Just for reference, you can still do what he wanted to do. Its not illegal, owners have the right to refuse entry or service to anyone they want any time they want. There is no law that says you have to let everyone into your business, just the opposite actually, there are laws that back up your right as an owner of a business.
Its just a really shitty business decision to discriminate for financial reasons, to the point that you're unlikely to stay in business if you do it. Throw on top of it the general phobia everyone has towards anything that might possibly be racist and you'd end up with a business taxed to the point that your back breaks and no customers because they dont' like bigots.
You would however, be 100% within the law.
I for one agree with your grandad, not about blacks, but about the smoking ban in NC which says no smoking inside of buildings visited by the public... If you don't want to go into a place that permits smoking, you can go somewhere else, or work somewhere else, but a whiney old cunt in our state government decided to push people until they voted with her in order to get her to shut the fuck up. Now... no one can smoke in a bar... WTF...
For the record, I don't smoke, quit years ago, and it still pisses me off.
Yea, totally the same. Except Netscape and Time Warner did great without AOL being involved. Time Warner is again making a killing now that its kicking/kicked AOL to the curb and got ride of their shitty management.
Facebook is exactly like AOL, true. Netscape and TWC, not so much. TWC make money hand over fist.
You are obviously ignorant of how valuable the email address and personal habits of 500 million idiots is to marketing firms.
Facebook doesn't really cost a lot of money to run when you look at on the proper scale. Its certainly far cheaper than actually surveying 500 million people each year and getting them to give up their habits, especially doing so honestly.
Their data, which you agreed to allow them to sell when you signed up is like gold to marketing firms, stock brokers (if they can get trend information out quick enough), event planners, hell even university researchers use Facebook data for real science.
Facebook is worth money until people realize just what they are doing to themselves by agreeing to the TOS. Once people leave Facebook or force them to change their rules then its dead as it currently stands.
Sometimes you don't have the option of being civilized and getting the job accomplished. In those cases, anything goes, including en masse killing of politicians, all of them.
Not that were there yet, but we're getting there because we've turned into complete pussies like yourself who aren't willing to make the point clear that we're tired of their bullshit and if they don't stop its going to get messy.
Many politicians regularly agree to kill people en masse over their political views, you've probably heard of it referred to as 'war', and sometimes it really is necessary when the other side just really doesn't get the point and won't leave you to live on your own in a civilized manner.
Wrong. Adobe reader has done a REAL good job about maintaining compatibility, which is fairly easy in its case.
Start using different viewers and PDF starts to look different.
You want HTML to always print the same? Simple, specify a single browser to use and documents will always print the same there too.
Now I realize your point is that PDF is consistent and browsers very widely, but the only reason that is true is because one company controls the PDF format and the move standard forward internally without nearly as much jockeying around trying to get their personal patented bits into a 'public' standard.
Theres no reason why HTML can't be this way, except people (browser vendors) don't follow the standard and extend it on their own.
OpenOffice and aMSN / Pidgin (not mentioning GIMP, fa
Thats because you're trying to get people to replace apps they know and use with apps that are inferior in every meaningful way except 'free'.
GIMP has the worst UI on the planet, everyone knows it, doesn't matter if its the worlds most awesomeest code, it fucking sucks to use. OpenOffice? Seriously? Its like Office... except even less reliable, slower, and incompatible in the sense that it will actually create and edit documents that will then actually look like they are supposed to when opened by everyone else in the world by the real MS Office. aMSN/Pidgin... both shitty apps, not that Windows comes with a good one, but iChat is certainly better than both according to the majority of the population.
You're talking till your blue in the face... because YOU think these things rock... everything you're telling them though is stuff they don't give a shit about.
Desktop Linux works for me, and has been since 1997.
Since 1997 eh? I was running a Linux desktop around then, I'm pretty sure you must have an entirely different definition of 'works' than I and most every one else in the world does.
Linux users tend to have rather *more* respect for intellectual property than your average computer user,
Bullshit.
That may be true of some Linux users, but I doubt that ratio is any different for Windows or any other OS.
However, Linux does have a MUCH MUCH higher number of leechs that think 'free software' means they don't have to pay for it. The battle cry is always 'free', rarely do you hear open.
Most Linux users use it because its a free ride, thats just the reality of it, sorry.
I can watch full-screen flash inside the VM on the thin-client with no jittering playback. Hell, even Autocad and Photoshop work marvelously especially through desktop streaming. With remote desktop applications you're usually limited by the precision of your mouse, compression makes detailed work almost impossible, a virtual desktop does not have these limitations.
Based on these statements I'm fairly certain you've never used RDP for anything in your life, or you think the performance of X is good, one of the two.
Now that I've bothered to read all of your post, you appear to be more or less clueless. I don't think I can find one thing you wrote that is actually true.
RDP over even a gigabit connection is noticable different, even in Win7 with its improvements. I can barely stand using a text editor over RDP, browsing sucks, flash is absolutely asstastic. Anyone using PS or ACAD over RDP isn't actually doing anything once they start the program or they would have shot themselves 15 minutes into it.
I don't know anyone that runs a VM inside of Windows JUST so they can move the VM elsewhere if the hardware fails, thats what we have network shares and disk images for, welcome to the 80s when we solved these retarded problems without adding 18 layers of complexity and failure points in the process.
You aren't moving 50 graphics designers to a terminal server either, you don't have one with the CPU power needed to power them, and building a cluster to support them would cost you far more upfront and in maintenance than just supporting 50 desktops.
As for server virtualization... how is it different than client without a display? Its not. You virtualize when you need a contained environment that doesn't justify a physical server for itself. You're wasting CPU power in virtualization.
I don't know who you're 'rolling out a virtual desktop' infrastructure for, but I'm 100% certain they're going to come out a loser in the deal.
Wow, spoken like a middle manager who knows absolutely nothing about desktops or server management.
Everything goes online... into an app... that still runs on your PC cause in case you haven't noticed, all these 'web apps' do a lot of processing on the desktop and a lot of displaying on a monitor.
Finally, the words you just spoke, I've heard at least 5 times in the last 20 years, and it still hasn't happened.
BSD's not dead of course - look only to the Mach kernel in OS X for verification.
Excpet of course that the Mach kernel is... the Mach kernel, not the BSD kernel. You basically just said 'Linux is alive, look at Windows' because Mac OSX has BSD subsystems just like Windows does after you install cygwin.
BSD still isn't dead of course, but the OSK kernel isn't BSD its Mach, OSX just has some BSD userland components.
Yea, except you can buy those machines from Dell for less without any volume discounts... and with a Dell overnight warranty.
If you're doing anything other than a specific need PC or building your own high end system, not buying from a provider like Dell is just a waste of money. If you think it isn't, that simply shows your lack of experience and lack of understanding of all the costs involved besides the original purchase price.
So why not just use HTML, its penetration rate is higher than PDF, has more software for displaying it, and does pretty much all the same shit... oh, and most browsers have some sort of security mechanisms built in.
Its neat that you worked on Acrobat and its dirty children, but don't you think you could have spent that time doing something better than reinventing the wheel in a substandard way?
Whats great is that you take credit for a bunch of work in acrobat, then proceed to point out (probably not intentionally though) how shitty the code is and how it missing basic freaking common sense bits like input sanitization.
The blood was in the water because it became blindly clear over night that you and your team had no clue how to write code used in an untrusted network environment.
PDF wants to be HTML, just using PostScript instead, and it sucks at it. Much like Flash, PDF needs to die.
I could continue on about all the other retarded things Adobe does (Has Adobe Reader's install bloated past 300meg yet? WTF) but why bother.
Little hint: Don't brag or tell people about your time at Adobe, only idiots will find it impressive.
Carriers have better coverage in some areas than in others.
It used to be, in my area, Alltel was the only provider that didn't suck, and only on analog. Then they converted everything to digital and of course they had the good digital coverage, then Verizon bought them out and now Verizon has the good towers. AT&T works okay and T-Mobile is less than impressive.
Go 20 miles west of here, and you'll notice your phone is using t-mobile towers cause both Verizon and AT&T blow goats in that area.
Another 100 miles after that, on the coast AT&T is the only thing that works in the larger cities, but Verizon is the only thing you can connect to in the rural areas.
You can fanboy all you want, but what you say may only be true in your area of operation, but on any given day for me, all three major providers are both awesome with fast speeds and completely unavailable.
Is that the only thing the first post should say is 'No'
I was thinking exactly what you said, as a Network Admin in yesteryear I can't imagine anyone who says 'the users broke my network by using it!'
Our network simple handle 'bad users' on its own. To much traffic was simply handled by throttling the user to a safe level when needed.
Seriously, how can you not have complete control over a network when its this size? I'd have to resign if I was in charge of their network and had to say 'some random user broke it, sorry boss'
You NEVER trust any part of your network to 'play' nice, even if its under your complete control... you can make mistakes too. You just assume the end users aren't going to play nice, and go from there, most do bad things without even knowing they are bad so you just plan for it like you would in any other business process.
Stop thinking about it like what would happen to you at that depth because thats not what happens.
Everything in the body of the fish formed at that pressure, which means it doesn't really feel the pressure. Your body didn't. Its internal pressure is about 14psi, if you took it down there, it would be crushed until it reached equilibrium with the outside pressure.
Likewise, if your brought the fish to the surface, or tried to, it would literally explode before it got to the surface as the internal pressure would be too great for its cells to contain.
You can see the same thing if you pull a fish up from even 150 feet too quickly, its eyeballs will pop out of its skull and its internal organs sometimes pushed out of its mouth.
We need to stop thinking that theres something special about life at these pressures or depths like its rare. We've known for 50 years there are fish down deeper than that, there were fish at the bottom of the Marianas trench, this one is slightly more than HALF that deep.
When you are born at such pressures, anything else seems insane... kind of like going into space without a space suit, which is pretty much what the fish would need to survive at the surface since its body is designed to operate at much higher pressures.
You could also go to the shelter and eat for free.
You could also get a job, assuming you're American. No American has an excuse for not having a job. 'I can't find one' translates into 'I can't find one that I like'. I've seen McDonalds hiring minimum wage workers from Mexico because the douche bags outside in their little tent city waiting for a hand out wouldn't stoop so low as to working at McDonalds.
What you steal isn't the issue, you are correct, however WHY you steal most certainly is. WHY is important because in this particular context there is no reason to steal. No one is under such tyranny that they can't take care of themselves. We're not talking about the middle of the desert or starving children in Ethiopia. We're talking about theft in countries where there is simply no excuse for being a thief.
I care for the needy, I will offer my help. I extend my help to not a single person in America over the age of 15 however. They don't need help, they need to get off their lazy ass and work for a living instead of living off idiots such as yourself.
witness the perpetual failure that is the war on drugs.
The war on drugs is a failure because the majority of the country does drugs, its trivial to not get caught, and best of all, a good portion of the people doing the 'enforcement' are drug users themselves.
Proper punishment does stop crime. You're idea of slapping them on the wrist and sending them to counsuling doesn't, as is well documented and easy to see if you look at pretty much any school in America due to the current state of 'omg, don't punish them, feed them adderal instead!'
The world isn't black and white, this is true, but your still a pussy and I'd be willing to bet you exert 0 control over the people around you. I'd put $100 on saying that you get used as a door mat on a daily basis, even if you don't' realize it.
I came from the shitty 'back to the wall about to starve death' situation, I got out without breaking the law. The friends I had which instead turned into thieves and murders (yes, murderers) are in fact still in the same situation they were in to start with.
The situation doesn't make the person, the person makes the situation. Stop being such a pansy and giving people bullshit excuses for not acting the same way civilized people do.
A pawn is a short term, high interest, high risk loan, the item won't be sold for X amount of time anyway, because the borrower has X amount of time to pay it back, so... there is X amount of time for the police to find it... after its been submitted to them to verify its not stolen anyway.
A sell at a pawn shop is different. Its highly unlikely you'll ever see the person selling the item to the pawnshop again, so you hold on to the money for a while to verify the items aren't stolen, then send out the check to an address so that if it IS stolen, you at least know where to go look for the thief.
The price you get for pawning something is considerably lower than selling it.
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Just for reference, you can still do what he wanted to do. Its not illegal, owners have the right to refuse entry or service to anyone they want any time they want. There is no law that says you have to let everyone into your business, just the opposite actually, there are laws that back up your right as an owner of a business.
Its just a really shitty business decision to discriminate for financial reasons, to the point that you're unlikely to stay in business if you do it. Throw on top of it the general phobia everyone has towards anything that might possibly be racist and you'd end up with a business taxed to the point that your back breaks and no customers because they dont' like bigots.
You would however, be 100% within the law.
I for one agree with your grandad, not about blacks, but about the smoking ban in NC which says no smoking inside of buildings visited by the public ... If you don't want to go into a place that permits smoking, you can go somewhere else, or work somewhere else, but a whiney old cunt in our state government decided to push people until they voted with her in order to get her to shut the fuck up. Now ... no one can smoke in a bar ... WTF ...
For the record, I don't smoke, quit years ago, and it still pisses me off.
I think you mean CNC machine.
Yea, and Google Video wasn't discontinued or anything.
Google bought YouTube because people liked it better and they kept it and killed their own, not the other way around.
Its only called killing the competition when the end result is worse than where you started from.
Yea, totally the same. Except Netscape and Time Warner did great without AOL being involved. Time Warner is again making a killing now that its kicking/kicked AOL to the curb and got ride of their shitty management.
Facebook is exactly like AOL, true. Netscape and TWC, not so much. TWC make money hand over fist.
You are obviously ignorant of how valuable the email address and personal habits of 500 million idiots is to marketing firms.
Facebook doesn't really cost a lot of money to run when you look at on the proper scale. Its certainly far cheaper than actually surveying 500 million people each year and getting them to give up their habits, especially doing so honestly.
Their data, which you agreed to allow them to sell when you signed up is like gold to marketing firms, stock brokers (if they can get trend information out quick enough), event planners, hell even university researchers use Facebook data for real science.
Facebook is worth money until people realize just what they are doing to themselves by agreeing to the TOS. Once people leave Facebook or force them to change their rules then its dead as it currently stands.
Funny, I thought it sounded like a good reason for me to stop buying Apple products.
The best part is when idiots like that argue based on what they 'learned' on Wikipedia rather than any sort of actual, factual education.
Thats because you think CS is supposed to teach you how to use computers as well, which it isn't.
CS is science and theory, not reality. I'm pretty sure you missed the point of your CS course.
As they say, fight fire with fire.
Sometimes you don't have the option of being civilized and getting the job accomplished. In those cases, anything goes, including en masse killing of politicians, all of them.
Not that were there yet, but we're getting there because we've turned into complete pussies like yourself who aren't willing to make the point clear that we're tired of their bullshit and if they don't stop its going to get messy.
Many politicians regularly agree to kill people en masse over their political views, you've probably heard of it referred to as 'war', and sometimes it really is necessary when the other side just really doesn't get the point and won't leave you to live on your own in a civilized manner.
Wrong. Adobe reader has done a REAL good job about maintaining compatibility, which is fairly easy in its case.
Start using different viewers and PDF starts to look different.
You want HTML to always print the same? Simple, specify a single browser to use and documents will always print the same there too.
Now I realize your point is that PDF is consistent and browsers very widely, but the only reason that is true is because one company controls the PDF format and the move standard forward internally without nearly as much jockeying around trying to get their personal patented bits into a 'public' standard.
Theres no reason why HTML can't be this way, except people (browser vendors) don't follow the standard and extend it on their own.
Thats because you're trying to get people to replace apps they know and use with apps that are inferior in every meaningful way except 'free'.
GIMP has the worst UI on the planet, everyone knows it, doesn't matter if its the worlds most awesomeest code, it fucking sucks to use. OpenOffice? Seriously? Its like Office ... except even less reliable, slower, and incompatible in the sense that it will actually create and edit documents that will then actually look like they are supposed to when opened by everyone else in the world by the real MS Office. aMSN/Pidgin ... both shitty apps, not that Windows comes with a good one, but iChat is certainly better than both according to the majority of the population.
You're talking till your blue in the face ... because YOU think these things rock ... everything you're telling them though is stuff they don't give a shit about.
Since 1997 eh? I was running a Linux desktop around then, I'm pretty sure you must have an entirely different definition of 'works' than I and most every one else in the world does.
Bullshit.
That may be true of some Linux users, but I doubt that ratio is any different for Windows or any other OS.
However, Linux does have a MUCH MUCH higher number of leechs that think 'free software' means they don't have to pay for it. The battle cry is always 'free', rarely do you hear open.
Most Linux users use it because its a free ride, thats just the reality of it, sorry.
Based on these statements I'm fairly certain you've never used RDP for anything in your life, or you think the performance of X is good, one of the two.
Now that I've bothered to read all of your post, you appear to be more or less clueless. I don't think I can find one thing you wrote that is actually true.
RDP over even a gigabit connection is noticable different, even in Win7 with its improvements. I can barely stand using a text editor over RDP, browsing sucks, flash is absolutely asstastic. Anyone using PS or ACAD over RDP isn't actually doing anything once they start the program or they would have shot themselves 15 minutes into it.
I don't know anyone that runs a VM inside of Windows JUST so they can move the VM elsewhere if the hardware fails, thats what we have network shares and disk images for, welcome to the 80s when we solved these retarded problems without adding 18 layers of complexity and failure points in the process.
You aren't moving 50 graphics designers to a terminal server either, you don't have one with the CPU power needed to power them, and building a cluster to support them would cost you far more upfront and in maintenance than just supporting 50 desktops.
As for server virtualization ... how is it different than client without a display? Its not. You virtualize when you need a contained environment that doesn't justify a physical server for itself. You're wasting CPU power in virtualization.
I don't know who you're 'rolling out a virtual desktop' infrastructure for, but I'm 100% certain they're going to come out a loser in the deal.
Wow, spoken like a middle manager who knows absolutely nothing about desktops or server management.
Everything goes online ... into an app ... that still runs on your PC cause in case you haven't noticed, all these 'web apps' do a lot of processing on the desktop and a lot of displaying on a monitor.
Finally, the words you just spoke, I've heard at least 5 times in the last 20 years, and it still hasn't happened.
Excpet of course that the Mach kernel is ... the Mach kernel, not the BSD kernel. You basically just said 'Linux is alive, look at Windows' because Mac OSX has BSD subsystems just like Windows does after you install cygwin.
BSD still isn't dead of course, but the OSK kernel isn't BSD its Mach, OSX just has some BSD userland components.
Yea, except you can buy those machines from Dell for less without any volume discounts ... and with a Dell overnight warranty.
If you're doing anything other than a specific need PC or building your own high end system, not buying from a provider like Dell is just a waste of money. If you think it isn't, that simply shows your lack of experience and lack of understanding of all the costs involved besides the original purchase price.
Yea, so uhm, its based on PostScript then isn't it? You know, PostScript but different ... so it could be sent to PostScript printers easily ...
So why not just use HTML, its penetration rate is higher than PDF, has more software for displaying it, and does pretty much all the same shit ... oh, and most browsers have some sort of security mechanisms built in.
Its neat that you worked on Acrobat and its dirty children, but don't you think you could have spent that time doing something better than reinventing the wheel in a substandard way?
Whats great is that you take credit for a bunch of work in acrobat, then proceed to point out (probably not intentionally though) how shitty the code is and how it missing basic freaking common sense bits like input sanitization.
The blood was in the water because it became blindly clear over night that you and your team had no clue how to write code used in an untrusted network environment.
PDF wants to be HTML, just using PostScript instead, and it sucks at it. Much like Flash, PDF needs to die.
I could continue on about all the other retarded things Adobe does (Has Adobe Reader's install bloated past 300meg yet? WTF) but why bother.
Little hint: Don't brag or tell people about your time at Adobe, only idiots will find it impressive.
Depends on where you are.
Carriers have better coverage in some areas than in others.
It used to be, in my area, Alltel was the only provider that didn't suck, and only on analog. Then they converted everything to digital and of course they had the good digital coverage, then Verizon bought them out and now Verizon has the good towers. AT&T works okay and T-Mobile is less than impressive.
Go 20 miles west of here, and you'll notice your phone is using t-mobile towers cause both Verizon and AT&T blow goats in that area.
Another 100 miles after that, on the coast AT&T is the only thing that works in the larger cities, but Verizon is the only thing you can connect to in the rural areas.
You can fanboy all you want, but what you say may only be true in your area of operation, but on any given day for me, all three major providers are both awesome with fast speeds and completely unavailable.
Is that the only thing the first post should say is 'No'
I was thinking exactly what you said, as a Network Admin in yesteryear I can't imagine anyone who says 'the users broke my network by using it!'
Our network simple handle 'bad users' on its own. To much traffic was simply handled by throttling the user to a safe level when needed.
Seriously, how can you not have complete control over a network when its this size? I'd have to resign if I was in charge of their network and had to say 'some random user broke it, sorry boss'
You NEVER trust any part of your network to 'play' nice, even if its under your complete control ... you can make mistakes too. You just assume the end users aren't going to play nice, and go from there, most do bad things without even knowing they are bad so you just plan for it like you would in any other business process.
Stop thinking about it like what would happen to you at that depth because thats not what happens.
Everything in the body of the fish formed at that pressure, which means it doesn't really feel the pressure. Your body didn't. Its internal pressure is about 14psi, if you took it down there, it would be crushed until it reached equilibrium with the outside pressure.
Likewise, if your brought the fish to the surface, or tried to, it would literally explode before it got to the surface as the internal pressure would be too great for its cells to contain.
You can see the same thing if you pull a fish up from even 150 feet too quickly, its eyeballs will pop out of its skull and its internal organs sometimes pushed out of its mouth.
We need to stop thinking that theres something special about life at these pressures or depths like its rare. We've known for 50 years there are fish down deeper than that, there were fish at the bottom of the Marianas trench, this one is slightly more than HALF that deep.
When you are born at such pressures, anything else seems insane ... kind of like going into space without a space suit, which is pretty much what the fish would need to survive at the surface since its body is designed to operate at much higher pressures.
You could also go to the shelter and eat for free.
You could also get a job, assuming you're American. No American has an excuse for not having a job. 'I can't find one' translates into 'I can't find one that I like'. I've seen McDonalds hiring minimum wage workers from Mexico because the douche bags outside in their little tent city waiting for a hand out wouldn't stoop so low as to working at McDonalds.
What you steal isn't the issue, you are correct, however WHY you steal most certainly is. WHY is important because in this particular context there is no reason to steal. No one is under such tyranny that they can't take care of themselves. We're not talking about the middle of the desert or starving children in Ethiopia. We're talking about theft in countries where there is simply no excuse for being a thief.
I care for the needy, I will offer my help. I extend my help to not a single person in America over the age of 15 however. They don't need help, they need to get off their lazy ass and work for a living instead of living off idiots such as yourself.
The war on drugs is a failure because the majority of the country does drugs, its trivial to not get caught, and best of all, a good portion of the people doing the 'enforcement' are drug users themselves.
Proper punishment does stop crime. You're idea of slapping them on the wrist and sending them to counsuling doesn't, as is well documented and easy to see if you look at pretty much any school in America due to the current state of 'omg, don't punish them, feed them adderal instead!'
The world isn't black and white, this is true, but your still a pussy and I'd be willing to bet you exert 0 control over the people around you. I'd put $100 on saying that you get used as a door mat on a daily basis, even if you don't' realize it.
I came from the shitty 'back to the wall about to starve death' situation, I got out without breaking the law. The friends I had which instead turned into thieves and murders (yes, murderers) are in fact still in the same situation they were in to start with.
The situation doesn't make the person, the person makes the situation. Stop being such a pansy and giving people bullshit excuses for not acting the same way civilized people do.
Pawning is different than selling to a pawnshop.
A pawn is a short term, high interest, high risk loan, the item won't be sold for X amount of time anyway, because the borrower has X amount of time to pay it back, so ... there is X amount of time for the police to find it ... after its been submitted to them to verify its not stolen anyway.
A sell at a pawn shop is different. Its highly unlikely you'll ever see the person selling the item to the pawnshop again, so you hold on to the money for a while to verify the items aren't stolen, then send out the check to an address so that if it IS stolen, you at least know where to go look for the thief.
The price you get for pawning something is considerably lower than selling it.