Than you are missing the point. If there were some kind of trigger in a video game, you'd see a lot more shootings happening, like one at every school across the country. The fact that ONE person had this problem and that video games might have put him in the state of violent rage, you really should be studying what causes that initial problem where a game can set off a trigger, as opposed to the trigger itself. I propose that had he enjoyed enough violent movies or books he might have also been pushed towards the same unstable state.
That's exactly CRCulver's point though, is that there is no correlation like that defined yet, and that making these speculations are completely useless because we won't know until we gather all the evidence. Addictive eating is often deeply rooted in forms of depression, and then it ends up being worse because they'll be even more depressed that they are gaining weight, and this feedback cycle seems far more prone to lead to suicide than simply someone reading a book. See how easy it is to turn any addictive activity into the worst one out there?
I think I'd need to see a link for that one. Mountain rescue helicopters are prepped for an emergency, they don't typically do routine patrols. They get a call, they take off, they go. They don't circle around in case the point of rescue is too far for the fuel that they've already used.
Yeah, I heard some guy talking about this big tournament, saying "there can only be one". I assume he meant winner, but, whatever, I wasn't really paying attention. His hair was too long for me to take him seriously.
A recent study showed that 100% of mass murderers ingested some form of dihydrogen monoxide within 48 hours of killing their victims. Warn your children about the dangerous effects of dihydrogen monoxide today!
This is just going to boil down to both of them showing each other the evidence they collected, no doubt in their own methodology, and someones going to say it went up by 0.1 celcius and he's going to show it went down by 0.1 celcius, and they've both got stacks of paper to prove it.
Set some actual parameters for this wager and it might actually be interesting, as it is, its just the same old BS thats been happening all along.
This is one thing I like about the Canadian Government. While its almost a 2 party system with the Liberals and Conservatives, There are a bunch of smaller parties like the New Democratic Party or the Green party that generally have few enough seats to sway a big vote here or there. And, if all else fails, and those big parties all happen to agree, you can bank on the Quebecois to disagree just for the sake of disagreeing, and rally behind them.
That boils down to the foundations of the theory of knowledge - I don't know if you are aware of the multiple cases where School Professor's have been caught teaching kids the Holocaust didn't happen, and that it was all made up to generate sympathy. That one person we generalyl trust to educate our children is just as potentially a bad source of information as a random person on the internet - we just don't know.
The only fundamental difference is that the internet has a much higher population than our regular local interactions, so those seeking to lie and deceive seem to occur more often online than offline. If people had supported something like Nupedia moreso in its beginning, you'd have that same collaborative effort you get at Wikipedia but contributed by panels of experts on the subject. Might not have had this whole "Wikipedia is unreliable" problem, but I guess global interaction was more fun than fact-checking.
Honestly I find this more interesting than the article.
But I'm in the same boat, this conservation society my girlfriend works at is paying some guy to update their website twice a year and he is charging big bucks and they want to do more update but don't want to spend all the money that comes with that, so they'd like to bring it under their control.
How much you want for it depends on what exactly they want and how much of it they expect you to do. Does your company own the code or is that copyrighted material from another developer? How cooperative is the outside consulting firm going to be with helping you in the transition? Do you know enough of your stuff that you believe you can handle all this on your own? What are your time frame expectations?
Keep in mind, the actual shifting of architecture is going to be your biggest job, after that, things will be much easier. Administering a website once it's already up and running is about as easy as checking logs and doing some regular maintenance, like patches and updates. Setting it all up is the hard part.
I would ask for at least 45k if this is going to be an annual salary type job, with ~8k for the shift plus the salary on top.
I guarantee you have violated at least a dozen violations of the written rules your society has produced. Same with everyone else. Just put everyone in jail, for Chris'sake!
I don't know why exactly, but the way this summary is worded just makes me chuckle. Especially that first line.
Intel boss Paul Otellini says his company plans to offer Windows 8 on smartphones — putting the chipmaker on a collision course with Microsoft.
It makes it sound like he has decided to do this without consulting Microsoft at all. It's like Intel: HEY. We're gonna put Windows 8 on our smartphones, kk? Microsoft: Actually we skipped 8 we're going straight to Windows 9. Intel: Hmmm. Well are you still going to - Microsoft: No. Intel: But can we - Microsoft: NO Intel: We just want to - Microsoft: Look, just leave us alone, okay?
It surprises the hell out of me that he thought he could get away with something as easily noticeable as hacking a presidential candidates email.
Well, I think he would have gotten away with it too if he hadn't gone and posted what he found right away.
I don't know if Yahoo does this, but Gmail does this thing at the bottom of the page, "Last account activity: 7 hours ago at IP whatever.whatever.whatever.whatever" - And do you think Palin regularily checks something like that?
If this guy had any brains about him, he could have easily gotten away with the 'hacking' the email account part. Seriously, suppose someone knew the answer to your security question right now, and was casually reading your already read emails. Assuming you don't look at logs, and they aren't closing your session on you, Would you even suspect something?
Most people argue that the prison system is to seperate the dangerous individuals from society. This guy is not a danger to society, no one is in danger of getting hurt. Put him on Parole for 2-4 years with community service where all his network access has to be reviewed by a parole officer. Long reaching, annoying punishment, that contributes back to society instead of sapping money.
I think he meant to say "How surprised can one be" instead of how Angry. I mean, my car getting stolen? Yeah that would definately get me angry, but considering how easy it is for someone to steal a car, it wouldn't surprise* me.
*I mean it would catch me off guard, but I wouldn't be completely dumbfounded on how the theif managed to get past the lock.
That works out to be ~$24.65 dollars an hour, at the regular schedule of 8 hour work days 5 days a week (40 hours a week).
They want to bump up the yearly hours from 2028 to 2600 or 2860? That's 572 to 832 overtime hours in my book. Overtime usually means at least a time and a half (1.5x) but if you are feeling like this will be particularily draining you could ask for more.
So $24.65 x 1.5 ~= $36.98 per hour coming to a total of an extra $21149.7 or $30763.2 a year.
So, if I were making 50K, I'd ask for 72k to 80k a year for them to ask for an extra 2 hours of work a day. And thats being pretty generous.
If you make more than that, and you think overtime should be 2x the pay, be prepared to step up and show them the math. At first they'll think you are joking but when you lay it out in terms that are normally accepted by the working society, they won't have much to argue with. If they want to fire you because you won't work the extra hours for less, you can file for wrongful dismissal. Unless of course you signed a contract at the beginning of your job lending yourself to be run over.
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Than you are missing the point. If there were some kind of trigger in a video game, you'd see a lot more shootings happening, like one at every school across the country. The fact that ONE person had this problem and that video games might have put him in the state of violent rage, you really should be studying what causes that initial problem where a game can set off a trigger, as opposed to the trigger itself. I propose that had he enjoyed enough violent movies or books he might have also been pushed towards the same unstable state.
Point is, cure the disease, not the symptoms.
That's exactly CRCulver's point though, is that there is no correlation like that defined yet, and that making these speculations are completely useless because we won't know until we gather all the evidence. Addictive eating is often deeply rooted in forms of depression, and then it ends up being worse because they'll be even more depressed that they are gaining weight, and this feedback cycle seems far more prone to lead to suicide than simply someone reading a book. See how easy it is to turn any addictive activity into the worst one out there?
I think I'd need to see a link for that one. Mountain rescue helicopters are prepped for an emergency, they don't typically do routine patrols. They get a call, they take off, they go. They don't circle around in case the point of rescue is too far for the fuel that they've already used.
At least, thats how it works here.
Doesn't mean birth isn't lethal.
That's like saying a Car Crash isn't lethal if you survive the impact, or that AIDS isn't lethal if you live for 5 years.
Yeah, I heard some guy talking about this big tournament, saying "there can only be one". I assume he meant winner, but, whatever, I wasn't really paying attention. His hair was too long for me to take him seriously.
A recent study showed that 100% of mass murderers ingested some form of dihydrogen monoxide within 48 hours of killing their victims. Warn your children about the dangerous effects of dihydrogen monoxide today!
and take a long time to kill the infected animal, but so far are 100% lethal if something else doesn't kill the animal first
So does breathing air...
At a functional level, Lustre (GPL) is to ZFS (CDDL) as CXFS (commercial) is to XFS (GPL) for SGI.
And who says the IT world has too many confusing Acronyms?
Make sure you also change the security question, because thats likely what they're using.
Yeah.
This is just going to boil down to both of them showing each other the evidence they collected, no doubt in their own methodology, and someones going to say it went up by 0.1 celcius and he's going to show it went down by 0.1 celcius, and they've both got stacks of paper to prove it.
Set some actual parameters for this wager and it might actually be interesting, as it is, its just the same old BS thats been happening all along.
This is one thing I like about the Canadian Government. While its almost a 2 party system with the Liberals and Conservatives, There are a bunch of smaller parties like the New Democratic Party or the Green party that generally have few enough seats to sway a big vote here or there. And, if all else fails, and those big parties all happen to agree, you can bank on the Quebecois to disagree just for the sake of disagreeing, and rally behind them.
That boils down to the foundations of the theory of knowledge - I don't know if you are aware of the multiple cases where School Professor's have been caught teaching kids the Holocaust didn't happen, and that it was all made up to generate sympathy. That one person we generalyl trust to educate our children is just as potentially a bad source of information as a random person on the internet - we just don't know.
The only fundamental difference is that the internet has a much higher population than our regular local interactions, so those seeking to lie and deceive seem to occur more often online than offline. If people had supported something like Nupedia moreso in its beginning, you'd have that same collaborative effort you get at Wikipedia but contributed by panels of experts on the subject. Might not have had this whole "Wikipedia is unreliable" problem, but I guess global interaction was more fun than fact-checking.
If you went to a bar and tried to pick up a chick with the line "I started Wikipedia" - how far do you think you'd actually get?
Exactly, except not really.
Honestly I find this more interesting than the article.
But I'm in the same boat, this conservation society my girlfriend works at is paying some guy to update their website twice a year and he is charging big bucks and they want to do more update but don't want to spend all the money that comes with that, so they'd like to bring it under their control.
How much you want for it depends on what exactly they want and how much of it they expect you to do. Does your company own the code or is that copyrighted material from another developer? How cooperative is the outside consulting firm going to be with helping you in the transition? Do you know enough of your stuff that you believe you can handle all this on your own? What are your time frame expectations?
Keep in mind, the actual shifting of architecture is going to be your biggest job, after that, things will be much easier. Administering a website once it's already up and running is about as easy as checking logs and doing some regular maintenance, like patches and updates. Setting it all up is the hard part.
I would ask for at least 45k if this is going to be an annual salary type job, with ~8k for the shift plus the salary on top.
I guarantee you have violated at least a dozen violations of the written rules your society has produced. Same with everyone else. Just put everyone in jail, for Chris'sake!
His mad skills at answering security questions based on public information?
You'd be surprised how well that works.
No, its not particularily difficult, but it takes some effort to wade through the junk and sit there and try word after word.
I don't know why exactly, but the way this summary is worded just makes me chuckle. Especially that first line.
Intel boss Paul Otellini says his company plans to offer Windows 8 on smartphones — putting the chipmaker on a collision course with Microsoft.
It makes it sound like he has decided to do this without consulting Microsoft at all. It's like
Intel: HEY. We're gonna put Windows 8 on our smartphones, kk?
Microsoft: Actually we skipped 8 we're going straight to Windows 9.
Intel: Hmmm. Well are you still going to -
Microsoft: No.
Intel: But can we -
Microsoft: NO
Intel: We just want to -
Microsoft: Look, just leave us alone, okay?
Would you like to try my proprietary closed source rock scanner to tell if you are carrying a rock?
It surprises the hell out of me that he thought he could get away with something as easily noticeable as hacking a presidential candidates email.
Well, I think he would have gotten away with it too if he hadn't gone and posted what he found right away.
I don't know if Yahoo does this, but Gmail does this thing at the bottom of the page, "Last account activity: 7 hours ago at IP whatever.whatever.whatever.whatever" - And do you think Palin regularily checks something like that?
If this guy had any brains about him, he could have easily gotten away with the 'hacking' the email account part. Seriously, suppose someone knew the answer to your security question right now, and was casually reading your already read emails. Assuming you don't look at logs, and they aren't closing your session on you, Would you even suspect something?
This.
Most people argue that the prison system is to seperate the dangerous individuals from society. This guy is not a danger to society, no one is in danger of getting hurt. Put him on Parole for 2-4 years with community service where all his network access has to be reviewed by a parole officer. Long reaching, annoying punishment, that contributes back to society instead of sapping money.
I think he meant to say "How surprised can one be" instead of how Angry. I mean, my car getting stolen? Yeah that would definately get me angry, but considering how easy it is for someone to steal a car, it wouldn't surprise* me.
*I mean it would catch me off guard, but I wouldn't be completely dumbfounded on how the theif managed to get past the lock.
By "one's" do you mean yours or someone elses?
The real question is how many Library of Congresses could you fit in 5GB.
For me, It'd be a simple equation.
Lets suppose I'm a junior making 50k a year.
That works out to be ~$24.65 dollars an hour, at the regular schedule of 8 hour work days 5 days a week (40 hours a week).
They want to bump up the yearly hours from 2028 to 2600 or 2860?
That's 572 to 832 overtime hours in my book. Overtime usually means at least a time and a half (1.5x) but if you are feeling like this will be particularily draining you could ask for more.
So $24.65 x 1.5 ~= $36.98 per hour
coming to a total of an extra $21149.7 or $30763.2 a year.
So, if I were making 50K, I'd ask for 72k to 80k a year for them to ask for an extra 2 hours of work a day. And thats being pretty generous.
If you make more than that, and you think overtime should be 2x the pay, be prepared to step up and show them the math. At first they'll think you are joking but when you lay it out in terms that are normally accepted by the working society, they won't have much to argue with. If they want to fire you because you won't work the extra hours for less, you can file for wrongful dismissal. Unless of course you signed a contract at the beginning of your job lending yourself to be run over.