why is that? it's not sustainable that salaries and housing prices can diverge as much as they did. at some point people cannot afford to buy their first house and then you've got houses that don't have buyers and prices fall. it's certainly true that people buy more house than they did back then, so part of that divergence is accounted for. but it's also true that in a proper market the house that you buy today cannot rise so much in price that the next person in your situation cannot afford it.
The question is to what level do you have to learn? Does someone need to learn how to print a circuit board or wire an electronic circuit in order to use or program a modern computer? We can probably agree that they don't even though the fact that *someone* knows how to do those things is necessary for the higher level stuff to be done.
This statement above is what triggered the objections:
any programmer who can't do a list, hash table, bubble sort, or btree at the drop of a hat ought to be kicked out of the industry
So what does it mean to be able to do those things at a drop of a hat? To me that doesn't mean just knowing what a BTree is or where it is best used, it means being able to rattle off the code for implementing a BTree ad-hoc without refreshing your knowledge. I don't think that's something that most people can do or should have to be able to do. I think the above objections were mostly saying that knowing what it is and where it should be used are enough.
bad shoes aren't necessarily "closer to the state of barefoot", they might cause problems of their own. what the OP said was something akin to:
"I've been having trouble swimming in a tuxedo, so I bought a wetsuit that is much easier to swim in. Now you're saying that it might be easier to swim naked than in a tuxedo?"
it's not safe to compare two things and assume that a third thing is being evaluated.
The ID argument, as I've seen it, requires a designer that wasn't designed by another designer, but if that un-designed designer was natural, then there's no reason that we couldn't be un-designed by the same argument. Therefore, the designer must be supernatural.
You're very clever, young man, but it's no use -- it's turtles all the way down.
You're not going to get "a lot of hard work and attention to detail" from the testers of your commercial product unless they're being paid. The fun of playing the game early is a form of payment, but if you're asking them to forgo that fun in order to only do the work part then you're insane. There's definitely an imbalance though, with some testers who don't bother to submit bug reports at all, and also a lot of companies that don't bother to listen to the feedback they do get.
Trains make sense when you have a lot of fairly dense areas within a hour's drive of each other that people frequently travel between. Japan, parts of western Europe, and the American northeast fit the bill. America as a whole does not.
It seems like there are lots of suburbs of Chicago where virtually everyone is driving to the city every morning to work, and we've all heard stories of the nightmare commutes in LA and Silicon Valley. It seems like any of those three places have one-hour drives that would be a great prospect for better rail coverage.
The topic though is high-speed rail coverage, and for that I think you should be targetting trips that are longer than an hour by car in traffic (because a high speed train is going to take that trip in 10 minutes and not even make it to top speed, unless there are a lot of stops that ruin the entire point of a high-speed train). What you should probably be looking for are major cities that are 2 hours or more distant from each other by car. The type of trips where a drive is fairly long, but the overhead of getting to the airport an hour early to be cavity searched cancels out any time saved. Even midwest hubs like Chicago-Milwaukee/Chicago-St Louis or southwest hubs like Dallas-Houston/LA-Las Vegas would seem like they would fit that bill.
It could also be the case that most people buying it don't know about policies like this (they bury this sort of thing in pages and pages of legalese after all), or just don't think this will ever happen to them. Taking the number of purchases as an endorsement of the practice is ridiculous in general, but even more so because purchase numbers for the Kindle have been pretty tightly controlled.
This guy was most likely being unreasonable with his returns, but they should have just cut off future purchases. He'd still be in a bad position because some content only comes DRMd and so only through Amazon, but at least Amazon would be holding up their end of the transaction for items previously purchased.
I bet a lot of these girls have day jobs where they've grown accustomed to the idea of paying income tax on the money they make. Even if they don't, the idea of paying income tax on the money you earn is not nearly as obscure as collecting sales tax on bartered goods would be.
A better comparison would be with people who get paid by a neighbor to watch their kids for the night (or some other odd job) and who then don't declare that income. But the regularity of the work and the level of income that the people in this situation are getting seems like it'd be pretty different from the sorts of odd jobs that slip under most people's radar
...or maybe if they'd just acknowledge that all economic times are "uncertain". The people that are certain about the economy are the ones that think that everything will always go up
He can't see his post either since his UID is not lower than his UID, but that's ok because it helps it more closely match the community before he signed up
I took him to mean that competition breeds improvements, whether they're made via volunteer development or not.
One thing I didn't like about the post was the statement that it was GCC that wiped everybody out, as at least some vendors (e.g. Borland) were wiped out by MS. Several other vendors had their compilers stagnate due to the fact that their OS lost a lot of marketshare.
it doesn't cost web designers it makes them money. it costs companies and people who for whatever reason want to make a website. because these issues make it hard for an inexperienced person to make a widely compatible and also reasonably advanced website, they have to hire experienced web designers
Unfortunately $100K/week isn't the full extent of the scam, it's just one slice of the money. The article only says that top affiliates made that much individually, and they only break down the Top 10 affiliates for 4 separate two-week periods (which adds up to almost $2M over that time). There is no mention of how many total affiliates there were or how much money they brought in as a group, but even the glimpse of the Top 10 makes it clear that it's much more than $100K/week when you add up the entire take.
Except that the Recluse spider venom isn't particularly neuro-toxic at all. Its primary toxin simply aggregates platelets and white blood cells to clog capillaries, which causes necrotic flesh wounds.
well maybe it worked like that BEFORE the spider got zapped with high energy gamma rays, but afterwards things were probably a bit different
Apparently you are unaware that blacks were depicted with regularity as monkeys in racist literature of the past. Next you're going to complain that white people who wear white robes with pointed hoods are unfairly stereotyped. If you act like racists acted, people will suspect that you're a racist.
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DRM tying the copy of the PDF that you bought to the machine that you own
that's crazy talk, we're not going to evade Texas
incorrect, you are engaging my "money holding service" at a fee of $50 for each $50 held.
why is that? it's not sustainable that salaries and housing prices can diverge as much as they did. at some point people cannot afford to buy their first house and then you've got houses that don't have buyers and prices fall. it's certainly true that people buy more house than they did back then, so part of that divergence is accounted for. but it's also true that in a proper market the house that you buy today cannot rise so much in price that the next person in your situation cannot afford it.
what was the threat, the cost of the audit or what the audit might find? it seems like if it's the latter than it's their own fault.
This statement above is what triggered the objections:
So what does it mean to be able to do those things at a drop of a hat? To me that doesn't mean just knowing what a BTree is or where it is best used, it means being able to rattle off the code for implementing a BTree ad-hoc without refreshing your knowledge. I don't think that's something that most people can do or should have to be able to do. I think the above objections were mostly saying that knowing what it is and where it should be used are enough.
bad shoes aren't necessarily "closer to the state of barefoot", they might cause problems of their own. what the OP said was something akin to:
"I've been having trouble swimming in a tuxedo, so I bought a wetsuit that is much easier to swim in. Now you're saying that it might be easier to swim naked than in a tuxedo?"
it's not safe to compare two things and assume that a third thing is being evaluated.
The ID argument, as I've seen it, requires a designer that wasn't designed by another designer, but if that un-designed designer was natural, then there's no reason that we couldn't be un-designed by the same argument. Therefore, the designer must be supernatural.
You're very clever, young man, but it's no use -- it's turtles all the way down.
using that same logic, one would assume that most of the people in Congress were women
You're not going to get "a lot of hard work and attention to detail" from the testers of your commercial product unless they're being paid. The fun of playing the game early is a form of payment, but if you're asking them to forgo that fun in order to only do the work part then you're insane. There's definitely an imbalance though, with some testers who don't bother to submit bug reports at all, and also a lot of companies that don't bother to listen to the feedback they do get.
Trains make sense when you have a lot of fairly dense areas within a hour's drive of each other that people frequently travel between. Japan, parts of western Europe, and the American northeast fit the bill. America as a whole does not.
It seems like there are lots of suburbs of Chicago where virtually everyone is driving to the city every morning to work, and we've all heard stories of the nightmare commutes in LA and Silicon Valley. It seems like any of those three places have one-hour drives that would be a great prospect for better rail coverage.
The topic though is high-speed rail coverage, and for that I think you should be targetting trips that are longer than an hour by car in traffic (because a high speed train is going to take that trip in 10 minutes and not even make it to top speed, unless there are a lot of stops that ruin the entire point of a high-speed train). What you should probably be looking for are major cities that are 2 hours or more distant from each other by car. The type of trips where a drive is fairly long, but the overhead of getting to the airport an hour early to be cavity searched cancels out any time saved. Even midwest hubs like Chicago-Milwaukee/Chicago-St Louis or southwest hubs like Dallas-Houston/LA-Las Vegas would seem like they would fit that bill.
It could also be the case that most people buying it don't know about policies like this (they bury this sort of thing in pages and pages of legalese after all), or just don't think this will ever happen to them. Taking the number of purchases as an endorsement of the practice is ridiculous in general, but even more so because purchase numbers for the Kindle have been pretty tightly controlled.
This guy was most likely being unreasonable with his returns, but they should have just cut off future purchases. He'd still be in a bad position because some content only comes DRMd and so only through Amazon, but at least Amazon would be holding up their end of the transaction for items previously purchased.
I bet a lot of these girls have day jobs where they've grown accustomed to the idea of paying income tax on the money they make. Even if they don't, the idea of paying income tax on the money you earn is not nearly as obscure as collecting sales tax on bartered goods would be.
A better comparison would be with people who get paid by a neighbor to watch their kids for the night (or some other odd job) and who then don't declare that income. But the regularity of the work and the level of income that the people in this situation are getting seems like it'd be pretty different from the sorts of odd jobs that slip under most people's radar
no, but I have a vmware image of his vmware image you can just pop-in and run
...or maybe if they'd just acknowledge that all economic times are "uncertain". The people that are certain about the economy are the ones that think that everything will always go up
maybe the point is to encrypt it just so that decrypting has to be done at all. does the DMCA apply to web pages?
lesson learned!
He can't see his post either since his UID is not lower than his UID, but that's ok because it helps it more closely match the community before he signed up
taking nuanced stances on topics you're not sure about is not going to get you a job on TV
I took him to mean that competition breeds improvements, whether they're made via volunteer development or not.
One thing I didn't like about the post was the statement that it was GCC that wiped everybody out, as at least some vendors (e.g. Borland) were wiped out by MS. Several other vendors had their compilers stagnate due to the fact that their OS lost a lot of marketshare.
it doesn't cost web designers it makes them money. it costs companies and people who for whatever reason want to make a website. because these issues make it hard for an inexperienced person to make a widely compatible and also reasonably advanced website, they have to hire experienced web designers
Unfortunately $100K/week isn't the full extent of the scam, it's just one slice of the money. The article only says that top affiliates made that much individually, and they only break down the Top 10 affiliates for 4 separate two-week periods (which adds up to almost $2M over that time). There is no mention of how many total affiliates there were or how much money they brought in as a group, but even the glimpse of the Top 10 makes it clear that it's much more than $100K/week when you add up the entire take.
Except that the Recluse spider venom isn't particularly neuro-toxic at all. Its primary toxin simply aggregates platelets and white blood cells to clog capillaries, which causes necrotic flesh wounds.
well maybe it worked like that BEFORE the spider got zapped with high energy gamma rays, but afterwards things were probably a bit different
we have plenty of writings of the ancient Greeks, unfortunately not a single ebook from the 1st century has been uncovered
Apparently you are unaware that blacks were depicted with regularity as monkeys in racist literature of the past. Next you're going to complain that white people who wear white robes with pointed hoods are unfairly stereotyped. If you act like racists acted, people will suspect that you're a racist.