Chicken pox is not dangerous. I think that is a clue that the industry has crossed over into selling us stuff we don't really need.
Not dangerous, but extremely unpleasant, particularly the second time. Shingles is a resurfacing of previously contracted chicken pox. Ask someone who's had a bad case of shingles whether thy think the chicken pox vaccine is just greedy industry at work selling something pointless.
Bruce Eckel for a while released his books for free. And initially things went very well. But then things went downhill because people would end up NOT buying his books.
Cite?
They would have read his books, but not bought them.
I only heard of Thinking in C++because of the buzz about it being free. I read it online and liked it. I bought two copies on paper, one for work, one for home. My anecdote beats your unfounded speculation, 0 data points to 1.
Now Bruce is not making the later editions for free anymore. Why? I can only surmise that it did not work out.
Ah yes, the incontrovertible proof that comes from idle speculation.
I once asked him and he said, "oh yeah that it was an interesting experiment."
That answer is pretty evasive. Sounds equally likely that he could either be disappointed in the sales, or uncomfortable acknowledging he used the Open Source/"FREE STUFF!" model to make a name for himself. It's a perfectly valid strategy, but the FOSS crowd can have some freaky folks, and he might very well be concerned about being labeled a "sellout"...
I know Bruce personally and he is not a money freak. He is a very nice guy. He is in fact somebody who likes Open Source, etc. But I know he also has to feed himself and I wonder if sales did end up going down...
If the freebies are depriving him of sales, why does he still maintain a list of places where you can download the stuff on his web site? Again, you offer nothing but idle speculation.
It actually disappoints me because Bruce was very willing and wanted to help the community. But the community let him down...
Conclusion not supported by evidence. You're claiming to know Bruce's motivations with nothing to go on but a very evasive answer from him.
I can understand N. Korea since they can actually reach the Aleutians... but Iran? I'd like to see some propaganda that actually is realistic and Iran coming up with a missile that can reach the US is something of a fairy tale.
I don't understand why it's automatically assumed that this defense system will be both stationary and based in the US. The ultimate goal of this project is to create a deployable theater-wide defense system. Remember the Gulf War, and all that crap with the Scud missiles? Those were nuclear-lift capable ballistic missile systems.
How is anything based on Win32 and DirectX not a Windows derivative?
Those are APIs. Windows is an OS. Two completely different operating systems could use the same APIs, but handle the API calls completely different behind the scenes. That's kind of the point of an API.
Couldn't it be chance?.9^20 is about 12%. It's not amazing odds, but I don't think it's "beyond a reasonable doubt" that racism is involved.
You are assuming that the promotion pool is 90% white. It was more like 20%. The ratio in the jar was supposed to represent the local ratio of "negroes vs whiteys" in the general population (and it didn't even do that accurately), when in fact the suit was about how they ALWAYS promoted from within, and the guys who managed to promote up out of the entry level jobs were ALWAYS white. It was later resolved in an out of court settlement which was the result of a larger suit brought by more than the one plaintiff in this case.The company admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to hand out a bunch of cash and adhere to less (ahem) "subjective" promotion review process.
Another great case of his was when he was the Army equivalent of a public defender. He was representing a soldier who had allegedly robbed a fellow soldier. The victim said he saw the gun and knew it was a gun, and being a soldier, knew the difference between the real thing and a toy. My cousin repeatedly attempted to get the victim to admit he wasn't sure it was a real gun (despite the defendant being found with a gun matching that description and with no toy gun). After essentially being told to quit bugging him about it, he tried a different tactic. He started from the beginning and ran through forty minutes of tedious "yes/no" questions regarding the case with the victim on the stand--- all of which were answered "yes". Then, when he detected that the witness was bored and no longer paying attention, he slipped in the question "is it possible the gun was a toy", to which the guy answered automatically "yes". He then hammered on this "inconsistency" and got the felony of Armed Robbery reduced to misdemeanor Robbery.
Isn't there a third possibility? Like that some lawyers are jerks? Just like there are some jerks everywhere else in the general population?
Indeed, that was my intended point. I got wrapped up in the story and forgot to add "loud, showy jerks like my cousin are who people remember, making everyone think lawyers all suck".
My cousin is a bad lawyer under category (c) "Lawyers who you know are bad because you know them". The stories he proudly tells about using courtroom dirty tricks are astounding. One of my favorites is the "jar of marbles". He currently works for a large hotel chain defending them against suits brought by workers they've cheated. In one case, the suit alleged that the hotel would only promote white men to management. He argued that the fact that all management was white men could be pure chance. He produced a jar of marbles that were 10% black and 90% white and said "is it not possible to reach into this jar and, by chance, pull twenty marbles and not pull one black one, just by chance?" The plaintiff's attorney objeted at this bullshit and the objection was sustained, and the jury told to disregard that little bit of irrelevantr statistics; but (as he proudly related) "I kept that jar of marbles on the defense table, right where the jury could see it, for the whole trial--- and we won". Even if it was lack of evidence that caused him to prevail, the fact that he is proud of that marble shit just goes to show what kind of dickhead tends to become a lawyer--- or maybe, what kind of dickhead becoming a lawyer tends to turn you into.
Absolutely. And I also agree that guns are necessary. But not owned and control by individuals.
I think the police and the military need guns.
I never understood this viewpoint. I've met a lot of lefty types who have had to seriously reexamine their position on this issue once they were asked if they really thought the only armed people should be the police and military. A friend of my wife is a totaly screaming liberal, all the way down to his Birkenstocks, but supports THE PEOPLE being armed as a check on the conservative nutjobs who gravitate towards the police and military.
Seriously, do you think the cops are really that trustworthy?
If "this presidency" created the gas price explosion, then what did it do to make it deflate so dramatically recently? Gas prices were up because of the same market speculation (in this case commodities) that was driving up everything else. The executive branch has had fuck all to do with it; but I suppose there's no shortage of dimwits like you who think the president has magic powers, and that if we could just get a good one, it'll be sunshine and daisies forever.
Anyone, even soldiers, can take courses online. In fact, universities make a special effort to accommodate those who are stuck in various mudholes, sandboxes, and rockpiles courtesy of Uncle Sam. Granted, it's really only an option for those stationed in a rear area with internet access, but even for the front line guys, not all of us were stuck stomping up and down valleys and ridges all the time. I could've probably completed a couple semesters while in garrison at Bagram, but I just spent most of my free time sleeping.
Unless of course, you're a REM who's several hundred clicks from any forward operating post, and have ready access to 24x7 electricity with no spikes, aircon and constant net access. Apologies if I've called that one wrong, but you're not exactly giving the impression of being at the sharp end of business out there.
You start by outlining what soldiers on the front lines have done in past wars, then chastise him for not acting like a front line soldier when he's obviously not? Do you think guys processing paperwork in the finance office in London or Saigon were writing home about the horrors of war?
And it's "REMF", not "REM".
i'd suggest Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden"... and... "Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander The Great To The Fall Of The Taliban"
by Stephen Tanner.
Pffff. Maybe if you want to read hundreds of boring pages about the Washington bureaucracy and the ineptitude of the CIA and the State Department, and then a copy-paste of 20 other history books with a hysterical screed against Bush at the end.
So really, I'm not sure what it is you think he needs to be educated about. You start with the observation that he's not as concerned with the "awful conditions" at the front as you think he ought to be, and then suggest he read a bunch of political nonsense by a Washington Post inside-the-beltway gasbag?
At any rate, chastising him for pursuing an education instead of learning to hate Chimpy BusHitler or whatever is pretty lame.
When I was in Opsec, Afghanistan we had our mail stolen all the time.
You were stationed in Opsec? Me too!
Seriously, when I was there, I swear i didn't get but one in five of the many packages my family sent me. Letters and cards, no problem; but if it was a box with something in it, it usually vanished.
Mod parent up Informative please. Simple common sense solution to lack of being able to call directly.
No, mod parent "never had to get internet connectivity from the Army". It may be better now, but when I was there email was about all you could manage through that high latency, low bandwidth, "here now for 1 minute but then gone for 10 minutes" connection.
Yes he does. "APO" means "(United States) Army Post Office". If he was British Army his mail would be addressed with a "BFPO" address, Canadian "CFPO", and German "Feldpost". Afghan Army doesn't need to use a "field post office" system because they live there, and there aren't enough Frenchies there for me to have seen how they get their mail, but I'm pretty sure they're all French Special Forces guys, so they aren't likely sitting around barracks working on their degrees in the evenings.
Subtlety is key, even if it's for something like proving the program was coded by you if some asshole attempts to take credit...
Subtlety? You mean like an unmarked button in the corner of the main screen which (if clicked) flashes for.5 seconds a 640x480 picture of a cane toad with the caption "CANE TOAD!" in the main data presentation box? I figure that no one would be willing to admit to doing that but me.
If you told me 10% of people can't tell that their TV is turned on or not I wouldn't be surprised.
Indeed, but I think the control for the experiment is the problem. What this stat actually means is that when asked whether a sample video in the lab was HD or SD, 18% of people were so used to watching shows on the worn out 20 year old Zenith 27" at home that you could show them anything halfway decent and they'd think it was HD.
The links don't say that 18% can't tell the Difference
Just that 18% can't tell if what their seeing is HD
I think it's because they moved up from shitty $300 CRT televisions they bought at Wal-Mart. I have a 5 year old Sony Wega that people see and ask "is that Hi-Def?" The answer, of course, is simply "No, you just have a crappy TV at home." Give someone a nice flat panel capable of 1080p and you could show them a worn-out bootleg VHS of Star Wars from 1982 and they'd ask if it was hi-def because it looks so much better than it did on their 27" Magnavox.
That's like arguing that Taco Bell isn't owned by Pepsi.
Well yeah, exactly: it isn't. It's operated by Yum!(nee Tricon) since 1997. Tricon Global was a spinoff of PepsiCo, but Pepsi retains no control of it.
You are correct in a really technical sense. Echostar still owns the sats, sling and the box development, but Dish could not exist without them.
And McDonalds couldn't serve french fries without Golden State Foods. That doesn't make them the same company. Echostar and Dish are separate entities. The fact that they used to be one company a year ago is irrelevant.
They're looking at the big chunk of cash Google gave them and trying to find a weasel way to say that it was Google paying them in exchange for "bundling" the search bar. It's semantic bullshit, but the IRS thinks they might be able to get money out of it, so they're going for it anyway. The IRS is worse that patent trolls.
Be careful what you say there. 'Illegal activities' can also mean a whole pile of other things we take for granted, like P2P copyright.
What are you talking about? What he says doesn't matter. Every connectivity provider already has TOS in their contracts that allow them to disconnect you based largely on their whims and fancies.
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...one winter when I was cyclilng in -17C (stupid, yeah, gimme a break, I love cycling) I got a cold sore on the tip of my nose.
Most likely, it was simple frostbite. Cold doesn't give you cold sores, or even make you particularly susceptible to them.
Chicken pox is not dangerous. I think that is a clue that the industry has crossed over into selling us stuff we don't really need.
Not dangerous, but extremely unpleasant, particularly the second time. Shingles is a resurfacing of previously contracted chicken pox. Ask someone who's had a bad case of shingles whether thy think the chicken pox vaccine is just greedy industry at work selling something pointless.
I got another one to prove otherwise.
Bruce Eckel for a while released his books for free. And initially things went very well. But then things went downhill because people would end up NOT buying his books.
Cite?
They would have read his books, but not bought them.
I only heard of Thinking in C++ because of the buzz about it being free. I read it online and liked it. I bought two copies on paper, one for work, one for home. My anecdote beats your unfounded speculation, 0 data points to 1.
Now Bruce is not making the later editions for free anymore. Why? I can only surmise that it did not work out.
Ah yes, the incontrovertible proof that comes from idle speculation.
I once asked him and he said, "oh yeah that it was an interesting experiment."
That answer is pretty evasive. Sounds equally likely that he could either be disappointed in the sales, or uncomfortable acknowledging he used the Open Source/"FREE STUFF!" model to make a name for himself. It's a perfectly valid strategy, but the FOSS crowd can have some freaky folks, and he might very well be concerned about being labeled a "sellout"...
I know Bruce personally and he is not a money freak. He is a very nice guy. He is in fact somebody who likes Open Source, etc. But I know he also has to feed himself and I wonder if sales did end up going down...
If the freebies are depriving him of sales, why does he still maintain a list of places where you can download the stuff on his web site? Again, you offer nothing but idle speculation.
It actually disappoints me because Bruce was very willing and wanted to help the community. But the community let him down...
Conclusion not supported by evidence. You're claiming to know Bruce's motivations with nothing to go on but a very evasive answer from him.
I can understand N. Korea since they can actually reach the Aleutians... but Iran? I'd like to see some propaganda that actually is realistic and Iran coming up with a missile that can reach the US is something of a fairy tale.
I don't understand why it's automatically assumed that this defense system will be both stationary and based in the US. The ultimate goal of this project is to create a deployable theater-wide defense system. Remember the Gulf War, and all that crap with the Scud missiles? Those were nuclear-lift capable ballistic missile systems.
How is anything based on Win32 and DirectX not a Windows derivative?
Those are APIs. Windows is an OS. Two completely different operating systems could use the same APIs, but handle the API calls completely different behind the scenes. That's kind of the point of an API.
Couldn't it be chance? .9^20 is about 12%. It's not amazing odds, but I don't think it's "beyond a reasonable doubt" that racism is involved.
You are assuming that the promotion pool is 90% white. It was more like 20%. The ratio in the jar was supposed to represent the local ratio of "negroes vs whiteys" in the general population (and it didn't even do that accurately), when in fact the suit was about how they ALWAYS promoted from within, and the guys who managed to promote up out of the entry level jobs were ALWAYS white. It was later resolved in an out of court settlement which was the result of a larger suit brought by more than the one plaintiff in this case.The company admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to hand out a bunch of cash and adhere to less (ahem) "subjective" promotion review process.
Another great case of his was when he was the Army equivalent of a public defender. He was representing a soldier who had allegedly robbed a fellow soldier. The victim said he saw the gun and knew it was a gun, and being a soldier, knew the difference between the real thing and a toy. My cousin repeatedly attempted to get the victim to admit he wasn't sure it was a real gun (despite the defendant being found with a gun matching that description and with no toy gun). After essentially being told to quit bugging him about it, he tried a different tactic. He started from the beginning and ran through forty minutes of tedious "yes/no" questions regarding the case with the victim on the stand--- all of which were answered "yes". Then, when he detected that the witness was bored and no longer paying attention, he slipped in the question "is it possible the gun was a toy", to which the guy answered automatically "yes". He then hammered on this "inconsistency" and got the felony of Armed Robbery reduced to misdemeanor Robbery.
If a town has two lawyers, go to the one paying an obscene amount of alimony after his divorce?
Isn't there a third possibility? Like that some lawyers are jerks? Just like there are some jerks everywhere else in the general population?
Indeed, that was my intended point. I got wrapped up in the story and forgot to add "loud, showy jerks like my cousin are who people remember, making everyone think lawyers all suck".
My cousin is a bad lawyer under category (c) "Lawyers who you know are bad because you know them". The stories he proudly tells about using courtroom dirty tricks are astounding. One of my favorites is the "jar of marbles". He currently works for a large hotel chain defending them against suits brought by workers they've cheated. In one case, the suit alleged that the hotel would only promote white men to management. He argued that the fact that all management was white men could be pure chance. He produced a jar of marbles that were 10% black and 90% white and said "is it not possible to reach into this jar and, by chance, pull twenty marbles and not pull one black one, just by chance?" The plaintiff's attorney objeted at this bullshit and the objection was sustained, and the jury told to disregard that little bit of irrelevantr statistics; but (as he proudly related) "I kept that jar of marbles on the defense table, right where the jury could see it, for the whole trial--- and we won". Even if it was lack of evidence that caused him to prevail, the fact that he is proud of that marble shit just goes to show what kind of dickhead tends to become a lawyer--- or maybe, what kind of dickhead becoming a lawyer tends to turn you into.
I never understood this viewpoint. I've met a lot of lefty types who have had to seriously reexamine their position on this issue once they were asked if they really thought the only armed people should be the police and military. A friend of my wife is a totaly screaming liberal, all the way down to his Birkenstocks, but supports THE PEOPLE being armed as a check on the conservative nutjobs who gravitate towards the police and military.
Seriously, do you think the cops are really that trustworthy?
it's "retarded", retard
If "this presidency" created the gas price explosion, then what did it do to make it deflate so dramatically recently? Gas prices were up because of the same market speculation (in this case commodities) that was driving up everything else. The executive branch has had fuck all to do with it; but I suppose there's no shortage of dimwits like you who think the president has magic powers, and that if we could just get a good one, it'll be sunshine and daisies forever.
Anyone, even soldiers, can take courses online. In fact, universities make a special effort to accommodate those who are stuck in various mudholes, sandboxes, and rockpiles courtesy of Uncle Sam. Granted, it's really only an option for those stationed in a rear area with internet access, but even for the front line guys, not all of us were stuck stomping up and down valleys and ridges all the time. I could've probably completed a couple semesters while in garrison at Bagram, but I just spent most of my free time sleeping.
Unless of course, you're a REM who's several hundred clicks from any forward operating post, and have ready access to 24x7 electricity with no spikes, aircon and constant net access. Apologies if I've called that one wrong, but you're not exactly giving the impression of being at the sharp end of business out there.
You start by outlining what soldiers on the front lines have done in past wars, then chastise him for not acting like a front line soldier when he's obviously not? Do you think guys processing paperwork in the finance office in London or Saigon were writing home about the horrors of war?
And it's "REMF", not "REM".
i'd suggest Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden"... and... "Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander The Great To The Fall Of The Taliban" by Stephen Tanner.
Pffff. Maybe if you want to read hundreds of boring pages about the Washington bureaucracy and the ineptitude of the CIA and the State Department, and then a copy-paste of 20 other history books with a hysterical screed against Bush at the end.
So really, I'm not sure what it is you think he needs to be educated about. You start with the observation that he's not as concerned with the "awful conditions" at the front as you think he ought to be, and then suggest he read a bunch of political nonsense by a Washington Post inside-the-beltway gasbag?
At any rate, chastising him for pursuing an education instead of learning to hate Chimpy BusHitler or whatever is pretty lame.
When I was in Opsec, Afghanistan we had our mail stolen all the time.
You were stationed in Opsec? Me too!
Seriously, when I was there, I swear i didn't get but one in five of the many packages my family sent me. Letters and cards, no problem; but if it was a box with something in it, it usually vanished.
Mod parent up Informative please. Simple common sense solution to lack of being able to call directly.
No, mod parent "never had to get internet connectivity from the Army". It may be better now, but when I was there email was about all you could manage through that high latency, low bandwidth, "here now for 1 minute but then gone for 10 minutes" connection.
Nowhere does the poster say he's in the US Army.
Yes he does. "APO" means "(United States) Army Post Office". If he was British Army his mail would be addressed with a "BFPO" address, Canadian "CFPO", and German "Feldpost". Afghan Army doesn't need to use a "field post office" system because they live there, and there aren't enough Frenchies there for me to have seen how they get their mail, but I'm pretty sure they're all French Special Forces guys, so they aren't likely sitting around barracks working on their degrees in the evenings.
Subtlety is key, even if it's for something like proving the program was coded by you if some asshole attempts to take credit...
Subtlety? You mean like an unmarked button in the corner of the main screen which (if clicked) flashes for .5 seconds a 640x480 picture of a cane toad with the caption "CANE TOAD!" in the main data presentation box? I figure that no one would be willing to admit to doing that but me.
Come on, 18%?
If you told me 10% of people can't tell that their TV is turned on or not I wouldn't be surprised.
Indeed, but I think the control for the experiment is the problem. What this stat actually means is that when asked whether a sample video in the lab was HD or SD, 18% of people were so used to watching shows on the worn out 20 year old Zenith 27" at home that you could show them anything halfway decent and they'd think it was HD.
The links don't say that 18% can't tell the Difference
Just that 18% can't tell if what their seeing is HD
I think it's because they moved up from shitty $300 CRT televisions they bought at Wal-Mart. I have a 5 year old Sony Wega that people see and ask "is that Hi-Def?" The answer, of course, is simply "No, you just have a crappy TV at home." Give someone a nice flat panel capable of 1080p and you could show them a worn-out bootleg VHS of Star Wars from 1982 and they'd ask if it was hi-def because it looks so much better than it did on their 27" Magnavox.
I worked at McDonalds like about 40 years ago and we did special orders all of the time
I worked there for 6 glorious months 22 years ago. We also did special orders. GP poster is full of it.
That's like arguing that Taco Bell isn't owned by Pepsi.
Well yeah, exactly: it isn't. It's operated by Yum!(nee Tricon) since 1997. Tricon Global was a spinoff of PepsiCo, but Pepsi retains no control of it.
You are correct in a really technical sense. Echostar still owns the sats, sling and the box development, but Dish could not exist without them.
And McDonalds couldn't serve french fries without Golden State Foods. That doesn't make them the same company. Echostar and Dish are separate entities. The fact that they used to be one company a year ago is irrelevant.
They're looking at the big chunk of cash Google gave them and trying to find a weasel way to say that it was Google paying them in exchange for "bundling" the search bar. It's semantic bullshit, but the IRS thinks they might be able to get money out of it, so they're going for it anyway. The IRS is worse that patent trolls.
Is the brick one of the courses? I'm in!
Be careful what you say there. 'Illegal activities' can also mean a whole pile of other things we take for granted, like P2P copyright.
What are you talking about? What he says doesn't matter. Every connectivity provider already has TOS in their contracts that allow them to disconnect you based largely on their whims and fancies.