The problem is, rather than just weeding out the stupid, they are very likely to take someone driving appropriately out with them. Darwinian logic only keeps the species going, it has nothing to do with the intelligence of the species. Stupid people are more likely to breed, and more likely to kill other people. Sadly, intelligence is an endangered trait.
I'm not sure where you live, but I have yet to see 15/day car rentals. Additionally, I live in Alaska, so that should answer your public transportation comments.
This is only the 9th circuit of appeals, which has been known for their poor interpretation of law in the past. It is far from over, and very likely will make it to the supreme court. Honestly I am surprised that people wouldn't expect this from the 9th circuit court.
Well, a search on just Tiananmen shows some of the same pictures on page 5...
http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen&svnum=1 0&hl=zh-CN&lr=&cr=countryCN&start=80&sa=N
I realize China is censoring (to a great extent), but perhaps some of it also has to do with the difference in culture. In the west, when we hear Tiananmen Square, we think massacre. There's a lot more to the square than that, and the Chinese have more reverance for it. However, pics posted by the Chinese are written in chinese, and so searching by english words won't neccessarily turn up the same thing. Searching in english will turn up the western view of Tiananman mostly, and little else.
I get the point, and really don't know which is worse. A product that exists but has failed to reach the masses due to over geeking, or a product that doesn't exist but keeps the PHB's enthralled with its concept art. Either way, both are a cause for Microsoft's further dominance.
Micro$oft and their PR crew have been labeling every new product a _Insert_Opposing_Company_Here_ for years. Are we ever going to see these products or is it more "Wait and ours will be better" talk?
Let me ask then, should a person who went to school (or training, or apprenticeship, etc) for 10 yrs, has specialized rare skills, and works 12 hrs a day get paid the same as someone who fresh out of high school digs ditches for 12 hrs a day? They work the same hours, but who is more easily replaced in the work force, and who spent more time preparing themselves for a future?
Yes, I do actually. I also believe that there are people who will take advantage of such systems, and therefore certain precautions should be taken to prevent that. Would you rather a system where working twice as hard results in you having to share half of your reward with the bum next door who watches T.V. all day? Or is getting rewarded for hard work ok with you?
It isn't about tax evasion or good faith. It's a way to link productivity to company success. If stocks are high, they make more money, if they aren't they make less. Many companies have started doing similar things, as linking rewards to success is far more profitable for everyone. Shareholders benefit greatly, as the leadership has more invested in the company, so is more focused on its success. Paying someone a 500 million/yr salary with no difference if they do well or poorly leads to poor results. It's basic economics and psychology: proper motivation results in proper rewards.
No, it doesn't sound like an evil company. If anything, Google has held a very good history with their "do no evil" process. My fear is not of Google now. My fear is of Google in 10 years when the benevolent dictatorship realizes its power, and someone unscrupulous takes over. It is a reoccurring theme in history, and is likely to happen eventually. I just hope that their dominance does not encourage others to avoid the market.
Ironically, its not that you gravitate towards those of similar interest and mental capacities, necessarily, but more that circumstance has thrown you together with those that often times you must socially break free from (in order to find a more pregressive group) to advance yourself.
Actually, that's exactly what it is. People in most cases are likely to gravitate toward people with which they feel they can relate. Many people seek out traits in friends and peers in which they themselves hold, although maybe to a lesser degree. It is often the reflection of one's self that is so appealing, and which causes two individuals to find mutual interest in each other. In most people, breaking free will do no good as they will passively return to similar behavior which they find acceptable/self-serving. It's not some external force placing hardships on people, it is people's egotistical nature that causes them to seek out their own reflection.
Argh, I hate feeding the trolls... Anyway, meteorological data is very difficult to predict. Simple storms and weather patterns can easily be altered within a couple days time. The amount of influences on weather are enormous, and simple ideas such as the butterfly effect (not the movie) can create huge effects within a months time. Yes, the weather channel doesn't have the best success rate, but considering the number of molecules involved in weather fronts, our computers aren't exactly suited to the job yet, but simply do the best they can in giving ranges or a pattern existing in.
I know this was a joke, but I think there is a realistic reason for the "War Effort". In any MMORPG, since game items do not have any inherent value, and can be created infinitely, the economy eventually suffers. Money becomes more prevalent and as new items are found, less valuable. In order to control the cheapness and overabundance of items, they come up with ways for items to be taken out of the game, thereby returning value to items, and making 60's feel like their Hackmaster +5 is still worth it. This started in WoW with the cloth faction quests, and progressed to rid servers of near billions of items. Some servers took it more seriously than others, but essentially it has succeeded. Many of the items in the war effort have greatly increased in price, when beforehand they had nearly bottomed out.
Yes, 100,000 marched. But how does that pale to the other ~999,900,000. Some people are willing to stand up, but until many, MANY more are willing, the situation will stay the same. Marches rarely contain the majority of people, and often only the most radical. In a population with 1 billion people, 100,000 protesters is only ~0.01% of the people. Until more of them stand up for themselves (if that's even what they want), there's very little that can be done to change China.
I don't know if the parent was a troll or not, but it does reach a very important point. At this stage of technology and instant gratification, many parents simply think it's easier to plop their kids down in front of a box (tv, computer, etc) and hope that it will give them the education that the kid needs. This way parents still have time for their own lives. The problem is that without true interaction there is a serious inability for children to learn. A computer can only answer questions which it has been programmed to answer, and children will inevitably ask that which a computer cannot answer. I'm no parent, so I open myself up willingly to the onslaught of "You don't have kids so you shouldn't speak", but I do know that a lot of my friends in the Nintendo generation (me) would be a lot better off had their parents sat down and taught them interactively rather than dosing them up with Ritalin and leaving the tv/computer/video game to the teaching.
Actually they are doing this to save face. The reason it is being put out "early" is because someone else wrote a fix for it already. People apparently flowed to this other site for the patch, and people started wondering what the problem was. Here was a person who without the Windows source fixed the bug, while Microsoft itself with full access to the code was delaying. In order to save face they had to rapidly deploy it rather than sit on it as they normally do.
The GP didn't say MS only shops are dead. They said they are dwindling. There IS a swinging trend away from solitary vendors, whether you choose to admit it or not. Yes, plenty of people are still hiring MS based developers, but plenty of other shops are broadening their horizons. Before you go on a tirade about the slash-bots, expand a little bit. I've worked business, public, and academia. All of them are making significant shifts to be less dependent on MS, so don't generalize your experiences to the rest of the world; see what's out there first.
Once windows has booted maybe, but a LARGE percentage of networks don't block boot devices on their machines from being selected and active before a kernel boots.
Yes, because they got paid to develop it by IBM. However, they also did everything they could to sink it. See? They get paid to build it, they get to use the ideas to put into other Windows versions, and then they get to claim that actual competition existed at the time so as to look non-monopolistic. So what if they lost a bit in OS/2? They more than regained it through the marketing crush with 95.
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The problem is, rather than just weeding out the stupid, they are very likely to take someone driving appropriately out with them. Darwinian logic only keeps the species going, it has nothing to do with the intelligence of the species. Stupid people are more likely to breed, and more likely to kill other people. Sadly, intelligence is an endangered trait.
Apparently you don't get it. Not everyone in the world is like you. Is that so hard for people to grasp?
I'm not sure where you live, but I have yet to see 15/day car rentals. Additionally, I live in Alaska, so that should answer your public transportation comments.
This is only the 9th circuit of appeals, which has been known for their poor interpretation of law in the past. It is far from over, and very likely will make it to the supreme court. Honestly I am surprised that people wouldn't expect this from the 9th circuit court.
Well, a search on just Tiananmen shows some of the same pictures on page 5... http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen&svnum=1 0&hl=zh-CN&lr=&cr=countryCN&start=80&sa=N
I realize China is censoring (to a great extent), but perhaps some of it also has to do with the difference in culture. In the west, when we hear Tiananmen Square, we think massacre. There's a lot more to the square than that, and the Chinese have more reverance for it. However, pics posted by the Chinese are written in chinese, and so searching by english words won't neccessarily turn up the same thing. Searching in english will turn up the western view of Tiananman mostly, and little else.
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I get the point, and really don't know which is worse. A product that exists but has failed to reach the masses due to over geeking, or a product that doesn't exist but keeps the PHB's enthralled with its concept art. Either way, both are a cause for Microsoft's further dominance.
Micro$oft and their PR crew have been labeling every new product a _Insert_Opposing_Company_Here_ for years. Are we ever going to see these products or is it more "Wait and ours will be better" talk?
My apologies then =) So many seem to think that equality means someone else doing all the work.
Let me ask then, should a person who went to school (or training, or apprenticeship, etc) for 10 yrs, has specialized rare skills, and works 12 hrs a day get paid the same as someone who fresh out of high school digs ditches for 12 hrs a day? They work the same hours, but who is more easily replaced in the work force, and who spent more time preparing themselves for a future?
Yes, I do actually. I also believe that there are people who will take advantage of such systems, and therefore certain precautions should be taken to prevent that. Would you rather a system where working twice as hard results in you having to share half of your reward with the bum next door who watches T.V. all day? Or is getting rewarded for hard work ok with you?
It isn't about tax evasion or good faith. It's a way to link productivity to company success. If stocks are high, they make more money, if they aren't they make less. Many companies have started doing similar things, as linking rewards to success is far more profitable for everyone. Shareholders benefit greatly, as the leadership has more invested in the company, so is more focused on its success. Paying someone a 500 million/yr salary with no difference if they do well or poorly leads to poor results. It's basic economics and psychology: proper motivation results in proper rewards.
No, it doesn't sound like an evil company. If anything, Google has held a very good history with their "do no evil" process. My fear is not of Google now. My fear is of Google in 10 years when the benevolent dictatorship realizes its power, and someone unscrupulous takes over. It is a reoccurring theme in history, and is likely to happen eventually. I just hope that their dominance does not encourage others to avoid the market.
Ironically, its not that you gravitate towards those of similar interest and mental capacities, necessarily, but more that circumstance has thrown you together with those that often times you must socially break free from (in order to find a more pregressive group) to advance yourself.
Actually, that's exactly what it is. People in most cases are likely to gravitate toward people with which they feel they can relate. Many people seek out traits in friends and peers in which they themselves hold, although maybe to a lesser degree. It is often the reflection of one's self that is so appealing, and which causes two individuals to find mutual interest in each other. In most people, breaking free will do no good as they will passively return to similar behavior which they find acceptable/self-serving. It's not some external force placing hardships on people, it is people's egotistical nature that causes them to seek out their own reflection.
Argh, I hate feeding the trolls... Anyway, meteorological data is very difficult to predict. Simple storms and weather patterns can easily be altered within a couple days time. The amount of influences on weather are enormous, and simple ideas such as the butterfly effect (not the movie) can create huge effects within a months time. Yes, the weather channel doesn't have the best success rate, but considering the number of molecules involved in weather fronts, our computers aren't exactly suited to the job yet, but simply do the best they can in giving ranges or a pattern existing in.
So basically, porn is the solution to overpopulation.
I know this was a joke, but I think there is a realistic reason for the "War Effort". In any MMORPG, since game items do not have any inherent value, and can be created infinitely, the economy eventually suffers. Money becomes more prevalent and as new items are found, less valuable. In order to control the cheapness and overabundance of items, they come up with ways for items to be taken out of the game, thereby returning value to items, and making 60's feel like their Hackmaster +5 is still worth it. This started in WoW with the cloth faction quests, and progressed to rid servers of near billions of items. Some servers took it more seriously than others, but essentially it has succeeded. Many of the items in the war effort have greatly increased in price, when beforehand they had nearly bottomed out.
Yes, 100,000 marched. But how does that pale to the other ~999,900,000. Some people are willing to stand up, but until many, MANY more are willing, the situation will stay the same. Marches rarely contain the majority of people, and often only the most radical. In a population with 1 billion people, 100,000 protesters is only ~0.01% of the people. Until more of them stand up for themselves (if that's even what they want), there's very little that can be done to change China.
I don't know if the parent was a troll or not, but it does reach a very important point. At this stage of technology and instant gratification, many parents simply think it's easier to plop their kids down in front of a box (tv, computer, etc) and hope that it will give them the education that the kid needs. This way parents still have time for their own lives. The problem is that without true interaction there is a serious inability for children to learn. A computer can only answer questions which it has been programmed to answer, and children will inevitably ask that which a computer cannot answer. I'm no parent, so I open myself up willingly to the onslaught of "You don't have kids so you shouldn't speak", but I do know that a lot of my friends in the Nintendo generation (me) would be a lot better off had their parents sat down and taught them interactively rather than dosing them up with Ritalin and leaving the tv/computer/video game to the teaching.
Actually they are doing this to save face. The reason it is being put out "early" is because someone else wrote a fix for it already. People apparently flowed to this other site for the patch, and people started wondering what the problem was. Here was a person who without the Windows source fixed the bug, while Microsoft itself with full access to the code was delaying. In order to save face they had to rapidly deploy it rather than sit on it as they normally do.
The GP didn't say MS only shops are dead. They said they are dwindling. There IS a swinging trend away from solitary vendors, whether you choose to admit it or not. Yes, plenty of people are still hiring MS based developers, but plenty of other shops are broadening their horizons. Before you go on a tirade about the slash-bots, expand a little bit. I've worked business, public, and academia. All of them are making significant shifts to be less dependent on MS, so don't generalize your experiences to the rest of the world; see what's out there first.
Once windows has booted maybe, but a LARGE percentage of networks don't block boot devices on their machines from being selected and active before a kernel boots.
Yes, because they got paid to develop it by IBM. However, they also did everything they could to sink it. See? They get paid to build it, they get to use the ideas to put into other Windows versions, and then they get to claim that actual competition existed at the time so as to look non-monopolistic. So what if they lost a bit in OS/2? They more than regained it through the marketing crush with 95.