CmdrTaco is perfectly allowed to kick me in the nuts when I piss off his very powerful friends, yes. Unsolicited? No. But these guys were begging to be tracked down.
If someone can point me to competing service that is accepted at my preferred retailers, I would gladly switch. Paypal provides a relatively safe mask for my bank account online, which means I trust 1 company to not have a security breach instead of a dozen or more. It's a fantastic service. I don't honestly care about anyone's perceived unforgivable injustices from a private, opt-in, and largely free to use company.
Please source this. I personally know a 30+ year gradeschool principle who makes 90k/year. Are you saying that teachers get payed 4.5k/year? Even 8X seems ridiculous. Teachers are paid at a minimum 45K in New York City and 35k in my suburban district. What public school administrators make $280,000 a year? In my state, the only state employees that make that much are University chairs and football coaches (which is stupid by itself).
what's worse is that with the "circles" bs, google builds a profile of you that only google can see.
https://plus.google.com/settings/exportdata. If you don't have an account, that is where you can download your profile, contacts, circles, pictures, and stream content in open formats for use with any (or no) service.
In reality, they are delivering content that will appeal to a maximum number of users. Very simply , more users want "real name" services than want anonymous services, so companies who want to maximize profits encourage real identity. While sad for users who enjoyed the privacy and anonymity of the old days, the fact that they are in the minority, coupled with Metcalfe's Law, means that their preferred online experience is by definition a niche market, and not worth pursuit by multi-billion dollar companies.
By that logic, allowing children to play with soap bubble is child endangerment.
That's not the case at all, though. The cop was being a dick about it, but the fact is that having soap in your eyes makes it more difficult to do your job.
The difference between the computing industry and the other industries you mentioned is that computing is hundreds of years younger, and thus changing orders of magnitude faster.
Medicine comes the closest because of continuous research, so doctors are required to stay current with continuing education (they have to do this to maintain certification).
Businesses dump older programmers in favor of newer ones because it's cheaper to hire a out-of-college kid for an entry-level salary than it is to pay a career-programmer his substantially higher salary to learn whatever the newest, hippest, programming style is.
Note: this is a bad thing. It's bad for body of work that is our code-base in every language, and it's bad for the intelligent design of large systems (which requires vast experience). However, it will take a large shift in the rate at which the tools we use in the industry change. If the entire field doesn't change hugely over the course of 2 decades, then someone who has spent the last 2 decades writing code becomes exponentially more valuable.
It is a problem. Tribalism is different than debate, dissent, and competition. It's a state of being unable to engage in meaningful debate or to accept constructive criticism. There is (or should be) a middle ground between a "mono-culture" and the inability to accept new ideas from a member of an opposing group.
You misunderstand the device. The primary feature of an iPhone is the fact that it is called an "iPhone". Making calls and using the device are secondary features to its branding.
I suspect what it is meant is that the kind of people who buy from iTunes aren't necessarily your audience. You might be able to make a few sales, but if your target niche isn't served by that medium, you won't have much success.
Certainly true. I suspect that even if Ceglia takes over (which seems unlikely), he will make Facebook suck differently. Probably not better or worse, but differently.
Regardless of whether or not the guy wins some money in the lawsuit, nothing will change. Zuckerberg might be slightly less rich. But he will still be rich, and an asshole. Facebook will still suck.
A $500 computer, if you build it yourself, can be a superb machine for 90% or more of users. I recently specced a $500 machine with an Athlon II x4, 6GB ram, discrete graphics, and TB storage. It's not "state-of-the-art", but it will be able to play almost any current game with modest settings, while watching an HD movie on a second monitor, while compressing a copy of that movie into an archive. I'm not sure what your definition of "decent" is, but I don't see most users needing more power than described for a while.
Soundly beating the 5830 is a stretch at best. On Tom's Hardware's Benchmark Results, the 460 is outperformed by the 5830 in every benchmark, Crysis, and AvP test. It loses sparingly in the rest of the games, but calling it the clear better of the 2 is just isn't realistic.
If you signed an agreement saying that you give them that right, then yes. Schools that I attended required you to sign a form consenting to use the computing facilities in the manner specified by the school, including giving them the right to know what you produce. You don't have to sign the agreement, but if you don't, you can't use the computers.
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This was actually informative and helpful. Thank you.
CmdrTaco is perfectly allowed to kick me in the nuts when I piss off his very powerful friends, yes. Unsolicited? No. But these guys were begging to be tracked down.
If someone can point me to competing service that is accepted at my preferred retailers, I would gladly switch. Paypal provides a relatively safe mask for my bank account online, which means I trust 1 company to not have a security breach instead of a dozen or more. It's a fantastic service. I don't honestly care about anyone's perceived unforgivable injustices from a private, opt-in, and largely free to use company.
Please source this. I personally know a 30+ year gradeschool principle who makes 90k/year. Are you saying that teachers get payed 4.5k/year? Even 8X seems ridiculous. Teachers are paid at a minimum 45K in New York City and 35k in my suburban district. What public school administrators make $280,000 a year? In my state, the only state employees that make that much are University chairs and football coaches (which is stupid by itself).
what's worse is that with the "circles" bs, google builds a profile of you that only google can see.
https://plus.google.com/settings/exportdata. If you don't have an account, that is where you can download your profile, contacts, circles, pictures, and stream content in open formats for use with any (or no) service.
In reality, they are delivering content that will appeal to a maximum number of users. Very simply , more users want "real name" services than want anonymous services, so companies who want to maximize profits encourage real identity. While sad for users who enjoyed the privacy and anonymity of the old days, the fact that they are in the minority, coupled with Metcalfe's Law, means that their preferred online experience is by definition a niche market, and not worth pursuit by multi-billion dollar companies.
Funniest post I've read in weeks. Thank you.
By that logic, allowing children to play with soap bubble is child endangerment.
That's not the case at all, though. The cop was being a dick about it, but the fact is that having soap in your eyes makes it more difficult to do your job.
The difference between the computing industry and the other industries you mentioned is that computing is hundreds of years younger, and thus changing orders of magnitude faster.
Medicine comes the closest because of continuous research, so doctors are required to stay current with continuing education (they have to do this to maintain certification).
Businesses dump older programmers in favor of newer ones because it's cheaper to hire a out-of-college kid for an entry-level salary than it is to pay a career-programmer his substantially higher salary to learn whatever the newest, hippest, programming style is.
Note: this is a bad thing. It's bad for body of work that is our code-base in every language, and it's bad for the intelligent design of large systems (which requires vast experience). However, it will take a large shift in the rate at which the tools we use in the industry change. If the entire field doesn't change hugely over the course of 2 decades, then someone who has spent the last 2 decades writing code becomes exponentially more valuable.
It is a problem. Tribalism is different than debate, dissent, and competition. It's a state of being unable to engage in meaningful debate or to accept constructive criticism. There is (or should be) a middle ground between a "mono-culture" and the inability to accept new ideas from a member of an opposing group.
"Tribalism is when one group of people start to think people from another group are 'wrong by default.'"
This is 90% of what makes the American government unworkable.
Please define what you are talking about. You seem to think net neutrality allows the government to regulate internet traffic.
If that is the case, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
If that's not the case, please clarify.
I'm a Clemson student you Insensitive Clod! I also hate DeMint with a fiery passion.
You misunderstand the device. The primary feature of an iPhone is the fact that it is called an "iPhone". Making calls and using the device are secondary features to its branding.
Parasites exist, but parasites aren't present in every individual of a host species.
From my understanding of evolution, I think it would be more surprising if something we all have inside of us was doing something bad.
I suspect what it is meant is that the kind of people who buy from iTunes aren't necessarily your audience. You might be able to make a few sales, but if your target niche isn't served by that medium, you won't have much success.
Certainly true. I suspect that even if Ceglia takes over (which seems unlikely), he will make Facebook suck differently. Probably not better or worse, but differently.
Regardless of whether or not the guy wins some money in the lawsuit, nothing will change. Zuckerberg might be slightly less rich. But he will still be rich, and an asshole. Facebook will still suck.
A $500 computer, if you build it yourself, can be a superb machine for 90% or more of users. I recently specced a $500 machine with an Athlon II x4, 6GB ram, discrete graphics, and TB storage. It's not "state-of-the-art", but it will be able to play almost any current game with modest settings, while watching an HD movie on a second monitor, while compressing a copy of that movie into an archive. I'm not sure what your definition of "decent" is, but I don't see most users needing more power than described for a while.
Soundly beating the 5830 is a stretch at best. On Tom's Hardware's Benchmark Results, the 460 is outperformed by the 5830 in every benchmark, Crysis, and AvP test. It loses sparingly in the rest of the games, but calling it the clear better of the 2 is just isn't realistic.
HD porn is a terrible idea. There are some things in life which shouldn't be seen in fine detail.
But bad for people who actually want to hear the best music in the world.
I reserve the right to tap all phones which I own and for which I pay all associated costs.
If you signed an agreement saying that you give them that right, then yes. Schools that I attended required you to sign a form consenting to use the computing facilities in the manner specified by the school, including giving them the right to know what you produce. You don't have to sign the agreement, but if you don't, you can't use the computers.