... and probably why google doesn't have this policy anymore...
If an employee has a great idea not directly related to their work, then they probably won't want to give that idea to their employer. And why should they? Your company makes it's money by underpaying you for your work and ideas. Your company realizes this so they don't give you free time to work on your own ideas. In fact, most employers don't even encourage you to learn things that can't be quickly applied directly to your work. My employer doesn't really want me to bring any new technologies into the codebase.
I would love to work for an employer who had that policy, but it's a little too kumbaya to be realistic. We are employed in a capitalist system. And capitalism is the war of all against all.
I have an interesting to save money... pay as you go.
I assumed they used the phone subsidies to keep me on a contract. I'll definitely be pay as you go when they stop giving me phones. No malice or anything, but the free phone is the only thing keeping me on contracts.
I agree! These failed designers are ruining the UIs, just like these kids who think they are "athletes" are ruining my lawn by playing ball on it.
Around the time that Firefox 3 came out I had a perfectly manicured lawn that I invested good time and money into. But by the time FF 4, my whole lawn had been trampled and matted by these lousy kids.
The only appropriate thing to do is shake your fist at these people. No matter what they are doing, shake your fists at them and tell them to get off your lawn. Don't let them on your lawn or in your yard at all, especially when your lawn is impacted.
Makes sense. The first release is innovative, but adds a bunch of problems so it sucks. The next one is more of a maintenance release. Since it fixes a bunch of problems, it's good.
I'll skip the obvious question about why you don't like new Firefox or other browsers and try another tact.
Since this is all open source software, why don't you find like minded people and make a new fork based on Firefox 3.6? If you want to go older than Firefox 3.6, you can always use K-Meleon.
And every time I'm on the expressway, I wish I had a camera for my blind spots. When the government mandates cameras they will probably be like $200 to meet the standards. I'm not sure why automakers didn't think to add the cameras as a cool cheap safety feature. And the ones that do are only on when you are in reverse, so they don't help you with blind spots.
The professors' union has a good point. Enrollment is increasing and management miscalculated the student fees they would need to take in. So now the professors have to: a) publish more b) teach more leaving little time for: c) publish papers that are risky and innovative (the kind that actually move human knowledge forward)
You have wonder how we can encourage the best and the brightest to be academics. We work them to death making them earn a degree, we work them to death making them actually get hired, then they have to still build their reputation. And know they are saying that they'll get fired for not publishing more when they are already teaching more.
Bill Gates actually spends his money on humanitarian things while the "enlightened" Steve Jobs was making iPhones in sweat shops. It is a real shame that Apple is doing so well now.
The fact of the matter is, they just don't want to provide you with free television anymore. In the U.S., we "upgraded" to digital television that almost no one can get a usable signal on. Do you really think corporations are going to stand by and tolerate the government giving you a free service that they have to compete with? Of course not. I think useable free television signals will become increasingly rare across the world.
If it can identity you based on your idiosyncrasies, I suppose that means writers could use software based on these techniques to identity the idiosyncrasies in their own writing. From there, they can learn new ways to express themselves and write in a more colorful and varied manner.
Heck, it can even be a tool that teaches you to think in a more varied manner.
I don't know the answer to your question. But I think there is reason to suspect that Linux on tablet will rock. If you make a tablet meant to run on Linux, you have no driver issues since you don't much upgrade tablets. Also, with Boot2Gecko running Javascript, there is great reason to suspect that it will have great compatability. I think it is clear that mobile/tablet apps will largely be made with Javascript with PhoneGap. This way, they can be Boot2Gecko and Metro compatible. They can also run well on Android and iOS.
Desktop is so last century. In the 21st century mobile computers and entertainment center computers will rule. Desktops will just be for work and
I believe this will really take off when they start genetically engineering bacteria to be efficient fuel producers. I believe that bacteria engineered to produce hydro-carbon fuel will be the power source of the future.
It sounds like this possibility of making you "picky" isn't that much of a problem if people are actually getting successful relationships this way. In a sense you should be picky, you have to go through a lot of people to meet someone you really click with. And I don't care what the study says, after you've met more than say ten people through online dating, I'm sure you start to become more realistic, not less.
I think the biggest advantage to this is that the Kinect will be able to read gestures so you can act like you have a touch screen without having to pull your hands too far from the keyboard or get your finger prints on your screen. It would also be useful to raise you hand four inches off the keyboard and use an imaginary mouse.
"If the developer does not know how to make a good program in one language, it will still not know how to do in any other language."
That statement is not true, not close to being true, and it ignores a great deal of nuance. In fact, if you pick a random language X, most good programmers don't know how to create a good program in that language. For example, I have heard that John Resig, who created jQuery, does not know how to write a good program in Visual FoxPro.
Also, just because it possible to program in one language doesn't mean that another language be more productive, or easier to make error free code in. For example, if you created a language that relied on goto statements, it would less productive and result in more buggy code than C++. Just like Goto, it has been found that explicit pointers make buggier code than languages that make it possible to completely eliminate the use of explicit pointers.
What would make something like this work is if I can integrate this with my cable box. Now that channels are three digits and I can't remember them, I can use a smarter interface. I would also be nice if my on-demand, my netflix, and hulu were all right next to each other. Services like this usually can't pull this off. But maybe Ubuntu will be seen as less of a threat by Comcast and the others, and they'll allow better integration. If so, that would be great.
I love the fact that you made that joke, and people still needed to blast you for mentioning MS. And they actually claim Oracle-controlled, lawsuit hell Java is in a better position.
I mean the switch isn't so binary. He recently switched, he wants to hear other experiences to help him, and he generally thinks it would be a good Slashdot discussion.
I think everyone knows that HoneyComb (Android 3.0) is a stop gap Google made because Ice Cream (Android 4.0) wasn't ready. Since HoneyComb is a code dead-end, that will be abandoned after Android 4.0 comes out, isn't it clear we should wait for a Google TV based off Ice Cream or a later version of Android?
* You don't have to think about drivers and hardware conflicts. Once you get a tablet working with Ubuntu, it just works. * If a tablet costs $100 or $200, no one is going to want to pay for an OS. * People don't have expectations about what should work on their tablets. They aren't going to be all, "But what about Excel on my Tablet!"
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... and probably why google doesn't have this policy anymore...
If an employee has a great idea not directly related to their work, then they probably won't want to give that idea to their employer. And why should they? Your company makes it's money by underpaying you for your work and ideas. Your company realizes this so they don't give you free time to work on your own ideas. In fact, most employers don't even encourage you to learn things that can't be quickly applied directly to your work. My employer doesn't really want me to bring any new technologies into the codebase.
I would love to work for an employer who had that policy, but it's a little too kumbaya to be realistic. We are employed in a capitalist system. And capitalism is the war of all against all.
I have an interesting to save money... pay as you go.
I assumed they used the phone subsidies to keep me on a contract. I'll definitely be pay as you go when they stop giving me phones. No malice or anything, but the free phone is the only thing keeping me on contracts.
I agree! These failed designers are ruining the UIs, just like these kids who think they are "athletes" are ruining my lawn by playing ball on it.
Around the time that Firefox 3 came out I had a perfectly manicured lawn that I invested good time and money into. But by the time FF 4, my whole lawn had been trampled and matted by these lousy kids.
The only appropriate thing to do is shake your fist at these people. No matter what they are doing, shake your fists at them and tell them to get off your lawn. Don't let them on your lawn or in your yard at all, especially when your lawn is impacted.
Makes sense. The first release is innovative, but adds a bunch of problems so it sucks. The next one is more of a maintenance release. Since it fixes a bunch of problems, it's good.
I'll skip the obvious question about why you don't like new Firefox or other browsers and try another tact.
Since this is all open source software, why don't you find like minded people and make a new fork based on Firefox 3.6? If you want to go older than Firefox 3.6, you can always use K-Meleon.
Where did you buy this? What is it called?
And every time I'm on the expressway, I wish I had a camera for my blind spots. When the government mandates cameras they will probably be like $200 to meet the standards. I'm not sure why automakers didn't think to add the cameras as a cool cheap safety feature. And the ones that do are only on when you are in reverse, so they don't help you with blind spots.
Do you honestly think most pizza delivery guys would engage in wanton cruelty to animals?
The professors' union has a good point. Enrollment is increasing and management miscalculated the student fees they would need to take in. So now the professors have to:
a) publish more
b) teach more
leaving little time for:
c) publish papers that are risky and innovative (the kind that actually move human knowledge forward)
You have wonder how we can encourage the best and the brightest to be academics. We work them to death making them earn a degree, we work them to death making them actually get hired, then they have to still build their reputation. And know they are saying that they'll get fired for not publishing more when they are already teaching more.
Bill Gates actually spends his money on humanitarian things while the "enlightened" Steve Jobs was making iPhones in sweat shops. It is a real shame that Apple is doing so well now.
The reinvented toilet can be part of the solution to that problem.
The fact of the matter is, they just don't want to provide you with free television anymore. In the U.S., we "upgraded" to digital television that almost no one can get a usable signal on. Do you really think corporations are going to stand by and tolerate the government giving you a free service that they have to compete with? Of course not. I think useable free television signals will become increasingly rare across the world.
If it can identity you based on your idiosyncrasies, I suppose that means writers could use software based on these techniques to identity the idiosyncrasies in their own writing. From there, they can learn new ways to express themselves and write in a more colorful and varied manner.
Heck, it can even be a tool that teaches you to think in a more varied manner.
I don't know the answer to your question. But I think there is reason to suspect that Linux on tablet will rock. If you make a tablet meant to run on Linux, you have no driver issues since you don't much upgrade tablets. Also, with Boot2Gecko running Javascript, there is great reason to suspect that it will have great compatability. I think it is clear that mobile/tablet apps will largely be made with Javascript with PhoneGap. This way, they can be Boot2Gecko and Metro compatible. They can also run well on Android and iOS.
Desktop is so last century. In the 21st century mobile computers and entertainment center computers will rule. Desktops will just be for work and
I believe this will really take off when they start genetically engineering bacteria to be efficient fuel producers. I believe that bacteria engineered to produce hydro-carbon fuel will be the power source of the future.
Does anyone know?
It sounds like this possibility of making you "picky" isn't that much of a problem if people are actually getting successful relationships this way. In a sense you should be picky, you have to go through a lot of people to meet someone you really click with. And I don't care what the study says, after you've met more than say ten people through online dating, I'm sure you start to become more realistic, not less.
The only really good certs are the CISCO ones. Microsoft ones are good, but only to get your foot in the door. Are there any other certs worthwhile?
I think the biggest advantage to this is that the Kinect will be able to read gestures so you can act like you have a touch screen without having to pull your hands too far from the keyboard or get your finger prints on your screen. It would also be useful to raise you hand four inches off the keyboard and use an imaginary mouse.
"If the developer does not know how to make a good program in one language, it will still not know how to do in any other language."
That statement is not true, not close to being true, and it ignores a great deal of nuance. In fact, if you pick a random language X, most good programmers don't know how to create a good program in that language. For example, I have heard that John Resig, who created jQuery, does not know how to write a good program in Visual FoxPro.
Also, just because it possible to program in one language doesn't mean that another language be more productive, or easier to make error free code in. For example, if you created a language that relied on goto statements, it would less productive and result in more buggy code than C++. Just like Goto, it has been found that explicit pointers make buggier code than languages that make it possible to completely eliminate the use of explicit pointers.
What would make something like this work is if I can integrate this with my cable box. Now that channels are three digits and I can't remember them, I can use a smarter interface. I would also be nice if my on-demand, my netflix, and hulu were all right next to each other. Services like this usually can't pull this off. But maybe Ubuntu will be seen as less of a threat by Comcast and the others, and they'll allow better integration. If so, that would be great.
I love the fact that you made that joke, and people still needed to blast you for mentioning MS. And they actually claim Oracle-controlled, lawsuit hell Java is in a better position.
I mean the switch isn't so binary. He recently switched, he wants to hear other experiences to help him, and he generally thinks it would be a good Slashdot discussion.
I think everyone knows that HoneyComb (Android 3.0) is a stop gap Google made because Ice Cream (Android 4.0) wasn't ready. Since HoneyComb is a code dead-end, that will be abandoned after Android 4.0 comes out, isn't it clear we should wait for a Google TV based off Ice Cream or a later version of Android?
Here are some reasons why:
* You don't have to think about drivers and hardware conflicts. Once you get a tablet working with Ubuntu, it just works.
* If a tablet costs $100 or $200, no one is going to want to pay for an OS.
* People don't have expectations about what should work on their tablets. They aren't going to be all, "But what about Excel on my Tablet!"