Seriously. I got a truck a couple years ago, mostly because it was great deal and well taken care of by a family friend. I do use it a good bit for "truck stuff", since we have some land in the country, which pretty much requires a truck to maintain the land. I never could have imagined, however, how many damn weekends I would spend moving people's stuff around. I pretty much know by now what will be asked when I see a call from someone I have not talked to in awhile.
It is a zero sum game at this point. If this actually becomes precedent, Oracle would get obliterated, along with everybody else. Plenty of languages have come before Java and you better believe there is some major api overlap. I cannot wait to watch the world burn when Oracle is forced to pay a 50 million dollar license for the use of the copyrighted ToString() function.
Python and Ruby are full of function stubs in their core apis that have been previously implemented. The point is that if apis can be copy-written, pretty much every language and framework becomes illegal. Almost every language has a toString() function or a Math library, so they must all be infringing someone's copyright.
Ha! Good luck with that disassembler. The output on those things is something between assembly language and vomited up hotdog. You would probably have to search through 10s of millions of lines of the stuff, which could not even be runtime tested, since there is no way in hell you are going to take the output and clean it up enough to recompile it. Also, it is probably not exactly labeled.
using Microsoft.IO.Evil
...
//Phone Home Module ------ Mwahaha
public class PhoneHomeMessenger(string firstName, string lastName, string creditCardNumber, List secretWebcamPhotos)
Obviously, my analysis was a bit tongue in cheek. As I said, I do not work a minimum wage job; that was when I was a kid (I'm pretty sure everyone has been there at one point or another). I currently work the 60-70 hour/week job with loads of stress and deadlines. All I am saying is that I would never trade it. Even though I understand the economics of it, I think most people are still highly motivated by responsibility, power, and prestige; perhaps even to the point where they would choose those benefits over monetary compensation, if given the chance. I really disagree with you on one point though, how hard you have to work at a job has almost zero correlation to how much you get paid (with the exception of hourly part timers obviously).
Sure you got it to work and I bet you it took a good weekend to setup
Ubuntu takes about 30 minutes to setup flash, mp3s, standard codecs, etc. for basic use from a clean install. The last several times I have done it, you could install one package, using a GUI, to get all of those things at once. Not everyone will be able to do it, but the bar is pretty low here. If you can use Google, then you can get Ubuntu up and running in less than an hour, easily. If you cannot, then I doubt you would be capable of setting up a Windows install either.
When you cannot get one because it is sold out, that hardly qualifies as vaporware. Your argument applies just as easily at different points in time to the iPad, PS3, or the iPhone.
Honestly I don't think Raspberry Pi is going to ever manage to produce enough to meet demand at their current price target.
I am not sure if they will either, but it I do not see why making more should make the price go up. When we are talking economies of scale, the price invariably goes down, not up.
Last time I checked (volunteered teaching kids to program last year), Scratch was not cloud based. There is a website that has some featured programs, but the platform runs on a local machine with local files and all.
The old "if we don't pay what we want we will leave" argument. If they are not prepared to pay the appropriate taxes for the privilege of doing business in your country then why let them? This goes for Micro$oft and General Electric too!
That is clearly besides the point. The whole lobbying process should have no connection to money at all. Our lobbying system is so close to bribery that it has become a total joke and nobody with half a brain takes it seriously at all. A lobbyist can legally say the following, which is why the system is screwed up in a nutshell:
"Ok, so we are in agreement that you will vote yes on CISPA? Great, here is a check for $100,000."
But either way, we are allowed to petition congress to address these grievances.
I am pretty sure I cannot walk into any congress member's office without being tased. I am fairly certain Balmer, Jobs, or Brin could. When they petition congress it involves a private dinner and a $50,000 donation. When most people do it goes something like this:
Dear Senator Palpatine,
As a constituent and a [business owner, tax payer, informed person, etc.] in your district I urge you to reconsider your position on [SOPA, CISPA, Ban Evolution Act, Fuck Science and Reason Act, Kill the Poor Act, etc.]. It would have a serious detrimental effect on our [freedom, progress, science, education, poor, etc.].
Sincerely,
[John Doe]
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for your support! Please join us with a contribution to my campaign. With your help, we can make [SOPA, CISPA, Ban Evolution Act, Fuck Science and Reason Act, Kill the Poor Act, etc.] a reality and make [freedom, progress, science, education, poor, etc.] a thing of the past!
Why should having a some mass produced college degree entitle anyone to such grossly higher pay?
I could not agree more. If the pay was reversed and my cushy desk job paid minimum wage and the job digging ditches paid 6 figures, I still would not switch. Sure, cerebral jobs have their own stresses, but menial jobs are hell (I have worked plenty of them in the past and you could not pay me enough to go back). I'm not complaining, and I understand why it is the way it is (finding someone to run a company, perform complex data analysis, or program a stock predictor is a lot more difficult than someone who can say hello to people at the front of a Walmart), but I feel like if everyone was on equal footing (skill, opportunity, etc.) and we had to price jobs according to difficulty, the entire pay scale would be turned on its head. CEOs would make nothing, because they just fly around, eat fancy food, and yell at people all day. Who wouldn't give up their riches to do that? It would be awesome! Being the guy who does nothing but stocks the frozen section at a grocery store from 12am to 9am? (I did it. It was terrible. Think monotonous loneliness combined with continual frostbite) Um sorry, but to get me to do that as a career it better pay a metric shit ton of cash. Coal miners should be paid an outrageous amount of money. So should strawberry pickers, telemarketers, and secretaries. I propose we adopt a model like this; we can call it the "fear factor model". You are compensated based on your willingness to do monotonous, disgusting, demeaning, or all-around shitty jobs.
It is said that God can do anything. I was merely pointing out that this is nonsensical. The problem of evil is interesting, but does not really disprove an omnipotent God. Its conclusion is that God is either a) not all-good or b) not all-powerful. I am certainly fine with that argument as well, although I am usually hesitant to use it since theist often have tricky ways of explaining it away (its all part of the plan, it makes everything even better in the end, etc.). I am not sure why you think the quote is a "silly play on words". All I am saying here is that it is impossible for a thing to be all powerful, and this is one example of how the concept leads to absurdities.
The "evidence" in the bible clearly does not suggest God is omnipotent as you have pointed out. Apparently He disagrees: "For nothing is impossible with God" Luke 1:37. There are loads of places where this is said. He is described throughout the Bible as "all-powerful" which is replaced with "omnipotent" in some translations.
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Seriously. I got a truck a couple years ago, mostly because it was great deal and well taken care of by a family friend. I do use it a good bit for "truck stuff", since we have some land in the country, which pretty much requires a truck to maintain the land. I never could have imagined, however, how many damn weekends I would spend moving people's stuff around. I pretty much know by now what will be asked when I see a call from someone I have not talked to in awhile.
It is a zero sum game at this point. If this actually becomes precedent, Oracle would get obliterated, along with everybody else. Plenty of languages have come before Java and you better believe there is some major api overlap. I cannot wait to watch the world burn when Oracle is forced to pay a 50 million dollar license for the use of the copyrighted ToString() function.
Python and Ruby are full of function stubs in their core apis that have been previously implemented. The point is that if apis can be copy-written, pretty much every language and framework becomes illegal. Almost every language has a toString() function or a Math library, so they must all be infringing someone's copyright.
Yeah, it is totally evil, but I could spam people I don't know. I am sure they will be paying 12 cents an hour, however, so no thanks.
Everyone has a price.
Wireshark can be trivially bipassed. It cannot even sniff any https traffic. I am certain MS could encrypt this sort of thing.
using Microsoft.IO.Evil
...
//Phone Home Module ------ Mwahaha
public class PhoneHomeMessenger(string firstName, string lastName, string creditCardNumber, List secretWebcamPhotos)
{ .... }
Obviously, my analysis was a bit tongue in cheek. As I said, I do not work a minimum wage job; that was when I was a kid (I'm pretty sure everyone has been there at one point or another). I currently work the 60-70 hour/week job with loads of stress and deadlines. All I am saying is that I would never trade it. Even though I understand the economics of it, I think most people are still highly motivated by responsibility, power, and prestige; perhaps even to the point where they would choose those benefits over monetary compensation, if given the chance. I really disagree with you on one point though, how hard you have to work at a job has almost zero correlation to how much you get paid (with the exception of hourly part timers obviously).
Throw in some buzzwords, fine; but don't use the same fucking one over and over again!
Just go to the respective stack exchange site for each of the OSs and documentation is no longer that big of a deal.
Sure you got it to work and I bet you it took a good weekend to setup
Ubuntu takes about 30 minutes to setup flash, mp3s, standard codecs, etc. for basic use from a clean install. The last several times I have done it, you could install one package, using a GUI, to get all of those things at once. Not everyone will be able to do it, but the bar is pretty low here. If you can use Google, then you can get Ubuntu up and running in less than an hour, easily. If you cannot, then I doubt you would be capable of setting up a Windows install either.
So no beowolf clusters then?
When you cannot get one because it is sold out, that hardly qualifies as vaporware. Your argument applies just as easily at different points in time to the iPad, PS3, or the iPhone.
Honestly I don't think Raspberry Pi is going to ever manage to produce enough to meet demand at their current price target.
I am not sure if they will either, but it I do not see why making more should make the price go up. When we are talking economies of scale, the price invariably goes down, not up.
Last time I checked (volunteered teaching kids to program last year), Scratch was not cloud based. There is a website that has some featured programs, but the platform runs on a local machine with local files and all.
The old "if we don't pay what we want we will leave" argument. If they are not prepared to pay the appropriate taxes for the privilege of doing business in your country then why let them? This goes for Micro$oft and General Electric too!
Good riddance!
"Ok, so we are in agreement that you will vote yes on CISPA? Great, here is a check for $100,000."
Things will not get better until this is illegal.
But either way, we are allowed to petition congress to address these grievances.
I am pretty sure I cannot walk into any congress member's office without being tased. I am fairly certain Balmer, Jobs, or Brin could. When they petition congress it involves a private dinner and a $50,000 donation. When most people do it goes something like this:
Dear Senator Palpatine,
As a constituent and a [business owner, tax payer, informed person, etc.] in your district I urge you to reconsider your position on [SOPA, CISPA, Ban Evolution Act, Fuck Science and Reason Act, Kill the Poor Act, etc.]. It would have a serious detrimental effect on our [freedom, progress, science, education, poor, etc.].
Sincerely,
[John Doe]
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for your support! Please join us with a contribution to my campaign. With your help, we can make [SOPA, CISPA, Ban Evolution Act, Fuck Science and Reason Act, Kill the Poor Act, etc.] a reality and make [freedom, progress, science, education, poor, etc.] a thing of the past!
Sincerely,
Emperor Palpatine
Why should having a some mass produced college degree entitle anyone to such grossly higher pay?
I could not agree more. If the pay was reversed and my cushy desk job paid minimum wage and the job digging ditches paid 6 figures, I still would not switch. Sure, cerebral jobs have their own stresses, but menial jobs are hell (I have worked plenty of them in the past and you could not pay me enough to go back). I'm not complaining, and I understand why it is the way it is (finding someone to run a company, perform complex data analysis, or program a stock predictor is a lot more difficult than someone who can say hello to people at the front of a Walmart), but I feel like if everyone was on equal footing (skill, opportunity, etc.) and we had to price jobs according to difficulty, the entire pay scale would be turned on its head. CEOs would make nothing, because they just fly around, eat fancy food, and yell at people all day. Who wouldn't give up their riches to do that? It would be awesome! Being the guy who does nothing but stocks the frozen section at a grocery store from 12am to 9am? (I did it. It was terrible. Think monotonous loneliness combined with continual frostbite) Um sorry, but to get me to do that as a career it better pay a metric shit ton of cash. Coal miners should be paid an outrageous amount of money. So should strawberry pickers, telemarketers, and secretaries. I propose we adopt a model like this; we can call it the "fear factor model". You are compensated based on your willingness to do monotonous, disgusting, demeaning, or all-around shitty jobs.
...to commit tax avoidance under the law. That does not make it legal.
The phrase "under the law" means it is legal. Clearly it should not be, but I am not seeing anything illegal here.
How about remove all the staff. Never feed the trolls.
Are you commenting on this article? I think you must be lost.
It is said that God can do anything. I was merely pointing out that this is nonsensical. The problem of evil is interesting, but does not really disprove an omnipotent God. Its conclusion is that God is either a) not all-good or b) not all-powerful. I am certainly fine with that argument as well, although I am usually hesitant to use it since theist often have tricky ways of explaining it away (its all part of the plan, it makes everything even better in the end, etc.). I am not sure why you think the quote is a "silly play on words". All I am saying here is that it is impossible for a thing to be all powerful, and this is one example of how the concept leads to absurdities.
As always, the kryponite of logic...creativity!
The "evidence" in the bible clearly does not suggest God is omnipotent as you have pointed out. Apparently He disagrees: "For nothing is impossible with God" Luke 1:37. There are loads of places where this is said. He is described throughout the Bible as "all-powerful" which is replaced with "omnipotent" in some translations.