Yup - it's not only a convenient excuse, but legitimate.
Unless I'm running an online business, I certainly don't approach my email as if I have to look at every hour on the dot. Sometimes I even let it sit for a week at a time if I'm not expecting anything.
If someone has something important to say, call me.
And conversely, if someone has something trivial to say (telemarketers, etc), email me so my spam filter can kick in.
Just because email is convenient doesn't mean it should be used in all situations.
They probably also understand why a shirt from Hugo Boss costs more than a shirt from Kenneth Cole, which costs more than a shirt from Sears, even though the material and manufacturing costs are the same for all three.
This is simply not true, quality products cost more to make.
I don't know about those specific brands, but having been around enough good clothing in my life, material is very important - using the best cotton for instance, Egyptian cotton, costs significantly more than the run of the mill stuff especially if you are using better grades. Also, better dyes are used in the better clothing, some of that never/hardly fades even with many washings (cheap rugs have this problem, the red often runs).
All of this costs money to make a better product. Some expensive brands actually have quality behind them that equals more than hype. This would also extend into the car analogy as well: Ferrari engines obviously output much more horsepower than a Kia engine, the materials/manufacturing costs behind them do differ. Otherwise there be a lot of cheap cars on the road that would be just/almost as good as a Ferarri but cheaper.
The downward trend some certs have seen is likely just a question of supply and demand.
For instance, Microsoft/Allies tend to publicize their certs heavily on the radio (citing $$$ and numerous career opportunities) and thus get more members of the general public into that career. Not surprisingly, a small glut in the market occurs.
However, I also don't see it hurting anyone's career, you just can't rest on your laurels and eventually have to go for something more substantial or that will let you grow (like a college degree or a job with different experience)
Yeah, everybody I know adores the performance, someone even opened a website http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/, but look what I read New York Daily News:
As for the after-dinner entertainment, the conventional wisdom was that Bush killed with his self-mocking routine -- "The President was fantastic," gushed staunch Dem Patricia Duff -- while the hired talent, Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert, bombed badly. "It was an insider crowd, as insider a crowd as you'll ever have, and he didn't do the insider jokes," said BET founder Bob Johnson
WTF?! Bombed? Maybe with the crowd, but he was bloody brilliant. Fucking balls of steel to say what he did with the president a few feet away. Most other comediens would turn on the fake chuminess, "oh schucks, you know I'm just kidding" after every bland joke, and then kiss and make up with old Georgy boy.
WTF is with the NY Daily! Really, every other blogger is praising Colbert like nobody's business.
I agree. According to Bush's poll numbers, Colbert was simply saying what 2/3s of the country is probably thinking.
Some people may point out that Colbert should have shown more respect, that this was not the venue to do it in, blah, blah, blah. But I say Bush deserves it, he's been pushing decidedly more nonconservative (bigger governmentment, not smaller), invasive legislation and been lying to our faces the last few years on so many things. And with Iraq, put our Country into such a difficult situation for years to come - financially, politically, and responsible for babysitting a bunch of people who hate our presence no matter how much money we throw at them, their country, and their infrastructure.
IMO, Bush got the amount of respect he given us and has earned from us - the general public. 0.
I know as well as anybody the Mac OS was never immune from viruses, that's impossible.
But how many times do I have to read articles where the alarmists are warning us that the big one is finally coming and we're all going to die horrible deaths.
Yeah, I expect a virus or three may come one day. But Windows and it's users has survived thousands without the apocolypse on a world-wide. Hell, many of my friends run windows without anti-virus and mostly don't have infections (can't say the same for malware).
So why should it be different for Mac? Why will a single virus there bring about such alarmists? Apple's record on security is better than MS.
Just remember, any OS is vulnerable, if not to viruses, then to Murphy's law, shit happens. So make regular backups, sit back, and relax.
Perhaps they have marketshare because of those moronic design decisions - the tail wagging the dog so to speak, sacrificing safety for superficial ease of use (of course, I abadoned MS when I saw how many anti-malware/spyware/etcetera programs I had to run to keep my "ease of use").
The $2000 barrier to entry you used to have to pay to use OS X (and test exploits against it) no longer exists, if you don't think that makes a difference to hackers (many of whom are in far less afluent countries then you), then quite frankly, you're insane.
I suppose you haven't actually checked the Apple Store the last few years. The barrier of entry has been around $500-600 the last few years. Unless haxors absolutely need l33t 15" Powerbooks instead of a mac mini.
And on that point, wouldn't some haxors love to also be one of the few to make a sucessful virus/trojan/etc OS X or Linux (where's the barrier of entry here?) instead of one of the few thousand for Windows? I thought prestige was some sort of motivation. Pff.
security at apple is like microsoft 3 years ago in the sense that they are still burying there haed in the sand.in the last 3 years microsoft has coome a long way in security eventhough there still not at the high standard that some people desire its alot better than 3 years ago
How does everybody figure this? As a results-oriented person, I have to say Apple's track record is better than Microsoft's at the moment.
Not only could you used other liquids, pumps generate heat too, and the thing can act as a temperature sensor so it combines three functions in one.
If it gets my chips running faster, simplifies design (lowers costs) and improves reliability (taking out pumps reduces what can go wrong) I'm all for it.
He couldn't pwn the president on his own turf like Jon Stewart did with Crossfire. Not only would it not work, but it would have been poorly received... even in the absence of some ubar police state.
Are you serious? This comparison is non-sequitor. I mean, comparing pwning (or not pwning) the president to pwning Tucker Carlson and his co-host? Why not compare it to Jon Stuart pwning (or not pwning) Hollywood at the Oscars? I think Jon did pretty mediocre there. But at least it is a comparison of a semi-big event with big egos as well.
And it is news for nerds somewhat. Colbert has shown time and again he is/was a nerd. And we like to cheer one of our own from time to time.
Have political parties ever spearheaded any worthwhile movement? Woman's suffrage? Civil Liberties? Hell, even Slavery? Not, if it cost them votes or it became the "right thing to do" with the public, meaning they got so late into the game as not to make a difference any longer. Look what parties make of issue these days to see the lack of courage in Washington to take any definitive action.
Have political parties caused you to stop looking at who you are voting for, and instead make you vote down the party line? Congratulations, you played into their hands. Are all Republicans really that bad, as to be always worse than their Democratic counterparts? Or the other way around?
Will it matter if the Democrats come in? Other than unions, won't they get funded by the same corporations as long as they follow corporate interests? And they will.
Hell, Jesse Ventura was one of the better Governors that there was in a long time. I wouldn't have believed it if I haven't seen it, but he was. And he was independent and not a career politician.
Why can't we vote more people like him in?
Think Independent. And Vote Independent. The parties won't fix jack shit. They have all their fingers smeared by the same pie and are beholden to the same interests.
a) The person seeding the file isn't the legitimate copyright holder, and, strangely enough, many times they are. How else will you share crappy self-made movies with friends over the net?
b) The content doesn't have a "free" license - Linux ISOs, etcetera - which is also a normal occurence.
c) These features are built in to subvert copyright holders rather than protect the privacy of the sharer. Strangely enough, people may want to share things they made with privacy in tact. Like writing under a pseudonym.
The logical fallacy was begging the question, iow, assuming what you are trying to prove and making a circular argument.
Waco. Huh? This was overzealousness and stupidity, nothing more.
I like seeing cowboy vigilantism (yes, I'm talking about the government) resulting in a fire (intentionally set?) that killed 50 adults and 25 children.
Oh yeah, to serve a warrant on a man at his compound, instead of catching him any given sunday on a streetcorner preaching.
Yup, simple overzealousness and stupidity. Reminds me when a swat team shot a 70+ year old man in his bed because he was "reaching for a gun." Mind you, they were in his house in middle of the night where that might have been understandable. But it turned out he had no gun, he was reaching for the lamp. He was hit with over 20-30 bullets.
Yes, our perfect government. Land of the Free and home of the dead.
The only thing that makes me madder is that they portray these agencies practically as virtuous superheros in every other fucking night drama (law&order, CSI, NCIS, Numbers, etcetera).
They don't have to offer anything period, legitimate nor otherwise.
The bittorent protocol is used a lot of time legitimately - linux ISOs, people sharing their large digital camera files of events with friends, etcetera.
Suing Azureas (or another bittorent company) would be like suing the internet in general, for being something that is used sometimes llegally, by third parties, in some cases. Just like GM could be sued for providing cars to people who use them illegally in some cases (speeding, hit-n-run, get-away cars).
AFAIK, they aren't like Napster, who actually promoted themselves and was more active in facilitating copyright infringement.
If they could really change their output levels that quicky, there wouldn't be a "peak price" and "off hours price"
I agree with the rest of your post, but this statement, set me thinking. Not that I disagree with it out of hand, but if certain types of utilities (say nuclear) had to maintain a certain output all day, the output equalling the peak demand, shouldn't offline hour electricity be higher, since that excess electricity isn't sold, but wasted (I'm assuming).
Anyway, the statement also encapsulates a type of optimism about the freemarket that energy companies are immune from, they are usually monopolies where they operate. Ever since the deregulation madness of many industries in the 90s, I think the statement should be closer to - they charge whatever they damn well can get away with. They set the rates 59% higher near my area just recently: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0425/p02s01-usec.htm l
Along with the oil companies, who edge up the prices probably just to see what the consumer can bear - basically "pricefixing" in the same way airlines do it. (Gasoline prices don't simply fluctuate with oil prices, otherwise their profit would be more or less the same + moderate growth percentage and increased revenue would cover costs. They were making about TWICE on gasoline just in refining charges when it was at around $2.50 gallon last year than when gas was around $1.75 gallon several years back. They are posting record profits this year....)
The problem with hungarian notation is you can never change the data type easily - you'll have to change all instances of the variable and hope it's not in a function definition in an API you provided someone either. Worse, you expect a variable with hungarian notation to be a specific type, because of it's name, but in the meantime, it's type has changed under the radar.
I'm not saying your use of it is wrong (I don't use PERL and have no clue on its coding conventions), but may not be necessary in this day of IDEs where one can instantly see what type a variable is.
Then again, Congress is thinking of passing a stronger version of the DMCA and I have seen Unions (in Europe) eventually chase their employers away as demands got more and more ridiculous (
The idea of a self-correcting mechanism is nice, and would indicate their is some sanity left in our government, but somehow I doubt that. It's sad that we have to depend on Corporations will get sick of other corporations doing this and will bring a correction to things - that's not how our government ought to be. For the people, by the people, indeed.
2. Even at 10% efficiency, you need a huge area to produce a significant amount of juice. Sure, we could in theory generate all the energy we need in the U.S. by covering "only" around 1% of the U.S. land area with 10% efficiency PV (practical issues aside), but that still works out to be a huge area. Like, say, Maine. So even if we had a nice, cheap, low-efficiency solar technology, it's usefulness would ultimately be limited by land use constraints.
I'm sure the black tar roofs (houses) or flat commercial roofs in this country take quite a bit of area up, without being too useful... maybe we can put something on top of them. Of course, solar panels are to be put on after the more efficient evacuated tubes are on, but still:)
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Yup - it's not only a convenient excuse, but legitimate.
Unless I'm running an online business, I certainly don't approach my email as if I have to look at every hour on the dot. Sometimes I even let it sit for a week at a time if I'm not expecting anything.
If someone has something important to say, call me.
And conversely, if someone has something trivial to say (telemarketers, etc), email me so my spam filter can kick in.
Just because email is convenient doesn't mean it should be used in all situations.
Okay, I'll guess I'll join the anti-Apple-DRM club.
Now, where do I sign up to this free trip to Vegas?
This is simply not true, quality products cost more to make.
I don't know about those specific brands, but having been around enough good clothing in my life, material is very important - using the best cotton for instance, Egyptian cotton, costs significantly more than the run of the mill stuff especially if you are using better grades. Also, better dyes are used in the better clothing, some of that never/hardly fades even with many washings (cheap rugs have this problem, the red often runs).
All of this costs money to make a better product. Some expensive brands actually have quality behind them that equals more than hype. This would also extend into the car analogy as well: Ferrari engines obviously output much more horsepower than a Kia engine, the materials/manufacturing costs behind them do differ. Otherwise there be a lot of cheap cars on the road that would be just/almost as good as a Ferarri but cheaper.
The downward trend some certs have seen is likely just a question of supply and demand.
For instance, Microsoft/Allies tend to publicize their certs heavily on the radio (citing $$$ and numerous career opportunities) and thus get more members of the general public into that career. Not surprisingly, a small glut in the market occurs.
However, I also don't see it hurting anyone's career, you just can't rest on your laurels and eventually have to go for something more substantial or that will let you grow (like a college degree or a job with different experience)
Forgot to link to that stupid NY Daily story:9 690c.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/413575p-34
WTF?! Bombed? Maybe with the crowd, but he was bloody brilliant. Fucking balls of steel to say what he did with the president a few feet away. Most other comediens would turn on the fake chuminess, "oh schucks, you know I'm just kidding" after every bland joke, and then kiss and make up with old Georgy boy.
WTF is with the NY Daily! Really, every other blogger is praising Colbert like nobody's business.
But is Safari integrated to OS-X as Internet Explorer is/was to Windows?
I agree. According to Bush's poll numbers, Colbert was simply saying what 2/3s of the country is probably thinking.
Some people may point out that Colbert should have shown more respect, that this was not the venue to do it in, blah, blah, blah. But I say Bush deserves it, he's been pushing decidedly more nonconservative (bigger governmentment, not smaller), invasive legislation and been lying to our faces the last few years on so many things. And with Iraq, put our Country into such a difficult situation for years to come - financially, politically, and responsible for babysitting a bunch of people who hate our presence no matter how much money we throw at them, their country, and their infrastructure.
IMO, Bush got the amount of respect he given us and has earned from us - the general public. 0.
warning us the sky is falling.
I know as well as anybody the Mac OS was never immune from viruses, that's impossible.
But how many times do I have to read articles where the alarmists are warning us that the big one is finally coming and we're all going to die horrible deaths.
Yeah, I expect a virus or three may come one day. But Windows and it's users has survived thousands without the apocolypse on a world-wide. Hell, many of my friends run windows without anti-virus and mostly don't have infections (can't say the same for malware).
So why should it be different for Mac? Why will a single virus there bring about such alarmists? Apple's record on security is better than MS.
Just remember, any OS is vulnerable, if not to viruses, then to Murphy's law, shit happens. So make regular backups, sit back, and relax.
Perhaps they have marketshare because of those moronic design decisions - the tail wagging the dog so to speak, sacrificing safety for superficial ease of use (of course, I abadoned MS when I saw how many anti-malware/spyware/etcetera programs I had to run to keep my "ease of use").
I suppose you haven't actually checked the Apple Store the last few years. The barrier of entry has been around $500-600 the last few years. Unless haxors absolutely need l33t 15" Powerbooks instead of a mac mini.
And on that point, wouldn't some haxors love to also be one of the few to make a sucessful virus/trojan/etc OS X or Linux (where's the barrier of entry here?) instead of one of the few thousand for Windows? I thought prestige was some sort of motivation. Pff.
How does everybody figure this? As a results-oriented person, I have to say Apple's track record is better than Microsoft's at the moment.
Not only could you used other liquids, pumps generate heat too, and the thing can act as a temperature sensor so it combines three functions in one.
If it gets my chips running faster, simplifies design (lowers costs) and improves reliability (taking out pumps reduces what can go wrong) I'm all for it.
Are you serious? This comparison is non-sequitor. I mean, comparing pwning (or not pwning) the president to pwning Tucker Carlson and his co-host? Why not compare it to Jon Stuart pwning (or not pwning) Hollywood at the Oscars? I think Jon did pretty mediocre there. But at least it is a comparison of a semi-big event with big egos as well.
And it is news for nerds somewhat. Colbert has shown time and again he is/was a nerd. And we like to cheer one of our own from time to time.
Who care if the Republican are voted in again. Your answer seems to be the Democrats.
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Political Parties are not where it's at. It never was and never will be. And by "it", I mean answers for the future.
In his farewell address as President, the other George (Washington), warned us against political parties. And since then, we promptly split into party lines:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democra
Have political parties ever spearheaded any worthwhile movement? Woman's suffrage? Civil Liberties? Hell, even Slavery? Not, if it cost them votes or it became the "right thing to do" with the public, meaning they got so late into the game as not to make a difference any longer. Look what parties make of issue these days to see the lack of courage in Washington to take any definitive action.
Have political parties caused you to stop looking at who you are voting for, and instead make you vote down the party line? Congratulations, you played into their hands. Are all Republicans really that bad, as to be always worse than their Democratic counterparts? Or the other way around?
Will it matter if the Democrats come in? Other than unions, won't they get funded by the same corporations as long as they follow corporate interests? And they will.
Hell, Jesse Ventura was one of the better Governors that there was in a long time. I wouldn't have believed it if I haven't seen it, but he was. And he was independent and not a career politician.
Why can't we vote more people like him in?
Think Independent. And Vote Independent. The parties won't fix jack shit. They have all their fingers smeared by the same pie and are beholden to the same interests.
You are assuming that in all cases:
a) The person seeding the file isn't the legitimate copyright holder, and, strangely enough, many times they are. How else will you share crappy self-made movies with friends over the net?
b) The content doesn't have a "free" license - Linux ISOs, etcetera - which is also a normal occurence.
c) These features are built in to subvert copyright holders rather than protect the privacy of the sharer. Strangely enough, people may want to share things they made with privacy in tact. Like writing under a pseudonym.
The logical fallacy was begging the question, iow, assuming what you are trying to prove and making a circular argument.
I like seeing cowboy vigilantism (yes, I'm talking about the government) resulting in a fire (intentionally set?) that killed 50 adults and 25 children.
Oh yeah, to serve a warrant on a man at his compound, instead of catching him any given sunday on a streetcorner preaching.
Yup, simple overzealousness and stupidity. Reminds me when a swat team shot a 70+ year old man in his bed because he was "reaching for a gun." Mind you, they were in his house in middle of the night where that might have been understandable. But it turned out he had no gun, he was reaching for the lamp. He was hit with over 20-30 bullets.
Yes, our perfect government. Land of the Free and home of the dead.
The only thing that makes me madder is that they portray these agencies practically as virtuous superheros in every other fucking night drama (law&order, CSI, NCIS, Numbers, etcetera).
They don't have to offer anything period, legitimate nor otherwise.
The bittorent protocol is used a lot of time legitimately - linux ISOs, people sharing their large digital camera files of events with friends, etcetera.
Suing Azureas (or another bittorent company) would be like suing the internet in general, for being something that is used sometimes llegally, by third parties, in some cases. Just like GM could be sued for providing cars to people who use them illegally in some cases (speeding, hit-n-run, get-away cars).
AFAIK, they aren't like Napster, who actually promoted themselves and was more active in facilitating copyright infringement.
Put that way, it does make more sense. Thanks.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this statement, set me thinking. Not that I disagree with it out of hand, but if certain types of utilities (say nuclear) had to maintain a certain output all day, the output equalling the peak demand, shouldn't offline hour electricity be higher, since that excess electricity isn't sold, but wasted (I'm assuming).
Anyway, the statement also encapsulates a type of optimism about the freemarket that energy companies are immune from, they are usually monopolies where they operate. Ever since the deregulation madness of many industries in the 90s, I think the statement should be closer to - they charge whatever they damn well can get away with. They set the rates 59% higher near my area just recently:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0425/p02s01-usec.ht
Along with the oil companies, who edge up the prices probably just to see what the consumer can bear - basically "pricefixing" in the same way airlines do it. (Gasoline prices don't simply fluctuate with oil prices, otherwise their profit would be more or less the same + moderate growth percentage and increased revenue would cover costs. They were making about TWICE on gasoline just in refining charges when it was at around $2.50 gallon last year than when gas was around $1.75 gallon several years back. They are posting record profits this year....)
The problem with hungarian notation is you can never change the data type easily - you'll have to change all instances of the variable and hope it's not in a function definition in an API you provided someone either. Worse, you expect a variable with hungarian notation to be a specific type, because of it's name, but in the meantime, it's type has changed under the radar.
I'm not saying your use of it is wrong (I don't use PERL and have no clue on its coding conventions), but may not be necessary in this day of IDEs where one can instantly see what type a variable is.
The idea of a self-correcting mechanism is nice, and would indicate their is some sanity left in our government, but somehow I doubt that. It's sad that we have to depend on Corporations will get sick of other corporations doing this and will bring a correction to things - that's not how our government ought to be. For the people, by the people, indeed.
Mod up. Funny and insightful.
I'm sure the black tar roofs (houses) or flat commercial roofs in this country take quite a bit of area up, without being too useful... maybe we can put something on top of them. Of course, solar panels are to be put on after the more efficient evacuated tubes are on, but still:)
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