Well, to be fair, labeling people is just one piece of it (and it's inevitable in a hiring process). As you said, what labels you apply and what you do with them are as important. You are putting some light in a very reality adverse field, that's a good thing. It's creepy, but as an isolated act, it's good. (Now, about it being voluntary, no, it also won't make it any less creepy.)
You are just working in one of those projects that are important to move mankind forward, but could backfire badly.
Why would you stay with a low cost, low risk money printing machine when you can make a high cost, high risk tentative of increasing the size of such machine?
Somehow I can't follow Wall Street logic. But I bet it makes perfect sense for them.
That's the spirit, but those exact actions aren't great in practice. There is room for improvement:
Stop accepting cookies from anyone except the first origin website for a start
That's exactly on the mark. Of course, that'll make a ton of sites out there stop working, so you need a NoScript like interface to deal with those cases. (I'd sugest naming YesScript, but this one does already exist.)
Remove a lot of information from the user agent string.
Not necessary. The same applies for the headers. If you want bowsers to stop leaking info, you'll have to put 3rd party javascript in a sandbox where it can't access any kind of identification info (like screen resolution), the stuff on headers (besides IP) isn't enough to identify someone. I'd put that sandbox as an option at the NoScript like interface. Make 3rd party JS blocked by default, with the options of sandboxing it (includes restricting cokies) or completely allowing.
Treat third party images the same way as cookies.
Block all third party requests untill the user allow them. Put a click-to-show thumbnail in external images (like Flash Block). That'll break a LOT of sites by the way, whitelist the subdomains of the site, so it breaks less of the web. Other objects will have to be tought up one at a time. You can put a menu button for things like sound and javascript, while videos, flash and java get the click-to-show.
Rigidly enforce plugin security, so things like Flash cannot maintain cookies etc outside of the browsers control.
Put Flash Block in the browser already. There is simply no reason for not do this, I wonder what is taking Firefox so long.
See, that's the great thing about the system at TFA. It will only require age under 25 if a low age worker is really better for the position. If an aged person performs better, it will require an old one.
That's an old one. He wanted a "no", with the rationale that he wouldn't want to work with a person capable of turning on his own mother.
Of course, when people create such questions they foget to take into account that it would be used in a high stress environment. Also, they certainly fail to take into acount that the job seekers can also read hiring books and sites, so they'll already know the correct answer.
Well, say what you want, but that thing IS creepy. It is creepy in a "Brave New World" kind of way, so pointing that everybody is happy doesn't help at all But it is not the worst offender. Like 1984, it seems we are using Brave New World as a manual, but it is done by free people, instead of coerced ones, so it doesn't get a lot of attention. Up to a certain amount, it is natural that we copy that distopia (or is it not a distopia? Can't say for sure).
Now how do you deal with the exploration/explotation dilema?
Sell you the album you're listening to, sell you tickets to a local show of any of your favorite artists. Hell, alert you some TV show, movie, or game that uses your favorite music in the soundtrack.
But no. You get adverts for songs, artists, and genres that you've explicitly told you never want to hear again. The service that can have surprisingly good accuracy when suggesting new music and artists is quite literally tone deaf when suggesting ads.
That looks like a great business model. Will the RIAA extraditate me into the US if I try to create something like what you want?
Well, maybe it is a good change, but I'll have to disagree with this phrase:
Do Not Track is definitely far less damaging to ad-supported sites than ad blocking.
Government sponsored Do Not Track will open the door for every weard kind of liability. While the worst case for ad-blocking is that the advertiser loses all his revenue, the governemnt can easily turn the worst case of Do Not Track into more of a "and we'll confiscate everything you have".
First, I'd like to point that, as the GP says, the taskbar based interface it great. It is not good because it looks like Windows, it was Windows that was so successful using it because it is good. It loses some value with virtual desktops and KDE's activities, but it is still great. Now, for each his own. If you don't like it, ok. It may be because I make it very thin, but I rarely miss its space in a desktop.
Now, aswering you:
Desktop items display big controls buttons whenever I mouse over them including "X". Ugh, I'd have to lock that feature out.
That's the idea. You make a nice desktop arrangement and lock it, so it will stay nice.
A tabbed menu with four random categories! it shows a handful of programs at the time!
Yeah, by default the start menu is bad. You can change it to the old menu if you like it so much (right click the K button), or you can make it bigger, so it'll sholl more programs at a time. I found out that a bigger new start menu is way better than the old one if you also do the following:
I only need to find firefox, the terminal and log out anyway.
So, you either right click those programs and add them to the favorites, or drag it into the task bar or the desktop to create shortcuts. The "programs" tab should be for rarely used programs, not for using every time.
At the end of the day, it is not much more work than getting the Windows 95-7 interface to work well, but you'll get a much better desktop (agreed, not a very important thing, but that's what we are talking about) out of it.
Yes, it does apply to photovoltaics. Altough they can operate at the infrared, they can't turn into energy the emisions of a body at the same temperature that they are. And they lose efficiency when the gradient reduces, above what Carnot's law postulate as a minimum (in iother words, they are always worse than Carnot cycle).
They'd be interesting at nuclear batteries because the origial radiation of a nuclear reaction has an extremely hight temperature. If you can deal with it without turning it into heat, you can achieve great efficiencies.
Tokamaks seem to work as well as theory predicts it will. And theory predicts that if you invest an absurd amount of money on them, you'll get something that works.
Of course, it is better if we can get something that work without that absurd amount of money invested. That can only come from non-mainstream methods. But then, most of them have their own expensive problems that just aren't biting anybody yet because in a proof of concept machine you can run a single pulse and call it a day.
That's exchanging long term for short term revenue. It may look good at the finantial statements, but it one of the easiest ways to kill a big corporation.
Heh, not 12 years ago, but some 8 years ago I was expecting MS to fail. Seems like I still am. Some day I'll be right.
12 years ago is just shortly before Jobs came back to Apple, isn't it? I didn't doubt they could get back (and expected them to do so after Jobs came back), but yeah, I wouldn't expect them to become the biggest IT company.
Open Source makes it possible for a team of programmers to add much more value with their work. When your work adds more value, you have more job possibilities and often, highter average wages.
That maxima is almost always true. But it plays out in complex and unintuitive ways at the real world. Don't try to emmulate an economy within your brain, it is a losing proposition.
I'd say that neither is true. Bacteria aren't neither the simplest nor the most stupid (define as you like) thing to ever live on Earth.
What is or is not advantajeous to an organism isn't so simple to rule. If you look at Earth's history, several times a increase in complexity allowed a small set of organisms to competely outcompete every other organism on the planet (we have at least 3 such botlenecks on our past). Also, several times complexity doomed a species.
There's a reason they're telling you to get back a bit of a distance.
And I keep wondering what that reason may be. Isn't it an alpha particle emmiter? Just keeping it inside the contained should be enough. Or maybe the warning is in case it isn't kept inside the container. That coule be the safe distance to the unshielded material.
Anyway, americium has plenty of civilian uses. Any terrorist that wants to get it will have an easier time stealing from somebody else than looking for this one.
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Well, to be fair, labeling people is just one piece of it (and it's inevitable in a hiring process). As you said, what labels you apply and what you do with them are as important. You are putting some light in a very reality adverse field, that's a good thing. It's creepy, but as an isolated act, it's good. (Now, about it being voluntary, no, it also won't make it any less creepy.)
You are just working in one of those projects that are important to move mankind forward, but could backfire badly.
The US government declared them.
Completely right.
Why would you stay with a low cost, low risk money printing machine when you can make a high cost, high risk tentative of increasing the size of such machine?
Somehow I can't follow Wall Street logic. But I bet it makes perfect sense for them.
That's the spirit, but those exact actions aren't great in practice. There is room for improvement:
That's exactly on the mark. Of course, that'll make a ton of sites out there stop working, so you need a NoScript like interface to deal with those cases. (I'd sugest naming YesScript, but this one does already exist.)
Not necessary. The same applies for the headers. If you want bowsers to stop leaking info, you'll have to put 3rd party javascript in a sandbox where it can't access any kind of identification info (like screen resolution), the stuff on headers (besides IP) isn't enough to identify someone. I'd put that sandbox as an option at the NoScript like interface. Make 3rd party JS blocked by default, with the options of sandboxing it (includes restricting cokies) or completely allowing.
Block all third party requests untill the user allow them. Put a click-to-show thumbnail in external images (like Flash Block). That'll break a LOT of sites by the way, whitelist the subdomains of the site, so it breaks less of the web. Other objects will have to be tought up one at a time. You can put a menu button for things like sound and javascript, while videos, flash and java get the click-to-show.
Put Flash Block in the browser already. There is simply no reason for not do this, I wonder what is taking Firefox so long.
See, that's the great thing about the system at TFA. It will only require age under 25 if a low age worker is really better for the position. If an aged person performs better, it will require an old one.
That's the power of science.
That's an old one. He wanted a "no", with the rationale that he wouldn't want to work with a person capable of turning on his own mother.
Of course, when people create such questions they foget to take into account that it would be used in a high stress environment. Also, they certainly fail to take into acount that the job seekers can also read hiring books and sites, so they'll already know the correct answer.
Well, say what you want, but that thing IS creepy. It is creepy in a "Brave New World" kind of way, so pointing that everybody is happy doesn't help at all But it is not the worst offender. Like 1984, it seems we are using Brave New World as a manual, but it is done by free people, instead of coerced ones, so it doesn't get a lot of attention. Up to a certain amount, it is natural that we copy that distopia (or is it not a distopia? Can't say for sure).
Now how do you deal with the exploration/explotation dilema?
That looks like a great business model. Will the RIAA extraditate me into the US if I try to create something like what you want?
It has, you just don't clck on it. The problem is that there are lots of people "liking" the ads you don't like.
Well, maybe it is a good change, but I'll have to disagree with this phrase:
Government sponsored Do Not Track will open the door for every weard kind of liability. While the worst case for ad-blocking is that the advertiser loses all his revenue, the governemnt can easily turn the worst case of Do Not Track into more of a "and we'll confiscate everything you have".
First, I'd like to point that, as the GP says, the taskbar based interface it great. It is not good because it looks like Windows, it was Windows that was so successful using it because it is good. It loses some value with virtual desktops and KDE's activities, but it is still great. Now, for each his own. If you don't like it, ok. It may be because I make it very thin, but I rarely miss its space in a desktop.
Now, aswering you:
That's the idea. You make a nice desktop arrangement and lock it, so it will stay nice.
Yeah, by default the start menu is bad. You can change it to the old menu if you like it so much (right click the K button), or you can make it bigger, so it'll sholl more programs at a time. I found out that a bigger new start menu is way better than the old one if you also do the following:
So, you either right click those programs and add them to the favorites, or drag it into the task bar or the desktop to create shortcuts. The "programs" tab should be for rarely used programs, not for using every time.
At the end of the day, it is not much more work than getting the Windows 95-7 interface to work well, but you'll get a much better desktop (agreed, not a very important thing, but that's what we are talking about) out of it.
So... Is it true that every tech professional grow up to be like Wally from the Dilbert strip?
Yes, it does apply to photovoltaics. Altough they can operate at the infrared, they can't turn into energy the emisions of a body at the same temperature that they are. And they lose efficiency when the gradient reduces, above what Carnot's law postulate as a minimum (in iother words, they are always worse than Carnot cycle).
They'd be interesting at nuclear batteries because the origial radiation of a nuclear reaction has an extremely hight temperature. If you can deal with it without turning it into heat, you can achieve great efficiencies.
Do we realy know that?
Tokamaks seem to work as well as theory predicts it will. And theory predicts that if you invest an absurd amount of money on them, you'll get something that works.
Of course, it is better if we can get something that work without that absurd amount of money invested. That can only come from non-mainstream methods. But then, most of them have their own expensive problems that just aren't biting anybody yet because in a proof of concept machine you can run a single pulse and call it a day.
No, for a fee. Just like they do now.
That's exchanging long term for short term revenue. It may look good at the finantial statements, but it one of the easiest ways to kill a big corporation.
Thus, I can only say: "Go for it, MS!"
Is there a pain-killer that isn't addictive?
So, your tablet can only join domains if it has one of those processors that the manufacturers already anounced that can't stand to compete with ARM.
Is The Onion writting MS's strategy?
Heh, not 12 years ago, but some 8 years ago I was expecting MS to fail. Seems like I still am. Some day I'll be right.
12 years ago is just shortly before Jobs came back to Apple, isn't it? I didn't doubt they could get back (and expected them to do so after Jobs came back), but yeah, I wouldn't expect them to become the biggest IT company.
Make it $200. A Galaxy Tab sells for $300.
They'll fail when somebody comes with something different, just like all previous leaders.
Are you really claimming that MS will be the next one to revolutionize this market?
Does "full Win8" implies x86?
Open Source makes it possible for a team of programmers to add much more value with their work. When your work adds more value, you have more job possibilities and often, highter average wages.
That maxima is almost always true. But it plays out in complex and unintuitive ways at the real world. Don't try to emmulate an economy within your brain, it is a losing proposition.
I'd say that neither is true. Bacteria aren't neither the simplest nor the most stupid (define as you like) thing to ever live on Earth.
What is or is not advantajeous to an organism isn't so simple to rule. If you look at Earth's history, several times a increase in complexity allowed a small set of organisms to competely outcompete every other organism on the planet (we have at least 3 such botlenecks on our past). Also, several times complexity doomed a species.
And I keep wondering what that reason may be. Isn't it an alpha particle emmiter? Just keeping it inside the contained should be enough. Or maybe the warning is in case it isn't kept inside the container. That coule be the safe distance to the unshielded material.
Anyway, americium has plenty of civilian uses. Any terrorist that wants to get it will have an easier time stealing from somebody else than looking for this one.