30 years have accomplished exactly what was set out to be accomplished. It's now considered acceptable for a CEO to make over 1000 times what the guy actually creating value makes. Well, acceptable by anyone with an MBA, and you don't have one, so what do you know you moron get back to work, and don't worry your head about what percentage you take home of what you produce.
Trust me, they knew what they were doing with `trickle down'. It's based on the premise that, given an arbitrary level of national economic output, people who have more money should get more money. The question of who doesn't get it is left as an exercise.
I have some formal training in HCI and a love of accurate terminology, so I have the ability to articulate problems with a user interface - I can voice my opinion and experience with weak design. A regular user doesn't have those skills, so they appear silent. The end result is that you call us IT types whiny.
"Less sophisticated users" aren't getting along fine. They struggle to use it and/or call for help because bad user interfaces (and arbitrary vendor changes) interfere with the creation of an accurate mental model of how the software is supposed to be used or what it's capable of. The confusion created in their mind is real.
And contrary to popular belief, the unarmed man is the first person an attacker goes after; why not, he doesn't have a weapon?
Which leaves you open to attack from his armed buddies. Are you the same lightknight that I kept cleaning the floor with back when quakeworld was still a thing?
It's called setting your threshold higher than 1 and relying on the moderation system. I prefer 3, people with time to burn like 2, someone who doesn't care for linearity might set it as high as 5.
Slashdot hasn't changed in this regard for over a decade. Moderate if you're given the points and metamoderate daily.
From the perspective of a former cycle courier with almost a decade of experience: If everybody followed the letter of the law, traffic in cities would come to a grinding halt in short order.
You just go ahead and follow the rules. You'll find people cutting in front of you (and then slamming on their brakes) in short order, and myriad horns blaring at you as you wait for pedestrians to leave the crosswalk (or, depending on your jurisdiction, leave your half of the roadway if a two-way street).
The laws aren't there to tell people how to drive. They're there to have a system of blame in place when something unforseeable and hazardous happens.
If they're handing you a Masters after 3 semesters, you must have had one hell of a thesis that everyone should read (and watch a vid of your defense), or it's an absolutely worthless piece of paper.
Do not be dismissive of your enemies merely because you believe them misguided. They are no less clever, motivated, resourceful, or well trained than you are.
Trust me, you're not tuning them out. Multinationals pay top money for top-of-mind branding, and they get evil and skilled psychologists working on it. They're better at the game than you are.
Oh, and here's a hint for any psychologists out there: if you ever admit that you work for advertisers, expect me to forget what ahimsa means - cf. Bill Hicks, "Marketing".
You want to keep your conversations private? Then I will assume your motivations are NOT honest.
I am stunned that you're ignorant enough to believe there's any truth to that, yet also able to type. Go forth and educate yourself. And no, I am not your teacher.
(a) Only old people used GNOME. XFCE or LXDE for the easy wins, plus openbox, e, or even KDE if you're a glutton for punishment. Plus, others for the asking.
(b) X has become so good that a configuration file is simply not needed for a single-monitor user. I've only encountered one machine in the past 4 years where X didn't work, and that was for a video card/mobo combination that wouldn't even display console (a pizzabox PowerPC (Damn you, Apple!)).
(c) Skype can't figure out the mike, yet audacity does, and audacity isn't written specifically for linux. I'd be pinning the blame closer to skype than the libraries.
(d) Now you're just making shit up. Kaddressbook (Kontact is merely a front-end for a set of programs) imports/exports in CSV, vCard, LDIF, and a couple other formats I've never heard of before looking into this.
At which point, I give up. I bet you feel validated as a troll because I wasted 30 second researching and a moment or two typing. At least it was a canonical troll, false notions presented in a plausible manner, rather than flamebait, designed to incite emotional reaction.
Do you really think they haven't figured out that a certain percentage of the db entries will be inaccurate? Inter-database correlations are powerful - e.g. there is a strong chance that this person nicknamed "Adolf Hitler" with a known birthday and an invalid address (and a 95% certain GeoIP) who wrote an online review of "Predator" is the same person as someone with the same birthday and ordered "Predator 2" a week later, and, oh look, the shipping address is close to the GeoIP area. That the errors are deliberately introduced on your part doesn't change the correction mechanism.
"Strong chance" given that a birthdate and a zip code have something like 95% odds of identifying a unique person. My understanding of stats is primitive at best, but I imagine you'd need more than 50% bogus entries to make a CPU twitch, and more than 95% bogus entries to make a measurable difference in load average.
These numbers are pulled from a hat, so I welcome more accurate numbers.
Give up your franchise because you work for the government? That's novel.
Working for the government doesn't change your citizenship. If you think that a weak argument, then consider this: you still pay taxes, and that alone normally provides a legitimate claim to a vote.
You're one of the people who decide what agencies get funded. Even soldiers retain the vote.
While you're entitled to your opinion, it's demonstrably incorrect. Plus, you're an asshole to bring up this solipsistic argument because now the adults have to waste time refuting it - thankfully, it's a variant of The Worst Argument in the World, recently covered on lesswrong.com:
"X is in a category whose archetypal member has certain features. Therefore, we should judge X as if it also had those features, even though it doesn't."
Mutatis mutandis, this is what your argument looks like:
Criminals value privacy to conceal their crimes. You value privacy to conceal your conduct. Therefore, your conduct is criminal.
And if you can't see why that looks incredibly stupid, $DEITY help you, because you're probably not smart enough to manage your own affairs, and good luck surprising your spouse on Valentine's Day.
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I sure will miss Starbucks.
The Napoleonic codes apply for provincial civil matters, but for criminal matters, the courts are federal - English Common Law all the way.
Methinks you are mistaking "acceptable" for "commonplace".
If you're expecting a return, you're not taking a risk.
30 years have accomplished exactly what was set out to be accomplished. It's now considered acceptable for a CEO to make over 1000 times what the guy actually creating value makes. Well, acceptable by anyone with an MBA, and you don't have one, so what do you know you moron get back to work, and don't worry your head about what percentage you take home of what you produce.
Trust me, they knew what they were doing with `trickle down'. It's based on the premise that, given an arbitrary level of national economic output, people who have more money should get more money. The question of who doesn't get it is left as an exercise.
...and would have a one year warranty.
People really shouldn't post while drunk.
I have some formal training in HCI and a love of accurate terminology, so I have the ability to articulate problems with a user interface - I can voice my opinion and experience with weak design. A regular user doesn't have those skills, so they appear silent. The end result is that you call us IT types whiny.
"Less sophisticated users" aren't getting along fine. They struggle to use it and/or call for help because bad user interfaces (and arbitrary vendor changes) interfere with the creation of an accurate mental model of how the software is supposed to be used or what it's capable of. The confusion created in their mind is real.
Which leaves you open to attack from his armed buddies. Are you the same lightknight that I kept cleaning the floor with back when quakeworld was still a thing?
It's called setting your threshold higher than 1 and relying on the moderation system. I prefer 3, people with time to burn like 2, someone who doesn't care for linearity might set it as high as 5.
Slashdot hasn't changed in this regard for over a decade. Moderate if you're given the points and metamoderate daily.
Bingo, sir.
Nah, probably just the more mundane cable porn.
Oh, and that's a totally safe for work link. Really.
No, really, I mean it.
Damn you, goatse, for making everybody suspicious. Nobody's going to click on that link.
"Significant" is a charitable understatement. Anonymizing information is hard. No, really, you think it's hard? It's harder than that.
From the perspective of a former cycle courier with almost a decade of experience: If everybody followed the letter of the law, traffic in cities would come to a grinding halt in short order.
You just go ahead and follow the rules. You'll find people cutting in front of you (and then slamming on their brakes) in short order, and myriad horns blaring at you as you wait for pedestrians to leave the crosswalk (or, depending on your jurisdiction, leave your half of the roadway if a two-way street).
The laws aren't there to tell people how to drive. They're there to have a system of blame in place when something unforseeable and hazardous happens.
If they're handing you a Masters after 3 semesters, you must have had one hell of a thesis that everyone should read (and watch a vid of your defense), or it's an absolutely worthless piece of paper.
Do not be dismissive of your enemies merely because you believe them misguided. They are no less clever, motivated, resourceful, or well trained than you are.
Trust me, you're not tuning them out. Multinationals pay top money for top-of-mind branding, and they get evil and skilled psychologists working on it. They're better at the game than you are.
Oh, and here's a hint for any psychologists out there: if you ever admit that you work for advertisers, expect me to forget what ahimsa means - cf. Bill Hicks, "Marketing".
You're fucked. I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about it except keep on not being be a nutjob.
I am stunned that you're ignorant enough to believe there's any truth to that, yet also able to type. Go forth and educate yourself. And no, I am not your teacher.
Is this another one of those for-sale-low-/.-UID accounts? Sometimes I wish I had weaker memory.
(a) Only old people used GNOME. XFCE or LXDE for the easy wins, plus openbox, e, or even KDE if you're a glutton for punishment. Plus, others for the asking.
(b) X has become so good that a configuration file is simply not needed for a single-monitor user. I've only encountered one machine in the past 4 years where X didn't work, and that was for a video card/mobo combination that wouldn't even display console (a pizzabox PowerPC (Damn you, Apple!)).
(c) Skype can't figure out the mike, yet audacity does, and audacity isn't written specifically for linux. I'd be pinning the blame closer to skype than the libraries.
(d) Now you're just making shit up. Kaddressbook (Kontact is merely a front-end for a set of programs) imports/exports in CSV, vCard, LDIF, and a couple other formats I've never heard of before looking into this.
At which point, I give up. I bet you feel validated as a troll because I wasted 30 second researching and a moment or two typing. At least it was a canonical troll, false notions presented in a plausible manner, rather than flamebait, designed to incite emotional reaction.
You should have lost all of it as of November 25, 2002.
The Iranian Navy are pissing themselves laughing.
Do you really think they haven't figured out that a certain percentage of the db entries will be inaccurate? Inter-database correlations are powerful - e.g. there is a strong chance that this person nicknamed "Adolf Hitler" with a known birthday and an invalid address (and a 95% certain GeoIP) who wrote an online review of "Predator" is the same person as someone with the same birthday and ordered "Predator 2" a week later, and, oh look, the shipping address is close to the GeoIP area. That the errors are deliberately introduced on your part doesn't change the correction mechanism.
"Strong chance" given that a birthdate and a zip code have something like 95% odds of identifying a unique person. My understanding of stats is primitive at best, but I imagine you'd need more than 50% bogus entries to make a CPU twitch, and more than 95% bogus entries to make a measurable difference in load average.
These numbers are pulled from a hat, so I welcome more accurate numbers.
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/09/16/1631239/can-anyone-become-a-programmer
If you want to dig deeper, here's a page with the link to the 2006 study. Short version: not only can not everybody learn to program effectively, but that there's a simple test to predict if someone could or not without putting them through a year of school:
http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
The overlapping bell curves explain a lot about grade distributions when I went to college.
Give up your franchise because you work for the government? That's novel.
Working for the government doesn't change your citizenship. If you think that a weak argument, then consider this: you still pay taxes, and that alone normally provides a legitimate claim to a vote.
You're one of the people who decide what agencies get funded. Even soldiers retain the vote.
Mutatis mutandis, this is what your argument looks like:
And if you can't see why that looks incredibly stupid, $DEITY help you, because you're probably not smart enough to manage your own affairs, and good luck surprising your spouse on Valentine's Day.