Yes... for certain values of A and B. If you're delivering to a business in a building with a helicopter port. Delivering to a front porch is entirely different. Then there's the matter of how many will be in the air... maybe Amazon only has a few for "important" immediate deliveries that people are paying a lot extra for, but then if Amazon does it, how many other companies will be allowed to do it?
How many drones can you allow in the air? Like segways... might be OK if a few people used them, but if everybody did, then it could be really bad.
What happens when a motor fails? When a wind gust between buildings causes one to smash into the side of a building? When it crashes into heavy traffic (automotive, pedestrian, or otherwise)?
I'm a big fan of the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), but, to me, a corollary is also "What if everybody did it?" That's the question, IMO.
That's because most people non-conforming are just doing something really dumb to be, you know, non-conforming. I admit I fall into that category of people who don't appreciate people acting like idiots so they can be "non-conforming," and I'm not going to "celebrate their diversity." On the other hand, people truly thinking outside the box, and trying new things creatively, are always tops on my list - even when it doesn't necessarily lead to something beneficial... but then they are like 0.00001% of those "non-conformists."
uh huh... and the Mexican Cartel said "oh, and, by the way, beat the drivers when you steal the truck?" That's why it doesn't even matter in this case.
I not only agree with you, but need to shake my head every time some apologist changes words like "beat" into "hit." They didn't just "hit" the drivers, the drivers were "beaten." I don't wish death on the perpetrators because they stole a truck, but because they beat someone, and that was just completely unnecessarily to commit the theft. Some of these people take pleasure in it, they have demonstrated a complete, selfish lack of regard for others. They simply do not deserve to exist with the rest of us.
I know a lot of people don't agree with us, but this isn't a case of stealing to feed your starving family; anyone willing to so wantonly disregard the rights of others for personal gain does not belong in our society.
Yes! Agreed; essentially what I was saying - most people are not hardcore gamers or video editors; people have way over-bought for years, there's absolutely nothing new most people need... even moderate 3D gaming works fine on older computers, even if without the bells and whistles, but most people are surfing, watching Youtube and using facebook and sending email... the most taxing thing on the vast majority of computers is the OS.
We're past the time when computers are already obsolete by the time you're walking out of the store with them. I don't have a problem with that.
Not being a heavy gamer, I've had the same core PC (updated disk and graphics is all) for now 10 years. I have bought newer ones for the family, but even the worst new computer is better than the one I still use, and that one is still quite good.
Unless you're a hard-core gamer, computers should last LONG time for your average user.
That's part of why these idiots creeping out of the woodwork saying "I could have built it in 30 days" are lying - they have no idea what the behind the scenes complexity is, and I understand it's quite complicated. On the other hand, the tax code is even worse, yet you can do your taxes online. So it's not the law, it's a bunch of people being handed hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars and buying booze and hookers instead of working. In the time they've had, even given how complex, there's no excuse to not have a working site that's been tested the hell out of.
That may be true, but software development is partly the art of braking down the project into simpler parts, each of which should already have had an evolved solution that could have been used or adapted. [nameless talk show host] had some guys on his show claiming they could have done the healthcare website in 30 days. They're lying, because they don't know what was involved on the back end; a lot of the problems stemmed from interfacing with other government websites and databases.... but the amount of time they were given should have given them enough time to build AND test the hell out of it, and the amount of money spent is inexcusable.
Me too. What I discovered was that, feeling like it was actually my computer, I wanted it to behave according to my wants instead of someone else's. Linux is easier to customize. It's not for everyone. But I've also had my share of Windows nightmares (back when) that cost me days and days (around the time I got my first 3D card). It was more frustrating than anything Linux ever threw my way.
But most people will sit back and just take whatever MS or Apple gives them and deal with it... you see more backlash with something like Ubuntu switching to Unity because Linux users are accustomed to having control.
Most of the websites (and db servers) I've created for my company are Ubuntu Server... I don't deal with heavy security implications because they are all internally facing, although the ports are locked up and we haven't had any problems, and while I don't pay that much attention, I haven't heard of Ubuntu Server being any less secure than other linux distributions.
That's what I'm saying... if you want to expand but can't because of lack of resources, then if your burdens are reduced (freeing resources), you would use those resources to grow... but you don't grow just because you have resources if there's no point to it.
People don't get it - if a company could expand with the money it "saved" from tax cuts then that's entirely different than hiring people they don't need because they got tax cuts. Besides, even the CBO came out and said that corporate taxes are mostly burdens on consumers and employees, not the companies - where do you think the companies get the money to pay taxes? It's just hidden/embedded in every product and service you pay for.
WTF? There's no corporate love here, there's just reality - would you keep paying twice as many people as you need to cut your lawn just because you could afford it? Moron. Nobody is arguing corporations don't do crappy things sometimes; this just isn't one of them.
Agree... the most profitable companies in the world don't employ people just to keep them employed, the employ the workforce they need. Just because earnings go up doesn't mean they require the workforce they had.
But, for the record, I agree with you... I have a hard time exercising, and not just from long commutes or working overtime - because working more than 40 hours/week is not something that happens very often; but then I get to take my kids to extracurricular activities; my house sucks - I'm constantly working on fixing things and doing yard work (although I suppose that's "exercise").
I'm tired of taking the hard way to do everything - if there's an easier way that then frees up time to other things, then I don't see why all the jerks here need to get all high and mighty about it because they prefer actually doing the exercise and managed to find the time - the same way I wouldn't belittle them for liking exercise, they shouldn't belittle me for putting my kids above myself, because I do it willingly and happily.
As it is, I squeeze in exercise where possible, and I don't like when people come up with excuses why they can't do it (although it's not my place to berate them for it, either), but if something comes along to remove that "burden" so they don't have it, then so be it.
And speaking an email, text, or slashdot comment is one thing; speaking C++ or formulas in a spreadsheet is something entirely different. Moreover, can you imagine a team of programmers in an open style office all talking code to their computers?
Well, that was it for me - Unity completely violated my work-flow, multiple documents open on a very large monitor, with focus-follows-mouse. It didn't work for me on MacOS, and it didn't work for me in Unity. Then I got a new laptop and installed 12.10 on it... I don't like how small laptop screens have gotten (4x3 ratios actually give more pixels and more useful vertical space); in this case, I only want one window at a time because of the screen size, and having the launcher on the side (and no app-bar, or whatever you want to call it) saves crucial vertical space. So I got accustomed to it on the laptop... which helped me get accustomed to it on the desktop. I still hate the Mac UI, and I still have problems with Unity configurations (I just don't feel like spending so much time tweaking and still not getting things just right), but I find it usable, at least. I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time tweaking the UI today because now it's in my head. Thanks, slashdot.
I like Django... that's my preference for new projects, but I have a lot of older PHP projects, and some of the developers here are still creating and maintaining PHP sites, and I have no problems with them, either. PHP works well for what it was designed for; I love Python, but we've managed to do some pretty complicated and, more importantly, working sites in PHP. I have no problem with it.
Agree... the snobby sophomoric programmers come out and jump on the bandwagon against what is probably the most widely used language to develop websites with, and claim it's not a good language to develop websites in... it's laughable. It's surely not my favorite language, but it does what it needs to do, it does it relatively simply (that seems to be their problem - if it's easy it can't be good), is well supported. When I switched my website scripting from PERL to PHP it was fantastic; now I use python, and I like python a lot better, but I have no problem maintaining my older code, or helping the other developers here with their PHP projects. My hosting service only supports PHP, too, although I don't do a whole lot on my personal site.
We're a media company and some of our internal sites are quite complicated, and yet were done quite easily with PHP, despite my preference for other languages. Good programmers, here - better than me; the code is clean and easy to follow.
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Yes... for certain values of A and B. If you're delivering to a business in a building with a helicopter port. Delivering to a front porch is entirely different. Then there's the matter of how many will be in the air... maybe Amazon only has a few for "important" immediate deliveries that people are paying a lot extra for, but then if Amazon does it, how many other companies will be allowed to do it?
How many drones can you allow in the air? Like segways... might be OK if a few people used them, but if everybody did, then it could be really bad.
What happens when a motor fails? When a wind gust between buildings causes one to smash into the side of a building? When it crashes into heavy traffic (automotive, pedestrian, or otherwise)?
I'm a big fan of the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), but, to me, a corollary is also "What if everybody did it?" That's the question, IMO.
That's because most people non-conforming are just doing something really dumb to be, you know, non-conforming. I admit I fall into that category of people who don't appreciate people acting like idiots so they can be "non-conforming," and I'm not going to "celebrate their diversity." On the other hand, people truly thinking outside the box, and trying new things creatively, are always tops on my list - even when it doesn't necessarily lead to something beneficial... but then they are like 0.00001% of those "non-conformists."
uh huh... and the Mexican Cartel said "oh, and, by the way, beat the drivers when you steal the truck?" That's why it doesn't even matter in this case.
I not only agree with you, but need to shake my head every time some apologist changes words like "beat" into "hit." They didn't just "hit" the drivers, the drivers were "beaten." I don't wish death on the perpetrators because they stole a truck, but because they beat someone, and that was just completely unnecessarily to commit the theft. Some of these people take pleasure in it, they have demonstrated a complete, selfish lack of regard for others. They simply do not deserve to exist with the rest of us.
You don't steal a truck and beat the drivers to feed your family, because even if that's their end, their means still makes them deserving.
I know a lot of people don't agree with us, but this isn't a case of stealing to feed your starving family; anyone willing to so wantonly disregard the rights of others for personal gain does not belong in our society.
Yes! Agreed; essentially what I was saying - most people are not hardcore gamers or video editors; people have way over-bought for years, there's absolutely nothing new most people need... even moderate 3D gaming works fine on older computers, even if without the bells and whistles, but most people are surfing, watching Youtube and using facebook and sending email... the most taxing thing on the vast majority of computers is the OS.
We're past the time when computers are already obsolete by the time you're walking out of the store with them. I don't have a problem with that.
Not being a heavy gamer, I've had the same core PC (updated disk and graphics is all) for now 10 years. I have bought newer ones for the family, but even the worst new computer is better than the one I still use, and that one is still quite good.
Unless you're a hard-core gamer, computers should last LONG time for your average user.
I love this kind of fanboyism. My platform isn't quite as shitty as yours. Great.
It's like politics and religion.
That's part of why these idiots creeping out of the woodwork saying "I could have built it in 30 days" are lying - they have no idea what the behind the scenes complexity is, and I understand it's quite complicated. On the other hand, the tax code is even worse, yet you can do your taxes online. So it's not the law, it's a bunch of people being handed hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars and buying booze and hookers instead of working. In the time they've had, even given how complex, there's no excuse to not have a working site that's been tested the hell out of.
That may be true, but software development is partly the art of braking down the project into simpler parts, each of which should already have had an evolved solution that could have been used or adapted. [nameless talk show host] had some guys on his show claiming they could have done the healthcare website in 30 days. They're lying, because they don't know what was involved on the back end; a lot of the problems stemmed from interfacing with other government websites and databases.... but the amount of time they were given should have given them enough time to build AND test the hell out of it, and the amount of money spent is inexcusable.
Me too. What I discovered was that, feeling like it was actually my computer, I wanted it to behave according to my wants instead of someone else's. Linux is easier to customize. It's not for everyone. But I've also had my share of Windows nightmares (back when) that cost me days and days (around the time I got my first 3D card). It was more frustrating than anything Linux ever threw my way. But most people will sit back and just take whatever MS or Apple gives them and deal with it... you see more backlash with something like Ubuntu switching to Unity because Linux users are accustomed to having control.
Most of the websites (and db servers) I've created for my company are Ubuntu Server... I don't deal with heavy security implications because they are all internally facing, although the ports are locked up and we haven't had any problems, and while I don't pay that much attention, I haven't heard of Ubuntu Server being any less secure than other linux distributions.
No X Server, go gui at all, and no need for one.
That's what I'm saying... if you want to expand but can't because of lack of resources, then if your burdens are reduced (freeing resources), you would use those resources to grow... but you don't grow just because you have resources if there's no point to it.
People don't get it - if a company could expand with the money it "saved" from tax cuts then that's entirely different than hiring people they don't need because they got tax cuts. Besides, even the CBO came out and said that corporate taxes are mostly burdens on consumers and employees, not the companies - where do you think the companies get the money to pay taxes? It's just hidden/embedded in every product and service you pay for.
WTF? There's no corporate love here, there's just reality - would you keep paying twice as many people as you need to cut your lawn just because you could afford it? Moron. Nobody is arguing corporations don't do crappy things sometimes; this just isn't one of them.
Agree... the most profitable companies in the world don't employ people just to keep them employed, the employ the workforce they need. Just because earnings go up doesn't mean they require the workforce they had.
(!fat) != healthy.
But, for the record, I agree with you... I have a hard time exercising, and not just from long commutes or working overtime - because working more than 40 hours/week is not something that happens very often; but then I get to take my kids to extracurricular activities; my house sucks - I'm constantly working on fixing things and doing yard work (although I suppose that's "exercise").
I'm tired of taking the hard way to do everything - if there's an easier way that then frees up time to other things, then I don't see why all the jerks here need to get all high and mighty about it because they prefer actually doing the exercise and managed to find the time - the same way I wouldn't belittle them for liking exercise, they shouldn't belittle me for putting my kids above myself, because I do it willingly and happily.
As it is, I squeeze in exercise where possible, and I don't like when people come up with excuses why they can't do it (although it's not my place to berate them for it, either), but if something comes along to remove that "burden" so they don't have it, then so be it.
And speaking an email, text, or slashdot comment is one thing; speaking C++ or formulas in a spreadsheet is something entirely different. Moreover, can you imagine a team of programmers in an open style office all talking code to their computers?
Well, that was it for me - Unity completely violated my work-flow, multiple documents open on a very large monitor, with focus-follows-mouse. It didn't work for me on MacOS, and it didn't work for me in Unity. Then I got a new laptop and installed 12.10 on it... I don't like how small laptop screens have gotten (4x3 ratios actually give more pixels and more useful vertical space); in this case, I only want one window at a time because of the screen size, and having the launcher on the side (and no app-bar, or whatever you want to call it) saves crucial vertical space. So I got accustomed to it on the laptop... which helped me get accustomed to it on the desktop. I still hate the Mac UI, and I still have problems with Unity configurations (I just don't feel like spending so much time tweaking and still not getting things just right), but I find it usable, at least. I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time tweaking the UI today because now it's in my head. Thanks, slashdot.
They'd see your needless death as a tragic loss...
... and blame society for failing the perpetrator.
I like Django... that's my preference for new projects, but I have a lot of older PHP projects, and some of the developers here are still creating and maintaining PHP sites, and I have no problems with them, either. PHP works well for what it was designed for; I love Python, but we've managed to do some pretty complicated and, more importantly, working sites in PHP. I have no problem with it.
No - people without a chip on their shoulders understood exactly what you were implying.
Agreed. Are there any languages that nobody complains about, anyway?
Agree... the snobby sophomoric programmers come out and jump on the bandwagon against what is probably the most widely used language to develop websites with, and claim it's not a good language to develop websites in... it's laughable. It's surely not my favorite language, but it does what it needs to do, it does it relatively simply (that seems to be their problem - if it's easy it can't be good), is well supported. When I switched my website scripting from PERL to PHP it was fantastic; now I use python, and I like python a lot better, but I have no problem maintaining my older code, or helping the other developers here with their PHP projects. My hosting service only supports PHP, too, although I don't do a whole lot on my personal site.
We're a media company and some of our internal sites are quite complicated, and yet were done quite easily with PHP, despite my preference for other languages. Good programmers, here - better than me; the code is clean and easy to follow.