Interesting enough to maybe be true. Certainly paints Google in a far worse light than anything else I've heard of, though, so that makes it a bit suspicious.
In the numerous other places it's been tried (google is far from the first here), is that there's nothing stopping 500 people from uploading the same popular video.
Then Google gets to become arbitrator and try to pin down who the video really belongs to.
What are you doing that's really all the cool or interesting? What's the reward for working there? Working for a name people have heard of? People have heard of General Mills too, do they need "superstar" factory workers?
If you don't really have work that's truly interesting and innovative, get off your ego horse and hire good people who can do the job you actually need done.
I don't see how it's not airtight. Or rather, why it couldn't be. A series of interlocking self-lubricating rubbery strips on each panel would make it as air tight as anything else.
Reliability of so many parts is clearly an issue.
But yeah, the killer is power-off safety. There's no good answer for that one. Unless...an emergency release panic-button on the inside that somehow allowed the door to spring open electricity-free?
When you're done with the party, look at the way your RSS feed for custom google news works. Or more accurately, doesn't work. For one thing, most of the custom search entries are missing GUIDs. But not all are, which says something about the code.
Plus when something goes from being posted "29 minutes ago" to "35 minutes ago", that doesn't mean it's a new story and needs to be sent again.
Yeah yeah, "beta" blah blah. Must be nice to never have to make your software ever actually work, since it's in perpetual "beta". Is that what you get if you can ifgure out your little application tests, an excuse for your software not working?
"You may need to scroll right to see all the ads"? Are you serious? Nobody's gonna do that.
Do one of two things- 1) follow the advice of the people posting here. 2) Hire one of the people posting here as an ad consultant, if it makes you feel better (give them a percentage of the increase in revenue), then follow their advice.
Seriously, your present scheme is about as wrong as it can get.
I left. Right at 8 years of writing multithreaded high-reliability software for the financical industry, so I'm someone employers look for.
But I got tired of being filtered out by recruiters and clueless HR departments for not having exactly the right buzzwords. And then the jobs that did come up having ridiculously low salaries attached.
I just quit the field, left it. Doing a stable, low-work-level, 40 hour a week for the same money as the low-ballers wanted to pay.
I code in my spare time, and maybe I'll do something with that, but I'm never coding for someone else again.
You pushed it too far, asking for too much for too little.
Usually the test audiences are culled from random people at malls in the San Fernando Valley, usually by the sophisticated technique of "Hey, wanna see a free movie Tuesday night?"
I think the targeted demo and so on is a myth. It's mostly a lot of industry wannabes (who, of course, live in the Valley) telling industry are-right-nows what's wrong with their movies.
Keep that in mind, and a lot of decisions made based on test screenings make a lot more sense.
We see the following seemingly contradictory clauses:
XXX
(b) COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE SECTOR- The National Weather Service shall not provide, or assist other entities in providing, a service or product (other than a service or product described in subsection (a)(1)(A)) that is or could be provided by the private sector unless--
(1) the Secretary determines that the private sector is unwilling or unable to provide such service or product; or
(2) the United States Government is obligated to provide such service or product under international aviation agreements to provide meteorological services and exchange meteorological information.
(c) ISSUANCE OF DATA, FORECASTS, AND WARNINGS- All data, information, guidance, forecasts, and warnings received, collected, created, or prepared by the National Weather Service shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be issued in real time, and without delay, in a manner that ensures that all members of the public have the opportunity for simultaneous and equal access to such data, information, guidance, forecasts, and warnings.
XXX
Don't compete, but you have to inform the public, "without delay" in a way that the public "have the opportunity for simultaneous and equal access to such data, information, guidance, forecasts, and warnings."
It's really simple. Gore did what most politicians do- he saw something that was happening anyway, and hitched his wagon to it. Later, he attempted to magnify his role and he got called on it. Happens all the time, and Gore don't get a free ride just cause his election ended up close. He tried to take credit for the work of others and he got busted.
He took the *initiative* in *creating* the internet?
Slashdot Mirror
I don't have cause to use unix shells much these days. :-)
But screen was incredibly handy in the old days. I remember being quite excited the first time I discovered it.
What was that software you could use to have multiple "pages" opened on your shell account? I remember using it to have "tabbed" browsing, of a sort.
I was back in '81. Heck, I spent the 80's flame warring on GEnie and CompuServe, and paying by the hour to do it!
And then there was FidoNet.
And everyone's own homebrewed BBS software.
87? 87 was for the latecomers.
Was it YModem? Seems like it, but it's all hazy now.
I remember when lynx seemed like a major jump over previous gopher clients. And by using "pages" on my shell account, I had tabbed browsing!
Interesting enough to maybe be true. Certainly paints Google in a far worse light than anything else I've heard of, though, so that makes it a bit suspicious.
And I'm not exactly a Google fan...
Abuses this?
People "on call" have a lot to look forward to, I think.
Or life with a MBA.
It's 95% how your present it, not what it is...
Yeah, about that well.
Plus, telling you who was first doesn't tell you who owns it...
In the numerous other places it's been tried (google is far from the first here), is that there's nothing stopping 500 people from uploading the same popular video.
Then Google gets to become arbitrator and try to pin down who the video really belongs to.
This should be fun.
I don't believe MIT, for example, has merit-based scholarships. They didn't when I was looking at colleges, anyway.
Deep Springs College, that's where I should have gone. Ah well, hindsight is 20/20.
What are you doing that's really all the cool or interesting? What's the reward for working there? Working for a name people have heard of? People have heard of General Mills too, do they need "superstar" factory workers?
If you don't really have work that's truly interesting and innovative, get off your ego horse and hire good people who can do the job you actually need done.
True. People who don't understand economics or geography are the only people who could question why New Orleans exists where it does.
Most slashdotters live so detached from the physical world the idea of "ports" is beyond them.
I don't see how it's not airtight. Or rather, why it couldn't be. A series of interlocking self-lubricating rubbery strips on each panel would make it as air tight as anything else.
Reliability of so many parts is clearly an issue.
But yeah, the killer is power-off safety. There's no good answer for that one. Unless...an emergency release panic-button on the inside that somehow allowed the door to spring open electricity-free?
When you're done with the party, look at the way your RSS feed for custom google news works. Or more accurately, doesn't work. For one thing, most of the custom search entries are missing GUIDs. But not all are, which says something about the code.
Plus when something goes from being posted "29 minutes ago" to "35 minutes ago", that doesn't mean it's a new story and needs to be sent again.
Yeah yeah, "beta" blah blah. Must be nice to never have to make your software ever actually work, since it's in perpetual "beta". Is that what you get if you can ifgure out your little application tests, an excuse for your software not working?
"You may need to scroll right to see all the ads"? Are you serious? Nobody's gonna do that.
Do one of two things- 1) follow the advice of the people posting here. 2) Hire one of the people posting here as an ad consultant, if it makes you feel better (give them a percentage of the increase in revenue), then follow their advice.
Seriously, your present scheme is about as wrong as it can get.
I left. Right at 8 years of writing multithreaded high-reliability software for the financical industry, so I'm someone employers look for.
But I got tired of being filtered out by recruiters and clueless HR departments for not having exactly the right buzzwords. And then the jobs that did come up having ridiculously low salaries attached.
I just quit the field, left it. Doing a stable, low-work-level, 40 hour a week for the same money as the low-ballers wanted to pay.
I code in my spare time, and maybe I'll do something with that, but I'm never coding for someone else again.
You pushed it too far, asking for too much for too little.
So, genius, where do you suppose that money comes from?
The composition of the groups is no more accurate that exit polling data (and you have only to look at the 2004 election to see how accurate that is).
If you put some kid on the street with a clipboard, pay him 8 bucks an hour, and tell him to get x number of people, he'll get x number of people.
Beyond that, they're gonna cut corners and take whatever "type" comes along.
It's a nice system in theory, but it's not the way it works at ground level.
Well...
Usually the test audiences are culled from random people at malls in the San Fernando Valley, usually by the sophisticated technique of "Hey, wanna see a free movie Tuesday night?"
I think the targeted demo and so on is a myth. It's mostly a lot of industry wannabes (who, of course, live in the Valley) telling industry are-right-nows what's wrong with their movies.
Keep that in mind, and a lot of decisions made based on test screenings make a lot more sense.
We see the following seemingly contradictory clauses:
XXX
(b) COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE SECTOR- The National Weather Service shall not provide, or assist other entities in providing, a service or product (other than a service or product described in subsection (a)(1)(A)) that is or could be provided by the private sector unless--
(1) the Secretary determines that the private sector is unwilling or unable to provide such service or product; or
(2) the United States Government is obligated to provide such service or product under international aviation agreements to provide meteorological services and exchange meteorological information.
(c) ISSUANCE OF DATA, FORECASTS, AND WARNINGS- All data, information, guidance, forecasts, and warnings received, collected, created, or prepared by the National Weather Service shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be issued in real time, and without delay, in a manner that ensures that all members of the public have the opportunity for simultaneous and equal access to such data, information, guidance, forecasts, and warnings.
XXX
Don't compete, but you have to inform the public, "without delay" in a way that the public "have the opportunity for simultaneous and equal access to such data, information, guidance, forecasts, and warnings."
Hmmmm.
Among them, Feinstein and Leahy.
Couple of well-known right-wing Republicans there.
Oh, wait...
Are you implying that a Gartner analyst may not know what they're talking about?
That would certainly be a first.
Please work to undermine the Great Strength of the PC market, the open architecture.
Brilliant move.
They should find everyoen who supported this decision and make sure they never work in any decision-making capacity anywhere again.
Formerly known as slashdot.
Seriously guys, it's getting to be a bit much.
Google is a company with a nice product. That's about it.
It's really simple. Gore did what most politicians do- he saw something that was happening anyway, and hitched his wagon to it. Later, he attempted to magnify his role and he got called on it. Happens all the time, and Gore don't get a free ride just cause his election ended up close. He tried to take credit for the work of others and he got busted.
He took the *initiative* in *creating* the internet?
No, he did not.
He was lampooned for trying to say so.
The end.