I don't feel threatened. I feel someone is making threats to me.
I don't need mercy. I know a lot of people that are one religion or another, and frankly, they can't all be right. So they're all pretty much fucked one way or another. Forgive me for choosing not to buy into their narrow world view or their irrational belief and instead living my life according to my own morality and ethics.
Or damn me to hell. If that wouldn't be an unchristian thing to do?
Indian firms are undercutting my industry by making similarly educated staff available for 1/4 or so of the salary. Those staff have servants and a life of luxury in India on such salaries because their cost of living is so much lower.
Yet I'm told it's illegal for me to outsource my music purchases? Globalise, or don't - but don't expect to replace me with cheap bodies then expect me to pay premium prices. It isn't going to happen.
My problem is that I want to pay for an Internet connection, and do exactly what I want with it.
If that means using a VOIP service that offers me free calls, then their revenue stream is much lower than your VOIP service's, and they wont be able to afford packet prioritisation. So my VOIP becomes unusable and yours doesn't. Now why should you be able to pay money to degrade my service?
If you want a guaranteed telephone service, try British Telecom.
Most of the big Internet presences are free to visit/browse. They grew big because they were free to visit/browse, because they met peoples needs, because they provided a valuable service.
The value that service drops if people have to pay to use it. The value of that service drops if the service provider (company, individual, establishment) can't afford to pay for premium IP and thus people get a degraded service. The value of that service does not rise if a premium is paid to the 60000 ISPs out there because it'll still be contending for limited bandwidth with everybody else that's paid the extortion.
On top of that, Google or Amazon or the BBC or CricInfo didn't send data to my ISP. I pulled it from them. If my ISP starts degrading the service to such sites because they haven't paid up, I'll switch ISP. If all ISPs degrade the service like that, I'll start a new ISP, because there'll be a lot of demand.
You may be willing to pay for your packets to be prioritised against everybody elses. Fine, buy a business account, arrange backbone peering, install a lot of fiber. But if you want to use the same internet as everybody else, don't fuck over my connection.
Sorry, you really expect me to believe the drunken ramblings of someone in mourning that they saw a resurrected Jesus ascend into the clouds after finding out someone had broken into his tomb and fed his dead rotting corpse to the dogs?
Thing is, I'm holding down a full time job and a full time non-work life too.
I don't have time to traverse the blogosphere.
There are only three blogs I've read more than a couple of articles on. All three of them are very tightly specialised in their little area, and I tend to go to them once every few months and spend a night catching up.
So it doesn't really matter what's being discussed "in the blogosphere", unless a site like Slashdot picks it up, it's going to pass me by.
It does maybe mean I'm not on the beat, at the cutting edge. I'd bumped into MySpace, Flickr long before they got big. I never looked at them seriously until after they'd got big. I still don't tend to use them (although I'm finding more people linking to Flickr).
But I'm happy to wait until something that's mature and adds enough value comes along, and then I'll participate a little. And if it takes off, and grows, then it may become the next Slashdot. Until then, the current one will have to do - it's still better for my needs than most other sites I've tried.
>> In a capitalist republic, politicians only have one source of income: taxes.
Nonsense. There's good old fashioned debt - then not repay it. There's confiscation of assets from 'criminals'. There's the perennial standby of continuation of political discourse with other means. There are loans that can be made to other countries, or individuals, or companies. There is the sale of land/resources/technology/public companies. There is investment (in companies, land, resources). There are charges for use of public services.
Actually, in a copy of the Independent the other day was a graphic that stated that the American defense budget is higher than the rest of the world combined.
As it stands the badge superbly highlights that the librarian supports three things and teases the viewer into asking what is meant by the term Radical Militant Librarian.
It does not subscribe the wearer to any political ideology beyond that.
Something saying 'libertarian' would convey entirely different meanings, and would be far more likely to misrepresent a librarian that merely wants to make their desire for freedom/privacy/access known, and also highlight their support for the legal process.
What is with this desire in the US for everybody to label themselves? Terms like neocon, liberal, republican, libertarian, all thrown around as though everyone must fit into a predetermined classification? Hint: It is possible to subscribe to a mix of views, across the political spectrum.
>> For a coder or programmer, being at home is probably the best environment.
Unless you are the sole developer, I disagree completely. Software development is a very social process. Good software development needs good communication.
Ideally I want my entire team - manager, developers, testers, users, infrastructure people, support - all sat at the same desk. Physically that gets a little cramped so I accept a compromise of being in the same room.
Obviously that's the ideal. At the moment I have a team spread across three UK sites, a location in Germany and two cities in India. Productivity has suffered tremendously as a result.
Firefox memory leaks may be a myth. Firefox exhibiting all the hallmarks of memory leaks definitely is not.
A graph of memory usage against time for Firefox shows a steady increase in memory the longer it stays open.
Whether that's due to a feature or a bug is completely irrelevant to users (remember them?), they just don't want to watch their PC swapping memory to disk the whole time.
Personally I suspect a large amount of the issue is due to the plug-ins people have running. But I don't know, and I don't want to spend the time needed to find out. In the meantime I'm going to keep using Firefox because I like the feature set (including certain plug-ins) and I can cope with closing/re-opening my browser every few hours.
3-0 down in the first half against Milan in the Champions League final. 3-1 down in the second half against West Ham in the FA Cup final.
Looks like the computer really helped prepare for those two games.
I hadn't heard that Benitez was a fan of any given software. I do know he's a thinker, a tactician, a man who prepares to minute detail. So it doesn't surprise me that he's open to using modern tools and techniques.
However, make no mistake: Neither game was won with computer software. Both games were won by decisive tactical changes by the manager and a couple of players Liverpool wouldn't trade for any on the planet.
Why on earth should I compile natively when it's going to give me marginal performance improvement (if any) and drastically reduce my deployment options?
I develop on windows. I test on linux. I deploy into production on solaris. I have one build script, and it gives identical output whichever platform I run it on. Oh, and we're looking to deploy into production on linux now too - so we can horizontally scale.
Hardware is cheap. Developers are not. Good developers are neither cheap nor easy to find. So a portable language that average developers can use and maintain several year old systems in makes a lot of sense to me.
Who cares how many x86 blades you need to handle your load. My business customers care far more about time to market, stability, flexibility and total cost of ownership.
wtf has 'conservative' got to do with it? You start letters with
"Dear Bigoted Religious Nazi Freak, I am a hippie peace loving magic mushroom eater that thinks Bush is the satanic love-child of Nicole Kidman and Pol Pot. I am writing to berate you regarding your incomprehensible policies in the hopes you will commit ritualised suicide."
or something?
Try "Dear Congressman Thingy, I understand the are examining the issue of in the near future. I would be grateful for the opportunity to discuss this matter with you, as it has considerable impact on myself and my . I appreciate you have many demands on your time and would be delighted to meet you at your office at a time convenient to yourself."
Or as I initially suggested, find a democracy to live in.
>> Do you think I'm going to get an audience with my insanely conservative senators to explain why they should support net neutrality or abortion rights or drug legalization or gay marriage? Yeah, ``make an appointment"---that's a great idea.)
Try moving to a democracy. All I need to do to meet with my MP is write and ask him. Or (since his address is known) walk down the road and knock on his door at 8pm when I know he's not at parliament. Or go to parliament. Or attend a local 'surgery'.
I haven't personally met with him (although I have met and chatted to other MPs) but I have written to him a few times, and received a few replies.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't feel threatened. I feel someone is making threats to me.
I don't need mercy. I know a lot of people that are one religion or another, and frankly, they can't all be right. So they're all pretty much fucked one way or another. Forgive me for choosing not to buy into their narrow world view or their irrational belief and instead living my life according to my own morality and ethics.
Or damn me to hell. If that wouldn't be an unchristian thing to do?
Don't threaten me, you deluded fool.
I'm very much with you on that one.
Indian firms are undercutting my industry by making similarly educated staff available for 1/4 or so of the salary. Those staff have servants and a life of luxury in India on such salaries because their cost of living is so much lower.
Yet I'm told it's illegal for me to outsource my music purchases? Globalise, or don't - but don't expect to replace me with cheap bodies then expect me to pay premium prices. It isn't going to happen.
My problem is that I want to pay for an Internet connection, and do exactly what I want with it.
If that means using a VOIP service that offers me free calls, then their revenue stream is much lower than your VOIP service's, and they wont be able to afford packet prioritisation. So my VOIP becomes unusable and yours doesn't. Now why should you be able to pay money to degrade my service?
If you want a guaranteed telephone service, try British Telecom.
Most of the big Internet presences are free to visit/browse. They grew big because they were free to visit/browse, because they met peoples needs, because they provided a valuable service.
The value that service drops if people have to pay to use it. The value of that service drops if the service provider (company, individual, establishment) can't afford to pay for premium IP and thus people get a degraded service. The value of that service does not rise if a premium is paid to the 60000 ISPs out there because it'll still be contending for limited bandwidth with everybody else that's paid the extortion.
On top of that, Google or Amazon or the BBC or CricInfo didn't send data to my ISP. I pulled it from them. If my ISP starts degrading the service to such sites because they haven't paid up, I'll switch ISP. If all ISPs degrade the service like that, I'll start a new ISP, because there'll be a lot of demand.
You may be willing to pay for your packets to be prioritised against everybody elses. Fine, buy a business account, arrange backbone peering, install a lot of fiber. But if you want to use the same internet as everybody else, don't fuck over my connection.
He's alive today? Where is he then?
Sorry, you really expect me to believe the drunken ramblings of someone in mourning that they saw a resurrected Jesus ascend into the clouds after finding out someone had broken into his tomb and fed his dead rotting corpse to the dogs?
The bible is just a book, you know.
wtf does her medical condition have to do with it?
It's still wrong that people have an expectation that they can freeload off their ancestors.
Thing is, I'm holding down a full time job and a full time non-work life too.
I don't have time to traverse the blogosphere.
There are only three blogs I've read more than a couple of articles on. All three of them are very tightly specialised in their little area, and I tend to go to them once every few months and spend a night catching up.
So it doesn't really matter what's being discussed "in the blogosphere", unless a site like Slashdot picks it up, it's going to pass me by.
It does maybe mean I'm not on the beat, at the cutting edge. I'd bumped into MySpace, Flickr long before they got big. I never looked at them seriously until after they'd got big. I still don't tend to use them (although I'm finding more people linking to Flickr).
But I'm happy to wait until something that's mature and adds enough value comes along, and then I'll participate a little. And if it takes off, and grows, then it may become the next Slashdot. Until then, the current one will have to do - it's still better for my needs than most other sites I've tried.
hell yes.
don't worry about the planet, it'll outlast us.
If I were to give away 100% of my worth then I wouldn't be homeless or relying on the charity of others.
What's with the victim mentality?
>> In a capitalist republic, politicians only have one source of income: taxes.
Nonsense. There's good old fashioned debt - then not repay it. There's confiscation of assets from 'criminals'. There's the perennial standby of continuation of political discourse with other means. There are loans that can be made to other countries, or individuals, or companies. There is the sale of land/resources/technology/public companies. There is investment (in companies, land, resources). There are charges for use of public services.
>> We outspend the next 20 countries combined-
Actually, in a copy of the Independent the other day was a graphic that stated that the American defense budget is higher than the rest of the world combined.
As it stands the badge superbly highlights that the librarian supports three things and teases the viewer into asking what is meant by the term Radical Militant Librarian.
It does not subscribe the wearer to any political ideology beyond that.
Something saying 'libertarian' would convey entirely different meanings, and would be far more likely to misrepresent a librarian that merely wants to make their desire for freedom/privacy/access known, and also highlight their support for the legal process.
What is with this desire in the US for everybody to label themselves? Terms like neocon, liberal, republican, libertarian, all thrown around as though everyone must fit into a predetermined classification? Hint: It is possible to subscribe to a mix of views, across the political spectrum.
Mind-boggling that the authorities don't want additional men to have excessive sexual appetites.
http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/ucr_rape.htm
I can't believe you linked to Wikipedia and still got the abbreviation wrong.
Redundant, not Rapid.
>> For a coder or programmer, being at home is probably the best environment.
Unless you are the sole developer, I disagree completely. Software development is a very social process. Good software development needs good communication.
Ideally I want my entire team - manager, developers, testers, users, infrastructure people, support - all sat at the same desk. Physically that gets a little cramped so I accept a compromise of being in the same room.
Obviously that's the ideal. At the moment I have a team spread across three UK sites, a location in Germany and two cities in India. Productivity has suffered tremendously as a result.
Using GDP as a measure of economy,
China :
Population 1,313,973,713 (July 2006 est.)
GDP $2.225 trillion (2005 est.)
UK :
Population 60,609,153 (July 2006 est.)
GDP $2.228 trillion (2005 est.)
Source : CIA World Factbook.
Firefox memory leaks may be a myth. Firefox exhibiting all the hallmarks of memory leaks definitely is not.
A graph of memory usage against time for Firefox shows a steady increase in memory the longer it stays open.
Whether that's due to a feature or a bug is completely irrelevant to users (remember them?), they just don't want to watch their PC swapping memory to disk the whole time.
Personally I suspect a large amount of the issue is due to the plug-ins people have running. But I don't know, and I don't want to spend the time needed to find out. In the meantime I'm going to keep using Firefox because I like the feature set (including certain plug-ins) and I can cope with closing/re-opening my browser every few hours.
Erm. yes.
It's all relative..
Maybe he should just stay out of the cinema while he's on call.
Yeah. Let's see:
3-0 down in the first half against Milan in the Champions League final.
3-1 down in the second half against West Ham in the FA Cup final.
Looks like the computer really helped prepare for those two games.
I hadn't heard that Benitez was a fan of any given software. I do know he's a thinker, a tactician, a man who prepares to minute detail. So it doesn't surprise me that he's open to using modern tools and techniques.
However, make no mistake: Neither game was won with computer software. Both games were won by decisive tactical changes by the manager and a couple of players Liverpool wouldn't trade for any on the planet.
Why on earth should I compile natively when it's going to give me marginal performance improvement (if any) and drastically reduce my deployment options?
I develop on windows. I test on linux. I deploy into production on solaris. I have one build script, and it gives identical output whichever platform I run it on. Oh, and we're looking to deploy into production on linux now too - so we can horizontally scale.
Hardware is cheap. Developers are not. Good developers are neither cheap nor easy to find. So a portable language that average developers can use and maintain several year old systems in makes a lot of sense to me.
Who cares how many x86 blades you need to handle your load. My business customers care far more about time to market, stability, flexibility and total cost of ownership.
Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.
wtf has 'conservative' got to do with it? You start letters with
"Dear Bigoted Religious Nazi Freak,
I am a hippie peace loving magic mushroom eater that thinks Bush is the satanic love-child of Nicole Kidman and Pol Pot. I am writing to berate you regarding your incomprehensible policies in the hopes you will commit ritualised suicide."
or something?
Try
"Dear Congressman Thingy,
I understand the are examining the issue of in the near future. I would be grateful for the opportunity to discuss this matter with you, as it has considerable impact on myself and my . I appreciate you have many demands on your time and would be delighted to meet you at your office at a time convenient to yourself."
Or as I initially suggested, find a democracy to live in.
>> Do you think I'm going to get an audience with my insanely conservative senators to explain why they should support net neutrality or abortion rights or drug legalization or gay marriage? Yeah, ``make an appointment"---that's a great idea.)
Try moving to a democracy. All I need to do to meet with my MP is write and ask him. Or (since his address is known) walk down the road and knock on his door at 8pm when I know he's not at parliament. Or go to parliament. Or attend a local 'surgery'.
I haven't personally met with him (although I have met and chatted to other MPs) but I have written to him a few times, and received a few replies.
>> Do not even offer the ability for Office, Outlook or IE to automatically do anything ever with executable code (even VBscript).
That's overkill. There are ways to enable executable code in software without excessive security issues.
It isn't easy, but it is possible.