It's the other way round: If such a thing exists, the theory needs fixing (and not just in an ad-hoc manner). What about a theorectical entity. (Like for example a Black Hole?)
Maybe I missed something but I looked at the ordinance here
And I think this article is extremely misleading.
IT DOES NOT REQUIRE BLOGGERS TO REGISTER.
It requires the spender of the $1000 or more for electioneering to report it.
If there is a line requiring these audits, could someone please point it out to me.
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Please re-read the OP. Totally unsupported claims were made regarding
1)The preponderance of Macs in academia vs. the business world.
2)The greater computing needs in academia vs. the business world.
I submit both of these are false. Of course I am basing it on my experience, but I don't see how yours contradicts it. Your users are developers, so they are not simply using the box for email (with was the OP's claim NOT mine).
Business users do not generally get to choose their machines, they have Windows chosen for them (either directly, by their IT departments, or by a requirement that they use some Windows-only application).
1) I made exactly the same fucking point in my first post.
2) The same is generally true for academics. Unless your talking about a home machine used for work, desktop boxes in the university are chosen by and paid for by the university and are usually Windows or Nix machines.
So does this mean that now only old people will be using Windows?
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My users are largely software developers, they're all primarily using computers to get their work done, and while a few are Windows power users the majority... even the ones who are developing on Windows rather than just using their Windows boxes as terminals to the UNIX servers they do their real work on... do not do anything to stress their systems at all.
So basically you're saying that you work with people who compile and debug on Windows, and their boxes don't crash. Aha! That proves why someone who wanted to do more than check email would need a Mac.
The OP's point was that the average business user only uses the machine to check for email and word pro, while academic users have "real" computing needs and thus choose Mac. Both you and I know this is false then. Development and trading are at the high end of the curve for rescources. The only thing I see beyond those groups would be people who do imaging, which is admittedly the core of the Mac market segment. But again, I would consider that a business, rather than an academic, application.
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I guess "Mac use is enourmous" is open to some interpretation, but I would say 10% would not qualify as "enormous" to any normal sized person. Nor would it represent a substantial increase above Macs used in the business world. Remember, in some areas of "the business world" Macs are indeed the norm. (Publishing for example). If you can't tell me roughly how much more dramatically widespread Mac use is in the academic world than in the business world, then what's your point anyhow?
I work at an investment bank building and maintaining applications used by traders, which run on the Windows desktop. If there are more powerful "power users" than these guys, I don't want to meet them. Maybe things aren't quite so stressful working on the Help Desk over at corporate headquarters of Hickory Farms. Please take back your bullshit.
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How is it that when business users all use the same machine, it's becuase of herd mentality, but when academics do, it's an example of sound judgement.
In either case, the end user is not making the decision on the OS. Those decisions are made institutionally.
Also, in my experience in academia, most users in the humanities use the computer for word processing and email. Are there CS depts that use Mac's as their primary desktop? I would imagine it's Windows or Nix.
Business users have much higher demands than the average academic user (at least on the desktop).
The blurb author attempts to paint one side as having something to hide, since they only released a part of their source code. Nevermind that both papers' data can be independently validated--no no, one side is bad for only describing the algorithm and not its source code!
But that's exactly the point isn't it? (At least of the blurb.) The original data was used and the nature of the analysis was called into question. So just as the data is made available for double-checking, shouldn't the means of analysis be likewise made available?
And the difference between "distinct culture" and "brainwashing" is...????
Even if one was stupid enough to argue that "due process" simply was too Western for the Chinese to get behind, you would have a better time convincing me of that if the Chinese had made that decision themselves, in a democratically determined constitution.
If you're making software, why would you write to a standard that you know is going to change unless you had to? The standard is meant to serve the developers, not the other way around.
For all the talk of how the PATRIOT Act is somehow systematically unraveling our freedoms, it's not the only time this sort of thing has been done during a time of war.
How is the second half of this sentence a refutation of the first half? The fact that Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the civil war doesn't mean that suspending habeus corpus is not a fundemental attack on your constitutional rights. If your point is that these rights will someday be reinstated because that's what happened in the past, then your argument has no logical force. Given the current context, we're not likely to see any roll-back of the powers granted to law enforcement.
We cannot afford to give more civil protections to Tony Soprano than we do to Osama bin Laden, which was the state of US law before September 11.
Ignoring the fact that Tony Soprano is a fictional character, one would expect that as a US citizen he would have certain rights not extended to OBL. As far as I know the Mafia had no more to do with the attack on the World Trade Center than did, well, Iraq. We've had at least 10 years of declining crime in the US, the notion that withouth the Patriot Act, law enforcement was not able to do it's job is completely unsupported. The balance you seek existed before 9/11, and can be reinstated by allowing the Patriot Act to lapse.
WHAT are you talking about? Please wipe that KoolAid off your chin, and try to make some sense.
"Linux is not a business, it is not a strategy, it is not a concept.
Linux represents the brutal and unflinching march of technology towards the zero price point. Linux - and all free & open-source software - exists because all the barriers to its existence have been gradually razed.
And you wonder why people think of Lunix as a cult?
When I here people say the US is getting "less free" I wonder what they're talking about. Was there ever a time when there weren't people who wanted to censor the media? When was the last time a book (or even a movie) was banned? Used to a happen all the time. Was there ever a time when more obscene (in the everyday sense of the term) material was more accessible?
Was America "more free" before the advent of Civil Rights Act, Title 9, American's with Disabilities Act, etc? I would say no. The problem is that its a struggle to stay free, and you're gonna win some and lose some.
At first I assumed it was market share. Then I stopped and thought it must be something much less dramatic. Then I RTFA. Jeez.....
Basically, in a growing server market, Linux is producing more money than it did before.
Every day there is another story about using GPS to do one fantastic thing after another: figure out how many miles you drive, track your kids, and now keep felons at arms length. But can it really do ANY of this?
It's turning into a crazy plot device, kind of like on TV, whenever they need a crucial piece of information, they can undoubtedly find it on "The Internet".
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It's the other way round: If such a thing exists, the theory needs fixing (and not just in an ad-hoc manner).
What about a theorectical entity. (Like for example a Black Hole?)
Maybe I missed something but I looked at the ordinance here
And I think this article is extremely misleading.
IT DOES NOT REQUIRE BLOGGERS TO REGISTER.
It requires the spender of the $1000 or more for electioneering to report it.
If there is a line requiring these audits, could someone please point it out to me.
Please re-read the OP. Totally unsupported claims were made regarding
1)The preponderance of Macs in academia vs. the business world.
2)The greater computing needs in academia vs. the business world.
I submit both of these are false. Of course I am basing it on my experience, but I don't see how yours contradicts it. Your users are developers, so they are not simply using the box for email (with was the OP's claim NOT mine).
Business users do not generally get to choose their machines, they have Windows chosen for them (either directly, by their IT departments, or by a requirement that they use some Windows-only application).
1) I made exactly the same fucking point in my first post.
2) The same is generally true for academics. Unless your talking about a home machine used for work, desktop boxes in the university are chosen by and paid for by the university and are usually Windows or Nix machines.
So does this mean that now only old people will be using Windows?
My users are largely software developers, they're all primarily using computers to get their work done, and while a few are Windows power users the majority... even the ones who are developing on Windows rather than just using their Windows boxes as terminals to the UNIX servers they do their real work on... do not do anything to stress their systems at all.
So basically you're saying that you work with people who compile and debug on Windows, and their boxes don't crash. Aha! That proves why someone who wanted to do more than check email would need a Mac.
The OP's point was that the average business user only uses the machine to check for email and word pro, while academic users have "real" computing needs and thus choose Mac. Both you and I know this is false then. Development and trading are at the high end of the curve for rescources. The only thing I see beyond those groups would be people who do imaging, which is admittedly the core of the Mac market segment. But again, I would consider that a business, rather than an academic, application.
It's worse than goatse.
I guess "Mac use is enourmous" is open to some interpretation, but I would say 10% would not qualify as "enormous" to any normal sized person. Nor would it represent a substantial increase above Macs used in the business world. Remember, in some areas of "the business world" Macs are indeed the norm. (Publishing for example). If you can't tell me roughly how much more dramatically widespread Mac use is in the academic world than in the business world, then what's your point anyhow?
I work at an investment bank building and maintaining applications used by traders, which run on the Windows desktop. If there are more powerful "power users" than these guys, I don't want to meet them. Maybe things aren't quite so stressful working on the Help Desk over at corporate headquarters of Hickory Farms. Please take back your bullshit.
How is it that when business users all use the same machine, it's becuase of herd mentality, but when academics do, it's an example of sound judgement. In either case, the end user is not making the decision on the OS. Those decisions are made institutionally.
Also, in my experience in academia, most users in the humanities use the computer for word processing and email. Are there CS depts that use Mac's as their primary desktop? I would imagine it's Windows or Nix.
Business users have much higher demands than the average academic user (at least on the desktop).
Boy, you sound like a real tool! Let me give you some advice: The effort spent trying to understand other people is frequently worth it.
The blurb author attempts to paint one side as having something to hide, since they only released a part of their source code. Nevermind that both papers' data can be independently validated--no no, one side is bad for only describing the algorithm and not its source code!
But that's exactly the point isn't it? (At least of the blurb.) The original data was used and the nature of the analysis was called into question. So just as the data is made available for double-checking, shouldn't the means of analysis be likewise made available?
Wake up Mods! How is this not Off-Topic?
You have any documentation for this?
And the difference between "distinct culture" and "brainwashing" is...????
Even if one was stupid enough to argue that "due process" simply was too Western for the Chinese to get behind, you would have a better time convincing me of that if the Chinese had made that decision themselves, in a democratically determined constitution.
Yes. The only people allowed to point out technology flaws are .... ummmm...
everybody else! Like me!
If you're making software, why would you write to a standard that you know is going to change unless you had to? The standard is meant to serve the developers, not the other way around.
For all the talk of how the PATRIOT Act is somehow systematically unraveling our freedoms, it's not the only time this sort of thing has been done during a time of war.
How is the second half of this sentence a refutation of the first half? The fact that Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the civil war doesn't mean that suspending habeus corpus is not a fundemental attack on your constitutional rights. If your point is that these rights will someday be reinstated because that's what happened in the past, then your argument has no logical force. Given the current context, we're not likely to see any roll-back of the powers granted to law enforcement.
We cannot afford to give more civil protections to Tony Soprano than we do to Osama bin Laden, which was the state of US law before September 11.
Ignoring the fact that Tony Soprano is a fictional character, one would expect that as a US citizen he would have certain rights not extended to OBL. As far as I know the Mafia had no more to do with the attack on the World Trade Center than did, well, Iraq. We've had at least 10 years of declining crime in the US, the notion that withouth the Patriot Act, law enforcement was not able to do it's job is completely unsupported. The balance you seek existed before 9/11, and can be reinstated by allowing the Patriot Act to lapse.
I beleive you mean Grand Theft Unified Theory.
WHAT are you talking about? Please wipe that KoolAid off your chin, and try to make some sense.
"Linux is not a business, it is not a strategy, it is not a concept.
Linux represents the brutal and unflinching march of technology towards the zero price point. Linux - and all free & open-source software - exists because all the barriers to its existence have been gradually razed.
And you wonder why people think of Lunix as a cult?
MOD PARENT UP!!
50% is a pretty significant number. At what point would you consider it worthy of concern?
So clear the Supreme Court couldn't see it evidently.
Right?
When I here people say the US is getting "less free" I wonder what they're talking about. Was there ever a time when there weren't people who wanted to censor the media? When was the last time a book (or even a movie) was banned? Used to a happen all the time. Was there ever a time when more obscene (in the everyday sense of the term) material was more accessible?
Was America "more free" before the advent of Civil Rights Act, Title 9, American's with Disabilities Act, etc? I would say no. The problem is that its a struggle to stay free, and you're gonna win some and lose some.
At first I assumed it was market share. Then I stopped and thought it must be something much less dramatic. Then I RTFA. Jeez..... Basically, in a growing server market, Linux is producing more money than it did before.
Every day there is another story about using GPS to do one fantastic thing after another: figure out how many miles you drive, track your kids, and now keep felons at arms length. But can it really do ANY of this?
It's turning into a crazy plot device, kind of like on TV, whenever they need a crucial piece of information, they can undoubtedly find it on "The Internet".