I just checked out Parsons too. The entry for the "product" reads:
Use this powerful predictor of eventual suicide to help you measure three major aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations. Responding to the 20 true or false items on the Beck Hopelessness Scale® (BHS®), patients can either endorse a pessimistic statement or deny an optimistic statement.
Predicts Eventual Suicide
Research consistently supports a positive relationship between BHS scores and measures of depression, suicidal intent, and ideation.
They're charging 120.00 USD a pop for this baby. I've not taken the test, but I feel like I just failed it.
If other DRM schemes are any indication, you'd probably wind up setting off false positives for things you've genuinely created yourself. Gotta err on the side of caution after all.
No, I haven't used Oracle for a data need that actually requires it. I'm not aware of what a data need that would actually require it would look like. I do work on high speed market data delivery systems. Top end stuff for a internationally relevant company (can't say who, but it's not Bloomberg). Mining databases doesn't really factor into the equation. In fact, all of our stuff is moving away from SPARC simply because we need inexpensive powerful processors, not thousands of threads all running at 1.0ghz clock speeds. The pejorative term we use for SPARC is that "they would make for great web servers". Hell, even most of the analytic stuff I'm aware of that our clients use operates on RHEL (or Windows, of all things) running on HP servers. Literally, the only people in our biz who still use SPARC are the old guard who overspent on their v240s centuries ago and don't have the budget to keep up with the times. Interestingly, they're also the majority of the "problem clients".
And I may be kind of dumb, but you're the one so out of touch with reality that you've mistaken my flippant comment as declaration of a holy war, and retorted to personal attacks in response. Regardless, I wish you the best with your expensive servers, and commend you upon your excellent skill at rattling your sabre in its scabbard.
Sad that they aren't going the opposite direction. As a software vendor, our company is working (granted, in glacial terms) towards phasing out support on SPARC platforms.
Springfield is such a strange place. Never before have I lived in a place where so many people fled cities with so much stuff for a location so devoid of... well, anything.
I went the opposite way, from Springfield down to STL, and I've not actually gotten my ass kicked yet for not liking baseball, even though I'm upfront about it. Maybe it's because it's "Oh, baseball's boring. Sucks compared to rugby or football", not "Cardinals suck, come at me bro!" Also, I have zero problem telling people I work with that they're being abject failures when they are, but that's the kind of environment I work in.
I'm just not sure I agree with your final conclusion. I mean, to a certain extent, I'm sure there are people who are the "internet tough guy", but pussies IRL, but by the same token, I'm sure there is some degree of actual dehumanization going on with others. I just don't think you can distill all people into three categories like that.
I am special. I have issues with mental hyperactivity. I literally think about two to three things at once, without even trying. If my work performance is any indicator, I can do it at least as well as people who don't.
I don't use my cell phone while driving though. There's a special place in hell for those people.
It's actually just under $200 at the moment, which is still trivial in comparison, sure, but mind you this fine doesn't appear to be from the music being downloaded, but merely for the connection being left unsecured.
France, out of nowhere, is suddenly showing surprising competitiveness in the "Passing dumbass laws so the rest of the world can see what a bad idea they are" department.
Depends. On one hand, you have a bunch of out-of-touch-with-the-world sociopaths who have forced us unwittingly into a state of surveillance and fear, probably without even initially intending to.
On the other hand, you have whatever you're calling the other lot.:)
We're afraid of (your) 'alternative views' because they're both A) insolvent and B) constantly trying to get pushed into law.
Old fairy tales aren't evidence, folks. The bible can't "prove itself". When you come up with a way to turn your "alternative views" into something a little more concrete than "this book is true, cause the funny dressed man in the old building told me so", let me know, cause, like, I'd really love to be Christian. I really would. The problem is that, sans lobotomy, I'll never be able to be one of you, cause I can't stop trying to think critically.
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Further, why is Harper Reed a hipster? I read To Kill a Mockingbird, and it hardly seems like a hipster book.
Yeah, but the rest of us have no hope in them. I meant it in the sense as when someone says "You're hopeless."
He's a scientologist. Hopeless is actually pretty fair.
Use this powerful predictor of eventual suicide to help you measure three major aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations. Responding to the 20 true or false items on the Beck Hopelessness Scale® (BHS®), patients can either endorse a pessimistic statement or deny an optimistic statement. Predicts Eventual Suicide Research consistently supports a positive relationship between BHS scores and measures of depression, suicidal intent, and ideation.
They're charging 120.00 USD a pop for this baby. I've not taken the test, but I feel like I just failed it.
Something outright awesome about a HOPELESSNESS SCALE being the central topic of conversation in a COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT case.
Well, no, because The 13th Floor was the superior movie to the Matrix.
Do yourself a favor: Don't smoke so much pot, and quit watching the Matrix.
If other DRM schemes are any indication, you'd probably wind up setting off false positives for things you've genuinely created yourself. Gotta err on the side of caution after all.
Damn my shakey hands. You're not redundant. Sorry.
No, I haven't used Oracle for a data need that actually requires it. I'm not aware of what a data need that would actually require it would look like. I do work on high speed market data delivery systems. Top end stuff for a internationally relevant company (can't say who, but it's not Bloomberg). Mining databases doesn't really factor into the equation. In fact, all of our stuff is moving away from SPARC simply because we need inexpensive powerful processors, not thousands of threads all running at 1.0ghz clock speeds. The pejorative term we use for SPARC is that "they would make for great web servers". Hell, even most of the analytic stuff I'm aware of that our clients use operates on RHEL (or Windows, of all things) running on HP servers. Literally, the only people in our biz who still use SPARC are the old guard who overspent on their v240s centuries ago and don't have the budget to keep up with the times. Interestingly, they're also the majority of the "problem clients".
And I may be kind of dumb, but you're the one so out of touch with reality that you've mistaken my flippant comment as declaration of a holy war, and retorted to personal attacks in response. Regardless, I wish you the best with your expensive servers, and commend you upon your excellent skill at rattling your sabre in its scabbard.
Sad that they aren't going the opposite direction. As a software vendor, our company is working (granted, in glacial terms) towards phasing out support on SPARC platforms.
Someone is still buying that shit?
Springfield is such a strange place. Never before have I lived in a place where so many people fled cities with so much stuff for a location so devoid of... well, anything.
I went the opposite way, from Springfield down to STL, and I've not actually gotten my ass kicked yet for not liking baseball, even though I'm upfront about it. Maybe it's because it's "Oh, baseball's boring. Sucks compared to rugby or football", not "Cardinals suck, come at me bro!" Also, I have zero problem telling people I work with that they're being abject failures when they are, but that's the kind of environment I work in.
I'm just not sure I agree with your final conclusion. I mean, to a certain extent, I'm sure there are people who are the "internet tough guy", but pussies IRL, but by the same token, I'm sure there is some degree of actual dehumanization going on with others. I just don't think you can distill all people into three categories like that.
I can't speak for the GP, but if there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that cruelty is FUCKING DELICIOUS.
I am special. I have issues with mental hyperactivity. I literally think about two to three things at once, without even trying. If my work performance is any indicator, I can do it at least as well as people who don't.
I don't use my cell phone while driving though. There's a special place in hell for those people.
When I want my phone to be 'disruptive', I usually just turn up the volume and then set my ringtone to some pop song...
150 EUR, not USD.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=EURUSD
It's actually just under $200 at the moment, which is still trivial in comparison, sure, but mind you this fine doesn't appear to be from the music being downloaded, but merely for the connection being left unsecured.
Well, yeah, but the lack of enforcement up to this point left me kind of assuming (hoping) it was just an empty platitude.
France, out of nowhere, is suddenly showing surprising competitiveness in the "Passing dumbass laws so the rest of the world can see what a bad idea they are" department.
Depends. On one hand, you have a bunch of out-of-touch-with-the-world sociopaths who have forced us unwittingly into a state of surveillance and fear, probably without even initially intending to.
:)
On the other hand, you have whatever you're calling the other lot.
Nope. I phrased my comment intended for it to be read with his voice.
The terrorists have won.
Yup.
"Good news everyone, we weren't compromised. We're just incompetent!"
We're afraid of (your) 'alternative views' because they're both A) insolvent and B) constantly trying to get pushed into law.
Old fairy tales aren't evidence, folks. The bible can't "prove itself". When you come up with a way to turn your "alternative views" into something a little more concrete than "this book is true, cause the funny dressed man in the old building told me so", let me know, cause, like, I'd really love to be Christian. I really would. The problem is that, sans lobotomy, I'll never be able to be one of you, cause I can't stop trying to think critically.
At least they're honest about it.