So they put the computer in the wall and run it off the power of the ethernet - it can't have much of a processor if that's the only power it needs.
If I want a less cluttered desktop I'll get one of those all-in-one machines from Lenovo, HP, or Apple.
Maybe someone should come up with an buried computer - dig a hole in the yard, put the computer in their, and run cables into the building and have it run off of its own heat pump!
Or the cat box computer! Put the computer in the cat box have it run on the heat of the turds and the energy of the cat burying its shit!
I mean. there are TONS of useless gimmicks to sell a commodity appliance like PCs - just see what the toaster manufactures are doing.
I'm just getting really cranky with sales and marketing bullshit that tries to sell mediocre products.
I didn't sit out. I just voted. And this is how I voted:
Libertarian or other third party.
No third party? Vote against incumbent.
No alternative to incumbent? Abstain.
I can't stand either the Dems or the Reps and I can't understand how folks can toe their respective party lines. I'll vote for one of those corrupt major parties if there's no third party candidate (here in GA the Libertarians got a following) to vote against the incumbent.
Dems - taken over by statists and leftists.
Reps - taken over by the lunatic Evangelical Christian nuts and the folks who can be easily bought with low taxes - balanced budgets be damned!
The specs say that "Specifically, the DOI stated upfront in the RFQ that the solution had to be part of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite."
So what's the problem? That's their specs.
And looking at the complaint, it just looks like the DOI wanted to use one messaging system, Microsoft's, and settled on it. Google was trying to push their system. There's a lot of shit going on here and it just looks like Google didn't get their way and is using their money to bully their way.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot and it's Microsoft involved. Never mind.
If he invented some incredible green energy break through, I'd be thinking way to go! If he found a way to eliminate much of the poverty and sickness in the Third World, I'd say way to go kid! You deserve every penny! If he came up with some sort of medical breakthrough that eliminate breast and ovarian or prostate cancer, I'd be really happy for him.
No, he didn't.
He became an instant billionaire by selling what is basically personal web pages that broadcast updates automatically.
Tesla did more for humanity and he died penniless.
Excuse me, I'm having an attack of mumbling "Bullshit!"
I just can't get over the fact that we're still typing to program computers - that's soooooo twentieth century. Or even when we do have visual tools, it still generates code to be compiled.
What really needs to be done is 100% visual directly to machine - no stops.
So the higher you can raise that denominator, the better off society will be in the long term, because effectively, we're all making the decisions by electing our leaders, and if the bulk of the population is ignorant of the effects of exponential growth, disaster will eventually ensue.
That's why our public education was originally created - to have an educated electorate. Then somehow over the years, our education became job training - even at the university level.
Whenever I hear a business leader complain that our schools aren't producing "educated workers" my blood boils - and I can understand the folks who rant about "corporatism".
They spend too much time teaching crap and instead skip over the important stuff
Why the f... did I learn trigonometric equations ins high school?! Really... Polynomial equation solving?!
Derivatives would be much more useful. And don't beat around the bush on limits, etc, that's math "self-indulgence", go directly to derivatives, simple, done
If they cut the crap and stick with the essentials, then maybe people will learn better. Maybe can they shave a year from the school curriculum so that students can go and study what interests them.
Applications.
The thing that got me with math education is that math is taught as if it is its own self contained World.
Math was just memorization and mechanically mind numbingly boring toil until I had a physics class. So integrating acceleration will give speed! And integrating that will give distance! Holy shit! Add in vectors and you get velocity! Fucking A! Math means something! I actually understood what it was for! It's not just an exercise in rules on increasing or decreasing exponents!
Due to a screw up, I ended up in a class that required partial differentials when I didn't have it. My physics prof sat down with me and taught it to me in about 20 minutes - it helped that we were working on a physics problem.
That was the first and only time that math was interesting and even fun.
I'm still pissed that the math department insisted on us memorizing all those integration/ anti-differentiation tables; which really turned me off to math - just because the asshole department chair wanted to "created a rigorous math program".
In part because of the back-scatter imager's invasiveness (a TSA employee in Miami was arrested recently after he physically assaulted a colleague who had mocked his modestly sized penis, which was fully apparent in a captured back-scatter image)....
I know a TSA officer and she says they have to go through the same shit we do.
What we need is for Congress to go through this - none of this horseshit of them flashing their IDs to walk on through. Then, you'd see changes until the next attack and then they'd suck it up to keep their jobs - I know quite a few people (mostly old) who feel safer with all this extra security.
Senators will always get around it because they're either multimillionaires themselves with their own jets or they get to borrow private jets from big corporations that are getting "favors" from them.
You might want to have a think about who's really being humiliated in this situation though. I don't think it's me.
I wonder would happen if I imagine having sex with Jenna Jameson right before my pat down - and maybe a little pocket pool before hand - how fast do you think the pat down will go then?
I would opt for the pat-down provided the person checking me is not gay. Considering how seriously homo-phobic (most) men are, he hopefully won't be too thorough.
After the pat down, I plan on asking - rather loudly - for a cigarette and if it's appropriate to tip for more "stringent" searches.
I'm not sure what your point was in the beginning, but doesn't the whole Simpsons show stereotype the US and Americans? The whole show is about making fun of Americans and our society.
What popped in my head is an Environmental organization suing companies that patent genes on behalf of "Mother Nature" for infringement.
So for illustration purposes, some company patents the gene for Sickle Cell Anemia for whatever reason and starts making money off of it somehow (royalties from folks studying the disease?), organization sues them for infringement and uses the money to saves the whales or whatever.
We're all expendable in the grand scheme of things.
There's over 7 billion people on Earth. I've been contemplating this:
If you had a company with a concentration camp business model and assuming word never got out, I think you could literally work people to death an never run out of workers - ever. And I would expand that further. If every manufacturing company did that, I think the population of the World would stabilize.
It's just a game I play to try to fathom how many people there are on this Earth - all wanting to live like Americans - consuming like Americans - wanting jobs like Americans...and in the meantime, businesses have learned to produce with less and less workers... the wealth of the US is spewing out of her.... see where this is going?
Why limit the benefit to customer with iphones and ipods? Why not a 3.5mm and 2.5mm jack (much cheaper to install and replace) so that anyone with any MP3 player or cell phone media player can hook up?
Oh God! And allow the riff-raff to come in?!? They obviously don't want those kid of people in there.
If you can't afford an Apple product, you can't afford to eat there. Nor do they want the folks who like to pretend to be riff-raff with their MP3 players and other non-Apple products.
During the last election cycle, there was a poll of folks and one of the questions was (to paraphrase) "Is it the responsibility of America to fight evil?"
A huge number of people chose "yes". The "evil" wasn't specified but after further explanation the "evil" was Islam. Some, to appear PC will say "Militant Islam" or "Islamofascism" but the gist is Islamic terrorism is our "enemy".
And I have to agree, most Americans have a black and white; good and evil mentality and bringing up any shades of gray leads to accusations of "supporting terrorism".
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If I want a less cluttered desktop I'll get one of those all-in-one machines from Lenovo, HP, or Apple.
Maybe someone should come up with an buried computer - dig a hole in the yard, put the computer in their, and run cables into the building and have it run off of its own heat pump!
Or the cat box computer! Put the computer in the cat box have it run on the heat of the turds and the energy of the cat burying its shit!
I mean. there are TONS of useless gimmicks to sell a commodity appliance like PCs - just see what the toaster manufactures are doing.
I'm just getting really cranky with sales and marketing bullshit that tries to sell mediocre products.
The transition process (usually referred to as pivoting) needs to occur *rapidly* and *continuously*, hence the agile software development.
We called that "Cluster Fuck" development in my day.
I can't stand either the Dems or the Reps and I can't understand how folks can toe their respective party lines. I'll vote for one of those corrupt major parties if there's no third party candidate (here in GA the Libertarians got a following) to vote against the incumbent.
Dems - taken over by statists and leftists.
Reps - taken over by the lunatic Evangelical Christian nuts and the folks who can be easily bought with low taxes - balanced budgets be damned!
Both run by big money.
Billions of them pass through your taste buds every second. The problem is getting them to interact with your taste buds.
So, they have no calories!
I'm on the neutrino diet plan now. I just need to get booked on "The View" and I'll be rich!
Move over Atkins, here comes the Neutrino Diet!
So what's the problem? That's their specs.
And looking at the complaint, it just looks like the DOI wanted to use one messaging system, Microsoft's, and settled on it. Google was trying to push their system. There's a lot of shit going on here and it just looks like Google didn't get their way and is using their money to bully their way.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot and it's Microsoft involved. Never mind.
"While we determined that no private user data was sold..."
Isn't this one of the companies (along with google) that declared that "privacy on the web no longer exists" or something along those lines?
hence, no "private user data" can be sold because all user data is public, therefore no crime has been committed.
Q.E.D.
Mark is a 24-year old billionaire...
If he invented some incredible green energy break through, I'd be thinking way to go!
If he found a way to eliminate much of the poverty and sickness in the Third World, I'd say way to go kid! You deserve every penny!
If he came up with some sort of medical breakthrough that eliminate breast and ovarian or prostate cancer, I'd be really happy for him.
No, he didn't.
He became an instant billionaire by selling what is basically personal web pages that broadcast updates automatically.
Tesla did more for humanity and he died penniless.
Excuse me, I'm having an attack of mumbling "Bullshit!"
Google's version of Facebook - only they put a "business" spin on it.
All you need is A - C - F - K - U.
Here's a conversation I once heard:
A: Fucking A!
B: Fuck?
A: Fuck!
B: Fuuuuuuuccccccck!
A: Fuck.
I just can't get over the fact that we're still typing to program computers - that's soooooo twentieth century. Or even when we do have visual tools, it still generates code to be compiled.
What really needs to be done is 100% visual directly to machine - no stops.
So the higher you can raise that denominator, the better off society will be in the long term, because effectively, we're all making the decisions by electing our leaders, and if the bulk of the population is ignorant of the effects of exponential growth, disaster will eventually ensue.
That's why our public education was originally created - to have an educated electorate. Then somehow over the years, our education became job training - even at the university level.
Whenever I hear a business leader complain that our schools aren't producing "educated workers" my blood boils - and I can understand the folks who rant about "corporatism".
I meant - doctor asshole.
They spend too much time teaching crap and instead skip over the important stuff
Why the f... did I learn trigonometric equations ins high school?! Really... Polynomial equation solving?!
Derivatives would be much more useful. And don't beat around the bush on limits, etc, that's math "self-indulgence", go directly to derivatives, simple, done
If they cut the crap and stick with the essentials, then maybe people will learn better. Maybe can they shave a year from the school curriculum so that students can go and study what interests them.
Applications.
The thing that got me with math education is that math is taught as if it is its own self contained World.
Math was just memorization and mechanically mind numbingly boring toil until I had a physics class. So integrating acceleration will give speed! And integrating that will give distance! Holy shit! Add in vectors and you get velocity! Fucking A! Math means something! I actually understood what it was for! It's not just an exercise in rules on increasing or decreasing exponents!
Due to a screw up, I ended up in a class that required partial differentials when I didn't have it. My physics prof sat down with me and taught it to me in about 20 minutes - it helped that we were working on a physics problem.
That was the first and only time that math was interesting and even fun.
I'm still pissed that the math department insisted on us memorizing all those integration/ anti-differentiation tables; which really turned me off to math - just because the asshole department chair wanted to "created a rigorous math program".
I will personally beat to death the first Stoner that injures one of my family members because they were driving while stoned.
I wanted to do that to the dingbat who t-boned my wife with her big SUV while yakking on her goddamn cell phone.
I had to get a pat down a couple of years ago and the officer did hit my balls with the back of his hand. Maybe it was an accident.
Especially those who are government employees.
FTFA:
In part because of the back-scatter imager's invasiveness (a TSA employee in Miami was arrested recently after he physically assaulted a colleague who had mocked his modestly sized penis, which was fully apparent in a captured back-scatter image)....
I know a TSA officer and she says they have to go through the same shit we do.
What we need is for Congress to go through this - none of this horseshit of them flashing their IDs to walk on through. Then, you'd see changes until the next attack and then they'd suck it up to keep their jobs - I know quite a few people (mostly old) who feel safer with all this extra security.
Senators will always get around it because they're either multimillionaires themselves with their own jets or they get to borrow private jets from big corporations that are getting "favors" from them.
Go ahead.
You might want to have a think about who's really being humiliated in this situation though. I don't think it's me.
I wonder would happen if I imagine having sex with Jenna Jameson right before my pat down - and maybe a little pocket pool before hand - how fast do you think the pat down will go then?
I would opt for the pat-down provided the person checking me is not gay. Considering how seriously homo-phobic (most) men are, he hopefully won't be too thorough.
After the pat down, I plan on asking - rather loudly - for a cigarette and if it's appropriate to tip for more "stringent" searches.
I agree with the second part completely.
What can they get from a 6 year old kid any ways?
FTFA:
The decision also will allow for the lawsuit to proceed against the Kohn family for the incident.
That's the thing, you can sue until you're awarded gagillions of dollars - now go and try to collect it.
So for illustration purposes, some company patents the gene for Sickle Cell Anemia for whatever reason and starts making money off of it somehow (royalties from folks studying the disease?), organization sues them for infringement and uses the money to saves the whales or whatever.
There's over 7 billion people on Earth. I've been contemplating this:
If you had a company with a concentration camp business model and assuming word never got out, I think you could literally work people to death an never run out of workers - ever. And I would expand that further. If every manufacturing company did that, I think the population of the World would stabilize.
It's just a game I play to try to fathom how many people there are on this Earth - all wanting to live like Americans - consuming like Americans - wanting jobs like Americans ...and in the meantime, businesses have learned to produce with less and less workers ... the wealth of the US is spewing out of her .... see where this is going?
Why limit the benefit to customer with iphones and ipods? Why not a 3.5mm and 2.5mm jack (much cheaper to install and replace) so that anyone with any MP3 player or cell phone media player can hook up?
Oh God! And allow the riff-raff to come in?!? They obviously don't want those kid of people in there.
If you can't afford an Apple product, you can't afford to eat there. Nor do they want the folks who like to pretend to be riff-raff with their MP3 players and other non-Apple products.
During the last election cycle, there was a poll of folks and one of the questions was (to paraphrase) "Is it the responsibility of America to fight evil?"
A huge number of people chose "yes". The "evil" wasn't specified but after further explanation the "evil" was Islam. Some, to appear PC will say "Militant Islam" or "Islamofascism" but the gist is Islamic terrorism is our "enemy".
And I have to agree, most Americans have a black and white; good and evil mentality and bringing up any shades of gray leads to accusations of "supporting terrorism".
No I don't have a newsletter.
What about a Youtube channel?