With Apple's market cap sitting at over USD $400 billion, there's a pretty short list of outfits that even could pay. Further, market capitalization is simply the product of the share price and the number of shares outstanding. It's worth what the market says it's worth, and it's certainly not an island in terms of bubble characteristics if that was truly where you were trying to take the conversation.
The example you gave regarding the speeding ticket is actually the mathematical and ethical opposite of the situation described in TFA. I have no idea how much the boat cost, but for the sake of example let's just say he spent USD $200K on it. At today's exchange rate, USD $200,000 = CAD $204,100. Does the difference between those numbers seem unimportant to you? I'm pretty sure autism doesn't have much to do with a commonplace observation that pretty much boils down to "one of these things is not like the other."
You seem to be encouraging lying for the sake of convenience. I imagine that pattern of behavior will catch up with you at some point in your life, if it hasn't already.
The author of that article clearly references his association with HyperDex in the "About Me" box in the top right area of the page. Following the "more..." link, you find another reference to HyperDex. He's not exactly hiding his involvement in the project; how are you supposing people would miss it or somehow feel the urge to claim deceit on his part?
I didn't know about HyperDex before reading the GPP comment, and might play with it this weekend. Maybe you should, too, especially since it's apparently at rc2 status now. Cheers!
You're absolutely correct; I've got a serious nicotine addiction. Hopefully I'll have time to restock on vaporizer supplies tomorrow, as I'm running a bit low tonight.
No, it's not ridiculous. Using the current commonly accepted (and very generalized, with the caveat of different quadrant/spectrum placement on various issues) definitions of the terms, I'm a blend of the U.S. versions of a Republican and a Libertarian in many respects. Perhaps you'll be surprised by what follows here.
Fox is largely full of crap. So is CNN. So is MSNBC. So is ABC. So is NPR and virtually any other radio "network" in existence here. Hell, even BBC pieces broadcast stateside are showing serious signs of tarnish nowadays. We simply do not have major media outlets which are interested in doing due diligence to properly research facts from multiple sources and convey that information in a neutral fashion. The networks all consistently lie about, distort, taint, gloss over, minimize or inflate as deemed necessary, or otherwise willfully manipulate information in different manners and for different ends. Our entire media ecosystem has been reduced to the same awful state as our political system, namely the state of pitting the ideological equivalents of "favorite sports teams" against one another and bolstering popular views with nothing more substantial than emotion-driven opinion pieces masquerading as informative news articles. Ignoring this sad states of affairs is synonymous with willfully existing in a state of ignorance, a condition I simply term stupidity.
As might be expected, words are shrinking along with intellect, which is spelled with two "l" characters. Additionally, the contraction for "it is" is "it's," not "its."
Go right ahead. In the meantime, I'll take AT&T's experience with their millions of iPhone customers over your view. No issues here, and none reported by anyone else I know.
Owing to my own stupid decisions as a teenager, I've had to obtain a job without a fixed address and about $10 in my pocket. The guy was working as an IT professional, and obviously wasn't overly concerned about his finances, as he simply quit because he didn't like the job. I'd give the kid 30 days to find a job or go couch surf somewhere else. The US is littered with people whose parents coddled them into adulthood and have no idea how or desire to deal with real life. It's time for the school of hard knocks: there's the easy way, and there's the hard way. The kid can take his pick.
Or it looks like someone had a temper tantrum because he's a celebrity and doesn't have to be decent to other people.
He cares more about the product being right than other peoples' opinion of him.
And the thing is, that happens. A lot. Even at microsoft. "That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard!" - Bill Gates. And that was in Paul Allens book, and apparently an oft used phrase.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
Linux lives and breathes on its contributors, if you make too many public scenes you can end up with a lot of important people and companies saying it's not worth it to contribute to, or it's not worth it to contribute to under Torvalds, that would be a very ugly mess for the entire industry.
Nope. Linus has been Linus his whole life. This "story" isn't anything new. Oddly enough, Linux keeps marching onward, with plenty of contributors who are both volunteers and paid by various corporations to contribute work.
Worse still is if this sort of behaviour sets the tone for everyone else trying to be the next Linus, and they try to copy his to behavior (and that definitely happened at microsoft) and you end up with an organization full of asshole managers who no one wants to work for.
Again, the truth hurts. Projects like these don't tolerate stupidity well, especially given the fact that it's a community effort and there has to be a lot of lack of testing and communication on the part of the responsible party when something breaks like this. The price to be paid is twofold: (1) very public expressions of the harm caused by such issues, and (2) potential relief from duties related to the issue at hand, whether temporary or permanent in nature.
Granted, it's not really a shock that Torvalds likes to... speak his mind. That's part of his thing. Still, it poses a lot of questions about the sort of person who's going to be around to succeed him if he gets hit by a bus so to speak. Certainly Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer have not been able to find the right magic replacing their more famous bosses, and one would hope Linux manages better than Apple and MS have, admittedly, those jobs are completely different.
Step right up if you can do it better or know others who can. It takes strong leadership founded on the idea that others follow you primarily for you technical ability, and secondarily for your "soft skills" to manage a technical project of this scale. Sometimes people have problems replacing their famous bosses because while the old boss may have been widely regarded as an asshole, he was an effective asshole, and numbers (whether measured in uptime, lack of showstopping functional bugs, level of attention to security issues, or profit per quarter) don't lie.
All things considered, I saw far worse than this in my prior military service (Navy submarine force, ET-COM) in cases where somebody did something stupid that resulted in a systems failure, and oddly enough some aspects of this whole deal remind me a bit of organizational units in the services that pride themselves on putting job performance and technical ability first. Those who get butthurt about being dressed down are free to find something else to do with their time.
The type of DDoS discussed in TFS/TFA isn't TCP-based. It's UDP-based, is referred to a DNS amplification attack, and abuses DNS servers that permit public recursion to accomplish its goals. There is no handshake involved, as UDP is a connectionless protocol.
... that do not need to use either real mode or virtual 8086 mode in order to execute at any time... Real-mode programs and programs that use virtual 8086 mode at any time cannot be run in long mode unless they are emulated in software...
Speaking as someone who's been writing software since 1988, please enlighten us with more information on your background as a programmer. I strongly suspect the the GP was right in positing that you simply don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
I'm going to break the rules and feed a troll here by replying with a very simple sentiment: Go fuck yourself, asshole. Some things aren't fit to joke about. Also, next time you decide to try to be funny, at least get it straight: the region is known as the Mid-Atlantic. Have a nice day, prick.
Speaking as someone who deals with Cisco gear on nearly a daily basis, I fully agree with the premise of people needing to understand the difference between Cisco gear and alternatives designed for smaller environments. That said, most of the issues with Linksys products in recent years have been attributable to Cisco neglecting the hell out of Linksys branded product lines, and simply using the resulting failures to attempt to sell Cisco branded gear. It's been truly shameful, and I'd love to see it come to a stop.
Linksys produced some decent gear prior to the acquisition. After Cisco bought the company, the default answer for any sort of serious trouble with SOHO gear became "oh, I see you're referring to our Linksys brand; if you're serious about small office or branch office communications, you need to upgrade to our HOLY SHIT THAT'S EXPENSIVE Cisco brand gear instead." This applied nearly universally to cases where a prior generation piece of Linksys gear had performed quite well in the same role. Here's to hoping the brand can get back to its roots instead of serving as a loss leader for more expensive gear.
Attempting to justify the continued existence of unions by pointing to past efforts that resulted in the creation of an entirely separate (and useful) entity is a logical fallacy. Prior good work alone doesn't support something existed in perpetuity, unless you're also of the opinion that going to work for a single day should result in continued pay for a year whether you show up or not. You may well have other justifications to present, but this one doesn't work. No pun intended.
While I strongly advocate for IPv6 adoption/support at the ISP, large scale network, and datacenter levels, I believe you're totally correct on your basic premise. Until having native IPv6 connectivity for your LAN devices represents a value add in terms of functionality, IPv4 only capabilities are fine for them. IPv6 and IPv4 can and do comfortably coexist; in fact, this is how the Internet will look for many, many years to come.
For what it's worth, I've met the man, and I've seen no signs that he was 100% insane. And I've met people that were pretty insane.
A guy walking down the street wearing a bathrobe chanting odes to aliens that resemble giant bunnies is only dangerous to the extent that motor vehicle collisions might occur due to the distraction of the spectacle. Conversely, people who generally appear stable and sane, but hold deeply ingrained lunatic views and occupy seats of power are the ones you need to worry about.
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Current BTC exchange rates and trading volumes offer quite a different view.
With Apple's market cap sitting at over USD $400 billion, there's a pretty short list of outfits that even could pay. Further, market capitalization is simply the product of the share price and the number of shares outstanding. It's worth what the market says it's worth, and it's certainly not an island in terms of bubble characteristics if that was truly where you were trying to take the conversation.
The example you gave regarding the speeding ticket is actually the mathematical and ethical opposite of the situation described in TFA. I have no idea how much the boat cost, but for the sake of example let's just say he spent USD $200K on it. At today's exchange rate, USD $200,000 = CAD $204,100. Does the difference between those numbers seem unimportant to you? I'm pretty sure autism doesn't have much to do with a commonplace observation that pretty much boils down to "one of these things is not like the other."
You seem to be encouraging lying for the sake of convenience. I imagine that pattern of behavior will catch up with you at some point in your life, if it hasn't already.
One step at a time. Have some patience.
The author of that article clearly references his association with HyperDex in the "About Me" box in the top right area of the page. Following the "more..." link, you find another reference to HyperDex. He's not exactly hiding his involvement in the project; how are you supposing people would miss it or somehow feel the urge to claim deceit on his part?
I didn't know about HyperDex before reading the GPP comment, and might play with it this weekend. Maybe you should, too, especially since it's apparently at rc2 status now. Cheers!
You're absolutely correct; I've got a serious nicotine addiction. Hopefully I'll have time to restock on vaporizer supplies tomorrow, as I'm running a bit low tonight.
No, it's not ridiculous. Using the current commonly accepted (and very generalized, with the caveat of different quadrant/spectrum placement on various issues) definitions of the terms, I'm a blend of the U.S. versions of a Republican and a Libertarian in many respects. Perhaps you'll be surprised by what follows here.
Fox is largely full of crap. So is CNN. So is MSNBC. So is ABC. So is NPR and virtually any other radio "network" in existence here. Hell, even BBC pieces broadcast stateside are showing serious signs of tarnish nowadays. We simply do not have major media outlets which are interested in doing due diligence to properly research facts from multiple sources and convey that information in a neutral fashion. The networks all consistently lie about, distort, taint, gloss over, minimize or inflate as deemed necessary, or otherwise willfully manipulate information in different manners and for different ends. Our entire media ecosystem has been reduced to the same awful state as our political system, namely the state of pitting the ideological equivalents of "favorite sports teams" against one another and bolstering popular views with nothing more substantial than emotion-driven opinion pieces masquerading as informative news articles. Ignoring this sad states of affairs is synonymous with willfully existing in a state of ignorance, a condition I simply term stupidity.
As might be expected, words are shrinking along with intellect, which is spelled with two "l" characters. Additionally, the contraction for "it is" is "it's," not "its."
Go right ahead. In the meantime, I'll take AT&T's experience with their millions of iPhone customers over your view. No issues here, and none reported by anyone else I know.
Even if they're intended to eventually run on something that isn't a computer, such as wired into hardware.
That hardware you speak of would be a computer.
Your mother's muff is astroturf!
Ever since the divorce, you might say she's really been playing the field.
You shouldn't, and don't need to, write JavaScript
FTFY.
Owing to my own stupid decisions as a teenager, I've had to obtain a job without a fixed address and about $10 in my pocket. The guy was working as an IT professional, and obviously wasn't overly concerned about his finances, as he simply quit because he didn't like the job. I'd give the kid 30 days to find a job or go couch surf somewhere else. The US is littered with people whose parents coddled them into adulthood and have no idea how or desire to deal with real life. It's time for the school of hard knocks: there's the easy way, and there's the hard way. The kid can take his pick.
getting your dick chopped off by a robot purpose-built to hunt down asshat slashdot posters
Holy crap, please mod parent up.
I've seen some distasteful comments, but that's just incredibly fucked up. Someone with points, please mod parent down.
Or it looks like someone had a temper tantrum because he's a celebrity and doesn't have to be decent to other people.
He cares more about the product being right than other peoples' opinion of him.
And the thing is, that happens. A lot. Even at microsoft. "That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard!" - Bill Gates. And that was in Paul Allens book, and apparently an oft used phrase.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
Linux lives and breathes on its contributors, if you make too many public scenes you can end up with a lot of important people and companies saying it's not worth it to contribute to, or it's not worth it to contribute to under Torvalds, that would be a very ugly mess for the entire industry.
Nope. Linus has been Linus his whole life. This "story" isn't anything new. Oddly enough, Linux keeps marching onward, with plenty of contributors who are both volunteers and paid by various corporations to contribute work.
Worse still is if this sort of behaviour sets the tone for everyone else trying to be the next Linus, and they try to copy his to behavior (and that definitely happened at microsoft) and you end up with an organization full of asshole managers who no one wants to work for.
Again, the truth hurts. Projects like these don't tolerate stupidity well, especially given the fact that it's a community effort and there has to be a lot of lack of testing and communication on the part of the responsible party when something breaks like this. The price to be paid is twofold: (1) very public expressions of the harm caused by such issues, and (2) potential relief from duties related to the issue at hand, whether temporary or permanent in nature.
Granted, it's not really a shock that Torvalds likes to... speak his mind. That's part of his thing. Still, it poses a lot of questions about the sort of person who's going to be around to succeed him if he gets hit by a bus so to speak. Certainly Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer have not been able to find the right magic replacing their more famous bosses, and one would hope Linux manages better than Apple and MS have, admittedly, those jobs are completely different.
Step right up if you can do it better or know others who can. It takes strong leadership founded on the idea that others follow you primarily for you technical ability, and secondarily for your "soft skills" to manage a technical project of this scale. Sometimes people have problems replacing their famous bosses because while the old boss may have been widely regarded as an asshole, he was an effective asshole, and numbers (whether measured in uptime, lack of showstopping functional bugs, level of attention to security issues, or profit per quarter) don't lie.
All things considered, I saw far worse than this in my prior military service (Navy submarine force, ET-COM) in cases where somebody did something stupid that resulted in a systems failure, and oddly enough some aspects of this whole deal remind me a bit of organizational units in the services that pride themselves on putting job performance and technical ability first. Those who get butthurt about being dressed down are free to find something else to do with their time.
The type of DDoS discussed in TFS/TFA isn't TCP-based. It's UDP-based, is referred to a DNS amplification attack, and abuses DNS servers that permit public recursion to accomplish its goals. There is no handshake involved, as UDP is a connectionless protocol.
... that do not need to use either real mode or virtual 8086 mode in order to execute at any time ... Real-mode programs and programs that use virtual 8086 mode at any time cannot be run in long mode unless they are emulated in software ...
Speaking as someone who's been writing software since 1988, please enlighten us with more information on your background as a programmer. I strongly suspect the the GP was right in positing that you simply don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
I'm going to break the rules and feed a troll here by replying with a very simple sentiment: Go fuck yourself, asshole. Some things aren't fit to joke about. Also, next time you decide to try to be funny, at least get it straight: the region is known as the Mid-Atlantic. Have a nice day, prick.
Speaking as someone who deals with Cisco gear on nearly a daily basis, I fully agree with the premise of people needing to understand the difference between Cisco gear and alternatives designed for smaller environments. That said, most of the issues with Linksys products in recent years have been attributable to Cisco neglecting the hell out of Linksys branded product lines, and simply using the resulting failures to attempt to sell Cisco branded gear. It's been truly shameful, and I'd love to see it come to a stop.
Linksys produced some decent gear prior to the acquisition. After Cisco bought the company, the default answer for any sort of serious trouble with SOHO gear became "oh, I see you're referring to our Linksys brand; if you're serious about small office or branch office communications, you need to upgrade to our HOLY SHIT THAT'S EXPENSIVE Cisco brand gear instead." This applied nearly universally to cases where a prior generation piece of Linksys gear had performed quite well in the same role. Here's to hoping the brand can get back to its roots instead of serving as a loss leader for more expensive gear.
Attempting to justify the continued existence of unions by pointing to past efforts that resulted in the creation of an entirely separate (and useful) entity is a logical fallacy. Prior good work alone doesn't support something existed in perpetuity, unless you're also of the opinion that going to work for a single day should result in continued pay for a year whether you show up or not. You may well have other justifications to present, but this one doesn't work. No pun intended.
Maybe this will help.
While I strongly advocate for IPv6 adoption/support at the ISP, large scale network, and datacenter levels, I believe you're totally correct on your basic premise. Until having native IPv6 connectivity for your LAN devices represents a value add in terms of functionality, IPv4 only capabilities are fine for them. IPv6 and IPv4 can and do comfortably coexist; in fact, this is how the Internet will look for many, many years to come.
For what it's worth, I've met the man, and I've seen no signs that he was 100% insane. And I've met people that were pretty insane.
A guy walking down the street wearing a bathrobe chanting odes to aliens that resemble giant bunnies is only dangerous to the extent that motor vehicle collisions might occur due to the distraction of the spectacle. Conversely, people who generally appear stable and sane, but hold deeply ingrained lunatic views and occupy seats of power are the ones you need to worry about.