Idunno. Perhaps because it's deceptive, and profiting off lies is generally considered unethical, and funding people who profit off lies with taxpayer money is usually pretty unpopular (especially during a budget crunch), and stuff like that? For starters.
Yes, yes. You paid good money for those spectrum licenses, I hear ya. Fat lot of good they'd do you if all your customers are dead, dying or diseased, eh? So just avoid playing the injured party and just suffer with the interference for another month while people migrate, mmmk? Mmmk.
And you get to meet people. Sounds like a snazzy deal. For you. I wonder if the grocer feels the same way, though. If you're self-motivated enough to go independent-contractor on your IT gigs, I'll bet you're a pretty effective worker, at least. *shrug*
I seem to recall someone complaining that after Google bought out their small company, he had to go around recruiting Google engineers' 20% time to work on them, as well. I think he was rather annoyed by this.
I must say, when they came out with actual implementation of 1984's technology and systems for control and oppression, I expected it would be part of something a little more... sophisticated. Just a little. Maybe even a little cool. (Dare I hope?)
If they can redistribute it under the relevant open-source license (MPL, is it?), I'm sure they will. Otherwise, they'll probably not know what to do with it.
I will take this opportunity to point out that if you can make it more than a "token minority" position sort of thing where the person in question is useless and pigeonholed, diversity is in fact useful towards a company's business processes. It's not always just racial (/gender) diversity, either; diversity in education, upbringing, world view, previous employment experience, and more all contribute to more variety in the ideas being thrown at problems, more assumptions being questioned, and good stuff like that.
Of course, making that actually work on the corporate level without descending into the inanity of buzzword-compliance or having all those ideas be stifled by the sheer ego of the wrong management types... that's the problem.
Please. This is Google. Money is not an object.... value is. Their goal is to pick the most cost-effective worker. For some jobs, yes, that's the inexpensive one, but for others you want someone who knows what they're doing.
Increase the cost of fuel to represent diving's true cost... and you will see a sudden and sharp decline in miles driven.
No you won't. A 10% rise in the price of gas only means something like a 1% reduction in traffic the short run (and about 3% in the long run). Shuffling the taxes is fine, but that's not a "sudden and sharp decline" or going to deliver you a "fewer cars on the road" agenda very quickly.
... or even the most important thing to worry about. Watch for big cable-companies to impose bandwidth caps and raise the price of data transfer to protect their regional video monopolies at the expense of Internet-accessible video content. Bandwidth caps are outside of the purview of NN as it's traditionally defined.
The people who are interested in buying protocol droids have oodles of money to spend on shinies. The people who are interested in buying "utility droids" either a) already have some (car factory robots), though they're usually less mobile, or b) can just hire cheap labor in Asia instead.
I'd like to hear about this purported 15% productivity boost which high-speed passenger rail would supposedly bring us. Last I heard about those studies, it was something like this regarding California's high speed rail...
The rail authority assumes that between 88 million and 117 million people will ride the trains each year. To put that in perspective, consider that the entire annual ridership of the Amtrak system, which includes 21,000 miles of routes and more than 500 destinations in 46 states, is less than 29 million. Amtrak's high-speed Acela Express service, which runs from Washington, D.C., to New York City to Boston, serves a larger and denser market than the planned California system and only commands a ridership of a little more than 3 million passengers a year.
Okay, okay, that's the Reason Foundation talking, and we know they're a bunch of libertarian loonies. But what about someone more sympathetic?
Even the pro-high-speed-rail California Rail Foundation found the project lacking, with its representative telling senators, "We can't believe any of the numbers presented in the business plan."
It's obviously not designed for printing fileable stuff. Probably more useful for printing things that change daily, like work assignments/maps/other instructions, or menus for the cafeteria, signs about the latest and greatest, and the like. It probably beats replacing everything with an electronic screen.
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I don't think that's true; I believe there's a small portion of gelatin, as well.
Idunno. Perhaps because it's deceptive, and profiting off lies is generally considered unethical, and funding people who profit off lies with taxpayer money is usually pretty unpopular (especially during a budget crunch), and stuff like that? For starters.
Yes, yes. You paid good money for those spectrum licenses, I hear ya. Fat lot of good they'd do you if all your customers are dead, dying or diseased, eh? So just avoid playing the injured party and just suffer with the interference for another month while people migrate, mmmk? Mmmk.
Depends on whether or not they need a few around anyway to do QA or demonstrations with. If they did, I'd go for it.
And you get to meet people. Sounds like a snazzy deal. For you. I wonder if the grocer feels the same way, though. If you're self-motivated enough to go independent-contractor on your IT gigs, I'll bet you're a pretty effective worker, at least. *shrug*
I seem to recall someone complaining that after Google bought out their small company, he had to go around recruiting Google engineers' 20% time to work on them, as well. I think he was rather annoyed by this.
So you install a wireless IDS like this one and monitor the airwaves and the wired data path to see if a MAC address shows up in both places...
and then my company makes all the money. whee! :)
soon to be part of a hosted service offering as well.
I must say, when they came out with actual implementation of 1984's technology and systems for control and oppression, I expected it would be part of something a little more... sophisticated. Just a little. Maybe even a little cool. (Dare I hope?)
This is sad. Very sad, only.
Buzz uses Twitter as a data feed. This is convenient for Buzz, but isn't gonna make Twitter disappear any time soon.
If they can redistribute it under the relevant open-source license (MPL, is it?), I'm sure they will. Otherwise, they'll probably not know what to do with it.
I will take this opportunity to point out that if you can make it more than a "token minority" position sort of thing where the person in question is useless and pigeonholed, diversity is in fact useful towards a company's business processes. It's not always just racial (/gender) diversity, either; diversity in education, upbringing, world view, previous employment experience, and more all contribute to more variety in the ideas being thrown at problems, more assumptions being questioned, and good stuff like that.
Of course, making that actually work on the corporate level without descending into the inanity of buzzword-compliance or having all those ideas be stifled by the sheer ego of the wrong management types... that's the problem.
Please. This is Google. Money is not an object.... value is. Their goal is to pick the most cost-effective worker. For some jobs, yes, that's the inexpensive one, but for others you want someone who knows what they're doing.
Give them some credit.
Increase the cost of fuel to represent diving's true cost ... and you will see a sudden and sharp decline in miles driven.
No you won't. A 10% rise in the price of gas only means something like a 1% reduction in traffic the short run (and about 3% in the long run). Shuffling the taxes is fine, but that's not a "sudden and sharp decline" or going to deliver you a "fewer cars on the road" agenda very quickly.
Getting people out of their cars more is a multidecadal process. The short-term price elasticity of demand for gasoline is very low.
(You admit that it's an opinion, after all, and this is more an interview than a promote-your-opinion discussion...)
Uh.... If the mines don't explode when you blow up 5kg of TNT (or equivalent) right next to them, what exactly is the problem?
They get blown up. That kinda tends to happen when you put bombs in the water.
... or even the most important thing to worry about. Watch for big cable-companies to impose bandwidth caps and raise the price of data transfer to protect their regional video monopolies at the expense of Internet-accessible video content. Bandwidth caps are outside of the purview of NN as it's traditionally defined.
The people who are interested in buying protocol droids have oodles of money to spend on shinies. The people who are interested in buying "utility droids" either a) already have some (car factory robots), though they're usually less mobile, or b) can just hire cheap labor in Asia instead.
If you want to make a steampunk-con from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
At Google, the businesspeople were kind of the ones making the complaints to begin with.
http://reason.org/news/show/california-voters-were-railroa
Okay, okay, that's the Reason Foundation talking, and we know they're a bunch of libertarian loonies. But what about someone more sympathetic?
http://www.sacbee.com/politics/story/2484870.html
Here, use these.
Niche application, but a decent one.
just because you're not familiar with functional Perl. Otherwise we'd write everything in COBOL, no? :)