Your own custom app designed to do the same thing that countless other more standard apps already do.... print a name on a screen. This can not be good.
*nods* this will likely be an election focused on getting people out to vote or discouraging them from voting since, as you say, most people have made up their minds already.
Though it is always possible that something strange will happen. There are rumblings that polls are showing a possible electoral tie, and Ron Paul supporters have been trying to stuff the electoral college (and are unlikely to simply vote for whoever they are supposed to), so we could have an interesting constitutional crisis on our hands if everything pans out.
I think that is the critical piece. While 3D printers will no doubt get cheaper and more capable, it is doubtful that they will be able to approach the economics of dedicated factories any time within our lifetime. So while this makes an interesting Star-Trek level theoretical discussion, nothing like this will likely come to pass any time soon.
Pity I don't have modpoints, this really shouldn't be '-1 Flamebait'.
Unfortunately, right now any negative story about Apple (just like Microsoft a few years ago) is ran with since it fits into the currant narrative. All the cool kids hate Apple, and if you want to be part of the in crowd you have to loudly proclaim how horrible Apple is to everyone. Pointing out any possible flaw in the rants makes you a fanboy or troll.
If I recall correctly, didn't he cash out immediately (or at least sell off a large chunk) while employees are barred from selling their stock for a year or something?
When only a tiny number of people are being effected, there is a good chance that testing would not have caught the issue. Edge cases are a constant bane.
I am not sure any analogy can really be drawn. The issue isn't the specific word, but the culture around it. There is no equivalent since males have such a strong presence in geek and tech culture... they have no frame of reference to understand from. The best they can do is say 'I don't understand, but I accept that this matters and will keep it in mind'. Trying to convey it via something they can understand simply won't work....
I think what I find depressing.... in these discussions you see many people pointing out that they don't get it, they don't understand why it is a big deal, etc...
You know what, that is a great thing to say, a great thing to admit. Stop there.
I think what is infuriating to many is people start with "I don't understand" then proceed to "therefor it doesn't matter". Telling people how they should feel about things that you can't understand is the hight of arrogance. Maybe instead these people should take some time and listen, and just accept that other people are impacted by things like this and just because you are not doesn't mean they shouldn't be.
You don't get it. Fine. Then don't tell other people how to feel. Women don't need your big smart male brain to explain how their poor womanly one should react to things that relate to experiences men don't have.
Yeah, but I doubt anyone is under the dilution that the person who slipped it in ment male or gender neutral breasts. Technicalities and what-ifs do not change what the person likely intended and the way it is read by, well, pretty much everyone.
True, though as others have pointed out, it is sometimes more then just being able to load/save documents. For instance the time sheets we have to fill out are set up using a newer version of Excel's macros, that even if you can load the file they don't quite work right. It could be said that they are simply poorly written, but at the end of the day they are the documents the people who pay our bills want time reported in.
And that is why this upgrade cycle tends to annoy me. Optional software that gives you new tools if you need them I have no problems with... but upstream consumers (or document providers) who switch over to the tool and require other people to use it because of macro or file format issues... that annoys me.
So now if someone I need to work with (such as a customer or supplier) requires Office2013 I will need to not only buy a new OS, but new hardware to run it on. At least earlier versions I only had to upgrade the individual software package in order to work with their stupid documents....
I am guessing you have never had to follow freedom of speech issues in germany. They are a lot more restrictive then the US and you don't have that 1st ammendment to fall back on.
Which, by US standards is bias... 'if you are not unquestioningly for us, you are bias!'... which I suspect they 'communicated' to either the judge or people above him, who then quietly took him aside and explained what staying on the case might do to his career....
Yeah, but they only offer those discounts to lobbies they know are already powerful. Go in there with a few kilobucks as a nobody and their prices skyrocket.
That is why I described it as 'original energy'.. the people pushing it though knew that not enough people would care so they tweaked it to tie into other narratives, and thus the 'how dare those unelected scientists change our definition on us!' meme we see today... from people who, if it didn't have that tie in, probably would not even remotely care about a standards organization adjusting a taxonomy that only generally impacts researchers in the field when they are producing documents where the difference matters. Otherwise could you imagine people getting THAT worked up over 'dwarf' getting added to 'planet'... I doubt they care, say, about the term 'gas giant'... no one is screaming that they took Jupiter away.
LInguists would laugh at this, if for no other reason then they change the technical definition not the common one, so your whole complain is a straw man.
The only reason the Pluto stuff (and the IAU) has gotten so much attention and ranting is that an American discovered Pluto and a bunch of patriots got butthurt that 'europeans' were taking away their thunder.
When there is ambiguity, professional and standards organizations redefine stuff all the time. This was a pretty routine thing to do and would have gone completely under the radar if nationalism had not come into play and got people fired up. In the end, they couldn't keep Pluto as a 'planet' without including a significant number of other bodies, which would have pissed off people too.
But like many issues, the original energy behind the backlash has been pretty much lost on the people who continue to push it today....which was part of the point. You can wrap up all sorts of nationalistic bullshit if you tie it into other existing narratives that appeal to the same people... think of the children, elitists forcing things on the public.. plays to the same audience and plays well off even less knowledge of the issue.
The IAU, both committee and members, is made up of active scientists who do the bureaucratic stuff in addition to their research jobs. That is how professional organizations usually work, the people running them are doing community duty above and beyond their paid employment.
True, but this is what splits 'iterative' or 'spiral' development from 'agile'. Actually, this kinda gets into the murky waters of 'what does person X actually mean when they say 'agile'?'......
I think the real problems come from pure forms of agile, or the agile services sector. Like any technique it tends to work well when hybridized with others in order to best suit the situation, and sucks in its pure inflexible form.
Bureaucrats and politicians, accountants love made up number that show phantom savings..... I am sure their actual security planners and engineers are shitting bricks at the very idea of having critical government services hosted on shared machines of private companies during an emergency.
The irony here, of course, is the internet was originally developed to be a way for the government to stay up and running when there was an attack or major disaster. Now they are trying to use the internet to make themselves more vulnerable by depending on private companies.
If things are truely critical and need to be online when things go to pot, they should be on a government (military) hardened cluster of some type. Not some server farm where load balancers decide if you are more important then someone watching old episodes of I love Lucy. The two shouldn't even be in the same equation.
Eh, there is a certain amount of information bais going on. Stories of EU courts sticking it to the US and being moderate fit an existing narrative well, but the reality is they are just as dysfunctional and have more then their fair share of crazy rulings. There are some thing EU courts (which is a VERY broad concept right there since each country has its own laws in a way that US states do not) are good for, and some things US courts tend to be saner on.
Heh, though as others have pointed out, Iceland isn't EU... but they do rock. Walking on lava and everything ^_^
Kinda old news. I thought the 'single wave' theory had been abandoned decades ago, though some tribes have been lobbying to rewrite history since their mythology mandates they were the 'first' ones there, so waves conflict with doctrine.
So it is left wing to actually want facts to back up assertions of harm? Odd.. I remember a time when conservatives wanted facts and proofs.. oh wait, that was realpolitik... I keep forgetting how progressive and erratic conservative ideology can be.
Ok then, I assert Reagan used to eat puppies. If you don't care about evidence this should be enough, after all, someone on the internet said it.
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Your own custom app designed to do the same thing that countless other more standard apps already do.... print a name on a screen. This can not be good.
*nods* this will likely be an election focused on getting people out to vote or discouraging them from voting since, as you say, most people have made up their minds already.
Though it is always possible that something strange will happen. There are rumblings that polls are showing a possible electoral tie, and Ron Paul supporters have been trying to stuff the electoral college (and are unlikely to simply vote for whoever they are supposed to), so we could have an interesting constitutional crisis on our hands if everything pans out.
Now THAT would be something worth punditing over.
I think that is the critical piece. While 3D printers will no doubt get cheaper and more capable, it is doubtful that they will be able to approach the economics of dedicated factories any time within our lifetime. So while this makes an interesting Star-Trek level theoretical discussion, nothing like this will likely come to pass any time soon.
Meh, Apple is always 'dying' for one reason or another.
Pity I don't have modpoints, this really shouldn't be '-1 Flamebait'.
Unfortunately, right now any negative story about Apple (just like Microsoft a few years ago) is ran with since it fits into the currant narrative. All the cool kids hate Apple, and if you want to be part of the in crowd you have to loudly proclaim how horrible Apple is to everyone. Pointing out any possible flaw in the rants makes you a fanboy or troll.
If I recall correctly, didn't he cash out immediately (or at least sell off a large chunk) while employees are barred from selling their stock for a year or something?
When only a tiny number of people are being effected, there is a good chance that testing would not have caught the issue. Edge cases are a constant bane.
I am not sure any analogy can really be drawn. The issue isn't the specific word, but the culture around it. There is no equivalent since males have such a strong presence in geek and tech culture... they have no frame of reference to understand from. The best they can do is say 'I don't understand, but I accept that this matters and will keep it in mind'. Trying to convey it via something they can understand simply won't work....
*smirk* that is making for a fun image.
I think what I find depressing.... in these discussions you see many people pointing out that they don't get it, they don't understand why it is a big deal, etc...
You know what, that is a great thing to say, a great thing to admit. Stop there.
I think what is infuriating to many is people start with "I don't understand" then proceed to "therefor it doesn't matter". Telling people how they should feel about things that you can't understand is the hight of arrogance. Maybe instead these people should take some time and listen, and just accept that other people are impacted by things like this and just because you are not doesn't mean they shouldn't be.
You don't get it. Fine. Then don't tell other people how to feel. Women don't need your big smart male brain to explain how their poor womanly one should react to things that relate to experiences men don't have.
Yeah, but I doubt anyone is under the dilution that the person who slipped it in ment male or gender neutral breasts. Technicalities and what-ifs do not change what the person likely intended and the way it is read by, well, pretty much everyone.
True, though as others have pointed out, it is sometimes more then just being able to load/save documents. For instance the time sheets we have to fill out are set up using a newer version of Excel's macros, that even if you can load the file they don't quite work right. It could be said that they are simply poorly written, but at the end of the day they are the documents the people who pay our bills want time reported in.
And that is why this upgrade cycle tends to annoy me. Optional software that gives you new tools if you need them I have no problems with... but upstream consumers (or document providers) who switch over to the tool and require other people to use it because of macro or file format issues... that annoys me.
So now if someone I need to work with (such as a customer or supplier) requires Office2013 I will need to not only buy a new OS, but new hardware to run it on. At least earlier versions I only had to upgrade the individual software package in order to work with their stupid documents....
I am guessing you have never had to follow freedom of speech issues in germany. They are a lot more restrictive then the US and you don't have that 1st ammendment to fall back on.
Which, by US standards is bias... 'if you are not unquestioningly for us, you are bias!'... which I suspect they 'communicated' to either the judge or people above him, who then quietly took him aside and explained what staying on the case might do to his career....
Yeah, but they only offer those discounts to lobbies they know are already powerful. Go in there with a few kilobucks as a nobody and their prices skyrocket.
That is why I described it as 'original energy'.. the people pushing it though knew that not enough people would care so they tweaked it to tie into other narratives, and thus the 'how dare those unelected scientists change our definition on us!' meme we see today... from people who, if it didn't have that tie in, probably would not even remotely care about a standards organization adjusting a taxonomy that only generally impacts researchers in the field when they are producing documents where the difference matters. Otherwise could you imagine people getting THAT worked up over 'dwarf' getting added to 'planet'... I doubt they care, say, about the term 'gas giant'... no one is screaming that they took Jupiter away.
LInguists would laugh at this, if for no other reason then they change the technical definition not the common one, so your whole complain is a straw man.
The only reason the Pluto stuff (and the IAU) has gotten so much attention and ranting is that an American discovered Pluto and a bunch of patriots got butthurt that 'europeans' were taking away their thunder.
When there is ambiguity, professional and standards organizations redefine stuff all the time. This was a pretty routine thing to do and would have gone completely under the radar if nationalism had not come into play and got people fired up. In the end, they couldn't keep Pluto as a 'planet' without including a significant number of other bodies, which would have pissed off people too.
But like many issues, the original energy behind the backlash has been pretty much lost on the people who continue to push it today....which was part of the point. You can wrap up all sorts of nationalistic bullshit if you tie it into other existing narratives that appeal to the same people... think of the children, elitists forcing things on the public.. plays to the same audience and plays well off even less knowledge of the issue.
Yes they do.
The IAU, both committee and members, is made up of active scientists who do the bureaucratic stuff in addition to their research jobs. That is how professional organizations usually work, the people running them are doing community duty above and beyond their paid employment.
I wonder how many people actually think like this, vs people who just like using it to troll ^_^
True, but this is what splits 'iterative' or 'spiral' development from 'agile'. Actually, this kinda gets into the murky waters of 'what does person X actually mean when they say 'agile'?'......
I think the real problems come from pure forms of agile, or the agile services sector. Like any technique it tends to work well when hybridized with others in order to best suit the situation, and sucks in its pure inflexible form.
Bureaucrats and politicians, accountants love made up number that show phantom savings..... I am sure their actual security planners and engineers are shitting bricks at the very idea of having critical government services hosted on shared machines of private companies during an emergency.
The irony here, of course, is the internet was originally developed to be a way for the government to stay up and running when there was an attack or major disaster. Now they are trying to use the internet to make themselves more vulnerable by depending on private companies.
If things are truely critical and need to be online when things go to pot, they should be on a government (military) hardened cluster of some type. Not some server farm where load balancers decide if you are more important then someone watching old episodes of I love Lucy. The two shouldn't even be in the same equation.
Eh, there is a certain amount of information bais going on. Stories of EU courts sticking it to the US and being moderate fit an existing narrative well, but the reality is they are just as dysfunctional and have more then their fair share of crazy rulings. There are some thing EU courts (which is a VERY broad concept right there since each country has its own laws in a way that US states do not) are good for, and some things US courts tend to be saner on.
Heh, though as others have pointed out, Iceland isn't EU... but they do rock. Walking on lava and everything ^_^
Kinda old news. I thought the 'single wave' theory had been abandoned decades ago, though some tribes have been lobbying to rewrite history since their mythology mandates they were the 'first' ones there, so waves conflict with doctrine.
So it is left wing to actually want facts to back up assertions of harm? Odd.. I remember a time when conservatives wanted facts and proofs.. oh wait, that was realpolitik... I keep forgetting how progressive and erratic conservative ideology can be.
Ok then, I assert Reagan used to eat puppies. If you don't care about evidence this should be enough, after all, someone on the internet said it.