Someone needs to choose the meritorious. And if it's not the market (voting with one's money is far more accurate measure of merit than one-man-one-vote), it falls to a nameless administrator to make that determination.
"Voting with one's money" gets you blockbusters like "Tickle Me Elmo" and Britney Spears. Those doing the voting are imbeciles, so iWhatevers go to the top of the heap, while true brilliance (dmr) is happy to produce miracles quietly in the background.
Capitalism isn't a just always freaking works better panacea. Depending on who uses it, it's just as likely to produce a cocked up result as all of the others.
The word "meritocracy" is a smokescreen; it's hiding who determines merit. It ends up being what is today being called "technocracy", government by "technicians", self-proclaimed experts in the profession of government.
Not true. As I said the other day wrt AMD dumping their PR and Marketing people, performance and reputation are what count. Both are easily quantified, even by the masses. Does it work? Do you trust them? Can it reliably be expected to remain so?
I think I smell an action flick here. Maybe we can send Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood on a suicide mission (please!) to nuke the iceberg before it makes landfall.
Of course, they would have to battle laser equipped sharks and a stultifying bureaucracy....
... and "terrist" Guaa'ulds who'd secretly loaded the berg with Naquadria and were driving it up the Potomac toward the Pentagon! Wanna try to get a Kickstarter project going?
[Obligatory Grammar Nazi contribution: is that an elipsis followed by a period?]
Why are you asking why he thinks that? He already told you quite explicitly. "a block of ice breaking away from a bigger block of ice kinda makes me think there's melting, thus warming, involved"
Not everyone is an expert / knows about how these processes work. It is a bit rude to assume that everyone knows what you know. Don't look down on people for not sharing your interests.
Why the hell is this modded -1? All s/he's doing is stating facts, and a damn sight better than many others do.
If you can't moderate sensibly, then please don't even try.
And I'm not interested in the whole 'but p2p isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement'. WE KNOW. It's still pilfering someone's hard work for free. If you don't intend on paying for it, don't use it. It's quite simple.
But we've got a generation who expect something for nothing nowadays....
Bring on the DRM I say.
Excellent one dimensional thinking, citizen!
I love watching this game. It's funny as hell seeing the IP crowd spin their wheels so fast that they dig themselves into a hole they'll never climb out of. The sooner they go out of business, the sooner the rest of us will get some peace and quiet, and can get on with our lives without all that annoying screeching in the background.
When my friend in some other part of the world buys a DVD to send to me for a present, and that DVD won't play in my equipment, they've just encouraged me to go out of my way to find a fix for their DRM, and I have.
Go right ahead and buy all the politicians you want, write all the stupid laws you want, waste your shareholders' dividends on all the toothless enforcement you please. None of it will make me play this game by your rules.
I advocate boycotting the *AAs, but DRM affects me anyway. The *AAs' sense of entitlement has forced me to find ways to get around their breakage, and I vehemently resent their interference.
... I really doubt marketing when you are selling out of chips already is REALLY needed that much, do you?
I'll be watching to see if this has any effect on their sales. If this keeps up, then performance and reputation is what sells (as I've always suspected), not pissing money into the wind on advertising and PR.
I thought they are all some kind of CIA shadow companies, and now we have the proof.
Why's this modded "Troll"? AT&T's been proved to leap onto its back and spread its legs for the NSA. This's no different. What surprise is there in knowing what DHS can do to Google whenever they want, regardless of what Sergei Brin might want.
"Do no evil", sure, but then the Feds show up with "a request."
If this "laser" tears the universe a texas size space-hole, nothing of value will be lost. Where in europe can you remove a texas size chunk and say the same?
Well, aside from the innocent non-combattants, London, Paris, and Moscow (for starts).
Ah, I guess those places must be waaaay larger on the inside than on the outside...
I was thinking in terms of population numbers, not physical area. Thanks for playing.
It would be naive to think the employers are gullible.
I beg to differ. Once you've been around the block a few times, you begin to notice that even "vicious multi-nationals" think about as deeply as kindergartners. Cf. "spear-phishing."
I wish it weren't so, but that gets me nowhere special.
If this "laser" tears the universe a texas size space-hole, nothing of value will be lost. Where in europe can you remove a texas size chunk and say the same?
Well, aside from the innocent non-combattants, London, Paris, and Moscow (for starts).
I haven't coded a linked list in C in 10 years either, but I could still do it in my sleep. Sounds like you know less than you think you do.
Nasty, and lacking in reading comprehension.
He didn't say he couldn't write the code, he said that he made the dumbass move of questioning the relevance of an interview question and blew the interview.
Didn't some one up --^ there just definitively prove mandelbr0t's an ass and a poser? He sure reads like he's just full of himself.
If the resume says C and embedded then I sort of expect some minimal knowledge of how to program in C.
I once went into an interview where I was the twentieth interviewee (sp?). They sat me down at a computer and pointed at a filename, asking what I'd do with it. It was a tarball. Twenty people prior to me with "Unix Development experience" on their resume failed that question.
Resumes lie all the time. One might even say habitually.
In my experience, the people that can't tell any good stories about work they've done haven't done anything worth mentioning. This translates to him being less impressive than a person who has a good story to tell about some good work that he did.
That doesn't sound very objective. Perhaps they're simply inarticulate. Geeks are known (stereotypically) for their lack of social skills. Pontificating on their brilliant high points may not be what they're best at. When you've gone through life watching people's eyes roll up into their head when you're talking to them, you may learn to feel some reticence to tell any more stories.
Perhaps you're not really looking for technical brilliance. You (perhaps) prize social skills above technical skills. Which is alright, but be honest with yourself (and us:-).
R. P. Feynman rubbed a lot of his peers the wrong way at Los Alamos. Lots of people let personality get in the way of better judgment.
Me, I prefer to cut eccentrics a lot of slack. Just imagine for yourself dealing with what's inside his head.
There's an element of truth to this statement, a friend of mine went through the interview process with Google in Sydney and around the third interview the word somehow got around that Google were maybe interested in her. Ninemsn rang her, gave two rushed interviews and hired.
"Ninemsn"? Whatever.
So, if I "share an update" on my LinkedIn page that Google may be interested in me, gullible potential employers will be flocking to my door offering interviews? Cool! What's Google gonna do, deny it? They'll never even hear about it.
I'll name this phenomenon "The Ninemsn Effect." This could revolutionize recruiting/headhunting.
"enterprise" drives are no less failure-prone than their Best Buy Brethren.
BestBuy does it too. They want to charge me ca. C$120.00 for a replacement battery which they'll order from HP. I can find the same thing on line for less than C$35.00 incl. shipping. I suspect they'd prefer I just buy a new box.
They should know that two year old batteries would be dieing about now. Why don't they have replacements in stock, at a reasonable/competitive price?
I'm waiting to see what that $80.00 extended warranty's worth. If they can fix that POS Pavilion of mine, or replace it with equivalent working tech, I'll be happy and buy from them again. Burn me on the EW, and they'll never see another penny.
The plants we were working with also had radically different cleanliness standards - they are all run by independent companies, with different rules and traditions. One plant was so clean that the whole radon-in-houses problem was identified when a worker set off the radiation detectors going IN to the plant.... Others, based on what we heard, were more like that guy down the street with the cars in his yard.
Interesting. Yet all of those plants were regulated by the NRC, correct? Proof that regulatory agencies aren't the solution. So, what is? Shareholder oversight? Or, can private enterprise not always be trusted to do nuclear adequately?
How the hell do the bone-yard plants manage to attract investors when there's others out there that make hospital operating rooms look like sewers? I want the former to be discovered and to quickly go out of business. What's missing here? Something's short-circuiting the invisible hand.
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Someone needs to choose the meritorious. And if it's not the market (voting with one's money is far more accurate measure of merit than one-man-one-vote), it falls to a nameless administrator to make that determination.
"Voting with one's money" gets you blockbusters like "Tickle Me Elmo" and Britney Spears. Those doing the voting are imbeciles, so iWhatevers go to the top of the heap, while true brilliance (dmr) is happy to produce miracles quietly in the background.
Capitalism isn't a just always freaking works better panacea. Depending on who uses it, it's just as likely to produce a cocked up result as all of the others.
[Disclaimer: I'm a libertarian.]
The word "meritocracy" is a smokescreen; it's hiding who determines merit. It ends up being what is today being called "technocracy", government by "technicians", self-proclaimed experts in the profession of government.
Not true. As I said the other day wrt AMD dumping their PR and Marketing people, performance and reputation are what count. Both are easily quantified, even by the masses. Does it work? Do you trust them? Can it reliably be expected to remain so?
Direct democracy in action.
I think I smell an action flick here. Maybe we can send Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood on a suicide mission (please!) to nuke the iceberg before it makes landfall.
Of course, they would have to battle laser equipped sharks and a stultifying bureaucracy....
... and "terrist" Guaa'ulds who'd secretly loaded the berg with Naquadria and were driving it up the Potomac toward the Pentagon! Wanna try to get a Kickstarter project going?
[Obligatory Grammar Nazi contribution: is that an elipsis followed by a period?]
Why are you asking why he thinks that? He already told you quite explicitly. "a block of ice breaking away from a bigger block of ice kinda makes me think there's melting, thus warming, involved"
Not everyone is an expert / knows about how these processes work. It is a bit rude to assume that everyone knows what you know. Don't look down on people for not sharing your interests.
Why the hell is this modded -1? All s/he's doing is stating facts, and a damn sight better than many others do.
If you can't moderate sensibly, then please don't even try.
Yep, freetards gotta have their freebees.
And I'm not interested in the whole 'but p2p isn't stealing, it's copyright infringement'. WE KNOW. It's still pilfering someone's hard work for free. If you don't intend on paying for it, don't use it. It's quite simple.
But we've got a generation who expect something for nothing nowadays....
Bring on the DRM I say.
Excellent one dimensional thinking, citizen!
I love watching this game. It's funny as hell seeing the IP crowd spin their wheels so fast that they dig themselves into a hole they'll never climb out of. The sooner they go out of business, the sooner the rest of us will get some peace and quiet, and can get on with our lives without all that annoying screeching in the background.
When my friend in some other part of the world buys a DVD to send to me for a present, and that DVD won't play in my equipment, they've just encouraged me to go out of my way to find a fix for their DRM, and I have.
Go right ahead and buy all the politicians you want, write all the stupid laws you want, waste your shareholders' dividends on all the toothless enforcement you please. None of it will make me play this game by your rules.
I advocate boycotting the *AAs, but DRM affects me anyway. The *AAs' sense of entitlement has forced me to find ways to get around their breakage, and I vehemently resent their interference.
You underestimate the power of spite.
... I really doubt marketing when you are selling out of chips already is REALLY needed that much, do you?
I'll be watching to see if this has any effect on their sales. If this keeps up, then performance and reputation is what sells (as I've always suspected), not pissing money into the wind on advertising and PR.
So, it's like a direct deposit, but printed out on a piece of paper? Sounds very cumbersome and archaic.
No, it's more like that "Monopoly" money your gov't prints, but even less "official."
I thought they are all some kind of CIA shadow companies, and now we have the proof.
Why's this modded "Troll"? AT&T's been proved to leap onto its back and spread its legs for the NSA. This's no different. What surprise is there in knowing what DHS can do to Google whenever they want, regardless of what Sergei Brin might want.
"Do no evil", sure, but then the Feds show up with "a request."
If this "laser" tears the universe a texas size space-hole, nothing of value will be lost. Where in europe can you remove a texas size chunk and say the same?
Well, aside from the innocent non-combattants, London, Paris, and Moscow (for starts).
Ah, I guess those places must be waaaay larger on the inside than on the outside...
I was thinking in terms of population numbers, not physical area. Thanks for playing.
It would be naive to think the employers are gullible.
I beg to differ. Once you've been around the block a few times, you begin to notice that even "vicious multi-nationals" think about as deeply as kindergartners. Cf. "spear-phishing."
I wish it weren't so, but that gets me nowhere special.
The western world saw this and realised it would obliterate their fiat currencies so they said they would stop him with force if neccesary.
Wow. "Holy Conspiracy theory, Batman!"
Not sayin' you're wrong. Just, "Wow!"
If this "laser" tears the universe a texas size space-hole, nothing of value will be lost. Where in europe can you remove a texas size chunk and say the same?
Well, aside from the innocent non-combattants, London, Paris, and Moscow (for starts).
you are a dick
Yes I am. So what?
So stop being a dick? Grow, be more than you are, add value, ...
I haven't coded a linked list in C in 10 years either, but I could still do it in my sleep. Sounds like you know less than you think you do.
Nasty, and lacking in reading comprehension.
He didn't say he couldn't write the code, he said that he made the dumbass move of questioning the relevance of an interview question and blew the interview.
Didn't some one up --^ there just definitively prove mandelbr0t's an ass and a poser? He sure reads like he's just full of himself.
If the resume says C and embedded then I sort of expect some minimal knowledge of how to program in C.
I once went into an interview where I was the twentieth interviewee (sp?). They sat me down at a computer and pointed at a filename, asking what I'd do with it. It was a tarball. Twenty people prior to me with "Unix Development experience" on their resume failed that question.
Resumes lie all the time. One might even say habitually.
tell me why you think I should hire you
This is arguably the best interview question of all time.
Agreed! Double plus points if he follows up with, "Why would you not want to work for me?"
That's an employer who cares about you as a person, AND wants to improve.
In my experience, the people that can't tell any good stories about work they've done haven't done anything worth mentioning. This translates to him being less impressive than a person who has a good story to tell about some good work that he did.
That doesn't sound very objective. Perhaps they're simply inarticulate. Geeks are known (stereotypically) for their lack of social skills. Pontificating on their brilliant high points may not be what they're best at. When you've gone through life watching people's eyes roll up into their head when you're talking to them, you may learn to feel some reticence to tell any more stories.
Perhaps you're not really looking for technical brilliance. You (perhaps) prize social skills above technical skills. Which is alright, but be honest with yourself (and us :-).
R. P. Feynman rubbed a lot of his peers the wrong way at Los Alamos. Lots of people let personality get in the way of better judgment.
Me, I prefer to cut eccentrics a lot of slack. Just imagine for yourself dealing with what's inside his head.
I don't want to be forced to change my way of working whenever their GMail's interface changes.
There's a fairly simple and blindingly obvious solution to that conundrum.
filled with EXCEPTIONALLY clever people
AKA highly educated idiots...
Usually stated as, "OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything."
There's an element of truth to this statement, a friend of mine went through the interview process with Google in Sydney and around the third interview the word somehow got around that Google were maybe interested in her. Ninemsn rang her, gave two rushed interviews and hired.
"Ninemsn"? Whatever.
So, if I "share an update" on my LinkedIn page that Google may be interested in me, gullible potential employers will be flocking to my door offering interviews? Cool! What's Google gonna do, deny it? They'll never even hear about it.
I'll name this phenomenon "The Ninemsn Effect." This could revolutionize recruiting/headhunting.
Wow! What an amazing comeback. I'm going to cry for days now.
Judging from your response, you seem to be the type to cry for days over a snarky forum post.
Whereas, you appear unable to detect sarcasm when you see it. I'd say you two are even.
Or you just pay $240 (3 drives * $80/drive) to keep extra drives on hand while they go through the replacement cycle.
Don't get all logical on me now!
"Mathemagical, Lisa. Mathemagical."
Sun used the same excuses to vastly overcharge on components.
Not fair. Sun hardware was robust. It may not have been bleeding edge fast and all that, but those suckers will run forever.
"enterprise" drives are no less failure-prone than their Best Buy Brethren.
BestBuy does it too. They want to charge me ca. C$120.00 for a replacement battery which they'll order from HP. I can find the same thing on line for less than C$35.00 incl. shipping. I suspect they'd prefer I just buy a new box.
They should know that two year old batteries would be dieing about now. Why don't they have replacements in stock, at a reasonable/competitive price?
I'm waiting to see what that $80.00 extended warranty's worth. If they can fix that POS Pavilion of mine, or replace it with equivalent working tech, I'll be happy and buy from them again. Burn me on the EW, and they'll never see another penny.
The plants we were working with also had radically different cleanliness standards - they are all run by independent companies, with different rules and traditions. One plant was so clean that the whole radon-in-houses problem was identified when a worker set off the radiation detectors going IN to the plant. ... Others, based on what we heard, were more like that guy down the street with the cars in his yard.
Interesting. Yet all of those plants were regulated by the NRC, correct? Proof that regulatory agencies aren't the solution. So, what is? Shareholder oversight? Or, can private enterprise not always be trusted to do nuclear adequately?
How the hell do the bone-yard plants manage to attract investors when there's others out there that make hospital operating rooms look like sewers? I want the former to be discovered and to quickly go out of business. What's missing here? Something's short-circuiting the invisible hand.