Given that the average monthly salary at Foxconn is $350
That is a meaningless number. When I was in Thailand in the USAF, it was a 3rd world country (since industrialized). The bungalow I rented cost $30 per month, woman included. I could feed four for a dollar in a nice restaraunt. I could take a bus anywhere in the coutry for five cents, a taxi for a buck. A tailored shirt was five bucks. When I was in Delaware I lived like a pauper, eating in the mess hall and living in a barracks and was always broke, same salary in Thailand and I lived like a king.
I'm twice as rich as someone in Chicago earning the exact same amount as me, because prices there are twice what they are here, especially for essentials like food and rent and utilities.
Without pricing info, the monthly salary is a meaningless figure. They most likely indeed do live terrible, poverty stricken lives, but otoh $350 may be a lot of money there and they could possibly be living better than me.
Emulating XP's explorer in this day and age is unacceptable.
I wish I could install XP's explorer on my W7 notebook, the new one is buggy as hell, lacks features XP's had, and none of the new features interest me in the least.
Oh, and KDE's file manager is head and shoulders above both XP and W7. And tell me, if KDE emulates XP, why does it have features that every version of Windows ever sold lacks? Improvement != emulation.
I think he was referring to crushing cobalt to make blue pigments with. But back in MY day we spelled "Cobol" COBOL because it's an acronym. I probably misremeber (the old brain cells get calcified, ya know) it stood for Crappy Old Bad Obsolete Language. Oh, wait... no, that's not right. COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
And yes, that "calcified" was a nod to the late great Asimov's Foundation. AND WE LIKED IT!
If you want something done inefficiently, badly, at high cost and overly influenced by politics, have the government do it.
That's the meme, and it's wrong. Take city-run power company CWLP for example. It has the lowest rates in the state, the highest uptime, and the best customer service.
In 2006, two strong F2 tornados decimated Springfield's east and south sides, it went right through my neighborhood. It took months to clean up the mess, there were blue tarps on roofs two years later. It was bad. It went right through my neighborhood and destroyed every pole, wire, and cable there. I was out of of power for a week, people didn't have cable or landline for two months.
A few months later a weak F1 went through the St Louis area. A month after that tornado I visited my friend Jeff in Cahokia, right across the river from downtown St Louis. The only evidence I saw that there even had been a tornado was Jeff still didn't have power.
The reason? Amerin is beholden to no one but its stockholders. They have a monopoly, so they can charge the maximum the law allows, can be lax as the law allows on maintenance, and who needs customer service that doesn't suck when you have a monopoly? Like Jeff's house, Amerin customers are powerless.
But here in Springfield, if the rates get too high, if customer service isn't helpful and friendly, or if you lose power too often or too long, we get a new Mayor next election.
Your theory is great in theory, it sucks in actual practice.
Rude employees, restaraunt stinks like urine thanks to the soap they use (McDonald's had the same problem 20 years ago), barely edible, you can get an excellent Burrito from La Bamba that not only is delicious, but authentic Mexican for cheaper, s...l...o...w... service -- last time I was there I waited half an hour in line.
How much Taco Bell stock do you own, fellow? If you're high up in their organization you might want to do something about the ones in Springfield, IL, because they suck in every way a restaraunt can suck.
Taco Bell makes McDonald's look like a real restaraunt... and that's really BAD.
Also, if you're single, surely the prospects are better in Korea; all the women here are obese and have kids when they're teenagers.
You must live in Mississippi, home to the world's largest collection of morbidly obese people. Everywhere else, one in three is fat and most women wait until they're almost 30.
As a cyborg I take exeption to that! Damned cybists... If you'd talked of Asians or blacks like that you'd get your ass handed to you.
I refuse to apologize for the fact that I'm not 100% human or 100% natural. My cybernetic implant makes me superior to you... well, at least the human part that was replaced by a machine, anyway. And, there's a good chance your grandparents are cyborgs, and a better chance that you will be assimilated as well. MWAHAHAHA!!!
You seem to think that "flagship product of an expensive brand" means "perfect in every way."
"Flagship product" means "our best." And your flagship product has some terrible flaws that its competitors lack. You don't get that??? No other expensive camera phone has this glaring flaw. Comparing it to a Nikon SLR is retarded, but good strawman there. It's not only no Nikon, it isn't even as good as the camera on the $100 Motorola phone I have.
Pathetic... almost as pathetic as you fanbois (or Apple employees?) excusing it.
Actually, I much prefer the internet's brutal honesty. It's the bullshit faux politeness IRL that I have a problem with. For example, I can't just say "This code sucks" at work.
If work and nothing else == IRL, I feel sorry for you. Most places it isn't wise to talk about sex, politics, or religion in a bar. Here in weird-ass Springfield those topics are fine, but as nearly half the population is from St Louis and nearly the rest are from Chicago, I joke that talking about baseball can get your ass kicked.
But it really isn't true. Mike, who owns Felbers, is selling "suckingsince 1908" tea shirts. He has a poster there of a cartoon Cardinal player pissing on a Cubs hat with the logo "Cubs lose again!" (stuffed with five dollar bills he won betting against the Cubs).
But just last night I was there sitting between two fellows who were drinking Bud Light. "We're out of your draft, want a Bud Light or a Miller Lite?"
"Hell no" I said. "They SUCK."
Of course, since it's a redneck bar in the ghetto... But think a minute. If you owned the company you work for and you see some code that sucks, you can call the programmer into your office and say "where the fuck did you learn to program? This is the shittiest code ever. Not only does it suck, you suck too. Now get back to fucking work before I fire your ass!"
The worst that will happen is the guy will come back with a firearm. Which almost never happens.
There are three kinds of people: those who are always polite, those who are polite when they're in polite company, and those who are polite because they're pussies. The internet assholes who are polite IRL are pussies.
You're not anonymous? Yeah, sure. Look, my user name is my real name and you'd still have a hell of a time finding me. If you've ever been in charge of a large database, you'd know that names are terrible identifiers. And your real name is not likely to be aliquis.
Hell, when I was writing the Paxl Diaries five or ten years ago at k5, the people I was writing about were fans of the series, and didn't realise that I was mcgrew!
You ARE anonymous on slashdot. Even on G+, there are half a dozen people there with the same name as me.
Niven, Asimov, and Hienlein have all written stories like this. One (Asimov iirc but it could have been Heinlein) wrote a short story about a time traveller who went to the heat death of the universe. Sorry, it's been years since I read it.
Niven's A World Out of Time doesn't go to the end of the universe, but it's a really good read, involving relativistic speeds.
This is actually an advantage that proprietary has over FOSS, if you don't like Win 8? Don't buy it
And don't buy any new software, because it likely won't run (at least that was my experience in the past... Foxpro 6 wouldn't run in XP, Foxpro 8 wouldn't run in W98). And what if you don't like it but everyone else does? You're FuXX0red.
All you can do in FOSS is play the distro shuffle
Which you can't do with Windows. If you can program in C and don't like it, you can change it to your liking. Nearly impossible with closed source.
Personally I'll stick with the OS where I can skip 2 major releases (XP and Vista) and still be supported with updates until I decide they put out a product I liked with Win 7. You could go straight from 2K to 7 if you wanted and been under patch support the entire time, you just can't do that in FOSS land unless you have the money for a major support contract.
That's utter and complete bullshit. You can install an old copy of Mandrake and have it up to whatever build you like, even the latest, in a few clicks and nothing breaks in my experience. The only time an upgrade broke was the latest kubuntu upgrade, which broke Flash on my kubuntu box; not enough memory to run the new Flash, but everything else works. I still need to downgrade it, or buy some memory. However, not all distros are equal. If you're buying Red Hat that may be a problem, I don't know (not running Red Hat because I'm not running a server, and Red Hat sucks as a desktop environment).
You're showing your ignorance of Linux once again, Frodo.
I'm thinking WOW, what a computer... modeling the 14 billion year history of every galaxy, stellar system, planet, moon, molecule, atom, subatomic particle in... how long did the simulation run?
I'm sure they got some good theories (or at least hypotheses) out of this simulation, but come on... it isn't as impressive as TFS makes it seem.
Unix: hda Linux: hda Apple: hda (I could be wrong about Apple) MS: C:
Other examples: IE (all versions, 6 was the worst). Every browser except IE: Slashdot renders fine. IE6-8? I can't even post a damned JE, the slashdot logo is cut off, etc. Most newspapers have text truncated on IE6-8 (IE at work).
Everyone: Javascript. MS: jscript. Everyone: opens and closes as many file formats as possible for any platform. MS: MS only, although they don't always succeed by try mightily. Case in point: my W7 notebook's docs say you have to have W7pro on the network to be able to network, but it works fine on my home network with a kubuntu box (yay, Samba!).
Talk about not reading and religion... sheesh. I have both Linux and Windows (7 and XP) at home. I've run JCL on mainframes at work. What other OSes are you running, Bishop terjeber?
Ten years ago if your PC was more than 2 years old, new software wouldn't run. Now? I'm running five year old boxes that run everything fine... as long as they have enough memory.
The fact is, you no longer have to replace that PC and its CPU every other year.
Or when Tim Cook and J.K Shin engage in a Steel Cage Celebrity Deathmatch.
Is that show stil on? I loved it when I had cable. They would surely have a Romney vs Obama one about now if so. And yes, a Cook/Shin deathmatch would be awesome! But they probably wouldn't run it, since only nerds have heard of either of those guys.
1. I vote the candidate, not his party 2. Both major parties want me and most of my friends (and your friends and family) in prison. 3. The Libertarians are too pro-corporation and anti-environment 4. The Greens would be a good party if they'd stop nominating batshit crazy candidates 5. I'd vote Pirate Party if I ever saw them on a ballot.
I'm starting a project at home that this may be a problem for. I have two towers sitting on each side of my TV, an HP running kubuntu using the TV as a monitor, an old Dell running XP that I want to run headless, and a notebook running W7 starter. I'm keeping XP on the Dell so I can run EAC for sampling my old vinyl and tape; EAC only runs on a Windows machine with an optical drive and Audacity lacks some must-have features. I'll have to run the Dell through the HP to get it on-screen.
I'm going to have a hell of a time finding software that will let me run both towers from the notebook (so I won't need to use the HP's wireless keyboard) and have both towers feeding the TV. It should be a challenge!
The reason Romney didn't take all of the charitable contribution deductions he was entitled to was so he could still claim he paid over 13% in taxes on his income.
Which is still half or less than I paid, and I'm lower middle income. Yay for him not taking a charity deduction (I don't either) but boo for him not fighting to abolish the Capital Gains tax and tax capital gains as ordinary income. A god damned multimillionaire being taxed at half the rate of normal people is just plain WRONG.
I'd rather W8 until at least SP1 (assuming I liked Windows). Historically, early releases of Windows have been buggy and virus-prone. Kind of like you don't want to install a x.0 of anything, whether MS, Apple, or Linux or their apps.
I do have to say that W7 isn't too bad, it came on the notebook I bought last year and I still haven't installed Linux on it yet.
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Given that the average monthly salary at Foxconn is $350
That is a meaningless number. When I was in Thailand in the USAF, it was a 3rd world country (since industrialized). The bungalow I rented cost $30 per month, woman included. I could feed four for a dollar in a nice restaraunt. I could take a bus anywhere in the coutry for five cents, a taxi for a buck. A tailored shirt was five bucks. When I was in Delaware I lived like a pauper, eating in the mess hall and living in a barracks and was always broke, same salary in Thailand and I lived like a king.
I'm twice as rich as someone in Chicago earning the exact same amount as me, because prices there are twice what they are here, especially for essentials like food and rent and utilities.
Without pricing info, the monthly salary is a meaningless figure. They most likely indeed do live terrible, poverty stricken lives, but otoh $350 may be a lot of money there and they could possibly be living better than me.
Assuming there was no statue of limitation on the lawsuit.
There's a statue honoring limitation?
Emulating XP's explorer in this day and age is unacceptable.
I wish I could install XP's explorer on my W7 notebook, the new one is buggy as hell, lacks features XP's had, and none of the new features interest me in the least.
Oh, and KDE's file manager is head and shoulders above both XP and W7. And tell me, if KDE emulates XP, why does it have features that every version of Windows ever sold lacks? Improvement != emulation.
I think he was referring to crushing cobalt to make blue pigments with. But back in MY day we spelled "Cobol" COBOL because it's an acronym. I probably misremeber (the old brain cells get calcified, ya know) it stood for Crappy Old Bad Obsolete Language. Oh, wait... no, that's not right. COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
And yes, that "calcified" was a nod to the late great Asimov's Foundation. AND WE LIKED IT!
If you want something done inefficiently, badly, at high cost and overly influenced by politics, have the government do it.
That's the meme, and it's wrong. Take city-run power company CWLP for example. It has the lowest rates in the state, the highest uptime, and the best customer service.
In 2006, two strong F2 tornados decimated Springfield's east and south sides, it went right through my neighborhood. It took months to clean up the mess, there were blue tarps on roofs two years later. It was bad. It went right through my neighborhood and destroyed every pole, wire, and cable there. I was out of of power for a week, people didn't have cable or landline for two months.
A few months later a weak F1 went through the St Louis area. A month after that tornado I visited my friend Jeff in Cahokia, right across the river from downtown St Louis. The only evidence I saw that there even had been a tornado was Jeff still didn't have power.
The reason? Amerin is beholden to no one but its stockholders. They have a monopoly, so they can charge the maximum the law allows, can be lax as the law allows on maintenance, and who needs customer service that doesn't suck when you have a monopoly? Like Jeff's house, Amerin customers are powerless.
But here in Springfield, if the rates get too high, if customer service isn't helpful and friendly, or if you lose power too often or too long, we get a new Mayor next election.
Your theory is great in theory, it sucks in actual practice.
You don't know what a beowolf cluster is? What are you doing at slashdot?
Here's a hint: Google and Wikipedia are your friends.
Taco Bell.
Rude employees, restaraunt stinks like urine thanks to the soap they use (McDonald's had the same problem 20 years ago), barely edible, you can get an excellent Burrito from La Bamba that not only is delicious, but authentic Mexican for cheaper, s...l...o...w... service -- last time I was there I waited half an hour in line.
How much Taco Bell stock do you own, fellow? If you're high up in their organization you might want to do something about the ones in Springfield, IL, because they suck in every way a restaraunt can suck.
Taco Bell makes McDonald's look like a real restaraunt... and that's really BAD.
Also, if you're single, surely the prospects are better in Korea; all the women here are obese and have kids when they're teenagers.
You must live in Mississippi, home to the world's largest collection of morbidly obese people. Everywhere else, one in three is fat and most women wait until they're almost 30.
As a cyborg I take exeption to that! Damned cybists... If you'd talked of Asians or blacks like that you'd get your ass handed to you.
I refuse to apologize for the fact that I'm not 100% human or 100% natural. My cybernetic implant makes me superior to you... well, at least the human part that was replaced by a machine, anyway. And, there's a good chance your grandparents are cyborgs, and a better chance that you will be assimilated as well. MWAHAHAHA!!!
(Yes, I just coined another new word.)
You seem to think that "flagship product of an expensive brand" means "perfect in every way."
"Flagship product" means "our best." And your flagship product has some terrible flaws that its competitors lack. You don't get that??? No other expensive camera phone has this glaring flaw. Comparing it to a Nikon SLR is retarded, but good strawman there. It's not only no Nikon, it isn't even as good as the camera on the $100 Motorola phone I have.
Pathetic... almost as pathetic as you fanbois (or Apple employees?) excusing it.
You didn't read all five books, did you? The meaning of 42 is revealed:
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Actually, I much prefer the internet's brutal honesty. It's the bullshit faux politeness IRL that I have a problem with. For example, I can't just say "This code sucks" at work.
If work and nothing else == IRL, I feel sorry for you. Most places it isn't wise to talk about sex, politics, or religion in a bar. Here in weird-ass Springfield those topics are fine, but as nearly half the population is from St Louis and nearly the rest are from Chicago, I joke that talking about baseball can get your ass kicked.
But it really isn't true. Mike, who owns Felbers, is selling "suckingsince 1908" tea shirts. He has a poster there of a cartoon Cardinal player pissing on a Cubs hat with the logo "Cubs lose again!" (stuffed with five dollar bills he won betting against the Cubs).
But just last night I was there sitting between two fellows who were drinking Bud Light. "We're out of your draft, want a Bud Light or a Miller Lite?"
"Hell no" I said. "They SUCK."
Of course, since it's a redneck bar in the ghetto... But think a minute. If you owned the company you work for and you see some code that sucks, you can call the programmer into your office and say "where the fuck did you learn to program? This is the shittiest code ever. Not only does it suck, you suck too. Now get back to fucking work before I fire your ass!"
The worst that will happen is the guy will come back with a firearm. Which almost never happens.
There are three kinds of people: those who are always polite, those who are polite when they're in polite company, and those who are polite because they're pussies. The internet assholes who are polite IRL are pussies.
You're not anonymous? Yeah, sure. Look, my user name is my real name and you'd still have a hell of a time finding me. If you've ever been in charge of a large database, you'd know that names are terrible identifiers. And your real name is not likely to be aliquis.
Hell, when I was writing the Paxl Diaries five or ten years ago at k5, the people I was writing about were fans of the series, and didn't realise that I was mcgrew!
You ARE anonymous on slashdot. Even on G+, there are half a dozen people there with the same name as me.
I'm quitting smoking
Perhaps I can help.
Niven, Asimov, and Hienlein have all written stories like this. One (Asimov iirc but it could have been Heinlein) wrote a short story about a time traveller who went to the heat death of the universe. Sorry, it's been years since I read it.
Niven's A World Out of Time doesn't go to the end of the universe, but it's a really good read, involving relativistic speeds.
This is actually an advantage that proprietary has over FOSS, if you don't like Win 8? Don't buy it
And don't buy any new software, because it likely won't run (at least that was my experience in the past... Foxpro 6 wouldn't run in XP, Foxpro 8 wouldn't run in W98). And what if you don't like it but everyone else does? You're FuXX0red.
All you can do in FOSS is play the distro shuffle
Which you can't do with Windows. If you can program in C and don't like it, you can change it to your liking. Nearly impossible with closed source.
Personally I'll stick with the OS where I can skip 2 major releases (XP and Vista) and still be supported with updates until I decide they put out a product I liked with Win 7. You could go straight from 2K to 7 if you wanted and been under patch support the entire time, you just can't do that in FOSS land unless you have the money for a major support contract.
That's utter and complete bullshit. You can install an old copy of Mandrake and have it up to whatever build you like, even the latest, in a few clicks and nothing breaks in my experience. The only time an upgrade broke was the latest kubuntu upgrade, which broke Flash on my kubuntu box; not enough memory to run the new Flash, but everything else works. I still need to downgrade it, or buy some memory. However, not all distros are equal. If you're buying Red Hat that may be a problem, I don't know (not running Red Hat because I'm not running a server, and Red Hat sucks as a desktop environment).
You're showing your ignorance of Linux once again, Frodo.
I'm thinking WOW, what a computer... modeling the 14 billion year history of every galaxy, stellar system, planet, moon, molecule, atom, subatomic particle in... how long did the simulation run?
I'm sure they got some good theories (or at least hypotheses) out of this simulation, but come on... it isn't as impressive as TFS makes it seem.
You have to be kidding.
internet: slashdot.org/comments
Unix: documents/man
Linux: Videos/startrek
Apple: photos/new
MS: MyComp~1\docume~1\games
Ass backwards.
Unix: hda
Linux: hda
Apple: hda (I could be wrong about Apple)
MS: C:
Other examples: IE (all versions, 6 was the worst). Every browser except IE: Slashdot renders fine. IE6-8? I can't even post a damned JE, the slashdot logo is cut off, etc. Most newspapers have text truncated on IE6-8 (IE at work).
Everyone: Javascript. MS: jscript. Everyone: opens and closes as many file formats as possible for any platform. MS: MS only, although they don't always succeed by try mightily. Case in point: my W7 notebook's docs say you have to have W7pro on the network to be able to network, but it works fine on my home network with a kubuntu box (yay, Samba!).
Talk about not reading and religion... sheesh. I have both Linux and Windows (7 and XP) at home. I've run JCL on mainframes at work. What other OSes are you running, Bishop terjeber?
Ten years ago if your PC was more than 2 years old, new software wouldn't run. Now? I'm running five year old boxes that run everything fine... as long as they have enough memory.
The fact is, you no longer have to replace that PC and its CPU every other year.
Or when Tim Cook and J.K Shin engage in a Steel Cage Celebrity Deathmatch.
Is that show stil on? I loved it when I had cable. They would surely have a Romney vs Obama one about now if so. And yes, a Cook/Shin deathmatch would be awesome! But they probably wouldn't run it, since only nerds have heard of either of those guys.
1. I vote the candidate, not his party
2. Both major parties want me and most of my friends (and your friends and family) in prison.
3. The Libertarians are too pro-corporation and anti-environment
4. The Greens would be a good party if they'd stop nominating batshit crazy candidates
5. I'd vote Pirate Party if I ever saw them on a ballot.
I'm starting a project at home that this may be a problem for. I have two towers sitting on each side of my TV, an HP running kubuntu using the TV as a monitor, an old Dell running XP that I want to run headless, and a notebook running W7 starter. I'm keeping XP on the Dell so I can run EAC for sampling my old vinyl and tape; EAC only runs on a Windows machine with an optical drive and Audacity lacks some must-have features. I'll have to run the Dell through the HP to get it on-screen.
I'm going to have a hell of a time finding software that will let me run both towers from the notebook (so I won't need to use the HP's wireless keyboard) and have both towers feeding the TV. It should be a challenge!
Yes, but proprietary forks of open source are no longer open, are they?
The reason Romney didn't take all of the charitable contribution deductions he was entitled to was so he could still claim he paid over 13% in taxes on his income.
Which is still half or less than I paid, and I'm lower middle income. Yay for him not taking a charity deduction (I don't either) but boo for him not fighting to abolish the Capital Gains tax and tax capital gains as ordinary income. A god damned multimillionaire being taxed at half the rate of normal people is just plain WRONG.
I'd rather W8 until at least SP1 (assuming I liked Windows). Historically, early releases of Windows have been buggy and virus-prone. Kind of like you don't want to install a x.0 of anything, whether MS, Apple, or Linux or their apps.
I do have to say that W7 isn't too bad, it came on the notebook I bought last year and I still haven't installed Linux on it yet.