I'm not a baseball fan, though I can appreciate the sports difficulties having played my own fair share of sandlot games.
Basketball I don't understand as a sport. Well, let me modify that. I understand basketball as a sport if played by people like me... 5' 6" white guy who can't jump.
I dont' see professional or collage basketball as a sport. Its a 'team' of people... all of which can jump from half court and drop the ball in the goal without completely extending their arm to its full reach. Its like me calling it a sport as I stand over the trashcan and slam dunk spit balls.
In case you haven't noticed the other sports though. Cheerleaders in pro's are pretty fucking ugly. Mostly past their prime women who haven't realized they haven't been hot for years, mostly just spackle (sorry makeup) covered dogs. College is only slightly better, there its the not completely used up whores doing it, still beat with the ugly stick, just a few years younger. Women who are actually hot don't have to become cheerleaders to get attention.
You may not get access to some new code that was combined with it... but that code was never BSD code... you never had access to it... nothing was 'taken away from you' because you didn't have it in the first place.
GPL doesn't 'keep people from taking things away from you' it forces them to give it to you.
If you think GPL is about freedom, why is it such a long list of restrictions compared to AT WORST, the 4 a BSD license carries (now days everyone uses only 2). I can handwrite the BSD license in a minute or so... I think my printer would run out of ink if I tried to print a copy of the GPL in standard font right now.
It really is mind boggling how you can talk about freedom which is so obviously not.
The only freedom this limits in practice use is the freedom to profit off the work of others. I am not a supported of IP as a concept in general but it exists; to that end GPL has succeeded in ensuring there is a workable free ecosystem that I really don't think would exist with out it.
How incredibly shorts sighted and ignorant of you.
If the say... the standard IP implementation that... EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET users was GPL'd instead of BSD'd... then we would have unique IP networking implementations across every OS on the planet, assuming that the Internet would exist yet in the first place since Cisco isn't going to jump on your GPL'd protocol since they can't do nearly as much neat tricks to make them a viable company.
Its sad that you don't realize what a chilling effect GPL has on software acceptance.
You fail to understand that shared standards are what makes computing work. I'm sure you'll scream OPEN STANDARD and then that actually means GPL style standards. So instead of being open and working with others, you want everyone else to play the same way you do. If they don't, you take your toys and go home.
I'm sorry, since when did it become such a noble cause to want to defy the spirit of the GPL, and then whine and gripe when it goes from spirit to legal fact? Again, you have to know the license of the software you're modifying before you go and do so, otherwise you're a damned fool.
Since people started realizing what a ridiculous nutjob RMS and his cult of followers are. GPL isn't about freedom as you can see by GPL v3, which was created for the shear purpose of preventing someone else from exercising a specific freedom with the software.
RMS and his followers are a bunch of ignorant hypocrites for the most part.
32 bit shared-libs (yes, moving to a unix-ish architecture)
What part of shared libs is related to UNIX other than 'yes, it supports it'. What OS doesn't support shared libs? Since it doesn't have to be a function of the OS any more than threading does, I don't see how such a statement is relevant. DOS supports DLLs too you know.
Rolls of the sexes have been pretty standard throughout recorded history.
There have been times when the rolls get reversed, exceptions to every generalization do exist but that doesn't invalidate the generalization, it just reminds you that its a generalization and nothing more. Trying to pretend exceptions were the normal is dishonest at best.
Okay, so you're whats referred to by normal people (men and women) as a militant, man hating dyke. While I don't know, nor care about your sexual preference or your gender, the name applies as it makes it clear I'm attempting to offend you as absolutely much as possible.
The reason is this: You're so pissed off about it being someone elses fault that you're telling him... that he's wrong, its not a problem with society... but you know what it is... a problem with society...
You're so pissed off you can't see straight and don't realize you're just making an ass out of yourself. People like you are why people don't want to go to work.
Get over yourself. There are lots of reasons why women don't do the same things men do. You don't get to decide what those reasons are any more than I do, and all anyone on slashdot is doing is speculating because not a single fucking one of us has any clue why anyone else actually does what they do. Pretending either one of us know why some other woman doesn't want to be an engineer is like arguing over the existence of God. Its a silly argument no matter which side you're on. We only know why we are engineers.
Get off your bitchy ass horse and get over your self. Pull whatever it is thats stuck up your ass out, move on, relax, and enjoy life. Your hatred of others is going to tear you up.
Jesus christ... if the US gave half as much about Assange as you loonies think, we would have just fucking shot him and made it look like some random fanboy such as yourself did it. There are clearly enough loonies out there to make it plausible.
HE's not a whistleblower, he's a jackass who prays on the morality of others to gain power and influence over others. He is, in fact, EXACTLY like the governments you think he's 'outting'. You're just to blinded by your love for the ideals to see the reality.
Fortunately for the rest of us, society doesn't work that way. Of course, thats because the rest of us aren't paranoid nut jobs who will one day scream and rave about how awesome Sweden is for giving the US the finger, having a 'pirate party' and allowing TPB to exist even though its sole purpose is clearly to facilitate piracy... and then the very next talk about how Sweden is going to basically suck the US off while they hand over Assange because they are so under the control of the US.
Do you have absolutely any idea how idiotic you sound? Its fucking Sweden you moron. If we wanted him, England wouldn't have tried to arrest him for Sweden, they would have just put his ass in a box and shipped him to gitmo for us. You sound retarded because doing away with Assange would be far less surprising than other stuff they have no problem publicly admitting to.
He's not as important as your fantasies seem to think he is. He's just another selfish douche bent on obtaining and using power for his own personal gain. He is, in fact, EXACTLY like the people he pretends to be against, and you're too blindly in love with him to recognize it.
Everything around you was built on the shoulders of giants.
Hell, the entire solar system is itself born of Supernova... how the hell do you plan to top that?
Google doing it 'better' is what they get credit for and thats the impressive part. They turned silly little things no one had heard of before into industry changing powerhouses.
If you don't think Google changed anything, ask anyone in advertising for the last 20 years. The last 10 years have been one hell of a ride for them.
It didn't use 'T1 lines'... alright, I don't know that. What I do know is that a T1 would be atleast 1000 times overkill for that game if the code was fucking horrible. A good modem connection would work for several players, latency being the only POSSIBLE concern. For one player on each end, a modem (28.8 at that point was common) would be over kill.
A T1 is also a government regulated circuit, its not bound by an SLA, its bound by law to be reliable, and as such, costs ridiculous amounts of money compared to all other forms of connectivity.
Extended ascii is widespread but undefined and different depending on location. Ascii is nearly universal and defined the same everywhere. Ascii in France is the same as Ascii in Texas. Extended ascii in France is not the same as extended ascii in Texas... nor is it the same as extended ascii in England, Germany, or (insert long list of variations on extended ascii here).
Ascii is ascii, when people talk about it, thats what they are talking about. They aren't talking about double horizontal line with one left facing vertical line on top.
Just because you are ignorant of why the word is used as it is doesn't mean you get to change the usage. Crawl back in your hole and stop telling people they are pedantic because of your ignorance.
If you wanted to see a currency made up, sell gift certificates for your products. Look, you made a new bartering system without making yourself part of a scam. Playing monopoly is pretty much the same thing as well. Might as well use monopoly money rather than bitcoin, even it has more intrinsic value than bitcoin.
If a seller is concerned with volatility, they should consider not selling their received BTC for fiat currency. It's the number of "we accept bitcoin" sites that accept currency and then immediately convert it to fiat that is one reason for the downward pressure.
And what does that tell you about BitCoin? What should you take away from this? Since you clearly don't get it I'll answer for you... NO ONE TRUSTS THE SCAM.
I blogged about it the other day, in how I wish governments would just make BTC to fiat currency transactions illegal [2abd.com]. It would be a great step in reducing volatility and decoupling BTC from the regulated markets.
So if no one can exchange real money for your monopoly money... how exactly is your monopoly money worth anything?
Best part of your post is how it self contradicts itself repeatedly. You don't know what you want, you just want to pretend you were part of the start of something big.
Your commenting on a story about how bitcoin spiked and plummeted to worthlessness in the timespan of a day... and your comment is about how stable BitCoin is?
Except Gold has value regardless of its use as a currency.
Gold is rare and useful. It will never 'bust' as long as those two things are the case. BitCoin, for example, wouldn't exist without Gold because there would be no CPUs worth mentioning, and nothing fast enough to due the required calculations in any meaningful sense of the word.
Gold is used in many things. Drugs. Electronics. Industrial processes. Medical devices. Jewlery. (the list is tremendously long) and... as a form of currency universally accepted around the world by governments for tax purposes. and theres a limited supply of it as it requires far too much energy input to make Gold, so thats not a viable option. It has intrinsic value. People like the way it looks if nothing else. If you did entirely away with the concept of money... people would STILL WANT AND NEED GOLD.
BitCoin is used......... by a few people as currency between themselves. It has no intrinsic value. There is nothing there.
A far better policy is to have people doing the hiring who aren't biased.
Why the fuck is every solution here some sort of method to ignore the actual problem?
If you want to change your male/female ratio... CHANGE THE PEOPLE DOING THE FUCKING HIRING. If they are unable to be 'fair' about the process, change the problem, dont' invent some retarded new hoop they have to jump through so that it just becomes harder for legitimate people to get their job done.
They guy who doesn't want to hire women isn't going to be stopped by your petty little attempts to fool him. Its highly unlikely that we can hold a conversation for more than 10 minutes without me figuring out what sex you are... ON IRC. I'm sorry you are so completely unaware of the gender cues in the world, but just hiding a name and voice isn't going to do you much good unless the person doing the hiring is too stupid to be qualified for doing the hiring in the first place.
The fact that you have to dig up results from a decade and a half ago should have been enough to shut you up and for you to get the point, but clearly it just whooshed over your head as you proved his point for him in your post.
I'm not sure what med school you're talking about, but my wife went to one of the best in the nation and while she does have some stupid ridiculous debt... theres no way in hell any normal person ends up with $750k in school loans and debt. If you hit 1/3rd of that, you need a different career cause you've already failed out and restarted multiple times.
If you have undergrad debt of any size, you're more or less a stupid fuck who deserves it. There are millions of dollars in unclaimed grants waiting every year for insanely stupid stuff... so many so that if you have to pay for school, you really don't deserve the degree. (If you choose to pay for it all yourself and leave the grants for someone else, thats another story and I applaud you, but its still probably a waste of your money). Theres no excuse to have debt coming out of undergrad.
I stopped using it a few years back and switched to Google Apps because our company shrank down to a few employees, but my experience with OpenFire ranks it as THE BEST XMPP server, at least for companies under 200 employees (my experience level with it).
Its reliable, works with multiple internal/existing auth systems including AcitveDirectory and plain LDAP. Supports a metric fuckton of plugins, some of which add really cool features, and if you've got a Java developer, you can use it for all sorts of silly things.
Its also free (as in no cost) last I used it for the very base software, additional special stuff my cost more but I never needed them for normal XMPP functionality.
If you want to 'try' XMPP for yourself and you're not 40k employees, try OpenFire. The time you save dicking with ejabberd or whatever the latest/shitty C implementation currently is.
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I'm not a baseball fan, though I can appreciate the sports difficulties having played my own fair share of sandlot games.
Basketball I don't understand as a sport. Well, let me modify that. I understand basketball as a sport if played by people like me ... 5' 6" white guy who can't jump.
I dont' see professional or collage basketball as a sport. Its a 'team' of people ... all of which can jump from half court and drop the ball in the goal without completely extending their arm to its full reach. Its like me calling it a sport as I stand over the trashcan and slam dunk spit balls.
In case you haven't noticed the other sports though. Cheerleaders in pro's are pretty fucking ugly. Mostly past their prime women who haven't realized they haven't been hot for years, mostly just spackle (sorry makeup) covered dogs. College is only slightly better, there its the not completely used up whores doing it, still beat with the ugly stick, just a few years younger. Women who are actually hot don't have to become cheerleaders to get attention.
BSD in no way takes options away downstream.
Everyone will have access to the BSD code.
You may not get access to some new code that was combined with it ... but that code was never BSD code ... you never had access to it ... nothing was 'taken away from you' because you didn't have it in the first place.
GPL doesn't 'keep people from taking things away from you' it forces them to give it to you.
If you think GPL is about freedom, why is it such a long list of restrictions compared to AT WORST, the 4 a BSD license carries (now days everyone uses only 2). I can handwrite the BSD license in a minute or so ... I think my printer would run out of ink if I tried to print a copy of the GPL in standard font right now.
It really is mind boggling how you can talk about freedom which is so obviously not.
The only freedom this limits in practice use is the freedom to profit off the work of others. I am not a supported of IP as a concept in general but it exists; to that end GPL has succeeded in ensuring there is a workable free ecosystem that I really don't think would exist with out it.
How incredibly shorts sighted and ignorant of you.
If the say ... the standard IP implementation that ... EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET users was GPL'd instead of BSD'd ... then we would have unique IP networking implementations across every OS on the planet, assuming that the Internet would exist yet in the first place since Cisco isn't going to jump on your GPL'd protocol since they can't do nearly as much neat tricks to make them a viable company.
Its sad that you don't realize what a chilling effect GPL has on software acceptance.
You fail to understand that shared standards are what makes computing work. I'm sure you'll scream OPEN STANDARD and then that actually means GPL style standards. So instead of being open and working with others, you want everyone else to play the same way you do. If they don't, you take your toys and go home.
Spoiled brats, the entire lot of you.
I'm sorry, since when did it become such a noble cause to want to defy the spirit of the GPL, and then whine and gripe when it goes from spirit to legal fact? Again, you have to know the license of the software you're modifying before you go and do so, otherwise you're a damned fool.
Since people started realizing what a ridiculous nutjob RMS and his cult of followers are. GPL isn't about freedom as you can see by GPL v3, which was created for the shear purpose of preventing someone else from exercising a specific freedom with the software.
RMS and his followers are a bunch of ignorant hypocrites for the most part.
32 bit shared-libs (yes, moving to a unix-ish architecture)
What part of shared libs is related to UNIX other than 'yes, it supports it'. What OS doesn't support shared libs? Since it doesn't have to be a function of the OS any more than threading does, I don't see how such a statement is relevant. DOS supports DLLs too you know.
Not really.
Rolls of the sexes have been pretty standard throughout recorded history.
There have been times when the rolls get reversed, exceptions to every generalization do exist but that doesn't invalidate the generalization, it just reminds you that its a generalization and nothing more. Trying to pretend exceptions were the normal is dishonest at best.
Okay, so you're whats referred to by normal people (men and women) as a militant, man hating dyke. While I don't know, nor care about your sexual preference or your gender, the name applies as it makes it clear I'm attempting to offend you as absolutely much as possible.
The reason is this: You're so pissed off about it being someone elses fault that you're telling him ... that he's wrong, its not a problem with society ... but you know what it is ... a problem with society ...
You're so pissed off you can't see straight and don't realize you're just making an ass out of yourself. People like you are why people don't want to go to work.
Get over yourself. There are lots of reasons why women don't do the same things men do. You don't get to decide what those reasons are any more than I do, and all anyone on slashdot is doing is speculating because not a single fucking one of us has any clue why anyone else actually does what they do. Pretending either one of us know why some other woman doesn't want to be an engineer is like arguing over the existence of God. Its a silly argument no matter which side you're on. We only know why we are engineers.
Get off your bitchy ass horse and get over your self. Pull whatever it is thats stuck up your ass out, move on, relax, and enjoy life. Your hatred of others is going to tear you up.
He's probably in Big Pharma
Not really, he's got an actual business to run in the real world. Playing with a toy fantasy isn't probably on his high priority list.
Google didn't make Android, they bought a company who did.
Jesus christ ... if the US gave half as much about Assange as you loonies think, we would have just fucking shot him and made it look like some random fanboy such as yourself did it. There are clearly enough loonies out there to make it plausible.
HE's not a whistleblower, he's a jackass who prays on the morality of others to gain power and influence over others. He is, in fact, EXACTLY like the governments you think he's 'outting'. You're just to blinded by your love for the ideals to see the reality.
Fortunately for the rest of us, society doesn't work that way. Of course, thats because the rest of us aren't paranoid nut jobs who will one day scream and rave about how awesome Sweden is for giving the US the finger, having a 'pirate party' and allowing TPB to exist even though its sole purpose is clearly to facilitate piracy ... and then the very next talk about how Sweden is going to basically suck the US off while they hand over Assange because they are so under the control of the US.
Do you have absolutely any idea how idiotic you sound? Its fucking Sweden you moron. If we wanted him, England wouldn't have tried to arrest him for Sweden, they would have just put his ass in a box and shipped him to gitmo for us. You sound retarded because doing away with Assange would be far less surprising than other stuff they have no problem publicly admitting to.
He's not as important as your fantasies seem to think he is. He's just another selfish douche bent on obtaining and using power for his own personal gain. He is, in fact, EXACTLY like the people he pretends to be against, and you're too blindly in love with him to recognize it.
By that logic, nothing is ever impressive.
Everything around you was built on the shoulders of giants.
Hell, the entire solar system is itself born of Supernova ... how the hell do you plan to top that?
Google doing it 'better' is what they get credit for and thats the impressive part. They turned silly little things no one had heard of before into industry changing powerhouses.
If you don't think Google changed anything, ask anyone in advertising for the last 20 years. The last 10 years have been one hell of a ride for them.
Not really a leak other than to garner attention to someone that no one actually cares about any more.
The sad part is that due to this, we can now trust that Google's motto is officially Do Evil at this point.
It didn't use 'T1 lines' ... alright, I don't know that. What I do know is that a T1 would be atleast 1000 times overkill for that game if the code was fucking horrible. A good modem connection would work for several players, latency being the only POSSIBLE concern. For one player on each end, a modem (28.8 at that point was common) would be over kill.
A T1 is also a government regulated circuit, its not bound by an SLA, its bound by law to be reliable, and as such, costs ridiculous amounts of money compared to all other forms of connectivity.
Extended ascii is widespread but undefined and different depending on location. Ascii is nearly universal and defined the same everywhere. Ascii in France is the same as Ascii in Texas. Extended ascii in France is not the same as extended ascii in Texas ... nor is it the same as extended ascii in England, Germany, or (insert long list of variations on extended ascii here).
Ascii is ascii, when people talk about it, thats what they are talking about. They aren't talking about double horizontal line with one left facing vertical line on top.
Just because you are ignorant of why the word is used as it is doesn't mean you get to change the usage. Crawl back in your hole and stop telling people they are pedantic because of your ignorance.
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Why would you go back to the 1800s to do that when you can ... just do it today?
You're blaming optional things that you don't have to participate in on your reason for not being able to save.
If you want to save your money ... SAVE IT. If you don't like credit cards ... DONT USE THEM. They are not required.
You're just whining about shit you're too lazy to actually use.
If you wanted to see a currency made up, sell gift certificates for your products. Look, you made a new bartering system without making yourself part of a scam. Playing monopoly is pretty much the same thing as well. Might as well use monopoly money rather than bitcoin, even it has more intrinsic value than bitcoin.
If a seller is concerned with volatility, they should consider not selling their received BTC for fiat currency. It's the number of "we accept bitcoin" sites that accept currency and then immediately convert it to fiat that is one reason for the downward pressure.
And what does that tell you about BitCoin? What should you take away from this? Since you clearly don't get it I'll answer for you ... NO ONE TRUSTS THE SCAM.
I blogged about it the other day, in how I wish governments would just make BTC to fiat currency transactions illegal [2abd.com]. It would be a great step in reducing volatility and decoupling BTC from the regulated markets.
So if no one can exchange real money for your monopoly money ... how exactly is your monopoly money worth anything?
Best part of your post is how it self contradicts itself repeatedly. You don't know what you want, you just want to pretend you were part of the start of something big.
Your commenting on a story about how bitcoin spiked and plummeted to worthlessness in the timespan of a day ... and your comment is about how stable BitCoin is?
What world do you live in where that makes sense?
Except Gold has value regardless of its use as a currency.
Gold is rare and useful. It will never 'bust' as long as those two things are the case. BitCoin, for example, wouldn't exist without Gold because there would be no CPUs worth mentioning, and nothing fast enough to due the required calculations in any meaningful sense of the word.
Gold is used in many things. Drugs. Electronics. Industrial processes. Medical devices. Jewlery. (the list is tremendously long) and ... as a form of currency universally accepted around the world by governments for tax purposes. and theres a limited supply of it as it requires far too much energy input to make Gold, so thats not a viable option. It has intrinsic value. People like the way it looks if nothing else. If you did entirely away with the concept of money ... people would STILL WANT AND NEED GOLD.
BitCoin is used ... ... ... by a few people as currency between themselves. It has no intrinsic value. There is nothing there.
BitCoin is like the Matrix.
Remember ... there is no spoon.
A far better policy is to have people doing the hiring who aren't biased.
Why the fuck is every solution here some sort of method to ignore the actual problem?
If you want to change your male/female ratio ... CHANGE THE PEOPLE DOING THE FUCKING HIRING. If they are unable to be 'fair' about the process, change the problem, dont' invent some retarded new hoop they have to jump through so that it just becomes harder for legitimate people to get their job done.
They guy who doesn't want to hire women isn't going to be stopped by your petty little attempts to fool him. Its highly unlikely that we can hold a conversation for more than 10 minutes without me figuring out what sex you are ... ON IRC. I'm sorry you are so completely unaware of the gender cues in the world, but just hiding a name and voice isn't going to do you much good unless the person doing the hiring is too stupid to be qualified for doing the hiring in the first place.
The fact that you have to dig up results from a decade and a half ago should have been enough to shut you up and for you to get the point, but clearly it just whooshed over your head as you proved his point for him in your post.
because it's currently thought that much of the rampant diagnoses of ADHD
And this is why I hate teachers ...
Who the fuck thinks teachers (K - 3) are qualified to have any part in a medical diagnoses?
I'm not sure what med school you're talking about, but my wife went to one of the best in the nation and while she does have some stupid ridiculous debt ... theres no way in hell any normal person ends up with $750k in school loans and debt. If you hit 1/3rd of that, you need a different career cause you've already failed out and restarted multiple times.
If you have undergrad debt of any size, you're more or less a stupid fuck who deserves it. There are millions of dollars in unclaimed grants waiting every year for insanely stupid stuff ... so many so that if you have to pay for school, you really don't deserve the degree. (If you choose to pay for it all yourself and leave the grants for someone else, thats another story and I applaud you, but its still probably a waste of your money). Theres no excuse to have debt coming out of undergrad.
++OpenFire
I stopped using it a few years back and switched to Google Apps because our company shrank down to a few employees, but my experience with OpenFire ranks it as THE BEST XMPP server, at least for companies under 200 employees (my experience level with it).
Its reliable, works with multiple internal/existing auth systems including AcitveDirectory and plain LDAP. Supports a metric fuckton of plugins, some of which add really cool features, and if you've got a Java developer, you can use it for all sorts of silly things.
Its also free (as in no cost) last I used it for the very base software, additional special stuff my cost more but I never needed them for normal XMPP functionality.
If you want to 'try' XMPP for yourself and you're not 40k employees, try OpenFire. The time you save dicking with ejabberd or whatever the latest/shitty C implementation currently is.