... I only needed it for less than an hour. I was able to sit next to a window and access a neighboring hotel's wifi to do my quick email check. Maybe someday they will grasp the concept that by charging a reasonable price they would get more sales, and thus overall make more money off of their wifi.
Or maybe one day people will be able to go more than a 1/2 day without a "quick email check" (or whatever they "need" to do online - all the time). Seriously people, learn to disconnect.
Guy who used to understand CPUs is amazed at how they've changed.
Ya, but, as several posters have pointed out, many of the things you mentioned, like vector instructions and virtualization *have* been around since the 1980s (and/or earlier) -- heck, I was a sysadmin at the NASA Langley Research Center in the mid-80s and worked on a Cray-2 (a vector processor system) and an Intel system with 1024 processors.
So either your CPU experience is *really* old or perhaps your CPU experience is more limited than you think rather than they have changed to the extent you think. Just sayin'... perhaps it's just mainstream / consumer CPUs that have changed quite a bit since then.
Tell you want, let the Republicans all live down stream of plants which have no EPA controls. I dare you. Go ahead, drink that water and tell us it's safe. Expose your children to it.
Ha, ha - silly poster. That's never going to happen. More that 50% of Congress are millionaires (many "multi") and don't live where *we* live. The same goes for heads of large (polluting) corporations. I'm pretty sure none of them are here on/.
You're obviously correct about everything else though. The EPA saves the rest of us from those that don't care about the environment. (Which is pretty much one of the big roles of Government in general.)
And I'd like to follow up by asking the Firefox developers if they can add something like a "Features" tab under (perhaps) "Tools->Add-ons" to allow users to easily en/disable the various (non web-browsing) Firefox features, like WebIDE, WebRTC, Marketplace, Social, Taskbar Lists, Geo, Beacon, UI Tour, yada, yada, yada... -- so I don't have to scan through "about:config" looking for new things ending in ".enabled" (and the like) to set to "false" with every new Firefox release. Thank you in advance.
... like WebIDE, Marketplace and the new "Tools->Apps" menu item - that I (and 99% of all other Desktop users) will probably *never* use, but can't easily remove from the menu; WebRTC (rooms or otherwise) etc... Crap, junk and bloat.
Isn't there a version of Firefox that simply supports, you know, Web Browsing?
In related news... Kids often know how to use something, but not how those things actually work. The two are not the same thing, even though they may think it is. TFS doesn't make a clear distinction as to which kind of literacy is at issue.
Why, those teachers may still think email is relevant. To a 15 year old, email might as well be the telegraph.
I doubt a 15 year old knows how either of those actually work, in addition to being clueless about whatever cool new thing they're using. The Curiosity Foo seems weak in this current generation.
Interesting that someone didnt like that - why didnt you like it? What was wrong with it? Are you unaware of the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland?...
This is/. so when wondering about some (many?) moderators / posters, one can simply stop with the question, "Are you unaware?" The world is a detailed and complex place and people here routinely comment and moderate without even really reading TFS, much less TFA, and (often?) without much direct information about the topic at hand. Alternatively, it seems easy -- way too easy -- to rub someone the wrong way by simply making one reference to a hot-button word like Democrat, Republican, Fox News, guns... and suffer a down moderation.
Sure, I'm sometimes (hopefully less than most) guilty of the the same thing, though I don't moderate.
Some people seem to have thin skins and no sense of humor about way too many things -- just ask the people at Charlie Hebdo magazine.
If someone else had discovered this theorem, it would have a different name -- unless there's an Indian named "Pythagoras" -- so checkmate Science Minister Harsh Vardhan.
Just in case folks would like to contact the CEO Christopher Sabec here is his info:
Christopher Sabec, CEO
Rightscorp, Inc.
3100 Donald Douglas Loop, North,
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Telephone: (310) 751-7510
P.S. I hear these guys draw offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad...
Subjective vs. objective value. Break down for me the objective benefits of art, vs. the objective benefits scientific research. It seems to me you are the one being obtuse.
Anything can have objective or subjective value (and/or measures of each) given the appropriate circumstances or frame of thinking and each type of value can be beneficial to the other. In other words, it's not a black/white issue, but many shades of gray.
The Government funds a lot of things that offend *someone* - my mother thinks grants that study oceanic algae blooms...
Do you consider a grant to study algae blooms to be a form of politicized artistic expression? No? Apples/Oranges.
No, duh, don't be an obtuse little dick. Government funding is Government funding. Some people object to it funding art, some science, etc... Political and religious beliefs are often the root cause of their objections, but we are a nation of *all* the people and, if the Government offers grants - for whatever purpose - and since the First Amendment exists, then those political and religious beliefs should not be a part of the grant consideration process.
Conservatives did try to murder the NEA [arts.gov] over that!
Actually, I believe they tried to stop the government from forcing people to pay for having such art made. Some people saw the creation of Piss Christ as being outside the role of the federal government. Crazy, I know.
The Government / NEA doesn't (usually) commission specific pieces of art, but rather gives grants to artists so they may pursue their craft (with some measure of freedom of expression). If we limit grants to only those artists that produce art pleasing to everyone, that offends no one, or simply placates the common denominator, than what does that gain us as a society?
The Government funds a lot of things that offend *someone* - my mother thinks grants that study oceanic algae blooms are a waste of money, despite the fact that about 70-80% of the world's oxygen comes from marine algae.
...not another Bennett Haselton partial-birth abortion of a story... This guy needs a new hobby, a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a willing farm animal, something to just get him to shut the fuck up!
New Girl/Boyfriend? Perhaps someone could ship him a blow-up doll - or stuffed animal; I hear the Post Office has this easy Click-n-Ship site for Flat-Rate boxes...
... I have shipped many, many boxes over several years, both USPS Flat-Rate and my own, via Click-n-Ship w/Postage paid via CC w/o any trouble. (and I always keep a small stack of Flat-Rate boxes at home, so I always know which one I need...)
In all that time, I've only had one problem during transit of a "used my own" box (that I had simply dropped off at the Post Office) in that the website calculated the online discount correctly and the live mail handler at the processing center didn't and the package was returned. Taking that package back to the Post Office and talking with someone behind the counter got that cleared up and the package re-shipped correctly.
The reviewer has some valid complaints about using the site, but is, perhaps, also an idiot.
Clapper lid to Congress under oath. What are the odds he'll tell the truth at a random conference?
I don't feel like looking it up, but I'm fairly sure I remember news stories about the FBI lying as well. (To the FISA court? I forget.) Anyway, their word is meaningless. They are without honor.
"Clapper emphasized Kim's belligerence and lack of a sense of humor, implying that an advance screening of "The Interview" would likely have enraged and provoked the North Korean brass."
Well FUCK ME: if Kim Yong Chol can't take a little "jokey-joke" then obviously it was DPRK who stole the cookies from the cookie jar!
On the other hand, *some* people have no sense of humor when it comes to jokes/comics about The Prophet (or ISIS leaders) - even though there's no prohibition actually in the Quran (according to Wikipedia). Even *if* the gunmen who killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo the other day hadn't yelled, "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad," most people would have instantly assumed the gunmen were Muslim extremists and been correct.
Sometimes ducks actually walk and talk like ducks.
Yes you can. You can argue with pretty much everything Norquist says, because he is an idiot who thinks the world would be a better place if there were no government.
Well... it would be better - for him and other rich people / corporations that can simply pay (or pay off) for what ever they want, and be able to shirk any semblance of social (or environmental) responsibility. As for the poor and middle-class - not so much.
I have no idea how common VME developers are, but when dealing with legacy systems you do have to worry about being able to find qualified people to work on your software. Not only are the skills rare, but most people are going to be wary about pigeon-holing their career by focusing on such a obscure system. You will either have to rely on sub-par employees or pay well over market rates.
These days, I'd take more job security over "over market rate" salary and fancy perks. As long as I can pay my bills, the work is fairly interesting, my teammates and managers actually appreciate me and value my skill set - and I'm not micro-managed to death, I'd be happy to pick up some VME skills.
I don't consider myself a "low quality" employee, I just don't have fancy tastes or a tech-toy habit to feed (nor do I have kids). Now 51, I have always lived responsibly, am debt-free (with enough savings/investments to survive another 60+ years w/o a job - not counting SSI). I currently work for a large defense contractor on a three-person team using about 10 programming languages for about 500k lines of code on both Windows and Unix/Linux systems. I have previously worked for the NYT and at NASA.
Overly highly paid and/or low quality workers are not the only options - for many jobs.
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So where can I buy 900 foot runs of cable that have the ends already on them that I can fish through conduit easily?
Monster Cable - and they're made with gold for extra data clarity.
... I only needed it for less than an hour. I was able to sit next to a window and access a neighboring hotel's wifi to do my quick email check. Maybe someday they will grasp the concept that by charging a reasonable price they would get more sales, and thus overall make more money off of their wifi.
Or maybe one day people will be able to go more than a 1/2 day without a "quick email check" (or whatever they "need" to do online - all the time). Seriously people, learn to disconnect.
They have stopped their illegal blockage, in part because of public backlash and in part because the government told them they were criminals.
(1) The Government telling a large corporation it's behaving badly toward regular people and (2) that corporation caring - that's adorable.
Guy who used to understand CPUs is amazed at how they've changed.
Ya, but, as several posters have pointed out, many of the things you mentioned, like vector instructions and virtualization *have* been around since the 1980s (and/or earlier) -- heck, I was a sysadmin at the NASA Langley Research Center in the mid-80s and worked on a Cray-2 (a vector processor system) and an Intel system with 1024 processors.
So either your CPU experience is *really* old or perhaps your CPU experience is more limited than you think rather than they have changed to the extent you think. Just sayin' ... perhaps it's just mainstream / consumer CPUs that have changed quite a bit since then.
Guy who doesn't understand how CPUs work amazed about how CPUs work. /thread
I expected a long rant from TdR. I was disappointed.
He had write permission on the email so his rant couldn't execute.
Tell you want, let the Republicans all live down stream of plants which have no EPA controls. I dare you. Go ahead, drink that water and tell us it's safe. Expose your children to it.
Ha, ha - silly poster. That's never going to happen. More that 50% of Congress are millionaires (many "multi") and don't live where *we* live. The same goes for heads of large (polluting) corporations. I'm pretty sure none of them are here on /.
You're obviously correct about everything else though. The EPA saves the rest of us from those that don't care about the environment. (Which is pretty much one of the big roles of Government in general.)
And I'd like to follow up by asking the Firefox developers if they can add something like a "Features" tab under (perhaps) "Tools->Add-ons" to allow users to easily en/disable the various (non web-browsing) Firefox features, like WebIDE, WebRTC, Marketplace, Social, Taskbar Lists, Geo, Beacon, UI Tour, yada, yada, yada... -- so I don't have to scan through "about:config" looking for new things ending in ".enabled" (and the like) to set to "false" with every new Firefox release. Thank you in advance.
Isn't there a version of Firefox that simply supports, you know, Web Browsing?
I'm not sure if your spelling-fu is weak, or if you just don't know what the etymology of "[concept]-fu" is.
Nope. You're (obviously) correct. I got distracted while exercising my weak typing-fu and clicked straight through Preview / Submit - sigh.
In related news... Kids often know how to use something, but not how those things actually work. The two are not the same thing, even though they may think it is. TFS doesn't make a clear distinction as to which kind of literacy is at issue.
Why, those teachers may still think email is relevant. To a 15 year old, email might as well be the telegraph.
I doubt a 15 year old knows how either of those actually work, in addition to being clueless about whatever cool new thing they're using. The Curiosity Foo seems weak in this current generation.
Interesting that someone didnt like that - why didnt you like it? What was wrong with it? Are you unaware of the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland? ...
This is /. so when wondering about some (many?) moderators / posters, one can simply stop with the question, "Are you unaware?" The world is a detailed and complex place and people here routinely comment and moderate without even really reading TFS, much less TFA, and (often?) without much direct information about the topic at hand. Alternatively, it seems easy -- way too easy -- to rub someone the wrong way by simply making one reference to a hot-button word like Democrat, Republican, Fox News, guns ... and suffer a down moderation.
Sure, I'm sometimes (hopefully less than most) guilty of the the same thing, though I don't moderate.
Some people seem to have thin skins and no sense of humor about way too many things -- just ask the people at Charlie Hebdo magazine.
Why might tech zillionaires choose to fund life extension research? ... First, if you had that much money wouldn't you want to live longer to enjoy it?
Or one could ask if, perhaps, they have more than enough for one lifetime and concentrate on other things.
If someone else had discovered this theorem, it would have a different name -- unless there's an Indian named "Pythagoras" -- so checkmate Science Minister Harsh Vardhan.
Just in case folks would like to contact the CEO Christopher Sabec here is his info:
Christopher Sabec, CEO
Rightscorp, Inc.
3100 Donald Douglas Loop, North,
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Telephone: (310) 751-7510
P.S. I hear these guys draw offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad...
Subjective vs. objective value. Break down for me the objective benefits of art, vs. the objective benefits scientific research. It seems to me you are the one being obtuse.
Anything can have objective or subjective value (and/or measures of each) given the appropriate circumstances or frame of thinking and each type of value can be beneficial to the other. In other words, it's not a black/white issue, but many shades of gray.
The Government funds a lot of things that offend *someone* - my mother thinks grants that study oceanic algae blooms...
Do you consider a grant to study algae blooms to be a form of politicized artistic expression? No? Apples/Oranges.
No, duh, don't be an obtuse little dick. Government funding is Government funding. Some people object to it funding art, some science, etc... Political and religious beliefs are often the root cause of their objections, but we are a nation of *all* the people and, if the Government offers grants - for whatever purpose - and since the First Amendment exists, then those political and religious beliefs should not be a part of the grant consideration process.
Conservatives did try to murder the NEA [arts.gov] over that!
Actually, I believe they tried to stop the government from forcing people to pay for having such art made. Some people saw the creation of Piss Christ as being outside the role of the federal government. Crazy, I know.
The Government / NEA doesn't (usually) commission specific pieces of art, but rather gives grants to artists so they may pursue their craft (with some measure of freedom of expression). If we limit grants to only those artists that produce art pleasing to everyone, that offends no one, or simply placates the common denominator, than what does that gain us as a society?
The Government funds a lot of things that offend *someone* - my mother thinks grants that study oceanic algae blooms are a waste of money, despite the fact that about 70-80% of the world's oxygen comes from marine algae.
Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving.
Since Putin apparently likes to ride around half-naked on horse-back?
...not another Bennett Haselton partial-birth abortion of a story... This guy needs a new hobby, a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a willing farm animal, something to just get him to shut the fuck up!
New Girl/Boyfriend? Perhaps someone could ship him a blow-up doll - or stuffed animal; I hear the Post Office has this easy Click-n-Ship site for Flat-Rate boxes...
In all that time, I've only had one problem during transit of a "used my own" box (that I had simply dropped off at the Post Office) in that the website calculated the online discount correctly and the live mail handler at the processing center didn't and the package was returned. Taking that package back to the Post Office and talking with someone behind the counter got that cleared up and the package re-shipped correctly.
The reviewer has some valid complaints about using the site, but is, perhaps, also an idiot.
Clapper lid to Congress under oath. What are the odds he'll tell the truth at a random conference?
I don't feel like looking it up, but I'm fairly sure I remember news stories about the FBI lying as well. (To the FISA court? I forget.) Anyway, their word is meaningless. They are without honor.
"Everyone lies" - Gregory House
"Clapper emphasized Kim's belligerence and lack of a sense of humor, implying that an advance screening of "The Interview" would likely have enraged and provoked the North Korean brass."
Well FUCK ME: if Kim Yong Chol can't take a little "jokey-joke" then obviously it was DPRK who stole the cookies from the cookie jar!
On the other hand, *some* people have no sense of humor when it comes to jokes/comics about The Prophet (or ISIS leaders) - even though there's no prohibition actually in the Quran (according to Wikipedia). Even *if* the gunmen who killed 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo the other day hadn't yelled, "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad," most people would have instantly assumed the gunmen were Muslim extremists and been correct.
Sometimes ducks actually walk and talk like ducks.
Yes you can. You can argue with pretty much everything Norquist says, because he is an idiot who thinks the world would be a better place if there were no government.
Well... it would be better - for him and other rich people / corporations that can simply pay (or pay off) for what ever they want, and be able to shirk any semblance of social (or environmental) responsibility. As for the poor and middle-class - not so much.
I have no idea how common VME developers are, but when dealing with legacy systems you do have to worry about being able to find qualified people to work on your software. Not only are the skills rare, but most people are going to be wary about pigeon-holing their career by focusing on such a obscure system. You will either have to rely on sub-par employees or pay well over market rates.
These days, I'd take more job security over "over market rate" salary and fancy perks. As long as I can pay my bills, the work is fairly interesting, my teammates and managers actually appreciate me and value my skill set - and I'm not micro-managed to death, I'd be happy to pick up some VME skills.
I don't consider myself a "low quality" employee, I just don't have fancy tastes or a tech-toy habit to feed (nor do I have kids). Now 51, I have always lived responsibly, am debt-free (with enough savings/investments to survive another 60+ years w/o a job - not counting SSI). I currently work for a large defense contractor on a three-person team using about 10 programming languages for about 500k lines of code on both Windows and Unix/Linux systems. I have previously worked for the NYT and at NASA.
Overly highly paid and/or low quality workers are not the only options - for many jobs.