Fixing the problem of corporations having more power over the government than citizens by voting for a libertarian is like hiring a Catholic Priest to protect your children from pedophiles...
Charming quote. But the government has no special claim on competence or honor. The people who work for it are no more your friends than the giant corporations. The goal of libertarianism is to whittle down the power of the government, without which these corporations would have no lever to enforce their appalling designs.
Microsoft suffers TREMENDOUSLY for their keeping the old stuff working.
Another young fella who's swallowed the kool-aid without asking what was in it, I see. Microsoft doesn't suffer a bit. They intentionally break out incompatible new designs with every release of Windows. The "new way, this one will really truly fix all the old problems" gives them a leap ahead with all their own programs while everyone else is scrambling to catch up, and lets them sell an entirely new set of development tools. This "one new way" will then be replaced with the next version of Windows. And the cycle continues...
I think the problem is more that no decent programmer is going to be willing to work for the government. Working for the government or a highly-regulated industry means conforming to any number of pointless and horrible rules, created by people who have no idea what they're doing. It's soul-crushing, and no one would do it if they could possibly get a job elsewhere.
I recently helped a major bank update some of its internal software from 1980s QuickBASIC code (!) so it could run on Windows (!!)... it was badly-written stuff, with line numbers, sections of code that could never be reached, floating point equality comparisons that might not match, and other egregious flaws. In banking software that's been used for decades. Their email policy filtered out.BAS files, because the email administrator apparently confused.BAS files with VBscript, so I had to change the file extensions... until it turned out that their policy prohibited sending any source code "electronically", so I had to FAX print-outs for them to type in.
Of course their programmers were incompetent. Who would work in an environment like that?
Wow, to be able to get code right first time without ever debugging, you must be super-human. Perhaps we should throw away the debugger altogether, and any debugging output.
There's nothing superhuman about it. Most of my code works perfectly the first time through... but then, I've been programming for over 30 years now. Most companies probably can't afford to wait that long. Heh. Of course, a good debugger is a wonderful tool indeed.
Ya, I never heard of the mobile app store either. Score another amazing triumph for the Microsoft marketing department?
The fact that it's being closed down kinda makes me leery of using any future Microsoft app store, though. The whole marketplace goes away at Microsoft's whim? Why would they do that?
Reminds me of the old Microsoft "PlaysForSure" music store, or whatever it was called. None of those play at all any more, of course, Microsoft abandoned the format.
Things change.. In the case of windows 7, they finally got search right, which obsoleted the menu system.
I am fascinated that you would say such a thing. To my mind, the built-in search functionality has been so completely broken since Vista, I have to use external apps to find anything.
The advantages to sticking with an older version are, you already know it works, and your add-ons work with it. You also know that the good gentleman at Firefox haven't decided to rearrange the interface again for no apparent reason. Finally, of course, the new versions don't actually seem to have any interesting new features.
I updated from 3.5 to the latest version, recently, because of some problem where the browser would just stall out for 3-4 seconds, becoming completely unresponsive. The update does seem to have fixed that problem. Otherwise, I haven't really noticed any significant difference, which is really just fine with me.
Poor people in the USA aren't wasting away from lack of food.
The majority of them are too fat, because they can only afford cheap fattening foods
I've heard this argument way too many times before, apparently from people who never actually cook or had money problems. A bag of rice, a bag of lentils, a few cans of generic vegetables, and maybe a few onions? Scarcely gourmet food, but that's a lot of moderately decent nutrition for less cost than one McWendy burger platter.
It's amazing how many apparently well-meaning people give no regard to the law of unintended consequences. I can guarantee you that having BAC testers in their cars will create a culture of people that will strive to hit the very highest alcohol levels before driving home.
Google has a nasty habit of dropping projects, including even such wonderful and heavily-advertised products as its Nexus One android phone. I'm more than a bit leery of developing products that rely on their work. These glasses sound like a fascinating toy but... from Google? Meh. When can I get one from a reliable company?
Something a lot of people seem to be missing: this is not an extinct species. These are seeds from a plant that is still alive and growing wild in Siberia to this very day.
This is not an adequate summary. They are seeds from a plant that's the 30,000-year-old ancestor of the plants that are alive today. There will be differences. The differences will be worth studying.
>Standard protocol’s says water has memory
Really, I think there is no point in discussing this. The concept that water has memory is laughable on its face. It's amazing what people are crawling out of the woodwork, here, with vitriolic attacks on James Randi because he has the audacity to dispute their claims of invisible flying space monkeys. If you guys aren't being paid for this, perhaps you should schedule a visit with a mental health professional.
Do so many of you really still own TVs? Do you not have computers? How are you posting?
Hulu: free, and with all the wretched commercials you've loved for years.
Netflix: bloody cheap, with no commercials at all.
Youtube? Youtube anyone?
...or, as we like to call them, "items".
Nice to see the U.S. still has a thriving export market in ideas for government corruption masquerading as expensive security theater.
Well, we can safely assume that no one's in any danger. Apparently, our military is now authorized to do battle in 1980s science fiction ideas. Woohoo! Go for it, boys.
Has no one at all noticed the glitch in the phrasing, here? It's all "I hold" and "I have"... oddly, including this bit:
But the freedom for me to swing my arm ends where your nose begins.
...where he obviously means the exact opposite, the freedom for you to swing your arm... or it would begin with an "And", not a "But". Cognitive dissonance. He's not saying he won't use force, he's saying he finds the protesters threatening.
So many people seem to be taking this issue seriously. Are you really not aware that most "recycling" involves taking everything directly to the nearest dump? It's a political fraud. There isn't any market for recycling goods. To the extent there used to be one, it was before mandatory recycling laws put a glut of these dubious scrap resources on the market. A truckload of old newspapers isn't worth the gas money any more.
There is perhaps one thing that's actually worth recycling: aluminum cans. Aluminum tends to be cheaper to recycle than to produce new. Then again, modern aluminum cans are less than paper-thin, there's not that much aluminum there to recycle.
If your brie tastes of ammonia, it's gone bad. This is definitely a problem with American supermarkets, you can never tell how long they've been holding the stuff or under what conditions.
Perhaps you should not be buying these at Wal-Mart.
What we need here is a law that politicians can be arrested for egregious stupidity. Oh, it would be a bit chaotic for the first few days, having to replace 99.5% of them, but I'm thinking we could substitute with labrador retrievers without any noticeable drop in efficiency.
Someone may, possibly, conceivably, maybe, figure out another use for a grossly overpriced junk camera? But this thing is intended for grandma, who can barely figure out any technology more advanced than a toaster. Press the button, look, you've got a picture. You know... a "real" picture, one that's printed on paper. So the quality is pretty bad, her eyesight isn't what it used to be anyway. Button. Picture. Oh hell, she's trying to take a picture with the toaster again.
Look, I'm not trying to be snarky, here. That's the one market. It's the only market for this kind of bizarre modern retro gadgetry.
>Fuck banks. We never should have bailed them out.
Well, yes. We all knew that. We all were against it. And the Government did it anyway. Hence, the Tea Party and the Occupy Whatever movements, although it's not remotely clear that they understand it's the Government that is the problem.
Corruption is such a sweet, tasty drink. So addictive.
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Fixing the problem of corporations having more power over the government than citizens by voting for a libertarian is like hiring a Catholic Priest to protect your children from pedophiles...
Charming quote. But the government has no special claim on competence or honor. The people who work for it are no more your friends than the giant corporations. The goal of libertarianism is to whittle down the power of the government, without which these corporations would have no lever to enforce their appalling designs.
Microsoft suffers TREMENDOUSLY for their keeping the old stuff working.
Another young fella who's swallowed the kool-aid without asking what was in it, I see. Microsoft doesn't suffer a bit. They intentionally break out incompatible new designs with every release of Windows. The "new way, this one will really truly fix all the old problems" gives them a leap ahead with all their own programs while everyone else is scrambling to catch up, and lets them sell an entirely new set of development tools. This "one new way" will then be replaced with the next version of Windows. And the cycle continues...
Language is programming. If you can't speak coherently, how can you possibly think coherently?
I think the problem is more that no decent programmer is going to be willing to work for the government. Working for the government or a highly-regulated industry means conforming to any number of pointless and horrible rules, created by people who have no idea what they're doing. It's soul-crushing, and no one would do it if they could possibly get a job elsewhere.
I recently helped a major bank update some of its internal software from 1980s QuickBASIC code (!) so it could run on Windows (!!)... it was badly-written stuff, with line numbers, sections of code that could never be reached, floating point equality comparisons that might not match, and other egregious flaws. In banking software that's been used for decades. Their email policy filtered out .BAS files, because the email administrator apparently confused .BAS files with VBscript, so I had to change the file extensions... until it turned out that their policy prohibited sending any source code "electronically", so I had to FAX print-outs for them to type in.
Of course their programmers were incompetent. Who would work in an environment like that?
Wow, to be able to get code right first time without ever debugging, you must be super-human. Perhaps we should throw away the debugger altogether, and any debugging output.
There's nothing superhuman about it. Most of my code works perfectly the first time through... but then, I've been programming for over 30 years now. Most companies probably can't afford to wait that long. Heh. Of course, a good debugger is a wonderful tool indeed.
Ya, I never heard of the mobile app store either. Score another amazing triumph for the Microsoft marketing department?
The fact that it's being closed down kinda makes me leery of using any future Microsoft app store, though. The whole marketplace goes away at Microsoft's whim? Why would they do that?
Reminds me of the old Microsoft "PlaysForSure" music store, or whatever it was called. None of those play at all any more, of course, Microsoft abandoned the format.
Things change.. In the case of windows 7, they finally got search right, which obsoleted the menu system.
I am fascinated that you would say such a thing. To my mind, the built-in search functionality has been so completely broken since Vista, I have to use external apps to find anything.
The advantages to sticking with an older version are, you already know it works, and your add-ons work with it. You also know that the good gentleman at Firefox haven't decided to rearrange the interface again for no apparent reason. Finally, of course, the new versions don't actually seem to have any interesting new features.
I updated from 3.5 to the latest version, recently, because of some problem where the browser would just stall out for 3-4 seconds, becoming completely unresponsive. The update does seem to have fixed that problem. Otherwise, I haven't really noticed any significant difference, which is really just fine with me.
Poor people in the USA aren't wasting away from lack of food. The majority of them are too fat, because they can only afford cheap fattening foods
I've heard this argument way too many times before, apparently from people who never actually cook or had money problems. A bag of rice, a bag of lentils, a few cans of generic vegetables, and maybe a few onions? Scarcely gourmet food, but that's a lot of moderately decent nutrition for less cost than one McWendy burger platter.
It's amazing how many apparently well-meaning people give no regard to the law of unintended consequences. I can guarantee you that having BAC testers in their cars will create a culture of people that will strive to hit the very highest alcohol levels before driving home.
>But when movies are routinely grossing $25MM
Twenty-five dollars millimeters? Dude! Measure it in something we understand, like libraries of Congress, or give us a car analogy.
Google has a nasty habit of dropping projects, including even such wonderful and heavily-advertised products as its Nexus One android phone. I'm more than a bit leery of developing products that rely on their work. These glasses sound like a fascinating toy but... from Google? Meh. When can I get one from a reliable company?
Something a lot of people seem to be missing: this is not an extinct species. These are seeds from a plant that is still alive and growing wild in Siberia to this very day.
This is not an adequate summary. They are seeds from a plant that's the 30,000-year-old ancestor of the plants that are alive today. There will be differences. The differences will be worth studying.
>Standard protocol’s says water has memory Really, I think there is no point in discussing this. The concept that water has memory is laughable on its face. It's amazing what people are crawling out of the woodwork, here, with vitriolic attacks on James Randi because he has the audacity to dispute their claims of invisible flying space monkeys. If you guys aren't being paid for this, perhaps you should schedule a visit with a mental health professional.
Do so many of you really still own TVs? Do you not have computers? How are you posting? Hulu: free, and with all the wretched commercials you've loved for years. Netflix: bloody cheap, with no commercials at all. Youtube? Youtube anyone?
>able to detect metallic and non-metallic items
...or, as we like to call them, "items".
Nice to see the U.S. still has a thriving export market in ideas for government corruption masquerading as expensive security theater.
Well, we can safely assume that no one's in any danger. Apparently, our military is now authorized to do battle in 1980s science fiction ideas. Woohoo! Go for it, boys.
Has no one at all noticed the glitch in the phrasing, here? It's all "I hold" and "I have"... oddly, including this bit:
But the freedom for me to swing my arm ends where your nose begins.
Mindfulness medication, such as tai chi? Am I to guess this is only legal in California and when prescribed by a registered physician?
So many people seem to be taking this issue seriously. Are you really not aware that most "recycling" involves taking everything directly to the nearest dump? It's a political fraud. There isn't any market for recycling goods. To the extent there used to be one, it was before mandatory recycling laws put a glut of these dubious scrap resources on the market. A truckload of old newspapers isn't worth the gas money any more.
There is perhaps one thing that's actually worth recycling: aluminum cans. Aluminum tends to be cheaper to recycle than to produce new. Then again, modern aluminum cans are less than paper-thin, there's not that much aluminum there to recycle.
Uni is wonderful. Dingy grime, eh? I'm baffled.
If your brie tastes of ammonia, it's gone bad. This is definitely a problem with American supermarkets, you can never tell how long they've been holding the stuff or under what conditions.
Perhaps you should not be buying these at Wal-Mart.
What we need here is a law that politicians can be arrested for egregious stupidity. Oh, it would be a bit chaotic for the first few days, having to replace 99.5% of them, but I'm thinking we could substitute with labrador retrievers without any noticeable drop in efficiency.
Lord knows, if they invented a camera that printed pictures on toast, they might have something.
Someone may, possibly, conceivably, maybe, figure out another use for a grossly overpriced junk camera? But this thing is intended for grandma, who can barely figure out any technology more advanced than a toaster. Press the button, look, you've got a picture. You know... a "real" picture, one that's printed on paper. So the quality is pretty bad, her eyesight isn't what it used to be anyway. Button. Picture. Oh hell, she's trying to take a picture with the toaster again.
Look, I'm not trying to be snarky, here. That's the one market. It's the only market for this kind of bizarre modern retro gadgetry.
>Fuck banks. We never should have bailed them out. Well, yes. We all knew that. We all were against it. And the Government did it anyway. Hence, the Tea Party and the Occupy Whatever movements, although it's not remotely clear that they understand it's the Government that is the problem. Corruption is such a sweet, tasty drink. So addictive.