A lot of times when they say "prior experience required" they actually mean preferred. This is especially true for recent college grads - I am a senior in college myself, and I have had at least 1 interview where the job listing said "3+ years of experience." I don't know why they say it if its not totally true, but don't let those requirements stop you from sending them your resume.
I believe that you might be able to set the number of times each prisoner is called in yourself. You could say that if you knew n=10 and k=1000000000, then you could set "m" or whatever the number of times each prisoner is called in, to be something like 10^10 or something. Just as long as you set it to a finite number.
Perhaps your theory is true for some, but for my and a good chunk of my group of friends that got totally hooked on Firefly, it's not.
I never liked Star Trek, and watched Star Wars, but I wasn't a cult fan. However, after just a few episodes of Firefly, it would be safe to say that Joss Whedon had another convert.
Firefly/Serenity isn't even really that similar to Star Trek/Wars besides the fact that they are all in space. Firefly/Serenity is more of a western in space than it is a Star Trek-style sci-fi.
So again, your theory may be true for a few, but I am afraid that for everyone I know it doesn't hold water.
Many ad companies only count 1 visit a day from each unique IP address. This means even if someone visits 50 pages on a site, they will only get counted once per day. Its possible they are using multiple ad agencies to distribute their advertisements, but I don't know how happy each ad company would be about that.
"Skiing and snowboarding is a perfect programming analogy."
It's a nifty little game, but that statement seems a little out there. I think the only thing that really links the two is that they both advance forward in time. He could have used any analogy: canoing down a river, walking to class, really anything that involves movement in some direction through time.
The listing on the map wasn't AdWords. It was the result of a search for locations with "Superdome" in their name. Holidy Inn Downtown Superdome was just one of those results.
Why is the URL for Virgin Galactic bounced through Google? It seems that a submitter using Slashdot to get advertising referrals should have been caught by the editors.
You are mistaking sales for profits. Your article talks about a 14% decline in sales from the same period last year, rather than profits this quarter from last quarter.
Profits = Sales (revenue) - Costs
What this seems to show is that they had a large increase in costs this quarter. R&D on the Revolution could be one reason.
At least I post with my identity out for everyone to see- you see fit to hide behind a mask.
Ever consider that an Internet identity is in a way just a mask for your real life identity? So maybe he has one more mask on than you, but you are still somewhat wearing a mask. Not that I really care, but I feel pedantic and slightly philosophical right now.
Also in fairness, I hear cases of the IAmNotEqualToMyNeighbor SoIMadeADisease Syndrom (ISS) is also on the rise.
Seriously though, perhaps the definition and diagnostic methods for clinical depression could be the cause for a perceived increase in the number of cases, rather than the number of people actually inflicted? After all, it seems every year there is some new mental disease that is classified.
This article was just another worthless piece of bad journalism in the genre of "The end of X". This guy is ranting like people need to stop using floppies, but thats pretty much already happened. A lot of people I know don't even have floppy drives. Cheap optical media and USB drives have all but replaced it.
Even at my mom's office, where they are very backwards about technology, they use zip drives over floppy drives.
I'm anxiously looking forward to reading the authors article on the "The End of the A-Track Era"/sarcasm
HealthCARE Advocates is suing, not Health Advocates. There is a trademark case of Healthcare Advocates (plaintiff) suing Health Advocates (defendant). The legal firm defending Health Advocates digged up the old archive. HealthCare Advocates, the plaintiff, got desperate and is suing the legal firm and IA probably in order to try to exclude whatever evidence the defense legal firm dug up.
I guess you were trying to be informative, but in this case it makes a big difference as to which company is doing the lawsuit. Its the plaintiff, not the defendant.
I forgot to mention, the $300 Dell comes with a Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse. Sure, all that only adds up to about $100 or so if buying cheaply, but the Mac doesn't come with it. So it IS a $300 difference.
It even comes with a free printer. 40% cheaper than the low end Mac is quite a large margin. The mid to higher end PC versus Mac comparisons show the $300+ price difference.
66 percent said open-source operating systems have low initial costs
I can understand OSS having potentially high operating costs from failures and training, but how can you justify high initial costs for something that is free?
I do believe Microsoft should do everything in its power to increase computer security. However, it cannot be the only angle we take to combat security issues if we want them to disappear.
Consider this: If I buy a house from a contractor, I expect all the locks to properly work. If some lock just fell apart if an intruder stood in just the right spot, I would probably sue the people who made my house. However, you can't get mad at the contractors if you forgot to lock your door in the first place. Responsibility lies on both parties to ensure the security of the house. Even if the locks automatically turned on when you left the house, people would find a way to still be irresponsible and get robbed.
It is similar to the situation of dorms at my campus. I believe that my school has put in fairly good security: you need a key card to get into the dorm, and the same key card plus a 4 digit code associated with your card in order to get into your room. However, theft and vandalism still occurs, because some people are too lazy to deal with the security measures that were put into place, and just prop their doors open. Do they have the right to be mad at the school when their stuff gets stolen? No. They shouldn't have propped their door open in the first place.
So yes, Microsoft should do everything it can to prevent viruses, but I feel it is entirely possible they ARE doing everything they can, and it is time to find a new approach.
Please stop casting this as a problem with human nature.
Isn't it a problem of human nature? Risk versus reward? If a kid can take down a bridge by poking it with a chopstick, then some kid undoutably will. However, if it would take a large shot of TNT to take down the bridge, then some fanatic that believes he will gain something from blowing it up will at some point attempt to blow it up. The fact is, increased security doesn't prevent attacks completely. It turns away some would be attackers who realize the risk of loss is greater than the possible benefit, but there is no such thing as an inpenetrable defense.
I say, please stop casting this as a problem that Microsoft has created with buggy software. Sure, they created the holes in their security, but security wouldn't even be an issue if it weren't for those who exploit the lack of it. In the end, it does come down to human nature.
This, along with prosecution of spammers, is a good start to reducing annoying aspects of the internet, but how far will this go to prevent others from replacing convicted pests?
Is there a way to tackle the problem "from the source" that would prevent would be spammers and virus creators from WANTING to do these things?
I think if enough offenders are prosecuted, and prosecuted severely enough, there is the potential to ward off others from commiting the same acts. However, if only a few, say 1 in 20 or less, virus creators/spammers/etc are caught, I don't think there will be enough push to stop others from taking their place.
Just like anything else in the world, if there is a low risk of punishment and a good chance of some sort of reward (monetary, pride, whatever) for some act, then someone will commit that act.
ask the judge to shoot all of the lawyers at a Comet
I don't know why, but I was uncontrollably laughing when I read this. Just something about the thought of standing up in a courtroom and asking for damages amounting to firing off a battery of lawyers at a comet is really funny.
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Perhaps you should have read the sentence immediately following the one you quoted:
After all, it's free storage, right? Wrong.
He wasn't suggesting it was a good idea to do it - he was giving a sample mindset of someone who would use TinyDisk to do stupid/malicious things.
A lot of times when they say "prior experience required" they actually mean preferred. This is especially true for recent college grads - I am a senior in college myself, and I have had at least 1 interview where the job listing said "3+ years of experience." I don't know why they say it if its not totally true, but don't let those requirements stop you from sending them your resume.
I believe that you might be able to set the number of times each prisoner is called in yourself. You could say that if you knew n=10 and k=1000000000, then you could set "m" or whatever the number of times each prisoner is called in, to be something like 10^10 or something. Just as long as you set it to a finite number.
Coral Cache of the article
Perhaps your theory is true for some, but for my and a good chunk of my group of friends that got totally hooked on Firefly, it's not.
I never liked Star Trek, and watched Star Wars, but I wasn't a cult fan. However, after just a few episodes of Firefly, it would be safe to say that Joss Whedon had another convert.
Firefly/Serenity isn't even really that similar to Star Trek/Wars besides the fact that they are all in space. Firefly/Serenity is more of a western in space than it is a Star Trek-style sci-fi.
So again, your theory may be true for a few, but I am afraid that for everyone I know it doesn't hold water.
you can control your car with the help of this "steering wheel"...
I KNEW I was doing something wrong!
Many ad companies only count 1 visit a day from each unique IP address. This means even if someone visits 50 pages on a site, they will only get counted once per day. Its possible they are using multiple ad agencies to distribute their advertisements, but I don't know how happy each ad company would be about that.
This was linked to in TFA (http://news.com.com/Authors+Guild+sues+Google+ove r+library+project/2100-1030_3-5875384.html) from http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/21/04 4228&tid=217&tid=17
I guess the editors don't RTFA?
"Skiing and snowboarding is a perfect programming analogy."
It's a nifty little game, but that statement seems a little out there. I think the only thing that really links the two is that they both advance forward in time. He could have used any analogy: canoing down a river, walking to class, really anything that involves movement in some direction through time.
The listing on the map wasn't AdWords. It was the result of a search for locations with "Superdome" in their name. Holidy Inn Downtown Superdome was just one of those results.
Perhaps because Fedora is owned by Red Hat?
Why is the URL for Virgin Galactic bounced through Google? It seems that a submitter using Slashdot to get advertising referrals should have been caught by the editors.
You are mistaking sales for profits. Your article talks about a 14% decline in sales from the same period last year, rather than profits this quarter from last quarter.
Profits = Sales (revenue) - Costs
What this seems to show is that they had a large increase in costs this quarter. R&D on the Revolution could be one reason.
At least I post with my identity out for everyone to see- you see fit to hide behind a mask.
Ever consider that an Internet identity is in a way just a mask for your real life identity? So maybe he has one more mask on than you, but you are still somewhat wearing a mask. Not that I really care, but I feel pedantic and slightly philosophical right now.
Also in fairness, I hear cases of the IAmNotEqualToMyNeighbor SoIMadeADisease Syndrom (ISS) is also on the rise.
Seriously though, perhaps the definition and diagnostic methods for clinical depression could be the cause for a perceived increase in the number of cases, rather than the number of people actually inflicted? After all, it seems every year there is some new mental disease that is classified.
This article was just another worthless piece of bad journalism in the genre of "The end of X". This guy is ranting like people need to stop using floppies, but thats pretty much already happened. A lot of people I know don't even have floppy drives. Cheap optical media and USB drives have all but replaced it.
/sarcasm
Even at my mom's office, where they are very backwards about technology, they use zip drives over floppy drives.
I'm anxiously looking forward to reading the authors article on the "The End of the A-Track Era"
HealthCARE Advocates is suing, not Health Advocates. There is a trademark case of Healthcare Advocates (plaintiff) suing Health Advocates (defendant). The legal firm defending Health Advocates digged up the old archive. HealthCare Advocates, the plaintiff, got desperate and is suing the legal firm and IA probably in order to try to exclude whatever evidence the defense legal firm dug up.
I guess you were trying to be informative, but in this case it makes a big difference as to which company is doing the lawsuit. Its the plaintiff, not the defendant.
I forgot to mention, the $300 Dell comes with a Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse. Sure, all that only adds up to about $100 or so if buying cheaply, but the Mac doesn't come with it. So it IS a $300 difference.
Its not $200, but it comes close: For $300
It even comes with a free printer. 40% cheaper than the low end Mac is quite a large margin. The mid to higher end PC versus Mac comparisons show the $300+ price difference.
66 percent said open-source operating systems have low initial costs
I can understand OSS having potentially high operating costs from failures and training, but how can you justify high initial costs for something that is free?
I do believe Microsoft should do everything in its power to increase computer security. However, it cannot be the only angle we take to combat security issues if we want them to disappear.
Consider this: If I buy a house from a contractor, I expect all the locks to properly work. If some lock just fell apart if an intruder stood in just the right spot, I would probably sue the people who made my house. However, you can't get mad at the contractors if you forgot to lock your door in the first place. Responsibility lies on both parties to ensure the security of the house. Even if the locks automatically turned on when you left the house, people would find a way to still be irresponsible and get robbed.
It is similar to the situation of dorms at my campus. I believe that my school has put in fairly good security: you need a key card to get into the dorm, and the same key card plus a 4 digit code associated with your card in order to get into your room. However, theft and vandalism still occurs, because some people are too lazy to deal with the security measures that were put into place, and just prop their doors open. Do they have the right to be mad at the school when their stuff gets stolen? No. They shouldn't have propped their door open in the first place.
So yes, Microsoft should do everything it can to prevent viruses, but I feel it is entirely possible they ARE doing everything they can, and it is time to find a new approach.
Please stop casting this as a problem with human nature.
Isn't it a problem of human nature? Risk versus reward? If a kid can take down a bridge by poking it with a chopstick, then some kid undoutably will. However, if it would take a large shot of TNT to take down the bridge, then some fanatic that believes he will gain something from blowing it up will at some point attempt to blow it up. The fact is, increased security doesn't prevent attacks completely. It turns away some would be attackers who realize the risk of loss is greater than the possible benefit, but there is no such thing as an inpenetrable defense.
I say, please stop casting this as a problem that Microsoft has created with buggy software. Sure, they created the holes in their security, but security wouldn't even be an issue if it weren't for those who exploit the lack of it. In the end, it does come down to human nature.
This, along with prosecution of spammers, is a good start to reducing annoying aspects of the internet, but how far will this go to prevent others from replacing convicted pests?
Is there a way to tackle the problem "from the source" that would prevent would be spammers and virus creators from WANTING to do these things?
I think if enough offenders are prosecuted, and prosecuted severely enough, there is the potential to ward off others from commiting the same acts. However, if only a few, say 1 in 20 or less, virus creators/spammers/etc are caught, I don't think there will be enough push to stop others from taking their place.
Just like anything else in the world, if there is a low risk of punishment and a good chance of some sort of reward (monetary, pride, whatever) for some act, then someone will commit that act.
ask the judge to shoot all of the lawyers at a Comet
I don't know why, but I was uncontrollably laughing when I read this. Just something about the thought of standing up in a courtroom and asking for damages amounting to firing off a battery of lawyers at a comet is really funny.
Have you ever heard the phrase "reciting digits of pi for your life"? I didn't think so.