if you filter out all technical people right off the bat, due to past paid experience or college degree, you may lose a great hire.
This always bugs me - who cares what may happen? What matters is what will probably happen, and when you don't know the guys in the stack, it's a numbers game - optimize your time to make a good hire likely. This implies two courses of action for the submitter - develop your network and get hired through connections, and get experience any way you can. You don't have to choose - do both.
once you consider the time to clear airport security and sort/hook up all those disks, I bet the BW is closer to 100T/s with 6+ hours latency. Damn, but that's a lot of porn.
Your attitude presents a danger to the fairness of the justice system, since as a juror, you would opt to supercede your personal opinion over the laws of the state and the legal administration of those laws in the courtroom. Please make sure you make your viewpoints known during jury selection so that counsel can (rightly) remove you from the jury pool for your refusal to comply with the legal system.
The jury is a check on the abuses of legislature and the judiciary - it is intended to supercede the laws at times. If it were not so, then what would be the point?
I maintain my car properly, which reduces the possibility of that, and my car is exceptionally stable, to the point that it may not be immediately obvious that a blowout has occured. I don't panic easily, so a front wheel blowout is much like a strong sidegust, which I get at least twice a week. I'm covered. The other drivers are far more dangerous in seattle - they do things like stop when they don't have a reason to, varying between 40 and 65 on the highway, and being oblivious idiots, while I drive fast and pay attention.
nope,.5 seconds. At least, that's what it's been like when I've needed it. You generally have a good idea when someone is about to be stupid, and driving on a rural highway with close in trees is a tense affair because of the attention required for stuff like deer.
Yeah, I'm planning on my subaru lasting to 200k before I manage to kill the engine (new turbo in a couple years). At that point, I can spend a few grand and get a new block - the car should be good for 400k before I get done with it.
he was waiting for high paying customers, and wouldn't rent them out cheaper on a short term contract
Perhaps if he rented some out at the lower price, he feared additional effort would be required to get others to pay the higher price. This makes sense from a perceived value point of view - priceline does hotel discounts in such a way that it's hard to see what hotels are willing to rent for so you have less leverage negotiating a discount.
they're still giving out bonuses to their top execs. (See AIG.)
Those aren't bonuses in the sense you mean. They're part of the contract and, if the workers met certain conditions, they get the money. Bet hey, don't let me stop you whining about $160M in the face of several billion in bailouts.
Sure do, they even sell the same model number, but its cheaper and crappier inside in order to make walmart's target price. That's why you should never buy electronics at walmart.
Sorry, I thought you wanted proof that denver was shortening their lights. The correlation between longer yellows and lower rates of red light running is fairly proven, but I have no interest in doing your homework - go look it up.
half a dozen forgettably bad hacker flicks? Swordfish (not forgettable, and really hollywood), Wargames, and a good number of action movies had geeks as supporting characters (Fizel from True Lies).
That's unamerican - the US was founded on the notion that liberty was more important than safety, so unless you're actually a danger, you should be able to do as you please.
Then you take public transportation, walk, ride a bike, catch a ride with someone.
whine all you want - it won't change a damn thing. If you want fewer uninsured drivers, you have to build better PT and structure cities to not require cars so much.
So, by "get steamrolled" I have to assume you mean, license their new patent or whatever allowed them to outcompete you and then get back in the game thereby causing a more rapid improvement?
No, I mean use their massive power of scale to incorporate your innovation (which is licensed at some unknown price set by persons unknown), improve their brand while yours is nonexistent, and figure out how to make the product without paying you fees, all in less time than it takes you to reocup R&D. Or they could steal your idea anyway, but that happens already.
Oh, wait...you meant you fear competition and hope to profit for life off of one halfway decent idea?
Patents are protection from competition for a period of time in exchange for documenting your work. Taking that away hardly makes it appealing.
It's hard to tell what you really mean.
And you seem to have overlooked follow on effects in favor of feel good sentiments.
Intel will have a monopoly and is using patents to maintain an unhealthy anticompetitive position.
Which isn't illegal. It's only illegal if you leverage your monopoly into another area.
Really patent law should be modified to be require non discriminative licencing of the patent under reasonable terms to encourage competition in the market.
So start a company, get a patent, get steamrolled by an incumbent who licenses your tech for a year or two until they come up with a way to not pay patent fees.
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if you filter out all technical people right off the bat, due to past paid experience or college degree, you may lose a great hire.
This always bugs me - who cares what may happen? What matters is what will probably happen, and when you don't know the guys in the stack, it's a numbers game - optimize your time to make a good hire likely. This implies two courses of action for the submitter - develop your network and get hired through connections, and get experience any way you can. You don't have to choose - do both.
once you consider the time to clear airport security and sort/hook up all those disks, I bet the BW is closer to 100T/s with 6+ hours latency. Damn, but that's a lot of porn.
Mine are not liked up like yours... they all roll about the draw.
You can get a thing to stick them on for about $5. Makes it easy to grab my metric hex sockets in one go.
Your attitude presents a danger to the fairness of the justice system, since as a juror, you would opt to supercede your personal opinion over the laws of the state and the legal administration of those laws in the courtroom. Please make sure you make your viewpoints known during jury selection so that counsel can (rightly) remove you from the jury pool for your refusal to comply with the legal system.
The jury is a check on the abuses of legislature and the judiciary - it is intended to supercede the laws at times. If it were not so, then what would be the point?
I maintain my car properly, which reduces the possibility of that, and my car is exceptionally stable, to the point that it may not be immediately obvious that a blowout has occured. I don't panic easily, so a front wheel blowout is much like a strong sidegust, which I get at least twice a week. I'm covered. The other drivers are far more dangerous in seattle - they do things like stop when they don't have a reason to, varying between 40 and 65 on the highway, and being oblivious idiots, while I drive fast and pay attention.
nope, .5 seconds. At least, that's what it's been like when I've needed it. You generally have a good idea when someone is about to be stupid, and driving on a rural highway with close in trees is a tense affair because of the attention required for stuff like deer.
Yeah, I'm planning on my subaru lasting to 200k before I manage to kill the engine (new turbo in a couple years). At that point, I can spend a few grand and get a new block - the car should be good for 400k before I get done with it.
he was waiting for high paying customers, and wouldn't rent them out cheaper on a short term contract
Perhaps if he rented some out at the lower price, he feared additional effort would be required to get others to pay the higher price. This makes sense from a perceived value point of view - priceline does hotel discounts in such a way that it's hard to see what hotels are willing to rent for so you have less leverage negotiating a discount.
you just can't buy it without the box, which is your beef, and is really a common practice for software, including games.
And it's a stupid practice, which is why he's bitching. All you're saying is that they do that - you're agreeing with him.
You have an expectation that you should be able to buy it instantly online because you can play it online
And why not? 600M of download takes maybe an hour on decent broadband (10 min for me), so sure, go for it.
they're still giving out bonuses to their top execs. (See AIG.)
Those aren't bonuses in the sense you mean. They're part of the contract and, if the workers met certain conditions, they get the money. Bet hey, don't let me stop you whining about $160M in the face of several billion in bailouts.
Sure do, they even sell the same model number, but its cheaper and crappier inside in order to make walmart's target price. That's why you should never buy electronics at walmart.
Humans have a practical 1-2 second reaction time in response to danger.
Mine is .25 second reaction time, for a practical reaction time of a half second. I suppose I'm unusual.
Sorry, I thought you wanted proof that denver was shortening their lights. The correlation between longer yellows and lower rates of red light running is fairly proven, but I have no interest in doing your homework - go look it up.
half a dozen forgettably bad hacker flicks? Swordfish (not forgettable, and really hollywood), Wargames, and a good number of action movies had geeks as supporting characters (Fizel from True Lies).
That was easy. For your next trick, I suggest you demand proof that some chicago cops are corrupt.
better safe then sorry
That's unamerican - the US was founded on the notion that liberty was more important than safety, so unless you're actually a danger, you should be able to do as you please.
Then you take public transportation, walk, ride a bike, catch a ride with someone.
whine all you want - it won't change a damn thing. If you want fewer uninsured drivers, you have to build better PT and structure cities to not require cars so much.
Patents last 20 years from filing. Do try to keep up.
I'm sure the admins would love it if we could get rid of all the stuff that breaks.
So, by "get steamrolled" I have to assume you mean, license their new patent or whatever allowed them to outcompete you and then get back in the game thereby causing a more rapid improvement?
No, I mean use their massive power of scale to incorporate your innovation (which is licensed at some unknown price set by persons unknown), improve their brand while yours is nonexistent, and figure out how to make the product without paying you fees, all in less time than it takes you to reocup R&D. Or they could steal your idea anyway, but that happens already.
Oh, wait...you meant you fear competition and hope to profit for life off of one halfway decent idea?
Patents are protection from competition for a period of time in exchange for documenting your work. Taking that away hardly makes it appealing.
It's hard to tell what you really mean.
And you seem to have overlooked follow on effects in favor of feel good sentiments.
Intel will have a monopoly and is using patents to maintain an unhealthy anticompetitive position.
Which isn't illegal. It's only illegal if you leverage your monopoly into another area.
Really patent law should be modified to be require non discriminative licencing of the patent under reasonable terms to encourage competition in the market.
So start a company, get a patent, get steamrolled by an incumbent who licenses your tech for a year or two until they come up with a way to not pay patent fees.
what don't you like about x86-64?
We have virtualization now - If I can run a legacy app in a dos box, who cares what the actual hardware is?
Since he also nuked the CVS server, I'd say it was spite.
They are giving > $1,000,000 bonuses to people who failed miserably
No they aren't. They're giving >$1mil commissions to people who met contractually stipulated conditions. If they didn't, they'd be sued.