It's a buy with a (bigger) risk of not getting the thing you paid for.
If you pay 100 USD each to 10 projects, but 1/10 fail to deliver; then your actual cost per delivered product is about 111 USD. You need to guesstimate costs like that before you "gamble" and buy stuff from sites like Kickstarter.
At least you now can get away with a lot more "that's not a softwareproblem, it's a hardwareproblem"s... which should free up enough time for you to be able to find a new job before the proverbial excrement goes fan shopping.
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Writing style is often a habit formed by the understanding, or lack thereof, by the ones you are writing for/to; when questioning a persons style you must ask yourself a lot of quite hard (to answer) questions regarding both yourself, your understanding of the text/style and also the writer.
So, is he really "a terrible writer" limiting himself by his "inability to communicate", or was it just a case of an article written in a style not prefered/suitable for you (and/or the general reader of where the article's been made available)?
It's time the governments of the world feared the people. Bad idea. Fear doesn't get people to do what you want. Of course it does, just see how well it's working with all the nukes etc that the US has... asif they'd ever actually have to use their weapons to get things done, and if they'd ever invade a country everyone in that country will stop fighting and do as the US says... or... hmmm...
If they were real, ESP and telekinesis would have their costs, but the benefits would be so massive that natural selection would inevitably tend to favor them. The result? Precognitive snakes that would know exactly where to wait for a mouse[...] The mouse would of course in turn either be eaten until there are no more of 'em, or they'd develop ESP to know where the snake would be waiting... So because we still have mice we can't say that there are snakes with ESP or not, all we can say is that if it's there it's there on both(/all) sides and we'd just call it instinct, logic or that the damn little things are smart enough to avoid danger/traps.
There doesn't seem to be a downside, hence if it exists, and would not be tied to humans, why hasn't it evolved to obvious levels in all forms of life? Why aren't lazy dolphins building submarines and why aren't butterflies creating weapons to kill spiders, or better yet, detectors so that they never get trapped in a spiders web?! We're all different kinds of animals, and we can all do different things (humans get lost 100 meters away from home, birds navigate halfway around the world without getting lost).
ESP might not be tied to just humans, but it might be tied to more advanced/complex lifeforms... of which humans might currently be borderline...
ESP might even be lurking about so that once we get a few people with strong ESP they are then able to help others train their ESP to speed things up; taking us from a "is there such a thing as ESP" to almost everyone having it within just a cpl of generations.
Personally I don't belive that, but, hey, I don't rule it out.
Only if it happened long enough ago and it was strong enough to actually make a difference which made those individuals breed more and the advantage was inherited...
That's a lot of ifs.
Just think about all the people with a very high IQ which aren't even capable of dealing with everyday life and/or never get married and have kids, that could be everything from people with ADHD to professors that spend so much time within their own research that they hardly know what day of the week (or month) it is.
So being very smart, which should give them advantage, doesn't mean that they've actually got an advantage which will be spread using breeding; and it could be the same with people with (weak) ESP (if it exists), they could for instance have a greater chance of having a personality which makes them second guess their ESP to the extent that the positive side of it are negated, or maybe those are the nutcases we laugh about because they leave their citylife and move out into the country (as they have a closer connection to nature).
Some people are tempted to say that some, like very successfull businessmen, might be using (weak) ESP to optimize the work and deals they do; so within what's usually refered to as instinct there might be some ESP (if it exists).
So just because we don't have psi-cops running around reading peoples minds we don't have proof that ESP does or doesn't exist, we can't just say that evolution should have resulted in individuals with strong ESP today if it exists - that's just like arriving in a spaceship on earth milions of years ago and saying that there will be no smart humans there because if there would be smart humans there would already be smart humans there. (it's of course debatable if there are any smart humans here today...)
If ESP really exists today it might be different from what we expect it to be, ie not a single clear talent, and it might be so weak that it'll take 100's or 1000's of year before it's so obvious that no one can deny that it truly exists; and even if we knew that to be possible, we can't say for sure that those with the right genes will be around long enough to acctually produce those children with strong ESP.
So what do we really know? Nothing more than that we can't prove anything beyond any doubts... which today goes for both ESP and string theory and a whole lot more that we're currently researching...
I can easily carry with me 10+ plastic cards (ATM, memberships, access, coffeemachine, discount...) some days, and that just doesn't fit well in a money clip; so I just put them in my back pocket. I've been doing this (money clip, and plastic cards in my backpocket) for years without any problems whatsoever; no cards have stopped working, no cards have been lost and they only take up a minimum of space.
So far the money clip from http://www.superiortitanium.com/ is the only one that handles the "20+ bills one day and just a single one the next"-torture without complaining (ie throwing away that single bill instead of holding on to it), day after day, week after week, month after month... (No, I have no financial interest in that company. =))
Sure, there's no room for all the rest of the junk you put into a wallet, but, then again, most of it is junk... and as a hardcore geek you've already got too much to carry around in your pockets, so you're better off without one. =)
What about all the plastic which magically give us money from friendly ATMs and let us into our secret HQ (ie the server room) etc? Well, just put 'em all in your backpocket, they might bend a wee bit, but nowadays they survive such treatment without breaking/stop working.
That didn't come out exactly as I meant to write it, so please, read what I meant to write, not what I actually wrote.
But, hey, that just proves that average people don't get a chance to actually learn how e-stuff's working, as people like me write confusing stuff in forums like/. =)
Yeah, but Skype isn't advertized as decentralized P2P, so most people won't know that that's how it works when they install it; and most people using Skype doesn't even understand what decentralized P2P is.
IM-programs have for years _NOT_ been decentralized P2P-based, and Skype is largely competing with other IM-solutions; so it's not like people expect it to be P2P in the sense that their computers are used for other peoples filetransfers etc.
I wouldn't say that "either is fine", as older spellings are just that... older... It's something that we for one way or another is moving away from; and unless it's a very recent change you better just stick with the "normal" (ie modern) spelling.
If older spellings are ok, then how about older names... where'd we be if some people wrote "uppsala", some "upsala" and others "östra aros"... Some might view "uppsala" and "upsala" as just different spellings, but to some such a change means more than just a spelling, it's a form of identification which you've changed by changing the spelling; just like "janne" and "jane" are not the same name spellt differently.
Not saying that _you_ would do something that isn't legal, but most people that would just "like the ability to poke around in OSX" would probably just download it from the Internet instead of buying it...
Hey, it's not like you're acctually using it, you're just learning more about it so that you one day might buy Apple hardware, so although technically not legal is actually good for Apple... or so people will justify it.
Then at least some of them will find themselfs booting into MacOS more and more, but still, you already got something working, so why buy something which is already there... you'll just wait for the next time you buy hardware, or for the next large(ish) upgrade of MacOS...
Then when it's time for you to get new hardware you'll find that although Apple computers look good, there are still a few things wrong and/or you feel that you can get a better solution by building a computer yourself; or just upgrade the one you've already got, and/or just pick some parts from the one you've got. So no new fancy Apple hardware.
Then it's time for that large upgrade of MacOS... well, since you can't buy MacOS for just any PC you'll feel that why support a company that doesn't support you, so technically, you'll think, you are doing a great thing by not buying the latest MacOS, as that makes you a protester which will change the world... "force" Apple into releasing MacOS for generic hardware...
What if they then one day do release it for generic hardware? Well, just take a look at most peoples (Windows) computers today, are they really filled with paid for software...?! Is even Windows paid for...?!
I'm not saying that it wouldn't be good for Apple to release MacOS for generic hardware (I'm not saying it wouldn't bad either), I'm just saying that it isn't such huge good thing (for Apple) that most people seem to think...
I used to hate Bill Gates, but now I love him... Not only did he fight to stop spam, but he actually managed to do just that for me years before he started working on it. He's a genius!!!
Now, how do I go about paying him for all the hard work he put into all the hours I spent working on procmail-filters, programming and, not to mention, create the wonderful bogofilter-projekt?
People get e-mailaddresses wrong, that's just life...
I've got a 3 character username @ hotmail.com (and msn), I get A LOT of e-mails simply because people make misstakes; not as many misstakes as spam, but still, misstakes have been made.
10% might not sound like much, but in this case that's not before expenses and it results in more than 2 billion per year straight into the savings account...
Just picture being in charge of a company which keeps on growing, keeps on taking/creating/expanding (new) markets without huge investments at the same time as you're just getting more and more money to invest/do fun stuff with; money which you basically don't need to keep the business going.
Nah, it's easy to understand what's what, just have a look at my sig... =)
PS I'm sorry if that perl oneliner doesn't work when you try it, but I'm taking the server offline for short periods of time while doing some upgrading... If it's down when you try it just try again a minute later.
"NAT, usb-powered etherenet switch and a couple cables" or software that makes it work without all that... not really something you have to think twice about, esp. not if you don't want to be forced to sit next to the WLAN-connected computer (or if you don't want everyone else to see what you're doing); besides, there's a lot of stuff out there which handles WLAN but not ethernet...
You could use it to share a WLAN with a second computer/PDA/whatever, which can't connect directly... either because it's too far away, or isn't allowed (hasn't paid, not part of the company or simply blocked because some idiot login-requirements forcing people to use IE).
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I didn't refer to the paying people as investors!
It's a buy with a (bigger) risk of not getting the thing you paid for.
If you pay 100 USD each to 10 projects, but 1/10 fail to deliver; then your actual cost per delivered product is about 111 USD. You need to guesstimate costs like that before you "gamble" and buy stuff from sites like Kickstarter.
At least you now can get away with a lot more "that's not a softwareproblem, it's a hardwareproblem"s... which should free up enough time for you to be able to find a new job before the proverbial excrement goes fan shopping.
Writing style is often a habit formed by the understanding, or lack thereof, by the ones you are writing for/to; when questioning a persons style you must ask yourself a lot of quite hard (to answer) questions regarding both yourself, your understanding of the text/style and also the writer.
So, is he really "a terrible writer" limiting himself by his "inability to communicate", or was it just a case of an article written in a style not prefered/suitable for you (and/or the general reader of where the article's been made available)?
ESP might not be tied to just humans, but it might be tied to more advanced/complex lifeforms... of which humans might currently be borderline...
ESP might even be lurking about so that once we get a few people with strong ESP they are then able to help others train their ESP to speed things up; taking us from a "is there such a thing as ESP" to almost everyone having it within just a cpl of generations.
Personally I don't belive that, but, hey, I don't rule it out.
Only if it happened long enough ago and it was strong enough to actually make a difference which made those individuals breed more and the advantage was inherited...
That's a lot of ifs.
Just think about all the people with a very high IQ which aren't even capable of dealing with everyday life and/or never get married and have kids, that could be everything from people with ADHD to professors that spend so much time within their own research that they hardly know what day of the week (or month) it is.
So being very smart, which should give them advantage, doesn't mean that they've actually got an advantage which will be spread using breeding; and it could be the same with people with (weak) ESP (if it exists), they could for instance have a greater chance of having a personality which makes them second guess their ESP to the extent that the positive side of it are negated, or maybe those are the nutcases we laugh about because they leave their citylife and move out into the country (as they have a closer connection to nature).
Some people are tempted to say that some, like very successfull businessmen, might be using (weak) ESP to optimize the work and deals they do; so within what's usually refered to as instinct there might be some ESP (if it exists).
So just because we don't have psi-cops running around reading peoples minds we don't have proof that ESP does or doesn't exist, we can't just say that evolution should have resulted in individuals with strong ESP today if it exists - that's just like arriving in a spaceship on earth milions of years ago and saying that there will be no smart humans there because if there would be smart humans there would already be smart humans there. (it's of course debatable if there are any smart humans here today...)
If ESP really exists today it might be different from what we expect it to be, ie not a single clear talent, and it might be so weak that it'll take 100's or 1000's of year before it's so obvious that no one can deny that it truly exists; and even if we knew that to be possible, we can't say for sure that those with the right genes will be around long enough to acctually produce those children with strong ESP.
So what do we really know? Nothing more than that we can't prove anything beyond any doubts... which today goes for both ESP and string theory and a whole lot more that we're currently researching...
Outside the US... that'd be me... =p
People, people, people... stop complaining about what to do with your coins... coins are just tip-money... you cheap bastards... ;)
I can easily carry with me 10+ plastic cards (ATM, memberships, access, coffeemachine, discount...) some days, and that just doesn't fit well in a money clip; so I just put them in my back pocket. I've been doing this (money clip, and plastic cards in my backpocket) for years without any problems whatsoever; no cards have stopped working, no cards have been lost and they only take up a minimum of space.
So far the money clip from http://www.superiortitanium.com/ is the only one that handles the "20+ bills one day and just a single one the next"-torture without complaining (ie throwing away that single bill instead of holding on to it), day after day, week after week, month after month... (No, I have no financial interest in that company. =))
Why bother making yourself an ugly looking wallet, when you could just use a money clip:
http://www.superiortitanium.com/
Sure, there's no room for all the rest of the junk you put into a wallet, but, then again, most of it is junk... and as a hardcore geek you've already got too much to carry around in your pockets, so you're better off without one. =)
What about all the plastic which magically give us money from friendly ATMs and let us into our secret HQ (ie the server room) etc? Well, just put 'em all in your backpocket, they might bend a wee bit, but nowadays they survive such treatment without breaking/stop working.
That didn't come out exactly as I meant to write it, so please, read what I meant to write, not what I actually wrote.
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But, hey, that just proves that average people don't get a chance to actually learn how e-stuff's working, as people like me write confusing stuff in forums like
Yeah, but Skype isn't advertized as decentralized P2P, so most people won't know that that's how it works when they install it; and most people using Skype doesn't even understand what decentralized P2P is.
IM-programs have for years _NOT_ been decentralized P2P-based, and Skype is largely competing with other IM-solutions; so it's not like people expect it to be P2P in the sense that their computers are used for other peoples filetransfers etc.
I wouldn't say that "either is fine", as older spellings are just that... older... It's something that we for one way or another is moving away from; and unless it's a very recent change you better just stick with the "normal" (ie modern) spelling.
If older spellings are ok, then how about older names... where'd we be if some people wrote "uppsala", some "upsala" and others "östra aros"... Some might view "uppsala" and "upsala" as just different spellings, but to some such a change means more than just a spelling, it's a form of identification which you've changed by changing the spelling; just like "janne" and "jane" are not the same name spellt differently.
Just a thought...
Not as cool as if it'd be one huge button which just says "don't panic"... ;)
I like Bill Gates ironic sense of humor also...
But Perens will get money to play with... so he'll be a winner, because he can do what he wants to do...
Not saying that _you_ would do something that isn't legal, but most people that would just "like the ability to poke around in OSX" would probably just download it from the Internet instead of buying it...
Hey, it's not like you're acctually using it, you're just learning more about it so that you one day might buy Apple hardware, so although technically not legal is actually good for Apple... or so people will justify it.
Then at least some of them will find themselfs booting into MacOS more and more, but still, you already got something working, so why buy something which is already there... you'll just wait for the next time you buy hardware, or for the next large(ish) upgrade of MacOS...
Then when it's time for you to get new hardware you'll find that although Apple computers look good, there are still a few things wrong and/or you feel that you can get a better solution by building a computer yourself; or just upgrade the one you've already got, and/or just pick some parts from the one you've got. So no new fancy Apple hardware.
Then it's time for that large upgrade of MacOS... well, since you can't buy MacOS for just any PC you'll feel that why support a company that doesn't support you, so technically, you'll think, you are doing a great thing by not buying the latest MacOS, as that makes you a protester which will change the world... "force" Apple into releasing MacOS for generic hardware...
What if they then one day do release it for generic hardware? Well, just take a look at most peoples (Windows) computers today, are they really filled with paid for software...?! Is even Windows paid for...?!
I'm not saying that it wouldn't be good for Apple to release MacOS for generic hardware (I'm not saying it wouldn't bad either), I'm just saying that it isn't such huge good thing (for Apple) that most people seem to think...
I used to hate Bill Gates, but now I love him... Not only did he fight to stop spam, but he actually managed to do just that for me years before he started working on it. He's a genius!!!
Now, how do I go about paying him for all the hard work he put into all the hours I spent working on procmail-filters, programming and, not to mention, create the wonderful bogofilter-projekt?
People get e-mailaddresses wrong, that's just life...
I've got a 3 character username @ hotmail.com (and msn), I get A LOT of e-mails simply because people make misstakes; not as many misstakes as spam, but still, misstakes have been made.
It was more than 2 years ago...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_b
10% might not sound like much, but in this case that's not before expenses and it results in more than 2 billion per year straight into the savings account...
Just picture being in charge of a company which keeps on growing, keeps on taking/creating/expanding (new) markets without huge investments at the same time as you're just getting more and more money to invest/do fun stuff with; money which you basically don't need to keep the business going.
Nah, it's easy to understand what's what, just have a look at my sig... =)
PS I'm sorry if that perl oneliner doesn't work when you try it, but I'm taking the server offline for short periods of time while doing some upgrading... If it's down when you try it just try again a minute later.
"NAT, usb-powered etherenet switch and a couple cables" or software that makes it work without all that... not really something you have to think twice about, esp. not if you don't want to be forced to sit next to the WLAN-connected computer (or if you don't want everyone else to see what you're doing); besides, there's a lot of stuff out there which handles WLAN but not ethernet...
You could use it to share a WLAN with a second computer/PDA/whatever, which can't connect directly... either because it's too far away, or isn't allowed (hasn't paid, not part of the company or simply blocked because some idiot login-requirements forcing people to use IE).