Programmers without marketing still produce important work,
Programmers without marketing produce work which languishes in obscurity until the company goes bankrupt. For people to become aware that your software exists, someone needs to let them know. That someone is doing marketing, even if it's the programmers themselves pimping their work on blogs or slashdot. Someone is doing marketing.
they'll just have to get the word out by reputation instead of glossy print.
What reputation? Awesomesoft and their new Awesomizer application have no reputation until people discover that Awesomizer really is awesome and buy it in droves. Then their new Fabulosity Engine can be sold on the reputation they built. Until they've built that reputation, how do they get people to buy Awesomizer without someone advertising its existence?
It's just that it's *impossible* to succeed if you don't have something to sell.
Well.....that's not true across the board. The financial industry proved you can succeed for a long time without something to sell.
Seriously though, marketing is a support structure for the company, like IT. And like IT, the company could survive without that department, but it'd be a miserable pain in the ass and make everything harder for everyone.
The real problem is that groups like IT are viewed as cost centers because the costs of the department are tangible and the benefits tend to be abstract, so they don't get as much respect from upper management as they should. Marketing produces exposure which drives sales. Generating correlations between good marketing projects and increases in revenue are fairly easy, so upper management views them as profit drivers and they get disproportionate credit.
Marketing is valuable, but not moreso than the rest of the support infrastructure of a company.
The Avogadro project (the thing in your link) has been going on since 2007.
The NIST (the U.S. measurements standards body) provided an implementation of another possible solution to the problem in April of 2007.
To say that the U.S. is just now objecting is inaccurate.
To say that the U.S. is late in its objection ignores the fact that the U.S. has been working on the problem with international standards bodies for many years.
What (unsurprisingly) the Fox News article gets wrong is that the NIST is not submitting a formal objection. The Consultative Committee for Units (one of the advisory groups for CIPM), of which the NIST is a member, has submitted a formal resolution to change the definition to the CIPM. The CIPM is about to submit that resolution to the CGPM, which is the international body that regulates these definitions.
Metallica encouraged tape trading of their shows and their demo tapes. Between songs during their sets, they told audiences to share their music. That is exactly how they got their record deal. They really didn't start giving a crap about people sharing their music until the whole napster thing. Even then, I think it's just Lars. I'm not convinced the rest care.
Lars was always kind of an ass. He's a crafty business man, though.
It's a terrible analogy as evidenced by the fact that nobody in your target audience accepts its premise. Analogies exist to compare like objects. If nobody accepts that they are like objects, the analogy is useless.
If an entity is able to exist outside of time and see events unfold at will or at the very least know the results beforehand, this is perfectly analogous to the Tivo situation.
that is nothing like an entity that exists in time recording an event and watching it later.
To be honest, i don't know why you are bothering with the analogy in the first place. You could simply say that if one is willing to accept the paradox of an omniscient being that exists outside of time, there is no reason to not also accept the paradox that human beings have free will in spite of the existence of an omniscient being that already knows what they are going to do.
1. In my experience, yes. The FBI agent I interacted with let me take his badge and look at it to my satisfaction.
2. I didn't try to photo copy his badge, but i doubt he would have cared if i had written down his details.
3. Not believing he's an agent does not make him not an agent and does not absolve you of your responsibilities regarding interacting with law enforcement. Also, you cannot be charged with resisting arrest unless they are arresting you for something already. I knew a guy in college who was arrested for resisting arrest and nothing else. The cop's commanding officer tore the cop apart when he tried to book him just for resisting arrest (my friend was released and the c.o. apologised to him...didn't give him a ride home though).
4. generally you can call the fbi and they can verify the identity of the officer.
How does one deal with authentication issues like that if faced with an Law-Enforcement officer? Sure they can...if they do things right, show you their badge but then what?
1. Do you have a right to actually take that badge and/or ID into your hands to inspect it fully?
2. Can you write the details down or make a scan/photo copy?
3. If you do not believe the ID, the seal or badge (and officer) to be authentically what/who they claim to be, do you still have to do what they say (and can you be charged with, for example, resisting arrest if so)?
4. If 3 is the case, what are the options to verify such ID's, seals etc.?
And the diameter of the sphere of earth's gravitational pull I supposed is defined, too; even though the earth literally attracts every other particle in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
not to say i agree with the premise of the article, but it would be saying for $499 + $299/phone you can play potentially hundreds of $75 board games electronically. And that still isn't accurate because the phone (and the iPad) is not used exclusively for playing board games, so some of the cost is defrayed by the additional usage of the devices involved.
all of the company officers and board of directors members have to publish the schedule of their stock transactions that relate to the company with the SEC. It should be trivial to find patterns like that, if they exist.
I would say that i think it is extremely unlikely that kind of insider trading is happening due to how incredibly obvious it would be to regulators, but after the quality work the SEC did in catching Madoff i'm inclined to think you could include a line item called "insider trading profits" on your filings and they still wouldn't catch you.
but i would be surprised if someone were making a shitload of money off insider trading around the leaks. it's just too obvious and risky to be worth it.
the sad part of that story is that they asked bill to stop filling out the form instead of acknowledging the pointlessness of the metric and dropping it for everyone.
It's top gear; you aren't supposed to be basing anything on it. The purpose of tests on top gear is to "prove" whatever position they have decided to take on some subject...usually in the most ridiculous and dubious way possible.
Top Gear is about entertainment and spectacle. It is for seeing the new and innovative ways that Jeremy Clarkson can make an ass of himself.
If you want actual information, you watch 5th Gear.
They are definitely not denying the existence of history. When I was in Germany, everyone there was very aware of their history. I agree that suppression of symbols isn't helping, but they aren't doing it in an attempt to deny the Nazis existed.
Believe it or not, some people who read/post here are a little on the nerdy side. And some of them read comic books.
Not a troll, just being honest. I have always wondered, why exactly, because for me, comic books are for those who are literacy-challenged and/or don't have a developed fantasy. Nerds should be neither and rather go for real books.
Then again, I grew up in a country where comics were considered medieval junk.
Well, the literacy challenged people without a developed fantasy include : Emma Bull, Orson Scott Card, Richard Laymon, Faren Miller and Darrell Schweitzer
They gave Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess the short fiction award in the 1991 World Fiction awards for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (an issue of the Sandman comic)
I'm sure Orson Scott Card will be crushed to know he's not a nerd. Any recommendations on what he should read to develop his sense of fantasy? Maybe Ender's Game would be a good start for him?
The horror writers association had a whole category of the bram stoker awards for comics, so i guess they're illiterate tools too.
Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore have both won Hugo awards for comics, but those are voted on by Worldcon members. It's theoretically possible that the 700 (out of several thousand) or so people who are members or attendees of worldcon and take the time to submit votes for literary awards are literacy challenged and lack a developed sense of fantasy.
Or maybe the worldview you grew up with is inaccurate.
Also, it has a detrimental effect on the economy (the dead don't tend to spend much).
Yes...If only the money the person had accumulated was transferred to his next of kin, or something, it would still be part of the economy. But no; when you die all of your worldly assets are removed forever from the economy.
And have you heard of Darwin? It's really no good for evolution.
The guy was in his 70s. I don't think he was really relevant from an evolutionary standpoint anymore. Besides, it is really no different than any other choice you might make that could kill you (from an evolutionary standpoint). A segment of the population self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool could be the natural result of some genetic mutation that should be lost.
Unless in protest, suicide is the single most selfish act a person can commit.
Your distinction between suicide in protest and suicide in general is arbitrary. Why is it not selfish to say that you find someone else's actions so abhorrent it is preferable to you to die than live with the results; but it is selfish to say you find the circumstances nature has levied against you so abhorrent it is preferable to you to die than live with the results?
I do tend to agree that suicide is an incredibly selfish action, but i also accept the notion that people have a right to be selfish and feel that freedom includes the freedom to quit if you want to.
So they think since the people that play WoW, which is online only, have Internet that SC2 players don't need LAN support? That's great logic.
No, they know how many people play WoW so they know that they don't need the people who need LAN support for the game to be incredibly successful. Basically, what they are saying is that the benefit to them as a company of forcing everyone through battle.net is worth the cost of losing the people who need LAN support because the percentage of the total potential customer base they represent is negligible.
a combination of algorithms is also an algorithm. if the algorithms that make it up are math, then the algorithm they are as subset of is also math. If math is not patentable, then that algorithm is not patentable.
I want SW-patents to go the way of the dodo as much as the next/.'er, but the above struck me as aking to A) atoms cannot be patented, B) all machines are made of one or more atoms, ergo machines cannot be patented.
this is not the same thing. Atoms would be analogous to numbers in this argument. They are both items. Math is what you do with numbers. Algorithms are sets of mathematical instructions to achieve a goal.
Since what you build with atoms is patentable, given constraints about novelty and obviousness, what you build with things made of atoms can be patentable.
In my opinion, it actually highlights the accuracy of his argument.
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Programmers without marketing still produce important work,
Programmers without marketing produce work which languishes in obscurity until the company goes bankrupt. For people to become aware that your software exists, someone needs to let them know. That someone is doing marketing, even if it's the programmers themselves pimping their work on blogs or slashdot. Someone is doing marketing.
they'll just have to get the word out by reputation instead of glossy print.
What reputation? Awesomesoft and their new Awesomizer application have no reputation until people discover that Awesomizer really is awesome and buy it in droves. Then their new Fabulosity Engine can be sold on the reputation they built. Until they've built that reputation, how do they get people to buy Awesomizer without someone advertising its existence?
It's just that it's *impossible* to succeed if you don't have something to sell.
Well.....that's not true across the board. The financial industry proved you can succeed for a long time without something to sell.
Seriously though, marketing is a support structure for the company, like IT. And like IT, the company could survive without that department, but it'd be a miserable pain in the ass and make everything harder for everyone.
The real problem is that groups like IT are viewed as cost centers because the costs of the department are tangible and the benefits tend to be abstract, so they don't get as much respect from upper management as they should.
Marketing produces exposure which drives sales. Generating correlations between good marketing projects and increases in revenue are fairly easy, so upper management views them as profit drivers and they get disproportionate credit.
Marketing is valuable, but not moreso than the rest of the support infrastructure of a company.
it is available. i own the box set.
The Avogadro project (the thing in your link) has been going on since 2007.
The NIST (the U.S. measurements standards body) provided an implementation of another possible solution to the problem in April of 2007.
To say that the U.S. is just now objecting is inaccurate.
To say that the U.S. is late in its objection ignores the fact that the U.S. has been working on the problem with international standards bodies for many years.
What (unsurprisingly) the Fox News article gets wrong is that the NIST is not submitting a formal objection.
The Consultative Committee for Units (one of the advisory groups for CIPM), of which the NIST is a member, has submitted a formal resolution to change the definition to the CIPM. The CIPM is about to submit that resolution to the CGPM, which is the international body that regulates these definitions.
Metallica encouraged tape trading of their shows and their demo tapes. Between songs during their sets, they told audiences to share their music. That is exactly how they got their record deal. They really didn't start giving a crap about people sharing their music until the whole napster thing. Even then, I think it's just Lars. I'm not convinced the rest care.
Lars was always kind of an ass. He's a crafty business man, though.
The analogy does not fail.
It's a terrible analogy as evidenced by the fact that nobody in your target audience accepts its premise. Analogies exist to compare like objects. If nobody accepts that they are like objects, the analogy is useless.
If an entity is able to exist outside of time and see events unfold at will or at the very least know the results beforehand, this is perfectly analogous to the Tivo situation.
that is nothing like an entity that exists in time recording an event and watching it later.
To be honest, i don't know why you are bothering with the analogy in the first place. You could simply say that if one is willing to accept the paradox of an omniscient being that exists outside of time, there is no reason to not also accept the paradox that human beings have free will in spite of the existence of an omniscient being that already knows what they are going to do.
Magic makes anything possible.
you don't know what he'll do. you know what he'll want to do.
Seriously, it's just the Russian Powerball Lotto.
In 2006, CCP bought White Wolf. White Wolf is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.
Dan, the guy i knew in college that it happened to, was not being legally detained for any reason. That was the point.
1. In my experience, yes. The FBI agent I interacted with let me take his badge and look at it to my satisfaction.
2. I didn't try to photo copy his badge, but i doubt he would have cared if i had written down his details.
3. Not believing he's an agent does not make him not an agent and does not absolve you of your responsibilities regarding interacting with law enforcement. Also, you cannot be charged with resisting arrest unless they are arresting you for something already. I knew a guy in college who was arrested for resisting arrest and nothing else. The cop's commanding officer tore the cop apart when he tried to book him just for resisting arrest (my friend was released and the c.o. apologised to him...didn't give him a ride home though).
4. generally you can call the fbi and they can verify the identity of the officer.
How does one deal with authentication issues like that if faced with an Law-Enforcement officer? Sure they can...if they do things right, show you their badge but then what?
1. Do you have a right to actually take that badge and/or ID into your hands to inspect it fully?
2. Can you write the details down or make a scan/photo copy?
3. If you do not believe the ID, the seal or badge (and officer) to be authentically what/who they claim to be, do you still have to do what they say (and can you be charged with, for example, resisting arrest if so)?
4. If 3 is the case, what are the options to verify such ID's, seals etc.?
And the diameter of the sphere of earth's gravitational pull I supposed is defined, too; even though the earth literally attracts every other particle in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
somebody has been listening to weird al today...
i like how all three of your outcomes presumes Apple's guilt.
How about 4. They look into it, but determine there's no basis for legal action.
not to say i agree with the premise of the article, but it would be saying for $499 + $299/phone you can play potentially hundreds of $75 board games electronically.
And that still isn't accurate because the phone (and the iPad) is not used exclusively for playing board games, so some of the cost is defrayed by the additional usage of the devices involved.
all of the company officers and board of directors members have to publish the schedule of their stock transactions that relate to the company with the SEC. It should be trivial to find patterns like that, if they exist.
I would say that i think it is extremely unlikely that kind of insider trading is happening due to how incredibly obvious it would be to regulators, but after the quality work the SEC did in catching Madoff i'm inclined to think you could include a line item called "insider trading profits" on your filings and they still wouldn't catch you.
but i would be surprised if someone were making a shitload of money off insider trading around the leaks. it's just too obvious and risky to be worth it.
the sad part of that story is that they asked bill to stop filling out the form instead of acknowledging the pointlessness of the metric and dropping it for everyone.
You have to hold a four or five digit UID to wake them from the darkness, otherwise they won't listen and will continue to hide.
I have a five digit UID and am nihilistic enough to awaken eldritch horrors purely out of curiosity to see what would happen.
Is there a man page for it?
It's top gear; you aren't supposed to be basing anything on it.
The purpose of tests on top gear is to "prove" whatever position they have decided to take on some subject...usually in the most ridiculous and dubious way possible.
Top Gear is about entertainment and spectacle. It is for seeing the new and innovative ways that Jeremy Clarkson can make an ass of himself.
If you want actual information, you watch 5th Gear.
They are definitely not denying the existence of history. When I was in Germany, everyone there was very aware of their history. I agree that suppression of symbols isn't helping, but they aren't doing it in an attempt to deny the Nazis existed.
Not a troll, just being honest.
I have always wondered, why exactly, because for me, comic books are for those who are literacy-challenged and/or don't have a developed fantasy. Nerds should be neither and rather go for real books.
Then again, I grew up in a country where comics were considered medieval junk.
Well, the literacy challenged people without a developed fantasy include :
Emma Bull, Orson Scott Card, Richard Laymon, Faren Miller and Darrell Schweitzer
They gave Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess the short fiction award in the 1991 World Fiction awards for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (an issue of the Sandman comic)
I'm sure Orson Scott Card will be crushed to know he's not a nerd. Any recommendations on what he should read to develop his sense of fantasy? Maybe Ender's Game would be a good start for him?
The horror writers association had a whole category of the bram stoker awards for comics, so i guess they're illiterate tools too.
Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore have both won Hugo awards for comics, but those are voted on by Worldcon members. It's theoretically possible that the 700 (out of several thousand) or so people who are members or attendees of worldcon and take the time to submit votes for literary awards are literacy challenged and lack a developed sense of fantasy.
Or maybe the worldview you grew up with is inaccurate.
But hey, believe whatever you want.
Wrong. Suicide is terrible for society.
why?
Also, it has a detrimental effect on the economy (the dead don't tend to spend much).
Yes...If only the money the person had accumulated was transferred to his next of kin, or something, it would still be part of the economy. But no; when you die all of your worldly assets are removed forever from the economy.
And have you heard of Darwin? It's really no good for evolution.
The guy was in his 70s. I don't think he was really relevant from an evolutionary standpoint anymore. Besides, it is really no different than any other choice you might make that could kill you (from an evolutionary standpoint). A segment of the population self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool could be the natural result of some genetic mutation that should be lost.
Unless in protest, suicide is the single most selfish act a person can commit.
Your distinction between suicide in protest and suicide in general is arbitrary.
Why is it not selfish to say that you find someone else's actions so abhorrent it is preferable to you to die than live with the results; but it is selfish to say you find the circumstances nature has levied against you so abhorrent it is preferable to you to die than live with the results?
I do tend to agree that suicide is an incredibly selfish action, but i also accept the notion that people have a right to be selfish and feel that freedom includes the freedom to quit if you want to.
So they think since the people that play WoW, which is online only, have Internet that SC2 players don't need LAN support? That's great logic.
No, they know how many people play WoW so they know that they don't need the people who need LAN support for the game to be incredibly successful. Basically, what they are saying is that the benefit to them as a company of forcing everyone through battle.net is worth the cost of losing the people who need LAN support because the percentage of the total potential customer base they represent is negligible.
What does Rupert Murdoch, of all people, know about Quality Journalism?
he knows it isn't cheap. That's why he produces shoddy journalism. It makes his margins much nicer.
you should use the Dropkick Murphys cover of it.
a combination of algorithms is also an algorithm. if the algorithms that make it up are math, then the algorithm they are as subset of is also math. If math is not patentable, then that algorithm is not patentable.
I want SW-patents to go the way of the dodo as much as the next /.'er, but the above struck me as aking to A) atoms cannot be patented, B) all machines are made of one or more atoms, ergo machines cannot be patented.
this is not the same thing. Atoms would be analogous to numbers in this argument. They are both items. Math is what you do with numbers. Algorithms are sets of mathematical instructions to achieve a goal.
Since what you build with atoms is patentable, given constraints about novelty and obviousness, what you build with things made of atoms can be patentable.
In my opinion, it actually highlights the accuracy of his argument.
Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet.
thank god....when i read the headline i was afraid this might affect my ability to download porn.
on a more serious note, can we please get a court to force restaurants to stop playing '80s music as well?