After all, IT is already expensive, a thousand a month more isn't going to break the bank. If for that you get somebody more mature and just plain stable, well then that ain't that bad a deal.
Only sweat shops care about hourly wage. If you got a 1000 packers running around then saving a dollar on each persons hourly wage is going to count. Saving 1000 per month on a single programmer isn't.
What I seen myself is that what companies want is drive and enthousiam. They want somebody they don't have motivate or drive but who just does the work assigned without handholding. Convince the interviewer you are that person and you are in. Being young might actually work against you. Be honest, do you want to hire one of todays super-entitlement kiddies? T
What happened to the free market dear american? The free market that is supposed to offer the customer choice? What are you saying dear american, your free market does not work? Would you kindly then stop pressing the rest of the world to adopt this silly system. Thank you.
Not for one thing or another, but being 1st 2nd or 3rd for most opressive western regime IS NOT a race you want to be in. Mind you, we are beating all of you in slowest response to the credit crisis! YEAH! Go dutchies!
The CIA has murdered and tortured men women and childeren (and sponsored these activities) to rig elections and make sure the party they wanted obtained power. So we are now supposed to believe them that elections could be rigged but they didn't take part in rigging them?
Perhaps they are just upset that Chavez rigged the elections better then they did?
While I have little faith in electronic voting if the CIA told me the sky was blue, I would check and then have my eyes examined for tampering just to be sure.
I recently was in the market for a new soundcard. Not just a soundcard but one that does 5.1 and EAX support for the games I play.
This is harder then it sounds because Creative is shooting straight for the bottom. Their new X-fi chip is so bad they had to allow a third party to use it to get a decent soundcard out. Oh well, luckily I am dutch and I could test the X-fi myself, simply by buying it, running it over the weekend, then returning it on monday when it didn't work out. Full money back. Tried another sound card, returned that too, money back.
Free internet services can pull all kind of crap but the moment I pay for something I am protected by dutch law. Not american "companies own your ass" laws, not british "we want to be american" laws, but dutch laws. The only country in the world where Sony was FORCED to replace ALL PSP's with any defective pixels and this policy has affected all LCD's for years. Pixel warranty? Only for those silly enough not to know the law.
Can Last.FM stand up to this? Can they provide a service with which I will be satisfied 100% or money back, no questions asked? Of course not.
That for me is the difference between paying for something and something being free. I expect and demand and have the law on my side to get my money worth. Even if it is "only" three euro. Frankly I have tried last.fm several times and their service is pretty bad. Spotty loading, slow, lack of pre-buffering and their recommendation system is hazy. It can't even tell bands apart so it will happily mix completely opposite music styles just because one band that is in the style you look for has the same name.
Not advised, while this rig might finally get you that elusive score 5.0 on vista, linux would run so fast it would be faster then the speed of light, catch up with itself so that if you ever decided to shut it down it would actually be shut down before you had it booted up, destroying the entire universe in the process and just try claiming that on your home insurance.
Murders are NOT a hard figure as the article seems to claim. Disappearances are NOT murders. If an illegal immigrant disappears no statistic will reflect this.
As for the known murders, maybe they were down. Serious crime tends to go through periods of calm and upheaval. That can seriously upset the murder average. So of those murders that the article presents as a simple number HOW many are so called senseless violence?
And how many attempts of murder stopped short of murder because advancing medical science saved the victim?
Any figure, no matter how simple can be massaged to tell the story you want to and NEVER is this more evident then like in this article when the author tries to let a simple figure with no details tell a major story.
Remember about crime that the powers that be are always pushing their own angle and constantly changing their metrics.
Couldn't part of the reason for this win be that people over the age of two don't actually like being spoonfed their entertainment, their desires (mu-u-u-st SHOP!), and their political opinions?
No.
With kind regards, reality tv.
When an internet poll gets the kind of call in or use participation that Idols gets, then you can start claiming that people don't like mass entertainment.
For that matter, when napster returns and you can actually find rare media on the internet and not just endless torrents of rips from TV then you might have a point.
The internet is many things but for the masses it is even more shallow then TV. Slashdot is often a good example. How many times does a slashdot story barely have any content, have a shallow and totally pointless comment by the editor, linking to a blog with all the indept analysis of a ad where the first post/in russia comment contains more insight?
The moment you get a girl living with you, all your ads are going to be for feminine hygiene products. On the other hand, this being slashdot, it is better then the ads we are used to, female depence ads for out mothers.
The flaw is fundemental to the design, this is NOT a coding error, the entire idea is flawed. It should have died at the drawing board. For it to have made it to the beta shows just what is wrong with software development especially at Microsoft.
For the famous car anology, a brake that malfunctions under stress is something you find during a driving test. A brake that is only attached to one wheel, that being the spare should have been caught a bit earlier. But of course the car industry isn't that stupid, that is because car makers are liable for any damages. Software makers aren't.
Ages ago I was reading one of the hitchhikers books, just released, in the train. Was completly lost in the book to the point that the conductor apparently had to call me several times and eventually touch my shoulder to get my attention. Much to the amusement of my fellow travelers.
After showing my ticket, the passenger across from me asked what I had been reading, I told him and turns out he had read the previous books as well but had not heard about the new one yet. We talked a little about the series (learned that there is a LP version as well that is different from the radio broadcast) and then parted ways as we arrived at the station.
This was before MP3's and kindles and what not. People have always been able to loose themselves in their own world and we survived just fine. Stop being an alarmist.
He is simply stating the truth. Webkit is a fork of an existing project. Apple did NOT create webkit from scratch. Of course, that is not a bad thing, in fact it is one of the goals of opensource that you can take existing projects and modify them for your own needs BUT it is usually considered nice if you mention this. Apple sure as hell ain't advertising it loudly and sadly a LOT of people on the net seem perfectly happy to ignore it.
It also shows that Apple doesn't exactly return the favor because Safari is not available for Linux. So they used opensource code but do not contribute in the full spirit of opensource.
No law that says they should, but it is important to remember that the only difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is that Bill was succesful in being a monopoly. If the 'success' had been reversed things wouldn't be all that different and perhaps even worse (who do you think is in bed with the media companies more. Bill "MSN" Gates or Steve "Disney" Jobs? Though call)
This idea of people making their own sites is what gave us myspace and the like. So sorry, but for the good of humanity and to stop your idea you must be shot. It is for the best.
Also, this function has been taken over by wysiwyg javascript editors in the website itself which is a reason the next bullet will go to the guy who thought this up.
Lets use another judgement, sweet, to illustrate. What is sweet (as in sugar is sweet)?
Obviously what I experience as sweet can be very different from what you experience as sweet. Worse, depending on what I been eating before, my mental and physical state, I may experience sweetness in a different way. So wether something is sweet or not is not an absolute. Yes as a society we must be able to label things as either sweet or not sweet based on general consent that doesn't exist. Sugar is sweet even for people who lack any capability of sensing sweetness.
Lazy, in the case of people being to lazy to be intrested works in a similar way. Sure, in lab you might be able to make any task intresting enough to engage a person who is really just bored or any of the other things you mention rather then "lazy". But the world is not a lab and schools/employers can not spend endless resources trying to make every bored person intrested. Some tasks just need to be done because... end of story. If you can't, then the label is lazy.
If you are not prepared to simply say at a certain point "we did all we wanted to do, now it is up to you and if you don't, you fail" you end up with the no-child-left-behind policy. The problem with that is that you end up chasing a rainbow. There will always be a kid who is even futher behind. Even more disintrested even more bored. Chase that kid and all the others, who were intrested will instead be left behind. School nowadays is so non-challenging that kids with brains are left to rot because the most dis-intrested can't be left behind.
Worse, you can do this in school but trust me, that is not going to happen in real life. I see this regularly, "kids" who just never learned that in the workplace school rules do not apply. No, your employer doesn't own you a job, the board of directors is not going to fix your performance review to increase their grade point average etc etc. Most of the time, you won't even get in as nobody is going to hire somebody they got to motivate even to turn up for a job interview.
Your ideas are alright, just not practical. At a certain point our society just can't afford or can't be bothered to keep chasing after people who are lazy. Sure, you might re-label them "too expensive to be motivated" instead if that makes you happy, but the result is the same. If you can't motivate yourself to a certain point, nobody is going to do it for you in the real world.
What kind of a nightmarish totaletarian regime has made it illegal to sell kittens? My god, it is 1984 all over again.
Or is "kitten" some kind of slang for some sexual practice that slashdotters just don't know about (granted this includes everything from talking to a girl and up).
NOT all PCIe slots are created the same. The one in laptops is fairly small and there is no reason it can't be smaller still, after all, the connector standard is just there so all cards can be produced to fit in all slots. PCIe itself doesn't care what the slot is like or even if it is a slot at all, you could solder it on. Then it is integrated but still a real graphics card.
What the above parent by the way is talking about has really nothing to do with integrated or not but just with crap implementations. Usually because a laptop maker takes shortcuts and uses fake busses or once that are hopelessly scaled down until you are left in a "modern" machine with less throughput then a telex machine.
Like Al Queda would ever dare risk going into the ganglands of California. Been there, there were gunshots in the distance and nobody except us silly foreigners reacted.
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After all, IT is already expensive, a thousand a month more isn't going to break the bank. If for that you get somebody more mature and just plain stable, well then that ain't that bad a deal.
Only sweat shops care about hourly wage. If you got a 1000 packers running around then saving a dollar on each persons hourly wage is going to count. Saving 1000 per month on a single programmer isn't.
What I seen myself is that what companies want is drive and enthousiam. They want somebody they don't have motivate or drive but who just does the work assigned without handholding. Convince the interviewer you are that person and you are in. Being young might actually work against you. Be honest, do you want to hire one of todays super-entitlement kiddies? T
Subject says it all. Now GET OF MY LAWN! Damn kids.
Geez, how could you miss "fingered CP/M"
Did you really think those two subs colided? Of course not. They were raped!
And getting paid billions by the taxpayer because you ain't buying a new car as well. Sorry, in 2009 your car comparissons don't work anymore.
What happened to the free market dear american? The free market that is supposed to offer the customer choice? What are you saying dear american, your free market does not work? Would you kindly then stop pressing the rest of the world to adopt this silly system. Thank you.
Not for one thing or another, but being 1st 2nd or 3rd for most opressive western regime IS NOT a race you want to be in. Mind you, we are beating all of you in slowest response to the credit crisis! YEAH! Go dutchies!
NEXT YEAR, the death of the desktop will have been 5 years away for 31 YEARS!!!
Times are changing my friend! A bold new world is about to dawn!
The CIA has murdered and tortured men women and childeren (and sponsored these activities) to rig elections and make sure the party they wanted obtained power. So we are now supposed to believe them that elections could be rigged but they didn't take part in rigging them?
Perhaps they are just upset that Chavez rigged the elections better then they did?
While I have little faith in electronic voting if the CIA told me the sky was blue, I would check and then have my eyes examined for tampering just to be sure.
Meanwhile the arab nations have kindly donated burka's to the americans and any other nation whose nation is to fat to be allowed to bare any skin.
I recently was in the market for a new soundcard. Not just a soundcard but one that does 5.1 and EAX support for the games I play.
This is harder then it sounds because Creative is shooting straight for the bottom. Their new X-fi chip is so bad they had to allow a third party to use it to get a decent soundcard out. Oh well, luckily I am dutch and I could test the X-fi myself, simply by buying it, running it over the weekend, then returning it on monday when it didn't work out. Full money back. Tried another sound card, returned that too, money back.
Free internet services can pull all kind of crap but the moment I pay for something I am protected by dutch law. Not american "companies own your ass" laws, not british "we want to be american" laws, but dutch laws. The only country in the world where Sony was FORCED to replace ALL PSP's with any defective pixels and this policy has affected all LCD's for years. Pixel warranty? Only for those silly enough not to know the law.
Can Last.FM stand up to this? Can they provide a service with which I will be satisfied 100% or money back, no questions asked? Of course not.
That for me is the difference between paying for something and something being free. I expect and demand and have the law on my side to get my money worth. Even if it is "only" three euro. Frankly I have tried last.fm several times and their service is pretty bad. Spotty loading, slow, lack of pre-buffering and their recommendation system is hazy. It can't even tell bands apart so it will happily mix completely opposite music styles just because one band that is in the style you look for has the same name.
3 euro's? No thanks.
Not advised, while this rig might finally get you that elusive score 5.0 on vista, linux would run so fast it would be faster then the speed of light, catch up with itself so that if you ever decided to shut it down it would actually be shut down before you had it booted up, destroying the entire universe in the process and just try claiming that on your home insurance.
Murders are NOT a hard figure as the article seems to claim. Disappearances are NOT murders. If an illegal immigrant disappears no statistic will reflect this.
As for the known murders, maybe they were down. Serious crime tends to go through periods of calm and upheaval. That can seriously upset the murder average. So of those murders that the article presents as a simple number HOW many are so called senseless violence?
And how many attempts of murder stopped short of murder because advancing medical science saved the victim?
Any figure, no matter how simple can be massaged to tell the story you want to and NEVER is this more evident then like in this article when the author tries to let a simple figure with no details tell a major story.
Remember about crime that the powers that be are always pushing their own angle and constantly changing their metrics.
Couldn't part of the reason for this win be that people over the age of two don't actually like being spoonfed their entertainment, their desires (mu-u-u-st SHOP!), and their political opinions?
No.
With kind regards, reality tv.
When an internet poll gets the kind of call in or use participation that Idols gets, then you can start claiming that people don't like mass entertainment.
For that matter, when napster returns and you can actually find rare media on the internet and not just endless torrents of rips from TV then you might have a point.
The internet is many things but for the masses it is even more shallow then TV. Slashdot is often a good example. How many times does a slashdot story barely have any content, have a shallow and totally pointless comment by the editor, linking to a blog with all the indept analysis of a ad where the first post/in russia comment contains more insight?
That way they KNOW the pirates, they are the only ones left in the theatre! It is brilliant and foolproof I tell you.
The moment you get a girl living with you, all your ads are going to be for feminine hygiene products. On the other hand, this being slashdot, it is better then the ads we are used to, female depence ads for out mothers.
The flaw is fundemental to the design, this is NOT a coding error, the entire idea is flawed. It should have died at the drawing board. For it to have made it to the beta shows just what is wrong with software development especially at Microsoft.
For the famous car anology, a brake that malfunctions under stress is something you find during a driving test. A brake that is only attached to one wheel, that being the spare should have been caught a bit earlier. But of course the car industry isn't that stupid, that is because car makers are liable for any damages. Software makers aren't.
The US is in depth, the last thing it needs right now is to upset China who it owns money too, or Russia that could easily start up another arms race.
The US already has more then enough foreign wars to deal with as it is, it does NOT need cold war 2.0
Ages ago I was reading one of the hitchhikers books, just released, in the train. Was completly lost in the book to the point that the conductor apparently had to call me several times and eventually touch my shoulder to get my attention. Much to the amusement of my fellow travelers.
After showing my ticket, the passenger across from me asked what I had been reading, I told him and turns out he had read the previous books as well but had not heard about the new one yet. We talked a little about the series (learned that there is a LP version as well that is different from the radio broadcast) and then parted ways as we arrived at the station.
This was before MP3's and kindles and what not. People have always been able to loose themselves in their own world and we survived just fine. Stop being an alarmist.
He is simply stating the truth. Webkit is a fork of an existing project. Apple did NOT create webkit from scratch. Of course, that is not a bad thing, in fact it is one of the goals of opensource that you can take existing projects and modify them for your own needs BUT it is usually considered nice if you mention this. Apple sure as hell ain't advertising it loudly and sadly a LOT of people on the net seem perfectly happy to ignore it.
It also shows that Apple doesn't exactly return the favor because Safari is not available for Linux. So they used opensource code but do not contribute in the full spirit of opensource.
No law that says they should, but it is important to remember that the only difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is that Bill was succesful in being a monopoly. If the 'success' had been reversed things wouldn't be all that different and perhaps even worse (who do you think is in bed with the media companies more. Bill "MSN" Gates or Steve "Disney" Jobs? Though call)
This idea of people making their own sites is what gave us myspace and the like. So sorry, but for the good of humanity and to stop your idea you must be shot. It is for the best.
Also, this function has been taken over by wysiwyg javascript editors in the website itself which is a reason the next bullet will go to the guy who thought this up.
Lazy is a judgement by a certain standard.
Lets use another judgement, sweet, to illustrate. What is sweet (as in sugar is sweet)?
Obviously what I experience as sweet can be very different from what you experience as sweet. Worse, depending on what I been eating before, my mental and physical state, I may experience sweetness in a different way. So wether something is sweet or not is not an absolute. Yes as a society we must be able to label things as either sweet or not sweet based on general consent that doesn't exist. Sugar is sweet even for people who lack any capability of sensing sweetness.
Lazy, in the case of people being to lazy to be intrested works in a similar way. Sure, in lab you might be able to make any task intresting enough to engage a person who is really just bored or any of the other things you mention rather then "lazy". But the world is not a lab and schools/employers can not spend endless resources trying to make every bored person intrested. Some tasks just need to be done because... end of story. If you can't, then the label is lazy.
If you are not prepared to simply say at a certain point "we did all we wanted to do, now it is up to you and if you don't, you fail" you end up with the no-child-left-behind policy. The problem with that is that you end up chasing a rainbow. There will always be a kid who is even futher behind. Even more disintrested even more bored. Chase that kid and all the others, who were intrested will instead be left behind. School nowadays is so non-challenging that kids with brains are left to rot because the most dis-intrested can't be left behind.
Worse, you can do this in school but trust me, that is not going to happen in real life. I see this regularly, "kids" who just never learned that in the workplace school rules do not apply. No, your employer doesn't own you a job, the board of directors is not going to fix your performance review to increase their grade point average etc etc. Most of the time, you won't even get in as nobody is going to hire somebody they got to motivate even to turn up for a job interview.
Your ideas are alright, just not practical. At a certain point our society just can't afford or can't be bothered to keep chasing after people who are lazy. Sure, you might re-label them "too expensive to be motivated" instead if that makes you happy, but the result is the same. If you can't motivate yourself to a certain point, nobody is going to do it for you in the real world.
What kind of a nightmarish totaletarian regime has made it illegal to sell kittens? My god, it is 1984 all over again.
Or is "kitten" some kind of slang for some sexual practice that slashdotters just don't know about (granted this includes everything from talking to a girl and up).
NOT all PCIe slots are created the same. The one in laptops is fairly small and there is no reason it can't be smaller still, after all, the connector standard is just there so all cards can be produced to fit in all slots. PCIe itself doesn't care what the slot is like or even if it is a slot at all, you could solder it on. Then it is integrated but still a real graphics card.
What the above parent by the way is talking about has really nothing to do with integrated or not but just with crap implementations. Usually because a laptop maker takes shortcuts and uses fake busses or once that are hopelessly scaled down until you are left in a "modern" machine with less throughput then a telex machine.
Like Al Queda would ever dare risk going into the ganglands of California. Been there, there were gunshots in the distance and nobody except us silly foreigners reacted.