While Frank is a policy wonk, and usually tries to find reasonable solutions to real problems unlike many of his colleagues, I can't help but wonder who is paying for this.
"socialist" and "communist" are not synonyms for "policies I don't like." Remember, the relatively permissive home of our beloved Pirate Bay is "socialist" Sweden, and they don't even fluoridate their water.
The problem is not consumers voting or not voting with their dollars, the problem is consumers. A consumer does not produce. A consumer does not interact. They are merely recipients of information and entertainment rather than full participants in a fully democratic culture and society.
10 dollars / ticket is damn cheap for 2 hours of entertainment if you consider that theater is alive and well when it can cost 10 times as much. The problem is that 10 dollars is ridiculous for the shit Hollywood throws up. 10 bucks for Chinatown or Once Upon a Time in the West on itunes is a bargain(last weekend), 10 bucks for Spiderman 3 is bullshit.
Hollywood meet Vaudeville, Vaudeville meet Hollywood.
No, BofA just fucks over their customers every other way. They've charged me hundreds in overdraft because it took them weeks to deposit a check. They have the worst customer service reputation in the industry.
It's FUD. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make any sense. It's meant to scare the PHBs, that's it. A rational argument is the incorrect response to this bullshit. Any other industry they would have been buried under lawsuits for wrongful interference, but our industry has colluding software empires with their own bullshit patents and a bunch of nerds playing the wrong game. This aint about truth, its about perception, leverage and power. Some one needs to kick them in the teeth with steel toes.
"for nine months of work"
I see this again and again and again. Why is it so difficult to understand that teachers do a lot of their work outside the classroom doing prep work, taking cert classes and grading. You wouldn't say a systems designer does 0 months of work a year because they don't write code.
When I was in school, the CS profs played basketball and soccer tournaments with the undergrads. I guess it's good that the faculty is spending some time with the grad students playing their favorite extracurricular activies.
Seriously, it always seemed to me that the grad students did the hacking and it was their advisors' role to run interference.
I am pretty much surrounded by the world of computers, but I have never, in my life, put down money for a computer magazine.
Well there it is. When I was a kid computer magazines were my only option to sate my appetite for technical information. My parents were computer illiterate, we had one crappy old Apple II with no documentation, and I didn't have the resources for new hardware.
these days the internet allows anyone with enough money for a walmart pc and dialup to stay current and ogle the newest tech (I'm leaving the country in a couple months but I still spend time with newegg server porn). Computer magazines are turning into car magazines: porn for people without the resources to get the real thing or newbies. Therefore, shit.
It's not like he asked for a whole lot. This presidential campaign season is going to top $billion in campaign spending. Obama is going to turn down a year of organizing MySpace for $50k? It's not "bad", but it aint smart to scoff at that gift.
FC: So how did the ice ball grow to reach today's 253+ webcams supported with several different chipsets?
MX: Starting with the Sunplus chipset support, I realised that most code in the core driver could be "shareable" to support several webcam chipset(s). That is why the "GSPCA" drivers now support over 250 webcams from different chipset vendors.
MS is large enough to love open source and try to crush it. Any one MS employee might be believed to hold this position, but as an amoral corporation MS should be trusted just as far as it can be thrown (and no, that makes no sense at all).
This worries me. I don't think the street's interests match up with open source communities or the private companies that make a living off of them. The street likes bold moves for short term gains. OSS demands slow(usually) organic growth and consensus building. A MySQL controlled by arms-length investors might throw an error, how will Mickos catch?
got to build those fine motor skills early. Dad: 5 more kills or no dinner! Kid#2: Do prostytoot count? Dad: hell yes, get that b****!
And yes I'm going to name my kids "Kid". Thoughtless parents seem to compete on having the most obnoxious kids on the planet. I'm going to cheat and screw them up on purpose.
As we move away from an economy based on commodities towards one dominated by the service industries, market forces will mean less and less. Where's Patrick Swayze when you need him? http://imdb.com/title/tt0087985/
What's this have to do with using two monitors?
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While Frank is a policy wonk, and usually tries to find reasonable solutions to real problems unlike many of his colleagues, I can't help but wonder who is paying for this.
both work
"socialist" and "communist" are not synonyms for "policies I don't like." Remember, the relatively permissive home of our beloved Pirate Bay is "socialist" Sweden, and they don't even fluoridate their water.
The problem is not consumers voting or not voting with their dollars, the problem is consumers. A consumer does not produce. A consumer does not interact. They are merely recipients of information and entertainment rather than full participants in a fully democratic culture and society.
10 dollars / ticket is damn cheap for 2 hours of entertainment if you consider that theater is alive and well when it can cost 10 times as much. The problem is that 10 dollars is ridiculous for the shit Hollywood throws up. 10 bucks for Chinatown or Once Upon a Time in the West on itunes is a bargain(last weekend), 10 bucks for Spiderman 3 is bullshit.
Hollywood meet Vaudeville, Vaudeville meet Hollywood.
No, BofA just fucks over their customers every other way. They've charged me hundreds in overdraft because it took them weeks to deposit a check. They have the worst customer service reputation in the industry.
This makes sense for hospitals and that's about it. Everywhere else it's a liability.
It's FUD. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make any sense. It's meant to scare the PHBs, that's it. A rational argument is the incorrect response to this bullshit. Any other industry they would have been buried under lawsuits for wrongful interference, but our industry has colluding software empires with their own bullshit patents and a bunch of nerds playing the wrong game. This aint about truth, its about perception, leverage and power. Some one needs to kick them in the teeth with steel toes.
"for nine months of work"
I see this again and again and again. Why is it so difficult to understand that teachers do a lot of their work outside the classroom doing prep work, taking cert classes and grading. You wouldn't say a systems designer does 0 months of work a year because they don't write code.
I hate you.
what does this have to do with "socialism"?
damnit I fed the troll.
cartman: social cripple fight!!!
When I was in school, the CS profs played basketball and soccer tournaments with the undergrads. I guess it's good that the faculty is spending some time with the grad students playing their favorite extracurricular activies.
Seriously, it always seemed to me that the grad students did the hacking and it was their advisors' role to run interference.
Well there it is. When I was a kid computer magazines were my only option to sate my appetite for technical information. My parents were computer illiterate, we had one crappy old Apple II with no documentation, and I didn't have the resources for new hardware.
these days the internet allows anyone with enough money for a walmart pc and dialup to stay current and ogle the newest tech (I'm leaving the country in a couple months but I still spend time with newegg server porn). Computer magazines are turning into car magazines: porn for people without the resources to get the real thing or newbies. Therefore, shit.
It's not like he asked for a whole lot. This presidential campaign season is going to top $billion in campaign spending. Obama is going to turn down a year of organizing MySpace for $50k? It's not "bad", but it aint smart to scoff at that gift.
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This guy threw in a new wrinkle: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-a
He obviously has some self-esteem issues.
time for Operation Ninja.
Just need Dvorak to pile on and they have a sure-winner.
Why wonder when you can RTFA?
FC: So how did the ice ball grow to reach today's 253+ webcams supported with several different chipsets?
MX: Starting with the Sunplus chipset support, I realised that most code in the core driver could be "shareable" to support several webcam chipset(s). That is why the "GSPCA" drivers now support over 250 webcams from different chipset vendors.
MS is large enough to love open source and try to crush it. Any one MS employee might be believed to hold this position, but as an amoral corporation MS should be trusted just as far as it can be thrown (and no, that makes no sense at all).
This worries me. I don't think the street's interests match up with open source communities or the private companies that make a living off of them. The street likes bold moves for short term gains. OSS demands slow(usually) organic growth and consensus building. A MySQL controlled by arms-length investors might throw an error, how will Mickos catch?
h tml comes to mind.
This http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000842.
If they offer a second class of shares(dividends but no voice) then maybe it will work, but I'm not sure there's a point in it.
In soviet russia...oh...wait...
got to build those fine motor skills early.
Dad: 5 more kills or no dinner!
Kid#2: Do prostytoot count?
Dad: hell yes, get that b****!
And yes I'm going to name my kids "Kid". Thoughtless parents seem to compete on having the most obnoxious kids on the planet. I'm going to cheat and screw them up on purpose.
Cripple fight!!!
Some paper thin skins round here.
The Soviet system wasn't really centrally-administered either. The economy was controlled by the haggling and political struggles of the party bosses./ 224254 and http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=1B5 9C157-136A-4C1F-8F96-67847B42932E
Soviet propaganda: to each according to their needs.
Capitalist propaganda: to each according to their ability.
Reality: it's who you know.
See: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/23
As we move away from an economy based on commodities towards one dominated by the service industries, market forces will mean less and less. Where's Patrick Swayze when you need him? http://imdb.com/title/tt0087985/
What's this have to do with using two monitors?
for the hyperspace bypass have been on public display for some time now. They should have taken a greater interest in galactic affairs.
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am I strange for wondering if I'm being callous?