I think people are missing the point of Moore's law. When he said he thought transistors would double every 2 years, thats what he thought would happen. Thats not a rule set that anyone has to follow (which, as far as I can figure, is the only way it could be "dangerous," because people might be trying to increase the number of transistors to meet it rather than do whatever else might be a better idea..????). It's not something he thought would always be the rule, forever, no matter what. The fact that he's been right for 35 years already means he was more right than he could have imagined.
Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play anymore.
Notice how the twocredits are both British? The whole article lacks a, uh, how should I say, sense of authenticity. Maybe an interesting read, but so was this.
Lieutenant General Van Riper (read: LtGen = O-9, second highest rank he can attain = he knows how to make himself look good + actually does) "refused to play" ? Please. By refusing to play, especially in the army, he's risking not only his career, but his retirement (and at LtGen, he's almost certainly gotten his 20 years in), prison (especially if its as high scale and high profile of an exercise as this article makes it seem) and eventually a dishonorable discharge that'd make it hard for him to get another job anywhere.
It's ridiculous to think that Iraq could win a war against the US. In the first 12 hours of the Gulf War, Iraq's chances of winning were gone. In 10 years, things have changed, but not that much. Iraq does potentially have the ability to hurt us (through casualties, if hey have any of these weapons of mass destruction we've heard so much about), but other than that, what do you think they could do? They can't even fly planes in the southern half of their country, let alone far enough to do anything to 1) a US military base, or even 2) one of the regional bases US forces are using.
That said, it'd be nice if something happened to prevent a war altogether.
..so it's whichever company you decide to apply for a job at's responsibility to help you build your credit?
I'd be reluctant to let an employer do a credit check on me, of course, even though I've never had a problem with my credit. But the trouble you get in because of your credit are a matter of consequence. They check your criminal record because it's an indicator of character and, indirectly, how well you might be able to handle a certain job. This is the same thing.
It's interesting that people will authorize a nuissance credit card company to check their credit history but shy away when someone they'd like to start a career with asks.
My high school physics teacher had a piece of "black," though not as black as this. He said he'd put it against walls and students sitting at the other end of the room would think there was a hole, he said. By the time I saw it, it was old and had gotten too dusty to be very impressive.
That's all a lot of work. Is this guy so important he cant put in (lets say.. an hour per show, since its an hour show and the music is (supposed to be) most of it, times 11 shows) 11 hours a week? What do they pay all the guys on the soundboards doing all the work?
Dalnet is a legacy irc network. People use it for the same reason they have a parallel port. When dalnet was totally down for several days, the people in the channel I've been on for 7 years finally started showing up on efnet (which until now I've always been klined from because of some dork with the same isp). It was a step we'd all wanted to take for quite a while -- maybe not efnet, but certainly not dalnet anymore. Moving even a medium sized channel to a new network isn't easy though, and until we absolutely had to move on, we didnt. I don't see blocking filesharing as counterproductive to dalnet's goals. Indeed, I think it'll be significantly better for those who stay there if they actually weed out the warez kiddies.
This time that they are "robbing" you of must not be too important if you'll spend all that time messing with them. The point is that all these great ideas you have trying to bother them DOES NOT bother most of them. The rude people IS NOT what makes it a shitty job. Wasting their time can be good but you can't do it enough to matter. It wastes the companies time and most of the people on the phones who are just trying to make a buck to pay for gas in their car are laughing with you.
Apparantly no one got the point. Psh. Keep doing your thing, fellas. I guess its the equivelent to "You need to try (and fail) to blow my flame out to make yours glow brighter." Congratulations.
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It's a bad thing. It causes writers/developers to add things to their work not because they add to the quality or enjoyment, but because they can make extra cash. Such things cause a work to seem dated just a few years later when sponsors go out of business or change their logos.
I asked my high school government teacher, who was telling us how important it is that everyone vote, "If I don't take the initiative to vote, I probably haven't followed the election and have no clue what is going on. Do YOU want me voting?"
Point being, if someone is willing to have advertisements put in their art, it probably isn't of much artistic value to begin with.
Thats great, except... I did telemarketing while trying to find a real job for about a month (be nice, I was a bad telemarketer - if you said no I left you alone and got yelled at by my supervisor for it). It sucked, but not because of the people I talked to. I just couldn't stand sitting there all damn day without a chance to move around (it's quite high paced).
Think about it, though. I talked to probably an average of 500 people a day. 400 of them were as rude as they probably ever are in their lives. 250 were pissed that I was calling them. 100 yelled at me. 50 tried to be clever and expected to trigger some sort of emotion in me, and 0 did.
By the way, if I was lucky, maybe 3 or so of those 500 would end up with a shiny new Discover Platinum card.
Linux? Great. When is the hardware coming out? Forget pc based calls. When am I going to be able to plug a phone in to my router and call around the world for free?
How often have you seen a company get what they want out of this? Rambus got screwed (er, what they deserve), I remember something about jpeg compression that was supposedly patented and I don't remember hearing that company got what they wanted..
With a 128mb card my digital camera will hold something like 400 pictures. The battery wont last that long, but say I go on vacation. I can take my battery charger with me, but I don't have a laptop to move pictures to.
The geforcemx noise levels are ridiculous. I can't believe how voodoo5/3dfx-goes-out-of-business the card seems. Brute force instead of finesse, they went more overboard than I can believe, and the results aren't very impressive.
How does it really matter what the default password was? If the default password was -8*k|-- it would still be just as easy to gain access to. The flaw is in not requiring the user to change it.
My grandpa is annoying because all he talks about is politics, but then again, all he watches is CSPAN, so he has that right.
Before complaining about what our representatives are concentrating on, its good to find out what their priorities are.
Or perhaps a letter to your local congressman telling him to concentrate on the problems you see (which I can guarentee are getting their fair share of attention) and ONLY those problems.
Also, our unemployment rates now would make people from the 80s' mouths drop. The economy isn't bad at all.
I agree that its a lot of money, but to a company with 7000 employees, what is half a million dollars? How much do they spend to make sure all these people have post-it notes, staplers and 3-hole punchers?
I've done no management or analysis of cost, but I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people on the other side of the fence that haven't either..
I'm definately not pro-Microsoft, but it seems that the cost of the software licenses is almost a non-issue to large corporations. ie, the money saved by using Linux instead is negligable compared to the cost to support it, which would be about the same either way. Professional 3d graphics cards are ridiculously expensive but it doesn't matter because a slower card would cost more in salary to the artists. Am I wrong in assuming that the cost of software licenses is much less of an impact than people tend to think?
Maybe they arent concerned with civilian casualties, but you can bet your ass they are concerned with the PR problems associated with civilian casualties.
I think I speak for everyone when I say false positives are the only real hinderance to the filtering of spam. I get roughly 20 emails a day, 75% of which are spam. If one of them slips past the filter and I see it, it doesn't bother me so much. Spam is no longer a problem. What is an absolute necessity, though, (and probably less so for me than other people) is that none of my legitimate email is filtered as spam. I'd rather have 100 spams filtered improperly than one legit email.
I agree that we really have no right to complain when the RIAA tries to hinder our ability to get free music, but whether doing it in the first place is right or not...?
Enough people will provite enough profit for the artists for as long as I can see in the future. So I don't feel bad when I download, say a) a Tool mp3 since they feel justified in not only a $40 ticket to their live show, but also $40 for their fucking hats at that show. b) Datathief, because they'd be happy enough to know that I'm listening to their music and don't care about the money.
If I steal a candybar at the store, a potential sale is gone. They can no longer sell that candybar to someone else. If I boycott nothing records and go ahead and download the new Nine Inch Nails album, they are not out a sale. I got free music, they lost nothing. And I won't even go in to cds I actually did buy because I heard the mp3.
Stealing music (or anything digital, for that matter) =/ stealing tangible items.
The way I see it, there are only 2 real kinds of business. Honest businesses with something to sell you for what it needs to turn a profit (ie gas stations, grocery stores, most retailers, good insurance companies, good car dealers) and those that make their money off of deceit or people who just don't know any better (cell phone companies, creditors and car dealers for people with bad credit, and 90% of the auctions on ebay). While I like to just find my best product, I object to many of these companies on moral grounds. I prefer to deal with those who try to make their customers happy, regardless if its only because they want you back.
I realize that was a rhetorical question, but you can't seriously expect that there are people who think its just as obvious that the only thing Apple has is pretty cases? Pretty packaging worked for Gateway.
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I think people are missing the point of Moore's law. When he said he thought transistors would double every 2 years, thats what he thought would happen. Thats not a rule set that anyone has to follow (which, as far as I can figure, is the only way it could be "dangerous," because people might be trying to increase the number of transistors to meet it rather than do whatever else might be a better idea..????). It's not something he thought would always be the rule, forever, no matter what. The fact that he's been right for 35 years already means he was more right than he could have imagined.
Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play anymore.
Notice how the two credits are both British? The whole article lacks a, uh, how should I say, sense of authenticity. Maybe an interesting read, but so was this.
Lieutenant General Van Riper (read: LtGen = O-9, second highest rank he can attain = he knows how to make himself look good + actually does) "refused to play" ? Please. By refusing to play, especially in the army, he's risking not only his career, but his retirement (and at LtGen, he's almost certainly gotten his 20 years in), prison (especially if its as high scale and high profile of an exercise as this article makes it seem) and eventually a dishonorable discharge that'd make it hard for him to get another job anywhere.
It's ridiculous to think that Iraq could win a war against the US. In the first 12 hours of the Gulf War, Iraq's chances of winning were gone. In 10 years, things have changed, but not that much. Iraq does potentially have the ability to hurt us (through casualties, if hey have any of these weapons of mass destruction we've heard so much about), but other than that, what do you think they could do? They can't even fly planes in the southern half of their country, let alone far enough to do anything to 1) a US military base, or even 2) one of the regional bases US forces are using.
That said, it'd be nice if something happened to prevent a war altogether.
I'd be reluctant to let an employer do a credit check on me, of course, even though I've never had a problem with my credit. But the trouble you get in because of your credit are a matter of consequence. They check your criminal record because it's an indicator of character and, indirectly, how well you might be able to handle a certain job. This is the same thing.
It's interesting that people will authorize a nuissance credit card company to check their credit history but shy away when someone they'd like to start a career with asks.
My high school physics teacher had a piece of "black," though not as black as this. He said he'd put it against walls and students sitting at the other end of the room would think there was a hole, he said. By the time I saw it, it was old and had gotten too dusty to be very impressive.
That's all a lot of work. Is this guy so important he cant put in (lets say.. an hour per show, since its an hour show and the music is (supposed to be) most of it, times 11 shows) 11 hours a week? What do they pay all the guys on the soundboards doing all the work?
Dalnet is a legacy irc network. People use it for the same reason they have a parallel port. When dalnet was totally down for several days, the people in the channel I've been on for 7 years finally started showing up on efnet (which until now I've always been klined from because of some dork with the same isp). It was a step we'd all wanted to take for quite a while -- maybe not efnet, but certainly not dalnet anymore. Moving even a medium sized channel to a new network isn't easy though, and until we absolutely had to move on, we didnt. I don't see blocking filesharing as counterproductive to dalnet's goals. Indeed, I think it'll be significantly better for those who stay there if they actually weed out the warez kiddies.
This time that they are "robbing" you of must not be too important if you'll spend all that time messing with them. The point is that all these great ideas you have trying to bother them DOES NOT bother most of them. The rude people IS NOT what makes it a shitty job. Wasting their time can be good but you can't do it enough to matter. It wastes the companies time and most of the people on the phones who are just trying to make a buck to pay for gas in their car are laughing with you.
Apparantly no one got the point. Psh. Keep doing your thing, fellas. I guess its the equivelent to "You need to try (and fail) to blow my flame out to make yours glow brighter." Congratulations.
I asked my high school government teacher, who was telling us how important it is that everyone vote, "If I don't take the initiative to vote, I probably haven't followed the election and have no clue what is going on. Do YOU want me voting?"
Point being, if someone is willing to have advertisements put in their art, it probably isn't of much artistic value to begin with.
Think about it, though. I talked to probably an average of 500 people a day. 400 of them were as rude as they probably ever are in their lives. 250 were pissed that I was calling them. 100 yelled at me. 50 tried to be clever and expected to trigger some sort of emotion in me, and 0 did.
By the way, if I was lucky, maybe 3 or so of those 500 would end up with a shiny new Discover Platinum card.
Hopefully a dozen other forms of advertising.
Linux? Great. When is the hardware coming out? Forget pc based calls. When am I going to be able to plug a phone in to my router and call around the world for free?
How often have you seen a company get what they want out of this? Rambus got screwed (er, what they deserve), I remember something about jpeg compression that was supposedly patented and I don't remember hearing that company got what they wanted..
With a 128mb card my digital camera will hold something like 400 pictures. The battery wont last that long, but say I go on vacation. I can take my battery charger with me, but I don't have a laptop to move pictures to.
The geforcemx noise levels are ridiculous. I can't believe how voodoo5/3dfx-goes-out-of-business the card seems. Brute force instead of finesse, they went more overboard than I can believe, and the results aren't very impressive.
How does it really matter what the default password was? If the default password was -8*k|-- it would still be just as easy to gain access to. The flaw is in not requiring the user to change it.
Who's your president?
Before complaining about what our representatives are concentrating on, its good to find out what their priorities are.
Or perhaps a letter to your local congressman telling him to concentrate on the problems you see (which I can guarentee are getting their fair share of attention) and ONLY those problems.
Also, our unemployment rates now would make people from the 80s' mouths drop. The economy isn't bad at all.
I agree that its a lot of money, but to a company with 7000 employees, what is half a million dollars? How much do they spend to make sure all these people have post-it notes, staplers and 3-hole punchers?
I'm definately not pro-Microsoft, but it seems that the cost of the software licenses is almost a non-issue to large corporations. ie, the money saved by using Linux instead is negligable compared to the cost to support it, which would be about the same either way. Professional 3d graphics cards are ridiculously expensive but it doesn't matter because a slower card would cost more in salary to the artists. Am I wrong in assuming that the cost of software licenses is much less of an impact than people tend to think?
Maybe they arent concerned with civilian casualties, but you can bet your ass they are concerned with the PR problems associated with civilian casualties.
I think I speak for everyone when I say false positives are the only real hinderance to the filtering of spam. I get roughly 20 emails a day, 75% of which are spam. If one of them slips past the filter and I see it, it doesn't bother me so much. Spam is no longer a problem. What is an absolute necessity, though, (and probably less so for me than other people) is that none of my legitimate email is filtered as spam. I'd rather have 100 spams filtered improperly than one legit email.
Enough people will provite enough profit for the artists for as long as I can see in the future. So I don't feel bad when I download, say a) a Tool mp3 since they feel justified in not only a $40 ticket to their live show, but also $40 for their fucking hats at that show. b) Datathief, because they'd be happy enough to know that I'm listening to their music and don't care about the money.
If I steal a candybar at the store, a potential sale is gone. They can no longer sell that candybar to someone else. If I boycott nothing records and go ahead and download the new Nine Inch Nails album, they are not out a sale. I got free music, they lost nothing. And I won't even go in to cds I actually did buy because I heard the mp3. Stealing music (or anything digital, for that matter) =/ stealing tangible items.
The way I see it, there are only 2 real kinds of business. Honest businesses with something to sell you for what it needs to turn a profit (ie gas stations, grocery stores, most retailers, good insurance companies, good car dealers) and those that make their money off of deceit or people who just don't know any better (cell phone companies, creditors and car dealers for people with bad credit, and 90% of the auctions on ebay). While I like to just find my best product, I object to many of these companies on moral grounds. I prefer to deal with those who try to make their customers happy, regardless if its only because they want you back.
I realize that was a rhetorical question, but you can't seriously expect that there are people who think its just as obvious that the only thing Apple has is pretty cases? Pretty packaging worked for Gateway.