I don't know about the rest of you, but my biggest problem with IPv6 is that the format of the addresses is plain ugly. Why didn't they just add another 8 bits and keep the same format? Instead of 24.232.5.19, we'd only have to adjust to another digit - like 14.24.232.5.19. That would increase the address pool by 256 times and I could remember that number. I can't remember fe80::7c7e:2fb8:12e6:63a%10 - and it's nauseating to look at.
What you described is exactly what is supposed to happen in a healthy free market driven economy. It's just the life cycle of a company. What I still can't get my head around is where the US government gets involved in "bailing out" these aging companies. Had we just let nature take it's course, we'd have less major auto manufacturers and the door would be open for innovation - but I guess we have to put that off and wait another several years for the bailout money to run dry.
In my mind, at a distance the mass of an object would include things that are in orbit around it - in terms of how it interacts with things far away gravitationally. Whether or not this adds up to anything significant over the course of the object's millions of miles of orbit - I'll give you that I could imagine that the difference is insignificant.
Here we go creating artificial markets again - have we learned nothing about what works in government and what doesn't??
Instead, tax the oil - and watch the alternatively fueled vehicles market grow organically.
It's another example of how scientists can be brilliant and yet oh so stupid at the same time. Sales guys get their companies to pay for their phones, cars, vacations, meals, computers - and even taxes to some extent. Have we really gotten to the point that we're dumb enough to let employers trick us into buying equipment that is used to benefit the company? So now it's going to be standard practice for companies to give their engineers sub-par products - to sour the milk - and have them use their salaries to pay for equipment? Somebody please try to use some common sense and outline a procedure that people can use since we're too feeble minded to figure it out on our own. Even if I personally have enough common sense to see reality, the rest of you drag me into the circle-jerk by association.
Tell him to go for it. He'll love you for the support, and maybe even give you a promotion out of it. Truth is, as a breed we software engineers are really - really dumb when it comes to business. All he has to do is set up a competitive environment where people get afraid to leave before the people next to them - next thing you know everyone will be working long days and even weekends. Everyone will swallow the kool-aid, and thank him for it at the end of the day. Feed them cheap shit - software engineers are also notoriously cheap - give them takeout from Chili's or order a few pizzas; the idea of free food is too good to pass up and they will feel obligated to stay not only for dinner, but then for a while after dinner. Meanwhile, the company will likely never be 'profitable' - because most startup companies don't really give a shit about profitablility, they just exist as a place for execs and sales guys to make a bunch of money while the dorks sort out the ones and zeroes over in the small cubes.
I figured out about 20 years ago that the president of the US is no more than a figurehead and is completely powerless to do anything. While we, the idiots, are fighting over whether it's the democrats or republicans that are the good or the evil, the country is being run at a completely different level - much lower level than the figurehead that we swap out every four years. The corruption remains intact, and is firmly rooted. The best thing you can do is not vote - show that you're smarter than actually believing that one has your well being in mind versus the other. Neither do.
How do we know that the universe is dominated by matter versus anti-matter? What is the scientific reason that we know that the next galaxy over isn't made completely of anti-matter versus matter?
What would really be ideal is a robot docking station. Most of us already have a device that takes WiFi, has a camera, microphone and runs software - it's our laptops.
Why not just a robotic docking station with some software that lets me control it from anywhere? Just eliminating this once a year situation alone would be worth the cost:
"Turn the car around! I think I left the curling iron plugged in!"
Webcams do great with infrared light... You can't tell that the lights are on, but you show up perfectly on the webcam. This is the secret to all camera night vision technologies. We discovered it decades ago when we realized that my friends' video camera could see the blinking light when he clicks on the TV remote control.
I was going to buy a new golf game that I could play on my PS3 - hoping to bring back the fun that we used to have in college playing PGA Tour Golf on the Sega Genesis. I downloaded the demo of the newest Tiger Woods golf on the PS3 and couldn't beleive how dumbed down the game was. Instead of having to use split second timing to make the perfect shot, you just simply move the controller lever back and then forward and you get the perfect swing every time. Talk about ruining a perfectly good video game.
Around here (New England) we have a different kind of bowling - candlepin. At some point they invented 'bumpers' that make it so that young kids could play without constantly getting gutter balls. The problem is, now you watch teenagers play (who should be perfectly capable of throwing the ball straight) with the bumpers up simply because the game to them is to see how hard they can throw the ball. Kids don't really want a challenge these days - they want instant gratification and don't want to be challenged.
There really isn't a better way. You send one up there, see what happens, if the result isn't great, you send another one. Repeat until the object has modified it's orbit enough to miss, or it's been pulverized to the point that it has such a great surface area that most of the mass would burn up in the atmosphere.
Oh so they didn't find 20 lunatics to fly planes into buildings? There's plenty left for round 2, and if you don't believe so you're a fool. The FBI knows this, and some technology along with some good old fashioned racial profiling is their best solution.
I've for a while now predicted what the next terrorist attack will look like...
Terrorists don't send a single person to a single mall and explode on a random day. They send 50 terrorists to 50 malls, to the food court - at lunch time, on the saturday before Christmas - and then they blow up simultaneously. How do you stop that from happening? I hate the idea of the FBI tracking people too - but the harsh reality is, that's the only way to stop my prediction from becoming a reality.
Yeah, but I don't wear a parachute, or a rubber while I'm driving my car (usually). At the end of the day, firewalls really don't protect anyone from anything and only create an artificial sense of security and a few jobs.
Ok, I'll take the unpopular opinion and absorb the beating... I concluded that firewalls are next to useless a long time ago. I've been running my Winodws machines with the firewalls shut off since around 1992 when my town was one of the first to get high speed internet via cable modem (firewalls didn't even exist back then, but even when I first got a router, I would run my primary machine as DMZ) and I have never been infected with malware. An infection requires you to run an application with a security hole that can be exploited through a socket that it happens to open. My strategy is and has always been to not run such applications. I also run Windows Update every Tuesday to patch the holes in the applications that come with the operating system itself. Also, any application that I would choose to run - well I have to open the port to that application anyway - so I ask - what is the point of blocking all the unused ports?
I never could grasp as to why we need to make programming "for everyone". Let's just realize that it's the complex task that it is and we'll all make more money.
Sometimes people give away things for free. It's great that as human beings we all have the opportunity to benefit from contributions that individuals or groups make. When something is given away for free, it drives those seeking to make a profit to create a better product at a more reasonable price - again great for the consumer. I'm a pretty hardcore capitalist, but I like the idea that there are free options to every facet of existance. Often, you get what you pay for - and you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find - you get what you need.
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yeah. that's my biggest problem with it. The notation sucks.
I don't know about the rest of you, but my biggest problem with IPv6 is that the format of the addresses is plain ugly. Why didn't they just add another 8 bits and keep the same format? Instead of 24.232.5.19, we'd only have to adjust to another digit - like 14.24.232.5.19. That would increase the address pool by 256 times and I could remember that number. I can't remember fe80::7c7e:2fb8:12e6:63a%10 - and it's nauseating to look at.
What you described is exactly what is supposed to happen in a healthy free market driven economy. It's just the life cycle of a company. What I still can't get my head around is where the US government gets involved in "bailing out" these aging companies. Had we just let nature take it's course, we'd have less major auto manufacturers and the door would be open for innovation - but I guess we have to put that off and wait another several years for the bailout money to run dry.
In my mind, at a distance the mass of an object would include things that are in orbit around it - in terms of how it interacts with things far away gravitationally. Whether or not this adds up to anything significant over the course of the object's millions of miles of orbit - I'll give you that I could imagine that the difference is insignificant.
Let's mess with it and change it's gravity slightly!
Here we go creating artificial markets again - have we learned nothing about what works in government and what doesn't?? Instead, tax the oil - and watch the alternatively fueled vehicles market grow organically.
It's another example of how scientists can be brilliant and yet oh so stupid at the same time. Sales guys get their companies to pay for their phones, cars, vacations, meals, computers - and even taxes to some extent. Have we really gotten to the point that we're dumb enough to let employers trick us into buying equipment that is used to benefit the company? So now it's going to be standard practice for companies to give their engineers sub-par products - to sour the milk - and have them use their salaries to pay for equipment? Somebody please try to use some common sense and outline a procedure that people can use since we're too feeble minded to figure it out on our own. Even if I personally have enough common sense to see reality, the rest of you drag me into the circle-jerk by association.
Tell him to go for it. He'll love you for the support, and maybe even give you a promotion out of it. Truth is, as a breed we software engineers are really - really dumb when it comes to business. All he has to do is set up a competitive environment where people get afraid to leave before the people next to them - next thing you know everyone will be working long days and even weekends. Everyone will swallow the kool-aid, and thank him for it at the end of the day. Feed them cheap shit - software engineers are also notoriously cheap - give them takeout from Chili's or order a few pizzas; the idea of free food is too good to pass up and they will feel obligated to stay not only for dinner, but then for a while after dinner. Meanwhile, the company will likely never be 'profitable' - because most startup companies don't really give a shit about profitablility, they just exist as a place for execs and sales guys to make a bunch of money while the dorks sort out the ones and zeroes over in the small cubes.
When you think of the concept of a library - in the context of the modern day battle for content control - it totally doesn't fit.
It's not my problem. My problem is that the majority of Americans will only vote for one or the other, and I'm stuck with both of them.
I figured out about 20 years ago that the president of the US is no more than a figurehead and is completely powerless to do anything. While we, the idiots, are fighting over whether it's the democrats or republicans that are the good or the evil, the country is being run at a completely different level - much lower level than the figurehead that we swap out every four years. The corruption remains intact, and is firmly rooted. The best thing you can do is not vote - show that you're smarter than actually believing that one has your well being in mind versus the other. Neither do.
Oh please... The EU was going after and continues to attack Microsoft for every penny they can get out of them.
How do we know that the universe is dominated by matter versus anti-matter? What is the scientific reason that we know that the next galaxy over isn't made completely of anti-matter versus matter?
What would really be ideal is a robot docking station. Most of us already have a device that takes WiFi, has a camera, microphone and runs software - it's our laptops. Why not just a robotic docking station with some software that lets me control it from anywhere? Just eliminating this once a year situation alone would be worth the cost: "Turn the car around! I think I left the curling iron plugged in!"
Webcams do great with infrared light... You can't tell that the lights are on, but you show up perfectly on the webcam. This is the secret to all camera night vision technologies. We discovered it decades ago when we realized that my friends' video camera could see the blinking light when he clicks on the TV remote control.
I was going to buy a new golf game that I could play on my PS3 - hoping to bring back the fun that we used to have in college playing PGA Tour Golf on the Sega Genesis. I downloaded the demo of the newest Tiger Woods golf on the PS3 and couldn't beleive how dumbed down the game was. Instead of having to use split second timing to make the perfect shot, you just simply move the controller lever back and then forward and you get the perfect swing every time. Talk about ruining a perfectly good video game. Around here (New England) we have a different kind of bowling - candlepin. At some point they invented 'bumpers' that make it so that young kids could play without constantly getting gutter balls. The problem is, now you watch teenagers play (who should be perfectly capable of throwing the ball straight) with the bumpers up simply because the game to them is to see how hard they can throw the ball. Kids don't really want a challenge these days - they want instant gratification and don't want to be challenged.
There really isn't a better way. You send one up there, see what happens, if the result isn't great, you send another one. Repeat until the object has modified it's orbit enough to miss, or it's been pulverized to the point that it has such a great surface area that most of the mass would burn up in the atmosphere.
Oh so they didn't find 20 lunatics to fly planes into buildings? There's plenty left for round 2, and if you don't believe so you're a fool. The FBI knows this, and some technology along with some good old fashioned racial profiling is their best solution.
I've for a while now predicted what the next terrorist attack will look like... Terrorists don't send a single person to a single mall and explode on a random day. They send 50 terrorists to 50 malls, to the food court - at lunch time, on the saturday before Christmas - and then they blow up simultaneously. How do you stop that from happening? I hate the idea of the FBI tracking people too - but the harsh reality is, that's the only way to stop my prediction from becoming a reality.
Just don't buy the x1080 ones and sooner or later the market will correct the problem.
Damn, I thought it was just the magic of Vegas that was lighting my cigarettes spontaneously
Yeah, but I don't wear a parachute, or a rubber while I'm driving my car (usually). At the end of the day, firewalls really don't protect anyone from anything and only create an artificial sense of security and a few jobs.
Ok, I'll take the unpopular opinion and absorb the beating... I concluded that firewalls are next to useless a long time ago. I've been running my Winodws machines with the firewalls shut off since around 1992 when my town was one of the first to get high speed internet via cable modem (firewalls didn't even exist back then, but even when I first got a router, I would run my primary machine as DMZ) and I have never been infected with malware. An infection requires you to run an application with a security hole that can be exploited through a socket that it happens to open. My strategy is and has always been to not run such applications. I also run Windows Update every Tuesday to patch the holes in the applications that come with the operating system itself. Also, any application that I would choose to run - well I have to open the port to that application anyway - so I ask - what is the point of blocking all the unused ports?
I never could grasp as to why we need to make programming "for everyone". Let's just realize that it's the complex task that it is and we'll all make more money.
Sometimes people give away things for free. It's great that as human beings we all have the opportunity to benefit from contributions that individuals or groups make. When something is given away for free, it drives those seeking to make a profit to create a better product at a more reasonable price - again great for the consumer. I'm a pretty hardcore capitalist, but I like the idea that there are free options to every facet of existance. Often, you get what you pay for - and you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find - you get what you need.