Agree with parent. Exactly how does figuring something out eliminate design from the equation? I can figure out how a remote works, but that doesn't mean it wasn't designed. The two concepts (explaining how something works and whether it was designed to work that way) aren't mutually exclusive.
My guess is that Google will do something that really isn't evil. Any of you fans of a sports team that's not in town? Right now, you pretty much have to either have to pay $200 + $80/month for some satellite service that gets you all the games of that sport, though you really only want maybe 1/30th of the content, $20 per game at a bar that happens to be showing your game or hope against all hope that someone will upload your teams' games onto bittorrent or some other file-sharing service. Out of those, only the third one really lets you view the program at your convenience.
Now if Google is charging $2 per game, isn't that a whole lot better than these alternatives? I'd rather have my sports games at my convenience for a small fee. And note that it's really serving a market that's there, but isn't served. I don't see how that's really that evil for one-off things like sports games.
Yes. Compare that to the movie industry. You're forced to watch up to 3 previews on DVDs you rent, most of which I have no interest in. I'm sure with google, it'll be optional and the DVD tastes will be correlated with what I've watched in the past. I mean, how many times have you watched some anime series, finished it, wanted to watch something just as good, but couldn't figure out what to watch? This is exactly where google could do some of this advertising.
I learned to program in Pascal... If that tells you anything. Just learn good programming principles. That's more useful than any particular language you learn.
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wait... so the more jobs that are out there prove how much better Java is? it's corporate executive morons that made the decision to buy some Java app in the first place that cause these job openings to be there.
marketing making tech decisions... brilliant
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"If you want to do more sophisticated things, you've got to have Java in it," says Tim Yeaton, senior vice-president for marketing at Red Hat.
Okay, what exactly does a marketting person know about programming? Wait, you have to have a slow, much-longer-to-code, ridiculously-processor-intensive language in order to do "sophisticated" things? This sort of idiocy is what drove multitudes of corporations to ask for "Java" without knowing what the heck it was. Sounds to me like the "Intel inside" campaign from the 80's.
It's applying supply-demand economics... Except the writer forgets that there's INFINITE SUPPLY! You can "create" as many copies of the song from the supply song as much as you like via download. I suppose the only limiting thing is bandwidth but that's far, far less than 99 cents per 5 Mb.
What interested me was how they treat "knowledge workers".
Their principles can be summed up like this:
1. Pay them based on what they produce, not how many hours they're in the office. 2. Get out of their way whenever possible. 3. Keep them informed 4. Let teams make decisions, not some arrogant-but-stupid manager
I say that's the sort of thing that makes me want to work there.
This is a ridiculous argument. Yes, a small amount CAN hurt humans. But there's plenty of other substances that don't. It's akin to saying that we shouldn't eat Vitamins because it'll cause those substances to be more than.01% of what our body has.
Looking at your research report's appendices, it seems that the requirements for Windows Administrators were somewhat different than the Linux Administrators. For instance, you ask for 4-5 years sys admin experience minimum for Windows, whereas it's 3-4 years sys admin experience minimum for Linux.
Why wasn't it equal for both? And doesn't this sort of slight Windows favoring undermine your credibility?
Let's not forget why text ads and pop-up blockers became popular in the first place... People demanded it! I don't know a single person that likes intrusive advertising like the pop-unders and the flash animations that come on top of everything else. What the google ads show is what everyone should have known before... The internet is a place where people come looking for you, and when that's the case, you don't need loud, fancy graphics, you only need enough information for them to identify your product (text).
I'm sure Sony employees are just as outraged as the rest of us are about the rootkit. Fact of the matter is that the entertainment moguls (music, tv, movies) are in a completely different division doing idiotic stuff. Think about it, if MIT had one professor that ran a criminal record on his students, there would be other professors on campus that would be outraged. Same thing here.
I could see Sony continuing this with their memory sticks. What's to stop them from installing a rootkit anytime you got a digital camera or an mp3 player from them?
It seems to me that if they do have some sort of automated buy/sell service, it'll be quite useful since it can figure out what product you are trying to sell and give the buyers a good idea of where you are located so they can come and buy it from you.
Of course, wouldn't that mean robbers could just figure out where the nearest 52" plasma TV is and go after it?
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Agree with parent. Exactly how does figuring something out eliminate design from the equation? I can figure out how a remote works, but that doesn't mean it wasn't designed. The two concepts (explaining how something works and whether it was designed to work that way) aren't mutually exclusive.
Hm... I don't know.
My guess is that Google will do something that really isn't evil. Any of you fans of a sports team that's not in town? Right now, you pretty much have to either have to pay $200 + $80/month for some satellite service that gets you all the games of that sport, though you really only want maybe 1/30th of the content, $20 per game at a bar that happens to be showing your game or hope against all hope that someone will upload your teams' games onto bittorrent or some other file-sharing service. Out of those, only the third one really lets you view the program at your convenience.
Now if Google is charging $2 per game, isn't that a whole lot better than these alternatives? I'd rather have my sports games at my convenience for a small fee. And note that it's really serving a market that's there, but isn't served. I don't see how that's really that evil for one-off things like sports games.
Yes. Compare that to the movie industry. You're forced to watch up to 3 previews on DVDs you rent, most of which I have no interest in. I'm sure with google, it'll be optional and the DVD tastes will be correlated with what I've watched in the past. I mean, how many times have you watched some anime series, finished it, wanted to watch something just as good, but couldn't figure out what to watch? This is exactly where google could do some of this advertising.
Objectivity? Credibility? Somebody please make it just a normal Microsoft label.
I learned to program in Pascal... If that tells you anything. Just learn good programming principles. That's more useful than any particular language you learn.
wait... so the more jobs that are out there prove how much better Java is? it's corporate executive morons that made the decision to buy some Java app in the first place that cause these job openings to be there.
"If you want to do more sophisticated things, you've got to have Java in it," says Tim Yeaton, senior vice-president for marketing at Red Hat.
Okay, what exactly does a marketting person know about programming? Wait, you have to have a slow, much-longer-to-code, ridiculously-processor-intensive language in order to do "sophisticated" things? This sort of idiocy is what drove multitudes of corporations to ask for "Java" without knowing what the heck it was. Sounds to me like the "Intel inside" campaign from the 80's.
It's applying supply-demand economics... Except the writer forgets that there's INFINITE SUPPLY! You can "create" as many copies of the song from the supply song as much as you like via download. I suppose the only limiting thing is bandwidth but that's far, far less than 99 cents per 5 Mb.
What interested me was how they treat "knowledge workers".
Their principles can be summed up like this:
1. Pay them based on what they produce, not how many hours they're in the office.
2. Get out of their way whenever possible.
3. Keep them informed
4. Let teams make decisions, not some arrogant-but-stupid manager
I say that's the sort of thing that makes me want to work there.
Which do I believe?....
Steps to regaining legitimacy
When did they ever have legitimacy?
They have gmail scanning for viruses... They have google desktop indexing the files...
Soon, they'll release a google-desktop extension that scans viruses on windows.
google really is taking over microsoft (windows)
seriously, why wouldn't you do this with dedicated gamers AND still charge them money for the xbox?
This is a ridiculous argument. Yes, a small amount CAN hurt humans. But there's plenty of other substances that don't. It's akin to saying that we shouldn't eat Vitamins because it'll cause those substances to be more than .01% of what our body has.
I'd buy this thing...
$30 for some songs?!?
Looking at your research report's appendices, it seems that the requirements for Windows Administrators were somewhat different than the Linux Administrators. For instance, you ask for 4-5 years sys admin experience minimum for Windows, whereas it's 3-4 years sys admin experience minimum for Linux.
Why wasn't it equal for both? And doesn't this sort of slight Windows favoring undermine your credibility?
Let's not forget why text ads and pop-up blockers became popular in the first place... People demanded it! I don't know a single person that likes intrusive advertising like the pop-unders and the flash animations that come on top of everything else. What the google ads show is what everyone should have known before... The internet is a place where people come looking for you, and when that's the case, you don't need loud, fancy graphics, you only need enough information for them to identify your product (text).
Or Orson Scott Card? (of whom many a slashdot post has been dedicated)
or JRR Tolkien? (same as above)
I forsee big lawsuits.
Hurry, get your Sony/BMG CD so you can sue!
I'm sure Sony employees are just as outraged as the rest of us are about the rootkit. Fact of the matter is that the entertainment moguls (music, tv, movies) are in a completely different division doing idiotic stuff. Think about it, if MIT had one professor that ran a criminal record on his students, there would be other professors on campus that would be outraged. Same thing here.
Now there's no excuse for me to not pick up a call.
I could see Sony continuing this with their memory sticks. What's to stop them from installing a rootkit anytime you got a digital camera or an mp3 player from them?
It could also apply to movies :D
Yes, that's exactly what I want, Gallagher, the movie.
What amazes me is that Yahoo has not asked users which they prefer.
What amazes me is that they spent money on a statue instead.
It seems to me that if they do have some sort of automated buy/sell service, it'll be quite useful since it can figure out what product you are trying to sell and give the buyers a good idea of where you are located so they can come and buy it from you.
Of course, wouldn't that mean robbers could just figure out where the nearest 52" plasma TV is and go after it?