There is no difference between scientology, islam, catholicism or bantu spirit jabber - they are all mechanisms to live free and prosper at the behest of others.
Buddists might be an exception to that. Being poor and humble is a key part of their story...
Yes, I'm going to have to take care to stop being infected by malware. Good anti-virus, good firewall, Chrome browser, safe surfing habits, care with email.
Don't even bother with that. I haven't run AV on my Windows machines for about 8 years and never had issues. Sensible surfing and email takes care of 99% of it, and a regular re-image the rest. You can also use things like Deep Freeze to keep your freshly images machine clean.
the multicopter that was involved in the accident was using a very outmoded form of technology to control the multicopter (wifi) rather than the far more reliable multichannel failsafe 2.4GHz DSMX systems that are in common use with bigger multicopters.
It's all wi-fi. Fancy wi-fi may more reliable than crap wi-fi, but it's still all wi-fi, and it all has a range which when you go past, you still lose control.
(note: apologies for a double post, I forgot to log in to post this reply.)
the multicopter that was involved in the accident was using a very outmoded form of technology to control the multicopter (wifi) rather than the far more reliable multichannel failsafe 2.4GHz DSMX systems that are in common use with bigger multicopters.
It's all wi-fi. Fancy wi-fi may more reliable than crap wi-fi, but it's still all wi-fi, and it all has a range which when you go past, you still lose control.
IAll these things, btw, I can do with Google+, but Google was late in the social media space, so I prefer FB since pretty much everybody that I know is already there.
That and the fact that G+ sucks arse. If G+ was exactly like Facebook, then Facebook would already be dead. Instead Google ran their nerd wand over it and made a complete mess of an interface that no-one can figure out what is going on. I prefer FB because the interface makes sense, and both my children and parents can use it without asking for help. G+ fails that test miserably.
Why? I used to be a bored sysadmin for a few years and spent many many hours reading everyone's email. At first it seemed interesting, but not long after, even the juiciest of gossip got boring. Undisclosed office romances, nude selfies, bitchiness, drug dealing all got a bit meh after a while. Seen it all before and once you have a big enough sample of human activity it's all just the same material with slightly different characters.
I can see an interest in big data purely for marketing reasons, and maybe some law enforcement interest, but I can't see how me or any of my Facebook friend's data is particularly interesting to anybody. Once you've seen holiday photos, photos of what I had for dinner, photos of my nieces and nephews, and co-ordinate where we're going for drinks next weekend, it's 99.999% noise.
I don't know if it is that hard, it just takes a critical mass which is the difficult part. Having said that, my teenage kids and their friends don't seem to care for Facebook, they all like Instagram for some reason, and some other IM apps. Facebook seems to have grabbed generation of 20 to 40 somethings, but not so much for anyone else. So it's only a matter of time before something new takes over. We all know how fickle the online market is, if I were a Facebook shareholder I'd be looking to sell.
You're more fucking delusional than Tinkerbell on acid if you think for one second an entire generation is going to step away from the "Free" button when paying for anything online.
Seriously, I can't stop laughing over the absurdity of this...this brings ignorance to a whole new level.
I might have agreed with you 3 years ago, but I think the Apple Store micro payment model, and micro subscription models like WhatsApp and Spotify have demonstrated that the market has matured and are ready to pay for stuff if it's good. Given the choice of Facebook for free, or something very Facebook-like for $5/year with privacy and no ads I think there's enough people out there now who would choose the latter if it were available.
I'd mod you up but feel the need to contribute to this topic. Where are the Facebook competitors? Everyone uses Facebook while also bitching and moaning about the lack of control and privacy, you would think the market is ripe for take over by an ethical/open competitor so where is it?
All you need is the friends/status update/post pictures/IM platform along with some form of ownership and freedom from ads and you'd be set. For revenue I think the world is ready to pay for what they get model (free is not as appealing as it once was now everything is loaded with ads), so I'd try for a micro subscription model like Whatsapp, say $5/year. If the App was solid, and you threw a few hundred million marketing the benefits of Social Media 2.0 with privacy, ownership and control of your own data I can't see why Facebook can't be overthrown. There is certainly demand for it, and a huge slice of market share just waiting to be taken.
It's Ethernet. I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen if you accidentally switch two of the wires.
Yeah but the trick is how get from "4 random unlabelled connectors" to "this is definitely Ethernet"?
Just connecting stuff to random connectors is a sure fire recipe for bricking whatever electronics is behind the connectors. I'd like to know the detail of the discovery process.
The object of a carpool lane is to reduce traffic congestion.
The object of a carpool lane is to make more effective use of tax dollars. By encouraging people to carpool, we need to spend less on road construction.
The object of a carpool lane is to increase the average occupancy per vehicle on the roads. In a large city it is physically impossible to build enough roads for everyone to drive with 1 person in the car, regardless of how much money you spend. The only solution is buses, trains and car pooling, hence why these things exist.
Believe it or not, I manage to work an office quite well without using Microsoft products. Although technically, I suppose you could call Skype a Microsoft product, even though I don't run it on Windows. OpenOffice has never been a problem for me, no matter what some people claim.
I'm sure it works for some, but you're not looking at it from the eyes of an organisation that already has bolted on Office/IIS/SQL/.Net through the Enterprise. Removing for for something that does the same thing except without the MS logo makes no political sense.
Yet here we are. I accept the nature of the system and happily exist in it with all its flaws, yet you bitch and moan yet still submit to its will. Let me know how that works out for you.
Some day, it's possible that the CIO is going to come in and say "We're switching all our financials to Oracle. They gave us a real good deal on an Exadata server. Running Oracle Linux. And apps written in Oracle Java.
That's nice. But what about the Desktop? Messaging? Office? All those other kooky little apps, add-ins and plug-ins the world runs on that all run on MS? You know IT is more than just Financials (most of which is Oracle and SAP already (ie not MS)), and there's lot more to a CIO's than a relgious crusade?
Oh don't be such a dick. No system is perfect, ours certainly isn't, but it's still better than any other I know about. If you disagree you can always move to whichever place it is you think is so great and live a happy life...
Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation.
How is that different from any other of the numerous locations that no longer exist either due to economic collapse, or development? I lived in a few places as a kid, none of which exist today. One suburb is now a shopping centre, another demolished to make a forest, and yet another a derelict small town with no economy, soon to be wiped off the map.
What do you do with a parking lot full of radioactive topsoil?
Move it to secure long term storage with lots of signs warning of danger. None of your FUD is really any great concern. Since 7 million people died this year from air pollution mainly from coal power stations, we'll probably do the same thing we do about that, ie not much, but certainly not get all scared about it.
Wrong. A free market doesn't mean anarchy. Even the most zealous proponent of the free market still knows the difference between a free market and law of the jungle. We have a free market because ideas and innovation are free to occur. Just because some regulations exist to protect the greater good doesn't change this fact.
Don't get too carried away, this is all part of the free market process. As you say, Incumbents try to protect and conserve, new players try to innovate and liberalise. The fact that this condition exists means we live in a healthy free market. Sure innovator may not win every battle, but if yo mapped long or even medium term change then innovation, and the free market is winning.
Stupid analogy.
Chicks love shiny things, Guys want chicks. Anything that impresses chicks has value.
Dorks love BTC, nobody cares what dork think. See it doesn't really work the same way.
No because if you give someone a sugar pill knowingly, then it won't work. This is the irony of the placebo.
All the theatre and quackery around alternative medicine is precisely what contributes to it working (sometimes - and always as a placebo). Running around forcing everyone to accept that alternative medicine is just a placebo will actually increase overall disease, because you lose the placebo effect which we know works.
Which is why you get things like homeopathy dressing up placebos in some BS that sounds plausible to the uneducated.
Does it matter? If you know placebos work, and you know that revealing it as a placebo prevents it from working, then doesn't that justify Alternative medicine and a viable treatment (in some cases) since in some case it will actually work?
If you insist on all alternative therapys being revealed as placebo, then in effect you eliminate that possibility of some people being cured by them.
This is one case where ignorance wins because the placebo effect works precisely because of it.
So far, not one has been shown to do anything because it's all the placebo effect which has been demonstrated in numerous studies.
You have to careful here. The Placebo effect is very real, so it can be argued that kook medicine is a form of placebo and therefore does work. And the very fact that it is not revealed as a placebo actually contributes to its effectiveness,so maintaining the illusion that it is a viable alternative actually contributes its success. I hate this wacko shit as much as the next guy, but as a form of placebo that actually works sometimes, then surely there is place for it somewhere in this world?
Expensive this year, and probably the next 20 or so, but sooner or later it will become viable, and the longer it takes the more valuable it becomes. And if you think there is no market for one of the greatest artifacts in human civilisation then you seem to have a very naive understanding of art collection.
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There is no difference between scientology, islam, catholicism or bantu spirit jabber - they are all mechanisms to live free and prosper at the behest of others.
Buddists might be an exception to that. Being poor and humble is a key part of their story...
Yes, I'm going to have to take care to stop being infected by malware. Good anti-virus, good firewall, Chrome browser, safe surfing habits, care with email.
Don't even bother with that. I haven't run AV on my Windows machines for about 8 years and never had issues. Sensible surfing and email takes care of 99% of it, and a regular re-image the rest. You can also use things like Deep Freeze to keep your freshly images machine clean.
Multicopter pilot here.
You seriously call yourself that?
the multicopter that was involved in the accident was using a very outmoded form of technology to control the multicopter (wifi) rather than the far more reliable multichannel failsafe 2.4GHz DSMX systems that are in common use with bigger multicopters.
It's all wi-fi. Fancy wi-fi may more reliable than crap wi-fi, but it's still all wi-fi, and it all has a range which when you go past, you still lose control.
(note: apologies for a double post, I forgot to log in to post this reply.)
Deja vu...
Multicopter pilot here.
You seriously call yourself that?
the multicopter that was involved in the accident was using a very outmoded form of technology to control the multicopter (wifi) rather than the far more reliable multichannel failsafe 2.4GHz DSMX systems that are in common use with bigger multicopters.
It's all wi-fi. Fancy wi-fi may more reliable than crap wi-fi, but it's still all wi-fi, and it all has a range which when you go past, you still lose control.
IAll these things, btw, I can do with Google+, but Google was late in the social media space, so I prefer FB since pretty much everybody that I know is already there.
That and the fact that G+ sucks arse. If G+ was exactly like Facebook, then Facebook would already be dead. Instead Google ran their nerd wand over it and made a complete mess of an interface that no-one can figure out what is going on. I prefer FB because the interface makes sense, and both my children and parents can use it without asking for help. G+ fails that test miserably.
Why? I used to be a bored sysadmin for a few years and spent many many hours reading everyone's email. At first it seemed interesting, but not long after, even the juiciest of gossip got boring. Undisclosed office romances, nude selfies, bitchiness, drug dealing all got a bit meh after a while. Seen it all before and once you have a big enough sample of human activity it's all just the same material with slightly different characters. I can see an interest in big data purely for marketing reasons, and maybe some law enforcement interest, but I can't see how me or any of my Facebook friend's data is particularly interesting to anybody. Once you've seen holiday photos, photos of what I had for dinner, photos of my nieces and nephews, and co-ordinate where we're going for drinks next weekend, it's 99.999% noise.
I don't know if it is that hard, it just takes a critical mass which is the difficult part. Having said that, my teenage kids and their friends don't seem to care for Facebook, they all like Instagram for some reason, and some other IM apps. Facebook seems to have grabbed generation of 20 to 40 somethings, but not so much for anyone else. So it's only a matter of time before something new takes over. We all know how fickle the online market is, if I were a Facebook shareholder I'd be looking to sell.
You're more fucking delusional than Tinkerbell on acid if you think for one second an entire generation is going to step away from the "Free" button when paying for anything online.
Seriously, I can't stop laughing over the absurdity of this...this brings ignorance to a whole new level.
I might have agreed with you 3 years ago, but I think the Apple Store micro payment model, and micro subscription models like WhatsApp and Spotify have demonstrated that the market has matured and are ready to pay for stuff if it's good. Given the choice of Facebook for free, or something very Facebook-like for $5/year with privacy and no ads I think there's enough people out there now who would choose the latter if it were available.
I'd mod you up but feel the need to contribute to this topic. Where are the Facebook competitors? Everyone uses Facebook while also bitching and moaning about the lack of control and privacy, you would think the market is ripe for take over by an ethical/open competitor so where is it? All you need is the friends/status update/post pictures/IM platform along with some form of ownership and freedom from ads and you'd be set. For revenue I think the world is ready to pay for what they get model (free is not as appealing as it once was now everything is loaded with ads), so I'd try for a micro subscription model like Whatsapp, say $5/year. If the App was solid, and you threw a few hundred million marketing the benefits of Social Media 2.0 with privacy, ownership and control of your own data I can't see why Facebook can't be overthrown. There is certainly demand for it, and a huge slice of market share just waiting to be taken.
It's Ethernet. I'm pretty sure nothing bad will happen if you accidentally switch two of the wires.
Yeah but the trick is how get from "4 random unlabelled connectors" to "this is definitely Ethernet"? Just connecting stuff to random connectors is a sure fire recipe for bricking whatever electronics is behind the connectors. I'd like to know the detail of the discovery process.
The object of a carpool lane is to reduce traffic congestion.
The object of a carpool lane is to make more effective use of tax dollars. By encouraging people to carpool, we need to spend less on road construction.
The object of a carpool lane is to increase the average occupancy per vehicle on the roads. In a large city it is physically impossible to build enough roads for everyone to drive with 1 person in the car, regardless of how much money you spend. The only solution is buses, trains and car pooling, hence why these things exist.
Believe it or not, I manage to work an office quite well without using Microsoft products. Although technically, I suppose you could call Skype a Microsoft product, even though I don't run it on Windows. OpenOffice has never been a problem for me, no matter what some people claim.
I'm sure it works for some, but you're not looking at it from the eyes of an organisation that already has bolted on Office/IIS/SQL/.Net through the Enterprise. Removing for for something that does the same thing except without the MS logo makes no political sense.
Yet here we are. I accept the nature of the system and happily exist in it with all its flaws, yet you bitch and moan yet still submit to its will. Let me know how that works out for you.
Some day, it's possible that the CIO is going to come in and say "We're switching all our financials to Oracle. They gave us a real good deal on an Exadata server. Running Oracle Linux. And apps written in Oracle Java.
That's nice. But what about the Desktop? Messaging? Office? All those other kooky little apps, add-ins and plug-ins the world runs on that all run on MS? You know IT is more than just Financials (most of which is Oracle and SAP already (ie not MS)), and there's lot more to a CIO's than a relgious crusade?
Oh don't be such a dick. No system is perfect, ours certainly isn't, but it's still better than any other I know about. If you disagree you can always move to whichever place it is you think is so great and live a happy life...
Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation.
How is that different from any other of the numerous locations that no longer exist either due to economic collapse, or development? I lived in a few places as a kid, none of which exist today. One suburb is now a shopping centre, another demolished to make a forest, and yet another a derelict small town with no economy, soon to be wiped off the map.
What do you do with a parking lot full of radioactive topsoil?
Move it to secure long term storage with lots of signs warning of danger. None of your FUD is really any great concern. Since 7 million people died this year from air pollution mainly from coal power stations, we'll probably do the same thing we do about that, ie not much, but certainly not get all scared about it.
Wrong. A free market doesn't mean anarchy. Even the most zealous proponent of the free market still knows the difference between a free market and law of the jungle. We have a free market because ideas and innovation are free to occur. Just because some regulations exist to protect the greater good doesn't change this fact.
No. Had you RTFA, or even some of the comments above you would know that.
But don't scale to 4TB...
Don't get too carried away, this is all part of the free market process. As you say, Incumbents try to protect and conserve, new players try to innovate and liberalise. The fact that this condition exists means we live in a healthy free market. Sure innovator may not win every battle, but if yo mapped long or even medium term change then innovation, and the free market is winning.
Stupid analogy.
Chicks love shiny things, Guys want chicks. Anything that impresses chicks has value.
Dorks love BTC, nobody cares what dork think. See it doesn't really work the same way.
No because if you give someone a sugar pill knowingly, then it won't work. This is the irony of the placebo. All the theatre and quackery around alternative medicine is precisely what contributes to it working (sometimes - and always as a placebo). Running around forcing everyone to accept that alternative medicine is just a placebo will actually increase overall disease, because you lose the placebo effect which we know works.
Which is why you get things like homeopathy dressing up placebos in some BS that sounds plausible to the uneducated.
Does it matter? If you know placebos work, and you know that revealing it as a placebo prevents it from working, then doesn't that justify Alternative medicine and a viable treatment (in some cases) since in some case it will actually work? If you insist on all alternative therapys being revealed as placebo, then in effect you eliminate that possibility of some people being cured by them. This is one case where ignorance wins because the placebo effect works precisely because of it.
So far, not one has been shown to do anything because it's all the placebo effect which has been demonstrated in numerous studies.
You have to careful here. The Placebo effect is very real, so it can be argued that kook medicine is a form of placebo and therefore does work. And the very fact that it is not revealed as a placebo actually contributes to its effectiveness,so maintaining the illusion that it is a viable alternative actually contributes its success. I hate this wacko shit as much as the next guy, but as a form of placebo that actually works sometimes, then surely there is place for it somewhere in this world?
Expensive this year, and probably the next 20 or so, but sooner or later it will become viable, and the longer it takes the more valuable it becomes. And if you think there is no market for one of the greatest artifacts in human civilisation then you seem to have a very naive understanding of art collection.