Well, at least if Canada is like Holland, then what you said is 100% bullshit. You get 100% for 3 years with no requirement to job hunt. Oh wait, you weren't talking about politicians? Never mind.
One rule for those who make the rules, another for those who have to follow them.
Company X trains warehouse temps on forklifts, Company Y poaches them for a ten cents extra, gets experienced people and doesn't spend a dime on training.
Result, neither company trains anymore and bitches about it.
True on the job training requires something from the employee as well. Gratitude dare I say it, even loyalty! That is in short supply.
Of course, since employers are no longer training, nobody has a reason to be loyal anymore... a vicious circle of hatred and resentment. Ah work, don't you love it.
Because I have had to implement credit card payments where the field was marked as required but never checked or stored anywhere. So, if you didn't fill it in or put in a random value, it worked perfectly fine and this was on sites doing millions in transactions per year.
There is also nothing in the contracts with processors that this is required, it is recommended but not required.
A lot of web companies are terribly afraid to turn away any customer because they might have to think for a second while making a purchase.
But give me 5 dollar or I tell everyone about this post of yours on slashdot, that is a bit less clear. How can you extort someone with information they published themselves?
Also, for a financial institution, it is illegal to have information so readily available. Who is the bigger criminal here?
If I exort your by saying give me a fiver or I will tell everyone where you buried your victims MIGHT see the police question me but it is YOU that will end up in jail.
Go ahead bank, file charges against the hackers, then explain in court how you violated countless banking and privacy laws.
You sound like a classic apologist. The summary of this article already happily states that Windows 7.5 is still a immature OS... version 7.5
You say "it takes a little bit of time to learn". Apologists speak for "it is unintuitive as hell but finally after hours of trying, you managed to get it to turn on".
The entire problem with the MS phones is that the fanboys are trying to win the rest over with the same bullshit they have been trying for a dozen or more versions of MS attempts at a mobile OS. If the bullshit hasn't changed a bit, why should we believe the product has?
Lets review, Windows 7.5, the only mobile OS to be single core only. The only mobile OS to be restricted to a single resolution. The list goes on and on. The only people who like it are MS fanboys, reviews are not positive, at best they are "not as bad as expected". The fact is that MS has been producing phones that cost a premium but just can't compete. You can argue whether quad cores are needed or not but charging the same price for a single core is just not on. iPhone does retina displays, MS stays way way way behind in the pixel race.
It ain't cutting edge and it ain't cheap. So why buy it? Because it is MS? As others have said, MS is a negative brand, people AVOID MS if they can because they hate the moments they can't. There are some that are 100% MS and they like it because it stops them having to learn anything else. But the sales are to low to conclude it is just geek prejudice against MS. The sales figures are so low the opposite might well be true, only those with a prejudice against anything NOT MS are buying it.
This is a stunt, pure and simple. IE7 use is trivial and you can readily conclude that people who haven't upgraded in 10 years are NOT the primary customer of a computer retailer. People that cheap, don't buy stuff.
The owner of the company is well known for pulling publicity stunts. And hopefully most aussies got a better sense of humor then the whiners above.
I wonder why so many are offended by a joke, maybe a lot of them really shouldn't be on this TECH site because they still run IE7 themselves?
This is NOT a business plan or a real tax. It is a publicity stunt to create traffic at the cost of non-existent customers. You don't think that this company really thinks that after a plain warning that customers will be charged more, IE7 users will really pay the increased price? Mind you, they are IE7 users. In reality Kogan looked at their stats, saw a tiny non-significant IE7 usage that their web dev team still had to develop for at greater cost then this groups produces in profit and decided to stir the pot, get some free publicity and be considered by anyone with a sense of a humor as a bunch of all right blokes.
The British people buy it and pay for it. They just don't mind that the person they are buying it for is the them from an alternate reality (you might have been the one needing life long care, so why not pay for it just because it didn't turn out that way? Don't bother republicans, you will never understand this, is something called being human).
In any civilized country it sure is. Think about it if a parent is arrested, who takes care of the children? The state.
The entire problem is that police powers and civil liberties are always going to be at odds with each other, they need to be because you can't have an effective police force if they can't violate peoples rights (as in have more powers then ordinary people) and you can't have everyone life in a constant police state either.
Take guns, most police forces have guns with which they are allowed to kill people. The British police does not have gun, so no bobby has ever killed anyone? Illegally? The point is not to restrict the powers the police has but to restrict their indiscriminate use. You should be able to arrest a Jew, but not to arrest all Jews. Fillin your favorite group to avoid Godwin if you like.
Where do you draw the line? That is the constant and never answered question. You certainly won't get an answer from any individual, let alone the one currently experiencing the harshness of the justice system in action. Ideally, the checks and balances (and this includes the average voter reading newspapers for something else then the sport scores and the funnies) will balance it all out.
This seems no longer to be the case. But I am pretty sure the RIAA agrees with you that the balance has veered far to much of where it should be, they just are thinking in a different direction. As a society, we have to make the ones in power answerable. So, new zealanders, vote the current government out.
When I open a movie from a network drive, it copies the entire file first as it is incapable of simply passing a network url to the movie application. Something that every other desktop manager out there can handle.
It is this kind of "wtf" that is rampant throughout KDE. To me, it is the kiddy desktop, where people spend ages on getting some cool feature working but the basics are falling apart. In theory, it should be highly capable but in reality, it is so fragile and its defaults so inane, that to get it working just takes to long.
That is part of the reason Ubuntu and Gnome 2 were so popular. They finally just worked. I am using Linux to be productive, KDE does not help me be productive.
Oh and one final thing KDE team, learn that EVERY single app you build has a far superior solo version out there. I don't need a complete office suite with my desktop thank you very much.
The poster is obviously not a good programmer because a good programmer can program in any language and talks in pseudo code to avoid getting trapped in language semantics and workarounds when discussing a concept rather then actual code.
Teaching sales staff C/C++ is way to deep. Teach them coding concepts but not an actual language. Hell, you might change language and then all your sales staff would need retraining.
As for training failed programmers as sales people. Congrats you just made sure every project you get will have been masterminded by someone who thinks he could do it better.
I can sorta see the though process. Just as sex.com has a high value because some people really use the internet that way, for car info they would go to car.com,.tickets could work. IF you managed to create a site on it that then contained every ticket seller in the world so you can find the one you want on a very specialized search page, maybe organized by paid by the industry organization. A coop model. Of course, that is not likely to happen but that is the original idea behind meaningful domain names.
If you want the ftp of the commercial company ibm, you got to ftp.ibm.com
And then the internet exploded and search engines were invented and the majority stopped trying to guess the domain name for a service they wanted and just let altavista and others do the finding for them.
It is the same pipedream as youtu.be it is worth a giggle but really, if your browser is halfway decent when you have typed "yo" it should already be listing the right domain. When do you really have so much trouble typing youtube.com that 3 letters more is an issue?
.xxx is being sold NOT as a.com domain but rather more as a portal. They are not ICANN, they are a registar that wants to be friends with the porn industry, want to look out for it, make.xxx a special place.
In other words, they are a portal and want to be payed to list you on their portal page. Portals were tried and rejected, search engines replaced them. There was a time you went to the homepage of your isp to find links to content. Now you don't, most ISP's don't even bother anymore and just shuffle data and have only a help page.
But don't worry, this will sell... for a while. Go check your own company and see how many invoices they paid for listings somewhere that nobody ever checked on. Even this big companies are going to have to think about just registering their name to make sure nobody else uses it (ford.no) because right now, the costs are so low as not to make it worthwhile the potential hassle. It is not that ford.no has any value, after all, how would people know it is there? Search engine but that same search engine would also work for any other domain if that page is deemed relevant to the users search. But some execs just seem convinced that people care what the URL is of a site. Like if it was slashdot.net, that would like totally wrong dude!
All this new registar needs is to sell its product to those execs that surf the net by typing ford.com rather then googling for ford. They are out there and they got money.
It takes no account of population size differences. It prides itself on Silicon Valley but the US pulls those smart people from 360 million people. Far smaller countries like say Holland pull TU Delft from 16 million. Never heard of it? Well, it is up there with MIT and the place where the CD came from among many others.
The China it dismisses has indeed a lot of badly educated people BUT it also can pull ITS brainiacs from 1.5 billion people.
If the article was balanced and fair and reasonable (HA!) then it would acknowledge that absolute numbers for one example compared with percentages in for another are a very obvious way to lie with numbers.
The problem is that education isn't easy, you can't just put a lot of kids in a school and expect them to become smart. Some people are just stupid but few are willing to accept that. Mention that by the definition of IQ half the population has to have an IQ below 100 and you are called a troll. While it does not have to be 50% that scores below, the 100 IQ mark is supposed to be the average IQ. So if you only had really smart people, the average would still be 100.
But we don't consider someone intelligent unless they score 120 or higher. 100 is very average indeed. Hit the 80 range and... well. You know. Someone must be watching TV still.
Our society where production is outsourced needs more smart people. They are after all the creators. The less intelligent are the builders but we closed the factories. It leaves us with a surplus of people who have nothing to do. Unemployment is high around the world and increasing BUT not among the educated. Even in my own country, Holland, unemployment has started going up but at my company we still have vacant positions for developers. Not coders, coders are easy to find, developers are coders who can actually finish a project on time, according to the customer specifications and not an endless list of known bugs and an infinite list of "oh, I didn't think of that, you mean you wanted your files saved when you press save?"
It is not even about IQ, it is about observing the world and thinking about it. Take a pallet lifter, very simple device, you pump the handle and it lifts the pallet. Now. HOW do you lower it? AHA! If you think you need instruction, the B-Ark is over there. There is one small handle on the device and that is it. Why not pull it gently and see what happens?
A lot of people expect to be trained on such things, they don't experiment or try to reason things out but want to be told exactly what to do, have a rehearsal and someone to remind them next week how to do it again. That works fine, for the most menial types of labor. Provided you don't want to advance to say supervisor of shift-manager or even just foreman. Put widget A in hole B and repeat until the whistle goes. It is honest work and once there were countless factories in the west were people who could do such work (your average brainiac would go insane), pay taxes, raise their families and keep the economy going the old fashioned boring reliable way. But those jobs are in China now.
Coding isn't hard, most of IT isn't and that is where the jobs are. I sometimes get asked how to get into the field, what books to read, what course to take, what guide to follow. It is not just a hint they want, that I can give. It is an A-Z guide with checkpoints and a finish line. And the very fact that you ask for such a think, means you are not fit for the job. You can see it every day around you. There are people who get how the door opens and there are those who don't. Those who don't have a thought time working in a field where you are supposed to solve problems and not work to order.
Mind you, as said, this is NOT about how "smart" you are. A plumber, a builder even a garbage collector who can solve a problem and come up with a solution is a different kind then a doctor who does dna sampling all day but freezes up when his computer goes PING and stops working. We need problem solvers because they can tell others how to d
Adam and Eve did not have any kids BEFORE they were kicked out. They were supposed to be immortals living the two of them forever in Eden. Note that Adam and Eve were kicked out, not Adam, Eve and the kids.
So, how could god increase the woman's pain in childbirth if the only woman has never given birth?
Check for yourself the number of teenage pregnancies in Holland vs the US. And then consider this, Holland's score would be even better if it wasn't for immigrants from cultures just as repressed as America's heartland.
Oh and look up rape figures too. Gosh... AGAIN! The more liberal a society is on sex, the less harmful side effects sex has on its population. How odd!
There exists a certain kind of person who will think that when you do something with computers, you are some kind of genius and a genius is almost a wizard if not a warlock or something. It might SOUND like awe but you can hear them linking it with witchcraft and selling your sole for a demonbuggering you.
Sometimes, praises ain't praises at all. Googlers are smart guys sounds a bit to much like Jews are really good with money, White people got all the jobs and Blacks sure got rhythm. Quick personality test, which of these made your blood boil? Mmm, interesting...
But where your grandmothers world views might be relatively harmless (where was she during the holocaust or lynchings etc etc) this guy uses it to put the blame for all his whoes on another group of people. Consider this: You can blame your high fuel prices on the oil companies, big money, Illuminati etc etc. This is straightforward blaming (and usually gets racist sooner or later). OR you can say, those motor company guys are smart guys and they can build a fuel efficient 3 ton SUV for you to drive alone... AND the unvoiced part here IS: but they ain't, so those guys must be in cohoots with the former guys who are controlling the entire world.
In short, this praise of googlers is NOT praise but saying really: They could fix it if they wanted to but they don't want to.
Pretty nice since this needly sidesteps the challenge of proving it can be done. Simply, they are smart, they can do it, if they wanted to and they must.
The problem this guy, Ari Emanuel faces is that he can't deal with the idea that world changes. Not just faster computers, bigger SUV's etc etc but that our culture, our idea of who we are, what we value, how we live, how we entertain ourselves, our morals, EVERYTHING changes over time. Copyright as it exists now, did NOT always exist in its current form. It was introduced quite recently and then it was introduced because tech (printing and music recording) were changing the world.
BUT that is just the shallow end of the changes made a hundred or so years ago. How many of you got an instrument you play with regulatory for your enjoyment? Wink wink, nudge nudge know what I mean
What I mean of course is that the sale of musical instruments has plummeted, once if you wanted to listen to music, you made it yourself. For hundreds, no thousands of years. Long before any copyright existed to "protect" music. In fact copyright was not introduced to protect musicians or even song writers but to protect music PUBLISHERS. Recorded music, first pianola, later wax cylinders etc changed all this. But it changed far more then just how music made its way around. How many in your youth went to a disco... okay, wrong place to ask BUT think about this, going to a disco or dance is basically the same thing but how normal do you find it have LIVE music playing? When there was no recorded music, far more people played to entertain others outside the home. Now only a few even play inside the home.
Recorded music has been killing MUSIC!
And yet, we SURVIVED!!! Society did NOT collapse. This was feared every time culture changed, the end of theater because of the movies, the end of the movies because of TV, the end of TV because of the VCR.
Culture survived! Might it also survive a new change? An era in which entertainment is once again produced differently? Think about cover bands. They are NOT a new thing but with recorded music, people for the first time had an idea of how the original sounded. Cover bands just USED to play popular music they heard in one place in another by just listening and changing it ever so slightly. That is how many a folklore story got changed and yet remained the same. (Yes, that too is part of mass media entertainment, just a different era). The idea that ONE company, one performer can now set how ALL other performers of a similar product are judged against the "original" is quite new. Quick, Snowwhite, the little mermain, picture them. If you can't help but see th
So... what about child porn production cases? Necrophilia? Bestiality? Windows? You want judges to be forced to use Windows! The HUMANITY!
Any way, by your logic, the legality of slavery would be decided on by a slave trading judge. Lovely, kinda like basing your countries ideas of freedom on slave owners. That would just be silly!
The powers that be will take notice and show this judge around the courts of the USA as an example. There are a lot of courts in the USA, so they will have to cut him up into quite small pieces. (Apologies to Terry Pratchett)
That would work for an opening move but the whole point of chess is that there are many opening moves and with each additional move the possible moves explode until you need a very special sort of mind or a big computer (IBM big, not your pitiful 6 core big) to sort it all out.
How would your guy make sure the moves of the opposite player have any bearing on the moves on the other board? It would be like playing blackjack by copying what the guy next to you does. SMART, if by some miracle you had the same cards.
How about US censorship of porn and gambling? Or do you think the.xxx domain will not be used by republicans to make a push in the future to force all porn on to that new domain and then block it everywhere?
How about the DMCA which has been used to censor material considered undesirable by both parties funders?
Censorship comes in many forms. Frankly it is no issue to me if Iranians can't see some stuff, but the DMCA hits everyone in the whole world. The US dictating its laws world wide is far worse then a country dictating its laws to its own people. Let the Iranians get rid of their government if they want an uncensored net. It can be done. But the Iranians can never be rid of the US government and its corporate masters.
Ah... well people, if you read about someone going postal and running around with a gun killing people and you wonder why someone didn't spot the sign.
Look up spelling of ore and an American Cookie that Americans seem to think is pretty great but in the rest of the world is regarded as "oh that American cookie". Hint: There is a reason you can't buy twinkies outside the US. They are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DISGUSTING. Imagine the worsed instant cake you ever tasted with more chemical after taste and less nutrition. I should have known, never EVER eat a local delicacy that has remained a local delicacy. If it tasted good, it would have gotten exported.
Oreo's by the way are exported to Holland, I guess it is pay back for Big Brother. Fair enough.
Well, you find some things funny, I find other things funny. Why can't this guy just see the joke in being arrested, losing his job etc etc? I find it hilarious! Oh, it is alright to threaten people in public jobs with their lives as a jest BUT an account losing his job is not funny?
Maybe both YOU and this account should FIRST learn a bit about tolerance yourself AND not immediately resort to threats of violence just because you don't get your way. Or the cops are called in and they really like a good laugh.
Real story, over entitled prick of an accountant can't keep his mouth closed and gets in trouble for it. Hands up who does not give a fuck. Whoa! HURRICANE!
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Well, at least if Canada is like Holland, then what you said is 100% bullshit. You get 100% for 3 years with no requirement to job hunt. Oh wait, you weren't talking about politicians? Never mind.
One rule for those who make the rules, another for those who have to follow them.
Company X trains warehouse temps on forklifts, Company Y poaches them for a ten cents extra, gets experienced people and doesn't spend a dime on training.
Result, neither company trains anymore and bitches about it.
True on the job training requires something from the employee as well. Gratitude dare I say it, even loyalty! That is in short supply.
Of course, since employers are no longer training, nobody has a reason to be loyal anymore... a vicious circle of hatred and resentment. Ah work, don't you love it.
I can vow that this is true, have had to implement it like this myself. It is often marked as required but never actually checked.
Three reasons, the web master is afraid of putting up any hurdles to a purchase.
During testing, the CVC check is often disabled, so its proper functioning can only be tested on a live account.
And lastly not every card has it and so the idea exists with web shop owners that if they enforce it, they might loose X% of customers.
IF you happily filled in your number correctly for years, that is no proof it was ever checked. Welcome to the online purchasing!
Because I have had to implement credit card payments where the field was marked as required but never checked or stored anywhere. So, if you didn't fill it in or put in a random value, it worked perfectly fine and this was on sites doing millions in transactions per year.
There is also nothing in the contracts with processors that this is required, it is recommended but not required.
A lot of web companies are terribly afraid to turn away any customer because they might have to think for a second while making a purchase.
But give me 5 dollar or I tell everyone about this post of yours on slashdot, that is a bit less clear. How can you extort someone with information they published themselves?
Also, for a financial institution, it is illegal to have information so readily available. Who is the bigger criminal here?
If I exort your by saying give me a fiver or I will tell everyone where you buried your victims MIGHT see the police question me but it is YOU that will end up in jail.
Go ahead bank, file charges against the hackers, then explain in court how you violated countless banking and privacy laws.
You sound like a classic apologist. The summary of this article already happily states that Windows 7.5 is still a immature OS... version 7.5
You say "it takes a little bit of time to learn". Apologists speak for "it is unintuitive as hell but finally after hours of trying, you managed to get it to turn on".
The entire problem with the MS phones is that the fanboys are trying to win the rest over with the same bullshit they have been trying for a dozen or more versions of MS attempts at a mobile OS. If the bullshit hasn't changed a bit, why should we believe the product has?
Lets review, Windows 7.5, the only mobile OS to be single core only. The only mobile OS to be restricted to a single resolution. The list goes on and on. The only people who like it are MS fanboys, reviews are not positive, at best they are "not as bad as expected". The fact is that MS has been producing phones that cost a premium but just can't compete. You can argue whether quad cores are needed or not but charging the same price for a single core is just not on. iPhone does retina displays, MS stays way way way behind in the pixel race.
It ain't cutting edge and it ain't cheap. So why buy it? Because it is MS? As others have said, MS is a negative brand, people AVOID MS if they can because they hate the moments they can't. There are some that are 100% MS and they like it because it stops them having to learn anything else. But the sales are to low to conclude it is just geek prejudice against MS. The sales figures are so low the opposite might well be true, only those with a prejudice against anything NOT MS are buying it.
This is a stunt, pure and simple. IE7 use is trivial and you can readily conclude that people who haven't upgraded in 10 years are NOT the primary customer of a computer retailer. People that cheap, don't buy stuff.
The owner of the company is well known for pulling publicity stunts. And hopefully most aussies got a better sense of humor then the whiners above.
As for those saying he should instead display a warning, the site does exactly that, http://www.afr.com/rw/2009-2014/AFR/2012/06/14/Photos/724adc40-b5bf-11e1-a3fb-e6c175e978e8_IE%20tax--236x197.jpg
I wonder why so many are offended by a joke, maybe a lot of them really shouldn't be on this TECH site because they still run IE7 themselves?
This is NOT a business plan or a real tax. It is a publicity stunt to create traffic at the cost of non-existent customers. You don't think that this company really thinks that after a plain warning that customers will be charged more, IE7 users will really pay the increased price? Mind you, they are IE7 users. In reality Kogan looked at their stats, saw a tiny non-significant IE7 usage that their web dev team still had to develop for at greater cost then this groups produces in profit and decided to stir the pot, get some free publicity and be considered by anyone with a sense of a humor as a bunch of all right blokes.
The British people buy it and pay for it. They just don't mind that the person they are buying it for is the them from an alternate reality (you might have been the one needing life long care, so why not pay for it just because it didn't turn out that way? Don't bother republicans, you will never understand this, is something called being human).
In any civilized country it sure is. Think about it if a parent is arrested, who takes care of the children? The state.
The entire problem is that police powers and civil liberties are always going to be at odds with each other, they need to be because you can't have an effective police force if they can't violate peoples rights (as in have more powers then ordinary people) and you can't have everyone life in a constant police state either.
Take guns, most police forces have guns with which they are allowed to kill people. The British police does not have gun, so no bobby has ever killed anyone? Illegally? The point is not to restrict the powers the police has but to restrict their indiscriminate use. You should be able to arrest a Jew, but not to arrest all Jews. Fillin your favorite group to avoid Godwin if you like.
Where do you draw the line? That is the constant and never answered question. You certainly won't get an answer from any individual, let alone the one currently experiencing the harshness of the justice system in action. Ideally, the checks and balances (and this includes the average voter reading newspapers for something else then the sport scores and the funnies) will balance it all out.
This seems no longer to be the case. But I am pretty sure the RIAA agrees with you that the balance has veered far to much of where it should be, they just are thinking in a different direction. As a society, we have to make the ones in power answerable. So, new zealanders, vote the current government out.
When I open a movie from a network drive, it copies the entire file first as it is incapable of simply passing a network url to the movie application. Something that every other desktop manager out there can handle.
It is this kind of "wtf" that is rampant throughout KDE. To me, it is the kiddy desktop, where people spend ages on getting some cool feature working but the basics are falling apart. In theory, it should be highly capable but in reality, it is so fragile and its defaults so inane, that to get it working just takes to long.
That is part of the reason Ubuntu and Gnome 2 were so popular. They finally just worked. I am using Linux to be productive, KDE does not help me be productive.
Oh and one final thing KDE team, learn that EVERY single app you build has a far superior solo version out there. I don't need a complete office suite with my desktop thank you very much.
The poster is obviously not a good programmer because a good programmer can program in any language and talks in pseudo code to avoid getting trapped in language semantics and workarounds when discussing a concept rather then actual code.
Teaching sales staff C/C++ is way to deep. Teach them coding concepts but not an actual language. Hell, you might change language and then all your sales staff would need retraining.
As for training failed programmers as sales people. Congrats you just made sure every project you get will have been masterminded by someone who thinks he could do it better.
YES! I knew it!
And they laugh at me when I do my daily training. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCyIAsSid8
I can sorta see the though process. Just as sex.com has a high value because some people really use the internet that way, for car info they would go to car.com, .tickets could work. IF you managed to create a site on it that then contained every ticket seller in the world so you can find the one you want on a very specialized search page, maybe organized by paid by the industry organization. A coop model. Of course, that is not likely to happen but that is the original idea behind meaningful domain names.
If you want the ftp of the commercial company ibm, you got to ftp.ibm.com
And then the internet exploded and search engines were invented and the majority stopped trying to guess the domain name for a service they wanted and just let altavista and others do the finding for them.
It is the same pipedream as youtu.be it is worth a giggle but really, if your browser is halfway decent when you have typed "yo" it should already be listing the right domain. When do you really have so much trouble typing youtube.com that 3 letters more is an issue?
.xxx is being sold NOT as a .com domain but rather more as a portal. They are not ICANN, they are a registar that wants to be friends with the porn industry, want to look out for it, make .xxx a special place.
In other words, they are a portal and want to be payed to list you on their portal page. Portals were tried and rejected, search engines replaced them. There was a time you went to the homepage of your isp to find links to content. Now you don't, most ISP's don't even bother anymore and just shuffle data and have only a help page.
But don't worry, this will sell... for a while. Go check your own company and see how many invoices they paid for listings somewhere that nobody ever checked on. Even this big companies are going to have to think about just registering their name to make sure nobody else uses it (ford.no) because right now, the costs are so low as not to make it worthwhile the potential hassle. It is not that ford.no has any value, after all, how would people know it is there? Search engine but that same search engine would also work for any other domain if that page is deemed relevant to the users search. But some execs just seem convinced that people care what the URL is of a site. Like if it was slashdot.net, that would like totally wrong dude!
All this new registar needs is to sell its product to those execs that surf the net by typing ford.com rather then googling for ford. They are out there and they got money.
It takes no account of population size differences. It prides itself on Silicon Valley but the US pulls those smart people from 360 million people. Far smaller countries like say Holland pull TU Delft from 16 million. Never heard of it? Well, it is up there with MIT and the place where the CD came from among many others.
The China it dismisses has indeed a lot of badly educated people BUT it also can pull ITS brainiacs from 1.5 billion people.
If the article was balanced and fair and reasonable (HA!) then it would acknowledge that absolute numbers for one example compared with percentages in for another are a very obvious way to lie with numbers.
The problem is that education isn't easy, you can't just put a lot of kids in a school and expect them to become smart. Some people are just stupid but few are willing to accept that. Mention that by the definition of IQ half the population has to have an IQ below 100 and you are called a troll. While it does not have to be 50% that scores below, the 100 IQ mark is supposed to be the average IQ. So if you only had really smart people, the average would still be 100.
But we don't consider someone intelligent unless they score 120 or higher. 100 is very average indeed. Hit the 80 range and... well. You know. Someone must be watching TV still.
Our society where production is outsourced needs more smart people. They are after all the creators. The less intelligent are the builders but we closed the factories. It leaves us with a surplus of people who have nothing to do. Unemployment is high around the world and increasing BUT not among the educated. Even in my own country, Holland, unemployment has started going up but at my company we still have vacant positions for developers. Not coders, coders are easy to find, developers are coders who can actually finish a project on time, according to the customer specifications and not an endless list of known bugs and an infinite list of "oh, I didn't think of that, you mean you wanted your files saved when you press save?"
It is not even about IQ, it is about observing the world and thinking about it. Take a pallet lifter, very simple device, you pump the handle and it lifts the pallet. Now. HOW do you lower it? AHA! If you think you need instruction, the B-Ark is over there. There is one small handle on the device and that is it. Why not pull it gently and see what happens?
A lot of people expect to be trained on such things, they don't experiment or try to reason things out but want to be told exactly what to do, have a rehearsal and someone to remind them next week how to do it again. That works fine, for the most menial types of labor. Provided you don't want to advance to say supervisor of shift-manager or even just foreman. Put widget A in hole B and repeat until the whistle goes. It is honest work and once there were countless factories in the west were people who could do such work (your average brainiac would go insane), pay taxes, raise their families and keep the economy going the old fashioned boring reliable way. But those jobs are in China now.
Coding isn't hard, most of IT isn't and that is where the jobs are. I sometimes get asked how to get into the field, what books to read, what course to take, what guide to follow. It is not just a hint they want, that I can give. It is an A-Z guide with checkpoints and a finish line. And the very fact that you ask for such a think, means you are not fit for the job. You can see it every day around you. There are people who get how the door opens and there are those who don't. Those who don't have a thought time working in a field where you are supposed to solve problems and not work to order.
Mind you, as said, this is NOT about how "smart" you are. A plumber, a builder even a garbage collector who can solve a problem and come up with a solution is a different kind then a doctor who does dna sampling all day but freezes up when his computer goes PING and stops working. We need problem solvers because they can tell others how to d
Adam and Eve did not have any kids BEFORE they were kicked out. They were supposed to be immortals living the two of them forever in Eden. Note that Adam and Eve were kicked out, not Adam, Eve and the kids.
So, how could god increase the woman's pain in childbirth if the only woman has never given birth?
Check for yourself the number of teenage pregnancies in Holland vs the US. And then consider this, Holland's score would be even better if it wasn't for immigrants from cultures just as repressed as America's heartland.
Oh and look up rape figures too. Gosh... AGAIN! The more liberal a society is on sex, the less harmful side effects sex has on its population. How odd!
There exists a certain kind of person who will think that when you do something with computers, you are some kind of genius and a genius is almost a wizard if not a warlock or something. It might SOUND like awe but you can hear them linking it with witchcraft and selling your sole for a demonbuggering you.
Sometimes, praises ain't praises at all. Googlers are smart guys sounds a bit to much like Jews are really good with money, White people got all the jobs and Blacks sure got rhythm. Quick personality test, which of these made your blood boil? Mmm, interesting...
But where your grandmothers world views might be relatively harmless (where was she during the holocaust or lynchings etc etc) this guy uses it to put the blame for all his whoes on another group of people. Consider this: You can blame your high fuel prices on the oil companies, big money, Illuminati etc etc. This is straightforward blaming (and usually gets racist sooner or later). OR you can say, those motor company guys are smart guys and they can build a fuel efficient 3 ton SUV for you to drive alone... AND the unvoiced part here IS: but they ain't, so those guys must be in cohoots with the former guys who are controlling the entire world.
In short, this praise of googlers is NOT praise but saying really: They could fix it if they wanted to but they don't want to.
Pretty nice since this needly sidesteps the challenge of proving it can be done. Simply, they are smart, they can do it, if they wanted to and they must.
The problem this guy, Ari Emanuel faces is that he can't deal with the idea that world changes. Not just faster computers, bigger SUV's etc etc but that our culture, our idea of who we are, what we value, how we live, how we entertain ourselves, our morals, EVERYTHING changes over time. Copyright as it exists now, did NOT always exist in its current form. It was introduced quite recently and then it was introduced because tech (printing and music recording) were changing the world.
BUT that is just the shallow end of the changes made a hundred or so years ago. How many of you got an instrument you play with regulatory for your enjoyment? Wink wink, nudge nudge know what I mean
What I mean of course is that the sale of musical instruments has plummeted, once if you wanted to listen to music, you made it yourself. For hundreds, no thousands of years. Long before any copyright existed to "protect" music. In fact copyright was not introduced to protect musicians or even song writers but to protect music PUBLISHERS. Recorded music, first pianola, later wax cylinders etc changed all this. But it changed far more then just how music made its way around. How many in your youth went to a disco... okay, wrong place to ask BUT think about this, going to a disco or dance is basically the same thing but how normal do you find it have LIVE music playing? When there was no recorded music, far more people played to entertain others outside the home. Now only a few even play inside the home.
Recorded music has been killing MUSIC!
And yet, we SURVIVED!!! Society did NOT collapse. This was feared every time culture changed, the end of theater because of the movies, the end of the movies because of TV, the end of TV because of the VCR.
Culture survived! Might it also survive a new change? An era in which entertainment is once again produced differently? Think about cover bands. They are NOT a new thing but with recorded music, people for the first time had an idea of how the original sounded. Cover bands just USED to play popular music they heard in one place in another by just listening and changing it ever so slightly. That is how many a folklore story got changed and yet remained the same. (Yes, that too is part of mass media entertainment, just a different era). The idea that ONE company, one performer can now set how ALL other performers of a similar product are judged against the "original" is quite new. Quick, Snowwhite, the little mermain, picture them. If you can't help but see th
Ghostery blocks 3 items on this very page.
One of them doubleclick.
Slashdot is going to loose a HELL of a lot of money if it can't track its users anymore on behalf of advertisers.
So... what about child porn production cases? Necrophilia? Bestiality? Windows? You want judges to be forced to use Windows! The HUMANITY!
Any way, by your logic, the legality of slavery would be decided on by a slave trading judge. Lovely, kinda like basing your countries ideas of freedom on slave owners. That would just be silly!
The powers that be will take notice and show this judge around the courts of the USA as an example. There are a lot of courts in the USA, so they will have to cut him up into quite small pieces. (Apologies to Terry Pratchett)
That would work for an opening move but the whole point of chess is that there are many opening moves and with each additional move the possible moves explode until you need a very special sort of mind or a big computer (IBM big, not your pitiful 6 core big) to sort it all out.
How would your guy make sure the moves of the opposite player have any bearing on the moves on the other board? It would be like playing blackjack by copying what the guy next to you does. SMART, if by some miracle you had the same cards.
How about US censorship of porn and gambling? Or do you think the .xxx domain will not be used by republicans to make a push in the future to force all porn on to that new domain and then block it everywhere?
How about the DMCA which has been used to censor material considered undesirable by both parties funders?
Censorship comes in many forms. Frankly it is no issue to me if Iranians can't see some stuff, but the DMCA hits everyone in the whole world. The US dictating its laws world wide is far worse then a country dictating its laws to its own people. Let the Iranians get rid of their government if they want an uncensored net. It can be done. But the Iranians can never be rid of the US government and its corporate masters.
Ah... well people, if you read about someone going postal and running around with a gun killing people and you wonder why someone didn't spot the sign.
Above, that is one of the signs.
I give him till lunch.
All those people going woosh at you
Woosh!
Look up spelling of ore and an American Cookie that Americans seem to think is pretty great but in the rest of the world is regarded as "oh that American cookie". Hint: There is a reason you can't buy twinkies outside the US. They are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DISGUSTING. Imagine the worsed instant cake you ever tasted with more chemical after taste and less nutrition. I should have known, never EVER eat a local delicacy that has remained a local delicacy. If it tasted good, it would have gotten exported.
Oreo's by the way are exported to Holland, I guess it is pay back for Big Brother. Fair enough.
Well, you find some things funny, I find other things funny. Why can't this guy just see the joke in being arrested, losing his job etc etc? I find it hilarious! Oh, it is alright to threaten people in public jobs with their lives as a jest BUT an account losing his job is not funny?
Maybe both YOU and this account should FIRST learn a bit about tolerance yourself AND not immediately resort to threats of violence just because you don't get your way. Or the cops are called in and they really like a good laugh.
Real story, over entitled prick of an accountant can't keep his mouth closed and gets in trouble for it. Hands up who does not give a fuck. Whoa! HURRICANE!