If you ask me, treating the People (with the strange capital letter P) as one body is already a step in ther wrong direction. The people don't hold any one thing in common other than the fact that we're humans, and we live inside the same country. Saying that we all have some common best interest or collective opinion in any one case is akin to claiming that your somehow better off than someone in another country because you happen to live closer to some winning olympic athelete than they do. The U.S. is a collection of individuals. Contrary to popular belief, implementing the rule of the majority always ignores the minority. The specific cases requiring actual available facts to be considered are always abandoned in favor of those that require sweeping generalization and ideaology instead. Perhaps it's this constant reliance on tugging at the heartstrings of the so-called supposed majority that leads to most if not all of the friction we have in dealing with our local 'bretheren.'
I think America is the greatest place to live in the world, but that doesn't mean I think it's perfect. Some people are more qualified to make policy than others. (I don't claim to be one of them, but I do concede there are indeed experts out there.) Honestly, would you take a poll of public opinion as to whether or not we should operate to remove half of your liver? Why is it any different for things like who runs the government?
That all being said, I can't think of a better way to do it. *Shrug*
In case you don't read the subject lines of the comments (which I don't either a lot of the time,) I'll start by restating it:
The geekiest part of it is...that people around here give this kind of discourse enough thought to mark the above Insightful. (And it was) but, pots... meet kettles. I suppose my having noticed means that I'm not excluded.
Sorry. I don't believe in unions. I think that instead of worrying about 'illegal aliens' I think we should let them all come in to the border as long as they sign up to pay taxes. Forget this control and job protection. Entire market places will spring up because they'll be not only 'job-doers' but consumers too. And as for prisoners, they've earned it. If someone else can do your job cheaper than you can, great. As long as they're happy with the pay, it means you get to learn a new trick. You have the right to TRY and succeed in any way you like. You don't have a guaranteed right to be successful. That doesn't come unless you pick a field in where you are competitive, without artificial regulations 'leveling the playing field.' If a business can't survive in a field they're in, well, I'm sorry, they're in the wrong field.
sure you can. It's called SharePoint, and unfortunately I happen to be a sort of expert in dev for it. It can turn any routine web page into a framework driven nightmare replete with arcane GUIDs, ridiculous XML markup, and well lets face it, more arcane GUIDs in ridiculous XML markup. Enterprisey? You Betcha! (any similarity between my last exclamation and that of Sarah Palin is purely the redneck in me showing through.)
you have a good point there. Sure one language is as good as another, but transferability, ramp up of new hires, etc. All of those are cost driven factors you don't want to dick around with just for a few extra features that save you 10 lines of code for one, in one out of every 10 projects. If a college graduate with a year of on the job experience can come in and pick up by reading your code comments then you're already saving time and money that way.
That filter group has it all wrong too. It's MORE in their best interest to meter upstream traffic and charge by the gigabyte, like the australians do. Because, the free market will eventually prove that 'unlimited' service is a bad, really bad, idea, and net neutrality is moot. You have to think totally free when you consider free markets. You can't think "what would happen immediately following if we turned things free right now" you have to consider "What companies would be left standing if they didn't adjust their business models to be more consumer friendly X years down the road?"
Nope. They've got enough customers, who aren't readers of slashdot, that are willing to pay them for the products they produce, when compared to those that are dissatisfied with them. There's a difference between people having customers with complaints, and customers with such grandiose complaints that they stop buying your products. Undoubtedly some companies, like microsoft, have some static friction in the market place. But that doesn't make them infallible. Again, I only need to point you toward Wall Street, where the huge market players are all shaking in their shoes because they didn't look out for their customers. (It doesn't serve anyone's customers well by proceeding with bad business practices, like investing in junk and saying it's golden. Especially when you know it's junk, and there's lots of evidence to suggest they knew just that, and were playing hot potato with the bad assets. That isn't customer focused behavior.) And the ones who didn't play stupid games, well, for the most part they're the ones buying up the failed examples.
Big business, as you put it, doesn't function as a single unit. Each one has a profit motive, and each one has a series of competitors. They all have customers. Without customers, who can go to one of their competitors, deciding to use their products or services, 'big business' which you falsely qualify as a single conspiratory unit would be little business. Or, more likely, out of business. See? It even happens on wall street. You can take your consipiracy theories else where.
Cloud computing makes sense if you want to use it, and I can see there are applications where you don't want to use it. I like having my music files from all the computers I touch. I want my email everywhere too. I don't want my proprietary non-free non-communist for-my-own-profit source code floating around on someone else's cloud computer network, so yes I agree, that it's not true that we should ALWAYS have everything in the cloud. For a large portion of what I do on my computer though, or rather at least the things I store, the cloud is great.
well, I'm a libertarian. I'm not autistic, nor nearly so:P I don't think homosexuality is evil, I don't like the patriot act, and I'd love to keep what I make and encourage others to do the same. I'm not afraid of foreigners, I think we shouldn't have a limit on how many can come in and legally work. (I'm not for illegal undocumented immigration either, just sign up at the door!) I don't drink, I'm DEFINITELY not any bit of OCD or anything like organized, and yes, I'm not quiet. Fiscally conservative. Yes. I'm that, but even republicans aren't that. I take offense at being lumped in with republicans. And while I'm completely repulsed by the socialist tendencies implied by obama's posited wealth redistribution programs, I'm definitely not comforted by john mccain. No I will not choose mccain's flip flopping I'll say anything ass just to keep my taxes lower. I'll vote for bob barr. Because if people like me don't pick people based on what they believe in, then who will?
haha. touche. Guess I'm not a real geek. I do remember the choice parts of it, but not every little line. They did do some nail and hammer gig in one of the karate kid things though.
I think it was the Karate Kid; however, anyone referring to it as a GF isn't fit to speak on the subject, and those of us old enough to remember Real Genius have no business even knowing what GF stands for anyway. Get with the program pal.
well I suppose being reasonable about it you have to consider the folks who are swayed by looks, but surely you aren't! (I'm another ex-republican who leans strongly libertarian as well.)
Facial Micro expression analysis is a science that long predate this years political campaign, and indeed predate the Bush administration. If you don't believe me, ask your friendly neighborhood spy hunter about it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression) I work with the intelligence community, and believe you me, it's a BIG deal, and it's not poppycock.
HAH! My computer system is so OLD that it still uses plumbing to connect to the intertubes. Witness the "BROKEN PIPE" error message I'm always getting on IRC. Technically not a moving part, but requiring a technician nonetheless! Anyone bring a Langstum wrench?
In Chrome, they're not threads. They're processes. It's like launching each as a separate app. There won't be any locks, deadlocks, contention, etc, any more than there is for your copy of Firefox and IE running at the same time. And when you kill one process, all it's memory space goes back onto the free pile, and wont' become fragmented.
Screen capture software anyone? I hear they do sound lately too. Son of a gun, what next? Digital Wristwatches?
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I know it's relatively a small string, but I've seen people 'optimize' downloads in smaller ways, like removing spaces and shortening function names from JavaScript code... I wonder what the overall cost per character per year is on average for an ISP of lengthening the User Agent string. (This is kinda like the cost of an extra 1-second click in an application multiplied by a company of 3000 users, multiplied by the number of hours spent using it in a year, multiplied by the average hourly rate for an employee == more than you'd have thought.) I mean the user agent string eats upstream bandwidth...
"freedom 3" is actually a burden, or a bond, not a freedom. I don't think there is a problem with writing that into the license, as long as folks agree to it before proceeding to use software under it. It's just not aptly named a "freedom."
First of all, SMB would have gone nowehere were it not adapted by microsoft in whatever way it was. That's not inherently bad or good all by itself, but it's true. All software is essentially 'built on the shoulders of giants' and even slight tweaks or re-implementations of small bits of it are not things that write themselves. Without the little bit of change brought into the SMB area by microsoft, and the enormous marketing dollars thrown at it, you sir, would not have an example to point to. Same with TCP/IP... etc. The idea is worth nothing until someone buys it. Just like baseball cards, doesn't matter which ones you have, they're worthless, unless you sell them, then you get something for them.
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Good point. I remember from a negotiation class of mine that it's much easier to create value when you negotiate more than one issue :)
If you ask me, treating the People (with the strange capital letter P) as one body is already a step in ther wrong direction. The people don't hold any one thing in common other than the fact that we're humans, and we live inside the same country. Saying that we all have some common best interest or collective opinion in any one case is akin to claiming that your somehow better off than someone in another country because you happen to live closer to some winning olympic athelete than they do. The U.S. is a collection of individuals. Contrary to popular belief, implementing the rule of the majority always ignores the minority. The specific cases requiring actual available facts to be considered are always abandoned in favor of those that require sweeping generalization and ideaology instead. Perhaps it's this constant reliance on tugging at the heartstrings of the so-called supposed majority that leads to most if not all of the friction we have in dealing with our local 'bretheren.'
I think America is the greatest place to live in the world, but that doesn't mean I think it's perfect. Some people are more qualified to make policy than others. (I don't claim to be one of them, but I do concede there are indeed experts out there.) Honestly, would you take a poll of public opinion as to whether or not we should operate to remove half of your liver? Why is it any different for things like who runs the government?
That all being said, I can't think of a better way to do it. *Shrug*
In case you don't read the subject lines of the comments (which I don't either a lot of the time,) I'll start by restating it: The geekiest part of it is...that people around here give this kind of discourse enough thought to mark the above Insightful. (And it was) but, pots... meet kettles. I suppose my having noticed means that I'm not excluded.
Sorry. I don't believe in unions. I think that instead of worrying about 'illegal aliens' I think we should let them all come in to the border as long as they sign up to pay taxes. Forget this control and job protection. Entire market places will spring up because they'll be not only 'job-doers' but consumers too. And as for prisoners, they've earned it. If someone else can do your job cheaper than you can, great. As long as they're happy with the pay, it means you get to learn a new trick. You have the right to TRY and succeed in any way you like. You don't have a guaranteed right to be successful. That doesn't come unless you pick a field in where you are competitive, without artificial regulations 'leveling the playing field.' If a business can't survive in a field they're in, well, I'm sorry, they're in the wrong field.
sure you can. It's called SharePoint, and unfortunately I happen to be a sort of expert in dev for it. It can turn any routine web page into a framework driven nightmare replete with arcane GUIDs, ridiculous XML markup, and well lets face it, more arcane GUIDs in ridiculous XML markup. Enterprisey? You Betcha! (any similarity between my last exclamation and that of Sarah Palin is purely the redneck in me showing through.)
you have a good point there. Sure one language is as good as another, but transferability, ramp up of new hires, etc. All of those are cost driven factors you don't want to dick around with just for a few extra features that save you 10 lines of code for one, in one out of every 10 projects. If a college graduate with a year of on the job experience can come in and pick up by reading your code comments then you're already saving time and money that way.
maybe not FREE meals for all of them, but better than they'd be getting if they were sitting on their asses outside of jail.
Why the hell not? They get cheap free meals out of it. What the hell is wrong with having them work while they sit and ponder their predicament?
That filter group has it all wrong too. It's MORE in their best interest to meter upstream traffic and charge by the gigabyte, like the australians do. Because, the free market will eventually prove that 'unlimited' service is a bad, really bad, idea, and net neutrality is moot. You have to think totally free when you consider free markets. You can't think "what would happen immediately following if we turned things free right now" you have to consider "What companies would be left standing if they didn't adjust their business models to be more consumer friendly X years down the road?"
Nope. They've got enough customers, who aren't readers of slashdot, that are willing to pay them for the products they produce, when compared to those that are dissatisfied with them. There's a difference between people having customers with complaints, and customers with such grandiose complaints that they stop buying your products. Undoubtedly some companies, like microsoft, have some static friction in the market place. But that doesn't make them infallible. Again, I only need to point you toward Wall Street, where the huge market players are all shaking in their shoes because they didn't look out for their customers. (It doesn't serve anyone's customers well by proceeding with bad business practices, like investing in junk and saying it's golden. Especially when you know it's junk, and there's lots of evidence to suggest they knew just that, and were playing hot potato with the bad assets. That isn't customer focused behavior.) And the ones who didn't play stupid games, well, for the most part they're the ones buying up the failed examples.
b) big business' real nefarious agenda.
Big business, as you put it, doesn't function as a single unit. Each one has a profit motive, and each one has a series of competitors. They all have customers. Without customers, who can go to one of their competitors, deciding to use their products or services, 'big business' which you falsely qualify as a single conspiratory unit would be little business. Or, more likely, out of business. See? It even happens on wall street. You can take your consipiracy theories else where.
Cloud computing makes sense if you want to use it, and I can see there are applications where you don't want to use it. I like having my music files from all the computers I touch. I want my email everywhere too. I don't want my proprietary non-free non-communist for-my-own-profit source code floating around on someone else's cloud computer network, so yes I agree, that it's not true that we should ALWAYS have everything in the cloud. For a large portion of what I do on my computer though, or rather at least the things I store, the cloud is great.
or maybe it wasn't the bullet he heard but someone snapping a twig with their foot. THEN he shoots you.
Or maybe it was a squirrel... and we all know that boris and natasha can't be far behind! Duck!
well, I'm a libertarian. I'm not autistic, nor nearly so :P I don't think homosexuality is evil, I don't like the patriot act, and I'd love to keep what I make and encourage others to do the same. I'm not afraid of foreigners, I think we shouldn't have a limit on how many can come in and legally work. (I'm not for illegal undocumented immigration either, just sign up at the door!) I don't drink, I'm DEFINITELY not any bit of OCD or anything like organized, and yes, I'm not quiet. Fiscally conservative. Yes. I'm that, but even republicans aren't that. I take offense at being lumped in with republicans. And while I'm completely repulsed by the socialist tendencies implied by obama's posited wealth redistribution programs, I'm definitely not comforted by john mccain. No I will not choose mccain's flip flopping I'll say anything ass just to keep my taxes lower. I'll vote for bob barr. Because if people like me don't pick people based on what they believe in, then who will?
haha. touche. Guess I'm not a real geek. I do remember the choice parts of it, but not every little line. They did do some nail and hammer gig in one of the karate kid things though.
I think it was the Karate Kid; however, anyone referring to it as a GF isn't fit to speak on the subject, and those of us old enough to remember Real Genius have no business even knowing what GF stands for anyway. Get with the program pal.
well I suppose being reasonable about it you have to consider the folks who are swayed by looks, but surely you aren't! (I'm another ex-republican who leans strongly libertarian as well.)
Facial Micro expression analysis is a science that long predate this years political campaign, and indeed predate the Bush administration. If you don't believe me, ask your friendly neighborhood spy hunter about it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression) I work with the intelligence community, and believe you me, it's a BIG deal, and it's not poppycock.
HAH! My computer system is so OLD that it still uses plumbing to connect to the intertubes. Witness the "BROKEN PIPE" error message I'm always getting on IRC. Technically not a moving part, but requiring a technician nonetheless! Anyone bring a Langstum wrench?
google isn't running it as news, it's simply informing us that someone else has. silly.
I hadn't thought about sharing cookies and things. good point. it probably does use some shared structures.
In Chrome, they're not threads. They're processes. It's like launching each as a separate app. There won't be any locks, deadlocks, contention, etc, any more than there is for your copy of Firefox and IE running at the same time. And when you kill one process, all it's memory space goes back onto the free pile, and wont' become fragmented.
Screen capture software anyone? I hear they do sound lately too. Son of a gun, what next? Digital Wristwatches?
I know it's relatively a small string, but I've seen people 'optimize' downloads in smaller ways, like removing spaces and shortening function names from JavaScript code... I wonder what the overall cost per character per year is on average for an ISP of lengthening the User Agent string. (This is kinda like the cost of an extra 1-second click in an application multiplied by a company of 3000 users, multiplied by the number of hours spent using it in a year, multiplied by the average hourly rate for an employee == more than you'd have thought.) I mean the user agent string eats upstream bandwidth...
"freedom 3" is actually a burden, or a bond, not a freedom. I don't think there is a problem with writing that into the license, as long as folks agree to it before proceeding to use software under it. It's just not aptly named a "freedom."
First of all, SMB would have gone nowehere were it not adapted by microsoft in whatever way it was. That's not inherently bad or good all by itself, but it's true. All software is essentially 'built on the shoulders of giants' and even slight tweaks or re-implementations of small bits of it are not things that write themselves. Without the little bit of change brought into the SMB area by microsoft, and the enormous marketing dollars thrown at it, you sir, would not have an example to point to. Same with TCP/IP... etc. The idea is worth nothing until someone buys it. Just like baseball cards, doesn't matter which ones you have, they're worthless, unless you sell them, then you get something for them.