This creates a nasty slippery slope argument for credit card companies. If they are forced to watch and regulate these (currently and stupidly) illegal transactions, why not make them responsible for all activity on the credit cards they issue?
The article is loading very slowly so I haven't read it yet, but what constitutes iPod integration? I just ordered an '07 Mustang. It comes with a basic stereo input jack. I would prefer a really well done total iPod integration, but this still works well. The other benefit is that in 10 years if I'm not using an iPod (or the hookups change), it will still work perfectly with my car.
My sister just got a tC, and they did a fine job with the iPod integration. The interface was basically the same as an iPod. It was so intuitive for an iPod user, that only after I finished and had my music playing did I sit back and realize, "Damn, that's a nice setup." It's nice to see that at least one company realized that copying the excellent iPod design is the way to go.
The problem isn't in using a quantitative metric, the problem is when too much stock is placed in it. It should be one of many tools used for evaluation.
I do not think that this should be the sole determining factor; it would never replace judges. It would simply be another tool. Besides, if things like this and mandatory sentencing are consistently causing people to cringe, maybe we should be looking at the laws and sentencing guidelines already on the books. Call me crazy, but if our legal system is consistently creating these travesties of justice you describe, maybe we should change it.
It would be good to come up with (and make public) an algorithm for determining a sentence. It shouldn't automatically be entered as the official sentence, but then a judge would have a good baseline to go off of. If the judge wanted to make a significant increase or decrease to the sentence, they would need to demonstrate the extenuating circumstances. An added bonus is that there would be a quantitative metric for determining how judges are performing.
Of course, the toughest part is creating a fair algorithm. But hey, in theory it has got potential.
The entire practice needs to go? That sort of overreaction is just as bad as what the RIAA or the filesharers are doing. The problem is that ALL parties in this are being retarded:
RIAA - They are bullying people with their disproportionate acccess to lawyers and money. They are suing people for ridiculous amounts of money. They are presenting dubious technical arguments in court and are setting unreasonable precedents.
Illegal filesharers - They are committing copyright infringement. This is illegal, end of story. Regardless of what you feel about copyright or the music business, copyright exists and makes it illegal for you to share these files.
Judges - Many are letting RIAA lawyers present weak and unreasonable arguments.
Legislators - They are passing dumbass copyright laws. Yes, there should be copyright. No, it shouldn't last 873 years or whatever the hell it is currently.
Blanket stereotyping from someone who appears to be mad that they are stuck at the bottom of the corporate ladder. Nice. It's natural tendency to say $MYGROUP works hard while $OTHERGROUP doesn't do anything and reaps better rewards, but try and take a step back for a second and look at the flip side. Quit being jealous and realize that upper management is just like any other group in society: some are geniuses, some are fucktards, and the majority lie somewhere along the grey scale in the middle. You just hear about the extremes because average makes for boring news.
tanford is certainly a great source for alpha nerds, but the founding technology seeds of Silicon valley were not started by Stanford grads. Think HP, Varian, Xerox PARC, National labs, Nasa, Apple,... Stanford fuels the fire but isn't necessary.
Well it isn't just Stanford, but Stanford and Berkeley. After all, who wants to live in the East Bay after graduating from Berkeley. Look at some of the companies who drove the emergence of Silicon Valley:
HP - Stanford grads Apple - Woz went to Berkeley (eventually graduated) Intel - Moore graduated from Berkeley Sun - Stanford grads
Not to mention the thousands of other Cal and Stanford grads who worked here. There are a number of other good universities in the area, but those two far and away were behind the growth.
Yeah, I think he lost his credibility when he talked about this mythical new Silicon Valley as having a center. There is no center in Silicon Valley! I would say the "center" of San Jose is dead, but that would imply it was alive at some point. Other than that, you basically have a bunch of suburbs all the way up the penninsula.
Another big point that irked me was when he talked about youth not wanting to go to a place with "traditional values." If he wanted a counterexample, he just had to look over the hill at Santa Cruz. Take conservative old town, add university, wait a few decades... tada, you've got a hippie beach town.
Though San Francisco isn't part of Silicon Valley, the Niners might as well be called the Santa Clara 49ers. The team has a lot of facilities down in the South Bay, and I would guess the majority of fans are down here too. So to answer your question, yes, we have won Super Bowls. 5 in fact, without losing any.
PS - The Niners got to five first. Nyah nyah nyah.
This is just like a "spot the phishing email" quiz I saw. Just looking at a picture gives you no context. Did you get the link from a reliable source? What OS/browser are you running. (I'm definitely more willing to check out something suspicious in Safari than Internet Explorer.) Are you dumb enough to download and run something from the site.
Perhaps one solution would be to allow one post per category per day. Anything extra would cost you.
I actually had the exact same idea at first, but the implementation would be a bitch, if not impossible to do fairly. How would you identify who each poster is? Generating a ton of email addresses isn't tough. IP address might work, but between proxies and rich companies/people with large IP blocks, you could still get significant abuse. While it may hurt those with more resources some, it would hurt the casual person more.
Yep, I realized where I was and that a statement like that would loose some folks, but hey, be as close minded as you want, there are plenty of others like you. Talk to me in 50 years when our children are dealing with the problems that we ignored.
Go back and read what I said again. I said that such a tiny piece of anecdotal evidence could not be used as an argument either for or against global warming. You incorrectly inferrred that this meant that I do not believe that global warming is a problem.
For the record, I believe that we don't have a friggin clue about global climate trends. We are merely scratching the surface of the issue, and there is a lot of scientific work to be done before we can draw accurate conclusions.
but judging by the shortsidedness of the current global warming fun (it was almost 70 in St. Louis yesterday)
Wow. Really, just wow. Sorry, but I couldn't keep reading after you believe that the weather for one day in one city can anyway possibly be considered evidence for or against global warming.
I don't feel like doing the probability math, but I would safely assume that the odds very good that there is at least one unique second in the day where 165+ messages are simultaneously. Even if you assume only half have a cell phone, and that of those with a cell phone they send an average of one message/day, the odds will be very good. If you look at it over a period of weeks or months, you can almost guarantee that it will happen.
However, if you are failing out of Discrete Mathematics (the easiest math course, besides college algebra)...
Yeah, I stopped reading right there. I was lucky enough for Discrete Math to count as an upper division course (!), and it was one of maybe two courses I've taken and considered a joke. I should have known when on the first page of the book it said that you needed absolutely no prior knowledge of math to comprehend the book.
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The article has been up for over 20 minutes and still no RTFM followed by a cryptic dd command? For shame.
First off, it's libel if it's written.
;)
Second, they would have to prove that you knew those statements to be false. And let's be honest, are you really sure?
This creates a nasty slippery slope argument for credit card companies. If they are forced to watch and regulate these (currently and stupidly) illegal transactions, why not make them responsible for all activity on the credit cards they issue?
Why couldn't our nation have been started by someone cool instead of a bunch of lame Protestants.
The article is loading very slowly so I haven't read it yet, but what constitutes iPod integration? I just ordered an '07 Mustang. It comes with a basic stereo input jack. I would prefer a really well done total iPod integration, but this still works well. The other benefit is that in 10 years if I'm not using an iPod (or the hookups change), it will still work perfectly with my car.
My sister just got a tC, and they did a fine job with the iPod integration. The interface was basically the same as an iPod. It was so intuitive for an iPod user, that only after I finished and had my music playing did I sit back and realize, "Damn, that's a nice setup." It's nice to see that at least one company realized that copying the excellent iPod design is the way to go.
I know it's a bit too technical for you, but you may want to click the "Post Anonymously" button next time. ;)
The problem isn't in using a quantitative metric, the problem is when too much stock is placed in it. It should be one of many tools used for evaluation.
I do not think that this should be the sole determining factor; it would never replace judges. It would simply be another tool. Besides, if things like this and mandatory sentencing are consistently causing people to cringe, maybe we should be looking at the laws and sentencing guidelines already on the books. Call me crazy, but if our legal system is consistently creating these travesties of justice you describe, maybe we should change it.
It would be good to come up with (and make public) an algorithm for determining a sentence. It shouldn't automatically be entered as the official sentence, but then a judge would have a good baseline to go off of. If the judge wanted to make a significant increase or decrease to the sentence, they would need to demonstrate the extenuating circumstances. An added bonus is that there would be a quantitative metric for determining how judges are performing.
Of course, the toughest part is creating a fair algorithm. But hey, in theory it has got potential.
The entire practice needs to go? That sort of overreaction is just as bad as what the RIAA or the filesharers are doing. The problem is that ALL parties in this are being retarded:
RIAA - They are bullying people with their disproportionate acccess to lawyers and money. They are suing people for ridiculous amounts of money. They are presenting dubious technical arguments in court and are setting unreasonable precedents.
Illegal filesharers - They are committing copyright infringement. This is illegal, end of story. Regardless of what you feel about copyright or the music business, copyright exists and makes it illegal for you to share these files.
Judges - Many are letting RIAA lawyers present weak and unreasonable arguments.
Legislators - They are passing dumbass copyright laws. Yes, there should be copyright. No, it shouldn't last 873 years or whatever the hell it is currently.
% factor 597600
597600: 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 83
% factor 597599
597599: 597599
Like a CS101 assignment, I'm off by one.
Who the hell knows the model numbers of their friend's laptops???
Umm, any self-respecting geek?
I first meant the above line as a joke, but I did a quick mental inventory and realize that it's sad but true.
Blanket stereotyping from someone who appears to be mad that they are stuck at the bottom of the corporate ladder. Nice. It's natural tendency to say $MYGROUP works hard while $OTHERGROUP doesn't do anything and reaps better rewards, but try and take a step back for a second and look at the flip side. Quit being jealous and realize that upper management is just like any other group in society: some are geniuses, some are fucktards, and the majority lie somewhere along the grey scale in the middle. You just hear about the extremes because average makes for boring news.
Have you ever considered personality might have something to do with it?
tanford is certainly a great source for alpha nerds, but the founding technology seeds of Silicon valley were not started by Stanford grads. Think HP, Varian, Xerox PARC, National labs, Nasa, Apple, ... Stanford fuels the fire but isn't necessary.
Well it isn't just Stanford, but Stanford and Berkeley. After all, who wants to live in the East Bay after graduating from Berkeley. Look at some of the companies who drove the emergence of Silicon Valley:
HP - Stanford grads
Apple - Woz went to Berkeley (eventually graduated)
Intel - Moore graduated from Berkeley
Sun - Stanford grads
Not to mention the thousands of other Cal and Stanford grads who worked here. There are a number of other good universities in the area, but those two far and away were behind the growth.
Yeah, I think he lost his credibility when he talked about this mythical new Silicon Valley as having a center. There is no center in Silicon Valley! I would say the "center" of San Jose is dead, but that would imply it was alive at some point. Other than that, you basically have a bunch of suburbs all the way up the penninsula.
Another big point that irked me was when he talked about youth not wanting to go to a place with "traditional values." If he wanted a counterexample, he just had to look over the hill at Santa Cruz. Take conservative old town, add university, wait a few decades... tada, you've got a hippie beach town.
Though San Francisco isn't part of Silicon Valley, the Niners might as well be called the Santa Clara 49ers. The team has a lot of facilities down in the South Bay, and I would guess the majority of fans are down here too. So to answer your question, yes, we have won Super Bowls. 5 in fact, without losing any.
PS - The Niners got to five first. Nyah nyah nyah.
This is just like a "spot the phishing email" quiz I saw. Just looking at a picture gives you no context. Did you get the link from a reliable source? What OS/browser are you running. (I'm definitely more willing to check out something suspicious in Safari than Internet Explorer.) Are you dumb enough to download and run something from the site.
Perhaps one solution would be to allow one post per category per day. Anything extra would cost you.
I actually had the exact same idea at first, but the implementation would be a bitch, if not impossible to do fairly. How would you identify who each poster is? Generating a ton of email addresses isn't tough. IP address might work, but between proxies and rich companies/people with large IP blocks, you could still get significant abuse. While it may hurt those with more resources some, it would hurt the casual person more.
The payload may be encrypted, but the headers sure aren't. They just need to look at the port numbers.
Yep, I realized where I was and that a statement like that would loose some folks, but hey, be as close minded as you want, there are plenty of others like you. Talk to me in 50 years when our children are dealing with the problems that we ignored.
Go back and read what I said again. I said that such a tiny piece of anecdotal evidence could not be used as an argument either for or against global warming. You incorrectly inferrred that this meant that I do not believe that global warming is a problem.
For the record, I believe that we don't have a friggin clue about global climate trends. We are merely scratching the surface of the issue, and there is a lot of scientific work to be done before we can draw accurate conclusions.
but judging by the shortsidedness of the current global warming fun (it was almost 70 in St. Louis yesterday)
Wow. Really, just wow. Sorry, but I couldn't keep reading after you believe that the weather for one day in one city can anyway possibly be considered evidence for or against global warming.
Why should they? I don't remember much from econ, but if they can get the cash for it, go for the higher prices.
I don't feel like doing the probability math, but I would safely assume that the odds very good that there is at least one unique second in the day where 165+ messages are simultaneously. Even if you assume only half have a cell phone, and that of those with a cell phone they send an average of one message/day, the odds will be very good. If you look at it over a period of weeks or months, you can almost guarantee that it will happen.
However, if you are failing out of Discrete Mathematics (the easiest math course, besides college algebra)...
Yeah, I stopped reading right there. I was lucky enough for Discrete Math to count as an upper division course (!), and it was one of maybe two courses I've taken and considered a joke. I should have known when on the first page of the book it said that you needed absolutely no prior knowledge of math to comprehend the book.