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Why would you use SSH instead of telnet?
That's exactly the kind of "qualification" that is irrelevant. Do you know the COM3 default base port on obsolete PCs (0x3E8, INT 4)? If not, you are an ignorant poseur who should go back to tending cattle in Elbonia.
I have considerable Delphi experience yet am passed up constantly for Delphi jobs because my experience is either too old, or TOO NEW, FFS. This kind of microfiltering of qualifications is bullshit. I'm a computer scientist. What I need to accomplish the task, I learn. I've written Perl scripts. Can I even write a simple Perl script during a job interview? No. Can I learn enough in a couple of days to hack it up like a pro? Hell yes.
I hate the programming field, it's full of paradigm-driven morons who are too busy playing with UML and "Design Patterns". You can have them.
Or aleatory computing? I realize there are certain problems that are deterministically intractable but with feasible probabilistic "solutions", but statistics based computing is just...dirty. I don't think a lot of people understand that quantum computing doesn't actually provide hard answers, that you have to run the same "algorithm" a lot of times to get an approximation.
And why the heck do people think that XML internally is a good idea? XML is little more than a hierarchical interchange format, a superior.csv replacement. You might as well use TCP/IP for local interprocess communication while you're busy adding buzzwords to your implementations in a lame attempt to be hip.
A good example of trendy technology over sanity in this manner is NVidia's firewall software. Rather than provide a nice, tight control interface, they run a freakin' Apache server so they can provide an HTML control interface. Now, their NForce4 HW firewall is supposed to ease the load on the CPU. Installing a full-blown web server (which uses gobs of RAM; WTH, there are lighter HTTP servers than Apache) just to handle the interface kind of severely reduces the presumed benefits, I think, including the security benefits. I can only assume that either 1) they wanted a remotable interface (but who the heck is using an NForce4 mobo with Windows as a dedicated firewall box? You gotta be nuts) or 2) their developers wanted in on the la(t|m)est trends.
...and 99% of consumer products nowadays are crap. This is something I've noticed, especially in programming, is that quality is meaningless.
Quality is not some auxiliary adjunct property of an item, it is the SOLE value of the item. Consider, for instance, a pair of roller skates. We can abstractly quantify their quality from 0 to 100. Skates that do not work, or, perhaps, a couple of rocks, would have Skate Quality = 0. Skates that glided effortlessly, with zero chafe, are light and breezy (or warm if ice skates), would have Skate Quality = 100 (being the perfect pair of skates).
Now, if you buy an item with Skate Quality = 0, anticipating skating value, you just got robbed. Selling a product of low quality is actually, in my opinion, misrepresentation and fraud.
You buy things for their utility. If you do not receive that utility, you have been robbed. This is the state of affairs today--you are being systematically robbed. For instance, I paid for an eyeglass prescription THREE TIMES, once from an opthamologist, and 1) they all varied considerably, and 2) I still don't have a good prescription for my left eye. That's money stolen from me as far as I'm concerned because I have received little value for my money. Will I have to buy a dozen prescriptions and do a mathematical average of them? WTF is wrong with this world?
I can hardly hear my classical CDs in a car, and even on my computer I typically have to put everything to maximum to hear the quieter passages decently.
Classical music, for the uninformed, features a little-used-in-this-age musical dimension called "dynamics", which means it has quiet parts and loud parts, instead of being all loud.
No, Nirvana switching back and forth from soft to loud doesn't count. Much.
...is insurance really necessary for every damn thing a person does? Can't people do anything without a written policy, permission from the court, a license from city hall, and twelve different committees?
I propose you blow something up without the above and test this myth.
They are just a crude, naive means of tackling the hill-climbing problem. I cannot overemphasize how naive they are. In particular, the selection criteria are artificial and much like neural net training, essentially push the "intelligence" outside of the system to the trainer. In fact, it more closely resembles so-called Intelligent Design, simply abstracting the intelligent agent to a level outside the system under consideration.
Lame...parody is the second lowest form of humor. My M15M review:
AUTHOR: Lookit I'm funny. ME: No you aren't. AUTHOR: Well, I'll just laugh all the way to the bank from the hits from Slashdot. ME: Bite me, Internet vampire.
Well, well, I'm quite the wit. I think I'll start a blog and publish its snarky contents in book form.
We cherish our misconceptions about your quaint country (whichever Third-world hellhole it may be), so don't disturb us with your patently absurd recollections of prosperity, peace, etc. You are a dreg washed up on our shores, and should thank the Maker (our God, not your heathen idol) for your good luck. And get busy washing dishes/digging ditches/picking fruit, because we need more people like you to do our dirty work. Once again, welcome to America, and please don't steal the golden bricks from the pavement.
...only old people ask for sharks with friggin' laser beams on their heads.
D'oh!
I for one welcome our new silicon-laser-beamed-shark overlords, and would like to remind them that as a Slashdot poster I can provide valuable commentary to assist in rounding up citizens for your underground sugar mines. Or whatever. Alcohol is my friend...
The corps always talk about how they're gonna take their ball and go home if the laws don't blow their way, but it's pure bullshit. If you had a law passed requiring you to give away free copies to all your buddies, they'd STILL sell CDs. Why? Because they are dumb shits who can't adapt to changing market conditions. They will sell CDs until they go bankrupt, and the sooner, the better. I'm just about sick of this pimped up disco R&B they call pop music nowadays.
The mere attempt to look for evidence of crime is search, and an invasion of privacy if lacking probable cause. Legalistic bullshit about being within arms reach and having hounds sniff you up being "routine" is just grease on the slippery slope.
Your rights are fictitious, and like all fiction, subject to the whim of the author. I suggest you learn how to write. Remember, the whole aphorism is: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." I submit that the former condition is not met, ergo the latter is not necessarily true. I suggest no less than revolution. I leave you to it--I will not sacrifice my comfort for your rights. Good luck.
...that would be bridge. The bidding system is clearly some form of secret communication, privy to only those dumb enough to think that bridge is a real game.
Seriously, the last console I owned was...uh, I think N64. I actually owned most consoles prior to that (including the portable Turbo Graphix). My conclusion? Consoles promote shitty software. So fuck 'em.
Half the big boy websites I visit seem to run through these guys. They seem to provide fat throughput for mega sites, apparently hosted in a distributed geographical fashion. I could just be imagining these things, though, because I really don't have a clue.
I saw a couple of Firefly episodes. It was simply a Western in space. Oh yeah, and the mystery trollop was a tiresome device. Fifth Element, maybe? The Reavers were not very sensible--I assume they are politically-correct stand-ins for the Injun savages of the frontier. Geez.
The right-wing conservatives aren't engaged in public dialog. They have God Himself on their side, and you are just another victim to be steamrolled on their crusade. Permitting them their piece is like negotiating with terrorists--it just gives them time to do their evil. No, the solution, just like terrorists, is to cut them off at the source. We must ban all intolerant people. Anyone who opposes us must die. If you don't like it, you are on the list. Get with the program!
When I was a lad, working at the shoe factory at 12, I didn't have none of them fancy "educations". We had to work hard, and maybe at the end of the year, Mr. Jones would give us an extra tuppence for Christ's Mass. I worked my way up the corporate chain, first as senior tongue stitcher, then journeyman heeler, all the way up to lace inspector, and I did it though hard work, gumption, pluck, and sheer moxie.
This youth of today expects their fancy degrees and book learning to get them a big shot job in the city without the perserverance and elbow grease we old-timers had to invest. Why, just t'other fortnight, this young whippersnapper came strutting into the factory like Little Lord Fauntleroy, looking for a job. When I asked him if he was willing to dedicate his life to the High God of Shoes, to prostrate himself before the Terrible Majesty of Zapato, He Who Shods Man, I swear a slight look of unbelief crossed his naive visage as he politely excused himself and fled the factory, no doubt to go read another book on how to be mighty smart but ignorant of the ways of the world. Pfeh! Run ofta yer Ivory Tower, you Harvard dandy!
Capitalism and democracy are simply a means of keeping the populace from realizing or resenting their enslavement. The need for this illusion came about when weapons became cheap enough that the peasantry could afford them, and effectively rebel against oppression.
The real face of government (the overseer on behalf of the aristocracy) comes out with things like drug laws, mandatory IDs, and seatbelt laws. These things implicitly assume you are not responsible and must be made to do what somebody else would have you do.
There is no reason you shouldn't be allowed to sit in a drugged-up stupor all day, other than the need to feed yourself, which is a self-regulating factor. There is no reason for the government to track people, except to control them.
I propose the one thing that will get us out of this mess with one hundred percent surety--a chain email about kittens. Yes, you should forward to everyone in your address book an email like this:
Hello, dear comrade, I am proposing that you forward this email about kittens to everyone in your address book. When everyone has been emailed, secret subliminal memes *fnord* will reach critical mass and activate the revolution. We shall then be free of the cruel yoke of oppression.
Most sincerely,
--- l33t h@xx0r d0oD
Hyperthreading is a gimmick to keep Intel's overly long pipeline busy. At one point the wisdom was for processors to have long instruction pipelines. The problem arises when branch prediction fails and trashes your pipeline. AMD saw that the long pipelines were harmful and shortened them on the Athlon line. The rest is history.
As far as I'm concerned, the fiasco of P4 being far worse than P3, and the apparent inability to do a turnabout, means Intel is a broken company. They should have just tacked the new P4 instructions on a P-M core and called it the P5. Oh wait...
It is the four-day simultaneous harmonic time cube that proves that there is no rotation, only the four corners of the cube which shift simultaneously and harmonically like a prism. You have the dumbness within you to lack the perception of this majestic normality. Fnord!
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That's exactly the kind of "qualification" that is irrelevant. Do you know the COM3 default base port on obsolete PCs (0x3E8, INT 4)? If not, you are an ignorant poseur who should go back to tending cattle in Elbonia.
I have considerable Delphi experience yet am passed up constantly for Delphi jobs because my experience is either too old, or TOO NEW, FFS. This kind of microfiltering of qualifications is bullshit. I'm a computer scientist. What I need to accomplish the task, I learn. I've written Perl scripts. Can I even write a simple Perl script during a job interview? No. Can I learn enough in a couple of days to hack it up like a pro? Hell yes.
I hate the programming field, it's full of paradigm-driven morons who are too busy playing with UML and "Design Patterns". You can have them.
OK, now the gimp is seeking submissives...er, I mean...
Is it OK to submit Photoshopped entries?
Or aleatory computing? I realize there are certain problems that are deterministically intractable but with feasible probabilistic "solutions", but statistics based computing is just...dirty. I don't think a lot of people understand that quantum computing doesn't actually provide hard answers, that you have to run the same "algorithm" a lot of times to get an approximation.
And why the heck do people think that XML internally is a good idea? XML is little more than a hierarchical interchange format, a superior .csv replacement. You might as well use TCP/IP for local interprocess communication while you're busy adding buzzwords to your implementations in a lame attempt to be hip.
A good example of trendy technology over sanity in this manner is NVidia's firewall software. Rather than provide a nice, tight control interface, they run a freakin' Apache server so they can provide an HTML control interface. Now, their NForce4 HW firewall is supposed to ease the load on the CPU. Installing a full-blown web server (which uses gobs of RAM; WTH, there are lighter HTTP servers than Apache) just to handle the interface kind of severely reduces the presumed benefits, I think, including the security benefits. I can only assume that either 1) they wanted a remotable interface (but who the heck is using an NForce4 mobo with Windows as a dedicated firewall box? You gotta be nuts) or 2) their developers wanted in on the la(t|m)est trends.
FFS, is the whole world insane? Yes, yes it is.
...and 99% of consumer products nowadays are crap. This is something I've noticed, especially in programming, is that quality is meaningless.
Quality is not some auxiliary adjunct property of an item, it is the SOLE value of the item. Consider, for instance, a pair of roller skates. We can abstractly quantify their quality from 0 to 100. Skates that do not work, or, perhaps, a couple of rocks, would have Skate Quality = 0. Skates that glided effortlessly, with zero chafe, are light and breezy (or warm if ice skates), would have Skate Quality = 100 (being the perfect pair of skates).
Now, if you buy an item with Skate Quality = 0, anticipating skating value, you just got robbed. Selling a product of low quality is actually, in my opinion, misrepresentation and fraud.
You buy things for their utility. If you do not receive that utility, you have been robbed. This is the state of affairs today--you are being systematically robbed. For instance, I paid for an eyeglass prescription THREE TIMES, once from an opthamologist, and 1) they all varied considerably, and 2) I still don't have a good prescription for my left eye. That's money stolen from me as far as I'm concerned because I have received little value for my money. Will I have to buy a dozen prescriptions and do a mathematical average of them? WTF is wrong with this world?
Capitalism is broken.
Didn't they work on an open JEDEC standard, only to turn around and patent it before finalization? Perhaps Microsoft will have an RSS patent ere long?
I can hardly hear my classical CDs in a car, and even on my computer I typically have to put everything to maximum to hear the quieter passages decently.
Classical music, for the uninformed, features a little-used-in-this-age musical dimension called "dynamics", which means it has quiet parts and loud parts, instead of being all loud.
No, Nirvana switching back and forth from soft to loud doesn't count. Much.
...is insurance really necessary for every damn thing a person does? Can't people do anything without a written policy, permission from the court, a license from city hall, and twelve different committees?
I propose you blow something up without the above and test this myth.
They are just a crude, naive means of tackling the hill-climbing problem. I cannot overemphasize how naive they are. In particular, the selection criteria are artificial and much like neural net training, essentially push the "intelligence" outside of the system to the trainer. In fact, it more closely resembles so-called Intelligent Design, simply abstracting the intelligent agent to a level outside the system under consideration.
Lame...parody is the second lowest form of humor. My M15M review:
AUTHOR: Lookit I'm funny.
ME: No you aren't.
AUTHOR: Well, I'll just laugh all the way to the bank from the hits from Slashdot.
ME: Bite me, Internet vampire.
Well, well, I'm quite the wit. I think I'll start a blog and publish its snarky contents in book form.
We cherish our misconceptions about your quaint country (whichever Third-world hellhole it may be), so don't disturb us with your patently absurd recollections of prosperity, peace, etc. You are a dreg washed up on our shores, and should thank the Maker (our God, not your heathen idol) for your good luck. And get busy washing dishes/digging ditches/picking fruit, because we need more people like you to do our dirty work. Once again, welcome to America, and please don't steal the golden bricks from the pavement.
...only old people ask for sharks with friggin' laser beams on their heads.
D'oh!
I for one welcome our new silicon-laser-beamed-shark overlords, and would like to remind them that as a Slashdot poster I can provide valuable commentary to assist in rounding up citizens for your underground sugar mines. Or whatever. Alcohol is my friend...
The corps always talk about how they're gonna take their ball and go home if the laws don't blow their way, but it's pure bullshit. If you had a law passed requiring you to give away free copies to all your buddies, they'd STILL sell CDs. Why? Because they are dumb shits who can't adapt to changing market conditions. They will sell CDs until they go bankrupt, and the sooner, the better. I'm just about sick of this pimped up disco R&B they call pop music nowadays.
The mere attempt to look for evidence of crime is search, and an invasion of privacy if lacking probable cause. Legalistic bullshit about being within arms reach and having hounds sniff you up being "routine" is just grease on the slippery slope.
Your rights are fictitious, and like all fiction, subject to the whim of the author. I suggest you learn how to write. Remember, the whole aphorism is: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword." I submit that the former condition is not met, ergo the latter is not necessarily true. I suggest no less than revolution. I leave you to it--I will not sacrifice my comfort for your rights. Good luck.
I assume by that you mean on the "criminal" side of the border.
...that would be bridge. The bidding system is clearly some form of secret communication, privy to only those dumb enough to think that bridge is a real game.
Consoles blow, PC rulez!
Seriously, the last console I owned was...uh, I think N64. I actually owned most consoles prior to that (including the portable Turbo Graphix). My conclusion? Consoles promote shitty software. So fuck 'em.
Google cutting in on Akamai's territory here?
http://www.akamai.com/
Half the big boy websites I visit seem to run through these guys. They seem to provide fat throughput for mega sites, apparently hosted in a distributed geographical fashion. I could just be imagining these things, though, because I really don't have a clue.
I saw a couple of Firefly episodes. It was simply a Western in space. Oh yeah, and the mystery trollop was a tiresome device. Fifth Element, maybe? The Reavers were not very sensible--I assume they are politically-correct stand-ins for the Injun savages of the frontier. Geez.
The right-wing conservatives aren't engaged in public dialog. They have God Himself on their side, and you are just another victim to be steamrolled on their crusade. Permitting them their piece is like negotiating with terrorists--it just gives them time to do their evil. No, the solution, just like terrorists, is to cut them off at the source. We must ban all intolerant people. Anyone who opposes us must die. If you don't like it, you are on the list. Get with the program!
When I was a lad, working at the shoe factory at 12, I didn't have none of them fancy "educations". We had to work hard, and maybe at the end of the year, Mr. Jones would give us an extra tuppence for Christ's Mass. I worked my way up the corporate chain, first as senior tongue stitcher, then journeyman heeler, all the way up to lace inspector, and I did it though hard work, gumption, pluck, and sheer moxie.
This youth of today expects their fancy degrees and book learning to get them a big shot job in the city without the perserverance and elbow grease we old-timers had to invest. Why, just t'other fortnight, this young whippersnapper came strutting into the factory like Little Lord Fauntleroy, looking for a job. When I asked him if he was willing to dedicate his life to the High God of Shoes, to prostrate himself before the Terrible Majesty of Zapato, He Who Shods Man, I swear a slight look of unbelief crossed his naive visage as he politely excused himself and fled the factory, no doubt to go read another book on how to be mighty smart but ignorant of the ways of the world. Pfeh! Run ofta yer Ivory Tower, you Harvard dandy!
Holy cow, it's They Might Be Giants! Except they are called Trapezoid, for some reason.
The real face of government (the overseer on behalf of the aristocracy) comes out with things like drug laws, mandatory IDs, and seatbelt laws. These things implicitly assume you are not responsible and must be made to do what somebody else would have you do.
There is no reason you shouldn't be allowed to sit in a drugged-up stupor all day, other than the need to feed yourself, which is a self-regulating factor. There is no reason for the government to track people, except to control them.
I propose the one thing that will get us out of this mess with one hundred percent surety--a chain email about kittens. Yes, you should forward to everyone in your address book an email like this:
Viva la revolucion and all that.
Hyperthreading is a gimmick to keep Intel's overly long pipeline busy. At one point the wisdom was for processors to have long instruction pipelines. The problem arises when branch prediction fails and trashes your pipeline. AMD saw that the long pipelines were harmful and shortened them on the Athlon line. The rest is history.
As far as I'm concerned, the fiasco of P4 being far worse than P3, and the apparent inability to do a turnabout, means Intel is a broken company. They should have just tacked the new P4 instructions on a P-M core and called it the P5. Oh wait...
It is the four-day simultaneous harmonic time cube that proves that there is no rotation, only the four corners of the cube which shift simultaneously and harmonically like a prism. You have the dumbness within you to lack the perception of this majestic normality. Fnord!