Yes and I used to despair of trying to get people to understand that their browser was not their "operating system", or that the box that contains their computer is not their "hard drive". The fact that I know the difference, the fact that it makes a great difference when you are trying to solve a problem on their computer does not change the fact that they neither know the difference, or really care. I am aware of the difference between a rifle, a semi-automatic assault weapon and a machinegun. I spent 10 years in the army. The average person doesn't know the difference, and that was my point. You can yell and scream about the definite distinction between the two until you are blue in the face but the vast majority of your listeners are going to hear "gun" and not get much further.
When I was first given the vote, I disliked *all* of the candidates running in my home town for the local council. I knew them all to some degree and they were all self-serving idiots IMHO. There was one guy who ran on a communist platform. I voted for him that year. He got 2 votes. I always thought that by doing so I could at least brighten the day of 1 person. I did the same thing a few other times in different elections. One year he got only 1 vote, so either he forgot to vote himself or he voted for someone else himself:P
Still in reply to your post, I assume everything a politician says is a self-serving lie intended to get them power. Very occasionally I come across one who might actually be sincere, but never in the last 20 years. Perhaps I am just more discerning now, with age:P
Moreover, once a crop of H1Bs have done their 5 years, gained their experience, and returned to their home country, they become a pool of trained employees who can be hired to work from their home country at wages that are suitable to that country and substantially cheaper than those paid to an American employee - even a new hire in all likelihood. Thus the pool of overseas low-cost employees builds while the number of positions that *have to go* to US Citizens decreases. The former H1Bs are familiar with the working environment and business routines of the US companies after 5 years as well, and so potentially need less training in that regard. This will likely continue to spiral until the majority of US IT jobs are actually being done outside the country wherever possible. I am Canadian, and the same applies here of course after its own fashion. Not all jobs can disappear this way of course but anything that can be done over the internet can - and thats an increasing number of jobs. When the technology for remote controlled robots being developed in the military spills over to civilian life more completely, you may even see those jobs that require a physical presence here in North America, disappear as well. Right now someone has to physically carry a new system or printer from the loading doc to the office to install it, but when that can be done cheaper by someone operating a robot in Bangladesh, even that might be gone. Time to learn how to repair robots perhaps (although eventually it will be cheaper to just unpack a new one from China than it is to repair a broken one). What is in the interest of Big Business, is manifestly NOT in the interest of their employees a lot of the time.
China has also done extensive development of its own drones and they (unlike the stuff Iran shows off) look pretty convincingly real (actually this one seems like it would owe its origins to some chinese hacking efforts) http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/zhuhai/
The difference between being killed by an semi-automatic rifle and being killed by a machinegun (sub or otherwise) is lost on me. The point was that previous technologies have most likely killed more people than the newer technologies will (particularly as the newer technologies will most likely incorporate some of the older technologies), not to argue whether the person got their terms exactly right. And in the popular mind I would agree, the distinction between semi-automatic and machine guns is generally lost. The average person probably thinks the categories are: pistol, shotgun, rifle, machinegun and thats pretty much it.
Yeah, some people (my wife for instance) seem to be pathologically unable to live without a cat (or cats) around. I don't hate cats, but if I never saw another one in the rest of my life it wouldn't bother me overly. I just don't get the attraction people seem to feel for cats. They don't do anything, they just turn cat food into cat fur on the furniture:P
There is another reason for going into management. Apparently there is considerable 'ageism' out there in the tech industry. If you don't have management experience by a certain age, you end up getting sidelined because the non-tech people tend to hire younger developers for development positions (This seems to be the position I find myself in at the moment). Younger developers are seen as more exploitable (longer hours, less pay, no benefits etc) over more experienced employees who will expect to command higher wages.
Harper announced he was building new prisons a while ago, obviously it was in preparation for him ramming this law up the ass of the Canadian people. I am so ashamed that my fellow Canadians elected this fascist fuckwad and worse yet gave him a majority government so he could ruin the country as he sees fit. The Entertainment industry has obviously spent its money well on supporting the Conservative party of Canada. Harper seems willing to blow them anytime they ask.
I agree completely, but to do so would likely require a reduction in the lifestyle of some of the population - particularly that portion of the population who has the most money and therefore the most power. It is not therefore going to happen. A lot of rich people probably like the fact that there are poor people, not just as bodies to step on on their way to the top but as a way to provide a contrast to *show* they are richer than those other people. Plus of course you need to have people that are poorer than you to be able to employ them as servants, body guards, cooks, housekeepers, factory workers etc. Asking the wealthy to share their wealth with the poorest folks is not going to go over well in a lot of cases, and it will go over just as badly with those who *aspire* to be in the upper classes, since they won't want to see the level of lifestyle they want to achieve be limited in any way. And yes, I am well aware that there are plenty of philanthropist types who are actively spending a large part of their wealth on charitable institutions. Gates for example. Those people are not the majority of wealthy people, just the ones that make the news the most because they are the exceptions.
Oh that got completely borked by/. refusing to include the Greater Than symbol in between the 2 words. Yes, yes I should have previewed, but then they could write the code to allow things like greater than and less than symbols without filtering them out instead. Not that difficult to manage. And yes, I could have used HTML, but I forgot that Plain Old Text only means *some* Plain Old Text:P
The last refuge of someone with no argument to present is to go directly to the ad hominem attack. This seems to have been your choice.
I said I thought the BBC reported more news and had greater journalistic integrity than what I have seen on most US stations/websites. I didn't say I don't think they have a bias, I am sure they do. Likewise Al-Jazeera, biased in some regard I am sure but more reliable overall than much of the competition when I have checked it out.
I generally ignore the CBC news much of the time, and I am neutral as to their reliability or integrity, its probably on par with the BBC. The BBC is of course much more suspect after their cover-up of a major pedophile in their midst.
As for your cavalier dismissal of me as someone who is a) young, b) living in a basement: you couldn't be more off the mark. I am 53 and I have worked my entire life, including 10 years in the military, and many years as a developer. You know nothing of me yet sling a childish insult to dismiss my opinion because it differs from yours. Brilliant argument that, just deny everything that you disagree with until the target gives up:P
As for Fox News, you do know there is this thing called the World Wide Web - do some research - and you will discover you can see all sorts of Fox News reporting there - including written articles AND amazingly enough video. And no, I would never *pay* to watch that shitparade of a news service, but then I also don't pay for cable at all these days.
How about some actual facts to back up your ignorant statements? Put up or shut up. All I did was offer my opinions...
I just had to place a support call for something. The person I got spoke English, and presumably spoke it well. They were very helpful. However they were from Alabama. I am from the west coast of Canada - I had to get them to repeat themselves several times on almost anything they said. It was nearly impossible for me to understand some things she said even after repeating it 4 times (and she was reading from a script I suspect because it was the same gibberish every time). While its true that they can farm out anything that can be done remotely to some folks way overseas, they also will have problems with accent, fluency etc that cause the length of calls to increase etc. Far better to have people in regional groups dealing with their local region for something like this.
Because Prison in the US is like anything else - its been turned into a business so that corporations can profit off it. Its the modern day equivalent of slave labour, or perhaps more accurately indentured servitude.
From a Canadian perspective: CNN is fairly right-wing to me (and 90% of the people who post on a CNN.com article are extreme rightwing fanatics). Fox is batshit crazy rightwing, and MSNBC I can't comment on as I don't watch at all. If I want good news reporting I watch the BBC or Al Jazeera, they seem mostly to get what the journalism thing is supposed to be. The US Media - at least television media - doesn't seem to remember that whole journalistic integrity and actually doing research bit at all - they are just Media Entertainment. They seem far more interested in providing entertainment than in relating factual information. As it is, opinion pieces seem to meld into regular reporting a lot of the time as well.
I love the people who think that: a) because its cool to denigrate religion these days, particularly here... b) choose to call those who support the reality of Climate Change and its origins in our actions as humans, members of a "religion" so they can denigrate them directly.
If anyone is guilty of mindless adoption of an unfounded, illogical and destructive position it is the hordes of Anti-Global-Warming fanatics who post on sites like this, spouting the same denial rhetoric, despite the evidence and opinions of thousands of scientists who are qualified to give an informed opinion.
The reality is simply that some people realize dealing with GW is going to require changes in their lives that they won't enjooy, and its easier to deny it all by sticking your fingers in your ear and yelling "LA LA LA, I can't hear you, LA LA LA". Its pathetic.
Millions of people are going to have to die, or suffer immense negative changes in their lives, in order to ensure those of us in the First world get to drive our luxury cars and live our exhorbitantly expensive lifestyles. It cannot continue unless those people die off.
I wonder if any of the posters here are being paid for by the lobby groups that are mentioned in the article? Just curious...
Yes, our Conservative government under Harper is just looking for ways to justify draconian anti-privacy legislation. They are more than willing to do whatever the Copyright Goons (tm) ask them to do. Asking to be put on this list is just then seeking another false justification for restricting our rights, restricting or eliminating our privacy etc. Harper would really be quite happy as a dictator I think. He already rules his party with an iron hand, and the Conservatives have already ensured that scientists (who receive any funding from the government) doing research cannot talk about it with the media - or publish their results - without getting government approval, particularly if the research has anything to do with climate change.
Oh it may be crap, I am sure. Yes, I do not have data since that would be an extra $10 per month on a $120 a month phone bill for me and my wife. Not worth it.
It will last a few days at least on one charge, but I only make very short phone calls - about 20 or so a day mind you but none over a few mins at most.
So they have found a gene that is related to or indicative of Breast Cancer, and then by patenting it (a fucking ridiculous concept) they can then prevent anyone who doesn't pay them from using it to cure cancer?
These people - the entire fucking company - should be lined up against the wall and shot - or at least put in prison for life without parole, given the number of people who might die from cancer that *might* have been cured while they sat on this patent.
This is obscene, utterly obscene. No one should be able to restrict medical research in this way for the sake of personal gain.
I couldn't agree more. HTML is for marking up the content we want to serve on a webpage. It should not be a means to enforce corporate digital rights, particularly when we have seen other instances where enforcing those rights meant "deny by default". Implementing something like this will require even more monitoring of every web browser. I am already tracked enough by dozens of websites who do so without my permission, then sell the results to corporations.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S. I would say its functional, I would not say its good. I don't particularly like using it, and it has nothing approaching "fun" for me. Its a tool, not very well made. Its best feature is that it lets me make phone calls and it keeps a charge for a quite a few days. My reaction to Android is "Meh" so far. Most of the folks I work with have iPhones, they love them. A couple have high end Android phones and seem happy with them. Personally I think I would prefer an iPhone, primarily due to the apps I have seen for it, and for my wife's iPad. I am considering a BB next though, as I own a Playbook and they would mesh nicely. Honestly, I can't see why anyone gets excited over a phone. I use my to call people, and if I didn't need one for work I likely wouldn't have a cell at all:P
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Yes and I used to despair of trying to get people to understand that their browser was not their "operating system", or that the box that contains their computer is not their "hard drive". The fact that I know the difference, the fact that it makes a great difference when you are trying to solve a problem on their computer does not change the fact that they neither know the difference, or really care.
I am aware of the difference between a rifle, a semi-automatic assault weapon and a machinegun. I spent 10 years in the army. The average person doesn't know the difference, and that was my point. You can yell and scream about the definite distinction between the two until you are blue in the face but the vast majority of your listeners are going to hear "gun" and not get much further.
When I was first given the vote, I disliked *all* of the candidates running in my home town for the local council. I knew them all to some degree and they were all self-serving idiots IMHO. There was one guy who ran on a communist platform. I voted for him that year. He got 2 votes. I always thought that by doing so I could at least brighten the day of 1 person. I did the same thing a few other times in different elections. One year he got only 1 vote, so either he forgot to vote himself or he voted for someone else himself :P
Still in reply to your post, I assume everything a politician says is a self-serving lie intended to get them power. Very occasionally I come across one who might actually be sincere, but never in the last 20 years. Perhaps I am just more discerning now, with age :P
Moreover, once a crop of H1Bs have done their 5 years, gained their experience, and returned to their home country, they become a pool of trained employees who can be hired to work from their home country at wages that are suitable to that country and substantially cheaper than those paid to an American employee - even a new hire in all likelihood. Thus the pool of overseas low-cost employees builds while the number of positions that *have to go* to US Citizens decreases. The former H1Bs are familiar with the working environment and business routines of the US companies after 5 years as well, and so potentially need less training in that regard. This will likely continue to spiral until the majority of US IT jobs are actually being done outside the country wherever possible. I am Canadian, and the same applies here of course after its own fashion. Not all jobs can disappear this way of course but anything that can be done over the internet can - and thats an increasing number of jobs.
When the technology for remote controlled robots being developed in the military spills over to civilian life more completely, you may even see those jobs that require a physical presence here in North America, disappear as well. Right now someone has to physically carry a new system or printer from the loading doc to the office to install it, but when that can be done cheaper by someone operating a robot in Bangladesh, even that might be gone.
Time to learn how to repair robots perhaps (although eventually it will be cheaper to just unpack a new one from China than it is to repair a broken one).
What is in the interest of Big Business, is manifestly NOT in the interest of their employees a lot of the time.
China has also done extensive development of its own drones and they (unlike the stuff Iran shows off) look pretty convincingly real (actually this one seems like it would owe its origins to some chinese hacking efforts)
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/zhuhai/
The difference between being killed by an semi-automatic rifle and being killed by a machinegun (sub or otherwise) is lost on me. The point was that previous technologies have most likely killed more people than the newer technologies will (particularly as the newer technologies will most likely incorporate some of the older technologies), not to argue whether the person got their terms exactly right.
And in the popular mind I would agree, the distinction between semi-automatic and machine guns is generally lost. The average person probably thinks the categories are: pistol, shotgun, rifle, machinegun and thats pretty much it.
Technically they got the user's system to download the McRAT Trojan surreptitiously by exploiting the vulnerability in Java :)
Client to Server: Upload
Server to Client: Download
So its correct but not very grammatically clear
Yeah, some people (my wife for instance) seem to be pathologically unable to live without a cat (or cats) around. I don't hate cats, but if I never saw another one in the rest of my life it wouldn't bother me overly. I just don't get the attraction people seem to feel for cats. They don't do anything, they just turn cat food into cat fur on the furniture :P
There is another reason for going into management. Apparently there is considerable 'ageism' out there in the tech industry. If you don't have management experience by a certain age, you end up getting sidelined because the non-tech people tend to hire younger developers for development positions (This seems to be the position I find myself in at the moment). Younger developers are seen as more exploitable (longer hours, less pay, no benefits etc) over more experienced employees who will expect to command higher wages.
Bah on backpacks or messenger bags, so last decade and before. What you want is one of these babies:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c616/
The Grab-It Pack Gadget Holster - much more nerdy than a mere backpack, and much cooler than a messenger bag :P
Harper announced he was building new prisons a while ago, obviously it was in preparation for him ramming this law up the ass of the Canadian people.
I am so ashamed that my fellow Canadians elected this fascist fuckwad and worse yet gave him a majority government so he could ruin the country as he sees fit. The Entertainment industry has obviously spent its money well on supporting the Conservative party of Canada. Harper seems willing to blow them anytime they ask.
I agree completely, but to do so would likely require a reduction in the lifestyle of some of the population - particularly that portion of the population who has the most money and therefore the most power. It is not therefore going to happen.
A lot of rich people probably like the fact that there are poor people, not just as bodies to step on on their way to the top but as a way to provide a contrast to *show* they are richer than those other people. Plus of course you need to have people that are poorer than you to be able to employ them as servants, body guards, cooks, housekeepers, factory workers etc. Asking the wealthy to share their wealth with the poorest folks is not going to go over well in a lot of cases, and it will go over just as badly with those who *aspire* to be in the upper classes, since they won't want to see the level of lifestyle they want to achieve be limited in any way.
And yes, I am well aware that there are plenty of philanthropist types who are actively spending a large part of their wealth on charitable institutions. Gates for example.
Those people are not the majority of wealthy people, just the ones that make the news the most because they are the exceptions.
Oh that got completely borked by /. refusing to include the Greater Than symbol in between the 2 words. Yes, yes I should have previewed, but then they could write the code to allow things like greater than and less than symbols without filtering them out instead. Not that difficult to manage. :P
And yes, I could have used HTML, but I forgot that Plain Old Text only means *some* Plain Old Text
Just another case where the courts are being used to threaten/bully someone into conforming to the will of our corporate masters. Sad to see.
The last refuge of someone with no argument to present is to go directly to the ad hominem attack. This seems to have been your choice.
I said I thought the BBC reported more news and had greater journalistic integrity than what I have seen on most US stations/websites. I didn't say I don't think they have a bias, I am sure they do. Likewise Al-Jazeera, biased in some regard I am sure but more reliable overall than much of the competition when I have checked it out.
I generally ignore the CBC news much of the time, and I am neutral as to their reliability or integrity, its probably on par with the BBC. The BBC is of course much more suspect after their cover-up of a major pedophile in their midst.
As for your cavalier dismissal of me as someone who is a) young, b) living in a basement: you couldn't be more off the mark. I am 53 and I have worked my entire life, including 10 years in the military, and many years as a developer. You know nothing of me yet sling a childish insult to dismiss my opinion because it differs from yours. Brilliant argument that, just deny everything that you disagree with until the target gives up :P
As for Fox News, you do know there is this thing called the World Wide Web - do some research - and you will discover you can see all sorts of Fox News reporting there - including written articles AND amazingly enough video. And no, I would never *pay* to watch that shitparade of a news service, but then I also don't pay for cable at all these days.
How about some actual facts to back up your ignorant statements? Put up or shut up. All I did was offer my opinions...
I just had to place a support call for something. The person I got spoke English, and presumably spoke it well. They were very helpful.
However they were from Alabama. I am from the west coast of Canada - I had to get them to repeat themselves several times on almost anything they said. It was nearly impossible for me to understand some things she said even after repeating it 4 times (and she was reading from a script I suspect because it was the same gibberish every time).
While its true that they can farm out anything that can be done remotely to some folks way overseas, they also will have problems with accent, fluency etc that cause the length of calls to increase etc. Far better to have people in regional groups dealing with their local region for something like this.
Because Prison in the US is like anything else - its been turned into a business so that corporations can profit off it. Its the modern day equivalent of slave labour, or perhaps more accurately indentured servitude.
From a Canadian perspective: CNN is fairly right-wing to me (and 90% of the people who post on a CNN.com article are extreme rightwing fanatics).
Fox is batshit crazy rightwing, and MSNBC I can't comment on as I don't watch at all.
If I want good news reporting I watch the BBC or Al Jazeera, they seem mostly to get what the journalism thing is supposed to be. The US Media - at least television media - doesn't seem to remember that whole journalistic integrity and actually doing research bit at all - they are just Media Entertainment. They seem far more interested in providing entertainment than in relating factual information. As it is, opinion pieces seem to meld into regular reporting a lot of the time as well.
I love the people who think that:
a) because its cool to denigrate religion these days, particularly here...
b) choose to call those who support the reality of Climate Change and its origins in our actions as humans, members of a "religion" so they can denigrate them directly.
If anyone is guilty of mindless adoption of an unfounded, illogical and destructive position it is the hordes of Anti-Global-Warming fanatics who post on sites like this, spouting the same denial rhetoric, despite the evidence and opinions of thousands of scientists who are qualified to give an informed opinion.
The reality is simply that some people realize dealing with GW is going to require changes in their lives that they won't enjooy, and its easier to deny it all by sticking your fingers in your ear and yelling "LA LA LA, I can't hear you, LA LA LA". Its pathetic.
Millions of people are going to have to die, or suffer immense negative changes in their lives, in order to ensure those of us in the First world get to drive our luxury cars and live our exhorbitantly expensive lifestyles. It cannot continue unless those people die off.
I wonder if any of the posters here are being paid for by the lobby groups that are mentioned in the article? Just curious...
Yes, our Conservative government under Harper is just looking for ways to justify draconian anti-privacy legislation. They are more than willing to do whatever the Copyright Goons (tm) ask them to do. Asking to be put on this list is just then seeking another false justification for restricting our rights, restricting or eliminating our privacy etc.
Harper would really be quite happy as a dictator I think. He already rules his party with an iron hand, and the Conservatives have already ensured that scientists (who receive any funding from the government) doing research cannot talk about it with the media - or publish their results - without getting government approval, particularly if the research has anything to do with climate change.
No, actually it was Episode IV right from the start when it hit the theatres. Lucas originally intended to make 9 movies, and started with number 4.
Oh it may be crap, I am sure. Yes, I do not have data since that would be an extra $10 per month on a $120 a month phone bill for me and my wife. Not worth it.
It will last a few days at least on one charge, but I only make very short phone calls - about 20 or so a day mind you but none over a few mins at most.
(In Europe only mind you) to NameRippedOffByTheFuckingCocksuckersAtPythonComputerServices or whatever :P
So they have found a gene that is related to or indicative of Breast Cancer, and then by patenting it (a fucking ridiculous concept) they can then prevent anyone who doesn't pay them from using it to cure cancer?
These people - the entire fucking company - should be lined up against the wall and shot - or at least put in prison for life without parole, given the number of people who might die from cancer that *might* have been cured while they sat on this patent.
This is obscene, utterly obscene. No one should be able to restrict medical research in this way for the sake of personal gain.
I couldn't agree more. HTML is for marking up the content we want to serve on a webpage. It should not be a means to enforce corporate digital rights, particularly when we have seen other instances where enforcing those rights meant "deny by default". Implementing something like this will require even more monitoring of every web browser. I am already tracked enough by dozens of websites who do so without my permission, then sell the results to corporations.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S. I would say its functional, I would not say its good. I don't particularly like using it, and it has nothing approaching "fun" for me. Its a tool, not very well made. :P
Its best feature is that it lets me make phone calls and it keeps a charge for a quite a few days. My reaction to Android is "Meh" so far.
Most of the folks I work with have iPhones, they love them. A couple have high end Android phones and seem happy with them. Personally I think I would prefer an iPhone, primarily due to the apps I have seen for it, and for my wife's iPad.
I am considering a BB next though, as I own a Playbook and they would mesh nicely.
Honestly, I can't see why anyone gets excited over a phone. I use my to call people, and if I didn't need one for work I likely wouldn't have a cell at all