1. This is horrible, and I'm thinking that the term "going postal" will be replaced by "going bank" after people get pissed off about this.
2. Groupon is the most worthless piece of crap because of which I've ever been forced by my wife to do things. Deals are only marginally better than deals already available at the locations that you can't use if you're paying with a Groupon ($50 groupon for $25, and half off deals all over the menu on a regular basis that are only for normal people without the damn groupon), and there's a time limit on Groupon so there's a risk of attrition and a certainty of doing something when I don't want to do it.
The most laptops I ever checked through security was 16 (across 2 bags). None were stolen, though one of the displays was cracked once. When they re-packed they did it poorly hence the breakage.
I really like the firearm idea presented elsewhere in this thread.
In normal conditions, saying that the follower is a terrible driver if they can't stop in time is absolutely right. I agree in principle.
The problem comes in areas, like LA, where there is so much reckless traffic that it's virtually impossible to leave a safe stopping distance in front of yourself. If you leave 1.1 cars worth of space, within a few seconds another car will fill the void. The only way to always have enough room to stop is to not drive at all.
This wouldn't apply in the vast majority of locations, but LA is an outlier in this regard.
So in general, I agree. I'm just pointing out that situations can (in some locations frequently) arise where you don't have the ability to maintain that cushion.
That said, I have managed to never run into anyone in any situation.
Historically, things that "everyone already knew" have been wrong enough of the time to warrant testing.
Also, things that have been shown one way with several experiments could either really be that way, or the methodology in all of the experiments could have been wrong.
It's not about demonstrating the obvious, but about demonstrating it in such a way as to reduce external noise from the system to make sure that the premise is actually sound.
In time, there will be a market for this stuff. Everyone will have already destroyed what they kept for exactly the wrong amount of time (so long that it got in the way, but not long enough for everyone else to have destroyed their copies), and if you have things like 5.25" drives that actually work they'll be valuable to those who need them.
It's like any item. In the 70s I could have picked up a bunch of awesome '60s era muscle cars for cheap and kept them in a barn somewhere. These days those old cars are worth more than new cars.
If you don't have the capacity to store a lot of stuff easily, then ditch the computer stuff. If you do, and don't mind having worthless crap around for another 20 years before it's valuable, then by all means keep it.
If my heart stops beating I will die - we should give it a generic nobel prize just for being so intelligent.
Manufacturing jobs are low skill because you could teach a dog to do them in a few hours, if the dogs had opposable thumbs.
In any factory you used to have a bunch of unskilled labor, and then some skilled trades to fix things when they broke. Tinners, electricians, pipe fitters, welders, and so on aren't low skill; they're blue collar because they're labor intensive.
Everyone in the world would probably agree that Apple will "never replace MS in the workplace."
It'll take longer, but unless Apple falls apart businesses will be changing how they operate to incorporate some of the cool stuff that Apple can sell them. It's just starting now.
Nice anecdotes, but the only problems I've ever had with macs are directly related to printing.
1. I have a Samsung ML-1740 laser printer. It's cheap, is no longer sold, but it works fine as long as you can print to it. My niece's linux laptop was able to print to it immediately, but Snow Leopard balked at it and I can't actually print to it anymore from my machine. Perhaps if I knew more about printing it would be trivial to write my own driver or install a third party driver that actually works with that model of printer.
2. I have never gotten my Airport Extreme to share printers via its USB port properly. They'll print once or twice and then crap out and need to be restarted. I haven't determined if this is a property of the HP printers that are causing this issue or if it's something related to the Airport.
I ended up breaking down and just buying 2 new printers. A color inkjet with built in wireless support (figuring that something this new would come with working drivers), and a Xerox laser with built in networking and Postscript support. Worst case I'll always be able to print to that laser printer with a Postscript driver.
I think I'm missing something. Taking kinetic energy, storing it, and then using it later as electrical energy would be more difficult no matter what. You're basically making your own storage medium when oil or gas comes in that form already. Ignite and profit.
Fundamentally, fossil fuels (unless extraction ends up being a huge issue) must be cheaper. Until they run out or pollute us off the planet, that is. Then wind power will be all the rage.
1. She's only suing for like $10M or something trivial. In the US this would have been for about $90MM. If she really lost her job because of it, I'd say that she should be suing for much more.
2. If I were her, I'd be thanking Google for letting me know I had a stalker who was taking those pictures so I could take the necessary safety precautions.
[i]If you ban all mockery of religion that gets offended, then many religions will suddenly decide to get offended - and many groups will decide to define themselves as religion in order to get the censorship ability.[/i]
We kinda missed that boat, though. To get people to give a crap what your group says about anything you need two things.
1) Ability to do a lot of damage.
2) A lot of followers.
3) The reputation of being completely unreasonable.
If you're just a psycho with a few people in the club they'll take you out like you're a Branch Davidian. If muslims never killed people or hijacked planes nobody would give a crap about them. To be fair, if the christians never had the crusades nobody would give a crap about them either. If we could reason with them we'd try that every time instead of moving on to the "delete offensive content" step. I suppose, though, that if those in question were reasonable they wouldn't be very religious.
1. In this case, it looks like the guy opened a link from an e-mail and then closed it when he saw what it contained. No story here, move along. Yeah, meetings are boring and we all know that.
2. People tend to vote and speak out for morality that they think is good, not what they actually practice in real life. If the story were instead about a guy who was speaking out against pornography but had a terabyte of porn on his machine, we'd have some evidence supporting that people don't vote for what they actually think is right, but what they want others to think they think is right. If people were more honest with their likes and dislikes the world would be easier to navigate, but that's not the current reality.
The problem is that it's sold as something that it's not. It's touted as a platform that can integrate with all the stuff you already have, but the reality is that it's more an application for basic document management and simple collaboration. Maybe to make a simple dashboard or portal. That's about it. Beyond that you have a lot of unfulfilled promises.
SharePoint is not the best of breed product for anything that it does. There are better blogs, better wikis, better document management systems, and better collaboration tools. But if you want to make a half-assed myspace in a couple days, well, the tools are there to get something that pretty much does the job. And if you're already a microsoft shop, well, you may as well buy in to this too.
In theory it's a solid idea, and 2010 (I'm at the conference now) seems to have solved a bunch of the problems that plagued it in the past. 2007 was a huge improvement over 2003, and this is probably a bigger improvement. I'm not trading in my macbook or iphone anytime soon, though. As for my own company we're still using sharepoint sparsely as a collaboration tool internally and run our web site on apache.
I tell clients that I'm not there to sell them SharePoint. They already bought it. I'm there to either fix it, or teach them how to get some value out of it by leveraging the things that it actually does well enough to utilize.
The fatal flaw with your argument is that nothing is ever 100% secure.
I will, however, go so far as to say that no critical system that will be used for an extended period of time should be using closed software that will ever be EOLed.
I don't understand your position. The only way I can fathom someone trying to get people to not play realistic war games is if they would like as many people as possible to support wars and go fight in them.
If you think that war is bad, then it would make more sense if you encouraged everyone to play games that realistically portray it. I'm assuming that you want to be an activist in some manner or another, seeing how you actively try to get people to do what you want them to do.
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1. This is horrible, and I'm thinking that the term "going postal" will be replaced by "going bank" after people get pissed off about this.
2. Groupon is the most worthless piece of crap because of which I've ever been forced by my wife to do things. Deals are only marginally better than deals already available at the locations that you can't use if you're paying with a Groupon ($50 groupon for $25, and half off deals all over the menu on a regular basis that are only for normal people without the damn groupon), and there's a time limit on Groupon so there's a risk of attrition and a certainty of doing something when I don't want to do it.
Wow this pisses me off.
The most laptops I ever checked through security was 16 (across 2 bags). None were stolen, though one of the displays was cracked once. When they re-packed they did it poorly hence the breakage.
I really like the firearm idea presented elsewhere in this thread.
In normal conditions, saying that the follower is a terrible driver if they can't stop in time is absolutely right. I agree in principle.
The problem comes in areas, like LA, where there is so much reckless traffic that it's virtually impossible to leave a safe stopping distance in front of yourself. If you leave 1.1 cars worth of space, within a few seconds another car will fill the void. The only way to always have enough room to stop is to not drive at all.
This wouldn't apply in the vast majority of locations, but LA is an outlier in this regard.
So in general, I agree. I'm just pointing out that situations can (in some locations frequently) arise where you don't have the ability to maintain that cushion.
That said, I have managed to never run into anyone in any situation.
Historically, things that "everyone already knew" have been wrong enough of the time to warrant testing.
Also, things that have been shown one way with several experiments could either really be that way, or the methodology in all of the experiments could have been wrong.
It's not about demonstrating the obvious, but about demonstrating it in such a way as to reduce external noise from the system to make sure that the premise is actually sound.
In time, there will be a market for this stuff. Everyone will have already destroyed what they kept for exactly the wrong amount of time (so long that it got in the way, but not long enough for everyone else to have destroyed their copies), and if you have things like 5.25" drives that actually work they'll be valuable to those who need them.
It's like any item. In the 70s I could have picked up a bunch of awesome '60s era muscle cars for cheap and kept them in a barn somewhere. These days those old cars are worth more than new cars.
If you don't have the capacity to store a lot of stuff easily, then ditch the computer stuff. If you do, and don't mind having worthless crap around for another 20 years before it's valuable, then by all means keep it.
If my heart stops beating I will die - we should give it a generic nobel prize just for being so intelligent.
Manufacturing jobs are low skill because you could teach a dog to do them in a few hours, if the dogs had opposable thumbs.
In any factory you used to have a bunch of unskilled labor, and then some skilled trades to fix things when they broke. Tinners, electricians, pipe fitters, welders, and so on aren't low skill; they're blue collar because they're labor intensive.
Looks like they're a little behind schedule developing the Ghost X-9. I do think that I saw Sharon Apple giving a concert last year, though.
Everyone in the world would probably agree that Apple will "never replace MS in the workplace."
It'll take longer, but unless Apple falls apart businesses will be changing how they operate to incorporate some of the cool stuff that Apple can sell them. It's just starting now.
Nice anecdotes, but the only problems I've ever had with macs are directly related to printing.
1. I have a Samsung ML-1740 laser printer. It's cheap, is no longer sold, but it works fine as long as you can print to it. My niece's linux laptop was able to print to it immediately, but Snow Leopard balked at it and I can't actually print to it anymore from my machine. Perhaps if I knew more about printing it would be trivial to write my own driver or install a third party driver that actually works with that model of printer.
2. I have never gotten my Airport Extreme to share printers via its USB port properly. They'll print once or twice and then crap out and need to be restarted. I haven't determined if this is a property of the HP printers that are causing this issue or if it's something related to the Airport.
I ended up breaking down and just buying 2 new printers. A color inkjet with built in wireless support (figuring that something this new would come with working drivers), and a Xerox laser with built in networking and Postscript support. Worst case I'll always be able to print to that laser printer with a Postscript driver.
Do you actually need to process this a certain way, or can you just like scan the negatives(??) in and fix the colors?
I know absolutely nothing about photography.
I think I'm missing something. Taking kinetic energy, storing it, and then using it later as electrical energy would be more difficult no matter what. You're basically making your own storage medium when oil or gas comes in that form already. Ignite and profit.
Fundamentally, fossil fuels (unless extraction ends up being a huge issue) must be cheaper. Until they run out or pollute us off the planet, that is. Then wind power will be all the rage.
1. She's only suing for like $10M or something trivial. In the US this would have been for about $90MM. If she really lost her job because of it, I'd say that she should be suing for much more.
2. If I were her, I'd be thanking Google for letting me know I had a stalker who was taking those pictures so I could take the necessary safety precautions.
[i]If you ban all mockery of religion that gets offended, then many religions will suddenly decide to get offended - and many groups will decide to define themselves as religion in order to get the censorship ability.[/i]
We kinda missed that boat, though. To get people to give a crap what your group says about anything you need two things.
1) Ability to do a lot of damage.
2) A lot of followers.
3) The reputation of being completely unreasonable.
If you're just a psycho with a few people in the club they'll take you out like you're a Branch Davidian. If muslims never killed people or hijacked planes nobody would give a crap about them. To be fair, if the christians never had the crusades nobody would give a crap about them either. If we could reason with them we'd try that every time instead of moving on to the "delete offensive content" step. I suppose, though, that if those in question were reasonable they wouldn't be very religious.
1. In this case, it looks like the guy opened a link from an e-mail and then closed it when he saw what it contained. No story here, move along. Yeah, meetings are boring and we all know that.
2. People tend to vote and speak out for morality that they think is good, not what they actually practice in real life. If the story were instead about a guy who was speaking out against pornography but had a terabyte of porn on his machine, we'd have some evidence supporting that people don't vote for what they actually think is right, but what they want others to think they think is right. If people were more honest with their likes and dislikes the world would be easier to navigate, but that's not the current reality.
The problem is that it's sold as something that it's not. It's touted as a platform that can integrate with all the stuff you already have, but the reality is that it's more an application for basic document management and simple collaboration. Maybe to make a simple dashboard or portal. That's about it. Beyond that you have a lot of unfulfilled promises.
SharePoint is not the best of breed product for anything that it does. There are better blogs, better wikis, better document management systems, and better collaboration tools. But if you want to make a half-assed myspace in a couple days, well, the tools are there to get something that pretty much does the job. And if you're already a microsoft shop, well, you may as well buy in to this too.
In theory it's a solid idea, and 2010 (I'm at the conference now) seems to have solved a bunch of the problems that plagued it in the past. 2007 was a huge improvement over 2003, and this is probably a bigger improvement. I'm not trading in my macbook or iphone anytime soon, though. As for my own company we're still using sharepoint sparsely as a collaboration tool internally and run our web site on apache.
I tell clients that I'm not there to sell them SharePoint. They already bought it. I'm there to either fix it, or teach them how to get some value out of it by leveraging the things that it actually does well enough to utilize.
And in the future, I suggest taking some Rad-X before going to the hospital.
They've been using George Orwell as inspiration for a while now.
The fatal flaw with your argument is that nothing is ever 100% secure.
I will, however, go so far as to say that no critical system that will be used for an extended period of time should be using closed software that will ever be EOLed.
I don't understand your position. The only way I can fathom someone trying to get people to not play realistic war games is if they would like as many people as possible to support wars and go fight in them.
If you think that war is bad, then it would make more sense if you encouraged everyone to play games that realistically portray it. I'm assuming that you want to be an activist in some manner or another, seeing how you actively try to get people to do what you want them to do.
You should read the article.
I'm sorry you have such a low opinion of your kid. It must be very depressing.
This way she only sees the porn she's trying to look at, which is how it should be.
The fact that a law is unenforceable doesn't mean that it should be there on the books just for shits and giggles.
if you'd ever fallen asleep with a Mac on your lap you'd realize that Apple solved the kindling problem already.
Posted from a Macbook Pro on my boiling genitals.