I have a question that's related: how do I make sure that nobody unauthorized is connected to my network? I know about restricting by MAC address, but I have heard that can be hacked.
So getting old might be a means of easing the impact of your death on everyone else? He was old and lived a good life, he's dead now, and that's not so bad?
Or he had cancer, but he was positive, he's dead now, so that's not so bad?
Thank you for that word "intuitionism". I have found a huge amount of fascinating reading on the web relating to that word. Enough to keep me from working the rest of the day.:-)
But if you are skulking and depressed your final days wont be pleasant ones.
And cancer also means that your final days won't be pleasant ones. Quit trying to put a happy face on dying. There's really nothing good about it. Getting old is also way overrated too. And don't even get me going on hair loss.
There's something valuable about looking at the world with a sense of reality. Some things are good, and some things are bad.
If it's not important to see the bad things as they really are, to smile and pretend that the situation isn't grim, then PLEASE just legalize drugs and just let me do that all the time thank you very much.
Until then, a realistic view is the only one that has hope of being a constructive one.
This wasn't a flame, it was just a presentation of the opposite viewpoint in a debate. Just making sure that's clear.
A wonderful goal, but it was upset by Goedel. I'm sure you've read Goedel Escher Bach, but not everyone has.
In a nutshell, Goedel showed that not all mathematical sentences that are true can be proven logically. In other words, if you have a logical system based on a logical foundation, there are some things that cannot be derived within that framework.
It's an important result, and one could argue that without the Principia Mathematica nobody would have cared about it enough to bother to discover it.
IF that happens to be educating the customer, great, if not, well, misleading or incomplete information will come out.
That's not naive at all. If the salesman is lying to the customer or can't answer questions, the salesmen aren't doing their job. The fact that not all salesmen do their job is not a reason to redefine what a salesman does.
Less-than-best products also have salesforces, remember.
My sympathies to them, and I hope they find a new job selling a superior product.
Sales is a unique and honorable profession. I am not in sales, but I highly respect those who sell well and sell honestly. A salesman can write his own ticket, because the more he sells, the more he makes.
And a company that cannot supply a salesman with a product that is worth selling does not deserve to have a good salesman working for it. Usually those inferior companies get what they deserve: marketers.
The purpose of marketing is to convince people to buy a product by subverting their reasoning process. If people bought things based on reason, they would pick the products that met their needs for the best price. Instead, we have marketers that convince people to buy things based on "brand" or "image" or something fuzzy like that. That's the reason why Nike sells so many ugly high priced shoes, when for most people a cheaper shoe would do. That's the reason why Levis brand jeans are bought instead of an off-brand that's just as comfy and durable. That's the reason why so many people Chevy Suburbans are occupied by a single driver, when a much smaller car would meet their needs.
Do not confuse marketing with sales. The purpose of sales is to answer the customer's questions about a product. It's inherently an educational process, where the customer is taught the answer to the question "why should I choose this product over a competitor's product."
Marketing usually solves a problem by making the product in a different color, or making the package just a bit larger and brighter so it catches the eye on the shelf. Sales solves the problem by putting the specifications for the product on the box, and giving the customers the information they need to make a decision based on the facts, not a warm/fuzzy feeling.
To push this thing over the top: Sales makes things that look like a FAQ that answers questions and educates people they call "customers". Marketing makes things that look like crack cocaine that bamboozles people they call "consumers".
It's for the IBM Thinkpads and it plugs into the USB port. But there's a small problem. It doesn't work so well when you pick it up. I think the computer is too heavy or something.
The problem with voting software isn't that its open source or closed source. The problem is that it exists at all.
Voting should not be done through computers. If there is a problem with the system, we need to be able to count the votes by hand. That means a paper ballot with ink marks on it.
But you say, we can count rows in a database by hand too. Sure you can, but when you have a problem with voting, the real problem isn't getting a recount. The real problem is convincing Joe Sixpack that the system still works and that the higher powers that be haven't mucked with the workings of democracy.
The voting system must be transparent. As soon as it gets to the point where the mechanisms are not understandable to everyone, then we will have people who don't believe the system.
Trust is not in any way, shape, or form a part of voting. Joe Sixpack should never have to trust that the vote was taken properly. Elections should be constructed in such a way that anyone is capable of understanding the mechanics of how they work.
You may have meant one other thing: Under Microsoft's Shared Source licenses you may look at their code. But beware of the conditions under which they show it to you. That software can contaminate you and put your own open source software at risk if you -- even inadvertently -- copy their code. This has nothing to do with the antitrust topic so I'll say no more about that here.
This is definitely a risk to open source programming. If you've seem Microsoft code, you might not be able to work on a similar open source project. All work you've done can be questioned.
But this also applies to companies. A company that has access to Microsoft's code could come under scrutiny in the future. MS could just say they copied the code and start investigating or litigating. Some say that the GPL is a "viral" license, but the MS shared source is just a viral, and even more sneaky because the legal implications aren't written down in black and white. At least with the GPL you know up front what the legal consequences of linking a GPL object into non-GPL code will be.
You're going to have to pull your submarine up to that underwater fiber optic cable much more frequently than you planned to. Why not just run another fiber from the underwater tap to a secure listening facility on land?
(If it's not clear to most people reading this, the questioner wants to build a device that can listen in on a fiber optic tap and record a lot of data for a long time. Since fiber is vulnerable where it lies on the bottom of the ocean, and that position would necessitate the other requirements, that's the best guess.)
Little text ads are the best. How many of us will click away from a loud noisy commercial, yet we will buy the Sunday paper in part to read all those little classified ads?
If you remove marketing from advertizing, you're left with a classified ad. Slashdot should start running those things, as Kuro5hin does. I'd buy a couple of them to promote my upcoming movies.
Someone moderated me as a troll! I bet they are not an Uma Thurman fan. How would they like it if I were to sit on their face? I bet they'd just hate that.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, but Asimov didn't have a Bar Mitzvah at all. He was an atheist, and so was his father. If you're just trying to insult the man, then at least come up with something true to insult him with.
The worst thing that I can say about him is that he died way too young. True, he was pretty old when he died, but we need more people like him.
First you've got to explain why there is an idea of a soul at all. Transferring the mind into the machine is an idea of materialistic philosophy, and a soul has no existence within that framework. Mind is a product of the material, not the supernatural.
Each shuttle engine can be and has been flown on many different shuttles. These numbers are sometimes given in the status reports.
Check out this page to see a list of what engines flew on what shuttles. I would post the list here, but it won't get past the lameness filter.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a question that's related: how do I make sure that nobody unauthorized is connected to my network? I know about restricting by MAC address, but I have heard that can be hacked.
Some dude comes out of nowhere on a desert planet to topple the empire.
Oh, I spoke too soon. That baby was stillborn. But there's a fraternal twin:
1) Proprietary
2) Secure
Choose one.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're witnesses to the birth of a little baby meme. I think this one's going to go really far.
So getting old might be a means of easing the impact of your death on everyone else? He was old and lived a good life, he's dead now, and that's not so bad?
Or he had cancer, but he was positive, he's dead now, so that's not so bad?
That's worth consideration
Thank you for that word "intuitionism". I have found a huge amount of fascinating reading on the web relating to that word. Enough to keep me from working the rest of the day. :-)
But if you are skulking and depressed your final days wont be pleasant ones.
And cancer also means that your final days won't be pleasant ones. Quit trying to put a happy face on dying. There's really nothing good about it. Getting old is also way overrated too. And don't even get me going on hair loss.
There's something valuable about looking at the world with a sense of reality. Some things are good, and some things are bad.
If it's not important to see the bad things as they really are, to smile and pretend that the situation isn't grim, then PLEASE just legalize drugs and just let me do that all the time thank you very much.
Until then, a realistic view is the only one that has hope of being a constructive one.
This wasn't a flame, it was just a presentation of the opposite viewpoint in a debate. Just making sure that's clear.
I'd say it's more like a metacarpal tunnel.
A wonderful goal, but it was upset by Goedel. I'm sure you've read Goedel Escher Bach, but not everyone has.
In a nutshell, Goedel showed that not all mathematical sentences that are true can be proven logically. In other words, if you have a logical system based on a logical foundation, there are some things that cannot be derived within that framework.
It's an important result, and one could argue that without the Principia Mathematica nobody would have cared about it enough to bother to discover it.
IF that happens to be educating the customer, great, if not, well, misleading or incomplete information will come out.
That's not naive at all. If the salesman is lying to the customer or can't answer questions, the salesmen aren't doing their job. The fact that not all salesmen do their job is not a reason to redefine what a salesman does.
Less-than-best products also have salesforces, remember.
My sympathies to them, and I hope they find a new job selling a superior product.
Sales is a unique and honorable profession. I am not in sales, but I highly respect those who sell well and sell honestly. A salesman can write his own ticket, because the more he sells, the more he makes.
And a company that cannot supply a salesman with a product that is worth selling does not deserve to have a good salesman working for it. Usually those inferior companies get what they deserve: marketers.
The purpose of marketing is to convince people to buy a product by subverting their reasoning process. If people bought things based on reason, they would pick the products that met their needs for the best price. Instead, we have marketers that convince people to buy things based on "brand" or "image" or something fuzzy like that. That's the reason why Nike sells so many ugly high priced shoes, when for most people a cheaper shoe would do. That's the reason why Levis brand jeans are bought instead of an off-brand that's just as comfy and durable. That's the reason why so many people Chevy Suburbans are occupied by a single driver, when a much smaller car would meet their needs.
Do not confuse marketing with sales. The purpose of sales is to answer the customer's questions about a product. It's inherently an educational process, where the customer is taught the answer to the question "why should I choose this product over a competitor's product."
Marketing usually solves a problem by making the product in a different color, or making the package just a bit larger and brighter so it catches the eye on the shelf. Sales solves the problem by putting the specifications for the product on the box, and giving the customers the information they need to make a decision based on the facts, not a warm/fuzzy feeling.
To push this thing over the top: Sales makes things that look like a FAQ that answers questions and educates people they call "customers". Marketing makes things that look like crack cocaine that bamboozles people they call "consumers".
OK, I'm done with that little rant now.
It's for the IBM Thinkpads and it plugs into the USB port. But there's a small problem. It doesn't work so well when you pick it up. I think the computer is too heavy or something.
The problem with voting software isn't that its open source or closed source. The problem is that it exists at all.
Voting should not be done through computers. If there is a problem with the system, we need to be able to count the votes by hand. That means a paper ballot with ink marks on it.
But you say, we can count rows in a database by hand too. Sure you can, but when you have a problem with voting, the real problem isn't getting a recount. The real problem is convincing Joe Sixpack that the system still works and that the higher powers that be haven't mucked with the workings of democracy.
The voting system must be transparent. As soon as it gets to the point where the mechanisms are not understandable to everyone, then we will have people who don't believe the system.
Trust is not in any way, shape, or form a part of voting. Joe Sixpack should never have to trust that the vote was taken properly. Elections should be constructed in such a way that anyone is capable of understanding the mechanics of how they work.
You may have meant one other thing: Under Microsoft's Shared Source licenses you may look at their code. But beware of the conditions under which they show it to you. That software can contaminate you and put your own open source software at risk if you -- even inadvertently -- copy their code. This has nothing to do with the antitrust topic so I'll say no more about that here.
This is definitely a risk to open source programming. If you've seem Microsoft code, you might not be able to work on a similar open source project. All work you've done can be questioned.
But this also applies to companies. A company that has access to Microsoft's code could come under scrutiny in the future. MS could just say they copied the code and start investigating or litigating. Some say that the GPL is a "viral" license, but the MS shared source is just a viral, and even more sneaky because the legal implications aren't written down in black and white. At least with the GPL you know up front what the legal consequences of linking a GPL object into non-GPL code will be.
You're going to have to pull your submarine up to that underwater fiber optic cable much more frequently than you planned to. Why not just run another fiber from the underwater tap to a secure listening facility on land?
(If it's not clear to most people reading this, the questioner wants to build a device that can listen in on a fiber optic tap and record a lot of data for a long time. Since fiber is vulnerable where it lies on the bottom of the ocean, and that position would necessitate the other requirements, that's the best guess.)
If you've ever driven in the countryside of a redneck state (I'm thinking of rural Indiana now) you've seen the stop signs with the holes in them.
An airplane on a pole is going to be a giant target for a redneck with a shotgun. This just can't be safe!
Reminds me of Mr. Roboto.
Domo arigato Mr. Roboto. THANK you very MUCH-ah Mr. Roboto.
Now I'll just sing it domo arigato, squashed banana...
Little text ads are the best. How many of us will click away from a loud noisy commercial, yet we will buy the Sunday paper in part to read all those little classified ads?
If you remove marketing from advertizing, you're left with a classified ad. Slashdot should start running those things, as Kuro5hin does. I'd buy a couple of them to promote my upcoming movies.
Someone moderated me as a troll! I bet they are not an Uma Thurman fan. How would they like it if I were to sit on their face? I bet they'd just hate that.
You zip your pants then, silly!
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from, but Asimov didn't have a Bar Mitzvah at all. He was an atheist, and so was his father. If you're just trying to insult the man, then at least come up with something true to insult him with.
The worst thing that I can say about him is that he died way too young. True, he was pretty old when he died, but we need more people like him.
Asimov was culturally Jewish, but he as an atheist in belief. Apologies for interjecting fact into this little discussion.
First you've got to explain why there is an idea of a soul at all. Transferring the mind into the machine is an idea of materialistic philosophy, and a soul has no existence within that framework. Mind is a product of the material, not the supernatural.
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Each shuttle engine can be and has been flown on many different shuttles. These numbers are sometimes given in the status reports. Check out this page to see a list of what engines flew on what shuttles. I would post the list here, but it won't get past the lameness filter.