This was entertaining (especially your "especially women" comment, I love when men who obviously are baffled by women make generalizations like that). But if your relationship is so weak that any blowing wind can drive you off course you really shouldn't be in that relationship.
I have no rules about who I can spend time with or have an emotional relationship with. Nor does my wife. It's not an issue.
If you need to set boundaries like that you probably need to start talking about the future prospects of your relationship.
Perhaps if he used Ubuntu, the distribution aimed at making sure the audio and video stuff works for end users he wouldn't have this problem as much? I only have video problems with Ubuntu when I'm installing alphas. Otherwise Ubuntu has gotten really good at just working. When I compare the people I've interacted withs experiences installing Windows 7 vs. installing Ubuntu. It's pretty much a wash. They both pretty much work most of the time.
Meh. This isn't an onerous business tax. Pretty much all states have this tax. You have a physical presence in the state you pay sales tax. Dell does it. I have no clue why Amazon thought they could skirt it.
Ahh ok. I really hate videos as conveyors of information. I was just flipping around and found his bit about using a usb device with the kernel exploit.
It's still more inline with the kernel driver exploit than with the way Windows autorun used to be exploitable.
I think people think he's referring to autorun when I believe what he's talking about is more the "hot-plugging" ability of usb. I.e. I plug in a USB device and some linux kernel device code gets run. These are standard hardware vulnerabilities, it's just that most hardware can't be plugged into a computer as easily as usb.
Yes. It was in between the time when I hit preview and when my page actually showed the preview div. Due to some bizarre networking setups in my house I have a decent amount of lag.
I don't think the difference between 60 and 100wpm matters in programming. But I've encountered the occasional hunt-and-peck programmer. And by hunt-and-peck I'm not referring to people who don't use home keys and have their own typing style. I'm referring to people who have to think about where on the keyboard the letter 'b' is located. It showed a lack of seriousness about their job and ultimately every one of them got fired or laid off. People who are physically disabled are not the same as people who haven managed to somehow used their keyboard so little that they don't know where the keys are. I think it's a fantastic indicator of who the bad programmers are. You don't spend 8 hours a day typing at your desk without the ability to type 30wpm.
Please google Comcast and Neflix. I know the difference between "tiered service" and a protection racket.
If YouTube, Netflix, and every other video site are treated the same. That's tiered service. If I go and knock on the door of only the most popular (and richest) video service in town and demand payment, that's not tiered service.
So you think in a true marketplace we'd still have multiple carriers? I somehow doubt it. As inelegant as our situation is, I think government is still the answer. Government just requires thought, work, and inelegant solutions.
In Houston they have a choice of energy provider. In Austin we have none. The Austin governmental utility company always outperforms every one of the Houstonian companies in opinion surveys. Profits from Austin Energy are plowed back into the city coffers. Government doesn't have to suck.
Just remember in the US we all are the government. So when you say that government is the problem. You're really saying YOU are the problem.
What are you talking about? Everyone (except California) LOVED Enron. Enron fell apart because they were corrupt and eventually their losses didn't match their earnings. They were raking in tons of dough. They just happened to be spending it too quickly.
There are very few industries where people can vote with their wallets. I live in an area with LOTS of internet options*. I can vote with my wallet between AT&T and Time Warner. Who happen to provide roughly equivalent non-service and old products. Their main competitor is Netflix, who SUPRISE, SUPRISE, they would like to run out of business by providing "tiered service". I'd say that Netflix's success shows that customers HAVE voted with their wallets FOR net neutrality.
Unfortunately, AT&T et. al have massive lobbying power and a massive anti-competitive political and legal framework on their side.
The problem isn't open source. It's that there's very little room for large companies in the ever shifting world of computer technology. If you can't shift strategies on a dime, you're gone.
When was a game "yours unless your family had a garage sale"? There have been used game markets since pretty much the instant games were sold. The majority of games have never been finished. The only difference now is the fact that publishers can track it.
I for one welcome this kind of tracking. I've found that games are becoming much more "the right length", and I'm more likely to finish them.
No you're right. It's close. But I want cell service on the iPod Touch for when I go out of WiFi range (also GPS and Camera). Also there are next to no iPod Touch competitors.
I mean imagine offering to sell people something, and then have them show up, give you money for it, and then expect to use it! What kind of crazy system IS that?
Can we stop reprinting AT&T press releases that show they continue to be completely baffled by market economics?
I'm looking for the opposite. A "smart phone" without the phone. The phone part is still the major expense that I don't use. My wife and I have pay as you go cell phones that cost us less than $20/month combined. I can't justify $100/phone for talk just so I can have a smart phone.
I'm puzzled by what you mean by "drying up". I'm constantly seeing Java and PHP jobs. Granted I'm in a tech hub (Austin), but there are tons of unfilled jobs. The fact that Android runs a java variant puts Java even more in my demand. I'd suggest adding Objective-C and Javascript and you'd have pretty much every current desirable tech skill.
Have you considered that the problem isn't your technological skills, but where you live?
You're mixing in American ideas of liberalism with the actual definition. Liberals are open to new experiences and ideas. The bleeding heart in American politics typically comes from being more informed about the world around you (because you're open to new experiences and information), that information causes one to care more, hence the bleeding heart.
It's not intrinsically a liberal position. There are a lot of extremely conservative, bleeding heart catholic nations.
See trends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Membership_and_Support.svg
You don't have to abolish unions. You can just export all jobs that are unionized. Put in some laws to get rid of unions in the public sector (ala TSA), and boom, no more unions. In the last decade we've had more than a 15% drop in union membership. I'm curious as to why you've got such a rosy outlook on them.
The only reason GM was bailed out was so that the job market wouldn't be flooded with every GM employee at the height of a historic recession. Sure it was a way to garner votes, but any politician would have done it.
I don't think even with the rhetoric that anyone though GM had much of a future. GM wasn't a failure because of its labor. Its labor just brought about its demise sooner rather than later. GMs inability to design vehicles people would buy without paying them to do so was what did them in. And GMs shareholders were morons for holding onto what was obviously a worthless piece of paper.
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Not to mention that if you're doing the whole marriage thing properly you're already married to the most smartest, most beautiful woman on the earth.
This was entertaining (especially your "especially women" comment, I love when men who obviously are baffled by women make generalizations like that). But if your relationship is so weak that any blowing wind can drive you off course you really shouldn't be in that relationship.
I have no rules about who I can spend time with or have an emotional relationship with. Nor does my wife. It's not an issue.
If you need to set boundaries like that you probably need to start talking about the future prospects of your relationship.
Perhaps if he used Ubuntu, the distribution aimed at making sure the audio and video stuff works for end users he wouldn't have this problem as much? I only have video problems with Ubuntu when I'm installing alphas. Otherwise Ubuntu has gotten really good at just working. When I compare the people I've interacted withs experiences installing Windows 7 vs. installing Ubuntu. It's pretty much a wash. They both pretty much work most of the time.
Except, that Dell does it. Toys R. Us does it. Barnes and Noble does it. Amazon can do it. It's not onerous.
Meh. This isn't an onerous business tax. Pretty much all states have this tax. You have a physical presence in the state you pay sales tax. Dell does it. I have no clue why Amazon thought they could skirt it.
Ahh ok. I really hate videos as conveyors of information. I was just flipping around and found his bit about using a usb device with the kernel exploit.
It's still more inline with the kernel driver exploit than with the way Windows autorun used to be exploitable.
I think people think he's referring to autorun when I believe what he's talking about is more the "hot-plugging" ability of usb. I.e. I plug in a USB device and some linux kernel device code gets run. These are standard hardware vulnerabilities, it's just that most hardware can't be plugged into a computer as easily as usb.
Yes. It was in between the time when I hit preview and when my page actually showed the preview div. Due to some bizarre networking setups in my house I have a decent amount of lag.
I kept typing after I hit the preview button. The preview looked fine, but then it posted that typing (not the preview) when I clicked submit.
I feel like there's something in that about Ajax and web standards...
That's 3 more than we used to have. And not to put to fine a point on it, but
I don't think the difference between 60 and 100wpm matters in programming. But I've encountered the occasional hunt-and-peck programmer. And by hunt-and-peck I'm not referring to people who don't use home keys and have their own typing style. I'm referring to people who have to think about where on the keyboard the letter 'b' is located. It showed a lack of seriousness about their job and ultimately every one of them got fired or laid off.
People who are physically disabled are not the same as people who haven managed to somehow used their keyboard so little that they don't know where the keys are. I think it's a fantastic indicator of who the bad programmers are. You don't spend 8 hours a day typing at your desk without the ability to type 30wpm.
I prefer to refer to it as the next Linux.
Please google Comcast and Neflix. I know the difference between "tiered service" and a protection racket.
If YouTube, Netflix, and every other video site are treated the same. That's tiered service. If I go and knock on the door of only the most popular (and richest) video service in town and demand payment, that's not tiered service.
So you think in a true marketplace we'd still have multiple carriers? I somehow doubt it. As inelegant as our situation is, I think government is still the answer. Government just requires thought, work, and inelegant solutions.
In Houston they have a choice of energy provider. In Austin we have none. The Austin governmental utility company always outperforms every one of the Houstonian companies in opinion surveys. Profits from Austin Energy are plowed back into the city coffers. Government doesn't have to suck.
Just remember in the US we all are the government. So when you say that government is the problem. You're really saying YOU are the problem.
What are you talking about? Everyone (except California) LOVED Enron. Enron fell apart because they were corrupt and eventually their losses didn't match their earnings. They were raking in tons of dough. They just happened to be spending it too quickly.
There are very few industries where people can vote with their wallets. I live in an area with LOTS of internet options*. I can vote with my wallet between AT&T and Time Warner. Who happen to provide roughly equivalent non-service and old products. Their main competitor is Netflix, who SUPRISE, SUPRISE, they would like to run out of business by providing "tiered service". I'd say that Netflix's success shows that customers HAVE voted with their wallets FOR net neutrality.
Unfortunately, AT&T et. al have massive lobbying power and a massive anti-competitive political and legal framework on their side.
* as compared to areas that only have one
The problem isn't open source. It's that there's very little room for large companies in the ever shifting world of computer technology. If you can't shift strategies on a dime, you're gone.
I think you guys might need to read a biography on Welles. He's actually quite a lot like George Lucas. He just has a better track record.
When was a game "yours unless your family had a garage sale"? There have been used game markets since pretty much the instant games were sold. The majority of games have never been finished. The only difference now is the fact that publishers can track it.
I for one welcome this kind of tracking. I've found that games are becoming much more "the right length", and I'm more likely to finish them.
No you're right. It's close. But I want cell service on the iPod Touch for when I go out of WiFi range (also GPS and Camera). Also there are next to no iPod Touch competitors.
I mean imagine offering to sell people something, and then have them show up, give you money for it, and then expect to use it! What kind of crazy system IS that?
Can we stop reprinting AT&T press releases that show they continue to be completely baffled by market economics?
I'm looking for the opposite. A "smart phone" without the phone. The phone part is still the major expense that I don't use. My wife and I have pay as you go cell phones that cost us less than $20/month combined. I can't justify $100/phone for talk just so I can have a smart phone.
I'm puzzled by what you mean by "drying up". I'm constantly seeing Java and PHP jobs. Granted I'm in a tech hub (Austin), but there are tons of unfilled jobs. The fact that Android runs a java variant puts Java even more in my demand. I'd suggest adding Objective-C and Javascript and you'd have pretty much every current desirable tech skill.
Have you considered that the problem isn't your technological skills, but where you live?
You're mixing in American ideas of liberalism with the actual definition. Liberals are open to new experiences and ideas.
The bleeding heart in American politics typically comes from being more informed about the world around you (because you're open to new experiences and information), that information causes one to care more, hence the bleeding heart.
It's not intrinsically a liberal position. There are a lot of extremely conservative, bleeding heart catholic nations.
See trends:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Union_Membership_and_Support.svg
You don't have to abolish unions. You can just export all jobs that are unionized. Put in some laws to get rid of unions in the public sector (ala TSA), and boom, no more unions. In the last decade we've had more than a 15% drop in union membership. I'm curious as to why you've got such a rosy outlook on them.
The only reason GM was bailed out was so that the job market wouldn't be flooded with every GM employee at the height of a historic recession. Sure it was a way to garner votes, but any politician would have done it.
I don't think even with the rhetoric that anyone though GM had much of a future. GM wasn't a failure because of its labor. Its labor just brought about its demise sooner rather than later. GMs inability to design vehicles people would buy without paying them to do so was what did them in. And GMs shareholders were morons for holding onto what was obviously a worthless piece of paper.
Or democracy I take it.