No, it's just that the ignornant bigots in Northern cities have never seen a black man (except on TV) so they don't know anything about racism (except what they learn by watching TV.) You've really got to pity people who don't know where food comes from or what buildings are made of or what different cultures are like and think because they have cable TV and an "ethnic" restaurant in the tourist district of the city they live in that they are multicultural.
It's not a fact, but I suspect that putting so many people close together tends to have a psychological effect of forcing them into group thinking so they tend to congregate in like-minded groups, thus further sheltering themselves from more cultures.
Also, due to the "faster pace" of life (meaning the more time that is spent commuting shorter distances due to a "lowest common denominator" effect on traffic, the less time they have for other activities.) Stuff like actually getting to know the Chinese person who runs the Chinese (or Thai) restaurant that you frequent for lunch happens less in crowded cities than in rural areas. Yes, they have chinese restaurants in small towns!
It's because the "Red Staters" have different values. They'd rather be fucked by someone who doesn't consider them inferior creatures. But it's also a display of wisdom that those who fuck their mothers and brothers don't have, and that's that letting someone who thinks you're inferior fuck you means that they won't respect you in the morning and will ship you off to the Gulag or the Russian Front in a second if you dare state (or are suspected of thinking) that you don't believe you are inferior.
In sum, Red Staters would rather be fucked by someone who doesn't demand absolute control over them. Maybe they just don't get off on submission and starvation.
By the way, the only reason that "Blue States" pay more taxes is because the wealth from "Red States" is shipped to the coasts where it can be transported overseas. The "Blue States" aren't supporting the "Red States", they're living in luxury off of the wealth of the "Red States" and pretending they're not capitalists while they exploit proletariat.
No, Sun's PHBs had a very close relationship with Oracle. Either Ellison gave this the go ahead (he doesn't fear PostgreSQL) or Sun is firing a shot across Oracles bow.
Because Joe Blow in Iraq got a cellphone, he's got a business that helped him get a real estate loan and he's sending his kid to medical school. And by selling oil his country is getting rich enough to care about the environment so he'll stop global warming.
Tell me you've coded to standards when you write a proper test suite for the standard. I'll bet your life that you didn't understand the standard AND that you didn't code to the standard as you thought you understood it.
What was that? You don't have a working implementation that implements the standards completely and correctly?
It's awfully easy to claim you code to a standard you can't test against.
20 years ago those flash animations you dismiss took the very best programmers to write, in assembly, for the Atari 800. 15 years ago, those GUI controls you're so proud of being able to hand-code took a genius to keep track of their APIs. 10 years ago, centering a button becaome as simple as typing:
And it's gotten a little easier than that. I'm thinking you're just feeling your obsolescence because HTML WYSIWYG editors are getting as good as your C++ GUI builder that you think separates you from the flash animator.
His model is basically sell service (and training and documentation) while paying developers to make the actual (open source code) and welcoming hobbyist contributors, and then paying them if their contributions become significant? What's wrong with that? The only real complaint real people who use JBoss had against him was that he charged $20 for an up to date manual (the free one was usable, but quite a bit outdated) to a product that was replacing $10,000 competing products.
JBoss is GPL. Marc Fluery's enemies are mad at him (and convincing you ignorant twits to be) because his product is open source and they are not allowed to fork it and sell it as closed source. That's what Geronimo is all about, and he's been fairly tolerant of the fact that so much of it is directly stolen from his (and others') GLPed software. He may be an asshole, but he's had to deal with a lot of nasty snivelling fucks and their retarted cheerleaders.
Yeah, Karl Marx wasn't as smart as he thought he was. Either he was too stupid to know what it takes to enforce communism or his "theory" was that the proletariat was too stupid to realize what communism would really be like. A little bit of both, I think.
Sounds like the Microsoft interview process weeded out an unqualified candidate. There is more to a job than a college degree does not qualify you for everything. Microsoft's innovative, though controversial, hiring practices turned out in this case to find out that what may have looked like a good candidate on paper to HR (or more likely, some suck at Volt) turned out to be an unemployable liability.
That's true, but "dozens of users" hardly constitutes a public utility. The problem with wifi is when you get more than 10 connections on the same channel you get lots of interference. You can pump it up to 50 or so, but using dial-up modem methodology, that gives you about 1500 (50*10*3) users and you saturate all channels (1, 6, 11) at peak times.
shipping tshirts, books, and adult dvds piecemeal all over the country has a much larger impact on air pollution from transportation costs than the local stores ordering in bulk to satisfy their local customers.
Almost every library in America was created and funded through private donations. Most of the books still are. The millions of dollars sunk into libraries these days are mostly graft and, to a lesser extent, wages for union members.
BSD license is better for Covalent. They sell a closed source version of Apache with little value-add. If any. If it were GPL, you'd probably realize that Covalent didn't change a single line of code and you could get everything for the price of a download.
I'm going to take this research to a venture capitalist. They're saying, if I could get 101 people to pay $25 a month, I can deliver profitable broadband wifi. And that sounds about right by my estimates too. Only I think I could get 100 people over a 5 mile radius in a rural area for about 1/4 the expense. The longer range customers will only get line of sight service, so I'll probably need to be in a 1 mile range with at least 50 people in it.
What he should do is throw as much resources as they can at beating Seibel. Right there is thier ripest competitor, though they think of them as an ally. The desktop is still microsoft's and the word processor is what keeps them their, but those big government projects switching to Linux would be immediately halted if Microsoft could put out a good CRM, which Siebel is not, but PHBs like the name, and they'd like a Microsoft solution, and it would save SQL server (and give them much more revenue) and provide a use for.NET -- rich client business applications, something that java and html can't compete with. Once developers can buy a skeleton CRM & inventory management program for their small business for a thousand dollars (plus the cost of windows server, plus sql server, plus.net studio, plus client licenses, then a 10 employee company can scale up to a huge enterprise.
Wrong. People like you are boringly predictable, but many others are fascinating and unpredictable, capable of making both arbitrary and reasoned decisions. Don't project your stupidity and lack of consciousness on the rest of us.
There are more possible moves in Go than chess, so it is a better measure of a computer's capacity for thought?
If the emphasis is on "capacity", okay, but what exactly do you mean by "thought"?
Most people don't consider thought to be defined by quantity of decisions.
Also, the simple fact is that chess players (and programmers) understand the game far better than Go players do. Go *is* an amateur game and even the best players don't really understand the algorithms that govern the game. A good Go player beats a weaker player because he is more familiar with the patterns that work and is good at identifying captures and avoiding traps. There isn't really a strategy, in the sense. It's more about feints and cautious defense.
Unless you're measuring "how long" in minutes, playing over the internet isn't really going to tell you anything about your opponent. Even then distractions like, phone calls, chips, work, or tv are sure to foil your expert read.
That's because hold 'em is an idiots game. It's for people who can't keep track of more than two cards at a time. You could memorize the odds in a day.
Most poker players will tell you that it doesn't matter whether you ever bluff or not. It's being able to guess (correctly) when the other players are bluffing. A good player will tell you that unless you're playing with fools, it's at least 50% pure chance, cause even if the other guy is bluffing with a pair of deuces and you know it, a short straight, ace high doesn't beat it. And even then, whether you get your 10 or not doesn't matter when he draws the other three Aces and his pair of twos beats your sure straight when it becomes a full house.
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No, it's just that the ignornant bigots in Northern cities have never seen a black man (except on TV) so they don't know anything about racism (except what they learn by watching TV.) You've really got to pity people who don't know where food comes from or what buildings are made of or what different cultures are like and think because they have cable TV and an "ethnic" restaurant in the tourist district of the city they live in that they are multicultural. It's not a fact, but I suspect that putting so many people close together tends to have a psychological effect of forcing them into group thinking so they tend to congregate in like-minded groups, thus further sheltering themselves from more cultures. Also, due to the "faster pace" of life (meaning the more time that is spent commuting shorter distances due to a "lowest common denominator" effect on traffic, the less time they have for other activities.) Stuff like actually getting to know the Chinese person who runs the Chinese (or Thai) restaurant that you frequent for lunch happens less in crowded cities than in rural areas. Yes, they have chinese restaurants in small towns!
yes, that really is a quantifiable inferiority. I don't advocate eugenics, though.
It's because the "Red Staters" have different values. They'd rather be fucked by someone who doesn't consider them inferior creatures. But it's also a display of wisdom that those who fuck their mothers and brothers don't have, and that's that letting someone who thinks you're inferior fuck you means that they won't respect you in the morning and will ship you off to the Gulag or the Russian Front in a second if you dare state (or are suspected of thinking) that you don't believe you are inferior. In sum, Red Staters would rather be fucked by someone who doesn't demand absolute control over them. Maybe they just don't get off on submission and starvation. By the way, the only reason that "Blue States" pay more taxes is because the wealth from "Red States" is shipped to the coasts where it can be transported overseas. The "Blue States" aren't supporting the "Red States", they're living in luxury off of the wealth of the "Red States" and pretending they're not capitalists while they exploit proletariat.
No, Sun's PHBs had a very close relationship with Oracle. Either Ellison gave this the go ahead (he doesn't fear PostgreSQL) or Sun is firing a shot across Oracles bow.
Because Joe Blow in Iraq got a cellphone, he's got a business that helped him get a real estate loan and he's sending his kid to medical school. And by selling oil his country is getting rich enough to care about the environment so he'll stop global warming.
Tell me you've coded to standards when you write a proper test suite for the standard. I'll bet your life that you didn't understand the standard AND that you didn't code to the standard as you thought you understood it.
What was that? You don't have a working implementation that implements the standards completely and correctly?
It's awfully easy to claim you code to a standard you can't test against.
20 years ago those flash animations you dismiss took the very best programmers to write, in assembly, for the Atari 800. 15 years ago, those GUI controls you're so proud of being able to hand-code took a genius to keep track of their APIs. 10 years ago, centering a button becaome as simple as typing:
And it's gotten a little easier than that. I'm thinking you're just feeling your obsolescence because HTML WYSIWYG editors are getting as good as your C++ GUI builder that you think separates you from the flash animator.
His model is basically sell service (and training and documentation) while paying developers to make the actual (open source code) and welcoming hobbyist contributors, and then paying them if their contributions become significant? What's wrong with that? The only real complaint real people who use JBoss had against him was that he charged $20 for an up to date manual (the free one was usable, but quite a bit outdated) to a product that was replacing $10,000 competing products.
JBoss is GPL. Marc Fluery's enemies are mad at him (and convincing you ignorant twits to be) because his product is open source and they are not allowed to fork it and sell it as closed source. That's what Geronimo is all about, and he's been fairly tolerant of the fact that so much of it is directly stolen from his (and others') GLPed software. He may be an asshole, but he's had to deal with a lot of nasty snivelling fucks and their retarted cheerleaders.
Yeah, Karl Marx wasn't as smart as he thought he was. Either he was too stupid to know what it takes to enforce communism or his "theory" was that the proletariat was too stupid to realize what communism would really be like. A little bit of both, I think.
Sounds like the Microsoft interview process weeded out an unqualified candidate. There is more to a job than a college degree does not qualify you for everything. Microsoft's innovative, though controversial, hiring practices turned out in this case to find out that what may have looked like a good candidate on paper to HR (or more likely, some suck at Volt) turned out to be an unemployable liability.
That's true, but "dozens of users" hardly constitutes a public utility. The problem with wifi is when you get more than 10 connections on the same channel you get lots of interference. You can pump it up to 50 or so, but using dial-up modem methodology, that gives you about 1500 (50*10*3) users and you saturate all channels (1, 6, 11) at peak times.
shipping tshirts, books, and adult dvds piecemeal all over the country has a much larger impact on air pollution from transportation costs than the local stores ordering in bulk to satisfy their local customers.
Almost every library in America was created and funded through private donations. Most of the books still are. The millions of dollars sunk into libraries these days are mostly graft and, to a lesser extent, wages for union members.
BSD license is better for Covalent. They sell a closed source version of Apache with little value-add. If any. If it were GPL, you'd probably realize that Covalent didn't change a single line of code and you could get everything for the price of a download.
I'm going to take this research to a venture capitalist. They're saying, if I could get 101 people to pay $25 a month, I can deliver profitable broadband wifi. And that sounds about right by my estimates too. Only I think I could get 100 people over a 5 mile radius in a rural area for about 1/4 the expense. The longer range customers will only get line of sight service, so I'll probably need to be in a 1 mile range with at least 50 people in it.
What he should do is throw as much resources as they can at beating Seibel. Right there is thier ripest competitor, though they think of them as an ally. The desktop is still microsoft's and the word processor is what keeps them their, but those big government projects switching to Linux would be immediately halted if Microsoft could put out a good CRM, which Siebel is not, but PHBs like the name, and they'd like a Microsoft solution, and it would save SQL server (and give them much more revenue) and provide a use for .NET -- rich client business applications, something that java and html can't compete with. Once developers can buy a skeleton CRM & inventory management program for their small business for a thousand dollars (plus the cost of windows server, plus sql server, plus .net studio, plus client licenses, then a 10 employee company can scale up to a huge enterprise.
Wrong. People like you are boringly predictable, but many others are fascinating and unpredictable, capable of making both arbitrary and reasoned decisions. Don't project your stupidity and lack of consciousness on the rest of us.
There are more possible moves in Go than chess, so it is a better measure of a computer's capacity for thought? If the emphasis is on "capacity", okay, but what exactly do you mean by "thought"? Most people don't consider thought to be defined by quantity of decisions.
Also, the simple fact is that chess players (and programmers) understand the game far better than Go players do. Go *is* an amateur game and even the best players don't really understand the algorithms that govern the game. A good Go player beats a weaker player because he is more familiar with the patterns that work and is good at identifying captures and avoiding traps. There isn't really a strategy, in the sense. It's more about feints and cautious defense.
Unless you're measuring "how long" in minutes, playing over the internet isn't really going to tell you anything about your opponent. Even then distractions like, phone calls, chips, work, or tv are sure to foil your expert read.
Is that where they tell you that all that crap they tell you about online poker is just to get more rake?
That's because hold 'em is an idiots game. It's for people who can't keep track of more than two cards at a time. You could memorize the odds in a day.
Most poker players will tell you that it doesn't matter whether you ever bluff or not. It's being able to guess (correctly) when the other players are bluffing. A good player will tell you that unless you're playing with fools, it's at least 50% pure chance, cause even if the other guy is bluffing with a pair of deuces and you know it, a short straight, ace high doesn't beat it. And even then, whether you get your 10 or not doesn't matter when he draws the other three Aces and his pair of twos beats your sure straight when it becomes a full house.
It's not poker if you're playing online. It's just flashcards.