I feel that we really can use more of the cheap oil.
And, the US is looking quite a bit schizo/psycho lately. State Dept. decries net censorship, at the same time House and Senate are trying to pass the same thing (PIPA/SOPA).
Meanwhile, Israel is pretty much openly attacking Iran, *nobody* likes it that *anybody* has nukes (and especially not Israel, Pakistan, India, and Iran).
And all the US wants is cheap oil for SUVs and Hummers (and unrefined bitumen shipped from the other side of its own continent for same).
Meanwhile, your elected reps are in the pocket of the Hollywood MafiAA, and you still haven't put the "Banksters" in jail. In fact, they're migrating into govt or MafiAA golden parachutes.
It's a little disconcerting, looking on at all this !@#$ you let happen these days. At this point, aren't you supposed to be tossing tea into Boston harbour or something?
Cobol's even older. And Fortran's long been known to perform math calculations better than most other languages (though that may not still be true). Yada yada.
What I wonder about is, whatever happened to Black Box programming? Why do we need to care what language is used, as long as we understand its interface? Systems programming in C regularly calls assembly for the grottier hardware specific bits. Pretty much any modern language can call a function's object code written in another language.
Yeah, let's just keep on reinventing wheels. That's always worked so far.
TrueCrypt does not make invisible containers. It makes encrypted containers.
I don't know about TrueCrypt but last I heard, MS Win* can't even see multiple partitions on USB keys. It only sees the first one (I don't know if this is still true wrt more recent versions of Win*); anything past the first one is invisible.
I don't bother to encrypt my USB keys either. I've not many secrets worth hiding, and a bzipped afio/cpio archive in a second to N extN ptn should be fairly unreadable for ca. 99% of humanity. Anyone who could read them would be disappointed. Not much for me to worry about there.
Medical doctors or bank employees might have more reason to consider encryption.
I'm just pointing out that they've stacked the deck in their favor, and that if you or I did the same thing they'd probably find some other laws they can abuse to make us go away.
Me, I'd expect you'd get a visit from the local police or from a Federal Agency. Neither is likely to turn out like you might hope.
Just want to say, this's sad. The US ain't John Wayne Country anymore. "Yeah, I robocalled my elected rep, the asshole, so what?!? He's the one who wanted to be a politician, FFS! What's it to you?!? Now get the !@#$ off my lawn!"
But I know for a fact he doesn't understand computing past the basics.
Actually, that'd be fine by me. Understanding the basics of IT should be all he needs, if he also understands how to manage people/projects effectively. The latter is the more important skill that managers need to have. Understanding IT too, at any level, is just gravy.
That is what is taught in business school and makes sense.
Yet the company I am at that has a non business school owner who goes against ALL the crap they teach at business schools is still here after 40 years and 3 recessions.
That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with the world.
TFA is wrong. It's not outsourcing to Indian or Pakistani or $foreign developers that's a problem. I've worked with plenty of imbeciles right here (N. America). I've worked with plenty of very clued in $foreigners (Asian, E. European, S. American, Phillipino,...) who were well worth their pay.
The problem is management. They don't appear to have a clue about what's going on or what they're doing.
What's it take to be a manager these days? Is it enough to wash out of development? You failed at development, but since you were in development, you're ideal for managing IT projects?
There is no solution, except to roll a grenade under the boardroom door.
They fire you and then pull someone in to do it anyway, and they can't make it work, just like you said it wouldn't work.
FTFY
Sigh. Yeah.
How is it that you then get blamed for it not working? That "someone"'s failure proves you were correct and the boss was wrong.
Doesn't do you any good, because you quit soon after and bugged out, vowing never to work for such idiots again.
Ibid (or ditto; whatever).
And they still didn't get it working, just like I said they wouldn't,... I'll have absolutely no trouble explaining that away in future interviews. Ah, the sweet smell of vindication!:-)
Moron managers think they can sweep anything under the rug. Realists know nothing is forgotten, and what goes around, comes around.
Car analogy: If Kia builds a car that looks exactly like a BMW M3 and calls it a BWW W3, they will probably be sued for not creating a design of their own, as well.
Yes, and that points up the silliness of this situation. No-one will be fooled into thinking the Kia is a BMW, FFS, yet they'll end up in court anyway for "copying". WTF is wrong with copying?!? Isn't that just building to the state of the art standard?
Nope. The US' tort law system says you can get rich and crush your competitors by suing those copying you. What a twisted reality that is. Nobody in their right mind, and no moron in a hurry, would confuse a BMW with a Kia, but that won't stop the lawyers from getting their cut.
Seriously stupid system, that! "For the lawyers, by the lawyers,...
Go fuck yourself, bitch ass trick. Maybe someday you'll be able to afford Apple and see what it's all about. Until then you can shut your ass. Your opinion doesn't matter.
Such a cogent reply. En pointe!!!111 Such erudition. They're distributing degrees in cereal boxes where you come from now?
Samsung is the only developer that's close to being even or taking over Apple in the market...
And you're also right in saying that there's nothing derivative or copycat about Samsung's designs, aside from the fact that they are faithful copies of Apple's designs, right down to the packaging.
You do realize you're slamming Samsung for making something that Apple says *looks* too much like one of their iBaubles?
Gee, and I thought the value in these things was what's inside; technology! Car analogy: I don't give a rat's ass what it looks like. I do care what it can do. You know, power, functionality, the stuff they can do and how they do it?
You should not be allowed on a tech site. Go back to art/marketroid school.
Can't hate them entirely though, Apple made my life easier, I know who to ignore when outside and when dealing with people in general.
Ah. A user. Idiot! Some/many people want it to JFW, which it does.
Apple made my life easier too, by being instantly useful by family members and so far resisting f***ing up fairly well. Besides, it does actually work quite well, right down to recognizing that users are going to plug in PC keyboards on a Mac. Apple anticipated that they'd want to redefine an Alt key to be a Command key, so enabling that is a thirty second job which works instantly (no reboot necessary). Beats futzing around with xmodmap.
I own no Apple hardware, nor do I want any, but I appreciate their thorough attention to detail. Considering what they charge for iBaubles, that's at least something.
You cannot produce more than 100 gallons per calendar year per adult living in the house.
Huh. That sounds damned near civilized. It's good to hear not everything's broken in the US. 100 gallons == 400 quarts, and with 365 days/yr, that leaves you 35 quarts (per adult in the household) of gifts for friends and family. Assuming you can actually down a quart of white lightning a day and live out the year, of course.
Huh.
Elderberries. I'm looking at three inches of lightly packed new fallen snow, wondering where I'd find Elderberries. I imagine damned near any plant material would serve as a substitute. I thought it was traditionally made from potatos.
... Cocaine, and those types of drugs have zero chance of getting legalised for general consumption anywhere in the US. They are simply too destructive and addictive to the human body.
I'd argue the same is true for lots of the stuff pushed by the "legitimate" pharmaceutical industry.
Why do you care if someone smokes crack (or whatever)? As long as they're not robbing you for their fix, what's it to you what they do to themselves? Think of it as Darwin in action if you want. Soon, they'll be dead, never to trouble you again.
Live and let live, ya know?
Besides, the alternative (the drug war) is vastly more destructive, expensive, freedom destroying, etc., etc.
There are huge profits in supply--the flip side of our problem. Supply is so profitable that the cartels rival the government in their ability to wage war.
I'd just like to add, we've already been here and failed to learn from it:
Alcoholic drinks were not always illegal in all neighboring countries. Distilleries and breweries in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean flourished as their products were either consumed by visiting Americans or illegally imported to the U.S. The Detroit River, which forms part of the border with Canada, was notoriously difficult to control. Chicago became a haven for Prohibition dodgers during the time known as the Roaring Twenties. Many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters, including Al Capone and his enemy Bugs Moran, made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol sales.
And the beat goes on. How many times must this lesson be "learned"?
Whether it was included or enabled was purely the manufacturer's design...
I believe the article at the register included a quote from HTC, saying they installed it at the behest of the carriers, on the phones they were manufacturing for those carriers.
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[Possibly justified anti-USA rant ...]
Yes but... how do you REALLY feel?
I feel that we really can use more of the cheap oil.
And, the US is looking quite a bit schizo/psycho lately. State Dept. decries net censorship, at the same time House and Senate are trying to pass the same thing (PIPA/SOPA).
Meanwhile, Israel is pretty much openly attacking Iran, *nobody* likes it that *anybody* has nukes (and especially not Israel, Pakistan, India, and Iran).
And all the US wants is cheap oil for SUVs and Hummers (and unrefined bitumen shipped from the other side of its own continent for same).
Meanwhile, your elected reps are in the pocket of the Hollywood MafiAA, and you still haven't put the "Banksters" in jail. In fact, they're migrating into govt or MafiAA golden parachutes.
It's a little disconcerting, looking on at all this !@#$ you let happen these days. At this point, aren't you supposed to be tossing tea into Boston harbour or something?
Oh, was that advocating revolution or something?
"can be" != "are", and you know what? Religion can be as bad as science. The Vatican does some fairly important astro work.
... science comes up with something good on occasion but the LHC is not one of them
And you can explain definitively why that's so? I'll make popcorn.
No really. I'm making popcorn.
no, but really, C is a good, but old language.
Cobol's even older. And Fortran's long been known to perform math calculations better than most other languages (though that may not still be true). Yada yada.
What I wonder about is, whatever happened to Black Box programming? Why do we need to care what language is used, as long as we understand its interface? Systems programming in C regularly calls assembly for the grottier hardware specific bits. Pretty much any modern language can call a function's object code written in another language.
Yeah, let's just keep on reinventing wheels. That's always worked so far.
TrueCrypt does not make invisible containers. It makes encrypted containers.
I don't know about TrueCrypt but last I heard, MS Win* can't even see multiple partitions on USB keys. It only sees the first one (I don't know if this is still true wrt more recent versions of Win*); anything past the first one is invisible.
I don't bother to encrypt my USB keys either. I've not many secrets worth hiding, and a bzipped afio/cpio archive in a second to N extN ptn should be fairly unreadable for ca. 99% of humanity. Anyone who could read them would be disappointed. Not much for me to worry about there.
Medical doctors or bank employees might have more reason to consider encryption.
DANCE ON YOUR TOES! You may think you're drowning, but if you just dance a bit, you can get your nose above water enough to breathe.
Trust me, real geeks would give one of their balls to find a gig like this. You get to start EVERYTHING over! You're their new $deity! :-)
I'm just pointing out that they've stacked the deck in their favor, and that if you or I did the same thing they'd probably find some other laws they can abuse to make us go away.
Me, I'd expect you'd get a visit from the local police or from a Federal Agency. Neither is likely to turn out like you might hope.
Just want to say, this's sad. The US ain't John Wayne Country anymore. "Yeah, I robocalled my elected rep, the asshole, so what?!? He's the one who wanted to be a politician, FFS! What's it to you?!? Now get the !@#$ off my lawn!"
Sad.
But I know for a fact he doesn't understand computing past the basics.
Actually, that'd be fine by me. Understanding the basics of IT should be all he needs, if he also understands how to manage people/projects effectively. The latter is the more important skill that managers need to have. Understanding IT too, at any level, is just gravy.
That is what is taught in business school and makes sense.
Yet the company I am at that has a non business school owner who goes against ALL the crap they teach at business schools is still here after 40 years and 3 recessions.
That, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with the world.
TFA is wrong. It's not outsourcing to Indian or Pakistani or $foreign developers that's a problem. I've worked with plenty of imbeciles right here (N. America). I've worked with plenty of very clued in $foreigners (Asian, E. European, S. American, Phillipino, ...) who were well worth their pay.
The problem is management. They don't appear to have a clue about what's going on or what they're doing.
What's it take to be a manager these days? Is it enough to wash out of development? You failed at development, but since you were in development, you're ideal for managing IT projects?
There is no solution, except to roll a grenade under the boardroom door.
They fire you and then pull someone in to do it anyway, and they can't make it work, just like you said it wouldn't work.
FTFY
Sigh. Yeah.
How is it that you then get blamed for it not working? That "someone"'s failure proves you were correct and the boss was wrong.
Doesn't do you any good, because you quit soon after and bugged out, vowing never to work for such idiots again.
Ibid (or ditto; whatever).
And they still didn't get it working, just like I said they wouldn't, ... I'll have absolutely no trouble explaining that away in future interviews. Ah, the sweet smell of vindication! :-)
Moron managers think they can sweep anything under the rug. Realists know nothing is forgotten, and what goes around, comes around.
Car analogy: If Kia builds a car that looks exactly like a BMW M3 and calls it a BWW W3, they will probably be sued for not creating a design of their own, as well.
Yes, and that points up the silliness of this situation. No-one will be fooled into thinking the Kia is a BMW, FFS, yet they'll end up in court anyway for "copying". WTF is wrong with copying?!? Isn't that just building to the state of the art standard?
Nope. The US' tort law system says you can get rich and crush your competitors by suing those copying you. What a twisted reality that is. Nobody in their right mind, and no moron in a hurry, would confuse a BMW with a Kia, but that won't stop the lawyers from getting their cut.
Seriously stupid system, that! "For the lawyers, by the lawyers, ...
Wow! User selectable keyboard layouts?!?
GENIUS! They should get their patent lawyers right on that.
Get a life, plebe. I did mention xmodmap. Wanna play with that instead?
Man, shut up. Opening cereal boxes is hard.
Ha! I thought math was hard (cf. Barbie)!
Funneeeee! :-)
Ya gotta despair for humanity when that sort of !@# happens. Feh, I'll go play Gladiator, or Riddick, 'til he regains sensibility.
Meh.
Go fuck yourself, bitch ass trick. Maybe someday you'll be able to afford Apple and see what it's all about. Until then you can shut your ass. Your opinion doesn't matter.
Such a cogent reply. En pointe!!!111 Such erudition. They're distributing degrees in cereal boxes where you come from now?
Samsung is the only developer that's close to being even or taking over Apple in the market ...
And you're also right in saying that there's nothing derivative or copycat about Samsung's designs, aside from the fact that they are faithful copies of Apple's designs, right down to the packaging.
You do realize you're slamming Samsung for making something that Apple says *looks* too much like one of their iBaubles?
Gee, and I thought the value in these things was what's inside; technology! Car analogy: I don't give a rat's ass what it looks like. I do care what it can do. You know, power, functionality, the stuff they can do and how they do it?
You should not be allowed on a tech site. Go back to art/marketroid school.
Can't hate them entirely though, Apple made my life easier, I know who to ignore when outside and when dealing with people in general.
Ah. A user. Idiot! Some/many people want it to JFW, which it does.
Apple made my life easier too, by being instantly useful by family members and so far resisting f***ing up fairly well. Besides, it does actually work quite well, right down to recognizing that users are going to plug in PC keyboards on a Mac. Apple anticipated that they'd want to redefine an Alt key to be a Command key, so enabling that is a thirty second job which works instantly (no reboot necessary). Beats futzing around with xmodmap.
I own no Apple hardware, nor do I want any, but I appreciate their thorough attention to detail. Considering what they charge for iBaubles, that's at least something.
There is more to computing than just support.
Except when your PC doesn't work and you're waiting for support to get it working.
What kind of geek only has access to one box?
In the meantime, the Pit has become a tourist attraction in Butte, which charges $2 for the opportunity to take in the view from the Viewing Stand.
Save your money and go to Crater Lake instead.
Do you even know what a port is and that the programs listening on them more often than not run in superuser mode?
Fuck. Off!
Last I heard, > 70% of the net is driven by *nix in one form or another.
I don't even know what that means. The routers most definitely do not run *nix.
Uh huh. WRT: Bonehead!
Why is it that Google isn't pwned daily? :-O
This is such an inane argument.
Damn, what a lamer.
Working with management is a lot like the popular stereotype of marriage. It doesn't matter how "correct" you were; ...
I'm the first one to agree we need a revolution in management. They make no sense today.
On the other hand, neither are you.
That's because their obscene profit is enabled by the government.
FTFY. :-)
You cannot produce more than 100 gallons per calendar year per adult living in the house.
Huh. That sounds damned near civilized. It's good to hear not everything's broken in the US. 100 gallons == 400 quarts, and with 365 days/yr, that leaves you 35 quarts (per adult in the household) of gifts for friends and family. Assuming you can actually down a quart of white lightning a day and live out the year, of course.
Huh.
Elderberries. I'm looking at three inches of lightly packed new fallen snow, wondering where I'd find Elderberries. I imagine damned near any plant material would serve as a substitute. I thought it was traditionally made from potatos.
ixidor, tell us what came of your efforts!
... Cocaine, and those types of drugs have zero chance of getting legalised for general consumption anywhere in the US. They are simply too destructive and addictive to the human body.
I'd argue the same is true for lots of the stuff pushed by the "legitimate" pharmaceutical industry.
Why do you care if someone smokes crack (or whatever)? As long as they're not robbing you for their fix, what's it to you what they do to themselves? Think of it as Darwin in action if you want. Soon, they'll be dead, never to trouble you again.
Live and let live, ya know?
Besides, the alternative (the drug war) is vastly more destructive, expensive, freedom destroying, etc., etc.
There are huge profits in supply--the flip side of our problem. Supply is so profitable that the cartels rival the government in their ability to wage war.
I'd just like to add, we've already been here and failed to learn from it:
Alcoholic drinks were not always illegal in all neighboring countries. Distilleries and breweries in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean flourished as their products were either consumed by visiting Americans or illegally imported to the U.S. The Detroit River, which forms part of the border with Canada, was notoriously difficult to control. Chicago became a haven for Prohibition dodgers during the time known as the Roaring Twenties. Many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters, including Al Capone and his enemy Bugs Moran, made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol sales.
And the beat goes on. How many times must this lesson be "learned"?
Whether it was included or enabled was purely the manufacturer's design ...
I believe the article at the register included a quote from HTC, saying they installed it at the behest of the carriers, on the phones they were manufacturing for those carriers.
CAS == Client Access System
"Too many secrets."