my old (old!) hp cd-writer (1998) said: www.hp.com/go/storage why they fuck up wit the wwwXX server stuff like it's 1995 and there's no load balancing, I don't know.
My machine boots win7 pretty fast... but the worst startup offender is Windows Live Messenger. Man, that thing is bloated. And I'm using the 2010 version. The newer one has facebook integration and all sorts of useless shit.
ZFS isn't free anymore. It's all commercial and proprietary and no bugfixes or anything get released outside a big bad support contract with Oracle.
If you want the free version you can still use v28 on FreeBSD and Solaris Express (no upgrades in over 1 year). Works great, the only thing you don't get is ZFS crypto (transparent encryption).
Not sure what's it like in the US, but the rationale behind mandatory car insurance is simple, the slipknot equation explains it: PEOPLE = SHIT. If you hit somebody with your car and don't have insurance, they will sue you to get paid. Except you could hide your money and claim you don't have any. So you get your money, walk away free, and the person you hit doesn't get medical attention (because he's broke AND doesn't have medical insurance, cause he thought he'd never need it).
I come from a middle-class family, there was always food in my table and growing up was easy, then I started working and was always happy with my paycheck, and I even found ways to avoid overpaying taxes. I don't see why people say they can't find jobs... you just go somewhere and say "hi, here's my qualifications, i want a job" and you get it. It's not so difficult.
Which is fine, except that in real life there are other factors, like genetically stupid people, or people who didn't have proper nutrition as children, or whose mothers drank, smoked, or did drugs during pregnancy. Or teenage mothers, or many other factors that automatically get you out of the American Dream elegibility.
If you stop for a minute and think that, gee, not everyone is like you. Not everyone can negotiate, can afford to "meet people", or HEY! they don't even have the kind of job you are doing (I doubt a walmart cashier can benefit of "getting in touch with people", since she's probably there because she can't do anything else.)
(BTW, i'm from a middle-class family, I have a decent living, I got my "gigs" by meeting people, etc. But I also have empathy for other people and I can see why things are the way they are. It's either that, or we kill all idiots, "they're useless anyway")
Not every kind of worker is the same. You're an educated person, but a miner, truck driver, or some other low-end worker usually can't negotiate any kind of benefits or anything. Either because no one will hear them, for fear of being fired (or flagged...), or simply because they're too... "uneducated" to know what their rights are.
A company is always bigger than a single person. And a company can afford a lawyer (or an army of them) to screw you, while you usually don't have resources to do that. That's why unions exist.
But unions need regulations, just like companies need regulations. What folks here don't seem to understand is that any "unregulated" area WILL get exploited, and the bigger guy always wins. That's the danger, not "government intrusion".
!!!! SARCASM BEGINS HERE !!!! Are you crazy???? Limiting unions means giving MORE POWER to the government, and that only leads to one result: COMMUNISM. !!!! SARCASM ENDS HERE !!!!
Sorry about the big bad sarcasm tags. Some folks here are real idiots and can't see it.
So the answer is outlawing unions and having all workers negotiate their own contract terms?
Sure, that worked really good for the industrial revolution. Welcome to your 112 hour work week, don't like it? Fuck off, there's a line of people behind you waiting for a job.
Nice article, how long until some CNN/Fox News/ random-astroturf-blog starts explaining why it's GOOD for economy that so much money is "spent" in middlemen? Sure, they get rich, but if we cut them off, the financial system will fall apart, and communism will win!
I was going to give you a long explaination, but paraphrasing you will suffice:
Point being, if someone goes to school to learn how to fix people and then comes out angry that other people are calling themselves doctors, too, but without the schooling, then maybe that someone should go BACK to school and learn some history.
And that's how I know you're a "programmer". You're just a bricklayer, you don't know shit. Your work is just a "trade".
Try college next time, kid. And just because you're a "programmer" who lives just fine after dropping college, doesn't mean college is a waste of time.
And that's why you don't get along with "real" engineers. You think their degree is just words on paper, and you can do better. You and a bunch of othe bricklayers can't design a bridge. An engineer can - sure, he can't lay bricks as good as you write lines of code, but... I think you get the idea.
Do you wonder why the software world is loaded with bugs? Oh yes, the hipster "I'm good at what I do" metodology. "Software experts" that have never had any formal training (and find themselves reinventing the wheel every day).
Except I wouldn't like to use a bridge designed by an self-called "engineer", exploting the english etymology.
Because in non-english speaking countries, the roles of architect (the one who designs) and engineer (the one who makes the real-life calculations) are very clear. An architect can design a 100-story building, but he needs an engineer to do all the calculations (or check them). It's what we call "sign the blueprints".
And that, my friend, is the problem with the US justice system. Stupid technicalities AND judges that rule based on the absolute literal meaning of the words on paper. And of course, lawyers exploiting that.
Let me give you an example:
If you have a shop and put a sign that says "CAUTION: Wet Floor. We won't be responsible if you get hurt while walking on the wet floor". Sooner or later, you'll get someone RUNNING on the wet floor, falling, and suing you. And a judge is going to rule in his favor, because a lawyer will say "then the sign also means WE WILL be responsible if you get hurt while NOT WALKING on the wet floor", and since "the guy was running, which, TECHNICALLY is not walking, then you are responsible". Or if he falls while walking on the DRY floor...
In the early 90s, in the small city where I live, there was an "outbreak" of 3 (three) viruses, and every computer was infected. Then some local guy "came up" with an antivirus that only worked against those 3 viruses... and was extremely overpriced. Like $100. And no other antivirus could clean those because the virus was unheard of in other places (the infection didn't make it to F-Prot, Norton, etc). Small city, no internet... Makes one think.
They don't seem to try too hard to license "new" content anyway. Here's what Netflix for Argentina looks like: http://i.imgur.com/Sxx2B.jpg
The hunt for red october? REALLY?
No wonder no one I know is subscribing. I told many of my friends about that but when netflix finally got here, it was a disappointment. I have some friends in Chile who had the same feeling.
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265 is odd, but 265GB is not: 284,541,583,360 bytes
my old (old!) hp cd-writer (1998) said: www.hp.com/go/storage
why they fuck up wit the wwwXX server stuff like it's 1995 and there's no load balancing, I don't know.
My machine boots win7 pretty fast... but the worst startup offender is Windows Live Messenger. Man, that thing is bloated. And I'm using the 2010 version. The newer one has facebook integration and all sorts of useless shit.
ZFS isn't free anymore. It's all commercial and proprietary and no bugfixes or anything get released outside a big bad support contract with Oracle.
If you want the free version you can still use v28 on FreeBSD and Solaris Express (no upgrades in over 1 year). Works great, the only thing you don't get is ZFS crypto (transparent encryption).
The death of a man is a tragedy, the death of million is statistics?
Not sure what's it like in the US, but the rationale behind mandatory car insurance is simple, the slipknot equation explains it: PEOPLE = SHIT. If you hit somebody with your car and don't have insurance, they will sue you to get paid. Except you could hide your money and claim you don't have any. So you get your money, walk away free, and the person you hit doesn't get medical attention (because he's broke AND doesn't have medical insurance, cause he thought he'd never need it).
You know what happens if the law gets so fucked up that paying compensation for killing someone is less than having to pay for their treatment? This:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052815/Xiong-Maoke-5-dies-latest-horrific-Chinese-traffic-accident.html
So don't think people can be trusted to do anything that won't give them a direct AND immediate benefit. People are shit, man. Everywhere.
you post as anonymous because you know what you're saying is bullshit.
Anyway, I hope you get replaced soon by an illegal immigrant, or outsourced.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/France_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9com#Staff_suicides
All I read in your post was this:
I come from a middle-class family, there was always food in my table and growing up was easy, then I started working and was always happy with my paycheck, and I even found ways to avoid overpaying taxes. I don't see why people say they can't find jobs... you just go somewhere and say "hi, here's my qualifications, i want a job" and you get it. It's not so difficult.
Which is fine, except that in real life there are other factors, like genetically stupid people, or people who didn't have proper nutrition as children, or whose mothers drank, smoked, or did drugs during pregnancy. Or teenage mothers, or many other factors that automatically get you out of the American Dream elegibility.
If you stop for a minute and think that, gee, not everyone is like you. Not everyone can negotiate, can afford to "meet people", or HEY! they don't even have the kind of job you are doing (I doubt a walmart cashier can benefit of "getting in touch with people", since she's probably there because she can't do anything else.)
(BTW, i'm from a middle-class family, I have a decent living, I got my "gigs" by meeting people, etc. But I also have empathy for other people and I can see why things are the way they are. It's either that, or we kill all idiots, "they're useless anyway")
Not every kind of worker is the same. You're an educated person, but a miner, truck driver, or some other low-end worker usually can't negotiate any kind of benefits or anything. Either because no one will hear them, for fear of being fired (or flagged...), or simply because they're too... "uneducated" to know what their rights are.
A company is always bigger than a single person. And a company can afford a lawyer (or an army of them) to screw you, while you usually don't have resources to do that. That's why unions exist.
But unions need regulations, just like companies need regulations. What folks here don't seem to understand is that any "unregulated" area WILL get exploited, and the bigger guy always wins. That's the danger, not "government intrusion".
!!!! SARCASM BEGINS HERE !!!!
Are you crazy???? Limiting unions means giving MORE POWER to the government, and that only leads to one result: COMMUNISM.
!!!! SARCASM ENDS HERE !!!!
Sorry about the big bad sarcasm tags. Some folks here are real idiots and can't see it.
So the answer is outlawing unions and having all workers negotiate their own contract terms?
Sure, that worked really good for the industrial revolution. Welcome to your 112 hour work week, don't like it? Fuck off, there's a line of people behind you waiting for a job.
Nice article, how long until some CNN/Fox News/ random-astroturf-blog starts explaining why it's GOOD for economy that so much money is "spent" in middlemen? Sure, they get rich, but if we cut them off, the financial system will fall apart, and communism will win!
blah blah blah OBAMA blah blah.
re-write everything? what are you using? perl?
ever heard of modularity? refactoring? no?
An architect is someone who's not man enough to be an engineer, and not gay enough to be an interior decorator.
Reinventing is not the same as perfecting. Early optimizing is another cause of bugs ;)
I was going to give you a long explaination, but paraphrasing you will suffice:
And that's how I know you're a "programmer". You're just a bricklayer, you don't know shit. Your work is just a "trade".
Try college next time, kid. And just because you're a "programmer" who lives just fine after dropping college, doesn't mean college is a waste of time.
And that's why you don't get along with "real" engineers. You think their degree is just words on paper, and you can do better. You and a bunch of othe bricklayers can't design a bridge. An engineer can - sure, he can't lay bricks as good as you write lines of code, but... I think you get the idea.
Do you wonder why the software world is loaded with bugs? Oh yes, the hipster "I'm good at what I do" metodology. "Software experts" that have never had any formal training (and find themselves reinventing the wheel every day).
Except I wouldn't like to use a bridge designed by an self-called "engineer", exploting the english etymology.
Because in non-english speaking countries, the roles of architect (the one who designs) and engineer (the one who makes the real-life calculations) are very clear. An architect can design a 100-story building, but he needs an engineer to do all the calculations (or check them). It's what we call "sign the blueprints".
You've never been to the netflix blog, haven't you?
You can see some pretty angry comments there.
And that, my friend, is the problem with the US justice system. Stupid technicalities AND judges that rule based on the absolute literal meaning of the words on paper. And of course, lawyers exploiting that.
Let me give you an example:
If you have a shop and put a sign that says "CAUTION: Wet Floor. We won't be responsible if you get hurt while walking on the wet floor". Sooner or later, you'll get someone RUNNING on the wet floor, falling, and suing you. And a judge is going to rule in his favor, because a lawyer will say "then the sign also means WE WILL be responsible if you get hurt while NOT WALKING on the wet floor", and since "the guy was running, which, TECHNICALLY is not walking, then you are responsible". Or if he falls while walking on the DRY floor...
In the early 90s, in the small city where I live, there was an "outbreak" of 3 (three) viruses, and every computer was infected. Then some local guy "came up" with an antivirus that only worked against those 3 viruses... and was extremely overpriced. Like $100. And no other antivirus could clean those because the virus was unheard of in other places (the infection didn't make it to F-Prot, Norton, etc). Small city, no internet... Makes one think.
They don't seem to try too hard to license "new" content anyway. Here's what Netflix for Argentina looks like: http://i.imgur.com/Sxx2B.jpg
The hunt for red october? REALLY?
No wonder no one I know is subscribing. I told many of my friends about that but when netflix finally got here, it was a disappointment. I have some friends in Chile who had the same feeling.
Man, you're a complete idiot.