I think the answer might be, "be prepared to either pay to keep a Windows box (or other high-priced proprietary equipment) around, or just accept that you can't enjoy certain types of media." So just save yourself some trouble, become a pessimist, and know that there will always be more American Idol-watching, mouth-breathing, "if you're not a pirate you have nothing to worry about" types than you, and that DRM will become part of access to popular media in the future no matter how hard we little peons argue against it. Don't you feel better now?:)
From Hawking's home page: "This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and doesn't speak like a Dalek. The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent."
I understand your point - anything large enough to make it through the atmosphere into a city could be mistaken for an attack by terrorists or perhaps another country. However, for a rock of this size TFA actually says:
If a rock like that hit Earth, it would never reach the ground. "Earth's atmosphere protects us," Cooke explains. "A 10-inch meteoroid would disintegrate in mid-air, making a spectacular fireball in the sky but no crater." The Moon is different. Having no atmosphere, it is totally exposed to meteoroids. Even small ones can cause spectacular explosions, spraying debris far and wide.
Did the knowledge stick with you any differently than if you'd just learned it the "normal" way? I ask because I've known once-upon-a-time-heavy smokers that swore up and down the things they learned while they were regularly smoking kinda faded away when they tried to quit. So if they needed to recall something they'd go take a smoke. Of course, it could just be them rationalizing their desire to take their first smoke in a few years/months.:) I was just wondering if anybody had any similar anecdotes for other drugs.
Seems to me that poor developers are poor developers (and assholes are assholes) no matter where they were educated or raised. I've met my fair share of clueless, rude programmers and talented, polite programmers, and so far I haven't got any sense that foreign people are necessarily more likely to fall into the clueless and rude category than Americans.
When I read statements like yours and the one to which I originally responded, the impression that I get is that your reasoning goes like this: this person lives in India, and therefore must be clueless and rude. Maybe in real life you generally form your opinion of each individual based on their own merits instead of automatically assuming they're just like everybody else from the same country/school/etc., but your statements make you come across in a completely different light. That's all I'm saying.
You're still classifying an entire group of people as idiots without knowing anything about them except that they're from India...so maybe you're just prejudiced instead of a bigot. Sorry I chose the wrong word.;)
Would anyone like to guess how much time, money, effort and resources is going to be spent trying to communicate with these idiots, and actually get anything done?
I was with you up to this point, but if you're referring to the folks in India as idiots, your argument gets drowned out by apparent bigotry. If you're referring to the Bank of America management as idiots, that doesn't upset me, but given the context of the quoted statement, I have to assume you're calling the Indian workers idiots.
Honestly, if you're counting on your employer (or anybody, for that matter) to look out for your interests and "play nice," you're just asking to get a situation like this dropped in your lap. It doesn't matter what your contract says, and it doesn't matter how nice you think your boss is. If somebody with enough power thinks they can save/make some extra money, expand their own influence, push their own agenda, etc., there are ways around contracts and nice lower managers. After all, if you can't pay your own expenses for a few months without a severance package, you can't afford to fight them in court, now can you?
This is why it really pays to have your own severance package set aside in a savings account. If I was given the choice these people have been given, and I had 3-6 months of expenses in my savings, I'd tell them to, "Train my replacement your own damn selves." I might even do it if I didn't have such savings, depending on how blatantly it was presented to me.
If you plan ahead, you give yourself the power to make a statement like that if it needs to be made (assuming it's worth making).
Actually, I think it's more like "welcome to life in general." I don't think this is anything new, specific to the technology industry, or even to business.
My conclusion from recent evidence suggests that memories are not stored in the brain, or even in the synapses, but rather accessed through quantum microtubules or neurotubules within the brain.
Er...what? So you're saying the information is not stored in physical structures in the brain, but rather some non-physical "quantum structure?" Somehow I doubt that either of the articles you linked (yes, I read the abstracts) suggests any such thing. However, if you can point out to me what specific evidence can only be explained by a non-physical storage mechanism, I'd be glad to see it - it would probably represent one of the greatest discovies in the history of the world.
Wish I had mod points for you....assuming you meant that to be funny, of course...
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Now you know how OSS is going to make it's money.
By writing a spell-checker for/. that can detect inappropriate usage of apostrophes? Or perhaps by updating the lameness filter to exclude postings by grammar nazis?:)
Pharmaceutical (52.46%): Medical offering (as in "V1@6ra!!!1! with0ut doktor vi5it!!!") Enhancers & Diets (13.38%): Show her how; (as in 3nl@rge uR M3mber!11!)
sometimes come with porn-like pictures, I don't think the free advert^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hresearch article shows that porn traffic has really dropped to 5%.
The software engineering level is pretty much the same no matter where you go or what you do. Only if you network your way into management does the work get creative or challenging.
How many managers do you know that are able to spend significant amounts of time doing challenging technical work? I'm assuming you're talking about technical work, because I suspect a lot of technically minded people aren't going to find management work very creative or challenging (at least not in an "I have a passion for it" way).
I'm not saying you don't know any managers doing lots of challenging tech work. In fact, I think it would be cool if you could list the names of the companies where they work so we know where to go for fun management jobs.:P
Greg stated that architecture and design were not mandated from the top, but rather the teams working on these projects were given the freedom to suggest and deliver.
Wow, what a concept! To actually trust the people doing the work to *gasp* know what they're doing!:)
Of course, Google probably has reason to trust their talent pool more than your local code monkey shop, but still...
Creative people don't like being restricted to one method anyways. If you don't want your best people to walk, don't choose to standarize on one language.
Disclaimer: I could just be bitter about this, so take my view with a salt mine.
I considered myself to be among the best people at my last company, and I left because a coming standardization would have left me in a place where the only challenge was learning massive, overly complicated APIs that only existed because the standardized language was so weak. So I opted to go find a job where I could be challenged with something that didn't feel like a memorization chore.
Maybe the biggest problem is just my own ego: I view myself as a craftsman, somebody that takes the time to learn how to do things efficiently and well. That seems at odds with the prevailing business climate, where programmers tend to be viewed as replaceable commodity modules. Maybe that means I'm not cut out for commercial software development, so I'm actually thinking of switching to a career that is more fundamentally challenging.
For the record, I had no problem with people that wanted to use the toolset that was being proposed as the standard. It was the best choice in certain applications, and I wouldn't dream of forcing everybody else to use my favorite tools. Too bad they didn't have the same attitude; I enjoyed working there.
I'm sure there's a good chance that the 4th amendment can be reinterpreted by the Supreme Court to find that the federal government is empowered to require almost anything of federal employees. And an even higher chance that a team of federal lawyers can write reams and reams on how there's nothing to worry about unless you're a terrorist.
<dons flame-retardant suit>
Of course, even if it doesn't officially get interpreted that way, US Presidents seem to be able to get away with doing things that they aren't empowered to do (except receive blowjobs in the Oval Office and tell G. Gordon to break into Democrat headquarters). After all, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!
The ultimate result of this will be that the greatest stregth of Wikipedia - peer editing - will be lost forever, just because a few assholes abuse it for their own personal gain.
Ah, well...then it will be just like every other good thing people have made. Some asshole always comes along and screws it up for everybody else.;)
Wow...leave Death out of a *Terry Pratchett* story? That would be...how do you say...stupid? Sorry, I forgot - we're talking about Hollywood.:)
"But you're Death," said Mort. "You go around killing people!"
I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?
You Slashdot regulars and your silly pastafarian beliefs! I suppose next you'll want to be teaching kids in school about these so-called "strands of spaghetti" made out of dark matter and deny the plainly obvious fact they're the web of the great Queen Spider.
IANAMG but exponentials pop up in some financial applications, like the value of an investment with reasonably constant annual return over a long period of time. On a linear plot, all but the most recent behavior is crushed into a nearly flat line because the value rises (roughly) exponentially; however, on a log plot it's easier to see the long-term behavior.
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I think the answer might be, "be prepared to either pay to keep a Windows box (or other high-priced proprietary equipment) around, or just accept that you can't enjoy certain types of media." So just save yourself some trouble, become a pessimist, and know that there will always be more American Idol-watching, mouth-breathing, "if you're not a pirate you have nothing to worry about" types than you, and that DRM will become part of access to popular media in the future no matter how hard we little peons argue against it. Don't you feel better now? :)
From Hawking's home page: "This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and doesn't speak like a Dalek. The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent."
Did the knowledge stick with you any differently than if you'd just learned it the "normal" way? I ask because I've known once-upon-a-time-heavy smokers that swore up and down the things they learned while they were regularly smoking kinda faded away when they tried to quit. So if they needed to recall something they'd go take a smoke. Of course, it could just be them rationalizing their desire to take their first smoke in a few years/months. :) I was just wondering if anybody had any similar anecdotes for other drugs.
Seems to me that poor developers are poor developers (and assholes are assholes) no matter where they were educated or raised. I've met my fair share of clueless, rude programmers and talented, polite programmers, and so far I haven't got any sense that foreign people are necessarily more likely to fall into the clueless and rude category than Americans.
When I read statements like yours and the one to which I originally responded, the impression that I get is that your reasoning goes like this: this person lives in India, and therefore must be clueless and rude. Maybe in real life you generally form your opinion of each individual based on their own merits instead of automatically assuming they're just like everybody else from the same country/school/etc., but your statements make you come across in a completely different light. That's all I'm saying.
Maybe the first definition here kinda sorta matches yours, for what it's worth: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idiot
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You're still classifying an entire group of people as idiots without knowing anything about them except that they're from India...so maybe you're just prejudiced instead of a bigot. Sorry I chose the wrong word.
Honestly, if you're counting on your employer (or anybody, for that matter) to look out for your interests and "play nice," you're just asking to get a situation like this dropped in your lap. It doesn't matter what your contract says, and it doesn't matter how nice you think your boss is. If somebody with enough power thinks they can save/make some extra money, expand their own influence, push their own agenda, etc., there are ways around contracts and nice lower managers. After all, if you can't pay your own expenses for a few months without a severance package, you can't afford to fight them in court, now can you?
This is why it really pays to have your own severance package set aside in a savings account. If I was given the choice these people have been given, and I had 3-6 months of expenses in my savings, I'd tell them to, "Train my replacement your own damn selves." I might even do it if I didn't have such savings, depending on how blatantly it was presented to me.
If you plan ahead, you give yourself the power to make a statement like that if it needs to be made (assuming it's worth making).
Wish I had mod points for you....assuming you meant that to be funny, of course...
Yes, they're contacting the developers.
sometimes come with porn-like pictures, I don't think the free advert^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hresearch article shows that porn traffic has really dropped to 5%.
I'm not saying you don't know any managers doing lots of challenging tech work. In fact, I think it would be cool if you could list the names of the companies where they work so we know where to go for fun management jobs. :P
Of course, Google probably has reason to trust their talent pool more than your local code monkey shop, but still...
Disclaimer: I could just be bitter about this, so take my view with a salt mine.
I considered myself to be among the best people at my last company, and I left because a coming standardization would have left me in a place where the only challenge was learning massive, overly complicated APIs that only existed because the standardized language was so weak. So I opted to go find a job where I could be challenged with something that didn't feel like a memorization chore.
Maybe the biggest problem is just my own ego: I view myself as a craftsman, somebody that takes the time to learn how to do things efficiently and well. That seems at odds with the prevailing business climate, where programmers tend to be viewed as replaceable commodity modules. Maybe that means I'm not cut out for commercial software development, so I'm actually thinking of switching to a career that is more fundamentally challenging.
For the record, I had no problem with people that wanted to use the toolset that was being proposed as the standard. It was the best choice in certain applications, and I wouldn't dream of forcing everybody else to use my favorite tools. Too bad they didn't have the same attitude; I enjoyed working there.
I'm sure there's a good chance that the 4th amendment can be reinterpreted by the Supreme Court to find that the federal government is empowered to require almost anything of federal employees. And an even higher chance that a team of federal lawyers can write reams and reams on how there's nothing to worry about unless you're a terrorist.
<dons flame-retardant suit>
Of course, even if it doesn't officially get interpreted that way, US Presidents seem to be able to get away with doing things that they aren't empowered to do (except receive blowjobs in the Oval Office and tell G. Gordon to break into Democrat headquarters). After all, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!
Wow...leave Death out of a *Terry Pratchett* story? That would be...how do you say...stupid? Sorry, I forgot - we're talking about Hollywood. :)
Well, at least they're building search engines and space exploration vehicles instead of nuclear weapons. (It's supposed to be ~50% funny, laugh)
You Slashdot regulars and your silly pastafarian beliefs! I suppose next you'll want to be teaching kids in school about these so-called "strands of spaghetti" made out of dark matter and deny the plainly obvious fact they're the web of the great Queen Spider.
IANAMG but exponentials pop up in some financial applications, like the value of an investment with reasonably constant annual return over a long period of time. On a linear plot, all but the most recent behavior is crushed into a nearly flat line because the value rises (roughly) exponentially; however, on a log plot it's easier to see the long-term behavior.
z =l&q=l&c=& z=l&q=l&c=
For example here's the Dow Jones Industrial Average for ~80 years:
Log: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EDJI&t=my&l=on&
Linear: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EDJI&t=my&l=off
The ugliness of the crash in the 30's is essentially invisible in the linear plot, but clearly visible in the log plot.