can't you already do this with the advanced search? I've been using it for a long time to search for terms within a specific site, especially for things like inventory. If I'm driving however many miles to get something, I want to make sure they have it. And all too often, some teenager saying "sure, it's in stock" is grossly inaccurate.
Kicks and giggles. I thought it would be funny to have an @donotreply.com e-mail address. had I known about all the crap that would filter through, I probably would have sold it.
This isn't the 50's, and companies now are looking for any immediate profit, usually at the cost of long-term growth.
Even worse, most management is being determined by either A) the new guy off the street, or B) whatever lackey buys the company BS and spouts it off to his co-workers.
Word to the wise, Team Spirit in Corporate America is just another term for Mob Mentality.
So jobs is a douchebag, but because he succeeds, that makes it okay? No, just because you're a visionary (which I'm not even sure he is) doesn't make it okay to be a dick. Notice how they talked to a lot of former employees? No current employees? Just like talking to an abuser's former spouse, but not the current.
Everything in the article points to battered employee syndrome.
If I were Comcast, I'd be a little more careful, because the government tends to not give a crap what you, as a business, think. And I'd bet there are plenty of other laws out there that they broke.
Besides, if they admit they broke their own rules, wouldn't that open them up to a class action lawsuit?
Net Neutrality is a need. We can't trust companies to do the right thing (Enron, MCI/Worldcom, Comcast P2P)
I'm more worried about some large company buying preferred bandwidth. Or blocking sites. Sure, it hasn't happened yet, but it could, and it's a slippery slope. Any Company with large enough Coffers could buy "preferred speed" rights, so you get to their site faster. The videos on their site stream faster. Their E-mail client loads attachments faster. That's pretty easy to imagine happening.
Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't. That's how Fascism took power. People saying "It'll never get that bad"
Of course there is. First, they have to go to East Texas (not heaven on Earth by any stretch. As a friend of mine and former E. Texan said "E. Texas is a great place to be FROM")
But beyond that, let's hope there's a special tenth level of hell.
Couldn't be farther from the truth. Of course you can be prosecuted for what you do online, and IP addresses prove who's liable. If I borrow your car, Kill a man with it, they may no be able to prove who was driving. But they can prove who is liable for it. Similarly, you are responsible for calls made on your telephone line. Same for your computer and connection. The owner is responsible for what happens with or to them. (and, like everything, there are extenuating situations where they aren't. Insert exception/rule analogy here.)
So, assuming we don't kill ourselves some other way, or have aliens or other intergalactic happenings wipe us out, in >6500 years, we're all going to die... maybe.
Guess we'd better get to work on that solution. Cancel all the research into diseases like cancer, this needs top priority, just in case.
E Gary Gygax was a visionary man, and without him, RPG's may have been set back decades. Imagine if D&D had not been the force it was as a creative outlet for so many people. You will be missed...
The main difference here is, Google has a proven track record of not being evil. No one raised hell over Google maps showing how you park your cars. Or their initiative to list as many businesses as possible.
Does this have the potential for abuse? Sure, but so does the information you give to your Pizza company for delivery...
So, Wozniak tells it like it is, that Jobs has made some bad choices, and the world explodes?
Look, there are a few things that Apple should have done better (3G comes to mind, IM as well) but it's not Treason. If you want sycophantic yes men, go visit MS circa 1999.
This is a great model, and I see no reason it can't succeed. Offer the music, take what you can get, reap all of the profits. All you have are musical production costs. No CD's, or shipping or packaging. Just music.
A lot of people will contend that if a small band did this, they wouldn't make anything. Bull, if they're good, word of mouth (or word of keyboard, as it were) will spread. A market like this will quickly reach equilibrium.
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can't you already do this with the advanced search? I've been using it for a long time to search for terms within a specific site, especially for things like inventory. If I'm driving however many miles to get something, I want to make sure they have it. And all too often, some teenager saying "sure, it's in stock" is grossly inaccurate.
I Can haz Nuclear Cheezburger?
The article is blocked at my work. It's not worth the trouble of manually adding the IP into the safe list. Have to stay under the radar.
Kicks and giggles. I thought it would be funny to have an @donotreply.com e-mail address. had I known about all the crap that would filter through, I probably would have sold it.
I know I looked into buying donotreply.com a while back, but it was taken. Makes me wonder why he bought that domain...
A-freaking-men.
This isn't the 50's, and companies now are looking for any immediate profit, usually at the cost of long-term growth.
Even worse, most management is being determined by either A) the new guy off the street, or B) whatever lackey buys the company BS and spouts it off to his co-workers.
Word to the wise, Team Spirit in Corporate America is just another term for Mob Mentality.
Not every battered spouse is physical...
So jobs is a douchebag, but because he succeeds, that makes it okay? No, just because you're a visionary (which I'm not even sure he is) doesn't make it okay to be a dick. Notice how they talked to a lot of former employees? No current employees? Just like talking to an abuser's former spouse, but not the current.
Everything in the article points to battered employee syndrome.
Reason's number 62,459-62,468 why I wish I worked at Google. Letting you choose your own machine and OS? No limits on software? I'm in heaven.
We can only dream.
If I were Comcast, I'd be a little more careful, because the government tends to not give a crap what you, as a business, think. And I'd bet there are plenty of other laws out there that they broke.
Besides, if they admit they broke their own rules, wouldn't that open them up to a class action lawsuit?
I already spammed my office with Pi to 16,384 digits.
And I've also already received question about why I sent it at 1:59:26 PM.
Oh, to be surrounded by smarter co-workers.
Net Neutrality is a need. We can't trust companies to do the right thing (Enron, MCI/Worldcom, Comcast P2P)
I'm more worried about some large company buying preferred bandwidth. Or blocking sites. Sure, it hasn't happened yet, but it could, and it's a slippery slope. Any Company with large enough Coffers could buy "preferred speed" rights, so you get to their site faster. The videos on their site stream faster. Their E-mail client loads attachments faster. That's pretty easy to imagine happening.
Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't. That's how Fascism took power. People saying "It'll never get that bad"
Of course there is. First, they have to go to East Texas (not heaven on Earth by any stretch. As a friend of mine and former E. Texan said "E. Texas is a great place to be FROM")
But beyond that, let's hope there's a special tenth level of hell.
Couldn't be farther from the truth. Of course you can be prosecuted for what you do online, and IP addresses prove who's liable. If I borrow your car, Kill a man with it, they may no be able to prove who was driving. But they can prove who is liable for it. Similarly, you are responsible for calls made on your telephone line. Same for your computer and connection. The owner is responsible for what happens with or to them. (and, like everything, there are extenuating situations where they aren't. Insert exception/rule analogy here.)
Now we know where the Roaming Gnomes origins are.
YES!! I see this far too often at my work, where management is determined by who believes the BS and is willing to help spout it.
"No, of course we don't want them thinking for themselves. Especially Jeff, he always finds these huge holes in our ideas."
Of course, when the problem does arise in 2 months that I predicted, I make sure to remind them.
ID 10 T error in management.
the City of Tomorrow? Interesting, I wonder if they've had any security issues or pranks to actually test the safety of the system.
Is this university run by the RIAA?
Or do they just share an unnatural fear of Technology?
Either way, I don't see how this is cheating. Hows it different than a physical gathering of students doing the exact same thing?
I'm not shocked at all. I keep up on the business world pretty well, and Jummy wales, as a businessman, is scum [citation needed]
Unlike the Google and Yahoo guys, Wikipedia seems to be run by someone without the "don't be evil" mantra.
So, assuming we don't kill ourselves some other way, or have aliens or other intergalactic happenings wipe us out, in >6500 years, we're all going to die... maybe. Guess we'd better get to work on that solution. Cancel all the research into diseases like cancer, this needs top priority, just in case.
E Gary Gygax was a visionary man, and without him, RPG's may have been set back decades. Imagine if D&D had not been the force it was as a creative outlet for so many people. You will be missed...
The main difference here is, Google has a proven track record of not being evil. No one raised hell over Google maps showing how you park your cars. Or their initiative to list as many businesses as possible.
Does this have the potential for abuse? Sure, but so does the information you give to your Pizza company for delivery...
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/
So, Wozniak tells it like it is, that Jobs has made some bad choices, and the world explodes?
Look, there are a few things that Apple should have done better (3G comes to mind, IM as well) but it's not Treason. If you want sycophantic yes men, go visit MS circa 1999.
This is a great model, and I see no reason it can't succeed. Offer the music, take what you can get, reap all of the profits. All you have are musical production costs. No CD's, or shipping or packaging. Just music. A lot of people will contend that if a small band did this, they wouldn't make anything. Bull, if they're good, word of mouth (or word of keyboard, as it were) will spread. A market like this will quickly reach equilibrium.
I wonder how long it will be before these become a staple at gaming conventions?
"d00d, I totally gamed for 36 hours without sleeping... and I didn't smell as bad as normal!"