If it explodes, we'll have enough angles to recreate an exact 3d model of what happend. COOL. If it doesn't, we still have enough to create a nice 3d model of the launch. This will push the wave of new 3d tv's... hmm... getting ahead of myself again.
Really now... a 'secure' network for banks to talk to each other in? WTF are they using during normal, non-emergancy times? No wonder all these damned credit card/identity thefts take place... these idiots are broadcasting their info on unsecured networks?
I don't much mind if an employer of mine monitors what I'm doing at work while being paid. In my specific line of work, sometimes I'm asked to stay late to finish a project or meet a deadline. In exchange for doing this, I expect (and receive) a reasonable tolerance of doing personal things (like surfing to slashdot) during normal working hours. But if I started doing no work, and the employer didn't have to wait until my project got screwed, and the deadline missed by months before realising that I'm not working, then I say it's well worth it. Even more so if they get one of my coworkers, since that saves me work in the long term... Privacy be damned, as long as it's not abused, I welcome it.
What the hell does an OS have to do with who's using it?
An OS should be a standard toolset for applications to be built on. Memory management, driver management, and application management is what an OS should do... it should worry about dividing hardware resources up among it's processes, it should worry about managing drivers... it should not have anything to do with the user interface that runs on it. This question was obviously posed by someone who hasn't the first clue about what an OS actually is.
That's the same as the 'cash discount' prices at computer retailers. Mastercard/Visa will remove your right to accept cards if you try to pass the 2% charge that vendors pay for accepting the credit cards on to the consumer. So shops came up with the 2% cash discount crap. Stupid wording... exact same result... But as a consumer it's such a pain in the ass to get them to change the price... with enough complaining and threatening to contact mastercard/visa, I usually succeed, but it's such a waste of time for something that is clearly not allowed.
I got a better idea... how about we force SUV's off the market for the average joe.
Something like, you need a special license to drive an SUV/pickup truck/huge ass car. Or some sort of permit is required... 90% of the SUV's, trucks and other large cars I see on the road are carrying a single person (aka the driver) with absolutely nothing else. Not hauling lumber, not full of supplies, hell, not even full of groceries...
Why have an SUV that can get 30MPG when you could have a much smaller car that seats only 2 people and gets 80MPG? I don't understand American's cultural need to have enormous vehicles... Someone please explain to me the need for SUV's and trucks when only a single person is driving in it...
Sounds fun, but I much rather work at a company that gives me a task to do, that both the company and I know will generate revenue and continue my employment for the longterm.
Skunk works projects and the like are really fun... but at the end of the day, fun doesn't pay the bills, real work does... and unless you happen to be a genius (or extremely lucky) at coming up with great ideas that make money (in which case why the hell don't you start your own business?), when the times get tough for the company, those who produce the least amount of actual work are the first to go.
So although it sounds great now, when things turn a bit more realistic for google, these perks will very quickly disappear, and you'll see more of what 'yahoo' has...
I've also decided to go on a huge roadtrip in 2015, but I too have no idea how I'll get there... Nor do I know what I'm going to do with my current vehicle (a 1975 Honda civic) once it is scheduled to be retired (2010 at the latest). But don't you worry, I'll manage to pull it off somehow...;)
Very, very true... I switch back in 95 when it came out. Just one word of caution, once you get addicted, if you have to do any sort of typing on a regular keyboard, you'll be smashing adjacent keys for the first few minutes while your brain adjust to the lack of angle to the keys. Happens to me all the time at work when I go over to another guys cube to help with something.
I have a long list of employers who will talk glowingly about my problem-solving skills.
News flash, no matter what you specialise in, you will not always have a task that is using your specialised training/ability. Sometimes you will be tasked with something different, maybe even something beneath you. The puzzle (or other seemingly irrelevant to the position you're applying for) test is to judge your attitude towards such tasks. How you interact with people when given such tasks is more important long term than how well you do at solving the task, especially in the interview.
The original poster sounds like someone with very little real world experience. You on the other hand claim you have a list of employers that would talk glowingly of you... I'm willing to bet that's because you didn't challenge their intelligence when they asked you to do something, at worst you may have presented a different solution to their problem. The original poster is being a smartass with nothing to back it up.
The issue is not so much that puzzles are useful to determine if you are qualified for the job from a book smarts stand point, it's to weed out these people with superiority complexes. At the end of the day, no matter how smart you are, if you don't function well with others in a team, or are unable to take direction/instruction from your supervisor, you are useless.
Well Tom, in the real world, you need to have the ability to work under pressure. You need to be a well rounded person that can admit that you don't know everything.
That's what the RIM interview is meant to test, along with technical knowledge, they want to know if you are actually capable of working in the real world. You could be a genius in your specific area, but if you don't listen to your supervisor simply because he's not as specialised as you are, then you would be a useless employee.
I used to work at RIM (back when they only owned 2 buildings). They are not a bunch of smartass punks, they're a bunch of intelligent people looking to hire other people who are intelligent and not smartasses such as yourself (I'm basing this on your own admission to your behaviour in the interview, if you say that to the interviewer, what will you say to your boss?). A few words of advice, if you think you're all that, and RIM's interview process upset you, I wouldn't recommend applying to Microsoft or Google, or any big tech company... they make everyone do puzzles... and not every interviewer is as specialised as you are, that's why they're looking for someone with those skills. But I guess that would have required some sort of thought process outside of crypto-math to figure out... my bad...
Don't jump to conclusions... I had a horrible mis-understanding with a wine bottle and a date once... Just cuz it worked on the internet don't mean it always works with the real thing... Especially when you don't tell them in advance...
I don't think so. It's no secret, it's known to all who care to investigate a bit. Their roadmaps point to it, and have in some form or other for the last 4 years. This is just hype that is being spread... what next, the MACs will have them exclusively?
Do I have to buy the whole network at 5 cents a PC? Or can I just buy say a dollar's worth? I wouldn't mind having 20 PC's... I can force all those PCs to join my network games of Quake and Unreal... finally I'll have people to play with... gasp... maybe even online 'friends'! Mommy will be so happy... in fact I think I'll go upstairs right now and tell her the good news!
What kind of help? And more importantly, how are they making something compatable? Reverse engineering? I wouldn't want to be in the USA helping this effort... the DMCA could very well be used by macromedia to contain any third party renderers that may appear. They have a ton of money on the line...
and to extended your point further, that explains the reason that young (soon to be)professionals (also known as college students) seem to use drugs/alcohol much more frequently, they're soo smart that the world around them makes them miserable, so they need to dumb themselves down to enjoy life.
I'm not sure if I'm making a bad joke, or reflecting on the grim reality that is today's world... either way, someone pass the beer...;)
If we don't protect the few people at the very top of society so that they can continue to rip off the common folk to make billions upon billions of dollars in profits, then by God, the America I know no longer exists. ( disclaimer: I'm a Canadian so I'm biased. )
That was a horrible example, in the case of the jewlery store, they simply become an online presence, secure the crap outta their warehouse location, and problem solved... more convinient for the customer as they can shop from home, less risk for the store, since it doesn't have to treat every potential customer as a possible physical security threat.
What I was getting at, is if the journal can't survive with google posting their already freely available (be it in physical printed form in a library) then they will fizzle and disappear, but there will come a replacement, with only minor adjustments to the model, they could still flourish. If they choose not to, that's their call, but there will be something that fills the gap they leave, there always is.
As for the RIAA/MPAA comment, no, I'm not saying get rid of the model that allows musicians and artists to use an industry model to negotiate terms for their art/property/whatever. I'm suggesting that if the RIAA/MPAA can't adapt to new methods of distribution, and can't get their artists the proper cut of the action, then they will fizzle as artists move to some other organization that can negotiate with current models, as well as handle new models of distribution. As google is doing with the journals, I was suggesting perhaps they could do something about music/movie/art distribution...
I didn't suggest they do it for free... I'm not sure where you got that from. My appologies for misleading you with my original comment, I was a bit vague apparently... Hopefully this clears up my intent.;)
I'll authenticate with each and every site I visit...
Take MS Passport for example. I log on to MSN webmessenger. I chat with some friends, then I close it down. 3 hours later I decide to log on to MSDN to grab a file, I need to log in with a different account since my messenger account doesn't have the access... fine... I do that... then a few hours later when I go to webmessenger again, I'm auto-logged on with my MSDN credentials.
The only option I have is to force all passport sites to stop caching my username/password and make me type it in everytime, thus defeating the purpose entirely.
This sort of password system is open to all sorts of problems, and not just of spoofing, or somehow being hacked and having people impersonate you... I'm more worried about logging on to some place with the wrong credentials...
I should use firefox because it is better than IE, because it's designed and maintained by people in the know... so why the hell didn't they make it a bittorrent link? A technical oversight of this magnitude scares me... are people like this also modifying FireFox code? So much for my faith in the project.
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If it explodes, we'll have enough angles to recreate an exact 3d model of what happend. COOL. If it doesn't, we still have enough to create a nice 3d model of the launch. This will push the wave of new 3d tv's... hmm... getting ahead of myself again.
Really now... a 'secure' network for banks to talk to each other in? WTF are they using during normal, non-emergancy times? No wonder all these damned credit card/identity thefts take place... these idiots are broadcasting their info on unsecured networks?
Did the ESRB rate the mini-games that came with MS office apps, namely the flight sim with Excel and the DOOM clone with Word?
I don't much mind if an employer of mine monitors what I'm doing at work while being paid. In my specific line of work, sometimes I'm asked to stay late to finish a project or meet a deadline. In exchange for doing this, I expect (and receive) a reasonable tolerance of doing personal things (like surfing to slashdot) during normal working hours. But if I started doing no work, and the employer didn't have to wait until my project got screwed, and the deadline missed by months before realising that I'm not working, then I say it's well worth it. Even more so if they get one of my coworkers, since that saves me work in the long term... Privacy be damned, as long as it's not abused, I welcome it.
What the hell does an OS have to do with who's using it?
An OS should be a standard toolset for applications to be built on. Memory management, driver management, and application management is what an OS should do... it should worry about dividing hardware resources up among it's processes, it should worry about managing drivers... it should not have anything to do with the user interface that runs on it. This question was obviously posed by someone who hasn't the first clue about what an OS actually is.
That's the same as the 'cash discount' prices at computer retailers. Mastercard/Visa will remove your right to accept cards if you try to pass the 2% charge that vendors pay for accepting the credit cards on to the consumer. So shops came up with the 2% cash discount crap. Stupid wording... exact same result... But as a consumer it's such a pain in the ass to get them to change the price... with enough complaining and threatening to contact mastercard/visa, I usually succeed, but it's such a waste of time for something that is clearly not allowed.
I got a better idea... how about we force SUV's off the market for the average joe.
Something like, you need a special license to drive an SUV/pickup truck/huge ass car. Or some sort of permit is required... 90% of the SUV's, trucks and other large cars I see on the road are carrying a single person (aka the driver) with absolutely nothing else. Not hauling lumber, not full of supplies, hell, not even full of groceries...
Why have an SUV that can get 30MPG when you could have a much smaller car that seats only 2 people and gets 80MPG? I don't understand American's cultural need to have enormous vehicles... Someone please explain to me the need for SUV's and trucks when only a single person is driving in it...
Sounds fun, but I much rather work at a company that gives me a task to do, that both the company and I know will generate revenue and continue my employment for the longterm.
Skunk works projects and the like are really fun... but at the end of the day, fun doesn't pay the bills, real work does... and unless you happen to be a genius (or extremely lucky) at coming up with great ideas that make money (in which case why the hell don't you start your own business?), when the times get tough for the company, those who produce the least amount of actual work are the first to go.
So although it sounds great now, when things turn a bit more realistic for google, these perks will very quickly disappear, and you'll see more of what 'yahoo' has...
I've also decided to go on a huge roadtrip in 2015, but I too have no idea how I'll get there... Nor do I know what I'm going to do with my current vehicle (a 1975 Honda civic) once it is scheduled to be retired (2010 at the latest). But don't you worry, I'll manage to pull it off somehow... ;)
Very, very true... I switch back in 95 when it came out. Just one word of caution, once you get addicted, if you have to do any sort of typing on a regular keyboard, you'll be smashing adjacent keys for the first few minutes while your brain adjust to the lack of angle to the keys. Happens to me all the time at work when I go over to another guys cube to help with something.
It's currently 28 degrees outside... check for yourself (http://weather.uwaterloo.ca/), if you can make snow at that temperature, I'd be impressed.
I have a long list of employers who will talk glowingly about my problem-solving skills.
News flash, no matter what you specialise in, you will not always have a task that is using your specialised training/ability. Sometimes you will be tasked with something different, maybe even something beneath you. The puzzle (or other seemingly irrelevant to the position you're applying for) test is to judge your attitude towards such tasks. How you interact with people when given such tasks is more important long term than how well you do at solving the task, especially in the interview.
The original poster sounds like someone with very little real world experience. You on the other hand claim you have a list of employers that would talk glowingly of you... I'm willing to bet that's because you didn't challenge their intelligence when they asked you to do something, at worst you may have presented a different solution to their problem. The original poster is being a smartass with nothing to back it up.
The issue is not so much that puzzles are useful to determine if you are qualified for the job from a book smarts stand point, it's to weed out these people with superiority complexes. At the end of the day, no matter how smart you are, if you don't function well with others in a team, or are unable to take direction/instruction from your supervisor, you are useless.
Well Tom, in the real world, you need to have the ability to work under pressure. You need to be a well rounded person that can admit that you don't know everything.
That's what the RIM interview is meant to test, along with technical knowledge, they want to know if you are actually capable of working in the real world. You could be a genius in your specific area, but if you don't listen to your supervisor simply because he's not as specialised as you are, then you would be a useless employee.
I used to work at RIM (back when they only owned 2 buildings). They are not a bunch of smartass punks, they're a bunch of intelligent people looking to hire other people who are intelligent and not smartasses such as yourself (I'm basing this on your own admission to your behaviour in the interview, if you say that to the interviewer, what will you say to your boss?). A few words of advice, if you think you're all that, and RIM's interview process upset you, I wouldn't recommend applying to Microsoft or Google, or any big tech company... they make everyone do puzzles... and not every interviewer is as specialised as you are, that's why they're looking for someone with those skills. But I guess that would have required some sort of thought process outside of crypto-math to figure out... my bad...
Don't jump to conclusions... I had a horrible mis-understanding with a wine bottle and a date once... Just cuz it worked on the internet don't mean it always works with the real thing... Especially when you don't tell them in advance...
I don't think so. It's no secret, it's known to all who care to investigate a bit. Their roadmaps point to it, and have in some form or other for the last 4 years. This is just hype that is being spread... what next, the MACs will have them exclusively?
Disney did it... why not let others do it too? Either everyone gets extensions or no one does... it's only fair...
Do I have to buy the whole network at 5 cents a PC? Or can I just buy say a dollar's worth? I wouldn't mind having 20 PC's... I can force all those PCs to join my network games of Quake and Unreal... finally I'll have people to play with... gasp... maybe even online 'friends'! Mommy will be so happy... in fact I think I'll go upstairs right now and tell her the good news!
What kind of help? And more importantly, how are they making something compatable? Reverse engineering? I wouldn't want to be in the USA helping this effort... the DMCA could very well be used by macromedia to contain any third party renderers that may appear. They have a ton of money on the line...
and to extended your point further, that explains the reason that young (soon to be)professionals (also known as college students) seem to use drugs/alcohol much more frequently, they're soo smart that the world around them makes them miserable, so they need to dumb themselves down to enjoy life.
;)
I'm not sure if I'm making a bad joke, or reflecting on the grim reality that is today's world... either way, someone pass the beer...
If we don't protect the few people at the very top of society so that they can continue to rip off the common folk to make billions upon billions of dollars in profits, then by God, the America I know no longer exists. ( disclaimer: I'm a Canadian so I'm biased. )
That was a horrible example, in the case of the jewlery store, they simply become an online presence, secure the crap outta their warehouse location, and problem solved... more convinient for the customer as they can shop from home, less risk for the store, since it doesn't have to treat every potential customer as a possible physical security threat.
You misunderstand what I was trying to say.
;)
What I was getting at, is if the journal can't survive with google posting their already freely available (be it in physical printed form in a library) then they will fizzle and disappear, but there will come a replacement, with only minor adjustments to the model, they could still flourish. If they choose not to, that's their call, but there will be something that fills the gap they leave, there always is.
As for the RIAA/MPAA comment, no, I'm not saying get rid of the model that allows musicians and artists to use an industry model to negotiate terms for their art/property/whatever. I'm suggesting that if the RIAA/MPAA can't adapt to new methods of distribution, and can't get their artists the proper cut of the action, then they will fizzle as artists move to some other organization that can negotiate with current models, as well as handle new models of distribution. As google is doing with the journals, I was suggesting perhaps they could do something about music/movie/art distribution...
I didn't suggest they do it for free... I'm not sure where you got that from. My appologies for misleading you with my original comment, I was a bit vague apparently... Hopefully this clears up my intent.
If the journals don't like being published online by google, they will stop publishing, fizzle, and something else will come and replace them...
Now if only the RIAA/MPAA would have the same fate... Google, help me out here!
I'll authenticate with each and every site I visit...
Take MS Passport for example. I log on to MSN webmessenger. I chat with some friends, then I close it down. 3 hours later I decide to log on to MSDN to grab a file, I need to log in with a different account since my messenger account doesn't have the access... fine... I do that... then a few hours later when I go to webmessenger again, I'm auto-logged on with my MSDN credentials.
The only option I have is to force all passport sites to stop caching my username/password and make me type it in everytime, thus defeating the purpose entirely.
This sort of password system is open to all sorts of problems, and not just of spoofing, or somehow being hacked and having people impersonate you... I'm more worried about logging on to some place with the wrong credentials...
I should use firefox because it is better than IE, because it's designed and maintained by people in the know... so why the hell didn't they make it a bittorrent link? A technical oversight of this magnitude scares me... are people like this also modifying FireFox code? So much for my faith in the project.