You don't know how software development and pointers work, do you?
To many users, a computer works by doing what they tell it to do, and that's plenty for them to know. "How computers work" is a very broad statement that could mean a number of things that you don't address in the statements following your first one.
To the ISPs who complain that Google turns you into a "dumb pipe:" Yes, that is the idea. That is the service that we, as consumers, buy from you. We would be quite happy if we could lease some relatively inexpensive, and very dumb pipe. Google doesn't pay you to ship their content, because *we pay you to allow us to fetch that content.* Last I checked, you made some decent money doing so. Stop treating our broadband connections as a revenue stream and start treating it as the service it once was.
Actually, let's recap the action and the missteps: Inconsistent failure point during the initial installs. Yes, it could've been a problem with the ISO or the media. He correctly tried re-applying the image and also tested on another machine.
At that point, you don't replace the motherboard. You might as well replace everything else first... Start with slapping the HD into the machine that worked and try the install again. When that worked, that would've reduced the potential culprits to the memory, CPU, and then lastly the mainboard. Memtest would've found no memory issue (which would also indicate that the mainboard is also less likely a problem), so that's when the CPU switch should've happened... Especially since it was "an engineering sample."
Writing 100 books does not an expert make. Of course, I'll grant the guy some slack. Even the best of us have an experience where we throw our better judgment out the window. We make mistakes, or just totally forget how this is supposed to work, get into a panic, and goodness knows what else.
The difference, and where I think this guy made the big mistake? When he decided to post this experience. Would've been much better just writing it like this:
"I tried to go from x86 to x64, and it failed. I troubleshot it like a noob. I'll do better next time."
I can tell you from experience that although there's not much of a Disk/CPU/Memory hit, the graphics performance is seriously business only. The real work of rendering still has to be done on the host, and then it has to be RDPd to the client. It's not going to fly at all, even with LAN connectivity.
If running Windows, make sure the kids don't have admin access and you can use policies to deliver the outage times. Load dd-wrt on the home router, and that can cut off internet access.
Actually, if you're looking at laptops, make sure they have compatible power cords.
If the kid gets grounded, they have up to about 90-120 minutes of time to do what they want (at best), and then they have to bargain with their siblings...
And, of course, we're all shocked that MS would do such a thing. All they really did was slap the ISO across the face and walk away laughing.
The whole process was bought and paid for. I don't even know why MS really did it. They don't market their ISO approval, nor that their products conform to any international standard. Why did they bother doing this?
But in your case, you still like C. You may like D more, but C's alright too. I don't have a huge problem with that. That's not a wasted vote in my mind.
If A, B, & C are D-bags, but C you're voting for C because A and B are DD-Bags, then you're wasting your vote.
That, my friend, is the short sighted view... all too commonly shared among the majorities. Real change takes much longer than the next election cycle.
I agree much more with Plaid Cymru and the Green Party, but between them they only got 8.7% of the votes last time. Neither stands a chance of getting in this time, so a vote for them would be wasted.
As someone who resides in a country where the vast majority of voters think there are only two options, that statement makes me cry. It wounds me deeply.
I'll say to you the same thing I tell everyone else here in America: A vote is only wasted if you don't actually like who you're voting for.
How are other parties supposed to rise up and represent the people who share their values if the citizens won't vote for them "because they can't win?"
But covering it up just makes it so SO much worse.
Covering it up is only worse if someone finds out about it. See previous treatment of Wikileaks. All this means is that someone in the command structure will be ordered to fall on the sword.
Bitterness: High Anecdotal: Much Citations: Needed
I'll believe that you did the work you claim. Even the best software fails for reasons beyond the developers' control. But to claim that it was from 'dick-swinging' sounds... well.. petty and bitter. Especially since the statement started with "Later I find out..."
Pretty much, you're bitter from hearsay... And you're pissed that they cut your project because of lack of adoption. Sorry. But don't take it out on *all* cops.
As an IT guy, I'm pretty used to broad generalizations, and I'm pretty used to being on the wrong side of many of them.
FYI, competition in health insurance does not exist. So, because competition and thus the capitalistic venture did not work out... someone had to do something.
But then what do I know, Im just a poor schmuck that got genetic diabetes and thus must suffer alone while people who are lucky enough not to get such lifetime diseases can live with their pockets lined with cash. AMIRITE?
In short, fuck you selfish prick.
Competition does exist between health insurers where more than one exist in a state. By the way, I happen to know of at least one non-profit insurer who will cover you. The insurer (in order to be a non-profit in Michigan) had to agree to a number of terms including having the state approve the monthly premium. Citation
By the way, you may not know this, but insurance does depend on taking in more money from your premiums than they pay out to you in expenses.
In short, calm down chief. I feel bad for the fact you have type I diabetes... but don't be a jackass. And don't assume that because it's expensive that there's no competition.
This is also why I support abolishing the corporate income tax. To me, it makes no sense to tax the artificial economic entity, and then tax every employee and owner of said entity. Let's keep our taxes limited to actual, real people.
Right now, we're granting rights to these artificial entities and I wonder if one of the reasons is because we're treating them more and more like real entities. If we did away with the corporate taxes, and did exactly what you suggest... wouldn't that lower the case for corporate rights?
Submitter - stats is just arithmetic and basic algebra, it's the concepts and knowing what to do with the data that are the hard part. Again get a T.I. and learn all of the functions, there is a LOT of tedium. Don't be afraid of the weird greek variables and big formulae...it's just arithmetic and algebra 1, you will hate it when you take it, but you will love it when you pass it.
I'm spending some time with my SO, who is a math professor, she says: "To understand stats properly, you have to know calculus. You need to know what the standard deviation is, which means you need to know what variance is, and to compute the variance, you have to know how to take an integral. Granted, this is for the continuous case."
My suggestion: concentrate very hard on your algebra. It's the foundation of calculus. Have a trig book handy for when you're working on your homework.
SO's suggestion: Get the SAT 2 subject study guide for math (if you can find one).
I was looking for something that would really open up the experience in MMOs. Looks like I found my class.
My mains have always been tanks, and it's sad depending huntards and suicidal rogues, and healers who think they're DPS. Now, I can peacefully wait for my quest targets to walk by or get pushed in by my pet Jedi... and PWNED.
But why is that? Are they actually "supertaskers" as the article suggests? Or is there a subset of that 1 in 40 that's actually so bad at driving that it doesn't matter if they're paying attention?
Anyone can be a danger on the road. It's a risk we accept every day by being on them.
I think we need to just forget this car thing and start working on the tube technology....
Show some genuine concern for these kids, and they'll shine. They always do
Always, no... But it's still good to show the concern anyway... Because it's the right thing to do.
What baffles me is how didn't her parents know? Is it because she didn't want to talk about it with them? Is it because they didn't listen? I ask because if her parents ignored the whole thing, that's negligence. That'd be even sadder. I can only assume that they didn't know. I don't want to pile on parents who lost their child, it's just that these questions are noticeably absent from the article.
Being a childhood victim of some bullying (I know.. shocker: nerd, on/.) I remember how much I hated being at school. But as parent said, I had a few people who really cared, listened, and helped me greatly.
This is a terribly sad story, my heart goes out to her family. I only hope that the people who are punished are the people responsible for attacking her, and not the social websites that were used.
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You don't know how software development and pointers work, do you?
To many users, a computer works by doing what they tell it to do, and that's plenty for them to know. "How computers work" is a very broad statement that could mean a number of things that you don't address in the statements following your first one.
It also makes you sound condescending.
Is the tobacco industry against e-cigs? Wouldn't it be the least bit ironic if the ALA found itself on the same side as them?
American *Lung* Association - How about you do a study comparing the effects before you make some snap judgement?
Fortunately for the polar bears, the pirates have setup in one of their homes. The ice sheet should start recovering any time now.
The EU ISPs aren't the first ones who suggested this.
To the ISPs who complain that Google turns you into a "dumb pipe:" Yes, that is the idea. That is the service that we, as consumers, buy from you. We would be quite happy if we could lease some relatively inexpensive, and very dumb pipe. Google doesn't pay you to ship their content, because *we pay you to allow us to fetch that content.* Last I checked, you made some decent money doing so. Stop treating our broadband connections as a revenue stream and start treating it as the service it once was.
Sorry to reply to self, but there's another problem I have with his execution:
If you're replacing the mainboard... You might as well go whole hog. Get yourself something nice...
Actually, let's recap the action and the missteps:
Inconsistent failure point during the initial installs. Yes, it could've been a problem with the ISO or the media. He correctly tried re-applying the image and also tested on another machine.
At that point, you don't replace the motherboard. You might as well replace everything else first... Start with slapping the HD into the machine that worked and try the install again. When that worked, that would've reduced the potential culprits to the memory, CPU, and then lastly the mainboard. Memtest would've found no memory issue (which would also indicate that the mainboard is also less likely a problem), so that's when the CPU switch should've happened... Especially since it was "an engineering sample."
Writing 100 books does not an expert make. Of course, I'll grant the guy some slack. Even the best of us have an experience where we throw our better judgment out the window. We make mistakes, or just totally forget how this is supposed to work, get into a panic, and goodness knows what else.
The difference, and where I think this guy made the big mistake? When he decided to post this experience. Would've been much better just writing it like this:
"I tried to go from x86 to x64, and it failed. I troubleshot it like a noob. I'll do better next time."
Screw the ocean, I'm plenty worried about me.
Am I not about 70% water?
I can tell you from experience that although there's not much of a Disk/CPU/Memory hit, the graphics performance is seriously business only. The real work of rendering still has to be done on the host, and then it has to be RDPd to the client. It's not going to fly at all, even with LAN connectivity.
If running Windows, make sure the kids don't have admin access and you can use policies to deliver the outage times. Load dd-wrt on the home router, and that can cut off internet access.
Actually, if you're looking at laptops, make sure they have compatible power cords.
If the kid gets grounded, they have up to about 90-120 minutes of time to do what they want (at best), and then they have to bargain with their siblings...
Now that's what I call punishment.
I don't think you took your dex penalty into account...
And, of course, we're all shocked that MS would do such a thing. All they really did was slap the ISO across the face and walk away laughing.
The whole process was bought and paid for. I don't even know why MS really did it. They don't market their ISO approval, nor that their products conform to any international standard. Why did they bother doing this?
But in your case, you still like C. You may like D more, but C's alright too. I don't have a huge problem with that. That's not a wasted vote in my mind.
If A, B, & C are D-bags, but C you're voting for C because A and B are DD-Bags, then you're wasting your vote.
That, my friend, is the short sighted view... all too commonly shared among the majorities. Real change takes much longer than the next election cycle.
I agree much more with Plaid Cymru and the Green Party, but between them they only got 8.7% of the votes last time. Neither stands a chance of getting in this time, so a vote for them would be wasted.
As someone who resides in a country where the vast majority of voters think there are only two options, that statement makes me cry. It wounds me deeply.
I'll say to you the same thing I tell everyone else here in America: A vote is only wasted if you don't actually like who you're voting for.
How are other parties supposed to rise up and represent the people who share their values if the citizens won't vote for them "because they can't win?"
But covering it up just makes it so SO much worse.
Covering it up is only worse if someone finds out about it. See previous treatment of Wikileaks. All this means is that someone in the command structure will be ordered to fall on the sword.
However, that does NOT mean I'd do Amy Winehouse.
You'd have to smoke something else entirely to hang out with her anyway. I don't think she wastes any time with tobacco.
Bitterness: High
Anecdotal: Much
Citations: Needed
I'll believe that you did the work you claim. Even the best software fails for reasons beyond the developers' control. But to claim that it was from 'dick-swinging' sounds... well.. petty and bitter. Especially since the statement started with "Later I find out..."
Pretty much, you're bitter from hearsay... And you're pissed that they cut your project because of lack of adoption. Sorry. But don't take it out on *all* cops.
As an IT guy, I'm pretty used to broad generalizations, and I'm pretty used to being on the wrong side of many of them.
FYI, competition in health insurance does not exist. So, because competition and thus the capitalistic venture did not work out... someone had to do something.
But then what do I know, Im just a poor schmuck that got genetic diabetes and thus must suffer alone while people who are lucky enough not to get such lifetime diseases can live with their pockets lined with cash. AMIRITE?
In short, fuck you selfish prick.
Competition does exist between health insurers where more than one exist in a state. By the way, I happen to know of at least one non-profit insurer who will cover you. The insurer (in order to be a non-profit in Michigan) had to agree to a number of terms including having the state approve the monthly premium.
Citation
By the way, you may not know this, but insurance does depend on taking in more money from your premiums than they pay out to you in expenses.
In short, calm down chief. I feel bad for the fact you have type I diabetes... but don't be a jackass. And don't assume that because it's expensive that there's no competition.
This is also why I support abolishing the corporate income tax. To me, it makes no sense to tax the artificial economic entity, and then tax every employee and owner of said entity. Let's keep our taxes limited to actual, real people.
Right now, we're granting rights to these artificial entities and I wonder if one of the reasons is because we're treating them more and more like real entities. If we did away with the corporate taxes, and did exactly what you suggest... wouldn't that lower the case for corporate rights?
Submitter - stats is just arithmetic and basic algebra, it's the concepts and knowing what to do with the data that are the hard part. Again get a T.I. and learn all of the functions, there is a LOT of tedium. Don't be afraid of the weird greek variables and big formulae...it's just arithmetic and algebra 1, you will hate it when you take it, but you will love it when you pass it.
I'm spending some time with my SO, who is a math professor, she says: "To understand stats properly, you have to know calculus. You need to know what the standard deviation is, which means you need to know what variance is, and to compute the variance, you have to know how to take an integral. Granted, this is for the continuous case."
My suggestion: concentrate very hard on your algebra. It's the foundation of calculus. Have a trig book handy for when you're working on your homework.
SO's suggestion: Get the SAT 2 subject study guide for math (if you can find one).
I was looking for something that would really open up the experience in MMOs. Looks like I found my class.
My mains have always been tanks, and it's sad depending huntards and suicidal rogues, and healers who think they're DPS. Now, I can peacefully wait for my quest targets to walk by or get pushed in by my pet Jedi... and PWNED.
Sweet.
But why is that? Are they actually "supertaskers" as the article suggests? Or is there a subset of that 1 in 40 that's actually so bad at driving that it doesn't matter if they're paying attention?
Anyone can be a danger on the road. It's a risk we accept every day by being on them.
I think we need to just forget this car thing and start working on the tube technology....
Show some genuine concern for these kids, and they'll shine. They always do
Always, no... But it's still good to show the concern anyway... Because it's the right thing to do.
What baffles me is how didn't her parents know? Is it because she didn't want to talk about it with them? Is it because they didn't listen? I ask because if her parents ignored the whole thing, that's negligence. That'd be even sadder. I can only assume that they didn't know. I don't want to pile on parents who lost their child, it's just that these questions are noticeably absent from the article.
Being a childhood victim of some bullying (I know.. shocker: nerd, on /.) I remember how much I hated being at school. But as parent said, I had a few people who really cared, listened, and helped me greatly.
This is a terribly sad story, my heart goes out to her family. I only hope that the people who are punished are the people responsible for attacking her, and not the social websites that were used.
Or, you and your frustrated friends can support a third party.
As long as everyone says *the other* party instead of *another* party, it's not really going to change.