Well, I thought it couldn't be repeated enough. But seeing as how that got modded funny, it appears that it loses its meaning upon repetition, but appreciates in humor. But at some point of repetition it will stop being funny. But what will it become then? Only one way to find out....
I have to point it out: dumb people do not DESERVE to be taken advantage of by smart people. Social Darwinism is an inherently fascist, evil, and anti-social philosophy that destroys societies and people's lives. Don't subscribe to it. Society works because of trust, and social Darwinism destroys that trust.
I have to point it out: dumb people do not DESERVE to be taken advantage of by smart people. Social Darwinism is an inherently fascist, evil, and anti-social philosophy that destroys societies and people's lives. Don't subscribe to it. Society works because of trust, and social Darwinism destroys that trust.
Quoted because it deserved to be posted three times.
We're arguing in generalities, so its impossible to say who is more correct or incorrect. This being a tech website, there are tons of techs screaming about about their injustices they've witnessed. Given the recent failings of large financial institutions, It is perhaps a valid argument. Most systems administrators would not risk their networks in a similar way that the management risked their business through its investment in sub prime mortgages. But again they aren't the same thing. I think they could both be more affective at their own jobs if they understood the generalities of the other. In any non trivial problem set, you will find common elements. Its great working at a small company where I can see how both parts interact. Its difficult to explain each side to the other side sometimes. The delusions on both ides are
No, that's just it. A lot of It staff think that they know how the business side should be run better than the business side, because they can install gentoo from stage 1. They often don't appreciate that its often a completely different skill set.
Note to application designers: just because you can do it "real life", doesn't mean you need to be able to do it on the computer. Please please please don't invent a "digital" Polaroid where I have to 'shake' the images with my mouse to have them show up on my screen...
No, that would be ridiculous. Instead, you have to move your photos to the digital darkroom and run them through carefully mixed solutions to fix the image, hanging them up on a clothesline under the glare of a red light.
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Or conversely, an IT department that believes it is responsible for a greater part of the companies success than it really is. Most IT folks don't understand how business works. Sales, marketing, accounting, IT and management are all vital parts of a businesses life. They all have to function together to help a business grow or even stay afloat. Often IT derides the other parts because it doesn't understand their contribution, and measures them by their technical skills. Although, the same can happen of any of the other departments measuring another by its own metric. The greatest salesman, I ever met, who could sell ice to Inuits, and sand to Saharan nomads, couldn't figure out how to copy files to a floppy disk, jump drive, or any other form of removable media.
My understanding is that the majority of games are already building off of an existing engine, rather than the raw api frameworks. I would guess that computer graphics programming students would actually program in the native language, learning how to implement efficient graphics algorithms. Really creating a simple ( albeit insufficient) software 3d graphics engine isn't that difficult.
I think he was implying that it would be rolled up for most games in their engine. So developers would pay a licensing fee for the engine which sort of defined an api for the developers to use.
Read the story. They believe that it would have to retail for more than the Prius, and that they wouldn't the 300K per year to make the investment in converting its north American plants to diesel engine tech. Combined with the fact that they are hemorrhaging money, they are simply too afraid of making the investment. That might just be a way of rephrasing the first point you made about it outselling the other cars, in another way. But your tin foil hat, just makes you look stupid;)
We could make a 45 mpg gas burning only car today and it would be wildly popular. It would look a lot like the geo metro and have a top speed of 55, with a single passenger weighing less than 150 lbs. I think the main reasons why we don't are our previous infatuation with large suv's combined with the lead time needed to build a car that people now want. The story did say that a gas burning version would be available in the united states. Lets see how well that turns out.
Is there anything that you would want to use chrome for? I think firefox ( or iceweasel if you are so inclined) does, or has plugins that do everything you listed. So someone who wants those features could pay some company to modify Chrome, or they could just download a working version for free. Anyone want to take any guesses as to which is more likely to happen?
Investors are always saying stupid things like " this could help them compete with Walmart which has its own digital music service". Is walmart's digital music service good? Is is profitable? Does it do anything now, or will it ever, to contribute to the companies bottom line in any way what-so-ever?
Most of the time, just like this time, its just ridiculous.
Dude, don't give him the time of day. If he thinks Psychics are real, you can not convince him otherwise though a direct approach. You have to accept his reality and slowly, subtly twist it with the same absurd reasoning into something so ludicrous that he can longer live in it. Facts, evidence won't work. Just crazy gobledegook.
If you really want to use a system that doesn't have a bunch of idiots using it, and aren't dumbing it down. Why not switch your self to something cooler like Plan 9, or GNU HURD? No idiots using those. Every one of the developers is focusing on improving the products. No one is trying to explain basic usage or convert them to the platforms, and I don't think anyone will try to hold your hand.
I am really confused by your post. Are you suggesting, a particular implementation for the scientific phenomenon? Or do you think that a refrigerator is some how exploits different laws of physics than an air conditioner ( fyi, it doesn't)?
So all I have to do to be "safe" is to change the Mac address the router spits out? Ok. Not that there was any real risk to begin with. As the summary says there would have to be some malware present that had access to my internal network to send the mac to then look it up. Plus, I don't have the same router I did a year ago. Plus, they'd have to figure out which house I live in. Plus, I think spam with my address wouldn't phase me.
I do think it could be done, I also think it would be very difficult in practice. I guess barring a situation where some one early on warped the minds of all compiler and hardware designers to include maliciousness in compiler generation, we are mostly safe and the Double diverse trick will work. But there is a part of me that realizes I can never be 100% sure of that, with out learning all of the Compiler and Chip design magic. Plus wasn't it Richie that came up with this? Probably, made it public so we wouldn't be suspicious of his Unix code.
Paranoia is so easy to fall for, the only way to not succumb is to be paranoid about paranoia.
Yeah, I think thats because its not a convincing counter argument. You have to have a trusted computer to start with. How the heck do you get that? And if you had that, what's the point? Just always pull a magical trusted computer out of the sky.
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I, for one, think the laws should be applied equally to all parties regardless of their insane beliefs.
My post speeled it incorrectly to continue the parodee of programing forum posts, not in the ultrahip reference to this guy
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Quoted because it deserved to be posted three times.
Semi-Column? I don't know if anyone should be taking the advice of a moran that doesn't know how to spell 'semicolon'.
We're arguing in generalities, so its impossible to say who is more correct or incorrect. This being a tech website, there are tons of techs screaming about about their injustices they've witnessed. Given the recent failings of large financial institutions, It is perhaps a valid argument. Most systems administrators would not risk their networks in a similar way that the management risked their business through its investment in sub prime mortgages. But again they aren't the same thing. I think they could both be more affective at their own jobs if they understood the generalities of the other. In any non trivial problem set, you will find common elements. Its great working at a small company where I can see how both parts interact. Its difficult to explain each side to the other side sometimes. The delusions on both ides are
No, that's just it. A lot of It staff think that they know how the business side should be run better than the business side, because they can install gentoo from stage 1. They often don't appreciate that its often a completely different skill set.
No, that would be ridiculous. Instead, you have to move your photos to the digital darkroom and run them through carefully mixed solutions to fix the image, hanging them up on a clothesline under the glare of a red light.
double total_profit = profit_per_item * number_of_items_sold;
Or conversely, an IT department that believes it is responsible for a greater part of the companies success than it really is. Most IT folks don't understand how business works. Sales, marketing, accounting, IT and management are all vital parts of a businesses life. They all have to function together to help a business grow or even stay afloat. Often IT derides the other parts because it doesn't understand their contribution, and measures them by their technical skills. Although, the same can happen of any of the other departments measuring another by its own metric. The greatest salesman, I ever met, who could sell ice to Inuits, and sand to Saharan nomads, couldn't figure out how to copy files to a floppy disk, jump drive, or any other form of removable media.
My understanding is that the majority of games are already building off of an existing engine, rather than the raw api frameworks. I would guess that computer graphics programming students would actually program in the native language, learning how to implement efficient graphics algorithms. Really creating a simple ( albeit insufficient) software 3d graphics engine isn't that difficult.
I think he was implying that it would be rolled up for most games in their engine. So developers would pay a licensing fee for the engine which sort of defined an api for the developers to use.
I was assuming a price point near 20k, and a vehicle that would pass safety standards. But that's a very important fact that I neglected to mention.
Read the story. They believe that it would have to retail for more than the Prius, and that they wouldn't the 300K per year to make the investment in converting its north American plants to diesel engine tech. Combined with the fact that they are hemorrhaging money, they are simply too afraid of making the investment. That might just be a way of rephrasing the first point you made about it outselling the other cars, in another way. But your tin foil hat, just makes you look stupid ;)
We could make a 45 mpg gas burning only car today and it would be wildly popular. It would look a lot like the geo metro and have a top speed of 55, with a single passenger weighing less than 150 lbs. I think the main reasons why we don't are our previous infatuation with large suv's combined with the lead time needed to build a car that people now want. The story did say that a gas burning version would be available in the united states. Lets see how well that turns out.
Is there anything that you would want to use chrome for? I think firefox ( or iceweasel if you are so inclined) does, or has plugins that do everything you listed. So someone who wants those features could pay some company to modify Chrome, or they could just download a working version for free. Anyone want to take any guesses as to which is more likely to happen?
We don't have to do anything. This isn't lipstick on a pig, its a plan that will work when pigs fly.
Investors are always saying stupid things like " this could help them compete with Walmart which has its own digital music service". Is walmart's digital music service good? Is is profitable? Does it do anything now, or will it ever, to contribute to the companies bottom line in any way what-so-ever?
Most of the time, just like this time, its just ridiculous.
Dude, don't give him the time of day. If he thinks Psychics are real, you can not convince him otherwise though a direct approach. You have to accept his reality and slowly, subtly twist it with the same absurd reasoning into something so ludicrous that he can longer live in it. Facts, evidence won't work. Just crazy gobledegook.
If you really want to use a system that doesn't have a bunch of idiots using it, and aren't dumbing it down. Why not switch your self to something cooler like Plan 9, or GNU HURD? No idiots using those. Every one of the developers is focusing on improving the products. No one is trying to explain basic usage or convert them to the platforms, and I don't think anyone will try to hold your hand.
I'd be very wary of any large Mountain Dew Delivery Trucks appearing at the gates, if I were Cern.
Or wine trucks, Or what ever European Nerds drink. Does anyone know?
I am really confused by your post. Are you suggesting, a particular implementation for the scientific phenomenon? Or do you think that a refrigerator is some how exploits different laws of physics than an air conditioner ( fyi, it doesn't)?
So all I have to do to be "safe" is to change the Mac address the router spits out? Ok. Not that there was any real risk to begin with. As the summary says there would have to be some malware present that had access to my internal network to send the mac to then look it up. Plus, I don't have the same router I did a year ago. Plus, they'd have to figure out which house I live in. Plus, I think spam with my address wouldn't phase me.
I do think it could be done, I also think it would be very difficult in practice. I guess barring a situation where some one early on warped the minds of all compiler and hardware designers to include maliciousness in compiler generation, we are mostly safe and the Double diverse trick will work. But there is a part of me that realizes I can never be 100% sure of that, with out learning all of the Compiler and Chip design magic. Plus wasn't it Richie that came up with this? Probably, made it public so we wouldn't be suspicious of his Unix code.
Paranoia is so easy to fall for, the only way to not succumb is to be paranoid about paranoia.
Yeah, I think thats because its not a convincing counter argument. You have to have a trusted computer to start with. How the heck do you get that? And if you had that, what's the point? Just always pull a magical trusted computer out of the sky.