The more important matter is how much are they being used, especially to "socialize" as compared to facebook?
I mean Google forces you to be a Google+ user pretty much if you use any of their services - Gmail, Picasa etc.
What are the ad revenues on these services? What is the frequency of posts per user?
Are there infinite ways to screw grammar while creating password? I would think there are certain patterns in which people mis-use grammar. I would imagine though that at some point if every one started using bad grammar styles for constructing passwords, that those patterns would become identifiable and then someone would put together a password cracker that would deal with poor-grammar-filled passwords as well right? I couldn't find the exact paper to read but the example on the website "ihave3cats" seems to be a like a language thing that can be identified at some point by some urban dictionary reader!
I thnk some of the answers are in the article already now that I read it. Still, the study is pretty non-eye-opening with the exception that it debunks the usual myth about pot smokers. I have had lots of friends over the years here in California who smoked pot and they definitely did not get any dumber with that. Ofcourse, that is just my observation.
How about whether high IQ folks are more likely to smoke pot or dumb ones? That would also be an interesting study. Does pot smoking have enough of a stigma attached to it that people who are considered "smarter" are less likely to smoke it. Also, how does it compare with alcohol ?
I did not read TFA btw!
I have some rules that I try and follow to make sure I am getting some exercise while working:
I have a small timer/stopwatch clock in my office and I set it for 50 minutes. Every time it reaches 50 minutes, I get up and go get a glass of water from the opposite end of the office.
Any time I have to use the bathroom, I try to use the one farthest away.
I try to park my car a little far away from the office unless the weather is bad or something.
If I can avoid using the phone, I make it a point to go to people's desks and talk to them or ask them whatever I want to know.
I drink 2 to 3 cups of coffee during working and with each cup I also drink a glass of water. This pretty much ensures I will be active and taking bath room breaks often. You can adjust your coffee depending on how often you have to use the bathroom I guess.
Usually, either after lunch or if I am feeling tired or sleepy, I try to go out, weather permitting, and take a brisk 5-10 min walk around the parking lot.
Please mod parent up. The GP has no idea of what WDS is!
WDS is like having 2 APs with an wireless "ethernet" connection between them in addition to regular clients. But because it uses the same radios for WDS connection and client connections you lose bandwidth.
You started off on the right track but then towards the end your reply sounds more like it is the fault of the US that an average Indian student is not up to par or something. Again, I did not want to generalize all Indian workers,, I have met some here, a lot of them are brilliant and hardworking, but it seems like there are far too many Indian engineers available to do the jobs at cheap prices simply because due to the culture in India, most guys (almost forcibly) seem to end up in a few fields. This was actually mentioned by Indians who work here. That was a culture difference I was talking about.
You accused me of generalizing, yet you point out that Americans are not willing to work hard or long hours ? I have plently of American friends who dis-agree with that statement. I think that also is part of the cultural difference between Indians and Americans whereby Americans seem to be more willing to express their dis-comfort over being "exploited" a lot. I have seen that culture in San Jose as well. Indian engineers are always willing (almost forcibly) during Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays.
Regarding conditions in India, why do you think that just because Americans have big houses means they are always happy. We have our own issues to deal with. They may not be issues like starvation etc that are seen in other countries but we do have personal and work issues here as well. You think sending kids to colleges here is easy in the US? Have you seen the tuitions of any good colleges these days?
I understand that IBM wants to cut costs but with this scale work force migration to India, is that going to affect product quality ? I have worked with a ton of folks from India and I have absolutely nothing against Indians but I do see a difference in skill levels between American engineering grads and Indians (apart from those who come from the top institutions in India like IIT etc.) Most folks from India I have worked with are very sincere but they do not have a good understand of underlying concepts. Dont get me wrong, they are always willing to pick up, but there is always a ramp up time. My gut feeling is that since most guys in India opt for Engineering/Science backgrounds, sometimes we get folks that do not have their hearts genuinely in it.(I am sure there are folks who will show me that I am wrong about this.) The thing that is great about them is that they are willing to work night and day to get things done, but again that leads to patch work kind of solutions.
Coming back to the main topic, has IBM had to undergo changes in its management style for India? Has quality been affected adversely or has it been better lately?
There is also another thing about India. As good as the workers are in India, the government and the process itself can be a big hurdle. When you have to bribe 15 officials for every little expansion project, things can very easily get tied up in the bureaucratic process. How long is this effort going to be sustainable?
Actually, it is the other way around. If you look at major commercial news polling sites, their job is not to tell you who is winning, their job is to tell you that the elections are close. If they don't do that most people won't visit their sites and their traffic will be down.
Nate Silver on the other just takes their data and is really just seeing an Obama victory from the same results, instead of calling the results close or whatever!
Romney is not just hard to pin down, he is like a pin in a haystack. I cannot for the life of me, figure out what will Romney do when/if he becomes president. Most of the times I have seen him wiggle with his plans that I cannot even label him as Republican so much.
With Obama, I have seen at least a desire to fix things. It is hard to blame all that is wrong with our country today on just Obama, I have seen numerous examples of congressmen not budging from their 50 year old ideas to work with Obama at all which I think is just because he is not from the same race as most of them.
Regarding your health care concerns, I do think that it will increase the burden on some people, but overall the goal is to reduce the costs of healthcare to the nation by making it available to all and more importantly by reducing the number of people that cannot make healthcare payments.
The way I see health care in the US is that it is inherently loss making unless people just don't fall sick at all. Insurance companies will obviously try to avoid making payments because that cuts into their profits and when people cannot make those payments themselves, they cause problems by declaring bankruptcy etc etc.
With the health care law, Obama is trying to make everyone pay a little more so that health insurance companies get money but at the same time making sure that they are also forced to provide more healthcare to everyone.
Apparently the thinking is like this: if you vote for someone who lost, then your vote "doesn't count." From that I conclude that since all the losers' votes votes didn't count, the winner is always unanimously elected. You can't get a stronger mandate than that, so it's our way of telling the winner that 100% of America agrees with them on 100% of issues.
-- Incorrect, you are confusing between before and after the results. If the day before the results come out, it is very likely that your candidate is not going to get even 5% of the votes, then you may be throwing your vote away. I dont completely agree with this though. I just wanted to point out that your analogy is wrong.
To me, people who are voting third party/green etc. are seeders. If in this election there is some marginally significant voting for these 3rd/4th party candidates then other folks will take notice and maybe 1 or 2 elections down the line these parties will get some decent voting maybe enough to win. But until then the votes are wasted on this years election. Just my 2 cents.
Really, then why the hell are these paintings being developed? Why don't Europeans just drive properly through the black snow shit!
I am tired of the Europeans can drive nonsense. The US just has far more drivers and far more emphasis on driving a person vehicle as compared to other countries and hence it gets a bad name.
The point of this article is not that, the point in making these improvements is to remove any human errors out of the equation. Now what is the best way to provide current weather conditions to the driver. By painting the roads or via some technology in their car??
What happens when a really dirty set of tires goes over these markings on the road continuously? If they are not visible, will that lead to more accidents?
It seems like a "smarter" thing to do would be to somehow network these highways electronically or using WiFi or something so that you can then use the computer in your car or smartphone to get very localized information about the conditions on the road on which you are driving.
Is anyone really surprised with this report? I know people who have worked as "contractors" with H1 B and if you ever see the way these IT contracting companies exploit the system, you will be shocked.
It is a machinery in place in pretty much all of California and North East where folks that cannot get jobs here apply. Once they get in, they are given a quick training on some IT stuff and then their resumes are modified to make them look like "experts" in that area. After that they are fitted into companies mostly banks in NE and big companies like Cisco/IBM ( because there they are just 1 in a hundreds of thousands of employees and no one cares how they got in.) by way of contracting. Half of their pay is docked by the contract firms as part of the agreement and they are not given any health benefits.
But hey, with even what those people make, they somehow still survive. They would rather be here than go back!
This guy is acting like as if his son will be forced to take chemistry all his life.
There are some basic classes everyone takes and then as kids progress through school the curriculum becomes more and more flexible. Now if he is super interested in other classes I am sure he can point his kids towards simpler startup classes in coursera etc that might help. May be some thing is available for public speaking also.
Or he has the option of homeschooling his kid.
I agree with what you are saying. To begin with I HATE APPLE and their blind fans who believe Steve Jobs was nothing short of Christ or something. But there are some similarities (more than what you would expect) between Samsung and Apple phones. I mean no one is complaining about Lumia being similar to the Iphone! I know there are only so many designs you can come up with, but Samsung it seems wanted to make their products look similar to Apple to maybe become the second choice for people who wanted a similar looking product but not from Apple maybe? I dont know, this is just speculation but there is some truth to the statement that Samsung phone closely resemble the Iphone.
But ofcourse this is Slashdot and I am going to be modded down heavily and flamed for saying this!
You have no idea how hard it is for some people to tighten a screw on a tablet and how many different ways people will screw it up!
That said, I think a problem is a problem. It is not PCMag's fault that Nexus tablet has these issues. I dont think the new Apple Ipads had so many problems. I am sure there must have been a few, but I did not hear so many of them and with such consistency.
But I guess it is Google's first attempt at a tablet, so there will be some issues anyway.
Some lessons that I have learnt from being a developer the last few years: I hope some of them help. Some of them are tech and some are about work culture in general.
1) Developers make mistakes. Don't have a culture of trying to blame things on someone. If you do see problems you can bring it up with the team in general and try to figure out the how to prevent such issues in the future.
2) Try to have lots and lots of documentation. In fact make that as part of your code check in strategy or bring that up during code reviews.
3) Remote working facilities are a must. Most people I have worked with are starting families and need flexibility in work times. Having flexible start and end times and ways to take meetings from home are super helpful.
4) Lastly respect your developers. A good word thrown in occasionally does not hurt. The people I see around me have all put in a lot of effort beyond the usual to get a product out successfully, however, the congratulatory emails always go to the managers with a word for the developers thrown in. A good product really needs a smart and experienced developer. If you keep a culture where your developers hang around because they like to work there, code maintenance becomes much easier.
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The more important matter is how much are they being used, especially to "socialize" as compared to facebook? I mean Google forces you to be a Google+ user pretty much if you use any of their services - Gmail, Picasa etc. What are the ad revenues on these services? What is the frequency of posts per user?
Are there infinite ways to screw grammar while creating password? I would think there are certain patterns in which people mis-use grammar. I would imagine though that at some point if every one started using bad grammar styles for constructing passwords, that those patterns would become identifiable and then someone would put together a password cracker that would deal with poor-grammar-filled passwords as well right? I couldn't find the exact paper to read but the example on the website "ihave3cats" seems to be a like a language thing that can be identified at some point by some urban dictionary reader!
Overseas ofcourse. Doesen't anyone think about these things? What is the cost of electricity in China/India compared to the US?
Exactly, gun control does not reduce violent crime, it makes it less deadlier http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/01/gun_violence_summit_at_johns_hopkins_researchers_present_data_and_analyses.html
I thnk some of the answers are in the article already now that I read it. Still, the study is pretty non-eye-opening with the exception that it debunks the usual myth about pot smokers. I have had lots of friends over the years here in California who smoked pot and they definitely did not get any dumber with that. Ofcourse, that is just my observation.
How about whether high IQ folks are more likely to smoke pot or dumb ones? That would also be an interesting study. Does pot smoking have enough of a stigma attached to it that people who are considered "smarter" are less likely to smoke it. Also, how does it compare with alcohol ? I did not read TFA btw!
I have some rules that I try and follow to make sure I am getting some exercise while working: I have a small timer/stopwatch clock in my office and I set it for 50 minutes. Every time it reaches 50 minutes, I get up and go get a glass of water from the opposite end of the office. Any time I have to use the bathroom, I try to use the one farthest away. I try to park my car a little far away from the office unless the weather is bad or something. If I can avoid using the phone, I make it a point to go to people's desks and talk to them or ask them whatever I want to know. I drink 2 to 3 cups of coffee during working and with each cup I also drink a glass of water. This pretty much ensures I will be active and taking bath room breaks often. You can adjust your coffee depending on how often you have to use the bathroom I guess. Usually, either after lunch or if I am feeling tired or sleepy, I try to go out, weather permitting, and take a brisk 5-10 min walk around the parking lot.
Please mod parent up. The GP has no idea of what WDS is! WDS is like having 2 APs with an wireless "ethernet" connection between them in addition to regular clients. But because it uses the same radios for WDS connection and client connections you lose bandwidth.
You started off on the right track but then towards the end your reply sounds more like it is the fault of the US that an average Indian student is not up to par or something. Again, I did not want to generalize all Indian workers,, I have met some here, a lot of them are brilliant and hardworking, but it seems like there are far too many Indian engineers available to do the jobs at cheap prices simply because due to the culture in India, most guys (almost forcibly) seem to end up in a few fields. This was actually mentioned by Indians who work here. That was a culture difference I was talking about. You accused me of generalizing, yet you point out that Americans are not willing to work hard or long hours ? I have plently of American friends who dis-agree with that statement. I think that also is part of the cultural difference between Indians and Americans whereby Americans seem to be more willing to express their dis-comfort over being "exploited" a lot. I have seen that culture in San Jose as well. Indian engineers are always willing (almost forcibly) during Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays. Regarding conditions in India, why do you think that just because Americans have big houses means they are always happy. We have our own issues to deal with. They may not be issues like starvation etc that are seen in other countries but we do have personal and work issues here as well. You think sending kids to colleges here is easy in the US? Have you seen the tuitions of any good colleges these days?
I understand that IBM wants to cut costs but with this scale work force migration to India, is that going to affect product quality ? I have worked with a ton of folks from India and I have absolutely nothing against Indians but I do see a difference in skill levels between American engineering grads and Indians (apart from those who come from the top institutions in India like IIT etc.) Most folks from India I have worked with are very sincere but they do not have a good understand of underlying concepts. Dont get me wrong, they are always willing to pick up, but there is always a ramp up time. My gut feeling is that since most guys in India opt for Engineering/Science backgrounds, sometimes we get folks that do not have their hearts genuinely in it.(I am sure there are folks who will show me that I am wrong about this.) The thing that is great about them is that they are willing to work night and day to get things done, but again that leads to patch work kind of solutions. Coming back to the main topic, has IBM had to undergo changes in its management style for India? Has quality been affected adversely or has it been better lately? There is also another thing about India. As good as the workers are in India, the government and the process itself can be a big hurdle. When you have to bribe 15 officials for every little expansion project, things can very easily get tied up in the bureaucratic process. How long is this effort going to be sustainable?
Actually, it is the other way around. If you look at major commercial news polling sites, their job is not to tell you who is winning, their job is to tell you that the elections are close. If they don't do that most people won't visit their sites and their traffic will be down. Nate Silver on the other just takes their data and is really just seeing an Obama victory from the same results, instead of calling the results close or whatever!
Romney is not just hard to pin down, he is like a pin in a haystack. I cannot for the life of me, figure out what will Romney do when/if he becomes president. Most of the times I have seen him wiggle with his plans that I cannot even label him as Republican so much. With Obama, I have seen at least a desire to fix things. It is hard to blame all that is wrong with our country today on just Obama, I have seen numerous examples of congressmen not budging from their 50 year old ideas to work with Obama at all which I think is just because he is not from the same race as most of them. Regarding your health care concerns, I do think that it will increase the burden on some people, but overall the goal is to reduce the costs of healthcare to the nation by making it available to all and more importantly by reducing the number of people that cannot make healthcare payments. The way I see health care in the US is that it is inherently loss making unless people just don't fall sick at all. Insurance companies will obviously try to avoid making payments because that cuts into their profits and when people cannot make those payments themselves, they cause problems by declaring bankruptcy etc etc. With the health care law, Obama is trying to make everyone pay a little more so that health insurance companies get money but at the same time making sure that they are also forced to provide more healthcare to everyone.
Your answer was the only sensible one among the ones above and you actually provided a reason for going with one tech vs. the other- bravo!!
Apparently the thinking is like this: if you vote for someone who lost, then your vote "doesn't count." From that I conclude that since all the losers' votes votes didn't count, the winner is always unanimously elected. You can't get a stronger mandate than that, so it's our way of telling the winner that 100% of America agrees with them on 100% of issues. -- Incorrect, you are confusing between before and after the results. If the day before the results come out, it is very likely that your candidate is not going to get even 5% of the votes, then you may be throwing your vote away. I dont completely agree with this though. I just wanted to point out that your analogy is wrong. To me, people who are voting third party/green etc. are seeders. If in this election there is some marginally significant voting for these 3rd/4th party candidates then other folks will take notice and maybe 1 or 2 elections down the line these parties will get some decent voting maybe enough to win. But until then the votes are wasted on this years election. Just my 2 cents.
Really, then why the hell are these paintings being developed? Why don't Europeans just drive properly through the black snow shit! I am tired of the Europeans can drive nonsense. The US just has far more drivers and far more emphasis on driving a person vehicle as compared to other countries and hence it gets a bad name. The point of this article is not that, the point in making these improvements is to remove any human errors out of the equation. Now what is the best way to provide current weather conditions to the driver. By painting the roads or via some technology in their car??
What happens when a really dirty set of tires goes over these markings on the road continuously? If they are not visible, will that lead to more accidents? It seems like a "smarter" thing to do would be to somehow network these highways electronically or using WiFi or something so that you can then use the computer in your car or smartphone to get very localized information about the conditions on the road on which you are driving.
Is anyone really surprised with this report? I know people who have worked as "contractors" with H1 B and if you ever see the way these IT contracting companies exploit the system, you will be shocked. It is a machinery in place in pretty much all of California and North East where folks that cannot get jobs here apply. Once they get in, they are given a quick training on some IT stuff and then their resumes are modified to make them look like "experts" in that area. After that they are fitted into companies mostly banks in NE and big companies like Cisco/IBM ( because there they are just 1 in a hundreds of thousands of employees and no one cares how they got in.) by way of contracting. Half of their pay is docked by the contract firms as part of the agreement and they are not given any health benefits. But hey, with even what those people make, they somehow still survive. They would rather be here than go back!
I could only get Hemos, CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco.
This guy is acting like as if his son will be forced to take chemistry all his life. There are some basic classes everyone takes and then as kids progress through school the curriculum becomes more and more flexible. Now if he is super interested in other classes I am sure he can point his kids towards simpler startup classes in coursera etc that might help. May be some thing is available for public speaking also. Or he has the option of homeschooling his kid.
Well, the author did work at Stanford before so maybe that's why Stanford is getting credit for this study?
Maybe this one, not sure though - http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/facpubs/473/ The author is from Santa Clara and not Stanford
Now instead of burning coal we are using shitty methods to create natural gas that will pollute our waters.
I agree with what you are saying. To begin with I HATE APPLE and their blind fans who believe Steve Jobs was nothing short of Christ or something. But there are some similarities (more than what you would expect) between Samsung and Apple phones. I mean no one is complaining about Lumia being similar to the Iphone! I know there are only so many designs you can come up with, but Samsung it seems wanted to make their products look similar to Apple to maybe become the second choice for people who wanted a similar looking product but not from Apple maybe? I dont know, this is just speculation but there is some truth to the statement that Samsung phone closely resemble the Iphone. But ofcourse this is Slashdot and I am going to be modded down heavily and flamed for saying this!
You have no idea how hard it is for some people to tighten a screw on a tablet and how many different ways people will screw it up! That said, I think a problem is a problem. It is not PCMag's fault that Nexus tablet has these issues. I dont think the new Apple Ipads had so many problems. I am sure there must have been a few, but I did not hear so many of them and with such consistency. But I guess it is Google's first attempt at a tablet, so there will be some issues anyway.
Some lessons that I have learnt from being a developer the last few years: I hope some of them help. Some of them are tech and some are about work culture in general. 1) Developers make mistakes. Don't have a culture of trying to blame things on someone. If you do see problems you can bring it up with the team in general and try to figure out the how to prevent such issues in the future. 2) Try to have lots and lots of documentation. In fact make that as part of your code check in strategy or bring that up during code reviews. 3) Remote working facilities are a must. Most people I have worked with are starting families and need flexibility in work times. Having flexible start and end times and ways to take meetings from home are super helpful. 4) Lastly respect your developers. A good word thrown in occasionally does not hurt. The people I see around me have all put in a lot of effort beyond the usual to get a product out successfully, however, the congratulatory emails always go to the managers with a word for the developers thrown in. A good product really needs a smart and experienced developer. If you keep a culture where your developers hang around because they like to work there, code maintenance becomes much easier.