But I'm not interested in the answers, I just want to see how they think and attack the problem
The problem that I have with this is that some people are much better at verbalizing their problem solving than others. I've (fortunately) only had one interview where I've ever been asked a brainteaser. And I bombed it. Not because I couldn't figure it out, but because I couldn't talk my way through how I was solving it. I'm a good problem-solver, but I can't generally say how I'm approaching it. So to you, it looks like I have not problem solving abilities. I am systematic, but those brain teasers just don't generally lend themselves toward systematic approaches, or at leas not the way I approach things.
In fact, it does apply to all of the other Ivies. I believe that it's a requirement of the ivies to NOT give athletic scholarships. I don't know if this applies to other non-need-based scholarships or not. Harvard, for one, gives only need-based scholarships - they don't even give National Merit Scholarships because they're not need-based.
It's like the car commercials that you'll see, where a car manufacturer declares that it's car is cheaper than a BMW, larger than a Ferrari, gets better fuel efficiency than a Humvee, etc, and declares its product to be the best car out there as a result.
But then it would be easy for a competitor to make a single replacement cartridge for all of their printers, and sell it for half price (still a hefty profit). And down the drain go Epson's profits....
What was your breakdown between browsers (rather than platforms)? I have 2 machines at work - a Sun Ultra 5 and a Windoze box. Not wanting to use Netscrape 4, I'm forced to browse with the NT machine, but I use Mozilla.
Right. When you're buying a house, you don't take the seller's word on what kind of shape it's in, you have it inspected by somebody on your side. And when you're buying stock, you shouldn't take the word of the seller (or in this case, their agents) how much it's worth....
No, I think that the point was that they needed to change their business model. Had they figured out a way to charge those companies whose ads were being seen, that could have been a large revenue stream. As it was, though, they just gave away lots of free advertising space....
Of course, then you get into the problems of having companies paying for placement, and thus losing "outside observer" position of being able to fairly give all ads equal billing.
This is so bad because of what you said. It's a business decision that Microsoft might make, it's not in any way something that should be a settlement for lawsuits. "As a penalty, we'll engage in a massive marketing campaign...".
Uhh, it's national. Driver's licenses are by state, and regulated by the states. Driver's licenses are also optional - nobody ever forced you to get one.
if they started to change their licensing tactics, I would be more inclined to buy[sic] their products.
Well, see, that's the problem. You're never going to get to buy their products, only license them. And I think that microsoft sees that the PC market is nearing saturation, so they'll never, ever change back to a "purchase a license" model.
The implication of your statement is that you want politicians who never change their minds. Wouldn't you admit that there is at least a slight possibility that he did do his research, then after he received lots of letters, he either (a) learned even more about the subject and changed his mind or (b) was swayed merely because lots of his constituents felt differently about the matter than he did?
You are implying that anytime a politician changes his/her mind, that's because he/she didn't do the research, leaving them no latitude for any change. You must admit to the fact that it's possible for somebody who is well-informed to disagree with you on subjects about which you're well-informed.
Don't you just love politicians who stand by their positions?
This sort of comment bothers me. When we heard about this, there was a general cry on Slashdot: "Write letters so they understand how we feel and change their minds!" Well, he's changed his mind (perhaps because he now understands how his constituents feel, perhaps not). But don't we, in cases like this, really want our elected officials to do what we want them to? Maybe he really does have all of our interests in mind, he just needed to be educated?
He's in a no-win situation. If he didn't change his mind, it's: "He's listening to corporations! He's been bought! He's not representing us! Why won't he read our letters and change his mind?". But now that he did, it's: "no-good politicians can't stand for what they believe in!".
So you tell me: which way do you want it?
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Palm forces you to buy a developer kit, but you can use standard Microsoft tools to develop for Windows CE
You also have to buy those "standard Microsoft tools", n'est-ce pas?
I recently read an article about the Executive Branch overextending it's power during times of war. Lincoln and Roosevelt were heavy offenders, but the limitations didn't last beyond the war.
And what's scary about that are Bush's comments that essentially say that this is an ongoing war, until terrorism is eradicated. Which would mean that the war would never end, so the overextension of power would also continue indefinitely.
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But wasn't the initial comparison between a $1000 PC and a $1500 Mac? So you add all of the stuff that the Mac has, and, Wow, you're paying the same price!
Making more then we think you should (mmmm, like more then 50k), HISTORY!
You (whoever wrote this) must be hiring some shitty people then. A good software engineer (or architect or db designer or...) is easily worth several times as much as an average one. Good design can save lots of time in execution and in maintenance. But if you're only offering 50k to the best engineers that you run across... well, then you'll get a bunch of people who can fight their way through a small project but don't stand a chance of making a large system. That's not to say that there's not a place for entry-level programmers, but there has to be leadership and mentorship to lead those people's efforts in the right direction.
Exactly. I see too many "studies" (I hesitate to even call them that, they're so poorly done) today that show that group A is involved with activity B and exibits characteristics C, and thus B causes C, without even considering that there may be some completely different causality. Not enough people understand that the existence of a relationship between B and C does not make it causal - that needs to be shown separately.
Don't ya think that the ISP will give you a checklist of 'channels' which you can pick 'n choose from?
I would think that cable companies would do this, too, but they don't. Well, they do to some extent. I can sign up for HBO or Skinemax. But, with basic cable, I'm getting things like the Womens' Entertainment network, Disney, Nickelodeon, and about 50 other channels that I'd rather not pay for and rather not get. But since I don't have a choice, I am paying for them and I am getting them. It's easier and more profitable for the cable company to charge everybody for these.
There's really not enough competition in the ISP market these days for them to make the extra effort (and lose the extra profit) of allowing personal choice in these matters. They make their money by selling you more, and it's not going to be any different with this macropayment business.
If you think of a Relational Database as "tables and rows", then perhaps you should use XML instead. The real values that a good rdbms provide are: Relations, relational constraints, SPEED (which you seem to have neglected entirely in your thoughts) and the like. Having data doesn't do you much good if you can't get it out fast, and get it out in a useful fashion (joins).
If you really neead a "reason to use a database at all", then you clearly aren't doing anything interesting with any volume of data.
Well, yes but you can certainly do a good bit of research and shopping on-line first. If you're looking for a 4 bedroom house in a cetain community with a 3-car garage, you can find likely candidates, go drive by and look at the house, and then decide if it's worth going further. Better than the newspaper, where you only have a 3-line blurb.
Oof. You might be helping your hands out with the Ibuprofin, but you're definitely not doing your stomach any good. I'm pretty sure that studies have shown that people who take Ibuprofin are at increased risk for ulcers. (Yes, studies can show just about anything, but I think these are legit).
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But I'm not interested in the answers, I just want to see how they think and attack the problem
The problem that I have with this is that some people are much better at verbalizing their problem solving than others. I've (fortunately) only had one interview where I've ever been asked a brainteaser. And I bombed it. Not because I couldn't figure it out, but because I couldn't talk my way through how I was solving it. I'm a good problem-solver, but I can't generally say how I'm approaching it. So to you, it looks like I have not problem solving abilities. I am systematic, but those brain teasers just don't generally lend themselves toward systematic approaches, or at leas not the way I approach things.
I was thinking James Earl Jones.
In fact, it does apply to all of the other Ivies. I believe that it's a requirement of the ivies to NOT give athletic scholarships. I don't know if this applies to other non-need-based scholarships or not. Harvard, for one, gives only need-based scholarships - they don't even give National Merit Scholarships because they're not need-based.
It's like the car commercials that you'll see, where a car manufacturer declares that it's car is cheaper than a BMW, larger than a Ferrari, gets better fuel efficiency than a Humvee, etc, and declares its product to be the best car out there as a result.
Well, I don't think you'd wipe out DarkState's. Something tells me that he's got a he3 cooled atomic clock at his disposal....
But then it would be easy for a competitor to make a single replacement cartridge for all of their printers, and sell it for half price (still a hefty profit). And down the drain go Epson's profits....
That would be Fastest Growing, as in, buying up other companies rather than paying their employees. OpenMarket, ePrise, Viant, MarchFirst....
What was your breakdown between browsers (rather than platforms)? I have 2 machines at work - a Sun Ultra 5 and a Windoze box. Not wanting to use Netscrape 4, I'm forced to browse with the NT machine, but I use Mozilla.
Right. When you're buying a house, you don't take the seller's word on what kind of shape it's in, you have it inspected by somebody on your side. And when you're buying stock, you shouldn't take the word of the seller (or in this case, their agents) how much it's worth....
No, I think that the point was that they needed to change their business model. Had they figured out a way to charge those companies whose ads were being seen, that could have been a large revenue stream. As it was, though, they just gave away lots of free advertising space....
Of course, then you get into the problems of having companies paying for placement, and thus losing "outside observer" position of being able to fairly give all ads equal billing.
This is so bad because of what you said. It's a business decision that Microsoft might make, it's not in any way something that should be a settlement for lawsuits. "As a penalty, we'll engage in a massive marketing campaign...".
Uhh, it's national. Driver's licenses are by state, and regulated by the states. Driver's licenses are also optional - nobody ever forced you to get one.
if they started to change their licensing tactics, I would be more inclined to buy[sic] their products.
Well, see, that's the problem. You're never going to get to buy their products, only license them. And I think that microsoft sees that the PC market is nearing saturation, so they'll never, ever change back to a "purchase a license" model.
have you been paying attention during this whole antitrust thing?
The implication of your statement is that you want politicians who never change their minds. Wouldn't you admit that there is at least a slight possibility that he did do his research, then after he received lots of letters, he either (a) learned even more about the subject and changed his mind or (b) was swayed merely because lots of his constituents felt differently about the matter than he did?
You are implying that anytime a politician changes his/her mind, that's because he/she didn't do the research, leaving them no latitude for any change. You must admit to the fact that it's possible for somebody who is well-informed to disagree with you on subjects about which you're well-informed.
Don't you just love politicians who stand by their positions?
This sort of comment bothers me. When we heard about this, there was a general cry on Slashdot: "Write letters so they understand how we feel and change their minds!" Well, he's changed his mind (perhaps because he now understands how his constituents feel, perhaps not). But don't we, in cases like this, really want our elected officials to do what we want them to? Maybe he really does have all of our interests in mind, he just needed to be educated?
He's in a no-win situation. If he didn't change his mind, it's: "He's listening to corporations! He's been bought! He's not representing us! Why won't he read our letters and change his mind?". But now that he did, it's: "no-good politicians can't stand for what they believe in!".
So you tell me: which way do you want it?
Palm forces you to buy a developer kit, but you can use standard Microsoft tools to develop for Windows CE
You also have to buy those "standard Microsoft tools", n'est-ce pas?
I recently read an article about the Executive Branch overextending it's power during times of war. Lincoln and Roosevelt were heavy offenders, but the limitations didn't last beyond the war.
And what's scary about that are Bush's comments that essentially say that this is an ongoing war, until terrorism is eradicated. Which would mean that the war would never end, so the overextension of power would also continue indefinitely.
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But wasn't the initial comparison between a $1000 PC and a $1500 Mac? So you add all of the stuff that the Mac has, and, Wow, you're paying the same price!
Making more then we think you should (mmmm, like more then 50k), HISTORY!
You (whoever wrote this) must be hiring some shitty people then. A good software engineer (or architect or db designer or...) is easily worth several times as much as an average one. Good design can save lots of time in execution and in maintenance. But if you're only offering 50k to the best engineers that you run across... well, then you'll get a bunch of people who can fight their way through a small project but don't stand a chance of making a large system. That's not to say that there's not a place for entry-level programmers, but there has to be leadership and mentorship to lead those people's efforts in the right direction.
Exactly. I see too many "studies" (I hesitate to even call them that, they're so poorly done) today that show that group A is involved with activity B and exibits characteristics C, and thus B causes C, without even considering that there may be some completely different causality. Not enough people understand that the existence of a relationship between B and C does not make it causal - that needs to be shown separately.
Don't ya think that the ISP will give you a checklist of 'channels' which you can pick 'n choose from?
I would think that cable companies would do this, too, but they don't. Well, they do to some extent. I can sign up for HBO or Skinemax. But, with basic cable, I'm getting things like the Womens' Entertainment network, Disney, Nickelodeon, and about 50 other channels that I'd rather not pay for and rather not get. But since I don't have a choice, I am paying for them and I am getting them. It's easier and more profitable for the cable company to charge everybody for these.
There's really not enough competition in the ISP market these days for them to make the extra effort (and lose the extra profit) of allowing personal choice in these matters. They make their money by selling you more, and it's not going to be any different with this macropayment business.
If you really neead a "reason to use a database at all", then you clearly aren't doing anything interesting with any volume of data.
Well, yes but you can certainly do a good bit of research and shopping on-line first. If you're looking for a 4 bedroom house in a cetain community with a 3-car garage, you can find likely candidates, go drive by and look at the house, and then decide if it's worth going further. Better than the newspaper, where you only have a 3-line blurb.
Oof. You might be helping your hands out with the Ibuprofin, but you're definitely not doing your stomach any good. I'm pretty sure that studies have shown that people who take Ibuprofin are at increased risk for ulcers. (Yes, studies can show just about anything, but I think these are legit).