No, I'm not missing the larger picture. Yes, I do have kids.
There are many MANY ways of doing any given thing. My point is who cares about what technology you are going to use at this point. It just gets in the way of the real ideas and design required to run with it.
Figuring out what and why before throwing how into the mix will allow the idea to flourish to it's fullest potential, every time. Once you start talking how, you're really talking about limiting and confining your idea. Bad if your idea is not yet well defined.
By example, if AJAX and the like had never been mentioned in the GP post, we could now instead be discussing the idea at hand, instead of bantering over the tech involved.
Ehh? Was it really necessary to throw those buzz words in there? Really now, who gives a flying hoop what tech is used to present this kind of info when the issue at hand is the information itself.
A license is simply a contract between two parties. The existence of copyright law, or lack thereof, does not disallow protective and/or limited licensing agreements.
These two concepts are not intrinsically linked, though some would like us to continue to believe so.
They may be 'in the right' (thepiratebay.org), but do you really feel that attitudes like that are going to make things better for us in the long run? Their responses are crass, rude, childish and feel like school yard mud flinging.
I personally do not feel like attitudes like this will do anything but make things worse for us in the long run.
I'm glad someone is standing up for our rights, but this is NOT going to sway popular opinion in a good way.
Can we maybe find some examples of people that are fighting 'the good fight' and not just using this as an excuse to hide behind and be wee little children?
Personally, I'm not exactly shaking in my britches at this prospect. You have one heck of a lot more faith in us humans than I do if you seriously believe we could actually render mosquitoes extinct.
Not to say that I don't think we could do it, it's just that if we manage to do that, I'm going to guess that we'll be more concerned about the planet we've rendered inhabitable.
We are very very good at imposing negative impacts on macro fauna and the like, but we are not very good at wiping out the little buggers, whatever form they may come in.
I've had 2 die on me in the last 5 years. Both just sat on my desk attached to a usb hub. Neither was even 2 years old at the time of death.
Whereas, I'm currently using ~12 internal hd's between work, laptop, and home. All over 2 years old, most over 4, a couple almost 8 years old.
I've only ever killed one internal hd myself, and it was a pos that I kinda expected to go.
But you are correct too, hd's that are toted around all the time, possibly even dropped, are absolutely going to fail more frequently. It's almost a guarantee at some point.
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The myth was about the effect, in general, of having the tail gate up when driving, or having the tail gate down when driving.
Tail gates have been on pickups since their inception. When talking about pickups _in general_, you're talking about a vehicle design that was created long before this level of engineering was done.
I have little doubt that a lot of newer pickups do indeed have cabs designed to aleviate these effects. But there are still one heck of a lot of the standard old F150 style pickup around, so if we're talking pickups, we mustn't single out a few new styles that bear little resemblance to their ancestors.
We're both right, it's just a matter of perspective.
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Yes, quite.
That still doesn't explain the magic statement that pickup trucks were originally designed to take this into account, specifically to a point of making them more aerodynamic with the tailgate up than down.
Of course they have addressed this since, but the statement I was countering implied that this was a design concideration taken into account at the inception of the pickup truck itself, which it most certainly was NOT.
Holy christ, I knew they were messed in the head, but basically whining about having invented something as lucrative as cd's in the first freaking place!
What the f*@& changed so much that you were happy making billions 10 years ago, but now that you're making more than that, it's not enough and must be abolished to make even more? Wtf?
Why do we even bother discussing these issues when one side is clearly completely freaking mad as hatters.
I enjoy my music collection. I like the CD format, and also like digital formats, they work well for me, both of them. Too bad these fat cats don't sell CD's anymore, or they'd be getting some of my money.
I will NEVER EVER move over to paying for the right to download and listen to a song. Why so many of you support this model is beyond me. Personally, when I buy something, I have some particular expectations on that item. I purchase albums. The radio is for listening to random songs on. It's not _just_ about the music, the package is important, and I'd MUCH rather listen to a solid ALBUM than to pick and choose the only one or two good songs by an artist. (Is an artist that can only put out 1-2 decent songs out of 12 or so really worthy of paying your good money to?)
Which brings me to this point: Remember taping stuff off the radio? Why do you now pay ITunes for the same?
Now, what's even more interesting, is that I don't blame the record companies. I BLAME ALL OF YOU THAT SUPPORT THEIR CURRENT MODEL! You've facilitated this new model that has utterly DESTROYED what I grew up knowing and loving. I LOVE my music collection. What kind of emotion can a tiny plastic case that can store billions of bits provide you? Is there not more to it than this?
If nobody supported this pathetic horrible model, it wouldn't exist. So freaking STOP it already.
Eh? Odd. All those myths have indeed appeared in shows. Possibly it's just additional footage that never made it in?
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I'm fairly certain that the pickup truck came along well before they were able to test and engineer aerodynamics to that level, if at all.
The flat beds in pickup trucks haven't exactly changed since the original designs.
I don't think so. I seem to remember that their calculations before hand gave them every reason to expect that it would indeed work. All questions they had had to do with the practicality of such an endeavor.
That's all fine and dandy, until some clueless wonder unintentionally releases a worm on your network.
I have never infected a machine myself with a virus. I have had numerous machines infected on me though. Laptops, desktops and servers.
You are only as safe as your weakest link. You may be a _very_ strong link in the chain, but if you aren't the ONLY link, you will likely eat those words one day.
You see code like that, and the programmer responsible is either a) incompetent or b) too smart for their own good. Either way, they need to be replaced ASAP.
I'd rather have 3 run of the mill programmers that write clean well documented simple code that does the job than have one single uber programmer that always gets the job done, but nobody can figure out how, or what to do with it in the future. There is no question here.
If you were EVER taught that code obscurity == job security, you need to go have a very serious chat with whomever taught that to you.
Lego's problems are of their own making, and there are a few of them.
First, average price of a piece of lego: Typically between 20 and 30 cents EACH. Finding sets on sale near 10 cents a piece is a freaking steal now. It's expensive stuff.
Second, lost focus. A few years ago, all they were making was specialty sets. Now they've expanded to many many more specialty sets, and re-introduced some more traditional sets, but not quite traditional like. Basically, they sell one off models, not re-configurable packages of parts.
Third, they've even ruined it for collectors. When they started releasing starwars lego sets a few years ago around episode 1, I started buying them. I love lego, and love (though not as much anymore) starward too. Thought it'd be great to collect them.
5 years or so later, at least 100 sets later, approx $10000 later, I HAVE MAYBE HALF OF THE GOD DAMNED THINGS! Most of them are crap. There are many many multiple models of the same ships, for no good reason at all.
The end result of all of this is that it's too expensive, collectors can't collect it and a huge part of the inherant creativity has been stifled.
I love and hate lego about as much as I love and hate George Lucas.
His dissertation basically proves that this experiment can be used to determine these things.
These experiments do not provide any definitive answers about the development of language, it just proves a means for continuing on with further studies using the methodology developed.
This experiment is about the experiment itself, not about the result.
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No, I'm not missing the larger picture.
Yes, I do have kids.
There are many MANY ways of doing any given thing.
My point is who cares about what technology you are going to use at this point. It just gets in the way of the real ideas and design required to run with it.
Figuring out what and why before throwing how into the mix will allow the idea to flourish to it's fullest potential, every time. Once you start talking how, you're really talking about limiting and confining your idea. Bad if your idea is not yet well defined.
By example, if AJAX and the like had never been mentioned in the GP post, we could now instead be discussing the idea at hand, instead of bantering over the tech involved.
Yes, but you miss my point.
What does any of that have to do with AJAX or any of the other specific techs mentioned?
Ehh? Was it really necessary to throw those buzz words in there? Really now, who gives a flying hoop what tech is used to present this kind of info when the issue at hand is the information itself.
Maybe not by definition.
However, it is the de facto standard.
Glad I'm not the only one.
Copyright != license.
A license is simply a contract between two parties. The existence of copyright law, or lack thereof, does not disallow protective and/or limited licensing agreements.
These two concepts are not intrinsically linked, though some would like us to continue to believe so.
This was on snopes this morning:
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http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp
I don't care what they say though, I'm still blaming it on the turkey
They may be 'in the right' (thepiratebay.org), but do you really feel that attitudes like that are going to make things better for us in the long run? Their responses are crass, rude, childish and feel like school yard mud flinging.
I personally do not feel like attitudes like this will do anything but make things worse for us in the long run.
I'm glad someone is standing up for our rights, but this is NOT going to sway popular opinion in a good way.
Can we maybe find some examples of people that are fighting 'the good fight' and not just using this as an excuse to hide behind and be wee little children?
Personally, I'm not exactly shaking in my britches at this prospect.
You have one heck of a lot more faith in us humans than I do if you seriously believe we could actually render mosquitoes extinct.
Not to say that I don't think we could do it, it's just that if we manage to do that, I'm going to guess that we'll be more concerned about the planet we've rendered inhabitable.
We are very very good at imposing negative impacts on macro fauna and the like, but we are not very good at wiping out the little buggers, whatever form they may come in.
Not all external drives are toted around.
I've had 2 die on me in the last 5 years. Both just sat on my desk attached to a usb hub. Neither was even 2 years old at the time of death.
Whereas, I'm currently using ~12 internal hd's between work, laptop, and home. All over 2 years old, most over 4, a couple almost 8 years old.
I've only ever killed one internal hd myself, and it was a pos that I kinda expected to go.
But you are correct too, hd's that are toted around all the time, possibly even dropped, are absolutely going to fail more frequently. It's almost a guarantee at some point.
The myth was about the effect, in general, of having the tail gate up when driving, or having the tail gate down when driving.
Tail gates have been on pickups since their inception. When talking about pickups _in general_, you're talking about a vehicle design that was created long before this level of engineering was done.
I have little doubt that a lot of newer pickups do indeed have cabs designed to aleviate these effects. But there are still one heck of a lot of the standard old F150 style pickup around, so if we're talking pickups, we mustn't single out a few new styles that bear little resemblance to their ancestors.
We're both right, it's just a matter of perspective.
Yes, quite.
That still doesn't explain the magic statement that pickup trucks were originally designed to take this into account, specifically to a point of making them more aerodynamic with the tailgate up than down.
Of course they have addressed this since, but the statement I was countering implied that this was a design concideration taken into account at the inception of the pickup truck itself, which it most certainly was NOT.
Holy christ, I knew they were messed in the head, but basically whining about having invented something as lucrative as cd's in the first freaking place!
What the f*@& changed so much that you were happy making billions 10 years ago, but now that you're making more than that, it's not enough and must be abolished to make even more? Wtf?
Why do we even bother discussing these issues when one side is clearly completely freaking mad as hatters.
I enjoy my music collection. I like the CD format, and also like digital formats, they work well for me, both of them. Too bad these fat cats don't sell CD's anymore, or they'd be getting some of my money.
I will NEVER EVER move over to paying for the right to download and listen to a song. Why so many of you support this model is beyond me. Personally, when I buy something, I have some particular expectations on that item. I purchase albums. The radio is for listening to random songs on. It's not _just_ about the music, the package is important, and I'd MUCH rather listen to a solid ALBUM than to pick and choose the only one or two good songs by an artist. (Is an artist that can only put out 1-2 decent songs out of 12 or so really worthy of paying your good money to?)
Which brings me to this point: Remember taping stuff off the radio? Why do you now pay ITunes for the same?
Now, what's even more interesting, is that I don't blame the record companies. I BLAME ALL OF YOU THAT SUPPORT THEIR CURRENT MODEL! You've facilitated this new model that has utterly DESTROYED what I grew up knowing and loving. I LOVE my music collection. What kind of emotion can a tiny plastic case that can store billions of bits provide you? Is there not more to it than this?
If nobody supported this pathetic horrible model, it wouldn't exist. So freaking STOP it already.
Oh, we all got it all right.
It wasn't funny.
Eh? Odd. All those myths have indeed appeared in shows.
Possibly it's just additional footage that never made it in?
While in essence you are correct, I feel that the MythBusters go to great lengths in these cases to explain that their failure to replicate some myth does NOT mean the myth is busted, only that they were unable to confirm it. They also do not do very many of that kind of myth, because they realize that it can be very hard to absolutely disprove the possiblility of something happening.
I'm fairly certain that the pickup truck came along well before they were able to test and engineer aerodynamics to that level, if at all.
The flat beds in pickup trucks haven't exactly changed since the original designs.
I don't think so. I seem to remember that their calculations before hand gave them every reason to expect that it would indeed work. All questions they had had to do with the practicality of such an endeavor.
That's all fine and dandy, until some clueless wonder unintentionally releases a worm on your network.
I have never infected a machine myself with a virus. I have had numerous machines infected on me though. Laptops, desktops and servers.
You are only as safe as your weakest link. You may be a _very_ strong link in the chain, but if you aren't the ONLY link, you will likely eat those words one day.
We fire people for writing code that way.
You see code like that, and the programmer responsible is either a) incompetent or b) too smart for their own good. Either way, they need to be replaced ASAP.
I'd rather have 3 run of the mill programmers that write clean well documented simple code that does the job than have one single uber programmer that always gets the job done, but nobody can figure out how, or what to do with it in the future. There is no question here.
If you were EVER taught that code obscurity == job security, you need to go have a very serious chat with whomever taught that to you.
Lego's problems are of their own making, and there are a few of them.
First, average price of a piece of lego: Typically between 20 and 30 cents EACH. Finding sets on sale near 10 cents a piece is a freaking steal now. It's expensive stuff.
Second, lost focus. A few years ago, all they were making was specialty sets. Now they've expanded to many many more specialty sets, and re-introduced some more traditional sets, but not quite traditional like. Basically, they sell one off models, not re-configurable packages of parts.
Third, they've even ruined it for collectors. When they started releasing starwars lego sets a few years ago around episode 1, I started buying them. I love lego, and love (though not as much anymore) starward too. Thought it'd be great to collect them.
5 years or so later, at least 100 sets later, approx $10000 later, I HAVE MAYBE HALF OF THE GOD DAMNED THINGS! Most of them are crap. There are many many multiple models of the same ships, for no good reason at all.
The end result of all of this is that it's too expensive, collectors can't collect it and a huge part of the inherant creativity has been stifled.
I love and hate lego about as much as I love and hate George Lucas.
His dissertation basically proves that this experiment can be used to determine these things.
These experiments do not provide any definitive answers about the development of language, it just proves a means for continuing on with further studies using the methodology developed.
This experiment is about the experiment itself, not about the result.
Probably bandwidth throttling on that particular site.
Actually, it isn't.
Actually, you're wrong.
Actually, you're even stating you don't know what you're talking about, sheesh!
I'm quite certain his problem is that he was trying to run the same physical copy of HL2 under a different Steam account. That would get him blocked.
The account and the physical copy attached to the account go hand in hand.