I thought this was a joke. The point of the whole article is that exactly these sorts of rules dumb down presentations, making it difficult to present complex ideas. I don't know how you expect to address that problem with suggestions like "repetition is good". I like your contrast analysis idea though.
They'll have to pry my Logitech MouseMan out of my cold, dead, hands. Yes, the only picture of it I could find is on a Russian page. I knew I should have bought another one of these to keep as a backup:)
8:00pm strikes and within 10 minutes they are already predicting the outcome, and when the National news stations (CBC and CTV) make a prediction they are usually bang on.
We need to have financial incentives in place for people who defeat patents with prior art searches.
A challenge phase needs to be put in place so that our patent killers (as well as competitors) have a chance to savage a patent with prior art claims before it officially goes on the rolls.
As I understand it, they searched the output space. Hash functions typically hash multiple inputs to the same value. In a cryptographic hash these multiple values can not be determined in any inexpensive way.
I do agree that the profession of project managers (or managers in general) is vastly overrated, both in prestige and in monetary rewards. Or perhaps it's more like technical expertise is underrated...
If you can outsource all of your coding to India, why not move your project managers there too ? It makes no sense to have a project managed from half way around the world.
My sense of this is as follows : the people making these decisions are perfectly happy outsourcing or offshoring anything, as long as it's far enough away not to threaten them. They're hypocrits. I mean honestly, how much is the average executive paid, and how much are they worth to the company ? Just because they might _oversee_ millions of dollars of profit, they are exempt from cost/benefit assessment ? A lot of people losing their jobs are getting the line "sure you do good work, but these guys do it so much cheaper". Why should anyone in the company be exempt from that sort of reasoning ?
You can extend the argument, why not relocate the whole company to India, with small satellite offices for marketing, etc, in the west ? If it's really about "maximizing shareholder value" we'd see an awful lot more of that, wouldn't we ? The fact is, offshoring is about one thing - the trough is running low, so you cut a bunch of lower people off to keep the same amount (or get more) for yourself. It has the nice side-effect of increasing your own relative importance to the company, because there are fewer people around for comparison.
I think seeing an API would help you uncover limitations in the hardware, and this could potentially help competitors. Honestly, it depends on the market for the hardware. If you're selling a cheap commodity then who cares ? If you're selling $500 graphics cards and coding all of these non-standard "optimizations" for specific programs into your driver, then maybe you have something to hide.
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...yet Open Office Impress copies all these flaws faithfully.
+1, Inciteful.
This is the most insightful post I've seen in the entire story.
I thought this was a joke. The point of the whole article is that exactly these sorts of rules dumb down presentations, making it difficult to present complex ideas. I don't know how you expect to address that problem with suggestions like "repetition is good". I like your contrast analysis idea though.
I thought it was sarcasm!
Just don't send us another Paul Hogan, or we'll never look at you again.
1) Piracy
2) ???
3) Profit!
On a less serious note, if criminals offer to "rearrange your face", you might actually be interested.
"...and whose girlfriend couldn't make it to the screening."
Because you hit her with a cinderblock ?
ASK SLASHDOT to fuck my girldfriend for me?
If you're girlfriend is an internet server (plausible), that can be arranged.
+1, beverage on keyboard
They'll have to pry my Logitech MouseMan out of my cold, dead, hands. Yes, the only picture of it I could find is on a Russian page. I knew I should have bought another one of these to keep as a backup :)
8:00pm strikes and within 10 minutes they are already predicting the outcome, and when the National news stations (CBC and CTV) make a prediction they are usually bang on.
...because the Liberal party always wins ?
Clothes are pulled off each other in an optimal fashion.
If this doesn't win some sort of award, I don't know what can.
It's levied against the manufacturer or importer. The consumer never sees it - it's hidden.
We need to have financial incentives in place for people who defeat patents with prior art searches.
A challenge phase needs to be put in place so that our patent killers (as well as competitors) have a chance to savage a patent with prior art claims before it officially goes on the rolls.
There's no way you can do both.
Do people shed a tear when they drive past McDonalds?
Yes - for poor old Grimace. His untimely death from morbid obesity is an omen for us all.
+10^6 Insightful
Also, how do you sterilise something for space ?
Plastic wrap. Lots of plastic wrap.
Until the SEC investigates, unearthing evidence of fraud which was supposed to have been deleted.
Nobody goes, because they hear his talk in their head anyway.
As I understand it, they searched the output space. Hash functions typically hash multiple inputs to the same value. In a cryptographic hash these multiple values can not be determined in any inexpensive way.
They have a database of all possible hashes. Your scheme would mean that an attacker would have to do three lookups, instead of one.
I do agree that the profession of project managers (or managers in general) is vastly overrated, both in prestige and in monetary rewards. Or perhaps it's more like technical expertise is underrated...
If you can outsource all of your coding to India, why not move your project managers there too ? It makes no sense to have a project managed from half way around the world.
My sense of this is as follows : the people making these decisions are perfectly happy outsourcing or offshoring anything, as long as it's far enough away not to threaten them. They're hypocrits. I mean honestly, how much is the average executive paid, and how much are they worth to the company ? Just because they might _oversee_ millions of dollars of profit, they are exempt from cost/benefit assessment ? A lot of people losing their jobs are getting the line "sure you do good work, but these guys do it so much cheaper". Why should anyone in the company be exempt from that sort of reasoning ?
You can extend the argument, why not relocate the whole company to India, with small satellite offices for marketing, etc, in the west ? If it's really about "maximizing shareholder value" we'd see an awful lot more of that, wouldn't we ? The fact is, offshoring is about one thing - the trough is running low, so you cut a bunch of lower people off to keep the same amount (or get more) for yourself. It has the nice side-effect of increasing your own relative importance to the company, because there are fewer people around for comparison.
I think seeing an API would help you uncover limitations in the hardware, and this could potentially help competitors. Honestly, it depends on the market for the hardware. If you're selling a cheap commodity then who cares ? If you're selling $500 graphics cards and coding all of these non-standard "optimizations" for specific programs into your driver, then maybe you have something to hide.
I think you were typing on one a minute ago.