It doesn't appear that way to me... when I click on people in search listings there's an "Add as Friend" button, and a "Send a Message" button, but Poke is not a listed option.
Perhaps your account has been empowered in a way that most people's aren't?
Perhaps.. some folks go down their list and click random pokes on everyone though, or use a script to do the same, it's not necessarily discriminate, and the system-generated messages are automated, not produced by a human. Maybe it's direct... then: If I (or someone with access to my account) randomly pokes you on FB, what does it mean? Can one really make a case that i've communicated something to you in that case? (other than the contrived case of a 'no contact' demand)
Status updates actually convey a meaningful message, normally -- that is, you can say something with a status update. Poke was just a funny little widget FB implemented that doesn't really convey any actual message, they of course have a "send a message" option, but that is a bit different..
If someone's subjected to a no-contact order, what's next... putting people in jail for rating up their comment on youtube, commenting on their video, modding up their post on/.?
I mean.. think about it.. these types of activities also generally result in the party receiving some sort of automated message from a computer (just like a poke causes).
I suppose in most cases the probability of it occuring accidentally would be small (What are the random chances of a person coming across their ex'es Youtube video, or slashdot comment, unless they knew their current handle and were _searching_ for it?).. but still doesn't detract from the nature of the event being mechanical, not actually passing a message, and could be done with no intent to violate an order that only said "no contact".
Naw... don't get out now.. get some money in the bank, and work on building a new business that will be within that 10%.... It's much better to own more interesting industry than to work a job in the industry:)
I wouldn't hire a manager who would make arbitrary hiring decisions solely based on mostly irrelevent details like whether or not a prospective employee codes in free time.
Simply put, unless your name is Donald Knuth, if you believe you've mastered programming you still have a lot more to learn than someone who does not.
Nonsense... mastering computer programming as it pertains to the craft is quite possible, and many people have done so: the craft of programming itself represents a small, not very rapidly expanding fraction of human knowledge about computing.
Now mastering Computer Science, and computing algorithms... that (is separate from programming and) is impossible, even for Knuth.
In the same way it's not possible to master "theoretical physics", but it's possible to master building design.
Reasonable.. sorry.. I suppose I'm just prejudiced frm experience and all the horror stories.. about developers getting forced to sacrifice all free time and code non-stop, with limited breaks and at most 3 hours a sleep a night before some arbitrary release deadline set by the suits, while earning a pittance and perhaps vague promise of future reward (phantom carrots that won't actually materialize)...
Is it really free time at that point? Hmm...
Still.. spending 8 hours a day coding at work normally is by no means small. it's over a third a person's waking hours per week, given a proper amount of sleep.
The amount of free time remaining is fairly small, after considering things like eating, life tasks, ec. It perhaps takes a long time to accomplish much meaningful in that remaining window of time, which doesn't put a dent in the number of normal working hours, not even close.
I wouldn't hire, or work for, a person who treats programming as a 9 to 5 activity. Life is short, and the craft so long to learn.
Exactly... life is short... I wouldn't work for someone who expects programming to be a 24/7 activity or something other than 9 to 5. Besides, program too many hours a week, you get burned out, disinterested, it dulls the senses, and quality of your work suffers.
Spending lots of free time having fun and doing things other than programming reduces stress, helps you get your mind off it, so you will be mentally refreshed, and ready to tackle programming with full force when you're actually supposed to be doing it.
You're basically boxing yourself into hiring people who have not learned the craft.
Maybe that makes sense for you. You want programmers who have barely yet begun to master the craft, because they know they haven't mastered it yet, and maybe they'll let you pay them chump change instead of proper compensation for the task given them.
Naturally, these programmers who haven't yet mastered the craft are daunted by difficult tasks and need to kill their free time to try and catch up.
Widgets are not corn syrup, and your argument is a straw man. Installed base is not part of market share, only new sales are.
Blackberry may have a bigger installed base, but they still have a smaller market share.
Allocating resources to iPhone development might make sense, but it has nothing to do with market share of the handset. Market share of a handset doesn't tell you much about the potential customer base of an app for that handset.
Market share is the percentage of the total market that a company controls for a particular product or product category. Put simply, if the widget market is $100 million annually and Acme Inc. sells $25 million in widgets, its market share is 25%. Market share is also sometimes given in unit sales: If Acme sells 10,000 widgets in a 50,000 widget market, its unit market share is 20%.
That's why you leave the PC attached during DMM testing, and you apply full load to it while measuring the voltage.. while watching carefully for any anomolies at the moment the load is being applied.
If you're concerned about not seeing the issue, use voltage and current dataloggers.
I won't say it's impossible, but that Earthquake+Flood is more likely:)
Actually, I think the probability of lightning striking your black box and fusing it permanently closed, while simultaneously melting your PC, is greater than a nuclear plant going up within range.
Or your next door neighbor hitting you with a HERF gun... better have those backups in a faraday cage.
The fact that they don't have any means of identifying or locating the third party, or even knowing a third party or how many third part(ies) might or might not have copies.
That's not true... you can make it basically impossible for someone to destroy some data, no matter how much they want to.
As long as you're not intentionally cooperating with them to assist in its destruction.
Of course, you can make impossible for even yourself to destroy data, by use of a trusted third party who will only provide you copies of data stored at a location unknown even to you, but not accept a "destroy" or "delete" command.
Yes... but unless you are doing this professionally, or going way out of the way to build a full blown test rig and load bank yourself, the gear required to fully test a PSU anywhere near max load is not worth it to the average person, a spot check with a DMM on the bench or in the PC (if the PC is working) is a good tradeoff, and if there is any question, try replacing the PSU.
Versus buying a $100,000 Sunmoon or Chroma tester. Or bench Oscilloscope + DC Load generator + Variable AC output gear (for varying input voltages to the PSU under testing).
To be honest, all this sort of gear is pretty cool, and would let you even get an idea about how clean the output signal is from the PSU, it's just overkill to do that much testing as end-user for PCs.
On the other hand... no geeky technology enthusiast should really be without a Fluke DMM or similar piece of gear in their bag of tricks with at least ability to measure emf, current, resistance, and (maybe) LCR, over the years i've found it indispensable.. measuring electrical characteristics is useful for many things, not just for PSU testing.
I won't knock the little ATX test products, but they're really no better than a DMM and a big resistor.
Ok, protecting against fire may be possible, at least if it doesn't get too hot and stay that way too long.. but what about earthquakes, floods, landslites, volcanos, tornados?
Or explosives... never underestimate the possibility of a criminal breaking in.. maybe they come upon the safe or the black box, and think it's got gold in it, or something, so they use dynamite on it.
A blackbox won't do you a lot of good if it gets dislodged from your house and buried in tons of rubble somewhere, also.
There's a really fancy test program to do this... it's called a digital multimeter, and it's a piece of hardware with two probes.
You touch one probe to ground, and then use the other to check all the leads going into MB for supply voltage.
For desktops that is.
For servers, the power supplies are generally smart modular units, and you check their voltage outputs in the BIOS screens, or using remote management via BMC: IPMI, iLO, Drac, or ALOM
A nice solution.. cloud storage is great for individuals, traditional offsite backups are expensive, and given the severity of the disaster, a delay in being able to get to it is much better than losing info, Article authors on crack..:)
The problem may be US-specific also... in other countries, broadband users get a lot more bandwidth. {{subst:globalize/USA}}:)
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It doesn't appear that way to me... when I click on people in search listings there's an "Add as Friend" button, and a "Send a Message" button, but Poke is not a listed option.
Perhaps your account has been empowered in a way that most people's aren't?
Perhaps.. some folks go down their list and click random pokes on everyone though, or use a script to do the same, it's not necessarily discriminate, and the system-generated messages are automated, not produced by a human.
Maybe it's direct... then: If I (or someone with access to my account) randomly pokes you on FB, what does it mean? Can one really make a case that i've communicated something to you in that case? (other than the contrived case of a 'no contact' demand)
Status updates actually convey a meaningful message, normally -- that is, you can say something with a status update. Poke was just a funny little widget FB implemented that doesn't really convey any actual message, they of course have a "send a message" option, but that is a bit different..
If someone's subjected to a no-contact order, what's next... putting people in jail for rating up their comment on youtube, commenting on their video, modding up their post on /.?
I mean.. think about it.. these types of activities also generally result in the party receiving some sort of automated message from a computer (just like a poke causes).
I suppose in most cases the probability of it occuring accidentally would be small (What are the random chances of a person coming across their ex'es Youtube video, or slashdot comment, unless they knew their current handle and were _searching_ for it?).. but still doesn't detract from the nature of the event being mechanical, not actually passing a message, and could be done with no intent to violate an order that only said "no contact".
But you won't know whether it's red or black until the roulette wheel stops.
Could just as easily be a red mark. Can't know until you know.
Unless you're cheating with hidden magnets, or have a crystal ball, that is..
Naw... don't get out now.. get some money in the bank, and work on building a new business that will be within that 10%.... It's much better to own more interesting industry than to work a job in the industry :)
Is a poke really communication?
I'm thinking of people who send random pokes to their contact lists all the time, without any actual communication meaning to them.
Moreover... poking on Facebook only actually works if the person has added you as their friend.
If you went to court to get a no-contact order against someone else, why the heck would you add or keep them as your friend on facebook?
Everything status update, every message you post shows up as a communication to all your friends... so you're actually initiating contact with them!
I wouldn't hire a manager who would make arbitrary hiring decisions solely based on mostly irrelevent details like whether or not a prospective employee codes in free time.
Something along the lines of "41% of Music on personal MP3 players is pirated"
For now, this is a shameless piracy grab by the BSA. Other industry orgs will want to claim back their piracy shortly...
Simply put, unless your name is Donald Knuth, if you believe you've mastered programming you still have a lot more to learn than someone who does not.
Nonsense... mastering computer programming as it pertains to the craft is quite possible, and many people have done so: the craft of programming itself represents a small, not very rapidly expanding fraction of human knowledge about computing.
Now mastering Computer Science, and computing algorithms... that (is separate from programming and) is impossible, even for Knuth.
In the same way it's not possible to master "theoretical physics", but it's possible to master building design.
Reasonable.. sorry.. I suppose I'm just prejudiced frm experience and all the horror stories..
about developers getting forced to sacrifice all free time and code non-stop, with limited breaks and at most 3 hours a sleep a night before some arbitrary release deadline set by the suits, while earning a pittance and perhaps vague promise of future reward (phantom carrots that won't actually materialize)...
Is it really free time at that point? Hmm...
Still.. spending 8 hours a day coding at work normally is by no means small. it's over a third a person's waking hours per week, given a proper amount of sleep.
The amount of free time remaining is fairly small, after considering things like eating, life tasks, ec. It perhaps takes a long time to accomplish much meaningful in that remaining window of time, which doesn't put a dent in the number of normal working hours, not even close.
I wouldn't hire, or work for, a person who treats programming as a 9 to 5 activity. Life is short, and the craft so long to learn.
Exactly... life is short... I wouldn't work for someone who expects programming to be a 24/7 activity or something other than 9 to 5. Besides, program too many hours a week, you get burned out, disinterested, it dulls the senses, and quality of your work suffers.
Spending lots of free time having fun and doing things other than programming reduces stress, helps you get your mind off it, so you will be mentally refreshed, and ready to tackle programming with full force when you're actually supposed to be doing it.
You're basically boxing yourself into hiring people who have not learned the craft.
Maybe that makes sense for you. You want programmers who have barely yet begun to master the craft, because they know they haven't mastered it yet, and maybe they'll let you pay them chump change instead of proper compensation for the task given them.
Naturally, these programmers who haven't yet mastered the craft are daunted by difficult tasks and need to kill their free time to try and catch up.
Widgets are not corn syrup, and your argument is a straw man. Installed base is not part of market share, only new sales are.
Blackberry may have a bigger installed base, but they still have a smaller market share.
Allocating resources to iPhone development might make sense, but it has nothing to do with market share of the handset. Market share of a handset doesn't tell you much about the potential customer base of an app for that handset.
Sabotage... or Scientific terrorism.
Religious terrorists (at least) don't tend to like science too much.
Think about it... how many creationists want scientists to unravel the secrets of the "big bang"?
Such science really gets in the way of convincing people of certain dogma..
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That's why you leave the PC attached during DMM testing, and you apply full load to it while measuring the voltage.. while watching carefully for any anomolies at the moment the load is being applied.
If you're concerned about not seeing the issue, use voltage and current dataloggers.
Oscilloscopes are really expensive.
I won't say it's impossible, but that Earthquake+Flood is more likely :)
Actually, I think the probability of lightning striking your black box and fusing it permanently closed, while simultaneously melting your PC, is greater than a nuclear plant going up within range.
Or your next door neighbor hitting you with a HERF gun... better have those backups in a faraday cage.
The fact that they don't have any means of identifying or locating the third party, or even knowing a third party or how many third part(ies) might or might not have copies.
META is not recommended primarily because it's as a lost cause/wasted effort, since most robots (even legitimate ones) don't understand it.
robots.txt is part of the robots exclusion standard, which has been around for 20 years and should be implemented by all legitimate robots.
Plus, if you want to pick on Google specifically, you can list their user agent in your robots.txt
User-Agent: GoogleBot
Disallow: /
Or if feeling evil
User-Agent: * /
Disallow:
User-Agent: GoogleBot
Crawl-Delay: 51840000.0 Disallow:
He could use referer checking and prompt users clicking on a Google hyperlink to pay before being able to read the article.
That's not true... you can make it basically impossible for someone to destroy some data, no matter how much they want to.
As long as you're not intentionally cooperating with them to assist in its destruction.
Of course, you can make impossible for even yourself to destroy data, by use of a trusted third party who will only provide you copies of data stored at a location unknown even to you, but not accept a "destroy" or "delete" command.
Yes... but unless you are doing this professionally, or going way out of the way to build a full blown test rig and load bank yourself, the gear required to fully test a PSU anywhere near max load is not worth it to the average person, a spot check with a DMM on the bench or in the PC (if the PC is working) is a good tradeoff, and if there is any question, try replacing the PSU.
Versus buying a $100,000 Sunmoon or Chroma tester. Or bench Oscilloscope + DC Load generator + Variable AC output gear (for varying input voltages to the PSU under testing). To be honest, all this sort of gear is pretty cool, and would let you even get an idea about how clean the output signal is from the PSU, it's just overkill to do that much testing as end-user for PCs.
On the other hand... no geeky technology enthusiast should really be without a Fluke DMM or similar piece of gear in their bag of tricks with at least ability to measure emf, current, resistance, and (maybe) LCR, over the years i've found it indispensable.. measuring electrical characteristics is useful for many things, not just for PSU testing.
I won't knock the little ATX test products, but they're really no better than a DMM and a big resistor.
Ok, protecting against fire may be possible, at least if it doesn't get too hot and stay that way too long.. but what about earthquakes, floods, landslites, volcanos, tornados?
Or explosives... never underestimate the possibility of a criminal breaking in.. maybe they come upon the safe or the black box, and think it's got gold in it, or something, so they use dynamite on it.
A blackbox won't do you a lot of good if it gets dislodged from your house and buried in tons of rubble somewhere, also.
Check supply voltages first.
There's a really fancy test program to do this... it's called a digital multimeter, and it's a piece of hardware with two probes.
You touch one probe to ground, and then use the other to check all the leads going into MB for supply voltage.
For desktops that is.
For servers, the power supplies are generally smart modular units, and you check their voltage outputs in the BIOS screens, or using remote management via BMC: IPMI, iLO, Drac, or ALOM
A nice solution.. cloud storage is great for individuals, traditional offsite backups are expensive, and given the severity of the disaster, a delay in being able to get to it is much better than losing info, Article authors on crack.. :)
The problem may be US-specific also... in other countries, broadband users get a lot more bandwidth. {{subst:globalize/USA}} :)
Blackberry and Symbian devices have been on the market far longer and have much larger market shares than iPhone or Android
Units that have already been purchased in prior years are not part of current market share.
Market share is: the company's sales revenue divided by total sales revenue available in the market.
When more dollars worth of iPhones are sold in a given period than Windows mobile devices, the Apple product has more market share.
Hence, the iPhone has more market share than Windows mobile, etc..
Patents cover inventions, not ideas or concepts.
Abstract ideas/concepts aren't subject to any protections