And if you believe this guy is on his first business name, or that calling him is going to help in any way, you underestimate the thickness of the skin of this kind of parasite.
Actually going there would be kind of dumb even if you do enjoy a visit to Brooklyn. It will be a nondescript graffiti-covered brick place with a rollup door and just enough identification to take deliveries. Knocking on the door is probably just asking for a beating.
He'll be back with a new website, new fake feedback in all the right places, same scheme. He won't lose any sleep either.
I'm pitying you, Sammy. Really. Nobody denied that the BSOD exists, which is all your wiki link says. If you must reply please get a friend to trace this thread back up to the top and explain it all to you so that you may do so with a better understanding.
There can be no counter argument since there's no argument to begin with - what you say is taking place simply is not. That makes you a troll, or perhaps a paranoid blessed with more time to waste than me. Enjoy your "argument" by yourself.
No, it's nothing like that, but you've given a fine example of a straw man argument, for anyone who wasn't aware of what that is.
These days, if you get a BSOD, chances are good that you have bad hardware.
Now read that sentence again, slowly - does it say anything about you being a moron because you chose the wrong hardware?
"Also took a lot of trial and error with various drivers thanks to a VIA chipset on my motherboard."
So it was something to do with the hardware? Oh...
You would like to pretend that I called those experiencing BSOD morons for having bad hardware because that would be easier to argue about. But I didn't. The facts are these: BSOD was common in the days of Windows 95 but it is common no more.
Linux geeks who continue to talk about BSOD can be put into three broad categories. Those who switched away from Windows long ago and would like to make believe nothing has changed; those whose intellectual dishonesty is rivalled only by their insecurity (a willingness to "strengthen" their advocacy with lies); and finally those who genuinely experience the BSOD - and who should think about whether their hardware might be the cause.
Absolutely FUD, from the very people who claim to be its victims.
If you still see the BSOD then very likely your hardware is at fault. Although a 100% windows user and habitual upgrader/overclocker/gamer I have not seen once since last time I tried to use a Soundblaster in a VIA-based mainboard - 2001, or was it 2000?
Please remember! Tom's Hardware publishes entertaining articles because it is a site made up of pure entertainment. Don't EVER believe anything you read on Tom's Hardware unless you also read some reputable second and third sources.
Question in relation to the parent poster's point about AMD winning almost everything - can you find any AMD advertising on Tom's Hardware? Hmmm!
This site has gone to shit. There is nothing else to say about this story, except perhaps to remember slashdot.org if you have a fad gift and it isn't leaping off the shelves quite as quickly as you'd hoped.
Make sure all your code is as condensed as possible. It not only looks like you know what you're doing to the uneducated observer, it will hinder any attempt to follow flow of control while stepping with a debugger.
switch(x) { case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile1: return; case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile2: continue; case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile3: break; case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile4: etc. etc.
And don't leave it at that. You know the people trying to follow your code will be hating your guts - rub it in. Leave cute little comments all over the place, designed to really get under their skin. "What the hell does this do?" and "This is such a cool implementation!" and "I learned to do this in 2nd year C class" are some of the classics I have found... Even better, get cute with your variable names. Name them after Ewoks. Or Smurfs. The mental image you want to create is of you, behind the maintenance programmers shoulder, giggling.
Lastly, NEVER use parentheses unless you have to. You spent months of your life memorizing binding order, you should force everyone else to do the same. You don't want the casual observer to be able to interpret
if(*p++ && x || *qq->a * 3 && y)
without stopping to take a good long look, do you?
"How can it be libel if she is simply reporting what she sees?"
Too many people assume that all countries have the same laws. In some countries, truth is NOT a defence. If in truth you are a thieving, acne-scarred, malodorous butt-pirate and I call you one in a public forum, all you have to do is prove that your reputation has been hurt, not that it isn't true.
Not very few at all - it is at least as common as RAID on most current mainboards.
The questions I'd like to see answered are these - why can't a Mac boot from USB when a PC can, would Mac owners be happier with this change if their machines could?
Once upon a time there was a company that employed lots of good engineers and made lots of great products that worked reliably and well. They may not have been sexy curvy products with flashy packaging, in fact they were always rather boxy and solid and often came packaged like mail order porn in plain brown boxes, but they always did just what they were supposed to and they did it practically for ever.
Then the company had some kind of nervous breakdown or something; a graduate in medievil studies who insisted on keeping a private hairdresser was named CEO. Lots of the good engineers were fired or quit in disgust when they saw what was going on. The company bought Compaq, which brought nothing but confusion to their products and added nothing of value, in fact the company had to fire lots more people as a result. In despair the company introduced a new slogan, "HP invent", which was sadly inaccurate, since what they had begun doing was not inventing at all, but sticking the once-respected HP name on cheap garbage from low-labor-cost countries. Many said the slogan should be "HP rebrand" but the marketing people didn't like that one much.
Today someone suggested they deserved credit for admitting to one of their pathetic fuckups, and doing the minimum they thought might avoid lawsuits. I just laughed - it was either that or cry.
Think of it as similar to when you think you've found a difficult bug you and others are working on. It pays to think it through and see if you really have a solution before interrupting someone to ask them to follow your reasoning.
(and as we all know thinking out how you are going to explain it often finds the flaw you initially missed)
Brown was stupid. He shouldn't have allowed the machine to be accessed from the outside; he shouldn't have allowed it to be indexed by google! Possibly he wasn't aware of the risks but that is no excuse.
Whether the Spanish acted wrongly or not he has only himself to blame. It's the same as leaving valuables in full view of passers-by and then complaining when temptation inevitably wins.
The P180 has no trouble with this - the door is closed with a magnetic catch that has just enough force to keep it closed but will allow a CD drive to push it open. It's really a well designed case, way ahead of any I have ever owned (and I've owned the Lian-Li PC-V1000, which is just a G5 wannabe and nothing special).
I can't tell you why a front door is better but at least this one isn't horrible. It also folds back flat agains the case side because it has a double hinge.
It looks so much like the SAM sites in every flight simulator I've ever played. And it isn't a very good hexagram.
A blinkered view from the ivory tower of UC Davis.
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· Score: 4, Informative
(and isn't Davis all aggies anyway?)
From the article:
"News.com didn't tell you that the number of teams competing has grown nearly sevenfold from 1994 through 2005. In other words, for a team to finish at, say, third place, in 1994 would be equivalent to finishing 21st this year. So a hypothetical team that News.com would have lauded in 1994 would now be dismissed as having badly "slipped" in 2005, even though it would be of the same quality."
From this I guess the author means that it's OK to be at the same level they were eight years ago. It doesn't matter that the American teams didn't improve at the same rate at the rest of the world. And in his statistical argument he ignores that although team numbers might have increased so did the number of American teams.
Next comes my absolute favorite argument:
"Long before Olympic athletes from all countries became quasiprofessionals, the Eastern European countries were seeing to it that training for the Games was their athletes' full-time job, giving them a major advantage over other nations' athletes."
OMG, it's not fair, they trained harder! Well hello! Is it cheating to produce programmers who can actually solve problems and write code? What exactly is coursework for if it isn't preparation for the kinds of problems you solve in programming contests? I've done a couple - it's the same thing, you just have to be faster and more accurate, compared to a programming assignment.
"the hidden agenda behind the shrill shortage claims was to push Congress to increase the yearly cap on the H-1B work visa program, which enabled industry to import cut-rate engineers from abroad."
I was a H1-B worker - I made great rates (thanks very much) and so did all the other H1-B's I know. It's convenient for Norm's flawed argument to repeat this myth, propagated by programmers who think they should have had my job because it was their birthright, not because they could have done it better.
"How can American engineers compete with cheap, imported labor?"
Too much time in academia Norm. If you can't do the job right it really doesn't matter how cheap you come. The way to compete is to be the best, there is no other way. Shopping for programmers is not like shopping for socks. Remember, computer-related thingys are digital. At the end of the day it is usually pretty obvious whether they work or do not work. "Almost works" is not good enough for anyone, except perhaps a professor who grades CS101 papers.
When Chinese (or Indian, or anyone else) programmers turn out to cost less AND be better programmers we'll be able to thank guys like Norm, who wanted to deny there was ever a problem.
What's Norm's issue with devoting more to education - is it just that he wants to be able to say "It wasn't MY fault?"
Get your favorite P2P app fired up and look for "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" by Andrew Loomis. Don't feel too guilty about downloading a PDF of this book, it is long out of print and used copies start at about $120 (if you can find them) - but it's one of the best ever written.
Dvorak does nothing BUT baseless speculation. He's an idiot, but he does know what gets people reading his columns and taking notice of him - writing the craziest shit he can think up, that's what. Metcalfe (an original developer of ethernet at Xerox PARC) did the same with his "Open Sores" anti-Linux article. These guys feel irrelevance settling around them with the inevitability of old age, and are just fighting it whichever way they can.
Rick, Rick, think! WHAT support with XP Pro? The support you require a credit card to pay for? And once the software is on your machine who cares if the media came in a glossy carton?
Personally I think OS X would be the better choice even if XP Pro cost the same as your average Linux distro, but let's not be a blind Mac zealot when thinking about the facts in the comparison. Just the activation scheme turns me off Windows.
"Tiger may lack some of the niceties that make Windows more appealing to new users"
Like, err, people just love to have to make six choices before they can search for anything, I guess. Oh, and Mac OS X doesn't have that oh-so-cute animated dog!
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And if you believe this guy is on his first business name, or that calling him is going to help in any way, you underestimate the thickness of the skin of this kind of parasite.
Actually going there would be kind of dumb even if you do enjoy a visit to Brooklyn. It will be a nondescript graffiti-covered brick place with a rollup door and just enough identification to take deliveries. Knocking on the door is probably just asking for a beating.
He'll be back with a new website, new fake feedback in all the right places, same scheme. He won't lose any sleep either.
I'm pitying you, Sammy. Really. Nobody denied that the BSOD exists, which is all your wiki link says. If you must reply please get a friend to trace this thread back up to the top and explain it all to you so that you may do so with a better understanding.
There can be no counter argument since there's no argument to begin with - what you say is taking place simply is not. That makes you a troll, or perhaps a paranoid blessed with more time to waste than me. Enjoy your "argument" by yourself.
"when you imply you are above us all"
No, I did not imply that. Either you're displaying some insecurity or you're simply a troll.
No, it's nothing like that, but you've given a fine example of a straw man argument, for anyone who wasn't aware of what that is.
These days, if you get a BSOD, chances are good that you have bad hardware.
Now read that sentence again, slowly - does it say anything about you being a moron because you chose the wrong hardware?
"Also took a lot of trial and error with various drivers thanks to a VIA chipset on my motherboard."
So it was something to do with the hardware? Oh...
You would like to pretend that I called those experiencing BSOD morons for having bad hardware because that would be easier to argue about. But I didn't. The facts are these: BSOD was common in the days of Windows 95 but it is common no more.
Linux geeks who continue to talk about BSOD can be put into three broad categories. Those who switched away from Windows long ago and would like to make believe nothing has changed; those whose intellectual dishonesty is rivalled only by their insecurity (a willingness to "strengthen" their advocacy with lies); and finally those who genuinely experience the BSOD - and who should think about whether their hardware might be the cause.
Absolutely FUD, from the very people who claim to be its victims.
If you still see the BSOD then very likely your hardware is at fault. Although a 100% windows user and habitual upgrader/overclocker/gamer I have not seen once since last time I tried to use a Soundblaster in a VIA-based mainboard - 2001, or was it 2000?
Please remember! Tom's Hardware publishes entertaining articles because it is a site made up of pure entertainment. Don't EVER believe anything you read on Tom's Hardware unless you also read some reputable second and third sources.
Question in relation to the parent poster's point about AMD winning almost everything - can you find any AMD advertising on Tom's Hardware? Hmmm!
This site has gone to shit. There is nothing else to say about this story, except perhaps to remember slashdot.org if you have a fad gift and it isn't leaping off the shelves quite as quickly as you'd hoped.
Well my portable drive was a 500MB Fujitsu Eagle. And if you think that's getting it easy, you've never lifted one. Or its stand-alone power supply.
(but watching a defragger at work was always fun)
No, the price of a BNL CD is about $15.
The cost (to the producer) is probably about $1.
The value (to anyone with any taste) is about $0.10.
Make sure all your code is as condensed as possible. It not only looks like you know what you're doing to the uneducated observer, it will hinder any attempt to follow flow of control while stepping with a debugger.
e )?fn2(x):fn3(x);
e.g.
something=fn(getptr(x),*gg,goddamnhugevariablenam
this works even better with case!
switch(x) {
case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile1: return;
case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile2: continue;
case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile3: break;
case stupidconstantnamedefinedinfaroffincludefile4: etc. etc.
And don't leave it at that. You know the people trying to follow your code will be hating your guts - rub it in. Leave cute little comments all over the place, designed to really get under their skin. "What the hell does this do?" and "This is such a cool implementation!" and "I learned to do this in 2nd year C class" are some of the classics I have found... Even better, get cute with your variable names. Name them after Ewoks. Or Smurfs. The mental image you want to create is of you, behind the maintenance programmers shoulder, giggling.
Lastly, NEVER use parentheses unless you have to. You spent months of your life memorizing binding order, you should force everyone else to do the same. You don't want the casual observer to be able to interpret
if(*p++ && x || *qq->a * 3 && y)
without stopping to take a good long look, do you?
"How can it be libel if she is simply reporting what she sees?"
Too many people assume that all countries have the same laws. In some countries, truth is NOT a defence. If in truth you are a thieving, acne-scarred, malodorous butt-pirate and I call you one in a public forum, all you have to do is prove that your reputation has been hurt, not that it isn't true.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
I think what you're saying boils down to this:
It is no coincidence that ID also stands for "intellectual dishonesty".
Not very few at all - it is at least as common as RAID on most current mainboards.
The questions I'd like to see answered are these - why can't a Mac boot from USB when a PC can, would Mac owners be happier with this change if their machines could?
Once upon a time there was a company that employed lots of good engineers and made lots of great products that worked reliably and well. They may not have been sexy curvy products with flashy packaging, in fact they were always rather boxy and solid and often came packaged like mail order porn in plain brown boxes, but they always did just what they were supposed to and they did it practically for ever.
Then the company had some kind of nervous breakdown or something; a graduate in medievil studies who insisted on keeping a private hairdresser was named CEO. Lots of the good engineers were fired or quit in disgust when they saw what was going on. The company bought Compaq, which brought nothing but confusion to their products and added nothing of value, in fact the company had to fire lots more people as a result. In despair the company introduced a new slogan, "HP invent", which was sadly inaccurate, since what they had begun doing was not inventing at all, but sticking the once-respected HP name on cheap garbage from low-labor-cost countries. Many said the slogan should be "HP rebrand" but the marketing people didn't like that one much.
Today someone suggested they deserved credit for admitting to one of their pathetic fuckups, and doing the minimum they thought might avoid lawsuits. I just laughed - it was either that or cry.
Sean Adams, for this post and for all the SliMP3/Squeezebox players I have owned and currently own, you rock.
Think of it as similar to when you think you've found a difficult bug you and others are working on. It pays to think it through and see if you really have a solution before interrupting someone to ask them to follow your reasoning.
(and as we all know thinking out how you are going to explain it often finds the flaw you initially missed)
Brown was stupid. He shouldn't have allowed the machine to be accessed from the outside; he shouldn't have allowed it to be indexed by google! Possibly he wasn't aware of the risks but that is no excuse.
Whether the Spanish acted wrongly or not he has only himself to blame. It's the same as leaving valuables in full view of passers-by and then complaining when temptation inevitably wins.
The P180 has no trouble with this - the door is closed with a magnetic catch that has just enough force to keep it closed but will allow a CD drive to push it open. It's really a well designed case, way ahead of any I have ever owned (and I've owned the Lian-Li PC-V1000, which is just a G5 wannabe and nothing special).
I can't tell you why a front door is better but at least this one isn't horrible. It also folds back flat agains the case side because it has a double hinge.
It looks so much like the SAM sites in every flight simulator I've ever played. And it isn't a very good hexagram.
(and isn't Davis all aggies anyway?)
From the article:
"News.com didn't tell you that the number of teams competing has grown nearly sevenfold from 1994 through 2005. In other words, for a team to finish at, say, third place, in 1994 would be equivalent to finishing 21st this year. So a hypothetical team that News.com would have lauded in 1994 would now be dismissed as having badly "slipped" in 2005, even though it would be of the same quality."
From this I guess the author means that it's OK to be at the same level they were eight years ago. It doesn't matter that the American teams didn't improve at the same rate at the rest of the world. And in his statistical argument he ignores that although team numbers might have increased so did the number of American teams.
Next comes my absolute favorite argument:
"Long before Olympic athletes from all countries became quasiprofessionals, the Eastern European countries were seeing to it that training for the Games was their athletes' full-time job, giving them a major advantage over other nations' athletes."
OMG, it's not fair, they trained harder! Well hello! Is it cheating to produce programmers who can actually solve problems and write code? What exactly is coursework for if it isn't preparation for the kinds of problems you solve in programming contests? I've done a couple - it's the same thing, you just have to be faster and more accurate, compared to a programming assignment.
"the hidden agenda behind the shrill shortage claims was to push Congress to increase the yearly cap on the H-1B work visa program, which enabled industry to import cut-rate engineers from abroad."
I was a H1-B worker - I made great rates (thanks very much) and so did all the other H1-B's I know. It's convenient for Norm's flawed argument to repeat this myth, propagated by programmers who think they should have had my job because it was their birthright, not because they could have done it better.
"How can American engineers compete with cheap, imported labor?"
Too much time in academia Norm. If you can't do the job right it really doesn't matter how cheap you come. The way to compete is to be the best, there is no other way. Shopping for programmers is not like shopping for socks. Remember, computer-related thingys are digital. At the end of the day it is usually pretty obvious whether they work or do not work. "Almost works" is not good enough for anyone, except perhaps a professor who grades CS101 papers.
When Chinese (or Indian, or anyone else) programmers turn out to cost less AND be better programmers we'll be able to thank guys like Norm, who wanted to deny there was ever a problem.
What's Norm's issue with devoting more to education - is it just that he wants to be able to say "It wasn't MY fault?"
Skip Hogarth!
Get your favorite P2P app fired up and look for "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth" by Andrew Loomis. Don't feel too guilty about downloading a PDF of this book, it is long out of print and used copies start at about $120 (if you can find them) - but it's one of the best ever written.
Dvorak does nothing BUT baseless speculation. He's an idiot, but he does know what gets people reading his columns and taking notice of him - writing the craziest shit he can think up, that's what. Metcalfe (an original developer of ethernet at Xerox PARC) did the same with his "Open Sores" anti-Linux article. These guys feel irrelevance settling around them with the inevitability of old age, and are just fighting it whichever way they can.
Rick, Rick, think! WHAT support with XP Pro? The support you require a credit card to pay for? And once the software is on your machine who cares if the media came in a glossy carton?
Personally I think OS X would be the better choice even if XP Pro cost the same as your average Linux distro, but let's not be a blind Mac zealot when thinking about the facts in the comparison. Just the activation scheme turns me off Windows.
And the really big laugh from the article:
"Tiger may lack some of the niceties that make Windows more appealing to new users"
Like, err, people just love to have to make six choices before they can search for anything, I guess. Oh, and Mac OS X doesn't have that oh-so-cute animated dog!