"They made a huge fucking mistake, so I will continue to patronize this company for their inability to ship the proper orders."
I don't see what's your problem with this argument? On that account I won, they lost - my every other order has been delieverd perfectly on time and as ordered.
So, tell me why should I hate Amazon? Software patents? I don't give a damn. I don't work in software.
At my place it sounds like the desperate keyboards clicking in the experimental Linux department.
Don't get me wrong. I love these young guys. They walk in and give their weekly report. "No sir, our system is not working right but it will soon. We are having trouble communicating with the Windows network".
I always make it a point to question the whole idea of using Linux in an intranet that otherwise works perfectly: "Just because these few individuals refuse to use Windows is no reason to cripple the entire network - just lay down the law!".
I've gotten nothing but excellent service from the Amazon. They sent me a friggin' Stanley Kubric collection (worth several hundreds of dollars) by mistake. I asked how to return it. They let me keep it.
if you're willing to live with a VHS copy (lower quality, etc.), you weren't really going to buy the DVD
Ok.
Replace VHS with MP3 and DVD with audio-CD in that sentence. I'd say that given the extent of audio piracy these days, most people wouldn't stick to your high ideals.
Is that the sound of you typing in the ecommands to look for the manual pages for the insanely unintuitive and arcane commands you have to type in in order to get anything set up on your lunix station?
If the copy-protection scheme is to succeed, it must be as undetectable as possible by the end user. I don't mean that he won't realize he's using a copy-protected format, but that his ears won't be able to tell the difference between a copy-protected one and a non-protected one.
VHS macrovision is popular precisely because it's undetectable in how it alters visual quality. You'll hear lots of complaints by people who are unable to copy videos correctly, but you'll never hear a complaint by anyone about how macrovision has degraded their signal -- it hasn't.
We're almost at the stage where digital watermarks are completely seamless. Ten years ago, inititives like this would've been scoffed at. Now, they're becoming reality.
I agree. Age should not be a deterrent - my being young for an accomplished postdoc you don't have to tell me that.
However, to be brutally honest, peer acclaim is objectively good for only one thing: securing more funding. You get acclaim, no-one can dismiss your proposals.
Peer acclaim is (50 - x)% fake politeness and ass-kissing mixed with a x% chance of getting backstabbed if you ever foul-up - and x is growing with every successful proposal.
I realize that Nobel Prizes must be awarded in hindsight
Well, one of the criterias is that the discovery has benefitted the mankind.
To my mind, one or two decades is an absolute minimum for such a conclusion. I'd rather see the honour bestowed posthumously - these professors don't do anything with the money they get (at least in the large-scale experimental physics the prize is peanuts compared to the real yearly budgets) and they're too old to really benefit from the fame too.
I object to his assertion that airline pilots shouldn't be trusted with guns, simply because that is not their primary area of expertise.
I for one do not want airframe-piercing tools anywhere in the plane. If, against all the odds, someone manages to smuggle a gun in and takes over the plane, I'd rather have it stop there. I don't want a fucking gunfight inside the plane.
this leaves out the potential for positive social and economic intervention to weaken extremist positions.
Positive social and economic intervention by boming them? Yeah, right.
See a guy and a girl having a violent argument on the street. Do you intervene? No way in hell. If you do, they'll both forget their differences and kick your ass.
I see just random noise in that chart. The value oscillates between 12-16 which is insignificant to the average which is still well above their 1 year running.
Because the writers had to invent some wonderful "human" attribute that Data should seek to achieve throughout all the seasons.
In my opinion Lore was the perfect android. He fully captured the dark side of the human psyche. An emulation of a human being without the capability for evil is fundamentally incomplete.
That saves the step of converting from postscript to pdf
This particular shortcoming perfectly illustrates the gap between open source developers and the end-users.
To an open source advocate, it's just natural that you first create a postscript file and then use another tool to turn it into a pdf. For most serious users (=people who do this for a living), this is nonsense.
After writing several highly complex research grant applications with intervowen bitmap and vector graphics, several fonts and embedded Excel charts I can vouch for that.
Only Acrobat Distiller was able to create a proper PDF file.
Once again, you can say that he did something by providing the facilities; but he didn't do that either
I am usually rather sympathetic to this argument, but how can you claim that the person who took the financial risk of taking the loan, setting up the business, renting the space and hiring you did nothing?
I was walking to work one morning and was struck by a sticker on a lamp-post left by the local communist youth organization. It said: "Your boss needs you - you don't need yoru boss".
It's ironic that there is a very capitalist truth to that. You can always start your own company - if you take the risk and either risk your own money, or loan money, to set the company up. Then you're your own boss - and guess what - you'll have to hire people to do the work.
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I don't know what programs you're running and through what kind of a pipe, but Mozilla used remotely over a 512/512 DSL line is simply useless.
I don't see what's your problem with this argument? On that account I won, they lost - my every other order has been delieverd perfectly on time and as ordered.
So, tell me why should I hate Amazon? Software patents? I don't give a damn. I don't work in software.
At my place it sounds like the desperate keyboards clicking in the experimental Linux department.
Don't get me wrong. I love these young guys. They walk in and give their weekly report. "No sir, our system is not working right but it will soon. We are having trouble communicating with the Windows network".
I always make it a point to question the whole idea of using Linux in an intranet that otherwise works perfectly: "Just because these few individuals refuse to use Windows is no reason to cripple the entire network - just lay down the law!".
Ah. I just love these meetings.
I've gotten nothing but excellent service from the Amazon. They sent me a friggin' Stanley Kubric collection (worth several hundreds of dollars) by mistake. I asked how to return it. They let me keep it.
This is why I buy and will keep buying from them.
Ok.
Replace VHS with MP3 and DVD with audio-CD in that sentence. I'd say that given the extent of audio piracy these days, most people wouldn't stick to your high ideals.
Is that the sound of you typing in the ecommands to look for the manual pages for the insanely unintuitive and arcane commands you have to type in in order to get anything set up on your lunix station?
If they gave you a clean signal you'd be able to record a rental DVD on a VCR. Would you take that chance if you were them?
Because, face it, Hollywood makes films that appeal to the masses. Masses == money.
VHS macrovision is popular precisely because it's undetectable in how it alters visual quality. You'll hear lots of complaints by people who are unable to copy videos correctly, but you'll never hear a complaint by anyone about how macrovision has degraded their signal -- it hasn't.
We're almost at the stage where digital watermarks are completely seamless. Ten years ago, inititives like this would've been scoffed at. Now, they're becoming reality.
That's fine by me, but I don't want to wait for the black spot copy protection.
Yes, sir. That's when I'll give up downloading pirated moves. I will!
However, to be brutally honest, peer acclaim is objectively good for only one thing: securing more funding. You get acclaim, no-one can dismiss your proposals.
Peer acclaim is (50 - x)% fake politeness and ass-kissing mixed with a x% chance of getting backstabbed if you ever foul-up - and x is growing with every successful proposal.
I'd rather wait for the evidence than grant the Nobel price for every promising new technology. The NMR prize was given hastily.
Well, one of the criterias is that the discovery has benefitted the mankind.
To my mind, one or two decades is an absolute minimum for such a conclusion. I'd rather see the honour bestowed posthumously - these professors don't do anything with the money they get (at least in the large-scale experimental physics the prize is peanuts compared to the real yearly budgets) and they're too old to really benefit from the fame too.
I for one do not want airframe-piercing tools anywhere in the plane. If, against all the odds, someone manages to smuggle a gun in and takes over the plane, I'd rather have it stop there. I don't want a fucking gunfight inside the plane.
this leaves out the potential for positive social and economic intervention to weaken extremist positions.
Positive social and economic intervention by boming them? Yeah, right.
See a guy and a girl having a violent argument on the street. Do you intervene? No way in hell. If you do, they'll both forget their differences and kick your ass.
You could have dreamt up the stealth plane that was designed in 1970s?
Do no underestimate the military research...
I see just random noise in that chart. The value oscillates between 12-16 which is insignificant to the average which is still well above their 1 year running.
"It's them fightin' words" - but can ICANN enforce them?
Nasdaq likes them.
In my opinion Lore was the perfect android. He fully captured the dark side of the human psyche. An emulation of a human being without the capability for evil is fundamentally incomplete.
On that day, the computers really do know how to program us.
This particular shortcoming perfectly illustrates the gap between open source developers and the end-users.
To an open source advocate, it's just natural that you first create a postscript file and then use another tool to turn it into a pdf. For most serious users (=people who do this for a living), this is nonsense.
Only Acrobat Distiller was able to create a proper PDF file.
It's called "jackass logic".
I am usually rather sympathetic to this argument, but how can you claim that the person who took the financial risk of taking the loan, setting up the business, renting the space and hiring you did nothing?
I was walking to work one morning and was struck by a sticker on a lamp-post left by the local communist youth organization. It said: "Your boss needs you - you don't need yoru boss".
It's ironic that there is a very capitalist truth to that. You can always start your own company - if you take the risk and either risk your own money, or loan money, to set the company up. Then you're your own boss - and guess what - you'll have to hire people to do the work.
Restricted by the rules imposed on the hospital by the insurance company?