I would guess that proving--beyond a reasonable doubt, as it is a criminal matter--that it was willful rather than a mistake is difficult in most cases. After all, it is not illegal to make a statement that is false if you genuinely believe it to be true.
Their primary goal is to get laughs, not be "fair and balanced" (as is such a thing exists).
Unless one political group is inherently more humorous than another, this seems like the very reason they _are_ "fair and balanced" to a greater extent than any organization focused on political commentary.
Yeah, I included that in an effort to be intellectually honest, since I did check and I didn't want to be guilty of cherry picking statistics. After all, I'm already making the dubious assumption that job openings correlates strongly with jobs held (though job openings at least reflects the intended future direction, I think). But in the time I was willing to spend finding concrete evidence for my argument--which I wanted to make primarily because I happened to grow up near one of IBM's research facilities, and knew several people who worked there--it was the best thing I could find.
I went back and included China for all of the categories I listed when I noticed they had a disproportionately large number of software development openings. I thought that was curious, but wasn't sure what to make of it since it seemed to be limited to software development, and there was still a nontrivial number of USA software development job openings. Previously my breakdown was USA, India, Other in order to dispute the assertion that IBM had become a reseller of Indian technology.
It seems to me a good Slashdot-appropriate analogy might be lines of code as a metric for evaluating software developer performance. It's one of the few things that can be measured simply and objectively, but there's at best a weak correlation between lines of code written and value provided by the developer.
Evaluating an individual software developer's level of performance is hard. Evaluating an individual police officer's level of performance is likely hard, too.
Of course IBM was - for the exception of some token R&D projects in Austin, they sent all of their R&D and IT jobs overseas. The only things left here in the States are salesmen and management and other assorted business support services.
Engineering (hardware): USA 67, India 0, China 17, Other 47 IT & Telecommunications (non consulting): USA 233, India 181, China 113, Other 574 Research: USA 125, India 4, China 8, Other 29 Software Development: USA 126, India 50, China 320, Other 468 All categories combined: USA 2781, India 615, China 1043, Other 3596
Or are you claiming the R&D is outsourced to other companies (as opposed to working for IBM overseas), in which case I'd have to ask which companies? As far as I can tell IBM owns more pure research facilities than most companies. Note that three out of the eight are in the US, while no other country has more than one.
Someone has to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers--think of it as a long term investment in our future. And I think it's a good idea to ask science minded outsiders how they can do so more effectively.
An uncle once gave me, as a birthday gift, a giant book with colorful full-page images of our solar system (captured by Voyager probes, etc.) It had quite an impact on me as a child.
I suppose a country where a 17 year old has a drinking problem is much, much better.
Where'd you get the fat that he has a drinking problem from? Legal drinking age here is 18, so naturally lots of 17 year olds have easy access to alcohol via 18 year old friends and getting drunk occasionally doesn't make him an alcoholic.
If drinking results in you sending a threatening email to the president of the US (and not remembering those threats), then yes, you have a drinking problem, regardless of age.
But I'm not sure how it's relevant. I suspect most countries have at least one 17 year old with a drinking problem.
Do they? By most accounts, Pathologic is a bleak, depressing game--yet some people find it quite compelling anyway, if they can look past its flaws (most notably an incomprehensible translation from Russian to English). From page 2 of the review "Butchering Pathologic":
A couple of years ago I had an argument with a friend, one of those differences of opinion that leaves you fuming and coming up with witty ripostes for days afterwards. I was saying that a good game doesn't have to be fun. She was saying that was ridiculous.
My argument, though I botched my explanation at the time, is that games have incredible untapped potential in the field of negative emotions. Just as the lowest common denominator of any art form appeals to 'positive' emotions, whether it's humour, arousal or excitement, so it is that our young games industry is obsessed with the idea of 'fun'.
I think this is one of the core reasons that the games industry hasn't had its Casablanca or Citizen Kane- we're still in the era of musicals and slapstick comedy. No games developer's going to try and make its audience feel sad, or lonely, or pathetic, at least not for long stretches. You might get games that dip their toes into that water from time to time, but by and large developers are keen to keep you smiling.
But that debate is just a big, ugly thorn bush that I've run through too many times already with nothing to show for it. The point is that Pathologic fearlessly wields desperation, brutality, hopelessness, exhaustion, cruelty, even ignorance and pain, and, if you can stomach it, the result is phenomenal.
Pathologic could not ever be described as fun. Tramping back and forth across town, trying to stem the torrent of deaths while aching to know what's going on/is not fun./ This is not a game. There isn't a word for it really, which is probably why the developers, Ice-pick Lodge, call Pathologic "an exercise in decision making" on their translated English website.
And this is coming from a rave review that opens with:
I'm going to explain, right now, why a Russian FPS/RPG called Pathologic is the single best and most important game that you've never played.
Okay, so it contradicts itself on whether Pathologic is a "game" or "not a game". But that's because there's a largely unexplored gray area in between, where something can play like a game--and be as rewarding as a game--without being "fun".
(If you want to read the full review of Pathologic, since there doesn't seem to be a good way to navigate between the pages: part 1, part 2, part 3)
Perhaps, but the compression ratio can easily make up for it.
On my ~5 year old computer, using an old version of cygwin: Searching 16 GB of text files takes about 10 minutes. Unzipping 1.6 GB of zip files (containing the same data) and searching them takes about 3.5 minutes.
So as long as the compression ratio exceeds 3.5:1 (and I'm likely to read much more often than write) I'm probably better off decompressing on the fly, even using good old "unzip".
It isn't just issues of game balance and gold farming, Smedley says. "We're seeing a lot of stolen credit cards. Say you buy gold from a service in China -- you may not know it's in China, but you give them your credit card and buy gold only once. They use these credit card numbers to set up new accounts in these games. They buy an EverQuest account key, farm for a month, and then charge it back to the stolen credit card."
And this isn't just damaging to the consumer. "What happens is that over time, as that rate of chargebacks rises, we start getting fined. We have been fined over a million dollars since June. That's not the chargebacks themselves -- just the chargeback fine. It's brutal; it's the dirty little secret of the industry."
These temporary accounts, paid for with stolen credit cards, are additionally used to spam in-game (although spam filtering has improved the situation significantly).
It would not surprise me in the least if this applied to temporary domain registration for spam/malware purposes as well.
Secret of Mana was a good first attempt at multiplayer support in a (loosely) Final Fantasy style game. It's a shame no games that I'm aware of have attempted to improve upon it, as while there were major flaws--for example, the ring menu needed for any player to use an item or cast a spell froze the action--I don't think any of them were unfixable.
I don't care for the show myself, but don't forget about the nonlinear utility function of money. As an illustration, given that I'm comfortable but not wealthy:
If given a choice between a guaranteed $400 and a 50-50 shot at $1,000, I'd choose the latter. The money wouldn't have a major impact on my life, so I'd go for the option with the best expected return. If given a choice between a guaranteed $400,000 and a 50-50 shot at $1,000,000, I'd take the guaranteed $400,000, even though the expected return of the latter situation is $500,000. $400,000 would give me a substantial amount of freedom and security. An additional $600,000 beyond that would be nice but would provide relatively few benefits compared to the initial $400,000.
Now, if I were already a millionaire, I'd most likely choose the 50-50 shot at $1,000,000.
I believe the origin was a Tea Party follower with a sign reading "TEA BAG the LIBERAL DEMS BEFORE THEY TEA BAG YOU !!" At least that's the first instance I encountered associating "tea bag" (as a verb) with the movement. In other words, they brought it on themselves, to some extent. http://washingtonindependent.com/31868/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party (2009-02-27)
That said, the joke should have died right there, after one good laugh at their expense. I do cringe when the term "teabagger" is used now, over a year later.
Pascal, which is "highly recommended" by the exam board according to the summary, has the notion of pointers too. Pointers were used extensively on the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam when it was given in Pascal.
I always thought the main reason for its decline was the use of sequential numbers as public IDs, making it easy for spammers to find new targets by brute force. AIM and MSN had ads yet remained popular.
I'm no lawyer, but isn't the defendant allowed a defense in layers, even if those layers contradict each other? (I think there's a legal term for this but I can't seem to find it.) The defense would go something like: "It wasn't me. And if it was me, I had fair use rights to the songs in question."
About 20 years ago I remember there was a computer related merit badge. There were three steps to earn this badge; one of them was to turn a computer on and then off. The other two steps were only marginally more complex.
Suspicious things like sneaking around in public, strolling around at 3:00am
I have a circadian rhythm disorder, and in an effort to keep my sleep cycle under some semblance of control I try to get exercise daily. Because of my disorder--and the hours I can work as a result--frequently the only time I can get exercise is late at night. And going for a walk is one of the few exercise options available to me at night.
I guess it's a good thing I don't currently live in Arizona.
A good plagiarism detection system would take the length of the code/text into account when setting the heuristic threshold for flagging something as possible plagiarism.
Then you interview the few people flagged as "probably" cheating (i.e. similar structure but cosmetic differences). Anyone that can demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of key concepts used by the code in question is cleared of cheating.
I found this out with one assignment for an early CS class. I submitted my code right before the deadline, then sent my code to a struggling classmate after the deadline passed so he could see one way to approach the problem. He decided to change some variable names and formatting and submit it as his own, and it was accepted even though it was late. Our assignments were flagged by a plagiarism detection program, and we were individually asked to meet with the professor. The professor asked me a couple very simple questions about design choices I had made, and I was on my way with no penalty.
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I would guess that proving--beyond a reasonable doubt, as it is a criminal matter--that it was willful rather than a mistake is difficult in most cases. After all, it is not illegal to make a statement that is false if you genuinely believe it to be true.
A "John Doe" lawsuit perhaps?
Unless one political group is inherently more humorous than another, this seems like the very reason they _are_ "fair and balanced" to a greater extent than any organization focused on political commentary.
Yeah, I included that in an effort to be intellectually honest, since I did check and I didn't want to be guilty of cherry picking statistics. After all, I'm already making the dubious assumption that job openings correlates strongly with jobs held (though job openings at least reflects the intended future direction, I think). But in the time I was willing to spend finding concrete evidence for my argument--which I wanted to make primarily because I happened to grow up near one of IBM's research facilities, and knew several people who worked there--it was the best thing I could find.
I went back and included China for all of the categories I listed when I noticed they had a disproportionately large number of software development openings. I thought that was curious, but wasn't sure what to make of it since it seemed to be limited to software development, and there was still a nontrivial number of USA software development job openings. Previously my breakdown was USA, India, Other in order to dispute the assertion that IBM had become a reseller of Indian technology.
It seems to me a good Slashdot-appropriate analogy might be lines of code as a metric for evaluating software developer performance. It's one of the few things that can be measured simply and objectively, but there's at best a weak correlation between lines of code written and value provided by the developer.
Evaluating an individual software developer's level of performance is hard. Evaluating an individual police officer's level of performance is likely hard, too.
Then explain these job opening totals:
Engineering (hardware): USA 67, India 0, China 17, Other 47
IT & Telecommunications (non consulting): USA 233, India 181, China 113, Other 574
Research: USA 125, India 4, China 8, Other 29
Software Development: USA 126, India 50, China 320, Other 468
All categories combined: USA 2781, India 615, China 1043, Other 3596
Or are you claiming the R&D is outsourced to other companies (as opposed to working for IBM overseas), in which case I'd have to ask which companies? As far as I can tell IBM owns more pure research facilities than most companies. Note that three out of the eight are in the US, while no other country has more than one.
Someone has to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers--think of it as a long term investment in our future. And I think it's a good idea to ask science minded outsiders how they can do so more effectively.
An uncle once gave me, as a birthday gift, a giant book with colorful full-page images of our solar system (captured by Voyager probes, etc.) It had quite an impact on me as a child.
If drinking results in you sending a threatening email to the president of the US (and not remembering those threats), then yes, you have a drinking problem, regardless of age.
But I'm not sure how it's relevant. I suspect most countries have at least one 17 year old with a drinking problem.
Do they?
By most accounts, Pathologic is a bleak, depressing game--yet some people find it quite compelling anyway, if they can look past its flaws (most notably an incomprehensible translation from Russian to English). From page 2 of the review "Butchering Pathologic":
And this is coming from a rave review that opens with:
Okay, so it contradicts itself on whether Pathologic is a "game" or "not a game". But that's because there's a largely unexplored gray area in between, where something can play like a game--and be as rewarding as a game--without being "fun".
(If you want to read the full review of Pathologic, since there doesn't seem to be a good way to navigate between the pages: part 1, part 2, part 3)
Perhaps, but the compression ratio can easily make up for it.
On my ~5 year old computer, using an old version of cygwin:
Searching 16 GB of text files takes about 10 minutes.
Unzipping 1.6 GB of zip files (containing the same data) and searching them takes about 3.5 minutes.
So as long as the compression ratio exceeds 3.5:1 (and I'm likely to read much more often than write) I'm probably better off decompressing on the fly, even using good old "unzip".
Not sure why parent is modded funny; there is likely a lot of truth to it. Sony Online Entertainment discovered this:
These temporary accounts, paid for with stolen credit cards, are additionally used to spam in-game (although spam filtering has improved the situation significantly).
It would not surprise me in the least if this applied to temporary domain registration for spam/malware purposes as well.
Secret of Mana was a good first attempt at multiplayer support in a (loosely) Final Fantasy style game. It's a shame no games that I'm aware of have attempted to improve upon it, as while there were major flaws--for example, the ring menu needed for any player to use an item or cast a spell froze the action--I don't think any of them were unfixable.
The stronger the signal, the less power the phone likely needs to use to communicate with the towers, significantly affecting battery life.
Bah, neglected to preview. The first link should be to http://steadycam.org/
Or made a DIY version for $14, as featured on Slashdot in 2004.
I don't care for the show myself, but don't forget about the nonlinear utility function of money. As an illustration, given that I'm comfortable but not wealthy:
If given a choice between a guaranteed $400 and a 50-50 shot at $1,000, I'd choose the latter. The money wouldn't have a major impact on my life, so I'd go for the option with the best expected return.
If given a choice between a guaranteed $400,000 and a 50-50 shot at $1,000,000, I'd take the guaranteed $400,000, even though the expected return of the latter situation is $500,000. $400,000 would give me a substantial amount of freedom and security. An additional $600,000 beyond that would be nice but would provide relatively few benefits compared to the initial $400,000.
Now, if I were already a millionaire, I'd most likely choose the 50-50 shot at $1,000,000.
I believe the origin was a Tea Party follower with a sign reading "TEA BAG the LIBERAL DEMS BEFORE THEY TEA BAG YOU !!" At least that's the first instance I encountered associating "tea bag" (as a verb) with the movement. In other words, they brought it on themselves, to some extent.
http://washingtonindependent.com/31868/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party (2009-02-27)
That said, the joke should have died right there, after one good laugh at their expense. I do cringe when the term "teabagger" is used now, over a year later.
And then go buy the DVDs. The audio commentaries alone are worth the price (and there's one for every single episode).
Pascal, which is "highly recommended" by the exam board according to the summary, has the notion of pointers too. Pointers were used extensively on the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam when it was given in Pascal.
I always thought the main reason for its decline was the use of sequential numbers as public IDs, making it easy for spammers to find new targets by brute force. AIM and MSN had ads yet remained popular.
I'm no lawyer, but isn't the defendant allowed a defense in layers, even if those layers contradict each other? (I think there's a legal term for this but I can't seem to find it.) The defense would go something like: "It wasn't me. And if it was me, I had fair use rights to the songs in question."
About 20 years ago I remember there was a computer related merit badge. There were three steps to earn this badge; one of them was to turn a computer on and then off. The other two steps were only marginally more complex.
I have a circadian rhythm disorder, and in an effort to keep my sleep cycle under some semblance of control I try to get exercise daily. Because of my disorder--and the hours I can work as a result--frequently the only time I can get exercise is late at night. And going for a walk is one of the few exercise options available to me at night.
I guess it's a good thing I don't currently live in Arizona.
A good plagiarism detection system would take the length of the code/text into account when setting the heuristic threshold for flagging something as possible plagiarism.
Then you interview the few people flagged as "probably" cheating (i.e. similar structure but cosmetic differences). Anyone that can demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of key concepts used by the code in question is cleared of cheating.
I found this out with one assignment for an early CS class. I submitted my code right before the deadline, then sent my code to a struggling classmate after the deadline passed so he could see one way to approach the problem. He decided to change some variable names and formatting and submit it as his own, and it was accepted even though it was late. Our assignments were flagged by a plagiarism detection program, and we were individually asked to meet with the professor. The professor asked me a couple very simple questions about design choices I had made, and I was on my way with no penalty.