2: They have a very well made system for hunting down people who are actual people versus dummy/sock puppet accounts that get squashed.
And yet, my chinchilla still has an account. Which has never (age adjusted into human years) lied about its chinchilla-ness. Mighty fine police work there, Zuck!
4: They created the "commodity hardware, have the backend application do all the redundancy" where the fault tolerance is in the top of the stack
Yeah, Google wants a word with you...
5: They have the best behavioral reporting and profiling tech out there. Want to check if people 18-25 are interested in your new widget? Easily done by a FB trial balloon.
Except for 18-25 year old chinchillas, of course? Pssst - Mr. Spikey doesn't want your damned mortgage. He owns his own 24x36 Habitrail module, free and clear..
6: FB advertising is one of the few channels that work. People turn off their TV, but the FB ads will still come to them no matter what.
Seriously? Sad. Adblock and Ghostery, and Mr. Spikey hasn't seen a FB ad in years
Beside which, Mr. Spikey really doesn't count as old enough for Facebook. Only middle-aged soccer-moms still use it (and force their kids to do the same just to respond once in a while to keep up appearences). Facebook jumped the shark half a decade ago. That said, soccer moms have money, while their kids do not, so +1 to Zuck on that count. Still... A dying medium. With the failure of King, shorting Facebook seems like a no brainer at this point.
So the photos of him in an SS helmet are also not true, the proof being that the pictures were in the New Zealand media proves it never happened?
So all those all those old guys dressed in confederate regimental attire every July 3rd on a nearby hill (deeeeply North of the Mason/Dixon line)... I should suspect them as secessionist scum, rather than just the original LARP'ers?
For some reason, people really get into military history. And like it or not, Uncle Adolf ran the biggest game ever.
He published the email addresses of 114,000 people who just bought an iPad
So? Every company you do business with does the same. So moving on to the "real" crime...
by hacking into AT&T's computers
Changing a URL to point to a different ICC does not even remotely count as "hacking". It amounts to the same level of security as if GMail let you see another user's email simply by changing "&username=myname" to "&username=yourname" on the address bar.
All to easy to hit the "report" button in frustration after the same guy headshoots you for the 6th time in a round.
Clearly you missed the intent of this, then.
Shooting people, even in-game, naturally counts as antisocial behavior. In order to keep a positive rating, you need to all sit around the battlefield and sing Kumba-Ya. You can expect a Mario-clone as MS's next big hit.
Of course, I think Microsoft underestimates their user base - As the real outcome of this rating system, people will compete for the worst ratings possible. Go ahead and refuse to play with 95% of the userbase - Which rating will end up with reduced matchmaking possibilities?
You misunderstand what a naked short is. You're describing a normal short. In a naked short, no borrowing of shares occurs. What you're selling is a virtual share. You have an obligation to either replace this share with a real share or to buy it back when sold.
My apologies, I guess I didn't really explain my point well.
Yes, naked shorts do technically exist - In the same sense that people technically "get out of" paying their taxes by declaring themselves a sovereign nation. Namely, the system has built in protections against doing it, which people need to deliberately circumvent, and doing so (in virtually all cases) commits a crime.
The average Joe simply doesn't have the option of selling a naked short. When you hear about, for example, the two Florida professors recently busted for it, it took two people with multiple trading accounts each, to deliberately confuse the system enough to allow them to keep it floating for a while. For the most part, only actual brokerages have the ability to even try to pull off a naked short, much less do so without getting caught.
Perhaps I owe the GP an apology as well, but I took his putting it in the same context as HFT as intending to refer to it as another form of kosher-but-abusive trading technique, rather than an outright crime.
there is no free lunch, and there’s also no cost-free delivery of streaming movies. Someone has to pay that cost.
So the $80 a month I pay my ISP goes to what exactly? Oh, riiight... All those rural infrastructure improvements you've fought tooth and nail against. Got it.
Guess what, Jimmy? Without the likes of Netflix, we have no use for your "internet" that goes nowhere. Perhaps you could go read up on this idea on your Compuserve account.
Short selling.. it is a scam especially 'naked' shots - where you bet on the price before you have the contracts in place.
The idea of a "naked" short doesn't really exist. You have a standing contract with your broker. You don't "create" shares when you sell short, you borrow them from your broker on margin. And, if your broker doesn't consider your position solid enough, they can demand you cover the short at any time.
Short selling has a stigma of negativity around it, but keep in mind that once a company issues stock, it makes little difference what actually happens to that stock on the short term (beyond those few investors who own enough of it to actually have a real voice in shareholder voting). Yes, a short position bets against a company - But that company doesn't win or lose either way. Neither does the lender of the stock you short. Short selling merely serves to increase liquidity of a security that would otherwise have remained uselessly tied up in someone else's portfolio.
Oh, and they still skim 10% off, and they're still old white guys in charge of the exchanges.
Do you have any idea what you talk about here? Who skims 10% off, and how? To give you an idea of the reality of the situation, I reallocated a sizeable chunk of my IRA two weeks ago. "They", including all aggregate parties who could possibly count as "them", skimmed a total of 0.0391% ($7 trade and $0.04 bid/ask spread) from the transaction. Wow, those evil old white bastards! It'll take me at least two hours of my average expected return to cover that!
The strength and credibility of the dollar is unquestioned
Funny how this comment comes up (not by you personally) in every thread about either BTC or the Fed or the economy in general.
You realize, of course, that the very fact that you (and those holding a similar position) even need to make that argument in the first place, means that quite a few people very much do question the strength and credibility of the dollar.
That said, I don't think any of us expect it to vanish overnight in a Zimbabwe-esque hyperinflationary spiral. Instead, it will just continue its slow decline, year after year, decade after decade, as deliberately inflationary monetary policies make up for the inability of the asshats in DC to "keep it in their pants" (by which I mean the federal wallet).
The sad part of that? A slow, predictable decline does count as the best game in town. And you seriously have to wonder why some of us want to see a non-fiat currency succeed?
Let me 'splain it to you, Looshy - He meant that as a joke about how, with all the mind-opening intoxicants available on our planet, we almost exclusively stick with one that does nothing but make us slower and dumber. We choose the blue pill over the red pill.
Alternately, he may simply have meant that the very fact that we enjoy intoxicants in the first place suggests we want to dumb ourselves down. Again, same outcome.
Instead of trying for massive multiplayer, Maybe they should of concentrated on the people that got the series there in the first place - the ones not playing multiplayer?
Personally, I agree with you 100%. I got hooked on Final Fantasy way back with the original NES version; bought every US version that came out; I even got into console emulation largely to play the half of the series never released in the US (or in English - Thank Zeus for groups like DeJap and RPGe!).
And I simply have no interest in playing an MMO. Yes, I can appreciate that a great many people do like MMOs. And yes, I can appreciate the financial incentive to an MMO - Every 4-5 months of subscription basically amounts to the price of buying a new game. But in pursuing that ongoing revenue stream, Square has lost players like us, who loved the series and have zero interest in socializing with our 13YO former selves.
I mostly don't understand why they can't do both - They already put all the effort into building the game engine, the world, even a main storyline. How much more effort would it have taken to nerf the bosses down to single-player difficulty and add enough NPC AI to pass the rare "human cooperation required" sections of the plot? Sure, I'd only pay once for the game, but that comes out to one more time than they've got from me now.
Wow... That strikes me as a great math problem! It requires the student to recognize the fact that the customer has accidentally overpaid with an unnecessary $5 bill on their $8 tab. So naturally, the right answer consists of handing them back their $5, then making the correct change of $2 from a $10.
Imagine that! And here I had thought this new "common core" would leave our snowflakes even less prepared for the exciting world of retail sales and customer service than before... But, I clearly stand corrected!
Oh then you want Basic income and universal healthcare.
Nice strawman-by-sarcasm, because actually, I do (though that has little to do with what I described).
Believe it or not, someone can legitimately consider unions as nothing but an obsolete style of extortion racket, without disagreeing with the idea that our society needs to evolve beyond the fallacy of "making a living". We've automated ourselves out of needing much unskilled labor in the modern workforce, yet somehow in the process our culture remained stuck in the mindset of a post-WWII work ethic. We automate to give ourselves more free time, not to put half of us on welfare while the other half pay for it.
First, don't make the mistake of pushing off discussion of salary to the end of the process - Check the price range they want to pay right up front, before you even waste your time with an in-person interview. It doesn't matter if the job listing describes a senior software architect with a combination of skills that would easily take 20 years to master - If they want to pay intern's wages, they don't want you.
Second, you got old. It happens. We can, however, take a tip from our better halves (presuming you as male) to partially remediate that on a temporary basis. Dye your hair, dress considerably little less formally than you learned to do decades ago (if you can't stand the idea of going to an interview without a suit, at least go for a colored, relaxed-fit sport coat rather than the good old standby of black or charcoal), and you might even consider letting the missus help you with just a hint of makeup (don't worry, it won't stick out unless done horribly - Many younger guys have actually started wearing makeup regularly).
Once your coworkers see you in action, your skills matter more than your age. But that requires getting in the door first.
Workers needs rights and at least try the union way before we all end of on the welfare
Interesting perspective you have there, since unions basically turn entire industries into "welfare" for those who have no place working in them, at the expense of those who do. Unions had relevance half a century ago when the workforce consisted of 90% unskilled labor, and you could pull a lever over and over just as well as I could; that model fails miserably when dealing with skilled labor, and particularly in IT where we see literally multiple orders of magnitude differences in performance between the superstars and the barely-employable.
So no, thankyouverymuch, I would much rather get promoted on my own merits, rather than get dragged down to the mean so some waste of flesh can make the same as me (or worse, more solely because he has "seniority"). Fuck that! I bring an "A" game to the table, and get paid accordingly. Can't hack it? Don't play.
Now, as far as TFA goes - These people don't need a union, they need a clue. When you agree to work yourself to death for nothing-and-a-promise, you'd better make damned sure that you can live on nothing.
That said, nothing wrong with taking the occasional chance, after making sure you've met your basic needs. If you want to donate your spare evening and weekend time (after working a paying 9-to-5), in exchange for a startup-equity-lottery-ticket, hey, more power to ya. Just don't expect a sympathetic ear when empty promises won't pay for beer, much less your own private Caribbean island.
Yeah it may have some connections to the story of Noah, but then '300' had some connections to the actual story of the Battle of Thermopylae.. I don't think either should be taken too particularly seriously as exemplary of the source material.
And moving Romeo+Juliet to modern Verona Beach has little in common with Shakespeare's classic - Except everything.
Funny thing about great stories - The specifics of the setting usually don't matter. Space operas tend to work just as well underwater. War movies play out the same whether battling Japs or Bugs. Tragic love stories can take place equally well in Verona in 1595, Babylon c. 2000BCE, or Omega Saggita on stardate 42402.
Now, I don't know if I'd really call the Biblical myth of Noah a "great story", but the underlying plot generalizes well - A rare good man in a world of scoundrels and harlots receives some sort of prophesy that will save him from an impending disaster. This doesn't even need to have a religious angle to it, you could set it as a virtuous scientist discovering a planet-smashing comet headed for Earth, but his corrupt employer/government tries to suppress the information as bad for business.
Link 1: Wow, look how much uses Docker!
Link 2: Okay, docker works as some sort of VMy thing, oh and hype hype hype in case you missed link #1.
I rarely complain about FPs, even blatant Slashvertisements... But seriously? Yay, something wildly successful (that I've never heard of) has lasted a year. Woo-hoo! Pass me a beer.
If foreign workers can do the work better, cheaper, etc then we should be flooding the market with H1-B's. It's the free market principle at work - trying to artificially inflate the value of tech jobs by limiting competition is a fool's errand that will ultimately not work. We live and work in a global economy now, and trying to fight it goes against all the free market principles that this country was founded on and made us great a hundred years ago.
If foreign workers can do the job better and cheaper, and we actually do live and work in a global economy...
Why does 95+% of the world's high-quality commercial software come out of the US?
I don't know how to build a mud hut. I grew up in a place that not only didn't require that of me, but actively discouraged it ("What the HELL did you do to the lawn this time???"). I do, however, know computers like my life depended on it, because realistically, I do make my living knowing them. I grew up in an era when the PC counted as a cool new thing, and transitioned into a workforce that considered my background extremely valuable.
If you want a programmer - You want me, at any price. If you want a mud hut, you'd do well to pass me over. The same applies in reverse.
Secondly, just because YOU don't feel harassed and uncomfortable in a gaming environment doesn't give you the right to decide what should make other people feel that way.
Except yeah, it kinda does. Because I will pay for games like Duke Nukem, DoA, or Bayonetta - And thus, the publishers will make more like them.
You, for your part, can choose not to pay for them, and instead buy pablum like Candy Crush, Bejeweled, or Angry Birds.
See how the free market works? I buy the games I like, and don't get offended; you buy the games you like, and don't get offended. And most importantly, our two tastes need have nothing in common for us both to remain perfectly happy playing.
So right back atcha, Ms. Gore - Just because YOU feel harassed and uncomfortable in a gaming environment doesn't give you the right to decide that other people can't play and enjoy that same game.
Truecrypt is going over two years without an update.
Truecrypt doesn't try to serve every unrelated encryption need you might ever possibly have. It does securely encrypted disk-like things on a variety of underlying mediums, and nothing else. And in that regard, it hasn't needed an update in two years - I don't mean to sound like a zealot here, but honestly, Truecrypt comes just about as close to "perfect" software as I've ever seen.
And in that regard, Symantec (and Microsoft, and Gnome, and Apple, and Mozilla, and plenty of others as well) could take a lesson: Don't fuck with a good thing. Bugfixes? Great. Want to add optional features that don't break core functionality and see if your users like the? Great. But when you have an XP, just keep selling and supporting the damned thing, don't intentionally kill it off because of some delusion about merging phones and the desktop.
Um actually I believe you mean the treasury calls this "A new series". You know, like that line of purple spooge they put across some of the new bills.
Ah, good point, that does make a better example than mine.:)
Are you fucking kidding me? Bug fixes for a currency?
Why? The Federal reserve calls these "Quantitative Easing". We've had three major patches in as many years, along with quite a few minor updates to those outside the normal update release cycle.
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2: They have a very well made system for hunting down people who are actual people versus dummy/sock puppet accounts that get squashed.
And yet, my chinchilla still has an account. Which has never (age adjusted into human years) lied about its chinchilla-ness. Mighty fine police work there, Zuck!
4: They created the "commodity hardware, have the backend application do all the redundancy" where the fault tolerance is in the top of the stack
Yeah, Google wants a word with you...
5: They have the best behavioral reporting and profiling tech out there. Want to check if people 18-25 are interested in your new widget? Easily done by a FB trial balloon.
Except for 18-25 year old chinchillas, of course? Pssst - Mr. Spikey doesn't want your damned mortgage. He owns his own 24x36 Habitrail module, free and clear..
6: FB advertising is one of the few channels that work. People turn off their TV, but the FB ads will still come to them no matter what.
Seriously? Sad. Adblock and Ghostery, and Mr. Spikey hasn't seen a FB ad in years
Beside which, Mr. Spikey really doesn't count as old enough for Facebook. Only middle-aged soccer-moms still use it (and force their kids to do the same just to respond once in a while to keep up appearences). Facebook jumped the shark half a decade ago. That said, soccer moms have money, while their kids do not, so +1 to Zuck on that count. Still... A dying medium. With the failure of King, shorting Facebook seems like a no brainer at this point.
So the photos of him in an SS helmet are also not true, the proof being that the pictures were in the New Zealand media proves it never happened?
So all those all those old guys dressed in confederate regimental attire every July 3rd on a nearby hill (deeeeply North of the Mason/Dixon line)... I should suspect them as secessionist scum, rather than just the original LARP'ers?
For some reason, people really get into military history. And like it or not, Uncle Adolf ran the biggest game ever.
He published the email addresses of 114,000 people who just bought an iPad
So? Every company you do business with does the same. So moving on to the "real" crime...
by hacking into AT&T's computers
Changing a URL to point to a different ICC does not even remotely count as "hacking". It amounts to the same level of security as if GMail let you see another user's email simply by changing "&username=myname" to "&username=yourname" on the address bar.
So yeah, stupid law is stupid.
All to easy to hit the "report" button in frustration after the same guy headshoots you for the 6th time in a round.
Clearly you missed the intent of this, then.
Shooting people, even in-game, naturally counts as antisocial behavior. In order to keep a positive rating, you need to all sit around the battlefield and sing Kumba-Ya. You can expect a Mario-clone as MS's next big hit.
Of course, I think Microsoft underestimates their user base - As the real outcome of this rating system, people will compete for the worst ratings possible. Go ahead and refuse to play with 95% of the userbase - Which rating will end up with reduced matchmaking possibilities?
You misunderstand what a naked short is. You're describing a normal short. In a naked short, no borrowing of shares occurs. What you're selling is a virtual share. You have an obligation to either replace this share with a real share or to buy it back when sold.
My apologies, I guess I didn't really explain my point well.
Yes, naked shorts do technically exist - In the same sense that people technically "get out of" paying their taxes by declaring themselves a sovereign nation. Namely, the system has built in protections against doing it, which people need to deliberately circumvent, and doing so (in virtually all cases) commits a crime.
The average Joe simply doesn't have the option of selling a naked short. When you hear about, for example, the two Florida professors recently busted for it, it took two people with multiple trading accounts each, to deliberately confuse the system enough to allow them to keep it floating for a while. For the most part, only actual brokerages have the ability to even try to pull off a naked short, much less do so without getting caught.
Perhaps I owe the GP an apology as well, but I took his putting it in the same context as HFT as intending to refer to it as another form of kosher-but-abusive trading technique, rather than an outright crime.
there is no free lunch, and there’s also no cost-free delivery of streaming movies. Someone has to pay that cost.
So the $80 a month I pay my ISP goes to what exactly? Oh, riiight... All those rural infrastructure improvements you've fought tooth and nail against. Got it.
Guess what, Jimmy? Without the likes of Netflix, we have no use for your "internet" that goes nowhere. Perhaps you could go read up on this idea on your Compuserve account.
There are two inherent problems with a purely gold standard that at least some of the mineral backers would agree with.
I agree with much of what you said, though I don't understand why you said it - BitCoin is not a commodity currency.
For all the hypocrites who modded the parent a troll...
How's your USENet feed working these days?
Short selling.. it is a scam especially 'naked' shots - where you bet on the price before you have the contracts in place.
The idea of a "naked" short doesn't really exist. You have a standing contract with your broker. You don't "create" shares when you sell short, you borrow them from your broker on margin. And, if your broker doesn't consider your position solid enough, they can demand you cover the short at any time.
Short selling has a stigma of negativity around it, but keep in mind that once a company issues stock, it makes little difference what actually happens to that stock on the short term (beyond those few investors who own enough of it to actually have a real voice in shareholder voting). Yes, a short position bets against a company - But that company doesn't win or lose either way. Neither does the lender of the stock you short. Short selling merely serves to increase liquidity of a security that would otherwise have remained uselessly tied up in someone else's portfolio.
Oh, and they still skim 10% off, and they're still old white guys in charge of the exchanges.
Do you have any idea what you talk about here? Who skims 10% off, and how? To give you an idea of the reality of the situation, I reallocated a sizeable chunk of my IRA two weeks ago. "They", including all aggregate parties who could possibly count as "them", skimmed a total of 0.0391% ($7 trade and $0.04 bid/ask spread) from the transaction. Wow, those evil old white bastards! It'll take me at least two hours of my average expected return to cover that!
The strength and credibility of the dollar is unquestioned
Funny how this comment comes up (not by you personally) in every thread about either BTC or the Fed or the economy in general.
You realize, of course, that the very fact that you (and those holding a similar position) even need to make that argument in the first place, means that quite a few people very much do question the strength and credibility of the dollar.
That said, I don't think any of us expect it to vanish overnight in a Zimbabwe-esque hyperinflationary spiral. Instead, it will just continue its slow decline, year after year, decade after decade, as deliberately inflationary monetary policies make up for the inability of the asshats in DC to "keep it in their pants" (by which I mean the federal wallet).
The sad part of that? A slow, predictable decline does count as the best game in town. And you seriously have to wonder why some of us want to see a non-fiat currency succeed?
Well now! That should buy them a whole five minutes of government-mandated third-worlditude. Good job, boys!
Remember, if they outlaw Twitter, only outlaws (and the Turkish President... And... Okay, just about everyone) will have Tweets!
Let me 'splain it to you, Looshy - He meant that as a joke about how, with all the mind-opening intoxicants available on our planet, we almost exclusively stick with one that does nothing but make us slower and dumber. We choose the blue pill over the red pill.
Alternately, he may simply have meant that the very fact that we enjoy intoxicants in the first place suggests we want to dumb ourselves down. Again, same outcome.
And again, whoosh!
Whoosh!
Instead of trying for massive multiplayer, Maybe they should of concentrated on the people that got the series there in the first place - the ones not playing multiplayer?
Personally, I agree with you 100%. I got hooked on Final Fantasy way back with the original NES version; bought every US version that came out; I even got into console emulation largely to play the half of the series never released in the US (or in English - Thank Zeus for groups like DeJap and RPGe!).
And I simply have no interest in playing an MMO. Yes, I can appreciate that a great many people do like MMOs. And yes, I can appreciate the financial incentive to an MMO - Every 4-5 months of subscription basically amounts to the price of buying a new game. But in pursuing that ongoing revenue stream, Square has lost players like us, who loved the series and have zero interest in socializing with our 13YO former selves.
I mostly don't understand why they can't do both - They already put all the effort into building the game engine, the world, even a main storyline. How much more effort would it have taken to nerf the bosses down to single-player difficulty and add enough NPC AI to pass the rare "human cooperation required" sections of the plot? Sure, I'd only pay once for the game, but that comes out to one more time than they've got from me now.
Wow... That strikes me as a great math problem! It requires the student to recognize the fact that the customer has accidentally overpaid with an unnecessary $5 bill on their $8 tab. So naturally, the right answer consists of handing them back their $5, then making the correct change of $2 from a $10.
Imagine that! And here I had thought this new "common core" would leave our snowflakes even less prepared for the exciting world of retail sales and customer service than before... But, I clearly stand corrected!
Oh then you want Basic income and universal healthcare.
Nice strawman-by-sarcasm, because actually, I do (though that has little to do with what I described).
Believe it or not, someone can legitimately consider unions as nothing but an obsolete style of extortion racket, without disagreeing with the idea that our society needs to evolve beyond the fallacy of "making a living". We've automated ourselves out of needing much unskilled labor in the modern workforce, yet somehow in the process our culture remained stuck in the mindset of a post-WWII work ethic. We automate to give ourselves more free time, not to put half of us on welfare while the other half pay for it.
Two things.
First, don't make the mistake of pushing off discussion of salary to the end of the process - Check the price range they want to pay right up front, before you even waste your time with an in-person interview. It doesn't matter if the job listing describes a senior software architect with a combination of skills that would easily take 20 years to master - If they want to pay intern's wages, they don't want you.
Second, you got old. It happens. We can, however, take a tip from our better halves (presuming you as male) to partially remediate that on a temporary basis. Dye your hair, dress considerably little less formally than you learned to do decades ago (if you can't stand the idea of going to an interview without a suit, at least go for a colored, relaxed-fit sport coat rather than the good old standby of black or charcoal), and you might even consider letting the missus help you with just a hint of makeup (don't worry, it won't stick out unless done horribly - Many younger guys have actually started wearing makeup regularly).
Once your coworkers see you in action, your skills matter more than your age. But that requires getting in the door first.
Workers needs rights and at least try the union way before we all end of on the welfare
Interesting perspective you have there, since unions basically turn entire industries into "welfare" for those who have no place working in them, at the expense of those who do. Unions had relevance half a century ago when the workforce consisted of 90% unskilled labor, and you could pull a lever over and over just as well as I could; that model fails miserably when dealing with skilled labor, and particularly in IT where we see literally multiple orders of magnitude differences in performance between the superstars and the barely-employable.
So no, thankyouverymuch, I would much rather get promoted on my own merits, rather than get dragged down to the mean so some waste of flesh can make the same as me (or worse, more solely because he has "seniority"). Fuck that! I bring an "A" game to the table, and get paid accordingly. Can't hack it? Don't play.
Now, as far as TFA goes - These people don't need a union, they need a clue. When you agree to work yourself to death for nothing-and-a-promise, you'd better make damned sure that you can live on nothing.
That said, nothing wrong with taking the occasional chance, after making sure you've met your basic needs. If you want to donate your spare evening and weekend time (after working a paying 9-to-5), in exchange for a startup-equity-lottery-ticket, hey, more power to ya. Just don't expect a sympathetic ear when empty promises won't pay for beer, much less your own private Caribbean island.
Yeah it may have some connections to the story of Noah, but then '300' had some connections to the actual story of the Battle of Thermopylae.. I don't think either should be taken too particularly seriously as exemplary of the source material.
And moving Romeo+Juliet to modern Verona Beach has little in common with Shakespeare's classic - Except everything.
Funny thing about great stories - The specifics of the setting usually don't matter. Space operas tend to work just as well underwater. War movies play out the same whether battling Japs or Bugs. Tragic love stories can take place equally well in Verona in 1595, Babylon c. 2000BCE, or Omega Saggita on stardate 42402.
Now, I don't know if I'd really call the Biblical myth of Noah a "great story", but the underlying plot generalizes well - A rare good man in a world of scoundrels and harlots receives some sort of prophesy that will save him from an impending disaster. This doesn't even need to have a religious angle to it, you could set it as a virtuous scientist discovering a planet-smashing comet headed for Earth, but his corrupt employer/government tries to suppress the information as bad for business.
Link 1: Wow, look how much uses Docker!
Link 2: Okay, docker works as some sort of VMy thing, oh and hype hype hype in case you missed link #1.
I rarely complain about FPs, even blatant Slashvertisements... But seriously? Yay, something wildly successful (that I've never heard of) has lasted a year. Woo-hoo! Pass me a beer.
If foreign workers can do the work better, cheaper, etc then we should be flooding the market with H1-B's. It's the free market principle at work - trying to artificially inflate the value of tech jobs by limiting competition is a fool's errand that will ultimately not work. We live and work in a global economy now, and trying to fight it goes against all the free market principles that this country was founded on and made us great a hundred years ago.
If foreign workers can do the job better and cheaper, and we actually do live and work in a global economy...
Why does 95+% of the world's high-quality commercial software come out of the US?
I don't know how to build a mud hut. I grew up in a place that not only didn't require that of me, but actively discouraged it ("What the HELL did you do to the lawn this time???"). I do, however, know computers like my life depended on it, because realistically, I do make my living knowing them. I grew up in an era when the PC counted as a cool new thing, and transitioned into a workforce that considered my background extremely valuable.
If you want a programmer - You want me, at any price. If you want a mud hut, you'd do well to pass me over. The same applies in reverse.
Secondly, just because YOU don't feel harassed and uncomfortable in a gaming environment doesn't give you the right to decide what should make other people feel that way.
Except yeah, it kinda does. Because I will pay for games like Duke Nukem, DoA, or Bayonetta - And thus, the publishers will make more like them.
You, for your part, can choose not to pay for them, and instead buy pablum like Candy Crush, Bejeweled, or Angry Birds.
See how the free market works? I buy the games I like, and don't get offended; you buy the games you like, and don't get offended. And most importantly, our two tastes need have nothing in common for us both to remain perfectly happy playing.
So right back atcha, Ms. Gore - Just because YOU feel harassed and uncomfortable in a gaming environment doesn't give you the right to decide that other people can't play and enjoy that same game.
Truecrypt is going over two years without an update.
Truecrypt doesn't try to serve every unrelated encryption need you might ever possibly have. It does securely encrypted disk-like things on a variety of underlying mediums, and nothing else. And in that regard, it hasn't needed an update in two years - I don't mean to sound like a zealot here, but honestly, Truecrypt comes just about as close to "perfect" software as I've ever seen.
And in that regard, Symantec (and Microsoft, and Gnome, and Apple, and Mozilla, and plenty of others as well) could take a lesson: Don't fuck with a good thing. Bugfixes? Great. Want to add optional features that don't break core functionality and see if your users like the? Great. But when you have an XP, just keep selling and supporting the damned thing, don't intentionally kill it off because of some delusion about merging phones and the desktop.
Um actually I believe you mean the treasury calls this "A new series". You know, like that line of purple spooge they put across some of the new bills.
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Ah, good point, that does make a better example than mine.
Are you fucking kidding me? Bug fixes for a currency?
Why? The Federal reserve calls these "Quantitative Easing". We've had three major patches in as many years, along with quite a few minor updates to those outside the normal update release cycle.