I remember having a Number(N)ine card back in the day (an Intergraph card?). It was a little obscure but came with the territory (I think that was the card I paired with a Gravis Ultrasound, as well). Good to see someone using that tech again.
In other words, show me the models. Show me the method. Show me the data. Otherwise, its not SCIENCE (and to be fair, von Mises also claimed that economics isn't a hard science, but his adherents somehow miss that...). What does that leave?
You make a billion predictions, some are bound to come true. Where's hyperinflation, for example? Austrian economics has zero basis in reality, BY DESIGN. Yes, I've read the pertinent material (including Hazlitt, von Mises, and even some Murray Rothbard). Just because you don't like the fact that Austrian economics is a pure thought exercise doesn't mean it's not true, to use the GPs own argument.
Austrian economics is religion. It has zero empirical backing, whatsoever. This puts it firmly into the realm of faith, hence, religion. Now, go fuck yourself.
1) Learn how to have fun. Even when you're mired knee-deep in a gigantic pile of horseshit that is a 10-15 year old VBA/Access/Excel monstrosity written by a half dozen people and commented occasionally in non-english languages, if you can't find a way to enjoy the challenge, your career will be short-lived and miserable.
2) Work on things that interest you. When you invariably get the point to where you think "I wonder if there's an easier way to do this", google it. Chances are, you're right. With any luck, you can avoid #1 above if you really work at it. I don't think anyone ever woke up in the morning thinking "Fuck this fun shit, I want to be a Programmer III at some.gov contractor", but you never know. I happen to like maintaining and bug-fixing code more than I do architecting full solutions, but I'll accept that I'm an odd bug.
I mean, I'm reading some of these comments and thinking "yeah, if you pushed Knuth or SICP on me when I was 10, you'd have killed any interest I had in computers." Instead, I was POKEing away on my C64, etc. If anything, figuring out how to solve logic puzzles, breaking down problems, etc, were much more fun for me in the 5th and 6th grade than reading some of the current compsci literature that I *still* require significant motivation to go through. I'm not saying it's not important, I'm just saying that a middle schooler (a kid) may not be all that willing to put in that kind of work, and waiting until college wouldn't be so bad. You know, going back to the comment thing.. a lot of these comments sound like the anti-jock jocks. I remember these kids who's parents were forcing them to play sports and everything revolved around these kids playing sports, but the kids themselves weren't having any fun at all. Now we have nerds acting like jock parents, treating their kids in the same manner.. It can't be healthy.
If anything, a good marketer is worth her weight in gold. A story I once heard about the importation of fabric from India (Madras fabric, although no one in what was once called madras knows it as such.. it's just fabric there...) that it was cheap and durable, but the colors bled something awful when washed. Customers were returning clothing made from this fabric in droves for the "defect" of fading. The industry was losing their asses and turned to a marketer.. who turned it around by marketing the fade as a feature, not a bug ("Something magical happens when washed!").
I think the same thing is at work, here, but I'm not so sure anyone still wants to be a turd, no matter how much Mugatu wraps it up in tin foil.
If you want to see this in action, visit Portland, OR. There are 2 or 3 'world-class' culinary schools in PDX, and no one wants to leave because the Rose City is one of the coolest places in America to live (I'd move back in a heartbeat if I could find a job in my field there). The market is flooded with some very creative/skilled chefs, and there's not enough jobs for them to fill. So you get a LOT of $9/hour sous chefs and minimum wage line cooks that should be running their own restaurants. I've had better food in dive bars in Portland than I've had in so-called "foodie" establishments here in Los Angeles.
The Tree of Knowledge is more correctly thought to have been a pomegranate tree, IIRC my bible history class correctly, since apples are relatively new on the world. The bible doesn't actually specify./nitpick
I'd like to see how he implemented his back-end. Did he rely upon tor's anonymity and get lazy in the private messaging system? Were the logs/messages unencrypted and left in RAM? The new methods of catching computer crooks basically entail that the FBI sends in an IT team and nothing is touched or powered off (meaning mounted encrypted drives are live and they can run through them at will, etc).
Also, I remember reading an article by Schneier about the possibility for a well-funded attacker to effectively add tons of nodes, exit and internal, and then DDOS the non-controlled nodes to shape traffic in a manner where a good majority of the packets flow throw their own nodes, enabling them to track and compromise users and end service locations. We know the US.gov can fund an operation that large...
Just goes back to the old saying: when it comes to gang warfare, Uncle Sam has the biggest gang of them all...
I believe the cetaceans have internal testes. I've never seen a set of nuts hanging off the back of a dolphin, but it's not like I'm looking hard for 'em.:D
/* he reason we pay so much for health care is because the recipient doesn't know and/or doesn't care how much it costs, namely because they don't pay for it. Likewise, they don't shop around. So even though it is all privatized, there isn't really much of a free market system. */
I have many friends from both Canada & various EU countries who also don't know how much their care costs. Their healthcare doesn't cost nearly what we do. So, please, try again.
As a fishkeeper, I used to keep colonies of confused flour beetles, wingless fruit flies, and lots and lots of nematodes (microworms, grindals, vinegar eels) for getting some of my more difficult/finicky fish into breeding condition. I think I spent more time fiddling with the foods than with the actual fish.
Yeah, mailed my dad an Ubuntu CD a few years back when his HD crashed as a stop-gap until my next trip back so I could either replace or recommend a new machine. Worked great. The next laptop still had windows, but I proved to myself that Ubuntu was "good enough" for dad use. Today, of course, I'd just get him a chromebook (linux underpinnings).
Nokia could compete very well on hardware quality on the Android platform. Sure, there's a gigantic glut of android phones, but the vast majority are cheap plastic garbage. If the 1020 was available on my carrier and had Android, it would be a no-brainer for me. And you're wrong: no one is talking about the 1020 because of Windows Phone 8, they're talking about the amazing camera on it.
Whoops, I replied to the wrong post. However, I think you'd be throwing the baby out with the bathwater with this approach because someone like ARM Holdings, who design and control the ARM line of processors many of us use and adore, are exactly that: They exist solely to design, license, and modify their designs. They don't have a fab and from what I can tell, you just can't go down to Fry's and buy an ARM branded CPU (although you can buy Qualcomm and others who license their technology). So, it's not so clear cut. I don't consider ARM Holdings a patent troll, at all.
What would you consider ARM Holdings? They don't make anything, either, they just employ a bunch of engineers to design and come up with CPU solutions for various problems (using the ARM architecture, obviously). And, of course, they patent their designs and then let approved licensors fab their designs (with and without approved modifications). Honestly, I'd say that ARM is the type of NPE that's "doing it right". Not only are they protecting their patents, but they are steadily trying to improve the state of the art and continuing to push forward. I think the key difference is, you can *buy* a Qualcomm branded chip (I've got a snapdragon in one of my phones, for instance). However, you're most likely never going to be able to buy an ARM Holdings chip, even though it's their designs (many of which Qualcomm uses and modifies). It's a subtle difference, but it does change the frame of the question.
Now, trying to compare guys who think they patented, I dunno, hypertext 7 years after the fact, that's absurd.:/
"How much would we have to pay 'the Patent Holder' for licensing of their shitty little patent?" "$50 million a year, sir." "What's contract killers going for on Silk Road?" "$15k/head" "How many patent holders?" "Six are listed."... "let's save ourselves over $49 million bucks. Fire up Tor."
And before anyone ask "how's this news for nerds?" has obviously never had a herp-keeper as an acquaintance. I was a fish-guy (40 tanks in my bedroom during college, ranging from shoeboxes to 75 gallons), so I understand the obsession, even going so far as to plan my rare weekends off to go collecting on my own. The "spy" aspect makes it even more fun.
Just curious, but what is the actual penalty (and to whom does it fall on in a corporate structure) if you actually say "Hey, the NSA contacted us and said we couldn't tell our users about this, but frankly, the NSA can pound sand."?
Guantanomo? Secret Detention in some Third World Hell Hole? Six months in club fed? Fines?
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I dunno. Maybe they know exactly what they're doing (milking the .gov for more $$$).
I remember having a Number(N)ine card back in the day (an Intergraph card?). It was a little obscure but came with the territory (I think that was the card I paired with a Gravis Ultrasound, as well). Good to see someone using that tech again.
In other words, show me the models. Show me the method. Show me the data. Otherwise, its not SCIENCE (and to be fair, von Mises also claimed that economics isn't a hard science, but his adherents somehow miss that...). What does that leave?
You make a billion predictions, some are bound to come true. Where's hyperinflation, for example? Austrian economics has zero basis in reality, BY DESIGN. Yes, I've read the pertinent material (including Hazlitt, von Mises, and even some Murray Rothbard). Just because you don't like the fact that Austrian economics is a pure thought exercise doesn't mean it's not true, to use the GPs own argument.
Austrian economics is religion. It has zero empirical backing, whatsoever. This puts it firmly into the realm of faith, hence, religion. Now, go fuck yourself.
If I wanted religion, I'd go to church.
1) Learn how to have fun. Even when you're mired knee-deep in a gigantic pile of horseshit that is a 10-15 year old VBA/Access/Excel monstrosity written by a half dozen people and commented occasionally in non-english languages, if you can't find a way to enjoy the challenge, your career will be short-lived and miserable.
2) Work on things that interest you. When you invariably get the point to where you think "I wonder if there's an easier way to do this", google it. Chances are, you're right. With any luck, you can avoid #1 above if you really work at it. I don't think anyone ever woke up in the morning thinking "Fuck this fun shit, I want to be a Programmer III at some .gov contractor", but you never know. I happen to like maintaining and bug-fixing code more than I do architecting full solutions, but I'll accept that I'm an odd bug.
I mean, I'm reading some of these comments and thinking "yeah, if you pushed Knuth or SICP on me when I was 10, you'd have killed any interest I had in computers." Instead, I was POKEing away on my C64, etc. If anything, figuring out how to solve logic puzzles, breaking down problems, etc, were much more fun for me in the 5th and 6th grade than reading some of the current compsci literature that I *still* require significant motivation to go through. I'm not saying it's not important, I'm just saying that a middle schooler (a kid) may not be all that willing to put in that kind of work, and waiting until college wouldn't be so bad. You know, going back to the comment thing.. a lot of these comments sound like the anti-jock jocks. I remember these kids who's parents were forcing them to play sports and everything revolved around these kids playing sports, but the kids themselves weren't having any fun at all. Now we have nerds acting like jock parents, treating their kids in the same manner.. It can't be healthy.
If anything, a good marketer is worth her weight in gold. A story I once heard about the importation of fabric from India (Madras fabric, although no one in what was once called madras knows it as such.. it's just fabric there...) that it was cheap and durable, but the colors bled something awful when washed. Customers were returning clothing made from this fabric in droves for the "defect" of fading. The industry was losing their asses and turned to a marketer.. who turned it around by marketing the fade as a feature, not a bug ("Something magical happens when washed!").
I think the same thing is at work, here, but I'm not so sure anyone still wants to be a turd, no matter how much Mugatu wraps it up in tin foil.
If you want to see this in action, visit Portland, OR. There are 2 or 3 'world-class' culinary schools in PDX, and no one wants to leave because the Rose City is one of the coolest places in America to live (I'd move back in a heartbeat if I could find a job in my field there). The market is flooded with some very creative/skilled chefs, and there's not enough jobs for them to fill. So you get a LOT of $9/hour sous chefs and minimum wage line cooks that should be running their own restaurants. I've had better food in dive bars in Portland than I've had in so-called "foodie" establishments here in Los Angeles.
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CLOUUUUUUUUUD!
welp, guess it's time to get my CC changed.
Without the excitement and swab down the dick later... Yeah, I think I'll pass...
The Tree of Knowledge is more correctly thought to have been a pomegranate tree, IIRC my bible history class correctly, since apples are relatively new on the world. The bible doesn't actually specify. /nitpick
I'd like to see how he implemented his back-end. Did he rely upon tor's anonymity and get lazy in the private messaging system? Were the logs/messages unencrypted and left in RAM? The new methods of catching computer crooks basically entail that the FBI sends in an IT team and nothing is touched or powered off (meaning mounted encrypted drives are live and they can run through them at will, etc).
Also, I remember reading an article by Schneier about the possibility for a well-funded attacker to effectively add tons of nodes, exit and internal, and then DDOS the non-controlled nodes to shape traffic in a manner where a good majority of the packets flow throw their own nodes, enabling them to track and compromise users and end service locations. We know the US .gov can fund an operation that large...
Just goes back to the old saying: when it comes to gang warfare, Uncle Sam has the biggest gang of them all...
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/dec2010/sb20101210_839038.htm
I believe the cetaceans have internal testes. I've never seen a set of nuts hanging off the back of a dolphin, but it's not like I'm looking hard for 'em. :D
/* he reason we pay so much for health care is because the recipient doesn't know and/or doesn't care how much it costs, namely because they don't pay for it. Likewise, they don't shop around. So even though it is all privatized, there isn't really much of a free market system. */
I have many friends from both Canada & various EU countries who also don't know how much their care costs. Their healthcare doesn't cost nearly what we do. So, please, try again.
Notice: elective treatment. Also notice: they weren't denied the procedure, they just had to wait a little longer.
As a fishkeeper, I used to keep colonies of confused flour beetles, wingless fruit flies, and lots and lots of nematodes (microworms, grindals, vinegar eels) for getting some of my more difficult/finicky fish into breeding condition. I think I spent more time fiddling with the foods than with the actual fish.
Yeah, mailed my dad an Ubuntu CD a few years back when his HD crashed as a stop-gap until my next trip back so I could either replace or recommend a new machine. Worked great. The next laptop still had windows, but I proved to myself that Ubuntu was "good enough" for dad use. Today, of course, I'd just get him a chromebook (linux underpinnings).
Nokia could compete very well on hardware quality on the Android platform. Sure, there's a gigantic glut of android phones, but the vast majority are cheap plastic garbage. If the 1020 was available on my carrier and had Android, it would be a no-brainer for me. And you're wrong: no one is talking about the 1020 because of Windows Phone 8, they're talking about the amazing camera on it.
Whoops, I replied to the wrong post. However, I think you'd be throwing the baby out with the bathwater with this approach because someone like ARM Holdings, who design and control the ARM line of processors many of us use and adore, are exactly that: They exist solely to design, license, and modify their designs. They don't have a fab and from what I can tell, you just can't go down to Fry's and buy an ARM branded CPU (although you can buy Qualcomm and others who license their technology). So, it's not so clear cut. I don't consider ARM Holdings a patent troll, at all.
What would you consider ARM Holdings? They don't make anything, either, they just employ a bunch of engineers to design and come up with CPU solutions for various problems (using the ARM architecture, obviously). And, of course, they patent their designs and then let approved licensors fab their designs (with and without approved modifications). Honestly, I'd say that ARM is the type of NPE that's "doing it right". Not only are they protecting their patents, but they are steadily trying to improve the state of the art and continuing to push forward. I think the key difference is, you can *buy* a Qualcomm branded chip (I've got a snapdragon in one of my phones, for instance). However, you're most likely never going to be able to buy an ARM Holdings chip, even though it's their designs (many of which Qualcomm uses and modifies). It's a subtle difference, but it does change the frame of the question.
Now, trying to compare guys who think they patented, I dunno, hypertext 7 years after the fact, that's absurd. :/
"How much would we have to pay 'the Patent Holder' for licensing of their shitty little patent?" ...
"$50 million a year, sir."
"What's contract killers going for on Silk Road?"
"$15k/head"
"How many patent holders?"
"Six are listed."
"let's save ourselves over $49 million bucks. Fire up Tor."
And before anyone ask "how's this news for nerds?" has obviously never had a herp-keeper as an acquaintance. I was a fish-guy (40 tanks in my bedroom during college, ranging from shoeboxes to 75 gallons), so I understand the obsession, even going so far as to plan my rare weekends off to go collecting on my own. The "spy" aspect makes it even more fun.
Just curious, but what is the actual penalty (and to whom does it fall on in a corporate structure) if you actually say "Hey, the NSA contacted us and said we couldn't tell our users about this, but frankly, the NSA can pound sand."?
Guantanomo? Secret Detention in some Third World Hell Hole? Six months in club fed? Fines?
Or are the penalties too secret to tell, as well?