"Yep, wonder how many conservatives notice their hypocrisy as they pick up their welfare checks, their farm subsidies, or other gov help? "
Depends on what you mean by government help. But I agree, hypocrisy exists. On both "sides".
I never implied otherwise. I used to consider myself a hard-core conservative, until the Republicans hijacked that term and made it synonymous with right-wing religious/social conservatism. This I definitely am not.
"And surely we can remove living wages! After all, children in sweatshops is a great way for the owners to rake in money. No need to feed or clothe the workers, just chain them to their benches. There are more where they came from. "
To be clear, I wasn't referring to just "living wages", but government-guaranteed living wages whether you work or not. The kind of approach that has been killing the Swiss and Sweden's economy, for example. (I have that on authority of aquaintences who live there.)
I don't know about killing their economies, but yes, there is a major problem with providing deadbeats free cash at a working level. Maybe enough to subsist in a barracks environment doing gov work like picking up trash along the highways or something, but certainly not for sitting around causing trouble (Yes, I do equate free money and low socio-economic status with a tendency to crime)
"Love your Darwinian approach. "
It's not "my" approach. I was referring to other people.
"BTW, I don't necessarily support janitors making $50 / hr same as doctors, but I don't think paying them $1 a day is right either."
Nor do I. I have to wonder why you wrote this. Making big assumptions about what I meant, rather than taking the words I wrote at face value?
Perhaps leftover influence from the trolling post I read just prior to this one as well as the rather one-sided tilt to my initial statements? Wouldn't want someone thinking I was a leftie after all. The gun statement to me is a red-herring. The problem with the mass murders is not guns, but the lack of institutionalizing people that really cannot cope with the real world. Mental illness is real, some can be treated, and some need a place where the world doesn't allow them to go off the deep end. It's not pretty, but quarantine never is.
Yep, wonder how many conservatives notice their hypocrisy as they pick up their welfare checks, their farm subsidies, or other gov help?
And surely we can remove living wages! After all, children in sweatshops is a great way for the owners to rake in money. No need to feed or clothe the workers, just chain them to their benches. There are more where they came from.
Love your Darwinian approach.
BTW, I don't necessarily support janitors making $50 / hr same as doctors, but I don't think paying them $1 a day is right either.
There's your problem. Define skilled. My skill level is certainly different than some of the mid-level folks I interview. Are they "skilled" If so, then there's a whole slew of patents that would be valid. If it's a higher skill level, then a whole slew of patents will be invalid.
I'm running on a MacPro 3,1, showing 12 cores and 24GB and SL. The biggest issue with Safari is the JS engine and too many tabs open. That causes hangs and sometimes has interesting side effects, like having to Cmd-Tab to another window and back to "unlock" the JS engine. IIRC, even switching tabs or windows of the browser itself will fix it. This, IMHO, has nothing to do with our hardware, but is a bug in the JS engine. Safari's JS engine doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation. I think Chrome has a better JS engine implementation, personally.
This still doesn't negate that she was a stupid ditz and sued for her own mistake.
Next you'll be telling me hammer manufacturers should be sued for not having a warning about smashing your fingers with the "hard" head.
separate comment on the coffee - it's made with boiling water, last I checked. BOILING Let that sink in for a bit. Waiting...Physics says that's 212F at sea-level. If you make it at home and serve immediately, it won't be 140F unless you have one big cold mug to pour it in.
You can still go bankrupt, even with an LLC. What won't happen is that some ditz who bought a hot beverage and spilled it in there lap and got burned because they couldn't be bothered to hold it while driving their car and texting can't bankrupt both the business and you personally, taking all your possessions in a lawsuit.
Depends upon what you're doing, I guess. No mention was made of the use cases. I especially love the 2000 line macro I saw that accomplishes what a less than 40 character regex substitution does in vim on a csv file.
Ack!!! You're making me cringe! I say this from someone that dealt with a PHP codebase that had features added across 2 years by multiple developers (about 10). Needless to say, coming in after 2 years and having to convert the virtually unmanageable resulting spaghetti mess and seeing the same on several other projects of lesser scope has left me with an extremely negative view of PHP, at least for enterprise projects. It may be fine for toy projects, and yes, FaceBook isn't a real enterprise project IMHO, just a personalized messageboard with pictures that's been hugely scaled by virtue of being extremely segmentable by its inherent nature. We can argue that all day long, but the frequency and scope of additional features and bugs / errors shows that FB is becoming more and more unmanageable code-wise, at least to me. Again, I speak from the other extreme of having worked at a high revenue, high traffic site that had updates every other week, and sometimes weekly. No, this wasn't just marketing copy as an update either, but actual full sets of features, new inventory types, additional partner connections, new offers, new aggregations of services, etc. We easily ran 50K concurrent connections during "peak" times, which were measured in hours, several times a week. Since there were purchases, there's all sorts of PCI and transaction requirements across the board, with a host of other features as well. And this is only one project of a number of large and distributed systems I've worked with. So to answer anyone that thought to question: yes, I feel I'm quite qualified to give an opinion on FB.
Yeah, it is. But most of that is because of CPAN. VBA partially makes up for this by having the ability to call any DLL installed on the system....
If I go on, it will turn into an Anti-VBA diatribe.
VBA being able to call any DLL is a major problem with VBA, and the reason that it is universally disabled on every system I've had capable of running VBA since 97 or so. Fortunately, not a single system I own over at least the last 5 years has had VBA support, and I haven't missed it.
No need to worry about a diatribe, VBA ranks about 1 step above Active X on most despised tech, mainly because of its security concerns within MS Office products. Of course, you already knew that.
I'd switch, but the horrid VBA in Excel is still far better-documented and easier to develop for than any of the OO.org macro solutions.
Umm... this is/., we write real programs, not spreadsheet macros.
Not everyone is a full time professional programmer at work. I suppose admin staff shouldn't be allowed to use Excel for adding up travel expense claims, mileage, holidays taken, stationery cupboard requirements or whatever, but should be forced to submit their requirements to the company's Elite Programming Team and given a custom-written program for each separate task?
A) Yes, exactly!! In fact, that type of report should only be written by DBAs, as obviously this is a DB solution!
B) even if us lofty elitists did allow you to use a lowly spreadsheet, you wouldn't need macros/VBA for any of those functions.
Yes, but there's no real parallax to speak of, so that can be handled by an image or even a single raster pass. So, from a graphics perspective, this could be handled by 1980s technology, even with near field objects moving or appearing to move against the static background.
Perhaps that is because even in real life, "rendering" is capped at 17 miles or less on average? Significantly shorter than infinity. As long as the cut-off is beyond the "haze" plane, things will appear to slowly come into focus, and won't "pop".
It's like wanting to own a muscle car. It's probably not that fast, it handles like garbage, it uses too much gas, etc. But, damn, it's cool.
Exactly.. and that's why I want my SGi Indigo 2 with dual monitors again.. it was just damned cool.. or actually hot. And fun.
SGI Indigo 2 - what an incredible machine, especially with that $25K+ Z-buffer graphics card addition. A near $90K machine that wasn't matched by the PC world for more than 10 years.
If there are now 100 "Reginald von Hoobydoobies" instead of just 1, or maybe 200, 1000? These are computers we're talking about, after all. Granted, that particular name... I think you're hosed. (Now someone will post links to multiple existing "real" people) Additionally, you should use appropriate measures to be sure they don't all lead back to a single IP, and you will most likely want designated proxies to maintain the appearance of account 23 being from IP x.
Unfortunately, even if you are aware and intelligent, that doesn't stop the stupid from tagging your happy anonymous butt in that picture they took 10 years ago of you with their sister... and blammo, now you are "in the system" and identified, your correlation factor may be low, but something will come up when you're queried and if it's the only thing....
The only way to "erase" yourself is not to remove all bits of you, but to poison the well. Create many false accounts and post lots of irrelevant things, some about you with bad data if you're already all over the net. The higher the noise level you create with the more false data, the less valuable the "true" data is since data mining becomes less and less certain. Another fun thing - make some accounts with variations of your name, close but not exact, then post the passwords in forums and let random people take them where you want. Remember, you're not interested in reputation - you're interested in bad data.
Your last option would be to have been born a John Smith or Kim Davis - I've known a few of both. Locating specific people with those names is rather difficult.
It's been running for years. If I don't have a problem, I don't need to update. If I do, my data's crap already. It didn't all of a sudden "become" a problem after the update notice.
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Right into the hacker's botnet.
"Yep, wonder how many conservatives notice their hypocrisy as they pick up their welfare checks, their farm subsidies, or other gov help? "
Depends on what you mean by government help. But I agree, hypocrisy exists. On both "sides".
I never implied otherwise. I used to consider myself a hard-core conservative, until the Republicans hijacked that term and made it synonymous with right-wing religious/social conservatism. This I definitely am not.
"And surely we can remove living wages! After all, children in sweatshops is a great way for the owners to rake in money. No need to feed or clothe the workers, just chain them to their benches. There are more where they came from. "
To be clear, I wasn't referring to just "living wages", but government-guaranteed living wages whether you work or not. The kind of approach that has been killing the Swiss and Sweden's economy, for example. (I have that on authority of aquaintences who live there.)
I don't know about killing their economies, but yes, there is a major problem with providing deadbeats free cash at a working level. Maybe enough to subsist in a barracks environment doing gov work like picking up trash along the highways or something, but certainly not for sitting around causing trouble (Yes, I do equate free money and low socio-economic status with a tendency to crime)
"Love your Darwinian approach. "
It's not "my" approach. I was referring to other people.
"BTW, I don't necessarily support janitors making $50 / hr same as doctors, but I don't think paying them $1 a day is right either."
Nor do I. I have to wonder why you wrote this. Making big assumptions about what I meant, rather than taking the words I wrote at face value?
Perhaps leftover influence from the trolling post I read just prior to this one as well as the rather one-sided tilt to my initial statements? Wouldn't want someone thinking I was a leftie after all. The gun statement to me is a red-herring. The problem with the mass murders is not guns, but the lack of institutionalizing people that really cannot cope with the real world. Mental illness is real, some can be treated, and some need a place where the world doesn't allow them to go off the deep end. It's not pretty, but quarantine never is.
Yep, wonder how many conservatives notice their hypocrisy as they pick up their welfare checks, their farm subsidies, or other gov help?
And surely we can remove living wages! After all, children in sweatshops is a great way for the owners to rake in money. No need to feed or clothe the workers, just chain them to their benches. There are more where they came from.
Love your Darwinian approach.
BTW, I don't necessarily support janitors making $50 / hr same as doctors, but I don't think paying them $1 a day is right either.
There sure are, people like me who have a spanking new free copy sitting on a shelf, and a VM that's been moved to an external drive
There's your problem. Define skilled. My skill level is certainly different than some of the mid-level folks I interview. Are they "skilled" If so, then there's a whole slew of patents that would be valid. If it's a higher skill level, then a whole slew of patents will be invalid.
I'm running on a MacPro 3,1, showing 12 cores and 24GB and SL. The biggest issue with Safari is the JS engine and too many tabs open. That causes hangs and sometimes has interesting side effects, like having to Cmd-Tab to another window and back to "unlock" the JS engine. IIRC, even switching tabs or windows of the browser itself will fix it. This, IMHO, has nothing to do with our hardware, but is a bug in the JS engine. Safari's JS engine doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation. I think Chrome has a better JS engine implementation, personally.
Well written. Wish I had mod points.
ADHD - anyone ever think about what happens when you have a male 10 year old and pump 4000 calories of caffeinated soda into him?
This still doesn't negate that she was a stupid ditz and sued for her own mistake.
Next you'll be telling me hammer manufacturers should be sued for not having a warning about smashing your fingers with the "hard" head.
separate comment on the coffee - it's made with boiling water, last I checked. BOILING Let that sink in for a bit. Waiting...Physics says that's 212F at sea-level. If you make it at home and serve immediately, it won't be 140F unless you have one big cold mug to pour it in.
Better yet - cancer patients should sue Myriad for "creating" such a flawed gene and attempting to profit off of it.
Next up - I'm patenting gravel. No concrete can be made without paying me.
their.... muscle memory typo. sigh...
You can still go bankrupt, even with an LLC. What won't happen is that some ditz who bought a hot beverage and spilled it in there lap and got burned because they couldn't be bothered to hold it while driving their car and texting can't bankrupt both the business and you personally, taking all your possessions in a lawsuit.
Depends upon what you're doing, I guess. No mention was made of the use cases. I especially love the 2000 line macro I saw that accomplishes what a less than 40 character regex substitution does in vim on a csv file.
Ack!!! You're making me cringe! I say this from someone that dealt with a PHP codebase that had features added across 2 years by multiple developers (about 10). Needless to say, coming in after 2 years and having to convert the virtually unmanageable resulting spaghetti mess and seeing the same on several other projects of lesser scope has left me with an extremely negative view of PHP, at least for enterprise projects. It may be fine for toy projects, and yes, FaceBook isn't a real enterprise project IMHO, just a personalized messageboard with pictures that's been hugely scaled by virtue of being extremely segmentable by its inherent nature. We can argue that all day long, but the frequency and scope of additional features and bugs / errors shows that FB is becoming more and more unmanageable code-wise, at least to me. Again, I speak from the other extreme of having worked at a high revenue, high traffic site that had updates every other week, and sometimes weekly. No, this wasn't just marketing copy as an update either, but actual full sets of features, new inventory types, additional partner connections, new offers, new aggregations of services, etc. We easily ran 50K concurrent connections during "peak" times, which were measured in hours, several times a week. Since there were purchases, there's all sorts of PCI and transaction requirements across the board, with a host of other features as well. And this is only one project of a number of large and distributed systems I've worked with. So to answer anyone that thought to question: yes, I feel I'm quite qualified to give an opinion on FB.
Yeah, it is. But most of that is because of CPAN. VBA partially makes up for this by having the ability to call any DLL installed on the system. ...
If I go on, it will turn into an Anti-VBA diatribe.
VBA being able to call any DLL is a major problem with VBA, and the reason that it is universally disabled on every system I've had capable of running VBA since 97 or so. Fortunately, not a single system I own over at least the last 5 years has had VBA support, and I haven't missed it.
No need to worry about a diatribe, VBA ranks about 1 step above Active X on most despised tech, mainly because of its security concerns within MS Office products. Of course, you already knew that.
I'd switch, but the horrid VBA in Excel is still far better-documented and easier to develop for than any of the OO.org macro solutions.
Umm... this is /., we write real programs, not spreadsheet macros.
Not everyone is a full time professional programmer at work. I suppose admin staff shouldn't be allowed to use Excel for adding up travel expense claims, mileage, holidays taken, stationery cupboard requirements or whatever, but should be forced to submit their requirements to the company's Elite Programming Team and given a custom-written program for each separate task?
A) Yes, exactly!! In fact, that type of report should only be written by DBAs, as obviously this is a DB solution!
B) even if us lofty elitists did allow you to use a lowly spreadsheet, you wouldn't need macros/VBA for any of those functions.
That's still 8 orders of magnitude more advanced than that Excel VBA crap.
I'd switch, but the horrid VBA in Excel is still far better-documented and easier to develop for than any of the OO.org macro solutions.
Umm... this is /., we write real programs, not spreadsheet macros.
Yes, but there's no real parallax to speak of, so that can be handled by an image or even a single raster pass. So, from a graphics perspective, this could be handled by 1980s technology, even with near field objects moving or appearing to move against the static background.
Perhaps that is because even in real life, "rendering" is capped at 17 miles or less on average? Significantly shorter than infinity. As long as the cut-off is beyond the "haze" plane, things will appear to slowly come into focus, and won't "pop".
Exactly.. and that's why I want my SGi Indigo 2 with dual monitors again.. it was just damned cool.. or actually hot. And fun.
SGI Indigo 2 - what an incredible machine, especially with that $25K+ Z-buffer graphics card addition. A near $90K machine that wasn't matched by the PC world for more than 10 years.
If California gets theirs built, yes.
If there are now 100 "Reginald von Hoobydoobies" instead of just 1, or maybe 200, 1000? These are computers we're talking about, after all. Granted, that particular name... I think you're hosed. (Now someone will post links to multiple existing "real" people) Additionally, you should use appropriate measures to be sure they don't all lead back to a single IP, and you will most likely want designated proxies to maintain the appearance of account 23 being from IP x.
Unfortunately, even if you are aware and intelligent, that doesn't stop the stupid from tagging your happy anonymous butt in that picture they took 10 years ago of you with their sister... and blammo, now you are "in the system" and identified, your correlation factor may be low, but something will come up when you're queried and if it's the only thing....
The only way to "erase" yourself is not to remove all bits of you, but to poison the well. Create many false accounts and post lots of irrelevant things, some about you with bad data if you're already all over the net. The higher the noise level you create with the more false data, the less valuable the "true" data is since data mining becomes less and less certain. Another fun thing - make some accounts with variations of your name, close but not exact, then post the passwords in forums and let random people take them where you want. Remember, you're not interested in reputation - you're interested in bad data.
Your last option would be to have been born a John Smith or Kim Davis - I've known a few of both. Locating specific people with those names is rather difficult.
It's been running for years. If I don't have a problem, I don't need to update. If I do, my data's crap already. It didn't all of a sudden "become" a problem after the update notice.