Coming from a company with stellar ethics like Zynga, what do you expect?
Unfortunately, these slimeballs are smart enough to figure out ways to screw their employees, their customers, and in fact anyone with a dollar in their pocket.
Too bad for the honest hard working startups that are prepared to do the hard yards and get their just rewards. This will definitely have ripples of distrust that permeate deeply.
Exactly. Think back to the invention of the LASER. Can you imagine an investor seeing a LASER and saying anything other than, "That's a pretty light, but what does it do?"
The funny thing is people are generally good with hindsight. For example, when the banks are dishing out loans so that htey can buy their dream home now with no money down, they're pretty much all for the idea. It's a good thing.
When the banks turn around and foreclose on them because they, along with hundreds of thousands of others can't meet these loans, let alone in unfavourable conditions, they all turn around and say it was a bad decision.
An interesting approach would be to rate decision makers who voted against the idea in the first place to get a future higher rating. This approach might provide a good average between the broad stroked autocracy which has an agenda, and democratic process, holding that agenda in check. If voting is not a cyclical, and arbitrary thing, the cycles of appeasing voters will hopefully come to an end.
Yep, of course they don't care. University is not really about grades, but forming skills for later in life.
If the skills you want to form mainly involve fraud and deception rather than forging the framework for your life ahead, then they aren't going to work hard for $10/hr to ty and catch you so that you can further develop those skills.
I'm very surprised that you didn't pick up that he meant the USA. Obviously, since a treaty has to be ratified with 2/3 majority, it is under the US system. Or are you saying that an American must be internationally sensitive to the rest of us, and go out of their way to acknowledge that they do understand that something exists outside the USA and is important etc etc?
On the same token, you either know nothing about international laws, or you just refuse to acknowledge that someone is asking with a presumption of the USA. Or is it that the country you are from really just isn't important enough to have an automatic assumption happen by a large proportion of the worlds population?
We are allegedly a group of smart people. There is a default presumption of intelligence and knowledge here. So before you become flippant, and start American bashing, remember that a lot of people here are just laughing at your ignorance.
Incidently, I'm not an American, and have lived in most places in the world. I just find it amazing how it's so common for people to be bashing the USA, and yet in the same token, be assuming that their country somehow is more significant. If you don't like it, move to a country that's a Superpower. China's another option if you don't like the USA. We'll be able to make significant presumptions of their laws as the topics of conversation as well shortly.
You can't do that! It's got to be immediate, and present and accessible. Don't you know that the average attention span is about 12 seconds on the intertubes?
OK. Here's one. How about 4Gb max of memory? Wouldn't be a problem if we didn't have Lotus Notes as an email client that chews up 2Gb of that, but we do. Plus 2x copies of eclipse (2GB), plus a copy of rtc (200mb), add a few word documents, the app I'm actually working on, the virus scanner, all the other corporate crap that's thrown on, and you've got swap city right there. If I were running a website liek the front office boys and girls do, then fine, but it's nuts that we're stuck with half hour compile times et al, because we are forced to conform to the corporate environment, which happens to run XP. Incidently, throwing more RAM at the problem would drop our compile times and make us more productive, because we'd have to throw a couple of senior execs out the window to EVER get the rest changed.
Yeah, I work for a bank. They've been "evaluating" windows 7 since it was released in pre beta to them. We're still waiting for the holy IT dept of doom to give it's sanctimonious blessing that we may have something a bit more modern than XP. I for one, however, would be delighted if we *finally* could move from Lotus Bloats... Apparently the cost of moving to an exchange server was guestimated at somewhere around £100m.
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I can just see all the old Commodore 64 nerds dusting off their old tape recorders and interfacing using audio tones.
Sinclair from futurama might just be just around the corner.
And here I spent all that money on alcohol.
Coming from a company with stellar ethics like Zynga, what do you expect?
Unfortunately, these slimeballs are smart enough to figure out ways to screw their employees, their customers, and in fact anyone with a dollar in their pocket.
Too bad for the honest hard working startups that are prepared to do the hard yards and get their just rewards. This will definitely have ripples of distrust that permeate deeply.
Exactly. Think back to the invention of the LASER. Can you imagine an investor seeing a LASER and saying anything other than, "That's a pretty light, but what does it do?"
The funny thing is people are generally good with hindsight. For example, when the banks are dishing out loans so that htey can buy their dream home now with no money down, they're pretty much all for the idea. It's a good thing.
When the banks turn around and foreclose on them because they, along with hundreds of thousands of others can't meet these loans, let alone in unfavourable conditions, they all turn around and say it was a bad decision.
An interesting approach would be to rate decision makers who voted against the idea in the first place to get a future higher rating. This approach might provide a good average between the broad stroked autocracy which has an agenda, and democratic process, holding that agenda in check. If voting is not a cyclical, and arbitrary thing, the cycles of appeasing voters will hopefully come to an end.
Yep, of course they don't care. University is not really about grades, but forming skills for later in life.
If the skills you want to form mainly involve fraud and deception rather than forging the framework for your life ahead, then they aren't going to work hard for $10/hr to ty and catch you so that you can further develop those skills.
You must be a real hoot at parties.
Define "New Idea"
I'm very surprised that you didn't pick up that he meant the USA. Obviously, since a treaty has to be ratified with 2/3 majority, it is under the US system. Or are you saying that an American must be internationally sensitive to the rest of us, and go out of their way to acknowledge that they do understand that something exists outside the USA and is important etc etc?
On the same token, you either know nothing about international laws, or you just refuse to acknowledge that someone is asking with a presumption of the USA. Or is it that the country you are from really just isn't important enough to have an automatic assumption happen by a large proportion of the worlds population?
We are allegedly a group of smart people. There is a default presumption of intelligence and knowledge here. So before you become flippant, and start American bashing, remember that a lot of people here are just laughing at your ignorance.
Incidently, I'm not an American, and have lived in most places in the world. I just find it amazing how it's so common for people to be bashing the USA, and yet in the same token, be assuming that their country somehow is more significant. If you don't like it, move to a country that's a Superpower. China's another option if you don't like the USA. We'll be able to make significant presumptions of their laws as the topics of conversation as well shortly.
You can't do that! It's got to be immediate, and present and accessible. Don't you know that the average attention span is about 12 seconds on the intertubes?
Geez... Amateurs. Next you'll ask us to THINK!
They just got their idea for their X-Ray specs, (read body scanners), from him.
Dude, this isn't Washington. IF anything, they'd need to tack it onto the next bailout legislation.
For a second there, I read that as iPhonies. Must remember to use that.
At some point you fanboys will have to admit that Android is outselling Iphones.
Never underestimate the power of denial.
My mistake,
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OK. Here's one. How about 4Gb max of memory? Wouldn't be a problem if we didn't have Lotus Notes as an email client that chews up 2Gb of that, but we do. Plus 2x copies of eclipse (2GB), plus a copy of rtc (200mb), add a few word documents, the app I'm actually working on, the virus scanner, all the other corporate crap that's thrown on, and you've got swap city right there. If I were running a website liek the front office boys and girls do, then fine, but it's nuts that we're stuck with half hour compile times et al, because we are forced to conform to the corporate environment, which happens to run XP. Incidently, throwing more RAM at the problem would drop our compile times and make us more productive, because we'd have to throw a couple of senior execs out the window to EVER get the rest changed.
Can't wait to see her welcoming email! Which should arrive in the next 6 weeks or so, when her copy of Lotus Notes finally finishes starting up.
Yeah, I work for a bank. They've been "evaluating" windows 7 since it was released in pre beta to them. We're still waiting for the holy IT dept of doom to give it's sanctimonious blessing that we may have something a bit more modern than XP. I for one, however, would be delighted if we *finally* could move from Lotus Bloats... Apparently the cost of moving to an exchange server was guestimated at somewhere around £100m.
Well at any rate, it stood for a much better pair than Windows ME. (Might Explode)
No, Jimmy. Don't play with your dinner.
I would buy a mac, but I don't wish to support the legacy of a solopsistic narcissist.
No, you can't shoot them...
It's not turtles all the way down you know. Eventually you hit Tortoise and the SVN repository.
Welcome to the NEW World of Borecraft
Thankfully with this audience, you'd need an atomic clock to measure the time it would take to realise that the GP is a troll.