Maybe it's a battle to the death for marketshare. All of the sites are in it to make money, and all competing for somewhat, if not totally, similar audiences. It's no different from the way that "real" news stories echo across the TV channels in a matter of minutes.
Well, you are correct about Disney, but some US states, and assorted countries around the world disagree with you about Microsoft.
You say that no-one is forcing you to buy microsoft's DRM technology, nor presumably their browser technology, or media technology, or office technology.
To a certain extent you are quite correct, However because of their monopoly position in one market (achieved through technical excellence, being good at business, or sheer luck, it doesn't matter), they are able to leverage their position to control other markets. Most people, through their representative governments, think this is a bad idea, since it undermines the free market, and stifles innovation, and cost reduction, which are held to be the basis of our prosperity.
The solutions are usually to break up the company, which Microsoft has avoided so far, to fine the company, or to recognise the monopoly, and place certain obligations above and beyond those of normal businesses on those who hold monopolies.
Governments have a monopoly on tax collection, and law enforcement. That is why they also have many legislated obligations related to those areas.
They've caught flak from owners of the Godzilla over the *zilla names... I think Mozilla itself is the only zilla name allowed, anything else is grounds for chopped, ground, litiginous manmeat.
Ahhh, so what they should do is change their name!
It didn't display any scrollbars on any pages when I installed it, and it picked up the seamonkey theme from my previous firebird install. Once that theme was uninstalled, it worked fine though.
Hopefully I can re-install it again though, since the default theme is not nice. Unfortunately the themes site seems to be down.
Actually, almost every household equipment in Japan is sold with the tag "minus ion". [mai-nas ee-on] I had never heard of minus ions doing anything interesting as regards your house, until I got here. Seems that they are supposed to be good for your health (as everyone except me obviously knows).
Pygmies average 4 feet; Dinka average 7 feet. That shows how radically different people can evolve in the same gravity, which shows that gravity isn't all that important compared to other environmental factors.
Sorry, but you can't draw any conclusion from that fact about gravity's influence, certainly not that "gravity isn't all that important compared to other environmental factors". For the entire of humanity gravity is effectively constant. The only thing you can conclude is that other environmental factors certainly have a difference.
That's why they do these experiments, because up to recently humans have never experienced any variation in their gravitational environment, and so we have no idea how we would react.
Since both languages are Gaelic variants, it doesn't make much difference. Mc is just a shortened version of Mac which means son in Gaelic, and there are plenty of both Irish and Scottish surnames that include it.
O' means grandson, (or somehow male descendant of), and is very common in Irish surnames. I am not sure if it's used in any Scottish ones at all. Certainly it's not common in them at all. Hence your (quite common) belief.
Now, if the vendors can't break even, why doesn't a record company (or, say, the RIAA itself) buy an 'unprofitable' online vendor and continue merrily selling songs - sure, the service itself costs money to run, but 100% of the money goes to the label. Is doing this stuff so expensive that it actually costs them more than $1 to let you download a song?
Why would they bother right now? I agree that that's probably what will happen in the future, but right now, people are jumping at the chance to buy the RIAA "product" at the wholesale price the record companies have set, and then to operate a distribution channel at a loss. I'm sure all the RIAA members think Apple & Napster II, etc... are wonderful crazy guys.
Actually crime in Japan has been increasing rapidly (though obviously still low relative to the US), and there have been any number of horific crimes committed by "children" in the last few years.
Well, yes, but the vast majority of people are still on the regular GSM/GPRS/whatever and without videoconferencing phones. It doesn't matter if X% of the people have them, when X% is still small, since most of the people you know won't be included in that X%.
That said, it won't be more than a year or two for those phones to become ubiquitous.
They already exist. Usually where 3G services are available. The problems at the moment being that there is nobody to call, as not so many people have such handsets. The problems in the future are that videoconferences are stupid anyway, except for seeing your family abroad or some such.
Actually, you'd be surprised at the number of huge SUVs you see as you walk around Tokyo. Of course there are plenty of tiny Japanese cars too, but SUVs are by no means rare.
a) Unqualified: why are you wasting your time? If I ask for C++ experience, your VB skills are probably not going to help debug the memory leaks you create.
It's not the job of a candidate looking for a job to rule themselves as unqualified for any position that they hope to get. That's your job if you are the hiring manager.
A candidate's job is to present their skills in the most positive light possible, and to paper over any differences between the job requirements and thier skills as much as possible. In effect they are trying to make your job difficult, to prevent you from hiring the 100% compatable candidate in favour of the 75% candidate that they are.
Having multiple programs will produce massive redundancy. It would cost everyone much less and accompish far more if they worked together.
While I'm sure that there will be quite a lot of redundancy in the competing programs, I have to say multiple space programs will also produce multiple different solutions to the same problem. This will lead to innovation, and efficiency as inefficient solutions fall by the wayside. If you are all focusing on one single solution then chances are that it will be missing many great ideas. Competition is good.
The dynamics of a two-person crew are harder to manage than those of the three-person crew.
I have no idea whether you are correct or not (but I'm going to comment anyway).
Anyway, I just thought it was odd that you state a 3 person team has easier to manage dynamics than a 2 person team. In any courses on team building that I have done the instructors have always said that 3 is the absolute worst number to have because in a dispute there is a likelyhood that one person will always feel that they are being picked on or being ganged up on just because that's the way the numbers divide up when you have 3 people. If it happens more than once then the individual can feel very isolated very quickly and you can have a potentially explosive situation.
At least with only 2 people there is no chance of one person feeling that "everyone" is out to get them, and they are more likely to somply feel that the other one is just being a jerk.
"It's all about what a friend of mine calls 'the mark of cred,'" says Accardi, a Portland State grad who works as a Linux developer at Intel. "You either have it, or you don't."
I think I probably don't have it, and I'm thinking that's a good thing too.
Or maybe Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds will turn out to have been switched at birth, and will have to swap places, because it's discovered that the wrong one has "The Mark of Cred" (dun dun DUUUNNNNN!)
Well, if you were one of the "we" that had really invented the technology, then you wouldn't be worried about your career. At best you probably created some neat stuff that did some neat stuff, but that was hardly revolutionary, and mostly built on top of other peoples work. Let's face it, it's what most people in technology do.
The reality is that, like most people you just chose a field that you were interested in, and seemed like a good career to pursue. For various reasons, cheaper labour, no cost software, economic downturn, it now looks like you were wrong (me too!). Maybe in a few years things will look different, maybe they won't.
Best of luck with the new career. It's not easy to get started in a new area. Hopefully the challenge will be one that excites you.
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Maybe it's a battle to the death for marketshare. All of the sites are in it to make money, and all competing for somewhat, if not totally, similar audiences. It's no different from the way that "real" news stories echo across the TV channels in a matter of minutes.
Well, you are correct about Disney, but some US states, and assorted countries around the world disagree with you about Microsoft.
You say that no-one is forcing you to buy microsoft's DRM technology, nor presumably their browser technology, or media technology, or office technology.
To a certain extent you are quite correct, However because of their monopoly position in one market (achieved through technical excellence, being good at business, or sheer luck, it doesn't matter), they are able to leverage their position to control other markets. Most people, through their representative governments, think this is a bad idea, since it undermines the free market, and stifles innovation, and cost reduction, which are held to be the basis of our prosperity.
The solutions are usually to break up the company, which Microsoft has avoided so far, to fine the company, or to recognise the monopoly, and place certain obligations above and beyond those of normal businesses on those who hold monopolies.
Governments have a monopoly on tax collection, and law enforcement. That is why they also have many legislated obligations related to those areas.
Hey, c'mon you've got to be at least 3 meta levels above that if you want to be taken seriously by the w3!
It didn't display any scrollbars on any pages when I installed it, and it picked up the seamonkey theme from my previous firebird install. Once that theme was uninstalled, it worked fine though.
Hopefully I can re-install it again though, since the default theme is not nice. Unfortunately the themes site seems to be down.
How about Browzilla?
They'll hear you!
Actually, almost every household equipment in Japan is sold with the tag "minus ion". [mai-nas ee-on] I had never heard of minus ions doing anything interesting as regards your house, until I got here. Seems that they are supposed to be good for your health (as everyone except me obviously knows).
That's why they do these experiments, because up to recently humans have never experienced any variation in their gravitational environment, and so we have no idea how we would react.
As long as they shoot that fucking yellow dog.
Since both languages are Gaelic variants, it doesn't make much difference. Mc is just a shortened version of Mac which means son in Gaelic, and there are plenty of both Irish and Scottish surnames that include it.
O' means grandson, (or somehow male descendant of), and is very common in Irish surnames. I am not sure if it's used in any Scottish ones at all. Certainly it's not common in them at all. Hence your (quite common) belief.
Ni/Ui are the female equivalents of Mac/O'
Actually crime in Japan has been increasing rapidly (though obviously still low relative to the US), and there have been any number of horific crimes committed by "children" in the last few years.
Grandson is O'
Well, yes, but the vast majority of people are still on the regular GSM/GPRS/whatever and without videoconferencing phones. It doesn't matter if X% of the people have them, when X% is still small, since most of the people you know won't be included in that X%.
;-)
That said, it won't be more than a year or two for those phones to become ubiquitous.
Videoconferencing will still suck though
They already exist. Usually where 3G services are available. The problems at the moment being that there is nobody to call, as not so many people have such handsets. The problems in the future are that videoconferences are stupid anyway, except for seeing your family abroad or some such.
Actually, you'd be surprised at the number of huge SUVs you see as you walk around Tokyo. Of course there are plenty of tiny Japanese cars too, but SUVs are by no means rare.
A candidate's job is to present their skills in the most positive light possible, and to paper over any differences between the job requirements and thier skills as much as possible. In effect they are trying to make your job difficult, to prevent you from hiring the 100% compatable candidate in favour of the 75% candidate that they are.
I hope that clarified it for you.
Or maybe Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds will turn out to have been switched at birth, and will have to swap places, because it's discovered that the wrong one has "The Mark of Cred" (dun dun DUUUNNNNN!)
I've got people skills, God damn you! Why can't you understand that? ;-)
Well, if you were one of the "we" that had really invented the technology, then you wouldn't be worried about your career. At best you probably created some neat stuff that did some neat stuff, but that was hardly revolutionary, and mostly built on top of other peoples work. Let's face it, it's what most people in technology do.
The reality is that, like most people you just chose a field that you were interested in, and seemed like a good career to pursue. For various reasons, cheaper labour, no cost software, economic downturn, it now looks like you were wrong (me too!). Maybe in a few years things will look different, maybe they won't.
Best of luck with the new career. It's not easy to get started in a new area. Hopefully the challenge will be one that excites you.