There has been a lot of question about fair wage in the thread. So to answer everybody, the fair wage depends a lot on region, currency etc. We partner a lot of with local organization such as NGOs. Many of our members are house wives or are unemployed for whom the big difference having no access to work at all. Average wages vary from $1.50 to $2 per hour (this is in developing countries mind you).
We recommend developers to divide data into very small micro-tasks that makes sure that the quality is high and takes care of the privacy concerns. This is what we do in applications we develop in-house.
First of all treating your workers fairly, providing them support and helping them if they are stuck. We have a number of algorithms in place on top of that to make sure that the answers are high quality.
Mark Zuckerberg is the most unethical guy in the industry today. As is obvious by the origins of Facebook, his infamous hacking of the journalists passwords during the the-facebook era and countless other fiascoes that come to news from time to time. Everyone who has ever dealt with him says have bad things to say about him.
If he is the face of the next generation entrepreneurs, then god saves the industry.
You obviously haven't lived in a totalitarian country. My girlfriend is from a Soviet-Era-communist country. She was very young when the communist regime was repelled but she has distinctive memories of the era, how you could only get state television channel, how going abroad was almost impossible, how it was impossible to get foreign made goods, how the country was everything and criticizing the country was frowned upon.
In addition, please remember that Antisemitism in Soviet Union was a de-jure policy after WW2. Also remember, that Sergey Brin's parents were academics, which made them an active target of the government.
If you live not under a fear of the government but also under the fear of a government openly hostile to your community and your parents are marked people, it makes a pretty damn good impact on your childhood. In addition, do you think as a child his parents would've never talked about their life in Soviet Union ? These are the experiences that shape your thinking.
Just because he was young doesn't mean he doesn't know how it was.
Actually money transfer to India is not difficult at all. I use bank and wire transfer and it works fine to transfer money to and from India. The problem is that Indian government wants to keep a full track of where and how money crosses border. It always had. Transfers through PayPal, unless it registers itself as a bank, are difficult to track. That is why the problem.
BTW, for this reason, hawala transfers are illegal in India and have come under heavy fire.
Looking at valuation, Apple could probably buy Nokia if they decided to, but that's not in the least bit likely. Apple's not big into the low end.
Nokia is as big as apple in terms of total assets. They are equal in terms of annual income and bigger in terms of revenue. Nokia equally matches Apple in terms of finances and has more employees. Just because Apple has more presence in US, doesn't mean it can just buy it out.
I'd probably consider myself right of center, but I also don't think World Net Daily is a very unbiased source.
The list of theories following that are just some of the theories they mention in the early part of the article; that's not a list of theories they explicitly say should be "banned".
From the academic paper
Some conspiracy theories create serious risks. They do not merely undermine
democratic debate; in extreme cases, they create or fuel violence. If government can
dispel such theories, it should do so. One problem is that its efforts might be
counterproductive, because efforts to rebut conspiracy theories also legitimate them. We
have suggested, however, that government can minimize this effect by rebutting more
rather than fewer theories, by enlisting independent groups to supply rebuttals, and by
cognitive infiltration designed to break up the crippled epistemology of conspiracyminded
groups and informationally isolated social networks.
29
In fact, on the contrary it says the the governments should rebutt as many conspiracy theories it can instead of banning them. It never talks about banning any websites. That's just a loads of BS.The article does not say that the theories or the websites need to be banned. It does talk of cognitive infiltration. Which the author feels is justified given the problems conspiracy theories can lead to. It might be right or wrong, in your opinion, however, it is definitely not an encroaching on any freedom of expressions
In most of the Developing economies mobile phones are the first and mostly the only computing devices people have. How much can they realize the potential of such devices is upto the developers and innovators. Having a computing device gives people a lot of leverage. The challenge to us as developers is, can we use it solve real world problems ? Can we make people's lives better with technology ? Or do we continue to waste time in iFarting and Pulling the Fingers ? Or in having a flame-war about OSes and Vi over Emacs ?
It is logical to think, therefore, that a good game playing cell phone would sell, and if it did not, it would not be because it have too many features.
I agree with your point that there seems to be a good market for such phones, but I think you missed the point on "too many features". If its a well done phone, even if it has too many features people would use it just avoiding the features they don't want.
RMS is right of course. Software as a service is not free and one should always be at guard while using them.
Having said that, it is also important to realize that general public does not care, if its free. If you just ask them, "Do not use it." It does not help the cause. Shouldn't you instead try to educate them and warn them of the pitfalls ?
The world is not black and white. And software as a service is here to stay. When would RMS realize that ?
the thing about a lengthy approval process is that it's kept up the quality of applications into the app store...
It has nothing to do with quality. Its plain business. If you are making money off Apple, they want a cut in it. And want you to know who the boss is !!
I've never heard of this guy. Never would have bothered to buy his book. But now that I read it online (for free). If it is engrossing enough, I would like to buy a hard copy, or anything tangible if its available in my country.
I would also tell my friends about this book and they would do the same, at least some of them would. PROFIT !!!
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There has been a lot of question about fair wage in the thread. So to answer everybody, the fair wage depends a lot on region, currency etc. We partner a lot of with local organization such as NGOs. Many of our members are house wives or are unemployed for whom the big difference having no access to work at all. Average wages vary from $1.50 to $2 per hour (this is in developing countries mind you).
Yes. We take care of all of the above. Locale, currency etc.
We vet tasks (and developers) before they are posted to the live crowd.
We recommend developers to divide data into very small micro-tasks that makes sure that the quality is high and takes care of the privacy concerns. This is what we do in applications we develop in-house.
First of all treating your workers fairly, providing them support and helping them if they are stuck. We have a number of algorithms in place on top of that to make sure that the answers are high quality.
He is talking about his first job. MobileWorks is like a second job for him which he can do from anywhere.
It's not. We believe that paying fair wages would improve the quality of the work which is a very import value proposition for us.
I will just leave this here http://www.mobileworks.com/fairtradework.html Full disclosure: I am one of the founders.
Mark Zuckerberg is the most unethical guy in the industry today. As is obvious by the origins of Facebook, his infamous hacking of the journalists passwords during the the-facebook era and countless other fiascoes that come to news from time to time. Everyone who has ever dealt with him says have bad things to say about him.
If he is the face of the next generation entrepreneurs, then god saves the industry.
You obviously haven't lived in a totalitarian country. My girlfriend is from a Soviet-Era-communist country. She was very young when the communist regime was repelled but she has distinctive memories of the era, how you could only get state television channel, how going abroad was almost impossible, how it was impossible to get foreign made goods, how the country was everything and criticizing the country was frowned upon. In addition, please remember that Antisemitism in Soviet Union was a de-jure policy after WW2. Also remember, that Sergey Brin's parents were academics, which made them an active target of the government. If you live not under a fear of the government but also under the fear of a government openly hostile to your community and your parents are marked people, it makes a pretty damn good impact on your childhood. In addition, do you think as a child his parents would've never talked about their life in Soviet Union ? These are the experiences that shape your thinking. Just because he was young doesn't mean he doesn't know how it was.
Actually money transfer to India is not difficult at all. I use bank and wire transfer and it works fine to transfer money to and from India. The problem is that Indian government wants to keep a full track of where and how money crosses border. It always had. Transfers through PayPal, unless it registers itself as a bank, are difficult to track. That is why the problem.
BTW, for this reason, hawala transfers are illegal in India and have come under heavy fire.
how many times it has gotten you laid
I am not what you call a player but I think you might be looking at the wrong places man !!
Looking at valuation, Apple could probably buy Nokia if they decided to, but that's not in the least bit likely. Apple's not big into the low end.
Nokia is as big as apple in terms of total assets. They are equal in terms of annual income and bigger in terms of revenue. Nokia equally matches Apple in terms of finances and has more employees. Just because Apple has more presence in US, doesn't mean it can just buy it out.
I'd probably consider myself right of center, but I also don't think World Net Daily is a very unbiased source.
The list of theories following that are just some of the theories they mention in the early part of the article; that's not a list of theories they explicitly say should be "banned".
From the academic paper
Some conspiracy theories create serious risks. They do not merely undermine democratic debate; in extreme cases, they create or fuel violence. If government can dispel such theories, it should do so. One problem is that its efforts might be counterproductive, because efforts to rebut conspiracy theories also legitimate them. We have suggested, however, that government can minimize this effect by rebutting more rather than fewer theories, by enlisting independent groups to supply rebuttals, and by cognitive infiltration designed to break up the crippled epistemology of conspiracyminded groups and informationally isolated social networks. 29
In fact, on the contrary it says the the governments should rebutt as many conspiracy theories it can instead of banning them. It never talks about banning any websites. That's just a loads of BS.The article does not say that the theories or the websites need to be banned. It does talk of cognitive infiltration. Which the author feels is justified given the problems conspiracy theories can lead to. It might be right or wrong, in your opinion, however, it is definitely not an encroaching on any freedom of expressions
iTwire says its because of article by de Icaza that resulted into Stallman protesting and the whole shit hitting the fan.
Why can't this be done with just a credit card and an RFID chip instead like the Barclaycard OnePulse.
Credit cards to people having no bank accounts ?
http://www.google.com/search?q=why+are+macs+so+expensive
No dude, Their search algorithm sucks.
Actually its Attendees' since they are plural and their information was lost. :)
Also, stop being a prick.
In most of the Developing economies mobile phones are the first and mostly the only computing devices people have. How much can they realize the potential of such devices is upto the developers and innovators. Having a computing device gives people a lot of leverage. The challenge to us as developers is, can we use it solve real world problems ? Can we make people's lives better with technology ? Or do we continue to waste time in iFarting and Pulling the Fingers ? Or in having a flame-war about OSes and Vi over Emacs ?
Kudos to Tata Teleservices.
It is logical to think, therefore, that a good game playing cell phone would sell, and if it did not, it would not be because it have too many features.
I agree with your point that there seems to be a good market for such phones, but I think you missed the point on "too many features". If its a well done phone, even if it has too many features people would use it just avoiding the features they don't want.
RMS is right of course. Software as a service is not free and one should always be at guard while using them.
Having said that, it is also important to realize that general public does not care, if its free. If you just ask them, "Do not use it." It does not help the cause. Shouldn't you instead try to educate them and warn them of the pitfalls ?
The world is not black and white. And software as a service is here to stay. When would RMS realize that ?
However,
http://xkcd.com/552/
the thing about a lengthy approval process is that it's kept up the quality of applications into the app store...
It has nothing to do with quality. Its plain business. If you are making money off Apple, they want a cut in it. And want you to know who the boss is !!
I've never heard of this guy. Never would have bothered to buy his book. But now that I read it online (for free). If it is engrossing enough, I would like to buy a hard copy, or anything tangible if its available in my country.
I would also tell my friends about this book and they would do the same, at least some of them would. PROFIT !!!