Of course they have to use the imperial system, in order to differentiate themselves from the rest of the world. Because they certainly aren't managing it by "innovation" nowadays.
This is Darwinism at its finest. Steve Jobs has the right genetics in the right environment to earn a butt-load of money,
Never have I heard a better argument for monarchy. In fact, Steve Jobs should breed exclusively with his own offspring to ensure that his money-gaining genes are passed on in the pure form.
Or perhaps there's more to earning a pile of cash than just genetics. My grandfather earned millions and millions of dollars. Neither my dad nor I have been able to reproduce this for some reason. Still, we've lived very well all our lives.
A municipality has no right to exist, much less to pile on debt that it will repay by stealing future residents.
?
So you want all those streetlights, roads, sidewalks, traffic lights and stop signs for free, right?
Municipalities regularly raise cash by bond issues. This lets you have the sidewalk TODAY. You could wait 25 years until the town has saved enough cash - but EITHER WAY you have to pay taxes. All bonds do is let you have your cake now, and transfer the RISK to the bond holder. After all, the owner of a house in a bankrupt town doesn't lose his house. The bondholder (who probably doesn't even live in the town since he's probably a bank, mutual fund or wealthy individual) can lose his capital if the town goes belly-up and if he's not insured.
Now there's a whole argument about rating municipal bonds and municipalities being screwed over by insurance companies; and there's another argument about corrupt politicians robbing the municipal treasuries, but if you think the concept of municipal bonds is a bad thing then I suggest you move to some forest somewhere, and enjoy your lack of utilities/access. You don't get something for nothing - EVER.
I am wondering if this got factored into the "performance" category.
Don't worry, if you upgrade your CPU, motherboard and graphics card, and buy a few extra gigs of memory, then you'll be able to open those tabs as fast as you can in firefox...er, in your previous configuration.
So if I'm running an online forum or game of some sort, I can't drop IP-bans on offensive parties
That would be a pretty foolish thing to do anyway. Ban the account, not the IP. Many different people can use the same IP, especially if they're connected via a cable modem. Banning the IP is a lazy, sloppy way to do it.
Plus you can ban the IP all you want. You just can't use the IP to trace back to an actual person, and then take legal action from there. Of course if a person signed up for an account and agreed to abide by and be bound by your terms of service... the IP doesn't factor in to it. It's then a contract between you and them, which they happened to violate.
Agreed. My wife has a degree in economics, followed by an MBA. Yet strangely she's the head of market research for a fortune 500 co, reports directly to the board and manages about 30 marketing teams - roughly one per country in her region. Her job is primarily to STOP this kind of bullshit from happening. This usually spawns in the local teams that don't have anyone with an advanced degree, and primarily consist of "buddies", "pals", and "girlfriends" who only got their jobs because they know how to suck up to their boss and not because they're actually good at it. These are the people who think they can re-invent marketing, have no idea what the studies and research they call for actually mean, manipulate and misinterpret statistical data in their favor, and generally waste resources making the company less efficient. However the few times they manage to pull together in the same direction make it worthwhile.
GP should revisit what an MBA actually means. I'm proud of my wife, even if I beat her out with a doctorate of my own:)
Wireless is hardly known for it's fast latency times;
I wasn't exactly referring to your everyday linksys router when I said wireless. I meant "without wires". I'm sure that the same technology that can allow someone in Nevada to fly a UAV and kill 'insurgents' in Paki^H^H^H^HAfghanistan in real time can be applied here. "Lag" should be less of an issue for a stable ground based robot than for something that flies through the air and shoots people. I can't imagine a 20 ton robot doing brain surgery.
Surely in this day of high speed wireless communications, it makes absolutely no sense for the person to be physically "inside" the "mecha", or on the same continent for that matter. Of course I'd hate to see one of these babies turned into a zombie...
why do problems with paperwork make it necessary to turn away patients?
You can thank the legal system, multi-million dollar lawsuit awards, and greedy lawyers and "patients" for that one. As a doctor I am appalled at the amount of paperwork involved - and I don't even practice in the US. The volume paperwork has NOTHING to do with medicine, and EVERYTHING to do with physicians and staff protecting ourselves from potential litigation.
It's sad to think that the decision not to treat should take precedence over the patient's comfort, but frankly why should a hospital or staff expose themselves to potential litigation? It's much safer legally to inform the ambulance services that the hospital is no longer accepting patients. This is the world "we" (ie the courts, the lawyers and the patients) have built. And even now you find flaws in their logic, and someone is probably thinking of suing (or trying to sue) the hospital over this. In medicine you are always damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Ideally paperwork would be the bare minimum to inform my colleagues of what my diagnosis is, why, and what my plan is. I can do that in a couple sentences per patient. Everything else is just legalese. Remember that the medical file is, in a way, a method of getting a physician to waive his protections from self-incrimination. There is no "5th" amendment for physicians. If it's not in the file, it doesn't exist or it never happened. And if it's in the file, it had better be 100% right, all the time.
then it will be fairly apparent that you have a hidden OS that you use all the time.
Since when is lugging a computer around without using it at all considered to be a crime? IANAL but I think it will be tough to prove guilt by saying "he doesn't use his computer, therefore he MUST be guilty"...
It doesn't. Neither does comparing Wikipedia to the internet. A little perspective is required here. It's just one website, albeit a very popular one. COS no doubt owns and operates many websites around the world where they can push their (lunatic sorry religious) agenda. In fact, I've even seen their flash ads here on slashdot. I've even clicked on them, causing wealth be transferred from them to slashdot (even if it's only 10 cents or so, it's 10 cents less for them).
PS: I regard all organized religion as scams preying on the weak minded, and don't pretend to single out "Scientology".
Wait, this is university and not preschool we are talking about?
Do they hand out stars for being the teacher's pet in Japanese universities?
If you don't go to class (presumably) as an adult in a university, it's your own damned business. And if you fail your exams, it's nobody's fault but your own. However I never expected that class attendance would be such an important factor so as to justify a heavy investment in labor and capital - do they not have better ways of screening who deserves to graduate and who doesn't in Japan?
If one attempted to distill a single prevailing emotion or attitude about government on Slashdot, I think it is fairly arguable that the winner would be cynicism or skepticism.
Yeah right. Like we're expected to believe what you think about slashdot's opinion. You know, it's summaries like this that prove we can't expect much change either from the government OR slashdot...
PS: For the HUMOR impaired, the above was meant to be a skeptical, cynical comment. But THIS bit is actually sarcasm.
Slashdot Mirror
Considering all I have ever managed to download from them is the same damned Rick Astley video.... MAN I hate that song... never gonna gi---
An unexplained rash of spontaneous cow explosions has resulted in a glut in the Canadian beef market...
Actually the glut is now all around and outside the Canadian beef market...
Of course they have to use the imperial system, in order to differentiate themselves from the rest of the world. Because they certainly aren't managing it by "innovation" nowadays.
One sorry TWO delegates is hardly "traction"
This is Darwinism at its finest. Steve Jobs has the right genetics in the right environment to earn a butt-load of money,
Never have I heard a better argument for monarchy. In fact, Steve Jobs should breed exclusively with his own offspring to ensure that his money-gaining genes are passed on in the pure form.
Or perhaps there's more to earning a pile of cash than just genetics. My grandfather earned millions and millions of dollars. Neither my dad nor I have been able to reproduce this for some reason. Still, we've lived very well all our lives.
A municipality has no right to exist, much less to pile on debt that it will repay by stealing future residents.
?
So you want all those streetlights, roads, sidewalks, traffic lights and stop signs for free, right?
Municipalities regularly raise cash by bond issues. This lets you have the sidewalk TODAY. You could wait 25 years until the town has saved enough cash - but EITHER WAY you have to pay taxes. All bonds do is let you have your cake now, and transfer the RISK to the bond holder. After all, the owner of a house in a bankrupt town doesn't lose his house. The bondholder (who probably doesn't even live in the town since he's probably a bank, mutual fund or wealthy individual) can lose his capital if the town goes belly-up and if he's not insured.
Now there's a whole argument about rating municipal bonds and municipalities being screwed over by insurance companies; and there's another argument about corrupt politicians robbing the municipal treasuries, but if you think the concept of municipal bonds is a bad thing then I suggest you move to some forest somewhere, and enjoy your lack of utilities/access. You don't get something for nothing - EVER.
There's nothing in the Constitution that allows government to build roads and bridges, either - but I bet you're happy enough to use them.
you can't refute something that doesn't anything in the first place.
That's where critical thinking comes in. You don't have to refute it - you just don't buy into it.
I am wondering if this got factored into the "performance" category.
Don't worry, if you upgrade your CPU, motherboard and graphics card, and buy a few extra gigs of memory, then you'll be able to open those tabs as fast as you can in firefox...er, in your previous configuration.
So if I'm running an online forum or game of some sort, I can't drop IP-bans on offensive parties
That would be a pretty foolish thing to do anyway. Ban the account, not the IP. Many different people can use the same IP, especially if they're connected via a cable modem. Banning the IP is a lazy, sloppy way to do it.
Plus you can ban the IP all you want. You just can't use the IP to trace back to an actual person, and then take legal action from there. Of course if a person signed up for an account and agreed to abide by and be bound by your terms of service... the IP doesn't factor in to it. It's then a contract between you and them, which they happened to violate.
Agreed. My wife has a degree in economics, followed by an MBA. Yet strangely she's the head of market research for a fortune 500 co, reports directly to the board and manages about 30 marketing teams - roughly one per country in her region. Her job is primarily to STOP this kind of bullshit from happening. This usually spawns in the local teams that don't have anyone with an advanced degree, and primarily consist of "buddies", "pals", and "girlfriends" who only got their jobs because they know how to suck up to their boss and not because they're actually good at it. These are the people who think they can re-invent marketing, have no idea what the studies and research they call for actually mean, manipulate and misinterpret statistical data in their favor, and generally waste resources making the company less efficient. However the few times they manage to pull together in the same direction make it worthwhile.
GP should revisit what an MBA actually means. I'm proud of my wife, even if I beat her out with a doctorate of my own :)
Yet strangely, I get a result of:
TextRunner took 9 seconds.
Retrieved 0 results for what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?.
Meh, call me when this stuff can answer the really USEFUL questions in life.
They just need a way to recycle the broken pieces back into chairs again.
That's the beauty of the Open Source Community. Oh you LOVE us when you actually NEED us, and steal our ideas/sue us when it suits you...
Wireless is hardly known for it's fast latency times;
I wasn't exactly referring to your everyday linksys router when I said wireless. I meant "without wires". I'm sure that the same technology that can allow someone in Nevada to fly a UAV and kill 'insurgents' in Paki^H^H^H^HAfghanistan in real time can be applied here. "Lag" should be less of an issue for a stable ground based robot than for something that flies through the air and shoots people. I can't imagine a 20 ton robot doing brain surgery.
Surely in this day of high speed wireless communications, it makes absolutely no sense for the person to be physically "inside" the "mecha", or on the same continent for that matter. Of course I'd hate to see one of these babies turned into a zombie...
I just don't want to be the one to have to blow it up. I get dizzy after 5 balloons or so...
why do problems with paperwork make it necessary to turn away patients?
You can thank the legal system, multi-million dollar lawsuit awards, and greedy lawyers and "patients" for that one. As a doctor I am appalled at the amount of paperwork involved - and I don't even practice in the US. The volume paperwork has NOTHING to do with medicine, and EVERYTHING to do with physicians and staff protecting ourselves from potential litigation.
It's sad to think that the decision not to treat should take precedence over the patient's comfort, but frankly why should a hospital or staff expose themselves to potential litigation? It's much safer legally to inform the ambulance services that the hospital is no longer accepting patients. This is the world "we" (ie the courts, the lawyers and the patients) have built. And even now you find flaws in their logic, and someone is probably thinking of suing (or trying to sue) the hospital over this. In medicine you are always damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Ideally paperwork would be the bare minimum to inform my colleagues of what my diagnosis is, why, and what my plan is. I can do that in a couple sentences per patient. Everything else is just legalese. Remember that the medical file is, in a way, a method of getting a physician to waive his protections from self-incrimination. There is no "5th" amendment for physicians. If it's not in the file, it doesn't exist or it never happened. And if it's in the file, it had better be 100% right, all the time.
then it will be fairly apparent that you have a hidden OS that you use all the time.
Since when is lugging a computer around without using it at all considered to be a crime? IANAL but I think it will be tough to prove guilt by saying "he doesn't use his computer, therefore he MUST be guilty"...
and taking forever to return them.
Who said anything about returning them?
Note that Oracle (nee Sun)
Oracle was not "born as" Sun (which is what "née" means). They were two separate companies until the recent purchase of Sun by Oracle.
censorship on the internet doesn't work
It doesn't. Neither does comparing Wikipedia to the internet. A little perspective is required here. It's just one website, albeit a very popular one. COS no doubt owns and operates many websites around the world where they can push their (lunatic sorry religious) agenda. In fact, I've even seen their flash ads here on slashdot. I've even clicked on them, causing wealth be transferred from them to slashdot (even if it's only 10 cents or so, it's 10 cents less for them).
PS: I regard all organized religion as scams preying on the weak minded, and don't pretend to single out "Scientology".
Wait, this is university and not preschool we are talking about?
Do they hand out stars for being the teacher's pet in Japanese universities?
If you don't go to class (presumably) as an adult in a university, it's your own damned business. And if you fail your exams, it's nobody's fault but your own. However I never expected that class attendance would be such an important factor so as to justify a heavy investment in labor and capital - do they not have better ways of screening who deserves to graduate and who doesn't in Japan?
If one attempted to distill a single prevailing emotion or attitude about government on Slashdot, I think it is fairly arguable that the winner would be cynicism or skepticism.
Yeah right. Like we're expected to believe what you think about slashdot's opinion. You know, it's summaries like this that prove we can't expect much change either from the government OR slashdot...
PS: For the HUMOR impaired, the above was meant to be a skeptical, cynical comment. But THIS bit is actually sarcasm.
is it that bad ? a dictator like obama would be good for the country.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
He's an engineer, finds natural gas all day.
Hell, I guess I will be seeing him at my place soon, especially after burrito night.