Why would GM selling cars directly be bad for anyone except the dealers? You don't get to be a middle man just because you'd lose your job if you eliminate the middle. And if GM ran the dealerships, when a dealership screws someone over, GM's whole brand looks bad, not just some local douchebag.
I mean, can you imagine if Verizon wasn't allowed to sell phones or services directly? You go to a Verizon "dealer" and they get to add 5, 10, or 30 dollars onto your monthly plan if you can't negotiate it down?
Or Starbucks not being able to sell its own coffee, lest they put all these poor middlemen coffee dealers out of business?
As someone who has to sell, install, and support Microsoft enterprise products: You are preaching to the freaking choir. If you ever hear the words "data migration" and "Navision" in the same sentence, do yourself a favor and find a new job. Because no company is paying you enough to have your butt hurt that much.
I think you're missing how much of a whore the media was leading up to the Iraq war, completely drowning out any dissonant experts including high ranking military, political scientists, and historians.
The media will do anything that gets them readers. Morals, ethics, and political leanings have nothing to do with it. The all-mighty dollar crosses all political boundaries.
So has anyone checked to see if this was by design? Give everyone encryption, but it's the same key, like a master lock that any locksmith or landlord can bypass?
You can get GeForces these days with up to 2,048 CUDA cores and the memory bandwidth to actually use them. A Raspberry PI is a cute toy--I have one--but anyone wanting to do massively-parallel computation has plenty of faster and cheaper choices out there. There's also the FPGA route if your routines are simple enough and you have enough of an EE background.
That's likely why he thinks it's retarded... it doesn't solve any problems that aren't better solved by other solutions.
In general Americans have problems with moderation.
If you say you went out to drink, then you will drink until you're drunk. While in many other countries a drink is just a drink, not even enough to get legally buzzed.
Really... really? You're gonna pull the "America is the only place without moderation" card?
Notice those are the consumption RATES, meaning people in those countries smoke and drink more.
So unless I see you also make the same argument against the 71 cases of countries with higher rates than the USA, I'm going to tell you to sit down and shut up. Because you're talking like an idiot.
Stop misappropriating the fact that people care enough to change things in the USA, with actual rates of those things occurring. Because if that's all you do, you'd think the USA was a racist hellhole. But you'd be wrong: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
As much as I dislike what Firefox has become, let's not for a second assume that the vocal minority that actually provides advice to your developers is in any way guaranteed to represent the rest of your user base.
Your community can provide feedback to specific cases. It cannot tell you how to design your product. You want good design, hire people with experience in design. You want the ultimate "design-by-committee", let users have a disproportionate access to your design process and watch them fight and fracture the community as they grab for power.
Relevant clicky "Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do":
Any idea that you can "humanely" murder someone is a damned lie.
Moreover, remember the Central Park jogger case? Where they rounded up five minority scapegoats and said they brutally raped a pretty white girl? Everyone, including Donald Trump himself, was rallying to execute these kids. Now, it turns out they were all innocent. They spent 15 years of their lives in jail and they were LUCKY because they weren't executed. They had all of their primes taken away from them but they still get to live what's left.
The death penalty is for revenge, not justice. And the ones who pay the price when we're wrong isn't the prosecutors. Life in jail means innocent people have a chance. Death penalty removes that chance and replaces it with a false sense of faith in the system.
Use a joystick fed into JoyToKey (Windows), or whatever Linux alternative you fancy. I've been using one for years. They're much more forgiving than a mouse, where a erroneous flick, or a flick to far, means you're practically starting over on trying to get to the button you need.
If we can get Aaron Swartz to kill himself over "Hacking" by downloading a bunch of easily available peer-reviewed journals, why can't we treat "tampering of community works" with the same, broad, over-reaching laws?
Mine has outlasted my Seagate physical hard drive and is still kicking butt after everyone told me I was a "fool for being an early adopter of SSDs." Meanwhile, plenty of their physical hard drives have come and gone as well.
> Your ex, for example, may be able to obtain a court order for you to undergo the procedure to remove your memories of all the good times you had together...
While that's an interesting plot for a Sci-Fi story, forcing someone to modify their body would amount to corporal punishment.
That's not to say governments might not abuse this (abduct you, get you to leak info, and erase they were ever there, Men in Black style), but your ex-wife will not be afforded such luxuries.
On the other hand, even if the government can erase MY memory, they can't erase everyone's memory, photos and video of my abduction and the acts they made commit. As violated as I would feel, the dark actions of the government wouldn't magically disappear. Which means it wouldn't be very useful for them in most circumstances except some form of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Well, that's not really what they said. Far out, that may be possible, but what they've done is not create memories but help the brain highlight important information. So you would still have to go to class, and still have to pay close attention to ensure your short-term doesn't toss it away (or you didn't listen to begin with). This would only force your brain to remember it. Side-effects include sexual arousal during all recalled memories.
I call the term "brain boner". You heard it first here folks!
What I find most interesting about brain research is 1) The possibility to communicate with non-humans and 2) the immediate ability of us to realize how cognitive our fellow animals are. We might find out we've been committing atrocities against intelligent lifeforms at an unfathomable scale. On a less disturbing advantage: 3) I'm a bird and I'm flying! Oh my Gooooddd! and 4) Better understanding of memory and learning. We might find out that the brain has a limit and we've all been bouncing off that limit without realizing it meaning filling your head with junk information is dangerous. Or that there's a certain, most effective way to learn that we've all missed. The future fills me with an awe-filled fear and excitement.
>USB C still has that ridiculous plastic tab inside the female port that can break quite easily if you trip on the cable.
Yeah, and last night my external hard drive fell two feet into my "bundle of cables" behind my computer. It apparently fell into the HDMI cable and bent the cable where it attaches to the metal part, and broke it. A 35-ft cable ruined by a single falling object.
What are you BUYING then? Almost everything in my house that has WiFi is running on a USB stick, and I've used plenty of USB->Ethernet adapters and they run fine. I've even used USB-over-Ethernet adapters to encapsulate the raw USB packets from a HD Wireless camera on a Raspberry PI to show up as a normal webcam on my Windows machine.
The guys were racist, they got the hammer of justice thrown at them. They suffered consequences and will have to deal with and learn from them. Case closed.
Not all men are now magically racist, nor college students, nor frats. The system doesn't need to change. Everything worked as intended.
Personally, I don't think we need to make every event that happens into some huge debate over whether our culture is circling the drain and chanting, "There needs to be a law!".
That's just my opinion. Feel free to disagree, and I hope you have a good day.
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Why would GM selling cars directly be bad for anyone except the dealers? You don't get to be a middle man just because you'd lose your job if you eliminate the middle. And if GM ran the dealerships, when a dealership screws someone over, GM's whole brand looks bad, not just some local douchebag.
I mean, can you imagine if Verizon wasn't allowed to sell phones or services directly? You go to a Verizon "dealer" and they get to add 5, 10, or 30 dollars onto your monthly plan if you can't negotiate it down?
Or Starbucks not being able to sell its own coffee, lest they put all these poor middlemen coffee dealers out of business?
As someone who has to sell, install, and support Microsoft enterprise products: You are preaching to the freaking choir. If you ever hear the words "data migration" and "Navision" in the same sentence, do yourself a favor and find a new job. Because no company is paying you enough to have your butt hurt that much.
I can't wait for them to put games on my new Apple watch! It would be great if they made watch games.
>but he's a freaking cipher otherwise and entirely lacks the personal touch unarmed with a teleprompter.
NO MORE SECRETS.
I think you're missing how much of a whore the media was leading up to the Iraq war, completely drowning out any dissonant experts including high ranking military, political scientists, and historians.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/...
http://www.salon.com/2007/04/1...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The media will do anything that gets them readers. Morals, ethics, and political leanings have nothing to do with it. The all-mighty dollar crosses all political boundaries.
Balls, I've got one of those cameras.
So has anyone checked to see if this was by design? Give everyone encryption, but it's the same key, like a master lock that any locksmith or landlord can bypass?
Buy a single damn video card.
You can get GeForces these days with up to 2,048 CUDA cores and the memory bandwidth to actually use them. A Raspberry PI is a cute toy--I have one--but anyone wanting to do massively-parallel computation has plenty of faster and cheaper choices out there. There's also the FPGA route if your routines are simple enough and you have enough of an EE background.
That's likely why he thinks it's retarded... it doesn't solve any problems that aren't better solved by other solutions.
In general Americans have problems with moderation.
If you say you went out to drink, then you will drink until you're drunk. While in many other countries a drink is just a drink, not even enough to get legally buzzed.
Really... really? You're gonna pull the "America is the only place without moderation" card?
How about we throw some facts into the deck:
Smoking problems? 51st place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Drinking problems? 22nd place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Notice those are the consumption RATES, meaning people in those countries smoke and drink more.
So unless I see you also make the same argument against the 71 cases of countries with higher rates than the USA, I'm going to tell you to sit down and shut up. Because you're talking like an idiot.
Stop misappropriating the fact that people care enough to change things in the USA, with actual rates of those things occurring. Because if that's all you do, you'd think the USA was a racist hellhole. But you'd be wrong: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
As much as I dislike what Firefox has become, let's not for a second assume that the vocal minority that actually provides advice to your developers is in any way guaranteed to represent the rest of your user base.
Your community can provide feedback to specific cases. It cannot tell you how to design your product. You want good design, hire people with experience in design. You want the ultimate "design-by-committee", let users have a disproportionate access to your design process and watch them fight and fracture the community as they grab for power.
Relevant clicky "Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do":
http://blog.codinghorror.com/l...
While I'm sympathetic, the term "apps" predates cellphones by a few years.... being the 1980's and all.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries...
It has been proven (as if it needed to be) that we've executed an innocent person.
http://www.theatlantic.com/nat...
Any idea that you can "humanely" murder someone is a damned lie.
Moreover, remember the Central Park jogger case? Where they rounded up five minority scapegoats and said they brutally raped a pretty white girl? Everyone, including Donald Trump himself, was rallying to execute these kids. Now, it turns out they were all innocent. They spent 15 years of their lives in jail and they were LUCKY because they weren't executed. They had all of their primes taken away from them but they still get to live what's left.
The death penalty is for revenge, not justice. And the ones who pay the price when we're wrong isn't the prosecutors. Life in jail means innocent people have a chance. Death penalty removes that chance and replaces it with a false sense of faith in the system.
Use a joystick fed into JoyToKey (Windows), or whatever Linux alternative you fancy. I've been using one for years. They're much more forgiving than a mouse, where a erroneous flick, or a flick to far, means you're practically starting over on trying to get to the button you need.
If we can get Aaron Swartz to kill himself over "Hacking" by downloading a bunch of easily available peer-reviewed journals, why can't we treat "tampering of community works" with the same, broad, over-reaching laws?
...A man has cancer, and and he's still getting sicker, but not sicker at a faster rate, so I'm sure he'll be just fine.
Citation needed.
Mine has outlasted my Seagate physical hard drive and is still kicking butt after everyone told me I was a "fool for being an early adopter of SSDs." Meanwhile, plenty of their physical hard drives have come and gone as well.
> However, the drive should be read-only after that!
... With the heads.
If the heads are killing sectors, how do you think a hard drive reads from a sector?
... the real 8088 Corruption demo? (8088 @ 4.77 Mhz, CGA text-mode Soundblaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And the sequel, Domination (CGA in graphics mode):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But... but... we're supposed to hate Zuckerberg! Next thing you'll tell me Bill Gates was a programmer!
... crap.
> Your ex, for example, may be able to obtain a court order for you to undergo the procedure to remove your memories of all the good times you had together...
While that's an interesting plot for a Sci-Fi story, forcing someone to modify their body would amount to corporal punishment.
That's not to say governments might not abuse this (abduct you, get you to leak info, and erase they were ever there, Men in Black style), but your ex-wife will not be afforded such luxuries.
On the other hand, even if the government can erase MY memory, they can't erase everyone's memory, photos and video of my abduction and the acts they made commit. As violated as I would feel, the dark actions of the government wouldn't magically disappear. Which means it wouldn't be very useful for them in most circumstances except some form of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Well, that's not really what they said. Far out, that may be possible, but what they've done is not create memories but help the brain highlight important information. So you would still have to go to class, and still have to pay close attention to ensure your short-term doesn't toss it away (or you didn't listen to begin with). This would only force your brain to remember it. Side-effects include sexual arousal during all recalled memories.
I call the term "brain boner". You heard it first here folks!
What I find most interesting about brain research is 1) The possibility to communicate with non-humans and 2) the immediate ability of us to realize how cognitive our fellow animals are. We might find out we've been committing atrocities against intelligent lifeforms at an unfathomable scale. On a less disturbing advantage: 3) I'm a bird and I'm flying! Oh my Gooooddd! and 4) Better understanding of memory and learning. We might find out that the brain has a limit and we've all been bouncing off that limit without realizing it meaning filling your head with junk information is dangerous. Or that there's a certain, most effective way to learn that we've all missed. The future fills me with an awe-filled fear and excitement.
Yeah, I hate all those landmines the USA put down to keep people from leaving Utah.
... and the rest of his body parts too, but he definitely lost a leg.
I was just walking my dog one day and BOOM, my dog lost a leg.
>USB C still has that ridiculous plastic tab inside the female port that can break quite easily if you trip on the cable.
Yeah, and last night my external hard drive fell two feet into my "bundle of cables" behind my computer. It apparently fell into the HDMI cable and bent the cable where it attaches to the metal part, and broke it. A 35-ft cable ruined by a single falling object.
So what point are you trying to get at exactly?
Yeah, but you're an Abercrombie & Asshole if you then take something people can't afford and use it to shame them.
>And the whole USB to Ethernet dongle thing...
What are you BUYING then? Almost everything in my house that has WiFi is running on a USB stick, and I've used plenty of USB->Ethernet adapters and they run fine. I've even used USB-over-Ethernet adapters to encapsulate the raw USB packets from a HD Wireless camera on a Raspberry PI to show up as a normal webcam on my Windows machine.
The guys were racist, they got the hammer of justice thrown at them. They suffered consequences and will have to deal with and learn from them. Case closed.
Not all men are now magically racist, nor college students, nor frats. The system doesn't need to change. Everything worked as intended.
Personally, I don't think we need to make every event that happens into some huge debate over whether our culture is circling the drain and chanting, "There needs to be a law!".
That's just my opinion. Feel free to disagree, and I hope you have a good day.