Claiming this is a red flag is disingenuous. There are lots of red flags, but this isn't one of them.
Sure, I said the same thing. (Except that the "90% chance that the stock will outpace the market" on your part might be a bit disingenuous -- yeah, like that's their big fear.) On the other hand, it's hardly the sweeping vote of confidence Zonk was making it out to be, which was my point.
My brain explodes every time I read it, but we have a fresh supply of donor monkies. So could anyone give me a quick synopsis of how this one-dollar pay thingie works.
Yes, it's quite simple. The co-presidents and the CEO of Google are getting compensated in stock, billions of dollars of which they sold last year. Zonk and the Slashbots are swooning over this glorious show of faith in the company in opting for shares over cash, oblivious to the fact that they're selling the damn shares!
Would you mind sending some of those, err, "monkies" over here?
I doubt they sold every share they owned either, just enough to make one hell of an impressive earnings year.
You always get this with startups -- the funders want to cash out to diversify their assets, and to buy a mansion and a MiG. The stockholders grumble, but as long as the founders sell a little and still have a major stake in the company, you can't view it that negatively. That said, cashing out a billion-plus in one year is, as the FA notes, a little alarming. What are they buying, Finland?
I don't especially care about this (I'd say the stock is ludicrously overpriced regardless) but just want to offer a reality check to all the people gushing about what a brave show of faith the Google execs are making.
OMG, free food in the cafeteria and food stamps! Even without the $3 billion in cash they just pulled down, Brin and Page are really living large! How do they stay so thin?
They could be getting a multi-million dollar salary *and* the stock money. Good faith efforts go a long way in my book.
The news here is that the executives are selling their stock -- not normally considered a show of faith in the company. Brin and Page have each dumped over a billion dollars worth, and Schmidt another half-billion.
For example if I take a phtography of a rock for a geology publication, I am surely allowed to tweak contrasts with photoshop in order to show clearly the structure of the rock. But I suppose that the exact same manipulation would be unethical if I were to hide details that could serve as a counter-example of my thesis.
Agreed. It sounds like, though, that most of the incidents here were more like if you included your foot in the bottom of the picture of the rock and edited it out. The editors said that only a very small subset of the violations were deliberate attempts at fraud.
The point of SameTime that the summary glossed over is that it's an IM component of Lotus Notes, and is integrated with the rest of the Notes environment. Also, it's a desktop sharing tool (like WebEx). Obviously this wouldn't be news if it were just a cross-network IM client.
SameTime is easily the nicest component in the Notes suite, although anything that doesn't make you want to smash your skull through the monitor would qualify for that honor.
So, if you multiply some completely arbitrary numbers together and then multiply some wholly imaginary numbers together, the arbitrary numbers for real technology come out lower than the imaginary numbers for imaginary technology? Wow, I'm impressed!
The FA correctly notes that the call is for a boycott, but the headline there refers to a "ban" instead. Bizarrely, the submitter decided to use the body's correct wording in his body and the headline's error in his header.
Is it possible to introduce healthy tissue into a body or system and have it spread in a cancer like fashion repairing everything in its path?
Problem is, that's kind of what tumors already are -- normal tissues without the normal restriction on growth. (Yes, I realize that's a huge oversimplification. You don't need to explain why.) Almost by definition you can't beat cancer by adding new tissue to outcompete it.
Obviously the initial ping in the Intel jingle doesn't count -- there are four notes, anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot, you're undoubtedly David Pogue posting under a fake name, and that moron Zonk just posted something that was on Digg over 20 minutes ago.
The only thing I use glxgears for is when I'm trying to get acceleration turned on in Linux and I check to see if glxgears has started running 100x faster. Obviously a 5% difference in its speed on two different systems is meaningless.
It's still a benchmark, though! It's certainly not a game, which is what the comment I responded to and the lengthy discussion spinning off it seemed to think. The debate of whether >60 fps in glxgears is meaningful is ridiculous -- nobody sits and watches glxgears.
It's one thing to use something like that once a year, but the submitter is talking about daily use. (Or at least enough use to allow daily scanning.) His idea of nail polish remover (i.e. acetone) strikes me as potentially destructive to skin as a long-term solution, and your suggestion (which turns up nothing in Google so I don't know what it is) doesn't sound much healthier.
I agree with the people who say this is his bosses' problem, not his...
It is a big first date place, though, and DDR seems like it would fit in well in that niche. I agree about fighting games, though, and also agree that this is the most bizarrely pointless thing ever posted here by an editor other than Hemos.
None of the stuff you mention bothers me, except occasionally when a site I need to access is mysteriously blocked.
What does create havoc (and I jump in with this in every one of these discussions because it can't be said enough) is the insanity with multiple, long, complex, frequently-but-out-of-sync changed passwords. It causes huge hassles, prevents users from taking advantage of resources and is an absolute disaster for security.
If we stacked up all of the useless length metaphors/comparisons from end to end, they'd still add up to a non-useful mental image of a billion genetic records.
Helpfully, that's precisely how meaningless a milestone one billion sequencer traces is.
but if you discover a kernel bug in an OpenVZ server, all other instances are immediately susceptible, whereas with Xen, only the dom-u you are in is exploited (though if all instances are running the same kernel, you're up the creek).
Does anyone actually run Xen with multiple kernel versions on productions systems? It seems like an enormous source of work and trouble with very minimal return. It's not like the vulnerabilities and bugs in 2.6.n weren't almost all in 2.6.n-1 as well.
The first person I saw claim that electronic mail was the wave of the future, and the first time I'd ever heard of it was, of all people -- William F. Buckley in his newspaper column. He was referring, if extremely vague memory serves, to MCI Mail, although this was probably before the arrival of such user-friendly super-high-tech as Kermit and Xmodem.
Then when I want to college (this wasn't much before every freshman was issued an email account and web space at orientation -- things snowballed really quickly) someone told me that there was a way to send messages by computers to other schools, for free. I went down to the bowels of the CS building and a moss-covered grad student gave me a Bitnet address that looked like the volume of the earth in cubic centimeters. In hindsight, the whole episode was like something out of Harry Potter.
Microsoft's major customers are nerds not geeks and that's why MS is so wealthy, that's why they have been so successful.
Actually, Microsoft's major customers are pretty much everyone who uses a computer which a) is why MS is so wealthy and b) tends to support the grandparent's point that Bill Gates might be thought to know at least a little about "what to do with technology".
The easiest way to game the system might be to simply enter your floor number over and over, to fool the computer into thinking there's an increased demand for that floor.
Heck, I do that now! The elevator definitely gets there faster!
So is the guy on Beauty and the Geek 2 now more or less of a dork now that he's the ex-record holder?
My advice to Ashton Kutcher is to kick him off the show and replace him with Leyan Lo, in a stunning plot twist. Unless Leyan Lo has a girlfriend, but that seems implausible.
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Sure, I said the same thing. (Except that the "90% chance that the stock will outpace the market" on your part might be a bit disingenuous -- yeah, like that's their big fear.) On the other hand, it's hardly the sweeping vote of confidence Zonk was making it out to be, which was my point.
Yes, it's quite simple. The co-presidents and the CEO of Google are getting compensated in stock, billions of dollars of which they sold last year. Zonk and the Slashbots are swooning over this glorious show of faith in the company in opting for shares over cash, oblivious to the fact that they're selling the damn shares!
Would you mind sending some of those, err, "monkies" over here?
You always get this with startups -- the funders want to cash out to diversify their assets, and to buy a mansion and a MiG. The stockholders grumble, but as long as the founders sell a little and still have a major stake in the company, you can't view it that negatively. That said, cashing out a billion-plus in one year is, as the FA notes, a little alarming. What are they buying, Finland?
I don't especially care about this (I'd say the stock is ludicrously overpriced regardless) but just want to offer a reality check to all the people gushing about what a brave show of faith the Google execs are making.
OMG, free food in the cafeteria and food stamps! Even without the $3 billion in cash they just pulled down, Brin and Page are really living large! How do they stay so thin?
The news here is that the executives are selling their stock -- not normally considered a show of faith in the company. Brin and Page have each dumped over a billion dollars worth, and Schmidt another half-billion.
I read that thinking "Jenna Jameson did what? And how badly did the submitter mangle her name?"
Agreed. It sounds like, though, that most of the incidents here were more like if you included your foot in the bottom of the picture of the rock and edited it out. The editors said that only a very small subset of the violations were deliberate attempts at fraud.
SameTime is easily the nicest component in the Notes suite, although anything that doesn't make you want to smash your skull through the monitor would qualify for that honor.
So, if you multiply some completely arbitrary numbers together and then multiply some wholly imaginary numbers together, the arbitrary numbers for real technology come out lower than the imaginary numbers for imaginary technology? Wow, I'm impressed!
The FA correctly notes that the call is for a boycott, but the headline there refers to a "ban" instead. Bizarrely, the submitter decided to use the body's correct wording in his body and the headline's error in his header.
Problem is, that's kind of what tumors already are -- normal tissues without the normal restriction on growth. (Yes, I realize that's a huge oversimplification. You don't need to explain why.) Almost by definition you can't beat cancer by adding new tissue to outcompete it.
Man, I read that title and was already thinking "This has got to be another Roland Picuquepaile submission..."
Obviously the initial ping in the Intel jingle doesn't count -- there are four notes, anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot, you're undoubtedly David Pogue posting under a fake name, and that moron Zonk just posted something that was on Digg over 20 minutes ago.
It's still a benchmark, though! It's certainly not a game, which is what the comment I responded to and the lengthy discussion spinning off it seemed to think. The debate of whether >60 fps in glxgears is meaningful is ridiculous -- nobody sits and watches glxgears.
In fairness -- relative to last week's "iTunes is malware!" nonsense, this one at least has a germ of sense behind it.
I agree with the people who say this is his bosses' problem, not his...
It is a big first date place, though, and DDR seems like it would fit in well in that niche. I agree about fighting games, though, and also agree that this is the most bizarrely pointless thing ever posted here by an editor other than Hemos.
What does create havoc (and I jump in with this in every one of these discussions because it can't be said enough) is the insanity with multiple, long, complex, frequently-but-out-of-sync changed passwords. It causes huge hassles, prevents users from taking advantage of resources and is an absolute disaster for security.
Helpfully, that's precisely how meaningless a milestone one billion sequencer traces is.
Does anyone actually run Xen with multiple kernel versions on productions systems? It seems like an enormous source of work and trouble with very minimal return. It's not like the vulnerabilities and bugs in 2.6.n weren't almost all in 2.6.n-1 as well.
Then when I want to college (this wasn't much before every freshman was issued an email account and web space at orientation -- things snowballed really quickly) someone told me that there was a way to send messages by computers to other schools, for free. I went down to the bowels of the CS building and a moss-covered grad student gave me a Bitnet address that looked like the volume of the earth in cubic centimeters. In hindsight, the whole episode was like something out of Harry Potter.
Actually, Microsoft's major customers are pretty much everyone who uses a computer which a) is why MS is so wealthy and b) tends to support the grandparent's point that Bill Gates might be thought to know at least a little about "what to do with technology".
Heck, I do that now! The elevator definitely gets there faster!
glxgears is a benchmark for graphics acceleration. You don't (unless you're insane) sit there and watch it spin at 1908 fps.
My advice to Ashton Kutcher is to kick him off the show and replace him with Leyan Lo, in a stunning plot twist. Unless Leyan Lo has a girlfriend, but that seems implausible.