Do you have a source? According to Business Insider, the mantle is held by World of Warcraft (> $10 billion), but that may be unfair since it is a subscription model at $15 a month, on top of the inital $50-$100 dollar purchase (look at original WoW at $50, then 4 expansions at $40 a piece, worst case). Take a step back to console/pc single purchase, and it's CoD: Black Ops at $1.5 Billion. Or maybe the crown goes to GTA 5, which topped $1 Billion in sales in 3 days.
Or you could mean total sales. I see on wikipedia Wii Sports as the best with almost 83 million copies sold. Unless you look at the numbers released by Amazon.co.uk, which has the CoD franchise taking the cake. Or you could mean fastest selling, which was CoD: Black Ops. Though sales numbers don't really mean a whole lot, since they don't take development cost into account, or the fact that Wii Sports was bundled (i.e. how many were independant purchases? how many could have been?).
Lets take this a step further. I don't buy that this is simply a way to get Google to bend over a bit, there has to be more to this. Given that MS has a history of cut-throat tactics to ensure market share, I'm theorizing that this is going to be the start of another round of fighting with the *NIX community, including OSX.
Microsoft has turned it's war on Linux into a tradition, frequently claiming that assorted parts of Linux violate MS copyrights. The general response from the OSS community is "Put up for shut up." If this ruling is overturned, the battlespace changes. MS can claim rights to a lot of violations very easily. SMB, NTFS, and FAT all come to mind, I'm sure there are others. Of course, this door swings both ways, since Active Directory is basically LDAP with Kerberos and a few bells and whistles. Im sure Apple has incorporated or modified some software that belongs to MS, I know they've built on *NIX, since they are BSD based.
None of these OS companies have ever played nice with one another, it'll be interesting to see "Monkey Shit Fight '14: The Revenge"
When the CEO comes in and rambles about printers not working - then let him choose between printer and a penalty for not meeting deadline for project X.
What I've learned in my years in IT (about 12 total, 10 of those as an IT manager) is that you never go to a manager with only a problem. You go in with a problem and at least 3 well thought-out solutions. Waiting until some other shit hits the fan will only put you in a bad light and will show you are passive aggressive. Instead, give him your own hard numbers. Document the troubles and impacts, tell him how much of each persons average work week is spent on help desk calls and how late that made some big project X. Tell him how much time your programmers are spending helping other tasks. Then tell him how much time you put in in an average work week, and how much you would need to get everything done (i.e. if you're working over 50, that's grounds for 1/4 person. If instead you need over 50 to get the job done on time, ditto).
As a manager, it's your job to take care of your folks. Have a meeting with them and get their hard numbers, %time doing things, how late they anticipate things being, how many hours they work, etc... Then go in to the boss and tell him those facts and three possible solutions (for example): 1) We need X more bodies to do this and that. 2) We focus on the big projects and let help desk issues slip and miss deadlines or 3) We miss out on deadlines and opportunities because we have N hours per week dedicated to help desk work, when we should have Y.
This is why I can't watch shows like The Walking Dead, where zombies are really easy to kill. The level of infection would never reach 95% in a real world scenario where you are required to be infected (by bite or scratch) and killed for it to spread.
According to Wikipedia, the US has an active manpower of almost 1.5 million people. When mobilised, It is safe to assume they with training and equipment they can kill at least 5 a day, meaning the epidemic is over in less than a fortnight.
I think you are misunderstanding The Walking Dead and some human anatomy. Humans are remarkably easy to injure or kill, just look at the Black Friday deaths and injuries. In addition, the mythos of that particular series is that everyone is infected with whatever virus. A bite simply speeds up the process, any time anyone dies for any reason they become a zombie. Those 1.5 million people cannot cover the entire country effectively, but they may have some ground in major population centers. You are still facing a problem that it is any death for any reason, which happens pretty regularly in the US. I would imagine the scenario of Shaun of the Dead would be more likely than a George Romero movie, but it certainly wouldn't be over in a week. It would be more like the black plague, where you have to quickly dispose of the dead and "Double-Tap".
Did this same person complain over the HVAC system? The only way I'm aware of to get away from seeing cable trays is false floor or false ceiling. If you don't have that option, your only choice is to try to make the cable trays "pretty", which is more or less making it look like the HVAC with large metal trays... it's up to you if you want solid or mesh, and you could probably paint them... You could also get creative with panduit for running down support beams or walls, just integrate the colors and make sure the panduit is thick enough to accomodate more than you currently have, running new wire is a pain in the ass.
Assessments for drug responses carry the risks that patients relying on such tests may begin to self-manage their treatments through dose changes or even abandon certain therapies depending on the outcome of the assessment
I am a 23andme member and my genetic test showed that I am sensitive to warfarin. That's something I never knew before. If I ever get into a situation where that drug is used, having informed the doctor of this potential problem just might have saved my life. There is no possibility that this information could result in any harm, because if the doctor gives a lower than normal dose and it's not effective, he can simply give more.
First, it's not that the FDA wants a monopoly on genetic tests. Their interest is in the safety and education of the populous (queue conspiracy theorists). They focus on making sure the public is getting accurate, validated information on treatments/drugs that do only what they advertise.
Second, you are putting your trust into something that may or may not be peer-reviewed and ensured to be accurate. Just because your genetic makeup says you may have a sensitivity doesn't mean you actually do. Would you really risk not having a surgery if you discovered through a mail-order cheek swab that you "may be sensitive" to penicillin?
Third, sensitivities and allergens are certainly not something to be played with. The difference between mild rash to anaphylactic shock can be pretty small for some people and some allergens. I know people that are resistant to the standard anasthesias, and in some cases the only way to get them numb is to get dangerously close to an LD50 injection (sometimes an alternative doesn't work or is not available).
I'm not belittling the information that you received from them or that it may have been useful to you. What the FDA is doing is making sure that the claim of someones sensitivity to something is accurate and informative for that individual. Too many people out there will find out they are sensitive to wheat, then go out of their way to make sure not only do they not eat wheat, but they purge their houses of wheat, refuse to touch flour or wheat products, then start some non-profit organization to start feeding fear to the populous that wheat is a poison that must be purged.
I am no psychologist, so I decided to look up the terms. As it turns out,
DSM-IV doesn’t include a diagnosis called “psychopathy” or “sociopathy.” Instead, there is antisocial personality disorder, which overlaps with psychopathy but is not the same thing. (source)
. So to refer to psychopathy is to refer to a personality is to refer to a personality trait, not a psychological diagnosis. I also looked up malignant narcissism and found this:
Malignant narcissism is a theoretical, experimental diagnostic category. Narcissistic personality disorder, which is not associated with antisocial personality disorder, is found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), while malignant narcissism is not. As a hypothetical syndrome, malignant narcissism could include aspects of narcissistic personality disorder as well as paranoia. The importance of malignant narcissism and of projection as a defense mechanism has been confirmed in paranoia, as well as "the patient's vulnerability to malignant narcissistic regression".[1] However, projection is not associated with Narcissistic personality disorder.
So to refer to either is to use a widely publisized media terms and putting perceived labels on someones behavior. Note that neither of the terms have anything to do with "attention seeking". Also, in reading about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, there is nothing to suggest that those individuals are violent or show a lack of empathy toward others. Instead, they are envious, have a sense of entitlement, and crave admiration and approval from others. Getting back to the original article, what he noticed was similarities between his brains composition and that of known some "psychopaths" (those with Antisocial Personality Disorder). He also noticed through introspection that he exhibits some well-known behavioral traits. Does that truly make him a "psychopath"? Probably not. From the first quoted article "Renowned psychopathy researcher Robert Hare notes that “psychopathy is dimensional (i.e., more or less), not categorical (i.e., either or).”
Like one of my psych professors said "Everyone has every psychological disease, it's just to what extent do they have it."
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At least Xbox One has CD playback functionality, which PS4 doesn't...:P
You know, I was in the market for a $500 cd player that I could talk to. Somehow pushing buttons on devices I already have just felt so impersonal.
The real question is at what point do these ideas become "common knowledge" enough that the patent should be no more. After all, every TV is rectangular in shape, with button (touch) controls in the lower right or right hand side. That's right, this is the USA where the patents are made up and the durations don't matter.
There's a good argument for getting a certification, but only certain ones. For example, most major contractors as well as the DoD look to Security+ or the CISSP. It provides a common ground for all IT focused personnel and ensures they have a strong knowledge base. Is it closed minded? Definitely. A Masters in CS, CE or even an MBA (with IT focus) will be completely ignored, even if the individual proves to someone with a CISSP that they know their stuff. However, the CS program is different than CE is different than MBA, and certainly differs from school to school.
IT has certifications. Medicine has certifications. Education has certifications. Child care has certifications. Some of those are used in conjunction with degrees and further pad the salary, others are used to ensure that the person has had training commensurate with the duties they are/will be performing. In others, failure to have a certification or ability to acquire it is grounds for legal action or termination.
If not for a certification, how would you propose that I, as an employer for a large corporation, filter through the 1000s of resumes coming across my desk without having to interview every single person?
While you are spot on for towing a boat or going on a hunting trip, there is still a pretty big market for sport trucks. Ford is getting back into the game to compete with the Dodge SRT-10 and Toyota Tacoma (Formerly X-Runner, now SR). It can be seen as a continuation of their SVT Lightning line of F-150's. While not in as big of numbers as the giant 4x4's that no one seems to use for anything other than daily driver (around here, anyway), I do see a lot of lowered, sport-tuned trucks. If the Model S is any indication of how a Tesla Truck would behave, they may have a pretty easy time catering to the sport truck crowd.
Despite it being a couple days later, I just thought I'd point this out to you. Romney isn't as deathly opposed to Obamacare as you make it out to be. He signed a state-level healthcare bill into law during his term as Governor of Mass. that is really a lot like Obamacare. His primary disagreement is he thinks it should be state-level.
You and I are in agreement with regard to who ends up in the Great White Daycare on capital hill, it is no longer by the people for the people, Senators no longer have to go home to tend to crops and see how the general populous lives. They no longer represent the community interest. That's exactly why I made the crayon picture to put on the fridge analogy.
This could be a good thing if they have a HUGE parallel farm for compiling. Let my app compile in 2.4 seconds on their supercomputer farm instead of taking 20 minutes here on my laptop would be a huge thing.
microsoft might be on to something if they eliminate the #1 time waster, waiting for a compile.
Oh come now, compiling can't really be your #1 time waster. There's a whole bunch of other good ones out there, like Software Load times (MS Office, Visual Studio), Solitaire, and Slashdot.
While I applaud what Canonical did in make Linux more usable and available to the masses, they have become increasingly more like-minded with Microsoft. They didn't like Gnome or KDE, so they went off and built their own Unity desktop (which I find unusable and annoying as hell). They didn't like X and the upcoming Wayland, so they started in with Mir. While these things are still open source, they are treating it more as their own baby and not playing nicely with others anymore. "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
I've found weekly stand-ups to be helpful, just make sure you are prepared for them. 10-15 min of the same content. Of course, any big blocks and walk in and say "boss, we gotta problem..."
Also, get this for your office.
As one of those people that love and hate steam, I must say it is nice to not have to deal with physical media and DRM. After all, most modern DRM is a phone-home that breaks onces the servers die. Steam, while still being an internet-connected application, can be run in offline mode and isn't incredibly intrusive. I have it running on my arcade cabinet that I keep disconnected from WiFi unless I need to update or download something. While I get a nag screen for being unable to connect (anyone know how to turn that off?), I'm able to play the games I legally bought for months without a connection, and updating them is as simple as activating WiFi.
Now if only Capcom would pull their heads out of their asses and stop with the GFWL AND Steam on their titles.....
Take that compulsory health care thing. When we heard the US is going to get something like that, a good deal of us pretty much thought something along the lines of "finally, it's been about time their politicians came to their senses and did something for the... wait, what? They do NOT want that?"
I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher last weekend, he had (almost Mayor) Weiner on there, and while the guy may not be socially savvy, he at least has a pretty good political mind. My favorite quote was during the debate on Obamacare where the Republican Rep (name doesn't matter, they're all Republemmings these days and few think for themselves) was reciting his parties lines, and Weiner quipped "It was a Republican idea, the Democrats just implemented it. Why do you have so much hate for your own good ideas?" There was also a comment in there about the way the parties respond to things, Republicans have this trend of shutting down and fighting every action done by the Democrats (i.e. Obamacare, or any of Obama's policies for that matter), while Democrats may not agree with a Republican (i.e. Bush), they don't do the same level of shutdown and public outcry. Neither party is perfect, they all act like spoiled children who want to be the one to create that crayon picture that mom (history) puts up on the fridge for all to see.
It is an interesting view on our society though. We want everything for nothing, we elect people who claim they are for the people but often are anything but (e.g. furlough, twice this year alone), and capitalism, capitalism, capitalism. The intent for our government was by the people, for the people, and Senate recess was supposed to be so the Senators could go home and tend their crops, to see how the people they are representing are doing. Instead we get this popularity contest of rich people who know how to say what people want to hear, and are so disconnected from the reality of the poor that when something comes along whose intent is to help everyone, there is so much bickering and mud throwing that the people lose.
On many phones the SD card is removable without shutting the phone down, which arguably makes it easy to swap and/or copy to/from a computer. Given that FAT is a de-facto standard for thumb-drives and assorted other SD cards (i.e. cameras and such), and that it is accessible by any OS, it's not that surprising. It would be interesting to see the profit/cost breakdown of some phones... if the "Microsoft Tax" is sufficiently low, we won't ever see a change unless some vendor gets greedy enough to make the change.
funny, I think android is about as bad as win95 or 3.x.
it sort of gets the job done, but its annoying and painful to try to work with.
I would not be so annoyed if android was the product of a 10 or 50 man company. but the 'mighty google'? I would expect nothing less than perfection and vision from such self-professed geniuses.
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I remember old windows and how annoying it was compared to old vax/vmx, unix and other os's of the ancient era. android gives me the same 'damn, they could have made it great but they didn't' feeling.
You must not have tried Cyanogenmod. Prior to flashing my phone with CM10 (Android 4.3), I was running 2.3.4 on my phone, loaded with AT&T crapware. My battery lasted maybe one day. Constantly whining about updates to the AT&T bloatware, using data behind the scenes to provide updates I didn't sign up for and didn't care about from AT&T, some google apps, and other nonsense they decided to throw on there. All the crap behind the scenes made my phone slow and unresponsive.
Since I loaded CM10 and got rid of all the vendor crapware, my phone is actually much faster and handles multitasking much better. I only occasionally have issues with cut and paste (depends on the app). Since I have root access, I threw on DroidWall and blocked all unwanted network traffic, data usage has gone down.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that what you get from AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint/Whoever is total crap and the phone manufacturers should be ashamed to have such shit software loaded on/associated with their phones. Google is an ad business, they make their money from the ads served by their servers, of course they are going to put them in, and yes, they are annoying... but that is also an app-by-app thing. The blame is not solely on Google, blame the providers, manufacturers, and app developers who for some ungodly reason want to make money from their work.
At that point (if you're "into" that stuff), doing this becomes merely thought crime. I haven't done the research into whether this increases or reduces the risk of actually physical incidents (I hope it would reduce the drive for gratification in the illegal ways drastically) but it could be a boon for a host of people and move a lot of law enforcement activity to other exploitation of humans.
I think this is the crux of the issue and many will argue that it will escalate in the same way as an addiction might, that more and more is needed for a "fix". I'm sure there is a psychological term for it and it'll be the focus of many arguments.
Just look at this sick bastard. It started off with imagery and "thought crimes", then for this guy it turned more real. He started getting movies, talking to others, plotting, buying equipment. That's not saying that every person will turn out to be the same kind of nutjob, there's bound to be folks out there that are just plain curious. I'd lean toward escalation, it starts with one cigarette, ends in 2-packs a day. A crime is a crime, but exactly where do you draw that line? Is it that first communication? is it when money is brought up? is it when certain words are exchanged? is it when a time/place are set up?
They should have had the NSA do it. I hear they are quite good a building large systems.
Nah, the NSA isn'y intersted in decoupling your HIPAA information from your phone records, contacts, education, bathroom habits/timing, favorite restaurants, phone settings, pets names, etc...
But the main point is that this corporate officer is twisting company policy to his personal benefit of $77 million/yr and the majority of owners of the company don't like him screwing around with their investment that way.
What? A CEO abusing the system to get more pay? Sayitisn'tso. Who would ever do that? Certainly no one as saintly as Steve Jobs?
I was going to leave it at "Don't innovate, litigate!" but then realized there's more to this.
We all know Steve Job's hated android with a passion. It is still the iPhones biggest competition. They noticed that an open source platform, with it's hundreds/thousands of contributers is going to move and adapt much more quickly than whatever team they can afford to pay. Apple has a great think tank (though not as good with the passing of St. Jobs), but even they can't come up with something so fresh and new that the legion of android wouldn't be able to build a competitor rapidly... much more rapidly than their annual "yes, but this iDevice is 5% shinier!".
At first MS had the iPhone hate due it it whipping the pants off their Windows Mobile nonsense. They too see that a competitor has a massive market share, and their own offerings (with sub-par app choices) just can't compete. They still don't get that people use their phones in different ways than computers and their vendor lock-in with "yes, but we have office!" (on the surface/RT at least) just isn't going to get all those young adults/teens/preteens hot and bothered about Windows phone.
Then we can take a step back and look at what the competition is really like. Apple with their $600 "but it's shiny" iPhone and walled garden with plenty of apps. MS, with their handful of Windows Phone devices and (by comparison) tiny app market for reasonable prices, or Android that has plenty of apps, is more customizable (for those that do), and is cheaper to produce due to no licensing fees.
The market has spoken for itself, the "little guys" have run out of ideas to attract the populous, so now they are lashing out at their competitor. Little do they realize that the whole Apple/Samsung campaign tarnished that once golden sheen of Apple's doors. We can only hope that something like the Streisand effect kicks in and a negative public image for companies behaving like children starts becoming a deterrent for these kinds of tactics. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Google and their constant data mining on everything, but given the choices, I'd rather go with Android than the Reality Distortion Market or Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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Do you have a source? According to Business Insider, the mantle is held by World of Warcraft (> $10 billion), but that may be unfair since it is a subscription model at $15 a month, on top of the inital $50-$100 dollar purchase (look at original WoW at $50, then 4 expansions at $40 a piece, worst case). Take a step back to console/pc single purchase, and it's CoD: Black Ops at $1.5 Billion. Or maybe the crown goes to GTA 5, which topped $1 Billion in sales in 3 days.
Or you could mean total sales. I see on wikipedia Wii Sports as the best with almost 83 million copies sold. Unless you look at the numbers released by Amazon.co.uk, which has the CoD franchise taking the cake. Or you could mean fastest selling, which was CoD: Black Ops. Though sales numbers don't really mean a whole lot, since they don't take development cost into account, or the fact that Wii Sports was bundled (i.e. how many were independant purchases? how many could have been?).
The goggles! They do nothing!
Lets take this a step further. I don't buy that this is simply a way to get Google to bend over a bit, there has to be more to this. Given that MS has a history of cut-throat tactics to ensure market share, I'm theorizing that this is going to be the start of another round of fighting with the *NIX community, including OSX.
Microsoft has turned it's war on Linux into a tradition, frequently claiming that assorted parts of Linux violate MS copyrights. The general response from the OSS community is "Put up for shut up." If this ruling is overturned, the battlespace changes. MS can claim rights to a lot of violations very easily. SMB, NTFS, and FAT all come to mind, I'm sure there are others. Of course, this door swings both ways, since Active Directory is basically LDAP with Kerberos and a few bells and whistles. Im sure Apple has incorporated or modified some software that belongs to MS, I know they've built on *NIX, since they are BSD based.
None of these OS companies have ever played nice with one another, it'll be interesting to see "Monkey Shit Fight '14: The Revenge"
When the CEO comes in and rambles about printers not working - then let him choose between printer and a penalty for not meeting deadline for project X.
What I've learned in my years in IT (about 12 total, 10 of those as an IT manager) is that you never go to a manager with only a problem. You go in with a problem and at least 3 well thought-out solutions. Waiting until some other shit hits the fan will only put you in a bad light and will show you are passive aggressive. Instead, give him your own hard numbers. Document the troubles and impacts, tell him how much of each persons average work week is spent on help desk calls and how late that made some big project X. Tell him how much time your programmers are spending helping other tasks. Then tell him how much time you put in in an average work week, and how much you would need to get everything done (i.e. if you're working over 50, that's grounds for 1/4 person. If instead you need over 50 to get the job done on time, ditto).
As a manager, it's your job to take care of your folks. Have a meeting with them and get their hard numbers, %time doing things, how late they anticipate things being, how many hours they work, etc... Then go in to the boss and tell him those facts and three possible solutions (for example): 1) We need X more bodies to do this and that. 2) We focus on the big projects and let help desk issues slip and miss deadlines or 3) We miss out on deadlines and opportunities because we have N hours per week dedicated to help desk work, when we should have Y.
This is why I can't watch shows like The Walking Dead, where zombies are really easy to kill. The level of infection would never reach 95% in a real world scenario where you are required to be infected (by bite or scratch) and killed for it to spread.
According to Wikipedia, the US has an active manpower of almost 1.5 million people. When mobilised, It is safe to assume they with training and equipment they can kill at least 5 a day, meaning the epidemic is over in less than a fortnight.
I think you are misunderstanding The Walking Dead and some human anatomy. Humans are remarkably easy to injure or kill, just look at the Black Friday deaths and injuries. In addition, the mythos of that particular series is that everyone is infected with whatever virus. A bite simply speeds up the process, any time anyone dies for any reason they become a zombie. Those 1.5 million people cannot cover the entire country effectively, but they may have some ground in major population centers. You are still facing a problem that it is any death for any reason, which happens pretty regularly in the US. I would imagine the scenario of Shaun of the Dead would be more likely than a George Romero movie, but it certainly wouldn't be over in a week. It would be more like the black plague, where you have to quickly dispose of the dead and "Double-Tap".
Did this same person complain over the HVAC system? The only way I'm aware of to get away from seeing cable trays is false floor or false ceiling. If you don't have that option, your only choice is to try to make the cable trays "pretty", which is more or less making it look like the HVAC with large metal trays... it's up to you if you want solid or mesh, and you could probably paint them... You could also get creative with panduit for running down support beams or walls, just integrate the colors and make sure the panduit is thick enough to accomodate more than you currently have, running new wire is a pain in the ass.
Assessments for drug responses carry the risks that patients relying on such tests may begin to self-manage their treatments through dose changes or even abandon certain therapies depending on the outcome of the assessment
I am a 23andme member and my genetic test showed that I am sensitive to warfarin. That's something I never knew before. If I ever get into a situation where that drug is used, having informed the doctor of this potential problem just might have saved my life. There is no possibility that this information could result in any harm, because if the doctor gives a lower than normal dose and it's not effective, he can simply give more.
First, it's not that the FDA wants a monopoly on genetic tests. Their interest is in the safety and education of the populous (queue conspiracy theorists). They focus on making sure the public is getting accurate, validated information on treatments/drugs that do only what they advertise.
Second, you are putting your trust into something that may or may not be peer-reviewed and ensured to be accurate. Just because your genetic makeup says you may have a sensitivity doesn't mean you actually do. Would you really risk not having a surgery if you discovered through a mail-order cheek swab that you "may be sensitive" to penicillin?
Third, sensitivities and allergens are certainly not something to be played with. The difference between mild rash to anaphylactic shock can be pretty small for some people and some allergens. I know people that are resistant to the standard anasthesias, and in some cases the only way to get them numb is to get dangerously close to an LD50 injection (sometimes an alternative doesn't work or is not available).
I'm not belittling the information that you received from them or that it may have been useful to you. What the FDA is doing is making sure that the claim of someones sensitivity to something is accurate and informative for that individual. Too many people out there will find out they are sensitive to wheat, then go out of their way to make sure not only do they not eat wheat, but they purge their houses of wheat, refuse to touch flour or wheat products, then start some non-profit organization to start feeding fear to the populous that wheat is a poison that must be purged.
DSM-IV doesn’t include a diagnosis called “psychopathy” or “sociopathy.” Instead, there is antisocial personality disorder, which overlaps with psychopathy but is not the same thing. (source)
. So to refer to psychopathy is to refer to a personality is to refer to a personality trait, not a psychological diagnosis. I also looked up malignant narcissism and found this:
Malignant narcissism is a theoretical, experimental diagnostic category. Narcissistic personality disorder, which is not associated with antisocial personality disorder, is found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), while malignant narcissism is not. As a hypothetical syndrome, malignant narcissism could include aspects of narcissistic personality disorder as well as paranoia. The importance of malignant narcissism and of projection as a defense mechanism has been confirmed in paranoia, as well as "the patient's vulnerability to malignant narcissistic regression".[1] However, projection is not associated with Narcissistic personality disorder.
So to refer to either is to use a widely publisized media terms and putting perceived labels on someones behavior. Note that neither of the terms have anything to do with "attention seeking". Also, in reading about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, there is nothing to suggest that those individuals are violent or show a lack of empathy toward others. Instead, they are envious, have a sense of entitlement, and crave admiration and approval from others. Getting back to the original article, what he noticed was similarities between his brains composition and that of known some "psychopaths" (those with Antisocial Personality Disorder). He also noticed through introspection that he exhibits some well-known behavioral traits. Does that truly make him a "psychopath"? Probably not. From the first quoted article "Renowned psychopathy researcher Robert Hare notes that “psychopathy is dimensional (i.e., more or less), not categorical (i.e., either or).”
Like one of my psych professors said "Everyone has every psychological disease, it's just to what extent do they have it."
At least Xbox One has CD playback functionality, which PS4 doesn't... :P
You know, I was in the market for a $500 cd player that I could talk to. Somehow pushing buttons on devices I already have just felt so impersonal.
The real question is at what point do these ideas become "common knowledge" enough that the patent should be no more. After all, every TV is rectangular in shape, with button (touch) controls in the lower right or right hand side. That's right, this is the USA where the patents are made up and the durations don't matter.
There's a good argument for getting a certification, but only certain ones. For example, most major contractors as well as the DoD look to Security+ or the CISSP. It provides a common ground for all IT focused personnel and ensures they have a strong knowledge base. Is it closed minded? Definitely. A Masters in CS, CE or even an MBA (with IT focus) will be completely ignored, even if the individual proves to someone with a CISSP that they know their stuff. However, the CS program is different than CE is different than MBA, and certainly differs from school to school.
IT has certifications. Medicine has certifications. Education has certifications. Child care has certifications. Some of those are used in conjunction with degrees and further pad the salary, others are used to ensure that the person has had training commensurate with the duties they are/will be performing. In others, failure to have a certification or ability to acquire it is grounds for legal action or termination.
If not for a certification, how would you propose that I, as an employer for a large corporation, filter through the 1000s of resumes coming across my desk without having to interview every single person?
For those more mathematically inclined, there is a function relating engineering to business: The Limit as Engineering GPA approaches 0 = Business
While you are spot on for towing a boat or going on a hunting trip, there is still a pretty big market for sport trucks. Ford is getting back into the game to compete with the Dodge SRT-10 and Toyota Tacoma (Formerly X-Runner, now SR). It can be seen as a continuation of their SVT Lightning line of F-150's. While not in as big of numbers as the giant 4x4's that no one seems to use for anything other than daily driver (around here, anyway), I do see a lot of lowered, sport-tuned trucks. If the Model S is any indication of how a Tesla Truck would behave, they may have a pretty easy time catering to the sport truck crowd.
Despite it being a couple days later, I just thought I'd point this out to you. Romney isn't as deathly opposed to Obamacare as you make it out to be. He signed a state-level healthcare bill into law during his term as Governor of Mass. that is really a lot like Obamacare. His primary disagreement is he thinks it should be state-level.
You and I are in agreement with regard to who ends up in the Great White Daycare on capital hill, it is no longer by the people for the people, Senators no longer have to go home to tend to crops and see how the general populous lives. They no longer represent the community interest. That's exactly why I made the crayon picture to put on the fridge analogy.
This could be a good thing if they have a HUGE parallel farm for compiling. Let my app compile in 2.4 seconds on their supercomputer farm instead of taking 20 minutes here on my laptop would be a huge thing.
microsoft might be on to something if they eliminate the #1 time waster, waiting for a compile.
Oh come now, compiling can't really be your #1 time waster. There's a whole bunch of other good ones out there, like Software Load times (MS Office, Visual Studio), Solitaire, and Slashdot.
While I applaud what Canonical did in make Linux more usable and available to the masses, they have become increasingly more like-minded with Microsoft. They didn't like Gnome or KDE, so they went off and built their own Unity desktop (which I find unusable and annoying as hell). They didn't like X and the upcoming Wayland, so they started in with Mir. While these things are still open source, they are treating it more as their own baby and not playing nicely with others anymore. "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
I've found weekly stand-ups to be helpful, just make sure you are prepared for them. 10-15 min of the same content. Of course, any big blocks and walk in and say "boss, we gotta problem..." Also, get this for your office.
As one of those people that love and hate steam, I must say it is nice to not have to deal with physical media and DRM. After all, most modern DRM is a phone-home that breaks onces the servers die. Steam, while still being an internet-connected application, can be run in offline mode and isn't incredibly intrusive. I have it running on my arcade cabinet that I keep disconnected from WiFi unless I need to update or download something. While I get a nag screen for being unable to connect (anyone know how to turn that off?), I'm able to play the games I legally bought for months without a connection, and updating them is as simple as activating WiFi.
Now if only Capcom would pull their heads out of their asses and stop with the GFWL AND Steam on their titles.....
Take that compulsory health care thing. When we heard the US is going to get something like that, a good deal of us pretty much thought something along the lines of "finally, it's been about time their politicians came to their senses and did something for the ... wait, what? They do NOT want that?"
I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher last weekend, he had (almost Mayor) Weiner on there, and while the guy may not be socially savvy, he at least has a pretty good political mind. My favorite quote was during the debate on Obamacare where the Republican Rep (name doesn't matter, they're all Republemmings these days and few think for themselves) was reciting his parties lines, and Weiner quipped "It was a Republican idea, the Democrats just implemented it. Why do you have so much hate for your own good ideas?" There was also a comment in there about the way the parties respond to things, Republicans have this trend of shutting down and fighting every action done by the Democrats (i.e. Obamacare, or any of Obama's policies for that matter), while Democrats may not agree with a Republican (i.e. Bush), they don't do the same level of shutdown and public outcry. Neither party is perfect, they all act like spoiled children who want to be the one to create that crayon picture that mom (history) puts up on the fridge for all to see.
It is an interesting view on our society though. We want everything for nothing, we elect people who claim they are for the people but often are anything but (e.g. furlough, twice this year alone), and capitalism, capitalism, capitalism. The intent for our government was by the people, for the people, and Senate recess was supposed to be so the Senators could go home and tend their crops, to see how the people they are representing are doing. Instead we get this popularity contest of rich people who know how to say what people want to hear, and are so disconnected from the reality of the poor that when something comes along whose intent is to help everyone, there is so much bickering and mud throwing that the people lose.
On many phones the SD card is removable without shutting the phone down, which arguably makes it easy to swap and/or copy to/from a computer. Given that FAT is a de-facto standard for thumb-drives and assorted other SD cards (i.e. cameras and such), and that it is accessible by any OS, it's not that surprising. It would be interesting to see the profit/cost breakdown of some phones... if the "Microsoft Tax" is sufficiently low, we won't ever see a change unless some vendor gets greedy enough to make the change.
funny, I think android is about as bad as win95 or 3.x.
it sort of gets the job done, but its annoying and painful to try to work with.
I would not be so annoyed if android was the product of a 10 or 50 man company. but the 'mighty google'? I would expect nothing less than perfection and vision from such self-professed geniuses.
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I remember old windows and how annoying it was compared to old vax/vmx, unix and other os's of the ancient era. android gives me the same 'damn, they could have made it great but they didn't' feeling.
You must not have tried Cyanogenmod. Prior to flashing my phone with CM10 (Android 4.3), I was running 2.3.4 on my phone, loaded with AT&T crapware. My battery lasted maybe one day. Constantly whining about updates to the AT&T bloatware, using data behind the scenes to provide updates I didn't sign up for and didn't care about from AT&T, some google apps, and other nonsense they decided to throw on there. All the crap behind the scenes made my phone slow and unresponsive.
Since I loaded CM10 and got rid of all the vendor crapware, my phone is actually much faster and handles multitasking much better. I only occasionally have issues with cut and paste (depends on the app). Since I have root access, I threw on DroidWall and blocked all unwanted network traffic, data usage has gone down.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that what you get from AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint/Whoever is total crap and the phone manufacturers should be ashamed to have such shit software loaded on/associated with their phones. Google is an ad business, they make their money from the ads served by their servers, of course they are going to put them in, and yes, they are annoying... but that is also an app-by-app thing. The blame is not solely on Google, blame the providers, manufacturers, and app developers who for some ungodly reason want to make money from their work.
At that point (if you're "into" that stuff), doing this becomes merely thought crime. I haven't done the research into whether this increases or reduces the risk of actually physical incidents (I hope it would reduce the drive for gratification in the illegal ways drastically) but it could be a boon for a host of people and move a lot of law enforcement activity to other exploitation of humans.
I think this is the crux of the issue and many will argue that it will escalate in the same way as an addiction might, that more and more is needed for a "fix". I'm sure there is a psychological term for it and it'll be the focus of many arguments.
Just look at this sick bastard. It started off with imagery and "thought crimes", then for this guy it turned more real. He started getting movies, talking to others, plotting, buying equipment. That's not saying that every person will turn out to be the same kind of nutjob, there's bound to be folks out there that are just plain curious. I'd lean toward escalation, it starts with one cigarette, ends in 2-packs a day. A crime is a crime, but exactly where do you draw that line? Is it that first communication? is it when money is brought up? is it when certain words are exchanged? is it when a time/place are set up?
They should have had the NSA do it. I hear they are quite good a building large systems.
Nah, the NSA isn'y intersted in decoupling your HIPAA information from your phone records, contacts, education, bathroom habits/timing, favorite restaurants, phone settings, pets names, etc...
But the main point is that this corporate officer is twisting company policy to his personal benefit of $77 million/yr and the majority of owners of the company don't like him screwing around with their investment that way.
What? A CEO abusing the system to get more pay? Say it isn't so. Who would ever do that? Certainly no one as saintly as Steve Jobs?
We all know Steve Job's hated android with a passion. It is still the iPhones biggest competition. They noticed that an open source platform, with it's hundreds/thousands of contributers is going to move and adapt much more quickly than whatever team they can afford to pay. Apple has a great think tank (though not as good with the passing of St. Jobs), but even they can't come up with something so fresh and new that the legion of android wouldn't be able to build a competitor rapidly... much more rapidly than their annual "yes, but this iDevice is 5% shinier!".
At first MS had the iPhone hate due it it whipping the pants off their Windows Mobile nonsense. They too see that a competitor has a massive market share, and their own offerings (with sub-par app choices) just can't compete. They still don't get that people use their phones in different ways than computers and their vendor lock-in with "yes, but we have office!" (on the surface/RT at least) just isn't going to get all those young adults/teens/preteens hot and bothered about Windows phone.
Then we can take a step back and look at what the competition is really like. Apple with their $600 "but it's shiny" iPhone and walled garden with plenty of apps. MS, with their handful of Windows Phone devices and (by comparison) tiny app market for reasonable prices, or Android that has plenty of apps, is more customizable (for those that do), and is cheaper to produce due to no licensing fees.
The market has spoken for itself, the "little guys" have run out of ideas to attract the populous, so now they are lashing out at their competitor. Little do they realize that the whole Apple/Samsung campaign tarnished that once golden sheen of Apple's doors. We can only hope that something like the Streisand effect kicks in and a negative public image for companies behaving like children starts becoming a deterrent for these kinds of tactics. Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Google and their constant data mining on everything, but given the choices, I'd rather go with Android than the Reality Distortion Market or Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.