Bitcoins are a nice idea but people are not treating them like money. They are treating them like stocks and commodities. They are not commodities, they are coins and coins are supposed to be spent.
Hey, look! A study that doesn't conform to the common narrative that STEM is the be-all-end-all! Let's rip it to shreds with our flawed understanding of how testing works, our limited understanding of sociology, our complete lack of understanding about education, and completely ignore the fact that this study was performed by people who have dedicated their lives to doing this sort of thing and then peer reviewed and published by people who have also spent their lives doing that sort of thing.
But sure, our layman-level understanding and knowledge of phrases like correlation vs causation, reproducibility, and falsifiable and ability to trivialize findings by "selectively" quoting out of "context" completely is enough to totally invalidate any study, particularly when we only attack the news article about the study itself!
I also had no problem with IBM DeathStars. I had two of them that worked for 6-7 years until I retired them for being too small and parallel ATA. One of my roommates in school, however, had 4 of the things go in the course of 3 months. It was particularly bad because two were in a RAID 1, one was his backup drive, and the last one was a cold spare. I think the only reason he didn't lose his data was because he also burned everything important to CD, but he did lose some trivial data (Diablo 2 and Morrowind saved games). Yeah... he was pretty paranoid about disk failure and this just made it worse. Last I knew he was looking for RAID 6 controllers from decommissioned servers.
If solar is doing so great then why does it need subsidies?
If there are no subsidies, exactly how do you expect Republicans to continue encouraging bribes^W lobbyist leverage^W^W campaign contributions^W^W job creators?!
The Internet was created as a means to make national data networks necessary for national defense resistant to damage caused by war. Specifically, catastrophic wars such as nuclear war. That's why funding originated with DARPA. It was a defense project, much like GPS and the interstate road system.
And that's how things ought to stand for everything — except the handful of things the government is explicitly charged with under the Constitution: defense and law-enforcement.
Except that's not what the Constitution says:
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;" -- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
You might disagree with the general welfare clause or the interpretation the SCotUS made in 1936's United States v. Butler, but that certainly doesn't mean it's not a granted power in the Constitution now backed by judicial precedent.
No need to do that, either. Just kill the people in line at the security stations. Why kill one plane worth of people when you can kill 20 planes worth even easier?
Real programmers engineer trees to grow punch cards with self-evolving code already punched on them.
I suppose this means that, yes, God is a real programmer. I think that makes perfect sense. The source code for everything is perfectly available (MIT license), but there's no documentation and there are no comments in the code at all. In particular, the build environment is completely left as an exercise for the user. The original developer has been so silent for so long he clearly considers the code "mature" and is no longer considering enhancement requests or bug fixes... they all get marked WONTFIX with the comment "working as designed". Unfortunately the original code is extremely convoluted and seems deliberately obfuscated, so it's not really possible to fix the numerous bugs and errors in the system even if a build environment can be replicated.
Worst of all is the toolchains used... it's like the worst case of "not invented here" and "feature creep" ever. Space-time and matter-energy libraries reference each other recursively to create the atomic system, and then he uses that to create biology programs that are self-replicating and self-evolving, which in turn have their own applications. No wonder reality is so screwed up. It's worse than that Linux VM running in JavaScript.
Communism/socialism concentrates power in a very unhealthy way.
Yeah, the American model is working so much better. And the Russian model is infinitely healthier now that they're a capitalist democracy. And there are absolutely no socialist nations worldwide that are clearly more successful states.
I agree, foods with trans fats should be sold 6am to 2am Monday through Saturday only to those persons who can prove they are 21 years of age or older. It should be a crime punishable by a fine to the store and the individual employee responsible for the sale, and stores should be required to purchase licenses in order to be able to sell trans fats.
Yes, but he's not the kind of person you want developing your budget. Bean counters cannot follow the link from "investment" to "return" very easily, particularly if the "return" is anything other than more money. Bean counters are the people who think cutting benefits and outsourcing talent will improve the business long-term. They treat non-commodity resources as commodities, and do not consider quality or sustainability when factoring the cost of business. A bean counter is precisely the type of person who will step over a dollar to save a dime.
The real problem is the application. Why do they need two windows open? Why do both windows need to be different browser windows instead of having the web application do that? If legitimate tasks the user needs to do and the application was designed to perform require the user to be in two places at once, the problem is not with the user.
Either way, I don't see why laches doesn't apply. The patent is 15 years old, and damages would obviously have been ridiculously less in any previous year. I'm not certain that change in ownership matters, but IANAL.
Or if they didn't even attempt FRAND licensing with Google.
I know people who've worked at H&R Block. They wouldn't trust that company to calculate the tip on their lunch, let alone their taxes. The company is run by middle managers and bean counters with nothing to do for 9 months of the year.
This is what happened with the games review sites GameStop and IGN. Nobody trusts their reviews after the long-rumored suspicions about getting paid for good reviews turned out to be true in some cases.
Today most VG reviews are video reviews like Angry Joe or Zero Punctuation. And then we see things like TotalBiscuit's unfavorable review of Gary's Incident got taken down for DMCA violations even after he was sent a key code for the game to produce a review. Its a shame that an industry that has more revenue in a single title than any Hollywood release (GTA V) has such a problem.
And yet the VG review community is vastly larger than the software review community!
No, Debian was changing trademarked material in Thunderbird. Mozilla asked Debian to comply with Mozilla's trademark policies. Debian decided to just fork the package (and Firefox and SeaMonkey) instead, meaning they had to abandon everything covered by Mozilla's trademarks.
It's Debian. You know, the distro that prides itself and defines itself on not including any non-open source code in it's repositories. Debian is a political statement.
Nah, we're not quite at that point yet. I've seen estimates that we could see 1nm processes by 2030, but many people say anything below 5nm (expected circa 2020) isn't feasible. Either way, we're at about the manufacturing limit of the Newton and Thomson/Bohr/Rutherford universe. Atoms are between 0.3 to 3 Angstroms in size. That's 0.03nm to 0.3nm. If we want to go smaller than that, we have to construct our devices out of something other than atoms, and it's assuming that subatomic/quantum forces don't negate the practicality of devices at that scale already.
That's horribly unfair to Vista to call this "Vista 8". Vista's problem was that it was slow because it prioritized looking good over not just background services, but foreground user programs. Windows 7 fixed that and that's why it's a fantastic operating system. Windows 8's problem is that it's difficult to use because it's missing features, has a UI that doesn't indicate what things mean, and designed for interface devices other than a keyboard and mouse.
Windows 8 has a core usability problem. For years and years Microsoft tried to get Windows XP's desktop window manager on PDAs (remember those?), smartphones, and tablets. Then Apple came out with iOS, and it was awesome on PDAs, smartphones, and tablets. And Google came out with Android, and it was awesome on PDAs, smartphones, and tablets. So some idiot at MS said, "Hey, people don't want a desktop interface! They want a touchscreen interface!" Now they release Windows 8, which is actually a pretty great smartphone OS and tablet OS... however it's a complete shit interface for the desktop! It's the same sin committed in their phone strategy now committed in their desktop strategy.
They literally had to build in to Windows 8 a mechanism to drop back to the pre-Windows 8 interface to use programs. They spent years and years working on this interface, and then made it so that you only use it to access the now-neglected desktop model. It feels like you have to start the normal windows manager from the Metro interface. It feels like you have to work through another layer to be able to get to the applications.
The most amusing thing is that Ubuntu did the exact same thing when they were market leaders in the desktop Linux arena, and they alienated much of their userbase, too! Debian is above Ubuntu currently on Distrowatch, and that was absolutely unthinkable before Unity.
Now we hear that Apple is going to try to make iOS the only OS for Mac, and completely end OS X.
Why do OS developers forget that nobody uses a computer to use an OS? They use a computer to use applications. The OS's job is to facilitate that and to stay the fuck out of the user's way! They seem to think that just because a phone, a laptop, a tablet, and a desktop are all computers that people want to use them in the same way and for the same things. I can't conceive of how ludicrous this idea is. Nobody complains that they can't
To take the SlashDot obligatory car example, it's like they decided, "Hey, the steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal work great for our cars. Let's use the same thing on our motorcycles! And cruise ships! And airliners! And helicopters! And starships!"
Man pages are documentation in the same way that -? and --help and.conf file comments are documentation. Assuming you even know the command you want (or apropos can find it when you accidentally use the same name as the developer for something) they typically give you just enough information to know that you should be able to do what you want with the command you've found. These tools are references to remind you what you already know, not teach you what you knew you didn't know already, and certainly not to teach you what you didn't know you didn't know already.
Mind you, most commercial documentation is crap. MS's is better than most everyone, IMX, as their documentation not only includes references but procedures as well. SQL Server's documentation in particular is quite good, although SQL documentation from any vendor is generally stellar compared to any other software product. SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. All have stellar documentation.
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Money is a commodity. Money markets and foreign exchange markets prove that it is.
There's only there's only 12 million of them in existence. Even at US$1000 per bitcoin, that's not enough value to be mainstream.
Hey, look! A study that doesn't conform to the common narrative that STEM is the be-all-end-all! Let's rip it to shreds with our flawed understanding of how testing works, our limited understanding of sociology, our complete lack of understanding about education, and completely ignore the fact that this study was performed by people who have dedicated their lives to doing this sort of thing and then peer reviewed and published by people who have also spent their lives doing that sort of thing.
But sure, our layman-level understanding and knowledge of phrases like correlation vs causation, reproducibility, and falsifiable and ability to trivialize findings by "selectively" quoting out of "context" completely is enough to totally invalidate any study, particularly when we only attack the news article about the study itself!
I also had no problem with IBM DeathStars. I had two of them that worked for 6-7 years until I retired them for being too small and parallel ATA. One of my roommates in school, however, had 4 of the things go in the course of 3 months. It was particularly bad because two were in a RAID 1, one was his backup drive, and the last one was a cold spare. I think the only reason he didn't lose his data was because he also burned everything important to CD, but he did lose some trivial data (Diablo 2 and Morrowind saved games). Yeah... he was pretty paranoid about disk failure and this just made it worse. Last I knew he was looking for RAID 6 controllers from decommissioned servers.
If there are no subsidies, exactly how do you expect Republicans to continue encouraging bribes^W lobbyist leverage^W^W campaign contributions^W^W job creators?!
Surprise, and comedy.
The Internet was created as a means to make national data networks necessary for national defense resistant to damage caused by war. Specifically, catastrophic wars such as nuclear war. That's why funding originated with DARPA. It was a defense project, much like GPS and the interstate road system.
Except that's not what the Constitution says:
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;" -- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
You might disagree with the general welfare clause or the interpretation the SCotUS made in 1936's United States v. Butler, but that certainly doesn't mean it's not a granted power in the Constitution now backed by judicial precedent.
No need to do that, either. Just kill the people in line at the security stations. Why kill one plane worth of people when you can kill 20 planes worth even easier?
Real programmers engineer trees to grow punch cards with self-evolving code already punched on them.
I suppose this means that, yes, God is a real programmer. I think that makes perfect sense. The source code for everything is perfectly available (MIT license), but there's no documentation and there are no comments in the code at all. In particular, the build environment is completely left as an exercise for the user. The original developer has been so silent for so long he clearly considers the code "mature" and is no longer considering enhancement requests or bug fixes... they all get marked WONTFIX with the comment "working as designed". Unfortunately the original code is extremely convoluted and seems deliberately obfuscated, so it's not really possible to fix the numerous bugs and errors in the system even if a build environment can be replicated.
Worst of all is the toolchains used... it's like the worst case of "not invented here" and "feature creep" ever. Space-time and matter-energy libraries reference each other recursively to create the atomic system, and then he uses that to create biology programs that are self-replicating and self-evolving, which in turn have their own applications. No wonder reality is so screwed up. It's worse than that Linux VM running in JavaScript.
Yeah, the American model is working so much better. And the Russian model is infinitely healthier now that they're a capitalist democracy. And there are absolutely no socialist nations worldwide that are clearly more successful states.
I agree, foods with trans fats should be sold 6am to 2am Monday through Saturday only to those persons who can prove they are 21 years of age or older. It should be a crime punishable by a fine to the store and the individual employee responsible for the sale, and stores should be required to purchase licenses in order to be able to sell trans fats.
Yes, but he's not the kind of person you want developing your budget. Bean counters cannot follow the link from "investment" to "return" very easily, particularly if the "return" is anything other than more money. Bean counters are the people who think cutting benefits and outsourcing talent will improve the business long-term. They treat non-commodity resources as commodities, and do not consider quality or sustainability when factoring the cost of business. A bean counter is precisely the type of person who will step over a dollar to save a dime.
The real problem is the application. Why do they need two windows open? Why do both windows need to be different browser windows instead of having the web application do that? If legitimate tasks the user needs to do and the application was designed to perform require the user to be in two places at once, the problem is not with the user.
Sounds like a bug in your add-on, not in Firefox.
The Wii Mini doesn't have GameCube support and doesn't have Wi-Fi. Thus far, that's mainly what my Wii has been: a GameCube that streams NetFlix.
Either way, I don't see why laches doesn't apply. The patent is 15 years old, and damages would obviously have been ridiculously less in any previous year. I'm not certain that change in ownership matters, but IANAL.
Or if they didn't even attempt FRAND licensing with Google.
I know people who've worked at H&R Block. They wouldn't trust that company to calculate the tip on their lunch, let alone their taxes. The company is run by middle managers and bean counters with nothing to do for 9 months of the year.
This is what happened with the games review sites GameStop and IGN. Nobody trusts their reviews after the long-rumored suspicions about getting paid for good reviews turned out to be true in some cases.
Today most VG reviews are video reviews like Angry Joe or Zero Punctuation. And then we see things like TotalBiscuit's unfavorable review of Gary's Incident got taken down for DMCA violations even after he was sent a key code for the game to produce a review. Its a shame that an industry that has more revenue in a single title than any Hollywood release (GTA V) has such a problem.
And yet the VG review community is vastly larger than the software review community!
No, Debian was changing trademarked material in Thunderbird. Mozilla asked Debian to comply with Mozilla's trademark policies. Debian decided to just fork the package (and Firefox and SeaMonkey) instead, meaning they had to abandon everything covered by Mozilla's trademarks.
For a specific example:
IceWeasel.
It's Debian. You know, the distro that prides itself and defines itself on not including any non-open source code in it's repositories. Debian is a political statement.
Nah, we're not quite at that point yet. I've seen estimates that we could see 1nm processes by 2030, but many people say anything below 5nm (expected circa 2020) isn't feasible. Either way, we're at about the manufacturing limit of the Newton and Thomson/Bohr/Rutherford universe. Atoms are between 0.3 to 3 Angstroms in size. That's 0.03nm to 0.3nm. If we want to go smaller than that, we have to construct our devices out of something other than atoms, and it's assuming that subatomic/quantum forces don't negate the practicality of devices at that scale already.
That's horribly unfair to Vista to call this "Vista 8". Vista's problem was that it was slow because it prioritized looking good over not just background services, but foreground user programs. Windows 7 fixed that and that's why it's a fantastic operating system. Windows 8's problem is that it's difficult to use because it's missing features, has a UI that doesn't indicate what things mean, and designed for interface devices other than a keyboard and mouse.
Windows 8 has a core usability problem. For years and years Microsoft tried to get Windows XP's desktop window manager on PDAs (remember those?), smartphones, and tablets. Then Apple came out with iOS, and it was awesome on PDAs, smartphones, and tablets. And Google came out with Android, and it was awesome on PDAs, smartphones, and tablets. So some idiot at MS said, "Hey, people don't want a desktop interface! They want a touchscreen interface!" Now they release Windows 8, which is actually a pretty great smartphone OS and tablet OS... however it's a complete shit interface for the desktop! It's the same sin committed in their phone strategy now committed in their desktop strategy.
They literally had to build in to Windows 8 a mechanism to drop back to the pre-Windows 8 interface to use programs. They spent years and years working on this interface, and then made it so that you only use it to access the now-neglected desktop model. It feels like you have to start the normal windows manager from the Metro interface. It feels like you have to work through another layer to be able to get to the applications.
The most amusing thing is that Ubuntu did the exact same thing when they were market leaders in the desktop Linux arena, and they alienated much of their userbase, too! Debian is above Ubuntu currently on Distrowatch, and that was absolutely unthinkable before Unity.
Now we hear that Apple is going to try to make iOS the only OS for Mac, and completely end OS X.
Why do OS developers forget that nobody uses a computer to use an OS? They use a computer to use applications. The OS's job is to facilitate that and to stay the fuck out of the user's way! They seem to think that just because a phone, a laptop, a tablet, and a desktop are all computers that people want to use them in the same way and for the same things. I can't conceive of how ludicrous this idea is. Nobody complains that they can't
To take the SlashDot obligatory car example, it's like they decided, "Hey, the steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal work great for our cars. Let's use the same thing on our motorcycles! And cruise ships! And airliners! And helicopters! And starships!"
Man pages are documentation in the same way that -? and --help and .conf file comments are documentation. Assuming you even know the command you want (or apropos can find it when you accidentally use the same name as the developer for something) they typically give you just enough information to know that you should be able to do what you want with the command you've found. These tools are references to remind you what you already know, not teach you what you knew you didn't know already, and certainly not to teach you what you didn't know you didn't know already.
Mind you, most commercial documentation is crap. MS's is better than most everyone, IMX, as their documentation not only includes references but procedures as well. SQL Server's documentation in particular is quite good, although SQL documentation from any vendor is generally stellar compared to any other software product. SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. All have stellar documentation.