It doesn't matter whether your technical skills gain you a promotion. At least, not directly. They give you leverage, bargaining power, something to put on your resume. YOU have to be willing to use that though, either to negotiate a higher pay at your current job, or by selling your services to another company. The latter happens to be the more profitable in most cases, but that's just a trend. In the end, your skills and experience are the most valuable things you have, and it doesn't matter if your company realizes that. As long as you realize it, you can use it to your advantage.
Of telling us to go fuck ourselves. Just like their nuclear program. And I think they're perfectly justified in that message, given America's past history with them.
Zoidberg: "And while you're under the knife, you could also get an ink pouch to help you escape your enemies." Professor: "That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard, you imbecile." Zoidberg: (squirt) "Woopwoopwoopwoop!"
Now I know somebody's gonna' say "EVE is nothing like WOW or LOTRO!". True, is caters to the Sci-Fi fan and not the fantasy fan, it is an incredibly beautiful game, requires a lot of patience, has the biggest virtual universe of any other MMO and the average player-age is 27. Not 15.
Uh... yeah, and the gameplay is completely different. In fact, I think the ONLY parallel that you can draw between Eve and WoW is that they're both online games. What Eve has to do with this discussion, I don't know... I certainly wouldn't pay $4500 for a laptop to play it on. I can get a lot of strippers and cheesecake for $4500.
The article is saying that consistently telling a child that they are 'smart' will lead them to be stupid. The belief that this is some built in, static attribute causes them to stop making efforts to improve.
I have a similar thought process... I hesitate to express strong opinions, especially based on meager amounts of information. Most people don't get that logical fallacies are the glue of their confidence.
I was just at dinner with one of my friends the other night, and having a tough time because he's VERY sure of his own world view... I'm going to have to get him to try this exercise, and see if his glue holds up to the acid of reason.
I haven't played through it the first time. I got bored on (I think) the second level. It just didn't hold my attention. Honestly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. There's nothing revolutionary about this game. It's a cookie cutter FPS with some (sortof) fancy new graphics. Yay, my hands are guns too. Yawn.
Do you honestly expect ebay to publicly release statistics on the number of machines they have infected with malware? What company with any sense of self preservation would do that? Saying it at a Microsoft sponsored event is admittedly fishy. On the other hand, they do say that the compromised *nix boxes are being used to control windows botnets, so MS definitely isn't out of the clear on this report. For that reason it doesn't seem overly biased.
That's not age discrimination. If they are looking for specific qualities for their workforce that you don't meet, that's not their fault. Whether it's intelligent of them to rule out a large number of capable and qualified individuals, well that's another matter. Practicality and legality are two separate ballparks.
The law does not prohibit the copying of DVDs or CDs; it disallows the circumvention of anti-copying technologies like Macrovision et al., something that has been illegal in the US for a decade. Ah well that's good, because as stated previously it would be completely unenforceable unless they outlaw the possession of recordable media/recording devices. But, wait - It's still nearly impossible to enforce due to privacy laws (police can't just walk into a house to check if people are circumventing copy protection) and P2P sharing over the internet, which makes it very difficult to stop the distribution of circumvention software. Oh well... time for more inefficient use of tax dollars.
Personally I'd rather not know what everyone around me is thinking. Friends, associates, sure. Build the technology for that though, and you've got telemarketers and random idiots vying for your attention as well. And often the communication pipeline isn't the bottleneck - it's the fact that the guy or girl on the other end has no conception of what's going on. If people can't articulate their thoughts into words or pictures or other existing communication mediums, it's a good bet their ideas aren't fully conceived to begin with.
As far as the sensory improvements - people don't pay attention to the senses they have! Adding more to the stack will only have the effect of diverting their attention, I don't think a change in quality of life will actually result from this.
What I would like to see is an improvement in mental processing power. Upgrade your cognitive ability. Add a graphics unit, to conceive 3D models in your mind with ease, and send them to your friends via data uplink. Get a boost in your ability to connect new ideas, double your rate of learning...
And it's still all only worth what people use it for. As with any technology, there are people that will achieve great things with it, and thereby realize and expand its possibilities, and there are those who will waste it, or not use it at all... Such is life.
I think what's more likely to happen is parties with a business interest in these technologies paying the presenters off to lay low for a time. If I had found a security flaw, and was offered, say $10,000 to shut my mouth about it, I'd do it. It's going to come out anyway, but the delay might be worth millions of dollars... Especially if they manage to find a fix in that time.
The Redmond Tea Party is off to an amazing start this year. Ballmer is quoted shouting, "Yaaaar!" in the midst of the festivities. So far, nearly half the boxed copies of Vista have been 'sold' to the Pacific Ocean, and user satisfaction has reached an all time high.
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This is what we've all been waiting for, folks. Stealing shopping carts just got profitable!
It doesn't matter whether your technical skills gain you a promotion. At least, not directly. They give you leverage, bargaining power, something to put on your resume. YOU have to be willing to use that though, either to negotiate a higher pay at your current job, or by selling your services to another company. The latter happens to be the more profitable in most cases, but that's just a trend. In the end, your skills and experience are the most valuable things you have, and it doesn't matter if your company realizes that. As long as you realize it, you can use it to your advantage.
Of telling us to go fuck ourselves. Just like their nuclear program. And I think they're perfectly justified in that message, given America's past history with them.
Zoidberg: "And while you're under the knife, you could also get an ink pouch to help you escape your enemies."
Professor: "That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard, you imbecile."
Zoidberg: (squirt) "Woopwoopwoopwoop!"
Uh... yeah, and the gameplay is completely different. In fact, I think the ONLY parallel that you can draw between Eve and WoW is that they're both online games. What Eve has to do with this discussion, I don't know... I certainly wouldn't pay $4500 for a laptop to play it on. I can get a lot of strippers and cheesecake for $4500.
The article is saying that consistently telling a child that they are 'smart' will lead them to be stupid. The belief that this is some built in, static attribute causes them to stop making efforts to improve.
Step 1: Reinvent the wheel.
Step 2: Add software.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
The universe is a lie!
For the right, to paaaarty!
You just have to reconstruct it from this core dump! Mwahahahaha!
Great post!
I have a similar thought process... I hesitate to express strong opinions, especially based on meager amounts of information. Most people don't get that logical fallacies are the glue of their confidence.
I was just at dinner with one of my friends the other night, and having a tough time because he's VERY sure of his own world view... I'm going to have to get him to try this exercise, and see if his glue holds up to the acid of reason.
Yes, it's called abstraction. Without it, computer science would be pretty worthless.
I haven't played through it the first time. I got bored on (I think) the second level. It just didn't hold my attention. Honestly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. There's nothing revolutionary about this game. It's a cookie cutter FPS with some (sortof) fancy new graphics. Yay, my hands are guns too. Yawn.
Taco commands you!
Do you honestly expect ebay to publicly release statistics on the number of machines they have infected with malware? What company with any sense of self preservation would do that? Saying it at a Microsoft sponsored event is admittedly fishy. On the other hand, they do say that the compromised *nix boxes are being used to control windows botnets, so MS definitely isn't out of the clear on this report. For that reason it doesn't seem overly biased.
That's not age discrimination. If they are looking for specific qualities for their workforce that you don't meet, that's not their fault. Whether it's intelligent of them to rule out a large number of capable and qualified individuals, well that's another matter. Practicality and legality are two separate ballparks.
Personally I'd rather not know what everyone around me is thinking. Friends, associates, sure. Build the technology for that though, and you've got telemarketers and random idiots vying for your attention as well. And often the communication pipeline isn't the bottleneck - it's the fact that the guy or girl on the other end has no conception of what's going on. If people can't articulate their thoughts into words or pictures or other existing communication mediums, it's a good bet their ideas aren't fully conceived to begin with.
As far as the sensory improvements - people don't pay attention to the senses they have! Adding more to the stack will only have the effect of diverting their attention, I don't think a change in quality of life will actually result from this.
What I would like to see is an improvement in mental processing power. Upgrade your cognitive ability. Add a graphics unit, to conceive 3D models in your mind with ease, and send them to your friends via data uplink. Get a boost in your ability to connect new ideas, double your rate of learning...
And it's still all only worth what people use it for. As with any technology, there are people that will achieve great things with it, and thereby realize and expand its possibilities, and there are those who will waste it, or not use it at all... Such is life.
I think what's more likely to happen is parties with a business interest in these technologies paying the presenters off to lay low for a time. If I had found a security flaw, and was offered, say $10,000 to shut my mouth about it, I'd do it. It's going to come out anyway, but the delay might be worth millions of dollars... Especially if they manage to find a fix in that time.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/1 4/130203
Maybe it's not more coffee you need, but less pot?
Why has my submitted story been marked as "pending" for over 2 weeks now?Don't call us, we'll call you.
...is that malware has better installation instructions than any of our other software. When people see documentation, it's like a dream come true!
Ah... disillusionment. :-)
After you install updates, if you go into computer management and stop the Automatic Updates service, it won't bother you any more about restarting.
The Redmond Tea Party is off to an amazing start this year. Ballmer is quoted shouting, "Yaaaar!" in the midst of the festivities. So far, nearly half the boxed copies of Vista have been 'sold' to the Pacific Ocean, and user satisfaction has reached an all time high.