Assuming you just recently filed applications it could take years to issue if they ever do. Think you could hype the technology and mention they are patent pending and see if they ask about usage issues. But, I'm not a lawyer.
Fully agree, training costs are part of the job, and if they don't support that, you should find someone who does unless those other benefits entirely dominate.
Interesting... I too wrote off the first episode after 5 or 10 minutes, and now it's deleted. Perhaps I should try watching it online and seeing if I should give it a second chance. Thanks.
I had the same choice in 1980. It was a long time ago but I think the same logic applies now. I chose an Ivy League school over MIT and was very happy with the choice. I felt I still got a good technical education (quite a few of my classmates were among the early employees at Microsoft, for instance). I went on to one of the top departments for a Ph.D.
I'd say that if you think you'll go on for an MS or PhD, your choice of a BS/BA won't matter that much long term, as long as you do well at the undergrad level. If you don't, it may be the case that a BS from the tech school will open more doors in the tech community than coming from the liberal arts school... but that's just one factor. You have to decide what you will do outside your major and what campus life is like overall. These factors probably collectively outweigh which one is most likely to get you a job at Google.
But doesn't this assume that the spam is addressed to multiple recipients? 99% of the spam I get is addressed only to me. It's really easy to rate things as spam if they are addressed both to me and a stranger, or even more obviously if addressed to john@foo, john@bar, john@baz as I sometimes see. But most spammers got away from that years ago!
I had a similar experience. I filed Sunday, but went back to check Tuesday evening, and was told it thought I had never filed. Their web site said to refile if this is encountered, so I tried, and hit the various errors you mentioned. The software should (a) never have claimed I didn't file when I did, (b) should have automatically retried until it got through, probably with some sort of backoff algorithm.
Eventually I tried a backup copy of the file from when I originally efiled, and it worked this time... or so it claimed. But I wasted about 90 minutes trying to get this all fixed. Will I ever buy turbotax again? Hardly.
I recall hearing a story on NPR Music a few weeks ago about someone who plugged a CD into itunes and had it come up with the right piece but the wrong performer. Then it happened again, with the same ostensible pianist but yet another "wrong" performer. Detailed analysis showed the pianist had apparently published CDs claiming to perform pieces but actually substituting the work of others! Itunes must have used a signature over the content to index the piece by the earlier CD.
And to think, David, you gave up a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley for the obscurity of a career writing silly cartoons. Have you no ambition?:)
If I were starting from scratch I'd certainly consider a "better" alternative, but after it took months to truly be trained on dvorak, I ain't goin' nowhere, nohow.:)
I'm surprised with all the responses to this thread so far, no one has mentioned the possible benefits of switching keyboard layouts. I had RSI, which I was told was notcarpal tunnel, several years ago, and it lasted a long while, with various levels of discomfort. A colleague came to work with me and needed my computer, and explained how he was used to the Dvorak layout. I switched, and the level of discomfort went down dramatically and has never flared up to the same levels.
Perhaps one or two virus authors could have been caught. Maybe, and then probably not. But today, with all those open wireless networks, the law is pointless. It only affects the poorest people, those who need email, or are trying to find a job online, but don't have a computer at home.
Will the next step be a law to ban open wireless networks, or a law to require the ISPs to log all the traffic period, and not just from public cybercafes?
While this may or may not be true, my personal experiences seem to indicate that dvorak keyboard *is* good for your wrists.
I have to agree. I switched about 3 years ago, after several years of wrist pain. I've hardly had pain like this since.
And to answer the original poster, I'm afraid I've become hunt-and-peck on QWERTY, except for certain words such as my userID, which I have to enter in QWERTY mode on occasion before my layout preference has taken effect.
I know someone (who shall remain nameless) who added a spam-filter challenge-response system. His auto-reply would say that Nagib Callaos, anyone else associated with WMSCI, anyone who had ever organized a session there, or anyone who had even presented there, was banned from sending him email under penalties of CAN-SPAM.
Not sure if it was ever enforced, but I think that auto-reply should be added to the PDOS SCIGEN website.
I don't see anything new here relative to other similar systems, except perhaps being slightly faster.
One thing I think would be appropriate for Google to do would be to interpret the reviews and come up with a synopsis beyond average ratings. For instance, "20% of reviewers thought the movie is hilarious but 40% of reviewers thought it is boring".
Another thing they can do is link other related movies, not just by actors, but by "if you liked X you'll like Y". And even recommend new movies based on how you rate movies on their site.
IMHO, this is a pretty bogus ruling. The ads are distinct from the regular results and marked as such, so there's little grounds for any of the typical trademark "confusion" statues to apply. I don't think that this case would pass muster in a US court.
Actually, according to the article, it didn't pass muster in the US.
In short, I fail to see how Google selling Louis Vuitton adwords to LV's competitors is any different than State Farm putting up billboards across the street from Geico offices or Viagra buying an ad on the page after a Cialis article in Men's magazine. It's nothing more than good business sense. It isn't TM infringement.
Here, I have to disagree. Putting up billboards across the street is not the same thing. This is more like putting a phone tap on the line, and setting it up so that each time someone calls Geico, they get an intercept telling them how wonderful State Farm is.
The real question in my mind is whether, if this ruling holds up pretty broadly, the Google adwords (tm) model will suffer. How many ads are for competitors, versus how many just for a generic term like "car insurance"?
In the end, if I were Geico or Louis Vuitton, I think I'd be pretty upset too.
You need to bank with better financial companies! I pay my car loans, mortgage, credit cards, etc. online. Not one has charged a fee for doing that instead of paper checks.
Thanks for the info, and I agree. The good news in my case is that I don't have to carefully skim the spam folder -- I simply move things out as they arrive. If I got more spam it'd be an issue.
I guess I'm fortunate to have an unusual enough combination of firstname.lastname not to be hit yet. I was a pretty early user of gmail, and I don't think I have ever received true spam that was directed at me. I get occasional spam through some mailing lists that redirect there. I do get anywhere from 10-50 messages a day being incorrectly classified by gmail as spam, so I have started adding those senders to my address book in the hope that it will convince gmail to leave them alone.
I wish that gmail would learn from my "not spam" clicks and use that to influence future spam filtering --- I'd hoped that was what they were doing, and it's natural, but I've seen repeat misclassififications so I'm unconvinced.
I'm happy for Google to use past searches to improve its future performance, and I'm even OK with random subsets of queries being streamed on their tickers. I'm queasy about a query I ask turning up as a hint to someone else as they ask a query that starts with the same letters. If I'm looking for "NBC News" then so are lots of others, so who cares. If I'm looking for "NBC News Rupert Finkelbottom" then maybe I don't want other people who look for NBC to be prompted for old Rupert.
From the FAQ it sounds like they may take pains to limit this to more common queries, which would be good. But I still can't explain some of the ones it offered to me, relating to very obscure search terms.
I'm still not being clear I guess. I'm not talking about it using my personal history, or you seeing my personal history. But if it suggests queries based on others' queries, then I am learning about what others are asking... and they are learning about what I ask. That seems to be a privacy issue, to me.
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How would that fraction even be deemed significant?
Assuming you just recently filed applications it could take years to issue if they ever do. Think you could hype the technology and mention they are patent pending and see if they ask about usage issues. But, I'm not a lawyer.
Fully agree, training costs are part of the job, and if they don't support that, you should find someone who does unless those other benefits entirely dominate.
Interesting ... I too wrote off the first episode after 5 or 10 minutes, and now it's deleted. Perhaps I should try watching it online and seeing if I should give it a second chance. Thanks.
I had the same choice in 1980. It was a long time ago but I think the same logic applies now. I chose an Ivy League school over MIT and was very happy with the choice. I felt I still got a good technical education (quite a few of my classmates were among the early employees at Microsoft, for instance). I went on to one of the top departments for a Ph.D. I'd say that if you think you'll go on for an MS or PhD, your choice of a BS/BA won't matter that much long term, as long as you do well at the undergrad level. If you don't, it may be the case that a BS from the tech school will open more doors in the tech community than coming from the liberal arts school... but that's just one factor. You have to decide what you will do outside your major and what campus life is like overall. These factors probably collectively outweigh which one is most likely to get you a job at Google.
Darn tootin'. Will it take another petition to get it to be opt-in?
But doesn't this assume that the spam is addressed to multiple recipients? 99% of the spam I get is addressed only to me. It's really easy to rate things as spam if they are addressed both to me and a stranger, or even more obviously if addressed to john@foo, john@bar, john@baz as I sometimes see. But most spammers got away from that years ago!
How could someone rate such an obviously tongue-in-cheek response "troll" rather than "funny"?
I had a similar experience. I filed Sunday, but went back to check Tuesday evening, and was told it thought I had never filed. Their web site said to refile if this is encountered, so I tried, and hit the various errors you mentioned. The software should (a) never have claimed I didn't file when I did, (b) should have automatically retried until it got through, probably with some sort of backoff algorithm. Eventually I tried a backup copy of the file from when I originally efiled, and it worked this time ... or so it claimed. But I wasted about 90 minutes trying to get this all fixed. Will I ever buy turbotax again? Hardly.
I recall hearing a story on NPR Music a few weeks ago about someone who plugged a CD into itunes and had it come up with the right piece but the wrong performer. Then it happened again, with the same ostensible pianist but yet another "wrong" performer. Detailed analysis showed the pianist had apparently published CDs claiming to perform pieces but actually substituting the work of others! Itunes must have used a signature over the content to index the piece by the earlier CD.
Similarity detection rules.
He just meant that he would cut Verizon loose. Right? Right?
And to think, David, you gave up a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley for the obscurity of a career writing silly cartoons. Have you no ambition? :)
If I were starting from scratch I'd certainly consider a "better" alternative, but after it took months to truly be trained on dvorak, I ain't goin' nowhere, nohow. :)
Seems similar news was reported here on Slashdot last June, based on a Danish study.
I'm surprised with all the responses to this thread so far, no one has mentioned the possible benefits of switching keyboard layouts. I had RSI, which I was told was notcarpal tunnel, several years ago, and it lasted a long while, with various levels of discomfort. A colleague came to work with me and needed my computer, and explained how he was used to the Dvorak layout. I switched, and the level of discomfort went down dramatically and has never flared up to the same levels.
Will the next step be a law to ban open wireless networks, or a law to require the ISPs to log all the traffic period, and not just from public cybercafes?
I have to agree. I switched about 3 years ago, after several years of wrist pain. I've hardly had pain like this since.
And to answer the original poster, I'm afraid I've become hunt-and-peck on QWERTY, except for certain words such as my userID, which I have to enter in QWERTY mode on occasion before my layout preference has taken effect.
Not sure if it was ever enforced, but I think that auto-reply should be added to the PDOS SCIGEN website.
One thing I think would be appropriate for Google to do would be to interpret the reviews and come up with a synopsis beyond average ratings. For instance, "20% of reviewers thought the movie is hilarious but 40% of reviewers thought it is boring".
Another thing they can do is link other related movies, not just by actors, but by "if you liked X you'll like Y". And even recommend new movies based on how you rate movies on their site.
Actually, according to the article, it didn't pass muster in the US.
In short, I fail to see how Google selling Louis Vuitton adwords to LV's competitors is any different than State Farm putting up billboards across the street from Geico offices or Viagra buying an ad on the page after a Cialis article in Men's magazine. It's nothing more than good business sense. It isn't TM infringement.
Here, I have to disagree. Putting up billboards across the street is not the same thing. This is more like putting a phone tap on the line, and setting it up so that each time someone calls Geico, they get an intercept telling them how wonderful State Farm is.
The real question in my mind is whether, if this ruling holds up pretty broadly, the Google adwords (tm) model will suffer. How many ads are for competitors, versus how many just for a generic term like "car insurance"?
In the end, if I were Geico or Louis Vuitton, I think I'd be pretty upset too.
Sure you're not trolling?
Thanks for the info, and I agree. The good news in my case is that I don't have to carefully skim the spam folder -- I simply move things out as they arrive. If I got more spam it'd be an issue.
I wish that gmail would learn from my "not spam" clicks and use that to influence future spam filtering --- I'd hoped that was what they were doing, and it's natural, but I've seen repeat misclassififications so I'm unconvinced.
From the FAQ it sounds like they may take pains to limit this to more common queries, which would be good. But I still can't explain some of the ones it offered to me, relating to very obscure search terms.
I'm still not being clear I guess. I'm not talking about it using my personal history, or you seeing my personal history. But if it suggests queries based on others' queries, then I am learning about what others are asking ... and they are learning about what I ask. That seems to be a privacy issue, to me.