Yeah, I recall a study that said we had the same manufacturing output in dollars as we did in the past. And a great deal of what China manufactures is junk. I was being a bit hyperbolic.
But still, I think we don't have the same highly-skilled labor pool that we used to have. Our output is the same because our productivity is so high. That isn't necessarily a problem, but it could be if ever we needed to ramp up production, for the same reason the military starts having major training issues when they lose a lot of NCOs.
With the falling dollar, US exports are at a record high.
But what do we export? Movies and Britney Spears. We don't exactly produce a lot of durable goods in this country anymore, and all of our excess farmland is being used to grow corn for fucking ethanol.
Right. An then pop goes the Chinese financial system.
Possibly, but not necessarily true. Remember there are a billion+ Chinese. They can stop selling to us and sell to their own people. Not to mention the rest of the world. The Chinese like to sell to us because they like the dollars. If they stop liking the dollars, they can move elsewhere. Everybody needs cheep manufacturing, and China can provide that.
Can someone please explain to me why you are willing to pay astronomical monthly fees for Netflix on a recurring basis
I pay about $24/month and get 4 movies at a time. I don't find that astronomical at all. Add in that I get 24 hours of streaming video too, and I'm a happy guy. Granted, I don't pay for cable TV as well. Netflix is like an infinite Tivo with 24-48 hour lag. I have no complaints.
Many people complain about the poor selection of movies on Netflix's "Watch It Now" but I think it's ingenius. They're working out all the kinks of the system and offering mainly "B" series and movies.
Not really. I'm watching Heroes through "Watch it Now". It's keeping up with the current season.
Of note, I've dropped cable/sat and pretty much feast on Netflix+iTunes.
Me too. I know a couple folks who do that. I still have cable modem Internet service, though. I pay Comcast $50/month so I can pay $24/month to Netflix to have movies and TV shows streamed and mailed to me. You'd think they'd put two and two together.
I don't have much of a problem with Acrobat Reader's performance on the PC. It's fast enough. What I hate is that seemingly every time I open it it tells me that there's another update.
Acrobat Reader must get more updates than hookers get scabies.
If I were Colbert, I'd be seeking justice from the courts on this one. Show them just how serious a candidate he is.
He should probably count his blessings. With our current set of campaign finance laws, Comedy Central might have been on the hook for in-kind contributions or some damn thing. Colbert going to the courts would only encourage that kind of blowback.
Their suggestion for speakers, as mentioned elsewhere, is very poor (Polk? Really?) given that there's much better stuff available from great companies like PSB, Paradigm, and NHT.
Or even the speaker kits from places like Parts Express. A speaker kit is remarkably good value, if you're not a complete schlub and can solder a simple crossover without burning your house down. Too many retail speakers are designed to look good first; to sound good second. This is a good plan for the companies involved because most people will not be able to tell the difference anyway. But if you're going to try to do it right, at least, you know, try to do it right.
I'm less titchy about the receiver. I guess if you're talking about a "reference" system, then separates are a valid topic of discussion, but most middle-tier receivers are thoroughly adequate.
Lasers don't push dust out of the way. So it's either snap-crackle-pop, or some kind of filter in your turntable. Or you live in a Class 100 cleanroom.
That's not standard, I don't think. We have Internet-only and it's about $50 including taxes. That could be a grandfathered-in price as we used to be Time Warner RoadRunner, but I seem to recall seeing that price elsewhere.
Exactly. "Wisdom of crowds" is not evolution as it applies to speciation. Many thinking individuals making choices does not correlate to accidental mutation and survival of the fittest. Unless you want to introduce Intelligent Design, active choices are a bad example for evolution.
Are you saying that because Apple fixes firmware defects, people are obligated to let Apple dictate arbitrary terms of usage?
No, Apple can say "don't meddle with the workings; we're not responsible if you do". They dictate how they will support your device. If you want to go out on a limb, you're free to. Apple doesn't have to care if you crack your fool head open.
Support of arbitrary wealth distribution marks you as a cad first, possible communist second. How much money do you make? If it's more than I make I'm redistributing your car to me.
and any meddling bureaucrats that have the nerve to try to regulate them.
Astounding. Companies are forever actively seeking to steal, rape and possibly kill their customers, while governments are fonts of goodwill.
FYI, the bureaucrats simply want to exercise the same power as a big, successful company without the requirement of actually being successful. They are both equally evil. One is not the cure for the other.
Silly analogies aside, if you meddle with the expected operation of a black-box device--one not intended for unauthorized modifications--you get what you should have expected.
Almost certainly you would have expected Apple to have honored defects introduced by firmware updates. Why are you free of similar obligations? "Apple has more money" is not a valid answer unless you're also willing to admit you don't mind thievery if the subject is rich enough.
The bringing it home, was American soldiers pissed off with the government for getting their friends killed and providing the standard "not a lot" support once they get back home and the war is done returning to their previous lives, not the military establishment learning anything.
That's not what I got from the article. I got that soldiers returning from Iraq will go back to their gangs or ethnic organizations with the knowledge and understanding of how to erode the political power of the State with few resources and manpower. A handful of divisive grievance groups can do great damage with such knowledge. It doesn't really have anything to do with the dissatisfaction of the American soldier, but rather with unexpected lessons learned.
I think it's less likely to occur in America where the culture is a lot more homogenous and the standard of living pretty good as compared to some of the shitholes in the Middle East. But Lind isn't entirely talking out of his hat.
Hell, you'd better come up with a really compelling reason why I should re-buy my video library all over again. I just finished doing it going from VHS to DVD--and dropping a lot of titles, BTW, 'cause I didn't want to plunk down $20 for Under Siege. If I have to do it all over again with HD-DVD/BR, I'm going to buy Seven Samurai, Casablanca and The Godfather, and nothing else. I'm sick of re-buying the same fucking movies.
And anyway, a goodly portion of my movies are really old. Like the Thin Man series. There's no way that an HD-DVD copy of that is going to be significantly better than the DVD version.
Stop debating new formats and start hiring better writers, Hollywood.
At what point are OIDs required for normal interoperation with a Postgres database? At some level I guess they're hanging around, but not to anybody who's not writing a C extension or something.
WRT DB storage, this kind of optimization probably makes Knuth cry.
I seem to remember reading this information, and the function, years ago. I mean, a lot of years ago, like in a kids' science book, so going back 25 years or thereabouts. I could be completely wrong, and probably am, but my first reaction when I read the Slashdot article was "I knew that already!"
BTW, Mr. Righi seems to suggest that since he called the cops, only he called the cops. I suspect that the store management did it also.
Unproven assertion.
What seems clear to me, as a store owner, is that they did suspect him of shoplifting for other reasons.
Unproven assertion.
If they won't accuse him of shoplifting, it merely means that they do not want to commit slander.
From the California penal code:
(7) In any civil action brought by any person resulting from a detention or arrest by a merchant, it shall be a defense to such action that the merchant detaining or arresting such person had probable cause to believe that the person had stolen or attempted to steal merchandise and that the merchant acted reasonably under all the circumstances.
I take Mr. Righi's account at face value as he seems to be level-headed and well-informed. Of course, the details of the case may turn out to be different, but I don't think they will. You've based your opinion on the assumption that the store was doing the right thing, and you have no evidence to back that up other than your bias. In a case like this, where it's one man contending against a large corporation plus the local police, I imagine he benefits from being perfectly honest and forthright about the situation. Of course, he could be lying to gain sympathy and donations to his legal defense. Possible, but highly unlikely. People don't endure this kind of thing for giggles.
No offense, but I doubt the people that need to use cPanel could figure out how to use Postgres.
MySQL is always touted as "easy to use", but I've never followed that logic. Some of MySQL's conventions are byzantine. Such as choosing between MyISAM and InnoDB. How non-trivial is that?
That's a funny requirement. Replication isn't a need that generally comes up before transaction support, stored procedures, etc.
Well, I guess replication is beneficial as a backup option, but there's regular backups (cheap, slow) and virtualization (less cheap, quicker) that go before replication IMO.
What's really fucked up is that several of the employees that fell for this were at the highest GS levels. I can understand how the problem would be prevalent among the lower-level off-the-street employees, but you'd think that someone who was getting paid $100K+ a year would have a clue about data security.
Trust a government employee to fail to realize what's really fucked up about the situation.
What's really fucked up is that the IRS, which asks for, demands and is granted access to a great deal of personal information for practically every American, isn't taking that fact seriously. This happens a lot in government. Some cubefarm worker gets his laptop stolen with 600,000 SS numbers, big shrugs all around Washington DC.
While I'm sure you're a nice fellow, your job is a soul-sucking drain on the productivity and happiness of this nation. Now we find out your department is routinely casual about the intensely personal data you've extracted from us at the point of a gun. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
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Yeah, I recall a study that said we had the same manufacturing output in dollars as we did in the past. And a great deal of what China manufactures is junk. I was being a bit hyperbolic.
But still, I think we don't have the same highly-skilled labor pool that we used to have. Our output is the same because our productivity is so high. That isn't necessarily a problem, but it could be if ever we needed to ramp up production, for the same reason the military starts having major training issues when they lose a lot of NCOs.
With the falling dollar, US exports are at a record high.
But what do we export? Movies and Britney Spears. We don't exactly produce a lot of durable goods in this country anymore, and all of our excess farmland is being used to grow corn for fucking ethanol.
Right. An then pop goes the Chinese financial system.
Possibly, but not necessarily true. Remember there are a billion+ Chinese. They can stop selling to us and sell to their own people. Not to mention the rest of the world. The Chinese like to sell to us because they like the dollars. If they stop liking the dollars, they can move elsewhere. Everybody needs cheep manufacturing, and China can provide that.
Can someone please explain to me why you are willing to pay astronomical monthly fees for Netflix on a recurring basis
I pay about $24/month and get 4 movies at a time. I don't find that astronomical at all. Add in that I get 24 hours of streaming video too, and I'm a happy guy. Granted, I don't pay for cable TV as well. Netflix is like an infinite Tivo with 24-48 hour lag. I have no complaints.
I thought your post was interesting up until you admitted that you watch anime.
Many people complain about the poor selection of movies on Netflix's "Watch It Now" but I think it's ingenius. They're working out all the kinks of the system and offering mainly "B" series and movies.
Not really. I'm watching Heroes through "Watch it Now". It's keeping up with the current season.
Of note, I've dropped cable/sat and pretty much feast on Netflix+iTunes. Me too. I know a couple folks who do that. I still have cable modem Internet service, though. I pay Comcast $50/month so I can pay $24/month to Netflix to have movies and TV shows streamed and mailed to me. You'd think they'd put two and two together.
We can only hope it gets abused and cancelled.
If Firefly had made 5 seasons it would have been crap.
I don't have much of a problem with Acrobat Reader's performance on the PC. It's fast enough. What I hate is that seemingly every time I open it it tells me that there's another update.
Acrobat Reader must get more updates than hookers get scabies.
If I were Colbert, I'd be seeking justice from the courts on this one. Show them just how serious a candidate he is.
He should probably count his blessings. With our current set of campaign finance laws, Comedy Central might have been on the hook for in-kind contributions or some damn thing. Colbert going to the courts would only encourage that kind of blowback.
Or even the speaker kits from places like Parts Express. A speaker kit is remarkably good value, if you're not a complete schlub and can solder a simple crossover without burning your house down. Too many retail speakers are designed to look good first; to sound good second. This is a good plan for the companies involved because most people will not be able to tell the difference anyway. But if you're going to try to do it right, at least, you know, try to do it right.
I'm less titchy about the receiver. I guess if you're talking about a "reference" system, then separates are a valid topic of discussion, but most middle-tier receivers are thoroughly adequate.
Lasers don't push dust out of the way. So it's either snap-crackle-pop, or some kind of filter in your turntable. Or you live in a Class 100 cleanroom.
Please, no more stupid verbs-nee-nouns.
"Blog" should have been smothered in the crib, let's not loose another monster.
That's not standard, I don't think. We have Internet-only and it's about $50 including taxes. That could be a grandfathered-in price as we used to be Time Warner RoadRunner, but I seem to recall seeing that price elsewhere.
Exactly. "Wisdom of crowds" is not evolution as it applies to speciation. Many thinking individuals making choices does not correlate to accidental mutation and survival of the fittest. Unless you want to introduce Intelligent Design, active choices are a bad example for evolution.
No, Apple can say "don't meddle with the workings; we're not responsible if you do". They dictate how they will support your device. If you want to go out on a limb, you're free to. Apple doesn't have to care if you crack your fool head open.
Support of arbitrary wealth distribution marks you as a cad first, possible communist second. How much money do you make? If it's more than I make I'm redistributing your car to me.
Astounding. Companies are forever actively seeking to steal, rape and possibly kill their customers, while governments are fonts of goodwill.
FYI, the bureaucrats simply want to exercise the same power as a big, successful company without the requirement of actually being successful. They are both equally evil. One is not the cure for the other.
Silly analogies aside, if you meddle with the expected operation of a black-box device--one not intended for unauthorized modifications--you get what you should have expected.
Almost certainly you would have expected Apple to have honored defects introduced by firmware updates. Why are you free of similar obligations? "Apple has more money" is not a valid answer unless you're also willing to admit you don't mind thievery if the subject is rich enough.
The bringing it home, was American soldiers pissed off with the government for getting their friends killed and providing the standard "not a lot" support once they get back home and the war is done returning to their previous lives, not the military establishment learning anything.
That's not what I got from the article. I got that soldiers returning from Iraq will go back to their gangs or ethnic organizations with the knowledge and understanding of how to erode the political power of the State with few resources and manpower. A handful of divisive grievance groups can do great damage with such knowledge. It doesn't really have anything to do with the dissatisfaction of the American soldier, but rather with unexpected lessons learned.
I think it's less likely to occur in America where the culture is a lot more homogenous and the standard of living pretty good as compared to some of the shitholes in the Middle East. But Lind isn't entirely talking out of his hat.
Hell, you'd better come up with a really compelling reason why I should re-buy my video library all over again. I just finished doing it going from VHS to DVD--and dropping a lot of titles, BTW, 'cause I didn't want to plunk down $20 for Under Siege. If I have to do it all over again with HD-DVD/BR, I'm going to buy Seven Samurai, Casablanca and The Godfather, and nothing else. I'm sick of re-buying the same fucking movies.
And anyway, a goodly portion of my movies are really old. Like the Thin Man series. There's no way that an HD-DVD copy of that is going to be significantly better than the DVD version.
Stop debating new formats and start hiring better writers, Hollywood.
At what point are OIDs required for normal interoperation with a Postgres database? At some level I guess they're hanging around, but not to anybody who's not writing a C extension or something.
WRT DB storage, this kind of optimization probably makes Knuth cry.
I was just gonna say...
I seem to remember reading this information, and the function, years ago. I mean, a lot of years ago, like in a kids' science book, so going back 25 years or thereabouts. I could be completely wrong, and probably am, but my first reaction when I read the Slashdot article was "I knew that already!"
BTW, Mr. Righi seems to suggest that since he called the cops, only he called the cops. I suspect that the store management did it also.
Unproven assertion.
What seems clear to me, as a store owner, is that they did suspect him of shoplifting for other reasons.
Unproven assertion.
If they won't accuse him of shoplifting, it merely means that they do not want to commit slander.
From the California penal code:
I take Mr. Righi's account at face value as he seems to be level-headed and well-informed. Of course, the details of the case may turn out to be different, but I don't think they will. You've based your opinion on the assumption that the store was doing the right thing, and you have no evidence to back that up other than your bias. In a case like this, where it's one man contending against a large corporation plus the local police, I imagine he benefits from being perfectly honest and forthright about the situation. Of course, he could be lying to gain sympathy and donations to his legal defense. Possible, but highly unlikely. People don't endure this kind of thing for giggles.
No offense, but I doubt the people that need to use cPanel could figure out how to use Postgres.
MySQL is always touted as "easy to use", but I've never followed that logic. Some of MySQL's conventions are byzantine. Such as choosing between MyISAM and InnoDB. How non-trivial is that?
That's a funny requirement. Replication isn't a need that generally comes up before transaction support, stored procedures, etc.
Well, I guess replication is beneficial as a backup option, but there's regular backups (cheap, slow) and virtualization (less cheap, quicker) that go before replication IMO.
What's really fucked up is that several of the employees that fell for this were at the highest GS levels. I can understand how the problem would be prevalent among the lower-level off-the-street employees, but you'd think that someone who was getting paid $100K+ a year would have a clue about data security.
Trust a government employee to fail to realize what's really fucked up about the situation.
What's really fucked up is that the IRS, which asks for, demands and is granted access to a great deal of personal information for practically every American, isn't taking that fact seriously. This happens a lot in government. Some cubefarm worker gets his laptop stolen with 600,000 SS numbers, big shrugs all around Washington DC.
While I'm sure you're a nice fellow, your job is a soul-sucking drain on the productivity and happiness of this nation. Now we find out your department is routinely casual about the intensely personal data you've extracted from us at the point of a gun. Thanks. Thanks a lot.