With eye-tracking, you can do away with the painful auto-scrolling on mobile/PDA eBook reader software and just have the page advance when (or a few seconds after) your eye gets to the last line of the page...
Although usage varies, most people (vendors and analysts at least) consider "Software as a Service" to mean you are renting an application (Google docs, Concur expense app, salesforce CRM app), while "Cloud computing" typically means you are renting infrastructure (Amazon EC2/S3) and/or a platform for developing custom apps (Google app engine, Force.com). Sometimes "cloud computing" is used generically to refer to all three: infrastructure, platform, and/or applications running outside your datacenter, managed by a 3rd party vendor.
Bad headhunters will modify your resume without your permission and submit it to companies without asking you
Good headhunters will work with you to tailor your resume to each opportunity and ask you to make sure an opportunity sounds like a good fit before submitting your resume
Bad headhunters who submit your non-tailored resume first and don't tell you can cause problems when the Good headhunter submits another resume for the same candidate (you). Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about this except apologize for the mix-up and hope the hiring manager/company is understanding.
I wouldn't recommend "firing" the bad headhunter (unless you're actually paying him money, which would be odd since they usually get paid by the hiring companies) in case they luck into finding you a good opportunity. But you should firmly ask him to check with you in the future before changing/submitting your resume.
I guess it depends on what the negotiated price would have been in the absence of the agents. As a buyer I would not pay for the service, so I will not consider that part of the value I am basing my offer on. Only in the absence of alternatives (and this is where anti-competitive practices really get you) would I be 'forced' to pay for the agent services I do not value, else to keep the price of the home competitive/reasonable, the seller will have to pay out of their gross. Of course it also depends on how hot the market is - having multiple offers for every property is very different than having a house sit on the market for months or being forced to sell due to financial problems, etc.
The commission you are paying to an agent is around $24k for the privilege of buying that house.
Actually, the seller pays the commission, but the point is the same: why pay 6% to sell your house if a internet-based real-estate agency can get you in the same listings and attract almost as much interest at half the cost?
Aside from the occasional armchair punditry, I've never really gotten involved in politics -- never donated, never volunteered, never even sat through an entire political speech. Every election season, I quickly lose interest in the poll-driven sound-bites, identity politics, partisan bickering, and inane talking heads on the networks.
So why did I just spend a rainy afternoon canvassing 170 households in Redwood City?
The Obama campaign has renewed my sense of patriotism, long buried under the cynical misuse of patriotism as a cudgel to suppress honest debate and dissent. If you haven't seen it yet, this video captures in four minutes much of the feelings his campaign has rekindled for me.
After the last seven years, I want to feel proud of America again, and help send a message that we as a nation reject torture, fear-based authoritarianism, an unaccountable executive, ideologically-driven anti-science policies, and indefinite war with a constantly changing mission.
I believe Barack Obama is the strongest candidate, with the best chance of garnering enough support across parties, races, genders, religions (including us atheists!), and regions to actually credibly claim a mandate for change. He has a proven record of bringing diverse interests together to get meaningful legislation passed: when he authored a law that required the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases, prosecutors and police adamantly opposed the bill, as well as the governor and most legislators who wanted to look tough on crime. But Obama led a campaign to get it passed, and a key element of that was to quietly but effectively bring together prosecutors, public defenders, police organizations, and death penalty opponents work out an agreement that all groups could endorse. Eventually, the bill was passed unanimously and became law. (the American Bar Association later unanimously adopted a similar resolution)
Does it let me "ignore" sellers by name, feedback ratio and feedback quantity
I don't know about feedback ratio/quantity, but you can filter out a seller by name just by adding "-SpammySeller" to your eBay search terms, although I think you have to select "search title and description" which might force you to start adding tons of other filters to get down to a decent result set size.
NetFlix is unbelievably easy to cancel, and to restart membership later. The ease of canceling actually played an important role in my later deciding to re-subscribe. You just don't see that kind of customer-comes-first attitude much these days.
"...police recently killed a serial killer with the help of a combination of Homeland Security and private gunmen. Police fired at 50 different potential suspects and passers-by and pieced together relevant remaining body parts from 12 of them, and eventually were able to verify that one of them was the murderer. Once discovered, further investigation uncovered that he also committed several other murders spanning the past eight years. Without this police shooting spree this killer would probably be stalking the streets of today. With results like that, is there really a good basis for argument against this mass shooting?"
You are absolutely correct about PalmOS being the more user-friendly, even after many iterations of WinCE/WinMob. Case in point: What do you do to add a new appointment on PalmOS (since the original PalmPilot)? Click on the screen where (when) you want it and start writing. What do you do on WinCE/WinMob? Click on the "new" button, and when the dialog box pops up, click on the text entry area to write the description, then click on the date/time selector a bunch of times to set it, then click on "ok" to close the dialog box. How many different versions of WinCE/WinMob and they still don't have built-in support for in-line editing?
Does anyone know if it is possible to configure/calibrate the Wii remote or IR sensors over the TV so that you cannot just sit on the couch and flick your wrist, but actually have to move the remote around a few feet in either direction? In other words, can you set it up so your couch potato kids have to get up and move around at least a little in order to play?
Yes, absentee balloting in general is vulnerable to bribery and intimidation because you aren't guaranteed a safe and private place to cast your vote. In your example, I could demand to see your print out and/or watch you at your computer before paying you (or agreeing not to break both your kneecaps)
Until the DoJ tries to claim that your freedom of speech is a danger to national security.
Then your lawsuit (usually) disappears.
Just like the lawsuit of this innocent Canadian Citizen who the U.S. had tortured for 10 months then was released uncharged:
http://ccr-ny.org/v2/nomoresecrets/
I'm going to start a company which sells DVDs containing *only* the naughty bits from movies...
That reminds me of a great little movie called Cinema Paradiso (although beinga small Italian village in the 1950's, the "naughty" bits were just scenes of kissing)
Don't be too hard on religious types - it's just 99% of them that give the rest a bad name.
Disclaimer: the above statements and ideas are my own, and any resemblance to any fiction or non-fiction books or previous posts is entirely coincidental and in no way grounds for a lawsuit.
When negotiating for the rights to make a Firefly movie, Fox's contract specifically says that Joss can never bring the tv series back in any form. It did not, however, preclude additional feature films.
Actually, I believe the contract specifies that the tv series cannot be brought back for a period of time -- something like 9 or 10 years, but practically speaking that has almost the same effect.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
Video or it didn't happen.
With eye-tracking, you can do away with the painful auto-scrolling on mobile/PDA eBook reader software and just have the page advance when (or a few seconds after) your eye gets to the last line of the page...
Although usage varies, most people (vendors and analysts at least) consider "Software as a Service" to mean you are renting an application (Google docs, Concur expense app, salesforce CRM app), while "Cloud computing" typically means you are renting infrastructure (Amazon EC2/S3) and/or a platform for developing custom apps (Google app engine, Force.com). Sometimes "cloud computing" is used generically to refer to all three: infrastructure, platform, and/or applications running outside your datacenter, managed by a 3rd party vendor.
Bad headhunters will modify your resume without your permission and submit it to companies without asking you
Good headhunters will work with you to tailor your resume to each opportunity and ask you to make sure an opportunity sounds like a good fit before submitting your resume
Bad headhunters who submit your non-tailored resume first and don't tell you can cause problems when the Good headhunter submits another resume for the same candidate (you). Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about this except apologize for the mix-up and hope the hiring manager/company is understanding.
I wouldn't recommend "firing" the bad headhunter (unless you're actually paying him money, which would be odd since they usually get paid by the hiring companies) in case they luck into finding you a good opportunity. But you should firmly ask him to check with you in the future before changing/submitting your resume.
This guy must be from the dept-of-redundancy-dept
I guess it depends on what the negotiated price would have been in the absence of the agents. As a buyer I would not pay for the service, so I will not consider that part of the value I am basing my offer on. Only in the absence of alternatives (and this is where anti-competitive practices really get you) would I be 'forced' to pay for the agent services I do not value, else to keep the price of the home competitive/reasonable, the seller will have to pay out of their gross. Of course it also depends on how hot the market is - having multiple offers for every property is very different than having a house sit on the market for months or being forced to sell due to financial problems, etc.
Actually, the seller pays the commission, but the point is the same: why pay 6% to sell your house if a internet-based real-estate agency can get you in the same listings and attract almost as much interest at half the cost?
So why did I just spend a rainy afternoon canvassing 170 households in Redwood City?
- The Obama campaign has renewed my sense of patriotism, long buried under the cynical misuse of patriotism as a cudgel to suppress honest debate and dissent. If you haven't seen it yet, this video captures in four minutes much of the feelings his campaign has rekindled for me.
- After the last seven years, I want to feel proud of America again, and help send a message that we as a nation reject torture, fear-based authoritarianism, an unaccountable executive, ideologically-driven anti-science policies, and indefinite war with a constantly changing mission.
- I believe Barack Obama is the strongest candidate, with the best chance of garnering enough support across parties, races, genders, religions (including us atheists!), and regions to actually credibly claim a mandate for change. He has a proven record of bringing diverse interests together to get meaningful legislation passed: when he authored a law that required the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases, prosecutors and police adamantly opposed the bill, as well as the governor and most legislators who wanted to look tough on crime. But Obama led a campaign to get it passed, and a key element of that was to quietly but effectively bring together prosecutors, public defenders, police organizations, and death penalty opponents work out an agreement that all groups could endorse. Eventually, the bill was passed unanimously and became law. (the American Bar Association later unanimously adopted a similar resolution)
- Despite being considered a visionary, Obama is very conservative (in the traditional Burkean sense), with a pragmatic, minimalist, and consensus-based approach to government.
Whoever you support, please vote tomorrow if you live in any of these 20 states!NetFlix is unbelievably easy to cancel, and to restart membership later. The ease of canceling actually played an important role in my later deciding to re-subscribe. You just don't see that kind of customer-comes-first attitude much these days.
"...police recently killed a serial killer with the help of a combination of Homeland Security and private gunmen. Police fired at 50 different potential suspects and passers-by and pieced together relevant remaining body parts from 12 of them, and eventually were able to verify that one of them was the murderer. Once discovered, further investigation uncovered that he also committed several other murders spanning the past eight years. Without this police shooting spree this killer would probably be stalking the streets of today. With results like that, is there really a good basis for argument against this mass shooting?"
You are absolutely correct about PalmOS being the more user-friendly, even after many iterations of WinCE/WinMob. Case in point: What do you do to add a new appointment on PalmOS (since the original PalmPilot)? Click on the screen where (when) you want it and start writing. What do you do on WinCE/WinMob? Click on the "new" button, and when the dialog box pops up, click on the text entry area to write the description, then click on the date/time selector a bunch of times to set it, then click on "ok" to close the dialog box. How many different versions of WinCE/WinMob and they still don't have built-in support for in-line editing?
Does anyone know if it is possible to configure/calibrate the Wii remote or IR sensors over the TV so that you cannot just sit on the couch and flick your wrist, but actually have to move the remote around a few feet in either direction? In other words, can you set it up so your couch potato kids have to get up and move around at least a little in order to play?
Yes, absentee balloting in general is vulnerable to bribery and intimidation because you aren't guaranteed a safe and private place to cast your vote. In your example, I could demand to see your print out and/or watch you at your computer before paying you (or agreeing not to break both your kneecaps)
I just happened to see a post the other day about a guide to leaving America with stories and advice from expatriates around the world
Thanks! Still flyin'.
You mean this wouldn't work?
Your honor, the appellent is an idiot.
The appellent was able to create said invention despite being an idiot.
Ergo, the invention is obvious.
Don't be too hard on religious types - it's just 99% of them that give the rest a bad name.
Disclaimer: the above statements and ideas are my own, and any resemblance to any fiction or non-fiction books or previous posts is entirely coincidental and in no way grounds for a lawsuit.