Standard batteries don't last 10 years, even with 0 use. So it doesn't matter if the radio is off until needed, the batteries will be dead well before then even if you never use it.
And if you believe that I've got a bridge in Arizona that leads to your own private barrier islands I want to sell you REALLY cheap. Think of the money you could make charging tolls as all those tourists use the bridge to drive onto your island in the beautiful Indian Ocean!
Those watches are still made every day. The light is generated by radioactive decay. Its rather well understood, its not really that dangerous unless of course you're eating large quantities of a toxic metal because you think eating paint is a good idea.
In order for there to be enough useful energy there to harvest, it starts to become dangerous without shielding, then it gets complex and makes small scale production a ways off.
Nothing on the market today does, its not that they can't last a long time, its that they are designed not to, not so much cause they'll make more money because your batteries go bad, but because most people won't wait that long to use them and its far far cheaper to make batteries that last plenty long enough for the common use rather than things where you really do want them to last a long time.
So I'm guessing you've never been in the scouts then? Camping in the woods is more than just a little different than a sleep over, regardless of the sexes involved.
The problem here is you have an inability to understand that not everyone sees things your way. Your sig is a perfect example, you make blind statements of massive scope that are just utterly ignorant and then call others ignorant for not agreeing with you.
You seem to think that it is impossible for someone to have an opinion without pushing it on the rest of the world JUST because you have no ability to have an opinion without trying to push it on the rest of us.
You are the exact type of person you're trying to call the scouts. You're the one with the issues.
Its ironic to watch atheists shout out loud how proud you are of believing in nothing.
Why do you feel the need to advertise it if you don't believe in it?
Let me answer that for you... because you've just picked a different religion to worship.
You're so proud of how you're were smart enough to not be fooled by some magical entity that controls the universe... that instead you worship the non-existance of such being. You want to talk about fucked up ignorance, that tops the scale right there. At least religious zealots are worshiping something they think exists, you go off extolling the virtues of nothingness... of something you DON'T believe in.
If you were half as sure of the non-existence of a god as you claim to be, you'd not have bothered to tell us all. Bragging about your religion makes you just as much of a religious idiot as any other, even if your religion is anti-religon compared to everyone else.
You're just an ignorant douche who thinks he's better than everyone else, too stupid to realize you're doing exactly what you rage against. You go boy, stick it too'em!
My iPhone - When you show me one Android device that doesn't have OBVIOUS UI lag in scrolling, then... and ONLY then will I even consider the idea that Android may eventually one day be comparable to iOS. If the OS is incapable of smooth scrolling, its a shitty OS, I don't care WHAT it is under the hood or who's fault it is. And I'm sure you'll (or some other fanboy) name off some device that 'scrolls perfectly' and it won't, you'll just be oblivious to the fact that you've never seen it done right.
My Mac Book - When purchased, Dell, HP, IBM, Sony did not offer a laptop with the same hardware for the same price, sorry to burst your bubble, but not everyone buys $250 el cheapo netbooks. And the only place I can get a good Unix desktop.
My Mac Mini Server - Simply won't find anything with this power in this form factor and this OS, which fits my how perfectly.
Time Capsule/Airport Base Station - You can find stuff that does basically the same thing... when it works... and when you aren't having some sort of issue with their shitty software... No, in fact there is nothing that compares to a Time Capsule.
Now I realize fully that I could spend far less cash and cobble together all of this shit on my own with a bunch of OSS software, but it wouldn't work nearly as well, and I'd have to maintain it... worry about upgrades, reintegrating software, getting everything to play nicely together. I could spend hours a month just keeping up with updates...
Or
I just buy something that doesn't suck ass and works well together.
Real peple who code their own kernals and IP packets no better!
What are you like 12 years old? Dude I have real shit to do. I'm sorry you're life is so boring and poor that you think hand writing an IP packet is something to be proud of, let me give you a hint... it isn't. Neither is writing your own kernel for no other reason than to do it. I most certainly have the capability to do so, and in fact have done so on more than one occasion... WHEN I NEEDED my own kernel for a microcontroller or to simulate some bad packets for testing a network stack.
I do not however go around acting like I'm bad ass because I can do something that every intelligent person uses a computer to do automatically. You're bragging about being able to do something by hand that EVERYONE ELSE in the world realized they didn't want to do by hand and so they automated it... If you were nearly as hard core as you'd like to pretend, you'd be using a can-and-string system to communicate rather than all these computers that simplify things for you.
A quick check of the S&P 500 shows that you'd have to be in several places at once to work as the only guy at any of those companies, and that 160 'servers' would be far lower than... well ANY of them actually have, probably by an order of magnitude at least.
0. MBAs with business degrees are destroying this country... which I started arguing in the early eighties.
Right, because this is a new phenomenon that didn't exist before.
1. Outsourcing started more like 15+ years ago
Or realistically, more like centuries ago, depending on what industry you're referring to.
2. The company can get rid of whoever they want easily... except that works with employees, too.
Depends on the company, some companies have rules that require employees to be treated with a certain amount of leeway, contractors on the other hand are just assets, they get no such leeway, and require no special effort to get rid of them. Have you actually had a professional job yet in your life? Government jobs, unionized jobs, all sorts of reasons why its far harder to terminate an employee than it is a contractor.
3. The MBAs running the companies don't want to pay for experience, just "code monkees"
No shit, no one does. Programming isn't even a tiny bit hard, code monkeys are fine for that, but you need a manager that knows his shit in order for it to work.
4. Contractors are much cheaper than employees w/ benefits...
No they aren't. They generally require enough compensation to make up for the fact that they have to pay for their own benefits.
5. The fallout from the Microsoft lawsuit has resulted in contract terms going down to two years
I'm have no idea what you're talking about and I'm fairly certain you don't either. No one but a newbie with 0 experience signs a contract that requires them to stay without it being ridiculously profitable for them.
But the MBA's running the companies scream about wasting money on a "cost center", rather than a profit center. See #0.
Why's that? Well, a friend who teaches around the country (thanks, Bro. Guy) told us, on a mailing list, the food chain of the majors who take his "science for non-science majors" course. The next to the bottom are the business majors, who "don't get it, but don't let that worry them"; that is, PHB's to be.
So some dude on a mailing list told you how it was eh? Whats better, its some guy who 'teaches around the country'... so a consultant... oh hell, why bother, you're too daft to figure out the irony anyway.
As they won't have to compete nearly as hard to keep up with you since you'll be doing everything to substandard levels.
When you outsource, you get at BEST, a product built to 'the spec'. Thats best case. 10 times out of 9, you don't ACTUALLY WANT THE SPEC, you want something close to that, but not exactly... and you won't realize it until work is well underway on the project. Then again, sometimes you want nothing like the spec.
When its done internally you have the opportunity to respec along the way, and yes, this means longer development and more cost but it also has the potential for a superior product if managed effectively. Developers working in house, with a vested interest in the code are far more likely to communicate with others (like the programs users) to determine the best course of action, and are FAR more likely to raise attention to something in the spec that isn't going to work or is going to be inefficient.
If your spec says 'encrypt data, decrypt data, move it to new host, use data' than your off shored developers are going to give you exactly that... IF you're lucky.
Your internal developers might give you that, but its more likely they'll say 'hey, you do realize that encrypting then decrypting before moving is pointless right? Either drop the encrypt/decrypt phase or move decrypt to the destination host so we get protection in transit, which is probably what you intended in the spec'... or something along those lines.
Contrary to popular belief, programming requires very little effort or skills. Anyone with a decent IQ can do it, so you can easily have it shipped out to someone else.
Creating a well designed application or utility takes far different skills than just being able to program. You don't get that with outsourcing as thats not going the most profitable path FOR THEM. They'd rather have your app built perfectly to spec and suck so you have to come back and pay them a lot more to modify it.
Not unlike WordPerfect, who should have been the ones to do the word processor for Windows, but they left the field wide open and Microsoft filled the vacuum.
You have no idea how that went down at all, do you?
The US postal system is only 'going down' if they continue to be forced by congress to make stupid union deals and not allowed to trim expenses.
The only time the postal service isn't profitable is when congress takes their money for someone else or charges them for something completely unrelated to their operations.
Just for reference there beaver, its not a crime to be a monopoly. Its only a crime to abuse your position as a monopoly to hurt potential competition.
Microsoft is a downright disgusting bunch of fucks, but they didn't kill Netscape, Netscape killed itself by producing shitty software while MS produced what at the time was a superior browser. It was still shitty, but it was far better than the alternatives. It stagnated for years after Netscape fucked itself into the the ground and renamed itself to Mozilla.
Yeah, Google might as well keep giving money to Firefox to avoid the monopolist label
Contrary to popular belief here on slashdot, companies don't really give a shit about being a monopoly since its not illegal in any way what so ever. AT&T cares because they've already been convicted once and as such, they get watched more. As does Microsoft. Google, not so much.
Its not illegal to run a good business, which the majority of the slashdot population seems to think it is.
Use another browser that didn't forget that it was made to be used, and not so the developers could get their rocks off. Chasing fixes to work around idiot Mozilla developers is a waste of energy.
The author of the code can do whatever he/she wants with it. If you release code under GPL... YOU as the AUTHOR can also release it under BSD, proprietary, and any other style of license you want...
The AUTHOR IS NOT BOUND BY THE LICENSE, so saying 'the license prevents me from publishing to Apple's store' is a 100% bullshit excuse.
GPL software (cause lets face it, its only GPL zealots that we're talking about here) won't die because of AppStores, it'll die because you idiots are too stupid to survive. If you all want to relegate yourself to obscurity, thats your fault, no one elses.
You do realize that before you finished this part of the sentence you've already proven your complete ignorance and lack of understanding of the world around you, right? Only an idiot speaks in those sort of absolutes.
You have no understanding of 'normal' users. Normal users will get an email telling them that this new appstore is safe and add it so they can get the honey badger app... poof, infection!
Doesn't matter if you've told them not to... the Internet isn't really that dangerous, they'll be find this one time... except not really.
You have no concept of how people actually act, only how you as a semi-educated computer user act. Most people don't act like you.
Authors are not bound be the license of their own software, so using the license of their software as an excuse is pretty much just a bullshit excuse to do exactly the opposite (supposedly) of the intention of the license they choose and prevent users from using their software. Its an example of not-open censorship at its greatest.
I don't agree with the company you choose to buy your products from so you can't have mine even though I claim to be OPEN and FREE (as in liberty)
The link you posted is utter bullshit. Most of the dependancies DO exist (I know, I've looked at porting it myself) with ports already, the others are hard to port (couple exceptions) and they'd need to make a new UI. Its really not that hard, except... when you read that ticket you see the actual truth... they don't want to play nice with Apple users, but their using GPL as an excuse.
They don't give a flying fuck about free and open, they just want to 'stick it to the man', if you can't see that you need to open your eyes to the world.
No, it doesn't mean you can distribute it yourself.
See thats the thing, these 'free and open' licenses you refer of are typically nothing of the sort and the end result is that the user gets NO software at all because the license prevents anyone other than the author (who isnt' bound by the license) from publishing it.
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Standard batteries don't last 10 years, even with 0 use. So it doesn't matter if the radio is off until needed, the batteries will be dead well before then even if you never use it.
And if you believe that I've got a bridge in Arizona that leads to your own private barrier islands I want to sell you REALLY cheap. Think of the money you could make charging tolls as all those tourists use the bridge to drive onto your island in the beautiful Indian Ocean!
Those watches are still made every day. The light is generated by radioactive decay. Its rather well understood, its not really that dangerous unless of course you're eating large quantities of a toxic metal because you think eating paint is a good idea.
In order for there to be enough useful energy there to harvest, it starts to become dangerous without shielding, then it gets complex and makes small scale production a ways off.
Nothing on the market today does, its not that they can't last a long time, its that they are designed not to, not so much cause they'll make more money because your batteries go bad, but because most people won't wait that long to use them and its far far cheaper to make batteries that last plenty long enough for the common use rather than things where you really do want them to last a long time.
So I'm guessing you've never been in the scouts then? Camping in the woods is more than just a little different than a sleep over, regardless of the sexes involved.
The problem here is you have an inability to understand that not everyone sees things your way. Your sig is a perfect example, you make blind statements of massive scope that are just utterly ignorant and then call others ignorant for not agreeing with you.
You seem to think that it is impossible for someone to have an opinion without pushing it on the rest of the world JUST because you have no ability to have an opinion without trying to push it on the rest of us.
You are the exact type of person you're trying to call the scouts. You're the one with the issues.
Its ironic to watch atheists shout out loud how proud you are of believing in nothing.
Why do you feel the need to advertise it if you don't believe in it?
Let me answer that for you ... because you've just picked a different religion to worship.
You're so proud of how you're were smart enough to not be fooled by some magical entity that controls the universe ... that instead you worship the non-existance of such being. You want to talk about fucked up ignorance, that tops the scale right there. At least religious zealots are worshiping something they think exists, you go off extolling the virtues of nothingness ... of something you DON'T believe in.
If you were half as sure of the non-existence of a god as you claim to be, you'd not have bothered to tell us all. Bragging about your religion makes you just as much of a religious idiot as any other, even if your religion is anti-religon compared to everyone else.
You're just an ignorant douche who thinks he's better than everyone else, too stupid to realize you're doing exactly what you rage against. You go boy, stick it too'em!
Wow, its 2011 and you still haven't figured out how utterly meaning less A+ and MCP are yet?
Scroll up, plenty of idiots are claiming that.
My iPhone - When you show me one Android device that doesn't have OBVIOUS UI lag in scrolling, then ... and ONLY then will I even consider the idea that Android may eventually one day be comparable to iOS. If the OS is incapable of smooth scrolling, its a shitty OS, I don't care WHAT it is under the hood or who's fault it is. And I'm sure you'll (or some other fanboy) name off some device that 'scrolls perfectly' and it won't, you'll just be oblivious to the fact that you've never seen it done right.
My Mac Book - When purchased, Dell, HP, IBM, Sony did not offer a laptop with the same hardware for the same price, sorry to burst your bubble, but not everyone buys $250 el cheapo netbooks. And the only place I can get a good Unix desktop.
My Mac Mini Server - Simply won't find anything with this power in this form factor and this OS, which fits my how perfectly.
Time Capsule/Airport Base Station - You can find stuff that does basically the same thing ... when it works ... and when you aren't having some sort of issue with their shitty software ... No, in fact there is nothing that compares to a Time Capsule.
Now I realize fully that I could spend far less cash and cobble together all of this shit on my own with a bunch of OSS software, but it wouldn't work nearly as well, and I'd have to maintain it ... worry about upgrades, reintegrating software, getting everything to play nicely together. I could spend hours a month just keeping up with updates ...
Or
I just buy something that doesn't suck ass and works well together.
Real peple who code their own kernals and IP packets no better!
What are you like 12 years old? Dude I have real shit to do. I'm sorry you're life is so boring and poor that you think hand writing an IP packet is something to be proud of, let me give you a hint ... it isn't. Neither is writing your own kernel for no other reason than to do it. I most certainly have the capability to do so, and in fact have done so on more than one occasion ... WHEN I NEEDED my own kernel for a microcontroller or to simulate some bad packets for testing a network stack.
I do not however go around acting like I'm bad ass because I can do something that every intelligent person uses a computer to do automatically. You're bragging about being able to do something by hand that EVERYONE ELSE in the world realized they didn't want to do by hand and so they automated it ... If you were nearly as hard core as you'd like to pretend, you'd be using a can-and-string system to communicate rather than all these computers that simplify things for you.
In short, you're an idiot.
Yea, having standards of quality and user experience is nothing to brag about.
After reading your post ... I call bullshit.
A quick check of the S&P 500 shows that you'd have to be in several places at once to work as the only guy at any of those companies, and that 160 'servers' would be far lower than ... well ANY of them actually have, probably by an order of magnitude at least.
0. MBAs with business degrees are destroying this country... which I started arguing in the early eighties.
Right, because this is a new phenomenon that didn't exist before.
1. Outsourcing started more like 15+ years ago
Or realistically, more like centuries ago, depending on what industry you're referring to.
2. The company can get rid of whoever they want easily... except that works with employees, too.
Depends on the company, some companies have rules that require employees to be treated with a certain amount of leeway, contractors on the other hand are just assets, they get no such leeway, and require no special effort to get rid of them. Have you actually had a professional job yet in your life? Government jobs, unionized jobs, all sorts of reasons why its far harder to terminate an employee than it is a contractor.
3. The MBAs running the companies don't want to pay for experience, just "code monkees"
No shit, no one does. Programming isn't even a tiny bit hard, code monkeys are fine for that, but you need a manager that knows his shit in order for it to work.
4. Contractors are much cheaper than employees w/ benefits...
No they aren't. They generally require enough compensation to make up for the fact that they have to pay for their own benefits.
5. The fallout from the Microsoft lawsuit has resulted in contract terms going down to two years
I'm have no idea what you're talking about and I'm fairly certain you don't either. No one but a newbie with 0 experience signs a contract that requires them to stay without it being ridiculously profitable for them.
But the MBA's running the companies scream about wasting money on a "cost center", rather than a profit center. See #0.
Why's that? Well, a friend who teaches around the country (thanks, Bro. Guy) told us, on a mailing list, the food chain of the majors who take his "science for non-science majors" course. The next to the bottom are the business majors, who "don't get it, but don't let that worry them"; that is, PHB's to be.
So some dude on a mailing list told you how it was eh? Whats better, its some guy who 'teaches around the country' ... so a consultant ... oh hell, why bother, you're too daft to figure out the irony anyway.
As they won't have to compete nearly as hard to keep up with you since you'll be doing everything to substandard levels.
When you outsource, you get at BEST, a product built to 'the spec'. Thats best case. 10 times out of 9, you don't ACTUALLY WANT THE SPEC, you want something close to that, but not exactly ... and you won't realize it until work is well underway on the project. Then again, sometimes you want nothing like the spec.
When its done internally you have the opportunity to respec along the way, and yes, this means longer development and more cost but it also has the potential for a superior product if managed effectively. Developers working in house, with a vested interest in the code are far more likely to communicate with others (like the programs users) to determine the best course of action, and are FAR more likely to raise attention to something in the spec that isn't going to work or is going to be inefficient.
If your spec says 'encrypt data, decrypt data, move it to new host, use data' than your off shored developers are going to give you exactly that ... IF you're lucky.
Your internal developers might give you that, but its more likely they'll say 'hey, you do realize that encrypting then decrypting before moving is pointless right? Either drop the encrypt/decrypt phase or move decrypt to the destination host so we get protection in transit, which is probably what you intended in the spec' ... or something along those lines.
Contrary to popular belief, programming requires very little effort or skills. Anyone with a decent IQ can do it, so you can easily have it shipped out to someone else.
Creating a well designed application or utility takes far different skills than just being able to program. You don't get that with outsourcing as thats not going the most profitable path FOR THEM. They'd rather have your app built perfectly to spec and suck so you have to come back and pay them a lot more to modify it.
Not unlike WordPerfect, who should have been the ones to do the word processor for Windows, but they left the field wide open and Microsoft filled the vacuum.
You have no idea how that went down at all, do you?
The US postal system is only 'going down' if they continue to be forced by congress to make stupid union deals and not allowed to trim expenses.
The only time the postal service isn't profitable is when congress takes their money for someone else or charges them for something completely unrelated to their operations.
convicted monopolist
Just for reference there beaver, its not a crime to be a monopoly. Its only a crime to abuse your position as a monopoly to hurt potential competition.
Microsoft is a downright disgusting bunch of fucks, but they didn't kill Netscape, Netscape killed itself by producing shitty software while MS produced what at the time was a superior browser. It was still shitty, but it was far better than the alternatives. It stagnated for years after Netscape fucked itself into the the ground and renamed itself to Mozilla.
Yeah, Google might as well keep giving money to Firefox to avoid the monopolist label
Contrary to popular belief here on slashdot, companies don't really give a shit about being a monopoly since its not illegal in any way what so ever. AT&T cares because they've already been convicted once and as such, they get watched more. As does Microsoft. Google, not so much.
Its not illegal to run a good business, which the majority of the slashdot population seems to think it is.
Chrome fans seem so angry when someone prefers a different browser!
Yea, just like Opera and Firefox fans.
The funny thing is, it seems the only people who don't got nuts over which browser SOMEONE ELSE uses are IE people.
Heres what I do:
Use another browser that didn't forget that it was made to be used, and not so the developers could get their rocks off. Chasing fixes to work around idiot Mozilla developers is a waste of energy.
The author of the code can do whatever he/she wants with it. If you release code under GPL ... YOU as the AUTHOR can also release it under BSD, proprietary, and any other style of license you want ...
The AUTHOR IS NOT BOUND BY THE LICENSE, so saying 'the license prevents me from publishing to Apple's store' is a 100% bullshit excuse.
GPL software (cause lets face it, its only GPL zealots that we're talking about here) won't die because of AppStores, it'll die because you idiots are too stupid to survive. If you all want to relegate yourself to obscurity, thats your fault, no one elses.
The only reason not to do repositories
You do realize that before you finished this part of the sentence you've already proven your complete ignorance and lack of understanding of the world around you, right? Only an idiot speaks in those sort of absolutes.
You have no understanding of 'normal' users. Normal users will get an email telling them that this new appstore is safe and add it so they can get the honey badger app ... poof, infection!
Doesn't matter if you've told them not to ... the Internet isn't really that dangerous, they'll be find this one time ... except not really.
You have no concept of how people actually act, only how you as a semi-educated computer user act. Most people don't act like you.
Authors are not bound be the license of their own software, so using the license of their software as an excuse is pretty much just a bullshit excuse to do exactly the opposite (supposedly) of the intention of the license they choose and prevent users from using their software. Its an example of not-open censorship at its greatest.
I don't agree with the company you choose to buy your products from so you can't have mine even though I claim to be OPEN and FREE (as in liberty)
The link you posted is utter bullshit. Most of the dependancies DO exist (I know, I've looked at porting it myself) with ports already, the others are hard to port (couple exceptions) and they'd need to make a new UI. Its really not that hard, except ... when you read that ticket you see the actual truth ... they don't want to play nice with Apple users, but their using GPL as an excuse.
They don't give a flying fuck about free and open, they just want to 'stick it to the man', if you can't see that you need to open your eyes to the world.
No, it doesn't mean you can distribute it yourself.
See thats the thing, these 'free and open' licenses you refer of are typically nothing of the sort and the end result is that the user gets NO software at all because the license prevents anyone other than the author (who isnt' bound by the license) from publishing it.