Yes the big picture is the same but I think the difference between a real mob and an internet mob is that on the net the least bright member is visible to all, also there's nowhere to physically lynch people from.
Oh and I found the "fuck the revolution" rant I was talking about. The rant starts at around 3:45 but the whole clip is worth watching. If anyone doubts the balls it took to make that speech then I would similarly doubt they are old enough to remeber the IRA in the 70's & 80's.
"Bono is proof positive that it's easy to be a renowned global humanitarian when you are richer than God. I wonder how much attention he'd have paid to world hunger, charity, global climate change, etc etc if he hadn't been lucky enough to meet Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and he'd ended up as an Irish bricklayer playing weekends in a Duran Duran cover band."
If it's easy then why don't more than a handfull of the mega rich do it? - Is it the same reason that only a handfull of Irish bricklayers would devote that much effort to charity?
Well said, recognising someone's good work does not mean you have to agree with everything they say, in fact you don't even have to like them personally. I don't agree with tracking files either but I do agree with him on a lot of other infinitely more important issues.
There were very few Irishman with the balls to publicly denounce the IRA during the 80's. At a concert in Boston, he went into a rant about "irishmen who hadn't been home in 20yrs enthusiatically asking about the revolution" and ended the rant with "fuck the revolution".
Boston was the main source of funds for the IRA and he was speaking directly to their sponsors, naturally the IRA responded with real death threats as opposed to the OP who mearly wishes him dead for his opinion on file tracking.
Speaking of Band/live aid, I think the best refutation of the OP's attitude is the skeletal baby sitting in the dust who's photo was used in the first campaign was on stage as a healthy 21yo woman at the second concert.
"While that statement is true, you are distracting from the real issue. China is indeed striving to corner strategic mineral markets, and it's not "news"."
I'm an Aussie, the reason Aussie's have a high standard of living is that everyone comes here to dig stuff up. Our special rocks are so cheap that during the Thatcher years we literally sent coal to Newcastle in the UK.
You may have heard of our own little steel company, BHP Billiton? The only thing that's changed in the last 30yrs is it used to be the US & UK trying to lock in continuity of supply but nowadays it's China and the rest of SE Asia.
Humans have an exceptional theory of mind and I like to use mine. Looking at something from a different (even an inanimate) POV is what stands us apart from the animals. If you have a weak theory of mind you ought to get it checked, it could be a sign of autisim.
Also your ancestors worshiped animals as gods and I suspect they would be sorry to hear about the death of your soul.
Perhaps reactions like yours is what the obvious bullshit in the article is trying to induce, either that or someone has a warehouse full of the stuff and is trying to pump the price.
They have fought to secure those same elements and done their homework. it gives them an economic advantage with both manufacturing and raw mining/refining done in the same place. most western countries in the same position would do the same as would any corporate entity in the western hemisphere. they can export the finished products at a huge markup compared to what they would get for raw minerals.
You're not an Aussie are you. Down here there are three types of production, shoot it, shear it, and dig it up.
BTW TFA is bullshit. Neodymium is not rare, it accounts for 38mg/kg of the Earths crust.
And I'm thinking... wind turbines, WTF? Wind power is fundamentally old technology; why is the new supposedly-greener generation dependent on stuff the old generation wasn't??
Yes, I keep hearing this claim lately and my first reaction was the same as yours, surely non-green electrical generators and motors require good magnets?
Also TFA is complete bullshit, China cannot corner the Neodymium market:- "The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Australia; and reserves of neodymium are estimated at about 8 million tonnes. Although it belongs to "rare earth metals," neodymium is not rare at all - its abundance in the Earth crust is about 38 mg/kg,, which is the second among rare-earth elements after cerium. The world production of neodymium is about 7,000 tonnes per year."
"Seriously, why not just invest some time learning how to properly use the keyboard? People are always looking for something, like voice to text, that will allow them to be as proficient as their peers without having to learn to type."
One problem, how do I type the command that instructs my bionic arms to type commands.
"But Windows developers having admin rights while developing causes hell when deploying such code."
No that happens because people fail to test the code on an SOE box. It's like writting a single code base for multiple O/S's, if you only test on the same O/S the code was developed on then your asking for trouble.
"Those who choose to never risk offending anyone are perhaps the most intellectually dishonest among us."
All fine and good, except the OP does not contain anything more intellectual than a bunch of bald assertions wrapped in the emotions of a xenophobe. In other words, you should have modded the GP informative, the OP is a well formed troll.
"If you are willing to run an experiment enough times, you will eventually get data to support your assertions."
Yes, I belive Edison tried over 5000 different hand made bulb/filiment combinations before he found one that supported his assertion.
Thowing out data is not about proving pet theories, it's about admitting you cocked up the experiment.
eg: Prof Sumner Miller never edited out failed demonstrations from his TV show, nor did he claim the failed demo proved accepted theories of physics were wrong, rather he would simply exclaim - "Experiments never fail, it is I who have failed to set the right conditions for nature to cooperate" and then try again.
AIUI, precise timekeeping is only needed for longitude. Can't you find your latitude and heading by looking at the north star? (The elevation of the north star above the horizon is equal to your latitude.)
Dude, you said it yourself. You are good developer trying to do a mangers job. Due to the way you blame eveyone else in your post, I just came to the obvious conclusion that you're failing at your primary job wich is to clear away the bullshit so that your team can get on with it. However, if you haven't built a team you're in trouble.
Don't feel bad about it, exceptional managers are much rarer than exception devs, I was an unexceptional boss in the 90's and found the "big picture" wasn't worth the aggravation and the extra hours meant that on an hourly rate the pay wasn't any better than a lead developer.
$150 sounds a little steep but assuming 4 people to a house, $6.2T is about one geek squad house call to every house on the planet every 2 weeks for a year. In other words TFA is an economist speaking about money which does not always correlate with how money speaks in the real world.
"Certainly some of that $6.2T is the cost of learning."
Most of it is not lost money, it's lost time. Sure time is money but the hourly rate differs greatly depending on all sorts of things. $6.2 trillion/year means that every man woman and child on the planet is somehow losing $1K/yr due to software problems. For half the planet that is more than their annual income. I don't think that's a reasonable assesment for anyone except an economist.
However I think you hit the nail on the head, it's pointless to talk about how much is lost unless you can prevent a reccurence with something better and to have something better you first need to discover the problems with what exists.
"I'm still working to undue to colossal mess of my last ex-software lead that I ended up kicking off the program because he fundamentally didn't know what he was doing...[snip]....The sheer arrogance of some software developers is astounding."
If I need to run a standard test then the customer does it and sends me the results. But as I stated I'm talking about large corporate customers, they normally have their own people check for file system problems long before they go looking for outside help.
The situation you are talking about is more like a small bussiness that has nobody else to turn to. Stock exchanges, banks, etc will not give you (or redhat) the passwords to their servers no matter how critical the problem is to their business. The one exception to this is if you are doing a pilot project using their equipment, in such a case you will be given a background check and asked to sign a small mountain of non-disclosure documents.
"It's not up to the provider to figure out a 'secure' way to help you quickly, thats your job."
Exactly, Redhat (or any other major provider) will happily look at a test bed that recreates my customers problem and my customer will happily provide any information I need to build that test bed my customer won't give me unfettered access to their production machines and I wouldn't give them access to mine.
As I said in my OP this kind of support is expensive.
Sorry but you are conflating proof with observation and extrapolation. Your prediction that no rat can survive is based on very strong evidence but it's not proof. Nature does not have to obey logic, you cannot under any circumstances predict the future with 100% certainty. Proof is found in axiomatic systems such as maths, it is not found in science.
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As an Aussie I don't give a rat's arse if the pot or the kettle buys our special rocks.
Yes the big picture is the same but I think the difference between a real mob and an internet mob is that on the net the least bright member is visible to all, also there's nowhere to physically lynch people from.
Oh and I found the "fuck the revolution" rant I was talking about. The rant starts at around 3:45 but the whole clip is worth watching. If anyone doubts the balls it took to make that speech then I would similarly doubt they are old enough to remeber the IRA in the 70's & 80's.
"Bono is proof positive that it's easy to be a renowned global humanitarian when you are richer than God. I wonder how much attention he'd have paid to world hunger, charity, global climate change, etc etc if he hadn't been lucky enough to meet Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and he'd ended up as an Irish bricklayer playing weekends in a Duran Duran cover band."
If it's easy then why don't more than a handfull of the mega rich do it? - Is it the same reason that only a handfull of Irish bricklayers would devote that much effort to charity?
Well said, recognising someone's good work does not mean you have to agree with everything they say, in fact you don't even have to like them personally. I don't agree with tracking files either but I do agree with him on a lot of other infinitely more important issues.
There were very few Irishman with the balls to publicly denounce the IRA during the 80's. At a concert in Boston, he went into a rant about "irishmen who hadn't been home in 20yrs enthusiatically asking about the revolution" and ended the rant with "fuck the revolution".
Boston was the main source of funds for the IRA and he was speaking directly to their sponsors, naturally the IRA responded with real death threats as opposed to the OP who mearly wishes him dead for his opinion on file tracking.
Speaking of Band/live aid, I think the best refutation of the OP's attitude is the skeletal baby sitting in the dust who's photo was used in the first campaign was on stage as a healthy 21yo woman at the second concert.
"While that statement is true, you are distracting from the real issue. China is indeed striving to corner strategic mineral markets, and it's not "news"."
I'm an Aussie, the reason Aussie's have a high standard of living is that everyone comes here to dig stuff up. Our special rocks are so cheap that during the Thatcher years we literally sent coal to Newcastle in the UK.
You may have heard of our own little steel company, BHP Billiton? The only thing that's changed in the last 30yrs is it used to be the US & UK trying to lock in continuity of supply but nowadays it's China and the rest of SE Asia.
Humans have an exceptional theory of mind and I like to use mine. Looking at something from a different (even an inanimate) POV is what stands us apart from the animals. If you have a weak theory of mind you ought to get it checked, it could be a sign of autisim.
Also your ancestors worshiped animals as gods and I suspect they would be sorry to hear about the death of your soul.
Perhaps reactions like yours is what the obvious bullshit in the article is trying to induce, either that or someone has a warehouse full of the stuff and is trying to pump the price.
They have fought to secure those same elements and done their homework. it gives them an economic advantage with both manufacturing and raw mining/refining done in the same place. most western countries in the same position would do the same as would any corporate entity in the western hemisphere. they can export the finished products at a huge markup compared to what they would get for raw minerals.
You're not an Aussie are you. Down here there are three types of production, shoot it, shear it, and dig it up.
BTW TFA is bullshit. Neodymium is not rare, it accounts for 38mg/kg of the Earths crust.
And I'm thinking... wind turbines, WTF? Wind power is fundamentally old technology; why is the new supposedly-greener generation dependent on stuff the old generation wasn't??
Yes, I keep hearing this claim lately and my first reaction was the same as yours, surely non-green electrical generators and motors require good magnets?
Also TFA is complete bullshit, China cannot corner the Neodymium market:- "The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Australia; and reserves of neodymium are estimated at about 8 million tonnes. Although it belongs to "rare earth metals," neodymium is not rare at all - its abundance in the Earth crust is about 38 mg/kg,, which is the second among rare-earth elements after cerium. The world production of neodymium is about 7,000 tonnes per year."
What the Chernobyl exclusion zone demonstrates is that from the animals POV, humans are worse than a nuclear disaster.
"Seriously, why not just invest some time learning how to properly use the keyboard? People are always looking for something, like voice to text, that will allow them to be as proficient as their peers without having to learn to type."
One problem, how do I type the command that instructs my bionic arms to type commands.
"But Windows developers having admin rights while developing causes hell when deploying such code."
No that happens because people fail to test the code on an SOE box. It's like writting a single code base for multiple O/S's, if you only test on the same O/S the code was developed on then your asking for trouble.
"Those who choose to never risk offending anyone are perhaps the most intellectually dishonest among us."
All fine and good, except the OP does not contain anything more intellectual than a bunch of bald assertions wrapped in the emotions of a xenophobe. In other words, you should have modded the GP informative, the OP is a well formed troll.
"If you are willing to run an experiment enough times, you will eventually get data to support your assertions."
Yes, I belive Edison tried over 5000 different hand made bulb/filiment combinations before he found one that supported his assertion.
Thowing out data is not about proving pet theories, it's about admitting you cocked up the experiment. eg: Prof Sumner Miller never edited out failed demonstrations from his TV show, nor did he claim the failed demo proved accepted theories of physics were wrong, rather he would simply exclaim - "Experiments never fail, it is I who have failed to set the right conditions for nature to cooperate" and then try again.
AIUI, precise timekeeping is only needed for longitude. Can't you find your latitude and heading by looking at the north star? (The elevation of the north star above the horizon is equal to your latitude.)
+/- 23 degrees, depending on the time of year.
Our tool making ancestors go back 2-3My, none of them had zinc cream.
Dude, you said it yourself. You are good developer trying to do a mangers job. Due to the way you blame eveyone else in your post, I just came to the obvious conclusion that you're failing at your primary job wich is to clear away the bullshit so that your team can get on with it. However, if you haven't built a team you're in trouble.
Don't feel bad about it, exceptional managers are much rarer than exception devs, I was an unexceptional boss in the 90's and found the "big picture" wasn't worth the aggravation and the extra hours meant that on an hourly rate the pay wasn't any better than a lead developer.
$150 sounds a little steep but assuming 4 people to a house, $6.2T is about one geek squad house call to every house on the planet every 2 weeks for a year. In other words TFA is an economist speaking about money which does not always correlate with how money speaks in the real world.
"Certainly some of that $6.2T is the cost of learning."
Most of it is not lost money, it's lost time. Sure time is money but the hourly rate differs greatly depending on all sorts of things. $6.2 trillion/year means that every man woman and child on the planet is somehow losing $1K/yr due to software problems. For half the planet that is more than their annual income. I don't think that's a reasonable assesment for anyone except an economist.
However I think you hit the nail on the head, it's pointless to talk about how much is lost unless you can prevent a reccurence with something better and to have something better you first need to discover the problems with what exists.
"I'm still working to undue to colossal mess of my last ex-software lead that I ended up kicking off the program because he fundamentally didn't know what he was doing...[snip]....The sheer arrogance of some software developers is astounding."
Oh the irony....
"So, in 20 years you've never had to run fsck?"
If I need to run a standard test then the customer does it and sends me the results. But as I stated I'm talking about large corporate customers, they normally have their own people check for file system problems long before they go looking for outside help.
The situation you are talking about is more like a small bussiness that has nobody else to turn to. Stock exchanges, banks, etc will not give you (or redhat) the passwords to their servers no matter how critical the problem is to their business. The one exception to this is if you are doing a pilot project using their equipment, in such a case you will be given a background check and asked to sign a small mountain of non-disclosure documents.
"It's not up to the provider to figure out a 'secure' way to help you quickly, thats your job."
Exactly, Redhat (or any other major provider) will happily look at a test bed that recreates my customers problem and my customer will happily provide any information I need to build that test bed my customer won't give me unfettered access to their production machines and I wouldn't give them access to mine.
As I said in my OP this kind of support is expensive.
Of course but try getting into a state prison without going thru the gate and see what happens.
"However, your next girlfriend will be 70% uglier than otherwise would have been. That's the price one pays for using quantum backup devices."
Yes, but it's raining dohnuts.
Sorry but you are conflating proof with observation and extrapolation. Your prediction that no rat can survive is based on very strong evidence but it's not proof. Nature does not have to obey logic, you cannot under any circumstances predict the future with 100% certainty. Proof is found in axiomatic systems such as maths, it is not found in science.
Of course imperfect does not mean useless.
The Berlin wall was there to seperate people, as are all walls.