I just read their terms of service. It's almost all about cookies. They basically say how they use their cookies, that they aren't responsible for the contents of the sites their ads link to, and that you may get cookies from their ad provider.
While not being a service I would want to use, they don't seem to be "shady" in that they are hiding anything, just that they do things you wish they wouldn't, but they're honest about it.
This is, of course, assuming their ToS isn't an outright lie.
The issue here, however, is more like waving your hands around someone's face saying "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you" and getting spit on and being surprised..
Fuddruckers was being an ass linking to his stuff like it was their own.
They shouldn't be surprised when it backfires on them.
No one is saying that Fuddruckers can't link to someone else's site.
BUT
When you do that, you're pointing people at someone else's content that they can choose to change at any time.
Sure, it's your "right" to link to someone else's page (or else the web wouldn't work), but make sure you don't piss them off or you never know what you'll be pointing to in the future.
It was the part where they injected you with V (the drug -- I think it was V). That part everything was tinted green (the color of the drug) and it was freakish.
When I interview a software developer, I'm interested in how they think, not what they know. As I stated before, the only way to get that information is to put them in a situation in which they don't have enough domain specific knowledge already.
Creativity and ability to quickly adapt to new problems is critical when you're trying to solve problems that haven't been solved before. That's what I'm looking for.
I want someone smart with excellent problem solving skills. If you can currently code in such a way to facilitate that, then great, but if you're smart enough, you can pick that up later. And then again and again in future projects.
I'm curious as to how you think they could have interviewed you better?
Would you prefer they gave you a test on your knowledge of the syntax of c++/c#/java/your programming language of choice?
Would you prefer they made you take the SAT or something?
What good companies want to know is how well you are able to think. The only way to do that is to put you in unfamiliar situations and see how you handle yourself.
Perhaps you were frustrated with not being able to answer the questions "correctly", as these questions are usually take more time than what is available in an interview -- hell, some don't even have "perfect" solutions at all.
Anyways, if you don't like that kind of interview, you probably don't want to interview at Amazon.com, either (for this or possibly other reasons).
NASA skipped some shuttle safety improvements as it tried to meet unrealistic launch dates for the first flight since the Columbia tragedy, some members of an oversight panel said in a scathing critique.
Oh, so they should have taken longer, right? And been more thorough?
Poor leadership also made shuttle Discovery's return to space more complicated, expensive and prolonged than it needed to be."
Oh, so they did too much and spent too much money and it should have taken less time, right?
I'm confused -- it seems like the headline contradicted itself within the span of two sentences. Am I misreading this?
Wow, you really just pulled that out of your ass, didn't you?
Sony wouldn't release the PS3 at $100 more than the 360 unless it had significantly more capability. Sony is consistently at or below Microsoft's console's price. Usually stealing the spotlight from Microsoft right before they do a planned price drop.
And you think that the 360 would have a couple hundred games available? What are you smoking? I'm not sure the XBox has had a couple hundred games made for it yet, years after it came out!
And you're right -- the games seal the deal. How many XBox exclusive games do you get excited about? I have a nice list of PS-only games.. Final Fantasy, GTA (at initial release), Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid..
I think the PS3 will do just fine whenever it comes out.
After four years of hard work with electromagnetic traps in our labs, we are preparing to capture and cool five trillion positrons per second in the next few years. Our long-range goals are five quad-trillion positrons per second. At this rate we could fuel up for our first positron-fueled flight into space in a matter of hours."
I'm guessing they just meant quadrillion but the author had never heard this term before?
It actually doesn't say if this was legit or not. There's nothing immoral about ilegally soliciting donations as long as you actually get the money to the right place. It's possible he was trying to do some good.
That said, there's no good reason to do it illegally other than to try and make money on it.
What he REALLY meant was that that was what he wanted to be the most important thing to other people. He was trying to convince people that they were confused. Ostensibly because that's what Sun offers.
While this is sound advice, it doesn't necessarily follow from this story.
He said he made an internal report of unethical and possibly illegal behaviour. It doesn't say he took this up with police at all. It sounds more like he was trying to warn them that they were doing something they shouldn't be so they could stop before they got caught.
All I was doing was responding to the original question that a processor that is X times faster is EXACTLY X times faster for what it can do. You're right -- that's not particularly informative. I was trying to point out that the question wasn't very informed.
Yes. The chip itself will operate exactly 3.8 times faster than a 1GHz chip of the same architecture. Note that there was no 1GHz P4 chip nor was there a 1GHz Athlon 64.
What you don't understand is that different architectures lead to different performance characteristics. This results in a similarly clocked AMD chip outperforming it's Intel rival.
Also, many other systems affect how fast your program runs -- it's not just processor speed.
I've started up a high-upload-rate connection against the torrent you provided. As soon as it gets some data, it should be pushing 2-3MB/s, so people should be able to get their copy reasonably quick.
Slashdot Mirror
Rabbits emit water?
Really?
I just read their terms of service. It's almost all about cookies. They basically say how they use their cookies, that they aren't responsible for the contents of the sites their ads link to, and that you may get cookies from their ad provider.
While not being a service I would want to use, they don't seem to be "shady" in that they are hiding anything, just that they do things you wish they wouldn't, but they're honest about it.
This is, of course, assuming their ToS isn't an outright lie.
"Why didn't somebody *tell* me my ass was so big?!?"
You did.
I bet if they'd asked him if they could link to it he would have said yes and not ended up changing the content out from underneath them..
Or he would have said no and they wouldn't have linked to it and he wouldn't have changed it out from underneath them..
The issue here, however, is more like waving your hands around someone's face saying "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you" and getting spit on and being surprised..
Fuddruckers was being an ass linking to his stuff like it was their own.
They shouldn't be surprised when it backfires on them.
No one is saying that Fuddruckers can't link to someone else's site.
BUT
When you do that, you're pointing people at someone else's content that they can choose to change at any time.
Sure, it's your "right" to link to someone else's page (or else the web wouldn't work), but make sure you don't piss them off or you never know what you'll be pointing to in the future.
It was the part where they injected you with V (the drug -- I think it was V). That part everything was tinted green (the color of the drug) and it was freakish.
When I interview a software developer, I'm interested in how they think, not what they know. As I stated before, the only way to get that information is to put them in a situation in which they don't have enough domain specific knowledge already.
Creativity and ability to quickly adapt to new problems is critical when you're trying to solve problems that haven't been solved before. That's what I'm looking for.
I want someone smart with excellent problem solving skills. If you can currently code in such a way to facilitate that, then great, but if you're smart enough, you can pick that up later. And then again and again in future projects.
I'm curious as to how you think they could have interviewed you better?
Would you prefer they gave you a test on your knowledge of the syntax of c++/c#/java/your programming language of choice?
Would you prefer they made you take the SAT or something?
What good companies want to know is how well you are able to think. The only way to do that is to put you in unfamiliar situations and see how you handle yourself.
Perhaps you were frustrated with not being able to answer the questions "correctly", as these questions are usually take more time than what is available in an interview -- hell, some don't even have "perfect" solutions at all.
Anyways, if you don't like that kind of interview, you probably don't want to interview at Amazon.com, either (for this or possibly other reasons).
Yes, I work and interview for Amazon.
Here's another mirror if necessary:
http://xaxxon.slackworks.com/2005-08-16-usb.wmv
NASA skipped some shuttle safety improvements as it tried to meet unrealistic launch dates for the first flight since the Columbia tragedy, some members of an oversight panel said in a scathing critique.
Oh, so they should have taken longer, right? And been more thorough?
Poor leadership also made shuttle Discovery's return to space more complicated, expensive and prolonged than it needed to be."
Oh, so they did too much and spent too much money and it should have taken less time, right?
I'm confused -- it seems like the headline contradicted itself within the span of two sentences. Am I misreading this?
Wow, you really just pulled that out of your ass, didn't you?
Sony wouldn't release the PS3 at $100 more than the 360 unless it had significantly more capability. Sony is consistently at or below Microsoft's console's price. Usually stealing the spotlight from Microsoft right before they do a planned price drop.
And you think that the 360 would have a couple hundred games available? What are you smoking? I'm not sure the XBox has had a couple hundred games made for it yet, years after it came out!
And you're right -- the games seal the deal. How many XBox exclusive games do you get excited about? I have a nice list of PS-only games.. Final Fantasy, GTA (at initial release), Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid..
I think the PS3 will do just fine whenever it comes out.
He means hookers. There's nothing in Itaewon at 2am other than hookers.
Maybe some pimps.
Mostly hookers.
It's been a while since I've been there, but with the number of lonely GIs, I'm guessing the hooker demand hasn't subsided..
In case you're even slower than me, it's a 20 MB .mpg file
After four years of hard work with electromagnetic traps in our labs, we are preparing to capture and cool five trillion positrons per second in the next few years. Our long-range goals are five quad-trillion positrons per second. At this rate we could fuel up for our first positron-fueled flight into space in a matter of hours."
I'm guessing they just meant quadrillion but the author had never heard this term before?
I can just see the personal ad now:
Go on a date with me, win an ipod.
It actually doesn't say if this was legit or not. There's nothing immoral about ilegally soliciting donations as long as you actually get the money to the right place. It's possible he was trying to do some good.
That said, there's no good reason to do it illegally other than to try and make money on it.
What he REALLY meant was that that was what he wanted to be the most important thing to other people. He was trying to convince people that they were confused. Ostensibly because that's what Sun offers.
While this is sound advice, it doesn't necessarily follow from this story.
He said he made an internal report of unethical and possibly illegal behaviour. It doesn't say he took this up with police at all. It sounds more like he was trying to warn them that they were doing something they shouldn't be so they could stop before they got caught.
And just in general about this story: *sigh*
I just wasted 5-6 of my no-ads page-views because the last time I refreshed slashdot it was this same article on top. I thought my browser was broken.
I WANT MY 6 PAID VIEWS BACK!!!
All I was doing was responding to the original question that a processor that is X times faster is EXACTLY X times faster for what it can do. You're right -- that's not particularly informative. I was trying to point out that the question wasn't very informed.
Yes. The chip itself will operate exactly 3.8 times faster than a 1GHz chip of the same architecture. Note that there was no 1GHz P4 chip nor was there a 1GHz Athlon 64.
What you don't understand is that different architectures lead to different performance characteristics. This results in a similarly clocked AMD chip outperforming it's Intel rival.
Also, many other systems affect how fast your program runs -- it's not just processor speed.
I've started up a high-upload-rate connection against the torrent you provided. As soon as it gets some data, it should be pushing 2-3MB/s, so people should be able to get their copy reasonably quick.
I'm getting 404s on all the links on the duke torrent page.
Anyone else having problems?