Actually the real definition of activist judge is: A judge who interprets the constitution in a way I don't particularly like.
Activist judge actually to me means. Judge whom for what he perceives as a need decides to attempt to interpret the constitution in a way that solves a problem. Once a judge goes from "What did they mean?" to "What could it mean?" he is an activist judge. Me wanting the decision to go that way or not.
The CEO is generally an employee of the company. Do you really expect a board (most of whom also have degrees and are often CEOs of other companies) to hire someone without a degree to lead their company? Of course not.
So yes, CEOs will generally have degrees. The only time there is an exception is when the person founded the company, and built it themselves. And apparently in tech, there are only 3 of those left at the moment (gates, zuckerberg, ellison).
Ummm.... you might have heard of a couple of nerds from standford that started a web search company.... ? And yes, they did drop out of their Phd programs.
MS currently licence 2,300 patents relating to H.264 for 2 cents per unit. Google/Motorola want $22.50 for the remaining 50 patents it holds, per unit
Microsoft have entered cross licence deals for non FRAND patents with Android manufacturers.
That’s right. Just 2 cents for use of more than 2,300 patents. (Windows qualifies for a volume discount, but no one has to pay more than 20 cents per unit.) Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay more than 1,000 times that for use of just 50 patents. And that is for a $1,000 laptop. For a $2,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding double the royalty - $45. Windows is the same on both laptops, and so is the video support in Windows.
This is unjustifiable on Motorolas part
Astroturf much ? You might at least put in slightly more effort than simply copy and pasting from the microsoft written post... I mean, what are they paying you for after all ?
Ditto here. I may sound like an old geezer here but I'm noticing more and more of these "experts" boviating all over the net in recent years. They've usually been reading someone like Paul Graham or Joel whatshisname (incidentally, two reasonably accomplished people who nevertheless need to show a far greater tech-cred-to word-vomit ratio to be taken seriously by me). These people tend to have had the good fortune of working in one of the recently successful web/mobile app businesses (twitter, location-check-in apps etc.). These sites are usually successful not due to the awesome technical advancements they brought to the field but having the good fortune to have a web-site or whatever with the right feature set at the right time and sometimes even just the right name (prime example, twitter).
How do I know this... haha I've worked in one of those companies (as a systems guy... the *only* systems guy even) I know the average technical level of the guys hacking out php or javascript or whatever the trendy lingo of the day is. It's abysmal. Anything under these layers of software is a mystery to them. And yet.... sigh. These dudes just need to shut up and stop embarrassing themselves.
What was true for the electrical systems of 20 years ago never mind back in the days of Edison^h^h^h^h Tesla is no longer the case, the AC vs DC situation is not as simple as it used to be.
I'm more interested in why U.S. citizens are consistently found unqualified. And why, in that scenario, we watch as citizens go jobless and even legal visa holders get those jobs.
Where I'm working, the workforce is changing from fairly well split between U.S. citizens and Indian nationals to a three way mix between citizens, Indians, and Asians. I'm not sure how that is happening. I also see various silos of technical work in many regions, on every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Every continent. Oh, with the notable exception of Europe, where it seems we do precious little development work. Hmm...
If I had to guess, I think current work allocations are favoring nations where the workers get little protection (Australia, for example has some interesting laws, while Chile doesn't) or the workers have already done the onshore shuffle and rotated back 'home'. Oh, and I dare not start asking about the visa status of some of these workers. It's a sensitive subject. Many will just get up and walk away.
It's frustrating to see what is clearly basic, everyday work going to visa holders when you know someone who is truly overqualified, but couldn't get past the first interview. As far as I can tell, pay is not the issue.
But I'm hypersensitive to this. I may be wrong about a lot if what I think, [...snip...]
I would definitely not let a monkey like you get near my computers if some intense file copy was going on and they wanted to start doing other things while that was going on, sure you can do it but that does not make it a prudent thing to do, and the file may copy over just fine, and it may lose a few bits without even reporting any errors and that can happen on any OS, BSD, Linux, Winders & etc...etc...etc...
You sir, are a perfect specimen of a BOFH. You only have a dim notion of what actually goes on inside those mysterious boxes that are unfortunately left under your care. And yet, by some curious accident of nature, you've been entrusted with root passwords for said boxes. You use phrases like "intense file copy" like they mean anything. You place every idiotic restriction that you can think of on the users of said boxes (who, incidentally, are almost always smarter and more qualified than you in whatever field of work they're in) by using words like "prudent" and "safety"... or god forbid... "security". You actually think that because I run a second program along with your "intense" copy, it can result in loss of "a few bits without even reporting any errors" due to what ? The magical fairies that dance inside those little chips getting angry ? Tired ? Can you do everybody a favor and reduce the amount of utter nonsense emanating out of that tiny, befuddled brain ?
errmm...can't you open a terminal, run a 'df' find what the device the iphone is being seen as and then cd, cp, mv whatever from the iphone to the apple desktop?
While it isn't as 'nice' it is certainly something that you positively *can* do on your apple laptop. I do.
errmmm... No. You can't. Only if it was so easy... sigh!! iProducts don't show up as simple filesystem mounts when connected to a Mac or Windows machine. I'm not sure what you're on about when you say "I do." If you have a jailbroken phone and have non-apple-approved software running on it... your experience is not standard. My (current) phone is *not* jailbroken and that was one of the reasons I was astonished to see how easy it still was to sync it in Ubuntu.
dude... if you're envious of a $50K salary.... and you really are a college grad (with a relevant degree for IT work).... you're seriously, seriously underpaid. Move to another company NOW. And if there's not another good company in your geographic region... move to a bigger market (recent college grad... should be willing and happy to move).
I use an Ubuntu (Lucid) desktop for work... customized for our organization by our IT department and fully supported. Even though I develop (server-side stuff) for the linux platform, I'd given up on using linux as my main work machine a few years ago. This was done in frustration over the amount of work I had to do to get basic features going wireless (for laptops), web videos, sound, random usb device support etc. I had gone completely over to OSX as the platform of choice. But this current iteration has completely changed my mind. No more virtual-machines-for-coding-and-real -machine-for-everything else lifestyle for me.
Everything "just works" out of the box. Critical updates get auto-pushed (arranged by our IT... thorough our internal apt repo).... desktop/GUI behaviors etc. have been flawless... and I was able to connect my iPhone and upload all my music/photos etc. to the desktop (for more convenient headphone experience while coding). This last one is something that I positively *can not* do on my apple laptop. So in this instance, the Ubuntu desktop added value to an Apple product that another Apple product refused to do. And I was shocked to realize how plug-n-play this whole experience was (after the fact). No hacks, no "install ExperimentWare version 0.31" etc. I plugged in the phone via USB, some windows popped up to ask me what I wanted to do with the photos/music and just did what I asked. Impressive.
Why is jquery placed in the same category as the other stupid shit (that, btw, I totally agree with). I'm not at all a UI programmer, but my understanding (from reading about this) is that jquery is a bunch of javascript UI library components that, as a bonus, frees you from the worry of handling all the various browser incompatibilities. Is there *any* javascript UI library that you would be in favor of rather than jquery ? (I really want to know... not to be confrontational).
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Actually the real definition of activist judge is: A judge who interprets the constitution in a way I don't particularly like.
Activist judge actually to me means.
Judge whom for what he perceives as a need decides to attempt to interpret the constitution in a way that solves a problem.
Once a judge goes from "What did they mean?" to "What could it mean?" he is an activist judge.
Me wanting the decision to go that way or not.
Degrees in Computers are nearly worthless because tech evolves so quickly.
Oh boy... if you're intending to make a career in the tech industry with that attitude, you're gonna have a bad time.
The CEO is generally an employee of the company. Do you really expect a board (most of whom also have degrees and are often CEOs of other companies) to hire someone without a degree to lead their company? Of course not.
So yes, CEOs will generally have degrees. The only time there is an exception is when the person founded the company, and built it themselves. And apparently in tech, there are only 3 of those left at the moment (gates, zuckerberg, ellison).
Ummm.... you might have heard of a couple of nerds from standford that started a web search company.... ? And yes, they did drop out of their Phd programs.
MS currently licence 2,300 patents relating to H.264 for 2 cents per unit. Google/Motorola want $22.50 for the remaining 50 patents it holds, per unit
Microsoft have entered cross licence deals for non FRAND patents with Android manufacturers.
That’s right. Just 2 cents for use of more than 2,300 patents. (Windows qualifies for a volume discount, but no one has to pay more than 20 cents per unit.) Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay more than 1,000 times that for use of just 50 patents. And that is for a $1,000 laptop. For a $2,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding double the royalty - $45. Windows is the same on both laptops, and so is the video support in Windows.
This is unjustifiable on Motorolas part
Astroturf much ? You might at least put in slightly more effort than simply copy and pasting from the microsoft written post... I mean, what are they paying you for after all ?
if the socialists would stop placing tracking electronics in modern more efficient cars people would have one less reason to avoid them.
Wait.... "socialists" ? As in these guys ??
Ditto here. I may sound like an old geezer here but I'm noticing more and more of these "experts" boviating all over the net in recent years. They've usually been reading someone like Paul Graham or Joel whatshisname (incidentally, two reasonably accomplished people who nevertheless need to show a far greater tech-cred-to word-vomit ratio to be taken seriously by me). These people tend to have had the good fortune of working in one of the recently successful web/mobile app businesses (twitter, location-check-in apps etc.). These sites are usually successful not due to the awesome technical advancements they brought to the field but having the good fortune to have a web-site or whatever with the right feature set at the right time and sometimes even just the right name (prime example, twitter).
How do I know this... haha I've worked in one of those companies (as a systems guy ... the *only* systems guy even) I know the average technical level of the guys hacking out php or javascript or whatever the trendy lingo of the day is. It's abysmal. Anything under these layers of software is a mystery to them. And yet.... sigh. These dudes just need to shut up and stop embarrassing themselves.
(Do I even need to say this one
ok, I do) ...welcome our highly charged Lithium-Tobacco-virus overlords
What was true for the electrical systems of 20 years ago never mind back in the days of Edison^h^h^h^h Tesla is no longer the case, the AC vs DC situation is not as simple as it used to be.
FTFY
... is to facebook, as facebook was to myspace.
I'm more interested in why U.S. citizens are consistently found unqualified. And why, in that scenario, we watch as citizens go jobless and even legal visa holders get those jobs.
Where I'm working, the workforce is changing from fairly well split between U.S. citizens and Indian nationals to a three way mix between citizens, Indians, and Asians. I'm not sure how that is happening. I also see various silos of technical work in many regions, on every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Every continent. Oh, with the notable exception of Europe, where it seems we do precious little development work. Hmm...
If I had to guess, I think current work allocations are favoring nations where the workers get little protection (Australia, for example has some interesting laws, while Chile doesn't) or the workers have already done the onshore shuffle and rotated back 'home'. Oh, and I dare not start asking about the visa status of some of these workers. It's a sensitive subject. Many will just get up and walk away.
It's frustrating to see what is clearly basic, everyday work going to visa holders when you know someone who is truly overqualified, but couldn't get past the first interview. As far as I can tell, pay is not the issue.
But I'm hypersensitive to this. I may be wrong about a lot if what I think, [...snip...]
Yes. You are.
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operator error with that moderation. trying to cancel it by posting.
"US Objects To the Kilogram"
Who knew ? Also the meter, the Celsius and the liter.
I would definitely not let a monkey like you get near my computers if some intense file copy was going on and they wanted to start doing other things while that was going on, sure you can do it but that does not make it a prudent thing to do, and the file may copy over just fine, and it may lose a few bits without even reporting any errors and that can happen on any OS, BSD, Linux, Winders & etc...etc...etc...
You sir, are a perfect specimen of a BOFH. You only have a dim notion of what actually goes on inside those mysterious boxes that are unfortunately left under your care. And yet, by some curious accident of nature, you've been entrusted with root passwords for said boxes. You use phrases like "intense file copy" like they mean anything. You place every idiotic restriction that you can think of on the users of said boxes (who, incidentally, are almost always smarter and more qualified than you in whatever field of work they're in) by using words like "prudent" and "safety"... or god forbid... "security". You actually think that because I run a second program along with your "intense" copy, it can result in loss of "a few bits without even reporting any errors" due to what ? The magical fairies that dance inside those little chips getting angry ? Tired ? Can you do everybody a favor and reduce the amount of utter nonsense emanating out of that tiny, befuddled brain ?
USB Toaster . Apparently not.
I think they might be overestimating how much we really like our "friends"... specially the ones on facebook.
'There is a battle for the future of the Web, and it is not about search engines, but about the social Web.'
And yet...
http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog
...the "Push" of this decade.
errmm...can't you open a terminal, run a 'df' find what the device the iphone is being seen as and then cd, cp, mv whatever from the iphone to the apple desktop?
While it isn't as 'nice' it is certainly something that you positively *can* do on your apple laptop. I do.
errmmm... No. You can't. Only if it was so easy... sigh!! iProducts don't show up as simple filesystem mounts when connected to a Mac or Windows machine. I'm not sure what you're on about when you say "I do." If you have a jailbroken phone and have non-apple-approved software running on it... your experience is not standard. My (current) phone is *not* jailbroken and that was one of the reasons I was astonished to see how easy it still was to sync it in Ubuntu.
dude... if you're envious of a $50K salary.... and you really are a college grad (with a relevant degree for IT work).... you're seriously, seriously underpaid. Move to another company NOW. And if there's not another good company in your geographic region... move to a bigger market (recent college grad... should be willing and happy to move).
I use an Ubuntu (Lucid) desktop for work... customized for our organization by our IT department and fully supported. Even though I develop (server-side stuff) for the linux platform, I'd given up on using linux as my main work machine a few years ago. This was done in frustration over the amount of work I had to do to get basic features going wireless (for laptops), web videos, sound, random usb device support etc. I had gone completely over to OSX as the platform of choice. But this current iteration has completely changed my mind. No more virtual-machines-for-coding-and-real -machine-for-everything else lifestyle for me.
Everything "just works" out of the box. Critical updates get auto-pushed (arranged by our IT... thorough our internal apt repo).... desktop/GUI behaviors etc. have been flawless... and I was able to connect my iPhone and upload all my music/photos etc. to the desktop (for more convenient headphone experience while coding). This last one is something that I positively *can not* do on my apple laptop. So in this instance, the Ubuntu desktop added value to an Apple product that another Apple product refused to do. And I was shocked to realize how plug-n-play this whole experience was (after the fact). No hacks, no "install ExperimentWare version 0.31" etc. I plugged in the phone via USB, some windows popped up to ask me what I wanted to do with the photos/music and just did what I asked. Impressive.
.... is foreshadowed by completely serious statements as follows:
"Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end"
Why is jquery placed in the same category as the other stupid shit (that, btw, I totally agree with). I'm not at all a UI programmer, but my understanding (from reading about this) is that jquery is a bunch of javascript UI library components that, as a bonus, frees you from the worry of handling all the various browser incompatibilities. Is there *any* javascript UI library that you would be in favor of rather than jquery ? (I really want to know... not to be confrontational).
Approximate math:
(2^128)/(10^30) = 340282366
so we have ~ 340282366 *10^30 IPv6 addresses (theoretically... there's some fragmentation of the address space baked into ipv6 too).
Why the units of 10^30 ? Because that's the order of magnitude answer for "What's the mass of the sun in pounds ?"
End of the universe via thermodynamic decay is likely to precede exhaustion of ipv6 address space.
It's good to see the Greatest Deliberative Body in the world getting back to the important business for America.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer