According to the CNN entrance/exit polling, you're fairly correct. The only thing I'd change is that Ron Paul appears to hold the interest of moderates, liberals, and independents; middle and lower income families; and under 40 crowd within the Republican party, of which there is quite a bit of overlap.
The GP is talking about providing competition to the current search king (a good thing) and you're harping on anti-competitive business practices the company used 15 years ago when they were the dominant player in a different space.
You should be happy that Microsoft is successfully competing against Google and forcing Google to improve their product or lose market share, much like the Mozilla and Firefox browsers did 10 years ago.
Also, if you DO decide to leave and the old company can't fix their problems, offer to stick around longer than normal.
Typically, you'll give two weeks notice to the old company when you change positions. Offer them a month or two months notice to make the transition for the junior developers smoother. Your new company will like that you feel loyalty to your old company (they'll see that you'll be loyal to them in return) and your old company won't have hard feelings once you explain your issues.
If the new company can't accept not being able to bring you on board right away, or your old company will be bitter at you for leaving no matter what, you probably don't want to be with them anyway.
4. You can worship Lucifer, who many portray to be the liberator of mankind, who supposedly gave man intellect in the garden of Eden and freed mankind from unjust, vindictive God. So far, the ones who turned to his worship ended up dead.
I also hate to say it, but there is racism, too. I look around and find the indian guys trying to thumbs-down the westerners. makes me sick to even say such things but I'm finding its true. I enjoy working with indian guys but I am very much turned off by the 'take-over' that I'm seeing right before my eyes. over the last 10 years, the tech industry is flushing out western guys and making it an 'import only' field.
Situations like these aren't always an issue of racism, but of culture and control.
If you've got a situation where a group of Indian workers are dominating a portion of the company or only hiring other Indian workers, it could be a situation where the boss is able to control the employees through the fear of losing their visa or using the respect that their place in the caste system as an appeal to authority that they wouldn't otherwise have. In addition, bucking authority and trying to gain upward mobility is frowned upon in Indian culture, giving a controlling boss even more power over a team of Indian workers, whereas a Western worker is more likely to rebel against unjust authority and try to take the boss's job.
They're more able to control other Indian workers and get the Indian workers to take more punishment than their Western compatriots because, a lot of times, their Western compatriots, especially older ones who have experience in the field and know what they're doing, won't put up with a lot of their crap.
A power-hungry dictator that is using every method of control that he can will see a Western programmer as a wildcard to their empire and call a thumbs down. They've built their fiefdoms, and can legitimately tell HR that an older Western worker will cause strife among their team.
There's a difference between actual content and unnecessary time sink. Futzing with the GUI because you're messing with your inventory is an unnecessary time sink. If Bethesda is going out of their way to remove the unnecessary time sinks to make their game easier to use and in favor of content (see rotating objects for plot cookies), I'm okay with that.
That information failed to meet the notability guidelines and was deleted per the official deletion policy. Backups from that time period were written over a short time later under the assumption that the information would no longer be needed. Later attempts to put the information back were prevented due to the no original research policy and an ill-informed admin with a grudge who wouldn't allow the information, citing the sources being used were unreliable and could not be verified.
No, but Netflix and Pandora killed any video and music pirating I might have been doing. I'd much rather pay Netflix every month, and Pandora once a year, than having to deal with viruses, codec issues, and rampant quality issues.
The fact that I can have both services on my devices (Pandora works on my PS3) means that I don't have to format shift any more, either.
I still refuse to pay iTunes prices for music or videos, but Pandora is good enough that I don't need to download music any more. Netflix is far easier than pirating videos and has far more content than any one website, which means I don't have to search for something I might like.
While my evidence is merely anecdotal, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people didn't feel the same way.
...and I don't want to be bothered with every website I go to telling me that I need to add another cookie. I'm a developer and when I have a problem, I search the internet for answers. Those answers could be on some guy's blog, or it could be an answer on a forum and is usually different every time. Having a box or click through page pop up over and over and over again is annoying as hell. You may want to know what sites are setting cookies, but I don't care, and neither does most of the non-technical population.
Browsers should provide the option for different security levels. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the website to do so because every user will be different. That way, you can be paranoid, and I can surf the internet in peace. It allows us to set our "permission" by default.
I think you're making the assumption that a lot of people go to Google for anything other than searching. Sure, a lot of people use Gmail or their other services, but a lot of other people don't for whatever reason. If you're not a part of the Google ecosystem, and only use Google because of what they do best - search - all of their attempts at social networking look like "me too" shoved in your face that you really may not want.
There was also a scene where Charlie was able to track someone down by their IP address down to the level of knowing where they were in a room of a house.
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So.....turn it off? Not only that, but it's clearly separated from their regular search results.
Gear -> Search Settings -> Do not use personal results -> Save
According to the CNN entrance/exit polling, you're fairly correct. The only thing I'd change is that Ron Paul appears to hold the interest of moderates, liberals, and independents; middle and lower income families; and under 40 crowd within the Republican party, of which there is quite a bit of overlap.
Does that mean Microsoft is Captain Hammer?
Bitter much?
The GP is talking about providing competition to the current search king (a good thing) and you're harping on anti-competitive business practices the company used 15 years ago when they were the dominant player in a different space.
You should be happy that Microsoft is successfully competing against Google and forcing Google to improve their product or lose market share, much like the Mozilla and Firefox browsers did 10 years ago.
You're on Slashdot. Slashdot's tagline is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." I think you've already labeled yourself, simply by posting here.
This.
Also, if you DO decide to leave and the old company can't fix their problems, offer to stick around longer than normal.
Typically, you'll give two weeks notice to the old company when you change positions. Offer them a month or two months notice to make the transition for the junior developers smoother. Your new company will like that you feel loyalty to your old company (they'll see that you'll be loyal to them in return) and your old company won't have hard feelings once you explain your issues.
If the new company can't accept not being able to bring you on board right away, or your old company will be bitter at you for leaving no matter what, you probably don't want to be with them anyway.
Does it have a link to the live camera feed?
Actually, so did everyone else.
You should go to a doctor to get that problem looked at. They have medicine for that now.
Situations like these aren't always an issue of racism, but of culture and control.
If you've got a situation where a group of Indian workers are dominating a portion of the company or only hiring other Indian workers, it could be a situation where the boss is able to control the employees through the fear of losing their visa or using the respect that their place in the caste system as an appeal to authority that they wouldn't otherwise have. In addition, bucking authority and trying to gain upward mobility is frowned upon in Indian culture, giving a controlling boss even more power over a team of Indian workers, whereas a Western worker is more likely to rebel against unjust authority and try to take the boss's job.
They're more able to control other Indian workers and get the Indian workers to take more punishment than their Western compatriots because, a lot of times, their Western compatriots, especially older ones who have experience in the field and know what they're doing, won't put up with a lot of their crap.
A power-hungry dictator that is using every method of control that he can will see a Western programmer as a wildcard to their empire and call a thumbs down. They've built their fiefdoms, and can legitimately tell HR that an older Western worker will cause strife among their team.
Obligatory link. http://xkcd.com/378/
There's a difference between actual content and unnecessary time sink. Futzing with the GUI because you're messing with your inventory is an unnecessary time sink. If Bethesda is going out of their way to remove the unnecessary time sinks to make their game easier to use and in favor of content (see rotating objects for plot cookies), I'm okay with that.
That information failed to meet the notability guidelines and was deleted per the official deletion policy. Backups from that time period were written over a short time later under the assumption that the information would no longer be needed. Later attempts to put the information back were prevented due to the no original research policy and an ill-informed admin with a grudge who wouldn't allow the information, citing the sources being used were unreliable and could not be verified.
But the White House roof is already white...
No, but Netflix and Pandora killed any video and music pirating I might have been doing. I'd much rather pay Netflix every month, and Pandora once a year, than having to deal with viruses, codec issues, and rampant quality issues.
The fact that I can have both services on my devices (Pandora works on my PS3) means that I don't have to format shift any more, either.
I still refuse to pay iTunes prices for music or videos, but Pandora is good enough that I don't need to download music any more. Netflix is far easier than pirating videos and has far more content than any one website, which means I don't have to search for something I might like.
While my evidence is merely anecdotal, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other people didn't feel the same way.
Noooooooo! *head asplodes*
So that our nanobot army won't run out of addresses, of course.
http://xkcd.com/865/
...and I don't want to be bothered with every website I go to telling me that I need to add another cookie. I'm a developer and when I have a problem, I search the internet for answers. Those answers could be on some guy's blog, or it could be an answer on a forum and is usually different every time. Having a box or click through page pop up over and over and over again is annoying as hell. You may want to know what sites are setting cookies, but I don't care, and neither does most of the non-technical population.
Browsers should provide the option for different security levels. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the website to do so because every user will be different. That way, you can be paranoid, and I can surf the internet in peace. It allows us to set our "permission" by default.
Come on, Minecraft isn't THAT network intensive...
http://xkcd.com/678/
I think you're making the assumption that a lot of people go to Google for anything other than searching. Sure, a lot of people use Gmail or their other services, but a lot of other people don't for whatever reason. If you're not a part of the Google ecosystem, and only use Google because of what they do best - search - all of their attempts at social networking look like "me too" shoved in your face that you really may not want.
Hell, the Illinois Department of Public Health department issued a warning not to take Potassium Iodide because idiots were taking them out of fear.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-dont-take-potassium-iodide-state-advises-20110317,0,2270076.story
This show is easily the worst I've ever seen when it comes to computers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ceaqtWhdnI
There was also a scene where Charlie was able to track someone down by their IP address down to the level of knowing where they were in a room of a house.
Have you tried this? http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/chrome/
You're assuming that the 15 year olds posting in favor of Sony aren't just Sony PR shills pretending to be 15 year olds.