Exactly. I would gladly hire 10 indian workers at $10-20/day (which I've been told isn't a bad salary in many parts of India) if they had even a small degree of any computer related skills. Wouldn't even need to be coding. And I'm not talking about offshoring work that would be done by Americans, I'm talking about adding new areas to my business that I couldn't possibly provide if I were to use American labor. This would be a win-win for everyone, since it would provide additional revenue that I could use to hire highly skilled American workers for other new markets I'd like to enter.
The problem is that it's difficult for non-Indian employers to connect with these unemployed individuals... or that these people have skills that are basically worthless overseas. I'd probably vote for the latter, as everything I'm hearing nowadays claims that highly skilled IT workers in India are in very short supply, and demanding ridiculous (for India) salaries.
Hey, you won't need the suit! Blisters aren't a sign of burning or anything... they're just a coincidence. As the government says "there's no lasting effects".
Regarding Pill Pets - I'm holding out for the real thing. I want Fido to get my pills and do my shopping for me. I'd imagine that implantable computers will probably be able to facilitate augmented pets that can do amazing things within the next 20 years. Whether or not ethical questions will kill the idea is another thing.
Or... I could just buy myself a helper penguin. Apparently penguins are much smarter than I thought.
They could make this work if for every video they also had a low quality clip that could be streamed. Then if it's good, someone could download the whole thing, store it in their movie selection, show it to their friends, etc.
I really don't think there's that much of a demand for HD quality home movies. I'd be happy if everyone on YouTube just uploaded TV quality stuff, rather than the jittery cell phone video that appears to be the bulk of uploads. Sure, the demand is there for full length movies, but if Zudeo is carrying copyrighted HD movies you can get that Google and the movie industry will shut them down quick.
If Universal wins, how would someone enforce the ruling? There's no good way to detect if a video or music clip is copyrighted, and relying on MySpace to police this manually would shut down the whole place. Universal is probably just looking for a % of revenue ruling that mirrors the kickbacks they receive from Microsoft and the money they want to receive from Apple.
It seems unlikely that an open source license that restricts a small group of people would hold in any court. The CIA/NSA/etc is going to continue using open source software as a jumpstarter for building other software. Heck, even if these groups blatantly broke all license terms in the process, the government would declare their Use a matter of national security and nix any legal proceedings before they started.
Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. That's quality software
but then goes on to say:
On the other hand, looking at "average" pieces of code can make me cry. The structure is appalling, and the programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures, or maintainability
I doubt he has seen the code to the Mars Rovers, Google, or many other applications that he/we consider quality. He's judging it based on the software's function. If we were to judge software purely on how it worked, quite a bit of software could be considered quality. But if you were to look at the same software's code, you'd probably "cry" like Bjarne. Look at Firefox. That is a Quality application, but programmers I've spoken to said the code is a mess.
This study was done on incarcerated criminals. Even attempting to apply the findings to people outside prisons would be a HUGE mistake. Now if they conducted a similar set of questions on a few thousand randomly selected members of the public and were able to show the same high correlations, that would be a different story entirely.
If this is the case, why not Mexico then? $20 Million would probably go a lot further in Mexico than Ohio, and it's not exactly like Ohio is a whole lot better than Canada if you're looking to be close to the equator.
I'd be more than happy to ride on Burt Rattan's SpaceShipOne, but PlanetSpace's rocket looks more like an ICBM with a stealth fighter attached than something destined for sightseeing. I'm sure it's fine, but it doesn't have that "Cool" factor for me.
I wonder why a Canadian team is paying that much money to fly from Ohio... it seems like the vast Canadian tundra would be a far cheaper alternative, and the Canadian government would probably even lend some of their military airports to support Canada's image worldwide (not that it really needs much support).
With China, it's a choice... allow access to more data in a filtered/censored medium, or block access altogether. Since censoring typically deals with deleting data, and not actually changing it, I'd rather see the Chinese use a watered down version of Wikipedia than not have access at all. I fully expect that increased knowledge and affluence amongst the Chinese people will eventually drive the Communists from power.
Also, China can't block/censor everything without ruining their prospects to shift away from a manufacturing-based economy... so it's just a matter of time.
It's almost impossible that a bunch of radicalists with relatively sophomoric computer skills could infiltrate the NYSE or the Nasdaq in any substantial way. This is akin to high schoolers joking on forums and IRC that they are going to hack into the school's computers and change grades. Sure it happens, but not typically by a bunch of attention-seeking kids, but usually by some kid that is smart enough he didn't need to do it, just wanted to see "if he can".
If these "hackers" really had a chance to impact the exchanges, it means they've found a vulnerability that the exchanges don't know about. Any smart (but malicious) hacker wouldn't tip their hand to such a find, they'd wait until D-day to launch their attack. Obviously the security folks at the exchanges should take the threat seriously and evaluate their systems for holes, but it would be bordering on the ridiculous for the rest of us to be worried.
What happens for companies that don't host their own e-mail, particularly smaller companies?
In order to save money, my company hosts our website and e-mail on a shared server. E-mails are downloaded via POP3 and immediately deleted from the server (each account can only hold 20MB online at one time). Most people then delete their e-mails after reading, so we have absolutely no way to retrieve this data.
This doesn't seem to impact my company, but at some point I fear regulators will start requiring more stringent data retention processes (among other IT tech processes). SOX has already hurt large companies, hopefully they don't start pushing some its fundamentals down to the little (non-public) folks.
Now all they need to do is make all fruits LOOK the same, but taste different. That would be fun, although a bit of a pain in the grocery store I suspect. You'd have all those prankster kids grabbing the kumquat flavored generifruit and putting them in the banana flavored generifruit bins.
So what's the point of an electronic machine if the votes are counted manually? Seems like it would be a lot cheaper just to improve the paper ballots.
Geez... if people thought Dick Cheney was cold and ruthless, wait until they have Bill Gates in charge. Plus, imagine some of the innovations we'd see:
Pres Gates Day 1: The U.S. needs to become the most innovative country in the world, so I have decided in interest of attaining this goal we will rebuild Washington D.C.... the new city will be named Capitol 2.0
Pres Gates Day 365: The Capital 2.0 is running ahead of schedule, I know it's been tough living and working out of trailers, but we should be finished within a year
Pres Gates Day 700: Due to the new competition from Tokyo's rebuilding operations, we have decided to restart our Capitol 2.0 project, but the delay will be worth it since our new Capitol will be even better than the original one planned
Pres Gates Day 1000: We have found that the Capitol 2.0 subway system was incompatible with the Capitol 2.0 sewage system, so we will rebuild DC's old subway system and try to make it work within the Capitol 2.0 structure
Pres Gates on his last day: On my final day in office, I am proud to unveil Capitol 2.0... at first you may think it looks just like DC, but we actually repainted all the buildings, and added innovative new parking meters that destroy your car if you try to park in same parking spot more than 3 times.
Huh? Why not just create a new user and befriend that person... even if you had to pretend to be someone else it would be far better than paying for it. Heck, you could go on MySpace and just roam around for users with very few friends and befriend them to lift their spirits. Again, far more noble than paying for friends.
/. represents a relatively small, select group of people... not at all indicative of the masses. MySpace and Facebook are hugely popular with the general population, and in particular with high schoolers and college kids. Most adults would consider this large segment of the population "superficial", so it stands to reason that a good social networking site would mirror its userbase's traits.
But what social networks do folks here use? Is there a good one that offers the benefits of a Facebook or Myspace, while being less superficial and spammy?
This was the first book review on here that I REALLY enjoyed. Very informative. I liked the idea of developers showing courage to fight for the right path, although I must add that this is best done without getting emotional or fired up. Courage is great when it is modest and controlled, otherwise you'll just be relegated to an even darker corner and reassigned to mainframe Cobol development.
Sounds like he got what he wanted: publicity and a response from Oracle (hopefully with some better responsiveness to bugs on their part in the future). Why anger his clients if he has already received the desired response?
Woah! North Korea certainly won't be able to progress in their quest for the bomb now that they won't be able to watch the "How to Make a Nuclear Bomb" podcasts anymore! How ridiculous.
This would have been far more interesting if they showed how they made some of their more advanced kits, robots, and intricate pieces, instead of just showing their injection molding process for a simple little block. Their production #'s are impressive, but who really cares how the 1950's technology behind making a Lego?
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Exactly. I would gladly hire 10 indian workers at $10-20/day (which I've been told isn't a bad salary in many parts of India) if they had even a small degree of any computer related skills. Wouldn't even need to be coding. And I'm not talking about offshoring work that would be done by Americans, I'm talking about adding new areas to my business that I couldn't possibly provide if I were to use American labor. This would be a win-win for everyone, since it would provide additional revenue that I could use to hire highly skilled American workers for other new markets I'd like to enter.
... or that these people have skills that are basically worthless overseas. I'd probably vote for the latter, as everything I'm hearing nowadays claims that highly skilled IT workers in India are in very short supply, and demanding ridiculous (for India) salaries.
The problem is that it's difficult for non-Indian employers to connect with these unemployed individuals
Hey, you won't need the suit! Blisters aren't a sign of burning or anything ... they're just a coincidence. As the government says "there's no lasting effects".
Riiiigggght.
Regarding Pill Pets - I'm holding out for the real thing. I want Fido to get my pills and do my shopping for me. I'd imagine that implantable computers will probably be able to facilitate augmented pets that can do amazing things within the next 20 years. Whether or not ethical questions will kill the idea is another thing.
... I could just buy myself a helper penguin. Apparently penguins are much smarter than I thought.
Or
They could make this work if for every video they also had a low quality clip that could be streamed. Then if it's good, someone could download the whole thing, store it in their movie selection, show it to their friends, etc.
I really don't think there's that much of a demand for HD quality home movies. I'd be happy if everyone on YouTube just uploaded TV quality stuff, rather than the jittery cell phone video that appears to be the bulk of uploads. Sure, the demand is there for full length movies, but if Zudeo is carrying copyrighted HD movies you can get that Google and the movie industry will shut them down quick.
If Universal wins, how would someone enforce the ruling? There's no good way to detect if a video or music clip is copyrighted, and relying on MySpace to police this manually would shut down the whole place. Universal is probably just looking for a % of revenue ruling that mirrors the kickbacks they receive from Microsoft and the money they want to receive from Apple.
It seems unlikely that an open source license that restricts a small group of people would hold in any court. The CIA/NSA/etc is going to continue using open source software as a jumpstarter for building other software. Heck, even if these groups blatantly broke all license terms in the process, the government would declare their Use a matter of national security and nix any legal proceedings before they started.
This study was done on incarcerated criminals. Even attempting to apply the findings to people outside prisons would be a HUGE mistake. Now if they conducted a similar set of questions on a few thousand randomly selected members of the public and were able to show the same high correlations, that would be a different story entirely.
If this is the case, why not Mexico then? $20 Million would probably go a lot further in Mexico than Ohio, and it's not exactly like Ohio is a whole lot better than Canada if you're looking to be close to the equator.
I'd be more than happy to ride on Burt Rattan's SpaceShipOne, but PlanetSpace's rocket looks more like an ICBM with a stealth fighter attached than something destined for sightseeing. I'm sure it's fine, but it doesn't have that "Cool" factor for me.
... it seems like the vast Canadian tundra would be a far cheaper alternative, and the Canadian government would probably even lend some of their military airports to support Canada's image worldwide (not that it really needs much support).
I wonder why a Canadian team is paying that much money to fly from Ohio
With China, it's a choice ... allow access to more data in a filtered/censored medium, or block access altogether. Since censoring typically deals with deleting data, and not actually changing it, I'd rather see the Chinese use a watered down version of Wikipedia than not have access at all. I fully expect that increased knowledge and affluence amongst the Chinese people will eventually drive the Communists from power.
... so it's just a matter of time.
Also, China can't block/censor everything without ruining their prospects to shift away from a manufacturing-based economy
It's almost impossible that a bunch of radicalists with relatively sophomoric computer skills could infiltrate the NYSE or the Nasdaq in any substantial way. This is akin to high schoolers joking on forums and IRC that they are going to hack into the school's computers and change grades. Sure it happens, but not typically by a bunch of attention-seeking kids, but usually by some kid that is smart enough he didn't need to do it, just wanted to see "if he can".
If these "hackers" really had a chance to impact the exchanges, it means they've found a vulnerability that the exchanges don't know about. Any smart (but malicious) hacker wouldn't tip their hand to such a find, they'd wait until D-day to launch their attack. Obviously the security folks at the exchanges should take the threat seriously and evaluate their systems for holes, but it would be bordering on the ridiculous for the rest of us to be worried.
What happens for companies that don't host their own e-mail, particularly smaller companies?
In order to save money, my company hosts our website and e-mail on a shared server. E-mails are downloaded via POP3 and immediately deleted from the server (each account can only hold 20MB online at one time). Most people then delete their e-mails after reading, so we have absolutely no way to retrieve this data.
This doesn't seem to impact my company, but at some point I fear regulators will start requiring more stringent data retention processes (among other IT tech processes). SOX has already hurt large companies, hopefully they don't start pushing some its fundamentals down to the little (non-public) folks.
Now all they need to do is make all fruits LOOK the same, but taste different. That would be fun, although a bit of a pain in the grocery store I suspect. You'd have all those prankster kids grabbing the kumquat flavored generifruit and putting them in the banana flavored generifruit bins.
You could always invest in Microsoft. Oh, I'm sorry, I can't even type that with a straight face.
So what's the point of an electronic machine if the votes are counted manually? Seems like it would be a lot cheaper just to improve the paper ballots.
Geez ... if people thought Dick Cheney was cold and ruthless, wait until they have Bill Gates in charge. Plus, imagine some of the innovations we'd see:
... the new city will be named Capitol 2.0
... at first you may think it looks just like DC, but we actually repainted all the buildings, and added innovative new parking meters that destroy your car if you try to park in same parking spot more than 3 times.
Pres Gates Day 1: The U.S. needs to become the most innovative country in the world, so I have decided in interest of attaining this goal we will rebuild Washington D.C.
Pres Gates Day 365: The Capital 2.0 is running ahead of schedule, I know it's been tough living and working out of trailers, but we should be finished within a year
Pres Gates Day 700: Due to the new competition from Tokyo's rebuilding operations, we have decided to restart our Capitol 2.0 project, but the delay will be worth it since our new Capitol will be even better than the original one planned
Pres Gates Day 1000: We have found that the Capitol 2.0 subway system was incompatible with the Capitol 2.0 sewage system, so we will rebuild DC's old subway system and try to make it work within the Capitol 2.0 structure
Pres Gates on his last day: On my final day in office, I am proud to unveil Capitol 2.0
Huh? Why not just create a new user and befriend that person ... even if you had to pretend to be someone else it would be far better than paying for it. Heck, you could go on MySpace and just roam around for users with very few friends and befriend them to lift their spirits. Again, far more noble than paying for friends.
/. represents a relatively small, select group of people ... not at all indicative of the masses. MySpace and Facebook are hugely popular with the general population, and in particular with high schoolers and college kids. Most adults would consider this large segment of the population "superficial", so it stands to reason that a good social networking site would mirror its userbase's traits.
But what social networks do folks here use? Is there a good one that offers the benefits of a Facebook or Myspace, while being less superficial and spammy?
This was the first book review on here that I REALLY enjoyed. Very informative. I liked the idea of developers showing courage to fight for the right path, although I must add that this is best done without getting emotional or fired up. Courage is great when it is modest and controlled, otherwise you'll just be relegated to an even darker corner and reassigned to mainframe Cobol development.
Sounds like he got what he wanted: publicity and a response from Oracle (hopefully with some better responsiveness to bugs on their part in the future). Why anger his clients if he has already received the desired response?
Woah! North Korea certainly won't be able to progress in their quest for the bomb now that they won't be able to watch the "How to Make a Nuclear Bomb" podcasts anymore! How ridiculous.
This would have been far more interesting if they showed how they made some of their more advanced kits, robots, and intricate pieces, instead of just showing their injection molding process for a simple little block. Their production #'s are impressive, but who really cares how the 1950's technology behind making a Lego?
Hmmm ... did you mean this? Yep, it's still around.
/.'d I had to find something to do until the next article is released.
Sorry, since the article's link was
The U.S. Army can't lose, right? The game sounds realistic to me ;)