Heh. Already got a "-1 Flamebait" for taunting the huge Slashdot pro-Comcast crowd... I expect lots of heated responses from both of them any second now.
I ahd virtually the same experience with Computer Associates back in the mid-to-late 90s. They were another "buy a user base and extort 'em, then discontinue the product and [force] re-sell 'em the replacement" kind of company.
It's just like Microsoft. Most people assume they're a computer company, but they're really a marketing company. Google is advertising, not search. Meanwhile, Oracle (and CA) aren't really technology companies, but sales organizations.
I think there are bigger issues going on than if an open source project dies if someone gets hit by a truck.
Seriously, you guys think that some stupid piece of software is more important than human life...
OK, if it makes you feel better, we'll call it the "Girl Factor". That's the number of developers who have to discover girls before the project is incapacatated.
Oh noes!!! He "foe"ed me on Slashdot for calling out his bullshit!
I would be FASCINATED to hear your logic as to why government would seek to privatize (i.e. lose money) profits in order to socialize (i.e. lose money) the risks.
Simple: because politicians and government employees aren't selfless saints. Instead, they are corruptible, limited human beings primarily concerned with their own careers, reputation, and financial success. Among other things, they respond very well to lobbying.
So you're agreeing with me when I said:
Big businesses can socialize risk only in collusion with big government.
If you mean by corrupting government to avoid regulation of evil behavior, then I agree with you completely.
So it's not the big, bad gubment enforcing the regulations that's the problem, it's the corruption of those regulations.
So, after decades of federal student loan programs, vastly expanding welfare and retirement programs, the war on poverty, numerous programs purported to help the middle class, all the kind of big government programs you favor, you yourself observe that people are worse off than before.
The conclusion any reasonable person would draw is that these programs don't work. You have to be completely delusional to think that after such colossal failures, the right policy is to expand those programs even further.
The conversation is about DE-REGULATION. The fact that you conflate de-regulation == Big Bad Government spending really isn't my problem. Meanwhile, if you'll recall, at the same time he was unfettering corporate greed and malfeasance, Reagan gutted all the programs you so bemoan. If you want to picture a world without government regulations, I suggest you look at Mexico or China or pre-USSR-collapse East Germany.
I've read your other responses in this thread, and the conclusion that any reasonable person would draw is that you're a fool and/or a shill for the 0.01%, and not worth any further time.
Nonsense. Utter bullshit. Blaming "big government: we need to cut it back" is exactly what got us into this mess. Ronald Reagan is the FATHER of the disaster that confronts us
Big businesses have no way of socializing risk by themselves.
Go tell that to the belching smokestacks, the carcinogen-laced groundwater, the deteriorating climate, the poisoned oceans. Tell it to the minimum wage workers who have to go on food stamps, the students with crushing loans and no job prospects, the retirees who've lost their savings to yet another bankster stock swindle. Tell it to the vanishing middle class, whose wages have been flat for forty years while productivity and the wealth of the 0.01% has soared.
Big businesses can socialize risk only in collusion with big government.
If you mean by corrupting government to avoid regulation of evil behavior, then I agree with you completely.
"Privatize the profits, socialize the risks."
That's how big government works in the USA and elsewhere.
(emphasis mine)
I would be FASCINATED to hear your logic as to why government would seek to privatize (i.e. lose money) profits in order to socialize (i.e. lose money) the risks.
And the solution to this problem isn't to regulate big businesses more (that only makes the problem worse) but to cut back the culprit, big and powerful government.
So you're saying the solution to this problem is to allow MORE of this kind of behavior.
My god, you are so utterly delusional, there are no words to describe it. You would have more intellectual integrity if you posted in rabid favor of aroma therapy and woodland elves.
Sorry, didn't think I was dick-waving. Adding solder so you can (vacuum) remove it is so non-intuitive, I thought it was worth passing along. Always worked well for me. And yes, I still own a Weller station, and a couple of electric wire-wrap guns (with the 10 foot power cords) as well. (OK, NOW I'm dick-waving...)
First, always use a soldering iron with a grounded tip. Wipe it on a wet sponge, apply some new solder to the tip, and shake any excess off the tip. Now you'll get good heat transfer.
The trick is add more fresh solder to the joint (thus adding more flux and melting the entire joint on both sides) and then use the vacuum plunger tool to suck everything out. All the solder will flow together and magically disappear into the vacuum tool.
All the boards from that era were hand stuffed, and sometimes they used a tool that both smashed the lead (thus preventing the components from falling out during handling before wave soldering) and cut off the excess lead at the same time. if the lead is flat and moon shaped right where it passes through the board, you'll have to dyke off the tip, or cut the lead on the component side.
After you take out the component, touch the via with the soldering iron and surface tension will pul any whiskers back down to the via. insert the new component, solder in place, allow to cool. Use acetone to remove any excess flux. Throw that copper solder wick away, it isn't worth a damn.
Slashdot Mirror
External (still have one, not sure why) and Kermit.
Heh. Already got a "-1 Flamebait" for taunting the huge Slashdot pro-Comcast crowd... I expect lots of heated responses from both of them any second now.
Sorry, I meant to say dial-up with a Hayesmodem 1200 and a terminal emulator, manually doing the AT DT stuff from memory.
If my choices were Comcast or rabbit ears on top of the TV and dial-up, I'd go for the rabbit ears.
I ahd virtually the same experience with Computer Associates back in the mid-to-late 90s. They were another "buy a user base and extort 'em, then discontinue the product and [force] re-sell 'em the replacement" kind of company.
It's just like Microsoft. Most people assume they're a computer company, but they're really a marketing company. Google is advertising, not search. Meanwhile, Oracle (and CA) aren't really technology companies, but sales organizations.
OK, if it makes you feel better, we'll call it the "Girl Factor". That's the number of developers who have to discover girls before the project is incapacatated.
So you're agreeing with me when I said:
So it's not the big, bad gubment enforcing the regulations that's the problem, it's the corruption of those regulations.
The conversation is about DE-REGULATION. The fact that you conflate
de-regulation == Big Bad Government spending
really isn't my problem. Meanwhile, if you'll recall, at the same time he was unfettering corporate greed and malfeasance, Reagan gutted all the programs you so bemoan. If you want to picture a world without government regulations, I suggest you look at Mexico or China or pre-USSR-collapse East Germany.
I've read your other responses in this thread, and the conclusion that any reasonable person would draw is that you're a fool and/or a shill for the 0.01%, and not worth any further time.
Go tell that to the belching smokestacks, the carcinogen-laced groundwater, the deteriorating climate, the poisoned oceans. Tell it to the minimum wage workers who have to go on food stamps, the students with crushing loans and no job prospects, the retirees who've lost their savings to yet another bankster stock swindle. Tell it to the vanishing middle class, whose wages have been flat for forty years while productivity and the wealth of the 0.01% has soared.
If you mean by corrupting government to avoid regulation of evil behavior, then I agree with you completely.
I would be FASCINATED to hear your logic as to why government would seek to privatize (i.e. lose money) profits in order to socialize (i.e. lose money) the risks.
So you're saying the solution to this problem is to allow MORE of this kind of behavior.
My god, you are so utterly delusional, there are no words to describe it. You would have more intellectual integrity if you posted in rabid favor of aroma therapy and woodland elves.
There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
That's easy. Twenty years -- same as the Leisure Society, fusion power too cheap to meter and flying cars.
Does "turn in your Silver Certificates and take these Federal Reserve Notes" or "we don't use copper, nickel or silver in our coins any more" count???
Ever listened to reassurances from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank?
They went into his house and took his shit. In South America. I think that qualifies as "kill the messenger".
I wish American Airlines passed out medication to prevent thrombosis.
I'm thinking these guys are more worthy of being overrun by the villagers with torches and pitchforks...
Oh. Prenda Law, the qunitessential copyright trolls.
Sure, but they're ALL rapists.
Sorry, didn't think I was dick-waving. Adding solder so you can (vacuum) remove it is so non-intuitive, I thought it was worth passing along. Always worked well for me. And yes, I still own a Weller station, and a couple of electric wire-wrap guns (with the 10 foot power cords) as well. (OK, NOW I'm dick-waving...)
Something about Verizon making FiOS available to everyone in the city by June 30, 2014.
As it's the second sentence in TFA, I can see how you missed it.
First, always use a soldering iron with a grounded tip. Wipe it on a wet sponge, apply some new solder to the tip, and shake any excess off the tip. Now you'll get good heat transfer.
The trick is add more fresh solder to the joint (thus adding more flux and melting the entire joint on both sides) and then use the vacuum plunger tool to suck everything out. All the solder will flow together and magically disappear into the vacuum tool.
All the boards from that era were hand stuffed, and sometimes they used a tool that both smashed the lead (thus preventing the components from falling out during handling before wave soldering) and cut off the excess lead at the same time. if the lead is flat and moon shaped right where it passes through the board, you'll have to dyke off the tip, or cut the lead on the component side.
After you take out the component, touch the via with the soldering iron and surface tension will pul any whiskers back down to the via. insert the new component, solder in place, allow to cool. Use acetone to remove any excess flux. Throw that copper solder wick away, it isn't worth a damn.
Like they ever stopped?
I was kind of surprised by that factoid. Especially since the WISE data hasn't been completely released yet.
Luckily for all of us, companies never, ever, ever do anything short-sighted and long-term stupid to save a few bucks in the short-term.
I know that, but MBAs don't recognize the truth of it.