I think it's the fault of HR departments. They refuse to believe you might be intelligent without a degree.
General statement: Someone with a degree is probably more intelligent than someone without a degree.
It's not necessarily that the HR departments refuse to believe you might be intelligent without a degree. But why should they waste their time seeing if you are intelligent when it's easier to just interview people _with_ degrees in the first place?
Overall it's an awful deal, unless you have a lot of cash to burn and somehow think that the Facebook of 2013 will be worth more than its currently overpriced 2011 version.
Yeah, it would have been a terrible decision to hope the value of Google in 2007 would be worth more than the value in 2005.
The supposedly impressive feat is not understanding _spoken_ language but being able to understand a written question that is full with puns and are not usually direct questions. So it's not just as simple as looking for keywords in the questions.
The comparison was because the topic is "68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband". A response from someone saying that in Japan they have X but the US doesn't have Y doesn't take into account the massive size of the US vs Japan. Thus, takes nothing into account in terms of infrastructure. If Japan has this awesome broadband, that's great. But it's pretty easy to do relative to all of the US broadband providers.
And of course California isn't connected like Japan. When did I ever imply it is? It was used as a relative size comparison. Just look at the population density, it doesn't make sense that it would have the same.
Haha! Or let it still play music, perhaps even connect to the app store, but disable it's ability to communicate with USB devices because, you know, your communication, it's just for Apple devices..
Your solid and detailed argument of "Neuromancer on C64 had better graphics than on Windows" is such a solid argument I'm just not sure where to start attacking it...
You just mentioned the beauty of how the game evolved.
Then they made a sequel where by the end of it, you never fucking picked up another weapon again.
It was great, you started out with only weapons, which you had to learn to use all of them pretty well. Then you acquired the light saber, but you couldn't rely on using it all the time, you definitely had to still mix in some weapons. You also had force powers which increased in ability over time, so you could mix in weapons, force power, and light sabre when you weren't too powerful yet. And then you got to the point near then end that you are a Jedi Knight (or didn't you read the title of the game?) and you could get by without having to use weapons (although I have to say, weapons were still useful, it's not as if there was no reason at all to use them and it was "easy" with just a lightsaber, unless you played on easy mode I presume).
So the problem lies where....? Jedi Knight was an excellent game that mixed in weapons, force powers, and the light sabre in which your use of weapons/powers changed throughout the game as your character evolved. Yeah, sounds like crap.
An MIT student works out an interesting way to merge Kinetic with existing technologies for the benefit of users.
vs.
A Microsoft rep talks about how Kinetic can be used to foster yet more advertising on people...
Interesting difference in the application of advanced technology.
Gee, that comment might hold any a shread of weight if Microsoft didn't develop Kinetc..... It's not as if there is this new technology and you have MIT spokes model touting the benefits of users from technologies while evil microsoft is just interesting in this technology for advertising.
Ok let's take your example. If all the news came out at say, 4PM and it gave everyone an hour to fully digest it and put in a price by 5PM, that would be great.
However what it news comes out at 4PM and 5:01PM. You put your order in at 5pm. Now you get news at 5:01 that can change the price drastically. Oops, you can't trade yet you have to wait an entire day to say, close your position. There is also news that comes out at 6pm, but you still can't trade.
Now push that to the extreme (or should I say, reality). Let's say news comes out constantly, sure sometimes very predictable, other times not. So news is a continuous series. Thus it only makes sense that people would want to be able to trade at any point in time.
Basically you need to be able to trade every time there is news. News is continuous, so trading is continuous.
So what if there are US citizens that are unemployed and firms that are hiring people from foreign countries? The company hiring abroad obviously has reasons to do so, even if it comes down to pay. If it's coming down to pay, then the US citizen is getting paid too much and needs to consider taking less money for whatever it is they do. If it's not for pay, then the person abroad is better for the job.
Sorry, but I think globalization is a great thing.
So basically you are one of those Fisher Price, Drag and Drop programmers, who can't write a lick of code outside of an IDE.
Huh? Do you actually know anything about C# other than it is Microsoft? I suppose not from your comments. I have used C# fairly extensively the past year, the only IDE part used is just to create the GUI as an overlay to the underlying code. Oh wait, did you want to spent a week manually writing the code to create the GUI? Not me, I'd rather drag and drop GUI components with ease. Have a new idea and want to change the GUI portion? Easy, drag and drop them around. Or I could go into the code and manually change the x/y location for each object... sounds like fun!
The underlying code written does things just as fancy as say C++, but greatly reducing lines of code and increasing the readability. I don't have to deal with pointers or garbage collection. I know the assumptions, and they are perfectly fine.
Also, I use LINQ to make it extremely easy to manipulate lists of objects. Can you say that about your programming language? The easy of doing finds, getting distinct data from list objects etc is so insanely code-efficient.
Stupid little example: Have a list of objects with a Weight field and want the average of the Weight in the list? Double AvgWeight = MyList.Average(w => w.Weight); All done! I don't have to write stupid loops all the time when I just want to treat my list of objects like an SQL table. Do you know how much time this saves when your program is constantly working with lists of objects?
We are a small company, and C# allows me to write code extremely efficiently. So again, do you know a single thing about C#?
FYI Try writing C# code outside of Visual Studio. Good luck getting it to compile.
Not that I have needed to use a different IDE than Visual Studio, but SharpDevelop works just fine from what I briefly tried. So, um, good luck _not_ getting it to compile with SharpDevelop I guess?
And just to remind you, the Express versions of Visual Studio are entirely free and feature filled. Source control is the only big feature they leave out to entice you to still purchase the big VS. Other than that, extremely happy with the express editions.
High frequency players try to make lots of tiny little profits and in turn provides LIQUIDITY to the other investor base that does not trade nearly as often as they do.
And because there is so much liquidity from high frequency players, spreads are kept very very small.. Which is a good thing for everyone (except the old school people that made money screwing people on high spreads, thus they are becoming extinct for the most part).
So let's summarize what these evil traders are doing:
Providing High Liqudity ---> Lower Spreads ---> Means that your average person / shortish/medium/long term hedge funds/investors/whatever is able to easily trade in financial markets without having to worry about being screwed by high spreads or not being able to trade when they want to.
Yes, these are just evil, evil people... they allow you to sit at your computer when you should be working and click buy/sell whenever you want to and be able to complete the transaction. You people need to stop blaming the "big banks" and all that crap for everything that is wrong in your lives.
*Disclaimer: I work at a medium term hedge fund. We have no interest in doing ultra high frequency, it's a pure technology game. We instead enjoy the research aspect of applying physics/other type of models to the markets; high frequency is only interesting for the technology side. But it's great there are so many people that do because it's easier for us to trade.
Oh crap, I've said pretty much that same thing. Maybe I should check my car... oh wait, I'm not brown, the FBI won't care.
Good thing parent was modded up, it's just so insightful to be mocking that a potential terrorist is more likely to be brown than not.
Oh nevermind, he is right. It would certainly be much more efficient for the FBI to investigate each person the same way and have no bias. He probably also complains about how much the FBI spends..
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I think it's the fault of HR departments. They refuse to believe you might be intelligent without a degree.
General statement: Someone with a degree is probably more intelligent than someone without a degree.
It's not necessarily that the HR departments refuse to believe you might be intelligent without a degree. But why should they waste their time seeing if you are intelligent when it's easier to just interview people _with_ degrees in the first place?
Overall it's an awful deal, unless you have a lot of cash to burn and somehow think that the Facebook of 2013 will be worth more than its currently overpriced 2011 version.
Yeah, it would have been a terrible decision to hope the value of Google in 2007 would be worth more than the value in 2005.
2)Require a 2 week "pending deletion" period, during which if you log in you will cancel your request for account deletion.
How dare they make it so someone can't just sit down at your computer when you aren't there and click "DELETE ACCOUNT FOREVER HAHAHA!".
The supposedly impressive feat is not understanding _spoken_ language but being able to understand a written question that is full with puns and are not usually direct questions. So it's not just as simple as looking for keywords in the questions.
How many Libraries of Congress does it take to store those movies in the Library of Congresses database?
Way to miss the point entirely.
The comparison was because the topic is "68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband". A response from someone saying that in Japan they have X but the US doesn't have Y doesn't take into account the massive size of the US vs Japan. Thus, takes nothing into account in terms of infrastructure. If Japan has this awesome broadband, that's great. But it's pretty easy to do relative to all of the US broadband providers.
And of course California isn't connected like Japan. When did I ever imply it is? It was used as a relative size comparison. Just look at the population density, it doesn't make sense that it would have the same.
Congratulations, when your entire country is the size of say, California it's a little easier on the infrastructure.
I'm sure it's the first time an American company has won a battle with a foreign company in an American court.... idiot.
Haha! Or let it still play music, perhaps even connect to the app store, but disable it's ability to communicate with USB devices because, you know, your communication, it's just for Apple devices..
Your solid and detailed argument of "Neuromancer on C64 had better graphics than on Windows" is such a solid argument I'm just not sure where to start attacking it...
You just mentioned the beauty of how the game evolved.
Then they made a sequel where by the end of it, you never fucking picked up another weapon again.
It was great, you started out with only weapons, which you had to learn to use all of them pretty well. Then you acquired the light saber, but you couldn't rely on using it all the time, you definitely had to still mix in some weapons. You also had force powers which increased in ability over time, so you could mix in weapons, force power, and light sabre when you weren't too powerful yet. And then you got to the point near then end that you are a Jedi Knight (or didn't you read the title of the game?) and you could get by without having to use weapons (although I have to say, weapons were still useful, it's not as if there was no reason at all to use them and it was "easy" with just a lightsaber, unless you played on easy mode I presume).
So the problem lies where....? Jedi Knight was an excellent game that mixed in weapons, force powers, and the light sabre in which your use of weapons/powers changed throughout the game as your character evolved. Yeah, sounds like crap.
An MIT student works out an interesting way to merge Kinetic with existing technologies for the benefit of users.
vs.
A Microsoft rep talks about how Kinetic can be used to foster yet more advertising on people ...
Interesting difference in the application of advanced technology.
Gee, that comment might hold any a shread of weight if Microsoft didn't develop Kinetc..... It's not as if there is this new technology and you have MIT spokes model touting the benefits of users from technologies while evil microsoft is just interesting in this technology for advertising.
You should be modded troll not insightful.
Paranoid much?
Ok let's take your example. If all the news came out at say, 4PM and it gave everyone an hour to fully digest it and put in a price by 5PM, that would be great.
However what it news comes out at 4PM and 5:01PM. You put your order in at 5pm. Now you get news at 5:01 that can change the price drastically. Oops, you can't trade yet you have to wait an entire day to say, close your position. There is also news that comes out at 6pm, but you still can't trade.
Now push that to the extreme (or should I say, reality). Let's say news comes out constantly, sure sometimes very predictable, other times not. So news is a continuous series. Thus it only makes sense that people would want to be able to trade at any point in time.
Basically you need to be able to trade every time there is news. News is continuous, so trading is continuous.
So what if there are US citizens that are unemployed and firms that are hiring people from foreign countries? The company hiring abroad obviously has reasons to do so, even if it comes down to pay. If it's coming down to pay, then the US citizen is getting paid too much and needs to consider taking less money for whatever it is they do. If it's not for pay, then the person abroad is better for the job.
Sorry, but I think globalization is a great thing.
Seriously? You like C#? You like Visual Studio?
Yes, seriously. Any other insightful questions?
So basically you are one of those Fisher Price, Drag and Drop programmers, who can't write a lick of code outside of an IDE.
Huh? Do you actually know anything about C# other than it is Microsoft? I suppose not from your comments. I have used C# fairly extensively the past year, the only IDE part used is just to create the GUI as an overlay to the underlying code. Oh wait, did you want to spent a week manually writing the code to create the GUI? Not me, I'd rather drag and drop GUI components with ease. Have a new idea and want to change the GUI portion? Easy, drag and drop them around. Or I could go into the code and manually change the x/y location for each object... sounds like fun!
The underlying code written does things just as fancy as say C++, but greatly reducing lines of code and increasing the readability. I don't have to deal with pointers or garbage collection. I know the assumptions, and they are perfectly fine.
Also, I use LINQ to make it extremely easy to manipulate lists of objects. Can you say that about your programming language? The easy of doing finds, getting distinct data from list objects etc is so insanely code-efficient.
Stupid little example: Have a list of objects with a Weight field and want the average of the Weight in the list?
Double AvgWeight = MyList.Average(w => w.Weight);
All done! I don't have to write stupid loops all the time when I just want to treat my list of objects like an SQL table. Do you know how much time this saves when your program is constantly working with lists of objects?
We are a small company, and C# allows me to write code extremely efficiently. So again, do you know a single thing about C#?
FYI Try writing C# code outside of Visual Studio. Good luck getting it to compile.
Not that I have needed to use a different IDE than Visual Studio, but SharpDevelop works just fine from what I briefly tried. So, um, good luck _not_ getting it to compile with SharpDevelop I guess?
And just to remind you, the Express versions of Visual Studio are entirely free and feature filled. Source control is the only big feature they leave out to entice you to still purchase the big VS. Other than that, extremely happy with the express editions.
Liquidity Liquidity Liquidity.
High frequency players try to make lots of tiny little profits and in turn provides LIQUIDITY to the other investor base that does not trade nearly as often as they do.
And because there is so much liquidity from high frequency players, spreads are kept very very small.. Which is a good thing for everyone (except the old school people that made money screwing people on high spreads, thus they are becoming extinct for the most part).
So let's summarize what these evil traders are doing:
Providing High Liqudity ---> Lower Spreads ---> Means that your average person / shortish/medium/long term hedge funds/investors/whatever is able to easily trade in financial markets without having to worry about being screwed by high spreads or not being able to trade when they want to.
Yes, these are just evil, evil people... they allow you to sit at your computer when you should be working and click buy/sell whenever you want to and be able to complete the transaction. You people need to stop blaming the "big banks" and all that crap for everything that is wrong in your lives.
*Disclaimer: I work at a medium term hedge fund. We have no interest in doing ultra high frequency, it's a pure technology game. We instead enjoy the research aspect of applying physics/other type of models to the markets; high frequency is only interesting for the technology side. But it's great there are so many people that do because it's easier for us to trade.
You mean a new expensive technology is not selling like older cheaper technology? Surely you are mistaken.
Oh crap, I've said pretty much that same thing. Maybe I should check my car... oh wait, I'm not brown, the FBI won't care.
Good thing parent was modded up, it's just so insightful to be mocking that a potential terrorist is more likely to be brown than not.
Oh nevermind, he is right. It would certainly be much more efficient for the FBI to investigate each person the same way and have no bias. He probably also complains about how much the FBI spends..
...what could possibly go wrong....
Because the articles on slashdot have no bias against microsoft... nice sample you have there.
Tools->Options->Personal Stuff->Sync
Enter your gmail account, choose if you want bookmarks, preferences, extensions etc.
All done. Works.
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I also have no way to protect myself from seeing billboards when I drive by them. Please protect me from them.
You are talking about advertising for gods sake. Why do you think you have an inherent right to be able to "protect" yourself from an ad?
A passive one at that; it's not as if we are talking about calling phones, which is blatantly much more intrusive.
And what happens when you have to step outside of the cave and real-life kicks in and you don't use your monthly subscription much?
Whoops, your math just took a dive.
There are definitely audiences for something like this. Just because you can't see past yourself don't pretend they don't exist.
Insightful, really? How about obvious and overplayed joke that deserves no attention.