Not only that, but I find my level of screwing off drops dramatically when I'm given a well-thought-out project with clearly defined goals and requirements. When I have to poke at a piece of code without really knowing what it's supposed to do, constantly go hunting for more information when nobody seems to know whose decision it is, and without any decent support in the rest of the application, my motivation goes through the floor (and I start finding a bunch of new flash games online). When I'm given a project with a solid core codebase and requirements that are well-defined and logical, my productivity jumps by at least 5x.
It's not even entirely due to laziness. I work best if I goof off for a bit while letting my brain process the code I've been poking at. Come back and everything's clear, and I can drop a bunch of code in and everything works great. It just takes that much more processing time when the project is poorly written and irritating to add to, and it looks like goofing off because I like to occupy my concious brain with something mindless while I'm processing.
Uh huh. So where are all of them? Microsoft has about 30k employees in the metro area, and you can't find an apartment building that doesn't have 3 or 4 of them living there, not to mention the massive sections of the east side that are 90% Microsoft. If there are "tens of thousands" of homeless people, then they're hiding pretty damn well. On top of that, the official estimate is between 6 and 8 thousand. So you have both common sense AND the best estimates that trained professionals can produce stacking up against you.
And yes the homeless do use ambulances for trivial reasons, many times including transportation from somewhere to the hospital.
This is why I think you're full of shit. First off, "trivial reasons... like transportation from somewhere to the hospital" is the entire purpose of ambulances. Secondly, you imply that they use them for other purposes, and your earlier post called them a "free taxi service". How do you propose this works exactly? Someone gets on the phone, says they have a medical emergency, the ambulance shows up and the guy goes, "Take me to Burger King". "Ok, sure, hop in!" How do you propose that a homeless person would get the ambulance to take him anywhere besides the hospital?
But if that were true why are all business types afraid to be downtown at roughly 8:00 PM when the 'youths' come out?
First off, "youths" are not the same as homeless people. Sure, some of the suits might be frightened by a black kid in baggy clothes, but if they are they're just being ridiculous. I've walked through downtown, and Belltown, and Pioneer Square, and Capitol Hill, and the U District, at 8 pm, 10 pm, midnight, and never once felt unsafe. Just because there's some kids trying to look gangster doesn't correlate to "tens of thousands of homeless people" in the slightest.
There are tens of thousands of meth junkies alone in downtown Seattle. That is why petty theft, car thefts, and car breakins in Seattle are among the highest in the country. But we wouldn't want to let anyone know about them in case it damaged real estate values would we?
Meth junkies != homeless. And what are you suggesting, that this is a massive coverup by the local government to protect property values?? Like I said, you'd notice "tens of thousands" of homeless just by walking around. You're full of shit, and you can't even stick to one claim when you're trying to make a point. The fact that you interchange "homeless" with "meth addicts" with "youths" makes it very clear that you're a raving lunatic.
First off, "tens of thousands" is pushing it. Several thousand? Maybe. Out of a metro of 4 million people, that's not all that bad, and the city is actively working on fixing this.
Secondly, medical emergency calls are "free cab service"? Wtf? I'm guessing you're either trolling, or just stupid.
As several others have said, this boils down to user ignorance. Yes, email may contain html markup. Yes, if you download images linked by that markup, the server that houses those images will know you read the email. This is why GMail, Outlook, etc all default to NOT downloading linked images unless you explicitly tell them to.
Legislating against this is ridiculous. The definition of "tracking elements" is prohibitively vague. It works just as well whether you put a 1x1 invisible gif at the bottom, or a 300x300 gif blinking alternating red and yellow backgrounds with text that says "YOU JUST GOT pWN3D!" (or, more reasonably, a graphic that has a legitimate purpose in the layout/display of the message).
It's not worth making laws, and it's not spyware. Linking external images is absolutely necessary. Imagine sending out a newsletter that contains 500k of graphics. Now imagine sending it to 10,000,000 unique users. Why on earth would you want to push 4.5 Petabytes of data through your outgoing mail servers, when you could send 50 gigs worth of text emails and host the images through an edge caching system like Savvis or Akamai?
That did strike me as a bit odd. It's sort of cherry picking your sample to do an internet search. Of course most web sites are going to use the junk email definition. A better question is, of the large number of people who don't have an internet connection, or even own a computer, how many would use the old definition and how many the new? Get away from the specialized audience and I bet your answer changes significantly.
More to the point, you as a user can't access items in the Freenet data cache directly. You can only get files out of the network by requesting the key through the interface. Even if your cache does contain kiddy porn, if there is none in your browser cache you can reasonably argue that you never accessed it yourself, and that the data in the cache is covered by the common carrier laws.
As I understand it, Freenet encrypts the data it stores on your hard drive, which is only bits and pieces of files in the first place. It's not like it makes a folder labeled "omg kiddie pr0n" and stores whole, unencrypted pictures in it.
Do you think that Google's 'sneak peak' search access increases sales or violates copyrights on intellectual property?
Why is this an "or" question? It can be both, in fact I'm pretty sure it is. This just goes to show that the extremely strict copyright laws we've legislated ourselves into aren't benefiting anyone, including the authors / owners.
The difference is, if an app or OS tries to phone home only to check for updates, it won't stop functioning if it can't get through. With phone-home activation schemes like Vista, a failure will cripple the system.
I was 99% sure that this is included in GH II. They'll be available for download from Xbox Live. This listing should just be the "default" tracks included with the game disc.
Microsoft is only "concentrating on the Xbox" to the point that it's what they're hyping. Which is because they know people will continue to buy Windows and Office without advertising (and even then, remember the Dino ads?)
The thing is, Windows and Office are still something like 80% of Microsoft's revenue stream. I've heard people saying that's all going to be replaced by online revenue *somehow* (handwaving ensues). I have yet to hear anyone explain reasonably how Windows/Office are going to fail so badly or online advertising is going to suddenly explode so much that the one suddenly eclipses the other in terms of income.
Remember, Google is only about 6,000 employees. They seem to be able to support themselves on advertising, but then again, they're the market leader by a long shot. I don't see Microsoft being able to support 70,000 employees on a number 3 spot in a market that's not growing nearly as fast as everyone predicted. And yeah, there's the "online service subscriptions" thing. Show me three apps that've managed to succeed with that model. They're just not out there. Nobody wants to pay for these things.
I don't really buy that argument, though... lots of people download closed source software without paying. The ones that need support, or want to support the company for whatever reason, are the ones that pay. At this point, OSS just doesn't have the user base it needs to make cheaper prices profitable, but that's not because of people who download it for free. It's because the ones who need support for it aren't very plentiful at the moment. Hopefully as it catches on more, that will change.
This attitude is great, right up to the second that the bad guys are actually doing what the conspiracy theorists say. At that point, you go from being (relatively) level-headed, to being an enemy of everything that America stands for. And yeah, that's extreme, but if you're standing there making fun of the people who are pointing at a real problem for being whackos, what else am I supposed to call you?
Yeah, I think election fraud is pretty far out there. It's definitely something I HOPE nobody would be dispicable enough to stoop to. I also know that there are a lot of sick, selfish people out there, and from the Republican stance on human rights, racism, welfare, and a host of other issues, they are unfortunately a group that I could believe capable of doing this.
The thing I find odd about this whole thing is, the people who cry "conspiracy theory" haven't bothered to address any of the actual issues around the process. There are multiple known flaws in the security of the machines, questionable political statements by the people who make them, and now word from people who've actually worked on the machines themselves saying that fishy things have been going on. If any of the pro-diebold people have a reasonable explanation for why those things don't matter, I have yet to hear them. All they do is wave their hands and say, "election fraud couldn't POSSIBLY happen in America, for God's sake!" The trouble is, that doesn't erase the ridiculous ease with which it could be happening. We need a system that makes sure it doesn't happen, not a broken system and some promises.
Large cities have crime because they're large cities, not because they're run by Democrats. People in large cities tend to vote Democrat/liberal because living in close proximity with a lot of other people gives you first-hand evidence that you have to have some sense of cooperation and tolerance in order to get along. It's all well and good to Vote Jesus when you live in a town of 50 people, but taking the same thing to Chicago or New York just doesn't work.
Can I "whiiiiinnneeeeeee" about it when the next Republican gets unfairly and illegally elected into office, and blows even more of this nation's future on groundless wars and funding Christian programs with public money? When exactly does going directly against the constitution become something I'm allowed to "whiinnnnneeeeee" about?
Also, your statement about the electoral college is bullshit. Low population doesn't necessarily mean the population is not concentrated in cities and thus more likely to vote Democrat. Washington has the Seattle metro, and Spokane, and the other 95% of the counties in the state vote Republican, but it's still a heavily blue state when everything's counted up.
Yeah, but at any time you're gonna have several hundred threads running at once, and if your OS supports running threads from the same application on multiple cores, you just bought yourself a hell of a lot of performance.
That, plus the move towards multiple cores means CPU-intensive applications will move more and more towards parallelism, so future applications will be able to take even more advantage of this architecture.
Part of the problem is, every time CA has tried to set emmissions standards, every American car company has sued the state, because apparently making cars that get 30 miles to the gallon is just too much for GM and Ford.
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Not only that, but I find my level of screwing off drops dramatically when I'm given a well-thought-out project with clearly defined goals and requirements. When I have to poke at a piece of code without really knowing what it's supposed to do, constantly go hunting for more information when nobody seems to know whose decision it is, and without any decent support in the rest of the application, my motivation goes through the floor (and I start finding a bunch of new flash games online). When I'm given a project with a solid core codebase and requirements that are well-defined and logical, my productivity jumps by at least 5x.
It's not even entirely due to laziness. I work best if I goof off for a bit while letting my brain process the code I've been poking at. Come back and everything's clear, and I can drop a bunch of code in and everything works great. It just takes that much more processing time when the project is poorly written and irritating to add to, and it looks like goofing off because I like to occupy my concious brain with something mindless while I'm processing.
Apparently calling someone on confusing "black youths" with "homeless people" is flamebate on slashdot. Fantastic.
This is why I think you're full of shit. First off, "trivial reasons
First off, "youths" are not the same as homeless people. Sure, some of the suits might be frightened by a black kid in baggy clothes, but if they are they're just being ridiculous. I've walked through downtown, and Belltown, and Pioneer Square, and Capitol Hill, and the U District, at 8 pm, 10 pm, midnight, and never once felt unsafe. Just because there's some kids trying to look gangster doesn't correlate to "tens of thousands of homeless people" in the slightest.
Meth junkies != homeless. And what are you suggesting, that this is a massive coverup by the local government to protect property values?? Like I said, you'd notice "tens of thousands" of homeless just by walking around. You're full of shit, and you can't even stick to one claim when you're trying to make a point. The fact that you interchange "homeless" with "meth addicts" with "youths" makes it very clear that you're a raving lunatic.
First off, "tens of thousands" is pushing it. Several thousand? Maybe. Out of a metro of 4 million people, that's not all that bad, and the city is actively working on fixing this.
Secondly, medical emergency calls are "free cab service"? Wtf? I'm guessing you're either trolling, or just stupid.
As several others have said, this boils down to user ignorance. Yes, email may contain html markup. Yes, if you download images linked by that markup, the server that houses those images will know you read the email. This is why GMail, Outlook, etc all default to NOT downloading linked images unless you explicitly tell them to.
Legislating against this is ridiculous. The definition of "tracking elements" is prohibitively vague. It works just as well whether you put a 1x1 invisible gif at the bottom, or a 300x300 gif blinking alternating red and yellow backgrounds with text that says "YOU JUST GOT pWN3D!" (or, more reasonably, a graphic that has a legitimate purpose in the layout/display of the message).
It's not worth making laws, and it's not spyware. Linking external images is absolutely necessary. Imagine sending out a newsletter that contains 500k of graphics. Now imagine sending it to 10,000,000 unique users. Why on earth would you want to push 4.5 Petabytes of data through your outgoing mail servers, when you could send 50 gigs worth of text emails and host the images through an edge caching system like Savvis or Akamai?
That did strike me as a bit odd. It's sort of cherry picking your sample to do an internet search. Of course most web sites are going to use the junk email definition. A better question is, of the large number of people who don't have an internet connection, or even own a computer, how many would use the old definition and how many the new? Get away from the specialized audience and I bet your answer changes significantly.
More to the point, you as a user can't access items in the Freenet data cache directly. You can only get files out of the network by requesting the key through the interface. Even if your cache does contain kiddy porn, if there is none in your browser cache you can reasonably argue that you never accessed it yourself, and that the data in the cache is covered by the common carrier laws.
As I understand it, Freenet encrypts the data it stores on your hard drive, which is only bits and pieces of files in the first place. It's not like it makes a folder labeled "omg kiddie pr0n" and stores whole, unencrypted pictures in it.
The difference is, if an app or OS tries to phone home only to check for updates, it won't stop functioning if it can't get through. With phone-home activation schemes like Vista, a failure will cripple the system.
actually, 15-year-olds are legal in quite a few states in the country...
I was 99% sure that this is included in GH II. They'll be available for download from Xbox Live. This listing should just be the "default" tracks included with the game disc.
Microsoft is only "concentrating on the Xbox" to the point that it's what they're hyping. Which is because they know people will continue to buy Windows and Office without advertising (and even then, remember the Dino ads?)
The thing is, Windows and Office are still something like 80% of Microsoft's revenue stream. I've heard people saying that's all going to be replaced by online revenue *somehow* (handwaving ensues). I have yet to hear anyone explain reasonably how Windows/Office are going to fail so badly or online advertising is going to suddenly explode so much that the one suddenly eclipses the other in terms of income.
Remember, Google is only about 6,000 employees. They seem to be able to support themselves on advertising, but then again, they're the market leader by a long shot. I don't see Microsoft being able to support 70,000 employees on a number 3 spot in a market that's not growing nearly as fast as everyone predicted. And yeah, there's the "online service subscriptions" thing. Show me three apps that've managed to succeed with that model. They're just not out there. Nobody wants to pay for these things.
I don't have to touch it... maybe this is just your own personal problem?
I don't really buy that argument, though... lots of people download closed source software without paying. The ones that need support, or want to support the company for whatever reason, are the ones that pay. At this point, OSS just doesn't have the user base it needs to make cheaper prices profitable, but that's not because of people who download it for free. It's because the ones who need support for it aren't very plentiful at the moment. Hopefully as it catches on more, that will change.
How stupid did people look when they first started using a handset? Most new technology looks odd until it's been around for a while.
As long as reality uses quaternions to calculate 3d rotations, I think we'll be fine...
I remember Mario Sunshine being ridiculously fun...
This attitude is great, right up to the second that the bad guys are actually doing what the conspiracy theorists say. At that point, you go from being (relatively) level-headed, to being an enemy of everything that America stands for. And yeah, that's extreme, but if you're standing there making fun of the people who are pointing at a real problem for being whackos, what else am I supposed to call you?
Yeah, I think election fraud is pretty far out there. It's definitely something I HOPE nobody would be dispicable enough to stoop to. I also know that there are a lot of sick, selfish people out there, and from the Republican stance on human rights, racism, welfare, and a host of other issues, they are unfortunately a group that I could believe capable of doing this.
The thing I find odd about this whole thing is, the people who cry "conspiracy theory" haven't bothered to address any of the actual issues around the process. There are multiple known flaws in the security of the machines, questionable political statements by the people who make them, and now word from people who've actually worked on the machines themselves saying that fishy things have been going on. If any of the pro-diebold people have a reasonable explanation for why those things don't matter, I have yet to hear them. All they do is wave their hands and say, "election fraud couldn't POSSIBLY happen in America, for God's sake!" The trouble is, that doesn't erase the ridiculous ease with which it could be happening. We need a system that makes sure it doesn't happen, not a broken system and some promises.
Large cities have crime because they're large cities, not because they're run by Democrats. People in large cities tend to vote Democrat/liberal because living in close proximity with a lot of other people gives you first-hand evidence that you have to have some sense of cooperation and tolerance in order to get along. It's all well and good to Vote Jesus when you live in a town of 50 people, but taking the same thing to Chicago or New York just doesn't work.
Can I "whiiiiinnneeeeeee" about it when the next Republican gets unfairly and illegally elected into office, and blows even more of this nation's future on groundless wars and funding Christian programs with public money? When exactly does going directly against the constitution become something I'm allowed to "whiinnnnneeeeee" about?
Also, your statement about the electoral college is bullshit. Low population doesn't necessarily mean the population is not concentrated in cities and thus more likely to vote Democrat. Washington has the Seattle metro, and Spokane, and the other 95% of the counties in the state vote Republican, but it's still a heavily blue state when everything's counted up.
Yeah, but at any time you're gonna have several hundred threads running at once, and if your OS supports running threads from the same application on multiple cores, you just bought yourself a hell of a lot of performance.
That, plus the move towards multiple cores means CPU-intensive applications will move more and more towards parallelism, so future applications will be able to take even more advantage of this architecture.
Part of the problem is, every time CA has tried to set emmissions standards, every American car company has sued the state, because apparently making cars that get 30 miles to the gallon is just too much for GM and Ford.
Thing is, there'd for sure be someone willing to step up and make cars that meet pollution standards.
Anyway, given the problems CA was having with air pollution a couple decades ago, I don't see how people can think emmissions laws are a bad idea.
Why would you use Tor with services such as a bank website and PayPal, which already know who you are?