Let me guess, as a practical joke you loosen the covalent bonds in the secretaries dress just before the friday staff meeting.
Are you kidding me? That kind of crap is for chemists. We physicists just let our wave functions interact until there is barrier penetration through tunneling. We enforce strict segregation of fermions, but boson-on-boson action is encouraged. As a fermion, I'm usually spin-up when I see their wave functions collapsing.
And specifically, if they're talking about business folks, as opposed to the IT guys, for example, then "stealing information" may include things like taking your client rolodex with you. While this is still ethically questionable, I don't think it's illegal. If it is, it at least has tacit approval by the entire industry with how pervasive it is.
Both Google and MS are being quite responsible about this. MS notices a bug, informs Google. Google fixes the bug, informs the world--and gives MS credit for finding it.
It's possible that the bug is in the Android API that Motorola is using for the auto-focus routine. Or Motorola partnered closely with Google to have them help develop the hardware interfaces as well.
It can be really unfortunate when spelling errors get made in some widely used function, hash key, or whatever. It becomes so entrenched that you are forced to stick with it. I cringe every time I have to type one in.
I made the switch about 2 months ago, once FiOS become available in my neighborhood. With the 20Mbps pipe to the house, and full HD digital TV signal available OTA, we had no further use for cable. The vast majority of shows we watch are either broadcast TV or available online (legally).
We have an AppleTV and an HD TiVo connected to the TV, so between those we can watch TV and movies using: iTunes Netflix Instant Queue Amazon Unbox Boxee (for Hulu, Comedy Central, etc)
The variety of options makes up for the shortcomings of any individual service.
The OTA digital signal is better than our digital cable signal was, too, which is a nice bonus.
My 11 month old daughter is able to figure out how to unlock my phone. It's random chance that they figure it out, but once they do, they're pretty good and remembering it and duplicating the results.
Exactly. The levels can be treated more as puzzles that need to be solved. After a couple of times trying to beat a level, you get a feel for the types of attacks to expect, and figure out ways to counter them. This could lead you to doing things you could never get away with in a Battle.net game. For instance, I was never a big fan of Vultures, but there were a few Terran missions where the spider mines were very useful.
My wife ended up quite competent at fixing hers very quickly. When I stopped, the first couple of problems she ran into, I just suggested she try searching Google, since that's all I'd likely do anyway. She figured it out. And now that she's responsible for her own machine, she is much more careful with what she does to it.
Same thing happened with my mom. My younger brothers picked up the slack for a bit, but she eventually figured out how to do it on her own. And you know what happened? She stopped downloading and installing all those stupid little waving flag apps or whatever that just end up being spyware. Now I'm not stuck fixing computers every time I visit, and overall they have fewer computer issues in general.
I may still help out occasionally on bigger issues, but that's usually more along the lines of "Can this be fixed? Is it worth fixing?" Tends to only happen every couple of years as another computer reaches the end of its life.
And based on my own experience as a driver and a witness of others' driving, the level of comfort memorization encourages may be one of the more dangerous parts of driving.
You get into a habit of thinking things like: There are never any cars around this corner I never see kids on this street Everybody drives 40mph on this street (posted speed of 25mph)
All my closest calls as a driver have happened when you get in autopilot mode when driving in familiar streets. Contrast this to driving in a storm, in heavy traffic, in an unfamiliar area. Statistically I'm probably much more likely to get in an accident in the latter case, but I'm definitely paying much more attention and am being a much better driver.
To paraphrase Office Space, if everybody did what they loved, there would be a severe shortage of janitors.
In reality, how much you enjoy the job is only one factor of many when it comes to deciding your career. And I would bet that in practice, it ends up being one of the last factors considered. Whether or not you can make enough money to buy food and pay rent is going to be a much more important part of the decision.
And unless I'm misreading something, these guys aren't trying to set policy, they published a paper that found that existing policy is misguided and ineffective. The free market has spoken. The job market in science and engineering is saturated. Trying to create policy and incentives to encourage larger numbers of science students ultimately depresses wages, which results in the best of the field moving on to other fields with better prospects. End result: the same number of new scientists and engineers in the work force, but with less ability on average.
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Let me guess, as a practical joke you loosen the covalent bonds in the secretaries dress just before the friday staff meeting.
Are you kidding me? That kind of crap is for chemists. We physicists just let our wave functions interact until there is barrier penetration through tunneling. We enforce strict segregation of fermions, but boson-on-boson action is encouraged. As a fermion, I'm usually spin-up when I see their wave functions collapsing.
And specifically, if they're talking about business folks, as opposed to the IT guys, for example, then "stealing information" may include things like taking your client rolodex with you. While this is still ethically questionable, I don't think it's illegal. If it is, it at least has tacit approval by the entire industry with how pervasive it is.
Well, they do until they fire one of their employees ;)
"how red is 7?"
Just about half, assuming 4 bits per channel.
"what's the personality of a grapefruit?"
Bitter.
we need to turn to the wisdom of Milli Vanilli.
Blame it on the rain. It was falling. Falling.
Both Google and MS are being quite responsible about this. MS notices a bug, informs Google. Google fixes the bug, informs the world--and gives MS credit for finding it.
The only spiteful child here is you.
It's possible that the bug is in the Android API that Motorola is using for the auto-focus routine.
Or Motorola partnered closely with Google to have them help develop the hardware interfaces as well.
My simulator just ignores all user input and pees on the rug behind the couch twice a day.
None of you are terminating your strings! No wonder software has so many security holes!
and his New Deal that saved the country from the Great Depression,
Uh-oh. You just set off the Libertarian Army alarms. *G*
It can be really unfortunate when spelling errors get made in some widely used function, hash key, or whatever. It becomes so entrenched that you are forced to stick with it. I cringe every time I have to type one in.
Hey, he just finished paying $1 million to every hooker in America to stop posting their ads on Craigslist and put them on Backpages instead.
I made the switch about 2 months ago, once FiOS become available in my neighborhood. With the 20Mbps pipe to the house, and full HD digital TV signal available OTA, we had no further use for cable. The vast majority of shows we watch are either broadcast TV or available online (legally).
We have an AppleTV and an HD TiVo connected to the TV, so between those we can watch TV and movies using:
iTunes
Netflix Instant Queue
Amazon Unbox
Boxee (for Hulu, Comedy Central, etc)
The variety of options makes up for the shortcomings of any individual service.
The OTA digital signal is better than our digital cable signal was, too, which is a nice bonus.
I can't see that as being any more efficient than the 100% energy conversion of antimatter and matter that the Federation uses.
True, but they had to come up with their own solution to power their ships to get around the Federation's matter/anti-matter drive patents.
My 11 month old daughter is able to figure out how to unlock my phone. It's random chance that they figure it out, but once they do, they're pretty good and remembering it and duplicating the results.
Exactly. The levels can be treated more as puzzles that need to be solved. After a couple of times trying to beat a level, you get a feel for the types of attacks to expect, and figure out ways to counter them. This could lead you to doing things you could never get away with in a Battle.net game. For instance, I was never a big fan of Vultures, but there were a few Terran missions where the spider mines were very useful.
But you know what I ended up doing? I stopped.
My wife ended up quite competent at fixing hers very quickly. When I stopped, the first couple of problems she ran into, I just suggested she try searching Google, since that's all I'd likely do anyway. She figured it out. And now that she's responsible for her own machine, she is much more careful with what she does to it.
Same thing happened with my mom. My younger brothers picked up the slack for a bit, but she eventually figured out how to do it on her own. And you know what happened? She stopped downloading and installing all those stupid little waving flag apps or whatever that just end up being spyware. Now I'm not stuck fixing computers every time I visit, and overall they have fewer computer issues in general.
I may still help out occasionally on bigger issues, but that's usually more along the lines of "Can this be fixed? Is it worth fixing?" Tends to only happen every couple of years as another computer reaches the end of its life.
And to draw the chain to its conclusion:
If you can't criticize, complain on Slashdot. :)
The insensitivity of this joke made me shudder.
In hindsight, all scientific findings are "obvious" and "just common sense".
Except for quantum physics. The more you "understand" it, the less sense it makes.
Yup. This way the folks who created the app can find the most effective place to put their free advertising-disguised-as-news.
By "70's era calculator", I hope you're referring to your own brain. :)
Didn't you know that anytime two monetary values are added together, the gov't tacks on 10%?
And based on my own experience as a driver and a witness of others' driving, the level of comfort memorization encourages may be one of the more dangerous parts of driving.
You get into a habit of thinking things like:
There are never any cars around this corner
I never see kids on this street
Everybody drives 40mph on this street (posted speed of 25mph)
All my closest calls as a driver have happened when you get in autopilot mode when driving in familiar streets.
Contrast this to driving in a storm, in heavy traffic, in an unfamiliar area. Statistically I'm probably much more likely to get in an accident in the latter case, but I'm definitely paying much more attention and am being a much better driver.
To paraphrase Office Space, if everybody did what they loved, there would be a severe shortage of janitors.
In reality, how much you enjoy the job is only one factor of many when it comes to deciding your career. And I would bet that in practice, it ends up being one of the last factors considered. Whether or not you can make enough money to buy food and pay rent is going to be a much more important part of the decision.
And unless I'm misreading something, these guys aren't trying to set policy, they published a paper that found that existing policy is misguided and ineffective. The free market has spoken. The job market in science and engineering is saturated. Trying to create policy and incentives to encourage larger numbers of science students ultimately depresses wages, which results in the best of the field moving on to other fields with better prospects. End result: the same number of new scientists and engineers in the work force, but with less ability on average.