I'm sorry but taxation is not a repressive act. Perhaps in a state, like Minnesota. that has a regressive tax rate it could be considered a repressive act. Even then I don't think it is, lower income people potentially get more from the system that the higher income people. The fact that citizens get something in return negates that it is repressive.
See this is where both you and the parent are right and wrong. Many of the geeks I know agree that college is a waste of time, but they also have read the classics and then some. Some of these "anti-intellectuals" are far more learned and social aware than many of these college educated nerds. Education doesn't need to come from schools, and from what I've seen a degree doesn't tell me more about a person than that they spent money on college.
Business software is a sham.... and you obviously don't know what you are talking about. data processing software can run anywhere, plus most if not all of the tools than runs on limux will run on a mac without trouble. Additionally with the wide availability of VMs it doesn't really matter what you host platform is. But I do agree that iCal is light weight, it's getting better but needs a lot of work. AddressBook is adaquate for the needs of businesses.
If only everyone was as great and capable as you. I'd much rather delegate. And I do run things in the cloud and it's great. It is far cheaper than building up infrastructure. I don't put everything in one place though. I've got my services up on multiple cloud platforms.
Personally I think you made a bit to bold of a statement and are too proud to admit it. Join the real world here. First of all you don't do everything yourself. Maybe your company thinks it does but hiring employees isn't that far removed from hiring another company. In house servers are just as risky as the cloud.
I think you've hinted to the point that the article failed to make.
Processes are great, and absolutely required. But if you spend more time on the process than on the work then you have a problem. All the pre-work and planning might save you from a costly refactor once you find out you went down the wrong path, but honestly I've seen projects that had all the tests written up front and months of architecture planning and sprints planned only to jump into development and find that the whole approach wasn't feasible. Had they jumped into coding sooner they could have saved themselves close to a million dollars. I've also seen the opposite, the planning paid off and they had a great product, but they were late to market and it never sold well. Their competitors made it to market faster, their product wasn't as good but it was there and it improved over time.
Also, processes aren't going to protect you from bad developers. It just allows the bad developers to burn through budgets longer before they prove that they are not up to the task.
No it doesn't. A personal CMS allows you to keep others inform about you but does very little to help you keep up with others. It shares some similarities with Facebook but it is not even remotely capable of being a replacement... unless you only care about yourself, then it's perfect.
I don't think that is what I was doing. I was merely posting my observations, overgeneralizing a bit, but I did call myself out on that. I don't think you are really even reading my comments, because your grasp of what I'm saying is weak at best.
I don't deny that it is a social gathering, I just think that their intentions are less than honorable. They are narcissists... and I am generalizing. Which brings up another point, just going to church doesn't mean you are a conservative. My whole family are liberals and most of them go to church. Most of them are also introverts and shy away from social gatherings. I don't know how to explain that one.
"don't spend more than you have" isn't a conservative only view. I'm so sick of the stereotypes. Nearly everyday here in MN we are reminded of how false that is when we hear more about Denny Hecker, a conservative, and his bankruptcy and fraud issues. Liberals are just as likely to live within their means as anyone else. And conservatives are just as likely to do the opposite.
I used to think that I was introverted myself. I am also very liberal. I have noticed however that I am attracted to social interactions. I just want to be with people that are like me and that I'm comfortable with.
As for conservatives going to church and the like, that is just so they can feel better about themselves. It's not the community they seek, it's the feeling better than the liberal nut jobs like me.
two things....
first the recovery that everyone is praying for is being held up by this kind of thinking. Things will get better, not as fast as we would like, but they will. The biggest hold up in my opinion is people attitudes. Too many people are spreading doom and gloom and not making positive efforts for our social well being.
secondly, what is the point of making money if the economy falls apart? The Gold ATMs are appearing because of the economic climate, but not because they think it will fail, but because you think it will. They are banking on it not failing.
that's kind of what I mean. It was isolated, they didn't take the chance on making it actually useful to a wide audience. That is one area they were not radical enough in. I also just think it wasn't all that novel. It was boring.
I don't think that Wave was radical enough. I never actually used it mind you. I wasn't able to get in on it early on and then I forgot about it. Nobody I knew used it longer than a few months. I really didn't find it all that compelling.
Not quite right. GMail is free to us because we do not pay for it even indirectly. Google pays for it, Google makes their money on advertising, which I don't buy and therefore I don't pay for it. I pay taxes, therefore schools and roads and school lunches are paid for indirectly by me and not free to me. But, I don't think it's wrong to say they are free since we are not paying a direct fee for it.
Oh and my library books are not free because I can't seem to return them on time and I need to pay late fees. But even that isn't a direct payment for the book or is it? Now I'm confusing myself.
I don't really see it that way. Unless he died shortly after college he eventually paid for it himself, he just paid less for other services like roads and public safety. I also like to think that I didn't pay for any of these bank bailouts, all you other suckers did and all my taxes went to the police, transportation and education. I pay a lot in taxes, but it's nowhere near the value I receive in services. If I were rich and made tons of money I might feel otherwise, but my advice to those that make a lot of money and feel they are unfairly taxed is make less money.
I'm not suggesting that I was braking, or that I was trying to enforce the law. I was passing cars that were going slower than I. The left lane was fairly congested with the slower traffic and it took me some time to get ahead of them all to safely move back over. The still faster car came up behind me, not driving for the conditions of the road, which would be why the trooper followed him. I don't think it's my duty to accommodate them. If they can't problem solve in a way that doesn't infringe on others rights then they are the ones that should not be on the road. They had plenty of time to slow down, and following as closely as they did endangered more than just their own lives. Now I know that nobody has even brought this up in this forum, but I am so sick of all this libertarian bullshit. There is no such thing as privacy, our actions affect others, and not everyone is a god damn nihilist so come back to reality and join society.
I don't think the judge would buy it, I was already 20mph over the limit, which in MN is considered reckless driving. Related, the guy that I moved over for was pursued by a state trooper into a residential neighborhood. I don't know if he caught him or not. My point being, the slower traffic was on the right, I was the faster traffic but then this guy was still faster than I. It's a fine line. I followed the law, I was passing and moved over when it was clear. just because I was slower than him does not give him the right to be a jackass and endanger my life. In fact in MN, where I am, and thanks for the link, He should not have come within 500 feet of my rear bumper (I may be mis-interpreting, but nevertheless he was too close and breaking yet another law).
But wouldn't that be aiding them in breaking the law?
I was only passing a long line of slow pokes myself. But I have to disagree with your logic. Unless that guy going 200 to pass me is an emergency vehicle then I am under no obligation to break recklessly endanger myself and others to accommodate their recklessness. Our actions have consequences.
fuck that. people need to slow down. I was driving the other day and had a guy tailgating me. So I was nice and moved over. The thing is I was going 75mph already, I was driving too fast, and this guy thought I was going too slow. This world is messed up is a reckless jackass like myself is driving too slow.
Oh and where the hell are you that frontage roads are 50mph!?? They are 30mph here in Minnesota, 45 in some places.
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I'm sorry but taxation is not a repressive act. Perhaps in a state, like Minnesota. that has a regressive tax rate it could be considered a repressive act. Even then I don't think it is, lower income people potentially get more from the system that the higher income people. The fact that citizens get something in return negates that it is repressive.
See this is where both you and the parent are right and wrong. Many of the geeks I know agree that college is a waste of time, but they also have read the classics and then some. Some of these "anti-intellectuals" are far more learned and social aware than many of these college educated nerds. Education doesn't need to come from schools, and from what I've seen a degree doesn't tell me more about a person than that they spent money on college.
Business software is a sham.... and you obviously don't know what you are talking about. data processing software can run anywhere, plus most if not all of the tools than runs on limux will run on a mac without trouble. Additionally with the wide availability of VMs it doesn't really matter what you host platform is. But I do agree that iCal is light weight, it's getting better but needs a lot of work. AddressBook is adaquate for the needs of businesses.
If only everyone was as great and capable as you. I'd much rather delegate. And I do run things in the cloud and it's great. It is far cheaper than building up infrastructure. I don't put everything in one place though. I've got my services up on multiple cloud platforms. Personally I think you made a bit to bold of a statement and are too proud to admit it. Join the real world here. First of all you don't do everything yourself. Maybe your company thinks it does but hiring employees isn't that far removed from hiring another company. In house servers are just as risky as the cloud.
I think you've hinted to the point that the article failed to make.
Processes are great, and absolutely required. But if you spend more time on the process than on the work then you have a problem. All the pre-work and planning might save you from a costly refactor once you find out you went down the wrong path, but honestly I've seen projects that had all the tests written up front and months of architecture planning and sprints planned only to jump into development and find that the whole approach wasn't feasible. Had they jumped into coding sooner they could have saved themselves close to a million dollars. I've also seen the opposite, the planning paid off and they had a great product, but they were late to market and it never sold well. Their competitors made it to market faster, their product wasn't as good but it was there and it improved over time.
Also, processes aren't going to protect you from bad developers. It just allows the bad developers to burn through budgets longer before they prove that they are not up to the task.
but the defacto standard is flash video which in most cases is h.264.
No it doesn't. A personal CMS allows you to keep others inform about you but does very little to help you keep up with others. It shares some similarities with Facebook but it is not even remotely capable of being a replacement... unless you only care about yourself, then it's perfect.
I don't think that is what I was doing. I was merely posting my observations, overgeneralizing a bit, but I did call myself out on that. I don't think you are really even reading my comments, because your grasp of what I'm saying is weak at best.
I don't deny that it is a social gathering, I just think that their intentions are less than honorable. They are narcissists... and I am generalizing. Which brings up another point, just going to church doesn't mean you are a conservative. My whole family are liberals and most of them go to church. Most of them are also introverts and shy away from social gatherings. I don't know how to explain that one.
"don't spend more than you have" isn't a conservative only view. I'm so sick of the stereotypes. Nearly everyday here in MN we are reminded of how false that is when we hear more about Denny Hecker, a conservative, and his bankruptcy and fraud issues. Liberals are just as likely to live within their means as anyone else. And conservatives are just as likely to do the opposite.
I used to think that I was introverted myself. I am also very liberal. I have noticed however that I am attracted to social interactions. I just want to be with people that are like me and that I'm comfortable with. As for conservatives going to church and the like, that is just so they can feel better about themselves. It's not the community they seek, it's the feeling better than the liberal nut jobs like me.
or maybe it's because 3D TV is a stupid idea. 3D movies are fun in the theater for about 10 minutes.
two things.... first the recovery that everyone is praying for is being held up by this kind of thinking. Things will get better, not as fast as we would like, but they will. The biggest hold up in my opinion is people attitudes. Too many people are spreading doom and gloom and not making positive efforts for our social well being. secondly, what is the point of making money if the economy falls apart? The Gold ATMs are appearing because of the economic climate, but not because they think it will fail, but because you think it will. They are banking on it not failing.
that's kind of what I mean. It was isolated, they didn't take the chance on making it actually useful to a wide audience. That is one area they were not radical enough in. I also just think it wasn't all that novel. It was boring.
I don't think that Wave was radical enough. I never actually used it mind you. I wasn't able to get in on it early on and then I forgot about it. Nobody I knew used it longer than a few months. I really didn't find it all that compelling.
can I assume you meant $0.50/gig... if not where are the $0.40 HD's, I'd like to pick up a few.
Not quite right. GMail is free to us because we do not pay for it even indirectly. Google pays for it, Google makes their money on advertising, which I don't buy and therefore I don't pay for it. I pay taxes, therefore schools and roads and school lunches are paid for indirectly by me and not free to me. But, I don't think it's wrong to say they are free since we are not paying a direct fee for it. Oh and my library books are not free because I can't seem to return them on time and I need to pay late fees. But even that isn't a direct payment for the book or is it? Now I'm confusing myself.
I don't really see it that way. Unless he died shortly after college he eventually paid for it himself, he just paid less for other services like roads and public safety. I also like to think that I didn't pay for any of these bank bailouts, all you other suckers did and all my taxes went to the police, transportation and education. I pay a lot in taxes, but it's nowhere near the value I receive in services. If I were rich and made tons of money I might feel otherwise, but my advice to those that make a lot of money and feel they are unfairly taxed is make less money.
The only way he would not have been endangering anyone is if he were prescient, he was maybe 10 feet behind me at 75mph.
I'm not suggesting that I was braking, or that I was trying to enforce the law. I was passing cars that were going slower than I. The left lane was fairly congested with the slower traffic and it took me some time to get ahead of them all to safely move back over. The still faster car came up behind me, not driving for the conditions of the road, which would be why the trooper followed him. I don't think it's my duty to accommodate them. If they can't problem solve in a way that doesn't infringe on others rights then they are the ones that should not be on the road. They had plenty of time to slow down, and following as closely as they did endangered more than just their own lives. Now I know that nobody has even brought this up in this forum, but I am so sick of all this libertarian bullshit. There is no such thing as privacy, our actions affect others, and not everyone is a god damn nihilist so come back to reality and join society.
I don't think the judge would buy it, I was already 20mph over the limit, which in MN is considered reckless driving. Related, the guy that I moved over for was pursued by a state trooper into a residential neighborhood. I don't know if he caught him or not. My point being, the slower traffic was on the right, I was the faster traffic but then this guy was still faster than I. It's a fine line. I followed the law, I was passing and moved over when it was clear. just because I was slower than him does not give him the right to be a jackass and endanger my life. In fact in MN, where I am, and thanks for the link, He should not have come within 500 feet of my rear bumper (I may be mis-interpreting, but nevertheless he was too close and breaking yet another law).
But wouldn't that be aiding them in breaking the law? I was only passing a long line of slow pokes myself. But I have to disagree with your logic. Unless that guy going 200 to pass me is an emergency vehicle then I am under no obligation to break recklessly endanger myself and others to accommodate their recklessness. Our actions have consequences.
fuck that. people need to slow down. I was driving the other day and had a guy tailgating me. So I was nice and moved over. The thing is I was going 75mph already, I was driving too fast, and this guy thought I was going too slow. This world is messed up is a reckless jackass like myself is driving too slow. Oh and where the hell are you that frontage roads are 50mph!?? They are 30mph here in Minnesota, 45 in some places.
This is very informative, I am going to grow out my goatee into a Van Dyke. Does anybody know where I can get mustache wax?
that iPhone malware was only on Jailbroken phones, so I'd say their policy both kept it from mainstream and indirectly caused the problem.