All jokes aside, this looks to me like a great invention. A preventative against nuclear attack! Hopefully it works, and hopefully it proliferates worldwide, so that all nuclear missile technology is rendered futile.
Repeat after me: "Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company." They do NOT make their profits off of OS X. They use OS X as the complement to their real product, which are apple computers. Apple COMPUTERS. They do NOT compete with Microsoft, they compete with Dell. Sure this can change, and might, but I don't yet understand how doing what this article suggests does anything but drive Apple out of business.
The study measured relative growth rates. Small things grown at a larger percentage than smaller things. "Fastest growing" is a claim often used as a marketing tool by small organizations to sound impressive. If my website gets 2 hits per month and now goes to 10 hits/month, I've grown 500%! Wow!
Of course I drive a freaking car, I live in California. I know what you're talking about. Leaving teenagers who are pulling stupid pranks aside (I've never seen that one, by the way), most of the time what gets people pissed off just amounts to a difference in opinion as to who should give whom consideration. The guy flashing his lights thinks he has the right to be a speed demon, the guy getting flashed at thinks he has the right to block everybody's way. How about if both of them take a step back and try to help the other guy instead of fighting them? This implies that if I'm the guy behind, I wait until I get a chance to pass, while making my intention to pass clear, and if I'm the guy in front, I check my rear view mirror and let people go by if they want to and it's convenient for me.
Ever been going to the road and there's a couple clowns, side by side, noodling along, keeping pace with each other, about 15 under the limit?
Totally! And there's about 15 clowns in each car, with their big red noses? Luckily, they drive little tiny cars that are easy to get around.
Seriously, they usually aren't going 15 under the limit, they are usually doing exactly the speed limit. Yes, it's a pisser, but actually, they are driving legally and safely, believe it or not. You really need a chill pill. Traffic would be more smooth and less dangerous and irritating if we all picked a similar speed, left room to pass and merge, and otherwise respected each other. But it has to start somewhere. I'm just pointing out that impatient assholes are also part of the problem. Not that YOU are one of those.:-)
I understand your frustration, and I've felt it too, but really, can't you just politely interrupt and ask to get by? How long are they really delaying you? Some people actually enjoy interacting with other humans. What you call "nattering" other people call "friendly conversation."
My point is that when somebody appears "less intelligent" than you, by which I presume you mean they drive differently, instead of getting angry, you can simply be a bit more patient. Of course it is good manners to pull over for people in a hurry, but it's also bad manners to rush around without any consideration for others. And little old ladies deserve a bit of respect in a supermarket, don't they? Instead of pushing their cart aside, how about smiling and asking them if you can pass by?
I once got so fed up with a couple of nattering bints who completely blocked the aisle, I picked up one of the carts, and moved it aside. That shut their traps.
Yes, people really are rude in supermarkets, aren't they? You remind me of the guy on the freeway who gets right behind you and flashes his lights. Road rage in the supermarket aisles! You need to slow your ass down suckah.
Seems to me like he had something to hide, so he hid it.
Can I borrow your mind-reading machine when you're done with it?
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According to Wikipedia, it looks like WINE is technically a "compatibility layer," not an actual emulator. But I think Windows emulation is a good description of what it does. Why do people have to argue over such stupid shit? It's just that it doesn't emulate hardware.
I heard an interesting discussion on Michael Krasny's Forum about the "auter" theory, about how directors are given credit for everything and there's this guy who is pushing a "Schreiber Theory" that advocates giving primacy to writers in credits. The comment was that if writers were given more credit in films, there'd be more creativity. Don't know if I buy it, but the podcast I linked to above is very interesting.
Not just bandwidth, but if you were the head admin of their network, how thrilled would you be that somebody hung a big sign on your campus saying "please attack us"?
Well, I don't know about your idea that all rational thought about money is based on profit motive. Expenditures that fuel the common good are not necessarily going to lead to short-term profit. For example, how about grade-school education? Clearly this is a public good in my mind that should be funded, although I am generally a libertarian philosophically. But few corporations would fun childhood primary education, nor should they. I prefer that the government fund it, but I would like to see them run privately. Similarly with some medical research. I think we should fund certain private research with government grants, with full visibility. My understanding is that the objections to this particular group is that they do not disclose their conflicts of interest, etc.
Slashdot's mod system sucks. Why not just allow people to say "+1" or "+1 but don't affect karma", and let them pick their own words for why? A system like this just causes confusion. You have people saying "insightful" and you don't know what they meant -- stupid.
Suveys like this do not tell you the number that would switch. When you ask people what they *would* do about such and such if it hypothetically happened, they are just taking a guess. I think they are just giving their opinion about what they think about outsourcing. When push comes to shove, most people won't change a habit or a program or a vendor because of outsourcing; they may just be annoyed for a bit but will soon get used to it. When they answer the survey, they are only guessing at a hypothetical. The only way to really find out is to do studies of actual behavior, which I admit would be really hard.
I've always thought you should be able to mod just +1, -1, or None, and attach a single word of your choice to describe why, or choose from a list. The choices we have a are crap. I often want to mod someone down for an "unsupported reason" and basically just have to lie.
Do you what you find interesting, and you'll succeed
Obviously insufficient on the face of it. It's not enough to like what you do. Here is an excellent article on how to do what you love, to save some breath. Paul Graham's "How to Do What You Love". Here's the first paragraph to whet your appetite.
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.
It would be nice if we could measure the FACTS instead of what people think. Asking people if they think they are more productive might be misleading, because as the article points out, technology makes you feel like you're doing less by allowing you to move quickly between projects. But how to really measure this? It's a manager's nightmare.
I don't know how many they get per day, but they could set up a filter with some keywords, and names that don't pass the keyword can get looked at by a human. It's better than just a dumb ban, and seems workable. But it would cost labor to do, and there's probably no demand for such a "service," nobody is going to cause that much of a stink most of the time, I guess. I'm just dreaming.
Speaking of asshats, you obviously were too busy ignorantly pontificating to read the article, which said nothing about a reduction in the change of hiring or other stupid ideas you just pulled from your ass. The study was by the ACM, a respected organization, and one hardly in favor of reduced IT jobs in the U.S. The article, which you decry as ignorant, explains something some people (ahem) don't apparently understand: the economy is not a zero-sum game. It is possible for offshoring to increase while hiring also increases. RTFA, you hysterical hyena of doom! Here's the clincher:
"Despite all the publicity in the United States about jobs being lost to India and China, the size of the IT employment market in the United States today is higher than it was at the height of the dot.com boom," said the report. "Information technology appears as though it will be a growth area at least for the coming decade, and the U.S. government projects that several IT occupations will be among the fastest growing occupations during this time."
Instead of making stupid rules that will always have this problem, why not have some guidelines and pay someone $10/hour to just check peoples' ID's when they register to make sure it's not hate-filled or obnoxious? I mean, if people start registering with "Allahsucks" again, will the rule come back?
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All jokes aside, this looks to me like a great invention. A preventative against nuclear attack! Hopefully it works, and hopefully it proliferates worldwide, so that all nuclear missile technology is rendered futile.
Repeat after me: "Apple is a hardware company. Apple is a hardware company." They do NOT make their profits off of OS X. They use OS X as the complement to their real product, which are apple computers. Apple COMPUTERS. They do NOT compete with Microsoft, they compete with Dell. Sure this can change, and might, but I don't yet understand how doing what this article suggests does anything but drive Apple out of business.
Elsewhere on slashdot: the government fined some major spammers. Crazy world.
The study measured relative growth rates. Small things grown at a larger percentage than smaller things. "Fastest growing" is a claim often used as a marketing tool by small organizations to sound impressive. If my website gets 2 hits per month and now goes to 10 hits/month, I've grown 500%! Wow!
Of course I drive a freaking car, I live in California. I know what you're talking about. Leaving teenagers who are pulling stupid pranks aside (I've never seen that one, by the way), most of the time what gets people pissed off just amounts to a difference in opinion as to who should give whom consideration. The guy flashing his lights thinks he has the right to be a speed demon, the guy getting flashed at thinks he has the right to block everybody's way. How about if both of them take a step back and try to help the other guy instead of fighting them? This implies that if I'm the guy behind, I wait until I get a chance to pass, while making my intention to pass clear, and if I'm the guy in front, I check my rear view mirror and let people go by if they want to and it's convenient for me.
Totally! And there's about 15 clowns in each car, with their big red noses? Luckily, they drive little tiny cars that are easy to get around.
Seriously, they usually aren't going 15 under the limit, they are usually doing exactly the speed limit. Yes, it's a pisser, but actually, they are driving legally and safely, believe it or not. You really need a chill pill. Traffic would be more smooth and less dangerous and irritating if we all picked a similar speed, left room to pass and merge, and otherwise respected each other. But it has to start somewhere. I'm just pointing out that impatient assholes are also part of the problem. Not that YOU are one of those. :-)
I understand your frustration, and I've felt it too, but really, can't you just politely interrupt and ask to get by? How long are they really delaying you? Some people actually enjoy interacting with other humans. What you call "nattering" other people call "friendly conversation."
My point is that when somebody appears "less intelligent" than you, by which I presume you mean they drive differently, instead of getting angry, you can simply be a bit more patient. Of course it is good manners to pull over for people in a hurry, but it's also bad manners to rush around without any consideration for others. And little old ladies deserve a bit of respect in a supermarket, don't they? Instead of pushing their cart aside, how about smiling and asking them if you can pass by?
Yes, people really are rude in supermarkets, aren't they? You remind me of the guy on the freeway who gets right behind you and flashes his lights. Road rage in the supermarket aisles! You need to slow your ass down suckah.
Yes, just click here.
Can I borrow your mind-reading machine when you're done with it?
According to Wikipedia, it looks like WINE is technically a "compatibility layer," not an actual emulator. But I think Windows emulation is a good description of what it does. Why do people have to argue over such stupid shit? It's just that it doesn't emulate hardware.
I heard an interesting discussion on Michael Krasny's Forum about the "auter" theory, about how directors are given credit for everything and there's this guy who is pushing a "Schreiber Theory" that advocates giving primacy to writers in credits. The comment was that if writers were given more credit in films, there'd be more creativity. Don't know if I buy it, but the podcast I linked to above is very interesting.
Not just bandwidth, but if you were the head admin of their network, how thrilled would you be that somebody hung a big sign on your campus saying "please attack us"?
Well, I don't know about your idea that all rational thought about money is based on profit motive. Expenditures that fuel the common good are not necessarily going to lead to short-term profit. For example, how about grade-school education? Clearly this is a public good in my mind that should be funded, although I am generally a libertarian philosophically. But few corporations would fun childhood primary education, nor should they. I prefer that the government fund it, but I would like to see them run privately. Similarly with some medical research. I think we should fund certain private research with government grants, with full visibility. My understanding is that the objections to this particular group is that they do not disclose their conflicts of interest, etc.
I don't think "jump the shark" means what you think it does.
Slashdot's mod system sucks. Why not just allow people to say "+1" or "+1 but don't affect karma", and let them pick their own words for why? A system like this just causes confusion. You have people saying "insightful" and you don't know what they meant -- stupid.
Suveys like this do not tell you the number that would switch. When you ask people what they *would* do about such and such if it hypothetically happened, they are just taking a guess. I think they are just giving their opinion about what they think about outsourcing. When push comes to shove, most people won't change a habit or a program or a vendor because of outsourcing; they may just be annoyed for a bit but will soon get used to it. When they answer the survey, they are only guessing at a hypothetical. The only way to really find out is to do studies of actual behavior, which I admit would be really hard.
I've always thought you should be able to mod just +1, -1, or None, and attach a single word of your choice to describe why, or choose from a list. The choices we have a are crap. I often want to mod someone down for an "unsupported reason" and basically just have to lie.
Obviously insufficient on the face of it. It's not enough to like what you do. Here is an excellent article on how to do what you love, to save some breath. Paul Graham's "How to Do What You Love". Here's the first paragraph to whet your appetite.
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.
You can vote someone into being a monopoly? That's interesting news
It would be nice if we could measure the FACTS instead of what people think. Asking people if they think they are more productive might be misleading, because as the article points out, technology makes you feel like you're doing less by allowing you to move quickly between projects. But how to really measure this? It's a manager's nightmare.
I don't know how many they get per day, but they could set up a filter with some keywords, and names that don't pass the keyword can get looked at by a human. It's better than just a dumb ban, and seems workable. But it would cost labor to do, and there's probably no demand for such a "service," nobody is going to cause that much of a stink most of the time, I guess. I'm just dreaming.
"Despite all the publicity in the United States about jobs being lost to India and China, the size of the IT employment market in the United States today is higher than it was at the height of the dot.com boom," said the report. "Information technology appears as though it will be a growth area at least for the coming decade, and the U.S. government projects that several IT occupations will be among the fastest growing occupations during this time."
In other words, shut up.
Instead of making stupid rules that will always have this problem, why not have some guidelines and pay someone $10/hour to just check peoples' ID's when they register to make sure it's not hate-filled or obnoxious? I mean, if people start registering with "Allahsucks" again, will the rule come back?