I'm pretty sure he meant DRM'd games. Reading comprehension and context will almost always help you realize typos and mistakes and allow you to still understand what the author was saying.
In my experience its far easier to spend the extra 5 or 6 milliseconds my mind needs to decipher the mistake than to write out a one line post to slashdot in an attempt to cut the original post down. Helps me not look like a douche as often either, those I still look douchey often enough.
There is no such thing as overqualified, only retard with a degree in this case.
McDonalds doesn't ignore your application because you're overqualified. They ignore your application because you were too stupid to take off the fact that you were overqualified.
As for the degree for tier one type jobs... why drop it? There is an abundance of MS and BS graduates out there who aren't really capable of doing much besides being an help desk script reader. At least they proved they could go to class often enough to pass, though they also weren't bright enough to realize it was a waste of money. Sounds like exactly what we expect out of tier one support.
I'm not sure why this is news, this is and has been common practice for at least the last 15 years that I've been involved with Internet infrastructure and it wasn't really new then either.
Regardless of 'net neutrality' issues, this is just common sense and good network design. If you're going to need a new datacenter putting it as close to the users as possible has always been 'good design' practices. The traffic not only gets to its destination faster, it also unloads links that previously carried the traffic. Its a win for everyone involved.
This is no different than mutual peering agreements or the Akamia and iTunes hosting that pretty much every major ISP does already anyway. I haven't ever downloaded a song from iTunes or an app or movie that didn't come from the TWC datacenter a few miles down the road. Surprising this is the first we've heard of Google doing it actually. Its a safe bet this isn't actually new for them either.
The only downside is that Verizon may not put as much effort into their backbone connections so external sites end up suffering, and thats a problem, but you can only legislate so much, shitty businesses will always figure out a way to rip you off unless they have competition.
(do we continue to utilize technology, or do we become technology?)
Why does it always get reduced to a one or the other answer?
The two things are not mutually exclusive. It is entirely possible that prosthetics will be the next boob job, and some people will prefer to regrow their own limbs or... not have a replacement at all.
much more experience in academia and in government as a lawyer.
I realize it might not be obvious at first glance but um... I think we probably need a little less of both those things in our court justices. Neither are impressive when you think about it, but are just fields full of corruption and power struggles to who can make the most money.
Please don't say 'Dean of Harvard Law School' like that is impressive.
Its not, for a multitude of reasons, but lets just stop it without an argument by pointing out that she held a Administrative dean, not a scholarly one.
She really has practically no experience hearing trials and thats the job we're talking about here, not being someones clerk, not making sure school supplies get ordered on time and that there are enough chairs in the room so some pompus ass can preach at students for hours on end.
I don't really hold that against her, it could very well be an advantage, but more importantly...
I'm not delusional about her qualifications or experience nor am I a lunatic fanboy.
Be realistic... you have no idea what so ever how good she will be or which way she'll go on things and no one will until she does it.
Comparisons are not supposed to be fair, but judging someone based on no real evidence is just silly.
those guilty of certain types of crimes forfeit it
Actually they don't. The forfeit their standard citizenship, AND the rights that go with it and end up with a reduced set of rights because they are no longer considered proper citizens.
They can also get them back after some time being out of prison and having a clean record.
Yes... because rolling multiple things that used to be separate that worked well together into one combined unit is something Apple invented...
You do realize that pretty much every thing you use today is a combination of smaller tools rolled up into a bigger more useful combined tool.
Your computer has a chip in it, the processor, thats much like Apple OS in your post... the processor has added things that used to be done elsewhere to itself and pretty much obsoleted the external components. The processor is really just a collection of what used to be discrete components, all rolled into one...
You know what else is funny... those are all patentable things and the concept of combining existing things into one is explicitly part of patent law...
The world as you know it would not exist if it weren't for the fact that EVERYONE DOES IT.
Perhaps you should drive off the end of your block sometime.
The rest of us have these things called toll roads... where you pay a toll/em to drive on them. Generally as a BS excuse to make money hand over fist for a road that 9 times out of 8 was built, paid for, and maintained using public tax money. Its a great scam really.
But the point here is that... people pay to drive on certain, faster, less congested roads everyday... fully government endorsed and managed.
While its been public for 3 months, its been available to many for a long time, and most importantly, it was available to all google employees internally.
Google's own employee's really didn't bother to use it, and in my experience as a software developer, when you can't get your own employees to use your own software then you need to rethink your plan.
What likely happened is that they spent a lot of time trying to figure out why people didn't use it and how to get them to use it internally and continued pushing on externally... until finally realizing based on internal observations that it just wasn't going to work.
Funny, considering wave is just some extensions to XMPP. In fact let me adjust your analogy, you said:
The closest analogy that I can think of offfhand would be if XMPP had been introduced by releasing a Pidgin fork named "XMPP" and offering no particularly interesting benefits aside from instant messaging over XMPP rather than Oscar or IRC or whatever.
And if you wanted to say the same thing while still being technically correct you would say:
The closest analogy that I can think of offfhand would be if Wave had been introduced by releasing a bunch of extensions to "XMPP" and offering no particularly interesting benefits aside from instant messaging over XMPP rather than Oscar or IRC or whatever.
The 'Wave protocol', after all, is nothing more than some extensions to XMPP, and Google wasn't even the first one to implement some of them. It obviously didn't add anything new that could be considered useful.
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Thats what trouble ticket and CRM systems are for.
Our trouble ticket system (Eventum) would have completely solved your problems as everyone that participated in the discussion would have full access to the entire conversation history and anything new they said would be distributed to everyone currently involved.
You bring up 'chat' but really, the idea of chatting instead of a quick phone call is silly. I can dial the phone extension, complete the conversation and move on before you've probably got a response back from your request.
Wave was terminated because even Google employees found little to no use for it.
Ignoring the fact that you'll get an update for something like this probably relatively quickly since it gets around their security. Their own greed gives them an actual reason to stay secure, but they'll still have bugs.
You also accept that Apple may turn off an app, like the ones you listed as well, which may keep you safe.
Yes, buying an iOS device means you are paying for the privilege of having Apple control what can be on your device. Its like paying for Antivirus software, except there is a direct financial incentive for it to actually well. If it doesn't work well, Apple has lost the cash potential of having the only app store.
Or, you can get an open phone and do what ever you want with it and not let anyone else tell you what to do with it, even if they find problems you really probably do want them to fix. You can have a whole bunch of options. You can have the power and added complexity and lack of someone looking over your shoulder for a lower price because your vendor really doesn't have a major incentive to fix the problem and well, its your choice to fix it anyway.
Some people like the second option, some people like the first, it really kind of depends on your view point and what you want out of the device doesn't it?
football field... heh, that changes things slightly.
That just brings us back to 'if you can do something to activate said football field sized balloon... why not just fire some rockets to lower its obit WAY faster and FAR more CONTROLLED.
If you argue that you may not have control of the sat then I'd like to know how you plan to activate this ballon.
Seriously, if you think this is a good idea you don't understand orbital dynamics.
Anything that is causing drag on the football is intern also causing drag on the hundred times larger satellite it is attached too.
In about 80 to 90 years, that football might have been noticed in fuel used for station keeping, otherwise it won't make a dent in anything that matters.
If the football is going to 'cause drag and eventual reentry' the satellite was going to do that anyway and the 10 minutes that the football brings it in sooner isn't really all that relevant.
Nothing stays in orbit forever, its all either coming back to Earth or heading out into space, its just a question of when it happens in a meaningful way.
Actually, over extending yourself and losing your home pretty much shows that you are the twit.
They lived beyond what they could support and it came back to bite them. Sucks. It happens. It still their fault, not the economy. Having owned a home for 60 years they could have paid it off twice by now under any normal circumstances OTHER than willingly risking their home with something that didn't pay off.
No, there is no legitimate need to do that, none. College is free in America if you bother to find the grants (not even getting loans!), starting a business with collateral and a SB loan was trivial up until about a year and a half ago...
So having paid for college myself, and having started my own business before I turned 21 with the help of the Small Business Association, a bank, and the title to my car forgive me if I don't feel sympathy for some people that risked more than they should have and almost lost it. At most they should have lost some far less valuable bits of collateral. You aren't going to have a business with no home, but you can have a home without a business. You do not put one up as the collateral for the other.
I'm glad they found a way out of losing their home though, I don't wish that on anyone, but I don't feel sorry for those who bring it on themselves.
People have blackberries because they haven't upgraded to an iPhone yet because its not that time or their company provided phone doesn't come with an option for an iPhone.
People don't continue to use RIM devices out of choice, only lockin and ignorance.
You can argue over the strengths and weaknesses of the iPhone versus Android all day long and it'd be an argument.
If you tried to argue that a RIM device compares to an Android device or an iPhone then you might as well show up to a gun fight with a knife.
RIM is dead, they had their hayday and sit on their asses instead of innovating, now both Google and Apple said 'holy fuck you guys suck at software development, good bye."
Apple has a nice phone for normal people to use that a lot of geeks love.
Andorid has a nice offering for geeks to use that some normal people love.
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I'm pretty sure he meant DRM'd games. Reading comprehension and context will almost always help you realize typos and mistakes and allow you to still understand what the author was saying.
In my experience its far easier to spend the extra 5 or 6 milliseconds my mind needs to decipher the mistake than to write out a one line post to slashdot in an attempt to cut the original post down. Helps me not look like a douche as often either, those I still look douchey often enough.
There is no such thing as overqualified, only retard with a degree in this case.
McDonalds doesn't ignore your application because you're overqualified. They ignore your application because you were too stupid to take off the fact that you were overqualified.
As for the degree for tier one type jobs ... why drop it? There is an abundance of MS and BS graduates out there who aren't really capable of doing much besides being an help desk script reader. At least they proved they could go to class often enough to pass, though they also weren't bright enough to realize it was a waste of money. Sounds like exactly what we expect out of tier one support.
I'm not sure why this is news, this is and has been common practice for at least the last 15 years that I've been involved with Internet infrastructure and it wasn't really new then either.
Regardless of 'net neutrality' issues, this is just common sense and good network design. If you're going to need a new datacenter putting it as close to the users as possible has always been 'good design' practices. The traffic not only gets to its destination faster, it also unloads links that previously carried the traffic. Its a win for everyone involved.
This is no different than mutual peering agreements or the Akamia and iTunes hosting that pretty much every major ISP does already anyway. I haven't ever downloaded a song from iTunes or an app or movie that didn't come from the TWC datacenter a few miles down the road. Surprising this is the first we've heard of Google doing it actually. Its a safe bet this isn't actually new for them either.
The only downside is that Verizon may not put as much effort into their backbone connections so external sites end up suffering, and thats a problem, but you can only legislate so much, shitty businesses will always figure out a way to rip you off unless they have competition.
Why does it always get reduced to a one or the other answer?
The two things are not mutually exclusive. It is entirely possible that prosthetics will be the next boob job, and some people will prefer to regrow their own limbs or ... not have a replacement at all.
I realize it might not be obvious at first glance but um ... I think we probably need a little less of both those things in our court justices. Neither are impressive when you think about it, but are just fields full of corruption and power struggles to who can make the most money.
Please don't say 'Dean of Harvard Law School' like that is impressive.
Its not, for a multitude of reasons, but lets just stop it without an argument by pointing out that she held a Administrative dean, not a scholarly one.
She really has practically no experience hearing trials and thats the job we're talking about here, not being someones clerk, not making sure school supplies get ordered on time and that there are enough chairs in the room so some pompus ass can preach at students for hours on end.
I don't really hold that against her, it could very well be an advantage, but more importantly ...
I'm not delusional about her qualifications or experience nor am I a lunatic fanboy.
Be realistic ... you have no idea what so ever how good she will be or which way she'll go on things and no one will until she does it.
Comparisons are not supposed to be fair, but judging someone based on no real evidence is just silly.
Actually they don't. The forfeit their standard citizenship, AND the rights that go with it and end up with a reduced set of rights because they are no longer considered proper citizens.
They can also get them back after some time being out of prison and having a clean record.
I know what you mean, but I do not think those words in that combination mean what you think they mean. Not a good combination really.
Okay, so now we create a word for gay marriage and straight marriage. And then the argument becomes 'we want to be called straight marriage'.
Separate but equal does not me one and the same.
Both Windows and Mac OS have system wide plugin systems ... no one bothers to use them.
Yes ... because rolling multiple things that used to be separate that worked well together into one combined unit is something Apple invented ...
You do realize that pretty much every thing you use today is a combination of smaller tools rolled up into a bigger more useful combined tool.
Your computer has a chip in it, the processor, thats much like Apple OS in your post ... the processor has added things that used to be done elsewhere to itself and pretty much obsoleted the external components. The processor is really just a collection of what used to be discrete components, all rolled into one ...
You know what else is funny ... those are all patentable things and the concept of combining existing things into one is explicitly part of patent law ...
The world as you know it would not exist if it weren't for the fact that EVERYONE DOES IT.
With what? You can only apply one mod point to it. You can't mod anything any oblivion.
So GCCs response to Apple being childish was ... to be even more childish ... Good response ... really mature.
If you don't want to see shear ignorance on slashdot, just start ignoring timothy and kdawson
So ... these ISPs are going to throttle Google ... after Google stops communicating with them ...
I think Google would have effectively throttled themselves to 0 so whatever the ISP does probably won't be an issue will it?
Perhaps you should drive off the end of your block sometime.
The rest of us have these things called toll roads ... where you pay a toll/em to drive on them. Generally as a BS excuse to make money hand over fist for a road that 9 times out of 8 was built, paid for, and maintained using public tax money. Its a great scam really.
But the point here is that ... people pay to drive on certain, faster, less congested roads everyday ... fully government endorsed and managed.
While its been public for 3 months, its been available to many for a long time, and most importantly, it was available to all google employees internally.
Google's own employee's really didn't bother to use it, and in my experience as a software developer, when you can't get your own employees to use your own software then you need to rethink your plan.
What likely happened is that they spent a lot of time trying to figure out why people didn't use it and how to get them to use it internally and continued pushing on externally ... until finally realizing based on internal observations that it just wasn't going to work.
Funny, considering wave is just some extensions to XMPP. In fact let me adjust your analogy, you said:
And if you wanted to say the same thing while still being technically correct you would say:
The 'Wave protocol', after all, is nothing more than some extensions to XMPP, and Google wasn't even the first one to implement some of them. It obviously didn't add anything new that could be considered useful.
Thats what trouble ticket and CRM systems are for.
Our trouble ticket system (Eventum) would have completely solved your problems as everyone that participated in the discussion would have full access to the entire conversation history and anything new they said would be distributed to everyone currently involved.
You bring up 'chat' but really, the idea of chatting instead of a quick phone call is silly. I can dial the phone extension, complete the conversation and move on before you've probably got a response back from your request.
Wave was terminated because even Google employees found little to no use for it.
Actually, I don't know about the current jailbreak as I haven't bothered to do it since the very first versions but ...
The installers that ran afterwords usually patched the exploit as well.
Also, jailbroken phones can sometimes be upgraded and as I recall that was usually the first way they would get new iOS broken.
Like I said, its been a while ... and who knows what ACTUALLY gets installed as I doubt anyone bothers to analyze what they get.
Ignoring the fact that you'll get an update for something like this probably relatively quickly since it gets around their security. Their own greed gives them an actual reason to stay secure, but they'll still have bugs.
You also accept that Apple may turn off an app, like the ones you listed as well, which may keep you safe.
Yes, buying an iOS device means you are paying for the privilege of having Apple control what can be on your device. Its like paying for Antivirus software, except there is a direct financial incentive for it to actually well. If it doesn't work well, Apple has lost the cash potential of having the only app store.
Or, you can get an open phone and do what ever you want with it and not let anyone else tell you what to do with it, even if they find problems you really probably do want them to fix. You can have a whole bunch of options. You can have the power and added complexity and lack of someone looking over your shoulder for a lower price because your vendor really doesn't have a major incentive to fix the problem and well, its your choice to fix it anyway.
Some people like the second option, some people like the first, it really kind of depends on your view point and what you want out of the device doesn't it?
football field ... heh, that changes things slightly.
That just brings us back to 'if you can do something to activate said football field sized balloon ... why not just fire some rockets to lower its obit WAY faster and FAR more CONTROLLED.
If you argue that you may not have control of the sat then I'd like to know how you plan to activate this ballon.
Seriously, if you think this is a good idea you don't understand orbital dynamics.
Anything that is causing drag on the football is intern also causing drag on the hundred times larger satellite it is attached too.
In about 80 to 90 years, that football might have been noticed in fuel used for station keeping, otherwise it won't make a dent in anything that matters.
If the football is going to 'cause drag and eventual reentry' the satellite was going to do that anyway and the 10 minutes that the football brings it in sooner isn't really all that relevant.
Nothing stays in orbit forever, its all either coming back to Earth or heading out into space, its just a question of when it happens in a meaningful way.
Actually, over extending yourself and losing your home pretty much shows that you are the twit.
They lived beyond what they could support and it came back to bite them. Sucks. It happens. It still their fault, not the economy. Having owned a home for 60 years they could have paid it off twice by now under any normal circumstances OTHER than willingly risking their home with something that didn't pay off.
No, there is no legitimate need to do that, none. College is free in America if you bother to find the grants (not even getting loans!), starting a business with collateral and a SB loan was trivial up until about a year and a half ago ...
So having paid for college myself, and having started my own business before I turned 21 with the help of the Small Business Association, a bank, and the title to my car forgive me if I don't feel sympathy for some people that risked more than they should have and almost lost it. At most they should have lost some far less valuable bits of collateral. You aren't going to have a business with no home, but you can have a home without a business. You do not put one up as the collateral for the other.
I'm glad they found a way out of losing their home though, I don't wish that on anyone, but I don't feel sorry for those who bring it on themselves.
People have blackberries because they haven't upgraded to an iPhone yet because its not that time or their company provided phone doesn't come with an option for an iPhone.
People don't continue to use RIM devices out of choice, only lockin and ignorance.
You can argue over the strengths and weaknesses of the iPhone versus Android all day long and it'd be an argument.
If you tried to argue that a RIM device compares to an Android device or an iPhone then you might as well show up to a gun fight with a knife.
RIM is dead, they had their hayday and sit on their asses instead of innovating, now both Google and Apple said 'holy fuck you guys suck at software development, good bye."
Apple has a nice phone for normal people to use that a lot of geeks love.
Andorid has a nice offering for geeks to use that some normal people love.
RIM ... I got nothing, and neither do they.