Because if this ever started to get traction, the price of those coal mining companies would start to go up, just like virtually every other company that gets targeted by a hostile takeover. Even if they get enough to cover that, the boards of these companies could conceivably use a poison pill and issue discount options to everyone else to dilute the bidder's interest.
Which Samsung smartphone comes with 8GB preloaded on it? Mine (Note 2) is sitting at about 8GB of 16GB free and there's... at least much stuff as you would expect on it from a heavy user who's had it for a year. I have an SD card in it, but that went in to the phone full (music and books I've schlepped on various smartphones for 5 years now).
I agree that the uninstallable shovelware sucks though, regardless of how much space it occupies.
If you use your own running on your network you fix both problems, since the CDN's DNS server (almost certainly an anycast IP and likely close to you as well) will get your IP address when the DNS makes the nearest host choice.
QFA has mitigated this problem for quite some time now. Simplistically, an index is built identifying files and their relative positions on the tape. The tape is loaded and then fast forwarded to that location to restore it. I had a 4-tape capacity "mini-library" nearly 15 years ago that could do this. A small single file could be restored in a minute or two.
Yes, you are surrounded by good from all over the globe. How about that foreign cane sugar? That's an example. Oh, and how about you sell your labor in a different country tomorrow? You'll need a passport, a work visa, or whatever else the country you want to work in will require. Some things cross borders easy, and some don't. That is the very definition of selective.
So, my personal belief that something is untrue without regard to evidence for or against is not unscientific, but expecting data is dogmatic and therefore for religions? Okay, then...
As long as questioning the settled science remains "Here's some interesting data that doesn't seem to fit the models. What do you make of this?" and not "The models violate my personal view of the universe and must be untrue." you are absolutely right.
What I hate is companies who focus on people looking at porn. Why is watching 4 minutes of porn worse then 4 hours of BBC news? One giggled perhaps a bit and the other did not work for half a day. To me the second is way worse.
I don't know where you are, but in the US, that can be boiled down to 3 words: sexual harassment lawsuit. Way more damaging than someone just working half time.
You sure he wasn't using in jail? My brother-in-law has been in prison for 20+ years and says that getting drugs in prison isn't a particularly hard thing to do.
Oh, God, spare me the you ain't a ham until you can do 20 WPM code holier-than-thou attitude. That's the attitude that's going to kill amateur radio, and why at age 46 I'm considered a young man by most hams. I got a no-code license and had no interest in learning Morse until I got on the HF bands and got to experience firsthand WHY it was useful. I'm still not particularly good at it, but I'm learning and hope to be really good at it one day. But if I had to learn code, I'd probably have still said "to hell with it."
The thing is, I really like it here. I like Seattle too, but I'm a desert person at heart. The problem is we have a seriously fucked up state legislature that are a bunch of complete whack jobs. I don't want the sensible people to move away; I want more of them here so we can finally push these nutters to the fringe where they belong. But I will tell you: the balance is shifting in this state. I think you may find in 2016 that AZ will be in play for the presidential election instead of assuming to be reliably Republican. If not 2016, definitely by 2020. It wasn't even that long ago we had a Democrat as a governor who was doing a decently good job (Thanks, Obama!). Brewer sucks, but she's not going to sign something that will kill more than 2,000 jobs. Even most conservatives here are going "WTH?" at this point, so it won't be long before the pendulum takes its abrupt turn.
I'm glad your coworker and his buds are happy and all, but it's really not as bad here as the media makes it to be. Me, I'll be sticking, and hoping I can help keep things balanced.
I think they must have fucked up Sync at some point because I hear this from people with newer Fords but I had a 2010 Fusion Hybrid for two years and Sync worked pretty much perfectly in that thing.
This is called "challenging the assumptions." You, he, (and I for that matter) agree that it's not obvious why he's unable to use it. If the article poster is unaware that LastPass or 1password can work completely offline, then perhaps that information would change why they're ruled out. He might have another reason, but since it's not as obvious to us as it is to him, it's more than fair to raise it, especially when you're getting the advice for free.
Personally, I only tolerate not being able to question assumptions when I'm getting paid to do it, and even barely at that.:-)
My last job we had a code monkey who was supposed to be some sort of PHP "rock star". He managed to write a program that made it to production that could download any file on the filesystem. He then improved it so that it could delete any file on the filesystem. Because of the decision of another web "rock star", this web server ran as root. The reaction from management? "eh. We get our shiny new data!" I decided then and there that if I wanted to be in a band, I want to work with rock stars. Otherwise, I'd prefer to work with actual engineers. I left that place and my stress levels dropped quite a bit, despite having an intrinsically harder job now.
That might have been true in the "peace officer" era, where the goal was the peaceful and safe continuation of society, where the police were partnered with their community to keep it safe. But it is not true in the "law enforcement" era, where the goal is not to keep the peace, but to catch you doing wrong to extract revenue. This is why police and the communities they operate in start to view each other in an adversarial role, to the point where some police forces are almost indistinguishable from a paramilitary force.
I have thought that some kind of third legislative branch, whose only power was to rescind laws older than 2 or 3 years, would be a useful check and balance on the current system, which seems only capable of expanding the size of the law. This branch too, would probably need some checks and balances.
Not long, as would the rest of the world. A global war would like that would stop all trade in and out of the US, and that would wreck the global economy for quite a while.
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Because if this ever started to get traction, the price of those coal mining companies would start to go up, just like virtually every other company that gets targeted by a hostile takeover. Even if they get enough to cover that, the boards of these companies could conceivably use a poison pill and issue discount options to everyone else to dilute the bidder's interest.
Which Samsung smartphone comes with 8GB preloaded on it? Mine (Note 2) is sitting at about 8GB of 16GB free and there's... at least much stuff as you would expect on it from a heavy user who's had it for a year. I have an SD card in it, but that went in to the phone full (music and books I've schlepped on various smartphones for 5 years now).
I agree that the uninstallable shovelware sucks though, regardless of how much space it occupies.
If you use your own running on your network you fix both problems, since the CDN's DNS server (almost certainly an anycast IP and likely close to you as well) will get your IP address when the DNS makes the nearest host choice.
Ah, the party line. I had almost forgotten about them.
QFA has mitigated this problem for quite some time now. Simplistically, an index is built identifying files and their relative positions on the tape. The tape is loaded and then fast forwarded to that location to restore it. I had a 4-tape capacity "mini-library" nearly 15 years ago that could do this. A small single file could be restored in a minute or two.
Nuñez!.
Yes, you are surrounded by good from all over the globe. How about that foreign cane sugar? That's an example. Oh, and how about you sell your labor in a different country tomorrow? You'll need a passport, a work visa, or whatever else the country you want to work in will require. Some things cross borders easy, and some don't. That is the very definition of selective.
So, my personal belief that something is untrue without regard to evidence for or against is not unscientific, but expecting data is dogmatic and therefore for religions? Okay, then...
As long as questioning the settled science remains "Here's some interesting data that doesn't seem to fit the models. What do you make of this?" and not "The models violate my personal view of the universe and must be untrue." you are absolutely right.
If I could hatch and execute a plan like this, you can bet that I would set my sights on a prize a little bigger than a few 400 dollar iPads.
I don't know where you are, but in the US, that can be boiled down to 3 words: sexual harassment lawsuit. Way more damaging than someone just working half time.
You sure he wasn't using in jail? My brother-in-law has been in prison for 20+ years and says that getting drugs in prison isn't a particularly hard thing to do.
Oh, God, spare me the you ain't a ham until you can do 20 WPM code holier-than-thou attitude. That's the attitude that's going to kill amateur radio, and why at age 46 I'm considered a young man by most hams. I got a no-code license and had no interest in learning Morse until I got on the HF bands and got to experience firsthand WHY it was useful. I'm still not particularly good at it, but I'm learning and hope to be really good at it one day. But if I had to learn code, I'd probably have still said "to hell with it."
Not all of us, or even most of us, thankyouverymuch.
The thing is, I really like it here. I like Seattle too, but I'm a desert person at heart. The problem is we have a seriously fucked up state legislature that are a bunch of complete whack jobs. I don't want the sensible people to move away; I want more of them here so we can finally push these nutters to the fringe where they belong. But I will tell you: the balance is shifting in this state. I think you may find in 2016 that AZ will be in play for the presidential election instead of assuming to be reliably Republican. If not 2016, definitely by 2020. It wasn't even that long ago we had a Democrat as a governor who was doing a decently good job (Thanks, Obama!). Brewer sucks, but she's not going to sign something that will kill more than 2,000 jobs. Even most conservatives here are going "WTH?" at this point, so it won't be long before the pendulum takes its abrupt turn.
I'm glad your coworker and his buds are happy and all, but it's really not as bad here as the media makes it to be. Me, I'll be sticking, and hoping I can help keep things balanced.
I think they must have fucked up Sync at some point because I hear this from people with newer Fords but I had a 2010 Fusion Hybrid for two years and Sync worked pretty much perfectly in that thing.
You've never managed a network, have you?
This is called "challenging the assumptions." You, he, (and I for that matter) agree that it's not obvious why he's unable to use it. If the article poster is unaware that LastPass or 1password can work completely offline, then perhaps that information would change why they're ruled out. He might have another reason, but since it's not as obvious to us as it is to him, it's more than fair to raise it, especially when you're getting the advice for free.
Personally, I only tolerate not being able to question assumptions when I'm getting paid to do it, and even barely at that. :-)
My last job we had a code monkey who was supposed to be some sort of PHP "rock star". He managed to write a program that made it to production that could download any file on the filesystem. He then improved it so that it could delete any file on the filesystem. Because of the decision of another web "rock star", this web server ran as root. The reaction from management? "eh. We get our shiny new data!" I decided then and there that if I wanted to be in a band, I want to work with rock stars. Otherwise, I'd prefer to work with actual engineers. I left that place and my stress levels dropped quite a bit, despite having an intrinsically harder job now.
That's why I use tin cans and string.
An English language website, hosted in the US, owned by a US company, administered and run by US employees is US focused? It's shocking, I tell you.
The medium is different, but the sentiment is the same: By God I KNOW what this network is for, and you can't have it.
That might have been true in the "peace officer" era, where the goal was the peaceful and safe continuation of society, where the police were partnered with their community to keep it safe. But it is not true in the "law enforcement" era, where the goal is not to keep the peace, but to catch you doing wrong to extract revenue. This is why police and the communities they operate in start to view each other in an adversarial role, to the point where some police forces are almost indistinguishable from a paramilitary force.
I have thought that some kind of third legislative branch, whose only power was to rescind laws older than 2 or 3 years, would be a useful check and balance on the current system, which seems only capable of expanding the size of the law. This branch too, would probably need some checks and balances.
Not long, as would the rest of the world. A global war would like that would stop all trade in and out of the US, and that would wreck the global economy for quite a while.