The "health plan" as it stands is completey stupid sure, but I don't think it qualifies as "shredding the Constitution" as you so elequintly put it. Shall we just overlook the fact that his predecessor began (and he has kept up) the unconstitutional practice of wiretapping every phone line in the country? Sorry, I just had to point that out.
I'm not even a programmer, and I know that your last statement is wrong. Did you modify the code (yes/no). If yes are you distributing those modifications? (yes/no). If no, you have nothing to worry about. If yes, you've become a devloper, and as per the GPL, you are required to give the same freedom to anyone who wants your code the same freedom you were given when you recieved your code. If you answerd no to the first question (Did you modify the code), then what's the beef? Unless you are mirroring, but then, you're probably not doing that from a small office's network connection. So really, the question of narrowly defining when you are or not a user isn't artificial. If you choose to modify GPL code and release it, congratulations, you've made yourself a developer. Now kindly play nice and share your code, since, by virtue of you now being a developer and distributer of GPL'd code, you are bound by the GPL to give everyone else the same freedom the original devolpers gave you (the freedom to view and modify the source code to your heart's content).
Ok, only one glaring flaw with your argument. If you go to the coffee shop and use the internet there, who do you think they get the connection from? You'll still be supporting the monopoly, only indirectly. And if everyone goes to places with free wifi, those cofee shops will have to get bigger pipes, which will either mean no more free wifi, or higher prices (which is the shop's right, I'm not going to argue that), but the net result is that they give more money to the monopoly ISP. The telcos got a lot of tax breaks to upgrade the networks, which they only half-assed. Yes, there are some small ISPs that do a great job maintaining and upgrading networks (usually these are rural telephone co-ops, the one in my area has had FOIS to most of thier customers for years, and are in the middle of rolling it out to all of them). But to say that the answer is to not support the major telcos by going to coffee shops and using the connections there is kinda silly, since the coffee shops get internet from somewhere (I'm not aware of any coffee shops running a backbone connection, and I would love to see a list of those who are operating as backbone carriers). Sometimes the answer, unfortunately, is the government (after all, the Interstate Highway system isn't all bad)
Actually, MS has a nice thing called Microsoft Supplimental Update Services (basically allowed admins to set up a server to act as a local repository for all things MS Patch related). Having set up a few in my time, it was really handy for testing on small groups (I actually had set it up to do initial pushes to techs and sys admins first, then IT department, and wouldn't authorize patches for everyone else until I was satisfied that the patches wouldn't bork everything). It was also nice since you could download all the patches to a local server and not eat up your bandwidth when everyone came into work and powered thier computers on (we had updates set to run overnight, but since nobody ever bothered doing that, our bandwidth would get all eaten up by machines powering up and fetching updates). Anyway, I digress, simple fact is that the program exists, and is free even.
Wait, am I having a flashback, or did you say that your IT guys won't give you (a developer who, I assume, are familiar enough with running and administering your box to not bork it) admin rights to your box, but they'll give graphic designers (who, I imagine are good at their jobs, but are essentially artists) ROOT access to the linux boxes and sql servers, which apparently are production? Dude WTF? You should seriously talk to someone about getting sane IT polocies in there.
Yeah, I figured it was something stupid like that. Oh well, I'd rather advertisers think I'm in chicago than quincy anyway, the less they know the better off I am (I guess)
Speaking of Geo-IP, why do they assume every Comcast IP in Illinois is Chicago (specifically Naperville)? It's like they are unaware that there is anything but Chicago in IL. Ah, well, if the politicians in my state can make the same mistake, maybe I can forgive the marketers too.
(don't rile me about being a Comcast customer, not like I had a choice. Sympathy though, is highly appreciated)
Yeah, especially for $600, from staples of all places. Acers are suprisingly hacker-freindly. Having only dealt with HP laptops in the past, when I saw that those 6 screws allowed me to access my entire system board, I felt like a 5 year old at Christmas.
Yes, yes we could, however, I didn't want to drag politics into the mix, anymore than they already were. There is plenty of fat that could be trimmed from the US budget. Cutting defense spending would be the easiest place to start (since it's more than half of our budget in the first place). Cutting out enforcing morality with the force of law would be good too (as well as being able to tax said items that some get uptight about), as well as reducing the pork spending of our congresscritters. I suppose, maybe sometime in the next 10-15 years, when the blowhards (on both sides) that have been in power since I was a kid (and I'm in my 30s now) start dying off (from old age I don't want anyone to think I'm advocating violence, because I'm not) and no longer can run for office (on account of them having died peacefully in thier sleep), things might change.
Hate to reply to myself, but the darn synaptec touchpad read a click as I my mouse was over my submit button. Anyway, as I was saying: It is trivial to upgrade this thing, six screws on the bottom and I have access to all the hardware, making the act of slapping an i5 or i7 in place pretty easy
That's odd, my I have to pay something between $50 and $100 per year for book and lab fees for my children (depending on the grade). Granted, they will waive those fees for low income families (and as I live in a small town where half of everyone works minimum wage jobs to get by, about half the kids fall into that catagory), it makes me wonder why they have the fees in the first place? I agree though, that in spirit education is "free". I also (maybe I got biased by my 6 years of learning German) think that education should be provided by the government to anyone who asks, through and including college. (Yes, I know that requires money in the form of taxes, which is highly unpopular here in the U.S.) However, the requirement to use a platform that is essentially more expensive across the board is pretty ignorant. This is more suited to a netbook or OLPC roll out. My lappy was $600, and although it isn't top of the line, it does have a core i3, 4GB of ram and a 17 inch display. (Also it is pretty tri
As a Moody Blues fan, your list struck a chord with me (I don't care if the pun is horrible, I've got karma to burn)
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There really needs to be another rule of the internet: As a discussion forum thread goes on, the chances of an XKCD comic becoming relevant increases to 1 (I'm not a math nerd, I think that's how they say 100% likely, isnt' it?)
I only have to say that privacy can also be used against the wicked as well as by them (Do I really need to cite examples here?). Humans do have a 'need' (or I suppose such an intense want for that it's turned into a need) for privacy. It's why we have bathroom doors. They serve no practical purpose except to give us some privacy when we are expelling waste. No matter how recent an invention, privacy is an important one to a great many people. If you feel differently, that's cool, we all have different levels of what could be considered private information.
I had read once that they were using the same technology as laptops so that they could let laptop battery manufacturers do the heavy lifting on battery R&D (a sensible approach I suppose) and after reading thier pdf about the batteries it seems to hint that they use them because they are cheap, standard (same ones used in laptop batteries), and should one fail, it doesn't affect the entire system as much overall (there is no mention of fire damage however). I'm sorry that I can't answer your question regarding increase or decrease of performance as size increases. But it doesn't seem Tesla is using small cells to avoid patent licensing issues (after all, Wikipedia indicates that they license their AC Motors in the Roadster)
Not to be a dick, but Satan is actually ancient Hebrew for Advesary. The "fallen angel Lucifer" taking the title of Satan may have been a Catholic thing, but Satan is actually Hebrew in origin.
Ok, I'm not usually one to get involved in a discussion such as this (I'm not an artist, have barely a passing interest in it to be honest), but perhaps that gives me a unique perspective that both you and the poster that started this little squabble started. If I may break this down, the original poster seems to have said (in a crude and perhaps insulting fashion) that they don't care for a particular artist. You're response appears to be that they don't like that artist because they don't understand the art itself. Ok, maybe that's a valid point. However, I would postulate that one does not need to 'get' art to enjoy it, and it may be possible that one can 'get' art and still not like it. The only things I have to go on are personal examples of my (limited) exposure to art. Take the Blue Man group. I have no idea what there is to 'get' in their performances. I don't understand them. However, I do enjoy their particular spin on performance art (I think it looks cool, it's done well, and although I haven't in the past gone out of the way to find any of their work, I've also never changed the station if I see them on. On the flip side, during an art class I took at ITT (of all places), one particular piece I saw was a cup, saucer and spoon covered with fur (literally the artist took a cup, a saucer and a spoon and affixed fur to it), I get it (well it was explained to me), it's purpose was to surprise the viewer and get them to think about what that would feel like if one were to use those dishes. I don't like it (as in it has no aesthetic qualities that appeal to me). No amount of exposure to that particular work of art (or any others) will get me to change my mind (frankly I think it was just crap).
But I suppose that none of this matters, because art is a subjective thing. Some people will not like some things, it doesn't mean they don't understand the it. The artist may sit down and explain it to the person, and they still might say "so what it's crap in my eyes". And of course that whole "in my eyes" is really all that matters to them, just as to the artist, the creation is what matters, because to them it is not crap, but a heartfelt pouring out of their being into that work, to express to others how they see whatever it is that they are expressing.
I will however, state that if the original poster was dogging Pollock and saying that they made no contribution to the world, yeah that's kinda nasty, after all, even though I don't get art (for the most part) due to my lack of exposure, all artists contribute to the world in some manner, usually positive, as artists make cool stuff (to paraphrase a bumper sticker I once saw) and they (if nothing else) make the world a richer and more interesting (sometimes more beautiful) place to live.
The 250GB cap mentioned in the article does not affect business customers (I called to confirm it). I know I have a contract for 3 years (they were the only ones who could deliver service in my area), and was so floored by the assertion that all customers would be subject to bandwidth caps, I called about it. The rep informed me that there is no bandwidth cap for business customers, although if you do use a lot of bandwidth, they will let you know about it (I have no idea what limit would trigger that event or anything, but then again, neither did the rep I spoke with).
I concur, if you've ever been accused, or know someone who is accused of a crime, should it be serious enough to report, the media will say allegedly or accused once (so that they can say they said accused and didn't taint a potential jury pool), and then go about reporting the accusations by the police as if it were 100% undisputed fact that the accused did, in fact, commit the crime. Whether the person accused is guilty or not, (in the US at least), there is no hope for them once the press gets their hands on the story (just look at the whole story behind that Duke rape case here while back). Sometimes I think we in the US should adopt the policy they have in England with regards to press coverage of crimes.
People made the same argument to the Supreme Court of the US when they were discussing workplace random drug testing. The businesses said "We should be able to do this, after all, they can always go work for someone else". That's all fine and well, until everyone else does it. Please do not take this as a rant for or against anything. I'm merely pointing out that once every employer practices something, it doesn't matter who you work for. Government or Boss man, it's all the same. Insurance costs you money, and someone is going to tell you what to do with yourself.
Whoa, I know this is a UK story and all, do you all have to register religions over there? What criteria are there? In the states, I know that individual priests have to register with the state for certain perks (such as the right to perform marriage ceremonies, and if you want that lovely tax break), but I don't think that the religion itself has to be "registered". I may be wrong on that point, but it seems pretty wierd to me as a USian, that a religion has to register to be considered legit, especially in a non totalitarian place like the UK.
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The "health plan" as it stands is completey stupid sure, but I don't think it qualifies as "shredding the Constitution" as you so elequintly put it. Shall we just overlook the fact that his predecessor began (and he has kept up) the unconstitutional practice of wiretapping every phone line in the country? Sorry, I just had to point that out.
I'm not even a programmer, and I know that your last statement is wrong. Did you modify the code (yes/no). If yes are you distributing those modifications? (yes/no). If no, you have nothing to worry about. If yes, you've become a devloper, and as per the GPL, you are required to give the same freedom to anyone who wants your code the same freedom you were given when you recieved your code. If you answerd no to the first question (Did you modify the code), then what's the beef? Unless you are mirroring, but then, you're probably not doing that from a small office's network connection. So really, the question of narrowly defining when you are or not a user isn't artificial. If you choose to modify GPL code and release it, congratulations, you've made yourself a developer. Now kindly play nice and share your code, since, by virtue of you now being a developer and distributer of GPL'd code, you are bound by the GPL to give everyone else the same freedom the original devolpers gave you (the freedom to view and modify the source code to your heart's content).
Ok, only one glaring flaw with your argument. If you go to the coffee shop and use the internet there, who do you think they get the connection from? You'll still be supporting the monopoly, only indirectly. And if everyone goes to places with free wifi, those cofee shops will have to get bigger pipes, which will either mean no more free wifi, or higher prices (which is the shop's right, I'm not going to argue that), but the net result is that they give more money to the monopoly ISP. The telcos got a lot of tax breaks to upgrade the networks, which they only half-assed. Yes, there are some small ISPs that do a great job maintaining and upgrading networks (usually these are rural telephone co-ops, the one in my area has had FOIS to most of thier customers for years, and are in the middle of rolling it out to all of them). But to say that the answer is to not support the major telcos by going to coffee shops and using the connections there is kinda silly, since the coffee shops get internet from somewhere (I'm not aware of any coffee shops running a backbone connection, and I would love to see a list of those who are operating as backbone carriers). Sometimes the answer, unfortunately, is the government (after all, the Interstate Highway system isn't all bad)
Actually, MS has a nice thing called Microsoft Supplimental Update Services (basically allowed admins to set up a server to act as a local repository for all things MS Patch related). Having set up a few in my time, it was really handy for testing on small groups (I actually had set it up to do initial pushes to techs and sys admins first, then IT department, and wouldn't authorize patches for everyone else until I was satisfied that the patches wouldn't bork everything). It was also nice since you could download all the patches to a local server and not eat up your bandwidth when everyone came into work and powered thier computers on (we had updates set to run overnight, but since nobody ever bothered doing that, our bandwidth would get all eaten up by machines powering up and fetching updates). Anyway, I digress, simple fact is that the program exists, and is free even.
Wait, am I having a flashback, or did you say that your IT guys won't give you (a developer who, I assume, are familiar enough with running and administering your box to not bork it) admin rights to your box, but they'll give graphic designers (who, I imagine are good at their jobs, but are essentially artists) ROOT access to the linux boxes and sql servers, which apparently are production? Dude WTF? You should seriously talk to someone about getting sane IT polocies in there.
Yeah, I figured it was something stupid like that. Oh well, I'd rather advertisers think I'm in chicago than quincy anyway, the less they know the better off I am (I guess)
Speaking of Geo-IP, why do they assume every Comcast IP in Illinois is Chicago (specifically Naperville)? It's like they are unaware that there is anything but Chicago in IL. Ah, well, if the politicians in my state can make the same mistake, maybe I can forgive the marketers too.
(don't rile me about being a Comcast customer, not like I had a choice. Sympathy though, is highly appreciated)
Yeah, especially for $600, from staples of all places. Acers are suprisingly hacker-freindly. Having only dealt with HP laptops in the past, when I saw that those 6 screws allowed me to access my entire system board, I felt like a 5 year old at Christmas.
Yes, yes we could, however, I didn't want to drag politics into the mix, anymore than they already were. There is plenty of fat that could be trimmed from the US budget. Cutting defense spending would be the easiest place to start (since it's more than half of our budget in the first place). Cutting out enforcing morality with the force of law would be good too (as well as being able to tax said items that some get uptight about), as well as reducing the pork spending of our congresscritters. I suppose, maybe sometime in the next 10-15 years, when the blowhards (on both sides) that have been in power since I was a kid (and I'm in my 30s now) start dying off (from old age I don't want anyone to think I'm advocating violence, because I'm not) and no longer can run for office (on account of them having died peacefully in thier sleep), things might change.
Hate to reply to myself, but the darn synaptec touchpad read a click as I my mouse was over my submit button. Anyway, as I was saying: It is trivial to upgrade this thing, six screws on the bottom and I have access to all the hardware, making the act of slapping an i5 or i7 in place pretty easy
That's odd, my I have to pay something between $50 and $100 per year for book and lab fees for my children (depending on the grade). Granted, they will waive those fees for low income families (and as I live in a small town where half of everyone works minimum wage jobs to get by, about half the kids fall into that catagory), it makes me wonder why they have the fees in the first place? I agree though, that in spirit education is "free". I also (maybe I got biased by my 6 years of learning German) think that education should be provided by the government to anyone who asks, through and including college. (Yes, I know that requires money in the form of taxes, which is highly unpopular here in the U.S.) However, the requirement to use a platform that is essentially more expensive across the board is pretty ignorant. This is more suited to a netbook or OLPC roll out. My lappy was $600, and although it isn't top of the line, it does have a core i3, 4GB of ram and a 17 inch display. (Also it is pretty tri
As a Moody Blues fan, your list struck a chord with me (I don't care if the pun is horrible, I've got karma to burn)
Thanks for the tip, I shall have to remember it.
You owe me a new keyboard.
There really needs to be another rule of the internet: As a discussion forum thread goes on, the chances of an XKCD comic becoming relevant increases to 1 (I'm not a math nerd, I think that's how they say 100% likely, isnt' it?)
And did anyone but me cringe every time she said "Conjisation"? Seriously, WTF?
I only have to say that privacy can also be used against the wicked as well as by them (Do I really need to cite examples here?). Humans do have a 'need' (or I suppose such an intense want for that it's turned into a need) for privacy. It's why we have bathroom doors. They serve no practical purpose except to give us some privacy when we are expelling waste. No matter how recent an invention, privacy is an important one to a great many people. If you feel differently, that's cool, we all have different levels of what could be considered private information.
I had read once that they were using the same technology as laptops so that they could let laptop battery manufacturers do the heavy lifting on battery R&D (a sensible approach I suppose) and after reading thier pdf about the batteries it seems to hint that they use them because they are cheap, standard (same ones used in laptop batteries), and should one fail, it doesn't affect the entire system as much overall (there is no mention of fire damage however). I'm sorry that I can't answer your question regarding increase or decrease of performance as size increases. But it doesn't seem Tesla is using small cells to avoid patent licensing issues (after all, Wikipedia indicates that they license their AC Motors in the Roadster)
Not to be a dick, but Satan is actually ancient Hebrew for Advesary. The "fallen angel Lucifer" taking the title of Satan may have been a Catholic thing, but Satan is actually Hebrew in origin.
Ok, I'm not usually one to get involved in a discussion such as this (I'm not an artist, have barely a passing interest in it to be honest), but perhaps that gives me a unique perspective that both you and the poster that started this little squabble started. If I may break this down, the original poster seems to have said (in a crude and perhaps insulting fashion) that they don't care for a particular artist. You're response appears to be that they don't like that artist because they don't understand the art itself. Ok, maybe that's a valid point. However, I would postulate that one does not need to 'get' art to enjoy it, and it may be possible that one can 'get' art and still not like it. The only things I have to go on are personal examples of my (limited) exposure to art. Take the Blue Man group. I have no idea what there is to 'get' in their performances. I don't understand them. However, I do enjoy their particular spin on performance art (I think it looks cool, it's done well, and although I haven't in the past gone out of the way to find any of their work, I've also never changed the station if I see them on. On the flip side, during an art class I took at ITT (of all places), one particular piece I saw was a cup, saucer and spoon covered with fur (literally the artist took a cup, a saucer and a spoon and affixed fur to it), I get it (well it was explained to me), it's purpose was to surprise the viewer and get them to think about what that would feel like if one were to use those dishes. I don't like it (as in it has no aesthetic qualities that appeal to me). No amount of exposure to that particular work of art (or any others) will get me to change my mind (frankly I think it was just crap).
But I suppose that none of this matters, because art is a subjective thing. Some people will not like some things, it doesn't mean they don't understand the it. The artist may sit down and explain it to the person, and they still might say "so what it's crap in my eyes". And of course that whole "in my eyes" is really all that matters to them, just as to the artist, the creation is what matters, because to them it is not crap, but a heartfelt pouring out of their being into that work, to express to others how they see whatever it is that they are expressing.
I will however, state that if the original poster was dogging Pollock and saying that they made no contribution to the world, yeah that's kinda nasty, after all, even though I don't get art (for the most part) due to my lack of exposure, all artists contribute to the world in some manner, usually positive, as artists make cool stuff (to paraphrase a bumper sticker I once saw) and they (if nothing else) make the world a richer and more interesting (sometimes more beautiful) place to live.
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The 250GB cap mentioned in the article does not affect business customers (I called to confirm it). I know I have a contract for 3 years (they were the only ones who could deliver service in my area), and was so floored by the assertion that all customers would be subject to bandwidth caps, I called about it. The rep informed me that there is no bandwidth cap for business customers, although if you do use a lot of bandwidth, they will let you know about it (I have no idea what limit would trigger that event or anything, but then again, neither did the rep I spoke with).
I concur, if you've ever been accused, or know someone who is accused of a crime, should it be serious enough to report, the media will say allegedly or accused once (so that they can say they said accused and didn't taint a potential jury pool), and then go about reporting the accusations by the police as if it were 100% undisputed fact that the accused did, in fact, commit the crime. Whether the person accused is guilty or not, (in the US at least), there is no hope for them once the press gets their hands on the story (just look at the whole story behind that Duke rape case here while back). Sometimes I think we in the US should adopt the policy they have in England with regards to press coverage of crimes.
People made the same argument to the Supreme Court of the US when they were discussing workplace random drug testing. The businesses said "We should be able to do this, after all, they can always go work for someone else". That's all fine and well, until everyone else does it. Please do not take this as a rant for or against anything. I'm merely pointing out that once every employer practices something, it doesn't matter who you work for. Government or Boss man, it's all the same. Insurance costs you money, and someone is going to tell you what to do with yourself.
Whoa, I know this is a UK story and all, do you all have to register religions over there? What criteria are there? In the states, I know that individual priests have to register with the state for certain perks (such as the right to perform marriage ceremonies, and if you want that lovely tax break), but I don't think that the religion itself has to be "registered". I may be wrong on that point, but it seems pretty wierd to me as a USian, that a religion has to register to be considered legit, especially in a non totalitarian place like the UK.