They have families and need to eat just like the rest of us.
yeah they do, whats your point?
Or mabey I guess thats capitalist, logic, if you actually do the work, its not really doing the work. But paying people to do the work is actually doing work. Thats what capitalists mean when they say the "poor are lazy", its not that they don't actually do work, its that they don't pay anyone else to do work.
The fact that he chooses to spend his money paying them should give him some credit.
Don't forget these imaginary "sicknesses" due to wind turbines. All the while forgetting the real health hazards of fracking. Thats the thing about "conspiracy" theorists. Is that they have the demor, and attitude of a truth seeking movement, ignoring the low hanging fruit of very obvious ills in society, to at best reach around conjectures and "what-ifs", that convienantly blame who they want to blame for society's problems.
the real problem for me, is this seems like typical class room techniques that have been used for decades, perhaps centuries.
Which is true
The real implications of this system, is that while on an old paper, or mabey spreadsheet, or localzed version, the only people who had accesss to it where the teachers, perhaps shared with school administration in extreme cases. Teachers had no reason to save such performance data longer than it was useful, i.e. a school year.
Now, you have a perminant record of how obediant you are, how mallable you are to information, and the psycological profile that google builds on you as a consumer, also shared with the government and other large corporations starts when you are young.
The government, along with corporate partners (see pubic/private partnerships), find out which people are more receptive to the system, and which people are not, and begin targeting people at a younger and younger age, when they are most vulrnerable, and it would be the hardest to detect. They could try weeding out dissent before it happens.
its worse than that, its the rest of "free" world since the enlightenment, and the first republics. These sneeky little fuckers even got it put in the UN declaration of human rights.
Next they are going to want their votes to count, and this so called "Freedom of Speech", when its not relivant to viral marketing schemes, and perhaps they might actually get critical with how the system is run. Fucking bandwagoners man.
I mean no one would ever display anything but absolute love for Big Broth, umm, king and coun, umm, our most benevolant terrorist catchers and pedophile stoppers is purely just doing it to look cool.
thats kinda funny, because as much as hipsters hating being "judged for being diffrent", 90% of problems with hipsters stem from them making very harsh, but every empty judgements of other people based purely on asthetical or nonsensical reasons.
In fact, the entire essence of being a "hipster" is "keeping up on the jones" too far on a never ending search to be "hip" enough, owning the right trinkets, chotchkies, knick-knacks, that have close to zero meaning or relivance. You go buy "obscure" music records, merely as material trophies.
Of course, the people who have better things to do with their life than be a poser to all scenes are judged harshly for not being as "cool" as you, and never know what the fuck your talking about.
This is something that is somewhat OK when your 15, mabey even 18 years old, and still trying to find yourself. Being a trendy bastard in high school might get you some scoffs from your fellow students, but as an adult, I see it as somewhat understandable for a teenager to do such things trying to prove and find 'emselves.
Your 41 and still doing that. Thats pathetic.
Products that aren't good don't sell or quickly get replaced. GM and Chrysler experienced this first hand.
really, I am pretty sure they made crappy products for decades.
In this case successful at selling a lot of what they offer at a large profit
I knew someone would back me on this. See my friend Leon is a pimp, and everyone thinks he's evil. They just hate his success. He too sells a lot of what he has to offer for a profit! So does my friend Anthony, who tells me selling large volumes of black tar heroin.
Those fucking cops right, they just hate success. I mean what do they do besides steal from "successful" people.
In all serious, microsoft always had a crap product they kept afloat through bullying tactics. Success? For whom? Steve Balmer mabey, who recieved a nearly 1 billion retirement package, right before MS layed off 10,000 people with no severence package, all stemming from the rotten nokia deal.
If Microsoft is successful in the same way we say Gengkis Khan was "successful".
lets put this to rest right now. In English, there is no authorative definitions(real rules) on either spelling, or grammar. Just conventions, and they are diffrent in diffrent places in the world.
There litterally exists no such thing as correct spelling and grammar in the English Language.
This differs from Spanish and French, which there are official bodies governing them, and actual real rules.
There are many changes happening at MS. Since Nadella has been appointed CEO a huge PR operation is in progress.
you mean the public relations isn't smearing open source software, making all kinds of empty threats, trying to get FOSS devs classified as terrorists. Use of PR in combination with legal team to strike terror and fear into the computer industry as a whole. Or mabey he means they might remain more positive, and send less unknowledged paid employees to heckle at train shows so vicously, slashdot used to call them "brownshirts" after the Nazi SA. They stood out because they were overly aggressive, had "facts" that didn't jive with reality, and routinely embarresed themselves in front of the people who actually developed software.
Whatever brings publicity to MS affairs is a good thing
and why is that? so they can continue to rake in money from an operating system they didn't contribute to, one bit(android), or had anything to do with, because they were able to legally wrangle the profits away from the company, using byzantine law they helped get passed with campaign donations they made, using money they earned winning market share with anti-competative practices?
a 5 yo passing a MS exam.
Once you get past the "awww cute" factor, you realize that microsoft exams are so easy a 5 year old can do it, so don't expect more out of anyone with that kind of cert.
I think we get to the next question, is since the sole purpose of the microsoft cert is not to learn about computers or make oneself a better operator,programmer,or engineer, but to go to get a job and go to work.(and mabey indoctrinate people on microsoft products) This is promoting child labor almost.
the MCSE was always the running joke of the internet. It never really required talent.
It was for suits though, as opposed to geeks. Woe is me if I lived long enough to see slashdot forget about suits and geeks.
rockstars aren't "more talented" per se, but they are more valuable, because they have a name that attracts people based on name recognition.
Rockstars are their own corporate "brand" per se. They sell things via their image more than their music. Taylor Swift is a good example. As a musician she is mediocre at best, but right now, she's the top seller.
Scoff at my cyncism? Then explain when she accidently released 28 seconds of noise in head of her hit platnium album, on iTunes, that it hit the top of the charts. What drives that proccess? People buying music on Swift's "Brand Recognition".
No programmer, with mabey the exception of Linus Torvalds, mabey Bruce Schiener, or formerly Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie have that sort of "brand" name recognition.
Furthermore, I think its dangerous to let this mentality seep into the programming world. What consists of musical talent is entirely subjective, and at the end, affects nothing. Bad music everywhere is a mere annoyance.
Now imagine if programmers were overpaid, undertalented, super inflated egos, where glaring faults in code could be patched over with a public relations campaign?
Imagine the mayhem, and things that would break, if we had talentless coders working on the most sensative programming tasks based on name, not quality recognition? Imagine if no how bad they fucked up, they could cover it up with public relations?
actually, you know what, go ahead and do it. I think thats what we need right now. Things are going to go back to the way they were pre-google. We'll have a giant hacker underground with the talented, but unpopular hackers, and it will be a return of the "suits", fucking talentless "proffessional" class MCSE button pushers, that the slashdot of the 1990s was oh-so-found of reporting about thier incompetence.
this goes beyond typical immature twats, and typical flame wars against competing technologies.
I think a big problem is we the systemd fans aren't making ourselves known.
usage caps are a big step up, because at least they are honest, and of course predictable.
without net neutrality, you have hidden bandwith caps that happen anytime the ISP wants to shake down a site for more money. The ISPs have to give you all the internet you pay for.
Its they can't just promise 100 mb/s sooper unlimited to the moon, and simply not deliever that promise.
I am all for THAT type of regulation which makes the internet companies give you what was advertised.
If you sign a contract for 100 mb/s of internet, the ISPs should have to give you 100 mb/s internet. If they cannot deliever that, they shouldn't be offering 100 mb/s of internet for sale.
in science fiction, as well as video games, graphics get dated very very quickly.
what makes a timeless piece are things like plot, character, and storyline.
Star Wars has a timeless plot.
The original star treks do as well, even if they are not quite as epic. The overacting has its own appeal, as does the now very retro paper mache monster heads and costumes
jokes in poor taste, on the internet, who knew? But this is terrible, bad form I say! We have reason to believe that this hacker named 4chan might also be involved.
Say, old chap, I say we do something, like mabey pass a law banning tasteless jokes. Perhaps mabey install a filtering system and make people have to opt in.
"slow" train is relivant to other trains. Most "slow" commuter trains still travel faster than cars, especially in rush hour.
A fast train moves multiples the speed limit for cars.
Trains built the west, and it will take more trains to bring them back.
Mabey Indiana, or perhaps the dakodas can stop being "flyover states" once again
Full Disclosure: I am a network ops engineer for Comcast.
so you obviously missed that little graphic detailing netflix's speed fall off until netflix agreed to pay money. It looks more like a "protection plan" than anything else.
Slashdot Mirror
Those people have to get paid.
yeah, and they also did all the work.
They have families and need to eat just like the rest of us.
yeah they do, whats your point?
Or mabey I guess thats capitalist, logic, if you actually do the work, its not really doing the work. But paying people to do the work is actually doing work. Thats what capitalists mean when they say the "poor are lazy", its not that they don't actually do work, its that they don't pay anyone else to do work.
The fact that he chooses to spend his money paying them should give him some credit.
You mean he did none of the work, right?
The side that has been getting a very significant part of the upfront costs shouldered by the taxpayers
you mean the oil industry? The same people who viciously complain anytime we try to touch any of their tax breaks.
Don't forget these imaginary "sicknesses" due to wind turbines. All the while forgetting the real health hazards of fracking. Thats the thing about "conspiracy" theorists. Is that they have the demor, and attitude of a truth seeking movement, ignoring the low hanging fruit of very obvious ills in society, to at best reach around conjectures and "what-ifs", that convienantly blame who they want to blame for society's problems.
Which is true
The real implications of this system, is that while on an old paper, or mabey spreadsheet, or localzed version, the only people who had accesss to it where the teachers, perhaps shared with school administration in extreme cases. Teachers had no reason to save such performance data longer than it was useful, i.e. a school year.
Now, you have a perminant record of how obediant you are, how mallable you are to information, and the psycological profile that google builds on you as a consumer, also shared with the government and other large corporations starts when you are young.
The government, along with corporate partners (see pubic/private partnerships), find out which people are more receptive to the system, and which people are not, and begin targeting people at a younger and younger age, when they are most vulrnerable, and it would be the hardest to detect. They could try weeding out dissent before it happens.
since the 1960s actually.
its worse than that, its the rest of "free" world since the enlightenment, and the first republics. These sneeky little fuckers even got it put in the UN declaration of human rights. Next they are going to want their votes to count, and this so called "Freedom of Speech", when its not relivant to viral marketing schemes, and perhaps they might actually get critical with how the system is run. Fucking bandwagoners man. I mean no one would ever display anything but absolute love for Big Broth, umm, king and coun, umm, our most benevolant terrorist catchers and pedophile stoppers is purely just doing it to look cool.
thats kinda funny, because as much as hipsters hating being "judged for being diffrent", 90% of problems with hipsters stem from them making very harsh, but every empty judgements of other people based purely on asthetical or nonsensical reasons. In fact, the entire essence of being a "hipster" is "keeping up on the jones" too far on a never ending search to be "hip" enough, owning the right trinkets, chotchkies, knick-knacks, that have close to zero meaning or relivance. You go buy "obscure" music records, merely as material trophies. Of course, the people who have better things to do with their life than be a poser to all scenes are judged harshly for not being as "cool" as you, and never know what the fuck your talking about. This is something that is somewhat OK when your 15, mabey even 18 years old, and still trying to find yourself. Being a trendy bastard in high school might get you some scoffs from your fellow students, but as an adult, I see it as somewhat understandable for a teenager to do such things trying to prove and find 'emselves. Your 41 and still doing that. Thats pathetic.
Products that aren't good don't sell or quickly get replaced. GM and Chrysler experienced this first hand.
really, I am pretty sure they made crappy products for decades.
In this case successful at selling a lot of what they offer at a large profit
I knew someone would back me on this. See my friend Leon is a pimp, and everyone thinks he's evil. They just hate his success. He too sells a lot of what he has to offer for a profit! So does my friend Anthony, who tells me selling large volumes of black tar heroin.
Those fucking cops right, they just hate success. I mean what do they do besides steal from "successful" people.
In all serious, microsoft always had a crap product they kept afloat through bullying tactics. Success? For whom? Steve Balmer mabey, who recieved a nearly 1 billion retirement package, right before MS layed off 10,000 people with no severence package, all stemming from the rotten nokia deal. If Microsoft is successful in the same way we say Gengkis Khan was "successful".
the 5 year old is the H1B. the days of sweatshops will come back folks.
There litterally exists no such thing as correct spelling and grammar in the English Language.
This differs from Spanish and French, which there are official bodies governing them, and actual real rules.
There are many changes happening at MS. Since Nadella has been appointed CEO a huge PR operation is in progress.
you mean the public relations isn't smearing open source software, making all kinds of empty threats, trying to get FOSS devs classified as terrorists. Use of PR in combination with legal team to strike terror and fear into the computer industry as a whole. Or mabey he means they might remain more positive, and send less unknowledged paid employees to heckle at train shows so vicously, slashdot used to call them "brownshirts" after the Nazi SA. They stood out because they were overly aggressive, had "facts" that didn't jive with reality, and routinely embarresed themselves in front of the people who actually developed software.
Whatever brings publicity to MS affairs is a good thing
and why is that? so they can continue to rake in money from an operating system they didn't contribute to, one bit(android), or had anything to do with, because they were able to legally wrangle the profits away from the company, using byzantine law they helped get passed with campaign donations they made, using money they earned winning market share with anti-competative practices?
a 5 yo passing a MS exam.
Once you get past the "awww cute" factor, you realize that microsoft exams are so easy a 5 year old can do it, so don't expect more out of anyone with that kind of cert.
I think we get to the next question, is since the sole purpose of the microsoft cert is not to learn about computers or make oneself a better operator,programmer,or engineer, but to go to get a job and go to work.(and mabey indoctrinate people on microsoft products) This is promoting child labor almost.
the MCSE was always the running joke of the internet. It never really required talent. It was for suits though, as opposed to geeks. Woe is me if I lived long enough to see slashdot forget about suits and geeks.
Rockstars are their own corporate "brand" per se. They sell things via their image more than their music. Taylor Swift is a good example. As a musician she is mediocre at best, but right now, she's the top seller.
Scoff at my cyncism? Then explain when she accidently released 28 seconds of noise in head of her hit platnium album, on iTunes, that it hit the top of the charts. What drives that proccess? People buying music on Swift's "Brand Recognition".
No programmer, with mabey the exception of Linus Torvalds, mabey Bruce Schiener, or formerly Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie have that sort of "brand" name recognition.
Furthermore, I think its dangerous to let this mentality seep into the programming world. What consists of musical talent is entirely subjective, and at the end, affects nothing. Bad music everywhere is a mere annoyance.
Now imagine if programmers were overpaid, undertalented, super inflated egos, where glaring faults in code could be patched over with a public relations campaign?
Imagine the mayhem, and things that would break, if we had talentless coders working on the most sensative programming tasks based on name, not quality recognition? Imagine if no how bad they fucked up, they could cover it up with public relations?
actually, you know what, go ahead and do it. I think thats what we need right now. Things are going to go back to the way they were pre-google. We'll have a giant hacker underground with the talented, but unpopular hackers, and it will be a return of the "suits", fucking talentless "proffessional" class MCSE button pushers, that the slashdot of the 1990s was oh-so-found of reporting about thier incompetence.
implying there is legitimacy at all in corporate standards
srsly bro?
this goes beyond typical immature twats, and typical flame wars against competing technologies. I think a big problem is we the systemd fans aren't making ourselves known.
usage caps are a big step up, because at least they are honest, and of course predictable. without net neutrality, you have hidden bandwith caps that happen anytime the ISP wants to shake down a site for more money. The ISPs have to give you all the internet you pay for. Its they can't just promise 100 mb/s sooper unlimited to the moon, and simply not deliever that promise. I am all for THAT type of regulation which makes the internet companies give you what was advertised. If you sign a contract for 100 mb/s of internet, the ISPs should have to give you 100 mb/s internet. If they cannot deliever that, they shouldn't be offering 100 mb/s of internet for sale.
success at what though? being large companies?
in science fiction, as well as video games, graphics get dated very very quickly. what makes a timeless piece are things like plot, character, and storyline. Star Wars has a timeless plot. The original star treks do as well, even if they are not quite as epic. The overacting has its own appeal, as does the now very retro paper mache monster heads and costumes
jokes in poor taste, on the internet, who knew? But this is terrible, bad form I say! We have reason to believe that this hacker named 4chan might also be involved. Say, old chap, I say we do something, like mabey pass a law banning tasteless jokes. Perhaps mabey install a filtering system and make people have to opt in.
"slow" train is relivant to other trains. Most "slow" commuter trains still travel faster than cars, especially in rush hour. A fast train moves multiples the speed limit for cars.
Trains built the west, and it will take more trains to bring them back. Mabey Indiana, or perhaps the dakodas can stop being "flyover states" once again
unless your the Department of Defense, you still need to worry about your budget. Especially in times like this.
soviet era? oh no my friend, it goes back way further than that. Russia is all about "build the biggest you can". the Tsar cannon comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
not as a commute.
Full Disclosure: I am a network ops engineer for Comcast.
so you obviously missed that little graphic detailing netflix's speed fall off until netflix agreed to pay money. It looks more like a "protection plan" than anything else.