So many Christians, so few followers of the teachings of Jezus Christ.
For that matter, so many mormons, so few followers of the teachings of the mormons. The original founders had a LOT to say about capitalism, the book has its own Soddom and Gomorra and you might find more then a passsing resemblance to the world of Wall Street that Romney worships so much. Gosh, a leader advocating a system that his religious leaders condemned as deserving of total destruction by their god? How unexpected. Mind you, there are Christian bankers who talk shop in church. If that doesn't just tell you all.
People with real believes are just so damned inconvenient, better to just go with the flow then bitch how nobody takes a stand for anything anymore.
Is this the same Apple that refuses to fix broken GPU's that it knows were broken in its top price hardware? Is this the same Apple that refuses to give the full two years warranty mandated by European law, despite charging a significant higher Euro price for its products supposedly to cover these costs?
The problem with being a lying scumbag of a company, is that I stop believing EVERYTHING you say. Apple lies, it is a marketing company first and foremost and marketing is lying. See the whole deal with Foxcon, there they have been proven to lie or twist the truth till it screams in agony at every turn.
No doubt this will be something like, our solar panel provides 60% of the power, at our datacenters, mini-bar. Or they measured it before all the servers were turned on.
You are an idiot or just didn't bother to read the facts. The FO was avoiding a REAL plane that was flying BELOW them by DIVING! Can you see a problem with that? Don't just read the headline and think you know anything. The FO took the plane out of safety INTO danger because he wrongly presumed a plane he had been told was safely below them to be on the same level. This is BAD and why procedures matter so fucking much. Countless crashes and subsequent loss of life have been caused by pilots mis-interpreting situations and then wrong correcting for them rather then first trying to determine what is really going on. If the captain had not interrupted the dive, it might have caused a collision because now both aircraft were on the same level rather then the 1000 feet separation demanded for safety.
Maybe it would be smart to not allow pilots to nap in the pilot seat and to do a mandatory 5 minute exercise before returning to the controls. And to have three pilots as standard so one can sleep, stretch his/her legs and two are always operating the aircraft. Oh wait, then you might have to pay more! Can't have that can we.
Yeah, bullshit. iOS pushed its own, and gosh, those poor developers, none of them managed to get programming quickly. Oh wait, which app market is compeltely dominating again?
If google had been smarter they would have made Java an option, not mandatory. Some Google Java fanboy made this choice and now the company is in trouble for it. As much as I dislike Oracle for all this, a part of me hopes they win, just to get rid of Java. Why on earth burden a full unix OS with just one language and a slow one at that.
Maybe if Oracle wins, MeeGo gets a new look. Now that is a nice development platform. Code in anything you bloody well want. A man's phone. I user perl on my phone, just because I can! (typing it on a virtual keyboard is seriously masochistic)
Court cases are not a giant free for all. Read up on deposition. Google asked this question before the live trial AND it was answered by Elison as bing correct, java is free. He knew the question was coming because Google lawyers told him well inn advance that it would and he submited his answer in writing. Now in court he suddenky doesnt know? How gullible are you?
Elison is a dinosaur who just hates google for not using oracle databases. Google was smart enough to stay away fro, that steaming pile of crap. If only they had been smart enough to stay away from Java. Ms and Apple were.
He should have 20 million for Paramount, then end up OWING them another million and everything he ever creates for whatever tidbits they choose to grant him, as a loan of course.
The old "those who trade freedom for security, soon have neither" springs to mind.
Because believe it or not, iOS and OSX are not immune to malware, virusses and trojans. They just are more hidden, so that when it happens, their users are less prepared for it.
Android is open, anyone can make an app. It is a free market. Apple is closed, your app has to be be vetted. It is a closed market. Closed markets are ALWAYS easier and safer then free markets. But the vetting takes place outside your control and you never can tell in advance when it will turn out to be harmful. Take Sony refusing to allows multiplayer for ME3. The windows platform for that game could never have such a blockage. But then, there is zero quality control for Windows games.
You just got to search the Android market to see a LOT of crap, not just malware but apps that are valid enough as code but the idea they try to push is a scam itself. Pyramid schemes, credit rating boosters, signal, battery, memory boosters. But these same applications exist for Windows. They do NOT appear on the game consoles. But what do you rather have? The save walled garden or the free wilderness?
To be honest, most of the time the save walled garden. It is just easier and live is already to complicated. The sad thing however if you are in that walled garden to long, the wilderness might have disappeared and you no longer have an option.
Think Amazon destroying the physical bookstore so that when they next delete a book, there is nowhere else to get it. If Apple owned 99% of the market, there would be no more malware. But what then would be defined as malware would be Apples definition and not yours. And I don't like that idea one bit.
It is a very old tactic by the religious establishment, don't question us and we won't question you. Basically, you are free from religious control, unless you question the religious control. You are a free person, unless you try to exercise your freedom.
It has been the way to keep groups down for millenia, Jews are a famous example. Countries that claim to have been tolerant really just operated with "Don't be noticeable and we won't notice you to much".
The Catholic church was fine with evolution, they didn't push for creationism UNTIL Catholics who had accepted evolution made more sense then genesis started to think "wait a minute, if genesis is a fairy tale, then why is any of the rest true and why then is it required for me to remain silent about this priest in my ass?". Creationism and the attack on science didn't start until the church started to loose power because of it. In the 70's, people were still balancing the two. Proof? Their were plenty of scandals back then but people kept quiet because while they accepted evolution, they still believed as well. Enough to not risk upsetting the church. That has changed and the church NEEDS power. Without control, they are nothing. After all, you can talk to god anywhere, why pay for churches and priests when god is everywhere or nowhere?
The church isn't anti-evolution. It is anti-critical thinking. Critical thinkers wonder why the pope has a super luxerous seat on an airplane that could be carrying medicine. Just why gold is needed on a cross for a carpenter. And why people to poor to feed their kids should pay for it all. Can't have that.
The renaissance was another age the church lost a lot of power in because people started thinking. The post-war new age thinking (In Holland, ont-zuiling, the end of the columns of power, where your faith defined who you where and you trusted your boss, doctor and politicians without question) cripped the church even more, now they are determined not to become totally irrelevant. Because the most dangerous idea a church faces is a religious person who realizes that Jezus never founded a church. You can believe without ever going into a church or being buggered by a priest. That is scary as hell to the establishment, those kind of people might even believe you can love your country and STILL question it! It is no accident the religious zealots and the right wingers go hand in hand. Romney and co want you to believe, so you won't think and question. Not just god and the church but the free market, the wars, wallstreet bailouts. Breed, have lots of kids who can't afford to be picky about jobs so Ann Romney can afford a domestic while she bitches about her struggle as a super rich stay at home mom.
Or do you think the right like people having less children who can afford higher education and grow up to be thinking, questioning citizens? Things were so much better when people had a dozen kids who could be send of into domestic service for whatever usage the rich saw fit. And if a girl then inevitably got pregnant by a rich landlord after rape, well, that just ensured the supply of cheap labor would continue.
A fool thinks that those who desire power desire slaves. Far better is a serve, a man who thinks he is free but forges his own chains. Religion and the American dream forges the best chains.
It is a fact that men have a lower average lifespan then women. Since it would be foolish to assume that men want do die younger it must therefor be women who are the cause of this. That is your logic. The races and genders are not equal. Only foolish bleeding hearts believe this, there are differences in alcohol tolerance, weight gain from sugar intake, heart disease risks and countless other diseases which affect one race more then the other.
To therefor blindly assume that all races and genders are equally good at programming is naive or downright hateful.
What are programmers? Well, from Slashdot you can readily deduce that a LOT of them are not the social norm. Gosh, could (functional) Autism which affects men more then women be over represented among computer programmers?
Historic fact is that when math became computers, women were OVER represented in the field. They were considered better at it. Sexist? Now they are under represented (worked with exactly 1 female co-worker in over a hundred men in my career, in my class there were two girls out of 25 boys and our class had a high number of girls, as in all the girls from that year).
Is this the male culture? Is it genetics? Is it culture? Is it race? Is it gender? Is it physical? If you deny any of them without investigation, you are ultimately doing everyone a disservice. It would be like denying that a soldier can't get Sickle Cell disease, because once they couldn't because blacks couldn't become soldiers. Now they can and a doctor would be wise to use race when trying to diagnose a person. Overly PC is harmful.
We have in western culture some typical male dominated professions and some typical female dominated once, and a lot of surprises with them if you think about it. Professors are male, teachers female. Why the shift in gender with the age of the pupil? Why are cafeteria run by women but top restaurants by men when women do most of the cooking in the world? Why are dress makers male?
Mind you, the Dutch government at least IS sponsoring men who want to teach younger kids, since it has been decided that a lack of male role-models can be harmful to the development of young boys. So it is not like white men are never the beneficiary of positive discrimination.
Fact is that women tend to score better at math then boys, until a certain age. Does a rise in estrogen kill of brain cells? An observation of teenage girls (curse you judge for taking away my binoculars!) tends to confirm this... then again, teenage boys have trouble chewing gum... and walking? HA! Have you seen a teenage boy try to walk?
Most companies I worked at were male dominated, I work in tech after all. But I also worked for a charity once and there the majority was women (very attractive ones to, that is where they are all hiding). So, even in "office" environments, there are gender separations, not so much along profession but along the type of company. Those women were nice enough to me as a male outsider BUT there was a seperation. Not so much because they refused to discuss female stuff when I was there, but because they did. I was raised by women and so raised to see women as delicate pure innocent creatures or they would hurt me. Talk to females not playing the gentle role on their own turf and "EEEEEK". Before that, as a I nerd I was slightly afraid of women, now I know I was right.
Can a workfloor gender culture have an effect? Duh! But can this be changed? And how?
There is no shortage of smart young girls. There is no shortage of young girls that might consider a tech career. There is a shortage of tech women on the workfloor. Something happens between the age of 10 and 20 that causes a shift.
I am a nerd who plays with model trains, not for the modeling but for the automated controlling of a train network, think of it as robotics for those who can't handle path finding. Sometimes we demonstrate this, at rail modelers conventions. Sometimes wives, girlfriends (HA!) and daughters/sisters are dragged along. They are
First off, the hiring process is a two way street. You are just as much interviewing the employer as they are you. If you feel at any time during the hiring process that the employer does not suit you, then STOP! Walk away, this is not the employer you are looking for.
For an employer, hiring a new person is a high cost and high risk hassle that is to often delayed. So rather then do the process when the workload is still manageable, they only start looking when everyone is working an 80 hour week and tracking the backlog has switched from a project manager to an archaeologist. With all this, they then have the task of defining the role, explaining this to a recruiter, putting it out and deal with the deluge of applicants many of who have no hope whatsoever. You wouldn't believe what responds at times to a job ad. But the employer has to shift through it all in the hope of finding the one non-lying, non-insane, non-slacker, non-enemy making freak out there. A freak after all is someone who is not normal so a normal person in the hiring process is a freak. Trust me on this.
So, having just lost a month worth of productive work in total, there you are with all your hopes and dreams, interviewee #5347. STAND OUT!
An employer wants ONE thing and one thing only. One: make more money or to get laid with the new hire. An employer wants two things and two things only, 1: more money, 2: sex 3: no loss in productivity. Three things, an employer wants three things only.
To this end, the employer has a number of choices:
Not hire anyone, after all what does an 80 hour week hurt anyway and productivity would go up if people didn't have to waste time interviewing candidates.
Hire someone else then you.
Hire you.
Start the hiring process again with a new batch of candidates.
If you see malice in the above, that says a lot about you and a good employer would spot this and not hire you. If you never hired anyone or had to work with a new co-worker, you might not fully grasp just how much productivity is lost with not just the hire process but getting a new person up to speed. And (small) companies typically only hire once the workload has gotten to high already, so more work getting you up to speed will only make things worse. An employer wants to make sure that things afterwards will at least get better.
So how do you convince an Employer that HE/SHE/IT/THEY will BENEFIT from hiring you after the HUGE cost and hassle of hiring YOU? Simple, identify those costs and hassles and show how they can be minimized by you, or how they are not so bad after all.
Skills matter less then the capacity to acquire new ones quickly. Any new job will require new skills. Who cares you knew how to work with the systems of your old company, how quickly will you learn the systems at your new job? Emphasize NOT your experience with a system but how quickly you learned it. On your own. Self-study the new companies system shows they don't have to waste productivity teaching you.
Nobody likes a trouble-maker. Employers don't want strive among their employees, it costs productivity and they are hiring you to boost it. Don't boast about how buddy buddy you were with a small number of your ex-co-workers. Show you can get along with everyone and can just shrug off difficult co-workers without actually implying that you personally thought person X was difficult. Yes, that is bland. Bland is good, it has low risk.
Show how working for THEM benefits YOU. An employee who benefits is unlikely to leave. Make this benefit seem longer then the next paycheck.
SO, HOW DOES THIS ALL TIE INTO SOCIAL MEDIA?
Simple, an employer wants to know who you really are. Both of you are pretending during the interview. Simple dating advice is not to look at how the person interacts with you but with others. For women especially, want to avoid an abusive relationship? See how he deals with waiters and others in a subserviant role. That is how he will treat you once the honeymoon is
It is lolcats all the way down, in a pool of porn with an essence of "Me too" posts.
Anyway, I think the original poster needs to read up on what the Internet is. It is a network of networks. A number of CPU's networking together is just a network. If you could mix many different systems together, it would be an Internet.
If you could put a Intel cpu next to an AMD and they would just work together seamlessly, THAT would be an Internet.
The US has a very long history of actively interfering in other sovereign nations affairs and not just those it has labeled openly as an enemy. It has physically and politically assassinated people from allied nations to steer election results. If you think the US elections have no effect on you just because you don't obediently salute the flag (what does a man do and what does a slave do) you are silly.
Mind you, since I am already burning Karma, I wonder if Santorum, the god-fearing Catholic believes that the illness of his child is gods way of stopping him from becoming president. That is how it works after all if you have the faith. Everything is gods plan. Funny how that never is acknowledged by the religious in defeat. You never see a Muslim going after they lost another war, it was Allah's will. A Catholic when they loose an election, god willed it. There may be no Atheist in hell but there aren't many true believers in defeat either.
Ah well, may I congratulate the American readers with the election of Obama for a second term? Lets face it, the only thing at the moment to prevent that would be the end of the world and that isn't due until just after:P
But in your days it was easy, you could count the clock cycles on the fingers of one hand and if you wanted a bit flipped you just climbed inside the computer with a hammer!
Anyway, you weren't all that impressive, you relied on a blacksmith for a hammer and a miner for the coal to fire your machine. You were just the slave master benefiting from the slave labor of others.
And people before that did it without DOS. Go all the way back and people where flipping switches to input their code. And they found it boring to rewrite the same stuff over and over again and so created common libraries that soon became an OS and everything else.
If you make a cake from scratch, do you grown your own wheat? Then you are using the library of nature/god! Slacker! I create my own universe for every sandwhich, Big Bang all the way or you are just a faker!
Personally I think 64k is to limitting, it was nice some years ago but today, it just isn't realistic anymore, not when your average PC has 8GB of memory PLUS video memory. Go crazy, go a full MB! Make that floppy work!
I can appreciate the skill but it is like seeing someone make a nice statue with a flint... nice... now here is a steel chisel. Enjoy!
Metro to me seems idiotic but the one thing that is very noticeable is that whoever drew its design has no love for full color drawing, it is very monochromatic if such a thing exist in color. White icons/text on single color boxes. All very stark and (to my eye) unclear. Mind you, with a lot of icon based interfaces (android, iOS and some PC setups) unclear icons can be just as confusing. As near as I can figure this is politicians logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefor it must be done.
Unclear sea of icons is confusing and something must be done, metro is something, therefor it will fix everything.
It is a new shiny, therefor it is the second coming. Until the next one.
Meanwhile the Japanese would study the beach, then copy it, in miniature.
The Brits would copy it but get all the good bits wrong and make the bad bits worse.
The Australians would make a copy that is just better but they would never stop feeling inferior about it.
The greeks would expect the rest of the world to pay for it.
The saudies would just buy it and see nothing wrong with paying a fortune for sand.
The Germans would dig a hole in it.
The dutch wouldn't feel happy on it until they build a sand castle to protect against the tide.
Apple would put it in a pretty box and sell it for a premium but you could only use it as Jobs intended.
Have I insulted everyone yet? Not on topic? Oh come on, universities have always been a haven for spies and the recruitment of spies. Duh, where else to find information, underpaid people with lots of info and impressionable young minds looking for a cause?
The BLACK president of the US of A, the most powerful man on earth basically said that if he had a son, that son would still refer to himself with the N-word that a black person can use but not a white person. The first non-white male christian president of the US was a black man. Not a woman, not a native american, not an asian, not a hindu, jew or atheist or any other religion. But still, the son of the most powerful man on earth has a right to feel discriminated.
Also, why is the term white trash acceptable but not black trash?
Yeah, iPods, iTunes, iPhone and iPad are so new... because nobody ever heard of a walkman, online music store, mobile phone or tablet before. Nor is Apple all that succesfull, yes, they sell a LOT of a single model but in total sales, many others surpass them. (Android activations outstrip in a matter of days, total iPhone sales. iTunes sells a lot of online music but only if you don't count traditional retailers)
The parent poster claims he can't remember seeing rows of tablets before. Well, then he must not have been looking. Archos has been in the market for a long time. Of course, you could further specify that a tablet only counts if it is 8.9 inches and a certain thickness and color but most reasonable people know that tech gadgets evolve. Tablets were once laptops, then thin laptops, then those hybrid laptops whose keyboard could be hidden with a touch screen. In fact, weren't THOSE devices once called tablets?
What Apple is really good at is taking existing tech, investing a LOT in large scale production and thus beat everyone else on price. 64GB iPad when most competitors just can't afford to buy memory that cheap to compete.
But new and revolutionary? Maybe if you have blinders on and only see mainstream products but for the early adapters, the i* brandline is and always has been old hat. For example, retina display? The next thing might well be glasses type displays, holding a tablet is so last month.
And for all that mainstream innovation we get one of the most evil patent company out there. Mind you, I have long had the impression Woz is a willing slave. Jobs screwed him over so many times and still he comes back begging for more. He knows a thing or two about computers but socially, he is a tool. Crying patents will destroy innovation while defending a company that only copies and sues everyone under the sun seems to me to suggest a person with a limited grasp of the world. Gosh, a geek with problems understanding the world. How unusual.
Stop trying to excuse your need for a shiny toy with trying to think Apple is cool or nice or different. It is not. Buy your shiny and accept your dollars support slavery and patent wars and the removal of jobs from the west. Just don't be a hypocrite about it.
BTW, Bill Gates has tons of child porn on his computers and that is a fact, in fact most Republicans host and profit from child porn and I can proof it. They all own shares in companies that index the internet and when you do that, you are going to index child porn sooner or later. With the introduction of image search and the thumbnailing of said images on servers owned by the search engine companies such as Bing, these companies have child porn and serve the images to the world. Since these companies run their search engine for profit, they profit from child porn and so does anyone who has shares in them.
By the same token, every ISP transmits child porn and every airline and postal company out there traffics in it too. Just recently a man in Hollland was arrested on a flight with childporn, since KLM did not refund his ticket, they profitted from the rape of children.
Disgusting ain't it?
Funny, that this kind of logic is never used in the US to hold gun companies responsible for gun crime. Maybe it is a clear message, pedo's just got to up their campaign donations.
Did they try the old terrorist spiel yet? Can't be far behind.
Payed with North-Western European taxes. Perhaps governments should only spend what they are prepared to collect in taxes. And a population should only expect for "free" what they are prepared for with taxes.
MS contribution is for stuff to make Linux work on MS virtualization and interoperate with MS software since MS failed to convince all its customer to go pure windows so rather then risk customers going fully Unix, they now enable a mix. Pretty smart but it is self serving.
Meanwhile Canonical has done a lot in making a distro with the linux kernel that is easily usable. Its install program is one of the smoothest I have seen, far superior to either MS or say a Red Hat, but that has nothing to do with the kernel.
So, who is more important to the opensource operating system with a GNU userspace, a gnome/kde desktop and a Linux kernel? ALL, the very wide support shows a totally different picture then a few years ago. Drivers used to have to be made by a user who with his own money reverse engineered the code with the constant threath of a legal challenge. Now, things are open. Sure, it is far from perfect but for a long time linux was purely the domain of geeks who never even saw a girl outside their mother. Now it is being used by people who got their hands on actual boobies. Granted, their own as they are female but still, it is progress. One day the male and female linux user will meet and breed and the 7th sysadmin of the 7th sysadmin will be born.
The west is ruled by democracy and for the UK and the US at least that has resulted in a two party system (oh okay, the brits got the liberals) who seem to be fighting each other as if there are only absolutes.
Anyway, what is common sense? We can't even agree on a common sense maximum speed limit, how do you agree on a common sense level of privacy? Or is what you really mean "My sense"?
Another poster above also talks about common sense as if that is so simple. The moment it affects YOU, common sense goes out of the window. It might seem common sense to have medical aid freely available for all so doctors first question is not a for bank statement showing you can afford to have your wounds taken care off. Right up until the moment YOUR taxes go up.
Just follow the elections in any country and then talk to me about common sense.
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So many Christians, so few followers of the teachings of Jezus Christ.
For that matter, so many mormons, so few followers of the teachings of the mormons. The original founders had a LOT to say about capitalism, the book has its own Soddom and Gomorra and you might find more then a passsing resemblance to the world of Wall Street that Romney worships so much. Gosh, a leader advocating a system that his religious leaders condemned as deserving of total destruction by their god? How unexpected. Mind you, there are Christian bankers who talk shop in church. If that doesn't just tell you all.
People with real believes are just so damned inconvenient, better to just go with the flow then bitch how nobody takes a stand for anything anymore.
Is this the same Apple that refuses to fix broken GPU's that it knows were broken in its top price hardware? Is this the same Apple that refuses to give the full two years warranty mandated by European law, despite charging a significant higher Euro price for its products supposedly to cover these costs?
The problem with being a lying scumbag of a company, is that I stop believing EVERYTHING you say. Apple lies, it is a marketing company first and foremost and marketing is lying. See the whole deal with Foxcon, there they have been proven to lie or twist the truth till it screams in agony at every turn.
No doubt this will be something like, our solar panel provides 60% of the power, at our datacenters, mini-bar. Or they measured it before all the servers were turned on.
You are an idiot or just didn't bother to read the facts. The FO was avoiding a REAL plane that was flying BELOW them by DIVING! Can you see a problem with that? Don't just read the headline and think you know anything. The FO took the plane out of safety INTO danger because he wrongly presumed a plane he had been told was safely below them to be on the same level. This is BAD and why procedures matter so fucking much. Countless crashes and subsequent loss of life have been caused by pilots mis-interpreting situations and then wrong correcting for them rather then first trying to determine what is really going on. If the captain had not interrupted the dive, it might have caused a collision because now both aircraft were on the same level rather then the 1000 feet separation demanded for safety.
Maybe it would be smart to not allow pilots to nap in the pilot seat and to do a mandatory 5 minute exercise before returning to the controls. And to have three pilots as standard so one can sleep, stretch his/her legs and two are always operating the aircraft. Oh wait, then you might have to pay more! Can't have that can we.
Yeah, bullshit. iOS pushed its own, and gosh, those poor developers, none of them managed to get programming quickly. Oh wait, which app market is compeltely dominating again?
If google had been smarter they would have made Java an option, not mandatory. Some Google Java fanboy made this choice and now the company is in trouble for it. As much as I dislike Oracle for all this, a part of me hopes they win, just to get rid of Java. Why on earth burden a full unix OS with just one language and a slow one at that.
Maybe if Oracle wins, MeeGo gets a new look. Now that is a nice development platform. Code in anything you bloody well want. A man's phone. I user perl on my phone, just because I can! (typing it on a virtual keyboard is seriously masochistic)
Court cases are not a giant free for all. Read up on deposition. Google asked this question before the live trial AND it was answered by Elison as bing correct, java is free. He knew the question was coming because Google lawyers told him well inn advance that it would and he submited his answer in writing. Now in court he suddenky doesnt know? How gullible are you?
Elison is a dinosaur who just hates google for not using oracle databases. Google was smart enough to stay away fro, that steaming pile of crap. If only they had been smart enough to stay away from Java. Ms and Apple were.
He should have 20 million for Paramount, then end up OWING them another million and everything he ever creates for whatever tidbits they choose to grant him, as a loan of course.
The old "those who trade freedom for security, soon have neither" springs to mind.
Because believe it or not, iOS and OSX are not immune to malware, virusses and trojans. They just are more hidden, so that when it happens, their users are less prepared for it.
Android is open, anyone can make an app. It is a free market. Apple is closed, your app has to be be vetted. It is a closed market. Closed markets are ALWAYS easier and safer then free markets. But the vetting takes place outside your control and you never can tell in advance when it will turn out to be harmful. Take Sony refusing to allows multiplayer for ME3. The windows platform for that game could never have such a blockage. But then, there is zero quality control for Windows games.
You just got to search the Android market to see a LOT of crap, not just malware but apps that are valid enough as code but the idea they try to push is a scam itself. Pyramid schemes, credit rating boosters, signal, battery, memory boosters. But these same applications exist for Windows. They do NOT appear on the game consoles. But what do you rather have? The save walled garden or the free wilderness?
To be honest, most of the time the save walled garden. It is just easier and live is already to complicated. The sad thing however if you are in that walled garden to long, the wilderness might have disappeared and you no longer have an option.
Think Amazon destroying the physical bookstore so that when they next delete a book, there is nowhere else to get it. If Apple owned 99% of the market, there would be no more malware. But what then would be defined as malware would be Apples definition and not yours. And I don't like that idea one bit.
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But luckily, not for very long.
Oxygen by Antoine Lavoisier in 1778.
How can you denounce something when you can't breathe?
It is a very old tactic by the religious establishment, don't question us and we won't question you. Basically, you are free from religious control, unless you question the religious control. You are a free person, unless you try to exercise your freedom.
It has been the way to keep groups down for millenia, Jews are a famous example. Countries that claim to have been tolerant really just operated with "Don't be noticeable and we won't notice you to much".
The Catholic church was fine with evolution, they didn't push for creationism UNTIL Catholics who had accepted evolution made more sense then genesis started to think "wait a minute, if genesis is a fairy tale, then why is any of the rest true and why then is it required for me to remain silent about this priest in my ass?". Creationism and the attack on science didn't start until the church started to loose power because of it. In the 70's, people were still balancing the two. Proof? Their were plenty of scandals back then but people kept quiet because while they accepted evolution, they still believed as well. Enough to not risk upsetting the church. That has changed and the church NEEDS power. Without control, they are nothing. After all, you can talk to god anywhere, why pay for churches and priests when god is everywhere or nowhere?
The church isn't anti-evolution. It is anti-critical thinking. Critical thinkers wonder why the pope has a super luxerous seat on an airplane that could be carrying medicine. Just why gold is needed on a cross for a carpenter. And why people to poor to feed their kids should pay for it all. Can't have that.
The renaissance was another age the church lost a lot of power in because people started thinking. The post-war new age thinking (In Holland, ont-zuiling, the end of the columns of power, where your faith defined who you where and you trusted your boss, doctor and politicians without question) cripped the church even more, now they are determined not to become totally irrelevant. Because the most dangerous idea a church faces is a religious person who realizes that Jezus never founded a church. You can believe without ever going into a church or being buggered by a priest. That is scary as hell to the establishment, those kind of people might even believe you can love your country and STILL question it! It is no accident the religious zealots and the right wingers go hand in hand. Romney and co want you to believe, so you won't think and question. Not just god and the church but the free market, the wars, wallstreet bailouts. Breed, have lots of kids who can't afford to be picky about jobs so Ann Romney can afford a domestic while she bitches about her struggle as a super rich stay at home mom.
Or do you think the right like people having less children who can afford higher education and grow up to be thinking, questioning citizens? Things were so much better when people had a dozen kids who could be send of into domestic service for whatever usage the rich saw fit. And if a girl then inevitably got pregnant by a rich landlord after rape, well, that just ensured the supply of cheap labor would continue.
A fool thinks that those who desire power desire slaves. Far better is a serve, a man who thinks he is free but forges his own chains. Religion and the American dream forges the best chains.
It is a fact that men have a lower average lifespan then women. Since it would be foolish to assume that men want do die younger it must therefor be women who are the cause of this. That is your logic. The races and genders are not equal. Only foolish bleeding hearts believe this, there are differences in alcohol tolerance, weight gain from sugar intake, heart disease risks and countless other diseases which affect one race more then the other.
To therefor blindly assume that all races and genders are equally good at programming is naive or downright hateful.
What are programmers? Well, from Slashdot you can readily deduce that a LOT of them are not the social norm. Gosh, could (functional) Autism which affects men more then women be over represented among computer programmers?
Historic fact is that when math became computers, women were OVER represented in the field. They were considered better at it. Sexist? Now they are under represented (worked with exactly 1 female co-worker in over a hundred men in my career, in my class there were two girls out of 25 boys and our class had a high number of girls, as in all the girls from that year).
Is this the male culture? Is it genetics? Is it culture? Is it race? Is it gender? Is it physical? If you deny any of them without investigation, you are ultimately doing everyone a disservice. It would be like denying that a soldier can't get Sickle Cell disease, because once they couldn't because blacks couldn't become soldiers. Now they can and a doctor would be wise to use race when trying to diagnose a person. Overly PC is harmful.
We have in western culture some typical male dominated professions and some typical female dominated once, and a lot of surprises with them if you think about it. Professors are male, teachers female. Why the shift in gender with the age of the pupil? Why are cafeteria run by women but top restaurants by men when women do most of the cooking in the world? Why are dress makers male?
Mind you, the Dutch government at least IS sponsoring men who want to teach younger kids, since it has been decided that a lack of male role-models can be harmful to the development of young boys. So it is not like white men are never the beneficiary of positive discrimination.
Fact is that women tend to score better at math then boys, until a certain age. Does a rise in estrogen kill of brain cells? An observation of teenage girls (curse you judge for taking away my binoculars!) tends to confirm this... then again, teenage boys have trouble chewing gum... and walking? HA! Have you seen a teenage boy try to walk?
Most companies I worked at were male dominated, I work in tech after all. But I also worked for a charity once and there the majority was women (very attractive ones to, that is where they are all hiding). So, even in "office" environments, there are gender separations, not so much along profession but along the type of company. Those women were nice enough to me as a male outsider BUT there was a seperation. Not so much because they refused to discuss female stuff when I was there, but because they did. I was raised by women and so raised to see women as delicate pure innocent creatures or they would hurt me. Talk to females not playing the gentle role on their own turf and "EEEEEK". Before that, as a I nerd I was slightly afraid of women, now I know I was right.
Can a workfloor gender culture have an effect? Duh! But can this be changed? And how?
There is no shortage of smart young girls. There is no shortage of young girls that might consider a tech career. There is a shortage of tech women on the workfloor. Something happens between the age of 10 and 20 that causes a shift.
I am a nerd who plays with model trains, not for the modeling but for the automated controlling of a train network, think of it as robotics for those who can't handle path finding. Sometimes we demonstrate this, at rail modelers conventions. Sometimes wives, girlfriends (HA!) and daughters/sisters are dragged along. They are
First off, the hiring process is a two way street. You are just as much interviewing the employer as they are you. If you feel at any time during the hiring process that the employer does not suit you, then STOP! Walk away, this is not the employer you are looking for.
For an employer, hiring a new person is a high cost and high risk hassle that is to often delayed. So rather then do the process when the workload is still manageable, they only start looking when everyone is working an 80 hour week and tracking the backlog has switched from a project manager to an archaeologist. With all this, they then have the task of defining the role, explaining this to a recruiter, putting it out and deal with the deluge of applicants many of who have no hope whatsoever. You wouldn't believe what responds at times to a job ad. But the employer has to shift through it all in the hope of finding the one non-lying, non-insane, non-slacker, non-enemy making freak out there. A freak after all is someone who is not normal so a normal person in the hiring process is a freak. Trust me on this.
So, having just lost a month worth of productive work in total, there you are with all your hopes and dreams, interviewee #5347. STAND OUT!
An employer wants ONE thing and one thing only. One: make more money or to get laid with the new hire. An employer wants two things and two things only, 1: more money, 2: sex 3: no loss in productivity. Three things, an employer wants three things only.
To this end, the employer has a number of choices:
If you see malice in the above, that says a lot about you and a good employer would spot this and not hire you. If you never hired anyone or had to work with a new co-worker, you might not fully grasp just how much productivity is lost with not just the hire process but getting a new person up to speed. And (small) companies typically only hire once the workload has gotten to high already, so more work getting you up to speed will only make things worse. An employer wants to make sure that things afterwards will at least get better.
So how do you convince an Employer that HE/SHE/IT/THEY will BENEFIT from hiring you after the HUGE cost and hassle of hiring YOU? Simple, identify those costs and hassles and show how they can be minimized by you, or how they are not so bad after all.
Skills matter less then the capacity to acquire new ones quickly. Any new job will require new skills. Who cares you knew how to work with the systems of your old company, how quickly will you learn the systems at your new job? Emphasize NOT your experience with a system but how quickly you learned it. On your own. Self-study the new companies system shows they don't have to waste productivity teaching you.
Nobody likes a trouble-maker. Employers don't want strive among their employees, it costs productivity and they are hiring you to boost it. Don't boast about how buddy buddy you were with a small number of your ex-co-workers. Show you can get along with everyone and can just shrug off difficult co-workers without actually implying that you personally thought person X was difficult. Yes, that is bland. Bland is good, it has low risk.
Show how working for THEM benefits YOU. An employee who benefits is unlikely to leave. Make this benefit seem longer then the next paycheck.
SO, HOW DOES THIS ALL TIE INTO SOCIAL MEDIA?
Simple, an employer wants to know who you really are. Both of you are pretending during the interview. Simple dating advice is not to look at how the person interacts with you but with others. For women especially, want to avoid an abusive relationship? See how he deals with waiters and others in a subserviant role. That is how he will treat you once the honeymoon is
It is lolcats all the way down, in a pool of porn with an essence of "Me too" posts.
Anyway, I think the original poster needs to read up on what the Internet is. It is a network of networks. A number of CPU's networking together is just a network. If you could mix many different systems together, it would be an Internet.
If you could put a Intel cpu next to an AMD and they would just work together seamlessly, THAT would be an Internet.
The US has a very long history of actively interfering in other sovereign nations affairs and not just those it has labeled openly as an enemy. It has physically and politically assassinated people from allied nations to steer election results. If you think the US elections have no effect on you just because you don't obediently salute the flag (what does a man do and what does a slave do) you are silly.
Mind you, since I am already burning Karma, I wonder if Santorum, the god-fearing Catholic believes that the illness of his child is gods way of stopping him from becoming president. That is how it works after all if you have the faith. Everything is gods plan. Funny how that never is acknowledged by the religious in defeat. You never see a Muslim going after they lost another war, it was Allah's will. A Catholic when they loose an election, god willed it. There may be no Atheist in hell but there aren't many true believers in defeat either.
Ah well, may I congratulate the American readers with the election of Obama for a second term? Lets face it, the only thing at the moment to prevent that would be the end of the world and that isn't due until just after :P
But in your days it was easy, you could count the clock cycles on the fingers of one hand and if you wanted a bit flipped you just climbed inside the computer with a hammer!
Anyway, you weren't all that impressive, you relied on a blacksmith for a hammer and a miner for the coal to fire your machine. You were just the slave master benefiting from the slave labor of others.
And people before that did it without DOS. Go all the way back and people where flipping switches to input their code. And they found it boring to rewrite the same stuff over and over again and so created common libraries that soon became an OS and everything else.
If you make a cake from scratch, do you grown your own wheat? Then you are using the library of nature/god! Slacker! I create my own universe for every sandwhich, Big Bang all the way or you are just a faker!
Personally I think 64k is to limitting, it was nice some years ago but today, it just isn't realistic anymore, not when your average PC has 8GB of memory PLUS video memory. Go crazy, go a full MB! Make that floppy work!
I can appreciate the skill but it is like seeing someone make a nice statue with a flint... nice... now here is a steel chisel. Enjoy!
Metro to me seems idiotic but the one thing that is very noticeable is that whoever drew its design has no love for full color drawing, it is very monochromatic if such a thing exist in color. White icons/text on single color boxes. All very stark and (to my eye) unclear. Mind you, with a lot of icon based interfaces (android, iOS and some PC setups) unclear icons can be just as confusing. As near as I can figure this is politicians logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefor it must be done.
Unclear sea of icons is confusing and something must be done, metro is something, therefor it will fix everything.
It is a new shiny, therefor it is the second coming. Until the next one.
Meanwhile the Japanese would study the beach, then copy it, in miniature.
The Brits would copy it but get all the good bits wrong and make the bad bits worse.
The Australians would make a copy that is just better but they would never stop feeling inferior about it.
The greeks would expect the rest of the world to pay for it.
The saudies would just buy it and see nothing wrong with paying a fortune for sand.
The Germans would dig a hole in it.
The dutch wouldn't feel happy on it until they build a sand castle to protect against the tide.
Apple would put it in a pretty box and sell it for a premium but you could only use it as Jobs intended.
Have I insulted everyone yet? Not on topic? Oh come on, universities have always been a haven for spies and the recruitment of spies. Duh, where else to find information, underpaid people with lots of info and impressionable young minds looking for a cause?
The BLACK president of the US of A, the most powerful man on earth basically said that if he had a son, that son would still refer to himself with the N-word that a black person can use but not a white person. The first non-white male christian president of the US was a black man. Not a woman, not a native american, not an asian, not a hindu, jew or atheist or any other religion. But still, the son of the most powerful man on earth has a right to feel discriminated.
Also, why is the term white trash acceptable but not black trash?
Racism exist, so does self victimization.
Yeah, iPods, iTunes, iPhone and iPad are so new... because nobody ever heard of a walkman, online music store, mobile phone or tablet before. Nor is Apple all that succesfull, yes, they sell a LOT of a single model but in total sales, many others surpass them. (Android activations outstrip in a matter of days, total iPhone sales. iTunes sells a lot of online music but only if you don't count traditional retailers)
The parent poster claims he can't remember seeing rows of tablets before. Well, then he must not have been looking. Archos has been in the market for a long time. Of course, you could further specify that a tablet only counts if it is 8.9 inches and a certain thickness and color but most reasonable people know that tech gadgets evolve. Tablets were once laptops, then thin laptops, then those hybrid laptops whose keyboard could be hidden with a touch screen. In fact, weren't THOSE devices once called tablets?
What Apple is really good at is taking existing tech, investing a LOT in large scale production and thus beat everyone else on price. 64GB iPad when most competitors just can't afford to buy memory that cheap to compete.
But new and revolutionary? Maybe if you have blinders on and only see mainstream products but for the early adapters, the i* brandline is and always has been old hat. For example, retina display? The next thing might well be glasses type displays, holding a tablet is so last month.
And for all that mainstream innovation we get one of the most evil patent company out there. Mind you, I have long had the impression Woz is a willing slave. Jobs screwed him over so many times and still he comes back begging for more. He knows a thing or two about computers but socially, he is a tool. Crying patents will destroy innovation while defending a company that only copies and sues everyone under the sun seems to me to suggest a person with a limited grasp of the world. Gosh, a geek with problems understanding the world. How unusual.
Stop trying to excuse your need for a shiny toy with trying to think Apple is cool or nice or different. It is not. Buy your shiny and accept your dollars support slavery and patent wars and the removal of jobs from the west. Just don't be a hypocrite about it.
BTW, Bill Gates has tons of child porn on his computers and that is a fact, in fact most Republicans host and profit from child porn and I can proof it. They all own shares in companies that index the internet and when you do that, you are going to index child porn sooner or later. With the introduction of image search and the thumbnailing of said images on servers owned by the search engine companies such as Bing, these companies have child porn and serve the images to the world. Since these companies run their search engine for profit, they profit from child porn and so does anyone who has shares in them.
By the same token, every ISP transmits child porn and every airline and postal company out there traffics in it too. Just recently a man in Hollland was arrested on a flight with childporn, since KLM did not refund his ticket, they profitted from the rape of children.
Disgusting ain't it?
Funny, that this kind of logic is never used in the US to hold gun companies responsible for gun crime. Maybe it is a clear message, pedo's just got to up their campaign donations.
Did they try the old terrorist spiel yet? Can't be far behind.
The US government wouldn't try to use communism as a boogyman. Terrorist! Get with the times!
Payed with North-Western European taxes. Perhaps governments should only spend what they are prepared to collect in taxes. And a population should only expect for "free" what they are prepared for with taxes.
SFC to SWAT: We got a perp, he is talking to pure innocent virgin geek boys and trying to seduce them as we speak.
SWAT TO SFC: Roger, we have him surrounded, how should we proceed, teargas?
SFC to SWAT: Negative, exterminate with extreme prejudice, shoot his balls off from the rooftop across the street, it is the only way to be sure.
MS contribution is for stuff to make Linux work on MS virtualization and interoperate with MS software since MS failed to convince all its customer to go pure windows so rather then risk customers going fully Unix, they now enable a mix. Pretty smart but it is self serving.
Meanwhile Canonical has done a lot in making a distro with the linux kernel that is easily usable. Its install program is one of the smoothest I have seen, far superior to either MS or say a Red Hat, but that has nothing to do with the kernel.
So, who is more important to the opensource operating system with a GNU userspace, a gnome/kde desktop and a Linux kernel? ALL, the very wide support shows a totally different picture then a few years ago. Drivers used to have to be made by a user who with his own money reverse engineered the code with the constant threath of a legal challenge. Now, things are open. Sure, it is far from perfect but for a long time linux was purely the domain of geeks who never even saw a girl outside their mother. Now it is being used by people who got their hands on actual boobies. Granted, their own as they are female but still, it is progress. One day the male and female linux user will meet and breed and the 7th sysadmin of the 7th sysadmin will be born.
The west is ruled by democracy and for the UK and the US at least that has resulted in a two party system (oh okay, the brits got the liberals) who seem to be fighting each other as if there are only absolutes.
Anyway, what is common sense? We can't even agree on a common sense maximum speed limit, how do you agree on a common sense level of privacy? Or is what you really mean "My sense"?
Another poster above also talks about common sense as if that is so simple. The moment it affects YOU, common sense goes out of the window. It might seem common sense to have medical aid freely available for all so doctors first question is not a for bank statement showing you can afford to have your wounds taken care off. Right up until the moment YOUR taxes go up.
Just follow the elections in any country and then talk to me about common sense.