I read here on/. that Bob Lutz from General Motors says as soon as The Chinese start graduating MBAs from 40 new business schools into their system, their industrial capabilities will head straight into the the toilet like ours did.
But if the Chinese know this, they will only allow 39 new business schools to be opened, and we are doomed anyway.
Ah, but if we had extremely restrictive copyright rules in place benefiting big companies (where "big companies" = RIAA/MPAA and not bigger, low-copyright companies like clothing designers), that $4.5 trillion would have been $89.6 quadrillion.*
* Study funded by the RIAA/MPAA. Figured based on completely unbiased** mathematical modeling.***
** Where "unbiased" means "completely biased."
*** "mathematical modeling" means "we pulled some big numbers out of our posteriors."
Bad footnotes. Should be:
** "unbiased" here is an abbreviation for up-number biased *** "mathematical modelling" here refers to the creative process of getting numbers from respectable sources**** **** "respectable sources" refers to the posterior of the authors. It's the only thing they respect.
That's exactly what the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger, developed by Jeff Koplow of the Sandia National Laboratories, has developed.
So I get it was not Jeff Koplow who developed it, but the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger did develop it. The Air Bearing Heat Exchanger in turn was developed by Jeff Koplow.
but I'm pretty sure there's a strong correlation between being able to take responsibility of your software and being able to take responsibility of your language.
And how do you know this? Who are you to say what is and isn't "responsible" language when anyone can be offended by anything?
If you don't know how to know this, I cannot help you. While it may be true that anyone can be offended by anything, there are things which are likely to offend people, and there are things which are not likely to offend people. And it doesn't matter what I say. I use my knowledge to make my decisions. If you feel offended by my decision to use or not to use a certain software, that's your problem (and you are of course allowed to write software which I am not going to use, for whatever reason; it's just not a very smart move to use a name for software that you know will offend many people, for no good reason.
Since it's me who makes the decision which software I use, I can base my decision on whatever I want, including the name of the software. Who are you to tell me what criteria I should use to my choice of software I use?
You may question my reasoning. But you are not in a position to tell me how to decide on my software use. Period.
I don't deny anyone to use a software called "smalldick" or deny anyone the right to call his software "smalldick" but I reserve my right to not use that software myself, and I reserve my right to tell anyone that I don't consider it a good idea to use such a name. If you still insist on using that name, fine, but don't tell me I haven't warned you. And don't complain if I don't use that software.
You better not have posted this using mozilla derived browser. Libpr0n must be the end of the world for you. Also, try to avoid any of these softwares.
Reading comprehension: Fail.
Try again. Hints: What did I mean with "not because I would be personally offended by the names"? What does "Unless I had strong indication otherwise" mean? Oh, and "libpr0n" is not the name of the browser, it's the name of a library it uses (and BTW a library I've never heard before). If I were deciding on using a library for my own program (to do whatever this libpr0n does), and came across "libpr0n", I'd not put too much trust in it, and probably would choose something different. Of course if I then was told that Mozilla uses it, I might reconsider my choice. And no, that library is not the end of would to me. And if you head read and understood the post you replied to, you would have known it.
Oh, and about your "list of software not to use": That software has comments (or commented-out debugging output) using the word "fuck" (apart from a few lists of "bad words"). If you don't know the difference between a comment and a program name, I feel very sorry for you. (Oh, and there are a few instances of explicit lists of bad words, for whatever purpose; you would expect "fuck" to be in there).
Well, one exception is the file "fucku.c" - but that's not a serious software anyway.
I would have problems with software named "smalldick" or "smartass" -- but not because I would be personally offended by the names, but because I would draw conclusions about the mind of the author, and those conclusions would not exactly increase my confidence in his abilities to do serious software development. Yes, it might be that he's a person who takes responsibility for his software, but I'm pretty sure there's a strong correlation between being able to take responsibility of your software and being able to take responsibility of your language. Unless I had strong indication otherwise, I'd not expect a software called "smalldick" or "smartass" to be well maintained.
Diaspora has also shown the power of Ruby on Rails, and how easy it is to use Rails to create web sites that are bug-free and totally without security issues.
Do they really claim to be bug free? That would be a reason not to use Diaspora.
I have never had to use that, and have never heard of it.
Then maybe you never tried to open a Firefox over ssh while a local Firefox was running. Or you did, but didn't notice that the page was served by the local Firefox instead because you didn't do anything where the difference mattered.
Well, of course all the evidence of a round earth is either misinterpreted or faked. Everyone knows the earth is a disk on the back of a big turtle. It's only the big round-earth conspiracy who wants you to think otherwise.
Oh, you point me to images from space showing a round earth? Well, have you ever been in space? No? So how can you claim to know those images are actually photos from space? You know, if they can fake a moon landing, they also can fake a photo of earth.
Oh, the old argument of the ships of which you see the mast first? Well, that's easy to explain. The light is falling. If the ship is too far away, only the light from the mast will reach you. The light of the rest of the ship will have hit the ocean before reaching you.
Well, then make a god for your religion. Call him The Pirate. And create your own holy scripture. It might begin like this:
1 In the beginning, The Pirate created the universe. 2 But there was no one The Pirate could share that universe with. 3 Therefore The Pirate said: "Let us create humans, so that the universe is shared." And so he did. 4 And The Pirate said to the humans: "I've created you to share. 5 I hereby order you to share all knowledge I give you, as well as all knowledge you get from others, unless that knowledge is of private nature." 6 And he said: "Multiply, and multiply your knowledge, so you have more knowledge to share. 7 You shall make images of things in the world and of things in your mind. 8 And you shall write texts both about reality and about things you imagine. 9 And you shall create all sorts of art. 10 And you shall share all this with others. 11 And you shall not demand any compensation for sharing, just as I don't demand that you pay for sharing the universe." 12 And the humans complied, and everything was well. This era was known as the paradise. 13 But the devil didn't like that, and he planted into the humans the sin of greed. 14 And he planted into their mind the shortsightedness, so they didn't see the advantage they got from everyone sharing. 15 And thus the humans said: "We have invested much work in our knowledge and in our art. We want to have an advantage. 16 And we don't want those who didn't invest that much work to not have that advantage." 17 And thus the humans stopped sharing their works for free, and demanded to be compensated. 18 And The Pirate got angry at the humans because they violated His orders. 19 And The Pirate said: "You have sinned. Therefore I will throw you out of the paradise. 20 And you shall not be left in again until you all return to the spirit of sharing." 21 And he created illnesses to punish the humans. 22 And he limited the natural growth of the plants humans could eat, and made many of the plants poisonous. 23 And he made the problem of surviving hard, so the humans would have an incentive to share their knowledge in order to fight those dangers. 24 But the devil's influence was strong, and therefore the humans didn't work together to solve their problems. 25 Instead they fought wars over the limited resources, and killed each other. 26 And those humans who found ways to increase those resources didn't share their knowledge, but hid it as well as they could, so only they would profit from it. 27 And they made laws to prevent others from sharing knowledge. 28 And eventually those who hoarded the knowledge ruled the world. 29 But the world was in a miserable state.
You of course need prophets of sharing (you may even borrow some from other religions and reinterpret them; this gives more "legitimacy" to your religion). And you need a cult (which ideally involves people meeting in person; part of that cult is of course the exchange of copies of files, but it may also have other aspects like mutual signing of PGP keys, and very important, preaching the religion of sharing).
Online Gaming: Obviously can't be done without the Internet, but again, if it isn't high on your priority list then you'll survive.
And if it is high on your priority list, it's possibly one of the problems you want to eliminate. After all, gaming is one of the things you can get addicted to.
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They first tried to run it on Civ 5, but the program started by reading the license, and then refused to continue. :-)
You should have sued the maker for not including a warning: :-)
Warning! This device does not have an undo function!
SCNR
Hey, finally a good motive for the USA to get back to the moon! Protect the footsteps! :-)
I read here on /. that Bob Lutz from General Motors says as soon as The Chinese start graduating MBAs from 40 new business schools into their system, their industrial capabilities will head straight into the the toilet like ours did.
But if the Chinese know this, they will only allow 39 new business schools to be opened, and we are doomed anyway.
Open my ears and listen to what people say. Open my eyes and read what people write. Yes, it's that simple.
What would "correct" mean in that context? Is there a "correctly being offended" and an "incorrectly being offended"?
Ah, but if we had extremely restrictive copyright rules in place benefiting big companies (where "big companies" = RIAA/MPAA and not bigger, low-copyright companies like clothing designers), that $4.5 trillion would have been $89.6 quadrillion.*
* Study funded by the RIAA/MPAA. Figured based on completely unbiased** mathematical modeling.***
** Where "unbiased" means "completely biased."
*** "mathematical modeling" means "we pulled some big numbers out of our posteriors."
Bad footnotes. Should be:
** "unbiased" here is an abbreviation for up-number biased
*** "mathematical modelling" here refers to the creative process of getting numbers from respectable sources****
**** "respectable sources" refers to the posterior of the authors. It's the only thing they respect.
That's exactly what the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger, developed by Jeff Koplow of the Sandia National Laboratories, has developed.
So I get it was not Jeff Koplow who developed it, but the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger did develop it. The Air Bearing Heat Exchanger in turn was developed by Jeff Koplow.
Oh, and BTW the link was missing a PDF warning.
but I'm pretty sure there's a strong correlation between being able to take responsibility of your software and being able to take responsibility of your language.
And how do you know this? Who are you to say what is and isn't "responsible" language when anyone can be offended by anything?
If you don't know how to know this, I cannot help you. While it may be true that anyone can be offended by anything, there are things which are likely to offend people, and there are things which are not likely to offend people. And it doesn't matter what I say. I use my knowledge to make my decisions. If you feel offended by my decision to use or not to use a certain software, that's your problem (and you are of course allowed to write software which I am not going to use, for whatever reason; it's just not a very smart move to use a name for software that you know will offend many people, for no good reason.
Since it's me who makes the decision which software I use, I can base my decision on whatever I want, including the name of the software. Who are you to tell me what criteria I should use to my choice of software I use?
You may question my reasoning. But you are not in a position to tell me how to decide on my software use. Period.
I don't deny anyone to use a software called "smalldick" or deny anyone the right to call his software "smalldick" but I reserve my right to not use that software myself, and I reserve my right to tell anyone that I don't consider it a good idea to use such a name. If you still insist on using that name, fine, but don't tell me I haven't warned you. And don't complain if I don't use that software.
You better not have posted this using mozilla derived browser. Libpr0n must be the end of the world for you.
Also, try to avoid any of these softwares.
Reading comprehension: Fail.
Try again. Hints: What did I mean with "not because I would be personally offended by the names"? What does "Unless I had strong indication otherwise" mean? Oh, and "libpr0n" is not the name of the browser, it's the name of a library it uses (and BTW a library I've never heard before). If I were deciding on using a library for my own program (to do whatever this libpr0n does), and came across "libpr0n", I'd not put too much trust in it, and probably would choose something different. Of course if I then was told that Mozilla uses it, I might reconsider my choice. And no, that library is not the end of would to me. And if you head read and understood the post you replied to, you would have known it.
Oh, and about your "list of software not to use": That software has comments (or commented-out debugging output) using the word "fuck" (apart from a few lists of "bad words"). If you don't know the difference between a comment and a program name, I feel very sorry for you. (Oh, and there are a few instances of explicit lists of bad words, for whatever purpose; you would expect "fuck" to be in there).
Well, one exception is the file "fucku.c" - but that's not a serious software anyway.
Is there a reason to offend aspies here? Especially in a post complaining about offending people ...
I would have problems with software named "smalldick" or "smartass" -- but not because I would be personally offended by the names, but because I would draw conclusions about the mind of the author, and those conclusions would not exactly increase my confidence in his abilities to do serious software development. Yes, it might be that he's a person who takes responsibility for his software, but I'm pretty sure there's a strong correlation between being able to take responsibility of your software and being able to take responsibility of your language. Unless I had strong indication otherwise, I'd not expect a software called "smalldick" or "smartass" to be well maintained.
Do they really claim to be bug free? That would be a reason not to use Diaspora.
What does this story have to do with bitcoin? :)
Probably the place is so hot because some serious bitcoin mining is going on there. You know, lots of CPUs producing heat ... :-)
No, we are from Golgafrincham.
Obviously the yrr started their attack!
I have never had to use that, and have never heard of it.
Then maybe you never tried to open a Firefox over ssh while a local Firefox was running. Or you did, but didn't notice that the page was served by the local Firefox instead because you didn't do anything where the difference mattered.
In that same vein, you should probably eliminate the little joint from time to time, beer, sex, eating...
While you can live without joints, beer and sex, you definitely can't live without eating.
Of course people can walk on water. I've personally done it. The trick is that the water has to be frozen.
Well, of course all the evidence of a round earth is either misinterpreted or faked. Everyone knows the earth is a disk on the back of a big turtle. It's only the big round-earth conspiracy who wants you to think otherwise.
Oh, you point me to images from space showing a round earth? Well, have you ever been in space? No? So how can you claim to know those images are actually photos from space? You know, if they can fake a moon landing, they also can fake a photo of earth.
Oh, the old argument of the ships of which you see the mast first? Well, that's easy to explain. The light is falling. If the ship is too far away, only the light from the mast will reach you. The light of the rest of the ship will have hit the ocean before reaching you.
SCNR :-)
Well, then make a god for your religion. Call him The Pirate. And create your own holy scripture. It might begin like this:
1 In the beginning, The Pirate created the universe.
2 But there was no one The Pirate could share that universe with.
3 Therefore The Pirate said: "Let us create humans, so that the universe is shared." And so he did.
4 And The Pirate said to the humans: "I've created you to share.
5 I hereby order you to share all knowledge I give you, as well as all knowledge you get from others, unless that knowledge is of private nature."
6 And he said: "Multiply, and multiply your knowledge, so you have more knowledge to share.
7 You shall make images of things in the world and of things in your mind.
8 And you shall write texts both about reality and about things you imagine.
9 And you shall create all sorts of art.
10 And you shall share all this with others.
11 And you shall not demand any compensation for sharing, just as I don't demand that you pay for sharing the universe."
12 And the humans complied, and everything was well. This era was known as the paradise.
13 But the devil didn't like that, and he planted into the humans the sin of greed.
14 And he planted into their mind the shortsightedness, so they didn't see the advantage they got from everyone sharing.
15 And thus the humans said: "We have invested much work in our knowledge and in our art. We want to have an advantage.
16 And we don't want those who didn't invest that much work to not have that advantage."
17 And thus the humans stopped sharing their works for free, and demanded to be compensated.
18 And The Pirate got angry at the humans because they violated His orders.
19 And The Pirate said: "You have sinned. Therefore I will throw you out of the paradise.
20 And you shall not be left in again until you all return to the spirit of sharing."
21 And he created illnesses to punish the humans.
22 And he limited the natural growth of the plants humans could eat, and made many of the plants poisonous.
23 And he made the problem of surviving hard, so the humans would have an incentive to share their knowledge in order to fight those dangers.
24 But the devil's influence was strong, and therefore the humans didn't work together to solve their problems.
25 Instead they fought wars over the limited resources, and killed each other.
26 And those humans who found ways to increase those resources didn't share their knowledge, but hid it as well as they could, so only they would profit from it.
27 And they made laws to prevent others from sharing knowledge.
28 And eventually those who hoarded the knowledge ruled the world.
29 But the world was in a miserable state.
You of course need prophets of sharing (you may even borrow some from other religions and reinterpret them; this gives more "legitimacy" to your religion). And you need a cult (which ideally involves people meeting in person; part of that cult is of course the exchange of copies of files, but it may also have other aspects like mutual signing of PGP keys, and very important, preaching the religion of sharing).
You say it's a fault of the DB if morons misuse its features?
They are doing everything in RAM? Well, have fun at the next power failure. :-)
Maybe the solution would be to invest in SSDs?
And if it is high on your priority list, it's possibly one of the problems you want to eliminate. After all, gaming is one of the things you can get addicted to.
Or maybe he just needs a hosts file that blocks Slashdot.
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