What it causes, directly, is insider trading. Proponents of heavy stock option compensation as opposed to heavy cash compensation are criminals, and should be treated as such.
The Daily Show is satirical comedy. They never once claimed to be journalists. Only comedy writers. The mistake is made by seemingly everyone BUT them, who wish to pin the "journalist" label on Jon Stewart and company, because they actually do tell the truth. And evidently that's rare enough to make the claim that comedians are now journalists *palatable to otherwise rational people*.
"I call BS on that. If that was the case you wouldn't have insulted your parent poster by saying:
"you probably just have sour grapes because you can't afford one on a dell helpdesk salary.""
Actually I typed that last line specifically to make a point, and here it is, since it's become evident that it went entirely misunderstood:
It's one thing to decide that you're not going to buy something because of whatever reason you like. It is something else entirely to come all up in MY face and imply that I'm foolish, or an idiot, or some sort of ego-freak because of my choice of computational equipment. The first one is something that any reasonable person does throughout their day. The second is only something that someone who is most ironically foolish, stupid, or possessing an ego clearly far larger than mine, does.
It was an object lesson, get it? The meaning of my sentence was commentary on the argument used in the message to which I was responding.
As much as I try, friend, I cannot seem to feel this "freedom being lost", because I cannot make my ipad play WebM. I cannot make it play blu-ray disks either, which also seems to affect my feeling of "freedom" in no way whatsoever.
And I gave up administering "real computers" ages ago in favor of a higher salary and a much more interesting job. What a high holy pain in the ass THAT was.
And lastly, I don't actually flaunt my ipad, because I live in the middle of New York City and I don't want it stolen. I keep it to myself, except at work and at the coffeeshop near my apartment, where I have been known to break it out occasionally and play with Wolfram Alpha. And figure this out: I still adore it, despite not flaunting it everywhere I go. Because I didn't get it to make people feel bad, friend. I got it because I really, really like them.
I'm sorry if my motivation doesn't fit the character of the cut of the jib you seem to be laying on me, but maybe this is a good opportunity for you to "think different".
Bahah. I see what I did there.
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Did you want to keep pointlessly whining or did you want to simply go and use something that's more suited to your needs?
I am a network security professional who has been in the field for about 20 years. I own Apple equipment specifically because after 20 years, here is what I want:
No more goddamn hassles. I'm tired of tweaking. I'm tired of having to think about that sort of thing in my spare time. Life is short, and I'd much rather spend as much of it as possible with as few headaches as possible. Which is why I recently replaced my laptop with an ipad. No foolin'. And I use it for pretty advanced stuff, too. AND I'm one of those people who just want my gadgets to work together well.
Right now, despite the kneejerk reaction of people who don't actually own any apple equipment, my ipad is loaded with pornography, mostly from the hardcore likes of kink.com and environs. More than half the videos on my ipad have no DRM, because I pirated them. Or I ripped them from other media via open source applications under OS X.
Without any problems at all.
So, to tally up, from my own direct experience:
You can have all the non-DRM, pirated goodness on an ipad or iphone that you want. You can be a computer super-geek and even a guru to some and still actually enjoy Apple equipment and software. You can look at all the porn you like on your Apple devices. And if you really care that much about what *I* choose to use for *MY* own enjoyment, you probably just have sour grapes because you can't afford one on a dell helpdesk salary.
Also, don't worry too much. Here in NYC (my family has a long history of working in restoration in a number of NYC museums) the Guggenheim isn't really taken terribly seriously, and really hasn't been since a certain musician famously intoned upon its completion: "Christ, it looks like a giant toilet!".
For a higher consistent caliber of a similar kind of media and form, check out the Whitney. Maybe they'll do a deal with Vimeo.
It is true actually, but your problem is that you're spoiled. You want Apple to make precisely the device that YOU want, rather than go buy something else that more closely matches your needs.
It seems to me that really what the whiners and complainers want is for a company besides Apple to meet the same design and build standards that Apple does with their physical gear. You should ask yourselves why such a company doesn't exist.
Indeed. It is absolutely true that Microsoft has among the most active security engineering and architecture departments in the world. But the implication is actually (as it almost always is) precisely the opposite of Microsoft's spin.
Where's the argument? Your needs are clearly met by a number of devices that are not made by Apple, and I never quite understood why this argument exists at all. Are you trying to say that Apple has an ethical obligation to make the exact device that YOU want?
Yeah, it is what I want. I've been doing comp/net security for twenty years. I don't want to "fiddle" with things anymore. I just want them to work, and stay the hell out of my way when they do so.
It's awesome that you haven't hit the point in your life that I've hit in mine yet... the point where you're just tired of compiling kernels, writing wrappers and patches to make things work the way you want, etc... the point where you want your computational device to quietly cough up its functionality without wrestling it's user into an inescapable web-of-tweaks, but it would be more awesome if you tried very hard not to poo poo those of us who participated joyously on the front lines of GPL and other, better open source licenses, but who now really just want to see some tits and go have a sandwich.
At least when St. Elsewhere ended, we were left with a series of wonderful performances and truly creative plots and characters, even if in the end it was all some autistic kid's fantasy.
This time we don't get anything. And seriously, how many times did the writers/producers swear up and down that they werent all dead, that the island wasnt purgatory, that they werent pulling those cheap, easy outs.
The only possible way that you could seriously posit that Java is no worse at multithreading than anything else is if you've never actually used anything else in any kind of meaningful way.
Java's intrinsic implementation of multithreading is one of hard mutual exclusion, which is awesome in a few ways, but really crappy if portability is your goal. Which it isn't, anymore, as I covered in my first post. The best thing that anyone can possibly say about Java's intrinsic multithread support is that it's very, very easy to implement.
And that seems to be the clarion call for the "best languages" these days. See the popularity of VB and.NET for details.
Since no one and their uncle is using Java for its portability anymore (maybe the nice folks at Limewire still are), and since Java is so piss-poor at multithreading that even with books hardly anyone is willing to attempt it...
It's beyond me why people don't just use a different damn language. I lost my objectivity on this years ago; is Java ridiculously easy to learn for the kids these days or something? Is it like Pascal for the new millenium? I think I'd rather try to make Pascal thread properly than Java, frankly.
I did get a job without my credentials-- my very first serious one in the tech field, which was doing technical support for BSDi.
I didn't know anything about unix, or really anything about computers. I'd been evicted from my apartment and things were looking grim. I lied on my resume and landed the job with my magnetic personality.
After which I had about two weeks to fake out my employers and learn enough of the subject to get a foothold--- which I did. Necessity is the mother of a bit more than invention.
After that, I had a number of diminishingly shitty positions up until about 2003, when I started getting the kind of work I think is interesting, worthwhile, and pays very well. That's THIRTEEN YEARS of paying my dues in low-salary, dead end positions. That's why you keep leaving them, see, that's the whole point.
Again, this is all about EFFORT. I made the effort for almost a decade and a half to get to where I wanted to be in computers, and I did it without a degree. And I have half a dozen colleagues who are doing exactly the same thing *right now*.
But if you'd like to sit there and validate your own shortcoming some more and coddle the masses into believing there's nothing out there for anyone without a piece of paper no matter how hard they work, feel free. Once again, it makes it much easier for people who are willing to put the effort in to get the good jobs.
The last job I got with just a highschool diploma was the one that I landed about six months ago. Which is the one that I described in my original post. You've caught an implication that does not exist, I have not had the same job for 20 years. I've had about ten in the last 20 years.
Again, I actively demonstrated that everything I've said is true at an average of every two and a little years since approximately 1988. Every job I've gotten knew that I had no college degree, and every job I've gotten knew that I was competent when I got the job.
Instead of just poo pooing my entire story because you're not with it enough to consider workable alternatives to a degree, you could have asked me what the technique is to wedge yourself in the door.
It's all about the interview, my man. If I can get my grinning mug in front of someone who's doing the hiring, I've never once failed to get that job. How, you may ask, the hell do I guarantee myself the job during the physical interview?
I make myself unique among the applicant pool by jovially telling the truth about everything, including outlining my capabilities with humorous anecdotes from my career. What I have that other applicants appear to not have, apart from the ability to not lie during interviews, is a very relaxed demeanor and an air about me that says "I know exactly what I'm doing".
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What it causes, directly, is insider trading. Proponents of heavy stock option compensation as opposed to heavy cash compensation are criminals, and should be treated as such.
When someone's been to Blackhat recently. There were at least half a dozen step-by-step presentations about every aspect of cellphone malware.
And I would like to tell you this:
The iPhone App Store never, ever looked so good.
Why do so many people start these comments with "I'm no Apple fan, but..."
Who cares if you're an Apple fan or not. You're only feeding the flame.
The Daily Show is satirical comedy. They never once claimed to be journalists. Only comedy writers. The mistake is made by seemingly everyone BUT them, who wish to pin the "journalist" label on Jon Stewart and company, because they actually do tell the truth. And evidently that's rare enough to make the claim that comedians are now journalists *palatable to otherwise rational people*.
That's some scary shit, right there.
"I call BS on that. If that was the case you wouldn't have insulted your parent poster by saying:
"you probably just have sour grapes because you can't afford one on a dell helpdesk salary.""
Actually I typed that last line specifically to make a point, and here it is, since it's become evident that it went entirely misunderstood:
It's one thing to decide that you're not going to buy something because of whatever reason you like. It is something else entirely to come all up in MY face and imply that I'm foolish, or an idiot, or some sort of ego-freak because of my choice of computational equipment. The first one is something that any reasonable person does throughout their day. The second is only something that someone who is most ironically foolish, stupid, or possessing an ego clearly far larger than mine, does.
It was an object lesson, get it? The meaning of my sentence was commentary on the argument used in the message to which I was responding.
As much as I try, friend, I cannot seem to feel this "freedom being lost", because I cannot make my ipad play WebM. I cannot make it play blu-ray disks either, which also seems to affect my feeling of "freedom" in no way whatsoever.
And I gave up administering "real computers" ages ago in favor of a higher salary and a much more interesting job. What a high holy pain in the ass THAT was.
And lastly, I don't actually flaunt my ipad, because I live in the middle of New York City and I don't want it stolen. I keep it to myself, except at work and at the coffeeshop near my apartment, where I have been known to break it out occasionally and play with Wolfram Alpha. And figure this out: I still adore it, despite not flaunting it everywhere I go. Because I didn't get it to make people feel bad, friend. I got it because I really, really like them.
I'm sorry if my motivation doesn't fit the character of the cut of the jib you seem to be laying on me, but maybe this is a good opportunity for you to "think different".
Bahah. I see what I did there.
Did you want to keep pointlessly whining or did you want to simply go and use something that's more suited to your needs?
Full disclosure:
I am a network security professional who has been in the field for about 20 years. I own Apple equipment specifically because after 20 years, here is what I want:
No more goddamn hassles. I'm tired of tweaking. I'm tired of having to think about that sort of thing in my spare time. Life is short, and I'd much rather spend as much of it as possible with as few headaches as possible. Which is why I recently replaced my laptop with an ipad. No foolin'. And I use it for pretty advanced stuff, too. AND I'm one of those people who just want my gadgets to work together well.
Right now, despite the kneejerk reaction of people who don't actually own any apple equipment, my ipad is loaded with pornography, mostly from the hardcore likes of kink.com and environs. More than half the videos on my ipad have no DRM, because I pirated them. Or I ripped them from other media via open source applications under OS X.
Without any problems at all.
So, to tally up, from my own direct experience:
You can have all the non-DRM, pirated goodness on an ipad or iphone that you want.
You can be a computer super-geek and even a guru to some and still actually enjoy Apple equipment and software.
You can look at all the porn you like on your Apple devices.
And if you really care that much about what *I* choose to use for *MY* own enjoyment, you probably just have sour grapes because you can't afford one on a dell helpdesk salary.
Also, don't worry too much. Here in NYC (my family has a long history of working in restoration in a number of NYC museums) the Guggenheim isn't really taken terribly seriously, and really hasn't been since a certain musician famously intoned upon its completion: "Christ, it looks like a giant toilet!".
For a higher consistent caliber of a similar kind of media and form, check out the Whitney. Maybe they'll do a deal with Vimeo.
How very socially conscious and noble of you. Personally I'd just really rather have a super cool phone, but good luck with your nobility.
It is true actually, but your problem is that you're spoiled. You want Apple to make precisely the device that YOU want, rather than go buy something else that more closely matches your needs.
It seems to me that really what the whiners and complainers want is for a company besides Apple to meet the same design and build standards that Apple does with their physical gear. You should ask yourselves why such a company doesn't exist.
Indeed. It is absolutely true that Microsoft has among the most active security engineering and architecture departments in the world. But the implication is actually (as it almost always is) precisely the opposite of Microsoft's spin.
Then... erm... DO NOT BUY IT.
Where's the argument? Your needs are clearly met by a number of devices that are not made by Apple, and I never quite understood why this argument exists at all. Are you trying to say that Apple has an ethical obligation to make the exact device that YOU want?
If your nixy stuff works better on a linux machine than on a POSIX compliant, certified UNIX (TM), then I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong.
...monetizing bad math and improperly understood statistics since 2006.
Precisely. Other famous #1's from the annuls of history:
Budweiser
Microsoft
Ford
Bose
Schwinn
AT&T
It seems to me that #1 doesn't have too much to do with quality of product, but of effectiveness of marketing.
Yeah, it is what I want. I've been doing comp/net security for twenty years. I don't want to "fiddle" with things anymore. I just want them to work, and stay the hell out of my way when they do so.
It's awesome that you haven't hit the point in your life that I've hit in mine yet... the point where you're just tired of compiling kernels, writing wrappers and patches to make things work the way you want, etc... the point where you want your computational device to quietly cough up its functionality without wrestling it's user into an inescapable web-of-tweaks, but it would be more awesome if you tried very hard not to poo poo those of us who participated joyously on the front lines of GPL and other, better open source licenses, but who now really just want to see some tits and go have a sandwich.
At least when St. Elsewhere ended, we were left with a series of wonderful performances and truly creative plots and characters, even if in the end it was all some autistic kid's fantasy.
This time we don't get anything. And seriously, how many times did the writers/producers swear up and down that they werent all dead, that the island wasnt purgatory, that they werent pulling those cheap, easy outs.
Goddamn liars.
You appear to be saying that Java's strength in multithreading is all about not having to type an #include line.
Seems a bit weak for a strength to me.
The only possible way that you could seriously posit that Java is no worse at multithreading than anything else is if you've never actually used anything else in any kind of meaningful way.
.NET for details.
Java's intrinsic implementation of multithreading is one of hard mutual exclusion, which is awesome in a few ways, but really crappy if portability is your goal. Which it isn't, anymore, as I covered in my first post. The best thing that anyone can possibly say about Java's intrinsic multithread support is that it's very, very easy to implement.
And that seems to be the clarion call for the "best languages" these days. See the popularity of VB and
Since no one and their uncle is using Java for its portability anymore (maybe the nice folks at Limewire still are), and since Java is so piss-poor at multithreading that even with books hardly anyone is willing to attempt it...
It's beyond me why people don't just use a different damn language. I lost my objectivity on this years ago; is Java ridiculously easy to learn for the kids these days or something? Is it like Pascal for the new millenium? I think I'd rather try to make Pascal thread properly than Java, frankly.
I did get a job without my credentials-- my very first serious one in the tech field, which was doing technical support for BSDi.
I didn't know anything about unix, or really anything about computers. I'd been evicted from my apartment and things were looking grim. I lied on my resume and landed the job with my magnetic personality.
After which I had about two weeks to fake out my employers and learn enough of the subject to get a foothold--- which I did. Necessity is the mother of a bit more than invention.
After that, I had a number of diminishingly shitty positions up until about 2003, when I started getting the kind of work I think is interesting, worthwhile, and pays very well. That's THIRTEEN YEARS of paying my dues in low-salary, dead end positions. That's why you keep leaving them, see, that's the whole point.
Again, this is all about EFFORT. I made the effort for almost a decade and a half to get to where I wanted to be in computers, and I did it without a degree. And I have half a dozen colleagues who are doing exactly the same thing *right now*.
But if you'd like to sit there and validate your own shortcoming some more and coddle the masses into believing there's nothing out there for anyone without a piece of paper no matter how hard they work, feel free. Once again, it makes it much easier for people who are willing to put the effort in to get the good jobs.
Keep it up.
Umm... timmarthy dear... Apple *invented the personal computer*.
Good goddamn lord.
What the hell are you talking about?
The last job I got with just a highschool diploma was the one that I landed about six months ago. Which is the one that I described in my original post. You've caught an implication that does not exist, I have not had the same job for 20 years. I've had about ten in the last 20 years.
Again, I actively demonstrated that everything I've said is true at an average of every two and a little years since approximately 1988. Every job I've gotten knew that I had no college degree, and every job I've gotten knew that I was competent when I got the job.
Instead of just poo pooing my entire story because you're not with it enough to consider workable alternatives to a degree, you could have asked me what the technique is to wedge yourself in the door.
It's all about the interview, my man. If I can get my grinning mug in front of someone who's doing the hiring, I've never once failed to get that job. How, you may ask, the hell do I guarantee myself the job during the physical interview?
I make myself unique among the applicant pool by jovially telling the truth about everything, including outlining my capabilities with humorous anecdotes from my career. What I have that other applicants appear to not have, apart from the ability to not lie during interviews, is a very relaxed demeanor and an air about me that says "I know exactly what I'm doing".
And that's because I do.