Take a few of the C-level executives hostage and make the board pay out their salaries for a year to you as a ransom to an offshore account.
Make your escape, move to a 'friendly' country (ever been to South Africa?) and enjoy your new life.
Its the producers doing the mixing. Most of them are not engineers in any sense, just knob twiddlers who twiddle around until it sounds 'good' to them. Or they flip through the default settings on the dynamics plugins until they find the one they like. Of course a few more ears have to hear it before it can be determined to be 'good', but thats when you get into the kind of ball-washing that goes on in the music industry where everything Mr. X produces sounds great, even if it doesn't. Bigger labels will use studios with dedicated recording engineers, who should know what they're doing, but I think they are just mixing it the way the labels want.
Most pop music/top 40 doesn't require dynamic range of more than 5 dB. Most of it isn't worth listening to though!!
iPod earbuds, garbage PC speakers that most people use, etc, don't reproduce very dynamic pieces very well.
Whats it made of? Carbon-Carbon or something less expensive? (Asbestos?)
I've seen the An-225 at a distance and it is amazing. The size is completely insane. It looked like its wings were going to scrape the ground, then after lift off they straightened out.
Will their new mascot will be Che Guevara?
Diaspora is a horrid name. If they mean "a mass migration of Facebookers to Diaspora" I think they've still got it wrong. Greek words sound like diseases or names of microbes.
They should have just called it 'bookface' and been done with it.
No, it does not at all make my head spin! What kind of neurotics sit around and worry about stuff like this?
Companies like data, lots and lots of data. So they're going to find ways to accumulate it. I'm not sure why people cry hell over url shortening. Its just a type of compression, and it makes communication easier.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
10.3 Redirection 3xx
This class of status code indicates that further action needs to be taken by the user agent in order to fulfill the request. The action required MAY be carried out by the user agent without interaction with the user if and only if the method used in the second request is GET or HEAD. A client SHOULD detect infinite redirection loops, since such loops generate network traffic for each redirection.
Note: previous versions of this specification recommended a
maximum of five redirections. Content developers should be aware
that there might be clients that implement such a fixed
limitation.
These goddamn kids are diluting the strength of words. I'm going to have to get creative now. The trick I think is to combine things that multiply the strength of the words.
Here are some examples of profane combinations, and please don't let the kids get wind of them:
"Jesus Fuck!"
"Christ's Tits!"
"Mother of God's Firm Ass!"
"Jesus Raped!"
I could go on..
Hells Hounds!
"virtualization virtuoso, cloud connoisseur, mobility maven: The ability to wear multiple geek hats is essential"
This is absolute bull shit.
"You don't even have to explain what you want or provide a document. They just complete the job."
I need to use the toilet.
"A good developer will never say 10,"
TEN TEN TEN TEN you stupid moron. Having people rate themselves on a scale of 1-10 is complete MBA school horse shit.
Nonhumble is a non-word. As far as I can tell, these are actually real people saying these things. Basically this article says that if you are in a position where your ass is toast when you fuck up, you better assemble a team of people you can cover your ass with. Perfect are the Humble Genius, the Sherpa, etc...
"A-Teamers must be up to speed on the smartphones, tablets, social networks, and mobile apps du jour."
Ah yet another article espousing the importance of gadgets.
This article was written for Jen on "The IT Crowd". She would get completely into this article.
"But the "secret sauce" of the Exalogic, Ellison said, was the device's 'coherance' software, which syncronises the memory systems"
The secret sauce is Tangosol's Coherence cache, which Oracle bought a while ago. There's nothing secret about that. Its an in memory cache which is a pain in the ass to set up and tune. And expensive to license. Maybe its already set up and tuned for you in this elastic box? How many boxen can you has playing nicely together?
Oracle has a serious problem with scalability. This appears to be their answer. I'd not be happy trying to put Weblogic, Coherence and whatever else is forced upon you into a production environment.
Thats part 2 of its two part purpose I think. I think both parts are good for jobs and security in the US, at the cost of stifling some innovation. It keeps US dollars in the military/industrial windmill, which, for the US is a good thing. Any country with a significant industrial sector wants to keep the tide of money coming in rather than going out.
" WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR! "
But more war == less humans. It comes out equal in the end.
His plan worked in a way. One less loud mouthed human with a caps-lock problem.
I don't see whats so creepy about it. It's not like someone is watching them surf with a telephoto lens. There is a small piece of code running somewhere which maps sessions to products. I agree, there can't be regulation of intelligent marketing. It's not malicious, it's just marketing. Amazon's been doing tracking and placement for ages.
Is it way too obvious a solution to use labeled tubes? Or do they normally just cut the tube from a big roll of universal clear medical tubing?
Medical equipment is really expensive, so creating a standard and enforcing it is probably not cost effective or possible in the short term. Much of the equipment needs to function for many years.
Of course, someone could label the tubes wrong...
I think the bugged conversation would be more like:
"Dude Agda is the hot one."
"No way, Ulva is way hotter. Did you see the knee socks? Thats hot."
"Whatever, I'd totally do both of them."
Correct. Headhunters. If you talk to them the don't know what any of those things are. But they can bullshit pretty good and before you know it you're drunk and shanghai'd into a platform X integration death march!!
"Keeping up with change can be as simple as experimenting with the latest consumer devices. Druby carries an iPad, and Sims uses three different smartphones and recently ordered an Android-based tablet. Chesnais says that at a recent meeting, half the people in the room had iPads."
Let me summarize. If you want to stay Relevant and Make More Money at work:
- Buy new gadgets and put them through their paces vigorously. Devices without touch screens == irrelevant.
- The cool people at work have iPads and bring them to meetings. Being cool == relevant.
- Technical skills are for kids. You should move into project management or some kind of leadership position now that you're ~30.
- Know how to navigate through the company. Don't do work, Navigate.
The real Take Aways here are:
- you should be thinking "Who do I have to fuck to get a management position around here?"
- iPads, Androids, smart phones are the future and graphics are so goddamn fast!. Programmers aren't.
If a game company exploits skinners box to psychologically addict someone, then they should be held liable.
"skinners box"?
I think I get the idea anyhow.
So you're suggesting that the game company has developed some kind of subliminal manipulation technique that makes people unable to unhook themselves from the game? How plausible is that? Have you ever worked at a game company? This kind of thing is just not likely in that context. Subliminal messaging doesn't lend itself to something as general as "keep playing, you slave". People with OCD and maybe 'addictive personality disorder' if this is really a measurable phenomenon will have difficulty pulling themselves away from a game. The only thing the developer did here that makes this a problem is that the game probably NEVER ENDS.
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Take a few of the C-level executives hostage and make the board pay out their salaries for a year to you as a ransom to an offshore account. Make your escape, move to a 'friendly' country (ever been to South Africa?) and enjoy your new life.
Furthermore, the games-only programs are generally laughed at in the high end of the industry..
Yes they are. Laughed silly. Resumes with Fullsail or the like don't pass the initial screening process by recruiters.
Its the producers doing the mixing. Most of them are not engineers in any sense, just knob twiddlers who twiddle around until it sounds 'good' to them. Or they flip through the default settings on the dynamics plugins until they find the one they like. Of course a few more ears have to hear it before it can be determined to be 'good', but thats when you get into the kind of ball-washing that goes on in the music industry where everything Mr. X produces sounds great, even if it doesn't. Bigger labels will use studios with dedicated recording engineers, who should know what they're doing, but I think they are just mixing it the way the labels want. Most pop music/top 40 doesn't require dynamic range of more than 5 dB. Most of it isn't worth listening to though!! iPod earbuds, garbage PC speakers that most people use, etc, don't reproduce very dynamic pieces very well.
Whats it made of? Carbon-Carbon or something less expensive? (Asbestos?) I've seen the An-225 at a distance and it is amazing. The size is completely insane. It looked like its wings were going to scrape the ground, then after lift off they straightened out.
Will their new mascot will be Che Guevara? Diaspora is a horrid name. If they mean "a mass migration of Facebookers to Diaspora" I think they've still got it wrong. Greek words sound like diseases or names of microbes. They should have just called it 'bookface' and been done with it.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
That is why you never ever buy a dog from a pikey.
These goddamn kids are diluting the strength of words. I'm going to have to get creative now. The trick I think is to combine things that multiply the strength of the words. Here are some examples of profane combinations, and please don't let the kids get wind of them:
"Jesus Fuck!"
"Christ's Tits!"
"Mother of God's Firm Ass!"
"Jesus Raped!"
I could go on..
Hells Hounds!
"virtualization virtuoso, cloud connoisseur, mobility maven: The ability to wear multiple geek hats is essential"
This is absolute bull shit.
"You don't even have to explain what you want or provide a document. They just complete the job."
I need to use the toilet.
"A good developer will never say 10,"
TEN TEN TEN TEN you stupid moron. Having people rate themselves on a scale of 1-10 is complete MBA school horse shit.
Nonhumble is a non-word. As far as I can tell, these are actually real people saying these things. Basically this article says that if you are in a position where your ass is toast when you fuck up, you better assemble a team of people you can cover your ass with. Perfect are the Humble Genius, the Sherpa, etc...
"A-Teamers must be up to speed on the smartphones, tablets, social networks, and mobile apps du jour."
Ah yet another article espousing the importance of gadgets. This article was written for Jen on "The IT Crowd". She would get completely into this article.
"But the "secret sauce" of the Exalogic, Ellison said, was the device's 'coherance' software, which syncronises the memory systems"
The secret sauce is Tangosol's Coherence cache, which Oracle bought a while ago. There's nothing secret about that. Its an in memory cache which is a pain in the ass to set up and tune. And expensive to license. Maybe its already set up and tuned for you in this elastic box? How many boxen can you has playing nicely together? Oracle has a serious problem with scalability. This appears to be their answer. I'd not be happy trying to put Weblogic, Coherence and whatever else is forced upon you into a production environment.
'The white dwarf is not only radiant but also rings like a gigantic gong" What does a diamond gong that size sound like? "BLING!!!"
Thats part 2 of its two part purpose I think. I think both parts are good for jobs and security in the US, at the cost of stifling some innovation. It keeps US dollars in the military/industrial windmill, which, for the US is a good thing. Any country with a significant industrial sector wants to keep the tide of money coming in rather than going out.
He had a queer eye for the strange Universe.
" WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR! "
But more war == less humans. It comes out equal in the end.
His plan worked in a way. One less loud mouthed human with a caps-lock problem.
Now it tastes like band-aids...
.. that have been pissed on.
GPS tracking is just part of the technical solution. The other part is the tamper proof exploding collar.
I don't see whats so creepy about it. It's not like someone is watching them surf with a telephoto lens. There is a small piece of code running somewhere which maps sessions to products. I agree, there can't be regulation of intelligent marketing. It's not malicious, it's just marketing. Amazon's been doing tracking and placement for ages.
Is it way too obvious a solution to use labeled tubes? Or do they normally just cut the tube from a big roll of universal clear medical tubing? Medical equipment is really expensive, so creating a standard and enforcing it is probably not cost effective or possible in the short term. Much of the equipment needs to function for many years. Of course, someone could label the tubes wrong...
What does a turd rolling up hill sound like?
I think the bugged conversation would be more like: "Dude Agda is the hot one." "No way, Ulva is way hotter. Did you see the knee socks? Thats hot." "Whatever, I'd totally do both of them."
You had me at "A pair of enterprising Swedish schoolgirls"
Correct. Headhunters. If you talk to them the don't know what any of those things are. But they can bullshit pretty good and before you know it you're drunk and shanghai'd into a platform X integration death march!!
"Keeping up with change can be as simple as experimenting with the latest consumer devices. Druby carries an iPad, and Sims uses three different smartphones and recently ordered an Android-based tablet. Chesnais says that at a recent meeting, half the people in the room had iPads."
Let me summarize. If you want to stay Relevant and Make More Money at work:
- Buy new gadgets and put them through their paces vigorously. Devices without touch screens == irrelevant.
- The cool people at work have iPads and bring them to meetings. Being cool == relevant.
- Technical skills are for kids. You should move into project management or some kind of leadership position now that you're ~30.
- Know how to navigate through the company. Don't do work, Navigate.
The real Take Aways here are:
- you should be thinking "Who do I have to fuck to get a management position around here?"
- iPads, Androids, smart phones are the future and graphics are so goddamn fast!. Programmers aren't.
Thanks, I see. It's hard to identify proper nouns when they aren't capitalized properly.
If a game company exploits skinners box to psychologically addict someone, then they should be held liable.
"skinners box"?
I think I get the idea anyhow.
So you're suggesting that the game company has developed some kind of subliminal manipulation technique that makes people unable to unhook themselves from the game? How plausible is that? Have you ever worked at a game company? This kind of thing is just not likely in that context. Subliminal messaging doesn't lend itself to something as general as "keep playing, you slave". People with OCD and maybe 'addictive personality disorder' if this is really a measurable phenomenon will have difficulty pulling themselves away from a game. The only thing the developer did here that makes this a problem is that the game probably NEVER ENDS.