If you are able to ignore your voicemail, then YOU aren't important enough.
What does that even mean? Are you saying that the more important a person's position is, the less able they are to ignore voice-mail? Do you even know what voice-mail is?
I still stand by the belief that the symbol of power, the REAL status symbol of the future, will be the ability to be completely unreachable. Feeling the need to have to answer every phone call and respond to every text is what's led to the douchebaggery of bluetooth headsets and simian texting while ordering a coffee.
Yeah, the ground in the savannah is much softer, and doesn't even have any small rocks and stuff like that.
Really? You realize concrete is from 8 to 10 times harder than asphalt. And while I can scratch the ground on the Savannah with my fingernail (which has a Mohs' hardness of about 2.5), asphalt scratches off my fingernail which means it's at least 2.5 hardness or harder.
I've run on the desert floor. It's like running on a feather bed compared to running on concrete. Though I do have to admit I've never had a cactus thorn run clean through my toe while running on concrete.
My wife and I watched a live event streamed over the internet using a wireless router, a laptop, a TV, and a receiver. It beat the hell out of watching it on just the laptop...
My wife and I watched a live event with nothing more than our eyeballs and a pair of tickets. I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure it beat the hell out of watching it on just a laptop.
Sorry, who is supposed to take this into consideration? The largest bookstore on the planet skews search results towards an approved reading list--and most people will never know--and you're not even a little worried?
Skews WHAT search results? Sales rankings? I search for Nabokov's "Lolita" and it shows up just fine. They're not hiding it. They're not preventing me from buying it. What makes you think you have a RIGHT to see their sales rankings information anyway? Get off your overinflated high-horse of entitlement and just take your business somewhere else if it bothers you. But don't try to pretend your rights have been trampled just because someone else's business changes what and how much information they choose to share with you.
Thanks for the clarification. You've made it very clear that you have either have no idea what you've just cut and pasted, or you have no idea what Amazon is doing. Under which part of that definition does removing sales rankings from Amazon's proprietary system fall under?
an official who examines books... for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable
Not this one. No one is suppressing any part of the books themselves. They simply removed them from their sales ranking displays.
any person who supervises the manners or morality of others
Pretty sure this doesn't apply. Amazon isn't sitting over you telling you that you can't buy the book.
to examine and act upon as a censor.
They haven't fit any definition of acting as a censor yet, so it must be...
to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
And anyone with any common sense knows that deleting a word or passage of text FROM YOUR OWN WORK isn't censorship.
The parent Slashdot comment was posted by someone who calls themselves FuturePower (R), with the parenthesized 'R' suggesting a registered trademark.
So the comment author is a person who believes that a name chosen for a technology forum is a potential basis for self promotion and gain through civil lawsuits and has therefore allied themselves with the likes of the RIAA and MPIAA. That tends in the direction of causing me to have less confidence in her judgement.
Why would you assume people lie on their resumes? You may, but most people don't. Don't get caught at it though: that's pretty much a definitive career ending move. And the incompetence of a technologically illiterate HR person doesn't constitute a "lie" either. That's something called a mistake. Or a typo.
Couldn't agree more. In fact, if I find someone answering "yes" in response to everything I ask during an interview, I persist until I catch them in a lie. Then, the interview's over. I wouldn't think of hiring someone who doesn't know what they don't know.
Nice attempt at a troll. I can only assume you're smart enough to see the difference.
When a cop lies about a case, there's someone else's welfare at stake. When Clinton lied about a blowjob, it was no one else's business and no one's welfare was at stake. The entire purpose of the line of questioning he was subjected to was purely political, of no legal consequence and aimed at finding ANYTHING they could regardless of relevance. It was a complete mockery of America and the justice system.
If a cop lies about something that had no business being brought up in court and had absolutely no bearing on the case then not only should the cop not be prosecuted, but the person bringing up the question should be.
And finally... Seriously? Clinton? What an amazing testimony to your narrow-mindedness that the only violation of the public trust by a President in the last 10 years you can think of is a guy lying so his wife doesn't find out about some floozy sucking his dick.
Count me in with the paranoid morons please. The last thing I want on my flight is someone with a sword ready and willing to fight for God at a moment's notice. Isn't that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Hardly. I have the 1000HD and picked it up for $300. More precisely, I picked it up for $340 because I paid extra for Windows on it. The whole concept of the "netbook" is a smaller, lightweight, more portable version of what you're already using. Why would I switch to an operating system where all of my applications would be incompatible?
Far from causing the imminent death of Microsoft, what I've found is just how well Windows is capable of performing when you don't have the misguided luxury of installing every crap application you come across on it. I've had my 1000HD for four months now, I'm on it long enough to run the battery out nearly every day, and using Windows hibernate, I haven't had to reboot once.
This year however, times are tough. No Christmas dinner/party, and no bonus--which isn't a big deal, because they owe me nothing in exchange for my work except a paycheck.
Unfortunately, there's a whole bunch of us who work for companies that DO owe us something in exchange for work called a year-end bonus. It's calculated as part of compensation on top of base, and some of us take a cut in base compensation on the promise of that bonus. It's part of your negotiated overall compensation package. Getting screwed out of it can be a really big hit for some of us.
Actually, to use your ridiculously hyperbolic language, KHQA, the station reporting the story, was caught laying about the meeting between Obama and Blagojevich, and was forced to retract it.
If you want to know what's going on in mainstream AI, you should bone up on probability, statistics, and linear algebra (if you're the right kind of physicist, you already have the math you need).
Let's just say that perhaps I'm not the right kind of physicist (or a physicist at all), not a student, but would still like to do a deeper dive into contemporary AI research. What are some good texts for teaching myself probability, statistic, and linear algebra?
You're half-wrong too though. I do indeed place a high value on my speech. So much so, I don't think the right to use it should be given away so easily, for so little benefit to myself or others.
And you're half hypocritical then. The concept that protects the right to use of your highly valued speech is Copyright. It sounds like you have a considerable disconnect between the concept of copyright and various industries' implementation of it as a civil statute. You want to be protected by copyright, yet you don't want anyone else to be able to protect theirs.
Copyright is an infringement on your right to free speech? Seriously? Limiting your ability to make money off of my work is an infringement of YOUR rights?
Let's take the simplest case of copyright infringement and let's see how that works. Say you've spent the last year of your life writing an excellent book, but because you lack connections in the industry or don't know how to go about getting an agent, you can't seem to find a publisher. You finally get published, but it's by some small house with terrible distribution and less than 100 copies ever make it to the shelves.
I wander into one of those bookstores, find your book, and realize I could make a mint selling this through my own publishing house. I republish your book without your permission and make a truckload of money on it while you get squat.
So you're saying that in the name of "free speech" you're willing to give up any and all rights in this case? No... didn't think so.
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If you are able to ignore your voicemail, then YOU aren't important enough.
What does that even mean? Are you saying that the more important a person's position is, the less able they are to ignore voice-mail? Do you even know what voice-mail is?
I still stand by the belief that the symbol of power, the REAL status symbol of the future, will be the ability to be completely unreachable. Feeling the need to have to answer every phone call and respond to every text is what's led to the douchebaggery of bluetooth headsets and simian texting while ordering a coffee.
Or concrete.
Yeah, the ground in the savannah is much softer, and doesn't even have any small rocks and stuff like that.
Really? You realize concrete is from 8 to 10 times harder than asphalt. And while I can scratch the ground on the Savannah with my fingernail (which has a Mohs' hardness of about 2.5), asphalt scratches off my fingernail which means it's at least 2.5 hardness or harder.
I've run on the desert floor. It's like running on a feather bed compared to running on concrete. Though I do have to admit I've never had a cactus thorn run clean through my toe while running on concrete.
My wife and I watched a live event streamed over the internet using a wireless router, a laptop, a TV, and a receiver. It beat the hell out of watching it on just the laptop ...
My wife and I watched a live event with nothing more than our eyeballs and a pair of tickets. I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty sure it beat the hell out of watching it on just a laptop.
Sorry, who is supposed to take this into consideration? The largest bookstore on the planet skews search results towards an approved reading list--and most people will never know--and you're not even a little worried?
Skews WHAT search results? Sales rankings? I search for Nabokov's "Lolita" and it shows up just fine. They're not hiding it. They're not preventing me from buying it. What makes you think you have a RIGHT to see their sales rankings information anyway? Get off your overinflated high-horse of entitlement and just take your business somewhere else if it bothers you. But don't try to pretend your rights have been trampled just because someone else's business changes what and how much information they choose to share with you.
Thanks for the clarification. You've made it very clear that you have either have no idea what you've just cut and pasted, or you have no idea what Amazon is doing. Under which part of that definition does removing sales rankings from Amazon's proprietary system fall under?
an official who examines books ... for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable
Not this one. No one is suppressing any part of the books themselves. They simply removed them from their sales ranking displays.
any person who supervises the manners or morality of others
Pretty sure this doesn't apply. Amazon isn't sitting over you telling you that you can't buy the book.
to examine and act upon as a censor.
They haven't fit any definition of acting as a censor yet, so it must be...
to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
And anyone with any common sense knows that deleting a word or passage of text FROM YOUR OWN WORK isn't censorship.
The parent Slashdot comment was posted by someone who calls themselves FuturePower (R), with the parenthesized 'R' suggesting a registered trademark.
So the comment author is a person who believes that a name chosen for a technology forum is a potential basis for self promotion and gain through civil lawsuits and has therefore allied themselves with the likes of the RIAA and MPIAA. That tends in the direction of causing me to have less confidence in her judgement.
Why would you assume people lie on their resumes? You may, but most people don't. Don't get caught at it though: that's pretty much a definitive career ending move. And the incompetence of a technologically illiterate HR person doesn't constitute a "lie" either. That's something called a mistake. Or a typo.
Couldn't agree more. In fact, if I find someone answering "yes" in response to everything I ask during an interview, I persist until I catch them in a lie. Then, the interview's over. I wouldn't think of hiring someone who doesn't know what they don't know.
Nice attempt at a troll. I can only assume you're smart enough to see the difference.
When a cop lies about a case, there's someone else's welfare at stake. When Clinton lied about a blowjob, it was no one else's business and no one's welfare was at stake. The entire purpose of the line of questioning he was subjected to was purely political, of no legal consequence and aimed at finding ANYTHING they could regardless of relevance. It was a complete mockery of America and the justice system.
If a cop lies about something that had no business being brought up in court and had absolutely no bearing on the case then not only should the cop not be prosecuted, but the person bringing up the question should be.
And finally... Seriously? Clinton? What an amazing testimony to your narrow-mindedness that the only violation of the public trust by a President in the last 10 years you can think of is a guy lying so his wife doesn't find out about some floozy sucking his dick.
You should consider updating Wikipedia then. It currently says you have no idea what you're talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom
I'm assuming you also have as much contempt for the Supreme Court of the US who often overrule majority rule jury decisions?
Count me in with the paranoid morons please. The last thing I want on my flight is someone with a sword ready and willing to fight for God at a moment's notice. Isn't that how we got into this mess in the first place?
Hardly. I have the 1000HD and picked it up for $300. More precisely, I picked it up for $340 because I paid extra for Windows on it. The whole concept of the "netbook" is a smaller, lightweight, more portable version of what you're already using. Why would I switch to an operating system where all of my applications would be incompatible? Far from causing the imminent death of Microsoft, what I've found is just how well Windows is capable of performing when you don't have the misguided luxury of installing every crap application you come across on it. I've had my 1000HD for four months now, I'm on it long enough to run the battery out nearly every day, and using Windows hibernate, I haven't had to reboot once.
Dad?
This year however, times are tough. No Christmas dinner/party, and no bonus--which isn't a big deal, because they owe me nothing in exchange for my work except a paycheck.
Unfortunately, there's a whole bunch of us who work for companies that DO owe us something in exchange for work called a year-end bonus. It's calculated as part of compensation on top of base, and some of us take a cut in base compensation on the promise of that bonus. It's part of your negotiated overall compensation package. Getting screwed out of it can be a really big hit for some of us.
Interesting? Seriously mods, Interesting? Possibly a page out of The Onion's version of "Dear Penthouse Forums", but... Interesting? Come on.
Actually, to use your ridiculously hyperbolic language, KHQA, the station reporting the story, was caught laying about the meeting between Obama and Blagojevich, and was forced to retract it.
Swing and a miss. Thanks for playing.
Seriously? I mean, seriously? Did you come from a family that shit themselves over papal-worshiping "Fitzgerald" too?
I for one would be ecstatic if the America as you know it is dead.
I quit WoW when it started making the following statements...
I think I would have quit the moment it started making ANY statements to me personally...
We have friends. Relatives even.
If you want to know what's going on in mainstream AI, you should bone up on probability, statistics, and linear algebra (if you're the right kind of physicist, you already have the math you need).
Let's just say that perhaps I'm not the right kind of physicist (or a physicist at all), not a student, but would still like to do a deeper dive into contemporary AI research. What are some good texts for teaching myself probability, statistic, and linear algebra?
You're half-wrong too though. I do indeed place a high value on my speech. So much so, I don't think the right to use it should be given away so easily, for so little benefit to myself or others.
And you're half hypocritical then. The concept that protects the right to use of your highly valued speech is Copyright. It sounds like you have a considerable disconnect between the concept of copyright and various industries' implementation of it as a civil statute. You want to be protected by copyright, yet you don't want anyone else to be able to protect theirs.
Copyright is an infringement on your right to free speech? Seriously? Limiting your ability to make money off of my work is an infringement of YOUR rights?
Let's take the simplest case of copyright infringement and let's see how that works. Say you've spent the last year of your life writing an excellent book, but because you lack connections in the industry or don't know how to go about getting an agent, you can't seem to find a publisher. You finally get published, but it's by some small house with terrible distribution and less than 100 copies ever make it to the shelves.
I wander into one of those bookstores, find your book, and realize I could make a mint selling this through my own publishing house. I republish your book without your permission and make a truckload of money on it while you get squat.
So you're saying that in the name of "free speech" you're willing to give up any and all rights in this case? No... didn't think so.
You sir, are a shining example of why he had better not cut a penny from education.
I'm sitting in an airport on my way to Vegas so I'm getting a real kick out of your post...