Yeah, it must be the software that sucks. After all, it is doing exactly what you told it to do instead of what you wanted it to do. All those programs that do what you tell them to do suck. It isn't you at all. It's the software.
Exactly. When the first MMO's were being announced, I was excited by the gaming possibilities. I thought they would bring an incredible new level of game play to us. Very shortly, I discovered that I don't want to play with random strangers. I love multiplayer gaming, but I love it with people that I actually like to play with. We used to set up 8 player games of WarCraft and StarCraft. Those were a ton of fun. The one time we invited a guy that made it not fun, we simply scratched him from the list for the next get together. MMOs remove your ability to filter out the people you don't want to play with.
So because you don't have a god given right to a faithful wife, it isn't "wrong" for her to sneak off as soon as you leave for work so that she can have a three way with me and mine? You are a mighty generous man.
Seriously. Something can be unfair and wrong without it violating some "god-given" right.
How about them? Well, yes. If Six Flags could supply them with attendance to an amusement park by simply leaving out a non-safety related security feature of their park, and they chose not to, they would be a shitty company. They would be a company that people should boycott.
This idea that you should be able to expect anything more than your basic human rights is ridiculous. Do you have a god given RIGHT to not have you wife give me a BJ every time you head off to work? No. Should you be pissed off if she is giving me a BJ every time you go off to work? Of course. What Blizzard is doing is a human rights violation. It is a asshole thing to do. The idea that being assholes to their customers is OK, and that people should be upset with a company until they are commuting humans rights violations is just silly.
The people that don't have enough graphics horsepower can just get a new laptop for a few hundred dollars. The people without enough hard drive space can get a new hard drive for less than a hundred dollars.
Solving the problem of not having a consistent internet connection for many would require selling their home, quitting their job and moving. For others it is simply impossible, as the solution would require that they commit crimes that would lead to them being imprisoned and thus not have a consistent internet connection.
That isn't even close to true. Whether you are talking about slavery in the past, the destruction of entire cultures, refusing groups the right to vote, or letting murders walk free just because they have vaginas, ethical behavior is heavily in the eye of the beholder. In fact, hating people for being different has only been considered bad very recently in history. Just a couple of generations ago, it was just a given, and it was a given to virtually every culture on the planet.
What? I don't know where you live, but here in the US, Wal-mart does not drive mom and pop department stores out of business. Heck, I have only seen one or two mom and pop department stores in my entire life. You are 50 years too late to start complaining about mom and pop department stores being driven out of business. That act sits at the feet of Sear, Macy's, Gimbles, KMart. It is the other national department stores that Wal-Mart is beating down. The same goes for mom and pop grocery stores. The national grocery store chains have long ago decimated the local grocery stores. Again, it is the nation chains that Wal-Mart is competing against. Safeway, Costco, etc...
Make the excuses that you want. You are whining that other people are interfering with your cell phone use. That makes you are ridiculous hypocrite. You are also declaring that there is no way to get any more bandwidth than we currently have. That just makes you ridiculous.
Isn't it ironic how you post your opposition to the nerd-friendly dreamworld on a system that was specifically enabled through the previous existence of the very nerd-friendly dream world that you so dislike?
You sound just like the nutcases that said we shouldn't stream music or video over our landlines. Heck, they even whined about pictures being sent over the internet. It is always amazing how people keep repeating the same dumb ideas, even after history has shown them to be wrong.
If YOU were not part of the "me generation" that you despise so much, you wouldn't have a problem with overloaded cell phone towers.
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Yes, and no. Yes 401ks are a pile of shit. No, you don't have to know something about investing to do better than most 401Ks. I can't claim to be a savvy investor, but my personal investments consistently do better than any of the limited number of choices my 401Ks have allowed for. One of the big problems we have is that employers are getting to make life decisions for their employees. Whether that is the employer choosing investments on behalf of employees by pre-selecting the investment choices employees can make in 401Ks, or having health care tied to the employer. This things put too much power in the hands of the employer.
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This is simply untrue. It is naive to think that employers don't consider the TCO for employees when they decide to pay them. For smaller businesses, that 6.2% could very well make the difference on whether they even hire an employee at all. Sure, there are some employers that would suck up the extra money, but that doesn't mean it's the norm. Of course, even if the employers would pay the 6.2% to the employee, that does not comment on whether SS is good or bad.
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The crazy thing is that the answer is "Yes". Our population has grown up with an unimaginably large national debt. Most of our population can't do basic math. Most of our population has been trained not to question the "experts". Most of our population has been trained to believe that debt is good. Even our college economics classes are teaching that having debt is good, and not having it is bad.
Honestly, there is a place for them when it comes to email. They SHOULD offer a 'certified email'. Sell 'eStamps' as a revenue source. Don't receive any email from other servers. Only allow emails that are submitted by a logged in user, and charge a nominal fee for those emails. Then forward the mails to regular email addresses as well as keep a local copy for users who want to log in and get the email from the trusted source. It would look like a corporate email server that does not recieve email from the internet, but has mail forwarding turned on by default.
This wouldn't stop all spam but it would solve a lot of problems:
It doesn't create a new email standard.
It would add enough cost to discourage massive auto generated spam without incurring a massive cost to legitimate users.
It would not require a separate or new application on the users end
It could be bypassed for any email that did not need 'certification'
It would put a postmark on emailed documents from a trusted third party
It would give end to end authentication when both the sender and receiver are signed up
It doesn't require the receive to sign up it they don't want to
It can track delivery timestamps of email
It could be used as a second channel for regular email white listing requests.
As I said, it wouldn't stop spam entirely, but if spammers flooded the system, we could still filter, while allowing them to fund the USPS. So, even if it failed to slow down spam, it would have a huge benefit.
Amish. While their clothes all looked home made, the kids were playing with the toys in the store, they were buying products made of plastics, and one had a fake hand. Not a wooden one, but the mechanical hook type that definitely wasn't made on the farm.
There are plenty of humans who detected that photo as child porn before the computer did. It seems the automated child-porn detector functioned properly, and came to the conclusion that many humans have.
You've changed your story. No matter, your new story just says that many of the incompetent sys admins are willfully incompetent. It doesn't change the fact that your statements indicate that virtually all active sys admins are incompetent.
If what you are saying is true, then there are only a statistically insignificant number of competent sys admin in the field at any time, and it is unlikely that any of us will ever meet one.
The "myth" of incompetent SysAdmins is propagated in my company by the Sys Admins saying things like "3 days of backups is good enough", "VNC is a huge network hog, and that is why the system runs at 100% CPU utilization", "running the exact same software environment on a separate piece of hardware doesn't tell you anything about the first piece", "The fact that every single piece of software that runs on the system pegs the CPU and bogs down the system including just running a 'DIR' listing doesn't mean there is something wrong with the system. It must be your code that isn't loaded that is the problem.", "Keeping the test environment separate from Production is too much of a hassle, so we will just put Test into the Production domain, and name it Test", etc. etc., etc.
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Yeah, it must be the software that sucks. After all, it is doing exactly what you told it to do instead of what you wanted it to do. All those programs that do what you tell them to do suck. It isn't you at all. It's the software.
Exactly. When the first MMO's were being announced, I was excited by the gaming possibilities. I thought they would bring an incredible new level of game play to us. Very shortly, I discovered that I don't want to play with random strangers. I love multiplayer gaming, but I love it with people that I actually like to play with. We used to set up 8 player games of WarCraft and StarCraft. Those were a ton of fun. The one time we invited a guy that made it not fun, we simply scratched him from the list for the next get together. MMOs remove your ability to filter out the people you don't want to play with.
So because you don't have a god given right to a faithful wife, it isn't "wrong" for her to sneak off as soon as you leave for work so that she can have a three way with me and mine? You are a mighty generous man.
Seriously. Something can be unfair and wrong without it violating some "god-given" right.
How about them? Well, yes. If Six Flags could supply them with attendance to an amusement park by simply leaving out a non-safety related security feature of their park, and they chose not to, they would be a shitty company. They would be a company that people should boycott.
This idea that you should be able to expect anything more than your basic human rights is ridiculous. Do you have a god given RIGHT to not have you wife give me a BJ every time you head off to work? No. Should you be pissed off if she is giving me a BJ every time you go off to work? Of course. What Blizzard is doing is a human rights violation. It is a asshole thing to do. The idea that being assholes to their customers is OK, and that people should be upset with a company until they are commuting humans rights violations is just silly.
The people that don't have enough graphics horsepower can just get a new laptop for a few hundred dollars. The people without enough hard drive space can get a new hard drive for less than a hundred dollars.
Solving the problem of not having a consistent internet connection for many would require selling their home, quitting their job and moving. For others it is simply impossible, as the solution would require that they commit crimes that would lead to them being imprisoned and thus not have a consistent internet connection.
That isn't even close to true. Whether you are talking about slavery in the past, the destruction of entire cultures, refusing groups the right to vote, or letting murders walk free just because they have vaginas, ethical behavior is heavily in the eye of the beholder. In fact, hating people for being different has only been considered bad very recently in history. Just a couple of generations ago, it was just a given, and it was a given to virtually every culture on the planet.
Except that it gives them a reason to rationalize that [Group of Choice] are shifty, deceitful, and can't be trusted.
What? I don't know where you live, but here in the US, Wal-mart does not drive mom and pop department stores out of business. Heck, I have only seen one or two mom and pop department stores in my entire life. You are 50 years too late to start complaining about mom and pop department stores being driven out of business. That act sits at the feet of Sear, Macy's, Gimbles, KMart. It is the other national department stores that Wal-Mart is beating down. The same goes for mom and pop grocery stores. The national grocery store chains have long ago decimated the local grocery stores. Again, it is the nation chains that Wal-Mart is competing against. Safeway, Costco, etc...
If your going to get all draconian, you could just inject every infant with it, and have it cured in a generation.
Make the excuses that you want. You are whining that other people are interfering with your cell phone use. That makes you are ridiculous hypocrite. You are also declaring that there is no way to get any more bandwidth than we currently have. That just makes you ridiculous.
Isn't it ironic how you post your opposition to the nerd-friendly dreamworld on a system that was specifically enabled through the previous existence of the very nerd-friendly dream world that you so dislike?
You sound just like the nutcases that said we shouldn't stream music or video over our landlines. Heck, they even whined about pictures being sent over the internet. It is always amazing how people keep repeating the same dumb ideas, even after history has shown them to be wrong.
If YOU were not part of the "me generation" that you despise so much, you wouldn't have a problem with overloaded cell phone towers.
Just wait until he start on his rant about how bad those new fangled 'water closets' are.
How many of them have cars?
Yes, and no. Yes 401ks are a pile of shit. No, you don't have to know something about investing to do better than most 401Ks. I can't claim to be a savvy investor, but my personal investments consistently do better than any of the limited number of choices my 401Ks have allowed for. One of the big problems we have is that employers are getting to make life decisions for their employees. Whether that is the employer choosing investments on behalf of employees by pre-selecting the investment choices employees can make in 401Ks, or having health care tied to the employer. This things put too much power in the hands of the employer.
This is simply untrue. It is naive to think that employers don't consider the TCO for employees when they decide to pay them. For smaller businesses, that 6.2% could very well make the difference on whether they even hire an employee at all. Sure, there are some employers that would suck up the extra money, but that doesn't mean it's the norm. Of course, even if the employers would pay the 6.2% to the employee, that does not comment on whether SS is good or bad.
The crazy thing is that the answer is "Yes". Our population has grown up with an unimaginably large national debt. Most of our population can't do basic math. Most of our population has been trained not to question the "experts". Most of our population has been trained to believe that debt is good. Even our college economics classes are teaching that having debt is good, and not having it is bad.
Honestly, there is a place for them when it comes to email. They SHOULD offer a 'certified email'. Sell 'eStamps' as a revenue source. Don't receive any email from other servers. Only allow emails that are submitted by a logged in user, and charge a nominal fee for those emails. Then forward the mails to regular email addresses as well as keep a local copy for users who want to log in and get the email from the trusted source. It would look like a corporate email server that does not recieve email from the internet, but has mail forwarding turned on by default.
This wouldn't stop all spam but it would solve a lot of problems:
It doesn't create a new email standard.
It would add enough cost to discourage massive auto generated spam without incurring a massive cost to legitimate users.
It would not require a separate or new application on the users end
It could be bypassed for any email that did not need 'certification'
It would put a postmark on emailed documents from a trusted third party
It would give end to end authentication when both the sender and receiver are signed up
It doesn't require the receive to sign up it they don't want to
It can track delivery timestamps of email
It could be used as a second channel for regular email white listing requests.
As I said, it wouldn't stop spam entirely, but if spammers flooded the system, we could still filter, while allowing them to fund the USPS. So, even if it failed to slow down spam, it would have a huge benefit.
Amish. While their clothes all looked home made, the kids were playing with the toys in the store, they were buying products made of plastics, and one had a fake hand. Not a wooden one, but the mechanical hook type that definitely wasn't made on the farm.
That is a dishonest argument. There are other forms of revenue to pay for cancer research. I don't believe for a second that you have never heard of any of them. http://www.google.com/search?q=cancer+donations&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
You might not think it is enough money, but it is simply dishonest to even imply that patents is the only way to pay for researchers.
The last Amish I saw pulled up an a van to a store to go shopping.
There are plenty of humans who detected that photo as child porn before the computer did. It seems the automated child-porn detector functioned properly, and came to the conclusion that many humans have.
You've changed your story. No matter, your new story just says that many of the incompetent sys admins are willfully incompetent. It doesn't change the fact that your statements indicate that virtually all active sys admins are incompetent.
If what you are saying is true, then there are only a statistically insignificant number of competent sys admin in the field at any time, and it is unlikely that any of us will ever meet one.
The "myth" of incompetent SysAdmins is propagated in my company by the Sys Admins saying things like "3 days of backups is good enough", "VNC is a huge network hog, and that is why the system runs at 100% CPU utilization", "running the exact same software environment on a separate piece of hardware doesn't tell you anything about the first piece", "The fact that every single piece of software that runs on the system pegs the CPU and bogs down the system including just running a 'DIR' listing doesn't mean there is something wrong with the system. It must be your code that isn't loaded that is the problem.", "Keeping the test environment separate from Production is too much of a hassle, so we will just put Test into the Production domain, and name it Test", etc. etc., etc.