Why can't the point of closed-source be to put food on the table? If all software is free, what are software developers going to do for a living? Buy an air nailer and become a roofer?
It can be, but we can still laugh at them for screwing it up and write it off as a Bad Idea. Look, you can make it your living to craft underwater potpourri, but you can't seriously be surprised to find that the market for that isn't exactly growing.
Besides, the huge majority of programmers work on in-house custom software. If Windows ceased to exist tomorrow, I'd still have my job as a web app developer. In reality, there just aren't that many people who make their living from selling closed source software.
Christian churches also con people into joining under false pretenses. The church pretends to own the door to eternal life, something which it does not in fact have.
But the key difference is that a legitimate religion will tell you those things if you ask (and often even if you don't). Walk into a Baptist church and ask the first person you see what they believe in, and $5 says they'll give you a handful of pamphlets that accurately portray their creed, and probably ask if you'd like a free Bible to take home to keep. Also, you can quit a Baptist church at any time, and the most that's likely to happen is that a member of that specific church will call to ask if there's something they can help you with. I'm not a Catholic, but I'd bet it's the same with them. I'm definitely not into Islam, but I'm guessing a visit to a mosque would get you a Koran and all the doctrinal answers you have.
Contrast with cults where you have to invest enormous amounts of time or money before you get to find out what your group actually believes.
Take any human being, give them nutrition and access to health care, a little math and logic, some history; add a dash of rhetoric to give them immunity to marketing, PR, propaganda (which was the real culprit in Idiocracy, not genetics). Et voila, another "genius".
You've never known any genuinely stupid people, have you? I have, and I assure you that there really is a gulf between Marilyn Vos Savant and people who cannot be made to understand basic arithmetic. Ignorance and stupidity aren't the same thing, and while ignorance is fixable, stupidity is forever.
It's great that you and I and the people around us are generally capable of picking up any arbitrary skill we set out to learn, but that simply isn't true for most people. BTW, I don't equate low IQ with unworthiness. I've known some very fine people who were a bit short in the thinking department, people I'd trust my life to without hesitation. Realistically, though, those people are just aren't able to do what you say.
The primary opposition to population control is religious/nativist, followed by Cold Warriors.
...followed by people who recognize that dumb people are unlikely to willingly stop breeding, so that the only way not to breed for stupidity as a nation is to enact draconion China-like controls.
If turning this guy's cell phone on was worth $20, doing it effectively means somebody is going to be out $20.
When you get around to taking college economics you'll learn about things like "marginal cost". For instance, that's how much it'd cost Verizon to provide cell phone service to that one customer for an hour. If they have a 0% profit margin and his bill was $60, they'd be out about $0.08. Instead, they probably paid their tech support staffers more than $20 in wages to handle the situation.
Put another way, if I arbitrarily say you owe me $X and then agree to waive it, I'm not really out $X. It didn't come out of my pocket; I just didn't get it.
To summarize: The trial judge is being accused of bias because he is a member of several IP protection groups. The judge assigned to review those allegations is also a member of the same groups. What's worse is that it seems the original judge may have directed the case specifically to this new judge.
GP is bit off his marbles, but your sequence can get "out of sync" if a transaction takes a value, makes an insert but decides to rollback - this means there will be a hole in the sequences issued.
We need them to maintain the RIAA equalization standard.
You mean the one that says "set all levels to 90% then compress the crap out of the result"? Because that's the only one anyone seems to use these days.
Yep, a supposed 'computer wizard' who couldn't even disassemble a printer driver
Um, says who? I can read assembler in several dialects, but darned if I wanna reverse engineer a Python program by looking at its bytecode. Even if it was written directly in assembler and not a relatively HLL, in the time when self-modifying code and Mel were common, even a genius would be loathe to binary patch something like that. Just think: the next time they release a new version, you get to start over from scratch!
It's your right to dislike Stallman or disagree with his positions, but you can't objectively call him a bad programmer.
Darned if I have a better hypothesis. If I'm doing 5 over on the interstate and in the rightmost lane, I have zero sympathy for people who want me to move out of the way.
In a statement, Mr. McMaster called Craigslist's legal action "good news" because "it shows that Craigslist is taking the matter seriously for the first time."
The logical disconnect is astounding, like if McBride claimed to be glad that Novell was suing because is demonstrates their serious intent.
I think you installed the wrong one. Netbook Remix is almost the exact opposite of a fancy UI, instead opting for a few large application icons and easy navigation.
Perhaps you should have thought about having sufficient time and space to overtake the car in front without breaking the speed limit before you started overtaking.
That's cute! In reality, you often need to pass because the lead driver has never heard of cruise control and likes to fluctuate between the speed limit and 15 under, and then speeds up as soon as you start to pull around them. Your statement is technically correct according to the driving manual, but utterly inapplicable in almost any real-world driving conditions.
If they could create a device that cut your speed when you drive too close to the guy in front, THAT would save lives. It's incredible how many stupid drivers think it's OK to tailgate.
For some reason, those jackasses seem to think it makes it easier for them to pass.
Tailgater: I'll ride six inches off his bumper, then suddenly swerve out and begin accelerating as soon as I'm clear, pedal to the floor and hell bent for leather because I'll need to be going 25mph faster than him to get around before I have a head on collision.
Smart driver: I'll ride a couple seconds back, and when an opportunity approaches, I'll gradually speed up ahead of time. That way I'll already be going 10mph faster than him by the time I change lanes and I'll only be facing oncoming traffic for a few seconds.
on a side note the traction control on it reacts by not limiting but rather removing all power to the tires..
Wow. Mine works by cutting the power slightly and lightly applying the brakes, which causes the differential to more evenly distribute power to both drive wheels. This is on a '98 Olds. I think things have gotten better since they made your car.
is seeing UFO's somehow more scientifically acceptable that an ID-proponent?
Disclaimer: I can't stand Kucinich's liberal policies. He might be a great guy for all I know, but I think his politics suck. That said, yeah, I put UFOs and ID on entirely different planes. First, there's approximately zero chance that we're the only intelligent life. Second, science says you don't get to reject data just because it doesn't conveniently fit your hypothesis. I'm not saying that UFOs bearing visiting aliens exist, but we don't know of any hard reason why they couldn't.
excessive speed is one of the primary ways that people are killed while driving.
From a physics point of view, I'd say that the absorption of kinetic energy is almost always the cause of death while driving.
I don't know if I'm a hacker because of my mindset, or if I developed the mindset from being a hacker, but I reflexively try to find unintended consequences of these things. Suppose I'm in the middle of nowhere and my kid got bit by a snake, or a woman is being chased by an attacker. The benefits of driving faster than lawful clearly outweight the risks sometimes.
That query shows all results even tangentially related to Apache family. You need to look at the advisories for Apache 2.2, Apache 2.0, and Apache 1.3 specifically.
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throw out years' worth of marketing effort
"Zune". Any other questions?
Why can't the point of closed-source be to put food on the table? If all software is free, what are software developers going to do for a living? Buy an air nailer and become a roofer?
It can be, but we can still laugh at them for screwing it up and write it off as a Bad Idea. Look, you can make it your living to craft underwater potpourri, but you can't seriously be surprised to find that the market for that isn't exactly growing.
Besides, the huge majority of programmers work on in-house custom software. If Windows ceased to exist tomorrow, I'd still have my job as a web app developer. In reality, there just aren't that many people who make their living from selling closed source software.
Christian churches also con people into joining under false pretenses. The church pretends to own the door to eternal life, something which it does not in fact have.
But the key difference is that a legitimate religion will tell you those things if you ask (and often even if you don't). Walk into a Baptist church and ask the first person you see what they believe in, and $5 says they'll give you a handful of pamphlets that accurately portray their creed, and probably ask if you'd like a free Bible to take home to keep. Also, you can quit a Baptist church at any time, and the most that's likely to happen is that a member of that specific church will call to ask if there's something they can help you with. I'm not a Catholic, but I'd bet it's the same with them. I'm definitely not into Islam, but I'm guessing a visit to a mosque would get you a Koran and all the doctrinal answers you have.
Contrast with cults where you have to invest enormous amounts of time or money before you get to find out what your group actually believes.
Take any human being, give them nutrition and access to health care, a little math and logic, some history; add a dash of rhetoric to give them immunity to marketing, PR, propaganda (which was the real culprit in Idiocracy, not genetics). Et voila, another "genius".
You've never known any genuinely stupid people, have you? I have, and I assure you that there really is a gulf between Marilyn Vos Savant and people who cannot be made to understand basic arithmetic. Ignorance and stupidity aren't the same thing, and while ignorance is fixable, stupidity is forever.
It's great that you and I and the people around us are generally capable of picking up any arbitrary skill we set out to learn, but that simply isn't true for most people. BTW, I don't equate low IQ with unworthiness. I've known some very fine people who were a bit short in the thinking department, people I'd trust my life to without hesitation. Realistically, though, those people are just aren't able to do what you say.
The primary opposition to population control is religious/nativist, followed by Cold Warriors.
...followed by people who recognize that dumb people are unlikely to willingly stop breeding, so that the only way not to breed for stupidity as a nation is to enact draconion China-like controls.
Now, the president of Brazil is a very enlightened man, and on the side of the common workers. In fact, his party is called the Workers Party.
In political circles, "Workers'" and "People's" are codewords for "ran by sociopaths".
If turning this guy's cell phone on was worth $20, doing it effectively means somebody is going to be out $20.
When you get around to taking college economics you'll learn about things like "marginal cost". For instance, that's how much it'd cost Verizon to provide cell phone service to that one customer for an hour. If they have a 0% profit margin and his bill was $60, they'd be out about $0.08. Instead, they probably paid their tech support staffers more than $20 in wages to handle the situation.
Put another way, if I arbitrarily say you owe me $X and then agree to waive it, I'm not really out $X. It didn't come out of my pocket; I just didn't get it.
He doesn't have to support IE, but he does have to hand code his pages using emacs.
Umm, doesn't everyone?
/only halfway joking
Sweden: East Texas of the North?
GP is bit off his marbles, but your sequence can get "out of sync" if a transaction takes a value, makes an insert but decides to rollback - this means there will be a hole in the sequences issued.
Is that ever a problem?
We need them to maintain the RIAA equalization standard.
You mean the one that says "set all levels to 90% then compress the crap out of the result"? Because that's the only one anyone seems to use these days.
When his wife goes all PMRC on your industry?
SQLite is fast all right, but it doesn't scale at all.
MySQL does?
PostgreSQL scales well, but is fairly slow on average.
Honestly, that hasn't been true in years.
The thing with MySQL is that you were supposed to have both.
And yet somehow ended up with neither.
Yep, a supposed 'computer wizard' who couldn't even disassemble a printer driver
Um, says who? I can read assembler in several dialects, but darned if I wanna reverse engineer a Python program by looking at its bytecode. Even if it was written directly in assembler and not a relatively HLL, in the time when self-modifying code and Mel were common, even a genius would be loathe to binary patch something like that. Just think: the next time they release a new version, you get to start over from scratch!
It's your right to dislike Stallman or disagree with his positions, but you can't objectively call him a bad programmer.
Darned if I have a better hypothesis. If I'm doing 5 over on the interstate and in the rightmost lane, I have zero sympathy for people who want me to move out of the way.
Sometimes, yeah. That's the most surefire way to get me to gradually slow to 5 under.
The conservatives would destroy any politician who suggested it and the democrats don't want logic enough to fight the conservatives on this battle.
Oh, please. The liberals are equally likely to pitch a fit about the moneyed objectification of women or something similar.
In a statement, Mr. McMaster called Craigslist's legal action "good news" because "it shows that Craigslist is taking the matter seriously for the first time."
The logical disconnect is astounding, like if McBride claimed to be glad that Novell was suing because is demonstrates their serious intent.
I think you installed the wrong one. Netbook Remix is almost the exact opposite of a fancy UI, instead opting for a few large application icons and easy navigation.
Perhaps you should have thought about having sufficient time and space to overtake the car in front without breaking the speed limit before you started overtaking.
That's cute! In reality, you often need to pass because the lead driver has never heard of cruise control and likes to fluctuate between the speed limit and 15 under, and then speeds up as soon as you start to pull around them. Your statement is technically correct according to the driving manual, but utterly inapplicable in almost any real-world driving conditions.
If they could create a device that cut your speed when you drive too close to the guy in front, THAT would save lives. It's incredible how many stupid drivers think it's OK to tailgate.
For some reason, those jackasses seem to think it makes it easier for them to pass.
Tailgater: I'll ride six inches off his bumper, then suddenly swerve out and begin accelerating as soon as I'm clear, pedal to the floor and hell bent for leather because I'll need to be going 25mph faster than him to get around before I have a head on collision.
Smart driver: I'll ride a couple seconds back, and when an opportunity approaches, I'll gradually speed up ahead of time. That way I'll already be going 10mph faster than him by the time I change lanes and I'll only be facing oncoming traffic for a few seconds.
on a side note the traction control on it reacts by not limiting but rather removing all power to the tires..
Wow. Mine works by cutting the power slightly and lightly applying the brakes, which causes the differential to more evenly distribute power to both drive wheels. This is on a '98 Olds. I think things have gotten better since they made your car.
is seeing UFO's somehow more scientifically acceptable that an ID-proponent?
Disclaimer: I can't stand Kucinich's liberal policies. He might be a great guy for all I know, but I think his politics suck. That said, yeah, I put UFOs and ID on entirely different planes. First, there's approximately zero chance that we're the only intelligent life. Second, science says you don't get to reject data just because it doesn't conveniently fit your hypothesis. I'm not saying that UFOs bearing visiting aliens exist, but we don't know of any hard reason why they couldn't.
excessive speed is one of the primary ways that people are killed while driving.
From a physics point of view, I'd say that the absorption of kinetic energy is almost always the cause of death while driving.
I don't know if I'm a hacker because of my mindset, or if I developed the mindset from being a hacker, but I reflexively try to find unintended consequences of these things. Suppose I'm in the middle of nowhere and my kid got bit by a snake, or a woman is being chased by an attacker. The benefits of driving faster than lawful clearly outweight the risks sometimes.
That query shows all results even tangentially related to Apache family. You need to look at the advisories for Apache 2.2, Apache 2.0, and Apache 1.3 specifically.