Explains why they overtook the US auto industry so quickly.
No, that's because the Japanese had spent the better part of the 60s perfecting small, reliable, fuel-efficient automobiles on a protected domestic market. Just in time for the oil crisis of the 70s.
Also explains how they turned a feudal agricultural economy in the 1800s to an industrial one only 30 years later.
Seconded! Penalizing slow sites only promotes those shitty mirror sites that all seem to be on fast pipes.
It's interesting: I've started noticing these spam sites creeping higher and higher up the page rank and was wondering what new trick the ad-spammers had developed to game Google. It would just figure that it turns out to be Google shooting themselves in the foot with asinine policies like this.
Holy crap, I was expecting some similarities, but you're right: the author just ripped-off the whole thing.
Summary:
Chapter 1 – Quick Start Tutorial
This chapter is a fast forward for those impatient to get to the realistic sketchup scenes. Here you'll find out how to model the scene, fix the lights, add textures, background, and make a quick render in Kerkythea.
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Chapter 1: Quickstart Tutorial
Photo Real Gallery Scene - This chapter is an immediate fix for those who are impatient to get photo-realistic rendered SketchUp scenes. Straight away you will learn how to model the gallery scene, fix up lighting, add materials, add a photo background, and finally render in Kerkythea.
The rest of the "review" is the same.
Re:also: more doctors, less pay, more compassion.
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I'm a life form - where am I supposed to get the cash for food?
Food stamps. Soup kitchens.
I'm a mammal - where am I supposed to get the cash to heat my home?
You go to the shelter, where they provide the heat for free.
Or you live in public housing, and get free utility allowances.
This can go on and on.
No, not really. Society pays for as much of Maslow's pyramid as it can afford. Usually most of the lower rows: food, shelter, health. Policemen, firemen, libraries and schools would probably fall under your "on and on."
Of course it's absurd. I think that's the whole point of this discussion: the MPEG-LA's royalty demands are as absurd as Xerox demanding payment for every photocopy you make, or Philips getting a cut every time you buy a CD.
or is language constantly evolving to the point where old expressions can take on new meanings?
People are generally lazy thinkers and even lazier speakers. What you are describing is not evolution but devolution because lazy, stupid people would rather get their self-important ideas out of their mouth quickly at the cost of linguistic descriptiveness. In essence, they wish to give up some of the language breadth for a little gain in speaking speed, and a little less mental processing power.
So I guess it boils down to--are you on the side of civilization, of intelligence, or are you a fucking gorilla that would rather all communication were settled with grunts?
the most plausible explanation is simple voting machine tallying error with no nefarious purpose behind it
I dunno. If you wanted to raise people's attention of the ills of non-verifiable, proprietary voting machine software, I can think of no better way then to tamper with a machine to give the votes to an obvious non-candidate.
Like a convicted child murderer or something. The first time a person like that wins (and if they're Democrat, even better!) you just know that FOX news would be all the fuck over them, decrying how "SCANDALOUS!" it is that there isn't even a goddamned paper trail to double-check the numbers.
If I wanted to get people to care about the voting machines, this is how I'd do it.
Sigh... It waould be better to ban your developers off SQL and into an abstraction layer that puts the queries together behind the scenes and hire a competent developer to develop that.
In the Java world they already do. It's called Hibernate (or NHibernate for.NET). It does exactly what you describe.
The only people that should be mucking about in SQL are DBAs that...
Know what the fuck they're doing
Have a good fucking reason to use it (stored procedures, custom reports, business functions, etc.)
I don't rely on the patent to create the content as I do that.
Well, that's a bit silly. Of course you rely on the patent, since you rely on the device, which is patented.
Now, if you were using your video camera as a hammer, and you built a huge house out of it which then sold for millions of dollars, then you could say you didn't rely on the patent to create said content. Though I'm sure they'd try and find a way to charge you for that, too.
Obviously one day human/computer interfaces are going to reach the point where they're more efficient than a keyboard, a decently-sized LCD display and mouse, but I can't see that happening for a long time yet.
It's coming. What they need to do is offer something like the Dell Streak in different sizes. Give me a 9" flat glass touch-panel with a nice high-res screen, the latest OS and no phone. Hang 'em up on walls, control your home wirelessly. Like fucking Star Trek.
Cry me a river. If carriers can't make a buck with unlimited data plans, they can turn the keys over to the fucking grown-ups (municipal carriers) that won't have any problem dealing with the issue. That's yours and my fucking bandwidth they're given a legal monopoly over.
This is like Ford Motor Co. being handed control of all the highway tolls between New York and Boston then crying about how all these damned drivers and their unfair expectations of unlimited driving on the highways! We have to cap how many miles they can go!
They've had decades of pre-YouTube, pre-BitTorrent profits to get their shit together, and they've squandered it. So fuck em. What's the line from Dune? "Data must flow." It's like water or energy to our entire economic system. You like this way of life? Sure would be a shame if anything... happened to it.
People leak to WikiLeaks because they believe (mostly accurately) that there will be no consequences
No, they leak to WikiLeaks because they believe (mostly accurately) that there will be consequences.
Whistle-blowers are not a protected class. If you work for an organization that is breaking the law (particularly if that organization is a government agency) and you blow the whistle on their illegal activities, you should fully expect to be fired. That's the reality of the situation.
And if by some miracle you're not fired, expect the whole affair to be whitewashed and swept under a rug, with no consequences to the people that broke the rules in the first place (it's incredible just how hard it can be to fire a bureaucrat).
By anonymously releasing the information, you can complain while still protecting yourself from recrimination, and simultaneously raise enough of a shit-storm to actually get something done about it for a change.
You seem to think WikiLeaks operates outside the fray of a "free and democratic society," but I contend it is actually a vital part of it.
that's why we don't reward professions that require a lot of education with money and prestige...
Like teachers? Those people specifically tasked with educating the future of our country?
that's why most kids say they want to be ditch diggers or work at Wal-Mart or at a slaughterhouse
"Most" kids don't want to do shit. "Most" kids don't even have goals. And the ones that do have goals don't want to work for them. They think Big Dreams == Big Rewards.
I guess it's like how we don't have a system of higher education that people come from all over the world to learn from
I guess that's like how other countries don't also have systems of higher education that people come from all over the world to learn from.
What was your point again?
It's at the top of your message. You even quoted it. Do try and keep up.
Stupid people worship jocks because it is easier to imagine being strong than being smart.
Alternate explanation: people worship attractive people. Jocks tend to be more fit, and thus more attractive. Spending your life indoors sitting in a chair leads to pale skin and weight problems. It should come as no surprise that traditionally "geeky" past times don't help (and often hurt) one's physical appearance.
You know, telephones aren't terribly useful, either. Because the person on the other end has to have a phone as well. Completely impractical compared to yelling.
BAH! Until you start navigating in the sub-frame, then two or three clicks into it decide, "You know, that frame is really annoying. I'd like to turn it off," so you click "remove frame" and BAM! you're magically taken three page views back in time and have to retrace your goddamned steps.
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Explains why they overtook the US auto industry so quickly.
No, that's because the Japanese had spent the better part of the 60s perfecting small, reliable, fuel-efficient automobiles on a protected domestic market. Just in time for the oil crisis of the 70s.
Also explains how they turned a feudal agricultural economy in the 1800s to an industrial one only 30 years later.
No, that was the Meiji Restoration.
Sure, sure, except...
THEY ARE NOT PAYPAL.
So at least they got that going for them.
Seconded! Penalizing slow sites only promotes those shitty mirror sites that all seem to be on fast pipes.
It's interesting: I've started noticing these spam sites creeping higher and higher up the page rank and was wondering what new trick the ad-spammers had developed to game Google. It would just figure that it turns out to be Google shooting themselves in the foot with asinine policies like this.
Holy crap, I was expecting some similarities, but you're right: the author just ripped-off the whole thing.
Summary:
Original:
The rest of the "review" is the same.
I'm a life form - where am I supposed to get the cash for food?
Food stamps. Soup kitchens.
I'm a mammal - where am I supposed to get the cash to heat my home?
You go to the shelter, where they provide the heat for free.
Or you live in public housing, and get free utility allowances.
This can go on and on.
No, not really. Society pays for as much of Maslow's pyramid as it can afford. Usually most of the lower rows: food, shelter, health. Policemen, firemen, libraries and schools would probably fall under your "on and on."
See how absurd your statement is?
Of course it's absurd. I think that's the whole point of this discussion: the MPEG-LA's royalty demands are as absurd as Xerox demanding payment for every photocopy you make, or Philips getting a cut every time you buy a CD.
or is language constantly evolving to the point where old expressions can take on new meanings?
People are generally lazy thinkers and even lazier speakers. What you are describing is not evolution but devolution because lazy, stupid people would rather get their self-important ideas out of their mouth quickly at the cost of linguistic descriptiveness. In essence, they wish to give up some of the language breadth for a little gain in speaking speed, and a little less mental processing power.
So I guess it boils down to--are you on the side of civilization, of intelligence, or are you a fucking gorilla that would rather all communication were settled with grunts?
the most plausible explanation is simple voting machine tallying error with no nefarious purpose behind it
I dunno. If you wanted to raise people's attention of the ills of non-verifiable, proprietary voting machine software, I can think of no better way then to tamper with a machine to give the votes to an obvious non-candidate.
Like a convicted child murderer or something. The first time a person like that wins (and if they're Democrat, even better!) you just know that FOX news would be all the fuck over them, decrying how "SCANDALOUS!" it is that there isn't even a goddamned paper trail to double-check the numbers.
If I wanted to get people to care about the voting machines, this is how I'd do it.
Sigh... It waould be better to ban your developers off SQL and into an abstraction layer that puts the queries together behind the scenes and hire a competent developer to develop that.
In the Java world they already do. It's called Hibernate (or NHibernate for .NET). It does exactly what you describe.
The only people that should be mucking about in SQL are DBAs that...
I don't rely on the patent to create the content as I do that.
Well, that's a bit silly. Of course you rely on the patent, since you rely on the device, which is patented.
Now, if you were using your video camera as a hammer, and you built a huge house out of it which then sold for millions of dollars, then you could say you didn't rely on the patent to create said content. Though I'm sure they'd try and find a way to charge you for that, too.
when does patent override Copyright on pure content?
When you rely on the patent to create the content in the first place.
Obviously one day human/computer interfaces are going to reach the point where they're more efficient than a keyboard, a decently-sized LCD display and mouse, but I can't see that happening for a long time yet.
It's coming. What they need to do is offer something like the Dell Streak in different sizes. Give me a 9" flat glass touch-panel with a nice high-res screen, the latest OS and no phone. Hang 'em up on walls, control your home wirelessly. Like fucking Star Trek.
Cry me a river. If carriers can't make a buck with unlimited data plans, they can turn the keys over to the fucking grown-ups (municipal carriers) that won't have any problem dealing with the issue. That's yours and my fucking bandwidth they're given a legal monopoly over.
This is like Ford Motor Co. being handed control of all the highway tolls between New York and Boston then crying about how all these damned drivers and their unfair expectations of unlimited driving on the highways! We have to cap how many miles they can go!
They've had decades of pre-YouTube, pre-BitTorrent profits to get their shit together, and they've squandered it. So fuck em. What's the line from Dune? "Data must flow." It's like water or energy to our entire economic system. You like this way of life? Sure would be a shame if anything... happened to it.
People leak to WikiLeaks because they believe (mostly accurately) that there will be no consequences
No, they leak to WikiLeaks because they believe (mostly accurately) that there will be consequences.
Whistle-blowers are not a protected class. If you work for an organization that is breaking the law (particularly if that organization is a government agency) and you blow the whistle on their illegal activities, you should fully expect to be fired. That's the reality of the situation.
And if by some miracle you're not fired, expect the whole affair to be whitewashed and swept under a rug, with no consequences to the people that broke the rules in the first place (it's incredible just how hard it can be to fire a bureaucrat).
By anonymously releasing the information, you can complain while still protecting yourself from recrimination, and simultaneously raise enough of a shit-storm to actually get something done about it for a change.
You seem to think WikiLeaks operates outside the fray of a "free and democratic society," but I contend it is actually a vital part of it.
So I guess that makes it OK to distort the truth to further an agenda.
Makes it OK? Nah. Let's just say it makes it less wrong.
Yeah, but only one side has a body count.
that's why we don't reward professions that require a lot of education with money and prestige...
Like teachers? Those people specifically tasked with educating the future of our country?
that's why most kids say they want to be ditch diggers or work at Wal-Mart or at a slaughterhouse
"Most" kids don't want to do shit. "Most" kids don't even have goals. And the ones that do have goals don't want to work for them. They think Big Dreams == Big Rewards.
I guess it's like how we don't have a system of higher education that people come from all over the world to learn from
I guess that's like how other countries don't also have systems of higher education that people come from all over the world to learn from.
What was your point again?
It's at the top of your message. You even quoted it. Do try and keep up.
Stupid people worship jocks because it is easier to imagine being strong than being smart.
Alternate explanation: people worship attractive people. Jocks tend to be more fit, and thus more attractive. Spending your life indoors sitting in a chair leads to pale skin and weight problems. It should come as no surprise that traditionally "geeky" past times don't help (and often hurt) one's physical appearance.
And writing too.
And writing, COMMA, too.
Thank you for clearly illustrating the problem with this logic.
A great way to block most advertising that you do not want is to block Flash.
Unfortunately that will all fall by the wayside if/when advertisers start using HTML5.
How do you add font support to HTML5? TTF would be nice, but I'll settle for OpenType.
I'm surprised no one has suggested the most obvious upgrade path from the DOS batch file, Windows PowerShell
Possibly because PowerShell's performance is only slightly faster than "drunken tortoise."
Just put into a light sealed box -- bit like a hard disk today.
Won't somebody think of the case modders?
Uh, so?
You know, telephones aren't terribly useful, either. Because the person on the other end has to have a phone as well. Completely impractical compared to yelling.
BAH! Until you start navigating in the sub-frame, then two or three clicks into it decide, "You know, that frame is really annoying. I'd like to turn it off," so you click "remove frame" and BAM! you're magically taken three page views back in time and have to retrace your goddamned steps.
That is some annoying fucking shit right there.