It's a question of cost vs benefits. Would you rather help 50 kids with computers and a teacher, or 500 with just the computer, who will get 75% of the benefits? And that can be a tough question. The cost of a teacher can be considerable, compared to a box of Raspberry Pi kits.
As One Laptop Per child demonstrated, they'll learn on their own if given a chance.
"Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”"
Note these are children who had never seen writing before, working with computers that did not include their local language.
1) Police already have better non-lethal options, such as tasers and beanbag rounds.
2) Police are trained to fire multiple times if they have to shoot at all.
3) If it's not fatal, it's not as effective at stopping, and sometimes, stopping someone is all that matter. If it's on all the time, it wastes a precious second or two when it counts. If it's not, it will never be used at all.
4) Isn't an orange tip to the barrel an indication it's a toy gun?
Er, no. The summary is, as usual on/., largely unrelated to the actual article.
It is apparently (the article is a little fuzzy, too) a tool for people designing web sites to track cross-site scripting, to look for vulnerabilities. This is a good thing. I think.
Whining just helps people to discharge their frustration.
And helps their boss discharge them.
In fact, it encourages people to remain at their job.
Which is an incredibly stupid thing to do when you hate your job.
When you stop whining, you start seriously to seek for another job. Since you stopped complaining, you don't have a distorted view of the reality, so it's easier to detect problems when your mind is clear.
Because people can just magically drop bad habits they've had for years, sure. And if unicorns farted cinnamon flavored rainbows, we'd all have cinnamon toast for breakfast every day.
I'd be more inclined to limit it to "all young people." The older they get, the more jobs they get fired from, the less likely they are to continue to same behavior (though some never learn).
Biased opinions like yours regarding millennials is what discourages younger generations
who have accomplished absolutely nothing, but expect to be treated as if they're the hottest shit since sliced bread anyway.
from respecting those who
worked their asses off when they were millenials' age, got established, saved, got some security, and now deserve to enjoy it.
You want what older people have? Earn it, like they did. Otherwise, you're just a whiny, entitled little brat.
Biases are bad generalizations as you can tell: Don't use them. Each individual should be treated uniquely.
Indeed. And there are some youngsters who are outstanding employees, and who will advance in good companies until they get where they want to be. The whiny little shits will fail and fail and fail until they learn to act like adults, just like every other generation.
Respect is earned, it cannot be given, even by Mommy and Daddy. That includes self respect.
That's no different from any other industry. The only thing different in IT is that IT people tend to be younger, and more naïve, which is to say, clueless enough to expect better. In other industries, people learn fast that most jobs are shit, and if you don't like it, get another one and move on, and keep moving on until you find a decent place to work. (I've got 22 years on the same job, and still get up in the morning looking forward to going to work. Yes, in IT.)
Whining only reduces your chances of getting a better job.
I'd be more inclined to limit it to "all young people." The older they get, the more jobs they get fired from, the less likely they are to continue to same behavior (though some never learn).
It's only fruit of the poisonous tree if the police hack it without a warrant. In point of fact, stolen stuff is used as evidence against the theft victim all the time.
This should result in a very thorough investigation in to AM, including warrants for copies of all source code and backups (and when it turns out the bots have been removed since the hack, that's another charge of destroying evidence). Seem unlikely it will, but it certainly should.
If this research is correct, "what you use" does change if this gene is expressed. So while the x/y equation might not change, both the values of x and y can.
Roleplaying games have the advantage of having always been an industry of amateurs. Other than a couple of big companies - TSR/Wtoc/Hasbro, White Wolf for a while, and Steve Jackson - it's all been some guy in his garage, happy if he breaks even but not expecting to make a living at it.
That means there's a lot of experience out there with the business model, for newbies to draw on, and it also means the market has realistic expectations as to production values. Good content on a Xeroxed page is perfectly OK for most gamers, so long as it is good content.
There are elements of that in the board game industry, but it's a lot less pronounced, because the barriers to entry in to the market are a lot higher. It's always been the case that rpgs can be published at a the copy shop, but board games need reasonable quality cardboard map boards and plastic playing pieces.
Designing the game is not the same as designing the physical product. You have a nice map board in Photoshop, but you have to figure out how to get it printed on paper, mounted on cardboard, etc. And somebody has to do the pre-production work on the rules - the layout and page design.
And they you have to deal with printers, and, if you're at all successful, a fulfillment center (Exploding Kittens got together with Cards For Humanity and started a fulfillment company to handle the 17 train cards full of cards).
Then there's marketing. Running the Kickstarter is a full time job to promote, and that's peanuts compared to the time you have to spend shilling for the product after it's available for retail.
None of those things, individually, is actually all that difficult, but it all takes time, and the business end of things requires a completely different set of skills from the game design end. And if you don't have that skillset, you'll lose your shorts, and end up with a game so expensive nobody will ever buy it.
It can be done, and people do it, but if your passion is game design, pay somebody else to do it for you. Otherwise, you're not a game designer, you're a publishers, and that's a full time business.
and everyone else learn a lesson without having lost too much.
Given that Ponzi schemes have been around for centuries, that seems . . . unlikely. They'll just convince themselves they need to invest earlier, next time. Some of the people, all of the time.
Not that I would object to him being sodomized in prison until he bleeds out through his ass or anything, the guy's just an annoying git, but what makes you think he's not getting licenses?
Lawyers who say that are generally the ones who have faced someone representing themselves who a) aren't idiots, b) are literate, and c) understand how to use legal indexes to find relevant precedent. They're generally terrified of facing such an opponent again.
He obviously knows what he's doing, and he'll have about a hundred times as much time to spend on the case as his opponents.
Plus, odds are, he's part of a firm and gets representation for free anyway. If not, he certainly knows others specialized in the field and can cut a deal.
As an IT professional, the only way I could use this would be if Microsoft provided me with appropriate documentation on their PCI compliance status regarding all this information they're collecting, which they will never do, since those documents would be legally binding.
Anybody who accept credit cards is walking in to a mindfield with Windows 10.
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Suicide is illegal in the US.
I thought car makers were using the DMCA to send the Copyright Police(tm) around to kick in your door in the middle of the night to gas your dog with Zyklon B for having the audacity to read your odometer without their permission (and licensing fee).
What the hell is going on here? Is this some kind of sting? IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!
It's a question of cost vs benefits. Would you rather help 50 kids with computers and a teacher, or 500 with just the computer, who will get 75% of the benefits? And that can be a tough question. The cost of a teacher can be considerable, compared to a box of Raspberry Pi kits.
As One Laptop Per child demonstrated, they'll learn on their own if given a chance.
"Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”"
Note these are children who had never seen writing before, working with computers that did not include their local language.
1) Police already have better non-lethal options, such as tasers and beanbag rounds.
2) Police are trained to fire multiple times if they have to shoot at all.
3) If it's not fatal, it's not as effective at stopping, and sometimes, stopping someone is all that matter. If it's on all the time, it wastes a precious second or two when it counts. If it's not, it will never be used at all.
4) Isn't an orange tip to the barrel an indication it's a toy gun?
5) It looks stupid.
We don't generally hate liberal arts ... in this case we just have no idea of why tech firms would be hiring people without tech skills.
Perhaps because they want to stay in business, since tech firms that have only tech skills can't do anything else, like run a business.
Somebody's gotta babysit all the pencil necks.
I'm an asshole. It says so on my character sheet.
Er, no. The summary is, as usual on /., largely unrelated to the actual article.
It is apparently (the article is a little fuzzy, too) a tool for people designing web sites to track cross-site scripting, to look for vulnerabilities. This is a good thing. I think.
Whining just helps people to discharge their frustration.
And helps their boss discharge them.
In fact, it encourages people to remain at their job.
Which is an incredibly stupid thing to do when you hate your job.
When you stop whining, you start seriously to seek for another job.
Since you stopped complaining, you don't have a distorted view of the reality, so it's easier to detect problems when your mind is clear.
Because people can just magically drop bad habits they've had for years, sure. And if unicorns farted cinnamon flavored rainbows, we'd all have cinnamon toast for breakfast every day.
I'd be more inclined to limit it to "all young people." The older they get, the more jobs they get fired from, the less likely they are to continue to same behavior (though some never learn).
Biased opinions like yours regarding millennials is what discourages younger generations
who have accomplished absolutely nothing, but expect to be treated as if they're the hottest shit since sliced bread anyway.
from respecting those who
worked their asses off when they were millenials' age, got established, saved, got some security, and now deserve to enjoy it.
You want what older people have? Earn it, like they did. Otherwise, you're just a whiny, entitled little brat.
Biases are bad generalizations as you can tell: Don't use them. Each individual should be treated uniquely.
Indeed. And there are some youngsters who are outstanding employees, and who will advance in good companies until they get where they want to be. The whiny little shits will fail and fail and fail until they learn to act like adults, just like every other generation.
Respect is earned, it cannot be given, even by Mommy and Daddy. That includes self respect.
Bluntly put, your boss is not all bosses.
And even more bluntly put, if all your jobs suck, perhaps you should consider that the jobs aren't the problem.
That's no different from any other industry. The only thing different in IT is that IT people tend to be younger, and more naïve, which is to say, clueless enough to expect better. In other industries, people learn fast that most jobs are shit, and if you don't like it, get another one and move on, and keep moving on until you find a decent place to work. (I've got 22 years on the same job, and still get up in the morning looking forward to going to work. Yes, in IT.)
Whining only reduces your chances of getting a better job.
I'd be more inclined to limit it to "all young people." The older they get, the more jobs they get fired from, the less likely they are to continue to same behavior (though some never learn).
It's only fruit of the poisonous tree if the police hack it without a warrant. In point of fact, stolen stuff is used as evidence against the theft victim all the time.
This should result in a very thorough investigation in to AM, including warrants for copies of all source code and backups (and when it turns out the bots have been removed since the hack, that's another charge of destroying evidence). Seem unlikely it will, but it certainly should.
So this is an incentive to make the most annoying ad the largest Flash crap on the screen, then.
If this research is correct, "what you use" does change if this gene is expressed. So while the x/y equation might not change, both the values of x and y can.
Roleplaying games have the advantage of having always been an industry of amateurs. Other than a couple of big companies - TSR/Wtoc/Hasbro, White Wolf for a while, and Steve Jackson - it's all been some guy in his garage, happy if he breaks even but not expecting to make a living at it.
That means there's a lot of experience out there with the business model, for newbies to draw on, and it also means the market has realistic expectations as to production values. Good content on a Xeroxed page is perfectly OK for most gamers, so long as it is good content.
There are elements of that in the board game industry, but it's a lot less pronounced, because the barriers to entry in to the market are a lot higher. It's always been the case that rpgs can be published at a the copy shop, but board games need reasonable quality cardboard map boards and plastic playing pieces.
Designing the game is not the same as designing the physical product. You have a nice map board in Photoshop, but you have to figure out how to get it printed on paper, mounted on cardboard, etc. And somebody has to do the pre-production work on the rules - the layout and page design.
And they you have to deal with printers, and, if you're at all successful, a fulfillment center (Exploding Kittens got together with Cards For Humanity and started a fulfillment company to handle the 17 train cards full of cards).
Then there's marketing. Running the Kickstarter is a full time job to promote, and that's peanuts compared to the time you have to spend shilling for the product after it's available for retail.
None of those things, individually, is actually all that difficult, but it all takes time, and the business end of things requires a completely different set of skills from the game design end. And if you don't have that skillset, you'll lose your shorts, and end up with a game so expensive nobody will ever buy it.
It can be done, and people do it, but if your passion is game design, pay somebody else to do it for you. Otherwise, you're not a game designer, you're a publishers, and that's a full time business.
Governments can't inflate it, but everyone else can.
and everyone else learn a lesson without having lost too much.
Given that Ponzi schemes have been around for centuries, that seems . . . unlikely. They'll just convince themselves they need to invest earlier, next time. Some of the people, all of the time.
Yeah, it'd be like lighting the burned out building on fire again. Or letting the hooker convince it's her first time.
One cannot help but suspect that these studies are on how to make boat payments and take expensive vacations right here on earth.
Not that I would object to him being sodomized in prison until he bleeds out through his ass or anything, the guy's just an annoying git, but what makes you think he's not getting licenses?
Lawyers who say that are generally the ones who have faced someone representing themselves who a) aren't idiots, b) are literate, and c) understand how to use legal indexes to find relevant precedent. They're generally terrified of facing such an opponent again.
He obviously knows what he's doing, and he'll have about a hundred times as much time to spend on the case as his opponents.
Plus, odds are, he's part of a firm and gets representation for free anyway. If not, he certainly knows others specialized in the field and can cut a deal.
As an IT professional, the only way I could use this would be if Microsoft provided me with appropriate documentation on their PCI compliance status regarding all this information they're collecting, which they will never do, since those documents would be legally binding.
Anybody who accept credit cards is walking in to a mindfield with Windows 10.