As it should. By your definition, words have power. They have just as much to elevate your as much as they have to bring you down. This comment like many earlier fall into the camp of "Nothing at all has changed but now you're noticing it". If you want to tell the world you like sodomizing animals, that's your business, knock yourself out, and as long as its legal wherever you are, you won't be thrown in jail. That doesn't mean that people reading your words don't have the right to feel / judge you based on them. Take some personal responsibility for yourself.
Most scientific journals are out there, published and free(ish). Don't cast stones unless you're willing to do the research yourself.
The reason young people care about the environment: 1. Young people are generally less wealthy and so are more concerned about 'social' issues -- http://matrix.berkeley.edu/res... 2. They'll actually be alive long enough to see climate change cause serious ecological and lifestyle damages (and they know it)
I must say though, in terms of lifestyle changes, I've seen people (at least in my city) abandoning car travel in much larger numbers than my generation in the (Gen-X-ish) crowd. Even for people in my age range, I see a heck of a lot more bike riders than I ever did before (All subjective IMHO). Although, if you look at air travel: http://data.worldbank.org/indi... Air travel rates are more pegged to economic conditions than anything else, and they seem like we're at historical highs...
Those people largely use Windows PC's for their desktops (assuming they still use desktops) which may be idiotic, but far from idiot proof. Having something with sane defaults helps a lot. Having a tool which can be added and adapted to by power users / tweakers is very relevant.
Using the Apple stance, IOS is insanely popular by a large group of people that don't care about interacting with their devices in a personal way. Many probably don't know that there -could- be another way of interacting. Apple says a long press does this, and an edge swipe means that and behold, 100million people also believe it. But, there will always be people that want their desktops to look and behave differently. You or I may think their desktops look like dog food, but it works for them. As such, IOS, windows 10-ish, Chromeos, etc.. will never have a basically universal adoption. Until the creative computer user stops caring about how they interact with information, there will always be the need for more open/flexible desktops/OS's/tools to supplant the uncaring masses.
That's a good question. Unfortunately most publications reporting on the story are think on the tooth in terms of what if any actual hate speech was being espoused by the software.
One could 'assume' that any sort of movement espousing and promoting Sharia which is very very poor on Women and homosexuals would certainly fall into the category of hate speech. Though banning it falls into banning their own quaint ethic customs. I guess the question is if the KKK, or at the least segregation promoting apps also get the same treatment *shrugs*.
*shrugs* Most of my immediate neighbourhood is made up of prodominantly Iranians. Surrounding that, there's a significant mix of other races (Indians, Whites, Chinese, etc..) I'm sure that would piss off some, but honestly I could care less. Racial politics are for people oppressed or insecure.
I don't use any of these programming languages. Maybe a little more exhaustive list of working / no-working languages and libraries would be a great resource.
It largely depends on the context. If you're small talking with friends about things without much consequence, its probably best to let a deficiency slide because at the end of the day, little matters. If you're having a debate and your basic context is that of correctness then certainly pointing out fallacious arguments isn't just acceptable, but expected.
Just as spelling/grammar correction, pointing out the ignorance of the speaker has more to do with YOU than it does THEM, and that's why those that do such come off as jerks (for me anyway).
No, I think the significance is that the majority of people simply don't care about minor spelling errors as long as the content of the sentence is still reconcilable.
Programming analogy: If my code is spahetti-ass POC or the best indented, documented, and structured, users won't give a fuck as long as they can do the same function with both (Which may give rise to the crap code that always annoys me, but that's another discussion).
IMHO, The point is that 'jerks' or however you like to define them are more likely to lose focus on the content of a message if the structure isn't perfect.
I've got a co-worker who is a jerk. They may have a handicap or not. I have no idea. That doesn't belittle the fact that they're a jerk. Jerks are the outward abrasive personality of the person regardless of the reason for it. I could also call Psychopaths jerks too, but I wouldn't know it unless they told me.
On the complete flip-side argument, people who suffer from skin/lung cancer are much less likely to receive sympathy and charitable donations than those with ovarian / prostate / etc.. cancer because in the case of skin / lung cancer, they're assumed to 'deserve' it based on vice (sun tanning / smoking). Obviously not all skin/lung cancer victims have lived lives of vice, but they're emphatically/financially punished as if they were. It sucks, but I don't see human nature changing to correct such a disservice.
I'll admit that my respect for academia in general is iffy, but there are certainly ladders to building a more accurate truth that can only occur through testing, refining, testing more, refining.
I think the general Slashdot population is fine with the scientific method as long as its applied to classically science based disciplines. Having a study reaffirming one's own suspicions about human nature is just as much a scientific study than testing the effects of varying light bandwidths on different plants. The important facet is that they're repeatable and have adequate controls to reduce unknown variances (or at least document them). There are hundreds, thousands, millions? of redundant seemingly obvious scientific studies to reaffirm what we as a group conscious believed to be true and nobody bats an eye. When the humanities apply it: "Academics are wasting time testing obvious things" is the rallying cry.. oh well.
Furthermore, it isn't surprising that they released these numbers 'after' flipping the switch on Windows 10 as an auto-install 'recommended update' for prior releases.
For god sake, I hope Microsoft threw a dump-truck full of money on Canonical's door because otherwise, bad news for them.
All this does is piss off existing Linux customers, bridges a few muddled though mostly gutless windows swappers from booting Linux (Who would probably just use something like VirtualBox with seemless mode and get 100% of the same features / performance). The OS integration layers for UNIX in Windows has existed since NT. Microsoft clearly doesn't give enough sh*ts enough to invest serious money into it, so why waste your time chasing a market that simply doesn't exist? You better be counting your millions or else I'd be seriously sad for you.
One can and certainly should blame companies for not applying best practices (and most likely their legal requirement) to keep information safe. In terms of companies, if they're unable to be effective, they deserve to go out of business. If I drive down the road without car insurance and a deer hits me, do I blame the deer or myself for not getting insurance?
Meh, I literally ignored Yahoo for the 10 years before Mayer. Afterwards, there were certainly a few things that that made me clue into Yahoo again, at least for a while then faded away again. I can't say how much of Yahoo's finale is Meyer's personal fault, but any layman from the outside saw that boat sinking regardless.
Shareholders don't get involved in day to day running of the business. They give that responsibility to the board of directors through elections, etc.. The Board of directors generally don't get involved in day to day business. They give that responsibility to the CEO, senior leadership.
If you're a 'radical investor', you may disagree with the direction the board of directors has taken with the company. Generally the only successful actions are to challenge the board on their ability to generate business success and increase the value of their stocks (as is their fiduciary responsibility).
At the end of the day, the more voting shares in a company decides who gets elected to the board of directors, and this investor is saying: "Hey everyone, these guys don't know what they're doing and we want to elect a new set of people to better represent our interests".
If you want to know the word 'proxy' in this, its because most shareholders don't take an active role in the company at all. They 'proxy' their vote to someone that knows the company well enough to work for their best financial interests. If you're fighting over proxies, you're essentially calling up investment company's / banks / mutual funds / pension plans / etc.. and assign their current proxies to themselves (or their agenda interested friends).
TLDR:: Investor (you) -> Investment company -> Proxy representative -> Board of Directors -> CEO/CFO...
This is possibly over-simplified, but I hope it gets the jist of it. I'm not an expert in the area either, so a more informed insider could better describe it.
I had friends that started working in Samsung. They aren't friends anymore. The company grinds down employees till they break and you either take it or bail. Maybe the compensation is amazing, who knows.
Nope, it was Google's abominable attempt to ditch Gtalk, a relatively decent Jabber client which significantly pre-dated Facebook messanger. In fact, Facebook was all of 2 years old when gtalk was released... so... Get your facts straight troll?
You pay income tax which is used to pay for money to be printed. Why not pay the government to be the financial clearing house exchange? Yes these companies make a profit becase they can. The alternative is for banks to pay extra for clearance insurrance or to have you wait a week or two for transaction to clear. There's no magic fluidity. Commerce costs money, just hopefully not much.
It also requires peer key exchange, which introduces burden. With burden comes 'simplified' services that do the key exchange for you, then you get back to where we are now (or at least if a shared conduit exists). There are only a very limited number of people who are willing to go to such lengths to guarantee secrecy (from everyone). You -could- use publicly signed key exchanges like Verisign, but but cost would generally kill mass adoption.
This isn't a new problem and you can always read more about it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... though I'm sure you're well aware.
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As it should. By your definition, words have power. They have just as much to elevate your as much as they have to bring you down. This comment like many earlier fall into the camp of "Nothing at all has changed but now you're noticing it". If you want to tell the world you like sodomizing animals, that's your business, knock yourself out, and as long as its legal wherever you are, you won't be thrown in jail. That doesn't mean that people reading your words don't have the right to feel / judge you based on them. Take some personal responsibility for yourself.
Most scientific journals are out there, published and free(ish). Don't cast stones unless you're willing to do the research yourself.
The reason young people care about the environment:
1. Young people are generally less wealthy and so are more concerned about 'social' issues -- http://matrix.berkeley.edu/res...
2. They'll actually be alive long enough to see climate change cause serious ecological and lifestyle damages (and they know it)
I must say though, in terms of lifestyle changes, I've seen people (at least in my city) abandoning car travel in much larger numbers than my generation in the (Gen-X-ish) crowd. Even for people in my age range, I see a heck of a lot more bike riders than I ever did before (All subjective IMHO).
Although, if you look at air travel: http://data.worldbank.org/indi...
Air travel rates are more pegged to economic conditions than anything else, and they seem like we're at historical highs...
Those people largely use Windows PC's for their desktops (assuming they still use desktops) which may be idiotic, but far from idiot proof. Having something with sane defaults helps a lot. Having a tool which can be added and adapted to by power users / tweakers is very relevant.
Using the Apple stance, IOS is insanely popular by a large group of people that don't care about interacting with their devices in a personal way. Many probably don't know that there -could- be another way of interacting. Apple says a long press does this, and an edge swipe means that and behold, 100million people also believe it. But, there will always be people that want their desktops to look and behave differently. You or I may think their desktops look like dog food, but it works for them. As such, IOS, windows 10-ish, Chromeos, etc.. will never have a basically universal adoption. Until the creative computer user stops caring about how they interact with information, there will always be the need for more open/flexible desktops/OS's/tools to supplant the uncaring masses.
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That's a good question. Unfortunately most publications reporting on the story are think on the tooth in terms of what if any actual hate speech was being espoused by the software.
One could 'assume' that any sort of movement espousing and promoting Sharia which is very very poor on Women and homosexuals would certainly fall into the category of hate speech. Though banning it falls into banning their own quaint ethic customs. I guess the question is if the KKK, or at the least segregation promoting apps also get the same treatment *shrugs*.
*shrugs* Most of my immediate neighbourhood is made up of prodominantly Iranians. Surrounding that, there's a significant mix of other races (Indians, Whites, Chinese, etc..) I'm sure that would piss off some, but honestly I could care less. Racial politics are for people oppressed or insecure.
Hello from Canada, all welcome.
I don't use any of these programming languages. Maybe a little more exhaustive list of working / no-working languages and libraries would be a great resource.
It largely depends on the context. If you're small talking with friends about things without much consequence, its probably best to let a deficiency slide because at the end of the day, little matters. If you're having a debate and your basic context is that of correctness then certainly pointing out fallacious arguments isn't just acceptable, but expected.
Just as spelling/grammar correction, pointing out the ignorance of the speaker has more to do with YOU than it does THEM, and that's why those that do such come off as jerks (for me anyway).
No, I think the significance is that the majority of people simply don't care about minor spelling errors as long as the content of the sentence is still reconcilable.
Programming analogy: If my code is spahetti-ass POC or the best indented, documented, and structured, users won't give a fuck as long as they can do the same function with both (Which may give rise to the crap code that always annoys me, but that's another discussion).
IMHO, The point is that 'jerks' or however you like to define them are more likely to lose focus on the content of a message if the structure isn't perfect.
I've got a co-worker who is a jerk. They may have a handicap or not. I have no idea. That doesn't belittle the fact that they're a jerk. Jerks are the outward abrasive personality of the person regardless of the reason for it. I could also call Psychopaths jerks too, but I wouldn't know it unless they told me.
On the complete flip-side argument, people who suffer from skin/lung cancer are much less likely to receive sympathy and charitable donations than those with ovarian / prostate / etc.. cancer because in the case of skin / lung cancer, they're assumed to 'deserve' it based on vice (sun tanning / smoking). Obviously not all skin/lung cancer victims have lived lives of vice, but they're emphatically/financially punished as if they were. It sucks, but I don't see human nature changing to correct such a disservice.
I'll admit that my respect for academia in general is iffy, but there are certainly ladders to building a more accurate truth that can only occur through testing, refining, testing more, refining.
I think the general Slashdot population is fine with the scientific method as long as its applied to classically science based disciplines. Having a study reaffirming one's own suspicions about human nature is just as much a scientific study than testing the effects of varying light bandwidths on different plants. The important facet is that they're repeatable and have adequate controls to reduce unknown variances (or at least document them). There are hundreds, thousands, millions? of redundant seemingly obvious scientific studies to reaffirm what we as a group conscious believed to be true and nobody bats an eye. When the humanities apply it: "Academics are wasting time testing obvious things" is the rallying cry.. oh well.
And your solution is what, Nihilism? "Don't take my stuff, oh you're going to? Then I'll just lay down and take it then."
Furthermore, it isn't surprising that they released these numbers 'after' flipping the switch on Windows 10 as an auto-install 'recommended update' for prior releases.
A free upgrade shoved down people's throat? Shocked that its the 'fastest adoption ever'.
For god sake, I hope Microsoft threw a dump-truck full of money on Canonical's door because otherwise, bad news for them.
All this does is piss off existing Linux customers, bridges a few muddled though mostly gutless windows swappers from booting Linux (Who would probably just use something like VirtualBox with seemless mode and get 100% of the same features / performance). The OS integration layers for UNIX in Windows has existed since NT. Microsoft clearly doesn't give enough sh*ts enough to invest serious money into it, so why waste your time chasing a market that simply doesn't exist? You better be counting your millions or else I'd be seriously sad for you.
Shut it! You're being too prescient!
Not all Telco's offer dry loops to non-business customers without jumping through hoops, and this is when you specifically know to ask about it.
One can and certainly should blame companies for not applying best practices (and most likely their legal requirement) to keep information safe. In terms of companies, if they're unable to be effective, they deserve to go out of business. If I drive down the road without car insurance and a deer hits me, do I blame the deer or myself for not getting insurance?
Meh, I literally ignored Yahoo for the 10 years before Mayer. Afterwards, there were certainly a few things that that made me clue into Yahoo again, at least for a while then faded away again. I can't say how much of Yahoo's finale is Meyer's personal fault, but any layman from the outside saw that boat sinking regardless.
Shareholders don't get involved in day to day running of the business. They give that responsibility to the board of directors through elections, etc.. The Board of directors generally don't get involved in day to day business. They give that responsibility to the CEO, senior leadership.
If you're a 'radical investor', you may disagree with the direction the board of directors has taken with the company. Generally the only successful actions are to challenge the board on their ability to generate business success and increase the value of their stocks (as is their fiduciary responsibility).
At the end of the day, the more voting shares in a company decides who gets elected to the board of directors, and this investor is saying: "Hey everyone, these guys don't know what they're doing and we want to elect a new set of people to better represent our interests".
If you want to know the word 'proxy' in this, its because most shareholders don't take an active role in the company at all. They 'proxy' their vote to someone that knows the company well enough to work for their best financial interests. If you're fighting over proxies, you're essentially calling up investment company's / banks / mutual funds / pension plans / etc.. and assign their current proxies to themselves (or their agenda interested friends).
TLDR :: Investor (you) -> Investment company -> Proxy representative -> Board of Directors -> CEO/CFO...
This is possibly over-simplified, but I hope it gets the jist of it. I'm not an expert in the area either, so a more informed insider could better describe it.
I had friends that started working in Samsung. They aren't friends anymore. The company grinds down employees till they break and you either take it or bail. Maybe the compensation is amazing, who knows.
Nope, it was Google's abominable attempt to ditch Gtalk, a relatively decent Jabber client which significantly pre-dated Facebook messanger. In fact, Facebook was all of 2 years old when gtalk was released... so... Get your facts straight troll?
You pay income tax which is used to pay for money to be printed. Why not pay the government to be the financial clearing house exchange? Yes these companies make a profit becase they can. The alternative is for banks to pay extra for clearance insurrance or to have you wait a week or two for transaction to clear. There's no magic fluidity. Commerce costs money, just hopefully not much.
Meh, sounds like they would both loose what they care for the most: Total Control.
It also requires peer key exchange, which introduces burden. With burden comes 'simplified' services that do the key exchange for you, then you get back to where we are now (or at least if a shared conduit exists). There are only a very limited number of people who are willing to go to such lengths to guarantee secrecy (from everyone). You -could- use publicly signed key exchanges like Verisign, but but cost would generally kill mass adoption.
This isn't a new problem and you can always read more about it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... though I'm sure you're well aware.