... On the other hand, people who are quite open about their work tend to get a lot more interest, more input from people with different specialities and more offers of collaboration.
The paranoia sounds almost exactly like the results of the stack ranking they perform at MicroSoft.
Ideas are a dime a dozen... what matters is execution. That's not just for games but pretty much everything in life.
It's the same in the publishing biz. n00bs are worried about other people stealing plots or characters.
Published authors worry more about finishing the book. Ideas aren't much of anything until you attempt to implement them.
Don't have a conniption fit. Maybe it was just a couple guys trying to stalk their girlfriends.
And it's not like anything important is ever accomplished at the U.N.
Mange your expectations.
Trying to hide the truth costs something. Usually more than simply not knowing the truth to begin with.
Discovering the truth, such as the cost of air or water pollution or the cost of always fighiting forest fires (seems like the obvious thing to do) can take generations to learn but we're doing it.
Disease is a human concern, not a political or economic concern.
We're figuring that out just as we're now figuring out what to do now that we've 'conquered' the world as a species;-)
A lot of people don't admit they eat at McDonalds and yet in 2010 the industry generated $184 Billion in sales. I think a lot of people who claim they don't eat at McDonalds are lying.
Maybe it's more of the definition. They 'consume' at McDonalds. To 'eat' implies the consumption of 'food.'
And this is why the NSA is monitoring all the internet traffic in the country, to stop things like this happening.
Except it didn't work very well this time did it?
Or maybe this is one way the NSA gets around the sequestration, get 20% of their budget back and then they won't have to lay-off 90% of their sysadmins;-)
"over the past 20 years or more, as the American people were getting fatter, so were America’s marmosets. As were laboratory macaques, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and mice, as well as domestic dogs, domestic cats, and domestic and feral rats from both rural and urban areas. In fact, the researchers examined records on those eight species and found that average weight for every one had increased."
"It isn’t hard to imagine that people who are eating more themselves are giving more to their spoiled pets, or leaving sweeter, fattier garbage for street cats and rodents. But such results don’t explain why the weight gain is also occurring in species that human beings don’t pamper, such as animals in labs, whose diets are strictly controlled. In fact, lab animals’ lives are so precisely watched and measured that the researchers can rule out accidental human influence: records show those creatures gained weight over decades without any significant change in their diet or activities. Obviously, if animals are getting heavier along with us, it can’t just be that they’re eating more Snickers bars and driving to work most days. On the contrary, the trend suggests some widely shared cause, beyond the control of individuals, which is contributing to obesity across many species."
Diets filled with processed and manufactured foods.
Pointless statement.
Uh no. Your statement is idiotic. The study showed _something_. The first thing I noticed is that all the lab animals have been getting fatter over the years. That kind of points to their food. If wild animals haven't been getting fat (with limited access to processed food) but wild humans have (who tend to eat food processed the same way), that points to something.
Your statement saying it doesn't immediately implicate the processing of food is stoopid.
In fact, the next step, imo for almost absolute proof, is to see if the weight of populations of wilderness area raccoons has increased, decreased or stayed the same over the last few decades as opposed to raccoons in urban areas with more access to processed food.
It was just the NSA patching in their new data center...
But if they lost 40% of 5 minutes worth of web traffic, then that means they may have lost some important terrorist-tracking info.
Oh the humanity. Maybe now they'll think twice about laying off sysadmins;-)
I do know what bookmarks are. I used to use them a lot and move them from browser to browser.
Now I don't use bookmarks at all and I train other non-computer folks to not bother.
But I also tell them to avoid the fBook because it's not the real internet. It is different.
The reason keywords didn't work (for AOL and for Yahoo and for a whole host of other people) is twofold.
One is keywords have to be descriptive and that's difficult.
The other is that keywords have to be accurate and if you've ever worked with advertisers, well...
Keywords don't work
Google works because it sorts pages by a variety of concepts including words on the page and backlinks.
I appreciate the sentiment but since we're talking numbers, 5 9s or 99.999% privacy, you're probably wrong.
I suspect NSA isn't looking at 99.999% of the data saved which means chances are, your personal privacy is still 99.999% safe from prying government eyes
I wouldn't be so confident about the protection from prying advertizers looking for eyeballs to spam.
If it were my job to handle bug reports and I didn't want to be hassled with work...
...I assure you, it would no longer be your job.
That depends on _your_ supervisor dud, I mean dude.
What if he told you any $500 bounty payout came out of your department's budget?
I am curious to know whether it is due to laziness or greed and at what level in the organization the laziness/greed occurs.
Uhhhhhh no. The job of a sysadmin is _not_ to avoid typing in commands.
expletives deleted
The job of a sysadmin is to administer the system performance in a cost-effective manner. Sheesh.
That's like saying the job of a programmer is to avoid typing but instead choose commands from a dropdown list.
Do not confuse process with result. The job of a programmer is to provide a working program that does what it is supposed to do.
Reminds me of the Windows sysadmin who complained about how long it took for our Linux servers to boot up after a catastrophic failure of the server room.
I reminded her that we only ever reboot when we're forced to so the five minutes it takes is irrelevant.
by the way, we had 8 servers and one sysadmin and one dba (me).
They had 12 servers and 12 sysadmins and a lot less functionality.
Yes. We do this with every chemical used on 'weeds.' It's called evolution.
It is similar to the way we are currently creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
What goes around comes around.
High Times (a pot mag) reported last century about a 'naturally' occurring RoundUp-resistant cocaine plant.
The US sprayed indiscriminately in Colombia and a few plants survived and passed on the trait.
Evolution happens.
For the folks who hate Monsanto, the difference between a GMO Franken-plant and a regular, sexually-modified plant is a matter of years or decades, nothing else.
But for Monsanto or Congress to expect natural selection to restrict itself to human needs seems bizarrely optimistic given the rest of evolutionary history.
HP used to be really innovative. They even bragged about how innovative their _engineers_ were.
A few years later as they started the long downhill grade, they started bragging about how innovative their management was.
Saying the Google employees don't need the 20% innovation time anymore sounds like exactly the sort of innovative nonsense from management that HP used.
I expect similar results.
I suspect there is a 'finding' that 3 cups/day or less is better and 4 cups/day or more is worse.
But that may just be an indication of some other correlation such as the activities or general health/well-being of people who prefer lots of coffee vs those who don't.
If that is true, then the amount of coffee you drink is irrelevant; it is the population you are in that is your main risk factor.
For example, people who don't drink coffee probably tend to eat better. Period.
Not always (most folks don't understand statistics and think that if it didn't occur for one single person, then the study is flawed. Not true. The person whining is flawed in his or her understanding of statistics of _populations_ )
Check out other 'normal' associations of coffee use and other behavior such as exercising.
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... On the other hand, people who are quite open about their work tend to get a lot more interest, more input from people with different specialities and more offers of collaboration.
The paranoia sounds almost exactly like the results of the stack ranking they perform at MicroSoft.
Ideas are a dime a dozen ... what matters is execution. That's not just for games but pretty much everything in life.
It's the same in the publishing biz. n00bs are worried about other people stealing plots or characters.
Published authors worry more about finishing the book. Ideas aren't much of anything until you attempt to implement them.
At ten million a pop, it'd be luxury pet rocks. Stuff for people like Oprah. It would even fit in a $38,000 purse.
Don't have a conniption fit. Maybe it was just a couple guys trying to stalk their girlfriends.
And it's not like anything important is ever accomplished at the U.N.
Mange your expectations.
...Cute novelty, but definitely not something safe for the real world, unless one is dealing with golf carts.
That list of seven probably was copied from a list Ford and Chrysler started in the 1970s about those cheap cars in Japan.
Trying to hide the truth costs something. Usually more than simply not knowing the truth to begin with. ;-)
Discovering the truth, such as the cost of air or water pollution or the cost of always fighiting forest fires (seems like the obvious thing to do) can take generations to learn but we're doing it.
Disease is a human concern, not a political or economic concern.
We're figuring that out just as we're now figuring out what to do now that we've 'conquered' the world as a species
A lot of people don't admit they eat at McDonalds and yet in 2010 the industry generated $184 Billion in sales. I think a lot of people who claim they don't eat at McDonalds are lying.
Maybe it's more of the definition. They 'consume' at McDonalds. To 'eat' implies the consumption of 'food.'
And this is why the NSA is monitoring all the internet traffic in the country, to stop things like this happening. Except it didn't work very well this time did it?
Or maybe this is one way the NSA gets around the sequestration, get 20% of their budget back and then they won't have to lay-off 90% of their sysadmins ;-)
RTFA.
It's very interesting.
"over the past 20 years or more, as the American people were getting fatter, so were America’s marmosets. As were laboratory macaques, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys and mice, as well as domestic dogs, domestic cats, and domestic and feral rats from both rural and urban areas. In fact, the researchers examined records on those eight species and found that average weight for every one had increased."
"It isn’t hard to imagine that people who are eating more themselves are giving more to their spoiled pets, or leaving sweeter, fattier garbage for street cats and rodents. But such results don’t explain why the weight gain is also occurring in species that human beings don’t pamper, such as animals in labs, whose diets are strictly controlled. In fact, lab animals’ lives are so precisely watched and measured that the researchers can rule out accidental human influence: records show those creatures gained weight over decades without any significant change in their diet or activities. Obviously, if animals are getting heavier along with us, it can’t just be that they’re eating more Snickers bars and driving to work most days. On the contrary, the trend suggests some widely shared cause, beyond the control of individuals, which is contributing to obesity across many species."
Diets filled with processed and manufactured foods.
Pointless statement.
Uh no. Your statement is idiotic.
The study showed _something_. The first thing I noticed is that all the lab animals have been getting fatter over the years. That kind of points to their food. If wild animals haven't been getting fat (with limited access to processed food) but wild humans have (who tend to eat food processed the same way), that points to something.
Your statement saying it doesn't immediately implicate the processing of food is stoopid.
In fact, the next step, imo for almost absolute proof, is to see if the weight of populations of wilderness area raccoons has increased, decreased or stayed the same over the last few decades as opposed to raccoons in urban areas with more access to processed food.
It was just the NSA patching in their new data center...
But if they lost 40% of 5 minutes worth of web traffic, then that means they may have lost some important terrorist-tracking info. ;-)
Oh the humanity. Maybe now they'll think twice about laying off sysadmins
I do know what bookmarks are. I used to use them a lot and move them from browser to browser.
Now I don't use bookmarks at all and I train other non-computer folks to not bother.
But I also tell them to avoid the fBook because it's not the real internet. It is different.
Actually, I think Google has already invented this so-called 'faceCar' of yours. But of course it actually works.
Good analogy tho.
The reason keywords didn't work (for AOL and for Yahoo and for a whole host of other people) is twofold.
One is keywords have to be descriptive and that's difficult.
The other is that keywords have to be accurate and if you've ever worked with advertisers, well...
Keywords don't work
Google works because it sorts pages by a variety of concepts including words on the page and backlinks.
except for the privacy concerns
I appreciate the sentiment but since we're talking numbers, 5 9s or 99.999% privacy, you're probably wrong.
I suspect NSA isn't looking at 99.999% of the data saved which means chances are, your personal privacy is still 99.999% safe from prying government eyes
I wouldn't be so confident about the protection from prying advertizers looking for eyeballs to spam.
...their science "reporters" don't know the difference between an asteroid, a comet and meteor...
There's a difference?
Oh well. it probably doesn't matter to most voters so it doesn't matter to any elected representative so let's defund NASA.
Facebook is being cheap. Pay the man and be thankful!
or hire him.
You wonder? I was taking it for granted that Facebook was trying to suppress the story with an astroturfing campaign.
Ditto. Wish I had mod points.
If I were your supervisor and I heard you say...
If it were my job to handle bug reports and I didn't want to be hassled with work...
...I assure you, it would no longer be your job.
That depends on _your_ supervisor dud, I mean dude.
What if he told you any $500 bounty payout came out of your department's budget?
I am curious to know whether it is due to laziness or greed and at what level in the organization the laziness/greed occurs.
Uhhhhhh no. The job of a sysadmin is _not_ to avoid typing in commands.
expletives deleted
The job of a sysadmin is to administer the system performance in a cost-effective manner. Sheesh.
That's like saying the job of a programmer is to avoid typing but instead choose commands from a dropdown list.
Do not confuse process with result. The job of a programmer is to provide a working program that does what it is supposed to do.
Reminds me of the Windows sysadmin who complained about how long it took for our Linux servers to boot up after a catastrophic failure of the server room.
I reminded her that we only ever reboot when we're forced to so the five minutes it takes is irrelevant.
by the way, we had 8 servers and one sysadmin and one dba (me).
They had 12 servers and 12 sysadmins and a lot less functionality.
Wait.. someone intentionally created GM weeds?!?
Yes. We do this with every chemical used on 'weeds.' It's called evolution.
It is similar to the way we are currently creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
What goes around comes around.
High Times (a pot mag) reported last century about a 'naturally' occurring RoundUp-resistant cocaine plant.
The US sprayed indiscriminately in Colombia and a few plants survived and passed on the trait.
Evolution happens.
For the folks who hate Monsanto, the difference between a GMO Franken-plant and a regular, sexually-modified plant is a matter of years or decades, nothing else.
But for Monsanto or Congress to expect natural selection to restrict itself to human needs seems bizarrely optimistic given the rest of evolutionary history.
That's one way to reduce the number of sysadmins effectively.
HP used to be really innovative. They even bragged about how innovative their _engineers_ were.
A few years later as they started the long downhill grade, they started bragging about how innovative their management was.
Saying the Google employees don't need the 20% innovation time anymore sounds like exactly the sort of innovative nonsense from management that HP used.
I expect similar results.
I suspect there is a 'finding' that 3 cups/day or less is better and 4 cups/day or more is worse.
But that may just be an indication of some other correlation such as the activities or general health/well-being of people who prefer lots of coffee vs those who don't.
If that is true, then the amount of coffee you drink is irrelevant; it is the population you are in that is your main risk factor.
For example, people who don't drink coffee probably tend to eat better. Period.
Not always (most folks don't understand statistics and think that if it didn't occur for one single person, then the study is flawed. Not true. The person whining is flawed in his or her understanding of statistics of _populations_ )
Check out other 'normal' associations of coffee use and other behavior such as exercising.