... what this tells me (we already know this here) is that it was never about protecting artists, it was never about doing the right thing, it was always about control
And in other breaking news, day follows night, man evolved from Apes, and my wife has another headache.
I dunno, at every place I have been the 'business analyst' was the guy that wasn't good at either coding or administration. Sort of like a manager, come to think of it.
Nice to see that they make enough $ to make a donation like that, without the standard income generating popups that most websites use. Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Really surprised no one has thrown a Spider-man comment.
Probably because it would have only been some crude comment about how hard it was to milk Spider-man. Slashdot is better than that right?
Seriously? The dude lives with his aunt and hasn't gotten any from Mary Jane in years. Would take about 8 seconds, the Sears catalog lingerie section, and a spoonful of baby oil.
Interesting, but not accurate enough. This is a bullet we are talking about, not a missile.
Try getting an enemy combatant to hold one of your transmitters. Maybe tell him its an iPod.
Chances are pretty good you find yourself strapped to a tree with it taped to your chest.
Well, if you can get that close to the guy why not just shoot him yourself?
If asshat politicians and places like Disney didn't overreact and put bans in place on them before they even came out then who knows if they could have been more popular, and more affordable?
While a lot of that early regulation got overturned eventually it seemed like it got bushwacked before it had a chance.
I don't agree with the stand being taken here, but don't understand why it's modded 'flamebait', as it's no more flammable than a lot of the comments preceding it.
Agreed, and don't have a problem with ads on pages as long as they aren't obtrusive. For all of you complaining about ads would you rather face the alternative and pay for all the content that you are currently enjoying for free?
Yes, mouseover ads suck, huge full-page ads are rude, but a small, relevant ad here and there doesn't distract from the page and if it lets the content provider continue to, well, provide content then more power to 'em.
So they gave access to Steve Grogan, Willie McGinest, and Tony Bruschi?
Yeah, like those guys will know what to do with it. The Symantec guys really are loosers!
But in a small to midsized shop, undocumented code is akin to job security (in developer's minds at least).
If I had a nickel for every time I heard "Oh, be careful with what you say to (insert developer's name here), he is the only one that knows how the Widget process works." When I ask where the documentation is on it I get a blank stare, or worse, I get "Well, we asked him to do that but he says he's too busy."
Ok, maybe that's more of a sign of lazy, ball-less management, but it still sucks.
Unless you are a loan officer or manage loan officers there is no money in banking, especially not in I.T. Never has been, never will be. Over 10 years working I.T. for many banks proved that to me, until I finally wised up and got out of the industry. They don't spend a single penny more than they have to on salary, hardware, software, or security. Maybe this will change when a new generation of presidents, board members, etc comes to power, but as long as it's still the same old white men you can give up any hope of them doing anything more than they absolutely have to.
Just one quick example - back in 2001 or so I was getting ready to install an internet connection to the brand new ethernet lan at a smaller-sized community bank (avg annual profit of about $1.5 million). I quoted something like $2-3k for a Cisco firewall and was told there was no way in hell I could spend that much. Either I find something for under $200 or we go without a firewall altogether.
Get some trial lawyer lobbying group to ask for this info and it will happen a lot sooner.
Once a drone crashes people will want someone to sue, and without a pilot there is no one to go after. Enter an attorney from Dewey, Faulkum, and Howe looking for his 33%, and you'll have more briefs flying around than in the showers at Penn State.
Back when I was working on cars for a living we had 2 that I can recall that had caught fire. One was a v6 that the fuel hose had sprung a leak. Early GM fuel-injected engines were known to have the fuel hoses get brittle after a while and that's probably what happened with that one. The other was a 4 cyl that had an elec connector melt onto the exhaust manifold. Looking at the wiki it looks like that one should have been recalled.
When you consider that Corvairs weren't even remotely as bad as Ralph Nader made them out to be, and the Audi 'unintended acceleration' b.s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi#Audi_5000_unintended_acceleration) it's just another case of dumbasses jumping on a bandwagon.
Actually, not much of anything. 1984 models with the 2.5 had a few engine fires but that was a whopping 0.07% of them. Urban legend, if you ask me.
FWIW, Fiero GTs are a ton of fun to drive and pretty damn quick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Fiero#Crash_Safety - and see below for the engine fire info.
Damn, my fault for not reading the axes and just getting a chubby over seeing the charts that matched what I was thinking. Thx everyone for the lesson.
Glad you asked:)
Look at this chart
here, from the wiki on Moore's Law -
and compare it to this one here, from the wiki on Exponential Growth (specifically the green line) -
Looks to me like the growth in the Moore's Law chart is linear (in layman's terms = a smooth, steady incline), rather than exponential (again, in layman's terms = a steep increase after a smooth incline).
Does it match the textbook definition? Perhaps not. But it passes the smell test to me.
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We have too much capital invested in finding even more ways to probe Uranus.
Especially if the climber or hikers are lost on Ruby Ridge? In the outskirts of a small town in Texas?
... what this tells me (we already know this here) is that it was never about protecting artists, it was never about doing the right thing, it was always about control
And in other breaking news, day follows night, man evolved from Apes, and my wife has another headache.
I dunno, at every place I have been the 'business analyst' was the guy that wasn't good at either coding or administration. Sort of like a manager, come to think of it.
Nice to see that they make enough $ to make a donation like that, without the standard income generating popups that most websites use. Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
Really surprised no one has thrown a Spider-man comment.
Probably because it would have only been some crude comment about how hard it was to milk Spider-man. Slashdot is better than that right?
Seriously? The dude lives with his aunt and hasn't gotten any from Mary Jane in years. Would take about 8 seconds, the Sears catalog lingerie section, and a spoonful of baby oil.
Interesting, but not accurate enough. This is a bullet we are talking about, not a missile. Try getting an enemy combatant to hold one of your transmitters. Maybe tell him its an iPod. Chances are pretty good you find yourself strapped to a tree with it taped to your chest.
Well, if you can get that close to the guy why not just shoot him yourself?
.... There's also been talk of a lawsuit against the FBI over users' lost files.
Isn't that like suing the police to get back the cash you paid the drug dealer they just arrested?
Also, yes, I acknowledge that some families require larger vehicles to haul around hockey gear and three kids and whatnot.
Those buy minivans, not SUVs.
Not in the Northeast, Rocky Mtn States, etc. where there are things like snow and ice and hills and shitty departments of transportation.
If asshat politicians and places like Disney didn't overreact and put bans in place on them before they even came out then who knows if they could have been more popular, and more affordable?
While a lot of that early regulation got overturned eventually it seemed like it got bushwacked before it had a chance.
And that joke belongs where it came from - Uranus!
I don't agree with the stand being taken here, but don't understand why it's modded 'flamebait', as it's no more flammable than a lot of the comments preceding it.
/. for 'disagree'?
Unless 'flamebait' is
Agreed, and don't have a problem with ads on pages as long as they aren't obtrusive. For all of you complaining about ads would you rather face the alternative and pay for all the content that you are currently enjoying for free?
Yes, mouseover ads suck, huge full-page ads are rude, but a small, relevant ad here and there doesn't distract from the page and if it lets the content provider continue to, well, provide content then more power to 'em.
So they gave access to Steve Grogan, Willie McGinest, and Tony Bruschi?
Yeah, like those guys will know what to do with it. The Symantec guys really are loosers!
Apparently 'Koobface' is Russian for "Sorry bro, but no one gives a rat's ass about your latest forays in Farmville".
Of course, reading the artilcle and seeing how sloppy they were in covering their tracks it's possible it just means "dumbass".
For those interested, here's the wiki. Interesting.
Going to a chiropractor.....
I'm sorry, maybe you missed the subject, but this thread is about medical records.
But in a small to midsized shop, undocumented code is akin to job security (in developer's minds at least).
If I had a nickel for every time I heard "Oh, be careful with what you say to (insert developer's name here), he is the only one that knows how the Widget process works." When I ask where the documentation is on it I get a blank stare, or worse, I get "Well, we asked him to do that but he says he's too busy."
Ok, maybe that's more of a sign of lazy, ball-less management, but it still sucks.
Unless you are a loan officer or manage loan officers there is no money in banking, especially not in I.T. Never has been, never will be. Over 10 years working I.T. for many banks proved that to me, until I finally wised up and got out of the industry. They don't spend a single penny more than they have to on salary, hardware, software, or security. Maybe this will change when a new generation of presidents, board members, etc comes to power, but as long as it's still the same old white men you can give up any hope of them doing anything more than they absolutely have to.
Just one quick example - back in 2001 or so I was getting ready to install an internet connection to the brand new ethernet lan at a smaller-sized community bank (avg annual profit of about $1.5 million). I quoted something like $2-3k for a Cisco firewall and was told there was no way in hell I could spend that much. Either I find something for under $200 or we go without a firewall altogether.
Get some trial lawyer lobbying group to ask for this info and it will happen a lot sooner.
Once a drone crashes people will want someone to sue, and without a pilot there is no one to go after. Enter an attorney from Dewey, Faulkum, and Howe looking for his 33%, and you'll have more briefs flying around than in the showers at Penn State.
They had one, but none of the engineers had 2 quarters to put in the machine.
Back when I was working on cars for a living we had 2 that I can recall that had caught fire. One was a v6 that the fuel hose had sprung a leak. Early GM fuel-injected engines were known to have the fuel hoses get brittle after a while and that's probably what happened with that one. The other was a 4 cyl that had an elec connector melt onto the exhaust manifold. Looking at the wiki it looks like that one should have been recalled. When you consider that Corvairs weren't even remotely as bad as Ralph Nader made them out to be, and the Audi 'unintended acceleration' b.s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi#Audi_5000_unintended_acceleration) it's just another case of dumbasses jumping on a bandwagon.
Actually, not much of anything. 1984 models with the 2.5 had a few engine fires but that was a whopping 0.07% of them. Urban legend, if you ask me. FWIW, Fiero GTs are a ton of fun to drive and pretty damn quick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Fiero#Crash_Safety - and see below for the engine fire info.
Damn, my fault for not reading the axes and just getting a chubby over seeing the charts that matched what I was thinking. Thx everyone for the lesson.
Glad you asked :)
Look at this chart here, from the wiki on Moore's Law -
and compare it to this one here, from the wiki on Exponential Growth (specifically the green line) -
Looks to me like the growth in the Moore's Law chart is linear (in layman's terms = a smooth, steady incline), rather than exponential (again, in layman's terms = a steep increase after a smooth incline).
Does it match the textbook definition? Perhaps not. But it passes the smell test to me.