Right, because everyone knows that the one solution that you come up with in your head, in isolation, is guaranteed to be the best one possible and no one else could ever have a different and maybe better approach.
Life is short, why spend it maintaining a large property.
There's the answer. Why spend time mowing the lawn? Why spend it posting on Slashdot, or watching TV, or reading, or anything else..
If you are stinking rich and want the large property, go ahead... but hire someone to do it for you.
Why? There's nothing wrong with doing something yourself rather than being waited on hand & foot. Part of the pride in maintaining property is to be able to take pride in maintaining it. It's like asking the guy who's restoring a classic car why he doesn't just send it to a shop to have it done.
Your time is more valuable than the cost of having someone cut your grass.
To whom? I'm not working on a Saturday afternoon, so what's the cost of spending a couple of yours in the yard? I have downtime when I'm not working, and that time is valuable to no one but me.
... people are free to make whatever life tradeoffs they want.
Exactly. It's a "wanted" poster in the post office. Only now, you don't have to go to the post office to see it.
You can be that no one would care if they posted this stuff on the city's web site, but because it's the city's FACEBOOK page it's suddenly an issue.
This has nothing to do with stupid kids or criminals posting on FB, it has nothing to do with whether FB is a success, and it's not an invasion of privacy.
Sad that Google has all the data that maps from keyword searches to clicked links that make Google far better than any search engine that is less used. This is the lifeblood of any search engine. Thinking of which, doesn't that data actually belong to all us who generate it? Maybe the DoJ should get involved and get Google to reveal this data to other search engines before Google becomes an abusing monopoly...
Sure, and every website that you visit should be required to turn over its access logs or make them public.
In almost every field, once you get into the real world you find that experience trumps the piece of paper. When it comes down to "this guys has a piece of paper saying he's spent the last 4-6 years learning theory" vs "this guy has a piece of paper saying he's spent the last 4-6 years doing this job", the latter wins.
True, but it's until you have that experience that the education (college or otherwise) matters. You can walk into someone's office and say "I can create web pages," but so can anyone else. At that point it's a choice between someone who claims that they can do the job, with no experience to show, vs. someone who has learned the theory. And, believe it or not, knowing theory is important. Even more important than knowing what a given HTML tag does is knowing why it should or shouldn't be used.
Plus, remember that we're talking about entry-level jobs here. If you have 4-6 years designing web sites and can provide those references, you shouldn't be competing against fresh-out-of-school graduates.
The confusion comes from the fact that so many in the I.T. world (myself included at a few places) have erroneously held the title of "Engineer."
We're not going to see an apprenticeship program for I.T. workers until I.T. becomes a licensed specialty. Until then, there is a sort of informal apprenticeship in that you usually have to prove yourself as the FNG until you become the Senior Sysadmin-or-whatever.
If the process of going to college, graduating and getting a piece of paper means that learning something is not connected to that process then the process is broken.
Agree completely. Colleges should not be graduating those who haven't learned and demonstrated that they have. But then again, neither should K-12
Some fools actually go to college to learn something. The smart ones just go to buy the credentials and get their high paying jobs. Why bother doing the work if you don't have to?
No, the smart ones do both. They know that they need to last in those "high paying jobs." And, outside of certain career fields, I'm not sure about how many of those are "high paying." The first job you take out of school is still entry level.
Not using the computer you bought there, but using the catalog. Best Buy can't put an ad in Walmart's circular advertising the product at Best Buy. Amazon can't put an app in Apple's store that leads customers away from Apple.
Hehe, AC never fails to amuse. Anything about "Be Racist" in the posts you linked to? Nope, that's your not-too-bright interpretation. Nothing either about being rich, or white, or both. Just made-up inferences.
Nothing at all about Google+ is significant until it's released from testing to production, even if that time never comes. Even then, it's a private service offered by a private company. It may turn out to be a "dumb thing" to require real names as policy, and no doubt will be a "dumb thing" if they can't handle names that are 3-words (or hyphenated, or anything else), but the "dumbest thing" of all is for those who're concerned about this to use the service at all. They can continue using the current offerings.
The service is the scam, and you are paying for it knowingly and willingly.
"Knowingly and willingly?" I thing that means that it's *not* a scam. According to some, It may not be a good value or a good way to spend money, but if they're providing the agreed-upon service in exchange for the agreed-upon payment, it's hardly a scam.
Nowhere does that mention article titles or links to articles. Google could argue that the way their search engine works requires them to use (while not displaying) the entire article, but there's still ambiguity there in what was intended.
Unless the article title is considered part of the article. I'd tend to think it is.
I don't see any ambiguity here. Google did exactly what it was told to do, very explicitly.
This is a real weapons-grade crazy chiro-cult quack who thinks that fiddling with peoples spines will cure them of AIDS and cancer (yes really, they believe this), meaning they will die for sure instead of getting the chance that real medicine could give them.
All of them? Really? Every single one? You checked?
Seriously, whatever happened to "think before you post"....
I feel obliged to comment that you've mentioned the One Reason that programmers (or sysadmins, or salesmen, or secretaries, or....) are hired: Problem Solving. The company has a problem, which might be "we can't keep our web site running" or "we're not making as much money online as we'd like", or even "our workers' comp claims are rising". They want people who can solve problems.
25 years of experience means little if the experience is all 25 years old. For a programmer, I'd expect 25 years' worth of experience to include a lot of C and C++, but unless that's a niche that I need filled I'd also look for Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP (or whatever technology I'm using now). They need to solve the problems of today, not yesteryear, and if they can do that then I'd choose a seasoned programmer who understands why we do not want to waste CPU cycles (even today) over some "hotshot" VC++ "programmer" who knows how to work a GUI. Finally, I should point out that a lack of knowledge of the language du jour should not be a barrier, but the lack of *any* languages of the past 10 years certainly would raise a flag.
"My employees have two rules to follow: 1. Get the job done. 2. Don't embarrass the company."
Generally a good thing, but this indicates that you're not in one of the "highly regulated" industries to which the article refers. It's a very different game.
It sounds like the publisher fulfilled their obligation when *they* sold the game. Now that Gamestop is selling it, I'd say it's up to Gamestop to fulfill the obligation.
So, you've got all your personal data backed up from Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, whatever, and your accounts are closed. Now what? Does this thing actually run a usable social networking site? And, even if it does, is it one that everyone will want to use?
Slashdot Mirror
Right, because everyone knows that the one solution that you come up with in your head, in isolation, is guaranteed to be the best one possible and no one else could ever have a different and maybe better approach.
Life is short, why spend it maintaining a large property.
There's the answer. Why spend time mowing the lawn? Why spend it posting on Slashdot, or watching TV, or reading, or anything else..
If you are stinking rich and want the large property, go ahead... but hire someone to do it for you.
Why? There's nothing wrong with doing something yourself rather than being waited on hand & foot. Part of the pride in maintaining property is to be able to take pride in maintaining it. It's like asking the guy who's restoring a classic car why he doesn't just send it to a shop to have it done.
Your time is more valuable than the cost of having someone cut your grass.
To whom? I'm not working on a Saturday afternoon, so what's the cost of spending a couple of yours in the yard? I have downtime when I'm not working, and that time is valuable to no one but me.
... people are free to make whatever life tradeoffs they want.
Exactly.
Sure, since hardly anyone can read shorthand these days, that should work. I'm not sure how to get it encoded into e-mails & such, though.
No assurance they aren't doing that already.
Exactly. It's a "wanted" poster in the post office. Only now, you don't have to go to the post office to see it.
You can be that no one would care if they posted this stuff on the city's web site, but because it's the city's FACEBOOK page it's suddenly an issue.
This has nothing to do with stupid kids or criminals posting on FB, it has nothing to do with whether FB is a success, and it's not an invasion of privacy.
The author of the summary seems to be unaware that IP is been shown fairly convincingly to be a sham term.
Perhaps. A lot of people seem to think so.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
You just screwed your own argument by linking to the most useless, bias article that you could find.
I'm not familiar with this concept of "liking" something...I take it this is something done on those social network sites like FB and twitter?
It has something to do with that new inner-web thingy. Maybe this will help. You can search for information these days, too.
Sad that Google has all the data that maps from keyword searches to clicked links that make Google far better than any search engine that is less used. This is the lifeblood of any search engine. Thinking of which, doesn't that data actually belong to all us who generate it? Maybe the DoJ should get involved and get Google to reveal this data to other search engines before Google becomes an abusing monopoly ...
Sure, and every website that you visit should be required to turn over its access logs or make them public.
In almost every field, once you get into the real world you find that experience trumps the piece of paper. When it comes down to "this guys has a piece of paper saying he's spent the last 4-6 years learning theory" vs "this guy has a piece of paper saying he's spent the last 4-6 years doing this job", the latter wins.
True, but it's until you have that experience that the education (college or otherwise) matters. You can walk into someone's office and say "I can create web pages," but so can anyone else. At that point it's a choice between someone who claims that they can do the job, with no experience to show, vs. someone who has learned the theory. And, believe it or not, knowing theory is important. Even more important than knowing what a given HTML tag does is knowing why it should or shouldn't be used.
Plus, remember that we're talking about entry-level jobs here. If you have 4-6 years designing web sites and can provide those references, you shouldn't be competing against fresh-out-of-school graduates.
The confusion comes from the fact that so many in the I.T. world (myself included at a few places) have erroneously held the title of "Engineer."
We're not going to see an apprenticeship program for I.T. workers until I.T. becomes a licensed specialty. Until then, there is a sort of informal apprenticeship in that you usually have to prove yourself as the FNG until you become the Senior Sysadmin-or-whatever.
If the process of going to college, graduating and getting a piece of paper means that learning something is not connected to that process then the process is broken.
Agree completely. Colleges should not be graduating those who haven't learned and demonstrated that they have. But then again, neither should K-12
Some fools actually go to college to learn something. The smart ones just go to buy the credentials and get their high paying jobs. Why bother doing the work if you don't have to?
No, the smart ones do both. They know that they need to last in those "high paying jobs." And, outside of certain career fields, I'm not sure about how many of those are "high paying." The first job you take out of school is still entry level.
Not using the computer you bought there, but using the catalog. Best Buy can't put an ad in Walmart's circular advertising the product at Best Buy. Amazon can't put an app in Apple's store that leads customers away from Apple.
Hehe, AC never fails to amuse. Anything about "Be Racist" in the posts you linked to? Nope, that's your not-too-bright interpretation. Nothing either about being rich, or white, or both. Just made-up inferences.
Nothing at all about Google+ is significant until it's released from testing to production, even if that time never comes. Even then, it's a private service offered by a private company. It may turn out to be a "dumb thing" to require real names as policy, and no doubt will be a "dumb thing" if they can't handle names that are 3-words (or hyphenated, or anything else), but the "dumbest thing" of all is for those who're concerned about this to use the service at all. They can continue using the current offerings.
The service is the scam, and you are paying for it knowingly and willingly.
"Knowingly and willingly?" I thing that means that it's *not* a scam. According to some, It may not be a good value or a good way to spend money, but if they're providing the agreed-upon service in exchange for the agreed-upon payment, it's hardly a scam.
Nope. But it's been done before.
The real amusement here is the s/he seems to think that showing ignorance is actually something to be proud of.
Nowhere does that mention article titles or links to articles. Google could argue that the way their search engine works requires them to use (while not displaying) the entire article, but there's still ambiguity there in what was intended.
Unless the article title is considered part of the article. I'd tend to think it is. I don't see any ambiguity here. Google did exactly what it was told to do, very explicitly.
This is a real weapons-grade crazy chiro-cult quack who thinks that fiddling with peoples spines will cure them of AIDS and cancer (yes really, they believe this), meaning they will die for sure instead of getting the chance that real medicine could give them.
All of them? Really? Every single one? You checked?
Seriously, whatever happened to "think before you post"....
For the record, chiropractors are fraudsters, voodoo witch doctors in suits who take in the gullible.
A. You're wrong. Period.
This loony quack is getting quite annoying.
B. He is a bit out there. Not the best representative for Chiropractors to be sure.
You're a fraud pal, a vile repugnant fraud.
C. Possible. Citation needed.
I feel obliged to comment that you've mentioned the One Reason that programmers (or sysadmins, or salesmen, or secretaries, or ....) are hired: Problem Solving. The company has a problem, which might be "we can't keep our web site running" or "we're not making as much money online as we'd like", or even "our workers' comp claims are rising". They want people who can solve problems.
25 years of experience means little if the experience is all 25 years old. For a programmer, I'd expect 25 years' worth of experience to include a lot of C and C++, but unless that's a niche that I need filled I'd also look for Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP (or whatever technology I'm using now). They need to solve the problems of today, not yesteryear, and if they can do that then I'd choose a seasoned programmer who understands why we do not want to waste CPU cycles (even today) over some "hotshot" VC++ "programmer" who knows how to work a GUI. Finally, I should point out that a lack of knowledge of the language du jour should not be a barrier, but the lack of *any* languages of the past 10 years certainly would raise a flag.
"My employees have two rules to follow: 1. Get the job done. 2. Don't embarrass the company."
Generally a good thing, but this indicates that you're not in one of the "highly regulated" industries to which the article refers. It's a very different game.
I agree that it's probably a waste, but I think it'd be an even bigger waste to actually analyze them all to pick the important ones.
It sounds like the publisher fulfilled their obligation when *they* sold the game. Now that Gamestop is selling it, I'd say it's up to Gamestop to fulfill the obligation.
"It entered the land of exclusive pro tool years ago."
You're right, and the answer to your question is likely "one".
So, you've got all your personal data backed up from Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, whatever, and your accounts are closed. Now what? Does this thing actually run a usable social networking site? And, even if it does, is it one that everyone will want to use?
I don't see this happening, ever.