Man On Pink Corner: > How many people reading this intentionally pay more tax than they are strictly required to?
Strict requirements in society are the lowest common denominator, the thin line that separates a normal person from a sociopath. They are not what one should aim for, but merely the required minimum for the notion of society to exist. Progress is not achieved by doing as little as possible, by staying a shade away from illegality, by hiding unethical behaviour behind the imperfection of the law. Imagine that every mom & pop shop out there did what Google does (and the far too many other corporations guilty of this). This is a sad farce, and they're fucking everyone - not just the people they "avoid" paying those taxes to, but also every other business that hasn't got the means or the will to engage in the same tax avoidance scheme.
>> Is that why so many over 50 demand handholding for the most basic tasks? I'm talkin REAL BASIC stuff here. Tasks they somehow manage to do themselves anyway if no handholding is available? >> And here I was thinking it was just their massive entitlement mentality.
Pray tell, what part of the programming world does your experience apply to? Thanks.
Hardly an insightful comment at all - sounds more like winy and mean. Pay close attention to the timeline: the advice from Steve Jobs, at the time it came, was foresight. Comments like the above are hindsight at best, merely stating what the situation currently is. Well, guess again, since this is about the time before the situation was _created_.
This is about repairing a historically significant computer, not cheap internet publicity stunts. What sort of ignorant voted that comment "informative"?
Yeah, and C++ had it since before Gosling decided C++ wasn't good enough for him. Ever since its inception, Java has steadily acquired lame, non-generic, basically hacks of implementations for features in C++ which it strived so hard to shun. Mainly due to Gosling being not smart enough to really understand C++ in the first place. Honestly, read some interviews with him, he's just guts and bile about it, no logical arguments whatsoever, typical I-don't-get-it-therefore-it's-wrong, holier than thou attitude. The tasteless, confused hamburger that Java is today is the result of its small minded creator and the barriers built in since the beginning. Doug Lea's work turned the crapfest Java was into a workable platform for serious applications, but that's about it.
that this is about getting the phone numbers - another way to access users and feed them delicious Facebook and approved 3rd party apps goodness, I'm sure.
Telecommuting means, literally, commuting at a distance, or remote commuting, just like television means vision at a distance, or remote vision, and telecommunication means communication over a distance.
As such, the word "telecommuting" is a pleonasm and thus nonsensical, the creation of a very confused, uneducated person.
Teleworking on the other hand means working at a distance, or from far away (from the office), and the term that should be used.
Totally brilliant idea: make version designed for priests only, and after "the sinner"'s done putting their sins in, and eventually adding some audio notes, the confession is packed up, encrypted, and uploaded to some central servers, from where it can be picked up by any of the priests who have the other application - a bit like voicemail + text for them. They go through the confession and record an audio reply, which then gets routed back to "the sinner". This is perfect!
This is not a discussion on turntables. I simply pointed out that $80 buys a spinning device of some sort, perhaps, but not a decent turntable, which *starts* at SL-1200; far from me to say that it's the best one available, but it definitely is a very good start.
I think you might be mistaken about the wow and flutter performance of the Technics, but again, this is not about the SL-1200 (I personally own a high-end ClearAudio paired with a Graham Slee phono stage).
Let me start off by saying that I completely agree regarding classic rock (and not only!) and vinyl as the perfect marriage.
However you have given out the perfect recipe for a sub-mediocre listening experience in your post. Here's why:
- there's nothing decent about a $80 turntable, and you will never get "the sound" out of it. Ever. A decent turntable is $500 and up, for fairly low values of decent, and without a pre-amp (e.g. Technics SL-1200);
- all recent Beatles vinyls are made from digital sources, so you get an analogue medium storing a digital transfer (designed for CD production) of an analogue original; there's nothing gained here.
Beatles vinyls cut from analogue source in near-mint or excellent condition are quite expensive and not easy to find.
Also there's a fair bit of music produced after 1995 (which is by the way a year completely randomly picked) that's been given good analogue vinyl releases, cut from original master tapes without an intermediary digital step. Of course "fair bit" and "music" are subject to personal interpretation.
Oh come off it. Where did you get this "condemned for being marketable" from? I see words don't fail you, you're bursting with cheap drama actually.
Condemning and executing people for their political views, that's wrong. That's a crime.
Using the organs of executed prisoners to save lives? Nope, not a problem - it's a good thing, and I think it's still good even if you charge for it. It's not like healthcare is free everywhere in the world, or is it?
Please try and leave horror movies and all that religious crap out of it for a second - less drama, more fact and though. Stop mixing the issues.
And I can't believe that shit you wrote about how America's better because you're not selling the organs after killing people in places you don't belong - excellent, I can see how limiting yourself to dismemberment is what Jesus would do.
Nope, that's not how it works, there's no such button in this type of trading.
The processing/reaction times of the automated trading systems are actually measured in microseconds.
Yes, I/O is the bottleneck.
So, like, if you've been injured, the first thing you do before calling 911 is changing the battery in your mobile. Also, your non-Apple phone allows you, like all phones which are not made by Apple of course, to replace the battery during the call, should you notice you're battery's running out...
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Man On Pink Corner:
> How many people reading this intentionally pay more tax than they are strictly required to?
Strict requirements in society are the lowest common denominator, the thin line that separates a normal person from a sociopath.
They are not what one should aim for, but merely the required minimum for the notion of society to exist.
Progress is not achieved by doing as little as possible, by staying a shade away from illegality, by hiding unethical behaviour behind the imperfection of the law.
Imagine that every mom & pop shop out there did what Google does (and the far too many other corporations guilty of this).
This is a sad farce, and they're fucking everyone - not just the people they "avoid" paying those taxes to, but also every other business that hasn't got the means or the will to engage in the same tax avoidance scheme.
>> Is that why so many over 50 demand handholding for the most basic tasks? I'm talkin REAL BASIC stuff here. Tasks they somehow manage to do themselves anyway if no handholding is available?
>> And here I was thinking it was just their massive entitlement mentality.
Pray tell, what part of the programming world does your experience apply to? Thanks.
See here an interview about the tools he uses for his amazing drawings: http://thetoolsartistsuse.com/2009/08/tom-gauld/
Hardly an insightful comment at all - sounds more like winy and mean. Pay close attention to the timeline: the advice from Steve Jobs, at the time it came, was foresight. Comments like the above are hindsight at best, merely stating what the situation currently is. Well, guess again, since this is about the time before the situation was _created_.
<quote>That is why I bought a Grand Seiko and a pair of Koronya shoes. </quote>
I think people who know about Grand Seiko tend to actually own them, or would like to. Which one's correct in your case, if you don't mind?
Why would it need to be novel?!
This is about repairing a historically significant computer, not cheap internet publicity stunts. What sort of ignorant voted that comment "informative"?
I'm proud to be deranged then. You can have your sanity - its blandness goes great with the mediocrity of Java.
Yeah, and C++ had it since before Gosling decided C++ wasn't good enough for him.
Ever since its inception, Java has steadily acquired lame, non-generic, basically hacks of implementations for features in C++ which it strived so hard to shun. Mainly due to Gosling being not smart enough to really understand C++ in the first place. Honestly, read some interviews with him, he's just guts and bile about it, no logical arguments whatsoever, typical I-don't-get-it-therefore-it's-wrong, holier than thou attitude.
The tasteless, confused hamburger that Java is today is the result of its small minded creator and the barriers built in since the beginning. Doug Lea's work turned the crapfest Java was into a workable platform for serious applications, but that's about it.
Don't fucking call random people code monkeys. Mind your fucking manners, sir.
that this is about getting the phone numbers - another way to access users and feed them delicious Facebook and approved 3rd party apps goodness, I'm sure.
Telecommuting means, literally, commuting at a distance, or remote commuting, just like television means vision at a distance, or remote vision, and telecommunication means communication over a distance.
As such, the word "telecommuting" is a pleonasm and thus nonsensical, the creation of a very confused, uneducated person.
Teleworking on the other hand means working at a distance, or from far away (from the office), and the term that should be used.
Totally brilliant idea: make version designed for priests only, and after "the sinner"'s done putting their sins in, and eventually adding some audio notes, the confession is packed up, encrypted, and uploaded to some central servers, from where it can be picked up by any of the priests who have the other application - a bit like voicemail + text for them. They go through the confession and record an audio reply, which then gets routed back to "the sinner". This is perfect!
My question is - what do you think I think I hear?
I think you might be mistaken about the wow and flutter performance of the Technics, but again, this is not about the SL-1200 (I personally own a high-end ClearAudio paired with a Graham Slee phono stage).
Let me start off by saying that I completely agree regarding classic rock (and not only!) and vinyl as the perfect marriage. However you have given out the perfect recipe for a sub-mediocre listening experience in your post. Here's why: - there's nothing decent about a $80 turntable, and you will never get "the sound" out of it. Ever. A decent turntable is $500 and up, for fairly low values of decent, and without a pre-amp (e.g. Technics SL-1200); - all recent Beatles vinyls are made from digital sources, so you get an analogue medium storing a digital transfer (designed for CD production) of an analogue original; there's nothing gained here. Beatles vinyls cut from analogue source in near-mint or excellent condition are quite expensive and not easy to find. Also there's a fair bit of music produced after 1995 (which is by the way a year completely randomly picked) that's been given good analogue vinyl releases, cut from original master tapes without an intermediary digital step. Of course "fair bit" and "music" are subject to personal interpretation.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
Who the fuck voted this insightful? It's just an inflammatory zealot opinion.
Don't be ignorant - ipods support Apple Lossless.
Oh come off it. Where did you get this "condemned for being marketable" from? I see words don't fail you, you're bursting with cheap drama actually.
Condemning and executing people for their political views, that's wrong. That's a crime.
Using the organs of executed prisoners to save lives? Nope, not a problem - it's a good thing, and I think it's still good even if you charge for it. It's not like healthcare is free everywhere in the world, or is it?
Please try and leave horror movies and all that religious crap out of it for a second - less drama, more fact and though. Stop mixing the issues.
And I can't believe that shit you wrote about how America's better because you're not selling the organs after killing people in places you don't belong - excellent, I can see how limiting yourself to dismemberment is what Jesus would do.
I wonder - will words fail you over this as well? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
It's quite obvious you don't know anything about it, so why do you insist on expressing you beliefs on the subject?
Nope, that's not how it works, there's no such button in this type of trading. The processing/reaction times of the automated trading systems are actually measured in microseconds. Yes, I/O is the bottleneck.
I was, of course, being sarcastic.
So, like, if you've been injured, the first thing you do before calling 911 is changing the battery in your mobile. Also, your non-Apple phone allows you, like all phones which are not made by Apple of course, to replace the battery during the call, should you notice you're battery's running out...