Does anyone remember the old autocomplete, before it got removed for a while? It was because there was a huge amount of negative publicity when someone would type "blacks are" and the first autocomplete suggestions were lazy, stupid, criminals, and a few other negative things. I think they learned that censorship is good for them when it comes to predictive algorithms. Imagine a kid at home, doing a report on porcupines, and when they type in P O R, getting flooded with porn links. That would not be good for Google, to say the least.
He made lots of money for stockholders, but at the expense of the employees. Remember, CEOs work for the company, which is defined as the shareholders. They often view their employees as resources to be exploited, like untapped oil reserves, or forests full of uncut trees. To this end, they are employers, with the power to hire and fire. Good employers take care of their employees. Bad ones exploit them. According to many current and former HP employees, Mark Hurd served the shareholders well, steering the company in a direction that made them a lot of money, but did so by exploiting his employees. Ergo, good CEO, but bad employer.
Technically, he resigned. Unofficially, he was forced out. According to many current and former HP employees he was a great CEO, but a horrible employer. Most are still disgusted at his $40 million (approx) severance, considering the pay cuts they endured last year, and all the layoffs.
Easy to avoid - but the car in the garage (once you've moved all the junk out).
So only the rich have a right to not have government employees trespass on their property? I'd be surprised if more than 50% of car owners have a garage.
Where I grew up, a person's driveway is most definitely within the domain of "reasonable expectation of privacy." And it's backed up with "git offa ma propertie! "
While I agree that adding noise to a car is counter-intuitive, I know that at least one group, representing those who are blind, has complained about the lack of audio cues of an oncoming hybrid vehicle. This was part of a news program that I was watching at least six years ago. It's not just idiots who are not paying attention that are complaining. There are others, with more legitimate complaints, who are complaining as well.
I stopped reading magazines many years ago, not because I could get the same content on the internet. I stopped reading them because 50% or more of the space was advertising. If Amazon decides to insert ads into ebooks, then they'll be killing ebooks before they have a chance.
The average lifetime earnings of someone with just a HS diploma is about $1.2M. 1/100th of $40M is $400K.
Remember, Steve Jobs never even attained a Bachelor degree, and how much does he make? Bill Gates? I don't know that either of them participate here on/., but Steve Wozniak does (or at least did within the last two years), and he didn't earn his Bachelor degree until 10 years after founding Apple.
This may be a bit off topic, but you really need to be careful about using absolute, blanket terms, especially when you're trying to argue a point. In general, I agree that CEOs are making a LOT more money than they should. When someone I know very well was laid off from HP a year ago, their severance package didn't come anywhere close to $40M, and that person is absolutely disgusted by this.
...these contracts usually come with nice amenities for the people who negotiate them (read "free unlimited everything packages for the city counsel.")
Would this be something that can be fought? Would it be considered corruption, bribery, or some similar offense? If the benefits were for the city as a whole, like free services for the fire/police depts. (not the fire/police personnel), then that would obviously not be a crime.
As a related question, who is responsible for limiting my cable choices? Right now, if I want decent broadband at a relatively fair price, I have just two choices. I can choose the phone company's DSL, or the single cable company's service. Why is there only one cable company allowed in my area, when I had at least two in my previous area (different state, too). Is this the township's fault? The county's fault? The state's fault? How do I find out who to harass, lobby, spam, or beg to be allowed more choices?
When a relative of mine was arrested for DUI, their name was printed in the newspaper. That's how their mother found out. I don't know what was worse for them; the 6-month suspension of their license, following their conviction, when their job required driving 100% of the time, or the shame of their mother knowing they were arrested (prior to the conviction), because some newspaper printed it.
When I was studying multiplication, I just could not comprehend it. I was getting failing grades constantly, while my classmates were memorizing their multiplication tables and acing exams. I just couldn't understand it. Then, it dawned on me... multiplication wasn't some new mystery math, it was just addition in a new form!
Then I became better at multiplication than all my classmates, and stunned the teachers by how I went from getting 80% of my tests wrong, to getting 100% correct, and faster than my classmates. Unfortunately, it was at the tail end of the unit, so I still got a bad grade on my report card.
The teachers thought I was cheating, too. They had me take tests in front of them, during recess, to prove that I wasn't cheating. They then accused me of being lazy and not paying attention previously. No, I just didn't understand the mystery math they were trying to teach me, because they were expecting me to memorize things, and not actually teaching me to understand it. I don't think they ever accepted that truth.
So it is with addition and =. Children are taught to do this, then that. They are taught process, not meaning. They need to be taught from the bottom up, not from the top down. Teach them that = means equality, not evaluation.
Oh, and use standard notations, not this ( ) garbage that nobody uses.
What a joke! That's about as silly as Apple claiming that it owns the 'i' prefix for electronics. That battle was already settled. At least in the U.S., anyway.
Let's say there is another massive CME, or one even more massive than the one in 1859. How would you protect your electronics? Would you shove them into anti-static bags? Would they need to be (nearly) air tight, or would it be sufficient to just drape the bags over things? Would that would work for hard drives, cell phones, and if you had some large enough, PCs as well? What about data centers? Obviously, unplugging them would be a requirement, too.
Okay, so it's only the last to CEOs that I know of, but both have been ousted due to misconduct. It seems like the title is cursed to bring the person's career to a shameful end.
That's another possible explanation that I have heard. I accept either as equally plausible. Either way, it doesn't strengthen or weaken the claims of Jesus' divinity, or our response.
Just because something isn't mentioned in the Bible, doesn't mean it didn't happen or exist.
Did the Bible explicitly say that God created other nations of people after creating Adam and Eve? Or that they didn't have dozens of children after Cain and Abel? Yet the Bible mentions that Cain had a wife, even though it doesn't explicitly say that God created her, or that she was born. This isn't a contradiction, it's just a detail that wasn't important.
The Old Testament focuses on the lineage of Jesus Christ. From the first man, down to Abraham, down to David, and so on. If a person, or nation, wasn't important within this lineage, or directly affect the people of this lineage, then it was glossed over or simply omitted.
If I were to write a book about baseball, I would focus on it's precursor games, how it developed, and maybe a little of the physics involved. Would I discuss gravity as it pertains to the Earth and Moon interacting with one another? Absolutely not. I would probably discuss it very briefly with regard to pitching, and how a ball is thrown toward a point higher than it crosses the plate at, but if certain aspects of gravity have nothing to do with baseball, then why would I write about it?
So too with the potential for alien life. If it exists, it wouldn't greatly affect the faith of true believers. If there are intelligent aliens, but they were not involved in the lineage of Jesus Christ, then why would they be in the Bible? They would be irrelevant. I'll tell you one thing about how it would affect true believers, though. If the aliens were to have a soul, then they would share the gospel with them, and baptize them into Christ. The only issue would be, "how can you tell if they have a soul?"
At the risk of being modded offtopic, I'll explain this Final Fantasy. In short, the development studio Squaresoft was going under, and they finished one last game, figuring that it would be their final foray into living their dream (or "fantasy") of game development. Well, it was a smash hit, and 23 years later, the franchise is still going strong. I'm sure that Wikipedia can tell you a lot more, but that's the story in a nutshell.
Sometimes the content of the story doesn't have to be good. People often go to expos to see new technology, and not to take it home and play with it. The same thing can be said of some video games and movies. You have your preference, and others have theirs.
How many FPS games are successful based solely on graphical technology, while adding nothing to the genre? Surprisingly, a lot.
I may anger a few people, but I'd say that the movie Jurassic Park had a sub-par plot. Science creates monsters, they run amok, and their creators along with some innocent bystanders try to get away with their lives. Yet, it was one of the my most favorite movies, and was a hit among the masses, because it was the first time CG actually looked good alongside live action.
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Railguns? Rocket launchers? Too much Quake I say.
I wonder why my employer's WebSense filter blocked it as being "tasteless." Any ideas?
Does anyone remember the old autocomplete, before it got removed for a while? It was because there was a huge amount of negative publicity when someone would type "blacks are" and the first autocomplete suggestions were lazy, stupid, criminals, and a few other negative things. I think they learned that censorship is good for them when it comes to predictive algorithms. Imagine a kid at home, doing a report on porcupines, and when they type in P O R, getting flooded with porn links. That would not be good for Google, to say the least.
He made lots of money for stockholders, but at the expense of the employees. Remember, CEOs work for the company, which is defined as the shareholders. They often view their employees as resources to be exploited, like untapped oil reserves, or forests full of uncut trees. To this end, they are employers, with the power to hire and fire. Good employers take care of their employees. Bad ones exploit them. According to many current and former HP employees, Mark Hurd served the shareholders well, steering the company in a direction that made them a lot of money, but did so by exploiting his employees. Ergo, good CEO, but bad employer.
Technically, he resigned. Unofficially, he was forced out. According to many current and former HP employees he was a great CEO, but a horrible employer. Most are still disgusted at his $40 million (approx) severance, considering the pay cuts they endured last year, and all the layoffs.
Humvee + Huey = Hummy? It's the spork of military vehicles. Meant to do both, but incapable of either.
Easy to avoid - but the car in the garage (once you've moved all the junk out).
So only the rich have a right to not have government employees trespass on their property? I'd be surprised if more than 50% of car owners have a garage.
And of course it stripped out the part that looks like a markup language tag. It was supposed to end with:
[click, click, bang!]
Where I grew up, a person's driveway is most definitely within the domain of "reasonable expectation of privacy." And it's backed up with "git offa ma propertie! "
While I agree that adding noise to a car is counter-intuitive, I know that at least one group, representing those who are blind, has complained about the lack of audio cues of an oncoming hybrid vehicle. This was part of a news program that I was watching at least six years ago. It's not just idiots who are not paying attention that are complaining. There are others, with more legitimate complaints, who are complaining as well.
I stopped reading magazines many years ago, not because I could get the same content on the internet. I stopped reading them because 50% or more of the space was advertising. If Amazon decides to insert ads into ebooks, then they'll be killing ebooks before they have a chance.
The average lifetime earnings of someone with just a HS diploma is about $1.2M. 1/100th of $40M is $400K.
Remember, Steve Jobs never even attained a Bachelor degree, and how much does he make? Bill Gates? I don't know that either of them participate here on /., but Steve Wozniak does (or at least did within the last two years), and he didn't earn his Bachelor degree until 10 years after founding Apple.
This may be a bit off topic, but you really need to be careful about using absolute, blanket terms, especially when you're trying to argue a point. In general, I agree that CEOs are making a LOT more money than they should. When someone I know very well was laid off from HP a year ago, their severance package didn't come anywhere close to $40M, and that person is absolutely disgusted by this.
...these contracts usually come with nice amenities for the people who negotiate them (read "free unlimited everything packages for the city counsel.")
Would this be something that can be fought? Would it be considered corruption, bribery, or some similar offense? If the benefits were for the city as a whole, like free services for the fire/police depts. (not the fire/police personnel), then that would obviously not be a crime.
As a related question, who is responsible for limiting my cable choices? Right now, if I want decent broadband at a relatively fair price, I have just two choices. I can choose the phone company's DSL, or the single cable company's service. Why is there only one cable company allowed in my area, when I had at least two in my previous area (different state, too). Is this the township's fault? The county's fault? The state's fault? How do I find out who to harass, lobby, spam, or beg to be allowed more choices?
When a relative of mine was arrested for DUI, their name was printed in the newspaper. That's how their mother found out. I don't know what was worse for them; the 6-month suspension of their license, following their conviction, when their job required driving 100% of the time, or the shame of their mother knowing they were arrested (prior to the conviction), because some newspaper printed it.
When I was studying multiplication, I just could not comprehend it. I was getting failing grades constantly, while my classmates were memorizing their multiplication tables and acing exams. I just couldn't understand it. Then, it dawned on me... multiplication wasn't some new mystery math, it was just addition in a new form!
Then I became better at multiplication than all my classmates, and stunned the teachers by how I went from getting 80% of my tests wrong, to getting 100% correct, and faster than my classmates. Unfortunately, it was at the tail end of the unit, so I still got a bad grade on my report card.
The teachers thought I was cheating, too. They had me take tests in front of them, during recess, to prove that I wasn't cheating. They then accused me of being lazy and not paying attention previously. No, I just didn't understand the mystery math they were trying to teach me, because they were expecting me to memorize things, and not actually teaching me to understand it. I don't think they ever accepted that truth.
So it is with addition and =. Children are taught to do this, then that. They are taught process, not meaning. They need to be taught from the bottom up, not from the top down. Teach them that = means equality, not evaluation.
Oh, and use standard notations, not this ( ) garbage that nobody uses.
Well, if the MAFIAA can sue bootleggers before a concert, and since we know when Skynet will go "live", he could probably sue anytime he wants.
What a joke! That's about as silly as Apple claiming that it owns the 'i' prefix for electronics. That battle was already settled. At least in the U.S., anyway.
Let's say there is another massive CME, or one even more massive than the one in 1859. How would you protect your electronics? Would you shove them into anti-static bags? Would they need to be (nearly) air tight, or would it be sufficient to just drape the bags over things? Would that would work for hard drives, cell phones, and if you had some large enough, PCs as well? What about data centers? Obviously, unplugging them would be a requirement, too.
Okay, so it's only the last to CEOs that I know of, but both have been ousted due to misconduct. It seems like the title is cursed to bring the person's career to a shameful end.
That's another possible explanation that I have heard. I accept either as equally plausible. Either way, it doesn't strengthen or weaken the claims of Jesus' divinity, or our response.
Just because something isn't mentioned in the Bible, doesn't mean it didn't happen or exist.
Did the Bible explicitly say that God created other nations of people after creating Adam and Eve? Or that they didn't have dozens of children after Cain and Abel? Yet the Bible mentions that Cain had a wife, even though it doesn't explicitly say that God created her, or that she was born. This isn't a contradiction, it's just a detail that wasn't important.
The Old Testament focuses on the lineage of Jesus Christ. From the first man, down to Abraham, down to David, and so on. If a person, or nation, wasn't important within this lineage, or directly affect the people of this lineage, then it was glossed over or simply omitted.
If I were to write a book about baseball, I would focus on it's precursor games, how it developed, and maybe a little of the physics involved. Would I discuss gravity as it pertains to the Earth and Moon interacting with one another? Absolutely not. I would probably discuss it very briefly with regard to pitching, and how a ball is thrown toward a point higher than it crosses the plate at, but if certain aspects of gravity have nothing to do with baseball, then why would I write about it?
So too with the potential for alien life. If it exists, it wouldn't greatly affect the faith of true believers. If there are intelligent aliens, but they were not involved in the lineage of Jesus Christ, then why would they be in the Bible? They would be irrelevant. I'll tell you one thing about how it would affect true believers, though. If the aliens were to have a soul, then they would share the gospel with them, and baptize them into Christ. The only issue would be, "how can you tell if they have a soul?"
At the risk of being modded offtopic, I'll explain this Final Fantasy. In short, the development studio Squaresoft was going under, and they finished one last game, figuring that it would be their final foray into living their dream (or "fantasy") of game development. Well, it was a smash hit, and 23 years later, the franchise is still going strong. I'm sure that Wikipedia can tell you a lot more, but that's the story in a nutshell.
How can I spot one of these machines? How does it differ in appearance from a metal detector?
Sometimes the content of the story doesn't have to be good. People often go to expos to see new technology, and not to take it home and play with it. The same thing can be said of some video games and movies. You have your preference, and others have theirs.
How many FPS games are successful based solely on graphical technology, while adding nothing to the genre? Surprisingly, a lot.
I may anger a few people, but I'd say that the movie Jurassic Park had a sub-par plot. Science creates monsters, they run amok, and their creators along with some innocent bystanders try to get away with their lives. Yet, it was one of the my most favorite movies, and was a hit among the masses, because it was the first time CG actually looked good alongside live action.