First, Microsoft can treat its employees better if they are having trouble attracting the caliber of employees google hires. Or they can continue as they are doing now, and petition Congress for more H1-B visas. But if they do that, then it really is more about getting good programmers cheaply rather than attracting the highest caliber programmers at any cost.
Second, if Mr. Balmer is correct, and Google doesn't have a sound or sustainable business, then it really doesn't matter; in a few years Google will implode, and Microsoft can sweep up all the Google alumni it wants.
Indeed. _I_ want access to this information. In a _very_ small guild, people craft to keep each other in gear (drops are better though) and I was wondering if there were a third party website or utility that could do this very thing. It is a lot more convenient to be able to look at what someone's gear is offline and compile a list of possible upgrades (or not, drops are better) than to wait for each person to log on and waste in-game time discussing each piece of gear and upgrade options.
-- off topic: Blizzard needs a "flag as spam" option in the in-game mailbox. Also off topic: I gave up WoW for Lent, and I'm jonesing bad. It's also backfiring some because I have more time to surf for porn.
or change the penny to something dirt cheap, like molded plastic or stamped sheet metal. Counterfeiting is unlikely, since no one takes payment in pennies anyway, and when given in change they either end up in the take a penny-leave a penny jar, in the trash or on the ground. Refitting gumball machines won't be a problem either, because the penny gumball disappeared years ago.
Those socks that "disappeared in the dryer" never made it to the laundry in the first place. They are still inside out in the clutter on the floor of (wherever you took them off).
Do a little house cleaning and then move on to the next mystery.
Perhaps being intelligent, hardworking, and having a thorough knowledge of the company and how it works are not the most important factor in being CEO?
The similarity between CEOs and sociopaths has been pointed out before. From a Psychology Today article
What do you do in any instance of identity theft? You've got a big mess to clear up largely on your own. That doesn't stop people from having credit cards, cell phones or conducting financial transactions over the phone or online. Are those products and services a bad thing? No. Do people not use them because of the risk of ID theft? No. Even if you had no credit card, cell phone, computer, or bank account, if you have a birth certificate you are at risk for identity theft.
So is the risk that someone would hack into your computer reason not to use a service like this, which has definite benefit if you were in the market for downloading videos? No. People who hack into your computer can fuck up your life a lot worse than just stealing your videos.
Indeed. This is a good thing because it is not there to prevent deliberate piracy, it is there to treat paying customers decently. That seems to have fallen out of favor, so I say bravo to them.
"No one on Slashdot is female. Anyone claiming to be female is lying."
I know that is a joke and all, however-- I am not as old as most of the old timers here, but I recall using a unix shell and a local freenet to get email (none, really. My friends didn't do the computer thing) and to browse through usenet (download porn). Back then, your assertion was certainly true. Even when AOL and Compuserve and such made internet access relatively easy for everyone, there was a truism "Everyone in AOL chatrooms is gay at least once" because there were no women on the net and guys had to pretend.
Even now, while there is an unacceptably high risk that the cute elf you are flirting with in WoW is actually male*, there is still a slight but non-zero chance that there actually are females posting or IRCing or playing (male or female) avatars.
* as an aside, I had been playing WoW since release (and the stress test) and I made a NE female as a joke, she was going to be a table dancing lesbian, just like all the other guys out there who made NE females. Unfortunately, I became attached to her because it was really fun to play a druid, but before long I had to abandon her because after the lesbian table dancing fad wore off, people would try to interact with her in really creepy ways. I would inform people that I'm really a guy because it creeped me out so much. For that reason, I suggest actual females play male avatars, to avoid the creepiness. Of course people GIVE things to female avatars, so if you are into that and don't mind creepiness...
As another aside, Farkettes may benefit from page hits on their profiles, I don't know. But I don't see what the advantage is of a slashdotter being female, so perhaps the ones that state or imply it really are so. On the other hand, they guys who state or imply they are married or have a girlfriend are probably lying.
Why do I expound at length on a trivial point? Because I'm at work and I'm bored. So bored. What better reason?
"But it's where the games are. First of Linux or Apple OS to get all the games Windows gets, and I'd change in a heartbeat."
Windows is where the games are, you get that. Mac doesn't get ALL the games windows gets, but it has the games I WANT to play. Red vs. Blue did a spoof mac commercial that said something like "and you know the games on a mac are great, because you already played them last year on your PC." It's funny and it's (mostly) true.
When people ask me "My computer is slow. You know stuff about computers. What computer should I get?" (If they had asked me to fix it the answer is a resounding get the hell out of my office.) I ask what they want to do with it. They always say something like "you know, stuff." I specifically ask if they want to play games on it, they lie "no, I don't need games. I just need to do stuff. You know, computer stuff."
I then ask if they'd like to try to get a few more miles out of their "too old and slow" computer and hand them a knoppix CD (actually ubuntu live these days), and tell them if they STILL want to buy a new computer, get a mac mini, and buy a console for games.
Usually they tell me the next day that they just went ahead and bought a Dell. Fuckers.
All that said, I also use windows, because that is what is on my computer at work. At home I run XP in Parallels so I can program for a windows environment. Compiling shit in Parallels, what a joy. I'm glad it is not my day job.
So, in a roundabout way, I am agreeing with you. We use windows for one aspect that we can't do on another OS, but neither of us likes doing it.
Not telecommuting itself, but staying home and watching Scooby Doo sank my career. I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling managers and their pesky status reports, milestones and deadlines.
Replying to my own post, crass though it is I know, but every/.er who has posted a political opinion may qualify as a lobbyist under this proposal. Slashdot certainly has more than 500 readers. What's on your journal page? (OK, mine is empty, I just rant in the comments)
500 hits per day? 500 unique readers in a ten year span? 500 "friends" linked on your myspace page? 500 links from incestuous follow-backs or google bombs?
Free speech is one of the most important rights we have; why is the government so keen on regulating it? You can't regulate a right, it is a right. I can understand regulating the lobbyists for organizations, corporations, and interest groups--groups are not citizens. But individuals who ARE citizens have inalienable rights. A hearty "Fuck Off!" to those who seek to "regulate" individual rights.
Replacing the electoral college
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what shall we replace it with? the exit polls?
The point of the electoral college is similar to the point of the senate. They are both there to ensure the STATES have a voice in government. This is the United STATES of America, but people have come to believe it is the Federal Republic of America. If you believe that you personally were disenfranchised by the last 2 elections because you didn't vote for Bush (I didn't vote for Bush the last 3 times, btw) then maybe it is not so much a sign that the elecoral college is at fault, it is that the central government has grown way too powerful and has swept the individual states into irrelevancy. The best government is at the local level, where you are better aware of your governing needs than some beltway insider 1000 miles away. Next best is state government, only 100 miles away.
I do agree voting machines need a papertrail, though I am vehemently opposed to the idea of giving the voter a receipt--anything that a voter can carry out to indicate how he voted will inevitably lead to coercive voting. If the local political machine can make sure you voted "correctly," (or else!) that is no better than non-audited electronic boxes manufactured by supporters of that political machine.
The killer extension will replace adblock--instead of just blocking ads it will replace them with pornography of the genres you select in the preferences panel. If I could just stop playing WoW maybe I'll write it. mmm blood elf porn...
Bravo to you, I say. (seriously) Way back when, when I was looking for a flight simulator game to play, I ended up with Flight Unlimited because their game solved (simplified) fluid equations rather than using data table lookups for how the planes behaved in different conditions with different control settings. That way ANY model you could describe could be flown in the game. (I never did get any expansion planes though.) For the same reason, I appreciate your efforts
I wonder if you can even play games at a decent frame rate on Fusion, as others have noted that the CPU die real estate is somewhat limited, and modern GPUs are large.
What I wonder even more, though, is if you install a PCIe video card (which will supercede Fusion's GPU) could you then still directly address the on-die GPU to run non-video but parallelizable (is that a word?) code? Could that be more efficient than parallelizing accross multiple cores or CPUs? Even if that were so, I wonder if any programmers but those at id software would bother with such an esoteric problem.
I always wondered why one couldn't run heat pipes to the chassis, and use that as a heat sink? The heat sink then has a minimum surface area of and unobstructed PC, (don't perch the monitor on top of it, or pizza boxes, etc.) and higher end cases could incorporate fins to increase the area even more. If one is really hardcore, one might put a waterbock on the heat sources and pump some fluid (mineral oil, to minimize leak damage and corrosion of the cooling system?) through channels in the case/heatsink.
Similarly, for a laptop, use the back of the screen as the heat sink, and again add fins as needed. Why one needs to dump the heat onto the desk surface or worse, the user's lap, is beyond me.
Unfortunately, there is too much light pollution where I live to make astronomy, naked eye or not, very productive. The best I've ever done was see Jupiter's bands + 4 moons with a little 5 inch reflector. (And I was happy I could see that much.)
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First, Microsoft can treat its employees better if they are having trouble attracting the caliber of employees google hires. Or they can continue as they are doing now, and petition Congress for more H1-B visas. But if they do that, then it really is more about getting good programmers cheaply rather than attracting the highest caliber programmers at any cost.
Second, if Mr. Balmer is correct, and Google doesn't have a sound or sustainable business, then it really doesn't matter; in a few years Google will implode, and Microsoft can sweep up all the Google alumni it wants.
Indeed. _I_ want access to this information. In a _very_ small guild, people craft to keep each other in gear (drops are better though) and I was wondering if there were a third party website or utility that could do this very thing. It is a lot more convenient to be able to look at what someone's gear is offline and compile a list of possible upgrades (or not, drops are better) than to wait for each person to log on and waste in-game time discussing each piece of gear and upgrade options.
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off topic: Blizzard needs a "flag as spam" option in the in-game mailbox.
Also off topic: I gave up WoW for Lent, and I'm jonesing bad. It's also backfiring some because I have more time to surf for porn.
or change the penny to something dirt cheap, like molded plastic or stamped sheet metal. Counterfeiting is unlikely, since no one takes payment in pennies anyway, and when given in change they either end up in the take a penny-leave a penny jar, in the trash or on the ground. Refitting gumball machines won't be a problem either, because the penny gumball disappeared years ago.
OR, stop minting pennies altogether.
Same goes for the nickel.
Those socks that "disappeared in the dryer" never made it to the laundry in the first place. They are still inside out in the clutter on the floor of (wherever you took them off).
Do a little house cleaning and then move on to the next mystery.
Perhaps being intelligent, hardworking, and having a thorough knowledge of the company and how it works are not the most important factor in being CEO?
The similarity between CEOs and sociopaths has been pointed out before. From a Psychology Today article
What do you do in any instance of identity theft? You've got a big mess to clear up largely on your own. That doesn't stop people from having credit cards, cell phones or conducting financial transactions over the phone or online. Are those products and services a bad thing? No. Do people not use them because of the risk of ID theft? No. Even if you had no credit card, cell phone, computer, or bank account, if you have a birth certificate you are at risk for identity theft.
So is the risk that someone would hack into your computer reason not to use a service like this, which has definite benefit if you were in the market for downloading videos? No. People who hack into your computer can fuck up your life a lot worse than just stealing your videos.
Indeed. This is a good thing because it is not there to prevent deliberate piracy, it is there to treat paying customers decently. That seems to have fallen out of favor, so I say bravo to them.
"No one on Slashdot is female. Anyone claiming to be female is lying."
I know that is a joke and all, however--
I am not as old as most of the old timers here, but I recall using a unix shell and a local freenet to get email (none, really. My friends didn't do the computer thing) and to browse through usenet (download porn). Back then, your assertion was certainly true. Even when AOL and Compuserve and such made internet access relatively easy for everyone, there was a truism "Everyone in AOL chatrooms is gay at least once" because there were no women on the net and guys had to pretend.
Even now, while there is an unacceptably high risk that the cute elf you are flirting with in WoW is actually male*, there is still a slight but non-zero chance that there actually are females posting or IRCing or playing (male or female) avatars.
* as an aside, I had been playing WoW since release (and the stress test) and I made a NE female as a joke, she was going to be a table dancing lesbian, just like all the other guys out there who made NE females. Unfortunately, I became attached to her because it was really fun to play a druid, but before long I had to abandon her because after the lesbian table dancing fad wore off, people would try to interact with her in really creepy ways. I would inform people that I'm really a guy because it creeped me out so much. For that reason, I suggest actual females play male avatars, to avoid the creepiness. Of course people GIVE things to female avatars, so if you are into that and don't mind creepiness...
As another aside, Farkettes may benefit from page hits on their profiles, I don't know. But I don't see what the advantage is of a slashdotter being female, so perhaps the ones that state or imply it really are so. On the other hand, they guys who state or imply they are married or have a girlfriend are probably lying.
Why do I expound at length on a trivial point? Because I'm at work and I'm bored. So bored. What better reason?
"But it's where the games are. First of Linux or Apple OS to get all the games Windows gets, and I'd change in a heartbeat."
Windows is where the games are, you get that. Mac doesn't get ALL the games windows gets, but it has the games I WANT to play. Red vs. Blue did a spoof mac commercial that said something like "and you know the games on a mac are great, because you already played them last year on your PC." It's funny and it's (mostly) true.
When people ask me "My computer is slow. You know stuff about computers. What computer should I get?" (If they had asked me to fix it the answer is a resounding get the hell out of my office.) I ask what they want to do with it. They always say something like "you know, stuff." I specifically ask if they want to play games on it, they lie "no, I don't need games. I just need to do stuff. You know, computer stuff."
I then ask if they'd like to try to get a few more miles out of their "too old and slow" computer and hand them a knoppix CD (actually ubuntu live these days), and tell them if they STILL want to buy a new computer, get a mac mini, and buy a console for games.
Usually they tell me the next day that they just went ahead and bought a Dell. Fuckers.
All that said, I also use windows, because that is what is on my computer at work. At home I run XP in Parallels so I can program for a windows environment. Compiling shit in Parallels, what a joy. I'm glad it is not my day job.
So, in a roundabout way, I am agreeing with you. We use windows for one aspect that we can't do on another OS, but neither of us likes doing it.
best of all, the robot won't freak out and go all Ginsu on your penis!
...a whole aisle stocked with checkerboards. /over 30
Not telecommuting itself, but staying home and watching Scooby Doo sank my career. I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling managers and their pesky status reports, milestones and deadlines.
Replying to my own post, crass though it is I know, but every /.er who has posted a political opinion may qualify as a lobbyist under this proposal. Slashdot certainly has more than 500 readers. What's on your journal page? (OK, mine is empty, I just rant in the comments)
500 hits per day? 500 unique readers in a ten year span? 500 "friends" linked on your myspace page? 500 links from incestuous follow-backs or google bombs?
Free speech is one of the most important rights we have; why is the government so keen on regulating it? You can't regulate a right, it is a right. I can understand regulating the lobbyists for organizations, corporations, and interest groups--groups are not citizens. But individuals who ARE citizens have inalienable rights. A hearty "Fuck Off!" to those who seek to "regulate" individual rights.
what shall we replace it with? the exit polls?
The point of the electoral college is similar to the point of the senate. They are both there to ensure the STATES have a voice in government. This is the United STATES of America, but people have come to believe it is the Federal Republic of America. If you believe that you personally were disenfranchised by the last 2 elections because you didn't vote for Bush (I didn't vote for Bush the last 3 times, btw) then maybe it is not so much a sign that the elecoral college is at fault, it is that the central government has grown way too powerful and has swept the individual states into irrelevancy. The best government is at the local level, where you are better aware of your governing needs than some beltway insider 1000 miles away. Next best is state government, only 100 miles away.
I do agree voting machines need a papertrail, though I am vehemently opposed to the idea of giving the voter a receipt--anything that a voter can carry out to indicate how he voted will inevitably lead to coercive voting. If the local political machine can make sure you voted "correctly," (or else!) that is no better than non-audited electronic boxes manufactured by supporters of that political machine.
The killer extension will replace adblock--instead of just blocking ads it will replace them with pornography of the genres you select in the preferences panel. If I could just stop playing WoW maybe I'll write it. mmm blood elf porn...
Bravo to you, I say. (seriously) Way back when, when I was looking for a flight simulator game to play, I ended up with Flight Unlimited because their game solved (simplified) fluid equations rather than using data table lookups for how the planes behaved in different conditions with different control settings. That way ANY model you could describe could be flown in the game. (I never did get any expansion planes though.) For the same reason, I appreciate your efforts
I wonder if you can even play games at a decent frame rate on Fusion, as others have noted that the CPU die real estate is somewhat limited, and modern GPUs are large.
What I wonder even more, though, is if you install a PCIe video card (which will supercede Fusion's GPU) could you then still directly address the on-die GPU to run non-video but parallelizable (is that a word?) code? Could that be more efficient than parallelizing accross multiple cores or CPUs? Even if that were so, I wonder if any programmers but those at id software would bother with such an esoteric problem.
Who wrote that? Idi Amin?
So I'm not just a crackpot after all!
$1400 though... daaayum!
I always wondered why one couldn't run heat pipes to the chassis, and use that as a heat sink? The heat sink then has a minimum surface area of and unobstructed PC, (don't perch the monitor on top of it, or pizza boxes, etc.) and higher end cases could incorporate fins to increase the area even more. If one is really hardcore, one might put a waterbock on the heat sources and pump some fluid (mineral oil, to minimize leak damage and corrosion of the cooling system?) through channels in the case/heatsink.
Similarly, for a laptop, use the back of the screen as the heat sink, and again add fins as needed. Why one needs to dump the heat onto the desk surface or worse, the user's lap, is beyond me.
is dead to me
I - have - no - SONY!!!! <rrrrip!!>
shoulda bin modded funny
Unfortunately, there is too much light pollution where I live to make astronomy, naked eye or not, very productive. The best I've ever done was see Jupiter's bands + 4 moons with a little 5 inch reflector. (And I was happy I could see that much.)
Dad...?