I just take issue with your claim that the printer has no time or location data. The printer is constantly connected to things that have time and location data.
This happens a lot on Slashdot. When a group from a Western nation hacks some competitor's system, it's always considered an act of superior Western sophistication. But when it's the other way around, it's doesn't matter if it's Western incompetence (setting the password to 12345) or a sophisticated attack from the enemy (causing a drone to land on enemy territory through GPS manipulation) or somewhere in the middle (enemy hacks system and sysadmins don't notice for 10 years), there is always somebody who will suggest it's some kind of reverse psychology and still an example of superior Western sophistication. I really think there are just smart and dumb people on both sides and that should be acknowledged.
When you said creationism should be kept out of schools, you contradicted the point that we shouldn't have censorship. At that point, you were just listing things you don't like.
Moderation is a double-edged sword. Although there is the problem MrEricSir mentioned about Craigslist getting spammed, there is also the Slashdot problem. Causes that actually should get funding could be modded down because the project is hosted in China, or maybe hosted by a Black person or female, or is Christian-based, or whatever other stupid reason people get modded down. Someone would have to moderate the moderators. It would become a recursive mess that doesn't really help.
It's probably better to just let people donate to the causes they like. For unpopular projects, the lack of funding would be better than moderation.
I think insurance companies won't die because, like so many other companies that have the government shoving them down your throat, you have to do business with them no matter how bad they are. Governments love to say you have to pay for something but shy away from limiting what you pay.
Bing also seems to provide better image search results, at least for my purposes. It's one of those things nobody knows because they've been told Google is the best and they shouldn't bother trying anything else.
I won't install any beta software on my phone if I have a choice. I try to avoid unstable and poorly functional software in general. And if they feel their software is stable and functional, they shouldn't call it beta.
AT&T is not the main problem on the Missouri side. It's Time Warner Cable. We've had enough of their outages, bandwidth slowing to a crawl, and insisting any problem is the router rather than the cable modem. I don't know what kind of deal they had with the city government but for years there has been no other real option. And AT&T's option doesn't seem like a real option here, just based on previous experiences with their DSL. I don't trust Google any more than Time Warner, but nothing but good can come out of having them compete against each other for broadband.
Say something anti-Linux, anti-Android, pro-Christian, or whatever else goes against Slashdot groupthink and you will get modded into non-existance by the very same people who are arguing against censorship right now.
Dammit, there's a really good joke in here somewhere, but I just can't find it...
Probably something to do with a person getting killed due to not understanding some basic laws of physics. Or not quite getting what happens when you mix an acid with a base.
For a long time, I've felt like high-level managers are an easy target to replace humans with machines. They all have basic rules like "when the company loses money, lay off employees" and "when sales are good raise prices". Or "if vender == Microsoft, approve the purchase". And they don't even have to do a good job. It really could be reduced to an algorithm.
Where I work at (US Government), we are *supposed* to record everything we do on the timesheet. Rather than have a single meeting and report 0.3 hours on timesheets, our manager would have a ton of micro-meetings lasting maybe 2 or 3 minutes, and insist that no single meeting should be recorded since every one of them was less than 0.1 hours and could be rounded down to 0 hours. We also had a certain amount of work we were supposed to get done each hour and, oddly enough, when listing the amount of hours we had to get it done, she preferred us to round up instead of down.
We also have to record the amount of time we spend preparing our timesheets. She once told me the amount of time I spent actually preparing a timesheet was exaggerated on the grounds that there were only a few numbers on it so it wouldn't have taken very long to write those numbers. I suppose she also thinks it didn't take the original mathematicians very long to calculate pi to three digits. It doesn't take long to write 3.14
I don't think China is as bad as Slashdot claims. But if it is, they'd probably prefer to clone him so they can hire a bunch of workers that don't require them to pay the energy bill for lights.
It's (usually) hated amongst the smart people. There are more stupid people than smart people.
There may be some truth to that. But more generally, it's hated by people who love Linux, Science, Religion Bashing, & Star Wars/Star Trek but loved by popular people.
Maybe, but at least in Windows you can install apps regardless of what permissions they want and allow or disallow when they try to use the "permission". And at least you can change what they get access to after they've been installed.
HTC EVO 3D with Gingerbread, soon to be Ice Cream Sandwich. The only place I don't get a cell signal is inside the elevator at work. And my "unlimited data" actually is unlimited. Sprint is the lesser of 3 evils here.
I would also need the government to get rid of any agreement that they can't have competing cable/internet companies. If you want the government to stay out of it, let them stay all the way out of it.
From my perspective, rich people seem to love Blackberries. Every time I see a post from a celebrity on Twitter, it's from a Blackberry. When pictures from celebrities have EXIF data, it always seems to say it's a Blackberry camera. So if I were trying to save the company, I'd consider making just two phone models. A $500 one and maybe a $5,000 one. The rich people will buy the $5,000 one because they love Blackberries and price doesn't matter. Everybody other potential customer can buy the lower cost one. And each rich person will make up for 10 regular people who didn't buy one.
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Yes, I remember when the latest Fedora Core CD didn't tell me I'm unable to install because the computer only has half a GB of RAM.
I just take issue with your claim that the printer has no time or location data. The printer is constantly connected to things that have time and location data.
I just assumed Monsanto dumped their seeds in any field they saw and came back a few months later to sue.
This happens a lot on Slashdot. When a group from a Western nation hacks some competitor's system, it's always considered an act of superior Western sophistication. But when it's the other way around, it's doesn't matter if it's Western incompetence (setting the password to 12345) or a sophisticated attack from the enemy (causing a drone to land on enemy territory through GPS manipulation) or somewhere in the middle (enemy hacks system and sysadmins don't notice for 10 years), there is always somebody who will suggest it's some kind of reverse psychology and still an example of superior Western sophistication. I really think there are just smart and dumb people on both sides and that should be acknowledged.
When you said creationism should be kept out of schools, you contradicted the point that we shouldn't have censorship. At that point, you were just listing things you don't like.
Moderation is a double-edged sword. Although there is the problem MrEricSir mentioned about Craigslist getting spammed, there is also the Slashdot problem. Causes that actually should get funding could be modded down because the project is hosted in China, or maybe hosted by a Black person or female, or is Christian-based, or whatever other stupid reason people get modded down. Someone would have to moderate the moderators. It would become a recursive mess that doesn't really help.
It's probably better to just let people donate to the causes they like. For unpopular projects, the lack of funding would be better than moderation.
I think insurance companies won't die because, like so many other companies that have the government shoving them down your throat, you have to do business with them no matter how bad they are. Governments love to say you have to pay for something but shy away from limiting what you pay.
Bing also seems to provide better image search results, at least for my purposes. It's one of those things nobody knows because they've been told Google is the best and they shouldn't bother trying anything else.
"5 mill on virtual pet cloths?"
averages out to less than a dollar per person.
what's the big deal?
So if you bought a song or an app for 99 cents and it didn't work, you'd be okay with that? They're virtual too. Just data in your computer.
I won't install any beta software on my phone if I have a choice. I try to avoid unstable and poorly functional software in general. And if they feel their software is stable and functional, they shouldn't call it beta.
AT&T is not the main problem on the Missouri side. It's Time Warner Cable. We've had enough of their outages, bandwidth slowing to a crawl, and insisting any problem is the router rather than the cable modem. I don't know what kind of deal they had with the city government but for years there has been no other real option. And AT&T's option doesn't seem like a real option here, just based on previous experiences with their DSL. I don't trust Google any more than Time Warner, but nothing but good can come out of having them compete against each other for broadband.
Say something anti-Linux, anti-Android, pro-Christian, or whatever else goes against Slashdot groupthink and you will get modded into non-existance by the very same people who are arguing against censorship right now.
Dammit, there's a really good joke in here somewhere, but I just can't find it...
Probably something to do with a person getting killed due to not understanding some basic laws of physics. Or not quite getting what happens when you mix an acid with a base.
For a long time, I've felt like high-level managers are an easy target to replace humans with machines. They all have basic rules like "when the company loses money, lay off employees" and "when sales are good raise prices". Or "if vender == Microsoft, approve the purchase". And they don't even have to do a good job. It really could be reduced to an algorithm.
Where I work at (US Government), we are *supposed* to record everything we do on the timesheet. Rather than have a single meeting and report 0.3 hours on timesheets, our manager would have a ton of micro-meetings lasting maybe 2 or 3 minutes, and insist that no single meeting should be recorded since every one of them was less than 0.1 hours and could be rounded down to 0 hours. We also had a certain amount of work we were supposed to get done each hour and, oddly enough, when listing the amount of hours we had to get it done, she preferred us to round up instead of down.
We also have to record the amount of time we spend preparing our timesheets. She once told me the amount of time I spent actually preparing a timesheet was exaggerated on the grounds that there were only a few numbers on it so it wouldn't have taken very long to write those numbers. I suppose she also thinks it didn't take the original mathematicians very long to calculate pi to three digits. It doesn't take long to write 3.14
I don't think China is as bad as Slashdot claims. But if it is, they'd probably prefer to clone him so they can hire a bunch of workers that don't require them to pay the energy bill for lights.
But you don't go to jail or die because you don't know every scientific theory.
Leave Slashdot out of this.
It's (usually) hated amongst the smart people. There are more stupid people than smart people.
There may be some truth to that. But more generally, it's hated by people who love Linux, Science, Religion Bashing, & Star Wars/Star Trek but loved by popular people.
Maybe, but at least in Windows you can install apps regardless of what permissions they want and allow or disallow when they try to use the "permission". And at least you can change what they get access to after they've been installed.
HTC EVO 3D with Gingerbread, soon to be Ice Cream Sandwich. The only place I don't get a cell signal is inside the elevator at work. And my "unlimited data" actually is unlimited. Sprint is the lesser of 3 evils here.
Which is why they always cream the competition in the benchmarks?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I would also need the government to get rid of any agreement that they can't have competing cable/internet companies. If you want the government to stay out of it, let them stay all the way out of it.
The bigger question would be is if it is a scorpion what is its prey?
My guess is some creature made of a disc with a black flap.
From my perspective, rich people seem to love Blackberries. Every time I see a post from a celebrity on Twitter, it's from a Blackberry. When pictures from celebrities have EXIF data, it always seems to say it's a Blackberry camera. So if I were trying to save the company, I'd consider making just two phone models. A $500 one and maybe a $5,000 one. The rich people will buy the $5,000 one because they love Blackberries and price doesn't matter. Everybody other potential customer can buy the lower cost one. And each rich person will make up for 10 regular people who didn't buy one.