Not true, you will just end up paying for the perceived risk associated with all the people that bought hydrocortisone that will be flagged has having eczema (or something just as mondane). They are looking to increase your payments not decrease them. There is also the cost of paying for this service will is probably quite high and will also be put on to a healthy person's bill.
Get real, this will be just as useful as the credit scores were for preventing people who could not pay from getting a home loan. What are you going to do it they make a mistake and find that you have an Aids drug prescription when you really don't and you get dumped from your insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Or even worse the insurance companies start basing there premiums to employers based on the perceived health of the work force. you might no get that next job if you are older or maybe over weight.
The only people how will benefit from this is the investors in the data provider.
Not true, you will just end up paying for the perceived risk associated with all the people that bought hydrocortisone that will be flagged has having eczema (or something just as mondane). They are looking to increase your payments not decrease them. There is also the cost of paying for this service will is probably quite high and will also be put on to a healthy person's bill.
Get real, this will be just as useful as the credit scores were for preventing people who could not pay from getting a home loan. What are you going to do it they make a mistake and find that you have an Aids drug prescription when you really don't and you get dumped from your insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Or even worse the insurance companies start basing there premiums to employers based on the perceived health of the work force. you might no get that next job if you are older or maybe over weight.
The only people how will benefit from this is the investors in the data provider.
Unfortunately most of the objected_oriented/patterns/agile/your_buzz_word_here is fairly worthless or at least only useful rules of thumb used to prevent the average programmer from having to think too much. (They also make a good PhD thesis) It just isn't worth the time to handcraft the code for the average application. It would take too long; cost too much. It is much better to take the Microsoft approach and burden your users with the problems you didn't want to spend the time/money solving because they have no other choice. Knuth's approach is to force the programmer into expressing the solution both in code and in language. The extra effort requires the programmer to understand the problem with both sides of the brain which leads to better algorithms, fewer bugs more maintainable code (its documented what a concept). Unfortunately this leads to literate programmers which is a nightmare most companies cannot deal with. No company wants employees to actually think because it makes things take to long and cost too much.
The only use the moon could ever have is for our entertainment. Something along the lines of a combination DisneyLand and Los Vegas would probably be something people would pay to go see. If we build garish buildings and name the drinks "sex on the moon" people will find it all horribly interesting and go into debt just so that could say they had sex on the moon even if it was only a drink.
Silly. What they are doing is smart. The grad school can compete and win the money if it chooses. In the event the University or the greedy code geeks fail to produce it cost Netflix nothing. With your thinking it cost them money whether results are produced or not. I guess that is why you do not run Netflixs:)
Actually this is just a modification of the Toilet computer that I designed back in the 80's. You could watch your data slosh around in the bowl and flush it when you no longer needed it. Sitting on the bowl would keep others from seeing your data if they walked into your office. The only problem and the major reason it was never adopted was you had to jiggle the handle to keep it from making a noise that sounded like running water. I was never able to figure out why.
Having never worked for Jobs directly I have worked with many people that have worked for Jobs. There are certain personality types that are drawn to him. Usually it is a person that adores approval which at first sounds strange given what is said about him. The scenario generally works like this. Jobs take a look at your stuff and tells you it is shit. The employee becomes distraught and redoubles her/his efforts. The next time Jobs sees your stuff he tells them how fabulous it is. Getting the attention is such an ego rush the happy employee goes about trying to reproduce this often random response. Essentially is is very much like gambling addiction.
For some this approach is extremely effective. For others is intolerable.
Ho Hum. I have been in this business for over twenty five years and it never ceases to amaze me. People that think software design, new computer languages etc are actually the transformational engines of creativity in this industry. Show me just important piece of software were it truly mattered what it was written in to the end user. It only really matters to the people writing it. It is true that new paradigms and languages have made certain programming activities more productive but usually at the expense of efficiency. This general sloppiness on the part of programmers has been compensated for by cpu speed, ample memory and disk storage.
The true mover of this industry has been Moore's law and will continue to be in the near future. There are very few truly new and useful ideas that haven't been floating around for a long time. It is only when they become economical for the mass market that we see them implemented in ways that can be used by consumers.
My humble advice: Get A Life
Freakonomics - abortion reduced crime
No Lead gas reduces crime.
My sex drive also peeked just before the drop in crime during the 90's. My desire to commit crimes also diminished during that period. Any other/.'s have the experience?
No brainer. If someone steals an idea that has little chance of success (like all companies) then the victim of the crime simply waits to have the idea succeed (or fail). The victim can then claim his rights to the property and enjoy the benefit without the risk/work.
The definition of "taking off" is that people of using it. So he basically said that we will know that people are using it when we see that people are using it.
AT&T only spends money to get new customers not to service the ones they have. The greatest threat to iPhone success will be that Apple depends on AT&T to provide service that people like. The iPhone can fail simply because AT&T sucks.
If I could only turn my back on the smallest errors that I find in MS products. Maybe it would help me forget the trult large ones. Get a grip dude. There is no Windows vs Mac world anymore it is only an internet world.
Forget about the money. The journey is the reward. Particularly if you are in the math and science field. If you want monetary rewards hire a bunch of math and science guys really cheap to do the work for you. They often do not know how valuable they are and will work cheap because you'll give them soft drinks for free, a beer fest every Friday and call your place of employment a campus so they can pretend they are still in academia. Let them run around wearing funny clothes and give them squirt guns to splash each other with and they'll work 80hr weeks because they like it. If you become concerned that the math and science guys from the US are a little too expensive lobby the gov't for more H1-B visas to put a little pressure on salaries so that you can increase your own.
Your new Title: Silicon Valley CEO
Did I give away the secret recipe? Doh!
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Not true, you will just end up paying for the perceived risk associated with all the people that bought hydrocortisone that will be flagged has having eczema (or something just as mondane). They are looking to increase your payments not decrease them. There is also the cost of paying for this service will is probably quite high and will also be put on to a healthy person's bill. Get real, this will be just as useful as the credit scores were for preventing people who could not pay from getting a home loan. What are you going to do it they make a mistake and find that you have an Aids drug prescription when you really don't and you get dumped from your insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Or even worse the insurance companies start basing there premiums to employers based on the perceived health of the work force. you might no get that next job if you are older or maybe over weight. The only people how will benefit from this is the investors in the data provider.
Get real, this will be just as useful as the credit scores were for preventing people who could not pay from getting a home loan. What are you going to do it they make a mistake and find that you have an Aids drug prescription when you really don't and you get dumped from your insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Or even worse the insurance companies start basing there premiums to employers based on the perceived health of the work force. you might no get that next job if you are older or maybe over weight.
The only people how will benefit from this is the investors in the data provider.
Unfortunately most of the objected_oriented/patterns/agile/your_buzz_word_here is fairly worthless or at least only useful rules of thumb used to prevent the average programmer from having to think too much. (They also make a good PhD thesis) It just isn't worth the time to handcraft the code for the average application. It would take too long; cost too much. It is much better to take the Microsoft approach and burden your users with the problems you didn't want to spend the time/money solving because they have no other choice. Knuth's approach is to force the programmer into expressing the solution both in code and in language. The extra effort requires the programmer to understand the problem with both sides of the brain which leads to better algorithms, fewer bugs more maintainable code (its documented what a concept). Unfortunately this leads to literate programmers which is a nightmare most companies cannot deal with. No company wants employees to actually think because it makes things take to long and cost too much.
It might be better to think of it as Google as a porthole into peoples ignorance.
The only use the moon could ever have is for our entertainment. Something along the lines of a combination DisneyLand and Los Vegas would probably be something people would pay to go see. If we build garish buildings and name the drinks "sex on the moon" people will find it all horribly interesting and go into debt just so that could say they had sex on the moon even if it was only a drink.
All the UAVs grounded. Everyone huddled in bunkers. Glove has high cool factor. Real benefit vs cost = low.
nuf said..
Silly. What they are doing is smart. The grad school can compete and win the money if it chooses. In the event the University or the greedy code geeks fail to produce it cost Netflix nothing. With your thinking it cost them money whether results are produced or not. I guess that is why you do not run Netflixs:)
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToiletComputer
Helping pay off the National Debt. What will they take credit for next?
For some this approach is extremely effective. For others is intolerable.
Old Sews is no News
How do I know...Just ask someone who works there:)
Ho Hum. I have been in this business for over twenty five years and it never ceases to amaze me. People that think software design, new computer languages etc are actually the transformational engines of creativity in this industry. Show me just important piece of software were it truly mattered what it was written in to the end user. It only really matters to the people writing it. It is true that new paradigms and languages have made certain programming activities more productive but usually at the expense of efficiency. This general sloppiness on the part of programmers has been compensated for by cpu speed, ample memory and disk storage. The true mover of this industry has been Moore's law and will continue to be in the near future. There are very few truly new and useful ideas that haven't been floating around for a long time. It is only when they become economical for the mass market that we see them implemented in ways that can be used by consumers. My humble advice: Get A Life
Yes, believe it or not Symbian is known for their sexy software :)
Freakonomics - abortion reduced crime No Lead gas reduces crime. My sex drive also peeked just before the drop in crime during the 90's. My desire to commit crimes also diminished during that period. Any other /.'s have the experience?
Don't fertilize you yard before being tested. You don't want to be suspected of handling explosives.
No brainer. If someone steals an idea that has little chance of success (like all companies) then the victim of the crime simply waits to have the idea succeed (or fail). The victim can then claim his rights to the property and enjoy the benefit without the risk/work.
The definition of "taking off" is that people of using it. So he basically said that we will know that people are using it when we see that people are using it.
AT&T only spends money to get new customers not to service the ones they have. The greatest threat to iPhone success will be that Apple depends on AT&T to provide service that people like. The iPhone can fail simply because AT&T sucks.
If I could only turn my back on the smallest errors that I find in MS products. Maybe it would help me forget the trult large ones. Get a grip dude. There is no Windows vs Mac world anymore it is only an internet world.
It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Forget about the money. The journey is the reward. Particularly if you are in the math and science field. If you want monetary rewards hire a bunch of math and science guys really cheap to do the work for you. They often do not know how valuable they are and will work cheap because you'll give them soft drinks for free, a beer fest every Friday and call your place of employment a campus so they can pretend they are still in academia. Let them run around wearing funny clothes and give them squirt guns to splash each other with and they'll work 80hr weeks because they like it. If you become concerned that the math and science guys from the US are a little too expensive lobby the gov't for more H1-B visas to put a little pressure on salaries so that you can increase your own. Your new Title: Silicon Valley CEO Did I give away the secret recipe? Doh!
Hope he/she liked their job!
Sorry been there done that. Buy Fat Tire beeer and save the planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Belgium_Brewing_C ompany
They generate 1/3 of their power from beer waste generating methane. (See energy prectices)