It's a response that's aggressive, unhelpful, and, frankly, quite rude.
That's a lot of words. I've seen those before, many times. They are often used in the stead of, "pragmatic".
When your time is valuable and accounted for, get back to me on why you aren't working in a 3rd world country to save the lives of other people. It's quite rude to be so self-centered about your limited efforts in this lifetime.
there is at least one point where SC2 needs improvement. At least if you expect to play the game in places where you have no network.
Therefore Yahoo Chat needs improvement too. At least if you expect to use it in places where you have no network.
The nature of the game (it's listed on the box as a requirement to play), is an online experience...albeit a personal problem for people who can think of and have traditionally experienced ways to implement most of the features (i.e. Achievements/stats tracking, multiplayer, authentication) without a connection to blizz servers.
Isn't blizzard in the right as well for SC2? Bliz made a game people will play, under terms blizzard wants. They didn't patch SC1 to this (although I'm sure that's been considered). New game, new rules. Nothing Bliz has implemented in sc2 is lighting up my "do not play or buy" alarm.
PHDs usually require specialization in a topic for thesis. There's a world of difference between a person with a Master's and a PHD. People come in all personalities and ranges of ability. A PHD produces a smaller range. You would prefer to work in a team of people with Master's degrees, once you get the opportunity to try different compositions.
The 'big' companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and such even lean towards PhD as a minimum bar for entry.
That's just misinformation. The well known tech companies contact people without PHDs more often than people with them. The bar is the catch-22 of general experience. List 10 years practical experience using the language de-jour on your resume on Monster (you also need to have a residence local to one of their offices) you can expect a call from the companies mentioned. All you have to do is actually know what you have been doing better than you needed to work at your current job.
Using the words "playing", "boost" and "career", what data would you suggest? It's a subjective view about subjective things. Saying "Using brighter colors can make art prettier." requires as much empirical evidence.
I happened to have gotten an awesome job because most of my interview consisted of me talking about my leadership role in a WoW guild (and I think the part where I said I didn't play anymore gave me some points). I thought it was strange at the time.
I now believe that it's very difficult to quantify a person's experience in social group management. The number of people who have participated in leadership of a virtual (mixed age) group greatly outnumbers those who have participated in leadership of real life adults.
I have tried a number of utilities. The most effective daemon has been sleepwatcher from http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/ Which basically just runs a ~/.wakeup or ~/.sleep if it exists. // Process item looks like: /usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher -d -V -s/etc/rc.sleep -w/etc/rc.wakeup
That bash script ~/.wakeup is where I do data collection;this is a rough approximation: // Google iSightCapture /sbin/iSightCapture/output/file // This gets the OS to try all hardline/wifi networks, which it doesnt have after waking as some kind of side-effect to the powersaving feature ping -c 1 google.com sleep 20 ping -c 1 google.com // Then the meaty script /bin/scriptbin meatyscript
The meaty script does everything else. // Run ping from myscript and check output // If cli ping shows no route to host // mv/output/file/output/file.timestamp // else // find all files in/output/file.* // Mail with cc to alt mail address and attach 3 most recent images in/output/ (I dont want to hose my own network or have the mail rejected)
My Mac Powerbook takes a picture every time it wakes up or is rebooted, then stores the picture. If there is a network connection, (any stored) pics are emailed to me along with a text containing the IP and timestamp, then the pics are deleted from the Mac. While it's likely that someone may disable this feature, it's unlikely that it will be before it gives me what I need to find them. In other news, anyone want to buy a couple thousand candid pictures of me (and some other people) opening my laptop?
It's also clear that this proposed change had nothing to do with reducing forum trolling.
Forums that have real-name associations (like most premium boards wherein a service is attached, say like... sencha/extjs - albeit purely technical) have a great deal less trolling. There is also the issue of multiple accounts, which is not solved by most "alternatives" people have suggested. RealID makes sense and is a good idea, for Blizzard.
I don't know why you would think this would not reduce trolling immediately.
Copyright is a recent concept. As recent as the Renaissance.
For someone trying to cite history in your argument, you sure know little about it. All of the inalienable rights as we know them today derived from the Enlightenment which was centuries after the Renaissance. The term "inalienable right" was coined in the 1600s.
He demonstrated accurate knowledge. You're talking about inalienable rights and the origins of the terminology. The statement you quoted describes the relative time period that copyright was coined. His statement is not invalidated, nor his point in-total with your addition. The fact he states 1 is not the other, holds true, as well the dates and purposes assigned to the origin of copyright.
First they started using that Devil's tool THE TELEPHONE and now it's gotten to them using that instant-messenger-web api TWITTER. I tell ya, the country's going to hell in a handbasket.
Be serious. Should it have been announced over IRC? or email? The technology is irrelevant. He was disseminating information and it was effective. Game over.
One of my friends has the surname O'Reilly and would not be terribly impressed with that suggestion. For that matter, I suspect the founder of the well-known publishing company wouldn't be too happy either.
You're also going to upset people with hyphenated names - my daughter's mother's first name, for example, is Lisa-Jane, and I've known people with double-barrelled surnames.
My point being that "strip all non-alphanumerics" is very easy to code, but fails with even with perfectly ordinary English names.
Ahem, that's a lot of specious nonsense.
I don't care if it's impressive to someone else. It's the simplest solution. People getting upset is inevitable. It's Monday, people are upset. It's Wednesday, people are upset. So what.
Your summation of "fails" and "ordinary" are arbitrary characterizations. If there's a business case to be made, fine. For the sake of "correctness", the threshold of accuracy can be set very low and still yield recognizable monikers.
Congrats; you have just invalidated my wife's name (hyphenated middle name), a colleague's (hyphenated last name) and the names of a lot of people of Irish descent, and that's just in the US.
That, really, is the point of TFA. It is 100% true. You go for anything stricter than that, and you will get it wrong, so don't.
Wrong is a matter of perspective. Remove all non-alphanumeric. Unless you're working with a legal requirement (which will have it's own validation contract), just be safe by remaining simple and setting an understandable limit. Avoiding hurting people's feelings because they have to put in a phonetic translation or alias, does not have a good ROI.
Are you retarded? MS has almost unfettered access to your filesystem and OS code. How does an application prevent changes at the OS level, when it's an APPLICATION?
do you mean "stop polluting the air I breathe," or "stop telling me to put a smog regulator on my car?"
I make no distinction. What about "no eating animals" or "no one over 35 should have children". All laws are arbitrary from other peoples' point of view. Just because a nation can enforce, doesn't mean it should be the organization to set the rules. The founding fathers of the US failed, in this respect.
Why? Lots of languages use or require configurations for their interpreters/compilers. If the ini was such a big deal, there would be an implementation without one. Unfortunately, there's too many reasons to HAVE one.
I mostly agree, but local positions can vary unnacceptably.
Uh, no. Unacceptably to you. Please stay out of other's ppl's way of life. What makes you think you know best for the rest of the US, and by extension, the world?
People of all sorts of dogma take over areas and try to handle their local "issues". There needs to be accounting for local variation and their needs/desires, but overarching, fair rules need to be handed down through the monolith that we call government.
That's an interesting opinion. Too bad it doesnt work without complete totalitarianism, even on a small scale.
However, they feel pretty good about a closed-source implementation of an open source operating system on locked-in hardware? This sounds rather flamebaity and very light on facts.
I suspect "this employee" was simplifying the groupthink that ALSO has technical grounds. The technical reasons are certainly self-evident. OSX can leverage most of the same tools without needing to re-implement. Why would this decision have anything to do with hardware or closed/open source? A: Very little. HTH
I see no reason to exclude ideas from such agreements
Ideas are not tangible, not guaranteed to be original or well formed...because ideas are purely conceptual. Even language cannot encompass the content. I see no reason that they should be included in a legal agreement.
If I know the tax rate above $250,000 is much higher than the rate below that amount, I'm going to reinvest everything I can to avoid the high income tax rate.
I stopped after this. You're delusional. At over 100k a year I get back a return wherein I end up with net gains year after year. There's no reason to think that the ability to have a corporate interest contribute to an individual's trust or charity counts as "reinvestment" or that they are any less manipulative than average upper middle class Jack.
"just do it, its your employer" isn't good enough.
I'm not sure why you think this, as that will land you (in jail in rare cases or) out of a job. It is expected that an employer has full control over what you do in your position (insofar as you are willing and able to do it or quit). This includes reversing policy or statements they have made at any time. If you want to sue them for attempting to coerce or asking you to do something illegal, that's an after-the-fact. Welcome to the real world.
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That's a lot of words. I've seen those before, many times. They are often used in the stead of, "pragmatic".
When your time is valuable and accounted for, get back to me on why you aren't working in a 3rd world country to save the lives of other people. It's quite rude to be so self-centered about your limited efforts in this lifetime.
Therefore Yahoo Chat needs improvement too. At least if you expect to use it in places where you have no network.
The nature of the game (it's listed on the box as a requirement to play), is an online experience...albeit a personal problem for people who can think of and have traditionally experienced ways to implement most of the features (i.e. Achievements/stats tracking, multiplayer, authentication) without a connection to blizz servers.
Isn't blizzard in the right as well for SC2? Bliz made a game people will play, under terms blizzard wants. They didn't patch SC1 to this (although I'm sure that's been considered). New game, new rules. Nothing Bliz has implemented in sc2 is lighting up my "do not play or buy" alarm.
PHDs usually require specialization in a topic for thesis. There's a world of difference between a person with a Master's and a PHD. People come in all personalities and ranges of ability. A PHD produces a smaller range. You would prefer to work in a team of people with Master's degrees, once you get the opportunity to try different compositions.
That's just misinformation. The well known tech companies contact people without PHDs more often than people with them. The bar is the catch-22 of general experience. List 10 years practical experience using the language de-jour on your resume on Monster (you also need to have a residence local to one of their offices) you can expect a call from the companies mentioned. All you have to do is actually know what you have been doing better than you needed to work at your current job.
Using the words "playing", "boost" and "career", what data would you suggest? It's a subjective view about subjective things. Saying "Using brighter colors can make art prettier." requires as much empirical evidence.
I happened to have gotten an awesome job because most of my interview consisted of me talking about my leadership role in a WoW guild (and I think the part where I said I didn't play anymore gave me some points). I thought it was strange at the time.
I now believe that it's very difficult to quantify a person's experience in social group management. The number of people who have participated in leadership of a virtual (mixed age) group greatly outnumbers those who have participated in leadership of real life adults.
YMMV
I have tried a number of utilities. The most effective daemon has been sleepwatcher from http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/
// Process item looks like:
/usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher -d -V -s /etc/rc.sleep -w /etc/rc.wakeup
Which basically just runs a ~/.wakeup or ~/.sleep if it exists.
That bash script ~/.wakeup is where I do data collection;this is a rough approximation:
// Google iSightCapture
/sbin/iSightCapture /output/file
// This gets the OS to try all hardline/wifi networks, which it doesnt have after waking as some kind of side-effect to the powersaving feature
// Then the meaty script
/bin/scriptbin meatyscript
ping -c 1 google.com
sleep 20
ping -c 1 google.com
The meaty script does everything else.
// Run ping from myscript and check output
// If cli ping shows no route to host
// mv /output/file /output/file.timestamp
// else
// find all files in /output/file.*
// Mail with cc to alt mail address and attach 3 most recent images in /output/ (I dont want to hose my own network or have the mail rejected)
My Mac Powerbook takes a picture every time it wakes up or is rebooted, then stores the picture. If there is a network connection, (any stored) pics are emailed to me along with a text containing the IP and timestamp, then the pics are deleted from the Mac. While it's likely that someone may disable this feature, it's unlikely that it will be before it gives me what I need to find them. In other news, anyone want to buy a couple thousand candid pictures of me (and some other people) opening my laptop?
Could we just get a random reddit submitter instead? Please?
Forums that have real-name associations (like most premium boards wherein a service is attached, say like ... sencha/extjs - albeit purely technical) have a great deal less trolling. There is also the issue of multiple accounts, which is not solved by most "alternatives" people have suggested. RealID makes sense and is a good idea, for Blizzard.
I don't know why you would think this would not reduce trolling immediately.
He demonstrated accurate knowledge. You're talking about inalienable rights and the origins of the terminology. The statement you quoted describes the relative time period that copyright was coined. His statement is not invalidated, nor his point in-total with your addition. The fact he states 1 is not the other, holds true, as well the dates and purposes assigned to the origin of copyright.
I have 2 coins totaling 11 cents. One of them is not a penny. Yawn. Syntactic games, to frustrate. Here's your prize for being a troll.
First they started using that Devil's tool THE TELEPHONE and now it's gotten to them using that instant-messenger-web api TWITTER. I tell ya, the country's going to hell in a handbasket.
Be serious. Should it have been announced over IRC? or email? The technology is irrelevant. He was disseminating information and it was effective. Game over.
Ahem, that's a lot of specious nonsense.
I don't care if it's impressive to someone else. It's the simplest solution.
People getting upset is inevitable. It's Monday, people are upset. It's Wednesday, people are upset. So what.
Your summation of "fails" and "ordinary" are arbitrary characterizations. If there's a business case to be made, fine. For the sake of "correctness", the threshold of accuracy can be set very low and still yield recognizable monikers.
I didn't DO anything to anyone.
Wrong is a matter of perspective. Remove all non-alphanumeric. Unless you're working with a legal requirement (which will have it's own validation contract), just be safe by remaining simple and setting an understandable limit. Avoiding hurting people's feelings because they have to put in a phonetic translation or alias, does not have a good ROI.
There is no amount. The damage to technology, business, and education is far more than Microsoft itself (much less Gates himself) will ever represent.
tl;dr
Are you retarded? MS has almost unfettered access to your filesystem and OS code. How does an application prevent changes at the OS level, when it's an APPLICATION?
I make no distinction. What about "no eating animals" or "no one over 35 should have children". All laws are arbitrary from other peoples' point of view. Just because a nation can enforce, doesn't mean it should be the organization to set the rules. The founding fathers of the US failed, in this respect.
Why? Lots of languages use or require configurations for their interpreters/compilers. If the ini was such a big deal, there would be an implementation without one. Unfortunately, there's too many reasons to HAVE one.
Uh, no. Unacceptably to you. Please stay out of other's ppl's way of life. What makes you think you know best for the rest of the US, and by extension, the world?
That's an interesting opinion. Too bad it doesnt work without complete totalitarianism, even on a small scale.
I suspect "this employee" was simplifying the groupthink that ALSO has technical grounds. The technical reasons are certainly self-evident. OSX can leverage most of the same tools without needing to re-implement. Why would this decision have anything to do with hardware or closed/open source? A: Very little. HTH
Ideas are not tangible, not guaranteed to be original or well formed...because ideas are purely conceptual. Even language cannot encompass the content. I see no reason that they should be included in a legal agreement.
I stopped after this. You're delusional. At over 100k a year I get back a return wherein I end up with net gains year after year. There's no reason to think that the ability to have a corporate interest contribute to an individual's trust or charity counts as "reinvestment" or that they are any less manipulative than average upper middle class Jack.
I'm not sure why you think this, as that will land you (in jail in rare cases or) out of a job. It is expected that an employer has full control over what you do in your position (insofar as you are willing and able to do it or quit). This includes reversing policy or statements they have made at any time. If you want to sue them for attempting to coerce or asking you to do something illegal, that's an after-the-fact. Welcome to the real world.