Mod up. That is it in a nutshell. Romney is like a car salesmen promising whatever you want to hear with none of the detail. Regardless of political leanings, that type of personality always triggers my bullshit detector
To be fair, Obama inherited the worst possible position, the GFC and knee deep in two unwinnable wars. Really, could the country have possibly been in any worse state when Bush left?
The US is a big boat to turn around and if you look at trends, Obama appears to have halted the slide that began under Bush and slowly started a recovery.
I'd have to disagree. We have our own in house IT department... but a small part of our business is providing outsourced IT. And our stuff ridiculously overbuilt and robust. I doubt anyone could do it in house better. But it's expensive as hell, and not very flexible.
I bet you can't even see the irony of your post. If it expensive and inflexible then it's quite easy to do it better don't you think?
The problem you haven't addressed is that every business has different requirements and not all of them require super-robustness.
I worked both sides of the fence, and MSP has it's place but it isn't the solution for everyone (as TFA quite nicely demonstrates).
I had weapons as a kid, knives, guns (air rifle) etc and even though we did some silly shit, we always knew they were weapons. The trouble with lasers is that no matter how much you say it's dangerous, no young adventurous kid is going to believe you without trying it out on someone when you're not around.
What I don't agree with is being forced to have my hands amputated just because having hands would allow me to punch you in the face if I ever felt provoked to do so.
Do you agree that guns shouldn't be allowed on planes? After all just because me and my Muslim extremist mates want to carry our AK-47s on your flight doesn't mean we're going to use them?
Or perhaps we shouldn't prevent Nuclear proliferation? After all the bad guys might not use them?
Your argument is pretty weak. Controlled substances are controlled for a reason, to protect greater society from idiots and allow a greater overall freedom to society as a whole. "This is a free country I should be able to do whatever the hell I like" doesn't seem to be a very well thought out proposition.
This is a free country. A free society has dangers inherent in it. Deal with it.
How the fuck does this get modded insightful? You have personal freedom precisely because of regulations that protect you from bigger, stronger more psychopathic individuals that would rape and murder your family in front of you if they didn't exist. Those regulations are what allow you to walk the streets in relative safety.
"This is a free country" is used by people who have zero understanding of the mechanisms that allow those freedoms.
So where are the news reports of *thousands* of plane crashes?
Laser pointers are a nuisance and have the capability to cause serious harm.
We had an international Rugby match this weekend we're Argentinian fans were shining laser into the eyes of Australian players during the game. The world functioned perfectly before laser pointers, it's no great loss to remove them from public consumption
What I'm saying is that it is a MASSIVE overreaction to start requiring college professors to get a government issued permit to use a laser pointer in their classroom.
That's how civilisation works. When something becomes a nuisance, it gets regulated and we maintain our civilisation.
If you really, really want freedom, go hang out in Mogadishu or Lagos for a bit. No rules there, see how you like real freedom...
Basically, religious people are bigots and perform extreme discrimination, so we must act like there is some god.
I have a problem with tis pretending as it only serves to re-inforce the lies and help sway others who may be unceratin about their beleifs to get onbaord the fantasy wagon. This behaviour only seems to occur in the US (and third world countries), in most other western countries I've been to, there seems to be no problem accepting Atheism (Here in Australia our Prime Minister is publicly athiest)
If you're on/. and don't know what NPC is, or how to find out, you're probably not the target audience here.
Stupid questions from literate adults who obviously have Internet (thus Google) access... they deserve the snide remarks they receive.
There is never any excuse for snide remarks, that is just lack of maturity. And since Google has all the answers to everything, then by your logic all questions are stupid since they can all be answered on Google. Therefore all questions deserve snide responses.
There is another point to asking oversimple quesiton which you have clearly missed. And that is to send a message to the editors. ie I didn't know what NPC meant either. I Googled it and found out, however I still would've posted the question (if it hadn't been already) as rhetoric to the editors that sometimes you need to not assume that everyone knows everything.
I vaguely remember the first PC I bought with my own money was a 486DX-33Mhz cost me the equivalent of 12 weeks pay back in 92.
The last PC I bought was a Dell Optiplex last year for about 2 days pay. That is really absurd change in value.
As far life cycle, I'm typing this on my Dell Inspiron (no Dell link here - just coincidence) I bought in 2005. 7 years and going strong and have no plans to replace it (although it's about due for a new battery and maybe a new SSD)
It's a horrible plan because it's far too complicated (I know he's trying to be funny, but it should at least be realistic). As soon as I read the headline my first thought was to hijack the 747 with the shuttle onboard. Once you have hostages it shouldn't be too hard to fill up and fly to the sympathetic anti-american country of your choice. Surely 100 fully armed guerillas to storm the airport would be a lot easier to assemble than dozens of heavy lift helicopters and customised submarines?
It's actually 1 in 7 now;)
I used to work for an ISP back when there lots of them, and we used to offer one month free for new members. Most people quit after the first month, but that didn't stop us advertising how many customers we had in our database. I'd be willing to bet a lot of money FB is doing the same thing.
I have 3 FB accounts myself, one I use, one I use for signing up to all those crap services which only let you use an FB account (hello Spotify) and like to spam your status, and another for testing things that has no connection to anything else of mine. None of them have real names.
The problem with wireless is that the range sucks. 802.11n has a maximum speed of 600 mbps but I've never been able to get anywhere close to that. The speed is respectable if I'm standing right next to the router, but if I'm 2 floors away (router in bottom floor of 3 storey no basement house) then the speed is just atrocious. 60 GHz won't travel that far anyway. The only thing that's good for is when you're right next to the router, which means you might as well have a wired connection.
Perhaps you should add more APs or move to a more wi-fi friendly house? I live in a one level open plan house and get good coverage from anywhere on my regular sized property. I would never expect wi-fi to work through solid walls let alone floors. Perhaps you're expecting too much?
Instead of arguing about fictitious examples you made up in your head, why not argue with what actually happened. The guy stole parts from routers and switches from a big "faceless" corporation. To give you an example I know of a similar case where "a guy I know" had to order a bunch of new PCs for a new office. The PCs came way over spec'd for the job required, so the PCs were "downgraded" to a reasonable spec one night when they in the storeroom. The end result was that the hard working IT guys had a big piss-up for free, and the business carried on as normal. You see, sometimes (just sometimes) there is no victim:)
I'm not knocking the images themselves. But without the context of human eyes, human life and experience... these will have little or no meaning to anyone who has never lived earth.
Well I have lived on the earth, my whole life in fact, and even I struggled to figure what half these photos were about. Silly blurry arty black and white shit may work in the cool end of town, but when you're attempting to communicate with foreigners, you need to keep it as simple as possible.
I gave up on these sites years ago as soon as it became apparent they were all unreliable. Reviews are either gamed or posted by someone with completely different standards to me so carried no value. Just go check reviews of hotels you've been and compare with your own experience. None of them have any consistency.
This is the hard discipline that the vast majority of private enterprises have to adhere to, but which no government with a European welfare state seems capable of.
Why did you use the words "Welfare state" in there? It's as if somehow you're blaming this for the problems?
IIRC the US isn't a "welfare state" and it suffered just as bad. In fact the two biggest economic disasters both occured under conservative leadership.
I live in Australia, we have a welfare state and into on our 21st year of consecutive economic growth (with at least 4 more more forecast). So if you're trying to imply that welfare is to blame then the facts don't much your poorly thought out claims
Politicians need deficit spending the way a junkie needs heroin because the cradle-to-grave welfare state is unsustainable, and no one is willing to face up to that fact. And the price of that delusion will be the destruction of our economy.
Oh you've used those words again. Welfare (by this I mean public health, education and housing) is indeed sustainable. We've been doing it for years, successfully and sustainably through both conservative and liberal governments for decades. The difference I see is that the US has an unhealthy obsession with tax cuts. I pay 30% of my income to income tax (plus another 10% to the nationwide sales tax). I am happy to pay this for a "welfare state" where me my fellow countrymen will always have access to health and education.
We had a startup airline a few years back that was all business class from front to back of the plane. Every seat Business Class. The company didn't last long, and went bankrupt. It seems people didn't want to travel business class unless they had some cattle class schmucks on-board to look down their noses at.
We're nearly the same age. When I was10 I had flared jeans and a tight shirt with rainbow colours, When I was 13 or 14 I bought some tapered jeans and a black t-shirt. By Uni I had traded these for baggy jeans and a white t-shirt, and just recently I bought some skinny jeans and t-shirt with some writing on it. I expect sometime in the next 10 years to probably get some baggy jeans again and maybe a new t-shirt. I think this is what they mean by fashion:)
It's on the Internet it must be true!
And out of all those stories did you validate their sources? I did, every single one of them was the Daily Mail, and the Daily Mail didn't have any. Based on this, it can safely be assumed to be a complete fabrication. Here endeth the lesson.
You're only thinking like a home user. When you have one off requirements you can have one off solutions. Since MS is the only vendor with a true corporate solution (integrated AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy/Mobile Device Management, Messaging/Collaboration, DB, Web/Intranet, Office Apps etc), then MS will always rule this space. And since people use this at work, it's only natural they want the devil they know at home.
My Bullshit detector went off as soon I read the summary. You can't send a text to all contacts with BB (just checked mine now). The only way to do this is to create a group, add all your contacts, then send a txt to the group. Hardly the sort of thing you would do accidently. Also the Daily Mail is one of those "President Kidnapped by Aliens!" publications. Why we keep getting Daily Mail stories on Slashdot is beyond me. Wake up Slashdot Editors.
the typical procedure was to apply through an Australian Consulate.... I am given to understand that conditions for such an application are now much stricter and more onerous.
As with most countries, that process is for everyone else. There is a points system in Australia (I believe a similar system operates in the US) based on reputation, skills, education etc and most importantly amount of money to invest into the local economy. I'm guessing Woz would piss it in on all counts and hence gets a golden ticket.
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Mod up. That is it in a nutshell. Romney is like a car salesmen promising whatever you want to hear with none of the detail. Regardless of political leanings, that type of personality always triggers my bullshit detector
To be fair, Obama inherited the worst possible position, the GFC and knee deep in two unwinnable wars. Really, could the country have possibly been in any worse state when Bush left? The US is a big boat to turn around and if you look at trends, Obama appears to have halted the slide that began under Bush and slowly started a recovery.
I'd have to disagree. We have our own in house IT department... but a small part of our business is providing outsourced IT. And our stuff ridiculously overbuilt and robust. I doubt anyone could do it in house better. But it's expensive as hell, and not very flexible.
I bet you can't even see the irony of your post. If it expensive and inflexible then it's quite easy to do it better don't you think? The problem you haven't addressed is that every business has different requirements and not all of them require super-robustness. I worked both sides of the fence, and MSP has it's place but it isn't the solution for everyone (as TFA quite nicely demonstrates).
I had weapons as a kid, knives, guns (air rifle) etc and even though we did some silly shit, we always knew they were weapons. The trouble with lasers is that no matter how much you say it's dangerous, no young adventurous kid is going to believe you without trying it out on someone when you're not around.
Higher powered lasers have been banned in Australia since way before the media reported incidents of shining lasers on aircraft appeared...
That's not true. The ban was enacted in July 2008. Here's a story reporting such behaviour before then.
I agree with that 100%.
What I don't agree with is being forced to have my hands amputated just because having hands would allow me to punch you in the face if I ever felt provoked to do so.
Do you agree that guns shouldn't be allowed on planes? After all just because me and my Muslim extremist mates want to carry our AK-47s on your flight doesn't mean we're going to use them? Or perhaps we shouldn't prevent Nuclear proliferation? After all the bad guys might not use them? Your argument is pretty weak. Controlled substances are controlled for a reason, to protect greater society from idiots and allow a greater overall freedom to society as a whole. "This is a free country I should be able to do whatever the hell I like" doesn't seem to be a very well thought out proposition.
This is a free country. A free society has dangers inherent in it. Deal with it.
How the fuck does this get modded insightful? You have personal freedom precisely because of regulations that protect you from bigger, stronger more psychopathic individuals that would rape and murder your family in front of you if they didn't exist. Those regulations are what allow you to walk the streets in relative safety. "This is a free country" is used by people who have zero understanding of the mechanisms that allow those freedoms.
So where are the news reports of *thousands* of plane crashes?
Laser pointers are a nuisance and have the capability to cause serious harm. We had an international Rugby match this weekend we're Argentinian fans were shining laser into the eyes of Australian players during the game. The world functioned perfectly before laser pointers, it's no great loss to remove them from public consumption
What I'm saying is that it is a MASSIVE overreaction to start requiring college professors to get a government issued permit to use a laser pointer in their classroom.
That's how civilisation works. When something becomes a nuisance, it gets regulated and we maintain our civilisation. If you really, really want freedom, go hang out in Mogadishu or Lagos for a bit. No rules there, see how you like real freedom...
Basically, religious people are bigots and perform extreme discrimination, so we must act like there is some god.
I have a problem with tis pretending as it only serves to re-inforce the lies and help sway others who may be unceratin about their beleifs to get onbaord the fantasy wagon. This behaviour only seems to occur in the US (and third world countries), in most other western countries I've been to, there seems to be no problem accepting Atheism (Here in Australia our Prime Minister is publicly athiest)
If you're on /. and don't know what NPC is, or how to find out, you're probably not the target audience here.
Stupid questions from literate adults who obviously have Internet (thus Google) access ... they deserve the snide remarks they receive.
There is never any excuse for snide remarks, that is just lack of maturity. And since Google has all the answers to everything, then by your logic all questions are stupid since they can all be answered on Google. Therefore all questions deserve snide responses. There is another point to asking oversimple quesiton which you have clearly missed. And that is to send a message to the editors. ie I didn't know what NPC meant either. I Googled it and found out, however I still would've posted the question (if it hadn't been already) as rhetoric to the editors that sometimes you need to not assume that everyone knows everything.
I vaguely remember the first PC I bought with my own money was a 486DX-33Mhz cost me the equivalent of 12 weeks pay back in 92. The last PC I bought was a Dell Optiplex last year for about 2 days pay. That is really absurd change in value. As far life cycle, I'm typing this on my Dell Inspiron (no Dell link here - just coincidence) I bought in 2005. 7 years and going strong and have no plans to replace it (although it's about due for a new battery and maybe a new SSD)
It's a horrible plan because it's far too complicated (I know he's trying to be funny, but it should at least be realistic). As soon as I read the headline my first thought was to hijack the 747 with the shuttle onboard. Once you have hostages it shouldn't be too hard to fill up and fly to the sympathetic anti-american country of your choice. Surely 100 fully armed guerillas to storm the airport would be a lot easier to assemble than dozens of heavy lift helicopters and customised submarines?
It's actually 1 in 7 now ;)
I used to work for an ISP back when there lots of them, and we used to offer one month free for new members. Most people quit after the first month, but that didn't stop us advertising how many customers we had in our database. I'd be willing to bet a lot of money FB is doing the same thing.
I have 3 FB accounts myself, one I use, one I use for signing up to all those crap services which only let you use an FB account (hello Spotify) and like to spam your status, and another for testing things that has no connection to anything else of mine. None of them have real names.
The problem with wireless is that the range sucks. 802.11n has a maximum speed of 600 mbps but I've never been able to get anywhere close to that. The speed is respectable if I'm standing right next to the router, but if I'm 2 floors away (router in bottom floor of 3 storey no basement house) then the speed is just atrocious. 60 GHz won't travel that far anyway. The only thing that's good for is when you're right next to the router, which means you might as well have a wired connection.
Perhaps you should add more APs or move to a more wi-fi friendly house? I live in a one level open plan house and get good coverage from anywhere on my regular sized property. I would never expect wi-fi to work through solid walls let alone floors. Perhaps you're expecting too much?
Instead of arguing about fictitious examples you made up in your head, why not argue with what actually happened. The guy stole parts from routers and switches from a big "faceless" corporation. To give you an example I know of a similar case where "a guy I know" had to order a bunch of new PCs for a new office. The PCs came way over spec'd for the job required, so the PCs were "downgraded" to a reasonable spec one night when they in the storeroom. The end result was that the hard working IT guys had a big piss-up for free, and the business carried on as normal. You see, sometimes (just sometimes) there is no victim :)
I'm not knocking the images themselves. But without the context of human eyes, human life and experience... these will have little or no meaning to anyone who has never lived earth.
Well I have lived on the earth, my whole life in fact, and even I struggled to figure what half these photos were about. Silly blurry arty black and white shit may work in the cool end of town, but when you're attempting to communicate with foreigners, you need to keep it as simple as possible.
I gave up on these sites years ago as soon as it became apparent they were all unreliable. Reviews are either gamed or posted by someone with completely different standards to me so carried no value. Just go check reviews of hotels you've been and compare with your own experience. None of them have any consistency.
That's what this Hogan guys says, but there was no 10 year limit. He made that up.
So he lied once, and now he's lying about the fact that he lied? At least he's consistent.
This is the hard discipline that the vast majority of private enterprises have to adhere to, but which no government with a European welfare state seems capable of.
Why did you use the words "Welfare state" in there? It's as if somehow you're blaming this for the problems? IIRC the US isn't a "welfare state" and it suffered just as bad. In fact the two biggest economic disasters both occured under conservative leadership. I live in Australia, we have a welfare state and into on our 21st year of consecutive economic growth (with at least 4 more more forecast). So if you're trying to imply that welfare is to blame then the facts don't much your poorly thought out claims
Politicians need deficit spending the way a junkie needs heroin because the cradle-to-grave welfare state is unsustainable, and no one is willing to face up to that fact. And the price of that delusion will be the destruction of our economy.
Oh you've used those words again. Welfare (by this I mean public health, education and housing) is indeed sustainable. We've been doing it for years, successfully and sustainably through both conservative and liberal governments for decades. The difference I see is that the US has an unhealthy obsession with tax cuts. I pay 30% of my income to income tax (plus another 10% to the nationwide sales tax). I am happy to pay this for a "welfare state" where me my fellow countrymen will always have access to health and education.
We had a startup airline a few years back that was all business class from front to back of the plane. Every seat Business Class. The company didn't last long, and went bankrupt. It seems people didn't want to travel business class unless they had some cattle class schmucks on-board to look down their noses at.
We're nearly the same age. When I was10 I had flared jeans and a tight shirt with rainbow colours, When I was 13 or 14 I bought some tapered jeans and a black t-shirt. By Uni I had traded these for baggy jeans and a white t-shirt, and just recently I bought some skinny jeans and t-shirt with some writing on it. I expect sometime in the next 10 years to probably get some baggy jeans again and maybe a new t-shirt. I think this is what they mean by fashion :)
It's on the Internet it must be true! And out of all those stories did you validate their sources? I did, every single one of them was the Daily Mail, and the Daily Mail didn't have any. Based on this, it can safely be assumed to be a complete fabrication. Here endeth the lesson.
What the fuck is wrong with linux on the desktop?
You're only thinking like a home user. When you have one off requirements you can have one off solutions. Since MS is the only vendor with a true corporate solution (integrated AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy/Mobile Device Management, Messaging/Collaboration, DB, Web/Intranet, Office Apps etc), then MS will always rule this space. And since people use this at work, it's only natural they want the devil they know at home.
My Bullshit detector went off as soon I read the summary. You can't send a text to all contacts with BB (just checked mine now). The only way to do this is to create a group, add all your contacts, then send a txt to the group. Hardly the sort of thing you would do accidently. Also the Daily Mail is one of those "President Kidnapped by Aliens!" publications. Why we keep getting Daily Mail stories on Slashdot is beyond me. Wake up Slashdot Editors.
the typical procedure was to apply through an Australian Consulate .... I am given to understand that conditions for such an application are now much stricter and more onerous.
As with most countries, that process is for everyone else. There is a points system in Australia (I believe a similar system operates in the US) based on reputation, skills, education etc and most importantly amount of money to invest into the local economy. I'm guessing Woz would piss it in on all counts and hence gets a golden ticket.