I'm not sure OSX is a "better" operating system than Windows. Depends on your definition of better. Sure, there are far fewer viruses for it (and even those that do exist are usually limited to just annoyances because of a magical thing called "user privileges" that MS figured they didn't really need, I guess). Also, in my experience, OSX is more stable (mileage may vary, of course).
It is the software that is the issue. CAD software is almost non-existent on OSX, as are the high end games (with notable exceptions being Blizzard and Id games).
However, being a programmer, I find OSX to be the best of all worlds. Stability and toolkit of *nix with the ease of use and "just works-i-ness" of Windows. I would gladly pay the premium for the huge improvement in my work environment (which leads to me being more productive).
The only thing I ever fire up windows for anymore is if I need to test code on it, and a VM handles that just fine for me. My artist friends seem to like OSX for many of the same work environment related reasons, though many are upset over the Photoshop related issues going on.
OSX is for my laptop and general use needs, Linux for my servers, and Windows is only around as a test environment. It just feels clunky and awkward to me now without having the full suite of *nix tools. Though in the end it really just comes down to a matter of taste.
/* Off topic While peer pressures may be one of the reasons (to make it easier to form), secret ballots in the workplace have their issues. Generally, there aren't enough people voting to maintain anonymity, and people get fired, etc, for how their employer thinks they've voted.
While I only half agree with the getting rid of secret voting, employers do need stricter penalties for unlawfully terminating employees who want to unionize, and this bill will increase those penalties.
*/
Nope. Sorry. That number comes from the total amount in pensions paid out to retirees plus the benefits and hourly wage of the current work force, divided by the number of the current workforce.
If you break it down like a normal person and only counted the people currently working for the UAW, their figures come out within $1/hr of the foreign companies.
Had the foreign companies been in the country as long as the Big Three, they'd be in exactly the same boat. Next time don't just take the FUD passed along by conservative blogs and television as fact without actually looking at where they are pulling these numbers from.
Sorry for the rant, but I am sick and tired of hearing this number thrown about as an excuse to dismantle the UAW. Sure, they have their problems, but this really isn't one of them. If you want to cut pensions for everybody in the country, then take that platform. Otherwise stop complaining about this number and pick a real avenue of attack on unioned labor instead of a fabricated one created by someone bad at math.
One of many sources.
The rest of the world may not appreciate such a weapon very much, as it probably wouldn't be hard to point it away from the terrorists and at, say, China or Russia.
That is probably the most likely reason we don't have a real orbital weapon yet.
Maybe I'm missing something, but from a Userland perspective, this doesn't seem like it would be any different. If a user wanted to open or move an "object" vs a "file", how exactly would it be different? They'd find the "object" or "file" in some sort of sorting interface, and manipulate it as much. Keeping an open instance of an application with each object is quickly leading to bloating trouble. I'm not sure how this would be less confusing for a user.
From a programming perspective, this seems to be a nicety that is largely handled by compilers/operating systems already. It'd save some time not having to worry about file details and just creating an object. Or it'd be really cool to just be able to tell the OS to export this object to disc. But neither of these seem mind blowing or paradigm changing to me, however, like I said, perhaps I am missing something here.
So what if the world is meaningless? Is that a bad thing? Is having meaning better than not having meaning? Who is to say something that replaces us can't assign meaning?
Your post is clearly unconstitutional based upon my reading of it!
If a court doesn't say it, it doesn't hold any weight or matter. The offending party is assumed innocent until proven guilty of violating the Consitution. Being "guilty until proven innocent" "is not only wrong, but against the spirit in which our nation was founded."
Actually this would be GREAT for AI. Game AI? I have no idea. But, using a floating point co-processor like this you could do the calculations directly on, say, a robot, instead of having to send the data back to a mainframe for processing. Also much cheaper than buying a really fast CPU for the same tasks.
This would be much faster than a general purpose CPU for all sorts of machine learning concepts like hidden markovs, computer vision, speech recognition... if only I had one of the cards...
Yup, I'm going to agree here. When I worked a lowly tech support job, people who were jerks were instantly added to the very bottom of my "shit to take care of" pile, if I even wrote down their contact info.
In a job where you deal with asshats all day, you tend to actually want to help the few who are pleasant toward you.
Bottom line is: they aren't getting paid enough to deal with you being a dick. You can complain to their bosses if you want, but most of the time the boss is going to agree with the employee: you're just being a dick.
Hate speech is generally more than "politically incorrect." Usually hate speech is defined as being intended to incite violence against someone. For example, if I gave a speech and used an ethnic slur for each group of people I talked about, sure, I'd be in bad taste, but it wouldn't be hate speech. Now, if I gave that same speech minus the ethnic slurs, but was rallying the crowd and telling them they should kill these groups, that would be hate speech.
It is the same idea as not being able to yell fire in a crowded theater. You have the freedom of speech until it harms someone else.
Too bad that that is only when you walk in ready to die. Preventive care is by no means guaranteed, nor is any more treatment than is necessary to stabilize you and get your ass out the door (for it to happen again, of course).
Is there evidence of that in other government health-care systems? As far as I know Great Brit, Canada, etc haven't banned McDonalds yet or stopped selling pop and cigarettes...
I hear this argument a lot but I am unaware of any evidence of it actually happening anywhere. Sure, it makes sense, if we lived in a society that would allow it. But starting a government health care system isn't giving the government carte blanche control over everything we do. They pass a law banning McDonalds? Vote those fuckers out for someone who will reform and bring back the Big Mac. If there is one thing that may finally make Americans angry, it is taking away their fast food.
No, using wrongfully obtained evidence is madness. If you allow it to be used in court cases, then wrongfully obtained evidence will start happening more and more in different kinds of cases.
Due process will go out the window, and you'll end up with people either fabricating evidence or just walking in to houses w/o warrants and searching whatever they damn well please.
And whose to say that if a cop searches your computer for child porn, tjstork, and doesn't find any but you get charged anyway for some cracked game that you own (legally bought, still a DMCA violation!) because that evidence was collected without a warrant stating that is what they were looking for.
Or if they knew someone was in a particular neighborhood and just turned it all upside down without warrants or permission. Cases can get very personal, and it wouldn't surprise me for a cop to be willing to take a slap on the wrist to use illegal evidence.
Yeah, we are really being pummeled with terrorist attacks over here in the US. All of the place. They are something we should definitely not advance our horrid land-based transit system for.
They are absolutely correct here. There is a reason indigent defendants are appointed a lawyer in criminal cases instead of being told to defend themselves: it balances it. Let two law educated professionals duke it out for their clients, instead of one poor client and one law expert. All of a sudden it is no longer a fair argument, and one side will begin to prevail far more often than the other (moreso than now).
The first seven chapters are a primer on the history
Sounds great, like getting a book on storage media and having 50 pages about punch cards.
Which may not be as important in the tech industry, but in order to comprehend what laws mean you do need to know the history behind them. Laws, when interpreted by a judge, are viewed in context of the conversations and laws that preceded them, and thus it is important to understand where they came from.
I agree, my hat is off to the people can work retail and maintain a good attitude. When I was doing retail, I became cynical and bitter quite fast do to the never ending foot parade of idiots blaming me for everything wrong in their life.
I honestly don't know how others can do it for longer than a few months.
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I'm not sure OSX is a "better" operating system than Windows. Depends on your definition of better. Sure, there are far fewer viruses for it (and even those that do exist are usually limited to just annoyances because of a magical thing called "user privileges" that MS figured they didn't really need, I guess). Also, in my experience, OSX is more stable (mileage may vary, of course).
It is the software that is the issue. CAD software is almost non-existent on OSX, as are the high end games (with notable exceptions being Blizzard and Id games).
However, being a programmer, I find OSX to be the best of all worlds. Stability and toolkit of *nix with the ease of use and "just works-i-ness" of Windows. I would gladly pay the premium for the huge improvement in my work environment (which leads to me being more productive).
The only thing I ever fire up windows for anymore is if I need to test code on it, and a VM handles that just fine for me. My artist friends seem to like OSX for many of the same work environment related reasons, though many are upset over the Photoshop related issues going on.
OSX is for my laptop and general use needs, Linux for my servers, and Windows is only around as a test environment. It just feels clunky and awkward to me now without having the full suite of *nix tools. Though in the end it really just comes down to a matter of taste.
/* Off topic
While peer pressures may be one of the reasons (to make it easier to form), secret ballots in the workplace have their issues. Generally, there aren't enough people voting to maintain anonymity, and people get fired, etc, for how their employer thinks they've voted.
While I only half agree with the getting rid of secret voting, employers do need stricter penalties for unlawfully terminating employees who want to unionize, and this bill will increase those penalties.
*/
So now Person in Authority just looks over your shoulder while you check your vote. How would this solve the problem mentioned by the parent?
Nope. Sorry. That number comes from the total amount in pensions paid out to retirees plus the benefits and hourly wage of the current work force, divided by the number of the current workforce.
If you break it down like a normal person and only counted the people currently working for the UAW, their figures come out within $1/hr of the foreign companies.
Had the foreign companies been in the country as long as the Big Three, they'd be in exactly the same boat. Next time don't just take the FUD passed along by conservative blogs and television as fact without actually looking at where they are pulling these numbers from.
Sorry for the rant, but I am sick and tired of hearing this number thrown about as an excuse to dismantle the UAW. Sure, they have their problems, but this really isn't one of them. If you want to cut pensions for everybody in the country, then take that platform. Otherwise stop complaining about this number and pick a real avenue of attack on unioned labor instead of a fabricated one created by someone bad at math. One of many sources.
The rest of the world may not appreciate such a weapon very much, as it probably wouldn't be hard to point it away from the terrorists and at, say, China or Russia.
That is probably the most likely reason we don't have a real orbital weapon yet.
I am just going to pick my favorite meaning from that list.
Exposing your employer to legal action truly is a Cyber Lady Ministry. Hit that right on the head.
Maybe I'm missing something, but from a Userland perspective, this doesn't seem like it would be any different. If a user wanted to open or move an "object" vs a "file", how exactly would it be different? They'd find the "object" or "file" in some sort of sorting interface, and manipulate it as much. Keeping an open instance of an application with each object is quickly leading to bloating trouble. I'm not sure how this would be less confusing for a user.
From a programming perspective, this seems to be a nicety that is largely handled by compilers/operating systems already. It'd save some time not having to worry about file details and just creating an object. Or it'd be really cool to just be able to tell the OS to export this object to disc. But neither of these seem mind blowing or paradigm changing to me, however, like I said, perhaps I am missing something here.
So what if the world is meaningless? Is that a bad thing? Is having meaning better than not having meaning? Who is to say something that replaces us can't assign meaning?
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Stop being so species-centric
Not this time, it promptly hit 50 degrees F after the wind storm. Michigan weather is a fickle beast...
Your post is clearly unconstitutional based upon my reading of it!
If a court doesn't say it, it doesn't hold any weight or matter. The offending party is assumed innocent until proven guilty of violating the Consitution. Being "guilty until proven innocent" "is not only wrong, but against the spirit in which our nation was founded."
Actually this would be GREAT for AI. Game AI? I have no idea. But, using a floating point co-processor like this you could do the calculations directly on, say, a robot, instead of having to send the data back to a mainframe for processing. Also much cheaper than buying a really fast CPU for the same tasks.
This would be much faster than a general purpose CPU for all sorts of machine learning concepts like hidden markovs, computer vision, speech recognition... if only I had one of the cards...
Not to imply that that drone wasn't an idiot, mind you. He certainly seemed like it, and may well not deserve to hold a job he is under-qualified for.
Yup, I'm going to agree here. When I worked a lowly tech support job, people who were jerks were instantly added to the very bottom of my "shit to take care of" pile, if I even wrote down their contact info.
In a job where you deal with asshats all day, you tend to actually want to help the few who are pleasant toward you.
Bottom line is: they aren't getting paid enough to deal with you being a dick. You can complain to their bosses if you want, but most of the time the boss is going to agree with the employee: you're just being a dick.
Hate speech is generally more than "politically incorrect." Usually hate speech is defined as being intended to incite violence against someone. For example, if I gave a speech and used an ethnic slur for each group of people I talked about, sure, I'd be in bad taste, but it wouldn't be hate speech. Now, if I gave that same speech minus the ethnic slurs, but was rallying the crowd and telling them they should kill these groups, that would be hate speech.
It is the same idea as not being able to yell fire in a crowded theater. You have the freedom of speech until it harms someone else.
Sounds like a job for RAID5 or 6!
Too bad that that is only when you walk in ready to die. Preventive care is by no means guaranteed, nor is any more treatment than is necessary to stabilize you and get your ass out the door (for it to happen again, of course).
Sounds like health care to me!
I think this point was that dichotomy implies two by definition.
Is there evidence of that in other government health-care systems? As far as I know Great Brit, Canada, etc haven't banned McDonalds yet or stopped selling pop and cigarettes...
I hear this argument a lot but I am unaware of any evidence of it actually happening anywhere. Sure, it makes sense, if we lived in a society that would allow it. But starting a government health care system isn't giving the government carte blanche control over everything we do. They pass a law banning McDonalds? Vote those fuckers out for someone who will reform and bring back the Big Mac. If there is one thing that may finally make Americans angry, it is taking away their fast food.
No, using wrongfully obtained evidence is madness. If you allow it to be used in court cases, then wrongfully obtained evidence will start happening more and more in different kinds of cases.
Due process will go out the window, and you'll end up with people either fabricating evidence or just walking in to houses w/o warrants and searching whatever they damn well please.
And whose to say that if a cop searches your computer for child porn, tjstork, and doesn't find any but you get charged anyway for some cracked game that you own (legally bought, still a DMCA violation!) because that evidence was collected without a warrant stating that is what they were looking for.
Or if they knew someone was in a particular neighborhood and just turned it all upside down without warrants or permission. Cases can get very personal, and it wouldn't surprise me for a cop to be willing to take a slap on the wrist to use illegal evidence.
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Yeah, we are really being pummeled with terrorist attacks over here in the US. All of the place. They are something we should definitely not advance our horrid land-based transit system for.
MOD PARENT UP!
They are absolutely correct here. There is a reason indigent defendants are appointed a lawyer in criminal cases instead of being told to defend themselves: it balances it. Let two law educated professionals duke it out for their clients, instead of one poor client and one law expert. All of a sudden it is no longer a fair argument, and one side will begin to prevail far more often than the other (moreso than now).
Sounds great, like getting a book on storage media and having 50 pages about punch cards.
Which may not be as important in the tech industry, but in order to comprehend what laws mean you do need to know the history behind them. Laws, when interpreted by a judge, are viewed in context of the conversations and laws that preceded them, and thus it is important to understand where they came from.
I now leave you to continue trolling.
Maybe another Alien civilization built a LHC!
I agree, my hat is off to the people can work retail and maintain a good attitude. When I was doing retail, I became cynical and bitter quite fast do to the never ending foot parade of idiots blaming me for everything wrong in their life.
I honestly don't know how others can do it for longer than a few months.