The tipping point towards what? Isn't SSL great for things that need to be secure... ie shopping, banking, etc but pretty much excessive for mundane stuff - like this article and this post for example. I am sure glad by slashdot.org data is transported via SSL connection because you never know....
My biggest complaint is the constant attempt to "abstract" simple concepts such as directories. For example "My Libraries" abstracted over top the easy to comprehend directory file system is an abomination. Ask the average user how to go to a directory hanging off the user directory (c:/user/$user) and they don't know how. You click on "my documents" but there is no clear way to go up one level of hierarchy or even understand where "My Libraries" really resides. Of course this was even worse in the "my documents and settings" days. People readily understand a hierarchical directory and file system. Why do they attempt to further abstract directories and files is beyond me. This is why Gates could not find the "downloads" directory in the anti-trust trial - where the hell is it? Even he didn't know! Gnome3 makes the same mistake IMHO.
" I don't give a crap about the minutiae of UI elements (unless it's truly horrible like Gnome)"
So I gather from this you use Macs because it supports your programming/working environment and you don't have to deal with the UI disaster known as Gnome3.
Interestingly I maintain a set of Linux workstations and most of the scientist/engineer guest users of these workstations are otherwise Mac users. I have installed Gnome/Mate and they sit down and are immediately able to do work with little to no training and no complaining. I know that if I transition to stock Gnome3 I would get a lot of WTF moments. .
Go look at the list of headlines and Breitbart and then CNN and tell which is more biased! Breitbart is the DJT Cult of Personality worshipping channel. Go read the commenters that follow the red meat stories one after another... These people are still angry about having a black person in authority that theey would gladly lead the US into fascism and tyranny
I won't call Arduino a competitor Raspberry pi - different animals. An Arduino is an embedded system while Raspberry is a minicomputer. For example you would not want to use a Raspberry pi in something that will have its power pulled abruptly or on and off - unless you go though a lot of hoops to create a read only file system and even then it is risky to use it for something in the field or embedded in a another system.
And there is no way in hell Russia will ever release Snowden. They have coerced him for example to "call" into the Putin's Propaganda hour show (either that or Snowden is really really naive). The Russians will not release Snowden so he can talk about his treatment or detail what he released to the Russians. They have absolutely nothing to gain.
OK I see your point regarding disputing with insurance companies... which leads me believe that the ACA was on the right path with defining certain standards that insurance companies have meet which reduces the number of loop holes found in complex cases. Yeah insurance now cost more but it is better insurance as the average joe doesn't read the fine print.
I read recently about a man who had cancer and was treated and was in remission. The wife was worried about lifetime maximums in case it came back... they called their insurance company and were relieved to hear the words that there are no more life time maximums thanks to the ACA.
I hate insurance companies are horrible since they focus on profit rather than helping patients
The pharmacy and medical treatment companies necessarily focus on profit... And guess what? We have an incredible array of treatment options and medical advances that we would never have if the medical field was occupied only but those concerned solely on helping patients.
Okay, so we're moving on to the blatantly, directly false. Stalin and Mao, in a couple of decades of the last century, killed more people, as an implementation of an -explicitly- atheistic position of government, that religion has -over all of time-, even allowing -conjectural- notions that the motivation was religion rather than other factors of territorial or economic conquest for the benefit of -political- motivations, -and also in contradiction to the directives of the religion itself-. That is, well, do I do with "absurd characterization" or "direct knowing lie"? I'll leave that up to you.
Wow one long run on sentence... but never the less I would categorize despotic communism as a religion and Stalin and Mao as their replacement gods. Same phenomena. Uncritical irrational worship.
Difference in rational moral objection between God culling bipeds for the improvement in the species, and evolution culling bipeds for the improvement of the species: None
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Huge difference... one involves alleged intention AND a (logically inconsistent) concept of Being that possess Omni attributes. The other just is without intention nor forethought nor Omnipotence. Not even in the same league.
And, incidentally, you have no basis from your worldview to treat "human" bipeds as in any way morally distinct from any other organism, which, of course, being the hypocrite you are, accept as utterly natural and necessary in every other case.
Nice insult slinging and calling someone else out for hypocrisy when it appears that you possess this quality in excess.
What could be more "retro" than 8-track tape. Imagine pulling few of these out at your next hipster party! Yeah they play continuously and have a hearty form factor to hold the curiosity and make a case for art.
If this takes off, with my 8-Track horde I will be rich!
"The Arizona effort would mark a rare instance of a US tech company manufacturing and assembling a finished product domestically, where labor costs are higher"
Well that is because of this key phrase...
"high-tech manufacturing"
Meaning there will be very little labor and lot of robots.
You can dig deeply into the OS very easily with PowerShell. WMI, registry, ACLs, etc are all easily and cleanly exposed.
Which also makes it a dream for malicious software.
The problem with Powershell is that you learn it and get use to using it and then when you want to deploy something you find that it is removed or disabled via corporate policy because it is dangerous and you are back to cmd and batch scripts.
Most of these are democratic like Russia is democratic or even North Korea. All candidates in Iran have be approved by the ruling Guardian Council a group of right leaning clerics.
Why the hell is that? As a Python newbie I never know what to install and configure a new project in. I start with say v3 only to find that some module or framework I need down the road isn't available in 3 or visa versa. Really annoying.
That was the intent... to start a religious war. Sort of like quoting the Pope as saying "Protestantism is a pretty okay primitive religion, better than being Muslim I guess"
I have programmed in Perl for over 20 years... recently been learning Python and rather like the whitespace and newlines as part of the syntax... economy of expression. Also the OO syntax is less bolt on as it is in Perl and a breeze to implement and remember.
What I don't like about Python is the v2 and v3 scism....
Well sounds like we should then be extracting energy now to lessen it's destructive capability eh? A few centuries of powering the entire continent might actually save our collective asses.
Slashdot Mirror
The tipping point towards what? Isn't SSL great for things that need to be secure... ie shopping, banking, etc but pretty much excessive for mundane stuff - like this article and this post for example. I am sure glad by slashdot.org data is transported via SSL connection because you never know....
What is the compatibility between file formats of Dropbox/GoogleDoc/Office?
Put all your eggs in one basket... and then watch (ie backup or mirror) the basket very carefully.
My biggest complaint is the constant attempt to "abstract" simple concepts such as directories. For example "My Libraries" abstracted over top the easy to comprehend directory file system is an abomination. Ask the average user how to go to a directory hanging off the user directory (c:/user/$user) and they don't know how. You click on "my documents" but there is no clear way to go up one level of hierarchy or even understand where "My Libraries" really resides. Of course this was even worse in the "my documents and settings" days. People readily understand a hierarchical directory and file system. Why do they attempt to further abstract directories and files is beyond me. This is why Gates could not find the "downloads" directory in the anti-trust trial - where the hell is it? Even he didn't know! Gnome3 makes the same mistake IMHO.
" I don't give a crap about the minutiae of UI elements (unless it's truly horrible like Gnome)"
So I gather from this you use Macs because it supports your programming/working environment and you don't have to deal with the UI disaster known as Gnome3.
Interestingly I maintain a set of Linux workstations and most of the scientist/engineer guest users of these workstations are otherwise Mac users. I have installed Gnome/Mate and they sit down and are immediately able to do work with little to no training and no complaining. I know that if I transition to stock Gnome3 I would get a lot of WTF moments. .
Go look at the list of headlines and Breitbart and then CNN and tell which is more biased! Breitbart is the DJT Cult of Personality worshipping channel. Go read the commenters that follow the red meat stories one after another... These people are still angry about having a black person in authority that theey would gladly lead the US into fascism and tyranny
Is it a bit presumptuous to call it AI? Machine learning yeah OK but AI? Really.
I won't call Arduino a competitor Raspberry pi - different animals. An Arduino is an embedded system while Raspberry is a minicomputer. For example you would not want to use a Raspberry pi in something that will have its power pulled abruptly or on and off - unless you go though a lot of hoops to create a read only file system and even then it is risky to use it for something in the field or embedded in a another system.
From his garmin link he is averaging 18.3 mph - I am guessing you are not doing that on your craigslist wonder bike.
And there is no way in hell Russia will ever release Snowden. They have coerced him for example to "call" into the Putin's Propaganda hour show (either that or Snowden is really really naive). The Russians will not release Snowden so he can talk about his treatment or detail what he released to the Russians. They have absolutely nothing to gain.
OK I see your point regarding disputing with insurance companies... which leads me believe that the ACA was on the right path with defining certain standards that insurance companies have meet which reduces the number of loop holes found in complex cases. Yeah insurance now cost more but it is better insurance as the average joe doesn't read the fine print.
I read recently about a man who had cancer and was treated and was in remission. The wife was worried about lifetime maximums in case it came back... they called their insurance company and were relieved to hear the words that there are no more life time maximums thanks to the ACA.
I hate insurance companies are horrible since they focus on profit rather than helping patients
The pharmacy and medical treatment companies necessarily focus on profit... And guess what? We have an incredible array of treatment options and medical advances that we would never have if the medical field was occupied only but those concerned solely on helping patients.
Dude it goes both ways you know. Have you read the average commentator on Breitbart?
Okay, so we're moving on to the blatantly, directly false. Stalin and Mao, in a couple of decades of the last century, killed more people, as an implementation of an -explicitly- atheistic position of government, that religion has -over all of time-, even allowing -conjectural- notions that the motivation was religion rather than other factors of territorial or economic conquest for the benefit of -political- motivations, -and also in contradiction to the directives of the religion itself-. That is, well, do I do with "absurd characterization" or "direct knowing lie"? I'll leave that up to you.
Wow one long run on sentence... but never the less I would categorize despotic communism as a religion and Stalin and Mao as their replacement gods. Same phenomena. Uncritical irrational worship.
Difference in rational moral objection between God culling bipeds for the improvement in the species, and evolution culling bipeds for the improvement of the species: None
>
Huge difference... one involves alleged intention AND a (logically inconsistent) concept of Being that possess Omni attributes. The other just is without intention nor forethought nor Omnipotence. Not even in the same league.
And, incidentally, you have no basis from your worldview to treat "human" bipeds as in any way morally distinct from any other organism, which, of course, being the hypocrite you are, accept as utterly natural and necessary in every other case.
Nice insult slinging and calling someone else out for hypocrisy when it appears that you possess this quality in excess.
What could be more "retro" than 8-track tape. Imagine pulling few of these out at your next hipster party! Yeah they play continuously and have a hearty form factor to hold the curiosity and make a case for art.
If this takes off, with my 8-Track horde I will be rich!
"The Arizona effort would mark a rare instance of a US tech company manufacturing and assembling a finished product domestically, where labor costs are higher"
Well that is because of this key phrase...
"high-tech manufacturing"
Meaning there will be very little labor and lot of robots.
You can dig deeply into the OS very easily with PowerShell. WMI, registry, ACLs, etc are all easily and cleanly exposed.
Which also makes it a dream for malicious software.
The problem with Powershell is that you learn it and get use to using it and then when you want to deploy something you find that it is removed or disabled via corporate policy because it is dangerous and you are back to cmd and batch scripts.
Most of these are democratic like Russia is democratic or even North Korea. All candidates in Iran have be approved by the ruling Guardian Council a group of right leaning clerics.
Why the hell is that? As a Python newbie I never know what to install and configure a new project in. I start with say v3 only to find that some module or framework I need down the road isn't available in 3 or visa versa. Really annoying.
That summary is pretty inflammatory.
That was the intent... to start a religious war. Sort of like quoting the Pope as saying "Protestantism is a pretty okay primitive religion, better than being Muslim I guess"
I have programmed in Perl for over 20 years... recently been learning Python and rather like the whitespace and newlines as part of the syntax... economy of expression. Also the OO syntax is less bolt on as it is in Perl and a breeze to implement and remember.
What I don't like about Python is the v2 and v3 scism....
"angers the volcano god" I think that translates to give the volcano god worshipers more money. The volcano god can be placated by money.
Well sounds like we should then be extracting energy now to lessen it's destructive capability eh? A few centuries of powering the entire continent might actually save our collective asses.
That's funny...
I heard Trump's pick to head the US Geological service has suggested renaming San Andreas Fault to Obama's Fault.