I'm sorry.. but punishing everyone to prevent something that might happen sounds a lot like TSA security theater. I don't buy that it is necessary. I don't think that people associate bad apps with the app market. They associate bad apps with the app. People haven't stopped using google app store because a couple apps have been bad.
And I don't think it is that it is difficult to navigate to the store, but it is so much easier to just provide a button in app to take you there.
I'm not entirely sure that this is 100% correct... after all I think the Google Search Engine still owns the trademark on Google but no one says Google Search Engine. This could be said as Bitcoin Virtual Currency.
Just to throw it out there... I was asked those types of questions (algorithms) on my last interview. I didn't remember anything from the semester of algorithms in my college except what big O meant.
But instead of just balking at it I did my best to logically figure out a solution and engaged in dialogue with the interviewer to work out the solution. I didn't get a single damn question with the perfect answer, but I always had AN answer. I did display that I have pretty good problem solving skills and was willing to work with others to get to a solution. Honestly a simple google search can turn up most of the algorithms and what they really should be testing on those is can you figure out a solution to a problem that just so happens to have an algorithm to represent it.
Oh and if they can't describe the problem to you without just saying the algorithm's name they shouldn't be asking the question in the first place.
As much as I agree with everything that has been said here regarding screenings by TSA and think they should stop I can't help but think this is the wrong person to rally around. The bold section doesn't sound like the reason he arrested her. He arrested her for being loud and belligerent and preventing other people from getting through security. That is disorderly conduct. I don't know if it was enough to arrest her for, but probably ejection from the airport was justified. The lady had obviously read up on how this stuff worked, i.e. she knew the scanner made it look like you were naked and she knew that videos of TSA treatment of children were popular and getting a lot of attention.
If all the things weren't put together I would say this is a serious incident. But everything put together, it looks like a grab for attention from this lady. She knew what was coming and decided to be as visibly upset as she could be. If she had dropped the abusive and belligerent speech I'd have been able to get behind her...
My mother works at walmart with a heart condition. She does not get health insurance. The first day she came back to work after being in the hospital for 3 days for heart problems they tried to have her unload trucks.
If that's not completely fucked up I don't know what is.
I don't think stopping pet sales is going to stop any of the behaviors you're describing. People are still going to prefer young animals because you do form an emotional bond and if the pet dies from old age within a couple years of you getting it it is devastating. The less adorable animals are not going to get adopted either way. Kids are still going to get tired of some animal or families are going to move to places that don't allow pets. Most pets in shelters I don't think are purebreds. Even if adopting from shelters that isn't going to stop lil miss puppy from having puppies with neighbor dog duke. Unless you're also proposing neutering all animals from shelters. So we stop having pets after 1 generation maybe?
Usually pet shelters don't have a wide variety of breeds other than mongrel.
If I happen to want a beagle that reminds me of a dog I had growing up or that I intend to do hunting with am I just an ass hole because I don't want a lap dog? Or let's say I want a doberman pincher for a guard dog? Or a sheep dog because I really love the breed and want to help it grow stronger. Again I'm an ass hole because I want to breed my dog and perhaps sell some of the strong pups to other sheep herders.
The law might be in the city for now but people behind it want it to be nation wide.
This is one of the first times that I'm actually on the side of pirates on the DRM debate. This is fucking ridiculous. You're telling me that I can't replay a resident evil game? One of the consistent things in the series is to see how fast you can beat it. I wouldn't buy a second one just for that. I don't sell my games, I don't pirate them, but you're telling me I'm paying for a $60 rental? Bullshit. That makes the game completely worthless in my opinion. I always replay good games.
My world history class in college was centered on the history of trade since people always migrated along those paths and society developed along those paths. It was really interesting and taught me that yes, money really does make the world go round.
I was unemployed for nearly a year out of college but that was mostly due to the area I lived in not having anything good for me and most companies hating to hire someone from another location straight out of college. The salary I asked for was significantly lower than anyone else at the company because I was getting desperate. But only a few years later I'm over 6 figures.
I'm not sure that the argument that you are a public employee therefore you deserve no privacy in the workplace really holds water. By the same argument there should be nothing wrong with your employer being able to read your private web hosted email if you check it at work.
wow sucks to work where you do. I'm actually admired as a hardcore gamer at my workplace and people who aren't gamers give me respect for it. I think being ostracized for being a gamer at work would be a deal breaker for me.
The largest money making market in games is the farmville/casual games crowd. Yes historically serious games are much more expensive to develop and are more interesting when talking about them technically or strategically, but you cannot dismiss a game just because you don't like it or the category it belongs to. If someone spends 80 hours a week playing FPSs on Xbox 360 are they a gamer? What about someone spending 80 hours on WoW? What about someone spending 80 hours on Facebook games? Why would they *not* be a gamer?
If a student truly grasps the theory the trade comes naturally. It took me less than two weeks to start coding effectively in Java for my first job. Never even saw the language before that. Heard of it, but never saw. But my education was strong enough and I really learned that learning new computer languages is extremely easy. I would be severely disappointed in someone who just learned.NET or C++ in school. You're not there to learn the language. They might use a language to help you grasp concepts, but you should be learning the concepts.
At this point I don't see Sony as being the villain here anymore. In the beginning yes they screwed up and they have been working on a fix. Their systems are obviously all similar so all equally vulnerable. Let them fix the damn issue. They don't need more exposure. People are already bitching.
And this is the first public disclosure that I have seen. The people who didn't understand Sony telling them hey we screwed up and your information is probably compromised aren't going to get this message either. And that message carried a lot more good will with the public than some l33t hacker group saying "A month later Sony still has vulnerable systems. See we got all of your user names and passwords and we're going to give them to everyone so you can be sure your shit will be stolen! LOLZ"
What's the statement? The hacker community is full of pricks who like to point out stuff that is obvious at this point?
The difference being that Microsoft had a monopoly on Operating systems then as determined by the courts and now in the tablet space they're a bit player hoping to gain some kind of stability.
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I'm sorry.. but punishing everyone to prevent something that might happen sounds a lot like TSA security theater. I don't buy that it is necessary. I don't think that people associate bad apps with the app market. They associate bad apps with the app. People haven't stopped using google app store because a couple apps have been bad.
And I don't think it is that it is difficult to navigate to the store, but it is so much easier to just provide a button in app to take you there.
but they aren't selling their book through the apple store... they're selling it through their own store hosted on an apple phone...
Saying apple deserves 30% of that is like saying comcast deserves 30% of all profits of any website distributing digital products to their customers.
I really can't see any justification if all apple is doing is providing a way to distribute an app that allows someone to download a book.
+1 awesome
I'm not entirely sure that this is 100% correct... after all I think the Google Search Engine still owns the trademark on Google but no one says Google Search Engine. This could be said as Bitcoin Virtual Currency.
Just to throw it out there... I was asked those types of questions (algorithms) on my last interview. I didn't remember anything from the semester of algorithms in my college except what big O meant.
But instead of just balking at it I did my best to logically figure out a solution and engaged in dialogue with the interviewer to work out the solution. I didn't get a single damn question with the perfect answer, but I always had AN answer. I did display that I have pretty good problem solving skills and was willing to work with others to get to a solution. Honestly a simple google search can turn up most of the algorithms and what they really should be testing on those is can you figure out a solution to a problem that just so happens to have an algorithm to represent it.
Oh and if they can't describe the problem to you without just saying the algorithm's name they shouldn't be asking the question in the first place.
As much as I agree with everything that has been said here regarding screenings by TSA and think they should stop I can't help but think this is the wrong person to rally around. The bold section doesn't sound like the reason he arrested her. He arrested her for being loud and belligerent and preventing other people from getting through security. That is disorderly conduct. I don't know if it was enough to arrest her for, but probably ejection from the airport was justified. The lady had obviously read up on how this stuff worked, i.e. she knew the scanner made it look like you were naked and she knew that videos of TSA treatment of children were popular and getting a lot of attention.
If all the things weren't put together I would say this is a serious incident. But everything put together, it looks like a grab for attention from this lady. She knew what was coming and decided to be as visibly upset as she could be. If she had dropped the abusive and belligerent speech I'd have been able to get behind her...
My mother works at walmart with a heart condition. She does not get health insurance. The first day she came back to work after being in the hospital for 3 days for heart problems they tried to have her unload trucks.
If that's not completely fucked up I don't know what is.
Must not be a game developer
I don't think stopping pet sales is going to stop any of the behaviors you're describing. People are still going to prefer young animals because you do form an emotional bond and if the pet dies from old age within a couple years of you getting it it is devastating. The less adorable animals are not going to get adopted either way. Kids are still going to get tired of some animal or families are going to move to places that don't allow pets. Most pets in shelters I don't think are purebreds. Even if adopting from shelters that isn't going to stop lil miss puppy from having puppies with neighbor dog duke. Unless you're also proposing neutering all animals from shelters. So we stop having pets after 1 generation maybe?
Usually pet shelters don't have a wide variety of breeds other than mongrel.
If I happen to want a beagle that reminds me of a dog I had growing up or that I intend to do hunting with am I just an ass hole because I don't want a lap dog? Or let's say I want a doberman pincher for a guard dog? Or a sheep dog because I really love the breed and want to help it grow stronger. Again I'm an ass hole because I want to breed my dog and perhaps sell some of the strong pups to other sheep herders.
The law might be in the city for now but people behind it want it to be nation wide.
This is one of the first times that I'm actually on the side of pirates on the DRM debate. This is fucking ridiculous. You're telling me that I can't replay a resident evil game? One of the consistent things in the series is to see how fast you can beat it. I wouldn't buy a second one just for that. I don't sell my games, I don't pirate them, but you're telling me I'm paying for a $60 rental? Bullshit. That makes the game completely worthless in my opinion. I always replay good games.
But normally the provider wants your money and only takes away service for extreme abuses.
My world history class in college was centered on the history of trade since people always migrated along those paths and society developed along those paths. It was really interesting and taught me that yes, money really does make the world go round.
+1 Agree. Javascript and HTML 5 I think is great for client side, but server side? I don't really want to write JavaScript for talking to a database.
If they were using either substandard hardware or pirating software I'd expect no less from them.
I was unemployed for nearly a year out of college but that was mostly due to the area I lived in not having anything good for me and most companies hating to hire someone from another location straight out of college. The salary I asked for was significantly lower than anyone else at the company because I was getting desperate. But only a few years later I'm over 6 figures.
Not in New Jersey http://www.workplaceprivacyreport.com/2010/03/articles/workplace-privacy/new-jersey-supreme-court-rules-on-personal-email-privacy-stengart-v-loving-care/
I'm not sure that the argument that you are a public employee therefore you deserve no privacy in the workplace really holds water. By the same argument there should be nothing wrong with your employer being able to read your private web hosted email if you check it at work.
wow sucks to work where you do. I'm actually admired as a hardcore gamer at my workplace and people who aren't gamers give me respect for it. I think being ostracized for being a gamer at work would be a deal breaker for me.
+1 Agree
The largest money making market in games is the farmville/casual games crowd. Yes historically serious games are much more expensive to develop and are more interesting when talking about them technically or strategically, but you cannot dismiss a game just because you don't like it or the category it belongs to. If someone spends 80 hours a week playing FPSs on Xbox 360 are they a gamer? What about someone spending 80 hours on WoW? What about someone spending 80 hours on Facebook games? Why would they *not* be a gamer?
If a student truly grasps the theory the trade comes naturally. It took me less than two weeks to start coding effectively in Java for my first job. Never even saw the language before that. Heard of it, but never saw. But my education was strong enough and I really learned that learning new computer languages is extremely easy. I would be severely disappointed in someone who just learned .NET or C++ in school. You're not there to learn the language. They might use a language to help you grasp concepts, but you should be learning the concepts.
At this point I don't see Sony as being the villain here anymore. In the beginning yes they screwed up and they have been working on a fix. Their systems are obviously all similar so all equally vulnerable. Let them fix the damn issue. They don't need more exposure. People are already bitching.
And this is the first public disclosure that I have seen. The people who didn't understand Sony telling them hey we screwed up and your information is probably compromised aren't going to get this message either. And that message carried a lot more good will with the public than some l33t hacker group saying "A month later Sony still has vulnerable systems. See we got all of your user names and passwords and we're going to give them to everyone so you can be sure your shit will be stolen! LOLZ"
What's the statement? The hacker community is full of pricks who like to point out stuff that is obvious at this point?
The difference being that Microsoft had a monopoly on Operating systems then as determined by the courts and now in the tablet space they're a bit player hoping to gain some kind of stability.
+1 Agree
Not to mention I would never let someone operate on me who didn't go to college.