""Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as Ãoeempty,à Ãoemeaningless,à or Ãoedishonest,à and scorn to use them. No matter how Ãoepureà their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best. ""
What's that Khan N Singh quote from Niche about diplomacy being combat masked.
"Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as Ãoeempty,Ã Ãoemeaningless,Ã or Ãoedishonest,Ã and scorn to use them."
Because the young, naive, etc. see it as the bullshit that it is. The real problem is people have expectations and kissing their ass gets you farther, the basis of corruption. Stop trying to expect anything out of people and they won't disappoint you and you can accept them for who they are and not who you think they should be. Then interacting becomes easy. Damn primadonnas!
Linus doesn't suffer stupid well, Theo doesn't suffer stupid at all. It may be annoying but at least it's honest.
"I know for a fact that recruiters look to the mid-west to bring employees to the east/west coast because they have a lesser expectation for salary. Does that make them racist?"
Mid-westerners get blinded by what looks like a good income that's triple or more than what they get locally. But still buys less on the coasts than local incomes locally(a breadbox three times the cost is still a breadbox). They find out what it's like to live on the coasts and the minute they want a family they move back to the mid-west.
"I know for a fact that recruiters look to the mid-west to bring employees to the east/west coast because they have a lesser expectation for salary. Does that make them racist?"
That's because most people in the mid-west don't know what it costs to live on the coasts. It's just recruiters taking advantage of the naivete of mid-westerners.
"Apple fanboys and apple haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots."
You mean like the nuke apologists and environmentalists, vi vs emacs, apple vs pc, MS vs linux, etc, etc, etc. This board would be out of business without the 'biased' especially with Dice running the show. We all know this is true and we all willingly visit this board, so who are the real idiots again?
"Anonymity creates a bias for biased bad reviews, "
It also creates a bias for good reviews. Want proof just look at amazon, ebay, and newegg etc. ah hell even slashdot some time. Businesses have been nailed for paying for false reviews, good or bad.
" If this underlying assumption of fact proves false, in that the reviewer was never a customer of the business, then the review is not an opinion; instead, the review is based on a false statement of fact -"
Except this is opinion and no opinion is fact, just factual. Opinions aren't facts, that's why they're opinions. The whole thing is a strawman to unmask anonymous commentors who have every right to say whatever they want so they can be harassed by the business into giving up their right to speak. And a civil suit is still a government sponsored response to speech someone doesn't like, a clear violation of the first amendment, libel or not. If business are allowed do this then every business should be nailed for the false advertising they dump on the public all the time. Anonymity has been used for good and bad since before this country was founded and has proven necessary to a free state.
"It was about marketing and ass-backwards profit models forced onto the work of making good code."
Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. Now we just need a law that allows coders to kill business types who interfere with proper code writing. (Should clean out the marketing staff quick)
"Just look at Windows. M$ bottlenecked features willfully because it was part of their business plan."
Is there a reason the US government and/or businesses can't sue because MS intentionally caused economic limitations by limiting their software?
" Do you want your notes application to just store data directly on a single disk from a single manufacturer, or would you rather have an OS that abstracts the details of the device and provides a filesystem? "
How about manufacturers making their shit to a standard instead tweaking to differentiate their bits from the rest. The fact is we are virtualizing everything to death for no reason than we can. Stop that. We do a lot of the same shit we did twenty years ago with 1000x more complex software. Back then, we ran a program on the real bare metal and now it's on a virtual machine that's running on a virtual machine and so on eventually getting to bare metal. Everybody is creating their own standard reinventing the wheel adding to the library of useless standards to be referenced so that now we have software layers piled to the moon running on multi-GHz multi-cores possibly in the cloud to get the functionality a dedicated C program got on a 25 MHz 80386, 8 MHz Mac or an Amiga got in 1988. I agree that programmers have gotten lazy and sloppy as many only know frameworks and nothing else. Not that the frameworks are bad but much of what they encouraged has been somewhat good and the rest just plain awful.
If you've noticed there's very few manufacturers of really differing hardware anymore, so why hasn't the software centralized and become simpler as the old esoteric hardware goes away? Because we keep virtualizing up. Web browsers are bigger than some operating systems now. Uhh! We've abstracted away hardware complexity to ever increasing software complexity that requires ever more hardware complexity just to use at all. And what have we really ended up with again? Ahhh!!!/psycho rant I hope
"Physical books are not important in themselves - it's the content within them that's important, and that does not have to be tied to a particular medium."
Longevity, consistency, and usability of the medium is important. Dead trees last centuries, epads don't survive the first hard drop. Content on dead trees is permanent, content on epads can be changed at any time to suit or manipulate current events. Open a book and read, no power, range, or other limits and visual issues have been worked out for centuries. A epad still has eye strain issues, headaches, power limits, and range if using wi-fi.
The content is only useful if it's around when you need it.
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
"Exhibit A in the Supreme Courtâ(TM)s case for border searches is a statute Congress enacted in 1789, which granted customs officials âoefull power and authorityâ to search âoeany ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed""
The point is we're already american citizens -- we're already supposed to be trusted. Otherwise the constitution and citizenship is meaningless. The statue in question was aimed at foreigners entering the country not US citizens.
" It's passable on gigabit ethernet, anything slower than that and it is pretty horrible. Meanwhile, even RDP is usable over 64 kilobit."
Actually X with compression works good even on 28.8 modems. You just have to set it up right and use it with regards to bandwidth limitations. RDP had severe problems at that low no matter what you did.
"yeah, the average grade-school science experiment outshines Snowden's actual deed:"
Except the average grade-school "" isn't life ending. And understand if Snowden had been caught it's most likely he'd be locked away by now for nailing the 'adults' playing their childish games.
"Someone might follow a faith for the moral story and community, while not believing that the deity actually exists"
The term hypocrite seems to describe this pretty well. I doesn't matter what you believe if you physically support the system that encourages the idea you mentally disagree with. You don't even see how much religion permeates everything do you?
Modern atheism has become a backlash response to having religious exposure everywhere 24/7. It should be expected. If you need an example, put up a sign that contradicts some popular religious concept in even the most minor way in a highly viewable area, setup a camera nearby, heat some popcorn, sit on the couch, and watch the shit fly. It's been done several times with what were neutral statements and it actually makes national news every time. That's just neutral statements. Just think of the riots that would happen with a real challenge. The US is so permeated with religion that it's not even noticed anymore but it's quite apparent when challenged. Agnostic is just a word created by the religious to keep people in the social circle that they would otherwise have to expel but couldn't afford or don't want to, kind of like purgatory to heaven and hell.
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""Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as Ãoeempty,à Ãoemeaningless,à or Ãoedishonest,à and scorn to use them. No matter how Ãoepureà their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best. ""
What's that Khan N Singh quote from Niche about diplomacy being combat masked.
"Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as Ãoeempty,Ã Ãoemeaningless,Ã or Ãoedishonest,Ã and scorn to use them."
Because the young, naive, etc. see it as the bullshit that it is. The real problem is people have expectations and kissing their ass gets you farther, the basis of corruption. Stop trying to expect anything out of people and they won't disappoint you and you can accept them for who they are and not who you think they should be. Then interacting becomes easy. Damn primadonnas!
Linus doesn't suffer stupid well, Theo doesn't suffer stupid at all. It may be annoying but at least it's honest.
"I know for a fact that recruiters look to the mid-west to bring employees to the east/west coast because they have a lesser expectation for salary. Does that make them racist?"
Mid-westerners get blinded by what looks like a good income that's triple or more than what they get locally. But still buys less on the coasts than local incomes locally(a breadbox three times the cost is still a breadbox). They find out what it's like to live on the coasts and the minute they want a family they move back to the mid-west.
"I know for a fact that recruiters look to the mid-west to bring employees to the east/west coast because they have a lesser expectation for salary. Does that make them racist?"
That's because most people in the mid-west don't know what it costs to live on the coasts. It's just recruiters taking advantage of the naivete of mid-westerners.
"Apple fanboys and apple haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots."
You mean like the nuke apologists and environmentalists, vi vs emacs, apple vs pc, MS vs linux, etc, etc, etc. This board would be out of business without the 'biased' especially with Dice running the show. We all know this is true and we all willingly visit this board, so who are the real idiots again?
"Cars in certain large metro areas have to pass regular emissions inspections"
You're leaving out that old vehicles are exempted from newer standards.
"Who do you buy your supplies from when every corporation is intrusive?"
The Amish. Or build it yourself.
"And no, wives don't do that anymore ;)"
Anymore, you mean ever. That's what the maid and then the kids are for.
The bot would be alot quieter than a wife as well. At least until Watson sees it's first daytime soap opera.
"Anonymity creates a bias for biased bad reviews, "
It also creates a bias for good reviews. Want proof just look at amazon, ebay, and newegg etc. ah hell even slashdot some time. Businesses have been nailed for paying for false reviews, good or bad.
" If this underlying assumption of fact proves false, in that the
reviewer was never a customer of the business, then the review is not an opinion; instead, the
review is based on a false statement of fact -"
Except this is opinion and no opinion is fact, just factual. Opinions aren't facts, that's why they're opinions. The whole thing is a strawman to unmask anonymous commentors who have every right to say whatever they want so they can be harassed by the business into giving up their right to speak. And a civil suit is still a government sponsored response to speech someone doesn't like, a clear violation of the first amendment, libel or not. If business are allowed do this then every business should be nailed for the false advertising they dump on the public all the time. Anonymity has been used for good and bad since before this country was founded and has proven necessary to a free state.
"Something to replace the garbage which is NAND flash would also be welcome, yet sadly there appears to be no hurry there either. "
Of course not. Business has to milk it for all it's worth and then some first.
"It was about marketing and ass-backwards profit models forced onto the work of making good code."
Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. Now we just need a law that allows coders to kill business types who interfere with proper code writing. (Should clean out the marketing staff quick)
"Just look at Windows. M$ bottlenecked features willfully because it was part of their business plan."
Is there a reason the US government and/or businesses can't sue because MS intentionally caused economic limitations by limiting their software?
" Do you want your notes application to just store data directly on a single disk from a single manufacturer, or would you rather have an OS that abstracts the details of the device and provides a filesystem? "
How about manufacturers making their shit to a standard instead tweaking to differentiate their bits from the rest. The fact is we are virtualizing everything to death for no reason than we can. Stop that. We do a lot of the same shit we did twenty years ago with 1000x more complex software. Back then, we ran a program on the real bare metal and now it's on a virtual machine that's running on a virtual machine and so on eventually getting to bare metal. Everybody is creating their own standard reinventing the wheel adding to the library of useless standards to be referenced so that now we have software layers piled to the moon running on multi-GHz multi-cores possibly in the cloud to get the functionality a dedicated C program got on a 25 MHz 80386, 8 MHz Mac or an Amiga got in 1988. I agree that programmers have gotten lazy and sloppy as many only know frameworks and nothing else. Not that the frameworks are bad but much of what they encouraged has been somewhat good and the rest just plain awful.
If you've noticed there's very few manufacturers of really differing hardware anymore, so why hasn't the software centralized and become simpler as the old esoteric hardware goes away? Because we keep virtualizing up. Web browsers are bigger than some operating systems now. Uhh! We've abstracted away hardware complexity to ever increasing software complexity that requires ever more hardware complexity just to use at all. And what have we really ended up with again? Ahhh!!! /psycho rant I hope
"Indeed. JavaScript is the assembly language of the future, "
Get off the hard drugs will ya. You're delusional.
"There already are many nicer languages which are then compiled into Javascript, ready for execution in any computing environment."
And the world dreams of faeries runs off of unicorn farts.
"Is that you Baghdad Bob? Or are you Comical Ali?"
Is that you NSA shill? Or are you the CIA comic? Government ass-kisser certainly? Buzz off troll.
"Physical books are not important in themselves - it's the content within them that's important, and that does not have to be tied to a particular medium."
Longevity, consistency, and usability of the medium is important. Dead trees last centuries, epads don't survive the first hard drop. Content on dead trees is permanent, content on epads can be changed at any time to suit or manipulate current events. Open a book and read, no power, range, or other limits and visual issues have been worked out for centuries. A epad still has eye strain issues, headaches, power limits, and range if using wi-fi.
The content is only useful if it's around when you need it.
"The JAVA/.NET generation is a fucking disaster."
Fucking disasters is more like it and all the coupling is creating a whole new generation of mega disasters.
"The Congress shall have power:
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
"Exhibit A in the Supreme Courtâ(TM)s case for border searches is a statute Congress enacted in 1789, which granted customs officials âoefull power and authorityâ to search âoeany ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed""
The point is we're already american citizens -- we're already supposed to be trusted. Otherwise the constitution and citizenship is meaningless. The statue in question was aimed at foreigners entering the country not US citizens.
" It's passable on gigabit ethernet, anything slower than that and it is pretty horrible. Meanwhile, even RDP is usable over 64 kilobit."
Actually X with compression works good even on 28.8 modems. You just have to set it up right and use it with regards to bandwidth limitations. RDP had severe problems at that low no matter what you did.
"yeah, the average grade-school science experiment outshines Snowden's actual deed:"
Except the average grade-school "" isn't life ending. And understand if Snowden had been caught it's most likely he'd be locked away by now for nailing the 'adults' playing their childish games.
"That's freedom (or free-dumb)."
Actually it free-doom, you know, chaos, but who's counting?
"Slashdot pretty much latched on to the crappiest version of this article out there."
And Slashdot is owned by Dice one of the crappiest companies out there, enough said?
"Someone might follow a faith for the moral story and community, while not believing that the deity actually exists"
The term hypocrite seems to describe this pretty well. I doesn't matter what you believe if you physically support the system that encourages the idea you mentally disagree with. You don't even see how much religion permeates everything do you?
Modern atheism has become a backlash response to having religious exposure everywhere 24/7. It should be expected. If you need an example, put up a sign that contradicts some popular religious concept in even the most minor way in a highly viewable area, setup a camera nearby, heat some popcorn, sit on the couch, and watch the shit fly. It's been done several times with what were neutral statements and it actually makes national news every time. That's just neutral statements. Just think of the riots that would happen with a real challenge. The US is so permeated with religion that it's not even noticed anymore but it's quite apparent when challenged.
Agnostic is just a word created by the religious to keep people in the social circle that they would otherwise have to expel but couldn't afford or don't want to, kind of like purgatory to heaven and hell.
"If God doesn't exist, and I believe and have made my life better because of that belief, I still win.
If you deny God and He does exist as He says, you will have eternity to contemplate your pride and ignorance."
Man, that's arrogant.
"That science is explaining the mechanics of god's universe, and religion is explaining god's desires and intentions."
Any way religion can get around admitting they're wrong.