I wonder if the effect is the same when other media is used. Will audiobooks do the trick? How about television or movies? If the only criteria is a good story that can transport you into the body of the protagonist then I suspect they would work the same. Given that they were engaging enough, that is.
The question is whether there's anything wrong with that.
Were the NSA meant to be doing the things that they're doing? To some degree, yes. But I'm also pretty sure they've overstepped what they're allowed to do.
The "treason" comments are pretty far off. Someone who's committing an act of treason is doing it to benefit themselves or another country. Seeing as he had to flee his life in the US and is between countries, risking imprisonment if he ever comes back, aside from the fame he's accrued, I'm not sure how this is to his benefit.
treason [tree-zuhn] noun
1.the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2.a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state. 3.the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.
Looks like it fits the definition of treason to me.
As a parent of school age children, I sure hope this doesn't find it's way into schools. For years, kids were taught on Apple products. Which was fine for getting through class. When the kids got a job and needed to use a computer, they didn't know how unless they took it upon themselves to learn outside of the institution.
You can't teach kids to use "computers" on toys. They might as well be giving the kids something from vtech or Nintendo.
it also excludes consideration of how much one produces, which is inherently subjective.
I disagree. If you've got a competent manager, he will be able to objectively measure your output. His superior should be able to measure the output of your manager's team, and so on.
Disclaimer: I am a state employee whose salary is publicly posted...
That out of the way, most if not all those salaries posted are very, very misleading. It is gross salary+travel+incentives+any other state money that employee has received including payments made for health coverage and retirement. It doesn't include any deductions such as taxes, co-payments for health and retirement, garnishments, etc...
Unless you're working under the table, all jobs come with those deductions. I wouldn't call the figures misleading at all. It's gross vs net, and they posted your gross compensation.
A 60W equivalent LED bulb. $36 each.
A 60W equivalent CFL enclosed bulb. $12 each.
Hmm. Menards.com
A 60W Incandescent: $4 for a 4-pack.
Yeah. Sure. Cheap.
1000bulbs is great for incandescent and halogen stuff. Ridiculously high prices on cfl and led there. Both CFL and LED are far cheaper at local home improvement stores like Lowes or Home Depot.
I appreciate what Snowden is saying, but perhaps fewer narcissistic platitudes and more documents on the front pages? Snowden isn't Jesus, the more he toots "It's not about me", the more it becomes about him
Jesus Fucking Christ, this man is going to spend the rest of his life, in extreme, rational fear for his life, and the lives of anyone he has ever, or will ever love. Cut the man some fucking slack you asshole.
Hopefully you're wrong. Hopefully he'll be caught and no longer be in fear.
How about picking the best tool for the job, rather than holding a popularity contest? Too old-fashioned?
It's good to avoid going too far off into the weeds, lest you find it impossible to hire someone to support code in some pet language, but that's not the concern here. Of the universe of languages, both mainstream and niche languages commonly used in your niche, pick the one that makes it easiest to develop and support the features in front of you.
It's pretty obvious someone is playing "what language will look best on my resume" here, and if playing that game is obvious to me from this distance, it will be glaring to hiring managers. Few people are looking for a history of "trendy" (you'd be amazed how fast "trendy" becomes "sad" in tech), while a history of doing the dirty, unpopular, work that keeps development teams productive is always welcome, long after the tech stack fades into obsolescence.
All these pseudo-languages look bad to me when I review resume's. If you want to impress, learn C, C++, Assembler, or a few other real languages. Ruby, C$, VB, Python etc... those can be picked up on the fly if needed.
I can bold random words too. It makes my stuff much more important.
There is no federal law that makes it illegal to seize bitcoins. It is an asset just like any other. The fact that it is electronic has nothing to do with it at all
To people who don't want their assets seized it does. On the other hand, some people enjoy a seized asset.
Not that I endorse Mt. Gox (quite the opposite, really), but can we stop trowing "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange" into the conversation. The code for the trading platform designed for cards and the original owner/developer are long gone. The name is the only thing left. There are plenty of things to criticize the exchange over without this ad hominem.
MT Gox exemplifies what is wrong with the bitcoin scheme as a whole. It is not ad hominem, it's a perfect real world and recent example of the problem being discussed in this thread.
You can be sure that until proper tracking, oversight, and regulation are in place, bitcoin will continue to be plagued by fiasco's such as those perpetrated by Mt. Gox.
A Yank resistant plug might do well in Europe and Asia, but I think most manufacturers wouldn't want to alienate the American market.
In America we're Americans. We're only "Yanks" to foreigners. Most Americans would probably not make the connection. No connection, nothing to yank. Problem solved. I guess it does sound simmilar to "yankee" which is a slur against denizens of the northeastern US.
In 2001 UL created and released to market - as a standard enforced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission - a magnetic reversible plug for use on electric fryers that would disconnect if pulled.
Emphasis mine. Yep, our patent system is that bad.
Until people start cooking with their apple computers I suspect apple is going to be okay.
Perhaps racist behaviour should be punished independent of any mindless "free speech" worship.
Simon
Nah. Freedom means people are free to form their own opinions at a minimum. You might not like someone else's opinion but maybe they don't like your opinion either. t/time set day
-former Nokia CEO
-former Blackberry CEO
-former Bell CEO
-former (insert dead company name here) CEO
Indeed. However, it doesn't appear eBay has any serious competition at the moment. They're far and away the top online auction and online bank both afaik.
BTW, Bell is still around in many forms. They were split up into many successful smaller chunks, such as AT&T and (what is now known as) Verizon. Actually, I'd hazard a guess that each of those two pieces are bigger now than bell was before the split.
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I wonder if the effect is the same when other media is used. Will audiobooks do the trick? How about television or movies? If the only criteria is a good story that can transport you into the body of the protagonist then I suspect they would work the same. Given that they were engaging enough, that is.
I'm not sure that this isn't true.
The question is whether there's anything wrong with that.
Were the NSA meant to be doing the things that they're doing? To some degree, yes. But I'm also pretty sure they've overstepped what they're allowed to do.
The "treason" comments are pretty far off. Someone who's committing an act of treason is doing it to benefit themselves or another country. Seeing as he had to flee his life in the US and is between countries, risking imprisonment if he ever comes back, aside from the fame he's accrued, I'm not sure how this is to his benefit.
treason [tree-zuhn] noun
1.the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2.a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
3.the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.
Looks like it fits the definition of treason to me.
As a parent of school age children, I sure hope this doesn't find it's way into schools. For years, kids were taught on Apple products. Which was fine for getting through class. When the kids got a job and needed to use a computer, they didn't know how unless they took it upon themselves to learn outside of the institution.
You can't teach kids to use "computers" on toys. They might as well be giving the kids something from vtech or Nintendo.
You expect us to believe a page on the Internet?
Where have you been for the past few decades? If it's on the internet, it MUST be true.
He obviously had a reason to escape immediately. I wonder what was happening to him.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that "he was in prison." There doesn't need to be any reason beyond that.
it also excludes consideration of how much one produces, which is inherently subjective.
I disagree. If you've got a competent manager, he will be able to objectively measure your output. His superior should be able to measure the output of your manager's team, and so on.
A.C. can!
Disclaimer: I am a state employee whose salary is publicly posted...
That out of the way, most if not all those salaries posted are very, very misleading. It is gross salary+travel+incentives+any other state money that employee has received including payments made for health coverage and retirement. It doesn't include any deductions such as taxes, co-payments for health and retirement, garnishments, etc...
Unless you're working under the table, all jobs come with those deductions. I wouldn't call the figures misleading at all. It's gross vs net, and they posted your gross compensation.
People moderate for /. all the time that are not paid. /. is a for-profit business.
People that moderate /. also have good karma and get paid in the form of the "disable advertising" checkbox.
We do exactly that in australia.
Florida, USA as well.
Hmm. 1000bulbs.com
A 60W equivalent LED bulb. $36 each. A 60W equivalent CFL enclosed bulb. $12 each.
Hmm. Menards.com
A 60W Incandescent: $4 for a 4-pack.
Yeah. Sure. Cheap.
1000bulbs is great for incandescent and halogen stuff. Ridiculously high prices on cfl and led there. Both CFL and LED are far cheaper at local home improvement stores like Lowes or Home Depot.
Google is close to unusable unless you manually set it to show recent results. Old stuff on the internet is mostly noise and rot.
I bet more than 95% of everything older than 3 years is noise and rot that nobody has any use for.
obvious troll is obvious
I appreciate what Snowden is saying, but perhaps fewer narcissistic platitudes and more documents on the front pages? Snowden isn't Jesus, the more he toots "It's not about me", the more it becomes about him
Jesus Fucking Christ, this man is going to spend the rest of his life, in extreme, rational fear for his life, and the lives of anyone he has ever, or will ever love. Cut the man some fucking slack you asshole.
Hopefully you're wrong. Hopefully he'll be caught and no longer be in fear.
How about picking the best tool for the job, rather than holding a popularity contest? Too old-fashioned?
It's good to avoid going too far off into the weeds, lest you find it impossible to hire someone to support code in some pet language, but that's not the concern here. Of the universe of languages, both mainstream and niche languages commonly used in your niche, pick the one that makes it easiest to develop and support the features in front of you.
It's pretty obvious someone is playing "what language will look best on my resume" here, and if playing that game is obvious to me from this distance, it will be glaring to hiring managers. Few people are looking for a history of "trendy" (you'd be amazed how fast "trendy" becomes "sad" in tech), while a history of doing the dirty, unpopular, work that keeps development teams productive is always welcome, long after the tech stack fades into obsolescence.
All these pseudo-languages look bad to me when I review resume's. If you want to impress, learn C, C++, Assembler, or a few other real languages. Ruby, C$, VB, Python etc... those can be picked up on the fly if needed.
I can bold random words too. It makes my stuff much more important.
There is no federal law that makes it illegal to seize bitcoins. It is an asset just like any other. The fact that it is electronic has nothing to do with it at all
To people who don't want their assets seized it does. On the other hand, some people enjoy a seized asset.
Not that I endorse Mt. Gox (quite the opposite, really), but can we stop trowing "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange" into the conversation. The code for the trading platform designed for cards and the original owner/developer are long gone. The name is the only thing left. There are plenty of things to criticize the exchange over without this ad hominem.
MT Gox exemplifies what is wrong with the bitcoin scheme as a whole. It is not ad hominem, it's a perfect real world and recent example of the problem being discussed in this thread.
You can be sure that until proper tracking, oversight, and regulation are in place, bitcoin will continue to be plagued by fiasco's such as those perpetrated by Mt. Gox.
Just imagine, USA would be a democracy, and people would elect their leaders.
We can only dream of such things here in the USA.
Someday, maybe.
You do understand academia's purpose, right?
Of course. Co-ed porn!
Silicone Valley? What is that? A mammary implants mecca?
More importantly, where is it? Perhaps a google maps link, good sir?
A Yank resistant plug might do well in Europe and Asia, but I think most manufacturers wouldn't want to alienate the American market.
In America we're Americans. We're only "Yanks" to foreigners. Most Americans would probably not make the connection. No connection, nothing to yank. Problem solved.
I guess it does sound simmilar to "yankee" which is a slur against denizens of the northeastern US.
In 2001 UL created and released to market - as a standard enforced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission - a magnetic reversible plug for use on electric fryers that would disconnect if pulled.
Emphasis mine. Yep, our patent system is that bad.
Until people start cooking with their apple computers I suspect apple is going to be okay.
RLC cause more accidents because people slamming on their brakes for yellow lights. It is documented.
Not only are they a money making scheme, they're dangerous as well. Sounds like it's BAU for politicians these days.
Perhaps racist behaviour should be punished independent of any mindless "free speech" worship.
Simon
Nah. Freedom means people are free to form their own opinions at a minimum. You might not like someone else's opinion but maybe they don't like your opinion either. t/time set day
-former Nokia CEO -former Blackberry CEO -former Bell CEO -former (insert dead company name here) CEO
Indeed. However, it doesn't appear eBay has any serious competition at the moment. They're far and away the top online auction and online bank both afaik.
BTW, Bell is still around in many forms. They were split up into many successful smaller chunks, such as AT&T and (what is now known as) Verizon. Actually, I'd hazard a guess that each of those two pieces are bigger now than bell was before the split.
or just get the music and put it on your own streaming server that you run for free...
Or, you know; just put the music right on your device. No reason to mess with the streaming stuff.