but you can't really debate the questions on this type of test without posting actual questions... not the demo questions, or sample questions.
Like the poster said, they wanted to debate whether these were appropriate or stilted when used as mandatory tests by public agencies. These are the tests they hand out en masse and if you don't score the "right thing" in the right areas they just don't call you back.
I think 10%+ is a bit high to fight off a DMCA request, but it's a good question how much is "fair use" when having the "exact" material is key to the discussion.
much of the technology was "dead end" anyway. You couldn't build an Intel CPU fab from sticks and stones and left over pieces they had for 50 years.... their technology was already gone, the choice was to spend all their resources starting over, or to let technology go and have a clean slate.
There was no more quorum, Adama just made the decision for everybody. The 38k (down from 50k) people were just glad to be on solid, habitable ground again to raise a protest.
I agree, I liked the nearly seemless jump of the "visions" from old Caprica streets to New York. That part was perfect to establish the "it has happened before, it will happen again" cycle.
The whole "robot montage" was unneeded, almost insulting. It felt like we dropped to "documentary" mode and it ruined the feeling of the shows real ending. It felt like a cheap "knowing is half the battle" thing rather than serious sci-fi. Too many anime series have ended with that style to bring "reality" to you that they should have known better than do do the "robot" scenes... especially as bad "TV" spots.
I liked the BSG approach. The whole point is that you had a society that explored the stars and neatly explained god away while still holding to ancient traditions. They got to the point they could even recreate artificial and human life.
I think the writers wanted to make a statement people needed a "god" of some kind and that things happen to lead humanity thru the ages. I don't think they wanted to get into particulars of "which" god to avoid upsetting multiple groups they just wanted some "divine presence".
I agree too. I liked the ending on the mountain top, but it felt like the extended LotR where there were endings of endings.... it should have been 1/2 hour shorter and would have felt the same, in fact the cheesy "current times" ending took away from the actual story plot.
the problem is that most Windows and Linux programs and APIs are not safe to be moved to another core. Ironically, this was a problem BeOS sought to handle in spades, but I haven't seen Haiku check in on this lately. The OS maybe SMP capable, but the APIs programmers use don't nicely split "your" program behind the scenes, expecting the individual programmer to babysit this.. and they're not doing it right now.
first, I just went to the Psystar site and OSX isn't supported yet on the Open 7! Second, an i7 is not anywhere near equivalent to a Xeon, especially since Apple got a higher clock speed one first for the Mac Pro, those are $1500 just for the CPU. Your choices aren't in the same league.
The real question is this, why doesn't Apple make the cheaper i7 based desktop "Mac" that everybody wants? That's a Steve Jobs thing because he want to make "appliances" that get bought, used, and replaced, not "computers" that have to deal with multiple expansions and third party components all the time. (as a side note most of the problems with Windows computers are cheap hardware and poor drivers not the OS... both consequence of their model of distributing those to other parties, so Jobs decision is right, from a certain point of view. it's not like Microsoft lets people add video cards and ram to Xbox 360!)
Apple's flaw if you would call it that is not selling "equivalent" machines making comparison hard. All of Apple's laptops and "desktops" use notebook processors, which cost more money per unit, and they use top "bin" parts, they don't advertise a sub-average part for cheap, and charge bunches extra. If you look at the Dells that are cheap they are reduced clock speed, cache ram and front bus. Apple always uses the best stuff across the whole line, that means there's no "cheap" machines. It also means they're paying more for the privilege to get those higher speed parts first. They are "absolutely" more expensive than a comparable white-box PC. Compare the Mac Mini to a Shuttle SFC or the macbook pro to a Sony Viao. A Mac is not a "white box" by a long shot. It is more expensive though. Of course you can compare a Hyundi to a BMW because they have "6 cylinders" and 4 wheels.. too.
why, it's not like you change the OS on your iPhone to Win CE or Palm? Apple sells a package. So does Dell and HP, their "package" is just (and ONLY) Windows. It's not like other companies SUPPORT multiple OSes on their hardware.. it's just that THIRD PARTIES managed to make it go.
or rather, if your own kids and wife want a competitors product, maybe you should be grilling your designers and engineers on why your family members don't want YOUR companies products and what your company has to do to make a product they want!
Fact is that Apple is highly fashionable among rich people right now. Microsoft products are what "business class working folk" use. There's good business in being a monopoly.. except selling to rich folk that DON'T want to be like everybody else!
"never attribute to malice..." would apply here. After all Subs are supposed to SNEAK around. It's not like they equip them with catbells! I'd blame the submarine crew for not looking where they were going, as they get to go "silent running" so they should pay more attention to where they're boat is pointed.
These are "bonuses" like the Union pensions and health care automakers are required to cut... you know legally and fairly negotiated years ago, right.
IF it was good enough to demand retired auto workers give up their contracted benefits, (actually worse because the current workers cut off their former union brothers) it's good enough for AIG people making million dollar salaries.. don-cha think?
How about auto makers and their precious "model years". They always seem to get earlier and earlier and they all seem to be announced every auto show when they all get together. Obviously, they are seeking to devalue automobiles every July 1 when they announce new models, right.
In fact this is just the logic people tried to use on the Apple iPhone being a "monopoly" but because they're a US company the US courts didn't fall for it. These companies are semi-state backed... so adjusting their schedules to keep them in business is more important the finer points of international law. Turning this around, will the US back up the EU when they call for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to sit in jail for their illegal monopoly actions in Europe? There is much more damning evidence against Microsoft that these guys but the US courts haven't held them (or Micron, Rambus, IBM, etc, etc) to the same standards as the Asian electronic firms.
because termination of employment is "at will". The company side has much greater power and influence than the individual employee. At that point it is a "disagreement" that's all the company needs to sever employment ties. A company choosing to fire you is meaning less as a measure of "truthfulness" it's just an opinion. Even if it is a breakage of the company "rules" it's still legally a disagreement, broadcasting one side (especially for the larger party) it just asking for trouble. Defamation is about FACTS. Unless the company is willing to backup the facts (for all the employees to see) and also post the fired person's rebuttal to facts where they have equal footing, then there's no way for the company's side NOT to be defaming (which is more broad than liable or slander).
but by that grounds he has a case for defamation (not the same as the synonyms). They released "part of the story"... to thousands of employees. Do those employees (and all the people they might tell about this) have means to verify the "truth" of the story? Like I said in another post "incorrect" or even "wrong" expense reports is considerably different than theft or stealing. As it's been 3 years and they haven't brought up some type of criminal charge, the matter is a "private disagreement" about a component of his work performance.. not related to "stealing" from the company, which seems to be how it was phrased in the letter to employees.
Like I also said, no company would normally do this, we're told in those clever little HR meetings specifically NOT to do this, at least in my company. Once a company puts out an official publication like this (and "official" is a very big part of the matter.. it's not "somebody's" opinion, it's the companies) then they have to make themselves open to clarify and vet the truth of the matter. If they're not willing to do that, and they just decide not to answer questions, then they are "lying by ommission" which is the point of defamation.. What's the purpose in telling thousands of employees about the matter except to "mark" the guy wherever he may try to get a job?...in effect that's what defamation is all about.
the trouble is that management likes these people. They get invited to the meetings, the get called first, so they get things "done". They are also careful to make sure THEY get training, and THEY get invited to meetings first and carefully control that others don't get invited. Their opinions get heard first and get heard loudest.. and they know who to cry to, and what things to threaten to get their way.
except that the job of documentation is seen as a "junior" job, something important people don't have to do. Then the whole engineering department is focused on "getting out of" documentation. The peons are expendable and the seniors "just expect" the documentation to appear without working for it and blaming their underlings.
I love how the network marketing people "independently" created the SyFy moniker... yet nobody did a Google lookup before pitching this to execs? The sheer audacity of "pitch it now, and fix it in legal" is astounding. Sounds like they bought him off for his narrow band of "web properties". They played the third party game, so the network's involvement in the sale wouldn't inflate the price. Sounds like it went amicably as the lawyers were nice enough to threaten him with "zeros" first is that $100, $1000, $10000..ouch) , and the network was smart enough to fix the issue before launching.
Terms of a person's firing are almost always non-public. A company as large as Staples can't publish to ALL it's employees that they fired Bob over $5.00 misappropriated on an expense report. That's malicious. It's appropriate to say we will (and have) terminated over expense reports being wrong without giving the offenders name.
I can't think of any company I've worked at that's attached names to memos like that. Even companies that actually call the cops on somebody don't typically inform the employees of the person's name, or particular details of the infraction beyond the company "rule book" for just this reason.
The problem is that IP is like the One Ring. You can fight off one army of lawyers, but then many years later another picks it out of the battlefield and starts the cycle again. Like the One Ring IP always corrupts those who seek to use it. There's no "Mt. Doom" for IP to actually go to die.
they didn't steal anything. They just structured "impressions" so Dell paid them more money than the market would have decided on.
Personally, I'm having a problem with all these foreign companies being sued for "collusion" years after the fact. Prices are consistently dropping, in fact they are dropping in many cases dangerously fast to the economy. The big problem in the electronics industry is that there is little adjusting to market demand after production is started. Companies pay their billions up front to make RAM chips or LCDs and they have to make that one model, for 6 months straight to hit their margins. When somebody decides they want to sell 17" in stead of 15", or Apple buys up pre-sales of chips, that causes one item to fall to "fire sale" levels and another to spike.
Companies like Dell and Apple pre-pay for the actual manufacturing run, not for the spot-prices. Some days they get a good deal, others they get stuck holding the bag. I think that's why OEM components are marked up so much because the OEM promised the sale price 3 months ago, not the "fire sale" price retail is charging right now. Knowing a little bit how the purchasing for these things work, it feels like the OEMs are pointing to the "fire sale" price of tech after 6 months and claiming they should have got that price up front and were "mislead". OEMs are not like Walmart, the only leverage they have on the market is to promise to buy up-front.
You and I typically buy on the "spot market" we buy ram/hard drives/CPUs that are left-overs from the OEM runs. That's why new ram is very expensive, then as the company fills orders but has a week left to run they "run out" the schedule until the time to build new parts, then the cycle repeats. If the cycle is off a week or two then prices go all over. If the fabs run an extra two weeks of parts, first the bills were paid by the OEM contracts say at $150 per panel, but if they run out the schedule the street value of the panel made the last week may only be $100 because they flooded the market, OEMs didn't take their orders, or the next model isn't ready yet.. the fab don't stop. It feels like the OEMs are saying that they were "overcharged" at $150 and that the fabs "knew" 6 months ahead the part would be worth much less when they were done with the run. That's not how electronic fabs work and with the increase in cases I don't think US courts "get" that fact. I also think they're favoring the "home team" and not the contracts.
a girl showing her boobies 3 years ago when she was a sorority girl is not the same as somebody who's a cop right know joking about beating suspects or planting evidence.
The last 3 presidents openly admitted to smoking pot... What would be so different about it in 15 years when somebody digs up somebody's old facebook post from Freshman year?
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but you can't really debate the questions on this type of test without posting actual questions... not the demo questions, or sample questions.
Like the poster said, they wanted to debate whether these were appropriate or stilted when used as mandatory tests by public agencies. These are the tests they hand out en masse and if you don't score the "right thing" in the right areas they just don't call you back.
I think 10%+ is a bit high to fight off a DMCA request, but it's a good question how much is "fair use" when having the "exact" material is key to the discussion.
much of the technology was "dead end" anyway. You couldn't build an Intel CPU fab from sticks and stones and left over pieces they had for 50 years.... their technology was already gone, the choice was to spend all their resources starting over, or to let technology go and have a clean slate.
There was no more quorum, Adama just made the decision for everybody. The 38k (down from 50k) people were just glad to be on solid, habitable ground again to raise a protest.
he wanted to keep the evolutionists happy.
I agree, I liked the nearly seemless jump of the "visions" from old Caprica streets to New York. That part was perfect to establish the "it has happened before, it will happen again" cycle.
The whole "robot montage" was unneeded, almost insulting. It felt like we dropped to "documentary" mode and it ruined the feeling of the shows real ending. It felt like a cheap "knowing is half the battle" thing rather than serious sci-fi. Too many anime series have ended with that style to bring "reality" to you that they should have known better than do do the "robot" scenes... especially as bad "TV" spots.
I liked the BSG approach. The whole point is that you had a society that explored the stars and neatly explained god away while still holding to ancient traditions. They got to the point they could even recreate artificial and human life.
I think the writers wanted to make a statement people needed a "god" of some kind and that things happen to lead humanity thru the ages. I don't think they wanted to get into particulars of "which" god to avoid upsetting multiple groups they just wanted some "divine presence".
I agree too. I liked the ending on the mountain top, but it felt like the extended LotR where there were endings of endings.... it should have been 1/2 hour shorter and would have felt the same, in fact the cheesy "current times" ending took away from the actual story plot.
the problem is that most Windows and Linux programs and APIs are not safe to be moved to another core. Ironically, this was a problem BeOS sought to handle in spades, but I haven't seen Haiku check in on this lately. The OS maybe SMP capable, but the APIs programmers use don't nicely split "your" program behind the scenes, expecting the individual programmer to babysit this.. and they're not doing it right now.
halo is published by Microsoft, so they don't have to follow the rules!
first, I just went to the Psystar site and OSX isn't supported yet on the Open 7! Second, an i7 is not anywhere near equivalent to a Xeon, especially since Apple got a higher clock speed one first for the Mac Pro, those are $1500 just for the CPU. Your choices aren't in the same league.
The real question is this, why doesn't Apple make the cheaper i7 based desktop "Mac" that everybody wants? That's a Steve Jobs thing because he want to make "appliances" that get bought, used, and replaced, not "computers" that have to deal with multiple expansions and third party components all the time. (as a side note most of the problems with Windows computers are cheap hardware and poor drivers not the OS... both consequence of their model of distributing those to other parties, so Jobs decision is right, from a certain point of view. it's not like Microsoft lets people add video cards and ram to Xbox 360!)
Apple's flaw if you would call it that is not selling "equivalent" machines making comparison hard. All of Apple's laptops and "desktops" use notebook processors, which cost more money per unit, and they use top "bin" parts, they don't advertise a sub-average part for cheap, and charge bunches extra. If you look at the Dells that are cheap they are reduced clock speed, cache ram and front bus. Apple always uses the best stuff across the whole line, that means there's no "cheap" machines. It also means they're paying more for the privilege to get those higher speed parts first. They are "absolutely" more expensive than a comparable white-box PC. Compare the Mac Mini to a Shuttle SFC or the macbook pro to a Sony Viao. A Mac is not a "white box" by a long shot. It is more expensive though. Of course you can compare a Hyundi to a BMW because they have "6 cylinders" and 4 wheels.. too.
why, it's not like you change the OS on your iPhone to Win CE or Palm? Apple sells a package. So does Dell and HP, their "package" is just (and ONLY) Windows. It's not like other companies SUPPORT multiple OSes on their hardware.. it's just that THIRD PARTIES managed to make it go.
or rather, if your own kids and wife want a competitors product, maybe you should be grilling your designers and engineers on why your family members don't want YOUR companies products and what your company has to do to make a product they want!
Fact is that Apple is highly fashionable among rich people right now. Microsoft products are what "business class working folk" use. There's good business in being a monopoly.. except selling to rich folk that DON'T want to be like everybody else!
"never attribute to malice..." would apply here. After all Subs are supposed to SNEAK around. It's not like they equip them with catbells! I'd blame the submarine crew for not looking where they were going, as they get to go "silent running" so they should pay more attention to where they're boat is pointed.
These are "bonuses" like the Union pensions and health care automakers are required to cut... you know legally and fairly negotiated years ago, right.
IF it was good enough to demand retired auto workers give up their contracted benefits, (actually worse because the current workers cut off their former union brothers) it's good enough for AIG people making million dollar salaries.. don-cha think?
How about auto makers and their precious "model years". They always seem to get earlier and earlier and they all seem to be announced every auto show when they all get together. Obviously, they are seeking to devalue automobiles every July 1 when they announce new models, right.
In fact this is just the logic people tried to use on the Apple iPhone being a "monopoly" but because they're a US company the US courts didn't fall for it. These companies are semi-state backed... so adjusting their schedules to keep them in business is more important the finer points of international law. Turning this around, will the US back up the EU when they call for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to sit in jail for their illegal monopoly actions in Europe? There is much more damning evidence against Microsoft that these guys but the US courts haven't held them (or Micron, Rambus, IBM, etc, etc) to the same standards as the Asian electronic firms.
because termination of employment is "at will". The company side has much greater power and influence than the individual employee. At that point it is a "disagreement" that's all the company needs to sever employment ties. A company choosing to fire you is meaning less as a measure of "truthfulness" it's just an opinion. Even if it is a breakage of the company "rules" it's still legally a disagreement, broadcasting one side (especially for the larger party) it just asking for trouble. Defamation is about FACTS. Unless the company is willing to backup the facts (for all the employees to see) and also post the fired person's rebuttal to facts where they have equal footing, then there's no way for the company's side NOT to be defaming (which is more broad than liable or slander).
but by that grounds he has a case for defamation (not the same as the synonyms). They released "part of the story" ... to thousands of employees. Do those employees (and all the people they might tell about this) have means to verify the "truth" of the story? Like I said in another post "incorrect" or even "wrong" expense reports is considerably different than theft or stealing. As it's been 3 years and they haven't brought up some type of criminal charge, the matter is a "private disagreement" about a component of his work performance.. not related to "stealing" from the company, which seems to be how it was phrased in the letter to employees.
Like I also said, no company would normally do this, we're told in those clever little HR meetings specifically NOT to do this, at least in my company. Once a company puts out an official publication like this (and "official" is a very big part of the matter.. it's not "somebody's" opinion, it's the companies) then they have to make themselves open to clarify and vet the truth of the matter. If they're not willing to do that, and they just decide not to answer questions, then they are "lying by ommission" which is the point of defamation.. What's the purpose in telling thousands of employees about the matter except to "mark" the guy wherever he may try to get a job? ...in effect that's what defamation is all about.
the trouble is that management likes these people. They get invited to the meetings, the get called first, so they get things "done". They are also careful to make sure THEY get training, and THEY get invited to meetings first and carefully control that others don't get invited. Their opinions get heard first and get heard loudest.. and they know who to cry to, and what things to threaten to get their way.
except that the job of documentation is seen as a "junior" job, something important people don't have to do. Then the whole engineering department is focused on "getting out of" documentation. The peons are expendable and the seniors "just expect" the documentation to appear without working for it and blaming their underlings.
I love how the network marketing people "independently" created the SyFy moniker... yet nobody did a Google lookup before pitching this to execs? The sheer audacity of "pitch it now, and fix it in legal" is astounding. Sounds like they bought him off for his narrow band of "web properties". They played the third party game, so the network's involvement in the sale wouldn't inflate the price. Sounds like it went amicably as the lawyers were nice enough to threaten him with "zeros" first is that $100, $1000, $10000..ouch) , and the network was smart enough to fix the issue before launching.
it's fiction! and strange...
I think it will stick.
Terms of a person's firing are almost always non-public. A company as large as Staples can't publish to ALL it's employees that they fired Bob over $5.00 misappropriated on an expense report. That's malicious. It's appropriate to say we will (and have) terminated over expense reports being wrong without giving the offenders name.
I can't think of any company I've worked at that's attached names to memos like that. Even companies that actually call the cops on somebody don't typically inform the employees of the person's name, or particular details of the infraction beyond the company "rule book" for just this reason.
The problem is that IP is like the One Ring. You can fight off one army of lawyers, but then many years later another picks it out of the battlefield and starts the cycle again. Like the One Ring IP always corrupts those who seek to use it. There's no "Mt. Doom" for IP to actually go to die.
they didn't steal anything. They just structured "impressions" so Dell paid them more money than the market would have decided on.
Personally, I'm having a problem with all these foreign companies being sued for "collusion" years after the fact. Prices are consistently dropping, in fact they are dropping in many cases dangerously fast to the economy. The big problem in the electronics industry is that there is little adjusting to market demand after production is started. Companies pay their billions up front to make RAM chips or LCDs and they have to make that one model, for 6 months straight to hit their margins. When somebody decides they want to sell 17" in stead of 15", or Apple buys up pre-sales of chips, that causes one item to fall to "fire sale" levels and another to spike.
Companies like Dell and Apple pre-pay for the actual manufacturing run, not for the spot-prices. Some days they get a good deal, others they get stuck holding the bag. I think that's why OEM components are marked up so much because the OEM promised the sale price 3 months ago, not the "fire sale" price retail is charging right now. Knowing a little bit how the purchasing for these things work, it feels like the OEMs are pointing to the "fire sale" price of tech after 6 months and claiming they should have got that price up front and were "mislead". OEMs are not like Walmart, the only leverage they have on the market is to promise to buy up-front.
You and I typically buy on the "spot market" we buy ram/hard drives/CPUs that are left-overs from the OEM runs. That's why new ram is very expensive, then as the company fills orders but has a week left to run they "run out" the schedule until the time to build new parts, then the cycle repeats. If the cycle is off a week or two then prices go all over. If the fabs run an extra two weeks of parts, first the bills were paid by the OEM contracts say at $150 per panel, but if they run out the schedule the street value of the panel made the last week may only be $100 because they flooded the market, OEMs didn't take their orders, or the next model isn't ready yet.. the fab don't stop. It feels like the OEMs are saying that they were "overcharged" at $150 and that the fabs "knew" 6 months ahead the part would be worth much less when they were done with the run. That's not how electronic fabs work and with the increase in cases I don't think US courts "get" that fact. I also think they're favoring the "home team" and not the contracts.
a girl showing her boobies 3 years ago when she was a sorority girl is not the same as somebody who's a cop right know joking about beating suspects or planting evidence.
The last 3 presidents openly admitted to smoking pot... What would be so different about it in 15 years when somebody digs up somebody's old facebook post from Freshman year?