Or to simplify (perhaps oversimplify) : there is an inverse relationship between advertising and quality.
I mean advertising in all forms : television and radio commercials, logo emblazonment, product placement, celebrity endorsement, etc.
And it's true on more than just clothes. Food, beer, sporting and outdoorsy equipment, computer operating systems, just about anything. Even in markets that are completely and utterly flooded with advertisements (cars come to mind most prominently) I've found, anecdotally, that the companies with smaller ad campaigns and less pomp and circumstance tend to provide better quality.
Really, it just comes down to what the consumer wants. Do you want a product that announces to the world "I spent $500 on this purse, $200 on these ripped jeans" with instantly recognizable logos all over them? Or do you want to spend a quarter of that for a highly functional product with no logos, from a brand you haven't heard of? I'd wager most readers here are in the latter category, though there's clearly a big enough market to keep the former in business.
On the down side, when you wake up the next morning without your glasses... you'll realize that not only did you shag a humpback whale, but SHE was wearing google glasses, to make your appearance palatable too.
I'm much the same. Just turned 31. 6'2" 172 lbs (188cm and 78kg).
The only time I started to get a bit chubby was around 7-8 years ago, when I developed a taste for Pepsi (I blame my GF at the time). Drank 2 or 3 cans a day, plus a big glass with dinner. Ballooned up to just over 200 pounds in about 6 months. Swore off the soda, switched to unsweetened teas, fruit juice on occasion, and a ton of water (plus beer, and bourbon or scotch). All the while my food and exercise remained relatively constant. Took over year for the extra pounds to fall off... but the cause and effect were clear as day in my mind.
The best way to embrace diversity is to judge people solely on merits and abilities, rather than their melanin count, or the presence of a Y chromosome. It can't be in laws, it can't be restrictive rules. It must be an honest mindset. Basically a mind set to not give a crap. Apathy toward the differences. heh. Shouldn't be too difficult.
If apathy isn't your style, you can ask why: Why were there no females at this conference? Why not anyone of any non-white descent? Also, please define "white." American? British? French? Chilean? Scot? Aussie? I've even met quite a few fair skinned Porteños down in Argentina, looking every bit as white as my Yankee ass.
And finally, if any pro-* groups accuse you of restrictive practices, ask them openly and honestly to help. If a pro-women group decries your conference for being all male, ask them why no women signed up. If women did sign up, figure out why they didn't make the cut.
They can, and they will... when absolutely necessary. Laws be damned, if some Three-Letter-Acronym in Washington wants to read your email, snail mail, tap your phones, etc... they can and will
However, currently it's something that must be weighed against the public backlash if caught. Not something that can be done lightly.
That's what this law aims to change. Make it perfectly legal so that every general can keep tabs on the FBI agent informing on him, about his torrid affair. Or how about we let any corrupt cop (which I personally believe to be a drastic minority, but still exists) dig through his/her ex's emails and find any little thing to harass them about.
I'd say more akin to a sealed envelope. Sure, it's not exactly difficult to break into, but there has to be a willingness to break in. I can't accidentally open letters belonging to someone else. Just like you can't accidentally open my email and read the contents.
Intent.
P.S. One of those examples is a felony. The other, we're attempting to make legal.
Because civilian recorded video is never altered, or edited to paint the cops in a more negative light
I maintain a default mindset that both sides are equally corrupt and willing to bend the facts to suit their own ends. This just helps to even the playing field.
Having a picture of a ballot on my phone doesn't actually mean I voted that way. Maybe I took that picture, maybe I downloaded it. The more people who post ballots on InstaGram or whatever else, the more opportunities I have to provide false positives to any unscrupulous individual who wants to see my results for some nefarious purpose.
or just download a dozen pictures graciously uploaded to the internet
"Here's the one where I voted D... here's the one where I voted R... lemme scroll to the one where I voted in your district. Oh, here's one where I voted Cthulhu/Dagon"
Skilled and experienced people can contribute in both technical leadership and training/mentoring roles, to the extent that they aren't really part of the same thing anyway, without getting involved at all in "management" in the common senses of project management, product management, being someone's "manager", and the like.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Even if you're not a manager, you need to take a bit more responsibility as the senior person in your field. Call it team lead, call it senior fellow, call it master craftsman. If you've been doing a job for 30 years, you should have a level of insight that your junior members do not possess.
Maybe the young kids can crank out more code, but a high level worker (be it programmers, machinists or anything else) is invaluable. Especially to managers, who need someone with "bigger picture" insight. Someone with 30 years experience has that insight a lot better than a fresh recruit.
Nestled down at the bottom of your post is the real answer to this conundrum
I get paid to manage younger programmers.
By the time you've reached a position of seniority, you should be prepared to manage. Even if you're not officially a "manager" you're still the top dog and need to act like it. If you can wrangle a dozen whipper-snappers and keep them diligently coding, your value to the company far exceeds your own code output
Also, if anyone has 30 years experience in *any* field, coding or otherwise, you'd damned sure better be moving up and managing. If someone has been around for 30 years, and isn't taking charge... well, they're not going to be around much longer.
All that to say, sounds like you're doing it quite right Mr. ios. Keep it up, and hopefully show the next generation how to age well and keep productive.
Indeed. Can anyone name one other 3rd party storage solution to which the government has unfettered access?
I store my money in a bank (or rather, digitally on the banks servers) Is all that money forfeit at the whim of politicians? I have a safety deposit box in a different bank with some valuables and personal effects. Can a cop go digging through that? I drop my car off at valet parking from time to time. Do I lose all right to my vehicle while it's in someone else's garage? I am a renter in my house. Can the house be searched without a warrant, to dig up dirt on my landlord?
No, no, no and no. At this point, I'm willing to trust Hanlon's Razor. The politicians drafting these laws fall under the "series of tubes" generation, and don't have the slightest clue what they're legislating... but that optimism wears thin.
In the context of racing, you are correct : seconds are not measly
In the context of my daily commute, seconds are completely irrelevant. Even a few minutes are pretty measly.
Also consider the competition. The car is roughly on par with a professional race car driver... or rather a seasoned one, though the fail to mention what seasoning they used. Either way, that's already leaps and bounds ahead of 95% of drivers
Late on the reply here, but my analogy was more about the insipid and false nature of things. Neither the music produced by the **AA nor the death defying stunts performed in a ring are real. Fake, staged, rigged, dolled up to look real, but not real. Do you think wrestler A is REALLY hitting wrestler B with a steel chair at full swing? Or even really punching each other? Not a chance. Likewise, do you really think pop music stars actually sing their own songs, play their instruments or hit half the notes you hear on the CDs? Negative. I do understand your confusion though. Any analogy without a car is inherently flawed at best.
But you know what... let's roll with it. If a WWE persona wanted to get a "normal" gig that leveraged their talents without all the pomp and glamour, and turn it into something real... I'd probably go with off-broadway stage performances. It's been a while since I watched wrestling, but I recall it being more about ACTING like athletes than actually BEING athletes. All live, in front of a huge audience, without breaking character. Or if a WWE performer insists on putting their athletic abilties to use, they could be stuntmen for Hollywood. Or how about looking into whatever the Olympic Greco-Roman wrestlers do in the 4 years between Olympic events. Plenty of options.
You sell me a pill that you represent as providing complete treatment for a particular disease for $5000. Because your pill is in fact a placebo laced with cyanide, I instead of getting better end up in the hospital for 3 months, creating $500,000 in medical bills. Why should the maximum penalty for you be only $5000?
Why would you levy this lawsuit against ebay? Shouldn't your ire be directed at Username:PilzE or whoever sold you the fraudulent prescription?
I could see subpoenaing EBay for the user info on the infringer, but EBay should at very least have CYA clauses in their EULA absolving them of direct culpability in cases like this.
You are of the mistaken impression that record labels actually produce music, or musical artists. They don't.
**AA and all the runty labels that bow before them haven't cared about music in many many years. They craft drama inducing characters involved in intertwined story lines of good looking people (for various definitions of good looking) loosely framed by their supposed ability to sing and play musical instruments (or just their ability to talk, in the case of rappers). Can a few of them actually sing/play? Probably, but that's getting less and less relevant by the day. As long as they're cute, and their songs are played 150 times per day, kids will eat it up and beg their parents to buy albums, tshirts, concert tickets, etc etc etc.
I think what we're seeing is a dichotomy split between the above, and actual musicians. People who play music because they love it will (eventually) earn a decent wage through services like this one. We saw a small part of that in the Pandora article from a few days ago.
Short version, if you prefer : **AA is to music as WWE is to wrestling.
On topic : I'd rate broadband connection (note, broadband in general, not necessarily MOBILE broadband as the question suggests) around the same level of necessity as terrestrial radio signals, a vehicle, grid power etc. While it's certainly possible to live your life without these things, I certainly expect them to be present or at least available in my daily life.
So I guess the question is : Do you consider working power outlets in your house to be a luxury?
As long as desktop hardware is cheaper than comparable laptop/portable hardware, it will have a niche. You can hook up all the docking stations and external monitors in the world to your tablet, but a desktop rig will have more storage, more memory, more GHz and better longevity (if only due to superior air flow) at a lower cost.
That's not even getting into the ability to customize and replace hardware without a dozen proprietary bits.
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All you've demonstrated is that bad examples of gamification are bad. And that Simpsons can engineer a bad example of something.
Check out the Penny-Arcade link below (I was going to post it, but saw it down there, and don't want to steal the credit)
Or to simplify (perhaps oversimplify) : there is an inverse relationship between advertising and quality.
I mean advertising in all forms : television and radio commercials, logo emblazonment, product placement, celebrity endorsement, etc.
And it's true on more than just clothes. Food, beer, sporting and outdoorsy equipment, computer operating systems, just about anything. Even in markets that are completely and utterly flooded with advertisements (cars come to mind most prominently) I've found, anecdotally, that the companies with smaller ad campaigns and less pomp and circumstance tend to provide better quality.
Really, it just comes down to what the consumer wants. Do you want a product that announces to the world "I spent $500 on this purse, $200 on these ripped jeans" with instantly recognizable logos all over them? Or do you want to spend a quarter of that for a highly functional product with no logos, from a brand you haven't heard of? I'd wager most readers here are in the latter category, though there's clearly a big enough market to keep the former in business.
*Google glasses have detected pizza in view*
"Move along, fatty. That alone will add 5 pounds to your fat ass."
*Google glasses have detected an attractive member of your preferred gender*
"Remember that pizza you turned down earlier? Keep up the good work and (s)he is all yours."
On the down side, when you wake up the next morning without your glasses ... you'll realize that not only did you shag a humpback whale, but SHE was wearing google glasses, to make your appearance palatable too.
I'm much the same. Just turned 31. 6'2" 172 lbs (188cm and 78kg).
The only time I started to get a bit chubby was around 7-8 years ago, when I developed a taste for Pepsi (I blame my GF at the time). Drank 2 or 3 cans a day, plus a big glass with dinner. Ballooned up to just over 200 pounds in about 6 months. Swore off the soda, switched to unsweetened teas, fruit juice on occasion, and a ton of water (plus beer, and bourbon or scotch). All the while my food and exercise remained relatively constant. Took over year for the extra pounds to fall off ... but the cause and effect were clear as day in my mind.
Would mod you if I could
The best way to embrace diversity is to judge people solely on merits and abilities, rather than their melanin count, or the presence of a Y chromosome. It can't be in laws, it can't be restrictive rules. It must be an honest mindset. Basically a mind set to not give a crap. Apathy toward the differences. heh. Shouldn't be too difficult.
If apathy isn't your style, you can ask why: Why were there no females at this conference? Why not anyone of any non-white descent? Also, please define "white." American? British? French? Chilean? Scot? Aussie? I've even met quite a few fair skinned Porteños down in Argentina, looking every bit as white as my Yankee ass.
And finally, if any pro-* groups accuse you of restrictive practices, ask them openly and honestly to help. If a pro-women group decries your conference for being all male, ask them why no women signed up. If women did sign up, figure out why they didn't make the cut.
The fact that he heard the people and changed his stance to appease constituents : good.
The fact that he was trying to cornhole us san lube until a collective "WTF are you trying to do back there??" : bad
They can, and they will... when absolutely necessary. Laws be damned, if some Three-Letter-Acronym in Washington wants to read your email, snail mail, tap your phones, etc ... they can and will
However, currently it's something that must be weighed against the public backlash if caught. Not something that can be done lightly.
That's what this law aims to change. Make it perfectly legal so that every general can keep tabs on the FBI agent informing on him, about his torrid affair. Or how about we let any corrupt cop (which I personally believe to be a drastic minority, but still exists) dig through his/her ex's emails and find any little thing to harass them about.
Do you assume everyone can read your snail mail?
A paper envelope is hardly robust encryption.
I'd say more akin to a sealed envelope. Sure, it's not exactly difficult to break into, but there has to be a willingness to break in. I can't accidentally open letters belonging to someone else. Just like you can't accidentally open my email and read the contents.
Intent.
P.S. One of those examples is a felony. The other, we're attempting to make legal.
Because civilian recorded video is never altered, or edited to paint the cops in a more negative light
I maintain a default mindset that both sides are equally corrupt and willing to bend the facts to suit their own ends. This just helps to even the playing field.
uhh.. that's the point.
Having a picture of a ballot on my phone doesn't actually mean I voted that way. Maybe I took that picture, maybe I downloaded it. The more people who post ballots on InstaGram or whatever else, the more opportunities I have to provide false positives to any unscrupulous individual who wants to see my results for some nefarious purpose.
Or, we could pass laws preventing people from threatening you at gunpoint.
oh, wait ...
or just download a dozen pictures graciously uploaded to the internet
"Here's the one where I voted D ... here's the one where I voted R ... lemme scroll to the one where I voted in your district. Oh, here's one where I voted Cthulhu/Dagon"
Wouldn't an anonymous posting venue like InstaGram be the perfect deterrent for coercion?
I could show you "proof" that I voted a dozen different ways.
Skilled and experienced people can contribute in both technical leadership and training/mentoring roles, to the extent that they aren't really part of the same thing anyway, without getting involved at all in "management" in the common senses of project management, product management, being someone's "manager", and the like.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Even if you're not a manager, you need to take a bit more responsibility as the senior person in your field. Call it team lead, call it senior fellow, call it master craftsman. If you've been doing a job for 30 years, you should have a level of insight that your junior members do not possess.
Maybe the young kids can crank out more code, but a high level worker (be it programmers, machinists or anything else) is invaluable. Especially to managers, who need someone with "bigger picture" insight. Someone with 30 years experience has that insight a lot better than a fresh recruit.
Nestled down at the bottom of your post is the real answer to this conundrum
I get paid to manage younger programmers.
By the time you've reached a position of seniority, you should be prepared to manage. Even if you're not officially a "manager" you're still the top dog and need to act like it. If you can wrangle a dozen whipper-snappers and keep them diligently coding, your value to the company far exceeds your own code output
Also, if anyone has 30 years experience in *any* field, coding or otherwise, you'd damned sure better be moving up and managing. If someone has been around for 30 years, and isn't taking charge... well, they're not going to be around much longer.
All that to say, sounds like you're doing it quite right Mr. ios. Keep it up, and hopefully show the next generation how to age well and keep productive.
Indeed. Can anyone name one other 3rd party storage solution to which the government has unfettered access?
I store my money in a bank (or rather, digitally on the banks servers) Is all that money forfeit at the whim of politicians?
I have a safety deposit box in a different bank with some valuables and personal effects. Can a cop go digging through that?
I drop my car off at valet parking from time to time. Do I lose all right to my vehicle while it's in someone else's garage?
I am a renter in my house. Can the house be searched without a warrant, to dig up dirt on my landlord?
No, no, no and no. At this point, I'm willing to trust Hanlon's Razor. The politicians drafting these laws fall under the "series of tubes" generation, and don't have the slightest clue what they're legislating... but that optimism wears thin.
In the context of racing, you are correct : seconds are not measly
In the context of my daily commute, seconds are completely irrelevant. Even a few minutes are pretty measly.
Also consider the competition. The car is roughly on par with a professional race car driver... or rather a seasoned one, though the fail to mention what seasoning they used. Either way, that's already leaps and bounds ahead of 95% of drivers
Late on the reply here, but my analogy was more about the insipid and false nature of things. Neither the music produced by the **AA nor the death defying stunts performed in a ring are real. Fake, staged, rigged, dolled up to look real, but not real. Do you think wrestler A is REALLY hitting wrestler B with a steel chair at full swing? Or even really punching each other? Not a chance. Likewise, do you really think pop music stars actually sing their own songs, play their instruments or hit half the notes you hear on the CDs? Negative. I do understand your confusion though. Any analogy without a car is inherently flawed at best.
But you know what... let's roll with it. If a WWE persona wanted to get a "normal" gig that leveraged their talents without all the pomp and glamour, and turn it into something real ... I'd probably go with off-broadway stage performances. It's been a while since I watched wrestling, but I recall it being more about ACTING like athletes than actually BEING athletes. All live, in front of a huge audience, without breaking character. Or if a WWE performer insists on putting their athletic abilties to use, they could be stuntmen for Hollywood. Or how about looking into whatever the Olympic Greco-Roman wrestlers do in the 4 years between Olympic events. Plenty of options.
You sell me a pill that you represent as providing complete treatment for a particular disease for $5000. Because your pill is in fact a placebo laced with cyanide, I instead of getting better end up in the hospital for 3 months, creating $500,000 in medical bills. Why should the maximum penalty for you be only $5000?
Why would you levy this lawsuit against ebay? Shouldn't your ire be directed at Username:PilzE or whoever sold you the fraudulent prescription?
I could see subpoenaing EBay for the user info on the infringer, but EBay should at very least have CYA clauses in their EULA absolving them of direct culpability in cases like this.
You are of the mistaken impression that record labels actually produce music, or musical artists. They don't.
**AA and all the runty labels that bow before them haven't cared about music in many many years. They craft drama inducing characters involved in intertwined story lines of good looking people (for various definitions of good looking) loosely framed by their supposed ability to sing and play musical instruments (or just their ability to talk, in the case of rappers). Can a few of them actually sing/play? Probably, but that's getting less and less relevant by the day. As long as they're cute, and their songs are played 150 times per day, kids will eat it up and beg their parents to buy albums, tshirts, concert tickets, etc etc etc.
I think what we're seeing is a dichotomy split between the above, and actual musicians. People who play music because they love it will (eventually) earn a decent wage through services like this one. We saw a small part of that in the Pandora article from a few days ago.
Short version, if you prefer : **AA is to music as WWE is to wrestling.
That was my first thought to. False dichotomy.
On topic : I'd rate broadband connection (note, broadband in general, not necessarily MOBILE broadband as the question suggests) around the same level of necessity as terrestrial radio signals, a vehicle, grid power etc. While it's certainly possible to live your life without these things, I certainly expect them to be present or at least available in my daily life.
So I guess the question is : Do you consider working power outlets in your house to be a luxury?
Basically this, with a few reasons
As long as desktop hardware is cheaper than comparable laptop/portable hardware, it will have a niche. You can hook up all the docking stations and external monitors in the world to your tablet, but a desktop rig will have more storage, more memory, more GHz and better longevity (if only due to superior air flow) at a lower cost.
That's not even getting into the ability to customize and replace hardware without a dozen proprietary bits.
You forgot to list anal probing.