I don't see why Microsoft, the owner of the Windows trademark, cannot impose whatever rules it wants to on manufacturers who want to put the Windows logo on their products. This was a big deal in the 90's because Microsoft already had huge platform lock-in, so it was unfeasible to ship a product that wasn't Windows-certified. But on ARM? There's no Windows ARM software available, no multi-decade legacy of crap following behind it, so where is the lock-in? The Windows logo no longer indicates a platform advantage, it merely indicates you passed Microsoft's tests.
A manufacturer can still make an ARM device that runs Windows and allow Linux as well -- they just can't put the Windows logo on it.
The problem is stupid consumers who demand to see that logo.
Just to complete that thought, ales are top fermenting beers, lagers are bottom fermenting. I suppose there is some relation to aerobic and anaerobic fermentation there.
There is no relationship between top/bottom and aerobic/anaerobic whatsoever. Fermentation is anaerobic, period. The difference between lager and ale is the strain of yeast used, and the temperature at which fermentation occurs. Saying that a beer is fermenting "on the bottom" or "on the top" just indicates that somebody has never actually watched beer ferment before. Fermenting beer actually convects inside the fermenter if it really gets going how it's supposed to. There's no "top" or "bottom" to it, it's just a big roiling mess. And all beer yeast, whether lager or ale, settles to the BOTTOM of the fermenter when it's done doing its thing.
Lager fermentation is calmer, sure, but that's because it happens at a lower temperature!
Check your brain. I am asking who I should vote for in my local district.
As far as Ron Paul, I have some problems with him. He's against birthright citizenship, which might harm my family (my sons, born in Oregon to a productive, tax-paying, fully legal permanent resident might have their citizenship stripped). His stance on abortion is a pointless irrelevancy and a distraction. His stance on religious separation is dubious at best.
The next President must focus on two things only: fixing the fucking job market and putting a tourniquet on the fucking budget. In my opinion, spending a single second on anything else is dereliction of duty.
He'd have a chance in hell with me if he denounced his Republican status, but he's not going to do that. As long as he carries the card he is beholden to them.
My Congressional district is having an election to replace David Wu (the crazy guy). There are Democrat and Republican candidates -- I won't vote for those, obviously, so my choices are Progressive or Libertarian. While I'm not crazy about a truly Libertarian system, it probably does more good than harm to have at least a few of those voices in the House, so I'm leaning that way. Unless somebody wants to try to sell me on Progressive...
They might be able to sneak it in, but now that people know about the terrible consequences of such a law, when they actually see those consequences start happening they will know who to throw out of office: the entire Congress. It's too bad Facebook didn't have any balls, we'd have an armed revolt going on this morning.
They asked you to speak up when someone was acting like a dick to someone else. If you can't see the difference, I don't know what else to say. Here's a clue - the last one takes balls.
Well then let me relate another anecnote. I'm in the corner convenience store buying a beer. The regular clerk is behind the counter -- an older, Russian lady who reminds me a lot of my mother in law. There's a woman in there shouting at the clerk because she was unable to park in the parking lot as it was full of cars. The clerk is explaining why the cars are there -- a meeting of all the store employees is occurring across the street, and they've all parked there. Mystery woman flips out, berating the clerk and cussing her out.
I decided to come to the rescue.. As calmly as I could given my anger level, I told the woman that it wasn't the clerk's fault the store chain management told their employees to park in the parking lot, and that she was taking her anger out on the wrong person.
Oh boy, was that ever a fucking terrible idea. Suddenly these two women who had been loudly arguing turned to face me, instantly joined the same side, and started yelling at me to mind my own fucking business, and by the way you can't walk out of here with that beer unless it's in a bag, and you'd better never come back in this store again or we'll call the fucking police.
I'm a pretty sensitive guy when it comes to being accused of wrongdoing. I really didn't know how to handle what had just happened, so I went out to the parking lot, sat in my car and waited for my body to stop shaking so I could drive home.
I learned my lesson. Holding the door is as far as I go now.
Yep, you are right. Next time you see a baby bleeding to death, don't stop. What? You wanna to screw up the law of the jungle?
We're not talking about babies and jungles, we're talking about online communities, specifically, open source communities. When's the last time, in those communities, that you saw men sticking up for other men because it's the "right thing to do?" And NOT because of some technical underlying reason? Sure, they'll support each other when they share the same technical vision for something, but standing up for somebody you technically disagree with? I've seen it only a handful of times.
Where does that anger come from? Seriously, tell me the story behind it.
I'm just searching for understanding here. I threw an idea in the mix, people have responded, and it's helped me understand it a bit better.
I'm just a guy on the Internet who made a post. You can go on about your business without waiting for me to "shut the fuck up." And I promise I won't type the magic keystrokes that prevent you from "self policing your community." I even pinkie-swear it.
I apologize if my post made me sound condescending or unconcerned, but I've spent a lifetime receiving mixed signals on this topic. The worst, which actually makes me feel like dirt when it happens, is getting shouted at for holding the door. I hold the door for people, not women. The look of loathing I have on occasion received, simply for trying to help another person out, is enough to make me want to dig a hole and drop into it.
It's very unlikely this happens in every case, but it takes more than a single nutjob attacking someone, or even many nutjobs attacking, to make someone leave the community. It takes good people like you and me to ignore the nutjobs, to not step in and say, "That's enough."
Excuse my incredulity, but is this attitude really helping? You are continuing to promulgate the idea that women need the help of men to survive -- like it's YOUR job to step in and say "enough."
If I received a threat implying I'd come to harm at a conference, I'd show up to the conference with some brass knuckles, and anybody trying to make good on that threat would be leaving the conference minus a set of front teeth, and perhaps minus their complete set of cognitive abilities.
It takes money to get known enough to win elections
I'm sorry... What? We've got 16 year old snarky asshole teenagers v-loggers with 30,000 Twitter followers and 10,000 "Likes" on Facebook and you're telling me a politician can't get noticed without a million dollars in the bank?
Pirates don't have to deal with that stinky DRM shit, they just bypass it. Why'd you pay money for something that's crippled? Was your brain turned off?
You guys... Why not go with a time tested method? Six foot high chain link, razor wire, and signs posted every 50 feet: "Do not enter: anti-personnel mines." Oh, and you actually put mines there.
OMG conspiracy! The phenomenon you describe is explained by statistics, not a moderation cabal. Earlier posts were, uh, posted earlier. They've been up for moderation longer, and at the time they were posted there were fewer comments competing for moderation. As time goes on, the distribution smooths out, and badly moderated comments are corrected.
Don't kid yourselves. The ONLY reason Righthaven got boot stomped is because they were small and can't afford to pay off the right people. Not because what they were doing was "unacceptable" to our society. This is what happens when the little guy tries to play like the big guys.
Wow. Your company sounds like a catastrophe and a joke. I'm not sure what sort of mental gymnastics you must go through to convince yourself you "enjoy" doing what you just described, but I'm impressed.
I LOVE my job. I'm passionate about it. I'm good at it. I'm proud of my work. And I do it 8 hours a day.
Your implication that if a person loves doing something they should do it continuously, or the contrapositive, if they do not do it continuously they do not love doing it, is pure horseshit.
If you really enjoy doing something so much that you'll work 18 hour days doing it, that's great -- work for yourself and become rich from your efforts. Go forth and live the dream many of us share. But doing that for somebody else who takes the lion's share of profit from your 18 hour commitment? That makes you a tool.
If you know what you're running, you don't need a virus scanner.
If you know what you're running and every piece of software you use is perfect and unexploitable. FTFY.
Example: exploit in Adobe Reader might allow arbitrary code to execute from a PDF file. That code could infect other PDFs on your drive. You send those PDFs to others, they too become infected.
"Full shielding?" what's with the dorky sci-fi talk? Invert the phase polarity and reroute power to the weapons array! Do you call your car the Starship Enterprise as well?
A) We can look for the sort of life we understand the best, with sensors that are very good at doing that, in places which are likely to harbor such life.
B) We can look throughout the universe for something completely unknown. We have no criteria to define it, no instruments to detect it, no idea where to look for it, and no way to interpret it.
Which of these two choices is the more feasible for a small unmanned probe?
Weird how it's changed even since the 1980's. I was a kid then, and remember many times coming inside bleeding from something I'd just done to myself, and my mother would respond with something like "Oh, you hurt your leg? Well let me chop off the other one so it hurts the same on both sides of your body." This same woman, 25 years later, suggested to me in all seriousness that I should make my toddler wear a helmet IN THE HOUSE. At all times.
Some of that is obviously because of her age (clearly she's gone nuts), but it's also because people think that's normal. I know parents who spent an entire weekend covering every corner of every object in their house with soft foam and taping it in place. If little Jimmy falls down the stairs, richochets off the wall and smacks his head on the inner left corner of the underside of the kitchen chair, no problem, it's padded.
Other day my 4 year old took a chopstick out of a drawer to play with it. He left it sitting on the floor. I told him he'd better pick it up or at some point today his head will be striking the floor. He didn't listen, he ran, he stepped on it, he fell, he screamed. I laughed at him and said "I told you so." I received looks of shock from other adults in the room like I was psycho.
Sounds good, but it'll just be banned, and it's not like you can hide the fact you are doing it, since your wireless signal can be traced to your location.
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I don't see why Microsoft, the owner of the Windows trademark, cannot impose whatever rules it wants to on manufacturers who want to put the Windows logo on their products. This was a big deal in the 90's because Microsoft already had huge platform lock-in, so it was unfeasible to ship a product that wasn't Windows-certified. But on ARM? There's no Windows ARM software available, no multi-decade legacy of crap following behind it, so where is the lock-in? The Windows logo no longer indicates a platform advantage, it merely indicates you passed Microsoft's tests.
A manufacturer can still make an ARM device that runs Windows and allow Linux as well -- they just can't put the Windows logo on it.
The problem is stupid consumers who demand to see that logo.
Just to complete that thought, ales are top fermenting beers, lagers are bottom fermenting. I suppose there is some relation to aerobic and anaerobic fermentation there.
There is no relationship between top/bottom and aerobic/anaerobic whatsoever. Fermentation is anaerobic, period. The difference between lager and ale is the strain of yeast used, and the temperature at which fermentation occurs. Saying that a beer is fermenting "on the bottom" or "on the top" just indicates that somebody has never actually watched beer ferment before. Fermenting beer actually convects inside the fermenter if it really gets going how it's supposed to. There's no "top" or "bottom" to it, it's just a big roiling mess. And all beer yeast, whether lager or ale, settles to the BOTTOM of the fermenter when it's done doing its thing.
Lager fermentation is calmer, sure, but that's because it happens at a lower temperature!
Check your brain. I am asking who I should vote for in my local district.
As far as Ron Paul, I have some problems with him. He's against birthright citizenship, which might harm my family (my sons, born in Oregon to a productive, tax-paying, fully legal permanent resident might have their citizenship stripped). His stance on abortion is a pointless irrelevancy and a distraction. His stance on religious separation is dubious at best.
The next President must focus on two things only: fixing the fucking job market and putting a tourniquet on the fucking budget. In my opinion, spending a single second on anything else is dereliction of duty.
He'd have a chance in hell with me if he denounced his Republican status, but he's not going to do that. As long as he carries the card he is beholden to them.
My Congressional district is having an election to replace David Wu (the crazy guy). There are Democrat and Republican candidates -- I won't vote for those, obviously, so my choices are Progressive or Libertarian. While I'm not crazy about a truly Libertarian system, it probably does more good than harm to have at least a few of those voices in the House, so I'm leaning that way. Unless somebody wants to try to sell me on Progressive...
They might be able to sneak it in, but now that people know about the terrible consequences of such a law, when they actually see those consequences start happening they will know who to throw out of office: the entire Congress. It's too bad Facebook didn't have any balls, we'd have an armed revolt going on this morning.
They asked you to speak up when someone was acting like a dick to someone else. If you can't see the difference, I don't know what else to say. Here's a clue - the last one takes balls.
Well then let me relate another anecnote. I'm in the corner convenience store buying a beer. The regular clerk is behind the counter -- an older, Russian lady who reminds me a lot of my mother in law. There's a woman in there shouting at the clerk because she was unable to park in the parking lot as it was full of cars. The clerk is explaining why the cars are there -- a meeting of all the store employees is occurring across the street, and they've all parked there. Mystery woman flips out, berating the clerk and cussing her out.
I decided to come to the rescue.. As calmly as I could given my anger level, I told the woman that it wasn't the clerk's fault the store chain management told their employees to park in the parking lot, and that she was taking her anger out on the wrong person.
Oh boy, was that ever a fucking terrible idea. Suddenly these two women who had been loudly arguing turned to face me, instantly joined the same side, and started yelling at me to mind my own fucking business, and by the way you can't walk out of here with that beer unless it's in a bag, and you'd better never come back in this store again or we'll call the fucking police.
I'm a pretty sensitive guy when it comes to being accused of wrongdoing. I really didn't know how to handle what had just happened, so I went out to the parking lot, sat in my car and waited for my body to stop shaking so I could drive home.
I learned my lesson. Holding the door is as far as I go now.
Yep, you are right. Next time you see a baby bleeding to death, don't stop. What? You wanna to screw up the law of the jungle?
We're not talking about babies and jungles, we're talking about online communities, specifically, open source communities. When's the last time, in those communities, that you saw men sticking up for other men because it's the "right thing to do?" And NOT because of some technical underlying reason? Sure, they'll support each other when they share the same technical vision for something, but standing up for somebody you technically disagree with? I've seen it only a handful of times.
Where does that anger come from? Seriously, tell me the story behind it.
I'm just searching for understanding here. I threw an idea in the mix, people have responded, and it's helped me understand it a bit better.
I'm just a guy on the Internet who made a post. You can go on about your business without waiting for me to "shut the fuck up." And I promise I won't type the magic keystrokes that prevent you from "self policing your community." I even pinkie-swear it.
I apologize if my post made me sound condescending or unconcerned, but I've spent a lifetime receiving mixed signals on this topic. The worst, which actually makes me feel like dirt when it happens, is getting shouted at for holding the door. I hold the door for people, not women. The look of loathing I have on occasion received, simply for trying to help another person out, is enough to make me want to dig a hole and drop into it.
It's very unlikely this happens in every case, but it takes more than a single nutjob attacking someone, or even many nutjobs attacking, to make someone leave the community. It takes good people like you and me to ignore the nutjobs, to not step in and say, "That's enough."
Excuse my incredulity, but is this attitude really helping? You are continuing to promulgate the idea that women need the help of men to survive -- like it's YOUR job to step in and say "enough."
If I received a threat implying I'd come to harm at a conference, I'd show up to the conference with some brass knuckles, and anybody trying to make good on that threat would be leaving the conference minus a set of front teeth, and perhaps minus their complete set of cognitive abilities.
Women cannot gain independence via dependence.
It takes money to get known enough to win elections
I'm sorry... What? We've got 16 year old snarky asshole teenagers v-loggers with 30,000 Twitter followers and 10,000 "Likes" on Facebook and you're telling me a politician can't get noticed without a million dollars in the bank?
Pirates don't have to deal with that stinky DRM shit, they just bypass it. Why'd you pay money for something that's crippled? Was your brain turned off?
You guys... Why not go with a time tested method? Six foot high chain link, razor wire, and signs posted every 50 feet: "Do not enter: anti-personnel mines." Oh, and you actually put mines there.
OMG conspiracy! The phenomenon you describe is explained by statistics, not a moderation cabal. Earlier posts were, uh, posted earlier. They've been up for moderation longer, and at the time they were posted there were fewer comments competing for moderation. As time goes on, the distribution smooths out, and badly moderated comments are corrected.
Don't kid yourselves. The ONLY reason Righthaven got boot stomped is because they were small and can't afford to pay off the right people. Not because what they were doing was "unacceptable" to our society. This is what happens when the little guy tries to play like the big guys.
Wow. Your company sounds like a catastrophe and a joke. I'm not sure what sort of mental gymnastics you must go through to convince yourself you "enjoy" doing what you just described, but I'm impressed.
Your post left the following thought in my mind: What the fuck is wrong with you?
I LOVE my job. I'm passionate about it. I'm good at it. I'm proud of my work. And I do it 8 hours a day.
Your implication that if a person loves doing something they should do it continuously, or the contrapositive, if they do not do it continuously they do not love doing it, is pure horseshit.
If you really enjoy doing something so much that you'll work 18 hour days doing it, that's great -- work for yourself and become rich from your efforts. Go forth and live the dream many of us share. But doing that for somebody else who takes the lion's share of profit from your 18 hour commitment? That makes you a tool.
If you know what you're running, you don't need a virus scanner.
If you know what you're running and every piece of software you use is perfect and unexploitable. FTFY.
Example: exploit in Adobe Reader might allow arbitrary code to execute from a PDF file. That code could infect other PDFs on your drive. You send those PDFs to others, they too become infected.
Viruses aren't limited to executable files.
"Full shielding?" what's with the dorky sci-fi talk? Invert the phase polarity and reroute power to the weapons array! Do you call your car the Starship Enterprise as well?
Two choices:
A) We can look for the sort of life we understand the best, with sensors that are very good at doing that, in places which are likely to harbor such life.
B) We can look throughout the universe for something completely unknown. We have no criteria to define it, no instruments to detect it, no idea where to look for it, and no way to interpret it.
Which of these two choices is the more feasible for a small unmanned probe?
Weird how it's changed even since the 1980's. I was a kid then, and remember many times coming inside bleeding from something I'd just done to myself, and my mother would respond with something like "Oh, you hurt your leg? Well let me chop off the other one so it hurts the same on both sides of your body." This same woman, 25 years later, suggested to me in all seriousness that I should make my toddler wear a helmet IN THE HOUSE. At all times.
Some of that is obviously because of her age (clearly she's gone nuts), but it's also because people think that's normal. I know parents who spent an entire weekend covering every corner of every object in their house with soft foam and taping it in place. If little Jimmy falls down the stairs, richochets off the wall and smacks his head on the inner left corner of the underside of the kitchen chair, no problem, it's padded.
Other day my 4 year old took a chopstick out of a drawer to play with it. He left it sitting on the floor. I told him he'd better pick it up or at some point today his head will be striking the floor. He didn't listen, he ran, he stepped on it, he fell, he screamed. I laughed at him and said "I told you so." I received looks of shock from other adults in the room like I was psycho.
And if you think continuously you may burn out your brain cells, as appears to have happened with this researcher.
Hehehe.... Manufacturing on US soil? Hehehe. You must be kidding. A company could stay in business that way, you gotta watch out for that.
Sounds good, but it'll just be banned, and it's not like you can hide the fact you are doing it, since your wireless signal can be traced to your location.