Every time I've taken an iphone into an apple store and requested battery service, they have come up with an excuse not to do it. They instead heavily pushing me to exchange for a refurbished phone of the same model.
If Apple is going to start telling people when their batteries need to be serviced, maybe they will actually start servicing batteries.
I work at a company that scores job candidates with an AI system, so I have some experience with this. One thing to keep in mind is that most AI systems these days are deep learning algorithms that depend on a reliable training set. If gender or racial biases exist in the training set (whether justified or not), a good deep learning system will learn these biases and propagate them.
My company makes an active effort to prevent these types of biases from creeping into our system.
I'd like to see a game that tackles religion the way Brandon Sanderson tackles religion in his Mistborn books.
Give us realistic characters that seriously contemplate the types of questions that real people ask themselves as they go through the human experience. Place those characters in situations that challenge their ideals and provoke thought. Allow the player to experience these ideas in their own way then make real, meaningful choices. Invent new religions, but treat them seriously, exploring the philosophies that are common to most religions without taking sides or trying to direct the audience toward your own biases. This is a difficult path to walk, but I'd love to see a studio pull it off.
IMO the studio that has come the closest to achieving this goal is BioWare. Their talent for placing the player in compelling ethical dilemas is one of the things that keeps me buying their games. I'd love to see a studio with BioWare's talent take on a game that dives deeper into the human religious experience.
Although antibiotics are slightly ot, your comment highlights the exact reasoning used to illegalize certain drugs: namely that drug use "has a definite negative effect on the society at large." Now I realize that a lot of people will argue this point, but that argument is mainly one of degrees (i.e. x or y drug isn't as bad as p or q drug). I don't think anybody in their right might would assert that drug use in general has no negative effect on the society at large.
Now given that drug X does have a negative effect on the society at large, there are really only two valid arguments for keeping them legal. Argument 1: personal freedom outweighs the negative effect on the society at large. Argument 2: the cure is worse than the disease.
Personally I believe all of the above. Some drugs should continue to be illegal. Other drugs should be allowed because the negative effect on the society at large is fairly low and is trumped by personal freedom. Yet other drugs would be better off illegal, but because of their prolific use the level of crime resulting from the trade trumps the negative effect on society at large.
Now by all means, continue to argue about which drugs fit into which categories.
This is the first time I've heard the term mega-dollar used, but a very similar term, megabucks, has been common usage for quite some time.
Perhapse the author meant to say megabucks. Or maybe this was an attempt refine the term to be more precise (megabucks is often used to refer to a large but indefinite amount of money).
There's certainly plenty of blame to pass around here, but before you go on a witch hunt, let's look at what may have happened.
Now, chances are that the PHB was not the one who discovered the child porn. More than likely the content was reported to the PHB or HR or whatever by somebody in IT. So right away we have an unknown and possibly long chain of communication. So the PHB hears from somebody in the company that one of the employees is downloading child porn, what is he supposed to do now (especially if he's not tech savy)? Did the IT department inform the PHB or HR or whatever that it could be a false alarm? Maybe, maybe not. Was the critical information lost somewhere during the chain of communication? Maybe or maybe not. We do know from the article that the PHB consulted the company lawyer (probably a good idea). So now a lawyer is involved. what advice did the lawyer give to the PHB? Was the PHB acting of his own accord, or directly following instructions from legal? The answer is not obvious.
Now somebody somewhere dropped the ball, but it is entirely unclear which person or persons are to blame for that happening. Additionally it appears on the surface that the mistake was not made wilfully or out of spite, but out of a mistaken conviction.
If this had happened to me, I would be far less concerned about getting even with whoever was to blame, and far more interested in pursueing appropriate compensation.
While you're on the topic of benefits, don't forget about the golden handcuffs. Any employee who was around for the bump and has unvested stock options has a compelling reason to stay.
I worked for a company that went through a profit cycle after a long period of doing nothing. I was expecting the company to do something to compensate the engineers who had been patient through the hard times, but then I realized something. They didn't have to. We all had significant stock options, and now that the stock was worth something we would all think twice about leaving (even though there were no raises or bonuses that year).
On the other hand, when the stock price went back down, people were dropping like flies. Eventually Apple will have to make corrections, but they are probably not there yet.
Norton may be the worst, but 2 days ago I had to spend approximately 90 minutes disabling McAfee's enterprise AntiVirus system on my company computer. The thing wanted to do a scan of every file on my computer any time it was accessed (read or write access). And thus my quest began.
I started by attempting to reconfigure the software to scan on write, but some dickhead in corporate IT had decided to disable all user-configuration. Next I searched the internet for helpful advice on how to change the permissions on the admin console. I found instructions on McAfees tech support site, and followed the instructions. I quickly found that the enterprise version of their product let me change the permissions, but then ignored any changes that I made. Next I had a look at the registry. I thought I might be able to tweak the settings by hand; but of course, the software went out of its way to obscure the registry settings. An internet search on specific registry keys yielded a handful of hits, but they were all in Chinese, so no luck there.
OK, so now I'm to the point where I've given up reconfiguring the software, and I just want to disable it. Easy enough, right? Well, not quite. I attempted to disable all the start-up processes, and this was partially successful, but I couldn't figure out how to stop the main scan process from starting. OK, no problem, I'll just kill the process. Well, what do you know, windows task manager doesn't allow me to kill the process. So I hit google again, and I find a third party kill application. This app advertises 16 different methods for killing a process. I boot up the app, and start firing, the first 5 kill methods fail, but number 6 does the trick. Yeah, it's dead. Rename the executable on the filesystem, and I'm done.
Thing is, I would have been happy to run the software if the settings were sane. But since the software sees me as the enemy, I now find myself not running the software at all. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Loads of fun, gorgeous visuals, beautiful environment, stylish characters, amusing mini-games, and fun for the whole family. This was a game where I would get home from work and my kids would say, "Dad, can you play Ratchet and Clank?"
Let me answer your question with another question.
After Microsoft announces a "fixed" version and puts the official seal of non-brickedness on their consoles, what happens to all the "pre-fixed" consoles that are still sitting on the shelves or in warehouses?
A malicious driver is being installed that patches the Win32 API ( FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() ) not to report the presence of a directory when enumerating through your C:\Windows folder.
Your argument is just weak - what about all of the people who were born before Christ? What about all of the Native Americans, who were geographically distinct? What about infants? God presents himself in many different ways to many different people, and the truth is that they're all true. Just because you can't handle many seemingly contradictory things being true doesn't make them not true.
My personal thoughts as a believing Christian:
1. God has established a criteria for us to be forgiven of our sins. I won't go into detail about this, but as an example see John 3:1-10(
http://scriptures.lds.org/john/3/1-10#1 ).
2. God provided equal opportunity for all individuals to become aware of his criteria and to comply. For many, the opportunity comes while they live their mortal lives. For others, the opportunity comes after they have died. The Bible hints at this(http://scriptures.lds.org/1_cor/15/29#29), but never expounds upon it. For additional writings on the topic check out (http://scriptures.lds.org/tgb/bptsmfrt).
I've read a lot of individual opinions, but how many have actually tried something besides a diamond?
After I proposed to my wife we talked about rings, and my wife actually wanted something different. We went to a jewelry store and after talking with the salesman decided to get a "traditional" band but with a sapphire in the place of a diamond. The sapphire was a good choice for us because:
1. It is a fairly hard gemstone that can withstand the rigors of being mounted in a ring. The salesman (who happens to be my cousin) advised against some of the other options we explored based on durability.
2. My wife liked it.
Notice that I didn't mention price as one of the criteria. The Sapphire happened to cost much less than a diamond of anywhere near the same size, but this was more of a convenience than a determining factor. If my wife had wanted a diamond, we would have gotten one.
Since we have been married, my wife has had numerous compliments on her less traditional choice (more traditional if you look beyond the most recent century).
My wife and I have now been married for a little over three years. We have 2 children. We have a mutually happy and fulfilling relationship. And, we did it all without buying a diamond.
Slashdot Mirror
Every time I've taken an iphone into an apple store and requested battery service, they have come up with an excuse not to do it. They instead heavily pushing me to exchange for a refurbished phone of the same model. If Apple is going to start telling people when their batteries need to be serviced, maybe they will actually start servicing batteries.
I work at a company that scores job candidates with an AI system, so I have some experience with this. One thing to keep in mind is that most AI systems these days are deep learning algorithms that depend on a reliable training set. If gender or racial biases exist in the training set (whether justified or not), a good deep learning system will learn these biases and propagate them. My company makes an active effort to prevent these types of biases from creeping into our system.
Just in time for the re-release of Syndicate
My coworker's wife initially thought wtf was "Wow, that's funny." He set her straight . . . after a while ;)
I'd like to see a game that tackles religion the way Brandon Sanderson tackles religion in his Mistborn books.
Give us realistic characters that seriously contemplate the types of questions that real people ask themselves as they go through the human experience. Place those characters in situations that challenge their ideals and provoke thought. Allow the player to experience these ideas in their own way then make real, meaningful choices. Invent new religions, but treat them seriously, exploring the philosophies that are common to most religions without taking sides or trying to direct the audience toward your own biases. This is a difficult path to walk, but I'd love to see a studio pull it off.
IMO the studio that has come the closest to achieving this goal is BioWare. Their talent for placing the player in compelling ethical dilemas is one of the things that keeps me buying their games. I'd love to see a studio with BioWare's talent take on a game that dives deeper into the human religious experience.
Although antibiotics are slightly ot, your comment highlights the exact reasoning used to illegalize certain drugs: namely that drug use "has a definite negative effect on the society at large." Now I realize that a lot of people will argue this point, but that argument is mainly one of degrees (i.e. x or y drug isn't as bad as p or q drug). I don't think anybody in their right might would assert that drug use in general has no negative effect on the society at large.
Now given that drug X does have a negative effect on the society at large, there are really only two valid arguments for keeping them legal. Argument 1: personal freedom outweighs the negative effect on the society at large. Argument 2: the cure is worse than the disease.
Personally I believe all of the above. Some drugs should continue to be illegal. Other drugs should be allowed because the negative effect on the society at large is fairly low and is trumped by personal freedom. Yet other drugs would be better off illegal, but because of their prolific use the level of crime resulting from the trade trumps the negative effect on society at large.
Now by all means, continue to argue about which drugs fit into which categories.
This is the first time I've heard the term mega-dollar used, but a very similar term, megabucks, has been common usage for quite some time.
Perhapse the author meant to say megabucks. Or maybe this was an attempt refine the term to be more precise (megabucks is often used to refer to a large but indefinite amount of money).
Hi,
There's certainly plenty of blame to pass around here, but before you go on a witch hunt, let's look at what may have happened.
Now, chances are that the PHB was not the one who discovered the child porn. More than likely the content was reported to the PHB or HR or whatever by somebody in IT. So right away we have an unknown and possibly long chain of communication. So the PHB hears from somebody in the company that one of the employees is downloading child porn, what is he supposed to do now (especially if he's not tech savy)? Did the IT department inform the PHB or HR or whatever that it could be a false alarm? Maybe, maybe not. Was the critical information lost somewhere during the chain of communication? Maybe or maybe not. We do know from the article that the PHB consulted the company lawyer (probably a good idea). So now a lawyer is involved. what advice did the lawyer give to the PHB? Was the PHB acting of his own accord, or directly following instructions from legal? The answer is not obvious.
Now somebody somewhere dropped the ball, but it is entirely unclear which person or persons are to blame for that happening. Additionally it appears on the surface that the mistake was not made wilfully or out of spite, but out of a mistaken conviction.
If this had happened to me, I would be far less concerned about getting even with whoever was to blame, and far more interested in pursueing appropriate compensation.
While you're on the topic of benefits, don't forget about the golden handcuffs. Any employee who was around for the bump and has unvested stock options has a compelling reason to stay.
I worked for a company that went through a profit cycle after a long period of doing nothing. I was expecting the company to do something to compensate the engineers who had been patient through the hard times, but then I realized something. They didn't have to. We all had significant stock options, and now that the stock was worth something we would all think twice about leaving (even though there were no raises or bonuses that year).
On the other hand, when the stock price went back down, people were dropping like flies. Eventually Apple will have to make corrections, but they are probably not there yet.
Charade
One of the best examples I can think of for a great twist ending. Of course that was old hollywood. I can't think of a recent movie that compares.
Norton may be the worst, but 2 days ago I had to spend approximately 90 minutes disabling McAfee's enterprise AntiVirus system on my company computer. The thing wanted to do a scan of every file on my computer any time it was accessed (read or write access). And thus my quest began.
I started by attempting to reconfigure the software to scan on write, but some dickhead in corporate IT had decided to disable all user-configuration. Next I searched the internet for helpful advice on how to change the permissions on the admin console. I found instructions on McAfees tech support site, and followed the instructions. I quickly found that the enterprise version of their product let me change the permissions, but then ignored any changes that I made. Next I had a look at the registry. I thought I might be able to tweak the settings by hand; but of course, the software went out of its way to obscure the registry settings. An internet search on specific registry keys yielded a handful of hits, but they were all in Chinese, so no luck there.
OK, so now I'm to the point where I've given up reconfiguring the software, and I just want to disable it. Easy enough, right? Well, not quite. I attempted to disable all the start-up processes, and this was partially successful, but I couldn't figure out how to stop the main scan process from starting. OK, no problem, I'll just kill the process. Well, what do you know, windows task manager doesn't allow me to kill the process. So I hit google again, and I find a third party kill application. This app advertises 16 different methods for killing a process. I boot up the app, and start firing, the first 5 kill methods fail, but number 6 does the trick. Yeah, it's dead. Rename the executable on the filesystem, and I'm done.
Thing is, I would have been happy to run the software if the settings were sane. But since the software sees me as the enemy, I now find myself not running the software at all. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Tools of destruction.
Loads of fun, gorgeous visuals, beautiful environment, stylish characters, amusing mini-games, and fun for the whole family. This was a game where I would get home from work and my kids would say, "Dad, can you play Ratchet and Clank?"
Let me answer your question with another question. After Microsoft announces a "fixed" version and puts the official seal of non-brickedness on their consoles, what happens to all the "pre-fixed" consoles that are still sitting on the shelves or in warehouses?
I can understand why DMCA takedown notices qualify as fiction, but what makes them SCIENCE fiction?
A malicious driver is being installed that patches the Win32 API ( FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() ) not to report the presence of a directory when enumerating through your C:\Windows folder.
[Allow] or [Deny]
My personal thoughts as a believing Christian:
1. God has established a criteria for us to be forgiven of our sins. I won't go into detail about this, but as an example see John 3:1-10(
http://scriptures.lds.org/john/3/1-10#1 ).
2. God provided equal opportunity for all individuals to become aware of his criteria and to comply. For many, the opportunity comes while they live their mortal lives. For others, the opportunity comes after they have died. The Bible hints at this(http://scriptures.lds.org/1_cor/15/29#29), but never expounds upon it. For additional writings on the topic check out (http://scriptures.lds.org/tgb/bptsmfrt).
I've read a lot of individual opinions, but how many have actually tried something besides a diamond? After I proposed to my wife we talked about rings, and my wife actually wanted something different. We went to a jewelry store and after talking with the salesman decided to get a "traditional" band but with a sapphire in the place of a diamond. The sapphire was a good choice for us because: 1. It is a fairly hard gemstone that can withstand the rigors of being mounted in a ring. The salesman (who happens to be my cousin) advised against some of the other options we explored based on durability. 2. My wife liked it. Notice that I didn't mention price as one of the criteria. The Sapphire happened to cost much less than a diamond of anywhere near the same size, but this was more of a convenience than a determining factor. If my wife had wanted a diamond, we would have gotten one. Since we have been married, my wife has had numerous compliments on her less traditional choice (more traditional if you look beyond the most recent century). My wife and I have now been married for a little over three years. We have 2 children. We have a mutually happy and fulfilling relationship. And, we did it all without buying a diamond.