then don't get married in the first place.
It is sad that people don't believe in marriage anymore, or take it seriously. For most people these days, it seems that a marriage just means "till its inconvenient for my precious self".
It surely is not a "disease" any more than "lazyness" is a disease. A disease these days seems to simply mean "some condition that i feel negatively affects me". I used to be very depressed. Did i take drugs for it? No! How did i beat it? Exercise.
The brain is not a new thing. There are conditions that people have, and mostly there are centuries old remedies which fix them right up. Most "diseases" of the american public can be fixed with simple diet and exercise changes, and as another posted noted, the correct amount of sleep.
So no. No one "needs" stimulants to get through the day. Although I am sure many people WANT them. I've taken dexedrine caps, ritalin, etc.. That shit made my brain work faster than ever before! Crazy trips on those.. The problem is the side effects and the comedown the next day where you are now slower than ever before. This leads to habitual addiction which is probably the cycle you are locked into.
People not being able to pay attention and focus is not a disease. Its a psychological / chemical problem. You can treat the symptoms with drugs, or you can treat the cause with lifestyle changes and end up far far better in the long run.
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So does that mean you are indirectly advocating that for true freedom, everything should be run by the government?
You are arguing now that mccain and sarah palin would have run the USA better. That is what you are arguing, just so we are clear.
The goal of capitalism is to make money doing absolutely nothing of value? shuffling millions of fractions of imagined pennies back and forth in the ether, with a computer program at near light speed?
No wonder so many people have lost faith in capitalism! It has clearly become a shadow of its former self if "this is capitalism" as you say.
Funny, because in my view owning things is much less under other peoples thumb than renting them. For instance, one definitely is more free if one has their own tools to generate electricity, repair things, pump water, etc. You seem to be saying that its better to pay "someone else" to manage these things for you. Perhaps you like spending money to solve your problems, but I wouldn't call losing the ability to be self sufficient "being owned". Quite the opposite in fact. You are a slave to the streaming service, or whomever else you have to beg ($$) for access. Sure being a slave is probably liberating you from the hardship of making decisions and managing things, but at what cost?? You could plug your brain into the TV and "liberate" your ability to think as well. You just exchanged responsibility for cash, a popular thing to do, if you have the cash.
Ownership and control are the only true freedoms. Even nomads would own tools, and the means to survive.
Im pretty sure osama bin laden thought the exact same thing! Hint, its called terrorism if there isn't a war on. That is what is to be expected from america these days i guess.
Just to nitpick, you clearly have never worked on a car. The designers for many cars (north american anyways, cant speak for other types) go out of their way to make things user serviceable (when they can, there are obvious limitations). A technician is no different than a backyard mechanic when it comes down to it. Try changing your serpentine belt, easy as pie once you know the "trick" for your particular car. Brake pads/ rotors and oil are trivially easy as well. So much so that 10$ an hour minimum wage person can do it with almost no training on many different cars.
After working on cars for a number of years, the one thing I have noticed is there is almost always a "trick" of some sort for getting components unbolted or tested. Be it a channel, hole or access facade where you can fit a tool, or a specific procedure which becomes very easy with a haynes manual or similar. Heck they even ship ODBII since 1996 (ODB1 since the 80s) which allows you to connect computers of varying degrees of complication in order to interface with the computer and do diagnostics. These computers are all available at varying price points, simple ones costing only 30$.
So i would say that compared to apple, cars are designed to be serviced by users or mechanics, and not just the dealership/manufacturer. They also do not go out of their way to make things difficult as apple seems to be doing (and always have done to some degree). Perhaps that does not apply with newer cars as much, but I doubt it. Nobody likes spending extra unnecessary effort with the only benefit being that the company can charge more. Well no one reputable anyways.
I guess a tab is not like a nexus? Nexus the battery couldn't be easier to replace.
Perhaps you didn't do the proper research before buying your phone.
FYI, every phone i have ever had has had a user replaceable battery. Period. Anything less would be a horrible design flaw as the battery WILL fail or fail to hold a charge after several hundred charge cycles (could be much lower based on usage and care). Perhaps you purchased a device with planned obsolescence built in. But aside from apple, this is not normal "industry standard" practice.
HAHAHA! I have had so many piss poor nvidia cards in the last few years that I switched to AMD now and havent looked back. IMHO the last good card that nvidia made was the 8800. I have a pile of broken 2xx cards in my desk that I am looking at right now. They seem to last a few months to a year. RMA'd cards from MSI and asus always come back and work for a few more months before failing to POST or creating graphics errors.
Things change people. ATI drivers are not even that bad anymore. Sure they update a bit much and nag you to update, however they are stable and I have had less problems with my current 6850 then any nvidia card since 8800 was popular. I think the reason was poor solder, or too heavy heatsyncs warping the cards or something on the 2xx series. Perhaps they have fixed it now with there newest cards but fuck if I am switching back till ati lets me down!
This is how the video card game always plays. Someone starts slipping and someone else takes the lead. For me, reliability is the best benchmark. Nvidia as I said has been shit so they lost me (and everyone i recommend cards to) as a customer. My 6850 has been rock solid since i purchased it. Not even any driver crashes! And yes I am aware that for the last 10 years ATI had crap drivers. This has been mostly fixed with their windows 7 drivers, so thats a few years ago now.
What about showing rape porn to an 8 year old?
This is why i use openDNS on my kids computer. You do realize children are not capable of making their own decisions 100% of the time right? You do realize that some things should be censored from kids so that they can have a childhood right?
I dislike your absolute that "all censorhsip is evil". You will change your mind as soon as you have kids and see how helpless they are in the face of advertising and porn. They don't know what to make of it. Sure you can sit down and explain it, sometimes over and over, but there is no guarantee they will understand. Then when they start acting out in society, who gets the blame do you think? The parents of course!! That is who let them access this filthy stuff. Is it wikipedias fault, or my fault? Either way I want to try and manage that, since its my fucking kids and i am responsible! So I will filter my childrens net access.
You should try and be a bit more open minded, not just "censorship is the bad always for ALL cases". This is reality. Not some first year philosophy class. You kinda need to have gone through it with kids to be able to understand i think.
So because america got to the gun first, they now get to dictate who else can have a gun? And enforce this dictation with sanctions and if necessary all out wars.
That is tyranny on a global scale. Iran also does not claim to want the bomb. They claim to want nuclear power. All the sanctions and all that are basically punishing pre-crime, with the side effect of forcing them to be reliant on oil, CNG and coal. You can see how they might be upset with that, as you would be, being persecuted before committing a crime.
Ontop of that american rhetoric about iran is just as vitriolic if not more so. Your two countries are more alike than either would care to admit.
They ran out of letters for hurricanes a few years back and had to start using greek letters. So I don't know where you got this idea that hurricanes have not increased in the last 30 years. You do realize that the time scales we are talking (decades) are alot longer than you can perceive from year to year right? Not to mention that it is just more energy in the system. It can manifest in many different ways. Hotter drier summers where I am, cooler winters in europe, etc.
I don't get why americans have this huge denial about global climate change. Like we can measure the ppm of c02 in the atmosphere. Do you disagree with that science? Do you disagree with the historical climate change events that follow the c02 level in the atmosphere?
Like the data is there. You are being willfully ignorant. I am not sure what to say to someone who still persists with their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence. You can claim things wont be as bad as "they" say, however in this case 1m is a pretty conservative prediction if the Greenland ice sheet melts. Of course this may not happen, but pretending that there is no global climate change happening is crazy.
So the right says "wow look at all this data that proves global warming! The evidence is clearly there. However, this will force me to change my lifestyle/habits which as a right wing person i cannot do! (especially when its dictated by "the group") Therefore, I will nitpick the data and seize onto any conspiracy theory presented, as long as they have some "science" to back it up."
Whereas the lefty says "Wow look at all this data that proves global warming! Clearly I have to change my lifestyle/habits and I love change since I am a lefty! (especially when its eased by "the group" all changing too) So lets make vegetables the main course and not the side dish and start walking up stairs instead of taking the elevator! I am still really concerned, but at least I am trying to change!"
So you are right, but I think most people will get the wrong idea. An educated right winger only makes them craftier in their denials, whereas an educated left winger makes them start to go crazy because of what seems to be a rejection of the evidence at hand from the right. This is all assuming that the difference between right and left is the levels of open mindedness and resistance to change. But I think that is an accurate representation of the right/left split in america anyways. Since the left and right in america can agree on most things (if you consider obama and his democrats left. I personally do not, but this study is about america and their right-right / right-left split.)
Always important to remember the context, as I think in most other countries both their political parties can agree that climate change is at least occurring (which would make most of the world left wing apparently as viewed through the lens of american politics).
So you are implying that "tiny" margins would not allow them to stay in business? How do you explain the last 20 years then.
HDD's are a commodity. No matter what anyone says, there are very little difference between hard drive vendors products. Buy a seagate or buy a WD, they will have the same reliability and performance.
Considering that everyone consumes hard drives, and that they are more or less all the same, the prices should be as low as possible for the consumer at the low end of the market. These companies already do release "premium" drives, with dual proc or combined with SSD, rotational speed increases, etc.
A company making 200 mil instead of 100mil means absolutely dick to me. 30$ off of a hard drive however is alot of money to most people. And if all the hdd companies open sourced their R&D, they could save a ton of money in wasted effort and technological duplication.
You may want to take a look at the following ted talk by Sherry Turkle. http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
It discusses exactly your point, and left me feeling sorry for the smart phoney's among us. The jist of her argument is that we only want the good parts of relationships which weakens relationships in general.
Here is a transcript that i have copied from the web. Hopefully slashdot doesnt brutalize it too much:
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Just a moment ago, my daughter Rebecca texted me for good luck. Her text said, "Mom, you will rock." I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug. And so there you have it. I embody the central paradox. I'm a woman who loves getting texts who's going to tell you that too many of them can be a problem.
Actually that reminder of my daughter brings me to the beginning of my story. 1996, when I gave my first TEDTalk, Rebecca was five years old and she was sitting right there in the front row. I had just written a book that celebrated our life on the internet and I was about to be on the cover of Wired magazine. In those heady days, we were experimenting with chat rooms and online virtual communities. We were exploring different aspects of ourselves. And then we unplugged. I was excited. And, as a psychologist, what excited me most was the idea that we would use what we learned in the virtual world about ourselves, about our identity, to live better lives in the real world.
Now fast-forward to 2012. I'm back here on the TED stage again. My daughter's 20. She's a college student. She sleeps with her cellphone, so do I. And I've just written a new book, but this time it's not one that will get me on the cover of Wired magazine. So what happened? I'm still excited by technology, but I believe, and I'm here to make the case, that we're letting it take us places that we don't want to go.
Over the past 15 years, I've studied technologies of mobile communication and I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, young and old, about their plugged in lives. And what I've found is that our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are. Some of the things we do now with our devices are things that, only a few years ago, we would have found odd or disturbing, but they've quickly come to seem familiar, just how we do things.
So just to take some quick examples: People text or do email during corporate board meetings. They text and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings. People talk to me about the important new skill of making eye contact while you're texting. (Laughter) People explain to me that it's hard, but that it can be done. Parents text and do email at breakfast and at dinner while their children complain about not having their parents' full attention. But then these same children deny each other their full attention. This is a recent shot of my daughter and her friends being together while not being together. And we even text at funerals. I study this. We remove ourselves from our grief or from our revery and we go into our phones.
Why does this matter? It matters to me because I think we're setting ourselves up for trouble -- trouble certainly in how we relate to each other, but also trouble in how we relate to ourselves and our capacity for self-reflection. We're getting used to a new way of being alone together. People want to be with each other, but also elsewhere -- connected to all the different places they want to be. People want to customize their lives. They want to go in and out of all the places they are because the thing that m
Except that MSE routeenly doesnt detect shit!
I ran it for a year or so after it first came out. Then one day i had popups on a machine. MSE said it was clean, MSE in another machine said it was clean (with hard drive removed and put in other machine). Only aviria was able to find the virus.
That said, aviria is godawful. The software itself shows popups forcing you to blacklist avnotify.exe with local group policies (yuk!) and they really push their premium version down your throats. Despite this, it does have the absolute best antivirus engine imho. It finds things avg, kaspersky and MSE do not find period. Which makes it the best.
This is a sad state of affairs indeed. The software is really scammy, but it does the best job of any free product i have tried. Once you jump through the hoops.
If anyone else has a better free antivirus, I am all ears to try it.
Did you send an email to your housekeeping or facilities management department outlining your concerns with the lax enforcement of your cleaning crew? Did you try and publicize and embarrass the company in internal emails, letting people know they are not doing their job?
No, you didn't. You just decided that people who recycle are fools because you know something that they do not. Not even remotely because you are smarter, merely because you are a night slave (and one can see why you dont get normal daytime office hours with the kind of hands off antisocial attitude the rest of your post indicates). Hope you enjoy feeling smug and superior about it, because that seems to be the only point of your anecdote.
"The environment" is not scamming you here. You are scamming yourself in the exact same way as if you have computers stolen because you didnt let anyone know that a door was propped open and they were stolen in the night. I would hold you responsible for the environmental damage your company is doing as you seem to have knowledge of it, yet do nothing but use it to absolve your guilt and perpetuate your laziness.
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/awg-wire-gauge-d_731.html
yeah, that was hard. How would you measure even what cable you have (assuming its not labeled) without measuring the diametre in mm?
Surely you can handle two decimal points with a micrometer. I am having a hard time understanding how this small conversion of known values could cause you that much grief. Perhaps it depends on your application, but still. How do you think people every figure out what gauge of wire they have? measure it!!!!
Exactly. People are way too literal around here.
Oh so you dont like chemicals? *snicker* Well what happens if i told you that WATER was a CHEMICAL!?!?hahaha /conversation with snarky asshole
No, I don't like the overabundance of added man made chemicals with possibly dubious purposes. The history of petrochemicals is filled with horrible mistakes by mankind. There is nothing wrong with trying to resist the trend of the last 80 years to put chemicals into every food product in order to increase its shelf life, increase its colour, etc. Plus now they do genetic engineering so they can spray more and more petrochemical pesticides on crops. How could anyone make fun of someone for not wanting to put that kind of shit in their bodies? Only on the king of the literal, slashdot.
DVDfab has a blue ray ripper which is excellent. Whenever we are unfortunate enough to receive a bluray for something, this 60$ software tool (free trial of a month, or free on piratebay of course) will do the job. Then you can easily put in mp4 for distribution pretty much anywhere these days.
I dont see why anyone would want to keep and maintain spinning discs of plastic. its 2012 for petes sake! This announcement by microsoft pretty much just kills windows media player, if it wasnt already dead.
Every major and minor corporation does this. Non profits, schools, everyone. There is even a term for it, eating your own dogfood. Using a product or service that your company provides - as opposed to the competitors.
Your making it seem like jitjill is some sort of amoral conformist. Granted, they are (the conformist part anyways). However he points out and rightfully so, that this happens everywhere. You are expected not to say bad things about your employer and their products. If you really feel strongly and negatively about the products or services your company makes, the correct response in public is "no comment". As long as they are not breaking any laws, or abusing the employees. Asking the employees to vote for their companies product is hardly that.
We are talking about apps for a smartphone "toy" here. Hes doesnt work for a defence contractor, being asked to promote the sale of bombs and missiles.
I think its pretty safe to either props it, or ignore it. The grandparent was right. Its just not a big deal.
In soviet russia, adolescent os biggots don't know shit about YOU!
(and here gawker is trying to change that!)
You obviously haven't read the new yorker article here.
It was extremely more likely that the scorn he received from his mother likely pushed him over the edge. He even took her on "tours of bridges around new york". If thats not a cry for help...
The whole story was dramatized by various people with various goals. Alot of it was played out online, and tyler had used the same handle on multiple websites so he was easy to track down.
Personally, i think the whole case could have been solved if they just got in a fight and then had a beer. Of course people would rather write about it online now then even TALK to each other. and they lived in the same fucking room!!
Seriously, read the article. I would say as someone who also has a special interest to spin on this :), that the cause of all the problems can be traced to online vanity and lack of anonymity. Ravi even complained that the guy had a yahoo email address, i mean this is bullshit things ALL kids complain about. However, now all the kids do it online with their real names. This is the problem here, stupid kids stupidity amplified x100 because of the internets.
The reason why people get divorced is because they are selfish. If you can't overcome your selfishness, then don't get married in the first place.
It is sad that people don't believe in marriage anymore, or take it seriously. For most people these days, it seems that a marriage just means "till its inconvenient for my precious self".
It surely is not a "disease" any more than "lazyness" is a disease. A disease these days seems to simply mean "some condition that i feel negatively affects me". I used to be very depressed. Did i take drugs for it? No! How did i beat it? Exercise.
The brain is not a new thing. There are conditions that people have, and mostly there are centuries old remedies which fix them right up. Most "diseases" of the american public can be fixed with simple diet and exercise changes, and as another posted noted, the correct amount of sleep.
So no. No one "needs" stimulants to get through the day. Although I am sure many people WANT them. I've taken dexedrine caps, ritalin, etc.. That shit made my brain work faster than ever before! Crazy trips on those.. The problem is the side effects and the comedown the next day where you are now slower than ever before. This leads to habitual addiction which is probably the cycle you are locked into.
People not being able to pay attention and focus is not a disease. Its a psychological / chemical problem. You can treat the symptoms with drugs, or you can treat the cause with lifestyle changes and end up far far better in the long run.
Except now you cant open doors with your ass. That's the best part of having a rfid proxy card!