Oppressive behavior just creates terrorists, it doesn't find or defeat them.
Perfect! That's just what the government needs to justify all this bullshit!
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Can someone clear this up for me? I keep hearing the two differ. Some tell me they're a geek but not a nerd. Some the opposite. So what is what? Where can I find _the_ definition to point all others to?
Nobody writes it down. If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
Watch the movie "Wargames" (The original 1983 one.) Wait for the scene when David goes to the university to talk to Jim and Malvin, and observe the characters. Jim is a geek, and Malvin is a nerd.
Now Engadget have discovered that the Windows Phone OS makes permanent changes to a card that can prevent it from being read, written to or formatted on any other device.
That's the thing about the corporate system that many people fail to realize. It's very easy to get a corporation to change what they're doing if there's a coordinated effort by consumers to choose not to buy from a certain manufacturer until practices are changed.
That's the thing about the corporate system that corporate apologists people fail to realize. It's almost impossible to get a coordinated effort by consumers because the corporations have so more damn money than individuals, and can drown out any opposition to their pracices.
It's a great server OS, sure, but lets look at this realistically:
- the Windows /.NET trading system was based on Windows 2003 and SQL 2000, and was deployed in 2005. - the Linux-based system is under development now, to be deployed next year.
You missed
- the Windows /.NET trading hardware has been upgraded continuously because it was unable to cope with the load.
Just based on that, you'd expect substantial performance differences from just using newer hardware.
Sure, except for the part that the both are running on new hardware.
Chances are that the original kit was certified as a part of the solution, and hasn't been replaced since.
"Chances are" - except that is 100% wrong. They had problems since day 1, which were blamed on the hardware, so they've been constantly upgrading it trying to fix the problem.
Even ignoring the hardware and the OS, one would expect 90% of the performance to be determined by the application, not the OS. Decisions like writing the software in.NET versus C or Java, or using a special-purpose Java runtime would make a huge difference, irrespective of the OS.
The old system was written with the help of MS. They were the ones that said that.NET was the best way to implement it, and they even touted this in their press releases.
On top of this, the software stack is completely different, and developed by a different team. Just about every design decision, small and large, will be different.
Of course it's completely different - that's the entire fscking point.
They are trained to take control of situations and something silly like not respecting their authority and blowing bubbles can sometimes escalate quickly into something worse.
So, a cop sees you doing something he doesn't like (say maybe dancing, or listening to music) and decides you're not "respecting his authority" - it gives him the right to come over to you and harrass you?
fuck that.
This cop had a choice - he could have just ignored it. The female cop that was talking to the protester has no problem, why did Officer Bubbles have to stick his nose in it?
Why is math education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be mathematicians or accountants, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
--OR--
Why is english education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be writers, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
--OR--
Why is history education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be historians, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
--OR--
Why is physical education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be althletes, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
You can apply this argument to pretty much every school subject - so your question is really "why do we send children to school"?
My Wi-Fi has no password, and that's a purposeful choice.
Which doesn't mean it's not unsecured. It just means that it's unsecured on purpose.
Supposed you have a bicycle. You chain it to a lamppost. It is now secured. Supposed you take the same bicycle and decide purposely to not chain it to anything. Just because you decided not to chain it doesn't make it magically secured. It's still unsecured, you just made the decision not to secure it.
Of course it can - make sure you have 1/2 tank of gas, and have someone whack the rear bumper with a sledgehammer. I'm sure parts of the pinto will reach 96mph.:)
And you are clearly completely unaware of the contracting world.
I have yet to meet a contractor that knows much of anything about screwdrivers or any other tool than a hammer. On the other hand the majority of them have complained about how hard it is to drive screws with the hammer.
They ALL do this. You're telling thousands of contractors to change how they do things, and honestly, not for the better. They know how to use a hammer and know how to drive nails.
A large portion of them took contracting because it was supposed to make them a lot of money, these people don't even use 1/10th of the functionality provided by a hammer, lets not try to make them learn another entirely different tool skill set, ok?
Even if you're currently working in contracting supply and are like "Oh, no, our contractors have access to all this stuff and they would never do that". Trust me, they do. It all ends up pounded by a hammer somewhere eventually.
Do you think anyone will want to buy stocks if the Democrats stay in power?
Wrong question. The right question is "Do you think anyone will want to invest in stocks if the republicans get power?"
With an increase in capital gains taxes, people will still buy stocks. What will change is that they will hold on to them longer, which can only be a good thing.
With more "long" investors, corporations can begin to invest in long-term strategy, rather than focusing solely on short-term profits that cannibalize future profits.
Increasing capital gains taxes will have a negative impact on daytrading leeches, possibly forcing them to lose their gravy train and making them have to do something constructive.
This is pretty much a win-win-win-win scenario for workers, corporations, investors, innovators, and the economy.
Consider a country with ten people, one making $1M and nine making $1k.
The one making the $1M also happens to be an entrepreneur who likes to create businesses and hires the lower-income persons. If the first guy's income tax is increased to 90%, then he can't create those new businesses.
Why not? If his tax rate is 90%, he's making $100,000 after paying the $9,000 to his employees. (Remember, it's income tax, not gross sales before expenses tax.
The whole "rich people shouldn't be taxed as much because otherwise they won't create jobs" is pure, unmitigated bullshit.
One of the reasons why big business loves Windows and isn't that interested in Linux other than maybe Red Hat is because if things go horribly wrong, there's somebody with deep pockets to sue.
Yup, that's why the London Stock Exchange sued MS after the entire fscking exchange went down in flames, right?
Oh, wait - no they didn't. They licked their wounds and switched to Linux.
I got an email from them, claiming that someone I knew wanted me to join. It was a spammer - the "custom message" that was included was a single link to a spam site in China.
The email had a "if this is spam..." report button, so I used it, and noted to linkedin that I didn't know the person, and it was *obviously* spam (the link was to a spam site.) Their automated system thanked me for reporting the abuse, and I thought that was the end of it.
Two weeks later, I receive a "helpful reminder" from Linkedin, telling me that I hadn't confirmed or rejected the invitation. Not only had they not taken any action, they helpfully included the spam link, and seemed blissfully unaware that I had reported this spammer's account two weeks prior.
Linkedin are just a bunch of scummy spammers. I blocked all email from their domain since.
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bet they didn't even think to talk to Teller about this.
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't say anything.
Oppressive behavior just creates terrorists, it doesn't find or defeat them.
Perfect! That's just what the government needs to justify all this bullshit!
Can someone clear this up for me? I keep hearing the two differ. Some tell me they're a geek but not a nerd. Some the opposite. So what is what? Where can I find _the_ definition to point all others to?
Nobody writes it down. If you have to ask, you don't need to know.
Watch the movie "Wargames" (The original 1983 one.) Wait for the scene when David goes to the university to talk to Jim and Malvin, and observe the characters. Jim is a geek, and Malvin is a nerd.
Try reading the Article.
Now Engadget have discovered that the Windows Phone OS makes permanent changes to a card that can prevent it from being read, written to or formatted on any other device.
So, no.
Microsoft promises to take legal responsibiliy in the case of patent lawsuits resulting from use of their platform
What does that have to do with copyright claims?
Answer: absolutely nothing.
Through contract law, just like every other contract ever written.
Come on, what real proof is there the rule change is to be more "embarrassing"?
Occam's razor.
It's utterly stupid on the face of it if you think AT ALL
Exactly - the utter absurdity that this could be in any way about security is the "real proof".
That's the thing about the corporate system that many people fail to realize. It's very easy to get a corporation to change what they're doing if there's a coordinated effort by consumers to choose not to buy from a certain manufacturer until practices are changed.
That's the thing about the corporate system that corporate apologists people fail to realize. It's almost impossible to get a coordinated effort by consumers because the corporations have so more damn money than individuals, and can drown out any opposition to their pracices.
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It's a great server OS, sure, but lets look at this realistically:
- the Windows / .NET trading system was based on Windows 2003 and SQL 2000, and was deployed in 2005.
- the Linux-based system is under development now, to be deployed next year.
You missed
- the Windows / .NET trading hardware has been upgraded continuously because it was unable to cope with the load.
Just based on that, you'd expect substantial performance differences from just using newer hardware.
Sure, except for the part that the both are running on new hardware.
Chances are that the original kit was certified as a part of the solution, and hasn't been replaced since.
"Chances are" - except that is 100% wrong. They had problems since day 1, which were blamed on the hardware, so they've been constantly upgrading it trying to fix the problem.
Even ignoring the hardware and the OS, one would expect 90% of the performance to be determined by the application, not the OS. Decisions like writing the software in .NET versus C or Java, or using a special-purpose Java runtime would make a huge difference, irrespective of the OS.
The old system was written with the help of MS. They were the ones that said that .NET was the best way to implement it, and they even touted this in their press releases.
On top of this, the software stack is completely different, and developed by a different team. Just about every design decision, small and large, will be different.
Of course it's completely different - that's the entire fscking point.
That would be enabled by default in Mach. /me ducks
Citation needed, from a reliable, non-biased source.
Every True Scotsman knows that any source that is reliable is alwayes biased, and vice-versa.
What's the difference?
I can see the source code for Android
Which (incidentally) is why it's open, and apple's offering isn't.
They are trained to take control of situations and something silly like not respecting their authority and blowing bubbles can sometimes escalate quickly into something worse.
So, a cop sees you doing something he doesn't like (say maybe dancing, or listening to music) and decides you're not "respecting his authority" - it gives him the right to come over to you and harrass you?
fuck that.
This cop had a choice - he could have just ignored it. The female cop that was talking to the protester has no problem, why did Officer Bubbles have to stick his nose in it?
Eat well, exercise and get regular chiropractic adjustments [...] You'll never get heart disease or cancer.
And how much of that will be due to the last, rather than the first two items?
Jesus, you sound like the adverts for sugar-laden cardboard which claim their product is "part of this healthy breakfast"..
Why is math education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be mathematicians or accountants, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
--OR--
Why is english education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be writers, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
--OR--
Why is history education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be historians, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
--OR--
Why is physical education important in public schools?
The vast majority of students will not be althletes, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.
You can apply this argument to pretty much every school subject - so your question is really "why do we send children to school"?
My Wi-Fi has no password, and that's a purposeful choice.
Which doesn't mean it's not unsecured. It just means that it's unsecured on purpose.
Supposed you have a bicycle. You chain it to a lamppost. It is now secured.
Supposed you take the same bicycle and decide purposely to not chain it to anything. Just because you decided not to chain it doesn't make it magically secured. It's still unsecured, you just made the decision not to secure it.
(Assuming a pinto can go 96 mph)
Of course it can - make sure you have 1/2 tank of gas, and have someone whack the rear bumper with a sledgehammer. I'm sure parts of the pinto will reach 96mph. :)
And you are clearly completely unaware of the contracting world.
I have yet to meet a contractor that knows much of anything about screwdrivers or any other tool than a hammer. On the other hand the majority of them have complained about how hard it is to drive screws with the hammer.
They ALL do this. You're telling thousands of contractors to change how they do things, and honestly, not for the better. They know how to use a hammer and know how to drive nails.
A large portion of them took contracting because it was supposed to make them a lot of money, these people don't even use 1/10th of the functionality provided by a hammer, lets not try to make them learn another entirely different tool skill set, ok?
Even if you're currently working in contracting supply and are like "Oh, no, our contractors have access to all this stuff and they would never do that". Trust me, they do. It all ends up pounded by a hammer somewhere eventually.
It would be illegal if the CBC did NOT have this policy.
Bullshit.
their PodCasts are ad supported. Almost all CC music forbids commercial use.
So - because some CC-licensed music is non-commercial, then *ALL* CC-licensed music is illegal on an ad-supported blog?
Logic. You fail it.
The CBC has said that you cannot use music that forbids commercial use
No. They said you cannot use Creative Commons licensed music, some of which (as you have already pointed out) does not forbid commercial use.
Slashdot, of course, went the same rout it always goes with news: Outright lies.
No, that would be you.
Do you think anyone will want to buy stocks if the Democrats stay in power?
Wrong question. The right question is "Do you think anyone will want to invest in stocks if the republicans get power?"
With an increase in capital gains taxes, people will still buy stocks. What will change is that they will hold on to them longer, which can only be a good thing.
With more "long" investors, corporations can begin to invest in long-term strategy, rather than focusing solely on short-term profits that cannibalize future profits.
Increasing capital gains taxes will have a negative impact on daytrading leeches, possibly forcing them to lose their gravy train and making them have to do something constructive.
This is pretty much a win-win-win-win scenario for workers, corporations, investors, innovators, and the economy.
Consider a country with ten people, one making $1M and nine making $1k.
The one making the $1M also happens to be an entrepreneur who likes to create businesses and hires the lower-income persons. If the first guy's income tax is increased to 90%, then he can't create those new businesses.
Why not? If his tax rate is 90%, he's making $100,000 after paying the $9,000 to his employees. (Remember, it's income tax, not gross sales before expenses tax.
The whole "rich people shouldn't be taxed as much because otherwise they won't create jobs" is pure, unmitigated bullshit.
One of the reasons why big business loves Windows and isn't that interested in Linux other than maybe Red Hat is because if things go horribly wrong, there's somebody with deep pockets to sue.
Yup, that's why the London Stock Exchange sued MS after the entire fscking exchange went down in flames, right?
Oh, wait - no they didn't. They licked their wounds and switched to Linux.
Methinks your premise is flawed.
So a company with no history in the industry is annoyed because IMDB won't list their pre-production film.
No.
A company with a long history in the industry is annoyed because IMDB won't list their pre-production film.
How is their problem different from any other production company without a history of releases behind them?
It's different because they *do* have a history of releases behind them.
Your problem is that you're parroting the IMDB's response, and ignoring reality.
Linkedin are just a bunch of spammers anyway.
I got an email from them, claiming that someone I knew wanted me to join. It was a spammer - the "custom message" that was included was a single link to a spam site in China.
The email had a "if this is spam..." report button, so I used it, and noted to linkedin that I didn't know the person, and it was *obviously* spam (the link was to a spam site.) Their automated system thanked me for reporting the abuse, and I thought that was the end of it.
Two weeks later, I receive a "helpful reminder" from Linkedin, telling me that I hadn't confirmed or rejected the invitation. Not only had they not taken any action, they helpfully included the spam link, and seemed blissfully unaware that I had reported this spammer's account two weeks prior.
Linkedin are just a bunch of scummy spammers. I blocked all email from their domain since.