Because maybe it's not his first project? Fine, let me ask you: how many times did you get burned by totally unmaintainable third-party dependencies, before you vowed "NEVER AGAIN will I get so utterly fucked over?"
This. Wish I hadn't run out of mod points -- and frankly I'm tired of some bottom of the barrel programmer who's attitude is "we can just rewrite everything every 5 years" get promoted into management and then tie our code to whatever proprietary crap the next cute sales person brings.
Separate. Isolate. Defend. Treat every piece of third-party code that you don't have source for as an enemy whose only goal is to financially rape you. I don't care if that enemy goes by Oracle, Microsoft, or Joe's Discount Software.
One thing that can really hold it back though is its file system.
You bring up a good point. It's been forever since I've played with VMS (v7.1 I think). What would happen if you put a case sensitive file system? How much would break? Or did they do that in the intervening years?
VAX was already on 64-bit for ages when Linux was still in it's earliest versions.
VAX -- the CPU architecture -- was always only 32-bit. If you mean VMS -- the operating system that was ported to 64-bit Alpha and then eventually to Itanium -- then we're good.
Given that VMS has already gone VAX -> Alpha -> Itanium, supporting two out of three for most if the times, I bet the codebase is fairly clean, actually. In fact, if I recall correctly, HP had an aborted port to AMD64 bootable at one point, although I can't find a reference at the moment.
Grant it, it has been years and I've probably recycled those brain cells a long time ago -- but at one point I believe that the types of interrupts available to X86 CPUs was an issue for porting VMS to x86.
Industry regulation does not constitute a non-free market, just as industry deregulation does not constitute a free market.
Um, we're talking the telecommunications industry here -- where a free market does not exist. You cannot go into the cable business without the local and/or state (depending on the area) giving its blessing -- and they won't. The local/state governments have create monopolies. This is not a free market.
The same holds for the telephone industry. The norm is that a single company is granted a government monopoly in an area. There is no competition for land lines in a locale.
Don't get me wrong. You only want one company stringing phone lines throughout a community. You only want one company stringing cable coax throughout a community. But please, let's not pretend that these government created monopolies have anything to do with the free market.
Free market capitalism is very beneficial to the consumers...when there is open competition..
When did the free market have anything to do with the telecommunications industry? At least in the United States, it has been a regulated industry for as long as anyone alive can remember. I really wonder why we've let companies with a government created monopoly in one area (local cable monopolies) leverage that monopoly to improve their business position in another area (content creation).
No country is on that list. They USA will never and has never extradited a person to another country.
Good thing you're an Anonymous Coward, because you're not even close to reality.
According to US Embassy based in London:
During the same time period, the UK submitted 54 extradition REQUESTS to the US, of which none have been refused. Of those 54 requests, 38 resulted in extradition of an individual from the U.S. to the UK. In the remaining 16 cases, the individuals either returned to the UK on their own or other circumstances made extradition from the U.S. to the UK no longer necessary.
The utilities already charge a flat baseline connection fee. That should take care of all infrastructure and grid maintainance. If you want it your way then I say get rid of the flat connection fee.
Do you know for certain that this is the case with this utility? I have a house in California that does not have a baseline connection fee. I have a house in Arizona that does have a baseline connection fee. I don't have a house served by this utility and don't know if they actually have a baseline connection fee.
*Side note, I work in a non-technical white collar job, and a surprising number of my colleagues have tattoos.
It might be a generational thing. I personally think (thought) tattoos were very unprofessional, but the younger generation seems to have them -- a lot. One of the kids in the group (he's probably pushing 30) has tats nearly everywhere visible. I'm extremely glad they didn't discriminate against him when it came to hiring. He's change my mind on people with tats.
I would have marked this as "insightful" versus funny.
For me:
-- Watching the love of my life marry someone else because I was too cowardly to ask her out in time.
-- Explaining to my nephew that he'd never see his dad again.
-- I still don't know what to say/do around my niece that was raped.
-- I don't know if I'm proud of myself or self loathing for not having killed the rapist yet.
Most of these fall into "communication with people"; one falls into "planning and plan execution."
Ah. The recently popular "everyone is doing it, so we are okay to do it too". The slow descent in the abyss of mediocrity.
I am sure if we tally it up, the US is actually responsible for the highest amount of meddling and government overthrows on this planet in the last 70 years. Basically every president of this nation in that period has overthrown someone somewhere.
70 years? That brings us back to, what, 1943? Who was the first democratically elected government that the US over threw starting in 1943? Was it the National Socialists in Germany? Just curious.
And that's just the ones that I can think of without digging too deeply.
I believe the comment was US has not attempted to overturn every single democratically-elected government and notthe U.S. has attempted to overturn zero democratically-elected governments.
Stock does not only represent control of the company. It also represents ownership. So why shouldn't it be taxed? When a person is given stock, he/she should be taxed according to their market value (and I guess on a % of the companies book value in cases where the company is not publicly traded).
So when Steve got his shares, he should have paid income taxes on their value.
So, ultimately you're saying that the rich shouldn't be taxed. When Steve initially received his shares when it was just him and Woz, the company wasn't worth a huge amount. Same with Oracle and Ellison.
You must think that all poor people should be dressed in rags and have no dignity or luxuries whatsoever. I've been poor before and I know how it is, you insensitive prick
I love it when someone tries to take what I say out of context and imply I said something I didn't. Thank you for spreading your ignorance.
By Obama's definition, I've been poor too. People do not need cable TV. Hell, I haven't had cable or satellite TV for over 10 years. If someone insists that they need it then they sure as hell don't need me to spring for the grocery bill. Take that $800+ a year and put it towards groceries.
Because taxes are levied on capital gains (i.e. only when selling his shares) and not on capital itself, then taxing Steve would have done about nothing. He carried many of them to his grave. Though I agree with you about what they represented to him: control. Stock ownership is only about profit when you sell your stake. Holding your stake is holding control.
Thank you for enforcing the point that the income tax does nothing about the rich.
The difference is that MoveOn has no pretenses in what it's about. What exactly is the tea party these days? All I hear from its mouthpieces right now is how gay marriage is a sign of the end times and moral decay causes deficits but we should totally spend trillions more dollars on war. And tax us less or something maybe.
I admit that I only have listened to actual Tea Party people three or four times -- but they were for smaller government and less taxes. They explicitly stated that they did not take any stand on social issues.
And please don't bring in the asinine fallacy that because I think Bush (and now Obama) are over spending that I somehow want to eliminate the Federal government completely or take us back to the dark ages.
It's interesting that the Affordable Health Care Act requires the government to know more and more about your health and health care decisions. Either these are contrary to Roe v. Wade or they are undermining the principles that RvW is founded upon.
while rank-and-file workers are paid so little that they need food stamps
Have you been in the house of food stamp recipients? The cops that I know keep bitching that the welfare/food-stamp people have huge plasma TV's and a fridge well stocked with beer. For the most part, it's not about food, but priorities.
A single mother that I know was bitching about not being able to make ends meet. After listening to her bitch for a while, I asked her what she would do with an extra $900 -- tax free -- a year. She started talking about all the things she would spend it on, never once mentioned "saving" or "paying down debt." When she finally ran out of things to spend the money on, I told her to cancel her cable subscription. "Ooooh, I can't do that. I NEED that!"
Sorry, I call bullshit. We've elevated "want to haves" into "need to have." You don't need cable or satellite TV. You don't need a cell phone, let alone a smart phone and data plan. You don't need your morning Starbucks, fast food, or preprocessed crap from the grocery store. If you can earn them, great. But don't force others who are working for a living to support you in a lifestyle that you don't need and can't afford.
While there are times that people honestly need food stamps, the vast majority of the time there is ample waste in the "want to" versus the "need to".
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Because maybe it's not his first project? Fine, let me ask you: how many times did you get burned by totally unmaintainable third-party dependencies, before you vowed "NEVER AGAIN will I get so utterly fucked over?"
This. Wish I hadn't run out of mod points -- and frankly I'm tired of some bottom of the barrel programmer who's attitude is "we can just rewrite everything every 5 years" get promoted into management and then tie our code to whatever proprietary crap the next cute sales person brings.
Separate. Isolate. Defend. Treat every piece of third-party code that you don't have source for as an enemy whose only goal is to financially rape you. I don't care if that enemy goes by Oracle, Microsoft, or Joe's Discount Software.
You also recycled the brain cells denoting the difference between "grant it" and "granted".... Sorry, I could not resist...
And my slashdot quote of the day at the bottom is:
"A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears." -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths
One thing that can really hold it back though is its file system.
You bring up a good point. It's been forever since I've played with VMS (v7.1 I think). What would happen if you put a case sensitive file system? How much would break? Or did they do that in the intervening years?
VAX was already on 64-bit for ages when Linux was still in it's earliest versions.
VAX -- the CPU architecture -- was always only 32-bit. If you mean VMS -- the operating system that was ported to 64-bit Alpha and then eventually to Itanium -- then we're good.
Given that VMS has already gone VAX -> Alpha -> Itanium, supporting two out of three for most if the times, I bet the codebase is fairly clean, actually. In fact, if I recall correctly, HP had an aborted port to AMD64 bootable at one point, although I can't find a reference at the moment.
Grant it, it has been years and I've probably recycled those brain cells a long time ago -- but at one point I believe that the types of interrupts available to X86 CPUs was an issue for porting VMS to x86.
If it's good enough for the President, it's good enough for the common man.
</sarcasm>
Seriously, if we're going to excuse it at the highest levels when because we like what the person does otherwise, what do you expect?
Industry regulation does not constitute a non-free market, just as industry deregulation does not constitute a free market.
Um, we're talking the telecommunications industry here -- where a free market does not exist. You cannot go into the cable business without the local and/or state (depending on the area) giving its blessing -- and they won't. The local/state governments have create monopolies. This is not a free market.
The same holds for the telephone industry. The norm is that a single company is granted a government monopoly in an area. There is no competition for land lines in a locale.
Don't get me wrong. You only want one company stringing phone lines throughout a community. You only want one company stringing cable coax throughout a community. But please, let's not pretend that these government created monopolies have anything to do with the free market.
Free market capitalism is very beneficial to the consumers...when there is open competition. .
When did the free market have anything to do with the telecommunications industry? At least in the United States, it has been a regulated industry for as long as anyone alive can remember. I really wonder why we've let companies with a government created monopoly in one area (local cable monopolies) leverage that monopoly to improve their business position in another area (content creation).
It's Islam Shariah Law. The rich are always favored over the poor.
I don't know, the Iranians just hanged a banker.
No country is on that list. They USA will never and has never extradited a person to another country.
Good thing you're an Anonymous Coward, because you're not even close to reality. According to US Embassy based in London:
During the same time period, the UK submitted 54 extradition REQUESTS to the US, of which none have been refused. Of those 54 requests, 38 resulted in extradition of an individual from the U.S. to the UK. In the remaining 16 cases, the individuals either returned to the UK on their own or other circumstances made extradition from the U.S. to the UK no longer necessary.
Depends on what data Nest collects. Bet it can't figure out your sex habits?
This is slashdot ... "alone, in his mother's basement". What else is there to figure out?
The utilities already charge a flat baseline connection fee. That should take care of all infrastructure and grid maintainance. If you want it your way then I say get rid of the flat connection fee.
Do you know for certain that this is the case with this utility? I have a house in California that does not have a baseline connection fee. I have a house in Arizona that does have a baseline connection fee. I don't have a house served by this utility and don't know if they actually have a baseline connection fee.
Now just get the NSA, Al Gore, and Porn involved.
Please, no! I do not want to see Al Gore Porn. <shudder, puke, wretch>
*Side note, I work in a non-technical white collar job, and a surprising number of my colleagues have tattoos.
It might be a generational thing. I personally think (thought) tattoos were very unprofessional, but the younger generation seems to have them -- a lot. One of the kids in the group (he's probably pushing 30) has tats nearly everywhere visible. I'm extremely glad they didn't discriminate against him when it came to hiring. He's change my mind on people with tats.
Clinton started it.
You mean with operation Carnivore. Yes, but he had a D after his name. That means something. What it means, I don't know. But it means something.
That was hard. I loved that dog.
I would have marked this as "insightful" versus funny.
For me:
-- Explaining to my nephew that he'd never see his dad again.
-- I still don't know what to say/do around my niece that was raped.
-- I don't know if I'm proud of myself or self loathing for not having killed the rapist yet.
Most of these fall into "communication with people"; one falls into "planning and plan execution."
Ah. The recently popular "everyone is doing it, so we are okay to do it too". The slow descent in the abyss of mediocrity. I am sure if we tally it up, the US is actually responsible for the highest amount of meddling and government overthrows on this planet in the last 70 years. Basically every president of this nation in that period has overthrown someone somewhere.
70 years? That brings us back to, what, 1943? Who was the first democratically elected government that the US over threw starting in 1943? Was it the National Socialists in Germany? Just curious.
Are you deliberately fishing for comments or are you really that illusional? Pick for yourself the one that you like best:
Iran, 1953 [wikipedia.org]
Guatemala, 1954 [wikipedia.org]
Brazil, 1964 [wikipedia.org]
Chile, 1973 [wikipedia.org]
And that's just the ones that I can think of without digging too deeply.
I believe the comment was US has not attempted to overturn every single democratically-elected government and not the U.S. has attempted to overturn zero democratically-elected governments.
Some? Yes. All? No.
Nixon's spying on the Democratic Party Headquarters,
At least they started impeachment proceedings against Nixon which led to his removal from office (even if he quit before he was fired).
Stock does not only represent control of the company. It also represents ownership. So why shouldn't it be taxed? When a person is given stock, he/she should be taxed according to their market value (and I guess on a % of the companies book value in cases where the company is not publicly traded).
So when Steve got his shares, he should have paid income taxes on their value.
So, ultimately you're saying that the rich shouldn't be taxed. When Steve initially received his shares when it was just him and Woz, the company wasn't worth a huge amount. Same with Oracle and Ellison.
You must think that all poor people should be dressed in rags and have no dignity or luxuries whatsoever. I've been poor before and I know how it is, you insensitive prick
I love it when someone tries to take what I say out of context and imply I said something I didn't. Thank you for spreading your ignorance.
By Obama's definition, I've been poor too. People do not need cable TV. Hell, I haven't had cable or satellite TV for over 10 years. If someone insists that they need it then they sure as hell don't need me to spring for the grocery bill. Take that $800+ a year and put it towards groceries.
Because taxes are levied on capital gains (i.e. only when selling his shares) and not on capital itself, then taxing Steve would have done about nothing. He carried many of them to his grave. Though I agree with you about what they represented to him: control. Stock ownership is only about profit when you sell your stake. Holding your stake is holding control.
Thank you for enforcing the point that the income tax does nothing about the rich.
The difference is that MoveOn has no pretenses in what it's about. What exactly is the tea party these days? All I hear from its mouthpieces right now is how gay marriage is a sign of the end times and moral decay causes deficits but we should totally spend trillions more dollars on war. And tax us less or something maybe.
I admit that I only have listened to actual Tea Party people three or four times -- but they were for smaller government and less taxes. They explicitly stated that they did not take any stand on social issues.
And please don't bring in the asinine fallacy that because I think Bush (and now Obama) are over spending that I somehow want to eliminate the Federal government completely or take us back to the dark ages.
Where in the Constitution is there a right to privacy for individuals?
The right to privacy is the cornerstone of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton
It's interesting that the Affordable Health Care Act requires the government to know more and more about your health and health care decisions. Either these are contrary to Roe v. Wade or they are undermining the principles that RvW is founded upon.
while rank-and-file workers are paid so little that they need food stamps
Have you been in the house of food stamp recipients? The cops that I know keep bitching that the welfare/food-stamp people have huge plasma TV's and a fridge well stocked with beer. For the most part, it's not about food, but priorities.
A single mother that I know was bitching about not being able to make ends meet. After listening to her bitch for a while, I asked her what she would do with an extra $900 -- tax free -- a year. She started talking about all the things she would spend it on, never once mentioned "saving" or "paying down debt." When she finally ran out of things to spend the money on, I told her to cancel her cable subscription. "Ooooh, I can't do that. I NEED that!"
Sorry, I call bullshit. We've elevated "want to haves" into "need to have." You don't need cable or satellite TV. You don't need a cell phone, let alone a smart phone and data plan. You don't need your morning Starbucks, fast food, or preprocessed crap from the grocery store. If you can earn them, great. But don't force others who are working for a living to support you in a lifestyle that you don't need and can't afford.
While there are times that people honestly need food stamps, the vast majority of the time there is ample waste in the "want to" versus the "need to".