Some of my most "productive" days have resulted in a net deletion of many hundreds of lines of code. Mostly this is cleaning horrendous cut & paste jobs, and refactoring APIs to dump buggy, unnecessary functionality. That one day of effort probably saves weeks of bug-hunting and spaghetti-unwinding further down the road. It would appear to be negatively productive by any naive metric.
I'd argue coder pay should be proportional to productivity. It's just that there's no shortcuts to measuring a coder's productivity.
Please mod the AC up. I was exposed to someone with a confirmed case of H1N1 and came down with symptoms. I everywhere I've called tells me they are only testing patients at a high risk for complications, because otherwise they'd be swamped with people coming in for tests. Supposedly this is the government guideline. So how is the CDC expecting to actually track this thing if the government isn't allowing people to be tested?
That is pretty much the way it works now. If you get hit by an uninsured motorist, your insurance picks up the tab. Then they go after the uninsured party. And if they are broke, or run, or lie about their identity, the insurance company is left holding the bag. They eat that expense as a cost of doing business. Which raises the rates for everyone who does pay. Which is why compulsory insurance is mandated by law.
Take a look at the line items on your insurance bill sometime. There's an "uninsured motorist coverage" item in there or something similar. The actual cost varies depending on the number of uninsured drivers in your state.
Great points. I'd mod you up if I wasn't the GGP:)
To the GP and others who are making a similar point: Believe me, I know the state of public transport in most US cities is terrible. But I don't see how that is a valid justification for breaking the law by driving an uninsured vehicle.
Wow, trolled by a four digit ID. I wasn't expecting that.
If you hadn't botched your analogy, the statement would be "I don't care if a new accounting law disproportionately affects white business owners, if they are the ones disproportionately tanking the economy."
See the difference?
I'd support that law, too. But that wouldn't make a very good troll now, would it?
Screw uninsured motorists, IMO. If you can't afford compulsory insurance, you can't afford to drive, period. Take the bus. I don't care if this particular move disproportionately affects minorities, if they are the ones disproportionately breaking the law.
This is a good use for traffic cameras, much better than for catching red light running or speeding, because there's always room for subjective calls on what was safe under the particular circumstance of the infraction. If you are uninsured, that is just a fact and you should not be on the road in the first place. End of story.
I agree that this probably isn't much of a revenue stream, since if you can't afford insurance you probably can't afford the fine.
I'd argue the Kindle will make more money for authors because of an inability to sell e-books secondhand. If the secondhand book market is larger than the audiobook market, the author's guild is coming out ahead.
Har har, very original. I've been visiting/. for a LONG time, and that feeble attempt at humor crossed a line. I'm not the super sensitive type, I just don't think it is appropriate to put that kind of content in the summary. If that joke had appeared in the comments, I wouldn't have found it particularly clever OR worth objecting to. I do think some of the jokes in this thread are actually pretty funny.
Keep the crass childish humor in the comments section where it belongs, samzenpus.
Absolutely agree. The pun in the headline is a bad enough, but that "joke" is the most juvenile and disgusting editorial addition to a submission I've seen on Slashdot.
What about providing proof that it was the version of the source code that was made available for review that was running on the machine at the time the test was administered?
From the article: "the UAL story began circulating widely via a posting by research firm Income Securities Advisors Inc. that was made available to users of Bloomberg L.P., the financial-news service widely watched on Wall Street."
Some analyst at a research firm made a big deal about the outdated article, after seeing it on Google news. THAT PERSON is the point of failure.
If you blame Google for this, you might as well blame Google for anyone posting any erroneous information they found after doing an internet search.
Most cable companies offer a dirt-cheap package containing only local broadcast channels. These channels are required by law to be sent unencrypted. I pay Comcast $8/month and get all the major broadcast networks in HD, plus a few random cable channels like History and BET. Even better: Comcast gives me a $10 discount on ANY TV/internet package, so I actually save $2/month by getting the limited TV package.
Any TV tuner card that accepts "Clear QAM" will be able to tune unencrypted cable signals.
Agreed. If they add voice chat and some kind of persistent leaderboard for online play, nobody is going to complain about waiting until February. Nobody.
"We're willing to bite the bullet and write off those expenses."
Kramer : All these big companies, they write off everything. Jerry : You don't even know what a write off is. Kramer : Do you? Jerry : No, I don't. Kramer : But they do and they are the ones writing it off.
The justification for the censorship allegation is contained at the end of TFA: Brian Crawford, a senior vice-president at the American Chemical Society and a member of the AAP executive chair, [says]..."When any government or funding agency houses and disseminates for public consumption only the work it itself funds, that constitutes a form of selection and self-promotion of that entity's interests."
The problem with this argument, of course, is that PubMed is not actively suppressing any materials whatsoever. Other journals can publish whatever they want. The NIH is simply trying to make publicly funded research available to the public.
This is about keeping control of information in the hands of a powerful publishing group (the AAP) to maximize their profits. The AAP is clearly not interested in advancing the scientific knowledge, much like the RIAA is not interested in the artistic merit of the music they control.
(Funny thing about the best peer-reviewed journals: The reviewers are not compensated for their reviews. Reviewers are almost exclusively university professors who consider it their obligation to review, because it is necessary to help the advancement of their chosen field. All journal subscription costs go towards production, distribution, and profits for the publisher.)
If the EyeTV guys are smart, they'll modify their hw/sw to output AppleTV-compatible MPEG4.
That isn't going to happen, for HD content anyway. EyeTV stores the MPEG2 stream directly from the OTA or QAM signal. The hardware requirements for reencoding HD on the fly are far too steep for consumer-oriented devices. Reencoding to MPEG4 takes several times longer than realtime, making it useless as a PVR for live TV.
In a few years this will be possible without professional-grade hardware, but not now.
The reality is that the GOP has only limitted expanding rights of gays, which is very different than taking them away. It has never been legal for the gays to marry...
Wrong. It is legal for "the gays" to marry in Massachusetts, right now. The Republican govenor (now a lame duck) and some Republican members of the state legislature want to now make it illegal.
...in a sense the GOP position is status quo.
Segregation, slavery, the right to vote belonging to white males only...these are all examples of the status quo at one time in the USA. Does that make positions supporting them any less bigoted? Those who wish to create OR maintain an inferior class of citizen deserve to be demonized.
People have been doing this in simulation for a while...thumb through the proceedings of pretty much any conference that touches on swarm robotics (or just play Pikmin). At some point you actually need to build the damn thing to convince people it will work in practice. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, etc.
They seem to be either clearly biased, drip with ego and/or condescention, but usually they are just TOO LONG. Why is it Ebert can give a fair review of "Mullholland Drive" on a quarter-page of the chicago sun-times, but nobody can seem to encapsulate "Mario Tennis" in under 5 printed pages??
I buy games based mostly on reviews. If I'm going to lay down $50 for a new game, I want to know about the gameplay, basic plot, graphics, camera system, replayability, and everything else about it. If I go to a movie on a whim and it sucks, I'm out at most $10. A game costs 5 times that. So maybe the review should be 5 times as long.
Also, Consumer Reports rocks. You should have also mentioned that they are nonprofit.
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Forget predicting...I dare you to explain the end of Primer, even after seeing it.
Some of my most "productive" days have resulted in a net deletion of many hundreds of lines of code. Mostly this is cleaning horrendous cut & paste jobs, and refactoring APIs to dump buggy, unnecessary functionality. That one day of effort probably saves weeks of bug-hunting and spaghetti-unwinding further down the road. It would appear to be negatively productive by any naive metric.
I'd argue coder pay should be proportional to productivity. It's just that there's no shortcuts to measuring a coder's productivity.
Please mod the AC up. I was exposed to someone with a confirmed case of H1N1 and came down with symptoms. I everywhere I've called tells me they are only testing patients at a high risk for complications, because otherwise they'd be swamped with people coming in for tests. Supposedly this is the government guideline. So how is the CDC expecting to actually track this thing if the government isn't allowing people to be tested?
"It could translate into one of the largest clusterfucks in history."
FTFY
That is pretty much the way it works now. If you get hit by an uninsured motorist, your insurance picks up the tab. Then they go after the uninsured party. And if they are broke, or run, or lie about their identity, the insurance company is left holding the bag. They eat that expense as a cost of doing business. Which raises the rates for everyone who does pay. Which is why compulsory insurance is mandated by law.
Take a look at the line items on your insurance bill sometime. There's an "uninsured motorist coverage" item in there or something similar. The actual cost varies depending on the number of uninsured drivers in your state.
Great points. I'd mod you up if I wasn't the GGP :)
To the GP and others who are making a similar point: Believe me, I know the state of public transport in most US cities is terrible. But I don't see how that is a valid justification for breaking the law by driving an uninsured vehicle.
Wow, trolled by a four digit ID. I wasn't expecting that.
If you hadn't botched your analogy, the statement would be "I don't care if a new accounting law disproportionately affects white business owners, if they are the ones disproportionately tanking the economy."
See the difference?
I'd support that law, too. But that wouldn't make a very good troll now, would it?
Screw uninsured motorists, IMO. If you can't afford compulsory insurance, you can't afford to drive, period. Take the bus. I don't care if this particular move disproportionately affects minorities, if they are the ones disproportionately breaking the law.
This is a good use for traffic cameras, much better than for catching red light running or speeding, because there's always room for subjective calls on what was safe under the particular circumstance of the infraction. If you are uninsured, that is just a fact and you should not be on the road in the first place. End of story.
I agree that this probably isn't much of a revenue stream, since if you can't afford insurance you probably can't afford the fine.
I'd argue the Kindle will make more money for authors because of an inability to sell e-books secondhand. If the secondhand book market is larger than the audiobook market, the author's guild is coming out ahead.
Har har, very original. I've been visiting /. for a LONG time, and that feeble attempt at humor crossed a line. I'm not the super sensitive type, I just don't think it is appropriate to put that kind of content in the summary. If that joke had appeared in the comments, I wouldn't have found it particularly clever OR worth objecting to. I do think some of the jokes in this thread are actually pretty funny.
Keep the crass childish humor in the comments section where it belongs, samzenpus.
Absolutely agree. The pun in the headline is a bad enough, but that "joke" is the most juvenile and disgusting editorial addition to a submission I've seen on Slashdot.
What about providing proof that it was the version of the source code that was made available for review that was running on the machine at the time the test was administered?
From the article:
"the UAL story began circulating widely via a posting by research firm Income Securities Advisors Inc. that was made available to users of Bloomberg L.P., the financial-news service widely watched on Wall Street."
Some analyst at a research firm made a big deal about the outdated article, after seeing it on Google news. THAT PERSON is the point of failure.
If you blame Google for this, you might as well blame Google for anyone posting any erroneous information they found after doing an internet search.
Most cable companies offer a dirt-cheap package containing only local broadcast channels. These channels are required by law to be sent unencrypted. I pay Comcast $8/month and get all the major broadcast networks in HD, plus a few random cable channels like History and BET. Even better: Comcast gives me a $10 discount on ANY TV/internet package, so I actually save $2/month by getting the limited TV package.
Any TV tuner card that accepts "Clear QAM" will be able to tune unencrypted cable signals.
Replying to cancel an accidental negative moderation. Nothing to see here.
Hasn't the future perfect tense been abandoned since it was discovered not to be?
Agreed. If they add voice chat and some kind of persistent leaderboard for online play, nobody is going to complain about waiting until February. Nobody.
"We're willing to bite the bullet and write off those expenses."
Kramer : All these big companies, they write off everything.
Jerry : You don't even know what a write off is.
Kramer : Do you?
Jerry : No, I don't.
Kramer : But they do and they are the ones writing it off.
The justification for the censorship allegation is contained at the end of TFA:
Brian Crawford, a senior vice-president at the American Chemical Society and a member of the AAP executive chair, [says]..."When any government or funding agency houses and disseminates for public consumption only the work it itself funds, that constitutes a form of selection and self-promotion of that entity's interests."
The problem with this argument, of course, is that PubMed is not actively suppressing any materials whatsoever. Other journals can publish whatever they want. The NIH is simply trying to make publicly funded research available to the public.
This is about keeping control of information in the hands of a powerful publishing group (the AAP) to maximize their profits. The AAP is clearly not interested in advancing the scientific knowledge, much like the RIAA is not interested in the artistic merit of the music they control.
(Funny thing about the best peer-reviewed journals: The reviewers are not compensated for their reviews. Reviewers are almost exclusively university professors who consider it their obligation to review, because it is necessary to help the advancement of their chosen field. All journal subscription costs go towards production, distribution, and profits for the publisher.)
If the EyeTV guys are smart, they'll modify their hw/sw to output AppleTV-compatible MPEG4.
That isn't going to happen, for HD content anyway. EyeTV stores the MPEG2 stream directly from the OTA or QAM signal. The hardware requirements for reencoding HD on the fly are far too steep for consumer-oriented devices. Reencoding to MPEG4 takes several times longer than realtime, making it useless as a PVR for live TV.
In a few years this will be possible without professional-grade hardware, but not now.
Colorado State University was/is doing some work with EEG. Their project website lists the products they use, which seem to be in your price range.
Wrong. It is legal for "the gays" to marry in Massachusetts, right now. The Republican govenor (now a lame duck) and some Republican members of the state legislature want to now make it illegal.
Segregation, slavery, the right to vote belonging to white males only...these are all examples of the status quo at one time in the USA. Does that make positions supporting them any less bigoted? Those who wish to create OR maintain an inferior class of citizen deserve to be demonized.
People have been doing this in simulation for a while...thumb through the proceedings of pretty much any conference that touches on swarm robotics (or just play Pikmin). At some point you actually need to build the damn thing to convince people it will work in practice. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, etc.
They seem to be either clearly biased, drip with ego and/or condescention, but usually they are just TOO LONG. Why is it Ebert can give a fair review of "Mullholland Drive" on a quarter-page of the chicago sun-times, but nobody can seem to encapsulate "Mario Tennis" in under 5 printed pages??
I buy games based mostly on reviews. If I'm going to lay down $50 for a new game, I want to know about the gameplay, basic plot, graphics, camera system, replayability, and everything else about it. If I go to a movie on a whim and it sucks, I'm out at most $10. A game costs 5 times that. So maybe the review should be 5 times as long.
Also, Consumer Reports rocks. You should have also mentioned that they are nonprofit.
Isn't it possible that he just reads ExtremeTech.com everyday and submits articles he thinks are interesting?
I'm not saying he couldn't be "slashvertising" (or whatever that term is). But clearly there is an alternate explanation.