Personally, what I got the biggest laugh at is that, just like Fog Creek's other software, they're wanting ridiculous amounts of money for this code. Hosted? On a shared server? 10 million page views a month (Random page on Stack Overflow, 20KB, so in other words, about 200GB)? How much would you pay? For this forum / QA software?
With Stack Exchange? A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH.
Wow. Just wow. Really, Joel? You think your software is worth that much?
Or hey, you could use it on your own server. If you're willing to pay TWO AND A HALF THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH...
The families who took the money were on the edge of desperation - looking for any way out.
No, they weren't. Most people who took out low rate ARM mortgages in the early mid 2000s fell into several categories: the ignorant, ill-informed (maliciously or otherwise), or my favorite, seduced by TV networks who made "flipping" a property seem a guaranteed way to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The waves of people I've seen on those shows, even now, who seem to think that anything less than $100,000 profit on a purchase, some renovations, and a six month turn-around is unacceptable is staggering.
Even now, watch the very vast majority of those shows, particularly the ones where people do renovations, and have before/after valuations. "You spent how much on your new kitchen?" "$15,000" "Great, you just added $30,000 value to the home. Now, how about the bathroom?" "We spent $8,000 in here." "Excellent, looking around, I'd say you added $20,000 to the value of the home", and so on, ad nauseaum. Add this up, and you have, in my view, a hidden culprit, along with the RE agents who were pretty much as a whole in lock-step with these mantras pushed by TV onto their clients, of the housing bust.
That $23,000 you invested in the home is only worth $50,000 if you can find the one born every minute to sell it to. Eventually, that got so outrageous, and so out of tune with reality, that people realized they were paying $50,000 for $23,000 of renovations on a home by a "flipper", and balked. And down came the house of cards.
And? Yes. It was an embarrassing, but easily fixed bug. Should it have been spotted? Of course. But explain to the simpletons among us why that makes it such a horrific product. Bonus points if you can then point to other similar products that have never had a bug that causes a spontaneous reboot.
Bad analogy? What part of the concept of personal and private property do you not understand? You have a specific warrant, and are permitted on the premises for that purpose ONLY. It is not a carte blanche to play video games, to raid the fridge.
You can bet your ass if my chief found that I had done similar, I would be looking for a new job.
What relevance does his Wii have to their ability to execute the warrant? None. Ergo you have no right to do as you wish beyond the scope of the warrant. You are on private premises without consent, a right only granted you by virtue of the court allowing a warrant. Like my mention of me being an EMT - even if you call 911, it doesn't necessarily grant me access to your property. Why do you think a warrant is needed in the first place? Because one of the tenets of our society is that property is sacrosanct unless something makes it worthy of forfeit.
That means you don't goof off and do whatever the hell you feel like. For 9 minutes or 9 hours.
What if it was someone else's property? A housemate? What if it was broken?
Because their search warrant was for search of premises and an arrest warrant for suspect, not to "chill out after a hard day and play suspect's video game system"?
Are you dense?
Here's an analogy, I'm an EMT. If I come to your premises, after/you/ call 911, and you decide you don't want treatment, but I think "No, this guy's messed up, I'll just have a look at this", I'm committing criminal assault and battery. If I stick around in your house, after, you can call 911 again, and have me arrested for trespass. Let alone pull up a pew and decide I'm going to have a few games of Wii Bowling, especially against your consent.
I am staggered that you think the real issue here is that the suspect thinks that this is inappropriate or unacceptable behavior. Don't even start me on "after doing their highly stressful job". So what? You go back to the station, to your home, you don't de-stress there. How could you ever think that was acceptable? Maybe they should have pulled a few brews out of the fridge too? Hell, maybe rolled themselves a joint from the evidence!
What anti- bullshit. Troll. Did you even read the article you linked to?
This lavish facility, costing $2 Billion - a mere 5% of the foundation's capital
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation broke ground Tuesday on its new $500 million headquarters, which the world's largest charitable foundation hopes to occupy in late 2010."
Just how much do you think a nearly million square foot complex in downtown Seattle should cost, capable, as you said, of supporting 1200 employees.
The headquarters are being paid for by the Gates' directly, not out of the $38B endowment they've set up.
Doesn't it just make you aspire to lend your hands to their noble cause?
Yeah, "using its $37.3 billion endowment to fight diseases like AIDS and malaria, start a green revolution in Africa, improve American high schools and provide Internet access at libraries throughout the world" at a minimum mandated level of $1.5B/year sounds fucking horrible and selfish of them, if you ask me.
No, I didn't miss the point. The entire spin on the article is BS. They talk about going FROM an existing solution where there can be downtime, TO a new one without.
Sound the alarms!
"With the current system, we do most of our planned maintenance off-shift". Shock, horror.
I know this is on-topic, sorry for that, but here is a quote from the article: "According to Burton Group, VMware and Citrix XenServer are the only two enterprise-ready hypervisor platforms on the market."
Apropos of anything else, most "reports" from "The XYZ Group" have so little intrinsic value I think their real genius is in convincing corporations to shell out tens of thousands of dollars a year for five page reports full of "insights" that are cobbled together trinkets of such vague handwaving generalities, sprung forth from probably ten minutes with a search engine and an hour condensing a synopsis that is entirely geared to whatever notion The XYZ Group feels most beneficial to itself to pimp, be it to push people towards tech that surprise, surprise, it does consulting on, or otherwise.
but if people who were supposed to be here "temporarily" are still in my city committing crimes to this day
If they are paying rent or such, then I don't care if you're pissed off. All your post says is "we don't like those people in our town". Tell me why you think they have less right to stay and live anywhere they so desire than you?
2) Constant and aggressive speed traps all over the city (I recently observed motorcycle police tailing people into a school zone and nabbing them if they didn't hit the brakes immediately).
You mean "per the law"? That speed zone sign is big and readable from a distance. When a speed limit drops, you're supposed to begin slowing before it. Not hit the brakes once you pass the sign.
How come you can CTRL+F in just about any/. thread and find some mention of the Straw Man Argument? It wouldn't be so bad if peoples' claims were actually true -- that a SMA was being used against them -- but usually, people cite SMA when they are just angry that they've been bested in an e-debate.
You got it right. On Slashdot, a "Straw Man Argument" is "an argument that I dislike with enough intensity to want to torch you like a straw man".
Actually, what's annoying to me is Google's arrogance - "we realize that thousands of people, at the least have been working on solar power, increasing its efficiency and effectiveness for decades. But we figure that despite all that, we can pump out something that is 25% better, oh, in a couple of months".
You'll have a heck of a time proving that attacking a cop was justified
If you tased a cop, you'll have a heck of a time not finding yourself face down in an alley with a Saturday night special conveniently in your hand, being flagged as a 'righteous kill'.
Except that "HD" radio is all another marketing gimmick. It's actually "Hybrid Digital" radio, and whilst it can be upped in quality, most HD radio channels on the air today are not in "High Def", though of course that won't stop the stations advertising themselves as such.
Come on, 5 years ago called, they want their meme back. I have run Vista and Windows 7 on a variety of machines, systems from Dell, homebuilt systems with more "esoteric" hardware, everything from USB MIDI to BT keyboards to heart rate monitors to eSATA and FW800 add-in cards, laptops, netbooks, and ONLY ONCE have I ever seen a bluescreen, and that was due to bumping a PCI card half out of its slot whilst testing.
Because its hardware lets you do more things faster?
So your claim is that OS X doing the same general operation on given hardware X is going to do it faster than Windows on given hardware X? In the words of Wikipedia, "citation needed".
And then the BIOS randomly got courrupted so he bought another computer
I am yet to see a motherboard made in the past several years that doesn't have a) dual BIOS EPROMs, b) baseline ability to re-flash BIOS in event of corruption, c) ability to put the BIOS on a USB stick and boot from that (my latest motherboard lets you do this to either restore, or verify functionality of a BIOS update, before committing to it). Alternatively, show why EFI firmware is magically immune to potential corruption from issues up to and including power fluctuations and similar.
Written from my Mac Pro which I love, before the "Shill" tag is applied.
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With Stack Exchange? A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH.
Wow. Just wow. Really, Joel? You think your software is worth that much?
Or hey, you could use it on your own server. If you're willing to pay TWO AND A HALF THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH...
Check out Vanilla for a better BB experience: http://vanillaforums.org/discussions
No, they weren't. Most people who took out low rate ARM mortgages in the early mid 2000s fell into several categories: the ignorant, ill-informed (maliciously or otherwise), or my favorite, seduced by TV networks who made "flipping" a property seem a guaranteed way to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The waves of people I've seen on those shows, even now, who seem to think that anything less than $100,000 profit on a purchase, some renovations, and a six month turn-around is unacceptable is staggering.
Even now, watch the very vast majority of those shows, particularly the ones where people do renovations, and have before/after valuations. "You spent how much on your new kitchen?" "$15,000" "Great, you just added $30,000 value to the home. Now, how about the bathroom?" "We spent $8,000 in here." "Excellent, looking around, I'd say you added $20,000 to the value of the home", and so on, ad nauseaum. Add this up, and you have, in my view, a hidden culprit, along with the RE agents who were pretty much as a whole in lock-step with these mantras pushed by TV onto their clients, of the housing bust.
That $23,000 you invested in the home is only worth $50,000 if you can find the one born every minute to sell it to. Eventually, that got so outrageous, and so out of tune with reality, that people realized they were paying $50,000 for $23,000 of renovations on a home by a "flipper", and balked. And down came the house of cards.
And? Yes. It was an embarrassing, but easily fixed bug. Should it have been spotted? Of course. But explain to the simpletons among us why that makes it such a horrific product. Bonus points if you can then point to other similar products that have never had a bug that causes a spontaneous reboot.
You can bet your ass if my chief found that I had done similar, I would be looking for a new job.
What relevance does his Wii have to their ability to execute the warrant? None. Ergo you have no right to do as you wish beyond the scope of the warrant. You are on private premises without consent, a right only granted you by virtue of the court allowing a warrant. Like my mention of me being an EMT - even if you call 911, it doesn't necessarily grant me access to your property. Why do you think a warrant is needed in the first place? Because one of the tenets of our society is that property is sacrosanct unless something makes it worthy of forfeit.
That means you don't goof off and do whatever the hell you feel like. For 9 minutes or 9 hours.
What if it was someone else's property? A housemate? What if it was broken?
Are you dense?
Here's an analogy, I'm an EMT. If I come to your premises, after /you/ call 911, and you decide you don't want treatment, but I think "No, this guy's messed up, I'll just have a look at this", I'm committing criminal assault and battery. If I stick around in your house, after, you can call 911 again, and have me arrested for trespass. Let alone pull up a pew and decide I'm going to have a few games of Wii Bowling, especially against your consent.
I am staggered that you think the real issue here is that the suspect thinks that this is inappropriate or unacceptable behavior. Don't even start me on "after doing their highly stressful job". So what? You go back to the station, to your home, you don't de-stress there. How could you ever think that was acceptable? Maybe they should have pulled a few brews out of the fridge too? Hell, maybe rolled themselves a joint from the evidence!
Of course :) You may not have noticed that my entire post was heavily laden with sarcasm. ;)
MSFT does a lot for the state, a lot more than some other very large corporations here.
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation broke ground Tuesday on its new $500 million headquarters, which the world's largest charitable foundation hopes to occupy in late 2010."
Just how much do you think a nearly million square foot complex in downtown Seattle should cost, capable, as you said, of supporting 1200 employees.
The headquarters are being paid for by the Gates' directly, not out of the $38B endowment they've set up.
Yeah, "using its $37.3 billion endowment to fight diseases like AIDS and malaria, start a green revolution in Africa, improve American high schools and provide Internet access at libraries throughout the world" at a minimum mandated level of $1.5B/year sounds fucking horrible and selfish of them, if you ask me.
Sound the alarms!
"With the current system, we do most of our planned maintenance off-shift". Shock, horror.
I stand by my claims.
Apropos of anything else, most "reports" from "The XYZ Group" have so little intrinsic value I think their real genius is in convincing corporations to shell out tens of thousands of dollars a year for five page reports full of "insights" that are cobbled together trinkets of such vague handwaving generalities, sprung forth from probably ten minutes with a search engine and an hour condensing a synopsis that is entirely geared to whatever notion The XYZ Group feels most beneficial to itself to pimp, be it to push people towards tech that surprise, surprise, it does consulting on, or otherwise.
Interesting extrapolation.
So it's kinda like a retroactive version of Apple's App Store rejecting apps for being too similar to Apple functionality? (Google Latitude, anyone?)
If they are paying rent or such, then I don't care if you're pissed off. All your post says is "we don't like those people in our town". Tell me why you think they have less right to stay and live anywhere they so desire than you?
You mean "per the law"? That speed zone sign is big and readable from a distance. When a speed limit drops, you're supposed to begin slowing before it. Not hit the brakes once you pass the sign.
You got it right. On Slashdot, a "Straw Man Argument" is "an argument that I dislike with enough intensity to want to torch you like a straw man".
A what? Don't hold out on us, man! What can you make? Besides a signature that's too long for Slashdot!
If I give them a check via the telephone, as opposed to sending it in, they charge me a $15 fee!
Hint: 1billion tons of aluminum at 2,700kg/m3 = 370,000,000m3, which equals the entire forest industry of Europe's wood production.
So, please tell us, how many multiples of Europe's production of wood per year does the US military have just lying around in bases?
Actually, what's annoying to me is Google's arrogance - "we realize that thousands of people, at the least have been working on solar power, increasing its efficiency and effectiveness for decades. But we figure that despite all that, we can pump out something that is 25% better, oh, in a couple of months".
If you tased a cop, you'll have a heck of a time not finding yourself face down in an alley with a Saturday night special conveniently in your hand, being flagged as a 'righteous kill'.
Hmmm..., sounds like a great product. Stellar reviews and opinions.
Except that "HD" radio is all another marketing gimmick. It's actually "Hybrid Digital" radio, and whilst it can be upped in quality, most HD radio channels on the air today are not in "High Def", though of course that won't stop the stations advertising themselves as such.
Come on, 5 years ago called, they want their meme back. I have run Vista and Windows 7 on a variety of machines, systems from Dell, homebuilt systems with more "esoteric" hardware, everything from USB MIDI to BT keyboards to heart rate monitors to eSATA and FW800 add-in cards, laptops, netbooks, and ONLY ONCE have I ever seen a bluescreen, and that was due to bumping a PCI card half out of its slot whilst testing.
So your claim is that OS X doing the same general operation on given hardware X is going to do it faster than Windows on given hardware X? In the words of Wikipedia, "citation needed".
I am yet to see a motherboard made in the past several years that doesn't have a) dual BIOS EPROMs, b) baseline ability to re-flash BIOS in event of corruption, c) ability to put the BIOS on a USB stick and boot from that (my latest motherboard lets you do this to either restore, or verify functionality of a BIOS update, before committing to it). Alternatively, show why EFI firmware is magically immune to potential corruption from issues up to and including power fluctuations and similar.
Written from my Mac Pro which I love, before the "Shill" tag is applied.
And I wish I could have been a coke dealer, with all that sniffing...