I agree. that's why we need more libertarians in office.
1. corporates won't get special privileges and can't use the government to control markets. They'll actually have to invest their own money in themselvse to improve their positions instead of the taxpayers' money to buy politicians and law.
2. women would have a chance to earn the respect based on their success at relevant life challenges, same as men. The left wing built system bias towards women/against men hurts both genders. It keeps women dependent on the state while inequitably stealing opportunity from men. it also breeds stereotype-based hatred in both genders. Cultural marxism helps no one but the state.
3. #2 also applies to gays. They should have a right to live how they wish like everyone else. They don't deserve the special privileges or attention they get from the left.
4. The argument for gun control is childish at best: "daddy maybe if we make the guns go away no one will kill one another anymore". If the left would address the issues in its own public education system, we'd have fewer klebolds and lanzas out there. If we have people targeting school decades after graduation, there's definitely something rotten in denmark. Of course, it's easier for the left to accuse the other side than it is to face its own demons. People (and hence organizations) that can do this have hit a milestone to adulthood. The rest are still children. Children are easier to control and manipulate.
5. there are libertarians and anarchocapitalists who want to privatize everything, but most don't. There are also liberals who worship karl marx and are members of the USA communist party. Most do not and are not. Your point here is a fallacy.
Metro is not a replacement for a small simple menu in the corner, and plastering everything with search boxes does not make it better than that simple menu. If we're back to typing everything, why not dump the taskbar entirely and have a quake style dropdown terminal? That way all commands can simply be typed out, with tab-completion..
round and round we go..
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wait, you don't like the start menu button because it takes up space, yet you tolerate the full screen metro bullshit? In fact, the start menu itself takes almost no space at all unless it's accessed.
Having search boxes on menus and windows is just a crutch that demonstrates the design sucks. The point is to see what you're looking for and interact with it in a graphically intuitive way. Switching back and forth from keyboard and mouse (or touch) is clunky, slow, and stupid.
A machine from 2002 has no problem with youtube/facebook/netflix...and today's fastest tablets cpus are roughly equivalent of a pentium II 300. The gpus are roughly the same as a slow geforce FX.
Well, the kernel devs have good reasons for wanting (and setting things up to encourage) open driver code. It's nearly impossible to debug kernel dumps riddled with binary only drivers, and it retards the freedoms of open source on platforms containing nvidia chips. So I agree with linus, but I also want my computer to work, so I use nouveau on older chips and the nvidia driver on newer chips and whenever I need the best 3d possible.
umm..ookayy. I'm sure the kernel devs would love all the kernel drivers under gpl2. I agree with linus, but I also want my computer to work. In the end, that's what's important to me. On older boards (geforce 7-), I usually use nouveau as it gives a nice high res accelerated terminal. The 3D support is passable enough to run opengl screensavers and the like. If I really need 3d support, I use the nvidia driver. Both work fine for me, far better than the radeon garbage.
Because, unlike ATI/AMD, their driver works by and large? If you only play AAA titles released around the time of the driver version you're using, amd cards work alright...usually. Try doing anything else with the card (autodesk/adobe/video playback accel/demoscene/older games/newer games) and prepare yourself for the glitch gremlin.
I'm not saying that nvidia drivers are perfect. They're not, but they're a lot better than AMD.
You already have a way to see if students do 'the god damned work': If they're passing the exams/labs/writing assignments, then they should pass the class whether they read the book or not. If they're passing the exams but still cannot demonstrate mastery of the material, then your tests suck.
Your rant suffers from political correctness disease. Just use 'he' or 'she' exclusively and the sentences will flow a lot better. Gender doesn't matter with abstract references.
They're not 'getting money back'. They're taking money that would be paid in taxes and instead spending it in a way that benefits employee productivity. Tha'ts a valid business expense. This is a good thing for both employees and the immediately surrounding society (less traffic). I don't see how the government could extract more benefit to society from such small amounts.
Why read the textbook when it's an untameable mass of block text with paragraph long runons and incomprehensible formula syntax? Were all those subscripts really necessary? How about all those greek letters and symbols most people are never taught? That doesn't help anyone, esp when many professors force this crap on their own students when they're forced to buy his unreadable textbook...for $95.
What's the point of nitpicking process verbosity? If the student is getting the answers correct on an open answer test then he's mastered the material. Now, if he gets an answer wrong, and he shows a partially correct process, then the prof can give him partial credit, and if he didn't show anything, he takes the full hit. That's fair.
Ultimately, the government is punishing everyone else unfairly because the IRS et al has a culturally reenforced entitlement complex about other people's money while the legislative branch refuses to operate within a balanced budget. This professor, probably suffering from the left wing tunnel vision found on most campuses, is just expressing faux 'outrage' at the schleps working 16hr days at google getting a few perks. Google probably treats it as a business expense, and it makes sense. Workers who stay on campus during lunch are more likely to be doing work than those who go out. Really, how does this differ from other perks given by other companies?
Seriously, with the deficit as high as it is, the IRS needs to quit going after the low hanging fruit and focus on people and organizations who truly are evading taxes on a massive scale. If they are targeting google for evasion, considering google's income, employee lunches can't possibly be the major issue.
Friends who respect you will take care when using your stuff. They will ask permission and they won't willingly or carelessly damage, and they will replace what they do break, and if they can't, they won't borrow it in the first place. The gp is right: today's culture doesn't teach respect of property, self, or the truth. Immediate indulgences and the expectation of entitlements are stronger social imperatives these days. Saying 'no' has become 'offensive' because no one should ever be so mean! Choosing not to share all the time, or even being choosy with whom you choose to share with is considered 'anti-social.'
It doesn't. It can however help protect a country's sovereignty, especially in complex products that are easily perverted into trojan horses: like networking equipment, SCADA control hardware, and crypto chips used in financial and military communications, etc.. Even if the firmware for these is developed state side, it is possible to hide backdoors in the hardware as well. If these products are used as interconnects for critical infrastructure, it gives the manufacturing country strategic leverage. Obviously, it's prudent that we act to protect such infrastructure as much as possible, so ensuring the building blocks are not manufactured in hostile nations should be first-step common sense. Unfortunately, political correctness on the left and greed on the right have shoved this fact down to the bottom of the priority pile.
The ability to provide the most critical and desired products locally is one of the cornerstones of a successful, free, and secure society. When it does come time to trade, it grants a stronger position, but, in our rush to build this 'global economy', we've undercut a lot of that intrinsic power, and without it, we'll always be someone else's bitch.
yeah.. until it starts doing something she doesn't like, or stops doing something she does like..then she calls her son who cannot do a thing about it. Yay for consumer powerlessness!
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I agree. that's why we need more libertarians in office.
1. corporates won't get special privileges and can't use the government to control markets. They'll actually have to invest their own money in themselvse to improve their positions instead of the taxpayers' money to buy politicians and law.
2. women would have a chance to earn the respect based on their success at relevant life challenges, same as men. The left wing built system bias towards women/against men hurts both genders. It keeps women dependent on the state while inequitably stealing opportunity from men. it also breeds stereotype-based hatred in both genders. Cultural marxism helps no one but the state.
3. #2 also applies to gays. They should have a right to live how they wish like everyone else. They don't deserve the special privileges or attention they get from the left.
4. The argument for gun control is childish at best: "daddy maybe if we make the guns go away no one will kill one another anymore". If the left would address the issues in its own public education system, we'd have fewer klebolds and lanzas out there. If we have people targeting school decades after graduation, there's definitely something rotten in denmark. Of course, it's easier for the left to accuse the other side than it is to face its own demons. People (and hence organizations) that can do this have hit a milestone to adulthood. The rest are still children. Children are easier to control and manipulate.
5. there are libertarians and anarchocapitalists who want to privatize everything, but most don't. There are also liberals who worship karl marx and are members of the USA communist party. Most do not and are not. Your point here is a fallacy.
If you gotta hack it like that to make it usable, it's NOT better than windows 7.
I doubt that, but it's true the only thing apple hardware has over everything else is street cred in coffee shops and college campuses.
cellphones didn't replace land lines... except maybe for the teenage hipster crowd.
Metro is not a replacement for a small simple menu in the corner, and plastering everything with search boxes does not make it better than that simple menu. If we're back to typing everything, why not dump the taskbar entirely and have a quake style dropdown terminal? That way all commands can simply be typed out, with tab-completion..
round and round we go..
wait, you don't like the start menu button because it takes up space, yet you tolerate the full screen metro bullshit? In fact, the start menu itself takes almost no space at all unless it's accessed.
Having search boxes on menus and windows is just a crutch that demonstrates the design sucks. The point is to see what you're looking for and interact with it in a graphically intuitive way. Switching back and forth from keyboard and mouse (or touch) is clunky, slow, and stupid.
A machine from 2002 has no problem with youtube/facebook/netflix...and today's fastest tablets cpus are roughly equivalent of a pentium II 300. The gpus are roughly the same as a slow geforce FX.
Well, the kernel devs have good reasons for wanting (and setting things up to encourage) open driver code. It's nearly impossible to debug kernel dumps riddled with binary only drivers, and it retards the freedoms of open source on platforms containing nvidia chips. So I agree with linus, but I also want my computer to work, so I use nouveau on older chips and the nvidia driver on newer chips and whenever I need the best 3d possible.
umm..ookayy. I'm sure the kernel devs would love all the kernel drivers under gpl2. I agree with linus, but I also want my computer to work. In the end, that's what's important to me. On older boards (geforce 7-), I usually use nouveau as it gives a nice high res accelerated terminal. The 3D support is passable enough to run opengl screensavers and the like. If I really need 3d support, I use the nvidia driver. Both work fine for me, far better than the radeon garbage.
I agree.. optimus is crap, even on windows.
Because, unlike ATI/AMD, their driver works by and large? If you only play AAA titles released around the time of the driver version you're using, amd cards work alright...usually. Try doing anything else with the card (autodesk/adobe/video playback accel/demoscene/older games/newer games) and prepare yourself for the glitch gremlin.
I'm not saying that nvidia drivers are perfect. They're not, but they're a lot better than AMD.
You already have a way to see if students do 'the god damned work': If they're passing the exams/labs/writing assignments, then they should pass the class whether they read the book or not. If they're passing the exams but still cannot demonstrate mastery of the material, then your tests suck.
Your rant suffers from political correctness disease. Just use 'he' or 'she' exclusively and the sentences will flow a lot better. Gender doesn't matter with abstract references.
They're not 'getting money back'. They're taking money that would be paid in taxes and instead spending it in a way that benefits employee productivity. Tha'ts a valid business expense. This is a good thing for both employees and the immediately surrounding society (less traffic). I don't see how the government could extract more benefit to society from such small amounts.
No, the 'underlings' are entitled to the agreed upon compensation in their employment contracts. This has nothing to do with the morality of tax.
Why read the textbook when it's an untameable mass of block text with paragraph long runons and incomprehensible formula syntax? Were all those subscripts really necessary? How about all those greek letters and symbols most people are never taught? That doesn't help anyone, esp when many professors force this crap on their own students when they're forced to buy his unreadable textbook...for $95.
What's the point of nitpicking process verbosity? If the student is getting the answers correct on an open answer test then he's mastered the material. Now, if he gets an answer wrong, and he shows a partially correct process, then the prof can give him partial credit, and if he didn't show anything, he takes the full hit. That's fair.
Ultimately, the government is punishing everyone else unfairly because the IRS et al has a culturally reenforced entitlement complex about other people's money while the legislative branch refuses to operate within a balanced budget. This professor, probably suffering from the left wing tunnel vision found on most campuses, is just expressing faux 'outrage' at the schleps working 16hr days at google getting a few perks. Google probably treats it as a business expense, and it makes sense. Workers who stay on campus during lunch are more likely to be doing work than those who go out. Really, how does this differ from other perks given by other companies?
Seriously, with the deficit as high as it is, the IRS needs to quit going after the low hanging fruit and focus on people and organizations who truly are evading taxes on a massive scale. If they are targeting google for evasion, considering google's income, employee lunches can't possibly be the major issue.
Uh what? no. he should be able to say whatever he wants on his own twitter account regardless of his employer's position.
Adding complexity always drives up the possibility of failure... Needless complexity drives down reliability for no good reason.
some of us don't want easily hackable cellphones used to track credentials of any kind.
Friends who respect you will take care when using your stuff. They will ask permission and they won't willingly or carelessly damage, and they will replace what they do break, and if they can't, they won't borrow it in the first place. The gp is right: today's culture doesn't teach respect of property, self, or the truth. Immediate indulgences and the expectation of entitlements are stronger social imperatives these days. Saying 'no' has become 'offensive' because no one should ever be so mean! Choosing not to share all the time, or even being choosy with whom you choose to share with is considered 'anti-social.'
It doesn't. It can however help protect a country's sovereignty, especially in complex products that are easily perverted into trojan horses: like networking equipment, SCADA control hardware, and crypto chips used in financial and military communications, etc.. Even if the firmware for these is developed state side, it is possible to hide backdoors in the hardware as well. If these products are used as interconnects for critical infrastructure, it gives the manufacturing country strategic leverage. Obviously, it's prudent that we act to protect such infrastructure as much as possible, so ensuring the building blocks are not manufactured in hostile nations should be first-step common sense. Unfortunately, political correctness on the left and greed on the right have shoved this fact down to the bottom of the priority pile.
The ability to provide the most critical and desired products locally is one of the cornerstones of a successful, free, and secure society. When it does come time to trade, it grants a stronger position, but, in our rush to build this 'global economy', we've undercut a lot of that intrinsic power, and without it, we'll always be someone else's bitch.
It won't be subpar to the web only corporate/government approved thinclient, esp when such thinclients won't run the software you need.
really? care to prove that certainty?
yeah.. until it starts doing something she doesn't like, or stops doing something she does like..then she calls her son who cannot do a thing about it. Yay for consumer powerlessness!