This move discourages quality. People will download indiscriminately since the cost is fixed. Which means that crappy writers make as much of the "pot" as good writers, so why strive for quality when you can write 6x as much crap and get paid MORE than the person who writes 1 good book. Good writers shouldn't subsidize crappy ones.
Remember the saying "bad money drives out good"? People will horde their genuine currency and try to pass off counterfeits as quickly as possible to the next sucker. Same as people now are selling Rubles for Euros and Dollars.
What should the rest of us do in the meantime while we are waiting for the answers?
Seriously. I'm not anti-science, I'm just against the arrogant viewpoint of some scientists that science will give us the answers we need in a timely manner to create perfect public policy that brings us to utopia.
Nobody ever claimed that science will give us the data we need to create prefect public policy in a timely manner unless they were speaking from an over-inflated ego or stupidity. Any scientist who says they have all the answers to create utopia is just another Monday morning quarterback sitting around "solving" the world's problems over breakfast.
Most of the world is not christian, and Dec. 25 has no religious significance to them. Maybe christians need to be reminded that there's a whole other world outside their ken, and not everyone sees things from their perspective. For most of the people I know, it's primarily a day off. Same as New Years.
The only people who position Christmas as a purported anniversary of Jesus's birth (aka "Jesus's birthday") are dullards and freaks. You qualify on both accounts.
Chrismas is a celebration of the birth, not the fucking anniversary of the birth.
You're just mad because IF Jesus was born, it was in either 6BC or 7BC. Or is it 3BC or 4BC? You can't even get the year right.
So all those "This day in history" web sites and calendars should not mention anything else on December 25th? Like the Christmas truce, which is an undisputed fact?
Science is the attempt to understand the world around us, ourselves, and the universe, using observation, deduction, and repeatable experiments to test hypotheses. Scientists don't believe they understand it all - just that they're getting better at making a first approximation of what the "laws that govern the universe" are. Nobody says we're anywhere near there yet, and we probably never will be 100% sure of all the rules, but that doesn't make it any less valid as a method and process, and certainly better than blindly trusting the textus receptus even when it contradicts direct observation.
In the quest for knowledge, getting there is ALL the fun:-)
What's even worse is that Jesus was born in the spring "while shepherds were watching their flocks by night." The actual date is unknown. The date was moved to December 25th to compete with the feast of Saturninus.
How is GMail necessary to the growth of the middle class? There's 1.3 billion people who can pick from any other email provider. Compared to creating an OS from scratch, creating and running an email service is trivial.
Please re-read " cutting off ways for small and medium-sized importers in other countries to get product info, quotes, arrange for shipping, etc... not so good. And of course, this will also hurt many external alibaba customers".
China's growth is predicated on trade. When you make it harder for the rest of the world to communicate with your small and medium-sized businesses, you hurt your domestic businesses, which impacts on overall growth. China's growth is already slowing, and this is the first time since 1999 that they failed to make the official growth targets.
There are lots of small and medium-sized businesses that use a throwaway gmail account when making initial contact with chinese suppliers because as soon as you do, you will get a LOT of spam. I mean, A LOT. They'll try to sell you everything from tombstones to tractors.
Seriously, they're about me. They should give me full and complete access to them, I should have control over them.
Yet...it's like pulling teeth to get records of my tooth extraction.
Gee, all I have to do to see my records is to ask. Same thing if I need an explanation. Then again, I'm in Kanuckistan, where we do things differently:-) Plus it helps that I've got great doctors.
"Imagine if Gmail users might not get through to Chinese clients. Many people outside China might be forced to switch away from Gmail."
China needs to keep up economic growth, or the people who have gotten used to being "middle class" over the last 15 years will not be happy. So, cutting off ways for small and medium-sized importers in other countries to get product info, quotes, arrange for shipping, etc... not so good.
And of course, this will also hurt many external alibaba customers.
What next - forcing people to switch to China's dead Red Flag Linux, just to spite the west?
I know it's not the style to read the articles, but the second link goes to a web site that shows a different story, and if you don't sign up, shoves you to their front page.
ince when is using private registration something to bring out the pitchforks for? You are the same guy that would be arguing for that privacy if you worked for the company, which you don't. Go outside.
Not the submitter, but I have no problem with requiring businesses to have a way of contacting them using valid registration info. Reputable businesses will want to be contacted when there's a problem, so they can fix it and STAY in business.
Eventually we're also going to have to have a way to verify people's online identities to help prevent frauds (Nigerian scams, etc) and abuse. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in real life.
1. Name and shame them. Don't pussyfoot around. Worst-case scenario, you'll get their contact info when they act all butt-hurt and make empty threats to sue (for what, exactly? Negative online reviews are protected speech). Not just on "review sites", which often are "we will remove the negative review if you buy our services" scams (cf: Yelp), but sites that YOU use. People only go to these sites after the fact. They're worthless.
2. Change your password and see if they send you back the updated info in plaintext. If they do, it's not just ONE bug.
3. Shop elsewhere. Use sites recommended by people you know who have actually used them and had good experiences, not some $RANDOM_SITE_WITH_LOWEST_PRICE that may be some kid in a basement and his mom who don't have a clue. If they're the lowest price, it may be because they're skimping on things like security and not because they have bulk buying power.
Hyppönen noted that these kinds of groups come and go, and that their members are usually young.
This is to be expected, as the perps have xbox and playstation accounts, have probably gotten a few bans for cheating, or even kicked off the networks, and have a disproportionate sense of self-entitlement.
That should help narrow it down to a few million suspects.
There's some truth to that. The elites in NK enjoy many of the luxuries that the rest of the world has to offer, and that their people can't even imagine. So, today the kids of the elite can't use their playstations or text each other with their smartphones because the 3g network is down too. It's time to "think of the kids", in the sense of the royal pain in the butt that many of them, used to privilege, have their toys shut down, and are whining like spoiled brats to their parents. If you're among those elite, you're not going to be happy with how your leader is handling things.
Well, I do think it's important to open up the discussion for those who are willing to talk about it but can't for various reasons, as well as trying to explain to our critics that maybe their perception of us is a little bit off. However, I only talk about it when someone brings it up in response to my sig. If you have a better way, I'm listening.
Now, if you meant "an overinflated sense of self-importance", all I can say is "I wish." The last few years have destroyed any such delusions I may have had. Enjoy your health while you have it. Oh, and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.
When you can download or watch it for free. I have never gotten the people around here who say piracy doesn't hurt sales, of course I am going to seek the cheapest method possible to get it. I don't give a shit about DRM/IP/etc.. I am cheap and not some evangelical mission.
South Korea’s military said North Korean firing was first heard Friday afternoon, directed at balloons carrying anti-North Korean regime propaganda launched by South Korean activists.
Activists frequently launch helium-filled balloons carrying thousands of leaflets with pro-democracy, anti-North Korea messages, as well as DVDs and other items. Many North Korean refugees say access to outside media motivated their escape from the country, but critics say the balloons contribute to inter-Korean frictions.
North Korea has repeatedly demanded that South Korea prevent the launches and threatened to fire at the balloons, but it had never previously done so.
"The leaflet-scattering operation, part of the psychological warfare targeting [North Korea], can never be overlooked as it is a deliberate and premeditated provocation," North Korea’s state media said Thursday.
South Korea sometimes intervenes to prevent launches when there are complaints from local residents worried about the North’s retaliation.
The North’s firing appeared to be aimed at balloons launched by a group headed by North Korean defector Lee Min-bok, who said no one in the group was hurt. Late Friday, Mr. Lee said he was looking for new locations to launch more balloons.
Shipping dates *are* quality. When you've understood that, you'll be ready for a job doing something more than code monkeying.
It's attitudes like that, and the ensuing "trying to negotiate how long 'X' should take to implement" to make up for feature creep and design changes, that kill quality.
Better to miss a ship date than to trash your software's reputation. People will forgive a missed shipping date a lot easier than you losing their data, or worse.
I only gave a singular example of a two correct answer, so I'll leave the rest of your comment as a statement to your own reading comprehension, not mine.
In a previous post, you said there were "usually" two answers, not "there are always two answers". What you're doing now is called "moving the goalposts."
The two questions on the test in your original post:
took a test once, and they asked about a command line executable, differentiating between windows and unix. I got the answer "wrong", not because I didn't know the command, but because I had used it for so long that seeing it with dashes instead of slashes threw me off. I was so used to using it with slashes that I figured it was a trick question when they asked if it was a windows command. There were similar issues with their output. When they ask for # of bytes of data, do they want the data size or the packet size, because header bytes matter in that.
And the second one, they need to specify the protocol. For example, there's a big difference between tcp/ip, fibre channel, and ATM.
But don't worry about it. It's the holidays:-)
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Remember the saying "bad money drives out good"? People will horde their genuine currency and try to pass off counterfeits as quickly as possible to the next sucker. Same as people now are selling Rubles for Euros and Dollars.
What should the rest of us do in the meantime while we are waiting for the answers?
Seriously. I'm not anti-science, I'm just against the arrogant viewpoint of some scientists that science will give us the answers we need in a timely manner to create perfect public policy that brings us to utopia.
Nobody ever claimed that science will give us the data we need to create prefect public policy in a timely manner unless they were speaking from an over-inflated ego or stupidity. Any scientist who says they have all the answers to create utopia is just another Monday morning quarterback sitting around "solving" the world's problems over breakfast.
At least it's not "Your desktop IS your browser."
Their calendar was just a little bit off, is all. Just a minor bug. Could happen to anybody, you know. Would you like to buy a parrot?
Most of the world is not christian, and Dec. 25 has no religious significance to them. Maybe christians need to be reminded that there's a whole other world outside their ken, and not everyone sees things from their perspective. For most of the people I know, it's primarily a day off. Same as New Years.
The only people who position Christmas as a purported anniversary of Jesus's birth (aka "Jesus's birthday") are dullards and freaks. You qualify on both accounts.
Chrismas is a celebration of the birth, not the fucking anniversary of the birth.
You're just mad because IF Jesus was born, it was in either 6BC or 7BC. Or is it 3BC or 4BC? You can't even get the year right.
So all those "This day in history" web sites and calendars should not mention anything else on December 25th? Like the Christmas truce, which is an undisputed fact?
Science is the attempt to understand the world around us, ourselves, and the universe, using observation, deduction, and repeatable experiments to test hypotheses. Scientists don't believe they understand it all - just that they're getting better at making a first approximation of what the "laws that govern the universe" are. Nobody says we're anywhere near there yet, and we probably never will be 100% sure of all the rules, but that doesn't make it any less valid as a method and process, and certainly better than blindly trusting the textus receptus even when it contradicts direct observation.
In the quest for knowledge, getting there is ALL the fun :-)
What's even worse is that Jesus was born in the spring "while shepherds were watching their flocks by night." The actual date is unknown. The date was moved to December 25th to compete with the feast of Saturninus.
"On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642"
The only thing offensive is that some people continue to belief that their religious beliefs should be accepted as "universal truth".
How is GMail necessary to the growth of the middle class? There's 1.3 billion people who can pick from any other email provider. Compared to creating an OS from scratch, creating and running an email service is trivial.
Please re-read " cutting off ways for small and medium-sized importers in other countries to get product info, quotes, arrange for shipping, etc ... not so good. And of course, this will also hurt many external alibaba customers".
China's growth is predicated on trade. When you make it harder for the rest of the world to communicate with your small and medium-sized businesses, you hurt your domestic businesses, which impacts on overall growth. China's growth is already slowing, and this is the first time since 1999 that they failed to make the official growth targets.
There are lots of small and medium-sized businesses that use a throwaway gmail account when making initial contact with chinese suppliers because as soon as you do, you will get a LOT of spam. I mean, A LOT. They'll try to sell you everything from tombstones to tractors.
Seriously, they're about me. They should give me full and complete access to them, I should have control over them.
Yet...it's like pulling teeth to get records of my tooth extraction.
Gee, all I have to do to see my records is to ask. Same thing if I need an explanation. Then again, I'm in Kanuckistan, where we do things differently :-) Plus it helps that I've got great doctors.
"Imagine if Gmail users might not get through to Chinese clients. Many people outside China might be forced to switch away from Gmail."
China needs to keep up economic growth, or the people who have gotten used to being "middle class" over the last 15 years will not be happy. So, cutting off ways for small and medium-sized importers in other countries to get product info, quotes, arrange for shipping, etc ... not so good.
And of course, this will also hurt many external alibaba customers.
What next - forcing people to switch to China's dead Red Flag Linux, just to spite the west?
Sorry - 3rd link.
Link bait.
ince when is using private registration something to bring out the pitchforks for? You are the same guy that would be arguing for that privacy if you worked for the company, which you don't. Go outside.
Not the submitter, but I have no problem with requiring businesses to have a way of contacting them using valid registration info. Reputable businesses will want to be contacted when there's a problem, so they can fix it and STAY in business.
Eventually we're also going to have to have a way to verify people's online identities to help prevent frauds (Nigerian scams, etc) and abuse. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in real life.
1. Name and shame them. Don't pussyfoot around. Worst-case scenario, you'll get their contact info when they act all butt-hurt and make empty threats to sue (for what, exactly? Negative online reviews are protected speech). Not just on "review sites", which often are "we will remove the negative review if you buy our services" scams (cf: Yelp), but sites that YOU use. People only go to these sites after the fact. They're worthless.
2. Change your password and see if they send you back the updated info in plaintext. If they do, it's not just ONE bug.
3. Shop elsewhere. Use sites recommended by people you know who have actually used them and had good experiences, not some $RANDOM_SITE_WITH_LOWEST_PRICE that may be some kid in a basement and his mom who don't have a clue. If they're the lowest price, it may be because they're skimping on things like security and not because they have bulk buying power.
Hyppönen noted that these kinds of groups come and go, and that their members are usually young.
This is to be expected, as the perps have xbox and playstation accounts, have probably gotten a few bans for cheating, or even kicked off the networks, and have a disproportionate sense of self-entitlement.
That should help narrow it down to a few million suspects.
I didn't see that, but I'm not part of the "my party is better than yours" crap. In Canada, even the Democrats would be seen as too right-wing.
There's some truth to that. The elites in NK enjoy many of the luxuries that the rest of the world has to offer, and that their people can't even imagine. So, today the kids of the elite can't use their playstations or text each other with their smartphones because the 3g network is down too. It's time to "think of the kids", in the sense of the royal pain in the butt that many of them, used to privilege, have their toys shut down, and are whining like spoiled brats to their parents. If you're among those elite, you're not going to be happy with how your leader is handling things.
You have an overinflated sense of importance.
Well, I do think it's important to open up the discussion for those who are willing to talk about it but can't for various reasons, as well as trying to explain to our critics that maybe their perception of us is a little bit off. However, I only talk about it when someone brings it up in response to my sig. If you have a better way, I'm listening.
Now, if you meant "an overinflated sense of self-importance", all I can say is "I wish." The last few years have destroyed any such delusions I may have had. Enjoy your health while you have it. Oh, and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.
When you can download or watch it for free. I have never gotten the people around here who say piracy doesn't hurt sales, of course I am going to seek the cheapest method possible to get it. I don't give a shit about DRM/IP/etc.. I am cheap and not some evangelical mission.
Because you wouldn't have bought it anyway, duh.
I'm more curious about how North Korean defectors are smuggling things into the country.
The same way they got out? A little help on the inside? Helium-filled balloons are all the rage:
South Korea’s military said North Korean firing was first heard Friday afternoon, directed at balloons carrying anti-North Korean regime propaganda launched by South Korean activists.
Activists frequently launch helium-filled balloons carrying thousands of leaflets with pro-democracy, anti-North Korea messages, as well as DVDs and other items. Many North Korean refugees say access to outside media motivated their escape from the country, but critics say the balloons contribute to inter-Korean frictions.
North Korea has repeatedly demanded that South Korea prevent the launches and threatened to fire at the balloons, but it had never previously done so.
"The leaflet-scattering operation, part of the psychological warfare targeting [North Korea], can never be overlooked as it is a deliberate and premeditated provocation," North Korea’s state media said Thursday.
South Korea sometimes intervenes to prevent launches when there are complaints from local residents worried about the North’s retaliation.
The North’s firing appeared to be aimed at balloons launched by a group headed by North Korean defector Lee Min-bok, who said no one in the group was hurt. Late Friday, Mr. Lee said he was looking for new locations to launch more balloons.
Shipping dates *are* quality. When you've understood that, you'll be ready for a job doing something more than code monkeying.
It's attitudes like that, and the ensuing "trying to negotiate how long 'X' should take to implement" to make up for feature creep and design changes, that kill quality.
Better to miss a ship date than to trash your software's reputation. People will forgive a missed shipping date a lot easier than you losing their data, or worse.
I only gave a singular example of a two correct answer, so I'll leave the rest of your comment as a statement to your own reading comprehension, not mine.
In a previous post, you said there were "usually" two answers, not "there are always two answers". What you're doing now is called "moving the goalposts."
The two questions on the test in your original post:
took a test once, and they asked about a command line executable, differentiating between windows and unix. I got the answer "wrong", not because I didn't know the command, but because I had used it for so long that seeing it with dashes instead of slashes threw me off. I was so used to using it with slashes that I figured it was a trick question when they asked if it was a windows command. There were similar issues with their output. When they ask for # of bytes of data, do they want the data size or the packet size, because header bytes matter in that.
And the second one, they need to specify the protocol. For example, there's a big difference between tcp/ip, fibre channel, and ATM. But don't worry about it. It's the holidays :-)