Can't they break it down with a hex editor and see what's under the hood?
Not really. It's kinda like looking at that blueprints to a race car. Even if you know every little bit of the thing, you don't really understand what it does or how it does it until you can take it out on the test track.
Besides, looking at compiled code in a hex editor is kinda like looking at a jpeg in a hex editor. Maybe you see some interesting patterns, but it's tough to get the big picture.
BTW, yes, it is bad analogy week here on Slashdot. Didn't you get the memo?
Funny, I was always under the impression that they mined lead out of the ground in the first place! So what exactly would be the problem with putting it back where it was?
The problem is in the fact that you're spreading that stuff around. We (humans) take lead from lead mines. Before we got there, it was pretty deep underground. Furry woodland creatures already knew enough not to live deep underground in lead mines, but when we dump this crap in their homes, they've got nowhere to go. It's kinda like flooding. Sure, the water was always around, but not in such high concentrations, and not in your living room.
There has to be SOME measure of prevention to keep children from accessing pornography.
At least online, there is. How many 12-year olds do you know with credit cards? Online porn sites DON'T MAKE MONEY FROM CHILDREN! It's not like Peter the 'Puter Pornographer is actively courting children. Kiddie-clicks just waste the site's bandwidth and raise their bills.
Besides, keeping porn away from adolescents isn't necessarily a good idea anyway. Think how much fun your neighborhood sexually-frustrated 14-year-old is already. Now take away his Penthouse, and tell him he's gotta vent his steam to his mom's Sears underwear catalog.
In related news, diligent posters on the notable anti-productivity website Slashdot.org recognized the irony of spending company time screwing around on message boards and reading about "productivity enhancers".
Bah, look at any of the great masters of art. There are two parts, really: the actual art/inspiration part and the craft/technique of rendering your ideas into a form that others will want to observe. Everyone gets inspired from time to time. The reason we're not all full-time artists is that it takes effort and dedication to get "good" at it.
What's the point? I was just having this discussion with my brother-in-law the other day, and between us we couldn't figure out why anyone would want to use software like this, rather than just using Vonage and getting a VOIP phone. Come to think of it, why have a land-line at all these days?
Well, see, the downside of this approach is that you have to spend your time writing frikkin' JAVASCRIPT!!! Having done my fair share of JS at my last job, it's always been my experience that writing and maintaining a Javascript app any more than about 500 lines (not to mention working around Javasctipt/DOM implementation bugs on various platforms) make me want to kill.
Of course, this might have had something to do with the fact that we were forced to support Netscape 4.7, even in the age of Mozilla.
So, you're saying that a system administrator isn't the same thing as a prostitute? No wonder I get slapped every time I offer our MCSE money for sex!
BTW, what do you mean by a long-running profession? As long as there are systems that need looking after, the people who designed the system you're using will be designing its replacement.
Well first off, consider the sources of information. Is it a coincidence that the people who make their money selling us oil are also the ones trying to convince us that it's in short supply? "Get it now, while supplies last!"
As for a potential site for the algae farm, might I suggest, oh, New Jersey? We can change the official nickname over to "The Algae Garden State"!
Yeah, umm, read your own quotation there. They "expect to meet [their] revenue projections". Nowhere do they state what those projections are, or whether they even "project" a profit at any point in the forseeable future. Again, farther down in the FAQ, they answer the question, "Is it profitable?" with the rather evasive answer, "The plant is still in the startup phase, but we expect to meet our projections when the plant is operating at full capacity." I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to try and find their actual "projections".
The scary thing about that statistic is the idea of a short squeeze. Basically, that means that if the price rises a bit, maybe some people are forced to buy back the stock, 'cuz they don't have enough money in their margin account to cover the stock's value anymore. This buy bumps the price some more, and now the next guy has to cover. It's hardly ever an issue, but 50% short interest is pretty much unheard of.
Of course, for this to happen, the stock price would actually have to go *up* first...
Just so ya know, Bert Young has a experience in helping companies that are basically dead in the water keep up the illusion of growth right up to the moment of reckoning. The GL has a story on it here.
No, the *real* worst is that the Earth heats up just enough to be considered a warm, sunny vacation destination by aliens who will spend their recreation time anally probing us with tools devices that are something like a cross between an industrial drill press, a belt sender and a soldering iron.
I got my shares through Scottrade. A few buddies and I went in on some shares a few months ago, and a few more over the next coupla months, but there haven't been any available lately, until just the last few days. Somebody's dumping, the brokerages are buying 'em up and loaning 'em to us to short. It's all coming together...
Oh my gosh!!!! You will be all of ~$1800 richer, if the stock goes to zero, which it won't anytime soon.
Oh no? Wanna bet? My money's on the table.
Why don't you take up a career as a Day Trader?
Or, maybe I'll look at it (stock trading) as a profitable hobby, just like poker, or mugging people in the alley.
Geesh. Grow up and write something intelligent. No wonder you have to day-trade probably because your employer (if you have one) doesn't pay you fsk.
Meh, I make enough to keep me in bologna sandwiches and Beck's, which is my preferred form of existence anyway. When this shakes out, I'll be able to afford some of that sweet sweet Deutschmacher lunchmeat.
Those Germans sure know how to make a tasty bologna...
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Can't they break it down with a hex editor and see what's under the hood?
Not really. It's kinda like looking at that blueprints to a race car. Even if you know every little bit of the thing, you don't really understand what it does or how it does it until you can take it out on the test track.
Besides, looking at compiled code in a hex editor is kinda like looking at a jpeg in a hex editor. Maybe you see some interesting patterns, but it's tough to get the big picture.
BTW, yes, it is bad analogy week here on Slashdot. Didn't you get the memo?
Funny, I was always under the impression that they mined lead out of the ground in the first place! So what exactly would be the problem with putting it back where it was?
The problem is in the fact that you're spreading that stuff around. We (humans) take lead from lead mines. Before we got there, it was pretty deep underground. Furry woodland creatures already knew enough not to live deep underground in lead mines, but when we dump this crap in their homes, they've got nowhere to go. It's kinda like flooding. Sure, the water was always around, but not in such high concentrations, and not in your living room.
Man, is he ever gonna be embarassed when he gets to the green, and realizes he left his putter in Choybalsan.
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See, now there's a flaw in *your* statement:
There has to be SOME measure of prevention to keep children from accessing pornography.
At least online, there is. How many 12-year olds do you know with credit cards? Online porn sites DON'T MAKE MONEY FROM CHILDREN! It's not like Peter the 'Puter Pornographer is actively courting children. Kiddie-clicks just waste the site's bandwidth and raise their bills.
Besides, keeping porn away from adolescents isn't necessarily a good idea anyway. Think how much fun your neighborhood sexually-frustrated 14-year-old is already. Now take away his Penthouse, and tell him he's gotta vent his steam to his mom's Sears underwear catalog.
In related news, diligent posters on the notable anti-productivity website Slashdot.org recognized the irony of spending company time screwing around on message boards and reading about "productivity enhancers".
Bah, look at any of the great masters of art. There are two parts, really: the actual art/inspiration part and the craft/technique of rendering your ideas into a form that others will want to observe. Everyone gets inspired from time to time. The reason we're not all full-time artists is that it takes effort and dedication to get "good" at it.
What's the point? I was just having this discussion with my brother-in-law the other day, and between us we couldn't figure out why anyone would want to use software like this, rather than just using Vonage and getting a VOIP phone. Come to think of it, why have a land-line at all these days?
Well, see, the downside of this approach is that you have to spend your time writing frikkin' JAVASCRIPT!!! Having done my fair share of JS at my last job, it's always been my experience that writing and maintaining a Javascript app any more than about 500 lines (not to mention working around Javasctipt/DOM implementation bugs on various platforms) make me want to kill.
Of course, this might have had something to do with the fact that we were forced to support Netscape 4.7, even in the age of Mozilla.
Yeah, saw that movie already. It was called "Tron". Remember how the MCP was all about taking over other programs' functions?
Dude, it's Yahoo.com and the US gov't. I think they can handle the load. What next, local mirrors of a Google cache?
So, you're saying that a system administrator isn't the same thing as a prostitute? No wonder I get slapped every time I offer our MCSE money for sex!
BTW, what do you mean by a long-running profession? As long as there are systems that need looking after, the people who designed the system you're using will be designing its replacement.
Well first off, consider the sources of information. Is it a coincidence that the people who make their money selling us oil are also the ones trying to convince us that it's in short supply? "Get it now, while supplies last!"
As for a potential site for the algae farm, might I suggest, oh, New Jersey? We can change the official nickname over to "The Algae Garden State"!
Yeah, umm, read your own quotation there. They "expect to meet [their] revenue projections". Nowhere do they state what those projections are, or whether they even "project" a profit at any point in the forseeable future. Again, farther down in the FAQ, they answer the question, "Is it profitable?" with the rather evasive answer, "The plant is still in the startup phase, but we expect to meet our projections when the plant is operating at full capacity." I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to try and find their actual "projections".
As in all things, it comes down to the bottom line. If you can't turn a profit from it, you probably won't get to keep doing it for long.
Bah. Call me back when you're ready to offer me an SUV that gets 20 miles to the giblet.
Wow, clues to a 2-billion-year-old murder? Sounds like Angela Lansbury's first case...
Can I mod this article as flamebait?
The scary thing about that statistic is the idea of a short squeeze. Basically, that means that if the price rises a bit, maybe some people are forced to buy back the stock, 'cuz they don't have enough money in their margin account to cover the stock's value anymore. This buy bumps the price some more, and now the next guy has to cover. It's hardly ever an issue, but 50% short interest is pretty much unheard of.
Of course, for this to happen, the stock price would actually have to go *up* first...
Just so ya know, Bert Young has a experience in helping companies that are basically dead in the water keep up the illusion of growth right up to the moment of reckoning. The GL has a story on it here.
Whoah, wait 'til they find out I'm sharing copyrighted photos of 14-year-old, one-eyed, peg-legged pooches getting it on.
... come to think of it, I'm nothing like the ice cream man at all... I was just talking outta my ass.
That seems about right, looking at your logo there. It looks like the WiFi comes out of your ass as you ride...
You call that a worst-case scenario?!?
No, the *real* worst is that the Earth heats up just enough to be considered a warm, sunny vacation destination by aliens who will spend their recreation time anally probing us with tools devices that are something like a cross between an industrial drill press, a belt sender and a soldering iron.
Now that's a worst-case scenario...
I got my shares through Scottrade. A few buddies and I went in on some shares a few months ago, and a few more over the next coupla months, but there haven't been any available lately, until just the last few days. Somebody's dumping, the brokerages are buying 'em up and loaning 'em to us to short. It's all coming together...
Oh no? Wanna bet? My money's on the table.
Why don't you take up a career as a Day Trader?
Or, maybe I'll look at it (stock trading) as a profitable hobby, just like poker, or mugging people in the alley.
Geesh. Grow up and write something intelligent. No wonder you have to day-trade probably because your employer (if you have one) doesn't pay you fsk.
Meh, I make enough to keep me in bologna sandwiches and Beck's, which is my preferred form of existence anyway. When this shakes out, I'll be able to afford some of that sweet sweet Deutschmacher lunchmeat.
Those Germans sure know how to make a tasty bologna...