I apologize for this comment. The humor may have been a little obtuse and in my unconscionably drunken state at the time I posted this I thought it was obvious.
Only meant to joke around, sorry if I hurt some feelings.
Not to be an ass, but I probably can't help myself 'cuz I'm well past my way to "should be in bed now but still drinkin' and watchin' kung fu"...
um...
If your _sister_ is diabetic, you should learn everything you fucking can about it. It will take you all of about three fucking days to get well past the "I didn't know much about Type II" state.
It's easy. As a matter of fact, not to suggest that this is a good career path or anything, one person I have had the pleasure of meeting/(learning from) has devoted his entire fucking life to figuring out a way to deliver insulin to persons who cannot do so with their own internal regulation systems.
I run a computational cluster of twenty diskless machines, each with 1GB of RAM. They don't have swap and have already cranked out over 100,000 hours of processing time.
Would you expect to be hospitalized for eight days if you spilled coffee on yourself? Don't you think you might want to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?
If you would have taken the time to follow the lead I gave you you would have found that she attempted to settle for the hospital fees. But since McDonald's refused, it became a large court case. Since McDonald's' coffee had burned many before and since they had ignored repeated recommendations to turn the heat down, they were found _very_ guilty.
How about you take some of your own advice and get the facts before you go jumping to conclusions?
Its the people who believe that they are not to blame that place lawsuits like 'I spilled my coffee on my lap, it burns, I'm going to sue you!'
Although I agree with you about there not being enough by way of personal responsibility these days, the "coffee" incident you are referring to is misplaced.
Google for: mcdonald's coffee burn settlement
for the facts, like:
Stella Liebeck, 79 years old,... cup tipped over, pouring scalding hot coffee onto her. She received third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, necessitating hospitalization for eight days, whirlpool treatment for debridement of her wounds, skin grafting, scarring, and disability for more than two years.
I mean, constantly asking for a balance between what has been agreed and what you want is just another tactic to crush the opposition.
??
Sounds like a tactic for deliberation to me.
The original poster is on crack and has no idea what they're talking about. You would need to explain your point regardless of whether your parent post's author reread the original.
Are you proposing that corporations lay down and let their employees jibber jabber all kinds of slander and internal secrets?
Imagine that you hire someone for their technical capabilities. This person is also a bit of a social retard, but you're openminded and you figure he/she's going to be practically locked up in the server room doing the job that they are supposed to be doing. After a couple of years this person and those in charge of salaries start not seeing eye to eye. Hypothetically, instead of resolving this situation in a positive manner, this employee decides to start sabotaging the sales of the company until such time as they properly compensate him. He/she does nothing other than create fake websites like "mycompanysucks.*" and posts blogs about what a bunch of fucknuts his/her bosses are. This person details things they learned in meetings, office gossip, etc. and so forth. They do all this while maintaining not only a sterling record wrt their required duties, but do all these things in their offtime on machines not owned by the corporation.
The campaign is effective and the company investigates the source of this leak and/or slander.
Are you suggesting that the company cannot let this person go simply because they said something bad or private? If it's corporate policy not to badmouth the firm then it should be up to the corporation to let them go when they do.
Alcohol pricing is pretty much rock bottom when you factor in bottling, distribution, etc. Have you ever brewed your own? The money you save is nice, but really it's all about control. Prices charged at bars is a different, and obvious, story.
Tobacco is heavily sin-taxed in the US. You can buy cigs for dirt-cheap in Mexico.
Gasoline is a PITA to dig up the raw materials for, let alone processing and shipping and eco-issues and all that. It's surprising it's as inexpensive as it is in The States at least. Go so far as Mexico to see a bit different, and probably more reasonable, market.
Heating oil, food, etc. ? You're talking about basic capitalism here. Would you imagine that these things could be sold for any cheaper than they already are? I can walk out the door and buy pounds of chicken for just a few dollars. How much better do you want it?:)
As for the drogas, almost all of the drugs that people want are easy to grow and distribute. The pricing for them, if legalized, would drop through the floor. It's simple economics. Marijuana is a weed, you can't _stop_ growing it unless you take drastic measures. Poppys for opium, etc. C'mon, we're talking basic industrial infrastructure to start cranking out kilos of quality, and most importantly, clean opioid products. LSD, meth, etc are all easily manufactured by relative idiots these days, how can you possibly think that they would be expensive to mass-produce?
Think about it. The _only_ reason these things are so expensive is because of the black market aspect. It's as easy to grow quality bud as tomatoes, and we grow tomatoes by putting them in a planter and occasionally watering them. Why would anyone pay more than a buck or two for a pack of joints?
Is a video card manufacturer's hardware driver a trade secret?
How is this possible? The only way that we can consider software to be a trade secret is if we allow ourselves to believe that the closed source model is good for all. Is the layout of what's under the hood of a Toyota a trade secret? No? Oh. I guess software is more special. We should be happy sticking stuff in one side and getting stuff out the other without having a clue as to what's going on in the middle, even though there is absolutely no reason (in an ideal world) not to share that information.
All that open source advocates are asking for is a chance to better use the equipment that they have purchased. It's still possible to charge however much you want for the driver+card or whatever your business model requires, but, in the long run, the open source dogma says that it's better to let people play with the stuff they've bought.
The only reason why I say that you may be missing the point about open source is because I read a thread where you kept saying, "What's the point? I mean, what's the point? Tell me, what's the point?"
I gave you an example of a direct consequence of "the point" and you say you already know this? Why ask, then?
As for your quip about open-sourcing the plans for building jets, I would think that if it were possible for a heretofore unknown group of non-jet-designing-as-a-full-time-job US citizens (say, graduate students in aerospace engineering, for example) to improve on current plans then we would benefit from those people working on it in their free time, don't you? The DOD could then spend their money on actually building the equipment to make these fancy new designs. This would be the new race.
All open source people generally want is to get as many capable people as possible to attack any and all current, and sometimes unforeseen, problems. This is a good thing. There's not really much bad to say about it. If a couple stupid paradigms have to be changed on the way, so be it.
That doesn't make any sense at all. The only reason they get a larger user base is if more people buy their video card. If I want one of the best video cards out on the market, I don't base my decision on whether or not I can look at the source for their drivers. I bought the damn thing to play video games.
If nVidia releases their drivers' source then the happy hackers can play with it. If these hackers can improve them in the slightest then everyone wins: nVidia cards are then better supported on Linux, nVidia's additional efforts in improving drivers are minimized, and you may just end up buying an nVidia card because of all of the culture which crops up around it (hacks, tweaks, etc).
It appears that you are missing the entire point of open source.
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I apologize for this comment. The humor may have been a little obtuse and in my unconscionably drunken state at the time I posted this I thought it was obvious.
Only meant to joke around, sorry if I hurt some feelings.
"GI Ethnic"??
You never real-played no Army you fuck.
Fucking wanker.
Fucking "Sean Clifford" What're you a big ol' Red DOG, SEAN!?! HUH? you lick your BALLS, Sean!??
You ARE a BIG RED DOG, huh, SEAN!? WWIII, you LIKE THAT!?!? That's COMMIE talk!
24/2/8/4 ... uh ...
Is that, like, two or three patches each?
Cycling's for sucks.
... NOTHING!
My dad's been cycling for like 10 years and what's it got him
Only lost 20 pounds and looks like a new man but NOTHIN' ELSE!
NOTHIN' but a trophy or two.
And he only drinks water and he's over 50!
NOTHIN' I tell you!
I find that most home made foods (e.g. Fettuccini Alfredo made with pasta, cream, garlic, parmessean etc and not just from an instant package) ...
GAFC! Eat a salad you fucking porker.
Cream and pasta! Of course it takes longer than fucking sugar to hit your bloodstream. What are you, retarded?
I've been in Japan for four months
...
That's convenient
You should hookup at a sumo-stable. chanko baybee! 45+ pounds overnight!
WTF is your point?
/.?
...
:)
Should I be jerking off because a girl posted to
Oh, maybe I should be jerking off because you're working late
Stop playing the woman angle and fucking contribute like the rest of us. Whore.
STFU.
... you're no longer serving!
I didn't go to college to hear your rambling!!!
Jesus FUCK!
Are you IN the military or OUT!? If you're IN, STFU! If you're OUT then STOP COMPLAINING cuz you're OUT!
OUT, GEDDIT? No TABASCO bottles! Nothing!
Cook a fucking pig in the morning if you want
Wake the fuck up! No one cares! ??
Not to be an ass, but I probably can't help myself 'cuz I'm well past my way to "should be in bed now but still drinkin' and watchin' kung fu" ...
um...
If your _sister_ is diabetic, you should learn everything you fucking can about it. It will take you all of about three fucking days to get well past the "I didn't know much about Type II" state.
It's easy. As a matter of fact, not to suggest that this is a good career path or anything, one person I have had the pleasure of meeting/(learning from) has devoted his entire fucking life to figuring out a way to deliver insulin to persons who cannot do so with their own internal regulation systems.
Then you're weird.
I run a computational cluster of twenty diskless machines, each with 1GB of RAM. They don't have swap and have already cranked out over 100,000 hours of processing time.
It all depends.
Offtopic?
Would you expect to be hospitalized for eight days if you spilled coffee on yourself? Don't you think you might want to prevent this kind of thing from happening again?
If you would have taken the time to follow the lead I gave you you would have found that she attempted to settle for the hospital fees. But since McDonald's refused, it became a large court case. Since McDonald's' coffee had burned many before and since they had ignored repeated recommendations to turn the heat down, they were found _very_ guilty.
How about you take some of your own advice and get the facts before you go jumping to conclusions?
Its the people who believe that they are not to blame that place lawsuits like 'I spilled my coffee on my lap, it burns, I'm going to sue you!'
... cup tipped over, pouring scalding hot coffee onto her. She received third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, necessitating hospitalization for eight days, whirlpool treatment for debridement of her wounds, skin grafting, scarring, and disability for more than two years.
Although I agree with you about there not being enough by way of personal responsibility these days, the "coffee" incident you are referring to is misplaced.
Google for: mcdonald's coffee burn settlement
for the facts, like:
Stella Liebeck, 79 years old,
Where did this post come from?
:)
You can pet bumble bees as they're pollinating flowers. All they normally do is sort of kick at your finger with their hind legs.
You sound like an incredibly nice person. Petting bumble bees and thinking of them as little cows helping nature along.
Are you like a saint or something?
I mean, constantly asking for a balance between what has been agreed and what you want is just another tactic to crush the opposition.
??
Sounds like a tactic for deliberation to me.
The original poster is on crack and has no idea what they're talking about. You would need to explain your point regardless of whether your parent post's author reread the original.
WTF are you talking about?
Are you proposing that corporations lay down and let their employees jibber jabber all kinds of slander and internal secrets?
Imagine that you hire someone for their technical capabilities. This person is also a bit of a social retard, but you're openminded and you figure he/she's going to be practically locked up in the server room doing the job that they are supposed to be doing. After a couple of years this person and those in charge of salaries start not seeing eye to eye. Hypothetically, instead of resolving this situation in a positive manner, this employee decides to start sabotaging the sales of the company until such time as they properly compensate him. He/she does nothing other than create fake websites like "mycompanysucks.*" and posts blogs about what a bunch of fucknuts his/her bosses are. This person details things they learned in meetings, office gossip, etc. and so forth. They do all this while maintaining not only a sterling record wrt their required duties, but do all these things in their offtime on machines not owned by the corporation.
The campaign is effective and the company investigates the source of this leak and/or slander.
Are you suggesting that the company cannot let this person go simply because they said something bad or private? If it's corporate policy not to badmouth the firm then it should be up to the corporation to let them go when they do.
"£"??
Is that like a log-likelihood or something?
Optimize, optimize, yay optimize!
mixture-model, mixture-model, rah rah rah!
WTF is this?
Who the hell are these people?
WTF are they doing?
I feel stupider for having seen this video.
Alcohol pricing is pretty much rock bottom when you factor in bottling, distribution, etc. Have you ever brewed your own? The money you save is nice, but really it's all about control. Prices charged at bars is a different, and obvious, story.
:)
Tobacco is heavily sin-taxed in the US. You can buy cigs for dirt-cheap in Mexico.
Gasoline is a PITA to dig up the raw materials for, let alone processing and shipping and eco-issues and all that. It's surprising it's as inexpensive as it is in The States at least. Go so far as Mexico to see a bit different, and probably more reasonable, market.
Heating oil, food, etc. ? You're talking about basic capitalism here. Would you imagine that these things could be sold for any cheaper than they already are? I can walk out the door and buy pounds of chicken for just a few dollars. How much better do you want it?
As for the drogas, almost all of the drugs that people want are easy to grow and distribute. The pricing for them, if legalized, would drop through the floor. It's simple economics. Marijuana is a weed, you can't _stop_ growing it unless you take drastic measures. Poppys for opium, etc. C'mon, we're talking basic industrial infrastructure to start cranking out kilos of quality, and most importantly, clean opioid products. LSD, meth, etc are all easily manufactured by relative idiots these days, how can you possibly think that they would be expensive to mass-produce?
Think about it. The _only_ reason these things are so expensive is because of the black market aspect. It's as easy to grow quality bud as tomatoes, and we grow tomatoes by putting them in a planter and occasionally watering them. Why would anyone pay more than a buck or two for a pack of joints?
Is a video card manufacturer's hardware driver a trade secret?
How is this possible? The only way that we can consider software to be a trade secret is if we allow ourselves to believe that the closed source model is good for all. Is the layout of what's under the hood of a Toyota a trade secret? No? Oh. I guess software is more special. We should be happy sticking stuff in one side and getting stuff out the other without having a clue as to what's going on in the middle, even though there is absolutely no reason (in an ideal world) not to share that information.
All that open source advocates are asking for is a chance to better use the equipment that they have purchased. It's still possible to charge however much you want for the driver+card or whatever your business model requires, but, in the long run, the open source dogma says that it's better to let people play with the stuff they've bought.
The only reason why I say that you may be missing the point about open source is because I read a thread where you kept saying, "What's the point? I mean, what's the point? Tell me, what's the point?"
I gave you an example of a direct consequence of "the point" and you say you already know this? Why ask, then?
As for your quip about open-sourcing the plans for building jets, I would think that if it were possible for a heretofore unknown group of non-jet-designing-as-a-full-time-job US citizens (say, graduate students in aerospace engineering, for example) to improve on current plans then we would benefit from those people working on it in their free time, don't you? The DOD could then spend their money on actually building the equipment to make these fancy new designs. This would be the new race.
All open source people generally want is to get as many capable people as possible to attack any and all current, and sometimes unforeseen, problems. This is a good thing. There's not really much bad to say about it. If a couple stupid paradigms have to be changed on the way, so be it.
That doesn't make any sense at all. The only reason they get a larger user base is if more people buy their video card. If I want one of the best video cards out on the market, I don't base my decision on whether or not I can look at the source for their drivers. I bought the damn thing to play video games.
If nVidia releases their drivers' source then the happy hackers can play with it. If these hackers can improve them in the slightest then everyone wins: nVidia cards are then better supported on Linux, nVidia's additional efforts in improving drivers are minimized, and you may just end up buying an nVidia card because of all of the culture which crops up around it (hacks, tweaks, etc).
It appears that you are missing the entire point of open source.
You're still a virgin, dude. Sorry.
How's the weather up there, eh?
I didn't know what they were talking about when they said that it would be used to cool "ice cream".
I thought to myself, "How interesting. Cream made of ice, cooled with sound. I wonder what that means. Sounds exotic."
Then, when I saw the image, I was like, "Oh, ICE cream! What was I thinking? Thank GOD they had that image of ice cream to put me back on track!"
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I'm a very good driver.
I like to drive slow on the driveway.
Dad let's me drive slow on the driveway every Saturday. 'Course the seats were originally brown leather now they're a pitiful red.
Uh oh, fifteen minutes to Judge Wapner.