No. To farm, you need land. 200 years ago, if you did not have a job, you sold yourself as an indentured servant.
Or, you wandered the forest as a hunter and occasionally rob from the rich who might wander nearby. Of course, to assuage your feelings of guilt from robbing people, you might be tempted to redistribute some of your ill-gotten gains to the poor people in villages surrounding said forest.;)
You know what is funny, is every single time somebody puts in the word Republican, the word Democrat works just as well.
Hm. Not really.
Republicans and Democrats belong to the same party: The authoritarian and corrupt Pwned by Corporations party. vs Democrats and Democrats belong to the same party: The authoritarian and corrupt Pwned by Corporations party.
It just doesn't sound the same if you replace Republican with Democrat... but, I know what you were trying to imply.:)
Actually, C is indeed awesome for cross-platform compilability; however, try using libraries cross-platform. Nastiness.
For example, the crypt() function. Call it under Linux and call it under OpenBSD and see how that works out for you. Yes, it is possible. I am not even sure that is available in Windows.
Pure, ANSI standard C will compile under any platform. It is the details (libs) that kill you.
If the vast majority of the new generation manage to piss off future employers, what are these businesses going to do, not hire anyone at all? Because they certainly aren't going to start hiring 50 year olds.
Ummm... you already know the answer to this since you work in Silly Valley currently: They will bring in more H1Bs since there will not be enough "qualified" workers locally. Heheh.
You're the music industries worse nightmare in the same way the guy who buys 2nd hand cars, and indirectly keeps the new car and trade-in markets going, is Ford's worst nightmare: In. No. Way. At. All.
Au contraire mon frere. You seem to be under the delusion that reality actually matters. What Ford sees is that you are not buying a new car so each second hand sale is a direct loss to them. Apparently, figuring out that the second hand market enables certain people to buy more new cars than they normally would be able to is not part of their math. Same with CDs.
What you are describing is called an OTDR. Optical Time Domain Reflector IIRC.
There is not much risk if you know what you are doing since the OTDR is only used at the most "convenient" end rather than both ends. Just make your secondary cut further away from where the repair crews will do the initial measuring.
Most times, these thieves are working in the dark and do not take the time to check if it is fiber or not. They just cut and pull. I have seen numerous fibers cut despite being clearly labelled as 96 strand fiber.
Really, these thieves are so "bottom of the barrel" that I suspect they never learned how to read to begin with so even labeling it clearly would not help unless we all agreed upon a symbol that would glow in the dark and be visible on any random section.
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The reason they're used in processed foods is because they are an effective and cheap flavor enhancer. Tax them and they become less economically viable in cheap bulk processed foods.
Say what? Tax HFCS? Why not just remove the subsidy for corn? Hawaii would be much happier if that were the case. They have been economically disadvantaged since the 1970s because the corn lobby has been successful at getting subsidies large enough that manufacturing High Fructose Corn syrup is cheaper than just growing sugar cane.
I doubt you can find more than a very small handful of products that use cane sugar. I would be interested in seeing studies that prove your claims that cane sugar is bad for you when used in moderation. Do you have links handy as I am a busy person.
It sounds like you only know him through the colored lens of media. Try to keep a more open mind and perhaps try to see where he is coming from. I do not think I would like him or dislike him as a personal friend but I have honestly not seen anything wrong him... and that is saying a lot for a semi-public figure whom the masses are always trying to tear down to their level.
No matter what else you can say about him, he is a genuinely real person. You will know where you stand with him if you interact with him. I can personally appreciate that.
Honestly, it seems that you do not understand the model here. There actually are many competing versions of the kernel. Everyone voluntarily chooses to use the version that Linus has "blessed" but at any time, someone could, and some do, choose to use a different version "blessed" by someone else.
In short, there is nobody forcing anyone to use the Linus version. Everyone who chooses to do so, does so of their own free will. If Linus were to die tomorrow, there would be some confusion as some would choose one person's version and others would choose another, but eventually, the person who maintains a version that allows the largest amount of collaboration with the least amount of silliness will win. That is why Linus' version is still dominant.
That is also why it does not matter if Linus goes on vacation or is otherwise incapacitated for a while or permanently. It is a beautiful thing to see.
I wonder why there are so many articles busting a programmer's balls (only guys are coders apparently(wtf?!)) for not participating in code reuse.
Hell, if I had to go through all of those hoops during maintenance phase, which is most of the time spent on the project, I would reinvent the wheel every damned time.
It is a shame that I used up all of my mod points already. You are +4 but your words and their meaning should be +5. I doubt many folks actually think about the consequences of all of this secrecy garbage.
Voluntary? Involuntary? When choices are forcibly removed through secrecy, it seems a lot like enslavement to me.
What would the Founding Fathers, which most conservatives uphold to be the absolute pinnacle of what our government should strive to be, say about the NSA's data collection on it's own citizens?
This is a bipartisan issue, but you brought up conservatives, so that is what I will address:
The conservatives are NOT conservatives. They call themselves that but they clearly are not. They have expanded the scope of government as much as the liberals and they have definitely NOT followed any philosophies expounded by the founding fathers. (No, not capitals, they were just people. Extremely respectable people but capitals would elevate them too far.)
In summary conservative, liberal, democrat, republican, etc. None of these are what they seem. Their outward appearance is purely manufactured. You have to look at their actions to see who they are and then not use words to label them as the words themselves have become corrupted.
In this new method, researchers used off-the-shelf, nanosized polystyrene beads and allowed them to self-assemble into a monolayer with a hexagonal pattern.
Off the shelf? Really? Which shelves are these? Is there a nano-materials aisle at my local Wal-Mart? This sounds like an interesting place to shop. Where is it?
They may not even have the source code from their own studios available. Especially from the early games, the Xbox360 has been around longer than most companies store data. The company I worked for only kept the source code around for 5 years.
I think this is a compelling argument that copyright should only last 5 years. If the source is not worth keeping after 5 years, then copyright has served its purpose by that time and should be terminated.
WTF does your "right to be forgotten" have to do with Google or any other search based company? You should be demanding removal from the website that is posting the actual information, not messing with an algorithm designed to help you find stuff.
Hm. I had always heard that IQ trends upwards until about 18 at which time it starts declining ever so slightly until death. Certain things like music can increase IQ as well.
Erm, you may be happy being a vegan but many would rather see the world burn before they give up their meat. Does the meat have to be raised in California? No. But there will be meat.
If I recall correctly, heat is nothing more than the vibration (kinetic energy) of particles. A vibration is essentially a wave and the shortest wavelength corresponds to one of the planck limits. That means there is a maximum amount of heat that a particle can have. That also means there is a maximum frequency for electromagnetic waves.
I have not seen the actual calculations and I do not have the requisite knowledge to perform them myself. If I looked carefully, I am sure I could come within an order of magnitude without actually doing any math: For example, we know that terahertz frequencies can be achieved because we use them. What is the wavelength of a terahertz wave and what is the planck length?
Was going to moderate in this discussion but yourself and several others seemed to take offense at what the parent poster was asking for...
I did not see what he was asking for as trolling. If you were a scientist (you might be, but that would make this question even more relevant) wouldn't you want the data that the sensors had shown?
Obviously, that alone is not enough. For example, let's say that there was a model of thermometer that was known to be flawed. As a scientist, you would want to know this... but then, you would still want the raw data and then apply such transforms yourself.
In short, I do not think the parent poster was trolling or trying to cause controversy. In fact, I suspect that the reaction to his request shows the effectiveness of the actual trolls. You assume he is trolling.
People are NOT willing to help this guy see/discern reality for himself. All of you are arguing that he should only work with pre-massaged data sets. WTF? Really? Don't make me start believing in conspiracies by having such absurd reactions to reasonable requests.
Yet thinks its perfectly appropriate for people to walk around with loaded firearms.
If you do not want to walk around with a loaded firearm, nobody is forcing you. Oh, you want to stop other people from walking around with loaded firearms? Now you have a problem because you do not get to choose what other people can or can not do.
What are the people of Iraq crying for right now? Personally owned weapons... so they can fight off the Da'esh (IS/ISIL/ISIS) menace. It is a good thing that as soon as Iraq had a functioning government that they confiscated all of the personally owned weapons for the safety of the people.
Oh right. Nothing like that would ever happen in the United States of America so there is no point in owning weapons there. Our government has only our best interests at heart and would never shoot 17 innocent people on a college campus such as Kent State. Or police officers would never shoot innocent men. Or, law abiding citizens would never need to protect themselves against someone who does not care for law and order. (CAPTCHA is villainy)
Look, I am cool with you believing whatever you want to believe and practicing it. Do not carry a gun if you do not feel the need for it or do not trust yourself to control yourself with one.
But don't try to tell me what to do.
If it makes you feel any better, I do not own any weapons.
I think I see the problem here... They see themselves as elevated leaders. No wonder their perspective is skewed.
I used to almost literally preach the benefits of using Firefox and converted many users and two very large organizations and I felt insulted by the portion of the commented bolded above.
Their attitude is terrible and will end up killing Firefox off entirely. They are coasting on pure momentum right now and I imagine they will be shocked when they sink. "Why would that happen? We were doing so much wonderful stuff for our people."
Yeah. Ok. Fuck off Mozilla. You just don't get it.
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No. To farm, you need land. 200 years ago, if you did not have a job, you sold yourself as an indentured servant.
Or, you wandered the forest as a hunter and occasionally rob from the rich who might wander nearby. Of course, to assuage your feelings of guilt from robbing people, you might be tempted to redistribute some of your ill-gotten gains to the poor people in villages surrounding said forest. ;)
You know what is funny, is every single time somebody puts in the word Republican, the word Democrat works just as well.
Hm. Not really.
Republicans and Democrats belong to the same party: The authoritarian and corrupt Pwned by Corporations party.
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Democrats and Democrats belong to the same party: The authoritarian and corrupt Pwned by Corporations party.
It just doesn't sound the same if you replace Republican with Democrat... but, I know what you were trying to imply. :)
Actually, C is indeed awesome for cross-platform compilability; however, try using libraries cross-platform. Nastiness.
For example, the crypt() function. Call it under Linux and call it under OpenBSD and see how that works out for you. Yes, it is possible. I am not even sure that is available in Windows.
Pure, ANSI standard C will compile under any platform. It is the details (libs) that kill you.
If the vast majority of the new generation manage to piss off future employers, what are these businesses going to do, not hire anyone at all? Because they certainly aren't going to start hiring 50 year olds.
Ummm... you already know the answer to this since you work in Silly Valley currently: They will bring in more H1Bs since there will not be enough "qualified" workers locally. Heheh.
You're the music industries worse nightmare in the same way the guy who buys 2nd hand cars, and indirectly keeps the new car and trade-in markets going, is Ford's worst nightmare: In. No. Way. At. All.
Au contraire mon frere. You seem to be under the delusion that reality actually matters. What Ford sees is that you are not buying a new car so each second hand sale is a direct loss to them. Apparently, figuring out that the second hand market enables certain people to buy more new cars than they normally would be able to is not part of their math. Same with CDs.
What you are describing is called an OTDR. Optical Time Domain Reflector IIRC.
There is not much risk if you know what you are doing since the OTDR is only used at the most "convenient" end rather than both ends. Just make your secondary cut further away from where the repair crews will do the initial measuring.
Most times, these thieves are working in the dark and do not take the time to check if it is fiber or not. They just cut and pull. I have seen numerous fibers cut despite being clearly labelled as 96 strand fiber.
Really, these thieves are so "bottom of the barrel" that I suspect they never learned how to read to begin with so even labeling it clearly would not help unless we all agreed upon a symbol that would glow in the dark and be visible on any random section.
The reason they're used in processed foods is because they are an effective and cheap flavor enhancer. Tax them and they become less economically viable in cheap bulk processed foods.
Say what? Tax HFCS? Why not just remove the subsidy for corn? Hawaii would be much happier if that were the case. They have been economically disadvantaged since the 1970s because the corn lobby has been successful at getting subsidies large enough that manufacturing High Fructose Corn syrup is cheaper than just growing sugar cane.
I doubt you can find more than a very small handful of products that use cane sugar. I would be interested in seeing studies that prove your claims that cane sugar is bad for you when used in moderation. Do you have links handy as I am a busy person.
It sounds like you only know him through the colored lens of media. Try to keep a more open mind and perhaps try to see where he is coming from. I do not think I would like him or dislike him as a personal friend but I have honestly not seen anything wrong him... and that is saying a lot for a semi-public figure whom the masses are always trying to tear down to their level.
No matter what else you can say about him, he is a genuinely real person. You will know where you stand with him if you interact with him. I can personally appreciate that.
Honestly, it seems that you do not understand the model here. There actually are many competing versions of the kernel. Everyone voluntarily chooses to use the version that Linus has "blessed" but at any time, someone could, and some do, choose to use a different version "blessed" by someone else.
In short, there is nobody forcing anyone to use the Linus version. Everyone who chooses to do so, does so of their own free will. If Linus were to die tomorrow, there would be some confusion as some would choose one person's version and others would choose another, but eventually, the person who maintains a version that allows the largest amount of collaboration with the least amount of silliness will win. That is why Linus' version is still dominant.
That is also why it does not matter if Linus goes on vacation or is otherwise incapacitated for a while or permanently. It is a beautiful thing to see.
I wonder why there are so many articles busting a programmer's balls (only guys are coders apparently(wtf?!)) for not participating in code reuse.
Hell, if I had to go through all of those hoops during maintenance phase, which is most of the time spent on the project, I would reinvent the wheel every damned time.
But, whatever.
It is a shame that I used up all of my mod points already. You are +4 but your words and their meaning should be +5. I doubt many folks actually think about the consequences of all of this secrecy garbage.
Voluntary? Involuntary? When choices are forcibly removed through secrecy, it seems a lot like enslavement to me.
What would the Founding Fathers, which most conservatives uphold to be the absolute pinnacle of what our government should strive to be, say about the NSA's data collection on it's own citizens?
This is a bipartisan issue, but you brought up conservatives, so that is what I will address:
The conservatives are NOT conservatives. They call themselves that but they clearly are not. They have expanded the scope of government as much as the liberals and they have definitely NOT followed any philosophies expounded by the founding fathers. (No, not capitals, they were just people. Extremely respectable people but capitals would elevate them too far.)
In summary conservative, liberal, democrat, republican, etc. None of these are what they seem. Their outward appearance is purely manufactured. You have to look at their actions to see who they are and then not use words to label them as the words themselves have become corrupted.
In this new method, researchers used off-the-shelf, nanosized polystyrene beads and allowed them to self-assemble into a monolayer with a hexagonal pattern.
Off the shelf? Really? Which shelves are these? Is there a nano-materials aisle at my local Wal-Mart? This sounds like an interesting place to shop. Where is it?
+6 kind sir. I have mod points but they don't go to 6. *sigh* (another once in a year +6 post.)
They may not even have the source code from their own studios available. Especially from the early games, the Xbox360 has been around longer than most companies store data. The company I worked for only kept the source code around for 5 years.
I think this is a compelling argument that copyright should only last 5 years. If the source is not worth keeping after 5 years, then copyright has served its purpose by that time and should be terminated.
Relax man. He was talking tongue-in-cheek. :)
WTF does your "right to be forgotten" have to do with Google or any other search based company? You should be demanding removal from the website that is posting the actual information, not messing with an algorithm designed to help you find stuff.
Hm. I had always heard that IQ trends upwards until about 18 at which time it starts declining ever so slightly until death. Certain things like music can increase IQ as well.
Erm, you may be happy being a vegan but many would rather see the world burn before they give up their meat. Does the meat have to be raised in California? No. But there will be meat.
If I recall correctly, heat is nothing more than the vibration (kinetic energy) of particles. A vibration is essentially a wave and the shortest wavelength corresponds to one of the planck limits. That means there is a maximum amount of heat that a particle can have. That also means there is a maximum frequency for electromagnetic waves.
I have not seen the actual calculations and I do not have the requisite knowledge to perform them myself. If I looked carefully, I am sure I could come within an order of magnitude without actually doing any math: For example, we know that terahertz frequencies can be achieved because we use them. What is the wavelength of a terahertz wave and what is the planck length?
Was going to moderate in this discussion but yourself and several others seemed to take offense at what the parent poster was asking for...
I did not see what he was asking for as trolling. If you were a scientist (you might be, but that would make this question even more relevant) wouldn't you want the data that the sensors had shown?
Obviously, that alone is not enough. For example, let's say that there was a model of thermometer that was known to be flawed. As a scientist, you would want to know this... but then, you would still want the raw data and then apply such transforms yourself.
In short, I do not think the parent poster was trolling or trying to cause controversy. In fact, I suspect that the reaction to his request shows the effectiveness of the actual trolls. You assume he is trolling.
People are NOT willing to help this guy see/discern reality for himself. All of you are arguing that he should only work with pre-massaged data sets. WTF? Really? Don't make me start believing in conspiracies by having such absurd reactions to reasonable requests.
Yet thinks its perfectly appropriate for people to walk around with loaded firearms.
If you do not want to walk around with a loaded firearm, nobody is forcing you. Oh, you want to stop other people from walking around with loaded firearms? Now you have a problem because you do not get to choose what other people can or can not do.
What are the people of Iraq crying for right now? Personally owned weapons... so they can fight off the Da'esh (IS/ISIL/ISIS) menace. It is a good thing that as soon as Iraq had a functioning government that they confiscated all of the personally owned weapons for the safety of the people.
Oh right. Nothing like that would ever happen in the United States of America so there is no point in owning weapons there. Our government has only our best interests at heart and would never shoot 17 innocent people on a college campus such as Kent State. Or police officers would never shoot innocent men. Or, law abiding citizens would never need to protect themselves against someone who does not care for law and order. (CAPTCHA is villainy)
Look, I am cool with you believing whatever you want to believe and practicing it. Do not carry a gun if you do not feel the need for it or do not trust yourself to control yourself with one.
But don't try to tell me what to do.
If it makes you feel any better, I do not own any weapons.
I strongly suspect we have a winner here. Corruption is extremely bad nowadays in all areas. :(
based on early comments from Mozillians
I think I see the problem here... They see themselves as elevated leaders. No wonder their perspective is skewed.
I used to almost literally preach the benefits of using Firefox and converted many users and two very large organizations and I felt insulted by the portion of the commented bolded above.
Their attitude is terrible and will end up killing Firefox off entirely. They are coasting on pure momentum right now and I imagine they will be shocked when they sink. "Why would that happen? We were doing so much wonderful stuff for our people."
Yeah. Ok. Fuck off Mozilla. You just don't get it.