Actually - you're just wrong. Yes, the body has a number of low-calorie adaptations, but HORDING FAT isn't one of them. If he's admittedly flabby, 380 pounds, and been on a 1200 calorie diet for over 8 years, he is a physical impossibility. It doesn't take a lab to have common sense. Or do math.
Seriously? I was actually going to use joysticks as an example of how the mouse could potentially disappear. It used to be that nearly every single game used the joystick for an input device. Now, I haven't touched one for 10 years and other than gamers or avid simulator aficionados, I don't know anyone who does.
The difference is, the joystick wasn't replaced by anything. Computer games went away from joystick to keyboard/mouse combos, and consoles went to specialized controllers with optionally needed joystick functionality integrated.
Geez, how is this insightful? Stop arguing against a ridiculously poorly worded summary and read the decision itself. They're not saying that ALL copying is unauthorized, only copying WHILE Glider is loaded. It's like they said driving drunk was illegal, but you couldn't quite parse the "drunk" part of that sentence.
Don't bother. This guy is a complete, and I do mean soup-to-nuts complete fuqtard. The worst application he could think of was an airport ticket scanner? And his solution is to write a proprietary application on a customized OS instead? And then somehow blames Windows because hackers stole credit cards via a wireless hack?
What a douchebag.
If you truly believe this then you are a complete idiot: either for continuing to work at a company where this is true; or more likely, being completely ignorant of what management is doing and what is driving their decisions.
I left upper level IT management because I finally came to realize that my true love is hands-on, and I went to work for a company where there is actually a non-management IT career path. But the reality is (especially in IT), most managers HAVE DONE YOUR JOB, and there's a good chance - especially with your attitude - that they're still better at it than you. It's also pretty clear that you absolutely no clue how to do their job.
A serial killer is NOT a terrorist. A campus or mall shooting is NOT [necessarily] an act of terrorism. Just because a particular act invokes feelings of fear does not make it an act of terrorism. Your fast and loose use of the term "terrorism" minimizes the real acts of terrorism in much the same way our society has reduced the value of the word "hero" to anyone who performs the job they were paid to do.
When faced with 10 different choices, and having no data by which to differentiate them, humans choose the familiar. If you've never had a Coke in your life, but you've seen the logo everywhere you go for a decade, when faced with 10 unknown colas and no opportunity to do research, you're most likely to pick the Coke because it feels like a known element even though it isn't.
No one is immune to that. Including you.
You must be loads of fun at a new restaurant.
I don't know about "immune", but some of us actually relish trying out the unknown. And your argument holds no water anyway; by virtue of the fact that you've seen the Coke logo everywhere you already have enough data to make a differentiation: there's the thing that someone's been trying to sell me all my life, and there's the things I've never seen before. Some of us respond to that with "let's try something different."
People only respond to advertising that strikes a chord with them. To think that advertisers have some magic bullet that subliminally influences you or manipulates you into making choices you were not already predisposed to make belies an ignorance of the fundamentals of marketing.
The type of advertising you're talking about works only if you are a brand conscious, trend conscious, image vs value oriented person.
Like hypnosis or other forms of "subliminal" manipulation, it only works if you want it to work. You wear Nike because you WANT to believe that you're a "just do it" kind of person. And you want everyone else to believe that that's who you are because you think they believe the advertisements as well.
Just because you can't wrap your mind around the fact that some people are not completely engulfed in blatant consumerism doesn't mean those people are arrogant or naive. Advertising sells image, not product. And some people just don't care about that kind of thing.
In theory, you're right. In practice, Linux's index and package management leaves much to be desired. Try installing Oracle on a Linux machine for DBAs who want to do a graphical install.
xscreensaver. Yes, xscreensaver. It's a dependency. And not one any index on the planet will list.
At least Windows packages are generally self contained.
What they expect is Artificial Human Intelligence, and this will not be happening any time soon. Why should anyone expect a computer to exhibit the same kind of intelligence as a human any more than they would expect a rabbit to exhibit the same kind of intelligence as a squirrel?
Intelligence is an emergent property of the organism which exhibits it. At best we could create a Human Intelligence simulator. But true human quality intelligence will only come when we can create a computer large enough and fast enough to effectively simulate an entire human body.
Machine Intelligence... that's an entirely different story though.
I don't know about that. A friend and I were having a laugh about Amazon selling the "Doc Johnson Fist Shaped Dildo" shortly after I had just bought a Netgear router. The resulting recommendation seemed dead on to me.
Hey Carol, Just wanted to thank you for the hot stock tip on Company XYZ (ticker symbol XZ). I bought in at $.02 and it's already up to $.05 in just two days!
I hate people who try to tell others how they should believe in a religion that they themselves don't even believe in or understand. Guess what? You don't get to decide what someone believes. Well YOU'RE obviously not a Jerry Falwell Christian.
Get your facts straight. Rhapsody is exactly what this guy is complaining about. $12.99 a month is what they charge to "rent" music to listen to on your PC. $14.99 a month to "rent" music to listen to on your MP3 player. End your subscription and bye-bye music. Oh, you want to actually BUY tracks that you can listen to without paying $15 a month? That will be $.99 per track please.
It's like being charged $15 a month to use iTunes.
Geez mods! You mark a guy "Funny" who has an extra sensory experience due to the influence of a remote magnetic ballast, and then mod the oldest dowsing rod joke on the planet as "Insightful"? Not sure where you're going with that roll...
You hit the nail on the head. On the side, I consult for several small engineering and manufacturing businesses that work on fairly powerful workstations. All told, it's about 35 - 40 workstations a year, and all of them swore off name brand systems years ago. We build all of their systems for them, to their spec, parts almost exclusively from Newegg, and it's significantly cheaper than anything Apple could possibly offer; not to mention Dell or IBM or HP. If we need something quick and dirty and don't want to wait, we'll tromp down and pick up an HP refurb from the Tiger Direct warehouse for under $1,000.
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Running 9 miles per hour will be about 900 calories.
Uh... running 9 miles per hour is gonna burn a lot more than 100 calories an hour for most people.
Actually - you're just wrong. Yes, the body has a number of low-calorie adaptations, but HORDING FAT isn't one of them. If he's admittedly flabby, 380 pounds, and been on a 1200 calorie diet for over 8 years, he is a physical impossibility. It doesn't take a lab to have common sense. Or do math.
Seriously? I was actually going to use joysticks as an example of how the mouse could potentially disappear. It used to be that nearly every single game used the joystick for an input device. Now, I haven't touched one for 10 years and other than gamers or avid simulator aficionados, I don't know anyone who does.
The difference is, the joystick wasn't replaced by anything. Computer games went away from joystick to keyboard/mouse combos, and consoles went to specialized controllers with optionally needed joystick functionality integrated.
Geez, how is this insightful? Stop arguing against a ridiculously poorly worded summary and read the decision itself. They're not saying that ALL copying is unauthorized, only copying WHILE Glider is loaded. It's like they said driving drunk was illegal, but you couldn't quite parse the "drunk" part of that sentence.
Don't bother. This guy is a complete, and I do mean soup-to-nuts complete fuqtard. The worst application he could think of was an airport ticket scanner? And his solution is to write a proprietary application on a customized OS instead? And then somehow blames Windows because hackers stole credit cards via a wireless hack?
What a douchebag.
I left upper level IT management because I finally came to realize that my true love is hands-on, and I went to work for a company where there is actually a non-management IT career path. But the reality is (especially in IT), most managers HAVE DONE YOUR JOB, and there's a good chance - especially with your attitude - that they're still better at it than you. It's also pretty clear that you absolutely no clue how to do their job.
Cue DHS knocking on your door in 3, 2, 1...
A serial killer is NOT a terrorist. A campus or mall shooting is NOT [necessarily] an act of terrorism. Just because a particular act invokes feelings of fear does not make it an act of terrorism. Your fast and loose use of the term "terrorism" minimizes the real acts of terrorism in much the same way our society has reduced the value of the word "hero" to anyone who performs the job they were paid to do.
When faced with 10 different choices, and having no data by which to differentiate them, humans choose the familiar. If you've never had a Coke in your life, but you've seen the logo everywhere you go for a decade, when faced with 10 unknown colas and no opportunity to do research, you're most likely to pick the Coke because it feels like a known element even though it isn't. No one is immune to that. Including you.
You must be loads of fun at a new restaurant.
I don't know about "immune", but some of us actually relish trying out the unknown. And your argument holds no water anyway; by virtue of the fact that you've seen the Coke logo everywhere you already have enough data to make a differentiation: there's the thing that someone's been trying to sell me all my life, and there's the things I've never seen before. Some of us respond to that with "let's try something different."
People only respond to advertising that strikes a chord with them. To think that advertisers have some magic bullet that subliminally influences you or manipulates you into making choices you were not already predisposed to make belies an ignorance of the fundamentals of marketing.
The type of advertising you're talking about works only if you are a brand conscious, trend conscious, image vs value oriented person.
Like hypnosis or other forms of "subliminal" manipulation, it only works if you want it to work. You wear Nike because you WANT to believe that you're a "just do it" kind of person. And you want everyone else to believe that that's who you are because you think they believe the advertisements as well.
Just because you can't wrap your mind around the fact that some people are not completely engulfed in blatant consumerism doesn't mean those people are arrogant or naive. Advertising sells image, not product. And some people just don't care about that kind of thing.
This is just another byproduct of the "Group Hug" mentality espoused by "feel-good" hippies and daydreaming liberal nutjobs
Cause lord knows those right-wing conservative fundamentalists wouldn't want to limit our rights in anyway now, would they?
I suspect you'd be happy with a license plate consisting of nothing but dashes...
Someone needs to look up the definition of FUD.
In theory, you're right. In practice, Linux's index and package management leaves much to be desired. Try installing Oracle on a Linux machine for DBAs who want to do a graphical install.
xscreensaver. Yes, xscreensaver. It's a dependency. And not one any index on the planet will list.
At least Windows packages are generally self contained.
What they expect is Artificial Human Intelligence, and this will not be happening any time soon. Why should anyone expect a computer to exhibit the same kind of intelligence as a human any more than they would expect a rabbit to exhibit the same kind of intelligence as a squirrel? Intelligence is an emergent property of the organism which exhibits it. At best we could create a Human Intelligence simulator. But true human quality intelligence will only come when we can create a computer large enough and fast enough to effectively simulate an entire human body. Machine Intelligence... that's an entirely different story though.
I don't know about that. A friend and I were having a laugh about Amazon selling the "Doc Johnson Fist Shaped Dildo" shortly after I had just bought a Netgear router. The resulting recommendation seemed dead on to me.
Yeah, great idea. Because that's nothing like:
Hey Carol,
Just wanted to thank you for the hot stock tip on Company XYZ (ticker symbol XZ). I bought in at $.02 and it's already up to $.05 in just two days!
I mean, NOBODY sees through that kind of thing.
There's a good chance that in your lifetime the current climate will become like Mars'.
I always get a kick out of these stories, because Jack Thompson is the name of a famous Australian actor. You might have seen him in a movie.
Has he ever acted under the pseudonym "Internal Server Error"?Good lord. I just googled that operation. I will not be sleeping any time soon.
If this is in America then there's a second fatal flaw: that his students even speak English to begin with.
Get your facts straight. Rhapsody is exactly what this guy is complaining about. $12.99 a month is what they charge to "rent" music to listen to on your PC. $14.99 a month to "rent" music to listen to on your MP3 player. End your subscription and bye-bye music. Oh, you want to actually BUY tracks that you can listen to without paying $15 a month? That will be $.99 per track please.
It's like being charged $15 a month to use iTunes.
Geez mods! You mark a guy "Funny" who has an extra sensory experience due to the influence of a remote magnetic ballast, and then mod the oldest dowsing rod joke on the planet as "Insightful"? Not sure where you're going with that roll...
You hit the nail on the head. On the side, I consult for several small engineering and manufacturing businesses that work on fairly powerful workstations. All told, it's about 35 - 40 workstations a year, and all of them swore off name brand systems years ago. We build all of their systems for them, to their spec, parts almost exclusively from Newegg, and it's significantly cheaper than anything Apple could possibly offer; not to mention Dell or IBM or HP. If we need something quick and dirty and don't want to wait, we'll tromp down and pick up an HP refurb from the Tiger Direct warehouse for under $1,000.