Don't you ever stop to think that perhaps living in areas known to be hit with natural disasters/extreme climates isn't the best idea?
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes.
There's a reason that only penguins live naturally in the Antarctica.
Since there is literally no place on earth that is free from "Natural Disasters" of some sort and there are numerous reasons that living in a given local is advantageous, that was just a stupid remark.
For example - "Tornado Ally" is right in the middle of the center of the richest, highest producing agricultural region of the US, perhaps world wide. Shutting all that down is plain silly, especially when there are easy ways to do what humans do best; that is, adapt to new conditions. These products are one of the ways we adapt.
It's a 3M product - I live in Florida and do video work, we produced an ad for the version that can be applied to the outside of the glass, as few years ago (fun, shooting stuff at glass and getting paid for it is nearly a perfect job, I envy the Mythbusters) The window after application is nearly as strong as the laminated safety glass you are referring to and applies like window tint except that you use a water based adhesive, rather than the regular soap and water approach you use with tinting.
I was told people who have a driver's licence are qualified to operate a car.
you were lied to. People with a license simply passed a very easy and incredibly rudimentary testing. They are not skilled enough to safely drive a car, they are not educated in collision avoidance or defensive driving.
I understand a german drivers license is expensive and incredibly comprehensive... anyone know for sure?
At least here in the USA, it's that way. Honestly, around here a baked potato can get a drivers license.
I live in Florida, I assure you baked potatoes can and DO purchase Drivers licenses here - especially in the St. Petersburg area.....
For someone who thinks of themselves very intelligent and well educated, you seem to have missed a very basic point.
That is: Language exists to express concepts the use of the term "evil" expresses a concept that is well understood by the listener. The choice of using that word was perfect, in that it expressed a concept the writer was trying to convey in a single sentence.
In contrast, You've managed to write quite a bit more, and with all that, you still not have not expressed your point very well. I wonder if it would serve any purpose to point out that a fanatical belief in any Philosophy, including one that is Anti-Philosophy, like yours is still a fanatical belief, and blinds the fanatic the exact same way as any other system.
you can enjoy someone's work without condoning their lifestyle... grow up. Just because he thinks different than you doesn't make his books any less enjoyable.
His is the more mature reaction, I'd say. It's a pretty grown up response to say "yeah, I liked the work, but I'm not going to fund an ideology I don't believe in" He didn't say you shouldn't, he said he wouldn't, and why.
And knowing that the author has a view that is antithetical to your own very much will effect your enjoyment of an art, particularly with a book or music, because you are going to ask yourself "Is there a hidden agenda or message with this story, or with this song?" and that will distract you at least some.
THAT is what Linux needs to get past if they want decent market share.
Though there may be something to your rant about Linux (and open source in general) in that the free work done by hobbiests tends to follow the "i do it because it's cool" or "I need a tool to do X" model, and therefore doesn't follow the "I need granny to do it without too much effort" solution that you seem to need to make it work for you, that's irrelivent to MythTV and the problems you were having.
Try before you buy is an important part of any product cycle, and the problems with the use of ATI cards with any open source project are well documented... In other words the "System Requirements" list on the box specifically states that ATI cards are not recommended, and now you're upset when you found out why. Honestly, you are the kind of user I'd tell to box up your computer and take it back to the store. You'll be much happier with a TiVo, just plug it in to the wall and the Television set, and your pretty much done. The manufacturer has already matched up the software and the hardware for you and you don't need to do anything so mundane as read the directions. (and much more importantly, their support forums are elsewhere.)
For others who are reading your rants, I'd say.. Do diligence, MythTv works fine if you do the same research you'd do when you bought any bit of software, hardware or anything else. Know if the hardware you are using is supported, or, rather, how well your hardware is supported, and if it's not, use something else, or use different hardware, depending on your need.
This guy is not worth the time though, he's already been dishonest in his assessment; he gives the product a 'Fair Shake' buy test driving it on hardware with known and well documented support and driver issues.
Basically C is likely to remain strong until we just have more CPU power and memory than we know what to do with on all platforms (embedded included). Until then there is the need to generate optimised programs. To do that, you need to be able to write a program based on how the computer thinks, not on how you do.
In other words, C or a variant will remain strong forever.
We will always need optimized programs because, like my desk, available space always fills with something, and the more somethings we can cram into that space, the happier we are...
Obama didn't say McCain was UNQUALIFIED to be POTUS due to his computer illiteracy, he said McCain was out of touch
There is no difference.
Sure there is.
I think McCain is out of touch, unsuited, AND unqualified. Obama merely unqualified. None of those states are mutually exclusive neither are they synonymous.
I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.
You failed to show a logical connection. Obama didn't say McCain was UNQUALIFIED to be POTUS due to his computer illiteracy, he said McCain was out of touch, and had a serious lack of understanding of the issues in the modern world, in addition that ad linked the lack of understanding of technology to lack of comprehension of economic issues, and McCain admitted lack of understanding of both to prove that McCain has no personal understanding of the issues important to America.
Using a similar comparison, Obama's lack of military service would make him out of touch with the rest of America since Military service = Computer literacy, or, percentage of Amercans serving in the military is similar percentage of Americans who are computer literate.
Whew, I'm glad you cleared that up for us....
Seriously, though, Computer literacy touches everyone in the US, the Military is important, but it doesn't touch ALL aspects of what the President has to deal with. So Military service != Computer literacy, particularly in terms of whether the candidate is capable of understanding what is going on with the average American.
I live in Florida so I still have a very difficult time even understanding what DST was supposed to accomplish. Sundown at 6:00 instead of 7:00? or vice versa? what a stupid waste.
Just settle on when you want the hour to be and leaqve it there. You'll save tons of time, money and consternation... And, most importantly, reduce the number of things we bitch about by two.
(In fact - it's easy to envision a DDoS attack by abusing mail servers that send out C/R e-mails.)
No need to envision it, either by design or by accident, it already happens all the time. This is almost exactly the same situation as Backscatter Spam except, since you are using the C/R concept to verify the recipient, it's not as easy to fix.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
That's not exactly a solution to the problem. I think we all agree that doing customer support through a web form sucks.
Not when the support staff responds to the ticket in a timely manner. I believe it's all about contact and response. Customers want you to fix whatever the problem is, but they also want to know you are working on it. The failure in most web form support systems is wrapped around a failure in the staff in updating the client at regular intervals, even when there is nothing new to say.
IT professionals have been hit very hard and nowhere is this more evident than in Phoenix, where I live.
That's a great anecdote. Now how about you show us some information which proves your one data point reflects the entire US economy. You know, something tangible to refute the Labor Dept and TFA's quote from the VP & Principal Analyst of Forrester Research.
You said "Data Point" to a help desk CSR. If you want to get your point across, you need to supply a link to a service script tree.
How, exactly, does a global pandemic affect a network? Why would they need network management tools in case of such an event?
Assuming this isn't rhetorical or Trolling, I'll take a swing at answering your questions.
A pandemic drastically reduces the manpower available to operate and repair the technology. At the same time it Increases traffic across all the networks because, the theory is, more people at home or in shelters means more traffic and load on the networks with fewer technicians to manage the services and keep them operating.. Solid management tools allow fewer technicians to manage more equipment remotely.
Though it wasn't extremely clear, the article DID give you that information.
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nah, it's a coincidence for the next 3 years, 0 months, and um.... 12 days.....
Wooooooooooosh!
I really wanted to mod him -1 Whoosh, but you got there first..... No Fair
I live in Tornado Alley
Don't you ever stop to think that perhaps living in areas known to be hit with natural disasters/extreme climates isn't the best idea?
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes.
There's a reason that only penguins live naturally in the Antarctica.
Since there is literally no place on earth that is free from "Natural Disasters" of some sort and there are numerous reasons that living in a given local is advantageous, that was just a stupid remark.
For example - "Tornado Ally" is right in the middle of the center of the richest, highest producing agricultural region of the US, perhaps world wide. Shutting all that down is plain silly, especially when there are easy ways to do what humans do best; that is, adapt to new conditions. These products are one of the ways we adapt.
It's a 3M product - I live in Florida and do video work, we produced an ad for the version that can be applied to the outside of the glass, as few years ago (fun, shooting stuff at glass and getting paid for it is nearly a perfect job, I envy the Mythbusters) The window after application is nearly as strong as the laminated safety glass you are referring to and applies like window tint except that you use a water based adhesive, rather than the regular soap and water approach you use with tinting.
those Phreaking Vishers........
you weren't spiking with a Lisp, maybe?
I was told people who have a driver's licence are qualified to operate a car.
you were lied to. People with a license simply passed a very easy and incredibly rudimentary testing. They are not skilled enough to safely drive a car, they are not educated in collision avoidance or defensive driving.
I understand a german drivers license is expensive and incredibly comprehensive... anyone know for sure?
At least here in the USA, it's that way. Honestly, around here a baked potato can get a drivers license.
I live in Florida, I assure you baked potatoes can and DO purchase Drivers licenses here - especially in the St. Petersburg area.....
Some day, one of these assholes is going to scam the wrong person and they may end up wishing they've gone to jail.
I hope that a ton of media coverage erupts when it happens, otherwise it'll be just another statistic.....
First thought I had was that I was "Wow, the very definition of Irony"
Just so you know, to a bank, $5000 is nothing.
Or if it isn't "nothing" then you have bigger problems to worry about than the dress code.
For someone who thinks of themselves very intelligent and well educated, you seem to have missed a very basic point.
That is:
Language exists to express concepts the use of the term "evil" expresses a concept that is well understood by the listener. The choice of using that word was perfect, in that it expressed a concept the writer was trying to convey in a single sentence.
In contrast, You've managed to write quite a bit more, and with all that, you still not have not expressed your point very well. I wonder if it would serve any purpose to point out that a fanatical belief in any Philosophy, including one that is Anti-Philosophy, like yours is still a fanatical belief, and blinds the fanatic the exact same way as any other system.
I don't expect the rest of the world to use the word, hence the wall-o-text explanation. HTH. YMMV. GTFO.
Besides - Here in the south we don't care how y'all do it.
Yup, not much else to say - Utah got this one right.
you can enjoy someone's work without condoning their lifestyle... grow up. Just because he thinks different than you doesn't make his books any less enjoyable.
His is the more mature reaction, I'd say. It's a pretty grown up response to say "yeah, I liked the work, but I'm not going to fund an ideology I don't believe in" He didn't say you shouldn't, he said he wouldn't, and why.
And knowing that the author has a view that is antithetical to your own very much will effect your enjoyment of an art, particularly with a book or music, because you are going to ask yourself "Is there a hidden agenda or message with this story, or with this song?" and that will distract you at least some.
THAT is what Linux needs to get past if they want decent market share.
Though there may be something to your rant about Linux (and open source in general) in that the free work done by hobbiests tends to follow the "i do it because it's cool" or "I need a tool to do X" model, and therefore doesn't follow the "I need granny to do it without too much effort" solution that you seem to need to make it work for you, that's irrelivent to MythTV and the problems you were having.
Try before you buy is an important part of any product cycle, and the problems with the use of ATI cards with any open source project are well documented... In other words the "System Requirements" list on the box specifically states that ATI cards are not recommended, and now you're upset when you found out why. Honestly, you are the kind of user I'd tell to box up your computer and take it back to the store. You'll be much happier with a TiVo, just plug it in to the wall and the Television set, and your pretty much done. The manufacturer has already matched up the software and the hardware for you and you don't need to do anything so mundane as read the directions. (and much more importantly, their support forums are elsewhere.)
For others who are reading your rants, I'd say.. Do diligence, MythTv works fine if you do the same research you'd do when you bought any bit of software, hardware or anything else. Know if the hardware you are using is supported, or, rather, how well your hardware is supported, and if it's not, use something else, or use different hardware, depending on your need.
This guy is not worth the time though, he's already been dishonest in his assessment; he gives the product a 'Fair Shake' buy test driving it on hardware with known and well documented support and driver issues.
Basically C is likely to remain strong until we just have more CPU power and memory than we know what to do with on all platforms (embedded included). Until then there is the need to generate optimised programs. To do that, you need to be able to write a program based on how the computer thinks, not on how you do.
In other words, C or a variant will remain strong forever.
We will always need optimized programs because, like my desk, available space always fills with something, and the more somethings we can cram into that space, the happier we are...
There is no difference.
Sure there is.
I think McCain is out of touch, unsuited, AND unqualified. Obama merely unqualified. None of those states are mutually exclusive neither are they synonymous.
I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.
You failed to show a logical connection. Obama didn't say McCain was UNQUALIFIED to be POTUS due to his computer illiteracy, he said McCain was out of touch, and had a serious lack of understanding of the issues in the modern world, in addition that ad linked the lack of understanding of technology to lack of comprehension of economic issues, and McCain admitted lack of understanding of both to prove that McCain has no personal understanding of the issues important to America.
Using a similar comparison, Obama's lack of military service would make him out of touch with the rest of America since Military service = Computer literacy, or, percentage of Amercans serving in the military is similar percentage of Americans who are computer literate.
Whew, I'm glad you cleared that up for us....
Seriously, though, Computer literacy touches everyone in the US, the Military is important, but it doesn't touch ALL aspects of what the President has to deal with. So Military service != Computer literacy, particularly in terms of whether the candidate is capable of understanding what is going on with the average American.
I live in Florida so I still have a very difficult time even understanding what DST was supposed to accomplish. Sundown at 6:00 instead of 7:00? or vice versa? what a stupid waste.
Just settle on when you want the hour to be and leaqve it there. You'll save tons of time, money and consternation... And, most importantly, reduce the number of things we bitch about by two.
(In fact - it's easy to envision a DDoS attack by abusing mail servers that send out C/R e-mails.)
No need to envision it, either by design or by accident, it already happens all the time. This is almost exactly the same situation as Backscatter Spam except, since you are using the C/R concept to verify the recipient, it's not as easy to fix.
(you may find the following useful)
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
That's not exactly a solution to the problem. I think we all agree that doing customer support through a web form sucks.
Not when the support staff responds to the ticket in a timely manner. I believe it's all about contact and response. Customers want you to fix whatever the problem is, but they also want to know you are working on it. The failure in most web form support systems is wrapped around a failure in the staff in updating the client at regular intervals, even when there is nothing new to say.
IT professionals have been hit very hard and nowhere is this more evident than in Phoenix, where I live.
That's a great anecdote.
Now how about you show us some information which proves your one data point reflects the entire US economy.
You know, something tangible to refute the Labor Dept and TFA's quote from the VP & Principal Analyst of Forrester Research.
You said "Data Point" to a help desk CSR. If you want to get your point across, you need to supply a link to a service script tree.
How, exactly, does a global pandemic affect a network? Why would they need network management tools in case of such an event?
Assuming this isn't rhetorical or Trolling, I'll take a swing at answering your questions.
A pandemic drastically reduces the manpower available to operate and repair the technology. At the same time it Increases traffic across all the networks because, the theory is, more people at home or in shelters means more traffic and load on the networks with fewer technicians to manage the services and keep them operating.. Solid management tools allow fewer technicians to manage more equipment remotely.
Though it wasn't extremely clear, the article DID give you that information.
And they have plans to run Firefox 5.x in a Commodore 64.
Must be scope creep - the original spec was for the timex - sinclair z1000