It wasn't humorous nor was it insightful, just as the GP's correlation of Republican economic policy is not really fascist. There may be Republican elements that support fascism and there may be Democrats who support socialism, but neither faction makes up anything like a majority. And there's plenty of Democrats who support fascism and plenty of Republicans who support socialism. That is much more insightful than mentioning the inaccurate thought that the Republican party supports fascism or that the Democratic Party supports socialism.
You apparently talk to stupid people...the Shah of Iran has been in exile since '79 and I assume would be asked to leave whatever country he resides in (Britian?) if he were ordering capital punishment. Besides, that's a terrible analogy. Pretending that shouting someone down is akin to killing that person gains you no support. Probably makes you look crazy. A modified version of Godwin's law should be invoked at that point.
Insightful? If the GP had just stated that the Republicans were Fascists, would he have been modded Insightful? This post is funny at best, and just down right inaccurate. I wish we had a real socialist party in this country...
Depending on the quality of thr IP TV, that's not necessarily a good deal around here. $100 a month should get you a hell of an internet access. However, I think the GP is confused about their speeds as the lowest FiOS speed is 15/5 for $55/month.
The analogy should be self-evident. Instead you are employing circular logic. The analogy only makes sense if we take your conclusion as a premise. That is not an analogy.
You are not so far off. Not everyone is taught how to control their mood. However, it can be done, especially if taught at early ages.
That is a bunch of bollocks. Centralized control saved most every nation. Those that didn't centralize mostly died off in the middle ages. Yes I'll agree that too much bureaucracy is bad, but it is not a necessary evil. The right amount of bureaucracy is a good thing. Those decentralized nations were backwards and ignorant. They never prospered. Prosperity came as a direct result of bureaucracy and centralization.
It is not me that changed it. The founding fathers figured out how untenable their government was and changed directions very rapidly. Gradually more and more power has been vested in Washington as we find out that so many things fail without strong national support through government. There has been a noticeable backlash against these tried-and-true measures in recent years. I truly hope we don't need more civil war and boom/bust cycles to prove that strong national government is necessary to any strong nation. Wishful thinking (as the founding fathers discovered) does little to change that.
That "some grassroots" is thankfully very small and very ignorant of modern governance. Rather than blindly attempting to squash anything Washington is trying to do, how about you join in the debate. Maybe we'd grow an able populace that understands why a strong, central government is the best place for many pieces of legislation and pretty much all forms of regulation. Don't be a reactionary.
You have this equation backwards. No one requires you to let someone else copy it. People copying anything they please is the natural course. It only through copyright law that we are not allowed to copy something. You only have rights to what you physically make, not the abstract ideas and art behind it. And you can still sell work without copyright law. You just don't have a monopoly on it.
Faith itself is neither rational nor irrational. You seem to get what irrational faith is. However, you can have rational faith. I have a rational faith that gravity will continue to exist given the 25 years that I have been experiencing it in the same way. There is a mountain of grey area in-between this faith and the total irrational faith in something like pink unicorns.
Those are hacks, not actual centering. They only work on certain elements and if you have to use any other hackery, they rarely work as desired. I've ended up using massive amounts of javascript just to keep a dynamic menu centered at the top of a page. I think there's a lot of websites out there that don't center things like menus because it's too much work. And we want this to be the language of desktop formatting?
Any time a company says "Minimum X-X years industry experience etc." they're trying to scare people off. I applied for several of these jobs right of college and had interviews with a few. They just want to make sure we know how to work in a team environment and actually get work done. If you come out of college knowing how to do these things, you're fine. Apparently you were scared off. A major issue I've seen with Computer Scientists is their lack of self confidence. A job interview is not a computer program. Requirements are usually flexible, especially when hiring a Computer Scientist. In fact, some managers want to hear why their requirements are wrong and you're the guy to prove it.
We can't help you unless you tell us what job you want. If you want a job from a computer science degree, then you shouldn't be worried about language specific concepts. Those are for code monkeys. If you want to be a code monkey then you probably want a different degree. My degree is in Computer Engineering (though it has a much greater CS bent than EE). I came out of college knowing that I would never work in a higher level language than C. I didn't need roadblocks to perfect hardware control.
Now I work as an "Application Developer." I design and write code from the ground up. I had a much more difficult time picking up the specifics of Java than my Software Engineer and Programming degree'd brethren. But because of my background I finally understood why higher level languages were made. None of my co-workers appreciate the simplicity and elegance of sticking to a pure OOP model (since we work on our own projects, the lack of collaboration has made the Software Engineers lazy). None of them understand exactly what the JVM is or how the Garbage Collector works. They worry about optimizing code down to removing method calls when we're doing networking...they don't understand that the nanoseconds saved by not making the method call not only makes the code more difficult to read, it also has no appreciable effect since the SNMP call before it took milliseconds (sometimes even seconds).
Almost more important to any of that though is the changing nature of the business. The 2 Computer Programmer degrees on the team are having a very difficult time moving to the new Java EE standards. We'll be picking up Glassfish v3 and Java EE 6 here soon and will have to update our code. I and the Software Engineers are rejoicing since we understand the benefits even though it means more learning and more work in the short-term. The Computer Programmers on the team are annoyed since they have to learn new concepts and re-work code.
So, do you want to be stuck to the language specific concepts that will make you readily employable? Or do you want breadth of knowledge that enables you to do pick up any task? The choice is yours. But your question is lacking until we know this.
You severly limit your understanding of the situation by tying all of your argument to the Iranian people. This is one of the few non-Western nations with a diverse populace. Many Iranians do not want a Theocracy, and a great many do not want a fundamentalist Theocracy. Sure we can only speculate on the numbers, but there is enough information out there about the thoughts of many Iranian peoples to know what many of them want. It may be easy to be ignorant, but why are you fighting for it?
Your last sentence is spot on, but it has nothing to do with the rest of your post and just panders to psuedo-intellectualism.
Best post I've read in this thread. Though I'm a dedicated Linux user, I have to use Windows in my daily life for a few things. I want to move everything over to Linux, but I just can't. And if I was more of a Windows guy, the obverse is just as true. So I have many tools that I have to work with. Best to put down that hammer sometimes. You might notice that you've been banging on a screw.
Your anecdotes are the exact opposite of mine. I can't even install XP on my system, install reboots during setup. I now have vista on it, but that took a bit and makes me sad. I don't even use it for the purpose I installed it for and might switch it out for Fedora 11. My biggest issue: keybindings. As a proud Dvorak user, I don't understand why Windows sometimes decides to return to standard US Qwerty. Linux only switches when I tell it to.
Please leave your anecdotes at the door, as all OSs have issues specific to hardware (OSX and Solaris on SPARC ftw). If you have specific technical issues, then we might be interested. For instance, don't tell us that the nvidia driver didn't work (I've gotten that thing to work with 4 different cards without issue). If however, you can tell us that the nvidia driver fails because of $COMMON_USAGE$ or $NONOBSCURE_HARDWARE_CONFIGURATION$, then please post all day long.
You're looking at this all wrong. If MySQL died, so would the support my company would have for anyone that had a hand in it. We don't work with IBM now, but we do work with Sun. If a merger happened we would automatically switch support to IBM. It would be a very big black mark on them if they aided the destruction of a major component of our business. We are 1 of hundreds if not thousands of such businesses. This would severely injure IBM. Not to the point of ruin, but enough to know that it doesn't take a lousy start-up to screw over Big Blue. They can do it themselves just fine.
What you're really interested in is whether the CPU supports special virtualization commands. This can often be disabled in the BIOS, hence the GP's comment. I'd check/proc/cpuinfo to see if the flag is set. Don't know how to check these things on Windows, but I assume its not too tough. Or just check online. I'm not certain what the flags are though... The computer I'm on has an Intel E8400 and I do not believe it has those extensions.
Your post is misleading. For single process execution, Core 2 is faster. Core i7 loses a lot of power and adds a lot of virtualization functionality. Core i7 is about the future of computing. Core 2 will still run games faster.
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It wasn't humorous nor was it insightful, just as the GP's correlation of Republican economic policy is not really fascist. There may be Republican elements that support fascism and there may be Democrats who support socialism, but neither faction makes up anything like a majority. And there's plenty of Democrats who support fascism and plenty of Republicans who support socialism. That is much more insightful than mentioning the inaccurate thought that the Republican party supports fascism or that the Democratic Party supports socialism.
You apparently talk to stupid people...the Shah of Iran has been in exile since '79 and I assume would be asked to leave whatever country he resides in (Britian?) if he were ordering capital punishment. Besides, that's a terrible analogy. Pretending that shouting someone down is akin to killing that person gains you no support. Probably makes you look crazy. A modified version of Godwin's law should be invoked at that point.
Insightful? If the GP had just stated that the Republicans were Fascists, would he have been modded Insightful? This post is funny at best, and just down right inaccurate. I wish we had a real socialist party in this country...
Depending on the quality of thr IP TV, that's not necessarily a good deal around here. $100 a month should get you a hell of an internet access. However, I think the GP is confused about their speeds as the lowest FiOS speed is 15/5 for $55/month.
The analogy should be self-evident. Instead you are employing circular logic. The analogy only makes sense if we take your conclusion as a premise. That is not an analogy.
You are not so far off. Not everyone is taught how to control their mood. However, it can be done, especially if taught at early ages.
It doesn't particularly matter what Woody Allen was thinking if the short story does indeed lead to deep thinking.
That is a bunch of bollocks. Centralized control saved most every nation. Those that didn't centralize mostly died off in the middle ages. Yes I'll agree that too much bureaucracy is bad, but it is not a necessary evil. The right amount of bureaucracy is a good thing. Those decentralized nations were backwards and ignorant. They never prospered. Prosperity came as a direct result of bureaucracy and centralization.
It is not me that changed it. The founding fathers figured out how untenable their government was and changed directions very rapidly. Gradually more and more power has been vested in Washington as we find out that so many things fail without strong national support through government. There has been a noticeable backlash against these tried-and-true measures in recent years. I truly hope we don't need more civil war and boom/bust cycles to prove that strong national government is necessary to any strong nation. Wishful thinking (as the founding fathers discovered) does little to change that.
That "some grassroots" is thankfully very small and very ignorant of modern governance. Rather than blindly attempting to squash anything Washington is trying to do, how about you join in the debate. Maybe we'd grow an able populace that understands why a strong, central government is the best place for many pieces of legislation and pretty much all forms of regulation. Don't be a reactionary.
The difference is that one can be the implementation of the other. However, the philosophy behind them is the same.
You confuse design with implementation.
You have this equation backwards. No one requires you to let someone else copy it. People copying anything they please is the natural course. It only through copyright law that we are not allowed to copy something. You only have rights to what you physically make, not the abstract ideas and art behind it. And you can still sell work without copyright law. You just don't have a monopoly on it.
Faith itself is neither rational nor irrational. You seem to get what irrational faith is. However, you can have rational faith. I have a rational faith that gravity will continue to exist given the 25 years that I have been experiencing it in the same way. There is a mountain of grey area in-between this faith and the total irrational faith in something like pink unicorns.
Undefinable and unkownable? Sounds like your god doesn't exist by definition.
Those are hacks, not actual centering. They only work on certain elements and if you have to use any other hackery, they rarely work as desired. I've ended up using massive amounts of javascript just to keep a dynamic menu centered at the top of a page. I think there's a lot of websites out there that don't center things like menus because it's too much work. And we want this to be the language of desktop formatting?
Any time a company says "Minimum X-X years industry experience etc." they're trying to scare people off. I applied for several of these jobs right of college and had interviews with a few. They just want to make sure we know how to work in a team environment and actually get work done. If you come out of college knowing how to do these things, you're fine. Apparently you were scared off. A major issue I've seen with Computer Scientists is their lack of self confidence. A job interview is not a computer program. Requirements are usually flexible, especially when hiring a Computer Scientist. In fact, some managers want to hear why their requirements are wrong and you're the guy to prove it.
We can't help you unless you tell us what job you want. If you want a job from a computer science degree, then you shouldn't be worried about language specific concepts. Those are for code monkeys. If you want to be a code monkey then you probably want a different degree. My degree is in Computer Engineering (though it has a much greater CS bent than EE). I came out of college knowing that I would never work in a higher level language than C. I didn't need roadblocks to perfect hardware control. Now I work as an "Application Developer." I design and write code from the ground up. I had a much more difficult time picking up the specifics of Java than my Software Engineer and Programming degree'd brethren. But because of my background I finally understood why higher level languages were made. None of my co-workers appreciate the simplicity and elegance of sticking to a pure OOP model (since we work on our own projects, the lack of collaboration has made the Software Engineers lazy). None of them understand exactly what the JVM is or how the Garbage Collector works. They worry about optimizing code down to removing method calls when we're doing networking...they don't understand that the nanoseconds saved by not making the method call not only makes the code more difficult to read, it also has no appreciable effect since the SNMP call before it took milliseconds (sometimes even seconds).
Almost more important to any of that though is the changing nature of the business. The 2 Computer Programmer degrees on the team are having a very difficult time moving to the new Java EE standards. We'll be picking up Glassfish v3 and Java EE 6 here soon and will have to update our code. I and the Software Engineers are rejoicing since we understand the benefits even though it means more learning and more work in the short-term. The Computer Programmers on the team are annoyed since they have to learn new concepts and re-work code.
So, do you want to be stuck to the language specific concepts that will make you readily employable? Or do you want breadth of knowledge that enables you to do pick up any task? The choice is yours. But your question is lacking until we know this.
You severly limit your understanding of the situation by tying all of your argument to the Iranian people. This is one of the few non-Western nations with a diverse populace. Many Iranians do not want a Theocracy, and a great many do not want a fundamentalist Theocracy. Sure we can only speculate on the numbers, but there is enough information out there about the thoughts of many Iranian peoples to know what many of them want. It may be easy to be ignorant, but why are you fighting for it?
Your last sentence is spot on, but it has nothing to do with the rest of your post and just panders to psuedo-intellectualism.
Best post I've read in this thread. Though I'm a dedicated Linux user, I have to use Windows in my daily life for a few things. I want to move everything over to Linux, but I just can't. And if I was more of a Windows guy, the obverse is just as true. So I have many tools that I have to work with. Best to put down that hammer sometimes. You might notice that you've been banging on a screw.
Your anecdotes are the exact opposite of mine. I can't even install XP on my system, install reboots during setup. I now have vista on it, but that took a bit and makes me sad. I don't even use it for the purpose I installed it for and might switch it out for Fedora 11. My biggest issue: keybindings. As a proud Dvorak user, I don't understand why Windows sometimes decides to return to standard US Qwerty. Linux only switches when I tell it to. Please leave your anecdotes at the door, as all OSs have issues specific to hardware (OSX and Solaris on SPARC ftw). If you have specific technical issues, then we might be interested. For instance, don't tell us that the nvidia driver didn't work (I've gotten that thing to work with 4 different cards without issue). If however, you can tell us that the nvidia driver fails because of $COMMON_USAGE$ or $NONOBSCURE_HARDWARE_CONFIGURATION$, then please post all day long.
You're looking at this all wrong. If MySQL died, so would the support my company would have for anyone that had a hand in it. We don't work with IBM now, but we do work with Sun. If a merger happened we would automatically switch support to IBM. It would be a very big black mark on them if they aided the destruction of a major component of our business. We are 1 of hundreds if not thousands of such businesses. This would severely injure IBM. Not to the point of ruin, but enough to know that it doesn't take a lousy start-up to screw over Big Blue. They can do it themselves just fine.
The point was that it wasn't MS's fault... It was mentioned specifically because it wasn't MS's fault...
What you're really interested in is whether the CPU supports special virtualization commands. This can often be disabled in the BIOS, hence the GP's comment. I'd check /proc/cpuinfo to see if the flag is set. Don't know how to check these things on Windows, but I assume its not too tough. Or just check online. I'm not certain what the flags are though... The computer I'm on has an Intel E8400 and I do not believe it has those extensions.
Your post is misleading. For single process execution, Core 2 is faster. Core i7 loses a lot of power and adds a lot of virtualization functionality. Core i7 is about the future of computing. Core 2 will still run games faster.