This was a very interesting article and has made me afraid of buying diamonds. It's like buying a car and having it depreciate faster than the stock market crash.
This statement confuses me. It seems that you think that the natural diamond that you bought has some resale value?
If you are buying a painting as an investment, then an original has more value. OTOH, I would love to have a microscopically correct copy of, say, Reuben's "Lion Hunt" or Tintoretto's "Il Serpente di Bronzo".
If you handed me an original, I would want it in a museum for protection, preservation, and public access. A faithful copy would have more utility value for me (though I can't think of any place in my house to fit full-size copies of those paintings, damn).
Windows is WYSIWYG; Linux is YAFIYGI (You asked for it, you got it).
This is an old quote, but not everyone has seen it. This is much like Neal Stephenson comparing Linux to the Hole Hawg drill in "In the Beginning Was the Command Line". Great read!
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There is no news source but/. All other news sources are lies masquerading as the truth (except Fox News, those are just plain lies).
Watching an actual news story (as opposed to only watching the "And coming up at 11: 3 year old invents flying car...") is tantamount to R'ing the FA and will be punished by -5 Troll.
It will only execute scripts and binaries that are digitally-signed by M$. And if they can get pieces of Palladium into your BIOS, then the machine will only run binaries that are signed by M$...no more Linux.
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So basically all managers are non-contributors. I always knew that on an instinctual level, but it is nice to see how it works.
What if you participate in 'contributory copyright infringement' at work? Can you call yourself a contributor then?:-)
Basically anyone who can claim with a straight face that _any_ solution, OSS or otherwise, is free as in 0$ doesn't have a fucking clue what he/she/it is talking about. It's not about being a "rabid Adam Smith fan", it's just about having the most bare minimum clue of economics.
Err, no. If I give you a free car, and you have to pay for gas, insurance, maintenance: The car was still free. The cost of running a car will always be non-zero, but the car was free.
And BTW, the term TCO is misleading; if you buy a car and let it rust itself to death in your driveway, then the cost of ownership is zero. Only if you want to use (not own) it, does it cost money. Same thing with Linux. If you put Linux on an old (fully depreciated) computer, turn off the machine and put it in a corner, then the TCO is zero. Oddly enough, if you do that with a Windows box, a BSA raid can result in a $10,000 fine if you lost the license paperwork for that computer in the corner.
The cost of running a company that uses computers is non-zero, but the software can still be absolutely free. "Total Cost of Ownership" of a car, house, boat, software package, etc have nothing to do with the price of the item.
One typo could cause him to say that we were "worthless," "useless," "unprofessional," "shit," and many other such fine terms.
The best harangue that I ever heard was from a Colonel who was put in charge of a mixed facility (military and civilians) for the first time: "Every civilian in this building is an oxygen thief!"
Somehow, I don't think the deer cares about your feelings.
Does the deer care about the mountain lion's feelings?
I buy meat at the supermarket for the same reason that I buy flour at the supermarket: I lack the skills and resources to kill, prepare and store them. This applies to both meat and flour (won't somebody think of the plants! (PETP)).
Why do people jump on Christians and Jews because they apparently believe something that cannot be proven or disproven?
That is not what irks most Atheists. Rather beliefs such as "the Earth is only 6,000 years old" and "all of the species alive today co-existed on that day (6,000 years ago) when they were all created (dinosaurs never existed, God buried some bone-like rocks to test our faith)" and "the Sun revolves around the Earth" and "condoms do not reduce the rate of STD transmission". Even with these beliefs, most Atheists will take a live-and-let-live policy as long as you do not try to enshrine such beliefs in law, or teach them as science.
Also, many rational people abhor hypocrisy, regardless of where it is found. If you want to be a Hindu, be a Hindu who follows all of the teachings of your religion (or at least admit that *you* decided what is right and wrong, not some gGod(s)). If you want to be a Christian who claims that homosexuality is a sin because Leviticus says so, then follow all of the prohibitions in Leviticus (no two types of thread, only approach an altar with less than 20/20 vision, pork is unclean,...)
I would say that the loophole is 'continuing'. You aren't allowed to teach that anything is 'known' or 'accepted'. The investigation must be 'continuing', so there should always be competing theories (and what do you think they will propose as the most accepted theory to compete with Natural Selection?)
Ladies and Gentelmen of the jury: 20,000 Americans were killed by automobiles last year. Therefor the person that my client is accused of shooting in the head must have, instead, been hit by a car. And why would a wookie want to live with a bunch of 3-foot tall ewoks? Thank you.
I'm not sure what I'll do when Microsoft keeps me from downloading their software. On second thought, I know exactly what I'll do. Dump Windows!
If you have been willing to put up with the screwing that they have given you until now, why should one more turn of the screw cause you to switch. That post sounds suspiciously like "My diet starts tomorrow."
From the FA:
Further work is also planned to improve the robot's motion - one woman with a back injury complained that the device accelerated too fast for her.
People, even 'brilliant' people can be idiots. Why does this robot have a motor? Why can't it just steer the wheels of a shopping cart and let the blind person push like the rest of us? Does blind also mean lame? OK, so it needs brakes and/or Go/Stop audio signals in case it can't steer around an obstacle {note the spelling}.
This reminds me of a bit on CNN about the British Postal Service developing a little LCD device that had a computer generated human performing sign language. The postal clerk would type on a keyboard and this radical new (expensive) software would go through the motions of producing sign language. Because, obviously, deaf people are too stupid to read text.
Not having a solution to the world's problems does not mean that it is intelligent to hand the reins to the stupidest most hateful bastard who volunteers.
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"We are always training to fight the last war."
Yes it sums-up the whole article. That ruins our entire discussion thread! We need an option to moderate "-1 OnTopic".
This statement confuses me. It seems that you think that the natural diamond that you bought has some resale value?
If you handed me an original, I would want it in a museum for protection, preservation, and public access. A faithful copy would have more utility value for me (though I can't think of any place in my house to fit full-size copies of those paintings, damn).
This is an old quote, but not everyone has seen it. This is much like Neal Stephenson comparing Linux to the Hole Hawg drill in "In the Beginning Was the Command Line". Great read!
Watching an actual news story (as opposed to only watching the "And coming up at 11: 3 year old invents flying car...") is tantamount to R'ing the FA and will be punished by -5 Troll.
It will only execute scripts and binaries that are digitally-signed by M$. And if they can get pieces of Palladium into your BIOS, then the machine will only run binaries that are signed by M$...no more Linux.
What if you participate in 'contributory copyright infringement' at work? Can you call yourself a contributor then? :-)
Err, no. If I give you a free car, and you have to pay for gas, insurance, maintenance: The car was still free. The cost of running a car will always be non-zero, but the car was free.
And BTW, the term TCO is misleading; if you buy a car and let it rust itself to death in your driveway, then the cost of ownership is zero. Only if you want to use (not own) it, does it cost money. Same thing with Linux. If you put Linux on an old (fully depreciated) computer, turn off the machine and put it in a corner, then the TCO is zero. Oddly enough, if you do that with a Windows box, a BSA raid can result in a $10,000 fine if you lost the license paperwork for that computer in the corner.
The cost of running a company that uses computers is non-zero, but the software can still be absolutely free. "Total Cost of Ownership" of a car, house, boat, software package, etc have nothing to do with the price of the item.
And I thought the phrase "I fried my CPU" was figurative.
The best harangue that I ever heard was from a Colonel who was put in charge of a mixed facility (military and civilians) for the first time: "Every civilian in this building is an oxygen thief!"
You are such a species-ist! Even amoeba are considered intelligent (by idiots).
Does the deer care about the mountain lion's feelings?
I buy meat at the supermarket for the same reason that I buy flour at the supermarket: I lack the skills and resources to kill, prepare and store them. This applies to both meat and flour (won't somebody think of the plants! (PETP)).
That is not what irks most Atheists. Rather beliefs such as "the Earth is only 6,000 years old" and "all of the species alive today co-existed on that day (6,000 years ago) when they were all created (dinosaurs never existed, God buried some bone-like rocks to test our faith)" and "the Sun revolves around the Earth" and "condoms do not reduce the rate of STD transmission". Even with these beliefs, most Atheists will take a live-and-let-live policy as long as you do not try to enshrine such beliefs in law, or teach them as science.
Also, many rational people abhor hypocrisy, regardless of where it is found. If you want to be a Hindu, be a Hindu who follows all of the teachings of your religion (or at least admit that *you* decided what is right and wrong, not some gGod(s)). If you want to be a Christian who claims that homosexuality is a sin because Leviticus says so, then follow all of the prohibitions in Leviticus (no two types of thread, only approach an altar with less than 20/20 vision, pork is unclean, ...)
I would say that the loophole is 'continuing'. You aren't allowed to teach that anything is 'known' or 'accepted'. The investigation must be 'continuing', so there should always be competing theories (and what do you think they will propose as the most accepted theory to compete with Natural Selection?)
Hello Deluxe DVD Edition.
You don't need to see this film. This is not the film you're looking for.
Ladies and Gentelmen of the jury: 20,000 Americans were killed by automobiles last year. Therefor the person that my client is accused of shooting in the head must have, instead, been hit by a car. And why would a wookie want to live with a bunch of 3-foot tall ewoks? Thank you.
Evil?
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 - 1850)
If you have been willing to put up with the screwing that they have given you until now, why should one more turn of the screw cause you to switch. That post sounds suspiciously like "My diet starts tomorrow."
If your mom goes to prison, whose basement are you going to live in?
Is everyone too traumatized to remember Old Yeller? Bambi was a walk in the woods...
From the FA: Further work is also planned to improve the robot's motion - one woman with a back injury complained that the device accelerated too fast for her.
People, even 'brilliant' people can be idiots. Why does this robot have a motor? Why can't it just steer the wheels of a shopping cart and let the blind person push like the rest of us? Does blind also mean lame? OK, so it needs brakes and/or Go/Stop audio signals in case it can't steer around an obstacle {note the spelling}.
This reminds me of a bit on CNN about the British Postal Service developing a little LCD device that had a computer generated human performing sign language. The postal clerk would type on a keyboard and this radical new (expensive) software would go through the motions of producing sign language. Because, obviously, deaf people are too stupid to read text.
Not having a solution to the world's problems does not mean that it is intelligent to hand the reins to the stupidest most hateful bastard who volunteers.
Somebody's using too much nitrate-based fertilizer.