"Money is most optimal when it is fixed in value just as commerce is facilitated when we have fixed weights and measures. When you buy a pound of hamburger you expect to get 16 ounces of meat. An hour has 60 minutes. A mile has 5280 feet. These measurements don’t “float.”"
The value of money changed [is manipulated] all the time. The only way to prevent that would be to have it's value fixed to a tangible asset like Gold.
However, the last few days have shown that even paper gold isn't necessarily backed by real gold, so how would we ever know if the gold behind a "gold backed" dollar ever existed?
Protip: We wouldn't.
Retailers have been doing this for years as an extension of counting traffic in and out of the store (to calculate conversion rate) following customers by heat signature through the inside of the store can show you where your visual merchandising is not having enough of an impact.
Sure, there could be some limited room for abuse, but without tying identity into those heat signatures somehow, all we know is *someone* took a certain path through the store - We don't know *who* that is.
In any case, this data is examined in the aggregate traffic patters it produces as examining the behavior of individuals is not valuable marketing information.
It would be way cheaper for Wikileaks to just push their servers off a pier and into the ocean - Which is exactly where they're going to end up after the cruise missile strike on Sealand.
Wikileaks' 'investors' are seriously overestimating respect for sovereignty and international law in 2012.
True story -
I'm no Apple guy, and I have to admit I don't know exactly what "Jailbreaking" accomplishes, but when the AP Clerk, logistics Coordinator and Receptionist are talking about jailbreaking their iphones by the watercooler - I'd say it seems Apple has even brought device hacking into the mainstream...
No, George Carlin is the one that said it, I merely plagiarized it.
I think his point was we don't even know how to take care of eachother yet, and that it is the height of arrogance of humans to think we know how to "save the planet".
"We're so self-important. So self-important! Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees; save the bees; save the whales; save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all, "Save the planet." WHAT? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet?
I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. Tired! I'm tired of fucking Earth Day! I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference! The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what? A hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles; hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors; worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet... the planet... the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet will be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance. "
First of all, if there is such a thing as "Anonymous" then this guy left it the minute he identified himself.
Second, 10 minutes on 4chan should be enough to convince anyone that/b/tards can't organize their way out of a paper bag.
Third, ponies.
"Hello, tech support? I've had my Windows Nokia for 6 months and it's really really slow"
"When was the last time you defragged your phone?"
"What?"
"Oh - looks like your phone is riddled with viruses and malware... We will have to format your phone and reinstall Windows... Do you have your original install disk? "
Kill me now.
I would never help anyone get a Windows computer because... i will be held responsible when it brakes down and is full of virii.
If it was your wife - It's unlikely you would avoid responsibility for fixing her computer whether you chose it or not. In fact, just refusing to help her could well land you in your mom's basement. Though - and forgive me for saying so - you sound like you might be there already.
For web browsing and document editing ANY $300 15" notebook off the shelf at Best Buy will suffice.
Even a netbook would probably do if you can live with a 10" screen, and in that case the whole machine will likely cost less than a retail Windows license for 'recycling' the old MAC.
I L O V E D that machine... My parents let me loose in the Science Centre throughout the late 70's and early 80's. It's been an inside joke between my wife (also a geek) and I for years... To this day, when she makes coffee she pronounces it like the machine used to when we last saw it - "COHEE?"
What a blast from the past!
On my personal machines, absolutely.
However -
I'm the continental head of IT for a large global retailer and I've been pushing hard to switch our POS environment to Linux for 2 years... Unfortunately, even though our JPOS software and all related apps and middle-ware will run in a Linux environment AND I've been able to prove that our support overhead would decrease significantly, I still cannot get buy-in from from the overlords.
There is still a lot of fear out there, and in some cases an attitude of "if it's free it must be worthless".
Thought about Foldershare, but it needs to talk to MS servers, and that's not going to happen... Also, not sure if there's a limit to the number of peers...
*my* windows installs don't need reloading every 6 months, however...
My mother who clicks on every adware/crapware/phishing scam on the web does... Not a problem with linux.
Same goes for my porn addicted brother in law.
Most users are NOT sysadmins or power users, and could easily get away without enriching one of the richest and anti-competetive corporations on the planet.
Have you seen Vista? Talk about FUD... Geez...
Been a while since I posted to Slashdot... Can hardly believe we're in the era of the windows fanboy...
The only thing I need Windows for is Counterstrike... Linux does everything else better. And for the average person who does email, web and photos with their home PC, is there any way to justify the cost of Windows? Much less the 2-day adventure of reinstalling the OS every 6 months to 1 year.
Try installing Ubuntu on a formatted HDD and compare it to installing Windows. I've done both dozens and hundreds of times respectively, and I can tell you that Windows almost always boots into a 640x480, no sound, no network, freakshow that requires sneakernet (assuming it recognized your USB controller), 25 reboots, and a second machine to hunt around for the drivers online. Ubuntu almost always detects almost everything, and with less than 1-hour of tweaking you will have a fully functional machine.
You should try it before you troll next!
This 'University' was granted its charter very recently, and is known primarily for it's vocational programs. This looks to me like the school is trying to prove themselves worthy of a reputation higher than that of a community college, which is exactly what they were until recently.
Information wants to be free. If not Facebook, it will be something else... From actual study halls, to early BBS, to Usenet, IRC, search engines and now social networking, this sort of thing has always been done.
Remember that there still must be skill (and sometimes much more work) in distinguishing the right answer from dozens of wrong opinions. People differentiate Facebook from study groups because of the scale. Try to imagine discerning the correct information from the cacophony of speculation in an online forum. You have to prove out the answer you are giving before you hand it in as your own work, or you're taking your chances on someone else's potentially wrong answer.
I say pull Ryerson's charter until they can figure oout how to operate in the information age.
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"Money is most optimal when it is fixed in value just as commerce is facilitated when we have fixed weights and measures. When you buy a pound of hamburger you expect to get 16 ounces of meat. An hour has 60 minutes. A mile has 5280 feet. These measurements don’t “float.”" The value of money changed [is manipulated] all the time. The only way to prevent that would be to have it's value fixed to a tangible asset like Gold. However, the last few days have shown that even paper gold isn't necessarily backed by real gold, so how would we ever know if the gold behind a "gold backed" dollar ever existed? Protip: We wouldn't.
WTF is an arcade grampa? (Barely looking up from Cowadoody on the 60" oled display in their bedrooms.)
Retailers have been doing this for years as an extension of counting traffic in and out of the store (to calculate conversion rate) following customers by heat signature through the inside of the store can show you where your visual merchandising is not having enough of an impact. Sure, there could be some limited room for abuse, but without tying identity into those heat signatures somehow, all we know is *someone* took a certain path through the store - We don't know *who* that is. In any case, this data is examined in the aggregate traffic patters it produces as examining the behavior of individuals is not valuable marketing information.
It would be way cheaper for Wikileaks to just push their servers off a pier and into the ocean - Which is exactly where they're going to end up after the cruise missile strike on Sealand. Wikileaks' 'investors' are seriously overestimating respect for sovereignty and international law in 2012.
Sorry, but you can't get that app until you update your repositories
True story - I'm no Apple guy, and I have to admit I don't know exactly what "Jailbreaking" accomplishes, but when the AP Clerk, logistics Coordinator and Receptionist are talking about jailbreaking their iphones by the watercooler - I'd say it seems Apple has even brought device hacking into the mainstream...
This thing better come bundled with FIOS... There's not much to do up there, and I will need to get mah Counterstrike on!
No, George Carlin is the one that said it, I merely plagiarized it. I think his point was we don't even know how to take care of eachother yet, and that it is the height of arrogance of humans to think we know how to "save the planet".
"We're so self-important. So self-important! Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees; save the bees; save the whales; save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all, "Save the planet." WHAT? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet? I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. Tired! I'm tired of fucking Earth Day! I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me. Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference! The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what? A hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun? The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles; hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors; worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet... the planet... the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE! We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet will be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance. "
Via con Dios Taco...
First of all, if there is such a thing as "Anonymous" then this guy left it the minute he identified himself. Second, 10 minutes on 4chan should be enough to convince anyone that /b/tards can't organize their way out of a paper bag.
Third, ponies.
If you divide my salary by the number of kids I have, I guess I'm better off than this guy, but I don't feel rich...
no democracy in the past 200 years has become a dictatorship? you must be American.
"Hello, tech support? I've had my Windows Nokia for 6 months and it's really really slow" "When was the last time you defragged your phone?" "What?" "Oh - looks like your phone is riddled with viruses and malware... We will have to format your phone and reinstall Windows... Do you have your original install disk? " Kill me now.
I don't know if my desire to hit mac fanboys in the face with a shovel is related more to their smugness or their ignorance.
I would never help anyone get a Windows computer because... i will be held responsible when it brakes down and is full of virii.
If it was your wife - It's unlikely you would avoid responsibility for fixing her computer whether you chose it or not. In fact, just refusing to help her could well land you in your mom's basement. Though - and forgive me for saying so - you sound like you might be there already.
For web browsing and document editing ANY $300 15" notebook off the shelf at Best Buy will suffice. Even a netbook would probably do if you can live with a 10" screen, and in that case the whole machine will likely cost less than a retail Windows license for 'recycling' the old MAC.
I L O V E D that machine... My parents let me loose in the Science Centre throughout the late 70's and early 80's. It's been an inside joke between my wife (also a geek) and I for years... To this day, when she makes coffee she pronounces it like the machine used to when we last saw it - "COHEE?" What a blast from the past!
On my personal machines, absolutely. However - I'm the continental head of IT for a large global retailer and I've been pushing hard to switch our POS environment to Linux for 2 years... Unfortunately, even though our JPOS software and all related apps and middle-ware will run in a Linux environment AND I've been able to prove that our support overhead would decrease significantly, I still cannot get buy-in from from the overlords. There is still a lot of fear out there, and in some cases an attitude of "if it's free it must be worthless".
Thought about Foldershare, but it needs to talk to MS servers, and that's not going to happen... Also, not sure if there's a limit to the number of peers...
Beautiful! Thank you...
*my* windows installs don't need reloading every 6 months, however... My mother who clicks on every adware/crapware/phishing scam on the web does... Not a problem with linux. Same goes for my porn addicted brother in law. Most users are NOT sysadmins or power users, and could easily get away without enriching one of the richest and anti-competetive corporations on the planet. Have you seen Vista? Talk about FUD... Geez... Been a while since I posted to Slashdot... Can hardly believe we're in the era of the windows fanboy...
The only thing I need Windows for is Counterstrike... Linux does everything else better. And for the average person who does email, web and photos with their home PC, is there any way to justify the cost of Windows? Much less the 2-day adventure of reinstalling the OS every 6 months to 1 year. Try installing Ubuntu on a formatted HDD and compare it to installing Windows. I've done both dozens and hundreds of times respectively, and I can tell you that Windows almost always boots into a 640x480, no sound, no network, freakshow that requires sneakernet (assuming it recognized your USB controller), 25 reboots, and a second machine to hunt around for the drivers online. Ubuntu almost always detects almost everything, and with less than 1-hour of tweaking you will have a fully functional machine. You should try it before you troll next!
pussy.
This 'University' was granted its charter very recently, and is known primarily for it's vocational programs. This looks to me like the school is trying to prove themselves worthy of a reputation higher than that of a community college, which is exactly what they were until recently. Information wants to be free. If not Facebook, it will be something else... From actual study halls, to early BBS, to Usenet, IRC, search engines and now social networking, this sort of thing has always been done. Remember that there still must be skill (and sometimes much more work) in distinguishing the right answer from dozens of wrong opinions. People differentiate Facebook from study groups because of the scale. Try to imagine discerning the correct information from the cacophony of speculation in an online forum. You have to prove out the answer you are giving before you hand it in as your own work, or you're taking your chances on someone else's potentially wrong answer. I say pull Ryerson's charter until they can figure oout how to operate in the information age.