Firstly, the remaining members of Pink Floyd have already stated, as a result of the problems with thier last reunion show because one or more members are nuts, that they will never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, ever play together again. That may be typical rockstar hyperbole, but I think it hurts you idea a little.:(
As for greed drving the industry, greed drives every industry. No business stays in business by refusing to sell people what they want so they can sell epople what they don't want. Why shouldn't McDonalds just drop the Big Mac and replace it with a sack of blood, some poople would really love "independent" food like that. I guess they could always keep the Big Mac and leave sacks of blood to some smaller business whose market share is more in line with the demand for their product.
Maybe he did know, but was far more concerned with making BILLIONS of dollars. I may not like my bosses business practices sometimes, but I will say one thing, if I'm so smart why aren't I king?
Flamebait?
Saying that government oppression breads resentment and and polarized nation while open discussion allows people to choose for themselves is flamebait? Mentioing that that very oppression in France lead to an entire population of immigrants to France that have no interest in "being french" which leads to their alienation and very recently a multiple day long riot between the french and their minority population is flamebait?
Free speach = good, oppression = bad.
If a world of people are going to call you evil no matter what you do why not just run with it? If MS supports open source it's obviously a plot, they donate money to charity it's a conspiracy; if the notion is they have no altruistic means, what sense does it make for them not to just all they can out of the dark side?
I wish you could be modded even higher than five. Everyone's reply seems to be that there's no point or abbility to write secure windows code becasue windows is insecure. Just because a system is vulnerable doesn't mean you can't make an effort not to provide any extra holes.
If someone wants to attach your padlock to their paper door that's their problem, that's no excuse for you to build a padlock that can't be closed.
I couldn't agree more. During the summer I break out my 89' Camaro because it makes me feel cool and it's fun to drive. It also gets 22mpg max. My girlfriend recently bought a Toyota Carolla that gets great gas milage, I still use less gas then she does.
Why>
I ride the bus.
I consolodate trips together.
I don't ride the gas
I avoid rush hour traffic whenever possible
Buying green is great if you have the money, acting green is a great start for everyone else.
There are some who would suggest that people have already paid for classic Warner Brothers television. When the show was originally made the studio recieved money and everyone had to watch ads. The studios have already profited from the crap they made in the 70s and 80s, that's what got them where they are today.
So let's recap:
They aren't paying to produce the shows
They aren't paying to broadcast the shows(bandwidth)
They aren't manufacturing anything to transport the shows(DVDs)
If it wasn't a system being designed to exploit viewers the most they'd need to pay for is encoding the episodes and starting the ball rolling.
Furthermore, isn't getting mad at people for removing the commercials like yelling at someone if they change the channel to avoid them on TV? There should be a law.
To be fair, AMD is proud of helping spy on it's citizens more efficiently and we can all be proud of increased productivity.
If that wasn't funny maybe it was insightful?
Direct organized skewing of an election by a single person would be hard. Say if the Nader wanted to win he'd be burning the midnight oil to get all the schemeing done to organize that election. However, most voting corrcuption isn't done on that level, atleast not in America. It's students who vote twice, once at home and one at school. It's felons and those who vote without citizenship, or vote multiple times under assumed names. These people haven't revceived the call from their party, they're working independently to skew the results, and no computer safeguard will stop that.
Sadly my jaded mind couldn't look beyond a devious conspiracy theory.
You'd think it would be simple enough to write software that's just a gui and some functions to put +1 to various values but simplicity does not imply correctness especially when large corporations are invovled. If I get another defective inanimate carbon rod I'll be very upset.
We have dozens if not hundreds of political parties, it's not a failure of democracy if the majority of votes go to two of them. That the votes go to them because they're the best funded is a shame, but the people choose how they do.
It's interesting that you'd bring up the popular vote. America uses the popular vote for everything except the election of the president, and if Mexico has any equivilent to Wyoming, or for that matter, anything that isn't urban sprawl, I bet they'd wish you did the same.
Studies show that the human body never fully adjusts to working graveyard shift jobs and the entire point of time zones and daylight savings time is because most people are set at waking and sleeping a generally set times that are set to correspond to our natural relation with day and night. THat's the entire logic behind daylight savings time which is another "crazy scheme" that you'd have us get rid of even though it's been shown to cut energy expenditures in America. Being ignorant of the purpose and value of a system does not make you insightful.
I'd disagree. As someone who takes apart TV's for a living, as long as you unplug it and give the capacitors a few days to drain there's nothing of danger in a TV beyond leaded glass. Even if you don't let it sit for a few days the worst thing you'r generally risking is a breif stinging shock.
That comment is as insightful as it is poorly stated.
1) Every ISP that I've seen for home use offers you 1 IP address and you can pay for more, so before you run rampent on him like a five year old who hasn't taken his meds consider that what he suggests is a very real possibility given the current situation and the way that businesses of any kind like to make money any way they can.
2) Yes, he can still use NAT but I thought the whole point of going to IPv6 was to get away from NAT. If he's going to have to deal with the problems it causes why should he also have to deal with having to buy a new IPv6 compatible router to do it? The point everyone is getting here is why should we switch to IPv6, and if the purpose of switching is so that we cna have a giant pain in the ass and then use all the same pains in the ass that we were before that's not much of a reason to switch.
I take back my former statement, you post was not only poorly stated, but poorly thought out. Good job addressing his concern in a realistic and insightful fasion or at least replying in a civil manner.
If people don't test well one would hope that at some point in their life they'd come to the realization that they don't test well and stop expecting that they did a great job on it. It's not about abilities vs abilities communicated by a test, it's about abilities communicated by a test vs how well you think your abilities are communicated by a test. I'm not saying people should always know the right answers, but I do think that they should be able to recognize when they don't know the answer. That's what I was trying to get at with my last comments. The topic is how well people think they do, and while that can be skewed by testing them on a completely broken scale, it's a flaw inherent in the scale, not in trying to test what difference there is between expectations and reality. When testing for that one would hope they looked at situations which were not broken when they reach their conclusion that people cannot accurately judge their own performance.
Overthrowing an opressive military dictatorship bent on maintianing it's stranglehold on power at all costs is a little harder than overthrowing a more generrally coroupt governemnt. Somehow I think America would tend to be the latter if it ever came down to it.
The "right" to overthrow the government is not a constitutional right, a legal right, or any kind of recognized right for that matter. Trying to overthrow the governemnt or helping others do it is clearly defined in the constituation however as "treason".
The Declaration of Independence states that you have the right to "alter or abolish" a government if it works against the interest of the "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" but only for the purpose of instituting a better government more able to meeet the needs of the people.
Point being, no where in here does it suggest an armed overthrow of the governemnt. It says that if things aren't working out, change them. I don't think that the framers of the constituation had forgotten about that, and that's why they put into place a lovely system for changing the governance of our nation, as well as putting a specific line against doing it by force.
As a sibling poster said, change in America is about politics, not about war in the streets.
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One could say it's ok because we didn't sign the treaty.
One could say it's ok because Fallujah was a military target.
One could say it's ok becasue the phosphorous was not intended to burn humans, but instead to illuminate the battlefeild.
Is it good that people are getting burned by fire from the sky? No. Very few people would ever try to make that argument.
Is it anything more ghastly or a greater crime against humanity than anything else that happens in war and thus subject to incredible moral outrage like I get the impression you think it is? Not really. Wars kill, and those deaths are about as politically defensable as any other civilian casaulties.
It would be a step in the right direction, but sadly all it takes is someone saying "Allow this program to explicitly alter your OS or you can't get your desktop calander with free Bonzai Buddy" and people would still let it infect them time and again.
Education is the key, and even with a new generation of people who grew up in the age of computers it's still not there. People don't understand why you can't just blindly install everything in the world and expect every code writer to play fairly. That's why bundled software works, that's why phishing works, and that's why even those stupid Nigerian emails still work.
Seek other opinions. If a doctor confidently told you that chopping off your legg was the only way cure your baldness you'd probably be out the door before he finished his sentence. If Captain Cocky's (every workplace has one) doesn't sit well it's entirely possible he's making it up as he goes along.
Or, worse case scenario you get your nuts in a vice and learn never to listen to that person again.
What about people who recieve performance reviews based on the same standards every quarter, or multiple tests with the same format? What about epople who are told what their tests or reviews will be based on?
I think it's a bit off to say that people have no concept of what they'll be rated on. Anyone working in any profession should have some grasp of what's expected of them by their superiors and if they don't waiting until they get a poor performance review isn't the best idea.
There can certainly be flaws in these rating scales, but those exist regardless of the subjects expectations. If Student/Worker thinks that they did well, they should think they did well by the standards they're being judged on.
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Not always, but when we're discussing successful business practice it certainly doesn't count against him.
Firstly, the remaining members of Pink Floyd have already stated, as a result of the problems with thier last reunion show because one or more members are nuts, that they will never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, ever play together again. That may be typical rockstar hyperbole, but I think it hurts you idea a little. :(
As for greed drving the industry, greed drives every industry. No business stays in business by refusing to sell people what they want so they can sell epople what they don't want. Why shouldn't McDonalds just drop the Big Mac and replace it with a sack of blood, some poople would really love "independent" food like that. I guess they could always keep the Big Mac and leave sacks of blood to some smaller business whose market share is more in line with the demand for their product.
Maybe he did know, but was far more concerned with making BILLIONS of dollars. I may not like my bosses business practices sometimes, but I will say one thing, if I'm so smart why aren't I king?
Flamebait? Saying that government oppression breads resentment and and polarized nation while open discussion allows people to choose for themselves is flamebait? Mentioing that that very oppression in France lead to an entire population of immigrants to France that have no interest in "being french" which leads to their alienation and very recently a multiple day long riot between the french and their minority population is flamebait? Free speach = good, oppression = bad.
If a world of people are going to call you evil no matter what you do why not just run with it? If MS supports open source it's obviously a plot, they donate money to charity it's a conspiracy; if the notion is they have no altruistic means, what sense does it make for them not to just all they can out of the dark side?
I wish you could be modded even higher than five. Everyone's reply seems to be that there's no point or abbility to write secure windows code becasue windows is insecure. Just because a system is vulnerable doesn't mean you can't make an effort not to provide any extra holes.
If someone wants to attach your padlock to their paper door that's their problem, that's no excuse for you to build a padlock that can't be closed.
I couldn't agree more. During the summer I break out my 89' Camaro because it makes me feel cool and it's fun to drive. It also gets 22mpg max. My girlfriend recently bought a Toyota Carolla that gets great gas milage, I still use less gas then she does.
Why>
I ride the bus.
I consolodate trips together.
I don't ride the gas
I avoid rush hour traffic whenever possible
Buying green is great if you have the money, acting green is a great start for everyone else.
There are some who would suggest that people have already paid for classic Warner Brothers television. When the show was originally made the studio recieved money and everyone had to watch ads. The studios have already profited from the crap they made in the 70s and 80s, that's what got them where they are today.
So let's recap:
They aren't paying to produce the shows
They aren't paying to broadcast the shows(bandwidth)
They aren't manufacturing anything to transport the shows(DVDs)
If it wasn't a system being designed to exploit viewers the most they'd need to pay for is encoding the episodes and starting the ball rolling.
Furthermore, isn't getting mad at people for removing the commercials like yelling at someone if they change the channel to avoid them on TV? There should be a law.
To be fair, AMD is proud of helping spy on it's citizens more efficiently and we can all be proud of increased productivity. If that wasn't funny maybe it was insightful?
Direct organized skewing of an election by a single person would be hard. Say if the Nader wanted to win he'd be burning the midnight oil to get all the schemeing done to organize that election. However, most voting corrcuption isn't done on that level, atleast not in America. It's students who vote twice, once at home and one at school. It's felons and those who vote without citizenship, or vote multiple times under assumed names. These people haven't revceived the call from their party, they're working independently to skew the results, and no computer safeguard will stop that.
Sadly my jaded mind couldn't look beyond a devious conspiracy theory.
You'd think it would be simple enough to write software that's just a gui and some functions to put +1 to various values but simplicity does not imply correctness especially when large corporations are invovled. If I get another defective inanimate carbon rod I'll be very upset.
We have dozens if not hundreds of political parties, it's not a failure of democracy if the majority of votes go to two of them. That the votes go to them because they're the best funded is a shame, but the people choose how they do.
It's interesting that you'd bring up the popular vote. America uses the popular vote for everything except the election of the president, and if Mexico has any equivilent to Wyoming, or for that matter, anything that isn't urban sprawl, I bet they'd wish you did the same.
Good point, then the only people who can screw with the system are corrupt poll workers and ballot counters rather than corrupt software programmers.
Not to mention the corrupt voters in either scenario.
No! No! This is not insightful.
Studies show that the human body never fully adjusts to working graveyard shift jobs and the entire point of time zones and daylight savings time is because most people are set at waking and sleeping a generally set times that are set to correspond to our natural relation with day and night. THat's the entire logic behind daylight savings time which is another "crazy scheme" that you'd have us get rid of even though it's been shown to cut energy expenditures in America. Being ignorant of the purpose and value of a system does not make you insightful.
I'd disagree. As someone who takes apart TV's for a living, as long as you unplug it and give the capacitors a few days to drain there's nothing of danger in a TV beyond leaded glass. Even if you don't let it sit for a few days the worst thing you'r generally risking is a breif stinging shock.
I'd mod you up if I could. The stupidity of criminals is the problem here, and the desire for people to blame someone else.
That comment is as insightful as it is poorly stated.
1) Every ISP that I've seen for home use offers you 1 IP address and you can pay for more, so before you run rampent on him like a five year old who hasn't taken his meds consider that what he suggests is a very real possibility given the current situation and the way that businesses of any kind like to make money any way they can.
2) Yes, he can still use NAT but I thought the whole point of going to IPv6 was to get away from NAT. If he's going to have to deal with the problems it causes why should he also have to deal with having to buy a new IPv6 compatible router to do it? The point everyone is getting here is why should we switch to IPv6, and if the purpose of switching is so that we cna have a giant pain in the ass and then use all the same pains in the ass that we were before that's not much of a reason to switch.
I take back my former statement, you post was not only poorly stated, but poorly thought out. Good job addressing his concern in a realistic and insightful fasion or at least replying in a civil manner.
If people don't test well one would hope that at some point in their life they'd come to the realization that they don't test well and stop expecting that they did a great job on it. It's not about abilities vs abilities communicated by a test, it's about abilities communicated by a test vs how well you think your abilities are communicated by a test. I'm not saying people should always know the right answers, but I do think that they should be able to recognize when they don't know the answer. That's what I was trying to get at with my last comments. The topic is how well people think they do, and while that can be skewed by testing them on a completely broken scale, it's a flaw inherent in the scale, not in trying to test what difference there is between expectations and reality. When testing for that one would hope they looked at situations which were not broken when they reach their conclusion that people cannot accurately judge their own performance.
Overthrowing an opressive military dictatorship bent on maintianing it's stranglehold on power at all costs is a little harder than overthrowing a more generrally coroupt governemnt. Somehow I think America would tend to be the latter if it ever came down to it.
The "right" to overthrow the government is not a constitutional right, a legal right, or any kind of recognized right for that matter. Trying to overthrow the governemnt or helping others do it is clearly defined in the constituation however as "treason". The Declaration of Independence states that you have the right to "alter or abolish" a government if it works against the interest of the "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" but only for the purpose of instituting a better government more able to meeet the needs of the people.
Point being, no where in here does it suggest an armed overthrow of the governemnt. It says that if things aren't working out, change them. I don't think that the framers of the constituation had forgotten about that, and that's why they put into place a lovely system for changing the governance of our nation, as well as putting a specific line against doing it by force.
As a sibling poster said, change in America is about politics, not about war in the streets.
One could say it's ok because we didn't sign the treaty.
One could say it's ok because Fallujah was a military target.
One could say it's ok becasue the phosphorous was not intended to burn humans, but instead to illuminate the battlefeild.
Is it good that people are getting burned by fire from the sky? No. Very few people would ever try to make that argument.
Is it anything more ghastly or a greater crime against humanity than anything else that happens in war and thus subject to incredible moral outrage like I get the impression you think it is? Not really. Wars kill, and those deaths are about as politically defensable as any other civilian casaulties.
I thought it was funny, apparently the mods don't.
It would be a step in the right direction, but sadly all it takes is someone saying "Allow this program to explicitly alter your OS or you can't get your desktop calander with free Bonzai Buddy" and people would still let it infect them time and again.
Education is the key, and even with a new generation of people who grew up in the age of computers it's still not there. People don't understand why you can't just blindly install everything in the world and expect every code writer to play fairly. That's why bundled software works, that's why phishing works, and that's why even those stupid Nigerian emails still work.
Seek other opinions. If a doctor confidently told you that chopping off your legg was the only way cure your baldness you'd probably be out the door before he finished his sentence. If Captain Cocky's (every workplace has one) doesn't sit well it's entirely possible he's making it up as he goes along. Or, worse case scenario you get your nuts in a vice and learn never to listen to that person again.
What about people who recieve performance reviews based on the same standards every quarter, or multiple tests with the same format? What about epople who are told what their tests or reviews will be based on?
I think it's a bit off to say that people have no concept of what they'll be rated on. Anyone working in any profession should have some grasp of what's expected of them by their superiors and if they don't waiting until they get a poor performance review isn't the best idea.
There can certainly be flaws in these rating scales, but those exist regardless of the subjects expectations. If Student/Worker thinks that they did well, they should think they did well by the standards they're being judged on.