You are going to draw specious conclusions that some harmful words caused a person to kill themselves and punish them for words?
The conclusion is hardly specious. If you don't think individuals have harmed and killed themselves due to psychological abuse from others you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly naive.
No. In fact, I see it as the opposite. It gives special treatment to one class of victims over another.
Er, no. It applies a special punishment to one class of _perpetrator_ over another. Which is a long and well established tradition (some would say foundation) of pretty much every justice system ever conceived. It's why there are different sentences for manslaughter vs murder, or shoplifting vs armed robbery.
Other than invasion of privacy, what crime was actually committed? Hate crime laws are nothing but an attempt to use discrimination to cure discrimination.
Hate crime laws are an attempt to isolate particular forms of behaviour considered harmful and act to isolate them from society. Just like any other law.
You post is utter, citeless bullshit. The US is one of the few countries, unlike Europe, where social mobility is very possible.
The US has close to the worst social mobility in the OECD, and it's been getting steadily worse for decades (basically - and unsurprisingly - since the income increases of "normal people" vs "rich people" started dramatically diverging back in the '70s). In stark contrast to most of the EU countries, which have the highest levels of social mobility.
Even for worker bees, just putting money in a Roth IRA every month in a good Dow 30 dividend stock will make you a millionaire in 30 years.
By which time being "a millionaire" won't be quite so impressive. At 3% inflation, a million dollars today will be worth the equivalent of ~$400k today.
Assuming a 5% return, to end up with a million dollars in 30 years you need to save $1,250/mo, or $15,000/yr. Which is around 50% of the median annual wage (a reasonable estimate of a "worker bee") of $30k.
[...] Ravi is not actually responsible for a suicide (you logically cannot be) [...]
Now there's an interesting point of view. Do you think someone cannot logically be responsible for fraud, as well ?
I'm fighting here for Clementi, but in the right way. Not by punishing an act of bullying with a ridiculous 10 years in prison, but by trying to change how society views and treats homosexuality itself.
And you don't view targeting perpetrators committing crimes specifically because of their bias against homosexuality to be doing that ?
You design tired load balancing and failover software so no single component is a SPoF.
You're dreaming. The $250k or so a rack full of 1U servers would cost is peanuts compared to the costs of doing that for any non-trivial collection of software.
I agree completely. That's why when my boss sends me travelling I insist on paying for the flights and hotels myself. They tried to give me a computer to use for work, but I wouldn't put up with that sort of nonsense and bought my own instead.
Heck, I don't even turn on the lights in my office lest my kind and generous employer have to bear that expense in the course of my humble service to them.
If you're talking under the hood, sure. But we're talking about the control mechanisms.
Just in the cars on the market *right now*, you have differences in how to operate hi/low beam, wiper speeds, automatic vs manual headlight on/off, indicator stalk being on either side, different methods to shift with "flappy paddle" gearboxes, cars with digital vs analogue speedometers, etc, etc.
This has already accounted for changes as trivial as those in the original post I replied to, and we haven't even gotten to the UI mardi-gras of stereos and HVAC.
That argument went out the window when Microsoft started to change the user interface of their products.
Windows 8 will be the first significant change in the Windows GUI since Windows 95, 17 years ago. While I'm sure there are people out there who need "retraining", or struggle with the minor incremental changes between various Windows releases, leaving a whole interface stagnant because of the ignorance or luddism or a tiny minority, would be stupid. Especially when the previous functionality remains, essentially unchanged.
I've always wondered why there isn't some kind of expansion port standard for video cards on laptops.
There is: ExpressCard and Thunderbolt.
The reason you don't see anyone actually doing it is because serious customer demand for upgradeable GPUs in laptops is, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.
I must admit I was amazed when I was living in America at how unpopular hatchbacks were compared to their equivalent sedan variants. It took me weeks to find a decent one for sale (somewhat hobbled by my wife insisting on an automatic).
I cannot comprehend why anyone would buy a (for example) Mazda 3 sedan over a hatchback. The hatchback is so much more practical and sacrifices nothing.
Add to this that it's near impossible to lose your license in Australia if you're over 22, six speeding fines, no problems.
For context to the non-Australians, he's talking about speeding fines for <15km/h (<10mph) over - more than that and it's pretty easy to rack up enough points to lose your license fairly quickly (not to mention the 'hooning' laws). Based on my experience living in America and travelling quite a bit through Europe, 15km/h or 10mph over doesn't even qualify as "speeding" in most states and countries there.
There are few places (I certainly haven't visited any, but they might exist) in the world more strict on speeding that Australia. In some states you will be fined $100+ for going 3km/h over the limit. Of course, the downside is that with such a laser focus on speeding, pretty much everything else is completely ignored.
Enjoy all those legacy SATA2 ports that won't support modern SSDs or hard disks.
SATA 3 devices work fine on SATA2 ports, all but the fastest spinning disks barely stretch SATA1, and you'd struggle to find many situations even high-end SSDs are meaningfully constrained by SATA2.
And starting with Vista, if the user gets infected it is only that user profile that is infected (unless they were running as Administrator) and knowledgeable users will not get the entire system infected.
No, this has been true for every version of Windows NT.
a good example is steve j. people pretty much viewed him as *the* man with the plan, and the brain behind all of apple's recent success. did the company fall apart when he passed away? nope, stock is still going up. apple has built a culture around steve's thinking.
Well, let the body get cold before you get too carried away. Come back in a few years after they've been through a few product cycles without The Steve.
You need RAID 10 -- RAID 5 would work for integrity, (since SSDs fail in different ways and for different reasons than spinny rust, and the recovery process is more likely to be "read everything and dump to a brand-new SSD" than "replace one chip and rebuild the old SSD", the odds of a second failure during recovery is quite low), but SSDs are for speed, so you're not going to want the parity-writing overhead.
There is no meaningful "parity writing overhead" with SSDs, because their IOPS are so high.
The mining boom is (barely) holding up overall exports, but individual sectors like car manufacturing or steel making are being smashed, not only by poor productivity, but by the ridiculously overvalued AUD.
Australia is well into a case of Dutch Disease. It's going to be an ugly decade for a large chunk of the 98% of people not employed in the mining industry.
There's nothing forcing them to wait until the next major OS release to pop in some extra drivers; they can easily include that in a service pack or even a downloadable patch like they do for security fixes.
Pretty much guaranteed it will be in SP2. Major manufacturers (HP, Dell, et al) have only recently started including it onboard in their PCs.
Drivers could be automatically downloadable today if the hardware manufacturers bothered to submit them to Microsoft. The facility has existed in the OS since Windows XP (maybe even 2000).
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The conclusion is hardly specious. If you don't think individuals have harmed and killed themselves due to psychological abuse from others you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly naive.
Er, no. It applies a special punishment to one class of _perpetrator_ over another. Which is a long and well established tradition (some would say foundation) of pretty much every justice system ever conceived. It's why there are different sentences for manslaughter vs murder, or shoplifting vs armed robbery.
Hate crime laws are an attempt to isolate particular forms of behaviour considered harmful and act to isolate them from society. Just like any other law.
The US has close to the worst social mobility in the OECD, and it's been getting steadily worse for decades (basically - and unsurprisingly - since the income increases of "normal people" vs "rich people" started dramatically diverging back in the '70s). In stark contrast to most of the EU countries, which have the highest levels of social mobility.
By which time being "a millionaire" won't be quite so impressive. At 3% inflation, a million dollars today will be worth the equivalent of ~$400k today.
Assuming a 5% return, to end up with a million dollars in 30 years you need to save $1,250/mo, or $15,000/yr. Which is around 50% of the median annual wage (a reasonable estimate of a "worker bee") of $30k.
Now there's an interesting point of view. Do you think someone cannot logically be responsible for fraud, as well ?
And you don't view targeting perpetrators committing crimes specifically because of their bias against homosexuality to be doing that ?
Intent. Like the difference between manslaughter and murder.
You're dreaming. The $250k or so a rack full of 1U servers would cost is peanuts compared to the costs of doing that for any non-trivial collection of software.
I agree completely. That's why when my boss sends me travelling I insist on paying for the flights and hotels myself. They tried to give me a computer to use for work, but I wouldn't put up with that sort of nonsense and bought my own instead.
Heck, I don't even turn on the lights in my office lest my kind and generous employer have to bear that expense in the course of my humble service to them.
Just in the cars on the market *right now*, you have differences in how to operate hi/low beam, wiper speeds, automatic vs manual headlight on/off, indicator stalk being on either side, different methods to shift with "flappy paddle" gearboxes, cars with digital vs analogue speedometers, etc, etc.
This has already accounted for changes as trivial as those in the original post I replied to, and we haven't even gotten to the UI mardi-gras of stereos and HVAC.
There are differences between cars on the market today at least as significant as the ones you're talking about befuddling someone in Windows.
Windows 8 will be the first significant change in the Windows GUI since Windows 95, 17 years ago. While I'm sure there are people out there who need "retraining", or struggle with the minor incremental changes between various Windows releases, leaving a whole interface stagnant because of the ignorance or luddism or a tiny minority, would be stupid. Especially when the previous functionality remains, essentially unchanged.
There is: ExpressCard and Thunderbolt.
The reason you don't see anyone actually doing it is because serious customer demand for upgradeable GPUs in laptops is, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.
No, they didn't.
It's best to know what you're talking about, before you start talking about it.
In case something that costs $4000 happens twice in the (let's say) two year period it takes to save up $5,000.
I must admit I was amazed when I was living in America at how unpopular hatchbacks were compared to their equivalent sedan variants. It took me weeks to find a decent one for sale (somewhat hobbled by my wife insisting on an automatic).
I cannot comprehend why anyone would buy a (for example) Mazda 3 sedan over a hatchback. The hatchback is so much more practical and sacrifices nothing.
Clearly there are some advantages to living in the Bogan state. :)
Sadly the rest of Oz is not so generous (except maybe the NT?).
For context to the non-Australians, he's talking about speeding fines for <15km/h (<10mph) over - more than that and it's pretty easy to rack up enough points to lose your license fairly quickly (not to mention the 'hooning' laws). Based on my experience living in America and travelling quite a bit through Europe, 15km/h or 10mph over doesn't even qualify as "speeding" in most states and countries there.
There are few places (I certainly haven't visited any, but they might exist) in the world more strict on speeding that Australia. In some states you will be fined $100+ for going 3km/h over the limit. Of course, the downside is that with such a laser focus on speeding, pretty much everything else is completely ignored.
SATA 3 devices work fine on SATA2 ports, all but the fastest spinning disks barely stretch SATA1, and you'd struggle to find many situations even high-end SSDs are meaningfully constrained by SATA2.
Not if you believe the point of a traffic ticket is to be a deterrent or penalty.
No, this has been true for every version of Windows NT.
You won't get much more than 35MB/sec out of a USB2 device, no matter what's backing it.
Well, let the body get cold before you get too carried away. Come back in a few years after they've been through a few product cycles without The Steve.
The last time he left it didn't work out so well.
There is no meaningful "parity writing overhead" with SSDs, because their IOPS are so high.
No, it's really not.
The mining boom is (barely) holding up overall exports, but individual sectors like car manufacturing or steel making are being smashed, not only by poor productivity, but by the ridiculously overvalued AUD.
Australia is well into a case of Dutch Disease. It's going to be an ugly decade for a large chunk of the 98% of people not employed in the mining industry.
Indeed. Other than huge expenses and zero benefits, no reason at all !
Sounds like a business opportunity, if all that pent-up demand for of-the-shelf Linux machines you believe exists actually does.
Pretty much guaranteed it will be in SP2. Major manufacturers (HP, Dell, et al) have only recently started including it onboard in their PCs.
Drivers could be automatically downloadable today if the hardware manufacturers bothered to submit them to Microsoft. The facility has existed in the OS since Windows XP (maybe even 2000).