Loyalty and experience of working in that particular company.
If you ever got out of your hypothetical slogan ivory tower and actually worked with new company recruits in any field that requires high levels of education and by extension a lot of specialist workplace training, you'd know that first few months is essentially figuring out if the person matches your needs. Then you spend a year or so apprenticing the person to someone experienced and letting him learn the ropes of how company works. Then you have to give the guy a huge raise and start moving him on his career or your competitors will poach him because they get a trained employee with good knowledge of their competition's modus operandi.
And finally, if it's a position where person gets to manage company money, you stand to lose several orders of magnitude if you put someone unsuitable to that position. I know of several people who essentially "play solitaire" for months on until next project that they need to manage comes. Why are they kept on their huge salaries? Because they have earned company trust and company knows that they can put projects that require very strict kind of work and management into their capable hands.
Looking for a free agent for such work will cost your company at least an order of magnitude more then this person's big salary because of all the bonuses you'll have to pay to jury-rig the "trust" necessary, and it'll still not be as reliable.
Not really. China has a lot of intel presence in the region, and unlike US it will likely be less secure because it's not intel about THEIR OWN important operations.
So it makes a lot of sense to go after China's data on US Afghan operations.
I think you need to update your drivers. It's 2012, not 2007 or so, which was about the last time I remember crashing due to alt tab killing ati or nvidia drivers.
The reason why you want to run windowed is because of alt-tab SPEED, and desire to be able to work in another window at the same time as playing. If the game is in full screen mode, it will by default minimize when focus is lost, and you need to maximize it to interact with the game again. There is no such issue with windowed fullscreen.
You should consider playing games that aren't ancient then. Vast majority of windows games produced in last 5-7 years can handle alt-tab just fine. Many of the games released in last couple of years even offer "borderless full screen window mode" where you can use the game as if it was just another application, which is really handy in multiple display environment. I play SC2 like that for example.
Bada doesn't have skype? Even symbian has it (and had it longer then any other mobile OS back when skype allowed 3rd party clients). I would imagine there is at least some skype support in bada?
Sarkozy has a tendency of burying himself in debates at least as much as eating his opponents alive. He has a sharp tongue, and it bites him back quite often.
I think you're confusing "massive defrauding of governments on social programs" with "insanely generous social programs".
They have shit like islands with almost ten percent of people being registered as legally blind. It's simply widespread fraud that's become the "way of the land". It has little to nothing to do with social programs themselves and everything to do with massive corruption and self-centred cultural issues.
Discriminatory pricing within EU unified economic zone based on location is indeed illegal. This is very specific law, aimed to make sure that EU is in fact a unified economic zone.
What does it have to do with pricing people based on behaviour?
I think it's less of an issue with monetization and more of an issue with DOTA format. I've played it in HoN, I played it in SC2 DOTA mods like SOLTS, I played it in LoL. They all suffer from the same problem in spite of being 3 different models. HoN was buy to play, SC2 was buy the main game, play custom games for free and LoL was free to play. LoL is not actually/technically freemium as paying customer doesn't get any gameplay advantages over someone playing for free.
DOTA format just makes people into assholes because someone making mistakes punishes the entire team in a very direct and visible manner. So people become assholes to the "feeders" very quickly, as they directly ruin their gameplay experience.
Basically a small reactor on a floating platform that you pull to the shore, connect to a local prepared transformer station and you have power. It makes a very good alternative to constructing power plants in remote regions for example. I believe the suggestion in OP was mirrored by other nations with capability of building naval nuclear reactors.
Because income from YouTube in Germany is likely multiple orders of magnitude bigger then fine for individual infringement. You're forgetting that country is an economic powerhouse that is one of the very few places in the world that keeps on growing at a decent rate even in current economic climate with a lot of users that are wealthy enough to be desirable targets for premium advertising.
Anti-virus software is good at blocking threats that are not zero-day threats. I.e. known viruses reused. Much of stuff out there that actually does damage falls into this category (think conficker for example).
The only thing that can protect you against zero day threats is having solid security practices on user's end. And even that is not guaranteed (think valve source code theft).
You rarely if ever downloaded software in 1980s. Stuff was moved around on floppies and other magnetic media such as audio tapes for example. There was some stuff done over BBS but downloading stuff over slow analogue modems was a pain in the ass (I'm thinking 9600 baud and lower that was common in late 1980s).
I called the system by it's real name, fascism. Then noted that corporatism is the same thing, whitewashed.
Is there something unclear about these terms, are you perhaps unfamiliar with any of them and unable to access wikipedia and/or google from where you are, or do you just object to claims that modern South Korea is largely a fascist society?
Well, I suppose Cold War was essentially a "ridiculous pissing contest" as well in a hindsight. Didn't stop it from almost wiping humanity from face of a planet a couple of times.
South Korea is not a model democracy today. It's a fascist (or corporatist if you want to white wash it through name change) state where large corporations like Samsung and Daewoo essentially own the government regardless of who is actually voted in and get to decide on essentially all relevant policy.
It is also very financially successful state, due to smart moves by said corporations in essentially "dronifying" the population to the point where wealthiest families move out of the country to avoid that happening to their children.
Yes. That was exactly the threat, and that *IS* exactly the threat currently.
The agreement that allows such data sharing has been in place since 2009 or so (iirc). It was an "emergency" agreement that was really bad for EU citizens. This one is marginally better and still god awful.
The problem is there is a lot of business and private travel between EU and US and travel has been made fast and easy. US has threatened to make it very difficult, if EU doesn't agree to data sharing, EU citizens won't fly to US without massive and long background checks. This would cripple the air travel from EU to US and it's simply too important for both to be allowed to happen.
Arguably EU could have played the hard ball and simply institute same draconian measures as US threatened to institute for US citizens flying to EU. Problem is, that is cutting off face to spite the nose. This travel is very important to both parties, and EU doesn't have the same panicky "shoot first" attitude towards terrorism that many parts of US security apparatus has. So it would have been very difficult to explain to those EU businessmen and citizens who always flew to US easily why EU had to go to a tit-for-tat security war on EU end, whereas on US end the universal "this is to protect you from the terrorists" excuse would have been used yet again with great success. "Why wasn't there a solution found"-fallout would have been much greater in EU then in US. So EU politicians caved.
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Loyalty and experience of working in that particular company.
If you ever got out of your hypothetical slogan ivory tower and actually worked with new company recruits in any field that requires high levels of education and by extension a lot of specialist workplace training, you'd know that first few months is essentially figuring out if the person matches your needs. Then you spend a year or so apprenticing the person to someone experienced and letting him learn the ropes of how company works.
Then you have to give the guy a huge raise and start moving him on his career or your competitors will poach him because they get a trained employee with good knowledge of their competition's modus operandi.
And finally, if it's a position where person gets to manage company money, you stand to lose several orders of magnitude if you put someone unsuitable to that position. I know of several people who essentially "play solitaire" for months on until next project that they need to manage comes. Why are they kept on their huge salaries? Because they have earned company trust and company knows that they can put projects that require very strict kind of work and management into their capable hands.
Looking for a free agent for such work will cost your company at least an order of magnitude more then this person's big salary because of all the bonuses you'll have to pay to jury-rig the "trust" necessary, and it'll still not be as reliable.
Look, look! These wannabees who live in a different place like music that I don't like!
Not really. China has a lot of intel presence in the region, and unlike US it will likely be less secure because it's not intel about THEIR OWN important operations.
So it makes a lot of sense to go after China's data on US Afghan operations.
They got nailed for leveraging their OS monopoly to expand into browser market.
I think you need to update your drivers. It's 2012, not 2007 or so, which was about the last time I remember crashing due to alt tab killing ati or nvidia drivers.
The reason why you want to run windowed is because of alt-tab SPEED, and desire to be able to work in another window at the same time as playing. If the game is in full screen mode, it will by default minimize when focus is lost, and you need to maximize it to interact with the game again. There is no such issue with windowed fullscreen.
True, I actually remember a guy with a pocket PC talking on skype once now that you mentioned it.
You should consider playing games that aren't ancient then. Vast majority of windows games produced in last 5-7 years can handle alt-tab just fine. Many of the games released in last couple of years even offer "borderless full screen window mode" where you can use the game as if it was just another application, which is really handy in multiple display environment. I play SC2 like that for example.
Bada doesn't have skype? Even symbian has it (and had it longer then any other mobile OS back when skype allowed 3rd party clients). I would imagine there is at least some skype support in bada?
Sarkozy has a tendency of burying himself in debates at least as much as eating his opponents alive. He has a sharp tongue, and it bites him back quite often.
I think you're confusing "massive defrauding of governments on social programs" with "insanely generous social programs".
They have shit like islands with almost ten percent of people being registered as legally blind. It's simply widespread fraud that's become the "way of the land". It has little to nothing to do with social programs themselves and everything to do with massive corruption and self-centred cultural issues.
There is one difference though. To Sarkozy, piracy and copyright infringement is personal because of his wife. To Hollande, it's business as usual.
Discriminatory pricing within EU unified economic zone based on location is indeed illegal. This is very specific law, aimed to make sure that EU is in fact a unified economic zone.
What does it have to do with pricing people based on behaviour?
What on earth are you talking about?
I think it's less of an issue with monetization and more of an issue with DOTA format. I've played it in HoN, I played it in SC2 DOTA mods like SOLTS, I played it in LoL. They all suffer from the same problem in spite of being 3 different models. HoN was buy to play, SC2 was buy the main game, play custom games for free and LoL was free to play. LoL is not actually/technically freemium as paying customer doesn't get any gameplay advantages over someone playing for free.
DOTA format just makes people into assholes because someone making mistakes punishes the entire team in a very direct and visible manner. So people become assholes to the "feeders" very quickly, as they directly ruin their gameplay experience.
In most cases, it was easier (and faster) to go with sneakernet. Especially since it also saved costs of calls (depending on your location obviously).
Heck I still remember those audio tapes filled with zx spectrum games I had when I was seven. They were something around 20 kilobytes each?
As I understand, this comes after russians started to do the same thing making many people realise that this is actually doable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station
Basically a small reactor on a floating platform that you pull to the shore, connect to a local prepared transformer station and you have power. It makes a very good alternative to constructing power plants in remote regions for example. I believe the suggestion in OP was mirrored by other nations with capability of building naval nuclear reactors.
Because income from YouTube in Germany is likely multiple orders of magnitude bigger then fine for individual infringement. You're forgetting that country is an economic powerhouse that is one of the very few places in the world that keeps on growing at a decent rate even in current economic climate with a lot of users that are wealthy enough to be desirable targets for premium advertising.
Anti-virus software is good at blocking threats that are not zero-day threats. I.e. known viruses reused. Much of stuff out there that actually does damage falls into this category (think conficker for example).
The only thing that can protect you against zero day threats is having solid security practices on user's end. And even that is not guaranteed (think valve source code theft).
That is why, as you can see I said "model democracy" rather then "western democracy".
You rarely if ever downloaded software in 1980s. Stuff was moved around on floppies and other magnetic media such as audio tapes for example. There was some stuff done over BBS but downloading stuff over slow analogue modems was a pain in the ass (I'm thinking 9600 baud and lower that was common in late 1980s).
Pretty much this. In most cases the weakest link is between keyboard and chair and chain is as strong as its weakest link.
I called the system by it's real name, fascism. Then noted that corporatism is the same thing, whitewashed.
Is there something unclear about these terms, are you perhaps unfamiliar with any of them and unable to access wikipedia and/or google from where you are, or do you just object to claims that modern South Korea is largely a fascist society?
Countering existential threat = "ridiculous pissing contest"?
Well, I suppose Cold War was essentially a "ridiculous pissing contest" as well in a hindsight. Didn't stop it from almost wiping humanity from face of a planet a couple of times.
South Korea is not a model democracy today. It's a fascist (or corporatist if you want to white wash it through name change) state where large corporations like Samsung and Daewoo essentially own the government regardless of who is actually voted in and get to decide on essentially all relevant policy.
It is also very financially successful state, due to smart moves by said corporations in essentially "dronifying" the population to the point where wealthiest families move out of the country to avoid that happening to their children.
Yes. That was exactly the threat, and that *IS* exactly the threat currently.
The agreement that allows such data sharing has been in place since 2009 or so (iirc). It was an "emergency" agreement that was really bad for EU citizens. This one is marginally better and still god awful.
The problem is there is a lot of business and private travel between EU and US and travel has been made fast and easy. US has threatened to make it very difficult, if EU doesn't agree to data sharing, EU citizens won't fly to US without massive and long background checks. This would cripple the air travel from EU to US and it's simply too important for both to be allowed to happen.
Arguably EU could have played the hard ball and simply institute same draconian measures as US threatened to institute for US citizens flying to EU. Problem is, that is cutting off face to spite the nose. This travel is very important to both parties, and EU doesn't have the same panicky "shoot first" attitude towards terrorism that many parts of US security apparatus has. So it would have been very difficult to explain to those EU businessmen and citizens who always flew to US easily why EU had to go to a tit-for-tat security war on EU end, whereas on US end the universal "this is to protect you from the terrorists" excuse would have been used yet again with great success. "Why wasn't there a solution found"-fallout would have been much greater in EU then in US. So EU politicians caved.