Pure greed makes companies turn to the lowest cost of production
What exactly are you smoking? You do understand that a company exists for any one purpose, and that is to make money, turn a profit? Its not greed, its the nature of the beast. Commercial entities owe nobody anything, especially not social consideration.
But if you want to wave your moral flag around, try this on for size: Your competition is producing goods at half the cost you are. What do you do? You outsource or get out of the kitchen, baby. And if you pay Ameican wages to people in India or Asia, they will only be working for you for a few years before they retire to live like kings on the vast fortune they have accumulated.
Yeah but thats no reason to be depressed about it. In fact in many ways its a good thing, and helps your exports to undercut US native industries, for a net economic gain. Calling it "lame" and so on is a bit silly.
OT, yeah, but I dunno why everyone's so down on the Canadian vs US dollar... I mean the dollar is weak as hell against the Euro and you don't see us strutting around...
Eh I dunno, if you offer it as an addition to a website, rather than replacing (often critical) functions such as navigation on a site, you can do quite well. For animated educational stuff, you literally can't beat it. It can be quite nice in headers too, if you have a replacement image that pops up if the flash plugin isn't detected or enabled. And of course, we have strongbad. Ah that reminds me, better check out this weeks issue...
Details please, the devil is in the details, as they say. If you want to make authoritative statements, please cite the authority. If not you are merely wasting everyone's time with your soap-box antics.
I began to find that Evolution Science was as full of holes as a swiss cheese
Right so you are obviously more intelligent and better informed than every biological scientist since Darwin released his "Origin of the Species". Kudos, well done, when you get your nobel, will you remember your friends?
I really don't get this abject horror that some people have that we are descended from "monkeys", and before them from "rats". I mean, that smacks of the kind of racial supremacy that has been responsible for a whole lotta trouble. Evolution posits that mankind is descended from a branch of hominids which closely resemble modern monkeys. These creatures fought like hell, tooth and nail to survive and then prosper, and grew smarter because of their efforts, regardless of the obstacles and threats a profoundly hostile environment threw their way. I am proud to declare myself the descendant of such indomitable spirits, and I apsire to the heights which they achieved.
I'd much rather we hauled ourselves out of a puddle of mud than some divine entity handed us the keys to the kingdom, and the abdication of responsibility that that entails. Because ultimately, that is what religion is. Just a little boy looking in horror at the smashed window, yelling "It wasn't me!"
Oh if I had mod points, my friend, you would be more karma-ful than you are right now. I couldn't agree more. At least she did something about it, instead of sitting ignoring it, hoping it gets better, unlike the other 20,000 plus people mentioned.
Hahahah, ah my sides... okay oh great sage and eminent scholar, what shape is the universe? Fairly simple question you might think. I mean, geometrically, what shape is it? Is it spherical? Cone shaped? What was the latest one... oh yeah its shaped like a horn...
Right, well done. I'll tell you what, when you can move 50lbs of crack via a P2P network, I'll be sure and give you a call. In the meantime, try to read more than just the first line of my post, ha?
But on the whole, technical solutions are just treating the symptoms. There is only one, and one only way to remove spam, and that is to make it illegal. Its a DDOS on an essential communication medium; so put the Patriot act to some good use and have it labelled "terrorism", the very same as if some group hijacked a TV station.
Having done that, follow the money trail, which should lead directly to the spammers and their (often unsuspecting) clients. They have to store the money in a bank account somewhere. If that bank wants to keep doing business with or in the USA or Europe, they will freeze and seize, and spam goes from a relatively low effort marketing scheme to a very unprofitable criminal act.
Yes there will still be spam, but the nature of the web means that everything can be tracked. Email especially. And please forget whitelists and blacklists, I'm not answering to some self appointed body as to the validity of my emails.
it would be 3 times as large, require a seperate power supply, won't be as hard-wearing
Yeah right... And that was after 30 seconds on google. I'm sure I could dig up a firewire version if I had the time or patience...
I'm not intending to listen to all 6,000 at once
Ah but how many can you listen to before the battery dies? I can get 8 to 12 hours out of one AAA battery...
The charger is tiny, anyway, and does fit very easily in a pocket.
Hmmm I see. The charger for my AAA batteries is big and bulky... Good thing I can leave it at home, eh?
Hard disks can last over 5 years, you know
Bouncing around in bags and pockets can be detrimental to hard drives, you know.
40-gig firewire hard disk
If I'm going to carry around a hard disk, I'm going to make sure its in a laptop where it can do some good. Not to mention I can load it up over 100mb ethernet. But the point about data transportation is a good one. I just don't see why I wouldn't just get an external hard drive for a third the price.
I have over 6,000 tracks on my iPod
And how many can you play in one sitting before the battery dies? Or were you going to carry the power cable etc along with you as well?
No moving parts is cool
And cheap, long term. In five years the nomad will still be useable. Will the ipod? And before anyone says anything about "mp3s will be outdated by then", you can still buy perfectly serviceable cassette tape players, which play perfectly listenable music.
Saying it's just "a box" is pretty silly
Its a box. Its shaped like a box. With a wheel on it. I weep.
The ipod is a box, Joeseph. The ipod is a box. A white, shiny box, but still a box. I see people still walking around with CD walkmans, and I laugh at the large size and general bad battery life, but those chrome disc looking things still look better than a friggin box.
I mean, sure you can store more music on an ipod, but where are you going, oh Cain from Kung Fu, that you need 2000 of your favourite tracks resting on your hip? I use a nomad muvo, 60 tunes, size of my thumb, battery life is exremely good, and it uses generic AAA batteries, rechargeable.
Oh yeah, and can you say no moving parts? But still, if lugging a hefty hard drive around with you suits your taste, go for it. Chicks may dig apple, but they come over all curious about the muvo, heheh...
You know, this is the first time I've ever seen what could be called a viable use for blogs. The idea of posting your day to day affairs, life and opinions on the web for any stranger to see strikes me as being at best social networking, at worst repulsively narcissistic.
However using blogs to speak out against corrupt regimes etc. does seem to fill a niche that needed filling (although I don't see how it differs greatly from setting up a protest website). It gives an insight into the day to day life of a person living under such conditions, which we would otherwise not have. Its one of the reasons I enjoy chatrooms so much-where else can you get a real insight into the lives and cultures of people hal a world away?
But if 90% of the world is using MS products, then it is the UN that won't be able to do business with them
The staggering monopoly that they have in software basically means that not only can they dictate standards, they are standards. The UN can jump up and down all it wants, but without MS any discussion on standards is pointless. To expand upon my previous point, most of the internet is optimised solely for Internet Explorer
In real terms, that is the only standard worth bothering with.
Um, no you kinda missed the point there chief. With no microsoft at the table the standards group has no teeth, no point, and now is effectively worthless. Case in point, see internet explorer.
I don't know why it happened, but its probably the same thing that always happens when a bunch of academics start dickering with businessmen. The academics get all excited that they're in toe to toe with "the man", and the businesspeople get tired of debating in circles, quietly pull out, and circumvent around the group.
I have to say, I find this trend more than a little disturbing. I mean, have electronic or mechanical engineers been attacked as much as programmers? What about artists and teachers? Factory line production, this phrase is just another way for the suits to feel good about outsourcing the jobs of highly skilled and creative people.
It seems to me that this is coming to a showdown between the talentless parasites (sales reps, office politician middle managers, and marketing types), and the honest to god educated, skilled and productive members of our society. Mod me down if you want, but I can't honestly say that the IT industry as a whole and the individual programmers themselves are going to sit there and take this abuse for much longer.
The first thing I thought of when I saw that picture was "Batman, bane of all rough lawns and shoddily maintained public parks in Gotham city." The thing looks like an oversized, rocket powered sit-in lawnmower!
Hmm yeah maybe, but it still doesn't deal with a much more important sci fi fallacy, the space battles at very high or near relativistic speeds. Going at, for example, 10,000 km/hr in space (so slow you're almost going backwards) other ships would be a twinkle in the sky at any stage of a battle. Any how are you going to work out a firing solution when by the time your radar catches up with the target and bounces back, they are already far from their original location? A series that deals with that in a sexy way has MY vote!:D
Nah ya won't. You'll do what the PHB tells you to do, as usual, and you'll smile in the process. Now hurry along back to your cubicle before we replace you with some half-starved h1B in Punjab. In fact, the hell with it, it's a Tuesday, so clear your desk, cos your fired.
And don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I heard that we don't know where half (or even 1%) of the potentially damaging objects in the solar system actually ARE. Or even that they exist.
Odds are, the first anyone would know about a 1km wide continent killer would be when it started lighting up the stratosphere.
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Pure greed makes companies turn to the lowest cost of production
What exactly are you smoking? You do understand that a company exists for any one purpose, and that is to make money, turn a profit? Its not greed, its the nature of the beast. Commercial entities owe nobody anything, especially not social consideration.
But if you want to wave your moral flag around, try this on for size: Your competition is producing goods at half the cost you are. What do you do? You outsource or get out of the kitchen, baby. And if you pay Ameican wages to people in India or Asia, they will only be working for you for a few years before they retire to live like kings on the vast fortune they have accumulated.
How does this stuff get modded up as insightful?
Yeah but thats no reason to be depressed about it. In fact in many ways its a good thing, and helps your exports to undercut US native industries, for a net economic gain. Calling it "lame" and so on is a bit silly.
even our lame Cdn $
OT, yeah, but I dunno why everyone's so down on the Canadian vs US dollar... I mean the dollar is weak as hell against the Euro and you don't see us strutting around...
Eh I dunno, if you offer it as an addition to a website, rather than replacing (often critical) functions such as navigation on a site, you can do quite well. For animated educational stuff, you literally can't beat it. It can be quite nice in headers too, if you have a replacement image that pops up if the flash plugin isn't detected or enabled. And of course, we have strongbad. Ah that reminds me, better check out this weeks issue...
LOL
Yeah I agree... Sad really...
Nah quake 3 ripped it off...
Humiliation...
I looked pretty deep
Details please, the devil is in the details, as they say. If you want to make authoritative statements, please cite the authority. If not you are merely wasting everyone's time with your soap-box antics.
I began to find that Evolution Science was as full of holes as a swiss cheese
Right so you are obviously more intelligent and better informed than every biological scientist since Darwin released his "Origin of the Species". Kudos, well done, when you get your nobel, will you remember your friends?
I really don't get this abject horror that some people have that we are descended from "monkeys", and before them from "rats". I mean, that smacks of the kind of racial supremacy that has been responsible for a whole lotta trouble. Evolution posits that mankind is descended from a branch of hominids which closely resemble modern monkeys. These creatures fought like hell, tooth and nail to survive and then prosper, and grew smarter because of their efforts, regardless of the obstacles and threats a profoundly hostile environment threw their way. I am proud to declare myself the descendant of such indomitable spirits, and I apsire to the heights which they achieved.
I'd much rather we hauled ourselves out of a puddle of mud than some divine entity handed us the keys to the kingdom, and the abdication of responsibility that that entails. Because ultimately, that is what religion is. Just a little boy looking in horror at the smashed window, yelling "It wasn't me!"
Oh if I had mod points, my friend, you would be more karma-ful than you are right now. I couldn't agree more. At least she did something about it, instead of sitting ignoring it, hoping it gets better, unlike the other 20,000 plus people mentioned.
Hahahah, ah my sides... okay oh great sage and eminent scholar, what shape is the universe? Fairly simple question you might think. I mean, geometrically, what shape is it? Is it spherical? Cone shaped? What was the latest one... oh yeah its shaped like a horn...
Do try to keep up with current findings, eh?
The last time I checked, we didn't know a whole lot about the nature of the universe as it stands... how the hell are these guys claiming that they
a) Know how it was at the start
and
b) can compare it to whats out there already when its done?
Right, well done. I'll tell you what, when you can move 50lbs of crack via a P2P network, I'll be sure and give you a call. In the meantime, try to read more than just the first line of my post, ha?
But on the whole, technical solutions are just treating the symptoms. There is only one, and one only way to remove spam, and that is to make it illegal. Its a DDOS on an essential communication medium; so put the Patriot act to some good use and have it labelled "terrorism", the very same as if some group hijacked a TV station.
Having done that, follow the money trail, which should lead directly to the spammers and their (often unsuspecting) clients. They have to store the money in a bank account somewhere. If that bank wants to keep doing business with or in the USA or Europe, they will freeze and seize, and spam goes from a relatively low effort marketing scheme to a very unprofitable criminal act.
Yes there will still be spam, but the nature of the web means that everything can be tracked. Email especially. And please forget whitelists and blacklists, I'm not answering to some self appointed body as to the validity of my emails.
400mb
Would that be bits or bytes there?
it would be 3 times as large, require a seperate power supply, won't be as hard-wearing
Yeah right... And that was after 30 seconds on google. I'm sure I could dig up a firewire version if I had the time or patience...
I'm not intending to listen to all 6,000 at once
Ah but how many can you listen to before the battery dies? I can get 8 to 12 hours out of one AAA battery...
The charger is tiny, anyway, and does fit very easily in a pocket.
Hmmm I see. The charger for my AAA batteries is big and bulky... Good thing I can leave it at home, eh?
Hard disks can last over 5 years, you know
Bouncing around in bags and pockets can be detrimental to hard drives, you know.
It's a design icon.
Its a white box.
40-gig firewire hard disk
If I'm going to carry around a hard disk, I'm going to make sure its in a laptop where it can do some good. Not to mention I can load it up over 100mb ethernet. But the point about data transportation is a good one. I just don't see why I wouldn't just get an external hard drive for a third the price.
I have over 6,000 tracks on my iPod
And how many can you play in one sitting before the battery dies? Or were you going to carry the power cable etc along with you as well?
No moving parts is cool
And cheap, long term. In five years the nomad will still be useable. Will the ipod? And before anyone says anything about "mp3s will be outdated by then", you can still buy perfectly serviceable cassette tape players, which play perfectly listenable music.
Saying it's just "a box" is pretty silly
Its a box. Its shaped like a box. With a wheel on it. I weep.
The ipod is a box, Joeseph. The ipod is a box. A white, shiny box, but still a box. I see people still walking around with CD walkmans, and I laugh at the large size and general bad battery life, but those chrome disc looking things still look better than a friggin box.
I mean, sure you can store more music on an ipod, but where are you going, oh Cain from Kung Fu, that you need 2000 of your favourite tracks resting on your hip? I use a nomad muvo, 60 tunes, size of my thumb, battery life is exremely good, and it uses generic AAA batteries, rechargeable.
Oh yeah, and can you say no moving parts? But still, if lugging a hefty hard drive around with you suits your taste, go for it. Chicks may dig apple, but they come over all curious about the muvo, heheh...
You know, this is the first time I've ever seen what could be called a viable use for blogs. The idea of posting your day to day affairs, life and opinions on the web for any stranger to see strikes me as being at best social networking, at worst repulsively narcissistic.
However using blogs to speak out against corrupt regimes etc. does seem to fill a niche that needed filling (although I don't see how it differs greatly from setting up a protest website). It gives an insight into the day to day life of a person living under such conditions, which we would otherwise not have. Its one of the reasons I enjoy chatrooms so much-where else can you get a real insight into the lives and cultures of people hal a world away?
But if 90% of the world is using MS products, then it is the UN that won't be able to do business with them
The staggering monopoly that they have in software basically means that not only can they dictate standards, they are standards. The UN can jump up and down all it wants, but without MS any discussion on standards is pointless. To expand upon my previous point, most of the internet is optimised solely for Internet Explorer
In real terms, that is the only standard worth bothering with.
Um, no you kinda missed the point there chief. With no microsoft at the table the standards group has no teeth, no point, and now is effectively worthless. Case in point, see internet explorer.
I don't know why it happened, but its probably the same thing that always happens when a bunch of academics start dickering with businessmen. The academics get all excited that they're in toe to toe with "the man", and the businesspeople get tired of debating in circles, quietly pull out, and circumvent around the group.
I have to say, I find this trend more than a little disturbing. I mean, have electronic or mechanical engineers been attacked as much as programmers? What about artists and teachers? Factory line production, this phrase is just another way for the suits to feel good about outsourcing the jobs of highly skilled and creative people.
It seems to me that this is coming to a showdown between the talentless parasites (sales reps, office politician middle managers, and marketing types), and the honest to god educated, skilled and productive members of our society. Mod me down if you want, but I can't honestly say that the IT industry as a whole and the individual programmers themselves are going to sit there and take this abuse for much longer.
The first thing I thought of when I saw that picture was "Batman, bane of all rough lawns and shoddily maintained public parks in Gotham city." The thing looks like an oversized, rocket powered sit-in lawnmower!
Hmm yeah maybe, but it still doesn't deal with a much more important sci fi fallacy, the space battles at very high or near relativistic speeds. Going at, for example, 10,000 km/hr in space (so slow you're almost going backwards) other ships would be a twinkle in the sky at any stage of a battle. Any how are you going to work out a firing solution when by the time your radar catches up with the target and bounces back, they are already far from their original location? A series that deals with that in a sexy way has MY vote! :D
Nah ya won't. You'll do what the PHB tells you to do, as usual, and you'll smile in the process. Now hurry along back to your cubicle before we replace you with some half-starved h1B in Punjab. In fact, the hell with it, it's a Tuesday, so clear your desk, cos your fired.
And don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I heard that we don't know where half (or even 1%) of the potentially damaging objects in the solar system actually ARE. Or even that they exist.
Odds are, the first anyone would know about a 1km wide continent killer would be when it started lighting up the stratosphere.