If he purposely put a CS degree on his CV thinking it'd give him the edge in getting the CEO position in a large multi-national (it's fair to say most of the skills required to do the job would be gained from experience rather than an undergraduate degree), then I think he's a few sarnies short of a picnic;)
Or, he puts it in there to foil the recruiting guy who auto-rejects apps, any app, if there's no CS degree. This happens even at well-run, successful companies -- a group which might not even be the department that's hiring him or working with him put a boiler-plate "here's what you must have to even be considered" list of requirements, and every resume that doesn't match it is shredded.
I'd say that sort of setup is common in tech positions.
Russia is our friends. They are a freedom-loving democracy, right? Why would they worry we would worry they might attack us? If they remain free, there is no issue. If they collapse back nto dictatorship, then why does Mr. Putin care? Is he defending Russia-qua-dictatorship?
Putin grew up during the Cold War, he grew up idolizing the Soviet system, and the USSR's breakup and subsequent history has horrified him. He desperately wants to take Russia back to that era. You'd better believe he wants a Russia-qua-dictatorship.
So, if you have no cable at all how do you propose getting Netflix,
Good old fashioned snail mail. It's better in nearly every aspect.
The one thing it doesn't let you do is immediately watch something you want on the spur of the moment. And yeah, that can be a pain.
But the online streaming situation is a total mess. I don't want to subscribe to Hulu for one thing, Netflix for another, Amazon for another, etc. Streaming quality is still not that great, prices are high, and it saturates the connection making it crappy for everyone else in the house. While if I get a Blu-Ray in the mail, the audio/video quality is far superior, it has all the extras which I actually want, there's no online service bullshit to slog through, and everything works. Streaming is just not "there" quite yet -- the technology has a ways to go, and distribution deals and conditions make everything an absolute pain for the end user. The distributors do everything in their power to make piracy a more compelling and enjoyable experience.
This is not government regulation... this is LACK of government regulation. Get it right for once.
It's not lack of regulation, it's the wrong kind of regulation. Regulating who/how/where people can lay pipes, contributing funds towards infrastructure, that's one type of regulation, but then not putting down rules to allow competition or against using monopoly power to give your services an advantage is the other type of regulation needed.
Tea Partiers would call the former regulations "government picking the winners."
8086 is/not/ the best way to get one's feet wet with assembly, to say the least.
I'm... not so sure about that. When I learned assembly in class, it was on an "easier" assembly language (though no macros or string support either, so it was doubly tedious) and my big problem was... I was bored. Not due to the ease, just the opposite; I couldn't see how this particular language was practically applicable. I wanted to write assembly for x86, I wanted to try out examples on my home computer, and when I found out that all the assembly we were learning was for a cpu that no one used anymore, my interest level just plummeted.
The top doners to both Obama and Romney are very similar: the central bankers, investment firms, military-industrial, etc.
Of course, that will always be the case, and it's not because they choose the winners. It's because they want to be on the good side of whomever wins. It doesn't matter who comes out on top in the primaries, that person will be the recipient of huge amounts of cash from the powers that be, hoping for favourable treatment come election day.
Yes, I voted for Ron Paul.
Unfortunately Ron never had a chance, and it's not because of the Republican Party's and major networks' shameful attempts to marginalize him. His problem is that most people aren't libertarians (big or small L) and once you look past nice-sounding generic statements, they don't want to give up on or greatly scale back, say, the USDA, public education, hospitals that treat all patients and many other "regulations." Kudos to him though for being the most refreshingly honest and non-political major candidate in years, though.
It's a shame too. I wish the "hard-hitting interviewer" Stewart came out more often when he has more left-leaning guests. Frequently though he'll just lob softballs to assholes like John F. Kennedy Jr and/or lap up what they're saying without thinking critically about it. Jon Stewart is far more honest about his leanings than just about any other high-profile media member, but make no mistake, he sometimes lets his agenda and leanings cloud his judgement.
Well.. I live in Europe and I was speechless that our media made it look as if you Americans seriously considered to vote in people like Michelle Bachmann or Rick Santorum as POTUS
Then you need to take that outrage to your media for giving such a horribly inaccurate impression. Did they tell you that this was not the presidential election, but a primary for the Republican party only? IE, which candidate the conservatives want? Did they tell you Bachmann was nowhere close and dropped out early in the primary due to lack of support? Or that Santorum was never the front-runner? Or that either of them would have been a -gift- for Obama because they're so easily defeatable? Romney will be a much tougher challenge, you'd better believe Obama wishes he was facing Santorum.
It's gotten so bad that when I go to the comments for, say, and interesting picture so that I can get an explanation, the top comments are not-so-witty puns, reddit in-jokes, beaten to death memes, etc
To prove grandparents wrong the finer point is this one article seems a direct conflict with another mass media article, specifically http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/united-nations-announces-world%E2%80%99s-happiest-country-247768 [cnngo.com]. So according to CNN America is the fourth happiest country, this survey kind of stunk after seeing the way politics is going in the country, just didn't ring true at all.
"The Happiest Country" is like "the Wettest Desert." Have you considered the depressing possibility that even though Americans might not trust their institutions, most other places actually suck more?
Of course she's getting dumber: she's learning from her masters, the Adderall-popping Kardashian-worshipping teeny boppers.
That, or she's learning from her masters, Apple and whomever they partner with to sell various products and services. That's actually Google's biggest problem at the moment.
Seems to me this is actually Amazon's fault. That's really all that Amazon had. I'd love to see if they originally had a page that amazon had put up, or if Google actually does just prioritize Amazon's sites over others, regardless of whether Amazon has it or not.
I'll note that by today (Thursday eve) Amazon has fallen to the #5 result for that particular query (Youtube getting the top results now).
Google owns Zagat which might have something to do with that order.... that and the fact that Yelp said no to google buying them because they got a better offer from Yahoo.... probably just vengeance:)
It could also have something to do with Yelp being extortionists, "letting" restaurants pay to have negative reviews removed or lowered in priority. For that reason alone I consider Yelp inferior to the alternatives so the default order of the review results suits me just fine.
TFA is not worth your time. He says all sorts of outrageous stuff as if it were fact: apparently he knows exactly what Google was collectively thinking when it introduced WebM, for example.
His comments on Google "getting away with" a clean room implementation of Java on Android are pure flamebait.
Libertarians tend to be pro-market, not pro-business. Corporations like restricted and regulated markets - free markets (with their attendant "creative destruction") terrify them. "Too big to fail" is a statist term, not a libertarian one.
We tried that before with the Gilded Age. I didn't really work out and the current system, while it sucks, is far preferable to what our country went through.
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If he purposely put a CS degree on his CV thinking it'd give him the edge in getting the CEO position in a large multi-national (it's fair to say most of the skills required to do the job would be gained from experience rather than an undergraduate degree), then I think he's a few sarnies short of a picnic ;)
Or, he puts it in there to foil the recruiting guy who auto-rejects apps, any app, if there's no CS degree. This happens even at well-run, successful companies -- a group which might not even be the department that's hiring him or working with him put a boiler-plate "here's what you must have to even be considered" list of requirements, and every resume that doesn't match it is shredded.
I'd say that sort of setup is common in tech positions.
Russia is our friends. They are a freedom-loving democracy, right? Why would they worry we would worry they might attack us? If they remain free, there is no issue. If they collapse back nto dictatorship, then why does Mr. Putin care? Is he defending Russia-qua-dictatorship?
Putin grew up during the Cold War, he grew up idolizing the Soviet system, and the USSR's breakup and subsequent history has horrified him. He desperately wants to take Russia back to that era. You'd better believe he wants a Russia-qua-dictatorship.
I did say "was!" This was back in the 90s when I thought I would be just fine with a rural existence too.
You have three choices. Move to the city where the number of people makes the build out of infrastructure cost effective.
Nope. It's quiet, and I don't play well with others.
Well. That's the drawback. You can't have everything. Yeah, I know, my fantasy was to live in a cabin in the woods with a dedicated T1 line as well.
So, if you have no cable at all how do you propose getting Netflix,
Good old fashioned snail mail. It's better in nearly every aspect.
The one thing it doesn't let you do is immediately watch something you want on the spur of the moment. And yeah, that can be a pain.
But the online streaming situation is a total mess. I don't want to subscribe to Hulu for one thing, Netflix for another, Amazon for another, etc. Streaming quality is still not that great, prices are high, and it saturates the connection making it crappy for everyone else in the house. While if I get a Blu-Ray in the mail, the audio/video quality is far superior, it has all the extras which I actually want, there's no online service bullshit to slog through, and everything works. Streaming is just not "there" quite yet -- the technology has a ways to go, and distribution deals and conditions make everything an absolute pain for the end user. The distributors do everything in their power to make piracy a more compelling and enjoyable experience.
ALA: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
This is not government regulation... this is LACK of government regulation. Get it right for once.
It's not lack of regulation, it's the wrong kind of regulation.
Regulating who/how/where people can lay pipes, contributing funds towards infrastructure, that's one type of regulation, but then not putting down rules to allow competition or against using monopoly power to give your services an advantage is the other type of regulation needed.
Tea Partiers would call the former regulations "government picking the winners."
Then Congresspersons will be unable to have honest conversations or strategize.
signed a security agreement that pledges U.S. support through 2024
I think you meant 2014. Otherwise that's a pretty huge "citation needed" as major media publications are giving the 2014 number.
8086 is /not/ the best way to get one's feet wet with assembly, to say the least.
I'm... not so sure about that. When I learned assembly in class, it was on an "easier" assembly language (though no macros or string support either, so it was doubly tedious) and my big problem was... I was bored. Not due to the ease, just the opposite; I couldn't see how this particular language was practically applicable. I wanted to write assembly for x86, I wanted to try out examples on my home computer, and when I found out that all the assembly we were learning was for a cpu that no one used anymore, my interest level just plummeted.
The top doners to both Obama and Romney are very similar: the central bankers, investment firms, military-industrial, etc.
Of course, that will always be the case, and it's not because they choose the winners. It's because they want to be on the good side of whomever wins. It doesn't matter who comes out on top in the primaries, that person will be the recipient of huge amounts of cash from the powers that be, hoping for favourable treatment come election day.
Yes, I voted for Ron Paul.
Unfortunately Ron never had a chance, and it's not because of the Republican Party's and major networks' shameful attempts to marginalize him. His problem is that most people aren't libertarians (big or small L) and once you look past nice-sounding generic statements, they don't want to give up on or greatly scale back, say, the USDA, public education, hospitals that treat all patients and many other "regulations." Kudos to him though for being the most refreshingly honest and non-political major candidate in years, though.
It's a shame too. I wish the "hard-hitting interviewer" Stewart came out more often when he has more left-leaning guests. Frequently though he'll just lob softballs to assholes like John F. Kennedy Jr and/or lap up what they're saying without thinking critically about it. Jon Stewart is far more honest about his leanings than just about any other high-profile media member, but make no mistake, he sometimes lets his agenda and leanings cloud his judgement.
Well.. I live in Europe and I was speechless that our media made it look as if you Americans seriously considered to vote in people like Michelle Bachmann or Rick Santorum as POTUS
Then you need to take that outrage to your media for giving such a horribly inaccurate impression.
Did they tell you that this was not the presidential election, but a primary for the Republican party only? IE, which candidate the conservatives want?
Did they tell you Bachmann was nowhere close and dropped out early in the primary due to lack of support? Or that Santorum was never the front-runner? Or that either of them would have been a -gift- for Obama because they're so easily defeatable? Romney will be a much tougher challenge, you'd better believe Obama wishes he was facing Santorum.
It's gotten so bad that when I go to the comments for, say, and interesting picture so that I can get an explanation, the top comments are not-so-witty puns, reddit in-jokes, beaten to death memes, etc
So any Vimeo or cracked.com comment page.
To prove grandparents wrong the finer point is this one article seems a direct conflict with another mass media article, specifically http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/united-nations-announces-world%E2%80%99s-happiest-country-247768 [cnngo.com]. So according to CNN America is the fourth happiest country, this survey kind of stunk after seeing the way politics is going in the country, just didn't ring true at all.
"The Happiest Country" is like "the Wettest Desert." Have you considered the depressing possibility that even though Americans might not trust their institutions, most other places actually suck more?
The end of Slashdot started with this article: here [slashdot.org]
"Normally I wouldn't consider posting this on Slashdot, but I'm making an exception this time"
Well that exception is lasting for 11 years now. And most moderators here have absolutely no clue about technology.
I think it started two years earlier, with JonKatz and his Columbine "hellmouth" articles.
It's a search engine. It's a bit -smarter- maybe, but it's still a search engine.
The role of search engines has been expanding lately.
LOL - so a service provided over the Internet doesn't work without access to the Internet?
He was probably referring to Wi-Fi versus 3G/4G access.
Oh, that's scary. Even scarier than having Jim Carry and Jenny McCarthy as parents.
Of course she's getting dumber: she's learning from her masters, the Adderall-popping Kardashian-worshipping teeny boppers.
That, or she's learning from her masters, Apple and whomever they partner with to sell various products and services. That's actually Google's biggest problem at the moment.
Even Bing is a better name than Duck Duck Go, as long as you don't make cutie high-pitched "bings!"
Seems to me this is actually Amazon's fault. That's really all that Amazon had. I'd love to see if they originally had a page that amazon had put up, or if Google actually does just prioritize Amazon's sites over others, regardless of whether Amazon has it or not.
I'll note that by today (Thursday eve) Amazon has fallen to the #5 result for that particular query (Youtube getting the top results now).
Google owns Zagat which might have something to do with that order.... that and the fact that Yelp said no to google buying them because they got a better offer from Yahoo.... probably just vengeance :)
It could also have something to do with Yelp being extortionists, "letting" restaurants pay to have negative reviews removed or lowered in priority. For that reason alone I consider Yelp inferior to the alternatives so the default order of the review results suits me just fine.
So what about when Yelp starts sucking
Yelp has sucked for quite a long time, but sadly their users don't know this.
TFA is not worth your time. He says all sorts of outrageous stuff as if it were fact: apparently he knows exactly what Google was collectively thinking when it introduced WebM, for example.
His comments on Google "getting away with" a clean room implementation of Java on Android are pure flamebait.
Libertarians tend to be pro-market, not pro-business. Corporations like restricted and regulated markets - free markets (with their attendant "creative destruction") terrify them. "Too big to fail" is a statist term, not a libertarian one.
We tried that before with the Gilded Age. I didn't really work out and the current system, while it sucks, is far preferable to what our country went through.