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Or care if your mom can get her email with her grandkid's pix. Oh, wait... you've (thankfully) probably never reproduced. The internet is the "killer app" that has gotten most people on computers. A computer is just an internet access device for most people. They're useful without the Internet, but nowhere near as much.
And when it comes time to renew your contract, they'll just refuse to do so, and your only option will be to get one of these tiered access programs. Contracts work both ways.
Ok. The new official religion of the US is Islam. And all women are not to be seen in public without a male family escort. And we should give in to all demands of North Korea. Oh, and let Iran keep enriching nuclear fuel to weapons-grade levels.
My point is that some people are just pissed at us existing, and that we have so much and they have so little, or that we have different cultures, or whatever. Even if we do help them, they have no problem biting the hand that feeds them. I have no problem with trying to protect ourselves. There will always be conflict as long as there is religion that advocates destruction, or a way to interpret your religion so it advocates that, and if you aren't prepared to defend yourself if attacked, you're prepared to lose.
I'd say that's exactly what the police should be doing, though. Taking pictures of a bridge could theoretically be something a terrorist would do. There's the possibility of it being a safety threat. So police have the job of making sure that's not it. But that doesn't mean they should just say "You can't do that!", because you can. Just like someone weaving on the road. They may be drunk, or they may have lost something on the floor and were trying to retrieve it. But it's the police's job to determine the situation and go from there.
I can't even remember what I had for lunch today, and you expect me to care and know who took a piss break in the middle of some stupid show that was on for background noise while I was semi-napping?
The service paid for is transporting the person that is on the ticket to the destination they set, if you really want to get nit-picky. If you can't prove you're you, why should they transport you? You didn't buy a ticket, you bought passage. Subtle but important difference. /devil's advocate
And they've proven that they aren't allowing competitors to interoperate, so they've behaved badly. And since they are a monopoly that's behaving badly, they have a different set of rules that they have to play by that a normal company doesn't, because their bad behavior affects people in a totally different manner. There's a reason there are anti-trust laws.
And people have been sued for having a plot similar to someone else's. It's not an excuse, it's reality.
And, re-read what I said. I'm not excusing anything. I'm saying that unless people are doing it for free, as soon as it starts gaining attention Microsoft will buy your product (or one like that) and run other people out of the market, or at least try to leverage their monopoly so that happens. Witness: Anti-Spyware, Internet Explorer, IIS, Media Player, DirectX.
"Rather than worry about "opening up Windows, or decoupling IE from Windows" isn't it time that people start innovating and competing with Microsoft?"
Oh, they do though. And then Microsoft buys them and buries or screws up the product and ships it. Everyone has their price. Microsoft can afford most of them.
No. They're monopolists, in the US and elsewhere. That means they have different rules to play by. Their customers have nowhere else to turn if MS decides to change comm protocols. They have to upgrade or lose communication with those who do upgrade. That's why the EU is pushing for this... they don't want to be bent over the barrel by any corporation. That's a bad place for anyone to be. Hence, the EU doing this. They actually care about their citizens.
Man, and here I was thinking I'd get through the morning without my daily dose of racism. Thanks, man!
btw, most people with PhD's in "computerology" can find jobs. They just want to be paid for having actual skill, versus being paid chicken feed like a code-monkey "proud indian programmer".
Sorry, responding to a troll I know. I'm bored today.
"I've always hated dark matter."
And emotion has anything to do with science? I understand your distaste for it, but you know, people hated that the earth wasn't flat, that the clouds didn't really obscure the angels, that the earth really is more than 6,000 some years old (even today you get arguments against that), etc., etc. That doesn't mean it's not real. I'm going to wait until the evidence comes in before I make a decision.
Paper counts take lots of time. People like the speed and options that computer processing allows. And it's not an argument that EVERYONE should know the whole process inside and out. They should be ABLE to know it. There are a number of people who can't read who trust that voting works. I don't see why they wouldn't trust their neighborhood computer guy who decided to actually look at the code a bit.
And for the "illegitimate president thing". Did you know most of the argument was with the hanging chads, and how the paper ballots themselves were counted? Nothing whatsoever to do with the computers.
And how many people do you think it would take to make an effective compiler for the MIPS R10000? Give ya a hint, there still hasn't been one made. Apple code still required tons of hand-tweaking to run acceptably. On x86, the hard work is on the processor. On RISC, it's in the compiler. And since languages and so on change so much faster than a CPU instruction set, I'd much rather have it the way x86 does it than the way a RISC chip does it. It took fewer people to make the chip because it's simpler and stupider and assumes smart software. And we all know how well any software is made.
Except that if a small town is just like a big city, only smaller, people will have no reason to live there. I'm pretty sure that was his point. Would you want to move to a small town if everything cost the same, and taxes were high, but they still paid you less?
Math is exact and descriptive. Human actions are inexact and reactionary. I'm not saying that it's not amazing what your kid does. But everyone does it. And it's because of the way our brains work. And it's not math. It's an effect of how our brains are inexact, fuzzy calculators. Very fast, and usually close enough to get what needs done, done.
Define "love". Just because it's hard to define doesn't mean that it's not easy to do. When walking, we work with continuous input from many sources, and use a fuzzy, inexact way of reacting to it. That's why people sometimes trip. Math has nothing to do with it.
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Or read
Or care if your mom can get her email with her grandkid's pix. Oh, wait... you've (thankfully) probably never reproduced. The internet is the "killer app" that has gotten most people on computers. A computer is just an internet access device for most people. They're useful without the Internet, but nowhere near as much.
And when it comes time to renew your contract, they'll just refuse to do so, and your only option will be to get one of these tiered access programs. Contracts work both ways.
The word you were searching for was "etymology". Unless you do need to know a lot about insects to get the joke...
Ok. The new official religion of the US is Islam. And all women are not to be seen in public without a male family escort. And we should give in to all demands of North Korea. Oh, and let Iran keep enriching nuclear fuel to weapons-grade levels.
My point is that some people are just pissed at us existing, and that we have so much and they have so little, or that we have different cultures, or whatever. Even if we do help them, they have no problem biting the hand that feeds them. I have no problem with trying to protect ourselves. There will always be conflict as long as there is religion that advocates destruction, or a way to interpret your religion so it advocates that, and if you aren't prepared to defend yourself if attacked, you're prepared to lose.
I think the firm just helped her with the "move on" part ;)
I'd say that's exactly what the police should be doing, though. Taking pictures of a bridge could theoretically be something a terrorist would do. There's the possibility of it being a safety threat. So police have the job of making sure that's not it. But that doesn't mean they should just say "You can't do that!", because you can.
Just like someone weaving on the road. They may be drunk, or they may have lost something on the floor and were trying to retrieve it. But it's the police's job to determine the situation and go from there.
I call shenannigans.
Man, and here I was worried about this machine catching me in a lie. It's a good thing... oohhh, shiny!
I can't even remember what I had for lunch today, and you expect me to care and know who took a piss break in the middle of some stupid show that was on for background noise while I was semi-napping?
The service paid for is transporting the person that is on the ticket to the destination they set, if you really want to get nit-picky. If you can't prove you're you, why should they transport you? You didn't buy a ticket, you bought passage. Subtle but important difference.
/devil's advocate
Hey kids! Science doesn't mean beingthis, it can mean being this, this or even this!
And they've proven that they aren't allowing competitors to interoperate, so they've behaved badly. And since they are a monopoly that's behaving badly, they have a different set of rules that they have to play by that a normal company doesn't, because their bad behavior affects people in a totally different manner. There's a reason there are anti-trust laws.
And people have been sued for having a plot similar to someone else's. It's not an excuse, it's reality.
And, re-read what I said. I'm not excusing anything. I'm saying that unless people are doing it for free, as soon as it starts gaining attention Microsoft will buy your product (or one like that) and run other people out of the market, or at least try to leverage their monopoly so that happens. Witness: Anti-Spyware, Internet Explorer, IIS, Media Player, DirectX.
"Rather than worry about "opening up Windows, or decoupling IE from Windows" isn't it time that people start innovating and competing with Microsoft?"
Oh, they do though. And then Microsoft buys them and buries or screws up the product and ships it. Everyone has their price. Microsoft can afford most of them.
No. They're monopolists, in the US and elsewhere. That means they have different rules to play by. Their customers have nowhere else to turn if MS decides to change comm protocols. They have to upgrade or lose communication with those who do upgrade. That's why the EU is pushing for this... they don't want to be bent over the barrel by any corporation. That's a bad place for anyone to be. Hence, the EU doing this. They actually care about their citizens.
Man, and here I was thinking I'd get through the morning without my daily dose of racism. Thanks, man!
btw, most people with PhD's in "computerology" can find jobs. They just want to be paid for having actual skill, versus being paid chicken feed like a code-monkey "proud indian programmer".
Sorry, responding to a troll I know. I'm bored today.
Yes. But this is a fish, not a bacteria. That's what makes this even more amazing. An actual vertebrate, not just some cells.
"I've always hated dark matter."
And emotion has anything to do with science? I understand your distaste for it, but you know, people hated that the earth wasn't flat, that the clouds didn't really obscure the angels, that the earth really is more than 6,000 some years old (even today you get arguments against that), etc., etc. That doesn't mean it's not real. I'm going to wait until the evidence comes in before I make a decision.
Paper counts take lots of time. People like the speed and options that computer processing allows. And it's not an argument that EVERYONE should know the whole process inside and out. They should be ABLE to know it. There are a number of people who can't read who trust that voting works. I don't see why they wouldn't trust their neighborhood computer guy who decided to actually look at the code a bit.
And for the "illegitimate president thing". Did you know most of the argument was with the hanging chads, and how the paper ballots themselves were counted? Nothing whatsoever to do with the computers.
And how many people do you think it would take to make an effective compiler for the MIPS R10000? Give ya a hint, there still hasn't been one made. Apple code still required tons of hand-tweaking to run acceptably. On x86, the hard work is on the processor. On RISC, it's in the compiler. And since languages and so on change so much faster than a CPU instruction set, I'd much rather have it the way x86 does it than the way a RISC chip does it. It took fewer people to make the chip because it's simpler and stupider and assumes smart software. And we all know how well any software is made.
What's really amusing is that almost every reference I've seen to this quote puts the made-up statistic into the 70% range...
Except that if a small town is just like a big city, only smaller, people will have no reason to live there. I'm pretty sure that was his point. Would you want to move to a small town if everything cost the same, and taxes were high, but they still paid you less?
Math is exact and descriptive. Human actions are inexact and reactionary. I'm not saying that it's not amazing what your kid does. But everyone does it. And it's because of the way our brains work. And it's not math. It's an effect of how our brains are inexact, fuzzy calculators. Very fast, and usually close enough to get what needs done, done.
Define "love". Just because it's hard to define doesn't mean that it's not easy to do. When walking, we work with continuous input from many sources, and use a fuzzy, inexact way of reacting to it. That's why people sometimes trip. Math has nothing to do with it.
I wish I still had my mod points. The parent should be modded sky-high.