The problem with that is that people tend to be very different and it is difficult for us to figure out what other people want. For example, by your logic it was super nice of the U.S. to give freedom to Iraq.
I feel pretty confident that I practice the only fair and consistent ethical system and it only has one axiom: "Do whatever you want." Of course, I also believe that everyone else follows the same system that I do. After all, you only follow your ethical rules because they give you some sort of satisfaction (being a good person, going to Heaven, etc).
...and yes, even the Mormons, tho they succeeded in all points listed above so long ago that no one remembers they are a cult.
I think, by your definition, that means that they were a cult and are now a bona-fide religion (since the higher-ups now believe the same thing as everyone else). We would consider Christianity to be a religion even if it turned out that the apostles just made up all those stories about Jesus in order to attract more people to their actual cause which was to end the Roman occupation of Judea.
I think the fundamentl problem with today's society are sociopaths like you that feel they can do whatever they want to employees, because its THEIR company. Sorry, but your right to swing your fist ends at other people's faces.
The people at IBM certainly have no business deciding the fate of their employees. However, they should be totally free to decide the fate of their money. They should also be free, like the rest of us, to decide with whom they choose to associate and trade. These freedoms are rights that belong to the company, and these rights trump any individual's desire to be employed by IBM and receive their desired salary.
The reason why your analogy doesn't apply is that "not being punched in the face" is a right that all individuals should have, but "working at IBM" is not.
Maybe it just depends on the game. I thought the adds in Rainbow Six: Vegas fit right in, and they added a nice sense of realism. You would be wandering through a casino and you would run into a free-standing, lighted sign for a movie that is coming out soon (etc). The structure supporting the sign can even be used for cover.
Try Episcopal. They have the best music, and you'll probably find their beliefs palatable. The services will be a bit more "ceremonial" then you're used to, but you'll get used to it in no time.
You know, you don't really need to search for a bunch of people who mostly agree with your beliefs. You can believe what you choose to believe all on your own. How does it help your personal faith to have someone else stand behind a pulpit and tell you what he believes every week? Your religion is way too important to be decided by other people.
Sorry I don't have an open source tool for you, but I've used Understand for C++ in the past and it was pretty helpful. To me, the most useful piece of information for understanding a large codebase is a browseable call graph. I'm sure there are simpler tools out there that generate a call graph, but this is the only one I've used with C++.
And why all this goddamn focus on who "wins" each state?
I couldn't agree more. I read this story on a couple of mainstream outlets this morning and the most detailed information I could get on the results of the Dem primary was "Hillary won!" I had to dig around to find out that Hillary got the most number of votes, but Hillary and Obama got the same number of delegates. So, in one very meaningful sense, the contest between the two was a tie. Thanks for nothing, MSM.
Or maybe they are just trying to sell mp3s (because it is in fashion) to their largest target demographic -- people who are too young to have a credit card.
I don't know if this figures into the decision that MS is the "most innovative company", but you should check out what Microsoft Research is doing before you dismiss them as not doing anything innovative. Sure, they're not Bell Labs or PARC, but in the age of dwindling coporate research budgets, MS is one of the few companies left who seems to have a lot of research activity going on. I mostly pay attention to theoretical areas like programming languages and automated reasoning, and MS has made significant contributions in those fields over the last few years.
Isn't it true of all professions that passion is what distinguishes the okay from the excellent?
No. Ability is what distinguishes the okay from the excellent. Whether that ability was gained through passionate dedication to your job, a good education, years of experience, or innate skills is irrelevant. A professional can be highly successful at a job that he isn't passionate about. Companies like to employ passionate people, though. These people can be paid less because they gain the additional benefit of actually enjoying their job.
Not only that, but when it explodes in your lap, you get riddled with nanowire superpowers! And mostly in the very area that your laptop's radiation has probably been eroding your powers.
Yes, but referring to yourself as NanoMan probably isn't going to help your chances with the ladies.
Maybe this is a good time for them to get back into the console game. I don't know how much money they are making on games, but Sony has been showing us for a while that there is huge money in consoles. Plus the market for video games is bigger than ever and will probably continue to grow faster than other forms of entertainment. We can expect video games to take in more revenue than box office sales this year in the US. Plus, there is a greater variety of gamers now, so Sega can probably make a "casual" or "social" console similar to the Wii and make plenty of money. Or maybe they could dream up an entirely different style of console.
Sorry, there will always be a "console war." The war is caused because a large number of people can only afford to buy one console. These people choose the one that they think will be the best console. Once their purchase is made, they will fight to convince everyone (including themselves) that their console is the best because, more than anything else, people like to believe that they made the best decision. So you can't end the "console war" without changing human nature.
This sort of behavior happens any time a decision has been made and there is a conflict over that decision, and is caused by several well-known cognitive biases (mostly originating from confirmation bias).
Sometimes I seriously wonder if "modern" warfare in the future will be similar to what you are joking about.
One of the first things you try to do in a war is defeat your enemy's information. If you can hack into your enemy's computers and remove all of the information he has gathered about you, then he won't be able to launch an attack because he won't know where your targets are. If he is able to launch an attack, then you try to disable the information systems involved in the attack. So perhaps in the future we will spend so much resources hacking each other and protecting ourselves from hacks that actual physical conflict will be less frequent. So this means the most important "warriors" in the future may be the skilled hackers trying to defeat information systems.
One memory test included three 5-year-old chimps who'd been taught the order of Arabic numerals 1 through 9,...
Results showed that the chimps, while no more accurate than the people, could do this faster.
Seems to me that these chimps were trained to perform this task. They've probably even used the test setup before whereas the humans were probably using it for the first time. I guess I'm not surprised that the chimps were faster than the humans. Also:
But when the numbers were displayed for just four-tenths or two-tenths of a second, the chimp was the champ. The briefer of those times is too short to allow a look around the screen, and in those tests Ayumu still scored about 80 percent, while humans plunged to 40 percent.
That says to me that a chimp is able to move its eyes around faster than a human is. This is also something I would expect. So perhaps this result says more about relative visual ability than relative cognitive ability?
technical problems set the team back, time and time again
Technical problems can usually be traced back to poor hiring decisions. Do you think the industry is ever going to learn that it is worth it to pay more for better developers?
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The problem with that is that people tend to be very different and it is difficult for us to figure out what other people want. For example, by your logic it was super nice of the U.S. to give freedom to Iraq.
I feel pretty confident that I practice the only fair and consistent ethical system and it only has one axiom: "Do whatever you want." Of course, I also believe that everyone else follows the same system that I do. After all, you only follow your ethical rules because they give you some sort of satisfaction (being a good person, going to Heaven, etc).
Dammit! I just got that song out of my head. Thanks. Really. My only recourse is to infect the rest of you.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bang my head against the wall for a few hours.
This is just one of many reasons why all laws should have an expiration date.
Just read your organization's standard process documentation process and do what it says.
The reason why your analogy doesn't apply is that "not being punched in the face" is a right that all individuals should have, but "working at IBM" is not.
Maybe it just depends on the game. I thought the adds in Rainbow Six: Vegas fit right in, and they added a nice sense of realism. You would be wandering through a casino and you would run into a free-standing, lighted sign for a movie that is coming out soon (etc). The structure supporting the sign can even be used for cover.
Sorry. When you mail it in for RRoD fix, you keep the HDD. So I don't think they'll replace the HDD for you.
Try Episcopal. They have the best music, and you'll probably find their beliefs palatable. The services will be a bit more "ceremonial" then you're used to, but you'll get used to it in no time.
I did that until I perfected myself and my work environment. Now I wander around the office improving other people.
You know, you don't really need to search for a bunch of people who mostly agree with your beliefs. You can believe what you choose to believe all on your own. How does it help your personal faith to have someone else stand behind a pulpit and tell you what he believes every week? Your religion is way too important to be decided by other people.
Sorry I don't have an open source tool for you, but I've used Understand for C++ in the past and it was pretty helpful. To me, the most useful piece of information for understanding a large codebase is a browseable call graph. I'm sure there are simpler tools out there that generate a call graph, but this is the only one I've used with C++.
Or maybe they are just trying to sell mp3s (because it is in fashion) to their largest target demographic -- people who are too young to have a credit card.
I don't know if this figures into the decision that MS is the "most innovative company", but you should check out what Microsoft Research is doing before you dismiss them as not doing anything innovative. Sure, they're not Bell Labs or PARC, but in the age of dwindling coporate research budgets, MS is one of the few companies left who seems to have a lot of research activity going on. I mostly pay attention to theoretical areas like programming languages and automated reasoning, and MS has made significant contributions in those fields over the last few years.
Maybe this is a good time for them to get back into the console game. I don't know how much money they are making on games, but Sony has been showing us for a while that there is huge money in consoles. Plus the market for video games is bigger than ever and will probably continue to grow faster than other forms of entertainment. We can expect video games to take in more revenue than box office sales this year in the US. Plus, there is a greater variety of gamers now, so Sega can probably make a "casual" or "social" console similar to the Wii and make plenty of money. Or maybe they could dream up an entirely different style of console.
Sorry, there will always be a "console war." The war is caused because a large number of people can only afford to buy one console. These people choose the one that they think will be the best console. Once their purchase is made, they will fight to convince everyone (including themselves) that their console is the best because, more than anything else, people like to believe that they made the best decision. So you can't end the "console war" without changing human nature.
This sort of behavior happens any time a decision has been made and there is a conflict over that decision, and is caused by several well-known cognitive biases (mostly originating from confirmation bias).
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Great idea! I'll join too as soon as I'm done with this war on Christmas.
Sometimes I seriously wonder if "modern" warfare in the future will be similar to what you are joking about.
One of the first things you try to do in a war is defeat your enemy's information. If you can hack into your enemy's computers and remove all of the information he has gathered about you, then he won't be able to launch an attack because he won't know where your targets are. If he is able to launch an attack, then you try to disable the information systems involved in the attack. So perhaps in the future we will spend so much resources hacking each other and protecting ourselves from hacks that actual physical conflict will be less frequent. So this means the most important "warriors" in the future may be the skilled hackers trying to defeat information systems.