The statements of the parent are not contradictory. The poster stated that nobody wants anyone to die or suffer, but that doesn't mean he's responsible for their life simply because he doesn't want them to die or suffer. Nor should he not focus on his preparing for his own care in his later years so that he can care for someone who did not prepare for theirs.
Either you don't want people to die or suffer or you do.
By your logic, you want people to die and suffer because you're wasting time posting on slashdot when you could be working to pay for desperately needed medical care for the needy or studying in school to be able to practice medicine and care for them yourself.
The fact is, we are the RICHEST nation on earth...
The hobo in the alley with the biggest refrigerator box is the RICHEST hobo in the alley. That doesn't mean he can afford to support every one of his desires, and he may actually have to prioritize his needs.
supplying inexpensive medical care to people who may have made poor choices in their lives
Ok, now it's just obvious you're trolling.
I would propose that by spending a couple of trillion dollars less on military hardware and instead putting that into health care we could treat EVERYONE in our country and have a lot left over to reduce taxes or, gasp, help out 3rd world nations
Uhm, the United States spends much less than "a couple of trillion dollars" on military hardware annually. In fact, you're proposing the United States spend less on military hardware, than it spends on the entire budget (including the deficit).
I think I'm done analyzing, the more I write the more I feel like I'm feeding a troll. It's very easy to have a better idea and an all encompassing solution when you don't know WTF you're talking about, isn't it?
Then how about this: You are far more likely to be killed on the road by a drunk driver. I don't see cops with breath-alyzers standing outside of bars to stop people with blood alcohol levels over the limit from driving.
It is most certainly not an oligopoly. Go back to your Econ 101 book and reread the chapter on oligopolies, then flip through the chapter about cartels. An oligopoly would be a market with a few big players competing against one another. A cartel controlled market would be a few big players in an alliance, setting prices and essentially making their cartel a confederated monopoly.
In turns out that an alien message designed to last millenia should be 'inside a large number of self-replicating, self-repairing microscopic machines programmed to multiply and adapt to changing conditions', otherwise known as living cells. Are we the message?"
I found the message! Encoded in my own DNA! It says you should each send $50 to:
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market.
Yeah and Dell doesn't really have a competitor in the Inspiron market.
If a market is narrowed down to a given companies product you usually don't find much competition. Granted, the Macintosh is more exclusive and differentiated than the products offered by its competitors, but that doesn't mean that it lacks competitors. The reason the Mac is so polished is because of the fierce competition in its market. Infact, the article is concerning how the competition kicked the Macs ass. So yes, the Macintosh has (and had) competition.
I hate the shinnanigans in the United States government, but I also despise misinformation.
...We now have a $500 trillion deficit...
The deficit is the largest it's been in history, however it is one thousand times smaller than your claim of 500 trillion to the tune of 500 billion. To put it in another perspective, according to The CIA World Factbook, your dollar figure of the deficit is nearly fifty times the gross domestic product of the United States, and ten times the gross world product. So unless the United States government is buying ten times more than everything annually produced on the entire planet, your figure would be wrong.
...and an entire new department in the government with tens of thousands of new federal employees (Homeland Security). Talk about beaureaucratic [sic] redundancy! We've now got the CIA, the FBI, and Homeland Security all working in the same field...
The FBI, CIA, and The Department of Homeland Security most certainly do work in the same field, however they have differing focus, jobs, and responsibilities. Your argument is analogous to one claiming that the transportation manufacturing field is overly redundant because there are airplane manufacturers AND auto manufacturers. There certainly is large amount of waste because of bureaucratic redundancy, but for gods sake, use specific factual examples instead of thinking that "Look, they're in the same field!" means a damn thing.
I liked your comment, however I must play devils advocate with your reference to Hollywood which was later followed with the statement:
Don't fret though, once the gaming industry becomes more mature, we will start to see more stratification of companies as they target smaller audiences, and inevitably there will be some who choose to target older, more mature gamers.
In the maturation of Hollywood, when did they ever start to target smaller audiencies? I know there are examples, but they are very far and few between. And if there is a lack of entertainment being targetted to anything but the masses by a mature segment of the entertainment industry, why do you think an immature segment will begin targetting smaller niches once the segment matures?
To be honest I tend to agree with your sentiment, but only because the barriers to a wide selection in media and entertainment are being forced down by a changing culture and with the advancement of technology. What are your thoughts on the matter?
There are about as many "women" attracted to "thug" men as there are "thug" men. It is not the entirety of the fairer half of our species as you purport.
Show me a homeless man with no job and I'll show you a homeless woman with no job who would be more than happy to go on a date with him.
As far as finding a woman for you, I know there are numerous females who are bitter and have skewed perceptions of the world who would probably make a good match. The only problem is that like yourself, they're too busy bitching about the world to be able to have any time to do anything else. Eh, what can you do?
The link in the description is only an article at the register.com. The actual website for the US awards can be found here and links for big brother awards for other nations can be found here.
You could set up a Microsoft feed company if you wanted to and it wouldn't violate trademark law. However, I never said one would violate trademark law by trademarking a feed company with the same trademark as that of computer related company.
The graphical hp logo is trademarked, and it is a violation of trademark law to mislead the consumer with a similar representation. Any representation within the computer related field of the letter h followed by p, with or without the circle cut out or in a different font etc. would be considered misleading the consumer and violating hp's trademark if it were used by any other computer related company in the industry.
I don't think you can trademark an abbreviation...
HP might disagree with you on that one. Since hp is their logo, and their logo is trademarked, it wouldn't be wise to go into a computer related business and refer to yourself as "HP".
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'If he knows you'll faint at the sight of blood, he'll cut himself just to watch you pass out.'
Shipping great software on time is a difficult but not impossible task.
Then why doesn't MS do it? For any MS fanboy who insists some of their software is great, what about the majority of it? Mediocre maybe?
Get to a known state and stay there.
Instability? FUD? Monopolistic practices? Insecurity? Bloatware? et cetera....
Organize the project around the concept a reaching milestones with zero defects. Zero defects does not mean that the product does not have bugs, or missing functionality; it means that the product achieves the quality level that had been set for that milestone.
Great, so zero defects doesn't mean zero defects, it means some intangible level of acceptable defect. Hm, sounds like a redefinition of language to have the meaning of words fit the state of their software.
Slipping is what happens when information that was unknown becomes less unknown.
Don't not unknow that which is known to be non-unknown knowingly..... Nothing against MS here this guys just sounds like a shmuck.
The product should be built every day, along with all setup scripts and on-line help, in a public place, where QA can conduct appropriate assessment of daily status, and the entire team can observe progress or its lack.
Why that sounds more like a bazaar than a cathedral.
Portability is for canoes...the complexity of multi-platform support is beyond the reach of most development organizations...build your product on the absolute fewest number of platforms possible.
Multi-platform support is beyond the capabilities of MS, not most development platforms. This is exemplefied by Linux, BSD, Gnu software etc.
Enrapture the customers.
Most software is a renewal business. Customers buy multiple releases over a relatively long period of time. As a consequence, the market has a deep understanding of your software and its flaws, and your organization and its flaws.
Entrap the customer. They understand your software and its flaws, and your organization and its flaws. Make a token effort to alter the most obvious ways we're screwing the consumer and they'll thank us for only buggering them half the time we were before.
Establish a shared vision.
I'm establishing a vision of a penguin dancing on Bill Gates head. Is it working yet?
Get the team into ship mode.
Tell development the product is being released, ready or not.
Everybody (or nearly everybody) must believe that achieving the milestone is possible.
Ignore whistle blowers, we're releasing.
All members of the team must understand precisely what they must do prior to shipping. All unknowns are factored out.
We don't know if that glaring flaw in our software will be exploited, factor the unknown out.
The goal is an acceptable quality level at ship time.
Noble words, however based on past releases, an acceptable quality level defined by MS is extremely lacking.
Understand the range of quality that is acceptable to your customers.
Will they still buy this steaming pile of...
How many low priority bugs did your product ship with last time? Was it a problem?
Did they take the last steaming pile of...
Are the customers better off with this product including this bug?
Are we better off with the customers money now at the risk of disrupting their lives with our steaming pile of...
Since destabilizing the software is more of a problem than most bugs, be very careful about which bugs you fix.
Don't fix bugs, it might make our software buggy.
This is why we have "ReadMe's" and bug lists.
Releasing buggy software is ok, just let them know after the fact in some obscure reference and our hands are clean of responsibility.
Well, if there were any doubt in my mind left as to why their products could be so horrible, getting an idea of their development method pretty much removes it.
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Here's a straw, I think it's just within your grasp.
Either you don't want people to die or suffer or you do.
By your logic, you want people to die and suffer because you're wasting time posting on slashdot when you could be working to pay for desperately needed medical care for the needy or studying in school to be able to practice medicine and care for them yourself.
The fact is, we are the RICHEST nation on earth...
The hobo in the alley with the biggest refrigerator box is the RICHEST hobo in the alley. That doesn't mean he can afford to support every one of his desires, and he may actually have to prioritize his needs.
supplying inexpensive medical care to people who may have made poor choices in their lives
Ok, now it's just obvious you're trolling.
I would propose that by spending a couple of trillion dollars less on military hardware and instead putting that into health care we could treat EVERYONE in our country and have a lot left over to reduce taxes or, gasp, help out 3rd world nations
Uhm, the United States spends much less than "a couple of trillion dollars" on military hardware annually. In fact, you're proposing the United States spend less on military hardware, than it spends on the entire budget (including the deficit).
I think I'm done analyzing, the more I write the more I feel like I'm feeding a troll. It's very easy to have a better idea and an all encompassing solution when you don't know WTF you're talking about, isn't it?
Patience, that's phase two.
It is most certainly not an oligopoly. Go back to your Econ 101 book and reread the chapter on oligopolies, then flip through the chapter about cartels. An oligopoly would be a market with a few big players competing against one another. A cartel controlled market would be a few big players in an alliance, setting prices and essentially making their cartel a confederated monopoly.
Really? She didn't refuse when I asked her.
They're not upgrading by creation date. Out of curiosity I just checked the spambox with them I've had since 96 and it's still 2MB.
when the average hi in July is 77 degrees farenheit(25 C).
And he's saying: "Coffee... BRING ME COFFEE!!"
Technically it means what it says:
"Linux zealots will write of SCO's latest claim as yet another PR ploy."
But to me (and I think most people) it implies:
"Anyone who writes off SCO's latest claim as a PR ploy is just a biased Linux zealot."
I am biased but even when I look at it at an unbiased manner I still get the implied message from what is technically stated.
I produce almost 3hp running up a flight of stairs. Do you even know the units you're talking about?
Jesus Christ are you for real?
I found the message! Encoded in my own DNA! It says you should each send $50 to:
PO Box 1922
Anchron, OH
30544
Swear to god. Obey the aliens.
Yeah and Dell doesn't really have a competitor in the Inspiron market.
If a market is narrowed down to a given companies product you usually don't find much competition. Granted, the Macintosh is more exclusive and differentiated than the products offered by its competitors, but that doesn't mean that it lacks competitors. The reason the Mac is so polished is because of the fierce competition in its market. Infact, the article is concerning how the competition kicked the Macs ass. So yes, the Macintosh has (and had) competition.
The deficit is the largest it's been in history, however it is one thousand times smaller than your claim of 500 trillion to the tune of 500 billion. To put it in another perspective, according to The CIA World Factbook, your dollar figure of the deficit is nearly fifty times the gross domestic product of the United States, and ten times the gross world product. So unless the United States government is buying ten times more than everything annually produced on the entire planet, your figure would be wrong.
The FBI, CIA, and The Department of Homeland Security most certainly do work in the same field, however they have differing focus, jobs, and responsibilities. Your argument is analogous to one claiming that the transportation manufacturing field is overly redundant because there are airplane manufacturers AND auto manufacturers. There certainly is large amount of waste because of bureaucratic redundancy, but for gods sake, use specific factual examples instead of thinking that "Look, they're in the same field!" means a damn thing.
Don't fret though, once the gaming industry becomes more mature, we will start to see more stratification of companies as they target smaller audiences, and inevitably there will be some who choose to target older, more mature gamers.
In the maturation of Hollywood, when did they ever start to target smaller audiencies? I know there are examples, but they are very far and few between. And if there is a lack of entertainment being targetted to anything but the masses by a mature segment of the entertainment industry, why do you think an immature segment will begin targetting smaller niches once the segment matures?
To be honest I tend to agree with your sentiment, but only because the barriers to a wide selection in media and entertainment are being forced down by a changing culture and with the advancement of technology. What are your thoughts on the matter?
Show me a homeless man with no job and I'll show you a homeless woman with no job who would be more than happy to go on a date with him.
As far as finding a woman for you, I know there are numerous females who are bitter and have skewed perceptions of the world who would probably make a good match. The only problem is that like yourself, they're too busy bitching about the world to be able to have any time to do anything else. Eh, what can you do?
P.S. Nice =! Weak. Weak == Weak. Thug =! Strong. Strong == Strong.
The link in the description is only an article at the register.com. The actual website for the US awards can be found here and links for big brother awards for other nations can be found here.
Shut Down
Shut Down
Ok
The graphical hp logo is trademarked, and it is a violation of trademark law to mislead the consumer with a similar representation. Any representation within the computer related field of the letter h followed by p, with or without the circle cut out or in a different font etc. would be considered misleading the consumer and violating hp's trademark if it were used by any other computer related company in the industry.
HP might disagree with you on that one. Since hp is their logo, and their logo is trademarked, it wouldn't be wise to go into a computer related business and refer to yourself as "HP".
I'll faint if he cut his own neck, I swear!
Then why doesn't MS do it? For any MS fanboy who insists some of their software is great, what about the majority of it? Mediocre maybe?
Get to a known state and stay there.
Instability? FUD? Monopolistic practices? Insecurity? Bloatware? et cetera....
Organize the project around the concept a reaching milestones with zero defects. Zero defects does not mean that the product does not have bugs, or missing functionality; it means that the product achieves the quality level that had been set for that milestone.
Great, so zero defects doesn't mean zero defects, it means some intangible level of acceptable defect. Hm, sounds like a redefinition of language to have the meaning of words fit the state of their software.
Slipping is what happens when information that was unknown becomes less unknown.
Don't not unknow that which is known to be non-unknown knowingly..... Nothing against MS here this guys just sounds like a shmuck.
The product should be built every day, along with all setup scripts and on-line help, in a public place, where QA can conduct appropriate assessment of daily status, and the entire team can observe progress or its lack.
Why that sounds more like a bazaar than a cathedral.
Portability is for canoes...the complexity of multi-platform support is beyond the reach of most development organizations...build your product on the absolute fewest number of platforms possible.
Multi-platform support is beyond the capabilities of MS, not most development platforms. This is exemplefied by Linux, BSD, Gnu software etc.
Enrapture the customers. Most software is a renewal business. Customers buy multiple releases over a relatively long period of time. As a consequence, the market has a deep understanding of your software and its flaws, and your organization and its flaws.
Entrap the customer. They understand your software and its flaws, and your organization and its flaws. Make a token effort to alter the most obvious ways we're screwing the consumer and they'll thank us for only buggering them half the time we were before.
Establish a shared vision.
I'm establishing a vision of a penguin dancing on Bill Gates head. Is it working yet?
Get the team into ship mode.
Tell development the product is being released, ready or not.
Everybody (or nearly everybody) must believe that achieving the milestone is possible.
Ignore whistle blowers, we're releasing.
All members of the team must understand precisely what they must do prior to shipping. All unknowns are factored out.
We don't know if that glaring flaw in our software will be exploited, factor the unknown out.
The goal is an acceptable quality level at ship time.
Noble words, however based on past releases, an acceptable quality level defined by MS is extremely lacking.
Understand the range of quality that is acceptable to your customers.
Will they still buy this steaming pile of...
How many low priority bugs did your product ship with last time? Was it a problem?
Did they take the last steaming pile of...
Are the customers better off with this product including this bug?
Are we better off with the customers money now at the risk of disrupting their lives with our steaming pile of...
Since destabilizing the software is more of a problem than most bugs, be very careful about which bugs you fix.
Don't fix bugs, it might make our software buggy.
This is why we have "ReadMe's" and bug lists.
Releasing buggy software is ok, just let them know after the fact in some obscure reference and our hands are clean of responsibility.
Well, if there were any doubt in my mind left as to why their products could be so horrible, getting an idea of their development method pretty much removes it.
n. Informal
aka: We're including this non-word in the dictionary in case some jackass uses it and you don't know wtf they're trying to say.
Also included on the wonderful site you referenced:
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Aint my sticktoitiveness be the phattest in proving proper words?
I believe you meant to say she's working three corners trying to pay off the lawsuit.
...that a "SCO license" is like a "fishing license" or "deer hunting license". Is it SCO season already? Oh boy! My favorite time of the year!