The title is pretty honest: this is early evidence of war. I agree that we likely cannot observe too many battlegrounds 10,000 years later. The annoying thing about these reporting on this article is that it makes it sound like humans invented war 10,000 years ago! A human 10,000 years ago is virtually identical to us today, so why would we expect them any less capable or motivated to commit mass murder than someone today?
War seems to be a consequence of population density. The bigger populations get and the scarcer the resources are, the more you are likely to get war. That makes sense since long as there is plenty of land to hunt in and humans are thin on the ground like they were in Europe up to ~25.000 years ago why would I go to war with the first group of people I have run into in six months when I can settle in the uninhabited valley across the ridge be friends with the neighbours and swap single men/women with them (i.e. arrange marriages)? This is one reason why the theory that Modern Humans and Neanderthals lived in Europe side by side for 15.000 to (possibly up to) 25.000 years, never interacted in a significant way and that two teenagers from either group never did what horny teenagers do with the resulting pregnancies, pair-bonding and hybrid offspring. There is hardly a shred of evidence for warfare in Europe, for example, until the Neolithic and the Copper/Bronze-age when warfare (well mostly raiding) really starts to become fairly common. This is not to say that war is unknown in low density populations. there is always some witchdoctor with a claim that is conjuring up evil spirits and sending them over to make your tribe's kids sick (or something) resulting in a massacre but that seems to be quite rare as long as population density is small. There are some examples of Neanderthal, Heidelbergensis and proto-modern human skeletons with cut marks on them that are quite old but that could just as easily be evidence of ritual cannibalism or ritual de-fleshing of the dead as it is evidence of warfare/predatory-cannibalism.
P.S. This is not that much older than the previous oldest example (that I can remember off hand) which is Kennewick Man who died in 8.9k to 9k BP and had a spear point embedded in his hip (a would he survived by many years): https://img.washingtonpost.com...
Just a reminder that these people were tougher than nails.
Yes it does, the guy has a built in obfuscation engine that sits between the part of his brain that handler rational thougt and his mouth but it only kicks in when he is giving political speeches.
Among their visions: an Amazon-style recommendation service on courses...
I went to a university where they did this and it is a pretty double edged weapon because the students who spent their lecture time playing online games or posting on Facebook ended up giving courses and the lecturers bad reviews because they blamed the course/lecturer for their bad grades rather than their own procrastination. The knee-jerk reaction of lecturers was to ban laptops and mobile devices in lectures which had a detrimental effect on me and the others who actually used their laptops to take notes. I for one gave courses where I was not able to take electronic notes a lower grade than I otherwise would have even though I understood why the lecturer banned computer devices and even though I generally liked the course and the lecturer's performance because it forced me to spend double the time I normally would re-writing my paper-notes in electronic form. Basically I don't think applying this form of a product rating system to courses and lecturers is a good idea because it can give you a very skewed idea of the situation. I say let the procrastinators fail and let them piss and moan about it at home, don't give them a forum at school to do that. If they want to play games in class rather than take notes it's their own damn fault and if they want to waste of their own money that way that's their business. That way people who actually pay attention and use their computers for learning are not disadvantaged. Banning computers in lectures just forces the procrastinators to find new ways to procrastinate.
to dick about with a 3-decade-long complex story by IGNORING THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT is just... well... disappointing.
Maybe you need a refresher about how Star Wars was created. The original stuff that George Lucas wrote was confusing, rambling and boring. It's a bunch of editors (including the guy's wife) and Brian De Palma who carved out of this confusing script the masterpiece that was the first movie.
So if Lucas was allowed to write the script for Episode VI all on his own that could explain the 'Great Teddy Bear Luau of Endor'? Or did he just cave in to pressure from the toy companies for the film to promote the sales of furry toys as well as plastic action figures?
Contribute to the declining fish populations with excessive fertilizer runoff!
There are number of other causes that contribute to declining fish populations.One problem is massive corruption with subsequent underreporting of catches which is something only aggressive law enforcement can solve. Then there are pirate fleets that operate in international waters which means that coastal state do not have the authority to put an end to their activities. This is particularly bad because many fish stocks migrate in and out of the economic exclusion zones of coastal states where they can be protected by armed coastguard vessels, patrol aircraft, drones, satellite system and into international waters where the pirates have free reign and that is where the truly alarming overfishing happens. One possible solution to this is to either dramatically expand the economic exclusion zones of coastal states or to put together some sort of international patrol force drawn from the navies of multiple nations. Either way if fish stocks are allowed to collapse completely it may not be possible to reconstruct the damaged ecosystems so the sooner something is done the better. Whoever is tasked with regulating fisheries in international waters, particularly when it comes to pirate fleets had better have permission to carry a big stick and use it liberally. By that I mean board offending pirate fishing vessels, have them sailed to the nearest harbor by a prize crew and sell the boats for scrap or in some other way take them out of the hands of pirates permanently. Another thing that could be done would be to prosecute the 'respectable' investors that bankroll the pirate fleets. It would also help to get governments off their ass if environmental activists stopped worrying about a few whalers in the North Atlantic killing miniscule numbers of whales (this small time whaling will die out soon enough anyway because the whale meat is so full of toxic gunk that in a couple of decades it won't be fit for human consumption) and put their energy into ferreting out the money men that finance the pirate fleets finger them publicly. There is nothing that works better on governments than shaming them into action. The damage done by these people and their fleets is many orders of magnitude greater than the damage that is being done by whalers today or bands of hunters in the arctic catching seals for furs.
You mean AT&T will switch back to M$ when M$ pays them to. M$ will do a multi year commitment where the first half is 3/4 of what the services are valued at, and the 2nd half is 6/4s of what they are valued at, then slip in fine print charges that double the prices of both.
The interview consisted of a teleconference where a Google employee quizzed me about various really technical issues with most of the interview revolving around the nitty gritty details of how command piping is implemented in different *nix versions. I have been asked by employers to solve all kinds of programmatic and system administration related problems in my two decades as a programmer but why on earth would I be an expert in the command/data piping mechanism in *nix type operating systems and why would I be a bad developer if I don't know that?
Are you sure that he was really asking you to display your *knowledge* of command piping?
No, he did not want go test if I knew how to pipe data from the 'ls' command to the 'grep' command using the | character. He wanted me to explain exactly how it is implemented on a system level as in: How is it coded? I have studies many aspects of the *nix operating systems but the nitty gritty of how piping is implemented in code is something I have never felt the need to explore.
I am a dev, and for a long time was a hiring manager. The idea that grilling, testing, or creating "challenging" interview questions for candidates, and thinking that it will give you ANY introspective on how they will perform on the job, is complete and total poppycock.
Honestly, I feel kind of bad for silicon valley companies that have gotten this strange idea that if you hire a whole bunch of "smart" developers who can answer a bunch of esoteric interview questions, and/or complete silly coding assignments in under an hour, that it will somehow magically enable those developers to coalesce as a team, work hard, solve difficult problems together, and release a viable product.
Raw intelligence is not everything. In fact, it is not even in the most important facet when hiring a software developer. Much more important are experience problem-solving and collaborate in a team environment. I have zero interest in the zen guru who sits at his desk all day churning out algorithms without involving his other team members in what he is doing - because other people need to understand what he is doing and contribute to it as well, if you want to create a successful organization (which will result in a successful product)
I agree with that. I got invited by a headhunter to one of those famous Google job interviews for a position in either the UK or Switzerland of all places. I wasn't really about to uproot my entire existence and move to another country (never mind learning how to drive on the wrong side of the road since Switzerland was not an option) but the opportunity of going through the world famous interviewing process of the Google genius recruitment team was too tempting to turn down. Needless to say I failed this interview which I take it is the first hurdle in Google's long and painful interview process. The reason I flopped was probably because of my poor attitude since I concluded about 3 minutes into the interview that even if I had been interested in moving to the UK when the interview started this interviewer was a wasting my and Google company time. The interview consisted of a teleconference where a Google employee quizzed me about various really technical issues with most of the interview revolving around the nitty gritty details of how command piping is implemented in different *nix versions. I have been asked by employers to solve all kinds of programmatic and system administration related problems in my two decades as a programmer but why on earth would I be an expert in the command/data piping mechanism in *nix type operating systems and why would I be a bad developer if I don't know that? Another typical task that I have been presented with at various times during interviews is solving some math puzzle to which I usually reply that I can knock you together a *nix daemon and client capable of network communications in about 5 minutes with a basic toolkit I developed years ago and keep on a USB stick on my keychain. Or perhaps you'd like me to put together a web service in C/C++?... but please don't ask me to solve differential equations programmatically off the top of my head. That is not something I have ever been asked to do by an employer in 20 years of programming and it's something I'm not likely to ever be asked to do judging from the job advertisement I responded to.
The aura that surrounds Vlad Putin will be focused by a series of unobtainium lenses and used to propel the cosmonauts to the moon where they will plant a Russian flag, set up a military base manned by space cossacks and claim the moon for mother Russia.
I totally agree. Would you give your kid your credit card, pat him on the head and then send him to the arcade? That's what this clueless putz did.
I used to administer a billing system for mobile phones back from the late 1990s into the early 2000s and even back then we used to get calls from irate parents with this exact problem. Back then it was mostly kids and teenagers racking up $1000 plus bills with SMS lottery games and occasionally even back then through excessive internet use while on vacation etc... Dealing with some of the complaints we got thought me three things. Firstly, you would be amazed at the size of the bills kids and can rack up on mobile devices if you put them on a subscription based service (I remember one in the region of $11000). We solved this problem by programming the billing system to cap spending at a low default value forcing people to turn up and explicitly have the spending roof lifted. Secondly, having seen a hard nosed manager insist on payment I can tell you that you are better off waiving these bills or refunding because the parent's second call is always going to be the local tabloid or TV station. For some reason some hard nosed managers seem to have to learn that lesson the hard way. Thirdly, nothing teaches a child or teenager fiscal responsibility quicker than giving them a budget and letting them figure out for them selves that they can't have everything and must prioritise and if they want more money they'll have to get a job mowing lawns or down at the supermarket stuffing plastic bags and collecting shopping carts. So in light of my experience I would suggest:
a) Never give my kid your own personal iPad/Android Tablet.
b) Buy a used iPad/Android Tablet for the kid to use they are not *THAT* expensive.
c) Give the kid an allowance and make him/her buy gift cards to finance their gaming and give him/her a prepaid subscription they have to fill from their allowance for their internet and telephone needs.
I had always read that Apple's OS-X operating system was secure and that its users didn't have to worry about viruses and security vulnerabilities.
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What happened? Did Apple mess up its development process?
People write all kinds of things about OS X much of which is not true and that bit about it having no vulnerabilities is at the top of the list of crap statements about OS X along with claims that OS X is closed source. Apple has in the past tried to score marketing points with the fact that there is less malware floating around for OS X which I thought was pretty stupid since they were pushing security through obscurity as a feature which is guaranteed to come back and bite you. As far as I know even Apple's marketing department has never been dumb enough to claim OS X is completely devoid of security vulnerabilities since this would be easy enough to disprove by means of Apple's own historic patch release notes. The only ones who persist in repeating this particular factoid are trolls and flame baiters. OS X is also not closed source, Aqua, the Finder and the rest of the GUI stuff layered on top of OS X are closed source. The OS X core system it self is open source and has been for years. It is also not forbidden to modify the code which is another misconception Linux enthusiasts keep sending my way in (usually) friendly Open Source vs Closed Source software debates as an example of why OS X sucks. I have downloaded OS X system software source code from the Apple source code repo and fixed bugs myself when I got tired of trying to get Apple to fix them.
Provided it's free and they don't distribute original content directly from the game (e.g if it extends the original content then they provide it as a patch or require you to have the original game to source the original content into a new engine or something)... how can this possibly infringe on copyright.
Because copyright isn't limited to commercial infringement (in the U.S. at least). And you can't use assets from someone else's game in your own without their permission.
Maybe, but coming down like a ton of bricks on a bunch of fans improving your old games in their spare time would be just about the dumbest thing these game manufacturers could do. Antagonising your own fan base generally is a pretty stupid thing to do. Then again while most of these companies thrive on open minded talented people they are usually run by pretty conservative money men and women and the knee jerk reaction of such people is usually to regard everything as a threat rather than to embrace new trends and go with the flow. Case in point, the music industry.
How could Apple's proprietary charger be the de facto standard when most devices sold don't use it?
Apple chargers have a USB-A socket on them that allows one to use them to charge practically any device. When I go on holiday I simply chuck a couple of iPad chargers into my bag and use them to charge my iPhone, iPad, Garmin Nav-aid, my Bluetooth headphones and a occasionally the Samsung phones of a couple of other family members. I don't really understand why Apple has to be the looser in this. If the Swiss universal charger will have a USB-C socket on it you could plug any cable into it you want including one with an Apple Lightning connector on the other end or another one with a Micro USB connector for your Android devices. The only thing I'd be worried about is some idiot legislating the use of a standard phone/tablet/laptop charger designed by a committee and therefore big as a brick. One of the things that originally caused me to buy Apple laptops was their relatively small and easy to stow laptop chargers.
My/dev/null has a hand rubbed walnut finish, a tube stage feeding a hand-wound transformer, polarized cables, Ukranian porcelain stand-offs, and anti-magnetic monopoles crafted from moon rocks to lower the noise floor. It's extremely danceable.
Huh, quaint... mine is made of solid Adamantium with superconducting Unobtainium coils.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks...
Agree 100%. Ewoks is where I stopped watching.
And "Ewoks" is basically what Lucas added to the original to ruin it.
Not actual Ewoks but "Ewok" look and feel.
Barf.
Right, the first movie was great, the second one was OK, the third one was.... BAAAARRRRFFFF!!! The prequels that came later were kind of OK, not spectacular by any means and contained far too much slapstick. Star Wars was ruined when they turned the successful kind of cool "space western" into a giant commercial where the plot development was driven by the asinine marketing ideas of toy company executives. I kind of like the animated series better than the prequels and that is in no small measure due to the relative absence of the kind of asinine slapstick that ruined Return of the Jedi.
Lucas is that you? There is no one in the universe that thinks C-3PO was at all annoying in the original movies. Please stop. In fact the banter between him an R2D2 when they arrived on Tatooine was creative and funny. Again these are the original theatrical releases and not the prequels nor the modified crap that Lucas put out later.
Lucas? Lucas came up with this tripe, the script writers came up with something mildly plausible and Lucas turned it into toy selling crap. Why would he be ragging on C-3O? As for C-3PO, what about the cheesy British accent? The fact that such an advanced culture as the one in Star Wars cannot create better hydraulics than so that C-3PO looks like he's got two peglegs and a crowbars stuffed up his robot ass when he walks? The endless cheesy " my circuits " whining?? It just gets tiring after a while unless you play that game where you divide the group of spectators into two teams where one has to take a shot of Whiskey whenever somebody says "Millenium Falcon" and the other a shot of Vodka whenever C-3PO moans about something or says 'my circuits'. After about the fourth or fifth shot of vodka the "Great teddy-bear Luau of Endor" actually starts to become mildly watchable once you get to it.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks... Everything else is a mere annoyance, even Jar Jar Binks.
If you think the Ewoks are worse than Jar Jar then you won't find many who will go along with that one.
I don't really care about Jar Jar Binks. He's a stupid comic relief character that went off the rails and he doesn't appear that often anyway. As annoying caracters go C-3PO annoys me way more than Jar Jar because C-3PO is just as cheesy but he has way more screen time than Jar Jar got (at least it feels that way to me but maybe that's because C-3PO annoys me more). Having said that, "Great teddy-bear Luau of Endor" basically ruined the second half of that movie when it could have been a cool jungle battle full of Wookies bashing storm trooper's heads in.
The original has been completely ruined by Lucas with all his remakes and extra scenes.
Cutesy extra creatures _everywhere_, Han shooting second, that barf-worthy fake scene with Jabba The Hut... it completely changes the feel. And it's awful.
Take all those out and it's still quite good.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks... Everything else is a mere annoyance, even Jar Jar Binks.
The idea was to show that religions are ridiculous, not to join the ranks of the bullshit peddlers.
No, continue the bullshit, set up a regular church, get it legally acknowledged... by all means press on. That way I can set up a chapter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and refund the church subsidies that we are forced to pay in my country through our taxes to all pastafarians that sign up.
... because their leaders needed some good press. The parliaments of some of these countries will refuse to ratify it once the lobbyists have done their work, the list of such countries being led by the USA. The rest like China and Russia will simply falsify their emission data.
Entropy? If there are other universes some of them may have a different set of physical laws due to their big bangs or their aftermath playing out in a subtly different way than in the case of our universe. If some of these other universes have strong gravitational forces they will presumably pass into something resembling the upcoming black hole era of our own universe before developing any intelligent life so let's just be happy our universe has weak gravity.
blah blah blah, you'd put over half the U.S. population into poverty since they wouldn't be able to buy things to meet their basic needs, as they are made in China. You point of view is not actionable, it is stupid
Perhaps the richest 1% of the US population could provide the half that lives under the poverty limit with bread and games? That worked out pretty well for the Rom.... oh... never mind....
The liberals just raised taxes again on his corporation North Pole Inc. and forced him to provide Obamacare for his elves. They also sued him for giving coal to bad children, saying it that every child should be a winner and it was unfair to black kids who grew up in worse situations than whites, so therefore Santa's policy was racial discrimination. The fine was $400,000,000.
He is no longer able to make a profit and therefore had to declare bankruptcy. Sorry kids.;(
Vote for Trump in 2016 if you want Santa to come back. Make America great again!
What? I thought that Santa Claus is Canadian, based on his legitimate Canadian mailing address:
Santa used to be Canadian but that guy quit after Bill O'Reilly attacked him at Macy's and beat him into a pulp for wishing Bill 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas':
http://dailycurrant.com/2012/1...
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The title is pretty honest: this is early evidence of war. I agree that we likely cannot observe too many battlegrounds 10,000 years later. The annoying thing about these reporting on this article is that it makes it sound like humans invented war 10,000 years ago! A human 10,000 years ago is virtually identical to us today, so why would we expect them any less capable or motivated to commit mass murder than someone today?
War seems to be a consequence of population density. The bigger populations get and the scarcer the resources are, the more you are likely to get war. That makes sense since long as there is plenty of land to hunt in and humans are thin on the ground like they were in Europe up to ~25.000 years ago why would I go to war with the first group of people I have run into in six months when I can settle in the uninhabited valley across the ridge be friends with the neighbours and swap single men/women with them (i.e. arrange marriages)? This is one reason why the theory that Modern Humans and Neanderthals lived in Europe side by side for 15.000 to (possibly up to) 25.000 years, never interacted in a significant way and that two teenagers from either group never did what horny teenagers do with the resulting pregnancies, pair-bonding and hybrid offspring. There is hardly a shred of evidence for warfare in Europe, for example, until the Neolithic and the Copper/Bronze-age when warfare (well mostly raiding) really starts to become fairly common. This is not to say that war is unknown in low density populations. there is always some witchdoctor with a claim that is conjuring up evil spirits and sending them over to make your tribe's kids sick (or something) resulting in a massacre but that seems to be quite rare as long as population density is small. There are some examples of Neanderthal, Heidelbergensis and proto-modern human skeletons with cut marks on them that are quite old but that could just as easily be evidence of ritual cannibalism or ritual de-fleshing of the dead as it is evidence of warfare/predatory-cannibalism.
P.S. This is not that much older than the previous oldest example (that I can remember off hand) which is Kennewick Man who died in 8.9k to 9k BP and had a spear point embedded in his hip (a would he survived by many years): https://img.washingtonpost.com... Just a reminder that these people were tougher than nails.
This has nothing to do with Trump.
Yes it does, the guy has a built in obfuscation engine that sits between the part of his brain that handler rational thougt and his mouth but it only kicks in when he is giving political speeches.
Among their visions: an Amazon-style recommendation service on courses...
I went to a university where they did this and it is a pretty double edged weapon because the students who spent their lecture time playing online games or posting on Facebook ended up giving courses and the lecturers bad reviews because they blamed the course/lecturer for their bad grades rather than their own procrastination. The knee-jerk reaction of lecturers was to ban laptops and mobile devices in lectures which had a detrimental effect on me and the others who actually used their laptops to take notes. I for one gave courses where I was not able to take electronic notes a lower grade than I otherwise would have even though I understood why the lecturer banned computer devices and even though I generally liked the course and the lecturer's performance because it forced me to spend double the time I normally would re-writing my paper-notes in electronic form. Basically I don't think applying this form of a product rating system to courses and lecturers is a good idea because it can give you a very skewed idea of the situation. I say let the procrastinators fail and let them piss and moan about it at home, don't give them a forum at school to do that. If they want to play games in class rather than take notes it's their own damn fault and if they want to waste of their own money that way that's their business. That way people who actually pay attention and use their computers for learning are not disadvantaged. Banning computers in lectures just forces the procrastinators to find new ways to procrastinate.
to dick about with a 3-decade-long complex story by IGNORING THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT is just... well... disappointing.
Maybe you need a refresher about how Star Wars was created. The original stuff that George Lucas wrote was confusing, rambling and boring. It's a bunch of editors (including the guy's wife) and Brian De Palma who carved out of this confusing script the masterpiece that was the first movie.
Have a look at this book: http://www.howstarwarsconquere...
So if Lucas was allowed to write the script for Episode VI all on his own that could explain the 'Great Teddy Bear Luau of Endor'? Or did he just cave in to pressure from the toy companies for the film to promote the sales of furry toys as well as plastic action figures?
Contribute to the declining fish populations with excessive fertilizer runoff!
There are number of other causes that contribute to declining fish populations.One problem is massive corruption with subsequent underreporting of catches which is something only aggressive law enforcement can solve. Then there are pirate fleets that operate in international waters which means that coastal state do not have the authority to put an end to their activities. This is particularly bad because many fish stocks migrate in and out of the economic exclusion zones of coastal states where they can be protected by armed coastguard vessels, patrol aircraft, drones, satellite system and into international waters where the pirates have free reign and that is where the truly alarming overfishing happens. One possible solution to this is to either dramatically expand the economic exclusion zones of coastal states or to put together some sort of international patrol force drawn from the navies of multiple nations. Either way if fish stocks are allowed to collapse completely it may not be possible to reconstruct the damaged ecosystems so the sooner something is done the better. Whoever is tasked with regulating fisheries in international waters, particularly when it comes to pirate fleets had better have permission to carry a big stick and use it liberally. By that I mean board offending pirate fishing vessels, have them sailed to the nearest harbor by a prize crew and sell the boats for scrap or in some other way take them out of the hands of pirates permanently. Another thing that could be done would be to prosecute the 'respectable' investors that bankroll the pirate fleets. It would also help to get governments off their ass if environmental activists stopped worrying about a few whalers in the North Atlantic killing miniscule numbers of whales (this small time whaling will die out soon enough anyway because the whale meat is so full of toxic gunk that in a couple of decades it won't be fit for human consumption) and put their energy into ferreting out the money men that finance the pirate fleets finger them publicly. There is nothing that works better on governments than shaming them into action. The damage done by these people and their fleets is many orders of magnitude greater than the damage that is being done by whalers today or bands of hunters in the arctic catching seals for furs.
You mean AT&T will switch back to M$ when M$ pays them to. M$ will do a multi year commitment where the first half is 3/4 of what the services are valued at, and the 2nd half is 6/4s of what they are valued at, then slip in fine print charges that double the prices of both.
After all, that is what AT&T does via DirecTV
Obligatory: https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...
The interview consisted of a teleconference where a Google employee quizzed me about various really technical issues with most of the interview revolving around the nitty gritty details of how command piping is implemented in different *nix versions. I have been asked by employers to solve all kinds of programmatic and system administration related problems in my two decades as a programmer but why on earth would I be an expert in the command/data piping mechanism in *nix type operating systems and why would I be a bad developer if I don't know that?
Are you sure that he was really asking you to display your *knowledge* of command piping?
No, he did not want go test if I knew how to pipe data from the 'ls' command to the 'grep' command using the | character. He wanted me to explain exactly how it is implemented on a system level as in: How is it coded? I have studies many aspects of the *nix operating systems but the nitty gritty of how piping is implemented in code is something I have never felt the need to explore.
I am a dev, and for a long time was a hiring manager. The idea that grilling, testing, or creating "challenging" interview questions for candidates, and thinking that it will give you ANY introspective on how they will perform on the job, is complete and total poppycock.
Honestly, I feel kind of bad for silicon valley companies that have gotten this strange idea that if you hire a whole bunch of "smart" developers who can answer a bunch of esoteric interview questions, and/or complete silly coding assignments in under an hour, that it will somehow magically enable those developers to coalesce as a team, work hard, solve difficult problems together, and release a viable product.
Raw intelligence is not everything. In fact, it is not even in the most important facet when hiring a software developer. Much more important are experience problem-solving and collaborate in a team environment. I have zero interest in the zen guru who sits at his desk all day churning out algorithms without involving his other team members in what he is doing - because other people need to understand what he is doing and contribute to it as well, if you want to create a successful organization (which will result in a successful product)
I agree with that. I got invited by a headhunter to one of those famous Google job interviews for a position in either the UK or Switzerland of all places. I wasn't really about to uproot my entire existence and move to another country (never mind learning how to drive on the wrong side of the road since Switzerland was not an option) but the opportunity of going through the world famous interviewing process of the Google genius recruitment team was too tempting to turn down. Needless to say I failed this interview which I take it is the first hurdle in Google's long and painful interview process. The reason I flopped was probably because of my poor attitude since I concluded about 3 minutes into the interview that even if I had been interested in moving to the UK when the interview started this interviewer was a wasting my and Google company time. The interview consisted of a teleconference where a Google employee quizzed me about various really technical issues with most of the interview revolving around the nitty gritty details of how command piping is implemented in different *nix versions. I have been asked by employers to solve all kinds of programmatic and system administration related problems in my two decades as a programmer but why on earth would I be an expert in the command/data piping mechanism in *nix type operating systems and why would I be a bad developer if I don't know that? Another typical task that I have been presented with at various times during interviews is solving some math puzzle to which I usually reply that I can knock you together a *nix daemon and client capable of network communications in about 5 minutes with a basic toolkit I developed years ago and keep on a USB stick on my keychain. Or perhaps you'd like me to put together a web service in C/C++? ... but please don't ask me to solve differential equations programmatically off the top of my head. That is not something I have ever been asked to do by an employer in 20 years of programming and it's something I'm not likely to ever be asked to do judging from the job advertisement I responded to.
The law may not be ready that quick and what happens with some thing goes wrong in driver less mode with no one in the car?
I don't know, but the lawyers already have dollar signs in their eyes and they are rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the law suits.
The aura that surrounds Vlad Putin will be focused by a series of unobtainium lenses and used to propel the cosmonauts to the moon where they will plant a Russian flag, set up a military base manned by space cossacks and claim the moon for mother Russia.
I totally agree. Would you give your kid your credit card, pat him on the head and then send him to the arcade? That's what this clueless putz did.
I used to administer a billing system for mobile phones back from the late 1990s into the early 2000s and even back then we used to get calls from irate parents with this exact problem. Back then it was mostly kids and teenagers racking up $1000 plus bills with SMS lottery games and occasionally even back then through excessive internet use while on vacation etc... Dealing with some of the complaints we got thought me three things. Firstly, you would be amazed at the size of the bills kids and can rack up on mobile devices if you put them on a subscription based service (I remember one in the region of $11000). We solved this problem by programming the billing system to cap spending at a low default value forcing people to turn up and explicitly have the spending roof lifted. Secondly, having seen a hard nosed manager insist on payment I can tell you that you are better off waiving these bills or refunding because the parent's second call is always going to be the local tabloid or TV station. For some reason some hard nosed managers seem to have to learn that lesson the hard way. Thirdly, nothing teaches a child or teenager fiscal responsibility quicker than giving them a budget and letting them figure out for them selves that they can't have everything and must prioritise and if they want more money they'll have to get a job mowing lawns or down at the supermarket stuffing plastic bags and collecting shopping carts. So in light of my experience I would suggest:
a) Never give my kid your own personal iPad/Android Tablet.
b) Buy a used iPad/Android Tablet for the kid to use they are not *THAT* expensive.
c) Give the kid an allowance and make him/her buy gift cards to finance their gaming and give him/her a prepaid subscription they have to fill from their allowance for their internet and telephone needs.
I had always read that Apple's OS-X operating system was secure and that its users didn't have to worry about viruses and security vulnerabilities.
. What happened? Did Apple mess up its development process?
People write all kinds of things about OS X much of which is not true and that bit about it having no vulnerabilities is at the top of the list of crap statements about OS X along with claims that OS X is closed source. Apple has in the past tried to score marketing points with the fact that there is less malware floating around for OS X which I thought was pretty stupid since they were pushing security through obscurity as a feature which is guaranteed to come back and bite you. As far as I know even Apple's marketing department has never been dumb enough to claim OS X is completely devoid of security vulnerabilities since this would be easy enough to disprove by means of Apple's own historic patch release notes. The only ones who persist in repeating this particular factoid are trolls and flame baiters. OS X is also not closed source, Aqua, the Finder and the rest of the GUI stuff layered on top of OS X are closed source. The OS X core system it self is open source and has been for years. It is also not forbidden to modify the code which is another misconception Linux enthusiasts keep sending my way in (usually) friendly Open Source vs Closed Source software debates as an example of why OS X sucks. I have downloaded OS X system software source code from the Apple source code repo and fixed bugs myself when I got tired of trying to get Apple to fix them.
Provided it's free and they don't distribute original content directly from the game (e.g if it extends the original content then they provide it as a patch or require you to have the original game to source the original content into a new engine or something)... how can this possibly infringe on copyright.
Because copyright isn't limited to commercial infringement (in the U.S. at least). And you can't use assets from someone else's game in your own without their permission.
Maybe, but coming down like a ton of bricks on a bunch of fans improving your old games in their spare time would be just about the dumbest thing these game manufacturers could do. Antagonising your own fan base generally is a pretty stupid thing to do. Then again while most of these companies thrive on open minded talented people they are usually run by pretty conservative money men and women and the knee jerk reaction of such people is usually to regard everything as a threat rather than to embrace new trends and go with the flow. Case in point, the music industry.
How could Apple's proprietary charger be the de facto standard when most devices sold don't use it?
Apple chargers have a USB-A socket on them that allows one to use them to charge practically any device. When I go on holiday I simply chuck a couple of iPad chargers into my bag and use them to charge my iPhone, iPad, Garmin Nav-aid, my Bluetooth headphones and a occasionally the Samsung phones of a couple of other family members. I don't really understand why Apple has to be the looser in this. If the Swiss universal charger will have a USB-C socket on it you could plug any cable into it you want including one with an Apple Lightning connector on the other end or another one with a Micro USB connector for your Android devices. The only thing I'd be worried about is some idiot legislating the use of a standard phone/tablet/laptop charger designed by a committee and therefore big as a brick. One of the things that originally caused me to buy Apple laptops was their relatively small and easy to stow laptop chargers.
My /dev/null has a hand rubbed walnut finish, a tube stage feeding a hand-wound transformer, polarized cables, Ukranian porcelain stand-offs, and anti-magnetic monopoles crafted from moon rocks to lower the noise floor. It's extremely danceable.
Huh, quaint... mine is made of solid Adamantium with superconducting Unobtainium coils.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks ...
Agree 100%. Ewoks is where I stopped watching.
And "Ewoks" is basically what Lucas added to the original to ruin it.
Not actual Ewoks but "Ewok" look and feel.
Barf.
Right, the first movie was great, the second one was OK, the third one was.... BAAAARRRRFFFF!!! The prequels that came later were kind of OK, not spectacular by any means and contained far too much slapstick. Star Wars was ruined when they turned the successful kind of cool "space western" into a giant commercial where the plot development was driven by the asinine marketing ideas of toy company executives. I kind of like the animated series better than the prequels and that is in no small measure due to the relative absence of the kind of asinine slapstick that ruined Return of the Jedi.
Lucas is that you? There is no one in the universe that thinks C-3PO was at all annoying in the original movies. Please stop. In fact the banter between him an R2D2 when they arrived on Tatooine was creative and funny. Again these are the original theatrical releases and not the prequels nor the modified crap that Lucas put out later.
Lucas? Lucas came up with this tripe, the script writers came up with something mildly plausible and Lucas turned it into toy selling crap. Why would he be ragging on C-3O? As for C-3PO, what about the cheesy British accent? The fact that such an advanced culture as the one in Star Wars cannot create better hydraulics than so that C-3PO looks like he's got two peglegs and a crowbars stuffed up his robot ass when he walks? The endless cheesy " my circuits " whining?? It just gets tiring after a while unless you play that game where you divide the group of spectators into two teams where one has to take a shot of Whiskey whenever somebody says "Millenium Falcon" and the other a shot of Vodka whenever C-3PO moans about something or says 'my circuits'. After about the fourth or fifth shot of vodka the "Great teddy-bear Luau of Endor" actually starts to become mildly watchable once you get to it.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks ... Everything else is a mere annoyance, even Jar Jar Binks.
If you think the Ewoks are worse than Jar Jar then you won't find many who will go along with that one.
I don't really care about Jar Jar Binks. He's a stupid comic relief character that went off the rails and he doesn't appear that often anyway. As annoying caracters go C-3PO annoys me way more than Jar Jar because C-3PO is just as cheesy but he has way more screen time than Jar Jar got (at least it feels that way to me but maybe that's because C-3PO annoys me more). Having said that, "Great teddy-bear Luau of Endor" basically ruined the second half of that movie when it could have been a cool jungle battle full of Wookies bashing storm trooper's heads in.
The original has been completely ruined by Lucas with all his remakes and extra scenes.
Cutesy extra creatures _everywhere_, Han shooting second, that barf-worthy fake scene with Jabba The Hut... it completely changes the feel. And it's awful.
Take all those out and it's still quite good.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks ... Everything else is a mere annoyance, even Jar Jar Binks.
The idea was to show that religions are ridiculous, not to join the ranks of the bullshit peddlers.
No, continue the bullshit, set up a regular church, get it legally acknowledged ... by all means press on. That way I can set up a chapter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and refund the church subsidies that we are forced to pay in my country through our taxes to all pastafarians that sign up.
...a list of the countries that have signed it.
... because their leaders needed some good press. The parliaments of some of these countries will refuse to ratify it once the lobbyists have done their work, the list of such countries being led by the USA. The rest like China and Russia will simply falsify their emission data.
This is just another worthless piece of paper.
Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force?
Entropy? If there are other universes some of them may have a different set of physical laws due to their big bangs or their aftermath playing out in a subtly different way than in the case of our universe. If some of these other universes have strong gravitational forces they will presumably pass into something resembling the upcoming black hole era of our own universe before developing any intelligent life so let's just be happy our universe has weak gravity.
blah blah blah, you'd put over half the U.S. population into poverty since they wouldn't be able to buy things to meet their basic needs, as they are made in China. You point of view is not actionable, it is stupid
Perhaps the richest 1% of the US population could provide the half that lives under the poverty limit with bread and games? That worked out pretty well for the Rom.... oh... never mind....
The liberals just raised taxes again on his corporation North Pole Inc. and forced him to provide Obamacare for his elves. They also sued him for giving coal to bad children, saying it that every child should be a winner and it was unfair to black kids who grew up in worse situations than whites, so therefore Santa's policy was racial discrimination. The fine was $400,000,000.
He is no longer able to make a profit and therefore had to declare bankruptcy. Sorry kids. ;(
Vote for Trump in 2016 if you want Santa to come back. Make America great again!
What? I thought that Santa Claus is Canadian, based on his legitimate Canadian mailing address:
Santa used to be Canadian but that guy quit after Bill O'Reilly attacked him at Macy's and beat him into a pulp for wishing Bill 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas': http://dailycurrant.com/2012/1...
Flying with incompetent pilots, the cabin may automatically detach, open a bunch of parachutes and land smoothly somewhere. Makes sense.
Yeah, while overflying the Donbas.