Why does the truth bother you? Why do you feel it's incensitive for a nation to want to hire people within our own nation? To have a workforce that comes to the same office every day, that get to know each other personally, and sometimes socialize together outside of work? What is wrong with that?
It's the same thing with Microsoft. The Press calls Microsoft the number one software maker in the world.. but what is the measure they are using? Most products for sale? Most licenses sold? Most lines of code currently being maintained? Stock value of company? Annual revenue? Number of active viruses running on your products? Number of employees?
There are other companies with much smaller budgets that maintain a lot more software than Microsoft.. but are they considered the largest software maker?
This is the way we are headed. I flew out to another state to attend a job fair. Raytheon was there. I waited my 45 minutes in line with resume in hand and gave it to the HR manager standing there as I introduced myself. He handed it back to me, and proceeded to tell me how to use their broken website to search for jobs and to apply online. I FLEW OUT TO A JOB FAIR! I paid for the air travel, the hotel, and the rental car.. and they tell me to go back home and make their broken website work. WTF?! It's a job fair! So this is definitely going to be the frustrating norm.
The worst of it is.. you search their site and you get a bagillion job hits. You click on the link to read more details and it asks you a bunch of questions about why you think you're a good candidiate for the cryptic two word position title, and then send your resume. You never get a chance to actually read the job description on the Raytheon website. What gives? And this guy send me back home and he's at a job fair. What in the world do these lazy HR people expect?
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Once people started getting screwed hard right in their OWN HOME by the big media companies.. a lot of people will be looking for the change to take their home back from the corporate whorelords.
I don't even hate corporations, but this DRM crap and trying to tell us how we can live in our home owns is way out of line. And people will care too much. Maybe M$ should talk to Circuit City about their successful attempt in taking over a homeowner's living room.
And when this mass realization happens.. tons of small startups will form everywhere to help get people off M$ to Linux or whatever else is viable.
Ummm...didn't AMD beat Intel in sales last year on their CPU? What makes them the #2 chipmaker? Last I heard, AMD was beating the pants off Intel and Intel was playing the chase game.
I think Intel is considered the Number 1 chip maker because of their stock value and nothing else. By stock value alone, AMD is a significantly smaller company. Remember, both of these companies have huge industries in making a lot more than just CPUs for our desktop computers. For the longest time, AMD dabbled in CPUs while making most of their money of Flash memory. The same is true with Intel.
The reason is politics. They need a ton of independent studies which are never truly unbiased, just to begin to get to a good answer. If they just made a decision without doing so, it would be politicly charged, and you'd never trust a single decision they made.. even if it was the right decision for the right reasons.
It's because politicians are so inherently corrupt at their very soul, that they need to do this.
Didn't the article cover that point? That they ran a test to generate data that can be observed in a real life example. So now they have a dataset to use as a comparison when they observe this event happening for real in the wild. Right? Isn't that what the point of the article was for?
There definitely are Linux snobs out there, but there are even more Microsoft snobs. The ones that are already talking about how a new Microsoft product is so awesome, before it has even been released. The IT guys that treat you like dirt if you don't have the Microsoft certificate, even though you've been fighting Microsoft problems for over a decade and their cert dates back a couple of months. You know them. They exist. Arrogant snobs are everywhere. They do not know any boundaries as simple as product, company, or political affiliations.
"You sounded (and still sound) confused by the distinction between the X10 protocol, and a specific company"
There's no confusion here. I won't buy products from the company that has really poor advertising practices, even though they have a lot of really cool products that I would like to buy. That doesn't mean I'm harming the X-10 protocol, that means I'm choosing to not support the X10 company that uses practices that I will not support.
There are many approved destruction methods. Depending on the use of the media, there are some methods that are not permitted, and others that are directly required.
I've never heard of melting, but I have heard of grinding to a fine powder, incineration, and demagnetizing.
"You said, "I really want to buy X10 products, but refuse to on the principal of their advertising methods.""
And that statement is still correct. I don't understand why you people are getting on my case like I just committed some heinous crime. I won't buy X10 products, but have found many that I'd like to buy. What's wrong with that? How does not buying any X10 products make me a punisher of the X-10 protocol?
You guys need to find another place to focus your anger. You've got the wrong guy to string up. Especially over something as petty as not buying a particular company's products because I disagree with their advertising methods.
I'm exactly the same way. I sent them an email telling them the same thing too. TO this day, I really want to buy X10 products, but refuse to on the principal of their advertising methods.
Yahoo gets advertising money from its email, but more importantly it is one of their main lures to a large user base. As well as their individual portals. Email is a very cheap service to provide for free. Why be critical of them for it?
"And the title of the article is MYSTERIOUS force field. The article describes just how the thing works. If you can describe how it works, it's not a mystery."
You could give yourself a lot more credit if you weren't blatantly arrogant and ignorant like this. You expect a reasonable discussion witha 'tude like that? Consider for just a moment that you are ignorant, we all are. I'm going to assume you are not deliberately ignorant, and just a bit cocky thinking and think you're smarter than everyone else.
"supposing you believe that Earth is overpopulated, and I don't"
Why do you believe the Earth is not over populated? Because no one is dying... yet? Let's consider this simple question... do you believe we are on a sustainable path? The answer to this question is fundamental to everything else. Because if you truly believe we are on a sustainable path, we need to address that disparity between our understanding of how we are surviving on this planet.
"Not to nitpick, but our government hasen't been about writing fair laws to protect individual rights for about 15 years now."
I know.. that was supposed to be part of my point. Guess I didn't do a good job sending the point home. This is the reason why I don't judge people when they break "laws" regarding things like this. Some people like to say "stealing is stealing". True.. all words in the English language observed the identity property, but I'm not going to judge people if they break laws regarding things like this when our government has done very little to write fair laws. It's war in a way.
As I noted before.. I hate it when people horde their warez. But that's not my call to make. Me? I buy most software. Unless it's ridiculously priced and I'm barely going to use it.. or I've been burned by the marketting lies from that company in the past and feel I have a rebate or free upgrade coming from them. With media like DVDs. I rent and dump to hard on my HTPC.. then delete after I'm done watching it. Illegal to the intent of the big media companies.. but definitely fair since I'm paying to watch it, and I watch it once. I do not distribute. SO I could give a rip about this DRM stuff. I'm very against it because no mega corp is going to own my living room. I thought we sent that message loud and clear to Circuit City back in the DIVX days.
I agree. I felt the Real Alternative was a better warning to Real Networks. It's a lot easier to be Real Networks free these days. As your point regarding mplayer also supports.
I like the logic and well thought out message. But... either I missed some points, or I'm not in any of the groups you proposed and discussed. I do agree with what you said though. And I do see another group that isn't in your 4, and is also not the group I'm in either. There are a great number of people that feel companies have the right to write their own laws, and will not do anything at all but buy Dell, Microsoft, Intel, DRM, etc, etc, etc, because that's what a good law abiding citizen is supposed to do. Never thinking once that these companies are far out pacing our government's ability to fairly write laws to protect both company, and individual rights. Which means these companies are writing their own laws, enforcing their own laws, and passing judgement on those that break the laws they wrote with frivelous lawsuits to scare people into submission and acceptance. What about that group of people?
The group I'm in? I'm very close to Group 2, but I will buy movies, I will rent movies, I hate all of the hording people do with their warez.. but at the same time I recognize that is their right to disobey the extortion like practices of the modern media companies. However, I'm very similar to group 2 because I enjoy the freedoms of enjoying the media I paid for the way I want to enjoy it... and not to be dictacted to me by the mega-corp that wants to own my living room and tell me how to enjoy their media, when it enjoy it, and the percentage of my pay check they are entitled to.
"and the number of lives taken by the whole space conquest is still lower than the daily death toll of car accidents across the US."
No doubt.
Another point about manned and unmanned. The unmanned is great for simple things like this. It can go on and on doing very simple tasks and won't get tired of doing it. The manned flights are for sophisticated situations, but there's another less obvious point. PUshing to get people out there, will develop new technologies in life support that can be used for many other industries both in space, and here at home. Even if we develop great technologies to live in a colony on the moon, or on Mars, we can use those same technologies to extend our stay here on this planet. Since we're doing a good job of burning this one up that cannot support the numbers of people we have.
I know you are not protesting the manned space flight. I just wanted to comment that there are many great reasons for manned space flight that are less obvious than the per mission benefits of the manned flight itself. It would be very unwise to try to send a man to another galaxy on the first shot, if we never figured out how to do it locally first.
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Why does the truth bother you? Why do you feel it's incensitive for a nation to want to hire people within our own nation? To have a workforce that comes to the same office every day, that get to know each other personally, and sometimes socialize together outside of work? What is wrong with that?
What do you want to bet that RealNetworks is going to use this patent to sue anyone else who develops an "intelligent" method of streaming data?
:-)
It won't bother me, because my patent I'm about to file is about a brilliant method of streaming data.
Cheers,
Scott
The way HR works and the way the rest of the company works are two very different things. It isn't a test... it's incompetence.
Having an HR manager at a JOB FAIR telling you to go away and use the web is pointless. Why show up at all?
It's the same thing with Microsoft. The Press calls Microsoft the number one software maker in the world.. but what is the measure they are using? Most products for sale? Most licenses sold? Most lines of code currently being maintained? Stock value of company? Annual revenue? Number of active viruses running on your products? Number of employees?
There are other companies with much smaller budgets that maintain a lot more software than Microsoft.. but are they considered the largest software maker?
This is the way we are headed. I flew out to another state to attend a job fair. Raytheon was there. I waited my 45 minutes in line with resume in hand and gave it to the HR manager standing there as I introduced myself. He handed it back to me, and proceeded to tell me how to use their broken website to search for jobs and to apply online. I FLEW OUT TO A JOB FAIR! I paid for the air travel, the hotel, and the rental car.. and they tell me to go back home and make their broken website work. WTF?! It's a job fair! So this is definitely going to be the frustrating norm.
The worst of it is.. you search their site and you get a bagillion job hits. You click on the link to read more details and it asks you a bunch of questions about why you think you're a good candidiate for the cryptic two word position title, and then send your resume. You never get a chance to actually read the job description on the Raytheon website. What gives? And this guy send me back home and he's at a job fair. What in the world do these lazy HR people expect?
Once people started getting screwed hard right in their OWN HOME by the big media companies.. a lot of people will be looking for the change to take their home back from the corporate whorelords.
I don't even hate corporations, but this DRM crap and trying to tell us how we can live in our home owns is way out of line. And people will care too much. Maybe M$ should talk to Circuit City about their successful attempt in taking over a homeowner's living room.
And when this mass realization happens.. tons of small startups will form everywhere to help get people off M$ to Linux or whatever else is viable.
Ummm...didn't AMD beat Intel in sales last year on their CPU? What makes them the #2 chipmaker? Last I heard, AMD was beating the pants off Intel and Intel was playing the chase game.
I think Intel is considered the Number 1 chip maker because of their stock value and nothing else. By stock value alone, AMD is a significantly smaller company. Remember, both of these companies have huge industries in making a lot more than just CPUs for our desktop computers. For the longest time, AMD dabbled in CPUs while making most of their money of Flash memory. The same is true with Intel.
Electricity in standard copper is about 60% the speed of light in a vacuum. If my memory is right...
The reason is politics. They need a ton of independent studies which are never truly unbiased, just to begin to get to a good answer. If they just made a decision without doing so, it would be politicly charged, and you'd never trust a single decision they made.. even if it was the right decision for the right reasons.
It's because politicians are so inherently corrupt at their very soul, that they need to do this.
Didn't the article cover that point? That they ran a test to generate data that can be observed in a real life example. So now they have a dataset to use as a comparison when they observe this event happening for real in the wild. Right? Isn't that what the point of the article was for?
It didn't prove anything.. yet. As you noted.
There definitely are Linux snobs out there, but there are even more Microsoft snobs. The ones that are already talking about how a new Microsoft product is so awesome, before it has even been released. The IT guys that treat you like dirt if you don't have the Microsoft certificate, even though you've been fighting Microsoft problems for over a decade and their cert dates back a couple of months. You know them. They exist. Arrogant snobs are everywhere. They do not know any boundaries as simple as product, company, or political affiliations.
;)
I'm sure Frued could help us out on this one.
"You sounded (and still sound) confused by the distinction between the X10 protocol, and a specific company"
There's no confusion here. I won't buy products from the company that has really poor advertising practices, even though they have a lot of really cool products that I would like to buy. That doesn't mean I'm harming the X-10 protocol, that means I'm choosing to not support the X10 company that uses practices that I will not support.
There are many approved destruction methods. Depending on the use of the media, there are some methods that are not permitted, and others that are directly required.
I've never heard of melting, but I have heard of grinding to a fine powder, incineration, and demagnetizing.
"You said, "I really want to buy X10 products, but refuse to on the principal of their advertising methods.""
And that statement is still correct. I don't understand why you people are getting on my case like I just committed some heinous crime. I won't buy X10 products, but have found many that I'd like to buy. What's wrong with that? How does not buying any X10 products make me a punisher of the X-10 protocol?
You guys need to find another place to focus your anger. You've got the wrong guy to string up. Especially over something as petty as not buying a particular company's products because I disagree with their advertising methods.
"Because you're not buying any X-10 protocol equipment, even from other companies"
That's a bit presumptuous, don't you think?
"so please don't blame the X-10 protocol for X10.com's crappy business practices."
I'm not, what made you think that I am "blaming" anyone but X10 for X10's business practices?
I'm exactly the same way. I sent them an email telling them the same thing too. TO this day, I really want to buy X10 products, but refuse to on the principal of their advertising methods.
Yahoo gets advertising money from its email, but more importantly it is one of their main lures to a large user base. As well as their individual portals. Email is a very cheap service to provide for free. Why be critical of them for it?
"And the title of the article is MYSTERIOUS force field. The article describes just how the thing works. If you can describe how it works, it's not a mystery."
:)
What if you don't understand the description?
"OK, here's how this goes:"
You could give yourself a lot more credit if you weren't blatantly arrogant and ignorant like this. You expect a reasonable discussion witha 'tude like that? Consider for just a moment that you are ignorant, we all are. I'm going to assume you are not deliberately ignorant, and just a bit cocky thinking and think you're smarter than everyone else.
"supposing you believe that Earth is overpopulated, and I don't"
Why do you believe the Earth is not over populated? Because no one is dying... yet? Let's consider this simple question... do you believe we are on a sustainable path? The answer to this question is fundamental to everything else. Because if you truly believe we are on a sustainable path, we need to address that disparity between our understanding of how we are surviving on this planet.
"Not to nitpick, but our government hasen't been about writing fair laws to protect individual rights for about 15 years now."
I know.. that was supposed to be part of my point. Guess I didn't do a good job sending the point home. This is the reason why I don't judge people when they break "laws" regarding things like this. Some people like to say "stealing is stealing". True.. all words in the English language observed the identity property, but I'm not going to judge people if they break laws regarding things like this when our government has done very little to write fair laws. It's war in a way.
As I noted before.. I hate it when people horde their warez. But that's not my call to make. Me? I buy most software. Unless it's ridiculously priced and I'm barely going to use it.. or I've been burned by the marketting lies from that company in the past and feel I have a rebate or free upgrade coming from them. With media like DVDs. I rent and dump to hard on my HTPC.. then delete after I'm done watching it. Illegal to the intent of the big media companies.. but definitely fair since I'm paying to watch it, and I watch it once. I do not distribute. SO I could give a rip about this DRM stuff. I'm very against it because no mega corp is going to own my living room. I thought we sent that message loud and clear to Circuit City back in the DIVX days.
I agree. I felt the Real Alternative was a better warning to Real Networks. It's a lot easier to be Real Networks free these days. As your point regarding mplayer also supports.
I like the logic and well thought out message. But... either I missed some points, or I'm not in any of the groups you proposed and discussed. I do agree with what you said though. And I do see another group that isn't in your 4, and is also not the group I'm in either. There are a great number of people that feel companies have the right to write their own laws, and will not do anything at all but buy Dell, Microsoft, Intel, DRM, etc, etc, etc, because that's what a good law abiding citizen is supposed to do. Never thinking once that these companies are far out pacing our government's ability to fairly write laws to protect both company, and individual rights. Which means these companies are writing their own laws, enforcing their own laws, and passing judgement on those that break the laws they wrote with frivelous lawsuits to scare people into submission and acceptance. What about that group of people?
The group I'm in? I'm very close to Group 2, but I will buy movies, I will rent movies, I hate all of the hording people do with their warez.. but at the same time I recognize that is their right to disobey the extortion like practices of the modern media companies. However, I'm very similar to group 2 because I enjoy the freedoms of enjoying the media I paid for the way I want to enjoy it... and not to be dictacted to me by the mega-corp that wants to own my living room and tell me how to enjoy their media, when it enjoy it, and the percentage of my pay check they are entitled to.
It's a lot easier to say "Real Networks free" right here, and right now.i ve.htm
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternat
"and the number of lives taken by the whole space conquest is still lower than the daily death toll of car accidents across the US."
No doubt.
Another point about manned and unmanned. The unmanned is great for simple things like this. It can go on and on doing very simple tasks and won't get tired of doing it. The manned flights are for sophisticated situations, but there's another less obvious point. PUshing to get people out there, will develop new technologies in life support that can be used for many other industries both in space, and here at home. Even if we develop great technologies to live in a colony on the moon, or on Mars, we can use those same technologies to extend our stay here on this planet. Since we're doing a good job of burning this one up that cannot support the numbers of people we have.
I know you are not protesting the manned space flight. I just wanted to comment that there are many great reasons for manned space flight that are less obvious than the per mission benefits of the manned flight itself. It would be very unwise to try to send a man to another galaxy on the first shot, if we never figured out how to do it locally first.
Cheers,
Scott