"Decimated" means destroying 1 in 10. IIRC, if a unit in the Roman Legion was cowardly|treasonous|bad, they counted off by 10's, a number was picked, and whoever had that number was beaten to death by the otehr 9 "luck ones".
Actually, in my dictionary, "decimated" means destroying 9 out of 10 (leaving 1 in 10).
You can indeed be intimate online. It can tell you a lot about the other person, sexually and emotionally.
Don't dismiss what you haven't tried.
Ok, since I had, let me judge here.
There is one problem about becoming "intimate" online. You only get to know the side of the person he knows about. Not all those little habits which, in a real, loving relationship you ends up discovering.
Moving together because you have an online relationship ? Thats pretty stupid.
I do concede that you can, however, move from an online relationship to a RL one. And after that, maybe you will move together, or get married, or whatever.
I have known people online before, including a girl that, after meeting her in person, I started dating and eventually moved in with. In that order. I didn't date her online, even thou we did discover we had an interest on each other.
My problem with the "school" system is that you have to draw a line somewhere. If you gear it based on the "slow learning" student, or based on the "fast learned", you will cause a heck of a problem to the others.
I, and I suppose a good part of the/. users, would be very happy to learn from books, at my pace, if I had a tutor to point me into the right direction and answer a few questions (not to mention provide me with a few CHALLENGING exercises). But I studied most of my life in classes where there were some people that the teacher would need to take by the hand. I have no problem with that, as long as I don't have to be on the same class. Why should the system be based on HIS needs, and not mine ? Wouldn't it be just as bad (for him, in this case) if the system was based on MY needs ?
The school system is always based on "study", not on "learning". Every time I see a teach say something like "Pay attention, everyone. This part is complicated" I want to kill him. What is the only thing the student learned ? That that stuff is complicated.
Learning is simples and easy. You do it all the time. The only thing that should be on the school curriculum is "how to better learn".
I would like to take this a step further. First, lemme me say that I work and live (home) in a 99.9% Microsoft-free environment (I have 1 gaming Windows computer, and thats all). I'm also a company owner.
There are a lot of nice ideas that came (and still come, sometimes) from Microsoft. The problem there is that they lost not only their vision, but their common sense. I agree that a company, to be successful, can not be rules by engineering. Marketing and the whole Commercial department has to give the guidelines and to point where to go. But there is the need to keep control over those areas. Things like "releasing day X no matter what" and "we need to add this and that" (during the project) are not healthy in most cases.
That is why I like companies like Bioware. I know answer like "it will be released when it is done" might piss a lot of people. Atari is one that keeps moving their products from Bioware to other companies. Can anyone name a single low quality software product from Bioware ? Yes, I don't like some of their games either, but they are well done.
Companies need to find a balance between engineering/technical and the marketing/commercial parts. If you are too technical oriented, you loose money and can go bankrupt. Apple was like that for a long, long time. If you are too commercial oriented... well, I don't think we need examples for that.
Microsoft, as many other companies, have lost that balance, and this WGA fiasco, and they treating their paying customers as criminals is just another symptom of that lack of balance.
Also, don't forget the Share Holders. These days, they influence (and sometimes control) the decisions made by Microsoft much more than Bill. Or do you think it is Bill that is pressuring Microsoft to increase profits ?
My suggestion is not to try and create a "perfect" RFC, but to create one flexible enough where you can fix stuff as it appears. Specially something that is backward compatible with what we have today.
We already moved from SMTP to ESMTP. Maybe we can go a step further, with, I don't know, ASMTP or whatever you want to call it. Then impose extra controls on messages that arrive via SMTP or ESMTP.
In any case, there is absolutely nothing we can do about zombies, unless you want to implement some kind of "are you human" test for every single e-mail that is sent. And how could we do it between relays ?
But, of course, the only reason for all service providers all over the globe to use lock-ins is because the last thing any phone company offers is any of the above.
This brings up an interesting history.
Here in Brazil, the cel operators are using "unlocked phones!" was a marketing strategy. Of course, they had a little "help" from the consumer rights organizations.
And, guess what ? The ones that first jumped the "unlocked phones" bandwagon stone a good number of clients from the others.
Fortunately for my travel plans, I don't require evidence that a plane is operational, merely a reasonable belief in the diligence of the airline that assures me their planes are operational.
Microsoft does have many good programmers. The point is that, even if they have 1 BAD programmer for each 2 good ones, that would still pretty much destroy their product.
I have worked as a programmer for big (60+ developers) projects. Even 1 bad for each 10 good ones is enough to destroy a product when you are working on that scale. Remember you have a give time limit to finish the software, so your good ones can't keep revising the work gone by the bad ones.
They don't seem to care what I download via BT, only that I'm using it.
Which is obvious. Why should they care what you are transferring ?
Do you really think that what Joe pays for a 4Mbps connection really PAYS for a full 4Mbps connection ? Go and see how much it costs if you collocating and need 4Mbps.
It is all marketing. They sell X and expect you to use much less than that. If you try to use it all (or even half of it), they loose money. So the only thing that interest them is that by using BT, you are consuming a lot of bandwidth and generating a lot of traffic.
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Probably the punchline :)
Actually, in my dictionary, "decimated" means destroying 9 out of 10 (leaving 1 in 10).
I think we are missing something here.
If the ship is heating, then it is absorbing energy. The point of this (if I understood correctly) is for it NOT to absorb the energy, so it can move.
Yes, it can't be 100% efficient, so there will always be heat absorption. But I wonder if it will be enough to be a problem.
And yes, I don't have any idea what I'm talking about. This is just gut feeling.
Which I find very easy to believe, having seen things like that happening in companies much smaller than AMD.
For Pete's Sake. Someone from AMD makes a mistake/stupid decision, and you are all ready to crucify the company. Geez. Grow up people.
Ok, since I had, let me judge here.
There is one problem about becoming "intimate" online. You only get to know the side of the person he knows about. Not all those little habits which, in a real, loving relationship you ends up discovering.
Moving together because you have an online relationship ? Thats pretty stupid.
I do concede that you can, however, move from an online relationship to a RL one. And after that, maybe you will move together, or get married, or whatever.
I have known people online before, including a girl that, after meeting her in person, I started dating and eventually moved in with. In that order. I didn't date her online, even thou we did discover we had an interest on each other.
My problem with the "school" system is that you have to draw a line somewhere. If you gear it based on the "slow learning" student, or based on the "fast learned", you will cause a heck of a problem to the others.
/. users, would be very happy to learn from books, at my pace, if I had a tutor to point me into the right direction and answer a few questions (not to mention provide me with a few CHALLENGING exercises). But I studied most of my life in classes where there were some people that the teacher would need to take by the hand. I have no problem with that, as long as I don't have to be on the same class. Why should the system be based on HIS needs, and not mine ? Wouldn't it be just as bad (for him, in this case) if the system was based on MY needs ?
I, and I suppose a good part of the
The school system is always based on "study", not on "learning". Every time I see a teach say something like "Pay attention, everyone. This part is complicated" I want to kill him. What is the only thing the student learned ? That that stuff is complicated.
Learning is simples and easy. You do it all the time. The only thing that should be on the school curriculum is "how to better learn".
Btw, both my parents are teachers.
Please to meet you. I think I married your ex-wife.
Unless there is than one of them.
Is she bald ? If yes, then maybe she is a Centauri.
I actually enjoyed his acting and roles in both "Dogma" and "Good Will Hunting". Specially the former.
I would like to take this a step further. First, lemme me say that I work and live (home) in a 99.9% Microsoft-free environment (I have 1 gaming Windows computer, and thats all). I'm also a company owner.
... well, I don't think we need examples for that.
There are a lot of nice ideas that came (and still come, sometimes) from Microsoft. The problem there is that they lost not only their vision, but their common sense. I agree that
a company, to be successful, can not be rules by engineering. Marketing and the whole Commercial department has to give the guidelines and to point where to go. But there is the need to keep control over those areas. Things like "releasing day X no matter what" and "we need to add this and that" (during the project) are not healthy in most cases.
That is why I like companies like Bioware. I know answer like "it will be released when it is done" might piss a lot of people. Atari is one that keeps moving their products from Bioware to other companies. Can anyone name a single low quality software product from Bioware ? Yes, I don't like some of their games either, but they are well done.
Companies need to find a balance between engineering/technical and the marketing/commercial parts. If you are too technical oriented, you loose money and can go bankrupt. Apple was like that for a long, long time. If you are too commercial oriented
Microsoft, as many other companies, have lost that balance, and this WGA fiasco, and they treating their paying customers as criminals is just another symptom of that lack of balance.
Also, don't forget the Share Holders. These days, they influence (and sometimes control) the decisions made by Microsoft much more than Bill. Or do you think it is Bill that is pressuring Microsoft to increase profits ?
My suggestion is not to try and create a "perfect" RFC, but to create one flexible enough where you can fix stuff as it appears. Specially something that is backward compatible with what we have today.
We already moved from SMTP to ESMTP. Maybe we can go a step further, with, I don't know, ASMTP or whatever you want to call it. Then impose extra controls on messages that arrive via SMTP or ESMTP.
In any case, there is absolutely nothing we can do about zombies, unless you want to implement some kind of "are you human" test for every single e-mail that is sent. And how could we do it between relays ?
"If you think you can create a foolproof system, you are one of the fools" - No idea who I'm misquoting.
This brings up an interesting history.
Here in Brazil, the cel operators are using "unlocked phones!" was a marketing strategy. Of course, they had a little "help" from the consumer rights organizations.
And, guess what ? The ones that first jumped the "unlocked phones" bandwagon stone a good number of clients from the others.
Heck, even a cavewoman could understand that.
And most from the 20th century too.
I do.
Yes, unlike statistics like that you posted. I say 100% of the statistics are NOT bunk
Or you just don't believe in gravity
Quoting (or misquoting) Frank Herbert: "Computers increased the number of things humans could do without thinking"
That in itself explains why we get to many crappy, broken things these days.
There, fixed it.
Btw, very good definition. Tkx for the laugh.
No, you would pay that for an ad-free GOOGLE.
You would still see ads everywhere else.
Which would make Paranoia impossible to port to a MMORPG. Actually, even a single player version of Paranoia is impossible.
About CoT, I tried the game. It sucked. Really. There is no way to port that successfully.
The point is that anything but fantasia (which AD&D is) is nearly impossible to port.
I disagree with you (to a point).
Microsoft does have many good programmers. The point is that, even if they have 1 BAD programmer for each 2 good ones, that would still pretty much destroy their product.
I have worked as a programmer for big (60+ developers) projects. Even 1 bad for each 10 good ones is enough to destroy a product when you are working on that scale. Remember you have a give time limit to finish the software, so your good ones can't keep revising the work gone by the bad ones.
Which is obvious. Why should they care what you are transferring ?
Do you really think that what Joe pays for a 4Mbps connection really PAYS for a full 4Mbps connection ? Go and see how much it costs if you collocating and need 4Mbps.
It is all marketing. They sell X and expect you to use much less than that. If you try to use it all (or even half of it), they loose money. So the only thing that interest them is that by using BT, you are consuming a lot of bandwidth and generating a lot of traffic.
What privacy ? You are in the middle of the fucking street, for crying out loud. A PUBLIC street.
You Americans really need to rethink the meaning of privacy. Seriously.