Does the same thing apply to carjacking? Armed robbery? Rape? "Oh, I'm sorry, but I don't participate in such activities so you must stop". Great plan.
It works if the rapist, robber, or... jacker, say it. Which I think is in concert with the comment you replied to. Mod parent up.
So, I'm clicking links and trying to RTFA with some dry, carefully constructed analysis of alleged data, but no actual fucking data? What kinds of people were spied upon? Has anyone got a copy of the list of which accounts? Are any of us on it? Do we know how much the gubberment knows?
would simply be someone who "knows enough to be dangerous" and would be about as fucking useful to a real programmer as the PHB is to Dilbert. Just another dumbass spewing words he picked up like "agile programming" and getting in the damned way of the ones actually doing
While I personally believe that the world would be better off if everyone understood just a little bit about programming, or better still, could write their own simple programs and scripts, this post has hit the nail on the head. Asking for a bunch of people to take the plunge and learn the basics of a few languages is going to cause overconfident people to start arguments over things they don't know enough about to discuss maturely. As if we don't have enough of that going on everywhere, especially during election time.
He has a point though. While a college grad might come with a nice laminated certificate that covers a whole range of buzzwords to a depth of a few millimeters, you can't typically unleash them on a client without investing another 6 months in more focused training. Even with nothing else in their working lives to worry about beyond a shallow curve and a single programming language, quite a few just don't have any interest or motivation "because it's too hard" - worse, some of these graduates actually believe they are already "real programmers".
This particular reply speaks more broadly to the uselessness of college as opposed to actual training, on the job, or perhaps self-directed, or some certificate program. Tacking on a single course of computer programming to every already-useless college degree is going to flood the world with more useless college degrees held by people who think they're programmers.
I'm all for getting more people in the world who understand computer programming. But this is the wrong way. Let's do it online, with people who care about giving people useful skills, as opposed to in institutions which care about salaries and research budgets far more than any sort of teaching. Younger is better. College age is too late. I think 6-10 years of age is best to start dabbling with basic programming. Do it right along side keyboarding and spreadsheeting and word processing and video editing. Simple, basic skills to pique curiosity and send the kids on their way to fulfilling their interests naturally.
I can tell you they have the old DB. They remember my account login information. I tried several times before getting it to work. Why would they need to phish if they have the DB? Do they need people to login so they can unsalt the passwords from that database?
The blame lies with the idiots who believe electing politicians will serve any purpose other than to empower a corruptible (corrupted) entity who will seek only to be a detriment to the well being of the electorate, and to use sensationalism to compel voters to think say and do what they are told.
Man this is a great idea! If you can convince everyone to spend every waking moment scrutinizing the data collected on them every year they won't need silly things like TV or Elections to keep them distracted from what's happening in the world.
A very good point about the IT dept being fuckups, but you need to examine closely the fact that their major fuckup is that their reasons for using windows is firstly cited as needing to have spyware and virus scans run constantly in order to keep the windows machines secure. Circular logic is not logical.
The same can be said for any tangible good, from cars, food, baseball cards and the computer device you're touching right now, to oil, gold, and money itself. The value of a thing is exactly equal to the price someone is willing to pay you for it.
China can admit to this yet Canada cannot. There is at least one such village here and yet Canada criticizes China regarding the environment and human rights.
Well Lootennant Dan told me the we got invested in some kind of.... fruit company? And we don't have to worry about money anymore. So.... that's good. Just one less thing to worry about.
I think this is only going to serve to further disillusion people to the ridiculous amount of long winded, incredibly stupid laws which the average citizen cares little about and gives no input toward its enforcement or enactment. Please pass this bill, and then blare from the highest pulpit with the loudest trumpet as to how incredibly unintelligent you were designed to be.
It's an interesting analysis to compare the prices for VPS versus home servers. And the considerations for hardware upgrades and possible downtime are valid. So I'm glad to have read this article. But you have a teensy flaw in your calculations. Your basis for the power usage calculations are based on a number which is pulled out of thin air. Well, it's a decent educated guess. But that's it: it's a guess. Get a watt meter or an amp-clamp and measure the system's AC mains usage during heavy usage by clients on the game server. Then you will have accurate calculations.
While if you go to Canada, "native" is a disparaging term, and the politically correct term is "aboriginal". Oddly enough it seems it is also politically correct to commit genocide against such a people and then turn around and redefine the word genocide to disclude those activities which were previously called genocide.
You're missing a fact in what you've just said. A byte is 8 bits. 8 is 2 to the power of THREE. 2 to the power of 8 is 256, and 256 bits is 32 bytes. Before you criticize or advocate anything maybe you should examine your own statements of "fact". The person you are replying to has not advocated anything. They have simply stated why it is unacceptable to use powers of ten in ram and possible to use it in network capacity and hard disk capacity. That is to say, manufacturers are able to get away with it in order to sell bigger numbers but provide less product.
Clearly they need to be bombed so powerful and wealthy American interests can take the excess German sun and control it so as to become more powerful and wealthy! Begin training the Marines for operation "Steal My Sunshine" at once!
Agreed. I think that in the process of highlighting the hyperlink and finding the file it should be linking to, the background service eventually comes to a file descriptor that references no file and tries to dereference it. Some smart programmer is expecting the File:/// link to be completed all at once rather than typed in slowly. I would ask testers to try pasting in a full string that actually references an existing file and see if that causes the same results. Also a link that has a complete path for a file which does not exist.
I have sent a lot of hate and accusations Microsoft's way over the last decade or more. They have done many things to poison the ecosystem of computing and bleed dry every dollar they can, perfecting the art of squeezing blood from a stone.
one thing I have never accused them of is behaving stupidly. Everything I've ever seen them do or say (tho I admit I don't follow that closely) has been a carefully crafted move by professional business and marketing professionals to manipulate the market and change technology to suit their purposes. Examples coming to mind are HTML and ODF implementations.
So when I look at this article I don't think "oh they're being childish and blaming others for their problems or attempting to sway public opinion of their product. I am far more wary of some plot to ensure compliance with an agenda to implement UEFE or destroy OpenGL or make Linux faulter or something else everyone on slashdot cannot even imagine.
I suppose they will Blame God when their data comes back from cluster farms completely out of the range of scientific possibility because he made the Eco system and it's not Windows fault that things don't run properly. (Obvious commentary on today's other Microsoft story of Blaming PC makers)
I know someone who regularly reposts and shares "activism" links, regarding riots in europe, pipelines in canada, and all those sorts of thing. This person has had their ability to post links and share those of others removed. No reason given. Guess their graph features were developed for that process and now it seems a shame not to make money from the idea.
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Does the same thing apply to carjacking? Armed robbery? Rape? "Oh, I'm sorry, but I don't participate in such activities so you must stop". Great plan.
It works if the rapist, robber, or ... jacker, say it. Which I think is in concert with the comment you replied to. Mod parent up.
So, I'm clicking links and trying to RTFA with some dry, carefully constructed analysis of alleged data, but no actual fucking data? What kinds of people were spied upon? Has anyone got a copy of the list of which accounts? Are any of us on it? Do we know how much the gubberment knows?
By not using an Apple product, that's how.
Good question, now I'll take one from the back. Yes?
would simply be someone who "knows enough to be dangerous" and would be about as fucking useful to a real programmer as the PHB is to Dilbert. Just another dumbass spewing words he picked up like "agile programming" and getting in the damned way of the ones actually doing
While I personally believe that the world would be better off if everyone understood just a little bit about programming, or better still, could write their own simple programs and scripts, this post has hit the nail on the head. Asking for a bunch of people to take the plunge and learn the basics of a few languages is going to cause overconfident people to start arguments over things they don't know enough about to discuss maturely. As if we don't have enough of that going on everywhere, especially during election time.
He has a point though. While a college grad might come with a nice laminated certificate that covers a whole range of buzzwords to a depth of a few millimeters, you can't typically unleash them on a client without investing another 6 months in more focused training. Even with nothing else in their working lives to worry about beyond a shallow curve and a single programming language, quite a few just don't have any interest or motivation "because it's too hard" - worse, some of these graduates actually believe they are already "real programmers".
This particular reply speaks more broadly to the uselessness of college as opposed to actual training, on the job, or perhaps self-directed, or some certificate program. Tacking on a single course of computer programming to every already-useless college degree is going to flood the world with more useless college degrees held by people who think they're programmers.
I'm all for getting more people in the world who understand computer programming. But this is the wrong way. Let's do it online, with people who care about giving people useful skills, as opposed to in institutions which care about salaries and research budgets far more than any sort of teaching. Younger is better. College age is too late. I think 6-10 years of age is best to start dabbling with basic programming. Do it right along side keyboarding and spreadsheeting and word processing and video editing. Simple, basic skills to pique curiosity and send the kids on their way to fulfilling their interests naturally.
I can tell you they have the old DB. They remember my account login information. I tried several times before getting it to work. Why would they need to phish if they have the DB? Do they need people to login so they can unsalt the passwords from that database?
3-D printers have enormous possibility and it's very important that they are left unregulated and unfettered. So what's the first thing these idiots do? Proof of concept home made guns during the government's gun-control-spree. For interesting fiction regarding 3-D printers read the following stories by Cory Doctorow:
Makers A lengthy and excellent novel which you can download for free in any format.
Printcrime a short story about copywrite on printed goods which is very to the point. It is contained entirely on this short page along with its license.
The blame lies with the idiots who believe electing politicians will serve any purpose other than to empower a corruptible (corrupted) entity who will seek only to be a detriment to the well being of the electorate, and to use sensationalism to compel voters to think say and do what they are told.
Relax. They just banned some gold farmers. No big deal.
Man this is a great idea! If you can convince everyone to spend every waking moment scrutinizing the data collected on them every year they won't need silly things like TV or Elections to keep them distracted from what's happening in the world.
A very good point about the IT dept being fuckups, but you need to examine closely the fact that their major fuckup is that their reasons for using windows is firstly cited as needing to have spyware and virus scans run constantly in order to keep the windows machines secure. Circular logic is not logical.
BitCoin Man. He flies with a cape made of mylar and has shoes made of ASIC's. Duh.
The same can be said for any tangible good, from cars, food, baseball cards and the computer device you're touching right now, to oil, gold, and money itself. The value of a thing is exactly equal to the price someone is willing to pay you for it.
China can admit to this yet Canada cannot. There is at least one such village here and yet Canada criticizes China regarding the environment and human rights.
Well Lootennant Dan told me the we got invested in some kind of.... fruit company? And we don't have to worry about money anymore. So.... that's good. Just one less thing to worry about.
I think this is only going to serve to further disillusion people to the ridiculous amount of long winded, incredibly stupid laws which the average citizen cares little about and gives no input toward its enforcement or enactment. Please pass this bill, and then blare from the highest pulpit with the loudest trumpet as to how incredibly unintelligent you were designed to be.
It's an interesting analysis to compare the prices for VPS versus home servers. And the considerations for hardware upgrades and possible downtime are valid. So I'm glad to have read this article. But you have a teensy flaw in your calculations. Your basis for the power usage calculations are based on a number which is pulled out of thin air. Well, it's a decent educated guess. But that's it: it's a guess. Get a watt meter or an amp-clamp and measure the system's AC mains usage during heavy usage by clients on the game server. Then you will have accurate calculations.
Want to pinch pennies? Don't run a fucking minecraft server.
since when do opinions matter on the internet?
While if you go to Canada, "native" is a disparaging term, and the politically correct term is "aboriginal". Oddly enough it seems it is also politically correct to commit genocide against such a people and then turn around and redefine the word genocide to disclude those activities which were previously called genocide.
You're missing a fact in what you've just said. A byte is 8 bits. 8 is 2 to the power of THREE. 2 to the power of 8 is 256, and 256 bits is 32 bytes. Before you criticize or advocate anything maybe you should examine your own statements of "fact". The person you are replying to has not advocated anything. They have simply stated why it is unacceptable to use powers of ten in ram and possible to use it in network capacity and hard disk capacity. That is to say, manufacturers are able to get away with it in order to sell bigger numbers but provide less product.
Clearly they need to be bombed so powerful and wealthy American interests can take the excess German sun and control it so as to become more powerful and wealthy! Begin training the Marines for operation "Steal My Sunshine" at once!
Agreed. I think that in the process of highlighting the hyperlink and finding the file it should be linking to, the background service eventually comes to a file descriptor that references no file and tries to dereference it. Some smart programmer is expecting the File:/// link to be completed all at once rather than typed in slowly. I would ask testers to try pasting in a full string that actually references an existing file and see if that causes the same results. Also a link that has a complete path for a file which does not exist.
I have sent a lot of hate and accusations Microsoft's way over the last decade or more. They have done many things to poison the ecosystem of computing and bleed dry every dollar they can, perfecting the art of squeezing blood from a stone.
one thing I have never accused them of is behaving stupidly. Everything I've ever seen them do or say (tho I admit I don't follow that closely) has been a carefully crafted move by professional business and marketing professionals to manipulate the market and change technology to suit their purposes. Examples coming to mind are HTML and ODF implementations.
So when I look at this article I don't think "oh they're being childish and blaming others for their problems or attempting to sway public opinion of their product. I am far more wary of some plot to ensure compliance with an agenda to implement UEFE or destroy OpenGL or make Linux faulter or something else everyone on slashdot cannot even imagine.
I suppose they will Blame God when their data comes back from cluster farms completely out of the range of scientific possibility because he made the Eco system and it's not Windows fault that things don't run properly. (Obvious commentary on today's other Microsoft story of Blaming PC makers)
I know someone who regularly reposts and shares "activism" links, regarding riots in europe, pipelines in canada, and all those sorts of thing. This person has had their ability to post links and share those of others removed. No reason given. Guess their graph features were developed for that process and now it seems a shame not to make money from the idea.