The first thing I do with a new PC is blow the HDD and rebuild. Yeah, all this bloatware is inconvenient for my parents and relatives (and thus me), but even that is only occasionally bothersome. I fail to see why the majority of the/. users should trouble themselves with this.
Yes, but they work at Chase, Discover, Citi, and other major credit card issuers. They also work at Transunion, Experian, and Equifax in developing new credit reports. Instead of phones, they use SAS Software, together with direct mailings and commercials.
This kind of modeling has been going on for decades. Heck, sometimes it is beginning to look like psychohistory with its accuracy.
Even in sports, this application is nothing new. Baseball is, to my knowledge, where statistics (economics if you like) was used first. The approach is called sabermetrics. Baseball was the ideal candidate because of the number of games played over a season. With so many more observations than other sports, the likelihood of a correct analysis rises.
Look, just do what everyone in civilized countries have done since the decline of dueling. Sue the bitch for slander. It's amazing how money helps a person recover emotionally from slander.
Or you can just use Alta-Vista or any other not-so-well-known news provider. That's what I did last time I was over there, in China that is. I was reading a lot of African newspapers online as well.
All it requires is a little imagination people. These are dullard Communists who specialize in IT who set the Great Firewall up.
The United States does dumb things some times. American attitude: Let's bring over the best and brightest the world has to offer. We'll pay 40000 or more for their education. We'll not spend this money on an American. Then, we'll kick the best and brightest (and know best educated) people in the world out of the country when they graduate.
This strategy will strangle long term growth in the US. Smart and educated people have smart and educated kids who in turn have smart and educated kids. Do you see where this is going?
That's fine. Current diesel cars are cleaner than petrol cars. They also get about 25 to 50% more MPG, meaning they are cheaper to own. Also, the diesel engine is simpler and therefore inherently more reliable than the petrol engine.
Maybe Ford can be vehicles that work. Ford is legendary for its unreliability. I have owned 2 Ford vehicles.
1. The Ford Fairmont. I pushed that fucker all over the state looking someone to rebuild the Ford Windsor engine. This piece of garbage had a nasty and well deserved reputation of dying at 40000 miles and needing a complete rebuild.
2. The Ford Ranger. The transmission in that bastard died at 60000 miles while I was 10 miles between podunk and nowhere. The transmission was rebuilt and then the truck sold. Ford was supposed to produce good trucks. Another lie.
If Ford could produce a car that actually worked, like say Hyundai (100000 mile warranty), Honda (just works), and Toyota (also just works, unintended acceleration being more about the tools who bitch to a government that wanted to do Toyota in the eye) then it would do that. Otherwise, perhaps Ford should stop "innovating" (read wasting money) and start building vehicles that can last more than 5 years without visits to the auto mechanics 6 times a year.
Many of the early political leaders of this country were surveyors, such as George Washington. Others were political philosophers or scientific farmers such as Franklin. Still others, like Lincoln, were amateur engineers.
A shift occurred near the end of the 19th century, but definitely by the late 20th century America lost its ability to elect a non-politician. Hoover was a mining engineer, but that is not what his claim to fame was. For a better example, there is no way Dwight D. Eisenhower could be elected today. It seems to me that only the career politician and not the technocrat has any possibility of being elected to high political office in the United States.
Certainly on the right there is a push against intellectualism. This is due to the (correct) perception of correlation between education and atheism. A well educated man would recognize that (1) God cannot be proven to exist and (2) humans have spent most of the non-agriculturally occupied time of the past 12000 years trying to prove that God exists therefore (3) God likely does not exist. An non-well uneducated man would think that Glenn Beck's chalkboard makes some sense.
I believe that this movement in the United States away from intellectualism is conscious. The embrace in the last election of "Joe Six-Pack" and the concern of the opinion of "Joe the Plumber" would seem to validate this belief. Who on earth would want to categorize themselves as "Joe Six-Pack"?
The premise of America in the past has been that the common man is inherently uncommon. He can make himself great through industry and intelligence. Instead, there is a embrace of the common anti-virtue. It's almost as an emergence of a permanent lower class. Typically, this change was multi-generational, but it could occur with one man.
Today, there are now people in the United States who cannot, for purely cultural reasons, cannot move up. They will not be able to attend college or find a job that pays well. There will be exceptions, but these will be few and far between; the sort of likelihood of a boy playing basketball and making it to the NBA.
I have been to the crowded Chinese technology markets. They are fantastic places; it feels like Blade Runner or something else out of a Dick novel. Food stalls, people selling every kind of hardware (except the newest), all software everywhere (a lot in English, but most in Chinese), people of every variety (I, a big blond guy, didn't stand out much. If I had hunched over and worn a coat, most people wouldn't have noticed me.), and a variety of tongues. In the hinterland, the best spoken English I found was in the computer markets.
But if 10% of the non-Chinese produced software being sold was legal, then I am a fool who knows nothing about computers. I would say that number suggested by Ballmer should be far closer to 100%. There was nothing legal being sold in the computer markets, malls, or anything else I saw selling Microsoft products.
Oh yeah, the place is infested with computer viruses as well. There's no kind of virus like a Chinese virus that western produced AV products don't recognize. If you're going to do business in China, you should do it with a Linux based OS.
In a similar report sponsored by Boris Badenov, it has been reported that Baden is Gooden now. Additionally, one of the more effective ways to save money is to kill moose and squirrel.
I'm an atheist and thus the most hated minority in the United States. But the most hated majority in the United States are the Catholics. There is a great deal of antipathy for the Catholic Church among Baptists and other Protestant denominations. When Haiti was smashed by the earthquake last year, there were many evangelical Americans claiming that the Haitians deserved it because they were Catholic. Among these people, there are those who still drink "Confusion to the Pope".
With these sorts of prevalent anti-Catholic feelings in the United States, how can there be any doubt that Bill Gates would be more admired than the Pope?
No disagreement from me. But the political reality is that Obama, Bush, Palin, McCain, and pretty much everyone else in Washington doesn't give a fig newton for your civil liberties if compromising them gets the politician elected.
Obama would never do such a thing. If any even mild terrorist action occurred, it would be shouted from the rafters. It would sound something like this: "Hussein did not keep us safe. Or show us his birth certificate. In fact, the reason why he vetoed PATRIOT Act is because he is a secret Muslim terrorist who will bring down the United States and all Christians with his terrorist fist bump." Or something like that.
Obama clearly doesn't have the political courage to repeal PATRIOT, but neither would McCain, Palin, Biden, or really anyone aside from the Pauls. Which is unfortunate because PATRIOT is an awful piece of legislation that does nothing to keep us safe, but rather does the opposite by eroding our liberties.
1. Because it is there. 2. Because it is a bad policy to keep all your eggs in one basket. 3. Because the rewards could be enormous. 4. Because people are curious. 5. Because if the (insert country here) doesn't then the (insert second country here) will.
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I don't get why more people don't understand this. A country can physically control the Internet. Why? Because they can break the telco with axes.
Fair enough. I'll buy that.
The first thing I do with a new PC is blow the HDD and rebuild. Yeah, all this bloatware is inconvenient for my parents and relatives (and thus me), but even that is only occasionally bothersome. I fail to see why the majority of the /. users should trouble themselves with this.
Ah. But you are leaving out the important part. Beer.
Yes, but they work at Chase, Discover, Citi, and other major credit card issuers. They also work at Transunion, Experian, and Equifax in developing new credit reports. Instead of phones, they use SAS Software, together with direct mailings and commercials.
This kind of modeling has been going on for decades. Heck, sometimes it is beginning to look like psychohistory with its accuracy.
Even in sports, this application is nothing new. Baseball is, to my knowledge, where statistics (economics if you like) was used first. The approach is called sabermetrics. Baseball was the ideal candidate because of the number of games played over a season. With so many more observations than other sports, the likelihood of a correct analysis rises.
Look, just do what everyone in civilized countries have done since the decline of dueling. Sue the bitch for slander. It's amazing how money helps a person recover emotionally from slander.
Or you can just use Alta-Vista or any other not-so-well-known news provider. That's what I did last time I was over there, in China that is. I was reading a lot of African newspapers online as well.
All it requires is a little imagination people. These are dullard Communists who specialize in IT who set the Great Firewall up.
Suck my big fat American kokc, you grammar nazi.
The United States does dumb things some times. American attitude: Let's bring over the best and brightest the world has to offer. We'll pay 40000 or more for their education. We'll not spend this money on an American. Then, we'll kick the best and brightest (and know best educated) people in the world out of the country when they graduate.
This strategy will strangle long term growth in the US. Smart and educated people have smart and educated kids who in turn have smart and educated kids. Do you see where this is going?
That's fine. Current diesel cars are cleaner than petrol cars. They also get about 25 to 50% more MPG, meaning they are cheaper to own. Also, the diesel engine is simpler and therefore inherently more reliable than the petrol engine.
Since we are ranting:
Maybe Ford can be vehicles that work. Ford is legendary for its unreliability. I have owned 2 Ford vehicles.
1. The Ford Fairmont. I pushed that fucker all over the state looking someone to rebuild the Ford Windsor engine. This piece of garbage had a nasty and well deserved reputation of dying at 40000 miles and needing a complete rebuild.
2. The Ford Ranger. The transmission in that bastard died at 60000 miles while I was 10 miles between podunk and nowhere. The transmission was rebuilt and then the truck sold. Ford was supposed to produce good trucks. Another lie.
If Ford could produce a car that actually worked, like say Hyundai (100000 mile warranty), Honda (just works), and Toyota (also just works, unintended acceleration being more about the tools who bitch to a government that wanted to do Toyota in the eye) then it would do that. Otherwise, perhaps Ford should stop "innovating" (read wasting money) and start building vehicles that can last more than 5 years without visits to the auto mechanics 6 times a year.
My Face won't. Why on earth should I care about anyone's opinion who isn't on Slashdot?
FLU!!!!! just doesn't have the same Shatnerian quality to it.
Bah. That's what I get for revising.
Many of the early political leaders of this country were surveyors, such as George Washington. Others were political philosophers or scientific farmers such as Franklin. Still others, like Lincoln, were amateur engineers.
A shift occurred near the end of the 19th century, but definitely by the late 20th century America lost its ability to elect a non-politician. Hoover was a mining engineer, but that is not what his claim to fame was. For a better example, there is no way Dwight D. Eisenhower could be elected today. It seems to me that only the career politician and not the technocrat has any possibility of being elected to high political office in the United States.
Certainly on the right there is a push against intellectualism. This is due to the (correct) perception of correlation between education and atheism. A well educated man would recognize that (1) God cannot be proven to exist and (2) humans have spent most of the non-agriculturally occupied time of the past 12000 years trying to prove that God exists therefore (3) God likely does not exist. An non-well uneducated man would think that Glenn Beck's chalkboard makes some sense.
I believe that this movement in the United States away from intellectualism is conscious. The embrace in the last election of "Joe Six-Pack" and the concern of the opinion of "Joe the Plumber" would seem to validate this belief. Who on earth would want to categorize themselves as "Joe Six-Pack"?
The premise of America in the past has been that the common man is inherently uncommon. He can make himself great through industry and intelligence. Instead, there is a embrace of the common anti-virtue. It's almost as an emergence of a permanent lower class. Typically, this change was multi-generational, but it could occur with one man.
Today, there are now people in the United States who cannot, for purely cultural reasons, cannot move up. They will not be able to attend college or find a job that pays well. There will be exceptions, but these will be few and far between; the sort of likelihood of a boy playing basketball and making it to the NBA.
I have been to the crowded Chinese technology markets. They are fantastic places; it feels like Blade Runner or something else out of a Dick novel. Food stalls, people selling every kind of hardware (except the newest), all software everywhere (a lot in English, but most in Chinese), people of every variety (I, a big blond guy, didn't stand out much. If I had hunched over and worn a coat, most people wouldn't have noticed me.), and a variety of tongues. In the hinterland, the best spoken English I found was in the computer markets.
But if 10% of the non-Chinese produced software being sold was legal, then I am a fool who knows nothing about computers. I would say that number suggested by Ballmer should be far closer to 100%. There was nothing legal being sold in the computer markets, malls, or anything else I saw selling Microsoft products.
Oh yeah, the place is infested with computer viruses as well. There's no kind of virus like a Chinese virus that western produced AV products don't recognize. If you're going to do business in China, you should do it with a Linux based OS.
In a similar report sponsored by Boris Badenov, it has been reported that Baden is Gooden now. Additionally, one of the more effective ways to save money is to kill moose and squirrel.
They were Voodoo Devil Worshipers because they were Catholic. It's all the same thing, really.
I'm an atheist and thus the most hated minority in the United States. But the most hated majority in the United States are the Catholics. There is a great deal of antipathy for the Catholic Church among Baptists and other Protestant denominations. When Haiti was smashed by the earthquake last year, there were many evangelical Americans claiming that the Haitians deserved it because they were Catholic. Among these people, there are those who still drink "Confusion to the Pope".
With these sorts of prevalent anti-Catholic feelings in the United States, how can there be any doubt that Bill Gates would be more admired than the Pope?
I was surprised they got rid of Feingold in Wisconsin. He always struck me as a good Senator for the state.
Fascinating. That makes a lot of sense.
No disagreement from me. But the political reality is that Obama, Bush, Palin, McCain, and pretty much everyone else in Washington doesn't give a fig newton for your civil liberties if compromising them gets the politician elected.
Obama would never do such a thing. If any even mild terrorist action occurred, it would be shouted from the rafters. It would sound something like this: "Hussein did not keep us safe. Or show us his birth certificate. In fact, the reason why he vetoed PATRIOT Act is because he is a secret Muslim terrorist who will bring down the United States and all Christians with his terrorist fist bump." Or something like that.
Obama clearly doesn't have the political courage to repeal PATRIOT, but neither would McCain, Palin, Biden, or really anyone aside from the Pauls. Which is unfortunate because PATRIOT is an awful piece of legislation that does nothing to keep us safe, but rather does the opposite by eroding our liberties.
Above comment FTW
1. Because it is there.
2. Because it is a bad policy to keep all your eggs in one basket.
3. Because the rewards could be enormous.
4. Because people are curious.
5. Because if the (insert country here) doesn't then the (insert second country here) will.