You must be new here. We've hated on Microsoft for 15 years, this has always been a pro-Linux/anti-MS community, it's about the only surviving constant. Some are weak, and now that Microsoft is lying on the floor bleeding, think we should let up, that perhaps they've learned their lesson.
Intel has successfully demonstrated several times that they can beat their competitors at whatever they're best at.
But can it beat everyone at doing what each is best at?
I worked at Intel (and hated the management, if not the product), but internally they're a typical megacorp sea of bullshit cheapification initiatives and trying to offshore everything they can, and use young kids for everything else. The brains are still there, but there aren't many of them, and they can't stay on top of everything. I really do not think they can truly compete in the cell phone, consumer and server businesses simultaneously. Fortunately, they stay ahead by dominating their markets to being a virtual monopoly, and playing whack a mole on the markets they don't have. Given enough time, they WILL get the cell phone market.
If Intel sees a threat, they are deadly. They are slow to see the threat, and slower to react, but they have enough money to bail themselves out when the miss the boat. The only way they go down is to miss many boats at once. To win that game they'd have to be an engineering organization again, and I think those days are over for them, they've given the reigns over to Wall Street.
I know that I won't pay money for shakey cam movies and I avoid certain 3D game genres (like FPS, which is a lot of games). However I do not know what will upset me until it does, or someone else with similar issues warns me.
Do I sink quite a bit on google glass, w/o knowing if it makes me sick? Probably not, and this article helps me want to steer clear of it unless/until they fix the problem.
Sure you can't cater to 100% of anyone, and if it's expensive to do so I understand. It may be a long time before I can use this product. Or else man up and see if I can desensitize myself by repeated exposure and a lot of hurling. But some things are easy to do and should be done, ramps aren't much more expensive than stairs just to go up a curb. Shakey cam is an example of something mind bogglingly stupid, we "invented" this recently for some film-school theory bullshit. Most movies are properly shot, just a few do this to be cutesy. Similarly it is not hard to have an FOV adjuster or to disable head-bob (which itself is something we invent for false "authenticity").
I don't think there's anything wrong with one expert telling people they're doing it wrong. Maybe his proposal is not easy to implement, but I hear tell Google has a lot of good engineers. Engineers hear "problem" and want to fix them. Only the MBA types put their head in the sand and hide, hoping to make a quick buck and retire to a private island.
I don't know, some of us are very sensitive to these sorts of things, while others not so much.
People still think I'm making stuff up when I say "shakey cam movies make me vomit", or Portal 2 for that matter. Most people have absolutely no problems, a few feel mildly queasy. But some of us get physically ill. Shakey cam movies continue, and don't announce themselves as such until AFTER they've taken your money, and some video game companies still restrict FOV options or don't provide ways of disabling "head bob", and other disorienting effects. They simply don't believe there's a problem, and their testers aren't picking up (perhaps being desensitized to it from long hours anyway).
I don't think they missed anything "fundamental", but it would not surprise me at all if they missed something significant but outside their test group.
There is no solution to this problem, which already exists and will get worse, with or without Google Glass. Your best bet is to walk around with a ski mask, and even that will only stop some forms of privacy invasion.
Even if your hot air balloon was unmanned and fell within the purview of this law, i would suggest sending any environmental violations you find anonymously to the appropriate (preferably federal) agency.
As someone who builds equipment that is robotic (or at least drone like), I find such laws offensive. First I really have no interest in playing Team Austin Green Police, and second, if I'm using my robots to trespass, I understand being charged with trespassing. And down here it's probably legal to shoot my robot. But why make yet another law, with this unnatural specificity? Who is hiding what?
"Why should I invest money here, when it requires me to realize a taxable gain and bring it to the US, when I can leave the money overseas and invest it in a manufacturing plant that makes me even more money?"
Too quick, too painless. People like this need to suffer, death isn't a sufficient deterrent. If your life sucked as badly as theirs, you may even welcome it. The only way to discourage this form of bottom feeding is suffering, lots and lots of suffering. Letting them live, visibly scarred, and in full view of the public may demonstrate that while we will dispose of murderers and rapists, trolls will live as a warning to others in what may as well be an eternity of torment.
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Well I don't work remotely, but if Bob kept popping his head over my cube I'd get annoyed with him fast, this is a reason I frequently work from home or starbucks or just any damn place other than my cube. There's a time of day to discuss problems, and there's a time of day to get work done. You schedule meetings for that discussion thing, you make them as short as possible, and you agree on a time of day when everyone needs to be available (usually "normal work hours", or the subset including all US time zones).
You can do that via some live meeting method, or you can do it in a conference room. There is no difference, only some real dinosaurs who mostly haven't survived the industry think otherwise. The only possible objective here is that she has to lay off some people, she can't necessarily afford a layoff (i.e. severance, litigation risks, etc.), so she's changing a policy to cause people to voluntarily resign. The risk of course is that if people do not quit, and take her up on the relo, she may end up spending more.
If Yahoo! is in SF, then I'd quit, it's too expensive and would require too much of a cost of living reduction. I imagine she's banking on that.
4 years of theory is very necessary for some roles, my job is hard to do without that theory, but my job is 1 for 200 in your average EE company. Most of the people who I work with do not need their degrees, and have benefitted very little from them. It was a giant waste of time and money, has done nothing to weed out the troublemakers, and has created numerous employment issues.
Really, does it take 4 (or is it 5 now!) years to train people to be file clerks?
Corporations have lost their minds, they're either a) looking for reasons to hire no one (i.e. say everyone is unqualified), or b) they're looking for people with very specific experience that no school will actually teach (i.e. they want to do no OTJ training).
Most jobs can be filled by high school graduates with some trade schooling, if such things still existed and had any sort of reliable accreditation body. I can't say how many "engineering" positions are out there where they want someone with a college diploma but just need a technician. The funny part is when they outsource to China, they get technicians whose degree says "engineer".
Then on the flipside are the sheer number of people with college degrees in useless things, or whose schools are not teaching the field in the way that the industry wants it. You can get a EE degree without knowing anything about boards, power delivery, chip design But maybe know a lot about information theory (cheaper to teach), that is useful in some fields but useless in most others.
It's all a mess. I'm becoming increasingly of the mind that the only solution to this is to forbid education as a discrimination criteria for employment. If you want to know someones qualifications you may only examine their certifications. This will certainly be destructive in the short run, but it my have long term benefit.
Also misinformed about China. They get 1 hr lunch and 1 hour nap (for reals).
Then if he's paying attention to his peon...I mean subordinates, he'd realise that the typical Chinese day consists of: - 3 hours of work - 1 hour of lunch - 1 hour of nap - 3 hours of ineptly expressing why something can't be done as specified and must be redesigned with all chinese parts and chinese sources or made so cheap that it really can only ever possibly barely work - 2 hours of fighting to get an american engineer sent overseas for 3 weeks to "expedite completion" (read: do the hard work for them) - 1 hour of making cheesy power points that end with bad clip art of disembodied hands shaking - a combined total of 1 hour of misunderstandings due to language/cultural/time zone issues - 2 hours of business dinners that seriously involve getting each other as piss drunk as possible - 1 hour of helping the american you suckered in to visiting the asshole of China (it's never shanghai or beijing, it's always some shithole like guangdong or shenzhen) get laid by a prostitute - the rest is lost in blackouts
At the end of the day, people are people and work as much as they're going to work based on how motivated they are. Given that capitalism does not actually exist for the vast majority of the world (including Americans), that means not so much.
It's only capitalist for the top 1%. For the rest of us, it's communism, or feudalism, and only the 1% for whom it's capitalist can describe which of the other two it is for the rest of us.
I don't know the law in France, but you couldn't get obstruction for this unless the innocent twin had evidence that the other did it and is withholding that evidence. Of course the innocent one DOES have evidence in that he didn't do it, but beyond that it's probably not reasonable to assume he has corroborating evidence.
So you have one liar and one honest person, if you can prove obstruction you can also prove guilt, and if you could do that this whole thing becomes moot.
They've got to make money, I don't mind if they put their ad on the page. I don't like these stories though, first of all the stories themselves are pure bullshit. Second it feels like Faux News - Fairly Purchased News
It's very hard to predict how long something will take, particularly in relation to other things, if what you're writing is going to be on any number of platforms with different processors, storage, memory and network situations.
You can be reasonably accurate with it, far more than my favorite 99% in 1 second, the last 1% in one hour scenario. There are cleverer and cleverer ways of making it ever more precise, but those methods usually involve spending time on getting it right, and not many people do it.
Also a fact was that the Scopes trials in which John Scopes allegedly broke the law by teaching evolution in a public school occurred in 1925. Well before the US "had its good run". Shenanigans by evangelicals on this topic have been ongoing for a very long time and have been mostly irrelevant to anything except making noise and grabbing headlines. The smart people in the USA would not have even had to turn in their graves, they proceeded unabashed while quite alive and vigorous.
We're going to survive this one. Science and Technology has many things going against it in the US right now, but this doesn't rate.
My four year old son frequently espouses various beliefs such as "Brushing teeth is stupid, I'm not brushing my teeth any more". While it might be educational for him to have a cavity or two and endure some unpleasant dental work, we usually just ignore his ignorant world view and brush his teeth for him because we know better.
This seems to fit rather well for the republican party right now. They will clue in one day, but until then, someone needs to be responsible for them.
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You must be new here. We've hated on Microsoft for 15 years, this has always been a pro-Linux/anti-MS community, it's about the only surviving constant. Some are weak, and now that Microsoft is lying on the floor bleeding, think we should let up, that perhaps they've learned their lesson.
That's not a defect we all suffer from.
You don't HAVE to do it that way. You chose to do it that way. Why should the language prevent you from doing what you want?
Intel has successfully demonstrated several times that they can beat their competitors at whatever they're best at.
But can it beat everyone at doing what each is best at?
I worked at Intel (and hated the management, if not the product), but internally they're a typical megacorp sea of bullshit cheapification initiatives and trying to offshore everything they can, and use young kids for everything else. The brains are still there, but there aren't many of them, and they can't stay on top of everything. I really do not think they can truly compete in the cell phone, consumer and server businesses simultaneously. Fortunately, they stay ahead by dominating their markets to being a virtual monopoly, and playing whack a mole on the markets they don't have. Given enough time, they WILL get the cell phone market.
If Intel sees a threat, they are deadly. They are slow to see the threat, and slower to react, but they have enough money to bail themselves out when the miss the boat. The only way they go down is to miss many boats at once. To win that game they'd have to be an engineering organization again, and I think those days are over for them, they've given the reigns over to Wall Street.
You misread. They can copy the source code for the public parts all they want. They're whining about all the proprietary parts.
It turns out they have no capability to actually create their own stuff, and they want their secret sauce too.
You could also say that it's easy to say "Yes" but haven of intention of making this a priority, which is indistinguishable from saying "No".
Talk is cheap.
I know that I won't pay money for shakey cam movies and I avoid certain 3D game genres (like FPS, which is a lot of games). However I do not know what will upset me until it does, or someone else with similar issues warns me.
Do I sink quite a bit on google glass, w/o knowing if it makes me sick? Probably not, and this article helps me want to steer clear of it unless/until they fix the problem.
Sure you can't cater to 100% of anyone, and if it's expensive to do so I understand. It may be a long time before I can use this product. Or else man up and see if I can desensitize myself by repeated exposure and a lot of hurling. But some things are easy to do and should be done, ramps aren't much more expensive than stairs just to go up a curb. Shakey cam is an example of something mind bogglingly stupid, we "invented" this recently for some film-school theory bullshit. Most movies are properly shot, just a few do this to be cutesy. Similarly it is not hard to have an FOV adjuster or to disable head-bob (which itself is something we invent for false "authenticity").
I don't think there's anything wrong with one expert telling people they're doing it wrong. Maybe his proposal is not easy to implement, but I hear tell Google has a lot of good engineers. Engineers hear "problem" and want to fix them. Only the MBA types put their head in the sand and hide, hoping to make a quick buck and retire to a private island.
For up to 4 hours, after that it becomes a medical problem, please see your doctor immediately.
I don't know, some of us are very sensitive to these sorts of things, while others not so much.
People still think I'm making stuff up when I say "shakey cam movies make me vomit", or Portal 2 for that matter. Most people have absolutely no problems, a few feel mildly queasy. But some of us get physically ill. Shakey cam movies continue, and don't announce themselves as such until AFTER they've taken your money, and some video game companies still restrict FOV options or don't provide ways of disabling "head bob", and other disorienting effects. They simply don't believe there's a problem, and their testers aren't picking up (perhaps being desensitized to it from long hours anyway).
I don't think they missed anything "fundamental", but it would not surprise me at all if they missed something significant but outside their test group.
There is no solution to this problem, which already exists and will get worse, with or without Google Glass. Your best bet is to walk around with a ski mask, and even that will only stop some forms of privacy invasion.
Even if your hot air balloon was unmanned and fell within the purview of this law, i would suggest sending any environmental violations you find anonymously to the appropriate (preferably federal) agency.
As someone who builds equipment that is robotic (or at least drone like), I find such laws offensive. First I really have no interest in playing Team Austin Green Police, and second, if I'm using my robots to trespass, I understand being charged with trespassing. And down here it's probably legal to shoot my robot. But why make yet another law, with this unnatural specificity? Who is hiding what?
"Why should I invest money here, when it requires me to realize a taxable gain and bring it to the US, when I can leave the money overseas and invest it in a manufacturing plant that makes me even more money?"
Too quick, too painless. People like this need to suffer, death isn't a sufficient deterrent. If your life sucked as badly as theirs, you may even welcome it. The only way to discourage this form of bottom feeding is suffering, lots and lots of suffering. Letting them live, visibly scarred, and in full view of the public may demonstrate that while we will dispose of murderers and rapists, trolls will live as a warning to others in what may as well be an eternity of torment.
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Well I don't work remotely, but if Bob kept popping his head over my cube I'd get annoyed with him fast, this is a reason I frequently work from home or starbucks or just any damn place other than my cube. There's a time of day to discuss problems, and there's a time of day to get work done. You schedule meetings for that discussion thing, you make them as short as possible, and you agree on a time of day when everyone needs to be available (usually "normal work hours", or the subset including all US time zones).
You can do that via some live meeting method, or you can do it in a conference room. There is no difference, only some real dinosaurs who mostly haven't survived the industry think otherwise. The only possible objective here is that she has to lay off some people, she can't necessarily afford a layoff (i.e. severance, litigation risks, etc.), so she's changing a policy to cause people to voluntarily resign. The risk of course is that if people do not quit, and take her up on the relo, she may end up spending more.
If Yahoo! is in SF, then I'd quit, it's too expensive and would require too much of a cost of living reduction. I imagine she's banking on that.
I see what you did there, this is social engineering. Who is going to shout at their monitor "Natalie Portman grits petrified porn"?
Fappist: "Natalie Portman grits petrified porn"
Chrome: "Madly norman sits petrified corn"
Fappist: "NATALIE PORTMAN GRITS PETRIFIED PORN"
Chrome: "Actually foreman knits electrified morn"
FAPPIST: "GRRRRR! NATALIE PORTMAN GRITS PETRIFIED PORN!!!!"
4 years of theory is very necessary for some roles, my job is hard to do without that theory, but my job is 1 for 200 in your average EE company. Most of the people who I work with do not need their degrees, and have benefitted very little from them. It was a giant waste of time and money, has done nothing to weed out the troublemakers, and has created numerous employment issues.
Really, does it take 4 (or is it 5 now!) years to train people to be file clerks?
Corporations have lost their minds, they're either a) looking for reasons to hire no one (i.e. say everyone is unqualified), or b) they're looking for people with very specific experience that no school will actually teach (i.e. they want to do no OTJ training).
Most jobs can be filled by high school graduates with some trade schooling, if such things still existed and had any sort of reliable accreditation body. I can't say how many "engineering" positions are out there where they want someone with a college diploma but just need a technician. The funny part is when they outsource to China, they get technicians whose degree says "engineer".
Then on the flipside are the sheer number of people with college degrees in useless things, or whose schools are not teaching the field in the way that the industry wants it. You can get a EE degree without knowing anything about boards, power delivery, chip design But maybe know a lot about information theory (cheaper to teach), that is useful in some fields but useless in most others.
It's all a mess. I'm becoming increasingly of the mind that the only solution to this is to forbid education as a discrimination criteria for employment. If you want to know someones qualifications you may only examine their certifications. This will certainly be destructive in the short run, but it my have long term benefit.
The CEO is more like a Sheriff. The Lords own him too.
Also misinformed about China. They get 1 hr lunch and 1 hour nap (for reals).
Then if he's paying attention to his peon...I mean subordinates, he'd realise that the typical Chinese day consists of:
- 3 hours of work
- 1 hour of lunch
- 1 hour of nap
- 3 hours of ineptly expressing why something can't be done as specified and must be redesigned with all chinese parts and chinese sources or made so cheap that it really can only ever possibly barely work
- 2 hours of fighting to get an american engineer sent overseas for 3 weeks to "expedite completion" (read: do the hard work for them)
- 1 hour of making cheesy power points that end with bad clip art of disembodied hands shaking
- a combined total of 1 hour of misunderstandings due to language/cultural/time zone issues
- 2 hours of business dinners that seriously involve getting each other as piss drunk as possible
- 1 hour of helping the american you suckered in to visiting the asshole of China (it's never shanghai or beijing, it's always some shithole like guangdong or shenzhen) get laid by a prostitute
- the rest is lost in blackouts
At the end of the day, people are people and work as much as they're going to work based on how motivated they are. Given that capitalism does not actually exist for the vast majority of the world (including Americans), that means not so much.
It's only capitalist for the top 1%. For the rest of us, it's communism, or feudalism, and only the 1% for whom it's capitalist can describe which of the other two it is for the rest of us.
I don't know the law in France, but you couldn't get obstruction for this unless the innocent twin had evidence that the other did it and is withholding that evidence. Of course the innocent one DOES have evidence in that he didn't do it, but beyond that it's probably not reasonable to assume he has corroborating evidence.
So you have one liar and one honest person, if you can prove obstruction you can also prove guilt, and if you could do that this whole thing becomes moot.
They've got to make money, I don't mind if they put their ad on the page. I don't like these stories though, first of all the stories themselves are pure bullshit. Second it feels like Faux News - Fairly Purchased News
It's very hard to predict how long something will take, particularly in relation to other things, if what you're writing is going to be on any number of platforms with different processors, storage, memory and network situations.
You can be reasonably accurate with it, far more than my favorite 99% in 1 second, the last 1% in one hour scenario. There are cleverer and cleverer ways of making it ever more precise, but those methods usually involve spending time on getting it right, and not many people do it.
Also a fact was that the Scopes trials in which John Scopes allegedly broke the law by teaching evolution in a public school occurred in 1925. Well before the US "had its good run". Shenanigans by evangelicals on this topic have been ongoing for a very long time and have been mostly irrelevant to anything except making noise and grabbing headlines. The smart people in the USA would not have even had to turn in their graves, they proceeded unabashed while quite alive and vigorous.
We're going to survive this one. Science and Technology has many things going against it in the US right now, but this doesn't rate.
My four year old son frequently espouses various beliefs such as "Brushing teeth is stupid, I'm not brushing my teeth any more". While it might be educational for him to have a cavity or two and endure some unpleasant dental work, we usually just ignore his ignorant world view and brush his teeth for him because we know better.
This seems to fit rather well for the republican party right now. They will clue in one day, but until then, someone needs to be responsible for them.