These results enable us to create web search engines that really deliver answers instead of links.
I need both: answers *and* links! Many times when I search the web, I don't know for sure what am I searching for, let alone being able to ask specific question...
But every now and again I take a job off the queue and do it myself because (1) it keeps the guy who would otherwise have done it on their toes, to have me messing with "their" stuff and (2) I get a better picture of what is really happening out in the real world.
Well, if you would have hired fully competent people, you wouldn't need to worry about them being "on their toes" and about the whole picture of the project, they would have taken care of everything.
Ok, I know I'm being idealistic to the extreme, but IMO there is a fine line between leading engineer taking care of some of his subordinates' duties and CEO taking care of *support* requests.
Jobs probably get a thousand of these emails a day.
If he does, than Apple's support system must be even worse than I thought in the first place.
I mean, how many hours you have to spend on support line and how sick and tired of the problem you have to be in order to write a letter to CEO personally (without the slightest hope for reply, as this guy did)?
Managers who look upon their employees as "mere employees" will not be able to get the most out of those employees. I believe that true management is serving those under you to enable them to do their best.
Well, the citation is not literal, it is just as I managed to recall it. "Mere employee" as opposed to "manager" just meant that there is no direct interaction between the two in "normal" mode, but one of them (manager) is definitely in higher position.
One famous manager (I don't remember who exactly though) once said, that if the company's leader performs mere employee's duties then either he does not understand his role or there is something terribly wrong with the way the company operates.
Look at this story: the guy waited for months for the support to handle the problem!
You just always have the pages open you had last time. If you were reading slashdot, you're still reading slashdot.
I gave up this feature in Mozilla the day some dumb ass sent me a link to goatse, when I was at work. I reacted by simply closing the browser immediately. Then I started it again...
Just imagine what all those malcontents out there with too much time on their hands will do with this! It could be truly amusing.
Not *everything* works best when edited by the hordes.
This is *exactly* what has been said about Wikipedia first. With things like this, you have to *try* to know for sure, so while this idea *may* not work, it definitely worth trying.
The thing I'd expect the least is Steve Jobs (whose company makes the most DRM-fucked up mp3 player in the world) fighting against DRM. Talk is cheap and I will not believe a word, unless I see the results.
Personally, I see only technical problems with Wikipedia: lack of Open API of some kind, ease of static-linking (to protect yourself from content modifications), bad data format (at least for my taste), but as an idea of an open social encyclopedia I would say it is _extremely_ successful.
There are tons of words that end in 'um' [morewords.com]. Why not sell domains there so people can get 'cesi.um' or 'im-a-b.um'?
The truth is, that this domain naming scheme does not work very well as a brand.
You can have a domain named del.icio.us, but you just _have_ to have delicious.com as a pair for it, or you'll lose a lot of visitors.
I've seen this naming scheme used by many famous companies (subaru: suba.ru), but they all had them as an aliases for 'proper' names
A real world example would be, if you get caught outside of a door, trying to pick the lock, and then claim you were trying to ensure their locks were safe, you might get charged bith attempted B&E. You don't get to do a security audit on people's front doors.
Please, quit comparing real-world security issues to virtual world ones! Just stop it, seriously!
Look
maybe your method of security audit
differs from mine, but picking the lock, and checking the website for vulnerability,
ain't the same ballpark, ain't the
same league, ain't even the same
fuckin' sport.
The only way to double the talent pool is to double the population.
There is a thing called "diversity", which is very important for evolution to work (= new ideas/things to appear). Talent pool with 50 men and 50 women in it has significant advanatage in overall quality over the pool with 100 men, no matter how talented they are.
Besides, how can we make linux software more appealing to women, if there are no women in OSS design teams? At the very least, male engineers should listen to their wives' opinions.
And if the bank accidentally transfers money into your account you can keep it.
This is what happened to me recently. In my case, however, it was the correspondent bank who made the mistake: they accidentally processed the payment twice and voila! I have an extra $1k at my account. Then my bank called me and told that the correspondent wants his money back.
The funny part is that when I came to local dept. of my bank they told me that they simply cannot 'cancel' a wire. There is simply no business process for this.
3 months passed and I still have the money at my account:)
Anything in alpha testing can't really be called a product, much less the most innovative product (or in the top ten) of the year.
Have you seen the whole list? I'd say that YouOS has far more rights to be on this list than any other item.
I agree that there is hardly any use for it right now, but this is like a concept car: nobody uses them as they are, but you see many innovative parts of it appear in other new cars in a while.
The one that gets me is that here in the UK (and probably many other places too), you can have sex at 16, but you have to be 18 to rent a video of OTHER PEOPLE having sex.
More than that, once I've seen a label on "xxx" rated movie box that said that you "have to be over 21 to watch" and little letters at the bottom "all models are over 18 and intended to be depicted as such"
So, you can play in a porn movie if you are 18, but have to wait until you're 21 to watch it.
Repeat after me: Obscurity is not the same as Security
If you are sending information to the browser that you don't want to be known, then you're doing something wrong. This is the case for JS, as well as for AJAX, Flash or Java applets. Or client-side code in general.
Argh! Where is the mod point when you need one!
I even remember some people telling me that POST request is more secure than GET since client can see contents of GET
request in URL. These people worked for serious web company, btw. I'm afraid that Security through Obscurity is still the way most people see it...
Slashdot Mirror
Not exactly.
$0.06 per infection attempt, which is obviously not the same thing.
I need both: answers *and* links! Many times when I search the web, I don't know for sure what am I searching for, let alone being able to ask specific question...
Do they have more fat billions on Nasdaq? Am I missing something?
Well, if you would have hired fully competent people, you wouldn't need to worry about them being "on their toes" and about the whole picture of the project, they would have taken care of everything.
Ok, I know I'm being idealistic to the extreme, but IMO there is a fine line between leading engineer taking care of some of his subordinates' duties and CEO taking care of *support* requests.
If he does, than Apple's support system must be even worse than I thought in the first place.
I mean, how many hours you have to spend on support line and how sick and tired of the problem you have to be in order to write a letter to CEO personally (without the slightest hope for reply, as this guy did)?
Well, the citation is not literal, it is just as I managed to recall it. "Mere employee" as opposed to "manager" just meant that there is no direct interaction between the two in "normal" mode, but one of them (manager) is definitely in higher position.
One famous manager (I don't remember who exactly though) once said, that if the company's leader performs mere employee's duties then either he does not understand his role or there is something terribly wrong with the way the company operates.
Look at this story: the guy waited for months for the support to handle the problem!
Pardon my ignorance, but what this has to do with Apple?
(Just asking)
By that logic, SUN owns every program written in Java. On the other hand, Intel owns every program that uses processor's instructions.
May be there is some "license" from Intel of SUN involved?
I always thought April 1st is the best day for suing someone :)
The thing I'd expect the least is Steve Jobs (whose company makes the most DRM-fucked up mp3 player in the world) fighting against DRM. Talk is cheap and I will not believe a word, unless I see the results.
You should have used this link to Citizendium here to make "article" even more ridiculous.
Personally, I see only technical problems with Wikipedia: lack of Open API of some kind, ease of static-linking (to protect yourself from content modifications), bad data format (at least for my taste), but as an idea of an open social encyclopedia I would say it is _extremely_ successful.
Doesn't this set some kind of precedent, so users now can get away with $150 per rootkit too?
IANAL, so I'm asking seriously.
The truth is, that this domain naming scheme does not work very well as a brand. You can have a domain named del.icio.us, but you just _have_ to have delicious.com as a pair for it, or you'll lose a lot of visitors.
I've seen this naming scheme used by many famous companies (subaru: suba.ru), but they all had them as an aliases for 'proper' names
Please, quit comparing real-world security issues to virtual world ones! Just stop it, seriously!
Look maybe your method of security audit differs from mine, but picking the lock, and checking the website for vulnerability, ain't the same ballpark, ain't the same league, ain't even the same fuckin' sport.
There is a thing called "diversity", which is very important for evolution to work (= new ideas/things to appear). Talent pool with 50 men and 50 women in it has significant advanatage in overall quality over the pool with 100 men, no matter how talented they are.
Besides, how can we make linux software more appealing to women, if there are no women in OSS design teams? At the very least, male engineers should listen to their wives' opinions.
This is what happened to me recently. In my case, however, it was the correspondent bank who made the mistake: they accidentally processed the payment twice and voila! I have an extra $1k at my account. Then my bank called me and told that the correspondent wants his money back.
The funny part is that when I came to local dept. of my bank they told me that they simply cannot 'cancel' a wire. There is simply no business process for this.
3 months passed and I still have the money at my account :)
Have you seen the whole list? I'd say that YouOS has far more rights to be on this list than any other item.
I agree that there is hardly any use for it right now, but this is like a concept car: nobody uses them as they are, but you see many innovative parts of it appear in other new cars in a while.
More than that, once I've seen a label on "xxx" rated movie box that said that you "have to be over 21 to watch" and little letters at the bottom "all models are over 18 and intended to be depicted as such"
So, you can play in a porn movie if you are 18, but have to wait until you're 21 to watch it.
Sony Says Nobody Wiill Ever Use PS3
Here, fixed that for you.Argh! Where is the mod point when you need one!
I even remember some people telling me that POST request is more secure than GET since client can see contents of GET request in URL. These people worked for serious web company, btw. I'm afraid that Security through Obscurity is still the way most people see it...