ADA is a huge cash cow for lawyers today. They can walk into almost any business with a measuring tape and collect enough evidence for a lawsuit. No need to request voluntary compliance, file the suit and collect the paycheck. It's automatic. I suspect the same will be coming soon to a website near you.
I intentionally visit salon.com and foxnews.com back-to-back to make sure I've covered both extremes.
I completely agree with you ( I do the same - visiting CNN, Reuters, and Fox to cover all sides). But I don't think that's what they mean by "customization". I want Google to show me World and Business news. If there's a Sports story I might care about I'll seek it out, and I don't give a crap about Entertainment, so I customized Google to lower the priority on those categories.
Do you think it's in anyone's interest to allow the publication of the names of people who are collecting intel after the government has spent years training them and putting them in positions to actually collect information? This is very much like the Valerie Plame outing a few years ago, at the time some people acted like it was the crime of the century.
That's right, you run over my chicken, you owe me for all the eggs she would've laid in the next forty years. Simply buying me another chicken is unacceptable.
The real question is whether this "plume" even exists. One was found back in June while the well was still leaking, none have been found since. Presumably the bacteria that have been feeding off natural oil seeps for eons consumed it, but nobody really knows
'In an era of political and social upheaval, we came to work every day with a passion to free technology from the grip of the military-industrial complex and bring computation to the people.'
Much of PARC's success was because the country was in a deep recession in the late 70's and early 80's. All those guys with PhD's who wanted to live quiet lives as university professors were forced to get jobs instead, it allowed PARC to put together quite a brain trust.. But they probably would've done even better if they had stuck to technology instead of trying to solve the world's political and social issues. PARC employees heavily influenced the decline of the Association for Computing Machinery by taking over many of the leadership spots and pushing their social activist agenda.
I suspect that suppressing memories makes the animal more able to adapt to changes in their environment. Losing less important memories means you are more likely to explore a place, even if you've been there before.
This reminds me of a study I read about a year ago, The author pointed out that most reefs were dying, obviously because of global warming. The only ones that are still healthy are the ones where the large predators (sharks, groupers, etc) are still present to control the smaller fish that eat the coral. But the conclusion was that removing the large predators wasn't the problem, it is obviously global warming. Obvious to that scientist anyway.
This "gamification" is really about competition. People will work harder if they're challenged to meet a goal, and they respond to the cheers of an admiring crowd, even if the crowd is virtual...
Google has hinted pretty strongly that Microsoft is behind these lawsuits . That wouldn't surprise me. My guess is that the real goal here is to force Google to make their ranking algorithm public.
It's normal negotiating, give a little to get a little. I don' t have a problem with it because as others said, it provides a mechanism to get things done. Major legislation should stand or fall on it's own, but little things can get through the back door. And this is little, martial law trumps it anyway. Now using budget reconciliation to pass health care "reform" was a travesty.
I guess that I am surprised to see commercial launch companies getting so much publicity
Surprised? The Obama administration is pushing the idea, so NASA is providing the publicity (one thing they were always good at). I'll be impressed when the rockets have more capacity than the surface-to-air missiles that were in use during the Vietnam War. Sounds like they still have a ways to go.
Obviously you've never been to South America. Brazil is a relatively wealthy country, but it's a country of Haves and Have Nots. Poverty in the US is nothing compared to poverty there.
If the US had waited a few years until GPS enabled phones were available they might have had more success. The contract to supply the devices was started way back in 2002. Maybe next time...
There are those who think nature is incapable of recovering from any perturbation, be it an oil spill or burning of fossil fuel. Everything has to be controlled from Washington by infinitely wise bureaucrats. The possibility that naturally occurring microbes have been consuming oil leaking into the Gulf for eons is incomprehensible to them.
Java isn't a bad language. Sun couldn't decide what it should be used for (embedded? servlet? applet? desktop? enterprise?). It eventually became the enterprise programming language of choice, but that makes it unsuitable for its original purpose as an embedded language, or pretty much anything else for that matter. Everything about Java is very, very heavy weight - platform, process, skill set, everything.
It apparently has never occurred to him that top people probably don't want to work there
This seems to be the heart of his problem, although I don't think it's for the reasons you list. He wants experienced database internals programmers who hate SQL, know LISP, and can modify the LINUX kernel. He boasts about getting a whopping $1.25M in funding for 2010. No market for his product and no sales. Those should be huge red flags for anyone with experience in the field (if such a person exists).
but they made a terrible business decision not to expand their traditional offerings, thinking film would last forever
No, they saw digital coming, and they tried to get on board. The problem they faced was that every camera manufacturer saw the same thing and all were rushing to bring digital cameras to the market. Kodak was never really a camera company, their main business was film and chemicals; they knew there was nothing they could do to stop that business line from shrinking as digital cameras became available to the masses. Kodak has a share of the digital camera market but they have to compete with companies known to consumers as camera manufacturers such as Canon and Nikon.
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Be very clear about this: no applications shipped as.jar (or.class) files for J2ME, J2SE, or J2EE, will run under Android, and nobody thinks they will.
Isn't that the whole problem? If they call it a Java platform, it should run software written in Java.
My first thought was that teachers were being assigned students by what our elementary school called "tracks". The best students were tract 1, those at the other end of the scale were track 4. Nowhere in any written records would you find a mention of what track a student was, but the principal and all the teachers knew. By high school a couple of the biggest, strictest coaches had a disproportionate number of tract 3's and 4's in their classrooms.
But this study seems to have factored that in. I don't buy differences in environment, that might make a measurable difference but good teachers are good teachers and poor teachers are poor teachers.
Yea, the guy's talking nonsense - trying to link his opponent to the UN through some international tree hugger organization. But I don't read Slashdot to find articles about Tea Partiers that were scraped from an AOL website founded by a former NY Times editor. Sheesh.
Apple (and Steve Jobs in particular) are very good at marketing; they have a knack for tapping into snob appeal. Although their products aren't all that innovative they aren't afraid to bring new products into the market.
When I think of innovative companies I think of the old HP, before Carly Fiorina's predecessor insisted that the next CEO be a woman. Unfortunately the HP board hired a marketing suit to head a company.driven by innovation.
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What do the bubbles do in zero-g?
ADA is a huge cash cow for lawyers today. They can walk into almost any business with a measuring tape and collect enough evidence for a lawsuit. No need to request voluntary compliance, file the suit and collect the paycheck. It's automatic. I suspect the same will be coming soon to a website near you.
I intentionally visit salon.com and foxnews.com back-to-back to make sure I've covered both extremes.
I completely agree with you ( I do the same - visiting CNN, Reuters, and Fox to cover all sides). But I don't think that's what they mean by "customization". I want Google to show me World and Business news. If there's a Sports story I might care about I'll seek it out, and I don't give a crap about Entertainment, so I customized Google to lower the priority on those categories.
Do you think it's in anyone's interest to allow the publication of the names of people who are collecting intel after the government has spent years training them and putting them in positions to actually collect information? This is very much like the Valerie Plame outing a few years ago, at the time some people acted like it was the crime of the century.
That's right, you run over my chicken, you owe me for all the eggs she would've laid in the next forty years. Simply buying me another chicken is unacceptable.
The real question is whether this "plume" even exists. One was found back in June while the well was still leaking, none have been found since. Presumably the bacteria that have been feeding off natural oil seeps for eons consumed it, but nobody really knows
'In an era of political and social upheaval, we came to work every day with a passion to free technology from the grip of the military-industrial complex and bring computation to the people.'
Much of PARC's success was because the country was in a deep recession in the late 70's and early 80's. All those guys with PhD's who wanted to live quiet lives as university professors were forced to get jobs instead, it allowed PARC to put together quite a brain trust.. But they probably would've done even better if they had stuck to technology instead of trying to solve the world's political and social issues. PARC employees heavily influenced the decline of the Association for Computing Machinery by taking over many of the leadership spots and pushing their social activist agenda.
I suspect that suppressing memories makes the animal more able to adapt to changes in their environment. Losing less important memories means you are more likely to explore a place, even if you've been there before.
This reminds me of a study I read about a year ago, The author pointed out that most reefs were dying, obviously because of global warming. The only ones that are still healthy are the ones where the large predators (sharks, groupers, etc) are still present to control the smaller fish that eat the coral. But the conclusion was that removing the large predators wasn't the problem, it is obviously global warming. Obvious to that scientist anyway.
This "gamification" is really about competition. People will work harder if they're challenged to meet a goal, and they respond to the cheers of an admiring crowd, even if the crowd is virtual...
3891% of the average monthly income
Given that the monthly income is roughly $50, I doubt a lack of broadband is what keeps them up at night.
That seems redundant. But I'll probably get sued for saying it.
Google has hinted pretty strongly that Microsoft is behind these lawsuits . That wouldn't surprise me. My guess is that the real goal here is to force Google to make their ranking algorithm public.
Get him a Nerf ball and play catch with him. He needs interaction with his Dad, exercise, and hand/eye coordination practice.
It's normal negotiating, give a little to get a little. I don' t have a problem with it because as others said, it provides a mechanism to get things done. Major legislation should stand or fall on it's own, but little things can get through the back door. And this is little, martial law trumps it anyway. Now using budget reconciliation to pass health care "reform" was a travesty.
I guess that I am surprised to see commercial launch companies getting so much publicity
Surprised? The Obama administration is pushing the idea, so NASA is providing the publicity (one thing they were always good at). I'll be impressed when the rockets have more capacity than the surface-to-air missiles that were in use during the Vietnam War. Sounds like they still have a ways to go.
Obviously you've never been to South America. Brazil is a relatively wealthy country, but it's a country of Haves and Have Nots. Poverty in the US is nothing compared to poverty there.
If the US had waited a few years until GPS enabled phones were available they might have had more success. The contract to supply the devices was started way back in 2002. Maybe next time...
There are those who think nature is incapable of recovering from any perturbation, be it an oil spill or burning of fossil fuel. Everything has to be controlled from Washington by infinitely wise bureaucrats. The possibility that naturally occurring microbes have been consuming oil leaking into the Gulf for eons is incomprehensible to them.
Java isn't a bad language. Sun couldn't decide what it should be used for (embedded? servlet? applet? desktop? enterprise?). It eventually became the enterprise programming language of choice, but that makes it unsuitable for its original purpose as an embedded language, or pretty much anything else for that matter. Everything about Java is very, very heavy weight - platform, process, skill set, everything.
It apparently has never occurred to him that top people probably don't want to work there
This seems to be the heart of his problem, although I don't think it's for the reasons you list. He wants experienced database internals programmers who hate SQL, know LISP, and can modify the LINUX kernel. He boasts about getting a whopping $1.25M in funding for 2010. No market for his product and no sales. Those should be huge red flags for anyone with experience in the field (if such a person exists).
but they made a terrible business decision not to expand their traditional offerings, thinking film would last forever
No, they saw digital coming, and they tried to get on board. The problem they faced was that every camera manufacturer saw the same thing and all were rushing to bring digital cameras to the market. Kodak was never really a camera company, their main business was film and chemicals; they knew there was nothing they could do to stop that business line from shrinking as digital cameras became available to the masses. Kodak has a share of the digital camera market but they have to compete with companies known to consumers as camera manufacturers such as Canon and Nikon.
Be very clear about this: no applications shipped as .jar (or .class) files for J2ME, J2SE, or J2EE, will run under Android, and nobody thinks they will.
Isn't that the whole problem? If they call it a Java platform, it should run software written in Java.
My first thought was that teachers were being assigned students by what our elementary school called "tracks". The best students were tract 1, those at the other end of the scale were track 4. Nowhere in any written records would you find a mention of what track a student was, but the principal and all the teachers knew. By high school a couple of the biggest, strictest coaches had a disproportionate number of tract 3's and 4's in their classrooms.
But this study seems to have factored that in. I don't buy differences in environment, that might make a measurable difference but good teachers are good teachers and poor teachers are poor teachers.
Yea, the guy's talking nonsense - trying to link his opponent to the UN through some international tree hugger organization. But I don't read Slashdot to find articles about Tea Partiers that were scraped from an AOL website founded by a former NY Times editor. Sheesh.
Apple (and Steve Jobs in particular) are very good at marketing; they have a knack for tapping into snob appeal. Although their products aren't all that innovative they aren't afraid to bring new products into the market.
When I think of innovative companies I think of the old HP, before Carly Fiorina's predecessor insisted that the next CEO be a woman. Unfortunately the HP board hired a marketing suit to head a company.driven by innovation.
though he was a dipshit, he was a) human and b) may not have actively revelled in his own evil
Are you talking about Ted Stevens or Ted Kennedy? I can't tell from your post.