That it. If I can get the damn Linux freaks who despise anything GUI to learn that one thing my users would be happy.
There IS something about dressing things up too much, yes. But that does NOT mean that all style is a bad or useless thing. Say that again: Style vs Substance is NOT a Zero Sum Game
So if you walk past a shop and see that the shop-owner forgot to lock the door he deserves (and his customers) deserve to have their personal details stolen from his files then? There are other ways to handle this, like give him a friendly advice and point out that this might be a problem.
Stealing a million bucks is not the same as stealing grandma's purse, you know?
You know that a single serious Windows virus ca cause BILLIONS of dollars in economic losses? Why is that different from a major terrorist strike? Why is the response disproportionate?
For some reason when someone bombs something they are criminals but if a hackers does this he is a Robin Hood.
What the hell did Stratfor do do deserve this? And why steal the CC's of a people who are interested in good quality analysis of current vents and the news behind the news? What "evil" did they do?
Agree 100%. What did Stratfor do do deserve the epithet "Evil"? Most of the stupid fuck/. hackers just do som knee-jerk support of anonymous. Stealing the credit cards of the customers of a company is not social activism, it is just criminal. anonymous hackers deserve the same treatment as the terrorists in Afpak. Bring on the drones and hellfire missiles.
The fact that many/. idiots support this crap is blight on/.
Apple does not dictate what software thou run on a laptop. They dictate what software gets sold in their OWN store and basically screens for malware. If Microsoft did this the world would be a better place today. You can still install on the machine whatever you want.
The Soviets did the same with Smallpox, Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, Anthrax and Tularemia. And then Weaponized this and stuffed it into ICBMs. En-Masse. The baddies already know how to do this, industrialize the process and weaponize it.
The only job where you lie in your back in dark corners and work with floppy cables is a network tech and a prostitute. And the prostitutes get more respect, more money and have satisfied customers.
And my 10 wasted years as a Notes admin trying to fix the !@#!@ that a PHB made us do in Notes instead of a relational database really makes me very wary of this whole noSQL boom.
NoSQL Databases are definitely good for some things (as is Notes) but it is certainly no Nirvana. There is a reason relational databases were invented in the first place: a schema forces you to be consistent with your design which helps with large projects. In Notes and noSQL things very quickly become a tangled mess, and when you need foreign keys, well, you need them.
Good design is always about LESS freedom. That lesson seems to be getting lost here.
And now back to my new job where the people upstairs want to introduce Lotus Notes!
I an a rather unhappy user of VB and fixed the problem: I switched to VMWare and Parallels. VirtualBox on Windows is not any better either, it sometimes simply reboots the machine. We use VBox on a windows machine for some people here who are not IT related at all twho need to run a system we usuall run on a website locally on a laptop for a Point of Sale on Windows. a Virtualized machine is great for this, simply take the rails app from Linux and run it on a VBox and then use windows as always on site. But VBox crashes, sometimes pauses the machine, reboots it once every 5 times or so you start it. VMWare is faster, more reliable and does not give us any hassles whatsoever.
If TBL patended his work and tried to squeeze the cow for a much milkmoney as possible then
a) It would not have paid off because the interest would have been limited b) Someone else would ahve invented a free system that would have taken off just like the internet did
Example1: Gopher was invented wiht a closed model before the internet. Enyone see any Gopher sites anymore? Example2: Teletext was invented WAY before HTTP. My dad used it for internet banking back in the eary 80's. Anyone see that being used anymore?
A model that is not being used will just be squeezed out b something that is used. Simple economics
I had cataracts out too. Can also see much better into the UV than most. Actually, this is not very useful as the lenses do cut of UV a bit further than before but not that much. You can see blacklights but much more.
While UV sight seems like a cool "superpower" except for the blacklight thing there is not much difference to normal life. There are definite downsides as well:
a) You are now extremely sensitive to sunlight. Get a pair of good polorized glasses. That really makes a difference. I work for a company that makes testing equipment with really intenst lamps that can generate the same radiation as the sun indoors, and that lamp really a headache-induction machine. b) After a while your lens might shift, and now one eye is not locked on infinity anymore. No more 3D films. Reading becomes a bitch. Invest in a monitor arm that allows you to quickly shift your screen around. c) You are going to pay the college education of your optometrist when the lens shifts over time for reading glasses d) Wanna buy a camera? MAke sure it has a viewfinder with a diopter adjustment, and small handheld point-and shoots become a hassle to use. Manual focus old cameras? Forget it. e) One upside: When I have to clean house I can tell my missus that that I did not see the dust on the floor as I cannot focus there, and (usually) I am not lying f) Another upside: I can buy an iPad and get it by the missus because it is much easier to read than books as you can increase the font size.
Another thing, you will have a layer of cells growing over your lens soon. this has to be burned off with a YaG laser. That is a really cool experience, it feels like an electric shock right in the middle of your brain.
In short, enjoy your new ultra-crisp sight, be careful in sunlight, get sunglasses and get annoyed by reading hassles and inability to focus you eyes up close.
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That it. If I can get the damn Linux freaks who despise anything GUI to learn that one thing my users would be happy.
There IS something about dressing things up too much, yes. But that does NOT mean that all style is a bad or useless thing.
Say that again: Style vs Substance is NOT a Zero Sum Game
SO nuke Bill O'Really then, not the customers of his news source.
So if you walk past a shop and see that the shop-owner forgot to lock the door he deserves (and his customers) deserve to have their personal details stolen from his files then? There are other ways to handle this, like give him a friendly advice and point out that this might be a problem.
Stealing a million bucks is not the same as stealing grandma's purse, you know?
You know that a single serious Windows virus ca cause BILLIONS of dollars in economic losses?
Why is that different from a major terrorist strike? Why is the response disproportionate?
For some reason when someone bombs something they are criminals but if a hackers does this he is a Robin Hood.
Kill Them
If the pepper was organically grown and locally sourced it makes it alright then
What the hell did Stratfor do do deserve this? And why steal the CC's of a people who are interested in good quality analysis of current vents and the news behind the news? What "evil" did they do?
Agree 100%. What did Stratfor do do deserve the epithet "Evil"? Most of the stupid fuck /. hackers just do som knee-jerk support of anonymous. Stealing the credit cards of the customers of a company is not social activism, it is just criminal. anonymous hackers deserve the same treatment as the terrorists in Afpak. Bring on the drones and hellfire missiles.
The fact that many /. idiots support this crap is blight on /.
Maybe it because, due to a lack of funds they cannot afford actual scientific instruments so they just suck stuff out of their thumbs?
Apple does not dictate what software thou run on a laptop. They dictate what software gets sold in their OWN store and basically screens for malware. If Microsoft did this the world would be a better place today. You can still install on the machine whatever you want.
The Soviets did the same with Smallpox, Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, Anthrax and Tularemia. And then Weaponized this
and stuffed it into ICBMs. En-Masse. The baddies already know how to do this, industrialize the process and weaponize it.
> It is possible to have a market economy under an authoritarian regime as well.
Taiwan and South Korea in the 80s. Seems to have worked very well for them.
Also, to some extent, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and modern pseudo-communist China.
But it still does not excuse the totalitarianism.
Same here. When our small child calls in the night my wife wakes up and sleep through :)
The only job where you lie in your back in dark corners and work with floppy cables is a network tech and a prostitute. And the prostitutes get more respect, more money and have satisfied customers.
Yes. Yes.
And my 10 wasted years as a Notes admin trying to fix the !@#!@ that a PHB made us do in Notes instead of a relational database really makes me very wary of this whole noSQL boom.
NoSQL Databases are definitely good for some things (as is Notes) but it is certainly no Nirvana. There is a reason relational databases were invented in the first place: a schema forces you to be consistent with your design which helps with large projects. In Notes and noSQL things very quickly become a tangled mess, and when you need foreign keys, well, you need them.
Good design is always about LESS freedom. That lesson seems to be getting lost here.
And now back to my new job where the people upstairs want to introduce Lotus Notes!
acting becomes the hot new job area. Except the actors work for the Mafia now, not Hollywood.
That must be the singulary most expensive stuff on the planet!
Thanks for the good memories man.
Roger Wilco Lives!
The new deal was necessary because capital was used to causethe worst economic crisis ever, called the great depresseion. Careful what you return to.
I an a rather unhappy user of VB and fixed the problem: I switched to VMWare and Parallels. VirtualBox on Windows is not any better either, it sometimes simply reboots the machine. We use VBox on a windows machine for some people here who are not IT related at all twho need to run a system we usuall run on a website locally on a laptop for a Point of Sale on Windows. a Virtualized machine is great for this, simply take the rails app from Linux and run it on a VBox and then use windows as always on site. But VBox crashes, sometimes pauses the machine, reboots it once every 5 times or so you start it. VMWare is faster, more reliable and does not give us any hassles whatsoever.
If TBL patended his work and tried to squeeze the cow for a much milkmoney as possible then
a) It would not have paid off because the interest would have been limited
b) Someone else would ahve invented a free system that would have taken off just like the internet did
Example1: Gopher was invented wiht a closed model before the internet. Enyone see any Gopher sites anymore?
Example2: Teletext was invented WAY before HTTP. My dad used it for internet banking back in the eary 80's. Anyone see that being used anymore?
A model that is not being used will just be squeezed out b something that is used. Simple economics
I had cataracts out too. Can also see much better into the UV than most. Actually, this is not very useful as the lenses do cut of UV a bit further than before but not that much. You can see blacklights but much more.
While UV sight seems like a cool "superpower" except for the blacklight thing there is not much difference to normal life. There are definite downsides as well:
a) You are now extremely sensitive to sunlight. Get a pair of good polorized glasses. That really makes a difference. I work for a company that makes testing equipment with really intenst lamps that can generate the same radiation as the sun indoors, and that lamp really a headache-induction machine.
b) After a while your lens might shift, and now one eye is not locked on infinity anymore. No more 3D films. Reading becomes a bitch. Invest in a monitor arm that allows you to quickly shift your screen around.
c) You are going to pay the college education of your optometrist when the lens shifts over time for reading glasses
d) Wanna buy a camera? MAke sure it has a viewfinder with a diopter adjustment, and small handheld point-and shoots become a hassle to use. Manual focus old cameras? Forget it.
e) One upside: When I have to clean house I can tell my missus that that I did not see the dust on the floor as I cannot focus there, and (usually) I am not lying
f) Another upside: I can buy an iPad and get it by the missus because it is much easier to read than books as you can increase the font size.
Another thing, you will have a layer of cells growing over your lens soon. this has to be burned off with a YaG laser. That is a really cool experience, it feels like an electric shock right in the middle of your brain.
In short, enjoy your new ultra-crisp sight, be careful in sunlight, get sunglasses and get annoyed by reading hassles and inability to focus you eyes up close.
"McAffee today announced that they purchased Intel and AMD so that they can add their security scanner directly INTO the silicon."
Getta Byte, Getta Byte, Getta Byte Byte Byte!
cat > a.out
Like a Mafia Boss who does not actually get to pull the trigger but orders his goons to do it for him?