Libertarian at heart = "I've got mine but fuck you if you want me to give the people who work for me a fair days pay for a fair days work". Libertarian in reality instead of at heart would be for the rights of everyone and not just employers.
So since he isn't that latter a Casino boss is a good match.
many of the people who are free-market evangelists
Sadly so many of those want to play the "free-market" game with marked cards supplied via the taxpayer.
The sweeteners to Hollywood are the ones really annoying me at the moment since the only benefit seems to be that of local people in politics getting to meet celebrities. The employment benefits and all other economic benefits are almost always obviously far less than the handout.
The industry ones are less overt and have some benefit but function the same way, temporary boom then bust.
There's a Kurt Vonnegut-type of novel in there somewhere. Maybe Tom Robbins.
I'm going for Kafka or Lem (who managed to stay alive writing parodies of an autocratic government by setting it in Science Fiction).
It means someone who drank and partied their way through an education has heard a cool word and is using it for marketing:( In other words it's just a synonym for "good" in this context.
Back in high school in the 1980s doing stuff in BASIC for fucks sake one of the early lessons was to let only valid user inputs get into variables. There is no excuse today.
I expect to see that vendor added to a government blacklist and become immediately ineligible for any government contracts going forward
It's not going to happen unless the revolving door employment door stops working or the donations stop coming. Fit for purpose is a secondary consideration.
I like this. We have FDA inspectors, fire marshals, bank examiners and so many other people who have the jobs of keeping the public safe. How do we not have security testers with that job?
"Small government". In the name of thrift you get rid of those that check to see whether the public is being ripped off or defrauded.
Even if you are, if they don't like what you report then you are not a white hat if they want to get the legal system involved.
Computer security is a thankless task. If you see something wrong and can't fix it yourself it's potentially a snake pit filling with water and sharks.
In the long run that's how you get places like Detroit today. Another area offers tax incentives or other sweeteners (cold hard cash is offered to Hollywood by other countries for example) so the factory moves, stays for a decade or two then the place is undercut so it moves again, leaving those who offered the incentive before completely fucked over just like those they took the industry from.
It's an example of more than government mismanagement - it's full on trying to game a system that they are not equipped to deal with, especially local governments. It often goes hand in hand with outright corruption. Governments playing such games skew markets and are really an enemy of capitalism - the state is picking winners instead of the market picking winners. It rarely ends well.
First I've heard of it and I'm in a field where clusters of enormous numbers of things with opterons are the go. If anyone is going to complain it's the ones filling thousands of sockets at a time, but for some reason they are not complaining. I think it's time for some sort of citation on your part since your comment appears on face value to be silly fanboy bullshit unless there is some current scandal that I'm sure you will be able to provide evidence of.
saves self contained presentations that will run on anything that can run powerpoint. This is a big deal when it comes to media
I mentioned the word "web" above but you must have missed it. The set of anything that can display a web page is a hell of a lot bigger than "anything that can run powerpoint" - so your point one is a disadvantage in comparison.
Ask anyone that has been given the task of getting somebody else's powerpoint presentation into a state where it can be viewed as a web page for some insight.
Your second point makes the very stupid assumption that someone will not put their html, pdf or whatever format their presentation is in on local storage. I do not see it as a valid point.
Point three - make fucking movies if you want fucking movies. There are thousands of more capable bits of movie making software than MS powerpoint.
Were the Russian people ultimately better served by dragging out the dissolution of the system for 75 years,
In case you don't know, Putin has Stalin's library in his office. He gets visitors to choose books at random and read Stalin's frequent annotations (possibly as an intimidation tactic but maybe it's a lot deeper than that). Putin sees both himself and Stalin as Tsars and who are we to correct him? That's one of many reasons to consider that Russia has not changed as much as it appears at a superficial level. The system there has not dissolved so much as we would like to think and I'm sure there's plenty more tragedy to come.
As for decent technology, one of the Franklin's ships is mostly intact on the sea bottom and was imaged with side scan sonar last year with results so good that it was obviously the correct ship even to a layman like me just comparing it to a painting of the ship. The water is deep enough and cold enough that it hasn't broken up.
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Libertarian at heart = "I've got mine but fuck you if you want me to give the people who work for me a fair days pay for a fair days work".
Libertarian in reality instead of at heart would be for the rights of everyone and not just employers.
So since he isn't that latter a Casino boss is a good match.
Or alternatively clicking on "download torrent" :)
That nails it!
When the goalposts are being shifted that far why bother playing - it's an insult to anyone watching.
Sadly so many of those want to play the "free-market" game with marked cards supplied via the taxpayer.
The sweeteners to Hollywood are the ones really annoying me at the moment since the only benefit seems to be that of local people in politics getting to meet celebrities. The employment benefits and all other economic benefits are almost always obviously far less than the handout.
The industry ones are less overt and have some benefit but function the same way, temporary boom then bust.
I'm going for Kafka or Lem (who managed to stay alive writing parodies of an autocratic government by setting it in Science Fiction).
It means someone who drank and partied their way through an education has heard a cool word and is using it for marketing :(
In other words it's just a synonym for "good" in this context.
Back in high school in the 1980s doing stuff in BASIC for fucks sake one of the early lessons was to let only valid user inputs get into variables. There is no excuse today.
It's not going to happen unless the revolving door employment door stops working or the donations stop coming. Fit for purpose is a secondary consideration.
I like this. We have FDA inspectors, fire marshals, bank examiners and so many other people who have the jobs of keeping the public safe. How do we not have security testers with that job?
"Small government".
In the name of thrift you get rid of those that check to see whether the public is being ripped off or defrauded.
You've nailed it - see his "two plants" posts for confirmation.
Even if you are, if they don't like what you report then you are not a white hat if they want to get the legal system involved.
Computer security is a thankless task. If you see something wrong and can't fix it yourself it's potentially a snake pit filling with water and sharks.
In bits of rural Australia we have "daytime cars" that don't have working lights at all. Makes things interesting.
In the long run that's how you get places like Detroit today.
Another area offers tax incentives or other sweeteners (cold hard cash is offered to Hollywood by other countries for example) so the factory moves, stays for a decade or two then the place is undercut so it moves again, leaving those who offered the incentive before completely fucked over just like those they took the industry from.
It's an example of more than government mismanagement - it's full on trying to game a system that they are not equipped to deal with, especially local governments. It often goes hand in hand with outright corruption.
Governments playing such games skew markets and are really an enemy of capitalism - the state is picking winners instead of the market picking winners. It rarely ends well.
Well F00F to you :)
I suspect you are just using that as an excuse to bash one vendor despite other vendors having problems as well.
And that is supposed to be some sort of showstopper? Why did you bother to post at all as if there was some sort of major problem?
First I've heard of it and I'm in a field where clusters of enormous numbers of things with opterons are the go. If anyone is going to complain it's the ones filling thousands of sockets at a time, but for some reason they are not complaining.
I think it's time for some sort of citation on your part since your comment appears on face value to be silly fanboy bullshit unless there is some current scandal that I'm sure you will be able to provide evidence of.
I mentioned the word "web" above but you must have missed it. The set of anything that can display a web page is a hell of a lot bigger than "anything that can run powerpoint" - so your point one is a disadvantage in comparison.
Ask anyone that has been given the task of getting somebody else's powerpoint presentation into a state where it can be viewed as a web page for some insight.
Your second point makes the very stupid assumption that someone will not put their html, pdf or whatever format their presentation is in on local storage. I do not see it as a valid point.
Point three - make fucking movies if you want fucking movies. There are thousands of more capable bits of movie making software than MS powerpoint.
A competent administrator knows that AMD sell CPUs as well.
What competent windows administrator is inflicting MS Windows10 on their users when MS Windows 7 is still on sale :)
You brought up the "competent" thing so expect something back when you frame things in such a way.
The web should have killed that piece of shit slideshow crap dead yet it still lives and spreads.
Don't trust policy settings. Drop those packets instead.
It will at least work until updates have to come from their marketing site.
In case you don't know, Putin has Stalin's library in his office. He gets visitors to choose books at random and read Stalin's frequent annotations (possibly as an intimidation tactic but maybe it's a lot deeper than that). Putin sees both himself and Stalin as Tsars and who are we to correct him?
That's one of many reasons to consider that Russia has not changed as much as it appears at a superficial level. The system there has not dissolved so much as we would like to think and I'm sure there's plenty more tragedy to come.
Crikey!
Those things are deadly!
Too soon?
Clearly there was no spec and it was a home computer used for a critical purpose - no design just duct tape and dust.
As for decent technology, one of the Franklin's ships is mostly intact on the sea bottom and was imaged with side scan sonar last year with results so good that it was obviously the correct ship even to a layman like me just comparing it to a painting of the ship. The water is deep enough and cold enough that it hasn't broken up.