Terms like "tan" have no official definition definer. The general population is who controls definitions, for good or bad. If the population calls it a "tan", it's a tan.
I've done no official surveys on this word regarding this matter, but neither have you. However, my gut impression is that a fake tan is usually considered a sub-category of "tan".
Companies like Websters (dictionary makers) may influence definitions, but still they are not the final arbiters. There are no final arbiters, actually. It's an organic social process.
So Obama is the one who crashed the US economy via banking deregulation? Buy a real history book, dude, not the Fox Edition. (Canada avoided much of the mortgage bubble slump by having sufficient regulations. It's also true that Bill Clinton, a Democrat, contributed to problematic banking dereg.)
to say alleged intellectual property theft or "copying" is caused by their "communism" is silly.
A semi-caveat is some believe their gov't assists with industrial espionage. Even if true, that's not inherently a "communist" function. US gov't does similar for military technology, handing off discovered secrets to military contractors. Does that make us more "commie"?
Everything since the Communists took over has been stolen from others.
Much of China's industry is highly capitalistic. I'm not defending communism here at all, but to say alleged intellectual property theft or "copying" is caused by their "communism" is silly.
By the way, many who have lived in China recently say they have some of the best smart-phone apps there are. Many there rely purely on their phone for just about every Internet service and financial transaction. PC's never really caught on there as a consumer item, so phones have taken their place and they are taken phone apps to new heights.
It appears it's Earth soil. I found nothing in the article to suggest it's using lunar soil here, which would be the real test. The article should have pointed that out; it's not a trivial admission.
This completely goes against the ultra-secure impression I had of shared web hosting companies!
You are probably being sarcastic, but this kind of thing will be an issue with "the cloud"; the cloud just being glorified web hosting.
A single vulnerability will expose hundreds or more customers to mass attacks.
However, this doesn't necessarily mean it's worse than self-hosted systems*, only that breaches may be more public because many other orgs will be in the same boat.
It's kind of comparable to nuclear power: it's less illness and death per generated kilowatt on average, but failures tend to be quite public and "in batches" compared to the alternatives, creating public relations headaches.
* Self-hosted systems can be more secure, but I don't trust the average company to do it right. I've worked for too many PHB's.
The main problem is that companies no longer value experience
It does appear to me they value specific skill-sets more than internal domain knowledge. I'm not quite sure why. Most of the best applications I've built were done after I learned how the organization works and what managers and users want out of their systems.
Then some newbie comes in with some snazzy dancy UI that wows PHB's, who seems to judge books by covers. The eEyeCandy and buzzwords boosts their egos, and any production problems it may cause are "the grunts' problem" not the PHB's.
The frank truth is that the corporate world is a Bullshit Engine: the US doesn't make much of anything concrete anymore: we sell corporate insurance, investment portfolios, assessments, etc. to suckers down the line, businesses and individuals. Just look at IBM's AI ads if you doubt me. This Sales Culture permeates everything in the org and clouds and overwhelms any decision that requires cold hard logic.
Similarly, police departments are good at dealing with crisis because they are well trained for such, but lousy at collaborative long-term planning because that requires a very different mindset than instant crisis handling.
Thus, an org driven by sales only thinks in sales: it's hard-wired into their decision-making DNA. But you can't sweet-talk a computer into behaving how you want, and salesy orgs just don't and can't get this, and thus hire based on fashion and buzzwords.
That measure carries its own destruction. Non-competes make states less economically competitive rather than more competitive...
You are assuming voters and/or state legislators are rational and fix messes they create. Corporations prefer non-compete clauses and donate a lot of campaign money to get & keep them.
That may be part of the reason why housing is so expensive in CA: people come to get away from crony capitalism in other states so that they can move on up. CA is too popular.
"We make the best chips, believe me! They are much better than Jiiihna's chips, better than Mexican chips; I love Mexican chips, by the way. Add guacamole and Ralph's Grade-A salsa, best stuff ever. We at Intel are going buy the Ralph brand. 'Chips-n-salsa' will be our new motto. Some losers say we shouldn't branch out to food, but if they were so great, they'd be CEO instead of Donald J. Trump. We'll Make Chips Tasty Again!"
They'll hire someone who is already a CEO, regardless of how badly they've screwed up their previous companies.
That's not necessarily bad. The important thing is that one learn from mistakes. It's difficult to get good without making and learning from mistakes. The risk is that some don't learn from mistakes due to bullheaded obsessions. But all the obvious good CEO's are taken already such that they'll have to take some risk no matter what.
Programming typical internal CRUD apps got harder, not easier. I don't know why, but it just takes more lines of code and typing to do the same stuff as the 90's.
There are tools and stack tunings that can perhaps approach it, but most* managers won't approve such; it's not "in style". Face it, people, style and fucked-up web "standards" are fucking CRUD productivity in the bum. It may make other tasks or domains better, but not CRUD. One bad size fits all?
I had Jetsons-like tools, but industrial insanity yanked them away from my cold productive hands. They were cold because I didn't have to type/click so damned much to get a decent app.
Git off my slow-growing lawn!
* Yes, a few shops allow it, but they are rare. So don't reply just to say how great your exception is. It's okay to say why they are great with details.
But you Canadians are such dodgy people. You get people too full to move via bacon and maple pancakes, then whack them with hockey sticks. I saw it on South Monty Park.
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Terms like "tan" have no official definition definer. The general population is who controls definitions, for good or bad. If the population calls it a "tan", it's a tan.
I've done no official surveys on this word regarding this matter, but neither have you. However, my gut impression is that a fake tan is usually considered a sub-category of "tan".
Companies like Websters (dictionary makers) may influence definitions, but still they are not the final arbiters. There are no final arbiters, actually. It's an organic social process.
So Obama is the one who crashed the US economy via banking deregulation? Buy a real history book, dude, not the Fox Edition. (Canada avoided much of the mortgage bubble slump by having sufficient regulations. It's also true that Bill Clinton, a Democrat, contributed to problematic banking dereg.)
And T uses drone strikes also.
That hasn't been determined yet in a court of law. Even the orange guy deserves "innocent until proven guilty".
What about the spray-on tan that you-know-who uses?
A semi-caveat is some believe their gov't assists with industrial espionage. Even if true, that's not inherently a "communist" function. US gov't does similar for military technology, handing off discovered secrets to military contractors. Does that make us more "commie"?
Much of China's industry is highly capitalistic. I'm not defending communism here at all, but to say alleged intellectual property theft or "copying" is caused by their "communism" is silly.
By the way, many who have lived in China recently say they have some of the best smart-phone apps there are. Many there rely purely on their phone for just about every Internet service and financial transaction. PC's never really caught on there as a consumer item, so phones have taken their place and they are taken phone apps to new heights.
It appears it's Earth soil. I found nothing in the article to suggest it's using lunar soil here, which would be the real test. The article should have pointed that out; it's not a trivial admission.
Shit, the Interwebs beat me at my game: https://www.vim.org/scripts/sc...
Vimacs, I merged them to piss off both sides.
You are probably being sarcastic, but this kind of thing will be an issue with "the cloud"; the cloud just being glorified web hosting.
A single vulnerability will expose hundreds or more customers to mass attacks.
However, this doesn't necessarily mean it's worse than self-hosted systems*, only that breaches may be more public because many other orgs will be in the same boat.
It's kind of comparable to nuclear power: it's less illness and death per generated kilowatt on average, but failures tend to be quite public and "in batches" compared to the alternatives, creating public relations headaches.
* Self-hosted systems can be more secure, but I don't trust the average company to do it right. I've worked for too many PHB's.
One would be managing people, not just technology. I must admit: I suck at managing people.
I bet it runs Emacs.
It does appear to me they value specific skill-sets more than internal domain knowledge. I'm not quite sure why. Most of the best applications I've built were done after I learned how the organization works and what managers and users want out of their systems.
Then some newbie comes in with some snazzy dancy UI that wows PHB's, who seems to judge books by covers. The eEyeCandy and buzzwords boosts their egos, and any production problems it may cause are "the grunts' problem" not the PHB's.
The frank truth is that the corporate world is a Bullshit Engine: the US doesn't make much of anything concrete anymore: we sell corporate insurance, investment portfolios, assessments, etc. to suckers down the line, businesses and individuals. Just look at IBM's AI ads if you doubt me. This Sales Culture permeates everything in the org and clouds and overwhelms any decision that requires cold hard logic.
Similarly, police departments are good at dealing with crisis because they are well trained for such, but lousy at collaborative long-term planning because that requires a very different mindset than instant crisis handling.
Thus, an org driven by sales only thinks in sales: it's hard-wired into their decision-making DNA. But you can't sweet-talk a computer into behaving how you want, and salesy orgs just don't and can't get this, and thus hire based on fashion and buzzwords.
You are assuming voters and/or state legislators are rational and fix messes they create. Corporations prefer non-compete clauses and donate a lot of campaign money to get & keep them.
Do you have evidence for this?
Besides, labor participation and wage level are two different issues. Please elaborate on your alleged connection.
That may be part of the reason why housing is so expensive in CA: people come to get away from crony capitalism in other states so that they can move on up. CA is too popular.
"We make the best chips, believe me! They are much better than Jiiihna's chips, better than Mexican chips; I love Mexican chips, by the way. Add guacamole and Ralph's Grade-A salsa, best stuff ever. We at Intel are going buy the Ralph brand. 'Chips-n-salsa' will be our new motto. Some losers say we shouldn't branch out to food, but if they were so great, they'd be CEO instead of Donald J. Trump. We'll Make Chips Tasty Again!"
That's not necessarily bad. The important thing is that one learn from mistakes. It's difficult to get good without making and learning from mistakes. The risk is that some don't learn from mistakes due to bullheaded obsessions. But all the obvious good CEO's are taken already such that they'll have to take some risk no matter what.
"Alexa, draw my hands larger on the news."
Commies be commies.
Explains T's hair
Programming typical internal CRUD apps got harder, not easier. I don't know why, but it just takes more lines of code and typing to do the same stuff as the 90's.
There are tools and stack tunings that can perhaps approach it, but most* managers won't approve such; it's not "in style". Face it, people, style and fucked-up web "standards" are fucking CRUD productivity in the bum. It may make other tasks or domains better, but not CRUD. One bad size fits all?
I had Jetsons-like tools, but industrial insanity yanked them away from my cold productive hands. They were cold because I didn't have to type/click so damned much to get a decent app.
Git off my slow-growing lawn!
* Yes, a few shops allow it, but they are rare. So don't reply just to say how great your exception is. It's okay to say why they are great with details.
But you Canadians are such dodgy people. You get people too full to move via bacon and maple pancakes, then whack them with hockey sticks. I saw it on South Monty Park.
How is that different from being arrested in the USA because your name happens to match that of a terror suspect or a media pirate on a secret list?
I don't have any concrete numbers, but I bet the chance of getting arresting in the USA during travel for dubious reasons is roughly the same.