Agreed. I've been recently introduced to DiscWorld, and am looking to pick up the rest of the series.
I stopped by Amazon and B&N to check the prices of their eBooks offerings, and found them to be higher than the cost of print. I kind of did a double-take.
Then again, it probably wouldn't have. The Intelligence agencies, from what I gather, already had information that such a plan was in the works, but did not deem it credible information. A simple mistake, that cost people their lives, and one not remedied by the granting of additional powers. I grant that our Intelligence agencies are staffed with human beings, and as such, they do make human mistakes from time to time.
As for Thin Thread, part of the problem is that it (or another program like it) is (are) being used at home. Not for international calls, but on standard domestic phone calls (and what not), on our own citizens. The encryption of the database containing such data, in so far as it has been gathered, is of a secondary concern, to the primary concern of an Intelligence Agency that, by law, is not allowed to be doing what they're doing. Depending on your political philosophy, that may or may not bother you.
I don't necessarily have any confidence in the voters, but I wouldn't want to deny them a chance to prove that they merit more of my confidence.;-p
I personally like the idea of the general public being able to look at their government, and say to themselves, "Enough of these people, without prejudice to position or party, leave me without a sense of hope or pride in my country, that I would prefer the option of a No Confidence vote of simultaneously removing every one of them from office and banning them for life, yes, even though there may be a handful of them that I do like."
Yeah, see, the kinds of people who would work for them for bragging rights are not exactly the most talented people in the business.
The vast majority of those people are what are lovingly referred to as "Script Kiddies," and occupy a position in the grand hierarchy sandwiched between VB coders and spammers.
I give you Exhibit A: http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
I have a better, more challenging game: "Get your honest politician elected."
You must somehow keep your chosen champion from making any false promises or accepting lobbyist donations while running a clean campaign. Comes with three (gradually increasing) levels of difficulty: Municipal (easiest), State, and Federal (hardest).
It's a sad commentary on our handling of various situations in this world such that we require such a large investment in military expenditures to keep our country safe. I'm not saying that we need to be that most popular guy / girl in our worldwide high-school, nor that we need to sacrifice our principles; what I'm saying is that we seem to be accumulating more enemies with greater strengths than warrants common sense.
A fool fights a war on two fronts, the heir to the kingdom of fools fights a war on twelve fronts.
Anyone else in favor of a constitutional amendment for a "no confidence vote," where the public can hold a referendum at will to dissolve our currently elected officials of their offices, ban them for life from ever holding another position (municipal, state, federal, etc.), and hold general elections for their replacements?
Funny, but not a situation I'd prefer to end up in. I have better ways to waste my time than play who has the bigger penis with the military (I do, sorry guys).
That's another sticking point. They won't pay nearly enough to attract the kinds of talent they might want, and the kinds of talent they want do not, from a longevity standpoint, want to work for them.
They don't have a battery to power those things yet, and probably never will.
I think scientists, the smarter ones, learned from the Manhattan Project and its outcome, and are subconsciously stalling from finding that particular advance. No one wants to be responsible for WWIII, even if we can "win it."
And to be honest, having read up on the research regarding the human genome, we're doomed as a species if we have another world war or implement any sort of attempt to reduce global population. It's only our explosive growth that has kept the human genome from degrading into something truly horrible. A consequence of various plagues and earlier wars, I'm afraid.
Tick tock, goes the clock, until the human race runs out of time.
Agreed. While the prospect of various enemies overrunning my country is not lost on me, my analytical skills are pointing to a bigger threat within my country than without: namely that the military / security people have gone AWOL, and constitute a bigger threat to the populace than their named greatest enemies.
I don't like the police getting TANKS for internal use, Special Weapons and Tactics for unpaid parking tickets, and Intelligence Agencies running operations inside the country. Writing programs for these people sounds like handing people the very gun they will shoot me with. I've seen enough idealism and irony with the Thin Thread program, where an aloof mathematician couldn't conceive of the possibility of his program being used against the general populace for some below-board practices.
We'll talk about getting your soldiers some nice apps when I stop feeling ashamed about discussing my country with citizens from its allies.
Hmmm. Just on the basis of the touch screen interface alone, I imagine that it will be very popular with the consumer market, and IT people everywhere will avoid it like the Black Plague.
Should be entertaining to see the clashes between the people who want their Windows 8 tablets supported on the company network, and IT's unwillingness to allow any mission critical apps anywhere near it.
Why must MS take this path? They have a perfectly usable GUI right now...and I do not want the Apple or Minority Report approach to computing.
Yes, touch screens are fun, no, any large amount of typing on a touch screen is murder on one's hands. I do not want a VS 2014 with integrated touch screen capabilities.
It refers to the cream of the crop, in terms of software. The software that has no built-in limitations (market segmentation), and typically a fair number of advanced features. In my experience, Microsoft rarely offers anything above Enterprise...I'm having trouble think of an example. This tier of the software is typically used for companies in excess of 10,000 employees or when you are really going overboard with clustering / redundancies / data mining.
The word itself?
enÂterÂprise noun \Ëen-tÉ(TM)(r)-ËOEprÄz\
Definition of ENTERPRISE
1 : a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky 2 : readiness to engage in daring or difficult action : initiative 3 a : a unit of economic organization or activity; especially : a business organization b : a systematic purposeful activity
See enterprise defined for English-language learners  See enterprise defined for kids  Examples of ENTERPRISE
Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise. Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people. When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise. He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis. Origin of ENTERPRISE
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from entreprendre to undertake, from entre- inter- + prendre to take â" more at prize First Known Use: 15th century
So, it's usually a synonym for "business" or "venture," but in MS nomenclature it has a connotation for a very large business (lots of money, 99.999999999999% up-time, multiple offices in multiple countries). It's the business equivalent of the consumer tier called Ultimate. Now that I think about it, Windows 7 is the only product I know of that has both an Enterprise and Ultimate edition.
Windows 7 Enterprise This edition targets the enterprise segment of the market and is sold through volume licensing to companies which have a Software Assurance contract with Microsoft.[1] Additional features include support for Multilingual User Interface (MUI) packages, BitLocker Drive Encryption, and UNIX application support.[1] Not available through retail or OEM channels, this edition is distributed through Microsoft Software Assurance (SA).[1] As a result it includes several SA-only benefits, including a license allowing the operating of diskless nodes (diskless PCs), the running of multiple virtual machines, and activation via VLK.[12] Like Professional, Microsoft will support this edition until 2020.
Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 Ultimate contains all of the same features as Windows 7 Enterprise, but unlike the Enterprise edition, it is available to home users on an individual license basis.[1] Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional users are able to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for a fee using Windows Anytime Upgrade if they wish to do so.[1] Unlike Windows Vista Ultimate, the Windows 7 Ultimate edition does not include the Windows Ultimate Extras feature or any exclusive features as Microsoft had stated.[1] However, even though it is the consumer equivalent to Enterprise, like Home Premium, Microsoft will only support Ultimate until 2015.[13]
Me thinks you missed my point; I was not implying that the Japanese cannot build a car with fast acceleration (they have, and do), but that the majority of the market of American purchases of Japanese vehicles are of vehicles that center around utility, not luxury (where acceleration might be considered a luxury).
The WRX and Forester XTs both sport great accelerations; however, I do not believe they constitute the majority of American purchases of Subaru vehicles.
Feel free to prove me wrong, and show me a link to a graph where WRXs and Forester XTs are outselling their slower, milder variants.
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Fair enough. The above quote was sequestered from Londo Mollari.
Yeah, that bothers me as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Color-Magic-Discworld-Novel-Novels/dp/0060855924/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323370003&sr=8-1
Kindle Edition -> $9.99.
Agreed. I've been recently introduced to DiscWorld, and am looking to pick up the rest of the series.
I stopped by Amazon and B&N to check the prices of their eBooks offerings, and found them to be higher than the cost of print. I kind of did a double-take.
Then again, it probably wouldn't have. The Intelligence agencies, from what I gather, already had information that such a plan was in the works, but did not deem it credible information. A simple mistake, that cost people their lives, and one not remedied by the granting of additional powers. I grant that our Intelligence agencies are staffed with human beings, and as such, they do make human mistakes from time to time.
As for Thin Thread, part of the problem is that it (or another program like it) is (are) being used at home. Not for international calls, but on standard domestic phone calls (and what not), on our own citizens. The encryption of the database containing such data, in so far as it has been gathered, is of a secondary concern, to the primary concern of an Intelligence Agency that, by law, is not allowed to be doing what they're doing. Depending on your political philosophy, that may or may not bother you.
What breed of dog?
Just curious ^_^.
I don't necessarily have any confidence in the voters, but I wouldn't want to deny them a chance to prove that they merit more of my confidence. ;-p
I personally like the idea of the general public being able to look at their government, and say to themselves, "Enough of these people, without prejudice to position or party, leave me without a sense of hope or pride in my country, that I would prefer the option of a No Confidence vote of simultaneously removing every one of them from office and banning them for life, yes, even though there may be a handful of them that I do like."
Yeah, see, the kinds of people who would work for them for bragging rights are not exactly the most talented people in the business.
The vast majority of those people are what are lovingly referred to as "Script Kiddies," and occupy a position in the grand hierarchy sandwiched between VB coders and spammers.
I give you Exhibit A: http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
They don't have enough money to do that. There's some sort of conflict between the military mindset and the creative geniuses out there.
I have a better, more challenging game: "Get your honest politician elected."
You must somehow keep your chosen champion from making any false promises or accepting lobbyist donations while running a clean campaign. Comes with three (gradually increasing) levels of difficulty: Municipal (easiest), State, and Federal (hardest).
What about weapons that aren't on that list? ;-)
Mafia Wars. It must be Mafia Wars.
Or some sort of porn app, that automatically downloads new material in the background according to your preferences.
NATO, usually.
It's a sad commentary on our handling of various situations in this world such that we require such a large investment in military expenditures to keep our country safe. I'm not saying that we need to be that most popular guy / girl in our worldwide high-school, nor that we need to sacrifice our principles; what I'm saying is that we seem to be accumulating more enemies with greater strengths than warrants common sense.
A fool fights a war on two fronts, the heir to the kingdom of fools fights a war on twelve fronts.
Anyone else in favor of a constitutional amendment for a "no confidence vote," where the public can hold a referendum at will to dissolve our currently elected officials of their offices, ban them for life from ever holding another position (municipal, state, federal, etc.), and hold general elections for their replacements?
Funny, but not a situation I'd prefer to end up in. I have better ways to waste my time than play who has the bigger penis with the military (I do, sorry guys).
That's another sticking point. They won't pay nearly enough to attract the kinds of talent they might want, and the kinds of talent they want do not, from a longevity standpoint, want to work for them.
They don't have a battery to power those things yet, and probably never will.
I think scientists, the smarter ones, learned from the Manhattan Project and its outcome, and are subconsciously stalling from finding that particular advance. No one wants to be responsible for WWIII, even if we can "win it."
And to be honest, having read up on the research regarding the human genome, we're doomed as a species if we have another world war or implement any sort of attempt to reduce global population. It's only our explosive growth that has kept the human genome from degrading into something truly horrible. A consequence of various plagues and earlier wars, I'm afraid.
Tick tock, goes the clock, until the human race runs out of time.
Agreed. While the prospect of various enemies overrunning my country is not lost on me, my analytical skills are pointing to a bigger threat within my country than without: namely that the military / security people have gone AWOL, and constitute a bigger threat to the populace than their named greatest enemies.
I don't like the police getting TANKS for internal use, Special Weapons and Tactics for unpaid parking tickets, and Intelligence Agencies running operations inside the country. Writing programs for these people sounds like handing people the very gun they will shoot me with. I've seen enough idealism and irony with the Thin Thread program, where an aloof mathematician couldn't conceive of the possibility of his program being used against the general populace for some below-board practices.
We'll talk about getting your soldiers some nice apps when I stop feeling ashamed about discussing my country with citizens from its allies.
*shakes head*
Something like that...
Hmmm. Just on the basis of the touch screen interface alone, I imagine that it will be very popular with the consumer market, and IT people everywhere will avoid it like the Black Plague.
Should be entertaining to see the clashes between the people who want their Windows 8 tablets supported on the company network, and IT's unwillingness to allow any mission critical apps anywhere near it.
Why must MS take this path? They have a perfectly usable GUI right now...and I do not want the Apple or Minority Report approach to computing.
Yes, touch screens are fun, no, any large amount of typing on a touch screen is murder on one's hands. I do not want a VS 2014 with integrated touch screen capabilities.
Thank You.
The term "Enterprise" with regards to Microsoft?
It refers to the cream of the crop, in terms of software. The software that has no built-in limitations (market segmentation), and typically a fair number of advanced features. In my experience, Microsoft rarely offers anything above Enterprise...I'm having trouble think of an example. This tier of the software is typically used for companies in excess of 10,000 employees or when you are really going overboard with clustering / redundancies / data mining.
The word itself?
enÂterÂprise noun \Ëen-tÉ(TM)(r)-ËOEprÄz\
Definition of ENTERPRISE
1
: a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky
2
: readiness to engage in daring or difficult action : initiative
3
a : a unit of economic organization or activity; especially : a business organization
b : a systematic purposeful activity
See enterprise defined for English-language learners Â
See enterprise defined for kids Â
Examples of ENTERPRISE
Moving the drilling rig offshore was a costly enterprise.
Agriculture is the main economic enterprise among these people.
When he purchased the company it was a thriving commercial enterprise.
He was criticized for his lack of enterprise in dealing with the crisis.
Origin of ENTERPRISE
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from entreprendre to undertake, from entre- inter- + prendre to take â" more at prize
First Known Use: 15th century
So, it's usually a synonym for "business" or "venture," but in MS nomenclature it has a connotation for a very large business (lots of money, 99.999999999999% up-time, multiple offices in multiple countries). It's the business equivalent of the consumer tier called Ultimate. Now that I think about it, Windows 7 is the only product I know of that has both an Enterprise and Ultimate edition.
Windows 7 Enterprise
This edition targets the enterprise segment of the market and is sold through volume licensing to companies which have a Software Assurance contract with Microsoft.[1] Additional features include support for Multilingual User Interface (MUI) packages, BitLocker Drive Encryption, and UNIX application support.[1] Not available through retail or OEM channels, this edition is distributed through Microsoft Software Assurance (SA).[1] As a result it includes several SA-only benefits, including a license allowing the operating of diskless nodes (diskless PCs), the running of multiple virtual machines, and activation via VLK.[12] Like Professional, Microsoft will support this edition until 2020.
Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 7 Ultimate contains all of the same features as Windows 7 Enterprise, but unlike the Enterprise edition, it is available to home users on an individual license basis.[1] Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional users are able to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for a fee using Windows Anytime Upgrade if they wish to do so.[1] Unlike Windows Vista Ultimate, the Windows 7 Ultimate edition does not include the Windows Ultimate Extras feature or any exclusive features as Microsoft had stated.[1] However, even though it is the consumer equivalent to Enterprise, like Home Premium, Microsoft will only support Ultimate until 2015.[13]
Me thinks you missed my point; I was not implying that the Japanese cannot build a car with fast acceleration (they have, and do), but that the majority of the market of American purchases of Japanese vehicles are of vehicles that center around utility, not luxury (where acceleration might be considered a luxury).
The WRX and Forester XTs both sport great accelerations; however, I do not believe they constitute the majority of American purchases of Subaru vehicles.
Feel free to prove me wrong, and show me a link to a graph where WRXs and Forester XTs are outselling their slower, milder variants.
I'm curious. What was this better deal?