most people forget that part of the cost of retail software is the built-in cost of maintaining a support center, normally with a 1-800 number for question,
We're talking about large organisations though. I've never encountered a large organisation that wants you to call some vendor's support. They expect all IT support stuff to be handled through the organisations IT department.
Appropriate: We were wrong to use wiggling women's butts to market our blades. WE were part of the problem.
Good job that wasn't exactly how the ad actually started. In your rage-watch you didn't notice that the old gillette fratured as the ver first thing.
Inappropriate: If you have a penis, YOU are the problem. Because we say so.
Good job the ad didn't say that. I mean it was full of examples of men doing the right thing, calling out other men etc etc etc.
What's interesting is that you're so angry about it. It has examples of men not doing the right thing and men doing the right thing. Clearly you identify strongly with those who weren't doing the right thing. I wonder why.
As far as I can tell, based on the angry people who hate the ad here, the people who hated it are raving nutcases hellbent on misinterpreting it to the greatest extent possible.
brought up by tyrannical mother, away from 'toxic masculinity', never left to solve his problems alone....the very thing the ad encouraged.
There was no such thing encouraged in the ad. That's you absolutely 100% making shit up. At NO pint did the ad say that abusive mothers were better than fathers. I think you need to examine yourself heavily to see how on earth you managed to form that opinon.
My other nephews are two girls in high school. They complain that the boys around them are 'not serious and responsible'. Well, duh! When asking them to give an example of a 'serious man' they always point to someone older than a millennial. This ain't a coincidence.
lolwut. Even Shakespeare wrote a play about how teenagers are impulsive idiots. This is not new.
I don't want to have to analyze each product to see if the company who made it is in support or not of my personal political stances,
The end point of this is why DeBeers continues to exist. I mean who wants to bother snalyzing a product to see if the company involved supports literal slave labour? I don't care! I just want my shit!
Google would consistently return more results than altavista, which I believe was the top search engine before them. So filtering doesn't explain it.
That's not how I remember it. I always favoured hotbot myself. The sheer number of results were never the problem, the quantity of porn and other junk mixed in with the results was.
At the time, the reason you could get better results from google isn't because google themselves were pre-filtering the index, but because they offered better search operators so that more advanced users could request a narrower set of results.
Also not my result. I remember there were plenty of operators so you could search for op-amp AND NOT cum AND NOT tits AND NOT credit card AND NOT crack AND NOT etc etc etc. I remember playing the fun game of putting in spam words unlikely to be in a page of interest until I finally got good results. The amazing thing about google at the time was that you didn't have to do all of that. Put in "op-amp", get results about op-amps.
That's when the "clever" algorithms came in. Before that it wasn't clever at all, it was very literal and straightforwards.
You're nearly a decade out. The clever thing initially was pagerank which filtered out crap that was badly linked to on the grounds that useful stuff had links. It was if anything the first mass filtering. That is the entire reason google was founded: filtering.
Google rose to prominence by showing the web as it was without fear or favour.
I don't understand whay blinkered rewriting of history can actually put forwards this idea.
Google won because their filtering of the tsunami of shit was much much better than everyone else. They won precisely becuase they were filtering and doing it very carefully and with clever algorithms.
This gave them considerable advantage over then-competitors who hand-indexed
No, proper search engines existed the nlike hotbot, but they were deluged with shite. Google was a better filter.
No. It's very likely that they will be but I see no reasons why they should be.
People build their lives together and support each other, so you can't separate who did what, because both people are working towards a common goal. She supported him financially when he started Amazon.
I know from past experience that you know what it means;
I know exactly what it means: you bleat about race and gender and whatnot and how you're so virtuous for making *just* the right comments on it, so your fellow idiots from whichever nutty political wing you stick to think you're marvellous.
Now this part I'm not sure about; are you actually stupid enough to believe that a 9th century madrasa was anything remotely like the later European universities?:)
I knew you'd fall righ into that little trap I laid for you. You are so predictable. All the oldest universities in Europe were founded essentially as centres of religous teaching.
Or are you aware of the difference,
And what difference is that? The icky brown religion makes it not a proper university unlike the clean white religion?
Nonsense; my position is that that's what WOULD happen. The word "should" was inserted by you. Stop being a disingenuous fuck.
Lol wow you don't like being called out on your bullshit. Funny you accuse me of being a er "disingenuous fuck" and yes selectively quote.
No, that's what the left is doing
So you're a member of "the left". I didn't have you pegged for that.
And you're a child rapist.
This is exactly what I mean by you equating random shit. I have an actual example of you being racist, and that's equivalent in your mind to just random shit you made up because you don't like me telling the truth.
Never heard of the creep? If a group is successful at getting something, they push a little further. An example might be how the Right wing in the US hasgone so farther right every election cycle that now alomst everyone is too far left for them.
Sure and yet we manage to draw lines all day every day. Because we have to ot actually get anything done.
If this effort succeeds, look for more of the crybullying. The perennial victim group isn't ever really satisfied
The only crybullying I've seen is from the perpetually offended crown who believe they have the right to post literally whatever they want on a private service on someone else's dime.
And um, Over the years, be it short skirts, open shoulders hair up or down, even bathing suits, if they are hiding tats they apparently are well hidden indeed.
They often are, becuase of judgemental people like you.
It's a different world, and in it, tats are considered as a tendency to make bad and impulsive judgements.
Which is why people put them in places you can't see.
It's a poor way to phrase it, but the sentiment is correct. If everyone is racist then it's a meaningless category. There'd be no value to calling anyone racist; we would all just shrug our shoulders and say "yeah... so?".
You'd like that wouldn't you?
No this is typical of you and the GP. You turn reality into some distorted vision and use that to excuse your own behaviour. Everyone's a little bit racist (to quote a funny song), but not everyone is equally racist.
If people sometimes do bad things, they should try to stop. Well, that's the civlised thing to do anyway.
Your position is that if people sometimes do bad things we should shrug and say "yeah so". You want to equate everything from occasionally mild things with the absolute worst so you can devalue the whole term.
I know why: it's because you are racist (as you demonstrated in another post) and you can't fucking stand when people call you out on it. Toughen up you little snowflake.
It's funny really. You know you're not right which is why you feel the need to misrepresent what people said. I mean if you felt you were right, you could just quote it directly. The reason you need to change it is because it doesn't say what you want. Viz:
the people of India are Caucasian.
The racist GP sais "white". People from india are not white. You going on about caucasians is you misrepresenting the OP because for some reason you refuse to believe racism exists even if you have to change what people said.
If you think Indians are white you should have said so so we could all have a laugh at you.
had to toss out the "founded by a woman" line.
Why do you always virtue signal about your attitude to gender? It's really tedious and just adds noise to the conversation.
Fatima Al-Fihri didn't found a university; she used her inheritance to found a mosque.
Again, why do you feel the need to misrepresent reality to support your beliefs? We both know she founded a mosque AND a madrasa. The madrasa is a place of learning, the kind of thing we call universities these days. Why did you pretend the latter doesn't exist?
Oh yeah it's because you're racist and sexist and if a muslim woman founded the oldest extant university you simply cannot deal and need to misrepresent reality so it looks like white dudes did everything.
Cherry picking the extremes tells you nothing about the overall statistics or the common case. Exceptional individuals exist.
99% of people aren't exceptional by definition. That means if you're born poor you'll stay poor. And you're essentially blaming them for not being more cabable than the vast majority of the entire population.
You can work two jobs and still barely make rent. But sleep's for the weak right? Thise people should jsut work even harder.
While a few people (Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg) can make out like the bandits that they are social mobility is not that high. Much, much much worse than you excessively polite Northern neighbour.
largest predictor of success being 1) whether you have both parents at the home, 2) how hard you're willing to work and 3) whether or not your parents are criminals.
You missed out the "your parents are rich" part which goes at the head of the list and dwarfs the other three.
The best life choice you can ever ever make is to be born rich. Especially in America (and the UK, my country. which is apparently slightly worse. Oh well I'm sure Brexit will improve that lolololol ).
Look I think Amazon are scummy and Bezos is a dick.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, seems to have a poorly-managed life. He was having sex with a woman besides his wife. Now his wife gets half of his money, more than $65 billion.
They were together before they got rich so it's quite clear the assets should be split 50/50 regardless of the reason for a split.
After that point why on earth wouldn't they split if they no longer wanted be togther? It'd be perverse if being the richest person in the world meant you couldn's split because of money where a much poorer person could.
Add to it all the antidepressants that have been shown to increase suicidal thoughts
Well can do. Basically brain chemistry is not very well understood and very variable. Brain pills basically fuck with your brain chemistry. You have to try a bunch before you find one where the side effects are acceptable. Apparently the effects are slow, so you have to take each for ages, then get withdrawal coming off it. You have to keep that up until you find one that fucks with your brain chemistry in the right way.
Never had to go through that but I know someone who has. It sounds horiffic.
Odds are great that these are just another "bin" of cards from their high end machine learning series.
what machine learning series? I mean I did some googling and fund that they talk about deel learning and whatnot but I can't find any deep learning stuff that actually uses AMD cards.
The only people I've ever heard of using AMD are people who have an AMD card in their laptop. By the looks of it they've abandoned OpenCL and gone for a cuda translator.
Oh christ not this again. Global warming is happening and yes it is talked about. Guess what it causes: climage cha...
But currently all the money is in promoting AGW.
wait what? OK that's new. Do you know what the GW stands for in AGW? I'll give you a clue, it's something about warming globes.
you literally CANNOT be published unless you follow the doctrine. It's religion. Not science.
Much like you can't get published unless you follow the doctrine of globe Earth. Globe-earthism isn't science it's RELIGION. The earth is FLAT! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!
Fortunately, most humans not just uderstand that shades of grey and continums exist, but are capable of dealing with them day to day as well.
You are engaging in some short of logical fallacy: you claim that because it is hard to draw a definite line is it also hard to know which things are very far removed from the line. That is very clearly not the case.
I've not seen any women in the board room who have tattoos.
"science" has been pretty consistent on this since the nineteenth century.
Of course this display was back when they were telling us were still in an ice age and all going to die
Oh right you're one of those total fuckwith who confuses the popular press with "science". Your moronic claims have been debunked time and time and time again. The only reason for still holding them is blatant, willful ignorance.
I've got plenty guns for dealing with all the starving looters that either crisis will generate.
No, you really, really don't. Espacially as the looters will most likely be armed as well. Your fantasies of shooting lots of people will not match any sort of reality.
Slashdot Mirror
I see in your mind, libel is equivalent to having a rational argument with evidence. That... well that explains a lot about your posts.
most people forget that part of the cost of retail software is the built-in cost of maintaining a support center, normally with a 1-800 number for question,
We're talking about large organisations though. I've never encountered a large organisation that wants you to call some vendor's support. They expect all IT support stuff to be handled through the organisations IT department.
Appropriate: We were wrong to use wiggling women's butts to market our blades. WE were part of the problem.
Good job that wasn't exactly how the ad actually started. In your rage-watch you didn't notice that the old gillette fratured as the ver first thing.
Inappropriate: If you have a penis, YOU are the problem. Because we say so.
Good job the ad didn't say that. I mean it was full of examples of men doing the right thing, calling out other men etc etc etc.
What's interesting is that you're so angry about it. It has examples of men not doing the right thing and men doing the right thing. Clearly you identify strongly with those who weren't doing the right thing. I wonder why.
As far as I can tell, based on the angry people who hate the ad here, the people who hated it are raving nutcases hellbent on misinterpreting it to the greatest extent possible.
brought up by tyrannical mother, away from 'toxic masculinity', never left to solve his problems alone....the very thing the ad encouraged.
There was no such thing encouraged in the ad. That's you absolutely 100% making shit up. At NO pint did the ad say that abusive mothers were better than fathers. I think you need to examine yourself heavily to see how on earth you managed to form that opinon.
My other nephews are two girls in high school. They complain that the boys around them are 'not serious and responsible'. Well, duh! When asking them to give an example of a 'serious man' they always point to someone older than a millennial. This ain't a coincidence.
lolwut. Even Shakespeare wrote a play about how teenagers are impulsive idiots. This is not new.
I don't want to have to analyze each product to see if the company who made it is in support or not of my personal political stances,
The end point of this is why DeBeers continues to exist. I mean who wants to bother snalyzing a product to see if the company involved supports literal slave labour? I don't care! I just want my shit!
Google would consistently return more results than altavista, which I believe was the top search engine before them. So filtering doesn't explain it.
That's not how I remember it. I always favoured hotbot myself. The sheer number of results were never the problem, the quantity of porn and other junk mixed in with the results was.
At the time, the reason you could get better results from google isn't because google themselves were pre-filtering the index, but because they offered better search operators so that more advanced users could request a narrower set of results.
Also not my result. I remember there were plenty of operators so you could search for op-amp AND NOT cum AND NOT tits AND NOT credit card AND NOT crack AND NOT etc etc etc. I remember playing the fun game of putting in spam words unlikely to be in a page of interest until I finally got good results. The amazing thing about google at the time was that you didn't have to do all of that. Put in "op-amp", get results about op-amps.
That's when the "clever" algorithms came in. Before that it wasn't clever at all, it was very literal and straightforwards.
You're nearly a decade out. The clever thing initially was pagerank which filtered out crap that was badly linked to on the grounds that useful stuff had links. It was if anything the first mass filtering. That is the entire reason google was founded: filtering.
Google rose to prominence by showing the web as it was without fear or favour.
I don't understand whay blinkered rewriting of history can actually put forwards this idea.
Google won because their filtering of the tsunami of shit was much much better than everyone else. They won precisely becuase they were filtering and doing it very carefully and with clever algorithms.
This gave them considerable advantage over then-competitors who hand-indexed
No, proper search engines existed the nlike hotbot, but they were deluged with shite. Google was a better filter.
No. It's very likely that they will be but I see no reasons why they should be.
People build their lives together and support each other, so you can't separate who did what, because both people are working towards a common goal. She supported him financially when he started Amazon.
White is a synonym for Caucasian, dupshit.
Christ you're thick. And dishonest. Probably both. Here's a picture of an idian guy you complete moron:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
still think that guy is white?
I know from past experience that you know what it means;
I know exactly what it means: you bleat about race and gender and whatnot and how you're so virtuous for making *just* the right comments on it, so your fellow idiots from whichever nutty political wing you stick to think you're marvellous.
Now this part I'm not sure about; are you actually stupid enough to believe that a 9th century madrasa was anything remotely like the later European universities? :)
I knew you'd fall righ into that little trap I laid for you. You are so predictable. All the oldest universities in Europe were founded essentially as centres of religous teaching.
Or are you aware of the difference,
And what difference is that? The icky brown religion makes it not a proper university unlike the clean white religion?
Nonsense; my position is that that's what WOULD happen. The word "should" was inserted by you. Stop being a disingenuous fuck.
Lol wow you don't like being called out on your bullshit. Funny you accuse me of being a er "disingenuous fuck" and yes selectively quote.
No, that's what the left is doing
So you're a member of "the left". I didn't have you pegged for that.
And you're a child rapist.
This is exactly what I mean by you equating random shit. I have an actual example of you being racist, and that's equivalent in your mind to just random shit you made up because you don't like me telling the truth.
Never heard of the creep? If a group is successful at getting something, they push a little further. An example might be how the Right wing in the US hasgone so farther right every election cycle that now alomst everyone is too far left for them.
Sure and yet we manage to draw lines all day every day. Because we have to ot actually get anything done.
If this effort succeeds, look for more of the crybullying. The perennial victim group isn't ever really satisfied
The only crybullying I've seen is from the perpetually offended crown who believe they have the right to post literally whatever they want on a private service on someone else's dime.
And um, Over the years, be it short skirts, open shoulders hair up or down, even bathing suits, if they are hiding tats they apparently are well hidden indeed.
They often are, becuase of judgemental people like you.
It's a different world, and in it, tats are considered as a tendency to make bad and impulsive judgements.
Which is why people put them in places you can't see.
It's a poor way to phrase it, but the sentiment is correct. If everyone is racist then it's a meaningless category. There'd be no value to calling anyone racist; we would all just shrug our shoulders and say "yeah ... so?".
You'd like that wouldn't you?
No this is typical of you and the GP. You turn reality into some distorted vision and use that to excuse your own behaviour. Everyone's a little bit racist (to quote a funny song), but not everyone is equally racist.
If people sometimes do bad things, they should try to stop. Well, that's the civlised thing to do anyway.
Your position is that if people sometimes do bad things we should shrug and say "yeah so". You want to equate everything from occasionally mild things with the absolute worst so you can devalue the whole term.
I know why: it's because you are racist (as you demonstrated in another post) and you can't fucking stand when people call you out on it. Toughen up you little snowflake.
It's funny really. You know you're not right which is why you feel the need to misrepresent what people said. I mean if you felt you were right, you could just quote it directly. The reason you need to change it is because it doesn't say what you want. Viz:
the people of India are Caucasian.
The racist GP sais "white". People from india are not white. You going on about caucasians is you misrepresenting the OP because for some reason you refuse to believe racism exists even if you have to change what people said.
If you think Indians are white you should have said so so we could all have a laugh at you.
had to toss out the "founded by a woman" line.
Why do you always virtue signal about your attitude to gender? It's really tedious and just adds noise to the conversation.
Fatima Al-Fihri didn't found a university; she used her inheritance to found a mosque.
Again, why do you feel the need to misrepresent reality to support your beliefs? We both know she founded a mosque AND a madrasa. The madrasa is a place of learning, the kind of thing we call universities these days. Why did you pretend the latter doesn't exist?
Oh yeah it's because you're racist and sexist and if a muslim woman founded the oldest extant university you simply cannot deal and need to misrepresent reality so it looks like white dudes did everything.
What's truly pathetic is you're getting downmods.
Cherry picking the extremes tells you nothing about the overall statistics or the common case. Exceptional individuals exist.
99% of people aren't exceptional by definition. That means if you're born poor you'll stay poor. And you're essentially blaming them for not being more cabable than the vast majority of the entire population.
You can work two jobs and still barely make rent. But sleep's for the weak right? Thise people should jsut work even harder.
America is the greatest example of how poor people can become very rich through hard work and honesty. There is massive economic mobility,
No it's literally not and no there literally isn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While a few people (Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg) can make out like the bandits that they are social mobility is not that high. Much, much much worse than you excessively polite Northern neighbour.
largest predictor of success being 1) whether you have both parents at the home, 2) how hard you're willing to work and 3) whether or not your parents are criminals.
You missed out the "your parents are rich" part which goes at the head of the list and dwarfs the other three.
The best life choice you can ever ever make is to be born rich. Especially in America (and the UK, my country. which is apparently slightly worse. Oh well I'm sure Brexit will improve that lolololol ).
If everyone is racist, no-one is.
That's complete and utter orwellian bullshit. What else? Freedom is slavery?
Look I think Amazon are scummy and Bezos is a dick.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, seems to have a poorly-managed life. He was having sex with a woman besides his wife. Now his wife gets half of his money, more than $65 billion.
They were together before they got rich so it's quite clear the assets should be split 50/50 regardless of the reason for a split.
After that point why on earth wouldn't they split if they no longer wanted be togther? It'd be perverse if being the richest person in the world meant you couldn's split because of money where a much poorer person could.
Add to it all the antidepressants that have been shown to increase suicidal thoughts
Well can do. Basically brain chemistry is not very well understood and very variable. Brain pills basically fuck with your brain chemistry. You have to try a bunch before you find one where the side effects are acceptable. Apparently the effects are slow, so you have to take each for ages, then get withdrawal coming off it. You have to keep that up until you find one that fucks with your brain chemistry in the right way.
Never had to go through that but I know someone who has. It sounds horiffic.
Odds are great that these are just another "bin" of cards from their high end machine learning series.
what machine learning series? I mean I did some googling and fund that they talk about deel learning and whatnot but I can't find any deep learning stuff that actually uses AMD cards.
The only people I've ever heard of using AMD are people who have an AMD card in their laptop. By the looks of it they've abandoned OpenCL and gone for a cuda translator.
Global warming is never talked
Oh christ not this again. Global warming is happening and yes it is talked about. Guess what it causes: climage cha...
But currently all the money is in promoting AGW.
wait what? OK that's new. Do you know what the GW stands for in AGW? I'll give you a clue, it's something about warming globes.
you literally CANNOT be published unless you follow the doctrine. It's religion. Not science.
Much like you can't get published unless you follow the doctrine of globe Earth. Globe-earthism isn't science it's RELIGION. The earth is FLAT! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!
Fortunately, most humans not just uderstand that shades of grey and continums exist, but are capable of dealing with them day to day as well.
You are engaging in some short of logical fallacy: you claim that because it is hard to draw a definite line is it also hard to know which things are very far removed from the line. That is very clearly not the case.
I've not seen any women in the board room who have tattoos.
Well, not that they've chosen to show you.
WTF is with all the transphobia on here recently.
Make up your mind science
"science" has been pretty consistent on this since the nineteenth century.
Of course this display was back when they were telling us were still in an ice age and all going to die
Oh right you're one of those total fuckwith who confuses the popular press with "science". Your moronic claims have been debunked time and time and time again. The only reason for still holding them is blatant, willful ignorance.
I've got plenty guns for dealing with all the starving looters that either crisis will generate.
No, you really, really don't. Espacially as the looters will most likely be armed as well. Your fantasies of shooting lots of people will not match any sort of reality.
The tax rate in the EU.
You think the EU levies taxes? How cute!