Or, perhaps, the bar to work-from-home is so high, that once your employees cross it, they feel entitled to chill out? Mayhaps you should instead just/give/ them a day off?
I get my best, most-strategic work done when I'm not in the office and responding to the fire of the minute, and I earn 1:1 overtime, so if I need to chill out on a random friday, the door is open.
Hey, now, some folks live in DC; as opposed to the politicians who camp here for the nicer parts of the year, muck up local politics (so easy when the folks you're issuing policy for have no congressional vote, http://dcist.com/2012/05/on_constituent_day_rep_trent_franks.php ), and give the whole place a bad name. If you're going to brand us as the district of corruption, at least take a jab at our mayoral snafus.
Mod parent up; from the page itself: "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. [...] These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is a more popular browser. Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over many years, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends."
So, w3schools showed IE at ~34% in 2010, so perhaps in a few more years, it will be down to 17% more broadly.
I think I'm supposed to come back all frothing-at-the-mouth, but you make a solid point; we're not quite there yet. However, we are increasingly willingly allowing absolutely insane levels of our personal information to be tracked, collated, and traded around. It gets to be a slippery slope if the advertising data ever connects with the credit industry (Gee, Tommy, your credit score is pretty good right now. Here's an ad for a huge package-deal vacation you can finance with your very own credit card!).
The government may have some horribly annoying and privacy-ignoring programs (Yes, TSA, we're talking about you), but by and large is too bureaucratic and full of a mix of People Who Believe in Democracy and People Who Believe in Paperwork to get to 1984. The corporate world, however, is getting too creepy and untethered to civil-society controls (regulation, whistle-blowing) for my liking. Sure, someone abusing the system would cause an uproar; but every ad-buyer abusing our privacy - but within the terms of service we clicked through at some point - won't cause a stir at all.
So what does a hand with the middle finger only pointed straight up do, remote wise?
A) Skip to the next ad B) Vote the ad down to improve ratings C) Report you to the nearest business plan and marketing compliance association of america? (BPMCAA, formed by a merger of RIAA and MPAA?) D) All of the above.
"The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. [...] The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.[...] It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. "
Does it close the doors on the way out and patch the various exploits it used to get in to the system in the first place, or does it just leave the system ripe for future re-exploitation by the same or similar tools?
In other news, over in Oz - the man who was behind the curtain is not only unimportant, but not there now, so please stop looking.
I wouldn't count it out yet. Ubuntu+Unity is one damned slick OS. Now, will it overtake windows? Not in the near future, to be sure, but I definitely see the role for Linux on tablets and netbooks as primed and ready. Unity is clearly structured for a touch+voice interface.
As a Texan, I somewhat resent this statement. Some of us were lucky enough to have parents who valued education, despite the State's constant de-funding of it.
Also, there are dumbasses everywhere in "amercia" it would seem.
Alternatively, it's been approximately a decade since I went past the first page of google results. Siri basically gives you the same result as "I'm feeling lucky," but we don't actually want google.com to hide all of the second-run results.
My entire tech team is full of people with liberal arts undergrad degrees (Classics, Philosophy, Humanities), and equally non-techy advanced degrees (International Policy, Journalism). You need to find the right team to connect with. Look in non-traditional spots for jobs; interesting non-profits who need generalists, thinktanks who could use your research skills as well as some coding skills, startups who need your psychology chops to help with marketing and your coding chops to build what they manage to sell. That being said, make sure your self-taught programming is top-notch; audit some courses and find some mentors as you go along to help you not only write beautiful code, but understand the architecture.
Overall, you just need one first employer to bite, and everything after that is built in to "or equivalent experience"
Way to drive home the stereotype that the only value for bitcoins is for anarchists and terrorists. Some of us would actually like to see a functional, non-fiat currency that doesn't raise the ire of governments such that they seek to shut it down.
That brings up another interesting alternative - don't try and get rid of pennies by having banks collect then and not provide them out as change, but simply stop producing them.
Regardless, making nickles cheaper that 11 cents per to make seems to be... well, kinda obvious?
What Brick-and-mortar store can hope to compete with the internet for commodity-level components? It's not even fair to hope they would. I mean, cmon - Best Buy stocks even-further-overpriced Monster Cables as their entry-level cable. I don't fault the Shack for seeking higher rungs on the value chain. And I'm hardly a fan of either the Shack ("You have questions, we have blank stares") or Best Buy ("Best means most expensive!"). But, I do fear for the complete loss of generalist tech stores. A book is a book is a book, but when deciding between tablets or notebook PCs, or the like, actual interaction with the device answers a gazillion questions that don't seem to have answers on websites.
So, let me try to get this straight. Is Zuckerberg complaining about a corporation that facebook is compelled to interact with using facebook's "personal" data in ways that, while protected by his terms of agreement with said corporation, are disliked and overly revealing, and he wishes they would stop or at least have explicitly asked him first?
So, I have to admit I'm a hater on Unity; it really is not meeting my needs. However - I'm very excited that Ubuntu is innovating here - Apple is beginning to stagnate, Microsoft, well, let's see 8. Ubuntu is leading some exciting discussion in user interface, and even if they make some mistakes, I'm excited that they're doing something.
I'd also appreciate lower rankings for sites that have invasive pop-over ads (and surveys) interfering with my access to content. These have been better of recent at sneaking through adblock.
I'd also loooove to eliminate more of the craptastic content aggregation sites fro search.
The path this opens, though, is "google reduces rankings for sites that use non-google ad engines." I'm pretty sure google is smart enough not to do that explicitly, but this is certainly a step towards that with a hat-tip towards user happiness.
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Or, perhaps, the bar to work-from-home is so high, that once your employees cross it, they feel entitled to chill out? Mayhaps you should instead just /give/ them a day off?
I get my best, most-strategic work done when I'm not in the office and responding to the fire of the minute, and I earn 1:1 overtime, so if I need to chill out on a random friday, the door is open.
Hey, now, some folks live in DC; as opposed to the politicians who camp here for the nicer parts of the year, muck up local politics (so easy when the folks you're issuing policy for have no congressional vote, http://dcist.com/2012/05/on_constituent_day_rep_trent_franks.php ), and give the whole place a bad name. If you're going to brand us as the district of corruption, at least take a jab at our mayoral snafus.
The underlying question is why, for the love of all that is good in this world, would you eat at a McDonald's in France?
Mod parent up; from the page itself: "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. [...] These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is a more popular browser. Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over many years, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends."
So, w3schools showed IE at ~34% in 2010, so perhaps in a few more years, it will be down to 17% more broadly.
I'm not sure that Stuxnet and Flame getting revealed means that we've gotten to the bottom of this particular rabbit hole.
I think I'm supposed to come back all frothing-at-the-mouth, but you make a solid point; we're not quite there yet. However, we are increasingly willingly allowing absolutely insane levels of our personal information to be tracked, collated, and traded around. It gets to be a slippery slope if the advertising data ever connects with the credit industry (Gee, Tommy, your credit score is pretty good right now. Here's an ad for a huge package-deal vacation you can finance with your very own credit card!).
The government may have some horribly annoying and privacy-ignoring programs (Yes, TSA, we're talking about you), but by and large is too bureaucratic and full of a mix of People Who Believe in Democracy and People Who Believe in Paperwork to get to 1984. The corporate world, however, is getting too creepy and untethered to civil-society controls (regulation, whistle-blowing) for my liking. Sure, someone abusing the system would cause an uproar; but every ad-buyer abusing our privacy - but within the terms of service we clicked through at some point - won't cause a stir at all.
So what does a hand with the middle finger only pointed straight up do, remote wise?
A) Skip to the next ad
B) Vote the ad down to improve ratings
C) Report you to the nearest business plan and marketing compliance association of america? (BPMCAA, formed by a merger of RIAA and MPAA?)
D) All of the above.
"The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. [...] The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.[...] It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. "
Via http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
Does it close the doors on the way out and patch the various exploits it used to get in to the system in the first place, or does it just leave the system ripe for future re-exploitation by the same or similar tools?
In other news, over in Oz - the man who was behind the curtain is not only unimportant, but not there now, so please stop looking.
I wouldn't count it out yet. Ubuntu+Unity is one damned slick OS. Now, will it overtake windows? Not in the near future, to be sure, but I definitely see the role for Linux on tablets and netbooks as primed and ready. Unity is clearly structured for a touch+voice interface.
As a Texan, I somewhat resent this statement. Some of us were lucky enough to have parents who valued education, despite the State's constant de-funding of it.
Also, there are dumbasses everywhere in "amercia" it would seem.
... I dunno, there could be an intelligent discussion on this topic, but obviously not here at slashdot. Most of the posts are completely reactionary.
No they're not!
Alternatively, it's been approximately a decade since I went past the first page of google results. Siri basically gives you the same result as "I'm feeling lucky," but we don't actually want google.com to hide all of the second-run results.
I would at least consider buying it, if Sony would promise not to sue me if I actually used it.
My entire tech team is full of people with liberal arts undergrad degrees (Classics, Philosophy, Humanities), and equally non-techy advanced degrees (International Policy, Journalism). You need to find the right team to connect with. Look in non-traditional spots for jobs; interesting non-profits who need generalists, thinktanks who could use your research skills as well as some coding skills, startups who need your psychology chops to help with marketing and your coding chops to build what they manage to sell. That being said, make sure your self-taught programming is top-notch; audit some courses and find some mentors as you go along to help you not only write beautiful code, but understand the architecture.
Overall, you just need one first employer to bite, and everything after that is built in to "or equivalent experience"
Way to drive home the stereotype that the only value for bitcoins is for anarchists and terrorists. Some of us would actually like to see a functional, non-fiat currency that doesn't raise the ire of governments such that they seek to shut it down.
That brings up another interesting alternative - don't try and get rid of pennies by having banks collect then and not provide them out as change, but simply stop producing them.
Regardless, making nickles cheaper that 11 cents per to make seems to be ... well, kinda obvious?
What Brick-and-mortar store can hope to compete with the internet for commodity-level components? It's not even fair to hope they would. I mean, cmon - Best Buy stocks even-further-overpriced Monster Cables as their entry-level cable. I don't fault the Shack for seeking higher rungs on the value chain. And I'm hardly a fan of either the Shack ("You have questions, we have blank stares") or Best Buy ("Best means most expensive!"). But, I do fear for the complete loss of generalist tech stores. A book is a book is a book, but when deciding between tablets or notebook PCs, or the like, actual interaction with the device answers a gazillion questions that don't seem to have answers on websites.
So, let me try to get this straight. Is Zuckerberg complaining about a corporation that facebook is compelled to interact with using facebook's "personal" data in ways that, while protected by his terms of agreement with said corporation, are disliked and overly revealing, and he wishes they would stop or at least have explicitly asked him first?
To that, sir, I say, suck it.
Except that the mass gained by him was transferred from the food that he ate, and not created from outer space.
Well, that depends on your diet, now doesn't it?
I'm wondering if you're just being sarcastic about Guantanamo bay. Ironically, Americana don't really do irony.
Oh no, in fact, we embrace irony.
So, I have to admit I'm a hater on Unity; it really is not meeting my needs. However - I'm very excited that Ubuntu is innovating here - Apple is beginning to stagnate, Microsoft, well, let's see 8. Ubuntu is leading some exciting discussion in user interface, and even if they make some mistakes, I'm excited that they're doing something.
I'd also appreciate lower rankings for sites that have invasive pop-over ads (and surveys) interfering with my access to content. These have been better of recent at sneaking through adblock.
I'd also loooove to eliminate more of the craptastic content aggregation sites fro search.
The path this opens, though, is "google reduces rankings for sites that use non-google ad engines." I'm pretty sure google is smart enough not to do that explicitly, but this is certainly a step towards that with a hat-tip towards user happiness.
By your logic, why then do pirates get sued for the full commercial value of each copy of a song they have?