So you pay to skip the ad even after you've watched it once already?
Yes.
Repetition is how they hook you. Repetition is how they hook you. Repetition is how they hook you. Repetition is how they hook you. Repetition is how they hook you.
Wouldn't it be more effective to identify the superset
Yes. Tell me how to do that.
I find that this subset is quite accurate. It would be niave of me (or anyone) to use it as the only criteria, variety is the spice of life and all, but it is quite broadly useful.
If someone can tell me how to, with the same accuracy, identify the superset then cool, I'm all ears.
I don't find that to be a trivial exercise though.:-)
Blah blah, I read it and it started off valid, but then took a turn for the worse.
He wanted to say consistency is key, but instead went into the land of ad hominem rather than substantiating his point.
I say again. *I* find the linux apps I use to make me more productive than the windows ones.
He can claim that consistency is key, but he's presented no evidence of that (which was all I claimed in the first place). For me, I'd rather spend 20 minutes 'dicking around' once and learn a different interface for each of the 5-6 apps I use and be able to use them well than to have a 'consistent' interface that is written for the lowest common denominator windows user.
" I really don't think either of these questions are likely to map well to good programmers."
People people. The point isn't that *all* good programmers show those traits. The point is that people who show those traits are likely to be good programmers.
Though anyone who can't grasp the logic of the questions is likely to be unable to program well...;-)
Wait a minute. I said that there was no study that showed linux to be less efficient than windows and that *I* find the linux guis to be more intuitive.
RevAaron says "They are" and that gets an insightful comment.
That's about the lamest piece of moderation I've ever seen.
Worse, he goes on to say "They waste time, and as the adage does, time is money. When I'm at work, that 20 minutes a day I have to spend trying to figure out those inconsistent GNOME apps costs me 20 minutes where I could have been doing real work. Maybe your time is worth nothing, but a lot of us have more to do than dick around with poorly designed GNOME apps."
WTF? I said that I found the linux stuff more useful. How does that in any way imply that my time isn't valuable or that I enjoy dicking around.
I think the moderators have confused insightful with hostile again. Not exactly a first time, but still, it would be nice if they read the note...
1) you're comment is interesting but I think overstates the problem. True, the guidelines are late. False that it necessarily follows that the GUIs for Gnome/KDE/Windowmaker are therefore costing us money.
Microsoft, for example, published GUI standards long after their OS was first available and dominent yet their tool was still very useful.
Fast forward to today: They are now, arguably, publishing standards today that are far behind the Mac. Where do the 'modern' Linux GUIs come in, I don't know (and agree it would be intresesting to see a study), but empirically I _usually_ find them easier than trying to do the same work in Windows. (And I use both regularly).
2) You didn't answer in the form of a physics dissertation. Please describe how QCD effects are ultimately manifested into usable GUIs. If you can propose a test to confirm your theory describe equipment needed, timeline and (most importantly in this era of reduced physics funding) a way that it ties into health sciences so we can get it funded. Something related to 'naked DNA' would be an especially fortunate posit.
The parent of this is Insightful? That's pretty funny as all he does is launch an adhominem attack.
Dude, I mentioned my company (which if you check the website isn't even fsck'ing open for business yet) to establish "context". You'll probably learn about it when you get into high school. (see, adhominems are fun!).
My original comment may not have been interesting, but it certainly was *not* offtopic. The article was about money for christs sake.
Yeah, I remember in '96 the popular one was to say that, at the then current adoption rates, every man, woman and child in the US would be a java programmer by 2010.
I'm starting a company Spamassassin to sell a webmail service, like hotmail, but with spam filtering done on our servers.
A paltry $1m would go a hell of a long way, so if you're stuck with an over-burdened bank account, drop me a line. Until then, let's realize how much money a million really is.
It's this kind of attitude that has our national budget back in the red.
Microsoft: If cars had improved the way software has we'd all be driving a million miles an hour uphill on a shot glass of fuel and the car would cost a dollar.
New response: If cars were like the xbox, we'd be sued for selling after market parts and only be able to buy gas from approved vendors at a dollar a gallon premium.
I'm a big fan also, in fact I introduced Taco to it. Folks interested in what the heuristics produce in terms of distribution of SA scores can view a graph of my logs. The three lines are the commonly used thresholds for deciding whether a mail is spam or not. Most folks run at 5, but some that are more paranoid about false positives run at 7 or 10. Myself, I find false positives to be practically non-existent and run happily at five. The missing data is just because I didn't keep statistics on non-spam mails until I had been running for a couple weeks.
Now for a commercial. Craig Hughes has formed a company to bring spamassassin to outlook users . And I'm setting up a hotmail like service at spamassassin.net to help users that don't have the time or ability to setup spamassassin themselves.
Assuming money is why you are leaving. If it isn't then just take the new job.
1) Ask for a raise. Specify why and how much. If they give it to you, stay
else
2) Find a new job
If you do this in the right order you never have to think to hard about the counter offer. They've made their opinion of you known and it's time to move on.
The whole concept behind broadband was that we, the user, would have high bandwidth to do with as we like. But now this idea is completely lost
No, the whole concept behind broadband was that the existing media providers could play in a new business line using copper (aka "The Last Mile") that they already had in the ground.
_From day one_ this has been about 'corporate greed'.
Here's a tip for you to remember going forward. There are no companies that are out for *your* good except and only to the extent which your good increases their bottom line.
This isn't to say that we, as consumers, shouldn't fight back. Not only should we, but it's _the_ fundimental check in a free market system so we must fight back. (ignoring for a moment that the government is also a check. It is one, but largely for safety and environmental reasons, not consumer value reasons)
All I'm saying is that you shouldn't be surprised to see that the man behind the curtain is trying to get an extra buck a customer in order to buy himself a new boat. The man behind the curtain is *always* doing that.
I actually think that your idea is a good one and hope it works out. There is, of course, a world of difference between a print platform going to the web with all the built in advertising you can give yourself to the target audience and what I was trying to do on poliglut.
Don't underestimate the number of people you need visiting in order to have a weblog work well. Poliglut had something like a 1:200 poster to reader ratio. That looks to be about the same at/. so maybe there's something to that mix. So to have anything like a vibrant community I'd guess you need to have a couple thousand unique visitors a day. Not a ton, but nothing to sneeze at either.
Cause I have to tell you if you're opinion were correct it would be hard to imagine that consulting would be a multi-billion dollar world-wide industry.
You're arguing an outrageous position and such positions require extraordinary proof. Not gut feels.
Bruce quotes research showing that you *can* fake fingerprints. Something that the vendors claim is impossible.
However, the kroeger system falls back to the old "bring something, know something" mode which makes it much more secure.
Sure someone can duplicate my fingerprint (how easy that would be to both do and hide when checking out is another point, but let's assume that it's reasonable to lift a latent print, make a mold and check through without the clerk noticing), but they still must know my pin.
This is no worse than the current system of debit cards with mag stripes on the back that are trivial to duplicate with not much more equipment.
It is, however, much more convenient.
Assuming I can change my pin to be something other than my telephone number, I'd use this system.
Why would the HR department prevent you from getting hired just because your resume was submitted previously?
Because they have a contract with the headhunter that says they'll pay him a commision (probably several thousands to as much as 10-15 thousand depending on the posters salary) if they hire someone he submited.
Granted, this might be a rarity, but simply refusing to use a technology for "ethical" reasons is absurd.
No. It's the foundation of a market driven economy. In many many cases absurd purchasing decisions (aka boycotts) are the only thing that can cause change in american industry.
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That's mine. Quote it at your own peril. :-)
So you pay to skip the ad even after you've watched it once already?
Yes.
Repetition is how they hook you.
Repetition is how they hook you.
Repetition is how they hook you.
Repetition is how they hook you.
Repetition is how they hook you.
Wouldn't it be more effective to identify the superset
:-)
Yes. Tell me how to do that.
I find that this subset is quite accurate. It would be niave of me (or anyone) to use it as the only criteria, variety is the spice of life and all, but it is quite broadly useful.
If someone can tell me how to, with the same accuracy, identify the superset then cool, I'm all ears.
I don't find that to be a trivial exercise though.
Blah blah, I read it and it started off valid, but then took a turn for the worse.
He wanted to say consistency is key, but instead went into the land of ad hominem rather than substantiating his point.
I say again. *I* find the linux apps I use to make me more productive than the windows ones.
He can claim that consistency is key, but he's presented no evidence of that (which was all I claimed in the first place). For me, I'd rather spend 20 minutes 'dicking around' once and learn a different interface for each of the 5-6 apps I use and be able to use them well than to have a 'consistent' interface that is written for the lowest common denominator windows user.
" I really don't think either of these questions are likely to map well to good programmers."
;-)
People people. The point isn't that *all* good programmers show those traits. The point is that people who show those traits are likely to be good programmers.
Though anyone who can't grasp the logic of the questions is likely to be unable to program well...
Wait a minute. I said that there was no study that showed linux to be less efficient than windows and that *I* find the linux guis to be more intuitive.
RevAaron says "They are" and that gets an insightful comment.
That's about the lamest piece of moderation I've ever seen.
Worse, he goes on to say "They waste time, and as the adage does, time is money. When I'm at work, that 20 minutes a day I have to spend trying to figure out those inconsistent GNOME apps costs me 20 minutes where I could have been doing real work. Maybe your time is worth nothing, but a lot of us have more to do than dick around with poorly designed GNOME apps."
WTF? I said that I found the linux stuff more useful. How does that in any way imply that my time isn't valuable or that I enjoy dicking around.
I think the moderators have confused insightful with hostile again. Not exactly a first time, but still, it would be nice if they read the note...
1) you're comment is interesting but I think overstates the problem. True, the guidelines are late. False that it necessarily follows that the GUIs for Gnome/KDE/Windowmaker are therefore costing us money.
Microsoft, for example, published GUI standards long after their OS was first available and dominent yet their tool was still very useful.
Fast forward to today: They are now, arguably, publishing standards today that are far behind the Mac. Where do the 'modern' Linux GUIs come in, I don't know (and agree it would be intresesting to see a study), but empirically I _usually_ find them easier than trying to do the same work in Windows. (And I use both regularly).
2) You didn't answer in the form of a physics dissertation. Please describe how QCD effects are ultimately manifested into usable GUIs. If you can propose a test to confirm your theory describe equipment needed, timeline and (most importantly in this era of reduced physics funding) a way that it ties into health sciences so we can get it funded. Something related to 'naked DNA' would be an especially fortunate posit.
All these stimuli are really going to do a number on us in the long run, mark my words.
Pffft!
That's what the luddites used to say about radio too.
no plastic cracking, no broken hinges, no lcd connector problems. could it be that the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair?
Hmmpf.
We've had 60% if our Inspiron 8000's go back to Dell for service. Not a good track record.
Glad you've had better luck, but a sample size of one isn't exactly useful.
The parent of this is Insightful? That's pretty funny as all he does is launch an adhominem attack.
Dude, I mentioned my company (which if you check the website isn't even fsck'ing open for business yet) to establish "context". You'll probably learn about it when you get into high school. (see, adhominems are fun!).
My original comment may not have been interesting, but it certainly was *not* offtopic. The article was about money for christs sake.
Yeah, I remember in '96 the popular one was to say that, at the then current adoption rates, every man, woman and child in the US would be a java programmer by 2010.
I'm starting a company Spamassassin to sell a webmail service, like hotmail, but with spam filtering done on our servers.
A paltry $1m would go a hell of a long way, so if you're stuck with an over-burdened bank account, drop me a line. Until then, let's realize how much money a million really is.
It's this kind of attitude that has our national budget back in the red.
Microsoft: If cars had improved the way software has we'd all be driving a million miles an hour uphill on a shot glass of fuel and the car would cost a dollar.
New response: If cars were like the xbox, we'd be sued for selling after market parts and only be able to buy gas from approved vendors at a dollar a gallon premium.
Now for a commercial. Craig Hughes has formed a company to bring spamassassin to outlook users . And I'm setting up a hotmail like service at spamassassin.net to help users that don't have the time or ability to setup spamassassin themselves.
Assuming money is why you are leaving. If it isn't then just take the new job.
1) Ask for a raise. Specify why and how much. If they give it to you, stay
else
2) Find a new job
If you do this in the right order you never have to think to hard about the counter offer. They've made their opinion of you known and it's time to move on.
LOL.
FYI, looks like poliglut may rise from the grave with a new team that still includes cmoanz and me. Watch that space...
The whole concept behind broadband was that we, the user, would have high bandwidth to do with as we like. But now this idea is completely lost
No, the whole concept behind broadband was that the existing media providers could play in a new business line using copper (aka "The Last Mile") that they already had in the ground.
_From day one_ this has been about 'corporate greed'.
Here's a tip for you to remember going forward. There are no companies that are out for *your* good except and only to the extent which your good increases their bottom line.
This isn't to say that we, as consumers, shouldn't fight back. Not only should we, but it's _the_ fundimental check in a free market system so we must fight back. (ignoring for a moment that the government is also a check. It is one, but largely for safety and environmental reasons, not consumer value reasons)
All I'm saying is that you shouldn't be surprised to see that the man behind the curtain is trying to get an extra buck a customer in order to buy himself a new boat. The man behind the curtain is *always* doing that.
I'd prefer my appreciation be in the form of wireless connectivity. ;-)
A news based web site cannot work.
;-)
/. so maybe there's something to that mix. So to have anything like a vibrant community I'd guess you need to have a couple thousand unique visitors a day. Not a ton, but nothing to sneeze at either.
Well, I guess I may be a little bitter.
I actually think that your idea is a good one and hope it works out. There is, of course, a world of difference between a print platform going to the web with all the built in advertising you can give yourself to the target audience and what I was trying to do on poliglut.
Don't underestimate the number of people you need visiting in order to have a weblog work well. Poliglut had something like a 1:200 poster to reader ratio. That looks to be about the same at
So I take it you have no source? Just a gut feel?
Cause I have to tell you if you're opinion were correct it would be hard to imagine that consulting would be a multi-billion dollar world-wide industry.
You're arguing an outrageous position and such positions require extraordinary proof. Not gut feels.
But you were only off by a factor of 100. Probably and astrophysicist, eh?
Care to quote a source for these numbers?
Bruce quotes research showing that you *can* fake fingerprints. Something that the vendors claim is impossible.
However, the kroeger system falls back to the old "bring something, know something" mode which makes it much more secure.
Sure someone can duplicate my fingerprint (how easy that would be to both do and hide when checking out is another point, but let's assume that it's reasonable to lift a latent print, make a mold and check through without the clerk noticing), but they still must know my pin.
This is no worse than the current system of debit cards with mag stripes on the back that are trivial to duplicate with not much more equipment.
It is, however, much more convenient.
Assuming I can change my pin to be something other than my telephone number, I'd use this system.
Why would the HR department prevent you from getting hired just because your resume was submitted previously?
Because they have a contract with the headhunter that says they'll pay him a commision (probably several thousands to as much as 10-15 thousand depending on the posters salary) if they hire someone he submited.
Granted, this might be a rarity, but simply refusing to use a technology for "ethical" reasons is absurd.
No. It's the foundation of a market driven economy. In many many cases absurd purchasing decisions (aka boycotts) are the only thing that can cause change in american industry.