You just don't have enough friends... I said the same thing about Facebook - then some of my closest friends tried it out and voila I've got an account now too. I don't actually use it often though. I took some time to put up photos one night for said friends to browse at their leisure (which could have been accomplished on flickr but that too would require an account for myself and my friends or publicly displaying all my family photos) but otherwise I check facebook maybe once a week to see if there's anything new going on with said friends.
The key point is that these are people who have moved away from where we use to hang out - I still live nearby but may be moving soon as well... so it's not like we can meet up for coffee or anything.
Additionally emailing everyone where possibly only a few might be interested seems both abusive to the group members, I don't know which of my friends might be interested, and abusive of the format... email is too formal and the multiple replies from people to *everyone* would clutter up the inboxes far too much for the subject matter.
How many game developers know Java? General purpose developers don't count... sure they could make a simple logic game and add fancy graphics on top but something like Super Monkey Ball?
I don't recall seeing any commercial games written in Java ever. In this scenario, why would a game developer choose to write games in a language completely different from C++ when there is Obj-C which has the similarity right there in the name.. sure it's not C++ but that doesn't seemed to have stopped ALL of the major game dev companies from releasing games for the iPhone and in record time.
Android is really going to have to make major market grabs over the next year in key demographics for the Game publishers to invest in developing for it when it means moving over to a whole new language and new dev environment aka Java.
I know it's not too soon... but still I'd like to say "too soon, too soon" - unfortunately I just ended up snarfing milk out my nose while I laughed out loud... so it sounded more like "too hrmphpfffffffsssssssshhhhhh huhuhuh snkkkttttbleeeffffffsssss... shit that was funny!"
Thanks, now my rug has a new, soon to be unidentified, stain/smell in it. Thanks a lot.
Does using abusive language count? Is it okay for a man to call another man an aHole or a dildo or a fTard but not okay to call a woman a cWord or bWord or a twat? Yes it's abusive but is it sexist?
Do these verbal abuses stop people from participating in the FLOSS community? Maybe if they are consistently the target of such and from all directions... but is it sexist?
Is pornographic imagery sexist? If you believe that pornography is sexist then you'll also believe that the imagery is sexist, but is it really... adult entertainment targeted at adults which caters in the majority to it's largest demographic. Is heterosexual porn imagery also homosexualist... in that it is offensive to homosexuals?
I'd say no to all of the above... it's not sexist. In poor taste, complete wastes of resources and time and counter-productive yes but targeted at women in an attempt to preclude them from participating in the FLOSS community, no.
What would be sexist?
Establishing groups, events, conferences, or otherwise instrumental community building events and then not inviting women of note to join, attend, speak or generally participate... that would be sexism.
You can't equate personal attacks against individuals who happen to be of a particular group with institutional bigotry against that group. If anything it means that the institution in question simply has their fair share of bigots and that those who feel that this has no place in the community should shun those individuals who are being counter-productive.
However, a failure to shun them is not an indication of institutional bigotry itself - more an unwillingness of the community to self-police or to bring such personal issues into the authority or responsibility of the community members and rather focus of their intended goals and allow such problems to be worked out separately from the community in question.
Not all problems in a community should be policed by that community - ie: not all members with drug problems should be forced into rehab before being allowed to participate, not all members with bad credit should have to pay off their creditors, not all members who are not registered to vote must register, etc. etc. and not all sexist members should be required to give up their personal opinions. However - members should be encouraged to leave such matters out of community affairs if they do not want to be held accountable for the disruptions they create.
True - they should just use that famous Apple software innovation to create an IDE and then sell it... then anyone could create their own "LP" and distribute it... oh gawd I can only imagine what nice old aunt Betty will churn out for her grandkids and quilting club!!!
Absolutely. Not only that but most of them were doing what was economically imperative to compete in the current market of the day. When everyone else is using slave labor (cheap immigrants, outsourced call centers, H1B Visaed IT) a company/business venture must follow suit or be undercut and pushed out.
Now of course there were moral/ethical slave holders who treated their slaves as highly regarded servants/employees and there were nasty/mean spirited slave holders who abused their slaves, raped them, etc. etc.
Are you thinking that each trip only takes 1 person? Now that would be a boondoggle!
We'll assume this is to be equivalent to a modern commuter train / light rail system and have at least 500 passengers per train
That's now just over 300 thousand trips 4,700,000,000 / 30 x 500 = 313,333 trips
Now let's say it's mildly successful, mostly used as a commuter train and there are 6 trains a day going each way... thats 12 trains a day, (whereas hugely successful would be more like 12 trains per hour).
4,700,000,000 / 30 x 500 x 12 = 26,111 days at 100% capacity Not great (72 years at full capacity) but still orders of magnitude more effective than you give it credit for.
4,700,000,000 / 50 x 500 x 12 = 15,666 days at 100% capacity Charge $20 more and it's down to 42 years which is looking almost reasonable.
Looks like we'll need to run double the trips per day to bring it in line with a good investment - 21 years (or 35 if you add in unaccounted for operating expenses and less than 100% capacity) to become truly profitable. That's about how long a good long term investment takes...
To avoid this scenario they need to introduce manufacturing costs... ie: creating something isn't free - if the return isn't worth the cost of making it it won't get made (or it will get made but not in an abusive way, more like a work of art than a product).
A good system would be to suck away experience or levels or whatever is being used for such things.
See the problem is that websites don't know what they're doing and ad placement companies are likewise clueless.... they are for some reason showing you ads to buy stuff when they should be showing you informational ads.
Commerce sites should show related offers to buy. "HP - come buy our great computers"
Content sites should show branding ads aka informational ads which tell you about new products or services or simply show you a logo and a tagline "HP - we make great computers"
Hmmm what if "God" *is* just an infinitely recursive loop? Ever think of that?
Not sure which is more idiotic - the Bible thumpers who believe that God is actually some bearded white guy floating in the clouds OR the atheist morons who believe that all Christians/Religious types think that God is some bearded white guy floating in the clouds.
There is a very large percentage of Christians who believe that God is unknowable and that those who humanize Him are actually demeaning His existence. So an infinitely recursive loop would be a good fit for God... unknowable as anything other than an abstract concept.
p.s. see how I used the honorific "Him" and "His" - that means the word is genderless and not necessarily referring to a human like being at all... just a name for something.
If what you say is true then the US is in for a world of hurt. All that money going to people who do nothing but push paper all day then goes out and buys things from stores who buy things from manufacturers who employ people who make things and of course all along the line there are IT people needed to maintain all the infrastructure that keeps it going... ie: lay off all those middle managers and we'd suddenly have > 30% unemployment and our economy would be in the grave.
You better have a plan on what those people SHOULD be doing rather than passing YouTube videos around all day or plan on losing your job right along with them.
It might be better to simply accept the mass delusion and continue as if you never came up with this idea...
The carriers would need to implement it pay as you go or there would be millions of people with 4 figure bills at the end of the month saying "WTF - I just downloaded this app for $0.99 and a month later I've got a $2,500 bill? FU carrier - see me in class action court!"
Maybe an externally inserted battery: a cylinder shaped object maybe 6 inches in diameter and 12 inches long with both contacts on the front... fits into the car by sliding in and locking with a twist... have a lockable door to cover it (or an auto-lock when you lock your car).
Could be a robotic swapping station or just a vending machine with manual swap (I'm thinking manual). You deposit your old battery and some cash/credit, out pops a new battery. The recharge station conveys the old battery to a charging station until it's ready for use again, then conveys it back into the lineup.
You could certainly own the batteries but you'd need to trade in your old one as part of the transaction to get a new recharged one. If I owned a charging station I'd want batteries to be able to communicate their charge life cycle (how many charges) but ideally there would be a recycling offset payment from the manufacturer for any batteries that are at end of life. Then the charging station would send in the old shells to the manufacturers who would pay them for the difference and then would re-core them and put them back on the market either as extra batteries at an automotive store or back to the car suppliers for factory installation in a new vehicle.
I agree with this in all ways except that discipline can be taught.
SO here's me revamped curriculum
High IQ/Disciplined - fast track to higher learning Low IQ/Disciplined - fast track to skilled job training High IQ/Undisciplined - fast track them to military school or if they show aptitude a creative expression school (art/theatre/music/etc) Low IQ/Undisciplined -fast track them to military training (this already happens for many many of these candidates, let's just formalize it)
Creative expression does not require discipline but does require a high IQ... but also requires some natural talent.
Put undisciplined individuals in a highly disciplined environment with constant supervision and they *will* learn to be disciplined individuals, even if they just end up as robots who perform the same duty day in and day out - they will be happier for it.
Seems like Summer time is when you repair things. You can't do it in winter - too much rain, can't do it in spring or autumn too much harvesting to do.... so summer is when you need all hands to get thing ready for harvest in the autumn and it better be a good job 'cause it's got to last until next summer.
Looks like there are a few options for you. Firefox.exe over wine with shockwave installed or a plugin called mozplugger, also recommended in the Ubuntu support page for Shockwave on Linux:
A better solution IMHO would be to simplify Word. Too many options? Get rid of all the useless crap that nobody wants. If you find enough stuff that people do use but isn't essential for Word Processing... create a new application.
Word has features for html editing... why? Get rid of those. MS had an application called Frontpage for html editing - put them there.
Word has features for graphics editing... why? There's an application called MS Paint - rename it MS Graphics Editor and put them there.
Word has a feature for browsing clip art... why? Drop that out and create a new clip art browser app.
If they want to be smart and help users they could have 3 options to replace about 50 for the features above:
1) Open this file in Frontpage to convert to HTML. Done and done.
2) Open this graphic in MS GE to edit. - then when they save their changes the graphic would automatically update in place in the word doc.
3) Insert clip art here - opens the Clip art app and the user can copy/paste to get it into Word.
MS Word tries to be too many things and ends up failing at all of them. They should re-focus it on being a text document editor and drop all the pre-text of being the only application you need.
Maybe he was implying that the focus group was a single entity composed of multiple personalities and having a hydra like nest of necks and heads? How do you know?
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to find such a being, promise it a free copy of Windows 7 with special multi-user input features and call it a day.
I believe he did state that the new wall would continue to improve the value of the property - which is true. It is an investment in the property itself - not a furnishing.
SO your argument has a good flaw as well.... generating money takes many forms - an investment in real property is one of them (historically > 10% return on any investment, year over year)
You should patent that as a business model before they stop issuing business model patents! Try saying that 10 times fast...
So I like it. Question... does the Newspaper (or other business) get to keep the *float* or would you let the account holder accrue the interest? There could be a whole other side to this if the Newspapers/et al could somehow provide dividends.
What's the best way to SEO slander someone.... without getting hit by a lawsuit? Just put them in the same article with a dubious individual - make a virtual connection even if no real connection exist... then people will start discussing them together and voila - they must be close friends!
Shameless and disgusting.
What's worse is that the reference to Kundra was obviously added after the story was initially posted on the linked site... that text with Kundra's name isn't even in a p tag, it appears styled differently in the rendered version as well, almost like an editor went in and added it after the author had published - "Hmm we need more hits on this story, let's put Kundra's name in it... that will get hits".
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You just don't have enough friends... I said the same thing about Facebook - then some of my closest friends tried it out and voila I've got an account now too. I don't actually use it often though. I took some time to put up photos one night for said friends to browse at their leisure (which could have been accomplished on flickr but that too would require an account for myself and my friends or publicly displaying all my family photos) but otherwise I check facebook maybe once a week to see if there's anything new going on with said friends.
The key point is that these are people who have moved away from where we use to hang out - I still live nearby but may be moving soon as well... so it's not like we can meet up for coffee or anything.
Additionally emailing everyone where possibly only a few might be interested seems both abusive to the group members, I don't know which of my friends might be interested, and abusive of the format... email is too formal and the multiple replies from people to *everyone* would clutter up the inboxes far too much for the subject matter.
How many game developers know Java? General purpose developers don't count... sure they could make a simple logic game and add fancy graphics on top but something like Super Monkey Ball?
I don't recall seeing any commercial games written in Java ever. In this scenario, why would a game developer choose to write games in a language completely different from C++ when there is Obj-C which has the similarity right there in the name.. sure it's not C++ but that doesn't seemed to have stopped ALL of the major game dev companies from releasing games for the iPhone and in record time.
Android is really going to have to make major market grabs over the next year in key demographics for the Game publishers to invest in developing for it when it means moving over to a whole new language and new dev environment aka Java.
I know it's not too soon... but still I'd like to say "too soon, too soon" - unfortunately I just ended up snarfing milk out my nose while I laughed out loud... so it sounded more like "too hrmphpfffffffsssssssshhhhhh huhuhuh snkkkttttbleeeffffffsssss... shit that was funny!"
Thanks, now my rug has a new, soon to be unidentified, stain/smell in it. Thanks a lot.
Does using abusive language count? Is it okay for a man to call another man an aHole or a dildo or a fTard but not okay to call a woman a cWord or bWord or a twat? Yes it's abusive but is it sexist?
Do these verbal abuses stop people from participating in the FLOSS community? Maybe if they are consistently the target of such and from all directions... but is it sexist?
Is pornographic imagery sexist? If you believe that pornography is sexist then you'll also believe that the imagery is sexist, but is it really... adult entertainment targeted at adults which caters in the majority to it's largest demographic. Is heterosexual porn imagery also homosexualist... in that it is offensive to homosexuals?
I'd say no to all of the above... it's not sexist. In poor taste, complete wastes of resources and time and counter-productive yes but targeted at women in an attempt to preclude them from participating in the FLOSS community, no.
What would be sexist?
Establishing groups, events, conferences, or otherwise instrumental community building events and then not inviting women of note to join, attend, speak or generally participate... that would be sexism.
You can't equate personal attacks against individuals who happen to be of a particular group with institutional bigotry against that group. If anything it means that the institution in question simply has their fair share of bigots and that those who feel that this has no place in the community should shun those individuals who are being counter-productive.
However, a failure to shun them is not an indication of institutional bigotry itself - more an unwillingness of the community to self-police or to bring such personal issues into the authority or responsibility of the community members and rather focus of their intended goals and allow such problems to be worked out separately from the community in question.
Not all problems in a community should be policed by that community - ie: not all members with drug problems should be forced into rehab before being allowed to participate, not all members with bad credit should have to pay off their creditors, not all members who are not registered to vote must register, etc. etc. and not all sexist members should be required to give up their personal opinions. However - members should be encouraged to leave such matters out of community affairs if they do not want to be held accountable for the disruptions they create.
True - they should just use that famous Apple software innovation to create an IDE and then sell it... then anyone could create their own "LP" and distribute it... oh gawd I can only imagine what nice old aunt Betty will churn out for her grandkids and quilting club!!!
That's your problem... it's not the 4 year patches that need fixing the most... it's the 2 year patches that you keep forgetting about...
Now for just the highlights
people IT IBM cloud OS virtual dynamically ON-DEMAND DISTRIBUTED distributed DISTRIBUTED OHHHHHH
dude you're some kind of perv...;-p
p.s. had to change some words to lowercase to avoid the yelling filter...
Absolutely. Not only that but most of them were doing what was economically imperative to compete in the current market of the day. When everyone else is using slave labor (cheap immigrants, outsourced call centers, H1B Visaed IT) a company/business venture must follow suit or be undercut and pushed out.
Now of course there were moral/ethical slave holders who treated their slaves as highly regarded servants/employees and there were nasty/mean spirited slave holders who abused their slaves, raped them, etc. etc.
XP is what 8 years old now? I can run an 8 year old OS on a 10 year old Mac with no problems.
Can you run Windows 7 on a 10 year old PC? No.
OK so you're math is like so:
4,700,000,000 / 30 = 156,6660,667 trips
Are you thinking that each trip only takes 1 person? Now that would be a boondoggle!
We'll assume this is to be equivalent to a modern commuter train / light rail system and have at least 500 passengers per train
That's now just over 300 thousand trips
4,700,000,000 / 30 x 500 = 313,333 trips
Now let's say it's mildly successful, mostly used as a commuter train and there are 6 trains a day going each way... thats 12 trains a day, (whereas hugely successful would be more like 12 trains per hour).
4,700,000,000 / 30 x 500 x 12 = 26,111 days at 100% capacity
Not great (72 years at full capacity) but still orders of magnitude more effective than you give it credit for.
4,700,000,000 / 50 x 500 x 12 = 15,666 days at 100% capacity
Charge $20 more and it's down to 42 years which is looking almost reasonable.
Looks like we'll need to run double the trips per day to bring it in line with a good investment - 21 years (or 35 if you add in unaccounted for operating expenses and less than 100% capacity) to become truly profitable. That's about how long a good long term investment takes...
To avoid this scenario they need to introduce manufacturing costs... ie: creating something isn't free - if the return isn't worth the cost of making it it won't get made (or it will get made but not in an abusive way, more like a work of art than a product).
A good system would be to suck away experience or levels or whatever is being used for such things.
See the problem is that websites don't know what they're doing and ad placement companies are likewise clueless.... they are for some reason showing you ads to buy stuff when they should be showing you informational ads.
Commerce sites should show related offers to buy. "HP - come buy our great computers"
Content sites should show branding ads aka informational ads which tell you about new products or services or simply show you a logo and a tagline "HP - we make great computers"
Hmmm what if "God" *is* just an infinitely recursive loop? Ever think of that?
Not sure which is more idiotic - the Bible thumpers who believe that God is actually some bearded white guy floating in the clouds OR the atheist morons who believe that all Christians/Religious types think that God is some bearded white guy floating in the clouds.
There is a very large percentage of Christians who believe that God is unknowable and that those who humanize Him are actually demeaning His existence. So an infinitely recursive loop would be a good fit for God... unknowable as anything other than an abstract concept.
p.s. see how I used the honorific "Him" and "His" - that means the word is genderless and not necessarily referring to a human like being at all... just a name for something.
Made me LOL - and type "LOL"... that's not easy to do. Congrats.
If what you say is true then the US is in for a world of hurt. All that money going to people who do nothing but push paper all day then goes out and buys things from stores who buy things from manufacturers who employ people who make things and of course all along the line there are IT people needed to maintain all the infrastructure that keeps it going... ie: lay off all those middle managers and we'd suddenly have > 30% unemployment and our economy would be in the grave.
You better have a plan on what those people SHOULD be doing rather than passing YouTube videos around all day or plan on losing your job right along with them.
It might be better to simply accept the mass delusion and continue as if you never came up with this idea...
The carriers would need to implement it pay as you go or there would be millions of people with 4 figure bills at the end of the month saying "WTF - I just downloaded this app for $0.99 and a month later I've got a $2,500 bill? FU carrier - see me in class action court!"
Maybe an externally inserted battery: a cylinder shaped object maybe 6 inches in diameter and 12 inches long with both contacts on the front... fits into the car by sliding in and locking with a twist... have a lockable door to cover it (or an auto-lock when you lock your car).
Could be a robotic swapping station or just a vending machine with manual swap (I'm thinking manual). You deposit your old battery and some cash/credit, out pops a new battery. The recharge station conveys the old battery to a charging station until it's ready for use again, then conveys it back into the lineup.
You could certainly own the batteries but you'd need to trade in your old one as part of the transaction to get a new recharged one. If I owned a charging station I'd want batteries to be able to communicate their charge life cycle (how many charges) but ideally there would be a recycling offset payment from the manufacturer for any batteries that are at end of life. Then the charging station would send in the old shells to the manufacturers who would pay them for the difference and then would re-core them and put them back on the market either as extra batteries at an automotive store or back to the car suppliers for factory installation in a new vehicle.
I agree with this in all ways except that discipline can be taught.
SO here's me revamped curriculum
High IQ/Disciplined - fast track to higher learning
Low IQ/Disciplined - fast track to skilled job training
High IQ/Undisciplined - fast track them to military school or if they show aptitude a creative expression school (art/theatre/music/etc)
Low IQ/Undisciplined -fast track them to military training (this already happens for many many of these candidates, let's just formalize it)
Creative expression does not require discipline but does require a high IQ... but also requires some natural talent.
Put undisciplined individuals in a highly disciplined environment with constant supervision and they *will* learn to be disciplined individuals, even if they just end up as robots who perform the same duty day in and day out - they will be happier for it.
IANAFarmer but...
Seems like Summer time is when you repair things. You can't do it in winter - too much rain, can't do it in spring or autumn too much harvesting to do.... so summer is when you need all hands to get thing ready for harvest in the autumn and it better be a good job 'cause it's got to last until next summer.
A quick search for "Shockwave via wine on linux" produced the following thread...
http://www.ubuntux.org/shockwave-player-ubuntu-linux
Looks like there are a few options for you. Firefox.exe over wine with shockwave installed or a plugin called mozplugger, also recommended in the Ubuntu support page for Shockwave on Linux:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave
A better solution IMHO would be to simplify Word. Too many options? Get rid of all the useless crap that nobody wants. If you find enough stuff that people do use but isn't essential for Word Processing... create a new application.
Word has features for html editing... why? Get rid of those. MS had an application called Frontpage for html editing - put them there.
Word has features for graphics editing... why? There's an application called MS Paint - rename it MS Graphics Editor and put them there.
Word has a feature for browsing clip art... why? Drop that out and create a new clip art browser app.
If they want to be smart and help users they could have 3 options to replace about 50 for the features above:
1) Open this file in Frontpage to convert to HTML. Done and done.
2) Open this graphic in MS GE to edit. - then when they save their changes the graphic would automatically update in place in the word doc.
3) Insert clip art here - opens the Clip art app and the user can copy/paste to get it into Word.
MS Word tries to be too many things and ends up failing at all of them. They should re-focus it on being a text document editor and drop all the pre-text of being the only application you need.
Maybe he was implying that the focus group was a single entity composed of multiple personalities and having a hydra like nest of necks and heads? How do you know?
I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to find such a being, promise it a free copy of Windows 7 with special multi-user input features and call it a day.
I believe he did state that the new wall would continue to improve the value of the property - which is true. It is an investment in the property itself - not a furnishing.
SO your argument has a good flaw as well.... generating money takes many forms - an investment in real property is one of them (historically > 10% return on any investment, year over year)
You should patent that as a business model before they stop issuing business model patents! Try saying that 10 times fast...
So I like it. Question... does the Newspaper (or other business) get to keep the *float* or would you let the account holder accrue the interest? There could be a whole other side to this if the Newspapers/et al could somehow provide dividends.
If TFA isn't a Troll I'll eat my shorts.
What's the best way to SEO slander someone.... without getting hit by a lawsuit? Just put them in the same article with a dubious individual - make a virtual connection even if no real connection exist... then people will start discussing them together and voila - they must be close friends!
Shameless and disgusting.
What's worse is that the reference to Kundra was obviously added after the story was initially posted on the linked site... that text with Kundra's name isn't even in a p tag, it appears styled differently in the rendered version as well, almost like an editor went in and added it after the author had published - "Hmm we need more hits on this story, let's put Kundra's name in it... that will get hits".