to which I should add, these functions are just carried out by staff whose salaries that are not astronomical. Believing publishers about how much these services cost is about as smart as taking pharma at their word, when they quote enormous research costs but refuse to tell you how much they spend on direct marketing to consumers.
Umm, the editor and proofreader are part of the publishing organization. It is not at all uncommon for $1 to go to the author of a book that sells for $14.95.
And I, for one, would gladly sacrifice the 3 or 4 talented writers that pop up every year, if it meant we could be rid of the millions of wannabes and the writers of Moonlight fan fiction.
I think you're on the right track. What's interesting is that in other odd areas, e.g. the occult, fringe religious movements, etc., engineers are also extraordinarily common. I think in part this concerns personalities that look for simple answers to complex problems, but the reasons are not all negative. Most of these pursuits require an above-average intelligence, but they concern matters that an engineering education does not prepare one to tackle. So, a young engineer, whose life experience has yet to expand his intellectual horizons much, can pretty easily get caught up in a world view that ignores a myriad of other considerations and data.
In most cases, it's a phase, and let's face it, undergraduates and recent graduates of all disciplines are, well, idiots, but in situations where people are exploited by those who know how to limit a person's awareness and make it look like they are making their own choices by controlling what choices are available, we can get extremely negative results.
True, it's not like a car full of middle-aged, affluent men have never griefed some guy with a lousy job, because they felt entitled to less inconvenience.
Yep, 250 people.
One should also keep in mind that the corp is a fully owned subsidiary of the foundation, and thus not the same sort of entirely profit-minded machine as a regular corp.
It's not just the legislature; it's the stupid freaking proposition process. Time and again demagogues convince the ignorant populace to mandate a certain amount of spending on this or that. Often, annual increases in spending are mandated regardless of changing revenues. Just brilliant. So, at this point, about 85% of our budget is locked without any legislation. You simply cannot govern with so little control.
They aren't just getting swamped by the mundane bs; SEO, especially the black flavor, tends to drown out many searches, unless your strings are really unusual.
Can I just ask, aren't most abuses that come in the form of lawsuits worded and represented by lawyers? Accordingly, how does being a lawyer make your lawsuit more worthy?
I had a SciFi reading class in my Sophmore Year of HS back in the 80's. Haven't thought about how fortunate I was until now. Of course, my HS was lousy overall, but we got to read Science Fiction and finish the course by watching Blade Runner. I even got to host the movie, seeing as I'd watched it 30 times by then.
I probably shouldn't mention that the girl who sat next to me had...well...it was a stimulating class in many respects.
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I think Star Trek on television is pretty much dead. For all its cheeziness, DS9 was a real step forward, having embraced the concept of long story arcs. Enterprise just took things backwards and nosedived. The writers seemed to resent the idea of long story arcs or consistency. They constantly gravitated towards the episodic and attempts at striking moments.
It's the way the information is structured. It's linguistic convention, and it has a point; it's not a matter of "social niceties." Information is transmitted in the way language is structured as well, and structure facilitates its reception.
More importantly you clearly have difficulty imagining any form of written communication other than the few you regularly come across. A single-page business letter that is magically attached to it's envelope for all time is one possibility. It's a rudimentary example.
Googlebladder would come in handy. I'm also waiting for the day, when we check Google-RealTime-Full-BodyScans to determine pregnancy rather than having our women use test kits.
Sorry, but this is more pro-Persian propaganda. Even if the Persian Empire had been so terribly great and liberal, which it wasn't, modern Persians are not their inheritors.
It's actually more pathetic than Muslims referring back to their greatness of a few centuries past. You are reaching back thousands of years.
Quoting a translation of the Behistun inscription is also rather pointless. That said, if you think that makes an argument stronger, we should switch to quoting the original Old Persian, oh, and the Spartan and Athenian evidence in Ancient Greek. I'm certainly educated enough to handle both languages. How about you sport? You have an actual fucking clue there?
When Americans use it, they use the spelling of another dialect of English. It is not a matter of where they grew up, other than the fact that the mistake is more likely to occur, if they were brought near people who employ another dialect. It is not a free variant in the American dialect.
I think you may have missed the sarcastic subtext of the original post. There's a recurrent myth in the modern world, especially in technologically developed societies, that "natives" or "primitive man" or whatever somehow lived and still live "in tune" with nature or in harmony with it or whatever. They all supposedly respect the land in a way we don't, are inherently wise, spiritual, blah, blah, blah.
You are, of course, correct in pointing out that hunting species to extinction is a very natural thing to do, though it depends on how you define things. The original poster was poking fun at the myths using the terms as propagators of the myth would themselves define them. Arguing what's natural and what's not is a different issue.
More often than not, past and "primitive" societies would have exploited or would exploit nature as thoroughly as we do, anyway, were it not for limitations of populations and technology.
I'll let the pros handle the serious stuff, but I can tell you that java on windows is most emphatically not common for high-volume consumer websites.
Having different servers handling different pages types isn't awful, as far as I know, and the OP didn't say as much. The problem is that they grossly miscalculate how many servers they need. That's troubling and may explain why I have never known of a great sys admins coming from eBay. Moreover, if they were smart on the systems end, they have a system with the agility and flexibility to adjust quickly, which it doesn't seem they do.
I think part of the problem may simply be that eBay started so long ago, that it's stack doesn't look at all like the younger, big consumer web apps.
Little-to-no caching is just crazy on eBay's part. There's a reason people are so interested in further developing things like memcached: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached.
Anyway, I'm not an engineer. I know a lot of details about web companies' applications, and I have a basic understanding of what everything does and the major reasons why. I'm fortunate in being able to ask the pros a lot of questions, since I have worked at web companies for the last 4 years. I just figured, in case no one else answered your question, I might be able to say something to help you eventually find the full answer.
Declarations like Dion's or Arrington's make me want to class the writers in the same set as so-called Futurists, and as some very clever Slashdotter put it last year, Futurist = 1 part Fail, 1 part Sci-Fi writer.
Sadly, success in business seems to be 9 parts marketing, 1 part actual intelligence or talent at best.
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to which I should add, these functions are just carried out by staff whose salaries that are not astronomical. Believing publishers about how much these services cost is about as smart as taking pharma at their word, when they quote enormous research costs but refuse to tell you how much they spend on direct marketing to consumers.
Umm, the editor and proofreader are part of the publishing organization. It is not at all uncommon for $1 to go to the author of a book that sells for $14.95.
I agree with you, but you have no idea how many job seekers fuck all that shit up. It's painful.
Abso-friggin'lutely.
And I, for one, would gladly sacrifice the 3 or 4 talented writers that pop up every year, if it meant we could be rid of the millions of wannabes and the writers of Moonlight fan fiction.
I think you're on the right track. What's interesting is that in other odd areas, e.g. the occult, fringe religious movements, etc., engineers are also extraordinarily common. I think in part this concerns personalities that look for simple answers to complex problems, but the reasons are not all negative. Most of these pursuits require an above-average intelligence, but they concern matters that an engineering education does not prepare one to tackle. So, a young engineer, whose life experience has yet to expand his intellectual horizons much, can pretty easily get caught up in a world view that ignores a myriad of other considerations and data.
In most cases, it's a phase, and let's face it, undergraduates and recent graduates of all disciplines are, well, idiots, but in situations where people are exploited by those who know how to limit a person's awareness and make it look like they are making their own choices by controlling what choices are available, we can get extremely negative results.
True, it's not like a car full of middle-aged, affluent men have never griefed some guy with a lousy job, because they felt entitled to less inconvenience.
Yep, 250 people. One should also keep in mind that the corp is a fully owned subsidiary of the foundation, and thus not the same sort of entirely profit-minded machine as a regular corp.
It's not just the legislature; it's the stupid freaking proposition process. Time and again demagogues convince the ignorant populace to mandate a certain amount of spending on this or that. Often, annual increases in spending are mandated regardless of changing revenues. Just brilliant. So, at this point, about 85% of our budget is locked without any legislation. You simply cannot govern with so little control.
They aren't just getting swamped by the mundane bs; SEO, especially the black flavor, tends to drown out many searches, unless your strings are really unusual.
Can I just ask, aren't most abuses that come in the form of lawsuits worded and represented by lawyers? Accordingly, how does being a lawyer make your lawsuit more worthy?
I had a SciFi reading class in my Sophmore Year of HS back in the 80's. Haven't thought about how fortunate I was until now. Of course, my HS was lousy overall, but we got to read Science Fiction and finish the course by watching Blade Runner. I even got to host the movie, seeing as I'd watched it 30 times by then.
I probably shouldn't mention that the girl who sat next to me had...well...it was a stimulating class in many respects.
I don't think implementation was Roddenberry's forté. He had a large number of rather vague and disconnected ideas about things.
I think Star Trek on television is pretty much dead. For all its cheeziness, DS9 was a real step forward, having embraced the concept of long story arcs. Enterprise just took things backwards and nosedived. The writers seemed to resent the idea of long story arcs or consistency. They constantly gravitated towards the episodic and attempts at striking moments.
It's the way the information is structured. It's linguistic convention, and it has a point; it's not a matter of "social niceties." Information is transmitted in the way language is structured as well, and structure facilitates its reception.
More importantly you clearly have difficulty imagining any form of written communication other than the few you regularly come across. A single-page business letter that is magically attached to it's envelope for all time is one possibility. It's a rudimentary example.
Googlebladder would come in handy. I'm also waiting for the day, when we check Google-RealTime-Full-BodyScans to determine pregnancy rather than having our women use test kits.
I thought I already knew of most newage sewage, but this is an entirely new pile of wackiness. Well played.
Sorry, but this is more pro-Persian propaganda. Even if the Persian Empire had been so terribly great and liberal, which it wasn't, modern Persians are not their inheritors.
It's actually more pathetic than Muslims referring back to their greatness of a few centuries past. You are reaching back thousands of years.
Quoting a translation of the Behistun inscription is also rather pointless. That said, if you think that makes an argument stronger, we should switch to quoting the original Old Persian, oh, and the Spartan and Athenian evidence in Ancient Greek. I'm certainly educated enough to handle both languages. How about you sport? You have an actual fucking clue there?
When Americans use it, they use the spelling of another dialect of English. It is not a matter of where they grew up, other than the fact that the mistake is more likely to occur, if they were brought near people who employ another dialect. It is not a free variant in the American dialect.
bee-boo-bee-boo-cushshshshshshsh
Well, actually, the Parthians were the nuissance. The Persian Empire had long since fallen.
That said, the surname of the family that gave us the now deposed (and deceased) Shah of Iran, Pahlavi, is the Old Persian word for "Parthia."
A truly tremendous refutation, not so much a smack down as a tsunami rolling over a small island.
I think you may have missed the sarcastic subtext of the original post. There's a recurrent myth in the modern world, especially in technologically developed societies, that "natives" or "primitive man" or whatever somehow lived and still live "in tune" with nature or in harmony with it or whatever. They all supposedly respect the land in a way we don't, are inherently wise, spiritual, blah, blah, blah.
You are, of course, correct in pointing out that hunting species to extinction is a very natural thing to do, though it depends on how you define things. The original poster was poking fun at the myths using the terms as propagators of the myth would themselves define them. Arguing what's natural and what's not is a different issue.
More often than not, past and "primitive" societies would have exploited or would exploit nature as thoroughly as we do, anyway, were it not for limitations of populations and technology.
I'll let the pros handle the serious stuff, but I can tell you that java on windows is most emphatically not common for high-volume consumer websites.
Having different servers handling different pages types isn't awful, as far as I know, and the OP didn't say as much. The problem is that they grossly miscalculate how many servers they need. That's troubling and may explain why I have never known of a great sys admins coming from eBay. Moreover, if they were smart on the systems end, they have a system with the agility and flexibility to adjust quickly, which it doesn't seem they do.
I think part of the problem may simply be that eBay started so long ago, that it's stack doesn't look at all like the younger, big consumer web apps.
Little-to-no caching is just crazy on eBay's part. There's a reason people are so interested in further developing things like memcached: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached .
Anyway, I'm not an engineer. I know a lot of details about web companies' applications, and I have a basic understanding of what everything does and the major reasons why. I'm fortunate in being able to ask the pros a lot of questions, since I have worked at web companies for the last 4 years. I just figured, in case no one else answered your question, I might be able to say something to help you eventually find the full answer.
exactly
Maximum dystopian computing panopticon nightmare event horizon now imminent.
nicely articulated
Can you go over to CafePress and turn that into a bumper sticker or a coffee mug or something? I would totally spread the word.
Declarations like Dion's or Arrington's make me want to class the writers in the same set as so-called Futurists, and as some very clever Slashdotter put it last year, Futurist = 1 part Fail, 1 part Sci-Fi writer.
Sadly, success in business seems to be 9 parts marketing, 1 part actual intelligence or talent at best.