A coworker of mine just posted on facebook that his cable television will be off until september at the earliest due to financial issues involving his childrens sports activities.
I think that he's beginning to smarten up. Television was never a necessity, and in fact its at best a luxury that should be sacrificed when its a tradeoff between television and most anything else at all. With the quality of content these days, I wonder how anyone could figure its worth it if the money has any value to them at all...
I guess then that the only reason people want this is that they can't be bothered to put up their own antenna and PVR/streaming box
Dont forget the cases where they do have an antenna but the reception is shitty because of unfortunate geographic issues.. they are "in the broadcast area" but are sitting in the shadow of some significant interference...
Sure, television always had a lot of crap.. but it wasn't always so loaded up with cheap crap aka "reality television."
How many channels have names that lie about their content now? The learning channel? National geographic channel? The history channel?....
Its cheap to pay 4 or 5 guys with cameras to follow around a bunch of douche bags.. its crap so they only get 10% of the viewers that they used to, but it only costs them 1% of what their old programming had cost to produce, and sometimes the cast of douche bags they are following are so extraordinarily douchy that they have a "hit" and get twice as many viewers as their old programming did...
I'm not sure that I wouldn't make the same decisions as they are if I was in their place.. profits are up all the way down the death spiral...
Turns into a circular argument that is easily defeated...
A: "There is no demand for SCSI, fibre channel, or 10GBe in laptops, so there wont be demand for Thunderbolt."
B: "But there are adapters that convert Thunderbolt to those"
A: "That doesnt create demand where there wasn't any before."
'cept how are they going to acquire these movies at greater than USB speeds, in order to need greater than USB speeds?
For example, BLURAY drives stream 54Mb/s at 1x speed, and the fastest common drives are 12x, leading to 648Mb/s which is 81 MB/s.
USB 3.0 has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 4.8Gb/s which is 600 MB/s, over 7 times faster than 12x BLURAY drives and over 42 times faster than the commonly needed 2x speed for realtime playback of HD content (42 minutes of HD BLURAY video could transfer over USB 3.0 in 1 minute)
So where are they magically going to be getting these movies that frustrate them about how slow their external bus is? In short, you don't seem to know what you are talking about but instead are throwing around crap trying to justify a common-mans decision to go with an overly expensive external bus. It doesnt wash because the common man has no use for the added speed. The fact is that the common man doesnt even have a hard drive rated at faster than USB 3.0 speeds, and the drives that do rate faster are so expensive that the common man would never ever buy one.
While on the subject of Planned Parenthood in a discussion of "hate speech" and "genocide", the racial breakdown of aborted fetuses in America is appalling, and in fact the number of Blacks killed by abortion in America outnumber all other causes of death combined. Hispanics arent far behind in these statistics.
I don't want to turn this into a "Planned Parenthood is racist" discussion, because that speaks to motives and I don't think motives matter. The end result matters, and its a fucking holocaust.
While I may be liberal and you may be conservative..
You are not a classical liberal, which is his point.
The whole modern liberals and conservatives idea is a false dichotomy, because the former is about social liberalism via the theft of freedom while the later is about social conservatism via the theft of freedom.
When you vote for the lesser of two evils you get ever increasing evil. Both will enslave you to their agenda.
This is why so long as both sides use volunteer armies, that wars are a good thing. It is a fact that some people are hard-wired to be ultra-aggressive, to have an instinctive leaning towards killing. There is no society, no system of upbringing, that does not have these people.
Wars, and now highly realistic video games, provide an outlet for some of them.
Translation: Blame the Republicans for not finding a RINO to run against her.
Look.. this is real simple. The Californians want these nanny-state-liberals representing them and will not vote for someone else. If the Republicans put up a nanny-state-liberal well sure then the Republican might win.. but it would still be a god-damned nanny-state-liberal.
The problem isn't the Republicans. The problem is the Californians. Not all of the blue states are full of retards, and certainly some of the red states are full of retards, but California most definitely is full of complete fucking retards.
Take Connecticut as an example of a blue state whose people are not so retarded. The Democrat party wanted nanny-state-liberal Ned Lamont to replace Joe Lieberman so went ahead and nominated Ned even though Joe was running for re-election. Joe went ahead and ran as an independent and won the election anyways, because while Joe may not have been nanny-state enough for the Democrat party, he was nanny-state enough for the People of Connecticut.
(Ned later backed Chris Dodd on his presidential campaign and switched to Obama when Dodd dropped out)
The real problem is that the true liberals are the Libertarians, who have been vilified by both the control-freak parties.
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How are you going to stop the wealthy from getting better services?
Why should we?
Those that keep letting jealousy and spite rule their thinking process are turning themselves and everyone else into slaves.
Yep, thats why marijuana is still illegal.. because of all the severely disturbed individuals suffering incurable mental health problems because of their marijuana use...
..oh wait, no.. that was just the excuse used to make marijuana illegal...
Sorry pal.. I'm not buying your quite predictable bullshit excuse to attack liberty just because you not only think that you know whats best for others, that you are also willing to enslave them into your version of life because fuck them.
How about this. My liberty is infinitely more precious than the good intentions that you wish to force upon me through the violence of law. You threaten violence as a means to those good intentions, so don't be surprised if every once in awhile one of you motherfuckers gets some deadly serious violence in return because fuck you.
You can write an open source CAD program in your free time
You don't seem to understand the very vast difference between a hobby CAD project and professional CAD software. There are already plenty of FOSS CAD programs. They all are great if you are just some schmuck that isnt a professional CAD user, but are completely unfit for purpose if you are actually a professional.
A more well understood example of this is GIMP. None of the GIMP developers understand the needs of professional photographers. The reason for this is that the GIMP developers are not motivated to understand them, let alone motivated to target the software at them. Switch your reference frame to Adobe on the other hand.. they most certainly are not only motivated to understand the needs of the professional photographer, but also motivated to satisfy them. Thats how they feed their wives and children, how they fund their vacations, how they pay off their mortgages, how they have nice things in general.
FOSS cannot compete in niche spaces where people are willing to spend lots of money on software, because its the money stupid. FOSS wins in spaces with widespread audiances, and in niche spaces where there isnt much money to be had. FOSS loses hard in spaces with lots of motivational money.. again and again.
Its an extremely limited technical market. One that does not strongly overlap with programming.
This isnt the reason. There are extremely limited technical markets where FOSS is easily winning.. such as the statistics package 'R' -- nothing else even comes close.
Open source solutions will exist as soon as YOU and your fellow architects/engineers make them, that is no different than any other field.
'cept they are too busy making real money working with professional CAD programs to bother writing their own CAD programs. Think about the tradeoff.
Once you get into the realm where people need niche tools for highly paid professional work then FOSS falls flat because the professionals are more than willing to spend thousands of dollars on tools that enable them to earn an income well above the median, and that attracts developers looking to satisfy those professionals needs so that they too can earn an income well above the median.
Nearly every FOSS gem is in an area that does NOT involve highly paid professionals. As with anything else, its the money.
The IT department being incompetent and/or harmful to your job says nothing about Windows. It just tells us that your IT department is a bunch of fuckups, and imagine those fuckups attempting to manage a large collection of linux machines... it will be more of the same, perhaps with some added hilarity.
Removing that outlier (dropping it completely) gives us an average of 2.59 days
Exactly as I said but you seemed to want to argue against it. You argued that there was a population makeup where the outliers had a significant impact, but you cannot actually produce one.
The reason drugs can get banned is because they are so incredibly devastating to individuals to families and to communities when their use becomes common.
Translation: You are not free to "ruin" your own life, where "ruin" is based on an opinion of whats "right" and whats "wrong."
Pretending they are harmless undermines other points.
Pretending that you have any business telling others what they can do to themselves undermines freedom and liberty.
No new physical or mathematical colorspace will improve color reproduction.
'cept we arent dealing with 'preproduction' - we are dealing with 'capture' - while the RGB color space can indeed encode "yellow" it cannot encode how it got to be yellow (is it a single light wave with a wavelength of 570 nm, is it a combination of 510 nm and 650 nm waves, or is it something else?)
(hint: Your monitor reproduces yellow by combining 510 nm and 650 nm waves, but most things in nature that appear yellow do so because the waves are 570 nm)
If you shrink them anymore, Quantum Stuff starts to happen which you may not really want to happen.
..unless you embrace the Quantum Stuff and deal with the consequences. One of the nice things about Quantum Interference is that its well defined, unlike other forms of noise.
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A coworker of mine just posted on facebook that his cable television will be off until september at the earliest due to financial issues involving his childrens sports activities.
I think that he's beginning to smarten up. Television was never a necessity, and in fact its at best a luxury that should be sacrificed when its a tradeoff between television and most anything else at all. With the quality of content these days, I wonder how anyone could figure its worth it if the money has any value to them at all...
I guess then that the only reason people want this is that they can't be bothered to put up their own antenna and PVR/streaming box
Dont forget the cases where they do have an antenna but the reception is shitty because of unfortunate geographic issues.. they are "in the broadcast area" but are sitting in the shadow of some significant interference...
I don't even think its the subscription model...
....
Sure, television always had a lot of crap.. but it wasn't always so loaded up with cheap crap aka "reality television."
How many channels have names that lie about their content now? The learning channel? National geographic channel? The history channel?
Its cheap to pay 4 or 5 guys with cameras to follow around a bunch of douche bags.. its crap so they only get 10% of the viewers that they used to, but it only costs them 1% of what their old programming had cost to produce, and sometimes the cast of douche bags they are following are so extraordinarily douchy that they have a "hit" and get twice as many viewers as their old programming did...
I'm not sure that I wouldn't make the same decisions as they are if I was in their place.. profits are up all the way down the death spiral...
It does most definitely include using the legal system as a blunt instrument against those that can't as easily afford lawyers though
I get it.. you made one claim, and someone challenged it and you realized how stupid it was, so now you are making another claim.
I challenge this one too, because its just as dumbass as the previous bullshit claim you made up.
Turns into a circular argument that is easily defeated...
A: "There is no demand for SCSI, fibre channel, or 10GBe in laptops, so there wont be demand for Thunderbolt."
B: "But there are adapters that convert Thunderbolt to those"
A: "That doesnt create demand where there wasn't any before."
'cept how are they going to acquire these movies at greater than USB speeds, in order to need greater than USB speeds?
For example, BLURAY drives stream 54Mb/s at 1x speed, and the fastest common drives are 12x, leading to 648Mb/s which is 81 MB/s.
USB 3.0 has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 4.8Gb/s which is 600 MB/s, over 7 times faster than 12x BLURAY drives and over 42 times faster than the commonly needed 2x speed for realtime playback of HD content (42 minutes of HD BLURAY video could transfer over USB 3.0 in 1 minute)
So where are they magically going to be getting these movies that frustrate them about how slow their external bus is? In short, you don't seem to know what you are talking about but instead are throwing around crap trying to justify a common-mans decision to go with an overly expensive external bus. It doesnt wash because the common man has no use for the added speed. The fact is that the common man doesnt even have a hard drive rated at faster than USB 3.0 speeds, and the drives that do rate faster are so expensive that the common man would never ever buy one.
The libertarian mindset does not include "intellectual property" you dumbass.
the socialists, the libertarians, the conservatives, and the liberals.
Sorry, these arent even all in the same class of things.
The opposite of Libertarian is Statist. Both Liberals and Conservatives are Statists, and socialism is an economic model.
While on the subject of Planned Parenthood in a discussion of "hate speech" and "genocide", the racial breakdown of aborted fetuses in America is appalling, and in fact the number of Blacks killed by abortion in America outnumber all other causes of death combined. Hispanics arent far behind in these statistics.
I don't want to turn this into a "Planned Parenthood is racist" discussion, because that speaks to motives and I don't think motives matter. The end result matters, and its a fucking holocaust.
While I may be liberal and you may be conservative..
You are not a classical liberal, which is his point.
The whole modern liberals and conservatives idea is a false dichotomy, because the former is about social liberalism via the theft of freedom while the later is about social conservatism via the theft of freedom.
When you vote for the lesser of two evils you get ever increasing evil. Both will enslave you to their agenda.
This is why so long as both sides use volunteer armies, that wars are a good thing. It is a fact that some people are hard-wired to be ultra-aggressive, to have an instinctive leaning towards killing. There is no society, no system of upbringing, that does not have these people.
Wars, and now highly realistic video games, provide an outlet for some of them.
Translation: Blame the Republicans for not finding a RINO to run against her.
Look.. this is real simple. The Californians want these nanny-state-liberals representing them and will not vote for someone else. If the Republicans put up a nanny-state-liberal well sure then the Republican might win.. but it would still be a god-damned nanny-state-liberal.
The problem isn't the Republicans. The problem is the Californians. Not all of the blue states are full of retards, and certainly some of the red states are full of retards, but California most definitely is full of complete fucking retards.
Take Connecticut as an example of a blue state whose people are not so retarded. The Democrat party wanted nanny-state-liberal Ned Lamont to replace Joe Lieberman so went ahead and nominated Ned even though Joe was running for re-election. Joe went ahead and ran as an independent and won the election anyways, because while Joe may not have been nanny-state enough for the Democrat party, he was nanny-state enough for the People of Connecticut.
(Ned later backed Chris Dodd on his presidential campaign and switched to Obama when Dodd dropped out)
The real problem is that the true liberals are the Libertarians, who have been vilified by both the control-freak parties.
How are you going to stop the wealthy from getting better services?
Why should we?
Those that keep letting jealousy and spite rule their thinking process are turning themselves and everyone else into slaves.
Yep, thats why marijuana is still illegal.. because of all the severely disturbed individuals suffering incurable mental health problems because of their marijuana use...
..oh wait, no.. that was just the excuse used to make marijuana illegal...
Sorry pal.. I'm not buying your quite predictable bullshit excuse to attack liberty just because you not only think that you know whats best for others, that you are also willing to enslave them into your version of life because fuck them.
How about this. My liberty is infinitely more precious than the good intentions that you wish to force upon me through the violence of law. You threaten violence as a means to those good intentions, so don't be surprised if every once in awhile one of you motherfuckers gets some deadly serious violence in return because fuck you.
You can write an open source CAD program in your free time
You don't seem to understand the very vast difference between a hobby CAD project and professional CAD software. There are already plenty of FOSS CAD programs. They all are great if you are just some schmuck that isnt a professional CAD user, but are completely unfit for purpose if you are actually a professional.
A more well understood example of this is GIMP. None of the GIMP developers understand the needs of professional photographers. The reason for this is that the GIMP developers are not motivated to understand them, let alone motivated to target the software at them. Switch your reference frame to Adobe on the other hand.. they most certainly are not only motivated to understand the needs of the professional photographer, but also motivated to satisfy them. Thats how they feed their wives and children, how they fund their vacations, how they pay off their mortgages, how they have nice things in general.
FOSS cannot compete in niche spaces where people are willing to spend lots of money on software, because its the money stupid. FOSS wins in spaces with widespread audiances, and in niche spaces where there isnt much money to be had. FOSS loses hard in spaces with lots of motivational money.. again and again.
Its an extremely limited technical market. One that does not strongly overlap with programming.
This isnt the reason. There are extremely limited technical markets where FOSS is easily winning.. such as the statistics package 'R' -- nothing else even comes close.
Open source solutions will exist as soon as YOU and your fellow architects/engineers make them, that is no different than any other field.
'cept they are too busy making real money working with professional CAD programs to bother writing their own CAD programs. Think about the tradeoff.
Once you get into the realm where people need niche tools for highly paid professional work then FOSS falls flat because the professionals are more than willing to spend thousands of dollars on tools that enable them to earn an income well above the median, and that attracts developers looking to satisfy those professionals needs so that they too can earn an income well above the median.
Nearly every FOSS gem is in an area that does NOT involve highly paid professionals. As with anything else, its the money.
The IT department being incompetent and/or harmful to your job says nothing about Windows. It just tells us that your IT department is a bunch of fuckups, and imagine those fuckups attempting to manage a large collection of linux machines... it will be more of the same, perhaps with some added hilarity.
Removing that outlier (dropping it completely) gives us an average of 2.59 days
Exactly as I said but you seemed to want to argue against it. You argued that there was a population makeup where the outliers had a significant impact, but you cannot actually produce one.
The reason drugs can get banned is because they are so incredibly devastating to individuals to families and to communities when their use becomes common.
Translation: You are not free to "ruin" your own life, where "ruin" is based on an opinion of whats "right" and whats "wrong."
Pretending they are harmless undermines other points.
Pretending that you have any business telling others what they can do to themselves undermines freedom and liberty.
No new physical or mathematical colorspace will improve color reproduction.
'cept we arent dealing with 'preproduction' - we are dealing with 'capture' - while the RGB color space can indeed encode "yellow" it cannot encode how it got to be yellow (is it a single light wave with a wavelength of 570 nm, is it a combination of 510 nm and 650 nm waves, or is it something else?)
(hint: Your monitor reproduces yellow by combining 510 nm and 650 nm waves, but most things in nature that appear yellow do so because the waves are 570 nm)
If you shrink them anymore, Quantum Stuff starts to happen which you may not really want to happen.
They aren't going to support regime change
What makes you think that? North Korea has a new leader, and maybe things arent going well from their viewpoint.
Nobody really wants a nuclear war in Asia.
Nobody?
Unified Korea and scores of dead North Koreans.
This, and its the last thing that China wants. Korea would become the next Germany in 25 or so years.
China is a buddy to North Korea in the same way that Iraq was a buddy to the United States.
Kim better not give them an excuse.