As The Register points out, we should all be cheering for the iPhone because it'll kickstart competition. Finally, someone is showing RIM, Palm, Sony-Ericsson and Nokia that nobody buys smartphones because their smartphones *SUCK*.
If this brings some innovation into a pretty stale market, that's great for everyone.
A lot of the comments on here seem to be focused on giving candidates feedback after the fact. My strategy is to give them feedback as the interview is going on so that (in all but the most self-absorbed cases) they know how the interview went when the walk out door. If I think they're wrong about something, I'll tell them. This also gives them the opportunity to recover.
It took a bit of practice to deviate from the usual "hide all negative feedback to avoid an uncomfortable situation" but I think it's much easier than giving them a lump of bad news at the end and much more ethical than giving them no feedback at all.
So what's to stop patent licensing agreements from having an anti-invalidity clause? The instant you sue to invalidate a patent, the licence is void. Then the patent owner can sue for patent infringement.
I live in the UK. Even though I enter my PIN at loads of terminals every day, I'd argue that we're better off with Chip + Pin. There are a number of great posts about the technical details of why Chip + Pin is more secure, but it's easy to see the advantages with an example from just a few weeks ago...
My sister (in the US) had her purse stolen recently and the thieves racked up a few thousand dollars of purchases in under an hour (she reported the loss just 40 minutes after she left her bag behind). Without Chip + Pin, they just stole the card and made a poor attempt at her signature. And really, they didn't even need the card, they could have gathered loads of card swipes with a hacked terminal/ATM and duped them. If her card had Chip + Pin, the theives needed to get her PIN *and* the original card.
Currently, you cannot dupe the Chip part of the card and every transaction over a certain value must go via Chip + Pin. The hacked terminals in this article would be capable of stealing a PIN, but they can't take the card or dupe it... so theives are left without anything unless they want to resort to violence.
In the end, my sister suffered through a huge hassle and a week without any money but got all her money back. If she had Chip + Pin, she'd have likely only lost a few quid.
Are there any lawyers out there that can tell us what we can do to stop this nonsense? Can we register a complaint against the class action? Can we submit 'friend of the court' statements or something saying that this case is stupid.
Don't confuse "what is on the market" with "what is best".
For example, nearly every A/V component ships with its own remote control loaded with a dizzying array of buttons. But I don't think anyone would say that's an optimal solution for consumers.
Mobile phones are also loaded with features but the phone companies are finding that very few people actually use many of the features.
Just because there are loads of complex products out on the market doesn't mean complexity is the hot new thing.
Shutting the computer down for an hour at a time and rebooting is going to shorten lifetimes of your hardware.
In my experience, nobody keeps a PC long enough for the 'shortened lifetime' to take effect. My PCs are lucky to get through 3 years and the company I work for replaces them every 2 years. Even my mother and grandfather replace their computers every few years.
Apparently, he "was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before [they'd] ever met" but he then goes on to describe "the remote-shaped controller (aka the Wii Remote)"
How much of a fan can you be without knowing it's called "Wiimote"? That kind of gaffe makes me question the rest of the article.
It doesn't matter how loyal iPod owners are to the brand... just how loyal they are to their music. Anyone jumping ship will lose the music they bought off of iTunes.
The question that brings up: how many iPod users have enough iTunes tracks to cringe at the thought of re-buying/losing them?
Weird Al is going to get *far* more promotion via YouTube "leak" and the accompanying promotion.
True... but he won't get any money from the deal that he had with AOL. Also, what's the chance that AOL people are more likely to buy something from Weird Al vs. the/. and YouTube crowd? (Especially when the/. crowd finds opinions like yours "Interesting" instead of shallow and selfish)
Buck up, Al. You're richer than the rest of us, going to get even richer, and we find you funny despite it all.
When does someone become rich enough that it's ok to steal from them? Does your "stealing from rich people" policy only apply to music/tv/movie stars and software developers (ie. people whom you can steal easily from) or should we all be able to steal from Warren Buffett, too?
My IBM Thinkpad has had the same option in the BIOS for ages. Seeing how 'boring' IBM is, I'm guessing there are lots of notebooks with similar options in the BIOS.
Why are all the posts here so negative about Vonage? Maybe it's a bad PR move, but they are definitely justified.
Everyone that signed up agreed to buy the stock despite incredibly dire warnings on the signup screens that the price may go down. If customers wanted to buy the stock only if it went up, they should have bought options.
The thing that always gets me is watching people send emails. You click "send" and the entire document begins to fold into an envelope and disappear into the screen. I tend to send around 300 to 400 emails a day, and that would drive me insane.
I'm not saying the movies are anywhere near accurate, but I do understand why they need to make some actions more clear than they would be on a real computer. When you're not the one 'driving', it's easy to miss the tiny mouse pointer flicking up to the 'send' button. All you see is a window disappearing.
I think you could compare it to watching someone play an FPS. To a player, a game feels responsive when the view twitches at every tiny mouse movement. To a person watching, the constant, jerky movement is hard to follow and looks like very bad camera work.
What's the difference between 'reverse multithreading' (it sounds like having one execution pipeline on a chip with enough hardware for 2 cores) and just adding more Logic/Integer/FP units to a chip?
for every job outsourced from the U.S., nine new jobs are actually created in the U.S.
Yeah, that about matches my experience: for each outsourced person you need 1 person dole out the tasks and 8 people to clean up the code that they deliver.
I'm confident there are plenty of great developers in India, but my company doesn't employ any of them.
I'm not motivated enough to do it on my own, so I definitely needed a class to get me
In my case, London has an excellent school called Alpha Language Institute. Alpha is an amazingly social school. I'd take 4 hours a week and a good mix of students and teachers would head out to the pub after the lessons. This gave us even more chance to talk about culture and speak in mixed Japanese/English. They'd also organize parties every few months for even more Japanese immersion. After I left London, I couldn't find anything like it but I'm certain that helped me learn fast and keep my interest going.
For studying, I made flashcards out of index cards and went through them about 30 minutes every day (I'd carry 30-40 cards in my back pocket so I could run through them whenever I was waiting around). Most of the cards were individual words, but I'd also make 4-5 sentence cards for each piece of key grammar. The cards really helped make sure I could fit studying in.
The Hi-Fi is a bit of a stretch. It's basically a big box with little iPod jutting out of the top. It would look much better if the iPod sat between the speakers. Even the product page, doesn't do it any favors.
If you ask me, that's not the kind of innovation or design that we're used to from Apple.
Will this new Space Race usher in more new technologies into our daily lives, like the previous one?
No. The last space race performed a wide array of scientific research while in space. This race will be focused on getting passengers up as cheaply as possible.
I'm not saying that there won't be breakthroughs, but nothing near the number of breakthroughs in industries as varied as what NASA affected.
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...becuase everything is in the summary. So why didn't they include the punchline??
"65% of the time, M-rated sales policies were enforced. The other 35% of the time resulted in high school shootings and teen pregnancy."
Classic.
As The Register points out, we should all be cheering for the iPhone because it'll kickstart competition. Finally, someone is showing RIM, Palm, Sony-Ericsson and Nokia that nobody buys smartphones because their smartphones *SUCK*.
If this brings some innovation into a pretty stale market, that's great for everyone.
A lot of the comments on here seem to be focused on giving candidates feedback after the fact. My strategy is to give them feedback as the interview is going on so that (in all but the most self-absorbed cases) they know how the interview went when the walk out door. If I think they're wrong about something, I'll tell them. This also gives them the opportunity to recover.
It took a bit of practice to deviate from the usual "hide all negative feedback to avoid an uncomfortable situation" but I think it's much easier than giving them a lump of bad news at the end and much more ethical than giving them no feedback at all.
So what's to stop patent licensing agreements from having an anti-invalidity clause? The instant you sue to invalidate a patent, the licence is void. Then the patent owner can sue for patent infringement.
I live in the UK. Even though I enter my PIN at loads of terminals every day, I'd argue that we're better off with Chip + Pin. There are a number of great posts about the technical details of why Chip + Pin is more secure, but it's easy to see the advantages with an example from just a few weeks ago...
My sister (in the US) had her purse stolen recently and the thieves racked up a few thousand dollars of purchases in under an hour (she reported the loss just 40 minutes after she left her bag behind). Without Chip + Pin, they just stole the card and made a poor attempt at her signature. And really, they didn't even need the card, they could have gathered loads of card swipes with a hacked terminal/ATM and duped them. If her card had Chip + Pin, the theives needed to get her PIN *and* the original card.
Currently, you cannot dupe the Chip part of the card and every transaction over a certain value must go via Chip + Pin. The hacked terminals in this article would be capable of stealing a PIN, but they can't take the card or dupe it... so theives are left without anything unless they want to resort to violence.
In the end, my sister suffered through a huge hassle and a week without any money but got all her money back. If she had Chip + Pin, she'd have likely only lost a few quid.
Are there any lawyers out there that can tell us what we can do to stop this nonsense? Can we register a complaint against the class action? Can we submit 'friend of the court' statements or something saying that this case is stupid.
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2. Tennis raquet
3. Squash racquet
Louisville Slugger, Head and Prince are begging for lawsuits...
Anyone else shocked by this?
Later in the same thread Greg withdrew his patch and apologized for not having thought it through.
In my experiece disagreement on the Internet usually results in angry responses, foul language, name calling, etc.
Wouldn't it be nice if all mailing lists/forums were filled with reasonable people??
Don't confuse "what is on the market" with "what is best".
For example, nearly every A/V component ships with its own remote control loaded with a dizzying array of buttons. But I don't think anyone would say that's an optimal solution for consumers.
Mobile phones are also loaded with features but the phone companies are finding that very few people actually use many of the features.
Just because there are loads of complex products out on the market doesn't mean complexity is the hot new thing.
Shutting the computer down for an hour at a time and rebooting is going to shorten lifetimes of your hardware.
In my experience, nobody keeps a PC long enough for the 'shortened lifetime' to take effect. My PCs are lucky to get through 3 years and the company I work for replaces them every 2 years. Even my mother and grandfather replace their computers every few years.
Apparently, he "was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before [they'd] ever met" but he then goes on to describe "the remote-shaped controller (aka the Wii Remote)"
How much of a fan can you be without knowing it's called "Wiimote"? That kind of gaffe makes me question the rest of the article.
It doesn't matter how loyal iPod owners are to the brand... just how loyal they are to their music. Anyone jumping ship will lose the music they bought off of iTunes.
The question that brings up: how many iPod users have enough iTunes tracks to cringe at the thought of re-buying/losing them?
Weird Al is going to get *far* more promotion via YouTube "leak" and the accompanying promotion.
/. and YouTube crowd? (Especially when the /. crowd finds opinions like yours "Interesting" instead of shallow and selfish)
True... but he won't get any money from the deal that he had with AOL. Also, what's the chance that AOL people are more likely to buy something from Weird Al vs. the
Buck up, Al. You're richer than the rest of us, going to get even richer, and we find you funny despite it all.
When does someone become rich enough that it's ok to steal from them? Does your "stealing from rich people" policy only apply to music/tv/movie stars and software developers (ie. people whom you can steal easily from) or should we all be able to steal from Warren Buffett, too?
BS.
Good consoles [...] survive. Bad ones die.
That's not the point. The problem with bad consoles dying is that good games often die with them. How is that good for gamers?
Macs have won over the Ruby crowd (who are definitely nerds):
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My IBM Thinkpad has had the same option in the BIOS for ages. Seeing how 'boring' IBM is, I'm guessing there are lots of notebooks with similar options in the BIOS.
Why are all the posts here so negative about Vonage? Maybe it's a bad PR move, but they are definitely justified.
Everyone that signed up agreed to buy the stock despite incredibly dire warnings on the signup screens that the price may go down. If customers wanted to buy the stock only if it went up, they should have bought options.
Perhaps they'll wake up and smell the Apple pie in the sky--and realize they've been taken for a ride. But I doubt it.
When you're given a fair chance to evaluate two alternatives, and decide on one of them... how is that 'being taken for a ride'?
BC users can use either OS. The summary assumes that choosing Windows is the right alternative and choosing Mac is the sucker one.
Poor.
The thing that always gets me is watching people send emails. You click "send" and the entire document begins to fold into an envelope and disappear into the screen. I tend to send around 300 to 400 emails a day, and that would drive me insane.
I'm not saying the movies are anywhere near accurate, but I do understand why they need to make some actions more clear than they would be on a real computer. When you're not the one 'driving', it's easy to miss the tiny mouse pointer flicking up to the 'send' button. All you see is a window disappearing.
I think you could compare it to watching someone play an FPS. To a player, a game feels responsive when the view twitches at every tiny mouse movement. To a person watching, the constant, jerky movement is hard to follow and looks like very bad camera work.
What's the difference between 'reverse multithreading' (it sounds like having one execution pipeline on a chip with enough hardware for 2 cores) and just adding more Logic/Integer/FP units to a chip?
for every job outsourced from the U.S., nine new jobs are actually created in the U.S.
Yeah, that about matches my experience: for each outsourced person you need 1 person dole out the tasks and 8 people to clean up the code that they deliver.
I'm confident there are plenty of great developers in India, but my company doesn't employ any of them.
I'm not motivated enough to do it on my own, so I definitely needed a class to get me
In my case, London has an excellent school called Alpha Language Institute. Alpha is an amazingly social school. I'd take 4 hours a week and a good mix of students and teachers would head out to the pub after the lessons. This gave us even more chance to talk about culture and speak in mixed Japanese/English. They'd also organize parties every few months for even more Japanese immersion. After I left London, I couldn't find anything like it but I'm certain that helped me learn fast and keep my interest going.
For studying, I made flashcards out of index cards and went through them about 30 minutes every day (I'd carry 30-40 cards in my back pocket so I could run through them whenever I was waiting around). Most of the cards were individual words, but I'd also make 4-5 sentence cards for each piece of key grammar. The cards really helped make sure I could fit studying in.
Excellent. Another 'convenience' feature which helps out people who are clearly far too STUPID to use a car.
Yes... just like a calculator is another 'convinience' for people who are clearly far too STUPID to do math.
The Hi-Fi is a bit of a stretch. It's basically a big box with little iPod jutting out of the top. It would look much better if the iPod sat between the speakers. Even the product page, doesn't do it any favors.
If you ask me, that's not the kind of innovation or design that we're used to from Apple.
Will this new Space Race usher in more new technologies into our daily lives, like the previous one?
No. The last space race performed a wide array of scientific research while in space. This race will be focused on getting passengers up as cheaply as possible.
I'm not saying that there won't be breakthroughs, but nothing near the number of breakthroughs in industries as varied as what NASA affected.