Not only this but we need university courses that actually teach, rather than certifying people for the workforce.
In my experience, science departments also seemed aimed primarily at certifying people for academics -- hence "weeder" classes designed to flush out people whom they don't think will do well on tests in the later courses. I actually had one chem teacher warn me not to try to retake the class if I got a bad grade. He said most people who retake the course end up getting the same grade, because it was designed so that most students couldn't retain all the information. Some education.
All the high tech drones... doesn't mean much if your soldiers starve or run out of water.
No, I'm pretty sure the drones still mean something, especially if you can launch them from a ship offshore and pilot them from an Air Force base in Colorado.
And Facebook isn't using the same PHP the OP will be using, either. Facebook developed its own compilers and other tools that allow its applications to scale in ways that stock PHP applications cannot.
You're talking at cross purposes here. Obviously the front-end UI of any modern Web application is going to be written using a lot of JavaScript. Java, Python, and PHP -- and many other languages -- are primarily for the back-end code. Gmail is certainly not accessing its database or implementing IMAP and SMTP in JavaScript.
Out of the millions of SSIDs in the US alone, TFA writer could only confer with 400 of them for a sample and make some half ass meaningful attempt at analysis? That's hardly anything worth blogging about.
Actually, the study was based on a database of 75 million geolocated access points, as compiled by OpenSignalMaps. You might like to read the original study report to get a better idea of what's going on here.
The actual disappointing thing is that, out of 75 million access points, they only found about 1,200 hits for "obama" -- which doesn't seem to have any real statistical significance at all. Furthermore, there were only 6 hits for "romney" -- probably because a lot of these access points were polled over the last several years, and that name had little relevance until fairly recently.
Other than that, these people noticed access points with funny names (as many people on this thread have noted) and decided to try to do some research. Nothing to get worked up about.
But the name on the deed is the conglomerate. Want to buy my property? Join the conglomerate, pay me $300 million, do whatever you want with the property, and enjoy the same property taxes we've had since the conglomerate was formed in 1988.
In "small" crimes, both the victim and the bad guy are better off without guns.
Here in California, possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony (serious) offense counts as "special circumstances," and will likely cause you to receive a greater penalty when sentenced. You don't have to even fire it; just having it on you during the robbery would be enough.
I guess that's why, when my corner store was robbed a couple of years ago, they stabbed the clerk.
I followed a bunch of the links on Sanger's site just to see what he's talking about. Having a dozen or so videos of male ejaculation seems excessive. But a lot of the rest of it is 19th century French engravings, naughty postcards, and the like. Is that stuff appropriate for Wikipedia, even out of historical interest? I don't think that's for an automated filter to decide. Given that most home Internet connections don't have comprehensive content filters installed, I also think "the children" are about four clicks away from far raunchier material than that.
Having to call microsoft to get a new code is a pain.
No it isn't. You just think the idea of it is. If you'd actually had to do it, you'd see that in 90 percent of all cases, it's really pretty painless. I had to call to reactivate once when fixing up my mom's computer, and the whole process took about 3 minutes... and that was on Thanksgiving Day. Running the antivirus scan took longer.
I would be cartoon knee-knocking scared if I ever "invented" and popular and revolutionary product. It's basically like a zombie movie with these patent suits. They wait for success and then pop out of the ground in hoards.
Well, just having an idea will get you nowhere. To make any money off it, you have to either have the wherewithal to manufacture it yourself, or convince someone else to.
If you really want to go it alone, unfortunately, I think what I'd look into is to sign on with a patent troll company, like Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures. Seriously. Instead of getting sued, maybe you sell a piece of your patent to them. Then you can try to make a business out of it, and if you run into problems, you've got their massive patent-troll portfolio behind you, to stave off the lawsuits.
Not that Apple, et. al., are innocent by any means, but WTF has Technicolor contributed to humanity in the past twenty years??
The thing is, they could have. I remember reading an article about Kodak vs. Fuji and how, while Kodak was busy trying to figure out how to make disposable digital cameras, Fuji was inventing new kinds of films that enhanced the picture on LCD screens. So when the whole LCD TV thing exploded, there were Fuji products -- emphasis to show that it wasn't just patents -- inside every one.
Technicolor is still a viable brand. I remember it. Why aren't they in on that game? Why aren't there Technicolor-branded TV screens? So what if whatever makes a Technicolor TV "Technicolor" has nothing to do with the original Technicolor film process? It's a worthwhile brand, and if Technicolor had been smart and come up with a little TV technology, it might have licensed its name to every TV manufacturer in Asia.
The only reason circumcision continues is because of Jewish influence. It is possible for groups to live up to their negative stereotypes
No doubt all those Muslims who practice circumcision are taking their cues from the Jews. Same with the American Protestants and Catholics. And the Africans, Koreans, Thais, etc. But as for some people living up to stereotypes -- I can see you're right about that.
Prop 13 is why people who bought their homes when they were $75K (or less) can still afford to live in them now that they're worth $1M+(or much more) and they're living on retirement. I'm a big fan of rolling back prop 13 protection for businesses, which I think SHOULD need to keep up economically with their neighbors.
This is indeed the biggest problem with Prop 13. Nobody wants to evict grandma. But the law is so badly written that it has allowed some corporations (which don't have to worry about dying) to use shell games to conceal their continued ownership of a property even after they sell it, allowing them to reap the profits while keeping property taxes low for the new buyer. (How do you track down the ownership of a property when it's owned by some kind of huge conglomerate or partnership?) Cases that smell suspiciously like out-and-out fraud to you or I will go unprosecuted because the law seems to permit them. But if any politician ever raises the possibility of reforming Prop 13, those same corporations will put out ads claiming that it's all about evicting grandma. We seem to be stuck with it.
Eh? Prop 13 is an example of direct democracy gone right. All of the financial issues this state is having are due to a combination of corrupt officials and mismanaged/badly allocated funds. If the spending problem was actually under control, people would be a lot more receptive to new taxes.
As I said:
A.) Prop 13 has always been contentious, and some believe it did good, while I think the majority thinks it has done a lot of harm.
B.) Part of the spending problem is due to the direct democracy process, where year after year, new propositions create new expenditures without finding the new revenue sources to fund them. Usually there's some kind of bond measure attached to fund them, but that's just borrowing, and it doesn't always work out. You seem to think the source of the spending problem is corrupt officials. Too often, it's because bad laws were put into effect because "the people willed it" -- even though "the people" don't actually have any experience governing, nor did they actually write the law they voted for. (Many probably didn't even read the ballot info all the way through.)
We'd all be better-off to avoid government paper and store our wealth in something that can not be devalued through inlfating the supply. Namely: Land. Gold. Silver.
How's that work, though? How does anyone create wealth when the supply of currency is finite?
Let's suppose there are 1,000 people on an island and each one of them lives on a parcel of land and has a gold piece. Perfect socialism! Then two of them get together and have a baby boy. Where does his gold piece come from? Where will he live when he grows up?
As a consultant who works on projects for govt, I hate Office 2007 and it's "collaboration" features which are pretty much non-existant.
You mean your clients haven't paid for the collaboration capabilities. With the right version of the suite, it offers both Groove-based collaboration and collaboration via SharePoint Server. In fact, all Office 365 really offers in this department is a hosted instance of SharePoint, but you still have to set it up how you want it. Funny thing about electronic collaboration tools, though -- if nobody else is going to use them, then there's no point in you using them, either.
I'm just waiting for Office 2011, which I THINK they're rolling out on the new Win 7 machines.
Office 2011 is a Mac version. You mean either Office 2010 or the version that will be coming Any Day Now.
My state has a separate school tax. Couldn't California politicians enact a similar tax in order to avoid the Prop13 property tax restriction?
They kind of did that, only it was with another direct-democracy measure, Proposition 98, which mandates that a certain amount of the state budget be spent on education. The downside of that is that, once again, it ties the representatives' hands a little more when it comes to allocating the budget. Instead of taking personal responsibility for the budget, all the representatives can do is follow the rules. "Not my fault!" It's all a big mess.
California has been running an ongoing experiment with direct democracy for many years, and here IMHO it's mostly been an abysmal failure.
What happens is that all kinds of budget earmarks get put on the ballot. Well-meaning voters think, "Well gosh, of course we should have funding for after school sports programs!" Next thing you know, there's a law on the books that earmarks X percent of the school budget for after-school sports programs -- whether or not the students have textbooks.
Or just as often, the bills are put on the ballots by special interests with hidden agendas. Here in San Francisco, a group operating out of San Diego -- some 450 miles away, in Southern California -- seemed close to getting a bill on the local city ballot that would have banned the practice of male circumcision in the City. You can debate whether circumcision is "torture" all you want (for both my father and I it was a medical necessity, due to a congenital defect). But the bill's supporters' real agenda became painfully apparent when they advertised the bill using a comic book featuring "Foreskin Man," a blonde, blue-eyed superhero who saved blonde, blue-eyed boys from forced circumcision by leering, demonic Jews with glowing eyes, pointed teeth, and Hassidic dress.
Of course, the classic example of direct democracy gone wrong in California is Proposition 13, which put strict limits on property taxes, and as a result, impoverished school districts, libraries, fire departments, and other community services in many areas. Debate over the bill was so contentious at the time, and continues to be to this day, that to even approach the idea of repealing it is considered a political death sentence, so no representative has the will to do it.
So to repeat my question: Are you really sure this is a good idea?
Effective DRM isn't difficult. It's impossible. Anyone who understands what it's supposed to do and isn't making money from it should have an innate distaste for it. It's unnecessary and a collosal waste of time.
By "effective" I did not mean "perfect" -- that's why I chose the word. "Effective," in this case, means it will keep a respectable majority of people following the rules.
I think RIM will either die, or will be bought up. I don't know who exactly would buy it up, though. I can't imagine Microsoft wanting to end up competing against its own Windows offerings by buying RIM, but there is still some RIM technology that might be attractive to someone.
I think it's sitting on some lucrative patents. If someone twists my arm and forces me to say what I think might happen, I usually say licensing its tech is probably the next step. The Nokia 999, powered by Windows Phone Featuring BlackBerry.
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Not only this but we need university courses that actually teach, rather than certifying people for the workforce.
In my experience, science departments also seemed aimed primarily at certifying people for academics -- hence "weeder" classes designed to flush out people whom they don't think will do well on tests in the later courses. I actually had one chem teacher warn me not to try to retake the class if I got a bad grade. He said most people who retake the course end up getting the same grade, because it was designed so that most students couldn't retain all the information. Some education.
All the high tech drones ... doesn't mean much if your soldiers starve or run out of water.
No, I'm pretty sure the drones still mean something, especially if you can launch them from a ship offshore and pilot them from an Air Force base in Colorado.
And Facebook isn't using the same PHP the OP will be using, either. Facebook developed its own compilers and other tools that allow its applications to scale in ways that stock PHP applications cannot.
You're talking at cross purposes here. Obviously the front-end UI of any modern Web application is going to be written using a lot of JavaScript. Java, Python, and PHP -- and many other languages -- are primarily for the back-end code. Gmail is certainly not accessing its database or implementing IMAP and SMTP in JavaScript.
Out of the millions of SSIDs in the US alone, TFA writer could only confer with 400 of them for a sample and make some half ass meaningful attempt at analysis? That's hardly anything worth blogging about.
Actually, the study was based on a database of 75 million geolocated access points, as compiled by OpenSignalMaps. You might like to read the original study report to get a better idea of what's going on here.
The actual disappointing thing is that, out of 75 million access points, they only found about 1,200 hits for "obama" -- which doesn't seem to have any real statistical significance at all. Furthermore, there were only 6 hits for "romney" -- probably because a lot of these access points were polled over the last several years, and that name had little relevance until fairly recently.
Other than that, these people noticed access points with funny names (as many people on this thread have noted) and decided to try to do some research. Nothing to get worked up about.
Ownership is easy. It's the name on the deed.
But the name on the deed is the conglomerate. Want to buy my property? Join the conglomerate, pay me $300 million, do whatever you want with the property, and enjoy the same property taxes we've had since the conglomerate was formed in 1988.
In "small" crimes, both the victim and the bad guy are better off without guns.
Here in California, possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony (serious) offense counts as "special circumstances," and will likely cause you to receive a greater penalty when sentenced. You don't have to even fire it; just having it on you during the robbery would be enough.
I guess that's why, when my corner store was robbed a couple of years ago, they stabbed the clerk.
I followed a bunch of the links on Sanger's site just to see what he's talking about. Having a dozen or so videos of male ejaculation seems excessive. But a lot of the rest of it is 19th century French engravings, naughty postcards, and the like. Is that stuff appropriate for Wikipedia, even out of historical interest? I don't think that's for an automated filter to decide. Given that most home Internet connections don't have comprehensive content filters installed, I also think "the children" are about four clicks away from far raunchier material than that.
Having to call microsoft to get a new code is a pain.
No it isn't. You just think the idea of it is. If you'd actually had to do it, you'd see that in 90 percent of all cases, it's really pretty painless. I had to call to reactivate once when fixing up my mom's computer, and the whole process took about 3 minutes... and that was on Thanksgiving Day. Running the antivirus scan took longer.
I would be cartoon knee-knocking scared if I ever "invented" and popular and revolutionary product. It's basically like a zombie movie with these patent suits. They wait for success and then pop out of the ground in hoards.
Well, just having an idea will get you nowhere. To make any money off it, you have to either have the wherewithal to manufacture it yourself, or convince someone else to.
If you really want to go it alone, unfortunately, I think what I'd look into is to sign on with a patent troll company, like Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures. Seriously. Instead of getting sued, maybe you sell a piece of your patent to them. Then you can try to make a business out of it, and if you run into problems, you've got their massive patent-troll portfolio behind you, to stave off the lawsuits.
Ain't that a bitch?
Not that Apple, et. al., are innocent by any means, but WTF has Technicolor contributed to humanity in the past twenty years??
The thing is, they could have. I remember reading an article about Kodak vs. Fuji and how, while Kodak was busy trying to figure out how to make disposable digital cameras, Fuji was inventing new kinds of films that enhanced the picture on LCD screens. So when the whole LCD TV thing exploded, there were Fuji products -- emphasis to show that it wasn't just patents -- inside every one.
Technicolor is still a viable brand. I remember it. Why aren't they in on that game? Why aren't there Technicolor-branded TV screens? So what if whatever makes a Technicolor TV "Technicolor" has nothing to do with the original Technicolor film process? It's a worthwhile brand, and if Technicolor had been smart and come up with a little TV technology, it might have licensed its name to every TV manufacturer in Asia.
The only reason circumcision continues is because of Jewish influence. It is possible for groups to live up to their negative stereotypes
No doubt all those Muslims who practice circumcision are taking their cues from the Jews. Same with the American Protestants and Catholics. And the Africans, Koreans, Thais, etc. But as for some people living up to stereotypes -- I can see you're right about that.
Prop 13 is why people who bought their homes when they were $75K (or less) can still afford to live in them now that they're worth $1M+(or much more) and they're living on retirement. I'm a big fan of rolling back prop 13 protection for businesses, which I think SHOULD need to keep up economically with their neighbors.
This is indeed the biggest problem with Prop 13. Nobody wants to evict grandma. But the law is so badly written that it has allowed some corporations (which don't have to worry about dying) to use shell games to conceal their continued ownership of a property even after they sell it, allowing them to reap the profits while keeping property taxes low for the new buyer. (How do you track down the ownership of a property when it's owned by some kind of huge conglomerate or partnership?) Cases that smell suspiciously like out-and-out fraud to you or I will go unprosecuted because the law seems to permit them. But if any politician ever raises the possibility of reforming Prop 13, those same corporations will put out ads claiming that it's all about evicting grandma. We seem to be stuck with it.
Eh? Prop 13 is an example of direct democracy gone right. All of the financial issues this state is having are due to a combination of corrupt officials and mismanaged/badly allocated funds. If the spending problem was actually under control, people would be a lot more receptive to new taxes.
As I said:
A.) Prop 13 has always been contentious, and some believe it did good, while I think the majority thinks it has done a lot of harm.
B.) Part of the spending problem is due to the direct democracy process, where year after year, new propositions create new expenditures without finding the new revenue sources to fund them. Usually there's some kind of bond measure attached to fund them, but that's just borrowing, and it doesn't always work out. You seem to think the source of the spending problem is corrupt officials. Too often, it's because bad laws were put into effect because "the people willed it" -- even though "the people" don't actually have any experience governing, nor did they actually write the law they voted for. (Many probably didn't even read the ballot info all the way through.)
We'd all be better-off to avoid government paper and store our wealth in something that can not be devalued through inlfating the supply. Namely: Land. Gold. Silver.
How's that work, though? How does anyone create wealth when the supply of currency is finite?
Let's suppose there are 1,000 people on an island and each one of them lives on a parcel of land and has a gold piece. Perfect socialism! Then two of them get together and have a baby boy. Where does his gold piece come from? Where will he live when he grows up?
As a consultant who works on projects for govt, I hate Office 2007 and it's "collaboration" features which are pretty much non-existant.
You mean your clients haven't paid for the collaboration capabilities. With the right version of the suite, it offers both Groove-based collaboration and collaboration via SharePoint Server. In fact, all Office 365 really offers in this department is a hosted instance of SharePoint, but you still have to set it up how you want it. Funny thing about electronic collaboration tools, though -- if nobody else is going to use them, then there's no point in you using them, either.
I'm just waiting for Office 2011, which I THINK they're rolling out on the new Win 7 machines.
Office 2011 is a Mac version. You mean either Office 2010 or the version that will be coming Any Day Now.
My state has a separate school tax. Couldn't California politicians enact a similar tax in order to avoid the Prop13 property tax restriction?
They kind of did that, only it was with another direct-democracy measure, Proposition 98, which mandates that a certain amount of the state budget be spent on education. The downside of that is that, once again, it ties the representatives' hands a little more when it comes to allocating the budget. Instead of taking personal responsibility for the budget, all the representatives can do is follow the rules. "Not my fault!" It's all a big mess.
California has been running an ongoing experiment with direct democracy for many years, and here IMHO it's mostly been an abysmal failure.
What happens is that all kinds of budget earmarks get put on the ballot. Well-meaning voters think, "Well gosh, of course we should have funding for after school sports programs!" Next thing you know, there's a law on the books that earmarks X percent of the school budget for after-school sports programs -- whether or not the students have textbooks.
Or just as often, the bills are put on the ballots by special interests with hidden agendas. Here in San Francisco, a group operating out of San Diego -- some 450 miles away, in Southern California -- seemed close to getting a bill on the local city ballot that would have banned the practice of male circumcision in the City. You can debate whether circumcision is "torture" all you want (for both my father and I it was a medical necessity, due to a congenital defect). But the bill's supporters' real agenda became painfully apparent when they advertised the bill using a comic book featuring "Foreskin Man," a blonde, blue-eyed superhero who saved blonde, blue-eyed boys from forced circumcision by leering, demonic Jews with glowing eyes, pointed teeth, and Hassidic dress.
Of course, the classic example of direct democracy gone wrong in California is Proposition 13, which put strict limits on property taxes, and as a result, impoverished school districts, libraries, fire departments, and other community services in many areas. Debate over the bill was so contentious at the time, and continues to be to this day, that to even approach the idea of repealing it is considered a political death sentence, so no representative has the will to do it.
So to repeat my question: Are you really sure this is a good idea?
And don't even get me started on Javascript... there is just no way.
There's a pretty easy way for most people: Use a framework like jQuery, where they've done most of the banging-your-head-against-a-rock for you.
Effective DRM isn't difficult. It's impossible. Anyone who understands what it's supposed to do and isn't making money from it should have an innate distaste for it. It's unnecessary and a collosal waste of time.
By "effective" I did not mean "perfect" -- that's why I chose the word. "Effective," in this case, means it will keep a respectable majority of people following the rules.
If the Apple Retina display is already beyond the point a human eye can resolve - what's more resolution going to get you?
Single-pixel tracking GIFs that are only visible under a scanning electron microscope.
Why do you think they always make the joke that you could put the Apple logo on a piece of shit and it would fly off the shelves?
Well... I don't really know who "they" are. I think "they" might be you, and maybe you need to get out more.
Europe's the Western end of the continent of Asia.
Of the continent of Eurasia, maybe. If you consider Asia a continent, then Europe is the entirety of the continent of Europe.
You massively underestimate the capabilities of determined individuals. One guy on his own reinvented Unix.
For a Slashdotter, I think you've massively misunderstood this whole "open source" concept.
I think RIM will either die, or will be bought up. I don't know who exactly would buy it up, though. I can't imagine Microsoft wanting to end up competing against its own Windows offerings by buying RIM, but there is still some RIM technology that might be attractive to someone.
I think it's sitting on some lucrative patents. If someone twists my arm and forces me to say what I think might happen, I usually say licensing its tech is probably the next step. The Nokia 999, powered by Windows Phone Featuring BlackBerry.